Even as the grand plan to give the Queen’s Necklace a makeover hits another roadblock with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) now battling over who should undertake Phase 2, another seafront restoration scheme quietly won accolades at the Deutsche Bank Urban Age awards on Thursday.
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It is been two years since dance bars were banned in Mumbai but many are still running, and the Mumbai Police is cracking down on them.
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rnThe much-loved Frankie is an integral part of the Mumbai foodie’s diet. It consists of a piquant mutton or chicken curry, rolled into a flour and egg-glazed paratha. The Frankie owes its popularity to twin virtues of most fast food: economy and
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In line with the party order, 83 Shiv Sena corporators on Thursday sent back the invitation cards they had received from Revenue Minister Narayan Rane for his son Nilesh Rane’s wedding on November 3.
“There was no political motive behind the invitation. In our rich culture, politics never becomes a hurdle in social relations. Due to the Sena leaders’ narrow-minded act, my 40-year-old
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Most of the rescued children hail from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and were confined to their units. They were made to work for 15 hours for a paltry sum of Rs 100 a week and the older and skilled children were paid Rs 50 to 100 per day.
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Mahesh Majrekar will be seen as a saint in an English film directed by Amol Shetge. The film titled The Saint Who Thought Otherwise also stars Kamaal Sidhu, Sayali Bhagat and Sandhya Mridul, playing the three damsels in the saint’s life.
Amol Shetge’s Marathi venture Aboli was critically acclaimed and has films like Naam Gum Jayega, Rain and Gunaah to his credit as far as Hindi cinema is conce
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Sketches of suspected terrorists released by the Mumbai police on Friday. They are suspected to be doing “reconnaissance” around religious places and five star hotels in the city.
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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.
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Unless the salary of teachers and other academicians took a quantum leap from the present, the high attrition rate at educational institutions would continue.
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A special task force in Mumbai has begun keeping tabs on housing societies to see whether children below the age of 18 are working there, especially in affluent households.rnrn''We just cannot raid homes. So we have several men from the NGOs, police and labour department who will be keeping a watch on the building societies to see who employ child labour. Once it is confirmed we will raid,
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Children are tossed from a height of 20 feet in the premises of a temple in Maharashtra, in the belief that it would enhance the kids' physical health and stamina.
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The Ministry of Railways in collaboration with Maharashtra State Government have taken steps to revamp the Mumbai Suburban Railway System through implementation of rail component of Multi-Modal Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP). The main object behind this system are as follow :rnrn· To bring down the over crowding in peak hour peak direction; andrnrn· segregation the suburban train o
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Dr Prasad threw out over 400 students of the college from their classes at 9.30 am on Tuesday, just when they were about to start writing their mid-term exam papers, because they were wearing T-shirts and polo shirts which “violated” the dress code laid down by him. The students, belonging to all four streams that the college has -- IT, Electronics, Computers, and Electronics and Telecommunicati
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It is great to see numerous multinational companies investing in technology-related rural initiatives but looks like many of the experiments will take a long time to be commercially viable.
Here’s an example. In 1998, India invested half a million dollars in a project to connect 40,000 farmers in Maharashtra state via 54 Internet kiosks to access information regarding market prices etc. After
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