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A rainy September morning, an eclectic group of nature experts and amateurs is gathered about a bush in Sipna jungle near Panshet, around 25 kilometres away from the city of Pune. ”This is a great find!” Rajat Joshi, the Pune district coordinator for Big Butterfly Month announces. We all peer obligingly. It is a pupa of a…
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Ganesh Chaturthi: Huge gathering of devotees at Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai. Mumbai: Mumbai is steeped in devotion to welcome the annual homecoming of Lord Ganesh as the 10-day festival began on Tuesday with decorations in pandals and houses getting final touches. A total of 2,729 ‘sarvajanik Ganeshotsav mandals’ have been permitted to organise public Ganesh…
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The facility had recorded 32 lakh passengers in August 2022. Mumbai: Mumbai Airport said on Monday it has posted 32 per cent year-on-year growth in passenger volume to 4.2 million (42 lakh) in August. The facility had recorded 32 lakh passengers in August 2022. When compared to the pre-pandemic level (August 2019), the growth in…
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Mumbai airport’s runway ops were briefly suspended after the incident. Mumbai: A private plane crashed while trying to land amid heavy rain at Mumbai airport on Thursday. There were eight people – six passengers and two crew – on board. Three people were hospitalised, emergency services said. The extent of their injuries is unknown. No…
The Dahi Handi ritual is a part of the Janmashtami festival that marks the birth of Lord Krishna. Mumbai: At least 107 ‘Govindas’, youngsters involved in the formation of multi-storeyed human pyramids as part of ‘Dahi Handi’ celebrations associated with Janmashtami, were injured in Mumbai on Thursday, while 17 such participants suffered wounds in adjoining…
Mumbai: A protest for Maratha reservation today reached Mumbai, days after violent clashes between police and protesters in Maharashtra’s Jalna district. Protesters today have gathered at Mumbai’s iconic Marine Drive and also outside the Plaza Cinema in Dadar demanding reservation for the Maratha community. The reservation provided by the state government for the politically dominant…
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Mumbai: A Common Minimum Programme and a dialogue about seat sharing may figure in the agenda of the third meeting of the united Opposition bloc INDIA, its leaders have indicated ahead of the two-day meet that begins in Mumbai tomorrow. 28 parties will take part in the meet — two more than the last one…
The Opposition Bloc INDIA can have its 3rd assembly in Mumbai on August 31 and September 1, the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena (UBT) has introduced. The celebration will host the meet, the place the united Opposition is anticipated to draft its Habitual Minimal Programme. There may be expectation that an 11-member coordination committee…
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday claimed that Mumbai roads will be free of potholes in the next two to two-and-half years. He also took a swipe at the rival Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray, stating that had the work of concretisation of city roads been completed, lives would not have…
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