The Madras high court has set aside the order of the returning officer in postponing the election to the post of vice chairman of Poolampatty panchayat in Salem district and held that C.R. Palanisamy,

A Kashmiri Pandit woman who won the panchayat elections in North Kashmir's Baramulla district said her victory is a message to other Pandit families to return to the Valley they left two decades ago.

Voting for the fourth phase of panchayat polls in Bihar was held on Saturday under the shadow of the gunning down of a candidate late last night in Vishanpur village in Khagaria district.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday expressed happiness over the large participation of voters in the Jammu and Kashmir panchayat polls — held after 10 years — saying it showed people "want to decide their fate themselves".