Thane

For 32-year-old Prashant Suresh Bhojane, whose mother works as a civic sweeper in Maharashtra's Thane city, cracking the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam was always his dream, and he persevered against all odds to finally fulfil the goal.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) have arrested a 39-year-old man for trying to kill a school headmaster at Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district by stabbing him multiple times, an official said on Wednesday.

Indian Railways started the first passenger train on April 16, 1853, from Bori Bunder to Thane covering a distance of 34 km.

A 12-year-old boy was booked on Thursday in connection with the death of a civic school student in Thane in January last year, a police official said.

Over 3 weeks after a couple allegedly killed their 18-month-old daughter and secretly buried her at a graveyard in Maharashtra's Thane, the police exhumed her body and arrested the parents after an anonymous letter tipped them off about the crime.

A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has acquitted a man and four of his other family members accused of subjecting his wife to cruelty, noting the woman "resiled" and did not support her own version.

Police have arrested a 27-year-old salesman for allegedly stealing jewellery valued at Rs 1.05 crore from a shop in Maharashtra's Thane city, an official said on Sunday.

Three students stabbed their classmate after he allegedly refused to show his answer-sheet to them during a written examination of Class 10 in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said today.

In Maharashtra's Thane, a 9-year-old boy finished his evening prayers at his local mosque, stepped out of the building, but was kidnapped by the local tailor before being killed, put in a sack and hid in the latter's backyard.

In a swift action, police rescued a five-year-old girl kidnapped allegedly by two women from the Mumbai suburb of Bhandup with an intention to sell her, just 12 hours after the crime took place, an official said on Monday.

Some workers of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena burnt the photo of National Conference leader Omar Abdullah in Thane, nearly 23 km from Mumbai, for opposing the construction of Maharashtra Bhavan on a 2.5-acre land in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam.

Three persons allegedly posing as policemen robbed gold worth Rs 1.57 lakh from a woman in Majiwada in Thane city, a police official said on Sunday.

A 3-year-old girl died on Thursday after falling into a pit dug for constructing a highway in Thane district, a police official said.

Six dogs were poisoned to death in Ganeshpuri area of Thane district, a police official said on Sunday.

Nearly 45 passengers travelling in a state transport bus had a narrow escape after the vehicle caught fire in Maharashtra's Thane city on Sunday morning, an official said.

For 32-year-old Prashant Suresh Bhojane, whose mother works as a civic sweeper in Maharashtra's Thane city, cracking the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) exam was always his dream, and he persevered against all odds to finally fulfil the goal.

The Government Railway Police (GRP) have arrested a 39-year-old man for trying to kill a school headmaster at Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district by stabbing him multiple times, an official said on Wednesday.

Indian Railways started the first passenger train on April 16, 1853, from Bori Bunder to Thane covering a distance of 34 km.

A 12-year-old boy was booked on Thursday in connection with the death of a civic school student in Thane in January last year, a police official said.

Over 3 weeks after a couple allegedly killed their 18-month-old daughter and secretly buried her at a graveyard in Maharashtra's Thane, the police exhumed her body and arrested the parents after an anonymous letter tipped them off about the crime.

A court in Maharashtra's Thane district has acquitted a man and four of his other family members accused of subjecting his wife to cruelty, noting the woman "resiled" and did not support her own version.

Police have arrested a 27-year-old salesman for allegedly stealing jewellery valued at Rs 1.05 crore from a shop in Maharashtra's Thane city, an official said on Sunday.

Three students stabbed their classmate after he allegedly refused to show his answer-sheet to them during a written examination of Class 10 in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said today.

In Maharashtra's Thane, a 9-year-old boy finished his evening prayers at his local mosque, stepped out of the building, but was kidnapped by the local tailor before being killed, put in a sack and hid in the latter's backyard.

In a swift action, police rescued a five-year-old girl kidnapped allegedly by two women from the Mumbai suburb of Bhandup with an intention to sell her, just 12 hours after the crime took place, an official said on Monday.

Some workers of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena burnt the photo of National Conference leader Omar Abdullah in Thane, nearly 23 km from Mumbai, for opposing the construction of Maharashtra Bhavan on a 2.5-acre land in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam.

Three persons allegedly posing as policemen robbed gold worth Rs 1.57 lakh from a woman in Majiwada in Thane city, a police official said on Sunday.

A 3-year-old girl died on Thursday after falling into a pit dug for constructing a highway in Thane district, a police official said.

Six dogs were poisoned to death in Ganeshpuri area of Thane district, a police official said on Sunday.

Nearly 45 passengers travelling in a state transport bus had a narrow escape after the vehicle caught fire in Maharashtra's Thane city on Sunday morning, an official said.