At a time when land deals have come down to almost nil,the countrys largest private sector power utility,Tata Power,has taken a prime plot of land at the Bandra Kurla Complex on lease at Rs 86.11 crore.
The labyrinth of over 60-year-old buildings at Gola street in Fort has nothing to differentiate one from the other except for the narrow strips of soggy house gullies separating them.
The National Textile Corporation has drawn up a list of nine mills on a total of about 90 acres in the heart of the city which the government-run company plans to put on the block soon.
Its a three-letter word that has been the nightmare of urban planners and the delight of builders. More so as many recent state government policies seemed to revolve around raising FSI,a move some critics brand as arbitrary and link it to elections due later this year.
Real estate developers scouring the city for that precious bit of land may just hit a bonanza in the form of 64 hectares of land. To encourage tabela owners to sell their land and move their cattle-sheds out of the city...
For 25 years now,Vivek Vanjares father,an office assistant in a private Mumbai firm,doggedly tried his luck each time the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority came out with a housing scheme in the financial capital.
With the second home market for scenic luxury villas and weekend getaway bungalows finding no takers in slowdown times,developers are looking at alternative means.
Close on the heels of increasing manifold the buildable area for star hotels in Mumbai,the state government has decided to extend the largesse to hotels in Navi Mumbai also.
Three decades after they went their separate ways,the class of 79 of IT-BHU (Institute of Technology,Banaras Hindu University) had a reunion of a different sort.
The state government has issued notices to some former ministers who have not vacated their ministerial bungalows despite being dropped from the Cabinet more than a month ago.
Train mein bahut dhakka bukki hota hai. Par ab hum khush hai, says 13-year-old Pradeep Tangade,a resident of St Catherine of Siena Orphanage at Bandra.
The state government has stepped in to broker peace between unrelenting builders and anxious buyers,planning a series of measures to make houses affordable.