Panchayat Building

Days after the communal clashes in Haryana, prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Saturday hailed the role of khap panchayats, social organisations, Sikhs and others who contributed towards building communal harmony.

A building used as a panchayat office was blown up by Maoists at a village in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, a police officer said on Friday.

The demolition of a panchayat building in north Bihar district of Muzaffarpur, allegedly without the requisite permission, and auction of the bricks extracted from the rubble have snowballed into a controversy in the state.

Panchayati Raj Day 2021: The Ministry of Panchayati Raj tweeted that the National Panchayati Raj Diwas is ''a unique occasion to recognise and felicitate our Panchayats for their work towards building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat''.

At least 43 cows died of suffocation in a small room of a panchayat building where they were allegedly locked in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, a senior official said on Saturday.

Authorities in Rajouri district initiated action against three officials after some pictures of a school building without a roof, which served as a polling station for the 7th phase of Panchayat elections in a remote village, went viral on social media, officials said on Wednesday.

A signboard carrying a photograph of BR Ambedkar outside a panchayat building was found damaged at Jadwad village in Bhopa, police said today. The signboard was removed by some miscreants last night, circle officer Mohd Rizwan said

After shocking the Left by placing second in this week's assembly by-election in West Bengal behind the ruling Trinamool Congress, the BJP has launched a 'Mission Bengal' that aims at preparing the party to make major inroads in the panchayat or local elections to be held next year. The party is sending senior leaders to West Bengal to interact wit...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will unveil a statue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and attend a meeting of the vigilance and monitoring committee during a two-day visit to her constituency starting from September 9.

Union Minister for Rural Development, Sanitation, Drinking Water and Panchayat Raj Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday approved 28 projects worth Rs.438 crore for building rural roads in Leh and Kargil districts in Ladakh.

India will build a broadband highway connecting 2.5 lakh panchayats across the country in the next three years to provide a host of public services, Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday.

Taking serious note of people defecating in open, which is the root cause of major diseases in rural areas, the state government has decided to come down heavily on the elected representatives for not implementing the measures at their homes.The elected representatives in the rural area may now lose their seat if they do not build a toilet in their...

Maoists blew up a panchayat building used for accommodating security forces during anti-Naxal operations in Orissa's Malkangiri district early today.About 100 armed rebels stormed into Malabaran village and blew up the building with landmines, Inspector In-Charge of Motu police station S K Taoria said. The Maoists shouted anti-government slogans be...

Days after the communal clashes in Haryana, prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Saturday hailed the role of khap panchayats, social organisations, Sikhs and others who contributed towards building communal harmony.

A building used as a panchayat office was blown up by Maoists at a village in Jharkhand's West Singhbhum district, a police officer said on Friday.

The demolition of a panchayat building in north Bihar district of Muzaffarpur, allegedly without the requisite permission, and auction of the bricks extracted from the rubble have snowballed into a controversy in the state.

Panchayati Raj Day 2021: The Ministry of Panchayati Raj tweeted that the National Panchayati Raj Diwas is ''a unique occasion to recognise and felicitate our Panchayats for their work towards building an Aatmanirbhar Bharat''.

At least 43 cows died of suffocation in a small room of a panchayat building where they were allegedly locked in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, a senior official said on Saturday.

Authorities in Rajouri district initiated action against three officials after some pictures of a school building without a roof, which served as a polling station for the 7th phase of Panchayat elections in a remote village, went viral on social media, officials said on Wednesday.

A signboard carrying a photograph of BR Ambedkar outside a panchayat building was found damaged at Jadwad village in Bhopa, police said today. The signboard was removed by some miscreants last night, circle officer Mohd Rizwan said

After shocking the Left by placing second in this week's assembly by-election in West Bengal behind the ruling Trinamool Congress, the BJP has launched a 'Mission Bengal' that aims at preparing the party to make major inroads in the panchayat or local elections to be held next year. The party is sending senior leaders to West Bengal to interact wit...

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will unveil a statue of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and attend a meeting of the vigilance and monitoring committee during a two-day visit to her constituency starting from September 9.

Union Minister for Rural Development, Sanitation, Drinking Water and Panchayat Raj Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday approved 28 projects worth Rs.438 crore for building rural roads in Leh and Kargil districts in Ladakh.

India will build a broadband highway connecting 2.5 lakh panchayats across the country in the next three years to provide a host of public services, Union Communications and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday.

Taking serious note of people defecating in open, which is the root cause of major diseases in rural areas, the state government has decided to come down heavily on the elected representatives for not implementing the measures at their homes.The elected representatives in the rural area may now lose their seat if they do not build a toilet in their...

Maoists blew up a panchayat building used for accommodating security forces during anti-Naxal operations in Orissa's Malkangiri district early today.About 100 armed rebels stormed into Malabaran village and blew up the building with landmines, Inspector In-Charge of Motu police station S K Taoria said. The Maoists shouted anti-government slogans be...