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BMC Election 2017: It’s time issue of public health becomes part of the public policy discourse

It’s time that the issue of public health becomes part of the public policy discourse in the city.

BMC Election 2017: Unaffordable housing in Mumbai is something polls won’t change

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.

BMC Election 2017: Patronage from corporators brings slum-dwellers to the polls in droves

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

BMC Election 2017: A simple guide on how to cast your vote today

Elections to the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and nine other civic bodies in Maharashtra will be held on Tuesday.

BMC Election 2017: How to check your name on voters list

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.

BMC Election 2017: Tuesday will show whether Mumbai chooses development over petty politics, communal divide

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

Maharashtra Civic Election 2017: Even as BMC becomes richer, Mumbai continues to feel the crunch

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

BMC Election 2017: Here's how India's richest civic body can adapt to the 21st Century

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

BMC Election 2017: BJP's demand for ban on Shiv Sena's Saamana is a regressive move

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.

Our courts must carefully word orders, so that future victims aren't discouraged from reporting cases

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)

Mumbai civic election: BJP asks citizens to help craft manifesto; 7 lakh offer their thoughts

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

World Cancer Day: Meet Mumbai's Cancer Messiah

Businessman Harakchand Savla started his journey to help Cancer patients in 1985 when he happened to misguide a Cancer patient, this is his story.

BMC Election 2017: BJP planning to separate Mumbai, Shiv Sena playing double game, says Raj Thackeray

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

BJP-Shiv Sena's on-off relationship could have major impact on 2019 Lok Sabha polls

Notwithstanding the Saffron colour and the slogan of Hindutva, the BJP and Shiv Sena were never on the same page.

Mumbai civic election 2017: Shiv Sena, BJP separation is classic politics of ifs and buts

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

Mumbai civic polls: Shiv Sena-BJP alliance likely to be announced in the next 100 hours

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

Shiv Sena-BJP and Congress-NCP seat-sharing talks to begin as battle for BMC hots up

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

Mumbai civic poll: Selfie points now become hot freebies; CST, Juhu to have click self spots

After a selfie point at Shivaji Park in Dadar became popular among Mumbaikars, three more spots have been designated for clicking selfies:

Maharashtra civic polls dates announced, BMC election to be held on 21 Feb, counting on 23 Feb

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.

Ahead of civic polls, MNS bowls a googly and Raj Thackeray repeats his 2014 error

Raj Thackeray is a charismatic leader like his late uncle Bal Thackeray

Maharashtra civic polls: Election dates to be announced soon, but no word on BJP-Sena alliance

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.

BMC election 2017: It's a Shiv Sena vs BJP battle in Mumbai, say political observers

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.

Planned development, infrastructure is making Navi Mumbai the New Jersey of Mumbai

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.