The Maharashtra Assembly was adjourned for the day on Friday after members from all parties disrupted proceedings while demanding action against the two police officers who had come to the Vidhan Bhawan without authorisation to arrest MLAs, accused of beating a policeman. ...
02:35 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Two Maharashtra legislators accused of beating a policeman inside the State Assembly will appear before court on Friday. MLAs Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam had surrendered on Thursday before the police. ...
09:38 AM, Mar 22, 2013
The Supreme Court may have sentenced the key accused in the 1993 blasts case to rigourous punishments, including death for Yakub Memon, but India is yet to lay its hands on its masterminds, Dawood Ibrahim and Yakub's brother, 'Tiger' Memon. The fugitive duo is believed to be hiding in Pakistan, although Islambad refuses to acknowledge it. ...
11:09 PM, Mar 21, 2013
A Mumbai court on Thursday remanded two of the MLAs accused of assaulting a policeman outside the Maharashtra Assembly to police custody. MLAs Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam have been sent to custody till Friday. ...
09:30 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Pakistan on Thursday rejected involvement of its government or any of its official agencies in incidents like the 1993 Mumbai bomb attacks, saying it was committed to engaging India in a "sustained and result-oriented dialogue". Responding to media reports regarding the Indian Supreme Court's judgment implicating Pakistani government agencies in the 1993 Mumbai bombings, Foreign Office spokesman Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry "categorically rejected any insinuations pointing to the involvement of the...
08:50 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The life imprisonment given to 17 of the 19 convicts in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case was on Thursday upheld by the Supreme Court, but the apex court freed one of them by reducing his sentence saying being an HIV positive patient, his was a "special circumstance". The life term awarded to three family members of one of the absconding main conspirators Tiger Memon was confirmed by the apex...
08:06 PM, Mar 21, 2013
A battered Bombay Stock Exchange was one of the most evocative images of the 1993 bomb blasts. Twenty years on, on the day of the verdict on Thursday, it was business at the stock exchange as usual. But for some, the wounds have still not healed. Kirti Ajmera, a stockbroker who underwent nearly 40 surgeries after being grievously injured in the blasts, says the Supreme Court's verdict has not brought...
07:37 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Ramchandra Karanjule, who founded a woman and child shelter home in Panvel, has been sentenced to death by the Mumbai sessions court for raping and killing mentally challenged girls. Five others, who helped Karanjule in carrying out the heinous crime, have also been convicted in the case with two of them getting life terms. ...
04:53 PM, Mar 21, 2013
The drought in Maharashtra is more a result of the states colossally corrupt and flawed water policy rather than simply monsoon failure, as experts say. But one village in Hiware Bazaar is showing just how a common-sense water policy goes a long way in mitigating acute water scarcity. ...
04:52 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Maharashtra is reeling under its worst drought in over four decades and the situation in Marathwada region is very severe. In Marathwada farmers had prepared their fields for sowing crops but due to lack of rains and water, all their hard work has been of no use. ...
03:37 PM, Mar 21, 2013
One of the MLAs involved in the policemen assault case in Maharashtra is expected to surrender at the Mumbai Crime Branch on Thursday. Five Maharashtra MLAs who beat up Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi on Tuesday were suspended till December 31. The incident took place outside the State Assembly on Tuesday. ...
10:53 AM, Mar 21, 2013
The Sessions court in Mumbai has fixed the hearing of the 2002 hit-and-run case against Bollywood actor Salman Khan on March 25, when he would have to remain present before the court. ...
09:33 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Supreme Court verdict on 1993 Mumbai blasts tomorrow will be keenly watched by Bollywood as fate of one of its superstars Sanjay Dutt, who was sentenced to six year jail term by a TADA court, will be decided. The apex court will pronounce its verdict on a bunch of appeals and cross-appeals filed by and against 100 people including Dutt who were convicted by the special TADA court in...
08:37 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its verdict in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 100 people were convicted out of which 12 were awarded death penalty and 20 were given life sentence by a TADA court. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan will also decide the appeal of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt challenging his conviction and six years imprisonment awarded to him for being in...
07:45 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Five MLAs have been suspended till December 31 by the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for assaulting a policeman in the Assembly building. Police has booked 16 MLAs for assault and is likely to make some arrests as well. ...
06:56 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The five Maharashtra MLAs who beat up Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi have been suspended till December 31. The incident took place outside the State Assembly on Tuesday. ...
03:39 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Tuesday night asked the Maharashtra government to take stern action against a group of legislators who beat up a police officer inside the Vidhan Bhavan, an incident that shocked the state. "I appeal to the Maharashtra government that those who are responsible for the offence should be dealt sternly as per law so that a message goes out that there is rule of law in...
12:18 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The Maharashtra Assembly witnessed some unruly scenes on Tuesday as four MLAs ganged up to beat up a policeman. The scuffle happened after one of the MLAs moved a 'breach of privilege' motion against the policeman, saying that he had prevented him from speeding on the road on Monday. ...
07:27 PM, Mar 19, 2013
Maharashtra Government is ready to hand over the probe into the deaths of the three minor sisters at Murmadi village in Bhandara district to the CBI if the family wishes so, the Legislative Council was informed here on Tuesday. This was announced by Home Minister RR Patil, while replying to a discussion. ...
05:20 PM, Mar 19, 2013
