N Ravi elected PTI Chairman
N Ravi, editor of The Hindu, was unanimously elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Press Trust of India on Tuesday, reports PTI from New Delhi.
Prof E V Chitnis, an eminent physicist, was elected the vice chairman. Prof Chitnis is one of the key public interest directors on the PTI Board, the other two being former chief justice of India Justice S P Bharucha and eminent jurist Fali S Nariman.
Other directors representing newspapers on the Board are Philip Mathew (Malayala Manorama), Vineet Kumar Jain (Times of India), Shekhar Gupta (Indian Express), M P Veerendrakumar (Mathrubhumi), Aveek Kumar Sarkar (Ananda Bazaar Patrika), K. N. Shanth Kumar (Deccan Herald), Vijay Kumar Chopra (Hind Samachar), Mahendra Mohan Gupta (Jagran Prakashan) and Praveenchandra Gandhi (Janmabhoomi).

Villagers beaten up by BSF, 7 injured
Seven persons, including two women, were beaten up by BSF personnel who were caught allegedly molesting a pregnant woman in West Bengal’s Dakshin Dinajpur district, PTI reports from Siliguri.
According to an FIR lodged by residents of Bhulkkipuri, husband of the woman who was being molested by two BSF personnel rushed to the spot and chased them away Superintendent of Police Kalyan Kumar Mullick said on Wednesday. BSF Commandant N S Rathore filed an FIR claiming that one of his men was injured. He alleged the attack was a ploy by a cattle smuggler of the village to divert the attention of border guards from his illegal trade.
Hindi-speaking teacher’s house hit
In a fresh attack on Hindi-speaking people in Assam, a grenade was hurled at the home of a teacher in Nagaon district, PTI  reports from Nagaon (Assam).
The identity of those who lobbed the grenade into the compound of school teacher Ranjit Prasad Gupta’s home at Natun Bazar Pukhuripur in Hojai town Tuesday night could not be established, officials said. The grenade burst in the backyard, damaging a septic tank. No one was injured in the incident, they said.
Two persons, including a surrendered ULFA cadre, had been picked up in connection with the incident, officials said.

Bomb threat in court turns out be hoax
Proceedings at the Nampally criminal court here were disrupted for over three hours today following a bomb scare in the four-storey building that later proved to be a hoax, PTI reports from Hyderabad.
Commotion prevailed in the court as advocates, staff and public ran outside the building, which houses 35 court rooms, after an anonymous caller rang up the second and third metropolitan sessions judges’ chambers at 10 am and warned that four bombs planted in the premises might explode at any moment, police said.
Two calls were received by court staff, who immediately alerted police.
Soon after, four bomb disposal and sniffer dogs teams, comprising 15 personnel of the City Security Wing, rushed to the court and searched the building for about three hours but found no explosives, police said.