Simultaneous polls could save Rs 7 lakh crore: Joint parliamentary panel chiefHolding Lok Sabha and state assembly polls together could save India Rs 7 lakh crore. This significant saving can be channeled into develop...
20 May, 2026, 10.29 AM IST
TMC claims body of its panchayat member found in Hooghly, BJP denies involvementA Trinamool Congress panchayat member's body was discovered in Hooghly district on Sunday. The party claims this incident raises their post...
10 May, 2026, 01.31 PM IST
Suvendu's cabinet line-up has ministers embodying Bengal's geographical, ethnic divideWest Bengal witnesses the formation of its first BJP government with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and five ministers sworn in. The cabin...
09 May, 2026, 02.27 PM IST
TMC-BJP workers reportedly clash in Hooghly, CRPF resumes peaceful polling after 'minor incident'West Bengal's second phase polling saw clashes between BJP and TMC agents in Khanakul and Nadia districts. Voting resumed peacefully in Kha...
29 Apr, 2026, 01.09 PM IST
'TMC gundagiri everywhere': BJP candidate Bikash Sardar alleges attack on vehicle in BasantiPhase 2 polling in West Bengal saw BJP candidates alleging Trinamool Congress "gundagiri". Bikash Sardar from Basanti constituency reported...
29 Apr, 2026, 12.05 PM IST
BJP fact-finding team alleges collapse of law and order in BengalBJP MP Vinod Sonkar, who is heading a five-member fact-finding team of the saffron party to West Bengal in the aftermath of panchayat elect...
23 Jul, 2023, 09.41 PM IST
BJP women MPs probing poll violence and atrocities against women in West BengalA five member team of BJP women MPs from New Delhi visited violence affected districts of West Bengal on Tuesday to gauge poll-violence and...
18 Jul, 2023, 09.38 PM IST
Amit Shah to visit Bengal amidst panchayat pollsUnion Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to visit West Bengal in August to assess the violence which marred the Panchayat polls held in Ma...
15 Jul, 2023, 11.56 PM IST
Re-polling conducted in West Bengal in the presence of central forces and state policeThree political workers died. A Trinamool Congress worker from Murshidabad’s Raninagar and a CPI(M) activist, who were severely injured and...
10 Jul, 2023, 11.32 PM IST
MP panchayat polls: BJP says supporters won vast majority of seats, Congress dubs it fake claim"As many as 19,863 of 22,924 posts of sarpanch, or 87 per cent, has been won by BJP supporters. Of these, 650 sarpanchs were elected unoppo...
16 Jul, 2022, 05.57 PM IST
OBC quota: MP cabinet decides to withdraw ordinance related to panchayat pollsThe present BJP government in MP had brought the ordinance last month to annul the process of delimitation and reservation rotation set by ...
26 Dec, 2021, 04.02 PM IST
UP panchayat polls: Kin of several political leaders taste defeat in BalliaIn a statement on Sunday, the State Election Commission (SEC) said over 1.12 lakh people have emerged victorious for the post of members of...
03 May, 2021, 03.03 PM IST
A launch pad: Kin of politicians, babus and dons bag tickets in UPNominations taking place for the four-phase rural body elections in Uttar Pradesh suggest that these polls are a political launchpad for fa...
09 Apr, 2021, 07.05 PM IST
BJP looks to replicate Gujarat win in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya PradeshIn UP, the party wants to solidify its support base right from the panchayats to the urban bodies before the assembly elections next year.
04 Mar, 2021, 10.15 AM IST
Madhya Pradesh village panchayat polls to be held in 3 phasesPolls, which would be held across fifty districts which include 51,313 'janpads' and 22,851 village panchayats, would not be fought on part...
15 Dec, 2014, 10.38 PM IST
Trinamool Congress MP targets Mira Pandey againState Election Commissioner Mira Pandey came under attack again from the Trinamool Congress, this time from the party's Tamluk MP Subhendu ...
09 Jul, 2013, 04.59 PM IST
West Bengal seeks 300 companies of central forces for pollThe West Bengal govt sought 300 companies of central para-military forces for deployment during panchayat poll in the rural areas.
29 May, 2013, 07.10 PM IST