Mumbai

While a considerable portion of Mumbai suffered acute water cuts, a section consumed water in excess of the limit (150 litre per person per day, or lppd) set by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in the financial year gone by.Even as the BMC decreased supply by 15% during the year’s second half to compensate for deficient rains, the water bill for April 2009 to March 2010 (Rs915 crore) was Rs10 crore more than the year before (Rs905 crore)."This means that while the t…

With the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) elections drawing close, several candidates in the fray may be getting nerves, but Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidate from ward no 87 Kavita Bharat Jadhav is one optimistic woman, banking on her husband’s performance as a corporator from the area to work the magic for her. Bharat Jadhav’s strong work in the ward during the last civic term is standing Kavita in good stead. "Contesting elections may be new for me, but soc…

A seven-year-old boy drowned in the swimming pool at Andheri Sports Complex on Friday, the first day the pool was

Bal Thackeray is unwilling to admit that the Shiv Sena attacked the media when party activists ransacked IBN-Lokmat’s office and beat up a couple of journalists on Friday."Will you call it an attack on the media if a journalist’s wife beats himup for his wrongdoings?" the Sena chief asked.Thackeray on Monday said the partymen had attacked a person, Nikhil Wagle, and not the entire media. Other political parties too had targeted the media in the past, he said. alt1…

In order to give students a platform to showcase their talent a theme based exhibition was organised at school in Kalyan. The annual inter-school children’s festival and exhibition titled ‘Manthan – Inspiring Excellence’ was organised by Education Today Foundation. It was held at Arya Gurukul, Nandivli village in Kalyan on November 14. This year the theme for the exhibition was ‘How Things Work?’ Students of St Mary’s High School, Little Aryans, and Arya…