Sunday, August 28, 2016

Olympian PV Sindhu Offers Prayers At Hyderabad's Famous Mahankali Temple

Olympian PV Sindhu Offers Prayers At Hyderabad's Famous Mahankali Temple

NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES:
The story about Bombay High Court allowing women's entry into the Haji Ali Dargah sanctum santorum is splashed on the front pages of most dailies this morning. "Bombay HC opens Haji Ali dargah's doors to women" says the Times of India, while the Indian Express writes, "Ban illegal, let women enter Haji Ali sanctum, says HC", writes the Indian Express. The Hindu reports that the Bombay High Court has, in a landmark verdict, allowed the entry of women up to the mazar in the revered Sufi dargah in Mumbai.
The Asian Age reports that in a move apparently aimed at increasing the pressure on Pakistan, India has hinted it is mulling whether delegates from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir should be invited for the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas in Bengaluru in January next year.
Indians spent eight times more on private hospitals and twice as much on transporting patients compared to costs in government hospitals, according to the National Health Accounts (NHA) Estimates, writes the Hindu.
Concerned about the menace of rash and negligent driving which claims nearly 400 lives on Indian roads every day, the Supreme Court has said that the existing two-year imprisonment for the offence was grossly inadequate, reports the Times of India.
After India’s disastrous performance in the recently concluded Olympic Games at Rio de Janerio, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has directed to set up a task force to create a strategy to help sports persons prepare for the next three Olympics, reports the Pioneer.
"Night Crawlers Warm up to Sleeper's Cell", under that headline, the Economic Times writes that Sleep labs are mushrooming across the country as sleep has become a commodity in urban India, thanks to factors ranging from long work hours, demanding corporate jobs and travel across global time zones to excessive use of technology, social media exposure and substance abuse.
And finally, not having friends may be as deadly as smoking according to a new Harvard study. The Indian Express reports that the study has found a link between social isolation and levels of a blood-clotting protein which can cause heart attack and stroke.

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