Thursday 8 October '09
She is the other woman who shot into the spotlight after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi visited her shack in Vidarbha...Monday 5 October '09
Knocking at strangers’ homes with a wide smile, small-screen anchor Aadesh Bandekar would yell, “Vahini daar ughad (sister-in law open the door)” for his popular game show for housewives of Maharashtra called Home Minister....Thursday
1 October '09Shiv Sena activists are circulating a pamphlet cautioning the Marathi-speaking population against voting for the rival MNS, as “Voting MNS will mean helping Congress-NCP”.Tuesday
29 September '09Raj Thackeray’s MNS, whose politics is based on targeting North Indians while promoting the Marathi case, has fielded an election candidate with roots in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.Monday
28 September '09Of the 60-odd corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation who had hoped to contest the Assembly elections...Friday
25 September '09The Shiv Sena has sidelined four-time MLA Gajanan Kirtikar and instead fielded his one-time protégé Sunil Prabhu from Dindoshi.Thursday
24 September '09A student and a teacher have become rivals in the Assembly elections, though in neighbouring constituencies rather than a direct contest.Tuesday
22 September '09There’s a new election cool tool in Mumbai, and it’s coming from the party that has until now sworn by saffron flags and orange tilaks.Thursday
17 September '09Corporators of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation have set out to upgrade their political career, banking on their established network in wards and development work as they vie for a ticket to the Assembly polls.Wednesday
16 September '09Two years after they fielded their own candidate and got him elected as a corporator, the residents of Juhu are now gearing up to take a lead over political bigwigs in the Assembly elections with a citizens’ consensus candidate in Andheri (West).Tuesday
15 September '09Roads in the island city continue to cave in every few months — last week’s Peddar Road collapse was the seventh in two years — but the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation...Friday
11 September '09Civic authorities have started proceedings against managers and contractors at Wankhede Stadium, being redone for the 2011 World Cup...Thursday
10 September '09The Shiv Vada Pav scheme may have hit a roadblock with the Shiv Sena-controlled BMC unable to find space for kiosks on pavements, but the party is now pushing its plan through by acquiring privately owned land.Wednesday
9 September '09In a city with more than 17 lakh vehicles congesting roads and the number rising at 5.10 per cent annually...Tuesday
8 September '09For those prescribed Tamiflu after they showed symptoms that point at possible swine flu, it can be dangerous to stop taking doses before completing the five-day course.Wednesday
2 September '09The mass shutdown of textile mills in the ’80s, reclamation to create Nariman Point while simultaneously planning Navi Mumbai...Tuesday
1 September '09Mumbai might account for 33 per cent of the country’s tax collections, but one of every two Mumbaiites lives in a shanty, with little or no access to sanitation, clean drinking water and security.Monday
31 August '09In a city with the reputation of being one of world’s most gender-sensitive, the woman-to-man gender ratio is declining while women are frequently subjected to discrimination and sexual harassment at the workplace.Wednesday
26 August '09Mumbai’s drinking water is getting murkier and its seawater fresher — a contrast brought out by the Environment Status Report of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for 2008-’09.Friday
14 August '09The Pritmani sisters have never looked forward to Monday so fervently. The coming week will mark the end of their 15-day isolation since they tested positive for H1N1...Thursday
13 August '09A unanimous decision by political parties to cancel Mumbai’s Dahi Handi events, which see tens of thousands of people gathering at street corners to watch truckloads of Govindas...Wednesday
12 August '09The MNS started it, as workers of Raj Thackeray’s party went around schools in central Mumbai on Tuesday, “requesting” them to close for the day...Tuesday
11 August '09Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Monday appealed to organisers of Dahi Handi events to limit the number of spectators and reduce the prize money.Sunday
9 August '09The first cloud seeding experiment of the season resulted in 16 mm rainfall at Modaksagar dam on Friday morning.Friday
7 August '09Soon, only eight trees may remain standing along the 15-km stretch from Kurla to Mulund along the Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg.
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