Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan inaugurated on Wednesday the first trial run of Mumbai's ambitious mass transit project, the Mumbai Metro. The trial run took place on the the first phase of the metro covering a 2 km stretch between Versova and Azad Nagar in Adheri. This was a part of the 11.4 kilometre long line on the Versova-Adheri-Ghatkopar corridor. The line will connect the eastern and the western...
11:25 AM, May 01, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has refused to give a clean chit to senior politicians who are accused of taking kickbacks in major projects. He has taken a strong stand on the issue saying the probe should reach its logical conclusion. He was speaking to CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair. Below is the transcript of an excerpt from the interview: Smitha Nair: Some now believe that you were fearful of losing...
09:08 AM, May 01, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has refused to give a clean chit to senior politicians who are accused of taking kickbacks in major projects. He has taken a strong stand on the issue saying the probe should reach its logical conclusion. He was speaking to CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair. Below is the transcript of an excerpt from the interview: Smitha Nair: Some now believe that you were fearful of losing...
09:04 AM, May 01, 2013
Nagpur: The mother of the five-year-old girl, who died after being brutally raped at Ghansaur town in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh, on Tuesday said the accused should be given a "harsh punishment" so that no one in future dares to carry out such a heinous act. "The rape accused deserves harsh punishment and should be burnt to death publicly," said the emotionally choked mother of the deceased girl to...
02:10 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan was on Monday exempted from appearance in the 2002 hit-and-run case by a sessions court following request by his counsel Ashok Mundargi. Sessions judge UB Hejib adjourned the matter to May 8, 2013. On that day, the court would also hear the 47-year-old actor's appeal against the order of the magistrate invoking charge of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' (section 304 part II IPC) in...
01:24 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Thane (Maha): A 19-year-old youth was arrested for allegedly raping his 14-year-old sister, who is reportedly seven months pregnant, police said on Monday. The accused raped the girl around a year ago and repeatedly thereafter, police said. The matter came to light, when the 14-year-old girl was rushed to a hospital in Kalwa after she started feeling uneasy and vomited, they said. "Doctors who examined the girl concluded that she...
11:40 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Yavatmal (Maha): A 50-year-old journalist of a local vernacular daily was arrested for his alleged attempt to rape a six-year-old girl here, police said on Monday. The accused, Pradeep Laxman Deshmukh, was caught on Sunday by a youth from an isolated spot near Arni state transport bus stand while he was trying to rape the girl studying in first standard. The journalist was handed over to police by the youth...
09:36 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Salman Khan's plea in the 2002 hit-and-run case is up for a hearing at the Sessions Court in Mumbai. His petition challenging the Magistrate court's order which said there is enough evidence against the actor will come up for hearing on Monday. In September 2002, Salman's SUV had run over people sleeping on a pavement in suburban Bandra, killing one and seriously injuring four others. ...
01:42 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: There seems to be partial relief for the residents of the Campa Cola Compound in Mumbai. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has now postponed the demolition to May 2. The BMC has granted the residents of Worli's Campa Cola compound a 3-day extension. The BMC had issued eviction notices to around 200 families after a Supreme Court judgement stated that around 35 floors in the compound were unauthorised and illegal....
10:54 AM, Apr 29, 2013
Mumbai: A 79-year-old widow has gathered support of over 2,400 followers from India and abroad on a social networking website for her legal battle against Maharashtra Police officials over her "illegal arrest". Mohini Kamwani, along with her 58-year-old son Dilip, have been seeking support on social networking website Facebook, claiming they were illegally arrested by police in 2012. The mother-son duo were arrested on January 25, 2012 for threatening to...
05:40 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued eviction notices to around 200 families in Worli's posh Campa Cola Compound after a landmark Supreme Court judgement. The residents are preparing to face the demolition squads starting Monday that will raze all illegal floors in the cluster of buildings. While the BMC claims the apex court's judgement will give more teeth to its drive against illegal constructions, the ruling is set...
08:51 AM, Apr 28, 2013
Mumbai: There may be embarrassment for the Maharashtra Anti-Terror Squad in the 7/11 train serial blasts trial. The phone records of four alleged bombers have shown that they were not at the blast site when the bombs were planted. The ATS had arrested five alleged bomb planters in connection with the case and had claimed that they along with seven wanted Pakistani men had planted bombs at the Churchgate station...
01:18 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Mumbai: A 13-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped in a house in suburban Vakola by four youths, who were arrested on Friday, along with the survivor's female friend for her alleged role in the crime, police said. The accused Melwin D'Souza (22), Sachin Yadav (22), Bipin Singh (22), Venkatesh Naidu (20) and a 16-year-old girl, who is friend of the survivor, were booked for abduction and gangrape among other IPC sections,...
10:33 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Nagpur: Even as a young rape survivor is battling for her life in a Nagpur hospital, another little girl's mysterious death still continues to haunt her family. Seven-year-old Yogita Thakre was found dead in former BJP president Nitin Gadkari's compound four years ago. "We haven't got justice even after so much has taken place. Whoever has committed this heinous crime should be punished," said Yogita's sister. Her family says they...
09:27 AM, Apr 26, 2013
Mumbai: Observing that there was enough evidence to nail the guilty, the Bombay High Court has upheld the life imprisonment awarded to a Pune resident for raping and killing his minor niece eight years ago. A Pune sessions court had awarded life imprisonment to Bhiva Chapte on two separate counts of rape and murder of the girl. He was also handed down 7-year jail term for causing disappearance of evidence....
11:31 AM, Apr 25, 2013
Thane: With the arrest of a Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation on Wednesday night, the number of arrests in connection with the building collapse in Mumbra area has gone up to 22. DMC Srikant Sarmokdam, whose name was found in the diary of the builder (already arrested), was taken into custody, the police said. The police had deferred arresting him because of a death in his family. Sarmokdam...
10:11 PM, Apr 24, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday directed the resident doctors of state-run hospitals to call off their strike immediately. Doctors affiliated to Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) are on strike over several demands including increase in stipend. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice MS Sanklecha said Maharashtra government had taken effective steps to resolve the doctors' grievances. The bench was hearing a public interest...
08:17 PM, Apr 24, 2013
New Delhi: In yet another shocking incident of crime against children, a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her teenaged maternal uncle at Rahatekarwadi in Nagpur. The minor's mother lodged a complaint against her 16-year-old cousin for allegedly raping her daughter. She claims that her daughter was repeatedly raped between March 30 and April 17. The police have arrested the accused. This is the fifth case of rape which has...
10:17 AM, Apr 23, 2013
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court is likely to hear a plea on Monday seeking a CBI probe into the assault of sub inspector Sachin Suryavanshi. Suryavanshi was allegedly assaulted by a group of MLAs at the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on March 19, 2013. Manhile, the committee of legislators probing the attack on Suryavanshi on April 18 held two MLAs, Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam, guilty. The committee in its report...
10:18 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Mumbai: The oft-heard boarding announcements that would alert passengers at airports about the departure of their flights, is now a thing of the past at Mumbai's domestic airport. Departing private airline passengers at the airport will now have to rely on large display screens put up throughout the airport to find out the status of their flights. It's all a part of the airport's effort to cut noise pollution. A...
09:38 AM, Apr 22, 2013
