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Kolkata, March 16 Lashing out at the Election Commission for transferring top state bureaucrats and police officers shortly after announcing the assembly polls in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee branded the poll panel and the ruling BJP as "anti-women and anti-Bengal".Speaking at a...

Chandigarh, March 16 Voting for the two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana concluded at 4 pm on Monday.While the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), which has two legislators, abstained from voting, the Congress MLAs, who were shifted to Himachal Pradesh, returned shortly after the polling began at 9 am...

Guwahati, March 16 Improved infrastructure and better security arrangements are key factors behind the decision to hold the upcoming Assembly elections in Assam in a single phase, top officials said on Monday, a day after the Election Commission announced polling in the state for April 9.They...

New Delhi, March 16 On Monday, the Election Commission wrote to the Chief Secretary of Assam, requesting a list of all IAS officers from the 2010 to 2021 batches. As a result, several District Election Officers (DEOs) in the state, which is preparing for elections, are likely to be replaced...

Kolkata, March 16 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led a rally in the city on Monday, demanding protection of the democratic rights of the state's people and protesting against the LPG crisis.The procession began from College Square in the city's central area, and thousands of people...

Chennai, March 16 Officials removed posters, banners, and wall advertisements of political parties in Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu on Monday as the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) came into effect following the announcement of the schedule for the 2026 Assembly elections.In Madurai...

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 16 AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal accused the Election Commission of bias on Monday, alleging that the schedule for the Assembly elections was strategically engineered to undermine the Congress party by restricting its campaign window and limiting the...

Kolkata, March 16 The Election Commission (EC) has cancelled the contract of the agency that supplied webcams during the 2021 West Bengal assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha elections after detecting major irregularities in the footage, and has selected three new vendors for the supply of equipment, a...

Chennai, March 16 The Election Commission is closely monitoring the financial transactions of political parties with the help of 23 enforcement agencies and will also track large volumes of online transactions, Tamil Nadu CEO Archana Patnaik said on Monday.Stating that the model code of...

Kolkata, March 16 – The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at approximately 10 locations across West Bengal on Monday as part of its investigation into the operations of an alleged illegal call center, an official of the central agency said.According to the official, the searches...

Kolkata, March 16 The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at multiple locations in West Bengal on Monday as part of an investigation into the operations of an alleged illegal call centre, officials said.Around 10 premises in Siliguri, Howrah, Bidhannagar, and Durgapur were raided...

Kathmandu, March 15 The Supreme Court on Sunday rejected an interim order against the Election Commission's decision to disqualify RSP leader Kishori Sah from contesting the recently concluded general elections in Nepal.The court's refusal to issue the interim order also means that Nepali...

New Delhi, March 15 The Election Commission (EC) has directed central investigative and security agencies to mount a special vigil and take "proactive" measures to check the use of unaccounted money, drugs, and other illegal inducements during the upcoming elections to five legislative...

Kolkata, March 15 Senior Congress leader Pradip Bhattacharya welcomed the Election Commission's decision to hold a two-phase election in West Bengal on Sunday, but expressed concern about whether voters would be able to exercise their franchise freely and without intimidation.The former head...

Kolkata, March 15 The West Bengal BJP on Sunday praised the Election Commission's decision to hold a two-phase election in the state, stating that voters will decisively vote to end the "Maha Jungle Raj" under the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), while the ruling party asserted that the election...

Kolkata, March 15 The BJP wrote to the Election Commission on Sunday, alleging that its workers were not provided security and were attacked while traveling to attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally at Brigade Parade Ground on March 14, and sought action over the alleged failure of the...

New Delhi, March 15 The Election Commission announced on Sunday the schedule for the assembly elections in four states and one Union Territory. Polling will be held on a single day in Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry on April 9, in two phases in West Bengal on April 23 and 29, and in Tamil Nadu on...

Ranchi, March 15 CPI national general secretary D Raja on Sunday asserted that the Left is confident of a resurgence in West Bengal in the upcoming assembly elections and that it would emerge as a significant force that would shape the state's political landscape.Raja's statement came hours...

Kolkata, March 15 – Police announced on Sunday that five more people have been arrested in connection with the clashes between supporters of the BJP and Trinamool Congress in Kolkata's Girish Park.According to a senior officer of the Kolkata Police, the arrests were made after complaints were...

New Delhi, March 15 Ahead of the announcement of the assembly polls schedule by the Election Commission, the Congress on Sunday launched a scathing attack, saying that since 2014, "Modi's Code of Campaigning" has come to stand for "Modi's Code of Campaigning, which will be full of defamation...