Like hundreds of foreign tourists who visit Mumbai, Bill Clinton made sure he saw the 150-year-old Dhobhi Ghat next to the Mahalaxmi railway station in the heart of the city during one of his visits in Mumbai. Clinton, once the world’s most powerful man, stood atop a busy flyover to catch a glimpse of the Dhobhi Ghat.
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सप्तपदींतील सात पावलं कोणती याचं उत्तर किती जण देऊ शकतात? 'सुगड' हा शब्द आजच्या पिढीने ऐकला आहे का? पण हे मराठी शब्द आज कॅनडातील रेडिओ स्टेशनवर ऐकू येतात. याचं कारण आहे तेथील डायव्हसिर्टी एफएमवरून प्रसारित होणारा 'सप्तरंग' हा मराठी कार्यक्रम.
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Maharashtra Government on Monday said it was not perturbed by the suspected outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal, and assured that all necessary precautionary measures were in place.
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This is what a break can do with the concentration of any player. India lost the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar and then quickly they lost the wicket of Ganguly too. Now India is batting at 226 for the loss of 4 wickets. A fine boundary from Laxman brought him to 11 and Dravid is there at 62.
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Kadegaon and Tasgaon have, respectively, seen five and four grape-growing farmers commit suicide over the past year. Their deaths add to a deadly tally of 70-odd suicides by grape growers over the past two years — a bizarre juxtaposition to the celebratory enthusiasm of the local politicians.
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In February last year, three college students, who had been partying till late into the night, crashed their car near Malabar Hill, an elite south Mumbai locality.
One of the boys died on the spot. Another was critically injured; and the third (the driver of the luxury car) Jatin Mehra, was arrested for drink driving.
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Mumbai is least preferred among the top seven Indian cities by the IT industry for setting up shops. The financial capital of the country ranks at the lowest in the attractiveness index when it comes to manpower accessibility and new supply for office spaces. It is the most expensive in terms of realty and manpower costs, but is only second to Kolkata in social security and cost of living.
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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
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Century Textiles, part of the Basant Kumar Birla group, has finally closed its 109-year-old mill in the posh Worli area, with the labour commissioner (Maharashtra) granting it permission to wind up operations with effect from January 12.
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Food adulteration will be a cognisable and non-bailable offence in Maharashtra after an amended Act, which gives sweeping powers to police, comes into force today.
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One of the major agenda of MNS since its inception is the employment for marathi manus. Started with protests at railway exam centers to worli sea link now, raj thackrey and his supporters are following footsteps of senior thackrey in forming the party. Then thackrey and datta samant fought for mill workers and labour unions and establish the clout on corporate space. Now Raj is showing his futur
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Five years after Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray launched the party’s “Me Mumbaikar” campaign which ran into trouble following the attack on job-seekers from other states by members of the Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, then headed by cousin Raj Thackeray, the party is going full throttle at wooing the non-Marathi speaking population of the metropolis.
' सफल नॅशनल एक्स्चेंज ऑफ इंडिया' लि. या कंपनीच्या माध्यमातून जळगाव जिल्ह्यातील केळी उत्पादकांनी केळीची विक्री करण्यास सुरुवात केल्यामुळे केळी उत्पादकांना पारंपरिकपद्धतीपेक्षा अधिक भाव मिळत असून, व्यवहारातही पारदर्शकता आली आहे.
मदर डेअरी, मल्टी कमोडीटी एक्स्चेंज फायनान्शियल टेक्नॉलॉजी ऑफ इंडिया अशा तीन कंपन्यांची मिळून 'सफल नॅशनल एक्स्चेंज ऑफ इंडिया' ही कंपनी तयार झालीय. तिच्या माध्यमातून
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मुंबईतील गणेशोत्सव म्हणे समलिंगी पुरुषांचा म्हणजे ' गें ' चा उत्सव, यातील मिरवणूक म्हणजे ' गें ' चे उत्स्फूर्त समूहनृत्य. असे असंबद्ध अज्ञान ' गार्डियन ' या ब्रिटिश दैनिकाच्या वेबसाइटने पाजळल्याचे वृत्त नुकतेच ' मटा ' ने प्रसिद्ध केले होते. त्याला प्रतिसाद म्हणून अनेकांनी ' मटा ऑनलाइन ' कडे आपली नाराजी कळवली. गार्डियन ' ने हा दिशाभूल करणारा उल्लेख काढून टाकावा, यासाठी सर्वात आधी ही चुक
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Real estate developers fear 30% to 50% increase in prices as well as demand for property in Mumbai, Pune, Nasik, Chennai and Bangalore, compared with the ongoing steady demand and prices in Delhi and the NCR region from March 2008 onwards.
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