Meenal Baghel
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Executive Editor, Hindustan Times. Author of Death in Mumbai. Ex: editor, Mumbai Mirror. Tweets personal.
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Thank you everyone for your messages. But a very special thank you to the entire team
@MumbaiMirror
and all the former colleagues who built the newspaper up from scratch. It has been such a privilege to head this newsroom.
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Translation: औरत अपनी औक़ात में रहो।
#WATCH
"Bihar ke mukhyamantri pe comment karne ki aukaat Rhea Chakraborty ki nahi hai," says Bihar DGP when asked about the actor's comments on CM Nitish Kumar.
#SushantSinghRajput
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Message from
#SushantSinghRajput
’s former manager Disha Salian’s family for malignant TV anchors.
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This is an appreciation post for
@kunalkamra88
His affidavit is truly outstanding, both in terms of argument and its literary merit. I hope everyone gets a chance to read it in full.
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Why are they dressed like cops on Crime Patrol?
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So ABP Mazha ran a story at 11 am saying special trains to run for migrants.The
@IRCTCofficial
meanwhile opened train booking assuming lockdown would be lifted. Central Ministries not talking to one another. Today TV giving
#Bandra
incident communal spin.
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Taliban pelts women with stones in town square trials. We use cameras.
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The
#Sexpert
has gone. Mumbai institution Dr Mahinder Watsa is dead. He wrote for
@MumbaiMirror
from the day it started in 2005 until the last edition nine days ago without a single day’s break. Here’s a piece I wrote on him in 2015
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This is the same guy. How can private individuals be involved in handling an accused in an NCB a case. What’s going on?
Manish Bhanushali, vice president of BJP & SK Gosavi, private person were involved in Cruise raid by NCB. Both were seen taking accused Aryan Khan & Arbaz Merchant to NCB office. NCP spokesperson
@nawabmalikncp
questioned the involvement private people in NCB's raid
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Asaduddin Owaisi is one of the hardest-working politicians in the country, and is now reaping the benefits of that. Ridiculous of the Congress to blame him for his Bihar wins.
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Could she have left it back home instead of flaunting it 🤔
VIDEO: Mom-To-Be Deepika Padukone Flaunts Baby Bump As She Arrives To Cast Vote With Ranveer Singh In Mumbai
#DeepikaPadukone
#RanveerSingh
#Vote
#Bollywood
#LokSabhaElections2024
@RanveerOfficial
@deepikapadukone
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Today is as good as any to read this exceptional story: Kar Sevak Balbir Singh who helped demolish Babri Masjid is now Mohammed Amir, a man determined to rebuild 100 mosques - Mumbai Mirror
#Ayodhya
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The iconic photo of Kasab by
@MumbaiMirror
photo editor Sebastian D’Souza. His courage in the face of tremendous danger, extraordinary. In these times when it’s easy to diss journalists, a reminder of the great risks they sometimes take to get you the facts.
#2611Attack
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At least five Chinese vaccines in advanced stage of research. Will India boycott if Chinese breakthrough results in a vaccine for Coronavirus?
#AskingForACountry
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All of us in the media got in wrong. The Bombay High Court was not referring to Tolstoy’s
#WarAndPeace
rather a book called War and Peace in Junglemahal:People, State and Maoists by Biswajit Roy. Though literature of any kind can’t be used to incriminate people.
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Mumbai has been dug up to such an extent by various utilities that a gang of thieves decide to dig a perfectly good footpath at King’s Circle to steal copper wires from MTNL lines, and no one is any wiser for over a month. 🧵
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Tiddis trainee by ISI
Arnab is blaming Pakistan for locusts in India. Yes, you read that right
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Mumbaikars at CST being fab, keeping physical distance. Video courtesy
@ShivajiIRTS
.
@MumbaiMirror
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Justin Trudeau can’t comment on an internal matter and Bilkis Bano can’t join the
#FarmersProtestDelhi
because it’s outside of Shaheen Bagh, is it?
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There is much cynicism towards journalists these days but an army of reporters and photographers out there are risking lives and doing vital work. This at a time when a formidable machinery is trying to keep you away from what’s true.
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Is
@RahulGandhi
the most advised to man on twitter? Or should we just wait a few days, and it may well be
@imVkohli
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There are govt-mandated voice messages saying Indian-made vaccines are safe, yet the form says people getting
#Covaxin
are actually enrolling for 3rd phase trials! And if you say no to this, you won’t get the Oxford vaccine. Insane
#VaccineForIndia
If you are going to get
#Covaxin
, this is the consent form you will need to sign today
#COVIDVaccine
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What Modi told agitating students in 1973-‘74: ‘The way Democracy is being destroyed today to pave the wave for dictatorship, you’ll become a herd of sheep...This is the second Independence Movement.’
@DeepalTrevedie
has the story.
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Journalists who covered
#DelhiRiots2020
getting calls from police 5 months later asking them
what they were doing in riot-affected areas. What have we come to.
Bizarre experience morning. Cop from Rohini PS called. Were you in Karawal Nagar on Feb.27? Yes I was. We traced r number. What were u doing there? Covering d violence. Okay sorry ji. We thought u were part of a group. Spoke again to d cop who said got some numbers on dump data
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The story moved many many people including the BMC, so on Thursday the 100-odd patients were moved to two dharamshalas and scores of Mumbaikars came to donate money, food, blankets. A gurudwara offrede to take in 16 patients.
@MumbaiMirror
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A man doing his job well, and with courage and integrity has become so rare...and how much it is being missed as Justice Muralidhar’s farewell and welcome in one day have shown.
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Mumbai records first
#COVID2019
death. Will soon emerge as epicentre as containment very difficult. We need to test, test, test.
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Significant that Justice Gogoi, due for elevation as CJI this October, was among the four to express dissent against CJI Dipak Mishra on the Judge Loya matter. Truly courageous.
#SupremeCourt
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There’s a renewed aggressiveness in the dispensation to belie journalists especially after their fine work in
#HathrasCase
. BJP’s Gujarat chief has tweeted that his interview in
@ahmedabadmirror
is fake. Here’s a video clip, and there’s more proof for those interested.
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‘If I ask for empowerment and political representation, does that mean, God forbid, I want Sharia law in India?’
@asadowaisi
, as always, mincing no words in this interview.
@MumbaiMirror
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A travel startup in Mumbai is offering an exclusive tour of
- Andheri Flyover
- Haji Ali Signal
- Santacruz East Vakola
- Malad Mith chowki
It is called the *Chaar Jam Yatra*
H/t
@nandiniramnath
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The atonement of Balbir Singh is the story of a kar sevak who had helped destroy Babri masjid and who now travels around the country repairing dilapidated mosques.
@MumbaiMirror
’ s
#TheForgivenessIssue
?
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Beginning January 1, 2024, there is not a single elected civic body left in all of Maharashtra. No sign of local body elections either. Terrible for politics, terrible for citizens.
Term of last elected civic corporation ends in state
₹1,10,556 crore of 27 civic bodies now controlled by state government through administrators
Read here: Fire
@htTweets
@Swapnasaurabh
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There is a whole essay in this photograph. The expressions of the two men. Reminds me of a zoo. Photo is uncredited as received as a WhatsApp forward.
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Now that the
#MaharashtraPoliticalDrama
is virtually over, the fun bits about how journalists infiltrated the 5-star hotels in search of exclusives. Here is
@MumbaiMirror
photographer Nilesh Wairkar in his natty ‘MLA get up’.
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What a difference 24 hours can make. Yesterday
@MumbaiMirror
ran the story of the terrible sanitary conditions at SevenHills Hospital. Within a day the sanitation staff was back at work properly equipped.
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astonishing discussions in the media last night about the resignation of
#GujaratCM
Instead of focusing on the issues that led to his ouster such as administrative failures, failing in community outreach, the discussions became about how intuitive the BJP is.
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Not condoning this but let’s get some perspective. Mumbai’s lockdown has exceeded Wuhan’s. People who haven’t lived in Mumbai will never understand what it means to spend 2.5 months inside a flat in humid summer.
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Good news coming from Mumbai: 11 journalists including those from
@MumbaiMirror
win the right to report on
#Malegaon
blasts in which
#PragyaThakur
is an accused. The prosecution had asked for in camera trial.
#Sunlightbestdisinfectant
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Mumbai records highest jump in
#Corvid19
cases in one day. Soon city will be overwhelmed with need for ventilators. Can the Bombay Billionaires step up?
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Only Mumbai newspaper to have the detailed
#AmolPalekar
and NGMA story on front page.
@MumbaiMirror
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‘It would be a mistake to think
#DavinderSingh
is one rotten apple in a basket of fresh ones.’ Superb, hard-hitting story by
@josyjosephkj
. If there’s one story you read today, let it be this one. via
@mumbaimirror
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The wall that had been built to keep them out of sight has been broken; there is no looking away.
Would anyone know who the photographer here is?
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If there’s one great story you read today, let it be this one: Orphans abandoned as kids at railway stations wed.
@lata_MIRROR
@MumbaiMirror
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Look at the criminality at every step. The devastation of the second wave was because 1 lakh Covid-19 tests during Kumbh were faked. Terrific story. via
@timesofindia
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As internet is restored in Kashmir after five months, first picture of
@OmarAbdullah
. The former CM and minister in the Vajpayee Govt, has been in detention since August along with other leading Kashmiri politicians. Pix courtesy
@RainaMIRROR
@MumbaiMirror
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This is the team at Sion Hospital, a Public-funded municipal hospital, and not one of Mumbai’s fancy private hospitals.
Hats off to all the doctors—to save life of a
#COVID19
positive infant a team of six docs assembled in the midnight and operated the child,the anaesthetist sent on 14days quarantine,why she was sent on quarantine read the story to know her courageous step
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There’s a reason Mumbai is India’s entertainment capital.
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look closely at the photo: Children being interrogated by police in Karnataka for staging a play about CAA. Have we totally lost the plot!
Cops in
#Bidar
#Karnataka
question students of
#Shaheeninternational
who took part in anti
#NRC_CAA_Protest
. Their play courted controversy in which a student says *throw slippers* on those who asks for documents.
@ABVPKarnataka
had filed a complaint against the school admins.
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Villages around Bhatsa Lake evacuated as the largest reservoir for Mumbai overflows and the dam’s floodgates are opened.
#MumbaiRainsLive
Video courtesy
@Journoyogesh
@MumbaiMirror
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It was a hot and clear day when a team of
@HTMumbai
journalists headed out to see the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, the one piece of infrastructure that can be transformational, creating the fastest link between the island city and mainland. Thread…
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Scrap Central Vista, Bullet Train, use PM care and all other central and state resources.
Quick question; will the government of India have 80,000 crores available, over the next one year? Because that's what
@MoHFW_INDIA
needs, to buy and distribute the vaccine to everyone in India. This is the next concerning challenge we need to tackle.
@PMOIndia
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Notional Highways:
@HTMumbai
journalists test drive the now almost unnavigable highways that connect Mumbai to Goa (NH66), Ahmedabad (NH 48) and Nashik (NH 160). They report on passenger distress and the loss of business and man hours.
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Or the loonies are being cleverly used for insidious and dangerous propaganda. Either way, needs to be urgently called out.
This is your reminder that these loonies are sowing idea seeds for something that they'll project as a mainstream demand before you realise. Call this out now, or it'll be too late.
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.
@prasarbharati
pulling up
@PTI_News
for interviewing the Indian ambassador to China. We are now citizens of la la land.
.
@prasarbharati
sends a strongly worded letter to
@PTI_News
on its “anti-national” reporting, says will review its relationship with agency soon.
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Starting today, I will be anchoring a daily podcast for The Times of India. Do listen in.
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Farmers marching into Mumbai have announced they do not want to inconvenience Mumbaikars, esp students giving their SSC exams so instead of marching in the morning, they’ll walk to Azad Maidan midnight onward.
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Testing kits will be most crucial and in-demand in the coming weeks in India. Will some captains of industry, most of whom live in Mumbai, step up and donate them to the city if not the country?
#CoronaOutbreak
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Mumbai’s first Miyawaki forest blooms. This is at Narayan Pujari Nagar near Worli. The site has about 1800 trees with 40 varieties of plants. Former BMC commissioner Praveen Pardeshi who sent me this video, commissioned this last year.
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Terrible new about
@anildharker
. He has been a big influence in Mumbai journalism and was an unfailingly kind man.
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The Indian PM doesn’t like
@AatishTaseer
after what he wrote about him in
@TIME
and the Pakistan PM doesn’t like him after the profile in
@VanityFair
. Taseer is doing what all good journalists should be doing.
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Post-pandemic job loss is having devastating consequences in certain Mumbai slums where measles combined with malnutrition and lack of immunisation has killed 12 infants in 3 weeks. A survey finds only 17 pc in M east ward have 1 meal a day.
@HTMumbai
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Investigative journalist
@josyjosephkj
and legal scholar
@gautambhatia88
speak on draconian laws, denial of bail, the role of investigative agencies and the judiciary. via
@timesofindia
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So this is what happens sometimes in newspapers: On Wednesday my colleagues
@lata_MIRROR
and
@sachin_haralkar
reported the story on poor, out-of-town cancer patients who come for treatment at Tata Memorial staying under a flyover.
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Pratap Bhanu Mehta had presciently said in his August 6 column last year: “The BJP thinks it’s going to Indianise Kashmir. But instead, what we’ll see is potentially the Kashmirisation of India.” It’s happened folks.
Burials without family were a thing only for Kashmir. Other states seem to have degraded to this inhuman level too.
#Hathras
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Only in Mumbai, you could be strolling on Marine Drive and come across the world’s great cellist
#YoYoMa
playing Bach for the janta.
@ReemaGehi
and
@RajuMIRROR
were there on hand to capture the moment.
@MumbaiMirror
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Centre seeks to thwart Uddhav Thackeray’s pro-environment play over
#Aarey
. Big story from
@Journoyogesh
@ChaiMIRROR
on Maharashtra’s political battle getting uglier.
@MumbaiMirror
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He, of the ‘presstitute’ fame, seems to have lost his tongue in this military crisis.
#ChinaIndiaFaceoff
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The big book coming soon.
@SonuSood
and
@Meena_Iyer
on a transformative year. Congratulations and best of luck.
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India’s best-lit city has been shining like an x-mas tree or as Raj Thackeray said, lit up like a dance bar these days. BMC has spent Rs 720 crores on Chinese lights among other things to ‘beautify’ Mumbai.
@linahOlinah
does the math on public money spent
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This is what rape culture is like. School has suspended the boys, all of them young teens and coming from extreme privilege.
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Starting a brand new column where Jerry Pinto
@mahimkajerry
will walk through the city’s various neighbourhoods and discover the things that we often miss in Mumbai’s mad rush.
@HTMumbai
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.
@BDUTT
is so so stellar.
Reporting from Inside Ramganj, in the walled city of Jaipur, now the biggest virus hot spot across the state. 4 lakh people in a 2 km square radius & congested lanes makes this a hellish challenge. I am at ground zero with
@aqueeljaipur
Area Magistrate for this
#Mojo
Report
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Delighted to report that
@MumbaiMirror
is the only single edition newspaper in the top 5 largest-read English dailies of India. It also recorded the highest growth (19.75pc) among all papers from last year as per Indian Readership Survey 2019. Print is alive and kicking.
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Lawyers on my timeline, does this make a case for 153 A? Is this not a straightforward case for creating enmity between communities?
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There are people forwarding photos of
#SushantSingh
‘s body at his home. Please do not do so. Have some respect for his family.
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On the day social media returns to Kashmir,
@RainaMIRROR
sends this photo of the still-in-detention
#OmarAbdullah
with a Govt doctor who has come to check on his health. Such a sad photo.
@MumbaiMirror
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Today the Supreme Court praised the BMC Model and asked Delhi to follow it. At the start of this second wave I had written this piece about Mumbai’s great strengths as a city.
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In the madness of Bombay life, siblings who catch up with each other at railway stations.
@MumbaiMirror
reader sent this in.
#CoolMumbai
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Activist, teacher, public intellectual and Mumbai’s feistiest lady
#PushpaBhave
has died. This interview I did last year gives an idea of her storied life:
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The new Akshay Kumar movie Suryavanshi has a tag line that reads: आ रही है पुलिस. Is it a horror film?
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‘If it could, the constitution would get up and file contempt against the SC’
@atti_cus
speaking the bitter truth.
@MumbaiMirror
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