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To: The Government of Maharashtra, Private FM Channels operating in MaharashtrarnThe FM radio channels currently operating in Pune are providing their programmes primarily in Hindi. Radio Mirchi provides about 10 - 15% of non prime time entertainment programmes in Hindi but announcements & advertisements are not in Marathi. Radio Mirchi provides no entertainment programmes in Marathi but annou read more »
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In February last year, three college students, who had been partying till late into the night, crashed their car near Malabar Hill, an elite south Mumbai locality.
One of the boys died on the spot. Another was critically injured; and the third (the driver of the luxury car) Jatin Mehra, was arrested for drink driving. read more »
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Five years after Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray launched the party’s “Me Mumbaikar” campaign which ran into trouble following the attack on job-seekers from other states by members of the Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, then headed by cousin Raj Thackeray, the party is going full throttle at wooing the non-Marathi speaking population of the metropolis.

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मुंबईतील गणेशोत्सव म्हणे समलिंगी पुरुषांचा म्हणजे ' गें ' चा उत्सव, यातील मिरवणूक म्हणजे ' गें ' चे उत्स्फूर्त समूहनृत्य. असे असंबद्ध अज्ञान ' गार्डियन ' या ब्रिटिश दैनिकाच्या वेबसाइटने पाजळल्याचे वृत्त नुकतेच ' मटा ' ने प्रसिद्ध केले होते. त्याला प्रतिसाद म्हणून अनेकांनी ' मटा ऑनलाइन ' कडे आपली नाराजी कळवली. गार्डियन ' ने हा दिशाभूल करणारा उल्लेख काढून टाकावा, यासाठी सर्वात आधी ही चुक read more »
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In 2004, when Habib Motors launched Sitara, Pakistan's Rs 1 lakh car, the headlines inevitably read, ‘Pakistan beats India'. That nation's expats rejoiced in online chat rooms saying things like, ‘‘Today, I'm proud to be a Pakistani''.

And Indians with unlimited broadband responded by saying that Sitara was not a car read more »
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Mandani is piece of furniture mumbai housewives used for keeping kitchen utensils, if you can't recollect look at the picture. Years ago when CST was VT and Mumbai was Bombay it use to be an asset of desire for mumbai housewives. read more »
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Tata Nano. Photograph: Rajesh Karkera

The Tata Rs 1-lakh car is here! And it's called the Nano!

Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata on Thursday unveiled the Tata Nano at the 9th Auto Expo in New Delhi.


Details of the People's Car:

Ratan Tata, while unveiling the nano, said: "The car will meet all current safet read more »
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Popular yoga guru Ramdev has accepted the Indian Medical Association's (IMA) challenge to cure cancer patients and allow clinical trials of his treatment within three years.

An IMA member told Ramdev that 'We expect you to demonstrate a greater sense of responsibility and restraint during your discourse because you wield tremendous influence on the minds of millions of your followers the wor read more »
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In a solution to the ever-worsening problem of plastic waste, city-based BVG India Ltd has developed a technological process for producing pure diesel and petrol from all types of plastic wastes.

The company has completed basic prototype trials and aims at carrying out the remaining trials by the end of January.

It plans to set up a manufacturing and processing plant by the end of March a read more »
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Yesterday was the most frustrating sunday for cricket fans who watch the sport for its character and spirit. No it’s not about bucknor, that f$#%#r jamaican was indian enemy since big bang, we are too use to him now. Whats frustrating was to see champions ruining the sport out of desperation to record 16 consecutive wins. read more »
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Mad TV

Who says old habits die hard? A couple of years ago, I effortlessly got rid of a childhood habit, a habit — I am certain — many others share as well: that of reaching for the remote the moment dinner is served. These days, months pass before I switch on the TV, and the few hours that I watch it make me determined not to touch the remote for the next few months.

The other evening I m read more »
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In Mumbai, on Juhu Tara road, two women were groped outside a five-star hotel on New Year’s Eve. However, the Santa Cruz police denied receiving any complaint. Witnesses said a group of boys, who were drunk after partying on Monday night, committed the act. This is the second such incident in the past few years. Earlier, a tabloid had carried pictures of a young woman being molested at the Gate read more »
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A mob of 70-80 men groped and molested two young women for some 15 minutes on a busy main street in Mumbai’s glamour district Juhu early on New Year’s Day.

An identical incident had shamed India’s safest city exactly a year ago — a girl was molested by New Year’s eve revellers at the Gateway of India. That incident was captured on film by a popular Mumbai tabloid; Tuesday morning’s horror was read more »
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Wish all kattekari brethen a very happy new year 2008.
May this year bring in your life wisdom , wealth and peace of mind ! read more »
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