Mumbai university faces protests after monk alleges assault during Pali department agitation | Mumbai News

Mumbai: Mumbai University faced mounting criticism after a Buddhist monk and research scholar, Bhadant Vimamsa, was allegedly assaulted and humiliated by the security during his ongoing agitation at the Kalina campus. The monk has been on a 28-day satyagraha, demanding aided status and a dedicated building for the Department of Pali, when he was reportedly…

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Aggregator cab drivers’ union in Mumbai threatens to use parallel online meter if Rs 22.50 per km demand not met | Mumbai News

Mumbai: The Ola and Uber drivers’ union has warned that it will implement a parallel meter, through the OnlyMeter online service, to calculate fares for aggregator cab services as per Cool Cab fares from Sept 25.“Our demand for Rs 22.50 per km minimum fare, similar to Cool Cab fares, remained unfulfilled till Friday,” said union…

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‘Nobody cared after headlines faded’: Delhi’s sewers, manholes keep swallowing lives; families left adrift | Delhi News

NEW DELHI: It is the deaths, not the lives, of men forced to clean sewers, manholes and septic tanks without protective gear that make the headlines; their lives, and those of their survivors, remain unseen.Three years after Yashdev lost his life cleaning a sewage treatment plant in east Delhi’s Kondli, his brother Sattey awaits justice….

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