Gurgaon residents protest power cuts
July 3rd, 2012 - 11:02 pm ICT by IANS
Gurgaon, July 3 (IANS) A severe power crisis Tuesday led residents, including municipal councillors, to agitate and block roads in the various parts of Gurgaon, causing extended traffic jams in ... Read more...
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Delhi Police geared up for Sunday’s civic polls (Lead)
April 14th, 2012 - 7:04 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) With less than 24 hours to go for the elections to the trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), Delhi Police have intensified patrolling across ... Read more...
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Delhi votes for three new civic bodies Sunday
April 14th, 2012 - 6:00 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Come Sunday, residents of the capital will cast their votes in elections to the trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) with a hope that ... Read more...
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MCD elections: Congress rubbishes BJP attack
April 4th, 2012 - 12:43 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Countering the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) attack on the central and Delhi governments over alleged corruption, the Congress Tuesday said the party should talk ... Read more...
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Ahead of Delhi civic polls, Gadkari attacks Congress
April 3rd, 2012 - 6:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Gadkari Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the Congress-led Delhi government, urging people to defeat the "corruption-riddled" ... Read more...
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MCD polls: BJP candidates rush to file papers, anger among workers
March 26th, 2012 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) As Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates rushed to fill nominations for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls on the last day Monday, angry ... Read more...
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Congress releases candidates list for MCD polls
March 25th, 2012 - 11:25 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) The Congress Sunday released the list of candidates for elections to the trifurcated Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) which are scheduled to be held April ... Read more...
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Peaceful start to Maharashtra civic corporation polls
February 16th, 2012 - 11:09 am ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Feb 16 (IANS) Polling started on a peaceful note here and nine other municipal corporations around the state Thursday.Over 25,000 security personnel have been deployed in Mumbai, the biggest ... Read more...
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Maharashtra readies for civic corporation polls
February 15th, 2012 - 6:02 pm ICT by IANS
Mumbai, Feb 15 (IANS) As the curtains came down on the no-holds-barred campaign for elections to the 10 municipal corporations across Maharashtra, police and security forces readied to ensure ... Read more...
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Congress wins Chandigarh’s all three top civic posts (Lead)
January 1st, 2011 - 7:05 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, Jan 1 (IANS) The ruling Congress Saturday won the mayor's post in Chandigarh by one vote, completing a sweep in the elections held to the three top posts of the ... Read more...
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25 new dengue cases reported in Delhi
November 20th, 2009 - 4:41 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) With 25 new dengue cases reported in the capital Friday, the total number of people affected with the vector borne disease touched 970, health officials said.
According ... Read more...
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MCD sets up committee for master plan’s implementation
November 16th, 2009 - 9:11 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) Monday announced the formation of an 11-member committee for timely implementation of the Delhi Master Plan 2021, which includes wide-scale redevelopment ... Read more...
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Pets peeve Delhi civic agency, licensing policy soon
November 4th, 2009 - 8:21 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) With increasing mumber of abandoned pets and complaints of unregulated pet shops in the national capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Wednesday took a stand to form ... Read more...
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MCD leaders to meet PM over transfer of powers
October 27th, 2009 - 10:30 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Municipal Corporation of Delhi Tuesday decided to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and request him to ensure the ... Read more...
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Civic councillors protest Delhi government takeover move
October 6th, 2009 - 10:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 6 (IANS) As many as 163 municipal councillors of the Bharatiya Janata Party Wednesday marched to the home minister's office here and presented a memorandum protesting the proposed ... Read more...
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Delhi civic body to give citizens tulsi to battle swine flu
August 12th, 2009 - 11:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) The national capital's civic agency is all set to tackle the spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus in its own unique way - by distributing medicinal ... Read more...
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Development for the people, by the people in Delhi
July 15th, 2009 - 5:41 pm ICT by IANS
By Shweta Srinivasan and Mayank Aggarwal
New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Two municipal councillors in the national capital have decided to put "power back into the public's hands" by choosing to hear ... Read more...
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BJP leaders demand measures for Delhi’s unauthorised colonies
January 6th, 2009 - 10:06 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in Delhi Legislative Assembly V.K. Malhotra as well as Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) councillors from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday met urban ... Read more...
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Delhi BJP MLA, civic officials get EC notice for code violation
November 18th, 2008 - 7:44 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) The Election Commission of India Tuesday asked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Ramesh Bidhuri and some Delhi couuncillors and civic officials why action should not be taken ... Read more...
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Obama victory would be a dream come true for French blacks
November 1st, 2008 - 9:31 am ICT by IANS
Paris, Nov 1 (DPA) When French historian Pap Ndiaye was asked recently what Barack Obama's election as US president would mean to him personally, his voice grew soft: "I will be very ... Read more...
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Congress protests BJP-led MCD’s ‘inefficiency’ to check dengue
September 22nd, 2008 - 11:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) With dengue cases in the national capital reaching an alarming figure of 409, opposition Congress municipal councillors Monday protested against the alleged inefficiency of Bharatiya Janata Party-run ... Read more...
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School students to judge councillors
March 1st, 2008 - 1:09 pm ICT by admin
Jaipur, March 1 (IANS) In a unique project, students of schools will now judge the performance of municipal councillors in Rajasthan. The project has been started from Udaipur where students of Class ... Read more...
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