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Ending months of uncertainty, the Election Commission on Friday announced the schedule for holding elections to the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly. The state has been under President�s Rule since February 19 after the then chief minister, Shibu Soren,...
Tags: Jharkhand Assembly, Election Commission, elections commission, Navin Chawla, poll schedule, chief elections
Officials have identified the woman whose remains were found following an early morning fire in Ulupalakua last Saturday as Cheryl Lynn Ledbetter, 49, of Olympia, Wash. Officials used dental records to identify the remains, a Maui County news release...
Tags: Maui County, Kevin Cronin, county clerks, elections officer, Olympia, chief elections
N League's Punjab by-election postponement plea moved in Lahore High Court amounts to denying the people their constitutional right to vote and reflects a defeatist mentality. This was stated by senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League Moonis Elahi while...
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Assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh — the first round of state polls to be held after the Lok Sabha election in April-May — will be conducted in a single phase on October 13, the Election Commission announced on Monday. And...
Tags: Haryana & Arunachal, Arunachal Pradesh assembly, Maharashtra, Election Commission of India, elections commission, chief elections, Navin Chawla, elections commissioners, Congress, assemblies elections
A meeting of the EC will be held today on the matter upon Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda's return from abroad. Before the ninth parliamentary elections political parties were asked to bring changes in their constitutions to ensure democratic...
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Navin Chawla on Tuesday took over as the new Chief Election Commissioner succeeding N Gopalaswami, who not long ago had recommended his removal from Nirvachan Sadan sparking a huge political controversy. Power secretary V S Sampath also took over as the...
Tags: Navin Chawla, elections commissioner, chief elections, CEC, Congress, Needamangalam Gopalaswami, N Gopalaswami, congress agent
Chief election commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswami made it evident here on Thursday he had taken a serious view of complaints by opposition leaders that some top officials in the UP government were working as "BSP agents". "We have got several complaints...
Chief Election Commissioner, Justice (r) Qazi Muhammad Farooq Tuesday recalled the notification of a returned candidate from Buner, Iatiqbal Khan. Pursuant to the Order of Islamabad High Court passed on February 16, in writ petition No...Chief Election...
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UNB, Dhaka The Election Commission declared valid the nomination of elderly Awami League leader Zillur Rahman as the lone candidate for the presidency after scrutiny yesterday, apparently making him President-elect. Polling for the presidential elections...
Tags: Zillur Rahman, Election Commission, uz poll, elections commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, elections commission, chief elections
In the midst of a flaming row between Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) N Gopalaswami and his colleague Navin Chawla, the three-member poll panel on Tuesday began preparations for the Lok Sabha polls with an all-party meeting. Representatives of at least...
Tags: Navin Chawla, elections commissioners, Election Commissioners, chief elections, CEC, N Gopalaswami, BJP, elections commission, political parties, commissioners navin