MOMBAI / MUMBAI / BONBAY

Saif’s first solo hit

Barely has the dust settled on Shah Rukh Khan's fight with director Shirish Kunder at a party in Juhu last month when another Bollywood leading man is in the dock for misbehaving and brawling in public. Saif Ali Khan stands accused of punching...

3 years after 26/11, counter-terrorism hub ready for action

Mumbai will get its own, fully operational National Security Guards hub on Thursday, a little over three years after 10 terrorists in coordinated attacks across five sites in the city killed 168 people and left over 500 injured. Union Home...

My visa papers, bank details were sold to a panipuriwala

Andheri resident Mahesh Dave took his family for a 13-day vacation abroad in May last year. We know exactly how much money he had in his bank account before the trip and details of LIC payments he made in early 2010. We also know a great deal...

Desi Forrest Gumps on 3,500-km walk to fight corruption

In the 1994 American classic Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks goes for a run and decides not to stop. Over three years, as he covers the length and breadth of the country on foot, hundreds of people join him, and several causes get attached to his unplanned journey.In...

Unsung Mumbai slum grabs global spotlight

For decades, the airport on which Annawadi livelihoods depended was a realm of duct tape, convulsing toilets, and disorganisation. Now, in the name of global competitiveness, the government had privatised the place. The new management consortium...

At last the cub roars

A scathing article on Uddhav Thackeray in a news-weekly in 2007 had called him 'a teddy riding a tiger'. The reference was to his lack of charisma and child-like dependence on his father Bal Thackeray for political guidance. It is the winter of 2012 now and the teddy just got off the...

Heed the absent voter

How does one explain the relatively low voter turnout of 44.02 per cent for the municipal elections in Mumbai? There are many theories, and each one of them has some validity. Many people had to go to work, and that's livelihood. Vote is not....

Ugly family feud lands party-hearty Hitkaris in court

The matriarch of a prominent business family in Mumbai is locked in a bitter legal and emotional battle with her son. At stake is a family business, a commercial property in the heart of Mumbai's business district and the social currency of...

‘Hello, the Goya is still on our wall, thank you (click)’

While the art world was stunned by the sudden discovery of a 'priceless Goya' in the house of a Mumbai property broker, leading to the suspicion that the painting may have been stolen, all it took was procuring a photograph of the so-called...

How RR got case against ex-Gov’s daughter dropped

Maharashtra home minister RR Patil stands accused of misusing powers vested in him to withdraw prosecution cases to benefit the powerful Dhanrajgir family. Humayun Dhanrajgir former MD of pharmaceutical companies like Glaxo India and Lupin...

KORMEL GEMİSİ HİNDİSTAN'DA İCRADAN SATILACAK - Deniz Haber

KORMEL GEMİSİ HİNDİSTAN'DA İCRADAN SATILACAKDeniz Haber... tarafından HİNDİSTAN'da Bombay Denizcilik İhtisas Mahkemesi'nin 2011/31, 2011/49 ve 2011/57 numaralı dosyaları tahtında verilmiş karar uyarınca, Bombay İcra Müdürlüğü (The Sheriff of Mombai) tarafından 21 şubat 2012 tarihinde Hindistan ...