Voting begins for Haryana assembly pollsOctober 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Voting to elect members for Haryana's 90 assembly seats began Tuesday morning. The fate of 1,222 candidates will be decided by an electorate of over 1.31 crore.
Hung assembly in Maharashtra, Congress to sweep Haryana: pollOctober 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - It will be a hung verdict in Maharashtra but the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance will end with most seats while the Congress will sweep Haryana in coming assembly elections, an opinion poll Thursday said. According to the survey by Star News channel, the Congress-NCP combine ruling Maharashtra will win up to 140 of the 288 assembly seats.
BJP supports Haryana-Punjab talks over water sharingOctober 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Wednesday said the controversial issue of sharing of water between Haryana and Punjab should be sorted out through talks. The water sharing has been a thorny issue between both states with Haryana seeking completion of the Sutlej-Yamuna Link (SYL) canal and Punjab opposing the move.
Six killed in Haryana road accidentSeptember 27th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Six people, including a woman, were killed Sunday when the car in which they were travelling slammed into a truck in Panipat district of Haryana, police said. The car, being rashly driven, rammed into the stationary truck from the rear in Samalkha town of Panipat, about 130 km from here.
EC notifies Haryana assembly electionSeptember 18th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Election Commission Friday issued the notification for the Haryana assembly elections next month. Elections to the 90-member assembly will be held Oct 13.
Poll panel bans official aircraft use during Haryana pollsSeptember 8th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Election Commission (EC) has prohibited the use of official aircraft till the electoral process for Haryana assembly polls concludes next month. Haryana's Chief Electoral Officer Sajjan Singh said Tuesday that there would be a complete ban on use of aircraft, owned by the state government and public sector undertakings (PSUs) by political functionaries, including the chief minister and ministers.
Maharashtra, Haryana vote count may be advanced: poll panelSeptember 5th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Election Commission of India (ECI) Saturday indicated that it could consider advancing the counting of votes in assembly elections to be held in Maharashtra and Haryana next month. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Navin Chawla said here that the long gap between the polling (Oct 13) and the counting (Oct 22) for assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh was kept in view of the Diwali festival season next month and also due to the tough terrain in Arunachal Pradesh.
Assembly polls in Maharashtra, Haryana, Arunachal on Oct 13August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Assembly polls in the three Congress-ruled states of Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh will be held simultaneously Oct 13, the Election Commission announced Monday. The counting of votes will take place nine days later, Chief Election Commissioner Navin Chawla told reporters here.
Haryana wants more power allocation to beat droughtAugust 12th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - In the wake of a poor monsoon in Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Wednesday urged the central government to allocate 400 MW additional power from the unallocated pool of central generation. In response to our earlier request, the central government had allocated only 100 MW of additional power for Haryana.
Polling begins in Haryana, PunjabMay 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Polling for the parliamentary elections began in Haryana and parts of Punjab amid tight security Thursday morning. All 10 Lok Sabha seats of Haryana and four seats in neighbouring Punjab are going to polls in the fourth phase of the general elections.
Polling ends for round four of electionsMay 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India entered the last lap of Election 2009 Thursday with polling ending for the fourth of the five-phase elections. It was a largely peaceful election across eight states, except for West Bengal where three people were killed.
Haryana voting at 39 percent, Punjab 35 percent by early afternoonMay 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana recorded nearly 39 percent voting while parts of Punjab recorded nearly 35 percent turnout till mid-day Thursday. After a sluggish start in the morning, voters kept trickling into polling stations across Haryana, bringing the turnout to a decent 39 percent by 1 p.m.
Fourth round of polling on in IndiaMay 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Polling stations opened Thursday morning across eight states for the fourth and penultimate round of elections to the Lok Sabha that are widely expected to produce a hung parliament. A total of 85 constituencies are to elect MPs from Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Rajastan, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
Haryana polls over 60 percent, Punjab 55 percentMay 7th, 2009 CHANDIGARH - Haryana saw over 60 percent polling for its 10 Lok Sabha seats, while in neighbouring Punjab over 55 percent balloting was recorded for the four constituencies that went to polls Thursday. Election officials said the total polling percentage would be higher as people who had queued up at polling stations till 5 p.m.
Uttar Pradesh polling stations to have telecom facilitiesMarch 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Each of the 128,112 polling stations in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections will have at least one telecommunication facility to ensure prompt and direct connectivity with voting officials, India's poll panel chief here said Thursday. 'We have taken some special measures to curb cross-border movement of people, which in the past has been the cause of trouble during polling in areas along inter-state borders,' Chief Election Commissioner N.
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