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Mumbai’s hawkers: A law unimplemented for 12 yrs & a crackdown that raises more questions than it answers

Officially, Mumbai has space for 23,000 licensed street vendors. It has lakhs. A law meant to bridge that gap was not implemented for over a decade.

45,000 mangroves at stake: Actors, activists rally as courts clear decks for Mumbai coastal road project

Plans to cut 45,000 mangroves for Mumbai’s proposed Coastal Road between Versova and Bhayandar have sparked protests over the environmental impact and BMC’s afforestation claims.

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.

On Camera

Price rise, worsening economy can be managed, but nation’s moral decline cannot: Jagjivan Ram

On 25 February 1981, Babu Jagjivan Ram delivered a speech in the Lok Sabha, underlining several issues plaguing the country — from communal riots, atrocities against Scheduled Castes to the condition of the working classes.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.