Shahapur

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  Girls Made To Strip For Menstruation Check In Maharashtra School, Case Filed: Cops

  Police have registered a case against eight persons after girls studying in Classes 5 to 10 were made to strip to check if they were menstruating, officials said.

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  Girls Told To Strip For Period Check After Blood Stains Found In School Bathroom

  Girls in a Maharashtra school, between classes 5 and 10, were forced to strip and examined by teachers after blood stains were found in the bathroom, sparking anger among parents, said the police.

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  Maharashtra Boy Goes In For Leg Surgery, Comes Out Circumcised, Probe On

  The parents of a nine-year-old boy from Shahapur in Maharashtra's Thane district have complained to the police that doctors at a government-run hospital wrongly performed a surgery on his genitals instead of an injured leg.

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  FIR Filed After Over 100 Students Suffer From Food Poisoning In Thane School

  Police registered an FIR against four persons on Thursday, a day after more than 100 students of a private ashram school in Maharashtra's Thane district suffered from food poisoning after consuming the mid-day meal, an official said.

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  Pregnant Thane Woman Carried To Hospital In 'Dholi' , Gives Birth In Transit

  A tribal woman who was carried in a 'dholi' (makeshift stretcher) due to the lack of proper roads after she went into labour gave birth in transit in Shahapur taluka of Thane district of Maharashtra on Sunday.

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  20 Killed, 3 Injured In Crane Accident At Thane Expressway Site

  Twenty workers were crushed to death late last night when a crane collapsed on them at a construction site in Thane's Shahapur in Maharashtra, police said.

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  Maharashtra Farmer, 58, Dies During Protest March From Nashik To Mumbai

  A 58-year-old participant in the long march of thousands of farmers and tribals from Nashik district in North Maharashtra to Mumbai has died, an official said on Saturday.

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  100 Birds Dead In Maharashtra Poultry Farm, Bird Flu Detected

  Bird flu cases have been detected in Thane district of Maharashtra following the death of around 100 birds at a poultry farm in Shahapur recently, an official said on Thursday.

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  3-Year-Old Maharashtra Girl Attacked By Leopard Last Week Dies

  A 3-year-old tribal girl who was attacked by a leopard in Shahapur in Thane district some days ago has succumbed to injuries, a local health official said on Tuesday.

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  Car Runs Over People Waiting For Bus In Maharashtra, 4 Killed

  At least four persons, including a 16-year-old boy, died and five others were injured after being hit by a car at Shahapur in Thane district of Maharashtra on Saturday morning, the police said.

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  Cops Crack Murder Of Shiv Sena Leader; His Wife Among 2 Arrested

  Police probing the murder of a Shiv Sena leader from Shahapur, whose half-burnt body was found at a village in Ganeshpuri in the district five days ago, today claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of his wife and a 'contract killer'.

• Thane: Girl Allegedly Gang-Raped, Two Booked

  A 22-year-old girl was allegedly gang raped by two persons in Ghoteghar village in Shahapur taluka in the district, police said today.

• 30-year-old man shot dead in Thane

  A 30-year-old man was shot dead by four unidentified assailants in Shahapur taluka of Thane district, police said on Wednesday. While Umesh Gaikar and his friend stopped their motorbike at a petrol pump in Khativali near Vashind on Tuesday afternoon, four people got down from Esteem car and shot Umesh from point blank range, Shahapur police inspec...