According to a Maharashtra Cabinet decision taken on Wednesday new taxi permits will be granted to only those people who have been residing in the state for 15 years.
बेस्टच्या डेपोतून डबलडेकर आणि सिंगल डेकर बस सुटण्याऐवजी डेपोतून हॅलिकॉप्टर हवेत झेपावताना दिसले तर, मुंबईकरांनो आश्चर्य वाटू देऊ नका कारण, बेस्टच्या डेपोतून हेलिकॉप्टर लँडिंग आणि टेकऑफ करण्याची योजना तयार झाली आहे. बारा जानेवारीला धारावी डेपोत हेलिकॉप्टर लँडिंगचा 'प्रयोग' यशस्वी झाला आहे.
मुंबईतील हवाई वाहतुकीला आणि पर्यटनाला चालना देण्यासाठी 'ग्लोबल फ्लाईंग क्लब'ने हा प्रस्ताव बेस्टला साद
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This ex-Army man fought for the country, received a bullet wound, and was awarded the Raksha medal and Sainya Seva medal for his gallant service. However, even after making rounds of Mantralaya for the past eight years, he has not got a ration card till date.
Hindurao Ingale, 62, a gunner with 216 Medium Regiment, had been to the front during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war. He was shot in the leg
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It’s probably the largest displacement and relocation in the country in modern times. Four lakh residents will be shifted from the periphery of the airport to other areas in the suburbs so that the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport’s modernisation and expansion can be completed by 2013.
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Mumbai’s famous resident, Sachin Tendulkar, has stopped taking a shower. He takes his bath using a bucket of water these days and so do his wife and children in a bid to contribute to the city’s urgent need to save water.
Tendulkar had revealed this to a team that had gone to shoot a ‘Save Water’ ad for the civic body. The impressed team included it in the ad.
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When Dr Ranjit Deshpande gets ready to perform a cardiac bypass surgery in London's King's College, there is no role for the saw that has traditionally been used to cut open the breast bone in order to expose the heart.
The Bandra boy instead uses an endoscopic camera and a huge LCD TV to get a 'close' look at the beating heart.
hree football players of Churchill Brothers were arrested by the Santa Cruz airport police for molesting an airhostess of SpiceJet on Tuesday. The team was on its way to Kolkata via Mumbai.
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मुंबईत घर परवडत नसेल तर दुबईत फ्लॅट घ्या असे म्हणण्राची वेळ आली आहे. दुबईतील अत्यंत प्रतिष्ठित अशा बुर्ज खलिजा या शंभर मजली टॉवरमध्ये आलीशान प्लॅट पडेल फक्त ३००० रूपये चौरस फुटाने. मुंबईत सोडाच, पण ठाण्यातही या भावाने फ्लॅट मिळत नाही.
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Famed for their proficiency in delivering lunch-boxes, Mumbai Dabbawalas will again make Maharashtra proud while representing the state in the Republic Day parade at the national capital.
"We would display uninterrupted service of Dabbawalas on the Republic Day parade in Delhi," Secretary for Tourism and Culture Anand Kulkarni told PTI.
चेन्नई, बंगळुरू, हैदराबादला गेल्या दहा वर्षांपासून एक दिवस आड पाणीपुरवठा होत आहे. देशाची राजधानी दिल्लीत ६४ टक्के जनता विहिरींचे पाणी पित आहेत. प्राप्त परिस्थितीत पाण्याची उधळपट्टी केली तर मुंबईकरांनीही याच शहरांचा 'आदर्श' डोळ्यासमोर ठेवावा लागेल, असा इशारा जलतज्ज्ञ देत आहेत.
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The air-conditioners that keep you cool at office and home are scorching the meters. The city's recent power load flow pattern, which gives an indication of which gadgets consume more power, indicates that air-conditioners alone guzzle nearly 1,000 MW of the 2,700 MW of power that the city consumes every day.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is starting a pilot project to desalinate seawater and supply it to high-end consumers.
The plant, with a capacity of 2 MLD (million litres a day) is expected to come up in 18 months. Senior BMC officials said the civic body had issued an expression of interest (EOI) to invite parties for the plant, which may entail a capital cost of Rs 10 crore pe
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Water woes for the city seem to be unending. Soon, people residing in high-rises and big housing complexes will have to reduce their municipal water consumption, so that others living in smaller societies get their quota of supply.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to make recycling of grey water (waste water) mandatory for even existing buildings. It had initially propo
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Commuting on local trains during rush hours in the morning and evening has the power to bring out the animal in all Mumbaikars.
Space on the overcrowded station platforms and entry and exit points is a premium, and the situation will only go from bad to worse once the new 15-coach services gather steam.
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