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Sharad Pawar indicated a potential shift in strained ties with his nephew Ajit Pawar's NCP, stating local leaders will decide on alliances for Maharashtra's local body polls. The two factions have already agreed to jointly contest elections for the Chandgad municipal council, marking a significant development after their 2023 split. Pune, NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said local leaders will decide on whether to ally with the NCP, headed by his nephew and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, for the ...Read More >
Further, Rs 4.698 crore from the withheld portion of the first instalment of the Untied Grant for the Financial Year 2024-25 has also been released to an additional 26 eligible Block Panchayats. The Centre has released over Rs 223 crore under Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV FC) Grants during Financial Year 2025-26 for Rural Local Bodies in Assam. "This entails the second instalment of Untied Grants for the Financial Year 2024-25, amounting to Rs 219.24 crores. These funds are intended for all ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14: The Centre has released over Rs 223 crore to bolster rural local bodies in Assam under the 15th Finance Commission grants for the financial year 2025-26, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj on Friday. This includes the second instalment of untied grants for 2024-25, amounting to Rs 219.24 crore. The funds have been allocated to all eligible 27 District Panchayats, 182 Block Panchayats and 2,192 Gram Panchayats across the state. Additionally, Rs ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) The Union government has released Fifteenth Finance Commission (XV FC) grants during the financial year 2025-26 for rural local bodies in Assam, the Panchayati Raj Ministry said in a statement. The ministry said it entails the second instalment of untied grants of the financial year 2024-25 amounting to Rs 219.24 crore. These funds are for all eligible 27 district panchayats, all eligible 182 block panchayats and all eligible 2,192 gram panchayats of the state. Further, ...Read More >
Silchar: In a joint anti-narcotics operation, police and the Assam Rifles on Monday seized 20,000 Yaba tablets, valued at around Rs 6 crore, and arrested a man from Silchar's Changkuri Bypass area.Acting on a tip-off, a team from Silchar Sadar Police Station and the 38 Battalion of Assam Rifles, Srikona, intercepted the suspect in the afternoon and recovered the contraband from his possession. The accused has been identified as Rahul Amin (33), a resident of Panchayat Road in Silchar.The search, ...Read More >
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) The upcoming Kerala local body elections, to be held in two phases on December 9 and 11, are shaping up as a battle between anti-incumbency and incumbency, a test of whether public discontent over controversies will outweigh the Left government's claims of welfare-driven governance. For the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), which controls five of the six corporations and a majority of local bodies, the elections are a bid to reaffirm its political d ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday said recurrence of dog bite incidents, particularly within institutional areas, reflected not only administrative apathy but also a "systemic failure" to secure these premises from preventable hazards. The apex court directed forthwith relocation of stray canines from institutional areas like educational institutions, hospitals, railway stations and bus stand to designated shelters after due sterilisation and vaccination in accordance with the ...Read More >
PATNA: The Patna district administration has registered a first information report (FIR) against Union minister of panchayati raj and senior Janata Dal-United (JD-U) leader Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh for allegedly asking his supporters to confine the Opposition leaders to their homes on polling day while campaigning for jailed party candidate Anant Singh in assembly poll-bound Bihar's Mokama constituency on Monday. Officials said the case was filed under relevant sections of the Bhara ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Oct 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Congress-led government in Karnataka, on Thursday, continued the crackdown on government staffers for identifying with the Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and taking part in foot marches across the state. The development of notices being issued to four teachers from Aurad taluk in Bidar district in the state for participating in an RSS foot march by authorities has come to light. The Aurad Block Education Officer (BEO) issued the notices asking them to e ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Oct 30 (PTI) The Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (KSAT) has stayed the "arbitrary suspension" of a Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) for taking part in an RSS route march, BJP MP Tejasvi Surya said on Thursday. The Bengaluru South MP, who is also a lawyer by profession, said his law office had challenged the suspension of Lungasugur PDO Praveen Kumar in Raichur district. "My law office had challenged the arbitrary suspension of PDO Praveen Kumar K P for participating in th ...Read More >
After the announcement of SIR in Bengal on Monday by ECI, an all-party meeting has been called by the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (WB- CEO) office on Tuesday at 4PM, where all national and state-level political parties will be participating. Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress leadership said that they will abide by the Constitution and there is no place for violence. However, they will not allow a single legal voter's name to be deleted from the electoral list and take the movement to Delh ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 28 (ANI): Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and BJP's candidate from Tarapur, Samrat Choudhary, asked the Mahagathbandhan to declare the source of expenditure and the budget for the poll promise to provide government jobs to one member of every family in the state. As the Mahagathbandhan released its manifesto, making the promise, Choudhary asked the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) to apologise for alleged "anarchy" under the Lalu Prasad Yadav's regime in Bihar. "They shoul ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Oct 28 (PTI) In a setback to the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government, the Karnataka High Court on Tuesday stayed the state's order mandating that private organisations obtain prior permission before holding any activities in government-owned spaces. While the government order, issued earlier this month, did not specifically name RSS, the provisions of the order were said to be aimed at impacting the activities of the Hindu right wing organisation, including its route marches. Justi ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 28 (PTI) The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday said that the Supreme Court verdict allowing the prospective implementation of MGNREGA in West Bengal from August 1 this year is a "supreme blow" to the Centre and a victory for the poor people of the state. The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Centre's plea challenging the Calcutta High Court order, which directed that MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), the 100-day job guarantee scheme, be impleme ...Read More >
Pan-India SIR NEW DELHI: In a departure from norms followed during Bihar SIR, EC has dispensed with the need for electors to submit documents at enumeration stage of pan-India SIR exercise. No document is to be collected from electors during enumeration phase. An elector who could not be linked with previous SIR will be served a notice by electoral registration officer (ERO) to ascertain eligibility as per criteria laid down in Article 326 of the Constitution. The elector will be required to sub ...Read More >
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal government on Monday announced the transfer of over 500 bureaucrats amid the rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. In one of the largest reshuffles on a single day, 67 IAS and 460 West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) officers were transferred, according to a slew of notifications issued by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (P&AR) Department. The transfer notifications were dated October 24, even as they were upl ...Read More >
The Himachal Pradesh Cabinet on Saturday (October 25, 2025) decided to extend the terms of Mayors and Deputy Mayors of municipal corporations from two-and-a-half years to five years. The decision will benefit the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Shimla Municipal Corporation, whose two-and-a-half-year term is expiring in November 2025. Briefing media persons in Shimla, Industries Minister Harshwardhan Chauhan said a two-and-a-half-year term was raising apprehensions of horse-trading and pointed out th ...Read More >
Chennai: Converting govt-aided colleges into private universities will exclude the vast majority of students from economically and socially disadvantaged groups from accessing quality higher education, say educationists.The Tamil Nadu Private Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2025 allowed the govt-aided colleges to be converted as private universities and relaxed the land requirement norms to establish private universities in urban areas. After facing opposition from teacher associations and politi ...Read More >
Tejashwi Yadav also announced ₹50 lakh insurance cover and pension for them. Tejashwi Yadav was earlier this week declared the chief ministerial candidate for the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar, that the RJD is fighting in collaboration "We will also substantially increase the margin money, per quintal, of distributors of the public distribution system (PDS) in the state," PTI news agency quoted Tejashwi Yadav as saying. PDS distributors in Bihar currently receive ₹258.40 per quintal ...Read More >
Idukki: A 48-year-old man died and his wife was severely injured after a mudslide, near the National Highway widening work, levelled at least eight houses at Mannamkandam in Adimali in Kerala, police said. The incident occurred on Saturday night. The deceased has been identified as Biju of Lakshamveedu Unnathi. Biju and Sandhya, who were trapped in the mudslide in were rescued after a five-hour-long effort. Sandhya was rescued first. She sustained serious injuries, including a leg injury. The ...Read More >
Bihar polls: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday vowed to double the allowances of the representatives of Bihar's panchayati raj system if the INDIA bloc was voted to power in the upcoming Bihar Assembly Elections. He also said that the representatives will be entitled to ₹50 lakh pension and insurance cover. "If the INDIA bloc is voted to power, monthly allowances of the representatives of Bihar's panchayati raj system will be doubled. We will also substantially increase the margin money, per ...Read More >
PATNA: Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, the INDIA bloc's chief ministerial face in Bihar, on Sunday announced that the allowances of panchayat raj representatives, including those elected from gram kutcheries (village courts), would be doubled and former panchayat representatives would get pension, if the alliance comes to power in the state. "The panchayat raj representatives of three tier panchayat raj institutions ( PRIs) have long demanded a hike in their allowances.We will double their allowances in ...Read More >
Patna: As Bihar prepares for the upcoming Assembly elections, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday announced a series of welfare measures for members of the state's panchayati raj system, including plans to double their allowances, offer pension benefits, and provide enhanced insurance coverage, if the INDIA bloc is elected to power in the state. Speaking at a press conference, Yadav said elected representatives of panchayats and Gram Kachaharis (village courts) have long ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) president Thol Thirumavalavan on Sunday urged the Tamil Nadu government to withdraw the Private Universities (Amendment) Bill and not to review it, warning that the legislation would accelerate the commercialisation of higher education in the State. His statement came a day after Higher Education Minister Govi Chezhiyan announced the government's decision to withdraw and review the Bill, which was passed by the Assembly on October 18, following obje ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) RJD leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday launched a scathing attack on the ruling NDA government in Bihar, asserting that the people of the state were "fed up" with the current administration and were "in the mood for change". Speaking at a press conference, Yadav accused the Nitish Kumar-led government of corruption, administrative failure, and neglecting industrial and employment growth in the state. "The campaigning has begun, a ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, addressing a rally in Patna, announced a series of welfare measures for Bihar's Panchayati Raj representatives, should the INDIA bloc come to power in the upcoming elections.Tejashwi promised a substantial increase in per-quintal margin money for PDS distributors, along with pension schemes and a Rs 50 lakh insurance cover for Panchayat and Gram Kachari representatives. "The INDIA bloc, if voted to power, will double allowances of representatives of Bihar's ...Read More >
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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], October 25 (ANI): Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivkumar on Friday stated that a survey to identify areas around Bengaluru that would be included in the Greater Bengaluru Authority (GBU) in future has been ordered. After a review meeting with officials from 12 local bodies in Bengaluru Urban district, he addressed reporters, stating that the city is growing and that the areas under BMRDA would soon be part of Bengaluru. "We had a meeting with the officials ...Read More >
Jind: The wife of late Haryana Police ASI Sandeep Lathar on Friday said she was satisfied with the investigation being carried out by the government and police, and had full faith in the process. She was speaking during a condolence meeting and 'Tehrvi' ceremony held at the Government Girls Senior Secondary School in Julana.Several leaders and local residents, including former deputy chief minister Dushyant Chautala, Gaurav Tikait (son of farmer leader Rakesh Tikait), and Julana BJP candidate Ca ...Read More >
In an exciting move to enhance watersports in Goa, Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte is rolling out uniform pricing and standardized kiosks for vendors. This initiative aims to eliminate unfair package deals and aggressive selling tactics that often frustrate visitors. Official watersports operators will receive prominent exposure on the Goa Tourism website, ensuring tourists can easily find legitimate services. Goa Tourism Minister Rohan Khaunte has said the government will implement uniform rate ...Read More >
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