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State finance department officials fear that there may be a problem providing funds for all the new projects and initiatives of the BJP-Shiv Sena government if the Centre does not help it financially before its first state budget. Source: Mumbai News

Uddhav Thackeray has brought up the border dispute with neighbouring Karnataka once again in a bid to hurl a political challenge at the BJP ahead of the municipal polls in the state, said observers on Monday. Source: Mumbai News

While the resurgence of the Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi has come as a shot in the arm for the party’s Maharashtra unit, the state played an important role in AAP’s performance in Delhi. Source: Mumbai News

A referendum held with the expectation that public opinion would save a playground in the Byculla zoo ended on Monday evening after three days of voting. Source: Mumbai News

Advocates for Avadhnama editor Shirin Dalvi informed the Bombay High Court that her life was in danger and urged the court that pending hearing, no coercive action should be taken against her. Source: Mumbai News

In a boost for women’s security on the railways, the GRP’s Nirbhaya squad, which has been nabbing pickpockets and snatchers inside ladies coaches, is set to get 10 more personnel. Source: Mumbai News

On an average, 5,000 vehicles pass through the toll naka every day, each taking around 15 to 20 minutes to cross it. Source: Mumbai News

Aarey Colony residents are up in arms over the MMRDA’s proposal to cut trees at the city’s green zone to make way for a car shed depot for the Metro III project. Source: Mumbai News

Around six years after Ratnagiri resident Prakash Kamble (40) was arrested for allegedly raping a minor girl and getting her pregnant, a DNA test has come to his rescue. Source: Mumbai News

HSBC on Monday admitted to lapses in the past in its private banking business in response to a leak which revealed that some of the offshore accounts in its Swiss branch were used for tax evasion. Source: Mumbai News