West Bengal Elections 2016: Nine injured in post-poll clashes
--> Nearly 80% votes were casted on Sunday. Altogether nine persons were injured in post-poll clashes in separate incidents in West Bengal's Birbhum and South Dinajpur districts, police officials...
View ArticleWest Bengal Elections 2016 Phase 2 : Strong performance expected from Cong-...
--> BJP also has a golden chance of opening its account in this phase . The second phase of polling (first phase was divided into two parts) for West Bengal Elections is being held today, 17th...
View ArticleWest Bengal Phase II sees 80% turnout
The second phase of six-phase polling in the ongoing Assembly elections took place across several seats in North Bengal and Birbhum, among other places on Sunday. While mostly peaceful, the BJP...
View ArticleMamata fighting EC, not parties: PM
The BJP on Sunday joined the list of political parties who held a mega-rally at the historic Brigade Parade Grounds in central Kolkata, which is witness to almost all major political developments in...
View ArticleWill deal with Narada after polls, says Didi
Kolkata: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee's campaign trail hit Kolkata on Saturday with its focus on her current bete-noire, the election commission. It included hyper local issues depending on their...
View ArticleEC bars ads without pre-certification for Bengal third phase
Kolkata, April 19 (IANS) The Election Commission on Tuesday barred political parties and candidates in West Bengal from giving any print media advertisement without pre-certification on April 20-21 in...
View ArticleEC faces big test on West Bengal Phase II polls today
KOLKATA: More than 1.2 crore voters will decide the fate of 383 candidates on the third of the seven-day Bengal poll season on Sunday. But also on test will be the Election Commission, its...
View ArticleWest Bengal Elections 2016: Decoding Mamata's changed approach towards the...
--> Mamata has antagonised sections of her party in a calculative move. On Sunday, speaking at a rally in North Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee dropped a bombshell. Out of the blue, she said that she would...
View ArticleCandidates already decided, would have thought if sting tapes came out...
--> Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she would have "given a thought" before choosing her party candidates for the ongoing Assembly elections,...
View ArticleModi slams Mamata for rant against EC, alleges nexus on Narada
KRISHNANAGAR/KOLKATA: Ridiculing West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her rant against the Election Commission (EC), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused her of misusing the state...
View ArticleMamata accuses PM Modi of trying to ‘unleash’ CBI, criticises EC
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during an election campaign in support of her party candidates. (Source: PTI photo) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday accused...
View ArticleBJP seeks removal of Chief Electoral Officer of Bengal
The BJP on Sunday urged the Election Commission to remove the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, accusing him of allowing the Trinamool Congress to violate electoral laws. A delegation of BJP...
View ArticlePartial response to strike called by Tripura Cong.
A 24-hour general strike in Tripura called by the Opposition Congress demanding a CBI probe into the assassination of former Health Minister Bimal Sinha and resignation of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar...
View ArticleVoters set a scorching 80% turnout
Nearly 80 per cent of the voters exercised their franchise in the second phase of elections in West Bengal across 56 constituencies in six districts in the northern part of the State and one in the...
View ArticleWest Bengal Elections 2016: No takers for PM Modi's speeches here, says...
-->"There are no takers of Modi's speeches here in West Bengal," the TMC supremo said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was making occasional...
View ArticleBengal turned into old age home by Congress, Left, TMC: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today claimed that West Bengal, specially Kolkata, had been reduced to an old age home by successive state governments formed by Congress, Left Front and Trinamool...
View ArticleNearly 80% voter turnout in phase II of West Bengal polls
--> EC said in Delhi the polling was "by and large" peaceful. West Bengal continued to witness impressive voter turnout as an estimated 79.70 per cent of over 1.2 crore electors cast their ballots...
View ArticleWest Bengal polls | Centre considering sealing of Indo-Bangla border: Rajnath...
--> Issues of of fake currency and cow smuggling can be stopped," Singh said. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said the Centre would consider sealing the India-Bangladesh border to stop...
View ArticleWest Bengal assembly elections 2016: CPI(M) asks EC to tighten poll mechanism...
--> Yechury said that CPI-M drew the Commission's attention towards the state chief secretary answering the notice instead of Banerjee. A day ahead of second phase polling in West Bengal, CPI(M) on...
View ArticleMamata Banerjee not fighting against opposition parties but with Election...
KOLKATA: In a game, one will win and another will be defeated. Umpire gives his decision to make the game fair and umpire's decision is accepted by all players. That is the rule. Umpire can never be...
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