Sixty-seven more officers from local police stations were placed under suspension on Friday after the 41 — attached to the Local Armed (LA) Division — were suspended for not reporting for bandobast duty during Ganpati immersion day that concluded on Wednesday.

The Dindoshi police on Thursday night arrested two young men who allegedly posed as “policemen” and demanded `50,000 as extortion money from a local shopkeeper selling tobacco in Goregaon (east). According to the Dindoshi police, the two accused have been identified as Samir Shaikh (31) and Ganesh Pathare (26).

Following the hue and cry raised by the Association of Concerned Catholics (AOCC) over the arbitrary cancellation of Christmas holidays to compensate for the two additional holidays granted for Ganeshotsav by the education department, school education minister on September 19 announced that the compensatory holidays would be adjusted in the Diwali vacations. Diwali vacations will now be cut short by two days and start on November 1 and end on November 18.

The Ganpati festivities ended in the city with the final immersion on Wednesday, followed by late-late night thunderclaps and bolts of lightning — the kind, which haven’t been experienced for years.

India’s first fertility survey — Helping Families — has revealed that as many as 46 per cent of couples in the 31-40 age group are infertile.

While talking to each other, the accused termed their target — the victim photojournalist — as a “deer” to avoid suspicion.

The Bombay high court on Thursday asked petitioner Ketan Tirodkar to explain the provisions under which the murder case of rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar could be brought under the stringent Unlaw

MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday claimed that there is a growing suspicion that the murder of rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar was state-sponsored and therefore the case has not been cracked yet.

To ensure a balance between development and the environment, the state government has drafted a mining policy after getting directions from the Supreme Court.

Former BJP president Nitin Gadkari could be in trouble again, but this time for presenting a diamond-studded garland to Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi after the latter was declared as BJP’s prim