Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India.
1) Hema gets prime Andheri plot for just Rs 1.75 lakh
The BJP-led government in Maharashtra will give a 2,000 square metre plot in Mumbai's upscale Andheri to actress and party parliamentarian Hema Malini for Rs 1.75 lakh to set up a dance school.
More than that, she need not pay a penny for the land worth about Rs 70 crore in the suburban neighbourhood because of a twist of fate. The throwaway price drew widespread criticism against chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, who is accused of showing undue benevolence to the actress-danseuse known as the Dream Girl during her Bollywood heydays in the 70s, Hindustan Times reported.
2) Government prepares media blitz for second anniversary
The Union government will launch a publicity blitzkrieg hinged around 'success stories' of people who have benefited from its schemes to mark its second anniversary, sources said.
As per report in the Hindustan Times, Farmers and job-seeking youth have been identified by the Prime Minister's Office as the key groups that the government wants to reach out to, sources said, and directions have been sent out to ministries to focus on such individuals and bring their success stories to light.The idea, as one official put it, is to put a face to the government's schemes that have worked, as reported in Hindustan Times.
3) Can a rape survivor with special needs be tried as a child?
For 69-year-old Nirmala (name changed), having a special child was never a hardship until two years ago. Tragedy struck her household in July 2014. Her daughter, then 36, was raped by their security guard. Nirmala rues the fact that she could not reach home in time after her help left the house.
"There was a time-gap of 40 minutes between her leaving and my reaching home. The accused had not left. I felt something strange in my daughter's behaviour as I stepped into the house. There was an eerie silence and she refused to eat dinner. At night she kept screaming," Hindustan Times reported quoting the mother, an expert in mother and child health.
4) 22 senior railway officers lose postings after CBI report
At least 22 senior officials in the ministry of railways have been removed from sensitive postings after their names were red-flagged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), as per report in the Hindustan Times.
These officers belong to the Indian Railways' North Eastern zone that covers Uttar Pradesh, western Bihar, and Uttarakhand. After the anti-graft agency raised their names, most officers have been removed from the postings that involve taking decisions related to financial matters. Three officials continue to stay in their posts but their "financial powers" have been withdrawn. One officer has been on sick leave for long, said a source.
5) Kollam temple fire: After DGP, health chief says PM Modi, Rahul visits to burns ICU were 'unwarranted'
A day after the Kerala DGP said that he had opposed the Prime Minister's visit to Kollam hours after a fireworks blast killed over 100 people, as it would hamper relief work, the state's top health official said that the visits of VVIPs, including Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, to the ICU and wards at the Thiruvananthapuram medical college hospital to meet the injured were "unwarranted".
Modi and Congress leader Gandhi visited the patients separately on Sunday at a time when seven of eight patients admitted in the ICU were in "the most critical condition, with 60 to 90 per cent burn injuries", R Ramesh, Director of Health Services (DHS), told The Indian Express.
6) National security a non-partisan issue, seek your cooperation: NSA to CJI, Supreme Court judges
In a first, Chief Justice of India T S Thakur and judges of the Supreme Court were briefed for almost an hour Friday on the internal and external security situation of the country by National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval who, while seeking "more cooperation" in "speeding up" the judicial system, underlined that "national security should be a non-partisan issue".
The judges were briefed during a closed-door session of a seminar organised as part of a three-day retreat on the campus of the National Judicial Academy on the outskirts of Bhopal. President Pranab Mukherjee will be addressing the Supreme Court judges Saturday, as per report in The Indian Express.
7) Allow foreign university campuses: Niti Aayog
Brightening chances of a UPA-era proposal that was once opposed by the BJP, the NITI Aayog has submitted a report to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) in favour of inviting foreign universities to set up campuses in India.
NITI Aayog has suggested three routes to permit entry of foreign education providers: a new law to regulate the operation of such universities in the country; an amendment to the UGC Act of 1956 and deemed university regulations to let them in as deemed universities; and, facilitating their entry by tweaking UGC and AICTE regulations on twinning arrangements between Indian and foreign institutions to permit joint ventures, as reported in The Indian Express.
8) Siddaramaiah's son quits firm over tender row
Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah's younger son, Dr Yathindra Siddaramaiah, resigned as director, Matrix, late on Friday. Matrix, a company jointly owned by him, was awarded a tender to open a diagnostics lab in a government hospital.
Dr Yathindra and chief minister Siddaramaiah had denied wrongdoing on initial reports of Matrix bagging the government diagnostics lab, claiming the tendering process was transparent. On Friday evening Dr Yathindra messaged Times Of India: "By the way, I am quitting Matrix (Imaging Solutions India)."
9) Kochi boy Amal 'beats' Zuckerberg at his own game
Mark Zuckerberg may have started the online social networking revolution and made billions of dollars from his game-changing Facebook (FB). But this maverick internet entrepreneur surely didn't reckon with city boy Amal Augustine.
Amal has 'beaten' the master at his own game and closed a deal with FB, trading the registration rights of maxchanzuckerberg.org on Monday. FB approached Augustine for the domain name registered by him as it was the short form of Maxime Chan Zuckerberg, the name of FB founder Mark Zuckerberg's daughter,as reported in Times Of India
10) FMCG companies like PepsiCo, P&G follow in startups' footsteps on incentive front
Fast-moving consumer goods companies have started giving their best employees the kind of extraordinary incentives that startups have come to be known for after a gap of almost two years, during which it seemed only ecommerce firms were being generous in their efforts to retain talent.
PepsiCo for instance is sending four young performers to Cannes on an all-expenses paid trip in June, while Procter & Gamble has doubled the number of employees eligible for global stock options, most of them middle-rung leaders, as reported in The Economic Times.
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