A huge cache of 34 revolvers, three pistols, one silencer and 1283 live cartridges meant for use by Rajan`s henchmen as part of a crime syndicate was seized by police in 2005. File Pic
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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: WR to operate 36-hour block from Sat afternoon to dismantle Kandivali Yard booking office
A 36-hour major block will be operated on fifth line and yard lines from Saturday afternoon to dismantle an elevated booking office at Kandivali Yard. The suburban and mail express trains will be run on Fast Line during the block that will start at 1 pm on May 31 and end at 1 am in the intervening night of Sunday-Monday. Due to this block, at least 73 suburban local services will remain cancelled on the first day and 89 on the second day: Western Railway
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6 months 1 week 17 hours 12 minutes ago
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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Verma gave info about warships, submarines through sketches, audio notes, got money in return: Cops
The Thane-based engineer, arrested on the charge of spying, shared sensitive information about warships and submarines to the Pakistani intelligence operative through sketches, diagrams and audio notes, and received money from various bank accounts in India and abroad in return, police said. The 27-year-old mechanical engineer Ravindra Verma, a resident of Kalwa in neighbouring Thane, was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra police on Wednesday. According to the police, he was lured into passing classified information after being honey-trapped by a Pakistani agent posing as a woman on Facebook: PTI
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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Farmers hit by untimely rains to get aid, damage assessment work on: Maharashtra minister
Compensation will be provided to farmers affected by unseasonal rains and storms in Maharashtra after completion of damage assessment exercise, state Revenue Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Friday. The unseasonal rains and storms that struck in April and May have caused extensive damage to crops and fruit plantations in different districts, including Amravati in the Vidarbha region: PTI
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Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Child killed, 2 other kids injured in wall collapse in Kalyan
A 10-year-old boy was killed and two other children were seriously injured after the boundary wall of a school in Kalyan area of the district collapsed on Friday, police said. The incident took place near KBK International School in Kalyan`s Balyani locality. As children were playing in the adjacent lane, the boundary wall of the school collapsed, said Yasin Tadvi, chief of the Disaster Management Cell of Thane Municipal Corporation. The deceased child was identified as Hansraj Mahendra Singh. Abhishek Rajesh Sahani (10) and Shoaib Sheikh (10) were undergoing treatment at a hospital. Authorities are investigating the cause of the wall collapse, said a police official: PTI