Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India
1. People should be taught to say Bharat Mata Ki Jai: Bhagwat
In the backdrop of JNU row over anti-national slogans, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Thursday said people should to be taught to say `Bharat Mata Ki Jai'. Speaking at an award felicitation ceremony in Nagpur, the RSS chief also underlined the importance of teaching about motherland. “Feelings towards your motherland should come naturally but now a days one has to be taught to say Bharat Mata Ki Jai, because voices against this (slogan) are becoming louder,“ Bhagwat said.
Bhagwat also strongly supported BJP government's action on the JNU case, The Economic Times reported.
2. Using JNU in Uttar Pradesh: In BJP rank & file, deshdrohi the new enemy
The JNU campus is more than an overnight train journey away but you can hear the sounds of its turbulence in Uttar Pradesh. In the chime of the bells at the makeshift Ram temple in Ayodhya, in the agitation of BJP officebearers in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency of Varanasi, in the strut and posturing of the BJP candidate who won the recent bypolls in riot-scarred Muzaffarnagar.
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly election is due only next year but the JNU incident has become a springboard for the UP BJP rank and file, for reviving — and rallying — a melee of older resentments and incitements alongside the new, said a report in The Indian Express.
It is about patriot-nationalists versus anti-nationals, they say, those who fight terrorists versus those who shelter them. Questions about the authenticity of the video are disallowed or denied. A verdict of guilty has been pronounced, and broader, blunter lines are being drawn to mark out “Us” from “Them.” The overarching theme: The Enemy Within.
3. Judge memo to Dalit for not washing wife’s clothes
The judicial employees association in Tamil Nadu is preparing to approach Madras High Court after the judge of a lower court in Erode served a memo on his office assistant, a 47-year-old Dalit woman, for "failure to wash the inner wear" at his house and "retorting in an arrogant tone" to his wife, reported The Indian Express.
The memo, dated February 1 and signed by subordinate judge D Selvam of Sathyamangalam court, stated: "Please explain within 7 days why disciplinary action should not be initiated against you for your failure to wash the inner wear which were put for washing in the Sub-Judge’s house, and for throwing them away disgustingly, and when your attitude was questioned by the officer and his wife for retorting in an arrogant tone."
On February 4, the woman responded in a note: "My humble explanation for the memo dated February 1, 2016, I humbly submit that I will guard against any lapses in the future and undertake to do my duties properly. I request that the disciplinary action against me may please be closed."
4. At top B-schools, more grads stand up to start up
Young leaders graduating out of India's top business schools are turning more entrepreneurial with more of them taking the startup path than ever before. The class of 2016 at leading B-schools including IIM Calcutta, IIM Shillong, IIM Kozhikode, Faculty of Management Studies, and XLRI has seen at least 50% more grads chasing the entrepreneurial dream.
IIM Calcutta has six students opting out of placements to pursue their startup ideas compared to half this number in the 2015 batch. At XLRI, 5 students have opted to become entrepreneurs vis-à-vis a single such instance in the previous year. At least four students joined the entrepreneurship bandwagon at IIM Kozhikode this year compared to only one last year. At FMS, 13 students are keen on taking the plunge compared to 7 last year. At IIM Shillong, this year, two students opted to turn entrepreneurs compared to only one last year, reports The Economic Times.
5. Two men cloned SIMs for free talk time with their girlfriends
An Oshiwara- based builder got the shock of his life when he got a bill of Rs 4,500 for a mobile phone number he had deactivated three months ago. Turns out, allegedly two former employees of a telecommunication operating company were cloning deactivated SIMs to talk to their girlfriends for free. They were arrested on February 27, Mid-Day reported.
Investigations revealed that though the accused had left their jobs, they still had access to the company’s systems. Desai and Sawant added that using the ID and password of the company’s systems they accessed the list of numbers that had been deactivated. The police suspects that they cloned the SIMS and used them to talk to their girlfriends for long hours.
6. From Class 10 topper in 2011 to slain Kashmir terrorist in 2016
Security forces killed three militants, including Class 10 topper Mohammad Ishaq Parray, in an encounter in Dadsara village of South Kashmir's Tral area.
Parray, 20, was a meritorious student before he joined the banned organisation, Hizbul-Mujahideen, in March 2015. In the Class 10 exams, results for which were announced in December 2011, he scored 98.4% and secured the ninth position in the Kashmir zone. His academic performance even earned him the sobriquet of ‘Newton’.
7. 77-yr-old set for 47th shot at Class X exam
Seventy-seven-year-old Shiv Charan Yadav has been burning the midnight oil for the past 46 years in repeated attempts to clear the secondary school examination. Not one to accept failure, the resident of Khohari village in Alwae will be taking the examination for the 47th time this year on March 10.
The Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education (RBSE) has proven a tough nut for him to crack. He has failed 46 times.Such is the man's determination that he says he will stay a “bachelor boy“ until he clears the examination.
8. Why can't you fix call drops, SC asks telecom operators
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a plea of Cellular Operators' Association of India to exempt telecom firms from paying compensation to consumers for call drops but asked why the companies were not fixing the problem.
The association approached the court challenging the Delhi high court order which had upheld Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai) decision of October last year that made cellphone service providers liable to compensate consumers for dropped calls.
9. 6 teens don't let cancer get in way of SSC exams
Teenagers battling cancer were among the more than three lakh students who appeared for their first SSC exam paper in Hindi in Mumbai on Thursday.
State education board authorities told The Times of India that six students who have cancer are taking the Class X board exam from the Mumbai division.
Fifteen-year-old Vidhi Thakkar, a student of A S P Convent School, Ghansoli, was detected with cancer last year and is currently undergoing treatment. That hasn't deterred her from preparing for the board exams. “Her cancer is in an early stage. She insisted on not taking a break from academics. We are very proud of her,“ said her father Mukesh.
10. Move over delivery boys, Amazon's angels are here
Amazon India is piloting women-only deliveries in Chennai and Kerala to create more jobs in an otherwise male-dominated field. The programme was debuted in January in Kerala and extended to Chennai on Thursday, said a report in Economic Times.
The women will deliver packages to offices within 2-3 km of the delivery station on two-wheelers. They will deliver around 40 packages a day in multiple trips. The ecommerce company has trained over 20 women under the project and plans to rain two to three more every month.
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