The Bombay High Court on Thursday (February 5) ordered the Maharashtra government to remove Director General of Police (DGP) A.N. Roy. The court also notified the state government to make the appointment of the new police chief within four weeks. The notifications were given by a division bench ...

Mumbai is going to house the tallest building of India. Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan yesterday (23rd January) approved the proposal for this 101-storeyed tower to be built by Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).
 
The 526 meter-tall (1,725 feet) building is to ...

US Senator John McCain, on Tuesday (December 02) opposed a military strike against Islamabad since there was no hard evidence against Pakistan in the Mumbai terror attack. He was hopeful that the government of Pakistan would cooperate in probing the heinous attack on India’s financial ...

The post-attack moments have not been going respectable for the Congress-NCP led coalition government in Maharashtra. In a latest reprimand, the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has said that the Government of Maharashtra has been callous on ensuring proper maritime ...

Fresh reports on Mumbai attack send a clear indication that intelligence agencies had precise information at least 10 months ago that the Lashkar-e-Taiba was planning an attack on one of the prominent five-star hotels of Mumbai.
The reports state that on September 18, Research and Analysis Wing ...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh offered to quit his office owing to the mounting pressure on government after the terror attacks on Mumbai. He is reported to have sent his resignation letter to the party high command. Earlier, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil also resigned ...

A day after the Congress Working Committee showed “the exit” to anti-incumbent Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil on Monday morning (December 01) resigned from his chair. Patil termed the abdication as a decision taken as per his conscience ...

Bollywood actor Ashish Chaudhary lost his sister Monica Chhabaria and her husband to the terror strike on Oberoi Trident Hotel. The actor had been waiting for the news on his sister and brother-in-law since Wednesday night, the night Mumbai shook with terror. Monica and her husband had gone to ...

The commandos fighting the terrorist at Taj Mahal Hotel have recovered a Mauritian identity card, credit and debit cards of banks and explosives from the terrorists, a senior marine commando said.
According to the commando, a bag filled with material was recovered from the hertiage building of the ...

To coordinate with Indian intelligence and security agencies about the planning and evidence collected on the attacks, the United States of America is sending a delegation of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and forensic scientists to Mumbai, a media report in New York said on Friday (November ...

India’s National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil told the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) that the terrorists involved in the on-going terror attack on Mumbai were members of Lashkar-e-Toyeba and originated in neighbouring ...

In a pronouncement that immediately appears as an implicit victory of the Maharastra Navnirman Sena (MNS), the Congress led Democratic Front government in Maharashtra asked the industries in the state to provide between 50 and 80 per cent jobs in various manufacturing units to the locals. By ...

Mumbai is all set to get a metro railway project as the central government has approved to fund the first phase of the project with an amount of Rs15.32 billion. The high-expenditure metro rail is likely to be completed in four years. According to a high official of Mumbai Metropolitan Region ...

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) supremo Raj Thackeray got bail within minutes after a court in the Maharashtra town of Kalyan sent him to jail till Nov 5. Thackeray was released on a surety of Rs 15,000. Earlier he was sent to judicial custody for instigating the party activists to vandalize ...

Mumbai police have arrested Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray from Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra at the early hours of October 21, 2008. The MNC chief was arrested because of Sunday's brutal attack on north Indian rail exam candidates by party activists. He is likely to be ...

One of most famous shrines in Mumbai, the Haji Ali Dargah will be entirely reconstructed in the same Makrana marble that was used for the Taj Mahal. The demolition and reconstruction work of the holy shrine is scheduled to start after Eid on October 2, 2008. The Rs 100-million (over $ two million) ...

The chief of Darul-Uloom Hijaziya Chishti of Mumbai has issued the 'fatwa' against Salman Khan and his family for participating on Ganeshotsav. Reacting on the development Salman's father and veteran Bollywood scriptwriter Salim Khan questioned the locus standi of the people who have imposed Fatwa ...

Jaya Bachchan has apologized for her anti-Marathi remarks; she did not intend to hurt anybody from Maharashtra. However, she said that she was misunderstood and that her comments were actually hinted at those Bollywood actors who despite working in Hindi films prefer to talk in English during ...

Like every year, this year too, Mumbaikars showed their love and affection for Ganpati after waiting for hours in the narrow lanes of Lalbaug to catch the first glimpse of the deity. As the red curtain went up, the Lord of Beginnings was greeted with cheering and chanting by numerous devotees. ...

Asserting their rights gays, lesbians, and transsexuals recently held a parade in commercial capital of India, Mumbai. Manvendra Singh Gohil, the prince of Rajpipla, talking on behalf of the groups said that they are asking British to apologize for the legacy of hatred British has left in the form ...

Another case of mixing drinking and driving has come into the fore after the recent case of 3 students dying in car crash in Delhi owing to drunk driving. This time in Malad in Mumbai a car ran over many people, late on Sunday night leaving eleven of them seriously injured. A bottle of liquor is ...

Shiv Sena leader and editor of ‘Saamna’ Mr Bal Thackeray has condemned the attack on Mr Kumar Ketkar, editor of Loksatta. Earlier on Friday Ketkar was attacked at his house in Thane for his editorial. Thackeray said that Loksatta editorial was not against Shivaji and Ketkar just wanted ...

The explosion of a crude bomb in the parking lot of a prominent Thane hall, Gadkari Rangayatan near Masunda Lake in Mumbai on Wednesday 4 June left seven people injured. The bomb blast happened just a few minutes before a play titled Amhi Pachpute was scheduled to be staged at the hall at 4.30 pm. ...

 
The Maharashtra government says that it plans to build a statue off the Mumbai coast to rival New York’s Statue of Liberty. The statue will be of the great Maratha warrior king Shivaji, who is revered for his heroism in defying the Mughal and British forces from the state of ...

The Bandra-Worli sea link is to be opened in the year 2009. The 5.6 km long link is to be commissioned in the coming year, according to Maharashtra Minister for Public Undertakings Anil Deshmukh. After a site visit, he was addressing a press conference in which he said that 78% of the work has ...

The Government finally gave approval for the construction of an International Airport at Navi Mumbai. The airport will be developed through Public Private Partnership (PPP) and it will be built along the lines of the Greenfield Airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore. Because of the ever growing air ...

Forbes, leading business magazine, has recently revealed that India’s commercial capital Mumbai has the seventh largest population of billionaires in the world. Russian capital Moscow tops the list of cities having the maximum number of billionaires in the world. Moscow boasts of 74 ...

 Without paying any heed to police warnings, MNS chief Raj Thackeray again targeted the north Indians saying that only Maharashtra Day should be celebrated in the state. Resisting the warnings of the government to arrest him, he again spoke against the north Indians saying that he will not ...

The Mumbai fans will not see the smiling and flamboyant cheerleaders performing in the IPL matches to be played in Navi Mumbai. It is to be noted that Mumbai will play five IPL matches at the D.Y. Patil stadium in Nerul and all those matches will feature no cheerleaders. The first ...

Very soon you may find the streets of Mumbai free from hawkers. The Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) has plans to restrict the number of hawkers roaming in the streets.  Following an order of the Supreme Court the BMC has marked the hawking zones in the city.
 
It is to be noted that ...