Take a look at the newly opened Bandra-Worli Sealink's Worli side exit. Many believe that this will create a traffic standstill at the exit. hard not to believe it once you look at its layout. Read Full Story

The Peddar Road flyover is back in the news - after being hit by obstacles over the past nine years. Residents of Peddar road have opposed this project since the flyover would be too close to their homes. Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle being some of those residents who would be affected.After successful implementation of Worli-Bandra sealink, residents of Mumbai have warmed up to infrastructure projects to help them reduce the traffic delays. Although, work on the later parts of the sealink ... Read Full Story

Mumbai will have 5000 closed circuit TV cameras to watch 480 traffic junctions in addition to the government establishments, railway stations, and transportation depots.The network will help the city law enforcement to keep track of the traffic offenders and suspected terrorism activities. The proposed project will include motion detection, bio-matrix, optical character detection and recognition, night vision, thermal imaging along with pan, tilt, and zoom capabilities.The project is supposed... Read Full Story

The Mumbai version of WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) was a rage in the 50s and 60s. Who does not remember Dara Singh? For Dara, the wrestler-turned-entertainer, wrestling was a hobby right from his childhood. He used to watch the muscled wrestlers in his village and aspired to be like them. The opportunity came when he went on a trip to Singapore, where freestyle wrestling was very popular. He there for three years and trained. Wrestling brought Dara in contact with the best in the world... Read Full Story

India's Supreme Court has denied Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's appeal to contest in upcoming elections sighting his prior convictions under serious anti-terrorism laws. It's a good deal for the Indian politics. Sanjay Dutt possessed no skills or temperament to represent people in the Government. If he wants to serve the people, then he should stick to his craft as an entertainer.I am sure, this decision has also rendered his new Neta wardrobe useless. Perhaps he can donate it to t... Read Full Story

Although the global economic slowdown has delayed the Dharavi makeover plans, Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) is planning to construct a sports complex in the area. The work of this will begin in July 2009. It is expected that the Dharavi makeover is begin as soon as the builders find it easy to finance in the global markets.The sport complex will be open to all citizens, but the residents of Dharavi will be offered lower fees.The plans include lounge areas, swimming ... Read Full Story

Mumbai's red light area is located at Kamathipura with history going back as far as 1889. British rulers had encouraged establishment of Anglo-Indian sex workers in this area. The clients came mostly from the garrison area. Each brothel used to hang a red light outside the doors, hence the name red-light district. The red light indicated that the establishment was soliciting patrons.1928 was licences issued to these workers and the brothels. This continued through 1950 when prostitution w... Read Full Story

On February 23rd, 1988, Sachin Tendulkar was still a schoolboy. Representing his school - Shardashram Vidyamandir he was having quite a season in the Harris Shield tournament. Having scored a double century in the quarter finals, the expectations were very high from the "star".On this day in the semi-finals, Tendulkar teamed up with his buddy Vinod kambli to put a stand of 664 runs. When the innings was declared, Tendular was on 326 and Kambli was on 349. St. Xavier's school was... Read Full Story

Is this crow showing arsonist tendencies? Rajendra Gawankar (HT) took this photo of a crow sitting atop a tree at Shivaji Park, Mumbai. It is holding  a match in its beak and is trying to strike it. Read Full Story

Anil Ambani's Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE) has mega ambitions. Recently in the news for buying the rights of Rakesh Roshan's kites for Rs. 150 crore, the company has got into co-venture deals with Julia Robert's Red Om Films and Brett Ratner's Rat Entertainment.Reliance Big Entertainment will create a development silo for each production venture and it retains an option to co-finance the projects in addition to the rights in Indian markets.Movie projects go through three s... Read Full Story