Every year, close to 50,000 laws are passed across the nation and although we may say ignorance of the law is no excuse, not many of us know of the laws that have been passed in recent times.
As compared to these, the Right to Information Act has been a resounding success. After only three years of its existence, RTI has done what not many laws have achieved.
Hi all on katta. We are running a small survey on katta about the current incident of MNS beating up north indian's and what mumbaikar think about the whole issue.rnWe will run this for few days and iam sure it would be very interesting to know the results.Click here to take the survey read more » 14 Comments Tell a friendBury
Condemning provocative statements by Raj and Uddhav Thackeray against north Indians, former attorney general Soli J Sorabjee has warned that perpetuation of this atmosphere could degrade the "glorious" city of Mumbai into a provincial town.
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Mumbaikars may finally get to see a gigantic statue of Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the Arabian Sea on the lines of Statue of Liberty in the United States. After scouting for a location to install the statue for almost four years, the state government has finally zeroed in on a site between Marina Drive and Back Bay in the Arabian Sea.
In a sign that Shiv Sena is worried over its former leader Raj Thackeray 'hijacking' its 'Marathi pride' plank, Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has warned that his party will not tolerate workers 'brought from outside' for modernisation of Mumbai airport.
"There are going to be one lakh jobs for airport works. If you bring outside workers, then they will be packed off in a pa
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With cheaper car variants set to swamp the automobile market, the government is bracing to contain the spin-off, congestion of roads, with a steep hike in parking fees in cities like Mumbai.
If the plan mooted by the Urban Development department comes through, vehicle owners in cities like Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Nashik will end up paying parking charges in accordance with the price of land
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After drawing flak for last Tuesday's accident on the Eastern Express Highway in which two men on a bike lost their lives, traffic police have been ordered to stand in such a way that they are clearly visible to motorists at signals and not startle drivers by surfacing before them all of a sudden.
Former National swimmer and police constable battled with tides as high as 6 feets to rescue 6 young band standers on sunday. 2 of them Prachi (20) of Aslapha and Kishore Chandanshive (23) of Saki Naka could not be saved.
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In a dramatic breakthrough in the investigations into the terror attack on the CRPF camp in Rampur on January 1, the UP special task force on Sunday arrested six alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists.
Three of them were bound for Mumbai on Sunday morning to carry out strikes on key installations in India’s financial capital, police said.
Opportunistic as Mr Kumar’s actions may have been, it is equally true that given his position as the chief minister of Bihar, he had no alternative but to react forcefully to Thackeray’s shenanigans.
But have Mr Kumar and his ilk (Laloo, Mulayam, Mayawati et al) reflected on the real reasons behind the predicament of the poor migrants from Bihar and U.P?
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A local Congress leader allegedly involved in the murder of a Shiv Sena worker was stripped and beaten to death in a Maharashtra village at a political meeting held in the run-up to a district council by-election on Friday. Dnyaneshwar Sathwane, a former vice president of the Nagpur district council, was lynched in Tarsa village near Nagpur.
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Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh told NDTV that they seek to complain to the Election Commission about Raj Thackeray's party. Nobody is safe in the Congress, NCP rule in Maharashtra. If Mr Bachchan's house can be attacked despite security, no one is safe.
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How do we promote Marathi Film Industry and Theatre?
Ideas and Comments are invited.
Few links where we can buy Marathi Movies/Plays on electronic Media.
http://www.moserbaerhomevideo.com/Movies_catagory.aspx?lang=Marathi
http://webmallindia.com/marathi.php?med=VCD&lang=6&s1=Find
http://shopping.sify.com/Videos/Marathi-_menu_3_13176759__13176756.html
http://www.shemaroo.com/online/online.
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After Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's attack on filmstar Amitabh Bachchan, the actor's wife and Member of Parliament Jaya Bachchan on Sunday hit out at him and said they were willing to start a school in the metropolis provided the MNS leader donated them the land.
"I heard that Raj Thackeray owns huge properties in Maharashtra...in Mumbai...Kohinoor Mills. If he is wi
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