-The Hindu First it was sexual harassment at workplace. Next comes the slanderous campaign on the Internet. For this former employee of auditing firm KPMG, life has become hell since 2007. Now Aditi (name changed) is fighting with the Mumbai cyber police who are doing little on her 2012 complaint seeking action against websites which hosted offensive comments against her. Trial yet to begin While the sexual harassment case led to the...

-Outlook As the India and the EU negotiate a free trade agreement, a Parliamentary panel today cautioned against its early signing and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to wait for the committee's report before finalising it. Chairman of the Department Related Parliamentary Committee on Commerce Shanta Kumar has written to Prime Minister today asking him not to rush through the EU-India Broad based Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) before the panel gives...

-The Telegraph Bihar and Jharkhand are among eight states that are holding up moves to update national legislation on rights of people with disabilities, prompting an angry Union minister to slap them with an April 12 deadline for sending feedback on the draft bill. Minister for social justice and empowerment Kumari Selja has, therefore, written to the Governor of Jharkhand, Syed Ahmed - it is under President's Rule and chief ministers of...

-Outlook Jamshedpur (Jharkhand): A woman died in an attempt to appease the goddess while two women were killed allegedly for practicing witchcraft in separate incidents in adjoining West Singhbhum district, police today said. A 55-year-old woman Rajnigandha Mukhi died an unnatural death when she cut her vein in the leg in an attempt to propitiate goddess in Kasurwan village under Sonua police station on Wednesday, Officer-in-charge of Sonua Police station Vinod Oraon...

-The Hindu     The shortened lifespan of the quarry workers of Uttar Pradesh is spent breaking stones and residing among the pollution- laden boulders Mired with sandy roads and rocky terrain, the landscape in south-western Allahabad creates a remarkable mirage under the blue sky. Some of the larger rocks here have sizeable craters formed in them -- a sign of their depletion over time, by an activity that is hazardous yet critical to the...