Here are some headlines from the top newspapers:
1. On UP's Eerie 'Rape Road', No Traffic, No Soul In Sight
NH-91 is a vast, eerily quiet patch of darkness that suddenly lights up into what looks like a tunnel of flickering glow as the driver thrusts his key into the vehicle's ignition. It's 1.30 am on Tuesday and a TOI team is setting out to see just how unsafe what villagers have already dubbed “the rape road“ is, reports The Times Of India.
It was on this national highway that a bunch of crimi Rape cases up 161%, P 8 nals stopped a car coming from Noida that was en route to Shahjahanpur late Friday night last week, raping a 35-year-old woman and her 14-yearold daughter after stripping them of their jewellery and the money they were carrying.
2. 10 years a slave: Girl abducted in '06 back
One June evening in 2006, an 11-year-old girl left home in Khajuri Khas, northeast Delhi, in a huff to stay with her uncle.Between then and her return home, she was kidnapped, enslaved, repeatedly raped, sold in marriage, widowed by drugs, dispossessed of her two children and sold to a dance bar. Ten years and 28 days passed by, reports The Times oF India.
When Mala -not her real name as rape survivors cannot be named -returned home on July 24 this year, her mother fainted thinking she had seen a ghost. Her father, a tailor, was not around to shed tears of joy . He had died of heat stroke during a protest at Jantar Mantar one year after police closed her case file in 2008. I told myself she was abducted and killed in Nithari since everyone spoke about the brutal killing of children there,“ said Mala's mother.She claims she met the police brass and even the chief minister at the time, but nothing came of it.
3. Texas allows guns on univ campuses
Texas has become the eighth state in the US to allow guns on campuses, a controversial decision that comes on the 50th anniversary of a deadly sniper rampage at a local university which had claimed 14 lives, reports The Times Of India.
4. Residents post their anger against proposed mall
Alaknanda residents have been protesting against a proposed mall in the heart of the residential area for the past few years.Now, the protests have intensified with hoardings by various RWAs coming up all around, reports The Times Of India.
“There are so many residential colonies around the site. A mall here would lead to traffic chaos. The access to the site is through residential colonies like CR Park and GK-II,“ said Ashutosh Dikshit, president of Citizens' Alliance that had filed a PIL in Delhi high court in this regard in 2013.
5. Ben Successor Only After GST is Done
BJP is yet to reach a consensus on who should replace Anandiben Patel as the next chief minister of Gujarat, leading to speculations on a host of names even as the party brass was tight-lipped on when the parliamentary board would meet to take a call on the issue, reports The Economic Times.
The much-expected parliamentary board meeting did not take place on Tuesday and with the crucial GST bill slated for discussion and passage on Wednesday , BJP brass is likely to stay focused on it till it is passed in the Rajya Sabha. The Gujarat issue will be taken up only after this, sources said.
6. 'Game of Thrones' Branded Merchandise in India Soon
Game of Thrones fans in India will soon be able to buy merchandise from the popular US TV series locally, reports The Economic Times.
Mumbai-based brand licensing startup Black White Orange Brands has signed a three-year exclusive licensing and merchandising agreement with HBO, the Time Warner Inc network which airs the series.
7. NGT order chokes diesel car sales
The diesel car business in the capital has taken a beating after the National Green Tribunal last month directed the transport authorities to de-register 10-year-old diesel vehicles to control pollution, reports The Business Standard
The decision came as Delhi’s car dealers were beginning to take in their stride the Supreme Court ban on 2,000 cc diesel vehicles. The ban, imposed last December, had also affected sales of diesel cars below 2,000 cc in the National Capital Region.
8. Govt gears up to contain dengue
The municipal corporations of Delhi registered 29 new cases of dengue in the week ending July 30, taking the total number of cases to 119. This is more than twice the number of cases confirmed during Delhi’s worstever dengue outbreak in 2015, which affected 16,000 people and killed 60, reports The Hindustan Times.
Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain urged people not to panic and insist on hospital admission as it burdens the health system. “There is no shortage of hospital beds in Delhi. A maximum of 5% of dengue patients need to be admitted to the hospital .The rest can be treated in OPDs,” said Jain.
9. Fishbowls harmful for fish, decrease life span: Activists
“Earlier people were selling fish in small pet shops but since these fish are very inexpensive, you can now see them on sale in small polythene bags on the road. A new trend is of putting fish in coloured water. The water is coloured using food dye or other chemicals,” said Abhinav Srihan, member of the Delhi State Advisory Board for Animal Welfare.
According to experts, keeping fish in bowls is inhuman for several reasons. Low surface-to-air ratio, no filters to clean the water and cramped space for the fish are some of these, reports The Hindustan Times.
10. Foreign funds: NGOs get over Rs. 22,000 cr
A total of 3,068 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) received foreign funding above Rs. 22,000 crore in 2014-15, according to government data presented in response to a question in Parliament, reports The Hindu.
These are NGOs who reported receiving more than Rs. 1 crore from foreign donors. This amount was 83.3 per cent (nearly double) more than the Rs. 12,000 crore received by 2,301 such NGOs during 2013-14.
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