The Andhra Pradesh government on Saturday went ahead with rural polls in some of the disputed villages of Kotia gram panchayat in Odisha’s Koraput district despite stiff opposition from local of...

A labourer in Madhya Pradesh’s Guna has dug a well in his house in a fortnight for his wife who used to fetch water daily from a hand-pump located half-a-km away from their home at Guna. Bharat...

The state government has notified new working committees in panchayats to facilitate smooth execution of local projects under the 15th finance commission using its power under Section 107 of the ...

Artisans were also offered breakfast and lunch by the panchayat early on Wednesday. Bhadu is a recognised folk tradition in south Bengal. Roaming bands of folk singers perform across villages, the so...

Mansura Begum, former chief of Kendamari-Jaalpai panchayat in Nandigram, was re-elected panchayat pradhan on Tuesday, embarrassing Trinamul that had nominated panchayat member Sakina Khatun instead. ...

Bengal state government officials held a meeting with representatives of four gram panchayats in Birbhum’s Mohammedbazar on Wednesday to prepare for a survey that would be carried out among land...

A “court” of village elders in Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra district has allegedly made a man wash vermilion from the forehead of his wife and pronounced the couple “divorced&rdqu...

Members of five Scheduled Caste families whose homes were either washed away or face threat from the swirling waters of the Hooghly in Nadia couldn’t settle on the land allotted by the local pan...

Panchayat officials in East Midnapore's Nandigram-I and II held the three hours given to them to draw up the list of beneficiaries and laxity of block officials to verify names responsible for mas...

A former Trinamul gram panchayat member was beaten to death in broad daylight on Monday in East Midnapore’s Moyna, with the party blaming BJP workers for the murder.Basudeb Mandal’s killing was th...