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Jagdeep Chhokar: A relentless pursuer of electoral and democratic reforms passes away
Since his retirement from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, he was co-founder of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR); besides, he had also been associated with ‘Aajeevika’ Bureau for over a decade, working on internal migration related issues
Bombs or guns, violence mars Bengal’s rural polls, now a 17-year-old boy dies in crude bomb explosion, 5 arrested
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In a familiar pattern that has continued over decades, a staggering 16 people have been killed in various incidents of political violence since the announcement of the rural poll schedule on June 8, barely a month ago. The panchayat elections are scheduled for Saturday July 8 with the counting on July 11.
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