The nomination process for the July 8 polls ended on Thursday.

The decision was taken after senior officials of the State Election Commission and the government attended a meeting with the state's legal advisors on Friday, sources in the Commission said.

The deceased TMC leader, Mozammel Haque (42), was the party's regional president of Sahebnagar.

Firefighting arrangements were pressed into service to douse the blaze as panic-stricken passengers were moved to a safe place.

Several vehicles were vandalised and explosives and stones were hurled at the police. Both parties blamed each other and said several of their members had been injured.

The meeting, which was called by State Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha, was held at the poll panel's office in Kolkata and lasted for around an hour, officials said.

Mohanka was speaking during the inaugural session of the two-day BIMSTEC Business Conclave which kicked off in Kolkata on Tuesday.

She was accompanied by Kamarhati MLA Madan Mitra and TMC general secretary and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee’s mother Lata. The CM puja at the temple and performed aarti.

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In the letter, the council demanded that bus operators be paid Rs 3,500 each day for every bus deployed for election duty instead of the current rate of Rs 2,300.

Sources in the ED said that they want to question him in connection with a letter of TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

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Billed as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “dream project” that was “inspired” by world-famous floating markets of Thailand, Patuli Floating Market was inaugurated with much fanfare by Firhad Hakim in January 2018.

Congress workers also staged a protest outside the West Bengal State Election Commission office in Kolkata on Saturday demanding the arrest of the accused. The Congress alleged that the three persons injured in the attack were also Congress workers.

While Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the Chancellor of this central university, President Murmu is VBU’s paridarsaka (Visitor).

During the session, the guests shared their personal anecdotes and encouraged the aspirants to work hard and to follow their passion.

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In her open letter, Rakhi Singh wrote that the other four petitioners in the case — Sita Sahu, Laxmi Devi, Manju Vyas, Rekha Pathak — and their lawyer Hari Shankar Jain and his son Vishnu Jain have defamed her, her uncle Vishen and his wife Kiran Singh.

The court noted that the notification for the panchayat elections was published on Friday morning and that the nomination process was to start at 11 am on the same day.

The process of filing nominations will start on June 9 and will continue till June 15.

The onset of the monsoon in the northeastern states is likely to bring heavy to very heavy rain in Manipur, Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram during the next three days and in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh over the next five days, it said.

Meanwhile, BJP MP Saumitra Khan held a sit-in outside BDO building at Indas in the same district, claiming that 100 of his party workers could not file nomination papers as forms were unavailable at the BDO office.

Faizan, a third-year mechanical engineering student from Tinsukia in Assam, was found dead in his hostel room at IIT-Kharagpur in Paschim Medinipur district on October 14, 2022.

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