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Raj Thackeray was a die-hard fan of Amitabh. His flying solo meant the Big B had to take sides.
Raj Thackeray's admiration for Amitabh Bachchan is legendary in the Thackeray household. He used to prop up Bachchan film stills on his desk, watch Big B starrers several times over. Raj even named his son Amit. Three years ago, Bachchan was the guest of honour at the mega show Raj organised to rel read more »
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Raj Thackeray's admiration for Amitabh Bachchan is legendary in the Thackeray household. He used to prop up Bachchan film stills on his desk, watch Big B starrers several times over. Raj even named his son Amit. Three years ago, Bachchan was the guest of honour at the mega show Raj organised to rel 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.
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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.
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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''.
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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.
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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.
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सीबीएसई, आयसीएसई अभ्यासक्रमांना टक्कर देण्यासाठी राज्य सरकारने आपल्या शिक्षण पद्धतीत आमूलाग्र बदल करण्यास सुरुवात केली आहे. शैक्षणिक आव्हाने झेलण्याच्या उद्देशाने तिसऱ्या वर्षापासूनच विद्यार्थ्यांना तयार करण्यासाठी नव्या शैक्षणिक वर्षात सुरूहोणारा 'प्री-प्रायमरी एज्युकेशन' हा उपक्रम याचाच एक भाग आहे. राज्यातील ९४ हजार शाळांमध्ये 'प्री-प्रायमरी एज्युकेशन' सुरू करणारे राज्य सरकार हे देशात पहिले
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Aiming to improve HIV-related research in India, a government-run hospital in Mumbai has joined hands with a New York-based medical college to hold a clinical training course in AIDS research. A team of five faculty members, including two Indian Americans Sarita Shah and Neel Gandhi from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is conducting the course at the B.Y.L Nair Hospital to promote a culture
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Pop star Madonna toured the Mumbai slums on Tuesday with Gregory David Roberts, the convicted robber who turned his time spent there following an escape from an Australian prison into the best-selling novel "Shantaram".
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Following the formation of a separate department for minorities, the government of Maharashtra has decided to constitute a commission to take stock of the local socio-economic and educational condition of minorities in every district of the State.
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The National Programme of Mid-Day Meals in Schools, the largest school feeding programme in the world, covers nearly 9.70 crore children studying at the primary stage of education in classes I-V in 9.50 lakh Government (including local body) and Government aided schools, and the Centres run under Education Guarantee Scheme (EGS) and Alternative & Innovative Education (AIE).
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..in tennis :-)
India toiled hard to defeat hosts Australia 2-1 in their second tie of the Hopman Cup Tuesday, and kept alive their chances of making it to the final of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) team event.
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna claimed the honours for India, winning the deciding mixed doubles rubber in a tie-breaker against Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak 6-2, 4-6, 7- read more »
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India toiled hard to defeat hosts Australia 2-1 in their second tie of the Hopman Cup Tuesday, and kept alive their chances of making it to the final of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) team event.
Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna claimed the honours for India, winning the deciding mixed doubles rubber in a tie-breaker against Alicia Molik and Peter Luczak 6-2, 4-6, 7- read more »
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