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Belagavi's Ashok Venkatesh Deshpande, a Gandhian and social worker, passed away after a brief battle with cancer. He dedicated his life to serving the poor and marginalised, and was involved in anti-liquor picketing, blind belief eradication and running pre-schools. He was trained by Mumbai-based Gandhian Krishna Das Shah and was…

Following an overnight pause, rescue efforts resumed at the landslip-affected Irshalwadi village in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. The search and rescue team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) recovered six more bodies — three male and three female — from the debris, taking the toll to 22.

The Opposition said Mumbai’s guardian Ministers setting up offices in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters has set a wrong precedent and is an act of encroachment of rights of civic bodies. The issue was raised in the Maharashtra Assembly by Nationalist Congress Party’s Jayant Patil.

Oral narration of stories holds its own in a crowded market of creative content, says storyteller Usha Venkatraman