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Wanted: Ideas for wasting time and money

The Central Zoo Authority has turned down the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s grandiosely idiotic plan to spend Rs500-odd crore to redevelop the Mumbai zoo.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, May 26, 2011 0:43 IST

Rifts in police let criminals run free

Once again the Mumbai police’s strange and callous ways of operating have been exposed.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:27 IST

Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s fantasy

As someone on Twitter suggested, members of the planning commission should be given Rs587 a month and asked to live in an Indian city. I would go a step further and invite them to Mumbai.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, May 12, 2011 1:25 IST

Time to get justice for Mumbai

November 2008 comes up first of course, when for the first time we managed to capture a terrorist in the act and through him managed to expose all the lies told by Pakistan whenever it is confronted with evidence of its involvement on attacks on India.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, May 5, 2011 4:56 IST

Mumbai — Urbs prima no more

Now, instead, Mumbai is famous for paani-puri wallahs who relieve themselves in cooking pots.
Section: Mumbai  | Friday, April 29, 2011 3:00 IST

Who knew builders took black money?

All parents must have been quite relieved to read in the papers this week that the government’s new rules on school buses are about to be implemented.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, April 21, 2011 1:00 IST

Of high alcohol taxes and cruel April

April is cruel because this is the month which marks the beginning of the time when the Maharashtra government has decided that we can no longer drown our sorrows without murdering our bank balances.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:00 IST

Save us from our politicians

In the 42 years since the anti-corruption Lokpal bill was introduced, we've allowed politicians to get away with murder.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, April 7, 2011 3:22 IST

Hey netas, leave those books alone!

Once more, the Maharashtra government is poised to prove to us that it truly belongs to our glorious past where freedom of speech and expression were anathema to the ruling classes.
Section: Mumbai  | Thursday, March 31, 2011 2:22 IST

Food review: Bombay Baking Company

The BBC is pleasant enough but perhaps it needs to up the atmosphere and speed of the service if it wants to get back some of its earlier panache.
Section: Lifestyle  | Saturday, March 26, 2011 13:03 IST
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