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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Is Kamala Harris' Running Mate
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America's heartland to help win over rural, white voters, said peo
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Xochitl Galvez, Former Candy Seller, Is Mexico Opposition's President Pick
As a child growing up in a poor rural town, Xochitl Galvez sold homemade candy to help her family. Now she is a successful entrepreneur hoping to be Mexico's first woman president.
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Congress MP Writes To Mamata Banerjee Over Threat To Rural Poll Winners
Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requesting her "urgent intervention to stop the intimidation and abduction of the elected opposition candidates prior to the formation of Panchayat boards".
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From "Eating" Votes To Ballot Box Relay Race: Bizarre Bengal Polls Scenes
The panchayat elections in West Bengal, though marred by violent clashes between rivals, also featured bizarre acts by candidates desperate to win and unwilling to accept defeat.
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Bengal Rural Polls: Body Of BJP Candidate's Brother-In-Law Found
Amid the violence in the run-up to the July 8 panchayat polls in West Bengal, the body of a BJP candidate's brother-in-law was found in the Cooch Behar district.
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Sarpanch Candidates In Odisha Appear For Entrance Test Before Rural Polls
Days ahead of the three-tier panchayat polls in Odisha, residents of a tribal-dominated village in Sundergarh district reportedly organised "oral and written entrance tests" for all the sarpanch candidates to boost their confidence.
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"In Politics, One Must Accept Challenges": Governor-Turned-BJP Candidate
BJP's Agra rural seat candidate Baby Rani Maurya today said that the party was confident of winning all nine assembly seats in Agra.
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Election Commission Transfers Top Bengal Cop As Wife Set To Contest Polls
The Election Commission on Wednesday transferred Superintendent of Police, Howrah (Rural) Saumya Roy to a non-election related post since his wife has been declared Trinamool Congress's candidate for Sonarpur Dakshin assembly seat.
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Election Commission Removes Cop After Trinamool Makes His Wife Candidate
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday removed Superintendent of Police of Howrah (Rural) Soumya Roy after his wife became a candidate of the ruling Trinamool Congress for the assembly elections in West Bengal, an official said.
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People With More Than 2 Kids Can't Contest Uttarakhand Panchayat Polls
People with more than two children cannot contest panchayat polls in Uttarakhand as the state Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to this effect which also made minimum educational qualifications mandatory for rural election candidates.
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Election 2019: "Khiladi vs Khiladi": Olympian Krishna Poonia On Rajyavardhan Rathore
Olympian Krishna Poonia, the Congress candidate who is pitted against another Olympian, the BJP's Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, in Jaipur Rural was confident of winning the seat in the fifth round of the national election.
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51 Seats Vote Today, Rahul Gandhi's Amethi Test: Your 5-Point Guide
The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election witnesses several high-stake battles between the BJP and opposition parties, with people from 51 Lok Sabha constituencies across seven states casting their votes today to form the next government. The foremost among them is Amethi, where Congress president Rahul Gandhi will try to hold his own against the B...
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Congress Fields Olympian Krishna Poonia From Jaipur Rural Seat
The Congress on Monday fielded Olympian discus thrower Krishna Poonia from the Jaipur Rural constituency as it released another list of nine candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
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Named Chandrababu Naidu's Party Candidate, With YSR Congress Hours Later
Hours after being named as the party candidate for the Nellore (Rural) Assembly seat, former minister Adala Prabhakar Reddy shocked the ruling TDP by switching over to the opposition YSR Congress on Saturday.
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Manvendra Singh's Wife Confident Of His Win In Rajasthan's Jhalrapatan
Chitra Singh, the wife of Congress candidate in Jhalrapatan seat Manvendra Singh, has said it would be a tough fight in the home turf of Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje, but expressed confidence that he would emerge victorious. She has been intensively campaigning along with her husband in urban and rural areas of the constituency, which Ms Raje has ...
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Is Kamala Harris' Running Mate
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, choosing a progressive policy champion and a plain speaker from America's heartland to help win over rural, white voters, said peo
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Xochitl Galvez, Former Candy Seller, Is Mexico Opposition's President Pick
As a child growing up in a poor rural town, Xochitl Galvez sold homemade candy to help her family. Now she is a successful entrepreneur hoping to be Mexico's first woman president.
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Congress MP Writes To Mamata Banerjee Over Threat To Rural Poll Winners
Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requesting her "urgent intervention to stop the intimidation and abduction of the elected opposition candidates prior to the formation of Panchayat boards".
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From "Eating" Votes To Ballot Box Relay Race: Bizarre Bengal Polls Scenes
The panchayat elections in West Bengal, though marred by violent clashes between rivals, also featured bizarre acts by candidates desperate to win and unwilling to accept defeat.
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Bengal Rural Polls: Body Of BJP Candidate's Brother-In-Law Found
Amid the violence in the run-up to the July 8 panchayat polls in West Bengal, the body of a BJP candidate's brother-in-law was found in the Cooch Behar district.
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Sarpanch Candidates In Odisha Appear For Entrance Test Before Rural Polls
Days ahead of the three-tier panchayat polls in Odisha, residents of a tribal-dominated village in Sundergarh district reportedly organised "oral and written entrance tests" for all the sarpanch candidates to boost their confidence.
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"In Politics, One Must Accept Challenges": Governor-Turned-BJP Candidate
BJP's Agra rural seat candidate Baby Rani Maurya today said that the party was confident of winning all nine assembly seats in Agra.
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Election Commission Transfers Top Bengal Cop As Wife Set To Contest Polls
The Election Commission on Wednesday transferred Superintendent of Police, Howrah (Rural) Saumya Roy to a non-election related post since his wife has been declared Trinamool Congress's candidate for Sonarpur Dakshin assembly seat.
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Election Commission Removes Cop After Trinamool Makes His Wife Candidate
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday removed Superintendent of Police of Howrah (Rural) Soumya Roy after his wife became a candidate of the ruling Trinamool Congress for the assembly elections in West Bengal, an official said.
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People With More Than 2 Kids Can't Contest Uttarakhand Panchayat Polls
People with more than two children cannot contest panchayat polls in Uttarakhand as the state Assembly has unanimously passed a bill to this effect which also made minimum educational qualifications mandatory for rural election candidates.
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Election 2019: "Khiladi vs Khiladi": Olympian Krishna Poonia On Rajyavardhan Rathore
Olympian Krishna Poonia, the Congress candidate who is pitted against another Olympian, the BJP's Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, in Jaipur Rural was confident of winning the seat in the fifth round of the national election.
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51 Seats Vote Today, Rahul Gandhi's Amethi Test: Your 5-Point Guide
The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha election witnesses several high-stake battles between the BJP and opposition parties, with people from 51 Lok Sabha constituencies across seven states casting their votes today to form the next government. The foremost among them is Amethi, where Congress president Rahul Gandhi will try to hold his own against the B...
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Congress Fields Olympian Krishna Poonia From Jaipur Rural Seat
The Congress on Monday fielded Olympian discus thrower Krishna Poonia from the Jaipur Rural constituency as it released another list of nine candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
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Named Chandrababu Naidu's Party Candidate, With YSR Congress Hours Later
Hours after being named as the party candidate for the Nellore (Rural) Assembly seat, former minister Adala Prabhakar Reddy shocked the ruling TDP by switching over to the opposition YSR Congress on Saturday.
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Manvendra Singh's Wife Confident Of His Win In Rajasthan's Jhalrapatan
Chitra Singh, the wife of Congress candidate in Jhalrapatan seat Manvendra Singh, has said it would be a tough fight in the home turf of Chief Minister Vasundhra Raje, but expressed confidence that he would emerge victorious. She has been intensively campaigning along with her husband in urban and rural areas of the constituency, which Ms Raje has ...
