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
Mumbai: Maharashtra's Vidarbha region has seen 168 farmer suicides in the first three months of this 2013. Made up of 11 districts, Vidarbha is home to two-thirds of the state's mineral resources and three-quarters of its forest resources. But poverty and malnutrition and endemic. "According to police reports, 168 farmer suicides have been registered till March 31 this year," said Kishor Tiwari, president of the Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti, a...
05:35 AM, Apr 22, 2013
Pune: A 22-year-old mentally challenged woman was raped allegedly by a ward boy at a nursing home whose doctors have been arrested on charge of trying to bribe the survivor's family to hush up the matter. The incident occurred at Walhekarwadi in Chinchwad town near Pune on April 16 in the nursing home run by Dr Vishal Sonawane (34) and his wife Dr Varsha (31) where the victim was undergoing...
10:54 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Thane: As many as 21 accused, including builders and officers of Thane Municipal Corporation, arrested in connection with the collapse of an illegal building at Mumbra, were on Thursday remanded in judicial custody till May 3. Seventy-four people were killed and scores injured when the unauthorised under-construction building located in Lucky Compound in the Thane district suburb near Shil Phata, crumbled on April 4. The accused, including three co-owners of...
08:43 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Social activist Medha Patkar is alleging fresh evidence in the Maharashtra Irrigation Scam. She has alleged Income Tax raids at the Mahalakshmi Infraprojects Limited uncovered proof of kickbacks being paid to the tune of Rs 44 crore. ...
09:26 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Mumbai: Social activist Medha Patkar has claimed to have fresh evidence in the Maharashtra Irrigation Scam. She has alleged that Income Tax raids at the Mahalakshmi Infraprojects Limited uncovered proof of kickbacks being paid to the tune of Rs 44 crore. The Income tax assessment report cites documents showing unexplained payments made to people represented by acronyms. Patkar has alleged the acronyms refer to top leaders like Deputy Chief Minister...
10:50 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Mumbai: Five people were injured after a speeding Audi car rammed into a police barricade near Marine Drive in Mumbai. Four of the injured are policemen. The driver of the car has been arrested. His blood samples have been collected and sent for testing. "Four policemen and one civilian were injured in the accident. The driver has been arrested. We have collected his blood sample and sent it for testing,"...
08:30 AM, Apr 19, 2013
In the 1970s, Marathi cinema threw up a comedian in Dada Kondke who went on to create history by churning out the maximum number of ...
12:17 AM, Apr 19, 2013
Mumbai: Describing the next two months as a very difficult period for the drought-affected areas of Maharashtra, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said the state government was making all efforts to ensure adequate water supply to the affected areas. "Our water tankers will reach all villages and hamlets facing water scarcity," Chavan told reporters at Vidhan Bhavan. "The next two months are going to be a very difficult period...
10:59 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: The CAG report on irrigation projects was tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly on Thursday. The CAG slammed the Maharashtra government over incomplete irrigation projects, saying it has led to cost overruns of around Rs 27,000 crore in a finding that could raise questions on the role of NCP and its leader Ajit Pawar. The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, which presented its report for the year ending March...
04:31 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Mumbai: The committee of legislators probing the attack on API Sachin Suryavanshi in the Maharashtra Assembly premises has held two MLAs, Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam, guilty. The committee in its report has given the benefit of the doubt to the other three MLAs citing inconclusive CCTV evidence and has recommended that the Speaker revokes their suspension. The report also recommends that the suspension period of Thakur and Kadam be...
01:59 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Thane: A bandh called by major political parties in Thane against ongoing demolition of illegal structures without providing alternate accommodation to the occupants began with some persons damaging at least 12 buses in the wee hours on Thursday, police said. Parties, including the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Shiv Sena, gave call to the dawn-to-dusk shutdown against the razing of illegal buildings by Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC)...
12:48 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Aurangabad: Hours after senior NCP leader Abdul Qadeer Maulana's 17-year-old son was arrested on Wednesday after the SUV car he was driving hit two minor girls and their uncle, killing the youngest girl on the spot, Aurangabad Police Commissioner said the ownership of the SUV is in dispute. "The vehicle has been registered in the name of a person from Jalna and HDFC loan account says the vehicle has been...
08:31 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: No conclusive CCTV evidence has been found against three of the five MLAs accused of beating up a policeman inside the Maharashtra Assembly. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the probe report, which is likely to be tabled in the Assembly on Thursday, finds two MLAs Kshitij Thakur and Ram Kadam guilty. But the report finds no evidence against the other three, who too were suspended by the Speaker. The...
02:59 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: After Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, another state minister is in trouble after he was caught on camera hurling abuse at students. Minister of State for Medical Education Vijaykumar Gavit used some choice words at a group of 25 dental college students. The Akola students were seeking permission to sit for their exams in another college after their institution was derecognised. The video shows the minister yelling at...
09:43 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Mumbai: A Maharashtra government-appointed committee, which probed the assault on a traffic police officer by a group of legislators inside the assembly premises in Mumbai last month, on Tuesday submitted its report to the Speaker. The committee, headed by Ganpatrao Deshmukh, a veteran MLA of Peasants and Workers Party (PWP), comprised the entire panel of presiding officers belonging to different parties. The seven-member panel submitted its report to Assembly Speaker...
11:51 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: A Samajwadi Party activist, who lost the last civic body election, was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly molesting a woman and rioting in suburban Andheri, police said. Arif Khan, the Samajwadi party candidate from Andheri in the last civic body elections in Mumbai, was arrested after his anticipatory bail was rejected by the Sessions Court in a case where he was charged for molestation and rioting among others, police...
06:58 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: A police officer who went missing on Saturday was found trapped in a lift, which went out of service, for over 40 hours at his office building in south Mumbai. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in a weak and delirious state. Inspector Suresh Sonawane (46), an officer with Mumbai Police's Missing Persons Bureau, was found in the lift on Monday when technicians opened it for repairs at...
05:02 PM, Apr 16, 2013
