Thane

THANE: Thane residents seem to have given thumbs up to eco-friendly visarjan as a majority of the Bappa idols immersed on the fifth day of Ganeshotsav were done in artificial ponds, civic data reveals. As many as 11,536 or around 64% of the total 17,836 Ganpati and Gauri idols including 171 sarvajanik idols immersions were done at the 15 designated artificial ponds while 42 special tanks in the city saw...

KALYAN: Even as the death toll in the blast at a plant in Ulhasnagar rose to four with two missing persons - Ananta Jadhav alias Dingore (50) and Pavan Yadav (22) - being declared dead on Sunday, a criminal offence was registered against company officials and the tanker owner, stating that the vehicle was used despite being found "unfit".The explosion took place at the premises of Century Rayon on...

THANE: A 36-year-old man was arrested by the crime branch in connection with the murder of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) functionary Jamil Shaikh in 2020. This is the third arrest in the case. The accused identified as Habib Shaikh was arrested in the wee hours of Sunday, said a senior police official.Earlier, two accused identified as Shahid Shaikh and Irfan alias Sonu were arrested from Gorakhpur...

KALYAN: A tanker explosion in Century Rayon's Ulhasnagar plant has claimed the lives of two workers. Two others were reported missing till the time of filing this report late Saturday evening. While the rear portion of the tanker was completely destroyed in the blast, chunks of human flesh were found strewn around the site of the incident. The company said that it has initiated an internal investigation...

THANE: The Bhiwandi Crime Branch unit of the Thane Police has arrested a gang of four men involved in the theft of auto-rickshaws from Mumbai and Thane districts.The gang used to sell the autos in the interior regions of Maharashtra after altering their number plates. Law enforcement has successfully recovered 18 stolen auto-rickshaws from the accused.The arrested men have been identified as Rashid...

KALYAN: Three persons died while five others suffered injuries in major explosion occurred at Century Company, located in the Shahad area of Thane District's Ulhasnagar on Saturday.The injured people were transported to Century Hospital. The blast occurred at around 11.30am within one of Century Company's manufacturing units.Following the incident, other staff members from the company's unit rushed the...

THANE: A special recovery officer of the co-operative department accused of corruption has been acquitted by the special Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) court in Thane as the prosecution failed to prove charges against him. Hauserao Ramchandra Gawade was given the benefit of doubt by the Special Judge (ACB) Amit M Shete.According to the prosecution's case, in 2009, the complainant on her return from London...

THANE: A security guard has been in Thane district for allegedly assaulting an 82-year-old woman and stealing jewelry worth Rs 3.2 lakh. The incident occurred on September 19 in a housing society in Bhayandar town, and based on a tip-off, the police took Rajendra Bahadur Kumwar (42), a native of Nepal, into custody.According to deputy commissioner of police Zone I, Jayant Bajbale, an unknown individual...

THANE: Two armed robbers, including an externed criminal, were arrested after they sneaked inside a bar to steal cash, said the police on Thursday.A case was registered against Nagendra Maurya (30) and Manoj Gupta (23), under the relevant sections of the IPC. The duo, armed with a knife, entered the bar from its kitchen and stole Rs 4,000. The staff alerted the police, who rushed to the spot and caught...

THANE: Immersion rituals during Ganeshotsav continued to remain a noisy affair in Thane with sound levels during visarjan processions hitting 100 decibels (dB), anti-noise activist Dr Mahesh Bedekar said on Thursday.Dr Bedekar, who measured the noise levels in various parts of the city, said though the number of processions was lesser this year, the use of amplifiers and speaker walls caused the maximum...