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Injury to Mamata Banerjee was due to accident: Report by poll observers

The incident in Nandigram which caused injury to Mamata Banerjee was an accident and not a planned attack, according to the report of two poll observers submitted to the EC on Saturday

Puducherry: Rs 2 cr worth gold ornaments seized by election dept officials

Gold ornaments worth Rs 2 crore have been seized from a vehicle by election department officials at the border village of Gorimedu here

West Bengal polls: Suvendu Adhikari declares net worth of over Rs 80 lakh

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikary, who is pitted against his mentor Mamata Banerjee at Nandigram in the coming state election, has declared net worth of over Rs 80 lakh

Question is whether it was engineered: Shekhawat over 'attack' on Mamata

Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Saturday expressed doubt over the incident

Home Minister Amit Shah on 2-day visit to poll-bound West Bengal, Assam

Shah is set to attend various poll-related programmes

Kerala elections: Congress' Chenithalla to contest from Haripad Seat

Chenithalla announced that he would be contesting the upcoming state assembly elections from the Haripad constituency

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to hit campaign trail on wheelchair from Monday

Banerjee had sustained leg injuries during a poll campaign in Nandigram on Wednesday evening

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee calls on Trinamool veteran Sisir Adhikari

Chatterjee on Saturday met veteran Trinamool Congress MP Sisir Adhikari, the father of newly-inducted BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari

Puducherry: 2 former DMK ministers, 6 new faces in list released by party

Two former DMK ministers and six new faces, including two lawyers, have been named in the list of nominees for 12 of the 13 constituencies announced

Media speculation rises as BJP, Cong yet to announce names for Kerala polls

The Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are yet to announce their candidate lists for the upcoming Kerala Assembly polls

DMK announces 12 out of 13 candidates for Puducherry Assembly elections

The candidate for the Bagur constituency will be announced later

Kerala Cong (J) faction releases candidate list for assembly polls

The Kerala Congress (Joseph) group is an ally of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF)

West Bengal assembly polls: Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha joins TMC

Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha, a bitter critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi regime, on Saturday joined Trinamool Congress days ahead of the high- octane West Bengal assembly polls

Kerala polls: Cong will announce its candidates on Sunday, says Chandy

Congress leader and former Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy on Saturday said that the party will announce its list of candidates for Kerala Assembly polls on Sunday.

DMK chief's son, Udhayanidhi to make electoral debut, contest from Chennai

DMK chief MK Stalin's son, Udhayanidhi Stalin is all set to make his electoral debut in the upcoming assembly elections. He will be contesting from Chennai's Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni constituency

TN polls: Minister DC Srinivasan files nomination from Dindigul seat

Ahead of Assembly elections, Tamil Nadu Minister Dindigul C Srinivasan on Friday filed his nomination as the AIADMK candidate from the Dindigul constituency.

AIADMK no longer Jayalalithaa's party, turned into PM Modi's slave: Owaisi

AIADMK is no longer Jayalalithaa's party, and has 'unfortunately' turned into PM Modi's slave, said AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi

Assam polls: EC seizes cash, liquor, other items worth Rs 31.81 crore

Cash amounting to Rs 8.80 crores, liquor worth Rs 7.68 crores and gold and silver ornaments valued at Rs 1.46 crores have been seized in the state, the Election Commission said on Friday

BJP meets to finalise candidates for polls in Kerala, TN, Puducherry

A meeting was held at BJP chief JP Nadda's residence in to discuss the strategy and finalise candidates for the upcoming assembly elections

Kerala assembly polls: IUML fields woman candidate after 25 years

After 25 years, the Indian Union Muslim League the main alliance partner of UDF fielded a woman candidate in the Kerala Assembly polls as the party declared the list of 25 candidates