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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicPatra Chawl

Topic: Patra Chawl

After 14 years, ED case & Raut arrest, work finally underway on Mumbai’s Patra Chawl project

Last month, MHADA called for bids to complete pending work on buildings on its share of plot. It's also started constructing buildings for rehabilitation of 672 Patra Chawl residents. 

‘We want our homes, not politics’, say displaced families of Mumbai’s ‘scam-hit’ Patra Chawl

14 yrs on, 672 tenants still wait for flats that were promised to them. The ED, which is probing alleged irregularities in redevelopment project, arrested Sena's Sanjay Raut Sunday.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.