Maharashtra

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Maha: Cop booked for raping and duping woman

11:25 pm March 13, 2021

Nagpur: A police inspector from Nagpur in Maharashtra has been booked for allegedly raping a 45-year-old widow and duping her of Rs 4 lakh, an official said on Saturday. The victim, a resident of Gittikhadan area in the city, became friends with the inspector through social media in 2019, the official said. The two exchanged […]

Border row: Raut calls for all-party visit to Belgaum

4:55 pm March 13, 2021

Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Saturday alleged that Marathi people residing in Karnataka’s Belgaum were being victimised, and said an all-party delegation from Maharashtra should visit the city in the neighbouring state to resolve the ongoing stand-off. Talking to reporters, Raut said that in the last eight days there have been instances of […]

Maha: Three cops among six booked for abetting man’s suicide

11:29 am March 12, 2021

Thane: An FIR has been registered in Thane district of Maharashtra against six persons, including three policemen and a mother-daughter duo from Nagpur, for allegedly abetting the suicide of a 38-year-old man, an official said on Friday. The accused allegedly blackmailed the victim and tried to extort money from him, following which he killed himself last month, the police official […]

Goyal, Shiv Sena members spar in LS over stalled work of bullet train, Metro project

11:14 pm March 10, 2021

New Delhi: BJP and Shiv Sena sparred in Lok Sabha on Wednesday, accusing each other of non-cooperation over important infrastructure initiatives like the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train and Mumbai Metro project in Maharashtra. While Railway Minister Piyush Goyal charged the Uddhav Thackeray-led Mahavikas Aghadi government of stalling the bullet train project, the Shiv Sena accused the Centre of not cooperating with the state dispensation over the Metro car […]

9,927 new coronavirus cases in Maharashtra, 56 deaths

9:31 pm March 9, 2021

Mumbai: Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 9,927 new COVID-19 cases which took the caseload to 22,38,398, while 56 fatalities pushed up the death count to 52,556, said a health official. On the other hand, 12,182 patients were discharged from hospitals during the day, taking the tally of recoveries to 20,89,294, he added. There are 95,322 active […]