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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicWest Bengal elections

Topic: West Bengal elections

Bengal sees Covid spike amid polls, but Mamata yet to attend review meeting in 3 months

Mamata Banerjee skipped 2 video conferences between the PM and CMs on Covid — on 17 March and 8 April — with Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay having represented state.

78.36 per cent voter turnout till 5 pm in 5th phase of West Bengal polls

The highest voters' turnout was registered in Jalpaiguri district at 81.73 per cent, followed by Purba Bardhaman, Nadia, North 24 Parganas, Darjeeling and Kalimpong.

How tea gardens in North Bengal, key to poll fortunes of BJP & TMC, have kept both guessing

There are 408 tea gardens in North Bengal — 84 on Darjeeling hills & 324 in Terai & Dooars. The labour force is key to elections in 16 assembly seats in region, 13 of which vote today.

How Gorkha factions, new Mamata ally & BJP have kept cry for Gorkhaland out of the hills

Elections to 3 assembly seats in the Darjeeling hills — Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong — are to be held on 17 April.

Cooch Behar killings ‘turning point’, BJP will be wiped out from North Bengal: Bimal Gurung

GJM leader Gurung, who left the NDA alliance last year, also accused the BJP of 'deceiving the Gorkha jaati for 12 years with fake promises'.

Another 71 CAPF companies sent to West Bengal amid poll-related violence

Till now, a total of 1,000 companies were earmarked for the conduct of elections in the state that has 294 assembly seats.

Polling begins for 44 seats in fourth phase of West Bengal assembly elections

Tight security arrangements have been made to ensure peaceful voting, with 789 companies of CAPF being deployed to guard 15,940 polling stations.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.