Teachers’ pay hike

New Delhi, Dec. 16: The cabinet last night cleared an unprecedented salary hike for over five lakh university and college teachers across the country, three months after a central panel proposed the raise.

an average, teachers and non-teaching technical staff — such as librarians and laboratory assistants — will get a 75 per cent hike. The government will now notify the hike, after which it will become operational.

Sikhs in UN

United Nations (PTI): A Sikh group has challenged the French government in the UN for allegedly violating their human rights and freedom of religion by banning turbans in schools. The United Sikhs filed the complaint on behalf of three Sikhs who have alleged they are being denied the right to wear a turban.

BMW notice

New Delhi (PTI): Delhi High Court has a notice to police on a bail plea filed by Sanjeev Nanda, a convict in the BMW hit-and-run case. Ram Jethmalani pleaded that Sanjeev’s grandfather S.M. Nanda, a former naval chief, was not keeping well and wanted to meet his only grandson.

Race death

New Delhi (PTI): A student fell unconscious and died soon after winning a 100-metre race organised by a management institute on Tuesday as his family alleged he was not given prompt medical help. Naveen, 18, was a second-year student of the Indraprastha Institute of Management and Technology.

Hotel ‘cover’

Panaji (PTI): Goa police tumbled upon a madarsa in a hotel at vasco which was housing around 80 girls. “We had received information about several girls staying in the hotel.... We had asked them to fill the verification form and during our visit we realised that it was a madarsa,” deputy superintendent of police Deu Banaulikar said.

Women on TV

Thiruvananthapuram (PTI): The Kerala Women’s Commission has asked the media to show restraint while telecasting assaults on women. Repeated telecast of such visuals was an “encroachment on women’s privacy”, it said.