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Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.

Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.  The site will be updated regularly with selected maps in chronological order.

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Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.  The site sill be updated regularly with a selection of new maps, accompanied by captions, in chronological order.

Click here for more information.

Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.  The site sill be updated regularly with a selection of new maps, accompanied by captions, in chronological order.

Click here for more information.

Featuring historic maps from the Library's collections, "Places in History" documents battles and campaigns of the Civil War, as well as other historical events, by examining maps and their historical context.   The site sill be updated regularly with a selection of new maps, accompanied by captions, following the course of the Civil War in chronological order.

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With the Congress announcing a second candidate, contest is likely for nine seats of Maharashtra legislative council for which chief minister Uddhav Thackeray is among those in the fray.

The postal department will release a special cover dedicated to the migrant workers of Mumbai in the Bicentennial Hall of General Post Office (GPO), Fort, May 13. In fact five migrants from different sectors of the labour force will unveil the tribute.

A 27-year-old man attacked three policemen with a chopper near Marine Drive early on Saturday.Karan Pradip Nayar, a resident of Silver Oaks Estate near Breach Candy, was arrested.

After taking charge as municipal commissioner amid the Covid-19 pandemic, IAS officer Iqbal Singh Chahal on Saturday hit the ground, visiting BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central and later proceeding to Dharavi, where he took stock of the increasing patients in Asia's largest slum pocket.

Staring at a requirement of at least 1,200 critical-care beds in the city in the next dozen days, the BMC is racing against time to ramp up its strength in the tertiary and peripheral hospitals. From the current count of nearly 500 ICU and 3,000 oxygen-support beds, the plan is to increase the numbers to between 4,700 and 5,000.

The proposal to allow free travel by ST buses was cleared by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday. When asked about the delay, transport minister Anil Parab said, "There were some concerns raised by districts in green zone about outbound migrants from red zone areas.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

Many people trapped after a ground-plus-two-storey chawl structure collapsed at Dipjyoti Chawl of Lalji Pada in Kandivali West early on Sunday.

(This story originally appeared in MumbaiMirror on May 10, 2020)

Fed up of waiting to be accommodated on trains or buses for their home states, a fresh sea of migrant labourers took to the Eastern Express Highway (EEH) on Saturday in a bid to cover the arduous journey on foot. Some labourers said they had no roof over their heads in Mumbai and would sometimes go to bed on the pavement on an empty stomach. The groups comprised daily wagers, masons, carpenters and restaurant staffers.

In a rare finding, an Indian grey wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) was documented for the first time in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Chamarajanagara district. The wild animal was documented by Sanjay Gubbi of Nature Conservation Foundation, and his team, while camera trapping for studying leopards.

South Western Railway, along with the state government, is likely to operate the first train to West Bengal to ferry migrant workers on Sunday.

If you thought Zoom meetings only mean business and living under lockdown means missing out on all the fun, meet some Bengalureans who are making the most of both.

Child rescue team stopped the wedding of a minor girl from Arkalgud village after a whistle-blower dialled the child helpline.

A group of parents have written to the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education as well as to chief minister Pramod Sawant, expressing their anxiety over the decision to conduct the board exams during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus scare seems to have kept criminals at bay with the police registering on an average three first information report (FIRs) per day across 25 police stations instead of an average of over seven FIRs last year.

The total number of Covid-19 cases in the national capital climbed to 6,542 after 224 more people were infected by the coronavirus, the Delhi government said on Saturday. The fresh cases were reported between 4pm to midnight of May 8.

A woman was arrested from northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar on Friday for allegedly supplying e-cigarettes and other psychotropic substances to the minors during the lockdown .

Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) released its academic calendar and notified that the students will be returning to the campus between June 25 and 30. The varsity stated that the examinations will be completed by July 31.

Delhi Police has arrested AAP MLA from Devli Prakash Jarwal and his aide, Kapil Nagar, for allegedly abetting the suicide of a doctor who used to run a water tanker business in the area. The doctor, Rajender Singh, had accused Jarwal and Nagar of extorting money from him for letting him run the business.

With daily-wage earners now rushing back to their villages in special trains, there’s consternation in business circles about a manpower crunch. Assurances of continued salary till work begins in right earnest haven’t kept the migrants back, according to traders. Normally, the migrant population returns to the villages for the harvest period in late summer and comes back soon after, but this year, traumatised by the pandemic standstill, they are likely to think twice before returning to the cities.

Delhi Police claimed to be dissatisfied by the response it got from social media platform Instagram in the case of ‘Bois Locker Room’, where a group of male students made sexual threats to girls and carried on salacious conversations about their female schoolmates. On Saturday, Delhi Commission for Women also sent a second notice to police on the case after a girl student alleged receiving threats.

A severe dust storm and strong winds hit Delhi and the national capital region on Sunday as the weather took a sudden turn.