Following are the news highlights from the western region at 2100 hrs.
BOM 10 AVI-AIRPORT-LD RUNWAY
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Mumbai: Flight services at the Mumbai airport hit badly with two major carriers -- Jet Airways and Air India -- together cancelling over 100 flights and rescheduling about 70 services due to the closure of the main runway for six hours for pre-monsoon maintenance work.
BOM 4 CG-NAXAL-ENCOUNTER
Raipur: A gun-battle brakes out between the security forces and Naxals at a forest in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district.
BOM 11 CG-NAXAL-BLAST-BUS
Raipur: Naxalstarget a bus ferrying nearly 30 jawans with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur, leaving two of them dead and five injured.
BOM 13 BIZ-ICICI BANK-FITCH
Mumbai: Global ratings agency Fitch says it is doubtful about the strength of corporate governance at ICICI Bank, amid allegations of impropriety against its MD and Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar.
BOM 2 MH-BJP MLA-ARREST
Mumbai: Ahmednagar police arrests BJP MLA Shivaji Kardile for allegedly vandalising the SP's office there.
BOM 3 MP-DIGVIJAY-YATRA
Narsinghpur (MP): Congress leader Digvijay Singh concludes his 'Narmada Yatra' along the banks of the holy river in Madhya Pradesh's Narsinghpur district.
BOM 15 MH-SENA
Mumbai: Rebuffing BJP president Amit Shah's rapprochement efforts, the Shiv Sena says 'the Modi floods' may have swept away snakes and mongooses, but "the tiger cannot be tamed."
LGB 3 MH-HC-PREGNANCY
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court permits a minor victim of rape to terminate her 24-week pregnancy.
LGB 4 GA-HC-SCARLETT
Panaji: The Bombay High Court to hear final arguments on April 12 on a CBI petition challenging the acquittal of two accused by a lower court who were booked for drugging and raping British teenager Scarlett Keeling on state's Anjuna coast in 2008.
BES 16 MH-KILLINGS-NCP
Mumbai: Alleging a political conspiracy, the NCP says two legislators of the party are "falsely implicated" in the murder case of two Shiv Sena leaders in Ahmednagar "at the behest of the Shiv Sena", a ruling ally in the BJP-headed Maharashtra government.
BES 13 MP-CEC-VOTERS
Indore: The Election Commission (EC) admits discrepancies in the electoral rolls in Madhya Pradesh and assured they will be rectified before the year-end assembly polls in the state.
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