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Mumbai College Offers Course To Understand Hip Hop

April 21, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

In 1997, Stephen Webber, a professor of music production and engineering at the Berklee College of Music, proposed teaching a course in turntablism. What DJs were doing with turntables had opened his eyes to a

Mumbai’s metro lines: opportunity for locating jobs?

April 19, 2021 Sree Kumar Kumaraswamy, Madhav Pai and Kaustubh Chuke

A different way of looking at creating jobs – by spotting job dense areas around Metro lines.

Mumbai Sea Link and Buildings in background

Mumbai Buzz: Migrant exodus | Crisis in wetland | Dabbawalas struggle

April 17, 2021 News Desk

Here’s all the news you missed this week.

Local businesses hurt, seek equal opportunities to earn a living

April 16, 2021 Boshika Gupta

While the lockdown is relatively minor compared to what business owners witnessed in March 2020, a sense of panic is hard to escape.

As we go into another lockdown, a look at TB numbers in Mumbai

April 15, 2021 Santoshee Gulabkali Mishra

Health officials are identifying more and more TB patients to keep them from being affected with COVID19.

Mumbai Buzz: Partial lockdown | vaccine shortages | informal sector in panic

April 10, 2021 News Desk

Here’s all the news you missed from Mumbai this week.

Mumbai’s airport has a large carbon footprint, what is it doing about it?

April 9, 2021 Nidhi Rai

Activists believe the Mumbai International Airport can do a lot more to mitigate its effect on the ecology of the area.

Civil society organisations write to Maharashtra Chief Minister on latest restrictions

April 7, 2021 News Desk

A group of civil society organisations wrote a letter to Maharashtra CM about rising COVID cases in Mumbai and the latest round of restrictions

Here’s how we can mitigate the ecological impact of Navi Mumbai airport

April 6, 2021 Nareshchandra Singh

The new Navi Mumbai airport is displacing many species of fauna, but citizens have an idea on how to make up for this.

Mumbai Buzz: online classes return, sea link toll expensive and more

April 3, 2021 News Desk

Here’s all the major news from Mumbai this week.

‘Mumbai taught me to dream big and be relentless at it’

March 29, 2021 Shinu Ramachandran

How a woman who moved from Pune to Mumbai, experienced the city.

Mumbai Buzz: COVID-19 cases through the roof, no Holi and fire in a hospital

March 27, 2021 News Desk

Here’s what happened in Mumbai when you were not looking.

Explainer: where does the money you pay for tolls go?

March 26, 2021 Hepzi Anthony

As new tolls are added, activists see no end to toll collection in Mumbai. Here’s why.

Explainer: how to get vaccinated in Mumbai

March 25, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

Here’s a step by step guide to getting vaccinated in Mumbai.

Most Mumbaikars are unaware of the COVID-19 vaccines?

March 23, 2021 Apekshita Varshney

Health workers say many neighbourhoods in the city are unaware of the vaccine and some people are against taking them.