Navy personnel perform yoga on board INS Vikramaditya. In the run-up to the International Day of Yoga, several naval ships are conducting yoga and meditation sessions on board.
Which stars caught Rediff.com Contributing Photographer Pradeep Bandekar's eye on Tuesday?
The trigger is the state government's recent approval for a floor space index of 1.33 for Mumbai city and an FSI of one for the suburbs.
Photographer Pradeep Bandekar's cameras captured these stars on Thursday.
Singh's entry to the BJP comes ahead of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation elections slated next year.
Modi knows that the BMC elections are critical for his party which has never won a majority in the city's 227 wards.
The civic body had come under severe attack in June.
The IMD has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, warning of very heavy rains at isolated places with strong winds on Monday as the very severe cyclonic storm Tauktae is likely to pass close to the Mumbai coast towards Gujarat.
Former Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi tells Rediff.com's Savera R Someshwar he is shocked that the Marathi Manoos, for whom Balasaheb Thackeray did so much, are raising objections to a samadhi to the Shiv Sena patriarch at Mumbai's Shivaji Park.
The NCMC facilitates convenient travel while integrating last-mile connectivity, a must in India's extensive landscape. It enables travellers to pay for a cross-section of needs, including toll tax, retail shopping, and withdrawing money.
'We are not organising any large celebrations on New Year's Eve to avoid last-minute changes in guidelines.'
Fearing reprisals against Maharashtrians residing in northern states due to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray's recent comments against Biharis, Republican Party of India-Athvale leader Ramdas Athavale on Monday appealed to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to protect Marathis in his state.
Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has been in the news for its aggressive stance against 'outsiders,' who the MNS says, deny employment opportunities to Maharashtrians. "We are not opposed to other communities, this is a wrong perception about us," MNS leader Nitin Sardesai insists in an exclusive interview with Rediff.com
'If we don't control the additional pollutants that come from various human activities then, the pollution level will not come down.'
Apparently frustrated over not being able to get a job in the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation, a 25-year-old woman on Monday allegedly tried to commit suicide by immolating herself outside the civic body's headquarters in south Mumbai.
How did Mumbai tightly control the case-spread deaths while Delhi so obviously did not? And what do the answers imply regarding preparedness for the third wave, asks Omkar Goswami.
Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan appointed Subodh Kumar, a 1977 batch IAS officer, as the commissioner of India's richest civic body - the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Kumar replaces Swadhin Kshtriya who has been appointed as the revenue secretary.
Bad economics does not always mean good politics. Its time UPA woke up to that.
The Kapoors gathered at the inauguration of the Surinder Kapoor Chowk on Thursday, February 6.
Mumbai was excluded from the 20 per cent cut in power tariff charged to domestic consumers, industries and power looms by the state-run Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MahaVitaran), he lamented while addressing his supporters.
This is the first in a Business Standard series on water woes faced by the country's biggest cities and the lack of strategy to deal with the crisis that bothers every household.
'Even though the government gets loans from foreign countries for the development of the poor, the poor don't benefit,' says Magsaysay Award winner Jockin Arputham.
Taking a cue from neighbouring Gujarat and its successful Vibrant Gujarat summit, Maharashtra has organised a conclave -Transforming MMR into a Global Financial, Commercial and Entertainment Hub - on February 6.
Waste management, digital urban land management and urban transportation key areas of focus
Residents yet to recover from shock as Dahisar river in spate leaves behind a wake of destruction.
Money fuels greed - the Satyam scam is proof of that - but for a few lucky winners, television game shows have been a ticket out of poverty and to fame. Abhilasha Ojha speaks to our own slumdog millionaires.
'They were only chanting one slogan, "Ghar jaana hai (we want to go home)".'
'Safest' looks like a phone booth, but is a state-of-the-art mobile COVID-19 testing lab.
'Cases are increasing, day by day, because testing has increased.'
'Coronavirus is not the only emergency, and it is certainly not the only illness people can suffer from'
'I am trying to make the political system more answerable to the people.'
'Considering Mumbai's population density, one can expect to see more positive cases in areas like Dharavi in the days to come.' 'That is the challenge before the public health infrastructure and preparation of the city in dealing with such crises.'
According to insiders, "talks are on" between the Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena at "an exploratory level".
The FIR by the Bihar police says Rs 15 crore was siphoned off from Sushant's account.' 'During the probe, we found he had Rs 18 crore in his account of which around Rs 4.5 crore are still there.'
'It is time to give back to this city that has given me so much.'
Realtors expect BMC's 'single window' clearance to be a game changer, leading to correction in property prices.
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