The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has stepped up preparations at Girgaum Chowpatty ahead of Anant Chaturdashi, with a dedicated Emergency Management Control Room being operationalised at Swarajyabhoomi for the first time this year. (Pics/by special arrangement, Ashish Raje and Shadab Khan)

BJP National President Nitin Nabin and Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami offered prayers and performed rituals at the Mahalaxmi Temple in Haldwani on Thursday. Nabin and Dhami were in Haldwani for the BJP’s Extended State Working Committee meeting, which focused on organisational priorities, strengthening the party’s grassroots network and improving the outreach of government welfare schemes across the state. (Pic/PTI)