Saturday, September 24, 2011

‘India supports Palestine’s call for UN’s full membership’

‘India supports Palestine’s call for UN’s full membership’

‘India supports Palestine’s call for UN’s full membership’

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 05:04 PM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday highlighted at the United Nations General Assembly India's new status as an emerging power as well as its willingness to play a bigger role on the international stage.

TOI Social Impact Awards: They script a win-win story with rural women

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 04:54 PM PDT

For years, Poochiamma, a tribal woman from north Tamil Nadu's Javadi Hills, would spend most of her day looking for work. A daily-wage labourer, her hungry and malnourished children were school dropouts. Many in this remote region shared her plight.

TOI Social Impact Awards: A land rights crusade to transform lives

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 04:49 PM PDT

It took tribal elder Puniya Baba, now in his late 80s, a 25-year struggle to get the MP government's forest department to ink the patta (title deed) giving him farming rights on 2.3 hectares of forest land.

India to host meet against putting green fretters on developing countries

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 03:28 PM PDT

It's no more just climate change. Another front has opened in the global UN negotiations where green concerns are being propped up as impediments to growth of emerging economies such as India - the Rio+20 talks.

Dalai Lama says China to have no say on successor

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 02:35 PM PDT

The supreme Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, on Saturday put to rest all speculations about his reincarnation by issuing a clear declaration here on Saturday, stating that a person who reincarnates has the sole legitimate authority over where and how he or she takes rebirth and how that reincarnation is to be recognized.

Now, third child can land you in jail in Kerala

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 02:13 PM PDT

This will be a reality if the Kerala Women's Code Bill 2011, submitted to the CM by a 12-member committee, is implemented in its letter and spirit.

Get a manicure and earn free air tickets

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:39 PM PDT

A host of closer-to-ground purchases can earn fliers the miles — like booking hotel rooms, renting cars or DVDs, eating out, shopping, getting a manicure, and so on.

Group behind 13/7 blasts identified: DGP

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:15 PM PDT

Maharashtra Police claimed they have identified the terror group responsible for the July 13 Mumbai blasts in which 27 people were killed.

T-stir snowballs, paralyses rail, road transport

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:13 PM PDT

The Telangana region, including Greater Hyderabad, remained paralysed for the twelfth day on Saturday. Hyderabad shutdown completely as the 48-hour rail roko and autorickshaw strike began.

Plane from Hubli a threat to Mumbai airport?

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:12 PM PDT

A private plane taking off from Karnataka's Hubli airport could be used to carry out a terror strike at Mumbai airport, authorities have been warned. Security agencies said fears of such an attack remained till November 15.

Bharatpur clashes: Cops file five FIRs

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:09 PM PDT

Even as chief minister Ashok Gehlot met the families of the victims of Bharatpur communal clash, the police on Saturday told the one-man inquiry commission that they have registered five FIRs since the violence broke out on September 15.

Orissa floods: Centre sends relief teams

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:07 PM PDT

With floods severely affecting six districts of Orissa, the Centre on Saturday deployed five teams of the National Disaster Response Force -- comprising 155 personnel -- and six helicopters in the state for the ongoing relief and rescue operations.

Close shave for 3 jets at Chennai airport

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 01:05 PM PDT

Three aircraft came too close for comfort at Chennai airport on Saturday morning, forcing a Jet Airways flight to abort take-off at the last minute.

For these large hearts, charity begins with home

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:59 PM PDT

An idea—not new, but no less radical—is slowly gaining traction across the country. It involves bequeathing one's home, not to the heir apparent, but to a non-profit organization

Chidambaram’s place is in same cell as Raja in Tihar: BJP

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:57 PM PDT

BJP kept up its trenchant attack on the government over the 2-G spectrum scam with its senior leader Yashwant Sinha saying home minister P Chidambaram should be in the same cell as that of jailed ex-telecom minister A Raja for his role in the fiddle.

CBI records Jaswant’s statement in 2G probe

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:55 PM PDT

The CBI has recorded the statement of senior BJP leader and former finance minister Jaswant Singh in connection with the agency's ongoing probe in the allocation of telecom spectrum between 2001 and 2007.

Panel ponders Lokpal scenarios for PM

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:54 PM PDT

The debate over inclusion of prime minister in the Lokpal ambit took a fresh twist with the parliamentary committee considering the proposed law grappling with the question: whether the country's top executive will have the moral authority to be in office during the pendency of a complaint.

Shadow of Chidambaram-Pranab cold war on PM’s US visit

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:52 PM PDT

More than half-dozen Indian cabinet ministers are currently in the US promoting various aspects of Indian engagement with the world, but the shadow of the clash between two of the senior-most ministers falls heavily on the visit.

PMO wanted to be kept at 'arm's length’ on 2G allocation

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:49 PM PDT

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has released further documents on 2G spectrum allocation under RTI, including the controversial noting of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's private secretary (PS) stating that the PMO be kept at "arm's length" on the issue.

Mirchpur killings: SHO among acquitted

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:47 PM PDT

Eighty-two of the 97 people accused in the Mirchpur killing of a 70-year-old dalit and his physically challenged daughter were acquitted by a Delhi court for lack of evidence. The then SHO of the area,Vinod Kajal, was also acquitted by the court.

IIT-K mulls restriction of web access

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Authorities at the Indian Institute of Technology are deliberating on restricting Internet access to students during the night saying that it has a negative effect on their academic performance.

Bad weather stalls rescue ops in Sikkim

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:43 PM PDT

Torrential rain and fresh landslides on Saturday hampered search and rescue operations in North Sikkim's quake-affected areas. The death toll of the Sikkim quake stood at 77.

Judge recuses himself from palmolein case

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:42 PM PDT

Precipitating an unprecedented crisis for Kerala's four-month-old Oommen Chandy government, a designated Vigilance Court judge who had ordered further probe against the chief minister in connection with the sensational palmolein import scam case rescued himself from the matter on Saturday.

World economy is in trouble: Manmohan Singh

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:34 PM PDT

Reflecting the deepening gloom over the state of the global economy, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said the crisis has deepened.

Chidambaram won’t resign, says Manmohan

Posted: 24 Sep 2011 12:31 PM PDT

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday rejected BJP's demand for the resignation of home minister P Chidambaram, and stressed that finance minister Pranab Mukherjee also enjoys his full confidence.
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