Mumbai: As political parties battle it out to capture the control of Mumbai's civic administration, the city's neglected waterfronts are back on priority, being poised for a makeover. But the question is whether plans to transform the island's coast's will ever become a reality. The world's biggest cities including New York, London, Sydney and Tokyo are often defined by their popular waterfronts. Mumbai's 60-km long coastline on the other hand...
01:56 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai: A tragic testimony to the city's fervour during election campaigning was witnessed on Sunday. Four loyalists of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) died and 11 supporters suffered minor injuries after one of the followers waving a flag hoisted to a metal rod touched a live high-tension wire during canvassing for NCP at New Shivaji Nagar in Kalwa on Sunday at 10.30 am. Supporters were drumming up support for corporator...
01:11 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai: There is a paradigm shift in the voter market. Bartering votes in city slums for locally made alcohol just won't do any more. For the dweller of the urban shanty, being courted by the corporate-types moving in to 'tap the bottom of the pyramid', has undergone a refinement of taste. He is demanding that netas ply him with a bottle of foreign liquor in exchange for his vote, and...
12:37 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Karachi: Thousands of members of hardline and outlawed extremist groups joined a rally in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday, with Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammed Saeed using the occasion to target the US and India. In a fiery speech, Saeed said the 40-odd members of the Defa-e-Pakistan Council would oppose any move by Pakistan to give India Most Favoured Nation-status. "India will not be a favoured nation. We...
10:27 PM, Feb 12, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai Fighters gained a quarter-final berth in the World Series Boxing (WSB) after getting a walkover from Los Angeles Matadors in their last Group A league fight. The fight was scheduled for Monday in the US but was cancelled due to a re-structure of the home team's management. "Our fight against LA Matadors in The Music Box at Hollywood next Monday has got cancelled as their team management has...
11:24 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Lahore: India and Pakistan have the potential to boost bilateral trade to $ 15 billion a year, High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal said on Saturday at the inauguration of the largest ever India-specific trade exhibition in Pakistan. Close to 200 Indian exhibitors are participating in the three-day India Show organised at the Lahore Expo Centre. A wide array of products, ranging from gems to heavy machinery, is being showcased at the...
05:58 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Islamabad: The court conducting the trial of seven suspects charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks on Saturday adjourned proceedings till February 14 after prosecutors informed the judge that authorities were awaiting fresh dates for a Pakistani judicial commission's visit to India. Chief prosecutor Chaudhry Zulifqar Ali told anti-terrorism court Judge Shahid Rafique that Pakistani authorities were awaiting a new schedule from the Indian government for the judicial commission's visit...
05:37 PM, Feb 11, 2012
Mumbai: Eight years after the twin blasts that left 57 people dead at the Mumbai's Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazar, the Bombay High Court upheld the death sentence of three LeT terrorists in 2003 twin Mumbai blasts case. All the appeals filed by the accused have been dismissed by the court. The defence lawyer has said that they will appeal against the order in the Supreme Court. The three...
05:31 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to pronounce on Friday its verdict on confirmation of death sentence to three people, including a woman, convicted in the 2003 Mumbai twin bomb blasts case. A division bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and P D Kode had on November 12, 2011 reserved its judgement in the case. Ashrat Ansari (32), Hanif Sayed Anees (46) and his wife Fehmida Sayed (43) were...
02:52 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Mumbai: Hitting out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that he pitied him. "I feel pity for him. It is unfortunate that he is the Chief Minister of the state," Uddhav said. Chavan had on Wednesday said that Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray will become inconsequential after the February 16 Mumbai civic polls. Mentioning "piles of pending files" with the Chief Minister,...
03:47 AM, Feb 10, 2012
The mercury plunged to 4 degrees in Delhi making it the coldest day in February in 30 years. ...
07:53 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Union Home Ministry on Thursday sought a report from the Maharashtra Police on the claim that an arrested accused of the 13/7 Mumbai blasts case had met former al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2001. "We have taken serious note of the claim. We have sought a report from Maharashtra as we want to know details of the case," a Home Ministry official said....
07:19 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Mumbai: In a setback for Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh, the Mumbai High court has ordered that the land given to Subhash Ghai's Mukta Arts in 2006 be taken back. The court has also asked Ghai to pay Rs 5.3 crore annually from 2000, from the time Mukta Arts entered into a joint venture with the state government. Deshmukh was the Maharashtra Chief Minister during the time when the land allotment...
03:45 PM, Feb 09, 2012
A RTI filed by CNN-IBN reveals Rs 60 crore meant to fix the Mumbai's potholes has gone down the drain. ...
02:50 PM, Feb 09, 2012
Mumbai: An Air Traffic Control staff at the Mumbai airport averted a tragedy on Wednesday evening by aborting the takeoff of Jet Airways' Goa-bound flight carrying 158 passengers when another plane was about to touch down. The ATC asked the Jet pilot to abort the takeoff as an IndiGo flight was about to land, airport sources said. "As instructed by the air traffic controllers, Jet flight from Mumbai to Goa...
09:22 PM, Feb 08, 2012
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