Pune Municipal Corporation Election

BJP corporator Murlidhar Mohol was on Friday elected as the new Mayor of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), defeating the joint Congress-NCP candidate who was also supported by the Shiv Sena.

The Maharashtra government is mulling to hold direct elections for the mayor's post in the corporations that fall under the C and D category, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said.

The BMC or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election is more than civic body polls for parties in India's financial capital. The Shiv Sena and the BJP, long-time allies, contested separately and fought bitterly against each other. Some 21,620 candidates contested the 5,777 seats up for grabs in the 10 municipal corporations including BMC, for whi...

Pune registered a voter turnout of 53.55 per cent in the Pune Municipal Corporation election, slightly higher than 2012.

As many as 2,661 nominations were today filed for 162 seats of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), election to which would be held on February 21.

The 'Occupy Men's Toilet' campaign started by women in China to protest against the lack of sanitation facilities for them is beginning to grip the imagination of women in the city. Activists, working women and college students are now saying that if the 78 newly elected women representatives in the civic house do nothing on the issue, they will la...

Counting of votes for the ten municipal corporations across Maharashtra will begin today. As important cities like Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur elect their civic bodies, these elections are being fought as mini-Assembly polls. The counting of votes will start at 7.30 a.m. in municipal corporation of Thane, while in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad it will star...

Inspired by social activist Anna Hazare's endeavour to rid society and politics of corruption and yoga guru Baba Ramdev's dream of a clean socio-political scenario, people from various walks of life have come together to form a forum called Pune Nagrik Sanghatana (PNS). It is learnt that the forum will take part in the Pune Municipal Corporation (P...

Hundreds of corporators from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) have been getting tech-savvy and resorting to innovative means to woo voters and score brownie points with their party bosses ahead of the municipal elections. The latest trend is to make documentaries highlighting the work done b...

BJP corporator Murlidhar Mohol was on Friday elected as the new Mayor of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), defeating the joint Congress-NCP candidate who was also supported by the Shiv Sena.

The Maharashtra government is mulling to hold direct elections for the mayor's post in the corporations that fall under the C and D category, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said.

The BMC or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election is more than civic body polls for parties in India's financial capital. The Shiv Sena and the BJP, long-time allies, contested separately and fought bitterly against each other. Some 21,620 candidates contested the 5,777 seats up for grabs in the 10 municipal corporations including BMC, for whi...

Pune registered a voter turnout of 53.55 per cent in the Pune Municipal Corporation election, slightly higher than 2012.

As many as 2,661 nominations were today filed for 162 seats of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), election to which would be held on February 21.

The 'Occupy Men's Toilet' campaign started by women in China to protest against the lack of sanitation facilities for them is beginning to grip the imagination of women in the city. Activists, working women and college students are now saying that if the 78 newly elected women representatives in the civic house do nothing on the issue, they will la...

Counting of votes for the ten municipal corporations across Maharashtra will begin today. As important cities like Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur elect their civic bodies, these elections are being fought as mini-Assembly polls. The counting of votes will start at 7.30 a.m. in municipal corporation of Thane, while in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad it will star...

Inspired by social activist Anna Hazare's endeavour to rid society and politics of corruption and yoga guru Baba Ramdev's dream of a clean socio-political scenario, people from various walks of life have come together to form a forum called Pune Nagrik Sanghatana (PNS). It is learnt that the forum will take part in the Pune Municipal Corporation (P...

Hundreds of corporators from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) have been getting tech-savvy and resorting to innovative means to woo voters and score brownie points with their party bosses ahead of the municipal elections. The latest trend is to make documentaries highlighting the work done b...