Mumbai: South African cricket player Wayne Parnell who was a wanted accused in the Juhu 'rave party' case, on Monday surrendered before a local court and was immediately granted bail for Rs 10,000. He had earlier been shown as a wanted accused in the chargesheet of the case. Parnell hadn't joined his IPL team Pune Warriors yet but he should be able to do so after his bail on Monday....
11:00 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Maharahstra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar was forced to apologise for his callous comment asking whether he should urinate to provide water in dams at a rally in the drought-hit state. ...
10:29 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: The Congress in Maharashtra on Monday asked its workers to gear up for Lok Sabha polls, amid speculations that the general elections will be held in November 2013. Addressing a meeting of the party's Mumbai unit where he handed over the charge of party's affairs in the metropolis to Janardhan Chandurkar, state Congress chief Manikrao Thakre said all party workers in Mumbai should start preparing for the Lok Sabha...
10:25 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Bhopal: Claiming that Madhya Pradesh was "ahead of Gujarat" in development, BJP Vice President Uma Bharti on Monday said the party would add to its tally in this year's assembly elections under leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. In the past, Bharti had bitterly resented elevation of Chouhan as Chief Minister and had left the party in a huff eight years ago. Bharti and other newly-appointed members of BJP's...
10:18 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Thane: Arrested Thane Municipal Corporation Deputy Municipal Commissioner Deepak Chavan's counsel told a special court hearing the police remand application on Monday, that his appointment was not for carrying out demolition work at all. The statement by his counsel Rajan Salunke stunned those present in the chamber of special judge KR Warrier, who remanded all the nine arrested in connection with the recent building crash to police custody upto April...
09:24 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: Maharshatra Assembly witnessed an uproar on Monday over last week's horrific building collapse in Thane. Shiv Sena MLAs demanded the arrest of Thane Municipal Commissioner RA Rajeev. Seventy four people have died and more than 60 were injured after a seven-storey building collapsed in Mumbra last week. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation,...
02:08 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: One person died and eight others were injured when a pipeline burst in a suburb area near Thane. The pipeline burst took place underneath the Sanjeevani society building they were living in. The incident occurred in Govandi suburb, north-east Mumbai, around 3:30 am, when a 24-inch water mainline suddenly burst and thousands of litres of water gushed into Sanjivani building. People sleeping on the ground floor of the building...
12:16 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's resignation for his 'urine' remark on the drought in the state. The BJP's women wing will hold a protest in Mumbai on Monday. At a rally on Sunday, Ajit Pawar said, "Somebody is there on a fast for 55 days now. His name is some Deshmukh. He is asking us to release water from dams. How...
10:24 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: There has been an uproar over Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's statements at a rally where he tried to joke about someone on a fast in the drought-hit state asking 'how to release water from dams, by urinating?' He has been forced to apologise. This was Pawar's question to drought stricken farmers, "Somebody is there on a fast for 55 days now. His name is some Deshmukh. He...
08:59 AM, Apr 08, 2013
74 people died and over 60 were injured in Maharashtra's worst building collapse. Three days after the mishap, nine people including the local NCP corporator Hira Patil and the two builders were arrested but can authorities ensure that such mishaps won't repeat in the city. ...
11:32 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Indapur: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar has apologised for his 'urine' remark and said the government was committed to provide relief to people in the drought-affected regions of the state. "I humbly apologise to the people of Maharashtra for having hurt their sentiments. The state govt is committed to providing every kind of relief for drought-affected regions," he said. The minister had, earlier...
09:57 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Nagpur: Former BJP national president Nitin Gadkari has equated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with one of the three monkey's of Mahatma Gandhi. On the occasion of party's foundation day, Gadkari on Saturday quoted an SMS received on his cell phone saying Gandhiji had asked Chitragupta from his heavenly abode as to how his three monkeys were doing on earth. Gadkari said the blindfolded monkey is like the blind law in...
08:40 PM, Apr 07, 2013
"The comment has no humour in it," said party spokesperson Shaina NC. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has also reacted to Pawar's comment and has sought his resignation. ...
08:07 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) came out in defence of its party leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who has sparked a controversy with his "urine" remark while speaking about the drought situation in the state. The NCP spokesperson claimed that Pawar's statement was a "sarcastic" remark and has been "blown out of proportion". "The whole comment has been blown out of proportion and linked in an...
07:34 PM, Apr 07, 2013
A recent print commercial by the home loan arm of an Indian multinational highlights why we all buy homes - to build memories, to have ...
06:05 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Thane: Two days after 72 people died and over 60 were injured in Maharashtra's worst building collapse in a decade, the police on Saturday arrested two builders, Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, of the illegal building. While one of them was arrested from Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, the other was arrested in Thane by the Thane Crime Branch. Earlier in the day, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) completed its...
05:14 PM, Apr 06, 2013
In one of Maharashtra's worst building collapses in a decade, 58 people have died and 61 have been injured after a seven-storeyed building in Laxmi Compound in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane, crashed down like a pack of cards into a heap of rubble on Thursday evening. However, even after a day, authorities are struggling with rescue operations. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Thane: In one of Maharashtra's worst building collapses in a decade, 58 people have died and 61 have been injured after a seven-storeyed building in Laxmi Compound in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane, crashed down like a pack of cards into a heap of rubble on Thursday evening. However, even after a day, authorities are struggling with rescue operations. A population spurt in the Mumbra-Kalwa belt in Thane district has...
07:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Amidst scathing criticism of corruption and negligence, the Maharashtra government on Friday assured a probe by the Additional Chief Secretary into the Thane building collapse and also suspended the deputy commissioner of the municipality. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan further told the state assembly that if the building was found constructed on forest land, action would be taken against the Range Forest Officer and also against police officers if...
06:42 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Thane: The Tarapur Atomic Power Station, located in Thane barely 15o km from Mumbai, is the first atomic power project of India. While the government has been promoting and building more nuclear power plants, the Tarapur Atomic Power Station has allegedly become a reason for deaths of villagers where it is located. Ghivli village is situated very close to the atomic power station and its residents allege that incidents of...
05:48 PM, Apr 05, 2013
