political administration

Bhubaneswar, March 30 The names of 7.68 lakh voters in Odisha were removed from the electoral roll for various reasons from June 2025 to March 22 this year, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi told the state assembly on Monday.Responding to a written question from BJD legislator Ranendra Pratap...

The Election Commission has released the third supplementary voter list under the SIR process in West Bengal. This announcement was made late last night. While the exact number of voters included or excluded has not been disclosed.This publication marks another step in the ongoing revision of...

Jammu, March 26 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah chaired a cabinet meeting on Thursday evening to review key development initiatives and governance priorities in the Union Territory.This was the second cabinet meeting chaired by Abdullah here this month, setting the stage for key...

Kolkata, March 25 The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday ordered the immediate transfer of the District Election Officer (DEO) and District Magistrate of Purba Medinipur following complaints of irregularities in the deployment of election officials ahead of the West Bengal assembly...

Puducherry, March 23 The Lt Governor of Puducherry has declared April 9 a public holiday under the Negotiable Instruments Act, in view of the election to the territorial Assembly on that day.An order issued by the Home Department of the Puducherry Administration on Monday stated that the...

Kolkata, March 18 The Election Commission intensified preparations for the West Bengal Assembly elections on Wednesday, ordering a fresh reshuffle of senior officers, assigning two secretaries to other states as observers, and deploying 13 IAS and five IPS officers in key poll management roles...

Kolkata, March 18 The Election Commission ordered a fresh round of reshuffle of senior officers in the poll-bound state of West Bengal on Wednesday, appointing 13 IAS officers as District Magistrates-cum-District Election Officers (DMEs), and posting five IPS officers as Deputy Inspectors...

Amaravati, March 18 Andhra Pradesh CEO Vivek Yadav held a training program for deputy district election officers on the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll at the Secretariat on Wednesday."The Chief Electoral Officer, Andhra Pradesh, conducted a training program...

Kolkata, March 16 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Monday, expressing her concern over the removal of several IAS and IPS officers in the state following the announcement of the Assembly elections.In the letter...

Jaipur, March 16: Innovations introduced by the Rajasthan Election Department to strengthen the electoral process and make it more transparent and voter-centric are drawing national attention, an official said.The technological initiatives and administrative reforms implemented during the...

Kolkata, March 16 – Several West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police officers who were transferred by the Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier in the day were given new postings by the state government on Monday.The Election Commission removed officers holding the posts of Director General...

New Delhi, March 16 Election Commission officials said on Monday that the major changes in the West Bengal civil and police administration were in line with the assurance given by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to hold free and fair elections in the state.The EC has removed the...

Kolkata, March 16 A day after the announcement of the West Bengal assembly election schedule, the Election Commission on Monday removed DGP Peeyush Pandey and Kolkata Police Commissioner Supratim Sarkar, an official said.The EC appointed senior IPS officer Siddh Nath Gupta as the director...

New Delhi, March 13 Delhi Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu held a meeting with Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golchha on Friday to discuss issues related to security, law and order, cybercrime, and emerging challenges in the national capital.Sandhu, who recently assumed office as...

Kolkata, March 10 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) directed the West Bengal administration on Tuesday to complete the first phase of conducting route marches and area domination exercises by Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel in all districts of the state by March 14.A total...

In Jammu and Kashmir, the State Election Commissioner (SEC), Shantmanu, instructed officials on Monday to prepare for the revision of village council electoral rolls. An Akashvani Jammu correspondent reports that Shantmanu chaired a high-level meeting on Monday to review preparations for the...

Kolkata, March 9 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee formally took over the charge of the law department from Moloy Ghatak, according to a notification issued by the state's home and hill affairs department."As per the revised allocation of business, the chief minister has taken over...

Kolkata, March 9 – Amit Malviya, the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s IT Cell and the party's national observer for West Bengal, on Monday, raised concerns about a potential violation of Election Commission guidelines by a West Bengal government official.In a post on X, Malviya...

Imphal, March 5 Manipur Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh on Thursday said the state government remains committed to building a stronger and more progressive state for the welfare of every citizen.The chief minister made the remark following a Cabinet meeting, a day after portfolios were...

Washington, March 4: With military supremacy effectively institutionalized in Pakistan, the country’s volatile politics, fragile civilian governance, entrenched military dominance, systematic corruption, criminal networks, and widespread human rights abuses risk becoming more persistent, a...