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THANE: A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment for abducting a housewife and her child and extorting money from her husband seven years ago. In her order on Wednesday, additional sessions judge Rachna Tehra, in Maharashtra's Thane district, imposed a fine of Rs 500 on convict Manikandan Selvaraj Nadar, a resident of Diva.The court also acquitted another accused in...

BHUBANESWAR: The Railway Board has sanctioned a fund of Rs 14.7 crore for construction of subway near Nidhipanda bridge in Balasore district. It is an important bridge in Haldipada-Balasore section of Kharagpur-Bhadrak section.During a meeting on June 21, local people had urged railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, who was on a visit to the district, to construct a subway near Nidhipanda bridge (Bridge No...

MUMBAI: The IMD has issued a yellow alert for Mumbai starting September 14 onwards upto September 18, indicating heavy rains at isolated places while an orange alert (heavy to very heavy rains) for Thane and Palghar has been issued for September 17. The other days upto September 18 Thane and Palghar have been placed under yellow alert. Mumbai has been kept under a yellow alert of all days till early...

BHIWANDI: An FIR was registered against the 70-year-old owner of a building that collapsed last week in Bhiwandi, killing two people and injuring five others.The accused has been identified as Kanij Fatima Abdul Momin.The police registered an offence of negligence causing death in connection with the deaths.The Bhoiwada police, probing the case, said that Kanij in 1984 purchased the Gauripada-based room...

KOLKATA: A group of youths from Kolkata who used to scam Canadian nationals from a fake call centre in Lucknow were arrested on Tuesday during simultaneous raids in Lucknow and Kolkata by officers of Kolkata Police’s cyber-crime department acting on Interpol alerts sent from Canada through the National Central Bureau (NCB), India.Kolkata Police had registered a suo motu case based on enquiry into a...

CHENNAI: The Chennai police on Thursday arrested orator and former VHP leader RBVS Manian for his inflammatory speech on Ambedkar and Tiruvalluvar.Based on a complaint filed by a social activist, a police team led by T Nagar assistant commissioner of police Bharathiraja went to his house in Rajammal Street and arrested him.In his speech, Manian stated that Ambedkar had worked as a proofreader under the...

Driven by multiple factors like the presence of educational institutions, business hubs and consequent urban job opportunities, the demand for paying guest (PG) accommodations in India is on the rise, according to a report by MagicBricks.In the fiscal year 2022-23, the National Capital Region (NCR) had the highest share of both PG accommodations that were taken up, at 24%, and the supply of PG rental...

MUMBAI: A 15-year-old girl died by suicide by jumping off a seven-storey building in Mumbai's Malad on Saturday.Police said she had run away from home allegedly after her parents took away her phone to discourage her from spending long hours on social media.The girl was a class IX student. She lived in Malwani with her parents and sister. She was undergoing treatment from a psychiatrist for a mental...

A high-level meeting of MPCC's extended working committee will be held in Thane on Monday. AICC general secretary H K Patil will preside over the meeting and senior Congress leaders, including MPCC president Nana Patole, Congress legislature party leader Balasaheb Thorat, former CMs Ashok Chavan, Sushilkumar Shinde and Prithviraj Chavan, are expected to address the meeting. A senior Congress leader said...

KOLKATA: A bilateral air exercise between the Indian Air Force (IAF) and the United States Air Force (USAF) — Exercise Cope India 23 — is being held at Air Force stations in Panagarh (in West Bengal's Paschim Bardhaman district), Kalaikunda (in West Bengal's Paschim Medinipur district) and Agra in Uttar Pradesh from Monday.The exercise aims to enhance mutual understanding between the two Air Forces...