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Nine workers are killed and three others are injured by an explosion at a factory in Nagpur district, Maharashtra, India.
2023-12-17

Twenty workers are killed and three others are injured when a large crane collapses at a highway construction site in Thane, Maharashtra, India.
2023-08-1

The death toll from the landslide in Raigad, Maharashtra, India, increases to 27, with at least 50 people still missing, as monsoon rains complicate rescue efforts.
2023-07-23

At least 18 people are killed in a fire at a chemical plant in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
2021-06-7

Five people are killed in a fire at a Serum Institute of India facility in Pune, Maharashtra, India.
2021-01-21

Ten newborn babies die in a hospital fire in western Maharashtra, India. The fire was supposedly caused by an electrical short circuit. Prime Minister Narendra Modi says that the news was "heart-wrenching".
2021-01-9

More than 200 people are missing after the five-storey Tariq Garden apartment block in Mahad, Maharashtra, India, collapses. Residents and rescue workers dispatched by the National Disaster Response Force have rescued at least 28 people.
2020-08-24

A massive fire occurs in a textile factory in the Mumbai suburb of Bhiwandi in India's Maharashtra state. Fifty people are feared trapped.
2016-04-12

Indian women's rights activists are barred by angry villagers and local authorities from entering Shani Shingnapur temple despite a court ruling guaranteeing access. Breaking with a centuries-old tradition, the high court in Mumbai ruled women have a fundamental right to enter Hindu temples across the state of Maharashtra, and the government has the responsibility to protect their rights. Bhumata Ranragini Brigade leader Trupti Desai and 25 other supporters were detained by police. All India Mahila Congress President Shobha Oza and Delhi Commission for Women chairwoman Swati Maliwal called the actions of locals and authorities "completely shameful."
2016-04-2

A Naxalite landmine kills three police officers in the Gadchiroli district of India's Maharashtra state.
2013-10-17