-The Hindu NAMAKKAL: Childline 1098 will conduct a survey on child marriages among School-going girls in the district, as a sample study conducted in a renowned government higher secondary School here showed alarming figures of students falling victims of child marriage, said its director S.L. Sathiya Nesan. “More than 20 girls studying in the government higher secondary School in Namakkal are married – of which two of them are pregnant,” he told...

-The Business Standard The recent judgment of the Delhi High Court upholding the right of unaided Schools to apply screening procedure for nursery admissions to unreserved category of students has brought cheer to many Schools, and disappointment to social activists. The Schools and many parents are relieved that the cloud of uncertainty around the admission process has withered away at least for this academic year. However, the battle is far from...

-The Hindu Despite media coverage and VIP interest, police unable to make headway BHANDARA: Ten days after the dead bodies of three sisters were found in a well near Murmadi village of Lakhani tehsil in Bhandara district of Maharashtra, the police have made no arrests and the perpetrators are still at large. Residents of Murmadi, Lakhani and nearby villages continue to protest by blocking the National highway No.6, taking out candle marches, and...

-The Telegraph Chennai: If the way into voters’ hearts is through their stomachs, Jayalalithaa appears to have come up with the right recipe. A chain of low-cost canteens, opened recently in Chennai as a “brainchild” of the Tamil Nadu chief minister, has whetted appetites at a time of rising food prices. Idlis at Re 1 each, sambar-rice at Rs 5 and curd-rice at Rs 3 — the Chennai Municipal Corporation-run canteens that offer...

-The Hindustan Times Bhopal: Chairperson of the State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (SCPCR) Usha Chaturvedi has said that children have constitutional right to free and compulsory education (RTE). The commission will play the role of an alert sentinel regarding implementation of these rights. She added that a separate cell would be constituted in the commission to monitor implementation of the RTE Act. Chaturvedi was addressing a one-day workshop of...