Mumbai-based preacher wins King Faisal award
City-based Islamic scholar, Dr Zakir, has won the Saudi Arab's King Faisal Award 2015.
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Maha govt to tell HC if 5 year old was taken to police station
Maharashtra government is expected to tell the Bombay High Court today "on what actually transpired" and whether really a five-year old child taken for questioning by cops to the police station from his school for alleged sexual assault on his classmate.
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Minimum temp falls to 16.2 degrees Celsius
After several days, the minimum temperatures in the city touched the 16-degree mark on Tuesday. The minimum temperature recorded in Santacruz was 16.2 degrees Celsius as compared to Monday’s minimum of 17 degrees Celsius.
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Sack 35 govt staff convicted for graft: CM
Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday asked chief secretary Swadheen Kshatriya to dismiss around 35 government employees, who have been convicted on charges of corruption.
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No tax hikes likely but revenue a worry
It would be surprising if the municipal body announces tax hikes in a pre-poll year in its 2015-16 budget to be tabled on Wednesday.
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At Wilson, Ansari gives religion, diversity lessons
The state should not discriminate on the basis of religion, said Vice-President Hamid Ansari. He was replying to a query on communal polarization and safeguarding secular tradition during an interaction with students on a range of issues from national to international affairs at Wilson College on Tuesday.
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Mumbai will switch directly from octroi to GST in 2016-17
Though the state has primarily decided to go ahead with increase in VAT instead of an LBT for cities other than Mumbai from the coming financial year, for the city, a change from octroi to GST may come from the 2016-17 fiscal.
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Can’t interfere in int’l contract disputes: HC
Local companies that lose foreign arbitration matters cannot evade consequences by filing a case in an Indian court, the Bombay high court ruled on Tuesday.
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HC increases maintenance IT professional pays daughter
The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed a senior software consultant working with an IT MNC to pay Rs 25,000 as monthly maintenance for his 12-year-old daughter who lives with his former wife.
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Only 221 species of birds sighted at race this year; least since 2005
The least number of bird species were spotted at the 11th Mumbai bird race on February 1, showing a declining trend since 2005.
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