'We Want To Develop Dharavi Like Hong Kong'

'Dharavi will be completely slum free by 2040.' IMAGE: Tourists walk through Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slums. Photograph: Arko Datta/Reuters If you travel on Mumbai's metro line 2A or line 7,......

Bringing In 2024 Around The World

How 2024 arrived the world over.   IMAGE: Ladies leap in the air on the last day of 2023 in Bhopal. Photograph: ANI Photo   IMAGE: Mumbaikars watch the last sunset of the 2023 from a......

China on brink of biggest Covid crisis since Wuhan as cases triple

China's high-tech Shenzhen city, which has a population of over 17 million, was the latest to shut down to control the surge of COVID-19 cases, as the government scrambled to contain the worst......

Omicron: Beijing shuts metro stations, schools; to test 21 mn people daily

China's capital Beijing on Wednesday shut down several metro stations besides schools, restaurants and businesses and ordered daily COVID-19 testing of its 21 million people as it ramped up......

Bribe charges link Alstom to firms from Singapore, Hong Kong

The two companies allegedly used by French company Alstom as a route to pay bribes to win signalling contract for the first two phases of the Delhi Metro rail system are registered in Singapore and......

Tracking the Bank of Baroda money trail, from Vikaspuri to Hong Kong

Operating from a largely empty office in a deserted building in West Delhi, Gurucharan Singh's Dhawan Creative apparently clocked trades 10 times its capital in a few months. Image: Dhawan dealt......

'Metro Cash & Carry: It's a low-margin business'

James Scott, Metro Cash & Carry's regional operating officer (Asia) based in Singapore, virtually lives out of a suitcase. With the regional headquarters in Hong Kong and operations across China,......

Delhi Metro Rail a success: IIM Lucknow study

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is one of the four metros in the world to have operating profits among 135 metros globally, the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow has concluded in a recent......

Can you watch 425 films in a year?

Aseem Chhabra watched some great films and some huge disappointments in 2020. IMAGE: Danesh Razvi and Tanya Maniktala in A Suitable Boy. It was the year of staying at home and watching films......

365 days. 319 films

How many of the 319 films Aseem Chhabra watched in 2018 have you seen? IMAGE: Deepika Padukone in Padmaavat. I watch many films in a year -- for work and pleasure, and I keep a record of them. In......

Satyajit Ray's Feluda turns 50

While Calcutta has transitioned to Kolkata, Satyajit Ray's detective, Feluda, has remained unchanged in the Bengali consciousness Here’s a mystery for Prodosh C Mitter to solve. How can a......