-The Hindu Ranbaxy, one of India's largest pharmaceutical companies, has agreed to pay $500 million fines levied by U.S. authorities for selling adulterated drugs and lying to federal regulators in a case that is part of an ongoing crackdown on the quality of generic drugs flowing into the U.S. The deal struck on Monday, said to be the largest financial penalty against a generic drug company for violations of FDA standards, came...

-The Hindu She leaves in a car hurriedly accompanied by her supporters fearing arrest in two other cases pending against her ONGOLE: People's Union of Civil Liberties (PUCL) Andhra Pradesh unit president Jaya Vindhyala, arrested on charges of "objectionable postings" on Facebook against Tamil Nadu Governor, K. Rosaiah and Chirala MLA, Amanchi Krishna Mohan, was released on bail from the district jail here on Tuesday. The Additional Munsif Magistrate Shiva Sankara Reddy issued...

-The Hindu The caste Hindus were enraged by a Dalit boy marrying a Ror girl Chandigarh: Despite having prior information, police failed to prevent an attack on Dalits of Pabnawa village in Haryana's Kaithal district by members of the Ror community (caste Hindus) on April 13, says a report by the Caste Annihilation Movement (CAM). Some 200 Dalit families fled the village after their homes were attacked by Rors enraged by a Dalit...

-The Hindu Business Line   In much of the discussion on the turnaround after the Great Recession, attention has been focused on financial consolidation and the halting return to growth. Far less attention has been paid to the persistence of high and even rising unemployment and its sources. In the desperate search for evidence that the global recession has bottomed out and the recovery has arrived, the story told by the long-term trend...

-The Telegraph Bengal - Defrauded Many households in Calcutta have a domestic help or a driver who has lost money by investing in Saradha schemes - a common thread that has spun a perception that the poor are the sole victims of the sham company. But Sudipta Sen's promise of high returns had blurred the divide between the haves and the have-nots as well as the educated and the uneducated. Travels across the semi-urban...