Mumbai citizen fills potholes in memory of dead son
Dadarao Bilhore smooths the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, one of thousands of Indians killed every year in accidents caused by potholes. Prakash…
Mumbai’s Victorian Gothic and Art Deco buildings, Japan Christian sites earn UNESCO heritage status
MANAMA: Mumbai’s Art Deco buildings, believed to be the world’s second-largest collection after Miami, were added on Saturday to UNESCO’s World Heritage List alongside the city’s better-known Victorian Gothic architecture. Moreso, a…
5 killed as chartered plane crashes in Mumbai
MUMBAI: A chartered plane crashed in an open area in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar today afternoon, reported Indian newspaper Deccan Chronicles. The small aircraft crashed in Sarvodaya Nagar of Ghatkopar area in Mumbai at around…
Mumbai win will take them through, and eliminate Royals and Kings XI
Big Picture According to Cricinfo, All Mumbai Indians have to do to make the fourth and last playoff spot their own is beat bottom-placed Delhi Daredevils. Victory will take them to 14…
Mumbai railway worker turns scrapyard into a garden
MUMBAI: A senior technician in the city’s suburban railway has single-handedly converted a quarter-acre scrapyard at Matunga railway workshop into a garden with over 200 plants, Hindustan Times has reported. From removing…
Kareena, Karisma pose with Hillary Clinton in Mumbai
MUMBAI: Kareena Kapoor and Karishna Kapoor posed with Hillary Clinton – the Democratic Party candidate during the United States (US) presidential election of 2016 – at the India Today Conclave held in…
4.4-foot crocodile found inside Mumbai drain
MUMBAI: A 4.4-foot-long marsh crocodile was rescued from a drain near a construction site in Mumbai’s eastern suburb of Mulund late on Sunday, reported Hindustan Times. It took forest officials and animal rescue…
Mumbai chopper crash’s death toll rises to six
MUMBAI: Searchers have recovered two more bodies from the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed off India’s west coast, taking the death toll to six, an official said Sunday. The helicopter went…
Indian caste protests hit Mumbai
Demonstrators from India´s lowest caste blocked roads and railways across Mumbai on Wednesday in protest against violence involving Hindu nationalist groups at an event commemorating a 200-year-old battle. Members of the Dalit…
Fire and collapse in Mumbai shop kills 12
MUMBAI: Fire tore through a sweet shop in the Indian city of Mumbai before dawn Monday, sparking a building collapse which killed 12 sleeping workers, authorities said. Four others were injured but…
Mumbai attacks: Mukherjee says he asked Pakistani FM to leave India
‘Mr minister, no purpose will be served by your continuing to stay in India’ NEW DELHI: India’s former president Pranab Mukherjee had called visiting Pakistani foreign affairs minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi out of…
Torrential rains wreak havoc on Mumbai, paralyse traffic
MUMBAI: Torrential rains lashed India’s financial hub Mumbai for the second time in weeks on Tuesday, flooding low-lying areas and paralysing traffic at the country’s second busiest airport after a plane overshot…
Fire at building in India’s Mumbai kills at least six
MUMBAI, INDIA: A blaze in a building under construction in a suburb of the Indian city of Mumbai killed at least six people, most of them labourers, and injured nearly a dozen, fire…
Bollywood releases two films about Mumbai’s leading criminal masterminds
A movie about the life of a notorious Mumbai mafia don comes out in Indian cinemas this week as Bollywood steps up its long-held fascination with the financial capital’s criminal underworld. Daddy,…
Death toll from Mumbai building collapse jumps to 33
MUMBAI: The death toll from a building collapse in India’s commercial capital Mumbai jumped to 33 Friday after rescuers pulled more than a dozen bodies from the rubble overnight. Officials said 22 men,…
7 dead, dozens feared trapped in Mumbai building collapse
Nine families were living in the building, which is located in Mumbai’s Dongri neighbourhood, an area full of narrow streets with closely packed buildings, some nearly a century old
Heavy rain brings floods, traffic snarls to Mumbai
Many businesses asked employees to leave early in expectations of worsening traffic jams, as the rain coincides with high tide conditions in the western coastal city, threatening to overload an ageing drainage system.