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15 killed as WB rural polls turn violent; over 66% turnout recorded
Kolkata: The single-phase panchayat elections concluded in West Bengal on Saturday with a voter turnout of 66.28, with as many as 15 persons losing their lives in poll-related violence across the state.…
- India
West Bengal violence: Union Minister questions ‘silence’ of Rahul, other Oppn leaders
New Delhi: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday questioned the “silence” of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders over the “murder of democracy” in West Bengal after violence marred panchayat…
- India
West Bengal polls: Booth vandalised, polling agent shot dead in Coochbehar
Kolkata: A polling booth at Baravita Primary School in Sitai, Coochbehar has been allegedly vandalised and ballot papers set on fire after voting began for the single-phase panchayat polls in West Bengal…
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Voting begins for 73k seats in WB panchayat polls, 2L candidates in fray
Kolkata: Polling began at 7 am on Saturday amid tight security for the West Bengal panchayat elections, in which about 5.67 crore people living in the state’s rural areas are eligible to…
- India
WB Panchayat polls: HC asks central forces to stay put until 10 days post results
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the central armed forces to remain deployed in West Bengal for 10 days after the results for the July 8 panchayat elections are declared…
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Forceful conversation in Bengal: CBI lodges FIR against 7 persons
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday said that they have lodged a case against seven persons for their alleged involvement in the forceful conversion of two brothers to…
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Calcutta HC rejects NHRC’s plea for appointing observer for panchayat polls
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday rejected the National Human Right Commission (NHRC)’s plea for appointing an observer for July 8 West Bengal panchayat polls. Although the hearing in the matter…
- Kolkata
Mamata-Guv honeymoon over after row over panchayat polls, univ VCs
Kolkata: The signals were there for quite some time about the honeymoon period being over. But throughout the past week the tiff between Raj Bhavan and the state secretariat in West Bengal…
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Bengal Governor calls up Mamata after emergency landing
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Tuesday called up Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after her helicopter had to make an emergency landing at Sevak airbase to enquire about her condition.…
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Two goods train collide in West Bengal’s Bankura
Bankura: Several boggies derailed after two goods trains collided with each other near West Bengal’s Bankura, in the wee hours of Sunday, June 25, 2023. (PTI Photo) Bankura: Several boggies derailed after…
- India
Goods train hits stationary freight coaches in Bengal’s Bankura
Kolkata: A goods train collided with another stationary freight train at Onda in Bankura district of West Bengal on Sunday morning, a senior South Eastern Railway official said. No one was injured…
- India
WB: Man beaten to death after being caught stealing chickens from poultry farm
Jhargram: A man was allegedly beaten to death in West Bengal’s Jhargram district after he was caught stealing chickens from a poultry farm in the dead of the night, police said on…
- India
UPA-3 project in Bengal entangled in too many complications
Kolkata: Nowhere else in India is the anti-BJP opposition coalition as tangled with so many hitches and complications as it is in West Bengal. On the one hand West Bengal chief minister…
- India
Bengal CPI(M) leader questions Trinamool credibility as BJP challenger
Kolkata: Engaged in a bitter electoral war in the ongoing panchayat polls, the CPI(M) in West Bengal on Friday questioned TMC’s credibility as a “reliable challenger” to the BJP. Local leaders attacked…
- India
There will be no polls in future if this ‘dictatorial’ govt returns: Mamata at Oppn meet
Patna: There will be no more elections in future if this “dictatorial” government returns, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee warned on Friday while asserting that leaders of all…
