World number one Vijender Singh (75kg) clinched an unprecedented second boxing gold for India at the 16th Asian Games while two others settled for silver to round off the best ever campaign by the country's pugilists at the quadrennial mega-event, in Guangzhou, on Friday.
Difference due to pricing; up by a third in Mumbai since Jan, almost stationary in Delhi.
After the controversy over their joint appearance at the inauguration of Bandra-Worli sealink in Mumbai, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has decide not to share the dais with superstar Amitabh Bachchan at a Marathi literary meet in Pune.
During an informal chat, economist Abhirup Sarkar explained in a layperson's terms why the prices in India are escalating so fast.
Former Indian batsman Sunil Gavaskar believes India has a "balanced" side for the 2011 World Cup and Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men have the "capability" of winning the coveted tournament and breaking the jinx of a host country not lifting the title.
The bridge is to be inaugurated on June 30 by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Mumbaikars welcomed the long-awaited opening of India's first sea link.
The Bombay high court on Thursday ordered an interim stay on further sale of flats in an 18-storey building named Harsiddhi at Worli in Mumbai as the Indian Navy has raised it objections to the project.
Alkyl Amines Chemicals Ltd announced voluntary retirement scheme to employees at Patalganga plant and Vashi and Worli offices.
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The Mumbai power cuts come amid concerns about wider blackouts across the country due to a shortage of coal.
The joint secretary also said a high-level task force to work on frontiers of science related to vaccines and drug testing was formed on Sunday.
Zee TV presents India's biggest dance carnival on the eve of the grand finale of Lux Dance India Dance.
The Podar Mill, which went under the hammer today, is expected to get higher bids in the remaining two days of the e-auction.
A fire broke out at an under-construction building in Worli, a central Mumbai suburb, on Thursday evening and some people were feared to be trapped inside, the fire brigade said.
Coming out in defence of old friend Amitabh Bachchan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday said the actor has done nothing wrong by attending the inauguration of the second phase of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Bachchan on Friday said there was no need for her husband Amitabh Bachchan to apologise for attending the inauguration of the Bandra-Worli sea-link, which has triggered a controversy in Maharashtra politics.
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Pravin Mahajan, who lived with his wife and two children in a modest apartment in Maharashtra's Thane district, was an unknown figure until the morning of April 22, 2006 when he shot his brother and prominent Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod.
The project has been started on a trial basis during which 24 bicycles -- eight for beaches and 16 for streets -- will be used.
Coastal road will decongest the traffic of Mumbai and will create 91 hectares of green space.
'Most Chinese are out of the shadow of the 1962 border conflict. They are thinking of how to make money and not about threatening another country,' says Professor Wang Dehua, who advocates better India-China ties.
Workshop on international business etiquette and fine dining by Sabira Merchant.
Off-spinner Johan Botha has replaced Graeme Smith as South Africa's Twenty20 captain, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Saturday.
Rahul Mahajan's second wife, Kolkata model, Dimpy, who left his Worli house late on Thursday following violent domestic abuse, on Friday said she was very upset and hurt and needed some time to recover from the episode.
Hyderabad-based NTR Memorial Trust Blood Bank is airlifting 100 units of blood of rare groups like A-, B-, O- and AB- to Mumbai to meet the requirements of the victims of the terror attacks.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made a fresh appeal to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party to attend the all party meet on Monday to discuss the present situation in the Kashmir valley.
Germany striker Miroslav Klose is one goal shy of equalling Ronaldo's World Cup record of 15 but the 32-year-old striker has his eyes set on a bigger trophy -- the World Cup itself.
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The Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday asked its ally Congress to decide on alliance for coming assembly polls in Maharashtra by July 15 and in an apparent overture to facilitate the tie-up party, president Sharad Pawar proposed the Bandra-Worli sealink be named after Rajiv Gandhi.
Barely hours after the Bandra-Worli sea link was named 'Rajiv Gandhi Setu', the move drew criticism from Opposition Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance, which favoured it being named after Swatantrayaveer Savarkar.
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Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) would consider action against organisers of the exhibition event where former British F1 racer David Coulthard drove a Formula One car on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link allegedly beyond permissible speed limits.
'Given the first-time healthcare emergency of this nature and scale, we don't have enough experienced hands to deal with the situation.' 'The models, policies and protocols keep changing everyday depending upon the evolving situation.' 'We are all in trial-and-error mode where we do some right things as well as wrong things.' 'We cannot have an ideal environment to fight this pandemic.'
British scientists have identified the master gene, called E4bp4, that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting 'natural killer' (NK) immune cells.
'It is time to give back to this city that has given me so much.'
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi was questioned by IT and Enforcement Directorate officials on Thursday.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, who took the initiative of hosting the informal meeting of important countries and blocs like the US, European Union, Brazil, China and Australia, remained busy today with officials. While it is being seen as a bold step by India to re-energise the Doha talks after they collapsed at Geneva in July 2008, New Delhi is consciously keeping the pitch low so as not to raise expectations from the meeting on Thursday and Friday.
To checking human trafficking, the government plans to introduce biometric passport system that will include finger-printing, by 2010, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday. Stating that there was a nexus of recruiting agencies and employers in human trafficking, Mukherjee added that Indian workers fall for the lure of more money and resort to illegal migration and end up being harassed and exploited.
Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi on Friday said that IT officials went back satisfied after the 8-hour questioning.
