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Friday, November 21, 2025
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Topic: MUMBAI

How Mumbai grew—and became crowded

In 'Mumbai', Sidharth Bhatia takes a piercing look at a city in the throes of relentless transformation, where change has become a weapon of displacement.

After SC rap, Maharashtra brings compensatory afforestation policy—12-ft saplings, geo-tagging

Maharashtra govt comes with new policy on compensatory plantation weeks after SC deferred permission for felling of more than 1,000 trees for Goregaon Mulund Link Road project.

New book explores the history of Mumbai and its many islands

Published by HarperCollins, 'Mumbai: A Million Islands' will be released on 21 November on SoftCover, ThePrint’s online platform for launching non-fiction books.

Congress & BJP ex-MPs in direct contest for top post at Mumbai’s prestigious Asiatic Society

Kumar Ketkar says his campaign focuses on transforming the society into international intellectual and arts centre, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe’s pitch is to make institution more accessible.

Will Mumbai start looking for its Mamdani now? The city is as unaffordable as New York

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani will face hurdles. And Democrats cannot mistake one city’s victory for a national mandate.

Amid ‘fake voter’ row, Maharashtra EC moves ahead with civic polls, promises electoral roll cleanup

SEC has scheduled voting for 2 December & counting for 3 December. Opposition had been demanding local body polls should be conducted only after voter list 'anomalies' were fixed.

Mumbai’s next planned infra boost: A 70-km tunnel network within the city to ease bottlenecks

First phase is proposed to connect end of coastal road—which spans from Marine Drive to Worli end of Bandra-Worli Sea Link—to BKC business hub and Terminal 2 of Mumbai airport.

He called 17 kids for ‘audition’, then took them hostage. Rohit Aarrya & his beef with Maharashtra govt

‘I don’t think he was a contractor but a terrorist,’ says Maharashtra minister about Aarya, who held 17 children and two others hostage. Aarya was killed in the rescue operation that followed.

Man who took 17 children hostage in Mumbai’s Powai dies in hospital

The suspect, identified as Rohit Arya, allegedly took the children hostage after inviting them for an audition to RA Studio in Powai. Police say he was injured during the rescue op.

Mumbai’s been driving India’s data centre market, but water shortage, power demand pose risks

According to a report by Macquarie, India’s data centre market is estimated to double by 2027. India currently has 1.4 gigawatts of operational data centre capacity.

On Camera

India can face multi-front conflicts with hostile Dhaka. New Delhi missed chance to engage BNP

India's projects related to BIMSTEC, Look-East-Act-East and Indian Ocean Rim Association could suffer a setback, impacting trade with South Asia and the South-South Cooperation agenda.

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

Tejas fighter aircraft crashes at Dubai Air Show

The aircraft was undertaking a manoeuvre when it plummeted to the ground and burst into a ball of flame. Visuals suggest that the pilot was unable to eject.

INDIA has a Congress-sized hole. And the fix begins with a little humility

Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.