Dhule’s farmers reap the benefits of going organic

Friday 15 September '06

Four years ago, the illness and death of an agricultural worker spraying pesticide on cotton grower Ashok Jain’s farm made Jain contemplate a move towards organic cultivation.

SCI engineer, family was drawing plans for a holiday in Tibet

Monday 11 September '06

Pinaki Mukhopadhyay arrived in Mumbai in 1984, posted in the city by his PSU employer, the Shipping Corporation of India...

Jewellery designer, had given himself three years in Mumbai

Friday 8 September '06

Sumant De wasn’t meant to be on the train that Tuesday.On July 11, instead of going to the Andheri office of jewellery manufacturer Nakshatra...

In Mumbai for 16 years, had just bought a flat in Kolkata

Sunday 3 September '06

A fortnight before the July 11 blast took his life, foreign exchange dealer Asim Kumar Bhajan...

NTC’s man for mill land sale, ‘irreplaceable, can’t fill his post’

Friday 11 August '06

Ashok Bapat was meant to retire from the National Textile Corporation as General Manager in August 2003. However

Loved Mumbai and her trains, wasn’t supposed to be at work that day

Monday 7 August '06

The 6.24 pm blast at Bandra station on 7/11 ended Hariharan Iyer’s 46-year-old love affair with Mumbai’s local trains. Since October 1960

Insurance consultant, passionate about securing other people’s lives

Monday 24 July '06

The conversation on the afternoon of 7/11 between insurance agent Paresh Thakkar and wife Dolly—it would end up as their last—followed a common routine.

Home Guard, worked to help pay brother’s school fees

Wednesday 19 July '06

Seven blasts on seven trains on the eleventh day of July, 2006. That’s how they all died. 185 citizens of India. The Indian Express begins a chronicle of how they lived. For in the story of their lives is the story of how a city and a nation, looking forward, are touched by hope—not by terror.

‘Papa is dead’

Sunday 16 July '06

Terrible Tuesday’s toll is overwhelmingly male: only four of the 183 killed are women—either by design or coincidence, Mumbai blasts have snatched away sons, husbands, and fathers

On way to make delivery, 18-year-old boy loses both legs

Friday 14 July '06

Eighteen-year-old Kamlesh opened his eyes on Wednesday morning, on a hospital bed at Sion Hospital’s Ward No 2.

As 15-hour ordeal ends, the pain begins

Friday 14 July '06

Two days on, Mumbai still counts its dead, searches for the missing

Fort for sale

Sunday 28 May '06

An audacious attempt by a Mumbai businessman to buy a 17th century island fort throws into focus the neglect of the state’s heritage sites

Mumbai Metro I: Reliance Energy set to clinch deal

Thursday 11 May '06

Ending over three months of hectic negotiations with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, a consortium led by Anil Ambani’s Reliance Energy Ltd...

Debts move Maharashtra, not deaths

Friday 14 April '06

Sukhadev Shinde died on Monday. It’s not the end of the story, but the beginning

No Guarantee

Sunday 12 March '06

About 20 lakh Maharashtra families have signed up for the Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme since its launch last month. But an Ahmednagar village doesn’t need job guarantee anymore