The first printing press was imported into Bombay as early as 1670 by the Parsi businessman Bhimjee Parikh, it was more than a hundred years before the first newspaper was printed.
The first newspapers in Bombay were owned and printed by Parsis, who already owned the technological and financial basis for such ventures. The first English newspaper in Bombay was printed by Rustomji Keshaspathi
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if u think the answer is Chaminda Vaas, Glenn Mcgrath you are mistaken. the right answer is.
Mr UMPIRE.
What can sachin do..but to laugh at this. May be he is thinking of creating a record for missing the max no of centuries missed because of the umpires.
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Though the city and her environs are progressing with infrastructure and communications, we are neglecting the darker underbelly of our habitat. We are ignoring the issue of garbage which the city generates.
The issue of garbage threatens to overwhelm the civic bodies which manage Bombay city and her surrounding
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Wanna know.Check out this blog on Mumbai.metblogs.com
"I travel the length of this city every day, realizing fully well that death and danger to life could happen in the most unanticipated, most mundane ways possible. Each day, like in the jungle, is a fight for survival. Like everyone else, I swallow that thought and go on or make a joke of it. It's just too much to bear otherwise."
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Today is Vada Pav Day. Nothing official about it, of course, because in Mumbai -the commom man eats Vada Pav 24/7. He doesn’t require an occasion to celebrate the city’s staple diet.
And it’s not as if the state government dedicates the day to the Vada Pav. But it was on this day that a food chain registered the Vada Pav as its main business six years ago and corporatised the chatpata street f
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Some of the best management gurus, come from day to day practical world. Check the above link to find the path taken by Mumbai Dabbawala's.
While most Mumbaikars debate how things should be different, the Mumbai Dabbawalas, without any grudge have applied themselves with dedication and sincerity towards their job. With out
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Many stations have logical roots in history - named either after legendary people, age-old traditions or businesses carried on in the area or for unknown reasons.
Santa Cruz:
Santa Cruz was originally known by villagers as Khulbawdi (in Marathi khul is mortar or also a yard, bawdi, a well) Santa Cruz (Holy Cross) was so named by its population of Salsette East Indian Christians after a crud
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Dubious water sources are used for growing the vegetables cultivated along the railways tracks.
With the city continuing to be affected by rain related diseases, the people of Bombay would be horrified to learn that the vegetables which are cultivated near the railway stations use gutter water.
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Mass crime is one of the few things that lives long in public memory. And the absence of justice lingers even longer. It deepens old mistrusts, it creates new prejudices. It springs ugly surprises. Perhaps the Bombay blasts were one such. And we have had too many in our short history not to have learnt any lessons. rn
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Tommorow is yet another Independence Day, channels packed with Vande Mataram songs, Flags everywhere and anywhere, Newspapers full with content attempting to ignite patriotism and a dry public holiday.
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