Uncertainty over simultaneous counting of votes for civic bodies’ polls
January 11th, 2012 - 9:45 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 11 (IANS) The Maharashtra State Election Commission Wednesday expressed uncertainty over conducting simultaneous counting of votes polled in the Zilla Parishad and municipal corporation elections scheduled in ... Read more...
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Ajit Pawar, Pune mayor get notices for violating poll code
January 6th, 2012 - 5:38 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai/Pune, Jan 6 (IANS) Maharashtra's State Election Commission (SEC) Friday issued notices to Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and Pune Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal, both from the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), ... Read more...
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Maharashtra opposition wants simultaneous counting of votes
January 4th, 2012 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 4 (IANS) A delegation of Maharashtra opposition parties Wednesday called on state election commissioner Neela Satyanarayan, demanding simultaneous counting of votes for the Feb 7 Zilla Parishad ... Read more...
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Election expenses for Maharashtra civic polls hiked
January 4th, 2012 - 12:28 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 3 (IANS) Maharashtra's state Election Commission Tuesday significantly enhanced the expense limits for the forthcoming civic, zila parishad and gram panchayat elections.The decision was announced by state election ... Read more...
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Dharavi re-development set to take off
January 4th, 2012 - 12:25 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 3 (IANS) The Maharashtra government Tuesday paved the way for a massive development of central Mumbai's Dharavi, Asia's largest slum, made famous by the Oscar Award winning ... Read more...
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Count all civic polls votes same day: Maharashtra opposition
January 3rd, 2012 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 3 (IANS) Barely an hour after poll schedules to 10 municipal corporations and 27 zilla parishads were announced here Tuesday, opposition parties in Maharashtra demanded simultaneous counting ... Read more...
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Polls in BMC, 9 other municipal corporations Feb 16 (Lead)
January 3rd, 2012 - 6:54 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 3 (IANS) Elections to 10 major municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, will be held Feb 16, an election official said Tuesday.State Election Commissioner Neela ... Read more...
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Polls in BMC, 9 other municipal corporations Feb 16
January 3rd, 2012 - 5:44 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Jan 3 (IANS) Elections to 10 major municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, will be held Feb 16, an election official said Tuesday.State Election Commissioner Neela ... Read more...
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Don’t use animals in campaigning, says Maharashtra poll panel
December 23rd, 2011 - 10:15 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Dec 23 (IANS) The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) Friday frowned on the use of animals by candidates for canvassing during civic body elections and warned of action against ... Read more...
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Poll panel favours right to reject candidates
December 6th, 2011 - 11:34 pm ICT by IANS
Shillong, Dec 6 (IANS) The Election Commission favours the "right to reject" candidates to do away with criminals in India's electoral system, a poll panel official said Tuesday.
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Goa minister flouted rules in daughter’s appointment: BJP
November 8th, 2011 - 6:53 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Nov 8 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday demanded a criminal probe in the "illegal" appointment of Goa Sports Minister Manohar alias Babu Azgaonkar's daughter in the ... Read more...
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Bangladesh to deploy army in crucial civic poll
October 16th, 2011 - 8:45 pm ICT by IANS
Dhaka, Oct 16 (IANS) The Bangladesh Election Commission Sunday decided to deploy the army for ensuring free and fair mayoral polls of the Narayanganj city corporation slated for Oct ... Read more...
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1.2 mn struck off voters’ list in Balochistan
August 23rd, 2011 - 1:25 pm ICT by IANS
Islamabad, Aug 23 (IANS) The names of 1.2 million people have been struck off the voters's list in Pakistan's Balochistan province as they were unverified, an official said.Mehboob Anwar, ... Read more...
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Indian hand in South Sudan constitution
July 7th, 2011 - 3:02 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) As South Sudan celebrates its formal birth as Africa's newest nation on July 9, its constitution, in the process of being drafted, will have an ... Read more...
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Modernise state election commissions: Himachal governor
June 28th, 2011 - 1:01 am ICT by IANS
Shimla, June 27 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh Governor Urmila Singh Monday stressed on providing adequate funds for modernisation of the state election commissions.Inaugurating the 15th all-India conference of state election commissioners ... Read more...
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Anti-graft march planned from Patna to Delhi
May 29th, 2011 - 7:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) A march to protest against corruption will be taken out from Patna to Delhi June 4-13, its organisers said Sunday.Called under the banner of social ... Read more...
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61 percent turnout in third phase of Bihar panchayat polls
April 27th, 2011 - 10:13 pm ICT by ANI
Patna, Apr 27 (ANI): An estimated sixty one percent voters exercised their franchise in the third phase of panchayat polls in Bihar on Wednesday. The State Election Commissioner, J K Dutta, said ... Read more...
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Over 80 percent turnout in phase two of Bengal polls (Roundup)
April 23rd, 2011 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 23 (IANS) The second phase of West Bengal's electoral battle passed off peacefully Saturday with around 83 percent of electors voting in 50 constituencies across three ... Read more...
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Trinamool alleges cash bribes, CPI-M in denial (Lead)
April 22nd, 2011 - 8:58 pm ICT by IANS
Bolpur/Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress has complained to the Election Commission against a Marxist leader who was allegedly caught distributing money to voters ahead of the second phase ... Read more...
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Rs.one crore black money seized in West Bengal
April 21st, 2011 - 7:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) Black money amounting Rs.one crore in cash has been seized from different areas of poll-bound West Bengal since last month, an Election Commission official said Thursday."In ... Read more...
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Campaigning for second phase of West Bengal polls ends today
April 21st, 2011 - 1:56 pm ICT by ANI
Kolkata, Apr 21 (ANI): Leaders of various political outfits are wooing voters in West Bengal as campaigning for the second phase of elections comes to a close today.A total of 293 ... Read more...
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EC assures safe, free voting in West Bengal
April 12th, 2011 - 7:46 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) Assuring voters of adequate security for the coming West Bengal assembly polls, a top Election Commission official urged people to come out and exercise their franchise ... Read more...
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If candidate attacked in Bihar, rival to be suspect
April 8th, 2011 - 6:45 pm ICT by IANS
Patna, April 8 (IANS) If a candidate is attacked or intimidated in Bihar's upcoming panchayat polls, then his rival will be named in the police report, the state election commission ... Read more...
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Praveen Tripathi is Delhi’s new chief secretary
April 2nd, 2011 - 5:56 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Praveen K. Tripathi, a 1977 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's principal secretary since 2006, was Saturday appointed Delhi's ... Read more...
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Sena wants ballot paper voting in civic elections
March 28th, 2011 - 10:20 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, March 28 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Monday demanded that the traditional ballot paper voting be implemented instead of the electronic voting machines (EVMs) for the 2012 elections to Municipal ... Read more...
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Five members elected to Indian schools’ Board of Directors in Oman
March 27th, 2011 - 1:51 pm ICT by ANI
Muscat, Mar.27 (ANI): Five members of the Indian School Muscat have been elected to be the part of Board of Directors that frames policies for Indian schools in Oman.Out of the 14 ... Read more...
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Single day polling, counting experiment fails in Goa
March 12th, 2011 - 3:36 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, March 12 (IANS) After promising to conduct civic polls and count the votes cast the same day - unprecedented in recent Indian electoral history - the state election ... Read more...
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Flag manufacturing industry booms ahead of Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu
March 10th, 2011 - 8:38 pm ICT by ANI
Coimbatore, Mar 10 (ANI): With just one month left for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, flag manufacturers in Coimbatore are seeing sales soar.The flag-manufacturing sector in the city has witnessed a boom ... Read more...
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Report on Bengal minister’s poll code breach submitted
March 8th, 2011 - 11:49 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Mar 8 (IANS) The West Bengal government Tuesday submitted a report on alleged violation of the model code of conduct by state Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta to the Election ... Read more...
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Assembly elections process hots up in West Bengal
March 8th, 2011 - 12:07 am ICT by IANS
Kolkata, March 7 (IANS) Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Kumar Zutshi Monday met senior officials of four districts here to brief them about Election Commission guidelines for conducting free and fair ... Read more...
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‘Indian school board election is farce’, said Indian parents in Oman
February 27th, 2011 - 2:00 pm ICT by ANI
Muscat, Feb.27 (ANI): Social workers and parents have criticized the first elections of the Indian school board in Oman, calling it a farce."The whole process, right from the composition of the board ... Read more...
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After one-day cricket, come one-day polls in Goa
February 5th, 2011 - 3:47 pm ICT by IANS
Panaji, Feb 5 (IANS) For the first time in India, elections to a municipal corporation body will be virtually conducted on the lines of a one-day cricket match. Both voting as well ... Read more...
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Poll panel officer meets Bengal bureaucrats, police officials
February 2nd, 2011 - 11:45 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) With the West Bengal assembly polls barely months away, Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutshi Wednesday held discussions with senior government officials and police officers on the level of ... Read more...
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Poll panel ready for elections in five states, says member
January 21st, 2011 - 4:17 pm ICT by IANS
Hyderabad, Jan 21 (IANS) The Election Commission of India is prepared to conduct the upcoming assembly elections in five states, Election Commissioner V.S. Sampath said Friday."We are in a state of prepardness," ... Read more...
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Jharkhand panchayat polls: 47,000 in fray in second phase
December 5th, 2010 - 9:05 pm ICT by IANS
Ranchi, Dec 5 (IANS) Over 47,000 candidates are in the fray for Monday's second phase of panchayat polls in Jharkhand, amid a boycott call by the Maoists, an official said."All the necessary ... Read more...
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