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plan for a rapidly urbanising area on the city’s outskirts, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is readying to draft a Development Plan for an area covering 150 sq km around Bhiwandi. read more »
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Alarmed by increasing cases of under-18s taking to the steering wheel, Mumbai police have decided to prosecute not only offending minors in such cases but also the owner of the vehicle who has given them the car keys.

The car owner - be it the parents, friends or relatives of the minor - will be booked under Section 180 of the Motor Vehicles Act and can face imprisonment of up to three years a 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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Sheer lack of political will by the state government is keeping people from an ambitious rail project that aims to link Manmad in Maharashtra to Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Apart from saving the Railways Rs2 crore a day, the project aims to reduce distances between Delhi and Kanyakumari by 680km and between Delhi and Mumbai by 140km. read more »
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The BMC has decided to construct 4,700 public toilets with Rs 37 crore of its own money. Additional municipal commissioner Manu Kumar Srivastava said, “They will be ready in about a year. read more »
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This is how cricket in india came into existence.Must be after the period when aamir khan hit the last ball six in champaner :-)..Interesting read though. read more »
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On the Internet, the controversy has taken on massively ugly proportions, and is already a race row — with Indians, Pakistanis and Sri Lankans, all wading in. read more »
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Devotees can now just board a copter from the city and reach Shirdi within 45 minutes. read more »
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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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His father wanted him to become a teacher but he became one of the most dreaded sharpshooters of the Mumbai Police. Sharma is involved in 82 encounters and his prime targets have been Chhota Rajan's key associates Vinod Matkar, Sadiq Kalia, Goa ka Tony and others of their ilk. read more »
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Trust Nana Patekar to do the unbelievable each time in front of the camera. He is known to have slapped a co-actor hard, and at times he has played violent pranks on the sets. But recently he did something that left the unit members dumb-struck. read more »
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38-yr-old Madhavi Bhatkar has been waging a lonely battle against unscrupulous auto-rickshaw drivers in Bhandup, despite repeated threats of physical harm.

On Tuesday, Madhavi Bhatkar even lodged a complaint with the police, saying autowallahs had been calling on her landline number and threatening her with physical harm.

The drivers are angry with Bhatkar after police initiated action aga read more »
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THE ugly spectre of racism has come in to cricket, with sections of the Vadodara crowd subjecting Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds to monkey chants.How can this happen in india?Indians living in different parts of the world have faced this isssue themselves. read more »
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Sensex slipped 7.9 per cent or 1,507 points to 17,544 levels.
The decision to curb P-Notes has not gone down well with the markets with the benchmark index hitting the lower circuit breaker in opening moves. read more »
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To get rid of the pot-holed roads in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to adopt the American technology of UPM Kold Flo or cold mix. Frequent digging and torrential rains this year had made the city roads bumpy and also led citizens to file a PIL in Bombay High Court. read more »
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