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Prohibit use of children in any form during election campaign: NCPCR to poll authorities
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The apex child rights body NCPCR has asked poll authorities to prohibit use of children in the election campaign in...
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Cannot give postal ballot facility to overseas Indian voters: Government in Lok Sabha
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Postal ballot facility for eligible overseas Indian electors cannot be extended for the upcoming assembly polls as the matter is...
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EC orders Yogi government to suspend IAS officer for power misuse in Bengal polls
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission has ordered the suspension of an Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer who was deployed as an observer...
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EC criticises functioning of cops after bomb blast in Bengal’s Burdwan
By PTI
SILIGURI: The Election Commission on Tuesday criticised the functioning of the superintendent of police of Purba Burdwan following the death of a...
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684 companies of CAPF to be deployed in first phase of West Bengal polls 2021
By PTI
KOLKATA: The Election Commission will deploy at least 684 companies of CAPF in 10,288 booths spread in about 7,034 premises in five...
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Bengal polls: Jhargram’s elderly woman casts first vote through doorstep facility
By PTI
JHARGRAM: Eighty-two-year-old Basanti Shit in West Bengal's Jhargram district was among the first to have exercised her franchise in the assembly elections...
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Bengal polls: Another police observer arrives in state, Howrah SP removed
By PTI
KOLKATA: Another police observer for the assembly elections in West Bengal Anil Kumar Sharma arrived here on Wednesday to oversee preparedness for...
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Election Commission transfers senior Bengal cop as his wife contests polls
By PTI
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Wednesday transferred Superintendent of Police, Howrah (Rural) Saumya Roy to a non-election related post since his...
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EC proposal to link electoral roll with the Aadhaar under consideration: Govt in LS
The poll panel was then collecting Aadhaar number as part of its National Electoral Roll Purification and Authentication Programme (NERPAP).
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Election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala on April 12
By PTI
NEW DELHI: Election to three Rajya Sabha seats from Kerala falling vacant next month will be held on April 12, the Election...
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Now weapons will not be raised… 3 Naxalites including rewarded Naxalite surrendered, 685 Maoists have returned home
Dantewada. Influenced by the Lon Varatu (Come Back Home) campaign, 3 Maoists including 1 rewarder have laid down...