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Thane, February 23 Two unidentified individuals have allegedly kidnapped a 20-year-old man in Thane city, Maharashtra, and demanded ₹5 lakh from his friend for his release, police said on Monday.The incident occurred in the Manpada area on Saturday evening when the victim and his friend were...

Thane, February 22 Farmers staged a protest on Sunday in connection with the Mogharpada metro rail car shed in Thane.They stated that the government must provide immediate compensation for land acquisition, proper training to ensure that young people from the area get jobs related to metro...

Thane, February 22 Unidentified individuals have been booked for attempting to extort ₹10 crore from a prominent builder in Thane, claiming to be part of the "Bishnoi group," a police official said on Sunday.According to the complaint filed by the 60-year-old businessman at the Naupada police...

Thane, February 22 A 46-year-old mechanical engineer in Thane city, Maharashtra, has allegedly been cheated of ₹3.15 crore after being lured to invest in a fraudulent online trading platform, police said on Sunday.The complainant, a resident of the Kasarvadavali area, alleged that a person...

Mumbai, February 21 Activists from the BJP and Shiv Sena staged demonstrations against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Mumbai and Thane on Saturday, in response to the Youth Congress's protest at the AI Summit in New Delhi.Shiv Sena MP Naresh Mhaske demanded that a sedition case be registered...

Thane, February 21 The Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar (MBVV) police have launched a recruitment drive to hire 921 personnel, including 81 drivers, a senior official said on Saturday.A total of 57,990 applications were received for the vacant positions, Additional Police Commissioner Datta Shinde...

Thane, February 21 The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Thane has awarded compensation of ₹19.83 lakh to the family of a 46-year-old pedestrian who was killed in a road accident in 2018.Badruddin Kalaraj Choudhary, originally from Assam, was walking home near Indian Compound in...

Thane, February 20 A special court in Thane, Maharashtra, has acquitted a 37-year-old man accused of raping a minor girl, stating that the prosecution failed to prove that the survivor was a "child" and noting significant inconsistencies in her testimony.In the judgment dated February 12...

Thane, February 19 A man who caused a security scare after a video of him travelling in a women's compartment of a suburban train while wearing a burqa went viral on social media has been identified and booked, a railway police official said on Thursday.The 57-year-old man, a resident of...

Mumbai, February 18 A special court here has denied bail to Santosh Shelar, an accused in the 2021 Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran murder case, stating that there was ample prima facie evidence against him.An SUV with explosives inside was found near the residence of industrialist Mukesh...

Thane, February 18 A 30-year-old man from Thane has allegedly been cheated of nearly Rs 34 lakh by a "woman" he met on a matrimonial website, who lured him into investing in a fraudulent scheme, police said on Wednesday.In his complaint to the Kapurbawdi police station, the man said he came...

Thane, February 18 A fire broke out in a warehouse storing waste cloth in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Wednesday.There were no casualties reported in the fire, which occurred at 8:21 am on Tuesday at the warehouse located in the M K Compound area of Shilphata, Thane. Yasin...

Thane, February 17 A 30-year-old man was found dead in a quarry filled with water in Thane city, Maharashtra, on Tuesday, according to civic officials.The body of Prakash Govind Parmar, a resident of Shivai Nagar, was found in the quarry in the Yeoor area in the afternoon, they said...

Mumbai, February 17 – A Mumbai court on Tuesday postponed the hearing in the appeal filed by Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut against his conviction in a defamation case filed by Medha K. Somaiya, the wife of former BJP MP Kirit Somaiya.The Sessions Court deferred the proceedings as no one was...

Jammu, February 17 – The J&K Anti-Narcotic Task Force (ANTF) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested an absconding accused from Maharashtra."In a significant development in the investigation of FIR No. 09/2023, registered under Sections 8/20/29 of the NDPS Act at Police Station ANTF Jammu...

Thane, February 17 A court in Thane has sentenced a 29-year-old man to life imprisonment for the murder of a local resident after a dispute in 2021, while acquitting his co-accused due to lack of evidence.The seriousness of the act, combined with the recovery of the weapon used, leaves no...

Thane, February 17 Three people were injured and nearly 80 others were rescued after a section of a fifth-floor apartment collapsed onto the floor below in a residential building in Thane city, Maharashtra, early Tuesday morning, officials said.One of the injured was in critical condition...

Thane, February 16 A fire broke out in the electrical meter box on the ground floor of a four-story residential building in the Charai area of Thane on Monday night, although no injuries were reported, according to civic officials.The incident occurred at the JK Apartments, located on Edalji...

Thane, February 16 A 16-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building in Thane West on Monday, a police official said.The Class XI student jumped to her death from the balcony of her 14th-floor apartment in the Shubhasanket Cooperative Housing Society in the...

Mumbai, February 15 Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde challenged BJP minister Ganesh Naik to contest against him in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, further intensifying the long-standing rivalry between the two political families.Shinde, the son of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and a...