-Hindustan Times New delhi: The police have identified the gang that helped its clients procure fake and forged documents to obtain admissions for nursery seats under the economically weaker section (EWS) category in the Capital. Police sources said that the kingpin of the gang is a woman called Punita. She has a team of six members who procured forged income certificates for their clients and sold it to them for several lakhs. Investigation...

-Livemint.com The strike that was announced on Friday is to protest what unions called the anti-labour policies of the BJP-led ruling coalition New delhi: Eleven trade unions plan to go on strike on 26 May, the first anniversary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, to protest what they called the anti-labour policies of the ruling coalition. The strike was announced on Friday as three ministers met national...

-The Hindu The State’s recent experience shows that even the worst-governed States can reform their public distribution system and make good use of the National Food Security Act. “In Lalu’s days we had a lal card [BPL card], with Nitish we got coupons, and when Manjhi came we got this new ration card”. This is how Anuj Paswan, a Dalit resident of Tetar village in Gaya district, sees recent changes in Bihar’s...

-Livemint.com The ministry of agriculture projected that foodgrain production of cereal and pulses was likely to decline by 5.3% in 2014-15 New delhi: There seems to be no end rural India’s worries. Last year’s drought together with unseasonal weather earlier this year is threatening a substantial decline in foodgrain output—the first in five years of such magnitude. On Wednesday, the ministry of agriculture projected that foodgrain production—at 251 million tonnes (mt) of cereal...

-The Times of India NEW delhi: The larger-than-life images of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on hoardings asking people to use the anti-corruption helpline 1031 across delhi will soon vanish. Welcoming the Supreme Court directive to ban media advertisements containing photos of chief ministers, ministers and functionaries of ruling political parties, delhi government is ready to comply with the order and will bring down all such hoardings. Soon after the SC order, a...