Some top stories from the newspapers on Thursday :
1) Aviation policy puts small towns on the map for flyers
You may soon be able to fly to Bikaner or Bathinda, with the government aiming to put small towns on the aviation map and capping fares at Rs 2,500 an hour for locations that have so far been untouched by air connectivity .
While there is a ceiling on fares, those flying from metros or large cities will have to pay a “small levy“ to fund building of no-frills airports. The Centre and states will chip in with funds and other concessions.
(Reported by Times of India)
2) Cult boss who shot Mathura SHO nabbed
Subhas Sena's no. 2 func tionary Chandan Bose was arrested from his hideout in east UP's Basti on Wednesday , 13 days after violent clashes between the cult's members and cops left 29 dead in Mathura, reports Anuja Jaiswal.
Bose, the `acting commander' of the cult, allegedly shot station house officer Santosh Yadav dead during the Jawahar Bagh eviction drive. Both Bose and his wife are being brought to Mathura on transit remand for further interrogation.
(Reported by Times of India)
3) Official heading probe into Ishrat Missing Papers Tutors Witness
B K Prasad, the Union Home Ministry official who headed the probe into the “missing documents” in the Ishrat Jahan encounter case, not only told a witness the questions he would ask but also suggested to him what answers he should give — that he had not seen any of the documents.
This coaching of a witness by the man heading the investigation puts a question mark on the integrity of the probe announced in Lok Sabha by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on March 10.
(Reported by Indian Express)
4) Kamal Nath poll headache in Punjab growing, Congress ‘relieves’ him
Under strident attack for naming Kamal Nath as party in-charge of Punjab and Haryana, a politician long under a 1984 anti-Sikh riots cloud, the Congress dropped him today. For the record though, he wrote to Congress president Sonia Gandhiurging her to relieve him of the charge which she accepted immediately.
Coming days after the mini-revolt in Haryana over the Rajya Sabha elections and the cross-voting in Uttar Pradesh, this is another serious setback for the Congress high command.
(Reported by Indian Express)
5) Alka Lamba ‘admits’ Kejriwal asked Rai to step down, loses job as AAP spokesperson
AAP MLA Alka Lamba was removed from the post of party spokesperson Tuesday night, sources told The Indian Express. Lamba had deviated from the party line and told reporters that Transport Minister Gopal Rai had been “relieved” of the portfolio to make way for a fair probe into the Premium Bus Service scheme.
She had made the comments outside the Anti-Corruption Branch’s (ACB’s) office, where she had gone to extend support to Rai. He had gone to the agency in connection with the probe into the scheme.
(Reported by Indian Express)
6) BJP, Cong too appointed parl secys, counters Kejri
Accusing the opposition of doublespeak over appointment of parliamentary secretaries, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday fished out old re ords to show that the earlier BJP and Congress governments in the city too had appointed MLAs to the post.
Kejriwal said former CM ahib Singh Verma had named Nand Kishore Garg as arliamentary secretary on May 7, 1997. Previous CM She la Dikshit had appointed Ajay Maken (now Delhi Congress chief), Mukesh Sharma, Prahlad Singh Sawhney , Anil Bhardwaj and Surinder Kumar to the post, he said.
(Reported by Times of India)
7) Rape charge against India hockey captain
Attacking the Punjab Police for not doing the needful, Delhi Commission For Women (DCW) on Wednesday highlighted the case of an international woman hockey player who has alleged rape, physical abuse and criminal intimidation by the captain of the Indian hockey team, Sardar Singh, in both Punjab and Delhi. A British national of Indian origin, she has alleged that she was assaulted in London too by Singh. DCW has issued a notice to Hockey India for explaining within seven days its inaction in the matter so far.
(Reported by Times of India)
8) Coffee carcinogenic, but only if `very hot'
UN Agency Downgrades Cancer Risk Of Beverage, Says May Lower Danger At `Normal Temp'
Next time when you pick up your cup of coffee or tea, watch out for the temperature. Drinking very hot beverages can cause cancer of the oesophagus, the cancer research agency of the World Health Organisation has found in a new study .
An international working group of 23 scientists convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has evaluated the carcinogenicity of drinking coffee, tea and other “very hot“ beverages, described as those over 65°C. Epidemiological studies conducted by the team of international researchers showed positive as sociations between cancer of the oesophagus and drinking very hot beverages
(Reported by Times of India)
9) Pistorius walks on stumps in court, seeks to avoid jail
Oscar Pistorius shuffled through a Pretoria court without his prosthetic legs on Wednesday to show how vulnerable he is as the Paralympian seeks to avoid prison for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The 29-year-old faces a minimum 15year jail term for the Valentine's Day killing in 2013 in a case that has attracted worldwide interest and divided South Africa. He will be sentenced on July 6. Pistorius has always said he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder when he fired four shots through a locked toilet door in his Pretoria home, killing her almost instantly .
(Reported by Times of India)
10) Udta Punjab leaked online two days before release
Controversial film “Udta Punjab” was leaked online on Wednesday, two days ahead of its scheduled release in theatres. However, the film’s team managed to remove it online on war footing from torrent sites.
On Wednesday afternoon, it emerged that the Abhishek Chaubey directorial — which has been in news for the makers’ run-in with the censor board — was available on torrent sites for illegal download. However, soon the download links were “removed due to a copyright complaint”, the websites read.
Reported by Indian Express
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