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Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday said the BJP-led NDA alliance at the Center and the ruling 'Mahayuti' coalition were the future of the country and Maharashtra respectively, while the Congress was history.Speaking in the legislative assembly on the last day of the...

Mumbai: Maharashtra's ruling Grand Alliance of BJP, Shiv Sena and NCP on Friday won all nine seats contested in the biennial elections for 11 seats of the state Legislative Council.In the results declared in the evening of the elections held earlier in the day, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)...

Mumbai: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday met Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar during her first visit to Mumbai since the Lok Sabha election results were declared more than a month ago.Trinamool Congress chief Banerjee met Pawar at his residence 'Silver...

Mumbai, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the BJP-led NDA government at the Center was unstable and may not complete its term.Banerjee met Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence 'Matoshree' in Bandra area. She will also meet NCP (SP) president Sharad...

Mumbai: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said the BJP-led NDA government at the Center is unstable and may not complete its term.Banerjee met Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence 'Matoshree' in Bandra area here. She said she would also meet NCP (SP)...

There are 12 candidates in the running for 11 seats.The quota of winners for the elections is set at 23, as the current strength of the 288-member Assembly is 274.Counting will begin at 5 p.m. and the result is expected late Friday night.Ruler MahaYuti has fielded 9 nominees, while Maha...

Mumbai, amid threat of cross-voting, voting for the biennial elections for 11 seats in the Maharashtra Legislative Council concluded at the Vidhan Bhavan Complex on Friday afternoon.Voting took place between 9 am and 4 pm, officials said. The votes will begin for counting from 5:00 p.m. and...

Mumbai: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray at his residence 'Matoshree' here on Friday.Both Shiv Sena (UBT) and Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress are part of the opposition's India group.This was the first meeting between the two leaders...

Mumbai Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said allowing BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, who is in judicial custody in a shooting case, to vote in the Maharashtra legislative council elections would amount to a abuse of power.The Congress had also urged the returning officer of the biennial...

Mumbai: Till Friday afternoon, 203 MLAs have cast their votes in the biennial elections for 11 seats of Maharashtra Legislative Council.There are 12 candidates in the fray for 11 seats in the upper house of the state legislature, where the 274 sitting members of the Legislative Assembly form...

Mumbai: The Congress has urged the returning officer of the biennial Maharashtra Legislative Council elections not to allow BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, accused of firing at a Shiv Sena leader inside a police station, to cast his vote.In a letter to the returning officer, Congress candidate Pradnya...

Mumbai: Voting for the biennial elections for 11 seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council began on Friday morning at the Vidhan Bhawan complex here.The first person to cast his vote through the secret ballot system was Shiv Sena's Sanjay Gaikwad.There are 12 candidates in the fray for 11...

Mumbai, amid talks of cross-voting, three of the 37 Congress MLAs in Maharashtra skipped a meeting called by the party ahead of Friday's legislative council elections.Zeeshan Siddique, Jitesh Antapurkar and Sanjay Jagtap were absent from the meeting held here on Thursday night.Antapurkar is...

Mumbai Shiv Sena (UBT) on Friday demanded that the polling time for the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections be extended by one hour due to heavy rain in Mumbai.Biennial elections for 11 council seats are scheduled to be held at the Vidhan Bhavan complex in south Mumbai between 9 am and 4...

Mumbai, Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) unit chief Jayant Patil on Thursday attended a dinner of Congress MLAs organized to discuss opposition strategy for Friday's biennial elections to 11 Legislative Council seats.AICC's Maharashtra...

Mumbai Shiv Sena MP Milind Deora on Thursday demanded that Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sujata Saunik conduct a thorough and impartial inquiry into the allegations against controversial probationary IAS officer Puja Khedkar.Those who lack merit and ethics are not fit to hold important public...

Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anil Parab on Thursday moved a breach of privilege motion against Maharashtra Industries Minister Uday Samant in the Legislative Council for allegedly providing misleading information to the House.During a discussion the previous day, the minister told the House...

Mumbai, facing the threat of a cross-vote, political parties in Maharashtra have shifted their MLAs to hotels and are holding last-minute strategy meetings ahead of Friday's biennial elections for 11 Legislative Council seats for which 12 candidates are in the fray .Members of the Legislative...

New Delhi: A 30-year-old woman from Sikkim was found dead under mysterious circumstances, police said.The woman was found lying unconscious in Aastha Kunj Park near Shiv Mandir in Amar Colony on July 9.A senior police officer said a woman constable and other staff reached the park and found...

In Mumbai, Mihir Shah, the main accused in the BMW hit-and-run case and son of a Shiv Sena politician, was under the influence of alcohol when he allegedly crashed his luxury car into a two-wheeler, killing a woman. woman, a Mumbai Police official said on Thursday.A police investigation team...