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Quraishi writes to PM for speeding electoral refor

Upset over failure of successive governments to bring key electoral reforms, Chief Election Commissi...

Paid news should be completely checked: CEC

CEC SY Quraishi called for a "complete check" on the menace of paid news during polls.

SK Agarwal is new UP Election Commissioner

The Uttar Pradesh government has appointed retired IAS officer Satish Kumar Agarwal as the new State...

Retirement age for politicians not practical: CEC

Right to recall elected representatives and fixing retirement age for them are "not practical soluti...

DMK complains to EC

DMK on Saturday petitioned the Election Commission alleging that ruling AIADMK was indulging in di...

Cong disapproves of Verma`s remarks daring EC

Congress disapproved of Beni Prasad Verma`s controversial remarks daring the EC to issue a notice t...

Candidates not allotted party symbol: Trinamool

The TMC claimed that about 100 of its candidates in the upcoming Assembly polls were not allotted th...

Right to reject can be considered: SY Quraishi

Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said the time has come to consider the Right to reject prop...

Think before you attack us: CEC to Mayawati

CEC SY Quraishi on Wednesday said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati should think before criticis...

Cong backs Khurshid on quota issue

Party sources said SY Quraishi and the other two Election Commissioners will hear the matter on Jan...

Raj police team in Delhi in search of Dy EC Zutshi

A team of Jaipur police is in Delhi to execute the arrest warrant against senior IAS officer Vinod ...

PETA to put up banners on draped elephant statues

PETA appealed to the Election Commission to allow it to use the covered up elephant statues in UP a...

Khurshid, EC fight reaches PM’s door

The Prime Minister has replied to the CEC reiterating that no one could undermine the EC`s independe...

Criticism of EC order on statues ill-informed: CEC

The CEC said there is nothing per se wrong about statues of political personalities and symbols ere...

BJP demands removal of three top UP officials

Demanding removal of three top officials of UP govt, a delegation of state BJP leaders met Chief El...

Limit yourself, Parkash Singh Badal tells EC

Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal has urged the ECI to ask its officials in the state "to act within the...

Govt for changes in barring criminal candidates

Govt has made significant changes in the proposal to debar criminal candidates from contesting elec...

May hold Uttar Pradesh polls in short span: EC

SY Quraishi said the poll panel may try to "squeeze in" the assembly elections in UP if schools are ...

CEC says right to recall is `impractical`

SY Quraishi ruled out social activist Anna Hazare`s demand for right to recall saying this was not p...

SAARC Election Commissioners endorse use of EVMs

Election Commissioners of SAARC nations on Sunday emphasised the need to use Electronic Voting Mac...

Paid news an electoral malpractice: CEC

News paid for by candidates during elections should be considered an electoral malpractice, said Chi...

Five state elections in 2012 may be clubbed: CEC

As per CEC there are nine criteria that need to be taken into consideration before deciding poll dat...

Pt Nehru wanted to create Lokpal: Former EC

Country`s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was interested in setting up an independent...

Low turnout of urban voters is shameful: CEC

Voicing concern over apathy of urban and youths towards exercising their right to vote, SY Quraishi ...

Money creating havoc in elections: CEC

According to the CEC, about Rs 70 crore was seized from the four states and one union territory that...

Chief Election Commissioner of India visits Egypt

CEC SY Quraishi, is visiting Egypt to apprise the top officials in the country about the electoral s...

Opinion polls should be banned: EC

Chief Election Commissioner said opinion polls should be banned because of the paid news problem.

Expenditure limits for panchayat election set

The limit for a member of panchayat is Rs 5,000, for the Pradhan of Gram Panchyat, the limit would ...

Brahma takes charge as Election Commissioner

Hari Shankar Brahma, a retired senior bureaucrat hailing from Assam, assumed charge as Election Co...

Quraishi assumes charge as new CEC

Assuming charge as the new Chief Election Commissioner, SY Quraishi on Friday said the poll panel wo...

Gurudwara election Commissioner issue directions for SGPC poll

Gurdwara Elections Chief Commissioner H S Brar on Thursday directed Punjab government officials no...

SC allows Election Commissioner to attend Stephens meeting

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to restrain Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi, whose nominati...

Chawla wants statute change to protect ECs from removal

CEC Navin Chawla has written to the government urging for an early amendment of the Constitution to...

State funding of election comes in for opposition from experts

State funding of elections is not panacea for all ills facing the electoral system, experts, inclu...

PC, CEC urged to avoid poll date clash with National Games

The IOA has requested Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and Chief Election Commissioner Naveen Chawl...

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