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Indian Navy’s Unmanned Air Vehicle crashes in Gujarat

Mumbai : An Indian Navys Remotely Piloted Unmanned Air Vehicle Heron operating from Porbandar in Gujarat crashed close to an airbase on Thursday morning, an official spokesperson said here. The incident, the cause for which is not known, happened shortly after it took off around 10 a.m. No casualties were reported. According to preliminary information, […]

Agitation paralysing Mumbai suburban services withdrawn

Mumbai :  An agitation by railway job-seekers that paralysed the Central Railway (CR) suburban train services here for over three hours on Tuesday has been withdrawn. The agitation demanding railway apprentices’ recruitment resulted in a major rail blockade, police caning and retaliatory stone-throwing. The morning peak hour suburban and long-distance train services were severely disrupted […]

Shiv Sena non-committal on TDP’s no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha

Mumbai :  Maintaining suspense, the Shiv Sena – a NDA constituent and oldest ally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – remained non-committal on the Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) proposed no-confidence motion against the Narendra Modi government in the Lok Sabha. While Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray has chosen to keep mum on the political developments […]

Container ship fire: 3 charred bodies found on board

Mumbai :  Three unidentified charred bodies were found on board the container ship Maersk Honam which had caught fire on March 6 in the Arabian Sea near the Agatti Isles, an official said here on Wednesday. “Maersk has informed that three bodies (out of the four missing persons including an Indian), have now been found […]

Maharashtra to withdraw cases against Bhima-Koregaon rioters

Mumbai : The Maharashtra government plans to withdraw cases against the accused in the January 1 Bhima-Koregaon caste riots in Pune which had left one dead, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced in the assembly on Tuesday. He also said that the state government will give compensation to the people who suffered losses during the rioting. […]

Farmers’ Long March: Sharad Pawar, Anna Hazare flay BJP

Mumbai/Ahmednagar :  Former union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and social crusader Anna Hazare on Monday strongly criticized the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Centre and in Maharashtra for letting down the farmers. Speaking to the media in Mumbai and Ralegan-Siddhi (Ahmednagar), the two senior leaders asked why over 30,000 farmers were compelled to […]