I did some real digging in the bug list for event scheduler issues.

It seems that a certain time calculation for the event scheduler was not portable. This bug was fixed as of MySQL 5.1.48 (Fixed June 2, 2010).

There was a past issue about SHOW EVENTS not getting events from the correct database. This bug was fixed as of MySQL 5.1.57 (Fixed May 5, 2011).

The latest scheduler bug was fixed July 5, 2011 in MySQL 5.1.58

You are using MySQL 5.1.41. You may want to upgrade to the latest version of MySQL 5.1 which is 5.1.58. No scheduler bugs exists as of today.

CAVEAT

On another note, I would change the SQL query to not only do less work

Instead of your DELETE query:

delete from ta_table where timestampdiff(minute,ti_time,now())>120;

Restructure it as follows:

delete from ta_table where ti_time < (now() - interval 2 hour);

Your DELETE will calculate against every row in the table. This new DELETE stops short when comparing ti_time against a time value (now() - interval 2 hour) instead of computing timestampdiff on every row.

Make sure ti_time is indexed. If not, do this:

ALTER TABLE ta_table ADD INDEX (ti_time);

Assuming the table is MyISAM, you may also want to periodically shrink the table every month like this:

ALTER TABLE ta_table ENGINE=MyISAM;

I hope this information helps !!!

UPDATE 2011-07-19 08:00 EDT

From the last chat room session lovesh and I had, here is the example I ran to create the event on my PC running MySQL 5.5.12:

drop database lovesh;
create database lovesh;
use lovesh
create table mydata (id int not null auto_increment primary key,ti_time timestamp DEFAULT current_timestamp) ENGINE=MyISAM;
DELIMITER $$
DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `lovesh`.`LoadMyData` $$
CREATE PROCEDURE `lovesh`.`LoadMyData` ()
BEGIN
    DECLARE NDX INT;
    SET NDX = 0;
    WHILE NDX < 100 DO
        INSERT INTO mydata (ti_time) VALUES (NOW() - INTERVAL CEILING(14400*RAND()) SECOND);
    SET NDX = NDX + 1;
    END WHILE;
END $$
DELIMITER ;
show create table mydata\G
SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE LoadMyData\G
CALL lovesh.LoadMyData();
CREATE TABLE ta_table LIKE mydata;
ALTER TABLE ta_table DISABLE KEYS;
INSERT INTO ta_table SELECT SQL_NO_CACHE * FROM mydata;
ALTER TABLE ta_table ENABLE KEYS;
CREATE EVENT ev
    ON SCHEDULE
      EVERY 1 MINUTE
      STARTS (NOW() + INTERVAL 1 MINUTE)
    DO
      DELETE FROM ta_table WHERE ti_time > NOW() - INTERVAL 2 HOUR;
SELECT COUNT(1) FROM ta_table;
SELECT SLEEP(62);
SELECT COUNT(1) FROM ta_table;

This worked for me when ta_table was MyISAM. It just kept running using InnoDB. This may be the sticking point.

There is a manual page on Time and Date functions.

The best way to compare date and time and get minutes back is probably to use one of the following:

SELECT TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF(timea,timeb)+0)/60
SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE,timeb,timea)

Note that while TIMEDIFF works with times, TIMESTAMPDIFF requires a date component - and the values are switched around for TIMESTAMPDIFF.

You can return hours with either of these:

SELECT TIME_TO_SEC(TIMEDIFF(timea,timeb)+0)/60/60
SELECT TIMESTAMPDIFF(HOUR,timeb,timea)

Note that when using DATEDIFF, the value returned is a difference between the date components of the given time - thus, a value of 23:59 on one day compared to a value of 0:01 on the next (a 2 minute difference) results in a date difference of 1 (a full day).

To get a difference between two times in 24-hour periods (length of a day) first calculate the difference in minutes then divide by the proper values to find the number of 24-hour periods. Try this:

SELECT TRUNCATE(TIMESTAMPDIFF(MINUTE,timeb,timea)/60.0/24.0,0)

This truncates the decimal portion, returning only the number of complete 24-hour periods in the specified timespan.