Dear Sir/Madam,

Have we forgotten the meaning of secularism? For the past three years on Republic Day, my "so called" cosmopolitan housing society, which consists of approximately 250 flats, organises a maha puja. This puja is usually organised by a self-appointed ad-hoc

A traffic constable rushes to help a scooter rider, who was hit by a Santro car at the Metro Cinema junction on Tuesday PHOTO: Amit Haralkar

Nov. 3: The traffic mayhem on Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marg in front of Sion Hospital is all set to end. The last girder on the under-construction flyover was attached on Monday night and it would be opened for motorists by the end of this month. People hope that this development will end traffic woes in the area that people have been putting up with for over a year and a half.

Nov. 3: A check-up conducted for the 26/11 terror attack patients at the JJ hospital revealed that the only patient to have suffered a major disability — above 50 per cent — was an eyewitness of the Vile Parle blast, in which a taxi was ripped apart from the impact of the bomb the terrorists had planted in it.

Oct. 6: A day after the Maharashtra government announced Rs 2,000 per hectare aid for farmers affected by the unprecedented rainfall in the first week of October, the Bharatiya Janata Party demanded that the aid amount should be increased to Rs 5,000 per hectare for annual crops.

Nov. 3: Hit by paucity of land to construct new affordable residential buildings, the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority is mulling over a proposal to buy private land in different areas of the state to build affordable houses. The proposal would be sent to the new state government as and when it would be formed.

Nov. 3: The tussle between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party delaying government formation is not new for Maharashtra.

This is the third consecutive time the Democratic Front alliance has got the people's mandate to form the government. Both the parties had also formed coalition governments in 1999 and 2004 after hard bargaining for portfolios for 12 and 15 days respectively.