Ghatkopar East

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  Ghatkopar MLA's Assets Up 575%, Now He's Maharashtra's Richest Candidate

  Around 8000 candidates have filed nominations for the assembly elections in Maharashtra. The wealthiest of them is the BJP's Parag Shah - the sitting MLA from Ghatkopar East -- whose current worth is is Rs 3383.06 crore.

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  Mumbai Police Summons Chief Municipal Officer In Hoarding Collapse Case

  The Mumbai Crime Branch has summoned Gajanan Bellale, the chief BMC officer of the area of Ghatkopar East, in connection with the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse in Maharashtra.

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  4 Rescued After Portion Of 3-Storey Building Collapses In Mumbai

  Four people have been safely rescued and two people are still trapped inside a portion of a 3-storey building collapsed in Rajawadi Colony, Ghatkopar (East), said an official on Sunday.

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  Fire At 10-Storey Building In Mumbai's Ghatkopar Area, 20 Rescued

  After a fire broke out at a 12-storey building on its fifth floor in suburban Ghatkopar (East) in Mumbai today, 20 people were rescued.

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  Mumbai BJP Candidate Parag Shah's Car Vandalised By MLA's Supporters

  BJP candidate from Ghatkopar east, Parag Shah's car was allegedly vandalised by supporters of six-term sitting BJP MLA Prakash Mehta, who was denied a ticket to contest the upcoming Maharashtra polls.

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  'Cut My Hands But Pull Me Out,' Mumbai Building Collapse Survivor Said

  When rescuers finally managed to reach 50-year-old Pragya Jadeja trapped underneath the rubble of a four-storey building that collapsed in east Mumbai's Ghatkopar on Tuesday, her desperation peaked into a hopeless cry: "Please cut my hands but pull me out of the debris."

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  Thief Fed 48 Bananas To Excrete Stolen Gold Chain

  The Mumbai police force-fed four dozen bananas to a chain-snatcher to recover a stolen gold chain he had swallowed to escape public wrath, an officer said in Mumbai on Saturday.

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  HDIL to Invest Rs 150 Crore on Housing Project in Mumbai

  Realty firm Housing Development and Infrastructure Ltd (HDIL) will invest about Rs 150 crore for the first phase of its upcoming affordable housing project at Virar in Mumbai.

• Builder's wife killed in daytime murder-robbery

  In a daytime murder-robbery that has left Ghatkopar residents shocked, the wife of a well-known city-based builder was killed in her home in Ghatkopar (East) on Monday. The accused, yet to be identified, slit her throat with a kitchen knife, cops said. Chetna, 51, wife of Jayant Ajmera of Ajmera builders, was alone at the time of the incident. Her ...

• No money to pay fine? Sweep the street clean

  'Clean up after yourself.' More and more, this is the dictum being strictly enforced by BMC clean-up marshals who are tired of careless citizens littering the city streets that they struggle to keep clean. When two offenders were nabbed in the act of spitting near the premises of the Ghatkopar (East) station, they were given two options: pay up or ...

• At 120, Mumbai's oldest granny makes first visit to hospital

  There's a first time for everything, even if you're 120 years old. Anushuya Owal, who is receiving treatment for fever at the Rajawadi Hospital, Ghatkopar (East), may well be the oldest citizen of Mumbai. Except for a mild fever, she seems miraculously healthy for her advanced years. Amazingly this is her very first visit to a hospital.

• Fined for littering, they thrashed BMC marshals

  Lack of civic sense and mob justice reared its ugly head in the city yesterday. Three clean-up marshals affiliated to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were mercilessly thrashed for doing their job. The victims -- Sameer Khan, Kiran Jaffer and Mohsin Khan -- had spotted two people spitting gutkha and littering the street with the wrapper...