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In its manifesto, the Aghadi comprising the Congress, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi, Rashtriya Samaj Party, and Republican Party of India (Gavai) promises AI-integrated, world-class education, and improved parking services

MNS leader Avinash Jadhav moves court over 68 unopposed victories; seeksminimumvote share rule for uncontested candidates

Maharashtra Congress chief HarshwardhanSapkalaccuses ruling alliance of coercion and misuse of power as 68 candidates win unopposed; SEC orders probe with no deadline, High Court petition seeks judicial oversight and electoral reforms.

The entire controversy began in late December 2025, when the Commissioner, acting as the District Election Officer, issued letters ordering staff from Mumbai's subordinate courts to report for election duty despite High Courts administrative decision to exempt court staff.

Anand Dubey claims he received abusive calls from Bangladesh after demanding a ban on Bangladeshi players; BCCI confirms Mustafizur Rahmans release from KKR squad

Cousins Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray, whose acrimonious split two decades ago had led to a change in the dynamics of regional politics in Maharashtra, have reunited. Their combining forces on the 60-year-old Marathi manoos plank, after two decades of public expressions of distrust is significant against the backdrop of the upcoming elections to the municipal corporation, finds Vinaya Deshpande Pandit

Rupali Chakankar visited the school in Moroshi in Murbad tehsil of Thane district, where a Class X student was found dead on December 25, 2025

This includes 44 of the BJP, with the highest number being from Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation in Thane district, followed by Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad, Panvel, Bhiwandi, Dhule, Jalgaon and Ahilyanagar

Sufiyan Vanu is Congress candidate from the ward. BMC elections will be held on January 15

Representation warns of constitutional injury, cites rising crimes and systemic failures; seeks mission-mode reforms and accountability.

The order comes a month after the MHA had withdrawn the existing delegated powers of the Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh to approve schemes and projects up to 100 crore

On January 6, the SEC will hold a meeting of the officials from the districts that are expected to go to polls in the third phase

The camp will be held by the Bharat Vikas Parishad in collaboration with the Divyang Kendra, Pune. The Kendra, which has been operational for 25 years, has already provided artificial limbs to 25,000 persons, says an official

Former Thane deputy mayor and Shiv Sena leader Rajendra Sapte, who was keen on contesting from ward number 25 (Kalwa), lost the chance after it went to the BJP as part of a seat-sharing deal

Centuries-old texts and oral traditions from western Maharashtra trace open, grassy landscapes back at least 750 years; expertsurge a biocultural conservation approach and caution against treeplanting drives that misclassify grasslands aswastelands

Elections to 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad civic bodies, will be held on January 15, 2026, and votes will be counted the next day

The Opposition leaders alleged that the returning officer showed bias in rejecting the nomination papers of Sena (UBT), MNS, VBA and independent candidates contesting from wards 16, 17 and 18

Urgent hearing held at Chief Justices residence after BMC letters to court staff; Bench cites constitutional bar on poll duty orders.

Congress and VBA on Wednesday (December 31, 2025) rejected reports of a possible rift within the alliance after 16 seats from the VBAs quota allegedly remained uncontested by either party

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has claimed to have busted a gold smuggling syndicate after a passenger who arrived from Bahrain was intercepted

Even today, Mr. Date carries metallic splinters from that night embedded in his body, especially one near his eye and he describes them as medals from a war zone rather than injuries.

With deadline for filing nominations for the January 15 elections ending on December 30, the VBA 'disclosure' may require Congress to rework the poll strategy

Court terms denial arbitrary and discriminatory;directshospitalto grant permanency from 2006 and pay arrears from 2018 with interest if delayed.

The Arvind Kejriwal-led party has fielded 75 candidates for the 227 member Mumbai civic body scheduled to go to polls on January 15

The deadline to file nomination papers for the January 15 polls for 29 municipal corporations in Maharashtra closes on December 30

Another constituent of Mahayuti, the NCP, headed by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, is contesting the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation polls separately

With various alliances and combinations in place, Mumbai will witness a four-pronged contest

The incident took place at around 10 p.m .at busy Station Road in suburban Bhandup (West) when the bus crashed into pedestrians while reversing

Cyber criminals posed as personnel from Colaba police station in south Mumbai, as well as Central agencies, and also staged a fake online court hearing in which one person identified himself to the victim as Justice Chandrachud, says the police official

In 2025, courts freed 19 men after years behind bars; Bombay High Court quashed convictions in the 7/11 Mumbai train blasts case, and a special NIA court acquitted all accused in the Malegaon case

A probe has revealed that the accused were conducting recruitment activities for foreign jobs without a valid licence from the Ministry of External Affairs, an official says

Achalasia Cardia is a rare disorder causing persistent vomiting and pneumonia

Prominent names such as Manoj Dubey, Rizal Chitr Hilsoria, Babban Ramachandra Mande, and Ashok Nand Patade are also included in the list

Signs MoU with Vidya Pratishthan, the Baramati-based educational trust associated with the Pawar family, to support research and development, placements and related initiatives at the AI centre

Congress will contest more than 150 seats, while VBA will compete in 62; some seats will be allocated to Rashtriya Samaj Paksha and RPI (Gavai)

Mumbai Congress president Varsha Gaikwad claimed that the BMC, which has been without elected representatives for more than three years, has failed to ensure transparency and accountability in governance

Bhandup and Vikhroli in the eastern suburbs are the areas where both Uddhav Thackerays Sena (UBT) and Raj Thackerays MNS have a strong presence

On January 15, political parties will contest in 29 MC covering 2,869 seats, and around 3.5 crore voters will participate in the exercise to appoint the public representatives

The court questions sanctioning of 125 mega projects, each worth over 1,000 crore, saysthe civicbody has failed to enforce even basic compliance and suggested GPS and button cameras for flying squads

The Thackeray cousins invoked their grandfather and social reformist Prabodhankar Thackeray along with their respective fathers, to emphasise on the lineage of the family that had fought for the Marathi manoos, stressing on how this was under threat again

Sharad Pawar loyalist Prashant Jagtap resigns, expressing unhappiness over the possible merger for the polls to Pune municipal corporation

It also directed the Navi Mumbai police chief to take steps for their deportation to Bangladesh through the Bangladesh Embassy

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray earlier in the day announced the alliance of their parties ahead of the January 15 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections

We will finish off those who want to take away Mumbai: Uddhav Thackeray

The court invokes societal gratitude for frontline workers, calls for generous interpretation ofschemesto provide tangible relief to families who suffered immense hardships during the pandemic

The court saidliberty cannot be absolute in everysituation;directs CBI to completeprobe swiftly as applicantsremainin custody for over fiveyears

For the first time, NCP-SP has spoken about contesting the Mumbai polls as part of the MVA; till now, the Shiv Sena, NCP-SP, and Congress have been exploring other arrangements for the polls

Ruling that the constitutional validity plea cannot be heard in absentia, HC asks Mr. Mallya to filean affidavitwith a timeline for his return; S-G Mehta says extradition proceedings should not be stalled by such pleas

The courtobservedthat the civic bodies have failed to act on ground; directs urgent steps to shieldlabourersfrom toxic air at construction sites.

A Bench of Justices quashed a criminal case registered against a resident for allegedly stopping a woman and her friends from feeding stray dogs at the gates of their housing society