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41 unusual facts about Mumbai


1993 Bombay bombings

He and Muquddam parked the explosive filled vehicle at Plaza cinema, Mumbai which resulted in 10 deaths and 37 injuries.

A Maverick Heart

The book was launched at Press Club Mumbai on 18 Feb 2013 by Mr. Raj Nair founder of Avalon Consulting.

Akhbarul Hind

Akhbarul Hind (in Arabic اخبار الهند meaning The News of India) is an Arabic language fortnightly publication from Mumbai, India.

Balwantray Thakore

He remained active throughout his life talking lectures at Wilson College, Mumbai, even at the age of 80.

Banaskantha district

It is connected to Mumbai-Ahmedabad-Jaipur-Delhi corridor thus linking it with four major cities of India.

Bhagawan Nityananda

There, his reputation as a miracle worker attracted people from as far away as Mumbai, though he never took credit for any miracles.

Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management

Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management (CETTM) located in Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai is the telecom training centre of MTNL, the incumbent operator of Government of India (GOI).

Children of the Vault

When Rogue and Magneto bring Indra and other students back to Indra's home in Mumbai to visit his family and, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, take his brother's place in an arranged marriage, the X-Men and students visit a local market where strange storms have been placing people, including Indra's brother, in comas.

Emmy Lichtwitz Krasso

In 1939 she and her husband, Oscar T. Krasso, fled Austria for Mumbai (Bombay), India.

It's OK, It's All Good

This is an album by the Mumbai based-band Pentagram.

Kalamboli

NMMT and BEST buses are available from Kalamboli to Vashi, Sion, Dadar, Ghatkopar and Uran.

Kirti M.Doongursee College

Kirti M.Doongursee College of Arts,Science and Commerce, commonly known as Kirti College is located in Dadar, Mumbai.

Mantralaya

Mantralaya, Mumbai, administrative headquarters of Maharashtra in South Mumbai, built in 1955

Marine Drive, Kochi

In the 1980s, GCDA started the Kochi Marine Drive project (following from the Mumbai Marine Drive) and thus the whole of the present Marine Drive (part of the Kochi Lake, west of the Shanmugham Road to the present Marine Walkway) was claimed from the Kochi Lake.

Masjid Bunder railway station

The south end towards CST gives access to Yousuf Mehar Ali Road, Jama Masjid, Kalbadevi, Crawford Market, Mandvi and the surrounding area.

Mumbai Educational Trust

Mumbai Educational Trust is an academic institution located in Bandra, Mumbai and Nasik.

Mumbai-Bangalore economic corridor

Mumbai-Bangalore corridor is expected to pass through different cities, Pune, Satara, Kolhapur, Belgaum, Dharwad, Davangere, Haveri, Chitradurga and Tumkur.

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose Road

:For the road in South Mumbai, see Marine Drive

Nikaraksha-class bucket dredger

The Nikaraksha class of bucket dredger is a pair of yardcraft built by Mazagon Dock Limited, Mumbai for the Indian Navy.

North Arcot

Advantage has been taken of this gap by the north-west line of the Southern Railway which passes up in through the ghats on its way to Mumbai.

NSEL scam

The NSEL scam is a systematic and premeditated fraud perpetrated in the commodity market by National Spot Exchange Ltd based in Mumbai, India.

Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Mumbai

Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, located in Sion, Mumbai, India is one of the oldest Catholic, coeducational schools in Mumbai.

Palava

Palava is planned city based in the Dombivali, near Mumbai, spread over 4000 acres.

Pestom sagar

Pestom Sagar is a residential colony in suburban Mumbai.

Phiroze Jamshedji Jeejeebhoy

The building the Exchange is currently housed in is located at Dalal Street in downtown Mumbai, and bears his name - Phiroze Jeejeebhoy Towers.

Rail push trolley

On routes carrying high volumes of traffic, such as the suburban section in Mumbai, push trolleys cannot be used and foot inspections are being resorted to.

Ramnarain Ruia College

Ruia college won the award for the best college given by University of Mumbai for the year 2006.

Ruia College is located in the central part of Mumbai close to Hindu colony, between the Dadar and Matunga railway stations.

Scharada Dubey

The family finally settled in Mumbai in 1971, after which she completed school at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Colaba, and graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai in 1980.

SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce

SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce is a Mumbai-based college located in Sion.

SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce is a college in Sion, Mumbai, India, owned and managed by the South Indian Education Society (SIES).

Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited

SCOUL is a subsidiary of the Mehta Group, a diversified industrial and investment conglomerate based in Mumbai, India, employing over 10,000 people in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

Tenement

Many chawls can be found in Mumbai, where they were constructed in abundance to house the people migrating to the city because of its booming cotton mills and overall strong economy.

Thomas Erskine Perry

He also lectured on law outside of court, and his support for educational and employment opportunities for Indians meant a professorship, the Perry Professorship of Jurisprudence, at the Government Law School at Elphinstone was established in 1855 in his honour.

University Convocation Complex, University of Kashmir

The Complex was constructed by University Construction Division with assistance from Kadiri Consultants, Mumbai and Construction Engineers, Srinagar.

V. G. Vaze College

Vinayak Ganesh Vaze College of Arts, Science & Commerce (Kelkar College) is a Mumbai University affiliated college located in Mulund East, Mumbai.

The college managed to get affiliation from University of Mumbai soon and is the youngest college to get permanent affiliation from the university of Mumbai.

Vasundhara Raje

She completed her school education from Presentation Convent, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, and later graduated with Economics and Political Science degrees (Hons.) from Sophia College, affiliated to Mumbai University, Mumbai.

Vijay Salaskar

The bodies of the dead were promptly recovered and taken to St George Hospital.

Vipulroy Rathod

Rathod is the promoter and director of Endoscopy Asia, a state of the art tertiary care facility in gastroenterology, hepatology and endoscopy, located at Sion, Mumbai.

ZooZoo

RN Podar School, Santa Cruz, Mumbai is planning to develop an animated character, inspired by the ZooZoos to attract students and will be used to teach Environmental Studies (EVS) to class I students.


2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup

India will have to choose six host cities from a shortlist of eight, they are New Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Goa, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi and Guwahati.

Amrut

Amrut Nagar, a neighbourhood in the Ghatkopar suburb of Mumbai, India

Atom Technologies

location = Boston House, 3rd Floor, Suren Road, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai, India

Claude Batley

Among his works are the Bombay Gymkhana (1917); Wankaner Palace (1933) now Lincoln House, the American Consulate, Breach Candy; Bombay Central Station (1930); South Court or popularly now known as Jinnah House, (1935); Round Building (1937), Cusrow Baug in Colaba Causeway (1937–59) and its Agiary, known as The Seth Nusserwanji Hirji Karani Agiary (1938), Bombay Club (1939) later Hotel Nataraj and now Inter-Continental Mumbai, Lalbhai House (1942) and Breach Candy Hospital (1950).

D'decor

D’Decor’s operates four manufacturing plants which are located in Tarapur, near Mumbai.

Deccani Souls

It was screened at the Transmissions Film Festival in New Delhi, India and was later screened to public at Cochin, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Divya Palat

Divya Palat is an Award winning Producer and Director for theatre plays like -"A Personal War- Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks" and was a Hindi actress who has done many films such as Masti with Vivek Oberoi, Dhund with Apurva Agnihotri, Kuch Naa Kaho with Aishwarya and Abhishek Bachchan, Krishna Cottage with Sohail Khan, Dil Bechara Pyaar Ka Mara with actress Mallika Kapoor.

Doordarshan Kendra Mumbai

All in house films based programmes of national channel like Bioscope, Rangoli and Chulbuli Filmen Chatpati Gupshup are also produced and linked up by Mumbai Center.

Edward Hogg

He was nominated for Most Promising Newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards 2009 for his role in White Lightnin, and won Best Actor awards at the Monterrey and Mumbai Film Festivals for the same role.

Ernakulam Duronto

Ernakulam-Lokmanya Tilak Duronto, is a bi-weekly nonstop superfast train between Kochi and Mumbai

Feroze Mithiborwala

On Jerusalem Day in Mumbai in 2010 he said that Indians needed to increase their solidarity with the Palestinians.

Francis Pereira

Gripped by God in Christ. The Mind and Heart of St. Paul (St. Paul Publications, Bandra, Mumbai, 1990; 5th print in 2011); ISBN 978-8171091171.

Gymkhana Ground

Bombay Gymkhana, premier Gymkhana established in 1875 located in Mumbai and was originally built as a British-only club, designed by English architect, Claude Batley and used as a venue for multiple sports, including cricket and football

High-speed rail in India

Six corridors have already been identified for technical studies on setting-up of high-speed rail corridors: DelhiChandigarhAmritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, HowrahHaldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna.

Ishaan Khattar

He graduated in 2013 from Billabong High International School at Juhu in Mumbai.

Jack Birkenshaw

Birkenshaw retained his place for the fifth Test at Bombay, and opened the batting in the second innings, but lost his place for the Pakistan series and played only in the third Test, taking 5–55 and sharing the second-innings wickets equally with Norman Gifford.

K C Law College, Mumbai

K C Law College, situated at Churchgate, Mumbai, India, is one of the premier educational institutes in the field of law.

Kadeshwari Devi Temple

The temple is dedicated to mother goddess Kadeshwari situated on the top of hill behind Bandra Fort in Land's End, Banstand, Mumbai.

Kaleidoscope Festival, Sophia College

Sophia College for Women, located on Pedder Road (Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) holds an annual intercollegiate festival called "Kaleidoscope", sometimes referred to as K-scope by the young.

Kamakhya - Mumbai LTT AC Express

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi flagged off the first fully air-conditioned Kamakhya-Lokmanya Tilak (T), Mumbai AC Express, at a function held at Kamakhya railway station .

Kevin Desouza

Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra, India he grew up in Doha, Qatar where we completed his primary and secondary education.

Khed, Ratnagiri

Khed lies off National Highway NH-17, popularly known as Mumbai-Goa Highway, that connects Khed with cities like Mangalore, Panaji, Madgaon, Karwar and Udupi.

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

Miro Gavran

There have been first nights of his plays throughout the world, in: Rotterdam, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, Buenos Aires, Waterford, Mumbai, Bratislava, Prague, Ljubljana, Sarajevo, Krakow, Belgrade, Budapest, Athens, Augsburg, Vienna and Sofia.

Mubarak Begum

Mubarak Begum was reported to be living in a one-bedroom house in the Mumbai suburb of Jogeshwari.

N H Wadia

Noshir Hormusjee Wadia entered Grant Medical College, Mumbai in 1943 and finished his MD Medicine from there in 1950, and did his MRCP from London.

NES High School

National Education Society High School and Junior College is commonly known as NES High School, which is located in suburb of Mumbai, in Bhandup.

Online book rental in India

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have small start-ups with a few thousand books in their collections.

P.E.Society English Medium High School and Junior College

P.E.Society English Medium High School and Junior College(PES) is a school in Thane, a suburb near Mumbai in India operated by the People's Education Society.

Rajdeep Sardesai

The son of the Indian Test cricketer Dilip Sardesai, he completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School in Bombay, did two years of ISC in the Cathedral School, Mumbai, and completed a bachelor's course in Economics from St. Xavier's College.

Ramesh Powar

He is an alumnus of Ruparel College of Science, Commerce and Arts in Matunga, Mumbai.

Shivraj Patil

United States Ambassador David Mulford in an embassy cable had described his removal after Mumbai terrorists attack as inevitable and called him "inept" and "asleep on the watch".

Shrinivas Khale

He also provided music to theatrical plays Paanigrahan, Vidushak and Devache paay during his stint in Akashwani, Mumbai.

Skybus Metro

Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane etc. are considering Sky Bus although the system has not been adopted anywhere.

St. Xavier's High School, Andheri

Xavier's High School,Andheri is situated in Poonam Nagar, Andheri (East),Mumbai.It is recognized by Government of Maharashtra and affiliated to Maharashtra State Education Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education i.e., S.S.C. and H.S.C.(Science).

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Tatvajnana Vidyapeeth

Tatvajnana Vidyapeeth (informally known as "Vidyapeeth") is a philosophical university set up in a tapovan style in Thane, near Mumbai.

Thakur Public School

It is situated in Thakur Village, Kandivali (east) and is one of the premier schools in the western suburbs of Mumbai.

Thakur Vidya Mandir

Thakur Vidya Mandir High School is a secondary, co-educational school in Kandivali, Mumbai, India.

Tirur railway station

Though no trains originate from this station, trains halting at the station connect the town to prominent cities in India such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Chennai, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kozhikode, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Mangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Jammu Tawi, Okha, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and so forth.

Vanraj Bhatia

Born in 1927 in Bombay, Vanraj Bhatia trained in Western classical music while studying at the Elphinstone College in Mumbai for M.A. (English Honours); after graduating in 1949 he left for the Royal Academy of Music, London, to study music composition, which he passed with a Royal Academy Gold Medal in 1954.

Vinod Punamiya

On 20 February 2011 he claimed to have cycled a distance of 1485 km from India Gate, New Delhi to Gateway of India, Mumbai in 31 hours on bicycle.

Visa policy of India

Currently visas on arrival may be obtained at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and the list will be expanded with more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

World Association of Nuclear Operators

December 2008 - The Governors decide to postpone the 67th Governing Board meeting planned for Delhi, India following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.