We recommend that you go through these five stories from The Indian Express before starting your day:
1. SUBSIDIES FOR THE DEAD:
Farmers Hatti, Ibrahim and Hurmat, of Dhana village in Haryana’s Mewat district, died several years ago – the first two in 2001; Hurmat in 2006. But according to the Haryana Horticulture Department, they applied for – and received – subsidy under the National Mission on Micro Irrigation in 2011.
In Haryana’s poorest part, subsidies go to the dead & fake, exclusive report by Sandali Tiwari
2. SPECIAL TO EXPRESS:
The United States stunned the world by landing humans on the Moon: and for perhaps half a century, this fact comes up in casual conversations at dinner tables and coffee houses. Though in a different century, a successful Mangalyaan can have a somewhat similar effect about India.
Gives India platform to go to any planet, could make science pretty cool to kids, by Amitabha Ghosh from NASA
3. OWAISI ON MODI:
Every PM who has gone to US has been forced to say this. When Manmohan Singh went he too made a statement about Indian Muslims. My question is, if the prime minister feels the way he does, why are his party men sending out such varying signals by attacking Muslims?
Not sure PM meant what he said about Muslims: Asaduddin Owaisi in conversation with Zeeshan Shaikh
4. OPINION:
What Prime Minister Narendra Modi does with the American business community during his visit to the United States may be more consequential over the longer term than his engagement with the political leadership in Washington.
Modi’s American business, by C Raja Mohan
5. EXPRESS IN INCHEON:
Last week, the Pakistani hockey team played a practice match against a team comprising local players from Incheon. It was a two-quarter affair. But no one knows its outcome. Not even the over-inquisitive Pakistani journalists.
India face parched rivals, by Mihir Vasavda