Monsoon in Mumbai

Premonsoon showers are their in the last week. Every evening their is a silent thunderstorm and a shower follows. Still there is no respite from the heat, day temperature remains in constant around 35 degree celsius with humidy to give a experience of 40 degree celsius.

Mett. department is expecting monsoon to arrive on 10th of June, as it has arrived in kerala on 31st of May hoping everything goes normal.

As usual municipal corporations are doing their last minute work of cleaning drains, long drawn work completion like asphalting of roads and finishing some concrete stuffs.

Petrol and diesel prices hiked

Adding to the woes of high inflation rates and ever rising, petroleum minister Murali Deora today announced that there will be rise in petrol and diesel prices today onwards.

Petrol will rise by Rs. 5 and diesel by Rs. 3, per litre. LPG is also going the way of price rise, domestic LPG will cost Rs. 50 more now.

A marginal duty cut on crude is also muted, excise duty on petrol and diesel is cut by Rs. 1 and customs duty is made to null from Rs. 5 on crude.

Worlds most expensive house - Antilia

Mukesh Ambani the worlds fifth richest man, head of petrochemical giant Reliance Industries is building a 2 billion US Dollars or Rs. 8000 Crore.

This personal skyscraper now getting build in mumbai, India is named as Antilia and will be 22 story when completed. Just for the family of 4 persons. Antilia is the name of a mythical island some believe to be in in the Atlantic Ocean near Spain. Antilia will be 550 feet tall and will have a total of 400,000 sq ft of interior space. The house is scheduled to be finished by January 2009.

Antilia will have 3 helipads on top and six levels from ground for parking vehicles. 600 peoples are expected to work for this house when completed.