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Congress upped its social media game for Assembly polls 2022

It introduced innovations in their campaigns for Uttarakhand and Punjab due to pandemic restrictions

The Hindu

Centre blocks Punjab Politics TV’s digital media resources

I&B Ministry says channel is trying to use online media to disturb public order during Punjab Assembly election

The Hindu

Student ‘inhales toxic gas from geyser’ in Gurugram hotel, dies

GURUGRAM: A 27-year-old student of a private university in Punjab died under mysterious circumstances inside a bathroom of a Gurugram hotel on Sunday. Police suspect that Satdev was suffocated to death after inhaling toxic gas from a geyser installed in the bathroom while taking a bath.

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71.95% voting in Punjab; over 80% in 11 Malwa seats

CHANDIGARH: Punjab recorded 71.95% turnout on Sunday for its 2022 assembly polls, a drop of 6.25% compared to 78.2% in the 2017 state elections. The state election commission released the final voting figures late on Monday evening. Punjab chief electoral officer S Karuna Raju said out of over 1.54 crore…

The Times of India

On Mother Tongue Day, Punjabi gets much-needed voice in Pakistan

BATHINDA: A demand for the promotion of Punjabi was raised during scores of programmes in Indian and Pakistani Punjabs on International Mother Tongue Day, and both sides rued the raw treatment meted out to the language.

The Times of India

BKU appeal makes little impact in rural seats in Malwa

BATHINDA: The high voter turnout in Punjab’s Malwa region has pepped up the morale of political parties, but has also revealed that people might not have paid much heed to farm organisation BKU (Ekta Ugrahan)’s appeal to stand against electoral politics.

The Times of India

Polling remained low in Capt Amarinder Singh’s seat, high in Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s constituency

PATIALA: The voter turnout in the assembly segment of former Punjab CM and Punjab Lok Congress (PLC) supremo Capt Amarinder Singh was far less than the one in the constituency of incumbent CM and Congress candidate Charanjit Singh Channi’s seat. While Captain’s seat Patiala recorded a turnout of 63.58%, Channi’s…

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Dera chief Ram Rahim gets Z-plus security over threat from 'pro-Khalistan' elements

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana government, in a detailed report submitted to the Punjab and Haryana high court, claimed that Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim was not a ‘hardcore criminal’ as he was not the assailant and had not executed the actual killings in the two murder cases that he…

The Times of India

Haryana based its decision on AG opinion

The Times of India

Covid: 480 positive cases in Haryana, 144 in Himachal Pradesh, 103 cases in Punjab

CHANDIGARH/SHIMLA: Haryana on Monday reported 480 new Covid-19 cases, six deaths and 849 recoveries. In addition, 65,457 persons were given the vaccine jabs during the day. Himachal Pradesh reported one Covid-19 death from Shimla district and 144 new positive cases, while 432 persons were declared recovered.

The Times of India

Jalandhar Central’s voting percentage lowest in Doaba region

JALANDHAR: The voter turnout in Punjab’s Doaba region was the lowest in Jalandhar Central constituency (60.65%) and the highest in Balachaur constituency (73.77%) when the state went to polls on Sunday, revealed data on Monday.

The Times of India

4 Amritsar & Ludhiana seats record less than 60% turnout, 11 in Malwa over 80%

BATHINDA: The four assembly segments recorded the polling percentage at less than 60% which is much lower than the overall percentage of 71.95% in Punjab in the February 20 assembly elections. Against this, the 11 assembly segments recorded polling percentage at or over 80% which is at least 8% more…

The Times of India

Turnout indications: on polling in Punjab, U.P.

A fragmented polity depresses turnout in Punjab; Uttar Pradesh’s polls indicate a closer battle.

The Hindu

Punjab elections: Amritsar West and Central assembly constituencies registered lowest polling percentage

AMRITSAR: It’s not just Amritsar East assembly constituency from where heavyweights Navjot Singh Sidhu and Bikram Singh Majithia were contesting elections registered the low voter's turnout but Amritsar West and Amritsar Central assembly constituencies recorded lowest polling percentage which has raised the concerns of election stakeholders.

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Morning digest: Peaceful polling in Punjab and U.P. Phase III; India wins T20 series against West Indies, and more

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Letters to the Editor — February 21, 2022

Issues in Punjab

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65% turnout in Punjab, 60% in Uttar Pradesh phase 3

The turnout in Punjab was down by around 12% in comparison to 2017 election

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Arch-rivals of Punjab politics come face to face in Amritsar

Sidhu, Majithia ran a bitter campaign against each other

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Farmer anger will test PM Modi as voting ends in India’s Punjab

Voters in the northern Indian state go to the polls in state assembly elections seen as a test for Modi’s BJP party.

Dynamite News

2022 Assembly polls: 63.44 pc voter turnout recorded in Punjab, 57.43 pc in UP phase-3 till 5 pm

An average voter turnout of 63.44 per cent was recorded in Punjab while Uttar Pradesh, in its third phase of the Assembly elections, witnessed an average voter turnout of 57.43 per cent till 5 pm on Sunday.

The Times of India

AAP does not have any relation with Punjab, says SAD's Parkash Singh Badal

LAMBI: Former Punjab chief minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday took a dig at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), saying the party does not have any relation with Punjab.

The Hindu

Punjab Assembly elections | Conjoined twins vote separately, given dark glasses for secrecy

Officials said the conjoined twins were treated as two separate voters and special arrangements were made so that both could maintain the secrecy of their votes

The Hindu

Punjab Assembly elections | 65% voter turnout

Voting is being held for all the 117 Punjab Assembly seats in a single phase with 1,304 candidates, including 93 women and two transgenders, in the fray

The Independent UK

Farmer anger will test Modi as India's 'grain bowl' votes

India’s Punjab state is casting ballots in polls seen as a barometer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity — and his party’s Hindu nationalist reach — ahead of general elections in 2024

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Punjab polls: 49.81 per cent voting till 3 pm

An average voter turnout of 49.81 per cent was recorded till 3 pm in Punjab on Sunday.

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