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30 September 2023
NRI voting
Election Commission of India proposes allowing NRIs to vote through postal ballots
Election Commission of India has approached the government to permit Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to cast their votes through postal ballots.
Less than 26,000 of 1 lakh NRI voters cast their ballot in 2019 elections: Report
Less than 26,000 of nearly 100,000 overseas Indians who had registered as voters flew down to India to exercise their franchise in the 2019...
Election Commissioner calls for NRIs to register to vote
Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra on Tuesday called on all Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) to register online to boost the numbers of such...
No proxy voting rights for overseas Indians for now
According to reports, the Indian government has decided to hold back its plan to introduce a fresh bill in Parliament which would allow the...
Indian government unlikely to allow dual citizenship: Chauthaiwale
The Indian government is unlikely to allow dual citizenship, at least in the near term, Dr. Vijay Chauthaiwale, in-charge of the Bharatiya...
Indian cabinet to decide on fresh bill to allow proxy voting for NRIs
The Indian Union Cabinet is set to decide about introducing a fresh bill in the current Parliament session to give NRIs voting rights...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s grand return to a second five-year term was the result of a consistent and highly organised campaign...
What Modi 2.0 means to India’s global community
The result of the 2019 Indian general elections made waves not just in India but across the world, with people all over the globe paying...
Election results Live: Phir ek baar Modi Sarkaar
With just over half the votes counted, The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies are already looking set for a second term in charge...
Congress NRI campaign bus to tour Punjab, Haryana prior to polls
Acknowledging the importance of NRIs in the upcoming election and the political influence they exert, the Indian National Congress has come...
India's democracy is underrated: Here is why?
The data is simply staggering: 8,251 candidates from 464 parties wooing 900 Million voters (83 million first-time voters) for 545 seats in...
Will set up institutional mechanism for diaspora if voted to power: BJP Manifesto
Unveiling an exclusive to-do list on the foreign policy front, Bharatiya Janata Party has promised to set up an institutional mechanism to...
'Meri Awaaz Suno' - NRIs no longer silent spectators in India's General Elections
India is a rambunctious democracy. Indians across the world are no less. With under a month to go for the biggest election in the world...
Lok Sabha elections 2019 in seven phases; find out when your constituency goes to the polls
With overseas electors in a separate category and multiple political parties competing with each other in wooing NRIs across the world, the...
NRI's passport enough proof to establish identity for voting in 2019 elections
Setting the speculations to rest about identity proof required for NRIs for the purpose of voting in upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the...
The NRI Guide to Voting in 2019
There are an estimated 31 million Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). With roughly half of them eligible to vote in India, and at a median...
Delhi Police register FIR against fake news on NRI voting
The Delhi Police have registered a case after the Election Commission of India (ECI) asked it to track down people allegedly spreading fake...
Will the EVMs decide the elections of 2019?
An Indian Cyber expert identified as Syed Suja, recently told a press conference in London addressing via Skype that 2014 General election...
Sushma Swaraj interacts with Indian diaspora amid busy UNGA schedule
India's External Affairs Minister is in the midst of a busy week in New York, and took the time to meet representatives of the Global...
NRIs descend upon Gujarat to campaign for BJP prior to state polls
As the elections for the state near, non-resident Indian (NRI) Gujaratis are descending on their home state to boost BJP’s poll prospects...