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WB panchayat polls: Re-polling underway in 568 booths
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 16 (ANI): As violence were reported in a number of places during panchayat polls in West Bengal, which was held on May 14, re-polling is being held on Wednesday in 568 panchayat election booths spread across 19 districts of the state.
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PM Modi calls WB violence 'murder of democracy'
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): Calling it unfortunate, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the violence that broke out during West Bengal panchayat elections on Tuesday was a murder of democracy.
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12 killed in West Bengal panchayat poll violence
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India] May 14 (ANI): Violence marred the West Bengal panchayat elections on Monday as at least 12 people were killed.
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WB violence: BJP accuses TMC of destroying democracy
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday hit out at Trinamool Congress (TMC), saying that the party has shown a glimpse of destroying the democracy from the roots in the current West Bengal Panchayat Election.
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Violence in WB is destruction of democracy: Yechury
Updated : 8 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 14 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday called incidents of violence during West Bengal Panchayat Election a complete destruction of democracy.
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Left Parties stage protest at WB Election Commission
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India] May 14 (ANI): The Left Parties on Monday staged protest outside the State Election Commission against the incidents of violence, during ongoing panchayat elections in the state.
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Nitish Kumar asks PM Modi to award Bharat Ratna to Ram Manohar Lohia
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Apr. 29 (ANI): Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to confer the country's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna to socialist political leader Ram Manohar Lohia.
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Protest in Kolkata against missile attack on Syria
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Apr 15 (ANI): A communist political party Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) SUCI(C) on Sunday held a protest in Kolkata against United States President Donald Trump over the Syrian missile attack.
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3 govt officials arrested for extortions, illegal tax collections
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Dimapur (Nagaland) [India], Mar. 25 (ANI): The Guwahati branch of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), on Sunday, arrested three government officials from Nagaland's Dimapur district, in connection with alleged extortions and illegal tax collections on behalf of the banned terrorist orga
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Venezuela slams Donald Trump for banning its cryptocurrency
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [United States] March 21 (ANI): Diosdado Cabellohe, vice president of the ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela slammed United States President Donald Trump for signing a decree prohibiting Americans from using Venezuela's newly introduced cryptocurrency, Petro.
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Nepal's agitating parties vote for Bhandari in presidential election
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Mar 13 (ANI): The Rastriya Janata Party-Nepal (RJP-N) and the Federal Socialist Forum Nepal (FSFN) who went on a marathon protest demanding the amendment in the country's constitution recently, voted for Left alliance supported candidate and incumbent president Bidhya D
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Protest staged in Karachi over release of jailed activists
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Feb 18 (ANI): Several political and civil society activists have staged a protest outside the Karachi Press Club to demand the release of all activists imprisoned in Pakistan's northern region.
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