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The Election Commission of India has permitted postal ballot voting in the Assembly elections for senior citizens, persons with disabilities (PwDs), service voters and essential service workers.The facility is provided u...
The Meghalaya government has extended the tenure of the Garo Hills Autonomous District Council (GHADC) by six months.The decision came at a Cabinet meeting in Shillong amid protests and unrest in the Garo Hills.The dispu...
The Election Commission of India announced that Assembly elections in Assam, Keralam, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu will be conducted in a single phase, whereas West Bengal will vote in two phases. Chief Election Commissione...
The Madras High Court has issued notices to the Puducherry government and the State Election Commission on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking local body elections in the Union Territory. Elected communes and muni...
The Andhra Pradesh government has announced a financial incentive of ₹25,000 for couples at the time of delivery of their second or third child. The scheme seeks to raise the State's Total Fertility Rate (TFR), which sta...
The Election Commission of India held a national roundtable conference with State Election Commissioners at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. It was the first such meeting in 27 years, the previous one having been held in 19...
The Rajasthan Cabinet has removed the rule that barred people with more than two children from contesting Panchayati Raj and urban local body elections. The two-child norm was brought in during 1995 for population contro...
Overview A landmark judgment was delivered by the Supreme Court in February 2026 regarding the transparency of political funding. The court mandated the use of a blockchain-based tracking system for all large-scale digit...
The Karnataka Cabinet cleared the use of ballot papers and ballot boxes instead of Electronic Voting Machines for the panchayat polls due in February 2026. To give this legal backing, the government plans to bring the Ka...
The India International Conference on Democracy and Election Management (IICDEM) 2026 in New Delhi ended with 42 election management bodies from around the world adopting the Delhi Declaration 2026. It rests on five pill...
The Telangana Assembly passed the Telangana Panchayat Raj (Amendment) Bill, 2026, which replaces an earlier ordinance. Under a 1994 law, people with more than two children could not contest local body polls. The Bill rem...
Overview Begum Khaleda Zia, former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and a towering figure in South Asian politics, has passed away. As the first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Zia's political legacy spans decades of le...
