
Tuesday 24 November, 2009
When he started his ‘virtual helpline’ in the early hours of November 27 last year, to help foreigners and others with information — updated diligently every few minutes...Monday 23 November, 2009
This is the second time in a couple of months that I have come back to India from the US. And this time I understood one simple thing: America is still under the grip of abject slavery.Monday 23 November, 2009
The opening of Mumbai’s first ice lounge, a bar with furnishings made of ice and maintained at sub-zero temperatures, is significant for two reasons.Monday 23 November, 2009
Football shorts made of sari fabric and camouflage combat gear, fashion designer and costume stylist Aki Narula has sure come out with some wacky designs.
Monday 23 November, 2009
They don’t have much in common except that they both used the women in their lives as muses for their paintings and that they are masters of experimentation.Monday 23 November, 2009
A 32-year-old doctor from KEM Hospital in Parel was arrested on Saturday night after a 26-year-old woman accused him of molestation.Monday 23 November, 2009
Over 900 girls from 8 municipal schools celebrated ‘girlhood’ on Saturday to mark Children’s Day and 20 years of the child rights convention A Santacruz-based non governmental organisation, Vacha, organised the event in which short films made by girls were screened and photograp...Monday 23 November, 2009
Officials from the Traffic Police Department caught 162 people for driving under the influence of alcohol, on Saturday night.Monday 23 November, 2009
A city-based skin bank has become the country’s first such facility to store tissues up to three years, as compared to the current four-week period.Monday 23 November, 2009
Sahar Police have arrested one Sanjay Gaud who tried to extort Rs 50,000 from a businessman by posing himself as an officer from the anti-corruption branch of Mumbai Police.Monday 23 November, 2009
EdelGive Foundation, a charitable arm of the financial services company Edelweiss Capital, has said it will confer its annual Edelweiss Social Innovation Honours Awards to non-governmental organisations working towards improving the status of women in India.Monday 23 November, 2009
The state government on Saturday opposed the bail application of Malegaon blast case accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur in the Bombay High Court, claiming that it was not maintainable.Monday 23 November, 2009
The operators of the city’s first Metro Rail are using Geographic Information Service technology for maintenance of the under-construction Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar Metro rail corridor.Monday 23 November, 2009
In spite of Supreme Court strictures against handcuffing undertrials and parading them, hundreds of them are brought handcuffed to the Kalyan magistrate’s court everyday.Monday 23 November, 2009
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena group leader in the Vidhan Bhavan, Bala Nandgaonkar, says he has no regrets over the Abu Azmi episode.Monday 23 November, 2009
Special public prosecutorUjjwal Nikam, who calls himself Ajmal Kasab’s biggest enemy, speaks toMustafa Plumberon the evidence