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Mumbai airport's main runway unlikely to resume full operations today as SpiceJet aircraft remains stranded
• 6 years agoOperations from the main runway of Mumbai airport, which has been shut since Monday night due to the skidding of a SpiceJet aircraft and the subsequent blocking of a part of the runway, is unlikely to resume Thursday, a source said
Mumbai rains play havoc with flight operations: City's airport must urgently focus on disaster recovery plan
Ameya Joshi • 6 years agoUntil a new airport is constructed and operational, Mumbai airport will not only be the busiest in the world, but also one of the most congested and challenging
State of urban Bengaluru: Lakhs in slums, burning lakes, incessant traffic; lack of govt support compounds city's infrastructure woes
Maheswara Reddy • 7 years agoThe infrastructure problems in Bengaluru have gone from bad to worse, with an increasing slum population, deteriorating water bodies and worsening traffic.
Winter Session of Parliament: Lok Sabha passes law to protect unauthorised colonies, slums in Delhi NCR
• 7 years agoParliament passed a bill to protect slums & unauthorised colonies in Delhi NCR from punitive action till a framework for orderly arrangements was in place.
Massive fire breaks out in Mumbai’s Bandra slums; four, including one fireman, injured
Fp Staff • 7 years agoA major fire broke out at Bandra's Garib Nagar slums in Mumbai on Wednesday afternoon during a demolition drive and engulfed around 300 hutments
Five states home to over 50% of India's slums: Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and Bihar top list
Indiaspend • 7 years agoThe top five states — Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu and Bihar — by number of slums per 100 households are also the only states/union territories with more than 10 percent of their population living in slums
Arvind Kejriwal: Delhi slums to be open-defecation free by March, pucca houses by 2022
• 8 years agoArvind Kejriwal reaffirmed that all slum clusters in the city will be made open defecation-free by March next year, promised to provide pucca houses by 2022
AAP in crisis: BJP's inability to fix Delhi's problems is the real hurdle in meeting its political ambitions
Kangkan Acharyya • 8 years agoThe results of the MCD polls made the fault lines in the Aam Admi Party visible. But this does not ensure Bharatiya Janata Party a political success in the capital city as it has to tackle a number of burning issues related to the lives of the Delhites
BMC Election 2017: Unaffordable housing in Mumbai is something polls won’t change
Apekshita Varshney And Saurabh Modi • 8 years agoThe rate of construction lags behind demand due to lack of funds and ill-thought policies and laws. What’s needed is the use of land more intensively, by reforming the land use policy, FSI, and developing a new underground mass transport system that would increase mobility in spite of high density.
BMC Election 2017: Patronage from corporators brings slum-dwellers to the polls in droves
Mahesh • 8 years agoWhen votes are counted on 23 February to determine who will represent which civic ward in Mumbai, the chances are more slum-dwellers will have cast their votes than those who don't live in slums