The corporator will be BJP’s second mayor in over four decades if elected on 11 Feb; Shinde-led Shiv Sena names Sanjay Ghadi as deputy mayor post for 18-month term.
With several corporations throwing up fractured mandates & an intense tug-of-war for power, especially among Mahayuti allies, hectic parleys are on to stake claim to urban local bodies.
Shinde Saturday moved his 29 newly elected BMC corporators to a Mumbai hotel amid 'ghar wapsi' jibes. Posturing not just for Mumbai, but other corporations too, party functionaries say.
24 seats party won is lower than its worst of 31 in 2017. Party says it has '2029 vision—to contest elections within Constitutional framework using party's core value system'.
Voters in Maharashtra’s key civic battlegrounds deliver split verdict on fractured Shiv Sena, backing Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai, handing Shinde’s faction a decisive victory in its bastion Thane.
Mumbai: After dominating the municipal council polls across the state, the Mahayuti and, especially, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) further strengthened its presence in urban...
A former corporator from undivided Shiv Sena, Shrikant Pangarkar is one of 18 accused in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. He was granted bail by Karnataka HC in 2024.
Pawars joining hands seems to have been futile, as BJP popularity has outweighed combined NCP. This puts a big question mark on the future of NCP-SP and Ajit Pawar's importance in the Mahayuti.
BJP clinched a solid 89 wards in 227-ward BMC, ally Shinde Sena got 29. Uddhav Sena won 65 wards, while MNS, won just 6. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's NCP at a measly tally of three.
Had it been a poor woman shouting at Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan over the roadblock, the police would likely have arrested her, raided her home, and terrorised her family members.
The rules, which come into force on 1 May, establish an Online Gaming Authority which will determine whether a game is an online money game or online social game in only three situations.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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