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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has leveled serious accusations against the Election Commission. She claims the EC, in league with the BJP, is deliberately removing 1.5 crore voters from Bengal's electoral roll KOLKATA: CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Election Commission, which she said is being led by "Vanish Kumar babus", of conniving with "BJP khokababus" to delete the names of 1.5...

PUNE: The fate of 57 local bodies in Maharashtra - 39 won by Mahayuti, 17 by MVA, and one by others - awaits SC's verdict on Jan 21 as these are among the 288 municipal councils and nagar panchayats where the combined quota for scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and backward classes exceeds 50%.Acting on several petitions challenging the breach of quota limit, the apex court on Nov 29 said the...

CHENNAI: Leader of the Opposition Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday condemned the detention of nurses who were protesting for the regularisation of services and a pay hike, and sought their immediate release.Palaniswami, in a social media post, said the nurses were agitating for over four years, demanding that the DMK govt fulfil its poll promise - no 356 - to absorb them as regular employees. He also...

Candidates in Mumbai's R North ward face challenges including depleted mangrove cover and a polluted river, alongside issues of poor walkability and delayed hospital inauguration MUMBAI: Rapidly depleting mangrove cover and a once-glorious river now reduced to a nullah pose a dual challenge for candidates keen to contest in the R North ward. Located at the northernmost tip of the city, the areas of...

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress claimed on Monday that the govt had pushed for a discussion on 'Vande Mataram' in the Parliament only with an eye on West Bengal elections, calling BJP's commitment to the national song a "badly scripted comedy".With BJP making a determined bid to unseat CM Mamata Banerjee, TMC MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Mahua Moitra slammed the party for its "divisive" politics and...