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Kolkata, March 9 Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar faced "go back" slogans and was shown black flags on Monday morning when he visited the revered Kalighat temple in south Kolkata.Police personnel present at the spot brought the situation under control, allowing the CEC to proceed with...

Guwahati, March 8 – Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) president Lurinjyoti Gogoi strongly reacted on Sunday to remarks made by some Congress workers who allegedly described him as an "imported leader" and an "outsider", asserting that such comments are not only baseless but also disrespectful to the...

Ranchi, March 8 The BJP's Scheduled Tribe (ST) Morcha held protest marches against the TMC government in West Bengal and burned effigies of its Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in all 24 districts of Jharkhand on Sunday, protesting the alleged insult of President Droupadi Murmu.BJP ST Morcha...

Kolkata, March 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that Narendra Modi "should resign first," since he became Prime Minister with the votes of the people whose names were allegedly being "deleted arbitrarily" during the voter verification process by the Election...

Kolkata, March 8 Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, continued her sit-in protest against alleged arbitrary deletions in the post-SIR voter list on Sunday, with the TMC supremo accusing the BJP of "misusing the Vanish Commission to erase legitimate voters from electoral rolls."This...

Chennai, March 7 – The AIADMK announced a protest against the DMK government on Saturday, accusing it of neglecting the demands of workers employed in Tamil Nadu's state-run transport corporations.AIADMK General Secretary and former Chief Minister, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, said on Saturday...

Kolkata, March 7 Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government of imposing higher taxes on fuel compared to several other states, BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Saturday said that she was trying to make an issue of the increase in cooking gas prices, despite being aware of the volatile situation in...

Kolkata, March 6 Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee appealed to people to "boycott the BJP" in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, alleging that the party was targeting voters through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Banerjee made...

Kolkata, March 6 A significant backlog in the disposal of "under adjudication" cases in West Bengal's post-SIR electoral rolls has raised concerns about whether a large number of electors would be disenfranchised due to the limited time available for scrutiny before the upcoming assembly...

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...

Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar submitted his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections today. The nomination was filed at the Bihar Legislative Assembly in Patna before the Secretary. Prominent leaders present included Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national...

Bengaluru, March 4 Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra urged the Congress government on Wednesday to fill vacancies by considering internal reservation among SCs, and create employment opportunities for youth.Stating that the government should not cite court-related technicalities as an...

March 03, New Delhi – The Himalayan nation is preparing for national elections on March 5. The Election Commission of Nepal has instructed monitoring officers to effectively implement the code of conduct until the day of voting.More than 3,400 candidates are contesting in the March 5th...

February 27, New Delhi – Preparations are underway in Nepal for the upcoming election of the House of Representatives, with polling stations located in border regions placed under strict surveillance.To ensure a peaceful electoral process, security agencies are closely monitoring polling...

Shimla, February 26 A day after a tense standoff between the Delhi and Himachal Pradesh police over the arrest of Congress' youth wing activists, the party's state unit chief claimed on Thursday that detaining individuals without informing anyone is a "direct violation of the state's rights"...

Kannur (Kerala), February 26 The police FIR regarding the injuries sustained by Health Minister Veena George following a protest by KSU activists stated that she was allegedly attacked with a "weapon" at the railway station here.Five KSU activists, the student wing of the Congress, who were...

Bengaluru/Dharwad, February 24 Protests by job aspirants escalated in Dharwad on Tuesday, with demonstrators demanding the immediate filling of 2.84 lakh vacant government positions.As several agitators were taken into preventive custody, the unified opposition of the BJP and JD(S) seized the...

New Delhi, February 24 – A group of prominent and respected citizens strongly criticized the recent shirtless protests by members of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) at the AI Impact Summit, as well as the Congress party's brand and style of politics. They argued that this amounted to...

New Delhi, February 23 The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) said on Monday that its recent protest at the AI Impact Summit was peaceful and aimed at drawing attention to what it described as a "compromised" prime minister, alleging that its leaders were being politically targeted and falsely...

Bhopal, February 23 Congress MLAs staged a walkout from the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Monday after the state government refused to provide a specific timeline for reopening registrations for the flagship Ladli Behna Yojana.Under the Ladli Behna Scheme, launched by the BJP government before...