Sharvari Khot, 16. 26/11 Survivor

Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel meets a lively, articulate, teenager who miraculously survived 26/11 as a six year old.The first of a year-long Video series on those who lived through the worst......

SHOCKING: 4 youth try to drown cop during Ganesh immersion

In the latest in a series of incidents of attacks on policemen in Maharashtra, four youths of a Ganesh Utsav mandal allegedly tried to drown a sub-inspector in Kalyan township of Thane. Raising......

Holi hai! In Mumbai, Taliban, cigarettes to be set ablaze

Taliban and swine flu are the evils Mumbai wants to ward off as it preps to light the Holi bonfire, Anant Salvi finds out. Wonder why bonfires are lit on the eve of Rang Panchami (festival of......

How Mumbai once lived!

Mumbai may pace to a frenetic beat, but the metropolis has hidden corners where life moves more leisurely. Satish Bodas/Rediff.com visits the city's BDD chawls where neighbours live like one big......

How top realtors plan to transform Central Mumbai

12-million sq. ft development will transform the micro markets of Worli and Lower Parel into a mid-market affordable housing settlement, Dev Chatterjee & Raghavendra Kamath report. Illustration:......

Infra developers in wait and watch mode in new Uddhav-led coalition govt

Shiv Sena has so far expressed concerns over car shed for the city's planned metro network, the bullet train and the West Coast refinery projects. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com After......

Maha govt proposes Mumbai chawl redevelopment

The Maharashtra government proposes to redevelop 202 chawls of the erstwhile Bombay Development Directorate, situated on 91 acres in south-central Mumbai. This would translate into construction of......