
Amid sporadic violence, nearly 70 percent of 1.1 crore rural voters on Sunday exercised their franchise for Panchayat Samiti and Zila Parishad elections in Punjab.
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West Bengal Agriculture Minister Malay Ghatak on Saturday said he has received a letter threatening to kill him and his family unless he resigned from the Cabinet and quit Trinamool Congress.
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Amid the uproar over investment fraud in West Bengal, an Inter-Ministerial Group will hold its first meeting this week to suggest ways to deal with such schemes against the backdrop of demands within a Parliamentary Committee for scrapping of chit fund schemes.
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Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and experts say.
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Rejecting the bail plea of Saradha Group promoter Sudipta Sen and one of his close aides, a local court in West Bengal on Saturday remanded them to judicial custody till May 31.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday he welcomed a US-Russian peace initiative to end Syria's civil war but had no plans to resign.
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West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) supremo Pradip Bhattacharya on Sunday alleged that the state government wants to delay the rural polls by challenging the Calcutta High Court order in a division bench.
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The West Bengal government on Thursday announced fresh panchayat election dates on May 5 and 8, but the State Election Commission told the Calcutta High Court that it would not conduct the polls without deployment of central paramilitary forces.
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Rejecting the State Election Commission's recommendations, West Bengal government stuck to its notification of holding the panchayat poll in two phases next month but effected a change in schedule apparently to keep Congress happy.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Opposition for conspiring to prevent her government from conducting Panchayat polls on time and vowed that elections will take place according to the schedule.
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