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Brilliant long detailed analysis of all the Twenty20 IPL teams.

Read if you are a cricket fan. Highly recommended by an amateur fan (me!) read more »
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It took five matches for the Mumbai team to finally get its act together.It surprised Sourav Ganguly's (Shah Rukh Khan's, for that matter, since more than 90 per cent of the fans wearing the Kolkata team shirt at the ground were wearing Khan's shirt) and they lost by seven wickets.

Though Bravo and Uthappa steered the team through, the win was set up by Pollock in the first over. His double read more »
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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation has received the Maharashtra Government’s Sant Gadgebaba Urban Cleanliness Award, comprising Rs 50 lakh.

Water Resources Minister Ajit Pawar announced the awards on Wednesday.

The second prize, of Rs 15 lakh each, has been shared by Pune and Solapur Municipal Corporations. read more »
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Mumbai Police on Monday suspended the licenses of 35 cinema halls of the city for not adhering to the Maharashtra government's order for mandatory screening of Marathi movies for minimum of four weeks a year.

There are only seven to eight single-screen cinemas in the city, including the Plaza and Bharatmata, which show Marathi movies regularly. As these cinema halls are overbooked, they canno read more »
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"Maharastra Hamra Garjo Maharastra Hamraaaaa !!!". rnrnYo kay hai manhtay Rav.Hye Geet Aplye bihari Pavne Mannar Hayyet Maharastra Dina Nimita.Bhojpuri madla amitabh(asa jo swatalach mahun gheto)to Ravi Kishan mannar hay yo Maharastra Geet.rnrn:-DrnrnIn marathi there is one song for school Childrens "Chaddi Lage Cham Cham Vidya Ye ee Gham Gham." In short it means "Latoon ke Bhoot read more »
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India Monday significantly boosted its space capabilities with the copybook launch of a Rs.700 million ($17.4 million) rocket that simultaneously placed in orbit 10 satellites - two Indian and eight foreign.

The launch firmly established India as a major player in the $1 billion global satellite launch market, a significant milestone in the country's 45-year-old space programme.

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The state government on Friday clarified that Bharatmata theatre in Lalbaug will be redeveloped at the same spot and will continue to screen Marathi films even after its redevelopment.

The theatre is likely to be converted into a mall and the locals had expressed fears that with the threatre’s redevelopment the city would lose its only theatre screening Marathi films exclusively.

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While politicians are vying with one another to hog the limelight as the "protector of Marathi interests", libraries in the city meant for readers of Marathi books are closing down.

Out of 29 Marathi libraries run by the Mumbai Marathi Granth Sangrahalaya (MMGS), 11 have closed down in the pa read more »
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Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has asked the civic authorities to strictly implement the anti-encroachment laws so that a strong signal is sent to those constructing illegal structures on public amenities that are meant for the taxpayers.

"People from all over the country are welcome to come and live here, but nobody has a right to construct hutments on the city's water pipelines, footpath read more »
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A bunch of young fishermen, who set sail from Worli Koliwada around midnight on Friday, returned to the shore at 10 am on Saturday.

All they had to show for a night of wakeful vigil were two baskets of tiny fish that did not take any effort to unload.

"We are left scraping the bottom of the barrel each day," one of them said. "There is hardly any fish in the sea."

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Home to vibrant enterprises, the unorganised handicrafts industry in continent’s biggest slum has finally received its seal of official recognition. The ministry of textiles has started the process of issuing thousands of identification cards to the potters in Kumbharwada in Dharavi. read more »
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Even as inflation-driven rising prices are forcing citizens to cut down on groceries, some traders are aggravating the problem by hoarding commodities to create shortages and make a profit.

One such trader was arrested on Thursday for hoarding around 9,400 quintals (1 quintal = 100 kg) of mutter (pea read more »
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Interesting article I found. This is sort of the view I have too...

1. We should punish Thackeray if he had a role in the violence.

2. But his freedom to talk, and his viewpoint, should not be silenced and controlled. That makes us like, what, Shiv Sena? :-D read more »
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Mumbai’s infamous chawls — crammed, dilapidated apartment blocks often too dangerous for living — are home to a major portion of the city’s 15 million people and offer a major lesson in mutual adjustment and community living.
These two- and three-storeyed matchbox structures, sometimes too crumbling and shaky for comfort, are home to millions of lower middle class tenants — mostly belonging read more »
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