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In BMC polls, where are the solutions Mumbai urgently needs?
January 15, 2026 7:10 am
A narrow and divisive identity politics and political-electoral short-termism climbed centrestage in the campaign for India's financial capital and one of its most cosmopolitan cities
Mumbai BMC Elections 2026 Voting Live Updates: All eyes on Mumbai as polling begins across 227 wards
January 15, 2026 8:36 am
Mumbai BMC Elections 2026 Voting Today Live Updates | Mumbai Civic Polling Voter Turnout Updates: Over 28,000 police personnel will be deployed across the city.
Mumbai BMC Elections 2026 Voting Date, Time, Live Streaming: When and Where to Check BMC Election Ward Wise Voter Turnout online
January 14, 2026 10:46 pm
BMC election: How to check the full schedule, ward details, and candidate lists for India’s richest civic body.
Maharashtra civic polls: SEC wraps up with ‘surprises’ on campaign extension, vote display machine
January 15, 2026 5:47 am
Opposition questions SEC nod to door-to-door visits into 48-hour silent period before polling, says was not given any demonstration of ‘PADU’ machine to be deployed in BMC polls in case of a snag
Can Uddhav Thackeray-Raj Thackeray energise 'Marathi Manoos' and keep BJP at bay?
January 14, 2026 7:14 pm
The BMC elections are also the last battle for the Marathi Manoos as a political construct. And it will be fought in an atmosphere where the BJP is using saam, daam, dand, andbheda to cripple the Thackeray brand
‘Sleeper cell within Congress sabotaged alliance with VBA’: Prakash Ambedkar on why the tie-up faltered ahead of BMC polls
January 14, 2026 2:03 pm
Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Prakash Ambedkar opens up on how he does not believe the Thackeray brothers’ reunion will alter Maharashtra politics, and on whether voters will ultimately choose development over identity or constitutional concerns.
Mumbai civic poll is latest theatre of freebie politics
January 14, 2026 12:01 pm
Cash transfers fundamentally alter the relationship between the state and the voter. They create a one-way flow — the government gives, the citizen receives. Gratitude begins to substitute accountability.
BMC polls tomorrow, look at Mithi river today: Toxic flow, projects stalled, crores unspent
January 14, 2026 7:04 am
2005 deluge killed over 1,000. Since then, apart from desilting and flood mitigation, official delay and inaction choke Mumbai river, worsen its water quality even as Rs 6,000 crore sits idle
Ahead of civic polls, BMC to launch two-day cleaning drive over 10k polling stations
January 13, 2026 7:35 pm
The city, along with 28 other municipal corporations, is poised to go to polls on January 15 with voting process slated between 7.30 am to 5.30 pm.
BMC polls: Kishori Pednekar, Neil Somaiya and Samadhan Sarvankar among key candidates with massive spike in assets
January 12, 2026 2:33 pm
Covering the entire political spectrum, from the Shinde-led Shiv Sena to the UBT faction, as well as the BJP and the Congress, the affidavits reveal asset increases of up to 400 per cent since the last elections.
BMC PHOTOS
With plea and protests, Save Aarey campaign gathers momentum
September 11, 2019 7:10 am
Apart from the car shed for Metro line 3, a part of the Aarey Milk Colony -- which adjoins Sanjay Gandhi National Park -- will also be used to create Metro Bhavan, the nerve-centre for the 337-km network which is under construction.
PHOTOS | BMC budget: Here are the Brihan plans for you, Mumbaikars
February 04, 2016 11:44 am
The BMC, Asia richest municipal council, announced its budget allocations on Wednesday. We take a look at how much money is going where.
Mumbai trees infected by Mealybugs
November 05, 2014 3:05 pm
Mumbai has approximately 3,000- 4,000 rain trees in the city, of which 500 are infected by Mealybugs mainly in Dadar, Bandra, Andheri and Kandivali areas.
BMC VIDEOS
Make in India fire: BMC blames organisers of 'gross negligence'
February 24, 2016 3:34 pm
Mumbai, Feb 24 (ANI): The Mumbai Fire Brigade on Wednesday submitted an investigation report on a fire which occurred during the 'Make in India' programme last week to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in which it has accused the organizers of the event of 'gross negligence'. Pratap Rahangdale, Chief Fire Officer of Mumbai Fire Brigade, said that report was prepared by analyzing accounts of several witnesses and circumstantial evidence. He said that they have opened the report for the public. We studied circumstantial evidence and witness accounts. Rahangdale added that he was also one of the witnesses, as I was the first one to use extinguisher there. By studying all that we arrived at the chain of events leading to fire and prepared a final report.
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