Mumbai: Life may get a little simpler for Mumbai's millions after a fresh transport option - a seaplane that will complete a two-hour road journey in 7 minutes which will cost Rs 750 equivalent to the cab fare for the same distance. Operated by a private operator Maritime Energy Heli Air Services (MEHAIR), the first-of-its-kind service aims to be take off mid-June, with most police, aviation and governmental clearances coming...
09:55 AM, May 12, 2013
Mumbai: Mumbai's bustling markets on Thursday wore an empty, deserted look. Since Monday, over one lakh traders in the city have shut shop to protest against the Local Body Tax (LBT) that the Maharashtra government has introduced to replace octroi. Traders say that the protest has caused a loss of Rs 75,000 crore so far. But they are not backing down yet. With talks with the government failing, they have...
07:37 PM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: Markets in Mumbai have been shut for days now as traders fight against the controversial Local Body Tax. It has been estimated that the strike has incurred a loss of almost Rs 75,000 crore and it still counting. From grocery stores to restaurants to apparel stores, the bandh was near total. Around 40 traders were detained for holding a rally without permission at Lohar Chawl. But that was no...
08:41 AM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: The oft-heard boarding announcements that would alert passengers at airports about the departure of their flights, is now a thing of the past at Mumbai's domestic airport. Departing private airline passengers at the airport will now have to rely on large display screens put up throughout the airport to find out the status of their flights. It's all a part of the airport's effort to cut noise pollution. A...
09:38 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Aurangabad: Reckless driving by an NCP leader's teenage son in Aurangabad has left a two-year-old dead. Three others, including a five-year-old girl have been seriously injured after the 17-year-old lost control of his SUV. The children were walking with their uncle when the teenager hit the trio before ramming into another vehicle and a shop. The CCTV footage showed that it was senior NCP leader Qadeer Maulana's teenage son at...
01:18 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government faced fire in the Bombay High Court on Monday over its handling of the drought situation. Hearing a petition from two farmers in Solapur, the court said the drought situation has worsened due to government inaction. The court had last week asked the Maharashtra government to release water from two dams to the Ujni Dam. Although the government has started releasing water to the Ujni Dam,...
03:41 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: Barely a week after the Mumbra building collapse in which 74 people were killed, CNN-IBN has found out that three lakh people, housed as part of Mumbai's biggest rehabilitation scheme for those displaced by infrastructure projects, are living in crumbling buildings constructed with substandard material and in imminent danger of collapse. The state of the 500 buildings constructed by a handful of developers from 2005 to 2007 using substandard...
06:43 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Amidst the clamour to seek a pardon for him, actor Sanjay Dutt on Thursday broke his silence. Sanjay said, "Right now I am a shattered man. My family is shattered. I have very very tough time in my life, in our lives." ...
07:09 PM, Mar 28, 2013
A battered Bombay Stock Exchange was one of the most evocative images of the 1993 bomb blasts. Twenty years on, on the day of the verdict on Thursday, it was business at the stock exchange as usual. But for some, the wounds have still not healed. Kirti Ajmera, a stockbroker who underwent nearly 40 surgeries after being grievously injured in the blasts, says the Supreme Court's verdict has not brought...
07:37 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena has demanded IPL franchisees to contribute Rs 500 crore towards drought relief in the state. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Drought-stricken and desperate, Gadana village in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, is a sea of wells. It's a tragic contradiction since most of them are dry. Government rules specify only one well for drinking water at every 500 metres. The Gadana village has 18 wells - eight in a 60 metre area, and yet, they have no water. ...
08:56 AM, Mar 11, 2013
What shocked the country a fortnight ago has now turned into a baffling jigsaw puzzle. Culprits behind the horrendous rape and murder of three school going sisters in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra are still at large, as a clueless police is struggling to make headway in the investigation. ...
08:50 AM, Mar 01, 2013
Nearly two weeks since the horrific rape and murder of three sisters in Maharashtra's Bhandara, no one has been arrested yet. The police remain clueless about where and how the murder took place. ...
08:31 AM, Feb 27, 2013
The Income Tax officials have begun conducting inquiries and raids into a multi-crore wedding extravaganza organised by Maharashtra Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) minister Bhaskar Jadhav for this son and daughter last week in Ratnagiri. ...
07:22 PM, Feb 19, 2013
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