Saturday, October 2, 2010

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India

CNN fires anchor Rick Sanchez for calling Jon Stewart a 'bigot'

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 12:33 AM PDT

CNN fired the afternoon news anchor a day after he called the TV host and comedian a "bigot" on a radio show and suggested that networks like CNN were run by people "a lot like Stewart," who is a Jew.

J K Rowling rejected Michael Jackson's idea of 'Harry Potter' musical

Posted: 02 Oct 2010 12:07 AM PDT

The Harry Potter author reveals that the late pop legend had approached her with plans to turn the series into a stage musical -- but his idea was snubbed.

Barack Obama apologizes to Guatemala for US sex-disease study

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 11:04 PM PDT

The US President personally apologized on Friday to his Guatemalan counterpart for a US-led study conducted in the 1940s, in which hundreds of people were deliberately infected with sexually-transmitted diseases.

43 killed in Indonesian train crash

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 09:49 PM PDT

A train crash in central Indonesia killed at least 43 people and injured dozens on Saturday, many of them critically.

Obama names low-key insider as White House chief of staff

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

President Barack Obama's feisty chief of staff left the administration just weeks before critical congressional elections, a move that could presage an even greater White House turnover should Democrats do as poorly as predicted in the coming vote.

Iraq's Shiite union backs incumbent Nuri al-Maliki as PM

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:17 PM PDT

Iraq's Shiite alliance backed incumbent Nuri al-Maliki as the next prime minister on Friday after months of argument, but he still faces severe obstacles in his bid for a second term.

Chile mine rescue to begin in mid-October: Minister

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 02:37 PM PDT

Chile will start rescuing 33 trapped miners in the second half of October, several weeks earlier than planned, the mines minister Laurence Golborne has said.

Militants attack NATO oil tankers in Pak, 5 killed

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 01:40 PM PDT

Militants in Pakistan on Friday carried out two separate attacks on vehicles carrying fuel for NATO and US forces in Afghanistan, killing five persons and injuring several others.

Bin Laden concerned by climate, Pakistan floods: Audiotape

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 11:28 AM PDT

Osama bin Laden has expressed concern about global climate change and flooding in Pakistan, in an audiotape aired on the internet, his first public remarks since March, a monitoring group said on Friday.

Bouquets and brickbats for Ayodhya verdict in Pakistani press

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 10:24 AM PDT

Pakistani newspapers had different takes on the Ayodhya verdict. One held that the trifurcation of the disputed land into two parts for the Hindus and one for the Muslims seemed to be the "only tenable solution", while another hailed it as the victory of "inflamed Hindu mobs".

US infected mentally ill in Guatemala with syphilis, gonorrhea

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:56 AM PDT

The United States apologized on Friday for funding a 1940s study in which hundreds of Guatemalans were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea without their consent.

Congo killings during 1990s may be genocide, claims UN report

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 08:51 AM PDT

The United Nations said acts of genocide may have been committed in the DR Congo as it published a hotly-contested report on Friday detailing massacres by foreign armies and rebels in the war-torn nation.

Australian minister says 'good thing' he was frisked at CWG Village

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 07:31 AM PDT

Instead of feeling offended after he was frisked by securitymen at the Commonwealth Games Village, Australian sports minister Mark Arbib said it was "good thing" that Indian authorities are taking security seriously.

Car bomb blasts kill 8 during independence day parade in Nigeria

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 05:33 AM PDT

Eight people were killed and three injured in car bomb explosions that hit Nigeria's capital on Friday near a parade marking the 50th anniversary of independence, police said.

Council for human resource in health soon: PM Manmohan Singh

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 04:26 AM PDT

Stressing on the need to revamp the health education system in the country, PM Manmohan Singh on Friday said that a bill for the formation of a council for human resource in health will be introduced in parliament soon.
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