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Mumbai: Recycling of packaging material into something useful and lasting for the community is an initiative that represents the kind of sustainable thinking Mumbai needs, said Jeetendra V Pardeshi, Superintendent of Gardens, BMC. "Such partnerships can bring sustainability into public spaces, and the public can actively participate in this transformation," Pardeshi said on Thursday, about a set of garden benches, made entirely from recycled Tetra Pak cartons, that were donated to Patwardhan Pa ...Read More >
Lucknow: With Eid-ul-Azha on Saturday, the goat markets in the city are bustling with activities, with Muslims making a beeline to select a goat or two for the sacrifice, an obligatory ritual for those who can afford one.In Lucknow, the Bakra Mandis have come up at Joggers Park, Dubagga, Nimbu Park, Herding Bridge (Pakka Pul), Khurramnagar, and Moulviganj.Of these, Dubagga market has established itself as a prominent destination, offering an extensive collection of sacrificial goats up for grabs ...Read More >
Hyderabad: With the death of Santosh Nagar corporator Mohammed Muzaffar Hussain late on Wednesday due to cardiac arrest, five out of 150 divisions in Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) have now fallen vacant, most of them since 2023. The four other divisions are Gudimalkapur, Erragadda, Mehdipatnam, and Ramnaspura. While the corporators from Gudimalkapur and Erragadda died due to health complications, the elected representatives from Mehdipatnam and Shastripuram divisions became MLAs ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), considered the richest civic body in the country, tabled its budget of Rs 74,427 crore for 2025-26 at its headquarters in Mumbai on Tuesday. The additional municipal commissioners presented the budget to BMC commissioner Bhushan Gagrani, the state-appointed administrator. BMC is currently run by an administrator since the term of the corporators ended on March 7, 2022. This is the third year of the budget being presented to the administrator ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 3 (PTI) As the Delhi Assembly polls draw closer, AAP leader Satyendar Jain has said the people must decide whether they want to follow the governance model of developed nations like Sweden and France or end up like "failed states" such as Pakistan and Uganda. In an interview with PTI ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, Jain defended the AAP's welfare-driven policies, arguing that free healthcare, education and basic utilities are essential for national progress. "If we are wr ...Read More >
Mumbai: Bringing an end to the 10-day-long nail-biting haul since the Mahayuti's win in the Maharashtra elections, Devendra Fadnavis (54) will be sworn in as Chief Minister at Mumbai's historic Azad Maidan at 5.30 pm on Thursday, December 5. His swearing-in comes a day after he was elected leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) legislative party unit in the presence of party supremos. Devendra Fadnavis was born on July 22, 1970. His father, Gangadharrao Fadnavis, was a member of the Mahar ...Read More >
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari described politics as a "sea of unsatisfied souls," where individuals are often unhappy and aspire to higher positions than their current roles. Speaking at the launch of the book 50 Golden Rules of Life in Nagpur on Sunday, Gadkari reflected on the challenges inherent in various aspects of life. He remarked, "Life is a game of compromises, compulsions, limitations, and contradictions," emphasising the universality of struggles across family, social, political, and c ...Read More >
ROORKEE: Residents of Roorkee's Krishna Nagar Colony protested against persistent waterlogging on Lane 20 by putting up "On Sale" notices outside their houses and shops on Thursday. The road, which is around 60-foot-wide and connects around a dozen villages, has been plagued by waterlogging over a half-kilometre stretch for years due to the lack of a proper drainage system. Protesters announced a boycott of the upcoming urban local body (ULB) elections, accusing politicians of making "grand pr ...Read More >
Traffic management in the city is very poor and it needs to be addressed on priority, said Ivan D'Souza, MLC, and others at the monthly meeting of the Mangaluru City Corporation council on Thursday. Raising the matter, Naveen R. D'Souza, Congress member and a former Leader of the Opposition in the council, said that there is no proper traffic management at KPT and Nanthoor junctions. The public have not been informed whether the NHAI is building an underpass or an overpass at Nanthoor junction ...Read More >
"Sakhavu Pinarayikku abhivadyangal, ayiram ayiram abhivadyangal' (Salutations to Comrade Pinarayi, a thousand salutations)," cried party workers with red bandanas on their foreheads as the CM took to the makeshift stage. The CM then settled into his tried-and-tested mode of oratory, speaking slowly but coherently, occasionally looking at the paper in front of him, but mostly with his eyes toward the audience. He began listing the projects his administrations successfully implemented since 201 ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Once voting concludes for the four assembly bypolls in Punjab on Nov 20, incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) govt will brace for another high-stakes battle -- civic body elections in five key cities of the state. The party will be banking on its narrative of development works being carried out during its 2.5 years in power. Even though the Supreme Court had on Nov 11 asked state govt to complete the entire election process of the five corporations and 43 municipal councils in eight ...Read More >
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