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Thane: Undertrial prisoner attempts suicide in jail
An undertrial prisoner allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from the roof of a barrack in the Thane Central Jail of Maharashtra, police said on Tuesday.
Two Kalyan-Dombivli civic body clean-up marshals arrested for extorting Rs 2,000
Two clean-up marshals of Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) have been arrested for extorting Rs 2,000 from a 37-year-old man, from Ulhasnagar in Thane district
Senior Shiv Sena leader manhandled by party workers in Maharashtra
Thane: Cook held for raping woman, posting obscene pictures online
A 22-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Maharashtra's Thane city and defaming her by posting her objectionable pictures on social media, polic
Thane: Hotel chain owner hurt as biker shoots at car, flees
Congress-NCP declare their support to MNS candidate on Kalyan (Rural) seat
Ahead of assembly election in Maharashtra, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have declared their support to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) Kalyan (R
Maharashtra elections: Stall owners cash in on pre-election chai pe kharcha
A classic piece of Mumbai pantomime played out this Friday when MNS candidate Avinash Jadhav emerged from his bustling party office in Thane around 2.30pm. Even as he was
BJP's election campaign vehicle caught fire in Ulhasnagar
Mishap: After mom, 3-yr-old too succumbs
In the accident on Ghodbunder Road that claimed a woman's life late on Thursday, her three-year-old daughter succumbed to her injuries on Friday.
Thane: Teen drowns in Kalyan; fourth body fished out of Titwala river
A 16-year-old college student drowned after he lost his balance and fell into a pond in Umbarde, Kalyan (west), on Friday.
Dad, son held for abetting suicide in Thane
A father was arrested along with his son by Kasarvadavli police for abetting the suicide of his daughter-in-law, who had hanged herself after killing her two minor childr
Container hits bike in Thane, kills woman
An unidentified woman died after a container rammed into the bike she was riding pillion on at Ghodbunder Road in Thane around 10.45 pm on Thursday.
Woman gives birth to baby on Thane rail overbridge
A 29-year-old pregnant woman delivered her baby on a rail overbridge at Thane station even as hundreds of office-goers rushed to catch trains despite seeing the mother ly
Maharashtra: Four youths drown during idol immersion
Four youths drowned and four survived during the immersion of a Goddess Durga idol in Kalu river here early on Thursday. A fire brigade team and local divers, who had sta
Thane: Four youth drown during idol immersion in Titwala
Four youths were feared drowned during the immersion of a Goddess Durga idol in the Kalu river in Titwala town on Thursday. A team of the fire brigade has been pressed in
Shaheed Bhagat Singh's grandnephew Vikram Singh Sandhu chose to campaign for sitting BJP MLA Narendra Pawar, who is contesting as an independent candidate from Kalyan (We
Activists accuse Thane Municipal Corporation of unscientific trimming
Shiv Sena corporators resign to support party's rebel candidate in Kalyan
AIMIM candidate pulls out of Maharashtra assembly elections from Mumbra-Kalwa constituency
Withdrawal of the AIMIM candidate from the Kalwa-Mumbra assembly segment has triggered a rage among the party functionaries here.
Thieves target festival shoppers, lift 13 cellphones in Kalyan
Thieves targeted Dussehra festival shoppers at the flower market in Kalyan and allegedly stole 13 mobile phones in 24 hours.
Thane: Man tries to pull girl away from live wire, both die
A girl was among two people who were electrocuted in Kalwa on Monday after touching an iron staircase exposed to live current. Officials from the power company said that
Youth returning from garba attacked by 4 in Ulhasnagar
A 22- year-old youth returning home after playing garba on Navratri festival was attacked with sharp weapon by 4 accused on Monday late night in Ulhasnagar.
Maharashtra: Deepali in one area, Sophia in another
Whats in a name, it is said, but in the Kalwa-Mumbra assembly segment, Shiv Sena candidate Deepali Bhosale is better known as Deepali Sayyad or Sophia Sayyad.
Maharashtra: Teaching, non-teaching school, college staff roped in for poll duty
Thousands of teaching and non-teaching staff from unaided educational institutions have been ordered to report for election duty on October 21.
Thane: Couple held for stealing from garment shop
A garment shopkeeper caught two couples red-handed stealing items.The couples diverted a staffer's attention and one couple fled, while the other was handed over to polic
Navi Mumbai: Six accept Rs 18 crore deposits for ponzi scheme, dupe 5,000 people
Durga Puja heralds a festive start to weekend in Maharashtra
The Bengali community broke for an early weekend as the five-day festival of Durga Puja began on Friday. Exquisite pandals across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Mira-Bhayander and
Ex-Mira Bhayandar mayor, 19 others booked for assault, rioting
Around 20 persons, including a former mayor of the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) and her ten bodyguards, were booked for allegedly manhandling the organiser
Thane: Women lock MJP office to protest water shortages
Hundreds of women marched to the local office of the Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) at Badlapur in the district on Thursday and locked it to protest water shortages
Thane: GRP recovers mobile phones worth Rs 36 lakh stolen from godown
Kalyan GRP recovered over 190 mobile phones worth Rs 36 lakh which were stolen from a godown in Bhiwandi.
BJPs Kalyan MLA to go Independent
Narendra Pawar, sitting BJP MLA from Kalyan West whose seat has been allocated to the Shiv Sena in the seat-sharing pact between the saffron allies, declared on Wednesday
Absconding and externed criminals held by Thane cops
An absconding accused was arrested by the Thane crime branch while another externed criminal was nabbed during routine police patrolling.
On being denied BJP ticket, Sumedh Bhavar joins MNS in Ambernath
An industrialist and former IIT Bombay student Sumedh Bhavar who was hopeful of getting BJP ticket from Ambernath Assembly seat have quit party and joined MNS (Maharashtr
Kalyan: 22-yr-old fake cop tries to extort Mhada engineer, held
Police have arrested a 22-year-old fake cop who, allegedly inspired by the film 'Special 26', targeted a Mhada engineer saying he had got a complaint from the Income Tax
A travel agent from Kalyan, Lakhan Devkar (30), was arrested from Junnar in Pune late on Saturday for allegedly raping a 52-year-old last week.
Maharashtras Rs 6-crore plan for mental hospitals
Three of the states regional mental hospitals in Thane, Pune and Nagpur will be developed into Centres of Excellence (COE) as part of a multi-crore project to transform t
Thane: Watchman escapes snake bite
A security guard at a private resort escaped the venomous bite of an adult common krait, which retaliated after being stepped on.
Man wanted in 10 cheating cases held at Thane court
A former block president of a political party in UP, Manoj Thakur, ws arrested by the Mumbai economic offences wing (EOW) outside Thane court.
Ex-ACP joins MNS, may vie from Kalyan
Former assistant commissioner of police Jagdish Lohankar joined the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena party in Kalyan.He is likely to contest assembly election from Kalyan (east
Duo held for fake currency racket in Palghar
Two men were arrested for allegedly printing and circulating fake currency in Palghar.While the Rs 100, Rs 200 and Rs 500 notes were printed in Boisar, they were circulat
Why didnt RBI warn us not to put funds in bank, ask angry depositors
Lakhs of small and big depositors in the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank were struck by a bolt from the blue as RBI on Tuesday imposed a withdrawal limit of a mea
Maharashtra assembly elections: MNS likely to contest 120 seats in MMR, Pune, Marathwada
The MNS led by Raj Thackeray, earlier reluctant to enter the polls, has tossed its hat in the ring and might field 120 candidates.
