The Chief Election Commissioner heads the Election Commission of India, a body constitutionally empowered to conduct free and fair elections to the national and state legislatures. He is usually a member of the Indian Civil Service and mostly from the Indian Administrative Service. ThePresident of I...
According to a report by JM Financial Institutional Securities, if Kamala Harris becomes the President of the United States, the US Federal Reserve might adopt a soft interest rate policy, which could impact the Indian Reserve Bank’s decision on interest rates. This could lead to ...
“The Election Commission is mandated to ensure that the election to the office of the President of India, which is the highest elective office in the nation, must be a free and fair election and the Commission is taking all necessary steps for discharging its Constitutional responsibility,” ch...
Indian President Droupadi Murmu greets the crowd gathered at her temporary residence in New Delhi in 2022 (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) India’s president is its head of state, but the position is largely ceremonial. Droupadi Murmu, the current president, was elected in 2022 by lawmakers— an ...
Voters will elect Members of Parliament to fill 543 seats in the 545-seat lower house of parliament, called the Lok Sabha. The other two seats are nominated by the country's president. The party that wins a majority in the election will form the next government and appoi...
(CEC). The Election Commission is the agency of the Indian Government responsible for conducting free and fair elections in the country. It is a very unique agency in its mandate, powers and functions. It is one of the few agencies in the country that is wholly independent and it's only...
The ban would be in effect from Tuesday morning. The seven-phased general elections for the lower house of Indian parliament "Lok Sabha" are going on in India. The first phase was held on April 11. Election results will be announced on May 23....
country. The Lok Sabha elections are also called general elections. The Lok Sabha has a maximum strength of 552 members, with two nominations by the President of India from the Anglo-Indian community. Twenty of the members are from union territories while 530 members are represented from the ...
Speaking on the occasion, party president Amit Shah said that the BJP had secured more than 50 percent of votes polled in as many as 17 states, while the main opposition party the Indian National Congress (INC) could not even win a single constituency in a large number of states. ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coalition won a majority in parliament in the country’s staggered election, according to official results released early Wednesday by India’s Election Commission. (AP Video: Piyush Nagpal and Rishi Lekhi) 3 of 19 | India began counting more than 640 ...