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Reality check
This year's budget is a blessing in disguise for small businesses and start-ups in the country. The limit turnover for the purpose
of presumptive taxation and audit has been increased. Here are the details in a nutshell...
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Features
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Legend and Myths
Come Akshaya Tritiya and one goes into a flurry, hastening or delaying plans and purchases to coincide with one of the most auspicious days in the Hindu calendar. But why is this day so special? What lies behind the assurance that anything begun on this day will bring everlasting prosperity? Let’s turn the clock back into the Vedic ages and unearth the legends behind Akshaya Tritiya......
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Profiles
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Makai makkhan maar ke!
The American corn is roasted on a coal sigdi and then the corn is scraped off and neatly placed on a piece of silver paper foil on a newspaper. Lots of molten Amul butter (the slabs are stocked so we’re sure of the brand), lemon juice and black salt is mixed with the corn grains. Simple and sweet...err...salty....
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Watch out
Pebble Bay chef has designed a special Women's Day menu which includes delicious and mouth watering dishes such as Boneless Lobster Kadipatta, Stuffed King Prawns, Fish Biscuit Kebab and Chicken Ghee Roast....
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Communities
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Tips to improve your house’s energy
Have you ever visited a house and felt distinctly uncomfortable in it, and wanted to run away at the first available instance? And conversely, have you been to houses, which are warm and inviting, where you just don’t feel like leaving the place? Where, you feel like ‘home’? ...
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Citizen Forum
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Hot mail
I would like to send a photograph of the train indicator at Kalyan Station near the exit from platform no 1 on Kalyan West side.These indicators have been ‘welcoming’ commuters for the past one year without doing any other service. ...
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Reviews
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Letters
This is with respect to your article in the Times of South Mumbai, dated March 12, titled Home improvement at ease. My friend, too, is facing resistance from her landlord with respect to getting their building repaired.
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Property
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Best property deals this Diwali
Diwali is generally that time of the year when people prefer to buy property and developers on the other hand roll out festive offers to attract them. So even this time of the year, developers are offering festive deals ranging from freebies to equated monthly installments (EMI) subvention. ...
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Entertainment
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Pastry Queen: Ruchika Vyas, 25
“I love chocolates and have always dreamt of opening my own chocolaterie some day. This desire for chocolates combined with the dream of owning a chocolate shop led to the origin of The Chocklit Shoppe,” smiles Vyas, who currently runs the business from her residence....
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Shopping
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Gold still the best buy during the festive season
With its high adornment value and consistent return on investments, gold continues to maintain its leadership position as India’s favourite metal. As per the latest data released by World Gold Council, in the period of January- August 2009, gold has yielded an average return of 21.05 per cent as compared to same period last year....
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Poking all way
The youth of Mumbai have a new favourite past time. Across the city, poker parties and poker nights are in vogue. The most popular form of poker is the Texas Hold’Em style, made famous most recently by the 2006 James Bond movie Casino Royale. The advent of online poker has attracted millions...
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Campus Watch
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English Below Medium
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) may have given standing instructions that all paper work will be written in Marathi, but on the other hand, with equal vigour, the civic body is planning to open more English medium schools across the city. ...
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