Saturday, May 28, 2011

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


NASA makes history with spacewalk, station finale

Posted: 27 May 2011 06:32 PM PDT

NASA astronauts made history twice on Friday, venturing on the final spacewalk of the agency's 30-year shuttle program and completing assembly of the $100 billion International Space Station.


US says China yuan undervalued, but not manipulated

Posted: 27 May 2011 05:16 PM PDT

The US treasury department ruled on Friday China was not manipulating its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage, but said Beijing still needs to allow the yuan to rise much faster in value.


Judge rules Ratko Mladic fit to face international justice

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:02 PM PDT

A judge ruled on Friday that Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic, alleged mastermind of the Srebrenica massacre and other atrocities, was fit to face international justice at a war crimes court.


18 killed in fighting over military camp in Yemen

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:44 PM PDT

A Yemeni tribal leader says 18 tribesmen have been killed in fresh fighting between forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and members of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation, the Hashid.


G8 pledges $20 billion to foster Arab uprisings

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:45 PM PDT

The Group of Eight promised $20 billion in aid to Tunisia and Egypt on Friday and held out the prospect of billions more to foster the Arab Spring and the new democracies emerging from popular uprisings.


Seven killed in Syria protests, world pressure grows

Posted: 27 May 2011 12:39 PM PDT

Syrian security forces shot dead seven people on Friday, rights campaigners said, as protesters defied a nationwide crackdown by President Bashar al-Assad which world leaders condemned.


Explosion targets UN convoy in Lebanon, 3 wounded

Posted: 27 May 2011 11:30 AM PDT

Lebanese police and military officials say a roadside bomb has targeted a convoy of UN vehicles in the country's south, wounding at least three people.


Delhi govt to send response to Shunglu charges on Saturday

Posted: 27 May 2011 10:30 AM PDT

The Delhi government will on Saturday send its response to the Union home ministry on allegations made by the Shunglu Committee about bunglings in the Commonwealth Games projects.


I have no hand in political making of Reddy brothers: Swaraj

Posted: 27 May 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj has refuted charges that she is a protector of the mining barons Bellary brothers and played a role in their induction into the Karnataka cabinet.


Ratko Mladic appears before Serbian war crimes judge

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:23 AM PDT

Ratko Mladic is fit enough to face genocide charges in The Hague, a Belgrade court ruled on Friday, after the Bosnian Serb wartime general's son said he appeared too frail after more than 15 years on the run.


One detained in UP in connection with Delhi high court blast

Posted: 27 May 2011 07:16 AM PDT

One person was detained in Uttar Pradesh in connection with the low-intensity explosion outside the Delhi High Court even as investigators on Friday said they were yet to make any concrete breakthrough in the case.


Former MLA of Rohtak surrenders to police after 22 days

Posted: 27 May 2011 06:08 AM PDT

Former MLA from Meham Assembly constituency in Haryana's Rohtak district, who is a murder accused, on Friday came with thousands of supporters to surrender before inspector general of police.


HC rejects Teesta's plea on quashing FIR in exhumation case

Posted: 27 May 2011 04:20 AM PDT

The Gujarat High court on Friday rejected the application of social activist Teesta Setalvad, seeking quashing of FIR against her in the 2006 Pandarwada case, where bodies of post-Godhra riot victims were exhumed, four years after they were buried.


Clinton makes surprise visit to Pakistan to resolve tensions

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:58 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton said US was even more committed to Pakistan after Osama's killing, but the country needed to do more in battling militancy.


Clinton makes surprise visit to Pakistan to resolve tensions

Posted: 27 May 2011 02:58 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton said US was even more committed to Pakistan after Osama's killing, but the country needed to do more in battling militancy.


India asks its nationals to leave strife-torn Yemen

Posted: 27 May 2011 01:07 AM PDT

India on Friday asked all its nationals living in Yemen to leave that country through whatever commercial means available in view of the increased violence in which at least 150 people have been killed so far.


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