Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India.
1. Class IX girls vandalise Delhi school
A group of girls went on the rampage at a school in northeast Delhi's Karawal Nagar on Friday, damaging property, setting rugs on fire and throwing stones at cops, after the school management threatened to expel some of them for repeatedly failing in exams.
Local activists said 15-20 Class IX students of Government Girls Senior Secondary School had resorted to vandalism, with support from others, after being told that they had failed.
A management committee member said just about 40% of ninth graders had passed the examinations, reported The Times of India.
2. Cigarette plants shut over warning photos
Members of The Tobacco Institute of India (TII) shut all their cigarette factories from Friday over the ambiguity on pictorial health warnings on packs of tobaccobased products.
The TII members account for more than 98% of the country's domestic sales of duty-paid cigarettes, said a report in The Times of India.
Owing to uncertainty on the policy related to revision of graphic health warnings on packs, the member companies were unable to continue making cigarettes from April 1, TII said. Its members include ITC and Godfrey Phillips among other tobacco manufacturers.
3. Bid to save dog cost 7 jawans their lives
It was a mission to save their four-legged comrade that cost seven CRPF jawans their lives in a Maoist strike in Dantewada on Wednesday.
An IED blast blew up their vehicle as the jawans were on their way to evacuate Scout, a Belgian Malinois who had proved his mettle as an expert sniffer dog, but was seriously ill due to dehydration in the jungle heat, reported The Times of India.
Adhering to deception tactics which are part of the standard operating proce dure, the soldiers belonging to CRPF's 230 battalion were travelling in an unmarked tempo from their post in Nerli to Bhusaras Ghati camp, about 40km away , dressed in civil clothes.
4. LSR girl bags Rs 1.4L offer for 2-month internship
After securing the highest job placements among Delhi University's colleges in 2015, Lady Shri Ram College has witnessed unprecedented internship offers this year.
The highest offer of Rs 1.4 lakh was made by an American bank for a twomonth internship. Another student bagged a two-month internship at Ernst & Young for Rs 1 lakh, said a report in The Times of India.
In all, 279 offers were made to the students of the college of which 97 are paid internships. Of the batch of 900 outgoing students, 300 have already completed their internship.
5. Gurgaon smartphone snatcher's father hits out, says my son framed to 'make some sort of history'
Vicky Kalonia’s father has accused Gurgaon police of framing his son "to make some sort of history" even when the complainant in the case turned hostile. "The section my son has been charged under has an ‘A’ now. What does it mean?
We do not know. We just know that our son is innocent and has been framed by the police," said Manoj Kalonia, who works as a labourer in Najafgarh area. He believes his “brightest child" is innocent.
6. Feisty woman takes on purse snatcher, throws him off bike
Mehta (42), an employee of a BPO call centre in the suburbs, flagged down an autorickshaw after work around 3.45am on the Western Express Highway to get to her home in Kandivli East.
As the vehicle neared the Nesco Exhibition Centre's gate- 3 on the highway, a Scooty rider, Neeraj Govekar, caught up with the autorickshaw and tried to snatch her bag, reported the Mid Day.
The feisty woman, though, put up quite a fight. She held onto her bag tightly and after a short distance, yanked at the bag so hard that Goverkar fell off his bike. A Vanrai police patrol team, which was just 100 m away, saw the scuffle and rushed to nab Govekar.
7. BEST rips off disabled commuters, scraps fleet of 30 low floor buses
The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport ( BEST) Undertaking pulled a fast one on physically- challenged commuters.
On Friday, it withdrew its entire 10- year- old fleet of 30 low floor Tata Star buses, which catered largely to physically- challenged commuters of South Mumbai, reported the Mid Day.
The buses plied on two fort ferry routes — the first covering Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus- Churchgate- Nariman Point and the second cutting across to Nariman Point via Old Custom House and Fort — and were a favourite with many commuters since the fares were fixed.
"The basic aim [ of running these buses] was to address the needs of the physically- challenged as it had a mechanism that would make the platform just out of the bus and allow wheelchairs to get in," says Ranjan Chaudhari, a member of the BEST committee.
8. How TCS bridged the Gulf with an all-woman BPO
On Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will wrap up his latest international tour of Belgium, United States and Saudi Arabia by visiting a BPO outfit run by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT services company.
It's not your run-of-themill BPO unit. For one, the centre is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -a city not exactly known for its IT services industry.
What makes things even more interesting is that each one of the 1,000-odd employees at the centre are women -in a country where women aren't allowed to drive, reported The Economic Times.
9. When it comes to pay, blue-collar jobs are red-hot
Many of the 16 million or so Indian students writing Class XII board exams this year will aspire to get into one of the Indian Institutes of Technology and perhaps after that an Indian Institute of Management. Not many are looking to get into a polytechnic to learn a trade, especially after having completed 12 and more years of schooling. Could it be time for a rethink?
Those who can't make it to the premier engineering and management institutes seek admission into those lower down the order. The ones who subsequently enter the job market may be confronted by what seems like an anomaly -people equipped with skills that industry needs command better pay, reported The Economic Times.
At a time the government is intensifying its focus on the Skill India mission, statistics on 12 sectors from staffing solutions company TeamLease Services indicate that salaries of some vocationally skilled blue-collar job profiles exceed those of engineers by between 10% and 27%.
10. Dadri lynching case: Cops told to submit forensic report of meat
A fast track court on Friday directed Noida Police to submit the forensic report on the meat seized from the house of Mohammad Ikhlaq, the man lynched in Dadri.
"We have requested the court to ask the police to provide us a copy of the forensic report... The report is important as it estab-
Ramesh Nagar, lawyer of the 18 youths arrested in the case lishes the motive behind the incident on the basis of which police has framed our clients," said Nagar.
Dadri deputy superintendent of police Anurag Singh said, "The matter is sub judice so we cannot comment on the issue. The report will be submitted to the court once it reaches us through proper channel."
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