Monday, June 27, 2011

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


Stalin leaves for Delhi, likely to meet Kanimozhi

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 10:45 PM PDT

DMK tresurer and party chief M Karunanidhi's son MK Stalin on Monday left for New Delhi.


Prostitutes in Colombia unite against child abuse

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 08:25 PM PDT

Prostitutes have united in Colombia's port city and popular tourist destination, Cartagena, with the hopes of protecting children from an international network of pimps and sexual predators.


Brazil's Jose Graziano da Silva elected UN food agency head

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 06:15 PM PDT

Brazil's former food security minister Jose Graziano da Silva on Sunday became the first Latin American to head the UN's food agency, a move hailed by aid groups and the United States.


Can Lokpal be investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge?

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 02:21 PM PDT

Just 70 days ago, the UPA government succumbed to the pressure exerted by Team Anna, which posed as civil society being supported by advocates and actors, ex-babus, bloggers and twitteratti, swamis and social activists.


New York gay parade celebrates pride, marriage law

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Thousands of gay activists and supporters descended on New York on Sunday for a triumphant gay pride march days after a landmark same-sex marriage bill was signed into law.


Train carrying southern Sudanese migrants attacked: UN

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 11:54 AM PDT

A train carrying southern Sudanese migrants was attacked in the country's conflict-stricken Southern Kordofan border state on Sunday, killing at least one person, the United Nations said.


Five securitymen killed, 6 injured in Chhattisgarh Maoist attacks

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 11:09 AM PDT

Maoists on Sunday blew up a police vehicle in a landmine blast and ambushed BSF personnel killing five securitymen and injuring six others in two separate attacks in Dantewada and Kanker districts.


Eradication of corruption vital for development, says Kalam

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 08:15 AM PDT

With the chorus getting strident over rooting out corruption, former President APJ Abdul Kalam on Sunday threw his weight behind the anti-graft movement.


Chhattisgarh ambush: 2 BSF jawans, Naxalite killed

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 06:53 AM PDT

Two Border Security Force jawans were on Sunday killed and three others injured in a Naxalite ambush in Kanker district of Chhattisgarh, a top police official said, adding a Naxalite was also gunned down in the incident.


Six mountaineers die in French Alps: official

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 03:34 AM PDT

A hiker on Sunday found the bodies of six mountaineers in the French Alps who appeared to have died in an avalanche of snow and stones, officials said.


China, Vietnam vow to cool South China Sea tensions

Posted: 26 Jun 2011 02:23 AM PDT

China and Vietnam pledged to resolve a row over the strategic South China Sea, state media said on Sunday, in a bid to ease tensions that prompted accusations of Chinese bullying in the region.


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