Alive and Leapfrogging

Monday 20 October '08

Introduced three years ago in the city and with hundreds of students already enrolled, Brazilian dance and self-defence art form Capoeira is quite the rage in Mumbai.

SIMI sabotaging polio campaign: Nasik Police

Tuesday 14 October '08

While security agencies are grappling with the suspected role of SIMI in terror attacks, Mahaashtra Police has another charge against the outlawed organisation.

Nashik police add a charge against SIMI: it’s blocking polio campaign

Tuesday 14 October '08

While security agencies across the country are grappling with the suspected role of SIMI in terror attacks...

Disabled by bridge collapse 16 yrs ago, couple see fresh hope for claim

Monday 29 September '08

Following a recent decision by the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, a city-based couple, who had suffered injuries rendering them partially disabled in an accident, have fresh reason to hope for justice.

Once upon a time when Raj got bail, court said: never breach peace

Saturday 13 September '08

On February 13 this year, when Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray was given bail minutes after being arrested...

Forgery, corruption case against former SRA chiefs for allowing illegal construction

Friday 12 September '08

A case of forgery and corruption has been registered against former CEOs of Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) Debhashish Chakrabarty and Ujjwal Uke for allegedly allowing an impostor posing as an architect and builders to carry out illegal construction work in the slums of Koldongri in Andheri, suburban Mumbai.

Two hundred witnesses and an unsolved case

Thursday 21 August '08

Eleven years after entertainment industry baron Gulshan Kumar was shot dead outside a temple in Juhu, Mumbai...

Only in Dharavi: residents of building to find themselves back in a slum

Monday 21 July '08

In a city where shanty-towns proliferate almost as quickly as plans to rehabilitate the millions living in them...

Maharashtra orders probe into Dalit death

Wednesday 25 June '08

A day after The Indian Express reported the sloppiness of Maharashtra police in investigating the killing of a Dalit driver...

Dalit villager set ablaze in Maharashtra, charred remains lie for a week in vehicle on road

Tuesday 24 June '08

Sahebrao Jondhale, a Dalit driver, was returning home in his Tata Sumo on the night of June 16 when, police and villagers say...

‘Susairaj engineered crime to take revenge’

Saturday 14 June '08

In a new twist to the sensational Neeraj Grover murder case, the Mumbai Police Crime Branch has now named Kannada movie actor...

Author arrested for book on Ambedkar

Wednesday 28 May '08

A chapter in his yet to be launched book titled Ambedkarwaadache Khare Swaroop (Reality of Ambedkarism) which reportedly made certain comments...

15 yrs after riots, cases collapse

Monday 12 May '08

When the first judgment came in March-end from a special court assigned to hear cases pertaining to the 1992-1993 post-Babri demolition riots...