Food is India’s national pastime. We think of it 24/7. In such a scene, the food business, from eateries to FMCG and food delivery apps, thrives in our country. And that is why the recent FDA raids on well-off small-time eateries, packaged food to even the storage places of delivery giants have i...
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The traditional imagery of Karwa Chauth in urban India has long revolved around crowded society terraces, elaborate family gatherings, and the exhaustion of balancing a day-long nirjala fast with household chores. A major behavioural shift is now underway among millennial and Gen...
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New Delhi, Oct 25: Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Vyacheslav Volodin, has arrived in New Delhi to participate in the 12th BRICS Parliamentary Forum. India to host BRICS Parliamentary Forum The Parliament of India will host the 12th B...
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There are very few artists who can say they have performed for Fortune 500 boardrooms and temple courtyards, taught Kathak in townships as apartheid ended, and been quoted by Nelson Mandela. Dr Vinod Hasal has done all three. Now, the eighth-generation Jaipur Gharana Kathak expon...
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More such criminal action is likely across the state, and district-level election officials have been directed to act against those filing false objections using Form 7...
safety
The firearms and ammunition have been sent for forensic examination and ballistic testing to match them with the empty shell casings retrieved from the crime scene in Juhu...
safety
MUMBAI: The Mira-Bhayandar-Vasai-Virar police have busted a chemical manufacturing unit in Telangana that allegedly supplied a key ingredient used to make mephedrone, or MD, as part of their investigation into a drug racket linked to underworld operative Dawood Ibrahim’s close ai...
Local
MCAP would set local targets, and deadlines, to reduce air pollution. “However, many civic bodies lack the financial means to buy the equipment and machinery needed to do this. MCAP would provide these funds. MCAP details will be drafted within a month,” the official said...
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MUMBAI: A thick layer of haze hung over Mumbai on Saturday as the city’s air quality deteriorated, with the overall Air Quality Index (AQI) rising to 120 from 101 (moderate) a day earlier, according to the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) Sameer app...
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MUMBAI: Days after Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil played audio clips that allegedly referred to a ₹500-crore bribe given to him by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde to form a third front during the 2024 assembly elections, a war of words has broken out between the M...
safety
The accused, Mohammad Hasan Abu Sarmad Akhtar, a resident of L J Road in Mahim, was initially detained for questioning by the ATS following a tip-off. He was later handed over to the Mahim police for further investigation after the ATS found no evidence linking him to Pakistan or...
schools
The students began to collect their belongings confiscated from a protest site they had set up on campus. Their demand for the presence of a student representative was turned down, they said in a letter circulated among the IIT-B community on Saturday...
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It’s a circuitous answer to a question about how he assesses himself as a politician. Thackeray, 58, who split from his uncle’s party in 2006 to form his own Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, says “leader” might be a more apt word for him...
