MCD Mayor poll: BJP meets to seal strategy on the eve of voteBJP city MPs, including Swati Maliwal, strategized for the MCD mayoral polls on April 29. With AAP opting out and Congress nominating a can...
28 Apr, 2026, 03.32 PM IST
Supreme court panel defines minimum ICU standards, outlines staffing norms and infrastructure requirementsThe Supreme Court has mandated minimum standards for ICUs, covering infrastructure, equipment, and staffing. States must submit action plan...
27 Apr, 2026, 02.32 PM IST
JNU: 5% supernumerary quota for teaching, non-teaching staff kids from 2026-27Jawaharlal Nehru University has introduced a five per cent supernumerary quota for children of its teaching and non-teaching staff. This ne...
20 Apr, 2026, 03.10 PM IST
Delhi: Two MCD standing committee members' elections to be held todayElections for MCD's ward committee leaders and standing committee members are scheduled, crucial for determining control. Vacancies arose a...
02 Jun, 2025, 10.59 AM IST
Amid excise policy row, panel set up by ex-LG Baijal to file report on non-conforming areasDeputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, named an accused in an FIR registered by the CBI probing alleged irregularities in the Excise Policy ...
21 Aug, 2022, 12.32 AM IST
Success of panchayat teams prompts Karnataka to rope in local communitiesThe capital and other cities and towns of Karnataka will soon have ward-level task forces and booth-level committees for Covid-19 managemen...
10 Jul, 2020, 10.23 AM IST
AAP gearing up to contest city civic body pollsLeaders at the AAP Bengaluru unit have swung back to highlighting the city’s issues and campaigning for action, exactly like they did four ...
18 Sep, 2019, 10.55 AM IST
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.
30 Apr, 2019, 10.38 AM IST
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...
27 Dec, 2018, 11.27 AM IST
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...
03 Dec, 2018, 11.20 AM IST
We have to work within the limitations: Kathyayini Chamaraj, CIVIC"The grievance of residents’ welfare associations about not having enough representation in the ward committees seems to have prompted the ...
30 Nov, 2018, 11.16 AM IST
Ward committees of Bengaluru municipal body to meet once a month from December 1BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad’s order on the mayor’s direction to make ward committee meetings mandatory on the first Saturday of ev...
30 Nov, 2018, 10.46 AM IST
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...
26 Nov, 2018, 11.10 AM IST
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...
17 Sep, 2018, 11.48 AM IST
Bengaluru techies show how to break ice with civic corporationsEach ward is mandated to have a committee chaired by the corporator and comprising citizens in accordance with the 74th amendment of the Co...
02 Feb, 2016, 11.02 AM IST
North Delhi Municipal Corporation standing panel proposes creation of new civic zoneNDMC currently has six zones -- Narela, Rohini, Civil Lines, Karol Bagh, Sadar Paharganj and City under its jurisdiction.
12 Jun, 2014, 03.07 PM IST
- 200 weak trees to get 'treatment'
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has identified around 200 vulnerable trees in the city.
03 Aug, 2011, 03.27 AM IST