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Stalled SRA projects emerge as dominant issue in Sewri

MUMBAI, Jan. 9 -- Stalled Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) projects, which have left residents languishing in transit camps for decades, have emerged as the dominant issue afflicting Mumbai's Ward ... Read More


Fireworks during poll campaign guts 7th floor flat in Bandra tower

MUMBAI, Jan. 8 -- An election campaign in Bandra East took a dangerous turn on Tuesday night when fireworks allegedly set off by some political party workers entered a flat in a residential high-rise,... Read More


Sena split turns Lalbaug, Parel into battleground

MUMBAI, Jan. 8 -- The traditionally Marathi-dominated Lalbaug-Parel (Ward 204), a former mill area that has seen massive gentrification over the past two decades, has for long been considered an undiv... Read More


Party split turns Lalbaug-Parel into Sena-vs-Sena prestige battle

India, Jan. 8 -- The traditionally Marathi-dominated Lalbaug-Parel (Ward 204), a former mill area that has seen massive gentrification over the past two decades, has for long been considered an undivi... Read More


Fireworks during poll campaign spark blaze in Bandra high-rise, seventh-floor flat gutted

India, Jan. 8 -- An election campaign in Bandra East took a dangerous turn on Tuesday night when fireworks allegedly set off by some political party workers entered a flat in a residential high-rise, ... Read More


Dharavi's Ward 185, battleground of redevelopment concerns, dominates civic poll campaign

India, Jan. 7 -- With an electorate of around 2,35,000 voters in its 1.5-million population spread across wards 183 to 189, Dharavi remains one of Mumbai's most politically significant constituencies.... Read More


Part of Veera Desai Road will be shut post BMC elections

India, Jan. 7 -- Traffic movement on a crucial stretch of the arterial Veera Desai Road in Andheri West will be completely shut after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections for the dem... Read More


Part of Veera Desai Road to be closed

Mumbai, Jan. 7 -- Traffic movement on a crucial stretch of the arterial Veera Desai Road in Andheri West will be completely shut after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections for the de... Read More


Dharavi's ward 185 turns battleground over redevelopment

MUMBAI, Jan. 7 -- With an electorate of around 2,35,000 voters in its 1.5-million population spread across wards 183 to 189, Dharavi remains one of Mumbai's most politically significant constituencies... Read More


Independents rally against "dynastic politics" of the Narwekar family

India, Jan. 6 -- With the explicit aim of dismantling what they describe as "entrenched dynastic politics" in Colaba-Cuffe Parade, a clutch of independent candidates backed by influential residents' g... Read More