Rural Local Bodies

Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Hasan Mushrif today said there will be no elections to local bodies in the state till 70 per cent population is vaccinated against COVID-19.

The centre on Sunday released an amount of Rs 8,923 crore to 25 states for providing grants to the rural local bodies (RLBs) in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ruling Congress in Rajasthan has beaten the BJP in urban local body elections held days after the party suffered a setback in rural polls.

Elections to to rural and urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh have been put off indefinitely by the State Election Commission in view of coronavirus outbreak.

The opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu has gained a strong lead over the ruling AIADMK in results for nearly 92,000 rural local body posts, including Panchayat Union and District Panchayat Union ward members, held late last month

The process of counting of votes polled in the two-phased rural local bodies held on December 27 and 30 in Tamil Nadu began on Thursday morning.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan today said that his party Makkal Needhi Maiam chief will not contest rural local body elections in Tamil Nadu. His contemporary Rajinikanth will not support any party for the elections.

The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) put up a splendid performance in the rural local body polls in Karimnagar district of Telangana, winning 13 ZPTCs of the total 15 and 77 MPTCs.

Emiliano Sala hometown in rural Argentina is remembering him as a modest local hero who shied away from the flashy wealth of many South American footballers who make it big in Europe.

Kashmir recorded 71.1 per voter turnout in the fifth phase of the urban local body polls, state Chief Electoral Officer Shaleen Kabra said.

The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference will boycott the local body and panchayat elections in the state unless the centre takes effective steps for protection of Article 35-A of the Constitution, which is facing legal challenge in the Supreme Court, party president Farooq Abdullah said Wednesday.

There will be no re-election for over 20,000 rural seats in Bengal that were won uncontested by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in May, the Supreme Court said today, in a huge reprieve for the state's ruling party. The court, however, left room for petitions from candidates who have alleged that they were stopped from filing the...

Immadi Gopi, a public representative, who was captured on video for kicking a woman in the chest, has been arrested today. Mr Gopi, who is the president of a local rural body, had kicked the woman after she hit him with a chappal.

The Trinamool Congress reinforced its dominant position in rural West Bengal's local bodies, elections of which were hit by rampant violence leaving several dead. Mamata Banerjee's party bagged 9,270 seats in gram panchayats, while the BJP emerged as the main challenger in most districts, according to results available till 2 pm today.

The bodies of seven people were found Sunday in an abandoned truck on a rural road in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca, local officials said.

Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Hasan Mushrif today said there will be no elections to local bodies in the state till 70 per cent population is vaccinated against COVID-19.

The centre on Sunday released an amount of Rs 8,923 crore to 25 states for providing grants to the rural local bodies (RLBs) in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ruling Congress in Rajasthan has beaten the BJP in urban local body elections held days after the party suffered a setback in rural polls.

Elections to to rural and urban local bodies in Andhra Pradesh have been put off indefinitely by the State Election Commission in view of coronavirus outbreak.

The opposition DMK in Tamil Nadu has gained a strong lead over the ruling AIADMK in results for nearly 92,000 rural local body posts, including Panchayat Union and District Panchayat Union ward members, held late last month

The process of counting of votes polled in the two-phased rural local bodies held on December 27 and 30 in Tamil Nadu began on Thursday morning.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan today said that his party Makkal Needhi Maiam chief will not contest rural local body elections in Tamil Nadu. His contemporary Rajinikanth will not support any party for the elections.

The ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) put up a splendid performance in the rural local body polls in Karimnagar district of Telangana, winning 13 ZPTCs of the total 15 and 77 MPTCs.

Emiliano Sala hometown in rural Argentina is remembering him as a modest local hero who shied away from the flashy wealth of many South American footballers who make it big in Europe.

Kashmir recorded 71.1 per voter turnout in the fifth phase of the urban local body polls, state Chief Electoral Officer Shaleen Kabra said.

The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference will boycott the local body and panchayat elections in the state unless the centre takes effective steps for protection of Article 35-A of the Constitution, which is facing legal challenge in the Supreme Court, party president Farooq Abdullah said Wednesday.

There will be no re-election for over 20,000 rural seats in Bengal that were won uncontested by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in May, the Supreme Court said today, in a huge reprieve for the state's ruling party. The court, however, left room for petitions from candidates who have alleged that they were stopped from filing the...

Immadi Gopi, a public representative, who was captured on video for kicking a woman in the chest, has been arrested today. Mr Gopi, who is the president of a local rural body, had kicked the woman after she hit him with a chappal.

The Trinamool Congress reinforced its dominant position in rural West Bengal's local bodies, elections of which were hit by rampant violence leaving several dead. Mamata Banerjee's party bagged 9,270 seats in gram panchayats, while the BJP emerged as the main challenger in most districts, according to results available till 2 pm today.

The bodies of seven people were found Sunday in an abandoned truck on a rural road in Mexico's southern state of Oaxaca, local officials said.