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39 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.

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.

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.

Asian Heart Institute

Asian Heart Institute (AHI), is an Indian cardiac care hospital, established in 2002, located in the western suburb of Bandra, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Balwantray Thakore

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

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

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.

Devipada

Devipada is a densely populated area in East Borivali, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Digicable

Ltd. is a cable television company based in Mumbai, India, that also provides telephone, data, and internet services.

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).

Kala Bazar

Now a wealthy man, Raghu buys a new, spacious flat for his family in Marine Drive.

Kishinchand Chellaram College

in Information Technology, Bachelor in Accounts and Finance, Bachelor in Banking and Insurance, Computer Applications, Biotechnology and Industrial Chemistry and was the first college to be awarded an A grade by The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in 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 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.

Mumbai-Pune-Mumbai

Saying so she asks Joshi to accompany her to a famous local garden-temple, Sarasbaug after which they proceed to the local ‘Tulsi Baug’ market, and other local attractions thereafter.

Necklace Road

Named after the first and the famous Necklace Road in Mumbai's Marine Drive.

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.

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.

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.

Ramnarain Ruia College

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

Shriram Madhav Nene

Being so highly qualified, he has been called from many hospitals in Mumbai, India, But he turned the offers down.

SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce

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

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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The college can be accessed via rickshaws through any suburb of Mumbai.

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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.


Ambani

Dhirubhai Ambani, an Indian businessman and founder of Reliance Industries in Mumbai

Amrut

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

Chittaprosad Bhattacharya

He is represented in the National Museum, Prague, The National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, Osians Art Archive, Mumbai, and the Jane and Kito de Boer Collection, Dubai.

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).

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).

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.

EarthSync

Laya Project won various awards (Founder's Choice Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, Best Film Award at the Byron Bay Film Festival, Special Juror's Choice Award at Zanzibar International Film Festival in Tanzania and the Audience Award at Imaginaria Film Festival in Italy) and is being screened at international film festivals in places such as Los Angeles, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv, Mumbai and Kuala Lumpur.

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.

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).

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: Delhi–Chandigarh–Amritsar, Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Hyderabad-Kazipet-Dornakal-Vijayawada-Chennai, Howrah–Haldia, Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Ernakulam-Thiruvananthapuram, Delhi-Agra-Lucknow-Varanasi-Patna.

Iris Maity

She was adjudged as 'I AM Photogenic' in the I AM She 2010, the 1st Miss India Universe pageant, which was held on May 28, 2010 in Mumbai.

Ishaan Khattar

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

Java Green

Java Green is operational at different locations including educational institutions like DA-IICT,SRM University and IIM Bangalore, hospitals like KDA Hospital, Mumbai and Fortis, corporate offices like DAKC, Mumbai and IBM, Reliance Web worlds and Spencer's retail.

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.

Jogeshwari Caves

The Jogeshwari Caves are some of the earliest Hindus and Buddhist cave temples sculptures located in the Mumbai suburb of Jogeshwari, India.

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.

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 .

Karanjadi train crash

At 6.10am, the Matsyagandha Express passenger train, transporting commuters between Mangalore and Mumbai, was on a section of the Konkan Railway line between Veer and Karanjadi, when the engine ran headlong into the debris of a landslide caused by heavy monsoon rains, which had collapsed part of a hillside across the track, crushing steel nets put there to prevent such a fall.

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.

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.

Landmark quiz

The 20th edition of the Landmark Quiz was held in 6 cities Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune, Mumbai and Chennai.

Matsyaganda Express

The train has become important link and emotional chord for natives of Dakshina Kannada, Karwar and Udupi districts living in Mumbai and surrounding cities.

Mithi River

In 2009, environmentalist and Magsaysay Award winner, Rajendra Singh lead a yatra, of a group of environmentalist and NGOs, through Mumbai city along the endangered Mithi river to highlight its problems.

Mumbai Meri Jaan

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

Mumbaikar

It is also fairly common to find people who have their last name based on this rule, so some natives of Goregaon (a large area in Mumbai) have Goregaonkar as their last name, similarly Chiplunkar from Chiplun and so on.

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.

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).

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.

Somaiya Vidyavihar

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

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.

Thakur complex

Thakur Complex along with Asha Nagar is Neighbourhood in western suburb Kandivali(East) of Mumbai.

Udvada

The Udvada Atash Behram is one of nine Atash Behrams worldwide, eight of which are in western India (four in Mumbai, two in Surat, one in Navsari, and the one in Udvada), and one of which is in Yazd, in central Iran.

Ugly Aur Pagli

And one cold winter night on way back to home at VT station in Mumbai he meets a drunk Kuhu (Mallika Sherawat).

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.

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.

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.