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Maharashtra: Internal friction within MVA comes to fore

In nearly two years of ruling Maharashtra, the three-party coalition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has been subject to various pressures from the

Raj Thackeray's 'loudspeaker' campaign targeting Muslims in Maharashtra backfires

Raj Thackeray’s attempt to regain political relevance by targeting Muslims through his loudspeaker campaign does not find any takers in Maharashtra.

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Mumbai Climate Action Plan

Going green: Mumbai's promising Climate Action Plan restrained by prevailing development policies

The Climate Action Plan for Mumbai, the first city in South Asia to create one, has many promises, but current development policies seem to negate the

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Power tussle ensues in Maharashtra as MVA government counters BJP

Faced with pressure from the opposition BJP and on other fronts, the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra comes up with countermoves in an atte

Thane creek soon to be Maharashtra’s first urban Ramsar site

The government of Maharashtra recently cleared the decks to declare the Thane creek the State’s first urban Ramsar site, which, if approved by the Min

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Being sensitive to bias in environmental writing

In an article titled “Accurate Appellations”, Dr Asad Rahmani, former director of Bombay Natural History Society, points out the need for correct term

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Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari stops his opening address midway amid sloganeering, leaves Assembly

In an unprecedented action, Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari abandoned his traditional opening address at the start of the Budget session

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Maharashtra constitutes State Tree Authority to protect trees in urban areas

Maharashtra becomes the first State to take a step towards conservation of urban trees by constituting State- and local-level tree authorities.

NCP Minister Nawab Malik arrested in a money laundering case

Nawab Malik, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Minister, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (E.D.) on February 23. The

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Missing forests: Govt report makes tall claims

The latest Forest Report makes tall claims of rising forest cover but a closer look at the details and the methodology used reveals that all is not we

Setbacks for MVA as the Supreme Court rules against the suspension of 12 BJP MLAs from the Maharashtra Assembly and students protest against conducting offline Board exams

The Supreme Court has ruled that the year-old suspension of 12 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs from the State Assembly was illegal. It marked yet an

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COVER STORY: COVID-19

COVID: Swift spread of Omicron variant across States in third wave

Lyla Bavadam R. Krishnakumar Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay R.K. Radhakrishnan Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

The surge in test positivity rate across the country in early January signals the arrival of the third wave of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, helmed this time

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Films like ‘Avatar 2’ challenge how acting is thought of as a craft

It is reduced to something mechanical and processed, replicable, and too reliant on technology.

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Sea change

India could learn a few lessons from small island nations like Maldives on mitigating climate change.