Facebook Pixel EC flags down Bengal guv's poll-time trip | The Morning Standard - newspaper - Les denne historien på Magzter.com

Prøve GULL - Gratis

EC flags down Bengal guv's poll-time trip

The Morning Standard

|

April 18, 2024

THE Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday asked West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose to cancel his proposed two-day visit to the state's Cooch Behar district that was to start on the eve of election day, saying it would violate the Model Code of Conduct.

- MUKESH RANJAN

EC flags down Bengal guv's poll-time trip

Cooch Behar is among the three West Bengal constituencies voting in the first of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections on Friday. "Under the Model Code of Conduct and being poll day, no local programme can be organised for Honorable Governor, as proposed in his issued schedule," ECI said in its advisory to the governor's office.

FLERE HISTORIER FRA The Morning Standard

The Morning Standard

The Morning Standard

BJP names 9 candidates for RS polls, Nabin to contest from Bihar

List includes leaders with organisational influence; party chief to be leader of Upper House

time to read

2 mins

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

Mkt to stay under stress amid global sell-off, oil price surge

SELLING pressure in the Indian equity market is poised to continue over the next few sessions, mirroring a sharp plunge in global equities on Wednesday.

time to read

2 mins

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

'Now get clicked with tulips in city'

CM Rekha Gupta on Tuesday inaugurated the New Delhi Municipal Council’s four-day Flower Festival at Central Park in Connaught Place.

time to read

1 min

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

The Morning Standard

Unbeaten South Africa have edge, New Zealand spunk

AS winter gives way to summer, the weather is slowly changing in this part of the country.

time to read

1 mins

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

29 seats, 2 RS berths to Cong after PC meets Stalin to break stalemate

AMID a deadlock in seat-sharing talks between the DMK and the Congress, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram and TNCC president K Selvaperunthagai met Chief Minister and DMK president M K Stalin at his residence on Tuesday afternoon in an attempt to end the impasse.

time to read

1 min

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

Trump casts doubt on US-UK ‘special relationship’

DONALD Trump said the historical relationship between the United States and Britain is “not like it used to be”, amid a diplomatic bust-up over US-Israeli strikes on Iran.

time to read

1 min

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

The Morning Standard

LIKE A PRAYER

Miniaturist Olivia Fraser's new exhibition showcases meditative pieces, and an interior landscape that unfolds through geometry. The thousand-petalled lotus opens up in concentric precision, mountains resolve into ascending triangles, banana trees rise as vertical cadences.... A conversation with the artist on her pursuit of 'the essence'.

time to read

3 mins

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

7 hurt in LPG cylinder blast in Swaroop Nagar

AT LEAST seven people, including two children and three women, were injured after a small LPG cylinder exploded in a residential building in outer north Delhi’s Swaroop Nagar on Tuesday, police said.

time to read

1 min

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

The Morning Standard

W ASIA BURNS - AS BOTH SIDES GO FULL BLAST

THE West Asia war is showing no signs of abatement. Iran stepped up its attacks on economic targets and US missions across West Asia on Tuesday as President Donald Trump warned it was \"too late\" for the Islamic republic to seek talks.

time to read

1 mins

March 04, 2026

The Morning Standard

Hookah served in restaurants must attract 18-40% GST: AAR

THE West Bengal Authority for Advance Ruling (AAR) has ruled that hookah served in restaurants along with food will no longer attract the concessional 5% GST rate applicable to restaurant services, effectively increasing the tax incidence on such supplies to

time to read

1 min

March 04, 2026

Listen

Translate

Share

-
+

Change font size