thane district

Thane, March 11 An NCP (SP) corporator bathed in front of the Thane Municipal Corporation building on Wednesday to highlight the water supply gap in the city.Corporator Abhijit Pawar arrived at the municipal headquarters around 1:30 pm to draw attention to the severe water shortage affecting...

Thane, March 11 A 64-year-old resident of Thane has allegedly been cheated of Rs 1.56 crore by a group of cyber fraudsters who placed him under "digital arrest" for almost a month after posing as police personnel, officials said on Wednesday.The fraudsters sent him multiple forged documents...

Thane, March 10 The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested a man working at a government office in Thane district, Maharashtra, on Tuesday, for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 5,000 after promising to provide land-related records in exchange, police said.The accused, identified as Nilesh...

Thane, March 10 Police have registered a case against a man for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl with a mental disability in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Tuesday.The incident took place in the Bhiwandi area on December 12 last year, but the victim's mother approached...

Thane, March 9 A massive fire destroyed a chemical manufacturing unit and partially damaged two adjacent factories in the Ambernath area of Maharashtra's Thane district on Monday, officials said, adding that two tankers were also completely destroyed.No casualties were reported, according to...

Thane, March 9 A sanitation worker employed by the Ulhasnagar Municipal Corporation (UMC) in Thane district was stabbed to death by a man while on duty on Monday afternoon, leaving his wife in shock who committed suicide hours later, police said.The deceased, Mahadu Jagtap (35), was employed...

Thane, March 9 A major fire broke out at a chemical company in Ambernath MIDC in the Thane district on Monday evening, although there have been no reports yet of anyone being injured in the incident, officials said.The fire broke out in a unit in the Anand Nagar locality at around 5:45 pm...

Thane, March 9 A 20-year-old tailor has been arrested in the Thane district on charges of raping a minor girl and attempting to force her into marriage after the interfaith wedding was disrupted by Hindutva activists, an official said on Monday.The accused, a resident of Shantinagar in...

Thane, March 9 Two auto-rickshaw drivers were killed after an unidentified vehicle collided with their three-wheeler on a highway in Thane district, Maharashtra, on Monday, police said.The accident occurred on the Mumbai-Nashik highway at Bapgaon, an official said.He said Rajkumar Gupta (40)...

Thane, March 9 A man was arrested in Bhiwandi, in the Thane district, for allegedly being involved in the suicide of a 16-year-old girl, a police official said on Monday.The body of the schoolgirl was found three days after she went missing, according to senior inspector Vijay Kabdane of the...

Thane, March 9 A man has been arrested in Bhiwandi, Thane district, for allegedly using the identity documents of a senior citizen and his family to operate five companies and evade GST payments, a police official said on Monday.The accused approached the 67-year-old victim, promising him a...

Thane, March 9 Unidentified individuals allegedly broke into a temple in Thane district, Maharashtra, and made off with a donation box containing approximately Rs 10,000, police said on Monday.The incident occurred at the Kasarhat Vaishya Mandir of Sri Bal Mitra Ganesh Mandal in the Kalyan...

Thane, March 8 Police have arrested a man from the Thane district of Maharashtra for his suspected involvement in the murder of a driver-partner of a ride-hailing platform, officials said on Sunday.The victim, Nasir Ahmed, had been reported missing by his family earlier this week.The...

Thane, March 7 A woman from Thane district in Maharashtra has been arrested for allegedly violently assaulting her three-year-old adopted daughter after the toddler addressed a neighbor as "mother," police said on Saturday.The incident in the Bhiwandi area came to light after a neighbor filmed...

Thane, March 7 In an effort to improve student safety, the administration in Thane district of Maharashtra has installed CCTV systems in 524 Zilla Parishad schools, and the process will be completed in the remaining 805 schools by April, an official said on Saturday.The initiative, being...

Thane, March 7 Police have seized dry opium worth Rs 38 lakh from a car and a pickup van in Thane district, Maharashtra, and arrested one person, an official said on Saturday.A patrolling team noticed a car and a pickup van moving suspiciously near a crusher unit on the road between Ovlikhind...

Thane, March 7 Unknown individuals opened fire at the housing society of a businessman and social media influencer in Thane district, Maharashtra, in the early hours of Saturday. Police later apprehended one of the accused after a chase that left two bystanders injured, an official said.The...

Thane, March 6 A 42-year-old employee of a college in Thane district, Maharashtra, allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fourth floor of the institution, police said on Friday.Praveen Chaudhary, a peon at Pragati College in Dombivli East, allegedly jumped from the building on...

Thane, March 6 The highly decomposed body of a middle-aged man was found near a creek in the Thane district of Maharashtra, an official said on Friday.Senior Inspector Ashok Ratnaparki said that the Bhiwandi police station was alerted on Thursday evening about a body found in the marshy area...

Thane, March 6 The Thane police have arrested an electrician from Jalgaon, marking the seventh arrest in connection with an alleged illegal human egg extraction and surrogacy racket, an official said on Friday.The accused, identified as Satish Chaudhary, allegedly forged Aadhaar cards and...