Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India.
1.) IIT students held for 10 hours in Italian city without charge
Three IIT students were arbitrarily detained by security officials at a train station in northern Italy on Monday, flown to the other end of the country and held for 10 hours without being offered any explanation. IIT-Bombay's Uday Kusupati and two students from the Delhi campus, who had been enjoying a short holiday in Italy, were released without charge after their classmates and friends took to social media demanding urgent intervention by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
The three are currently in Rome and arrangements are being made to send them to France, where they had signed up for an internship last month. Though Indian officials have not commented on the circumstances surrounding the arrest in the northern Italian city of Ventimiglia, friends said the three were mistaken as members of a tourist group travelling without proper papers, The Mumbai Mirror reported.
2.) Pulgaon-like incident could kill 1.5 lakh living near Gurgaon armoury
The Pulgaon fire has raised concerns among residents of several sectors close to the Indian Air Force ammunition depot in Gurgaon. People fear that a similar incident could jeopardise the lives of people, especially those living close to and inside the 900-meter restricted area, The Hindustan Times reports.
The high-density HUDA area that includes sectors 14, 17, 18, 22, 23, and parts of Old Gurgaon are close the ammunition depot. A number of government offices, private companies, including Maruti Suzuki India and its vendors, operate close to the depot. There are nearly 1.5 lakh people who live in the restricted area as the last two decades witnessed a wave of illegal construction, patronised by politicians and bureaucrats.
3.) Wheel of Fortune Rolls Over Units in Gandhi Forts
Less than a year ahead of the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the Narendra Modi government is looking at relocating two projects announced by its predecessor to be set up in Amethi and Rae Bareli, the Lok Sabha constituencies represented by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and President Sonia Gandhi, respectively. Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Minister Anant Geete on Tuesday told Economic Times that the two projects may be moved to more viable locations.
The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government had in 2014 approved a Rs 3,650-crore project to set up the Jagdishpur Paper Mill in Amethi through a cabinet proposal which was put on fast track. The unit approved in Rae Bareli was part of the National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project (NATRIP).
4.) Muslim boy from Sangh Parivar school tops Assam Class X exams
AS far as good news goes, the new BJP government in Assam couldn’t have had it any better: a Muslim student from a school run by Vidya Bharati, a Sangh Parivar institution, has topped the High School Leaving Certificate (HSLC) examination. In the results declared Tuesday, Sarfaraz Hussain topped the Class X exams by securing 590 marks out of 600.
The 16-year-old was a student of the Shankardev Shishu Niketan in Betkuchi, on the southern fringe of Guwahati, run by Shishu Shikshya Samiti, Assam, which is affiliated to Vidya Bharati, The Indian Express reports.
5.) Caste panchayat puts girl through 'virginity' test
A 20-year-old girl from Ahmednagar district has been placed on house arrest by her father, along with her mother. The girl's father saw this as a fitting punishment after the duo attempted to file a police complaint against the girl's husband and the caste panchayat. The girl tried to file a police complaint against her husband for abandonment after she “failed a virginity test“, The Mumbai Mirror reports.
On May 22, the girl, who is preparing to get into the police force, married a 25-year-old man from Nashik, both belonging to the Kanajarbhat community. This community has its own 'constitution' which they follow rigorously. Placing a high value on virginity in women, members of the caste panchayat wait outside after the wedding, while the couple has sex on a plain white cloth. This is supposedly a 'test' to prove that the woman is a virgin. In the girl's case, her husband said that she had not bled after sex and rejected her as his wife.
6.) Doctors 'mislead' couple, baby born crippled
Delhi's Moolchand Hospital misled a woman into continuing with her pregnancy when she wanted to terminate it after a previous ultrasound test in Imphal warned that the foetus had a “grossly shortened lower left limb“, reports The Times of India.
The hospital, however, said it found no medical negligence as it took refuge in the fine print, which at the end of every ultrasound report says, “Not all malformations can be detected on ultrasound“. The parents said they would move all possible grievance redressal forums to get justice.
7.) 20k miss their dabbas after derailment on Western Railway
Slow local services between Bandra and Churchgate stopped for nearly 9 hours on Tuesday. The disruption forced Western Railway authorities to cancel more than 100 locals on the slow tracks and saw several trains getting delayed, causing inconvenience to thousands of commuters, it also affected the services of Mumbai's famed dabbawalas, The Mumbai Mirror reported.
The tiffin carriers, known for their clockwork precision, failed to deliver lunch to nearly 20,000 customers, said Subhash Talekar, spokesperson for the Mumbai Dabbawala Association. Talekar said the derailment deprived their customers in Mahalaxmi, Grant Road, Charni Road, Marine Lines and Churchgate of home-cooked food for the day.
8.) 331 cases in April alone, little done to curb assaults on kids
Incidents of sexual assault against children are on a rise in the capital but little is being done to protect them, according to data submitted to Delhi high court. Cases filed under the especially legislated Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act continue to face delays in investigation and litigation, leading to slow adjudication, The Times of India reports.
Between 2012, when POCSO was enacted, and 2015, 5,217 such cases were registered in Delhi. In April 2016 alone, 331 cases of assault against children were reported, according to data compiled by the Delhi government. This translates into an average of 1,740 children facing sexual abuse every year.
9.) 50k Muslims sign up against triple talaq
Over 50,000 Muslim women and men have signed a petition seeking a ban on triple talaq. The petition, spearheaded by the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), has sought the National Commission for Women's intervention to end this “unQuranic practice“, The Times of India reports.
BMMA co-founder Zakia Soman said a national signature campaign was underway in different states, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, MP, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Odisha, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala and UP.
10.) NGT asks states to submit worst-hit cities' pollution data in 3 weeks
The National Green Tribunal on Tuesday gave all states three weeks to prepare and present a report on pollution levels in their worst-affected cities. A bench headed by Chairperson Swatanter Kumar directed each state to submit details about two most-polluted cities in their territories, including data on pollution from dust, vehicular density and population. The matter will next come up for hearing on July 11-12, The Eonomic Times reported.
The directions came after the counsel for the automobile in dustry pleaded before the tribunal not to pass orders before hearing auto makers' contentions. Industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) said vehicles with diesel engines displacing 2 litre and more are not a major cause of pollution. The contribution of these vehicles is minuscule, unlike dust which is the major source of pollution in the country, its counsel argued.
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