Above the Fold: Top stories of the day
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed one year in office today.
2. The Delhi Legislative Assembly begins a two-day emergency session today after being pushed into a constitutional stand-off with the Lt Governor.
3. Switzerland has begun naming bank account holders being probed by authorities in their respective countries, which in India's case includes two citizens in the first tranche.
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Not-One-Year Reads
With the papers full of pieces appraising Modi's first year in power, a collection of news and opinion articles to read if you've already had your fill of anniversary articles.
1. Surprisingly, power demand in India has not risen and up to 57 thermal power units have been shut down because of a lack of demand.
2. In an embarrassment to the Centre, the Delhi High Court has reinstated the power of the Delhi Government's Anti-Corruption Bureau to investigate all officers in the capital, including bureaucrats and police personnel.
3. Decisions regarding at least six major projects have been pending in the Defence Research and Development Organisation, which has been without a head for six months now.
4. The Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam, Tamil Nadu's Opposition party, plans to file a Supreme Court appeal against Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's acquittal in a corruption case.
5. The Delhi High Court has cleared the release of a film on Kashmir without any cuts, saying the censor board had been misguided in its demands of the filmmakers.
6. C Raja Mohan, in the Indian Express, says that defence minister Manohar Parrikar is continuing the tone of disinterest in Asian defence diplomacy set by his predecessors.
7. Everywhere else VIP culture may be ending, but not in Amma's Tamil Nadu, writes Sreenivasan Jain in Business Standard.
8. India doesn't need two time zones. It needs to jump ahead by half an hour, which would save it 2.7 billion units of electricity every year, writes Dinesh Sharma in Mail Today.
9. Ashok Desai in the Telegraph argues that the International Monetary Fund should act as a bank of last resort for nations, but without the cumbersome approvals process up to a certain credit limit.
10. Nandini Ramnath writes about the star system that Bollywood should junk – movie ratings – because it often is publicity pretending to be journalism.
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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed one year in office today.
2. The Delhi Legislative Assembly begins a two-day emergency session today after being pushed into a constitutional stand-off with the Lt Governor.
3. Switzerland has begun naming bank account holders being probed by authorities in their respective countries, which in India's case includes two citizens in the first tranche.
To get Scroll's Daily Fix, a compendium of all you need to know for the day (and a little more) on your phone, download our Android app.
Not-One-Year Reads
With the papers full of pieces appraising Modi's first year in power, a collection of news and opinion articles to read if you've already had your fill of anniversary articles.
1. Surprisingly, power demand in India has not risen and up to 57 thermal power units have been shut down because of a lack of demand.
2. In an embarrassment to the Centre, the Delhi High Court has reinstated the power of the Delhi Government's Anti-Corruption Bureau to investigate all officers in the capital, including bureaucrats and police personnel.
3. Decisions regarding at least six major projects have been pending in the Defence Research and Development Organisation, which has been without a head for six months now.
4. The Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam, Tamil Nadu's Opposition party, plans to file a Supreme Court appeal against Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's acquittal in a corruption case.
5. The Delhi High Court has cleared the release of a film on Kashmir without any cuts, saying the censor board had been misguided in its demands of the filmmakers.
6. C Raja Mohan, in the Indian Express, says that defence minister Manohar Parrikar is continuing the tone of disinterest in Asian defence diplomacy set by his predecessors.
7. Everywhere else VIP culture may be ending, but not in Amma's Tamil Nadu, writes Sreenivasan Jain in Business Standard.
8. India doesn't need two time zones. It needs to jump ahead by half an hour, which would save it 2.7 billion units of electricity every year, writes Dinesh Sharma in Mail Today.
9. Ashok Desai in the Telegraph argues that the International Monetary Fund should act as a bank of last resort for nations, but without the cumbersome approvals process up to a certain credit limit.
10. Nandini Ramnath writes about the star system that Bollywood should junk – movie ratings – because it often is publicity pretending to be journalism.