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Aizawl, March 30 – A total of 68 candidates, including 28 women, are contesting in the April 21 elections to the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC), officials said on Monday.An official of the Mizoram State Election Commission stated that no candidate withdrew their nomination papers on the...

Jammu, March 29 The State Election Commission is making the necessary arrangements to hold panchayat and urban local body (ULB) elections as soon as possible, the Jammu and Kashmir government has said.The terms of municipalities ended in October-November 2023, while panchayats and block...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 28 Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar said on Saturday that the objective of the election process should be to ensure 100 per cent voter participation.The Governor also believed that the State Election Commission should serve as a model for election panels in...

Gangtok, March 27 – The Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) announced on Friday that it will boycott the upcoming Urban Local Body (ULB) elections, alleging that the seat reservation matrix is "unfair, unconstitutional, and based on an unverified census."Speaking at a press conference, SDF vice...

Gangtok, March 26 – The Citizen Action Party (CAP) announced on Thursday that it will boycott the upcoming Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections in Sikkim if they are conducted on a party basis, reiterating its long-standing demand for non-party grassroots democratic processes.CAP spokesperson...

Agartala, March 25 The CPI(M)-led Left Front has demanded the deployment of central paramilitary forces at all polling booths for the upcoming elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), a senior leader said on Wednesday.Polling for the 28 seats of the tribal...

Gangtok, March 23 Municipal elections in Sikkim will be held on April 24, and the vote counting will take place the following day, State Election Commissioner (SEC) K C Lepcha said on Monday.The nomination filing will begin on March 30, and scrutiny will take place on March 31, he told...

Aizawl, March 23 Mizoram's ruling Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) announced its candidates for all seats in the upcoming elections to the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday.The opposition Congress also announced six more candidates for the elections, thereby fielding nominees in all 19...

Gangtok, March 23 Municipal elections in Sikkim will be held on April 24, and the vote counting will take place the following day, State Election Commissioner (SEC) K C Lepcha said on Monday.The nomination filing process will begin on March 30, and scrutiny will take place on March 31, he told...

Ljubljana, March 23 – Slovenia's ruling Freedom Movement (FM), led by Prime Minister Robert Golob, secured a narrow victory in the country's parliamentary election, according to preliminary results.With 99 per cent of votes counted on Sunday (local time), the centre-left FM won 28.6 per cent...

March 20, New Delhi – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued orders requiring all registered political parties, groups, or individual candidates to apply to the Media Certification and Monitoring Committee (MCMC) for pre-certification of all political advertisements on electronic...

Agartala, March 18 The State Election Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday that the polling date for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections has been advanced to April 12 from April 13, officials said.The decision followed a unanimous resolution passed in the...

Aizawl, March 18 – The Mizoram State Election Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday that elections to the 19-member Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) will be held on April 21.State Election Commissioner H. Lalthlangliana, while announcing the schedule, said that the statutory notification...

Prayagraj (UP), March 18 The Allahabad High Court has directed the State Election Commission (SEC) in Uttar Pradesh to file an affidavit stating whether it is in a position to conclude the panchayat elections in accordance with the mandate of Article 243E of the Constitution.The court pointed...

Agartala, March 17 The State Election Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that the elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) will be held on April 13.State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar said at a press conference here that voting for the 28 seats of the...

Bengaluru, March 10 Four bills were tabled in the Karnataka Assembly on Tuesday, including one proposing a return to paper ballots for local body elections amid concerns over the credibility and voter privacy of electronic voting machines (EVMs).The Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj...

Ranchi, March 1 BJP rebel Sanjeev Singh won the mayoral post for the Dhanbad Municipal Corporation in Jharkhand, while the saffron party-backed candidate finished fourth in the civic polls, an official said on Sunday.The counting of votes for all 48 urban local bodies (ULBs) in the state...

Ranchi, February 27 Arvind Rana, a journalist for a Hindi newspaper, won the mayoral position in the civic elections for the Hazaribag Municipal Corporation by defeating his nearest Congress-backed rival, Sarfarz, the results of which were announced on Friday.An official stated that in Ranchi...

Kolkata, February 26 The West Bengal government finalized the deployment of the first installment of 240 companies of central armed police forces (CAPF) in preparation for upcoming elections across 35 districts, police districts, and police commissionerates in the state.While 12 companies of...

Bhubaneswar, February 24 The Odisha government stated on Tuesday that the next three-tier panchayat elections in the state will be held as scheduled in February 2027.This was stated by Minister of Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water, Rabi Narayan Naik, in response to a question by BJD member...