Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Journalist`s death in Maharashtra: Murder charge invoked against accused

A total of 11 nomination forms out of 39 received for the upcoming Kasba Peth Assembly byelection in Pune city of Maharashtra were found invalid after scrutiny, the district administration said on Wednesday. (PTI)

Police have busted a sex racket being operated from a hotel in Nagpur city of Maharashtra and rescued two women while a man was arrested, an official said on Wednesday. A team of Social Services Branch of the city police recently raided a hotel located in Narendra Nagar after sending a decoy customer. A case was registered under the Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act, he said. (PTI)

A member of a village gram panchayat from Palghar district of Maharashtra was nabbed for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 25,000 for issuing a No Objection Certificate (NOC) for official work, an ACB official said on Wednesday. A private driver was also detained for the crime, he said. The gram panchayat member was nabbed near a wine shop located on the Boisar-Chillar road on Tuesday while he was accepting Rs 25,000 from the complainant, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) official said. (PTI)

Mumbaikars` wait to travel in the AC double-decker e-bus will end soon as the much-awaited first e-bus will be operational from next week. The bus will initially operate on Kurla-Santacruz route. Read more...