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16/05/2016

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12/01/2016

Everyday, people from different states come to Mumbai searching for employment and settle in make-shift houses as the cost of real estate is unbearable. They play a significant role in shaping the economic capital of India through their services. As of today, 6.5 million slum dwellers live on just 8% of Mumbai's tenable land while the 9 largest private land owners control 20% of tenable land in the city. BMC carries out slum demolition drives on a regular basis. One such demolition took place in Chembur's Nagewadi on 28th November 2015. Our community correspondent Amol Lalzare reports on how life goes on a few days after the demolition.

11/01/2016

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07/01/2016

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06/01/2016

The Locale takes an in depth look at the prevalent tuition culture in Mumbai.

In the last one decade or so, tuition classes and coaching centres have slowly mushroomed everywhere in the city. They start as home tuitions or small coaching classes which then slowly graduate to training academies. From Kindergarten to class 10, these classes have almost created a parallel instit…

31/12/2015

On this new year's eve, we take a look back and created a fun year end timeline review - 2015, The Year That Was

30/12/2015

Many Computer Science professors voiced their opinion about Free Basics.

Over 50 professors from the Computer Science, Electrical and ECE departments from IITs, IISc, and BITS have released a joint statement rejecting Facebook's misleading Free Basics proposal. Read it here.

http://localetimes.com/content/view/many-computer-science-professors-voiced-their-opinion-about-free-basics/jeKP6xTE

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29/12/2015

Over 200 residents, mostly women, from Maharashtra Nagar, Indira Nagar, Janata Nagar-Mandala, Annabhau Sathe Nagar, Tata Nagar, Rafiq Nagar, Sanjay Nagar-Shivaji Nagar came together to express their anger at the cuts in PDS and apathy of the ration officials towards complaints of black marketeering and adulteration in the ration shops in the area.

The Locale reports

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n-jb-z1NR8

28/12/2015

Until 2015, ration card holding urban households in the state were entitled to maximum 24 litres of subsidised kerosene. In August this year, the Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection department of Maharashtra state government issued a resolution as per which the maximum quota of subsidised kerosene available to any urban household was fixed at 4 litres.

Many families have reduced food consumption or have switched to non-nutritious food items purchased from the market such as biscuits and vada pav because they cannot afford the fuel to cook food.

Paankhi reports...

http://localetimes.com/content/view/food-security-without-fuel-security-slash-in-pds-kerosene-quota/tIIZeu1K

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