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Dissenting voices emerge as Maratha stir ends 'abruptly'

Mumbai, Sept. 21 -- Days after Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil unexpectedly called off his indefinite hunger strike, dissenting voices have begun emerging from within the community. Besides... Read More


171 IIT students died unnatural deaths in 20 years; 82% suicides on campus

MUMBAI, Sept. 21 -- At least 171 students in various Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have died by suicide or in other unnatural ways in the last 20 years - between January 2006 and September 20... Read More


IIT-B board to meet today to discuss campus suicide, students' demands

MUMBAI, Sept. 21 -- Three days after protesting students at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) refused to back down following Friday's suicide on campus, the institute has convened a sp... Read More


Fourth Vikhe-Patil enters politics, 41-yr-old Nila to represent Stockholm City in Sweden parliament

PUNE, Sept. 21 -- In what marks the fourth generation of a family entering electoral politics, Nila Vikhe Patil, 41 - great-granddaughter of Vitthalrao Vikhe Patil who founded Asia's first (Pravara) c... Read More


Pushback against BMC demolition drive against 14-ft and taller slums

MUMBAI, Sept. 21 -- The BMC's demolition drive against slum structures higher than 14 feet, scheduled to begin from October 1, has drawn its first pushback. A legal notice was sent on Saturday to the ... Read More


When Shinde outdid the BJP

India, Sept. 21 -- On Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 76th birthday last week, the one who took the lead in the celebrations was not a BJP leader but deputy chief minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Sh... Read More


19-yr-old electrocuted in Jogeshwari visarjan pond

MUMBAI, Sept. 21 -- A 19-year-old man died after being electrocuted at a BMC-run artificial immersion pond in Jogeshwari East in the early hours of Sunday. The victim, Rohit Bhim Singh Rathod, was ins... Read More


26-year-old electrocuted in Ulhasnagar after coming in contact with CCTV pole

Thane, Sept. 21 -- A 26-year-old woman died in Ulhasnagar on Friday after allegedly coming in contact with a CCTV pole which had live electrical current passing through it. The deceased, Karishma Madh... Read More


Low footfall, high stall costs, vanishing Goan delicacies taking traditional sheen off Bandra Fair, say old vendors

MUMBAI, Sept. 21 -- As the week-long Bandra Fair, held in honour of the Feast of the Nativity of Mother Mary on September 8, draws to a close on Sunday, the annual festival appears to have lost some o... Read More


New Mankhurd flyovers threaten 1.62 ha of mangroves

MUMBAI, Sept. 21 -- The green cover that greets motorists on the Mankhurd stretch while travelling towards Navi Mumbai could soon give way to the flyover project, with the Municipal Corporation of Gre... Read More