While 12 personnel including three sub inspectors died, 28 constables of the ‘192 batallion’ of the Central Reserve Police Force were injured after Naxals triggered a blast targeting their bus on an inter-state road in Dhanora Taluka in Gadchiroli district on Tuesday morning. The bus was part of a fleet of CRPF vehicles ferrying personnel for a civic action programme in Gatta village.

The swine flu epidemic has been very serious in Pune this year, when compared to anywhere in the state or even in the country.

An air of uncertainty hung around a possible meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart, Yousaf Raza Gilani, both of whom are here to participate in the Second Nuclear

It’s a bilateral engagement that appears to be going from strength to strength.

The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has initiated inquiries into the discovery of several posters found stuck on compound walls in Pune that demand the immediate and unconditional release of so

A tribal woman, who had accused five youths of raping her daughter, has been allegedly murdered by the latter after she refused to withdraw the complaint against them, the police said.

One person died and six others injured in an explosion and the subsequent fire on the chemical tanker Royal Diamond 7 at Mumbai harbour on Saturday morning. This is the same vessel on which a fire had broken out last Saturday.

A South Korean sailor was killed and six others — two crew and four local workers — injured in an explosion and subsequent fire on chemical tanker Royal Diamond 7 at Mumbai harbour around 11.25 am Saturday. The same ship had a fire a week ago.

The rift has once again grown between the two ruling parties in the state — the Congress and the NCP — this time over the zila parishad presidential elections.

After rapping the investigating body for sluggish progress in the Adarsh housing society scam on March 12, the Bombay high court on Thursday expressed its satisfaction over the steps taken in the investigation.