Hindustan Times (New Delhi, India) back issues from August 2008:
Karachi to Kanchenjunga.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Neelesh Misra Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- Hundreds of kilometres apart, two friends sat at their homes in India and Pakistan on a lazy Saturday, dealing with a shared fantasy. In Pakistan was hugely popular singer Shafqat Amanat Ali -- who mesmerised India with the ...
SAARC adopts framework to tackle terror.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Sutirtho Patranobis Aug. 3--COLOMBO -- In a significant move, the SAARC countries on Saturday decided to put in place a regional legal framework to tackle terrorism.The Convention for Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (MACM) will provide a broad ...
He won't shut shop.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Aug. 3--Mohammed Hanif's skullcap and long, white beard are juxtaposed comfortably with the red flags emblazoned with likenesses of Hindu gods flying behind him. His 20 x 30 ft shop selling peanuts and other small snacks has held ground for the last 90 years in the predominantly Hindu area ...
'Power dressers' are global fashion icons.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Tasneem Nashrulla Aug. 3--MUMBAI -- Power dressing took on a whole new meaning if the 2008 Vanity Fair best-dressed list, out on August 1, was anything to go by. US presidential hopeful Barack Obama's wife, Michelle (44), and French President Nicolas Sarkozy's supermodel ...
WTO fails but Nath won't backtrack.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Pankaj Vohra and Gaurav Choudhury Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- By declining to be overwhelmed by the US trade representative Susan Schwab and her colleagues during the failed World Trade Organisation talks in Geneva, Union Commerce Minister Kamal Nath by his consistent and firm ...
BRIEF: Muslim clerics resolve to fight terrorism.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Rathin Das Aug. 3--AHMEDABAD -- A congregation of Muslim clerics on Friday expressed their gratitude to the Hindu community for not succumbing to the provocations of certain elements that had launched a tirade against the madrasas and Quran in the aftermath of July 26 ...
Divide and rue.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Kiran Wadhwa and Stavan Desai Aug. 3--AHMEDABAD -- It winds its way along the narrow streets of Jhuapura and Vejalpur, watching the mohallas and bastis, the skullcaps and the Gujarati saris. It looks on impassively as people on either side of it go about their everyday ...
New runway ready for trial,'tower' not ready.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Sidhartha Roy Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- The private operator of Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA), Delhi International Airport Ltd, has beefed up its work on the airport's delayed new runway to make it ready for trial flights from August 15. But the airport's air ...
No more shabby classrooms: Govt.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Swaha Sahoo Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- The Delhi government's directorate of education will invest Rs 300 crore on construction and retrofitting of 309 Delhi government schools to make them structurally safe and aesthetically appealing. The department is calling it 'Project ...
India under siege.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Haidar Naqvi and Neelesh Misra Aug. 3--VARANASI/NEW DELHI -- The priest was chanting hymns. The video cameraman shot unrelentingly. A few metres away from the pile of wedding gifts, the red pillars and the ageing peepal tree, an innocuous bag containing a pressure cooker ...
ICs from washing machines used by terrorists?
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Abhishek Sharan Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- The integrated circuits (IC) used to assemble the bombs used in the eight Bangalore blasts, and 21 of which were planted but defused in Surat last week, were suspected to have been procured from sale outlets dealing in washing machine ...
Two convicted for killing Australian tourist.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Naziya Alvi Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- A Sessions Court on Saturday convicted a cab driver and his friend for raping and killing a 59-year-old Australian woman within hours of her landing at Delhi's IGI airport in March 2004. Dawn Emelie Griggs had come here to be part of a ...
Fixed interest: Right choice at any rate.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Sandeep Singh Aug. 3--When the home loan rates fell to record lows in 2004, it was great news for all those who had opted for floating rate-linked mortgages. The drop in interest rates brought down the loan tenure for many existing borrowers, while for new buyers, the ...
Cutting their clothes to size.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: C Sujit Chandra Kumar Aug. 3--MUMBAI -- There is a power cut at MA Sajan's one-BHK (bedroom-hall-kitchen) flat in Khandeshwar, at the far end of Navi Mumbai. But even in the candlelight, it's clear how the furniture and TV set is arranged neatly and how the family -- ...
Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Offtrack column: Slower, lower, stronger.(Column)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Indrajit Hazra Aug. 3--Every four years, I get reminded by the Olympic Games that I once had a brief and rather tumultuous relationship with my body. Not that I ever considered the body to be a temple. But for four-odd years in the early 80s, I took pride and joy in ...
Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Vir Sanghvi column: How to recover.(Column)
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Vir Sanghvi Aug. 3--Those sections of the commentariat who urged the government to get into a confrontation with its allies over the nuclear deal had predicted that the popularity of the deal would lift the government's own standing. India would be so thrilled, we were ...
33 days, Jammu still burns.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Arun Joshi Aug. 3--JAMMU -- The more-than-a-month-long Jammu agitation for the return of land to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board received a boost on Saturday when some former ministers and MLAs came out in support of the "cause". The army was out on the streets of ...
All plans on the backburner, for now.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Sandeep Singh Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- Richa Pant, 28, has been planning for sometime to quit her job so that she gets to spend more time with her nine-month-old daughter. Her husband, Deep Prakash, 34, has been looking to take a break and go abroad for higher education. ...
Inflation bites twice: on loan and the daily bread.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Sandeep Singh Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- According to Shubhankar Laskar, a 39-year-old doctor, the three-bedroom apartment he bought in Dwarka -- a burgeoning suburb to the west of New Delhi -- was a "good deal". It came for Rs 45 lakh from a friend, who sold it at a discount ...
One among a thousand.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Aug. 3--Mansa Shankarlal irons out every crease of the white Pathan suit before her even though she's short on time -- she has a large pile to iron before she leaves for her home in Sabarmati, a 45-minute bus journey from her workplace. Her workplace is a broken but resolute ironing ...
BJP flays IAEA safeguards pact.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Vikas Pathak Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- The BJP has come down heavily on the safeguards agreement approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Friday, calling it a compromise on India's sovereignty, and asked the government to clearly spell out how much ...
Terror is single biggest threat to region: PM.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Amit Baruah and Sutirtho Patranobis Aug. 3--COLOMBO -- Days after the Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that terrorism remains the "single biggest" threat to South Asia's stability. Addressing the 15th South Asian Association ...
Kuldeep Nayyar seeks damages from Jet for illegally offloading him.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Harish V Nair Aug. 3--NEW DELHI -- Veteran journalist, Kuldip Nayyar has slapped a Rs 75 lakh compensation suit on private airline Jet Airways for allegedly "offloading him" from a Delhi-bound flight at the Amritsar airport four months ago. In a petition filed before ...
Pak agrees to probe attack on Indian embassy.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Amit Baruah Aug. 3--COLOMBO -- Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has promised to conduct an independent investigation into the 7/7 suicide attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said on Saturday. Briefing the press after ...
Mridula out of relay team, India to send 16 athletes.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Saurabh Duggal Aug. 3--CHANDIGARH -- What's the exact size of the Indian contingent that will compete in Beijing? Is it 57 or 56? The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) list shows that 57 sportspersons will be taking part in the quadrennial Games. But the Athletics ...
Nothing to lose.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: B Shrikant Aug. 3--MUMBAI -- Athletics is the showpiece event of a multi-discipline extravaganza like the Olympics -- the various competitions living up to the Olympic motto of Citius, Altius, Fortius, the three Latin words meaning 'Swifter, Higher, Stronger'. The ...
Murder suspected, parents take kids home.
Aug 03, 2008 ... Byline: Pradip Kumar Maitra Aug. 3--CHHINDWARA -- Senior police officers suspect that the two boys who died mysteriously in spiritual guru Asaram Bapu's Gurukul Ashram here recently were murdered. The ashram authorities had claimed that they had died after falling in the toilet, ...
Headbangers of the Opera.
Aug 07, 2008 ... Byline: Indrajit Hazra Aug. 7--There are two traditional routes by which a 70-80s pub rock outfit can outrun time and popular taste. One, by trying their hand at doing covers of tasteful 'classics'. Two, by teaming up with someone less anachronistic and, therefore, cool to show ...
Saying Hello to Chetan Bhagat.
Aug 07, 2008 ... Byline: Priya Rajendran Aug. 7--NEW DELHI -- Priya Rajendran catches up with author Chetan Bhagat in a telephonic chat as he speaks about his book being adapted into the movie Hello ... Your book has been adapted into a Bollywood masala movie ...How are you feeling now? ...
On a serious note.
Aug 07, 2008 ... Byline: Girija Duggal Aug. 7--She is an ex-journalist, an author and a social activist. Now, Rohini Nilekani dons the mantle of television presenter with an 8-part series, Uncommon Ground, which brings together prominent corporate heads and social activists to debate some of the ...
No boo hoo over Bahoo.
Aug 07, 2008 ... Byline: Anil Merani Aug. 7--At a time when most soaps are slowly recovering their viewership after the IPL onslaught, producer JD Majethia insists that his Baa Bahoo aur Baby had not slumped during the cricket mania. "Our ratings dropped from four to around three but that was ...
Kite lovers.
Aug 07, 2008 ... Byline: Firoz Ahmed Bakht Aug. 7--It appears that e-mails and SMSes have yet to invade the world of the Walled City. Lovers there are using kites instead to exchange love messages. It helps that this is the kite-flying season. The evening sky in Old Delhi is at present speckled ...
Language? Don't mind it.
Aug 13, 2008 ... Byline: Tavishi Paitandy Rastogi Aug. 13--NEW DELHI -- It was an amusing moment for marketing executive Ameeta Munshi when she bumped into a former colleague at the local multiplex last week. The woman, known to everyone at the office as the original party chick, was surrounded ...
First impressions.
Aug 13, 2008 ... Byline: Nikhil Taneja Aug. 13--Justin-Uday, the music composers of movie Hijack speak to Nikhil Taneja about their maiden break into Bollywood and their favourite music icons. The two of you started as a band almost 20 years ago. We were a part of the school's ...
Russian President orders an end to operations against Georgia.
Aug 13, 2008 ... Byline: Fred Weir Aug. 13--MOSCOW -- Declaring Russia's main war goals accomplished, President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to military operations in the five-day war to block Georgian attempts to retake the separatist statelet of South Ossetia. "I have ...
In-form boys should have done more.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Anil Kumble Aug. 14--Any which way you look at it, we left Sri Lanka with a strong sense of disappointment. The result read 1-2 but we know in our hearts that we squandered a rare opportunity to beat the Lankans in their backyard. Not too many teams have done this in the ...
Jayasuriya warns of Indian backlash.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Anand Vasu Aug. 14--COLOMBO -- One man the Indian team did not have to contend with in the Test series was Sanath Jayasuriya and though he will come hard at them in the one-day internationals starting on August 18 in Dambulla, they will take heart from his words of ...
BRIEF: I-Day: PM to address nation for 5th time.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Prasad Nichenametla Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- Riding high on the victory in the trust vote, which would enable his government to bring home the Indo-US Civilian Nuclear Deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would be addressing the nation, on Independence Day, on Friday. In ...
Europeans will fly to space, with India's help.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Satyen Mohapatra Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier, the only European to have been in space four times, assessed that India would be able to send European astronauts into space within seven years. "Europe does not have autonomous means to send people ...
Mirwaiz to the rescue, saves CRPF men from mob.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Arun Joshi Aug. 14--JAMMU -- It was a gesture that went unnoticed. About a dozen CRPF personnel manning a bunker outside Mirwaiz Manzil in Srinagar were saved from mob fury by Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and his men on Tuesday evening. They were sheltered in the building, ...
Small shops in city to stay.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Moushumi Das Gupta Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- Delhi residents never had it this good, courtesy the forthcoming Assembly elections. About three lakh small traders in the Capital are set to benefit following the Union Urban Development Ministry's (UDM) notification on ...
Being sweet and cute suits me best: Minissha Lamba.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Minakshi Saini Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- Minissha Lamba says she's looking for a lover boy so she can fall in love, get married and have kids. Rein in your imagination -- she's talking about her character Mahi, in the forthcoming release Bachna Ae Haseeno. "I play a ...
India win AFC Challenge Cup to qualify for Asia Cup.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Abhijeet Kulkarni Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- On the eve of the AFC Challenge Cup final against holders Tajikistan, India coach Bob Houghton had stressed on the importance of a vociferous crowd support in big games. Understandable because with a place in the Asian Cup finals ...
Judicial corruption: Learn from US, Canada, says Govt.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Nagendar Sharma Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- The chief Justice of India (CJI) should put in place a permanent mechanism to probe corruption allegations against judges on the lines of judicial councils in the United States and Canada, the government said on Wednesday. The ...
Now, HIV+ get insurance cover.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Sanchita Sharma Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- Getting infected with HIV that causes AIDS will no longer automatically exclude people from getting a health insurance cover. There are 2.5 million people living with HIV in India. Since they are not covered by any health insurance ...
BRIEF: BSNL ad: Preity out, Deepika in.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Ruchir Kumar Aug. 14--PATNA -- The squeaky, bubbly girl, who refused to tie the nuptial knot with an otherwise versatile boy, not having a BSNL landline connection at home, will soon be off your TV screens. For, in keeping with the changing times, the BSNL has decided to ...
Nano to keep date with Dussehra: vendors.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Avijit Ghosal Aug. 14--KOLKATA -- October 1 has been set as the internal deadline for the Nano rollout. The iconic car won't miss the deadline, vendors affirm, even if Singur does. The implication is clear: if political agitations prevent the rollout from Singur, the ...
BRIEF: Interest rates peaking: SBI.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- Interest rates in India have almost peaked in India, the country's largest bank and top lender State Bank of India (SBI) said on Wednesday. "They have almost peaked," SBI chairman and managing director O.P. Bhatt said. The SBI has raised its benchmark prime ...
Govt grapples with policy headaches.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Gaurav Choudhury Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- India's economic growth will likely dive below 8 per cent this year and the government faced risks of major fiscal slippage, the prime minister's economic advisory council said on Wednesday.The outgoing chairman of ...
Farmer-police clash leaves four dead.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Kapil Datta Aug. 14--GREATER NOIDA -- Three villagers and a policeman were killed, while over 200 were injured, in a clash outside the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority office on Wednesday. The police said they had to fire to disperse the violent crowd. ...
BRIEF: Bindra's gun now in India.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Saurabh Duggal Aug. 14--CHANDIGARH -- The golden gun that helped Abhinav Bindra win the Olympic gold is now available in India too -- courtesy his own agency, Abhinav Futuristics Limited. The Indian ace, who has been using a Walther-make air rifle for the past 10 ...
Stranded in Srinagar.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Ashiq Peerzada Aug. 14--The television set is on all day. It is our only link to the major events taking place in our own state. All of us -- barring those breaking curfew and risking death -- are confined to our homes. Wednesday, Day 53 of protests sparked by the ...
Dalrymple, Rushdie & a book on AIDS.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Robbie Corey-Boulet Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- The author William Dalrymple came away with two main impressions from his time spent with Rani Bai, a devadasi in northern Karnataka who was sold as a teenager into a life of sex with strangers.First, he was struck ...
BRIEF: Now, PM's a video game star.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Monicca Adlakha Aug. 14--NEW DELHI -- Over 3,00,000 Indians want to be PM. And they're doing this courtesy a video game that is a virtual take on the life and times of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Games2Win's online game 'Singh is King' tracks the PM's political ...
Blind dash to gold, the Phelps way.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Indraneel Das Aug. 14--BEIJING -- Wearing that invisible armour of resilience and determination, Michael Phelps plunged into the Cube's blue waters on Wedensday and plucked his first gold in butterfly ahead of Hungary's Laszio Cseh. The quest for eight gold medals could ...
BRIEF: 18 killed in house collapse in south Mumbai.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Shahkar Abidi and Bhavika Jain Aug. 14--MUMBAI -- Eighteen people were killed and 37 others injured when an 80-year-old building in south Mumbai crumbled on Wednesday. Many more are feared to be under the debris as the rescue operation is still on. The injured are ...
Hindustan Times, New Delhi, Amit Baruah column: For once, can't blame ISI.(Column)
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Amit Baruah Aug. 14--India has scored an own goal in Jammu & Kashmir. By firing and killing unarmed protesters on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road on Monday, security forces have added fat to the fire raging on the Amarnath land issue in both the Valley and Jammu. The ...
Fashion at your feet.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Cara Gupta Sarkar Aug. 14--Footwear is no more a neglected part of your accessories but reflects and highlights your personality. Footwear is now recognised as a fashionable accessory rather than just a necessity. Now there are very many brands in the market. Many ...
Running silent, running true.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Anand Vasu Aug. 14--COLOMBO -- As the tempo shifts from the longest form of the game to the medium version, 50-overs a side, some 35,000 Test runs have headed back home to India in the form of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly. In their ...
Tough volley: Indian Express up against Team Federer.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Indraneel Das Aug. 14--BEIJING -- They were smiling. With clenched fists they celebrated each point they won. They were pumped up. Above all, they were enjoying their game. Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were in their elements when they beat the Brazilian pair of ...
In 'rear sight', Bindra was lucky.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Indraneel Das and Saurabh Duggal Aug. 14--BEIJING/CHANDIGARH -- Something very strange -- bordering on the sinister, some say -- happened to Abhinav Bindra while he was gunning for the gold at Beijing. But the ace Indian marksman still came out triumphant. On August ...
Traditional British names disappearing faster than ever.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Vijay Dutt Aug. 14--LONDON -- More parents in Britain are now choosing names of celebrities, picking them up from magazines like Hello!, or front pages of newspapers for their newborns. A new report found babies are rarely named after godparents or relatives, as was the ...
Musharraf isolated.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Kamal Siddiqi Aug. 14--KARACHI -- With all provincial assemblies giving the green light for the impeachment of President Musharraf, strong rumours circulated in Islamabad that the president may quit on Thursday, Pakistan's 61st independence day. The 168-member Sindh ...
Charges baseless, says Lalu.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Srinand Jha and Anirban Guha Roy Aug. 14--NEW DELHI/PATNA -- Railway Minister Lalu Prasad rejected as "baseless and malicious" charges that he had provided jobs in the railways to persons who had allegedly gifted land and buildings to him and his family members. The ...
Trapped in an image.
Aug 14, 2008 ... Byline: Neha Sharma Aug. 14--If the National Commission for Women has its way, ads that stereotype women may soon be banned. In the line of fire are ones that show women playing the perfect homemaker, those that celebrate fair skin or show that marriage is the ultimate aim in a ...