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The Lalbaug mandal that organises the city’s biggest Ganeshotsav pandal has used Rs 25 lakh collected as donations during last year’s festival to set up a free library. It will be located in two rooms provided by the BMC at Peru Chawl near Lalbaug market. Named after Swatantraveer Savarkar, it will be inaugurated on Sunday.
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When S M Krishna was sworn in as governor three years ago, something struck a Maharashtrian railway officer as uncanny. What caught 39-year-old Devendranath Kasar's attention was the word 'governor'. It held a strange resemblance to the old Marathi word 'govardhan' which means cowherd. When he split up the word into syllables, gov-er-nor, the meaning remained the same in Marathi.
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Pop star Madonna toured the Mumbai slums on Tuesday with Gregory David Roberts, the convicted robber who turned his time spent there following an escape from an Australian prison into the best-selling novel "Shantaram".
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The National Programme of Mid-Day Meals in Schools, the largest school feeding programme in the world, covers nearly 9.70 crore children studying at the primary stage of education in classes I-V in 9.50 lakh Government (including local body) and Government aided schools, and the Centres run under Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and Alternative & Innovative Education (AIE).
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The foreign division manager of a leading bank in Mumbai is under the police scanner following a probe against him for allegedly posting the details of three of his female neighbours on a sex escort website.
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With suicides by debt-ridden farmers continuing unabated, Kisan Coordination Committee (KCC) has come out with a "novel plan" to "bid goodbye" to debt by dumping loan documents in the sea here on the eve of the new year.
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It was way back in 1937 that 'Sant Tukaram' became the first Indian film to win an award at the Venice International Film Festival. But time has not been a deterrent for the everlasting popularity of the film.
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Leslie E. Robertson Associates, the well known structural engineering firm of New York that was in charge of the designs of the World Trade Centre (WTC), destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, has been engaged by Oberoi Constructions to design a 32-storey commercial tower in Mumbai. The developer intends to provide a best-in-class environment to its occupants, the press release said.
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Indian police arrested a physics teacher who allegedly disciplined 22 unruly teenage students by giving them electric shocks, authorities said Wednesday.
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An e-mail threatening to blow up Indian airports in January has been received at a call centre of the national carrier Air India in neighbouring Gurgaon, airline sources said on Monday.
The call centre received the e-mail on Saturday which threatened explosions at the airports on January 12, they said.
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The call centre received the e-mail on Saturday which threatened explosions at the airports on January 12, they said.
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