Reported By Tejas Mehta

Goa will investigate the allegation that one of the state's top police officers Sunil Garg accepted a bribe of 5.5 lakh rupees, part of it at the police headquarters, chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar said in the assembly today amid demands from the opposition that the officer be suspended.

NGOs or non-profit organisations, that receive more than one crore rupees in government funds or more than 10 lakhs as donation from abroad and their office-bearers will now be considered public servants and will have to declare details of their assets and liabilities and those of their spouses and dependent children by July 31 this year, the Centr...

After nearly three decades in service, India's majestic aircraft carrier INS Viraat set sail for one last time from Mumbai to Kochi. It will be decommissioned later this year.

Hyderabad-based leader Asaduddin Owaisi's party MIM or the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen has been derecognized as a political party in Maharashtra and can no longer contest civic body elections in Mumbai.

Mumbai televangelist Dr Zakir Naik abandoned plans for a press conference on Skype from Saudi Arabia today, choosing instead to issue a written statement that stressed "I do not support terrorism or violence in any form whatsoever. I have never supported any terrorist organisations."

As the monsoon pours down over Maharashtra, a train headed from Surat in Gujarat to Nandurbar in northwest part of the state slid off its track this morning.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis added 11 more ministers to his government on Friday morning, allotting partner Shiv Sena only two junior posts, in yet another message from the BJP on who is boss.

Days after 20 hostages were killed in a cafe in Dhaka, the Maharashtra government has begun an inquiry against controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik, who has been accused of inspiring, through his speeches, the weekend's deadly attack in Bangladesh in which 20 hostages were hacked to death.

The monsoon is pouring down in Goa, where a passenger ship, docked for repairs, was seen precariously tilted to one side.

Movie star Salman Khan must appear before the Maharashtra Women's Commission in Mumbai next week, the agency said today, after angering fans, the public, activists and others by stating that training sessions for his new film made him feel like a "raped woman".

Maharashra politician Chhagan Bhujbal, who was arrested in March in a corruption case, will stay in jail after his request for bail was rejected once again in court today.

Former Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse exchanged no calls with gangster Dawood Ibrahim, Maharashtra's Anti Terror Squad or ATS has concluded after investigations, sources said today.

The film Udta Punjab can be released with only one cut, the Bombay High Court today told the Censor Board. The court wants only one scene of involving urination to be cut and the disclaimer modified.

The Bombay High Court has reminded Pahlaj Nihalani, chief of the Central Board of Film Certification, that his job is to certify films not censor them.

Top filmmakers today attended a press conference to say they stand with producer Anurag Kashyap's "Udta Punjab," and made a strong pitch for freedom of speech, attacking Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, who has ordered 89 cuts in the film.

Goa will investigate the allegation that one of the state's top police officers Sunil Garg accepted a bribe of 5.5 lakh rupees, part of it at the police headquarters, chief minister Laxmikant Parsekar said in the assembly today amid demands from the opposition that the officer be suspended.

NGOs or non-profit organisations, that receive more than one crore rupees in government funds or more than 10 lakhs as donation from abroad and their office-bearers will now be considered public servants and will have to declare details of their assets and liabilities and those of their spouses and dependent children by July 31 this year, the Centr...

After nearly three decades in service, India's majestic aircraft carrier INS Viraat set sail for one last time from Mumbai to Kochi. It will be decommissioned later this year.

Hyderabad-based leader Asaduddin Owaisi's party MIM or the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen has been derecognized as a political party in Maharashtra and can no longer contest civic body elections in Mumbai.

Mumbai televangelist Dr Zakir Naik abandoned plans for a press conference on Skype from Saudi Arabia today, choosing instead to issue a written statement that stressed "I do not support terrorism or violence in any form whatsoever. I have never supported any terrorist organisations."

As the monsoon pours down over Maharashtra, a train headed from Surat in Gujarat to Nandurbar in northwest part of the state slid off its track this morning.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis added 11 more ministers to his government on Friday morning, allotting partner Shiv Sena only two junior posts, in yet another message from the BJP on who is boss.

Days after 20 hostages were killed in a cafe in Dhaka, the Maharashtra government has begun an inquiry against controversial preacher Dr Zakir Naik, who has been accused of inspiring, through his speeches, the weekend's deadly attack in Bangladesh in which 20 hostages were hacked to death.

The monsoon is pouring down in Goa, where a passenger ship, docked for repairs, was seen precariously tilted to one side.

Movie star Salman Khan must appear before the Maharashtra Women's Commission in Mumbai next week, the agency said today, after angering fans, the public, activists and others by stating that training sessions for his new film made him feel like a "raped woman".

Maharashra politician Chhagan Bhujbal, who was arrested in March in a corruption case, will stay in jail after his request for bail was rejected once again in court today.

Former Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse exchanged no calls with gangster Dawood Ibrahim, Maharashtra's Anti Terror Squad or ATS has concluded after investigations, sources said today.

The film Udta Punjab can be released with only one cut, the Bombay High Court today told the Censor Board. The court wants only one scene of involving urination to be cut and the disclaimer modified.

The Bombay High Court has reminded Pahlaj Nihalani, chief of the Central Board of Film Certification, that his job is to certify films not censor them.

Top filmmakers today attended a press conference to say they stand with producer Anurag Kashyap's "Udta Punjab," and made a strong pitch for freedom of speech, attacking Censor Board chief Pahlaj Nihalani, who has ordered 89 cuts in the film.