Indian Elections

Indian democracy has covered a remarkable distance since the first Lok Sabha polls and today 7 decades and 17 general elections later, women's participation in voting has exceeded that of men, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has set the ball rolling for the election of its new office bearers, to be held during its December 19 Annual General Meeting in Guwahati, by issuing the notification of the poll process.

Aftab Pureval, an Indian-Tibetan, has been elected as the Mayor of Cincinnati city in US Ohio, making him the first member of the community to be elected to the position.

INLD (Indian National Lok Dal) leader Abhay Chautala has won the race forHaryana's Ellenabad Assembly constituency, finishing 6,739votes ahead of the ruling BJP's Gobind Kanda, according to the Election Commission's results website.

US President Joe Biden, meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening at the White House for their first bilateral since his election, joked about "five Bidens in India" and a Biden who "married an Indian woman".

Ambassador Kudashev and his wife cast a vote for the Lower House of the Russian Parliament.

Twitter is fast losing its sheen as a favoured communications tool for many Indian government departments and ministers keen to promote home-grown rival Koo while the US firm comes under fire for non-compliance with India's laws.

Some members of poll strategist Prashant Kishor's IPAC (Indian Political Action Committee) in Tripura, on election assignment for Mamata Banerjee, have been summoned by the police for alleged violation of Covid protocol.

The Editors Guild of India has condemned the assault on a journalist by an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer during the local elections in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.

In one of the more incredible scenes to emerge from the local elections held in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was caught on camera chasing down a TV reporter in public and beating him viciously.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday said that 719 doctors have lost their lives due to coronavirus in the second wave of the COVID pandemic with Bihar recording the maximum fatalities.

Former Uttar Pradesh-cadre Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Anup Chandra Pandey has been appointed as an election commissioner on Tuesday.

Professor Roop Malik from the Department of Bio Sciences and Bio Engineering, IIT Bombay, is the fifth scientist from India to be elected as an EMBO Associate Member.

An Indian-origin Human Sciences student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford has been declared the winner at the end of a Student Union (SU) byelection.

The tradition of celebrities, including actors and cricketers, joining politics and contesting polls has a fair bit of history in Indian politics.

Indian democracy has covered a remarkable distance since the first Lok Sabha polls and today 7 decades and 17 general elections later, women's participation in voting has exceeded that of men, Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra said.

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has set the ball rolling for the election of its new office bearers, to be held during its December 19 Annual General Meeting in Guwahati, by issuing the notification of the poll process.

Aftab Pureval, an Indian-Tibetan, has been elected as the Mayor of Cincinnati city in US Ohio, making him the first member of the community to be elected to the position.

INLD (Indian National Lok Dal) leader Abhay Chautala has won the race forHaryana's Ellenabad Assembly constituency, finishing 6,739votes ahead of the ruling BJP's Gobind Kanda, according to the Election Commission's results website.

US President Joe Biden, meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this evening at the White House for their first bilateral since his election, joked about "five Bidens in India" and a Biden who "married an Indian woman".

Ambassador Kudashev and his wife cast a vote for the Lower House of the Russian Parliament.

Twitter is fast losing its sheen as a favoured communications tool for many Indian government departments and ministers keen to promote home-grown rival Koo while the US firm comes under fire for non-compliance with India's laws.

Some members of poll strategist Prashant Kishor's IPAC (Indian Political Action Committee) in Tripura, on election assignment for Mamata Banerjee, have been summoned by the police for alleged violation of Covid protocol.

The Editors Guild of India has condemned the assault on a journalist by an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer during the local elections in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday.

In one of the more incredible scenes to emerge from the local elections held in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was caught on camera chasing down a TV reporter in public and beating him viciously.

The Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday said that 719 doctors have lost their lives due to coronavirus in the second wave of the COVID pandemic with Bihar recording the maximum fatalities.

Former Uttar Pradesh-cadre Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer Anup Chandra Pandey has been appointed as an election commissioner on Tuesday.

Professor Roop Malik from the Department of Bio Sciences and Bio Engineering, IIT Bombay, is the fifth scientist from India to be elected as an EMBO Associate Member.

An Indian-origin Human Sciences student from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford has been declared the winner at the end of a Student Union (SU) byelection.

The tradition of celebrities, including actors and cricketers, joining politics and contesting polls has a fair bit of history in Indian politics.