Mumbai Mirror reporters check out the affordability and comfort level of four different types of cabs on city roads, with a test drive from HSBC Bank, Fort to Bharatmata on Tuesday afternoon.
They end up paying almost the same for a rickety black-and-yellow taxi (Rs 91.05) and an air-conditioned private cab (Rs 95) read more »
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They end up paying almost the same for a rickety black-and-yellow taxi (Rs 91.05) and an air-conditioned private cab (Rs 95) read more »
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On Monday afternoon, a group of regular taxi drivers roughed up a few Meru cabbies and also blocked the entry and exit points at the airport, forcing them out of the airport premises.
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Data compiled by the BMC shows that the city got as much as 640 tons (6.4 lakh kg) of waste comprising plastic, polythene bags and thermocol from the sea. This is more than four times the average amount that is dumped on the coast in three days.
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Want a reduced electricity bill? Switch over to Tata Power (TPC).
After studying the charges levied by Reliance Infrastructure (Rinfra) and TPC, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has proposed the probable bills that consumers with different consumption would get.
Currently consumers with monthly consumption of 100 units receive a bill of Rs326. But if the consumer goe read more »
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After studying the charges levied by Reliance Infrastructure (Rinfra) and TPC, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) has proposed the probable bills that consumers with different consumption would get.
Currently consumers with monthly consumption of 100 units receive a bill of Rs326. But if the consumer goe read more »
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अवघ्या महाराष्ट्रीयांच्या अस्मितेचे प्रतीक आणि युगानुयुगे या प्रदेशातील पर्यावरण संतुलन राखण्यात अत्यंत महत्त्वाची भूमिका बजाविणाऱ्या सह्य़ाद्रीलाही आता मूठभर धनिकांनी वेठीस धरले आहे. छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराजांनी ज्या सह्य़ाद्रीच्या साथीने स्थानिकांना स्वाभिमानाने जगता येईल, असे स्वराज्य निर्माण केले, त्या डोंगररांगा या स्वार्थी मूषकांच्या बिळांनी आता अक्षरश: भुसभुशीत झाल्या आहेत. पैशाच्या लालसेने सार
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This year, the MCGM is likely to spend Rs 600 crore on beautification projects such as the proposed wax museum at Girgaum, Mumbai Eye — a 160-feet high monument offering the city’s ubiquitous view at Taj Land’s End at Bandra, seven theme gardens, street furni read more »
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The BMC has served a notice to BJP corporator and BEST chairman Dilip Patel for an alleged illegal constructionrnin his residential building in Goregaon.rnrnPatel, however, rubbished the charges. "The notice is not in my name. I do not want to speak on the issue,'' he told TOI. But the place to which the notice had been sent (room no 2, plot no. 102) was Patel's address as reco
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The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) provided major relief for over 23 lakh Reliance power consumers in suburban Mumbai when it decreed on Wednesday that customers could continue to pay according to the old tariff.
MERC's order will stay in place until it completes its ongoing probe into allegations of ``inflated'' bills and issues further directives, state energy minis read more »
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MERC's order will stay in place until it completes its ongoing probe into allegations of ``inflated'' bills and issues further directives, state energy minis read more »
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Bring water under the Essential Commodities Act (ECA). This was the demand echoed by some members of the BMC standing committee on Wednesday.
With no respite from water cuts and tankers holding the city to ransom, the members wanted that the proposal, raised several times during previous water crises, be considered seriously this time.
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With no respite from water cuts and tankers holding the city to ransom, the members wanted that the proposal, raised several times during previous water crises, be considered seriously this time.
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A steel scaffolding used in the construction of the financial capital's first Metro line collapsed in the northwest suburb of Sakineka late on Monday night following gusty winds.
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Rains seem to have got their landing address wrong. It keeps raining heavily in the city, but, with the ever-deepening water crisis, citizens are praying for such rains in the catchment belts of the six reservoirs that supply water to the city.
According to statistics provided by the disaster management cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), parts of the island city received 142 read more »
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According to statistics provided by the disaster management cell of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), parts of the island city received 142 read more »
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Four years after the great Mumbai Deluge of July 26,2005, advance doppler Radar, capable of predicting weather every 15 minutes, lies unused. Meanwhile, Weather bureau continues to get it wrong.
The weather forecast for the weekend ran as under:
Saturday, July 4: Heavy to very heavy rainfall
Sunday and Monday: Heavy rainfall, with CM Ashok Chavan appealing to Mumbaikars to stay indoors. read more »
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The weather forecast for the weekend ran as under:
Saturday, July 4: Heavy to very heavy rainfall
Sunday and Monday: Heavy rainfall, with CM Ashok Chavan appealing to Mumbaikars to stay indoors. read more »
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The country’s richest municipal corporation (2009-10 budget, Rs 19,931 crore) the BMC has also been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Centre’s largesse under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).
At present, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has four major projects funded through the JNNURM, with three of them having to do with that presently scarce co read more »
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At present, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has four major projects funded through the JNNURM, with three of them having to do with that presently scarce co read more »
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Email from my friend today morning.
Iam sure there will be lots more like this.
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The Mumbai Police have requested the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to go slow on part of the construction of the country’s first monorail project, for fear that it would put the safety of terrorist Ajmal Kasab in jeopardy.
Part of the monorail is coming up on N M Joshi Marg and Sane Guruji Marg, where Arthur Road Jail is located. Kasab is lodged in the jail and is be read more »
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Part of the monorail is coming up on N M Joshi Marg and Sane Guruji Marg, where Arthur Road Jail is located. Kasab is lodged in the jail and is be read more »
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