Dehradun : Except for the star campaigners of both the Congress and the BJP who are flying in and out of the state; the din, cacophony, graffiti, posters and banners are missing: courtesy the hawk’s eye approach adopted by the Election Commission authorities on the poll expenses of the candidates. [...]

Lucknow : The Uttar Pradesh pollscape heated up Thursday with Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Uma Bharti taking on each other in an aggressive battle of words. Addressing a rally in Charkhari in Bundelkhand, from where Uma Bharti will contest the assembly elections, Gandhi said [...]

Chandigarh : The Election Commission (EC) Wednesday directed the administration of Punjab’s Muktsar district to stop immediately the work on a temporary road in the Lambi assembly constituency, from where Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal is seeking re-election. Special chief electoral officer Usha R. Sharma told media here that the [...]

Kapurthala: Police late on Friday seized a small truck packed with liquor cases that were being illegally transported. Being election time, the liquor is said to belong to Shiromani Akali Dal Bholath candidate Bibi Jagir Kaur and the police has registered a case against her and five others. On directions [...]

Dehradun: The Congress party today launched its election manifesto for the Uttarakhand vidhan sabha election scheduled for Jan 30 simultaneously at Dehradun and Haldwani. The highlight of the manifesto is that its focus is more on making tall promises and getting votes from various sections rather than focusing on problems [...]

New Delhi : The BJP Friday accused the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) of trying to “humiliate” the Election Commission of India. “This is very unfortunate, the UPA-II has been trying to marginalise and humiliate many constitutional authorities,” BJP leader Balbir Punj told a TV channel, commenting on the row [...]

Chandigarh, Jan 12 (IANS) A total of 1,880 candidates have filed their nominations for the 117 seats of the Punjab assembly for which elections will be held Jan 30. A spokesperson of the chief electoral officer’s (CEO) office said here Thursday evening that 1,880 nominations were received till Thursday evening. [...]

Chandigarh: That they were super-rich was never in doubt but the top political leadership in Punjab, especially from two families, are worth nearly Rs.250 crore ($48 million) of declared wealth. Affidavits submitted by the top politicos in Punjab while filing their nominations to various seats for the state’s Jan 30 [...]

Dehradun : This eunuch gave jitters not only to the Congress and the BJP when she contested for the post of mayor of the Dehradun Municipal Corporation in 2008, but a majority of Doonites went red at the very thought of having a eunuch for a mayor. Now she is [...]

Dehradun : Though there is still some time before Uttarakhand goes to poll on Jan 30, and equations could change as the date of poll nears, but early indications are that the state is heading for a hung assembly, with neither the BJP nor the Congress getting a simple majority [...]