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Monday 23 February '09

On July 12, 2006, a day after serial blasts aboard the suburban railway threw a shocked hush over Mumbai...
Unkept promises and skewed plans

Sunday 8 February '09

The sudden revival of interest among the Congress legislators to extend protection to encroachers who had set up their shanties before 2000...
Students bring Kashmir train link project to Mumbai

Wednesday 28 January '09

Coming from a city where trains are lifelines, these suggestions on the railway project in Jammu & Kashmir are straight from the heart.
Sonnet for a slum: Slumdog inspires a Dharavi song of hope

Wednesday 21 January '09

Slumdog millionaire's official India release may be three days away, but Dharavi on Tuesday underlined its position as a township with challenges and lessons to offer everyone from film-makers...
Dharavi no more shy of a face-lift

Thursday 1 January '09

Dismay over the repeated delays, and now an inevitable extended delay in election year, on the Dharavi Redevelopment Project need not be all bad news.
Dharavi bridges its communal divide

Thursday 1 January '09

In December 1992, when a blanket of communal discord as never seen before was thrown over the country following the razing of the Babri Masjid...
Tragedy revisits: Baby Moshe loses Dov, his only brother

Wednesday 31 December '08

A little over a month after two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg was orphaned by the Mumbai terror attacks...
Yatra along Mithi to revive the abused river

Tuesday 30 December '08

Terror and drinking water may have little in common, but a group of citizens will soon attempt to channelise the collective spirit fortified since last month’s attacks in Mumbai to initiate a movement to revive the much-abused Mithi river...
Gateway of resilience lights up city

Friday 26 December '08

The Gateway of India and Nariman House in Colaba joined the Statue of Liberty in New York and dozens of other global landmarks on Thursday in a worldwide campaign against last month’s terror attacks on Mumbai...
Little Moshe, unborn sibling held hope for the parents

Saturday 6 December '08

Unlike the over 175 other victims of November 26, there was no folly of fate involved in the handpicking of Israeli national Rabbi Gabriel Holtzberg...
FROM THE LANDING TO THE ATTACK

Wednesday 3 December '08

It’s business as usual at Colaba restaurant Café Leopold, with backpackers mingling with South Mumbai office-goers unwinding with a mid-week beer.
‘We could hear desperate shouts, bachao, bachao’

Friday 28 November '08

Ten pm is a reasonable pack-up time, even for the city that doesn’t sleep.
'We could hear desperate shouts, bachao, bachao'

Thursday 27 November '08

At 10.10 pm our senior correspondent and I heard a long rat-tat-tat outside — it could have been dismissed as a long firecracker.
Now, Dharavi project bidders want govt to sweeten deal

Thursday 20 November '08

Launched in different times, when global capital was rushing into the financial capital in response to an ever-burgeoning demand for well-appointed commercial spaces and deluxe housing, that is now precisely the problem with the Dharavi Redevelopment Project...
The ‘Insider’

Tuesday 28 October '08

In 2007, he said that stoking the ‘Marathi Manoos’ fire at every election would no longer be successful, but Raj Thackeray, a man of many paradoxes, seems to have changed his mind. In the past week of violence against North Indians that resulted in his arrest, the MNS chief persisted in what has been his only trajectory for all of 2008 — ousting the “outsiders”. KAVITHA IYER traces his evolution as a politician.
Peerbhoy did a course on ethical hacking, found it ‘mind-boggling’

Wednesday 8 October '08

Last July, when this 31-year-old software engineer completed a course in ethical hacking and cyber crime, he posted his feedback on the website of the firm that played host to the programme: “Mind-boggling,” wrote Mohammed Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, or Mannu.
Peerbhoy bowled over by hacking course

Wednesday 8 October '08

Last July, when this 31-year-old software engineer completed a course in ethical hacking and cyber crime...
Dharavi redevp plan amended & revived

Tuesday 23 September '08

After running into a series of roadblocks, the Rs 9,300-crore Dharavi Redevelopment Project is finally back on course with the government finalising a revised schedule for the much-delayed bidding process.
A festival of elephantine proportions

Wednesday 17 September '08

Widely believed to be among the most visited shrines in India, the Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirupati receives some 50,000 devotees on an average day.
Mumbai’s Ganesh frenzy scales new heights

Monday 15 September '08

That Mumbai loves its annual 10-day Ganesh festival is no secret. But the sheer magnitude of the financial capital's...
Quietly, hardline Hindu outfits build a network across Maharashtra, Goa

Monday 23 June '08

Bal Thackeray may have called their bombs “damp squibs” and their parent organisations may have quickly disowned the five men arrested by Maharashtra police...
BOLD MEN AND THE SEA

Sunday 8 June '08

It’s a link across the sea that will join Bandra and Worli in Mumbai and when it is finished in January 2009...
No cheers, only jeers for these leaders

Friday 2 May '08

One would think that for a state government professing to offer Mumbai to the global community as an international hub for commerce and entertainment...
In Dharavi, Sena to lend voice to ‘outsiders’

Monday 10 March '08

For all the Marathi manoos rhetoric the Shiv Sena has revived in the past few weeks, when the party’s executive president Uddhav Thackeray addresses a rally...
In this Maharashtra village, one laptop per child opens many windows to world

Sunday 20 January '08

These villagers haven’t the slightest clue that the world is watching them for a verdict on a global initiative but they are enjoying the attention...
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