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The Morning Wrap: Government Clueless How Ministries Spent Rs 44,000 Crore; PM Modi Crowdsourcing I-Day Speech

The Morning Wrap: 44,000 Crore Of Government Spends Unaccounted For; Narendra Modi Crowdsourcing I-Day Speech
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Essential HuffPost

This is why Sreesanth and 35 others accused of match-fixing have been exonerated.

Narendra Modi kickstarted the BJP's Bihar campaign with a no-holds-barred diatribe on Lalu Yadav and Nitish Kumar, calling them the symbols of Bihar's 'Jungle Raaj.'

Purba Ray expounds on why breasts are a blessing and a curse.

For a fleeting moment, Urmila, who makes a living as a domestic help in Kanpur, was richer than Bill Gates and Carlos Slim combined, after her bank accidentally credited Rs 95,000 crore to her account.

Gopika Kaul observes that the popularity of emoticons is a throwback to Egyptian hieroglyphics.

The head of the Bar Council of India claims that three-in-ten of India's lawyers have fake degrees.

Hear the Vikram Doctor podcast, to be educated on Indian Muslim cusine.

Main News

India's accountant, the CAG, has said that Rs 44,000 crore in India has been spent by government ministries without any proof of how they were used.

The Supreme Court will decide on the merits of an appeal by Mumbai-blasts convict, Yakub Memon, to pardon his death sentence.

The Adani Group seems to have a sweet deal to sell costly solar power to Tamil Nadu.

The Indian Express finds that Sreesanth's exoneration doesn't imply a smooth comeback to international cricket.

India's IT firms are foregoing profitability for marketshare.

In a bid to reduce its propensity to attract engineering students, the CAT by the IIMs this year will include a tranche of subjective questions.

Off the Front Page

Salman Khan's Twittering scepticism about the death sentence for Yakub Memon unleashed a cyber and real-world outcry that forced him to backtrack.

Four villages in Rajasthan have resolved that no one from their villages would be allowed to marry into houses that didn't have functioning toilets.

Two Gwalior collegians kidnapped a 11-year-old boy to fund their IAS coaching and, in a macabre turn of events, ended up killing him.

Frustrated by the lack of easy access to toilets, an IAS couple in Punjab have developed an app that informs users of the nearest and cleanest public toilets.

In Narendra Modi's predilection for mass-contact programmes, he has asked citizens for inputs to his Independence Day speech next month.

Opinion

Kanwal Sibal says that the Iran-US nuclear deal is a mixed bag of threats and benefits.

Baradwaj Rangan rues the tragedy of newspapers, which must frequently and consciously clash an article's headline with the content of an article itself, for the sake of eyeballs.

Madhav Pai says that technology can be used to fix the shortcomings of Delhi's rapid-bus-transport system.

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