Centre forms panel to choose next CEC: Sources

The process of appointing the next chief election commissioner was set into motion with the government forming a search committee under Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal to shortlist names for......

2 new election commissioners assume charge

Newly appointed election commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu assumed charge on Friday. IMAGE: Newly-appointed Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar, right, and Dr Sukhbir Singh......

Ex-bureaucrat who oversaw Article 370 abrogation picked as new EC

Former Indian Administrative Service officers Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu were on Thursday appointed as election commissioners, ahead of the announcement of the Lok Sabha polls.......

Govt defends CJI's exclusion from EC selection panel in SC

The Centre on Wednesday defended in the Supreme Court the appointment of two new election commissioners under a 2023 law that excludes the Chief Justice of India from the selection committee,......

2 Indian firms win green energy awards

Two Indian firms have won the prestigious Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, considered as the 'Green Oscar'.A cash prize of 20,000 pounds each were also given to them at a ceremony held in......

He is lighting up villages with rice husk!

For the villagers of Tamkuha, a dusty hamlet in rural Bihar, Gyanesh Pandey is the modern day alchemist who transformed piles of discarded rice husk to light up their lives. Today, every......