Author Cyrus Mistry wins $50,000 DSC Prize for 'Chronicles of a Corpse Bearer'

Reticent author Cyrus Mistry on Saturday beat off stiff competition from five other writers to become the fourth winner of the $50,000 DSC prize for South Asian literature for his book "Chronicles......

Shiamak Davar sued for sexual abuse by 2 former students

Bollywood choreographer Shiamak Davar has been sued by two former Indo-Canadian dance students for alleged sexual harassment. Percy Shroff, 40, and Jimmy Mistry, 33, have filed two lawsuits in......

COVID-19: How Mumbai has been done in by poor planning

Urban planners and real estate experts say bad town planning in Mumbai and rising deaths during the ongoing pandemic are a “sad reality”.  Dev Chatterjee and Raghavendra Kamath......

'Each year of delay costs us $15-20 bn'

When Percy Mistry, a former World Bank economist and chairman of the high powered committee on 'Making Mumbai an International Financial Centre' resigned from the committee in February this year,......

The Mystery Report

One fine October morning nearly 36 years ago two young Indians landed up at the personnel department (now would be called HR) of the World Bank in Washington to sign on for the Bank's Young......

Finance hub? Budget may snub Mumbai

Many financial sector reforms suggested by the Percy Mistry Committee on making Mumbai an international financial centre may not figure in Budget 2008-09. Finance ministry officials say the......

Mumbai a finance hub? RBI advises caution

The Reserve Bank of India is in favour of a cautious and gradual approach to financial sector reforms rather than a big-bang approach, as advocated by the Percy Mistry Committee report on making......