MUMBAI's trains are famous for carrying what is officially called a “super-dense crush load” of passengers during rush hour. Judging by the complaints of some of India's mobile operators, its airwaves are just as overcrowded. The operators added more than 8m mobile-phone subscribers in October, bringing the total to over 217m. India has met its ambitious target, set two years ago, of 250m fixed and mobile-phone connections. But the government is sadly unprepared. It has not given India's mob
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With maharahstra government finally letting go of the age old urban land ceiling act, Mumbai should see more high-rises implying more space for people to live / work and thus lower real estate prices due to increased supply. Thank god, government finally realized this! Hopefully the removal of the rent-control act will follow and make Mumbai more affordable!
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Aliens spying on us from another star system might be able to discern continents and oceans on our planet, using technology barely more advanced than our own.
In imaginary form, these inquisitive extraterrestrials have been helping astronomers work out how much detail the next generation of space telescopes could reveal on Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.
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Astronomers discovered the largest diamond of all times in space. The weight of the precious stone reportedly makes up ten billion trillion trillion carats or five million trillion trillion pounds).
The space diamond is virtually an enormous chunk of crystallized carbon, 4,000 kilometers in diameter. The stone is located at a distance of 50 light years from Earth, in the Constellation Centaurus.
KOLKATA: It's being billed as the mother of all malls. Spread over a million sq ft including a retail space of 650,000 sq ft, South City Mall - the mega entertainment hub on Prince Anwar Shah Road - is a colossal structure. But beyond its sheer size are the mindblowing statistics.
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