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The state government has brought in several industrial investment in third tier cities, said industries minister Subhash Desai in the legislative council on Tuesday. Source: Mumbai News

Services of the Mumbai Metro were disrupted for 15 minutes after an object fell on the overhead equipment wire of the elevated corridor during the morning peak hours on Monday. Source: Mumbai News

Women have a right to have safe and clean toilets at all convenient places, said Bombay High Court on Wednesday upholding the right to pee for women who are outdoors. Source: Mumbai News

One of the country’s premier contemporary art destinations, Gallery 7, in the heart of SoBo, Kala Ghoda, is hosting a one-of-a-kind show of the biggest showmen of art, F.N. Souza. Source: Mumbai News

The Kandivali police formally arrested three men, on Tuesday, in the double murders of internationally acclaimed artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani. Source: Mumbai News

Bevakoof (the uninformed). That's how Jamaat-E-Islami Hind (JIH) chief Syed Jalaluddin Umri described the youths attracted towards the Islamic State (Isis) movement in Syria and elsewhere. The renowned Islamic scholar was talking at the four-day Jamaat convention which concluded on Monday in Hyderabad. Source: Mumbai News

A draft of new rules and regulations for dance bars reviewed by this newspaper says that every dance bar must now have CCTVs with the feed beamed live to the nearest police station. Since dance bars were always a guilty pleasure, they are unlikely to attract any customers with cops watching the proceedings all the time. Also, live pictures beamed into a police stations could be open to abuse. Source: Mumbai News

Mumbaikars will be able to connect to free wifi provided by Google and RailTel at Mumbai Central station from January 2016. Source: Mumbai News

In the Indian travelling community, the must-do activity for 2016 is to try something new. Eight two percent of respondents surveyed by an online travel portal said that they would try go for what they haven't tried yet with wildlife safari (35%) leading the list followed by cruise (33%) holiday and adventure travel (29%). Source: Mumbai News

Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the State government to reply if it will participate in running local trains in Mumbai. Source: Mumbai News