Charkop Bandra Mankhurd and Bandra Worli Haji Ali Link in trouble
Blame it on the global economic meltdown or 26/11, infrastructure companies and their foreign partners want more time to submit bids for
two of the city’s most prestigious projects-the Worli-Haji Ali sealink and the second phase of the Metro Rail.
Companies have twice requested the state government to extend the deadline for submission of bids for the [...]
Bandra Information
Bandra is a possible adaptation of Bandar, Persian word for Port. There are other views on the origin of the name: that it is derived from a Portuguese princess for one and another more plausible one that it is a corruption of “Bandar-gah” in Persian (Bandar is a common word for Port in Iran), which [...]
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1. Bandra’s Beginnings
In the ‘Conquista Spiritual de Oriente’ (about 1638) it is mentioned that in the pre-Portuguese period (before 1534) the King gave Bandra to the Captain of South Salsette as it was the largest village in the South Salsette District (Salsette is the island bounded by Thane, Kurla, Bandra and Bhyandar).
Bandra became [...]
