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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicElection Commission of India

Topic: Election Commission of India

Sharad Pawar’s NCP faction gets new name, it’s now Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar

Election Commission allotted the new name a day after it recognised Ajit Pawar faction as the real NCP. New name is only for Rajya Sabha polls this month, the poll body says.

EC recognises Ajit Pawar-faction as official NCP on basis of ‘legislative majority’, allots symbol

Comes a year after the body recognised Eknath Shinde’s faction as the official Shiv Sena. Sharad Pawar faction calls it ‘murder of democracy’.

Zero tolerance: ECI tells political parties, candidates not to involve children in poll campaign

Top leaders of both Congress and BJP have been accused of “misusing” children for political campaigns.

EC announces elections for 56 Rajya Sabha seats across 15 states, polls on 27 February

According to Election Commission of India note released Monday, term of office of 56 members of the Council of States elected from 15 states is due to expire on their retirement in April.

Explaining speaker’s verdict in Marathi, presenting documents — how Uddhav is going to ‘people’s court’

At Janata Nyayalaya following Speaker Rahul Narwekar's ruling on 'real' Shiv Sena, former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray says 'final verdict is delivered by the public'.

100% for BJD, 99% for DMK — electoral bonds a big chunk of ‘donations’ to regional parties in FY23

Electoral bonds scheme has been slammed by Opposition over the yrs, but audit reports released by ECI show parties like TMC, AAP & BRS are raking it in via these financial instruments.

EC orders repolling in one booth of MP’s Bhind district owing to ‘breach of security’

All 230 assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh went to polls in a single phase on 17 November. Repolling at a booth in Ater constituency will be held on Tuesday, 21 November.

SC directs EC to product data on electoral bonds till 30 September

The bench reserved its verdict on the petitions, including those filed by Congress leader Jaya Thakur, the CPI (M) and NGO ADR, after hearing arguments for three days.

EC announces assembly election schedule for 5 states, polling to begin from 7 November

The Election Commission said the elections in Rajasthan, Mizoram, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh will be held in a single phase whereas Chhattisgarh will have a second phase of voting.

Ahead of 2024, Sachin Tendulkar is poll body’s ‘national icon’ to boost voter participation

The purpose of appointing a national icon, according to the ECI, is to minimise the gap between citizens and the election process.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?