Impeccable India

Narendra Modi

NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES

The euphoria over India's victory over Bangladesh, in the inaugural Cricket World Cup match, is adequately reflected by headlines across major national dailies.  "Cup opener is Delhi boys' show" headlines The Times of India, referring to the performance of Virender Sehwag, Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir.  The Pioneer refers to India's performance as "Impeccable India", while the headline in The Statesman says, "Bangladesh brutalised".  The Financial Express reports that the bookies are betting on another India-Australia final.
On the abduction in Orissa of the Malkangiri Collector, Krishna, and tribal junior engineer, Majhi, The Indian Express writes, "Maoists extend deadline, Government contacts mediators".  "Orissa working on a Kandahar-like swap?" asks The Times of India, referring to, what the paper calls, Orissa government's "hush-hush" plan to release several jailed Maoist leaders in exchange for Krishna and Majhi.  The Asian Age reports that Orissa government has agreed to release top Maoist leader, Ramakrishna's wife, Padma.
Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and The Times of India have carried on their front pages, the news of Pakistani singer, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, and his manager, detained by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence after the recovery of huge undeclared foreign currency from them, getting off the hook by paying a fine.
The top story in The Indian Express reports that the Prime Minister has referred to the CBI, the V K Shanglu Committee report, that indicted suspended Prasar Bharti chief, B S Lalli, and Doordarshan DG, Aruna Sharma, for the manner in which broadcasting rights of the Commonwealth Games were awarded.
Hindustan Times writes that a fallout of the allegations of corruption in the Commonwealth Games is the approval of a draft bill by the sports ministry, that stipulates the maximum number of terms, the age limit and other criteria for holding positions in national sports federations. 
The scrapping by the Maharashtra government of the notification for Mukesh Ambani's "dream project" - Reliance Industries Limited's special economic zone project - that had reserved 35,000 acres of land in Raigad district, is prominently reported in The Statesman and The Times of India.
The finally, the unrest sweeping the Arab world is reflected in front page articles in The Hindu and The Asian Age, which report that 84 people have been killed in Libya, in a crackdown on pro-democracy activists there by the regime.