Police: Traffic stop leads to Phoenix drop house

MUMBAI - Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan Saturday said that issues related to Vasai villagers' demand to exclude 18 villages from the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) in Thane district will be resolved within 10 days.

ISLAMABAD - Judicial services were paralysed in Pakistan's Lahore city Saturday after a clash between lawyers and police turned violent.

THANE/MUMBAI - The Maharashtra government, yielding to pressure, invited villagers of Vasai for talks as they started their march Saturday -- the birth anniversary of Mahatma gandhi -- to protest redrawing of municipal limits in Thane district, a protester said.