By Vaishnavi Birmole Mohammad Azam Ansari is one of the few lucky people in Mumbai whose workplace is just 20 minutes away from his home. Unlike the majority of people who have to commute to and from work each day for more than two hours, Azam stays in Mahim westContinue Reading
Written by Vaishnavi Birmole and Sakshi Bhosle Mumbai, January 20: The three-day Vesava (Versova) Koli Seafood Festival starts from today till Sunday, after a gap of two years, and it already promises to be bigger than ever, if preparations on the Gharwadi Maidan at Church Road are any indication. OneContinue Reading
Mumbai, Oct 7: Ravan had only ten heads. But the present-day Ravan has changed, said former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray at Shivaji Park on Wednesday. In a “call and response” format that drew an enthusiastic response from the capacity crowd (the police said it was 1 lakh), Thackeray asked, “HowContinue Reading
Mumbai, October 7: The strength of the crowds showed who was the true Shiv Sena, declared Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in his keynote address on Dussehra at the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), where the Shinde faction’s first Dussehra rally was held at the MMRDA ground. This is also theContinue Reading
September 9, 2022: Residents of Siddhivinayak Society, organizers of the Bal Gopal Mitra Mandal in Vile Parle East, gathered today to bid a fond goodbye to their beloved Ganpati Bappa. Not for nothing is their idol known as the “Mumbai cha Peshwa”. In the first place, it is completely eco-friendlyContinue Reading
Mumbai, September 7: Representatives and volunteers from 21 different women’s organisations gathered outside the General Post Office, CST yesterday to send 282 sheets of 8,320 signatures to the Chief Justice of India to demand that the remission of sentence granted to the 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case beContinue Reading
Mumbai, Sept 05: In the heart of the very Christian I.C Colony in Borivali, the wandering passerby stumbles upon a medium-sized pandal dedicated to Lord Ganesha. Situated on one-half of the road, yet fairly spacious, the 4-ft Ganpati gives off a distinct aura of its own: It is the biggestContinue Reading
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