Palghar (Maharashtra): In a post-midnight swoop, the Palghar Anti-Terrorist Cell and Anti Human Trafficking Unit nabbed 22 Bangladeshis living illegally, an official said here on Wednesday. Following a tip-off, teams of ATC and AHTU raided a temporary slum that had come up near Pardhiwadi, in Rajodi village of the picturesque coastal tourist spot of Arnala. […]
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Anger, anguish as Maha lecturer set afire by stalker dead
Nagpur: A wave of anguish and anger swept Maharashtra as 24-year old woman college lecturer, Ankita Pissude, who was set ablaze by a stalker seven days ago, succumbed to her burns at a private hospital here on Monday morning. Tension gripped Daroda village where the incident occurred on February 3 with some angry villagers resorting […]
After Wardha, Maharashtra woman set ablaze in Aurangabad
Aurangabad (Maharashtra): A 50-year-old woman was assaulted and set ablaze in her home by a beer bar owner in Andhari village of the district, an official said here on Wednesday. The victim was living alone at her home at around 11 p.m. on Tuesday when the accused, Santosh S. Mohite, barged into her home, said […]
Maharashtra woman lecturer critical after lover sets her afire
Wardha (Maharashtra): In a shocking incident, a jilted lover attempted to murder a young college lecturer by dousing her with petrol in full public view in Maharashtra’s Wardha, police said here on Monday. The incident happened this morning in Hinganghat town around 7 a.m. when the victim stepped out of a bus at Nanderi Chowk, […]
Man plays dead to save his life on being attacked by tiger
New Delhi: A video of a man getting attacked by a tiger and playing dead to save his life in Maharashtra has gone viral on social media. A video of the incident was recently shared by IFS officer Parveen Kaswan in which a man could be seen lying under a tiger, with their faces extremely close […]
Fadnavis denies phone-tapping charges of Maharashtra govt
Mumbai: A day after the Maharashtra government ordered a probe into allegations of phone -tapping by the previous Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, former Chief Minister and current Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis rubbished the charges, here on Friday. “It is not in our culture to tap the phones of political opponents in the state. This […]
ISI agent’s phone leads to Rajasthan, Maharashtra terror modules
Varanasi: The arrest of ISI agent M. Rashid from Chandauli district in Uttar Pradesh has led the investigators to several sleeping modules of terror outfits in Rajasthan and Mumbai. According to ATS officials who arrested Rashid on Sunday, his mobile phone has several WhatsApp groups and some of the numbers are apparently of the sleeping […]
Maharashtra: Teen commits suicide after sodomy, 14 nabbed
Chandrapur (Maharashtra): Fourteen persons, including a minor, have been arrested in connection with the suicide of an 18-year-old student, who hanged himself after being repeatedly sodomised, a top police official said here on Wednesday. The student, was studying in Class 12 and lived at the Sevadal Boys Hostel in Jivti, Marai Patan village in the […]
Ahead of CM’s meet, indefinite Shirdi shutdown called off
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra): Ahead of a meeting convened by Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday, residents of Shirdi town, famous for its grand Saibaba Temple, called off their indefinite shutdown late on Sunday. The call for an indefinite bandh was given earlier in the day following a row over the purported birthplace of its revered saint. […]
BJP loses RSS bastion Nagpur, four other Zilla Parishads
Nagpur (Maharashtra): The Congress-Nationalist Congress Party combine handed a humiliating defeat to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the elections to the prestigious Nagpur Zilla Parishad — the home turf of Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — officials said here on Wednesday. Besides Nagpur, the BJP was vanquished in Palghar, Nandurbar […]