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The 6ft wrestler who made a scrawny Dawood Ibrahim India’s biggest don

Crime writer Hussain Zaidi notes how Khalid Khan Bachcha protected Dawood and moulded him into a cunning mafia boss.

Making Milind Deora Mumbai Congress chief was a sensible decision, says Priya Dutt

Priya Dutt, the Congress Lok Sabha candidate from Mumbai North Central seat, tells ThePrint the city unit is now a cohesive one and there's no factionalism.

5-year-old girl wasn’t ravished, says Mumbai court which disposed of sexual assault case

The court acquitted two accused, including a French national, saying that evidence of the victim is unreliable.

Singapore Airline’s Mumbai-Singapore flight with 263 passengers receives bomb threat

A woman and a child among the passengers were held back by police at Singapore airport for questioning.

At least 11,558 unauthorised political ads and posters removed in Mumbai ahead of 2019 polls

Sixteen police complaints of unauthorised boards in the Mumbai suburban district have been filed in the last week.

Mumbai’s ‘take’ on the bridge collapse, & a different vocabulary for non-Muslim perpetrators

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Mumbai bridge collapse: Negligence of authorities or woefully inadequate infrastructure?

A portion of a foot over-bridge outside Mumbai's landmark CST collapsed Thursday evening, killing six people.

6 dead, 31 injured after section of ‘Kasab’ foot overbridge collapses near Mumbai CST

A case has been registered against officials of Central Railway and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in connection with the incident, police said.

Farmers talks with Maharashtra govt inconclusive, to continue march to Mumbai

Farmers are on a 180-km march from Nashik to Mumbai for the second time in the past year over the BJP govt's 'betrayal' of peasants.

With Gully Boy, Zoya Akhtar is no longer the princess of posh people’s pain

From Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and Dil Dhadakne Do to Gully Boy, Zoya Akhtar is now a chronicler of deep class divide and a poet of possibilities.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.