Thane, February 11 A court in Thane district of Maharashtra has sentenced a 35-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl.Delivering the verdict, Special Judge (POCSO) V A Patravale from the Kalyan court stated that the testimony of a...
Thane, February 11 A case has been registered against four individuals in Thane district, Maharashtra, for allegedly defrauding at least 21 job seekers of Rs 15.34 lakh, an official said on Wednesday.The accused, including the owner of a private firm, collected money from the victims by...
Mumbai, February 10 Maharashtra BJP minister Nitesh Rane on Tuesday criticized Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, claiming that actor Salman Khan was "more Hindu" than him, amid a controversy over the superstar's presence at an RSS event in Mumbai. Khan was among a group of Bollywood...
Thane, February 10 The Thane Zilla Parishad has been recognized as one of the top-performing local bodies in Maharashtra under the government's ambitious 150-day e-Governance Improvement Programme, an official said on Tuesday.The results, which were previously delayed due to the election code...
Thane, February 10 Police have arrested three members of a gang and a Mumbai-based jeweler, allegedly involved in defrauding senior citizens of jewelry worth lakhs in Thane district of Maharashtra, an official said on Tuesday.With these arrests, the Thane city police have solved 12 cases of...
Thane, February 10 A 62-year-old man from Thane city in Maharashtra has allegedly been defrauded of ₹82.13 lakh in an investment scam after being promised high returns, police said on Tuesday.The victim came across a Facebook advertisement on September 26, 2025, promising high returns on stock...
Mumbai, February 10 A wild Himalayan griffon vulture has been spotted in Maharashtra's Melghat Tiger Reserve after nearly a decade, indicating that vultures released there are attracting their wild counterparts back to the area, a wildlife expert has said.The sighting was significant because...
Mumbai, February 9 A wild Himalayan griffon vulture has been spotted in Maharashtra's Melghat Tiger Reserve after nearly a decade, indicating that released vultures are attracting their wild counterparts back to the area, Director Kishor Rithe of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) said on...
Pune, February 9 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar was admitted to a private hospital in Pune city on Monday after contracting a chest infection, and his health condition is stable, doctors treating him said. The 85-year-old Rajya Sabha member was brought to Ruby Hall...
Mumbai, February 9 Rail traffic on the busy Mumbai-Goa route was disrupted for a few hours on Monday following damage to overhead equipment (OHE) when a Vande Bharat train collided with cattle between the Kudal and Sindhudurg stations in Maharashtra, an official said. The incident occurred on...
Mumbai, February 9 Sambhaji Patil, an international shooter and gold medallist in the 2016 Junior World Cup, was killed on Monday when his car collided with a truck on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway in Palghar district of Maharashtra, officials said.He was 27 years old.The incident occurred...
Modinagar, February 9 N Ajith, representing the Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB), impressed the audience by breaking the national snatch record with a lift of 320kg in the men's 71kg senior category at the IWLF National Youth, Junior, and Senior weightlifting championships held here on...
Pune, February 9 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar was admitted to a private hospital in Pune city on Monday after he was diagnosed with a chest infection, and his health condition is stable, doctors treating him said. The 85-year-old Rajya Sabha member was brought to Ruby Hall...
Mumbai, February 9 The Maharashtra government has formed a committee to formulate proposals for establishing a venture capital fund for the textile sector, linking the initiative to the state's goal of becoming a USD 1 trillion economy and the implementation of its textile policy. A government...
Thane, February 9 Hundreds of victims of a ₹1,200 crore investment scam staged a protest outside the police commissioner's office in Thane district, Maharashtra, demanding a swift investigation into the case and the return of the money they were defrauded of.The Economic Offences Wing (EOW)...
Yavatmal (Maharashtra), February 9 Police have arrested the headmaster of a school in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district on charges of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl student, officials said on Monday.The 47-year-old accused, the headmaster of a Zilla Parishad school in Ghathanji taluka...