Mumbai: PADU, or the Printing Auxiliary Display Unit developed by Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), Bengaluru, was deployed in two wards in Ghatkopar and Kurla during vote counting on Friday after technical issues were encountered with electronic voting machines.Civic officials said PADU was used in Ward 125 (Ghatkopar) and Ward 159 (Kurla). The device was provided…
Mumbai: Sahar police have unearthed a surrogacy racket in which unmarried women were sent abroad from Mumbai with fake marriage documents to donate eggs in foreign countries.As Indian laws specify that only married women can donate eggs, and that too for altruistic reasons, the police detained an unmarried Thane resident who donated eggs multiple times…
Mumbai: A 73-year-old woman died in a fire that erupted in her fourth floor flat in Breeze apartment in Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri (West) on Saturday. Lokhandwala residents have been clamouring for a promised fire station at Chitrakoot Ground since 40 years.The fire was reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) at around 11.15 am. According…
Navi Mumbai: An 80-year-old retired director of an engineering institute residing in Kharghar was cheated of Rs 4 crores by a gang of cyber fraudsters posing as Nashik cops, one of them impersonating as Addnl DGP (Anti–Corruption Bureau). The victim was made to transfer money to a bank account claiming that is was specially provided…
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis celebrates BJP’s victory on Friday. He held 37 public rallies, including seven in Mumbai, in the run-up to the polls MUMBAI : Voters in India’s financial capital appear to have responded to the appeal of a “triple engine sarkar” — with BJP in office at Centre, state and city — and…
PUNE: Mahayuti is set to govern in 24 of 29 corporations that went to polls Thursday, with BJP emerging as single largest party in 21 civic bodies, including Mumbai, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Nashik, and Nagpur. In three cities – Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli and Ahilyanagar – NCP and Shiv Sena were in the lead, with ally BJP a…
Congress performed below its own expectations in the BMC elections and secured 24 seats, seven fewer than it had in 2017. MUMBAI: Congress performed below its own expectations in the BMC elections and secured 24 seats, seven fewer than it had in 2017. The party mostly blamed the poaching of its ex-corporators, lack of expenditure…
BHIWANDI: The Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation election has delivered a fractured verdict, paving the way for intense political negotiations in the 90-member civic body. With all major parties contesting the polls independently, the results reflect a divided mandate and a complex power equation. The Congress emerged as the single largest party, winning 30 seats. The BJP-Shiv…
Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray (File Photo) MUMBAI: In his first public address following the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray struck a defiant tone, saying the BJP “couldn’t finish off Shiv Sena on the ground” and “can’t buy loyalty despite employing all means.” Speaking to party workers in…
Image Used For Representative Image MUMBAI: A 73-year-old woman died in a fire that broke out in a residential building at Lokandwala’s Breeze housing society in Andheri(West).The fire was reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) at around 11.15 am. According to officials, the blaze was spread to a closed room on the second floor…
