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The Morning Wrap: '112' Likely As Pan-India Crisis Number; Third Of Bihar's Poll Runners Face Crime Charges

The Morning Wrap: '112' Likely As Pan-India Crisis Number; Third Of Bihar's Poll Runners Face Crime Charges
The application for private emergency service One Touch Response is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph in New Delhi, India, on Monday, August 17, 2015. One Touch Response is among at least four organizations tapping burgeoning demand for technology-based security services in India, where more than 10,000 people living in the capital have signed up for the service. Photographer: Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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The application for private emergency service One Touch Response is displayed on an Apple Inc. iPhone in this arranged photograph in New Delhi, India, on Monday, August 17, 2015. One Touch Response is among at least four organizations tapping burgeoning demand for technology-based security services in India, where more than 10,000 people living in the capital have signed up for the service. Photographer: Udit Kulshrestha/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Morning Wrap is HuffPost India's selection of interesting news and opinion from the day's newspapers. Subscribe here to receive it in your inbox each weekday morning.

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It seems Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad has just discovered Dubsmash and he's taking no prisoners.

Shashank Manohar is BCCI President.

A 66-year-old Japanese man, known for philanthropic work, was today shot dead by the Islamic State militants in Bangladesh, the second foreigner to be gunned down in a week after an Italian aid worker was killed in a near-identical attack by the dreaded outfit.

Sanjay Jha of the Congress says "In Silicon Valley, Modi talks of internet broadband penetration; in India, he courts the sectarian, narrow-minded bigots."

57 years after he began acting, Kamal Haasan has finally appeared in his first television ad.

Main News

Ahead of the Bihar polls, 30 percent (174 out of total 583) candidates have declared that they are facing criminal charges with 14 of the 27 BJP candidates also attesting to charges of crime against them.

India will soon get a single emergency contact number -- 112 -- similar to 911 in the United States. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved the proposal of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for a single emergency number across the country.

Seven of the 10 youths named in the FIR into the mob attack on Mohammad Akhlaq's house in Bisara village, leaving him dead and his son Danish seriously injured, belong to the family of district BJP worker Sanjay Rana. That includes his son Vishal.

A right-wing group on Sunday said it has issued a “diktat” barring entry of Muslims at Garba events during the upcoming Navratri festival at Mandvi town in Gujarat’s Kutch district to prevent “love jihad” incidents.

After the paltry 3000-odd crore the NDA government recovered as black money, Finance Minister Arun Jaitely said that most black money was parked within India.

Off The Front Page

Security personnel in Delhi dedicated themselves to frisking commuters for "beef" after a DU law student, announced on Facebook, that he was going to launch a "beef eating" protest in central Delhi.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has established the world's highest terrestrial centre -- where research on life-sciences is set to be carried out -- at 17,600 feet above sea level at Changla near Pengong lake in Ladakh.

A 20-year-old Muslim youth on Saturday saved the life of a cow in Lucknow that had fallen into a well.

Rusne, a tiny village in Lithuania, maybe the farthest place from India to host a Gandhi statue.

Opinion

Tarun Khanna says that Indian entrepreneurs ought to be more open to risk. "Over time, we Indians must encourage and identify many more role models of cleanly built ventures, and celebrate their inevitably iterative and failure-ridden paths towards their successes."

N Madhavan says that scavenger robots are the key to success to Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan.

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