Mumbai: The new year has begun with a cost shock for Mumbai’s eateries and hotels, as state-owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) raised commercial LPG prices by Rs 111 per cylinder, triggering fresh concerns over higher food prices for consumers.From Jan 1, the price of a 19 kg commercial LPG cylinder in the city has climbed…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court has paved the way for a man found guilty under MCOCA, the law dealing with organised crime, to contest the BMC election by staying his conviction in a 2009 case of alleged extortion. The high court said the right of the election hopeful, Vinod Ghogale (43), to participate in the…
Mumbai: Mumbai Metro 1, which ran additional services till 3 am on the New Year, Jan 1, 2026, to cater to the rush of revellers, recorded a ridership of around 5 lakh, sources said. This was more than the average ridership of 3.5 lakh recorded on most days of the last week of Dec, the…
Mumbai: More than 32.7 lakh new vehicles hit the state’s roads in 2025, nearly 13.5% higher than the registrations in the state previous year, according to govt data.At 22.9 lakh, two-wheelers make up the bulk of the newly registered vehicles, followed by 5 lakh cars, 1.4 lakh agricultural tractors, 1.3 lakh trucks, 88,352 autorickshaws, 57,159…
MUMBAI: BJP has denied BMC election tickets to nearly 40% of its corporators who were elected in the previous poll of 2017. While some lost out because their wards got reserved, others were denied tickets either in order to accommodate fresh entrants from other parties or to give an opportunity to new and young faces…
Mumbai: The Supreme Court dismissed three special leave petitions filed by Poonam Shroff, seeking to challenge a Bombay high court order in a decade-long high stake divorce battle with estranged husband Jaidev Shroff, global CEO of UPL Ltd, and directed her to pay Rs 5 lakh to an orphanage in Maharashtra run by the state….
Mumbai: In a relief for a flat purchaser who has had to wait for 13 years to take possession of a flat he had purchased, a civil court has ordered two residents of Goregaon to vacate a residential flat they had continued to occupy for over a decade after selling it.The sellers had doubled the…
Mumbai sees unseasonal rains on first day of 2026 MUMBAI: Mumbaikars welcomed the New Year 2026 on a rainy note as several parts of the financial capital experienced showers on Thursday morning. Instead of the usual first rays of the year, areas across Mumbai, particularly the island city, were greeted by rainfall. The showers began…
The BMC polls saw an intense scramble for tickets, with 2,516 candidates filing nominations for 227 seats, 84% on the final day MUMBAI: In the days leading up to the nomination deadline for the BMC polls, the frenzy for tickets was unmistakable. From political heavyweights pushing family members into the fray, to grassroots karyakartas staking…
Mumbai: Two BJP candidates allotted tickets for civic wards 211 and 212 failed to file their nomination papers within the stipulated deadline of 5 pm on Dec 30, triggering embarrassment for the party and sharpening the focus on last-minute candidate announcements ahead of the high-stakes BMC polls. Both are first-time entrants into electoral politics.Returning Officer…
