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Diverse issues, sensitive zones

Friday 24 April '09

When hundreds of Borivali residents staged an impromptu agitation at the railway station three months ago, it was an expression of pent-up frustration of five years of deteriorating railway services.
BJP candidate pleads ‘guilty’ for Gujarat riots

Thursday 16 April '09

While the spectre of the 2002 communal riots continues to haunt the BJP, its Mumbai North Central candidate Mahesh Jethmalan...
This time, civic doctors also get election duties

Monday 13 April '09

For the first time in decades, medical officers and doctors working with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation have been assigned election duty...
‘People want leaders from among them’

Monday 13 April '09

For several years, you had been active with the Nationalist Congress Party, even acting as the city unit chief until recently. Why did you suddenly switch to the BSP? Over the past few years, after delimitation, we have been asking the Congress and the NCP to nominate a minority candidate in this seat.
‘Mumbai North-East safe bet for BJP this time’

Thursday 9 April '09

For the past several years, you had been engaged in a stiff fight with Gurudas Kamat for the North-East constituency. How will the delimitation and a different opponent affect your poll prospects?Delimitation has reduced nearly 7 lakh of the 22 lakh voters of the earlier constituency.
Now, Shivaji to calm angry Marathi manoos, a la Bapu

Sunday 29 March '09

Mahatma Gandhi came back from the dead and reformed a criminal in Lage Raho Munnabhai.
Are 66 at sixes and sevens?

Tuesday 24 March '09

Together they can fill up two school classrooms with ease and their test is to come up with solutions to Maharashtra’s security gaps.....
After HC calls 26/11 panel a joke, Governor lauds it

Tuesday 17 March '09

Three days after the Bombay High Court lashed out at the government for creating the 66-member State Security Council on 26/11....
Response to 26/11: panel set to miss date

Friday 13 March '09

The two-member fact-finding committee formed to investigate and analyse the response to the 26/11 attack is likely to require an extension of the deadline to submit its report.
SMSes, blogs, websites stump EC

Thursday 5 March '09

Election Commission has been left flummoxed regarding a course of action on controlling campaigning via new media this election season.
Cord blood, an insurance against future ailments

Sunday 8 February '09

Cord blood banking, made fashionable after filmstars Madhuri Dixit and Raveena Tandon stored cord blood during delivery as an insurance against future medical ailments for their child, is taking off in a big way in Mumbai.
Key witness back at work

Friday 30 January '09

Within two months of getting injured in the terror attacks, Maruti Phad, one of the key witnesses in the Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte and Vijay Salaskar encounter, is back to work at Mantralaya.
Karkare encounter witness back at work

Friday 30 January '09

Within two months of getting injured in the terror attacks, Maruti Phad, one of the key witnesses in the Hemant Karkare...
As Chavan talks tough, Belgaum feels the heat

Thursday 22 January '09

On a day when violence erupted in parts of Maharashtra over the Belgaum issue, the city that is at the epicentre of the disquiet remained tense yet calm....
Miliband says settle Kashmir issue, Delhi not amused

Friday 16 January '09

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s first visit to India ended on a controversial note today as New Delhi took offence to his comments seeking to link the Kashmir dispute to Lashkar-e-Toiba and terrorism in the region even as he expressed faith in Pakistan’s judicial system to try the perpetrators of 26/11...
Miliband says settle Kashmir to shut out terror, Delhi not amused: don’t need advice

Friday 16 January '09

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s first visit to India ended on a controversial note today as New Delhi took offence to his comments seeking to link the Kashmir dispute to Lashkar-e-Toiba...
What encounter cop wanted in life, daughter will pursue after his death

Thursday 1 January '09

As an arts graduate, this 21-year-old was inclined towards a career in languages though her father was keen that she pursue an MBA...
‘I’ll pursue MBA, he wanted it’

Thursday 1 January '09

As an arts graduate and having studied advanced levels in French, Divya Salaskar was inclined towards pursuing a career in the languages....
Ailing hospitals, flailing officers led to a big mess

Sunday 21 December '08

“Hello, I am your surgeon. You will be fine but you will have to wait for some time as we don’t have an anesthetist”...
Calligraphy fest at JJ School of Art kicks off

Wednesday 17 December '08

A calligraphy festival by former classmate and friend drew Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray to his alma mater at the JJ School of Art on Monday evening.
Niketa and baby spark fresh look at laws for abortion

Monday 15 December '08

Months after Mumbai-based teacher Niketa Mehta lost her petition-and then her baby days later-her case...
Two more harbour lines proposed

Saturday 13 December '08

Mumbaikars travelling on the harbour railway line can expect some relief with the railways proposing two additional lines along the route connecting Mumbai and its neighbouring city of Navi Mumbai.
Cama Hospital terrorist was tall, fair, dressed in a pathani kurta, recalls 56-yr-old braveheart

Wednesday 10 December '08

“Anyway, it looked as if I was going to die. So I decided to take my chance against the terrorist,” says 56-year-old Harishchandra Shrivardhankar as he recovers at JJ hospital.
R R Patil cleared MNS files in last days in office

Saturday 6 December '08

During the political wrangle that followed the terror attacks in Mumbai...
For hospital staff, nightmare not over yet

Sunday 30 November '08

The nightmare in Mumbai has come to an end. But it’s not yet over for the state and civic hospital authorities.
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