Today's Important News: 22 September 2011

The Hindu

National:

1. Pranab note links Chidambaram to 2G price decision
2. Parliament functioning needs regular scrutiny: Speaker
3. Hazare's suggestion of right to recall legislators ‘impractical'
4. TN asks Court to take up Cauvery Tribunal order
5. Centre forms inter-ministerial team to visit quake-hit areas
6. Quake damages 2 Teesta project sites
7. Government in damage control mode; no decision on BPL yet
8. Chidambaram to Maoists: stop violence and come for talks
9. Court: Cabinet can decide on Majithia wage board report
10. Hazare's assurance to Pakistan delegation
11. Interlocutors wrap up J&K mission, final report next month

International:

1. Ramallah buoyant over statehood move
2. Sarkozy aides held in 2002 Karachi blast case
3. Will stick to reconciliation process, says Kabul

India & The World:

1. Imran Khan's book recalled in India for “errors” in map
2. ‘India stands by Afghanistan, its people'
3. Manmohan to meet Ahmadinejad in New York
4. India seeks long term LNG deals with East Asian nations
5. India-Zimbabwe agree to fast track bilateral agreement

Business News:

1. Delay in approvals hurting drug development: Kiran Mazumdar

S&T, Environment, Defence: 

1. All safety steps taken in our nuclear plants: AEC chairman
2. Heat-resistant fungal spores found in Western Ghats
3. A promising service in 3G mobile network
4. Making cities, towns more socially and environmentally sustainable

Editorials & Articles:

1. A necessary pause at Kudankulam
2. Another assassination
3. An opportunity to show maturity as a democracy
4. Middle East Quartet's last-minute deal
5. Afghan peace hopes in tatters after killing