Here is what is making news on a Wednesday morning
Govt plans hefty fines for needless honking
The Centre is working on some steps, including imposing hefty fine on vehicle owners, dealers and manufacturers, to check the menace of excessive honking -a nuisance on Indian roads apart from leading to noise pollution.
While "needless or continuous" honking would at tract Rs 500 fine for the first offence and Rs 1,000 for subsequent ones, there is also a proposal to impose Rs 5,000 penalty on owners for installing multi-toned and air horns in vehi cles. The fines could be much higher at Rs 1 lakh in case of dealers and owners of garages who install such horns. These proposals, mod alities of which are to be worked out, are likely to form part of the comprehensive amendments to the Motor Vehicle Act that the road transport ministry plans to introduce during the monsoon session of Parliament.
(Reported by Times of India)
1.95L flyers hit as fake accounts created to claim reward points
Nearly two lakh Air India frequent flyers will lose out on benefits after the national carrier was forced to suspend its passenger loyalty rewards programme, which was hacked into a few weeks ago.
A probe by the Delhi Police revealed that hackers accessed the Air India website to steal points worth Rs 16 lakh on air travel miles accumulated by a total of 1.95 lakh flyers by creating fake frequent flyer accounts. The hackers have accessed user IDs and passwords of some of the website administrators to verify such fake accounts and claimed frequent flyer rewards
(Reported by Mumbai Mirror)
1 in 3 BSE-listed companies has more debt than value
Indian companies appear to be living way beyond their means. The debt pile is so huge that nearly one in every three companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) won’t be able to repay its loans even if it sells every single share.
Their state makes it difficult to raise more money, trapping them in a vicious cycle of high loans and fragile balance sheets.An HT analysis shows that the loans of 30% of all companies listed on the BSE exceed their current market capitalisation.
(Reported by Hindustan Times)
Had govt reacted sooner, he could have stayed on as RBI Governor: Father on Raghuram Rajan’s exit
THE father of Raghuram Rajan and retired senior bureaucrat R Govindarajan has said that Rajan may have stayed on as RBI Governor if the government had reacted promptly when the attacks on him started.
Speaking to The Indian Express at their home in Adyar, Chennai, Govindarajan and his wife Mythili expressed pain at the attacks on him. “I feel if the government had responded promptly when the attacks started, possibly he wouldn’t have come to this decision,” Govindarajan, who retired as a senior Intelligence officer, said.
(Reported by The Indian Express)
RSS mouthpiece slams Kejri for attacks on Modi
RSS mouthpiece Organiser has castigated chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, accusing him of making a desperate bid to enhance his own sta ture by attacking Prime Minster Narendra Modi.
“An attempt to enhance his own stature by attacking the PM is the most convenient option for the Dharna-fame chief minister,“ writes the weekly in its latest edition.
(Reported by Times of India)
Filmmaker held for Punjab sacrilege
Documentary filmmaker Vijay Kumar, 46, who was detained in the US six years ago for carrying jihadi literature, was held in connection with the desecration of a site and a holy book in Malerkotla, Punjab, on Friday.
(Reported by Times of India)
74 tigers died in first half of 2016
At least 74 tigers died between January 1 and June 26 this year in India.There is also a spike in poaching-related fatalities, an NGO data shows, reports Avijit Ghosh. Meanwhile, Uttarakhand forest officials have spotted 32 tigers in Terai-East division of Kumaon for the first time.
(Reported by Times of India)
32 city hospitals to give subsidy to NE patients
People from the northeastern states belonging to the economically weaker sections will now be able to avail subsidised tment at 32 hospitals in the capital. The initiative has been taken in a reach-out programme by the Delhi Police cell for people from the northeast. Officers said the initiative is aimed at reducing the number of deaths caused due to lack of medical facilities.
More than 11 lakh people from the north-eastern states are either working in low paying jobs in the private sector or studying in Delhi-NCR. Most of them do not have any medical insurance nor can they avail government health schemes.
(Reported by Times of India)
Caught by cops posing as bankers, murder accused drinks poison
Identifying the killers of two elderly women from Thane cancer patient Kamlabai Dudhkar, 70 and her sister-in law Leelabai Dudhkar, 63 wasn't hard for the Thane crime branch but actually getting a hold of them, that was a far tougher nut to crack.
Nandkishore Prasad, also known as Fantu, the 23-year-old who lived in a small room behind the Dudhkar's home in Khadegowali had disappeared along with the women's valuables on June 19.
(Reported By Mumbai Mirror)
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