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A 15-year-old domestic help was raped in Kalyan, allegedly by her employer, an estate agent. The police said the man was on the run but they had arrested his wife for aiding and abetting the crime. Source: Mumbai News

Technical glitches may once again be seen in the online admission process for the 25% seats reserved under the Right to Education Act, 2009. Last year, the process was marred with several technical troubles. Source: Mumbai News

Over 2,300 complaints have been received on a portal launched by the state government for public grievance redressal on Republic Day. The Aaple Sarkar portal showed that land and property records, followed by urban amenities such as road and water supply, remained the major complaint areas across the state, including the city. Source: Mumbai News

Health experts are unanimous that any more shrinking of city’s open spaces, already way short of global standards, may escalate the existing disease burden exponentially. The public health problems today that mainly include infectious and lifestyle diseases underline the urgency to discourage overcrowding and improve physical activity, both tied to open spaces, they say. Source: Mumbai News

The draft Development Plan 2034, which when passed will be the guideline for the city’s growth for the next 20 years, has offered a standard of 2sq metre of open space per person. The existing land use survey says it is 1.24sq m. Source: Mumbai News

The Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray, who has been championing the cause of liberating Mumbai’s nightlife, has said in his blog that malls in Mumbai and “mill malls” (those in the city’s mill areas) should be declared as special entertainment zones. Source: Mumbai News

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) last week submitted the city’s new coastal zone management plan (CZMP) to the state environment department after an 18-month delay. Source: Mumbai News

Four more days of imprisonment would be added to actor Sanjay Dutt's prison term, as he spent extra days out jail when his furlough period ended and a decision on extension of his furlough was pending, Maharashtra minister of state for home Ram Shinde has said. Source: Mumbai News

Tuesday evening at NCPA, the students of Mumbai University’s Academy of Theatre Arts performed ‘Aazar Ka Khwab’, an Urdu adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’. Source: Mumbai News

The Russian flag cargo vessel, MV Sevastopol was brought back to Mumbai anchorage on Tuesday night. Source: Mumbai News