Chandigarh: Nearly 69 per cent of over 17 lakh voters on Sunday cast their ballots in elections to seven municipal corporations and two municipal committees in Haryana where polling ended peacefully. Polling was peaceful and no untoward incident was reported from the municipal corporations of Ambala, Hisar, Karnal, Panchkula, Panipat, Rohtak and Yamunanagar, State Election Commissioner Dharam Vir told reporters here.
In the case of the two municipal committees, the poll percentage was 90.62 per cent in Farukhnagar and 87 per cent in Kalanaur. The highest voter turnout of 73.63 per cent was recorded in Yamunanagar MC followed by 72.45 per cent in Karnal, 67.74 per cent in Rohtak and 67.13 per cent in Hisar.
Voters in three villages in Panipat district abstained from voting as they wanted their villages be excluded from the ambit of municipal corporation and kept under panchayat. A total of 1,686 candidates were in fray for the 144 wards of seven corporations. Of the total 1,696 polling stations, 251 had been declared sensitive and 335 hyper-sensitive.
Heavy police deployment had been made to maintain law and order at the polling stations and sensitive areas, he said. While counting of votes for the Committees will take place this evening, the votes polled for the Corporations would be counted on June 4....
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10:58 PM, Jun 02, 2013
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08:40 PM, Jun 02, 2013
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08:50 PM, May 19, 2013
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...
07:40 PM, May 18, 2013
Islamabad: Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan seems to have bowled an over pitched delivery in Pakistan's general elections by winning far lesser seats than what he expected, but has yorked everyone out in the troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province where his party is set to emerge as the single largest. The flamboyant 60-year-old Imran, whose party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is set to come a distant second in the historic general elections, won from three...
01:49 PM, May 12, 2013
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09:36 AM, May 12, 2013
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07:29 AM, May 12, 2013
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07:33 PM, May 11, 2013
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02:46 PM, May 11, 2013
Islamabad: Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari cast his vote through postal ballot, a media report said on Saturday. Zardari and his two daughters had cast their votes through postal ballots, but his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari couldn't cast his vote as he was not permitted the postal ballot facility, reported Geo News. Saturday's polls follow the bloodiest election campaign in recent Pakistani history. It will also mark a democratic change...
01:21 PM, May 11, 2013
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12:32 PM, May 11, 2013
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11:11 AM, May 11, 2013
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10:32 AM, May 11, 2013
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10:11 AM, May 11, 2013
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08:50 AM, May 11, 2013
Pakistan will vote on Saturday to decide who is next leader amidst threats of terror and violence. ...
08:47 AM, May 11, 2013
Islamabad: Despite a bloody campaign marred by Taliban attacks, polling began in Pakistan on Saturday amidst threats of violence, pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister once exiled by the army and an incumbent blamed for power blackouts and inflation. The vote marks the first time in Pakistan's 65-year history that a civilian government has completed its full term and handed over power in democratic elections. Previous...
07:24 AM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday got majority in Karnataka and ousted the BJP to form the government in the state after seven years. The BJP suffered a humiliating defeat in the Karnataka Assembly elections as Congress appeared to be well on its way to wresting power on its own. Hit by the exit of former chief minister BS Yeddyurappa and the image of corruption during its tenure in the...
02:59 PM, May 08, 2013
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10:59 PM, May 05, 2013
Bangalore: An estimated 69 per cent of the about 4.36 crore electorate voted in the largely peaceful Assembly polls in Karnataka on Sunday amid projections that the beleaguered ruling BJP was on a sticky wicket against a resurgent Congress. The 7 am to 6 pm vote kicked off on a brisk pace initially but appeared to lose steam as the mercury soared before picking up momentum again in the last...
08:11 PM, May 05, 2013
