
August 09, 2019 02:39 IST
In Palghar, incessant rain and rivers in spate over the last weekend had wrecked havoc with some talukas being completely inaccessible by road. However, Shinde said: “As of now, there are no villages that are completely inaccessible, as we have identified alternative routes.”
Fri, Aug 09, 2019
August 08, 2019 03:11 IST
Following a 2014 Supreme Court judgment that identified transgenders as the third gender, SNDT Women’s University passed a resolution to introduce the ‘third gender’ category in forms to grant them admission in distance-learning courses.
Thu, Aug 08, 2019
August 07, 2019 04:12 IST
Administration on high alert as IMD predicts ‘extremely heavy’ rainfall in Palghar, ‘heavy to very heavy’ rain in Thane tomorrow
Wed, Aug 07, 2019
August 06, 2019 07:44 IST
Most of those who were evacuated from various talukas in Thane were sheltered at local schools and municipal halls where the district administration made arrangements for food and clothing.
Tue, Aug 06, 2019
August 06, 2019 07:20 IST
The deceased, 18-year-old Neha Dama, was one of the nine first-year students of the commerce section at SIES College in Nerul, who had bunked lectures to go for a picnic to Kharghar’s Pandavkada waterfall.
Tue, Aug 06, 2019
August 05, 2019 02:42 IST
While Thane witnessed nearly 271 mm of rainfall, Palghar recorded 190.8 mm in 24 hours beginning 8.30 am on Saturday.
Mon, Aug 05, 2019
August 05, 2019 02:37 IST
The Thane administration requested the Air Force for help, which deployed a Mi17 aircraft for the rescue operation. The helicopter made two sorties to rescue 58 residents.
Mon, Aug 05, 2019
August 04, 2019 04:34 IST
The police said the girls were part of a group that had come for a picnic in the morning.
Sun, Aug 04, 2019
August 04, 2019 02:57 IST
While low-lying regions in Vasai Virar and Nallasopara saw waterlogging, houses weren’t flooded, Municipal Commissioner Baliram Pawar said.
Sun, Aug 04, 2019
August 02, 2019 03:57 IST
Girl was alone in the house, suspect entered claiming to be a delivery boy
Fri, Aug 02, 2019
August 01, 2019 01:35 IST
In a letter to the Thane collector and the AMC, the Ambernath Citizens Forum’s has demanded action against the agency that runs the stray animal shelter.
Thu, Aug 01, 2019
August 01, 2019 01:28 IST
Nineteen children from the ashram, run by Shishuvihar Vidyaprasarak trust, managed to walk to a mini-bus owned by the shelter home. It took them to the house of a trustee of the organisation.
Thu, Aug 01, 2019
July 31, 2019 01:05 IST
“We got messages saying they (the authorities) are going to open the gates of all the dams. If that happens, the floods will be massive,” Thakur said.
Wed, Jul 31, 2019
July 31, 2019 01:01 IST
With the additional opening of the Bhatsa dam, Shahapur, Kalyan and Ambernath talukas were put on alert as water started flowing into residential areas late Monday night.
Wed, Jul 31, 2019
July 31, 2019 00:57 IST
Following the incident, 19 people were evacuated from the chawl at Atkonteshwar Nagar in Kalwa.
Wed, Jul 31, 2019
July 30, 2019 01:53 IST
Residents of Bharat Nagar also found water entering their houses on Saturday. “Water entered houses and damaged all of our furniture.
Tue, Jul 30, 2019
July 30, 2019 01:53 IST
The Thane Collector said on Sunday that once the water recedes in villages and cities affected by the heavy rains and an overflowing Ulhas river, tehsildars along with local officials would conduct panchnamas to assess the damage.
Tue, Jul 30, 2019
July 30, 2019 01:31 IST
The town, part of Kulgaon Badlapur Municipal Council, located on the farthest fringes of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), will now be remembered as the place that gave shelter and food to more than 1,000 passengers from the Mahalaxmi Express.
Tue, Jul 30, 2019
July 29, 2019 04:22 IST
According to Ulhasnagar police, part of a slab, weakened by the rains, on the terrace of a building in Pawai Chowk in Ulhasnagar fell on Sunday morning.
Mon, Jul 29, 2019
July 29, 2019 04:18 IST
The bridge near Raite village on the Kalyan-Murbad road over the Ulhas river was submerged till Sunday morning.
Mon, Jul 29, 2019
July 29, 2019 04:05 IST
Several villages in Kalyan taluka and nearby regions were submerged after Ulhas river overflowed following the incessant rains on Friday and Saturday.
Mon, Jul 29, 2019
July 28, 2019 03:12 IST
The train, Kolhapur-bound Mahalaxmi Express, had left Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus some 18 hours earlier on Friday evening.
Sun, Jul 28, 2019
July 28, 2019 02:50 IST
More than 700 passengers were stranded inside the Mahalaxmi Express in Chamtoli village, three km from Badlapur after incessant rains led to flooding on the tracks.
Sun, Jul 28, 2019
July 28, 2019 02:32 IST
“Bhalerao had stepped out of his house and had gone near a nullah that flows nearby. He got too close to the water and was swept away,” said an officer.
Sun, Jul 28, 2019
July 28, 2019 02:22 IST
Kalyan, Dombivli, Ulhasnagar, Bhiwandi inundated; around 1,000 people rescued
Sun, Jul 28, 2019




