Election Commission
- Pakistan
Pakistan’s election commission to issue schedule for February 8 election this month
Islamabad: The chief of Pakistan’s top election authority on Friday said the schedule for the upcoming general election will be announced around the middle of December amidst rumours of a possible delay…
- India
Counting of votes for Mizoram assembly polls deferred by a day: EC
Counting of votes for the Mizoram assembly elections will take place on December 4, the Election Commission of India announced on Friday. Counting was initially scheduled to take place on December 3,…
- Telangana
Telangana police supporting BRS: Kishan Reddy writes to EC
Hyderabad: BJP Telangana president G Kishan Reddy has alleged that Telangana police has been supporting the BRS candidates in their ‘electoral malpractices’. In a letter addressed to the ECI, Reddy complained that…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: 3 police officers suspended for diluting case involving Rs 18L cash
Hyderabad: In a stringent move against three police officers over dereliction of duty, the Election Commission (EC) has suspended inspector of Musheerabad police station Jahangir Yadav, assistant commissioner of police A Yadagiri,…
- Telangana
Telangana: BJP workers, cops clash in Nirmal; several injured
Hyderabad: Tension prevailed at Bhainsa town of Nirmal district after violent clash broke out between police and supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) near the residence of a relative of Rama…
- Telangana
Caught on camera: BRS leaders booked for ‘buying votes’ in Vikarabad
Hyderabad: A day before the polls, police on Wednesday, November 29, booked BRS leaders — MPTC member P Ramakrishna Reddy and former sarpanch Hemalatha Reddy — for distributing money among the voters.…
- Telangana
Case filed against Huzurabad BRS candidate for ‘suicide’ threat to voters
Hyderabad: A case has been filed against Huzurabad BRS candidate Padi Kaushik Reddy for ‘threatening’ to die by suicide along with his family members if he is defeated in the Assembly elections…
- Hyderabad
CEO calls for strict action against IT firms working on election day
Hyderabad: Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana Vikas Raj has directed the Labour Commissioner to take stringent action against IT firms not giving a holiday on the election day on November 30. In…
- India
EC asks Karnataka govt to stop giving ads on its work in Telangana papers
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Monday asked the Congress government in Karnataka to stop publishing advertisements about its work in newspapers in poll-bound Telangana and sought an explanation from it for…
- Telangana
Telangana: Election commission officials seizes freebies, cash, drugs
Hyderabad: Nearly Rs 700 crore worth of cash, freebies and other items were seized by the police between October 9 and November 27, the Election Commission said on Monday. The cumulative amount…
- India
Mizoram NGO to meet EC for change in counting date; officials readying for Dec 3 results
Aizawl: A six-member delegation of NGO Coordination Committee (NGOCC), an umbrella body of influential civil society and students’ organisations, would meet the Election Commission on Tuesday, even as the poll panel has…
- Telangana
Telangana: Value of freebies, cash caught by EC crosses Rs 700 cr
Hyderabad: Rs 709,56,12,177 crores worth of cash, freebies and other items was seized by the police between October 9 and November 25, the Election Commission said on Sunday. The total cash seized…
- Hyderabad
Ex-IAS Goyal to move court against Congress after EC raid on his house
Hyderabad: Former IAS officer AK Goyal, whose house was raided by the election authorities and police following a complaint by Congress that he had stashed a huge sum of money at his…
- Telangana
Rythu Bandhu being used to influence Telangana poll outcome: Revanth
Hyderabad: Telangana Congress chief A Revanth Reddy strongly criticised the move of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to authorise the disbursement of the Rythu Bandhu assistance scheme funds to farmers, just…
- Telangana
Telangana polls: KCR served EC notice for comments on Congress
Hyderabad: Ahead of the Telangana polls which are scheduled for November 30, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has issued a notice to Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao, also known as…