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Mumbai, April 10 Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad accused the BJP-led administration in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation of "discrimination" in the distribution of development funds on Friday.Speaking to reporters, Gaikwad, who is also a Member of Parliament for Mumbai North...

Mumbai, April 9 The Lalbagcha Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal here has appealed to the Maharashtra Human Rights Commission to dismiss a complaint filed against it regarding the alleged ill-treatment faced by devotees seeking 'Darshan' during the Ganesh festival.The famous Ganesh Mandal in...

Mumbai, April 9 A restaurant in Mumbai's Kandivali replaced its Gujarati sign with a Marathi one after the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) raised an objection.The party's local representative, Uday Kondwilkar, said on Thursday that the restaurant, located in the Charkop assembly constituency...

Mumbai, April 8 Around 1,400 unauthorized shacks were demolished in the Mankhurd area of Mumbai on Wednesday in a joint operation by the city's civic body and the administration, freeing a government plot at the former Bombay Soap Factory site, officials said.The operation was carried out by...

Mumbai, April 3 Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator and former Mayor Kishori Pednekar has moved a proposal in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seeking to make the recitation of 'Manache Shlok' verses, composed by Samarth Ramdas Swami, mandatory in all civic and private-aided schools in the...

Mumbai, March 31 Senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Tukaram Mundhe was transferred by the Maharashtra government on Tuesday, his 24th posting in 21 years of his career in the civil service.Mundhe, considered an honest civil servant, was among several IAS officers who were...

Mumbai, March 31 Senior IAS officer Ashwini Bhide, who played a key role in developing Mumbai's metro rail network, became the first woman commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday. The BMC, established more than 150 years ago, is one of the oldest local...

Mumbai, March 31 Senior IAS officer Ashwini Bhide was appointed as the first woman commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday, an official said.She took over from Bhushan Gagrani, who retired on Tuesday, at a ceremony at the BMC headquarters in south Mumbai in the...

Mumbai, March 31 – In a major administrative reshuffle, the Maharashtra government transferred 10 bureaucrats on Tuesday, according to government officials.Lokesh Chandra, an IAS officer of the 1993 batch and Chairman and Managing Director of Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company...

Mumbai, March 31 Senior IAS officer Ashwini Bhide was appointed as the first woman commissioner of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday, an official said.She will take over from Bhushan Gagrani, who is retiring on Tuesday, the official added.The Mumbai municipal body...

Mumbai, March 30: In a move to transform Mumbai into a slum-free city, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced the Hinduhrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Urban Public Welfare Campaign on Monday.The initiative aims to accelerate slum redevelopment while simultaneously deploying...

Mumbai, March 28 More than a month after introducing a 'musical road patch' on the Coastal Road, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to shut it at night due to complaints from local residents."We have decided to limit the time...music will only play from 6 am to 10 pm," said a...

Mumbai, March 24 BJP MLA Raju Todsam said that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner's alleged absence during a scheduled meeting with a legislative committee amounted to a discourtesy towards the panel and the tribal community it represents.Presenting the first report of...

Mumbai, March 23 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation removed 33 structures at Versova on Monday that were obstructing the ongoing Mumbai Coastal Road (North) project, officials said.The action was carried out by the K-West ward, targeting constructions that were hindering the progress of...

Mumbai, March 23 The Bombay High Court on Monday said the current situation of street vendors in the city is "deeply concerning" and directed the city's municipal body and police to conduct a thorough verification of the identity of all vendors and their helpers, including those alleged to be...

Mumbai, March 23 The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the city's civic body and police to conduct a thorough verification of the identity of all street vendors and their helpers, including those alleged to be from Bangladesh.The court stated that if any person is found to be an illegal...

Mumbai, March 22 A 72-year-old woman died after a fire broke out in a 24-story residential building in Mumbai's Goregaon East area on Sunday evening, officials said.The fire was reported at the Lakshya Chandi Building in Gokuldham Colony on Krishna Vatika Marg, near the district court, around...

Mumbai, March 22 A fire broke out in a 24-story residential building in Mumbai's Goregaon East area on Sunday evening, resulting in the rescue of a woman, according to civic officials.The fire was reported at the Lakshya Chandi Building in Gokuldham Colony on Krishna Vatika Marg, near the...

Mumbai, March 21 Former Mumbai deputy mayor and sitting corporator Alka Kerkar died on Saturday after a brief illness, Maharashtra minister Ashish Shelar said. She was 74 years old.Kerkar, who had served as a corporator from Bandra West for three terms, was re-elected in the recent...

New Delhi, March 20 The Supreme Court on Friday declined to interfere with the Bombay High Court order that allowed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to remove over 45,000 mangroves for the Versova-Bhayander road project in North Mumbai.A three-judge bench, comprising Chief Justice...