Friday, February 3, 2012

'Supreme Court cancels license to loot

NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES

The Supreme Court order quashing 122 2G licenses awarded to different
telecom companies during former telecom minister A Raja's tenure gets
top billing in all the papers. 'Supreme Court cancels license to
loot', is how The Times of India describes the order. Most papers
analyse the likely impact of this order. The Tribune reports the
telecom regulator TRAI as saying, 'Users wont be impacted much by 2G
verdicts'. However, The Asian Age in a front page story says, 'Mobile
tariffs set to go up'.

The concern expressed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA
Chairperson Sonia Gandhi at a function to commemorate the completion
of six years of the rural employment guarantee scheme is widely
noticed. The Hindustan Times reports the Prime Minister as saying,
'Delay in NREGA payment is a worry'. The Hindu quotes Sonia Gandhi as
saying, 'Looting of MGNREGS funds amounts to crime against the poor'.

The Mail Today, The Times of India and The Indian Express highlight a
report in a Canadian newspaper that names Heavy Industries minister
and former Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel as an intended
beneficiary of a bribe paid by an Indo-Canadian businessman to obtain
an aborted contract for supplies to Air India.

The Asian Age in a special story says that the International Advisory
Panel on the National Rural Health Mission, NRHM has attributed
India's better health indicators to work accomplished under the NRHM.
However, in what could be a cause for concern for the health sector,
The Times of India highlights on its front page a research published
in the medical journal Lancet that Malaria deaths in India could be
almost 46 times the official figure.

In international news, the Pakistan Supreme Court summoning Prime
Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to be indicted in a contempt of court case
is widely noticed. 'Pak SC summons Gilani in contempt case on Feb 13',
reports The Tribune. The Asian Age says, 'Gilani closer to disgraceful
exit'.

And finally, it seems the famous 'Mona Lisa' has a twin sister, as The
Times of India and The Pioneer would have us believe. The papers
report that Spanish curators have claimed that the Mona Lisa at the
Prado was executed by an artist in Leonardo da Vinci's workshop at the
same time as the original.

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