PATIALA: Terming the high voting percentage as an "indicator of change", Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh, on Monday, expressed his gratitude to Dera Sacha Sauda for supporting the Congress. Predicting a "clear" Congress victory, he said the party would cross the 70-seat mark this time. Amarinder and other members ...

CHANDIGARH: The Election Commission of India has said that no votes shall be deleted without giving prior notice to the persons concerned. This was stated by Kusumjit Sidhu, chief electoral officer, Punjab, on Friday. "These instructions shall remain in force till the elections to the Punjab assembly are held. Instructions have ...

CHANDIGARH: The Hisar returning officer-cum ­deputy commissioner has recommended the transfer of six revenue officials, who have either stayed in the district for more than three years in the last four years or has Hisar as their home district. State chief electoral officer Sumita Misra said the RO's recommendations for transfer of ...

CHANDIGARH: The election commission of India has appointed sanjay kumar as the election expenditure observer for Hisar bypoll. It has banned any sort of defacement of property even if the contest of the owner has been obtained. Stating this, chief electoral officer Sumita Misra said various stages of the ongoing special ...

CHANDIGARH: A day after Hindustan Times reported how Punjab director general of police Paramdeep Singh Gill was seen ill a ph9tograph posing with a history-sheeter and other people with criminal cases against them, the state's chief electoral -officer sought an explanation from the state government on the issue. On a May ...

BADHNI KALAN (MOGA): The Punjab government soon will transfer civil and police officers as required by the Election Commission of India. "The process of making the lists has started already," deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal told the media- on Thursday at the Sangat Darshan programme in Badhni Kalan village of ...

CHANDIGARH NEWS: Chief electoral officer, Punjab, Kusumjit Sidhu while presiding over a meeting with representatives of political parties on Tuesday, said the draft publication of the electoral rolls ­ would be taken up op October 1 as per the guidelines of the Election Commission of India. The period for filing of ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab dreads the prospect of losing three-fourth of its top bureaucrats for a month. The Election Commission of India (ECI) move to put 44 Punjab-cadre IAS officers on poll duty in five states has put the Parkash Singh Badal government in a bind. The ECI wants the officers to be observers ...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab chief electoral officer Kusumjit Sidhu on Monday invited the state's residents living abroad to get registered in the electoral roll of their constituency as per the local address in the passport. In a press statement, Sidhu said the Election Commission of India had approved registration of eligible NRIs as ...

JALANDHAR: The Election Commission of India (EC) has recommended introduction of a "none of above" option on electronic voting machines (EVMs), giving the voter the choice to reject all candidates; the matter is now with the Union law ministry, EC principal secretary Shingara Ram told HT on Friday. He, in fact, ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government has entrusted the task of preparing the state's electoral rolls to the Punjab State E-Governance Society (PSEGS) under the Department of Information Technology, instead of HARTRON of the Haryana government. The decision was taken by a state-level committee headed by Chief Secretary S.C. Agrawal with Chief Electoral ...

HOSHIARPUR: The court of Chief Judical magistrate Gurjant Singh, on Wednesday, issued bail able warrants for SAD secretary in a criminal case of forgery filed by Malta Boat Tragedy Probe Mission chairman Balwant Singh Khera. The court had summoned him on the last date of hearing and asked him to produce  ...

CHANDIGARH: In the absence of steps to reimburse power bills to farmers as assured by the government, the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) on Thursday put the government on notice, giving it a month to come good on its promise or face stir. It is for the first time after the implementation ...