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Australian News Paper try to show Indian are worst behave cricketers.Its their try to defend Australian teams behavior at scg.I want to tell all my fellow Mumbaikars That we should come together against this and try show that aunstarlian DONKEYS. read more »
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The Congress-led Democratic Front government in Maharashtra is likely to make singing of Vande Mataram compulsory in government schools. This is a sequel to an assurance given by the state government to BJP MLA Sudhir Mungantiwar in the state legislature. read more »
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The Maharashtra government will soon abolish 'octroi duty', one of the largest grocers for the state exchequer. Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh made the announcement here Friday. read more »
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Noted Marathi writer Y D Phadke died here on Friday following a brief illness. He was 77. Phadke was president of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (literary meet) held in Belgaum. read more »
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The animal survey carried out by local volunteers appointed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation revealed that the city has a population of only 70,000 stray dogs.

Though the survey did not involve any scientific methods like tagging, the civic administration is confident of its validity.

Addressing a press conference on Friday, Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak said that he did n read more »
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Nineteen children were injured, some seriously with fractures and contusions, on Friday morning in a park in Kandivli (East) when two bogies of an overcrowded toy train jumped the track and crashed into the children running alongside the narrow rail.

The driver of the train has been arrested for negligent and rash driving.

While none of the children, all aged between five and six years, w read more »
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“To experience how to pee in zero gravity,” was Hardik Gajjar’s reply to ‘why do you want to go to space?’ And the 21-year-old BSc student may well be doing that next year when he flies to space on the Rocketplane XP with a NASA astronaut. read more »
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided repair potholes in city roads before monsoon. The civic body will spend Rs 407 crore for the project in the coming year. read more »
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The Lalbaug mandal that organises the city’s biggest Ganeshotsav pandal has used Rs 25 lakh collected as donations during last year’s festival to set up a free library. It will be located in two rooms provided by the BMC at Peru Chawl near Lalbaug market. Named after Swatantraveer Savarkar, it will be inaugurated on Sunday. read more »
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One thing that marathi people are really hopeless is at speaking Hindi. Check this out.

“I have my prem on you” (This is shocker :-D . Majha Tujhya var prem ahe.)

“Arey aye baba gaadi sawali mein laga”

“Dhavte dhavte girya to kaadkan haath ka had modya.”

“Thambooo!!” (please Stop)

“Bhaiya jara ghai karo na bus chali jayegi to meri panchayit ho jayegi.”

“Sharbat mein limbu pilya read more »
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh will hand over to his Puducherry counterpart on Saturday 500 houses built for the tsunami-affected people in the Union Territory. read more »
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In mid-2005, just 18 months after group chairman Ratan Tata had announced his intention to produce the Rs 1 lakh car, not everything was going on smoothly at the project.

A small team of top professionals who were assigned to the project had not even come up with a concept for the car. For a brief while, employees believed that the small car would just remain Tata's dream.

The mood was l 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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When S M Krishna was sworn in as governor three years ago, something struck a Maharashtrian railway officer as uncanny. What caught 39-year-old Devendranath Kasar's attention was the word 'governor'. It held a strange resemblance to the old Marathi word 'govardhan' which means cowherd. When he split up the word into syllables, gov-er-nor, the meaning remained the same in Marathi. 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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