An eyewitness travelling in the train claimed some passengers suffered minor injuries.
With the cyclone set to make landfall on Wednesday, Maharashtra and Gujarat activated their disaster response mechanism, deploying NDRF teams and evacuating people from areas likely to be hit.
Four gangmen were killed on Friday when they were run over by a local train between suburban Kurla and Vidyavihar stations.
Seven passengers were charred to death when a luxury bus caught fire after colliding with a diesel tanker in the wee hours of Wednesday on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway.
Waze was arrested from his Thane residence. The CID will produce him before a court in Ahmadnagar soon.
What is the last thing you would expect one to do with a Lamborghini Huracan which costs a whopping Rs 5.5 crore? Banging it.
Waterlogging has been reported in several parts of city.
The size of the Indian financial services market could touch around $340 billion in the next few years.
'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
Sopena came to India in 1947 as a 22-year-old on a mission to serve mankind through the Society of Jesus, a male religious congregation of the Catholic Church founded by Spanish spearhead of counter-reformation, Ignatius Loyola in 1541.
The Indian navy suffered yet another mishap on Friday with gas leakage in an under-construction warship in the Mazagaon Docks here, claiming the life of a Commander and hospitalisation of two dockyard employees.
Just two doctors attend to almost 300 patients at a hospital in Maharashtra's Malnourished Corridor every day.
Pending consumer dispute cases are at an all-time high.
Three Hyderabad-based cousins, who allegedly planned to join "jihadi terror groups", were on Saturday picked up from Nagpur international airport while on their way to Srinagar, months after they were put under watch for being influenced by online Islamic State propaganda.
Over 250 passengers have been rescued, a railway official said.
'After household expenses, we are left with nothing...' 'Sometimes I think it is better to shut the store...'
Mamta Kulkarni, Mumbai's first woman station master joined the Indian Railways in May 1992.
The family of Ishrat Jahan, who was killed in an alleged fake encounter in Gujarat nine years ago, has alleged that they were being threatened by some unknown persons, following which the home ministry has said it will provide security if it is sought
Ace photographer Pravin Talan has come out with the first-ever Mumbai Railway Police Calendar 2017 that explores this lesser-known police force.
For it's not the Sena alone that indulges in hooliganism. 'Thokshahi', as the Sena proudly calls it, is the hallmark of the party and of its offshoots. But other parties haven't exactly been models of good behaviour. Not just Maharashtra, ministers and MLAs slapping officials everywhere in the country is not unheard of, says Jyoti Punwani.
A pregnant woman is murdered in cold blood in the heart of suburban Mumbai. By her father who didn't want her to marry the man she did.
India's top metro cities need to improve their infrastructure and other civic amenities too.
36-year-old Sunil Yadav, who works as a garbage collector for the civic body in Mumbai is an inspiration. He chronicles the arduous journey he took to secure his MPhil degree and why he refuses to give up his job despite his education.
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