Our 'Twenty20' stadium... 2 sessions of only 20 minutes each - power play, slamming, sledging, catches, slips...
galli batting, nearly 400 runs in three hours flat, cheerleaders :)
Does it also means end of golden days of test cricket and 50 overs ODI's full of strategies and game plans running all over the day? Where we see battles like McGrath vs. Sachin, Flintoff vs. Ponting, Jayasury
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The stage at Nirmal Lifestyle, Mumbai was on fire as the two Indian Idol finalists, Prashant Tamang and Amit Paul rocked the city with their enthralling performances. The show started off with none other than Hussain welcoming and cheering the crowd. This was followed by a grand Maharashtrain entry for the finalists- Amit and Prashant;they looked majestic, wearing Marathi Paghdis, they came on th
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It was an oft-repeated comment — that people, indeed, farmers, from Vidarbha are lazy — but Union minister for textile Shankar Sinh Vaghela and Maharashtra CM Mr. Deshmukh could not have made it at a worse time or place.
Those who attended this function went back disappointed. They had come in the hope that some measures would be announced to alleviate the suffering of the of the fa
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Wanna know.Check out this blog on Mumbai.metblogs.com
"I travel the length of this city every day, realizing fully well that death and danger to life could happen in the most unanticipated, most mundane ways possible. Each day, like in the jungle, is a fight for survival. Like everyone else, I swallow that thought and go on or make a joke of it. It's just too much to bear otherwise."
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Today is Vada Pav Day. Nothing official about it, of course, because in Mumbai -the commom man eats Vada Pav 24/7. He doesn’t require an occasion to celebrate the city’s staple diet.
And it’s not as if the state government dedicates the day to the Vada Pav. But it was on this day that a food chain registered the Vada Pav as its main business six years ago and corporatised the chatpata street f
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Many stations have logical roots in history - named either after legendary people, age-old traditions or businesses carried on in the area or for unknown reasons.
Santa Cruz:
Santa Cruz was originally known by villagers as Khulbawdi (in Marathi khul is mortar or also a yard, bawdi, a well) Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) was so named by its population of Salsette East Indian Christians after a crud
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Five persons have died and two others injured when major portion of a five-storeyed building collapsed in South Mumbai, fire brigade sources said on Saturday.
Three storeys of Chaddha Mansion at Lamington collapsed last night and some people were trapped under the debris.
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Chembur will soon be ‘the place’ for Information Technology (IT) companies as the government has planned out a new IT park, in Chembur. The Bombay Industrial Corporation, a private company involved in warehousing business, had signed a deal with the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industries, on May 31, to set up an IT/ITES park in Chembur.
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1993 mumbai blast, sanjay dutt life got changed after this, arrested by mumbai police under TADA....... Tuesday is the full and final day for sanju baba.....rnrnno one can predict what will happen next.. if he gets out of this, is our law helpless in front of the people who are in high society.....
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The Uttar Pradesh police on Wednesday arrested four members of Mumbai underworld don Ejaz Lakadwala’s gang for allegedly planning to kill singer Himesh Reshammiya and film producer-director Raj Kumar Santoshi over extortion demands.
Director General of Police Vikram Singh said the four were arrested from Dewa Road in Barabanki district on a tip-off from the Mumbai police
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NEW YORK: If you were walking along and spotted a cell phone, would you pocket it or try to find its owner?
An international survey found people were more honest than expected, with Slovenians leading the pack. Reporters from the magazine Reader's Digest planted 960 "lost" cell phones in 30 public places in 32 cities around the world to test people's reactions in a cell phone honesty test
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