INDIA bloc will sweep Chandigarh municipal polls: AAP leader Raghav Chadha

INDIA bloc will sweep Chandigarh municipal polls: AAP leader Raghav Chadha

AAP leader Raghav Chadha addresses a press conference, in New Delhi, on January 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The INDIA bloc will sweep the Chandigarh municipal polls and the win will be the curtain raiser for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, AAP leader and Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha said on January 16. The … Read more

Outsourced municipal workers to stall strike temporarily

Outsourced municipal workers to stall strike temporarily

Outsourced municipal employees staging a semi-naked protest for their demands, at Dharna Chowk in Vijayawada on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: K.V.S Giri Outsourced municipal workers’ leaders have announced that they will temporarily stall the Statewide indefinite strike, which continued for 16 days from December 26, as their talks with Special Chief Secretary, Municipal Administration and … Read more

Municipal workers’ strike hits sanitation on ghats in Vijayawada during Bhavani Deeksha relinquishment

Municipal workers’ strike hits sanitation on ghats in Vijayawada during Bhavani Deeksha relinquishment

Discarded robes lay in heaps at Seethamma ghat in Vijayawada on Thursday afternoon as the second day of relinquishing Bhavani Deeksha saw a lot of devotee rush. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI Sanitation and maintenance of the ghats during the five-day Bhavani Deeksha relinquishment in Vijayawada have been hit by the ongoing State-wide strike by … Read more

Odisha train tragedy: All 28 unclaimed bodies cremated by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation

Odisha train tragedy: All 28 unclaimed bodies cremated by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation

Derailed coaches of the Coromandal express are seen on its accident spot at Bahanaga railway station in Balasore district of Odisha. File photo. | Photo Credit: BISWARANJAN ROUT The process for the cremation of 28 unclaimed bodies of people who were killed in thetriple train accident in Odisha’s Balasore district four months ago was completed … Read more

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation unearths 1810 stepwell in Gudimalkapur; plans to restore it

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation unearths 1810 stepwell in Gudimalkapur; plans to restore it

An earthmover at work inside the deep stepwell, in Gudimalkapur area, that is being restored by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, in Hyderabad, on August 30, 2023. | Photo Credit: G. Ramakrishna A stepwell that lay buried for decades is being cleaned up and restored near the Gudimalkapur area by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. … Read more

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation to slap ₹10K on pet dog owners for violation of norms

Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation to slap ₹10K on pet dog owners for violation of norms

 Pet dog owners in the city may have to keep their pets under control. File image for representation. | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar It seems like the days of carefree pet ownership in Bhubaneswar are numbered. Pet dog owners in the city may have to keep their pets under control, otherwise they may have … Read more

Kamareddy Municipal Council passes unanimous resolution cancelling draft Master Plan

Kamareddy Municipal Council passes unanimous resolution cancelling draft Master Plan

In a move that is likely to pacify the farmers facing the looming threat of loss of their agricultural land in the proposed expansion of the town, the Municipal Council of Kamareddy, under the chairmanship of Chairperson Nittu Jahnavi, passed a resolution cancelling the draft master plan. The emergency meeting held at the Council Hall … Read more

Delhi MCD election live updates | 18% voter turnout recorded till 12 p.m. across the 250 municipal wards in the Capital

Delhi MCD election live updates | 18% voter turnout recorded till 12 p.m. across the 250 municipal wards in the Capital

Over 1.45 crore electors will decide the fate of 1,349 candidates today in the first civic polls since the merger of the three erstwhile municipal corporations — North, South and East — in May, and after the total number of municipal wards were reduced to 250 from the previous total of 272.. The high-stakes poll … Read more

Delhi MCD election live updates | Voting begins for 250 municipal wards in the National Capital

Delhi MCD election live updates | Voting begins for 250 municipal wards in the National Capital

Security personnel at a polling booth ahead of MCD elections at Gole Market in New Delhi on December 3, 2022. | Photo Credit: PTI Over 1.45 crore electors will decide the fate of 1,349 candidates today in the first civic polls since the merger of the three erstwhile municipal corporations — North, South and East … Read more