The Election Commission of India, long regarded as the impartial guardian of the world's largest democracy, is facing unprecedented scrutiny over its credibility and independence. Opposition leaders ...

Women voters hold up their voter identification card while standing in a line to vote in local elections, Howrah, India, July 8, 2023. For more than seven decades, India’s elections have been the envy ...

With a constitutional amendment that would transform elections, Narendra Modi wants to realize his vision of a centralized India. Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) celebrate as BJP leads ...

In December 2024, the Indian government tabled two bills to align federal and state elections and facilitate simultaneous elections with legislative assemblies, laying the legislative groundwork for ...

At a sprawling bungalow in the heart of the Indian capital, several “dead” voters gather around a table to drink tea with the country’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi. “I heard you are not alive any ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female voters stand in queues to cast their ballots at a polling station in Bihar on November 6, 2025 [Sachin Kumar/AFP] The ...

Opposition parties say a move by India’s election commission is part of a wider pattern of election influencing by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which derides the claims. By Mujib ...

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition won a key state election in a vote seen as a crucial test of the leader’s popularity in one of the country’s poorest yet most ...