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Mumbai acid attack victim critical after suffering lung collapse in hospital

May 23, 2013

Twenty days after she sustained severe injuries and lost an eye in an acid attack, Bombay hospital doctors said that Preeti Rathi's right lung has collapsed, making her condition 'very critical'. #NewsTracker #Mumbai #Railway Police #Acid attack #lung collapse #Bandra terminus #Preeti Rathi #Bandra acid attack #Bombay Hospital #Masina hospital
Mumbai: Man allegedly driven out of house allowed entry after six years

May 21, 2013

The Bombay High Court has allowed a man to stay in his own two-bedroom house, six years after he was allegedly driven out by his wife and her relatives and forced to stay in a hotel in Mumbai. #World #India #Mumbai #Bombay High Court #Bandra #Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act
Mumbai cop gets suspended for protecting racing supercar owners

Apr 10, 2013

Instead of booking the owners of the cars, Sub-inspector Anant Raorane of Worli police station had booked the drivers of a Lamborghini, owned by Siddharth Mandavi, and a Ferrari owned by Johane Postale. #Ferrari #GoodReads #Bandra-Worli Sea Link #Lamborghini #Worli sea face

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How a bad decision in 1970 caused Mumbai's deaths today

Apr 19, 2012

The causes for the two deaths on the Central Railway on Thursday have their roots in the refusal of the Maharashtra Government to shift its own headquarters to Navi Mumbai in the 1970's. #ConnectTheDots #Bandra Kurla Complex #Navi Mumbai #Maharashtra government #Mumbai Suburban Railway #MMR Development Authority #Central Line
Have Bandra's xenophobes forgotten their own history?

Mar 09, 2012

Cultural mixing, despite its Catholic image, has always been characteristic of Bandra. Now some Catholics in the queen of Mumbai's suburbs are beginning to resent that very fact. #InThisCorner #Bandra #Castella de Aguada #St. Andrew's Church #catholics
MMRDAs very own Rs 6.5-crore cycle track

May 18, 2011

The cycle track around the Bandra Kurla Complex is perhaps a good example where public money is spent without any foresight causing unnecessary dent to the exchequer. #ThatsJustWrong #Bandra Kurla Complex #Cycle track

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Bandra acid attack victim Preeti Rathi on ventilator

2013-05-23 09:12:00

The condition of Preeti Rathi, the young New Delhi woman targeted in an acid attack May 2 on the day she arrived here to take up a nurse’s job, is deteriorating with the acid eating into her insides, her distraught family said on Thursday. Acid was flung #New Delhi #Amar Singh (politician) #Central Bureau of Investigation
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Bandra acid attack: Victim’s family alleges treatment mismanaged by Masina Hospital

2013-05-21 05:17:00

The family of Bandra acid attack victim Preeti Rathi have alleged that the Masina Hospital mismanaged her treatment leading to water accumulation in the chest. She was recently shifted to Bombay Hospital and media reports claimed that the reason for this #Ashok Gupta
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Bandra to get additional skywalk, new escalator

2013-05-11 19:38:00

Is the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) going back on its word? After publicly announcing that it won’t be constructing any new skywalks, as very few people were using them, the planning authority has floated bids to extend the Ba #Mumbai

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