The Latest Breaking News from Maharashtra

On April 6, the Indian government greenlit the construction of a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facility in the western state of Maharashtra.

PALGHAR: Two godowns were gutted in a fire in Vasai in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the early hours of Sunday, a civic official said.

CHANDRAPUR: An inebriated man in Chandrapur in Maharashtra allegedly killed his three-and-half-year-old son and then attempted suicide on Sunday, a police official said. The incident took place in Rajoli village in Mul tehsil, some 45 kilometres away from the district headquarters, he said.

THANE: At least 20 people were rescued after a major fire erupted in a 12-storey building in Bhiwandi city in Thane district of Maharashtra on Saturday afternoon, officials said.

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Ram Navami festival was the latest concerted attempt to ignite religious tensions in India’s richest state.

THANE: A 100-year-old woman was rescued after the slab of a ground-plus-one residential structure collapsed on Thursday afternoon in Mumbra in Maharashtra's Thane district, a civic official said.

In 2018, when Rekha Waghmare was 39 years old, her husband died by suicide. Namdev, 42, was among over 12,000 farmers who died by suicide in Maharashtra from 2015 to 2018, struggling with five years of crop failure. He left behind Rekha, their two children, a 3.5 acre farm, and…

A joint team of Central Intelligence and Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Maharashtra nabbed a man suspected of starting a fire on a Kerala train. Read further on Dynamite News:

Former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has hit out at the BJP accusing it of "harassing, raiding and arresting the opposition leaders." Read further on Dynamite News:

MUMBAI: Maharashtra on Sunday reported 562 new Covid-19 cases, taking the overall infection tally to 81,45,342. Three deaths were also reported from the state raising the fatality count to 1,48,444, a health official said.