Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India.
1. Come at least 4th in sports events, get hike: Govt
Never mind if they don't win a gold, silver or bronze medal. It will still be counted as excellence if government employees get the fourth place in non-athletic events in prestigious sporting championships.
The government has decided to give employees a pay hike if they reach semi-finals of sporting events in prestigious national and international championships, irrespective of whether they win or lose. The decision relaxes a 2010 rule that credited a government employee for excelling in sporting events only if they picked up any of the three medals in the finals of sporting events.
There were no problems in implementing this policy for athletic events that are essentially single-event games. But the policy led to some heartburn amongst employees who participated in non-athletic events such as hockey where they had to play several events to reach the semi-finals, the Hindustan Times reported.
2. Sanjeev Balyan's wisdom : 1 cow 150 kg, find out who all ate it
Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan on Monday demanded a probe to find out who all had consumed the cow meat that was allegedly found outside the house of Mohammad Akhlaq, who was beaten to death by a mob eight months ago in Dadri's Bisada village, following allegations of beef consumption. Balyan's demand came in the wake of a report from a forensic laboratory in Mathura that the meat sample recovered from outside 50-year-old Akhlaq's house belonged to a "cow or its progeny".
"A cow weighs nothing less than 150 kg and one person alone cannot consume it. There should be a probe into what happened and who were involved in the crime," Balyan, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, told The Indian Express.
Balyan's statement came after BJP MLA Sangeet Som and party MP Yogi Adityanath sought action against Akhlaq's family and asked the UP government to recover the compensation it had paid to them, a report in the Indian Express read.
3. Priest comes to accident-hit girl's aid, gets her married in ambulance
Netravathi may no doubt have fantasised about a dream wedding with her dream man - sitting in bridal finery at the fire as the pundit chanted the marriage mantras. But the final-year diploma nursing student was forced to marry in the unlikeliest of places -lying on a stretcher in an ambulance, in nightwear. The pundit, in this case Sri Murugarajendra Swami of Chitradurga Murugarajendra Brihanmath, too got inside the ambulance to carry out the rituals. He was conducting a mass marriage for 23 couples at the mutt premises in Chitradurga, 200km from Bengaluru, on Sunday.
But Netravathi still got her dream man: her fiancé Guruswamy gently tied the mangalya as she painfully lifted up her head a few degrees. Netravathi, from an agricultural family in a village in Chitradurga district of Karnataka, had met and fallen in love with Guruswamy, also from a farming family in Challakere town. The couple had decided to be part of the mass wedding on Amavasya.
According to the Times of India, Netravathi injured herself on May 23, when she slipped and fell, injuring her spinal cord while picnicking with Guruswamy in Chitradurga fort. She was rushed to the local hospital, where doctors advised her to go to Nimhans in Bengaluru. After a week of treatment, a brave Netravathi made up her mind to return for the wedding on June 5. Doctors at Nimhans sent her back to Chitradurga government hospital, but with strict advice of bed rest. Unable to sit or stand, she reached the mutt in an ambulance.
4. Col Mahadik's wife to join Army next year
The wife of a decorated army commando who died fighting infiltrators in Jammu and Kashmir's Kupwara in November 2015 is set to join the force after the government relaxed the selection test's age criterion, impressed by her resolve.
Swati Mahadik – wife of para-commando Colonel Santosh Mahadik – expressed a desire to join the army at her husband's cremation and applied as a special case. Her grit prompted Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to grant her an age criterion exemption to appear in the Services Selection Board (SSB) test on the recommendation of Army Chief Dalbir Singh, sources said. She cleared the medical examination on Monday after having passed the tough five-tier SSB test for selection to the Officer’s Training Academy in Chennai last week, sources said.
If things go as planned, the 38-year-old will join the army as a commissioned officer next year. Swati Mahadik refused to comment but a source in the army confirmed the development, the Hindustan Times reported.
5. BJP hires IITians to gauge impact of Dalit outreach
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah are set to address a series of Dalit rallies, the party has roped in IIT professionals to assess the impact of their Dalit outreach in pollbound Uttar Pradesh. IIT graduates recently trailed the BJP-supported 'Dhamma Chetna Yatra' which completed its journey in Varanasi and Gorakhpur regions. The ongoing yatra, involving 75 Buddhist monks, aims to woo Dalit voters in the state and will cover 75 districts.
"We received encouraging feedback from the region and are working on its follow up after the yatra comes to an end," said BJP general secretary Arun Singh, who will flag off the second leg of the yatra on June 10 from Bahraich. The yatra was launched by home minister Rajnath Singh at Sarnath on April 24, a report in the Times of India read.
6. Lack of enough children turns nearly half of Kerala's schools uneconomic
Kerala's public education system, which once helped shape the state's model of social development and brought about universal literacy, is today under severe strain. More and more schools are turning economic and the managers of some have got permission this year to shut them down.
According to the Indian Express, of the 12,615 schools in Kerala, which comprise government, private and government-aided private ones, as many as 5,573 — 44 per cent — are uneconomic as per the state Economic Review 2015. A lower primary, upper primary or high school in Kerala is declared uneconomic when it has less than 25 students, as per Kerala Educational Rules.
7. Jaya back to rebuilding brand value in TN with proposed Amma Bazaars
Tamil Nadu retained something it is intimately familiar with following Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's electoral triumph last month. Brand Amma.
The latest manifestation of the AIADMK chief's penchant for naming welfare schemes after her popular nickname, Amma or mother in Tamil, are the proposed "Amma Bazaars" — weekly markets that plan to sell products manufactured by government-aided groups and self-help organisations. The Greater Chennai Corporation announced that it had chosen three areas in the state capital to be transformed into marketplaces — the Mint flyover, Arumbakkam and Kotturpuram. But it also said the launch date of the venture cannot be announced as the scheme involves coordination between 10 departments.
According to the Hindustan Times, the idea is that there will be no middlemen to siphon off profits from manufacturers. The corporation plans to sell 650 products that are "in use on a daily basis" as well as setting up 200 or so Amma Bazaars.
8. Cashless treatment for drought-hit Maharashtra farmers soon
Facing charges of large-scale corruption in the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Jeevandayee Arogya Yojna (RGJAY) scheme, the Maharashtra government has decided to tweak the ambitious health plan and include 1,64,000 farm families in its ambit. Once the State Cabinet approves the revised guidelines at its meeting on Tuesday, the RGJAY will provide cashless medical treatment to farmers. The scheme is likely to set the Maharashtra government back by Rs 1,000 crore annually, said officials.
"Six months back, the government decided to extend medical help to farmers in drought-hit regions through this scheme. But a formal stamp was not put on it. Now cabinet nod will ensure that farmers who are distressed due to poor monsoon are provided all medical help free of cost," said a senior official.
According to the Hindu, the families will, at the district level, be able to avail of all health benefits at hospitals, even those having less than 20 beds in the premises. The beneficiaries will be from the 14-drought hit districts of Marathwada, Amravati and Wardha regions, and will get all facilities, surgery and cardiac ailments. The RGJAY scheme so far included the urban poor, those below poverty line, those falling under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana and Annapurna Scheme, and those having income of less than a Rs 1 lakh annually.
9. India seeks to snip string of pearls
India is now trying to fast-track long-pending plans to bolster its military presence in island territories on both the western and eastern seaboards to ensure it can keep a hawk-eye on the rapidly-militarising Indian Ocean Region (IOR), as well as protect its huge maritime interests there. After "a naval detachment" (NavDet) was commissioned at Androth Island of Lakshadweep last month, the government has now accorded sanction for 2.18 acres of land for another such NavDet on Bitra island in the same archipelago.
"The aim is to first establish military presence in outlying islands through NavDets and then gradually build them up. Navy and Coast Guard units at Kavaratti, Minicoy , Agatti, Androth and other islands are also being progressively upgraded," said a defence ministry official, the Times of India reported.
10. With bike cruisers, food is now in the fast lane
They drive like crazy. They are always in a hurry. Standing out in their black or bright yellow or red clothes, they are the vital connection in the fast moving world of on-demand food.
Unplanned dinners or an instant order for hunger pangs at office depend on these speed bikers. They can be spotted near the takeaway counter of hotels, pacing restlessly, helmet in one hand and money in the other. The 'here and now' food culture is a genre, and it is changing lives of enterprising such youngsters in cities like Hyderabad, Bengaluru and Chennai.
"Some months I earn up to Rs 35,000, sometimes less, say, Rs 30,000. I am happy that I earn nearly as much as my friends who have done engineering," says T Kalyan Kumar, a 20-year-old delivery executive from Swiggy in Hyderabad. "I have been working with Swiggy for nine months and my life has changed. I have been able to clear debt of Rs 60,000 and gift a car to my father," he says, the Hindu reported.
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