Most of the newspapers today carried reports and photographs of the Kumbh Mela which began yesterday on their front pages. “World’s biggest religious event opens” is the caption above a photograph in Hindustan Times of a seer from the Juna Akhada rejoicing before taking a holy dip at the sangam.
The Karnataka impasse also continuing for another day makes for front page news in most of the dailies this morning. “Karnataka on boil: 2 MLAs withdraw support, Kumaraswamy says no threat to his government” writes The Indian Express.
Hindustan Times quoting Prime Minister Modi’s scathing attack on Kerala’s Left Democratic Front government writes “Kerala government’s Sabrimala position shameful”.
The Pioneer quotes the HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar as saying “10% general poor quota from this academic session”. The paper writes that seats in higher educational institutions and universities to be hiked by 25%.
“Information and broadcasting Ministry may endorse self-regulation code for online video players” informs the Economic Times adding “But Amazon, Google, Facebook still out of code agreed to by Netflix, Hotstar, Reliance Jio”.
The Times of India quoting the Supreme Court telling BJP on its rath yatra’s writes “Address Bengal concerns on yatra”.
The Tribune reports that “Troops getting Facebook requests from fake ‘stars’. Commanders to sensitise force to avoid messages from unknown sources”.
“Under Verma, CBI tapped many phones” leads DNA adding “Delhi High Court seeks CBI government’s reply on allegation of illegal snooping”.