New Delhi: Punjab is locked in a close contest between the Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (SAD-BJP) alliance and the Congress, with the former ahead by a narrow margin, according to the latest post-poll survey by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) in association with The Week and CNN-IBN. The ruling BJP seems to be on its way out in Uttarakhand with the Congress improving its performance,...
07:00 PM, Mar 03, 2012
Imphal: An NGO will soon launch a campaign against the use of toy guns by small children in interior Bishenpur district of Manipur as such toys may prompt the little ones to do 'unwanted things' in future life. Spokesman of the Association for Rural Development and Women Empowerment' (ARDWE) Marjit Singh told the media the association was trying to contact different NGOs including All Manipur Kanba Ima Lup (Mothers association...
01:35 PM, Feb 29, 2012
Kolkata: The outcome of ongoing assembly elections in five states will have an impact on the Congress-Trinamool Congress alliance in West Bengal, state Congress chief Pradip Bhattacharya has said. "The alliance is not in a comfortable state now .The results of not only Uttar Pradesh but of all the five states will have a separate impact on West Bengal," Bhattacharya told IANS in an interview. While Manipur, Uttarakhand and Punjab...
05:19 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Panaji: BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Thursday claimed that his party was the front-runner in the Assembly elections in five states, including Goa. Singh said the common man was fed up with Congress, and BJP would do well in the polls in five states. "The man on the street is exasperated with the anti-people policies and poor performance of the Congress-led governments at the Centre and the states," Singh, who...
06:06 PM, Feb 23, 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
New Delhi: With polling for assembly elections in the states of Manipur, Punjab and Uttarakhand completed, the Election Commission on Tuesday decided to relax the conditions for model code of conduct, allowing ministers to undertake tours and review ongoing projects. In an order on Tuesday, the Commission said the ministers in these states have now been allowed to tour districts and take officials, besides reviewing and implementing ongoing programmes. The...
08:28 PM, Feb 14, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Tuesday banned exit polls till March 3, till the completion of assembly elections in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa. In a notification issued on Tuesday, it also banned release of opinion polls in any manner on electronic media under Section 126 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 during period of 48 hours, counted backwards from close of...
06:15 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: Schedule for the Budget session of Parliament will be decided on Tuesday amidst indications that the Union Budget 2012-13 may be presented around the middle of March. Meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will be held on Tuesday to decide the schedule of the session which is generally a three-month affair. Talk in political circles is that the address...
10:17 PM, Feb 06, 2012
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11:30 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Imphal: Re-polling at 34 polling booths in five hill districts of Manipur concluded peacefully on Saturday, an official said. Eight polling booths of Chandel district witnessed the highest 82 per cent polling, while nine polling booths of Ukhrul recorded 72.08 per cent of voter turnout, Manipur's Chief Electoral Officer PC Lawmkunga said. The five polling booths in Churachandpur district registered 58.99 per cent polling. Eight polling booths of Senapati district...
10:14 PM, Feb 04, 2012
Imphal: Re-polling at 34 polling stations in Manipur's hill districts began on Saturday morning amidst tight security deployment in view of threats from insurgent organisations. Extra security measures were taken as the government had received reports that militants particularly belonging to National Socialist Council of Nagaland (I-M) were roaming around the polling stations. Officials said re-polling began at all the 34 polling stations spread across Ukhrul, Senapati, Tamenglong, Chandel and...
10:51 AM, Feb 04, 2012
New Delhi: Re-polling will be done on Saturday in 34 polling booths in Manipur's five hill districts. All polling stations are being treated as hyper-sensitive and will be guarded by paramilitary forces. The January 20 polls in Manipur were marred by several instances of violence, which left five people dead. The dead also included two civilians and one polling officer. According to eyewitnesses some militants tried to capture a booth...
06:31 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Bangalore: To enhance the growing bond between Manipur, hailed as the jewel of India, and Karnataka, Manipur Government will be organising a two-day festival, 'Manipur Kumhei' in the state - first of its kind in any part of the country. V Ramakantha, Additional Principal Chief Conservator of Forest of Manipur Government, who is also a represnetative in Karnataka for Manipur, informed 'Express' that the two-day festival which would begin on...
10:20 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Imphal: Around 82 per cent of the electorate on Saturday exercised their franchise in Manipur assembly elections marred by militants' violence that claimed five lives and left two injured. Chief electoral officer P C Lawmkunga said as per preliminary official reports, 82 per cent of the 17.40 lakh electorate cast votes but details from the nine districts in the state were yet to be received. A CRPF man, three Village...
06:00 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Imphal: At least five people including a woman and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel have been killed in election related violence in Manipur. The violence took place in Chandel district of Manipur during polling on Saturday. The dead also included two civilians and one polling officer. According to eyewitnesses some militants tried to capture a booth and fired at the CRPF personnel present there. One of the CRPF...
02:34 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Imphal: About 32 per cent of the 17.40 lakh voters exercised their franchise till 11:30 am in the Manipur Assembly elections on Saturday, the election office said. The polling was peaceful, with no untoward incident reported from any part of the state till noon, official sources said. Ukhrul recorded 39 per cent polling, while Thoubal, from where Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh is contesting, recorded 38 per cent turn out,...
12:22 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh on Saturday said he is expecting Congress to win a minimum of 35 seats in the 60-member Assembly, voting for which continues peacefully across the state. "I am expecting that the Congress party would secure around 45 seats. But 35 is the minimum number we are winning," Okram Ibobi Singh told IANS after casting his vote. Along with his legislator wife Landhoni Devi,...
12:02 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Imphal: Two CRPF personnel on poll duty were killed in an ambush by militants even as four powerful bombs planted near polling stations were seized and defused before polling for the Manipur Assembly began on Saturday morning. The CRPF personnel were killed on Friday when militants ambushed them in Ukhrul district, official sources said. They said the bombs were suspected to have been planted by militants in Khurai Chingangbam area,...
11:24 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Incumbent Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, who is contesting for a third term, said his party will form the government again in Manipur. ...
10:24 AM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: Voters on Saturday lined up before 2,357 polling stations across nine districts of Manipur as elections began in 60 assembly constituencies amid tight security. An electorate of 17,40,576, including 8,82,236 woman voters, are eligible to exercise their franchise to choose their representatives from among 279 candidates in the 10th Assembly polls. Incumbent Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh, who is contesting for a third term, cast his vote at...
07:03 AM, Jan 28, 2012
