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Tata Football Tournament comes to Mumbai

Tata Football Tournament comes to Mumbai

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 [...]

India’s oldest sports shop: from Vijay Hazare to Shah Rukh Khan

India’s oldest sports shop: from Vijay Hazare to Shah Rukh Khan

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 [...]

Physically Challenged Swimmers Gear Up For Mumbai’s Sunk Rock to Gateway Race

Physically Challenged Swimmers Gear Up For Mumbai’s Sunk Rock to Gateway Race

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 [...]

ख़ुफ़िया रिपोर्ट की बातें एक मुख्यमंत्री कैसे सार्वजनिक कर सकता है?: किरीट सोमैया

ख़ुफ़िया रिपोर्ट की बातें एक मुख्यमंत्री कैसे सार्वजनिक कर सकता है?: किरीट सोमैया

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 [...]

I promise to protect open spaces in Mumbai: CM

I promise to protect open spaces in Mumbai: CM

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 [...]

Sena-BJP and Allies release Manifesto

Sena-BJP and Allies release Manifesto

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 [...]

Mayor Shraddha Jadhav’s Ward “Worse than Hell”

Mayor Shraddha Jadhav’s Ward “Worse than Hell”

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 [...]

VOTER HELPLINE: PEOPLE UNAWARE BUT BMC CLAIMS RESPONSE ”GOOD”

VOTER HELPLINE: PEOPLE UNAWARE BUT BMC CLAIMS RESPONSE ”GOOD”

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 [...]

Mumbai overwhelms Manchester United

Mumbai overwhelms Manchester United

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 [...]

Facebookers conspicuous by their absence at event with 30,000 likes

Facebookers conspicuous by their absence at event with 30,000 likes

‘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 [...]