With unopposed wins & shifting alliances, the high-voltage campaign for municipal corporation elections in the state was dominated by a host of volatile issues.
The first corporation elections after the splits in the Shiv Sena and the NCP, the single-phase Maharashtra civic polls to test state-level alliances. BMC is the big prize.
Civic body, under fire from politicians, has been urged to take ‘concrete steps’ by HC. It is also implementing road cleanliness & dust control campaign, putting up AQI plants at sites.
Congress party has reached out to the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) with a proposal for an alliance for the Mumbai municipal elections that are set to take place in January 2026.
Maharashtra govt comes with new policy on compensatory plantation weeks after SC deferred permission for felling of more than 1,000 trees for Goregaon Mulund Link Road project.
While govt blames closure on parents preferring English medium, educators & activists say that administration is not putting enough efforts to upgrade infra in these schools.
Move to shut down pigeon feeding zones has met with stiff resistance from residents, but authorities & health experts warn about the increasing cases of pulmonary illnesses.
As talk of alliances with both Shiv Sena (UBT) and Mahayuti swirl, the MNS chief is focusing on internal clean-up while Uddhav Thackeray has sharpened his campaign on Marathi identity.
I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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