After following several clues from a Twitter post by the victim of sexual assault, Mumbai police arrested the accused man in less than twelve hours, said the victim herself through another Twitter message. Twitter handle, who has requested to keep her identity disguised, posted a tweet on August 24, saying,[Read More…]
Humboldt Penguin, the first penguin chick born in Country, died early this week due to new born anomalies, dysfunctional liver and yolk sac retention (failure to absorb yolk). It was exactly a week after the first penguin to be born in the country, emerged from a single egg that the[Read More…]
Thousands of Thane residents have vowed to boycott every election – from the municipal corporation to the Lok Sabha – until roads are repaired in their localities. The protest came in the wake of a lengthy campaign run by this newspaper highlighting the condition of roads in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region,[Read More…]
Using two photos from Bollywood movie – Hera Pheri, featuring Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Paresh Rawal, the Mumbai police on Thursday issued warning to citizens as well as fraudsters over fake messages aiming to lure people. Using the meme, cops highlighted the sad reality of believing I Ponzi schemes.[Read More…]
Sayyad Rashid, an All-India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) corporator, has been detained and sent to jail for alleged bootlegging, under the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Slumlords, Bootleggers, Drug-Offenders and Dangerous Persons (MPDA) Act, said police on Thursday. Rashid had last week opposed a resolution to pay tribute to former[Read More…]
A 25-year-old man puts 300 banners and hoarding across the Pimpri-Chinchwad area near Pune, Maharashtra apparently to apologise to his girlfriend after a tiff. Nilesh Khedekar who is a local businessman, placed the banners which read the message ‘Shivde, I am sorry’ along with a heart. While the city might[Read More…]
While Pune was recently entitled ‘most liveable city’ under Ease of Living Index, city’s Cosmos Bank, hailed as one of the oldest cooperative banks in India, was attacked and transactions of nearly 94.42 crore have been carried out in bank accounts outside India. The officials of the cooperative bank located in[Read More…]
Three young men in Mumbai were held for taking up trending Kiki challenge on a local moving train, following to which, a local court in Maharashtra’s Palghar district ordered the youth to clean the Vasai railway station for three consecutive days. The video, shot by Shyam Sharma (24), Dhruv (23)[Read More…]
A 67-year-old man identified as Rajendra was arrested in Mumbai for murdering his daughter’s boyfriend Surendra Mishra (29). Investigation revealed that the father was against the relationship of his daughter with Surendra. Along with Rajendra, two others have been arrested for being involved with the murderer. According to the investigations[Read More…]
Mumbai: Around 17 lakh Maharashtra government employees launched a three-day strike on Tuesday over pending demands including implementation of the Seventh Pay Commission Report with departments like education and medical severely hit. The state government on Monday night directed all employees to report for duty on Tuesday and warned of[Read More…]
Vijay Ratnakar Gutte who is directing the film ‘The Accidental Prime Minister’ has been detained today moirning under Section 132 (1)(c) of the CGST Act by the Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax Intelligence (DGGSTI) in Mumbai. According to court documents, he has been charged for alleged Goods and[Read More…]
The Shiv Sena on Saturday sought to embarrass its Bharatiya Janata Party ruling ally by suggesting that Pankaja Munde, a minister in the Maharashtra cabinet, be unanimously anointed as Chief Minister for an hour to clear the Maratha quotas file. The Sena’s advice came after Women and Child Welfare Minister[Read More…]
Maratha Kranti Morcha has decided to end their ongoing protest. Addressing a press conference in Mumbai, protessters said that they wanted Mumbaikars to return their home safely. “We only wanted to prove that we are together. We never wanted protests to get violent,” the groups told the press as they[Read More…]
If the preliminary data from various government and non-government organisations is to be believed, Madhya Pradesh is likely to earn back the status of ‘Tiger State’, which the state had lost in 2014, while Maharashtra on the other hand has recorded maximum number of Tiger deaths this year. Madhya Pradesh[Read More…]
Maharashtra: Fourteen persons, including two women, had been arrested on Tuesday for allegedly holding three policemen captive for hours and thrashing them, Thane district rural police said. The incident took place in a residential colony in Mira Road in the district in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. “Thane police[Read More…]
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has ruled that parents can take back any property gifted to their son if the latter ill treats or harasses them. A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Anuja Prabhudesai said this while hearing a petition filed by a son challenging a tribunal’s order that[Read More…]
While Mumbai and Pune dairy farmers called for a milk protest on Sunday mid-night demanding hike in milk price, one of the farmers took batch with 35 litres of milk, the video of which is going viral on social media. The farmers have been raising their voice demanding a hike[Read More…]
A part of Gokhale Bridge, a footover bridge connecting Andheri East and Andheri west in Mumbai, collapsed over the railway track this morning due to heavy rainfall. No loss of life has been reported so far. Fire bridged, Municipal Corporation of Mumbai, NDRF team as well as other security staff[Read More…]
Five persons were killed in Maharashtra’s Dhule district today by villagers, who suspected that they were part of a gang of child lifters. “The five, along with a few others, were seen getting down from a state transport bus in the tribal Rainpada hamlet. When one of them apparently tried[Read More…]
Mumbai/New Delhi: In a multi-city pre-dawn operation on Wednesday, Maharashtra Police arrested Dalit activists and alleged urban Maoist sympathizers in the state and New Delhi for the January 1 Koregaon-Bhima caste riots, officials said. Those arrested included Rona Jacob Wilson in Delhi, Sudhir Dhawale in Mumbai and lawyer Surendra Gadling,[Read More…]
Mumbai: “Come what may, we will win,” said Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis after former Congress minister Rajendra Gavit was announced as the BJP candidate for the Palghar Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday. A former minister and legislator from Palghar Assembly constituency, Gavit quit the Congress and formally joined the[Read More…]
Mumbai: A Special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) Court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment to mafia don Rajendra S. Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan and eight others found guilty in the sensational June 2011 killing of journalist J. Dey. The verdict was pronounced by Special MCOCA Court Judge[Read More…]
Kolhapur: A prominent international level sportswoman from Maharashtra has accused a Karnataka doctor of raping her for two years, police said. According to Investigating Officer Dilip Tibile of Karveer Police Station, the complaint was received earlier this week from the 33-year-old sportswoman against a doctor living in Gulbarga town in[Read More…]
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Police carried out multi-city raids on Tuesday against prominent Dalit activists and supporters in a fallout of the January 1 caste riots in Koregaon-Bhima, official sources said here. The raids which started at around 5 a.m., and were carried out by several teams of the Pune police in[Read More…]
Mumbai: The Congress’ Mumbai unit will stage agitations at 21 suburban railway stations on Thursday to highlight the increasing prices of petrol and diesel and inflation which has hit the common masses hard, a top party official said. The agitations will be led by Mumbai Regional Congress Committee (MRCC) President Sanjay[Read More…]