Richa Pinto

Senior Correspondent, TOI

Richa Pinto is a special correspondent with The Times of India. She covers urban governance & climate change issues. With over a decade of experience in field reporting, she has written extensive ...

Richa Pinto is a special correspondent with The Times of India. She covers urban governance & climate change issues. With over a decade of experience in field reporting, she has written extensively on various civic issues affecting Mumbaikars. She graduated in -journalism from the prestigious Mumbai-based St Xavier's College and later pursued a three-year Law degree (L.L.B.) with the University of Mumbai. She regularly tweets about all things that matter to Mumbai on-- @richapintoi.

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Stories by the author

• Warming of Arabian Sea raising cyclone frequency

  
  18 May 2021 10:28 AM IST
• Mumbai braces for cyclone Tauktae, shifts 580 Covid patients from field hospitals

  
  16 May 2021 09:47 AM IST
• Mumbai: April deaths raise an alarm, trend may persist for a while

  
  01 May 2021 11:03 AM IST
• Mumbai: Over 6 lakh in home quarantine, BMC has a task ensuring they stay put

  
  12 Apr 2021 02:43 PM IST
• Only 9% of Mumbai’s ICU beds & 8.3% of ventilators still vacant

  
  04 Apr 2021 11:09 AM IST
• Covid: Over 600 Mumbai buildings now sealed

  
  03 Apr 2021 11:22 AM IST
• Mumbai: New civic chief checks scene at Nair hospital, Dharavi, warns of surprise visits

  
  10 May 2020 08:23 AM IST
• In 26 days, Mumbaikars pay Rs 500 crore in property tax

  
  28 Mar 2019 11:27 AM IST
• 35 years on, Mumbai's original tower of corruption finally bites the dust

  
  12 Feb 2019 11:46 AM IST
• Mumbai: Not paid property tax yet? You cannot sell or transfer it now

  
  04 Feb 2019 09:36 AM IST
• Govt sets bar low for living standards in Mumbai

  
  27 Apr 2018 11:52 AM IST
• Kamala Mills: 40 joints face heat in over a fortnight

  
  16 Jan 2018 11:54 AM IST
• Ease of business rules misused to cut corners on fire safety

  
  16 Jan 2018 11:32 AM IST
• Fire started at Mojo’s, not 1Above, says probe report

  
  06 Jan 2018 03:32 PM IST
• Mumbai braces for Cyclone Ockhi, government announces holiday in schools

  
  05 Dec 2017 12:16 AM IST
• BMC makes singing of Vande Mataram a must in its schools

  
  11 Aug 2017 12:03 PM IST
• Kapil Sharma, Irrfan Khan may face upto 3 years in jail, here's why

  
  13 Sep 2016 09:18 AM IST
• I am not a part of any political organisation and nor do I intend to be: Kapil Sharma

  
  11 Sep 2016 08:37 AM IST
• At 11.6°, Mumbai colder than a hill station

  
  24 Dec 2015 11:25 AM IST
• Meat ban cut to 2 days as HC talks tough, BMC backtracks

  
  15 Sep 2015 11:57 AM IST
• Dying rain trees back in bloom with folk remedy

  
  27 Mar 2015 06:12 AM IST
• Tree census information to be online soon

  
  12 Mar 2015 03:47 AM IST
• Leopard dies from bacterial infection

  
  18 Dec 2014 11:49 AM IST
• 88 per cent of new Maharashtra MLAs are crorepatis

  
  22 Oct 2014 11:34 AM IST
• Maharashtra polls: Sion corporator 'Captain' Tamil R Selvan voted only Tamil MLA

  
  21 Oct 2014 11:39 AM IST
• Voters don’t mind candidates with minor criminal records: Report

  
  12 Oct 2014 10:01 AM IST
• IIT-Bombay students deploy robot to spot leopard

  
  25 Jul 2014 11:26 AM IST