मुंबईतील एक लाखांहून अधिक रिक्षावाल्यांनी व त्यांच्या नेत्यांनी केलेल्या दादागिरीपुढे नमून राज्य सरकारने रिक्षाचे भाडे दोन रुपयांनी वाढवून दिले.
त्यामुळे गुरुवार सकाळपासून उपनगरवासी व ठाणेकरांना किमान भाड्यासाठी ११ रुपये मोजावे लागणार आहेत. एक रुपया सुट्टे देण्याचा निर्माण होणारा प्रश्न व महागाईचा निकष लक्षात घेऊन १० रुपये भाडे योग्य असल्याचे ग्राहक संघटनांनी ठामपणे मांडले.
You need not bother about carrying cash the next time you take a private cab in the city. Around 3,000 cabs will offer payment by credit card by June-end .
With Easy Cabs and City Cool Cabs having started the credit card facility recently , other operators like Meru, Mega Cabs and Gold Cabs plan to offer this payment option to passengers soon. While Meru is in the process of importin
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Western Railway said that it will run a special Mumbai-Delhi Rajdhani train from on Wednesday for airport passengers left stranded due to the ongoing Air India employees' strike.
"To reduce inconvenience caused to people, Western Railway will run one special Rajdhani Express train today from Mumbai to Delhi.
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The depression that formed over the Bay of Bengal on Monday turned into a full-blown cyclonic storm by Tuesday. Cyclone 'Laila' has got the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) worried as though it is expected to affect only the eastern coast of India, it is likely to have an impact on the entire country's monsoon pattern, including that of Mumbai.
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The special court may have sentenced Ajmal Kasab to death but the government of Maharashtra will have to wait for a few more years before it can lay its hands on the ammo—10 AK-47s, 10 7.65-mm pistols and 14 kg RDX—that he and his nine cohorts brought to the city from Pakistan.
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In a growing nightmare for a city facing the start of a long, parched summer, the water distribution network has seen 33 pipeline bursts and 64 heavy leakages over the past three months, resulting in the wastage of over 240 million litres.
As per data with the four divisional offices of the BMC’s hydraulic engineering department for the period between January 1 and April 1, there have been 30
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After spending crores of rupees in building lavish apartments for its top officials near its headquarters at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), the MMRDA has now floated tenders for a state-of-the-art gymnasium to be constructed in the building housing the quarters.
The gymnasium will cost the MMRDA a whopping Rs 1.21 crore, a source said. The authority is ready to foot the bill despite there bei
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The disabled son of a municipal employee from Ulhasnagar has been running from pillar-to-post trying to get a telephone booth allotted to him by the municipal corporation for the last four years, without any success.
Mr Krishna Dhoble (32), a resident of camp number four in Ulhasnagar, was disabled due to polio at the age of four.
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A single day of giving up travel by car could bring down the city’s soaring air pollution levels almost instantly. The air quality tests conducted at Carter Road, Bandra, last month, when the area celebrated a ‘Car-Free Day’ to promote non-motorised transport, indicate that cars are a significant contributor to air pollution in Mumbai.
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Autorickshaw union leaders have reacted sharply to the government proposal of phasing out autos from the city within the next seven years. While the Mumbai Autorickshaw-Taximen’s Union has called it a conspiracy by some big automobile companies; the Rickshaw Chalak-Malak Sena has said the decision would take away the livelihood of thous
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Actor Nana Patekar said on Tuesday that he cannot limit himself to being a Maharashtrian as that would mean limiting his soul.
“I am as much a Gujarati, Punjabi or of any other community in the country,” Patekar said at the launch of fellow-actor Sonali Kulkarni’s book So Kul at Crossword in Juhu.
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There will be no new small taxis in the city anymore. Alarmed by the exponential growth in the number of vehicles, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Transport Authority (MMRTA) headed by transport secretary C S Sangitrao has proposed a complete ban on registration of smaller vehicles—less than 1,000 cc, as cabs, initially in Mumbai, Thane and Pune.
Miles away, in Jogeshwari, a packed suburb of Mumbai, first-time Sena MLA Ravindra Waikar is at work in the new culture. Jogeshwari is where some huts of Hindu families were set ablaze in January 1993, a month after the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
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