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36 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.

Abelater

Abelater sanguinicollis Schwarz, 1902: This species was collected from Mumbai.

Akhbarul Hind

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

Ashok Kamte

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

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.

BITNETS

BITNETS was first established on March 13, 1999 in Mumbai, India as an Internet consulting service.

Centre for Excellence in Telecom Technology and Management

Consequently in the year 2003, MTNL established the Centre for Excellence in Telecom Training and Management (CETTM), with capex plan of over Rs 100 crore, at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai, Mumbai, replacing the existing RTTC's and DTTC's.

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.

Going Dutch

It is commonly called "TTMM" (Tera Tu Mera Main) literally meaning you (pay) for yours and me for mine in Mumbai.

Interop

It takes place at four different locations at various times of the year: Mumbai (India), New York (NY, USA), Tokyo(Japan), and Las Vegas (NV, USA).

It's OK, It's All Good

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

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.

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

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 College

this can refer to any of a number of academic institutions in Mumbai, India, including

Mumbai-Bangalore economic corridor

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

Nigerians in India

As of January 2012, there are about 10,000 Nigerians living and working in India but only 3,500 were registered with the Nigerian High Commission and they live in cities such as New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Jaipur.

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.

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.

Ramnarain Ruia College

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

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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.

Sir J. J. College of Architecture

Sir J. J. College of Architecture is an architecture school located in downtown Mumbai (Bombay), affiliated to University of Mumbai.

Sudharak Olwe

He has a Diploma in Photography from the Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art (1986), Mumbai and also a Diploma in Film and Video Production (1992) from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited

Shri Nanjibhai Kalidas Mehta, is the founder of the Mehta Group of Companies, a Mumbai-based conglomerate, with business interests spanning four (4) continents, namely: Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.

Tatvajnana Vidyapeeth

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

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.

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

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.


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.

Bhor Ghat

Later, Mountstuart Elphinstone and John Malcolm laid a railway line from Mumbai to Pune through Bhor Ghat, making it a rail route with 28 tunnels, old bridges and magnificent views.

Children's Academy

Children's Academy is a Mumbai-based chain of private co-educational English-medium day schools at Malad and Kandivali in Mumbai.

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.

Diamond District

The area is one of the primary centers of the global diamond industry (along with London — rough stones; the Antwerp diamond district in Belgium — historical but waning; Mumbai, India — increasing in significance, Ramat Gan, Israel — also growing, and Johannesburg, South Africa — the major historical source), as well as the premier center for jewelry shopping in the city.

Diana Pinto

Her mother Irene Pinto hails from Moodabidri (near Mangalore), and is also a Manager in Bank of Baroda (Mumbai branch).

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.

Feroze Mithiborwala

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

Gangoobai

She makes the trip to Mumbai to Ardra, which at that time is having financial difficulties, and there meets Daksha (Mita Vashisht), the manager, Waman Ponkshe (Purab Kohli), an accountant, Monisha (Nidhi Sunil), a model, the designer Rohan (Rajendranath Zutshi) and Jamshyd Mistry (Behram Rana), a rich elderly person.

George Vernon

They won seven games and drew another before they were due to play the Parsi Gymkhana of Bombay (now Mumbai) on 30 January 1890, just after that great cricket stalwart, Lord Harris, had been named as the next Governor of the Bombay Presidency.

Gerson da Cunha

One of his relatives, José Gerson da Cunha was a noted historian, who wrote a history of early Mumbai, The Origin of Bombay (1900).

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

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.

Jivraj Narayan Mehta

In the establishment of the Topiwala Nair Municipal Hospital, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital and the Dr. Balabai Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai, he played a key role.

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 .

Khillari cattle

The Khillari is breed of cattle, of the Bos indicus sub-species, found in Man and Khatav taluka in Satara and Shirol taluka in Kolhapur and Atpadi taluka in Sangli in the Mumbai region of western India.

Kirit Parikh

Kirit S. Parikh is Emeritus Professor (on retirement as Director) and Founder Director of Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India.

Lakshman Prabhu

Lakshman Prabhu was a minister in the court of the Silhara dynasty that ruled the islands that today constitute the Indian city of Mumbai.

Mary Frere

Mary's father had served in the colonial administration of Bombay since 1834, and in 1862 he was appointed Governor of Bombay.

Mubarak Begum

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

Mumbai Meri Jaan

Mumbai Meri Jaan tells the story of five people whose lives are affected by the 2006 Mumbai train bombings.

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.

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.

Rhythm and Hues Studios

By the time Rhythm & Hues began to work on the 2012 Ang Lee film, Life of Pi, the company had become a global one with offices and artists in India (the Mumbai suburb of Malad and HITEC City which is a part of Hyderabad), Malaysia (Cyberjaya just outside of Kuala Lumpur), Canada (Vancouver), and Taiwan (Kaohsiung).

Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande

Shrikhande was a professor of mathematics at Banaras Hindu University, Banaras and the founding head of the department of mathematics, University of Mumbai and the founding director of the Center of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Mumbai until he retired in 1978.

Shrinivas Khale

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

SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce

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

Somaiya Vidyavihar

Somaiya Vidyavihar is an educational campus located in the Vidyavihar suburb of Mumbai.

Thakur Vidya Mandir

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

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.

Vashi Bridge

The Vashi Bridge, also known as Thane Creek Bridge, is a bridge, built across the Thane Creek that connects the city of Mumbai to the Indian mainland at Navi Mumbai.

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.

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.

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.

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.