Till September 1 (day 2 of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival), the Lalbaughcha Raja received an offering of over Rs 36 lakh by the devotees who visited the pandal to seek blessing from the Lalbaugcha Raja idol

People are doing `pandal-hopping` with gusto, especially in central Mumbai areas of Lalbaug, Parel and Girgaon where some famous Ganesh Mandals or groups install the idols

The protest started at 5.30 am and the drivers returned to work around 10 am after the company officials assured them that they would be given `Chalo` bus passes of BEST

As per a statement issued by the ACB Thane, police naik Niteen Rathod attached to the Manpada police station in Dombivili town had allegedly demanded Rs 50,000 from a couple, inspector Suresh Chopde of the ACB Thane

According to 39-year-old Kavita Patil, she along with a group of friends were working on a miniature theme of Lower Parel railway station, one of the popular destination railway stations of dabbawalas where they unload tiffins to deliver them to their clients

As many as 60,473 idols were immersed in the sea, other water bodies as well as in artificial ponds on Thursday

This comes after BMC asked the citizens to immerse Ganesha idols made of Plaster of Paris (PoP) in artificial lakes or ponds to encourage people to reduce pollution

Organisers say they have traditionally satirised hot-button political issues every Ganeshotsav and have taken the police to high court

Over 200 residents write protest letter, rush to ward office; not satisfied with explanation that ‘order came from the top’ directly from Fadnavis