Despite large investments and several sanitation programs to make the state 100% open-defecation free, the census 2011 figures for scheduled castes (SC) and scheduled tribes (ST) show that more than half the residents from socially backward classes in the city and suburbs do not have toilets in their homes.
The financial crisis in the country was the result of wrong policies of Manmohan Singh government, the BJP alleged on Saturday.
The city’s pool of 90% scorers in the Class 10 Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) exams got bigger this year.
Two weeks before her Class 10 exams, Peenal Shah, 16, was diagnosed with typhoid. Despite losing precious study time, the heavy medication and the weakness, Shah scored 95.71% and topped her school, HVB Academy, Marine Lines, on Saturday when the Indian Certificate for Secondary Education (ICSE) results were announced.
In Class 4, Arunav Vaish decided he wanted to become a hedge fund manager. Now, after completing Class 12 with a score of 97.7% in the commerce stream, Vaish is well on the way to realise that dream.
Ajinkya Kalia, 15, a student of Lilavatibai Podar School, Santacruz, wasn’t surprised with his Class 10 (ICSE) score of 98.4% on Saturday.
Soon after Aayush Ambawat got to know his Class 10 (ICSE) results through a text message at 3.10pm on Saturday, he was pleasantly surprised to see his English teacher’s Facebook status update.
The BMC has blamed citizens for the fresh cases of water contamination as they might emerge from private service connections, which are often not replaced. To solve this problem, the civic body has come up with a solution.
Four BEST buses bore the brunt of Saturday’s protest at Worli.
Standing in the shade of her red sun umbrella, Vaishali Thakur squeezes half a lemon into a glass, adds a dash of salt and black pepper masala, pours in some ice-cold water and mixes vigorously. Sindhu Mansukhani writes.
A new book on the hills of Mumbai, being launched this week at the Bhutan literature festival, explores the odd shape of Andheri’s Gilbert Hill to uncover a city’s lost topography. Aarefa Johari writes.
In the winter of 1978, Hemanta Mishra led the king of Nepal deep into the country’s Chitwan forest and helped him shoot down a greater one-horned Asian rhinoceros, one of Nepal’s most endangered animal species.
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said he is not in favour of banning the controversy-ridden Indian Premier League (IPL).
Mumbai police detained 96 people, including two IPL players, during a raid on a rave party at a plush hotel in suburban Juhu on Sunday night.
Puja Changoiwala reports.
Residents living in buildings around the hotel Oakwood Premier, where the police busted a rave party and detained 96 persons, including two IPL players, are relieved after the raid and detentions.
Puja Changoiwala reports.