Mumbai: In the run-up to the BMC elections, illicit liquor trade saw a spike—allegedly fuelled by demand from political operatives keen on mobilising voters in slum pockets. Data from the first 12 days of Jan shows the poll season triggered a rise in liquor-related crimes, with enforcement agencies scrambling to keep pace.Between Jan 1-12 this…
Mumbai: Five individuals have been booked for allegedly assaulting a senior TTE and his colleague on board the Thiruvananthapuram-CSMT Express when he asked them to pay a fine for unauthorised travel near Karjat railway station in Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.The incident occurred on January 11 when senior TTE Shamu Kallu Rathod (33) was checking…
Mumbai: The state govt will seek written clarification from public universities for not appointing a sufficient number of Professors of Practice (PoPs) over the past three years. While universities are expected to fill 10% of their sanctioned teaching posts with PoPs, most have not appointed more than five. Established universities such as Savitribai Phule Pune…
Mumbai: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will lead a state-level delegation to Davos, Switzerland, from Jan 17 to 24 to participate in the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting-2026.The WEF meeting provides a global platform for trust-based engagement, robust debate and public dialogue, and is aimed at promoting investment and economic cooperation.A government resolution (GR) issued…
Mumbai: Bombay high court declined to direct that the restriction on sale of liquor shall apply only on Thursday, the day of civic polls, till the close of voting hours. Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Abhay Mantri on Tuesday said Maharashtra Foreign Liquor Rules and Maharashtra Country Liquor Rules prescribes the power to ban sale of…
On the afternoon of Sep 4, 1873, a few dozen Englishmen, Hindus, Muslims and Parsis gathered inside the municipal building in Fort, north of today’s BMC headquarters. Their shared aim was to create an effective system of local self-government for Bombay’s 6.5 lakh residents between Colaba and Tardeo. Over 160 years later, the BMC is…
MUMBAI: As Maharashtra heads to elections on Thursday for 29 municipal corporations, all eyes are on Mumbai, where the BJP-led Mahayuti is locked in a battle with the united Thackeray front for control of the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Polling details Polling for the 2,869 seats spread across 893 wards will begin at 7.30…
MUMBAI: The State Election Commission on Tuesday announced elections on Feb 5 to 12 zilla parishads and 125 panchayat samitis where the 50% quota limit for SCs, STs and OBCs was not breached. This was the third phase of polls to the state’s local bodies after polls to municipal councils and corporations. Counting will take…
MUMBAI : In the , almost every political party appears to have chosen the safe option of playing the identity card and fielding more Marathi-speaking candidates.Despite the fact that less than 45% Mumbaikars list Marathi as their first language (2011 Census), BJP has given close to 70% of its tickets to Marathi candidates. Of the…
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis rides a motorbike during a roadshow in Nagpur. MUMBAI: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday slammed UBT-MNS coalition led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray and his cousin Raj for deliberately attempting to fuel the “Marathi vs Non-Marathi” narrative during the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections. Speaking to news agency ANI about…
