Political parties, Shiv Sena and NCP, call for a bandh in Mumbai following the demolition drive to remove illegal and unsafe buildings in the city. To ensure that the bandh is a success, the party leaders have already started damaging buses and autos.
For the residents of Thane's Mumbra area, it's a double blow: duped of their hard-earned money and now forcefully thrown out of their homes. A week after the tragic building collapse, the Thane municipality has cut of water and electricity supply in the area a...
People who were duped into purchasing the illegally constructed buildings in Thane are now troubled by Thane Municipal Corporation that has cut the power and water supply to these buildings. The residents have been served notices to evacuate the buildings whic...
The Thane building collapse which claimed the lives of 74 people could have been averted had the authorities heeded to the warning by a forest official. The forest official claim that he had alerted the authorities about the illegal constructions which were co...
Although nine people have been arrested in connection with the Thane building collapse which claimed the lives of 74 people, none of the nabbed have been charged for murder. It has been established beyond doubt that bribes were paid for constructing the buildi...
Thane police commissioner addresses media over the building collapse which claimed the lives of over 70 people. He says that investigation into the various aspects of this tragedy are underway and the guilty will soon be brought to book. He reveals that the bu...
Jabbar Patel, eighth accused in the Thane building collapse case has been arrested. He is slapped with culpable homicide not amounting to murder among several other charges. Seven accused have already been arrested by crime branch. All the accused are set to b...
Five people have been detained by crime branch in connection with the Thane building collapse which claimed over 70 lives. Deep rooted corruption is said to be the cause for this disaster as the building was illegal and the material used was of inferior qualit...
Thane building collapse | The National Disaster Response Force and local authorities have announced that the rescue operations in the worst civic tragedy in a decade has come to an end. The search and rescue operation, which began on Thursday when a seven-stor...
Thane building collapse | Thane police crime branch raids the residence of one of the partners of the ill-fated structure's builders. The builders are still absconding, while the rescue operations have ended, with the final death toll at 72.
The police is on the lookout for the builder, Jamil Quereshi, who has been absconding since the seven-storey under-construction structure collapsed on Thursday. The death toll in the worst civic disaster in the past ten years has risen to 63, even as the rescu...
Newshour | An illegal building collapses, killing 50 and injuring several more. The rescue operation team claim that there could be more bodies trapped under the debris. Why did this happen? Was it municipal negligence? Will sacking the deputy commissioner hel...
The commissioner of the Thane municipal body says that there was no prior information given about this illegal building, which collapsed. The death toll has risen to 49 and more people are expected to be still stuck under the debris.
R Rajeev, the municipal commissioner of Thane, says that that there was no prior information given about this illegal building, which collapsed. He says that it is wrong to point fingers as several demolition drives have been undertaken by the municipal bodies...
An illegal building collapses, killing 45 and injuring several more in Thane. The rescue operation team claim that there could be more bodies trapped under the debris. The builders are absconding ever since and a manhunt has been launched. Will the deaths chan...
The Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan orders a probe into the building collapse that claimed 49 lives. He says that the additional chief secretary will be in-charge of the probe, and also adds that the deputy municipal commissioner has been sacked for criminal ...
The blame game continues in the Thane building collapse case, as the forest department now passes the buck. The department says that the land on which the building was constructed does not come under their purview. The death toll has risen to 49 and more peopl...
Nearly 24 hours after an illegal under-construction building in Thane, near Mumbai collapsed, rescue operations are still underway. The death toll is now at 42, even as the authorities fear there may be more people trapped under the rubble. Search teams say th...
Over 42 bodies have been recovered from a under construction building in Thane. The rescue operations say that there could be more people stuck beneath the debris. More than 60 have also been injured in the accident. The police are on the lookout for the build...
The death toll in the Mumbai building collapse rises to 33. The building collapsed last night and the rescue operations are still on. According to rescue officials there might be more people still stuck under the rubble. The police have registered a complaint ...
The death toll in the Mumbai building collapse rises to 30 and according to rescue officials there might be more people still stuck under the rubble. Questions regarding the building collapse have started doing the rounds. The Mumbai police have registered a c...
A seven-floor building collapsed in Thane, Mumbai, killing 29 people and injuring over 40 people. Rescue workers immediately rushed to save as many people as they can and reports suggest that there may be many more stuck under the rubble.
At least 28 people have been killed and over 50 injured in the building collapse in Thane, near Mumbai. Rescue teams have been going through the debris to look for people trapped inside. Survivors allege that the builder had been in a hurry to finish construct...
Survivors of the seven-storey building collapse in Thane, near Mumbai, allege that the builder was in a tearing hurry to finish construction of the seven-storey building. They even accuse him of using sub-standard materials for the construction. At least 28 pe...
The death toll has risen to 28 in the Mumbai seven-storey building collapse. Rescue operations, which began last night, are still on. According to authorities, there are chances that more people could still be under the rubble. The police have registered a cas...
An eight-storey building collapsed in Mumbai killing 26 people. According to rescue officials there are still more people caught under the debris. Rescue operations, which began last evening, continue, According to eye-witnesses the building came up in record ...
An illegal building collapses in Thane, near Mumbai, killing 26 people and injuring over 60. Rescue operations began last night and are still on. According to eye-witnesses, at the time of the collapse, there were mainly women and children inside the building....
At the outskirts of Thane, a building has collapsed injuring at least 24. No casualities have been reported as yet. About 17 people have been pulled out and several are still trapped under the debris. Rescue team has reached the spot.
Criminal red tapism, which delayed the purchase of equipment in KEM hospital in Mumbai, has jeopardized the lives of several children who were awaiting crucial heart surgery. Over 150 children have lost their lives owing to this delay. Here is another heartren...
The recent medical update in the Delhi gangrape victim is that she is stable but critical. Dr Thane, the Medical Superintendent at the Safdurjung Hospital, said that the next 10 days will be extremely critical for the girl. As of now her respiratory rate, puls...
A newly wed couple leaped from a four-storey building in Thane, where the husband survived. According to the police, Hardware Engineer Swapnil Chandrakant Nikte, suffered serious injures and has been admitted in the Thane's Civil hospital, but his wife Sai, di...
In two incidents of violence against elderly women in Mumbai, a 55-year-old woman was robbed and killed in Versova. In Thane, a son murdered his 80-year-old mother and buried her in their house.
The low pressure trough over the Bay of Bengal runs the risk of turning into a depression and coastal areas like Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, have been put on a high alert. Cuddalore, still reeling under the aftermath of the Thane cyclone, cannot withstand another n...
Still suffering the aftermaths of the Thane cyclone, the Cuddalore district, in Tamil Nadu, has not been very happy at the prospects of heavy rains. The North East monsoons have brought abundant rains in the State, but the district is still struggling to repai...
She is a 20-year-old girl, around five feet tall. And he is 32-year-old, not too tall, just around 1.5 feet. But it was love at first sight for Amina of Thane. She decided Ibrahim Tambe was the man who was going to be the love of her life, and be her husband. ...
In today's top news: Former Haryana minister Gopal Kanda surrenders before police and his brother Govind Kanda says he is innocent; police arrest people who attacked Northeast Indians in Bangalore; Northeast Indians flee Mumbai -- 2000 are headed back to Guwha...
You won't get to see stars like Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan dance in the public with full masti like they did at two separate events in Mumbai. Akshay danced to 'Rowdy Rathore' steps, and Hrithik danced to his iconic steps from 'Dhoom'. Others like Emraan ...
Watch snippets of Sri Krishna Janmashtami celebrations across Mumbai, Shirdi, Varanasi, Mathura, Delhi and Thane, with even a public lavani performance at a location in Thane.
India celebrates the memory of the birth of Krishna. The Janmashtami celebrations have begun with much pomp and splendour across India. People have flocked to temples and have decorated their homes on this auspicious occasion. Dahi Handi celebrations have begu...
Across the most famous places of Krishna Janmashtami celebrations- Mumbai's ICKCON temple, Shirdi, Mathura and Ahmedabad- celebrations are in full swing.
Krishna Janmashtami celebrations have begun with much pomp and splendour across India. People have flocked to temples and have decorated their homes on this auspicious occasion. Dahi Handi celebrations have begun in Mumbai. Pujas have begun in the morning and ...
Krishna fever grips the people, as the country soaks in festivities to celebrate the birth of Krishna. Devotees have thronged Krishna temples in different parts of the country including Thane, Mathura, Varanasi, Shirdi and Delhi. Families decked up their house...
Tragedy strikes Thane as the Vidharba Express rams into a local train in Mumbai, killing one person and injuring 21 others. The numbers are likely to rise as the rescue operations unfold. Four coaches of Kasara-CST train derailed between Kasara-Umbermali late ...
After horrifying news of medical negligence in Uttar Pradesh, the focus turns to fake doctors and nurses found to be operating at the Warsi General Hospital in Thane. 22-year old Hina Saeed's dies due to excessive bleeding during childbirth after being operate...
In the adulterated milk scam in Mumbai and Thane, 3,500 litres of milk with poisonous substances was seized in six tankers outside Mumbai. All the milk tankers were returned by the Food and Dairy Development authorities.
Shiv Sena-BJP combine has won 107 seats of the 227 in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections. However, it is still seven seats short of majority.
Four NCP workers were electrocuted and 10 others injured in Thane, after an aluminium flag pole they were carrying touched an overhead electric wire during a rally.