Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Friday’s Election Commission stepped forward to defend its West Bengal officer in charge, Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain, against allegations of bias made by the Trinamool Congress, saying it had full faith in his integrity and equity. In response to TMC’s complaint filed with the West Bengal electoral director (CEO) questioning Jain’s neutrality…
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KOLKATA: For the past three decades, Mamata Banerjee has never fought in an election outside of Bhowanipore. From 1991 to 2011, she was an MP from Kolkata (South), which includes Bhowanipore, and since 2011 she has been a member of the Bhowanipore board of directors. The electoral link was cut on Friday. “If necessary, I…
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PILIBHIT: An Indian farmer was shot dead and another seriously injured when Nepalese police opened fire along the international border in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night. While farmers’ families said they had only been planting the season’s sugarcane crop, Nepal Police reportedly said they were “smuggling drugs into the country.” The farmer’s body, who was…
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SRINAGAR: Two days after J&K authorities released the chairman of the moderate All Parties Hurriyat Conference faction, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, from house arrest, APHC said on Friday that its leader remains under house arrest despite the announcement. Mirwaiz, like many other J&K politicians, was placed under house arrest in August 2019 when the Center removed…
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NEW DELHI: Recent comments by young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg about farmers ‘protests in India do not form a bilateral issue between India and Sweden, and the matter did not come up during an online summit between the two countries’ prime ministers on Friday. said the Foreign Ministry. In a special briefing after the…
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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday issued instructions to Uttar Pradesh police to hand over an original post-mortem report of the 25-year-old farmer, who was killed during the January 26 tractor rally in the national capital. A single judge under Judge Yogesh Khanna asked the Uttar Pradesh police to provide both original documents…
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NEW DELHI: Delhi police said on Friday they had sent notices to three people about the violence which erupted during the farmers’ protest in the national capital on Republic Day, according to details provided by Punjab authorities. The clarification from the Delhi police came after claims on social media that the notice regarding the violence…
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NEW DELHI: West Bengal’s prime minister, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) led by Mamata Banerjee, declared the names of 291 candidates for the 294-member state assembly on Friday. Banerjee would compete from Nandigram, the constituency of his former loyalist Suvendu Adhikari, who passed to the BJP in December last year. Banerjee has left its traditional Bhowanipore…
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NEW DELHI: The government on Friday rejected as “misleading, incorrect and misplaced” a report by a US-based think tank that downgraded India’s status as a “free country” to “partially free.” In a point-by-point rebuttal of the report, the broadcasting and information ministry cited India’s federal structure where free and fair elections are held in states…
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CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh lashed out at the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday for once again exposing its “true colors” on the issue of farm laws and farmers’ agitation leaving the House. before the resolution he was seeking, the repeal of the legislation was put to a vote. In a statement issued…
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