Panchayat elections
- India
Haryana: Dalit thrashed over his vote in last year’s panchayat election
Gurugram: A Dalit youth was allegedly brutally thrashed after being kidnapped by five men for not voting in favour of one of them in last year’s panchayat elections in Rathiwas village here,…
- India
Hindu Mahasabha announces it will fight Bengal rural polls, weeks after Mahishasur row
Kolkata: The Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha, which hit the headlines earlier this month for organising a Durga Puja in Kolkata that had the idol of Mahishasur resembling Mahatma Gandhi, announced that it will…
- Elections
Congress seeks to postpone panchayat election in Goa
Panaji: Citing lack of reservation of wards for OBC category, Leader of Opposition Michael Lobo on Tuesday demanded to postpone Panchayat elections in Goa by four months and reserve the wards as…
- Crime and Accident
Political killings: Husbands of three village heads killed in Bihar
Patna: Political killings continue in Bihar ahead of the panchayat elections as three persons, who were husbands of village panchayat heads, were killed in separate incidents on Saturday. In the first incident, Raj…
- Photos
Priyanka Gandhi in Lucknow
Lucknow: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi takes a two-minute silence over alleged violence during Panchayat elections and poor law & order, in Lucknow, Friday, July 16, 2021. (PTI Photo) Lucknow: AICC General…
- Andhra Pradesh
First phase of AP panchayat elections sees 82% voter turnout
Amaravati: The first phase of polling for 2,723 panchayats in Andhra Pradesh ended peacefully with 81.78 per cent turnout, the State Election Commission said here on Tuesday. The SEC, however, did not…
- India
Immigrant from Pak to contest panchayat elections in Rajasthan
Tonk: Neeta Sodha, an immigrant from Pakistan who was recently given Indian citizenship is contesting panchayat elections in Rajasthan’s Natwara. “My father in law has been an active member in Panchayat and…
- Hyderabad
Telangana CM pitches for development of villages
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao instructed officials to organise a full-fledged training programme to the elected Sarpanches and Upa sarpanches in the ongoing village Panchayat elections to provide a total…
