Actress Veena Malik, a Pakistani national and former Bigg Boss participant was detained at the Mumbai airport by the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the customs on Wednesday for evasion of customs duty.
After the shocking incident of a woman losing her newborn due to the apathy of civic doctors, the administration has initiated an inquiry and suspended the doctors concerned.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has silenced his critics by successfully diffusing the indefinite auto rickshaw drivers' strike that was to begin from November 9.
A day after Maharahstra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray warned that arrogant auto rickshaw unions would attract public ire, reports of attacks on auto rickshaws have been surfacing from different parts of Mumbai.
After having asked cartoonist Satish Acharya to remove a cartoon lampooning Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar, the Mumbai police are denying having issued the diktat.
The Maharashtra government for the first time has revealed the 'real motive' behind ace crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey being killed by gangsters on the orders of underworld don Chhota Rajan.
The online railway ticket booking portal of Indian Railways was unavailable for bookings following a failure of the main server of Central Railway Information Systems at Delhi.
In the so-called 'democratic' elections within the Congress, family ties and money power rule. The election held for various posts of the Maharahstra Youth Congress on Tuesday was no exception. Vishwajit Kadam, son of Congress leader and state minister Patangrao Kadam, was elected the president of the Maharashtra state youth Congress. Satyajit Tambe, nephew of state Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat, was elected the vice-president.
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation staff, owing allegiance to the Municipal Mazdoor Union led by Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Rao, went on a strike on Tuesday demanding salaries on the lines of the sixth pay commission. Civic employees who have joined the strike include those involved in jobs such as garbage collection, dousing fires, monitoring water supply and working in civic hospitals.
A month after a farmers' agitation at Maval near Pune turned violent killing three farmers and injuring several others after police fired at them, a local directed the police to lodge a first information report against the policemen.
Deputy Municipal Commissioner Chandrashekhar Rokade has been suspended by Municipal Commissioner Subodh Kumar following his arrest on September 9 by the anti-corruption bureau of Mumbai.
In response to the Maharashtra government seeking a ban on Hindu right-wing organisation Sanatan Sansthan, the Union government has sought for more information before it could decide its fate.
In a first, the Maharashtra government has announced a ban on two wheelers on Ananth Chaturthi, the day the city will bid adieu to Lord Ganesha. The ban will be enforced on Sunday only on immersion routes across the state.
In wake of the blasts in Delhi, social activist Anna Hazare from Ralegan Siddhi said on Thursday that the lone terrorist convicted of 26/11 carnage in Mumbai should be hanged without further delay.
Three weeks since Principal Mahesh Matai found his 16-year-old son dead outside their Ulhasnagar residence, the Mumbai Police is still clueless about the case.
Tension prevailed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai on Wednesday afternoon as an Air India flight from Jeddah carrying more than 286 persons was about to make an emergency landing.
Withdrawing the strike call given last week, the Bombay Taximen Union Taxis has said that taxis will ply on Mumbai roads on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
For the first time on Friday, the dabbawallas in Mumbai will strike in support of social activist Anna Hazare's movement. The move is significant, since in their 120-year-old history, the dabbawallas have never gone on a strike.
In a complete U-turn, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday expressed its support for Anna Hazare's fight against corruption. Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray addressed a press conference in Mumbai where he said that the party completely supported Hazare's campaign. The move comes only a day after Sanjay Raut, Sena leader and editor of Sena mouth piece Saamna, had slammed Anna Hazare. Raut had hinted that Anna himself was corrupt.
The controversy-ridden film opens in theatres tomorrow.
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