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WB panchayat election: Polling ends, 72.5% voter turnout recorded
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 14 (ANI): A voter turnout of 72.5 percent was recorded in West Bengal panchayat polls, at the end of the polling at 5 p.m. on Monday.
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Violence in WB is destruction of democracy: Yechury
Updated : 7 years, 10 months 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 : 7 years, 10 months 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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WB panchayat polls: 56% voter turnout recorded till 3 pm
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 14 (ANI): A voter turnout of 56 percent has been recorded in West Bengal panchayat polls till 3 p.m. on Monday.
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WB panchayat polls: Ballot boxed looted at gunpoint in Murshidabad
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
West Bengal (India), May 14 (ANI): Ballot boxes were looted at gunpoint on Monday by unidentified people at polling booths in West Bengal's Murshidabad where Panchayat Election is underway.
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BJP accuses WB Govt. for violence in state
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi/Kolkata [India], May 14 (ANI): Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Babul Supriyo on Monday accused the West Bengal Government for the ongoing protest in the state amid the panchayat polls and demanded President's rule in the state.
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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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Rohingya Crisis: World Bank agrees to a grant for Bangladesh
Updated : 7 years, 10 months ago IST
Dhaka [Bangladesh], May 14 (ANI): The World Bank (WB) is going to provide Bangladesh a grant to meet the basic needs of around one million Rohingyas who fled their homeland Myanmar.
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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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