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Lok Sabha Election 2024 Voting Highlights: As Phase 1 records 62% polling, PM Modi thanks voters for 'great response'

April 20, 2024 3:24 pm

Lok Sabha Election 2024 'Phase 1 Voting' Highlights: The highest voter turnout during polling under Phase 1 was recorded in Tripura at 80.17 percent, with Bihar witnessing the lowest turnout at 48.50 percent till 9 pm.

ED opposes Shahjahan Sheikh's anticipatory bail plea, says he is very influential

February 23, 2024 7:50 pm

The judge reserved judgment on the anticipatory bail prayer of Sheikh following the conclusion of submissions by both parties.

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Police stop Congress, BJP teams from visiting Sandeshkhali, cite restrictions

February 17, 2024 7:00 am

While the BJP delegation which had planned to visit Sandeshkhali went to the West Bengal Raj Bhavan later, the Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury sat on a dharna at the place where he was stopped.

‘Khooni khel khela hai’: PM Modi tears into TMC over panchayat poll violence; Mamata fires back

August 13, 2023 7:59 am

Virtually addressing Kshetriya Panchayati Raj Parishad in Bengal, PM slammed Oppn parties for ‘running away’ from House during no-trust vote, saying his govt has defeated ‘negativity being spread’ by them

Dialling governor for help: Inside Bengal Raj Bhavan’s ‘peace room’ assisting poll violence victims

July 15, 2023 10:08 pm

For the past month, with violence raging in the state over the panchayat elections, an eight-member Raj Bhavan team has been helping people; several of them are TMC workers, says official

Bengal Panchayat polls: Violence is a part of TMC's politics of lawlessness and denial

July 13, 2023 4:24 pm

Naxalite violence was ideological, the CPM's a political tactic. For Trinamool Congress, it's a way for leaders to control and use local resources

Cops given free hand for nabbing culprits: Mamata Banerjee on violence

July 13, 2023 3:56 am

A four-member BJP fact-finding team, led by the former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, visited violence-hit areas of West Bengal on Wednesday.

Bengal rural poll violence: Shah dials state BJP chief, TMC slams Governor

July 09, 2023 8:56 am

LoP Adhikari demands President’s rule; TMC accuses Oppn of ‘instigating’ violence, says most of the dead are its workers and that the state largely saw ‘incident-free’ Panchayat polls

Portraits of violence: The 13 people killed during Bengal panchayat polls

July 09, 2023 7:23 am

With seven of those killed being Trinamool Congress workers, ruling party accuses Oppn of indulging in violence “in a bid to gain some ground”; BJP calls for election to be cancelled

As Bengal panchayat poll violence leaves 13 dead, TMC will worry about a 2019-like blowback

July 09, 2023 10:50 am

Violence in the panchayat elections in 2018 had led to the Mamata Banerjee-led party losing 12 seats in the Lok Sabha polls the following year. The party will be looking to avoid that as violence again rears its head.