Rahman to perform concert tour in India after 20 years

MUMBAI: It is commonly known that India's film stars, singers and musicians seldom do live shows on home ground as often as they do abroad. The sole Lata Mangeshkar concert hosted by a political party around 15-20 years ago was a rare treat for Mumbaikars...

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Mira-Bhayander civic school students yet to get free books, uniforms

MUMBAI: Municipal school students in Mira-Bhayander will have to wait for another month to get their free books, uniforms, bags and water bottles. Though the new academic year 2013-14 commenced in June, students are attending class in plain clothes.They...

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MSRTC announces monthly pass of Rs 2,080 on EFW route

MUMBAI: The MSRTC has announced a monthly pass of Rs 2,080 on the Mantralaya-Panvel new bus route which was flagged off on Monday.MSRTC managing director Deepak Kapoor said that the response to the new service was "phenomenal". "We got 16 passengers...

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Western Naval Command undertakes SCUBA diving camp for NCC cadets

MUMBAI: The Western Naval Command completed a SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) diving camp for the NCC cadets from July 11 to 31. It was undertaken at the Western Naval Command Swimming pool.Defence Chief PRO N Vispute said the Navy,...

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Vasai-Virar municipality acts on dilapidated buildings

MUMBAI: The Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) has woken up to the dangers of living in dilapidated structures.The civic administration has issued notices to 12 residential buildings in Virar which are very dangerous. The municipality had drawn...

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7/11 accused seeks court permission to use laptop in jail

MUMBAI: Ehtesham Siddiqui, one of the 7/11 accused who has been shown as a bomb planter, on Tuesday filed an application before the MCOCA court asking permission to use a laptop in the jail premises "to study his case for argument."Siddiqui, who is in...

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Awaaz Foundation protests IAS officer's transfer

MUMBAI: NGO Awaaz Foundation has strongly protested the transfer of Durga Shakti Nagpal.Nagpal had cracked down on illegal sand mining in Uttar Pradesh.In a letter to Jayanthi Natarajan, union minister for environment and forests, Sumaira Abdulali, convenor...

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Two held for killing Nalasopara landlady

MUMBAI: Two men have been arrested from Uttar Pradesh in connection with the murder of their Nalasopara based landlady in March this year.Hikmat Sherkhan (26) and Shamat Khan (25) were staying in a rental apartment in Alkapuri of Nalasopara (east).On...

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Police stations to tackle illegal construction menace

MUMBAI: Chief minister PrithvirajChavan has announced to set up three police stations to curb illegal construction menace in Mumbai. "Besides 64 designated officials in the BMC, three new police stations will be in place to categorically deal with the...

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Bill to curb unauthorized courses and institutes approved

MUMBAI: The Bill to curb unauthorized courses and institutes in Maharashtra which has been approved by the state legislative assembly is likely to be tabled before the legislative council for its approval this week. The monsoon session of the state legislature...

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MLA slams BMC chief over road potholes

MUMBAI: Congress MLA Krishna Hegde has strongly criticized municipal commissioner Sitaram Kunte at the Congress Legislative Party meet recently.Calling the commissioner ineffective, Hegde said that he should be replaced immediately. Hegde stated that...

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Irrigation irregularities debate likely in Maharashtra legislature

MUMBAI: The alleged 70,000 crore irrigation scam is likely to be debated in the state legislative council on Tuesday.Leader of the Opposition in the council-VinodTawde (BJP) speaking to media person in the assembly premises Tawde said, "Initially our...

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Hepatitis Day: Know it, confront it

MUMBAI: The theme for World Hepatitis Day celebrated on July 28th is "This is hepatitis. Know it. Confront it". According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 350 million people worldwide have been infected with hepatitis-B virus and about 500,000...

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Nigerian teen jumps back to life after rare hip surgery

MUMBAI: City doctors performed a very unusual surgery where both hips of a fourteen-year-old Nigerian boy were reconstructed saving him from disability. Chisom probably became the only patient in the world to undergo such a procedure.It all started with...

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Live robotic workshop for sleep apnea

MUMBAI: In a first,the Bandra based Asian Heart Institute is hosting a live robotic surgery course where doctors are participating from across the globe. The workshop is dedicated to base tongue surgery for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and is scheduled...

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Pay stamp duty and registration fees online in maharashtra

MUMBAI: Paying stamp duty and registration fees to the state government has become less cumbersome with the Maharashtra government launching electronic secured bank treasury receipt (eSBTR) — an online payment service which is available round the clock.Speaking...

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Indian Coast Guard rescues crew members of fishing boat

MUMBAI: The Indian Coast Guard ship once again was pressed into action and successfully rescued crew members of a fishing boat MFB Najiya, stranded about 35 nautical miles off the kerala coast in healthy condition.The crews with boat had left Androth,...

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Financial crisis drives Mulund resident to end life

MUMBAI: Dead body of a 33-year-old man was found washed towards the shore at Worli on Friday. Mulund resident Akhilesh Agrahari had gone missing from Mulund on Thursday night. The police are suspecting the incident a case of suicide but are waiting for...

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BEST begins repairing defective LED indicators

MUMBAI: The BEST plans to repair all defective LED display indicators (of route numbers and names) in buses attached to 25 depots across the city. "We have begun the pilot project of repairing 91 buses at Goregaon and Oshivara depots and are keeping...

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BEST panel want to encourage women self-employed groups

MUMBAI: BEST committee member SrinivasTripathi has demanded that local (Marathi) self-employed women should be given priority when it came to procuring non-technical items for the transport undertaking. "We need to encourage the self-employed women...

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Depot manager should be held responsible for bad condition of buses, BEST committee members say

MUMBAI: The BEST committee members have demanded that a depot manager should be held responsible for any filthy condition in a bus. At this week's committee meeting, BJP member Srinivas Tripathi pointed out that he had witnessed water leaking from the...

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Depot manager should be held responsible for bad condition of buses, BEST committee members say

MUMBAI: The BEST committee members have demanded that a depot manager should be held responsible for any filthy condition in a bus. At this week's committee meeting, BJP member Srinivas Tripathi pointed out that he had witnessed water leaking from the...

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BEST to save environment by reducing use of paper

MUMBAI: The BEST has decided to save on paper and thereby save the environment. BEST general manager Om Prakash Gupta said that the budget copy of the transport and electricity undertaking would run into as many as 150 pages. "This was wastage of paper...

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Woman molested on Mumbai train; accused arrested

MUMBAI: A 23-year-old woman was attacked in the ladies compartment of a local train on Saturday morning by a man who tried to strangulate her when she resisted a rape attempt. The 28-year-old man was arrested by the Government Railway Police (GRP) on...

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Lok Satta Party organizes tea party at Aditi restaurant as mark of protest

MUMBAI: Lok Satta Party invited members and general public in the "luxury" of Aditi Restaurant for a tea party to examine how a common small business person's grudge on AC restaurants coming under the ambit of luxury tax could lead to a police case and...

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Vasai killer pothole road was corporation’s responsibility

MUMBAI: It is official. Maintenance of the killer pothole road in Vasai was the VasaiVirar Municipal Corporation (VVMC)'s responsibility. Manikpur police , though, are yet to book the road contractor and the concerned civic official for the pothole-related...

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HC to hear Johnson & Johnson's plea against factory closure

MUMBAI: Bombay high court is slated to hear today John & Johnson's plea against the order of the Food and Drugs Administration directing closure of its Mulund factory on the allegation that the ethylene oxide treatment applied to its batches of baby...

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Political parties divided over reintroduction of student polls

MUMBAI: Political parties seem to be divided on whether to reintroduce elections in college campus. While the ruling Congress-NCP is in favour of reintroduction of campus poll, the Raj Thackeray-led MNS have opposed the elections. Even Shiv Sena is little...

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1400 families form a human chain to protest Mhada evictions

MUMBAI: Aam Aadmi Party led representatives of 14000 families to form a human chain to create awareness on their forceful evictions. Over 2500 people from over 20 different transit camps queued up peacefully along with AAP volunteers led by Anjali Damania,...

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Matka king murder case: Six including wife, son convicted

MUMBAI: A sessions court on Friday convicted six accused in the murder case of matka-king Suresh Bhagat, including his wife and son.According to prosecution, the motive behind the murder was that Bhagat's wife Jaya and son Hitesh wanted to usurp his...

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Heavy rain lashes Mumbai, people advised to stay home

MUMBAI: Heavy rain on Wednesday lashed Mumbai, Konkan and other areas of Maharashtra, prompting the civic agency in the financial capital to advise people to stay at home and schools to shut as a precautionary measure.Rail and road traffic was also disrupted...

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#MumbaiRains: Live updates

Rain has left Mumbaikars drenched, frustrated and stranded on the road and much of elsewhere in the city.According to the weather bureau, heavy rainfall is likely at a few places, while very heavy rainfall can be expected at isolated places over the...

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Salman Khan charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder, pleads not guilty

MUMBAI: A Mumbai court on Wednesday framed charges against actor Salman Khan for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the hit-and-run case for which he may face a jail term upto 10 years, setting the stage for trial.Apart from section 304(2)...

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Smart grid venture capital funding totalled $50 million in Q2 2013

MUMBAI: Smart grid venture capital (VC) funding in the second quarter of 2013, totalled $50 million in ten deals, according to Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm. Except for one quarter, the third quarter...

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Speeding trailer crushed biker at Sion

MUMBAI: The Sion police arrested a trailer driver for rash driving and killed a 26-year-old biker on Tuesday. The victim Sushant Patil (26) died when the two wheeler on which he was riding slipped after was hit by a speeding trailer from behind in...

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Maharashtra education minister emphasizes need for public private partnership to fight cyber attacks

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra education minister expressed his support to Quick Heal Technologies Pvt Ltd ("Quick Heal"), a leading IT security solution provider, and urged the company to fight against growing cyber crime during a meet on July 23.Minister...

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Five held for murdering Chhotu Mali in Rabale

NAVI MUMBAI: Five persons have been arrested for the recent murder of a political worker and estate agent, Chhotu Mali alias Trimbak Khairnar (37), at Rabale. Among the five accused are two of Mali's old friends-turned-foes who had mainly conspired to...

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Raj Thackeray's men hold BMC officials captive over pothole menace

MUMBAI: The India Meteorological Department has warned that heavy to very heavy rains will hit Mumbai and coastal Konkan over the next 72 hours.All agencies concerned with disaster management, relief and rescue operations have been put in a state of...

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Mumbai braces for torrential rain; Raj Thackeray's men hold officials captive over potholes

MUMBAI: The India Meteorological Department has warned that heavy to very heavy rains will hit Mumbai and coastal Konkan over the next 72 hours.All agencies concerned with disaster management, relief and rescue operations have been put in a state of...

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Growth in domestic tourist visits in 2012 higher than foreign tourist visits

MUMBAI: The number of domestic tourist visits to states and union territories registered an increase of about 20% during the year 2012 over 2011 as compared to an increase of about 16% in the corresponding period last year.According to the latest statistics...

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Open letter by prominent citizens urges MPs not to amend RTI act

MUMBAI: Prominent citizens from India have come together and addressed an open letter to the Members of Parliament urging them not to scuttle the Right to Information Act through an amendment. Reports of the RTI Act coming under scrutiny have been doing...

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Palghar Facebook row: HC asks Maharashtra if it plans penal action against cops

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday faced the ire of the Bombay high court which sought to know if the state plans to initiate criminal action against police officers responsible for the illegal arrest of two girls opposing the bandh enforced...

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Govt to have better laws for mall workers

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government will make changes in the guidelines currently governing recruitment of labour in the malls and shopping complexes.The labour laws for the Mathadi Kamgar and other workers is abysmally low and procedures for their recruitment...

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Maharashtra govt firm on dance bar ban, says R R Patil

MUMBAI: Notwithstanding the Supreme Court order, Maharashtra government is firm that dance bars remain shut, home minister R R Patil today told the assembly here.He indicated that the government is mulling withdrawal of dance performance license to star...

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Mumbai BJP activist stabbed to death 28 times

MUMBAI: A BJP activist today died after he was stabbed as many as 28 times at his residence in suburban Bhandup here by a person from the same locality out of personal enmity, police said.BJP activist today died after he was stabbed as many as 28 times...

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Mumbai BJP activist fatally stabbed 28 times

MUMBAI: A BJP activist today died after he was stabbed as many as 28 times at his residence in suburban Bhandup here by a person from the same locality out of personal enmity, police said.BJP activist today died after he was stabbed as many as 28 times...

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'Faulty rifle magazine' case probe begins

MUMBAI: After the faulty bomb suit scam, there is another case of similar gravity in the state police. The city economic offences wing (EOW) is probing a case of faulty SLR magazines which was sold to the state government 13 years ago. The state police...

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Get a free ride for last-minute cancellation of fleet taxi

MUMBAI: Easy Cabs, one of the well-known fleetcabs in Mumbai, has promised to offer a free ride to passengers to any destination (subject to maximum fare of Rs 500) in case there is a last-minute cancellation or unavailability of a taxi."Easy Cabs will...

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Cellphone operators welcome Kerala high court judgment

MUMBAI: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has welcomed the Kerala High Court order stating that there was no evidence of adverse effects on people's health due to EMF emissions from the antennas on mobile towers (mobile towers). The...

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Maharashtra's urban development minister takes stock of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority

MUMBAI: The new State Urban Development Department UdaySamant, today, visited the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and an overview of the projects implemented by the Authority. The all-project presentation was made to the State...

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Maharashtra cable operators' federation formed

MUMBAI: More than 500 cable operators from Mumbai and neighbouring areas met at Rang Sharda auditorium in Bandra, Mumbai recently and established their federation in order to consolidate the strength and strongly take up their demand with higher authorities....

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ACC 'Supercoat', a new solution to solve pothole menace

MUMBAI: The ACC Concrete, India's leading manufacturer of ready mix concrete, today introduced Supercoat,a high performance concrete with very high toughness and flexibility, a solution which plugs all potholes and allows roads to be trafficked within...

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GAIL employees contribute one day's salary for relief work in Uttarakhand

MUMBAI: The employees of GAIL (India) Limited have voluntarily contributed one day's salary for relief and rehabilitation work in disaster-hit Uttarakhand. The contribution to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund was handed over to Union minister for Petroleum...

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Uniform tariff in Mumbai is the need of hour, experts say

MUMBAI: Uniform tariff system in Mumbai is the need of hour, said experts in power sector. Mumbai Power Supply which is controlled by three distribution companies namely Tata Power Distribution , Reliance Distribution and BEST serves around 40 lakhs...

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5 five-stars want to give up dance bar licence: RR

MUMBAI: Five out of eight fivestar hotels have offered to surrender their dance bar licences to the state government, home minister R R Patil said on Thursday."No three-star hotels were given dance bar licences. In fact, of the total eight dance bar...

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J&K pupils’ counselling pushed back

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday deferred the counselling session of Jammu and Kashmir candidates seeking admission to an architecture degree course following allegations that rules were tweaked. Instead of Friday, the counselling will take...

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Link workers in Mira-Bhayander get pay hike

MUMBAI: Link workers working in the Mira-Bhayander region have every reason to rejoice.The civic administration has raised the salary of the 130 women link workers from Rs 700 a month to a monthly Rs 3,500. Congress corporator and former leader of the...

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Succour to acid attack victims will depend on enforcement of SC decree

MUMBAI: The Supreme Court's decree standardizing the compensation to victims of acid attacks is a welcome step, but there are concerns about whether the directive will be effectively implemented in practice.Acid attacks are one of the most violent forms...

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Maharashtra wants Centre to consider state tourist hubs in highway plan

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government has demanded the Centre includes state's tourist hubs, hotspots and state highways in its 20-year plan for development national highways. The state's demands were presented by tourism minister Chhagan Bhujbal in the...

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Tourism minister asks states to enact separate cadre for tourist police

MUMBAI: Union tourism minister K Chiranjeevi has urged the state governments and Union Territories to instate the cadre of tourist police in one form or other.Speaking at the conference on of state tourism ministers in New Delhi, Chiranjeevi said, "This...

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Lawsuits make companies go for CEO-director cover

The author has posted comments on this articleMayur Shetty, TNN | Jul 18, 2013, 06.01AM IST MUMBAI: Directors & Officers policy which started out as an exotic cover a decade ago is now drawing interest from mid- to large-sized companies as...

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