PIX: For Mumbaikars election day is selfie day!

Mumbai, infamous for its voter apathy, stepped out to exercise its franchise on Wednesday.   Election day was preceded by calls from concerned citizens' groups appealing for increased voter......

Maharashtra polls heat up with family feuds across constituencies

Amid parties accusing rivals of promoting dynastic politics, the November 20 Maharashtra assembly polls will see brothers, cousins and father-children in the fray, with members of the same family......

Power stays in families as leaders' kin enter Maha race

While political parties often accuse rivals of dynastic politics, during elections, they do not shy away from fielding relatives of their established leaders -- as the lists of candidates for the......

Maha polls: BJP names Fadnavis, Chavan's daughter among 99 in first list

The Bharatiya Janata Party has retained 71 sitting MLAs in the first list of 99 candidates for the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly polls and also fielded kin of some regional satraps including......

Housing projects get cheaper by up to 20% in 3 metros

The suburban location of Mumbai's Goregaon registered the biggest decline in average weighted basic sale price at 20 per cent, where the per sqft rate averaged at Rs 10,500 per sqft in 2015,......

Consumers caught in Reliance, Tata power play

MA Choudary, an electricity contractor from the northern suburb of Malad East here, has had problems in assisting his clients who want to shift from the Reliance Infrastructure network to Tata......

This is the right time to buy a house!

The story of the boom and the crash in the real estate sector has been well documented. Ever-increasing demand and inflated prices saw housing costs rising to unprecendented heights. But soon the......

Travel industry pins hopes on new formats

The travel industry, hit hard by a slump in the aviation business and the economic slowdown, is experimenting with newer formats to boost sales. For instance, Travelport, a Mumbai-based travel......

A heart for heroics

I wish everybody had fire. But they don't. You have players who have the talent but not the heart, you have players who have the heart but not the talent: Michael Jordan. Slide show: World's envy,......