Monday, August 30, 2010

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


Court adjourns former Gujarat minister Amit Shah bail plea till September 7

Posted: 30 Aug 2010 12:14 AM PDT

Special CBI judge G K Upadhyay adjourned the matter after Shah's council sought more time as their senior council Ram Jethmalani could not come for the hearing.

SC issues notice to former Satyam MD Rama Raju, 4 others

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:28 PM PDT

The Supreme Court on Monday asked former Satyam managing director B Rama Raju and four others, accused in Rs 14,000-crore accounting fraud in Satyam, as to why their bails should not be cancelled.

Briton falls off chair, to sue government for 300,000 pounds

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:30 PM PDT

Gian-Paul De Vito-Tracey, 39, will claim that he was left 80 per cent disabled for life after he hit his head on a wall, The Sun reported on Monday.

Bangladesh ex-dictator Ershad meets Hasina, may escape punishment

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:58 PM PDT

Bangladesh's former military ruler Hussain Mohammed Ershad may escape punishment for violating the country's constitution following his meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after which he "looked quite happy", his aides said.

French 'Spiderman' arrested after scaling Sydney skyscraper

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 10:21 PM PDT

A French climber known as "Spiderman" was arrested on the roof of a 57-storey Sydney skyscraper on Monday after scaling the building without ropes or a harness to raise awareness of climate change.

Two die of swine flu in Orissa, toll 19

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 09:16 PM PDT

Two women died of swine flu in Orissa, taking the total number of deaths due to the influenza to 19 in the state since July, an official said Monday.

Obama hails New Orleans 'resilience' five years post-Katrina

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 08:20 PM PDT

Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Sunday, praised the city's resilience and pledged support for rebuilding "until the job is done."

Chile: Trapped miners speak to loved ones as big drill is readied

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 08:06 PM PDT

Chile's 33 trapped miners spoke for the first time with their loved ones Sunday, reassuring each other in brief but moving conversations by radio-telephone after 24 days underground.

'Network of misinformation' behind mislabel as Muslim: Obama

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 07:16 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama on Sunday blamed a "network of misinformation" for keeping alive persistent rumors that he is Muslim, but he shrugged off the misconception as being out of his control.

R K Laxman suffers stroke

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:37 PM PDT

Eminent cartoonist R K Laxman was admitted to the command hospital here tonight after he suffered a stroke, hospital sources said. Laxman was "responding" to the treatment, they said.

36 killed in Ecuador bus accident

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 05:35 PM PDT

At least 36 people were killed and 12 injured Sunday in Ecuador when a bus fell off a cliff, police said.

Unpaid Saudi imam locks worshippers out

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 04:52 PM PDT

Worshippers who arrived to pray at a mosque in a remote area of central Saudi Arabia this week discovered they were locked out by the disgruntled imam because he had not been paid.

Six terrorists killed in Kashmir's Uri sector as Army foils infiltration bid

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 12:31 PM PDT

The army Sunday foiled a major infiltration bid by separatist guerrillas in north Kashmir's Uri sector, killing six of the intruders, defence sources said here. The gunfight was continuing late Sunday night.

New hurricane Earl joins Danielle

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 11:14 AM PDT

Tropical Storm Earl bulked up to hurricane strength on a track toward islands in the eastern Caribbean on Sunday, while Hurricane Danielle weakened to a Category 1 storm, the US National Hurricane Center said.

No upper caste leader can become Bihar CM, says Lalu Prasad

Posted: 29 Aug 2010 08:58 AM PDT

Claiming to have been the catalyst for social justice in Bihar, the RJD president on Sunday said no leader from forward communities could dream of becoming the chief minister of the state.
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