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Hyderabad: Loudspeakers that had been blaring across 4,000-plus villages for so many days have fallen silent as campaigning by parties for the final phase of the Gram Panchayat (GP) elections, to be held on December 17 on non-party basis, concluded on Monday. The first phase of the GP elections was held on December 11 and the second phase on December 14. The final phase of the elections will be held on December 17 in 182 mandals, 4,157 village panchayats, and 28,406 wards. In the final phase, ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Congress-backed candidates won 61.24 per cent sarpanch posts in the recently held first and second phase of gram panchayat polls, registering a strike rate twice that of the BRS's 27.19 per cent and over 10 times of the BJP's 5.45 per cent. Out of the 8,566 sarpanch posts for which elections were held, the Congress-backed candidates won 5,246 posts, those by the BRS 2,329, the BJP-backed candidates won 500 and independents and others secured 467 seats. During the first phase of ...Read More >
The ruling Congress-backed candidates continued their winning streak, securing nearly 2,000 Sarpanch posts in the second phase of the Gram Panchayat elections in Telangana, followed by the main Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supporters with nearly 1,000 posts and BJP-backed candidates with about 300 posts, while others won around 450 posts. The counting process was still under way at the time of reporting. The results of the first phase reflected a similar trend. Congress-backed candid ...Read More >
Keonjhar: Former sarpanch and gram sanjojoka of Sadangi Grama Panchayat in Keonjhar district got rigorous imprisonment (RI) for their involvement in a corruption case linked to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The Special Judge, Vigilance, Keonjhar, today convicted Sadananda Naik, the former Sarapanch and Sripada Naik, the former Gram Sanjojoka, in Vigilance corruption case. Both of them were charge-sheeted by Odisha Vigilance in a case U/s 13(2) r/w 13( ...Read More >
Hyderabad Congress-backed candidates recorded an impressive performance in the first phase of the Panchayat elections, winning in nearly 2,000 villages across Telangana, while the BRS-supported candidates also fared better than expected, winning in about 800 villages, when reports last came in. In contrast, BJP-supported candidates failed to make a significant impact, barely touching the 150 mark. Though the elections were officially held without party symbols, voters in rural Telangana were l ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Dec 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President K.T. Rama Rao claimed on Monday that the defeat of Congress in Panchayat elections even in the constituencies of the Ministers is a testament to the changing political landscape in the state. He congratulated the BRS cadres for achieving exceptional results in the second phase of the Panchayat elections. Special congratulations to the BRS leaders and workers who demonstrated their strength even in the constituenc ...Read More >
Goa nightclub fire: Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, co-owners of the fire-hit 'Birch by Romeo Lane' nightclub in Goa, were detained by Thai police in Phuket. The two brothers had shot to national infamy after fleeing India even as 25 people lay dead in the blaze at their club. The Luthras' arrest marked a significant step in India's efforts to bring them back to face investigation into one of the deadliest nightclub disasters in recent memory. Thai authorities tracked the duo to Hotel Indigo in Pat ...Read More >
Mumbai, Dec 5 (PTI) The BJP-led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra on Friday completed one year in power, a period marked by a push for infrastructure expansion and an emphasis on investor confidence, as well as delicate balancing within the three-party coalition. While the ruling party leaders said the state saw governance with transparency and speedy decisions in the last one year, the opposition sought a "white paper" on the achievements, or the lack of it, of the Devendra Fadnavis dispensat ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) is considering barring lone women from joining pilgrimage groups (jathas) to Pakistan after 48-year-old Sarabjeet Kaur, a devotee from Punjab, went missing during a recent pilgrimage. Kaur reportedly converted to Islam, adopted the name Noor Hussain, and married Nasir Hussain of Sheikhupura soon after entering Pakistan. Police and SGPC officials later confirmed that she has three cheating and fraud cases registered against her in Pu ...Read More >
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], October 31 (ANI): Telangana's Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) leader Samineni Rama Rao was allegedly murdered, being found dead with bleeding injuries in Telangana's Khammam district, state police informed on Friday. According to police officials, the CPM leader was found dead with bleeding injuries in the early morning hours in the area under Chintakani police station limits, in Patharlapadu village, Chintakani mandal, Madhira constituency. Also Read | ...Read More >
Jaisalmer: Two cousins were burnt alive while asleep when a fire broke out in Barmer's Jastaniyon ki Dhani Bhadkha on Sunday morning. Another brother sleeping next to the deceased duo suffered burn injuries and was referred, after primary treatment, to Jodhpur.Police and district administration officials called in a fire brigade to control the fire, by which time the young man and child were burnt alive.A Bhadkha sarpanch said the incident occurred around 5am Sunday when Jasram and cousins Arun ...Read More >
Sangrur: Deputy commissioner Rahul Chaba has announced a zero-tolerance policy to curb paddy stubble burning in Sangrur district. In an emergency meeting held at the District Administrative Complex's meeting hall, Chaba emphasised that cluster officers, nodal officers, and police personnel must actively prevent stubble burning or face consequences. The meeting, attended by Senior Superintendent of Police Sartaj Singh Chahal, additional deputy commissioner Amit Bambi, SPs, SDMs, DSPs, cluster off ...Read More >
Pune, Oct 17 (PTI) BJP MLA Shivaji Kardile, who represented the Rahuri constituency in Maharashtra's Ahilyanagar district, passed away following a heart attack on Friday, sources close to the family said. He was 66. Kardile suffered a heart attack in the morning. He was rushed to a hospital in Ahilyanagar, where doctors declared him dead, said the family sources. The lawmaker is survived by his wife, a son and daughters. His last rites will be performed later in the day. Kardile began his po ...Read More >
50% local quota in NALSAR admissions and Committee on Metro Rail expansion are major Cabinet decisions The Telangana Council of Ministers, chaired by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, on Thursday decided to procure the entire paddy produce this year and wait for a report of the legal experts on the all-important BC reservations issue, the report is expected to be submitted within two days. The Cabinet also took a series of decisions covering agriculture, education, infrastructure, and urban dev ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The BJP has officially commenced its candidate selection process for the upcoming local body elections in Telangana, with state party president N Ramchander Rao declaring the party's intent to contest all seats from ward members to Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies (ZPTCs). Addressing the media in Karimnagar on Wednesday, Rao emphasized that the people of Telangana are looking to the BJP for transparent governance and accelerated development. Rao announced that the first list ...Read More >
Hyderabad: The Backward Classes (BCs) community is poised to benefit substantially from the government's decision to implement 42 per cent reservations in the local bodies elections, opening up an estimated 24,000 additional posts across gram panchayats, mandal parishads and zilla parishads, and taking the total to nearly 55,000. This is nearly double of what the community got in the 2019 local body elections held under the BRS regime with 23 per cent reservations. Although the government has ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Equating Punjab's financial situation with countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, which he said went bankrupt and approached the International Monetary Fund (IMF) seeking help, the BJP leader and former finance minister of Punjab, Manpreet Singh Badal, on Monday said instead of approaching the Centre for financial assistance, the Bhagwant Mann-led govt was a adopting a "confrontational" approach.Speaking during the mock session of Punjab vidhan sabha, organised by ...Read More >
The BJP government has also reduced the budget of the Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water Department, Mishra claimed. Another BJD leader and former minister Arun Sahoo accused the state government of hijacking the power of elected representatives of Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs). "The BJP government is making efforts to paralyse panchayats, panchayat samities and zilla parishads of the state during the last 15 months of its rule," Sahoo alleged. He pointed to a recent decision by the state ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar, Sep 23 (SocialNews.XYZ) Workers and leaders of the Opposition party Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Tuesday held a massive protest against curtailment of Panchayati Raj powers in Odisha. They engaged in a scuffle with the police at Lower PMG in Bhubaneswar while marching ahead to gherao the state Assembly in protest against the Odisha government's alleged attempt to limit the powers of elected representatives under the Panchayati Raj Institutions. Hundreds of BJD workers, party supported ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 15 (ANI): The Punjab Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains on Monday exhorted the Panches-Sarpanches, Youth Clubs, Aam Aadmi Party workers to contribute to the best of their capacity for the success of the cleanliness campaign presently underway in Sri Anandpur Sahib constituency.According to the press release from the Information and Public Relations Department, Punjab, the Minister commenced the Sanitiser and cleanliness campaign on Monday from Nangal, wh ...Read More >
CHANDIGARH: Following in the footsteps of Maharashtra -- which has often been in the spotlight for targeting "outsiders" amid the Maha Marathi row -- several panchayats in Punjab are now passing resolutions directing migrant labourers to leave their villages. Around 27 villages in Hoshiarpur district have passed such resolutions, announcing that they will no longer issue residence verification (residence certificates) to migrant labourers in their respective areas. Migrants without valid docum ...Read More >
The Swargadwar staff called an ambulance and shifted her to Puri hospital. (Representational) A 86-year-old woman, who was presumed dead, was found alive on Monday moments before her last rites were to be performed at a crematorium in the pilgrim town of Puri. The woman, P Laxmi, hailed from neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, and she was presumed dead when she was on a visit to her son-in-law's house in the Polasara area of Odisha's Ganjam district, a family member said. "As she did not open her ey ...Read More >
Mr. Revanth Reddy for a comprehensive survey on LED lights requirement across the State Directing officials to take steps for effective supervision of street lighting in rural areas, Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy instructed them to entrust the setting up and maintenance of LED street lights to sarpanches. The gram panchayats should install street lights wherever necessary, and they should be given the responsibility of their maintenance. Panchayat Raj department officials should survey the e ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Monday announced a series of measures to modernise and streamline streetlight maintenance across Telangana, covering GHMC limits, core urban area within the Outer Ring Road and all gram panchayats.He directed officials to install LED streetlights with dashboards, connect all LED networks to the central command control centre in Hyderabad, and delegate maintenance responsibilities to sarpanches in villages. To ensure transparency and efficiency, the CM ...Read More >
TARN TARAN: AAP MLA from Khadoor Sahib, Manjinder Singh Lalpura, and 10 others - six of them policemen - were on Wednesday found guilty of molestation and assault of a woman 13 years ago.Additional sessions judge Prem Kumar of Tarn Taran district court said the sentence would be pronounced Friday. Police arrested eight of the accused, including the MLA, and sent them to jail, said the survivor's lawyer, Amit Dhawan. According to him, the survivor said she was "happy that justice has been served" ...Read More >
Phulbani (Odisha), Sep 12 (PTI) At least eight boys of a state-run tribal welfare residential (TRW) school in Odisha's Kandhamal district were admitted to hospital on Friday after some fellow students allegedly applied a strong adhesive to their eyes while they were asleep, police said. The incident took place at the Sevashram school in Salaguda. The affected children, aged around 12 years and studying in classes 4 and 5, were initially taken to Gochhapada primary health centre. Seven of them ...Read More >
Pathankot, Sep 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) In the wake of unprecedented floods that wreaked havoc across Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured farmers of the border village Thinda that they will be compensated for every grain lost to the disaster. Visiting the worst-affected areas, PM Modi interacted with locals and village representatives, offering both solace and substantial support. In Thinda, floodwaters reached alarming levels, inundating homes up to 4 to 5 feet. Fields once brimming wi ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Sh. Nayab Singh Saini said under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we all take a pledge to make the state clean and celebrate festivals with joy. An 11-week cleanliness campaign has also been launched in the state. The government is working nonstop at three times the speed in the country and state. He said to make the country a developed nation by 2047, it is necessary to adopt indigenous products. The Chief Minister was addressing villagers afte ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 25 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday restrained the trial court from taking cognisance of the chargesheet filed by Haryana SIT in the FIR against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad, who was booked for social media posts on Operation Sindoor. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi further restrained the trial court from framing any charges in the case. The SIT, constituted by the top court to investigate the two FIRs registered against Mahmudabad over his ...Read More >
Bhind: It was an Independence Day flag hoisting ceremony on August 15, that started like any other in Naudha Panchayat, Bhind. As the flag unfurled, the soulful chorus of the national anthem filled the air. And then came the moment everyone had been waiting for -- the sweet distribution, which, in this case, was a laddu each. But a simple request for a second laddu from villager Kamlesh Kushwaha turned the festive mood somewhat sour. Kamlesh, felt utterly "harassed" and upset having been refuse ...Read More >
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