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From Bhojpuri to Telugu: How BJP spoke the voter's language in Mum

Mumbai, Jan. 15 -- In the bylanes of Mankhurd last week, actor-turned-politician Manoj Tiwari, standing on a campaign chariot, breaks into an impromptu Bhojpuri song, weaving the local BJP candidate N... Read More


Rs.3.41 crore cash seized in city; party workers trade charges

MUMBAI, Jan. 15 -- Election flying squads on Wednesday afternoon seized 54 envelopes, containing Rs.1,000 each, from an unclaimed piece of luggage at Pratiksha Nagar, Sion. "When the enforcement teams... Read More


Shifting of airport radar to Gorai gets Centre's nod

MUMBAI, Jan. 15 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced on Wednesday that the union government and Airports Authority of India (AAI) had decided to shift the high-frequency radar of Mumbai Airpo... Read More


ED attaches assets worth Rs.35.22 crore in embezzlement case of Rs.137-cr

MUMBAI, Jan. 15 -- The Mumbai unit of Enforcement Directorate (ED) has attached provisionally assets worth Rs.35.22 crore as part of its money-laundering probe into a Rs.137 crore embezzlement case ag... Read More


Four BJP candidates booked in Panvel for offering gifts to voters ahead of civic elections

NAVI MUMBAI, Jan. 15 -- The Kalamboli police have registered an FIR against four Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates contesting the Panvel Municipal Corporation elections for allegedly violating t... Read More


Money matters: Inside the high-stakes BMC elections

India, Jan. 15 -- After nine years (nearly four of them without elected corporators), Mumbai votes today to elect its corporators in the country's richest civic body. The 2026 elections were expected ... Read More


Activists to use Mumbai Marathon to flag construction concerns in SGNP

Mumbai, Jan. 15 -- Over 350 citizens, runners and environmental activists will take to the streets at the upcoming Tata Mumbai Marathon to raise alarm over construction and other leniencies proposed i... Read More


DRI seizes drugs worth Rs.17.55 crore in five operations

MUMBAI, Jan. 15 -- Narcotics and psychotropic substances worth Rs.17.55 crore in the illicit markets were seized by the Mumbai unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) in five separate op... Read More


Maha tops NITI Aayog Export Preparedness Index '24

New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- Maharashtra has secured the top position among large states in NITI Aayog's Export Preparedness Index (EPI) 2024, according to data released on Wednesday. The state scored 68.01,... Read More


Lee fifty helps DC to last-ball victory

Navi Mumbai, Jan. 15 -- It's still early days in 2026 but this had all the feels from the early part of the decade. When cricket matches, at the peak of the Covid pandemic, were played to eerie silenc... Read More