Praful Patel seeks state funeral, chief minister calls for tougher laws

MUMBAI: Union heavy industries minister and senior NCP leader Praful Patel demanded that the Delhi government accord a state funeral to the Delhi gangrape victim who passed away in a Singapore hospital.Patel in his condolence message said the Delhi government...

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Candidates to presidents' office must also file affidavits

MUMBAI: The National Election Watch which has been at the forefront of organizations demanding electoral reforms in India on Sunday put forth a letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) stating that candidates who contest for the offices of President...

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High Court upholds life sentence as teen's evidence nails dad's murderer

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court recently upheld the conviction and life sentence of a man accused of murder based on evidence given by a 13-year-old eye-witness. The HC rejected the convict's plea made through his court appointed lawyer Arfan Sait that...

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Matheran 'man mountain meet' event successful

NAVI MUMBAI: The 10 kilometer run organised in Matheran on Sunday was succussful, with over 100 adults and children participating in it. It was held to create awareness about the grave issues being faced by this small but picturesque hill station, and...

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Bombay HC restrains release of Kannada film titled "Dirty Picture' till Jan 4, 2013

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court recently restrained Akshaya Productions from releasing their Kannada movie titled 'Dirty Picture' under any other name till January 4, 2013. The order was passed in a copyright tussle going on before the HC between Balaji...

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GOI officials attend training in smart grid technology in USA

MUMBAI: Over 15 Indian government officials attended a training and study tour organised by the U.S. Government through the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID) on the use of Smart Grid technology in the power sector to reduce...

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Opposition parties in Mumbai civic body demand CID inquiry into revenue loss pointed out by CAG

MUMBAI: The opposition parties in the Brihanmimbai Municipal Corporation have came down heavily on the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP allaince and the civic administration over the strictures passed in the latest Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report over...

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Living legend Lata Mangeshkar launches her 'Humsafar' calendar 2013

MUMBAI: The new year brings with a sea of calenders and this week saw legendary play back singer Lata Mangeshkar launch hers for 2013. The calendar called 'humsafar' has a theme which captures memoirs and songs of her favourite film actresses from Madhubala...

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Insurance company launches customer education campaign

MUMBAI: Intensifying its customer educational efforts, an insurance major has launched a multi-media educational advertising campaign. The consumer friendly campaign is launched by SBI Life to ensure through seven short audio visuals on television that...

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Latest in mobile technology to eliminate discrepancies in gas billings in Mumbai

MUMBAI: Discrepancies in the monthly billing to consumers of piped natural gas (PNG) in the city of Mumbai could be a thing of the past soon. To overcome this problem, from September onwards, Mahanagar Gas Limited has started using mobile phones to...

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Transporters association to conduct campaign against overloading

MUMBAI: The All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC) will conduct a 15-day campaign, beginning January 1, to create awareness and sensitize truckers against overloading of goods."Our campaign will be conducted from January 1 to 15 at the state and...

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TCS leases largest IT office space

MUMBAI: In a dismal real estate market, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has signed an agreement with Neptune Developers to lease the largest IT office space in the city.TCS will take over 3.5 lakh sq ft space in Neptune Element, an 11-storey IT building...

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HC rejects bail plea of woman who helped husband rape 15-yr-old girl

MUMBAI: It is rare for a woman to be charged in a rape conspiracy, but the Bombay high court has refused to show sympathy to a married woman who is accused of helping her husband abduct and rape a 15-year-old girl.The accused, Sushma Mohite, claimed...

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Push-button system for pedestrians a flop

MUMBAI: In 2011, the BMC installed push-button-and-stop-traffic systems for pedestrians at 55 crossings in the city at a considerable expense. But a year later, all are defunct. The systems were installed to reduce waiting time for pedestrians, but combined...

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Three more held in fake memory card racket.

MUMBAI: Three more persons were arrested by the Kurla Government Railway Police (GRP) in connection with the fake phone memory card racket. The trio, all dealers of fake cards, were picked up from Thane station on Thursday. The accused used a mixture...

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Cops ask PCO operators to check caller identification

MUMBAI: The Mumbai Police has issued instructions to all STD and PCO operators in the city to check identity card proof of callers before allowing them to make phone calls.This comes after carrying identity proof while travelling in train was made mandatory...

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Mumbai students re-enact Delhi gang rape incident

MUMBAI:Rape and violence continue to dominate the mindscape of young Mumbaikars, it seems. At the 'Let's Act' drama festival held yesterday at Ravindra Natya Mandir Mini Theatre, the students of R D National College elaborately re-enacted the recent...

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Kurla village cross renovated

MUMBAI: The renovated Kurla Villagers Cross was inaugurated today in the presence of around 250 east indian villagers. The inauguration was followed by prayers in the presence of an East indian brass Band and carol singing.The cross was renovated by...

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Godrej Properties to be development manager for a new redevelopment project at Currey Road in Mumbai

MUMBAI:Godrej Properties Limited (GPL), the real estate development arm of the Godrej Group, through its wholly owned subsidiary Godrej Projects Development Private Limited (GPDPL), has entered into a Development Management Agreement with Ratnaraj Blessing...

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Nalasopara civic clerk caught taking bribe

MUMBAI: A lower division clerk of the Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) was caught red-handed, accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 from a driver for dispersing his loan cheque.The clerk, Dayanand Vathole, was trapped by the Thane Anti Corruption Bureau...

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Malad road widening and church land issue brought to the fore

MUMBAI: Save our Land Committee (SOUL) delegation along with Julio Rebeiro met with Sitaram Kunte, municipal commissioner on Wednesday to discuss the issues on Malwani Malad church land and Kandivali Poisar river. A memorandum along with the first lot...

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Bombay HC upholds conviction of man for stabbing the girl he loved

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has upheld the conviction of a 35-year-old businessman for stabbing a girl, who had rejected his proposal for marriage, saying that the five-years' rigorous imprisonment imposed on him was not "too harsh" as pleaded by him....

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Mumbai girl stabbed by college mate dies

MUMBAI: A 19-year-old girl, who was critical after being repeatedly stabbed by her spurned lover at a college in suburban Bandra three days ago, succumbed to her injuries at a hospital here today, police said.The victim died early this morning, Namdev...

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BMC to hold special Maha Adalat for speedy disposal of pending court cases

MUMBAI:The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has arranged for a special Maha Adalat on Monday for speedy disposal of cases against the BMC or filed by the BMC against a person.The adalat will be from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. at 39th Metropolitan...

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Corporators demand more security for women

MUMBAI:The rising cases of crime against women got the women corporators in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to express their concern over the issue in the civic general body meeting.The police should provide additional security to women...

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No increment to cop who offered rose to Raj Thackeray

MUMBAI: Four months after a police constable offered a rose to MNS chief Raj Thackeray at the latter's public rally here, Mumbai police has decided to stop his increment for the next three years, officials said.Constable Pramod Tawade, who was apparently...

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No increment to constable who offered rose to Raj Thackeray

MUMBAI: Four months after a police constable offered a rose to MNS chief Raj Thackeray at the latter's public rally here, Mumbai police has decided to stop his increment for the next three years, officials said.Constable Pramod Tawade, who was apparently...

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‘Low conviction rate spurring sexual assault cases in India’

MUMBAI: Sexual assaults on women across the country increased by 25% in the six years to 2011 and a significant contributory cause of the alarming trend, legal experts believe, was the low conviction rate in rape cases.According to data collated by the...

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Low conviction rate spurring sexual assault cases in India: Legal experts

MUMBAI: Sexual assaults on women across the country increased by 25% in the six years to 2011 and a significant contributory cause of the alarming trend, legal experts believe, was the low conviction rate in rape cases.According to data collated by the...

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Missing complaint helps cops detect murder case

MUMBAI: A missing complaint filed at the Vikrholi police station helped the Ghatkopar police to identify a 19-year-old murder victim's whereabouts and further helped in tracking down one of the two accused in the case. Arrested Riyaz Shaikh and the main...

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Supervisor held for molesting co-worker

MUMBAI: The Bhandup police arrested a 35-year-old man for allegedly misbehaving with his 30-year-old deaf and dumb co-worker inside the company premise on Saturday morning. Accused Chandrashekar Bane, supervisor with a biscuit manufacturing unit in Bhandup,...

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Youth bludgeoned to death for mobile phone

MUMBAI: The Sakinaka police last week arrested a 28-year-old man for allegedly bludgeoning to death his friend under the influence of alcohol following a heated argument over a mobile phone handset in the Ghatkopar locality.Police said that the accused...

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Army sepoy denied physical relationship, commits suicide

MUMBAI: A 28-year-old army sepoy committed suicide at his lover's (a woman police constable) house in police quarters, Ghatkopar (West), after she refused to engage in a physical relation with him, said the Ghatkopar police.The deceased, Amol Landge,...

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More neurologists needed for increasing needs of patients: Experts

MUMBAI: With an increasing population falling prey to it, degenerative diseases, mostly neurological, stands as one of the biggest health threats in India. Experts in the city have stressed on the need for more neurologists in India to attend to the...

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Western Railway extends run of Ahmedabad-Madgaon special train upto Jan 2-3

MUMBAI: In order to cater to extra rush of passengers, Western Railway has decided to extend the run of Ahmedabad-Madgaon special train upto Jan 3.WR's chief public relations officer Sharat Chandrayan said, "The special air conditioned super train runs...

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You need eye care more than eye glasses

MUMBAI: Healthy eyes are essential to your quality of life. So even if you don't wear glasses, you need to visit an eye healthcare professional regularly. Preventive eye care and examination has a lot more to it than just vision correction. You might...

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94% Mumbaikars in favour of ban on gutkha, paan masala ban

MUMBAI: According to a recent survey conducted by NGO Salaam Bombay Foundation in Mumbai, 94% of the 2500 respondents are in favor of the ban on gutkha & paan masala in Maharashtra. One of the main reasons why citizens feel the ban is essential is...

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Public-private partnership to reduce maternity mortality rate in India

MUMBAI: The Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India has joined hands with the Maharashtra government, Rotary Club of Mumbai, the Indian Medical Association and NGO Pragati Pratishthan to help reducing the maternity mortality ratio in the country....

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Bombay Natural History Society organizes nature camps

MUMBAI: The Rann of Kutch and the rain forests of Borneo await nature enthusiasts. The Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) has organized three nature camps which will enable nature lover's to come in close touch with the wild. The fact that winter...

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Harassed on bus, students take boys to police station

MUMBAI: Aggrieved girls taught a different lesson to a group of boys who were harassing them in Karad, the hometown of Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan. For over three months, the girls found that when they were travelling from Kale to Karad...

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Woman struck with a chopper by neighbour

MUMBAI: In yet another attack on women, a 30-year-old homemaker was allegedly struck with a chopper by her neighbour at the Azad Nagar transit camp in Sewri late on Thursday evening. Preeti Jaiswal suffered injuries on her neck and hand after Vilas Chorge...

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19-year-old boy arrested for rape and molestation

MUMBAI: The Shivaji Nagar police arrested a 19-year-old boy for allegedly raping his neighbour's 10-year-old daughter and molesting another neighbour's nine-year-old daughter on Tuesday. Imran Shaikh convinced the two to come over to his hutment at Sanjay...

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Air India to launch flights to Agra, Khajuraho

MUMBAI: For foreign tourists, air connectivity, or rather, the lack of it, has played spoilsport for years now, as quite a few destinations of interest in India are accessible only by road or rail. On that front there is some good news this winter, as...

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Credit card racketeer arrested

MUMBAI: The Crime Intelligence Unit ( CIU) of the Mumbai police on Friday arrested two person involved in the credit card cloning racket. The two accused have been identified as Mohammed Aslam Shaikh and Asad Ismail Sayyed. Sayyed is the main accused...

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Food distribution, not shortage to blame for India's food insecurity

If you are one of those who believe that the shortage of food is to blame for India's rampant malnutrition problem, it is time to do a rethink. Food and trade policy analyst Devinder Sharma who was in Mumbai on Friday carefully cut through the maze of...

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Man donates organs of son knocked down by railway pole

MUMBAI: I am going to play," were the last words that Atanu Paul (17) uttered to his sister. His sister, a resident of Diva, had no idea how far her brother was going. On Monday morning, she received a call saying that Atanu had met with a train accident...

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Man gets 7 years in prison for raping teen daughter

MUMBAI: A 40-year-old man was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment on Wednesday for raping his 14-year-old daughter several times over a year.Sessions judge V M Mohite convicted the accused, John Sheri, and, apart from the jail term, fined him Rs 5,000....

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Modern girl’s arsenal: Pepper spray, early deadlines, handy cellphone

MUMBAI: A series of kindred crimes, like the rapes and molestations we've been lately witnessing, are not isolated violations visited on single individuals, but elements that accrete to form a slow-building tsunami that eventually crashes down on a populace...

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Facebook arrests: Palghar girls leave for IIM Ahmedabad

MUMBAI: Palgar girls Shaheen Dhada and Rinu Srinivasan who were caught in a Facebook controversy left for the prestigious Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad on Thursday morning.The girls, 21 years, who are travelling with their family members,...

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Leading climate change validator TUV SUD relocates from Munich to India

MUMBAI: TUV SUD, an international leading technical service organization catering to the industry, mobility and certification segment, has decided to manage the validation and verification of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects from India. In...

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