Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. Aamir's family home now a gambler's den
Bollywood star Aamir Khan, who turned 51 on Monday , said his birthday wish was to buy his `ammi' her ancestral home in Varanasi.
The property -known as Khwaza Manzil and once owned by the actor-filmmaker's maternal ancestors -is today in ruins, serving as a den for gamblers, a TOI visit revealed. A family living in front of Khwaza Manzil has bought a portion of the property . Gunja Devi, an elderly woman of the family , said they came to know about Aamir's association only when he was here in 2009.
2. In Smart City times, survey holds up a mirror: Cities 'grossly under-prepared'
It may be a no-brainer that Mumbai tops the list of 21 Indian cities in a latest nationwide survey, but what is interesting is the cities that follow — or do not follow.
Thiruvananthapuram shares the top spot with Mumbai, followed by Kolkata and Pune. Chandigarh, often hailed as India's most planned urban landscape, comes last in the third edition of the Annual Survey of India's City-Systems (ASICS).
Based on 83 parameters, the survey ranks these cities on a scale of zero to 10, with all cities remaining under 5 in overall score, and only a few going past the halfway mark in different parameters, such as urban planning, urban capacities and resources, empowered and legitimate political representation, and transparency, accountability and participation, said a report in The Indian Express.
3. The uber-rich say yes to this Rs 5 lakh question
Marriage proposals require just four words to be said. But as millennials across India are now proving, saying these words is neither easy nor inexpensive.
The Indian wedding industry , estimated at about Rs 1 lakh crore and growing at a rate of 25% every year, has no dearth of matchmakers, wedding planners and fashion stylists.
The more enterprising among them are doubling up as proposal consultants, borrowing the concept from the West, reported Economic Times.
4. Big cleanup begins after 3 days of Sri Sri culture fest
A large swathe of the ecologically-fragile Yamuna floodplain in east Delhi resembled a garbage-littered wasteland on Monday, a grim byproduct of the Art of Living’s three-day cultural festival.
Spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s showpiece but controversy-marred event was over on Sunday while volunteers and hired janitors were apparently asked to take rest for a day before clearing the piles of plastic bottles, cartons, torn papers, carpets, chairs, tables, and scaffolding, the Hindustan Times reported.
5. Pay salary on time, babu writes to CM
In what is being seen as a fresh confrontation between the AAP dispensation and the bureaucracy , former special commissioner of transport, Kuldeep Singh Gangar, wrote to CM Arvind Kejriwal on Monday, asking the government to ensure that officers get paid salaries on time. Gangar, who reportedly had differences with the CM over allocation of shops at ISBTs, has been without a posting since October. He said in his letter that his salary since October 28, 2015 was released only last week, the Times of India reported.
In the letter, forwarded to the lieutenant governor, President and Prime Minister, Gangar says that he was not requesting for a posting or transfer but saying "that a system may kindly be created so that any employee of GNCTD receives salary and other dues on time. This will ensure that in future any other employee of GNCTD and the family does not un dergo such hardship, harassment and humiliation."
6. Police ask Kolkata colleges to give details of J&K students
In the wake of student protests at Jadavpur University against the arrest of JNU students in Delhi for alleged sedition, the Kolkata police is asking all colleges in the city to give details of their students who are from Jammu and Kashmir.
A note from the police, a copy of which has been obtained by The Indian Express, is addressed to the principal of the college and reads: "Please let me know that students, whose residential addresses is under the State of Jammu & Kashmir, studies in your Institution for onwards transmission to the Ministry of Home Affairs, North Block, New Delhi, Govt. of India.”
It was sent out to colleges in the last week of February when students were protesting both at JNU and at Jadavpur University.
7. Not 1,000, Delhi to get only 40 buses by April
Even as the Delhi government gets ready to kick off the second phase of the odd-even campaign, it is scrambling to get more buses added to its fleet.
The 1,000 buses that were to be added by April may not pan out as the Delhi trans port minister had promised but some buses are on the way. Special Commissioner in the transport department KK Dahiya told the Times of India, "More than 800 buses will be added to the cluster fleet in the next six months. Around 40 non air conditioned buses will be ad ded in April itself."
8. Kanhaiya poster boy for Congress, jail hoardings fill Guwahati skyline
Kanhaiya Kumar, the leader of All India Students Federation, the student body of the CPI, is the poster boy of Congress' outdoor campaign in poll-bound Assam.
In Guwahati, Congress has put up huge hoardings depicting the president of Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union in jail.
This even as Left parties, which are contesting around 59 seats in Assam, is in touch with Kumar to campaign for them in the state.Suprakash Talukdar, state secretariat member of CPM told Economic Times, "We have got in touch with Kanahiya, he is likely to campaign for Left parties in Assam. It is good that Congress stood by Kanahiya and is using his picture to depict the NDA government's high handedness but Congress must not forget that it to had imposed Emergency which gagged free speech."
9. Sting shows Mamata Banerjee's top leaders 'taking cash to help fictitious firm'
A purported sting operation aired on Monday, less than a month ahead of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, shows 11 leaders of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) — including state ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Farhad Hakim — being allegedly bribed to help a fictitious Chennai-based company get business in the state.
Journalists Mathew Samuel and Angel Abraham of Narada News, a news website, set up a fictitious company called Impex Consultancy in 2014 and approached several leaders of the party "seeking favours” for this entity.
The website claimed to have incurred expenses of up to Rs 1 crore to bribe politicians and middlemen. Most of the purported conversations happened over two years between January 2014 and January 2016, reported The Indian Express.
10. She will file rape or domestic violence case'
Around 15 pages of Chintan Upadhyay’s personal diary, which the Kandivali police have attached to the charge sheet, reveal a man deeply troubled by the last moments of a rocky marriage and the draining court proceedings.
The police had on Friday filed the 1,658-page charge sheet citing 30 witnesses against Chintan, accusing him of murdering his former wife Hema and her lawyer Harish Bhambhani in December 2015.
The handwritten diary pages, a copy of which is available with mid-day, have, besides Chintan’s musings, comical and lurid sketches and drawings of phalluses.
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