The Ministry of Home Affairs has requested details of the need for 485 extra companies of central forces which the West Bengal State Electi...

State Election Commissioner Rajiva Sinha wrote to the Centre, seeking the forces for deployment in the panchayat polls. One company of Cent...

Bose's action came close on the heels after Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam of Calcutta High Court came down heavily on the State Election Comm...

A division bench of Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam and Justice Uday Kumar said the state election commissioner could step down if he was not w...

The court also told the SEC to requisition additional central forces within 24 hours. The Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam also lashed out at th...

The court had noted no appreciable steps had been taken even after it passed an order on June 13 to deploy central forces in sensitive area...

The development came two days after the high court directed the SEC to deploy central forces within 48 hours in all districts of the state....

Three persons allegedly died in West Bengal and several were injured in two separate incidents of pre-poll violence in South 24 Parganas di...

A division bench presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam directed the SEC to requisition central forces to work in tandem with the police ...

The party said in its letter to the SEC that the state poll panel "has failed to perform its role in ensuring a free and fair municipal ele...

Sitaram Yechury, the general secretary of the left party, made the remark in the wake of reports alleging violence during panchayat polls i...

Official says that 11.93 per cent polling was recorded till 9 am even as the polls was marked by sporadic incidents of violence in which se...

A division bench of justices B Somadder and A Mukherjee directed the SEC to accept the valid nominations, filed through e-mail by 3 pm on A...

The order for extension of date was issued late in the evening yesterday, only to be reversed in 12 hours citing ‘legal complication’.

The West Bengal govt appears to have suddenly lost its enthusiasm for panchayat polls following the outrage after the multi-crore chit fund...

The West Bengal State Election Commission told the Calcutta High Court that SEC was the sole authority to ensure a free, fair and peaceful ...

The affidavit submitted by the SEC referred to recent incidents like the death of a SFI leader while being taken to jail after a law violat...