Nallah
work begins at last! (May 2nd,
2009)
THANE: The civic Health Department (HD) has
commenced work for the cleanliness of the entire
nallah system in the city since the past couple
of days. The step has laid to rest the apprehensions
that the task would be caught up in the model
Code of Conduct guidelines currently in force
in the wake of the parliamentary elections.
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Thane
city celebrates Maharashtra's 49th year (May
2nd,
2009)
THANE: Like every year, May 1 was celebrated
as Maharastra Day in Thane. A parade was held
at Dadoji Konddev stadium in the morning.
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Police
declares 14 booths in dist as hypersensitive
(May 1st,
2009)
THANE: The district electoral authorities had
to wait till the last moment for the city police
to declare the list of sensitive polling stations
in the city.The cops from the three police districts
in Thane declared 14 polling booths in their
jurisdictions as hypersensitive. The number
of sensitive booths crossed the 500 figuremark,
while more than 100 booths were declared critical.
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RTO
stops tourist vehicle permit for small cars
(May 1st,
2009)
THANE: In a significant move aimed at checking
the rampant evasion of various forms of taxes
to the state treasury, the Thane Regional Transport
Office (RTO) stopped the registration of small
cars as Tourist Vehicles. ReadMore...
City
to get much-awaited electric water meters, but
only after the polls (April 27th
,
2009)
Thane: As the Station Area Transport Improvement
Scheme (SATIS) is taking its shape, the traffic
issue seems deteriorating.
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Raj
blasts Uddhav at rally (April
27th ,
2009)
Mumbai: Raj Thackeray on Sunday pointed an accusing
finger at Uddhav Thackeray saying he had gone
back on his commitment to ensure punishment
for the assailants in a 2004 murder.
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Tree
tracking goes hi-tech Gokhale Rd (April
22th ,
2009)
Mumbai:
The last time environmentalist Ramesh Madav
conducted a tree census for the Mumbai Municipal
Corporation, his team of botanists carried with
it sheaves of forms to ink in individual details
of the 1.9 million trees it counted in the city.
Not only did the voluminous data have to be
manually compiled, the geographical location
of each tree was, at best, approximate and restricted
to the street name. The hitch in this method
was that a lack of accurate data made it difficult
to track illegal tree felling.
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ST
starts new services this summer (April
21th ,
2009)
Thane:
As the summer sets in, it's time for people
to pack their bags and head off for relaxed
holidays. In keeping with the busy travel time,
the State Transport (ST) has introduced new
services from Thane to destinations across the
state. These services have been started to cater
to meet the rush of commuters during the holiday
months.
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Hawkers
spread across station periphery, target Gokhale
Rd (April 21th ,
2009)
Thane:
Lakhs of people commute from Thane railway station
everyday. Since Thane is one of the emerging
suburbs, to overcome the problems, the Thane
Municipal Corporation (TMC) has proposed improvement
in circulation.
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Thane,
Kalyan need 4,000 more electronic voting machines
(April 18th ,
2009)
THANE: Holding the polls to the Thane and Kalyan
seats of the national Parliament has become
a big problem for the district electoral authorities.
The problem is due to the high number of candidates
and the authorities are forced to seek more
electronic voting machines (EVMs) for the two
seats to overcome the trouble.
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Proposal
turned down, 26-yr-old kills girlfriend
(April 8th ,
2009)
THANE: A
jilted lover slashed the throat of his 23-year-old
girlfriend in a secluded place along the railway
tracks near Thane station, leading to her death
around 3 pm on Tuesday.
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Parties
focus on development to woo Thane voters
(April 6th ,
2009)
THANE: Infrastructure development will be a
key issue in the four Lok Sabha constituencies
in Thane district.
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Mumbra
flyover opened for traffic (April
4th ,
2009)
MUMBRA: Residents and motorists from Mumbra
and Kausa have got a shot in the arm as the
flyover project was finally opened for traffic
Friday onwards and with it the bulk of the traffic
problem of the area has also come to an end.
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Thane
professor arrested in multi-crore scam
(April 3rd ,
2009)
The Kanjurmarg police on Thursday arrested a
30-year-old science lecturer from a Thane college
for allegedly duping lakhs of people across
the country to the tune of crore of rupees.
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Is
the water we drink safe enough? (March
31, 2009)
Thane: A week after World Water Day, we at Thane
Plus thought that it would be interesting to
see how well water is managed by both residents
and the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC).
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Peace
returns to Rabodi after riot leaves 26 hurt
(March
19, 2009)
THANE: Fragile peace returned to riot-torn Rabodi
in Thane after communal clashes and ubsequent
police action left 26 people, including 18 policemen,
injured and resulted in damage to property and
vehicles. Thirty-nine people were arrested for
rioting and 14 others were held as a preventive
measure.
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Thane
gets its first women's boxing wing (March
16, 2009)
VASANT VIHAR: The Vasant Vihar Sport's Club
inaugurated a boxing wing for women on International
Women's Day. "There are lady boxers from
Thane district level who are medal winners at
the state, as well as the national level, but
they need more avenues to practice here close
to home and save time," says Gauri Vaidya. Read
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Put
up streetlights on GB Rd: MSRDC to TMC
(March 13, 2009)
Ghodbunder Road: The Maharashtra State Road
Development Corporation (MSRDC) has allowed
the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) to carry
out its streetlight project on Ghodbunder Road.
The nod is however subject to a series of conditions
which the civic administration is trying to
meet.
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Bharti
Shipyard bags Rs 281cr contract from defence
ministry
(Mar 6, 2009)
Ship building firm Bharti Shipyard
on Friday said it has bagged a Rs 281 crore
contract from the ministry of defence for supplying
15 interceptor boats for Indian coast guard.
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Thane
plans a cycle track (Mar
6, 2009)
An 82-km cycle track to connect residential
areas of the Mumbai suburb, 52 km in the kitty.Pravin
Pandurang Mandavkar, 24, serves vada-pav in
the Thane Municipal Corporation canteen. Everyday,
he commutes from his house in Kharegaon, seven
kilometres away, on his bicycle.
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MLC
held, NCP men run riot in Thane (Mar
5, 2009)
Violence
and hooliganism paralysed parts of Thane after
demonstrators stoned buses and shops in an effort
to enforce a bandh in the city to protest the
arrest of NCP leader and MLC Jitendra Awhad
on Wednesday. Read
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(Speak
Up)Kersi Chavda
-Avoid that exam burn-out (Mar
4, 2009)
It is very important to remember that it is
just one important day in your life, not the
most important.Physical exercise helps beat
stress, take a walk in between revision.
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Trio
enters bank to open account, loots Rs 6 lakh
(Mar
4, 2009)
Three armed men on Tuesday pulled off a daring
daylight heist at the Dombivli branch of Union
Bank of India when they made away with Rs 5.86
lakh in cash. They also robbed the staff of
two mobiles and a gold ring. No arrest has been
made.
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Time
to give your driving licence a ‘smart’
look (Mar
3, 2009)
In the day and age when everything
is becoming compact, Thane RTO has been making
efforts to make your driving licences handier.The
card licences though were being issued since
January 2007.
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Yeoor
to get bins, soon (Mar
2 , 2009)
YEOOR:
After the recent stories about the garbage problem
at Yeoor, much has been promised to straighten
the situation. When we asked the corporator
of Ward 11 under which the Yeoor falls, Tai
Bhondave, she promised that some concrete measures
will be undertaken very soon.
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Altercation
with hawkers results in cop's suspension
(Mar
2 , 2009)
The sensitive town of Rabodi came to media's
spotlight on Friday afternoon following an altercation
between a group of hawkers and a police constable
attached to Rabodi police station.
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Sharp
rise in assessment tax collection (Feb
28, 2009)
The most salient feature of the budget of the
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) for the current
financial year is the exceeding of the targetted
income under the head of assessment taxes. This
is despite the fact that the local real estate
industry is caught up in severe recession as
a result of the global economic decline. Read
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13
illegal bungalows in Yeoor forest razed (Feb
28, 2009)
As many as 13 sprawling bungalows, illegally
constructed at Yeoor forest in Thane, were demolished
by the Thane Municipal Coporation (TMC) in a
day-long operation on Friday. Read
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Thane
cops net 90 online fraud cases in four months
(Feb
27, 2009)
Alarmed at the spate of online air and railway
ticket frauds being committed using unsuspecting
credit card holders' accounts, the Thane crime
cell recently issued summons to banks and airlines.
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Summer
turns on the heat on power (Feb
27, 2009)
With the summer approaching fast, power shortage
is back and the situation is only expected to
worsen in the coming months. Read
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Treat
it like any other examination (Feb
26, 2009)
While appearing for a board examination,
tell yourself you're going for a regular school
or college exam. This will help you perform
better. If you think of it as a board exam,
you'll get too tense to perform well.
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Soon,
Thane to be under electronic surveillance (Feb
26, 2009)
With a view to beef up security under
their area, the Thane Police Department, has
invited tenders from private suppliers for state-of-the-art
CCTV surveillance cameras to be installed at
certain public places.
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Romancing
the nature with colours (Feb
25, 2009)
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
- said poet John Keats. Renowned music composer
Milind Joshi proves his words by capturing the
deep essence of natural beauty into his paintings
which he has displayed in his debutant exhibition. Read
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Marriage
woes drove woman to end life (Feb
25, 2009)
A failed marriage, financial uncertainty
and a sense of hopelessness are said to have
driven Bhavana Pandey (33) into jumping to death
with her three-year-old daughter from the 10th
floor of a Thane building on Sunday.
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A
tribute to Baba Amte (Feb
24, 2009)
Baba
Amte was a messiah to hundreds of leprosy patients
and adivasis and disabled from society.
The great social worker started a number of
socialwelfare projects for them at Anandvan
and Hemalkasa.
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5
new swanky buses join TMT fleet (Feb
24, 2009)
The
New Year has come up with great surprises for
Thaneites. On one hand where the SATIS is going
on in full swing and is expected to be completed
by March end, the Thane Municipal Transport
(TMT) has taken some good steps of bringing
in new classy buses for their commuters. Read
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