Sunday, January 2, 2011

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


Human rights activists ask Centre to release Binayak Sen

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 10:14 PM PST

A joint meeting of human rights activists and delegates of civil liberties organisations today sought the Centre's intervention for release of rights campaigner and doctor Binayak Sen who has been sentenced to life for sedition.


Pak should discard posture of 'compulsive hostility': Krishna

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:09 PM PST

In a forthright message to Pakistan, India today said its posture of "compulsive hostility" will not help a "serious and sustained" dialogue between the two countries.


President Obama's New Year's resolution? Fix the economy

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 06:30 PM PST

President Barack Obama has set his New Year's resolution high for 2011: repair the struggling economy.


Hugo Chavez, Hillary Clinton shake hands, chat amid tensions

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 06:14 PM PST

President Hugo Chavez and US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton shook hands and chatted briefly on Saturday in a rare cordial encounter amid a diplomatic dispute that has left Venezuela and the United States without ambassadors in each other's capitals.


Russian passenger jet explodes; 3 dead, 43 injured

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:39 PM PST

A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded on Saturday, killing three people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, officials said.

Russian passenger jet explodes; 3 dead, 43 injured

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 04:39 PM PST

A Russian passenger jet carrying 124 people caught fire as it taxied down a snowy runway in Siberia and then exploded on Saturday, killing three people and injuring 43, including six who were badly burned, officials said.


Since 2007, 5 BSP MLAs sacked over rape charges

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:00 PM PST

Purushottam Naresh, accused of raping a girl and then falsely implicating her in a theft case, is the fifth BSP MLA or minister to have been involved in a sex scandal after the party came to power in May 2007.


Gbagbo says UN troops 'fired on' civilians, must leave

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 01:47 PM PST

Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo on Saturday accused UN peacekeeping troops in the country of having "fired on civilians" and said they must leave.


Mayawati orders probe into rape allegations against BSP legislator

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 10:59 AM PST

Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati on Saturday ordered a police inquiry into the allegations of gangrape and illegal confinement of a minor girl by a ruling BSP legislator and his supporters in the state's Banda district.


AP farmers gear up for agitation over Krishna Tribunal Award

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 07:59 AM PST

The farmers' outfits in Andhra Pradesh, with the support of political parties, are gearing up to launch an agitation against the Krishna Water Tribunal's Award, which they claim, will adversely affect them.


Russian passenger jet explodes; 1 dead, 10 injured

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 06:03 AM PST

A Russian passenger jet carrying 128 people caught fire and later exploded at a Siberian airport on Saturday, killing one person and injuring 10, officials said.


India, Pakistan exchange lists of nuclear installations

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 03:15 AM PST

India and Pakistan on Saturday exchanged lists of their nuclear installations and facilities in line with a two-decade-old pact prohibiting attacks on atomic assets despite lingering tensions over the issue of terrorism in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.


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