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 Spymac.com :: Blog system   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The Mahim Fort was built by the then Bombay Governor Gerald Aungier (1669-77), considered the founding father of the island city, on the mouth of Mahim Creek at the southern end of the present Mahim causeway.
Mahim Fort was further strengthened and small fortifications were built around it by Sir Thomas Grantham in 1684 when he held the possession of Bombay.
Mahim Fort is not the only fort in the city which is facing problems.
www.spymac.com /blogs/blog.php?userid=476770   (680 words)

  
 Mahim Fort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mahim Fort is a fort in Mahim, in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
It overlooks the Mahim Bay and Bandra to the north.
Mahim Fort • Mazagon Fort • Riwa Fort • Sewri Fort • Sion Hillock Fort • Worli Fort
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahim_Fort   (290 words)

  
 Mahim, the place portal - Mahim Fort
The Mahim Durgah, the Portuguese Church, or for that matter the Gateway of India, are all legacies of the ruler of that era.
Of these, the Mahim Fort is a relic from the British Raj.
The Mahim Fort needs to be restored and given the status of heritage structure.
www.mahim.com /et/epage45.htm   (413 words)

  
 Mahim the place portal - History of Mahim
Mahim, or Mahikawati as it was known, was the capital of Raja Bhimdev, who reigned over the region in the 13
The Causeway connecting Mahim and Bandra (corrupted from "Bunder" meaning port) was completed in 1845 at a total cost of Rs.1,57,000 donated entirely by Lady Avabai Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy, wife of the first baronet Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy with a stipulation that no toll would be charged to citizens for its use by the government.
And today, Mahim is well connected with rest of Mumbai by Western railway, Harbour railway and Mahim Bus Depot, which has buses travelling to the far south Mumbai, Colaba and also to far north Mumbai, Dahisar.
www.mahim.com /et/epage1.htm   (880 words)

  
 Welcome To Aghayiah.com
It is not unusual to see people of all faiths, both young and old,inside the sanctuary or relaxing on its wind blown terrace that overlook mahim bay and the crumbling ramparts of mahim fort and its old habitations.
He died where he had lived, in mahim, on 8 th jamadi al-Awwal and was buried in the nearby graveyard.(the chronogram for the date of his death given in the memorial plaque reads "jannat-ul firdaus".) his mother, who died forty days later, lies next to him.
The pattern of daily rituals at mahim is similar to those followed at other dargahs except that people afflicted with ailments come for the ceremony that marks the closure of the tomb chamber at 10 pm each night and 11 pm on Thursdays.
www.aghayiah.com /mahim.htm   (2158 words)

  
 Hospitals gear up for Mahim effect : Mumbai, seawater, sweet, Mahim, hospitals : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Mumbai: The faithful may have thronged Mumbai's Mahim beach tasting sweet sea water but doctors and the state government are now preparing for the effects the possibly contaminated water could have on people.
Mumbai’s Sion Hospital is preparing itself for the sudden spurt in diarrhoea cases that the government now expects not just from Mahim but also across the city.
But since people went to Mahim from across the city, even the far flung suburban hospitals need to be ready," Yeolekar said.
www.ibnlive.com /news/hospitals-gear-up-for-mahim-effect/19065-3.html   (405 words)

  
 Lower salinity of seawater no miracle: scientists
Based on studies by oceanography scientists, the Mumbai municipal authorities stated that the lowering of salinity of seawater behind a mosque here is due to percolating rainwater from the nearby Mithi river and Vehar lake.
All tests done on samples collected since Friday night at both Mahim creek and Shivaji Park seashore showed that the level of solid waste, nitrate and chloride was higher than the permissible level for drinking water.
Officials attributed the lower salinity of water at the Mahim creek to the overflowing of water at Vehar lake, which is the source of drinking water for the city.
news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Health/20060819/426166.html   (383 words)

  
 LeT planned, Mahim boys executed it : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Intelligence agencies say Mahim has emerged as a key link in the entire sequence of events and that these suspects not only provided the logistic support but also placed the IEDs on the seven trains.
Currently, 11 residents of Mahim are being questioned by a joint team.
While the RDX used in the explosions was brought by some LeT operatives from outside, the ammonium nitrate and fuel oil was procured locally by the suspects.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1746682,001302390000.htm   (279 words)

  
 Mahim: my research
Mahim Mishra and Seth C. Goldstein, Defect Tolerance at the End of the Roadmap, in Nano, Quantum and Molecular Computing: Implications to High Level Design and Validation, Sandeep K.
Mahim Mishra and Seth C. Goldstein, Defect Tolerance at the End of the Roadmap, in Proceedings of the International Test Conference (ITC '03), Sep 30-Oct 3, 2003, Charlotte, NC.  
Mahim Mishra and Seth C. Goldstein, Defect Tolerance at the End of the Roadmap, in Proceedings of the 10th International Test Synthesis Workshop, Mar 30-Apr 2, 2003, Santa Barbara, CA.  
www.cs.cmu.edu /People/mahim/research   (580 words)

  
 Mahim, the place portal - Home Page
The romantic and chequered history of the former island of Mahim, one of the seven islands that originally made up Mumbai, and also the history of the rise and downfall of Mahim Fort is narrated here.
Here is an easy to understand and a very useful map of Mumbai city and suburbs, giving you the location of Mahim and nearby areas.
Take a visual tour of Mahim Nature Park, Sitladevi Temple, Mahim Church, and Victoria Church.
www.mahim.com   (206 words)

  
 People crowd to see Mahim 'miracle'
Hundreds of city residents thronged Mahim beach, following reports of sea water turning sweet even as Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and government agencies cautioned them on Saturday against drinking water from the creek.
Even as people began coming to the beach in large numbers since Friday night to taste the 'miracle', government agencies including the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation tested the water samples and warned it was 'unfit' for drinking.
That the water is near the Mahim Dargah has not been mentioned in your write up, but had it been near a temple or a...
www.rediff.com /news/2006/aug/19mahim.htm   (379 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Frontpage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
The presence of a revered shrine nearby fed the frenzy so much that mothers clutching infants thought nothing of jumping into the sea near Mahim Creek in central Mumbai and forcing the young to sip the toxic water.
Since the mid-1980s, the Mahim Creek has been dubbed one of the most polluted zones along the Indian coastline.
According to official statistics, the Mahim Creek alone receives an estimated 64 million tonnes of domestic sewage, and 0.9 million tonnes of industrial effluents annually.
www.telegraphindia.com /1060820/asp/frontpage/story_6633180.asp   (627 words)

  
 emse232
MaHIM provides a description of the principle functions that may be required in the medical and health community’s response to a mass casualty event and organizes them into a structured framework that maximizes the effectiveness of community resources (Barbera, Macintyre 2002).
This function of the MaHIM system is responsible for overseeing and coordinating all activities that are directly responsible for accomplishing the strategic goals and objectives established by Management.
The cost-effective nature of the MaHIM System is of paramount importance due to the fact that a response system must always be ready, enduring and sustainable which requires significant human and capital investment by the various responding entities in preparation measures as the need for adequate preparation is a precursor to any successful response.
www.seas.gwu.edu /~emse232/january2004public1.html   (1375 words)

  
 Vasai History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Subsequently, the towns of Thana, Bandora (Bandra), Mahim and Mombaim (Bombay) were brought under Portuguese control.
In 1720, one of the ports of Bassein, Kalyan, was conquered by the Marathas and in 1737, they took possession of Thane including all the forts in Salsette island and the forts of Parsica, Trangipara, Saibana, Ilha das Vaccas - (Island of Arnala), Manora, Sabajo, the hills of Santa Cruz and Santa Maria.
In November 1738, Marathas led by Chimaji Appa, captured the fort of Dahanu and on 20 January 1739, Mahim capitulated, the loss of Mahim, was speedily followed by the capture of the forts of Quelme -(Kelve/Mahim), Sirgão, Tarapur, and Asserim on 13 February 1739.
www.geocities.com /unitedit/vasai_hist.htm   (2431 words)

  
 Motorist slapped by cop may lose an eye
Mahim resident Amir Umid Khan Thakur (46) was not only stopped by a traffic policeman but was slapped so hard that he might lose sight in his left eye.
According to Thakur, on April 13, he had gone to invite relatives in Bandra for his brother’s wedding and was returning to Mahim on his scooter, when traffic police officer Prakash Wadekar stopped him near St Michael’s Church and slapped him twice near his left eye.
An official at Mahim Traffic police chowky said Wadekar was on duty at Raj Bhavan and could be contacted only after a week.
www.mid-day.com /news/city/2003/april/51063.htm   (512 words)

  
 Mahim water not potable: Commissioner - Sify.com
Mumbai: Brihanmumbai municipal commissioner Johny Joseph has said the water in the Mahim Creek is not potable and cautioned the public against drinking it.
The analysis has been completed and according to the findings, the water is not potable as it contains 880 solid and 600 chloride particles per one lakh million litres of water as against the normal standard of 40 total solids and 12 chloride content.
Rumours that water in the Mahim Creek had turned sweet had spread like wild fire and people thronged the site throughout the night on Friday to taste the water.
sify.com /news/fullstory.php?id=14273590   (305 words)

  
 Diabetes India - Diabetes Conference Mumbai Taj Mahal 5 star hotel 2002
The only vestige (mark) of their dominion over these islands that remains today is the mosque at Mahim.
The Portuguese also fortified their possession by building forts at Sion, Mahim, Bandra, and Bassien which, although in disrepair, can still be seen.
The inroads of the sea at Worli, Mahim, and Mahalaxmi turned the ground between the islands into swamps making Bombay an extremely unhealthy place at that time.
www.diabetesindia.com /diabetes_conferences/information1.htm   (3068 words)

  
 Plot Summary for Grihadah (1936)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Mahim marries her and they move to a village but she cannot forget Suresh.
Mahim falls ill, is rescued by Suresh and nursed back to health by Achala.
On a train (a metaphor for the irreversibly linear course of life) to a health-resort where Mahim is supposed to convalesce, Suresh on a rainswept night gives in to temptation and elopes with Achala.
imdb.com /title/tt0270976/plotsummary   (250 words)

  
 Daily Buzz @ subcoded » Bombay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Though Mahim also have a large St. Michael’s Church and a very old Sitladevi temple, and no idea why they where ruled out from this Miracle.
No offence to Shah Makhdom Ali Fakhi (ra), as he was no-doubt a pious man. He being a Konkani from Mahim, and my family sharing a similar ancestry, I have much reverence for him.
Mahim sea-front can easily be said as the worst beach/seaside that Bombay has.
www.subcoded.com /tag/Bombay   (2545 words)

  
 Mahim - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.poly.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Mahim is the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway (India) railway line.
In 1847, a small group of Scottish missionaries decided to start a new school, now one of the most high profile schools in Mumbai – the Bombay Scottish High School.
In previous 8 years (1999 to 2006) record 22 students figured in S.S.C. Board Merit List studied in Mahim based Shreeraj classes.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Mahim   (615 words)

  
 MMRDA - Projects - Mahim Nature Park
When people come today to the Mahim Nature Park (MNP) they find it difficult to believe that, the forest they see before their very eyes was once a city garbage dump.
But that is exactly what it was less than 20 years ago.Conceived by the WWF-India in the late 1970s, an area of about 37 acres in the "H" Block of Bandra-Kurla Complex, which was earlier a garbage dump or land fill, was decided to be ecologically restored and developed as a Nature Park by MMRDA.
On the periphery of the Park is, the Mahim Creek, which supports a lush evergreen mangrove forest.
www.mmrdamumbai.org /projects_mnp.htm   (609 words)

  
 Desicritics.org: The Mahim "Miracle": Sweet Sea and Holy Insanity
This change, first noted by a teen, spread quickly all over Mumbai and within hours there were ten thousand people thronging the beach to take a holy sip and dip.
Though Mahim also has a large St. Michael's Church and a very old Sitladevi temple, it is unclear why they were ruled out from this miracle.
The Mahim sea-front can easily be considered the worst beach/seaside that Bombay has.
desicritics.org /2006/08/20/002208.php   (898 words)

  
 Dharavi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.poly.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Sandwiched between Mahim in the west and Sion in the east, is Dharavi — Asia's largest slum.
Spread over an area of 1.75 km² along the Mahim river, Dharavi is a bustling collection of contiguous settlements, each with its own identity.
To its west are Mahim and Bandra, to the north lies the Mithi River, which empties into the Arabian Sea through the Mahim Creek, and to its south and east are Sion and Matunga, Mahim.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Dharavi   (420 words)

  
 Police round up 285 in Mahim raid : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
"Some 285 people were rounded up from Mahim area in central Mumbai in an early morning search operation," said a police official.
"The combing and search operations were launched at 4 am in the Mahim area following reports that the area is frequented by illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
Nearly a dozen wanted criminals and history-sheeters (those with criminal records) also landed in our net during the raids," he said.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1744738,001302390000.htm   (299 words)

  
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And in case some of you who still have the GRE to give are wondering, I took my hosts' dog out for a walk on the morning of my exam, and had aaloo-ka-paratha for breakfast.
Other than girls, there is a lot to do: I have been on a couple of hiking trips, lots of departmental parties, get-togethers at other students' houses, movies, a concert many of us planning to go to next week.
Mahim Arindam Chakraborty writes: > Hi Mahim, > > Hope life is rosy for you!
www.cs.wisc.edu /~ganoop/articles/mahim.txt   (9885 words)

  
 Mumbai blast: 250 people detained in combing operation in Mahim-India-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Mumbai blast: 250 people detained in combing operation in Mahim
MUMBAI: At least 250 people were detained on Saturday from the city's Mahim area, which is allegedly frequented by illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, as part of the ongoing probe into Tuesday's serial train blasts.
The raids were conducted early on Saturday morning by officials of the central region of Mumbai police and over 400 policemen from various police stations participated in it, police said.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1758003.cms   (272 words)

  
 Desicritics.org: Bombay Wanderings in Mahim
In one of the oldest parts of Bombay on what was once Mahim the island - the dargah of Makhdoom Ali Mahimi.
During the annual ten day Urs festival celebrated on the 13th day of Shaval,[sometime in December] the Muslim calendar, millions of devotees visit his dargah.
The highlight of this is a procession of around eight thousand begins at the Mahim Police Station, believed to be the site of his residence.
desicritics.org /2006/03/27/134412.php   (976 words)

  
 Mahim Photos, Videos, And Journals
The minesterial cars, and the police vans, all cruising the city Read more
Mahim Junction · By photographerno1 4 mos ago
After I finished shooting pictures at Mahim I planned to go to Matunga so I jumped into this train that was standing at the statio...
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