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Nearly a fortnight after an alleged petrol fraud was unearthed at a pump in Santacruz, the state metrology department has issued notices to Bharat Petroleum which owns the fuel-dispensing units and to the manufacturer of the fuel dispensers Gilbarco Veeder Root India Pvt Ltd. The show-cause notices seek the version of these companies in the alleged fraud in dispensing fuel, within 10 days. Source: Mumbai News

The Rs 1,1000-crore Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) project will not face environmental impediments as the Union environment and forest ministry (MoEF) is likely to approve the eco-sensitive zone as 0-8km from the Karnala bird sanctuary. Source: Mumbai News

Indian travellers apparently are the most experimental travellers in Asia-Pacific, according to a study carried out by a travel search engine. Source: Mumbai News

The city traffic department caught 157 drivers for drunk driving on Gatari.The cops had carried out a special drive on Wednesday and Friday night, during which they collectively caught 271 persons. Source: Mumbai News

The BMC has told the Bombay high court that a 14-storeyed building at Walkeshwar, vacant since over three decades, is in a “semi-finished” condition and technical tests will have to be done to find out if it is in a proper state. Source: Mumbai News

A 33-year-old Customs appraiser, working with Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), reportedly committed suicide by jumping in front of a harbour line local near Khandeshwar station on Saturday morning. Source: Mumbai News

An American woman employed at an audit firm was allegedly sexually harassed by an unknown man while on her morning walk near Mumbai's Gateway of India on Monday. Source: Mumbai News