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IN PHOTOS: Medicine-laden truck overturns after hitting tree in Thane

IN PHOTOS: Medicine-laden truck overturns after hitting tree in Thane

A truck carrying medicines overturned after hitting a tree and a car rammed into it on the Eastern Express Highway in Maharashtra's Thane city on Friday. Pics/RDMC

12 April,2024 05:59 PM IST | Asif Ali Sayed
IN PHOTOS: Five injured in accident between SUV and truck in Maharashtra's Thane

IN PHOTOS: Five injured in accident between SUV and truck in Maharashtra's Thane

Five people were seriously injured when a sports utility vehicle (SUV) collided with a truck on Nashik-Mumbai highway in Maharashtra's Thane district on Monday morning, civic officials said. Pics/RDMC

01 January,2024 12:43 PM IST | Asif Ali Sayed
IN PHOTOS: Mira Road killer remanded to judicial custody by Thane court

IN PHOTOS: Mira Road killer remanded to judicial custody by Thane court

The Thane court remanded the 56-year-old accused, who had allegedly killed and chopped his 32-year-old live-in partner's body into multiple pieces, to judicial custody for 14 days. The accused who had chopped and boiled his live-in partner's body in Mira Road was produced in a Thane court. Pics/Hanif Patel

22 June,2023 05:24 PM IST | Asif Ali Sayed
Thane: Prior to admission, undercover reporter 'diagnosed' with schizophrenia

Thane: Prior to admission, undercover reporter 'diagnosed' with schizophrenia

Asia’s biggest mental asylum, the Regional Mental Hospital, Thane, has always been in the news for the wrong reasons. mid-day goes undercover to show how any mentally fit person could be institutionalised by greasing the right palms at Thane's mental health institution (With inputs from Samiullah Khan and Faizan Khan) (Pic/Rajesh Gupta)

04 May,2023 12:39 PM IST | Anagha Sawant
Tempo driver held for raping 7-year-old, Pregnant woman killed by brother-in-law

Tempo driver held for raping 7-year-old, Pregnant woman killed by brother-in-law

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30 April,2022 11:41 AM IST
Why is smuggling of ambergris or ‘whale vomit’ on the rise?

Why is smuggling of ambergris or ‘whale vomit’ on the rise?

Recently, a joint operation conducted by the Mumbai police and the forest department led to the seizing of 26 kg of ambergris and arrests of four persons involved in its trade. Amid rising instances in Maharashtra of illegal sale of ambergris-- also known as ‘whale vomit -- we look at what the substance really is and why perfume makers seek it

13 December,2021 03:09 PM IST
Crime News Wrap: Matunga drugs case turns murkier; woman drowns daughter in tank

Crime News Wrap: Matunga drugs case turns murkier; woman drowns daughter in tank

As the Matunga drugs-and-gun-planting case unravels, it is revealed what went behind the framing-up and arrest of marketing executive Faqrudin Sayyed. Police in Maharashtra's Thane district have filed a charge sheet against all 33 accused, including four minors, in the Dombivli gang-rape case. Driven by the constant harassment by her husband and in-laws for a male child, a woman allegedly drowned her three-month-old daughter in a water tank. Marathi TV actor's wife held for cheating Thane senior citizen of Rs 3.75 lakh.

04 December,2021 10:21 AM IST

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