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August 04, 2022

Mega corporate transition for medical diagnostics

The neighbourhood testing labs may soon be a rare sight, as plush corporate diagnostic centres, owned and operated by top chains across the country, may beat them hands down.

1 min

Fresh attempts aim to finish off Sena, says Uddhav

Minutes after the hearing of the apex court, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray in his address to the party workers gathered at Matoshree on Wednesday said that attempts had been made to split the party in the past and now fresh attempts were aimed at finishing off Shiv Sena. Thackeray said he had full faith in the judiciary.

1 min

State moves SC on elections in autonomous bodies

Govt files interim application in SC to recall last order asking SEC to conduct polls in 92 nagar parishads, 4 nagar panchayats

1 min

Court cuts short stay of accused industrialist at private hospital

A special court has directed a city industrialist Nihal Garware in its judicial custody in a money laundering case connected to Jammu and Kashmir Bank to be immediately discharged from a private hospital in South Mumbai and lodged back in Arthur Road jail after a medical board of JJ hospital opined that he no longer required hospitalisation.

1 min

Over 50% infant deaths concentrated in 4 wards

Issue prevalent in Byculla, Wadala-Sion, Parel-Kalachowki & Jogeshwari-Versova

3 mins

Fee Hike Crucial, Says IIT-B Management, As Protesting Students Threaten Hunger Strike

Even as hundreds of students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) are intensifying their protest against the hike in fees, the institution's management has de fended the hike, saying it is necessary for improving infrastructure.

2 mins

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The Free Press Journal - Mumbai Newspaper Description:

The Free Press Journal is one of the oldest English Daily newspapers from Mumbai with a heritage of more than 90 years. And yet, The Free Press Journal is a contemporary paper and rooted in current urban realities.

In keeping with the international trend, it has reinvented itself in terms of design, get up and content. It means different thing to different people – a platform for the articulate, a trendsetter for the young and a chronicle for the old.

It was at the forefront of freedom struggle against the British and continues with the free and fearless journalism till date. Indeed, the history of The Free Press Journalism mirrors that of Indian independence.

Swaminath Sadanand, a 30-year-old idealist from Madras trudged his way to Bombay and with a vision that was to prove uncomfortably ahead of his day, brought out a newspaper as unorthodox in character as it was innovative in concept. For Swaminath Sadanand, the Free Press Journal was not so much a business venture as a cause.

The spirit with which he launched the paper and ran it for almost three decades helped it make it an integral part of two great Indian movements — the struggle for independence and the evolution of Indian publishing.