Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
Boatman Ghulam Mohammad Guroo saved five tourists but lost fight to Jhelum river
For as long as he was alive, his houseboat, an old, crumbling wooden palace anchored on the banks of the Jhelum river in Rajbagh area of Srinagar, was Ghulam Mohammad Guroo's world. Few knew him, except for the tourists who came to him for a ride on his shikara, his only other prized possession.
But when he died last week — while saving five tourists from drowning in the Jhelum — the 56-year-old ended up being the face of "Kashmiriyat", his act winning him praise from Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti, as per a news report in The Indian Express.
JDU: 'Unfit' Amit Shah should practice Yoga before preaching
Continuing their tirade against the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for playing politics over the sacred art of Yoga, the Janata Dal(United) took a shot at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Amit Shah, saying his ‘body’ was proof that he did not practice yoga and added that he must inculcate the art in his personal life before preaching about its benefits across the nation. Read full article in The Indian Express.
Man impaled by 8-feet iron rod he fell on, AIIMS doctors remove it
A 32-year-old man was seriously injured when he fell from the roof of his house to the first floor of an adjacent under-construction building, and on top of protruding iron rods, one of which impaled him, as reported in The Indian Express.
The incident took place in the early hours of Saturday in a building in Taimoor Nagar, New Friends Colony. The man was identified as Manjeet Tarki, who hails from West Bengal.
Till property tear us apart: Why children are taking their old parents to court
In a windowless room in Delhi, a group of elderly people are sitting, watching television and passing time as they wait for lunch. Abandoned by their families and left to fend for themselves in their twilight years, time is all these people have left, as per a news report in the Hindustan Times.
"The very people who we loved more than our lives, kicked us out…I feel the loss of my children and grandchild every day. But they have never called me, nor have they ever been ashamed that they abandoned me," says 86-year-old GS Bhatia, choking on his words as tears well up in his eyes.
Marriages in a knot: Would-be brides dumping Kairana men over safety
The Kairana 'exodus' episode brings more bad news for those planning to tie the nuptial knot in the near future.
The political drama that followed BJP MP Hukum Singh's claim of migration of Hindus from Kairana has instilled a sense of fear about the town in the minds of the people even from far off places. The town has been in news for all the wrong reasons, so much so that a young advocate's marriage got called off because he belonged to Kairana.
While it became a hot political issue for political parties and their leaders, it also had a social impact on the lives of locals. Read full article in the Hindustan Times.
Ban on Islamic dress not acceptable, we're not France: J-K govt
The Jammu and Kashmir government on Saturday censured the management of Delhi Public School, Srinagar, for the alleged ban on wearing traditional Islamic dress abaya, saying "this is not France".
The school administration had allegedly asked a teacher to either stop wearing the abaya — a loose, full-length outer garment which covers the whole body except the face, hands and feet — or leave the job. She reportedly got angry and left, prompting protests by students on Friday. Read full article in the Hindustan Times.
Why the world's wettest place gets thirsty
Residents of Mawsynram, a village in Meghalaya which gets a record-breaking 11,861 mm of rain a year, are used to clouds floating right into their homes. But once the monsoon is over, they have to queue up at taps and fight for water, as reported in The Times of India.
The village holds the global record for highest annual rainfall but lack of planned water conservation blamed for problem.
Woman returns stolen child after 12 days in MP
A woman, who had stolen an infant 12 days ago from Hoshangabad district, left the child behind at Hamidia hospital in Bhopal on Saturday. She also left a note, which included details of the child's parents. Based on the details provided in the note, police were able to hand over the baby to the parents.
"Ya Mere Maula Ya Mere Allah Mujhe Maaf Karna. Mai Mamta Mey Beh Gayee Thi. Mujhe Iske Amma Abba Se Bhi Maafi Mangni Hai (Oh my Lord, forgive me. I was carried away. I also want to say sorry to his parents)," the note left by the woman read, as reported in Times of India.
How a seventh grader of Indian origin from Texas is taking LED bulbs to poor people
Meera Vashisht was working on a science project in her school in Texas last year when she first heard about the Indian government's move to replace each of the 77 crore existing bulbs with powersaving light-emitting diode (LED) ones.
Meera, who was born and brought up in America and is a seventh grader in Sartartia Middle School in Sugar Land, began to think hard: would it be really possible for India's underprivileged to replace their incandescent bulbs with LED lamps that are over seven times as expensive. Read full article in The Economics Times.
Rajnath clarifies on Ishrat missing papers panel
The purpose of setting up an inquiry panel to find the missing files related to the encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan was not to implicate anyone but to recover the documents, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday amid the controversy over the officer conducting the probe having allegedly tutored a witness.
"The inquiry committee was set up not to implicate anyone but to find the missing files," he said in Ahmedabad, amidst allegations that the NDA government set up the panel to find faults in the previous UPA government, as reported in The Hindu.
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