The engine of the Mumbai Central-Valsad passenger train caught fire during the journey at Kelve Road station in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Wednesday evening, a Western Railway (WR) official said.

Five employees were affected following a leak of chlorine gas at a joint water plant of Bhiwandi, Thane and Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporations in Bhiwandi city, an official said on Wednesday.

A man in Maharashtra killed a stray dog and was later found on the road playing with one of its eyeballs. The shocking incident took place in Mumbra, on the outskirts of Mumbai.

Hemant Patil and Mahendra Fating, both 19, died in road accidents after their bike skidded due to potholes.

The Ahmednagar railway station in Maharashtra has been renamed as Ahilyanagar, as a tribute to Lokmata Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar, officials said on Tuesday.

Three people have died and more than 120 were evacuated amid heavy rains in Maharashtra in the last 24 hours, the State Disaster Management Department said on Tuesday.

The State Transport Authority (STA) in Maharashtra has granted approval for provisional licences to the parent firms of app-based taxi aggregators Ola, Uber, and Rapido for bike taxi services in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

Acharya Devvrat on Monday assumed charge as the new Governor of Maharashtra, becoming the 22nd occupant of Raj Bhavan.

Bank of Maharashtra has opened applications for 350 Specialist Officer posts across Scale II to VI, including roles such as Assistant General Manager and Chief Manager. Eligible candidates can apply online.

Seven new properties, including Deccan Traps at Panchgani and Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra, and Natural Heritage of Tirumala Hills in Andhra Pradesh, have been added to the Tentative List of UNESCO's World Heritage for India, according to officials.

Abdul Wahid Shaikh, the only accused acquitted by the trial court in the 2006 Mumbai train blasts case, has sought a compensation of Rs 9 crore for his "wrongful incarceration" and "custodial torture".

The driver of a school van and a Class IX student were killed after the vehicle collided with a bus on a flyover in Maharashtra's Nagpur city on Friday, police said.

Urging the Maharashtra government to withdraw an order that would allow homeopaths to prescribe modern medicines after completing a six-month course in pharmacology, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) wrote to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Arjun Tendulkar produced a brilliant all-round show for Goa, picking up 5 wickets with the ball before adding 36 runs with the bat.

A 62-year-old man was trampled to death by a wild elephant in eastern Maharashtra's Gadchiroli district, a forest official said on Thursday.

Months after she got married, 23-year-old Mayuri Gaurav Thosar died by suicide in Maharashtra's Jalgaon, allegedly due to continuous harassment by her in-laws.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's assurance to rename an upcoming metro station in Bengaluru's Shivaji Nagara after St Mary has sparked a massive row, with the BJP accusing the Congress government of insulting the Maratha icon

The Supreme Court, while observing that a person after putting on the police uniform must rise above all kinds of biases, today asked for a Special Investigation Team (SIT) with both Hindu and Muslim officers to probe the May 2023 riots in Akola.

A 38-year-old married businessman, Govind Jagannath Barge, was found dead inside his car with a gunshot wound to the head in Maharashtra's Solapur district.

In what could easily be passed off as a scene from a movie, two members of a gang were seen atop a moving truck, carrying out a daylight theft near Ratnapur village on the Solapur-Dhule highway in Maharashtra. The theft was caught on camera.

Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan - the ruling BJP's vice-presidential pick - eased to victory Tuesday, scooping 452 of 752 valid votes cast by MPs from both Houses earlier today.

At least 50 people lost their lives and crops on more than five lakh hectares of land were damaged due to heavy rainfall in Marathwada this monsoon, with Nanded emerging as the worst-hit district, an official said on Tuesday.

Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan, the NDA candidate for the post of the Vice President, will succeed Jagdeep Dhankhar in the post.

Voting has ended for the vice presidential election, with the lawmakers choosing between the BJP-led ruling alliance's pick of Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan and the INDIA bloc's ex-Supreme Court judge, Justice B Sudershan Reddy.