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The Bombay High Court on Monday closed all arguments and reserved its verdict on the petition filed by actor Kangana Ranaut against the demolition...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday filed a `caveat' in a local court, saying it should be heard first if actor Kangana Ranaut...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said only five people should participate in arrival and immersion processions of domestic Lord Ganesh idols during the...

General wards of civic hospitals are likely to get air-conditioning. A proposal to this effect is likely to be tabled at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) standing committee meeting next week for approval.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on February 14 has issued strict guidelines for the use of STP (sewage treatment plant) effluent water for non-domestic purpose for all kinds of residential, commercial and industrial developments in the city. BMC has clearly stated that the existing water connections will be reduced suitably to suffice only domestic needs in cases where STP effluent water is expected to meet non-domestic requirements, as stipulated in the building permissions issued by various planning authorities.

In a span of around eight years, the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) has got its eighth civic chief, this time in the form of Chandrakant K. Dange who took charge from outgoing commissioner Balaji Khatgaonkar on Saturday.

The Bombay High Court on Thursday questioned the Maharashtra government and BMC’s campaign urging students of civic schools to drink more water, and asked if these schools indeed provide clean drinking water.

Nationalist Congres Party (NCP), which has a negligible presence in Mumbai, has organised a workshop of party workers from all 227 wards of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on March 1. This is to strengthen the ward level party organisation ahead of next BMC election slated for 2022. NCP has one legislator and nine corporators in BMC.

As civic officials are busy focusing on acquiring varied fauna to offer new attractions when the major revamp of the Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan (Byculla Zoo) is complete, Bubble, the only 'single' the only Humboldt penguin at the zoo, must languish in a bubble of loneliness for another year or two before she is paired up with a mate. Zoo authorities confirmed to The Free Press Journal that the plan of procuring three more penguins this year has hit a roadblock and would take "some more time".

As the sit-in demonstration against CAA-NRC dubbed `Mumbai Bagh’, entered its fourteenth day on Saturday, the Mumbai police were handing out preventive notices under Section 149 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to protesters entering Morland Road, Nagpada, warning that if any law and order situation were to erupt, they would be held responsible and arrested. Section 149 of the CrPC gives powers to the police to take measures to prevent cognisable offences.