Piyush Goyal said neither Sunetra Pawar nor senior NCP leader Praful Patel had conveyed any information about a pending merger.

On Wednesday morning, NCP chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar died in a plane crash. Just three days later, on Saturday evening, his wife Sunetra Pawar is set to take the oath as Deputy Chief Minister.

A married real estate mogul is accused of offering a female subordinate more than $3 million drawn from his company’s stock as part of an “indecent proposal” to lure her away from her husband, according to a lawsuit.