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But then came help, a volunteer from the National Association for the Blind (NAB), wearing a 'May I Help U' T-shirt. The girl from Hyderabad who had come for a holiday to her aunt's house was pleasantly surprised. The volunteer read out the Braille menu...
Tags: braille menu, Braille, India, Mumbai, Menu, Hospitality Recreation, Widgets, Blindness, Worli
The corporators, on Friday, unanimously opposed the idea of the BMC increasing taxes to recover from its financial crisis. With the civic elections just 28 months away, the corporators have agreed to take pay cuts of 25-100% instead of burdening Mumbaikars...
Tags: BMC, pay cuts, India, Mumbai, Business Finance, Tax, Law Crime
Talking about the inadequate water stock, he said, "We will have to manage with the stock we have till the next monsoon...He added that the water distribution system needed to be restructured. "I will review the distribution system...Making light of the...
Tags: Swadhin Kshatriya, municipal commissioner, water crisis, India, Mumbai, Kshatriya, Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai
Home > Mumbai > Report Govt is good only for paperwork, says high court Mayura Janwalkar / DNA Saturday, December 5, 2009 2:01 IST Mumbai: Irked at the state government for its inadequate medical facilities for jail inmates, the Bombay high court on...
Tags: India, Mumbai, Social Issues, Prisons in California
The CBI, which froze Bedi's seven bank accounts in 2002, has decided to defreeze them with immediate effect. In an affidavit filed in the Bombay high court, additional superintendent of police Pramod Manji said: "During investigation, the CBI-STF, Mumbai,...
Tags: Monica Bedi, bank account, India, Mumbai, Bigg Boss, Abu Salem, Indian Muslims
Domestic shares recovered their footing on Friday after they had opened weaker on losses in Asian markets, following an unexpected contraction in the vast US services sector spurred worries about the economic recovery.
Tags: India, Mumbai, BSE Sensex, Companies based in Bangalore, Bombay Stock Exchange, Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Business Finance, Economy of Mumbai, Economy of Bangalore, Software companies of India
According to political observers, Nitesh has plans to increase his dominance in BMC by raising the water scarcity issue. The state Congress, however, wants to have no association with Swabhiman. "Congress workers should flex their muscles only for the...
Tags: MNS MLA, Congress, Nitesh, India, Mumbai, Bharatiya Janata Party, Hindutva, Indian National Congress, Raj Thackeray, Manikrao Thakre, Narayan Rane
At least one-third of the patients having Aids have TB as well. So, counsellors treating Aids patients run the risk of contacting TB. But they are neither supplied protective gear, such as masks and gloves, nor do they have medical insurance, Bhere said.
Tags: aid counsellors, India, Mumbai, Health Medical Pharma, Pulmonology, Social Issues, Bacterial diseases, AIDS, Tuberculosis
Neither academia, nor the state has come out with any tool to do this. What all of us -- Dalit intellectuals, academics and the state -- have been doing is to count the number of jobs Dalits hold in government, and, of course, a headcount of Dalits in...
Tags: Dalits, Manusmriti Dahan, India, Adam Smith Chandra Bhan, Manudharma, Mumbai, Manusm£ᄍロti, Dalit, Dalit Christian, B. R. Ambedkar, Caste, Social Issues, Scheduled Castes Federation, Indian caste system, Caste system in India
Act on October 15 this year, has been behind bars since 2003. In his petition before the high court, the inmate who hails from Madhya Pradesh has contended that while in jail, he was admitted to the prison hospital on March 29, as he had fever, an injury...
Tags: jail hospital, India, Mumbai, Health Medical Pharma, Law Crime