Today's Important News (31-10-2011)

The Hindu

National:

1. Niira Radia says ‘tata' to PR business
2. Good governance, corruption can't co-exist: Advani
3. “Crux of education should lie in identifying innovators”
4. Governors' panel mooted for farmer-industry ties
5. Bring electronic media under Press Council: Katju
6. Kamalesh Sharma re-appointed C'wealth Secretary-General

International:

1. China's supercomputer surprises U.S. experts
2. American exit from Iraq “golden” victory: Iran
3. Al-Shabaab mounts attacks in Mogadishu
4. Keep off, Assad warns West

India & The World:

1. India's biggest asset is ‘soft power'
2. BASIC countries to frame common position on Kyoto protocol

Business News:

1. Monetary policy review: the two core subjects
2. Economic growth fails to reduce unemployment

Sports:

1. Vettel scorches his way to victory

Editorials & Articles:

1. A threat to multilayered secular cultures
2. 1984 and the violence of memory
3. Covering all subjects
4. No risk of brain tumour

The Times of India

National:

1. Govt committed to fighting corruption: PM
2. Indian firms may land iron ore mining contract in Afghanistan

International:

1. Lay off or risk Mideast ‘quake’ : Syria to West

Business News:

1. I-banking biz may take a big hit in ’11

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. 'Developing nations' emission cut pledges bigger than West's'
2. 'Early 3D films caused nausea'
3. 'We understand some mistakes we made in the past'

Sports:

1. F1: Vettel wins, world raises toast to India

Editorials & Articles:

1. High gear
2. Seven billion mark

The Indian Express

National:

1. Time to fight graft, says PM
2. Don’t want curbs on MPLAD fund use, MPs write to govt
3. Adivasi faction joins GJM
4. Scavenging, NREGA kept PM, Sonia busy during 2G, Anna storms

International:

1. US plans troop buildup in Gulf after Iraq pullout
2. West intervention in Syria will burn region, says Assad
3. The three spectres that loom over the Arab feast
4. Democracy fear over Libya’s new rulers

India & The World:

1. Indians in Syria struggle under US curbs
2. CHOGM reaches consensus on reforms, not on rights monitor

Business News:

1. ICAI asks independent directors to question high provisioning by banks
2. Mushrooming gold loan business now under RBI scanner
3. Outlays for highways development stop short of maintenance, repair
4. Indian consumers confident amid global downbeat, says report

Sports:

1. Vettel wins, drivers won over: ‘Dhanyavaad, congrats’

Today's Important News (30-10-2011)

The Hindu

National:

1. Pratibha for multi-pronged strategy to curb corruption
2. IPS officers undergo strategic training at Cambridge

International:

1. Commonwealth defers decision on Human Rights Commissioner
2. Crucial poll in Kyrgyzstan
3. Higgins to be Ireland's President
4. 13 U.S. troops killed in Kabul

India & The World:

1. No let-up in pressure on Pakistan: India
2. Jaipur all set to host grand conclave of Indian diaspora in January
3. Pakistan acknowledges India's support yet again
4. India, Japan discuss nuclear pact

Business News:

1. Can India make a dent in China's growing tea market?

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. Expert advocates corrective surgery of spine before puberty for achieving best results
2. More tests on ‘time travel' particles

Sports:

1. Rural sports academy dearer to me than F1: Maken

The Times of India

International:

1. Pakistan opposed to regional solution on Afghanistan
2. The west wants to control arab spring
3. US and Islamists: It takes two to tango
4. Taliban suicide bomber kills 13 US troops in Afghanistan

Business News:

1. Govt dilutes Companies Bill: Asks firms to spend 2% of net profit or just give reason
2. Economy slips through leadership gap

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. Our defence forces need an Indian 'kavach'

The Indian Express

National:

1. Patil seeks multi-pronged strategy to fight graft

International:

1. 13 Americans killed in Kabul attack

India & The World:

1. Commonwealth gets a warning: Reform or become irrelevant
2. Japan assures India on N-pact
3. Bhattarai reaches out to rival faction on India pact

Business News:

1. Development issues dear to India to figure on G20 agenda: Montek

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. US misread global environment, lost its way: Friedman

Editorials & Articles:

1. ‘If Aakash can help level the playing field for the poor, that’s the biggest motivator’

12-10-2011

The Hindu

National:

1. Congress Core Group discusses Telangana
2. CBI charge sheet against juvenile in Sonawane case
3. “SIT required to place amicus report before trial court”
4. Rs. 32 a day poverty line not all that “ridiculous”: Montek
5. Panel report on Mullaperiyar dam safety in January
6. Judgment in Shivani Bhatnagar murder case today
7. Toshiba hails Waterman's vision and work
8. India not on global hunger map, thanks to lack of updated data
9. Supreme Court won't pre-empt Cabinet from deciding on Majithia report
10. Monitoring of Gujarat riot cases to continue for a few more months: Supreme Court
11. NCPRI brainstorms Grievance Redress, Whistleblower Protection
12. Way cleared for EC to pursue paid news case

International:

1. No problems at all with China: Putin

India & The World:

1. India to head UN South Asian regional commission for tourism
2. India, Vietnam plan big push to ties
3. Ansari re-lives his great granduncle's visit to Turkey
4. Counter-terrorism cooperation figures high in India-Turkey talks
5. Pakistani firm to add value to low-cost tablet
6. Revised tax treaty with Switzerland will help seek specific information on illegal funds

Business News:

1. Centre for raising FDI limit in single-brand retail
2. Sharma takes stock of trade scenario
3. Centre not against Shipping Corp's vessel acquisition plans

S&T, Environment, Defence: 

1. India must stand on its own feet: PM

Editorials & Articles:

1. From Arab Spring to post-Islamist summer
2. Tightrope act on the Durand Line
3. Weird Mercury
4. IT policy and credibility gap

The Times of India

National:

1. Lokpal to have constitutional status, ‘more power than EC’
2. J&K interlocutors to moot autonomy?
3. CAG: Government's 'credibility at its lowest'
4. Food security: India ranks lower than Rwanda
5. India polio-free? Not a single case since January 13
6. Centre gets Supreme Court notice on drug prices
7. Government mulling ‘right to reject’, PM tells Anna Hazare
8. Jairam blames state apathy for upsurge in Maoist menace
9. PM expresses concern over nuclear safety in neighbourhood
10. AFSPA may go in parts of Jammu and Kashmir

International:

1. Jammu and Kashmir interlocutors to moot autonomy for Valley?
2. Yulia Tymoshenko, ex-Ukraine PM, gets 7 years jai
3. UK gets first Sikh, second non-white HC judge

Business News:

1. Home loan EMIs to rise by Rs6k cr
2. Coal shortage hits NTPC’s output
3. Govt considers raising FDI ceiling in single-brand retail

Sports:

1. BCCI prevails, ICC makes DRS optional

Editorials & Articles:

1. Ring in the new
2. Shameful neglect
3. The halo will dim

The Indian Express

National:

1. Threat is up, both global and regional: PM
2. CWG goods to be given on case-to-case basis: Ministry
3. Withdraw AFSPA from some peaceful areas, Chidambaram tells Omar
4. Strong Lokpal on agenda, PM tells Anna Hazare
5. Police action can’t be driving force of anti-Naxal strategy, says Ramesh
6. SC to continue monitoring Gujarat riots cases
7. NREGS may tap into UID biometric data, help collect same
8. Bihar’s whip against corruption redefines dist magistrates’ role

International:

1. Myanmar to free 6,300 prisoners
2. 1st Sikh judge of British High Court sworn in

India & The World:

1. India, Pak to discuss steps to ease visa regime
2. India to chair UN tourism body

Business News:

1. Montek bats for UIDAI’s full autonomy
2. To arrest deficit, FinMin ups tax mop-up target by Rs 53,000 cr
3. FIIs trim their holding in top Indian cos
4. Bids for 50 per cent of port projects await security nod
5. ‘Govt to infuse Rs 4,500 cr in SBI’

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. India may block consensus on hazardous waste

Sports:

1. At ICC meet, umpire decision review goes India’s way

Editorials & Articles:

1. Attention: Delhi
2. Monetary prizes
3. Hyderabad and hinterland
4. Chinese takeaway
5. At a tipping point

11-10-2011

The Hindu

National:

1. New policy rings in free roaming
2. CBI names Marans in FIR; searches their premises
3. Judicial remand for Adivasi woman in ‘protection money' case
4. Move against Bhatt smacks of vendetta: former Gujarat DGP
5. Bench divided on Lokayukta appointment
6. PCI chief: defer implementation of channel norms
7. Indira Gandhi award for Mohan Dharia
8. Tapes show government went back on assurance to Anna
9. Vinod Rai, former CAG official to tell PAC their loss calculations

International:

1. Russia, China to sign pact on technological modernisation
2. Egyptian authorities in damage control mode
3. Two Americans share Economics Nobel
4. Joint group to sort out India-Sri Lanka fishing issues

India & The World:

1. China plans new economic zones near western border
2. India, Czech Republic agree to liberalise visa regime

Business News:

1. Telecom Policy aims to converge services, networks and devices

Editorials & Articles:

1. A weather sentinel to peer over the tropics
2. Three very courageous women
3. Avoidable downgrade
4. Post-Fukushima, France breaks silence on nuclear safety
5. Marking the birth of modern China

The Times of India

National:

1. Roaming charges to be abolished
2. CBI books Maran brothers, Malaysian billionaire for 2G scam
3. Pass Lokpal Bill urgently: Eminent citizens
4. Maxis head must prove Aircel deal was fair
5. Jairam asks CAG to audit NREGA
6. We are not rewriting Constitution: Pranab
7. Lokpal bill: How Team Anna, government representatives fought clause-by-clause

Business News:

1. American economists share Nobel
2. Torture rife in Afghan prisons: UN report
3. Operators to get more spectrum
4. Telcos may take $400m hit on free roaming
5. Draft telecom policy : Booster for cloud technology and data service

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. ICMR to fund study on morning-after pill use, abuse by teens & sex workers
2. Government project prevents 1 lakh fresh HIV cases in five years

Editorials & Articles:

1. A call to leadership
2. Take it easy
3. Unnecessarily provocative

The Indian Express

National:

1. Sibal moots free roaming, broadband on demand
2. Case against Dayanidhi Maran, CBI raids brother’s premises too
3. Arrested woman ‘Maoist’ in Chhattisgarh hospital with head, spinal injuries
4. Gujarat HC divided over Lokayukta appointment
5. What govt, Team Anna discussed at Lokpal meetings
6. Montek defends poverty line
7. Only 8 schemes to be run by Agriculture Ministry in 12th Plan
8. Chhattisgarh govt suspends addl chief secy over graft charges
9. J-K interlocutors to recommend three regional councils

International:

1. Spring is gone, Egypt burns
2. Pak Taliban for Saudi mediation in peace talks
3. China in a Tibet corner

Business News:

1. Two Americans get prize for study of policy effects
2. Bid out natural resources, be tough on bribery: Group of 14
3. CCI gets mandate to approve all pharma M&As
4. Crisil cuts India GDP growth forecast for FY’12 to 7.6%
5. Phone, Net basic necessities: NTP draft

S&T, Environment, Defence:

1. Army to test re-structuring plan in war game

Editorials & Articles:

1. Looking beyond Malacca
2. Full disclosure
3. Dollar to Doha
4. ‘If judges show anger unnecessarily, people will feel we are just like ordinary people. We have to show our stature is above that.’