The Intelligence Bureau has sounded a terror alert in Mumbai and Ahmedabad after receiving intelligence inputs about some operatives of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba trying to slip into these cities to carry out large-scale attacks. There has been a build-up of the dreaded group in these two cities and a general alert had been sent to the police departments of both cities. The alert about Mumbai was specific.
When the landslide hit, Sruthi's house was washed away, along with its inhabitants. She lost her entire family and some relatives. All she had left for a close confidante was her fiance Jenson. Days after the landslide and the loss of her family, Jenson died in a road accident that also left Sruthi with serious injuries. News of the accident and Sruthi's backdrop as the lone surviving member of a family wiped out in the July landslide, was picked up by the media, and people rushed to help.
The IMD issued a 'red alert' for Pune district and asked people to take precautions.
'We brought him back within 20 days of the complaint.'
Mumbai police is likely to take assistance of the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate for probe into the disproportionate assets case involving senior Congress leader Kripashankar Singh, his family members and aides.
'Param Bir's letter alleges that Waze was being used directly by the home minister.' 'I think an enquiry by a high court judge is the need of the hour.'
Mumbai and its adjoining areas were lashed by heavy showers on Tuesday, causing water-logging at a number of places, including railway tracks, which slowed the movement of trains and vehicles on roads.
As the terror alert of an Al Qaeda backed attack in Europe remains, the New York police carried out a drill to prepare against attacks on the lines of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. The drill simulated multiple bombs and shooters, including a bomb under a vehicle, and police responded with helicopters, dogs, automatic weapons and an armoured car.
According to a senior state Crime Investigation Department official, those passengers included at least 60 from Gujarat, who have already reached their respective native places in the state.
The National Security Strategy document should flag all major issues concerning security strategy and provide guidelines to concerned departments to work out suitable action plans. Since the global and regional geopolitical canvas is dynamic, the NSS document should be deliberated at length before formulation and should be reviewed periodically, recommends Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
The annual festival dedicated to the Sun god will be celebrated on Friday and Saturday by people who originally hail from north India and are residing in the metropolis. In the past, the festival used to see large number of people thronging prominent beaches, river banks and other water bodies to make offerings to the Sun god at sunrise and sunset.
However, police said the saw allegedly used by Poonawala to cut his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar's body is yet to be recovered.
The police said unidentified persons broke into a shop in the Panchratna building at the famous market when no employee was in the shop and stole the diamonds.
Congress leader Manvendra Singh's wife was killed and the former MP and his son were injured when their SUV met with an accident in Alwar on the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, officials said.
In a joint operation, the Criminal Investigation Department and Mumbai police on Saturday arrested absconding former Communist Party of India Marxist Member of Parliament Lakshman Seth and two others, who were chargesheeted in the 2007 Nandigram violence case in which seven people were killed, from a lodge at Chembur in Mumbai. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Kurla, ordered transit remand as sought by the CID till March 22 on production of Seth.
Singh asked for information about cricket bookies in India and also threatened to arrest him in a "big case" along with his family members, he claimed.
The attack on India's financial capital is a "turning point" in tactics adopted by terrorists in such operations, officials including those from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York Police Department concluded while testifying before a Congressional Committee on lessons learnt from the Mumbai attack. It becomes all the more necessary to bring the perpetrators to justice, otherwise there could be more and more such attacks, they said
The toll due to consumption of spurious liquor in the Malad area of Mumbai climbed to 94 with the death of four more persons on Sunday.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) has issued guidelines urging students to desist from asking fellow students for details that might reveal their caste and instead encouraged them to bond over commonalities like sports, music and movies.
Mumbai Police registered a first information report against a man for allegedly demanding money from T-Series company owner and producer Krishan Kumar earlier this month for not filing a rape case against his nephew and the company's managing director Bhushan Kumar, an official said.
Maharashtra Director General of Police Sanjay Pandey has posted a message on his Facebook page about two posts of superintendents in the Anti-Terrorism Squad lying vacant, and invited aspirants to approach the department or contact him through the social media.
The CM said he spoke to the Mumbai Police Commissioner and was informed that traffic has been diverted at 25 places.
Mumbai police's high-profile encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, who was sacked for his alleged criminal links, on Monday alleged that he was being framed by the underworld with the aim of removing him from the police department.Inspector Sharma, who had 112 encounter killings to his name in a career spanning over two decades, alleged that underworld don Chhota Rajan may have had a hand in his dismissal from police service.Sharma said he would challenge his dismissal.
A railway official said a train has been booked for the Dussehra rally from Nanded city in central Maharashtra.
After Mumbai Police commissioner issued the directive, the police commissioners of Thane and Navi Mumbai followed suit citing concerns of 'serious crimes' and 'law and order disruptions'.
Suburban services were disrupted with trains on all the three lines -- western, central and harbour -- running late.
A New York Police Department team that visited Mumbai to understand the mechanics of the multiple terrorist strikes of November 26 has identified the use of technology, particularly cell phones, by terrorists as a means of communication and information dissemination as a potential danger to guard against.
Activist Manoj Jarange on Monday announced he was withdrawing his 17-day-old fast undertaken over the Maratha quota issue, but insisted he would continue his agitation until the Maharashtra government starts issuing Kunbi caste certificates to extended family members of people already having such documents, thereby allowing them to avail of reservation benefits.
Maratha activist Manoj Jarange on Wednesday suspended his indefinite fast, which he began five days ago over the quota issue, stating that his community members say they want him alive to fight for the cause.
The former Congress president also tagged a post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in which he talked about eliminating EVMs.
Mir was called "project manager" of the Mumbai attacks.
After the Mumbai police's biggest manhunt for a serial rapist and killer failed to give any results, the Maharashtra home department upped its ante against crime against women and children by announcing a cash reward for any information on the suspect's whereabouts.
Fadnavis also said the lathi-charge order was not given by any top official to the Jana Police last week.
Police are also roping in fact-checking websites to verify rumours on social media and debunk fake news.
'Since there is no photo-op, or quick fix solutions, politicians do not want to address climate change. It is very unfashionable.'
The woman said she was cheated by him and hence she approached the police, the official said.
33 per cent of all road accidents and 35 per cent of fatal accidents took place on national highways and expressways.
A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray reiterated his warning to take down loudspeakers from mosques by May 3, the state home department on Monday stated that the use of loudspeakers at religious sites will only be allowed with due permission.
The spurious liquor tragedy, which was first reported on December 23, has claimed 99 lives so far.
Raj Thackeray had also said if such a step was not taken, loudspeakers would be installed outside mosques to play Hanuman Chalisa at a higher volume.
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