Congress Pothole

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan broke into a reel of invective at a gathering on Saturday in Kunnoor, provoking criticism and allegations of behavior that disgraces his office. The Governor has proffered his defense, which includes standing by his remarks. Here are some quotes from his speech during which he was booed by attendees for supportin...

There are no swanky buildings here. The roads are mostly of average quality, with potholes here and there. But this town in Madhya Pradesh is still a focal point of the assembly elections in the large, heartland state. Budhni, represented by BJP's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 60, faces a young opponent sent by the Congress to breach his fo...

Maharashtra PWD minister Chandrakant Patil has claimed that pothole-ridden roads can not be entirely blamed for accidents.

Congress workers today counted and filled potholes in suburban Bandra as part of its campaign, titled "Aao Potholes Giney" (lets count potholes), and accused Mumbai's civic body of not being prepared for the monsoons.

Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam today launched a campaign to count the potholes in the city in an attempt to ridicule the civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Over 3.5 crore people voted in the Karnataka elections amid an adrenaline-filled campaign that had the BJP and the Congress vying for votes. However instead of politics, power and publicity, potholes will be a major deciding factor for some voters. Civic issues have been for long taken a backseat in the IT hub of the country. And in spite of big na...

Nearly 3.5 crore people in Karnataka voted on Saturday at the end of a rancorous campaign that saw the PM Narendra Modi and Congress' Rahul Gandhi throw themselves into the campaign and hurl barbs at each other for weeks. But as people in Karnataka capital Bengaluru stepped out to vote, many suggested civic issues would take priority when they vote...

The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, was mostly derided on social media after he declared in Washington that he felt the roads back home were much better than those in the US.

In the middle of public alarm over a dozen deaths linked to potholes in Bengaluru and the sanitation crisis, a grand plan to celebrate 60 years of the Karnataka state assembly or Vidhana Souda by gifting gold biscuits to 300 Karnataka lawmakers has appalled many. A budget of nearly Rs 27 crore has been sent for approval to the state's Congress gove...

It was one of the many posts that 20-year-old civil engineering student Sagar Savalia had uploaded on his Facebook page. He had spotted a photograph of a new state transport bus, with its wheels off. He shared the photo with a tagline, Vikas Gando Thayu Che, or Development has gone crazy, playing on the much talked about Gujarat model of developmen...

A full-page advertisement featuring Bollywood star Aamir Khan in major newspapers on Tuesday has sparked a row, with parties like the Shiv Sena and the Congress alleging that it violated the election code of conduct and seemed to promote the ruling BJP in Mumbai's mega civic election. The ad was issued by an NGO, Mumbai First, urging the city to vo...

Amid uproar over city roads riddled with potholes, opposition parties have come out in support of Congress's announcement to bring no confidence motion against the BMC Commissioner in the next Standing Committee meeting of the Sena-ruled civic body.

Politics over potholes in the city continued on Wednesday with Delhi Congress claiming that it has received a "tremendous response" from people over the past two days on its social media protest campaign against PWD and MCD.

Mocking the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the Mumbai civic body and showcasing the plight of city roads riddled with potholes, the Congress today held a 'potholes photo exhibition' near the Birhanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) office in Mumbai.

Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan broke into a reel of invective at a gathering on Saturday in Kunnoor, provoking criticism and allegations of behavior that disgraces his office. The Governor has proffered his defense, which includes standing by his remarks. Here are some quotes from his speech during which he was booed by attendees for supportin...

There are no swanky buildings here. The roads are mostly of average quality, with potholes here and there. But this town in Madhya Pradesh is still a focal point of the assembly elections in the large, heartland state. Budhni, represented by BJP's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 60, faces a young opponent sent by the Congress to breach his fo...

Maharashtra PWD minister Chandrakant Patil has claimed that pothole-ridden roads can not be entirely blamed for accidents.

Congress workers today counted and filled potholes in suburban Bandra as part of its campaign, titled "Aao Potholes Giney" (lets count potholes), and accused Mumbai's civic body of not being prepared for the monsoons.

Mumbai Congress president Sanjay Nirupam today launched a campaign to count the potholes in the city in an attempt to ridicule the civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

Over 3.5 crore people voted in the Karnataka elections amid an adrenaline-filled campaign that had the BJP and the Congress vying for votes. However instead of politics, power and publicity, potholes will be a major deciding factor for some voters. Civic issues have been for long taken a backseat in the IT hub of the country. And in spite of big na...

Nearly 3.5 crore people in Karnataka voted on Saturday at the end of a rancorous campaign that saw the PM Narendra Modi and Congress' Rahul Gandhi throw themselves into the campaign and hurl barbs at each other for weeks. But as people in Karnataka capital Bengaluru stepped out to vote, many suggested civic issues would take priority when they vote...

The Army will help build a new bridge at Mumbai's Elphinstone Road train station, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced today as union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal visited the site where 23 were killed in a rush hour stampede a month ago.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, was mostly derided on social media after he declared in Washington that he felt the roads back home were much better than those in the US.

In the middle of public alarm over a dozen deaths linked to potholes in Bengaluru and the sanitation crisis, a grand plan to celebrate 60 years of the Karnataka state assembly or Vidhana Souda by gifting gold biscuits to 300 Karnataka lawmakers has appalled many. A budget of nearly Rs 27 crore has been sent for approval to the state's Congress gove...

It was one of the many posts that 20-year-old civil engineering student Sagar Savalia had uploaded on his Facebook page. He had spotted a photograph of a new state transport bus, with its wheels off. He shared the photo with a tagline, Vikas Gando Thayu Che, or Development has gone crazy, playing on the much talked about Gujarat model of developmen...

A full-page advertisement featuring Bollywood star Aamir Khan in major newspapers on Tuesday has sparked a row, with parties like the Shiv Sena and the Congress alleging that it violated the election code of conduct and seemed to promote the ruling BJP in Mumbai's mega civic election. The ad was issued by an NGO, Mumbai First, urging the city to vo...

Amid uproar over city roads riddled with potholes, opposition parties have come out in support of Congress's announcement to bring no confidence motion against the BMC Commissioner in the next Standing Committee meeting of the Sena-ruled civic body.

Politics over potholes in the city continued on Wednesday with Delhi Congress claiming that it has received a "tremendous response" from people over the past two days on its social media protest campaign against PWD and MCD.

Mocking the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the Mumbai civic body and showcasing the plight of city roads riddled with potholes, the Congress today held a 'potholes photo exhibition' near the Birhanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) office in Mumbai.