Today's Important News (26-09-2011)

The Hindu

National:

1. Census findings point to decade of rural distress
2. Pranab meets Manmohan in New York
3. Why no takers among women for senior advocate positions?

International:

1. Rajapaksa briefs Ban Ki-moon on rehabilitation
2. For China's Muslim schools, a balancing act
3. Saudi women get voting right
4. Kayani calls special commanders meet
5. What do the Arab Spring, London riots and Greek debt crisis have in common?

India & The World:

1. Permanent works on Kishenganga dam stayed
2. India for greater role to ‘SCO plus' nations in Afghanistan

Business News:

1. RBI annual report imparts ‘downward bias' to India's growth rate

Editorials & Articles:

1. U.K.: media versus state secrecy
2. Census findings point to decade of rural distress
3. The Arab League resurfaces
4. Shaming numbers
5. A brutal Afghan clan bedevils the U.S.
6. Regional currencies the German way

The Times of India

National:

1. 2G scam: Pranab meets PM in New York; calls Chidambaram a valued colleague
2. Justice Katju: A colourful judge with a social conscience
3. Plan panel wants five-fold rise in drug purchases by govt

International:

1. US-Pak crisis deepens: Gilani summons Khar back from New York
2. Haqqanis — ISI’s ‘proxy force’ that triggered US-Pakistan standoff
3. AQ letter reveals Pak's N-tryst with China
4. Free and fair: Saudi women gain right to vote, run in polls

Business News:

1. Pranab hints at push to banking, insurance bills

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. Rs 3L cr plan to boost India's naval might

Editorials & Articles:

1. One more chance
2. Act at home

The Indian Express

National:

1. Pranab meets PM, says PC is a ‘valued colleague’
2. Serious fraud office to get statutory authority
3. NGOs getting govt funds could be under Lokpal
4. Kerala’s two-child draft code draws minority flak
5. Farm hand shortage: Rural job scheme to the rescue

International:

1. US-Pak crisis: Khar recalled, Kayani meets generals
2. From allies to America’s Afghan nemesis
3. ‘Pak shared n-tech with Iran, Libya’
4. Now spring comes to Saudi Arabia: women can vote, run in polls
5. Abbas out of Arafat’s shadow

India & The World:

1. Rabbani exchanged notes with Naga talks interlocutor
2. India eyes cheap China tech for railway expansion
3. Kishanganga: Hague court halts ‘permanent works’

Business News:

1. Exporters likely to get back benefit of GSP
2. RBI okays hike in ECB limit
3. Pranab seeks more World Bank resources for emerging nations

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. In disease season, some new steps, one old obstacle
2. A find challenges one of science’s greatest dogmas

Editorials & Articles:

1. Words of warning
2. Affairs of statehood
3. The end of the universal university

The Economist:

1. Yes to Palestinian statehood
2. The deadly envoy