Sunday, May 29, 2011

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


Slight intensity quake hit Rajasthan-Haryana region

Posted: 29 May 2011 01:22 AM PDT

A slight intensity earthquake measuring 3.2 on the richter scale hit the Rajasthan-Haryana border region on Sunday.


CWG OC sends reply on Shunglu report, blames Kalmadi

Posted: 29 May 2011 12:20 AM PDT

Sources said that the two-volume reply in about 1,000 pages has been sent and former top officials, including Kalmadi, have been held responsible on issues like ticketing, illegally inflated budgeting among others.


3 killed, 8 injured in China chemical plant blast

Posted: 28 May 2011 10:28 PM PDT

Authorities say a blast at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed three people and injured eight others.


Nigerian leader Goodluck Jonathan to be sworn in as President, nation divided after riots

Posted: 28 May 2011 07:56 PM PDT

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will be sworn in on Sunday following elections seen as the country's fairest in some two decades. He, hoever, faces a divided nation after deadly post-poll riots.


Arnold Schwarzenegger 'begs' wife for second chance

Posted: 28 May 2011 06:44 PM PDT

Former California governor and action star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who split from wife Maria Shriver after 25 years, following revelations of a secret love child, is reportedly begging her to give him another chance.


Texas governor Rick Perry says he will consider running for president

Posted: 28 May 2011 05:20 PM PDT

After months of resisting calls to join the race, Texas gov. Rick Perry said he would consider seeking the Republican presidential nomination, potentially reshaping the party's field.


North Sudan says Abyei military operations halted

Posted: 28 May 2011 04:02 PM PDT

The northern Sudanese army has full control of Abyei and stopped military operations, state media said on Saturday, as officials from the north and south prepared to meet to defuse tensions over the disputed region.


Arab League backs Palestinian state recourse to UN

Posted: 28 May 2011 02:11 PM PDT

The Arab League said it backs seeking UN recognition for a Palestinian state, as Qatar proposed at a meeting that the Middle East peace process be suspended until Israel was "ready" for talks.


More feared dead in Germany from contaminated cucumbers

Posted: 28 May 2011 12:47 PM PDT

German health chiefs on Saturday announced four more deaths feared to have been caused by E. coli-contaminated cucumbers, bringing to ten the number of suspected deaths in the country.


Medha Patkar ends hunger strike after government accepts demands

Posted: 28 May 2011 08:59 AM PDT

Social activist Medha Patkar ended her nine-day-fast after the Maharashtra government agreed to her demands related to slum-dwellers and rehabilitation projects.


Anti-Posco group takes 8 cops hostage, frees them later

Posted: 28 May 2011 08:29 AM PDT

Eight police personnel were held hostage by a group of villagers opposing the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant for nearly five hours on Saturday before being set free in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district.


Mubarak, ministers fined $90 million for telecom shutdown

Posted: 28 May 2011 06:09 AM PDT

A Cairo court on Saturday fined ousted president Hosni Mubarak and two ex-ministers $90 million dollars for "damaging the economy" with a telephone and internet shutdown during Egypt's uprising.


India again denounces US military aid to Pakistan

Posted: 28 May 2011 05:55 AM PDT

India has again criticised US military aid to Pakistan which it says is being used by Islamabad against Indian interests, local media reported on Saturday.


Jailed businessman Hasan Ali undergoes medical check-up

Posted: 28 May 2011 05:09 AM PDT

Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan, charged with money laundering and tax evasion, was on Saturday taken to J J Hospital for medical check-up by officials of the Arthur Road Central Jail where he is lodged.


Harsher pictorial warnings on tobacco products from Dec 1

Posted: 28 May 2011 04:40 AM PDT

Packets of tobacco products will have to carry new harsher pictorial warnings from December 1 as the government on Saturday came out with separate sets of gory graphics of cancer-affected lungs and mouth for smoking and smokeless forms of tobacco.


Medha ends her fast over demolition of slums at Golibar

Posted: 28 May 2011 02:42 AM PDT

Social activist Medha Patkar, who was protesting the eviction of slum-dwellers from Golibar in suburban Khar here ended her fast on the ninth day today after the Maharashtra government agreed to her demands.


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