Bombay Informer

PUNE: Flat owners who want to register for deemed conveyance of their housing societies can hope for some relief from paying 1% additional local body cess on the value of flat. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has agreed to look into the matter of this additional burden of 1% local body cess, the collection of which [...]

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All projects, including major, medium and small-size dams, have only 17% or 6,389 million cubic metres of water as on May 20, according to a release by the Chief Minister's Officer (CMO).  As far as Marathwada region is concerned, the current stock in all reservoirs is 401 million cubic metres which is a meagre five [...]

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The long-drawn impasse between the government and traders over local body tax (LBT) across most parts of Maharashtra, save Mumbai, came to an end on Monday.      Full News here – Mumbai News, News in Mumbai, Mumbai City News | Cities News – Times of India

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Mumbai: China appears to have found an unlikely ally in the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. The northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, which China has repeatedly tried to claim as it own, is missing from the map… Full News here – The Times of India (Mumbai edition)

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The VHP said that the Education Department of the state had committed a blunder by showing the North Eastern state as a part of the territory of China. "Such kind of mistake will not only aggravate the border tension between India and China, but also weaken the international stand as far as the unity and [...]

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MUMBAI: The state government has finally revised development norms and cleared the decks for the redevelopment of 5,000-odd societies in Mhada colonies. Chief minister Prithviraj Chavan-led urban development department has issued a notification in this regard. Raising stakes for redevelopment, the new norms offer bigger areas for tenants while linking the developers’ incentives and Mhada’s [...]

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Mumbai : Over 50,000 retail and wholesale pharmacists and chemists in Maharashtra Friday joined the all-India strike called by the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists Associations (AIOCDA) in support of various demands, a top official said. Around 7,500 retail and wholesale pharmacists from Mumbai are also taking part in the nationwide agitation involving around [...]

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PUNE: The state government has said that unauthorized constructions built after March 31, 2012 cannot be regularized. Pimpri Chinchwad municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi said that deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar had convened a meeting in Mumbai on Monday to discuss civic problems. During the meeting, principal secretary of urban development department Manukumar Shrivastava said that [...]

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Trading activities in Nagpur, along with other cities like Mumbai, Pune and other places have been affected due to the strike, due to stiff opposition to LBT. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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State government will tell the Bombay high court on Tuesday by when it will conclude its probe into the Azad Maidan riots of last year.      Full News here – Mumbai News, News in Mumbai, Mumbai City News | Cities News – Times of India

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He alleged that handful of people were misleading the small traders on the newly introduced tax. Full News here – dna: Mumbai News

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The accident occurred around 5.30 am when a police vehicle hit a tree on the Washim-Amravati Road, around 200 kms from Nagpur. "The victims belonged to the Amravati ACB (Anti-Corruption Bureau) and had come to Washim for a trap case along with our local ACB. They were bound for home after completing their duties late [...]

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The Bombay high court on Monday rapped the Maharashtra government over its “casual approach” to the problem of malnutrition. A division bench of Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice Amjad Sayed directed the state to frame a policy for appointing IAS officers as project officers in tribal areas.      Full News here – Mumbai News, News [...]

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MUMBAI: The BMC has cracked down on the who’s who of state politics, from deputy chief minister and irrigation minister Ajit Pawar to deputy leader of BJP in the Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde, for making illegal alterations and user conversion in their Worli housing society. The BMC, in a first, has issued notices under the [...]

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