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The Rescuer

Sunday 25 October '09

Last month, when the city woke up to news of a father having confined his adult daughters to a single room for several years...
Three weeks since rescue, Gomes’ daughters on long journey to recovery

Thursday 22 October '09

Barbara Gomes (21) still wears a constant expression of shock, even three weeks post she was rescued along with her mother and sister from their Naigaon home...
For 6th time, no voter turns up at this Kalyan booth

Wednesday 14 October '09

A polling station at Ambivili Municipal School in Kalyan remained silent on Tuesday with polling officers waiting for voters to arrive.
Displaced by power plant project, villagers still without power

Tuesday 13 October '09

Gangubai Patil, an Anganwadi teacher for over three decades in Pophran village, has no place to call home. A fortnight ago, she was served with a notice from the gram panchayat to evict her tin shed, classified as “house” in the notice.
From the courtroom to the election arena

Tuesday 6 October '09

Over 20 lawyers have shed their symbolic black robes and entered the fray for the elections to Mumbai's 36 constituencies.
Year later, ATS says fresh leads in Malegaon probe

Tuesday 29 September '09

11 have been arrested in the Malegaon case, among others, a sadhvi — Pragyasingh Thakur — and an Army officer — Lt Col Prasad Purohit.
Job training opens window to a new life for massage men

Tuesday 29 September '09

Omprakash is 27 and has spent nearly 12 years in Mumbai as a masseur, a garb under which thousands of male sex workers work in and around the city.
Kadam stays free as SC rejects state challenge

Thursday 10 September '09

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a special leave petition filed by the Maharashtra government challenging the Bombay High Court’s order that suspended police officer Manohar Kadam’s life sentence for the 1997 Ramabai Nagar firing.
Naxal suspects skip hearings, court wants them shifted to nearby jail

Wednesday 9 September '09

After a series of warrants issued by the Gondia sessions court against suspected Naxalites Vernon Gonsalves and Shreedhar Shrinivasan...
SHRC takes suo motu notice of ‘cruel’ treatment of prisoners

Wednesday 2 September '09

State Human Rights Commission Chairperson Kshitij Vyas has taken suo motu notice of the poor living conditions of jail inmates after a set of random visits to prisons across Maharashtra.
State obtains stay on CBI probe against cop in Hari Masjid case

Wednesday 2 September '09

The Supreme Court has ordered a stay on the CBI probe against policeman Nikhil Kapse in the Hari Masjid firing case after the Maharashtra government sought it on the ground he was just doing his duty and an independent inquiry was not needed as a departmental inquiry had given a clean chit to him.
Maharashtra gets stay on CBI probe in Hari Masjid case

Wednesday 2 September '09

The Supreme Court has ordered a stay on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against policeman Nikhil Kapse in the...
Business week for breadwinning women

Monday 31 August '09

For Jankibai, 30, of the Mahar community, the past week has been the busiest of the year, as it hasbeen for years.
Just in time, state appeals suspension of Kadam life sentence

Monday 31 August '09

The Maharashtra government has barely met the deadline for filing an appeal in the Supreme Court against the suspension of police officer Manohar Kadam’s life sentence in the Ramabai Nagar firing case of 1997.
TISS professor assault: state wants CBI to take over case

Friday 28 August '09

Relenting to demands from various citizen groups and staff members of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Doenar...
Dad on secret mission: a mother’s lie to shield sons from shock

Sunday 16 August '09

Nine months ago, their father, Lt. Col. Prasad Purohit, became the first serving army officer in the country to be arrested in connection with a terror attack — the Malegaon bomb blast — in which six people were killed.
Pyramids of Mumbai

Sunday 16 August '09

Two team of enthusiasts are on their way to an uphill task, one is a thorough believer of culture and the other is transforming that tradition into a commercial event.
Attack on Shamim: TISS staff meet Patil

Tuesday 11 August '09

With no development in the case of brutal attack on Shamim Modi (39), a professor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences, representatives of the institute on Monday met the home minister Jayant Patil to apprise him of the situation.
Ishrat encounter: family expresses no confidence in Gujarat cops

Tuesday 11 August '09

Three days after the Gujarat High Court asked the state government for a list of Additional Director Generals (ADGs) of police for setting up a panel to probe afresh into Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahan’s killing, her family says they are unsure if the order will help in “establishing the truth”.
Education has to be inclusive for India to grow: Kalam

Monday 10 August '09

Fifty children from Parivartan Shikshan Sanstha, a NGO in Shantinagar, were special guests at an interactive session with former President APJ Abdul Kalam at the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute on Saturday.
Court drops anti-terror provisions against all Malegaon accused

Saturday 1 August '09

The special court hearing the 2008 Malegaon blast case dropped provisions of the stringent anti-terror MCOCA slapped on all the accused.
Social activist sees hand of politician, son behind attack

Monday 27 July '09

A social activist, who was attacked at her residence in Vasai on Friday night, has alleged that a politician and his son from Madhya Pradesh were behind it.
Deadline nearing, no appeal yet against Kadam verdict

Sunday 26 July '09

The goverment had claimed vindication of its stand on “action against state violence” when State Reserve Police Force...
‘I confess... please end my trial, deliver your judgment’

Tuesday 21 July '09

In a dramatic twist to what was turning out to be a long-drawn terror trial, Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone Lashkar-e-Toiba gunman captured alive during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks...
What Kasab didn’t say bothers cops

Tuesday 21 July '09

Ajmal Kasab’s dramatic confession leaves out several charges against him, the Mumbai Police and the prosecution in the 26/11 terror attacks trial...
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