Girls prevented from attending college for head covering: A handful of government colleges in Karnataka have stopped allowing girls in hijab from entering classrooms; these young women have been protesting while male teachers force the gates shut on them

Unpaid rural wages: Workers of MGNREGA — the central government rural social safety net jobs scheme — are waiting for almost ₹3,360 crore in pending wage payments, with the largest pending payments in West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan

Goa state elections: Privacy concerns, especially for women, mount as parties step up voter profiling using technology and voter databases; In one surprising move, videos of AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal started showing up without consent on smartphones where he addresses the voter by name and asks them to vote for their party

Intimidation of minorities in Madhya Pradesh: Christians make up less than 0.3% of Madhya Pradesh’s population, unchanged over 70 years; Yet Hindutva extremists, encouraged by the partisan role of police and state government, have amped up intimidation and attacks on schools, homes and churches, charging them of conversions

Protests in Andhra Pradesh: Tension prevailed in Vijayawada as thousands of employees and teachers from various parts of Andhra Pradesh, defying police ban, descended on the city for 'Chalo Vijayawada' to press their demands for a higher pay revision