This year, dahi handi events in Thane will be a tad different from previous years. Closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras will be monitoring the events at major dahi handi venues in the area.
CCTVs are being installed for the first time in Thane in view of the recent terror attacks in Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Besides, the increasing number of govindas has prompted the police to take extra p
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SIMI activist held in connection with Ahmedabad blasts
Sunday, 27 July , 2008, 17:26
New Delhi: An activist of the banned SIMI who was wanted in the 2002 Gujarat riots was arrested on Sunday from the walled city area after a combing operation for his alleged connections to the Ahmedabad blasts.
Heavy rains continued to lash the city and the suburbs on Monday, affecting road, rail and air traffic. The weather bureau, meanwhile, has predicted intermittent rainfall with possibility of few heavy showers during the day.
According to traffic police sources, traffic was moving at a slow pace on various routes due to potholes but there was no water-logging on the main routes.
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The number of police personnel who have tested positive for HIV-AIDS from January this year has increased by 4.4 per cent.
According to the statistics prepared by the Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centre (VCTC) of the police hospital, from January this year till date, the number of police personnel have tested positive for HIV has gone up by 4.4 percent.
Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil has issued a diktat to all IAS officers to adopt car pools to cut down on travel expenses.
Chairing a meeting attended by top officials and police officers to devise means to control expenses on fuel and travel, which are expected to soar owing to last week’s price hike, he said, "Reduce fuel bill by 5%. Avoid uncessary meetings and travel. Three-to-four office
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Breathe in the smells of Colaba Causeway, grab a beer at Leopold Cafe and inspect the infamous block of lock-up cells at Colaba police station.
Let the hustle of Tardeo market tear past your window, take note of the Shiv Sena headquarters in Dadar and try to get a small role in a Bollywood film.
The 10-km stretch from Ghatkopar to Mulund checknaka is a drivers’ nightmare. Motorist blame it to the extra smoothness of the road and traffic police blames it to civic authorities and mmrda for not looking into it. And of course civic authorities blame it to reckless driving.
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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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Mumbai mayor Shubha Raul has ordered an inquiry into how permissions were given to build these structures. She also said strict action should be taken against these builders, local politicians and whoever is involved and the BMC should not hesitate to file police complaints.
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The special court hearing the 1993 serial blasts case has given its verdict after what came to be known as 'the world's longest terrorism trial, a book has been written on the explosions and a film too screened in theatres across India.
Yet, all is clearly not over for the Mumbai police in the case. On Tuesday, 15 years after the blasts, the crime branch arrested one of the accused, Abbas Mo
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The MNS has sent letters to the police, alleging that the vendors gather information from residential buildings while hawking fruit and provide the information to criminals. They also allege that they are stealing business from Maharashtrian hawkers.
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This monsoon, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will rope in a brand new slew of initiatives to cause minimum inconvenience to citizens during emergencies or major floods.
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Hutatma chowk hold the gathering for all local politicians to pay their tributes to 105 martyrs of maharashtra samyukta samiti who fought for creation of seperate state as maharashtra. These 105 mumbaikars were killed in the police firing at this place in fountain while fighting for seperate mahrashtra state. Until then maharashtra was a combined with gujarat.
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Mumbai Police on Monday suspended the licenses of 35 cinema halls of the city for not adhering to the Maharashtra government's order for mandatory screening of Marathi movies for minimum of four weeks a year.
There are only seven to eight single-screen cinemas in the city, including the Plaza and Bharatmata, which show Marathi movies regularly. As these cinema halls are overbooked, they canno
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A 31-year-old woman who was robbed of her mobile phone on April 16 while travelling in a BEST bus, snatched it back from the thieves in the same bus a week later on Wednesday.
The courageous IT professional’s regret, however, was that nobody stepped forward to help her nab the two thieves who wre
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