When the British acquired the seven islands of Bombay from the Portuguese that Catherine of Braganza brought as part of her marriage dowry to Charles II of England, the East India Company rented them ...
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The Shape of Mumbai

MUMBAI: I am an inveterate lover of maps. The technical term is cartophiliac. Over the last one and a half years since I moved to Mumbai from Delhi, my cartophilia has had a free reign. In a new city, ...
The childhood friend of Fahim Ansari, one of the accused in the 26/11 attacks case, identified him and his co-accused Sabahuddin Ahmed as the persons he had met in Nepal. Nooruddin Mehmood Shaikh also ...
Mumbai's first fully underground metro, the Aqua Line, is now fully operational after Prime Minister Modi inaugurated its final phase. This 33.5-km corridor promises to revolutionize travel, easing ...
The 508 km Mumbai–Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Project is India’s first bullet train corridor and is being implemented by NHSRCL ...
Along the Thane-Diva belt, environmentalists have repeatedly alleged that unscientific dumping in and around the creek has destroyed mangrove patches as a slow-choke. It’s a familiar playbook: waste ...