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Manik Rao Gavit, Union MoS for home, is accused of conniving with a UP mafia don in a phone call aired on a TV channel. A probe is on.

Big B billboards in Karachi touting a TV phone quiz contest on the lines of KBC are pulled down. Authorities didn’t like him "in front of their flag".

The Right to Education Bill drops a crucial clause—which said that unaided schools must reserve 25% seats for free education to poor kids.

Aprivate securityman at Shahrukh Khan’s Mumbai home ‘Mannat’ shoots his compadre, apparently over taunts of "whether he had a real gun".