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June 21, 2022

Mumbai breathes clean air

Exactly a month after Mumbai recorded the year's worst Air Quality Index (AQI) of 309 (May 20), which was worse than Delhi's 191 and was a result of dust storms emanating from the northwest, clean air finally enveloped the city.

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PM DEFENDS SEEMINGLY 'UNPLEASANT' DECISIONS

SAYS THEY WILL PROVE BENEFICIAL IN THE TIME TO COME

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Deshmukh collected bribe through Vaze, says CBI

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has claimed to have established the "factum of demand and collection of money from bar owners/establishment" at the behest of former home minister Anil Deshmukh through suspended cop Sachin Vaze, who received pardon from the special court after being made an approver in the case.

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Airlines' Losses Globally Will Be Down To $9.7 Bn This Year: IATA DG

The airlines' losses globally are expected to be down from USD 52 billion in 2021 to USD 9.7 billion this year and industry-wide profit should be on the horizon in 2023, Director General of IATA Willie Walsh said here on Monday.

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VEDANTA PUTS TUTICORIN COPPER SMELTER ON SALE

Invites expression for interest from buyers after facing a lot of hurdles in reopening unit

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Every nation must give topmost to healthcare: PM importance

Narendra Modi said on Monday as he inaugurated the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) and laid the foundation stone for a multispeciality hospital

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SL cabinet passes 21st Amendment aimed at empowering Parliament

Sri Lankan Cabinet on Monday approved the 21st Amendment to the Constitution aimed at empowering Parliament over the executive president and it will now be tabled in Parliament soon, two senior ministers have said.

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Rishabh Is Very Big And Integral Part Of Our Plan In Next Few Months: Dravid

India head coach Rahul Dravid has made it clear that the under-fire Rishabh Pant is a "big" and "integral" part of the set-up heading into the T20 World Cup in Australia.

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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.