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Mumbai: The Congress had improved its assembly election performance and won 41 municipal council president posts and 1,006 councillor seats in the recent municipal council and nagar panchayat elections across Maharashtra, claimed state Congress Chief Harshvardhan Sapkal. A party leader said that after the two main ruling parties, the BJP and Shiv Sena, the Congress…

Mumbai: The income tax department has set up a 24×7 control room in Mumbai to curb the misuse of money power during the municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra, including those for the BMC, ensuring free and fair polls and maintaining the purity of the electoral process. It will function as part of the election monitoring…

Mumbai: In a bid to plug loopholes and end selective demolitions and incomplete road widening, the BMC has issued revised guidelines for implementing Regulation 33 (12) (B) of the Development Control and Promotion Regulations (DCPR) 2034 in a circular dated Dec 15.The overhaul follows concerns within the civic administration over piecemeal road widening, lack of…

Mumbai: Having clinched just a handful of wins, the opposition raised questions about the credibility of the poll process. State Congress president Harshvardhan Sapkal alleged “fixing” between BJP and the state election commission (SEC), while Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut claimed that EVMs that were tampered with during the assembly elections were used once…

MUMBAI: In a joint operation, Kurla police and forest officials arrested a 28-year-old man for illegally possessing and attempting to sell whale vomit (ambergris), a protected wildlife product, valued at ?80 lakh.Acting on a tip-off, the police alerted the forest department after detaining a suspect allegedly found in possession of the contraband.A forest department team…

MUMBAI: A fire broke out at Bhatia Hospital in Grant Road on Monday afternoon. The incident was reported at around 1.35pm following which the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) rushed to the spot.The fire was confined to electrical wiring and installations in the CT-MRI unit on the hospital’s ground floor. Heavy smoke was reported in the…

Mumbai: An 11-year-old boy who was pillion on a motorcycle, received minor injuries when the bike on which he was riding along with his brother came under a BEST bus at LBS Marg in Kurla on Saturday. Police have booked the 57-year-old BEST bus driver Narayan Pisal for rash and negligent driving.According to the police,…

FIR against 2 construction firm directors for cheating South Mumbai businessman of Rs 5cr MUMBAI: The Byculla police on Saturday registered an FIR against two directors of a construction firm involved in a proposed high-rise project in South Mumbai for allegedly cheating a 60-year-old businessman of Rs 5 crore.The accused, Aafiyah Realtors’ Munaf Wadgama and…

MUMBAI: The BJP-led Mahayuti’s dominant win in the municipal council and nagar panchayat elections, in a repeat of its sweeping mandate in 2024 state assembly elections, has demonstrated the alliance’s strength in the face of the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s (MVA) accusation of “vote chori” and multiplied the challenge for opposition parties ahead of the high-stakes…

MUMBAI: Thanking the people of Maharashtra for BJP’s resounding victory in the municipal council and nagar panchayat elections on Sunday, CM Devendra Fadnavis told the media in Nagpur: “I had predicted that 75% of the nagar [council] presidents will be from Mahayuti and the poll results endorse it. Nearly 3,300 corporators are from the Mahayuti….