Mumbai sea bridge to be named after Rajiv Gandhi

October 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi will address three rallies in Maharashtra today. Besides Mumbai, Gandhi will campaign in Kolhapur and Nagpur for Congress- Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) candidates.

September 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Even as the Congress party and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) continue to engage in seat sharing talks, Congress President Sonia Gandhi kickstarted her party's campaign for the coming Maharashtra Assembly polls on Monday. Inaugurating the renovated Congress Office in Mumbai, which has been named after Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia called on the workers to reach out to the people with renewed vigour to ensure the party's return to power in the state.

September 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Recalling the Congress' "deep bonds" with Mumbai and Maharashtra, party president Sonia Gandhi Monday urged the people of the state to return it back to power in the state in the upcoming assembly elections. The Congress' aim had always been to serve and give justice to the common people of the country, Gandhi said addressing party workers at the inauguration of the new party headquarters, the Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, here.

July 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government Wednesday announced that the Mumbai-Pune Expressway will be named after the late Y.B. Chavan, former deputy prime minister and the state's first chief minister.

July 2nd, 2009 MUMBAI - Lashing out at the Maharashtra government for deciding to name the new Bandra Worli Sea Link after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray said Thursday that "the country is not the fiefdom of the Gandhi family". In a scathing editorial in the party mouthpiece 'Saamna', the ailing Thackeray criticized Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar for proposing Rajiv's name just because he (Rajiv) was born in Mumbai.

July 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - The Coast Guard on Wednesday rescued nine persons from a police patrol boat that got entangled in a fishing net under the newly opened Bandra-Worli Sea Link bridge in Mumbai. "We got the news around 7 in the morning that people were struck in swamp and thus were not able to come out due tidal conditions.

July 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - It was houseful on India's first open sea bridge Wednesday - celebrities and commoners came out in droves to drive up and down the newly opened engineering marvel on the sea, leading to hour-long traffic snarls at both ends. When the Bandra Worli Sea Link (BWSL) was thrown open at midnight Tuesday, there were very few vehicles, but by dawn the numbers increased, said an official of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC).

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - India's first open sea bridge, a 5.6-km cable-held engineering marvel expected to cut travel time by 80 percent for this city's harried commuters, was inaugurated Tuesday, heralding a new era in infrastructure consolidation by the new government that returned to power after the May elections. Ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurated the gleaming new $325 million bridge, called the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL), which was conceived over four decades ago.

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Billed as an engineering marvel, India's first sea bridge was thrown open in this financial and entertainment capital Tuesday, promising to cut travel time by 80 percent, bypassing 23 traffic signals that commuters have to endure otherwise. United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi inaugurated the gleaming new $325 million bridge, called the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL), which was conceived over four decades ago.

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi will inaugurate the much-awaited Bandra Worli sea link here today. The 5.6 kilometers long cable-stayed bridge has been designed to allow for speedy road travel between Bandra and Worli in the busy and traffic-ridden city of Mumbai.

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Congress president Sonia Gandhi inaugurated the much-awaited Bandra Worli sea link on Tuesday. The 5.6 kilometers long cable-stayed bridge has been designed to allow for speedy road travel between Bandra and Worli in and traffic-clogged city of Mumbai.

June 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - India's first sea bridge in this financial capital will be named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan announced here, upsetting several opposition parties in the state. The move to name the sea link between the main island and its suburbs after Gandhi came in response to a surprise demand to this effect by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

April 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Bandra-Worli sea link, an ambitious eight-lane twin carriageway, is to be opened shortly in Mumbai. The 5.6 kilometers long cable-stayed bridge has been designed to allow for speedy road travel between Bandra and Worli in the busy and traffic-ridden city of Mumbai.

April 26th, 2009 MUMBAI - Criticising some parties for practising parochialism, Congress president Sonia Gandhi Sunday said that her party and citizens of India will not tolerate those who target people from others parts of the country who have come to Mumbai to live and work. 'Some people do not like this.

February 28th, 2009 AMETHI - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday said that he will not leave any stone unturned to make Rae Bareli the best district in Uttar Pradesh. 'Amethi and Rae Bareli will witness a sea change.