Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. Prank caller threatens to kill Kejriwal in an hour
An unidentified person on Wednesday evening called the police control room saying he would kill Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in an hours' time.
A report in the Hindustan Times states the call was made from north Delhi's Civil lines, following which the police informed the CM's security staff.
The call was declared a "prank call" after investigation. When the police tried to trace the caller, the number from which the call was made had been diverted to a second mobile number.
2. Mumbai-Chennai train travel costs same as 1 kg paneer
The Railway Board – the apex body of the state-owned transporter – has answered that question in a rather compelling manner. Sample this: The price of a train journey in the general class from Delhi to Chandigarh is a mere Rs 95 – the cost of toothpaste of 140 grams. The Mumbai to Chennai distance in the same category of travel can be covered for Rs 300 – the price of one kilogram of paneer. For Rs 20 – less than the price of a kilogram of sugar – one can complete a train journey from Lucknow to Kanpur.
If the top rail bureaucracy has taken the effort to put together such facts in an official note, the reasons are understandable: While direct and indirect hikes in passenger fares for the AC classes have intermittently come, fares for the unreserved, general class have remained unchanged in the last decade, a Hindustan Times report states.
3. Officials make 300-odd widow run from pillar to post for basic needs
After Maoist violence, indifferent officials make 300-odd widows run from pillar to post for basic needs such as food, shelter, reports The Economic Times.
Parul Singh has been running from pillar to post to get a death cer tificate for her husband Debendranath Singh, who was abducted by a group of Maoists at gun point on November 20, 2010 when he was returning home and buried deep inside Masandihi forest in the remote Jhargarm area in Junglemahal.
Her husband, who was a teacher in a primary school under Nedabahara gram panchahayat and a member of the CPM's local committee, is not listed among those killed during 200911, when Maoist violence peaked in the area. Since his body has not been identified after being found in 2013, she has not been given a death certificate. Without a death certificate, she is officially not a widow and so she cannot get a widow's pension.
4. 10 cows tied to bins in pitiable state rescued from Chira Bazaar
Even as laws are being tightened to protect cows, situation on the ground seems to be completely different. Animal activists recently rescued eight to 10 cows tied to garbage bins. According to Harsh Shah of Bird Helpline, an NGO that rescues animals, he got information about the pitiable condition of the cows on Tuesday night at Thakurdwar in Chira Bazaar close to Charni Road station.
"It was Anuj Khandekar from another animal organisation who alerted me about these cows. When we reached the spot around 9pm and could not believe what we saw," he said.
The two immediately phoned the Mumbai police control room and soon a beat marshal came to the spot and asked them to come to the LT Marg police station. "The senior policemen were extremely helpful and immediately sent a cop to the location and summoned the owner, fining him Rs 1,250 under section 119 of the Bombay Police Act," said Shah.
5. Two Delhi men drown in bid to save pigeon
A young bird-lover's attempt to save a pigeon led to a tragic chain of events that claimed the lives of two men, both drowning in a drain pipe, in northeast Delhi's Wazirabad.
One of the victims, 19-ye ar-old Anil Sahni, had gone to feed pigeons near a sewage pipe on Monday evening when he noticed a bird stuck in the sludgy water of the drain, said a report in The Times of India.
While trying to hang from the open manhole to pick up the pigeon, Sahni fell into the pipe and got stuck in the sewage water, eyewitnesses said.
6. 'Cough drugs can lead to cerebral haemorrhage'
Should children be administered medicines for cough and cold? Evidence collected over a couple of decades suggests that these are not only ineffective as cures, but also have dangerous sideeffects such as respiratory depression, apnea, seizures and cerebral haemorrhage.
Alarmingly, says a study conducted in Delhi and Haryana, prescribing such medicines is rampant among child specialists, reported The Times of India.
The danger of prescribing cough and cold medication (CCM) lies in the unwarranted way they affect the body.
7. Card frauds dupe woman IAS officer
A senior woman IAS officer was among a group of people targeted by cyber crooks who stole their credit card information and made fraudulent transactions.
The officer complained to the bank that she received a call from someone posing as the bank's representative.He convinced her to reveal her card details and one-time password on the pretext of verifying details.
They then used that information to carry out online transactions with different merchants. Her card was billed for around Rs 66,000, police told The Times of India.
8. After 10-year wait, jawans to get bullet-proof jackets
Ordinary infantry soldiers are still a long way from getting modern assault rifles and light-machine guns, new anti-tank weapons and light-weight ballistic helmets, but they are finally going to get desperately needed bulletproof jackets after waiting for a decade.
The Army has inked a contract for "emergency" procurement of 50,000 bullet-proof jackets with Tata Advanced Materials Limited, a subsidiary of the Tata Group, for Rs 140 crore.
"The jackets will be delivered from August onwards. All the jackets are to delivered by January 2017," a defence ministry source told The Times of India.
9. The curious case of 2 Mamatas, 2 Roys, and one angry Suresh Prabhu
When the secretary to Mamata from the Trinamool Congress called up the Union Railway Minister's office to seek an appointment with Suresh Prabhu, he set off a series of events that added up to a comedy of errors at the ministry.
In reality, the call from Tapan Roy, secretary to Mamata Thakur, Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal's Bangaon, was just one of the hundreds that reach the Railway Ministry every day, said a report in The Indian Express.
But little did Roy or Thakur know that the Minister's office had mistaken it for an official request from the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
10. 'Minor' gram pradhan held for fighting polls on 'forged' papers
A local court Wednesday sent the woman pradhan of Shankarpur gram panchayat in Rae Bareli district to a protection centre after police found that she was a "minor" and used "forged documents" to contest the rural polls, the minimum age for which is 21 years.
The police have also found that the 17-year-old allegedly got married a year ago. Her husband Santosh Kumar (26) belongs to Shankarpur village and works in Dubai, said police.
"A month-long investigation revealed that she is a minor and as per her Class VIII, X and XII marksheets, her actual age is not more than 17 years," BN Shukla, Station House Officer of Jagatpur police station, told The Indian Express.
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