News Digest: No pregnancy for 4 years, IAF rider for first women fighter trainees
News Digest: No pregnancy for 4 years, IAF rider for first women fighter trainees

Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:

1. No pregnancy for 4 years: IAF rider for first women fighter trainees

The Indian Air Force has advised its three women trainees, who are in line to become India’s first female fighter pilots, to put off motherhood for at least four years after they get commissioned into the force in June.

IAF vice-chief Air Marshal BS Dhanoa told the Hinustan Times on Thursday that an advisory to avoid pregnancy was issued to the women training at an IAF facility near Hyderabad so that their schedule was not disrupted.

The women are preparing to head for the last leg of their combat training in June, a watershed in the IAF’s 83-year history.

2. Government wants PF cover in 10-worker units

Companies employing 10 or more workers may soon have to pay provident fund, a move aimed at increasing the coverage of the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) scheme and in line with the government's plan to ensure social security to a larger section of workers.

As of now, provident fund is mandatory in establishments employing 20 people or more under the social security net run by Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). If the move is notified, it will force small units to pay provident fund benefits.

3. DU could be getting high on Wolf of Wall Street drug: Cops

In a dark scene from `The Wolf of Wall Street', the character played by Leonardo DiCaprio totally wrecks his car and the neighbourhood while driving home in a drug-induced haze. The drug in question, methaqualone, may now have reached Delhi University , police said.

Officers said initial test results of a substance seized by the police, and interrogation of its alleged buyers, indicates the drug is methaqu alone, also known as quaaludes or ludes -originally synthesised as a sedative but widely abused in the 1970s as a party drug when mixed with alcohol.

4. Pervert who says he raped hundreds of animals arrested

Three days after a four-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in Mankhurd, the police have arrested an addict who admitted he had raped the minor because drugs turned him into a compulsive sex maniac.

He told the police that this sexual drive had led him to rape hundreds of animals as well.

On March 7, the four- year- old girl’s body was found in the bushes near the Mankhurd T-junction on Sion- Panvel Highway.

The sexual deviant not only admitted to raping and murdering the minor but also said he had sex with eunuchs, homosexuals and even animals, reported Mid-Day.

5. No separate X-ray of tablets, iPads at airports

In a major relief, flyers will soon not have to take out tablets or iPads from hand baggage and place them in trays to be X-rayed separately during airport security checks. The Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has decided to stop `standalone' X-ray of electronic devices that don't have detachable batteries.

The regulator conveyed its decision to the CISF on Thursday and asked the paramilitary force to take a call on the issue shortly .

India is among the few countries that require flyers to take out tablets from hand bags and have them X-rayed separately.

6. Central Railway's latest offering - If you can catch them, beat them

Almost two weeks ago, a woman TC approached a girl at Kharghar railway station in the morning, demanding to see her ticket. The girl, presumably without the rightful fare, decided to bolt. But the TC was determined not to let this one get away. For about 30 metres of the length of the platform, she ran after her, navigating commuters and pillars, and when she finally caught up with her, she grabbed the runaway by her hair, turned her around, and deposited a slap on her face.

The whole incident, which occurred a little before 9.40am on February 22, was captured on the CCTV camera looking over the platforms. Mirror has a copy of the footage. The aggressive official has been identified as Ashwathi P, a ticket checker attached to the Tej Special-1 batch of TCs of Central Railway's Mumbai division.

7. Kanhaiya faced University action for ‘misbehaving’ with woman last year

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union President (JNUSU) Kanhaiya Kumar found himself in the middle of another row on Thursday, after it emerged that the university had taken disciplinary action against him and fined him in October last year for allegedly misbehaving with a woman.

The woman, in her complaint to the university, had accused Kumar of threatening her when she objected to him urinating in public, said a report in The Indian Express.

The woman, who is an alumnus of JNU, had written an open letter with details of the alleged incident, which, she said, took place in June 2015.

8. Arrested for two murders, man tells cops he killed 'for timepass'

A 23-year-old resident of Gurgaon has been arrested for allegedly killing two people “for timepass”, said police.

Gurgaon Police had been looking for the accused, identified as Sandeep, for the last five months, said sources. When asked why he committed the murders, Sandeep allegedly told police “bas ho gaya” (it just happened).

He has shown no remorse over the crimes and can be seen smiling in all the police photographs, sources told The Indian Express.

9. Nabarangpur again: Infant dies after being branded with a nail

The superstitious practice of branding babies to treat them claimed the life of a month-old infant in Odisha’s Nabarangpur district on Thursday.

The infant succumbed to infection after a local witchdoctor branded him with a hot iron nail a week ago. The infant had been taken to the witchdoctor after a vein on his abdomen became prominent, reported The Indian Express.

The son of Dhana Gouda of B Maliguda village in the district’s Nandahandi block was declared dead on arrival at the district headquarters hospital on Thursday afternoon.

10. Prashant Kishor will report to PCC Chiefs of Punjab and UP

AICC has made it clear that 'poll strategist' will only have an advisory role & he will not interfere with candidate selection `Election strategist' Prashant Kishor, now roped in to help the Congress in its electoral battles in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, will report to the respective PCC presidents of both states and not to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, The Economic TImes reports.

Understanding and adjusting to the organisational protocol and ground rules of the monolithic Congress will be a new experience for Kishor, after his experiences of reportingcoordinating directly with the top bosses - Narendra Modi during the Lok Sabha polls and Nitish Kumar in the Bihar assembly polls - of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Janata Dal (United). The AICC has also made it clear that Kishor will only have an advisory role with the Punjab and UP Congress and that he will not interfere with candidates' selection.

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