Saturday, February 22, 2014

15th Lok Sabha goes down in history as most useless ever


NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES

"15th Lok Sabha goes down in history as most useless ever" - headlines the Hindustan Times. "Parliament passes Bill to shield Whistle Blower" is the Tribune headline, with a picture of Satyendra Dubey, the NHAI engineer who was killed 10 years ago for exposing graft in construction of highways.
The Hindu reports of the Army successfully testing Akash, the surface to air missile ,developed by DRDO, from Chandipur, Odisha. The AKASH weapon system is an all weather,air defence system and the Missile can target a 'helicopter or a cruise missile 15 kms away', reports the paper.
The Asian Age on its front page reports that the Indian government has asked Italy to step up security for its Embassy in Rome after the mission received a live bullet and hate mails in the wake of the Italian Marines case.
The USA has 80,000 Indian doctors and UK ,around 75,000 , of them, but India faces acute shortage of doctors, that is an admission by the Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, reports the Hindu.
The Hindustan Times reports that the UGC has written to institutions funded by it ,to shift from actual dissection of frogs to virtual or digital methods - since there are now many web-based applications which simulate dissection.
And finally, The Tribune carries a colorful picture of the world's largest heart mosaic or a kind of rangoli of 480 square meters in Ludhiana, at the Annual Conference of Association of Physicians of India-It took 10 hours and 19,825 kg of vegetables, with the participation of a 1000 people to make it.

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