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The Delhi government has visited more than 600 private schools after receiving complaints of arbitrary fee increases, sending over 10 institutions showcause notices. The Directorate of Education (DoE) stated that district-level committees headed by SDMs were constituted to probe the issue.

The government of Delhi has checked more than 600 city private schools for arbitrary and unjustified fee hikes amid growing complaints. Over 10 schools were issued showcause notices after inspections, officials added on Wednesday. District-level panels have been established to investigate the complaints, a statement by the Directorate of Education (DoE) said. The panels are led by Sub-Divisional Magistrates (SDMs) and have deputy directors of education, accounts officers, and principals of government schools.

The checks were on private unaided schools, including those that have been specifically mentioned in complaints lodged with the DoE. "The process is ongoing on a priority basis," the department added. Schools found guilty of increasing fees to make profits are being issued showcause notices under Section 24(3) of the Delhi School Education Act and Rules (DSEAR), 1973. In serious offenses, the DoE stated it is weighing options like withdrawal of school recognition or taking control of school administration.

Non-compliance by schools identified

The inspections also revealed default by some schools in filing compulsory fee statements and audited accounts, contrary to Sections 17(3) and 180(3) of DSEAR. Legal action is being pursued against such schools, the department further stated. Sticking to its position, the DoE cautioned that any deviation from fee regulation norms would be met with stern action. It asked all private schools to ensure openness and adhere to legal processes while hiking fees.

'Dummy admissions' were found

Additionally, the department reported complaints of "dummy admissions" being made in independent schools. Twenty schools were discovered to be dummy schools during inspections and are liable to action under DSEAR, 1973.

Officials also verified adherence to the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009. Schools have to give textbooks, uniforms, and writing material to students belonging to the economically weaker sections, disadvantaged groups, and children with special needs, as per Rule 8 of the Delhi RTE Rules, 2011. Failure to adhere to these will invite penalties under the RTE Act and DSEAR, the DoE said.

The media and entertainment industry is one of the most dynamic and competitive fields today. Whether you aspire to work in journalism, film, television, digital content, or advertising, success often depends not just on talent but also on whom you know. Networking plays a crucial role in building careers, opening doors to opportunities, and helping professionals stay updated in this fast-evolving sector.

What is Networking and Why Does it Matter?

Networking is the process of building and nurturing professional relationships that can offer support, information, and opportunities. In media and entertainment, where projects often depend on collaborations, referrals, and timely access to resources, having a strong network can accelerate your career growth.

How Networking Benefits Media & Entertainment Professionals

1. Access to Job Opportunities: Many jobs and internships in media are not always advertised publicly. Connections with industry insiders can help you learn about openings early or get recommendations that increase your chances of selection.
2. Mentorship and Guidance: Experienced professionals can provide valuable advice, share knowledge about industry trends, and guide you through challenges. Networking helps you find mentors who can shape your career path.
3. Collaboration on Projects: Media projects typically involve teamwork—from writers and editors to producers and marketers. Networking enables you to meet collaborators and build teams that can bring creative ideas to life.
4. Learning and Skill Development: By connecting with peers and seniors, you get insights into new tools, techniques, and practices. This ongoing learning keeps you relevant in an industry that constantly changes with technology and audience preferences.
5. Building Your Personal Brand: A broad network helps you establish your reputation. Word-of-mouth and personal recommendations are powerful in media fields where trust and credibility matter.

How to Build a Strong Network in Media & Entertainment

• Attend Industry Events and Workshops: Film festivals, media conferences, and content creator meetups are excellent places to meet professionals.
• Use Social Media Wisely: Platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram allow you to follow industry leaders, share your work, and engage with relevant communities.
• Join Professional Organizations: Groups like journalist unions, film associations, or digital media societies provide networking opportunities and resources.
• Internships and Part-Time Projects: Working on projects lets you connect with colleagues and supervisors who can become part of your professional circle.
• Stay Genuine and Helpful: Networking is a two-way street. Offer support and collaborate genuinely; relationships built on trust last longer.

Why Students and Newcomers Should Focus on Networking

If you are preparing for journalism entrance exams, mass communication entrance exams, or any entrance test for mass media, building networking skills early on is invaluable. Internships, college events, and industry workshops are great starting points. Networking not only helps you find internships and first jobs but also provides ongoing support throughout your career.

Conclusion

In the media and entertainment field, talent alone is not enough. Networking is essential to unlocking opportunities, gaining knowledge, and building a sustainable, successful career. By investing time in meaningful professional relationships, you can navigate this vibrant industry with confidence and create a strong foundation for long-term growth.

The notion of an "in-house legal internship" usually brings to mind repetitive contract analysis and silent attendance at corporate meetings in people's minds. Corporate legal internships in 2025 present an active and substantial learning experience compared to traditional expectations. Such internships unite law expertise with business understanding to push interns toward practical applications of corporate law beyond their textbook learning.

The durations of in-house legal internships span 10-12 weeks during summer months from late May to early August. Some of the 2025 internship programs run from June 2nd through August 8th, on the other hand, virtual session onboarding takes place during late May. Law internships today operate under a dual system which blends office-site and home-based work environments. Interns at these positions have to maintain presence in the office three times per week on typical days Tuesday through Thursday and complete remaining work responsibilities remotely. 

Scope Of In-House Legal Internship

The work scope that in-house legal interns undertake comprises more than standard contract review responsibilities. Legal interns contribute to numerous organizational responsibilities which consist of:

1. Legal Document Review & Drafting: Interns prepare operational and transactional legal documents through summarized reviews which lead to drafted documents. The attorney incurs responsibility for creating and evaluating different agreements ranging from Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) through service contracts and vendor agreements.

2. Legal Research: The research tasks supervised by interns focus on intellectual property laws, data privacy regulations, and commercial compliance matters. Multinational companies require their interns to conduct research that spans international law systems affecting their operations in diverse foreign jurisdictions.

3. Compliance Checks: Organizations must diligently maintain compliance with regulatory rules throughout all their operational jurisdictions. The identification of possible risks and corresponding compliance solutions is a task entrusted to interns.

4. Corporate Governance: Corporate governance tasks in which interns participate involve the review and preparation of corporate disclosure materials.

Benefits of Working as In-House Legal Intern 

The main advantage of working as an in-house legal intern includes working with different departments of the company. In-house legal interns work in partnership with teams from different divisions, including sales, technology, human resources and business units. The combined work of different business units helps interns learn how to express complicated legal terms into easy-to-follow recommendations for colleagues who are not legal experts, which is an essential capability in corporate settings.

Several organisations belonging to different business sectors participate in providing in-house legal internships. A wide range of organisational entities, including financial institutions, multinational corporations, accounting firms, consultancy firms, telecommunications companies, retail chains, manufacturing companies, technology corporations and non-profit organisations, participate in internship programs. Different sectors that are available for interns provide them with valuable exposure to law practice in diverse industrial settings. 

Interns Get Many Work Opportunities

Within the legal stream, the intern would be given the chance to work in some or all practice areas.

• Corporate advisory
• Tax law
• Property, real estate, and infrastructure
• Enterprise development
• Employment relations
• Regulatory compliance
• Litigation
• Intellectual property

A structured curriculum comprises many internship programs. Businesses frequently assign each summer intern to receive support from both a manager and a mentor as well as an executive sponsor. Summer interns dedicate themselves to particular assignments which lead to final presentations when their programs conclude. Participating interns get access to development training sessions as well as time to connect with executives and social events to meet colleagues and staff members.

Legal internship programs offer financial compensation which includes paid work opportunities among their other compensation types. For instance, some internships in 2025 offer stipends between 6000rs to 30,000rs in India.

Specific qualifications for internships at these organisations include enrollment in law school along with Juris Doctorate degree pursuit. These particular programs seek candidates who intend to continue their academic journey into the following fall term after their internship experience.

To sum up, in 2025 corporate legal internships within company law departments deliver comprehensive training that exceeds the commonly held notions of contract evaluation and observational duties. The combination between law and business creates valuable exposure which prepares future intern recruits for complex corporate legal responsibilities. Working at in-house corporate legal internships requires individual flexibility and precise execution together with exceptional communication abilities to understand practical business legal applications.

The corporate legal foundation which law school education cannot deliver becomes available through these internships to those lawyers who aim for corporate practice positions. The internships equip interns with legal expertise and business knowledge that prepares them to deliver great value to corporate operations. Thus, in-house internship experiences create a lasting benefit for future law practitioners because of the changing legal environment.

There has been a heightening of tensions between Pune's elite Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE) and its parent organization, the Servants of India Society (SIS), with both parties engaged in a public battle over charges of financial misdeeds and governance problems.

In a sharply worded press release on Thursday, GIPE communication officer Parag Waghmare charged SIS president Damodar Sahoo with misusing government money in a personal court fight. The release said Sahoo should also be made an accused in an ongoing FIR regarding fund diversion case in which secretary of the 120-year-old organization Milind Deshmukh has already been arrested.

Sahoo extorted money ( ₹10 lakh) from the Gokhale Institute in 2023. The extortion closely resembles acts of Milind Deshmukh, who is already a suspect in the same case," the statement read.

The case pertains to "serious allegations of land grab and forgery" and commenced as a criminal writ petition that led to an FIR, the press release said.

This is a serious concern over the abuse of public funds of the Gokhale Institute, which is a public grant-recipient body, for personal legal issues emanating from supposed criminal offenses. This is not merely financial abuse but a breach of public faith and the ideals of Gopal Krishna Gokhale," the statement read.

The GIPE, as a deemed university under Section 3 of the UGC Act, functions independently with SIS as its parent organization. The institute has issued a warning that any effort at misusing its resources amounts to a violation of UGC norms and institutional autonomy.

Waghmare claimed that even though the society possesses assets like rented properties, rent from the Amaya Hotel and office rooms on SIS campuses, the Servants of India Society still maintains a picture of financial hardship and takes money out of the institute.

Out of respect for its tradition, we had not spoken against SIS so far. But in the face of continuous media interactions and disinformation spread by the SIS President, we are left with no option but to state facts. We propagate the legacy of Gopal Krishna Gokhale out of no personal interest, and it hurts to witness the institution established by him getting embroiled in controversy," the statement stated.

The Deccan police on April 4 filed an FIR under BNS Sections 34, 406, 409 and 420 against Milind Deshmukh and others. Deshmukh has been arrested and remanded to police custody, which has been extended up to April 11.

GIPE acting vice-chancellor professor Shankar Das stated, "There have been developments day by day in the issue. We've released an official press release. The police inquiry is on, and I won't say anything more at this stage."

In a turn of events, the GIPE statement had quoted SIS president Damodar Sahoo as asserting, "Why didn't you take our permission to file an FIR against us?" GIPE had replied stating, "This may be a rare occurrence in criminal history where the accused anticipates permission to be granted prior to an FIR being filed."

At the same time, the institute also refuted charges leveled by one of the vice-chancellor applicants, Manoj Kar, regarding a lack of transparency in the search process. The statement explained that the search committee operates independently and reports directly to the chancellor and GIPE has no role to play in the selection process.

We request the concerned authorities to conduct a proper and transparent inquiry into SIS's financial transactions, and ensure public institutions are safe from abuse and misrepresentation," the institute added.

Selection process

Professor Manoj Kar, ex-member, Board of Management, GIPE, Pune, who had objected and raised concerns over the selection process of GIPE vice-chancellor, has written to chancellor Sanjeev Sanyal and UGC on Thursday raising doubts over the transparency of the process.

There is no publicly reported data on the number of applications received or identities of shortlisted candidates. The lack of data creates issues about transparency of the shortlisting exercise. Recent sacking of Ajit Ranade as vice-chancellor points to probable issues in the selection process.". The fact-finding committee reported that his appointment fell short of University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines in that he did not possess the ten years of professorial experience that was necessary. Further, there were also concerns regarding conflict of interest at the time of his selection," Kar said.

These events have also created fears that worthy candidates will not be seriously considered by the search-cum-selection committee, Kar said.

"Given these issues of concern, I humbly request suspending the current process of selection and interviews until issues of transparency are addressed. Also to release the shortlisting criteria and names of the shortlisted to avoid pre-empting the decision-making process so as to ensure fairness and transparency," he said.

Byju's Alpha, the US-based lending unit of the edtech company, stated on Thursday that it sued its co-founders Byju Raveendran and Divya Gokulnath, and ex-chief strategy officer and senior executive Anita Kishore in a US court. The lawsuit alleges that they conspired to create a scheme of fraud to transfer $533 million of loan proceeds - known as the "Alpha Funds" - out of the company without providing any consideration in return.

In a statement given to TOI, Raveendran refused the allegations saying they were "completely baseless and untrue". He stated, "This litigation is part of Glas' conspiracy to take over Byju's by all possible devious means. It is nothing but another gear in the wheel of falsehoods that Glas, the unlawful representative of disqualified lenders in the US, has been turning for long now." Glas Trust is the trustee to lenders to whom Byju's owes $1.2 billion.

Raveendran further said that a signed and attested affidavit filed in the Delaware court described the application of the full $1.2 billion loan "to the last dollar," and claimed the affidavit was "conveniently ignored" by Glas. He also charged FCPA violations by individuals connected to the lenders, including "Vishal Chanani of Redwood, Dan Ornstein of HG Vora, and Irena Goldstein of Glas," in relation to an alleged bribery scheme with an Indian court official. Raveendran said Glas is "already under investigation in a criminal case in India."

In the latest court filing seen by TOI, Byju's Alpha accused the three defendants of being part of a "lawless scheme" to siphon Alpha Funds from the debtor company to other group affiliates following the default on a $1.2 billion term loan by the company in 2022. The filing accused Raveendran of acting as the "self-appointed CEO" of Byju's Alpha of transferring the company's limited partnership interest in Camshaft Capital Fund worth more than $540 million to a non-guarantor affiliate, Inspilearn, on March 31, 2023, for nil consideration.

In a government college in Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district, the job of marking university examination answer sheets had apparently changed so many hands that it finally ended up with a peon—initiating a scandal that has rocked the college.

At the center of the scandal is Shaheed Bhagat Singh Government PG College in Pipariya, where a video went viral featuring Pannalal Pathariya, a peon of the college, carefully marking Hindi answer sheets. According to a Times of India report, Pathariya has a master's degree in English and was spotted checking answers, making tick marks, and giving marks. All this is work meant to be done strictly by teaching staff.

The work was to be done by Khushboo Pagare, who is a guest lecturer for Hindi, but she outsourced the task due to "health problems", as revealed by an internal investigation. She allegedly paid Rs 7,000 to college book-lifter Rakesh Kumar Mehar to do the job. Mehar in turn outsourced the work to the peon and paid him Rs 5,000, keeping Rs 2,000 for himself.

The issue was highlighted when students complained and brought the video to the notice of local MLA Thakur Das Nagvanshi. After a formal investigation, Rakesh Kumar Verma, the principal and the evaluation nodal officer professor Ramghulam Patel, were suspended by the higher education department. Pagare, Mehar and Pathariya were dismissed on Wednesday.

In her affidavit, Pagare admitted to outsourcing the assessment, giving illness as the reason. But the consequences have been quick and severe.

Principal Verma, who has already been recommended to be removed thrice in the last three months, claims he is being unfairly targeted. "All this action against me is politically motivated by local representatives who wanted to have me removed as principal," he said to Times of India. "The university directly appointed a nodal officer for evaluation. I had no role in it, nor did I receive any payment from the university.

Verma has approached the high court once again now, seeking a stay for the second time. "Whatever happened in the evaluation may be wrong; it is a matter of investigation, but I have no role in it," he added.