Mumbai is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. According to United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second most populous city in India after Delhi and the seventh most populous city in the world with a population of 19.98 million. As per Indian government population census of 2011, Mumbai was the most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 12.5 million living under Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the sixth most populous metropolitan area in the world with a population of over 23.64 million. Mumbai lies on the Konkan coast on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named an alpha world city. It is also the wealthiest city in India, and has the highest number of millionaires and billionaires among all cities in India. Mumbai is home to three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Elephanta Caves, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, and the city's distinctive ensemble of Victorian and Art Deco buildings.
As many as 50 SLPs will be filed in the top court representing more than 2500 affected farmers from 192 villages across eight districts where land is being acquired for the project, lawyer Anand Yagnik.. IndiaTimes - Published
Slum dwellers living next to the Arabian Sea in Mumbai have dealt with fierce cyclones, torrential rains and frequent floods, but the long-term rising sea levels threatening their lives are something..
The Australian city of Sydney made an appearance in the top ten most-polluted cities in the world according to Air Visual, after the city awoke to its fourth consecutive day shrouded in smoke from..
School children in Mumbai sing Happy Birthday to the Prince of Wales as he celebrates his 71st birthday on day two of the royal visit to India. The youngsters are supported in their education by a..
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The depositors also held protests outside Reserve Bank of India (RBI)'s office in Mumbai, where people especially women were heard sloganeering- "We Want Justice" and were holding placards with Hindi.. IndiaTimes - Published
As all decks get cleared for the development of Jewar airport in the NCR by 2024, the highways ministry has started exploring possibility of providing a direct link to the airport from upcoming.. IndiaTimes - Published
Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar surrendered her passport to the regional passport office in Mumbai on Tuesday. The authorities will determine whether to return or impound it based on her.. IndiaTimes - Published
A Pakistani court on Wednesday indicted Islamist militant Hafiz Saeed, the alleged mastermind of deadly 2008 attacks in Mumbai, on terror financing charges, a government prosecutor said. Reuters - Published
The 2,000 Sindhis settled in Maharashtra (most of them in Mumbai’s Ulhasnagar) and around 65-odd Pakistani Hindu families living for almost three decades in Ellenabad in Haryana’s Sirsa district.. IndiaTimes - Published
"The Bombay high court shall decide the matter on felling of trees to make a way for Metro 4 line on elevated corridors from Wadala in Mumbai to Kasarvadavali in Thane on December 12," a bench headed.. IndiaTimes - Published
ED has filed a chargesheet before a special court in connection with the money laundering case against gangster Iqbal Mirchi. It is probing a money laundering case against Mirchi, who was a close aide.. IndiaTimes - Published
The cells have been set up at IITs — Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur and Madras, IISc, Bengaluru, and joint research programme with Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune. The information about the space.. IndiaTimes - Published
In a moving message, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has congratulated the Israeli boy who survived the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, in which both his parents lost their lives, by describing his story as a.. IndiaTimes - Published
Apart from Delhi, the royal couple is scheduled to visit Mumbai and Uttarakhand. In Delhi, the King and Queen are scheduled to visit Jama Masjid, Red Fort and Gandhi Smriti on Monday. It is King.. IndiaTimes - Published
Sanjay Barve, a senior Indian Police Service (IPS) officer from the 1987 batch, took charge as Mumbai's police commissioner on February this year. DNA - Published
On his first day as CM, Uddhav Thackeray stayed construction of the Metro 3 car shed at Mumbai's Aarey Colony for review. "I am probably the first Mumbai-born CM and this city holds a very special.. IndiaTimes - Published
In a letter to Thackeray, she wished Uddhav the very best in life and hoped that the new government will fulfil the hopes and aspirations of the people of Maharashtra. IndiaTimes - Published
The Bombay high court has refused to take up urgent hearing on a petition filed by a group of lawyers seeking a stay on the swearing-in of Uddhav Thackeray as chief minister of Maharashtra on Thursday.. IndiaTimes - Published
Thackeray, who will take the oath of office and secrecy at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on Thursday, will be heading a Sena-NCP-Congress coalition government. DNA - Published
A morning meeting between uncle and nephew at a Mumbai hotel on Tuesday put the Sena-NCP-Congress combine back on course to form the government in Maharashtra. Hours later, the nephew, Ajit Pawar,.. IndiaTimes - Published
Pakistan will get blacklisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) if it did not stop sponsoring terrorism, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh warned on Tuesday. Speaking at a programme to mark 11th.. IndiaTimes - Published
With the Supreme Court ordering floor test in the Maharashtra assembly on Wednesday, all newly elected BJP MLAs in the state have been asked to reach Mumbai to attend a meeting to be addressed by chief.. IndiaTimes - Published
PM Modi on Tuesday said India has strengthened and empowered its democracy in the last 70 years. Addressing members of both Houses of Parliament in the Central Hall of Parliament House, he also said.. IndiaTimes - Published
The ghastly attacks lasted for four days killing 166 people and injuring over 300. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday paid tribute to the victims of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack and offered his.. IndiaTimes - Published
MLAs from the anti-BJP front gathered in a ‘majority’ show of strength at a Mumbai hotel. NCP chief Sharad Pawar was flanked by Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on one side and Congress leader.. IndiaTimes - Published
As the political drama in Maharashtra continues, 162 MLAs, who assembled at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai in a show of strength by the NCP-Congress-Sena alliance, took an oath to stand by the.. DNA - Published
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray asked the BJP to "make way" for the Sena-NCP- Congress alliance to rule Maharashtra and asked the to invite them to form government. The 'Maha Vikas Aghadi' of the Shiv.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Shiv Sena, the NCP and the Congress will "parade" 162 MLAs in a 5-star hotel in Mumbai on Monday evening as a proof of their combined strength in the assembly, Sena leader Sanjay Raut said... IndiaTimes - Published
Three NCP MLAs, who were 'missing' since Saturday after attending the swearing-in of Ajit Pawar as deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, returned to Mumbai on Monday. "The three MLAs - Daulat Daroda.. IndiaTimes - Published
Two out of four Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLAs — who were reported missing since after BJP's Devendra Fadnavis' oath-taking as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra — reached Hyatt hotel in.. IndiaTimes - Published
When NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad asked one of the policemen the reason behind their presence at the hotel, he replied they were just "sitting there". Awhad even examined the identity card of the official... IndiaTimes - Published
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is planning to shift its MLAs, currently lodged in a city-based hotel, to another hotel due to 'security reasons' on Sunday night. As many as 46 NCP legislators.. IndiaTimes - Published
NCP chief Sharad Pawar along with Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray met the legislators of Nationalist Congress Party at a Mumbai hotel on Sunday. The legislators told the two leaders that they were.. IndiaTimes - Published
The Sena chief was joined by senior party leaders and son Aaditya Thackeray, who won the last month's Maharashtra assembly polls from Worli seat in Mumbai, during his discussion with Pawar, sources.. IndiaTimes - Published
The NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena have shifted their legislators to different luxury hotels in Mumbai. While the Congress moved its MLAs to the J W Marriott hotel in Juhu area, the NCP legislators were.. IndiaTimes - Published
In a complete turnaround, Fadnavis on Saturday took oath as Maharashtra Chief Minister for his second term, and NCP's Ajit Pawar took oath as deputy chief minister. The oath was administered by.. DNA - Published
The Opposition on Friday accused the BJP of receiving crores in donation from a company being probed by the ED for allegedly buying properties from Iqbal Mirchi, an accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb.. IndiaTimes - Published
They were elected to their posts unopposed since the other parties, i.e. the BJP, Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) did not contest the BMC polls this year. DNA - Published
BJP and Shiv Sena fought elections together and have a comfortable majority to form the government but the two parties didn't reach any consensus on the '50-50 formula' that led to the break-up of.. DNA - Published
Raut said he will meet NCP president Sharad Pawar on Thursday. To further discuss the modalities of government formation, another round of meeting among the three parties will be held in Mumbai, he.. IndiaTimes - Published
The term of incumbent Mumbai mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar and deputy mayor Hemangi Worlikar ends on Dec 7 and election for new office bearers will be held on Nov 22. DNA - Published
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