Qbullet: govt ‘won’t acquire’ farmer land, cong ‘marvels’ at rahul

1. NO LAND WILL BE ACQUIRED TO FAVOUR CORPORATES: SHAH - TOI In an exclusive interview to _The Times of India,_ BJP President Amit Shah “strenuously stressed” that the government will not

acquire land to favour corporates. Speaking on the eve of the first year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government he also said that the country has been corruption-free ever since the

BJP formed the government at the centre. > “The land bill is purely aimed at ensuring that development > reaches villages. Roads, railways and defence production units will > be set

 up. Land will be acquired only for projects which will be > create jobs. This is a win-win bill and a friend of the farmers,” > Shah said. Read the full interview here. 2. ‘WHAT IS A

SUIT BOOT SARKAR? SHOULD THE POOR NOT WEAR SUIT-BOOT?’: VENKAIAH NAIDU - IE Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu in an exclusive interview to _The Indian Express _said that social

schemes were the biggest success of the Modi’s first year in office. > The thrust on reaching the unreached, funding the unfunded, banking > the unbanked — this will revolutionise 

social sector in the > country… See the sensitivity of this government: for over 40 > years, farmers in distress used to be taken care of if 40% of their > crop was damaged; the 

prime minister reduced it to 30%. Read the full interview here. 3. PASSENGER HARASSES AIR HOSTESS ONBOARD DELHI-BOUND JET FLIGHT - HT _Hindustan Times_ reports that an inebriated passenger

allegedly got into trouble after he was found sexually harassing an air hostess on a Jet Airways flight from Varanasi to Delhi. The passenger apparently touched the air hostess

inappropriately and abused her and the crew members when they objected to his behaviour. > The passenger, identified as Harish Kumar, was arrested after the > flight landed at 

Terminal-3 of the IGI Airport, police said. The > Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel nabbed Kumar at > the exit point and later handed him over to the airport wing of

> Delhi Police. Read the full story here. 4. ‘BIG THING’ FELL FROM THE SKY - THE TELEGRAPH A flying object fell from the sky on Nurjamal Hoque’s hut in Nagaon, Assam yesterday in the

afternoon. _TheTelegraph _reports that Hoque and his wife were sitting in their backyard when the incident occurred. After recovering from the initial shock, Hoque discovered that the object

was the wheel of an Indian Air Force aircraft IAF SU-30 that crashed about 100 metres away from his house. > According to reports, the fighter jet left Salonibari air force > station 

in Tezpur at 12.17pm with the pilot and the co-pilot. It met > with the accident just a few minutes after leaving the camp. Read the full story here. 5. CONG MARVELS AT CHANGE IN RAHUL -

TOI When Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi took off on a holiday and Sonia Gandhi became active, whispers about the Gandhi scion being unfit for the top job turned into open statements.

But since the time he came back, an aggressive Rahul Gandhi has managed to quell their doubts if not silence them completely. > The joke in a relieved Congress is that Rahul, after a 

decade of > following “certain ideas“, needed an excuse to make his > transformation appear natural. “So, he went to introspect. The > change after that appears well thought through

 and not a volte > face,“ an aide said. Read the full story in today’s _Times of India_ here. 6. WAIT A BIT MORE FOR ACHCHE DIN - THE PIONEER As Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes one

year in office, senior journalist Bhupendra Chaubey analyses the government’s performance and tries to answer the question, are _achche din _really here? > Supporters of the Prime 

Minister may argue that politics isn’t a > one-day match. It’s most certainly not a T20. But then, it is also > equally true that it cannot be played like a Test match where the > 

ultimate conclusion can be a tame draw even. That’s not why Mr > Modi and his party got 282 seats in the Lok Sabha. Statisticians > argue that India’s GDP is growing at 7.4 per cent — 

amongst the > fastest in the world. Yet, speak to industrialists who matter and > you sense a certain degree of unease, and a sense of being unsure Read the full piece in _The Pioneer

_here_. _ 7. WHEN GIANTS MEET - IE Prime Minister Modi’s visit to China drew much global attention as the two Asian giants met for the first time since Modi took over in 2014. > In the 

past, however, India-China relations have been plagued by > mistrust, which stemmed from an unfortunate border war and lingering > border disputes. But since Chinese President Xi 

Jinping took over in > 2012, and Modi came to the helm in 2014, things have started to > change. Read the full piece here. 8. HE GOT THE BLUES - IE _The Indian Express’ _Sudipto Sanyal

writes a tribute for BB King in the form of the stories he could remember and the moments he spent in the presence of the maestro. > Every time he moved, the gold glistened. And he moved

 a lot, doubled > up in laughter, grinned and shook his head, stopped in the middle of > songs to tell old-timey stories. Garrulous old man. Genial, > graceful, and “always a 

sweetheart,” as the guitarist Derek > Trucks said of him. Read the full piece here. STORIES FROM THE QUINT 1. #NaMo365: Watch How Modi Bowled Over Foreign Audiences in a Year 2. Battling

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