Aurangabad: Four members of a family, including a minor boy, were seriously injured when a radio set exploded at their residence in Koregaon village of Kaij tehsil of Beed district this afternoon, police said. Bus conductor AR Nimbalkar (35), his wife Usha (30), mother Kusum (53) and two-year-son old Kunal were seriously injured in the incident, police said. Nimbalkar, who was on duty in Mumbai-Ambejogai bus, noticed a radio set...
09:42 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Mumbai: The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra police on Saturday filed a supplementary chargesheet against alleged LeT operative and 26/11 Mumbai attack handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, alias Abu Jundal, in the 2006 Aurangabad Arms haul case. "We have filed a 3,650-page chargesheet against Jundal, and named him as key accused," said an ATS official in Mumbai. On May 8, 2006, a Maharashtra ATS team had chased a Tata Sumo and...
06:48 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Patna: Six Maoists were killed and 70 landmines destroyed in an encounter with security forces in Panchrukhia forests bordering Bihar's Gaya and Aurangabad districts, a CRPF official claimed on Monday. As many as six ultras have been killed and scores of others injured in heavy firing between the Maoists and forces since Saturday, CRPF DIG Umesh Kumar said. The bodies of the ultras were yet to recovered, he said. The...
07:43 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: Key 26/11 attacks handler Abu Jundal's police custody ends on Monday and the matter is set to come up for hearing at a Mumbai court. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was given the custody of Jundal for their investigations into the 2006 arms haul case and the 26/11 attacks. In May 2006, the ATS chased down two vehicles on the Chandwad-Manmad Highway in Aurangabad, one of which was...
08:04 AM, Sep 10, 2012
Mumbai: Key 26/11 handler Abu Jundal was on Tuesday allowed to speak to his parents on the mobile phone after a court allowed permission. Jundal had reportedly sought permission from the court to speak to his parents. Jundal was on Monday sent to ATS custody till August 24 in connection with the Aurangabad arms haul case of 2006. Jundal was in the custody of Mumbai Police since July 21, when...
01:03 PM, Aug 14, 2012
Mumbai: A Metropolitan court in Mumbai on Monday granted custody of LeT operative and key 26/11 handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal to Maharashtra ATS in connection with the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case. Metropolitan magistrate PS Rathod gave Jundal's custody to the Anti-Terrorism Squad a day after he recorded a confessional statement in which he is understood to have given deep insight into Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba's role in the...
06:31 PM, Aug 13, 2012
Mumbai: After Mumbai Crime Branch, the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad has also produced a production warrant in Delhi's Tis Hazari court for key 26/11 conspirator Abu Jundal's interrogation. An ATS team will soon go to Delhi for other procedures. The ATS wants to question him regarding the Aurangabad arms haul case of May 2006 and the German Bakery blast case of February 2010. The ATS also wants to question him regarding...
10:56 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Mumbai: German Luxury car major Audi, which on Thursday rolled out a new version of its A4 car, said it will scale up capacity at its Aurangabad facility by 50 per cent to 9,000 units shortly. "We are building a new assembly hall, which is called hall C, which would contribute to production of another 3,000 cars," Audi India head Michael Perschke said. The Aurangabad facility was initially designed with...
11:15 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: A suspect wanted in connection with the 2008 Ahmedabad blast case was killed in an encounter with the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in Aurangabad on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Mohammed Abrar, a resident of Gulmohar Colony in Ahmedabad, police said. Mohammad Abrar's name figured in the chargesheet of the Ahmedabad 2008 blast case and Gujarat Police say he was in touch with Indian Mujahideen operative...
03:02 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: In a rousing display of patriotism and unity, over 15,000 people from the city on Wednesday participated in a mass singing of national anthem 'Jana Gana Mana', creating a world record in the process. With a tally of 15,243, they took India into the 'Guinness Book of World Records' for "the most people singing a national anthem simultaneously", erasing the previous record held by Pakistan for 5,800 individuals....
06:43 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: An attempt is being made to create a new world record in Aurangabad where an event has been organised to break the Guinness world record of most people singing the national anthem at the same place. The event started with a performance by noted singer and composer Shankar Mahadevan at 8 am and actual program of singing the national Anthem to break the Guinness world record began at...
09:50 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Aurangabad (Bihar): As a two-day Bharat bandh called by the Maoists began on Sunday, unidentified Naxalites set on fire a mobile tower in Bihar's naxal-infested Aurangabad district in the early hours, police said. The naxalites, said to be about a dozen of them, stormed into Suhi village under Kutumba police station area and set on fire the mobile tower of private operator Airtel, police said. A case has been registered...
01:44 PM, Dec 04, 2011
New Delhi: Fifteen people were burnt to death, in Buldhana district of Maharashtra, following an accident that involved two buses. Sources say 57 others have been injured out of whom 35 are said to be critical. The injured have been rushed to the nearest hospital. Sources added that the toll is expected to rise. The two buses met with an accident on the Nagpur-Aurangabad highway. One of the buses was...
09:57 AM, Nov 28, 2011
Aurangabad: AICC General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Saturday addressed the media in Aurangabad. Rahul said, "It is clear that corruption is a serious issue in our politics. We have to look at it systemically." Speaking on Malegaon Additional DC Yashwant Sonawane's murder, Rahul said, "We need to know why this is taking place. It is because doors of the political system are closed." Addressing...
11:02 AM, Jan 29, 2011
Aurangabad (Bihar): An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded while it was being defused near a school building in Naxal-hit Aurangabad district of Bihar on Thursday. One police constable was injured in the explosion. Three landmines were also discovered near the approach road. The area was sanitised and bomb defused by the bomb disposal squad. Bihar Director General of Police Neelmani said that explosives were found in the Jordi school building...
02:00 PM, Oct 28, 2010
Aurangabad: This could well be the highest valued car deal in India. A group of businessmen has put Aurangabad on the world map by buying a whopping 150 high-end luxury cars in one go. The group wants to put their hometown on the global map. The Mercedes Benz cars priced at over Rs 65 crore, the highest valued car deal in India. And it's all happening in a small city...
08:47 AM, Oct 15, 2010
Aurangabad (Bihar): RJD MLA Mohammad Nehaluddin, his bodyguard and 12 others were kidnapped on Saturday by Maoists who also torched his vehicle in Aurangabad district. Over 100 Maoists surrounded the vehicle of Nehaluddin, who is seeking another term from Rafiganj, and took him hostage when he was campaigning at Laltenganj village, SP Vivek Raj Singh told PTI. They damaged and torched his vehicle and took him away, he said. According...
10:45 PM, Oct 09, 2010
Naxals say schools are targeted as they are used to house para-military forces engaged in anti-Naxal operations. ...
09:01 AM, Jun 05, 2010
Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Friday slammed BJP for "joining hands with Congress" in Aurangabad civic body election and questioned its ally's fickle ways. "Would a true nationalist ever have a 'nikaah' (marriage) with Congress?" Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray asked in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Samaana'. "What did our 'best friend' (BJP) gain by allying with Congress? Aurangzeb, in his grave, must be happy seeing this," he said, mentioning...
04:53 PM, Jun 04, 2010
Her enclosure wall collapsed due to heavy rain. ...
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