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Mumbai: For nearly 700 years, the Koli community in Mumbai has been making its subsistence from fishing, the Arabian Sea offering an abundance of piscine riches to enable it to do so. Today, however, the Kolis – who are an indigenous community in India’s financial capital – are having to venture farther and farther into…
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New Delhi: A six-month-old girl in Mumbai became the eight case of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in the country and the third in Maharashtra. The infant was admitted to the hospital on January 1 with severe cough, chest tightness and oxygen levels dropping to 84%. She was discharged after five days. Earlier, two cases were detected…
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Navi Mumbai: A woman has accused her husband and in-laws of harassment over dowry demands and being divorced via triple talaq on a video call. A case has been filed under the Muslim Women (Protection of Marriage Rights) Bill and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Mumbai police have registered a case against a man working…
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Mumbai: New Year celebrations in Mumbai suburb Mira Road turned deadly when two groups clashed over whether to play Marathi or Bhojpuri songs, and one man was killed. According to police sources, the incident took place around 3 am on January 1 at a housing complex. As people were celebrating the New Year, people were…
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Police said an investigation is underway. Thane: One of the two men beaten up during an argument over playing loud music at a New Year’s Eve party in Thane’s Kashmira area died in a Mumbai hospital on Thursday, a police official said. The incident took place on the night of December 31 at a MHADA…
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Mumbai: Once or twice a month, the then Governor of the Reserve Bank of India would walk to Mumbai’s famous Strand Book Stall in the Fort area to check out the latest arrivals. Little did the bookstore’s staff know that this soft-spoken book-lover would become the country’s prime minister. A former staff member of Strand,…
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Shreyas Iyer slammed a century against Karnataka in their Vijay Hazare Trophy match.© MCA Mumbai captain Shreyas Iyer slammed a century against Karnataka in their Vijay Hazare Trophy match on Saturday. Iyer, who was roped by Punjab Kings for Rs 26.75 crore at the IPL meag auction, slammed an unbeaten 114 runs off…
An Indian Navy boat conducting trial lost control and crashed into a ferry boat, claiming 14 lives. Mumbai: Mumbai’s Colaba Police have written to the Indian Navy and the Maharashtra Maritime Board, seeking detailed information about the accident in the Arabian Sea between a ferry and a naval boat that killed 14. Earlier this week,…
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Pilots of some boats said this was the most horrific event they had seen. New Delhi: People were screaming for help and crying, a Mumbai Port Trust (MBPT) pilot boat said, at the site where a ferry and a Indian Navy craft crashed off the city’s coast. Thirteen people died and 99 were rescued as…
The navy craft whose engine was on a trial run lost control and collided with the passenger ferry New Delhi: A video of Indian Navy and Coast Guard personnel rescuing passengers of a ferry that sank near Mumbai after colliding with a naval speedboat shows people shouting for help as the boat slowly goes under…
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