New Delhi: The 62-64 per cent turn out of voters in the first phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday was a record, Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi said. "This is for the eleventh time in a row that recorded a higher turnout. All the ten previous polls have shown higher voter turnout compared to the previous times," he said. Quraishi attributed it to the efforts of the...
09:49 PM, Feb 08, 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
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Wednesday conducted a raid at the residence of a close aide of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and recovered narcotics from his house. The raid was carried out in collaboration with the Income Tax department. Dayal Singh Kollianwali, a close aide of the SAD chief, lives in Kollianwalli village in Lambi constituency, from where Parkash Singh Badal is contesting the Assembly elections. There...
06:08 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Kolkata: As Bengal gets ready for its six-phase polls, the Election Commission - whose job it is to keep the elections clean - has its hands full with 294 seats and over 70,000 polling booths. Chief electoral officer Sunil Gupta says,"Unlicensed arms, cartridges, bombs, and other explosives in various quantities have been seized already." About 1552 unlicensed arms, 2755 cartridges, 9197 bombs and explosives worth 610 kilograms have been recovered....
06:55 AM, Apr 15, 2011
Guwahati: Voters clashed with police personnel in Rangiya in Kamrup district of Assam on Monday during the second and final phase of elections to the 126-member Assembly. The incident happened when some voters were allegedly manhandled by the police, who were trying to maintain order at a polling station. The voters protested and had a heated exchange of words with the policemen who had allegedly manhandled them. After the altercation...
11:04 AM, Apr 11, 2011
Guwahati: An estimated 70.35 per cent turnout was recorded on the second and final phase of Assam assembly covering 64 constituencies, the Election Commission said here on Monday. The turnout was recorded as on 3pm and the figure would go up, said Deputy Election Commissioner Alok Shukla. He said barring one or two incidents, the polling was by and large peaceful. Shukla said there were clashes between voters and Central...
08:25 AM, Apr 11, 2011
Jamui, Bihar: Soon after voting started in the fourth phase of the Assembly elections in Bihar, Naxals have fired at a polling party at Batia forest area in Jamui. BSF jawans returned the fire. No injuries have been reported. The voting has resumed. Meanwhile, on Sunday in a major crackdown against the Maoists, the Bihar police, nabbed six hard core Maoists ultras including Deep Singh, the area commander of the...
09:40 AM, Nov 01, 2010
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05:34 PM, Dec 12, 2009
Choppers air-lifted a total of 154 EVMs to district headquarters. ...
03:13 PM, Oct 16, 2009
Naxalites opened fire at Kotmi polling station in Gadchiroli district. ...
04:12 PM, Oct 15, 2009
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08:57 PM, Oct 14, 2009
Helicopters were sent to transport polling officials in gadchiroli. ...
09:54 PM, Oct 13, 2009
A person died at a polling booth in Rewari after complaining of chest pain. ...
07:43 PM, Oct 13, 2009
The EC had ordered repolling in two polling booths. ...
10:14 PM, May 10, 2009
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