Mumbai: You never know what you might find inside the garbage cans at Mumbai airport. Now before you start planning to get your hands dirty, let's clarify here that the matter pertains to the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Mumbai customs busting a smuggling racket involving some employees at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA). The smuggler would drop their consignment inside a designated garbage box placed near the international terminal...
10:16 AM, Mar 14, 2012
Mumbai: For the first time in recent years, both runways of the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai will be shut for construction work for 5 hours on Saturday. Operations will be closed between 11:30 am to 4:30 pm. Flights or passengers are not likely to be affected, as airlines had been informed of this three months in advance. However, passengers who have to rush to other cities urgently during...
08:47 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Mumbai: Flight operations at the Mumbai Airport, the second busiest in India, will remain shut for five hours on Saturday for its scheduled expansion. The main runway will remain closed from 11:30 hrs to 16:30 hrs for setting up Rapid Exit Taxiway Lights to enhance runway efficiency, said a statement by Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) on Friday. "As part of the schedule closure (1130 hrs to 1630 hrs), there...
12:45 AM, Feb 25, 2012
Mumbai: Miffed at being denied permission to hold election rally at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday said "best friends" NCP and Shiv Sena were indulging in politics to prevent him from campaigning. "NCP and Shiv Sena, who are best friends are indulging in politics to prevent me from campaigning," Raj told reporters in Mumbai. When asked how he plans to hold...
09:56 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Mumbai: In a blow to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena's apparent attempt to score brownie points over its arch rival Shiv Sena, the Bombay High Court on Friday refused to grant permission to the Raj Thackeray-led party to hold a public meeting at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai. MNS had approached the High Court through its President of Dadar division, Sandip Deshpande, seeking permission to use loud speakers at the rally to...
03:38 PM, Feb 03, 2012
Mumbai: Shriya Saran tried her luck in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam movies, but it was the unprecedented box-office success of Tamil film 'Shivaji: The Boss' that she feels gave her acting career a new lease of life. "Shivaji changed my life completely. It did give me a lot of respect. It did open a lot of doors for me. Deepa Mehta saw me in 'Shivaji' and took me...
12:40 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New Delhi: 1982 was a great year for southern actor Smitha who had nine releases lined up. She followed up the year's performance with 13 releases and no one was complaining despite repetitive characterization. Her fan following did not bother about the same basic storyline and just wanted their diva to appear on the silver screen. A storm of whistles and hooting followed every appearance. Smitha was 23 years old...
04:51 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Mumbai: BJP on Wednesday demanded a ban on the controversial book 'Shivarayanchya Badnamichi Kendre' (Forces who Vilify Shivaji) by Purushottam Khedekar for its alleged anti-Brahmin diatribe. Raising the issue in the legislative assembly, BJP member Devendra Phadanvis said "independent" authors have filed police complaints against Khedekar but the government has not yet acted on the contents of the book. Phadnavis read out an excerpt from the book, according to which...
12:48 AM, Aug 04, 2011
Hardwar: Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on Monday criticised Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, saying he had failed to discharge his duty. He also justified wearing woman's clothes to escape during the police crackdown in Delhi's Ramlila Ground, saying like warrior king Shivaji he too had adopted survival tactics. "I have all the respect for the prime minister of the country on a personal level, but he did not discharge his national...
07:47 PM, Jun 06, 2011
Mumbai: Mumbai Airport's traffic woes are set to ease up a bit with the new improved main runway set to start operations full time. Mumbai airport's biggest challenge, in what is the country's most congested airfield, is now complete. At an impressive 60 metres width, it is now ready for the world's largest aircraft - the Airbus 380 and Boeing 747-800. The runway flooding every monsoon leading to passenger delays...
08:37 AM, May 27, 2011
Mumbai: Bollywood actress Minissha Lamba who was detained at the airport on Wednesday for not declaring jewellery estimated to be worth Rs 35-50 lakhs, has claimed that the ornaments were for promotional purpose and do not belong to her. The 26-year-old, who was let off past midnight after being grilled for over 16 hours on her arrival from Cannes, was questioned again on Thursday, during which she admitted that she...
05:40 PM, May 19, 2011
Fans from Mumbai congratulated team India for their win over Sri Lanka in Final. ...
12:30 PM, Apr 03, 2011
Sachin Tendulkar fans cheer for him outside Shivaji Park, where he grew up. ...
10:31 AM, Apr 02, 2011
Mumbai: The first life-size statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji in wax was unveiled here Wednesday evening. The statue has been created by wax artist Sunil Kandalloor and will be displayed permanently at Celebrity Wax Musuem, Lonavala, around 125 km from here. "We took several months to create and complete this major project of a historical figure like Chhatrapati Shivaji. Well-known historian Babasaheb Purandare contributed immensely to give shape to the statue,"...
11:31 AM, Mar 04, 2011
Pune: A scuffle broke out in Pune between the Shiv Sena and the police after the Pune Municipal corporation demolished a statue of Dadoji Konddev, who is known as king Shivaji's Guru. The statue was part of a three statue installation at the historic Lal Mahal. Maratha organisations in the city had been demanding that the statue be demolished by alleging that naming Konddev as the Maratha warrior king's guru...
11:49 AM, Dec 27, 2010
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