Indicating its unwillingness towards a post-poll alliance with BJP in the country’s richest civic body, Shiv Sena on Friday asserted that the civic body’s mayor will be from their party and accused its estranged ally of using deceitful means to destabilise them. Sena said its fight with the saffron party[Read More…]
After the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections overthrow, the Congress said it will reflect on what caused the defeat of their party. They also said that their party will take a course of correction. “There has to be course correction in the party which will be undertaken by our senior[Read More…]
BJP’s huge victory is on the agenda of transparency, says Fadnavis; Mumbai Cong chief Sanjay Nirupam offers to resign Shiv Sena finished on top of a hung Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday but the BJP said it could take control of India’s richest civic body with the backing of independents. Shiv[Read More…]
Voting for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and nine other municipal bodies along with 11 zila parishads (district councils) across Maharashtra ended at 5.30pm on Tuesday. Mumbai registered a record voter turnout of 52.17%, up nearly 8% over the 2012 figure, in the election to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on[Read More…]
Anil Desai, an MP from Shiv Sena raised a complaint on Monday over chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ interviews and sought that that the election commission should take action against CM for violation of model code of conduct. “CM Fadnavis has violated the model code of conduct as his views expressed[Read More…]
A committee of eight members has been set by the state government to frame a ‘clear and detailed’ guideline for the approval of new colleges, courses and other divisions of Higher and Technical Education. Old norms will be revised intricately before implementing new frameworks. The committee headed by Dr RS[Read More…]
After Lt Col Prasad Purohit, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts, challenged a subordinate court order that denied him bail; the Bombay High Court passed it’s first order regarding the petition on Friday. On Friday, the National Investigating Agency (NIA) closed the discussion by claiming that there are enough evidences to[Read More…]
All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen President Asaduddin Owaisi was denied permission to hold a rally in the city’s “communally sensitive” Bhavani Peth locality on Tuesday by the Pune Police. The rally was scheduled by the party’s city unit to promote an applicant ahead of the February 21 Pune Municipal Corporation polls,[Read More…]
There may be no free parking on any road or footpath in Mumbai, apart from for a few selected tourist spots and public places from March onwards as the state government has lifted its stay on a policy the BMC set 2 years ago. The step came just a week[Read More…]
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, has finally managed to detain heritage looter Indian-origin US businessman Vijay Nanda, said to be a top international smuggler. Nanda is running a global syndicate dealing in precious antiques, from South Mumbai. India is being robbed of its exceptional and ancient sculptures and[Read More…]
A woman principal in a college in Mumbai has been quoted as saying that polycystic ovarian syndrome, or PCOS, a common disease in women caused by hormonal imbalance, happens when they dress like men as it causes gender reversals in their minds and lessens their urge to reproduce. “I have[Read More…]
Four persons were arrested on Tuesday in relation to the mishap at an oil mill in Maharashtra’s Latur district. The death toll in the incident that took place on Monday has climbed to nine with two more bodies being recovered from a tank in the plant. The State Labour Minister[Read More…]
After Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray shelved his party’s decades-old alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the civic body, and decided to never form an alliance in future, the Shiv Sena ministers are now putting pressure on the BJP on a state level as well. A delegation of[Read More…]
Two passengers Vijay Kumar Natvarlal Rupapara and Manish Kumar Mansukhlal Khambani holding Indian passports on their departure to Lubumbashi via Addis Ababa by Ethiopian Air flight no. ET 641 were stopped at the airport. The passengers were allegedly attempting to export 5869 pouches and 900 tins of tobacco products, 185.5 kgs of[Read More…]
In an unbelievable verdict, the Bombay High Court recently granted bail to three men who were charged with allegedly murdering a Muslim man after attending a meeting of the fringe right-wing group Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS) in Pune in 2014. The court said that accused did not kill the man[Read More…]
Amidst speculation that the BJP and Shiv Sena may fight distinctly for BMC elections, Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said President Pranab Mukherjee should prevent Modi government from presenting Union budget before elections to five states as he flagged off the Sena’s campaign for the Mumbai polls. Thackeray said he would[Read More…]
As on January 2, more than 2.3 crore cases are pending in district courts across India, of which, nearly 1.5 crore are criminal cases, and 72 lakh, civil, reveals a data piled up by the National Judicial Data Grid. The data comprises figures of the district judiciary of the nation but[Read More…]
