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  Ahead of Tripura panchayat polls, BJP wins 83% of total seats unopposed

  Elections | July 12, 2019 21:34 IST

  Ahead of the panchayat elections in Tripura, the ruling BJP has won over 5,500 (83 per cent) of the 6,646 seats unopposed in the three-tier rural body polls, officials said on Friday.  

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  BJP wins 96% of Tripura Gram Panchayat seats unopposed

  Elections | September 16, 2018 10:10 IST

  The by-elections to 3,386 seats -- 3,207 Gram Panchayat seats, 161 Panchayat Samiti seats and 18 Zilla Parishads seats -- are scheduled for September 30.

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  Play active role for village development, use Centre’s resources: PM Modi

  Politics | April 25, 2016 8:53 IST

  Jamshedpur: Rooting for stronger democracy at the grassroots level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged the gram panchayats to make their contributions towards village development. Explaining them how to make full use of the current

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  Uttar Pradesh Gram panchayat polls to begin on November 28

  Politics | November 07, 2015 16:43 IST

  Lucknow: After the successful completion of Zila and Kshetra panchayat elections, the Uttar Pradesh Election Comission today issued notification for electing 58,909 village heads and seven lakh Gram panchayat members starting November 28."The election will

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  Exclusive: Government to accept opposition's suggestions on Land Bill

  India | March 10, 2015 0:08 IST

  New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government is likely to accept 7-8 changes of the total 52 amendments suggested by opposition on the controversial Land Bill. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said that his government

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  Women empowerment: Madhya Pradesh to issue ration cards in women's name

  India | January 07, 2015 8:41 IST

  Bhopal: With an aim to empower women, Madhya Pradesh Government on Tuesday decided to issue ration cards  in the name of female head of a family and fixed a time limit for issuance and renewal

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  PM Narendra Modi to launch Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana on October 11

  India | October 09, 2014 9:11 IST

  New Delhi:  The Centre is set to roll out an ambitious rural development scheme with an aim to "improve" the standard of living and quality of life of all sections of people through improved basic

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  Shameful: 3-year-old girl raped by minor, condition critical

  India | July 22, 2014 20:51 IST

  Bangalore: Just days after a 6-year-old girl was raped in a school, the Bangalore city is again taken to storm after the shocking incident of a minor raping a 3 year old girl surfaced. The

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  Three persons injured in Manipur blast

  India | July 09, 2012 14:10 IST

  Imphal, Jul 9: Three members of a family, including a child, were seriously injured when militants hurled a grenade at a gram panchayat pradhan's house in Imphal East district of Manipur, officials said today.The militants