The fifth Tata Tea, Jaago Re, Soccer Stars tournament kicked off at St. Xavier’s Ground, Parel (T.T.) on Tuesday. This event has a mention in The Limca Book of Records for having highest number of venues in a tournament. This year it is being held in 15 locations all over the nation. 60 schools from [...]
What do cricketers like VijayMerchant and Vijay Hazare, badminton players like Prakash Padukone, Aparna Popat, and actors like Shah Rukh Khan, Sunny Deol, Juhi Chawla and Vinod Khanna have in common? Each of them has, at some point in the past, been serviced by the Wagles of Marine Lines — owners and founders of Wagle [...]
The return of Mumbai’s premier open sea swimming race, the Square Off Mumbai Swimathon 2012—Sunk Rock to Gateway, on February 25 is being eagerly anticipated by swimmers across the country. The race, which was first held in 1947, was organised annually until the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai in 2008, when a group of terrorists [...]
भाजपा के राष्ट्रीय सचिव डॉ. किरीट सोमैया ने आज एक प्रेस वार्ता में कहा कि गुप्तचर विभाग की किसी रिपोर्ट में लिखी गयी बातें एक मुख्यमंत्री कैसे सार्वजनिक तौर पर कह सकता है, यह आचार संहिता का उल्लंघन है| डॉ. सोमैया आज भाजपा के नरीमन पॉइंट स्थित पार्टी कार्यालय में एक प्रेस वार्ता को संबोधित [...]
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan addressed students from about 15 colleges of Mumbai on Monday. He urged the youth to vote in the upcoming Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) Elections scheduled on the 16th of this month, in his speech at Kishinchand Chellaram College, Churchgate. While answering a question on lack of open spaces in Mumbai [...]
Mumbai, 9 February: The coalition of Shiv Sena, BJP and RPI (Mahayuti) released their BMC election manifesto last week, at the Shiv Sena Bhawan in Dadar. Uddhav Thackeray, President of Shiv Sena; Sudhir Mungantiwar, State President of the BJP; Ramdas Athawale, President of RPI ; Namdev Dhasal of the Dalit Panthers were present at the [...]
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ward no. 169 may be under Mayor Shraddha Jadhav but, according to its residents, the condition of the ward is “worse than hell”. The open-category ward comprises of C.G.S. Colony Sector VII, Antop Hill. The residents say that the area near the mayor’s residence is clean and blossoming, but the [...]
Almost one month since the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) voter helpline has been in operation, people on the street seem clueless contradicting ‘very good response’ claims of the company running it. The BMC, meanwhile, is too busy to keep a tab on its very first attempt to provide help just a phone call away. The [...]
Manchester United may have conquered England by winning the English Premier League title last season, but the Red Devils were no match for aamchi Mumbai. Manchester United, reported to be the most popular football club in the world, is in India for the first time as a part of their DHL Champ19ns Trophy Tour, where their 19th [...]
‘Slap Your Vote’, a protest-cum-voter awareness campaign with over 30,000 likes on Facebook, saw little participation from active Facebook users. Most participants did not even find out about the event on Facebook. “The Mumbai citizens’ initiative” had invited “all Mumbaikars to voice their frustrations caused by inefficient office-bearers of the Brihan Mumbai [sic] Municipal Corporation [...]
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