Nearly 4,000 people have queued up in two days for the Shiv Sena’s Shiv Vada Pav scheme, picking up forms from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the hope of getting licences and handcarts to sell the food item.

The scheme is likely to open in mid-July. The civic administration has said that the applicants eventually selected would not include politicians, nor will it consider the read more »
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'महाराष्ट्रात १५ वषेर् वास्तव असणाऱ्या व्यक्तीच एमएमआरडीएच्या भाड्याच्या घरांसाठी पात्र ठरतील. या संदर्भातील वास्तव्याच्या दाखल्याची अट सरकार कायम ठेवील', असे नि:संदिग्ध आश्वासन उपमुख्यमंत्री छगन भुजबळ यांनी बुधावरी विधानसभेत दिल्यामुळे या मुद्द्यावर सरकारला कोंडीत पकडण्याचा विरोधकांचा डाव पुरता उधळला गेला! read more »
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Western Railway’s ambitious project to build a terminus for long-distance trains at Dadar has run into a 117-year-old obstacle. The project was conceived in 2007 and work began the same year, but authorities have now realised that trains cannot be terminated on platform number 6, as it can’t be connected to shunting yards because of a temple at the southern end. read more »
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मुंबईत १५ डब्यांची लोकल आणखी महिन्याभरात सुरू होईल. पश्चिम रेल्वेवर दादर येथून ही लोकल सुटेल. यामुळे जगातील सर्वांत मोठी उपनगरी रेल्वे असा विक्रमही भारतीय रेल्वेच्या नावावर नोंदवला जाईल.

जूनच्या अखेरच्या दिवशी पहिली लोकल सुटेल अशी माहिती पश्चिम रेल्वेचे विभागीय व्यवस्थापक सी.पी. शर्मा यांनी दिली. यामुळे अधिक प्रवासी वाहून नेले जातील आणि लोकलवर पडणारा भार कमी होईल अशी अपेक्षा आहे.

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A recent government resolution aims to make Marathi compulsory in all non-Marathi schools across the state from Stds I to IV, including for those schools that follow boards such as ICSE and CBSE. read more »
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Encouraged by the response to its first `Nano' housing scheme in Boisar, Tata Housing on Monday announced a similar project to build low-income group (LIG) flats in the central suburbs.

Officials did not disclose the exact location of the housing complex that would come up but said that construction work was likely to begin in October. read more »
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Mumbai will have to wait till 2021 to meet its water requirement, according to the a projection by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

With rising population and increasing water demand, particularly for highrises and for re-development and other real estate projects, the BMC says it will be another 12 years before Mumbaikars can enjoy adequate water supply. read more »
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म्हाडा आणि मराठी माणूस हे समीकरण गेली अनेक वषेर् आहे. पण आता म्हाडामध्ये अमराठी टक्का झपाट्याने वाढत असून त्याचा प्रत्यय मंगळवारी फुटलेल्या म्हाडाच्या लॉटरीत आला.

अल्प व उच्च उत्पन्न गटांमधील लॉटरीत अमराठी अर्जदारांचा टक्का यंदा प्रचंड वाढल्याचे दिसून आले. वर्सोवा, गोरेगाव, दहिसर, प्रतिक्षा नगर येथील घरांची लॉटरी लागलेल्यांमध्ये अमराठी नावांचाही मोठा समावेश आहे.

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Today will be the lucky day for 3,863 people among the hundreds of thousands who had applied for the affordable tenements scheme of the Maharashtra Housing and Area
Development Authority (Mhada).

The lottery for the allotments will be held at the
Rangsharada Auditorium, Bandra, at 9 am.

Mhada received 4.33 lakh applications, but the number of applicants is half of that, since many subm read more »
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It will be the highest in 100 years but prediction mechanism won’t be ready till next year.

When the Mumbai coast braves its highest tide in 100 years in July, as experts have predicted, a promised flood modelling system won’t be in place.

The system that can be used to forecast which low-lying areas will be inundated and to what extent, so that the civic administration can take early prev read more »
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Mumbai's normal temperature may rise to around 44°C during summer and the sea level may increase by .86 metre, submerging low-lying and coastal areas. Far fetched, you may think. But this could be the reality after five decades, if things continue as usual.

"We have caused enough damage to the atmosphere, and it is high time people realise the probable damages of climate change and global w read more »
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This Shiv Sena is set to miss its second deadline, May 1, the Maharashtra Day, it had set to launch the Shiv Vada Pav or the common man’s burger, in a grand new standardised scheme across the city.

It will take another two months before stalls allotted for selling the Shiv Vada Pav can be cleared and vendors selected to sell the snack given the handcarts, according to the Brihanmumbai Municipa read more »
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The chickens are coming home to roost for many suburban housing societies which had dreamt of riding the real estate boom by inviting builders to redevelop their old properties in return for larger apartments and hard cash.

A slew of agreements between housing societies and developers, mainly in the western suburbs, has fallen through or is being renegotiated.

The agreements include the K read more »
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The relationship between builders and political parties has now got numbers to substantiate all the talk. The lucrative sector has done its bit to keep the poll juggernaut rolling, and not surprisingly, records of contributions by real estate players to major political parties show that a majority are Mumbai-based developers.

As many as 87 per cent of Rs 43 lakh, which is all that the Shiv Sen read more »
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The stage is set for the biggest terror trial to begin in a special courtroom inside the high-security Arthur Road Jail from Wednesday.

After a month's delay-the time taken to construct a bomb-proof courtroom for Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving 26/11 terrorist-will be physically produced before judge M L Tahaliyani for the first time. Special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam will read more »
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