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The minimum temperature measured at the Santa Cruz weather station was 11.4°C. Thus, for yet another day, the city's minimum remained lower than usually colder places (in the state) like Mahabaleshwar, Nagpur and Alibaug. Source: Mumbai News

The Bombay high court has confirmed its anticipatory bail to Kamlesh Argal, a retired chief commissioner of income tax (I-T), in an alleged kidnap and murder case of another former IRS officer. Source: Mumbai News

An 11-year-old schoolboy from Kandivli, Shravan Shetty, was found hanging at his residence on Thursday morning while his family members were away. The boy's father had also hanged himself three years ago. The reason for Shravan's purported suicide was not clear. Source: Mumbai News

The BEST is all set to launch 30 low-floor, wheelchairaccessible buses early next year. Source: Mumbai News

It was a happy Eid for the family of Noor Mohammed, the second of the four missing Malwani men, who returned home on Thursday. Noor's wife Rahimunnisa said he had gone to Karnataka, possibly because her parents live there. Source: Mumbai News

The district consumer redressal forum recently rapped a private insurance firm for deficiency in service as it had refused to settle the hospital and surgery bills of an insured person on the grounds that it was a pre-existing disease which was concealed from them. Source: Mumbai News

A Shiv Sena corporator, Ramesh Gunjal (40), was hacked to death on a road in Ambernath on Friday . Police sources said, before dying, Gunjal named 13 people, and police are now searching for them. Source: Mumbai News

There was chaos at Girgaum Chowpatty fol lowing the discovery of an unattended bag on Friday Panic ensued among the crowds thronging Chowpat ty after Eid-e-Milad and Christmas celebrations. Source: Mumbai News

Twenty-four hours after the balloon cylinder blast at Arya Gurukul school, in which one person was killed and 13 were injured, five students continue to be under observation in hospital as their eyes are swollen and their vision is affected. Priyanka More (16), who lost vision in her right eye, is out the ICU and now recuperating in the general ward of Mumbai's JJ Hospital. Source: Mumbai News

Most RTOs take up to three months to renew a driving licence and up to a month to issue new ones, but the Borivli RTO has adopted a novel method to reduce this waiting time to 10 days. Source: Mumbai News