NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Mumbai, Jan 8 (PTI) Following are the top stories from the Western Region at 1700 HRS.







BOM8 MH-NCP-LD DEFECTION-CLAIMS
* Ajit Pawar-led NCP trying to poach MPs of rival faction, claim Raut, Awhad


Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday claimed that the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) was trying to engineer defections in the rival NCP (SP), promising its leaders berths in the Union cabinet. *









BOM10 MH-COURT-NANDED BLAST

* Prosecution tried to frame 2006 Nanded blast accused, failed to prove right-wing link: Court

Mumbai: Mere recovery of literature and communications relating to some right-wing groups cannot be construed as a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act, a Maharashtra court noted while acquitting nine persons, accused of having RSS and VHP links, in the Nanded blast case. *




LGB3 CG-COURT-BJP MLA-CASE

* Chhattisgarh court files case against BJP MLA for remarks on Jesus Christ; summons her


Jashpur: A court in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district has registered a criminal case against a woman BJP MLA over her alleged objectionable remarks on Jesus Christ last year, and asked her to appear before it on Friday. *



BOM7 MH-HC-PREGNANCY
* Does a woman with intellectual disability have no right to become mother? HC


Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned whether a woman with intellectual disability has no right to become a mother. *









BOM9 MH-FADNAVIS-DRUG MENACE
* Youth in India being targeted through drugs to weaken country from within: Fadnavis


Thane: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday said that while India is emerging as a strong nation and the fifth-largest economy, its youth is being targeted through drugs to weaken the country from within. *








BOM4 MH-FIRE-BUILDING
* Fire at residential building in Mumbai; no casualty




Mumbai: A fire broke out in a three-storey residential building near the Sion Hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday morning, officials said. *









BOM2 GJ-ACCIDENT-CAR
* Three killed, four injured as car crashes into truck in Gujarat's Bharuch


Bharuch (Gujarat): Three persons were killed and four others injured after their car rammed into a truck on a highway in Gujarat's Bharuch district in the early hours of Wednesday, police said. *

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