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This may not be one of his Best game but is definately memorable for him and his fans as it was little different this time bcoz in 2007 he missed a lot of hundreds and obviously neither him nor his fans wanted this to continue in 2008 and this hundred came at a right time.
So Happy New Year Sachin and may this year sees a lot of hundreds from him.
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Bah, humbug!
Saturday December 29 2007 17:22 IST
Timeri N Murari
Like Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol”, all I can say for the New Year is ‘bah, humbug’. We humans are a weird species. We celebrate a ritual that marks the ending of an ‘old year’ to welcome in a ‘New Year’. I firmly believe this annual event was invented by greeting card manufacturers fo
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It was just as disgraceful, the experience just as nightmarish for the two foreigners who were groped and molested at a New Year party in Kochi, but there was one difference — the Kochi police were quick to act.
Minutes after the incident, the police arrested an offender; now they are on the lookout for others.
The foreign tourists were unwilling to file a complaint, so the Fort Kochi pol
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The mad scramble for admissions to colleges may be a thing of the past. On January 1, the University of Mumbai expanded the number of seats by a whopping 50% this year.
The varsity’s new year bonanza means that an unprecedented number of new institutions—226—have got the green signal for its affiliation.
So far, 501 colleges were affiliated to the 150-year-old varsity, with a total studen
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In Mumbai, on Juhu Tara road, two women were groped outside a five-star hotel on New Year’s Eve. However, the Santa Cruz police denied receiving any complaint. Witnesses said a group of boys, who were drunk after partying on Monday night, committed the act. This is the second such incident in the past few years. Earlier, a tabloid had carried pictures of a young woman being molested at the Gate
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Police will soon collect all the photographs taken by the photojournalists of the incident where two women were allegedly molested by a mob on New Years' Day in Juhu, a senior official said.
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Two years in a row, New Year revelry in Mumbai has gone awry. This year, in a city which boasts of being safe for women, a mob of 70 to 80 men groped and molested two women for about 15 minutes on a busy main street in Juhu early on New Year's Day.
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2007 is over and bad dreams have vanished with every cracker burnt in Mumbai.
The Mumbai team though will still be mourning - coming into the new year, as their dreams went up in smoke.
After failing to qualify for the Ranji Trophy semi-finals in this edition, the holders will definitely be hoping that the coming year will be brighter than the last.
Dropped catches, unfriendly pitches
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Far away from Monday night’s mohito, loud hip-hop and midnight fireworks, a quiet village had made what might be the prototype of a new India’s New Year resolutions to come.
The Beblewadi hamlet of Satara district, about 260 km southeast of Mumbai, more than half of the 500 villagers have signed papers to donate eyes after their death.
This, despite strong reservation among a section of H
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A mob of 70-80 men groped and molested two young women for some 15 minutes on a busy main street in Mumbai’s glamour district Juhu early on New Year’s Day.
An identical incident had shamed India’s safest city exactly a year ago — a girl was molested by New Year’s eve revellers at the Gateway of India. That incident was captured on film by a popular Mumbai tabloid; Tuesday morning’s horror was
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Wish all kattekari brethen a very happy new year 2008.
May this year bring in your life wisdom , wealth and peace of mind !
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For lakhs of aspirants who don't make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the new year has brought in cheer—this tech school is opening its classrooms beginning Wednesday for engineering colleges across the country.
As reported by TOI on December 8, IIT-Bombay will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.
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More water in 2008 was the promise civic chief Jayraj Phatak made to the residents of Mumbai three months ago. On Monday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced that Mumbai would get an extra 70 million litres per day (MLD), which will meet the needs of nearly one lakh families, in a fortnight.
However, engineers of the BMC's water department say nothing of the sort will happe
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After a hectic new year night festivities, some collegians bunk college while others attend classes forcibly. They claim that they are not mentally present even if they sit in the class.
Should colleges declare January 1 as a holiday?
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Why head to Goa or Mahabaleshwar when the city is seeing a nip in the air? After a warm Christmas, Mumbaikars can now look ahead to a chilly new year with minimum temperatures dropping to 14.5 degrees Celsius.
C V V Bhadram, the deputy director general of Meteorology at the Regional Meteorological Centre in Colaba, is confident that the city can welcome the new year in a cool atmosphere. "The
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