NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Mumbai, Apr 25 (PTI) Following are the top stories from the Western Region at 1700 HRS.


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* Modi standing as wall between you and Cong's plans to loot you: PM tells people


Morena: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday stepped up his attack on the Congress and said he was standing as a wall between the people and the grand old party's plans to loot them. *



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* NCP (SP) unveils manifesto; favours caste census, stresses on welfare of farmers and women



Pune: The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Thursday unveiled its manifesto, favouring caste census and promising a separate commission for farmers' welfare, right to apprenticeship, 50 per cent reservation for women in jobs. *


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* Firing outside Salman Khan’s home: Police custody of two accused extended till April 29




Mumbai: A court on Thursday extended the police custody till April 29 of two men arrested in connection with the firing outside Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s residence in Mumbai’s upscale Bandra. *





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* Baghel among 41 candidates in fray from 3 seats in Phase-II of LS polls in Chhattisgarh




Raipur: Amid enhanced security, three Lok Sabha constituencies - Kanker, Rajnandgaon and Mahasamund - all facing the Naxal menace, in Chhattisgarh will go to polls on Friday, where 41 candidates are in the fray even as the straight fight is between the ruling BJP and opposition Congress. *


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* BJP won't let Congress succeed in its intentions: Paatil on Pitroda's inheritance tax remarks





Ahmedabad: Gujarat BJP president CR Paatil on Thursday said the Congress has the habit of robbing people, but the ruling party will not let it succeed in its intentions of taking away people's assets and distributing them to a specific community. *




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Cong took step backward on Sangli for MVA's sake, not due to helplessness: Nana Patole



Sangli: The Congress took a step backward on the Sangli Lok Sabha seat for the sake of the Maha Vikas Aghadi and not because it was helpless, the grand old party's Maharashtra unit chief Nana Patole said on Thursday.





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Shinde likens work done by Modi to Himalayas; hits out at Uddhav with ‘chameleon’ jibe



Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday likened the accomplishments of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last ten years to the Himalayas and said the work done by the Congress was like a hillock.



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Woman killed, four injured in clash between two groups in Ahmedabad



Ahmedabad: An 80-year-old woman was killed and four persons were injured after two groups clashed in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad city over the publication of names in a pamphlet for a local temple festival, the police said Thursday. **

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