The famous temple town Shirdi now connected to Mumbai by rail

The famous temple town of Shirdi, the abode of the Saibaba, was put on the country’s railway map with the inauguration Friday of a tri-weekly superfast train connecting it with Mumbai.

Chief Minister Ashok Chavan flagged off the special Sainagar Shirdi-Dada

I can solve problems better than Raj Thackeray: Rakhi Sawant

Rakhi Sawant is big-mouthed, they say. The celebrity item girl, who will soon play agony aunt in a new reality show “Rakhi Ka Insaaf”, claims she has better solutions to Mumbai’s growing migrant population than Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thacke

Rain gods smile on Maharashtra – 116 percent rainfall so far

The rain gods have smiled over Maharashtra this year with the state notching excess rainfall all over, as per official figures. The state has already notched 116.1 percent of rainfall and an average of four weeks of monsoon are still to come.

Of the total 3

Driver, conductor drown as bus washed away in flood at Maharashtra

The driver and conductor of a state transport bus were drowned when their bus was washed away in flood waters in this Maharashtra district Sunday, officials said. An off-duty driver, hitching a lift on the vehicle, however escaped.

According to in-charge of

Mumbai harbour clean-up begins 13 days after ship collision

Exactly 13 days after two ships collided and spilled oil and pollutants, various official rescue authorities Friday launched the clean-up operations in and around Mumbai harbour, officials said.

Of the 10 shore locations where oil patches have been found, c

Six killed in Maharashtra wall collapse

Six people, including three children, were crushed to death and two were injured as a wall collapsed on them due to a landslip in Mumbra township of Thane district, police said Thursday.

The accident took place Thursday evening at Sainik Nagar chawl. “Membe

10 days after ship collision, maritime traffic improves

Ten days after two foreign cargo vessels collided outside Mumbai harbour, shipping activities have normalized to a large extent despite the threats from floating or submerged containers, maritime officials said here Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the Indian Navy esco

Oil leak stops from sinking ship, slick danger unabated

An ecological disaster loomed large off Mumbai and the Konkan coastline due to an oil slick though the Coast Guard Monday said it had stopped the leak from the sinking Panamanian ship in Mumbai harbour.

The Coast Guard announced that the ships and aircraft

Fishermen demand compensation for oil spill losses

The 800,000-strong fishing community in Maharashtra Monday demanded compensation for what they claimed were huge losses to their trade following the oil spill outside Mumbai.

The state government and maritime authorities have banned all fishing activities i

Efforts on to check worst oil spill in Arabian Sea

The authorities Sunday launched efforts on a war footing to combat an unprecedented oil spill in the Arabian Sea, spanning around two miles, from a Panaman ship which crashed into another vessel in Mumbai harbour, an Indian Coast Guard (ICG)officer said.

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Sloth bear claws to death four in Maharashtra village

A sloth bear strayed from the forest and clawed four people to death, including a forest department employee and a teacher, in a village in Maharashtra’s Amravati district, police said Thursday.

“The first attack happened late last night. The bea

Maharashtra slaps green tax on old vehicles

The Maharashtra government Wednesday decided to impose an environment tax, ranging from Rs.750 to Rs.3,500 for five years, on old public and private vehicles and plough back the proceeds on various pollution control measures, an official said.

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‘Maharashtra is India’s swine flu capital’

One year after the deadly Influenza A (H1N1) claimed India’s first victim in Pune, Maharashtra has emerged as the country’s swine flu capital, a top health official said here Tuesday.

The state, with 570 deaths due to the disease in the past 12 m

Kidnapped Maharashtra official freed after 78 days in Arunachal

Senior Maharashtra bureaucrat Vijay S. Bardekar, who was kidnapped May 13 from Arunachal Pradesh where he had gone on a vacation, has been released from captivity by alleged Bodo militants after 78 days, a family member said here Monday.

Bardekar

Six drown in western Maharashtra

Six youth, including three employees of a private power company, drowned in western Maharashtra Sunday, police said.

The body of a 19-year old youth was found in a pond in the morning at the Malwani northwest suburb of Mumbai, an officer of the M

Maharashtra governor mourns K.M. Mathew’s death

Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan Sunday expressed grief over the demise of Malayala Manorama chief editor K.M. Mathew, describing him as a visionary leader of the Indian media.

Saying that he was “at a loss to describe the life and work”

No scam in houses for slum dwellers: Ashok Chavan

Countering opposition allegations of a Rs.70,000 crore scam in a slum housing project, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan Tuesday hit back by accusing the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (SS-BJP) alliance of misappropriating over Rs.60,000 in a housing s

Konkan Railway cancels services again due to the rains

Incessant rains in coastal Maharashtra compelled Konkan Railway (KR) to cancel most of its services on the Maharashtra-Goa-Karnataka-Kerala sector for the third consecutive day Monday.

According to an official, the cancelled trains are: 0103 CST-

Heavy rains hit trains in coastal Maharashtra

Heavy rainfall in the coastal region of Maharashtra hit Konkan Railway Sunday. Several trains were cancelled, with passengers evacuated from one after huge mounds of soil blocked the tracks.

More than 400 passengers of Madhusagar Express were shi

Shiv Sena begins march towards Andhra irrigation project

Hyderabad, July 22 (IANS) There’s fresh tension on the Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra border. After Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) protest over the Babhali dam project in Maharashtra, it is now the Shiv Sena’s turn to rake up a controversy over a lift irrigation proje