Written By Ankita Sinha

Students at IIT Bombay have temporarily suspended their hunger strike after the college director reportedly assured them that a committee will be set up to discuss the fee hike and examine a possible reduction in fees.

A struggling actress was found dead in her apartment in Mumbai's Andheri suburb yesterday. Kritika Choudhury's decomposing body was discovered after neighbours complained of a stench from her home.

Sheikh Bismillah, 27, still bears the bruises. Four days ago, he was seen in a cellphone video from Maharashtra, being mercilessly thrashed by a group of men. He and his uncle 65-year-old uncle Sheikh Siddique, were caught selling meat by the group, who alleged it was cow meat.

At the Zilla Parishad primary school in Maharashtra's Vadgaon Gund, about 200 kilometres from Mumbai, tablets have replaced textbooks and students now use an interactive projector instead of a blackboard. About 20 students per class, from Class 1 to 4 study here. What makes it more interesting is the fact that the digital school has been completely...

A 24-year-old auto rickshaw driver was beaten to death in Mumbai, allegedly over the suspicion that he stole a mobile phone.

As far as crime scenes go, the details rarely get more grisly than this. After stabbing a woman, the wife of a Mumbai police officer, several times with a kitchen knife, the killerleft a note scrawled in her blood on the floor: "Tired of her, catch me and hang me." At the end of the sentence was a smiley face.

The wife of a Mumbai police inspector who investigated the Sheena Bora murder was found dead at their home in city's Santacruz area late last night.

A jailed NCP lawmaker from Maharashtra hurled expletives at a police officer outside the Byculla jail in state capital Mumbai because the van that was to pick him up was late. Ramesh Kadam has been in jail for 19 months, arrested by the Devendra Fadnavis government in August 2015 in a 300 crore scam.

Days after Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray directed his legislators to visit drought-hit areas in Maharashtra and listen to farmers' woes, one of them decided to send his proxy instead. Gautam Chabukswar, the enterprising legislator, sent Yashodhar Fanse, a former corporator, as his substitute to visit a village in Osmanabad district. Mr Fanse all...

There is no evidence to prosecute Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the 2008 Malegaon blasts that killed seven people, the National Investigating Agency has told a special court in Mumbai for the second time in a year.

Thousands of powerloom workers were forced to return home after note ban as owners were unable to pay salaries due to cash crunch.

While mystery persists over the process to "purify womb" and get a "super baby" - over which a tussle is on between activists and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Kolkata -- an Ayurveda textbook has revealed an intriguing process to conceive a boy.

Catholic associations in Mumbai, along with residents of posh locality Bandra, held silent protests on Wednesday outside the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC office in Bandra West. Over 300 people had gathered to agitate against the civic body after it demolished a 122-year-old Holy Cross that was allegedly situated on private land in Band...

An 18-month-old child has become the first casualty of swine flu in Mumbai this year. The infant, who was a resident of Worli in south Mumbai, died on April 28 at a hospital.

It wasn't a scam that it seemed at first sight. But a right to information response that put a price tag of Rs 972 on every 100 gram packet of curd bought by the Central Railway for its canteens last year has led to three officers being suspended from duty. They however, could return to their jobs if proven innocent after an investigation is carrie...

Students at IIT Bombay have temporarily suspended their hunger strike after the college director reportedly assured them that a committee will be set up to discuss the fee hike and examine a possible reduction in fees.

A struggling actress was found dead in her apartment in Mumbai's Andheri suburb yesterday. Kritika Choudhury's decomposing body was discovered after neighbours complained of a stench from her home.

Sheikh Bismillah, 27, still bears the bruises. Four days ago, he was seen in a cellphone video from Maharashtra, being mercilessly thrashed by a group of men. He and his uncle 65-year-old uncle Sheikh Siddique, were caught selling meat by the group, who alleged it was cow meat.

At the Zilla Parishad primary school in Maharashtra's Vadgaon Gund, about 200 kilometres from Mumbai, tablets have replaced textbooks and students now use an interactive projector instead of a blackboard. About 20 students per class, from Class 1 to 4 study here. What makes it more interesting is the fact that the digital school has been completely...

A 24-year-old auto rickshaw driver was beaten to death in Mumbai, allegedly over the suspicion that he stole a mobile phone.

As far as crime scenes go, the details rarely get more grisly than this. After stabbing a woman, the wife of a Mumbai police officer, several times with a kitchen knife, the killerleft a note scrawled in her blood on the floor: "Tired of her, catch me and hang me." At the end of the sentence was a smiley face.

The wife of a Mumbai police inspector who investigated the Sheena Bora murder was found dead at their home in city's Santacruz area late last night.

A jailed NCP lawmaker from Maharashtra hurled expletives at a police officer outside the Byculla jail in state capital Mumbai because the van that was to pick him up was late. Ramesh Kadam has been in jail for 19 months, arrested by the Devendra Fadnavis government in August 2015 in a 300 crore scam.

Days after Shiv Sena Chief Uddhav Thackeray directed his legislators to visit drought-hit areas in Maharashtra and listen to farmers' woes, one of them decided to send his proxy instead. Gautam Chabukswar, the enterprising legislator, sent Yashodhar Fanse, a former corporator, as his substitute to visit a village in Osmanabad district. Mr Fanse all...

There is no evidence to prosecute Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the 2008 Malegaon blasts that killed seven people, the National Investigating Agency has told a special court in Mumbai for the second time in a year.

Thousands of powerloom workers were forced to return home after note ban as owners were unable to pay salaries due to cash crunch.

While mystery persists over the process to "purify womb" and get a "super baby" - over which a tussle is on between activists and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Kolkata -- an Ayurveda textbook has revealed an intriguing process to conceive a boy.

Catholic associations in Mumbai, along with residents of posh locality Bandra, held silent protests on Wednesday outside the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC office in Bandra West. Over 300 people had gathered to agitate against the civic body after it demolished a 122-year-old Holy Cross that was allegedly situated on private land in Band...

An 18-month-old child has become the first casualty of swine flu in Mumbai this year. The infant, who was a resident of Worli in south Mumbai, died on April 28 at a hospital.

It wasn't a scam that it seemed at first sight. But a right to information response that put a price tag of Rs 972 on every 100 gram packet of curd bought by the Central Railway for its canteens last year has led to three officers being suspended from duty. They however, could return to their jobs if proven innocent after an investigation is carrie...