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October 11, 2021

RIL'S $771 MN NAMASKAR TO SOORYA DEV

Acquires Norwegian solar panel maker from China National Bluestar

1 min

Pushpak Express Sexual Assault And Robbery Case - Accused Were High On Drugs, Say Railway Cops

All eight accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old on moving train arrested

1 min

Farmers' Deaths At Lakhimpur Kheri - Traders Won't Support Mva Bandh Call Today

Essential services involving medical facilities, hospitals would not be affected

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SPORTS QS STUMP UPSC PRELIMS CANDIDATES

Mumbai The most-awaited exams of the year for IAS aspirants - UPSC Prelims were held yesterday. While questions on sports caught candidates by surprise, "conceptual' questions in polity kept their annual promise. FPJ spoke to a few of the 10 lakh students who took the exam on Sunday and found that candidates across India had different versions of the difficulty level of the paper. Yash Khade of Akola, for instance, said that the paper was "overall moderate" while Nadeem Pasha of Mumbai found it "difficult".

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Unions want to convert kaali-peelis into E-cars

Looking at the rising fuel costs, the taxi unions contemplate getting electric cars running as cabs. The move comes after the prices of diesel and CNG have been rising for the past few days. Recently, the taxi fares from domestic and international terminals of Mumbai airport saw a hike. Mumbai's taxi unions had internal discussions about the possibility of introducing electric vehicles as black and yellow taxis. This will be the first time that the unions are contemplating electric cars. Currently, the kaali-peelis run on compressed natural gas (CNG), which saw a hike in prices to over Rs 54.57 per kg.

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Drug Seizure Done In NCB Office, Claims Nawab Malik

Asks NCB to release footage of three persons who were released

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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.