A group of north-Indian activists from Thane on Sunday burnt the effigy of Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav at the Wagle Estate Junction for making "provocative speeches" against Maharashtrians and leaders of maharastra.
According to them this speeches pollute the atmosphere here, while the north Indians have been living cordially in the state.
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After Batti Bandh now its churches from mumbai to work out ways to conserve energy and save the world (which is its prime objective anyways). But don't mistaken it with light cut offs in the church, i believe they use more candles then bulbs and tube lights. Pavwala will know better.
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Finance minister P Chidambaram mentioned the plans to make Mumbai a world class financial centre in his budget speech.
The government contends that the infrastructure needs to be in place before the plan to turn Mumbai into a financial centre is implemented. The plan to make Mumbai into a world financial centre should be implemented along with these infrastructure projects. The Mumbai Makeover
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An open space in Andheri (East) reserved for a recreation ground for the public has become a bone of contention between two government agencies — the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC).
Irrespective of who wins in the battle, the loser will be public, who will lose unrestricted access to the ground.
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Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Thursday dared Railway Minister Lalu Prasad to perform 'Chhat Pooja' at Marina Beach in Chennai to oppose the imposition of Tamil by the Karunanidhi government in schools across the state.
Launching a scathing attack on the reported demand by some local North Indian Congress leaders that Hindi be made an official language in BMC, Thackeray said, "let them t
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Taking a stand that will soothe even the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, state Director General of Police (DGP) A N Roy has warned Indian Police Service (IPS) officers not conversant in Marathi, to improve their skills in the language within a year, or their annual increment will be withheld.
For the fourth consecutive year, attempts to make the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s mammoth budget a participative exercise have been crushed.
A day after civic officials presented to the civic Standing Committee budget estimates for 2008-09 with outlays totalling Rs 16,792 crore, officials admitted that while in the process of making budgetary allocations, a proposal for a budget that
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Mumbaikars from different parts of the city have offered to join in the campaign initiated by two activists, journalist Krishnaraj Rao and bookseller-cum-part time scriptwriter Santosh Jangam to regain the pedestrian territory, the footpaths.
On Tuesday, DNA carried a report on a group called Sahasi Padyatri (Brave Pedestrians) formed by the two to make the city pedestrian-friendly. Rao and Ja
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Throwing a protective ring around 524 plots reserved as Recreation Grounds and Playgrounds, the state government has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to ensure that large plots of land reserved for recreation grounds or playgrounds (RGs/ PGs) are not given to private players either on an adoption basis or under the controversial caretaker policy, which would allow private players s
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Following footsteps of his uncle Raj thackrey is all set to enter bollywood after two weeks of action packed drama against North Indians. If not Big B, he definately has support of many Big names in the film industry. Iam thinking what category this post should go into .. Movies or Politics.
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Bringing cheer to the salaried class, the slabs for personal income tax have been revised with the exemption limit being raised from Rs 1.10 lakh to Rs 1.50 lakh, ensuring a minimum relief of Rs 4,000 for every assessee.
Income above Rs five lakh will attract 30 per cent tax. In the case of a woman assessee, the exemption will be upto Rs 1.80 lakh from the existing Rs 1.45 lakh whereas senior
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Raj Thackeray’s politics of hate made a lot of breaking news and broken people for a fortnight .The nation got gripped in just one single topic: Marathi Maanoos v/s the North Indians. Thousands fled to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar from Nasik and Pune leaving behind their jobs, dwellings and it resulted in affecting number of smaller industrial units that engaged cheap labour.
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For the past few days, some Mumbaikars are waking up to find young Maharashtrian men supplying milk at their doorstep instead of the traditional milkmen from Uttar Pradesh.
The change has been forced by Raj Thackeray’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), as part of a new strategy in its campaign against migr
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It is observed that in Temple’s so many peoples pour
1. MILK on Shivling in Shiv mandir.
2. OIL on the Murti of Hanuman and Shani mandir.
By pouring of this Valuable Foods like Milk, Oil, Madh, Ghee etc.. , it flows DIRECTLY into the Gutter. By wastage of these materials - is GOD going to be Happy ? Will this not be a SI
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