#Express5: Babri demolition was Hindu unity show: Adityanath; 30 crore cattle, where are India’s vets?

1. BABRI DEMOLATION

Batting for the ‘ghar wapsi’ campaign of the RSS and its affiliates, BJP MP Yogi Adityanath on Sunday urged the Centre not to intervene “if Hindus who were forcibly converted want to become Hindus again”.

Babri demolition was show of Hindu unity, don’t stop ghar wapsi: Adityanath as written by Santosh Singh

2. CATTLE HEALTH AT RISK

About five years ago, Hatsun Agro Product Ltd employed 85 veterinary doctors. Today, that number stands at 40. “Vets aren’t easy to get these days. Even the ones who come rarely stick around for long,” complains R G Chandramogan.

30 crore cattle and rising, but where are the country’s vets? by Harish Damodaran

3. MANN KI BAAT

Linking the money involved in the drug business to terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday asked drug users to think of the possibility of money they spend on drugs eventually financing the bullets that kill the country’s security personnel.

Mann ki Baat: Drugs are not ‘cool’, Modi tells youth as reported by Express News Service

4. OPINION

The Union government has decided to decriminalise suicide. A funny interpretation could well be that the Modi government can now commit hara kiri with impunity. But it should be noted that the cases under Section 309, which criminalises suicide, are haphazard, often concealing abetment to murder.

309 reasons why writes Rajeev Dhavan

5. SPORTS

It’s a conundrum as baffling as the trend of off-spinners becoming the new nemesis for Indian batsmen outside the subcontinent. If in England it was Mooen Ali, who ran amok, Nathan Lyon etched himself into the history books on Saturday by becoming the first finger-spinner since Allan Border to take a 10-wicket match haul in Australia for 25 years.

Trapped in Lyon’s den as written by Bharat Sundaresan