‘Navi Mumbai Tamil Sangam best in the world’
It might not be the biggest organization in terms of numbers but it certainly is the best. The Navi Mumbai Tamil Sangam has been awarded the best Tamil Sangam in the world by the Tamil Nadu government
View ArticleBJP distances itself from poll outcome
The Bharatiya Janata Party is peeved with the Sena at the way tickets have been distributed. “We have told the CM that we have no role to play in the final outcome of the civic poll on Wednesday,” BJP...
View ArticleTough fights between rivals to spice up stage
‘Most Aspirants Likely To Win In Their Strongholds’
View ArticleNavi Mumbai municipal elections: Voting gets underway
Voting in Navi Mumbai municipal elections got underway in all 111 wards at 7.30am on Wednesday.
View ArticleNCP corporator held for arguing with CP in Rabale
The NCP corporator from the Gothivli area of Rabale, Balkrishna Patil, was detained by the cops after he argued with the commissioner of police, K L Prasad, just outside a polling station.
View ArticleNo provisions for disabled voters
Most booths did not have any such provisions and the relatives of such voters, helped by the teachers on election duty, had to assist them to the polling booths
View ArticleCandidates’ fate sealed in ballot boxes
The fate of 568 candidates from Navi Mumbai has been sealed in the ballot boxes. It remains to be seen if NCP leader Ganesh Naik manages to retain his fiefdom or Manda Mhatre dethrones him
View ArticleSun scorches turnout? Just 48% step out to vote, lower than 2010
Irrespective of frenzied campaigns and awareness drives requesting the citizens to vote, the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation election registered a poor voter turnout of just 48.35% on Wednesday.
View ArticleYoung voters fail to turn up, unlike spirited silvers
Not too many young faces were visible at the booths on Wednesday, despite several campaigns that urged youths to vote in the civic election.
View ArticleVictory in civic polls is a family affair
The civic body will now have many public representatives belonging to same families. The civic election saw 13 candidates four different families win from their wards
View ArticleWe gave a tough fight to NCP, fared better than we did in 2010: Vijay Nahata
Former Navi Mumbai municipal commissioner, Vijay Nahata, who was in-charge of the Shiv Sena’s campaign for the civic elections, said that they gave a tough fight to NCP this time
View ArticleCongress may play key role in civic house: poll analysts
The Congress tally may have slipped at the recently held civic polls, but the party may become a game changer in the newly elected NMMC, predict political observers.
View ArticleFaulty seat-sharing formula led to debacle, say Sena activists
There was a lot of crying over spilt milk in the Sena quarters after the BJP-Sene alliance failed to repeat its feat in the civic polls, as was the case in the recent state assembly elections.
View ArticleNCP retains its hold over Navi Mumbai civic body
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has beaten the Shiv Sena-BJP combine to win the maximum number of seats — 52 out of 111 — in the municipal elections, just four short of the magic number of 56.
View ArticleIndependents to play kingmaker for NCP
NCP is reaching out to independents to form its government. Sources said that Ganesh Naik may prefer to rely on independent candidates than to strike a deal with its erstwhile ally —Congress
View ArticleCivic body plans mega tram network in city
The newly-elected civic body will thrash out a mega infra plan for a tram rail network to provide cheap, inter-nodal transport that is also eco-friendly.
View ArticleNMMC no longer a male bastion
The Navi Mumbai civic body will no longer be a male bastion. The April 22 civic election has brought surprising results with 68% of the elected corporators being female, unlike previous years
View Article‘Victory’ banners back to deface city
As soon as election results were out on Thursday, hundreds of illegal hoardings sprung up across city, said residents. They added that nobody dared to put them up till the code of conduct was in place
View ArticleCivic body plans mega tram network in Navi Mumbai
The newly-elected civic body will thrash out a mega infra plan for a tram rail network to provide cheap, inter-nodal transport that is also eco-friendly.
View Article‘Victory’ banners back to deface Navi Mumbai
As soon as election results were out on Thursday, hundreds of illegal hoardings sprung up across city, said residents. They added that nobody dared to put them up till the code of conduct was in place
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