Mumbai: A major fire broke out at 'Centre One' shopping mall outside Vashi railway station in neighbouring Navi Mumbai late on Wednesday evening. Six fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the fire-fighting operation was underway, fire brigade sources said. The fire started sometime after 9.30 pm, they said, adding the cause of the fire could s not be ascertained as yet. ...
11:33 PM, May 09, 2012
Mumbai: Whatever the make and model of the car, the boot isn't the most comfortable place to travel. Take it from Samit Ghangade. The 29-year-old real estate agent from Versova was abducted and being taken to Navi Mumbai by four men when the Nehru Nagar police intercepted the vehicle and nabbed the abductors. As cops at the nakabandi stopped the abductors and approached the car, they heard knocks from the...
12:13 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: In a twisted irony, the Maharashtra state's stringent de-addiction policy sprang brazenly back in its face when 14 Navi Mumbai policemen were caught smuggling 500 bottles of alcohol from Goa. The cops, including an assistant inspector and two assistant sub-inspectors, have been placed under suspension pending further inquiry. The incident happened on Wednesday night when the police team, on deputation with the Reserve Bank of India, were returning from...
12:59 PM, Mar 16, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai airport, at present, caters to 29 million passengers a year, and the overburdened airport is expected to reach its peak saturation capacity of 40 million passengers by 2012. Its only hope is the Navi Mumbai International airport, around 30 km away from it. The airport has an original deadline of 2012, but just a few months away from that deadline, all that has come up on this...
10:17 PM, Oct 15, 2011
Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Airport has been hit by another road block after farmers demanded Rs 20 crores per acre as compensation. Farmers are demanding 4 to 5 times the market rate, for over a thousand acres of land, needed for the airport. Apart from this, they are also demanding rehabilitation and jobs. Twenty-nine million passengers a year now and this overburdened airport is expected to reach its peak saturation capacity...
08:16 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Mumbai: The past one week has almost been a nightmare for the passengers and authorities at the Mumbai airport. There have been at least five near misses or technical problems in one week. The Turkish Airlines flight stuck in mud was towed away only after three days. The incident put the main runway of the Mumbai airport out of action for three days. During that time at least 18 flights...
08:34 AM, Sep 12, 2011
Mumbai: Two members of Hindu right wing group Sanathan Sanstha were on Tuesday sentenced to ten years' rigorous imprisonment by a court here for their role in carrying out three bomb blasts in Thane and Panvel in 2008. Accused Ramesh Hanumant Gadkari and Vikram Vinay Bhave were on Monday found guilty of lesser offences under IPC and under the provisions Explosives Substances Act for causing low-intensity blasts in which eight...
05:44 PM, Aug 30, 2011
Mumbai: Five deaf and mute girls were allegedly raped in a state-funded shelter for differently abled children in Navi Mumbai. Fifteen other minors were also reportedly sexually abused. Four people, including the founder of the home have been arrested and put in custody till March 15. The police say many more could be involved, with the girls reporting they were raped by visitors, including college students and tea vendors. Senior...
07:21 AM, Mar 06, 2011
New Delhi: A major fire broke out at an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) installation near Navi Mumbai early on Tuesday. The fire broke out around 2 AM at the Indian oil facility at Taloja industrial area near Mumbai, fire brigade sources said. There are no reports of any casualties. The fire began in containers holding lubricant oil. It completely gutted the IOC storage area, before being controlled. At least 18...
07:30 AM, Jan 18, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai is all set to have a new airport as the Environment Ministry gave a green signal to the Navi Mumbai airport project. However, the question of rehabilitating 15000 villagers from the site has run into some turbulence. While the residents of Waghiwali village carry on with their daily tasks, there is an air of uncertainty in the village. Waghiwali is one of the 10 villages that will make...
09:44 AM, Dec 12, 2010
Mumbai: Atleast 14 persons were on Tuesday hospitalised after inhaling poisonous Ammonia gas which leaked from a tank in a cold storage room of a company in neighbouring Navi Mumbai, police said. Officials said it was all under control but the entire factory and the nearby premises were evacuated. The gas appeared to have leaked from a tank and the workers inside the R Naik Company that deals in sea...
03:50 PM, Nov 23, 2010
Mumbai: The new international airport at Navi Mumbai has been given a go-ahead after a compromise between the Environment and Civil Aviation ministries and City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Ltd (CIDCO). Announcing the clearance for the airport, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said that River Gadhi would not be diverted to make way for the airport and added that 161 hectares of mangroves would fall under Navi Mumbai...
03:55 PM, Nov 22, 2010
The main runaway of the Mumbai airport has been partially shut down between 9:00 am to 5:00 PM everyday, thereby delay flights both to and from the city. On-ground congestion due to the construction work on the tarmac here, coupled with the fact that the rapid exit taxiways are not in use when the main runway is closed, are leading to a cascading effect of delays both to and from ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
The main runaway of the Mumbai airport has been partially shut down between 9:00 am to 5:00 PM everyday, thereby delay flights both to and from the city. On-ground congestion due to the construction work on the tarmac here, coupled with the fact that the rapid exit taxiways are not in use when the main runway is closed, are leading to a cascading effect of delays both to and from ...
01:09 PM, Nov 16, 2010
Mumbai: The construction of Navi Mumbai airport's runway has been finally cleared. The decision on the controversial international airport in Navi Mumbai was taken at the meeting of an expert group on Wednesday. Two hundred acres of mangroves have to be chopped, a river to be diverted, a hill to be flattened, and a bio-diversity park have to be built for this airport. However, no shops are to be shifted...
04:56 PM, Nov 10, 2010
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.
Disclaimer: Network18 Media & Investments Limited is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, an offer of its equity shares on rights basis and has filed a Draft Letter of Offer with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The Draft Letter of Offer is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the websites of the Lead Managers at www.icicisecurities.com and www.rbs.in Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and are requested to refer to "Risk Factors" in the Draft Letter of Offer. The Equity Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act"), or any state securities laws in the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, "U.S. persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act) except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in accordance with any applicable U.S. state securities laws.
Disclaimer: TV18 Broadcast Limited is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, an offer of its equity shares on rights basis and has filed a Draft Letter of Offer with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The Draft Letter of Offer is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the websites of the Lead Managers at www.icicisecurities.com and www.rbs.in Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and are requested to refer to "Risk Factors" in the Draft Letter of Offer. The Equity Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act"), or any state securities laws in the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, "U.S. persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act) except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in accordance with any applicable U.S. state securities laws.
