With World No Tobacco Day coming up on May 31, children playing freedom fighters like Gandhiji, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Lokmanya Tilak, Maulana Azad, Bhagat Singh, Sarojini Naidu, Subhash Chandra Bose and Rani Laxmi Bai are launching a new Quit India movement, called the ‘Quit Tobacco Movement’.
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Two automated ticket booking systems on the city's suburban railways are expected to be integrated soon to allow commuters to use just one smart card to travel on all public modes of transport in the financial capital. Currently commuters on the suburban railways use the Automated Ticket Vending Machines (ATVM) or the 'Go Mumbai' smart card to purchase unreserved tickets.
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अनादि मी अनंत मी , अवध्य मी भला
मारिल रिपु जगतिं असा कवण जन्मला ।। धृ ।।
अट्टाहास करित जईं धर्मधारणीं
मृत्युसीच गाठ घालु मी घुसे रणीं
अग्नि जाळि मजसी ना खड्ग छेदितो
भिउनि मला भ्याड मृत्यु पळत सूटतो
खुळा रिपू । तया स्वयें
मृत्युच्याचि भीतिने भिववु मजसि ये ।। १ ।।
स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकर यांच्या १२५ व्या जयंतीनिमित्त त्यांना 'मटा ऑनलाइन'तर्फे वाहिलेली ही डिजिटल आदरांजली
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BMC to set up Adhar Kendras, or service centres all over mumbai to provide reliable servants, maids, plumbers, electricians, cooks etc. They will provide phone numbers for such domestic help. Although this sounds almost like a yellow pages, The Adhar Kendras will be manned by NGOs or community based-organisations (CBO) but BMC will provide the infrastructure, including land, building and furnitur
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गेली अनेक वर्षे सरकारी लालफितीत अडकलेल्या पिरामल, स्वदेशी, सिम्पलेक्स, प्रभादेवी व शिवडीची स्टॅन्डर्ड मिल्सच्या गिरणी कामगारांचा घर व रोजगारांचा प्रश्ान् मागीर् लावण्यासाठी सरकारने कालबद्ध कार्यक्रम आखला आहे. या योजनांच्या अंमलबजावणीची जबाबदारी असलेल्या मुंबई महापालिका व 'म्हाडा' यांना सरकारने १५ जूनची डेडलाइन दिली आहे.
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This monsoon, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has assured that potholes will be repaired using foreign machines that will cut, clean and patch the potholes mechanically.
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R R Patil led a team of state ministers on a mobike rally through the city on Monday. No, the Dy CM was not taking part in a race --- he was showing the way in an endeavour to promote the use of helmets by bike and pillion riders, even as the Traffic Police announced it has undertaken a special drive
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Couple of days before we spoke about 17 year old shridhar kamble , son of poor dalit farmer in kolhapur who was allegedly selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) in the US for studying astronomy.
After this news was published by many newspaper in maharastra, the state government, which is supposed to be far more selective about these things than journalists, rushed
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With nearly two lakh trees being cut illegally every year across the state, the forest department has finally realised that existing laws and punishment are just not enough to deter culprits.
Henceforth, it intends to press charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder (maximum punishment is 10 years in prison) against people caught cutting trees illegally.
Bhatsa dam in Thane, which is the main source of water supply to Mumbai, may soon be the property of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The civic body, which is in an advanced stage of negotiations with the state government, is reportedly ready to shell out around Rs 800 crore for it.
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"Valu" is a village tradition in Maharahstra where a bull is let loose in the village in god’s name. The bull is free to roam anywhere in the small village of Kusavade until it goes berserk and starts destroying crops and the village. To counter the menace, a forest officer is called from the government forest dep
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The 300 bed Lilavati Hospital Mumbai recently won 'The Trusted Brand' award by Reader's Digest and India Today. It is the only hospital to be recognized thus in this poll.
At this event, Dr. Narendra Trivedi, Vice-President & Senior Surgeon at Lilavati said "To mark the 10th anniversary of Lilavati Hospital, we are planning to set up a second 300 bed hospital and a diagnostic cen
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This short poem is written on IPL, ICL and all the other money games going around now. Iam a old timer of the game, i still prefer one dayers and tests played in white trousers and shirts. Not that i complain the colored dresses today, but i seriously hate the glamourization of the game. Cricket is killed.
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That’s because, in case of a fire, spectators can’t even get to the ground, as the approach is restricted by grills. This means the 28,000-strong crowd will rush to the three exit points at the stadium, causing a stampede. He said his men had warned the MCA and other organisers.
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