Mumbai: Pets and facilities for them have become a part of the BMC poll promises. After the Shiv Sena (UBT) featured pet parks, clinics and crematoriums in their manifesto, BJP and other party candidates also promised pet parks and clinics to voters. Candidates across parties are talking about pets, and pet parents are also making…
Thane: A Bombay High Court representative was assaulted and threatened during a land possession procedure in Kamothe in Navi Mumbai, following which a father-son duo was booked, a police official said on Sunday. “When HC clerk Pawan Donuji Hargule (31) went to the site to take formal possession and start fencing works along with Cidco…
MUMBAI: The newly carved P East administrative ward is seeing the same political and civic churn as the rest of the city, with redrawn boundaries, uneven infrastructure and mixed demographics influencing the contest.Prashant Mahadik, MNS shakha pramukh from Malad (East) and the MNS-Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate from electoral ward No. 36, says recent changes in…
Backed by Daddy, Didi Geeta Gawli seeks her 4th term with focus on redevelopment (Right) MUMBAI: Wearing her trademark oversized sunglasses, Geeta Gawli strides out of the gate of Dagdi chawl in Byculla, the once-feared lair of her father, former underworld don turned politician Arun Gawli. At the peak of his reign of terror, Arun…
The Congress party is experiencing a steady erosion of internal authority, leading to a continuous exodus of legislators across all levels When twelve Congress councillors in Maharashtra’s Ambernath were suspended for “anti-party activities” and they walked straight into BJP fold within a day, the episode felt shocking only on the surface. In reality, it was…
Mumbai: Several wards in the city have witnessed a proliferation of candidates in the BMC elections, particularly in areas with relatively homogeneous voter profiles such as slum clusters, besides Dalit-dominated neighbourhoods and Muslim pockets.Data from the nominations show that 18 wards have 15 or more candidates each, increasing the complexity of the contest. In six…
In the BMC elections, the ballot paper reads less like a list of politicians and more like a census of the city’s labourA ballot paper that looks like a city directoryFrom paanwalas and bartanwalas to retired BMC employees and on-demand domestic workers, almost everyone seems to have found a way into the municipal electoral fray…
Kalyan/Navi Mumbai: Many crorepati candidates across the political spectrum will contest the January 15 municipal corporation elections in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, with several declaring assets above Rs 100 crore in Kalyan-Dombivli, Navi Mumbai, and Panvel. In the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) area, three candidates declared assets worth over Rs 100 crore, drawing attention to…
Thane: The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has cleared the process for registration of a criminal case against a private English-medium school for allegedly refusing to comply with the election department’s orders to deploy teaching staff for poll duty, civic commissioner and district election officer Saurabh Rao said on Sunday.Confirming the move, senior inspector N Kolhatkar…
MUMBAI: Several wards in the city have witnessed a proliferation of candidates in the BMC elections, particularly in areas with relatively homogeneous voter profiles such as slum clusters, besides Dalitdominated neighbourhoods and Muslim pockets.Data from the nominations show that 18 wards have 15 or more candidates each, increasing the complexity of the contest. In six…
