Voting for 45 assembly seats will be held in West Bengal on Saturday under Phase 5 of the assembly election during which voters will seal fate of 342 candidates. Phase five of the West Bengal Assembly election 2021 is being held today. Polling in phase 5 of the West Bengal Assembly election 2021 started from 7 am and will continue till 6:30 pm. The polling in phase 5 of West Bengal Assembly election 2021 is being held on 45 seats spread across North 24 Parganas, Purba Bardhaman, Nadia, Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling and Kalimpong. Phase five is crucial for the ruling Trinamool…
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In Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Friday said that if things of infiltration continues in Bengal, it’ll pose a threat to the whole country. “Shouldn’t we stop infiltration in Bengal? Infiltrators deduct jobs of our youth, snatch away foodgrain of the poor,” he said during a poll rally. Meanwhile, an FIR has been lodged against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that her speech instigating voters to ‘gherao’ central forces within the state had ultimately led to the violent incident in Cooch Behar, where four villagers were shot dead by CISF personnel at a booth , PTI reported.…
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Friday. The Chief Minister’s Office informed that he are going to be shifted to Manipal hospital from Ramaiah Memorial hospital where he was admitted earlier within the day. As Uttar Pradesh struggles to curb the daily rise in cases, the Yogi Adityanath government has imposed a lockdown on Sundays across all districts. the govt has also said that a fine of Rs 1,000 are going to be imposed on those found occupation public places without masks. In yet one more daily high, India, within the last 24 hours,…
BJP president JP Nadda on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of being “anti-Dalit” for not yet condemning a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader’s derogatory comment about people from Scheduled Caste (SC) communities. “Today is Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s 130th birth anniversary. Recently, a TMC leader used a derogatory remark against Dalit brothers that I can’t say here. i’m sad to ascertain that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is yet to condemn it. this is often nothing but the TMC’s anti-Dalit face,” Nadda said at an occasion in urban area . Sujata Mondal Khan, the TMC candidate from Arambagh in Hooghly district,…
A bike rally, led by BJP’s Baranagar candidate Parno Mittra, was allegedly attacked by TMC supporters on Wednesday afternoon as campaigning for the fifth phase came to an end. “Our procession was attacked during a planned manner. Every day, TMC workers were trying to disrupt our campaign by chanting the ‘go back’ slogan. However, we never skilled their provocation. Today, was the Judgment Day of the campaigning and TMC supporters attacked our people. Several of them were beaten up badly. They even tried to attack me and my vehicle,” said Mittra. “It was a peaceful rally. there have been no…
https://twitter.com/UnSubtleDesi/status/1381625021546725378?s=20 The Kanpur unit of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) has displayed offensive ‘sar tan se juda’ posters calling for the public execution of Dasna Devi Temple head priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati for his remarks about Prophet Muhammad. Kanpur Police responded to the incident on Twitter on April 16. It acknowledged the incident’s occurrence. They stated that on April 12, 2021, Chamanganj police had filed a FIR against the miscreants in Kanpur. They went on to say that IPC sections 153 A and 295 A had been invoked in the case, and that police were on the lookout for the…
India is now runs low on vaccines as cases surge in the world’s second-most populous country. On Thursday, India surpassed 200,000 daily infections for the first time, and is attempting to immunize a larger portion of its population with domestically produced vaccines. Faced with a surge in cases and overcrowded hospitals following the relaxation of lockdown restrictions, it also abruptly changed the rules to allow it to expedite vaccine imports, despite previously rejecting foreign drug makers such as Pfizer. It will begin importing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine this month, with the goal of covering up to 125 million people. The…
For the second consecutive day, India has reported more than two lake COVID-19 infected cases. In totality, India records 2,17,353 daily coronavirus cases as the country grapples with shortages of hospital beds, oxygen, medicines and vaccine doses. The fresh cases in the deadly second wave took the total caseload to over 1.42 crore. Maharashtra, the country’s worst-affected state, reported 61,695 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total to 36,39,855, while 349 new fatalities brought the total to 59,153. The state is under curfew until the end of April. Maharashtra is followed by the southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and…
After West Bengal plunged into chaos and five people were killed, including four in CISF firing, during the fourth phase of polling in Cooch Behar district, Governor Dhankhar on Sunday said those in authority must ensure respect for constitutional institutions and central forces engaged in public duty. “People in authority must show statesmanship & ensure respect for constitutional institutions & CAPF engaged publicly duty,” tweeted the Governor. Earlier , West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee described the incident of firing as “genocide” and claimed that the tragedy was the “result of a conspiracy” hatched by the saffron party to intimidate…
India’s drug regulator has granted permission for restricted emergency use of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V with certain conditions, the Union Health Ministry announced on Tuesday, while stating that Dr Reddy’s Laboratories will import the vaccine to be used within the country. The approval by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) paves the way for a 3rd vaccine to be available within the country. The approval came after the topic Expert Committee (SEC) on COVID-19 of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) on Monday recommended granting approval to Sputnik V for restricted emergency use subject to certain…