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MSRDC to process Rs.5.16-cr toll refund for 120,000 motorists by March end

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- Nearly 120,000 motorists caught in the 33-hour traffic paralysis on February 3-4 across the Mumbai-Pune Expressway corridor will receive toll refunds without filing individual claim... Read More


HC rejects Swadeshi Mills revival bid, smells ploy

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday refused to halt the winding up of Swadeshi Mills Company Ltd, rejecting a revival proposal by Grand View Estates Pvt Ltd -a Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) G... Read More


33 yrs on, BMC staffer booked for forged diploma cert

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- A 58-year-old Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) employee was booked on Tuesday for allegedly using forged educational documents to secure a job and remain in service for over... Read More


Civic body allocates Rs.7,456 cr to health

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has earmarked Rs.7,456.80 crore- 9% of its Rs.80,952.56 crore budget- for health in 2026-27, including Rs.2,219.71 crore in capital and ... Read More


budget bets big on infra

Mumbai, Feb. 26 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday presented its largest-ever annual budget, pegged at Rs.80,952.56 crore, with an aggressive push on infrastructure even as t... Read More


BEST, crushed under financial woes, gets a mereRs.1,000 cr

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The classic fable 'The Paper Kite' best describes the BEST Undertaking today: fluttering downward, losing its ability to steer and maintain stability. A decade and a half ago, the U... Read More


Rs.293 cr boost to BMC education budget

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The BMC on Wednesday announced an education budget of Rs.4,248.08 crore for 2026-27, a significant increase of Rs.293 crore over the previous year. At present, 3,10,426 students stu... Read More


BJP to renominate Ramdas Athawale for Rajya Sabha

Mumbai, Feb. 26 -- With the numbers in the Maharashtra assembly to elect four candidates to the Rajya Sabha, the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP's) state core committee has recommended more than a dozen... Read More


Two-year jail for horse handler for minor's fatal fall during ride

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- A city sessions court on Tuesday has sentenced a Colaba horse handler to two years' rigorous imprisonment for the death of a six-year-old girl who fell during a paid horse ride at C... Read More


Rs.1.4k-cr bank fraud: Forensic audit had many irregularities

MUMBAI, Feb. 26 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED)'s money-laundering investigation into an alleged Rs.1,438-crore bank fraud involving a private trading firm has revealed that an earlier forensic au... Read More