After making landfall and causing panic in Odisha, on Friday, Cyclone Fani has entered West Bengal on Saturday. This is one of the strongest storms to batter the Indian subcontinent in ten years. Odisha reported 12 deaths due to the cyclone, so far.
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The Left Front, on Tuesday, announced its list of candidates for 38 seats in West Bengal, leaving the four seats – Berhampore, Jangipur, Malda Uttar and Malda Dakshin, which were won by Congress in 2014, once again keeping the door open for seat sharing with the party.
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The Left Front has, for the first time, opted for a seat-sharing deal with the Congress for the Lok Sabha election. Earlier, it had entered into a seat-sharing deal with the party for the state assembly polls, which had failed to evoke mass support.
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The leader of All India Trinamool Congress and West Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee announced the list of 42 party candidates for the Lok Sabha election. Out of the 42 candidates, 17 are women, which is 41% of the total number of candidates.
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The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has launched internal as well as external surveys to access winnability of seats and candidates. The BJP is hoping to win over 23 of 42 Lok Sabha seats in the upcoming general election.
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The Supreme Court, on Tuesday, hearing petitions seeking a CBI investigation into alleged political murders in West Bengal, raised questions on the prevailing situation in the state.
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The tanneries in UP, which had been ailing and ordered to be shut down during the Kumbh so that the Ganga water isn’t polluted when it reaches Prayagraj, are now beginning to shift to Bengal, where they had been recently welcomed with open arms by the state government.
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Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader from West Bengal and former Trinamool Congress secretary Mukul Roy has been booked in connection with the murder of TMC member of legislative assembly Satyajit Biswas in Nadia district of West Bengal.
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Following the “Mamata Banerjee vs Centre” row and the subsequent Supreme Court ruling, Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar arrived in Shillong to present himself for questioning before the CBI in connection with the Saradha chit-fund scam.
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