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WB panchayat polls: 41.51% voter turnout recorded till 1 pm
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 14 (ANI): A voter turnout of 41.51 percent has been recorded in West Bengal panchayat polls till 1 p.m. on Monday.
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WB Panchayat polls: TMC worker shot dead, ballot papers thrown in pond
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
South 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], May 14 (ANI): A Trinamool Congress (TMC) worker was shot dead on Monday in Kultali area of West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district in poll-related violence even as voting continues in the state.
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Panchayat polls: Stray incidents of violence in WB
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Cooch Behar (West Bengal) [India], May 14 (ANI): As many as 20 people were injured in fresh clashes which broke out between two groups here in Cooch Behar on Monday morning, amid the ongoing panchayat polls in the state.
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WB panchayat polls begin
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 13 (ANI): The much-awaited West Bengal panchayat polls began at 7am on Monday.
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WB panchayat polls to be held tomorrow amid tight security
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India] May 13 (ANI): The much-awaited panchayat polls will be held in West Bengal on Monday.
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WB panchayat polls: Many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip?
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Midnapore (West Bengal) [India], May 13 (ANI): Ahead of the West Bengal panchayat elections, voters are claiming that they are deprived of the Centre's prominent schemes such as Ujjwala Yojana (gas connection) and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (house) to name a few.
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WB Panchayat polls: Candidates filing e-nominations being threatened, says
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 10 (ANI): Left Front chairman and Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member Biman Bose on Thursday said that some candidates who have filled e-nominations for the upcoming panchayat polls in West Bengal are being threatened and attacked to withdra
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WB panchayat polls: Govt will be liable for loss of life, property
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 10 (ANI): The division bench of the Calcutta High Court said on Thursday that the West Bengal government would be held responsible for any loss of life or property in the run-up to the panchayat elections.
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E-mailed Panchayat poll nominations won't be accepted in WB: SC
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 10 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday set aside Calcutta High Court order that asked West Bengal Election Commission (WBEC) to accept nominations for Panchayat polls through e-mail.
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WB panchayat polls: SC to hear state EC's plea
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India] May 10 (ANI): The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the West Bengal Election Commission's plea that challenged the Calcutta High Court's order on allowing candidates to file online nominations in the upcoming panchayat elections.
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WB panchayat polls: 3 TMC workers injured in clash with BJP cadres
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 10 (ANI): Three Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers were injured in a clash which broke out between TMC and BJP cadres on May 8 in Gosaba village of South 24 Parganas district.
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WB Panchayat polls: Calcutta HC refuses to interfere in EC notification
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Calcutta (West Bengal) [India], May 04 (ANI): A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday refrained from interfering in state Election Commission's notification concerning the extension of filing of nominations for West Bengal Panchayat polls by one date.
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