Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India.
Man accused of designing IS flags did engineering in Chennai
Using his father as the main witness, NIA on Friday chargesheeted Islamic State operative Mohammad Naser, who designed flags and logos for the 'caliphate' and had managed to reach Sudan en route to Syria before he was caught and deported last December. His father Ameer Mohammed had fled to India from Dubai on finding that his son was going to fight in Syria. Read full artivle in The Times of India.
Honour first offer or face boycott, IITs to tell firms
The Indian Institutes of Technology have decided to blacklist about half-a-dozen companies that participated in placements this year but failed to honour their commitment, withdrew their offers entirely and left students in a lurch. Companies like Zimply, healthcare startup Portea, grocery portal PepperTap are some that cancelled their offers, as reported by TOI exactly a week ago ('IITs mull safety net for students as startups withdraw job offers'). They will now not be able to participate in placements this year, as reported in The Times of India.
Air India to fly decorated soldiers business class
It is the Maharaja's way of saying Jai Jawan. Air India has decided to upgrade gallantry award winners to business class on its domestic flights. While the decorated soldiers or ex-servicemen will be given economy class boarding cards as per their tickets, they will be upgraded at the boarding gate subject to availability of seats in business class. Read full article in The Times of India.
Law student who died a 'selfie death' in media 'didn't even have her phone with her'
Pranita Mehta was sitting on the rock at Kumta beach in Gokarna on the morning of May 29 when a snap tide swept her away to a watery grave. But the final-year National Law University student from Jodhpur hit the headlines when the drowning was labelled as a 'selfie death' with news reports claiming the 21-year-old slipped from the rock while clicking herself. Read full article in The Indian Express.
In Rajasthan, MA final-year question paper asks students to 'discuss BJP ideology'
The Congress on Friday accused the BJP of "brainwashing" students after an MA final-year question paper in the University of Rajasthan asked them to write an essay to "discuss the ideology and programmes of the Bharatiya Janata Party", as per a news report in The Indian Express.
NGT orders Art Of Living foundation: Deposit balance Rs 4.75 cr compensation with DDA today
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) Friday directed the Art of Living (AOL) Foundation to deposit the balance environmental compensation amount of Rs 4.75 crore by Saturday. The Foundation was ordered to pay the money for the damage caused to the Yamuna floodplains during preparations for the World Culture Festival held in March. Read full article in The Indian Express.
UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar remembered as 'good student' in his hometown of Durgapur
Mainak Sarkar grew up in the industrial town of Durgapur in West Bengal. In the early 80s and 90s, the town was buzzing with industry, mostly steel. Now only the Durgapur steel plant remains.
Mainak had for around 18 months in 2000-2001 worked as a software developer at Infosys in Bangalore. Some employees who worked in the company at the time could not recall Sarkar. Read full article in The Indian Express.
The 19-year-old aspiring model who holds the key in Gadoli encounter
A right turn on Basai road off the Delhi-Gurgaon Expressway leads to the narrow streets of Baldev Nagar — an old city locality with a lower middle-class population. At the left end of street 15-A is a three-storey house where a poster of Sai Baba greets visitors that now include the police. The Mumbai police team that is probing gangster Sandeep Gadoli's alleged encounter killing is on the hunt for a missing piece in the jigsaw that is related to this house.
House owner Ashok Pahuja's daughter Divya Pahuja happens to be an accused and the sole witness of the alleged encounter killing of Gadoli. The encounter happened in a Mumbai hotel where the gangster was gunned down by a team of the Gurgaon police on February 7. Read full article in the Hindustan Times.
CBI suspects links in activists' murders, seeks Scotland Yard probe
The CBI will seek the Scotland Yard's expertise to ascertain whether a single firearm was used to kill three rationalists, allegedly by a radical Hindu group opposed to their scientific dissection of faith and religion.
Though the country's top investigation agency is probing only the 2013 murder of Narendra Dabholkar, the subsequent killing of Govind Pansare in Maharashtra and MM Kalburgi in Karnataka have come under agency's scanner because of the similarities in the three crimes, as reported in the Hindustan Times.
RBI clears decks for war on bad loans; proposes two funds by banks
The contours have been drawn for the formation of dual funds that will throw lifelines to debt-laden companies and give high-street lenders, saddled with sticky loans, some breathing space.
In a letter dated May 31 to the Indian Banks' Association, the Reserve Bank has proposed that lenders may set up two different funds — one to infuse equity into stressed companies and the other to give working capital finance. The move brings out the desperation of the government, banks and the regulator to strike a quick solution to resolve the bad debts of banks. Gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of listed companies have touched Rs 5.91 lakh crore as of March 2016 and as many as 14 banks have suffered huge losses. Read full article in The Economic Times.
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