Radhika Gupta calls Lower Parel 'Slower Parel' after Nilesh Shah suggests penalty on Mumbai's bad roadsRadhika Gupta of Edelweiss Asset Management responded to Nilesh Shah of Kotak Mahindra Asset Management regarding Mumbai's traffic woes. Gu...
14 Oct, 2025, 11.36 AM IST
Foot-over bridge connecting Elphinstone & Parel stations becomes operationalWork on the 6-metre-wide FOB was initiated on September 29 last year, the day on which a stampede at Elphinstone Road FOB staircase killed ...
04 Jul, 2018, 06.41 PM IST
Come July, extra platform to ease Parel commuter rushFrom July onwards, slow trains headed in the northern direction (towards Dadar and beyond) will get a new platform to halt at. The move is ...
12 Jun, 2018, 07.41 PM IST
Elphinstone Road stampede and Kamla Mills fire indicate Lower Parel needs infra revamp: ExpertsApart from commercial offices, Lower Parel has turned into a hub for nightlife with several fine-dining restaurants, pubs and bars mushroom...
30 Dec, 2017, 09.47 AM IST
Western Railway probe blames heavy rain for Mumbai stampedeAccording to the report, the stampede was caused by heavy rains which forced people outside at the ticket counters to rush to the already j...
11 Oct, 2017, 03.24 PM IST
Railways to spend Rs 15,000 crore on safety next yearThe money will be spent on improving safety features on trains, tracks and stations on a “war footing”, a top railway ministry official sai...
01 Oct, 2017, 11.22 PM IST
Every aspect of rail services should be continuously improved: Ram Nath KovindKovind had earlier expressed his condolences soon after the rail station tragedy on September 29.
01 Oct, 2017, 07.37 PM IST
Death toll in Elphinstone stampede in Mumbai rises to 23The dean of the hospital, Avinash Supe, said the deceased was identified as Satyendrakumar Kanojia who was in his late forties.
30 Sep, 2017, 04.07 PM IST
Mumbai netizens question bullet train, slam station renaming spreeInflamed hashtags such as #priorities and #22slainbystate lampooned the state for renaming Elphinstone station as 'Prabhadevi' and going fo...
30 Sep, 2017, 11.32 AM IST
Axis Bank, IPG staffers among deceased in Elphinstone stampede“Axis Bank has lost a brilliant credit coordinator in Friday's mishap,“ tweeted Dharmesh Mehta, CEO, Axis Capital.
30 Sep, 2017, 10.31 AM IST
The daily struggle that is Mumbai Railways: The tale of a commuterThe suburban railway system carries around 7.5 million commuters daily and stations such as Parel are one of its busiest, ranked after CST ...
30 Sep, 2017, 08.23 AM IST
3000 people lose lives on Mumbai tracks every yearPassengers have long been petitioning then railway minister Suresh Prabhu and his predecessors for funds to develop the ageing infrastructu...
30 Sep, 2017, 12.44 AM IST
22 crushed to death in Mumbai station stampede; Rail minister orders probeA desperate attempt to avoid a sudden burst of heavy rains forced people to crowd together in a narrow, decades-old bridge leading to the d...
30 Sep, 2017, 12.34 AM IST
Government priorities skewed, say ally & Opposition after Mumbai stampedeHundreds of Shiv Sena activists shouted slogans against Goyal and Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde near the KEM Hospital when the...
30 Sep, 2017, 12.05 AM IST
Papa you go ahead, I will come: last words of one stampede victimSuddenly it started raining, and the crowd on the bridge swelled. Father was propelled forward by pressing bodies, while his daughter was s...
29 Sep, 2017, 10.03 PM IST
Mumbai stampede: Mills gave way to skyscrapers, but infra laggedFor Anita and Babita Kamble, sisters who live in the railway quarters near the overbridge, a spurt in noise outside this morning seemed rou...
29 Sep, 2017, 07.58 PM IST
Anguished by the loss of lives in Mumbai stampede: President Ram Nath KovindAt least 22 people were killed and several injured in a rush hour stampede on a foot over-bridge linking Elphinstone Road and Parel suburba...
29 Sep, 2017, 02.34 PM IST