Mansa (Punjab, India)

Type: City
Name: Mansa (Punjab, India)
Country: India
Latitude: 29.98
Longitude: 75.389999
population: 80,024
First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

5/22/2013: PUNJAB SPECIAL: Akali good show in Bathinda region

BATHINDA: The ruling SAD-BJP alliance is heading for a landslide victory in the cotton belt of south-west Malwa, comprising Bathinda, Mansa, Muktsar, Ferozepur, Faridkot, Ferozepur and Fazilka districts. The results coming in from all district... ... [Published Hindustan Times - 12 hours ago]
First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

70 percent voting in Punjab Panchayat elections

Chandigarh: Amid sporadic violence, nearly 70 percent of 1.1 crore rural voters on Sunday exercised their franchise for Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad elections in Punjab.An estimated 70 percent polling was reported as per initial reports, State Election ... [Published Jagran Post - May 19 2013]
First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Violence mars Punjab rural polls, 65% vote

Amid sporadic reports of violence, including firing, booth capturing bids and burning of vehicles, that left more than 30 injured, 65 per cent of the nearly 1.1 crore rural voters exercised their franchise for panchayat samiti and zila parishad elections ... [Published Indian Express - May 20 2013]
First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Violence rocks Badal turf as 65% vote in panchayat polls

Re-poll at 8 booths; Highest polling in Mansa; Lowest in Gurdaspur Chandigarh, May 19Burning of vehicles in the constituency of Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday was one of the scores of sporadic incidents of violence across the state ... [Published Chandigarh Tribune - May 20 2013]
First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Majithia demands caretaker govt at Centre

MANSA/BATHINDA: The Punjab Revenue and Public Relations Minister today urged the President of India to form a caretaker government at centre as the present congress led UPA-2 is hell bent upon to loot the national resources presuming its impending humiliating ... [Published Punjab Newsline - May 17 2013]
First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

? 1050 girls students of Punjab to avail free hostel...

CHANDIGARH: 1050 girl students of Punjab's government secondary and higher secondary schools are all set to avail free hostel facility with completion of 21 girls hostels in educationally backward blocks of eight districts namely Bathinda, Ferozepur, ... [Published Punjab Newsline - May 15 2013]
First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

SAD appoints observers for different districts

To strengthen the party and efficiently run the election campaign for ensuing Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti polls, the Shiromani Akali Dal president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal on Friday appointed observers of the party for the ... [Published New Delhi Pioneer - May 03 2013]
First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 2 reports

? Two of three absconding criminals gunned down

BATHINDA: Having faced embarrassment after three criminals escaped from police custody after killing an escorting constable, two of the criminals were shot dead in an encounter with Punjab police personnel near Behniwal village of Mansa district.Escaped ... [Published Punjab Newsline - Apr 28 2013]
First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 2 reports

Punjab cops murder: 2 fugitives shot dead, third on the run

Punjab cops murder: 2 fugitives shot dead, third on the runJupinderjit Singh/TNS Bathinda, April 27Two of the three undertrials who had escaped from a police van after gunning down a head constable near Maisarkhaana village on April 25 were shot dead ... [Published Chandigarh Tribune - Apr 27 2013]
First reported Apr 27 2013 - Updated Apr 27 2013 - 1 reports

Two 'under trial' killed in encounter with police in Punjab, third escapes

The Mansa police have killed two under trial escapees in an encounter carried out in the wee hours of Saturday. ... [Published Times of India - Apr 27 2013]
First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Supply of sub-standard rice: SAD leader, 21 others get 7 years imprisonment in fraud case

Patiala: A special CBI court on Saturday awarded seven-year imprisonment to SAD leader and 21 others, including three FCI officials in a fraud case. The Special Judge Hemant Gopal held a former SAD MLA Mangat Rai Bansal and others guilty of making wrongful ... [Published Daily Bhaskar - Apr 22 2013]
First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Punjab Cong hails Sukhbir’s ‘diamond picking’ acumen

Taking a dig at “diamond merchant” Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and SAD president Sukhbir Badal, State Congress on Sunday “congratulated” him for his speciality to search ‘diamonds’ like Mangat Rai Bansal from amongst the stones of the party.“He is welcome ... [Published New Delhi Pioneer - Apr 22 2013]

Quotes

State election commissioner S S Brar said there was no report of any major untoward incident from any polling booth. "Fortunately, there was no incident of any major hurt or injury by firing" he said
"The overwhelming and peaceful response of rural voters of the state for zila parishad and block samiti elections has signalled the landslide victory of SAD-BJP combine, putting a last nail in the coffin of anti-Punjab and corrupt Congress party" Badal said in a statement
According to Mansa SSP Narinder Bhargava, "A police party tried to intercept the three accused, who were on a motorcycle, at near minor canal bridge in Behniwal at Mansa past midnight last night. One of them fired at the police party. In the retaliatory action, two of the criminals died, while one managed to escape."
"The enrolment figure under the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) scheme in Punjab and Haryana is 62.9 per cent and 30.1 per cent respectively so far" a PTI report quoted Keshni Anand Arora, UIDAI, Deputy Director General (Northern RegionRegion as saying

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5/22/2013: PUNJAB SPECIAL: Cong workers cry fou... [Published Hindustan Times - 12 hours ago]
5/22/2013: PUNJAB SPECIAL: Akali good show in B... [Published Hindustan Times - 12 hours ago]
Violence mars Punjab rural polls, 65% vote [Published Indian Express - May 20 2013]
65% turnout in ‘peaceful’ voting [Published New Delhi Pioneer - May 20 2013]
Violence rocks Badal turf as 65% vote in pancha... [Published Chandigarh Tribune - May 20 2013]
70 percent voting in Punjab Panchayat elections [Published Jagran Post - May 19 2013]
Violence reported in Punjab local elections [Published Mangalorean - May 19 2013]
Rampura Phul poll violence: Clean chit to SAD,... [Published Punjab Newsline - May 18 2013]
Majithia demands caretaker govt at Centre [Published Punjab Newsline - May 17 2013]
? 1050 girls students of Punjab to avail free h... [Published Punjab Newsline - May 15 2013]
SAD appoints observers for different districts [Published New Delhi Pioneer - May 03 2013]
25 Asst. Excise Taxation Commissioners transfer... [Published Indlawnews - Apr 30 2013]
? Two of three absconding criminals gunned down [Published Punjab Newsline - Apr 28 2013]
Punjab cops murder: 2 fugitives shot dead, thir... [Published Chandigarh Tribune - Apr 27 2013]
Two absconding criminals killed in police encou... [Published zeenews.com - Apr 27 2013]
Two escaped prisoners killed in Punjab shootout [Published ProKerala.com - Apr 27 2013]
Two 'under trial' killed in encounter with poli... [Published Times of India - Apr 27 2013]
Supply of sub-standard rice: SAD leader, 21 oth... [Published Daily Bhaskar - Apr 22 2013]
Punjab Cong hails Sukhbir’s ‘diamond picking’ a... [Published New Delhi Pioneer - Apr 22 2013]
Importance of being Sardarni Harsimrat... [Published Punjab Newsline - Apr 21 2013]
7-yr jail for Punjab ex-MLA in paddy scam [Published Chandigarh Tribune - Apr 21 2013]
SAD leader, 21 others get 7 years imprisonment [Published msn.co.in - Apr 20 2013]
Aadhaar card enrolment recorded at 99 pc in Cha... [Published Cyber India Online - Apr 19 2013]
By women, for women: Punjab to have special sec... [Published Chandigarh Tribune - Apr 15 2013]
Armed women security squads to be deployed in P... [Published Taaza.com - Apr 14 2013]
Armed women security squads to be deployed in P... [Published ProKerala.com - Apr 14 2013]
? Special armed women security squads to be set... [Published Punjab Newsline - Apr 14 2013]
Punjab to prepare Cancer Atlas [Published Topnews.in - Jan 12 2012]
Punjab won't acquire Zirakpur land without farm... [Published Topnews.in - Nov 03 2011]
Crops In Punjab, Haryana Hit Hard By Floods [Published Topnews.in - Jul 09 2010]
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