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Supreme Court extends time till Aug 31 for holding Bengaluru civic body electionsThe Supreme Court has granted an extension for Bengaluru civic body elections. The polls are now scheduled to be held by August 31. This de...
Watermelon deaths in Chhattisgarh: One teen dead and three hospitalised after eating suspected contaminated seasonal fruitA tragic incident in Chhattisgarh's Janjgir-Champa district saw a 15-year-old boy, Akhilesh Dhivar, die after allegedly consuming contamina...
Karnataka assembly clears BBMP bill proposing changes in city administrationA joint select committee headed by BJP MLA from CV Raman Nagar S Raghu proposed changes to the BBMP’s structure and that has been incorpora...
Bengaluru's Mahadevapura citizens question BBMP move of delimiting wardsCitizen group demands new wards to be created and a separate municipal corporation for Mahadevapura.
- BBMP delimitation proposal may be an exercise in futility
BBMP intends to finish the exercise by the 2020 civic polls. The aim is to have equal population in each ward.
Councillors busy with polls, not a single ward committee meets in AprilMeetings were not held in any of the wards in April as the councillors who chair committees were busy with election campaigning.
AAP offers support to women to become Bengaluru corporatorsThe party will support and train selected woman members to become leaders in their wards.
Ward committees should have a say in Bengaluru budget: Citizen groupsAs many as 68 of the 198 wards in Bengaluru held committee meetings this month. However, citizens’ groups hope that more and more wards wil...
Court may be only recourse to enforce ward committee meetsThe case regarding solid waste management, currently before the Karnataka High Court, led to the court issuing directions to form ward comm...
Residents’ associations likely to get a seat in BBMP ward panelsAlthough the law mandates nomination of two members from residents associations in the 10-member ward committee, the rule has been bypassed...
Bengaluru's ward committees, set up after a fight, need another pushWith many committees conducting only one meeting, civic groups are gearing up for yet another legal fight to ensure the committees do their...
IT capital gets that stinking feeling as it slips in SBM rankEven after three years of the launch of Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), not a single municipal ward in Bengaluru has been declared open defeca...
BJP leads in Bengaluru civic corporation's pollBJP appeared to retain control of the IT city's civic body, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), as it moved ahead of the Congres...
Bengaluru's Hoodi ward's water and infrastructure woesCommon complaints in the Hoodi ward area are the 'once-a-week' Cauvery water supply, choked drains and air and noise pollution.
Is voter apathy a math fallacy?The uniformly low voter turnout across wards in Bengaluru raises three questions over and above the well-recognised issue of voter apathy.
Bengaluru ward resizing an excuse for government to defer civic polls?The state government's advocate argued before the Karnataka High Court that wards needed to be resized according to the population figures .
BBMP polls may turn out messy as state government yet to notify ward delimitation and women's quotaThe Karnataka HC is hearing a petition from two corporators who have sought the court's directions to hold polls. The case is coming up bef...