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Twenty-five days into J&K posting, Gaonkar dies in action in Rajouri

"What is the use of all these people here when I have lost the one person who means the most?” asks an inconsolable 29-year-old Akansha Ajit Gaonkar.

Her family had received a call from the Army at 10.30 am on Tuesday, informing them that her husband, 32-year-old Army Naik Ajit Shivaji Gaonkar, had died.

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After a month of summer in the rainy season mumbai is under mild and strong showers almost for last 4 days. MET is suggesting this will continue till tommorow. read more »
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Authetic Misal Recipe on my blog.

कोल्हापूरातील फडतरे यांची मिसळ खुपच प्रसिद्ध आहे. मी त्यापद्धतीची मिसळ घरी बनवली होती. खुपच चविष्ट आणि चमचमीत पाककृती आहे. read more »
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Internal lift apart from a common lift
2 master bedrooms, two bedrooms for children and two more for guests
Plush toilets with a wardrobe attached
and blah blah blah ....

And this will cost you 5 crore (if at all you are invited). read more »
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There will soon be more Santro and Indica taxis on Mumbai roads. Taxi drivers are being told by their unions to slowly phase out the current Premier Padmini cabs.

"The taxis have become old now and we are planning to replace them with second-hand Santros and Indicas. In my general meeting next week, I will be telling the taxi drivers to buy such cars. The union will take care of the loan," read more »
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For Mohammed Jakir, an illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, begging may have begun as a compulsion but through his ingenuity he turned it into a career option.

The 42-year-old amputee, who begged in Indian cities for more than two decades, is today known to be a rich man in Bangladesh.

Indian intelligence sleuths, who nabbed Jakir after learning about his all-too-frequent visits to Bangladesh read more »
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Yet another puneri pati :)rnrnrn read more »
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A commuter who was fined by a ticket-checker of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking in March 2007, fought against the administration when he found out that he had been wrongly charged. On Wednesday, he was awarded a cheque of Rs 50 after he made BEST realise its mistake. Interestingly, the commuter has spent more than Rs 500 till date. read more »
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अमेठी, ता. १६ - ""लोकसभेतील शक्तिप्रदर्शनात सरकार पडले तरी बेहत्तर; परंतु अणुकरार वाचवा,'' असे आवाहन कॉंग्रेसचे सरचिटणीस खासदार राहुल गांधी यांनी आज पत्रकार परिषदेत केले.
सरकार पणाला लावण्याएवढा हा करार नक्की महत्त्वाचा आहे, असेही त्यांनी स्पष्ट केले.

""चिकाटी आणि नेतृत्वगुण असलेले दूरदृष्टीचे पंतप्रधान,'' अशा शब्दांत राहुल यांनी डॉ. मनमोहनसिंग यांची तोंड भरून स्तुती केली. ते म्हणाले read more »
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प्लास्टर ऑफ पॅरिसमुळे पर्यावरणाचा - हास होत असल्याने समुद्रात गणेशमूर्ती विसर्जन करण्यावर बंदी घालावी, अशी सूचना पुढे आली आहे. यामुळे यंदाच्या गणेशोत्सवाच्या तोंडावर नव्या वादाला तोंड फुटले आहे. आश्चर्याची बाब म्हणजे यावेळी कुणा पर्यावरणवाद्याने नव्हे, तर शिवसेनेच्याच मुंबईच्या महापौर डॉ. शुभा राऊळ यांनी ही मागणी केलीय. अर्थात आता शिवसेनेतूनच महापौरांच्या या सूचनेला ‘ निर्माल्य कलशा ’ चा मार्ग दा read more »
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Two BMC employees were sentenced to one year imprisonment following their conviction in a corruption case. Lalit Kumar Chaudhary and Praveen Lokhande were convicted for accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a handcart puller. read more »
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Completing a phase-out of its aging cricket brand ambassadors, soft drinks major has dropped master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, whose long-standing contract with the company expired in May. The dropping of Tendulkar comes on the backdrop of Pepsi axing the other two members of the Indian batting trioka, Rahul D read more »
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We cannot expect the BMC to handle a population of 18 million. With a density of 23 people per sq ft there are bound to be hygiene and cleanliness issues. However, it is a pleasant surprise to see that the citizens of Mumbai are making an effort to keep the city clean. This can be seen on the city roads where people abstain from throwing things outside their car windows. read more »
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Nearly every day for the past two years, two mothers have sat at their sons‘ bedsides and repeated almost the same words. "It‘s time to go home," they tell the young men. "Don‘t you want to leave the hospital?" Both mothers pray their children will emerge from the severely brain-damaged states they were plunged into after bombs ripped through seven commuter trains in Mumbai two years ago read more »
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An anumsement park, township, colleges and all that a city takes could come up along the mumbai pune express way. This study is carried out by darashaw consultants for MSRDC. 23 plots have been identified, which can be commercially exploited generating rs. 500 crore of revenus for MSRDC. read more »
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