NRI News

• Counting to be videographed

  Wednesday, 22/02/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120222/punjab.htm#16
  
  For the first time ever in Punjab, the Election Commission would be video-graphing the counting of votes in all 117 centres across the state on March 6. Punjab Chief Electoral Officer Kusumjit Sidhu today passed instructions in this regard to all election officers of the state through a specially convened video-conferencing session.

   

• Bhattal on thanksgiving Spree

  Monday, 20/02/2012
  
  http://112.196.11.34/dailypost/Details.aspx?id=23440&boxid=56981&uid=&dat=2012-02-20
  
  Opposition leader in the state Assembly Rajinder Kaur Bhattal claimed that the Congress party in Punjab would enter the corridors of power with an absolute majority. Bhattal was on a thanksgiving spree at Khanauri, Moonak and Lehra under the Lehra Assembly segment represented by her on Saturday.

   

• SGPC writes to Centre on House session

  Sunday, 19/02/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120219/punjab.htm#4
  
  A day after the Supreme Court allowed the new SGPC House to function, the SGPC today shot off missives to the Centre and the Sikh Gurdwara Election Commission along with the copy of the SC verdict, seeking holding of the SGPC session to elect its new office-bearers at the earliest.

   

• Centre’s Food Bill may ease state’s atta-dal burden

  Friday, 17/02/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120218/punjab.htm#5
  
  The Food Security Bill proposed by the Union Government would not only satiate the hunger of the poor but may also take the burden of the atta-dal scheme off the state's shoulders with Punjab already reeling under a financial crisis.

   

• Capt: State headless with CM abroad

  Thursday, 16/02/2012
  
  http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120216/punjab.htm#5
  
  Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today criticised the Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, and Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for leaving the state headless and leaving for abroad without naming anybody to take care of the affairs of the government in their absence.

   

• Punjab Polls: An outsider’s observation on electoral outcome

  Wednesday, 15/02/2012
  
  http://www.punjabnewsline.com/news/?q=node/36246
  
  As someone on a move while the campaigning was on for assembly polls in both Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, the one thing that particularly hit me was that our Delhi number-bearing car wasn’t stopped by the cops as often in the Land of Five Rivers as it was in UP. Was it because the security had to be kept extra tight for the staggered polls in UP -- always considered a politically crucial state -- vis a vis Punjab?

   

Jassi Khangura at Kalakh - Wednesday, 15/02/2012

Jassi Khangura attending sports tournament at village Kalakh. He honored international Kabbadi player Raj Jand. He was accompanied by Gurpreet Khangura, Joginder Jangi and many others.

Akshay Desai, an Indian-American appointed to key Republican post in Florida

Tuesday, 21/02/2012

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/nri/nris-in-news/akshay-desai-an-indian-american-appointed-to-key-republican-post-in-florida/articleshow/11973258.cms

Indian-American Akshay Desai has been appointed to a key Republican post in Florida, making him responsible for the party's finances in this election year.