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Makeover dates missed

Thursday 29 January '09

With the nodal agency for the second Metro Rail corridor extending the date for submission of financial bids months before the general elections, the corridor may be thrown off track.
An e-waste processing unit for city, hunt on for private player

Monday 26 January '09

Mumbai, the electronic waste capital of the country, is likely to get an e-waste processing unit run on a public-private partnership model.
Caution, unmarked utility underground

Monday 26 January '09

In a growing city like Mumbai, every new construction runs the risk of meeting an existing utility underground.
Metro rail corridor faces yet another hurdle

Wednesday 21 January '09

Nearly a year after construction work of the city’s first metro-rail corridor began, the project-affected shops located on the stretch from the Navrang Cinema to SV Road junction await relocation.
The wait over, taximen look to buy new cabs

Sunday 18 January '09

Tired of their endless wait for a relief package from the state government, the taxi drivers whose cabs were phased out have begun procedures to buy new ones.
Fund planning under way for Bandra-Kurla Complex Monorail

Saturday 17 January '09

As the construction of the country’s first monorail system in Mumbai is under way, the nodal agency for the project, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), is set to chalk out a plan for a second one at the Bandra-Kurla Complex.
Bandra-Worli sea link hit by delay, again

Tuesday 13 January '09

The much-awaited infrastructure showpiece expected to transform Mumbai’s skyline and ease some of its traffic woes, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, has once again failed to keep its date with motorists.
City feels the heat of truckers’ strike on 4th day

Friday 9 January '09

Four days after the All India Motor Transport Association (AIMTC) called a nation-wide strike, the city has begun to feel the heat.
Land row between state, Mumbai Port Trust may delay Trans-Harbour link

Thursday 8 January '09

While the state government’s ambitious project to link Central Mumbai with the hinterland — the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link— is still in the bidding stages...
Rlys charted Bombay’s growth, now chugs into record books

Thursday 8 January '09

From a feeble cheer when the first train chugged from the Victoria Terminus to Thane on April 16, 1853 to the constant chatter of announcements on jam-packed railway stations...
Global agency may design Metro rail corridor

Wednesday 7 January '09

Faced with the prospects of no private participation in the underground Colaba-Bandra-Mahim Metro rail corridor, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has decided to invite global agencies to prepare a design for the underground project...
Creaking, infrastructure projects just lumbered on

Sunday 28 December '08

If there is one area where the state government and Mumbai’s administrators have added their own mite...
Report suggests elevated bus lane between BRTS corridors

Thursday 25 December '08

The much anticipated Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) that was proposed for the city in December 2006 is finally moving forward, though only in the form of a preliminary feasibility report.
‘Taximen belong to weaker section, give relief package’

Tuesday 23 December '08

With the 25-year-old cabs off the city streets, the largest taxi union here has asked the state administration to consider any relief that can be granted to taxi owners or drivers aggrieved by the government’s move to phase out old the black-and-yellows vehicles.
Plan to replace slums with tenements hits a realty wall

Sunday 21 December '08

With the developers treading carefully during the ongoing slump in the realty market, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s...
Versova-Bandra link can be part sea, part land

Friday 19 December '08

As the city’s first sea link connecting Bandra with Worli is in the final stage of construction, its nodal agency Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation...
Skoda owners want to get rid of ‘terror’ car

Wednesday 17 December '08

Eight months after he bought it following meticulous shortlisting, Ramesh Arasa is eager to sell his Skoda Laura, the sedan carjacked by two terrorists on November 26.
Bandra-Worli sea link: Fishermen's stir prompts pier structure changes

Sunday 14 December '08

As the city’s iconic Bandra-Worli sea link takes final shape in the Arabian Sea...
A truss to prop up work on Bandra-Worli Sea Link

Saturday 13 December '08

The state government’s plan to transform Mumbai into Shanghai just got a major boost that will now help the city’s first visible makeover project to finish faster.
Terror shadow on city facelift

Friday 12 December '08

The recent terror strikes have brought home the realisation that the city’s infrastructure projects need to be guarded from future attacks.
In 1993, he helped land RDX; now he is helping police patrol same coast

Thursday 11 December '08

Fifteen years ago, he did it for a bit of money and paid a heavy price. Today, 47-year-old fisherman Mukhtar Shaikh is trying to undo the burden on his conscience of having helped land the RDX used in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts by assisting in patrolling of the same coast in Raigad district.
Taxi drivers asked to be vigilant

Tuesday 9 December '08

Weeks after two powerful bombs placed in taxis exploded, the taxi unions along with the Mumbai Traffic Police are now asking drivers to be extra cautious while ferrying passengers around the city.
Raigad cops have no boats, patrols use slow, ill-equipped rented vessels

Monday 8 December '08

Along the jagged coastline of Maharashtra’s Raigad district, December 2008 could be March 1993.
Taxis off city roads, cabbies slam government

Thursday 4 December '08

After the Bombay High Court flagging off the move to phase out the black and yellow taxis that are plying on the streets of Mumbai for over 25 years...
Taxi owners, drivers not part of conspiracy: investigators

Wednesday 3 December '08

Nearly a week after two powerful explosions ripped apart two taxis killing five people including its drivers...
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