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The Taj Mahal Palace and Tower is a prestigious luxury hotel located in the Colaba region of Mumbai, next to the Gateway of India.
The building of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai. It is the civic body that governs the city of Mumbai. It is India's richest municipal organisation. Its annual budget is even more than that of some of the small states of India. Established under the Bombay Municipal Corporation Act (1888), it is responsible for the civic infrastructure and administration of the city and some suburbs of Mumbai.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (Marathi: छत्रपती शिवाजी टर्मिनस), formerly Victoria Terminus, and better known by its abbreviation CST or Bombay VT) is a historic railway station in Mumbai which serves as the headquarters of the Central Railways. It is one of the busiest railway stations in India, and serves Central Railway trains terminating in Mumbai as well as the Mumbai suburban railway.
The Jama Masjid, Mumbai is a mosque in the Kalbadevi neighbourhood, near Crawford Market in the South Mumbai region of Mumbai, India.
Churchgate (Marathi: चर्चगेट) is an area in downtown South Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The station gets its name from Church Gate street (now Veer Nariman Road) which lines on the immediate south of the station. During the eighteenth and up to the mid 19th century, Bombay was a walled city. The city walls had three gates, and Church Gate, named after St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai was one of the gates. The gate on situated near the present day location of Flora Fountain. In the mid nineteenth century, the city walls were torn down to aid in the expansion program.
Four planetaria in India are named after India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru Planetariums, located in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Jawahar Planetarium in Allahabad. The planetaria at Kolkata, Jaipur, Chennai and Hyderabad are called Birla Planetariums (either M. P. Birla or B. M. Birla) as they became possible from the donations from the house of Birlas (a prominent Indian business house also known for its philanthropy). In all there are 30 planetaria in India and many more are likely to come up in places like Surat, Nashik and Rampur in the short future.
