The Latest Breaking News from Mumbai

MUMBAI: BJP has alleged that BMC is brushing under the carpet a probe against officials working on the scientific closure of the Gorai dumping ground, which caused a revenue loss of around Rs 73 crore. BJP has alleged that BMC was delaying the probe against officials and contractors from its…

MUMBAI: Despite a police notice prohibiting assembly of five or more persons in the city, a section of MTech and PhD students from IIT-Bombay plans to begin a hunger strike from 11am on Saturday to protest against a fee increase. They say the police do not have jurisdiction within the…

MUMBAI: Oshiwara police have arrested a driver of an Andheri-based businessman for stealing his gold ornaments worth Rs19 lakh from his apartment at Prabhu Darshan in Jogeshwari (West), when he was in Tirupati with his family.

MUMBAI: Law enforcement agencies on Friday thwarted agitating Congress activists’ attempt to march to Raj Bhavan to protest against the deployment of the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI for cases involving politicians in the state, the treatment meted out to leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, and the imposition of…

MUMBAI: Over 7,800 candidates—aspiring and existing teachers—who had either failed or altered their scores of the Maharashtra Teachers Eligibility Test (TET-2019) in exchange for money have been permanently barred from taking the exam. The TET-2019 had the highest pass percentage of 6.

MUMBAI: Uncertainty over cabinet expansion was confirmed on Friday following a six-line order issued by chief secretary Manukumar Srivastava. On the directives of chief minister Eknath Shinde, Srivastava stated bureaucrats have been entrusted with quasi-judicial powers enjoyed by cabinet members until further orders.

MUMBAI: Hearing a plea by an Ulhasnagar resident to direct the home minister to hear his appeal against the rejection of a firearm licence by the Thane police commissioner, the Bombay high court on Friday pointed out that there was no such minister in the state.

MUMBAI: State power utility firm, MSEDCL, scored a poor grade of “C-” in the latest annual integrated rating and ranking of power distribution utilities released by the Ministry of Power on Friday.

MUMBAI: Urban and rural body polls, including the BMC election, may be delayed beyond October with governor B S Koshyari issuing ordinances scrapping the existing delimitation being carried out in municipal corporations, zilla parishads and panchayat samitis in the state. “The process of delimitation and the draw for reservations and…

MUMBAI: One of the first decisions made by the Shinde government was to sanction a sum of Rs 15.2 crore as share capital to the National Cooperative Spinning Mill linked to key Shiv Sena rebel MLA Abdul Sattar. A closer look shows the state made an exception to the rules…

MUMBAI: Union minister Narayan Rane had tried to defame Aaditya Thackeray after the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput and even BJP MLAs had said they were against this kind of defamation, said Deepak Kesarkar, chief spokesperson of the Eknath Shinde group, in statements that seemed aimed at isolating the…