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A signboard of NTPC is seen outside its office in Mumbai. A file photograph.

Ahead of BMC elections, Marathi signboards for establishments being officially enforced by the Shiv Sena in Mumbai

Many years ago, when the Shiv Sena was still a party that was yet to outgrow its street-fighter origins, one of its predominant campaigns was to forc

Big billboards loom over a busy street in Bangalore, India.

Advertising Standards Council of India updates its standards code to make advertisements more inclusive

The ASCI code now calls out derision on gender identity, sexual orientation, body type, age or physical and mental conditions.

Tagged turtles heading back to the Arabian sea.

On the turtle’s trail

The satellite-tagging of five Olive Ridley turtles marks the beginning of a milestone project in sea turtle conservation on the western coast of India

MNS chief Raj Thackeray at a media conference in Mumbai on May 4. He reiterated that the MNS would play hymns to Hanuman on loudspeakers if mosques continued to use them for azaan.

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.

After winds lashed South Mumbai in August 2020. The city faces two main challenges: rising temperatures and frequent heatwaves; and frequent and unpredictable increase in extreme rainfall events.

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

Outside Byculla jail, Mumbai.

Court steps in to ease congestion in jails

COVID-19 has struck Maharashtra’s prisons again. As of April 25, there were 230 active cases among inmates and 110 staffers who had tested positive fo

The land upheaval is not an isolated event. Since November 2020, the land has been rising by varying degrees all around Gujarat Power Corporation Limited’s lignite mining site.

Gujarat Power Corporation gets notice on violations at lignite mining site in Bhavnagar district that are blamed for tremors and upheaval of agricultural land

In November 2020, the residents of Badi-Hoidad villages in Ghogha tehsil of Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, were greeted by a disorienting sight.

In March 2018 at Azad Maidan in Mumbai, a protest by the Konkan Refinery Virodhi Sangharsh Samiti against the proposed refinery at Ratnagiri.

Resisting a refinery

Opposition mounts against a proposed gigantic refinery that threatens to affect the lives of thousands of families of farmers and fishermen in 17 vil

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