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A fall as swift as the rise

India, Aug. 16 -- Born of an anti-corruption uprising that electrified the nation, the Aam Aadmi Party promised to clean up Indian politics and deliver governance rooted in honesty and transparency. C... Read More


Of historical erasure, identity and trilingualism

India, Aug. 16 -- This particular book is focused on one day in the life of VO Chidambaram Pillai (VOC). At the height of the Swadeshi movement, for about two years from 1906, VOC ran a shipping compa... Read More


Langdya in the school of life

India, Aug. 16 -- Shrikant Bojewar's 154-page novella is a wickedly clever satire set in a small village in Maharashtra where the intermingling of felines and humans establishes beyond a doubt the unc... Read More


'The bureaucracy in India is really quite impressive'

India, Aug. 16 -- 1In your Author's Note, you say: "There are parts of our food system that some people don't want us to see." What is the most invisibilised part of the food chain that you have photo... Read More


'Rs.150/sq ft bribe rate fixed under ex-VVCMC chief'

MUMBAI, Aug. 16 -- The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is conducting a money laundering probe into the construction of 41 illegal, now-demolished buildings in Vasai East, has found that former VVC... Read More


29 villages of Palghar added back to VVCMC

MUMBAI, Aug. 16 -- In a notice issued on August 14, the state government included 29 villages of Palghar district in the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation (VVCMC). The districts, which were a par... Read More


CR to install 1,650 CCTVs along tracks

Mumbai, Aug. 16 -- The Central Railway (CR) recently came up an elaborate plan to install 1,650 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras along railway lines, to keep surveillance on tracks, train-park... Read More


HC clears decks for Santacruz slum redevelopment, stuck for four years

MUMBAI, Aug. 16 -- The Bombay high court on Thursday reprimanded a section of residents of the Jaku Club slum pocket in Santacruz East for blocking the redevelopment of their settlement for nearly fou... Read More


New rail corridors on the cards

Mumbai, Aug. 16 -- The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has proposed new rail corridors along the existing lines on the Kalyan-Kasara and Kalyan-Karjat corridors to segregate Mumbai's suburban rai... Read More


Arrested B'deshi flees from JJ Hosp

MUMBAI, Aug. 16 -- A 21-year-old pregnant Bangladeshi woman, who had been arrested for illegally staying in India, fled on August 14 from the JJ Hospital's Warn No. 10 where she had been taken for tre... Read More