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THANE: A 100-year-old woman was rescued after the slab of a ground-plus-one residential structure collapsed on Thursday afternoon in Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane district, a civic official said. The incident took place at 1:10pm in Rana Nivas in Padlekar Wadi, Thane Municipal Corporation regional disaster management cell chief Avinash Sawant told PTI."There are four rooms each on the ground floor and...

THANE: As many as five new check dams will be constructed along with repairing an existing one on the Yeoor natural nullah to tap rain water and divert it to Thane households, Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik said Wednesday.It is learnt that rain water conservation of this magnitude is one of its kind to be implemented within any city in the metropolitan region.The dams will retain several million litres of...

THANE: The Shiv Sena's (Eknath Shinde faction) youth wing on Tuesday filed an FIR against a rapper in Ambernath of Thane district for allegedly using objectionable and abusive remarks against the ruling Shiv Sena (Shinde) and BJP in the state.The FIR was filed by Snehal Kamble, a member of the Yuva Sena core committee at Shivaji Nagar police station.Raj Mungase, is a resident of Chhatrapati Sambhaji...

THANE: A 34-year-old man who brutally murdered his brother in 2018 and chopped his body into pieces was convicted by a court in Maharashtra on Wednesday and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Thane district and sessions court judge Rachna Tehra also imposed a fine of Rs 7,000 on the convict, Simon Patrav.The judge noted that the prosecution has proved all the charges against the accused and he needs to...

KALYAN: The police have arrested one out of the two employees who stole Rs 45 lakh cash given by a jeweller to deposit in a bank in Kalyan. The main accused fled to Rajasthan from where police have arrested his associate involved in the crime, while the former is still at large. The arrested accused has been identified as Jagdish Devashi. The duo worked at the Shanklesha jwellery shop situated in Kalyan...

THANE: A fresh political slugfest began in the state after Uddhav Thackeray alleged that a 35-year-old woman activist of Shiv Sena (UBT) was assaulted by over 20 supporters of CM Eknath Shinde, including former corporators, Monday evening for putting up an "objectionable" post on social media against Shinde.The CM-led Shiv Sena denied the attack and said their activists had only "peacefully advised" her...

THANE: A video has gone viral showing an unidentified suburban railway commuter being thrashed by fellow passengers at Diva station in Thane. Police said the incident occurred late Monday evening and are now trying to locate the victim before registering a complaint.It is learnt that the incident was reported when the 7.10pm Karjat local pulled into platform number 3 at Diva. Few commuters who probably...

PALGHAR: Police in Palghar district averted potential mob violence against two 'sadhus' (ascetics) in a village after the residents mistook them as child lifters, nearly three years after three persons were lynched in the district over similar suspicion, an official said on Tuesday. Palghar rural superintendent of police Balasaheb Patil said two men were spotted at Chandranagar village, within the...

THANE: A decade after Adarsh Tower inside Lucky Compound in Shil-Daighar near Mumbra crashed like a pack of cards, claiming 74 lives and maiming 62 others on April 4, 2013, trial in the unauthorised construction is moving at a snail's pace with only 56 of the over 400 witnesses being examined so far. For those who survived, getting justice seems to be taking longer than expected. The prosecution,...

THANE: Chief minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday said that he along with other Shiv Sena leaders will visit Ayodhya on April 9 and offer prayers at the temple there.Shinde said they plan to construct a Maharashtra Sadan in Uttar Pradesh.While addressing the media, at the Anand Ashram, the place where he grew politically under the guidance of his mentor Anand Dighe, the CM said that he will also perform...