The police said on Thursday that while there is no corroboration of Saif Ali Khan’s version that the complainant had misbehaved with women accompanying the actor, statements given by the hotel staff corroborate what the complainant says.

Ironic it may sound, elite anti-naxal commando squad CoBRA, which was named after one of the most venomous reptiles, is now facing incidence of snake bites among its personnel posted in deep jungles.

Facing the ire of party workers after the Congress’ humiliating defeat in the BMC election as well as an FIR lodged for possessing assets disproportionate to his income, embattled Mumbai Congress president Kripashankar Singh resigned from his post on Wednesday.

Fed up of continuous fights with his wife over trivial issues, a Mumbai resident faked his own three-year-old son’s kidnapping, keeping him in his girlfriend’s custody for 58 days.

Jubilant over the Shiv Sena victory in the BMC election, Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Monday claimed that the people strongly supported his party because of his social work. Mr Thackeray said that the criticism levelled by the Opposition parties, as well as the media, did not affect voters because of the work done by his party in the BMC.

With the aim of securing a majority in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Shiv Sena is now reportedly offering plum posts to the Independents and ensuring their support in return. Positions like memberships of standing and improvement committee or chairmanship of other civic committees are on the table to be bartered for backing.

MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday ruled out an alliance with the NCP to come to power in the Pune Municipal Corporation. He said that he will not be able to face people in the next election if he joined hands with the NCP.

Uncertainty prevails in the Nashik municipal corporation where MNS has emerged as the single largest party. With 40 corporators, the MNS may get the chance to have its first mayor in Nashik, but for that they need the support of at least two major parties to gain a majority in the 122-member house.

Despite the Congress and NCP forging an alliance for the first time for the BMC election, the Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI emerged winners in India’s richest civic body with an annual budget of Rs 22,000 crores.

The Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI combine on Friday emerged the clear winners in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election, the country’s richest civic body with an annual budget of Rs 22,000 crores, proving ineffective the newly-formed civic alliance of the Congress and the NCP.