The Mayawati government on Friday decided to hold the local bodies’ elections without party symbols.
A formal decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the state Cabinet here on Friday.
While chief minister Mayawati had already expressed her inclination to alter the traditional practice of holding elections on party lines, a formal decision was taken by the state cabinet Friday.
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The BJP on Friday suspended three party MLAs for cross-voting in the just-concluded Rajya Sabha polls. MLAs Banwari Ram from Bihar, Bhimsen Chaudhary from Orissa and Ram Chandra from Jharkhand were suspended for not voting in favour of the BJP candidate or abstaining in the biennial polls on Thursday.

Dozens of pro-independence Jammu Kashmiri Liberation Front (JKLF) activists, led by its chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik, on Friday courted arrest to protest against what it alleged are increasing human rights violations by Indian security forces.

The damp squib for the BJP on the hoardings issue has forced the party to consider bringing in a formal no-confidence proposal against the municipal commissioner in the MCD House.

Commercial establishments running from within the premises of the Delhi Metro stations will be allowed to continue with their business but will have to pay the property tax and also secure trade licence from the MCD. Earlier, the commercial establishments have been claiming that they were not required to get any approval from the urban local body (ULB) or pay them taxes.

THE BACHCHAN clan was greeted by thousands of hysterically shrieking fans at the world premiere of Mani Ratnam’s latest film Raavan, which stars Abhishek Bachchan and his wife Aishwarya Rai Bachchan,

The Delhi high court on Thursday criticised the police for its failure to protect people in the national capital, saying they (the police) “connive” with the families for money.
After hearing a plea from its Legal Services Aid Authority, which pointed out a recent case in which a man was jailed for eloping with a girl based on a complaint by her p

June 17: Moon Emperor is fancied to win the Climate Summit Plate, the feature event to be held on Friday.

Jaipur’s chief judicial magistrate Thursday directed the police to file an FIR against some BJP leaders and the managers of a resort for screening a pirated DVD of Prakash Jha’s Raajneeti for BJP MLAs

The struggle for power in the national sport intensified on Thursday with Hockey India warning the players against participating in next month’s men’s national championship in Bhopal organised by the K.P.S. Gill-led Indian Hockey Federation.