Punjab Local Elections

He may not be a full-time entertainer anymore but Bhagwant Mann, 48, remains a crowd-puller and, now, if the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) latest tele-vote is to be believed, its most bankable local face ahead of next month's elections.

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today said that 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Punjab have UK variant of the virus and said that the reasons behind the surge in fresh infections could be marriages, local body elections and farmers' protests.

The Congress party today made a clean sweep of Punjab's seven municipal corporations in the state local body polls. The party bagged all the bodies for which the results were declared today: Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, and Bathinda - the last one also being the most stunning result of the day as it was after 53 years th...

The Congress party has won all the seven municipal corporations in Punjab for which the results were declared today. The party has won Abohar, Bathinda, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Moga and Batla.

Elections to the eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in Punjab will be held on February 14, the state election office said in Chandigarh.

Buoyed by its massive victory in the Delhi assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to contest local body elections across the country as part of an ambitious plan to expand its presence beyond the national capital.

Polling to the zila parishads and panchayat samitis took place across Punjab on Thursday amid stray reports of clashes between Congress and SAD workers. The voting began at 8 am and went on till 4. The counting of votes will take place on September 22.

Punjab Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said today that the BJP-led NDA government at the centre is likely to go for an early Lok Sabha election.

Elections to 40 municipal bodies in Punjab, including the key municipal corporations of Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Amritsar, will be held in December this year, state local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said in Chandigarh today.

Arvind Kejriwal was at the Golden Temple in Amritsar today, making his first visit to Punjab since his Aam Aadmi Party or AAP performed disappointingly in the election three months ago, losing the state to the Congress.

Despite bombing in a by-election in Delhi this week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today told NDTV that the people of Delhi are happy with his government. Mr Kejriwal insisted that his Aam Aadmi Party or AAP had foreseen its loss in the election for an assembly seat, but was "unable to share its message effectively."

A red carpet rolled out in a polling booth in Patiala where Capitan Amarinder Singh and his family will cast their vote triggered accusations from rival parties that the special treatment was aimed at the Congress' chief ministerial candidate, a local royal. Patiala is one of the two assembly seats from where Amarinder Singh is contesting.

The Aam Aadmi Party's campaign in Punjab is full swing with party chief Arvind Kejriwal on a 5-day tour of the Malwa region. Despite having a model in next-door Delhi, where the party swept the assembly polls in 2015, the AAP chief his task cut out: In face of severe factionalism, he has to unite the party cadre, hold public meetings with local can...

Pakistan's ruling party has won a majority of seats in local elections, according to unofficial results released on Sunday, dashing opposition hopes of making gains in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Punjab power base.

The ruling SAD-BJP combination in Punjab has registered a resounding victory in Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections romping home in majority of the seats.

He may not be a full-time entertainer anymore but Bhagwant Mann, 48, remains a crowd-puller and, now, if the Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) latest tele-vote is to be believed, its most bankable local face ahead of next month's elections.

Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today said that 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases in Punjab have UK variant of the virus and said that the reasons behind the surge in fresh infections could be marriages, local body elections and farmers' protests.

The Congress party today made a clean sweep of Punjab's seven municipal corporations in the state local body polls. The party bagged all the bodies for which the results were declared today: Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, and Bathinda - the last one also being the most stunning result of the day as it was after 53 years th...

The Congress party has won all the seven municipal corporations in Punjab for which the results were declared today. The party has won Abohar, Bathinda, Kapurthala, Hoshiarpur, Pathankot, Moga and Batla.

Elections to the eight municipal corporations and 109 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in Punjab will be held on February 14, the state election office said in Chandigarh.

Buoyed by its massive victory in the Delhi assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has decided to contest local body elections across the country as part of an ambitious plan to expand its presence beyond the national capital.

Polling to the zila parishads and panchayat samitis took place across Punjab on Thursday amid stray reports of clashes between Congress and SAD workers. The voting began at 8 am and went on till 4. The counting of votes will take place on September 22.

Punjab Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said today that the BJP-led NDA government at the centre is likely to go for an early Lok Sabha election.

Elections to 40 municipal bodies in Punjab, including the key municipal corporations of Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Patiala and Amritsar, will be held in December this year, state local bodies minister Navjot Singh Sidhu said in Chandigarh today.

Arvind Kejriwal was at the Golden Temple in Amritsar today, making his first visit to Punjab since his Aam Aadmi Party or AAP performed disappointingly in the election three months ago, losing the state to the Congress.

Despite bombing in a by-election in Delhi this week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today told NDTV that the people of Delhi are happy with his government. Mr Kejriwal insisted that his Aam Aadmi Party or AAP had foreseen its loss in the election for an assembly seat, but was "unable to share its message effectively."

A red carpet rolled out in a polling booth in Patiala where Capitan Amarinder Singh and his family will cast their vote triggered accusations from rival parties that the special treatment was aimed at the Congress' chief ministerial candidate, a local royal. Patiala is one of the two assembly seats from where Amarinder Singh is contesting.

The Aam Aadmi Party's campaign in Punjab is full swing with party chief Arvind Kejriwal on a 5-day tour of the Malwa region. Despite having a model in next-door Delhi, where the party swept the assembly polls in 2015, the AAP chief his task cut out: In face of severe factionalism, he has to unite the party cadre, hold public meetings with local can...

Pakistan's ruling party has won a majority of seats in local elections, according to unofficial results released on Sunday, dashing opposition hopes of making gains in Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Punjab power base.

The ruling SAD-BJP combination in Punjab has registered a resounding victory in Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections romping home in majority of the seats.