NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Mumbai, Aug 29 (PTI) Following are the top stories from the Western Region at 1700 HRS.





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* Graft in COVID-19 body bags buy: Court denies pre-arrest bail to ex-Mumbai mayor Pednekar


Mumbai: A sessions court here on Tuesday refused anticipatory bail to former Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar in a case pertaining to alleged corruption in the purchase of body bags meant for COVID-19 victims.






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Baghel urges PM to get Census done, says bill giving 27 pc quota to OBCs pending with guv



Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get the Census conducted while setting a separate code for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), an official said on Tuesday.


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Madhya Pradesh ATS arrests Chhattisgarh man for helping Naxalites

Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) has arrested a man belonging to Chhattisgarh on charges of helping Naxalites, an official said on Tuesday.






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Maharashtra: Backward community woman beaten up after she asks man to return Rs 2,000

Mumbai: A woman belonging to a backward community in Maharashtra's Satara district was beaten up allegedly by four persons after she asked one of them to return Rs 2,000 which she had given him for cattle fodder, police said on Tuesday.




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Aaditya targets Maharashtra CM and BMC, says civic hospitals left to fend for themselves

Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Tuesday alleged civic hospitals in Mumbai are in a shambles and running out of basic medicines as he targeted the city municipal corporation and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.




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Maharashtra: Female leopard, two cubs die of electrocution, 4 held

Gondia: A female leopard and two cubs died after they came in contact with live wires laid to poach wild boars in Maharashtra’s Gondia district, an official said on Tuesday. Four persons have been arrested in connection with the death of the big cats.






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Mumbai: Tribunal awards Rs 1.36 cr compensation to kin of man killed in road accident

Mumbai: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here has awarded a compensation of more than Rs 1.36 crore to the family of a motorcycle rider killed in a road accident in neighbouring Thane district of Maharashtra in 2018.




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Zimbabwean student held after bullet is found in her bag at Mumbai airport

Mumbai: A 20-year-old Zimbabwean woman, who has enrolled herself in a college in India, was arrested after a bullet was found in her bag at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport here, an official said on Tuesday. ***

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