Monday, December 19, 2016

Shocking! Gold worth Rs 2700 crore bought in Hyderabad post-demonetisation

Shocking! Gold worth Rs 2700 crore bought in Hyderabad post-demonetisation

 LOOK AT TODAY'S NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES:-
The appointment of new Army, Airforce and Intelligence Chiefs is prominently noticed on the front pages. On the appointment of Lieutenant General Bipin Rawat as the new army chief, the Hindustan Times observes "Opposition parties question why senior army contenders ignored".
All the papers have reported on the terrorist attack on an army convoy in Kashmir yesterday. "Three soldiers killed, two injured in Pampore attack" reports the Hindu.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's comments regarding the process of remonetization under way at a meeting with industry captains at FICCI gets wide attention. The Asian Age quotes the Finance Minister as saying "All scrapped notes not to be remonetized". Regarding GST rollout the Times of India quotes Mr Jaitley as saying "It can come into effect between April 1 and September 16".
The Supreme Court repudiating a Jammu and Kashmir High Court order which had held that the state had absolute sovereign power to legislate certain laws for its permanent residents is noticed in all the papers. The Asian Age quotes the apex court as saying "No sovereignty for J&K outside constitution".
Two interesting developments in the Augusta Westland Chopper scam case are reported in the papers. On the order passed by Italy's Supreme Court regarding the conviction of former boss of Finmeccanica for false accounting and corruption in the chopper deal, the Pioneer writes "Italy's court suspends conviction of Finmeccanica ex-boss, orders retrial". The Indian Express quotes Chirstian Michel, the alleged middleman in the chopper deal as telling the paper "Pressure to give info on Opposition".
The Hindu in a special story writes that there is a proposal to revise food labelling laws. The paper states "Packaged food labels may soon carry details of salt, sugar content".
The Times of India has some new information on Anne Frank who penned "The diary of a young girl" while hiding from the Nazis. Citing new research, the paper writes "Anne Frank may not have been betrayed suggests new theory".

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