political protest

Panaji, March 9 Goa assembly speaker Ganesh Gaonkar on Monday asked GFP MLA Vijai Sardesai to apologize within 24 hours in connection with an anti-dam protest by four private individuals inside the House.The protest, seeking the scrapping of a proposed dam project on the Zuari river at Mirabag...

Kolkata, March 9 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of threatening state officials during a meeting, and warned that "false bravado" by constitutional authorities was unacceptable.Her remarks came against the backdrop of the...

Bhopal, March 9 Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh met Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Shrivastava on Monday and submitted a memorandum, alleging that thousands of fake names had been added to the voter list in the Narela Assembly constituency in...

Kolkata, March 9 Alleging that the BJP and "its agencies" were distributing leaflets at the site of her sit-in protest in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday directed TMC workers to apprehend them and hand them over to the police.Following Banerjee's direction from the stage of...

Kolkata, March 9 – Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of trying to distribute leaflets promoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Kolkata at her protest site in Esplanade. She also claimed that this was being done through a third-party agency.Following this, Chief...

Kolkata, March 9 – Following the lead of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, North Bengal Development Minister Udayan Guha began a hunger strike in Dinhata on Monday to protest what he described as the arbitrary removal of names from the electoral rolls of West Bengal following the Special Intensive...

Srinagar, March 9 – Police in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on Monday prevented Congress leaders and workers from organizing a protest march on the streets during a demonstration against the US-India trade deal and the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Congress leaders...

Kolkata, March 9 Alleging that the BJP and "its agencies" were distributing leaflets at the site of her protest in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday directed TMC workers to apprehend them and hand them over to the police.Banerjee, who has been staging the protest at Dharmatala...

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 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls were aimed at dividing the state.Addressing a gathering during her demonstration against the alleged arbitrary deletions, Banerjee accused the BJP of depriving...

Islamabad, March 7 An anti-terrorism court on Saturday sentenced 47 leaders and supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf to 10 years in prison and a fine of PKR 500,000 each, in absentia, for vandalism and violence during the May 9, 2023, protest.The nationwide protest was launched by...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls were aimed at dividing the state.Addressing a gathering during her demonstration against the alleged arbitrary deletions from the electoral roll in the state...

Kolkata, March 7 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, accusing the saffron party of using its allies and appointees for political gain before abandoning them.Speaking at the site of her indefinite protest against...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls were aimed at dividing the state.Addressing a gathering during her demonstration against the alleged arbitrary deletions from the electoral roll in the state...

Kolkata, March 7 – The BJP alleged on Saturday that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's indefinite sit-in protest in Kolkata, which began on Friday afternoon, is another tactic to protect illegal immigrants on the state's voter list.Although the Trinamool Congress leadership, led by...

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...

Kolkata, March 6 A car belonging to BJP MLA Baneswar Mahato was vandalized during the party's "Change Yatra" in Purulia district of West Bengal on Friday.The incident occurred in Mahato's constituency, Balarampur, with the BJP alleging that members of the TMC were behind the attack.The BJP...

Chandigarh, March 6 Punjab Minister Harbhajan Singh led a protest here on Friday against Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa for allegedly making a casteist remark against him.Last month, Bajwa accused Harbhajan Singh of corruption and said, "He used to play in a band before, we will take him...

Kolkata, March 6 In a dramatic return to street politics that defined her rise, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday launched a protest in central Kolkata against large-scale deletions in the state's voter rolls following the SIR exercise, escalating the TMC's confrontation with...

Chennai, March 6 The CPI, a key ally of the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, stated on Friday that outgoing Governor R N Ravi should respect parliamentary democracy, state rights, and the sentiments of the people in his new role in West Bengal.President Droupadi Murmu has appointed Ravi as the...