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Former Mumbai mayor Vishakha Raut disqualified for 6 years

A dispute over a 40 auto fare ended in the murder of an 18-year-old driver in Vashi early on Saturday, with two passengers allegedly attacking him with a sharp weapon before fleeing in his rickshaw, police said. The Navi Mumbai Crime Branch and Vashi police ar

Mumbai ended August with a rainfall deficit, receiving just 35 per cent of its monthly average amid strengthening El Ni o conditions and inactive weather systems, making it South Mumbai s second-driest August in a decade. For September, the India Meteorologica

Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) house witnessed heated exchanges among corporators on Friday after BJP s Priti Satam raised an objection against BMC public relations officer (PRO) Tanaji Kamble, alleging that he threatened an editor agains

In a big blow to the opposition in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), senior Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator and former Mayor Vishakha Raut is likely to lose her seat after the caste verification committee in Palghar invalidated her Other Backward Caste

A sharp discrepancy has emerged in the BMC s recording of malaria and dengue deaths, with civic death records showing substantially higher numbers than those reported through its disease surveillance system, according to data obtained under the Right to Inform

The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from taking any further steps to alter the reservation of the Neville D Souza football ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to an exhibition centre. Miffed with

According to police, Shaikh entered the kitchen and confronted Roshanara. When she refused to speak to him, he allegedly abused her, pulled out a knife and stabbed her several times

Travel time between Mumbai s Madh Island and Versova is set to be drastically reduced to just 10 minutes, with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) planning a Rs 2,395-crore cable-stayed flyover connecting the two areas. If everything goes as per plans

Does your Mumbai flat not have an Occupation Certificate (OC)? Here s what homeowners should know The Mumbai civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), is set to implement an amnesty scheme to help eligible housing societies obtain long-pending Occu

In Maharashtra s 25 of 288 Assembly constituencies, all of which are urban, the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) forms of over 40 per cent voters could not be collected their names would not find place in the draft roll that would be published on August 31. An

Mumbai, The Bombay High Court on Thursday expressed its displeasure with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation over its decision to approve a proposal to change the reservation of a football ground in Bandra to an exhibition centre. The HC was particularly mi

The Pant Nagar police probing the murder of 35-year-old Sapna Ganji in Ghatkopar East found that her mother-in-law allegedly hired a former domestic help for 3 lakh to kill her, with the maid roping in her husband, daughter and son to carry out the plan, polic

The state government has cleared two major infrastructure projects Mumbai s Metro Line 13 and the eastern extension of the proposed Ring Road in Pune. Both projects received the go-ahead from the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure on Tuesday

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation s (BMC) general body on Tuesday night cleared the proposal to change the reservation of the iconic Neville D Souza football ground in Bandra to a convention and exhibition centre. The BMC cleared the proposal amid objecti

Mumbaikars may soon have to spend more on paying taxes the civic body has proposed a sewage tax for those not paying property taxes, and a hike in water tax by 6-7 per cent. From next year, over 50,000 homes in Mumbai are likely to be imposed a sewage charge a

The reopening of Mumbai s monorail will be delayed further as the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is still working on a comprehensive plan to evacuate passengers if a train gets stranded. The delay comes months after nearly 600 passeng

If Hanumankind is in Bombay, he will eat here, said a proud 60-year-old C H Basheer, the manager of Delux Kerala Restaurant, a 75-year-old eatery in Fort. He is referring to Sooraj Cherukat, the Kerala-born rapper and singer whose track Big Dawgs propelled him

For commuters in the city, Thursday will bring two infrastructure additions that could make a noticeable difference to daily journeys: the extension of Metro Line 2B to Chembur and the final stretch of the Santacruz-Chembur Link Road (SCLR) connecting the West

Six persons were killed and four others suffered injuries after a landslide struck Mumbai's Ghatkopar area early on Wednesday following heavy rains, civic officials said.The deceased included three children.The landslide was reported at Gaushiya Chawl (row ten