Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. Pants will be tailormade for obese or slim RSS men
So, here's the latest from India's biggest political' fashion' story: Those RSS brown trousers? For obese swayamsevaks, the new trousers will be what the tailoring trade calls pleated pants, for slim swayamsevaks, there will be the flat front option.
Men's tailors and salespersons in men's clothing shops always advise gentlemen with large proportions to go for pleated trousers, since these hide unwanted curves better.
Flat fronts, ideally worn from the hips and not the waist, as pleated plants are, show off the slimness of men who ha ve kept the midriff crisis at bay, reported The Economic Times.
2. Modi government spent Rs 510 crore on foreign jaunts in 2014-15, LS told
The Narendra Modi government spent around Rs 510 crore on foreign travel by its officials in 2014-15, with the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions headed by the PM running the highest bill at Rs 351.6 crore.
According to data furnished by minister of state for personnel Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, the home ministry spent Rs 30.2 crore on foreign travel last fiscal, the second highest for a ministry department. The next three big spenders were department of space, ministry of civil aviation and tourism and Lok Sabha, the Times of India reported.
3. Fathers & sons, husbands & wives and a mother in place of daughter, all in one Congress poll family
The first list of 65 Congress nominees for the Assam elections includes many who belong to families of long-term MLAs and MPs, a former Union minister who replaces his MLA wife as candidate, and a son who replaces his mother to contest alongside his father, who is also a sitting minister.
Gautam Roy and his son Rahul have been nominated for the adjoining seats of Katlicherra and Algapur, said a report in The Indian Express.
The father has been also minister for most of the past 15 years; the son was MLA from Algapur in 2006, was replaced by mother Mandira Roy in 2011, and has been brought back again.
4. Fear the bite more than the bark in the capital
More than 8,000 people get anti-rabies shots for animal bites every week, say numbers received from gover nment hospitals and dispensaries in Delhi.
Rabies — which spreads through the saliva of infected animals such as dogs, monkeys, bats, rats and squirrels — has no cure. Experts say anti-rabies doses after being bitten is the only way out, the Hindustan Times reported.
Every year, nearly 36% of the global deaths due to rabies occur in India, the World Health Org anisation estimates. In absolute numbers, it translates to 20, 847 deaths, reports a study published on Public Library of Science, an online open access platform.
5. SBI claims top slot in mobile banking
State Bank of India has just shown that elephants can dance and that too more successfully than their nimbler private sector rivals. In December, the bank reached the top position in the trendiest mobile banking space which could determine the success of a bank in retail lending.
The nation’s biggest lender, which had to play catch-up with private sector rivals like HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, now has 35% market share in mobile banking as its tax payment and fund transfer features drew in more customers, data from the Reserve Bank of India shows.
In December 2015, the market share of ICICI Bank was at 17.7% and for HDFC Bank it was 21.5%, reported Economic Times.
6. Locked inside OPD toilet, 72-year-old dies of stroke
A 72-year-old man died after suffering a stroke in a bathroom at Mumbai's KEM Hospital that was inadvertently locked up after the outpatient department (OPD) closed for the day . His body was discovered on Wednesday morning. Dattatray Kamble had come from Kolhapur just two days ago, and was accompanying his wife Sunanda, a patient of acute kidney disease, for a check-up.
At 4pm on Tuesday, when they arrived at the hospital, Dattatrey asked Sunanda to wait near the pharmacy on the ground floor before disappearing into the crowd.Around the same time, a nurse locked up the OPD department on the first floor, the Times of India reported.
An autopsy said he had suffered an intra-cranial bleed that occurs when a blood vessel in the skull leaks or ruptures suddenly. The report put his time of death between 4-6pm on Tuesday . However, the family insists the death was related to the circumstances in which he suffered the stroke and the fact that he could not seek help from behind the locked door.
7. Won't act if students hold Osama event: Princeton University President
Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu may feel that no American university would allow students to commemorate Osama bin Laden on campus the way Afzal Guru’s death was marked in JNU, but Princeton University President Christopher L.
Eisgruber begs to differ. "We would and should tolerate that. It would be very disruptive. People would be very angry about the statement. But we would not discipline somebody for making statements of that nature,” Eisgruber told The Indian Express.
"We at Princeton believe that it is a fundamental advantage for a university to be able to tolerate even offensive kinds of speech and to respond to bad arguments when they are made with more speech rather than with disciplinary actions,” he said.
8. Stepmom booked for molesting child
The Kalachowkie police in Mumbai have booked a 43-year-old woman for allegedly molesting her stepdaughter.
According to the police complaint filed on Tuesday, the stepmother asked the girl to open the door while she was taking a bath on February 29. When the child refused to do so, the woman pushed the door open and touched her inappropriately, stated the complaint.
When she faced resistance, she pulled the unclothed girl out of the bathroom and began abusing her, a Kalachowkie police officer told Mid-day. A cousin living in the house who jumped to the girl’s rescue was also allegedly abused.
9. What chokes roads in the Capital
The stretch outside Kashmere Gate ISBT is a nightmare for commuters. Cycle and battery-operated rickshaws are parked on the sides in a haphazard manner and buses and cars honk crazily in an attempt to move past the snarls.
The Kashmere Gate ISBT intersection tops the list of 55 most congestion prone stretches that was presented in Parliament on Tuesday. North Delhi’s Mukarba Chowk and east Delhi’s Shastri Park, Akshardham and Mayur Vihar follow.
High volume of traffic is not the only problem at these places. Encroachment, illegal parking, and pedestrians walking on the road due to lack of clear footpaths are also to be blamed for perennial congestion, the Hindustan Times reported.
10. Soon, mandatory rural work for students enrolled in NSS
It will soon be mandatory for college and university students enrolled in the National Service Scheme (NSS) to camp in villages and undertake social work there.
The human resource development ministry is likely to sign a memorandum of understanding with the ministry of youth affairs to involve the NSS in the implementation of its flagship programme Unnat Bharat Abhiyan (UBA) to uplift rural India, the Hindustan Times reported.
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