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Calcutta HC lets three candidates to file nominations before SEC

when they had gone to the office of Block Development Officer at Bhangore in South 24 Parganas district to file their...

10 April 2018 2:41 AM IST

Congress candidate for rural polls dies

The truck has been seized but the driver and the helper of the vehicle escaped, he said.

10 April 2018 2:31 AM IST

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a Youth Trinamul Congress rally at Damurjala Stadium in Howrah on Friday. (Photo: PTI)

TMC likely to win Birbhum civic body uncontested

Out of 167 gram panchayats, the Trinamul looks confident of winning 154 seats uncontested.

10 April 2018 2:14 AM IST

State BJP agitation in front of state election commissioners office on the last date of nomination for panchayat poll on Monday. (Photo: Asian Age)

BJP accepts SC rural polls verdict, TMC welcomes it

Parliamentary affairs minister and Trinamul secretary general Partha Chatterjee also visited the state election...

10 April 2018 1:48 AM IST

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Supreme Court refuses to interfere in West Bengal rural polls

The SEC on Monday, however, extended the deadline of filing nominations till Tuesday, ie April 10.

10 April 2018 12:35 AM IST

Activists of two political parties clash during panchayat polls nomination filing in Burdwan on Saturday. (Photo:PTI)

In poll battle, Murshidabad zila parishad seat in focus

Ms Begum predicted of her victory. Mr Kabir, however, asserted that the people would her teach his rival a lesson for...

8 April 2018 4:01 AM IST

Acharia, 75, was indiscriminately thrown to the ground and bashed with sticks, following which he had to be admitted to the intensive care unit. (Photo: Twitter | @cpimspeak)

75-yr-old CPIM leader attacked in Bengal ahead of panchayat polls

Basudeb Acharia was accompanying other CPI-M workers to file their nominations in panchayat polls when they were...

7 April 2018 11:04 AM IST

State Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee on his way to meet the Enforcement Directorate over the Narada sting operation case on Friday. (Photo: Asia Age)

Many injured in district clashes

Twenty-five BJP workers were arrested in connection with the violence, the police said.

7 April 2018 7:04 AM IST

State police is capable of conducting polls: Subrata Mukherjee

State BJP president Dilip Ghosh, however, warned that the state police would suffer.

7 April 2018 6:47 AM IST

Supreme Court to hear WB BJP's plea for elections

The BJP said it was forced to approach the apex court as the Calcutta High Court lawyers are on strike since February19.

6 April 2018 6:50 AM IST

Within an hour, Megha however fell ill and started bleeding profusely. She was rushed to a hospital where she was declared brought dead. (Representational image)

WB: BJP worker dies after being thrashed by TMC cadres in Bankura

The deceased, identified as Ajit Murmu was killed outside the office of the block development officer in Ranibandh area.

5 April 2018 9:00 AM IST

BJP state president Dilip Ghosh takes a shelfie at a open rally at Sahid Minar maidan on Friday. (Photo: Asian Age)

'BJP moved SC for free and fair panchayat polls'

Ghosh questioned chief minister Mamata Banerjee's silence into the attacks allegedly by her party workers on the BJP...

5 April 2018 7:01 AM IST