Yogesh Damle

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  Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake Strikes Cyprus, No Casualties Reported

  A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck 71 km (44 miles) northwest of Limassol in Cyprus on Wednesday, according to the US Geological Survey, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

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  A New Landing Feat for Hercules C130J in Mumbai

  One of India's biggest defence cargo planes landed on the tiny runway at the Juhu Airport in Mumbai this morning.

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  Children Skip School to be Lowered into Wells to Fetch Water

  Even before summers, when wells run too dry to draw water from pitchers, villages in Marathwada are lowering its very children into the wells by ropes. This is a grim tale from a village, ironically a part of the constituency of Maharashtra's Rural Welfare Minister, Pankaja Munde.

• Autorickshaw, Taxi Fares to Go up by Rs 2 in Mumbai

  From tonight, commuters in Mumbai will have to pay more for taxi and auto rickshaw rides as fares have been hiked by Rs 2 after the Bombay High Court ruled on the issue in favour of the government.

• Caught on Camera: Mumbai Teacher Striking Special Needs Child

  On camera, a teacher takes a cane and strikes a child on once, twice. There are yelps. She keeps going. The child is eight.

• No Ice-Cream for Ajit Pawar Spells Trouble for 2 Engineers

  Two engineers in the Public Works Department have received a notice to explain why Maharashtra's Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar was served lunch without ice-cream for dessert on Monday.

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  Fighting Eviction, Desperate Campa Cola Residents Write to President

  The officials of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have reached the Campa Cola society for the third today to cut the power and water supply to residents living in the illegal flats there. For two days, BMC officials have been facing stiff resistance from residents who are not allowing them to enter the compound to carry out eviction in ...

• Suspect strangled TCS worker Esther Anuhya, left with her suitcase, say Mumbai police

  The police have arrested a 28-year-old man in the rape and murder of young software engineer Esther Anuhya, whose decomposed and burnt body was found in a swamp near a major highway on the outskirts of Mumbai on January 16.

• In hopes of finding a partner, Shiva the rhino leaves for Delhi zoo

  Zookeepers at Mumbai's Jijamata Udyaan treated their beloved Shiva to his favourite sugarcane and bananas for one last time, before bidding farewell to the 34 year old rhinoceros. Shiva is set to move to Delhi, where two female rhinos await a mate.

• Mumbai: Medical students alarmed at rise in TB cases in their fraternity

  As the number of medical students contracting tuberculosis rises in Mumbai, the medical fraternity in the city is a scared lot. 24 medical students are fighting tuberculosis, with the latest case reported from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)-run Nair hospital in Mumbai Central.

• 9500 crucial files missing from Mumbai civic corporation building: security compromised?

  For a city like Mumbai, constantly singed by terror, any security breach is scary and this involving the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation is alarming.

• This car runs 300 km in a litre

  The vehicle is powered by a lawn mower engine and has only three wheels - two in the front and one at the rear.

• The curious case of the missing Arunachal Pradesh

  While Arunachal Pradesh continues to be a key area of dispute between India and China, the state is not even a part of the country, according to the Maharashtra government's education department.

• A urinal dedicated to politician Ajit Pawar by opponents

  He has called it "the biggest mistake of his political life" but Ajit Pawar, the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, isn't being forgiven for mocking the water and power problems defeating the state's farmers.

• Drought spurs debts, delays weddings in this village

  A ten-hour drive from Mumbai leads to Karjat, a village with 600 homes. The lacerations of drought rankle through its narrow and dusty lanes.