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The Shiv Sena wants to capitalise on Maratha King Shivaji?s killing of Afzal Khan, a knight of Adilshah of Bijapur.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 -- The civic body has passed a proposal demanding penalisation of those who waste drinking water. With the city facing its worst-ever crisis this year, the civic body have woken up to the wastage of water, and suggested stiff penalties for offenders.

The city?s mill owners have six months to give the municipality its share of land from defunct mills that they have sold for private commercial redevelopment since 2001.

?I?ve been with the Taj through its most difficult phase. I want to be with it even after it has passed.?

?It was incredibly quiet. All of Mumbai was held hostage. Otherwise, it?s a very noisy city,? said Alex Chamberlen (39) as he recalled the evening of November 26, 2008, when he was dining at the Oberoi?s famed Kandhahar restaurant.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 -- "The DGP [director general of police] is not above the law." It is with these words that the Supreme Court (SC) of India directed the Vakola police to register a first information report (FIR) against DGP (acting) A.N. Roy on November 16. But the police are yet to act on it.

Mumbai, Nov. 24 -- Closed circuit television cameras guarded him against the police. Key Chhota Shakeel aide, Imran Jhingada, who was gunned down in a police encounter last week along with an accomplice, had installed at least 12 closed-circuit television cameras around his Jogeshwari home to stay a step ahead of the police.

Former Mumbai police chief Hasan Gafoor is in big trouble for alleging that some of his senior colleagues did not respond to the situation during the 26/11 terror attacks.

The Liberhan Commission report is likely to be finally tabled on Tuesday, along with the mandatory Action Taken Report.

If some are good in sports, the others stole the show in academic rigour. Jaya shroff Bhalla and Pranav dixit profile schools ranked 4 to 10 in the HT-C fore West zone schools survey.

There are hands in Tihar that have stolen, burgled and, in many cases, even murdered. On Monday, all these hands and more found themselves lost in the grip of a man who is seven feet and three inches tall and weighs 190 kg.

India must show responsible leadership and go out of its way to act as a pioneer in the fight against climate change since it has begun to affect our lives directly.

New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- Pragati Maidan is bursting at the seams as the 26th India International Trade Fair unwinds. Quite evidently, the 150 acre campus is turning out to be too cramped, especially for hundreds of small vendors. It's a fair outside a fair in many ways.

New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- How far will the city's caretakers go to clean it up for next year's Games? Very far, it seems. This time, their solution for Delhi's garbage problem comes from the land of Nokia - Finland. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has decided to import 67 'underground' dustbins at a cost of Rs 2.18 crore. Each dustbin, therefore, is worth more than Rs 3.

For the first time, two Delhi Police officers will serve on the National Investigation Agency (NIA) ? a federal agency to combat terror in the country.

New Delhi, Nov. 23 -- If carefully looked into, almost half of the mental disorders can be detected during childhood. Experts at the 10th Biennial conference of Indian Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (IACAMH) emphasised upon the need of screening children and adolescents to avoid developing problems during adulthood.

Dengue cases crossed the 1,000-mark in Delhi with 10 fresh cases of the vector-borne disease reported on Monday. Even as the authorities said they expected a downward trend over the next few days, the numbers seem to be slowly growing.

Eleven months ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Delhi government ?the host city ? is short of funds to complete various projects linked to the event.

Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Monday condemned the lathicharge and use of teargas shells on agitated students by police on Sunday.

Concerned after a spate of "technical faults" grounded few of its new trains, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) on Monday held a closed-door meeting with top officials of the Germany-based train manufacturers Bombardier Transportation.