Tag: Mumbai

Mumbai, India’s financial capital, drowning in rainwater, yet again

Heavy rains pounding Mumbai for a week now, has brought the mega Indian city to its knees. India’s financial capital received 403 millimetres (mm) of rain in...

Mumbai bridge collapse kills five

MUMBAI: Five people were killed and dozens injured when a footbridge collapsed near Mumbai’s main train station on Thursday, the latest accident to highlight creaking...

Police shut down Shah Rukh Khan’s birthday bash in Mumbai

It is no secret that Shah Rukh Khan likes to party like a teenager (Remember him on Sonam Kapoor's wedding?). Well, following the release of...

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...

Mumbai’s Victorian Gothic and Art Deco buildings, Japan Christian sites earn...

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...

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...

Mumbai win will take them through, and eliminate Royals and Kings...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...