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Mumbai’s narrow channel posing threat to vessels

MUMBAI — The nearly 3,000-tonne warship was meant to attack enemy ships and submarines, but the INS Vindhyagiri, the Niligiri-class frigate, sank ignominiously at the naval dockyard here, the worst-ever peacetime loss for the Indian Navy.

 

Maharashtra crackdown on oil
mafia after official’s killing

MUMBAI — The authorities here launched a state-wide crackdown on criminals indulging in the adulteration of petroleum products and milk, just two days after members of an oil mafia in Malegaon, about 200 km north-east of here, killed a senior government officer by setting him on fire.

 

Tax inspectors target top Bollywood stars

MUMBAI - Two of Bollywood’s leading ladies had uninvited guests gate-crashing into their homes and offices on Monday morning. Unfortunately for Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra, they were not over-zealous fans, but grim-faced taxmen in search of suspected concealed income.

 

Police seek accuracy of ‘killing’ of bomb suspect

MUMBAI - Top police and intelligence officials here are trying to ferret out information about the suspected killing in Karachi of Riyaz Bhatkal, the founder of Indian Mujahideen (IM), and one of the most wanted terrorists in the country.

 

Thousands go without tap water in Mumbai

MUMBAI - Hundreds of thousands of Mumbai residents had to do without piped water on Monday, as the civic body undertook major repair work on three main pipelines that carry water to the city.

 

When leaders fuel violence for petty interests

When political parties organise bandhs and demonstrations, they justify the accompanying violence as a spontaneous reaction by the ‘masses,’ protesting against some alleged injustice. Governments also treat the hooligans with kid gloves, encouraging such irresponsible acts.

 

Boy throws four-year-old girl out of speeding train

MUMBAI — In a case of ‘rail rage,’ an angry teenager grabbed a four-year-old girl and flung her out of a speeding train in Mumbai early Tuesday, following a fight with her father over the sharing of seats.

Robust sales despite large supply in Mumbai

Top developers in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore, the three biggest property markets in India, have acquired thousands of acres of prime land in the recent past and are busy developing millions of sq ft of real estate.