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Mumbai News Live Updates: Water tank supply halted in Mumbai over MWTA’s dispute with BMC
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Mumbai News Live Updates: Water tank supply halted in Mumbai over MWTA’s dispute with BMC

The guidelines also limit the number of tankers that can fill water from a well to a single tanker. (Representational Image/File)Mumbai News Today Live Updates: The Mumbai Water Tanker Association (MWTA) on Thursday decided to suspend the water supply to Mumbai indefinitely to protest amid a dispute with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over their notices to the owners of private wells which supply water to the tankers. The MWTA owns over 1800 water tankers that can store up to 500-20,000 litres. The association supplies around 350 MLD water to different parts of the city, including the upscale south Mumbai. Amid the dispute with BMC, the water tanker body has taken an “indefinite break” and suspended their operations for an indefinite period. Bombay HC rejects plea on Kunal Ka...
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Kunal Kamra approaches Bombay HC seeking quashing of FIR over ‘gaddar’ jibe
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Kunal Kamra approaches Bombay HC seeking quashing of FIR over ‘gaddar’ jibe

Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra on Saturday approached the Bombay High Court with a plea against FIR registered by Mumbai Police for cracking an allegedly objectionable joke on Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde during a stand-up comedy show. Kamra, as per HC website, filed a plea on April 5 seeking quashing of FIR, claiming that the action was violative of his fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 19 (1) (a) (right to freedom of speech and expression), 19 (1) (g) (right to practice any profession and business) and 21 (right to life and personal liberty) under Constitution. As per case status on HC website, the matter is listed for hearing before a bench of Justices Sarang V Kotwal and Shriram M Modak on April 21. Story continues below this ad He did not appear befor...
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Shinde remarks row: Kunal Kamra fails to show up before Mumbai police for third time in a row
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Shinde remarks row: Kunal Kamra fails to show up before Mumbai police for third time in a row

Stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra failed to appear before the Mumbai Police on Saturday in a case filed against him for allegedly calling Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde a “traitor.” This is the third time that Kamra has skipped the police summons, an official said. Kamra secured an interim anticipatory bail in the matter till April 7 from Madras High Court but was expected to join the inquiry earlier this week. As he did not show up, the Khar police served a third summons to him asking him to join the probe by April 5. Story continues below this ad Kamra shot a video lampooning Shinde over the split in the Shiv Sena, and party workers later ransacked the studio and the hotel in which it is located on the night of March 23. Three FIRs registered against the com...
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Column | Missing: India’s comic sense
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Column | Missing: India’s comic sense

In 2021, I watched the comedian Varun Grover perform in New Delhi. As per usual, he had the audience in the palm of his hand. About 10 minutes in, Grover said (in Hindi), “Please understand the chronology. First, I tell the joke, then you laugh and finally, I go to jail.” The laughter was muted, not because people didn’t understand it, but because they understood it a little too well. Varun Grover The tension in the room was because back then, the comedian Munawar Faruqui’s legal troubles were hogging the headlines. Across January and February, he ended up spending over a month in jail for allegedly making offensive jokes about Hindu deities, a charge for which not a shred of evidence was ever produced. ...
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