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With Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar set to retire on February 18, a three-member selection committee headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet to pick his successor

Ahead of National Voters' Day, the EC says electoral rolls bear a youthful and gender-balanced look with 21.7 crore electors in the 18-29 age group and a six-point increase in electoral gender ratio from 948 in 2024 to 954 in 2025

CEC Rajiv Kumar says over 68,000 monitoring teams and 1.5 crore polling, security personnel involved in world's largest electoral exercise

The Supreme Court declined to pass any direction on a plea seeking the uploading of Form 17C data on the Election Commission of India website and publication of booth-wise voter turnout data.

In Telangana, the elections will be held in a single phase along with 19 other States on May 13.