Air India's chairman and managing director takes home a lighter pay packet than some of the clerical staff, an anomaly that underscores the skewed salary structure at the struggling state-owned airline. The CMD's total pay packet of Rs 1.30 lakh a month amounts to a take-home salary of about Rs 80,000 for the 1985-batch bureaucrat on deputation. Read

A study (yes, one of those inane ones) says that workers earning the lowest wages have a higher risk of hypertension than those who receive handsome salaries, a new study suggests. The correlation between wages and hypertension was especially strong among women and persons between the ages of 25 to 44.