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Former chief minister J Jayalithaa often campaigned from her campaign vehicle, with her close aide V K Sasikala seated in the back, watching as constituents and media gathered around her van. Sasikala has now moved to the front.Evoking memories of Jayalalithaa’s roadshows, Sasikala delivers short speeches from her van at key constituencies in south Tamil…
Project Crucial For Parts Of MP & UP: Officials BHOPAL: Hundreds of tribal farmers, mostly women, lay on mock funeral pyres in MP’s Chhatarpur district on Thursday during a protest against the proposed Ken-Betwa river linking project, signalling their resolve to oppose it till their last breath.In viral images, women, many holding small children, lay…
KOLKATA: The RG Kar rape-murder victim’s mother, a BJP candidate in West Bengal, once again used her saree to convey a message – this time wearing one inscribed with ‘Shaktirupena Sangsthita (embodiment of strength)’ – as she filed her nomination Thursday. She had earlier drawn attention by campaigning in a saree imprinted with the slogan…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s favourite ‘maachh-bhaat’ filled the poll plate on Thursday as PM Narendra Modi accused Trinamool Congress of failing to feed the piscine-loving state enough fish, seeking to turn on its head a debate triggered by CM Mamata Banerjee’s party portraying BJP as being “anti-non-vegetarian”. In Haldia, where he addressed the first of his three…
KOLKATA: Shamsherganj and Lalgola constituencies of Bengal’s Muslim-dominant Murshidabad district had the highest number of voters removed from the electoral rolls after post-SIR judicial adjudication, while the Purulia-Jhargram tribal belt reported the least deletions, based on collated Election Commission data released on Thursday. The figures for Murshidabad – 74,775 deletions out of 1,08,400 names that…
KOLKATA/RANAGHAT: A 97-year-old Partition refugee who never missed a vote is struck off the rolls. A 72-year-old retired teacher who presided over a dozen polls is deleted despite papers. A 68-year-old collapsed and died in a tribunal queue. Fallout from SIR has rippled across Bengal. Subarna Bala Poddar, born in undivided Bengal and displaced in…
PUNE/MUMBAI: Just an hour was left for withdrawal of nominations on Thursday when the Congress finally responded to requests from the Pawar family and the Mahayuti partners and dropped its candidate against NCP chief and deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar in the Baramati bye-election. Twenty-two independent candidates still remain in the contest, but now there…
NEW DELHI: India is well placed to weather the current global energy shocks as risks are “cushioned by ample buffers” including high forex reserves, fiscal space and a well-capitalised banking system, World Bank said Thursday, while projecting average growth of 7.1% during FY28-FY29. The assessment comes a day after the multilateral lender raised its FY27…
As CWC meets today, Stalin slams Centre’s women quota moveNEW DELHI: Congress Working Committee (CWC) will meet on Friday to discuss the party’s stance on BJP-led govt’s proposed amendments to the women’s reservation law, even as opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam head and Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin launched a scathing criticism of the…
Record voter turnouts were seen in assembly polls in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry on Thursday, with Election Commission officials describing it as a “validation” of special intensive revision and special revision of electoral rolls and a sign of people’s “unflinching trust in the electoral process”. Polling surged past previous peaks – reaching all-time highs of…
