Express 5: An injunction never delivered,a costly kidnapping and an expensive art piece

That might seem like a story from a decade back. But Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has ordered a probe after a Surat businessman alleged the involvement of “some Bihar politicians and policemen” in the kidnapping of his son,who was later released for a ransom of Rs 25 crore.

‘Some Bihar politicians,policemen’ under scanner in kidnap case Kamaal Saiyed and Santosh Singh piece together the story in Today’s paper

Sixteen years on,those projecting themselves as custodians of basic and fundamental expectations of a woman,be it a Tehelka,the Supreme Court of India or even the state,have barely,if at all,complied with Vishaka. By doing nothing,such institutions foster hostile sexual environments.

Silence of the workplace argues Naina Kapur in Opinion

ALL FOGGED OUT: It is not just flights that the fog is affecting in North India. Anil Sasi reports how the northern electricity grid had a close call with transient faults caused under dense fog conditions leading to outages in 18 transmission lines.

Dust,fog pushed northern grid close to collapse on Wednesday night by Anil Sasi in Business

INDIAN TREASURE TROVE: Vasudeo S Gaitonde’s untitled work was expected to fetch a maximum of Rs 8.5 crore,but it raked in almost three times that amount as buyers spent Rs 102 crore at a Christie’s auction for Indian art.

Gaitonde’s Untitled fetches Rs 23.7 cr in Christie’s debut by Kevin Lobo and Amruta Lakhe