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BJP-Sena talks may delay mayoral poll

MUMBAI, Jan. 26 -- The city's mayoral election could be delayed as the BJP and Shiv Sena have yet to register their corporators with the Konkan divisional commissioner, a mandatory step after the civi... Read More


Civic hosps lack stock of rabies vaccines

Mumbai, Jan. 26 -- Despite clear directions from the National Medical Commission (NMC) that all hospitals must have a stock of anti-rabies vaccine and rabies immunoglobulin at all times, several major... Read More


Tool gauges mangrove loss due to coastal rd

Mumbai, Jan. 26 -- Urban researcher and geospatial analyst Abhijit Ekbote, 50, has developed a mapping tool that citizens can access freely to assess mangrove loss due to the proposed Versova-Dahisar ... Read More


BMC yet to set up even one dog shelter two months after Supreme Court order

MUMBAI, Jan. 26 -- Two months after the Supreme Court directed civic bodies to move stray dogs to shelters, Mumbai is still struggling to set up even a single facility. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corp... Read More


Cong-led front to stake claim in BNMC

MUMBAI/THANE, Jan. 26 -- After discussions that lasted more than a week, the Congress, NCP (SP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) will together stake their claim to power in the Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Cor... Read More


Mussoorie's 100-year-old sufi shrine desecrated, case filed

Dehradun, Jan. 26 -- Members of a Hindu right-wing outfit allegedly vandalised a "mazaar" (shrine), believed to be over 100 years old, built on private land in Mussoorie, the Uttarakhand police said o... Read More


entry of 'non-Hindus' banned in Kedarnath, Badrinath

Dehradun/Mussoorie, Jan. 26 -- The Shri Badrinath Kedarnath Temple Committee (BKTC )on Sunday announced that the entry of non-Hindus will be prohibited inside 45 temples under its jurisdiction. The an... Read More


non-hindus can't enter kedarnath, badrinath dhams

Dehradun/Mussoorie, Jan. 26 -- Senior BJP leader and Shri Badrinath Kedarnath Temple Committee chief Hemant Dwivedi said non-Hindus will be barred from the Shri Badrinath Dham, Shri Kedarnath Dham and... Read More


RJD names Tejashwi as nat'l working prez

India, Jan. 26 -- Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav, the younger son of party's founding chief Lalu Prasad, was Sunday appointed as the party's national working president, in a formal s... Read More


Badlapur sexual assault puts focus on defunct child rights panel, 1,431 pending complaints

MUMBAI, Jan. 26 -- Days after a four-year-old was sexually assaulted by a school van driver in Badlapur, focus has shifted to a pending public interest litigation (PIL) in the Bombay High Court that h... Read More