BJP begins final round of intra-party consultations to finalise NDA’s mayoral candidate in Thiruvananthapuram

[ad_1] BJP State chief Rajeev Chandrasekhar leads the party’s victory road show along with newly elected NDA councillors of the city Corporation at Thampanoor in Thiruvananthapuram. | Photo Credit: (File) NIRMAL HARINDRAN The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Sunday (December 21, 2025) began the final round of intra-party discussions to select […]

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Kerala local body polls: BJP captures power in Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, ending decades-long LDF rule

[ad_1] BJP candidate from Sasthamangalam R. Sreelekha celebrates outside the counting centre following her victory in the city Corporation election in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. | Photo Credit: JAYAMOHAN A. Ending over four decades of the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) hold over the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (BJP-NDA) secured power in […]

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Thiruvananthapuram Corporation cuts down on kitchen bin purchase order due to lukewarm response

[ad_1] The city Corporation has cut down on its purchase order for bio-compost kitchen bins to process biodegradable waste due to low number of applicants. As per an agenda item presented at the Corporation Council meeting here on Friday, it was earlier decided to purchase 25,000 such bins to promote waste treatment at source in […]

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Risk of Brahmapuram-like incidents low in capital, thanks to Corporation’s biomining, waste decentralisation steps

[ad_1] A view of the Sanmathi garden created by the Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation at the Erumakkuzhi garbage dumping yard after removing all waste. With Thiruvananthapuram’s centralised waste treatment facility closing down a decade ago and with the capping of most of the city’s legacy waste dumps, the possibilities of waste dump fires as has happened […]

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Corporation initiates revenue recovery proceedings against property tax defaulters

[ad_1] The Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation is set to initiate revenue recovery proceedings against property tax defaulters with pending payments above ₹1 lakh. The revenue wing of the civic body has identified as many as 760 such cases, and already issued notices to 32 institutions or individuals. The revenue recovery proceedings are being initiated against all […]

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Corporation to have a ‘green’ Budget this year

[ad_1] Thiruvananthapuram Corporation will be having a ‘green budget’ this year with proposals for more electric vehicles, increasing green cover and conversion to solar power in most government buildings in the city, according to official sources. The civic body is set to present the budget for the 2023-24 financial year on March 10. It is […]

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Chief Minister derailing probe into the letter row at Thiruvananthapuram Corporation: V. D Satheesan

[ad_1] Leaderr of the Oppositionn V D Satheesan inaugurates a protest by UDF before the TThiruvananthapuram Corporationn demanding the resignation of the Mayor Arya Rajendran, in Thiruvananthapuram. | Photo Credit: S. Mahinsha Opposition Leader V. D. Satheesan on Friday accused the Crime Branch of going by the script penned by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan to […]

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Mayor sends legal notice to Jebi Mather

[ad_1] Mayor Arya Rajendran on Monday sent a legal notice to Rajya Sabha MP Jebi Mather who had allegedly made personal remarks against her during the Mahila Congress’s protest last week at the Thiruvananthapuram Corporation office demanding the Mayor’s resignation over her alleged letter to the CPI(M) district secretary. She has demanded Ms.Mather to retract […]

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Opposition parties continue protests demanding resignation of Mayor over letter issue

[ad_1] Satheesan says thousands of backdoor appointments are being made in public sector units, local bodies and the Congress will expose them Satheesan says thousands of backdoor appointments are being made in public sector units, local bodies and the Congress will expose them For the fifth consecutive day, the Thiruvananthapuram city Corporation office was roiled […]

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Crime Branch to probe origins of alleged letter by Mayor

[ad_1] State Police Chief Anil Kant has tasked the Crime Branch (CB) with the investigation into a complaint filed by Thiruvananthapuram Mayor Arya Rajendran to trace the origins of the letter in her name to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] district secretary Anavoor Nagappan asking him for a “priority list” of applicants for […]

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