Mumbai

In a first-of-its-kind exhibition in Pune, Dalits will be exhibiting their success stories with the aim of inspiring others from the community and helping them make it big in life. There will be 200 Dalits narrating how they made it in different spheres of life without feeling helpless or marginalised. The Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI), which is organising the DEEP Expo from June 4 to 6, is expected to turn it into a yearly affair. A trust founded to empower the…

Located about 700km from Pune and about 150 km north of Mangalore on the national highway no 17, the Bhatkal town in the Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka has come under the intense gaze of major investigating agencies across the country.Famous for its Navayat Muslim community with origins in Yemen, a large number of Bhakal’s residents are prosperous with close relatives in Dubai, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries from where they send money back home. The wealthy people here have…

The advanced locality management (ALM) is no more the closet community group it used to be. Going beyond the periphery of dealing with routine civic issues, the illegitimate baby of the municipal corporation ? as ALMs are called by critics ? are increasingly growing to make a larger mark in the corridors of power that deal with policy issues. A case in point is the recent informative public meeting organised by the H-West Ward Citizens’ Trust and the Bombay Catholic Sabha (BCS) with ren…

It was the night of April 5. A man in a safari suit came to the Golden Goose Bar at Grant Road. Introducing himself as excise officer RK Kadam, he started making queries and checking sales documents, a police source said.Throwing his weight around, he tried to terrorise the employees at the bar. But something warned Kadam that they were suspecting him to be a phoney. So he left the bar saying he would be back.As Kadam was getting into a taxi, a bar employee, Surat Singh Kandari, clicked …

Finally, the work on the much-awaited FOB to the east of Kopar railway station recently began. The Kopar station was built with the aim of reducing congestion at Dombivli, the station after Dombivli. Sudhir Patil, a resident of Kopar, said, "The authorities have built the FOB towards the west. But they didn’t give a thought to the population in the east. With the fast growing development, the population has increased and the absence of FOB is posing a big threat for commuters who e…