As the nation focuses on women's saftey following the brutal gangrape of a 23-year-old in Delhi, the Mumbai administration is putting some measures in place. Outrage over the Delhi gangrape has also highlighted the safety of women this festive season in Mumbai. Mumbai's new year celebrations have been marred in the past with incidents like the Juhu and Gateway molestation cases. So the city police has decided to take a...
09:53 AM, Dec 27, 2012
The BSP and SP on Monday continued to bargain hard with the UPA government, a day before the vote and discussion on FDI in retail. ...
11:20 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Mumbai: In a major victory for the Maharashtra government, the Bombay High Court on Saturday upheld its decision to ban tobacco flavoured gutka and pan masala in the state from July 19. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Nitin Jamdar, while hearing petitions by gutka and pan masala makers challenging the ban, also ruled that the products qualified as food under the Food Safety and Standards...
07:50 PM, Sep 15, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday said manual scavenging in the temple town of Pandharpur in Solapur district would be stopped. This was informed by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in the Legislative Assembly. Pandharpur is the only place in the state where conservancy workers are traditionally forced to carry human excreta on their heads to the pits. Chavan gave the assurance after some members raised the issue of conservancy workers...
09:51 PM, Jul 17, 2012
As farmer suicides and acute water shortage continues in Vidharba, villagers are migrating to Mumbai for a better life. ...
10:31 AM, May 10, 2012
New Delhi: The intercepted conversation between the executors of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and their Pakistani handlers during the carnage will be played in the Supreme Court on Thursday after the prosecution said it was an important evidence showing the strikes were "pre-planned". Hearing an appeal of Mohd Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole convict of the carnage, against his death sentence, the court today said it would hear the intercepts...
06:04 AM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress-NCP alliance took the lead in the initial counting of the municipal council elections of Maharashtra on Monday. The alliance won in all seats in Solapur. The alliance took lead in the Roha district as well, winning in 13 out of the 17 seats. In Mahad in Raigarh, the Congress won in 16 out of the 17 seats, while the remaining seat was won by an independent...
11:57 AM, Dec 12, 2011
Those criticising Sachin were doing so to gain publicity, Deshmukh said. ...
08:27 PM, Nov 17, 2009
Azmi's Hindi oath triggered the ruckus in the Maharashtra assembly. ...
03:41 PM, Nov 10, 2009
The usually light-hearted Cyrus gives his views on India's politics. ...
03:51 PM, Oct 13, 2009
The SC set aside ECs plea that the move would create practical problems. ...
05:32 PM, Sep 14, 2009
The counting of votes elections was originally scheduled for October 23. ...
02:10 AM, Sep 08, 2009
He was suspended after his outburst against the Congress leadership. ...
08:37 AM, Feb 19, 2009
Boeing Co will invest $118 million to set up a Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility in Maharashtra. ...
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