Around 700 shanties were gutted in a fire in Santoshpur-Maheshtala area on the outskirts of the city on Saturday, leaving more than a thousand people homeless. ...
10:32 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Two MLAs, a corporator and 150 others were booked for allegedly rioting and preventing cops from discharging their duty in suburban Mulund, police said on Monday. According to the police, a mob of about 150 people, including Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Sardar Tara Singh, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MLA Shishir Shinde, BJP corporator Prakash Gangadhare began setting fire to the Neelam Nagar shanties in Mulund on Sunday, alleging that they had...
09:45 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Mumbai: Cruising along the wavy road along the Haji Ali sea face to Worli, you would miss the frayed squares of cloth that balloon up on the other side of the embankment, where the tetra pods mark the start of reclaimed land. When you peer over, you see that the cloths form the roofs of tenuous makeshift houses built among the rocks, stretching between the Haji Ali jetty and Lala...
12:40 PM, Apr 11, 2012
