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It is often said that that the right hand of the government does not know what the left is doing. True to this saying, the Democratic Front government has announced extension of the deadline for protection of illegal slums from 1995 to January 1, 2000, without bothering to comply with a directive of the Bombay High Court to draft a comprehensive policy on unauthorised slums in Mumbai.
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The BMC has finally taken the first step to rein in its waste-dumpers, which have been involved in almost 200 fatal road accidents since 2004.
The civic body, bombarded with complaints from citizens as well as the traffic police, has now decided to put a brake on the speed at which these dumpers can travel. The speed of the vehicles will now be restricted to 40 kmph. "The speed lim read more »
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The civic body, bombarded with complaints from citizens as well as the traffic police, has now decided to put a brake on the speed at which these dumpers can travel. The speed of the vehicles will now be restricted to 40 kmph. "The speed lim read more »
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Veteran writer and activist Patil Puttappa, 85, will write Chatrapati Shivaji's biography in Kannada. At an event organized by the Karnataka Kshatriya Maratha Parishath on Sunday, Puttappa said there is not much difference between Marathas and North Karnataka Lingayats, or the old Mysore Vokkaligas. The relationship between Kannadigas and Marathas is like sugar in milk, he added.
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Trams, which were part of the city's landscape till the 1960s, might ply once again with a little help from France. The French ambassador-at-large in charge of cooperation in Asia, Jacques Valade, has offered to help out with technology for trams as well as other transport modes. Valade recently met government and BMC officials and offered his country's assistance in ridding Mumbai
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Kolkata: West Bengal will no longer enjoy the pride of rolling out the Nano, the world’s cheapest car from Singur.
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Mumbai Metro One, which is the first Public Private Partnership (PPP) initiative for a MRTS project in India, is working in close coordination with the Tree Authority to arrive at a final decision on the number of trees that might hamper the construction work of the Mumbai Metro project.
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South Mumbai is witnessing an explosion in real estate prices builders are demanding, Rs 60 crores for 10000 sq feet flat and they are getting it.
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Rabble rousing has been the centrepiece of the Mumbai-based Shiv Sena's political philosophy since its inception. For decades it has substituted genuine vision with nuisance value. That approach has paid handsome dividends, particularly in terms of giving its founder Bal Thackeray and his family members a sway over the affairs of the city way out of proportion to its actual contribution.
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Aiming to improve HIV-related research in India, a government-run hospital in Mumbai has joined hands with a New York-based medical college to hold a clinical training course in AIDS research. A team of five faculty members, including two Indian Americans Sarita Shah and Neel Gandhi from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is conducting the course at the B.Y.L Nair Hospital to promote a culture
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