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The 10 men charged with gang raping a young woman here will be booked under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) and the Gangster Act, given the gravity of the crime, the police said Wednesday.

Luring her with a chocolate, an unidentified man raped a six-year-old girl in the industrial area here, police officials said Wednesday.

The Supreme Court, which had last year temporarily allowed Tamil Nadu's post-Pongal traditional sport Jallikattu involving bullfights, Wednesday faced a renewed plea by an animal rights panel to ban the sport for good to avoid cruelty to animals.

The standing committee of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Wednesday passed the resolution that 15,000 properties owned by its slum department would be transferred on an ownership basis to the occupants - the 1947 partition refugees.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, a prominent spiritual guru, was Wednesday appointed as a member of the Shri Amarnathji Shrine Board (SASB), a temple trust which was at the centre of communal tension in Jammu and Kashmir last year.

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit Wednesday called upon officials of the state government to accelerate the pace of development and adopt result-oriented measures as the city gets ready to host the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in 2010.

Retired Delhi University professor M.K. Kapoor and four others were rewarded Rs.25,000 Wednesday for putting a brave face and grappling with armed assailants to help foil a bank robbery in south Delhi earlier this week.

The Hyderabad police are not likely to take any action on their own against B. Ramalinga Raju, who Wednesday admitted to a Rs.40 billion fraud while resigning as chairman of IT major Satyam Computer Service Limited.

Shekhar Tiwari, a legislator of Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) who has been arrested for the murder of a government engineer here last month, Wednesday denied any role in the crime and said he was being framed up to save "someone high-up".

The Delhi High Court Wednesday reserved its order on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's plea challenging the central government's decision to reassess her income in 2001 to find out if she evaded taxes.