-The Hindu Literacy has helped people in the State maximise the benefits of the rural employment guarantee scheme Kerala’s achievements have long been celebrated by development economists — high literacy rates, including among girls, low infant mortality rates and so on. There has also been a spate of writings highlighting the ills of Kerala society. Critics have pointed to the high rates of suicides and feminists have also raised difficult questions. While...

-Business Today "I want it back," says Sharada Begum. The 67-year-old woman is a member of one of the 100 households of Raghubir Nagar, a resettlement colony in west Delhi, chosen to participate in a pilot scheme that aimed to turn the public distribution system (PDS) on its head. Through all of 2011, these households had Rs 1,000 transferred every month to a woman member's bank account in lieu of rice, wheat,...

-The Times of India Maruti Suzuki workers who went on the rampage on Wednesday evening appear to have systematically and mercilessly "hunted" senior executives. At least 26 executives have sustained fractures, with several having multiple injuries, as the protesters used everything from rods to car parts. General manager, human resources, Awanish Kumar Dev died in the fire after both his legs were fractured in the thrashing by workers and he was left...

-Live Mint Maruti Suzuki India Ltd’s Manesar plant was witness to prolonged labour strife last year, but the violence unleashed on Wednesday that led to one person being killed caught its victims completely unawares. “Some of us jumped off the first floor to save our lives as we saw a mob of workers, hundreds of them, rushing towards us,” one of the injured Maruti officials told reporters at a hospital in Gurgaon...

-The Telegraph One person was killed and 30 were injured when alleged casteist remarks ignited clashes between supervisors and workers at Maruti Suzuki’s Manesar plant today. Work has been suspended at the factory of India’s largest carmaker, which has been sitting on a labour-relations powder keg. “Work at the Manesar plant had to be stopped following the violence,” the company said. “One person was killed in the clash between supervisors and workers inside...