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At around 8pm on Monday night Rukmini Meena tried speaking with her husband CRPF assistant commandant BL Meena over the phone, but all she could hear amidst static disturbance was "I am in an operation, will talk later". A few hours after she tucked in her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Rhia (Munni) to bed at her residence in Jhunjhunu, her husband embraced martyrdom. He died with 75 of his men from the battalion in a cold blooded Naxalite ambush in the remote jungles of Dantewada di…

Mumbai

April 8, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

Despite water shortage, Mumbai consumes beyond BMC limit

While a considerable portion of Mumbai suffered acute water cuts, a section consumed water in excess of the limit (150 litre per person per day, or lppd) set by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the financial year gone by.Even as the BMC decreased supply by 15% during the year’s second half to compensate for deficient rains, the water bill for April 2009 to March 2010 (Rs915 crore) was Rs10 crore more than the year before (Rs905 crore)."This means that while the t…

Mumbai

April 8, 2010 Worldsnap Staff

Kavita Jadhav banks on her husband’s good work

With the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) elections drawing close, several candidates in the fray may be getting nerves, but Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate from ward no 87 Kavita Bharat Jadhav is one optimistic woman, banking on her husband’s performance as a corporator from the area to work the magic for her. Bharat Jadhav’s strong work in the ward during the last civic term is standing Kavita in good stead. "Contesting elections may be new for me, but soc…

Bangalore