Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. The Recruitment Plot: Wanted for al-Qaeda links, a Bengaluru doctor once deported from UK
Deported from the UK in 2007 after his elder brother had carried out a suicide attack, now based in Saudia Arabia, a doctor once based in Bengaluru is among a dozen “missing” Indians accused of being part of a plot to establish the al-Qaeda in the subcontinent. The Delhi police special cell, which is investigating attempts to establish AQIS, the al-Qaeda’s Indian subcontinent wing, in India has named Dr Sabeel Ahmed and 11 others as missing accused, reported in The Indian Express.
2. Farmer suicides in Marathwada cross 400 mark in 4 months; toll reaches 1,548
The farmer suicides, which have remained unstoppable for past few years in eight districts of Marathwada, have crossed the staggering 400-mark in just over four month period in 2016. Compared to 2015, as many as 92 more farmers have embraced deaths in the first four and half months of 2016, highlighting the failure of the government schemes launched in August to curb the spate of suicides. (Read The Indian Express for more details)
3. Decade later, a wedding brings hope in Malegaon
In a narrative woven by Maharashtra ATS, nine Muslim men met at a wedding on May 6, 2006 and conspired to carry out the 2006 Malegaon blasts. The alleged meeting changed the lives of these nine men, including the then 23-year-old groom Noorulhuda Samshodduha. Five of them spent over six years in jail on terror charges, three have since disappeared, and one has died.
A decade later, some of them gathered for another wedding Monday. Raees Ahmed, who was recently discharged by a special court of charges of planting a bomb, got his son, Ehtesham Danish, married to Nama Kausar, the niece of co-accused Shabbir Masiullah who has since died. Ahmed’s daughter, Saba Afreen, is set to get married Tuesday, as per report in The Indian Express.
4. China welcomes President Pranab Mukherjee, but won’t budge on NSG issue
China would not budge from its stance on blocking India's entry into the powerful Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) in the present circumstances and would also treat its "all-weather friend" Pakistan in the same manner, because, like India, Islamabad has not signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT), Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday ahead of President Pranab Mukherjee's four-day China tour starting on Tuesday, as reported in The Times of India.
5. As disputes over paternity rise, FSL doubles DNA testing charges
An ever-increasing load of paternity cases—where the father's biological link with his child is under dispute, has prompted the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) in Kalina to nearly double DNA testing charges for the first time in a decade, reports The Times of India.
State officials said the hike was to cover the rising cost of imported chemicals and disposables. Statistics collated by the FSL show paternity tests jumped from 115 in 2014 to 135 in 2015. FSL experts said the DNA division, which is mainly supposed to aid in the investigation of murder, rape and kidnapping cases, was busy solving around 11 paternity disputes every month.
6. Eye on Kejriwal? 'Excessive & selective' ads under lens
Cases of "excessive and selective'' advertisements could be examined by the BB Tandon panel set up by the Centre to look into issues related to content regulation in government advertising, as reported in The Times of India.
"It is possible that the Tandon Committee may look into such matters," I&B ministry officials said when asked how the government will address the issue of "excessive and selective" government advertisements.
7. Marx in, Indian history out of school books in Left-ruled Tripura
After former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was dropped from Class 8 social science textbooks in BJP-ruled Rajasthan, Tripura's Left Front government has removed Indian history from Class 9 textbooks altogether, as per a news report in Hindustan Times.
The only national icon that figures in the book is Mahatma Gandhi, not for his contribution to India's freedom movement but for his views on cricket. Penned by Kalyan Choudhury, former head of history department in Kolkata's Maharaja Manindra Chandra College, the book features the Russian and French revolutions. It also devotes pages to the birth of cricket in England, Nazism and the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the history of agriculture.
8.In a first, 12 women constables will guard Sino-India border in Ladakh
Twelve female constables of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) will be the first women to guard the high-altitude Indo-China borders.
The 'mahila' constables, who were flagged off to Leh area in Ladakh last week, will take their positions at the border in a few days. The 12 women from various parts of the country were part of a special contingent of 500 'mahila' constables trained for the purpose. (Read full report in Hindustan Times)
9. RBI governor should be insulated from politics: Uday Kotak
Uday Kotak threw his weight behind an independent central bank and said its governor needed to be insulated from politics amid strident calls against a second term for incumbent Raghuram Rajan by a ruling BJP lawmaker and disgruntlement in top government echelons that he hasn't cut rates fast enough, as reported in The Economic Times.
10. SREI's Hemant Kanoria: The man who made money off Kingfisher Airlines debt
Hemant Kanoria, chairman of SREI Infrastructure FinanceBSE -1.58 % , has several sharp business decisions to boast of, be it making money off loans to Kingfisher AirlinesBSE 3.03 % or the timely profitable exit from Viom Networks.
And now, when he is ready to sell a stake in Sahaj e-Village, Kanoria has none other than Alibaba owner Jack Ma in his mind as a partner. "They are in China. They know about the population In India. They would get such an opportunity on a platter," Kanoria told ET in an interview, while immediately clarifying that he was speaking of an ideal, hypothetical scenario and that he hadn't approached anyone yet, read full article in The Economic Times.
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