Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. Tickets on hold 10 days before World Cup T20
BCCI is receiving a flurry of calls and hate mails for failing to deliver tickets to fans for the upcoming T20 World Cup, even as 10 days are left for the event.
The Indian Express reported that telephones have been ringing off the hook, and the inbox filling up with hate mails at the headquarters of the Indian cricket board in Mumbai. For a while now, anxious tour operators and fans have been calling to ask when tickets would be made available for the T20 World Cup starting March 8.
With just 10 days left for the teams to start arriving and the warm-up to start, there is no clarity on tickets for fans, who also have to book hotels and organise transport in India for ICC's second-biggest event after the 50-over World Cup.
2. Haryana police's sedition case: Man protests in Delhi, records show him firing at cops in Hisar
Ram Avtar got bail 14 months after he was sent to jail on charges of "sedition” by Haryana Police, who also accused him of firing at police personnel in Hisar when he was actually 180 km away in New Delhi.
According to a report in The Indian Express, at the time that the investigation claimed him to be firing at them, Ram Avtar was "live” on television channels, participating in a protest at Jantar Mantar in support of the controversial godman Rampal.
Released Friday from Hisar central Jail after the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted him bail, Ram Avtar is among the 142 who were jailed on identical charges after the November 18, 2014, stand-off between Haryana Police and Rampal supporters.
3. Working 24X7, Modi Puts Stamp on Budget
Not just Finance Minister Arun Jaitley & his team, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and key officials in his office are also closely engaged in the Budget-making exercise
With less than 10 days to go before its presentation in Parliament.
Jaitley and his team are busy putting together what's expected to be a landmark Budget. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and key officials in his office are also as closely engaged in the exercise, reported The Economic Times,
ET spoke to various officials to piece together how Budget-making under this government is proving to be very different from what it used to be.
4. Startups consolidate their Ops into one office to save on costs
This move may help companies save as much as 25% of operational costs, say experts.
After building up their market shares and making their presence felt, several startup companies in India are now in consolidation mode on the real estate front, said report in Economic Times.
Many of them, operating from premises scattered around the city , are now moving into a single office or shedding excess space they may have leased during their years of dramatic growth as they seek to optimise their real estate portfolios, become more efficient operationally and save costs.
Flipkart has signed a 2 million sq ft office deal with the Embassy Group in Bengaluru, of which the first phase of 1.5 million sq ft will be delivered by 2017.
5. Each Tricolour at universities to cost Rs 45 lakh
Nationalism may be a priceless sentiment but the decision to install the national flag in all central universities entails a small cost.
It takes Rs 40-45 lakh to install a "national flag at a height of 200 feet or so and a monthly maintenance expenditure of about Rs 65,000. the Flag Foundation of" India CEO Commander (retd) KV Singh told Economic Times.
The HRD Ministry has said that cost estimates are yet to be worked out but funds are not a constraint.
6. JNUSU president Kanhaiya kept in Tihar cell where Sahara chief was lodged
JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar, arrested on charges of sedition, has been kept in an isolated cell inside jail number 3, which was once occupied by Sahara India chief Subroto Roy, said report in Hindustan Times.
Tihar jail sources said that Kumar has been kept alone in his cell which has an attached toilet, bathroom and a television. Kumar's immediate neighbours, jail officers said, are two senior citizens.
Kumar in his high security cell has jail warders guarding him round the clock. Police sources said Kumar's security is a top priority and that senior officers were roped in to monitor his security during his court hearing on Friday.
According to a news report, Kanhaiya had reportedly requested for a novel by Prem Chand inside prison.
7. West Bengal: Private medical colleges plan to hike fees by 50%
Private medical colleges in Bengal are planning to hike fees for MBBS course at least by 50% of the existing fee ahead of the new academic session 2016-2017 beginning from August.
There are three private and 14 government medical colleges including the labour ministryrun ESIC hospital Joka in the state, according to Hindustan Times.
One private medical college and hospital in Durgapur accommodating 150 medical seats has already submitted a proposal to the health department proposing to increase the fee to Rs 55 lakh from the existing Rs 37 lakh for the four and a half year undergraduate medical course.
"We have sent a proposal to the health department requesting to approve the move. The existing course fee in our college is ' 37 lakh. We want to hike it to ' 55 lakh under management quota owing to enhancements in costs of maintenance and operation of the teaching hospital. The fee structure committee headed by a retired judge of the High Court will take the final decision,” a senior official of the medical college said.
8. SC says violent incidents now common in courts
The Supreme Court on Friday strongly disapproved of the violent behaviour of a section of lawyers who attacked JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar, his supporters and journalists in Patiala House court but refused to treat it as a "one of its kind" incident to entertain the bail plea of the sedition accused, reported The Times of India.
As Kanhaiya's advocates narrated the violent incidents in Patiala House court on February 15 and 17 and said the situation there was terrorising for the lawyers appearing for the accused, a bench of Justices J Chelameswar and A M Sapre said, "It will be a dangerous proposition to say that if a violent incident takes place in a court, the accused can come straight to Supreme Court. Then it should be available to every accused across the country . It is not the only case of its kind."
The bench reminded all happened in Madras High Co urt, where lawyers fought a pit ched battle with police after the arrest of their colleagues in Fe bruary 2009. It also referred to the March 2012 clash between awyers, police and journalists in a Bengaluru court where mi ning magnate Janardhan Red dy was being tried.
9. Prem Chand novels for company in jail
The medical examination report of Kanhaiya Kumar suggests that he did suffer physical injuries, belying the claim made by Delhi Police in the Supreme Court on Friday that he was not assaulted inside and outside the trial court.
Kanhaiya was examined by a team of doctors immediately after he was thrashed on his way to the court, reported The Times of India.
He had complained of chest pain after the assault by lawyers at Patiala House Courts earlier this week. He repeated his complaint of chest pain at Tihar jail as well.
Police chief B S Bassi had earlier denied that Kanhaiya was thrashed and termed the incident as "jostling".
10. 25 lakh bookings for Rs 251 smartphone
The owner of 'Ringing Bells', the company behind the Rs 251 smartphone that has generated disbelief and suspicion in equal measure, claimed on Friday he had reached his target of 25 lakh bookings.
He also told The Times of India he would disclose his business plan in a couple of days.
Amid continuous visits to his Noida office -B-44 in Sector 63 -by taxmen and cops, Mohit Goel promised to start delivering the phones, whose manufacturing or assembly is yet to start, by the end of April. He also claimed the booking money had not been transferred to his account yet and he didn't want it till he started delivering the phones.
Asked about the pricing of the phone, which has drawn fire for unfair undercutting, and accountability for the huge booking money, Goel said, “I will come out and disclose my business plan in two days. We have reached the target of 25 lakh bookings and we will start distributing by April-end. We will set up two factories, one in Noida, another in Uttarakhand." He claimed an assembly plant for the phone is already in place in Noida.
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