oct-8

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

The Hindu

National:

Kudankulam will go forward, says Manmohan

Delhi Government finally admits to Superbug

Should ban on sex determination tests be relaxed?

Bureaucratic hurdles delaying Nalanda varsity: Amartya Sen

Shut down Kudankulam project: activists

‘CBI must use scientific method to speed up probe into corruption cases'

Supreme Court restates legislation on key subjects

NSD loses deemed varsity status on own request

International:

Struggle for women’s rights wins Peace Nobel

Nobel for promoting peace, democracy and gender equality

Little to commemorate in Afghanistan

NATO failed to provide security: Karzai

India & The World:

Manmohan's vision behind Oxford's new governance school

Foreign Secretary to review projects in Sri Lanka

India wants early UNSC reforms

Business News:

Draft IT policy targets $200 b exports by 2020

Centre to announce incentive package for exporters next week

Tapan Sen seeks CAG probe into natural gas pricing issue

Gross direct tax collections up 23 % in first-half

SCI likely to review ship acquisition plan

S&T, Environment, Defence:

Rapid Action Force set to get new non-lethal gear

Stage set for opening bids on combat aircraft

Sports:

No News

Others:

No News

Editorials & Articles:

Cities and climate change

India & U.S. at U.N.: a complicated dance

The Times of India

National:

On austerity drive, PM shoots down ministers' foreign trips

Govt puts TV channels on tight leash

Anna's Hisar vote resurrects the ghost of 1974 for Congress

International:

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to two Liberian and one Yemeni women

Terror shadow: US set to cut Pak ties

India & The World:

No News

Business News:

Bond yields rise signals scope for rate increase

S&T, Environment, Defence:

Ultrasounds to blame for skewed sex ratio in India: UN

Army to hold massive combat drill in Thar

Steinman's immunotherapy key to prolong life span of pancreatic cancer patients

Sports:

No News

Others:

No News

Editorials & Articles:

Faced with freakonomics

The business of teaching

The Indian Express

National:

Maoists attack SSB convoy, kill 3

Not yet time to allow ‘for-profit’ institutions in higher education: Sibal

Cabinet nod to tightening eligibility criteria for running TV channels

Koodankulam: PM writes to Jaya

International:

Peace prize awarded to 3 women’s rights activists

Karzai: Taliban can’t move finger without Pak support

India & The World:

No News

Business News:

US drags India, China to WTO over subsidy programmes

Shipping Min plans to revive sick PSU

Slums need to be prevented, rather than cured

S&T, Environment, Defence:

No News

Sports:

No News

Others:

No News

Editorials & Articles:

Flights abroad

National Interest: Be very afraid

Swiping without reading

The Economist:

No News