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Festive spirit grips Mumbai ahead of the Xmas season as city groups plan cultural festival at Tata Theatre on Saturday.

Mumbaikars would now not have to pay more for packaged beverages. Restaurant owners have been directed to bill the customers in accordance with the printed MRP.

Mumbaikars get a whiff of fresh air as the chill took a backseat in the city; pollution levels came down after a marginal rise was observed in the temperature.

Maharashtra's excise department tightened the noose around illicit liquor smuggling.

Week has not started on a positive-note for Mumbai with news of accidents and deaths taking centre stage.

Relief is not in sight for people struggling with demonetization woes, even after a month.

Crawford market traders are despondent over business vanishing due to cash crunch.

Ups and downs continue for the Maharshtra state government as they decided to extend the railway network till Murbad; however, the government also controversially hinted at withdrawing ambulance services at suburban railway stations in Mumbai.

The state government will boost cashless transactions in rural areas via biometric ration cards and PoS machines.

Congress runs out of funds for construction of building and is struggling to raise any more.

Thousands of students across Mumbai University colleges will now have free Wi-Fi on campus.

Aditi Laddha from IIT-Bombay landed the top offer during campus placements, becoming the first girl from the institute to get a US job.

Demonetization has resulted in massive gains for LIC; it sold its most expensive policy of Rs.50 crore for the first time.

In the wake of demonetization, BEST will adopt 'cashless' modes of payment and encourage millions of its commuters to go cashless.

State government and the BMC were pulled up by the Bombay High Court for dragging their feet on implementing court orders.

The Haji Ali dargah of Mumbai is in the news again.

BJP won big in the municipal council polls, winning 51 out of 147 municipal councils.

Mumbai is on its way to becoming a world class city with better infrastructure.

Mumbai is on its way to get a facelift with BMC's decision to come up with seven more swimming pools in the city.

State government is ticking all the right boxes ahead of civic polls.

Demonetization woes continue to haunt people as farmers are throwing produce on streets.

No one in the country has been left untouched in the season of demonetization.

Teachers have written to state election commissioner to exempt them from poll-duties during BMC elections.

IIT-Bombay will provide a robot to the forest-department to track movements of leopards and other animals.

Mumbai airport is experiencing delayed arrivals and departures of late night domestic flights.

High court asked the Enforcement Directorate to file status report on NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal's money laundering case.

Government is feeling demonetization blues as much as everyone else in the country.

A significant number of people do not report crimes as they do not have time, as has been revealed in a survey.

Rahul Gandhi is likely to appear in Bhiwandi court in a defamation case filed against him by an RSS worker.

Card swipe machines added to the misery of cashless citizens when servers crashed and forced people to resort to cash payments.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray launched a scathing attack on PM Modi for demonetization; he said it harassed the general public and didn't target cause of black money.

Bookmakers stalled all their operations on Wednesday due to lack of available cash, after PM Modi's announcement on currency ban.

The Union Information and Broadcasting ministry banned 'Care World' TV channel for 7 days for showing objectionable content.

20,000 bikers hit the road to demand reservation for Martha community in education and Government jobs.

BMC inaugurated Kalina pond, a three-century-old pond, which was revived after two decades of struggle by residents of Kolovary village.

Pilot of a private chopper was grounded by DGCA, for getting the chopper's engine fixed by a car mechanics.

Solar panels, with a capacity of 100 kilowatt, will be installed at railway building behind the heritage CST structure.

Passengers in suburban trains in Mumbai along with some long distance premium trains, will get free Wi-Fi by 2018.

Western Railways have proposed a hike in fares in suburban railways to a maximum of 47% to recover the operational costs.

MPCB tested 26 firecrackers for noise levels and concluded they were within permissible limits of 125 db and hence didn't need to be banned.