-The Hindu     Court asks Jharkhand government to submit action taken report Ranchi: There were protests here on Friday against the alleged rape and killing of a six-year-old girl who went missing on Wednesday and was found dead with strangulation marks on her neck and injuries on her genitals in the early hours of Thursday in Doranda. The girl, a student of class II, went missing soon after she returned home from school...

-The Indian Express This attempt to influence the CBI should cost Ashwani Kumar his job, no matter how the court weighs in After the Supreme Court pressed the CBI, the agency has admitted that its confidential report on coal block allotment had been seen by Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar in the draft stage. This comes as confirmation of a serious breach of procedure, one that should compel the UPA to take...

-The Hindu High Court tells state to install CCTVs to monitor police behaviour Bangalore: In a people-friendly move, the Karnataka High Court said the State government should install video cameras (closed-circuit television cameras) in and around all police stations to ensure discipline among the police force. If this is implemented in letter and spirit, people in the near future may walk into police stations without fear of being harassed or ill-treated. A bunch of...

-The Telegraph Kolkata: Arrested Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen, the architect of the default crisis in Bengal, has said he had approached several CPM leaders over his business, police said. Sen, who was brought to Calcutta late last night and kept in police custody before his court production this afternoon, has told the police he had met a CPM state committee member in 2008 over a possible investment in a news channel...

-The Hindu The lawsuit by publishers seeking to stop Delhi University from distributing photocopied course packs goes against the spirit of education for all Late last year, leading publishing houses including Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press brought a copyright action against Delhi University and a tiny photocopy shop licensed by it, seeking to restrain them from supplying educational course packs to students. This lawsuit sent shock waves across the...