Maharashtra News: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has allocated Rs 1,600 crore for redeveloping roads. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (File photo) | Photo Credit: IANS
Mumbai: Mumbai civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to spend Rs 1,600 crore on redeveloping roads spanning 157 km over the next year.
According to the new proposal, to name a few, some of the busiest roads such as CP Tank Road and Kalbadevi Road, Link Road, SV Road, Lake Road, and Valji Ladha Road in the financial capital will get repair. In the fiscal year, More than 90% of these roads, which are meant to be repaired, will be upgraded to cement concrete in the FY 2021-22. Out of 157 km, 145-km roads will be repaired with cement concrete and the remaining 12-km roads will be repaired with asphalt.
Physical Business Cards? Thing Of The Past. Say Hello to New Digital vCards With the changing world and changing times, Pocket vCard has pushed the envelope in the field of the quintessential element of all businesses - Business Cards.
BriefingWire.com, 12/19/2020 - MUMBAI (December 19th, 2020) - Almost every technology that we knew of till a few years back are on the verge of being obsolete. A 30 year old person today has seen at the very least half a dozen types of music players - right from tapes to iPods to modern phones. Anything older than fifteen years old is considered antique. Well, we can say the Business Card are on the verge of meeting the same fate.
How the Bombay plague shut down a human book factory: The life and death of Narayan Hemchandra
An extraordinary life of industrial strength writing, cut short by the killer disease. Narayan Hemchandra in the 1880s (left) and in the late 1890s. | Courtesy: Forbes Gujarati Sabha
When one stepped out of the Fort of Bombay, well-worn footpaths led to the Washerman’s Tank or Dhobi Talao located at the verge of the Esplanade, an open ground created by forcefully relocating entire neighbourhoods to get a clear line of fire. Created in 1770s, a “Native Town” located “without the Fort” came into being.