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New Delhi, March 30 The BJP approached the Election Commission on Monday, alleging that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) are "intimidating" voters to discourage them from voting for the saffron party in the upcoming assembly elections...

Agartala, March 25 The CPI(M)-led Left Front has demanded the deployment of central paramilitary forces at all polling booths for the upcoming elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), a senior leader said on Wednesday.Polling for the 28 seats of the tribal...

Bengaluru, March 19 – Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar stated on Thursday that legal counsel had confirmed there were no legal obstacles to increasing the height of the Alamatti Dam, and that he would convene a meeting of all political parties in the state to make a decision.Andhra...

Jammu, March 18 A delegation from the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) met State Election Commissioner (SEC) Shantmanu on Wednesday and requested early elections for village councils and urban local bodies in Jammu and Kashmir.The delegation, led by PCC working president Raman Bhalla, also...

Kolkata, March 18 A TMC delegation met West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal and raised questions regarding alleged discrepancies in the post-SIR electoral rolls and the "delay" in the publication of supplementary lists.The delegation, which included TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and...

Kolkata, March 17 A delegation from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) met with the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Tuesday, raising concerns about discrepancies in voter data and the delay in the publication of the supplementary electoral roll.The delegation, which...

New Delhi, March 16 The Trinamool Congress has written a third letter to President Droupadi Murmu seeking an appointment to "inform her about the West Bengal government's welfare initiatives" after its earlier requests for a meeting were turned down, party sources said.The developments came in...

Bengaluru, March 13 Responding to questions from the media about Odisha Congress MLAs being shifted to a Bengaluru resort, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress President D.K. Shivakumar said that he had not invited them, and they themselves came.“I have not invited the Odisha...

Kolkata, March 9 All registered political parties, except the ruling Trinamool Congress, have sought single-phase or at most two-phase polling for the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal, which are scheduled later this year.They made this demand during their interaction with the full...

Kolkata, March 9 – A delegation from the West Bengal unit of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) appealed to the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday to conduct the upcoming state assembly elections in a single phase, scheduled later this year.A three-member...

Kolkata, March 9 – A delegation from the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday urged the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take action against four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and Calcutta High Court senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee for...

Kolkata, March 8 – The Election Commission of India (ECI)’s full bench, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, arrived in Kolkata from New Delhi late on Sunday evening with a packed schedule for the next two days.CEC Gyanesh Kumar and his team were received at the Netaji...

Bengaluru, March 3 Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar urged the Centre on Tuesday to intervene and allow Karnataka to raise the height of the Almatti dam across the Krishna river.He also said that he will lead an all-party delegation to Delhi in this regard.Noting that all three...

Hyderabad, February 17 Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy will attend the 'Mumbai Climate Week' in the western metropolis on Wednesday.Reddy, who is attending the event at the invitation of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, will speak about the state government's achievements...

Bhopal/Gwalior, February 15 Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has said that the BJP's success in the recent local body elections in Kerala is a strong testament to public trust and expressed confidence in the party's victory in the upcoming assembly polls in the southern state.The...

Gandhinagar, February 14 A delegation of newly elected BJP councillors, panchayat representatives, and party office-bearers from Kerala met Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Saturday.The 11-member delegation, led by Kerala state BJP vice-president K Soman, is on a study tour of...

Jammu, February 13 Jammu and Kashmir Congress president Tariq Hameed Karra appealed to the UT government on Friday to send a delegation of MLAs from all parties to the Kashmiri migrant camps in Jammu to assess their living conditions and recommend urgent measures for their welfare.Karra made...

New Delhi, February 11 A delegation of newly-elected BJP councillors of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, along with the party's representatives in other civic bodies from Kerala, arrived here on Wednesday to participate in a three-day administrative and governance skills development...

Ahmedabad, February 9 A delegation representing Sri Lanka's Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), led by its General Secretary Tilvin Silva, paid a courtesy visit to Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel in Gandhinagar on Monday.Silva expressed his admiration for Gujarat's remarkable progress and...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 9 Newly elected BJP councillors of the Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation, along with other civic body representatives from the state, left for Delhi on Monday at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.The delegation, led by Mayor V V Rajesh, departed...