Mumbai, February 16 – The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Monday presented its budget for the 2026-27 financial year, totaling Rs 48,072.57 crore, marking its first surplus budget since 2017-18.MMRDA had a deficit of Rs 7,468 crore in 2024-2025. In just three years...
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Mumbai, February 16 – The controversy surrounding the display of Tipu Sultan's portrait in the office of the Malegaon Deputy Mayor intensified on Monday, with Maharashtra Samajwadi Party chief Abu Azmi defending the former ruler of Mysore as a "freedom fighter" who "bravely fought" against the...
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Pune/Mumbai, February 16 Ten months after a terror attack in Pahalgam claimed her father's life, Asawari Jagdale is still waiting for the Maharashtra government to fulfill its promise of a state job.While Asawari voiced her concern on Monday in Pune, BJP leader Navnath Ban promised to directly...
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Mumbai, February 16 The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday said Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal, by equating Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj with Tipu Sultan, has unnecessarily provided the BJP with an issue.In an editorial in Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana, the party said the BJP...
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Pune/Mumbai, February 16 Asawari Jagdale, the daughter of a victim of the terror attack in Pahalgam, claimed on Monday that she is still waiting for the job that the Maharashtra government had promised her after the tragedy, even as BJP leader Navnath Ban assured that he would take up the...
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Nashik, February 16 All 16 members of the Nashik Municipal Corporation's standing committee were unopposed elected on Monday, an official said.This includes nine from the BJP, four from the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, two from the Shiv Sena (UBT), and one from the NCP, he added.The 16...
Mumbai, February 16 – A 25-year-old man was arrested in Mumbai for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a one-and-a-half-year-old girl in Dahisar, police said on Monday.According to police, the accused is a relative of the victim's father.The victim has been admitted to a government hospital...
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Mumbai, February 15 Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde challenged BJP minister Ganesh Naik to contest against him in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, further intensifying the long-standing rivalry between the two political families.Shinde, the son of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and a...
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Mumbai, February 14 Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde ordered the suspension of an executive engineer on Saturday following an accident at a Metro construction site in the Mulund area of Mumbai.A man died and three others were injured after a section of a bridge on the...
Mumbai, February 12 Indicating that the cordial relationship between the Thackeray cousins' parties was under increasing strain, MNS leader Sandeep Deshpande alleged on Thursday that Shiv Sena (UBT) corporators in Chandrapur received ₹1 crore each to support the BJP in the mayoral election...
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Mumbai, February 11 – Ritu Tawde, a corporator from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was elected as the 78th Mayor of Mumbai on Wednesday, marking the end of the Shiv Sena's 25-year-long dominance in the post and signifying a significant shift in power within the administration of Mumbai...
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Thane, February 11 New Thane Mayor Sharmila Pimpalolkar formally took office at the civic body headquarters on Wednesday, in the presence of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, eight days after being unopposed elected to the post. A Shiv Sena corporator, Pimpalolkar was elected to...
Thane, February 11 Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Thane Guardian Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday directed officials to propose an outlay of around Rs 1,700 crore for the district's annual plan for 2026-27.He warned of action against departments found negligent in executing...
Mumbai, February 11 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, whose party surprised everyone by supporting the rival BJP in the mayoral elections in Maharashtra's Chandrapur municipal body, squarely blamed his MVA ally, the Congress, for the "mess" on Wednesday. He said the Congress should be...
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Mumbai, February 11 Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has defended the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for inviting actor Salman Khan to an event addressed by its chief Mohan Bhagwat, and sought to know what was wrong in having the Bollywood actor at the function. Khan was among...
Mumbai, February 9 The BJP-led Mahayuti swept the Zilla Parishad elections in Maharashtra, with results announced on Monday, winning 552 of the 731 seats, the State Election Commission said. In the ruling Mahayuti, the BJP led with 225 seats, followed by 165 for the Nationalist Congress Party...
Mumbai, February 9 Encouraged by the Shiv Sena's success in the Zilla Parishad and panchayat samiti elections, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Monday that the people's trust in the party has increased, and its base in rural areas has become stronger. Shinde also paid...
Mumbai, February 9 The BJP and its Mahayuti ally, the Shiv Sena, were leading their rivals in the early trends of the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections in Maharashtra as counting of votes began on Monday morning.The Bharatiya Janata Party had established an early lead in 26 seats...