Families are paying truckers to abandon the mentally ill inNational Park.

 Sukhna is Dying

RED ROUT screams the Statesman in RED print, echoing the top story in all papers this morning--Mamta Banerjee's Trinamul Congress, emerging the clear winner in the West Bengal civic polls, crushing the Left and humbling the Congress in a historic victory.

Financial papers juxtapose this win with Tata Motors rolling out its small car-Nano, from  Sanand in Gujarat, after being forced out of  West Bengal, due to a Trinamool Congress led land row, which incidentally revived Mamta Banerjee's political career.
Many environment stories make it to the front pages too. A Tribune investigation, titled--Sukhna is Dying--is the lead story in the paper, examining the falling water levels of the Sukhna lake in Chandigarh, with a telling photograph of people strolling on its caked, hard, bed as if on a road.
Massacre of elephants by poachers in the Simlipal reserve in Orissa is reported in the Pioneer, while a shocking story in the Hindustan Times reports that families are paying truckers to abandon the mentally ill in Karanataka's Bandipur National Park.
The DGCA's new directives on landing aircraft in the aftermath of the Mangalore air crash is also reported in many papers. The Indian Express has a story on the bungling in handing over bodies to families of those killed in the crash, who were left with no choice but to have a common funeral.
The apex court's directive to suspend corrupt government officials immediately is a top story in the Hindi daily-Navbharat Times, while the Rashtriya Sahara reports on the Capital's Gurudwara Bangla Saheb getting a 125 kilo gold makeover.
Cementing Delhi's position as the most livable Indian city, three of the Capital's districts grabbed the top three spots, in a well being index, reflecting the quality of life, in a National Sample survey  reports the Times of India.