Tag: Mumbai

Mumbai: In a Dussehra-eve tragedy, at least 22 commuters were killed in a stampede on a narrow railway footover bridge connecting the Parel-Elphinstone Road stations of Western Railway here on Friday morning, officials said. At least 24 others were injured, six of them critically, and casualty figures could rise, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Disaster […]

Mumbai/New Delhi: Mumbai-born IIT graduate-turned Senior Advocate (designated) of Supreme Court Colin Gonsalves has been selected for the prestigious Right Livelihood Award 2017 – often described as the Alternative Nobel Prize. Gonsalves said he is “humbled and privileged” at the honour. The announcement made in Sweden on Tuesday makes Colin the first Indian rights lawyer […]

Bengaluru: Technology giant Google’s India cloud centre, slated to become operational in Mumbai by the end of 2017, will spur economic activity in the country, a top executive from the company said on Tuesday. “We believe that the India cloud centre will spur a whole of economic activity across a lot of startups, partner organisations,” […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Saturday demanded the Narendra Modi government explain how absconding don Dawood Ibrahims wife Mehjabin Shaikh managed to visit Mumbai last year undetected to meet her father. “Wife of Ibrahim, Mehajabin Shaikh came to meet her father in 2016 in Mumbai and the Modi government kept on sleeping,” Congress leader Randeep Singh […]

Mumbai: Heavy rains lashed Mumbai, entire coastal Konkan region and parts of western Maharashtra affecting normal life and hitting flight operations, officials said here on Wednesday. This comes exactly a month after the Mumbai deluge of August 19 and 20. Flight operations at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMI) took a major hit owing […]

Mumbai: “Chef” director Raja Krishna Menon has dished out details on actor Saif Ali Khan’s new-found cooking skills. “When we started, Saif was very worried about my expectations from him in terms of being able to chop and cook like a masterchef. During the training that started with the basics and went all the way […]

Mumbai: A SpiceJet aircraft with 183 passengers on board overshot the the runway while landing here and got stuck in the soft mud on Tuesday evening, officials said. There were no casualties and all passengers were deboarded by deploying chutes. There was no smoke or fire emanating from the Boeing aircraft, said the officials. The […]

Mumbai: Acclaimed actress and activist Shaban Azmi will be honoured as an ‘Icon of Indian Cinema’ at the closing ceremony of the Mumbai edition of the eighth Jagran Film Festival here next week. The ceremony will be held on September 24 in the presence of members of the Indian film fraternity, said a statement. Manoj […]

Mumbai: Globally known Italian actress Monica Bellucci will head to Mumbai in October to be a part of the ‘Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star’. She says it’s very exciting to make her first visit to the country. Known for movies like “The Matrix Reloaded”, “The Matrix Revolutions”, “The Passion of the Christ” and […]

Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan on Sunday revealed that he and his wife Kiran Rao are down with swine flu. The “Dangal” actor, along with his wife, were scheduled to attend the Satyamev Jayate Water Cup, organised by their NGO Paani Foundation, in Pune on Sunday but could only address the attendees via Skype. “It’s […]

Navi Mumbai: Cracking the Reliance JIO data breach case within 24 hours, the Navi Mumbai and Maharashtra Cyber police teams have zeroed in on the prime suspect in Rajasthan who will be brought to Mumbai on Wednesday. Confirming the developments, Maharashtra Cyber Superintendent of Police Balsing Rajput said that following an FIR lodged by the […]

Mumbai: At least nine passengers were killed and 20 others injured on Sunday when a bus coming from Mumbai lost control and plunged into a ditch, police said.   According to the police, the driver of the bus en route to Beed city lost control and plunged over 100 feet into the ditch at around […]

Beijing: Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group, on Saturday announced to open two new data centres in Mumbai and Jakarta by March 31 next year. “I believe Alibaba Cloud, as the only global cloud services provider originating from Asia, is uniquely positioned with cultural and contextual advantages to provide […]

Film: “War Machine”;  Director: David Michod; Cast: Brad Pitt, Ben Kingsley and Meg Tilly; Rating: * ½ Last week, Brad Pitt was in Mumbai to promote his new film which was released on Netflix this week. Now after seeing this dreadful war saga, I realise Mr Pitt was wasting his time trying to generate interest […]

Mumbai: Grammy Award winning Canadian singing sensation Justin Bieber arrived here early on Wednesday amidst tight security for his maiden concert in India, looking relaxed and geared up to regale Indian ‘Beliebers’ as part of his Purpose World Tour. Fans had been waiting with bated breath for his arrival at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International […]