Wake-up call: AAP’s lead shrinks to 32 assembly seats in 117-member House

Wake-up call: AAP’s lead shrinks to 32 assembly seats in 117-member House

Friday, 07 June 2024 | Monika Malik | Chandigarh

  /   It’s a wake-up call for the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab. Just over two years after it came to power with a resounding victory on 92 seats in the 117-member House in March 2022, AAP has virtually lost 60 assembly constituencies in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the result...

Manish Tewari of Cong scripts narrow victory in Chandigarh

Wednesday, 05 June 2024 | PNS | Chandigarh

INDIA bloc candidate and two-time Congress MP Manish Tewari won the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat on Tuesday after defeating his nearest rival Sanjay Tandon of the BJP by a slender margin of 2,504 votes, according to the Election Commission. The Congress fought the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat in an alliance...

BJP Clean Sweep in Himachal Lok Sabha Polls; , Wins all four

Wednesday, 05 June 2024 | PNS | Shimla

The BJP has won all four Lok Sabha seats in Himachal Pradesh, and repeated its performance of 2019 polls. In a significant win, Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut defeated Congress's Vikramaditya Singh by 74,755 votes in Mandi. She garnered 5,37,002 votes against Singh's 4,62,267. Singh is the sitting state Public Works Minister...

Collision between trains in Sirhind injures loco pilots, passengers; Disrupts 29 trains

Tuesday, 04 June 2024 | PNS | Fatehgarh Sahib/Chandigarh

A tragic rail accident occurred at the New Sirhind Railway Station on Sunday morning when a stationary goods train was rear-ended by another, leading to injuries among two loco pilots and several passengers, while narrowly averting a more severe catastrophe.   The collision caused the engine of one of the goods trains...

Police Verification for Counting Agents: Hry CEO asks DEOs to coordinate with SP

Tuesday, 04 June 2024 | PNS | Chandigarh

Haryana Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Anurag Agrawal on Sunday said that police verification will be conducted for counting agents nominated by any political parties or contesting candidates for the counting of votes scheduled for June 4 for the 2024 general elections to the Lok Sabha.   Agarwal, issuing these instructions during a...

Counting of votes at 117 centres, set up at 27 locations in Punjab

Tuesday, 04 June 2024 | PNS | Chandigarh

/ The counting of votes for the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, conducted on June 1, will begin at 8 am on Tuesday at 117 counting centres, set up in 48 buildings at 27 locations across the state. To oversee the counting process, 64 counting observers, drawn from all-India services...

Punjab Awaits Verdict: Beyond Seats, Prestige at Stake in Multi-Cornered Battle

Tuesday, 04 June 2024 | Monika Malik | Chandigarh

As the results of the parliamentary elections on 13 seats will be doled out on Tuesday, the winners in Punjab will takes it all — not just the seats in the Lok Sabha but the prestige and honour that was involved in the multi-cornered high-staked ballot battle.   The warm political winds...

Hry Govt to launch Rs 10,000-cr project to combat air pollution

Tuesday, 04 June 2024 | PNS | Chandigarh

Haryana Chief Secretary TVSN Prasad on Monday said that the State Government is preparing Rs 10,000 crore Haryana Clean Air Project for Sustainable Development which will be implemented in the State in a phased manner. In the first phase, the project will be implemented in NCR districts of the State...

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