By Nida Faruqui Mumbai, January 4: Around 86,000 employees from state energy companies including MSEDCL, Mahagenco and Mahatransco, and 40,000 other contractual workers have gone on a 72-hour strike starting today, affecting over 2.8 crore electricity consumers across Maharashtra. The strike is to oppose the entry of private player AdaniContinue Reading
Unending suffering and pain has it given, many loved ones has it taken and it is not yet gone. Perhaps it may be us who falter and such consequences force us our needs to alter. Looking around at all we have today, it is quite visible that nature really worksContinue Reading
Fashion has been a medium of influencing people since time immemorial. For celebrities especially, it is a part of a personality they want to exude to society. Keeping that in mind, repeating an outfit would have been considered a disastrous faux pas. But the concept of responsible fashion has changedContinue Reading
There is an uneasy equation between hawkers and the police in Vile Parle East, as this picture shows The constituency of Vile Parle, although divided into two parts, West and East, received a good response from its voters at all polling booths in both parts of the constituency. However, thereContinue Reading
Kiran Shah and his entire family of six came to the Mithibai college of commerce to cast their votes for one party, the BJP. Maintaining that they felt all their promises made by the BJP during the 2014 state assembly elections were fulfilled, Shah said there was no second thoughtContinue Reading
During the late morning hours, people walked into the St. Xavier’s high school at Vile Parle to cast their votes for the 2019 Maharashtra state assembly elections. People from all ages and economic backgrounds flocked in together, among them senior citizens Anildada Parab and his wife Ganga. During the conversation,Continue Reading
11 am: John F Kennedy once said, “The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” The positive state of mind at the Bandra Night School behind the BMC H West office behind ill Roadwas unbelievable, with voters of every age and demographic rushing to voteContinue Reading
9 am: Already the place is a hive of activity, with workers, policemen and voters trickling in steadily. A surprise sight was Zishan Siddique, the Congress party candidate, taking a round and checking and interacting with the polling workers. He seems friendly enough but makes it clear that he isContinue Reading