The Latest Breaking News from Mumbai

MUMBAI: The state election commission has declared polls to 608 gram panchayats in 51 talukas on September 18. These will include polls to gram panchayats and the post of sarpanch. Counting will be held on September 19.

MUMBAI: Former Mumbai Police commissioner Sanjay Pandey, arrested by Enforcement Directorate (ED), approached Delhi high court seeking bail in a money laundering case related to alleged illegal phone-tapping and snooping of National Stock Exchange (NSE) employees.

MUMBAI: Irked by the absence, a sessions court on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against artist Chintan Upadhyay, accused in the 2015 murder of his wife, fellow artist Hema Upadhyay, and her lawyer Haresh Bhambani.

MUMBAI: Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari will on August 18, launch India's first electric double decker in the city. The launch will coincide with that of a luxury bus introduced by and whose seats can be booked over an app by regular office-goers.

MUMBAI: RTO launched a portable bike simulator at its Andheri office on Friday morning. The transport department plans to introduce simulators at all 50 RTOs across Maharashtra. which will be part of overall tests for new driver's licence.

MUMBAI: Opposing the reliefs sought by Omkar Group promoters Babulal Varma and Kamalkishore Gupta, Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday told the special PMLA court that their plea was not maintainable. The ED also submitted that in the same case itself in 2021, Bombay high court had ruled that once investigation…

MUMBAI: Students of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) who have been protesting against the fee hike have withdrawn their hunger strike after the fee committee which met on Friday took several decisions to scale back the fee hike. The relay hunger strike was started on July 5.

MUMBAI: This Independence Day, Shanmukhananda Sabha, King's Circle, will honour a group of 75 army veterans from Apshinge "military village" in Satara. Each household here has a son, brother or father in the Army at any given time. Forty-six of its men were martyred in World War 1.

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Friday held a meeting of former Shiv Sena corporators and warned them not to fall prey to temptation and assurances but instead hit the ground running in their respective wards. Uddhav told the former corporators that since the BMC's ward boundaries have been…

MUMBAI: The city crime branch on Friday arrested a 32-year-old woman who allegedly played victim in a honey trap case at a hotel in Andheri and blackmailed and extorted Rs 3.30 crore from a 64-year-old businessman from Kolhapur.

MUMBAI: BMC will soon allot special pothole-filling contracts for Rs 7 crore in order to get smooth roads before the 10-day Ganpati festival. BMC will use new material and technology like geo polymer, fast-curing concrete and rapid reactive asphalt to fill potholes fast.