After eight people died in a blast at an illegal firecracker factory at Patharpratima in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas ...

This kind of unofficial substitution is commonplace in rural India, in exactly the places where small-time leadership positions have long been set aside for women. Since 1992, the national rules ...

Jaipur: Rajasthan High Court Tuesday directed the state govt to submit a clear time schedule for the 2025 general panchayat ...

A panchayat from Titoli village in Rohtak district met Superintendent of Police (SP) Narendra Bijarniya on Monday, demanding ...

Debabrata Mohapatra is an Assistant Editor at The Times of India, Bhubaneswar. He had been writing for TOI from Puri since 2006 before joining the Bhubaneswar bureau in August 2010. He covers crime, ...

Ahead of Panchayat elections in Assam, BJP MP and Assam BJP President Dilip Saikia stated that their party will together ...

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said that the state government has decided to give reservations to the backward ...

CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government has issued a gazette notification for upgrading seven town panchayats to municipalities.

A village development officer was suspended with immediate effect following allegations of financial irregularities amounting to Rs 53 lakh here in Kodhara Nobrar gram panchayat, officials said on ...

Karnataka government has maintained that ASHA is a centrally funded scheme and that it will consider revising the honorarium ...