9 people killed in accident on Pune-Solapur highway
Pune: Nine people have been killed in a major accident between a truck and a car on Pune-Solapur highway in the intervening night of Friday and Saturday. The mishap took place when the driver of the car lost control...
Misuse of public funds by top bureaucrats, Mah govt initiates inquiry
Mumbai: Over four months after media pointed out anomalies concerning a docket of Maharashtra's top bureaucrats to the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual 2018 summit, the state government has decided to initiate a probe into the matter. A bill of...
Shocking! An honour killing in Mumbai
Mumbai: In another case of honour killing, Ghatkopar police on Monday arrested a man for murdering his pregnant daughter on Saturday for bringing him shame in his community. The accused, Rajkumar Chaurasiya, 55, ran a paan shop. The way the...
16 die in 1 day on Mumbai’s suburban trains
Mumbai: At least 16 people, including a woman, died Thursday in separate mishaps on Mumbais suburban railway network, the Railway Police said Friday. This was the highest single day fatalities recorded on the suburban rail network, often called Mumbai's lifeline,...
Saravana Bhavan owner dies of cardiac arrest
P Rajagopal, the 72-year-old founder of Saravana Bhavan , a global chain of restaurants, has died of a cardiac arrest. He was in jail serving a life term for murder Last week, a bench of three judges had trashed claims...
Ayodhya land title case: SC to hear matter in open court on August 2
The Supreme Court will hear the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhoomi Babri Masjid land title case in an open court on August 2, the Supreme Court said today. This was after the three-member mediation panel in the Ayodhya land title dispute case...
Big win for India, ICJ stays Jadhav’s execution
The International Court of Justice has stayed death sentence of Kulbhushan Jadhav till Pakistan reviews his conviction. The ICJ has also given consular access to Jadhav that was earlier denied by Pakistan. More details...
Rajya Sabha clears bill to give NIA more powers
National Investigation Agency (Amendment) Bill 2019 has been passed in Rajya Sabha. The bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on Monday. The bill gives more powers to the National Investigation Agency. with Union Home Minister Amit Shah asserted that the law...
ICJ to deliver verdict on Kulbhushan Jadhav today
The International Court of Justice will deliver on Wednesday its verdict in a case relating to Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav, whose death sentence by a Pakistani military court based on an 'extracted confession' has been questioned by India. Jadhav, 49, a...
Death toll in Mumbai building collapse rises to 14
"So far, 14 people, including seven males, four females and three children have been declared dead, while nine have got injuries and getting medical treatment," Sachidanand Gawde, the PRO of the NDRF battalion, said Gawde said the search and rescue operations...
MPCC chief Thorat forms various vital committees to face Assembly polls with renewed vigour
Senior leader Vilas Muttemwar, MPCC Secy Vishal Muttemwar included in vital committees Nagpur/Mumbai: The State Congress, led by newly appointed MPCC President Balasaheb Thorat, has geared to strengthen the party and face the coming Assembly elections with renewed vigour. Congress has...
Mumbai bldg collapse toll rises to 12
Mumbai: The death toll in the building collapse in Mumbai stands at 12. A four-storey residential building collapsed in south Mumbai's congested Dongri area Tuesday with 40 to 50 people feared trapped under the debris, civic officials said. The...
BJP Appointed Chandrakant Patil Maharashtra President
Chandrakant Patil has been appointed as the new chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Maharashtra unit. Patil, a Cabinet Minister in the state government, replaces Raosaheb Danve, who resigned from the post earlier in the day. The development comes months ahead of...
HC quashes CRZ clearance to Rs 14,000 cr coastal road project
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday quashed the CRZ clearances granted to the city civic body's Rs 14,000-crore coastal road project. The project proposed to connect Marine Drive area in south Mumbai to Borivali in north Mumbai. A division bench of...
2 dead, many trapped in multi-storey collapse in Mumbai’s Dongri
Mumbai : As many as two people died while about 50 people were reportedly trapped in a multi-storey building which collapsed in south Mumbai's Dongri area on Tuesday morning. Five persons have been rescued so far from the collapse...
Maharashtra govt invites Ramdev to set up unit on land reserved for BHEL plant
The BJP-led Maharashtra government has invited Yoga guru Ramdev, the promoter of Patanjali group, to set up a unit on an unused chunk of land in Latur district, originally reserved for a BHEL plant, for which a stamp duty waiver...
37 IPS officers transferred in major reshuffle in Maharashtra
Nagpur: The Maharashtra Government on Monday ordered transfer of 37 IPS officers in a major reshuffle of State Police Force. Among the shifted are four officers from Nagpur. In Nagpur, Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone 5 Harsh Poddar has been transferred...
Centre OK for prosecution of 56 IAS officers
New Delhi: The Centre allowed prosecution under Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act against 56 Indian Administrative Service officers in the last 10 years spanning both Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi governments. Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) had granted 102 prosecution...
Babri demolition case: Special judge seeks 6 months’ time from SC to conclude trial
New Delhi: A special judge holding trial in Babri Masjid demolition case, involving BJP veterans LK Advani, M M Joshi and others, Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking six more months to conclude the trial in the case. The special...
Fadnavis balances Maratha quota: offers general category fee aid, more seats
Mumbai: The number of seats meant for the general category students in degree and post-graduate medical courses would be increased to compensate for the decline in the number of seats caused by quota offered to various communities, Chief Minister Devendra...
Centre may introduce motor vehicle bill today- Gadkari
New Delhi: Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari is scheduled to introduce the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019, in Lok Sabha on Monday. The bill proposes changes to only three sections from an earlier amendment bill, which had...
