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Excerpt from Hindustan Times by Sujit Mahamulkar, on 7th Feb 2010: Read Full Article

Those who own Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) flats in Mankhurd will not get drinking water from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
However, owners of MHADA flats at Versova will now get 45 litres of water per head, the BMC has said.
The BMC said it will not be able to supply drinking water to newly constructed MHADA flats in Mankhurd because the daily demand is more than 2 lakh litres.
“It won’t be possible to
supply drinking water to residential complexes in Mankhurd as there is already a shortage of water,” said Vinay Deshpande head of the BMC’s water
department. “We would consider their plea only after we receive sufficient rainfall in the six catchment areas from where the city gets water.”
The MHADA had constructed and sold 3,863 flats under the affordable housing scheme for the economically weaker, lower, middle and higher income sections.

As reported bt PTI, Feb, 5 , 2010

Five Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists were today arrested for allegedly attacking the office of a company engaged in cable television business in suburban Chembur, police said.

The five accused along with their associates ransacked the office of Hathway Bhawani Cable Tel and Datacom Ltd at Sanjana Complex this afternoon, police said.

About 20 to 25 persons barged into the company’s office, broke the CCTVs before smashing the glass door, computers and other furniture, they said.Deputy Police Commissioner Dilip Sawant said, “five MNS workers were arrested and we have identified their associates.They will be arrested soon.”

Although, the reason for the incident was not known, police suspect that the company had disconnected the cable service to many cable operators in the area for non-payment of dues which might have upset the operators, who might have taken support of MNS.

Excerpt from DNA, reported Sandeep Ashar, February 5, 2010: Read Full Article
With the city battling with its worst ever water crisis, a bunch of young heroes have emerged to inspire Mumbaikars to save water.

A class of 37 school students from a Marathi-medium school in Deonar have made their school change its water consumption habits. The initiative, by the class V students, has helped the city save close to 20,160 litres of water everyday.

Here’s how the 10-year-old’s have brought about the change. Disturbed by the water loss due to leaky taps in their school, the students with help from their class teacher — Dr Seema Chudekar — undertook a project mapping the water loss and suggested preventive steps.

While the project was undertaken in the last week of December, the students and the teacher recently submitted a report based on the project to the schools administration. “Whenever the subject of using water judiciously was discussed in the class, the students kept pointing towards the water loss from taps in the school and often asked why it was not being curbed. This led to the project,” Chudekar said.

The students divided themselves in small groups and first mapped the number of leaking taps, and then measured the quantity of water loss. “Of the 18 taps on the ground floor of the premises, we found 14 were leaking. While the water loss was in drops at a few taps, from many others there was a constant trickle,” Noorjahan Majid, one of the students, said.

Plot:
It is a lovely story about Rizvan Khan, Played by Shahrukh Khan. Rizvan is a Muslim man from India, he shifts to San Francisco and is living there with his brother and sister-in-law. Rizvan is suffering from a disease called Aspergers Syndrome. Aspergers is a kind of disease, it does not mean that the person suffering from the disease is stupid. On the contrary he is very intelligent, but he dont understand people. He is unable to understand that why people say things they don’t mean. For an example, they say visit my house any time, and when he goes to their house they simply say why have you come at this time? And so sometimes people think that he is rude. Such people don’t mean to be rude, because being rude is not good. So to continue with the story, Rizvan falls in love with Mandira. They experience a lot of protest from their family but despite of all that they get married and starts a small business. Theie happy life changes after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, when attitudes towards Muslims changes all over the world. Mandira is shocked when this calamity stikes and they part away. Rizvan is very upset that the love of his life has left him and he is confused about what to do. He starts his emotional, touching and inspiring journey towards America, to win Mandira back.
Read Khans story, his way:
My name is Rizvan Khan. I might seem a little ‘different’ to you. I am suffering from Aspergers Syndrome. It is named after Dr Hans Asperger who first noticed the traits in children. I don’t understand what people say and they don’t mean it. But my mother always said me that there are only good people and bad people in the world and I am a good person… ‘My Name is Khan’ is the victorious story of an exceptional hero struggling and conquering the barriers to regain his love life back.
Genre:Drama, Romance, Social
Release Date:Feb 12,2010

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The trial run of Mumbai’s super-fast monorail has been successful. Phase I expected to be commissioned before the end of this year

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, who flagged off the 300-metre trial run, described the monorail as “an engineering marvel” and “the only one of its kind in the country” for the use of the common man.

About 3 lakh people are expected to use the monorail daily, Chavan said.

InChembur took these photos on 25th Jan, as the Monorail was getting reading for its first Test run on the Republic Day ….

The monorail moves on a single elevated beam, instead of the conventional tracks.
The Mumbai monorail project – being jointly implemented by Larsen & Toubro and the Scomi Group, of Malaysia – is expected to be completed in 2010 itself, at a cost of Rs 2,460 crore.

An initiative of the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA), the Mumbai monorail project involves design, construction, installation, testing and commissioning of a 19.4-kilometre route stretching between Jacob Circle and Chembur.

While the Phase I of the Mumbai monorail project will be between Wadala and Chembur via Mahul (about 9 kilometres), the Phase II will cover the distance between Gadge Maharaj Chowk and Wadala (11 kilometres).

We are trying to get hold of a few good photos of the Mumbai Monorail for you.

According to Shailendra Roy, executive vice-president and head of corporate initiatives of Larsen & Toubro, the Phase I of the monorail from Wadala to Chembur is scheduled to be commissioned by the end of 2010, and the Phase II by December 2011.

The monorail network is aimed at easing the traffic in Mumbai, the most populous city in India, having a population of about 14 million people. It is also expected to supplement the existing public transport system in Mumbai, along with the underground metro rail network under construction.

It has been planned to introduce, to start with, 14 monorails with 4 coaches, with a capacity of 500 passengers.

The super-fast monorail will have a frequency of 4.5 minutes, and the fare will range from Rs 8 to Rs 20.

Mumbai monorail’s first corridor will have 15 trains – with 9 of them for the Wadala-Jacob Circle stretch, and the rest for the Chembur-Wadala stretch.

Three coaches from Malaysia are likely to arrive in Mumbai by March 2010.

Suhaimi Yaacob, president of Scomi’s India Projects, said the company estimates that the Wadala-Jacob Circle stretch will have a higher passenger density than the Chembur-Wadala one. The Wadala-Jacob Circle alignment, Yaacob added, has fewer public-transport alternatives.

He said the pillars are designed in such a way that they can take the weight of 6-coach rakes. This means that, in future, if the services need be augmented, there is the scope of adding 2 more coaches without affecting the frequency of the trains at that time.

Countries such as Brazil have planned 8-coach monorail trains, according to Suhaimi Yaacob.

Railway tickets would henceforth be available at post offices in Mumbai . To begin with, this facility has been introduced at four post offices, namely Girgaon, Dadar, Chembur and Mandvi in the metropolis.

Union minister of state for communications and IT, Gurudas Kamat , launched the railway reservation system for providing tickets at four post offices in Mumbai on Monday.

“The project would not only reduce the queues at railway stations but also reduce load at railway centres,” Kamat said.

Chief post master general M S Bali hoped that the facility would generate additional revenue for the Posts.

Union railway minister Mamata Banerjeehad announced the initiative during the budget last year to make the facility available in 500 post offices across the country.

The facility would soon be extended to as many as 103 other post offices, he added.

A Congress worker associated with a party corporator was found dead on Sunday evening at an isolated place in Subhash Nagar, Chembur.

The partly-decomposed body of Anil Rana, 27, the supporter of a Congress corporator from Chembur, was found with several injury marks on the head.  A missing case was registered with the Chembur police station three days ago.

A 24-year-old boxer from Akola - who was jobless despite reaching the state level in the sport - hanged herself at her father’s home at HPCL Colony at Vashinaka, Chembur on Friday evening.

Priyanka Belkade, the third of four daughters, moved from Akola to Mumbai in November last year and had been suffering from depression since then, family members told the police.

The family lived in Akola, while Priyanka’s father Digamber worked in Mumbai. Priyanka and her younger sister Komal had come to the city in search of better prospects.

According to the RCF police, Digamber, a former defence man, had gone to Akola to meet his wife and son when the incident occurred. He came to know about the suicide from his elder daughter Rita Tayade, who had been asked to stay with Priyanka in his absence.

Around 5.30 pm on Friday, Rita had taken her child to a garden in the  locality. When they returned an hour later, Rita found the door to the flat ajar.

The HPCL colony at Chembur where Priyanka lived with her family

In her statement, she said, “Rushing into the house, I saw my sister hanging from the ceiling. Immediately, I took the help of the neighbours to rush her to Inlaks hospital. Later, she was shifted to Rajawadi hospital, where she was declared dead before admission.”

“The girl’s father, who returned to Mumbai on Saturday, said she had been depressed since November. The depression could be because she could not make it big in her professional career,” said Shirish Shelke, senior inspector of RCF Police Station.

Sources said that Priyanka quit training sessions at her club in Akola and moved to Mumbai due to family problems.

Her younger sister Komal had won medals at state and national level boxing championships, but Priyanka was not so lucky.

“She was a talented sportsperson. She had won the state level boxing championship, but missed the national title narrowly in 2008. Her sister Komal is also a professional boxer and has excelled both at state and national levels,” said Suchita Dhamale, public relations and media officer of the Maharashtra Amateur Boxing Association

As reported in http://www.hindustantimes.com on January 29, 2010

Aman Bharadwaj, the main accused in the rape of a Russian minor girl, has been arrested in Chembur, in Mumbai, Goa police said on Friday evening.
Speaking to reporters in Panaji, Deputy Inspector General of police Ravindra Yadav said Bharadwaj was arrested by a Goa police team in Chembur on Friday evening.
“We had got a tip off that he was in Chembur. Our team picked him up, They are on their way back,” Yadav said.
The police have already arrested Anil Raghuvanshi, the second accused in the January 26 rape, at a city bus stand in the morning. Bharadwaj and Raghuvanshi, both employees of a pharmaceutical company in Dhargal, 45 km from Panaji, are accused of raping a nine-year-old Russian girl at Arambol beach.
In her complaint to the Goa police, the victim’s mother had alleged that while Raghuvanshi had distracted her with conversation, Bharadwaj had raped her daughter who was bathing in the sea.
The complaint had triggered a nationwide media debate on the safety of women, especially women tourists in Goa. The union tourism ministry had shot off a letter to the state government seeking details on the issue of safety of tourists in the state.
The Russian embassy had also warned of issuing a tourist advisory against Goa, if the state authorities could not spruce up their act. This is not the first instance of a crime against a Russian woman in the tourist state.
A 25-year-old Russian woman was raped by a Goan politician in December last year.
Police have also been unable to crack the mysterious death of Russian teenager Elena Sukhonova, whose mangled body was found on the railway tracks near Thivim, 25 km from Panaji.
Nearly 40,000 Russian tourists visit Goa annually.

Plot:
Ishqiya is a story that bets to break the trend of the ongoing trend on the box-office. Basically the story is about two individuals or say two thieves Khalujan, played by Naseeruddin Shah and Babban, palyed by Arshad Warsi. They are on the run from their boss Mushtaq, played by Salman Shahid. To save themselves they go to their old friend’s place but in his place they find his widow, Krishna, played by Vidya Balan. While they were planning their escape from Mushtaq, they started getting attracted to Krishna at that period of time, Khalu was an old-fashioned lover, so he used to see her in his serious kind of way and Babban had another definition for move so he had his lustful eye stuck on her. The threat of coming death on the card forces them on a path of violence and betrayal. On and all the story is a romance between individuals that are trapped in a maze of crime, suspense, passion, and deceit. The script is set in a rural landscape, Ishqiya gives us the insight basic human emotions as that are prejudiced by desire, greed and revenge.

Year : 2009
Release Date : Jan 29,2010

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Cast & Crew
Producer :Vishal Bhardwaj, Raman Maroo
Co-Producer : Ketan Maroo, Mansi Maroo, Sanjay Mehta
Executive Producer :Ketan Maroo, Mansi Maroo, Sanjay Mehta
Director :Abhishek Chaubhey
Cast :Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan
Music Director : Vishal Bhardwaj
Playback Singer :Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Sukhwinder Singh, Mika Singh, Rekha Bharadwaj, Clinton Cerejo
Lyricist : Gulzar, Ajinkya Iyer
Cinematography :Mohana Krishna
Dialogue Writer : Vishal Bhardwaj

Screenplay Writer : Vishal Bhardwaj, Sabrina Dhawan, Abhishek Chaubhey
Editor :Namrata Rao
Action Director :Jai Singh
Costume Designer :Payal Saluja
Sound Designer :Kaamod Kharade, Satheesh P. M., Shajith Koyeri
Publicity Designer :Marching Ants