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By the time you read this on Monday morning, major work to remodel Masjid station will have been completed. Train movement will have started to and from CST after being shut for 48 hours.

The block was successfully completed at 10.30 pm as planned. After the removal of wagons with debris, the first local scheduled to arrive at CST was from Titwala at 11.25 pm.

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This is one school which is doing its best to ensure that no one in its premises is infected with swine flu.

Since August 6, Oberoi International School at Goregaon, has been checking the body temperature of everyone entering its campus. Every day. read more »
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A day after swine flu claimed a life in Pune, the changed atmosphere was apparent in Mumbai as well. It was announced on Tuesday that the city's Haffkine Institute, Parel, will soon start testing for the A-H1N1 virus, becoming the second centre in the state after the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, to do so. And, the city's only quarantine centre in Kasturba Hospital, Chinchpokli, c read more »
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Citizens' groups in the Juhu-Bandra area are getting ready for a long drawn battle with the MMRDA over the issue of an underground section of the second Metro line-Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd.

"We will first try for a dialogue with the MMRDA, only when it fails will we resort to other measures like legal action,'' said Nitin Killawalla of the Juhu Vile Parle Residents' Association. read more »
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A special Pota court will pronounce the verdict in the six-year-old Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar twin blasts case on Monday.

Fifty-two people were killed and 184 injured in the August 25, 2003, blasts. This would be the biggest judgment in a terror-related case since a Tada court convicted 100 people for the 1993 serial blasts case in 2007. read more »
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The Lokmanya Tilak Award will be given to finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. The declaration was made by president of the Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Trust, Deepak Tilak at a press conference on Friday. read more »
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Chlorine gas leak on Thursday in Bhiwandi led to the evacuation of over 4,000 villagers, while 12 persons were hospitalised since the incident. read more »
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The first phase of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region's third skywalk, at Mira Road station, is ready but is not being commissioned as Western Railway (WR) wants the MMRDA to create a ticket counter close to this skywalk. WR has told the MMRDA that access to this facility will be given only when a ticket counter is built near the facility, said MMRDA officials. read more »
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For us ordinary Mumbaikars, heavy showers mean unending woes. While no one in the administration exactly rushes to mitigate the agony of people coping with waterlogged homes and roads, it is a different story altogether if the affected person is superstar Amitabh Bachchan. read more »
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The BMC has served a notice to BJP corporator and BEST chairman Dilip Patel for an alleged illegal constructionrnin his residential building in Goregaon.rnrnPatel, however, rubbished the charges. "The notice is not in my name. I do not want to speak on the issue,'' he told TOI. But the place to which the notice had been sent (room no 2, plot no. 102) was Patel's address as reco read more »
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Yet another foreign director has set his sights on Mumbai's slums. After Danny Boyle's dark and passionate look at the city in "Slumdog Millionaire", it is American director Paul Schrader's turn to make a film here. read more »
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A steel scaffolding used in the construction of the financial capital's first Metro line collapsed in the northwest suburb of Sakineka late on Monday night following gusty winds.

No one was injured in the incident which took place when work was going on at the site. read more »
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Raj Thackeray led MNS suffered its first big jolt before the assembly polls, with its general secretary Shweta Parulkar quitting the party and joining the rival Shiv Sena on Thursday. read more »
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In the first accident reported from the Bandra-Worli Sea Link since its inauguration, a car banged into another that had broken down on the bridge on Tuesday evening. Nobody was injured and both vehicles were towed away in 10-15 minutes, the police said. read more »
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