Newspaper Headlines: Parliament Boiled Over Telangana Vet's Rape-Murder And Other Big Stories

The Times Of India: Supreme Court asks the Centre to consider using its stress fund for construction of stuck Amrapali housing projects. With House members suggesting swift death penalty to rape convicts, their public lynching or surgical and physical castration to fasttrack courts and overhaul of the entire criminal justice system, outrage over the Hyderabad rape-murder case boiled over in Parliament on Monday.

Hindustan Times :Members of both houses of Parliament outraged over the rape and murder of a young veterinarian in Hyderabad and called, in one voice, for severe punishment for the accused. The Lok Sabha passed the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 to replace the September 20 ordinance that sharply reduced corporate tax rates.

The Hindu: The Centre asked Supreme Court to refer to a seven-judge Bench the question whether the creamy layer concept should apply or not to the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes while providing them reservation in promotions. The government is "ready to make more stringent provisions in law", Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told the Lok Sabha after members expressed outrage over the rape and murder of a 26-year-old veterinarian in Hyderabad last week.

The Telegraph: The finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman angrily told the Lok Sabha the Narendra Modi government was "quite happy" to listen to criticism and respond, suggesting the ruling dispensation was yet to get over the weekend plain-speaking in Mumbai. One of the Muslim claimants in the Ayodhya title suit approached the Supreme Court for a review of its November 9 judgment that handed over the disputed plot to Hindus to build a Ram temple.

The Asian Age: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharama tried to defend herself and the Narendra Modi government by doling out tax collection and loan figures and insisting that all efforts were being made to improve the situation. BJP president Amit Shah sets 2024 deadline for implementing NRC across the country.