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Cottonworld is dedicated to natural clothing. Set up in Colaba, Mumbai, the brand has grown and spread its branches throughout the country with thirty one stores across India, shifting from manufacturing to retail over time. As an institution help to reduce the increase in farmers’ suicides is the most tragic symptom of the survival crisis ...
Colaba ([koˈlaːbaː]; or ISO: Kolābā) is a part of the city of Mumbai, India. It is one of the four peninsulas of Mumbai while the other three are Worli, Bandra and Malabar Hill. During Portuguese rule in the 16th century, the island was known as Kolbhat. After the British took over the island in the late 17th century, it was known as Kolio.
Raigad district (Marathi pronunciation: [ɾaːjɡəɖ]), previously Colaba district, is a district in the Konkan division of Maharashtra, India. [2] The headquarters of the district is Alibag. Other major cities in the district are Panvel, Karjat, Navi Mumbai, Khopoli, Shrivardhan and Mahad. The district was renamed to Raigad after the fort ...
Mumbai (/ mʊmˈbaɪ / ⓘ; Marathi: [ˈmumbəi], ISO: Muṁbaī; formerly known as Bombay[a]) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore). [20] Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the ...
In 1838, the islands of Colaba and Little Colaba were connected to Bombay by the Colaba Causeway. [4] The Bank of Bombay was opened in 1840, which remains the oldest bank in the city. By 1845, all the seven islands had been connected to form a single island called Old Bombay having an area of 435 km 2 (167.95 sq mi) by the Hornby Vellard project.
Cotton Green is a suburb of Mumbai, and a noted residential and commercial area east of Parel, in central Mumbai, 8 km north of Colaba. It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway, which lies along the Harbour line, which is a part of the Central Railway. There was an earlier Cotton Green in Colaba that is marked in ...
Located on a hilly upland terrain in the Deccan Traps, Aurangabad is the fifth-most populous urban area in Maharashtra after Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur and Nashik with a population of 1,175,116. The city is known as a major production center of cotton textile and artistic silk fabrics.
Pune Cantonment, formed by borrowing land from the villages of Wanwadi, Ghorpadi and Munjeri. Khadki Cantonment, formed by borrowing land from the villages of Bopodi, Bhamburde (now called Shivajinagar) and Aundh. Dehu Road Cantonment, formed by borrowing land from the villages of Dehu, Kiwale, Mamurdi and others.