Friday, December 31, 2010

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


Over 100 tourists stranded in Himachal due to heavy snowfall

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 11:26 PM PST

Over 100 tourists, mostly from West Bengal, have been stranded in Himachal Pradesh's Kinnaur district after roads were closed due to heavy snowfall, an official said here Friday.


Gujjars to hold third round of talks with Rajasthan govt

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 10:10 PM PST

Efforts to find a solution to the 12-day-old agitation by Gujjars demanding quota in government jobs intensified today with the community leadership agreeing to hold the third round of talks with the Rajasthan government.


UN warns Gbagbo against attack on Ivory Coast peacekeepers

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 05:32 PM PST

The United Nations sternly warned Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo on Thursday not to allow an attack on the hotel where its peacekeepers are defending Alassane Ouattara's shadow government.


WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:19 PM PST

Cyber activists say they have brought down Zimbabwean government websites after the president's wife sued a newspaper for publishing a WikiLeaks cable linking her with illicit diamond trading.


US Navy introduces smoking ban on submarines

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 03:08 PM PST

Giving up smoking may be a New Year's resolution for some, but all US sailors will now have to follow suit, as the US Navy moves to ban its crews from smoking aboard submarines starting on Friday.


Yeddyurappa funded Gadkari's son's wedding: Congress

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:52 PM PST

Congress general secretary B K Hariprasad on Thursday alleged that Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa had provided resources for BJP chief Nitin Gadkari's son's wedding party in Nagpur.


Seven killed by suspected radical Islamic sect in Nigeria

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 10:25 AM PST

Suspected members of a radical Islamic sect set on fire a police vehicle and killed seven persons including three police officers in the trouble-hit Maiduguri town in northern Nigeria.


We'll achieve Telangana state come what may: TRS

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 10:18 AM PST

Asserting that "no force on earth" could stop the Telangana movement, Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao today said they would rest only after achieving statehood for the region.


US stocks tread water despite strong jobs data

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:51 AM PST

US stock markets continued this week's trend of listless and holiday-thinned trading Thursday, with most of the major indexes trading slightly down.


Jagan meets Pawar, seeks better package for Andhra farmers

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 08:18 AM PST

Both the Central government and the state government will have to come forward together with a better package to improve the life of the farmers in Andhra Pradesh, Jaganmohan said after meeting Sharad Pawar.


Swede sentenced to prison for Auschwitz sign theft

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 07:24 AM PST

A Swedish man was sentenced Thursday to two years and eight months in prison for instigating the theft last year of the notorious ``Arbeit Macht Frei'' (``Work Sets You Free'') sign from the former Auschwitz death camp.


Boney M's Bobby Farrell dies in Russia: Prosecutors

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:45 AM PST

Bobby Farrell, singer and dancer with 1970's disco group Boney M, died early Thursday in a hotel room in Saint Petersburg, where he had been performing, city officials said. He was 61.


Russia to pay almost $2bn for French warships: Report

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 04:27 AM PST

Russia will pay France 1.37 billion euros ($1.81 billion) for two Mistral-class assault warships that Moscow agreed to purchase from the NATO member last week, news reports said today.


MI5, MI6 sleuths to share notes with IPS officers

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 03:15 AM PST

Seluths of Britain's secret service agencies MI5 and MI6 will be sharing their professional experience and expertise with over 100 senior Indian Police Service officers for two weeks from January three.


At least 10 civilians dead in Afghanistan blast: NATO

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 01:29 AM PST

More than 10 Afghan civilians were killed and several others were hurt in an explosion caused by insurgents Thursday in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, officials said.


Top medical award for Indian physician

Posted: 30 Dec 2010 12:51 AM PST

A Tuticorin-based Indian physician taking a Master's programme offered by the Woolf Institute in conjunction with the University of Cambridge has won the 2010 JCI (TOYP) Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award for Medical Innovation.


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