Mumbai News LIVE Updates: NCP (SP) wants LoP post to be on rotational basis with MVA allies

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Ruling Mahayuti well-placed to win all 5 seats in Maharashtra council bypolls

The ruling BJP-led Mahayuti coalition in Maharashtra is comfortably placed to win all five vacant seats in the Legislative Council, by-election schedule for which was announced on Monday. According to the Election Commission, the by-elections are slated for March 27 and they were necessitated due to the victory of five sitting MLCs in the November 2024 assembly polls. Three of the MLCs who have entered the assembly were from the BJP, followed by the Shiv Sena and the NCP (one each). All three parties are constituent of the ruling Mahayuti coalition. The byelections of the MLCs are from the MLA quota in the 288-member legislative assembly: PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Ex-directors of New India Cooperative Bank claim they were unaware of fund embezzlement

At least a half dozen former directors of New India Cooperative Bank have told investigators during an ongoing probe that they were unaware about the alleged Rs 122-crore embezzlement at the fraud-hit lender, Mumbai police officials said on Monday. These directors have claimed they had no role in the alleged fraud which came to light last month, they said. The Mumbai Police`s Economic Offences Wing (EOW), probing the alleged illegal withdrawal of Rs 122 crore from the bank`s treasury over five years since 2020, had summoned seven former directors of the bank as part of its probe: PTI

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: NRI doctor duped of Rs 9.7L in online bank fraud

A US-based NRI heart surgeon, who had opened a savings account with a nationalised bank in Mumbai’s Andheri two years ago, became a victim of online bank fraud, losing over Rs 9 lakh.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Tigress tranquilised, captured in Nagpur district

A tigress who killed a person in Parseoni in Maharashtra`s Nagpur district was tranquilised and captured on Monday, a forest official said. The tigress, identified as T-132, was captured from the Chargaon forest area, said Bharat Singh Hada, the deputy conservator of forest, (Nagpur forest department): PTI