Here are some important reports from the biggest newspapers of India:
1. Muslims warned of 'final battle' at Sangh meet, MoS Katheria says 'we've to show our strength'
Muslims were equated to "demons" and "descendants of Ravana", and warned of a "final battle", as the Sangh Parivar on Sunday held a condolence meeting for VHP worker Arun Mahaur, who was killed last week by some Muslim youths.
A report in The Indian Express said that among those present on the dais were Union Minister of State, HRD, and BJP Agra MP Ram Shankar Katheria as well as the BJP's Fatehpur Sikri MP Babu Lal, apart from other party local leaders, who joined in the threats to Muslims.
Speaker after speaker urged Hindus to "corner Muslims and destroy the demons (rakshas)", while declaring that "all preparations" had been made to effect "badla (revenge)" before the 13th-day death rituals for Mahaur.
2. Congress ropes in Prashant Kishor, hopes for a repeat of Bihar in UP
Poll strategist Prashant Kishor will steer the Congress campaign for 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections after his triumphs as the strategist behind PM Narendra Modi and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's thumping electoral victories.
The Congress decided to bring in Kishor after party vice president Rahul Gandhi held another meeting with him last week, a person close to the political strategist told Eecomic Times.
Kishor will report directly to Gandhi and may pitch for a larger role for Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the polls, including perhaps projecting her as the party's chief ministerial candidate, the person said.
3. 'Terror stricken' Bihar doctors line up for guns
Over 160 'terror stricken' doctors in Bihar have applied for arms licences to protect themselves from criminals.
President of the state branch of the Indian Medical association (IMA), Dr Sachchidanand Kumar, told Hindustan Times that the list of applicants for licence to possess arms included 41 doctors from the Kosi division comprising Saharsa, Supaul and Madhepura.
The members of the medical fraternity claim to have received frequent extortion calls.
4. 'Spurned by lover', Bengal college student got in touch with IS
Asif Ahmed, the 19-year-old suspected Islamic State (IS) member under interrogation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), said he got in touch with the Indian chapter of the organisation after being ditched by his girlfriend and manhandled by her relatives.
This is the first such instance where the NIA picked up a youth from Bengal for his alleged links with the terror group, reported Hindustan Times.
NIA sleuth interrogating the youth since Wednesday claimed that Asif had confessed that he got closer to the IS in a fit of rage after his girlfriend spurned him and her relatives misbehaved with him when he tried to convince her.
5. Will use YouTube, local cable TV to telecast live proceedings of House: Delhi Assembly Speaker
With the Information and Broadcasting Ministry dragging its feet on the Delhi Assembly's proposal to launch its own TV channel, Speaker Raw Niwas Goel said the government will use YouTube and local cable TV to telecast live proceedings of the House and other issue-based serials if the proposal is not responded to soon.
"We are in the middle of the process to set up our own TV channel. The consultants have been finalised and tasks have been allotted. We will use YouTube and cable TV if we don't get any confirmation from the Information and Broadcasting ministry soon. We will approach cable operators to telecast Assembly proceedings and programmes on cable TV," Goel told The Indian Express.
In November 2015, the Speaker had written to the ministry seeking approval to set up the channel on the lines of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha TV.
6. Breathing Delhi's air is worse than smoking, finds government report
Cases of lung impairment — or lung capacity of less than 70% — increased with the number of years spent in Delhi, but smoking had no effect. At 34.5%, the risk of impaired lungs was the same for smokers and non-smokers.
Ten vans deputed by the Delhi government - in collaboration with Maulana Azad Medical College —performed spirometry tests on more than 3,000 people between January 1 and 15 across the city, reported Hindustan Times.
A score of 90% on the test is ideal. But, if the score goes below 70%, the lung function of a person is said to be impaired.
7. Afzal event: Won't print 'aisa-waisa' posters, say shopkeepers after 1 held
Nobody , it seems, is being spared in the police's sweep of 'anti-nationals' linked to Jawaharlal Nehru University. On Friday night, an employee of a printing shop in the Ber Sarai textbook and stationery market near the campus was detained for a night because cops suspected he had printed posters for the February 9 programme on Afzal Guru.
The employee returned on Saturday morning, scared witless. Now, the market's shops are refusing to print "aisa-waisa" posters -essentially any campaign material from JNU. Even the printout and photocopying shops on campus are hesitant, the Times of India reported.
JNU students who want posters printed in protest against the sedition charges on fellow students, are outraged. "This is creating terror," said JNUSU vice-president Shehla Rashid Shora.
8. Man beats wife for refusing to act like porn stars, arrested
A man asked his wife to imitate actors of a porn movie he was watching on his cell phone and when she refused, he beat her up so badly that she ended up in a hospital.
The police arrested the husband on Sunday when the victim approached senior police officials after getting discharged from the hospital and narrated the incident to them, reported The Times of India.
On the complaint of the victim, police booked her husband Usman for domestic violence.
9. Bengal village teen bags top NASA scholarship
Eighteen-year-old Sataparna Mukherjee, a Class 12 student from a village around 30km from Kolkata, has been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) for its prestigious Goddard Internship Programme under the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
The Times of India reported that she is among five scholars chosen from across the world for this programme.
Nasa's GIP selects five exceptional individuals from across the world every year and funds their entire education after school.
10. Mantri Rudy to join airline to keep licence intact
In a first for India, a serving Union minister will soon be flying for a commercial airline on an honorary basis to keep his pilot licence valid.
Union minister of state for skill development and parliamentary affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy, a trained pilot on the Airbus A 320 aircraft, has got offers from Air India and IndiGo to fly as an honorary pilot, the Times of India reported.
This means he will not be paid, and will fly their planes from time to time.
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