Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): A Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) meeting to consider officers from the State Administrative Service for induction into the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) was held in Delhi on Monday. Madhya Pradesh was represented at the meeting by Chief Secretary Ashok Barnw...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: A public interest litigation has been filed in the Bombay High Court challenging permissions granted for felling trees for the Thane Integral Ring Metro project, alleging that the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) allowed tree-cutting applications to be ...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has conducted an inquiry into the death of a 13-year-old girl who died hours after receiving treatment at the civic-run Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray (HBT) Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari. The final rep...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: The Maharashtra government’s initiative to provide free education to girls is beginning to show results, with a significant increase in their enrolment in three-year and five-year Bachelor of Laws (LLB) courses, according to admission data released by th...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: Kanakia International, Bhayander, Podar International, Powai, AVM Bandra-W and Canossa, Andheri, registered victories in the girls’ U-14 Division 2 play-off matches of the Dream Sports MSSA Annual Inter-School Football Tournament 2026-27 at the MSSA grou...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: A special CBI court has refused to cancel the non-bailable warrant against Nirav Modi's close aide Mihir Bhansali, who is presently residing in the US, observing that he had remained absent for seven years. The special court said, "The applicant-accused ...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: Acting on a report published by The Free Press Journal (FPJ) on October 17, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday removed a large garbage bin near Mumbadevi Temple in Bhuleshwar that had been emitting a foul stench and causing inconvenie...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: Mumbai’s public sanitation infrastructure has come under scrutiny, with a BMC assessment revealing that 173 of the 837 pay-and-use toilets inspected across the city have received the lowest Grade D, while just eight have secured the top Grade A. The find...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: Cream Centre, operated by Prince Cuisine Pvt Ltd, has unconditionally withdrawn its appeal before the Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission challenging a 2024 order directing it to stop levying mandatory service charges on customers. T...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: The BMC’s proposed redevelopment of a civic-owned leased plot in Worli has triggered a political storm, with the Congress alleging serious irregularities in the allotment process and warning of a potential Rs 400 crore loss to the civic exchequer. In a l...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: A special court has refused to grant bail to former Bank of India (BoI) officer Hitesh Kumar Singla, who has been booked for allegedly siphoning around Rs 16 crore from 127 customer accounts at the bank. Singla's lawyer had claimed that although he had s...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: Commuters who play videos, reels or music loudly on their mobile phones inside Mumbai local trains could face fines of up to ₹5,000 and imprisonment of up to six months, as Central and Western Railway authorities move to curb noise-related nuisance in cr...
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Mumbai, October 19, 2026: A BMC-owned 5,166-square-metre plot in Lower Parel, currently housing the civic body’s testing laboratory, has attracted a top bid of Rs 470 crore from Skystead Constructions LLP. The civic administration has proposed a 30-year lease, extendable by anoth...
