The bridge is to be inaugurated on June 30 by Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Mumbaikars welcomed the long-awaited opening of India's first sea link.
The Mumbai power cuts come amid concerns about wider blackouts across the country due to a shortage of coal.
'It is time to give back to this city that has given me so much.'
'Mumbai is at a peak, from here it can only be a downward trend.'
Alkyl Amines Chemicals Ltd announced voluntary retirement scheme to employees at Patalganga plant and Vashi and Worli offices.
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Zee TV presents India's biggest dance carnival on the eve of the grand finale of Lux Dance India Dance.
The Podar Mill, which went under the hammer today, is expected to get higher bids in the remaining two days of the e-auction.
The project has been started on a trial basis during which 24 bicycles -- eight for beaches and 16 for streets -- will be used.
Coastal road will decongest the traffic of Mumbai and will create 91 hectares of green space.
Coming out in defence of old friend Amitabh Bachchan, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Saturday said the actor has done nothing wrong by attending the inauguration of the second phase of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
Samajwadi Party leader Jaya Bachchan on Friday said there was no need for her husband Amitabh Bachchan to apologise for attending the inauguration of the Bandra-Worli sea-link, which has triggered a controversy in Maharashtra politics.
A fire broke out at an under-construction building in Worli, a central Mumbai suburb, on Thursday evening and some people were feared to be trapped inside, the fire brigade said.
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Pravin Mahajan, who lived with his wife and two children in a modest apartment in Maharashtra's Thane district, was an unknown figure until the morning of April 22, 2006 when he shot his brother and prominent Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pramod.
"Both the number of new patients and that of deaths are highest for a single day so far," an official said. 79 persons tested positive for COVID-19 during the day, taking the number of such cases in the country's financial capital to 775, the civic body said.
'Most Chinese are out of the shadow of the 1962 border conflict. They are thinking of how to make money and not about threatening another country,' says Professor Wang Dehua, who advocates better India-China ties.
Off-spinner Johan Botha has replaced Graeme Smith as South Africa's Twenty20 captain, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Saturday.
Workshop on international business etiquette and fine dining by Sabira Merchant.
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Rahul Mahajan's second wife, Kolkata model, Dimpy, who left his Worli house late on Thursday following violent domestic abuse, on Friday said she was very upset and hurt and needed some time to recover from the episode.
Hyderabad-based NTR Memorial Trust Blood Bank is airlifting 100 units of blood of rare groups like A-, B-, O- and AB- to Mumbai to meet the requirements of the victims of the terror attacks.
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah made a fresh appeal to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party to attend the all party meet on Monday to discuss the present situation in the Kashmir valley.
Germany striker Miroslav Klose is one goal shy of equalling Ronaldo's World Cup record of 15 but the 32-year-old striker has his eyes set on a bigger trophy -- the World Cup itself.
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The Nationalist Congress Party on Tuesday asked its ally Congress to decide on alliance for coming assembly polls in Maharashtra by July 15 and in an apparent overture to facilitate the tie-up party, president Sharad Pawar proposed the Bandra-Worli sealink be named after Rajiv Gandhi.
Barely hours after the Bandra-Worli sea link was named 'Rajiv Gandhi Setu', the move drew criticism from Opposition Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance, which favoured it being named after Swatantrayaveer Savarkar.
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Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) would consider action against organisers of the exhibition event where former British F1 racer David Coulthard drove a Formula One car on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link allegedly beyond permissible speed limits.
British scientists have identified the master gene, called E4bp4, that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting 'natural killer' (NK) immune cells.
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi was questioned by IT and Enforcement Directorate officials on Thursday.
Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma, who took the initiative of hosting the informal meeting of important countries and blocs like the US, European Union, Brazil, China and Australia, remained busy today with officials. While it is being seen as a bold step by India to re-energise the Doha talks after they collapsed at Geneva in July 2008, New Delhi is consciously keeping the pitch low so as not to raise expectations from the meeting on Thursday and Friday.
Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi on Friday said that IT officials went back satisfied after the 8-hour questioning.
To checking human trafficking, the government plans to introduce biometric passport system that will include finger-printing, by 2010, external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday. Stating that there was a nexus of recruiting agencies and employers in human trafficking, Mukherjee added that Indian workers fall for the lure of more money and resort to illegal migration and end up being harassed and exploited.
In a relief to the family of late stock broker late Harshad Mehta, the Supreme Court has stayed the sale of the nine residential flats owned by him at Worli in Mumbai.
Breaking his silence for the first time since getting embroiled in a controversy related to the inauguration of the Bandra Worli sea link, Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan in an interview to CNN-IBN has hit out at all his critics for his alleged support to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The Ambani brothers are locked in a bitter battle over the supply and price of the gas from KG basin.
The successes of Clinton's trip have helped to expand the President's vision for a multi-polar world, says the Christian Science Monitor.
The USIBC said that this was 'a significant step that puts decades of Cold War baggage behind the world's two largest democracy', and that in achieving 'consensus' on this 'key bilateral agreement', it held out the promise 'to bolster the US and India as reliable partners for the long future in the sensitive areas of defence and security trade'.
'... so that the hospitals do not get overwhelmed. We have to avoid it at all costs.'
