It’s time that the issue of public health becomes part of the public policy discourse in the city.
The rate of construction lags behind demand due to lack of funds and ill-thought policies and laws. What’s needed is the use of land more intensively, by reforming the land use policy, FSI, and developing a new underground mass transport system that would increase mobility in spite of high density.
When votes are counted on 23 February to determine who will represent which civic ward in Mumbai, the chances are more slum-dwellers will have cast their votes than those who don't live in slums
Elections to the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and nine other civic bodies in Maharashtra will be held on Tuesday.
The stage is set for the second phase of elections to civic bodies in Maharashtra on Tuesday in what has been dubbed a 'mini assembly' poll and a referendum on Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.
With Marathi and the non-Marathi voters equally spread across the city and the North Indians exceeding Marathi voters, the voting choices on Tuesday will also show whether or not Mumbaikars have managed to move out of regionalism and religion politics
BMC's budget is equivalent to the budget of ten other municipal corporations of India put together, including tier one cities of Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata, yet, this budget fails to fix the problems faced by Mumbaikars
In 2016, Mumbai-based NGO Free a Billion put forth a draft bill to change the way the city — particularly its municipal corporation — is run
A demand has come forth, perhaps the first of its kind, from a political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, that the newspaper Saamana, owned by a Shiv Sena-promoted trust, be banned for three days during the final stages of the civic bodies’ elections in Maharashtra. This is, to say the least, a regressive move and the BJP is not entitled to any accolades even if it were in the interests of a level-playing field between the two parties.
On 16 January, 2017, the Bombay High Court passed an order disposing of a bail application filed by a person who was accused of committing offences under Section 354 of the Penal Code of 1850 (Rape) and Section 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (Sexually Assaulting a Child)
The BJP launched an initiative that has seen over seven lakh Mumbaikars providing feedback to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, as part of his 'Our City Our Agenda' campaign
Businessman Harakchand Savla started his journey to help Cancer patients in 1985 when he happened to misguide a Cancer patient, this is his story.
Ending the speculation that the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena might not contest the Mumbai civic body (BMC) elections, Raj Thackeray this evening announced that his party would contest the municipal corporation elections in the state including in Mumbai
Notwithstanding the Saffron colour and the slogan of Hindutva, the BJP and Shiv Sena were never on the same page.
The declaration by Uddhav Thackeray that there will be no more pre-poll alliances with any party, including the BJP, is by far his biggest decision
With the deadlock between the Shiv Sena and BJP over the seat-sharing formula for the upcoming Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) polls shows no sign of being solved, it appears Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the man holding the key
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) election will be held on 21 February, but until the time of writing, there have been no signs of an alliance between the Shiv Sena and BJP on one hand, or the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party on the other
After a selfie point at Shivaji Park in Dadar became popular among Mumbaikars, three more spots have been designated for clicking selfies:
Nearly 10 crore voters will exercise their franchise in a two-phased election to 10 municipal corporations, 26 zilla parishads and 283 panchayat samitis across the state, Maharashtra State Election Commissioner (SEC) Jageshwar S Saharia announced on Wednesday.
Raj Thackeray is a charismatic leader like his late uncle Bal Thackeray
After the announcement of the election schedule for five states — Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur — the election code of conduct for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will be announced in the next 48 hours.
The upcoming elections to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will be a trial of survival for the ruling Shiv Sena while ally Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), which is now the dominant partner in Maharashtra, is seeing the electoral battle to take control of Asia's richest civic body to create space for itself in the city's political landscape.
Navi Mumbai is characterised by top notch hospitals, educational institutions, an IT hub, a massive exhibition centre, malls, big railway stations, wide roads and unrestricted power and water supply.