NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES:
The Centre and Naga rebels inking a peace deal to end India's longest recurring insurgency, the Narendra Modi Government dropping 6 contentious amendments to the Land Acquisition Bill and the Lok Sabha speaker suspending 25 MP's for 5 days for obstructing proceedings in the house are some lead stories in papers today.
"Speaker silences Congress with suspension shock", writes the Hindustan Times.
The Department of Telecom orders to ban over 850 porn sites has come under severe criticism from users, Internet activists and telecom companies writes the Hindu. The paper adds that Telecom firms are worried as 70 % of data service revenue comes from this source while the Times of India writes, "Govt mulls ombudsman to monitor porn on net".
"Sushma denies speaking to UK on Lalit", says the Statesman, writing that in her first statement to Parliament on Lalit gate the External Affairs Minister has asserted that all allegations against her were baseless and unfounded.
The Times of India reports that students may not require their class XII Board marks for admission to central engineering institutes except IIT's from next year or 2017, if a Central Seat Allocation Board is accepted by the Union HRD Ministry.
The Pioneer writes that in good news for those keen to join the hospitality segment in the tourism industry, the Union tourism Ministry is mulling the setting up of a university to promote this sector's education with the objective of integrating all existing institutions of hotel management, catering technology, travel and tourism under the University's ambit.
And finally, Under the headline, "I and B ministry's new Eureka Moment", the Economic Times says "India's poverty to be used to enrich Sarkari schemes" writing that the government will draft 3000 beggars for singing paeans to and extolling signature plans like Swach Bharat and Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.
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