Today is the day to mull and tomorrow the day to walk to your polling booth and decide what you want: a good city where there is a compliant corporator or a bad city with an arrogant politician ruling our civic destiny, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
After a gruelling 24 hours, the PhonePe team has fully restored UPI on the payment platform. The app is up and running again with ICICI Bank as its new partner with all payment instruments enabled.
The Sports Authority of India (SAI) might have told its national campers to stay away from the World Series of Hockey but the SAI-owned Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium will host the opening ceremony and the inaugural match of the controversial event starting December 17.
'The situation is especially serious in major hotspot districts or emerging hotspots like Ahmedabad and Surat (Gujarat), Thane (Maharashtra), Hyderabad (Telangana), and Chennai (Tamil Nadu),' the MHA statement said.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has claimed to have found incriminating documents pertaining to the Adarsh Housing Society from the premises of senior Indian Administrative Service officer and former Mumbai civic chief Jairaj Phatak.
Big conglomerates of Japan, including Mitsubishi Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, and Mitsui Group, are looking to both build and buy commercial properties in key Indian cities.
The assurance came hours after the Centre accused the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government of obstructing a central team deputed to assess the coronavirus ground situation.
The family that used to make the legendary sports car wants to bring the same design panache to luxury flats.
Six straight defeats weighing them down, debutants Pune Warriors' enormous task of keeping their wafer-thin hopes of advancing to the next stage alive doesn't get any easier as they take on table-toppers Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League.
The Frankfinn Institute of Air Hostess Training has openings for various positions in their Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nagpur and Gujarat centres.
Jagran Prakashan, the publisher of Hindi daily Dainik Jagran, on Wednesday said it will acquire the publication business of Mid-Day Multimedia through a share swap deal.
Noise levels began to climb and everyone else in the room stared agape as the fracas escalated, including the trio of accused at the back. Peter, Sanjeev and Indrani stood at the edge of their enclosure craning to see the spectacle.
The cola wars will no longer be restricted to Coke and Pepsi, with their Latin American competitor Ajegroup setting up shop in India.
CST Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Howrah, Sealdah, Thiruvanathapuram, Chennai, Bhopal, Madhura Junction, New Jalpaiguri and Kochi are some of the stations that will be modernised.
The sale of Nature's Basket, Godrej's chain of food stores in west India, is the second exit by a big group in a year in the category
Whether it is DLF in the National Capital Region, or Godrej Properties and Oberoi Realty in Mumbai or Sunteck Realty, Prestige Estates and Sobha Realty in Bengaluru, most top players have launched or lined up a slew of new project launches during this season.
In fact, in the past four years, there have been eight alerts from the Intelligence Bureau regarding a terror strike being planned on the city
Readers send in their Diwali getaways. Share yours!
Cyclone Nisarga slammed Maharashtra coast with wind speeds of up to 120 kmph, making landfall at 12.30 pm at Alibaug near Mumbai. The process was completed by 2.30 pm, a senior India Meteorological Department official said. Alibaug witnessed wind speeds of up to 120 kilometres per hour. It weakened into a 'deep depression' late on Wednesday evening, the IMD said.
The businessman was summoned at the ED's office and was asked questions about the purported links of the alleged main accused of the case Amit Bhardwaj with his businesses.
The first crowd-funded Kannada film will be released on September 6 by PVR's Director's Rare.
Around twenty-five thousand retail mobile traders from across Maharashtra downed their shutters today in protest against the imposition of higher VAT at 12.5 per cent on sales of mobile handsets.
Presenting the Interim Railway Budget 2009-10 in the Lok Sabha on Friday, the minister said this is in addition to the bullet train proposals between Delhi-Amritsar, Ahmedabad-Mumbai-Pune, Hyderabad-Vijayawada-Chennai, Chennai-Bangalore-Ernakulam and Howrah-Halida which were announced in 2007-08 Railway Budget.
AdamSmith Institute of Management (ASIM) invites applications for admission to its two-year, full-time MBA 2009 programme
Les Roches International School of Hotel Management and Glion Institute of Higher Education, Switzerland, is organising a seminar for under graduate, graduate and post-graduate students interested in a career in the hospitality industry.
Agency sources said it is a major operation in which agencies of China, Romania and the US are jointly acting along with CBI against cyber criminals in these countries who were allegedly hacking into websites based in the US and duping people financially.
Gadkari said that the MSME sector contributes significantly in pushing the country's economic growth and creating employment.
'We will do whatever is suggested to us. We will co-operate with whatever is told to us.'
MCA blamed its financial troubles on non-receipt of payments from the Board of Control for Cricket in India for the last 10 months.
In May last year, Peninsula forayed into the hospitality sector with a joint venture with textile maker and real estate developer, Arrow Webtex. The JV planned to build hotels in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Nasik and Kolhapur in Maharashtra. There were also plans to develop hotels in Ahmedabad, Surat, Jamnagar, Mundra port, Goa and Kerala.
Both partners would inject $200 million each in the form of equity and hold 50 per cent stake each. They plan to raise another $600 million in the form of debt to create a corpus of $1 billion to develop malls across tier-I, II and III cities.
Over 200 successful IITians will launch an unique 'Entrepreneurship Movement' on the Republic Day in 16 citiies across the country to coach 1,000 budding entrepreneurs.
Prince William and his wife Kate will undertake their maiden visit to India next year, Kensington Palace announced on Friday.
While the exact number of employees being asked to quit could not be confirmed, sources said close to 1,000 employees were tipped to go. Syntel has around 11,000 employees in India. The shifting of employees to the KPO operations is part of increasing its utilisation and reducing the bench strength.
While student housing, retirement homes, and co-living spaces are going to be new realty growth drivers, Parekh also said foreign investors have also been investing in a big way in good commercial projects, while warehousing is another segment where they are showing keen interest.
'After that, volumes and prices would move up.'
Travelling at a speed of 300 km per hour on the Mumbai-Pune-Nagpur route may not be a distant dream for train commuters as a pre-feasibility report submitted to Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said it is a viable proposition.
Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Patna are among 16 cities in the country where old vehicles will soon be phased out. The phase-out will extend to private and commercial vehicles.
Mahindra Xylo targets one bird too many with its sedan-killer strategy.
The second quarter saw demand being increasingly channelled towards micro-markets, with strong corporate activity or infrastructural initiatives in these four cities. The quarter saw developers being less aggressive on fresh project launches, with more focus instead on individual projects and increased amenities to generate buyer interest.
