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Broken furniture, torn Braille scripts, books and clothes strewn across corridors – when teachers of Little Flower Convent school for the blind and deaf returned to the campus, it wasn’t the students’ chorus that greeted them but a stillness and the sight of devastation caused by the flood.

At the hospital till 4.30pm, a choir concert at 5.30pm, back at his clinic at 9.30pm. It is that time of the year when the schedule is chock-a-block with Christmas choir programmes and carol rounds for Bernard Ebenezer Cyrus, but he is not complaining. He is one of many such people passionate about music and the idea of spreading the Yuletide spirit.

Starting today, and over the next five Sundays, TOI interviews the recipients of Nagpur Heroes award. Read how they plan to further their cause and work towards a better city

In a late-night development on Saturday, Delhi Commission for Women moved a plea against the release of the juvenile accused in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case, which the Supreme Court agreed to hear on Monday.

A query through an RTI application has revealed that the state government has not utilized a single paisa out of Rs 17.5 crore in 2015-16 earmarked for minority area development scheme by the state minority development department. The funds are aimed at improving infrastructure in minority-dominated villages. Many community leaders said they are shocked but not surprised as the BJP-Sena government is committed to its “anti-minority” agenda and following it.

A day after the PWD led by senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil gave a clean chit to controversial NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal, the Devendra Fadnavis government on Saturday distanced itself from the crucial report saying it does not agree with it.

MNS workers on Saturday protested against CM Devendra Fadnavis’s alleged U-turn on a Rs 6500 special package for the smart city of Kalyan-Dombivli.

Investigators probing the double murders of artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer, Haresh Bhambhani, have recovered a diamond ring that the assailants had robbed from her. A police inspector disclosed this development while producing three of the accused before a Borivali magistrate court on Saturday. The trio – Azad Rajbhar, Pradeep Rajbhar and Vijay Rajbhar – was remanded to police custody till December 22. The police have also recovered a Honda City car belonging to Bhambhani that had disappeared since the murders. Читать дальше...

A group of 50 Shia-Bohra pilgrims scheduled to travel to Iran on December 22 to visit holy shrines there have been inconvenienced at the last minute as Iran Air increased the roundtrip (Mumbai-Tehran-Mumbai) fare from Rs 19500 per passenger to Rs 20500 plus taxes.

Chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar presented chief minister’s police (gold) medal to three police personnel including crime branch superintendent of police (SP) Karthik Kashyap, South Goa SP Shekhar Prabhudessai and constable Atchut Desai.

The visit to Guards Regimental Centre, Kamptee, on Saturday morning provided NFK Club members a peek into the life of guardsmen and the rigorous training they go through

Mining Should Start As Soon As Possible, Says Parsekar

The alleged molestation of a girl student in a South Goa-based school has pitted the parents against the school management, alleging that the school is sidelining the parents teachers association (PTA) while taking crucial decisions over the matter.

Panaji police on Saturday arrested two workers of the Goa Su-Raj party for displaying black cloths during the singing of the national anthem at the Liberation Day function in Panaji. Police said the duo, called Zico and Ashburn, had been protesting the government’s failure to accord Goa special status.

MUMBAI: A 21-year-old biker, Sakib Momin died, while pillion rider Noman Shaikh was seriously injured when a speeding dumper lost control and rammed into their bike on the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd Link Road on Thursday.

THANE: The bail plea of the four corporators arrested in the builder Suraj Parmar suicide case was rejected by the district sessions court after a three-hour long argument on Saturday.

MUMBAI: After two consecutive chilly days, minimum temperature rose to 17.4 C on Saturday.

The Uttar Pradesh government is likely to introduce an “open book system” for students taking standard 10 and 12 examinations of the UP Board from the next academic session

The Uttar Pradesh government is likely to introduce an “open book system” for students taking standard 10 and 12 examinations of the UP Board from the next academic session

Be ready to pay Rs 5,000 for throwing garbage in open, if caught by sanitary inspector on rounds. The Lucknow Municipal Corporation has decided to increase fine on people throwing garbage in open from existing Rs 200- 500 to Rs 5,000 with effect from January. The rule will be put in place once the solid waste treatment plant starts working in full capacity by January-end.

The electricity supply to three government buildings was disconnected on Saturday for collectively owing more than Rs 36 lakh in arrears to Lucknow Electricity Supply Administration.

The Uttar Pradesh Raj Bhawan was not a party in the PIL filed in the Supreme Court on Saturday that led to the stay on swearing-in of the new Lokayukta, but it did play a crucial role at a critical juncture.

Freedom fighter and Konkani writer Naguesh Karmali shares his fascinating journey with STOI

It’s not curtains, yet, on the Lokayukta story in Uttar Pradesh. Even as the state was starting to recover from the long-drawn and unsavoury controversy over the appointment of the new lokayukta, the Supreme Court’s order staying the swearing-in has once again put the appointment on hold until January 4, when the matter will be heard again.

In yet another attempt to outshine the ‘Make in India’ concept of NDA government at the Centre, the Samajwadi Party government in UP is all geared to come up with a set of new initiatives for promotion of medium and small-scale industries in the state.