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Lord Ganesh gets grand send-off across Maharashtra

7:42 pm September 12, 2019

Mumbai/Pune: Devotees bid a grand farewell to their beloved Lord Ganesh as the immersion of idols began across Maharashtra on Thursday, marking the end of the 10-day-long mega festival. The immersion processions of idols of various mandals in Mumbai, which witnesses maximum festive grandeur, and Pune, the state’s cultural capital which hosts one of the […]

Ali Fazal to star alongside Gal Gadot in ‘Death on the Nile’

7:21 am September 12, 2019

Mumbai: Actor Ali Fazal is set to share screen space with “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie’s “Death on the Nile”. The film is a follow-up to the studio’s 2017 blockbuster “Murder on the Orient Express”, also an adaptation of Christie’s novel of the same name. Kenneth […]

Churchgate-Virar AC local to operate daily from Saturday

7:17 pm September 11, 2019

Mumbai: The AC local service between Churchgate and Virar, which currently runs five days per week, will operate daily from September 14 on public demand, a Western Railway (WR) official said on Wednesday. The air-conditioned train used to make six trips per day between Monday and Friday when it was launched on December 25, 2017. […]

No water, no immersion of Ganesh idols in Latur

7:05 pm September 11, 2019

Mumbai: Over 10,000 Ganesh idols at Latur in Marathwada region won’t be immersed on the ‘visarjan’ day this year due to acute water shortage in the town, local officials said. A senior official said there is “not even a drop of water” in the usual six spots in Latur where the Ganesh idols, both public […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

23 migrants from Sindh-Punjab in Pak given citizenship

9:19 pm September 10, 2019

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government issued certificates of citizenship to 23 people originally hailing from Pakistan, a state government release informed. It said these people had migrated to India several years ago and were living here on long-term visa. “They were born in Pakistan’s Punjab and Sindh provinces and had migrated to India much after Partition. […]