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The heat is on. Again.

City’s weather seesaws yet again, with the mercury rising to 34 degree Celsius. Minimum temperatures will be 19 degree Celsius.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Don’t expect cool and pleasant mornings of last week to continue into this one. In yet another turnaround, temperatures have risen from yesterday and the city is expected to clock in a maximum temperature of 34 degree Celsius, while minimum temperatures will be in the 18 to 19 degree Celsius range.

As per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Mumbai, this forecast is applicable for the next 48 hours. However, accuweather.com, one of the world’s premier and most reliable weather monitoring systems, shows this forecast for the entire week, apart from overcast skies. However, as per graphs for Mumbai on the accuweather.com site, maximum temperatures will dip next week to hover at 32 degree Celsius, while minimum temperatures will remain largely unchanged.

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Maximum AADHAR enrollments in Mumbai

Most enrollments have happened in 31 to 45 years age group. Enrollment peaked twice this year, was lowest in December.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Mumbai leads the state of Maharashtra in the numbers of people enrolling for the AADHAAR cards, as per data published by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) figures compiled up to December 15, 2012. Mumbai has seen 62,45,862 enrollments thus far.

Up to December 15, Mumbai has had 62,45,862 enrollments in all. This number accounts for Mumbai Suburban, Mumbai City and Navi Mumbai. However, figures for Mumbai City are low; as per UIDAI figures, there have been only 43,299 enrollments in Mumbai City.

In the Mumbai Suburban zone, Kurla has the maximum numbers of enrollments at 1,26,877, while Borivali has had only 19,626 ernollments.

The most numbers of enrollments come from the 31 to 45 years age group, with second largest numbers coming from the 16 to 30 years age group. More males than females have registered for the UID cards in Mumbai. Enrollments peaked during March and November this year.

Elsewhere, Thane follows Mumbai in the total number of enrollments, with Thane’s figure pegged at 35,50,601.

See the statistics for Mumbai and Maharashtra here.

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Tickets still available for Ind-Eng T20 match

The India-England T20 match is scheduled for December 22. The State Government has allowed the MCA to sell tickets online.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

The Maharashtra State Government decided on December 13, after a request from the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), that tickets for the T20 match between India and England on Saturday, December 22, would be allowed online, provided certain conditions were followed. Tickets for the match are currently being sold through bookmyshow.com. The match is to be held at 7 pm.

While tickets in Block T L1, U L1 and V L1 in the Sachin Tendulkar stand have been sold out, as have tickets in the I L3, M L2, L L2, W L1, X L1, Y L1 (tickets priced at Rs 1,500 each) and L L1, K L1 and J L1 (tickets priced at Rs 300 each) from the North and Sunil Gavaskar stands have also been sold out. As per the booking site, tickets are still up for grabs in the Grand Stand, Block L4 (Rs 7,500) and in the Gavaskar Stand A L2, B L2, C L2, D L2, E L2 and F L2. Each person will get a maximum of two tickets only.

Online booking okay, but with riders

If you’re buying tickets online, remember these Government stipulations on online sale of tickets and check the ticket you purchase for these:

– The tickets must be printed in rolls serialised from A to Z, and starting from the number 1.

– All those booking tickets online must be notified of the ticket sale confirmation before the match.

– Each ticket must bear a unique bar code that will serve as a security check while entering Wankhede Stadium and passing through a metal detector.

– You are not allowed to make multiple purchases of tickets at different times. Even if you do, you will be given a maximum of two tickets at the venue on showing valid proofs.

(Picture courtesy cricket.yahoo.com. File picture, used for representational purpose only)

 

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Join the Army. Or at least, go cheer

Indian Army concludes ‘Vijay Diwas’ celebrations at Shivaji Park today. The three-day event commemorated Indian Army’s 1971 win over Pakistan.

If you’re looking for some inspiration and a big dose of patriotism, head to Shivaji Park today. At 11 am this morning, the Governor of Maharashtra, K Sankaranarayan, will inaugurate the Army Mela at Shivaji Park. The Mela is part of the Indian Army’s ‘Vijay Diwas’ celebration to commemorate India’s military victory over Pakistan in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. Around 1,500 Army personnel from across the State will participate in the Mela.

Lt General AK Singh, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, Major-General Rajesh Bawa, General Officer commanding, Mumbai Sub area and other eminent persons will be there at the Mela, too.

The Mela showcases the Army’s equipment and has leaflets and brochures to exhort the youth to join the Indian Army. Once you’ve had your fill of the Mela, you can head to the Gateway of India, Chowpatty and Radium Mall where military bands will be displayed. Plus, there’s going to be a motorcycle display, sky-diving, mallakhamb and aero-modelling display by NCC Cadets.

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Shiv Sena gives in on memorial issue

The Chief Minister didn’t relent. The BMC chief remained firm. Other parties attacked the idea. Shiv Sena now gives in.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

It started as a raucous free-for-all, even before the ashes of the late Bal Thackeray could be immersed in the ocean and a reasonable period of time could elapse after his death, for a controversy using his name to begin and burn harder by the day. But a controversy did erupt, about making the makeshift memorial dedicated to Thackeray a permanent site, and as the days passed, the Shiv Sena’s stubborn demands began to be viewed with annoyance.

Now, after the State Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) chief Sitaram Kunte remained firm on their stand that the makeshift memorial would have to be removed – the CM even refused to grant permission for a permanent memorial at Shivaji Park citing ‘legal issues’ – the Shiv Sena has reluctantly agreed to dismantle the makeshift memorial.

Replying to the December 3 notice that Kunte had sent to Sena MP Sanjay Raut and mayor Sunil Prabhu, asking them to remove the temporary structure at the earliest, Raut has now agreed that the Shiv Sena will remove the structure and level the ground over which it stands before handing it over to the Government.

This comes days after hundreds of Shiv Sainiks arrived at the spot to ‘guard’ the memorial from BMC action, in day-and-night shifts. The party had previously sworn to guard the memorial come what may, and that if the BMC tried to forcibly remove the memorial, Sena MP Sanjay Raut had said, “there could be law and order problems in the city.”

Earlier this week, as news of BMC’s vans being readied at their Worli garage to arrive at Shivaji Park did the rounds, six vans were vandalised by Sainiks. The BMC chief then called for the vandals to be suitably penalised, while holding firm on the notice sent to the Sena on removing the memorial.

 

 

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A cop, a middleman and Rs 27 lakh of bogus passes

Man arrested from Colaba while selling fake Sea Link passes, airport pay and park receipts and BMC parking rate cards.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Anything can be counterfeited and sold in this city, and it often is. Take the case of SS Printers, Fort, which had been steadily doing good business making and selling fake passes and challans for important destinations in the city, for a while now. They even had a person go out and do the selling of the counterfeit material.

But first, the case.

On December 10, Police Sub Inspector Laxmikant Salunkhe, attached to the Property Cell of the Mumbai Police and who had received a confirmed tip-off that a man would be selling bogus passes and challans in the Taj Mahal Hotel area, arrived on the spot as a potential customer. After scouting around the area for a few minutes, he found a man, Jagdamba Prasad Mishra (40), standing with some truly astonishing wares to sell.

Laxmikant ascertained that Jagdamba had one-day return journey passes of the Rajiv Gandhi Sea Link, parking passes for the international and domestic airports bearing the GVK logo, parking receipts at higher rates and bearing the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) logo. The cop then purchased two passes and went back to the Colaba police station to lodge a formal police complaint.

Jagdamba Prasad was arrested the next day. In his possession were found, apart from the 11,400 Sea Link passes and 9,702 pay and park receipts meant for the airports, 14 pay and park rate card books bearing the MCGM logo, 100 toll challans for Aarey Dairy road and 200 Thane-Bhivandi bypass toll challans bearing the Government of India logo.

This material amounted to a total of Rs 27,83,650.

Jagdamba Prasad then led the cops to SS Printers, which was also raided the same day. More material was recovered from there as well.

A tip to all citizens: all passes, tolls and parking receipts are issued at the particular spot, such as the Sea Link or the airport, and are not to be sold outside these premises.

(Picture used for representational purpose only)

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