The Free Press Journal - Mumbai - March 25, 2022

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March 25, 2022

Phosphorus bombs used on us, says Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged NATO on Thursday to provide Kyiv with unrestricted military aid, one month into Russian invasion of Ukraine.

1 min

SC nod to random vetting of Covid death ex gratia claims

The Supreme Court on Thursday said nobody can be permitted to misuse the Rs 50,000 ex gratia compensation given to next of kind of those who succumbed to Covid-19, as it allowed the Centre to conduct a random scrutiny of 5 per cent of the applications filed in Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala and Maharashtra to catch fake applicants.

2 mins

Chinese FM arrives after a Kabul stop

China's foreign minister Wang Yi arrived in Delhi on Thursday, the first high-level dignitary to do so in more than two years, since the stand-off in Ladakh.

1 min

Bio-mining to clear 8 lakh cubic mt garbage mountain in Uttan

In a much-needed relief for the citizens of Mira -Bhayandar, the state government has given its nod to the bio-mining project which will now accelerate the work of scientifically disposing of the huge volume of unprocessed garbage that has accumulated at the uphill dumping yard in Dhavgi village near Uttan.

1 min

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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.