カテゴリー: Mumbai
Lockdown precipitated an exodus of day labourers and “wallahs” but as monsoon season breaks their loss is being feltAs the monsoon lashes Mumbai and black clouds darken the skyline, the city is in the grip of nostalgia for the men who used to keep dail…
First cyclone in 70 years for financial capital sparks rush to transfer Covid-19 patients and sanitise temporary sheltersAt least 100,000 people including coronavirus patients were being moved to safety as India’s west coast braced for a cyclone – the …
As India’s pandemic continues, in some areas the healthcare system is close to collapseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn Mumbai’s Sion hospital emergency ward there are two people to a bed. Patients, many with coronavirus s…
Fears disease could ‘spread like wildfire’ in the incredibly congested slum of DharaviIt was the news that many in India had feared. A 56-year-old man who lived in Dharavi, India’s largest slum, where almost 1 million people are densely packed together…
Court finds Hafiz Saeed guilty of ‘being part of a banned terrorist outfit’ and sentences him to six yearsThe alleged mastermind of the 2008 attacks in Mumbai has been jailed in Pakistan for nearly six years on terror financing charges.Hafiz Saeed is w…
Police and protesters have clashed across India and six people died during standoffs on Friday in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where tensions exploded between majority Hindus and minority Muslims.Thousands of protesters have been demonstrating …
Mahalaxmi Express stuck for about 12 hours near Mumbai when river burst its banks after torrential rainIndian navy helicopters and emergency service boats came to the rescue of more than 800 people stranded on a train in floods near Mumbai on Saturday….