| MHADA likely to take over Shivshahi Punarvasan Prakalp |
| | The Shivshahi Punarvasan Prakalp Ltd (SPPL) floated by the Shiv Sena-BJP government to build free houses for slumdwellers in Mumbai is likely to be taken over by the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA). [ Full Story ] |
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| City coastline dying, air pollution on the rise: Report |
| | The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has plunged into action to tackle the issue of global warming by undertaking a baseline survey of green house gas emissions, however, it still has to tackle existing issues like dying coastline, polluted lakes, increasing air pollution and development of open space. [ Full Story ] |
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| MIAL: 276 acres under encroachments |
| | The Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL)—the joint venture firm modernising the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport—has said it has found a variation of as much as 129 acres between what the government said was encroached land at the time of the agreement and the ground situation once the JV took over. [ Full Story ] |
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| Conservancy staff protest against delay in payment |
| | Members of Kachara Vahatuk Shramik Sangh staged a protest outside the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters on Tuesday demanding payment of wages on time. [ Full Story ] |
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| Shivaji Park murder: Residents express shock |
| | A day after 55-year-old Lalita Pinge was murdered, residents of Shivaji Park, a quaint upper middle class residential area of the city, expressed shock at the incident on Tuesday. [ Full Story ] |
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| Police informer had been receiving threats, say kin |
| | Three days after police informer Salim Ahmed Siddiqui (40) was killed, along with his wife, by a speeding dumper, his family members allege that he had been receiving threats for the last two weeks. [ Full Story ] |
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| Rubina Memon could be out of jail by Thursday: Lawyer |
| | Rubina Memon, sister-in-law of key conspirator in the 1993 serial blasts case, Tiger Memon, could be out of jail by Thursday, said lawyer Subhash Kanse. [ Full Story ] |
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| Armed robbers kill 70-yr-old man in Ambarnath, 3 held |
| | Armed robbers killed a 70-year-old man and seriously injured his 65-year-old wife before fleeing with cash and valuables worth Rs 42,000 from a house in Thane’s Ambarnath area on Monday midnight. [ Full Story ] |
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| Woman locks herself in apartment, rescued |
| | A 65-year-old woman was rescued by fire brigade personnel after she accidentally locked herself in her Santa Cruz apartment on Tuesday afternoon. [ Full Story ] |
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