Mumbai: The ashes of late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray were on Thursday immersed in the Arabian Sea by his son and party executive president Uddhav Thackeray.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president and Bal Thackeray's nephew Raj Thackeray was also present at the Gateway of India, where the family had gathered to immerse the ashes.
The 86-year-old Sena patriarch died on November 18 at his residence 'Matoshree' after a prolonged illness.
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01:27 PM, Nov 23, 2012
Ganpatipule: Seven tourists drowned in Arabian sea off Ganpatipule beach in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, police said on Sunday. While five of the seven bodies were fished out, two more bodies are still missing, they said. The seven picnickers from Thane and Solapur ventured into the water last evening and were not far from the sea shore when they were swept away by strong current, police said. ...
11:59 PM, Aug 19, 2012
Mumbai: With the initiative to develop Juhu airport, as a secondary airport gaining momentum, and plans to shift all of the small aircraft operations from Mumbai airport to Juhu on the anvil, it has now been decided that the existing runway will be extended westwards into the Arabian Sea " on stilts. The aviation ministrys decision aims to reduce the burden from the only international airport in the city. Civil...
01:34 PM, Jul 16, 2012
Raigad(Maharashtra): A weekend trip turned tragic for three engineering students, including a girl, who drowned off the Harihareshwar Beach on the Konkan coast here on June 10, a police official said. The victims, students of the Institute of Technology in Pune's Chinchwad, had gone for an outing to the popular beach resort, along with a teacher. They were swept away in the deep waters by strong currents of the Arabian...
11:06 AM, Jun 11, 2012
London: American treasure hunter Bill Warren has claimed to have located Osama bin Laden's body bag deep under the Arabian Sea, 320 km west of Surat in Gujarat, and hopes to start his mission on June 1. "I've located where they threw him away," Daily Mail quoted him as telling Spanish newspaper El Mundo. "I'm the only one with this information," he said. With the help of the recent photos...
08:01 AM, May 05, 2012
Mumbai: On August 7, 2010 a ship collision off Mumbai's coast led to a major oil spill. Exactly an year on, oil slick from MV RAK's wreckage has washed ashore Mumbai's coast threatening another ecological disaster. The ship loaded with 60,000 tonnes of coal and at least 300 tonnes of fuel oil sank in the Arabian Sea on August 4, approximately 35 km off Mumbai's coast. One and a half...
09:09 PM, Aug 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Navy intercepted a pirate mother vessel 600 nautical miles west of the Indian coast in the Arabian Sea on Monday and rescued 13 hostages. Sixty-one pirates have also been caught in the operation carried out by Navy's INS Kalpeni. The pirate mother vessel has been identified as Vega-5. INS Kalpeni intercepted Vega 5 in the Arabian Sea on the night of March 11 after a Naval...
09:25 AM, Mar 14, 2011
New Delhi: India, making all out efforts to seek the safe release of 53 sailors held by Somali pirates, on Friday also tweaked its navy's rules of engagement against pirates in the Indian Ocean, widening the scope of its offensive operations but within the framework of international laws of the seas. The Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), which met in New Delhi under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,...
09:28 PM, Mar 11, 2011
Mumbai: About two lakh Ganeshas were immersed across 80 immersion points in the city on Wednesday. Although BMC officials and volunteers had asked people not to dump flowers and plaster of paris on the beaches, this has not made much of an impact. ...
12:25 PM, Sep 23, 2010
With a negligible number of lifeguards and safety facilities, Mumbai has seen 40 drowning deaths this year. ...
12:42 PM, Jul 24, 2010
Meteorological department says the cyclonic storm will bring more rains in Gujarat and Maharashtra. ...
11:57 AM, Jun 03, 2010
![Cyclone Phet intensifies but no alert yet]( "Cyclone Phet intensifies but no alert yet")
The coastal region of Gujarat is experiencing strong winds and widespread rainfall. ...
04:13 PM, Jun 02, 2010
The tentacles of global warming are slowly spreading. ...
03:56 PM, Dec 01, 2009
A major fallout could be a further rise in the prices of vegetables and fish. ...
02:12 PM, Nov 12, 2009
Eight trawlers were still out at sea and two feared sunk following the cyclone. ...
01:44 PM, Nov 12, 2009
The coast is on high alert with over 600 fishermen still in sea. ...
04:29 PM, Nov 11, 2009
Traffic has been thrown out of gear. ...
04:20 PM, Nov 11, 2009
All schools and colleges have been asked to shut early. ...
03:30 PM, Nov 11, 2009
Buses have been arranged at select terminus to ferry people back home. ...
01:30 PM, Nov 11, 2009
