Saturday, October 8, 2011

Today's Important News (08-10-2011)



The Hindu

National:

  1. Kudankulam will go forward, says Manmohan
  2. Delhi Government finally admits to Superbug
  3. Should ban on sex determination tests be relaxed?
  4. Bureaucratic hurdles delaying Nalanda varsity: Amartya Sen
  5. Shut down Kudankulam project: activists
  6. ‘CBI must use scientific method to speed up probe into corruption cases'
  7. Supreme Court restates legislation on key subjects
  8. NSD loses deemed varsity status on own request

International:

  1. Struggle for women’s rights wins Peace Nobel
  2. Nobel for promoting peace, democracy and gender equality
  3. Little to commemorate in Afghanistan
  4. NATO failed to provide security: Karzai

India & The World:

  1. Manmohan's vision behind Oxford's new governance school
  2. Foreign Secretary to review projects in Sri Lanka
  3. India wants early UNSC reforms

Business News:

  1. Draft IT policy targets $200 b exports by 2020
  2. Centre to announce incentive package for exporters next week
  3. Tapan Sen seeks CAG probe into natural gas pricing issue
  4. Gross direct tax collections up 23 % in first-half
  5. SCI likely to review ship acquisition plan

S&T, Environment, Defence: 

  1. Rapid Action Force set to get new non-lethal gear
  2. Stage set for opening bids on combat aircraft

Editorials & Articles:

  1. Cities and climate change
  2. India & U.S. at U.N.: a complicated dance

The Times of India

National:

  1. On austerity drive, PM shoots down ministers' foreign trips
  2. Govt puts TV channels on tight leash
  3. Anna's Hisar vote resurrects the ghost of 1974 for Congress

International:

  1. Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two Liberian and one Yemeni women
  2. Terror shadow: US set to cut Pak ties

Business News:

  1. Bond yields rise signals scope for rate increase

S&T, Environment, Defence:

  1. Ultrasounds to blame for skewed sex ratio in India: UN
  2. Army to hold massive combat drill in Thar
  3. Steinman's immunotherapy key to prolong life span of pancreatic cancer patients

Editorials & Articles:

  1. Faced with freakonomics
  2. The business of teaching

The Indian Express

National:

  1. Maoists attack SSB convoy, kill 3
  2. Not yet time to allow ‘for-profit’ institutions in higher education: Sibal
  3. Cabinet nod to tightening eligibility criteria for running TV channels
  4. Koodankulam: PM writes to Jaya

International:

  1. Peace prize awarded to 3 women’s rights activists
  2. Karzai: Taliban can’t move finger without Pak support

Business News:

  1. US drags India, China to WTO over subsidy programmes
  2. Shipping Min plans to revive sick PSU
  3. Slums need to be prevented, rather than cured

Editorials & Articles:

  1. Flights abroad
  2. National Interest: Be very afraid
  3. Swiping without reading
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