Study finds high carbon dioxide levels in subwaysWednesday, March 27, 2013,05:04:00 PM
Whenever Nilesh Sharma (60) emerges out of the CST subway to reach CST railway station, he is left gasping for breath. Sharma, who is asthmatic, angrily claims that the subway is more like a “gas chamber”....
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Kunte Talks the Walk, joins Mirror campaignFriday, March 15, 2013,03:23:31 PM
In some of the best cities across the world, walkers are infrastructure planners’ top priority, followed by cyclists, and the motorists bring up the rear. In Mumbai, the order is reversed - motorists hog all the attention, cyclists get only lip service and nobody really cares for pedestrians.....
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Airport asks auto passengers to go take a long walkTuesday, March 05, 2013,04:25:49 PM
A separate drop-off point good five minutes’ walk from domestic departure terminal 1B for those arriving at the Mumbai airport by autos has angered passengers, who have called the new arrangement elitist and demanded that it be done away with forthwith.....
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Pay more for petrol, diesel if you desire jam-free city roadsThursday, February 28, 2013,04:35:05 PM
The state transport commissioner has proposed charging a congestion cess on petrol and diesel sold in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. The idea is to curb excessive use of private vehicles and nudge people towards public transport. ....
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Pali Hill residents unite to shut ‘illegal’ arts and crafts centreMonday, February 18, 2013,03:35:33 PM
Residents of Pali Hill have united in protest against an arts and crafts centre in the area that they claim has been operating illegally for the past two years. ....
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Cops abuse Keenan Santos’s father for confronting pervertMonday, February 11, 2013,05:12:01 PM
Two policemen looked on impassively as a woman was harassed and then assaulted by a pervert in Amboli on Saturday night. ....
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Got 60 lakh to spare? Welcome to the clubThursday, February 07, 2013,05:19:30 PM
Breach Candy Swimming Bath Trust, better known as Breach Candy Club, recently announced that it would be admitting new members for the first time in many years. ....
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HC quashes Official Secrets Act case over CST armoury exposéSaturday, February 02, 2013,03:40:58 PM
Over two-and-a-half years after Mumbai Mirror was dragged to court for exposing the decrepit condition in which arms and ammunitions were stored at the CST armoury of the Railway Protection Force, the Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed the case citing the public interest served by the report. ....
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Hospital ‘fleeces’ state, cancer patientThursday, January 31, 2013,04:46:24 PM
A botched surgery on a 34-yearold man with oral cancer has brought into focus the practice of private hospitals exploiting the state government’s free health insurance programme. ....
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‘Operation Sigma’ to test if Mumbai police are ready for terroristsMonday, January 21, 2013,01:03:07 PM
The Mumbai Police, taking a leaf out of the Indian Navy’s book, have launched their own version of Sagar Kavach, the biannual exercise that checks anti-terror preparedness along the country’s coastlines.....
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ONGC saves 400-acre Juhu airport from landsharksFriday, January 11, 2013,12:43:52 PM
The Airports Authority of India on Wednesday reversed its decision to shut down Juhu airport’s crucial runway 16/34 following a strong pitch by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, which operates over 50 helicopters for its offshore operations.....
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State slams CR for last week’s megablock chaosTuesday, January 08, 2013,02:54:18 PM
The state government on Monday issued a terse warning to Central Railway authorities to ensure better coordination with various agencies during megablocks, and make sure commuters aren’t inconvenienced as they have been over the last 10 days.....
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Thackeray, Rane scions launch women’s helplinesWednesday, January 02, 2013,05:19:22 PM
In view of the Delhi gang-rape victim’s ordeal, the Shiv Sena, whose activists in the past attacked couples on Valentine’s Day and, more recently, threatened two Palghar girls for their comments on Facebook, has now come forward to help women in distress. ....
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Mumbai sobers up behind the wheelSaturday, December 29, 2012,04:24:09 PM
Mumbaikars seem to be slowly learning the perils of drunk driving, with figures showing an almost 25 per cent fall in the number of people caught driving drunk this year despite the police increasing the number of days the drive was conducted from 163 in 2011 to 230 in 2012.....
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World’s best planners to tackle Kalanagar trafficTuesday, December 18, 2012,04:28:28 PM
The chronic traffic congestion at Kalanagar junction in Bandra (E) has been turned into a challenge for some of the greatest urban planners across the world.....
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How Mommy and Baba got marriedThursday, December 13, 2012,03:28:13 PM
Kamala and Bapi knew each other a little from the time her older sister Lakshmi Shankar had danced in Dada’s troupe. However, a few years after bapi got married, he saw her again when he went to Calcutta to pick up a new Kanai Lal sitar.....
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No rains, no pothole repairs, no penaltiesMonday, December 10, 2012,02:19:46 PM
With monsoon gone, BMC has stopped repairing potholes; it’s even stopped penalising the contractors who were supposed to fix the problem. Its explanation: “Majority of the potholes has been created during monsoon, and the deadline to repair those was October 15."....
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Look out Walmart: APMC gears up for ‘Indiamart’ faceliftSaturday, December 08, 2012,05:04:23 PM
They are calling it a duel between ‘desi Dara Singh and videshi King Kong’. The 10,000-odd traders of the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Navi Mumbai are gearing up to take on the Walmarts....
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A series of letters written by the Thane forest department, on whose land the illegal Mumbra building that collapsed last week killing 74 people stood, identify Mumbra-Kalwa MLA Jitendra Awhad as the main stumbling block in getting rid of unauthorised constructions and preventing encroachment on forest and government land.
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