Saturday, October 1, 2011

Top Headlines - The Times of India

Top Headlines - The Times of India


Three shops razed in Thane market fire

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 11:37 PM PDT

Three shops were gutted in a fire which broke out in the market area here in the wee hours today, fire brigade officials said.


Troops withdrawal from Afghanistan still on track: Obama

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 09:13 PM PDT

The United States still intends to withdraw some 33,000 troops from Afghanistan by next year, US President Barack Obama told US Congress.


Military chaplains can perform gay marriages: Pentagon

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:59 PM PDT

US military chaplains can perform gay wedding ceremonies in states where it is legal, the Pentagon said, 10 days after the end of a ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces.


Michael Jackson seemed dead, doctor mum on drugs: Paramedic

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 04:32 PM PDT

Michael Jackson seemed to have been dead for some time when paramedics got to his LA home, one said on Friday, adding that his accused doctor denied having given him propofol, the drug that killed him.


US summons Syrian ambassador over attack on diplomat

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 03:06 PM PDT

The United States said on Friday it had summoned the Syrian ambassador to Washington in protest after President Bashar al-Assad's supporters tried to attack the US envoy in Damascus.


US stocks drop over 2% amid global growth worries

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:41 PM PDT

US stocks dropped more than two percent on Friday as the clouds of slow growth and the Greek debt crisis hung darkly over the markets.


No Afghanistan solution without Pakistan, says Mike Mullen

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:43 PM PDT

Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Friday said that there can be no solution to the conflict in Afghanistan without Pakistan.


Barack Obama praises killing of al-Qaida cleric al-Awlaki

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 11:38 AM PDT

Anwar al-Awlaki and a second American, Samir Khan, were killed by a joint CIA-US military air strike on their convoy in Yemen early Friday.


Bomb kills at least 18 at Shiite funeral south of Baghdad

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 10:43 AM PDT

At least 18 people were killed in Iraq and dozens more wounded on Friday when a large car bomb exploded among mourners crowding into a Shiite funeral in the city of Hilla.


Syrians protest as army and defectors clash

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 08:36 AM PDT

Syrian security forces shot dead three protesters calling for the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad and clashes continued in the centre of the country between insurgents and loyalist forces, activists said.


Lanka releases 1,800 ex-LTTE guerrillas after rehabilitation

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 06:02 AM PDT

The government on Friday released the last batch of some 1,800 former LTTE guerrillas who underwent rehabilitation after the end of a three-decade ethnic conflict in May 2009, officials said.


Illegal mining case: Court again declines bail to Janardhana Reddy

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:55 AM PDT

A special court here on Friday once again dismissed bail petitions of formerKarnataka minister Gali Janardhana Reddy and his brother-in-law Srinivasa Reddy in an illegal mining case.


Experts discover pre-school in prehistoric age

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:36 AM PDT

Archaeological research indicates that 13,000 years ago hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.


Experts discover pre-school in prehistoric age

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 05:36 AM PDT

Archaeological research indicates that 13,000 years ago hunter-gatherer children as young as three were creating art in deep, dark caves alongside their parents.


Afzal Guru clemency: Violent protests in Srinagar after JKLF chairman's arrest

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:55 AM PDT

Carrying posters and banners, Yasin Malik and JKLF activists took out a rally from Maisuma towards Budshah Chowk demanding that Guru should not be hanged, official sources said.


Probe ordered into jailed ex-minister's phone call with media

Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:15 AM PDT

The prison department has ordered an inquiry into jailed Kerala Congress (B) leader R Balakrishna Pillai's telephonic talk with the media over mobile phone from a hospital here.


Reliance Cap gets RBI nod to sell stake in Reliance Life

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 11:22 PM PDT

The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's financial services arm Reliance Capital today said it has received approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for its proposed 26 per cent stake sale in Reliance Life Insurance to Japan's Nippon Life.
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