Category: Maharashra

Maharashtra is converting 42 state-of-the-art cyber crime labs into cyber police stations, as part of the BJP—led government’s strategy to take on cyber criminals. “Maharashtra is the first state in the country which will have a cyber police station in each district simultaneously,” a top Home Department official toldPTI. Cyber crime in Maharashtra has risen by a whopping 142.1 per […]

The Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested seven persons in connection with the gang-rape of a 28-year-old woman in Amboli in western Mumbai. According to police officials, the incident occurred between late Monday night and early Tuesday morning in a slum in Jogeshwari. “The victim and her husband were looking for a house in a slum in the locality with the […]

Classical dancer Ashwini Ekbote died on Saturday night after collapsing on stage during a performance in Pune, police said. The 44-year-old, who had also acted in several plays, was performing at the Bharat Natyamandir in Pune this evening when she collapsed on stage, a police official said. She was taken to a nearby hospital where she was declared dead, the […]

Two persons were killed in a fire that broke out in a residential society in Cuffe Parade early on Tuesday morning. According to officials, the fire broke out on the 20th floor of the Maker Towers and was reported to them at 6:31 a.m. on Tuesday. Fire tenders from Colaba were rushed to the spot and they reached the building […]

At least four children, two boys and two girls, were killed and five others injured when a five-storey building collapsed in suburban Bandra on Thursday afternoon, fire brigade sources said here. The building is located on Anant Kanekar Marg, Behrampada, near National School in Bandra East. The injured have been admitted to hospital, sources said, adding that the operation to […]

Well-known Indian socialite and philanthropist Parmeshwar Godrej, wife of Godrej Group Chairman Adi Godrej, passed away here on Monday night, official sources said on Tuesday. She breathed her last at the Breach Candy Hospital where she was admitted recently. No further details were available. Besides Adi, Parmeshwar, a former air hostess with Air India, is survived by three children — […]