Locals dump garbage in Thane's Portuguese ruins

The researcher who has discovered the dilapidated structures in Thane district wants the government to protect the sites from rising urbanisation and human intervention One and a half years of research later, Mayur Thakare, a circle officer at the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), has successfully traced the ruins located in Thane district's Bhiwandi-Palghar Taluka -- which some misinformed locals believed belonged to Chhatrapati Shivaji and some even to the Pandavas -- to Mumbai's colonial Portuguese past. The researcher last month proved that

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