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The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced a Special Summary Revision (SSR) of electoral rolls in 14 States and 3 Union Territories, fixing 1 January 2027 as the qualifying date. The exercise restarts yearly en...
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel share the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, honouring their work on optogenetics and light-gated ion channels. Hegemann and Nagel found channelrhodopsin, a protei...
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced nine decisions to strengthen internal governance, technology oversight and electoral roll management. Meeting agendas will be shared in advance and minutes recorded, w...
The Madras High Court rejected an election petition against Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) MLA R. Seenivasa Sethupathy's one-vote victory from Tirupattur constituency in Sivaganga district in the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly...
ZT Lalrithangi, a farmer from Mizoram popularly known as Pi Mari-i, has been chosen for the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) 100 Women Heroes in Agri food Systems and Rural Development Award. The FAO honour recogn...
The Madras High Court dismissed a plea seeking a five-year ban on legislators who resign their seats and then contest the resulting bypolls, often on another party's ticket. The court said only Parliament or the legislat...
While hearing the challenge to the Election Commissioners appointment law, the Supreme Court defended the Collegium system of judicial appointments. Justice Dipankar Datta described the Centre's comparison of the Collegi...
The Supreme Court has referred the challenge to the law on appointing the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs) to a larger Constitution Bench. The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Elect...
The Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute's 2026 report states that India's Electoral Democracy Index has fallen to its lowest since 1975. V-Dem assesses democracy using indicators on elections, institutions, rights a...
The Election Commission of India has recognised Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) as a State Party in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry after it fulfilled the prescribed conditions. Earlier a registered unrecognised party, TVK can...
Tamil Nadu has moved to empower the Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) to recruit staff for 25 corporations, 145 municipalities and 479 town panchayats. The Assembly passed a Bill amending the TNPSC (Additional...
A new study has shown that the songs of more than 3,000 passerine bird species are composed from just eight basic sound motifs. Using machine learning on over one lakh recordings, researchers identified three types of tr...
