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RAHUL SHEWALE VISITS RESIDENTS OF MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS ON PL LOKHANDE MARG IN CHEMBUR, PROMISES TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEM By Tariq Khan
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fter reading ADC’s story of Thursday, October 31, ‘Depressed residents foresee a dark Diwali,’ the standing committee chairman of the BMC, Rahul Shewale, paid a visit to place in Chembur along with senior civic officials. Mohan Adtani, the additional municipal commissioner, Sandhya Nandedkar – assistant municipal commissioner of M-(West) ward, officials from building proposal department and around 700-800 residents of these municipal buildings at PL Lokhande Marg who received vacation notices, were present at the spot. Shewale, while informing the residents that he actually came to know of the real problems faced by residents upon reading the ADC story in detail, said, “Only three dangerous buildings will be redeveloped. A transit camp for the residents of these three buildings will be built in the locality itself and work will begin within 15 days. The redevelopment work will be done
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After oo DESPATCH & COURIER Betting Big on the Little Master By Neel Shah
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unters in the illegal betting business popularly known as ‘satta bazaar’ in India are all set to place their final bets on Sachin Tendulkar. Before the latter hangs up his boots after playing his last matches in November, punters are wagering full time on how many runs India’s most iconic batsman will score. Tendulkar, whose 24-year long cricketing career will come to an end in November, will play his 199th Test at Eden Garden in Kolkata and 200th at Wankhede in Mumbai. Talking to the ADC, a New Delhi bookie, requesting based anonymity said, “It will be the best event in the satta bazzar business, as punters will be more eager to bet on Tendulkar’s batting rather than on the victory of the matches.” In this regard, bookies across India are expecting cricket betting Continued on pg 8 «
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By Yatin Ingle
he Third Year Bachelors of Mass Media (TYBMM) students may have studied their subjects intensely for the exams, but they were very confused and unprepared for the
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numerous errors on their question papers. On Tuesday, the TYBMM (Journalism) students had to work their minds between the correct spellings they knew and the wrong spellings which appeared in the question papers. If that was not tough enough, they had
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to tackle the punctuation mistakes that appeared in several places. For the subject Feature and Opinion, a 15 mark interview based question had four
Sudden eviction notice worries residents of municipal buildings in Chembur
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ADC IMPACT
By Khushboo Panjabi
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n the aftermath of the municipal building crash at Dockyard Road last month where 61 lives were lost,
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Police will check Navi Mumbai noise levels
Dark Diwali Amazing progress! Previously, he used to sleep on coal bags, but nowadays he sleeps on money bags instead.
Mumbai University is back in form, giving out the third year Journalism question paper with spelling mistakes and wrong punctuations
Crowded here and nowhere else to go, the residents are hoping for relocation.
he Navi Mumbai police will keep a track on the levels of noise pollution caused by bursting of firecrackers during Diwali. The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Amended Rules, 2010, state that the maximum permissible limit for bursting firecrackers is up to 55 decibels (dB) during the day and 45 dB at
Standing Committee Chairman Rahul Shewale with senior officials of the BMC. Inset: A dilapidated building.
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BARC hoax caller nabbed Had made the call to settle scores with brother-in-law By Suresh Golani
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No cash! Only onions and tomatoes!
Ashok Maheshwari Prasad in the custody of the Wadala Police.
he hoax caller who put the authorities in panic mode by calling up twice, informing about bombs being planted at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre’s (BARC) housing colony in Boisar was arrested by the police on Sunday. Personal grudge against his brother-in-law has turned out to be the motive behind the call made by the accused who has been identified as Ashok Maheshwari Prasad alias Mahesh Saha (45). Continued on pg 6 «
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