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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) latest move of cutting down water supply to new buildings might have left several Mumbaiites into a tizzy, but rainwater harvesting can be the answer to the impending water crisis for builders and residents.

In fact, many in realty business admit the move may force builders to adopt the green route.

In rainwater harvesting, the rainwater that read more »
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The fear of the monsoon havoc hit Mumbaiites once again on Tuesday morning as rail and road traffic were stalled by waterlogging and two people were washed away by flood waters in suburban drains.

Worse, by evening, a harried Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak had this to say: “In the low-lying country, The Netherlands, people have learnt to live with rains, as they cannot cope with the sit read more »
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The early monsoon this year has brought good news for Mumbaiites: the six lakes on the outskirts supplying drinking water to the city are nearing maximum level.

While two of the lakes had reached the lowest drawable level in the beginning of June, four lakes have now crossed that mark.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is happy with the water situation as it may not have to resort to read more »
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Students of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) will be barred from interning in foreign companies, from the beginning of the academic year 2008-09.

The decision came in the wake of a large percentage of students opting for internships in foreign firms and universities.

Third year students have to undergo a compulsory eight-week internship as part of their curriculum. However, read more »
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Shirish Nadkarni has led an interesting life. He studied at some of the world's most illustrious schools -- IIT and Harvard. He was the tenth Indian to join IT behemoth Microsoft back in 1987, contributing to its incredible growth and played a pivotal role in the overall online strategy for the MSN portal.

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Minutes after Raj Thackeray’s arrest, this diminutive housewife took to the streets, doing the rounds of central Mumbai areas with her foot-soldiers, forcing shopowners to down their shutters and chasing hawkers off the streets.

By evening, almost all Parel and Elphinstone Road—an area dominated by the Marathi-speaking Mumbaiites and the former hub of the textile mills now slowly making way f read more »
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The world’s smallest wearable cardiac monitor, a toffee-sized silicon locket, is almost ready at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B). While the tiny computer that can store a week’s electrocardiogram (ECG) data awaits a manufacturer, it is already in demand. IIT read more »
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For lakhs of aspirants who don't make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), the new year has brought in cheer—this tech school is opening its classrooms beginning Wednesday for engineering colleges across the country.

As reported by TOI on December 8, IIT-Bombay will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.

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For lakhs of aspirants who don’t make it to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), here’s something to cheer about. After earlier putting the IIT open courseware online, IIT-Bombay is going one step further and opening its classrooms to the world.

Starting January 2008 it will broadcast its lectures live through Edusat, the satellite which caters exclusively to the educational sector.
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Mumbai has pipped Delhi as a city with the highest number of billionaires in the country. The latest list of richest Indians, compiled by Forbes magazine, has named 23 billionaires from Mumbai. Delhi accounts for only 12 such people. read more »
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Rohit Nalawade CEO of tech startup Consumer Vision incubated in IIT Mumbai are all set up to equip these kirana stores with RFID technology. With this piece of software and hardware, kirana stores can improve users experience and serve them better. Will this create more problems for retail chains like reliance to establish, may be, but it would definately make the "Kirana wala" genre a history. read more »
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While the city’s first Metro Rail is at a stage where the company executing the project “can start construction very soon” in the words of its director, Mumbaiites won’t see any work beginning just yet. read more »
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