Round wooden tables covered with checkered tablecloth, quaint black wooden chairs and mirrored walls, glass shelves holding fresh stock of bread and cream cakes — the city’s century-old Irani cafes are not only about bun maska and kheema pav.
Ten days ago, Umashankar Shukla, 55, who has a medical history of chronic respiratory diseases collapsed with breathlessness and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Venkatesh Prabhu, 18, a visually challenged Class 12 student of Ruia College in Matunga, listens to tapes of recorded lectures every day for ten hours.
Former chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has suffered yet another political setback.
In 2000, Union science and technology minister Vilasrao Deshmukh countersigned the joint venture agreement between Subhash Ghai's Mukta Arts and Maharashtra Film, Stage and Cultural Development Corporation (MFSCDC), through which 20 acres of land in Goregaon was allotted to Ghai at reduced prices. Deshmukh was chief minister of Maharashtra at the time.
City passengers travelling to destinations such as Seoul or Tokyo might miss out on reasonable deals as interline agreements between Hong Kong’s flagship carrier Cathay Pacific, its subsidiary Dragon Air and Kingfisher Airlines, are likely to be terminated on Friday.
Ensuring uniform power tariff in the city - a promise made by the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) during their campaigning - could be difficult to achieve due to economic and regulatory reasons.
Strict action would be taken against officers who indulged in corrupt practices in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), said chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, on Thursday.
Seven-year-old Vyom Sah had been warned three times by a security guard against entering the swimming pool without a guardian or an instructor, the Oshiwara police said.
Thompson Pereira, 75, has lived in Malad (west) for the past 50 years and remembers Marve as a quiet and scenic seaside locality from where, during the high tide, he could see fishermen’s boats bobbing in the distance. Today, all Pereira can see when he looks out of his window are mutli-storeyed slums dotting the coast.
The police have identified more than a hundred "sensitive" pockets in the city that will need additional security arrangements during the upcoming civic elections.
The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine's first major rally on Thursday evoked a poor response even as Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar launched a blistering attack on the ruling Shiv Sena-BJP alliance.
The list of applicants that the state government's General Administration Department (GAD) has been sending for the posts of state chief information commissioner (SCIC) and information commissioners (IC) is grossly outdated and even has applications from as far back as 2005, data accessed under the transparency law has revealed.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's hopes of holding the party's election rally at the Shivaji Park ground were dealt a final blow on Thursday, when the Supreme Court denied the party permission to use the venue. The SC rejected the plea on grounds that the area has been declared a Silence Zone.
Anticipating fierce contests during the civic polls, the city police have started issuing notices to candidates whose supporters were involved in violence during the 2007 civic polls.