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Agartala, Apr 9 Voting for the by-election to the Dharmanagar Assembly constituency in North Tripura district began at 7 am on Thursday amid tight security, an official said.A total of 46,142 voters will decide the fate of six candidates in the by-election.Female voters (23,758) outnumber...

Agartala, April 7 Campaigning for the Dharmanagar Assembly by-election in Tripura concluded peacefully on Tuesday, with no incidents reported, an official said.The April 9 by-election is set to witness a multi-party contest, with the BJP, Left Front, and Congress fielding candidates...

Kolkata, April 4 – The Left Front, led by the CPI(M) in West Bengal, released its manifesto for the upcoming state assembly elections on Saturday, with a focus on industrial development and job creation.The manifesto promised to create jobs in both the public and private sectors. This would be...

Kannur (Kerala), April 4 KPCC chief Sunny Joseph said on Saturday that the Congress received around Rs 5.38 crore in its account for rehabilitation in Wayanad and used the funds to purchase land for constructing homes for landslide victims, a claim that has been termed as false by the ruling...

Perambra, April 3 – Election authorities have issued a notice to LDF convener and candidate T.P. Ramakrishnan in connection with the controversial campaign announcement in Perambra in Kozhikode district, Kerala, further intensifying the political tensions in the constituency.The controversy...

Kolkata, April 1 – The Left Front announced on Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with the ISF and CPI(ML) Liberation to contest the West Bengal state assembly elections.According to the seat-sharing agreement reached among these groups, the ISF will contest 30 seats and CPI(ML)...

Kolkata, March 29 – The All India Congress Committee (AICC) announced the party candidates for 284 of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal on Sunday, which will go to the polls in two phases next month.As expected, the party has nominated Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the former state...

Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, had been eagerly anticipating his campaign visit to Kozhikode, Kerala, on Wednesday. However, this visit has been postponed due to the hospitalization of his mother, Sonia Gandhi, a veteran Congress leader.This development has...

Kolkata, March 23 The Left Front on Monday released its third list of candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections, announcing the names of 15 aspirants.The Front had earlier announced candidates for 224 constituencies in the 294-seat assembly.With the latest release, the CPI(M)-led...

Kolkata, March 23 – The Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) are likely to release their respective candidate lists on Monday.The Congress party is expected to release its first list of 100 candidates for the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly. The AISF, which will have a seat-sharing...

Malappuram (Kerala), March 22 In a significant political development ahead of the April 9 assembly elections, former independent MLA Karat Razack, who had been backed by the Left, reunited with the IUML on Sunday, after parting ways with the ruling LDF.The IUML is a key constituent of the...

Kolkata, March 21 The Indian Secular Front (ISF) announced that it will contest 33 seats in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, including four constituencies where seat-sharing talks with the Left Front are yet to reach a consensus.ISF MLA Nawsad Siddiqui said the party has reached an...

Kolkata, March 19 – The CPI(M)-led Left Front announced its second list of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections on Thursday, comprising 32 names.In the first list released on March 14, the names of candidates for 192 constituencies were announced. Therefore, the names of...

Kaliganj, March 17 A group of CPI(M) workers ransacked the party's own office in Kaliganj, a constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal, because they were unhappy with the candidate selected by the leadership for the area.CPI(M) sources said that a group of party workers stormed the local...

Ranchi, March 17 CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said on Tuesday that the party will contest in 10 seats in the West Bengal assembly elections as part of the Left Front.He also alleged that the Election Commission failed to ensure that over 60 lakh "under...

Kolkata, March 16 Accusing the Election Commission of failing to create an error-free voter list in West Bengal, the CPI(M) said on Monday that it will file a lawsuit to ensure that the 60 lakh people currently undergoing the ongoing Systematic Identification of Voters (SIV) exercise are "not...

Kolkata, March 16 The Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML), a major Left force in Bihar, will contest from 10 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal in alliance with the CPI-M-led Left Front in the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in the state next month.The West Bengal...

Kolkata, March 15 The CPI(M) is fighting an existential battle in the electoral scene in West Bengal, pinning its hopes on a slight upward trend in its vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls compared to the 2021 state assembly polls.STRENGTHS:The party is exuding confidence over the...

Kolkata, March 12 Former IPS officer R N Ravi took oath as the 22nd governor of West Bengal at a ceremony in Lok Bhavan on Thursday morning.He was administered the oath by the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, Sujoy Paul, in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Assembly...

Agartala, March 9 The Left Front announced its candidates for 27 out of the 30 seats of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) on Friday.Two candidates will be selected by Governor N. Indrasena Reddy.Along with the TTAADC candidates, the Left Front also announced its...