November 30, 2009 05:17 IST
For at least one victim of Mumbais worst communal riots,the tabling of the Liberhan Commission report has done nothing to reduce the bitterness of 17 years.
Mon, Nov 30, 2009November 25, 2009 00:13 IST
Last weeks attack on the IBN-Lokmat office by alleged Shiv Sena activists wasnt the first such one. A number of media offices in Mumbai have been vandalised in the past five years,several people detained and tough action promised,but most have got away with minor charges.
Wed, Nov 25, 2009
November 24, 2009 23:38 IST
When he started his virtual helpline in the early hours of November 27 last year,to help foreigners and others with information updated diligently every few minutes...
Tue, Nov 24, 2009November 23, 2009 03:56 IST
In spite of Supreme Court strictures against handcuffing undertrials and parading them,hundreds of them are brought handcuffed to the Kalyan magistrates court everyday.
Mon, Nov 23, 2009October 25, 2009 22:13 IST
Last month,when the city woke up to news of a father having confined his adult daughters to a single room for several years...
Sun, Oct 25, 2009October 22, 2009 02:06 IST
Barbara Gomes (21) still wears a constant expression of shock,even three weeks post she was rescued along with her mother and sister from their Naigaon home...
Thu, Oct 22, 2009October 14, 2009 05:07 IST
A polling station at Ambivili Municipal School in Kalyan remained silent on Tuesday with polling officers waiting for voters to arrive.
Wed, Oct 14, 2009October 13, 2009 00:08 IST
Gangubai Patil,an Anganwadi teacher for over three decades in Pophran village,has no place to call home. A fortnight ago,she was served with a notice from the gram panchayat to evict her tin shed,classified as house in the notice.
Tue, Oct 13, 2009October 06, 2009 23:57 IST
Over 20 lawyers have shed their symbolic black robes and entered the fray for the elections to Mumbai's 36 constituencies.
Tue, Oct 06, 2009September 29, 2009 23:37 IST
Omprakash is 27 and has spent nearly 12 years in Mumbai as a masseur,a garb under which thousands of male sex workers work in and around the city.
Tue, Sep 29, 2009
September 29, 2009 09:05 IST
11 have been arrested in the Malegaon case,among others,a sadhvi Pragyasingh Thakur and an Army officer Lt Col Prasad Purohit.
Tue, Sep 29, 2009
September 10, 2009 01:48 IST
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a special leave petition filed by the Maharashtra government challenging the Bombay High Courts order that suspended police officer Manohar Kadams life sentence for the 1997 Ramabai Nagar firing.
Thu, Sep 10, 2009September 09, 2009 05:07 IST
After a series of warrants issued by the Gondia sessions court against suspected Naxalites Vernon Gonsalves and Shreedhar Shrinivasan...
Wed, Sep 09, 2009September 02, 2009 22:46 IST
State Human Rights Commission Chairperson Kshitij Vyas has taken suo motu notice of the poor living conditions of jail inmates after a set of random visits to prisons across Maharashtra.
Wed, Sep 02, 2009September 02, 2009 05:17 IST
The Supreme Court has ordered a stay on the CBI probe against policeman Nikhil Kapse in the Hari Masjid firing case after the Maharashtra government sought it on the ground he was just doing his duty and an independent inquiry was not needed as a departmental inquiry had given a clean chit to him.
Wed, Sep 02, 2009September 02, 2009 03:59 IST
The Supreme Court has ordered a stay on the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against policeman Nikhil Kapse in the...
Wed, Sep 02, 2009August 31, 2009 02:06 IST
For Jankibai,30,of the Mahar community,the past week has been the busiest of the year,as it hasbeen for years.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009August 31, 2009 01:58 IST
The Maharashtra government has barely met the deadline for filing an appeal in the Supreme Court against the suspension of police officer Manohar Kadams life sentence in the Ramabai Nagar firing case of 1997.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009August 28, 2009 01:00 IST
Relenting to demands from various citizen groups and staff members of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Doenar...
Fri, Aug 28, 2009August 11, 2009 00:40 IST
With no development in the case of brutal attack on Shamim Modi (39),a professor of Tata Institute of Social Sciences,representatives of the institute on Monday met the home minister Jayant Patil to apprise him of the situation.
Tue, Aug 11, 2009August 11, 2009 00:35 IST
Three days after the Gujarat High Court asked the state government for a list of Additional Director Generals (ADGs) of police for setting up a panel to probe afresh into Mumbai girl Ishrat Jahans killing,her family says they are unsure if the order will help in establishing the truth.
Tue, Aug 11, 2009August 10, 2009 03:43 IST
Fifty children from Parivartan Shikshan Sanstha,a NGO in Shantinagar,were special guests at an interactive session with former President APJ Abdul Kalam at the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute on Saturday.
Mon, Aug 10, 2009August 01, 2009 09:23 IST
The special court hearing the 2008 Malegaon blast case dropped provisions of the stringent anti-terror MCOCA slapped on all the accused.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009July 27, 2009 05:49 IST
A social activist,who was attacked at her residence in Vasai on Friday night,has alleged that a politician and his son from Madhya Pradesh were behind it.
Mon, Jul 27, 2009July 26, 2009 03:32 IST
The goverment had claimed vindication of its stand on action against state violence when State Reserve Police Force...
Sun, Jul 26, 2009




