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The Challenge at Bhandup The crowded suburban station at Bhandup has long been a bottleneck for thousands of daily commuters. With heavy footfall during peak hours, limited crossing points, and older foot-over bridges struggled to accommodate the rush. Delays, congestion on platforms, and unsafe crowding were recurring issues. During monsoons, especially, movement from the fast […]

In a major shift in Mumbai’s urban wildlife policy, the BMC is planning to designate four specific sites for pigeon-feeding — behind the July 2025 ban on traditional “kabutarkhanas” (public pigeon-feeding places) across the city. The proposed sites are at Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), Aarey Colony, a mangrove patch in Wadala and the Gorai

In his latest monthly radio show, the 127th edition of Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that Indian coffee is “becoming very popular all over the world.”  He cited regions like Chikkamagaluru, Coorg, and Hassan (Karnataka), Nilgiris and Annamalai (Tamil Nadu), Wayanad, Travancore and Malabar (Kerala), and even non-traditional areas such as Koraput

In its recently released Payments System Report (H1 2025), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sounded a red alert: geopolitical tensions are emerging as a key threat to cross-border payments. What’s Going On? The RBI points to the centralised nature of global financial infrastructure and the heavy dependence on a handful of settlement currencies.

Imagine you own a 600 sq ft apartment in Mumbai and you want to create two smaller units — perhaps to rent one out or accommodate extended family. Before you take the hammer to the wall, you must ask: Is this legally permissible?According to a recent ruling by the Bombay High Court, the straightforward answer

The Pallikaranai Marshland in Chennai, once spanning over 3,000 acres, is a designated Ramsar site (since April 2022) and forms a critical ecological buffer, flood-mitigation zone, and biodiversity hotspot. Yet, according to the NGO Arappor Iyakkam, government departments in Tamil Nadu have allegedly cleared a large real-estate project by Brigade Enterprises on 14.7 acres within

Mumbai is no stranger to high-value residential property transactions. In 2025, luxury real estate in the city saw some of its most notable moves — not just by industrialists or Bollywood stars, but by Indian cricketers who transformed on-field success into strategic real-estate investment. Here are the top 5 property deals in Mumbai by Indian