Chandigarh: Amid tight security, the stage is set for Sunday's elections to Panchayat Samitis and Zila Parishads in Punjab, the campaigning for which was marred by violence in which four persons were killed. Security force personnel had been deployed in strength to ensure smooth, free and fair elections, said state Election Commissioner SS Brar.
As many as 760 candidates were in fray for elections to 331 zones of 22 Zila Parishads, he said adding 30 were elected unopposed. A total of 5,786 candidates were trying their luck for 146 Panchayat Samitis, Brar said.
The polling would be held in 12,000 villages and nearly 2650 out of 19350 booths had been declared sensitive. The counting of votes would take place on May 21.
In the run-up to the elections, two persons were killed in clashes between SAD and Congress activists at Lopoke in Amritsar. Two more persons, including a Congressman, were killed in violence at Patti and Bathinda ahead of polling....
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07:40 PM, May 18, 2013
Bangalore: Sale of liquor across Karnataka is banned for 24 hours from 6 pm on Tuesday and taking out of processions barred in Bangalore from 6 am to midnight on Wednesday in view of Assembly poll vote count in the state. Counting of votes polled on Sunday will take place in 36 centres across the state, according to election authorities. While an official release said liquor sale will not be...
10:00 PM, May 07, 2013
Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland have been told to tighten security on their international and inter-state borders ahead of the vote count in the three states on Thursday. "Security along the borders will be further tightened in view of the counting of votes," an Election Commission official stated on Monday. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Counting of votes will begin on Thursday in the Northeastern states of Meghalaya, Tripura and Nagaland amid tight security. Assembly elections in the three states, having 60 seats each, were held February 14 and February 23. ...
11:28 PM, Feb 27, 2013
The Election Commission of India on Friday announced the dates for polling in the three north eastern states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya. Polling will be held in Tripura on February 14, while in Meghalaya and Nagaland, the polling will be held on February 23. ...
04:11 PM, Jan 11, 2013
New York: Hewlett-Packard Co stunned Wall Street by alleging a massive accounting scandal at its British software unit Autonomy and taking an $8.8 billion writedown, the latest in a string of reversals that renewed questions about the competence of the storied company's board and senior managers. HP said on Tuesday it discovered "serious accounting improprieties" and "a willful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders," after a whistleblower came forward following...
01:05 PM, Nov 21, 2012
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit was leading by a margin of 6541 votes at end of the counting of votes in the ninth round in the Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll, reports said on Saturday. There was slight nervousness in the Congress camp after, at the end of vote-counting in the first round, Abhijit trailed behind CPM candidate Muzaffar Hussain. However, he bounced back and established a lead of...
12:57 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Bellary: Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) winner from the Bellary Lok Sabha constituency, J Shantha, was on Saturday officially declared the winner from the seat after a recount of votes. The Karnataka High Court had set aside the election of the MP in June this year after a petition was filed against her in the court saying that she used fake caste certificates and that there were counting irregularities. Shantha is...
05:40 PM, Sep 15, 2012
New Delhi: 7.24 pm: Rajya Sabha General Secretary presented the certificate to Pranab Mukherjee on winning the presidential elections. 6.48 pm: Pranab Mukherjee has officially been declared elected as the President of India with 3095 votes valued at 7, 13, 763. His opponent P A Sangma secured 1483 votes valued at 3, 15, 987. Mukherjee was declared the winner of the 14th presidential elections by returning officer V K Agnihotri....
11:08 AM, Jul 22, 2012
Hyderabad: Latest trends in the counting of votes in the crucial Andhra Pradesh by-polls reveal Jagan Mohan Reddy's party, the YSR Congress, leading in 13 out of 18 seats. The YSR Congress is also reportedly leading in the Lok Sabha seat of Nellore. The Congress, meanwhile, is leading in 3 seats - Narsapuram, Narsanapet and Ramachandrapuram. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) is said to be leading in Parkal, with the...
09:52 AM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: The counting of votes in the crucial Andhra Pradesh by-polls began amidst tight security on Friday. Early morning trends revealed Jagan Mohan Reddy's party, the YSR Congress, leading in 15 seats. The by-polls are a crucial test for YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is currently lodged in jail on charges of corruption. The counting was taken up at 13 centres in the 12 districts in which...
07:02 AM, Jun 15, 2012
Hyderabad: All arrangements have been made for counting of votes, polled in one Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh where by-elections were held on June 12, on Thursday. The first result is expected from Narsapuram Assembly segment in West Godavari district where the counting process will be completed in 12 rounds, according to state Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal. "There will be 13 counting centres in all...
02:53 AM, Jun 15, 2012
Chandigarh: With SAD-BJP alliance retaining power in Punjab, Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal has called a meeting of the party's newly-elected legislators on March 8. The newly-elected MLAs of the party would meet at 10 am in Chandigarh on March 8 while the party's core committee would meet at 6 pm on the same day, SAD spokesman Daljit Singh Cheema said. Bucking the anti-incumbency trend, the SAD (Badal)...
06:21 PM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The Shiromani Akal Dal(SAD)-Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) alliance seemed to be heading for a majority in the Punjab Assembly belying history which has not seen the incumbent returning to power in the recent past. The counting for the 117-seat Punjab Assembly began at 8 am on Tuesday and as per the trends at 10:00 am, the SAD-BJP alliance was ahead in 65 seats and the Congress was behind with...
09:54 AM, Mar 06, 2012
New Delhi: The massive exercise of counting votes polled in the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa will be held on Tuesday. It's fair to say that these state elections are being seen as a mini General Election and a referendum on the UPA government. The massive exercise of counting votes polled in the five states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa will begin...
06:18 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Kanpur: The emergence of electronic voting machines (EVM) has made counting of votes easy and quick but many feel that this has also caused a decline in the excitement levels which used to be there among people when it was a manual process. "Earlier, the vote counting used to take 2-3 days during which party supporters sat outside the counting office and shouted slogans in favour of their candidate. It...
05:08 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Panaji: Over 1,600 electronic voting machines will on Tuesday reveal which party rules the 10.26 lakh Goans who voted in record numbers for a new government. According to poll officials, the new ruling political dispensation in Goa will be decided within two hours of counting at the two counting centres on Tuesday (March 6). It is yet to be decided whether counting of the votes cast on Saturday will begin...
12:29 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Lucknow/Panaji: A highest ever voter turnout marked the staggered Assembly elections in five states, which ended on Saturday with Uttar Pradesh and Goa joining Punjab and Uttarakhand in breaking all previous records. Counting of votes in the elections in the five states which also included Manipur will be taken up on March 6 as political parties wait with bated breath to know the fall out of rise in voter turnout...
10:44 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Mumbai: In a sudden frenzy of acquisition, the government has approved a staggering sum of Rs 47.5 crore for the purchase of new electronic voting machines (EVMs). The urgency of the purchase is indicated by the fact that Rs 5 crore has been extracted from the state's Contingency Fund as a down payment for the machines. If sources are to be believed, the government has not made this sudden, unplanned...
02:39 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Friday the 13th will be lucky for some. By mid-day, one of the two alliances fighting for power in each of four states and one Union Territory will know whether theyre the lucky one. After months of campaigning in the heat and dust, the contenders will know whether they shall ride in triumph to the seat of government, or slink away to lick their wounds in private. What...
10:26 PM, May 12, 2011
