Mayura is Deputy Associate Editor and covers the state of Goa. She joined the Indian Express in 2011 and earlier reported from Mumbai and Delhi. She has covered beats including law, politics and administration. She was City Editor, Mumbai before she moved to Goa in 2021.

March 08, 2021 03:25 IST
He said that so far, 10-15 candidates were almost finalised for the polls. Next year, he said, the party was hopeful of winning 25 seats in the 40-member assembly.
Mon, Mar 08, 2021
March 06, 2021 16:34 IST
In Goa, which has a 105 km coastline, discontent has been brewing over a number of issues, including the duration to respond to the draft, re-zoning of beach areas and accommodating allegedly illegal constructions.
Tue, Mar 09, 2021
March 02, 2021 03:21 IST
The State Election Commission (SEC) on Monday kept elections in the five of the municipal councils at abeyance after the high court directed the director of municipal administration to carry out the reservation of the wards afresh “rectifying gross illegalities” in the reservation process.
Tue, Mar 02, 2021
February 23, 2021 10:54 IST
The outcome of elections to the City Corporation of Panaji and 11 municipal councils Goa local body polls will be read as a signal on what will happen in the 2022 Assembly elections
Tue, Feb 23, 2021
February 23, 2021 04:25 IST
Last week, the Goa cabinet headed by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant granted a fresh six-month extension to offshore casinos in the Mandovi river off Panaji. Why have the casinos received a fresh extension?
Wed, Feb 24, 2021
February 22, 2021 08:41 IST
Three projects have been at the centre of a face-off between the government and environmentalists.
Mon, Feb 22, 2021
February 03, 2021 03:52 IST
While schools across the state, barring Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai, had opened to students from Class V to VIII last week, at the primary school 1 and 2 in Alibag, teachers awaited their RT-PCR test reports and decided to let students in only after all of them tested negative for Covid-19.
Wed, Feb 03, 2021
January 25, 2021 04:25 IST
One of the changes the village takes great pride in is the normalisation of the conversation around menstruation.
Mon, Jan 25, 2021
January 21, 2021 09:29 IST
Deputy Commissioner of Police said, “We had a meeting with the villagers and we discussed their issues. We told them that we are positive that their concerns will be examined by the district administration. The villagers, including many women, attended the meeting.”
Thu, Jan 21, 2021
January 08, 2021 04:42 IST
With awareness low, not many have started using the Lokmanya Nagar period room yet. Muse Foundation, an NGO that assisted the Thane Municipal Corporation in creating it, said it will inform women in the slum about it during their regular menstrual hygiene sessions.
Fri, Jan 08, 2021
January 01, 2021 02:03 IST
After a harrowing 2020, Mumbaikars hope for a 2021 that will bring better tidings on every front.
Fri, Jan 01, 2021
December 25, 2020 01:23 IST
While special masses for Christmas were planned by churches in Mumbai hours before midnight and most attended the masses online, the “community dimension” was missing, Astrid Lobo said.
Fri, Dec 25, 2020
December 23, 2020 03:31 IST
On Monday, even as the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay HC sent her home to Indore with her husband Manoj Soni, it felt that the police should question Deepti, as her answers could perhaps provide leads to other disappearances reported from the temple town in Ahmednagar.
Wed, Dec 23, 2020
December 19, 2020 05:00 IST
While Deepti has told her family that she had been living with a old woman in Indore, she has not been able to say how she got back from Shirdi to Indore, Manoj Soni said.
Sat, Dec 19, 2020
December 17, 2020 02:07 IST
The committee’s five-page report submitted to the HRD ministry, now renamed Ministry of Education, on June 17 was made available on Wednesday under the Right to Information Act through an application filed in Uttar Pradesh.
Thu, Dec 17, 2020
December 16, 2020 01:00 IST
While the Trust has assured that the port will be ecologically sustainable, JNPT Chairman Sanjay Sethi tells The Indian Express that more people need to be made aware of the Rs 65,544.54-crore project and its benefits.
Wed, Dec 16, 2020
December 16, 2020 00:41 IST
In Mumbai the Sassoon Dock fish market remained deserted all day and fisherwomen's tables in Badhwar Park were empty as they stood in solidarity with the fisherfolk of Vadhavan in Palghar where the new port is set to be constructed.
Wed, Dec 16, 2020
December 14, 2020 19:56 IST
While the new law will entail enhancement of punishment for offences of rape, gangrape and penetrative sexual assault of children, the women’s rights activists say this will be counter-productive.
Wed, Dec 16, 2020
December 05, 2020 10:30 IST
The port project, estimated to cost Rs 65,544.54 crore, is part of the Centre’s Sagarmala initiative that aims to make Indian ports major contributors to the country’s GDP.
Sun, Dec 06, 2020
November 30, 2020 03:15 IST
Sabyasachi Mukherjee, director general of the 98-year-old museum, tells The Indian Express that the institution has incurred a loss of over Rs 10 crore, but the people of Mumbai rose to the occasion by adopting galleries and artifacts to help tide over the Covid-19 lockdown.
Mon, Nov 30, 2020
November 25, 2020 05:15 IST
According to the data placed before the court last month by the Shirdi police, 279 people were reported missing from Shirdi between 2017 and October 27, 2020. Of them, 67 still remain untraced.
Wed, Nov 25, 2020
November 23, 2020 04:42 IST
According to data submitted by police, 279 persons were reported missing from Shirdi between 2017 and October 27, 2020, of whom 67 still remain untraced, including married and unmarried women.
Mon, Nov 23, 2020
November 21, 2020 14:02 IST
The navigation system can now replace GPS in the Indian Ocean waters upto 1500 km from the Indian boundary.
Thu, Nov 26, 2020
November 21, 2020 01:53 IST
The other three countries that have its navigation systems recognised by the IMO are the US, Russia and China.
Sat, Nov 21, 2020
November 14, 2020 21:21 IST
About 100 magazines have backed out from publishing this year and many others have reduced the number of their pages.
Sun, Nov 15, 2020


