Indians had stashed 500 billion dollars of illegal money in tax havens abroad

TODAY'S NEWSPAPERS

The explosion in an Israeli Embassy official's car in Delhi yesterday dominates the front pages of most papers. Linking this act to the recent assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, which Iran has blamed on Israel, the Indian Express writes "Bombing identical to way in which Iranian nuclear scientists were hit". Similarly, the lead in the Mail Today says "Iran's revenge for Israeli bomb attack". Meanwhile the Hindustan Times reports that the diplomat who was injured in the explosion was operated on for splinter injuries.

The Delhi Police detaining three sleuths of Maharashtra's Anti Terror Squad or ATS who had come to Delhi to summon Taquee Ahmed, the brother of Nauquee Ahmed, accused in the July 2011 Mumbai blasts, is highlighted in all the papers."ATS knocks at Taquee door and faces ire, rescued by cops" reports the Times of India. The Hindustan Times writes "Delhi detains Maharashtra ATS officers".

The Supreme Court enquiring from the government if it had conducted an inquiry into allegations that the National Human Rights Commission chief K G Balakrishnan had amassed assets disproportionate to his known sources of income while he was the Chief Justice of India and the CBI chief's statement that Indians had stashed 500 billion dollars of illegal money in tax havens abroad are the other stories that are widely noticed in the papers today.

In economic news, the Indian Express in a special story reports that the Reserve Bank of India, in its biggest intervention in nearly three and a half years to prop up the rupee, sold 9 billion dollars in the spot and forwards market in December, 2011.