Monsoon hits Mumbai; heavy rain hits train, road, air traffic

The Mumbai metropolis on Saturday received heavy rainfall following the onset of the southwest monsoon, leading to delay in the running of suburban trains, severe waterlogging on the roads. IMAGE:......

Cheers to jugaad!

Following the Supreme Court ruling against liquor being sold within 500 metres of state and national highways, the infamous Indian jugaad is in play once again. Veenu Sandhu, Nikita Puri, Ranjita......

Oberoi, Phoenix, Godrej to outrun peers at Dalal Street

The Oberoi Realty scrip has gained 19 per cent this month on brokerage upgrades and expectations of a re-rating after new launches and a sales uptick from existing projects. The stock has......

Mall closures at all-time high in 2016

10 malls expected to go off business this year Snazzy new malls are driving older, smaller and poorly designed ones out of business. Five malls shut down last year and 10 others in Chennai,......

Stand-off between retailers and malls over rentals worsens

At the heart of the matter are revenue-share rental agreements that retailers are mooting over fixed-rent contracts that they say are unsustainable, given the revenue loss they’ve suffered......

Luxury malls catch realty developers' fancy

At least half a dozen are in the works with increasing brand awareness and growing purchasing power in upper classes. Malls selling luxury brands are increasingly catching the fancy of property......

Review: Island City is a compelling film about Mumbai

Island City should not be missed, raves Aseem Chhabra. Ruchika Oberoi's Island City is set in that massive, over-populated island city called Mumbai. The characters that reside in the three......

Review: Gurgaon is supremely entertaining

Director Shanker Raman, with an appetite for noir and a natural temperament for fast-cutting, takes you so swiftly and so deeply inside Gurgaon's anomie that you may mistake his vision of the city......

'I don't mind being linked to Aditya Roy Kapur'

'I did not imagine I would be offered a film like Sonali Cable,' Rhea Chakraborty gets candid with Sonil Dedhia.  After Mere Dad Ki Maruti, VJ-turned-actress Rhea Chakraborty returns......

'The BCCI threatened me'

'I have been made a scapegoat because the BCCI's ACSU unit wants to show to the world that they are doing something.' 'Would the Board have acted in the same manner if a big player was involved?'......