Mumbai: In a major setback for the Shiv Sena (UBT) ahead of the BMC polls, former BEST Kamgar Sena president Suhas Samant quit and joined the Shiv Sena led by Eknath Shinde on Wednesday. Samant had resigned after the Shiv Sena (UBT)-MNS panel lost all 21 seats in the election to the BEST Employees Cooperative…
Thane: The Ajit Pawar-led NCP in Thane has sought the sanitisation of the electoral rolls of all the wards coming under the Mumbra-Kalwa assembly constituency, alleging the possibility of over 32,000 bogus voters. This demand comes close on the heels of yet another Mahayuti ally from Thane, the Diva BJP, making similar allegations in the…
Damania calls for Ajit Pawar’s resignation, FIR against Parth. MUMBAI: Calling for the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar over the irregularities in the Pune land deal involving a company linked to his son Parth Pawar, anti-corruption activist Anjali Damania on Wednesday alleged there were major holes in the transaction. The land ownership was…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: NCP (SP) working president and Baramati MP Supriya Sule has written an open letter to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, objecting to the induction of individuals accused in the Tuljapur drug case into the BJP.One of the two people who recently joined BJP is Santosh Parmeshwar, former president of the Tuljapur Municipal Council. In…
Mumbai: In a rare ruling, a special Pocso court acquitted alleged serial sex offender Rehan Qureshi of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl, yet simultaneously recommended compensation for the child, acknowledging that it was proven she had been assaulted. “The case is recommended to DLSA (District Legal Services Authority) Mumbai for awarding compensation to the victim…
Pune/Thane: The Pune unit of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Tuesday carried out searches at multiple locations in the city’s Kondhwa area and the Mumbra residence of a former engineering college professor in Thane district in connection with the recent arrest of a software engineer for possessing literature related to Al-Qaeda.“The searches were part…
Mumbai: Medical education aspirants and their parents are miffed with the state govt for adding 100 new seats to the state’s stray vacancy round, despite getting an approval for increasing the intake capacity from the National Medical Commission (NMC) before the third round. In an appeal to the state’s CET cell, the ones who have…
Mumbai: Eminent citizens from the city have demanded that the state govt issue a white paper detailing all public land transactions, leases, and monetisation proposals in Mumbai. With the upcoming civic elections, 127 citizens, including former police commissioner Julio Ribeiro, former Bombay high court judge G S Patel, Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat (retired), former central information…
Mumbai: Congress’s state election committee is said to have finalised most of its candidates for municipal council and nagar panchayat elections in key districts after entering alliances with INDIA bloc partners. The party may make the formal announcement in a day or two, said sources.It will decide on going solo or forming an alliance for…
Mumbai: Once the preserve of twenty-somethings fresh out of college, the law programme has today become a meeting ground of generations — drawing in everyone from postgraduates to pensioners, from civil servants to small-town dreamers.In the 2025–26 admission year, the largest cohort of legal aspirants with 1,767 candidates was 21 years old. They were followed…
