DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Mumbai, India: Wealth gap on voters’ minds as country’s richest city gears up for election
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Mumbai, India CNN —For millions of Indians, it’s the city where dreams come true – just look around. Vegetable seller Sachin Chaudhary poses for a picture during an interview with CNN in Mumbai, India, on April 16, 2024. A billboard with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi displayed on a road in Mumbai, India on April 15, 2024. Noemi Cassanelli/CNNA man cycles along a road in front of the Shiv Sena headquarters in Mumbai, India, on April 16, 2024. Sanjay Sardesai sits on his motorbike outside of the Indian National Congress headquarters during an interview with CNN in Mumbai, India, on April 16, 2024.

Persons: Mukesh Ambani, ’, ”, Sachin Chaudhary, Noemi Cassanelli, Rajani Bhat, “ I’m, “, ” Rajani Bhat, Narendra Modi, ” Kalpita Shinde, it’s, Helen D’Souza, ” Helen D’Souza, CNN ‘, Shiv Sena, Bhat, chai, Parag Sawla, Parag, Chaudhary, Modi, Sanjay Sardesai, CNN Sanjay Sardesai Organizations: India CNN, CNN, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, India's, sips, Indian National Locations: Mumbai, India, New York, Colaba, Modi, Dadar

The Dharavi slum, about three-quarters the size of New York's Central Park, featured in Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning 2008 movie "Slumdog Millionaire". Only those who already lived in Dharavi before 2000, mostly ground-floor residents, will get free homes within the redevelopment. In interviews with Reuters, some Dharavi residents cited the billionaire's financial troubles as contributing to their concerns. Last month, a Mumbai court allowed SecLink to add Adani to its lawsuit, forcing the conglomerate to defend its position before judges. In early August, about 300 opposition supporters and residents gathered in Dharavi to object to Adani's involvement.

Persons: Adani, Gautam Adani's, Narendra Modi's, Danny Boyle's Oscar, SecLink, Eknath Shinde, Modi, Maharashtra's, Sandeep Shastri, Rajendra Korde, Radha Pawar, Srinivas, Mohammad Hasmat Ullah, Ullah, Dhwani Pandya, Aditya Kalra, Arpan Chaturvedi, Francis Mascarenhas, David Crawshaw Organizations: Adani, Consultancy, Reuters, SecLink Technologies Corporation, The, Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Modi's BJP, India's, Trust, Reuters ., Dharavi, Committee, Authority, Dhwani, Thomson Locations: Dubai, MUMBAI, rehouse, Dharavi, Maharashtra, The Dubai, Mumbai, Gujarat, snowballing

☆ Buldhana: At least 25 dead after wedding party bus bursts into flames in India
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Sandi Sidhu | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Hong Kong CNN —At least 25 people have been killed after a bus carrying a wedding party burst into flames after crashing in India’s western state of Maharashtra on Saturday. Baburao Mahamuni, Deputy Superintendent of Police in Buldhana, said the incident had taken place on the Samruddhi Mahamarg expressway, CNN’s Indian affiliate News 18 reported. Mahamuni said the injured were being taken to Buldhana Civil Hospital. “Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has expressed deep grief over the horrific accident of a private bus on the Samruddhi highway near Sindkhedaraja in the Buldhana district,” the tweet read. It said the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund would provide around $6,000 to the families of each person killed “in this unfortunate incident”.

Persons: Baburao Mahamuni, Mahamuni, Eknath Shinde Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, Civil Hospital, Police, Minister’s Locations: Hong Kong, Maharashtra, Buldhana, Yavatmal, Pune, Sindkhedaraja

☆ Passenger trains derail in India, killing at least 50, trapping many others
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Rescuers work at the site of passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Friday, June 2, 2023. Two passenger trains derailed Friday in India, killing at least 50 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said. The debris was hit by another passenger train coming from the opposite direction, and up to three coaches of the second train also derailed, Sharma said. In August 1995, two trains collided near New Delhi, killing 358 people in the worst train accident in India's history. More than 12 million people ride 14,000 trains across India every day, traveling on 64,000 kilometers (40,000 miles) of track.

Persons: Amitabh Sharma, Sharma, Kaleda, Dattatraya Bhausaheb Shinde, Pradeep Jena, Shinde, Narendra Modi, Modi Organizations: The Press Trust of India, New Delhi Television, Press Trust, Rescuers, The Press Trust, Indian Locations: Balasore district, Orissa, India, Kolkata, Balasore, Howrah, West Bengal, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, New Delhi

☆ Women, children trek miles in summer heat to get water near Mumbai
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Francis Mascarenhas | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"All the water is sent to Mumbai, we are left with nothing," said Ashok Shinde, whose village is home to about 700 people rearing poultry and livestock. The Vaitarna dam, which supplies water to Mumbai, is just 50 km (31 miles) from Telamwadi, but is not linked to it. [1/5] Women walk back home balancing pots of water on their head as other women walk towards a well to fill their pots in Telamwadi, near Mumbai, India, May 17, 2023. "Until the permanent solution is in place, we are providing water tankers to ensure residents do not face issues," state water supply officials told Reuters. One of the women usually makes the precarious journey, relying on numerous cracks in the walls to provide support.

☆ Eleven people die of sunstroke near Mumbai after open-air award function
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

MUMBAI, April 17 (Reuters) - At least eleven people died on Sunday after suffering from sunstroke at an event attended by India's home minister on the outskirts of Mumbai, the chief minister of Maharashtra state said. Hundreds of thousands of people attended an award function on Sunday afternoon where federal home minister Amit Shah presented an award to a well-known social activist, on the outskirts of the country's financial capital of Mumbai in Maharashtra. Around 50 people were admitted to hospital after the event and 11 had died, Maharashtra's chief minister, Eknath Shinde, told reporters late on Sunday night. India is likely to experience heat waves between March and May, the weather office said in February this year. Reporting by Shilpa Jamkhandikar and Rajendra Jadhav in Mumbai; Editing by Sonali PaulOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

New Delhi/Hong Kong (CNN Business) Cyrus Mistry, the Indian scion of one of the country's most prominent empires, died in a road accident on a highway near Mumbai on Sunday, according to Maharashtra police. Mistry, 54, was one of two people who died when the car they were traveling in hit a barrier between two lanes, according to Shrikant Shinde, a Maharashtra police official. Two other people in the vehicle were injured and taken to hospital, he added. Autopsies would be carried out on the two deceased at a hospital in Mumbai, said Pradeep Dhodhi, a Palghar district medical official. Mistry was best known as the former chairman of Tata Sons , the massive Indian conglomerate that owned Jaguar, Land Rover and the Taj hotels.

Search resuls for: "Shinde"

7 mentions found