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Functioning of Local bodies made more liberal

Kerala government on Monday decided to rationalise procedures to speed up plan works undertaken by l...

BSP allows workers to contest local body polls as independents

Elections will be held for 630 urban local bodies in the state, including 13 municipal corporations,...

Notification for UP urban local bodies poll issued

UP Election Commission issued notification for elections in all urban local bodies, excluding those ...

Local body election process starts

The district administration has moved a step forward in holding local bodies and panchayat elections...

Bihar: 61% votes polled in polls to urban bodies

An estimated 61% votes were on Thursday polled in urban bodies elections in Bihar which passed off p...

Local bodies polls in UP next month

Local bodies elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held next month in which EVMs are likely to be used ...

UP urban local body polls: BJP to form steering co

In the wake of forth coming urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh, the state BJP on Thursday d...

PAC slams diversion of funds from MPs` devt scheme

In 13 states, 35 district authorities utilised Rs 1.30 crore from funds on inadmissible items like w...

12-year-old raped by local grocery shop owner

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a local grocery shop owner in Atraina village here when sh...

Relief for Mumbai: Chaos controlled, trains on track

Central Railway claimed to have normalised up to 85 percent of its suburban operations. By Friday ev...

SC asks UP to reserve seats for local bodies poll

The Supreme Court asked the Uttar Pradesh government to complete the procedure for reserving seats i...

BJP wins 22, Cong 9 in Guj local bodies by-poll

In by-elections for 32 seats in different local self governing bodies in Guj, BJP won 22 seats while...

Church building collapses in Nigeria, 22 killed

A government spokesman said there was a heavy downpour before the building of St Robert`s Catholic C...

Bring change at local level first: Hazare

Social activist Anna Hazare said that people should first bring about a change in their own local...

After local trains, Mumbai bus fares hiked

A day after hiking local train fares, the BEST public bus service, decided on Monday to increase its...

MP Congress gears up gears up for local body polls

The Congress in Madhya Pradesh would work hard to ensure the party`s victory in elections to 52 loca...

‘No free and fair local bodies’ elections in J&K’

BJP alleged serious discrepancies, errors and manipulations in the voter lists and cards during J&K ...

Pawar takes stock of NCP performance in Local poll

NCP chief Sharad Pawar took stock of his party`s performance in recently held local bodies polls in...

Over 200 deities to join Himachal`s Mahashivratri!

The festival of Mahashivratri Monday is marked in a unique way in this town, popularly known as Chho...

Moderate turn-out in Maharashtra civic polls

Around 54% of about 2.02 crore electorate Thursday exercised their franchise for polls in 10 municip...

Police arrest 6 at Occupy Sydney protest site

Dozens of protesters have been arrested since the Occupy Sydney movement first camped in a downtown ...

Govt to hire locals in areas having Naxal activity

Karnataka govt. decided to hire qualified locals to fill vacancies in nine taluks, where there is ...

Locals to intensify stir against Jaitapur N-plant

Locals have threatened to intensify their agitation against the proposed nuclear power plant at Ja...

West Bengal: One dead, 67 injured in train collision

Only five of the 67 injured are now in local civil hospitals while the remaining were released after...

Local trains collide head-on in Bengal

A train driver was among those injured when two local trains collided head on at Fulia station in ...

Local polls: Cong alleges code violation by BJP

Congress has lodged a complaint pertaining to violation of code of conduct against the ruling BJP i...

J&K: Locals, police clash over power shortage

Locals protesting power shortage on Thursday clashed with police in north Kashmir`s Baramulla dist...

Man, woman crushed to death in separate incidents

A 59-year-old employed with the IAF and a woman were crushed to death by a bus and a train here in s...

Orissa: Locals rescue abducted businessman

Residents of Brahmabarada in Jajpur district rescued a businessman and his aide who were kidnapped b...

Local train derails in Mumbai, services hit

Railway traffic on the suburban section of Central Railway was disrupted after a Kalyan-bound loca...

Local issues dominate poll campaign in Adampur

The Congress has been using development as its key poll plank and hopes to win the two seats, especi...

‘BJP-RPI will put up good show in local Mum polls’

RPI president Ramdas Athawale supported the Shiv Sena and BJP`s demand for a minimum support price o...

Local panchayats wary of ban on iron ore export

Fearing that the Shah Commission, might put a ban on iron ore exports, members of village panchayat...

Madras HC declines to stay counting of votes

The Madras High Court declined to stay counting of votes cast in Monday`s polling for the Chennai Ci...

Wal-Mart, Facebook unveil partnership

Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Facebook Inc unveiled a partnership on Tuesday to help the world`s largest r...

Protests in Srinagar locality after girl’s suicide

Protests rocked Solina area of the city on Tuesday after a minor girl committed suicide at her home...

Maha govt for 50% seats for women in local polls

Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan said that his govt would reserve 50 percent of seats for women in t...

Local elections are mini-general elections: Chavan

Congress leaders from Maharashtra took stock of the party`s prospects in the coming local self-gover...

Maha: 50% seats for women in local bodies polls

Maharashtra government said it would reserve 50 per cent of seats for women in the forthcoming elect...

DMDK to contest local body polls alone

After contesting the Assembly polls together, the Vijayakant-led DMDK Friday decided to contest th...

DMDK to contest local body polls alone

The Vijayakant-led DMDK on Friday decided to contest the local body elections on its own.

Local polls: Maha BJP open to `friendly fights`

Maharashtra BJP said it was open to "friendly fights" with partners Shiv Sena and RPI.

Merkel`s coalition loses on her home turf

German Chancellor Angela Merkel`s conservative-liberal coalition has suffered a debacle in her hom...

Conduct local polls in 6 months: HC to Puducherry

The Madras High Court on Monday directed the Puducherry government to "immediately initiate" the pr...

Foreign, local militants pose grave threat to J&K

Government on Wednesday said presence of both foreign and local militants continues to be a matter ...

North Korea begins local elections amid succession

North Korea is trying to bolster the political position of Kim Jong Un.

Ex-rebel proxies sweep Sri Lanka local elections

Elections Department said Tamil National Alliance won 20 local councils out of the 25 it contested.

Sri Lanka`s war-hit Tamils vote for local councils

Voters in Sri Lanka`s northern Tamil heartland trickled to polling stations Saturday to elect local ...

Here`s how to reduce your hospital stay

A new study has revealed that using a combination of hypnosis & local anaesthesia can aid healing pr...

Rajapaksa in Jaffna ahead of local elections

Rajapaksa, who was inspecting the government`s development drive activities in Jaffna, was accorde...

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