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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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This year, the MCGM is likely to spend Rs 600 crore on beautification projects such as the proposed wax museum at Girgaum, Mumbai Eye — a 160-feet high monument offering the city’s ubiquitous view at Taj Land’s End at Bandra, seven theme gardens, street furni read more »
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मानापमानाचा अंक मारहाणीपर्यंत लांबवणाऱ्या मनसेचे सरचिणीस प्रकाश महाजन यांची पक्षाध्यक्ष राज ठाकरे यांनी सोमवारी पक्षातून हकालपट्टी करून पक्षात सुरू असलेल्या वादावर पडदा पाडला. जिल्हा संपर्कप्रमुख कर्णबाळा दुनबळे यांना मारहाण करणाऱ्या महाजन यांच्यावर पक्षविरोधी कारवाया केल्याचा ठपका ठेवत राज यांनी त्यांची हकालपट्टी जाहीर केली. 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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The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) provided major relief for over 23 lakh Reliance power consumers in suburban Mumbai when it decreed on Wednesday that customers could continue to pay according to the old tariff.

MERC's order will stay in place until it completes its ongoing probe into allegations of ``inflated'' bills and issues further directives, state energy minis read more »
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Bring water under the Essential Commodities Act (ECA). This was the demand echoed by some members of the BMC standing committee on Wednesday.

With no respite from water cuts and tankers holding the city to ransom, the members wanted that the proposal, raised several times during previous water crises, be considered seriously this time.

"Tanker owners, who promised us help during this cri 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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Rains seem to have got their landing address wrong. It keeps raining heavily in the city, but, with the ever-deepening water crisis, citizens are praying for such rains in the catchment belts of the six reservoirs that supply water to the city.

According to statistics provided by the disaster management cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), parts of the island city received 142 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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Chief minister Ashok Chavan described this year's rail budget in one line: "Kahin khushi, kahin gham." The reason for `gham,' he said, was key projects for Maharashtra were not sanctioned. read more »
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