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  Exit Poll predicts BJP likely to form govt in Bengal

  April 30, 2021 13:25 IST

  The marathon eight-phase assembly elections in West Bengal is over and now all eyes are on May 2 when the votes will be counted. The over month-long elections in Bengal witnessed high-pitched and acerbic campaigning from both the ruling Trinamool Congress and the prime challenger Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While top leaders of the BJP, including PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah, have repeatedly express confidence of the saffron party winning more than 200 seats, CM Mamata Banerjee has also exuded confidence of retaining power in the state where her TMC had dethroned the Left in 2011 for the first time.

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  Mamata Banerjee or Suvendu Adhikari - Who will win Nandigram?

  April 30, 2021 13:17 IST

  Battle of Nandigram is touted to be the mother of all election contests with Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee locked in an intense challenge against her former close aide Suvendu Adhikari, who contested the election as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.

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  Bengal Exit Polls Result: India TV-Peoples Pulse suggest BJP may form govt in Bengal

  April 30, 2021 8:13 IST

  Incumbent CM Mamata Banerjee eyes to fend off an emerging BJP and Congress-Left-ISF alliance from toppling her 10-year Bengal rule.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: 52 per cent voter turnout recorded till 1.30 pm in 35 assembly seats

  April 29, 2021 13:53 IST

  The 35 constituencies are spread across four districts. Among these, six are in Malda, eleven in Birbhum, eleven in Murshidabad and seven in Kolkata.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Amid spike in coronavirus case, polling for last phase under in Kolkata

  April 29, 2021 11:21 IST

  The eighth and final phase of voting is being held in Bengal today amid the growing menace of Covid that is spreading fast in the state. The election is being held on 35 seats lying across Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum and Kolkata.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Voting for the final phase begins; 35 seats in the fray

  April 29, 2021 8:19 IST

  In the last phase of the West Bengal assembly elections, 8,493,255 people spread across 35 Assembly constituencies are expected to exercise their franchise to elect their representatives from a total of 283 candidates.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Which way will bengal's ‘bhadralok’ vote swing? watch ground report

  April 26, 2021 23:08 IST

  The bigger question for the BJP, however, is whether it can breach Mamata’s Kolkata fort this time. The city has 11 assembly constituencies, all of which are going to polls in the last two phases on April 26 and 29.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Mamata Banerjee Casts Her Vote, says 'TMC will win'

  April 26, 2021 19:37 IST

  Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday cast her vote at a polling booth in south Kolkata's Bhabanipur. Banerjee, a resident of Harish Chatterjee Street, exercised her franchise at a polling booth in Mitra Institution school around 3:50 pm. On a wheelchair, she briefly paused before photojournalists while coming out amid shouts of "Didi, Didi", before boarding her car. She also showed a victory sign towards the cameras.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: 18 per cent voter turnout recorded till 10 am in 34 assembly seats

  April 26, 2021 11:46 IST

  Voting in 34 constituencies spread across five districts of West Bengal began at 7 am on Monday for the seventh phase of the Assembly elections. A total of 268 candidates, including 37 women are in the fray in this phase of the West Bengal elections. The phase will witness an intense battle in six constituencies in Dakshin Dinajpur, six in Malda, nine in Murshidabad, nine in Paschim Bardhaman and four in Kolkata.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Voting continues on 34 seats in 5 districts, all eyes on Bhawanipur

  April 26, 2021 11:29 IST

  Voting in 34 constituencies spread across five districts of West Bengal began at 7 am on Monday for the seventh phase of the Assembly elections. A total of 268 candidates, including 37 women are in the fray in this phase of the West Bengal elections. The phase will witness an intense battle in six constituencies in Dakshin Dinajpur, six in Malda, nine in Murshidabad, nine in Paschim Bardhaman and four in Kolkata. Over 81.88 lakh electorates, including 39.87 lakh women and 221 third gender persons, would be casting their votes at as many as 11,376 polling stations.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Voting for 7th phase begins across 34 constituencies

  April 26, 2021 8:38 IST

  The Election Commission has deployed 26 general observers, 9 expenditure observers and 6 police observers for the 7th phase of polls. There will be webcasting facilities in 50 per cent of the booths and micro-observers will be deployed in 20 per cent of the booths.

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  Congress demands one nation, one price for coronavirus vaccines

  April 25, 2021 14:51 IST

  Covaxin, India's indigeniously developmed coronavirus vaccine, will be sold at Rs 600 per dose for state hospitals and Rs 1,200 per dose for private hospitals, vaccine maker Bharat Biotech has informed.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Bengal to go for 7th phase of the election, Who will win the battle of Bhabanipur?

  April 24, 2021 23:24 IST

  Bhabanipur is one of the four seats from Kolkata that will be voting in phase seven. Apart from that, there are six seats from Dakshin Dinajpur district, six from Malda, 11 from Murshidabad, and nine seats from Pashchim Bardhaman district, that are up for polls in the seventh phase of West Bengal Assembly elections.

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  Watch Naveen Jindal Speaks about the Oxygen Shortage Crisis in the Country

  April 23, 2021 20:55 IST

  In an Exclusive interaction with India TV Naveen Jindal, Chairman of Jindal Steel & Power limited (JSPL) speaks about the ongoing situation of the Oxygen Shortage Crisis in the Country amid Covid 19 Second Wave.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: PM Modi addresses virtually rally in amid surge in covid-19

  April 23, 2021 18:43 IST

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the ongoing assembly elections in West Bengal are not just for changing the regime but for an optimistic state as he addressed a virtual rally for people in Suri, Malda, Berhampore and Bhawanipur.

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  WB polls: Voting begins at 'pink' polling booth in Raiganj

  April 22, 2021 10:48 IST

  The voting finally, began at 'pink' polling booth at Raiganj Coronation High School in Uttar Dinajpur on April 22 as it got delayed due to some technical issue. People queued up to exercise their right since 7 am.

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  WB polls: BJP national vice president Mukul Roy casts his vote

  April 22, 2021 10:46 IST

  Voting for the sixth phase of West Bengal elections is underway on April 22. BJP national vice president Mukul Roy cast his vote at booth number 141 at Kanchrapara Municipal Polytechnic High School, in Kanchrapara of North 24 Parganas. Eight-phased Bengal polls will conclude on April 29.

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  WB polls: BJP State vice president Arjun Singh casts his vote

  April 22, 2021 10:44 IST

  The voting for the sixth phase of West Bengal polls is underway on April 22. West Bengal BJP vice president Arjun Singh cast his vote at booth number 144 in Jagatdal. His son and party's candidate from Bhatpara, Pawan Singh also cast his vote at the polling station. Eight-phased Bengal polls will conclude on April 29.

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  Bengal Polls 2021: Voting for the sixth phase of West Bengal Elections begins

  April 22, 2021 8:07 IST

  The polling began for 43 seats in sixth phase of assembly elections in West Bengal amid tight security. In this phase election will be conducted in nine constituencies each in North Dinajpur and Nadia districts, 17 in North 24 Parganas and eight in East Burdwan where 10,409,948 electorate will decide the fate of 306 candidates among which 27 candidates are female

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  Chunav Dhamaka | Mamata Banerjee writes to PM Modi, Says- ​Centre's vaccine policy hollow, without substance

  April 20, 2021 21:25 IST

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, hitting out at the Centre's new vaccine policy and terming it "hollow, without substance and a regrettable show" of evasion of responsibility.