Mumbai now has a “singing road,” and it’s causing both amusement and annoyance. The 500-metre musical stretch has been created on the northbound carriageway of the Coastal Road, between Nariman Point and Worli, just after vehicles exit the Coastal Road tunnel. On a designated stretch of the Coastal Road, vehicles traveling at 70–80 km/h over…
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, or popularly recognized as Mumbai’s BMC, on Wednesday, 25 February 2026, proposed a budget outlay of ₹80,952.56 crore for the upcoming financial year 2026-27, reported the news agency. PTI. According to the agency report, BMC’s budget outlay for the upcoming fiscal year marks an 8.77% year-on-year (YoY) rise, compared to ₹74,427.41…
Nearly one in four winning candidates in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) 2026 polls have declared criminal cases against themselves, while close to four-fifths are crorepatis, according to an analysis by Election Watchdog, Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR). The ADR, which studied affidavits of all 227 winning candidates, said 54 winners, or 24 per cent,…
Ritu Tawde, a BJP corporator from Ghatkopar East, will formally assume office as Mumbai’s mayor on Tuesday after being elected unopposed in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, marking a rare political shift in India’s richest civic body and ending Shiv Sena’s quarter-century hold on the post. A two-time corporator, Tawde becomes the city’s eighth woman mayor…
Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday issued revised sanitation bylaws as it listed new fines and penalties for civic offences. Those who fail to obey sanitation or hygiene rules will face ₹250 fine for spitting at public places and ₹500 penalty for littering. The authorities released a schedule of penalties under its revised Solid…
Amid ongoing power-tussle and suspense within Bharatiya Janata party (BJP)-led Mahayuti for the mayoral post in BrhihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the richest civic body in the country, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut has made a claim that the phones of newly-elected corporators from both the BJP and Shiv Sena are being tapped. Raut also…
Suspense continued over Mumbai’s next Mayor on Monday, days after the Mahayuti alliance secured majority in the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). While the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single largest party with 89 seats in the BMC house of 227, it will have to depend on the Shinde Sena’s 29 seats to…
Maharashtra civic polls: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) social media handle on A 19-second video meme that swaps Varun Dhawan’s face with Gandhi’s, with the caption “Mummy me phirse election haar gaya” (“Mom, I lost the election again”), has gone viral. BJP’s ‘Khandani chor’ jibe at Gandhi The BJP’s sharp attack on Gandhi used the…
The BJP has once again proved that its election strategies are par excellence, with another resounding victory in the Maharashtra civic body elections. The BJP is ahead in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Panvel, Kalyan Dombivli, Mira Bhayandar, Ulhasnagar, Sambhajinagar, Nagpur, Solapur, Akola, Nanded Waghala, Sangli Miraj Kupwad, Jalgaon, Dhule, Jalna, and Ichalkaranji….
The Mahayuti alliance, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, has expanded its lead in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), with the trends from preliminary data indicating that the alliance is leading in 118 wards in Mumbai. While the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading in 86 seats, Shiv Sena is leading in…
