-The Hindu Caste discrimination takes on insidious forms in higher education institutions across the country, according to a report When 35 medical students — all Scheduled Caste candidates — failed en masse in the same subject — Physiology — they cried foul. Delhi’s Vardhman Mahavir Medical College, where they were studying, turned a deaf ear to their grievances, according to a recently-released report by Rajya Sabha MP Bhalchandra Mungekar, who was appointed...

-The Indian Express Patna: In a first, Bihar’s State Information Commission has asked the Home department to produce before it a “defiant” Block Development Officer, who has failed to respond to as many as nine summons sent over two years. The SIC has been hearing the case of a BDO, who, despite being the designated public information officer, has not replied to a query by an applicant on why and how many...

-The Indian Express While Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley may have been the first frontline politician to raise the issue of a “cooling-off” period for retired judges, many who have been a part of the higher judiciary have voiced this concern in the past. Former union law minister Jaitley said on Sunday that the “clamour for post-retirement jobs among judges is affecting the impartiality of the judiciary” and...

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Nearly two months after workers went on the rampage at its Manesar plant, Maruti Suzuki has doled out a bumper increment package in a new wage settlement agreement, offering salary increment of nearly 70%, apart from other benefits like interest-free personal loans. The agreement has been accepted by the company's labour union. S Y Siddiqui, Maruti's chief operating officer (Administration ), said the company has signed...

-Frontline Thanks to the Bombay High Court, interventions to tackle the decades-long problem of malnutrition among children in the Melghat area of eastern Maharashtra could be better managed. The court has directed the State government to track children and mothers using a management information system (MIS). The court’s directive came on a petition filed on July 20 by an Amravati-based NGO, Khoj, regarding the abysmal conditions in the Melghat region that were...