'To attribute motives to the individual election commissioner or the Election Commission as a group is very unfair.'
A bandh called by major political parties in Thane against ongoing demolition of illegal structures without providing alternate accommodation to the occupants was observed on Thursday with some persons damaging at least 12 buses in the wee hours, police said.
Thackeray, along with top leaders of the Sena-UBT, went to Mumbra here to visit the razed shakha but had to face resistance from workers of the CM's Shiv Sena, who also showed black flags.
Victim Saraswati Vaidya's live-in partner Manoj Sane, 56, has been arrested for allegedly killing her and dismembering the body in their 7th-floor rented apartment in Mira Road of Thane district.
The 33-year-old man, identified as Jagdish Kanani was arrested from suburban Borivali on Sunday night.
A "big spark" in the electricity pole providing power to the girder launcher preceded its collapse during the construction of a viaduct for the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Thane district a day ago, in which at least 20 persons were killed, the police said on Wednesday.
Pujari is allegedly involved in eight serious cases in Mumbai, including firing, extortion and murder. A resident of Tagore Nagar in Vikhroli, he had fled from the country years ago. He had allegedly targeted builders and businessmen in eastern Mumbai, the crime branch official said.
Hasnain had butchered 14 of his family members and then ended life after a weekend feast on Sunday.
A major fire broke out inside the industrial area of Dombivli in Thane after a boiler exploded at the plant of a chemical company.
Eighteen patients have died in the last 24 hours at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa in Thane, civic commissioner Abhijit Bangar said on Sunday.
A 29-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a man at gunpoint near Bhayandar railway station in Thane district, the police said on Sunday. At least two persons were involved in the crime that took place on May 30 at a place opposite an ATM near the Bhayandar railway station between 2.30 pm and 5 pm, said sub-inspector Aparna Whatkar of Navghar police station.
The racket, which involved illegal procurement and sale of CDRs, was busted by the Thane Crime Branch in January.
Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray leader Abhishek Ghosalkar was shot dead during a Facebook live by local social activist Mauris Noronha in Mumbai on Thursday, police said.
A 30-year-old woman was murdered allegedly by her husband who chopped her body into three pieces inside their flat in Bhayander in Mumbai's neighbouring Thane district.
More than 21 hours after a huge billboard collapsed in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area due to gusty winds and unseasonal rains, killing at least 14 persons and injuring 75 others, the search and rescue operation is still on, civic officials said on Tuesday.
The construction lift in the 40-storey building located in Balkum area off the Ghodbunder Road here collapsed on Sunday evening.
Labourers were trapped in an underground tunnel being constructed at Sonda hydel project near Shahpur in Thane district due to flooding.
Police said the robber was part of a gang that was trying to sneak into Hedutani village under Manpada area at around 0300 IST when they were attacked by the villagers.
The Shiv Sena-Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party group under Sharad Pawar on Friday demanded the resignation of Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis over the murder of Sena-UBT leader Abhishek Ghosalkar during a 'Facebook Live'.
Date, a 1990 Indian Police Service officer of the Maharashtra cadre who once sold newspapers in Pune to financially support his family, was honoured with the President's Police medal for gallantry for his role in what has come to be known as the 26/11 attack.
An agitation was also held against the movie at another multiplex in the north Maharashtra city by the Nationalist Youth Congress.
Wazhul Kamar Khan, whose name figures in the '50 most wanted' fugitives list, has been staying in Thane district near Mumbai, police sources said on Tuesday. Khan, who was arrested last year for his alleged role in the 2003 Mulund train blasts in Mumbai, has been living in Thane's Waghle Estate with his mother, wife and children after he was let out on bail.Khan was also involved in the 2003 Vile Parle and Ghatkopar blasts besides the 2002 Mumbai Central blasts.
From working in a garment factory, selling bread, and driving an autorickshaw, the 24-year-old fast bowler's path to representing domestic giants Mumbai was anything but easy.
The police alleged that Kaskar and his associates had been threatening a prominent builder in Thane, in Dawood's name since 2013 and extorted Rs 30 lakh and four flats from him.
With these arrests, the number of those taken into custody rose to 17.
The NIA also conducted a raid at the residence of Shiv Sena leader and former 'encounter specialist' of Mumbai Police, Pradeep Sharma in connection with the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiren murder case on Thursday, sources said.
'Even if we have laws in place, which we must, we need a societal change.' 'Rather than telling our daughters that, "Listen, leave your house at so and so time, come back by so and so time," we must tell the men and boys that "Whatever point of time you encounter a woman in public space or wherever, you treat her with respect, dignity, and as an equal participant in these public spaces".'
Sagar Thakkar bought Virat Kohli's Audi R8 from a Delhi car dealer.
The Shiv Sena Bhavan is controlled by 'Shivai Seva Trust'. Its founding trustees include late Bal Thackeray and his wife late Meena Thackeray. Many of the founding trustees are not alive now.
Heartbreaking tales like a male survivor losing 13 of his family members unfolded, as rescuers armed with sensor-fitted equipment still looked for survivors and bodies in the debris of bricks, mortar and twisted steel, a day after the collapse at Shil-Phata in Daighar in Mumbra.
Parties, including Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena, gave call to the dawn-to-dusk shutdown against the razing of illegal buildings by Thane Municipal Corporation while demanding that alternate accommodation be provided to residents who will be displaced in the drive.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to former Mumbai police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran.
The Maharashtra government will not arrest former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh till June 22 in a case registered against him under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the Bombay high court was told.
Television visuals showed BJP workers mobbing the car at Khandoji Baba Chowk and vandalising it, resulting in the vehicle's windscreen and side panes getting damaged.
Local train services came to a halt between Badlapur and Ambarnath section in Maharashtra's Thane district adjoining Mumbai due to water-logging on railway tracks after heavy rains, officials said.
A special court in Mumbai on Friday granted bail to dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in an alleged money laundering case linked to former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh.
At least eight persons, four of them children, were buried alive and three injured when a portion of a five-storey residential building crashed in Thane's Ulhasnagar on Tuesday evening, police and health officials said.
The unauthorised building was occupied at least up to the fourth floor and many are feared dead in the mishap
As many as 47 injured people (of the total 201) were undergoing treatment at various hospitals. Rest were discharged.
The shutdown, which paralysed life in the city, was called by the combine (maha yuti) to protest alleged lax attitude of the police in tracing BJP corporator Suhasini Lokhande, who is missing since February 24, a week after result of the local civic body polls was declared.
