BLOCK BETWEEN THANEKALYAN HITS COMMUTERS

MUMBAI: Commuters travelling on Sunday on the central suburban rail corridor faced inconvenience as the Central Railway (CR) operated a maintenance block between Thane and Kalyan stations. The block was operated from 10.30am to 3.00pm. Local trains on the CR’S mainline were operating with delays. No maintenance block was undertaken on harbour line of the CR and Western Railway.

Massive fire breaks out at Digha; no one injured

NAVI MUMBAI: A massive fire broke out in a tyres shop at Digha on Sunday evening. No one was injured in the accident. The police said that the fire broke out around 7.45pm and rapidly spread to nearby areas. Fire brigade officials reached the spot on time and doused it within one hour. An electric short circuit is suspected to have cause the fire.

Five die in three separate accidents on Saturday

KOLHAPUR: Three people died after their bike was hit by a truck at Ajra in Kolhapur on Saturday. The victims are identified as Rajesh Redekar, 26, Bayakka Patil, 56, and Rutuja Patil, 18. In another accident, Sanjay Patil, 45, died when a car hit his bike at Kagal. In the third case, Megha Patil, 27, died when her sari was caught in a grinding machine and she was crushed to death.

Villagers protest against sugar mill causing pollution

KOLHAPUR: Villagers of Belewadi in Kolhapur held massive demonstrations against a co-operative sugar mill owned by Hasan Mushrif, an MLA of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), for releasing effluents in the river. Villagers say the pollution is causing serious health hazards.enraged villagers surrounded the mill workers and threw polluted water on them while roads leading to the mill were also blocked on Saturday.

Girl kills self after kin goes on pilgrimage without her

KOLHAPUR: Sonam Kamble, 21, who was not taken along with other family members on a religious pilgrimage, committed suicide in her house at Hebbal in Kolhapur on Friday night.

Death toll in Nashik accident goes up to five

NASHIK: The death toll in the accident involving a car and a private bus near Bhokani village on the Sinnar-shirdi road on Saturday evening has gone up to five, with two children also succumbing to their injuries, police said Sunday. Three people had died on the spot and many others were injured when their car proceeding to Sinnar in Nashik district collided with the bus, which was heading towards the temple town of Shirdi in Ahmednagar district, an official of the Wavi police station said. All the deceased were residents of Mira Road in the neighbouring Thane district, he added