New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's statues and those of her party's poll symbol, the elephant, will be back in public view from Sunday. The Election Commission has given the Uttar Pradesh administration the go-ahead to uncover the statues. The statues were draped on January 7 after opposition parties alleged the BSP would have an unfair advantage in the elections because of them. In Lucknow, nine statues of Mayawati...
06:12 AM, Mar 04, 2012
New Delhi: Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma has written to the Election Commission saying he did not violate the poll code. The Election Commission had asked Verma to explain his minority sub-quota remarks during a rally in Uttar Pradesh. The Congress leader is believed to have said that he was only talking about his party's manifesto. BJP leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shahnawaz Hussain, who had complained to the EC,...
02:38 PM, Mar 02, 2012
New Delhi: India's Chief Election Commissioner, SY Quraishi has finally "surrendered" to the Twitter. And Quraishi says he has to thank the youth of the country and his son for it. Posting his maiden tweet, Quraishi, the head of the Election Commission, wrote, "At last, I have surrendered to twitter! Thanks to my son @mustafaquraishi and the youth of India for inspiring me." In opening a Twitter account, Quraishi has...
12:59 AM, Mar 01, 2012
Panaji: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address a public meeting in north Goa on Wednesday as part of election campaign for the March 3 Assembly Polls following clearance from the Election Commission (EC). On Monday, the poll panel officials in Goa had said that permission had not been granted to Prime Minister's rally as it was being held on the government-run college's ground at Sankhalim village, 40 km from the...
08:19 AM, Feb 29, 2012
A mock drill at a private company in Bangalore turned deadly, when the rope carrying a 25-year-old woman employee snapped, and she fell from the third floor to her death. The drill, incidentally, was organised by the fire department of the company. ...
10:22 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Friday sent a notice to Union minister Shri Prakash Jaiswal over his remark that if the Congress did not win elections in Uttar Pradesh this time, then President's rule must be imposed on the state. The remark drew ire from all sides, including his own. He, later, withdrew his comments saying he was just talking about constitutional alternatives. This is not the first time...
05:30 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New Delhi: Anna Hazare and his team on Thursday met the Election Commission in a bid to raise the pitch for electoral reforms and demanded that 'right to reject' option be included in electronic voting machines (EVMs) and candidates against whom a court has framed charges be barred. Anna, along with his close associates Santosh Hegde, Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi, discussed the matter for about an hour...
03:46 PM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Jayant Chaudhary who was booked by the Election Commission for violating the model code of conduct, has been given a clear chit. The MP from Mathura and party chief and Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh's son was caught on camera taking Rs 70,000 from a local leader during an election rally in Mathura. Chaudhary later passed the cash on to his brother-in-law, who was...
06:47 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Mathura: Team Anna member Kiran Bedi on Tuesday said that the anti-corruption campaign's next step will be to demand the inclusion of a 'Right to Reject' button in EVM machines. "The situation changed fast in the nation after Emergency was imposed. The system has become such that those who want to remain honest have to pay a heavy price," she claimed. If they do not like the candidates, voters can...
01:42 AM, Feb 22, 2012
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11:42 PM, Feb 21, 2012
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09:30 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Group of Ministers meeting on Wednesday to discuss the row with EC on the Model Code of Conduct, reportedly did not make any recommendations. There is reportedly no such move under contemplation by the government or the Group of Ministers, sources said. The war of words between the Congress and the Election Commission on model code of conduct escalated on Wednesday with the latter saying that there...
08:47 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma was on Tuesday granted personal hearing by the Election Commission to explain his minorities sub-quota remarks for which the poll body slapped a notice and he is likely to appear on Friday. The Commission, which met in New Delhi on Tuesday evening, decided to grant personal hearing to the minister following his request in this regard. "The Minister had sought a personal hearing...
08:40 PM, Feb 21, 2012
New Delhi: The war of words between the Congress and the Election Commission on model code of conduct is escalating with the latter saying that there will not be any compromise on the issue of poll code violation. Meanwhile, sources have suggested that the government is planning to take the model code of conduct out of the purview of the Election Commission. The government's Group of Ministers (GoM) is slated...
03:49 PM, Feb 21, 2012
Kanpur: Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday invited the Election Commission's wrath by not taking up the route it had prescribed to the leader for his road campaign in Kanpur. Kanpur District Magistrate Hari Om said that Rahul stuck to his route, despite having been assigned an alternative route by the EC. "We had allotted a separate route for Rahul's roadshow considering he would have faced traffic," the official...
05:13 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: In his reply to Election Commission's showcause notice over the minorities' sub-quota remark, Union Steel Minister and Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma on Monday said that the quota remark was part of the party manifesto. Verma also said that he didn't mean to violate the model code of conduct and expressed his regret that such an impression is created. The Congress leader also said that he respects the...
04:46 PM, Feb 20, 2012
Lucknow: Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Jayant Chaudhary has been booked by the Election Commission for violating the model code of conduct. The MP from Mathura and party chief and Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh's son was caught on camera taking Rs 70,000 from a local leader during an election rally in Mathura. He then passed the cash to his party candidate, who returned the money to him. Chaudhary later passed...
01:11 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: In the ongoing Assembly polls for five states, the Election Commission has so far issued 167 notices to candidates who allegedly paid for the publication of news in their favour in various media outlets. While the maximum numbers of 129 notices have been issued to candidates in Punjab, where polling was held on January 30, as many as 38 notices have been issued to candidates in Uttar Pradesh,...
03:20 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Raebareli: The Congress' star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Friday took addressed a volley of issues ranging from the NRHM deaths in Uttar Pradesh to alleged funds misuse in the state to Beni Prasad's quota remark. Priyanka was campaigning in Raebareli. While speaking on alleged funds misuse in the state, she said, "Money that is being sent to the UP state under health schemes is not reaching the people. The money...
01:55 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Raebareli: The Congress' star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi on Friday took addressed a volley of issues ranging from the NRHM deaths in Uttar Pradesh to alleged funds misuse in the state to Beni Prasad's quota remark. Priyanka was campaigning in Raebareli. While speaking on alleged funds misuse in the state, she said, "Money that is being sent to the UP state under health schemes is not reaching the people. The money...
01:55 PM, Feb 17, 2012
