Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. At B-schools, India hiring scores over global offers
Job offers for global postings have dried up in leading B-schools this year. Offers from international companies have dropped by 25% in the case of IIM-Bangalore, 74% in case of IIM-Kozhikode, about 20% in case of IIM-Calcutta.
It remained flat at IIMs in Indore and Kashipur. XLRI did not receive any international offer this year, reported The Economic Times.
B-schools say that this was partly because students got domestic offers even before the international offers came. Also, with India emerging as the brightest spot in the global economy today, students prefer offers at home, say the placement teams at the management schools.
2. Jaish-e-Mohammad back with online magazine
The Jaish-e-Muhammad journal al-Qalam has resumed online publication, eight weeks after Pakistani regulators cracked down on the proscribed terrorist group's Internet operations in the wake of its attack on the airbase in Pathankot.
The magazine's new issue was posted online even as External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj announced in Pokhara that Pakistani officials would arrive in India on March 27 as part of their ongoing investigation of the attack, said a report in The Indian Express.
Indian intelligence officials told The Indian Express that the resumption of Jaish's online publication — it includes a column by its commander Maulana Masood Azhar, held by Pakistan — is the latest evidence that the organisation's on-ground operations are continuing normally.
3. Exam stress killed a school child every 3 days in Madhya Pradesh
“Mummy-papa, I cannot do physics”, “Sorry, I was not able to bag first position”, and “I will fail in maths and chemistry” are just some of the messages overburdened students wrote in their final letters before committing suicide.
These are some of the messages left behind by students in their suicide notes in Madhya Pradesh, where around 21 students have taken their lives unable to bear study related stress since January 2016.
On Wednesday, two students committed suicide in Katni and Hosgana bad including a Class 6 girl student, the Hindustan Times reported.
4. Hearing impaired may soon get driving licences
Persons with hearing impairment may soon be able to get driving licences after passing tests. The road transport ministry is planning to incorporate provisions including some sort of “prominent identification“ of vehicles driven by such persons.
Recently, social justice and empowerment minister Thawar Chand Gehlot had written to road transport minister Nitin Gadkari to look into this aspect and take necessary steps to enable hearing-impaired persons to get driving licence.
"We are considering all aspects. This is a genuine demand from one segment of the society and they must not be deprived of their right," Gadkari told the Times of India.
5. Jagjit Singh's wife moves Delhi HC against his 'live' concert in capital
Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh, who passed away in October 2011, is slated to "perform live" at Siri Fort Auditorium Friday evening. His voice has been extracted from various live concerts from the past and will be played along with the live band that used to play with him.
Bringing back the dead is a subversive ground to tread but Panache Entertainment Private Limited, in collaboration with Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS), has attempted just that, reported The Indian Express.
But the "disturbing nature" of the concert hasn't gone down well with the late singer's wife Chitra Singh, who filed a complaint in Delhi High Court against the organisers and IPRS on Thursday.
6. IITs OK 200% fee hike, ministry may not play ball
The standing committee of the IIT council has approved a 200% fee hike, thus upping the annual tuition fees from Rs 90,000 to Rs 3 lakh for undergraduate students. At the same time, interest-free scholarships will be offered under the Vidyalakshmi scheme.
While the final decision on the hike rests with the IIT council headed by HRD minister Smriti Irani, the SCIC, which met on Thursday , studied the average cost per student and felt that 60% should be collected from them, the Times of India reported.
“On an average, it costs a bit over Rs 5 lakh a year to educate one student at an IIT. But while we approve the increase in fees, we also want to assure students that there will be scholarships and loans and the IIT gates will be open to all, irrespective of their means,“ said SCIC chairman Ashok Misra.
7. Flipkart's mystery initiative uncovers 500 'fraud' sellers
Top e-commerce player Flipkart has blacklisted 250 sellers on its platform after its ongoing 'mystery shopping' initiative found them to be selling substandard products.
Under the initiative, launched six months ago, more than 300 Flipkart employees and staff of a leading consultancy firm have been shopping from Flipkart com. Called 'secret agents', they identify products or packages that are of substandard quality and send in pictures to an email ID that a Flipkart security team processes, said a report in The Economic Times.
"We have received feedback of over 600 sellers.We took necessary action against 500 and blacklis ted 40-50% of them," said Sachin Kotangale, senior director at Flipkart.
8. Beef row: Held Kashmiri students to save them from Bajrang Dal, says police
Meat cooked in a hostel room, tension between students from Jammu and those from the Kashmir valley, a 200-strong mob including Bajrang Dal members, and a dramatic intervention by police.
When a group of Kashmiri students at Mewar University decided to get together on an off day, they had no idea what their "meat party" would trigger.
Today, with their two-day detention making national headlines, and police sources claiming they had picked up the students to placate the mob, an uneasy calm hangs over the campus, reported The Indian Express.
But a police officer deployed at the university said that "had we not calmed tempers of the mob, no one can say what would have happened".
9. Girls as good as boys in Math: NCERT survey
The notion that girls are not good with numbers and science is just a myth, if data from a nationwide survey of more than 2.7 lakh students is any indicator.The survey conducted on Class X students showed girls performed on an equal footing with boys in mathematics, science and social sciences.
The study, however, upheld another common belief-that girls have better language skills. Girls outperformed boys in English and other lan guages in the survey conducted in 2015 by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in 7,216 schools following different boards across 33 states and Union territories.
The study also highlighted rampant under-performance among students in rural settings, those studying in govern ment schools and hailing from underprivileged backgrounds such as Dalits and tribals, the Times of India reported.
10. List ready, Jaya awaits lucky day
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa is looking for an auspicious day to formally launch her assembly poll campaign after apparently finalising the list of candidates for her ruling AIADMK, the Hindustan Times reported.
The 67-year-old leader, called Amma or mother by her legions of followers, has the advantage to pick from an array of party functionaries without the burden of pleasing any ally since the AIADMK is going solo this election.
But most ministers and MLAs are in the dark about their chances of getting a ticket after she clipped the wings of some of her most senior loyalists — finance minister and former chief minister O Panneerselvam, power minister Natham Viswanathan and higher education minister D Palaniappan.
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