United States wants to recall some toyota models..................

"Toyota takes its responsibility to advance vehicle safety seriously and to alert government officials of any safety issue in a timely manner," she said.
Toyota has recalled more than 8.1 million vehicles worldwide for problems related to sudden acceleration and unresponsive brake pedals, among other things. The company has apologized for the safety lapses and pledged to repair the recalled vehicles quickly.
The recalls under investigation include two related to the entrapment of gas pedals by floor mats. Those recalls were announced last fall and expanded early this year. The third, announced in January, involved sticking gas pedals.
If the investigation determines that Toyota violated its statutory obligations, NHTSA said the manufacturer could be liable for a fine of up to $16.4 million.


That's the maximum penalty under a 2000 law that established stiffer civil, and even criminal, penalties for automakers that fail to promptly report safety defects to federal regulators in a timely way.
The Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act, or TRED, was passed in response to dozens of deadly Ford Explorer rollover crashes caused by faulty Firestone tires. No fines were ever levied in that case.
The biggest fine that's ever been levied was just $1 million taken from General Motors in 2004 for failing to deal promptly with a windshield wiper issue, an amount that was negotiated down from the $3 million NHTSA originally asked for.

Indians was killed; Maoist was suspected

There are 24 paramilitary troops and a civilian were killed in an armed
assault on their camp by suspected Maoists in eastern India, a district official
said Tuesday.
The attackers struck India's Eastern Frontier Rifles camp in
West Bengal state's West Midnapore district on Monday.
Top district official
Narayan Swaroop Nigam told CNN that the raiders arrived on different types of
vehicles and that they were equipped with sophisticated self-loading
weapons.
He insisted that Indian troops retaliated with fire. Two attackers
apparently died, but their bodies had not yet been recovered, Nigam
said.
"Security forces have combed the area and a manhunt has been launched,"
he added.
India regards the communist rebels as its gravest internal
security threat. The Maoists, on the other hand, have claimed since the 1960s to
be fighting for the dispossessed.
Just about a week ago, India's Home
Minister P. Chidambaram acknowledged that more than 900 people, including almost
600 civilians, were killed in Maoist-related incidents in 2009. Besides, some
200 suspected rebels were also slain as forces moved into areas under insurgent
control, he said.

400 hurt,64 dead in the Afgan avalanches

RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press Writer Massive avalanches roaring down a mountain pass north of Kabul may have killed more than 60 people Tuesday, Afgan officials said, as rescuers evacuated about 400 injured victims.

Search-and-rescue teams recovered the bodies of 24 people but said they fear 40 others may have also died, Interior minister Hanif Atmar said. About 2,500 people were rescued from their snow-blocked vehicles. "Twenty-four bodies have been recovered so far, but the fear is that there could be up to 40 more still buried and unfortunately, they might have died already,"...

Iran: No problem with nuclear plan

Iran's president has indicated his country may be ready to ship its uranium abroad for enrichment, in line with a UN-backed proposal.
For months Iranian officials have criticised the plan proposed by six world powers last year for Iran to send out the bulk of its low-enriched uranium to be processed and returned as nuclear fuel to power its reactor.
But on Tuesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would have "no problem" doing so.
"Some people made a fuss about it. There is no problem. We will seal a contract and we will give you 3.5 per cent uranium to enrich it to 20 per cent levels in four or five months and return to us," he said in an interview with Iranian broadcaster IRIB on Tuesday.
He dismissed concerns by "colleagues'' that the West would not return the uranium, saying Iran would respond to that by continuing to produce its own enriched uranium.
"If they don't return it, what will happen? We will be proven right, and then it will be proven that the agency [International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA] was not reliable and they will be discredited. Then we will be free to rely on ourselves for our activities."

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