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bhendi bazaar news

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a book on Mumbai’s diverse cuisines, another that blurs the boundaries of fiction and autobiography, and a volume on Sikh Kashmir shawl patterns. (Akash Shrivastav)
Updated on Dec 06, 2025 06:09 am IST

Sukoon and Shukoor: Bhendi Bazaar’s revival pushes forward

Flat in Al- Ezz twin towers at Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust in Mumbai. (Anshuman Poyrekar/ HT Photo)
Published on Aug 05, 2025 07:54 am IST

Trader dies by suicide over business losses

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Updated on Aug 18, 2024 06:50 am IST

Phase 2 of SBUT gets going, OC received

Shop owner Badruddin Asger Mehta (left) and his father in law Abdulla Jawadwala inspect the new premises which will rehouse their hardware business. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Nov 17, 2023 02:21 pm IST

10 buildings in B ward surveyed, all have illegal alterations

Kesarbai building collapse
Updated on Jul 25, 2019 06:51 am IST

After Mumbai building collapse, more BMC officials may be pulled up

A four-storey building in Dongri, Kesarbai, came crashing down on Tuesday, killing 13 residents.
Updated on Jul 20, 2019 01:12 am IST

After Dongri crash, Mhada vacates 3 bldgs, Mumbai civic body sends 20 notices in 2 days

Mumbai, India - July 17, 2019:Rescuers work at the site of a building that collapsed at Dongri in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. (Photo by Kunal Patil/ Hindustan Times)
Updated on Jul 19, 2019 01:24 am IST

Dongri, hub of illegal buildings; Mumbai civic body can’t get past hurdles

In September 2017, the seven storey 117-year-old Husaini Building collapsed in Bhendi Bazaar and killed 33 people.
Updated on Jul 17, 2019 01:08 am IST

Mumbaiwale: Mohalla shopping on a whole new level

Rashida Lokhandwalla’s store, Zarrin Arts, stocks the most colourful trimmings and frills for ridas and offers customisation and embroidery work fas well.
Updated on May 27, 2019 08:50 am IST

Two dead as fire breaks out at residential building in South Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar

At least two people were killed in a major fire in a five storey residential building in South Mumbai’s Bori Mohalla near Bhendi Bazaar on Thursday.
Updated on May 24, 2019 01:25 pm IST

Iftaar: This year, take the road less travelled, says Kunal Vijayakar

During Ramzaan, the Muslim month of fasting and abstinence, Mohammed Ali Road erupts into festivity every evening, as the day’s fast is broken . All along the main street and the narrow bylanes, stalls sell kababs, samosas, seekhs, tikkas, bater, rolls and every conceivable delicacy created on a tava.
Published on May 10, 2019 05:36 pm IST

‘Invalid address’: South Bombay building residents turned away at booth

“We have voted in every election as far back as we remember. We even voted during the municipal corporation elections in 2017, and our names were there on the list at the time,” said one of the residents.
Updated on Apr 30, 2019 10:22 am IST

Blueberry firni, selfies: The new flavours of Ramzan in Mumbai

Going to Bhendi Bazaar at Ramzan is a rite of passage for anyone living in Mumbai. It’s here that most Mumbaiites eat their first malpua, served with lashings of rabri, and their first roasted bater or quail.
Updated on Jun 02, 2018 09:52 pm IST

Cluster redevelopment for Mumbai suburbs, but will it succeed?

The cluster development scheme has not worked out very well in the island city
Updated on May 14, 2018 12:01 am IST

Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar revamp: SBUT hikes rent for non-consenting tenants to move out

SBUT was taken to task after one of its buildings collapsed last year, claiming the lives of 34 people
Updated on Mar 30, 2018 09:52 am IST