Block Panchayat Chief

In one of the more incredible scenes to emerge from the local elections held in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was caught on camera chasing down a TV reporter in public and beating him viciously.

Generally not the ones to be caught helpless, the complaint of a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer on a call with bosses has gone viral as an example of the glaring breakdown of order during local polls.

Sticks, stones, guns and bombs tarred local polls in Uttar Pradesh, where political developments have assumed heightened significance ahead of the all-important state elections early next year, as the ruling BJP claimed a "historic victory".

Voting for 476 posts of block panchayat chiefs began at 11 am in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, the State Election Commission said.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Friday said the elections for the district panchayat chairpersons and block heads in Uttar Pradesh were reminiscent of the "gross misuse of official machinery, money power and violence during Samajwadi Party rule

Nominations for the posts of the block panchayat head were filed in all 75 Uttar Pradesh districts on Thursday amid reports of clashes and allegations of snatching of papers at several places.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sanctioned a 100% raise for all elected members of its panchayats or councils that govern villages, blocks and districts.

The Arjun Munda government is determined to do away with corruption and for this purpose it will bring the bills on Right to Service Act (RTSA) and IT Act in the coming monsoon session of the assembly which is scheduled to meet from August 26. The Chief Minister said that his government is determined to make the state corruption free and it is tak...

In one of the more incredible scenes to emerge from the local elections held in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was caught on camera chasing down a TV reporter in public and beating him viciously.

Generally not the ones to be caught helpless, the complaint of a senior Uttar Pradesh police officer on a call with bosses has gone viral as an example of the glaring breakdown of order during local polls.

Sticks, stones, guns and bombs tarred local polls in Uttar Pradesh, where political developments have assumed heightened significance ahead of the all-important state elections early next year, as the ruling BJP claimed a "historic victory".

Voting for 476 posts of block panchayat chiefs began at 11 am in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, the State Election Commission said.

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Friday said the elections for the district panchayat chairpersons and block heads in Uttar Pradesh were reminiscent of the "gross misuse of official machinery, money power and violence during Samajwadi Party rule

Nominations for the posts of the block panchayat head were filed in all 75 Uttar Pradesh districts on Thursday amid reports of clashes and allegations of snatching of papers at several places.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has sanctioned a 100% raise for all elected members of its panchayats or councils that govern villages, blocks and districts.

The Arjun Munda government is determined to do away with corruption and for this purpose it will bring the bills on Right to Service Act (RTSA) and IT Act in the coming monsoon session of the assembly which is scheduled to meet from August 26. The Chief Minister said that his government is determined to make the state corruption free and it is tak...