

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...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...Wednesday
14 October '09A polling station at Ambivili Municipal School in Kalyan remained silent on Tuesday with polling officers waiting for voters to arrive.Tuesday
13 October '09Gangubai 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.Tuesday
6 October '09Over 20 lawyers have shed their symbolic black robes and entered the fray for the elections to Mumbai's 36 constituencies.Tuesday
29 September '0911 have been arrested in the Malegaon case, among others, a sadhvi — Pragyasingh Thakur — and an Army officer — Lt Col Prasad Purohit.Tuesday
29 September '09Omprakash 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.Thursday
10 September '09The 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.Wednesday
9 September '09After a series of warrants issued by the Gondia sessions court against suspected Naxalites Vernon Gonsalves and Shreedhar Shrinivasan...Wednesday
2 September '09State 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.Wednesday
2 September '09The 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.Wednesday
2 September '09The Supreme Court has ordered a stay on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against policeman Nikhil Kapse in the...Monday
31 August '09For Jankibai, 30, of the Mahar community, the past week has been the busiest of the year, as it hasbeen for years.Monday
31 August '09The 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.Friday
28 August '09Relenting to demands from various citizen groups and staff members of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Doenar...Sunday
16 August '09Nine 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.Sunday
16 August '09Two 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.Tuesday
11 August '09With 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.Tuesday
11 August '09Three 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”.Monday
10 August '09Fifty 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.Saturday
1 August '09The special court hearing the 2008 Malegaon blast case dropped provisions of the stringent anti-terror MCOCA slapped on all the accused.Monday
27 July '09A 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.Sunday
26 July '09The goverment had claimed vindication of its stand on “action against state violence” when State Reserve Police Force...Tuesday
21 July '09In 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...Tuesday
21 July '09Ajmal Kasab’s dramatic confession leaves out several charges against him, the Mumbai Police and the prosecution in the 26/11 terror attacks trial...