Friday 12 June '09
The rains may play truant this year, but the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation does not want to take any chances.Sunday 7 June '09
For over five years, around 20,000 families living near Pestom Sagar in Chembur faced chronic problems of noise and air pollution coming from nearby illegal commercial garages and workshops.Tuesday
2 June '09The Bombay High Court’s recent order stalling redevelopment of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Olympic Swimming Pool in Dadar and keeping it open for public has been welcomed by the locals and people who have been using it for a long time.Monday
1 June '09Telling the time of day without using a watch hardly appears possible in the city that never sleeps, but that’s exactly what visitors are learning at the Nehru Planetarium, Worli.Sunday
31 May '09If all goes well, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will implement its beach safety model called the ‘Baywatch model’ in the next 25 days.Thursday
28 May '09Call it a classic case of mass awakening after facing years of neglect. Having woven many success stories in urban areas, the Right to Information Act is reaching rural areas too.Wednesday
27 May '09The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s road repair work has caused some unexpected collateral damage.Sunday
24 May '09Environmentalists and conservation groups banded together to monitor and control some of the invasive species that adversely affect the biological diversity in the city.Sunday
24 May '09With the city prepares to face monsoon, the civic body wants its employees to go literally in the deep waters to avoid 26/7 like situation.Friday
22 May '09Mangroves, a natural greenbelt or buffer zone that has the potential to protect the city from powerful rains, are depleting at a fast pace.Monday
18 May '09Considering the problem of high dropout rates in civic schools during the crucial eighth and ninth grades, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...Friday
15 May '09Even as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is going full swing with nullah visits and cleaning of storm water drains, as part of their pre-monsoon preparedness plan...Wednesday
13 May '09In a bid to ensure the city’s vulnerable 400-km pipelines are not further encroached, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...Thursday
7 May '09Calling corporators’ demand of slaughtering pigs in the city ‘unfounded’, the medical experts, animal activists and the BMC’s health officials have called for a scientific way to deal with the situation.Thursday
30 April '09Keeping in mind the upcoming long weekend that may tempt some ‘voters’ to go on a vacation and strong anti-incumbency factor in some constituencies...Tuesday
28 April '09Forty-three-year-old Lydia George walks in with a confident gait and a smile. Years after working as a teacher in an anganwadi school in Dharavi, Lydia is in for something new.Monday
27 April '09These were the words echoed when Barack Obama became the 44th President of USA in January this year.Monday
20 April '09Forty-year-old Sindhu Pundalik starts her day at 4.30 am daily. First she cooks for her two grown-up kids and cleans the house, and then gears up for another cleaning session – this time in the city.Sunday
19 April '09With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, all the public service departments in the city are gearing up to make sure that the proceedings see a smooth sail.Friday
17 April '09Barely a month after the Pestom Sagar Residents Association in Chembur fought tooth and nail to ensure that a barren ground near their residential complex becomes a silence zone...Wednesday
15 April '09Powai lake, one of the most picturesque spots of the city, becomes a cause of concern to its nearby residents every monsoon.Tuesday
14 April '09Water, water everywhere but not a drop to spare, and therefore every drop should be used judiciously; this was the mantra of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Rainwater Harvesting cell which is campaigning for optimum use of water.Thursday
9 April '09Barely a month after newly-formed political parties took on themselves to give power to the people and encourage citizen’s participation in democracy, lack of funds has come in the way of realising their dreams.Thursday
2 April '09The upcoming Lok Sabha elections and the world wide Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) movement may not have anything in common but keeping in mind the fact that homosexuality is illegal in over 80 countries with India being one of them...Monday
30 March '09Ever travelled in a rickshaw hurtling down Mumbai’s streets with you still feeling quite at home? That’s what 30-year-old Deepak Shewale says he is trying to do, in a city where most rickshaw drivers are known for their brazenness.
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