Nagpur Civic Body

The ruling BJP and other parties on Tuesday separately claimed to have won maximum Gram Panchayats in Maharashtra in the maiden local body polls conducted after the alliance government led by Eknath Shinde came to power in June this year.

Ahead of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls for Nagpur seat on December 10, the BJP flew its corporators from the civic body to various locations in the country to prevent a break in the ranks, a party functionary said on Monday.

Considering the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, the civic body in Maharashtra's Nagpur city today directed that restaurants, hotels and eateries will remain closed on weekends till further orders, an official said.

A 72-year-old former corporator in Nagpur, who was once the chairman of the civic body's standing committee, now works as a security guard at a city-based institution in which he was a trustee in the past.

A plan to have the "Hanuman Chalisa" recited at an AIDS-awareness program in Nagpur tomorrow provoked this response from the Bombay High Court: "Is India for Hindus only?"

Mumbai and other cities across Maharashtra will now be free from illegal political hoardings. An estimated 15,000 illegal hoardings have been removed in just 24 hours by civic bodies across the state after the Bombay High Court cracked the whip - remove them by Thursday or face action, it said.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC today informed the Bombay High Court that it has removed more than 5,000 illegal hoardings from the city in a day-long drive yesterday. Over 10,000 hoardings were removed from the rest of Maharashtra.

Counting of votes for the ten municipal corporations across Maharashtra will begin today. As important cities like Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur elect their civic bodies, these elections are being fought as mini-Assembly polls. The counting of votes will start at 7.30 a.m. in municipal corporation of Thane, while in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad it will star...

The ruling BJP and other parties on Tuesday separately claimed to have won maximum Gram Panchayats in Maharashtra in the maiden local body polls conducted after the alliance government led by Eknath Shinde came to power in June this year.

Ahead of the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) polls for Nagpur seat on December 10, the BJP flew its corporators from the civic body to various locations in the country to prevent a break in the ranks, a party functionary said on Monday.

Considering the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, the civic body in Maharashtra's Nagpur city today directed that restaurants, hotels and eateries will remain closed on weekends till further orders, an official said.

A 72-year-old former corporator in Nagpur, who was once the chairman of the civic body's standing committee, now works as a security guard at a city-based institution in which he was a trustee in the past.

A plan to have the "Hanuman Chalisa" recited at an AIDS-awareness program in Nagpur tomorrow provoked this response from the Bombay High Court: "Is India for Hindus only?"

Mumbai and other cities across Maharashtra will now be free from illegal political hoardings. An estimated 15,000 illegal hoardings have been removed in just 24 hours by civic bodies across the state after the Bombay High Court cracked the whip - remove them by Thursday or face action, it said.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC today informed the Bombay High Court that it has removed more than 5,000 illegal hoardings from the city in a day-long drive yesterday. Over 10,000 hoardings were removed from the rest of Maharashtra.

Counting of votes for the ten municipal corporations across Maharashtra will begin today. As important cities like Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur elect their civic bodies, these elections are being fought as mini-Assembly polls. The counting of votes will start at 7.30 a.m. in municipal corporation of Thane, while in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad it will star...