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"There is nothing like law and order in Bengal": BJP MP Locket Chatterjee
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The BJP MP alleged that panchayat poll elections were peaceful in other states while violence occurred only in West Bengal.
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Massive fire at plastic product manufacturing unit in Bengal's South 24 Pa
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
"A fire broke out at a plastic bag manufacturing factory in Mallikpur area of South 24 Parganas. Efforts to control the fire are on," the official said.
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WB: Winning TMC panchayat candidate killed in Magrahat
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
A Trinamool Congress leader, who contested and won the recent panchayat elections, was killed and another person injured in a shootout at Magrahat in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, police informed on Saturday.
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"TMC govt will collapse within months," says MoS Shantanu Thakur
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Speaking at a party programme in his Bongaon Lok Sabha constituency in North 24 Parganas district, BJP MP Shantanu Thakur said, "I guarantee that this government will collapse within the next five months."
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WB panchayat elections: Re-polling underway in 697 booths in 5 districts
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Ahead of the re-polling of the Panchayat elections, the voters, on Monday, queued up outside the polling booth in the Murshidabad district. According to an official statement, the re-polling will be conducted in 697 booths across five districts: Purulia, Birbhum, Jalpaiguri, Nadia and Sou
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Panchayat elections: One person "suspected" to be dead at polling booth in
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
"One person is suspected to be dead and yet to be declared by the doctors. The bomb hit the victim's head. He has been sent to Basanti rural hospital," said Dibakar Das, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO).
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WB panchayat polls: Police conduct searches after tip of bombs stockpiled
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A search operation was underway ahead of the West Bengal panchayat polls, on Friday, after police received information that crude bombs and weapons have been stockpiled in the district, an official statement said on Friday.
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Trinamool worker shot dead in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
The incident took place on Saturday night in Phulmalanch village panchayat area of Basanti police station.
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"Deeply distressed by recent clashes..," says West Bengal Governor
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
After paying a visit to violence-hit Canning in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday said that he was "deeply distressed" with the clashes which took place on the last day of filing nominations for the panchayat elections.
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"Don't seek TMC's support": Mamata Banerjee warns Congress for joining for
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Launching a scathing attack at the Congress, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that the grand old party is seeking Trinamool Congress' support in the Parliament but is joining hands with the Left in the State.
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Panchayat poll: West Bengal Governor visits violence-hit Bhangar, says "wi
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
After interacting with the victims of the violence, the West Bengal Governor assured them that the perpetrators of violence would be silenced permanently under the law of the land. He further added that the people of West Bengal have the right to exercise their right to vote without feari
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WB: Bomb-making material recovered in South 24 Parganas' Bhangar ahead of
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
West Bengal Police recover bomb-making material in Bhangar, South 24 Paraganas district, following the continued violence that happened on Thursday as well during nominations for Panchayat elections.
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