Chandigarh, January 30: Setting a record, nearly 77 percent of Punjab's 1.76 crore voters cast their ballots Monday to pick a new state assembly and Election Commission (EC) officials said the final polling percentage could go up. One person was killed in poll-related violence while a few others were injured. "The Punjab polling ...

Chandigarh, January 30:  Around 65 percent of Punjab's 1.76 crore voters had cast their ballots by 5 p.m. Monday to pick a new state assembly, while thousands of people were still queued up outside polling booths, a poll official said. All those in queue at 5 p.m. would be permitted to cast ...

Dubai, January 30: The hearing on a civil case against the seventeen Indian men who were earlier spared from death sentence for killing a Pakistani man in January 2009, will continue in the Sharjah Civil Court of First Instance on February 15. The 17 Indians are now involved in a case of ...

PRASHANT SOOD They may be battles for control of five states. But the overall outcome will mean a lot to the Congress and to the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government it leads. Analysts feel a good performance will be a morale booster to the UPA government that is battling an image ...

Chandigarh, January 30: Election authorities in Punjab Monday replaced 11 electronic voting machines (EVMs) in Mansa district after complaints that an unidentified person had tried to tamper with them. Workers of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the People's Party of Punjab (PPP) had complained to the Election Commission (EC), alleging that ...

Badal (Punjab), January 30: Located in a government school in Badal village of Lambi assembly seat in Punjab, polling booth No.106 may be a nondescript place but it turned out to be the battleground for the politically feuding first family of Punjab politics -- the Badals. As day broke over this village ...

Jammu, January 29: Jammu and Kashmir police personnel have left for election duty in Punjab where assembly elections will take place Monday, a senior official said Sunday. The Jammu and Kashmir Armed Police, veterans in effective policing during elections, were requested by the central government to proceed to Punjab. "Our men left Saturday ...

Chandigarh, January 29: With Punjab set to vote Monday, the Election Commission said Sunday Rs.33.66 crore of unaccounted cash and 697,000 bottles of country liquor have been seized in the state. Election Commission officials here said that nearly 32,000 litres of illicit liquor and over 227,588 kgs of 'Lahan' (local liquor) were ...

The hawk eyes of the Election Commission's surveillance teams nothwithstanding, the flow of liquor and drugs seems to be on ahead of Monday's ballot to pick a 117-seat Punjab assembly. If the seizure of liquor and drugs - from leading makes to the local variety - in the last few weeks ...

Chandigarh, January 28: As campaigning officially ended Saturday evening for Monday's (Jan 30) election to Punjab's 117 assembly seats, the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alliance and main opposition Congress made confident claims to victory. With neither of the two main contenders seeing a wave in their favour, both sides ...