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Five-month-old Divya will not live if her parents do not get Rs 80,000 to repair the 1-cm hole in her 6-cm heart.rnrnWant to help Divya?rnNAME 'Wockhardt Hospital' as the beneficiary in your cheque, write 'Divya Bhaigade' on the reverse of the cheque. You could either hand-deliver or mail it to Wockhardt Paediatric and Congenial Heart Centre, Mulund.rnPhone: 67994488rnrnPlease che read more »
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Minorities have borne the brunt of organised mass murder that passes off as ‘riots’ in independent India. The perpetrators, often top politicians and senior officials, are rarely punished. The trials drag on, until most of the accused are acquitted for lack of evidence.

Bombay, 1992 - City Of Nightmares :

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A 24 year old Priti Ganguly, an employee with Wipro in Navi Mumbai was assaulted at her house in Dadar in the early hours of Tuesday morning, and suffered severe injuries on her skull and face. She is currently battling for life in Sion Hospital.

She came from her hometown, Indore, to Mumbai two months ago to work in the BPO.The girl is now fighting for her life at Sion Hospital; police cluel read more »
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Maninder’s death was in a rich neighbourhood of the capital. He was a well educated, well-off guy. Someone who was not supposed to die of starvation.rnrnBut it doesn’t stop us from blaming the victim. They are mentally unstable, we announce. Very weird, these reclusive types. Completely shunned us all. How could we help if they didn’t reach out? rnrnThat was not us. We believe read more »
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rnThe much-loved Frankie is an integral part of the Mumbai foodie’s diet. It consists of a piquant mutton or chicken curry, rolled into a flour and egg-glazed paratha. The Frankie owes its popularity to twin virtues of most fast food: economy and read more »
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Year : 2006
Cars stolen from Mumbai : 3593 (out of this 1268 werefour wheelers)
Cars recovered : 1253
Untraced vehicles : 2340

Year : Till the end of September 2007
Cars stolen from Mumbai : 2735 (out of read more »
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" My family members initially discouraged me saying that if other shopkeepers are giving the bribe, why are you fighting against it? But now I am happy that I took a stand, fought against corruption and have finally won the battle " read more »
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* The Law of Reality :
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.

* The Law of Self Sacrifice :
When you starve with a tiger, the tiger starves last.

* The Law of Volunteering :
If you dance with a bear, you had better let him lead.

* The Law of Avoiding Oversell :
When putting cheese in a mousetrap, always leave room for the mouse.

* The Law of Motivation read more »
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A peek in the lives of our city’s motormen, who frequently play a dangerous ’game’ on the tracks, shows a lurking fear while driving that nine or twelve coach trains with compartments loaded till the roof, and passengers having no inkling of the curves and speed they travel on everyday.



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Gossip is more powerful than truth, a study conducted in london showed that, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary. rnrnResearchers, testing students using a computer game, also found gossip played an important role when people make decisions, said Ralf Sommerfeld, an evolutionary biologist at the Max Planck Institute in Germ read more »
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'Bombaiyee se aaya mera dost...dost ko salaam karo..’ We’ve all heard this song and enjoyed singing it to glory. But how many of us know that it is originally an East-Indian song!

Most people in Mumbai really do not know about the ‘original’ natives of Bombay in its truest form.

It is indeed surprising that the true natives of this island city would one day suffer an id read more »
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