Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached the counting centre for the high-profile Bhabanipur assembly constituency Monday afternoon, following allegations that a TMC agent had been forced out. Banerjee reached Sakhawat Memorial Govt Girls' High School, the designated counting venue at Lord Sinha Road,...
Kolkata: Security around West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence in Kalighat in the city was beefed up Monday afternoon following a directive of the Election Commission after a group of people reached near the place and raised 'Jai Sree Ram' slogans near her home,...
New Delhi: The 'None of the Above' or NOTA option has once again not found favour among voters, the Election Commission data on the result of polls to five assemblies shows. Except for Assam, the NOTA option has not crossed the one per cent mark....
Baramati/Mumbai: The Baramati Assembly bye-election reached a definitive conclusion Monday, with Sunetra Ajit Pawar, the candidate for the Nationalist Congress Party (Ajit Pawar faction) and Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, securing a landslide victory. In a historic performance, Sunetra Pawar shattered all previous records, including...
New Delhi: India's cooking gas LPG consumption fell by a steep 16 per cent in April as supply disruptions linked to the West Asia conflict hit availability for both household kitchens and commercial users, according to latest official data. LPG consumption stood at 2.2 million...
Kolkata: Signalling a potential political churn in West Bengal, long dominated by TMC's Mamata Banerjee, the BJP crossed the halfway mark Monday, leading in 193 assembly seats against the TMC's 94 as counting progressed, according to Election Commission data. With the majority mark of 148...
Guwahati: Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi lost to BJP's Hitendranath Goswami by 23,182 votes in the Jorhat Assembly seat Monday, according to the Election Commission. Gogoi, the sitting MP of Jorhat, polled 46,257 votes, while Goswami secured 69,439 votes, retaining the seat for a third...
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress deputy leader in the Rajya Sabha, Sagarika Ghose, Monday alleged a delay in vote counting in West Bengal, which went to polls in two phases last month. As counting trends put the BJP ahead of the Trinamool in Bengal, Ghose, in...
New Delhi: India's manufacturing sector activity witnessed mild recoveries in growth of new business intakes and production, but rates of increase were the second-weakest in nearly four years. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index rose from 53.9 in March to 54.7 in...
Thiruvananthapuram: Celebrations began at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi and in Thiruvananthapuram on counting day as early trends in the Kerala Assembly elections indicated the party-led United Democratic Front (UDF) ahead in 90 seats as of 11:30 p.m. Congress alone is leading on 57...
The framers of the Constitution envisaged the office of the Governor as a neutral constitutional authority, detached from partisan politics...
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Every few years, India calls in its envoys for a reality check. At the 11th Heads of Mission Conference recently,...
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The growing tendency of different state police forces to cross jurisdictional boundaries in order to arrest individuals for their opinions...
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In the past, it was considered rather difficult to contest assembly elections without a recognisable chief ministerial candidate’s face as...
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