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Thane: The Mumbra police on Thursday said they have registered an FIR against controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati on a complaint alleging he has hurt religious feelings of a community with his comments on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Saraswati, head of the Dasna Devi temple at Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, was booked under IPC sections 153A (promoting enmity between different groups), 295A...

KALYAN: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Yuva Morcha Kalyan district president Vaibhav Gaikwad on Thursday appealed to all party leaders not to put banners and posters on the beautified street lights in the city that falls under Maharashtra's Thane district.Under the Smart City Project in the twin cities of Kalyan-Dombivli, electric poles at chowks and dividers have been beautified with beautiful lights but...

ULHASNAGAR: Two teenagers, one of them a minor, died after the car the two collegians were in had an accident in Ambernath late Tuesday evening. The younger teen, Manav Tharwani (17), was at the wheel, the police said, adding that he had gone for a late-night drive with his friend Kushal Thawani (18). Manav's parents have claimed that they were not aware that their son had taken the car, the police...

KALYAN: In a move aimed at bolstering the Shiv Sena's (UBT) presence across Maharashtra, party chief Uddhav Thackeray recently appointed several individuals to key leadership roles. Notably, Vijay Salvi from Kalyan was designated as the deputy leader in the party. However, amidst these changes, Sadanand Tharwal, the Kalyan Lok Sabha district president, tendered his resignation from the party post, which...

THANE: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies have joined the MNS agitation over toll waiver agitation for Thane residents.Addressing a joint press conference on Tuesday, the allies demanded that the toll should be waived for those having their vehicles with the MH-04 and MH-05 passes.One of the MVA leaders said that Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde had agitated against the toll waiver in the...

BHIWANDI: Police on Tuesday arrested four of the seven accused of the gang rape of a 16-year-old in Bhiwandi earlier this month while a hunt is on for the other three who are on the run. The main accused is the girl's boyfriend who had also recorded a video of the crime which he shared with his friends on a WhatsApp group.The accused are aged between 20 and 30 and most are school dropouts who do odd...

THANE: The BJP will reach out to over three lakh households in the city and ensure the Thane Lok Sabha seat is won and it contributes towards anointing Narendra Modi as the prime minister for the third time, party state chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said.Bawankule was interacting with the media following a mega voter-approach initiative in Thane ciry- considered as the fiefdom of chief minister Eknath...

MUMBAI: An integrated metro car shed for Metro Lines 4, 4a, 10 and 11 will come up on a 435-acre plot (174 hectares) at Mogarpada in Thane as also the coastal road. The estimated cost of the four metro routes is Rs 28,700 crore.With this allotment, the state government has provided land for car shed for nearly 11 metro routes except 7 and 7A. Metro Line 8 (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International...

THANE: A notorious criminal with a criminal record in Uttar Pradesh, who had a reward of Rs 50,000 for his capture, was apprehended in a collaborative operation involving the Navi Mumbai Police and the Special Task Force unit in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, it was reported.The 23-year-old individual known as Haris, also recognized as Chhotu Abdul Aziz, had managed to evade authorities in Uttar Pradesh for...

THANE: An armourer in the Quick Response Team (QRT) of the Mumbai police was arrested for alleged involvement in a firing incident in Padgha in Thane's Bhiwandi area in which two persons were injured, a senior police official said on Sunday. Motorcycle-borne cousins Aziz Sayyed and Firoze Sheikh were shot at and injured near Mainde village on October 13 by a masked man who fled from the scene after the...