The BMC’s move to take a significant part of the Mahalaxmi Racecourse for the development of a theme park for the public has raised apprehensions among city-dwellers and activists that the open space in the heart of Mumbai may fall into the hands developers.

The incident took place inside a police station in Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra’s Thane district on Friday night after an argument over a land dispute. Mahesh Gaikwad is currently critical.

The court's detailed reasoning is yet to be made available. 

When The Indian Express contacted Mangal Prabhat Lodha, Guardian minister of Mumbai suburbs, for his comment on the BMC Commissioner’s statement, he said, “I don’t want comment.”

According to Chahal, the proposal has been floated with an aim to make the privately owned and often unused green spaces accessible to citizens.

There has been a perception in political circles that the delay in BMC polls betrayed NDA's 'lack of confidence' in ousting Uddhav Sena from BMC ahead of LS and Assembly polls

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has granted approval to MBRRB for the survey. “Earlier, biometric survey faced challenges with residents showing Aadhaar cards or other photo IDs.

The court passed the order while hearing a plea by the wife of a music teacher, who was arrested in July last year on bailable charges for allegedly showing an obscene video to one of his students and was illegally detained and allegedly harassed and stripped at Saat Rasta police lock-up.

The bench said public authorities, and not the developer should identify a zone or land to rehabilitate such stables.

Earlier this week, a majority of members of the Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC) gave their nod to a proposal mooted by the BMC that stipulated that the lease of the century-old racecourse would be extended on the condition that the club hands over 120 acres of the 211-acre racecourse to the BMC.

When Chipkar descended to the lower floor and was speaking to another flat owner, the women from the eighth floor followed her and abused her.

“We are fighting for ideology. I want to clarify that those who were scared have ran away in the past. It is not going to happen with us. We are ready for the inevitable struggle that stands in our future,” said Rohit.

In his statement to police, the complainant said that 60 security personnel and four camera operators work under him.

Mumbai University announced the new system, which has now been made available from the ongoing winter session exams. The online method was introduced due to the delay caused through the manual process of getting answer sheets and reevaluations.

Even as the civic body’s budget surpassed the Rs 50,000-crore mark for the first time in its history, several projects which were announced, elemental to the city’s growth, are yet to take off.

The Ajit Pawar led-NCP has said it will complain about the matter to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.

Tourists ordering breakfast this early? An eatery's suspicion led to the arrest of over 40 people operating the fake call centre in Virar near Mumbai in 2023.

The Lalbaug flyover in Byculla was shut for repairs in 2016 after a gap was observed between two slabs.

The previous deadlines of Phase 1 and Phase 2 were January 31 and February 1, respectively.

In October 2020, the agency had filed a closure report when the Maha Vikas Aghadi was in power but two years and a change in government later, in October 2022, the EOW said that it wanted to continue with its probe.

Police added that the drone was then taken into the custody, following which it was seized after the FIR was registered.

The draft notification for kunbi Marathas has thrown new questions before the state government.

Announcements for new infra projects unlikely this year

A week after the CBI filed a closure report in an FIR registered in which he was named one of the accused, DCP Parag Manere, who was in a non-executive posting, was transferred to Thane police as DCP.