Elections
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Kerala BJP leaders face backlash for Islamophobic campaigns
Kochi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates contesting the Guruvayur and Aluva constituencies faced backlash after their targeted campaigns urging voters to elect a “Hindu MLA” instead of Muslims in the upcoming Kerala…
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EC-Trinamool meet ends on bitter note, CEC tells party leaders to ‘get lost’
New Delhi: The meeting between a Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation and the full bench of the Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday, April 8, culminated on an acrimonious note, with the TMC saying the…
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Assam Assembly poll campaign ends amid accusations and promises
Guwahati: The campaign, fraught with accusations and promises galore, for the elections to the 126-member Assam Assembly ended at 5 pm on Tuesday, April 7. The polls will be held on April…
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Telangana’s Revanth, Bhatti, Uttam star campaigners for Tamil Nadu elections
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is among the star campaigners appointed by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) for the upcoming Tamil Nadu elections. Along with him, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu…
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95 pc of deleted voters are Muslims in West Bengal’s Nandigram SIR
Kolkata: Muslims have accounted for 95.5 per cent of voters deleted from seven Special Intensive Revision (SIR) supplementary lists in West Bengal’s Nandigram. According to the Sabar Institute, a Kolkata-based public policy…
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SC gives Malda incident probe to NIA, pulls up Bengal chief secretary
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday, April 6, exercised its plenary power to transfer cases related to gherao and attack on seven judicial officers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise…
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Babri politics makes Murshidabad Bengal’s most volatile poll battleground
Beldanga: Three adjoining assembly seats in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district have turned into the most volatile theatre of the 2026 poll battle, with the proposed Babri Masjid-style mosque at Rejinagar reshaping loyalties,…
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Constitution illustrator Nandalal Bose’s grandson dropped from Bengal voter list
Kolkata: The 88-year-old grandson of Nandalal Bose, the renowned illustrator of the Constitution of India, said that his and his wife’s names are missing from the voter list after the Special Intensive Revision…
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TN polls: Amit Shah, Rahul Gandhi to arrive in Chennai today
Chennai: With election campaigning in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry reaching a decisive phase, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, are scheduled to arrive…
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Bengal SIR: Tribunal orders Congress candidate reinstated in supplementary roll
Kolkata: Congress candidate Mohtab Sheikh, whose name was earlier put under the adjudication cases column of the final electoral roll on February 28, was a happy man Sunday, April 5, evening after…
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Bengal polls: Owaisi all guns against CM Mamata on Muslim representation
Patna: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday criticised West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for “unsatisfactory” representation of Muslims in the government sector in the state, and questioned their socio-economic conditions during the…
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Assam CM’s wife holds three passports, has properties in Dubai: Congress
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday, April 5, alleged that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s wife possesses passports of three countries and that he concealed information about her properties, but the…
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Malda gherao reflects TMC’s maha jungleraj: Modi in Bengal
Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made the Malda gherao of judicial officers the fulcrum of the BJP’s campaign on lawlessness in West Bengal, accusing the TMC government of running a…
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Bengal polls: Mamata calls for ‘revenge’ over voter list deletions
Samserganj: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday, April 5, urged people to cast their votes to “take revenge” for the deletion of people’s names from the electoral rolls. The Trinamool…
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BJP’s Ankham Mounika wins Khanapur Chairperson post after BRS support
Hyderabad: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Ankham Mounika secured the Khanapur Municipality Chairperson post, while Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) candidate Mohammed Shoaib was elected as the Vice-Chairman. The BRS and BJP had…
