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Eight persons were charred to death after a fire broke out on the mezzanine floor of an eatery in Kurla West on Friday afternoon. Police believe either a short circuit or leakage in a cooking gas cylinder fuelled the fire. Source: Mumbai News

A cylinder blast in a Mumbai hotel has killed eight people on Friday afternoon. The deceased include seven men and one woman. The blast occurred in City Kinarra hotel located on Gurunath Wadi Marg at Kurla. Source: Mumbai News

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford and Jala Group’s CHANDO brand have announced a new scholarship to support Chinese women undertaking the Oxford MBA programme. The Oxford-Chando Scholarship for Women will provide partial funding for outstanding female candidates to the Oxford MBA programme to achieve excellence in business and pursue their careers as future leaders. Source: Mumbai News

A high-level BMC review meeting has been called at 2:30pm today regarding Friday's fire at a Chinese eatery which killed eight people. The meeting is said to have been mandated by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis. Source: Mumbai News

A cylinder blast occurred at Vikhroli on Saturday at about 12 noon.BMC disaster management officials said six people were injured in the blast that occurred at Ambedkar Society at the Vikhroli Park site. The six injured people admitted to hospital are Aniket Chavan (18), Santosh Shinde (10), Sourabh Chavan (31), Sapna Chavan (11) Devgan Bai (35) and Vimal Chavan (40). Police and fire brigade teams have reached the spot. Source: Mumbai News

A 300-mm BMC water supply pipeline burst on Friday late night at Dahisar while micro-tunnelling work was being carried out nearby. Residents of around 40 buildings on New Link Road have been badly affected on account of no water supply since Friday. Source: Mumbai News

The NGT also wants environmental authorities to decide if fresh green clearance is needed as per 2006 rules for the 22km sea link project between Nhava in Navi Mumbai and Sewri. Source: Mumbai News

In separate incidents, two women were duped by online fraudsters of collectively siphoning Rs 93920 from their account through web services. Source: Mumbai News

Three teens from Jogeshwari drowned at the popular picnic spot Chinchoti Waterfalls in Vasai on Saturday. Source: Mumbai News

It is a rarity indeed to get to see first-hand some of the earliest coins of India, silver Mudras originating bet sixthfifth to second cen ween sixthfifth to second century BCE. Source: Mumbai News