Sunday, October 13, 2013

60 feared dead in Madhya Pradesh temple stampede, police say death toll may rise

60 feared dead in Madhya Pradesh temple stampede, police say death toll may rise

NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES

"Cyclone Phailin pummels east coast" reads a Hindustan Times headline while The Sunday Tribune says "Phailin fury strikes Odisha, north Andhra". Front pages of all newspapers have covered the news related to powerful cyclone Phailin that has resulted in the biggest ever evacuation of over half a million people. Sunday Pioneer says that PM Manmohan Singh has directed that all possible assistance be extended to the states which are on alert. The Hindu reports that 18 fishermen from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu who sailed out of the Odisha coast for deep-sea fishing are feared missing.
The Times of India reports that the CBI questioned Amit Shah, a close aide of BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi in the Ishrat Jahan 'fake' encounter case.
"Stop drone strikes, Malala tells Obama" - Under this caption, The Times of India writes that teenage social activist Malala Yousufzai says she told US President Obama during her visit to the White House that refocusing efforts on education in Pakistan would make a better impact than drone strikes.
The Queen's baton of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth games was taken to the historic India Gate by the country's top sportspersons on the first day of its India stop, reports The Sunday Statesman.
The Times of India reports that an Indian woman in the UK was forced to carry a dead foetus in her womb for two days after doctors at the hospital ignored the signs and sent her back home.
The Times of India writes that Durga Puja at the 800-tear-old Dhakeshwari temple in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is unique in many ways in that it is a must-visit for not only the country's estimated 14 lakh Hindus, but also for the vast majority of Muslims with politicians too making it a point to drop by and greet puja revellers there.

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