The Grant Government Medical College,Mumbai,is a public medical college,affiliated to the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences. Founded in 1845,it is one of the oldest institutions teaching medicine in South Asia.
Kurla is a neighbourhood of East Mumbai,India. It is the headquarters of the Kurla taluka of Mumbai Suburban district. The neighbourhood is named after the eponymous East Indian village that it grew out of. It falls under Zone 5,Ward 'L' of the Bombay Municipal Corporation. Its railway station,spelt as Coorla until 1890,is one of the busiest on the Mumbai suburban railway on the central and harbour railway lines of Mumbai as is the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus (LTT) for out-station passenger/express trains.
Santacruz or Santa Cruz is a neighbourhood of Mumbai. The Santacruz railway station on the Mumbai Suburban Railway,the domestic terminal (T1) of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport,and one campus of the University of Mumbai,are all located in Santacruz (East).
Arun Gawli also known as Arun Gulab Ahir,is an Indian politician,underworld don and former gangster. Gawli and his brother Kishor (Pappa) entered the Mumbai underworld in the 1970s,when they joined the "Byculla Company",a criminal gang led by Rama Naik and Babu Reshim,operating in the central Mumbai areas of Byculla,Parel and Saat Rasta. In 1988,after Rama Naik was killed in a police encounter,Gawli took over the gang and began operating it from his residence,Dagdi Chawl. Under his control,the gang controlled most criminal activities in the central Mumbai areas. Throughout the late eighties and nineties,Gawli's gang was involved in a power struggle with Dawood Ibrahim's D-Company gang. Gawli is also the founder of the Akhil Bharatiya Sena political party based in Maharashtra.
Byculla is an area of South Mumbai.
David Sassoon was the treasurer of Baghdad between 1817 and 1829. He became the leader of the Jewish community in Mumbai after Baghdadi Jews emigrated there.
Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics is a college located in Mumbai,Maharashtra,India. It is the oldest college of commerce in Asia,and is affiliated to the Dr. Homi Bhabha State University. The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in commerce and management. It was awarded a re-accreditation 'A' grade and 3.42 GPA in the second cycle assessment conducted by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.
The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena is a Regionalist far-right Indian political party based in the state of Maharashtra and operates on the ideology of "Maratha Manus". It was founded on 9 March 2006 in Mumbai by Raj Thackeray after he left the Shiv Sena party due to differences with his cousin Uddhav Thackeray,who is the 19th Chief Minister Of Maharashtra and to his sidelining by the Shiv Sena in major decisions like distribution of election tickets.
Bhiwandi is a city in the Thane district of the Konkan division of Maharashtra,India. It is located 20 kilometres (12 mi) northeast of Mumbai and 15 km (9.3 mi) northeast of the city of Thane. The city is a part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Mahul is a fishing village in Chembur,Mumbai,located on the eastern seafront of the Mumbai Suburban district. The village is known Since 2017,Mahul has been in news for its high levels of pollution and the dismal conditions of its 72 building slum resettlement colony because of which it has come to be referred to as Mumbai's "toxic hellhole","gas chamber" and "human dumping ground", where the poor "are sent to die".
Agripada is an area in South Mumbai. It is located between Byculla (West) and Mumbai Central (East). This area is connected with the Central Railway as well as the Western Railway. Agripada is also notable for its YMCA which has a swimming pool and various indoor and outdoor sports facilities. A large number of schools,including municipal schools,convents,Marathi,Hindi and English medium schools are located in this area.
Abu Asim Azmi is a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents the Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar Constituency,Mumbai. He belongs to the Samajwadi Party.
Shaikh Shamim Ahmed was an Indian politician and social worker. In 1980,he was elected as an MLA from the Mumbai Chinchpokli Constituency as an Indian National Congress candidate.
Manohar Arjun Surve,popularly known as Manya Surve,was an Indian Underworld Don in Bombay. He was one of the educated gangsters who graduated from college and very well known for challenging and defeating existing Gangs.
Ashwini Bhide is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer,predominantly known for her work on the Aqua Line or popularly known as Line 3 of the Mumbai Metro. She served as Managing Director of Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRCL),which is a joint venture of the Government of India and Government of Maharashtra since its inception,i.e. 2015 until 2020.
The Deonar dumping ground is a waste dumping ground or landfill in the city of Mumbai. Located in Shivaji Nagar an eastern suburb of the city,it is India's oldest and largest dumping ground,set up in 1927. The dumping ground is managed by the city's civic body,Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation,which also manages two other dumping ground in the city;one in the neighbourhood of Mulund and one recently opened in Kanjurmarg.
Vandana Gawli is an Indian politician,belonging to the Akhil Bharatiya Sena. She is the sister-in-law of ABS leader Arun Gawli.
Nitesh Narayan Rane is an Indian politician and a member of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for the Kankavli vidhansabha constituency. He is the head of the non-governmental organisation "Swabhiman Sanghatana". He is the younger son of former chief minister and senior politician Narayan Rane.
The 2013 Mumbai gang rape,also known as the Shakti Mills gang rape,refers to the incident in which a 22-year-old photojournalist,who was interning with an English-language magazine in Mumbai,was gang-raped by five people,including a juvenile. The incident occurred on 22 August 2013,when she had gone to the deserted Shakti Mills compound,near Mahalaxmi in South Mumbai,with a male colleague on an assignment. The accused had tied up the victim's colleague with belts and raped her. The accused took photos of the victim during the sexual assault,and threatened to release them to social networks if she reported the rape. Later,an eighteen year old call centre employee reported that she too had been gang-raped,on 31 July 2013 inside the mills complex.
Sundaram Natarajan is an Indian ophthalmologist. In 2002,he started a free clinic in Dharavi,a slum in Mumbai,and treated more than 8,000 people. He has also held free camps in various other suburbs of Mumbai such as Mankhurd and Govandi to treat the economically poor. In 2016,he also held a camp in Kashmir to operate and cure the victims of pellet gun firings.
