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Telangana to Get Two New Municipal Corporations, 12 Municipalities
23 hours, 27 minutes ago

Telangana to Get Two New Municipal Corporations, 12 Municipalities

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: In a move aimed at fostering urban development, the Telangana government has approved the formation of two municipal corporations and 12 municipalities, official sources said. Subsequently, the state’s urban landscape will expand from its 13 municipal corporations and 141 municipalities. The new municipalities were: Kohir, Gaddapotharam, Gummadidala and Isnapur ; Kesamudram ; Station Ghanpur ; Maddur ; Yedulapuram ; …

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Faber seeks cooperation to address asylum housing shortfall
2 days, 18 hours ago

Faber seeks cooperation to address asylum housing shortfall

NL Times  

The Dutch government is working to resolve a housing shortfall for asylum seekers after municipalities failed to meet targets set by the controversial spreidingswet. The law mandates the creation of 96,000 housing spaces, but only 90,000 have been secured, according to Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber. The spreidingswet, enacted to distribute asylum housing obligations fairly across municipalities, allows the minister to …

Faber Municipalities
Kerala High Court Declares Recent Delimitation Exercise Invalid For Eight Municipalities, One Panchayat
4 days, 14 hours ago

Kerala High Court Declares Recent Delimitation Exercise Invalid For Eight Municipalities, One Panchayat

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court on Wednesday declared the delimitation exercise carried out in 2024 in Padne Grama Panchayat, Panoor Municipality, Mukkom Municipality, Koduvally Municipality, Payyoli Municipality, Sreekandapuram Municipality, Feroke Municipality, Pattambi Municipality and Mattannur Municipality as invalid. The Kerala Government by virtue of Kerala Municipality Act, 2024 and Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 2024 increased the ratio of number of counsellors/ …

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Urban green spaces shrink in major Dutch cities, study finds
1 week, 1 day ago

Urban green spaces shrink in major Dutch cities, study finds

NL Times  

Public green space in the Netherlands' largest municipalities has decreased by 24 percent per household over the past five years, according to a study released Monday by environmental group Natuur & Milieu in collaboration with Sweco, an architecture and engineering consultancy. “A neighborhood is considered paved when there is less than 75 square meters of public green space per household …

Space Green Spaces Greenery Study Finds Green Space Municipalities Milieu
Two-thirds fewer municipalities than in 1899, largest decrease in Zeeland
1 week, 3 days ago

Two-thirds fewer municipalities than in 1899, largest decrease in Zeeland

NL Times  

There are two-thirds fewer municipalities in the Netherlands than over a century ago. These two municipalities were still villages with less than 5 thousand inhabitants 125 years ago, and now have 100 and 50 times as many inhabitants respectively. The decline in the number of municipalities has virtually come to a standstill in recent years because few reorganizations or mergers …

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Homeowners to pay 4.8% more in municipal taxes and levies next year
1 week, 3 days ago

Homeowners to pay 4.8% more in municipal taxes and levies next year

NL Times  

Homeowners will pay an average of 4.8 percent, or 45 euros, more in municipal taxes and levies in 2025. Although the average increase of 4.8 percent seems limited, there will be significant outliers again next year, said VEH. The highest increase in the sample is, just like this year, in Renkum in Gelderland, where the property tax, the most decisive …

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Deal to solve housing shortage includes entire districts of moveable, prefab homes
1 week, 5 days ago

Deal to solve housing shortage includes entire districts of moveable, prefab homes

NL Times  

One of the plans agreed to at the Housing Summit in Nieuwegein is to build seven “flexible districts” - residential areas consisting entirely of moveable, prefabricated homes, RTL Nieuws reports. All sides agree that construction needs to ramp up rapidly in the coming years, and in more municipalities, to hit the government's target of 100,000 new homes annually, the Cabinet …

Homes Construction Cabinet Solve Housing Shortage Includes
Netherlands starts six months of extra border controls
2 weeks ago

Netherlands starts six months of extra border controls

NL Times  

From today, the Koninklijke Marechaussee will perform extra border controls. Marver, the trade union for the Marechaussee, previously told the Telegraaf that they’ve managed to allocate another 50 people to the border controls. A spokesperson for the Marechaussee confirmed to NOS that the border controls won’t look very different from today, there will mainly be more of them. The extra …

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Social housing lags behind despite rising demand
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Social housing lags behind despite rising demand

NL Times  

Dutch municipalities with low numbers of social housing units have failed to add significant numbers of new affordable homes in recent years, according to new data. The Central Bureau of Statistics revealed that between 2020 and 2023, only 51 of the 342 Dutch municipalities achieved the target of building at least 30 percent of new homes as social housing. In …

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Five new municipalities to come up in old Warangal
3 weeks ago

Five new municipalities to come up in old Warangal

Deccan Chronicle  

Warangal: The state government is gearing up to establish five new municipalities by converting five major gram panchayats in the erstwhile united Warangal district. The five new municipalities are Atmakur in Hanamkonda district, Nekkonda in Warangal district, Kesamudram in Mahabubabad district, Station Ghanpur in Jangaon district and Mulugu in Mulugu district. A few days ago, the officials submitted a report …

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Multiple municipalities want to ban all fuel cars in forseeable future
3 weeks, 3 days ago

Multiple municipalities want to ban all fuel cars in forseeable future

NL Times  

Several municipalities plan to ban all fossil fuel cars from their cities in the coming years or are considering doing so, the Telegraaf reports after surveying the larger municipalities. Utrecht wants to become an emission-free city “as soon as possible.” “The most effective measure to improve air quality is to introduce a zero-emission zone for passenger cars,” Utrecht wrote in …

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Inequality worsened by shifting poverty measures from national gov't to local councils
3 weeks, 4 days ago

Inequality worsened by shifting poverty measures from national gov't to local councils

NL Times  

Municipalities’ greater role in providing income support for financially struggling residents has unintentionally led to more inequality between citizens, the National Institute for Budget Information concluded in a study requested by municipalities themselves. People in similar circumstances receive more support in one municipality than another and that is very “difficult to explain,” Nibud said. “Municipalities have been given an awful …

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Cabinet gives in: Municipalities can implement zero-emission zones next year
1 month ago

Cabinet gives in: Municipalities can implement zero-emission zones next year

NL Times  

The Dutch cabinet has authorized municipalities to implement zero-emission zones for delivery vans and trucks starting January 1, 2025. In addition to the moratorium on fines, the government has extended access for diesel delivery vans classified as Euro 6—the cleanest category of diesel vehicles—until January 1, 2029. The new policy introduces a phased transition: vehicles with Euro 5 diesel engines …

Vehicles Cabinet Zones Jansen Municipalities
Kick Out Zwarte Piet will no longer protest at Sinterklaas arrival parties
1 month ago

Kick Out Zwarte Piet will no longer protest at Sinterklaas arrival parties

NL Times  

Following several demonstrations last week against the racist depiction of Black Piet on Sinterklaas, the Kick Out Zwarte Piet action group has announced that it will no longer be demonstrating at the new Sinterklaas parades this year. “This makes them almost indistinguishable from Zwarte Piets and many municipalities are following this bad example.” This must have apparently set something in …

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GroenLinks, PvdA to continue left-wing teamup in municipal elections
1 month ago

GroenLinks, PvdA to continue left-wing teamup in municipal elections

NL Times  

PvdA and GroenLinks will participate together in the municipal elections in March 2026 in 80 percent of the municipalities, PvdA chairman Esther-Mirjam Sent announced. These factions are following the national line and seem to bring an official merger of the two left-wing parties another step closer, NOS reports. According to Sent, many factions have already decided to submit a joint …

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Municipalities not sharing experience on dealing with New Year's violence: report
1 month, 1 week ago

Municipalities not sharing experience on dealing with New Year's violence: report

NL Times  

Dutch municipalities seem to learn little from each other when it comes to handling New Year’s Eve violence like riots, fires, and first responders being attacked, Omroep Gelderland reported. These municipalities all struggled with things like riots, fires, and harassed first responders over the past few New Year’s Eves. “It is striking that these municipalities mainly ask neighboring municipalities about …

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Adilabad Caste Census Reveals Household Surge
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Adilabad Caste Census Reveals Household Surge

Deccan Chronicle  

Adilabad: Enumerators on Friday discovered more houses in their blocks than the estimated number during the integrated caste census in the erstwhile Adilabad district. Initially, officials found 1,49,161 houses in 433 gram panchayats and 48,393 households in Adilabad municipality. He explained that mismatches occur as some people living in rented houses informed enumerators that they would register their households in …

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Dutch Residents Generated 453 kg of Waste Last Year
2 months ago

Dutch Residents Generated 453 kg of Waste Last Year

NL Times  

The Netherlands collected 8.1 billion kilograms of household waste last year, with the largest part being residual waste, which decreased from 182 to 177 kilograms per inhabitant. Organic waste was the second largest waste item collected, with 92 kilograms per inhabitant, up from 89 kg per inhabitant the year before. Paper and cardboard waste was collected at 41 and 43 …

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Ordinance Amending Time To Move No Confidence Motion Regarding Municipal Council Head's Tenure Is Retroactive: Madhya Pradesh High Court
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ordinance Amending Time To Move No Confidence Motion Regarding Municipal Council Head's Tenure Is Retroactive: Madhya Pradesh High Court

Live Law  

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has quashed an order calling for a no confidence motion meeting in connection with the post of President, Municipal Council under the Madhya Pradesh Municipalities Act, noting that the ordinance promulgated subsequently extending the tenure from 2 to 3 years before such a motion is passed would have retroactive application. A single judge bench of …

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Revanth’s Mega GHMC Sets Rolling With Merger of 51 Gram Panchayats
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Revanth’s Mega GHMC Sets Rolling With Merger of 51 Gram Panchayats

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad:The government on Tuesday issued an ordinance to expand the limits of Hyderabad’s urban agglomeration to the confines of Outer Ring Road by merging 51 outlying gram panchayats with nearby municipal bodies in Rangareddy, Medchal-Malkajgiri and Sangareddy districts. Two gram panchayats — Pudur and Railpur — will be merged with the Medchal municipality, and six— Keesara, Yadgarpally, Ankireddypally, Cheeryal, Narsampally …

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Thousands protest controversial law to remove millions of dogs from Turkey’s streets
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands protest controversial law to remove millions of dogs from Turkey’s streets

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Last month, legislators approved the …

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Thousands of Turks protest controversial law to remove stray dogs
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Thousands of Turks protest controversial law to remove stray dogs

Associated Press  

ISTANBUL — Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Istanbul on Sunday to protest recent legislation that critics say is leading to the killing of stray dogs across Turkey. Last month, legislators approved the new law aimed at removing millions of stray dogs from Turkish streets citing safety concerns. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the law was necessary to deal with the …

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Nizamabad Municipal Corp Enforces Staff Changes Post-bribery Scandal
4 months, 1 week ago

Nizamabad Municipal Corp Enforces Staff Changes Post-bribery Scandal

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: With Nizamabad municipal in-charge revenue officer Dasari Narender recently caught by ACB officials with Rs 6 crore worth of properties including Rs 2.93 crore cash, the Nizamabad municipal corporation started taking damage control measures. He said the employees in all sections would be shifted soon and they would be trained about discharging their duties responsibly. The commissioner warned that …

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Japan’s Kishida cancels Asia trip after scientists urge preparations for a possible ‘megaquake’
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Japan’s Kishida cancels Asia trip after scientists urge preparations for a possible ‘megaquake’

Associated Press  

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida canceled a planned trip to Central Asia on Friday to lead the government’s response after scientists urged people to prepare for a possible “megaquake” off the country’s southern coast. The Japan Meteorological Agency issued its first ever “megaquake advisory” on Thursday warning of a possible future major earthquake triggered by the underwater Nankai …

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