In what can be seen as a move to assess election preparedness in Maharashtra for the upcoming Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit Nagpur and Pune in the last week of this month.

Students of Veeramata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) at Matunga on Saturday embarked on a “Clean Mumbai Drive” at Dadar Chowpatty.

Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that the Central assistance for the areas hit by excessive rain and floods in Vidarbha and other regions of Maharashtra would be announced this month. Mr Pawar started his three-day Vidarbha visit on Saturday.

The Vile Parle police arrested two men in connection with a robbery case of `21 lakh that belonged to the Tata Power Company and was robbed by two unknown accused last month from the office of a private company collecting electricity bills.

Merely because the panch witness (the witness before whom police seals or opens the premises, or seals evidence from the crime scene) has turned hostile, it was not necessary to doubt the police’s investigation, observed the Bombay high court recently, while upholding life imprisonment of a man convicted for his wife’s murder.

An unidentified man and a one-year-old girl, who he had kidnapped from outside the Borivali railway station, were killed after a speeding Borivali-bound local train knocked them down while he was trying to escape with her using the railway tracks between Borivali and Kandivali railway stations late on Friday night.

The police has launched a massive manhunt for nabbing the accused involved in the mugging attempt on the 32-year-old female morning jogger at Marine Drive that took place early on Friday.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday had a “secret meeting” with the chief minister. Both the leaders held closed door discussions for nearly 45 minutes at the CM’s official residence Varsha.

A day after the anointment of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi by the BJP as its prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the party’s youth wing, the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), swept three of the four top posts in the Delhi University Students’ Union (Dusu) election. The ABVP stormed back to rule the DU students’ body after two long years.

Defending the collegium system for appointment of judges to higher judiciary, Chief Justice of India P. Sathasivam on Saturday clarified that it is the prerogative of the Central government to bring a bill to change it.