NEW DELHI - A delegation of activists and lawyers from the northeast Friday met a home ministry official to discuss the issue of the safety of women in the capital, especially from the northeast, following the gangrape of a Mizo woman here.

BHOPAL - An engineering student was arrested in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur town on charges of morphing nude photographs of a girl from Guwahati in Assam whom he had befriended on a social networking site two years ago, police said Friday.

MUMBAI - Hoping to prevent scams like the Adarsh Co-operative Housing Society, the Maharashtra government is contemplating measures likes satellite mapping of all prime properties in Mumbai and determining their exact status and ownership.

CHANDIGARH - A space for 46 being occupied by 136 people -- that is the sorry state in the jail in Punjab's Moga town and in most other prisons in the state which are packed way beyond their capacity, leading to frequent fights and drug abuse.

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