In February 2017, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation electoral battle between BJP and Shiv Sena saw three rounds of recounting, each en...

As per old documents and reports, and views of many experts, the MCD was modelled on the lines of the 'Bombay Municipal Corporation', and w...

The over 150-year-old Town Hall in the heart of Delhi was the power centre of the civic body whose first mayor was freedom fighter Aruna As...

According to the wording of the DMC Act 1957, "Municipal Government of Delhi was being administered as per the provisions of the Punjab Dis...

The NCP is in talks with ally Congress for a possible coalition with the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena after the latter's alliance with th...

The defence minister reminded the audience that there were certain virtues India held for generations, which were missing today.

It is not surprising that the dividing line between a litterbug and a recycling activist is getting increasingly blurred in the conscientio...

Speaking at the launch of his book, Ansari said "correctives" were essential, and it was the duty of the citizens and of the civil society ...

We don’t need more laws but we want existing laws to be strengthened and an end to discrimination on the basis of caste, religion, communit...

Every week, an expert selected by ET answers queries from our readers on real estate. This week, the queries include investing in property ...

A number of drives were lined up, including orientation and training of parents and pre-service and in-service training of teachers to deve...

The Vice President said that Indian Muslims have lived in India's religiously plural society for over a 1,000 years and that has impacted o...

In this kindly act ‘civilization’ was born. Those without civic virtue were called idiots in Greece, which is, indeed, the origin of the wo...

Calling himself the "Pradhan Sevak" (chief servant) of the country, the PM seemed to make a case for economic nationalism with a call to fo...

The allusion is not to the Nilekani family's Rs 7,700 crore of self-made personal fortune which evokes admiration and some understandable e...

We need to ask where do markets serve the public goods and where do they not belong? In what areas do the introduction of market values cro...

Under the Indian Citizenship Act, if Balkrishna was born in Hardwar as he had claimed while procuring his Indian passport, there will not b...