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The Pune railway police on Saturday claimed to have solved the murder case, where a young woman's body had been found in an abandoned trolley-bag at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai on September 26, with the arrest of her paramour.
Pravin Thakre, 29, who was in a live-in relationship with the victim Roshni, was arrested in Pune, said the police.
"We arrested Pravin in the afternoon and he is being taken to Mumbai," said Suryakant Noukudkar, inspector, Pune Railway Police.
After announcing a slew of reform measures to revive growth, India's Finance Minister P Chidambaram has indicated that the Budget for 2013-14 would focus on cutting wasteful expenses and promoting investments.
"We must have a budget that emphasises fiscal consolidation and incentivises savings, promotes investment and cuts out wasteful expenditure," he told Bloomberg Television. However, he added the government's key social welfare programmes will be fully protected.
Congress candidate and son of President Pranab Mukherjee, Abhijit Mukherjee, has won Jangipur Lok Sabha by-poll by 2,536 votes, defeating his nearest rival CPI-M's Muzaffar Hussain.
The by-election was held on October 10 as the seat had been left vacant after Pranab Mukherjee was elevated to the highest office of the country.
Salman Khursid's wife Louise Khurshid has refuted all allegations of graft, adding that she will put the documents in public domain soon.
She also took a dig at Arvind Kejriwal saying that he is desperate for issues as he has turned into a politician from an activist.
Kejriwal said that they will now teach Congress and BJP how to do politics. "First they used to dare us saying we should join politics. Now that we have joined, we will teach Congress, BJP how to do politics. These parties don't know how to do politics; they only know how to loot the country. We will teach them that politics is not about looting the country, but a patriotic work,' Kejriwal said.
He also stated that last night at a makeshift prison in Bavana, Outer Delhi, he has coined some new slogans like, 'Hamara neta kaisa ho, aam aadmi jaisa ho!'
Arvind Kejriwal and supporters of Indian Against Corruption have now reassembled in Parliament Street after being released from detention earlier in the day.
Kejriwal, Sisodia are currently addressing IAC supporters reiterating their demand that Law Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife must be arrested. He also thanked people of Bawana -- where IAC activists were kept overnight -- who got them food.
Meanwhile, Kejriwal has stated that they do not have the permission to hold a rally. Arrests expected.
The Food and Drug Administration has asked Parle Products to recall from the market the entire stock of its popular candy "Mango Bite' branding it as "unsafe". Officials of FDA Konkan Division recently raided two locations in Raigadh and Bhiwandi and seized stock of the finished goods and ingredients, valued at Rs 2 crore.
According to FDA, the manufacturer Parle Biscuits Pvt Ltd at Kirkhinde in Khopoli (Raigadh) used buffered lactic acid (adulterant) in the confectionery which is not permitted.
Joint Commissioner of FDA (Food) S K Shere said the seized goods include Sugar Boiled Confectionery (Parle Kachha Mango Bite) packed in jars valued at Rs 1,46,68,400. Besides, the team also seized around 8158 kgs of Buffered Lactic Acid valued at Rs 10.60 lakh.
PTI: Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee and Congress candidate, is leading by 6,541 votes over his nearest CPI-M rival Muzaffar Hussain in Jangipur Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal's Murshidabad district.
Election Commission sources said at the end of ninth round of counting Mukherjee bagged 1,93,864 votes while the CPI-M nominee polled 1,87,323 votes.
There will be a total 16 rounds of counting. The by-election was held on October 10 as the seat had been left vacant after Pranab Mukherjee was elevated to the highest office of the country.
PTI: At least 10 people were killed today when a suspected suicide bomber targeted an office of a pro-government milita in the restive Darra Adam Khel region of northwest Pakistan, police officials said.
A powerful explosion ripped through the office of the "aman committee" or militia in the central market of Darra Adam Khel.
Police officials said they believed that the office had been hit by a suicide bomber. At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in the attack, police officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels.
The wound were rushed to a nearby hospital. No other details were immediately available. No group claimed responsibility for the incident. The banned Pakistani Taliban had a strong presence in the Darra Adam Khel region till the army launched an operation to flush them out of the area in 2009.
Arvind Kejriwal and other supporters of India Against Corruption have been released from the makeshift jail at Bawana in Outer Delhi. Kejriwal said that his protests against Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's NGO will continue.
Kejriwal and his supporters were arrested on Friday after they tried to set up a sit-in dharna near Prime Ministrer's residence to demand the ouster of Khursid. They were taken to the Rajiv Gandhi stadium in Bawana on Friday where they spent the night.
ANI: The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency has seized four Indian fishing vessels and arrested 24 crew members, while they were fishing 200 kilometres inside Pakistani waters, an official statement issued by the agency has confirmed.
The statement said that the fishermen have now been handed over to the Docks police station pending further investigation.
According to The Dawn, an MSA official said that the Indian vessels were caught while they were fishing around 100 kilometres from the Cape Montz coast, which is on the eastern side of the Karachi.
He claimed that with the arrest of these 24 fishermen, the total number of Indians in the Malir district jail would now rise to 63 from 39 who have been held from before.
AFP: A shot has been fired at a campaign office for President Barack Obama in the western US state of Colorado, shattering a window but injuring no one, police said.
Staff were in the office when the incident occurred mid-afternoon, yesterday. "It looks like it was one shot that was fired into the structure," said Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez, cited by The Denver Post.
A photo posted online by the Denver Westword showed a window broken at the front of the office. Police were searching for a "possible vehicle of interest," said Lopez, giving no further details.
Chief Medical Officer of Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district SP Singh, who had been "untraceable" since Monday night after being allegedly abducted by Minister of State for Revenue Vinod Kumar Singh, on Friday made a dramatic appearance at his office in Gonda in the evening.
CMO Singh held a meeting with the officials of the district administration and police, sources in the CMO office said. Singh later said that he has no complaint with the minister after his resignation. He said the Superintendent of Police met him in the evening and has assured full security. Similar assurance has been given also by senior officials in Lucknow, he added.