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Top Headlines - The Times of India

Pakistan refused air-route to international flights to Kashmir: Omar

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:18 AM PDT

Chief minister Omar Abdullah has castigated Pakistan government for refusing air-route to international flights to the Srinagar airport.

Raids at premises of former TN intelligence chief, 9 others

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:44 PM PDT

Sleuths of directorate of vigilance and anti-corruption (DVAC) wing on Tuesday conducted raids at 10 places in the city including additional director general of police (ADGP) Jaffer Sait.

SC forces Tulsi to withdraw from Sohrabuddin case

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:12 PM PDT

The Supreme Court on Tuesday forced senior advocate KTS Tulsi to withdwaw as CBI counsel in Sohrabuddin fake encounter case a on the ground that he had appeared for Gujarat government in the same case earlier.

Sikhs protest Bhullar's death penalty near UN headquarters

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 08:28 PM PDT

Asking the United Nations to put pressure on India to not carry out death sentence on Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, hundreds of Sikhs gathered near the UN headquarters and protested against his death penalty.

Tahawwur Rana asks for another hearing in his case

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 08:06 PM PDT

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, who has been recently convicted on two counts of providing support to terrorism in the Denmark plot and to LeT with co-accused David Coleman Headley, has asked the judge to conduct another hearing in his case.

President Obama appeals for debt-limit compromise

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 06:45 PM PDT

President Barack Obama on Monday night criticized a newly minted Republican plan to avert an unprecedented government default and said congressional leaders must produce a compromise that can reach his desk before the Aug. 2 deadline.

UN chief welcomes talks between Suu Kyi and Myanmar government

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:37 PM PDT

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has welcome the meeting between Myanmar's Nobel Laureate and pro-democracy activist Aung Suu Kyi and Minister for Social Welfare U Aung Kyi.

UN races to get food to hungry Somali refugees

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:19 PM PDT

The UN will airlift emergency rations this week to parts of drought-ravaged Somalia that militants banned it from more than two years ago, a crisis intervention to keep hungry refugees from dying.

Canada opposition leader steps down to battle cancer

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:52 PM PDT

The leader of Canada's main opposition party, limping heavily and looking pale and drawn, said on Monday he would step down temporarily because of cancer but vowed to return once Parliament resumes in mid-September.

Indian investment banker Anshu Jain named Deutsche Bank co-chairmen

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:47 PM PDT

Deutsche Bank on Monday named a canny Indian investment banker and a German veteran of the old school to run the biggest German bank in tandem from May 2012.

Syria endorses law to allow other parties alongside ruling Baath

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 12:57 PM PDT

Syria's government, under massive pressure to reform or quit, has adopted a draft law allowing for new political parties to operate alongside the ruling Baath party.

French TV star questioned in ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn probe

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 11:41 AM PDT

A French TV personality on Monday became the latest high-profile figure to face questioning by investigators examining a writer's claims that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her eight years ago.

Maharashtra minister, his two aides booked for cheating

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 10:02 AM PDT

Police today booked Maharashtra Social Justice Minister Shivajirao Moghe and his two associates in a case of alleged cheating.

SC directs Delhi's private hospitals to treat poor free

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 09:51 AM PDT

The Supreme Court on Monday directed private hospitals in Delhi to give free treatment to poor patients referred to them by government institutions, till a policy on the issue is ready.

Political controversies apart, FDI inflows almost doubled in Q1: Pranab

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 09:47 AM PDT

Asserting that political controversies in India did not dent the investor sentiment, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Monday said FDI inflows rose to more than $7.9 billion during April-June quarter, which is almost twice the amount received during the year-ago period.

Vatican recalls envoy to Ireland after child abuse report

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 08:10 AM PDT

The Vatican on Monday said it was recalling its representative in Ireland following a damning report on the Catholic Church's handling of child abuse by priests that sparked government outrage.

Indian right-wing groups making bombs, killing people: Chidambaram

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:41 AM PDT

Home minister P Chidambaram today said there are nine documented cases involving right-wing terror groups making bombs and killing people.

Indian right-wing groups making bombs, killing people: Chidambaram

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 05:41 AM PDT

Home minister P Chidambaram said the objective of these fundamentalist groups was to clearly create terror and the government has to deal with that.

DRI nab king-pin of Chandigarh-based global drug racket

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 04:31 AM PDT

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has arrested the king-pin of a Chandigarh-based international drug racket which often used job-seekers from north Kerala as carriers to smuggle heroin into Saudi Arabia, mainly through the Kozhikode airport.

SC to examine footage of crackdown on Ramdev

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 02:26 AM PDT

SC declined to issue notice to Chidambaram on a plea that he sanctioned the crackdown on Ramdev. But it will view footage of the police action.

New Orissa port receives first ultra-large vessel

Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:20 AM PDT

Orissa's Dhamra port, which became commercially operational on May 7, has received its first ultra-large vessel carrying 150,000 tonnes of coal from Australia, an official said Monday.