Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and the neighboring Thane district for the second day on Saturday, bringing respite from the sweltering heat and easing concerns of water scarcity. In many parts of the suburbs people welcomed the rains by performing traditional “Aartis” and “Poojas” as the rains played truant over the last few weeks, as they [...]

Noted artist Tyeb Mehta passed away early Thursday morning at his residence in Mumbai. He was 84 years old. The artist was suffering from heart trouble. He was survived by his wife Sakina, a son and a daughter.
His canvas at a Christie’s auction in June 2008 fetched him his highest-ever price of $2 million. Mehta’s [...]

Ajit Pandey, who acted as a gangster’s aide in the Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire”, has been arrested for extortion charges by Crime Branch in Mumbai. Pandey has been accused of threatening Pramod Kapoor, the owner of a film production company.
Posing as a relative of Chhota Shakeel-Irfan Husry (a fictitious character)-he told Kapoor that the [...]

A ten years old girl, who suffered bullet injuries during the November 26 terror attack at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), identified Mohammed Ajmal Kasab as the gunman in court on Wednesday. The prosecution examined the first eyewitnesses to the firing at the CST on Wednesday.
Around 50 persons were killed and more than 90 were [...]

At least three people have been killed when lightning struck them as unseasonal rains lashed the Aurangabad and Marathwada region of Maharashtra, uprooting a number of trees that blocked the main roads, leading to traffic snarls this evening.
Reports of unseasonal rains were also received from Nanded, Parbhani and Hingoli districts of Marathwada.

The Maharashtra Tribunal Court has on Thursday reinstated Pradeep Sharma, the encounter specialist, with immediate effect. Encounter Specialist Sharma was sacked from the service in August 2008, on the allegations of having links with the underworld. The allegations against Pradeep Sharma could not be proved.
Pradeep Sharma tops the list encounter specialists in the country. Pradeep [...]