Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Not last: Pak after Kulbhushan Jadhav meets mother, wife in Islamabad

Not last: Pak after Kulbhushan Jadhav meets mother, wife in Islamabad

NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES

The BJP picking Jairam Thakur as the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister and TTV Dhinakaran winning Chennai's R.K. Nagar Assembly by poll are two front-page stories across papers today.

The Times of India reports that Narendra Modi will be the first Indian Prime Minister at Davos in two decades, where the world's top CEOs gather for the annual meeting of the world economic forum in January.  Only two PMs - P.V. Narasimha Rao and H.D. Deve Gowda - had gone to Davos with the last one being in 1997.

The Pioneer writes that with the government set to table the Bill banning Triple Talaq in Parliament next week, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board held an emergency meeting yesterday to declare it to be against women, and which, if implemented, will destroy many families.

"Capital shivers at 6.3 degree Celsius as coldest day of season;  air quality worsens." says The Hindustan Times.  The paper adds that the air quality index moved from poor to very poor.

"Putin's most formidable foe in 18 years, Navalny, rises" writes The Asian Age writing that thousands of Russians have endorsed the candidacy of Alexei Navalny, seen as the only Russian Opposition leader who stands a fighting chance of challenging strong man Vladimir Putin in a March vote.

"Work force grows but job creation fails to keep pace" writes The Hindu Business Line. The paper adds that while 26 million joined the work force, only 1.5 million got employment in the 12 months to August 2017, as per a BSE - CMIE survey.

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