Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Monday met two rape victims in Uttar Pradesh —a teenaged girl who was allegedly raped by a BSP MLA in Shahbazpur village in Banda district and another dalit girl who is admitted in a hospital in Kanpur.

Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Monday sought sanction from Tamil Nadu governor Surjit Singh Barnala to prosecute chief minister M. Karunanidhi for allegedly allotting government land to a “favoured few” under the discretionary quota in violation of rules.

An obscene MMS involving a female student and two male students of the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), which was shot some time in April 2010, has come back to haunt the University authorities after they came to know about the MMS being circulated commercially through CD. The administration has launched an inquiry and has promised severe action against those found guilty.

In a first-of-its-kind case, a son has deposed against four of his family members, including mother, in a Delhi court. Appearing before the Karkardooma court of additional sessions judge Surender Kumar Singh, 40-year-old Surender testified that his mother and three brothers had allegedly trespassed his house and poured kerosene oil after brutally beating him and his children.

Two young men, who allegedly molested and attempted to rape a minor girl inside a gymnasium after abducting her from a park in Vikaspuri area of west Delhi on Monday morning, have been arrested by the police.

After much delay, the new circle rate will come into force in the city from Tuesday, which will see that the minimum price at which property transaction takes place in the city goes up by about 100 per cent.

The problem of funding the third phase of the Delhi Metro seems to have been sorted out with Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit saying that the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which was said to be reluctant in funding the third phase, has agreed to do so. However, a formal communication from the JICA is yet to be received in this regard.

A year ahead of the MCD election, the Delhi Cabinet on Monday constituted a five-member committee to examine reorganisation of the civic body into smaller units. The committee, consisting of three Delhi ministers and two BJP members, has been tasked to arrive at a political consensus on possible trifurcation of the MCD. However, the BJP has alleged that the party was not consulted before constituting the committee.

The Delhi Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to impose `200 per square meter as development charge on residents of unauthorised colonies awaiting regularisation. A three-member group of ministers, headed by Delhi urban development minister A.K. Walia, had recommended to impose development charge on about 1,000 unauthorised colonies awaiting regularisation.

Mumbai’s iconic Mehboob Studios resonated with some top-class blues music at the Mahindra Blues Festival held over February 5 and 6. Luke Kenny and Mojo Jukebox opened the festival with a guitar rendition of Beethoven’s Fur Elise. Besides that, there is not much that can be said about the band apart from the fact that they didn’t quite fit into the whole bluesy mood.