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Sena legislators who black-flagged Rahul lose security cover

Tuesday 9 February '10

Three Shiv Sena legislators complained that their police security cover had been withdrawn, and accused the Congress-NCP of getting back at them for their recent opposition to the govt.
In 100th year, Mama Kane’s in for a menu change

Tuesday 9 February '10

One of the city’s oldest surviving restaurants is changing its food course. In its 100th year, Mama Kane’s Swacha Uphargriha, the tiny hole-in-the-wall restaurant — known for its yummy home-made Maharashtrian delicacies — will soon go multi-cuisine with Punjabi and even Chinese food.
Gorakhpur, Maharashtra

Sunday 7 February '10

With Mumbai caught in another round of jousting over Mumbai-for-Maharashtrians, The Sunday Express travels to villages in Wai...
Big budget, yet no new taxes for 8th year in a row

Wednesday 3 February '10

The country’s richest civic body is set to present a surplus budget Wednesday without additionally burdening the common man.
No more equal shares: needy wards to get more in budget

Tuesday 2 February '10

The Human Development Index of Mumbai of last year, pointing to the best and worst of the city’s 24 wards, will be the main determinant of the 2010-11 municipal budget, expected Wednesday.
Rs 21,000 cr: BMC bounces back with big budget plan

Monday 1 February '10

This year’s municipal budget will be worth Rs 21,000 crore, larger than last year’s Rs 19,931 crore, and a sign that the country’s richest civic body has recovered from the after-effects of the global slowdown.
Make thin plastic once, go to jail

Friday 29 January '10

Manufacturers of plastic below 50 microns will face instant arrest and citizens carrying the thin polythene will be fined up to Rs 100, under a new set of restrictions proposed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
High tides head for decade’s record but will spare city during monsoon

Monday 25 January '10

The season’s highest tides will break the record for the decade, crossing 5 metres on six days, but will spare the city during the monsoon.
The future looms

Sunday 24 January '10

Standing 40 metres high, the chimney of the India United Mill was the tallest structure in the then Bombay’s thriving Girangaon...
BMC proposes toilet blocks along rly tracks

Thursday 21 January '10

To tackle the problem of stench emanating from the railway tracks, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has proposed construction of 31 toilet blocks with 890 seats to prevent slumdwellers from defecating on the tracks.
Don’t pay, don’t earn: BMC bans marathon ads

Friday 15 January '10

Rankling at the non-payment of last year’s dues, the BMC has struck back with an effort to throttle the earnings from this year’s Mumbai Marathon.
BMC vs metro authority, over a footpath

Thursday 14 January '10

A month after the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority dug up a footpath at Sion to shift cable lines so that a flyover could be opened, the BMC said the agency has neither restored it nor paid the penalty of Rs 3.27 lakh.
Now, Sachin bats for water

Tuesday 12 January '10

Mumbai’s famous resident, Sachin Tendulkar, has stopped taking a shower. In a bid to contribute to the city’s urgent need to...
In Idol’s ad, his real-life effort to save water

Monday 11 January '10

Mumbai’s famous resident, Sachin Tendulkar, has stopped taking a shower. He takes his bath using a bucket of water these days and so do his wife and children in a bid to contribute to the city’s urgent need to save water.
Price of progress: in 5 years, 55 pipes burst, Rs 85 lakh repair bill, lots of water wasted

Thursday 7 January '10

The city’s new infrastructure projects — skywalk, Metro rail and monorail — are taking a toll on its water pipelines laid during the British Raj.
Civic body resumes search for boy in manhole

Wednesday 6 January '10

Around a week after three-year-old Ayub Sheikh allegedly fell into an open manhole in Mankhurd and disappeared, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has revived the search operation.
Slumdweller & single mom finds job, and hope

Friday 1 January '10

At 26, Manju Tripathi could be just any other young professional living her Mumbai dream, her edgy jeans-and-tee look blending perfectly with that of the crowd at a cool fast food joint in Bandra.
Dabbawallas on new high, to represent state in R-Day parade

Thursday 31 December '09

They have shook hands with billionaire aviator Richard Branson, attended friend Prince Charles’ wedding and even given management lessons to MBA students...
Mumbai dabbawallas to represent state at R-Day parade

Thursday 31 December '09

They have shook hands with billionaire aviator Richard Branson, attended Prince Charles’s wedding and even gave management lessons to MBA students...
For the first time, ‘Uddhav-Raj feud’ caught on silver screen

Wednesday 30 December '09

The saffron flags to the new party heir who sports a moustache and a rebel cousin who quits the family party to a patriarch who carries a rudraksh mala.
‘Sena man’ puts Uddhav-Raj feud on screen

Wednesday 30 December '09

The saffron flags to the new party heir who sports a moustache and a rebel cousin who quits the family party to a patriarch who carries a rudraksh mala....
Civic body awaits bylaws to act against errant builders

Monday 28 December '09

The Bombay High Court might have ordered the developer of Gaurav Gagan building in suburban Kandivli to demolish the 17 additional floors of a building that had approved plans for only seven storeys...
Nurse in death plea had to change in the open

Thursday 24 December '09

Aruna Shanbaug, the nurse for whom a mercy death petition has been filed in the Supreme Court, could have escaped sexual assault at KEM Hospital 36 years ago if she had an allotted place to change out of her uniform, the hospital’s then security officer says.
Not one of 8 buildings in plush set is fully legal

Thursday 24 December '09

Gaurav Gagan in Kandivli was only part of the story; none of the eight buildings in Gaurav Garden complex is fully legal. That leaves nearly 2,000 people uncertain whether the flats they bought are on an authorised floor...
Parched & financially hit, BMC in crisis year

Wednesday 23 December '09

For Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, 2009 was a crisis-ridden year. While poor and delayed monsoon forced the civic body to impose a major cut in the city’s water supply...
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