High alert declared for Aug. 15; security upped
High alert will be declared in the city on the occasion of Independence Day. “There is hardly any place in Mumbai which cannot be focused upon when it comes to security.
4 farmers die as cops fire during Pune stir
Four farmers were killed in Pune’s Mawal taluka in police firing on Tuesday close to the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. This ironically comes a day after Maharashtra’s home minister R.R. Patil defended the police in the Assembly, saying it never resorts to firing unless there was no other option. Police
Fake Sachin ATM card puts man in jail
A man found to be moving suspiciously in Dadar in the early hours of Tuesday morning was found to possess three ATM cards registered to different people.
Maha minister, wife in head-on accident
State cooperative minister Harshvardhan Patil and his wife had a close shave with death in the early hours of Sunday, after a tempo that was driving on the wrong side of the road collided head on with
Sadhvi held in murder of blast suspect
Malegaon bomb blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur has been arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police for alleged involvement in the murder of Sunil Joshi, who was a suspect in the Samjhauta Express bomb blasts case of February 2007.
Fan pedals for Ratna to Sachin
An Agra resident who wants master blaster Sachin Tendulkar to receive the prestigious Bharat Ratna award, has pedalled his cycle-rickshaw all the way from Agra to Mumbai with his wife to promote his c
Maha govt discovers key Adarsh papers are missing
The Central Bureau of Investigation’s probe into the Adarsh Housing Society scam has hit yet another roadblock: important documents regarding the controversial project are missing from the Maharashtra government’s offices. The state government found out that the documents were missing only after the CBI asked for them.
Superstitious family kills 2 children
In a macabre reminder of how some sections of society refuse to come out of the dark ages, seven people were arrested for killing two toddlers of their own family, believing them to be possessed by ev
Stomach surgery costs man four toes
In an ironical twist of fate, a complicated and critical surgery that went off perfectly was marred by a freak accident that resulted in four of the patient’s toes having to be amputated.
Cops overhear kidnap call, trace accused
The Kolshewadi police went into a flurry of action on Wednesday, when an autorickshaw driver rushed into the police station with his cellphone stuck to his ear and claimed that his 15-year-old son’s kidnapper was at the other end.