July 31st, 201705India's richest municipal corporation has denied nonprofit Praja Foundation's assessment -- made from the corporation's own data -- that 18 people die of tuberculosis every day, even as Praja Foundation claims the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no way of knowing if the assessment is wrong because it cannot access its own...
July 20th, 201707Till 2012, 60-year-old Vanita Sahebrao More used to spend Rs 40,000 every year to cultivate soybean, sorghum and cotton on seven acres of land in her village in drought-prone Nanded district in Maharashtra. The district is part of Marathwada, infamous for crippling droughts and farmer suicides....writes Juhi ChaudharyVanita's...
July 18th, 2017070A classical music concert coinciding with the UK India Year of Culture and a movie screening on pressing social issue of Dementia among the elderly were hosted at Maharashtra Mandal London recently....reports Asian Lite NewsAcclaimed Hindustani classical vocalist Pandit Upendra Bhat, a senior disciple of legendary Guru late Pandit...
July 8th, 201707Mumbai's Colaba is well known for its art deco buildings, the Gateway of India, swish pubs and restaurants, and the pleasant promenade of Marine Drive. It houses the state assembly, the Vidhan Bhavan, and the state secretariat, Mantralaya. However, this high-profile ward recorded the third-highest incidence of malnourishment (69 per...
June 29th, 201706Mumbai blast convict Mustafa Ahmed Dossa, who was found guilty of the landing of three tonnes of deadly RDX and AK-56 assault rifles at Maharashtra's Raigad coast weeks before the blasts, died shortly before he was to be sentenced....reports Asian Lite NewsSmuggler and mafia operative Mustafa Ahmed Dossa, convicted by a Special...
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