As the drought situation in Maharashtra worsens, allegations of siphoning off of relief funds have surfaced. The leader of the opposition in the state Assembly on Wednesday claimed bogus beneficiaries of fodder schemes. This came as the Centre granted Rs 1,200 crore as a drought relief package. ...
09:55 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Perturbed by the looming water crises in several parts of the state, Maharashtra Police has directed its personnel to remain prepared and handle possible water riots with "sensitivity", the state police chief said on Thursday. ...
02:31 AM, Mar 08, 2013
A man raped a 19-year-old nursing college student on the false pretext of marrying her, police said. The accused Vivek Bhaskarrao Khedkar (24) sexually abused the girl twice in December 2012 and January 2013. ...
03:20 PM, Feb 16, 2013
An elderly man was on Wednesday arrested for allegedly raping his daughter-in-law for about three years at a village in Maharashtra's Beed, police said. The wife of the accused, Bhamabai Thorve, was also arrested for allowing her husband to rape their daughter-in-law. ...
05:25 PM, Feb 06, 2013
A unique initiative has been undertaken by a Pune Doctor. Following the Beed female infanticide cases, Dr Ganesh Rakh of Pune's Medicare multispeciality hospital has stopped charging any fees to deliver a girl child. The birth of a girl child is celebrated in the hospital by distributing sweets and by treating the mother and child for free. Till date, the hospital has given free treatment to 135 women and their...
10:02 AM, Jan 22, 2013
A boy from Ashti tehsil in Beed was on Wednesday arrested after he threatened to bomb the Bangalore stadium, which hosted the India-Pakistan match in the first Twenty20 international series, police said. According to police, Amit alias Akshay Bhandari, a B Sc student from Kada village in the district rang up Bangalore police from his mobile on Monday, threatening a bomb blast at the Chinnaswamy stadium on Tuesday, after the...
07:56 PM, Dec 26, 2012
The police claim they have cracked the transistor explosion case in Maharashtra's Beed district. They say there is no terror angle involved and have blamed it on personal enmity. ...
08:26 AM, Dec 03, 2012
The police on Sunday evening claimed to have cracked the Beed transistor explosion case, arresting one person in connection with the incident. Speaking to reporters, IG Aurangabad, Ritesh Kumar said that personal enmity was the motive behind the blast and ruled out a terror angle. ...
09:56 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Two days after the transistor blast shook a tiny village in Maharashtra's Beed district, investigating agencies are tight-lipped about the exact nature of the explosion. A case has been registered against unknown persons under sections of the IPC and the Explosives Act. Teams of NIA and ATS have joined in the probe but officials say they are waiting for the forensic report before arriving at any conclusion. ...
08:32 PM, Dec 02, 2012
The Maharashtra police on Sunday registered cases against unknown people in connection with the Beed transistor blast case. The cases were registered under the Explosives Act. The police are still awaiting the forensic report on the blast. ...
06:16 PM, Dec 02, 2012
The forensic report of the transistor, which exploded in Beed on Friday leaving four persons injured, is likely to be out on Sunday. An NIA team and three anti-terror squad teams from Nanded, Pune and Aurangabad reached Beed on Saturday to assess the situation. ...
09:08 AM, Dec 02, 2012
An NIA team and three anti-terror squad teams from Nanded, Pune and Aurangabad have reached Beed, where a a transistor exploded on Friday, to assess the situation. Four members of a family were injured on Friday evening in the incident. ...
01:32 PM, Dec 01, 2012
A family of four was injured when a transistor exploded in Maharashtra's Beed district. Reports said a bus driver found an abandoned radio at a bus stop and took it home which exploded when he tried to put in batteries. ...
08:01 AM, Dec 01, 2012
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. ...
09:42 PM, Nov 30, 2012
Beed: The Mumbai crime branch has picked up for questioning, Abdul Rafe, a close aide of suspected LeT operative Abu Jundal, in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Rafe was held three days ago and taken to Mumbai for questioning after Jundal told his interrogators that he had told the Beed resident of the plan to attack Mumbai when he was in Saudi-Arabia. Police sources said Rafe was in...
01:42 PM, Aug 12, 2012
New Delhi: From Chikni chameli, Ooh la la to Anarkali disco chali - in recent times, Bollywood has produced some peppy item numbers that can get you out of slumber and push you to put on your dancing shoes! Filmmakers, choreographers and actors have condemned the use of the term item number, but that hasn't taken away the jazzy, raunchy and foot-tapping feel and popularity of such songs. IANS lists...
10:59 AM, Jul 15, 2012
Mumbai: Abu Jundal, the man allegedly caught on tape directing terrorists during the 26/11 carnage and believed to be the only Indian present in the Karachi control room monitoring the massacre, was born in Mazalgaon village in Beed district of Maharashtra. Jundal studied till class 10 and later did a course at the Indian Technical Institute. It was in Aurangabad, where he had gone for a job hunt that he...
07:54 AM, Jun 27, 2012
Beed: Sayed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal, the key handler of terrorists, who struck Mumbai in 2008, had carried out electrical work at district police headquarters here in 2004-05, police said. People, who knew Jundal recalled him as a hard-working and multi-skilled young boy, who also dabbled with computers to surf the internet. "The 30-year-old Jundal had spent a lot of time at the police headquarters' in Beed in 2004-05, where...
10:22 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Mumbai: After more than a month on the run, the Doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortions and female foeticide in Maharashtra's Beed district finally surrendered on Sunday. Doctors Sadam and Saraswati Munde will be produced in court on Monday. The Bombay High Court had rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had reported last week how the doctor duo was allegedly responsible for mass female foeticide had managed...
06:36 AM, Jun 18, 2012
New Delhi: The doctor couple wanted in cases of illegal abortion cases in Beed on Sunday surrendered before police. Sadam Munde and his wife surrendered in Parali police station. Earlier, the Bombay High Court rejected their bail plea on Friday. CNN-IBN had exposed how illegal abortions and female foeticide were rampant in Beed district of Maharashtra. ...
09:39 PM, Jun 17, 2012
