Commercial devpt will overwhelm Powai: Locals | Mumbai News

Mumbai: A proposed commercial development in a residential neighbourhood has alarmed Powai residents, who wrote to CM Devendra Fadnavis complaining about it. They have also confronted candidates standing for the civic elections from their locality.The plans include a Global Capability Centre (GCC), a commercial hub and a mall. With no response forthcoming, residents said they…

Read More

BMC polls: Political legacies trump party lines as civic issues persist in south Mumbai ward | Mumbai News

E ward’s political landscape is as layered as its geography. Over the decades, it has elected corporators from the BJP, Congress, Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party and hyper-local outfits like the Akhil Bharatiya Sena, founded by gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli. Its electoral history reflects a culture of personal connection over party loyalty. The Jadhav family — Yamini…

Read More

‘Act invoked by RO didn’t apply to candidate’: HC stays poll in Navi Mumbai ward over nixed nomination | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: In the first stay in the ongoing city corporation elections in the state, Bombay HC Thursday put on hold the poll process for Ward 17A in Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) after a BJP candidate, Nilesh Bhojane, challenged the rejection of his nomination form on Dec 31, reports Swati Deshpande.A Shiv Sena candidate had…

Read More

Bombay high court holds returning officers rejection of BJP candidate’s nomination invalid and orders inclusion in NMMC poll list | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: In a first such order in the ongoing civic body polls in the State, Bombay High Court on Friday held as invalid an electoral Returning Officer’s order that rejected the nomination of BJP candidate Nikesh Bhojane and directed that his name be added to the accepted candidates’ list for ward 17A in Navi Mumbai….

Read More

Thorium key to expanding India’s energy independent nuclear programme, says Anil Kakodkar | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission Anil Kakodkar, and its current member, emphasised the use and importance of thorium for expanding India’s nuclear programme.Kakodkar delivered the Dr M R Srinivasan Memorial Lecture, jointly organised by the Thakur College of Engineering And Technology and the National Centre For Science Communicators, to mark the 95th…

Read More

BMC polls: Teachers, school staff seek paid rest day after election duty; cite long hours and exhaustion | Mumbai News

MUMBAI: Teachers and non-teaching school staff deployed on election duty have urged the state government to declare a paid rest day after polling, citing prolonged working hours, physical exhaustion and late-night travel.The Maharashtra Progressive Teachers Association (MPTA), in a representation to the chief minister, election commissioner and education minister, said that although polling officially ends…

Read More