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Despite the two recent shocking incidents of rape in Mumbai, the city continues to be the safest in the country for women though the role of the police should be emphasised as never before, say social analysts.

Former judge J.W. Singh was yesterday acquitted by a special court of all charges of alleged involvement with the underworld to extort money from a chit fund collector who owed him Rs4 million.

The Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) opposition yesterday grilled the Maharashtra government in the state legislative assembly on its complacent attitude towards the Rs2 billion cooperative bank scam in which the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders are involved.

Villagers of the Maan dam area in the Narmada valley in Madhya Pradesh have been allowed to return to their homes after they were forcibly evicted by police more than 10 days back.

The Maharashtra government has introduced board exams for fourth standard students, making parents and teachers wonder about the logic behind the move.

The proposed township of Magarpatta City in Pune seems to have finally taken off as hectic construction is under way in the Phase I development also demonstrates the unique concept under which the Rs25-billion project has evolved.

Animal and nature lovers are pleased that public awareness has exerted pressure on snake charmers, who barely visit the city now with live reptiles during a popular Hindu snake festival.

As the nation celebrated its 55th Independence Day, freedom fighters yesterday recalled the past with nostalgia and wondered why Indians have forgotten Mahatma Gandhi and his path of non-violence, the man and his values responsible for attaining freedom.

As allegations fly thick and fast against Bharatiya Janata Party's Federal Information Technology and Communications Minister Pramod Mahajan, political parties in his home state Maharashtra feel he should resign gracefully so that an inquiry is conducted in an impartial manner.

A special court yesterday rejected the plea of former Bollywood actress Parveen Babi to give evidence on the alleged involvement of film actor Sanjay Dutt in the serial bomb blasts of 1993 in Mumbai.

Federal Minister for Power Suresh Prabhu resigned from his post in order to work for his Shiv Sena party, in the same manner that senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ministers quit the ministry to devote themselves to party activities, the party's official newspaper, Saamna, has said.

A special police force, set up to patrol the Mumbai-Pune Expressway following a spate of robberies and a murder, has brought travellers back to one of India's most modern roads.