Today will be just another day at work for Anita Kudtarkar. But the 50-year-old auto driver from Vasai is aware that she has stormed a male bastion—she is probably the first and only woman autorickshaw driver in the entire Mumbai metropolitan region.
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Maharashtra village honours cop with ‘Gen. Dyer Award’!
Over 5,000 villagers from around Maharashtra’s Vasai town Sunday gathered to witness a solemn ceremony — presentation of the ‘General Reginald Dyer Award’ to Thane Deputy Superintendent of Police Deepak Devraj.
“The award was to acknowledge Deepak Devraj’s brutality against the people of Vasai, women, children, tribals, poor villagers and others who were peacefully protesting in Gandhian traditions,” Shramjeevi Kamgar Sanghatna (SKS) vice-president Sanjay Shirodkar told IANS.
Student kills self for failing in exams
Apparently frustrated with his having failed in his examination, a mechanical engineering student allegedly committed suicide at his residence in suburban Borivali, the police said on Friday.
Vivek Pandit shifted to hospital, buses stoned
Tension prevailed in the Vasai Taluka here on Friday when public transport was stoned even as police had to resort to lathi-charge to quell an agitated mob - all supporters of social activist Vivek Pandit, after the Independent MLA, who was on an indefinite hunger strike, was shifted to a hospital.
Vasai civic officials get 2 years in jail
Sending out an unmistakably strong message to government officials who do not implement anti-pollution norms, a Thane court has sentenced four officials of the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) to two years’ simple imprisonment for failing to control pollutants streaming into the Vasai creek.