Mumbai News LIVE Updates: EOW conducts polygraph test on ex-GM of New India Cooperative Bank

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: BMC urges citizens not to cut trees for Holi celebrations; warns of legal action

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday urged citizens not to cut trees for Holi celebrations, and warned of taking legal action against those involved in unauthorised tree felling. Issuing a release on Tuesday evening, BMC also appealed to the citizens to contact the civic body or the Mumbai police or alert its toll free helpline number 1916: PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: NCP MLA says he spent Rs 10-12 crore during election

An MLA of the Nationalist Congress Party led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has created ripples by claiming that he spent Rs 10 to 12 crore during his election campaign. Prakash Solanke, fourth term MLA from Majalgaon assembly constituency in Beed district, later retracted his remarks, made at a public event, saying he made those remarks in a lighter vein. "I wanted to say lakhs, but said crore," he said: PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: ATS seizes 93 gelatin sticks transported on tractor in Latur; driver held

The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a tractor driver for illegally transporting 93 gelatin sticks and four electric detonators in Latur district of Maharashtra, a police official said on Tuesday. Acting on a tip-off, a special team of ATS intercepted a tractor around 2 pm on Monday in Devangra farm area of Ausa tehsil. They discovered a stockpile of 93 gelatin sticks, four detonators, wires, a compressor engine, and other equipment, the official said: PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: NCP MLA says he spent Rs 10-12 crore during election, later claims he meant `lakh`

An MLA of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has created ripples by claiming he spent Rs 10 crore to 12 crore during his election campaign, way above the expenditure limit set by the EC: PTI