Sadanand Patil

Two people were seriously injured when a speeding car hit a bike on Palm Beach Road near Sanpada circle on Monday.

In a tragic incident on Thursday's early hours, a speeding glass-laden truck collided with another truck on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway in Maharashtra's Raigad district, resulting in one fatality and leaving two others injured. The mishap occurred when the truck lost control and overturned after the collision.

The special squad of the Satara police on Monday foiled a dacoity attempt at a jewellery shop following the arrest of five people.

The state goes to polls on October 21, a Monday, causing activists and election officials to worry that it may get combined with the weekend and hit voter turnouts. Voting day being a public holiday, it could give citizens a three-day weekend. It is also the beginning of the festive season, with Diwali falling on October 27. Officials said there is a trend of poor voter turnouts during such long weekends, and with Diwali round the corner, there are chances that families may head out of town.

Pachpaoli police stormed a unit producing fake tobacco products of popular brands at Lashkaribagh on Thursday.

A vegetable vendor allegedly used a kitchen knife to slit his 42-year-old business partner's throat at the latter's house at Kesariya Apartment in Karjat early on Monday.

A truck driver died after his vehicle crashed into another truck and overturned while negotiating a turn on a slope along the Pune-Mumbai corridor of the expressway near Amrutanjan bridge point around 5am on Thursday.

Snake-worshippers in a Pune village have come to distort a Bombay High Court's ruling on the protection of snakes.

The fear of Covid-19 spread has kept the cane-cutting workers away this season, leaving the sugar mills of western Maharashtra in severe crisis.