Racecourse lease to be discussed

Mumbai, May 15 : Opposition BJP has demanded that the famous Mahalaxmi Racecourse here be converted into a public garden on the lines of Mysore garden."At present, people interested in horse-racing only go at the Racecourse, which is more of gambling. Since ...

Uddhav's demand came against the backdrop of Shiv Sena's plans to build a memorial of the party supremo, who passed away last November, at Shivaji Park in Dadar came unstuck.

There's a manufactured controversy over the Mahalaxmi Race Course's lease which expires at the end of this month. Let's leave the controversy aside for now. If the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), and the state government which is the owner ...

BMC won't renew its lease; part of it may be turned into theme park.

Shiv Sena has demanded that the MCGM refuse to renew the 100-year lease for the 225 acres of land Makarand Gadgil Mahalaxmi race course in Mumbai. Photo: Abhijit Bhatlekar/Mint Mumbai: The Mahalaxmi race course in central Mumbai, one of the oldest ...

BJP Tuesday extended support to Shiv Sena's proposal to transform Mahalaxmi Racecourse into a public garden. Deputy leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde said, "The Race Course, which has been leased out to the private Turf Club, is ...

The Shiv Sena has decided to up its ante in the fight over the Mahalaxmi racecourse plot and is thinking of taking up 1/3rd area of the plot, owned by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

While the ruling Shiv Sena may have asked the civic body to take back the 225-acre Mahalaxmi racecourse plot, the task wont be easy since though it holds the lease, about two-thirds of the land is owned by the state government.

Mumbai: Mumbai's iconic , the city's vital green lung, should be converted into a theme park, named after Bal Thackeray, his son and Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray said today. The suggestion came even as uncertainty looms large over the fate ...