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NEW DELHI: Voting for the 234-member Tamil Nadu legislative assembly will be held in a single phase on April 23, the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Sunday.The counting of votes will take place on May 4. According to the Election Commission of India, there are 5.67 crore eligible voters, including 2.77 crore males…
The Election Commission on Sunday announced the assembly poll schedule for four states — West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala — and the Union Territory of Puducherry. The elections will be held between April 9 and April 29. The results for all five legislative assemblies will be declared on May 4.These polls are mandated as…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Sunday announced the schedule for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal, with polling for the state’s 294 assembly constituencies to be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29.The announcement was made by the poll panel led by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during a press…
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, leader of opposition VD Satheesan The Election Commission on Sunday announced the election dates for Kerala. The state will undergo polling in one phase on April 9. The counting of votes will be on May 4. Elections will be held for all 140 seats of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, with the…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Sunday announced the schedule for the 2026 Puducherry Assembly election, with polling to be held in a single phase on April 9 and counting of votes on May 4. Voting will take place for all 30 constituencies of the 16th Puducherry Legislative Assembly.Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, addressing a…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission announced the dates for assembly elections in Assam on Sunday.According to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, voting for the 126-member Assam assembly will take place in one phase on April 9. Votes would be counted on May 4. Officials have indicated that the upcoming elections are likely to be conducted…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday said some mechanism needs to be devised, not necessarily punitive, to make voting compulsory so that democracy gets stronger by attracting more eligible people to contest elections and render Nota option redundant. A bench of CJI Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi said the Nota option was devised to…
Amid the backdrop of Budget 2026, India may need to revisit long-standing restrictions on voting rights in private sector banks if it wants to build stronger lenders capable of supporting the country’s long-term economic ambitions, according to experts.Vijay Mani, Partner and Banking and Capital Markets Leader at Deloitte India, and Russell Gaitonde, Partner, said the…
The next Mumbai mayor will be elected through a vote by corporators in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) House MUMBAI: The next Mumbai mayor will be elected through a vote by corporators in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) House, with the candidate securing the highest number of votes declared mayor. The election is expected to…
MUMBAI: The city that doesn’t sleep, and doesn’t really care about voting, turned out in relatively creditable numbers for the BMC elections, held on Thursday after nine years. In 2017, it broke a 25-year record when it hit 55%, and while the final official turnout is expected only on Friday, state election commission officials expect…
