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Rajiv Pratap Rudy, minister of state for skill development and entrepreneurship has emphasized on the urgent need of bringing about skills in the mainstream of the country’s agenda. Source: Mumbai News

One of the country’s premier contemporary art destinations, Gallery 7, in the heart of SoBo, Kala Ghoda, is hosting a one-of-a-kind show of the biggest showmen of art, F.N. Souza. Source: Mumbai News

Nearly 10 days after he was arrested on the charge of killing his paramour, Thane crime branch head constable Pramod Shinde has confessed to the crime. Source: Mumbai News

The Kandivali police formally arrested three men, on Tuesday, in the double murders of internationally acclaimed artist Hema Upadhyay and her lawyer Haresh Bhambhani. Source: Mumbai News

In what might be the biggest lead yet into establishing a common link in the murders of Kannada scholar MM Kalburgi in Dharwad in August, communist leader Govind Pansare in Kolhapur earlier this year, and rationalist Narendra Dabholkar in Pune in 2013, investigators have found evidence that the same weapon was used in all three crimes. Source: Mumbai News

Bevakoof (the uninformed). That's how Jamaat-E-Islami Hind (JIH) chief Syed Jalaluddin Umri described the youths attracted towards the Islamic State (Isis) movement in Syria and elsewhere. The renowned Islamic scholar was talking at the four-day Jamaat convention which concluded on Monday in Hyderabad. Source: Mumbai News

With cases of child sexual abuse frequently coming to light, there is a great ne ed to educate young children in personal safety to create a safe environment for them, felt experts speaking at the persona safety education (PSE) conference organised by Arpan, an NGO, which works to address the issue of child sexual abuse in the country. Source: Mumbai News

A draft of new rules and regulations for dance bars reviewed by this newspaper says that every dance bar must now have CCTVs with the feed beamed live to the nearest police station. Since dance bars were always a guilty pleasure, they are unlikely to attract any customers with cops watching the proceedings all the time. Also, live pictures beamed into a police stations could be open to abuse. Source: Mumbai News

The Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) commissioner has given a week's time to two of its officers to raze down illegal constructions in a particular ward. Source: Mumbai News

The state government may extend the cutoff date for labelling slums as `legal', chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said in the legislative assembly on Friday .The current cutoff date, which is January 2000, could now be pushed to December 31, 2000. Source: Mumbai News