Tamil Nadu Civic Bodies

This move comes after the Regional Meteorological Centre forecasted normal to slightly above normal rainfall during the northeast monsoon.

The Greater Chennai Corporation has tightened rules for entry of pets, particularly dogs inside public parks following the recent attack on a 5-year-old girl by two Rottweiler dogs in a city park.

The BJP held a protest across Tamil Nadu on Friday against the property tax hike by the state government. Chief Minister M K Stalin has said his DMK government was constrained to revise the property tax to ensure funds flow to civic bodies so the ne

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said his DMK government was constrained to revise the property tax to ensure funds flow to the newly elected civic bodies so as to facilitate developmental activities.

All the 20 mayoral candidates of the ruling DMK and its ally Congress' nominee, an autorickshaw driver, on Friday were elected in indirect polls to the top posts in civic bodies in Tamil Nadu and they took charge.

Transgender candidate R Ganga of the DMK won from the Vellore City Municipal Corporation (VCMC) by a margin of 15 votes in the recently concluded Tamil Nadu urban local body polls.

21 cities including the capital Chennai, 138 municipalities and 490 town panchayats will elect more than 12,000 members. Over the last five years, these bodies did not have elected representatives as elections were not held.

Tamil Nadu BJP unit president K Annamalai on Saturday alleged impersonation saying some one else had already cast the vote of Union Minister of State L Murugan in the urban local body polls.

Ordinary election to the urban local bodies in Tamil Nadu will be held on February 19 and counting of votes will be taken up on February 22, the State Election Commission announced on Wednesday.

Over a few hundred kilometres of roads used as busy bus routes in Chennai remain battered following more than 50 cm of rain that pounded the city over the last week. The civic body has begun assessment even as patchwork has begun to help commuters.

The Chennai civic body was pulled up today by the Madras High Court, for the huge flooding the city has been struggling with for the last four days. The court warned that it would take up the matter on its own if the situation does not improve by Sat

The Madras High Court directed all Municipal Corporation Commissioners of the state and heads of Municipalities to file written undertakings stating that no manual scavenging work will be permitted in their areas while assuming office in future.

At least 38 employees of a national bank's main branch in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, have tested positive for coronavirus, officials from the bank and the local civic body have said.

A day after moving the Supreme Court over conduct of local body polls in Tamil Nadu, DMK chief MK Stalin today accused the ruling AIADMK regime of "creating confusions" on matters connected to the civic elections.

The Madras High Court Friday acquitted a man sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment by a lower court for allegedly damaging late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's photograph in the city corporation in 2001.

This move comes after the Regional Meteorological Centre forecasted normal to slightly above normal rainfall during the northeast monsoon.

The Greater Chennai Corporation has tightened rules for entry of pets, particularly dogs inside public parks following the recent attack on a 5-year-old girl by two Rottweiler dogs in a city park.

The BJP held a protest across Tamil Nadu on Friday against the property tax hike by the state government. Chief Minister M K Stalin has said his DMK government was constrained to revise the property tax to ensure funds flow to civic bodies so the ne

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said his DMK government was constrained to revise the property tax to ensure funds flow to the newly elected civic bodies so as to facilitate developmental activities.

All the 20 mayoral candidates of the ruling DMK and its ally Congress' nominee, an autorickshaw driver, on Friday were elected in indirect polls to the top posts in civic bodies in Tamil Nadu and they took charge.

Transgender candidate R Ganga of the DMK won from the Vellore City Municipal Corporation (VCMC) by a margin of 15 votes in the recently concluded Tamil Nadu urban local body polls.

21 cities including the capital Chennai, 138 municipalities and 490 town panchayats will elect more than 12,000 members. Over the last five years, these bodies did not have elected representatives as elections were not held.

Tamil Nadu BJP unit president K Annamalai on Saturday alleged impersonation saying some one else had already cast the vote of Union Minister of State L Murugan in the urban local body polls.

Ordinary election to the urban local bodies in Tamil Nadu will be held on February 19 and counting of votes will be taken up on February 22, the State Election Commission announced on Wednesday.

Over a few hundred kilometres of roads used as busy bus routes in Chennai remain battered following more than 50 cm of rain that pounded the city over the last week. The civic body has begun assessment even as patchwork has begun to help commuters.

The Chennai civic body was pulled up today by the Madras High Court, for the huge flooding the city has been struggling with for the last four days. The court warned that it would take up the matter on its own if the situation does not improve by Sat

The Madras High Court directed all Municipal Corporation Commissioners of the state and heads of Municipalities to file written undertakings stating that no manual scavenging work will be permitted in their areas while assuming office in future.

At least 38 employees of a national bank's main branch in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, have tested positive for coronavirus, officials from the bank and the local civic body have said.

A day after moving the Supreme Court over conduct of local body polls in Tamil Nadu, DMK chief MK Stalin today accused the ruling AIADMK regime of "creating confusions" on matters connected to the civic elections.

The Madras High Court Friday acquitted a man sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment by a lower court for allegedly damaging late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's photograph in the city corporation in 2001.