For a few seconds, Ritu did not know how to react. In a packed Metro coach, surrounded by strangers, someone she had never met was offering her an ornament without hesitation.

Shrikant Pangarkar, accused in Gauri Lankesh’s murder and Nalasopara arms case, won Jalna Municipal Corporation as an independent.

Maharashtra’s complicated political space took a turn ahead of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections when estranged cousins Uddhav and Raj Thackeray joined forces after 20 years.