NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
Mumbai, Aug 16 (PTI) Following are the top stories from the Western Region at 1700 HRS.
BOM19 MH-2NDLD MVA **** Thackeray insists on freezing MVA's CM face first; Pawar, Patole bat for change in govt Mumbai: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday insisted that MVA decide its chief ministerial face first rather than going by the logic of which party wins most seats, asserting that he would back any candidate announced by the Congress and NCP (SP). **** BOM17 MH-MVA-LD PAWAR **** Centre didn't honour LoP post: Pawar on Rahul not being allotted front-row seat at I-Day event Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday hit out at the Centre, saying it did not honour the post of the Leader of Opposition by allotting Rahul Gandhi a seat in the last rows at the Independence Day event. **** BOM18 MH-BANGLADESH-PROTEST-TENSION **** Maharashtra city tense after stones hurled at protest rally over Bangladesh anti-Hindu violence Mumbai: Tension erupted in Jalgaon city of north Maharashtra on Friday after a few stones were hurled at a vehicle showroom during a protest march taken out by a Hindu organisation to condemn the atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh, officials said. **** BOM10 MH-DOCTORS-STRIKE **** Maharashtra: Resident doctors’ strike intensifies as seniors join them Mumbai: The resident doctor’s indefinite strike intensified in Maharashtra on its fourth day on Friday, with their seniors joining the protest, disrupting services at government and civic hospitals and inconveniencing thousands of patients in the state. **** BOM1 MH-AJIT PAWAR **** Leading NCP a huge responsibility; Mahayuti seat-sharing talks moving positively: Ajit Pune: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who heads the Nationalist Congress Party, has said that helming the NCP away from the shadows of his uncle and founder Sharad Pawar after the split is a huge responsibility. **** BOM13 MH-PATOLE-BJP **** Many BJP MLAs to join Congress before Maharashtra polls, claims Patole Mumbai: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday claimed many BJP MLAs will join his party before the state assembly elections. **** BOM11 MH-MVA-SULE **** Mahayuti govt committed sin of fixing price for sisters' love: Sule on Ladki Bahin scheme Mumbai: NCP (SP) leader Supriya Sule on Friday hit out at the Mahayuti government in Maharashtra over its flagship 'Ladki Bahin' scheme, accusing it of committing the sin of fixing a price for sisters' love. **** BOM9 MH-HC-RANE **** HC issues summons to Rane on Sena (UBT) leader plea seeking cancellation of his election Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday issued a summons to BJP MP Narayan Rane on Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Vinayak Raut's plea seeking cancellation of the former's election from the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency. **** PTI RSY
