The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday told the Bombay high court that it has conducted an inquiry and found baseless the allegations levelled against actor Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri of conducting pre-birth sex determination tests of their surrogate son AbRam.

A Mumbai court on Thursday issued a non-bailable warrant against actress Preity Zinta after she failed to appear in court during the hearing of the cheque bounce case filed by scriptwriter Abbas Tyrewala.

Chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said that Delhi is the richest state in the country. While launching the Delhi Statistical Hand Book of year 2013, she claimed that the book reflects a “vibrant” capital city.

A team of Maharashtra police, accompanied by the Delhi police, raided the house of a Delhi University teacher on Thursday allegedly on the grounds that his residence was being used as “a place for the deposit of stolen property.”

Some foreign students have complained to the police that they were stalked and harassed in Nehru Park by two men. A group of 12 students from Pakistan, Bhutan and Bangladesh lodged a complaint with the police alleging that they were stalked and harassed by two men posted with the embassy of Egypt.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said Delhi police is being sensitised to deal with cases of abuse and violence against children and women but voiced concern over rise in such incidents taking place within the four walls of a house.

Adding more trouble for the city Congress government before the Assembly elections, Delhi Lokayukta Justice Manmohan Sarin (Retd) refused to close a case against Delhi minister Raj Kumar Chauhan for his alleged involvement in protecting a leading resort in a tax evasion case.

In a tactical move apparently to render “rebellious” former CM Ajit Jogi politically ineffective ahead of the November Assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, the Congress leadership has taken the initiatives to rein in his youth brigade in the party as well as woo the Satnamis, a dalit community, from him.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s younger son Tejaswi Yadav is likely to play a major role in the RJD to retain his family’s tight hold on the party as his father and former Bihar strongman faces political uncertainties due to the nearing verdict in a fodder scam case against him.

Union minister and chairman of the Congress campaign committee for the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday emerged as a down-to-earth leader when he said that he has not used a beacon light on his car even for a single day and said, “The first thing we (leaders) should give up are these red lights and sirens on our cars since they only distance us from the people.”