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Metro sees ridership & revenue boost in 2024
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Metro sees ridership & revenue boost in 2024

October tops among all the months of last year in terms of metro ridership and revenue collection in Pune

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January 03, 2025
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Dudi New District Collector

Dudi Is Currently The District Collector Of Satara

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January 03, 2025
Balgandharva Music Festival begins
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Balgandharva Music Festival begins

The 23rd Balgandharva Sangeet Mahotsav, commemorating the celebrated musician Narayan Rajhans (Balgandharva), kicks off today at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Theatre, Jalgaon. Organised by the Vasantrao Chandorkar Pratishthan, the festival is a cherished event for classical music and dance enthusiasts in Khandesh.

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January 03, 2025
Woman injured during open urination brawl dies at hospital
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Woman injured during open urination brawl dies at hospital

Shital Chawan (29), the wife of a security guard who was injured with her husband during an altercation over open urination at a plot near the Jai Malhar Hotel on Pune-Solapur Road, died here while undergoing treatment at a hospital.

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January 03, 2025
Procession on Guru Gobind Singh's anniv
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Procession on Guru Gobind Singh's anniv

Navi Mumbai will celebrate Guru Gobind Singh's 358th birth anniversary with a grand procession on January 4.

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January 03, 2025
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Nearly ₹29L in fine for traffic violations

In December, the Koparkhairane traffic unit conducted a special campaign targeting drivers violating traffic rules, taking action against 2,946 vehicles.

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January 03, 2025
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Intervention of CM sought over pollution

Raising concerns over pollution in Kharghar due to industries in Taloja, environmental activist Deepak Singh has urged Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to take action.

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January 03, 2025
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Belapur to Hold Bengali Festival on Jan 11-12

The Bengali Cultural Association of Belapur is hosting a two-day festival, the Flamingo Bengali Drama Fest, on January 11 and 12.

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January 03, 2025
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Biggest industrial plot goes to RIL

Maharashtra's biggest industrial land parcel measuring over 5,286 acres, at a strategic location close to the Navi Mumbai Airport, JNPT and the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) project, has been sold to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) at a valuation of Rs 2,200 crore.

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January 03, 2025
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Duo killed friend, his mother in Kamothe

A day after the bodies of a 45-year-old man and his 70-year-old mother were found in their flat at Dreamland Society, Sector 6, Kamothe, the Navi Mumbai crime branch and Kamothe police arrested two friends of the victim, also from Kamothe, for killing the duo.

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January 03, 2025
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Constable strangled, pushed before train

Unfortunately, there are no CCTVs in the area, which is why police officials are unable to find any clue yet, say officials

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January 03, 2025
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Man killed after fight over songs at NY party

A 23-year-old man, who was brutally assaulted by six people during a booze party to welcome the New Year, succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the KEM hospital in Mumbai on Thursday afternoon.

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January 03, 2025
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1/3rd active bldg projects have lapsed

Maharashtra is facing a significant challenge in the real estate sector as nearly 10,700 out of 32,000 active projects have lapsed.

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January 03, 2025
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Truck mows down woman taking tiffin

A 20-year-old woman was fatally struck by a truck in Mulund West on Monday afternoon when she was on her way to deliver tiffin to her uncle, a security guard at Piramal Tower in the same area.

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January 03, 2025
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Man held with drugs in Powai

The Sakinaka police have arrested a notorious drug dealer, Appu Bihari Mandal, 29, and recovered 8gm of MD (mephedrone, a narcotic substance) worth Rs1.20 lakh.

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January 03, 2025
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Daylight jewel heist: Two held from MP, UP; one hid in haystack

The Mumbai police have cracked the high-profile daylight robbery at Rishabh Jewellers in the Saat Rasta area of Mahalaxmi, wherein jewellery worth crores of rupees was looted at gunpoint on December 29 last year.

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January 03, 2025
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Cotton Candy Man Held for Sex Assault

A 28-year-old cotton candy seller has been held for allegedly sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl, his neighbour.

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January 03, 2025
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Ayurvedic oncologist gets research acclaim

A research paper by Kharghar-based ayurvedic oncologist, Dr Kiran Kalyankar, was selected in the recently conducted 10th World Ayurveda Conference held in Dehradun.

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January 03, 2025
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MahaRERA Redefines SRO Criteria

The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has decided to redefine the minimum criteria for the formation of a self-regulatory organisation (SRO), for developers outside the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), from 500 projects to 200.

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January 03, 2025
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UID for all infra projects to curb double payments

IDENTITY FIX Aims for better coordination and transparency in development process; CM says it will accomplish what Aadhaar did

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January 03, 2025
Baba murder: Shoaib Memon is spl PP
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Baba murder: Shoaib Memon is spl PP

In the sensational killing of three-time legislator, Ziauddin Abdul Rahim Siddique alias Baba Siddique, the state government has appointed advocate Shoaib Memon as the special public prosecutor.

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January 03, 2025
Uproar Over Engineering Result Delays
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Uproar Over Engineering Result Delays

The future of 5,000 engineering students at the University of Mumbai (MU) has been jeopardised due to prolonged delays in the release of re-evaluation results for their first and second semesters.

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January 03, 2025
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HC to pass order on plea to curb ticket scalping

The Bombay High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a public interest litigation (PIL), seeking guidelines to curb black marketing and ticket scalping at major events.

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January 03, 2025
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CBI Files Case Against One of Its Officers

The CBI has registered a case against one of its deputy superintendents of police and others for allegedly obtaining undue advantage from different individuals who were within the ambit of an investigation being conducted by him.

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January 03, 2025
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Woman, 76, jumps off 7th floor of Dadar building

A 76-year-old woman, Bharti Narayan Gandhi, allegedly ended her life by jumping from the seventh floor of her building in Dadar (East) on Thursday.

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January 03, 2025
BJP MLA fights for justice for sarpanch's kin
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BJP MLA fights for justice for sarpanch's kin

BEED SARPANCH MURDER

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January 03, 2025
New logo celebrates the design movement that shaped Bombay
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New logo celebrates the design movement that shaped Bombay

An ode to the design movement that blazed its way across the world in 1925 – from New York and Miami to Casablanca and Bombay

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January 03, 2025
AQI tracker down as central pollution board servers crash
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AQI tracker down as central pollution board servers crash

At a time when major cities in India, including Mumbai, are grappling with worsening pollution, citizens are unable to track the Air Quality Index (AQI) as the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) server is down since December 31.

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January 03, 2025
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FDA inspects 63 restaurants; 61 fail to meet regulations

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted surprise inspections of hotels and restaurants in December, issuing improvement notices to 61 establishments and cancelling the licence of one for failing to comply with regulations.

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January 03, 2025
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Judge Recuses From Hearing Teltumbde Case

Justice Sarang Kotwal of the Bombay High Court, on Thursday, recused himself from hearing the plea filed by Dalit rights activist Anand Teltumbde seeking discharge from the 2018 Elgar Parishad case.

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January 03, 2025