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Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee continued her protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls on Saturday, for the second consecutive day, after she spent the night at the protest site here.Banerjee had begun the demonstration at Metro...

In Nepal, the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), led by the popular candidate for Prime Minister, Balendra Shah, is poised to achieve a decisive victory in the first general elections since the violent protests by the younger generation in the Himalayan nation.According to the latest data from...

Kathmandu, March 6 The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), formed by rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah, is on track to win a landslide victory in Nepal's first general elections since the violent Gen Z protests, shattering the dominance of established political parties in the politically...

Kathmandu, March 6 Balendra Shah, a rapper turned politician, and his newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) are poised for a major victory in Nepal's first general elections since the violent Gen Z protests, significantly altering the political landscape of the nation.According to data...

Kathmandu, March 6 Balendra Shah, a rapper turned politician, and his newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) are on track to win a landslide victory in Nepal's first general elections since the violent Gen Z protests, shattering the dominance of established political parties in the...

Kathmandu, March 6 Balendra Shah, a rapper turned politician, and his newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) are on track to win a landslide victory in Nepal's first general elections since the violent Gen Z protests, shattering the dominance of established political parties in the...

Kolkata, March 6 TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee sparked a political controversy on Friday after saying he would have "cut off the finger" of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar if the latter had not been holding the constitutional post, alleging that the election panel chief had behaved "very...

Kathmandu, March 6 Balendra Shah, a rapper-turned-politician, and his newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) are on track for a landslide victory in Nepal's first general elections since the violent Gen Z protests ousted the K P Sharma Oli-led government in September.According to the...

Kolkata, March 6 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a protest sit-in here on Friday to protest alleged arbitrary deletions from the post-SIR electoral rolls, escalating the TMC's confrontation with the Election Commission ahead of the state assembly polls.Launching the protest at...

Kathmandu, March 6 The newly formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), led by former rapper Balendra Shah, was leading in the early vote counting on Friday in Nepal's first general elections since the violent Gen Z protests led to the downfall of the K P Sharma Oli-led coalition government.The...

Kolkata, March 6 Ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will begin a sit-in here on Friday to protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls in the state.The protest comes just two days before the planned visit of the full bench...

Kolkata, March 6 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will begin her indefinite sit-in demonstration at Esplanade East in Central Kolkata on Friday afternoon against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.As planned, Trinamool Congress workers and leaders will start...

Kathmandu, March 6 The newly-formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has won one seat and is leading in another 36, while the Nepali Congress is ahead on five, the CPN (UML) on three, and the Nepali Communist Party on one, according to preliminary results in 46 constituencies where counting is in...

Kathmandu, March 6 The Rastriya Swatantra Party is leading in 23 constituencies, while the Nepali Congress and CPN-UML are leading in three each, according to preliminary election results.Vote counting began late on Thursday night, according to the Election Commission.Counting is expected to...

Kolkata, March 5 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will return to one of her most familiar political arenas – the streets – on Friday, beginning a protest at Kolkata's Metro Channel against what the TMC alleges are "arbitrary deletions" in the state's revised electoral rolls following...

Kolkata, March 5 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. The deceased's family members alleged that they died due to the heavy workload and panic caused by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voter list in the state.According to...

Chennai, March 5 – Four candidates from major political parties filed their nomination papers on Thursday for the biennial Rajya Sabha elections from Tamil Nadu, scheduled to fill six seats that will become vacant next month.Among those who submitted their nominations at the Tamil Nadu...

Kolkata, March 5 Five Rajya Sabha candidates from West Bengal – four from the ruling TMC and one from the BJP – filed their nominations on Thursday, officials said.The four TMC candidates – minister Babul Supriyo, former Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy, and actor Koel...

Kathmandu, March 5 Nepal, which held elections on Thursday, the first since a violent protest by Gen Z last year that toppled the K P Sharma Oli-led government, recorded a turnout of about 18 per cent by noon, according to the Election Commission.The Election Commission said that around 3.16...

Kathmandu, March 5 Nepal, which held elections on Thursday, the first since a violent protest by Gen Z last year that ousted the K P Sharma Oli-led government, recorded a turnout of about 10.18 per cent by 11 am, according to the Election Commission.The Election Commission said that around...