Thursday, October 6, 2016

Nobel peace prize: give it to Syria’s White Helmets

Nobel peace prize: give it to Syria’s White Helmets

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
Reserve Bank of India chief Urjit Patel in his maiden policy review set repo rate at 6 year low raising hopes of business and borrowers makes for front page news in almost all the dailies this morning."Patel debuts with rate cut"headlines the Business Standard."RBI delivers the cut that cheers"says the Business Line."Urjit Patel RBI takes dovish turn"leads the Financial Express."New Doctrine:RBI cuts rates to 6 year low."informs the Economic Times.
Referring to the political row over evidence of surgical strikes the Mail Today leads "Surgical Self-Goals"adding "foot in the mouth outbreak grips politicians as they either undermine Army operation or go overboard with jingoism". "Political chorus for proof of surgical strikes rises" writes The Asian Age. "Government, opposition go head to head on surgical strikes" notes The Hindu.
In a related story The Indian Express in a special investigation story writes about how "eyewitnesses across LoC gave graphic details on India's strikes". The paper writes that Lashkar jihadists, property among those hit at several places in Neelum Valley, witness accounts talk of brief, intense clashes that caught terrorists by surprise.
On the Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's visit to India The Pioneer writes "Singapore tears into cross border terror" adding "PM Lee condemns Uri attack, inks pacts to boost security".
Writing on the all out war between Lodha panel and BCCI the Asian Age writes "BCCI boss, Lodha trade charges before Supreme Court hearing". While The Statesmen quotes BCCI president Anurag Thakur as saying "haven't frozen bank accounts".
Referring to the chikungunya outbreak in the national capital Hindustan Times writes "Supreme Court asks Jung, Kejriwal government to unite against chikungunya".
The Tribune reports that the Central Board of Secondary Education has decided to discontinue the provision of re-evaluation of answersheets from 2017.
The Times of India in an inspiring story writes about a gutsy teen Sharadha Vaishnav, who is speech impaired from birth. She is the first physically challenged woman to play for regular state cricket team of Chhattisgarh, and she lets her bowling do all the talking.
And finally, why some are better than others at complex tasks? Well, Hindustan Times reports that some people may be better at performing complex tasks as the coordination between different parts of their brains seem to ebb and flow, rather that being static, scientists have found.

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