tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56594485167266842962023-10-10T03:58:01.136-07:00Mumbai News Blog IndiaMumbai City News BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-62542989744256043592009-10-28T11:33:00.000-07:002009-10-28T11:35:43.056-07:00BJP confident it will get Oppn leader's post in Maharashtra<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Being the single largest party after ruling Congress-NCP alliance, BJP is projecting senior leader Eknath Khadse for the post of Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly, though its ally Shiv Sena is in no mood to part with it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> Sena Executive president Uddhav Thackeray's statement that "numbers won't determine who gets to hold the post" seems to have no impact on BJP, which is projecting Khadse for the post.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> According to a senior BJP leader, Khadse's name is likely to be declared at the meeting of newly elected party MLAs here on Friday.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"> "As per the rules, we have more number of MLAs after the ruling alliance. So, it is obvious that we will get the post of Opposition Leader in the Assembly," state BJP General Secretary Vinod Tawade told PTI.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-9575440794515317272009-10-28T11:32:00.001-07:002009-10-28T11:32:54.387-07:00Mumbai airport shut for 6 hours every Tuesday<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;">If you are catching a flight from Mumbai between 11am and 12noon on a Tuesday, be sure to arrive at least 75 minutes before the scheduled</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">departure time. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The airport will witness complete closure for six hours as the intersection between two cross-runways will be shut for the next 22 Tuesdays from 12 noon to 6pm for repair and reconstruction work. This would not only mean that flight operations would be suspended during that time, but departing and arriving flights prior to the closure will have to stick strictly to schedule in order to avoid major delays or diversions to other airports.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">At least 12 flights have been cancelled and four rescheduled at Mumbai international airport due to six-hour runway closure starting today.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Jet Airways & JetLite have decided to reschedule flights to and from Mumbai on Tuesdays.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Kingfisher that operates 31 domestic flights out of and into Mumbai has either changed flight timings or flight numbers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In order to avoid last-minute hassles, passengers can arrive a little more than an hour earlier. The Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL) will be making additional announcements to facilitate quick check-in and to update flyers on the status of their flights.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">While on other occasions, it is possible to roam around in the airport, on Tuesdays it is advised that passengers collect their boarding cards and move towards boarding gates as soon as their flight is announced. ‘‘The flight will not wait as in case of a delay, there would not be any way out for the next six hours. Hence, passengers will have to be careful and make sure that they board on time,’’ said an MIAL official.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Passengers will be intimated about the situation on the airline counters as well. While the closure of intersection will bring most operations to a halt, MIAL said a shortened runway, which is almost half of the usual 3,448 metres available, will be used for smaller aircraft operations. ‘‘As many as 83 flight departures and arrivals will be taking place on a shortened runway. This would mean that only small aircraft like ATRs or a Boeing 737, Airbus-319,320 will operate. Jet airways and Kingfisher are the only two airlines to be operational during those hours,’’ an MIAL official said.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Almost 100 flight slots have either been cancelled or rescheduled in the wake of the closure. Officials said the closure would affect the most in case of an emergency situation.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">‘‘Since the secondary runway is already shut for reconstruction, we will have no option to accommodate any aircraft even during an emergency on Tuesdays, unless its a small aircraft,’’ said an airport official. </span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-51312379286278727002009-10-28T11:31:00.000-07:002009-10-28T11:32:12.150-07:00Hindi speaking American professor to teach in Mumbai<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><span style="font-family: arial;">An American professor, who has lived in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh and speaks Hindi well, has won a Fulbright scholarship</span> <span style="font-family: arial;">to teach and study at the University of Mumbai during spring semester 2010.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">'I am thrilled and excited by my selection, not only for the opportunities it allows for study, but also for the opportunity it offers to be an ambassador for Idaho State University (ISU) and American higher education,' said Alan Johnson, ISU Associate Professor of English, who was raised in India.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Johnson's specialty, according to the university is postcolonial literature and theory, with a focus on South Asian literature, primarily Indian.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">He studies Indian writers writing in English who have become increasingly popular abroad as well as in India, such as Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Amitav Ghosh. He will teach classes on globalisation and literature, literary theory, and postcolonial studies.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">'It will be interesting to see how that university works and to become familiar with Indian higher education,' said Johnson.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">'It may be useful for me to share my experience as we live in an increasingly globalised world and ISU tries to attract more international students. It is not just the subjects I teach, but the reciprocal relationships I wish to cultivate that are important.'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Johnson left India after graduating from high school. He earned his BA from Southern Illinois University, his MA from the University of Virginia and his PhD from the University of California, Riverside. All his degrees were in English.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Johnson is married and has three children, and hopes his wife and some of his children can visit him sometime during his five- to six-month stay in India.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The Fulbright Programme is the flagship international educational exchange programme sponsored by the US government and is designed to 'increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries,' according to the organization's website.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Approximately 294,000 'Fulbrighters,' 111,000 from the US and 183,000 from other countries, have participated in the programme since its inception more than sixty years ago. </span><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-54068840606358540592009-10-28T11:28:00.000-07:002009-10-28T11:30:20.110-07:00Booker opens first cash & carry store in Mumbai<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">After Germany’s Metro and US-based Wal-Mart, UK’s largest cash and carry player Booker Group Plc has set up its first shop in the country at Mumbai.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Booker India, a unit of Booker Group, spent nearly Rs 8 crore in setting up the 35,000-square-foot cash and carry store in Kandivali suburb of Mumbai and, based on the success of the store in the next couple of months, will roll out similar ones in other parts of the country, a top company executive said.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">“There is a good business opportunity here. Our initial survey shows that metros and smaller towns can take different sized stores in the country. We will see how our Mumbai store operates and stabilises. Once it reaches our expectations, we will look at rolling out stores in other parts of the country,” said Zunaid Bangee, MD, Booker India.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">“We will focus on better prices, better products and a better range to individual retailers and caterers. We have modified our stores according to Indian conditions,” he pointed out.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Booker will focus more on staples and food items in Indian stores unlike in the UK where such business revolves around alcohol and tobacco, he said.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">“Consumer response has been very good and we have already been getting increasing footfalls and business,” Bangee said. The Booker store in Mumbai has 24,000 customers registered with it and it will sell 6,000 stock keeping units (SKUs).<br /><br />Keep Visiting <a href="http://bombaymumbaiindia.blogspot.com/">Mumbai News Blog</a><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-8662742793223195782009-04-12T11:07:00.000-07:002009-04-12T11:08:05.961-07:00Shoppers Stop MAC store opened in Malad<span style="font-family: arial;" class="newstext"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><strong>Shoppers Stop</strong> has opened one MAC store at Inorbit Mall, Malad (West). With this store, the company has now 7 M.A.C. stores.<br /><br />Shoppers Stop is one of the top Retail companies of india.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-71923437169588859242009-01-18T05:20:00.000-08:002009-01-18T05:24:43.592-08:00International workshop on energy in Thane<p style="margin-left: 2pt; text-align: justify; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span style="margin-left: 2pt;">Thane Municipal Corporation in association with International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), South Asia and British High Commission , has organised </span><span style="margin-left: 2pt;">`Energy efficiency & renewable energy measures for local government bodies' , an international workshop for Energy Experts , </span><span style="margin-left: 2pt;">representatives from various sectors and NGOs.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 2pt; text-align: justify; font-family: arial;font-family:arial;"><span style="margin-left: 2pt;">The Workshop is organised on january 2009.<br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 2pt; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-17460389080533650332009-01-18T05:16:00.000-08:002009-01-18T05:19:18.626-08:00Virar Dahanu local train mumbai<div style="text-align: justify;">A long term demand for a local train between Virar and Dahanu is about to be satisfied.<br /><span>PC Sehgal, managing director of MRVC</span> said that , they have started the work and expects it to be completed this year in 2009.<br /><br />For this , 2 new platforms will be built <span>at Dahanu station</span>.<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-17593208055097915992009-01-18T04:35:00.000-08:002009-01-18T05:00:16.216-08:00Kenyan Kenneth Mugara wins Mumbai Marathon 2009<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Kenyan runner , Kenneth Mugara won the Mumbai Marathon on Sunday. Kenyan Kenneth Mugara completed the marathon in 2 hours, 11 minutes, 50 seconds. </span></div><p face="arial" style="text-align: justify;" class="inside-copy">This Mumbai Marathon which was organised today was the first major public event in Mumbai city since terror attacks on Taj hotel , Oberoi Hotel etc.<br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p face="arial" style="text-align: justify;" class="inside-copy">David Tarus , Another Kenyan placed 2nd and and two-time defending champion John Kelai, also from Kenya, placed third. </p><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;" class="inside-copy">The Theme for Mumbai Marathon 2009 was " Peace and Unity " in which thousands of Mumbaikars participated. 45 km long Mumbai Marathon 2009 was <span id="intelliTxt"><span name="KonaFilter">started from Mahapalika Marg which is near to CST railway station , one of the terror attack site.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;" class="inside-copy"><span id="intelliTxt"><span name="KonaFilter">Many Celebraties including Filmstars , Sport Persons and Business and corporate people participated in this Mumbai Marathon.<br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;" class="inside-copy"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659448516726684296.post-2719763096260596362008-12-10T21:06:00.000-08:002008-12-10T21:09:49.095-08:00Mumbai city News Blog<div face="arial" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://bombaymumbaiindia.blogspot.com/">Bombay Mumbai India</a> is Mumbai city News Blog setup to keep mumbaikars aware about all the latest information , news, updates, events related to city or the people of the city. We Will try to compile and post all the local news of Mumbai city . If you are event organiser and organising any event in mumbai city then just mail it at </span><span class="login"><span style="font-family: arial;">atithi.khanna@gmail.com</span><br /><br /><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0