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Malabar Hill residents oppose the proposed alternative reservoir project at Hanging Gardens

India, April 6 -- Over 30 residents of Malabar Hill gathered at Hanging Gardens on Sunday evening, expressing their opposition to the proposed alternative reservoir project, after learning that the Br... Read More


Monday musing: When the rain is real, and the city still isn't ready

India, April 6 -- Last Thursday's unseasonal rain in Pune once again brought the city to a halt. Waterlogged roads, traffic snarls, choked drains, and scattered power disruptions followed within hours... Read More


2020 Marine Drive crash: HC upholds dropping of culpable homicide charge against teen driver

India, April 6 -- The Bombay High Court has upheld a session court's order of dropping of a culpable homicide charge against a teen driver in the 2020 Marine Drive crash that killed his friend who was... Read More


HC pulls up BMC for noticing structural irregularities post Kamala Mills fire accident

India, April 6 -- The Bombay High Court has refused to entertain a batch of applications filed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seeking to revive long-pending appeals against orders tha... Read More


Problematics | Ageing superheroes

India, April 6 -- Fiction is flexible when it comes to the ages of evergreen characters. James Bond has always been fortyish from the 1960s to 2010s, remaining the same age during the Cold War era and... Read More


PAP housing crunch hits infra rollout

India, April 6 -- It's simple arithmetic but the answer is staggering: 75,000 minus 8,000 equals 67,000 - the gap the BMC must bridge to get some of Mumbai's key infrastructure projects off the ground... Read More


US airman shot down in Iran rescued from mountain crevice; when fake sci-fi film Argo helped diplomats escape

India, April 6 -- Officials reveal that even as President Donald Trump was challenging Iran on Truth Social over the weekend, US military troops and the CIA were planning the rescue operation of an ai... Read More


3 ISKCON trust staff booked for siphoning donation funds

India, April 6 -- Three employees of ISKCON New Vrindavan East Trust (Madhuban Ashram) have been booked by Khar police for allegedly siphoning off donation funds by issuing fake receipts and diverting... Read More


Remains of seaman killed in Oman attack brought to Mumbai

India, April 6 -- The mortal remains of seaman Dixit Solanki, 33, who died in a suspected missile or drone attack on oil tanker MT MKD Vyom in the Gulf of Oman on March 1, were brought to Mumbai early... Read More


Remains of seaman killed in Oman attack brought to city

India, April 6 -- The mortal remains of seaman Dixit Solanki, 33, who died in a suspected missile or drone attack on oil tanker MT MKD Vyom in the Gulf of Oman on March 1, were brought to Mumbai early... Read More