Newspaper Headlines: PM Modi's Appeal To End Single-Use Plastic, And Other Big Stories

The big story in the Times of India Delhi edition today focusses on the attack on SAIL chairman Anil K Chaudhary in south Delhi, which was an attempted contract killing orchestrated by a former vendor who used to supply bitumen to the public sector giant, police said. The other main headlines today said the case relating to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots allegedly involving Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has been reopened and the law student alleged that she was raped and physically exploited by the former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand, for one year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's makes 'green pitch, raises restoration target', the Hindustan Times says in its headline. PM Modi at the 14th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP14 UNCCD) being hosted by India announced that 26mn hectares of degraded land to be restored by 2030. The other stories in focus include India and Pakistan "to square off on the issue of Kashmir" at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva today and allegations by a UP law student alleging that BJP leader Chinmayanand raped her for over a year.

The main headline in the Indian Express today was about big tech firms e-waste collection centres only on paper with most addresses being fake. Other main reports are about Amit Shah underscoring that his government will pass Citizenship Bill and not affect North-Eastern laws and a month after SAIL chairman Anil K Chaudhary was assaulted, police say, that it was a premeditated attack over a deal.

The headline story in The Telegraph today gives a detailed report on automobile industry hitting to a 22-year low in August. The other main headlines include Shehla Rashid being granted protection from arrest in a sedition case, and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh saying NRC is only a list, can be changed.

The main headline in The Asian Age read 'Won't override tribal laws in Northeast, vows Shah'. The other big headline was about the UN concern on Kashmir, lockdown, and other curbs and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to the world to bid goodbye to single-use plastic.