Mumbai: BJP Mumbai unit president Ameet Satam lodged a complaint with the election officer overseeing the BMC election about a candidate, Shilpa Keluskar, submitting a duplicate AB form of the party and filing her nomination as the party’s official candidate from Ward No. 173.In his letter submitted on Dec 31 to the election office, Satam…
Mumbai: Police have registered a case and are searching for a biker who rammed into a traffic constable and fled from the spot. The constable sustained injuries and is said to be stable. The accident took place at Worli early on Thursday during a nakabandi to check drunken drivers.Tardeo police and traffic police teams were…
Mumbai: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized gold worth Rs 3.8 crore at Mumbai airport from a passenger who had arrived from Bahrain. A search of his baggage led to the recovery of 12 capsules filled with gold dust in wax form, weighing 3.05 kg, official said. The gold is found to be 24-carat. Mumbai…
Pune: MP and BJP’s in-charge for civic polls in Pune district, Murlidhar Mohol, on Thursday criticised deputy CM Ajit Pawar-led NCP for backing women from the families of gangsters Bandu Andekar and Gajanan Marne in the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) election.“The Pune guardian minister (Ajit Pawar) talks about cracking down on criminals and eliminating…
Mumbai: BEST bus drivers involved in accidents could be temporarily assigned alternative duties as a sensitisation measure to reinforce passenger safety awareness and accountability, undertaking’s general manager Sonia Sethi instructed the personnel department following the Dec 29 Bhandup mishap, where an AC electric bus rammed into pedestrains, killing four and injuring 10. Sethi’s directives apply…
Mumbai: Vakola police have booked a 25-year-old mother of two for allegedly slashing her lover’s private parts with a sharp weapon after he refused to leave his wife and marry her. The incident took place after the New Year celebrations at her Santacruz residence in the wee hours of Thursday.The 42-year-old victim is the brother…
Thane: The Mahayuti alliance partners — BJP and Shiv Sena — have made a strong early impact in the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) and Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation elections, securing 10 unopposed victories, so far. Of these, six candidates belong to BJP and four to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, giving the ruling alliance a clear…
Mumbai: Two commuters were booked, in separate instances, for posing as government officials and carrying bogus documentation to travel illegally on the Harbour line in the span of two weeks. Wadala Govt Railway Police (GRP) registered FIRs against the duo, one of whom posed as CBI official while another said he was a personnel officer…
Mumbai: Candidates contesting the BMC election must maintain daily accounts of their election expenditure from the date of filing of nomination papers, with a standard rate card now in force, said civic officials on Thursday. The spending limit has been set at Rs 15 lakh.Assistant commissioner (assessment and collection) Gajanan Bellale said the measure is…
Mumbai: Over 1,000 patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis in Mumbai started a new drug combination that reduced the treatment period to six months from the usual 18–24 months.The BMC started the BPaL-M regimen—a 4-drug combination of bedaquiline, pretomanid, linezolid, and moxifloxacin (not all patients need mox)—in March 2025. “Till end-Nov, 1,093 eligible patients were put on…
