Bar Council in no mood for evening courts 1 day ago
At a time when lakhs of cases are pending in courts across the state for want of time and adequate courts, the Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa has opposed the Bombay High Court's proposal to have evening courts. Apart from other reasons, the Council said that it is inconvenient for female litigants and lawyers to attend evening courts. Recently, the HC started 200 morning and evening courts at 20 locations across the state. While regular ....
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Hi-tech cameras to monitor faces at Lalbaugcha Raja4 days ago
The Lalbaugcha Raja Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal has decide to install 10 motion-tracking cameras during Ganesh festival....
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Sumo wrestlers to strut their stuff in desi style at IIT fest9 days ago
For the first time, sumo wrestlers will be seen slugging it out ‘desi style’ on a city college campus. Mood Indigo 2010, IIT-Bombay’s annual inter-collegiate festival, will organise the event and two popular wrestlers from Mongolia will be seen in action in dhotis and pagdis. Scheduled from December 20 to December 23, Mood-I has managed to get the legendary Japanese art of sumo ....
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‘Female foeticide has assumed alarming proportions’9 days ago
The problem of female foeticide has assumed alarming proportions and the state Home department should be more sensitive to the issue, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has said. “For now this question seems minuscule, but in the long run it might cause havoc and develop into a social disaster,” Patil said. “Female foeticide is on the rise, especially among educated class and in higher strata of society. It has assumed alarming ....
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Multiplexes slash rates, but Marathi manoos stays away 11 days ago
Mumbaikars continued to give Marathi cinema a miss even after city multiplexes slashed the ticket rates of all local language films on Friday following a diktat from Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). While the two political parties succeeded in forcing multiplexes to reduce the ticket prices, in some cases by 40 per cent, of Marathi films, it did not translate into the Marathi ....
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1,641 more diamonds recovered12 days ago
The alert employee of a courier company on Monday helped police recover 1,641 more diamonds, believed to be part of the Rs 6.6 crore diamond heist at the India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) at the NEC ground in Goregaon. With 245 diamonds already seized from four suspects who were detained at Dubai, the Mumbai Crime Branch says almost all the stolen booty has been ....
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State govt wants ` 3 crore for oil spill clean up14 days ago
The Maharashtra Government has sought Rs 3 crore from cargo vessel MSC Chitra for the clean-up operation carried out off the city coast after it collided early this month with another merchant vessel causing an oil spill. The vessels, MSC Chitra and MV Khalijia-III, had collided on August 7. “We have sent a notice to the owner of MSC Chitra claiming Rs 3 crore for cleaning up the coast ....
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Dubai dead end for Mumbai diamond thieves15 days ago
It was a fool-proof plan hatched in Mexico weeks ago. The thieves had their tracks covered and rightly timed their escape given the efficiency of our forces. Only, Mumbai police acted with an unprecedented alacrity. The four foreign nationals, three Mexicans and one Venezuelan, who stole diamonds worth Rs 6.6 crore from the India International Jewellery Show (IIJS) in Goregaon on ....
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Even in death, billionaire dad chose Bobby over his son
The conflict over top banker and actor Bobby Deol’s father-in-law Dev Ahuja’s legacy has intensified after his death. At stake is a Rs 300-crore property with several claimants — his 35-year-old son Vikram, daughter Tania and her husband Bobby, his other daughter Munisha, his estranged wife Marlene and his mistress, 20 years his junior. There had been an fallout between Devendra ....
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Uddhav’s salvo on multiplexes follows MNS demand for screening Marathi movies
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday warned multiplex owners to reduce ticket prices for Marathi films. “Ticket prices should be affordable for the Marathi common men,” Uddhav said at a function organised by Sena MLC Deepak Sawant at JJ hospital here. Multiplex owners should take a decision immediately on this or else the Shiv Sena would take up the issue in its own way, he said. Uddhav’s statement comes soon after ....
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400 NCC cadets clean Colaba sea-front damaged by oil spill
Around 400 NCC cadets from Maharashtra National Cadet Corps Directorate on Saturday spent hours cleaning up the Colaba sea-front which was severely affected by the MSC Chitra oil spill. “On Saturday, the NCC cadets reached the Colaba sea front at 3 pm and went rigorously cleaned the area for over three hours,” said Captain M Nambiar, Defence spokesperson. Even on Friday, the cadets undertook....
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ABC of how your child will be graded in school
Just months after the Right to Education Act kicked in across the county, the Maharshtra government has taken the first step towards transforming education by formulating a new appraisal system for students from Class I to Class VIII. The system, based on grades rather than marks, aims for a more qualitative assessment of abilities through subjective evaluations, rather than ....
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