Media Digest: Newspaper Headlines

 Property insurance rates crash
Free pricing kicks in

Indians not just talk less, they text less too
While there is no data on the total number of SMSs, it may have gone up due to rising number of mobile users

Indian robots toil on global shop floors
Country is new hub for industrial robots

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 P H Ravikumar/NCDEX: The past year has been very difficult
Chief executive P H Ravikumar says he blames policymakers for the sharp drop in NCDEX's business

 Law on tribal rights comes into effect
Conservationists claim the law will lead to further destruction of the country's forest cover

Finmin signals a more firendly I-T department
"It will gear up to being customer-oriented and create the least inconvenience of hardship to taxpayers," Finance Minister P Chidamabaram promised.

Temples turn into mega centres of religious entertainment
Somnath temple in Gujarat has added roads, a Sanskrit university, Vedic library, hotels and fountains in its aim to create a "divine India"