Did viru decline offer to play for Essex?
It could have been Virender Sehwag and not statemate Gautam Gambhir on a plane to England to play for county side Essex for the remainder of this season.
Divers get access to middle part
Indian Navy divers on Saturday successfully gained access to the middle part of INS Sindhurakshak by opening the rear escape hatch that was submerged under water.
DoT guidelines render BMC toothless
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), at the beginning of the month, issued an advisory guideline to all state governments over the issuing of clearance for installation of mobile towers.
Google set to remove ‘objectionable’ apps
Acting on letters from Delhi-based Centre for Social Welfare (CSR) asking them to pull down sexually explicit content on its Android platform Playstore, Google is acting upon the request to remove obj
City teeming with ‘illegal’ towers
A recent survey carried out by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has concluded that out of 4,776 mobile towers in Mumbai, as many as 3,631 have been erected without the municipality’s permission.
‘No clear link between radiation & cancer’
With the Department of Telecommuni-cation’s (DoT) new advisory guideline for state governments about issuance of clearance for installation of mobile towers, it is going to be a relatively free run fo
Court quashes externment order, calls it ‘absolutely illegal’
The Bombay high court recently quashed an order relating to externment that was passed by Kolhapur SP and confirmed by Maharashtra home department, calling them “absolutely illegal”.
A political twist to autorickshaw strike
Political parties are set to gain mileage by politicising the autorickshaw strike to be observed from August 21-23.
Kurla-Bandra needs more buses: NGO
Transport activists have demanded more buses between Kurla and Bandra.
Hiding Naxal arrested in city
Mumbai crime branch officials have arrested a suspected Naxal from the Mulund area on Friday night, in a joint operation with the Jharkhand police.