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Sandeep died trying to save me: NSG commando

Sunday 30 November '08

NSG commando Rajveer Singh owes his life to Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who died in the Mumbai terror attack.
‘Will come back to India

Sunday 30 November '08

It has been terrible, but I will come back to India. It is a country where people greet you with a namaste, a humble greeting.
‘They threw Salaskar, Kamte and Karkare’s bodies from the vehicle’

Sunday 30 November '08

On the third floor of Bombay Hospital, PSI Arun Jadhav is the sole survivor from the gunbattle in which ATS chief Hemant Karkare...
Undaunted, they worked through night to heal the wounds

Friday 28 November '08

With the attack at prime South Mumbai locations with its scarce super-speciality hospitals, the dead and injured started piling up at government hospitals and officials faced the daunting task of shifting the dead and injured across the city.
Revisiting Nanded

Thursday 27 November '08

The plaque outside the single-storey building in Patvhandhare, a predominantly Hindu locality in Nanded, reads ‘Sree Lakshmi Narsimha’.
Rahul Raj probe waits for witness

Saturday 22 November '08

Close to a month after guntotting Patna youth Rahul Raj died in police firing at Kurla, the one-man committee appointed to look into allegations is waiting for a key witness as well as forensic and ballistic reports to arrive at a conclusion.
Metro One chugs past last hurdle

Thursday 20 November '08

The final hurdle for the Metro One project was cleared on Tuesday with the Home Department agreeing to part with its land in Andheri, which will facilitate the creation of a casting yard.
MNS moves on: first heat on migrant taxi drivers, now AC cars for Mumbai

Tuesday 11 November '08

After driving away taxi drivers and rickshaw pullers — mostly migrants to the metropolis — the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena...
BMC, other corporations set to take control of urban anganwaris; nod soon

Saturday 1 November '08

To overcome matters of jurisdiction often coming in the way of executing schemes under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)...
Sports in development: Youth to play and discuss health, social issues

Friday 31 October '08

After winning the bid for the 2012 Olympic games, the UK promised to share a part of the funds to promote sports in developing countries, and that money is now beginning to trickle into Maharashtra.
New medical college for St George, GT and Cama hospitals

Tuesday 28 October '08

With work for AIIMS-level makeover of the state-run JJ Group of Hospitals in the city already on, the state government is mulling creating another college within the JJ Group.
More teeth for emergency medical services

Monday 20 October '08

A move is on to make emergency medical services in the city more efficient. In a significant development, state officials have decided to begin drafting an Emergency Medical Services Act.
Back in good health

Sunday 21 September '08

The success of a village health centre shows how public participation and awareness can work wonders
Marathi effect on Mumbai’s Ganesh festival this year

Monday 8 September '08

In keeping with the city’s mood, this year has a distinct Maharashtrian theme, from music to decorations.
The Fix-it Family

Sunday 17 August '08

In India, modern medicine co-exists with ancient remedies. Haji Ali Mohd Mehta, who practises in Mumbai, is the 12th generation of a family of bonesetters
‘The Mehtas have been extremely courageous. I think there should be justice for Niketa’

Tuesday 5 August '08

When school teacher Niketa Mehta became pregnant with her first child with stock-broker husband Haresh...
Big B’s answer to critics: ABCL set to produce a Marathi movie

Sunday 22 June '08

After being repeatedly targeted as being more loyal to his home state and giving back little to Maharashtra and Mumbai...
In Mumbai suburb, Roshan Jamal’s family waits for him

Monday 17 March '08

As he sits on the floor to switch on the computer to show photographs and documents belonging to his father...
Back at the wheel, they say ‘Bumbai must move on’

Monday 25 February '08

The violence unleashed by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s campaign against migrants from UP and Bihar...
Youth want sex education: survey

Tuesday 19 February '08

The high-level Joint Parliamentary Committee on Petitions, chaired by former BJP president Venkaiah Naidu, is still to decide on including sex education...
Mills gone, no jobs in malls: MNS workers justify protest in Mumbai

Thursday 14 February '08

Minutes after Raj Thackeray’s arrest, this diminutive housewife took to the streets...
In Mumbai, organ donors may get free cremation

Friday 1 February '08

An Innocuous letter sent to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...
Latur ‘rape’-murder case: fathers of accused held

Tuesday 8 January '08

A day before Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh’s scheduled visit to Davangaon village in Latur, his home district...
In Maharashtra CM’s constituency, a ‘rape’-murder case given hasty burial

Monday 7 January '08

5 persons held after family of 14-yr-old say she was raped and hanged; they were told to take money and not go to the cops.
Youth survey shows high joblessness, low awareness

Wednesday 2 January '08

A first-ever survey to study the behavioural pattern of the youth in the country...
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