The BMC said around 3,500 residents of the 55-floor Orchid Enclave tower adjoining the mall were shifted as a precautionary measure.
Restaurants with 50 per cent capacity, weekly markets and religious places will reopen in Delhi from June 14, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Sunday, saying the COVID-19 situation has significantly come under control in the city.
As the number of cases crossed 2,56,000 with more than 7,100 fatalities, according to Union health ministry figures, and the country made a calibrated exit from the lockdown in non-containment zones, shop shutters in many malls went up for the first time since March 25 but the sprawling retail places were eerily empty.
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made it clear that shops in market places, multi-brand and single brand malls located in municipality areas shall continue to remain closed till May 3.
Calling malls, cinema halls, weekly markets, metro services and religious places "superspreader" areas, the Delhi government has directed all district magistrates to greatly intensify enforcement of COVID-19 norms in such places in view of a persistent rise in cases in the city.
Mobile internet was suspended for 24 hours in several areas of Udaipur and all schools were ordered to remain closed after a class 10 student stabbed another boy at a government school, triggering communal violence in the city.
The relaxations will come into effect from Tuesday morning, said a government order.
All borders of the national capital will be sealed for the entry of commercial and heavy vehicles by Thursday midnight apart from heavy police deployment, they said.
Shoi Ghoshal from Sydney told the BBC that she and her husband Debashis Chakrabarty were at the Westfield shopping centre at Bondi Junction earlier today when the attack started to unfold.
The India meteorological department (IMD) on Wednesday evening issued a red alert for Mumbai and its neighbouring districts, predicting "extremely heavy rainfall".
Groceries, apparel, computers, phones and sporting accessories are among the most popular. There is also a growing trend of men visiting the store, rather than women.
This is probably one of the longest fire-fighting operations in Mumbai in recent times.
The largest Indian mall is less than a fourth of the world's largest mall and does not figure amongst the 30 largest malls in the world.
At least half a dozen are in the works with increasing brand awareness and growing purchasing power in upper classes.
The world's biggest malls belong to Asia with two of the toppers from China.
A sojourn in Seoul, one of Asia's largest metropolises, where the ultra-modern coexists with the ancient -- temples and palaces with futuristic skyscrapers climbing to the stratosphere, K-pop with Buddhism, a village within city limits.
The alleged shooter, who carried an assault rifle, was a sergeant in the Thai military. He was clad in camouflage and a helmet during the rampage. The gunman wrote on his Facebook page earlier in the day that 'Death is inevitable for everyone'.
The ruling Trinamool Congress claimed that the strike call exposed the BJP's game plan to foment disturbances in the state exploiting people's pain over the alleged rape and murder of a woman doctor.
Making shopping an enjoyable experience are its swanky malls with global and Indian fashion stores, super markets, restaurants, movie theatres and entertainment zones.
As Unlock 4.0 commenced on Tuesday, most of the states further eased the coronavirus-induced restrictions on the movement of people and functioning of commercial establishments like bars and hotels with mandatory COVID-19 precautions. After remaining closed for more than five months, bars and restaurants opened in states like Goa, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The Centre had allowed reopening of bars under the Unlock 4 guidelines.
Kataria has been involved in a big nexus of the human traffickers since last year and may have links with an international gang, the police said.
Bigg Boss OTT winner Elvish Yadav who has been booked for allegedly assaulting a YouTuber in a shopping mall in Gurugram posted a clarification video on Saturday claiming that the latter had threatened to burn him and his family alive.
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10 malls expected to go off business this year
Malls have become an inevitable part of the retail boom all over the world.
The vacancy levels in malls have come down to 14.51 per cent in July-September quarter mainly due to decline in supply of new mall space.
Malls have become an inevitable part of the retail boom all over the world.
Further relaxing the Covid-19 curbs, the Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to allow malls and restaurants to remain open till 10 pm with a 50 per cent capacity from August 15 onwards, provided the entire staff is fully vaccinated against Covid-19. Shops are also allowed to operate till 10 pm.
The Badlapur school, where two young girls were allegedly sexually abused, preferred to cover up the crime instead of helping their parents file a police complaint, said Susieben Shah, chairperson of Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, on Wednesday.
Experts feel that mall owners anticipate an increase in costs to the tune of 15-20 per cent annually, prompting a mixed response to the '24 hours' initiative. A mall owner said while the policy is good in spirit, implementing it would be a challenge as night shopping or eating out wasn't a habit in Mumbai yet.
Police personnel checked vehicles and conducted flag marches at various places in Punjab on Wednesday while central forces maintained a tight vigil in Tripura.
Furniture retailer Ikea India on Thursday said it will shut down its store in Mumbai's R City Mall by the middle of this year and explore omnichannel formats in the city. The store at R City Mall, which is spread across 72,000 sq ft, opened in June 2022 to test the viability of small-format stores. The company's plan to shut down the store illustrates the concerns surrounding the viability of running a small-format store, given the rising rentals.
Of the 300 operational malls in the country, just 5-7 per cent, or about 20 malls, are doing well, suggest analysts reports.
Almost all the big mall developers/investors - such as Raheja-owned Inorbit Malls, Xander-APG joint venture Virtuous Retail South Asia (VRSA), property developer Prestige Estates Projects, and Blackstone-owned Nexus Malls - are looking to double their space in a year or two.
Malls have become an inevitable part of the retail boom all over the world.
The spring/summer end-of-season sales have been advanced by a week with brands having high inventories due to weak demand in May because consumers avoided shopping in the hot month.
At 9.5% of sales, Zara offers the best revenue share to Mumbai's posh Oberoi mall. This is the highest revenue share offered by any fashion retailer for an anchor position in a mall.
Ahead of New Year, the Delhi police carried out mock drills to check the preparedness of the security forces.
Footfall at malls are down 20-25 per cent in the past couple of years.
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