Eleven MNS workers were today arrested for allegedly trying to extort Rs 27 lakh from a film unit for using foreigners in a movie instead of locals, police said.

The stampede at a police recruitment drive at Kalina hostel in Mumbai on Monday, which left one killed and 11 injured, has shattered hopes of most of the job aspirants who came from different parts of Maharashtra.

Noted singer Asha Bhosle has distanced herself from parochial sentiments involving Mumbai and Maharashtra saying “Hindustan belongs to all.”

Nooriya Haveliwala, arrested for mowing down two persons including a traffic policeman and injuring four constables, today approached the sessions court seeking bail.

On a day when Bal Thackeray labelled him a "traitor", Shah Rukh Khan today stuck to his comments on Pakistani players in IPL saying there was nothing "anti-national" and ruled out meeting the Shiv Sena supremo on his own to sort out the controversy.