Jinnah House, a mansion in a posh Mumbai area, is tangled in legal issues between Jinnah's successors. Even as the Wadias fight over their legal right to the house, after three decades, another blood relative has staked claim over the property.
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The countdown to No Honking Day on April 7 has begun and Mumbai Traffic Police, in coordination with a host of other organisations, have begun appealing to motorists, especially drivers of taxis, autorickshaws and two-wheelers, to refrain from using their horns on this day, hoping to raise awareness on noise pollution.
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Some of the best-known names in the country live here, and it's certainly the most expensive address in Mumbai, realty boom or not. It also doesn't seem like a place government investigators would go to looking for child labourers.
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But here, in Wing I of the plush Maker Towers at Cuffe Parade, the state's labour department has found five children employed as domestic servants by three very read more »
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“I am gay,’’ a statement that is made loud and clear as Khire has now launched his book in Marathi “Indradhanu Samalingatatliche Rang” (Rainbow -different colours of homosexuality) and as president of the Sampathik Trust has a dedicated helpline that has been answering queries and various doubts related to homosexuality for the last four years.
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I have not always lived in Mumbai; I came here from Bangalore at a really young age to make a living and I have done well for myself. This city has given me a lot and I am grateful to it. There have been attempts to attack the social fabric of the city recently, but all I can say is that I have never noticed anything divisive here. read more »
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I have not always lived in Mumbai; I came here from Bangalore at a really young age to make a living and I have done well for myself. This city has given me a lot and I am grateful to it. There have been attempts to attack the social fabric of the city recently, but all I can say is that I have never noticed anything divisive here. read more »
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Two people suffered serious injures when they were thrown off a running train allegedly by a group of college students in Maharashtra Thursday. The two passengers travelling by Goa-Hazrat Nizamuddin Express were thrown off the running train by a group of college students between Mayeji and Masavad
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March 11 (IANS) Wednesday will mark the end of 15 long years since the March 12, 1993 serial blasts shook the country’s commercial capital city Mumbai, left over 250 dead and led to varying jail terms of 100 people, including cine star Sanjay Dutt. India suffered one of the most powerful terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 257 persons and injured 1400 others in March 1993.
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After Batti Bandh now its churches from mumbai to work out ways to conserve energy and save the world (which is its prime objective anyways). But don't mistaken it with light cut offs in the church, i believe they use more candles then bulbs and tube lights. Pavwala will know better.
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Mumbai’s infamous chawls — crammed, dilapidated apartment blocks often too dangerous for living — are home to a major portion of the city’s 15 million people and offer a major lesson in mutual adjustment and community living.
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Steady migration of people from rural areas to cities brings huge problems in its wake. Mumbai - according to the UN - has a population of 19 million. And the UN forecasts that total will rise to more than 26 million by 2025.
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Raj Thackeray’s politics of hate made a lot of breaking news and broken people for a fortnight .The nation got gripped in just one single topic: Marathi Maanoos v/s the North Indians. Thousands fled to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from Nasik and Pune leaving behind their jobs, dwellings and it resulted in affecting number of smaller industrial units that engaged cheap labour.
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The "exodus" of north Indians from Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's tirade against them has affected industry operations, a business lobby said on Thursday.
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More than 11,000 people get lost in Mumbai every year, reveal police statistics, and around 20% of them are never found.
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Nameplate after nameplate; chowk after chowk, the Sena wants to eliminate the memories of the British Raj and replace them with Indian, specifically more Maharshtrian names. rnrnThe latest on their casualty list is the newly inaugurated Metro subway at Dhobi Talao which was thrown opened its gate to the public on Thursday. The word ‘Metro’ which ironically means ‘a subway system’ hasn’t gone
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Raj Thackeray and all Maharashtrians living in Mumbai, who think that North Indians are outsiders, should hear this one from Suresh Kalse, the chairman of the Vesawa Koli Sahkari Society. Kalse says, “The Koli community is the native Mumbaikar. The “outsiders” who must leave Mumbai include Maharashtrians from other parts of the state. Ironically, those wanting the North Indians to leave the city
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