Sunday, November 18, 2012, Chandigarh, India
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Bal Thackeray dies at 86
Suffers cardio-respiratory arrest
Party leaders appeal for calm Cremation today
Mumbai, November 17
File photo of Shiv Sena chief Bal ThackerayShiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, who had been critically ill for the past several days, was pronounced dead today afternoon. The 86-year-old cartoonist turned politician, known for his strong views and speaking his mind, sometimes bordering on the offensive, breathed his last at 3.33 pm.
                       File photo of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray

Mumbai shuts down, Uddhav appeals for calm
Mumbai, November 17
Within minutes of Bal Thackeray's death being announced, Mumbai went into lock-down mode with shops shutting down and vehicles going off the roads.

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After Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena at the crossroads
Mumbai, November 17
Bal Thackeray with MNS chief Raj and Sena’s heir apparent Uddhav (R) in this 2002 file photoA big question mark hangs over the Shiv Sena after Bal Thackeray. As a personality-oriented party, the average Sena worker is simply not prepared to accept another leader.
Bal Thackeray with MNS chief Raj and Sena’s heir apparent Uddhav (R) in this 2002 file photo. — PTI

Ponty Chadha, brother killed in Delhi farmhouse shooting
Arguments between two turn ugly Exchange of fire kills both
New Delhi, November 17
Delhi police personnel outside Ponty Chadha’s farmhouse in Chhatarpur, South Delhi, on SaturdayGurpreeet Singh Chadha, alias Ponty Chadha, the man synonymous with liquor trade in north-India and for his political connection cutting across party lines, was shot dead.
Delhi police personnel outside Ponty Chadha’s farmhouse in Chhatarpur, South Delhi, on Saturday. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

Be it liquor or films, Punjab remained Ponty’s stronghold
Chandigarh, November 17
Gurdeep Singh Chadha, alias Ponty, and his brother, Hardeep Singh Chadha, had strong business connections with Punjab. The family’s political affiliations never came in the way of the growth of the Chadha group.
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One killed in blast at liquor shop in Jammu
Jammu, November 17
In the second attack in the last three days in Jammu and Kashmir, suspected militants lobbed a grenade on a liquor shop in the Narwal area here this evening, killing one person and injuring five others. The police said it was investigating whether there was any similarity between the firing incident outside a liquor shop in Srinagar and today’s incident.

Cartoonist who redrew M’rashtra’s politics
Mumbai, November 17
As Bal Thackeray himself once told an interviewer he would have stuck to cartooning if the management of the Free Press Journal, where he was first employed, had agreed to his request and allowed him to sit farther away from the office toilet! The budding cartoonist’s request was turned down and he quit in a huff to start his own publication, Marmik, inspired by the satirical magazine Punch.

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