Voting rights

The decision-making process reflects both centralisation of power and unilateralism read more

This forum provides school principals\/ teachers a chance to share their views and insights on a wide range of subjects with students. read more

PDS portability will help them, but education, health, voting must follow read more

Hundreds of truckers cannot exercise their franchise as they are away from home during polling; some feel electronic vote or postal ballot could be a way out. read more

In the run-up to the polls here, the district administration, social organisations and many schools had launched several voter awareness campaigns and so the officials had expected a higher voter turnout. read more

Gas cylinders with awareness stickers carrying the district’s logo would reach thousands of households, be it in villages, panchayats or urban homes and remind people to exercise their voting rights, said Ravi. read more

Haryana votes in phase 6 of India’s seven-phase, staggered general elections. All the 10 seats in Haryana, including Gurugram, go to polls on May 12. read more

Students of Mount Litera School International (MLSI) have recorded a rap song, Vote do, to urge people to vote. read more

The Amicus, who has held meetings in batches, heard state cricket bodies from Karnataka, Northeast associations like Arunachal Pradesh, Saurashtra, Baroda, and Maharashtra among others on Wednesday. read more

Indians today are more mobile than ever before in our history. Our ideas about citizenship must follow. read more

As per the report with the Lucknow Nagar Nigam, the names of around 5,000 specially abled voters are missing from the voters list. Besides, the surveyors also identified around fresh 2834 specially abled voters, whose names are to be included in the... read more

The Election Commission on Tuesday assured the Supreme Court that the draft National Register of Citizens (NRC), published on July 30 last year, will not be the basis to deny residents voting rights. read more

A bench led by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi disposed of a public interest litigation (PIL) that had asked for an effective mechanism to ensure implementation of voting rights for soldiers of the armed forces after recording the poll panel’s decision. read more

Yoga guru Ramdev has come up with a remedy to control the country’s burgeoning population — snatch away the voting rights of people who have more than two children. read more

The minister also made references to Kairana, a town in Shamli which had witnessed exodus of over 200 Hindu families due to fear of “majority community”, to say social harmony is witnessed only in areas where Hindus are present in majority. read more