Vishwas Rajaram Suryavanshi, a 40-year-old small farmer from Dhule district in, Nashik, grows flowers, tomato, cucumber, and onion in his 5-acre farm. His income was about Rs 1lakh in 2019, before the Coronavirus. During the pandemic and the lockdown, however, he earned Rs 1.75 lakh, an increase of 75 percent.Continue Reading
Mumbai, March 7: Most women in Mumbai are still unaware of the Nirbhaya Squad, an initiative by the Mumbai Police on eve-teasing and sexual harassment, launched on January 26. In order to address this, a group of NGOs got together at the Birla Garden, Juhu on March 6. The ideaContinue Reading
Mumbai, January 20: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in a hitch over finding an agency to manage its social media. Sunjeet Communications Pvt Ltd, which describes itself as a full-service INS advertising agency was appointed on December 31 to the task of managing 34 twitter handles of BMC forContinue Reading
The past year has been uncharted territory for every person on the face of the planet. In the centuries before ours, there have been devastating outbreaks of diseases that have taken thousands if not millions of lives. The 1918 Spanish flu outbreak and the Black plague in 1346 are theContinue Reading
काल पासून १५ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ राज्य सरकारने घोषणा केल्या नंतर सर्व गोष्टी सर्व सामान्य लोकासाठी उघडल्या जात आहेत, आणि त्याच पहिल्या गोष्टी मध्ये होत ते म्हणजे माझा कॉलेग्जचा पहिला दिवस,आणि लोकल ट्रेनचा प्रवास, तर मी पण कॉलेजमध्ये अगदी उत्साहित पोहचण्याचे ठरविले ते पण lockdown नंतरच पहिला प्रवास लोकल ट्रेन पासून,Continue Reading
AFTER BEING SACKED ON AN ONLINE CALL, HE FOUND HIS PASSION DOING ONLINE COMEDY SHOWS In September 2020, Saurabh Andrade (27) was an attendee of an audio call in which he learned, along with 40 other co-workers, that he no longer had a job. “How can they call 40 peopleContinue Reading
Architects in Dubai are building a prototype of a “Martian city” that will be completed at a cost of $135 million. Called the Mars Science City, it is located in the desert outside Dubai. The area under construction is 176,000 square kilometers of desert, which is equivalent to 30 footballContinue Reading
So yesterday, with the state government announcing that things were opening up, I decided to have a bash at reaching college. I live in Kalamboli, which is about 39 km from Bandra West, and on the map, it is very nice, showing roughly east to west direction and by carContinue Reading
Mumbai: City journalist Presley Thomas, 41, almost became a victim of an accident related to manjha (kite string coated with powdered glass) on the Western Express Highwayi on January 19. Thomas, a senior defense journalist, was on his way back home to Vakola after visiting a friend in Vasai, 60Continue Reading
Women correspondents covering politics, conflicts and news events for television channels face daunting odds but are driven by the desire to make a difference – By Shweta Bhandral ( Founder, The Future Skills Company & Journalism Faculty at St Pauls Institute of Communication Education) When stone-pelting began in north-east Delhi’sContinue Reading