

Monday 2 November '09
An amendment to the Maharashtra Universities Act has altered the eligibility criteria for candidates who wish to contest the university senate elections.Sunday 1 November '09
Among those who had come to Thane’s Wagle Estate fire station to share grief of firemen who had lost six colleagues in the recent fire accident was 50-year-old S M Mokashi.Wednesday
28 October '09The road overbridge, from where a girder fell on a train at Thane killing three and injuring several others would have been completed long ago had it not been for a change in plan by the railways in the drawing stage.Sunday
25 October '09The Central Railway and Thane Municipal Corporation were involved in a blame game on Saturday, a day after a concrete girder of a bridge fell on a local train in Thane.Saturday
24 October '09“It was a disaster waiting to happen” — that was how Thane city engineer K D Lala chose to describe Friday’s incident of a concrete girder falling on a moving train, killing two and injuring 12.Saturday
24 October '09A concrete girder collapsed on a moving local train between Mulund and Thane railway stations, killing two Mumbaiites including a railway motorman.Wednesday
21 October '09The last time the fire fighters of Thane were trained in rescue from building lifts was 20 years ago, in 1989.Tuesday
20 October '09When 37-year-old artist Minal Lele faced the task of devising an environmental-friendly corporate gift this Diwali, she came up with a colourful idea.Tuesday
20 October '09Fifty-year-old Gripin Chhiddha Singh was the leading fireman, and the seniormost, of the six-member team that perished inside the lift.Tuesday
20 October '09Five teams of firemen had fought the flames at 14-storey Punarvasu Tower in Tarangan Complex in Thane for nearly two hours of Sunday before they began missing some of their colleagues.Saturday
10 October '09When Meena Kamble of Valmiki Nagar, Panvel, stepped out of her house on Thursday morning, she told her daughter Kavita that she would get a glimpse of Rahul Gandhi who had passed their neighbourhood and would probably return the same way.Friday
9 October '09For the last two decades, Ulhasnagar and its MLA Suresh alias Pappu Kalani have been synonymous. In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region...Friday
9 October '09When Meena Kamble of Valmiki Nagar, Panvel, stepped out of her house on Thursday morning, she told her daughter Kavita that she would get a glimpse of Rahul Gandhi who had passed their neighbourhood and would probably return the same way.Wednesday
7 October '09The work on the Thane-Kopri road overbridge will finally commence soon as RITES, the consultant appointed by the Thane Municipal Corporation, is taking up the matter with the Central Railway with renewed vigour.Monday
5 October '09The Virar Company, as it is known in Vasai, is trying to shed the criminal tag it has been carrying for two decades.Thursday
1 October '09Last week, when 45-year-old Pratap Sarnaik came to file his nomination for the Ovla-Majiwada constituency, people looked at him in awe as he stepped down from an autorickshaw.Tuesday
29 September '09Traditional supporters of the Shiv Sena, who had switched loyalties to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in Thane during this year's Lok Sabha elections seem to have fallen silent this time around.Monday
28 September '09Wiser after bitter lessons in the Lok Sabha election to Thane, the Shiv Sena has fielded candidates who are true-blood Sainiks in the traditional party stronghold.Tuesday
22 September '09A year after a police chowky at Rabodi in Thane was damaged during communal clashes, the police are all set to revive it.Sunday
20 September '09A man is about to sprinkle salt on his meal and the setting appears rudimentary from his attire.Sunday
20 September '09Darshana Mhatre sells fish at Mumbai’s Dharavi. With her husband barely holding on to his job, the 30-year-old mother of three...Friday
18 September '09Cauliflowers at Rs 24 a kilo instead of the market rate of Rs 32, lady’s fingers at Rs 30 instead of Rs 40, vegetables can be bought at rates much lower than those in the retail market...Tuesday
15 September '09A writ petition has been filed before the Bombay High Court against Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation for failing to take action against hawkers who have encroached upon no hawking zones in the city.Monday
14 September '09The Regional Transport Authority’s move of mandating smart card driving licences has not gone down well with the transport unions.Wednesday
9 September '09Five years after the Ahmedabad police killed Ishrat (19), a second-year student of Matunga’s Khalsa College...