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Man arrested for blackmailing college student
A 31-year-old man from Dharavi was arrested for blackmailing a 20-year-old college student from Kalwa into marrying him.
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Lawyer's plea to renounce faith quashed
Karl Marx's famous line about religion being the opium of the people appears to have been taken too literally by a local lawyer, whose unusual petition in the Thane sessions court to declare him as 'non-religious' was struck down by the Justice SS Todkar here recently.
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Degrees are at odds with seats in Thane civic body
Less than a fifth of the 130 corporators elected to the Thane municipal corporation are graduates, more than half non-matriculates and two unschooled.
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Election results: Sena-BJP set to retain power in Thane
The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance is set to retain control of Thane Municipal Corporation, belying the prediction that anti-incumbency factor and MNS would make it difficult.
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Shiv Sena-BJP on top in Thane
The Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (SS-BJP) alliance emerged as the single largest entity at the Thane Municipal Corporation winning 61 seats of the total 130.