Lovely star Premkumar has picked another film with one film 'Shatru' ready for release and two films 'Chandra and Charminar' on the floors. This time the title for lovely star Premkumar is 'Local Venkatesha'. The growing actor from the days of 'Nenapirali' Premkumar was hit with a bad luck from a few films. Mathe Banni Pritsona has increased the mileage for him although the film failed. He geared up for...
06:23 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Mumbai: A 30-year-old female on Saturday jumped to death in a creek from a moving suburban train between Bandra and Mahim railway stations, railway police said. According to the police, the woman identified as M Deepti was travelling in a Churchgate-bound local train and at about 12 pm, she plunged in the creek from the moving train. As Deepti, a resident of Bhoiwada in central Mumbai, left her belongings in...
10:06 PM, Jun 16, 2012
Mumbai: The rupee fell to a new record low against the dollar on Thursday as local stocks gave up gains notched earlier in the session while the euro remained near four-month lows. The rupee was last trading at a record low of 54.5650, breaching its previous all-time low of 54.52 hit just on Wednesday. Local stocks were trading flat after rising as much as 1.3 per cent earlier in the...
04:50 PM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Disruption in train services is fast becoming a norm in the Mumbai suburban rail network. Of late, glitch after glitch has tossed the daily travel schedule of many of the nearly 70 lakh suburban commuters askew. Yesterday gave a double testimony to this growing disturbance. There were technical problems on both Central and Western Railways, especially during morning and evening peak hours. The first incident took place near Vashi...
01:06 PM, May 03, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Congress government is likely to announce local body polls ahead of the byelections to 18 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat in a bid to deflect peoples attention away from its discomfiture in the face of the challenge posed by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. Congress hopes this will defuse Jagans propaganda fallout and help the party save face to some extent. It is expected that the tactic would...
09:41 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Vidyadhar Malegaonkar, Chief PRO, Central Railway said that people in Mumbai were forced to trespass railway lines as "there are not too many connectivities". ...
08:29 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Mumbai: A day after three people died because of heavy rush in Mumbai's local trains, officials are hopeful of restoring services to normal on Friday. They also say that trains just see a delay of maximum 10 minutes and that 95 per cent of the Central Railway is on track. The signal repairing work will also be completed by Friday night. On Thursday, three commuters in an overcrowded Kalyan CST...
08:21 AM, Apr 20, 2012
On Thursday morning, three commuters in an overcrowded Kalyan-CST local hit a signal pole and fell to their death. ...
08:16 AM, Apr 20, 2012
Three people died and 15 others got injured after people fell on the tracks due to overcrowding in local train. ...
11:30 PM, Apr 19, 2012
India on Thursday test fired its most powerful long-range missile Agni-V successfully giving India the much-needed muscle and a strong deterrence against China. ...
11:28 PM, Apr 19, 2012
India test fires its most powerful long-range missile Agni-V. Three dead as 18 people fall from Mumbai local due to overcrowding. ...
11:22 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai as a city has various surprises. It is the city of dreams, it is where people come to live the life of their dreams. ...
08:55 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: It has been a harrowing time for the millions of commuters as the citys lifeline took a hit because of a fire in a main signal. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told the state assembly that the situation would be resolved by Friday night. The technical snag de-railed the Central Line, and worse, over crowding led to three deaths and at least 15 injuries so far. The Central Line...
08:22 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: The turbulence in local trains in Mumbai has taken a toll. Three people died after they fell from a local train between Nahur and Bhandup stations (central line) during heavy rush. Fifteen people were injured. The Nahur station is just ahead of the Mulund station. Central Railway chief PRO Vidyadhar Malegaonkar said the primary reason of the incident was overcrowding. Union Railway Minister Mukul Roy has announced compensation for...
12:04 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Mumbai: In a sigh of relief for commuters, Central Railway has announced that they have restored over 85 per cent of the services on Thursday. According to the officials, the signals from CST towards Kalyan have been fully restored, so no delays expected there. However the signals from Kalyan towards CST are yet to be fully restored. Trains shall be around 25-35 minutes late. As of early morning most have...
08:02 AM, Apr 19, 2012
The local train network is running late because of a fire in the electronic signal panel. ...
10:25 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: Thousands of commuters were stranded on the Central Railway (CR) stations after a midnight fire in a signal cabin. It will take three to four days to fully restore the traffic, a CR spokesperson said adding that services on the Harbour line were also hampered. Only 70 per cent of the normal suburban services would be operated on Wednesday, he said, adding that 4 long distance trains coming from...
08:18 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: First they were stripped of their utensils, furniture, mobile phones, televisions, ration cards and heirloom gold jewellery. Then, some of them drank pesticide. One woman threw herself in a pond. Another jumped into a well with her children. Sometimes, the debt collectors watched nearby. More than 200 poor, debt-ridden residents of Andhra Pradesh killed themselves in late 2010, according to media reports compiled by the government of the south...
08:56 PM, Feb 24, 2012
New York: A startup backed by media billionaire Barry Diller has launched a service that sends live local TV feeds to iPhones and iPads. But the service may be short-lived, since TV stations are likely to challenge its right to use their broadcasts. The service, Aereo, launched in New York this week, but it is available only by invitation. It hopes to broaden access to more people next month, and...
10:07 AM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: As many as half a billion Indians would need new homes in the country's various cities over the next decade, a requirement equivalent to all of China, North America and Western Europe put together, a report on Sunday said. The report -- 'Urban Infrastructure in India' -- prepared by industry body Ficci said the country's population is slated to grow to 1.7 billion by 2050 and rapid urbanisation...
10:45 AM, Feb 05, 2012
