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A devastating fire swept through Thane's Gamdevi market complex early Thursday. The blaze claimed the lives of a fireman and a security guard. Two other fire personnel sustained injuries. The inferno destroyed numerous vegetable and clothing stalls. Firefighting efforts faced challenges due to combustible materials. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

A banker couple from Bhandup tragically lost their lives on the Mumbai-Nashik highway near Kharegaon after their motorcycle was struck by a container truck. The accident occurred Saturday morning as they returned from visiting a relative. Police are investigating the possibility of the victims being in the truck's blind spot during a turn.

A 42-year-old electrician was arrested in Surat after allegedly pushing his wife to death in front of a local train at Mulund station. The couple's 13-year-old son witnessed the fatal incident. The couple had a history of frequent arguments, with the wife having previously filed complaints.

A 15 year old girl suffered burn injuries following a gas cylinder leakage and explosion that ripped apart her neighbour’s tin shanty in the Gholai Nagar slums, kalwa, late Saturday evening.

On the first day of the partial unlock, there was friction between a few shopkeepers and TMC officials in kalwa ward office where the traders were demanding permission to open their shops.

TMC corporator from kalwa, Mahesh Salvi and five others were arrested by the kalwa police for allegedly assaulting a labour contractor on Tuesday morning.

An 18-year-old boy from kalwa suffered injuries after he fell off a running train between kalwa and Thane stations on Thursday morning, the railway police informed.

A duo was arrested by the kalwa police for the brutal murder of a man in kalwa. As the cops had sketchy information about the duo, they browsed through their social media accounts and nabbed one of them.

A political drama broke out over the handling of a dead body in a civic hospital here on Friday when Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA of the Sharad Pawar group Jitendra Awhad alleged that although a patient had died in the general ward of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial Hospital in kalwa, “his body” was transferred to the hospital’s ICU (Intensive Care Unit) and kept there for five hours thereafter.

A 37-year-old was conned by three persons to the tune of Rs 66,000 at kalwa.

The first phase of the ambitious third kalwa road bridge over the Thane creek will be made operational by August-end, ending traffic snarls at kalwa naka — a prominent junction on the Mumbai-Thane-Navi Mumbai-Pune route, additional municipal commissioner Sandeep Malvi said Tuesday.