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मुंबई शहराच्या मंजूर विकास योजनेत 'भारतमाता'ची जागा चित्रपटगृहासाठी दाखवल्याने त्याचा वापर मराठी चित्रपगृहासाठीच व्हावा, अशी सूचना मुख्यमंत्री अशोक चव्हाण यांनी केली असून ती विकासक कंपन्यांनी मान्य केली आहे. त्यामुळे 'भारतमाता' सध्याच्याच जागेवर नव्या रुपात दिसू शकेल!

एनटीसी आणि भास्कर ग्रुप या दोन्ही कंपन्या एकत्रितपणे या जमिनीचा विकास करणार आहेत. त्यांच्याच संचालक मंडळाने 'भारतमाता' आ read more »
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Mumbai’s famous resident, Sachin Tendulkar, has stopped taking a shower. He takes his bath using a bucket of water these days and so do his wife and children in a bid to contribute to the city’s urgent need to save water.

Tendulkar had revealed this to a team that had gone to shoot a ‘Save Water’ ad for the civic body. The impressed team included it in the ad. read more »
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When Dr Ranjit Deshpande gets ready to perform a cardiac bypass surgery in London's King's College, there is no role for the saw that has traditionally been used to cut open the breast bone in order to expose the heart.

The Bandra boy instead uses an endoscopic camera and a huge LCD TV to get a 'close' look at the beating heart.

His patients go home within 48 hours without the tell-ta read more »
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Famed for their proficiency in delivering lunch-boxes, Mumbai Dabbawalas will again make Maharashtra proud while representing the state in the Republic Day parade at the national capital.

"We would display uninterrupted service of Dabbawalas on the Republic Day parade in Delhi," Secretary for Tourism and Culture Anand Kulkarni told PTI.

The over 100-year-old business community had grabbe read more »
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The air-conditioners that keep you cool at office and home are scorching the meters. The city's recent power load flow pattern, which gives an indication of which gadgets consume more power, indicates that air-conditioners alone guzzle nearly 1,000 MW of the 2,700 MW of power that the city consumes every day.

And this isn't only about the individual consumer paying his individual bill—event read more »
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is starting a pilot project to desalinate seawater and supply it to high-end consumers.

The plant, with a capacity of 2 MLD (million litres a day) is expected to come up in 18 months. Senior BMC officials said the civic body had issued an expression of interest (EOI) to invite parties for the plant, which may entail a capital cost of Rs 10 crore pe read more »
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Water woes for the city seem to be unending. Soon, people residing in high-rises and big housing complexes will have to reduce their municipal water consumption, so that others living in smaller societies get their quota of supply.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to make recycling of grey water (waste water) mandatory for even existing buildings. It had initially propo read more »
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Commuting on local trains during rush hours in the morning and evening has the power to bring out the animal in all Mumbaikars.

Space on the overcrowded station platforms and entry and exit points is a premium, and the situation will only go from bad to worse once the new 15-coach services gather steam.

Congestion, lack of platform space, and inadequate crowd dispersal facilities plague m read more »
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The state's forest department is staring at a grave threat of losing its grazing lands to encroachers. There is hectic political lobbying that the encroachers have begun to regularise thousands of acres of grazing land in the state.

A delegation of grazing land occupants from Vidarbha recently met a local MLA and demanded an early solution to the problem.

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मुंबई शहरापेक्षा मुंबईच्या उपनगरात झाडांचे प्रमाण अधिक आहे. यातही पश्चिम उपनगरवासी पूर्व उपनगरात रहाणाऱ्यगंपेक्षा अधिक भाग्यवान आहेत.

विभागवार विचार केला तर, दक्षिण मुंबईतील मरीन लाइन्स येथे लोक आणि झाडे यांचे प्रमाण सर्वात वाईट आहे. तेथे दर ५१ माणसांमागे एक झाड आहे. या यादीत दादरचा तिसरा क्रमांक लागतो. तेथे हे प्रमाण आहे. तेथे तेरा माणसांमागे एक झाड असे प्रमाण आहे. डोंगरी भागात हे प्रमाण चौवी read more »
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The cat is out of the bag. Commercial establishments are illegally tapping water meant for residential pockets in the city.

An audit on supply and distribution of water in the city has brought to light cases where commercial establishments are illegally consuming water meant for residential consumption.

The report, tabled before the standing committee of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporati read more »
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Cracking down for the first time on those illegally selling BMC water, civic officials teamed up with the Shivaji Nagar police to nab 21 people who have run a small-scale racket for the past 10 years. They read more »
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The Bombay High Court, hearing a petition of Shiv Sena leader Sitaram Dalvi expressing inability to pay the compensation for damage caused to Hotel Intercontinental when a group of men he had led turned violent in January, on Monday observed that the amount could be realised by attaching Sena property.

Dalvi, who had led a morcha of Bharatiya Kamgar Sena (BKS) men to the hotel at Sahar in prot read more »
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केंदातील सत्ताधारी मुंबईकडे सोन्याचे अंडे देणारी कोंबडी म्हणून पाहतात... मुंबईतून गोळा होणाऱ्या हजारो कोटी रुपयांच्या करातून या शहराला काय मिळते, असे आरोप गेली किमान चार दशके सुरू आहेत.

परंतु केंद सरकार नव्याने लागू करत असलेल्या गुड्स अँड सव्हिर्सेस टॅक्स (जीएसटी)मुळे केंद सरकारच्या तिजोरीत जाणाऱ्या सव्हिर्स टॅक्समधील निम्मा हिस्सा राज्याला मिळेल. विशेष म्हणजे मराठी माणसांच्या मनातील ही सल के read more »
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The city’s first skywalk, adjoining the Bandra railway station, continues to shelter 100-odd slumdwellers of Garib Nagar four months after a massive fire gutted over 300 multi-level shanties in the area.



Even after a reminder from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, which owns read more »
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