Mumbai: BJP and Shiv Sena are likely to jointly register their groups of BMC corporators at the Konkan divisional commissioner’s office on Monday. Party functionaries said a power sharing formula between the two parties has been finalised, under which BJP, which won 89 seats in the BMC polls, will head the joint group of 118…
Thane/Navi Mumbai/Kalyan/Mira-Bhayander: To accommodate multiple aspirants, Shiv Sena and BJP have decided to restrict the tenures of the mayor and the deputy mayor in Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to 15 months each. The arrangement will result in Thane having four different mayors and deputy mayors during the five-year term, said sources. Mayoral elections will be…
Mumbai: Additional chief secretary Manisha Mhaiskar will be the new home secretary. She replaces Iqbal Chahal, who retires on Saturday. She is a 1992 batch IAS officer of the Maharashtra cadre. She has earlier been posted as additional municipal commissioner, BMC, and has also been in charge of the protocol department. She had once courted…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has declared that a man who has been missing since 2003, is presumed to be dead. It quashed and set aside an order of a lower court that had sought evidence from the son that his missing father had suffered from memory loss.“Merely because the plaintiff could not produce any…
Mumbai: The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has told the Bombay high court that Savarkar Sadan cannot be declared a centrally protected monument (CPM) as it is not one hundred years old. CPMs are heritage sites of national importance, reports Rosy Sequeira.The building consists of eight flats. It was originally built in 1938 as a…
Mumbai: Several pockets of western suburbs were hit by a power outage from 7 pm on Tuesday, which lasted for nearly 1.5 to 2 hours, with Adani Electricity consumers in Andheri Lokhandwala, parts of Juhu and Santacruz reporting prolonged disruption. Other affected areas included parts of Bandra, Khar, Versova, Jogeshwari, Oshiwara, Goregaon and Malad, as…
Mumbai: Three days after Bombay HC’s nudge, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday told the court that it will add the names of a BMC ward officer, an assistant engineer and a junior engineer as co-accused in a Rs 75-lakh bribery case.Two touts were caught in 2024 accepting Rs 75 lakh on behalf of a…
Thane: The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Thane Police arrested Sameer Subhash Narvekar, his wife, Neha Narvekar, and Amit Balam in connection with an alleged over Rs 500-crore investment cheating scam. During the probe, investigators also came across information suggesting that several govt officials and bureaucrats, netas, including retired personnel, invested in the scheme, officials…
Mumbai: The MIDC police registered an FIR against a woman for negligent conduct after her pet dog allegedly bit and seriously injured an electrician in Andheri East.The incident occurred on Wednesday at 10 pm when the injured man, Sanjay Panchal (42), was returning home on foot after dinner at a friend’s place. The FIR was…
Mumbai: Despite winning 24 more corporator seats than Shiv Sena (UBT) in the recently held BMC elections, BJP will find itself on near equal footing with its rival when it comes to control of ward committees—the civic bodies that wield real, on-the-ground power.At the ward committee level, both BJP and Shiv Sena (UBT) are likely…
