Above the Fold: Top stories of the day
1. More than a week after Nepal's massive earthquake, the death toll has crossed 7,000 and authorities don't expect to find any more survivors under the rubble.
2. An Assistant Sub Inspector of Mumbai police shot at and critically injured a senior colleague and then shot himself dead inside a police station.
3. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's personal image reboot now includes advocating for middle-class home buyers.
Weekend Reads
1. Charles Assisi, in Mint, describes the pervasive culture of access journalism in India and tells you how to avoid getting suckered by paid news.
2. Sharon Fernandes in Blink writes about the dozen-odd porters in a market in Goa who are a break from the norm: they're all 60-plus women.
3. A start-up in Rajasthan is attempting to build small 5-10 kilowatt micro-grids in inaccessible areas to bypass the problems of the national grid, writes Geetanjali Krishna in Business Standard.
4. Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson MJ Akbar writes in the Times of India about the severe lack of Muslim representation in Parliament and state assemblies, and says the growth of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is spurred on by this.
5. Jyoti Pande Lavakare in the Economic Times Magazine writes about a young pro bono round table forum that aims to nurture and help India software product start-ups.
6. Business Standard's excellent rural distress series continues with Mayank Mishra reporting on how, even in prosperous states, the adoption of cash-crops and the crash in agri-commodity prices has left farmers desperate.
7. Meghna Yelluru in the Indian Express tells the 12-year-long story of the Salman Khan trial through the statements of 27 witnesses.
8. Ahead of World Press Day, Aakar Patel in Mint reflects on his career in journalism, noting in particular that it is a rare Indian profession with some semblance of equality between the sexes.
9. Rakesh Sinha and Yubaraj Ghimire in the Indian Express write about the massive rebuilding challenge that now faces Nepal.
10. Shiv Visvanathan in Mail Today says Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been relentlessly hostile to education and environmentalism while he's gotten closer to corporates.
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1. More than a week after Nepal's massive earthquake, the death toll has crossed 7,000 and authorities don't expect to find any more survivors under the rubble.
2. An Assistant Sub Inspector of Mumbai police shot at and critically injured a senior colleague and then shot himself dead inside a police station.
3. Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's personal image reboot now includes advocating for middle-class home buyers.
Weekend Reads
1. Charles Assisi, in Mint, describes the pervasive culture of access journalism in India and tells you how to avoid getting suckered by paid news.
2. Sharon Fernandes in Blink writes about the dozen-odd porters in a market in Goa who are a break from the norm: they're all 60-plus women.
3. A start-up in Rajasthan is attempting to build small 5-10 kilowatt micro-grids in inaccessible areas to bypass the problems of the national grid, writes Geetanjali Krishna in Business Standard.
4. Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson MJ Akbar writes in the Times of India about the severe lack of Muslim representation in Parliament and state assemblies, and says the growth of the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen is spurred on by this.
5. Jyoti Pande Lavakare in the Economic Times Magazine writes about a young pro bono round table forum that aims to nurture and help India software product start-ups.
6. Business Standard's excellent rural distress series continues with Mayank Mishra reporting on how, even in prosperous states, the adoption of cash-crops and the crash in agri-commodity prices has left farmers desperate.
7. Meghna Yelluru in the Indian Express tells the 12-year-long story of the Salman Khan trial through the statements of 27 witnesses.
8. Ahead of World Press Day, Aakar Patel in Mint reflects on his career in journalism, noting in particular that it is a rare Indian profession with some semblance of equality between the sexes.
9. Rakesh Sinha and Yubaraj Ghimire in the Indian Express write about the massive rebuilding challenge that now faces Nepal.
10. Shiv Visvanathan in Mail Today says Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been relentlessly hostile to education and environmentalism while he's gotten closer to corporates.