Imp News Articles to read in The Hindu dated 18th January 2012

News Paper: THE HINDU                                      Date: 18th January 2012


National News:

• Centre files caveat, explores options to end age row
• Foreign players to get stake in Indian carriers
• Cairn-Vedanta deal comes under a cloud
• Navy to get overhauled Gorshkov by year-end
• Alarming decline in reading and mathematical skills in 6-14 age group, says ASER
• India, China to set up working mechanism on border management
• No modifications in EVMs, says court
• Abu Salem extradition: Portugal court rejects CBI plea
• Hospital not accredited to carry out such tests, says Ministry

International News:

• Committed to settling the Tamils issue: Rajapaksa
• A Blackout to fight piracy
• Radical cleric wins case against deportation
• Hectic confabulations on in Islamabad to defuse crisis

Economy & Business News:

• Value-linked duty on precious metals
• Banks can let cos hedge commodity price risk
• S&P downgrades eurozone bailout fund to AA+

Editorial & OP-ED:

• West's romancing of the Taliban
• The General and the labyrinth
• Polio – the fight must go on
• The British boarding school remains cruel
• Teachers have to balance demands from various quarters: Howard Gardner