Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
A day in the life of a CPM office in Kolkata: 'We are in hiding'
Since May 19, when the West Bengal election results were announced, 14 CPM regional offices in the Behala constituency have allegedly been occupied by TMC workers. The TMC's Paresh Paul won from here against the CPM's Rajib Biswas by 26,179 votes. read full article in The Indian Express.
One can find Biswas at the Beleghata CPM office, among the few to have escaped the TMC's wrath in the constituency. Four policemen sit on guard at the entrance.
Major blow to Hizbul's Wani, key aide is held
In a big jolt to the Hizbul Mujahideens 21-year-old commander Burhan Muzaffar Wani, the Army on Saturday claimed to have caught one of his close associates from a joint check-post with the police, in Pulwama, south Kashmir, as reported in The Indian Express.
Tariq Ahmad Pandit (25), who belongs to the area, was one of 11 militants who posed with Kalashnikovs for what became the postcard picture of the new breed of militants in Kashmir led by Wani.
RSS wing to revive 'love jihad' campaign
With less than a year left for UP polls, RSS is learnt to have advised its wing, Hindu Jagran Manch, to revive the 'love jihad' campaign. The HJM is scheduled to hold a meeting in this regard in Agra's Shahganj Sunday, sources said. The meeting will see HJM workers discuss "strategies" to curb cases of alleged 'love jihad'. Read full article in The Indian Express.
The outfit's newly appointed UP vice-president Ajju Chauhan will chair the meeting. Chauhan hit headlines last year when, as an office bearer of Bajrang Dal, he led its 'anti-love jihad' campaign, 'bahu lao-beti-bachao'.
I am innocent, Harish Rawat says in full-page advertisement
A fresh controversy is afoot in Uttarakhand's political corridors on account of a recent full-page advertisement, published in a few regional dailies, which has CM Harish Rawat thanking the people for their support and pleading innocence vis-a-vis bribery allegations triggered by a sting video.
The ad, issued by Uttarakhand's state information department, was published a day before Rawat was summoned by the CBI for interrogation in the sting probe, as reported by The Times of India.
Black money on mind, Modi may visit Switzerland
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will likely make a stopover in Switzerland on his way to the US next month to discuss with Swiss authorities the issue of illicit cash stashed in banks there in a move which is being seen as significant in the context of the NDA government's assertion that it is doing all it can to unearth black money.
While both MEA and Swiss authorities chose not to confirm the visit, Times of India has learnt that top level Indian and Swiss officials are in touch to facilitate the visit. If the visit does work out, Modi will land in Swiss capital Bern on June 6 on his way to Washington, DC from Doha.
Pak naval vessels detected near western coast
Two warships of the Western Fleet were scrambled from Mumbai on Friday after Pakistani naval vessels were detected close to Indian territorial waters. This happened hours after the stealth frigate INS Tarkash came in contact with Pakistani warships in international waters, as reported in The Times of India.
INS Tarkash is one of three Indian warships that called on ports in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recently in a show of cooperation and friendship.
Those were the worst 15 minutes of my life: Abused African recalls Delhi horror
"It was the worst 10-15 minutes of my life. Our car was surrounded by armed goons. My husband was being beaten up. I held my four-month-old daughter tight, praying she doesn't get hurt," said Kate Igbonosa, 26, remembering the night of the attack at Rajpur Khurd village.
Kenneth's wife, Kate, vividly remembers how she tried to protect her daughter from the shards of glass when the car windshield was smashed by the locals that night. Read full article in Hindustan Times.
Gangs using social media to extort money from parents of missing kids
Parents of a 13-year-old girl from Jharkhand, who has been missing for the past two months, thought they got lucky when they received a call from someone claiming he knows where their daughter is. But for that they will have to deposit money through e-wallet.
Sensing trouble, the father of the girl approached an NGO that contacted the police suspecting it might be a ploy to extort money from the girl's father. The fears turned out to be true. The person who had called up the girl's father was caught in Chennai and he confessed that he collected the details of missing children through social media and contacted their parents to extort money, as reported in Hindustan Times.
Hope for Maharashtra: China offers to bring artificial rain in drought-hit state
China has offered to share its cloud seeding technology with India, which could be used to artificially induce rain in drought-affected regions, reports Hindustan Times.
Cloud seeding, a technique mastered by the Chinese, is a form of climate modification that is used to form rain by either using artilleries to fire shells containing rain-inducing chemicals into the cloud cover or by dropping the said chemicals from an aircraft. A team of top meteorological scientists from Beijing, Shanghai and Anhui are in Mumbai to study drought patterns in Maharashtra, where the first such project is likely to be implemented.
You need to know someone in government to do business in India: South Carolina governor Nikki Haley
Despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to fix the notorious red tape, doing business with India was possible only if you knew someone in the government, Republican party member and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley reportedly told a group of journalists at a briefing in her Columbia office.
"Firms who want to do business in India very much realise that in India you have to know people to get things done. That is scary for them. That is scary for the fact that the government is much more powerful than it is in US. Here, we are servants. In India, governments are very strong and you have to know someone in the government to be able to be successful in business and that makes American companies nervous," the Republican Party member was quoted in a report. Read full article in The Economic Times.
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