Four workers were charred to death and 12 others received serious burn injuries when a fire broke out in a textile company at Dombivali on Thursday morning. Binayak Textiles in the industrial township of Dombivali processes cloth and employs 200 workers. At the time of the incident, there were 67 workers working in the night shift.

The Kalyan Government Railway Police (GRP) has solved the murder of the 45-year-old tailor whose body was found near the rail tracks near Badlapur railway station a month ago.

Reckless driving by a tanker driver led to the death of a 13-year-old schoolboy in Thane on Tuesday morning.

Yashwant Sonawane, the additional district collector who was burnt alive by the oil mafia, was not the first government servant to be “eliminated”. There have been two other instances in the past when government officials have been murdered by the oil mafia.

Ten persons were left dead after a portion of a building in Kalwa, Thane, collapsed on Tuesday afternoon.
Till 9.30 pm, the authorities had retrieved the bodies of 10 persons — four women and six men. Four injured people, including a 10-year-old boy and a 30-year-old woman, were rescued from under the debris.

Eight persons died, most of them in their sleep, and five others injured when an under-construction wall in Thane collapsed on the adjoining houses during the early hours on Tuesday. In a separate incident, one person died after the scaffolding of a building fell on him at LBS Marg in Mulund on Wednesday morning.

Perturbed by the news reports of the Thane Municipal Corporation being “blacklisted” by the Union Urban Development Department, municipal commissioner Nandkumar Jantre came out strongly against such

The Thane Municipal Corporation authorities carried out a demolition drive in the illegal slums of Kalwa (east) on Monday.
Thousands of slums