Singh is a journalist, writer and filmmaker living in Paris
July 24, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, JULY 23: The Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) is hoping to turn cyber-hackers into an endangered species by using a superior b...
Sat, Jul 24, 1999July 22, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, JULY 21: The easiest and quickest road to immortality in Mumbai is to have a road renamed after you, never mind the dust and debr...
Thu, Jul 22, 1999July 22, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, JULY 21: The easiest and quickest road to immortality in Mumbai is to have a road renamed after you, never mind the dust and debr...
Thu, Jul 22, 1999June 22, 1999 00:00 IST
June 21: As one of the first four Asians, and the only Gujarati-Muslim to be elected as a member of the European Parliament, Bashir Khanb...
Tue, Jun 22, 1999June 06, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, JUNE 5: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) will soon undertake a major tree-cutting exercise at its lush green Powai campus...
Sun, Jun 06, 1999May 30, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, MAY 29: A 25-year-old jamun tree was ruthlessly hacked and uprooted by the BMC employees of H-East ward office on Friday at Kalin...
Sun, May 30, 1999May 27, 1999 00:00 IST
My wife and I had decided to take the luxury cruise from Phuket to Singapore for a vacation. It wass to be a three-days-and-two-night sta...
Thu, May 27, 1999May 25, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, May 24: Though they were glad to be alive, it was nevertheless an incensed group of 20 Indian tourists who arrived at the Chhatra...
Tue, May 25, 1999May 25, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, May 24: Though they were glad to be alive, it was nevertheless an incensed group of 20 Indian tourists who arrived at the Chhatra...
Tue, May 25, 1999April 19, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, April 18: After discotheques, rock concerts and pool parlours, Pramod Navalkar, Mumbai's resident custodian of dos and donts, loo...
Mon, Apr 19, 1999April 06, 1999 00:00 IST
APRIL 5: Unlike other children of their age, 16-year-old Ravindra Pawar and his cousin Sandip Pawar abhor Hindi films, especially the exc...
Tue, Apr 06, 1999April 02, 1999 00:00 IST
april 1: Over the last year, hawkers in the city's `A' ward managed to extend their licences to ply their trade by exploiting a time-test...
Fri, Apr 02, 1999March 31, 1999 00:00 IST
March 30: The election of sitting Congress corporator from the reserved contituency of Dharavi, H S Nandepalli, was today held null and v...
Wed, Mar 31, 1999March 06, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, MARCH 5: What's in a name? Ask the Roads and Traffic Committee of the BMC. For, the committee spends 90 per cent of its time at m...
Sat, Mar 06, 1999February 17, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, February 16: January 15: A large stretch of Colaba coast near Ganesh Murthi Nagar slums is reclaimed overnight in a clandestine o...
Wed, Feb 17, 1999February 10, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, FEB 9: The Inspector General of Police (Protection of Civil Rights), V K Talwar, has unwittingly got himself involved in a rather...
Wed, Feb 10, 1999February 08, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, Feb 7: Three cars demolished' may sound like wrong English, but that's exactly what an overzealous demolition squad of the BMC di...
Mon, Feb 08, 1999February 02, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, February 1: In a blatant violation of the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ), a clandestine attempt was made overnight to reclaim near...
Tue, Feb 02, 1999January 29, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, January 28: Despite tall assurances, the main water pipeline from Tansa Lake that pumps in 400 million litres of water into Mumba...
Fri, Jan 29, 1999January 25, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, January 24: A drug addict wanting to get a real `high' today made a daring but unsuccessful attempt to break into the City Civil ...
Mon, Jan 25, 1999January 19, 1999 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, January 18: Residents and fisherfolk of Machhimar Nagar, Cuffe Parade are dead opposed to a proposal by the Brihanmumbai Municipa...
Tue, Jan 19, 1999December 17, 1998 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, DEC 16: Nowhere in any municipal school in Colaba do five children sit on one bench, it is only limited to two students per bench...
Thu, Dec 17, 1998December 08, 1998 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, Dec 7: Rising incidents of crime in the defence enclave of Navy Nagar, located on the southernmost tip of Mumbai, may sound unusu...
Tue, Dec 08, 1998November 04, 1998 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, Nov 3: Complaints about the absence of Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) in several primary and secondary schools in the state have...
Wed, Nov 04, 1998October 28, 1998 00:00 IST
MUMBAI, Oct 27: Bollywood star Bobby Deol was allowed to run a `reel life' relay for his forthcoming film Dillagi on the Mumbai Universit...
Wed, Oct 28, 1998