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Cousins vie for Thane; NCP looks to dent Sena fort

Sunday 19 April '09

The race for Thane seems to be hotting up. The Shiv Sena looks to safeguard its bastion while its main opponents, the NCP and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena...
Theatre On Track

Monday 13 April '09

Hobbies like dance, music and theatre may attract many during their school and college days.
Power play across city pitches

Friday 10 April '09

If it’s the election heat that is catching up with candidates for Lok Sabha elections...
Politics grounds skywalk

Monday 6 April '09

The politics of stalling projects has begun with less than a month left for the Lok Sabha elections.
Rlys on bid to raise green cover

Sunday 5 April '09

With the city’s green cover slowly depleting, the railways have taken initiatives to increase green cover in their jurisdiction.
North Indian votes could sway outcome in Kalyan

Sunday 5 April '09

Almost five months after three people, including two north Indians and one local Maharashtra Navnirman Sena member...
MMRDA to aid civic bodies in scientific disposal of garbage

Wednesday 1 April '09

The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority has decided to help 13 municipal councils in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in the scientific disposal of waste produced by these smaller towns.
Rail accidents scarred their lives, but not their spirit

Monday 30 March '09

With the Bombay High Court ordering installation of medical facilities at Dadar station, rail accident victims can now expect better medical facilities in times of emergency.
Election code hits municipal transport units’ upgrade plans

Sunday 29 March '09

With the model code of conduct in place for the Lok Sabha elections, municipal transport units in the state, including those in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region...
Suburban rail sees 8 disruptions in 4 days

Sunday 22 March '09

The misery of commuters has aggravated with the suburban rail network witnessing almost daily disruptions owing to rake or power failures.
Municipal transport units in race for bus space

Monday 16 March '09

With the state government relaxing norms to ply buses in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, various municipal transport units are vying among themselves to launch inter-city services in the region.
Devp authority to generate power

Monday 16 March '09

The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority has decided to enter the power generation sector to curb power cuts and aid industrial growth.
Law prevails; bungalows of the mighty face axe

Sunday 15 March '09

Santosh Ganpat Bhurkud (28), a Warli tribal and bonded labourer from Yeoor village, is heir to some 11 acres of land along with five brothers and three sisters.
Roll Models

Monday 9 March '09

He puts in eight gruelling hours daily at the Parel railway workshop amidst multiple railway engines.
Colourful menace: complaints from rail commuters begin pouring in

Sunday 8 March '09

With Holi just around the corner, the railway police have started getting complaints of miscreants hurling water-filled balloons on commuters.
Navi Mumbai Metro to power itself

Monday 2 March '09

City and Industrial Development Corporation, Navi Mumbai’s planning and development authority, will generate its own electricity for the Metro project there.
Tech-savvy leaders take the SMS route to win over voters

Sunday 22 February '09

With elections round the corner, many candidates have started their election campaigns informally.
Big rush for Goa carnival

Saturday 21 February '09

The trains and buses leaving for Goa are full this weekend with the Goa carnival, the state’s official function, set to start today.
16 CCTVs failed to capture CST mayhem

Thursday 11 December '08

It was now emerged that the attack at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus could well have been captured better, providing better clues to investigators...
Ticketless travel on the rise in suburban trains

Friday 21 November '08

The attempts of the suburban railways to curb cases of ticketless travelling seem to be proving futile.
Life continues as usual for BEST staff after Rahul Raj incident

Thursday 20 November '08

The BEST on Wednesday, felicitated conductors Mahendra Ghule (35), and Maruti Borade (51) along with driver A H Khan (47) for keeping their presence of mind when their bus was hijacked by Rahul Raj.
No takers for water transport plan, fresh tenders soon

Wednesday 19 November '08

Worries that the liquidity crunch private players are battling could affect Mumbai’s ambitious infrastructure projects hit home earlier this week, when officials of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation telephoned a handful of private firms that had shown interest in bidding for the agency’s Inland Passenger Water Transport Project.
Ailing Thane civic body SoS to BEST

Friday 14 November '08

After allowing the Brihanmumbai Transport and Electric Supply to ply on its routes, the Thane Municipal Transport has now sought the management expertise of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region’s transport giant.
As MNS revives attacks, ‘vulnerable’ taxi men have unions busy fighting each other

Tuesday 21 October '08

At a time when the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has revived its attacks against the north Indians, the taxi drivers in the city, a majority of whom are from north India, are faced with a piquant situation
In Thane’s most sensitive areas, there are too few policemen

Thursday 2 October '08

As the mood outside turned increasingly hostile on Monday night, the phone inside Rabodi police station in Thane remained silent. The police station has only one phone, and it was out of order.
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