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Dhurandhar’s Bangkok shoot shows there is no Ease of Filming in Mumbai for Bollywood

Just like Dhurandhar, Ek Tha Tiger, Baaghi and many other Bollywood hits were shot in Thailand, a popular destination for Indian filmmakers to shoot action sequences.

Class trouble: Why over half of Mumbai’s BMC school students drop out along the way

New report says only 48% of students who joined BMC schools in Class 1 in 2015–16 stayed till Class 10. Limited secondary schools and missing dropout data make it harder to track where students go.

Mumbai’s BMC is running schools offering free Cambridge and IB education, and parents are lining up

From midday meals to protein bars for students, BMC's IGCSE and IB schools in Matunga and Vile Parle are quietly rewriting expectations of what a municipal school can be.

In 1st budget under BJP mayor in 44 yrs, BMC hikes outlay to Rs 81k crore, focus on big-ticket infra

India's richest civic body’s outlay is 8.77% higher than last year’s, with the biggest allocation being made for infra growth. BMC also proposed an AI boost to its service delivery.

Denmark to Mumbai’s Coastal Road. Which other cities have musical roads?

The Mumbai coastal road arrived a little late; the world has been enjoying the grooves of melody roads for a few decades now.

BMC power tussle—BJP, Shinde Sena agree on mayor post, but haggle over standing committee chairships

BJP is set to get BMC mayor’s post & the Shiv Sena (Shinde) the deputy’s position, but the BJP is not willing to part with the standing committee chairperson’s position.

AIMIM’s biggest civic poll breakthrough in Maharashtra yet with wider footprint—Marathwada to Mumbai

Overall, the party has won 125 seats across the 29 municipal bodies, a significant improvement from 81 it bagged in the 2017 polls.

Marathi manoos to ‘Adanistan’: 5 talking points of Maharashtra’s high-stakes civic polls campaign

With unopposed wins & shifting alliances, the high-voltage campaign for municipal corporation elections in the state was dominated by a host of volatile issues.

Maharashtra civic bodies to go to polls on 15 January. BJP’s eyes on BMC, alliances still in flux

The first corporation elections after the splits in the Shiv Sena and the NCP, the single-phase Maharashtra civic polls to test state-level alliances. BMC is the big prize.  

With AQI past 250 in parts of Mumbai, BMC faces heat over pollution management, halts construction

Civic body, under fire from politicians, has been urged to take ‘concrete steps’ by HC. It is also implementing road cleanliness & dust control campaign, putting up AQI plants at sites.

On Camera

Dhurandhar shows audiences haven’t lost patience—four-hour movies are back

Dhurandhar and its sequel, releasing tomorrow, stretches across two parts with a combined runtime pushing nearly eight hours, but the audience is here for it.

House panel says Trump tariff likely to have ‘significant impact’, calls for India-US trade ties review

The Standing Committee on Commerce said the current exchange rate was also adding pressure on trade at both national & international levels.

Israel’s tolerance for persistent threats on its borders has eroded: US intel on Iran war

When conflict with Iran ends, says the report, area’s key players are likely to reexamine longstanding assumptions & alliances as they determine how best to advance their interests.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.