Thane: A man attempted to burn alive his eight-months pregnant wife in a bid to get rid of her and has gone absconding, police said. Inspector RG Mhatre of the Hill Line police station of Ulhasnagar township said on Tuesday that the accused Allamin Saddam Samir Mandal,28, originally from West Bengal was married to Manina Begum, 20, of Assam some three years back. Later, Mandal fell for another young woman...
07:49 AM, May 23, 2012
Thane: As the state of Maharashtra reels under a severe drought, one is seeing a strange occurrence in the district of Thane. The farmers in its villages are resorting to polygamy, so that there are more hands to fill and carry water from wells that are over two hours from their villages. CNN-IBN visited one such family, where the farmer and his three wives have lived happily for over 30...
07:59 AM, May 11, 2012
Puducherry: Centre would soon hold an inquiry into alleged irregularities in distribution of Rs 125 crore sanctioned by it to the Union Territory of Puducherry for cyclone Thane relief works, Union Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy said on Sunday. Addressing a meeting of Congress workers in Puducherry, he claimed the funds had been 'siphoned off to benefit those owing allegiance to the ruling AINRC and also well to...
10:19 PM, May 06, 2012
Mumbai: A 28-year-old Peeping Toms voyeuristic tendencies proved to be a costly habit. So much so that he had to pay with his life. Ram Singh Verma, a resident of Bhashkarnagar, Kalwa in Thane, was in the habit of peeping through a little hole in the wall to watch his object of fantasy take her daily bath. The lady in question (name withheld) soon discovered that Verma had been watching...
02:39 PM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: Water, the elixir of life, needs to be preserved and conserved. Thats an indisputable fact. But government authorities appear to be carrying out this conservation keeping thousands perennially parched. So, while a person living in Mumbai gets about 45 litres of water a day, a study in stark contrast is the fate of Nashera in Mokhada taluka, Thane. This little village of 1,300 inhabitants got its first lot of...
01:27 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: In a shocking incident a woman collapsed due to exhaustion and died after standing in the scorching sun to collect water in a village near Mumbai. Vasai MLA and chief of Shramajivi Sanghatana, Vivek Pandit, told PTI that the incident took place when Parvati Ramu Jadhav, a tribal woman from Dolara village of Mokhada taluka went to fill water from the tanker, which comes to the village only once...
12:55 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Mumbai: Two 26-year-old men who were promised jobs in Dubai by a priest and later sexually abused by him, have conducted a sting operation to bare the man of God in rather unbecoming circumstances. MiD DAY has a copy of the CD in which the priest - identified as Kanak Kubdiya, resident of Dadar - is allegedly seen sodomising one of the victims at the quarters of a temple in...
10:14 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Mumbai: After her loyal, and somewhat presumptuous party members brought Thane to a screeching standstill by staging a bandh and moved court alleging the hand of a rival political party in her disappearance, Suhasini Lokhande slipped back into Thane on Tuesday, even as a public hearing ensued over her mysterious 'abduction'. Lokhande's disappearance on February 24, days before the mayoral elections in Thane, had generated fierce speculation, with the BJP-Sena...
12:45 PM, Mar 07, 2012
Thane: An undertrial lodged at the Central Jail in Thane allegedly slapped a prison jail officer during the week-end, police said on Tuesday. Kundan Gopalsingh Negi, who was facing trial for his involvement in a brawl in Kalwa area, was spotted smoking in front of the guard room on Saturday afternoon. This was noticed by jail officer Anand Kande, who told Negi that smoking was not allowed in prison premises....
09:00 AM, Mar 06, 2012
Thane: A 12-year-old girl from Thane's Mumbra township was allegedly raped and subsequently murdered, police said on Saturday. Police say the girl, a sixth grade student, was a resident of Mumbra Devi colony and was returning home last evening when the accused, Bhagarsingh Rathod, abducted her and then sexually abused her at a lonely place. He later killed her and dumped her body in a gunny bag and left it...
07:01 AM, Mar 04, 2012
Chennai: Representatives from various industrial houses on Thursday made donations towards the relief work being done in areas hit by cyclone Thane. Till Thursday, the total amount received towards the fund touched Rs 114.84 crore. Those who contributed were: Sanjay Jeyawardanavelu, managing director, Lakshmi Machine Works, Coimbatore (Rs 1 crore). P Ramasubramanya Rajah, chairman and MD, Madras Cements Limited (Rs 1 crore), Carnatic vocalist Sudha Raghunathan, trustee, Samudhaaya Foundation, Chennai...
08:45 AM, Feb 24, 2012
Chennai: The Chief Minister's Relief Fund on Tuesday touched Rs 112,02,89,338 to execute relief work in Cyclone Thane affected districts of Cuddalore and Villupuram. In an official release the TN government said that on Tuesday alone Rs 5,82,83,940 was remitted towards the relief account by State ministers and government employees, besides others. Minister for Social Welfare B Valarmathi, her department officials and employees contributed a days salary amounting to Rs...
07:47 AM, Feb 23, 2012
NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that the Congress contested in 70 per cent of the seats in Mumbai. ...
05:07 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena retained Thane in the Maharashtra civic polls. The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance took the top spot in the Thane Municipal Corporation polls on Friday. Out of the 130 seats, Congress and the NCP alliance bagged 52 and the Shiv Sena, BJP and RPI alliance 61 seats. Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) did not fare well as it could win on...
01:18 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Thane: A traffic constable of the Thane district rural police was allegedly bashed up by a rickshaw driver at the Dahisar check post, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place last evening when Ganesh Madhukar Pawar, who was part of the traffic police team deployed to regulate traffic at the crowded Dahisar naka along with officials of RTO was carrying checks when a auto rickshaw driver objected to the...
02:04 PM, Feb 14, 2012
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