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Kolkata: A cursory glance at the pre-poll status of the Baharampur assembly constituency in the Bangladesh-bordering Murshidabad district of West Bengal could suggest that the segment is bracing for a nail-biting triangular face-off between BJP's incumbent MLA Subrata Maitra, TMC's civic body chief Naru Gopal Mukherjee and former Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. But scratch the surface, and the story of Baharampur's electoral prospect that emerges seemingly revolves around two ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) A cursory glance at the pre-poll status of the Baharampur assembly constituency in the Bangladesh-bordering Murshidabad district of West Bengal could suggest that the segment is bracing for a nail-biting triangular face-off between BJP's incumbent MLA Subrata Maitra, TMC's civic body chief Naru Gopal Mukherjee and former Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. But scratch the surface, and the story of Baharampur's electoral prospect that emerges seemingly revolve ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Devotees celebrated Sri Hanuman Jayanthi with fervor across Telangana on Thursday. The lanes and bylanes were decorated with saffron flags and bunting and long serpentine queues were seen at Lord Sri Hanuman temples. A large number of people stood in queue at the famous Sri Tadbund Veeranjaneya Swamy Temple and at Kondagattu Anjaneya Swamy Temple in Jagtial district to seek blessings of Lord Sri Hanuman. Special prayers and bhajans were conducted at the temples to mark the occasion. ...Read More >
She cited credible reports indicating that BJP agents submitted a large number of Form 6 applications for the enrolment across districts. "These do not seem to be routine applications for voter inclusion but a mischievous ploy to include non-residents in the electoral roll," Banerjee wrote to Kumar. "There are serious concerns that these applications may pertain to individuals who are not genuine residents of Bengal and have no legitimate connection to the state. Similar patterns were reportedl ...Read More >
Kolkata: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday had written a letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging alleging 'conspiracy' against the democratic rights of the people of Bengal. Taking to X initially, Mamata said, "I have written to the Chief Election Commissioner, raising serious alarm over the grave conspiracy being orchestrated against the democratic rights of the people of Bengal." Later, she was heard stating the same in her election campaigns and also that she will ...Read More >
Guwahati, Mar 31 (UNI) Pledging to enforce a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) within three months and end 'Love Jihad' and 'Land Jihad', the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its manifesto for the upcoming Assam Assembly polls. The document, christened "Sankalpa Patra", also promises to pump in Rs 5 lakh crore to elevate Assam as the country's Eastern Gateway. The "Sankalpa Patra", containing 31 promises, was released by union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the presence o ...Read More >
Balurghat, Mar 31 (PTI) TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday sharpened his attack on the BJP and the Election Commission from Balurghat, alleging that the saffron party was trying to alter West Bengal's demography by bringing in voters from outside the state ahead of the 2026 assembly elections. Addressing a public meeting at the Balurghat Town Club Ground in support of TMC candidate Arpita Ghosh, Banerjee claimed that voters from NDA-ruled Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were be ...Read More >
KOLKATA, Mar 31: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was trying to include illegal voters from NDA-ruled Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in the electoral rolls of the state to turn the poll outcome in favour of the saffron party. Addressing an election rally in Paschim Medinipur's Chandrakona, Banerjee also reiterated her plea before the gathering to ignore who the TMC candidates in the state's assembly segments were and consider her as the can ...Read More >
Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was trying to include illegal voters from Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in the electoral rolls of the state to turn the poll outcome in favour of the saffron party. Addressing an election rally in Paschim Medinipur's Chandrakona, Banerjee also reiterated her plea before the gathering to ignore who the TMC candidates in the state's assembly segments were and consider her as the candidat ...Read More >
Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was trying to include illegal voters from Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in the electoral rolls of the state to turn the poll outcome in favour of the saffron party. Addressing an election rally in Paschim Medunipur's Chandrakona, Banerjee also reiterated her plea before the gathering to ignore who the TMC candidates in the state's assembly segments were and consider her as the candidat ...Read More >
Accusing her of violating the Model Code of Conduct in force in West Bengal as political activity in the state gathers pace, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Monday urged the Election Commission of India to debar TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning. In a memorandum to ECI, senior Union ministers Piyush Goyal and Kiren Rijiju and other leaders from the BJP's national leadership sought an urgent intervention of the poll body as they cited "malicious & repeated violatio ...Read More >
Ranchi/Hazaribag, Mar 30 (PTI) The Jharkhand High Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl at Bishnugarh in Hazaribag. The court also served a notice to the state administration and director general of police in this regard, an advocate said. A division bench of Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad and Justice Sanjay Prasad took note of the incident based on media reports. The girl had gone with her mother to watch the 'Mangla' procession, a rally ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday sharply criticised the BJP over an incident in Odisha where Titlagarh MLA Nabin Kumar Jain allegedly fired shots in the air during a Ram Navami procession, accusing the saffron party of using religious events to promote violence and polarisation. In a strongly worded statement posted on X, the TMC said: "Odisha used to be a peaceful state. Then @BJP4India happened. Their Titlagarh MLA, Nabin Kumar Jain, fired shots during a Rama Navami process ...Read More >
Kolkata, Mar 2 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a blistering attack on the EC over deletions in the post-SIR rolls, alleging a "nexus" between the poll panel and the BJP to disenfranchise genuine voters, and help the saffron party in the upcoming assembly elections. Banerjee, in her first reaction after the publication of West Bengal's post-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on February 28, claimed that the deletions had been carried out "deli ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: As the Rajya Sabha election date gets closer, the political temperature in Odisha continues to rise; the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has reportedly purchased 16 sets of nomination forms for the election to four seats. MLAs of the saffron party namely Saroj Kumar Pradhan, Ashrit Pattanayak, Dusmanta Kumar Swain, Raghunath Jagadala and Pratap Chandra Nayak bought a total of 16 sets of nomination forms from the returning officer today. They purchased the nomination ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: Questioning the BJP Government's handling of the pollution crisis in Delhi and what he described as a false narrative blaming Punjab for the national capital's poor air quality, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said the state has been unfairly targeted year after year despite having significantly better air conditions. Addressing the issue, Mann said Punjab's Air Quality Index (AQI) currently ranges between 70 and 110, while Delhi's AQI stands at around 500. "Who is responsible f ...Read More >
RAIPUR: For BJP workers in Chhattisgarh, the news that Nitin Nabin has been made the party's national working president didn't come as a surprise. For many of them, the "promotion" only puts a formal title on what they've seen for the past few years: a low-profile but relentless organiser who dragged a "demoralised unit back to power."A five-time MLA from Bankipur and minister in the Bihar govt, Nabin first came to Chhattisgarh in 2019 as co-incharge under Om Mathur. On paper, he was just anothe ...Read More >
Tamil Nadu delivered a standout economic performance in 2024-25; its well-balanced growth model translated into a sustained surge in gross state domestic product (GSDP). A pickup across sectors enabled the state to post the highest nominal GSDP growth of 16% in 2024-25, according to the latest RBI data. This momentum has cemented TN's position as India's second-largest state economy, behind only Maharashtra, while delivering the fastest compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14.59% between 2020 ...Read More >
Tensions flare at CG Bellad Government First Grade College in Karnataka. Students arrived in classrooms wearing hijabs and saffron shawls. This follows a protest by Hindu students against alleged inaction on dress code rules. The college principal stated a meeting will be held to resolve the issue. A fresh controversy has erupted at the CG Bellad Government First Grade College in Akki Alur village of Haveri district in Karnataka, after groups of students arrived in classrooms wearing Hijabs and ...Read More >
Haveri (Karnataka) [India], December 5 (ANI): A controversy erupted at CG Bellad Government First Grade College in Akki Alur, Haveri district, Karnataka, as students wearing saffron shawls protested against their peers wearing hijabs to class on Friday. The students claimed they were protesting the administration's alleged inaction on enforcing uniform rules. Principal Viresh Kammoor stated that the college requires students to wear prescribed uniforms inside classrooms, with some concessions m ...Read More >
The Tihar jail authorities have informed a city court that self-styled godman Chaitanyananda Saraswati, accused of sexually harassing 16 students at a private institute in southwest Delhi, was in "safe and secure custody." Earlier, Chaitanyananda claimed before Judicial Magistrate Animesh Kumar that there was a threat to his life in Tihar prison. The self-styled godman, a former chairman of the management institute, is in judicial custody over sexual abuse allegations. A status report submitt ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], November 19 (ANI): The Jail Authorities filed a report before the Patiala House Court, refuting the allegations made by Chaitanyanand Saraswati. It is stated that he is in safe and secure custody. Earlier, Chaitanyanand had alleged that he had a threat to his life in Tihar Jail. It is stated that Saraswati has not named any person whom he has a threat. Saraswati is in judicial custody in a molestation case. Patiala House Court, on November 14, called for a report from the Su ...Read More >
Varanasi, November 7: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in his parliamentary constituency,Varanasi on Friday evening on a two-day visit. Around 5 PM, PM's special aircraft landed at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, Babatpur, where State Finance and Parliamentary Affairs Minister and district in-charge Suresh Khanna, MLA Dr. Awadhesh Singh, MLA Sunil Patel, MLA T. Ram, Commissioner S. Rajalingam, Police Commissioner Mohit Agarwal, District Magistrate Satyendra Kumar, and others welc ...Read More >
Kolkata, Nov 4 (PTI) The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began across West Bengal on Tuesday, with over 80,000 booth-level officers (BLOs) visiting homes to distribute enumeration forms, kicking off a politically sensitive exercise ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. The month-long house-to-house enumeration process, which will continue till December 4, began on a largely peaceful note with BLOs delivering forms and explaining procedures to voters. However, the rollout was no ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: The Flying Squad Team-4 and Video Surveillance Team conducted a detailed inspection of the flight and helicopter used by Leader of the Opposition and BJD president Naveen Patnaik during his campaign rally in Odisha's Nuapada on Monday. In a post on X, Nuapada Collector & DEO said that the inspection was carried out as part of Model Code of Conduct (MCC) enforcement measures in view of the by-election scheduled for November 11. Naveen stepped into the political spotlight on Monday ...Read More >
SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah's National Conference and BJP teamed up in the assembly for the first time Tuesday to vote out PDP's proposed "anti-bulldozer bill" that seeks to grant ownership rights to locals occupying illegal properties on state-owned land for over 20 years.Omar, already facing allegations about last Friday's Rajya Sabha election being "a fixed match" after BJP won one of the four seats at stake, received a rare shout-out from the saffron party later for rejecting PDP's land b ...Read More >
Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Oct 28 (PTI) The 'peace meeting' convened by the district administration to discuss permission for a route march by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and similar rallies by nine other organisations in Chittapur on November 2 failed to reach a consensus, official sources said on Tuesday. The meeting was held as per the directions of the Kalaburagi bench of the Karnataka High Court, issued last Friday. Chaired by Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner Fouzia Taranum, the meet ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Amid the ongoing tussle between the BJP and Shiv Sena before the civic polls in Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde paid a visit to New Delhi to meet PM Narendra Modi. The deputy CM maintained that he had gone to convey Diwali greetings and discuss certain infra projects but his visit is significant, coming as it does amid the dispute between the two ruling parties over seat-sharing in Mumbai, Thane and other civic bodies and the war of words unleashed by politicians from both parties against eac ...Read More >
Yavatmal: Deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday asserted that Shiv Sena will contest the upcoming local body elections as part of the Mahayuti alliance. He was addressing party officials during the 'Shiv Sankalp' district-level training camp organised in Yavatmal.Due to inclement weather, Shinde attended the event online and guided participants virtually. The training camp aimed to prepare Shiv Sena office-bearers for the forthcoming local body elections.Union minister Prataprao Jadhav, ...Read More >
Slamming the BJP for its "silence" over the death by suicide of a woman doctor in Maharashtra after alleged rape, the Trinamool Congress on Saturday wondered if the saffron party had now become "emotionally bankrupt". West Bengal minister and TMC national spokesperson Shashi Panja said "all hell would have broken loose" had such an incident happened in West Bengal. The woman doctor, who worked at a government hospital in Maharashtra's Satara district, was found hanging in a hotel room on Thurs ...Read More >
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