The Hindustan Times back issues from Thursday, July 26:
Television to be available on BSNL mobiles
Jul 26, 2007 ... Jaipur, July 26 -- Mobile subscribers of the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will now be able to watch television on the screens of their cell phones. Essel Group's Digital Media Convergence Ltd. (DMCL) in collaboration with BSNL officially launched a mobile TV ...
Bharti Airtel's Q1 profit up 73 percent
Jul 26, 2007 ... New Delhi, July 26 -- Bharti Airtel, India's leading private mobile service operator, Thursday registered a net profit of Rs.14.12 billion in the first quarter (Q1) of the current fiscal (2007-08), an increase of 73 percent from Rs.8.14 billion last year. The company also reported total ...
Honda gets Thailand's eco-car rolling
Jul 26, 2007 ... Bangkok, July 26 -- Honda Motor's recent decision to invest 6.2 billion baht ($186 million) to boost its automobile production in Thailand has provided a much-needed push to the kingdom's eco-car programme. Although Asian Honda Motor Company - Honda's Bangkok-based Asia-Oceania regional ...
'Lakshyam' beats 'Sivaji' to take top spot
Jul 26, 2007 ... Hyderabad, July 26 -- Actor Gopichand shines in "Lakshyam", a revenge drama.The film got an overwhelming response at the ticket window and pushed Rajnikant-starrer "Sivaji - the Boss" one notch down. It is enjoying the top position this fortnight and may rule the charts for sometime. The ...
Pakistani cement exporters eyeing India
Jul 26, 2007 ... Mumbai, July 26 -- Pakistan's cement industry is eyeing the Indian market and wants the government to lobby with New Delhi to surmount the hurdle of standards certification. Pakistani exports to India have got stuck for want of certification by the Bureau of Indian Standards ...
Bobby now willing to play dark character
Jul 26, 2007 ... Mumbai, July 26 -- The casting of a movie sometimes turns out to be as interesting as the film itself, if not more. Something like that happened with director Kabir Kaushik's directorial debut "Saher". Kaushik had meant to cast Bobby in "Saher" but the actor wasn't prepared to go into ...
Lenovo to open unit in Himachal Pradesh, invest $11 mn
Jul 26, 2007 ... From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, July 26 -- Global computer maker Lenovo Thursday announced setting up of its second manufacturing unit in Baddi, Himachal Pradesh with an investment of $11 million in its effort to increase it presence in the Indian market. "The investment would ...
Pakistan a haven for human organs trade: chief justice
Jul 26, 2007 ... From Indo-Asian News ServiceIslamabad, July 26 -- Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry has accused the government of "apathetic procrastination" in promulgating an ordinance against the human organs trade, saying a "mafia" had made the country "a haven" for this trade. He ...
'Cash' release postponed by a week
Jul 26, 2007 ... Mumbai, July 26 -- An on-going financial and legal tussle between the producers of the Anubhav Sinha-directed "Cash" has taken its toll on the slick flick's release, delaying it by a week - from July 27 to Aug 3. One of the producers, Anish Ranjan, told IANS: "It's a big blow for us. We ...
A feast for Bollywood-smitten Poles
Jul 26, 2007 ... Warsaw, July 26 -- Young Polish girls scream and whistle as Shah Rukh Khan comes on screen. Hrithik Roshan too charms his way into many hearts with his dance numbers ...Bollywood madness has hit the Polish capital. Smitten by Hindi films, Poles here are getting to feast on them at an ...
'Omkara' should have been India's entry for Oscars: Vivek
Jul 26, 2007 ...New Delhi, July 26 -- Vivek Oberoi, whose role as Kesu Firangi in "Omkara", Bollywood's version of William Shakespeare's "Othello", won him critical acclaim, said the film should have been India's entry for Oscars as it represented the sentiments of the country much better than any other movie ...
Summer floods rekindle British wartime spirit
Jul 26, 2007 ... London, July 26 -- "Open for business - come hell or high water" read the notice outside the severely-flooded George Inn pub in Quedgeley, south-west Britain, summing up the mood of defiance, sarcasm and resilience that has marked the summer flood crisis in Britain. The army and police ...
Mani's 'Dubai Seenu' rules Telugu audio market again
Jul 26, 2007 ... Hyderabad, July 26 -- Veteran composer Mani Sharma is flying high as his album "Dubai Seenu" stages a comeback and tops the list. The top Telugu albums are: 1. "Dubai Seenu" - Popular numbers "Kol kol" and "Kanya raasi" are making waves again. Mani Sharma, known for his ...
India close to getting Australian uranium
Jul 26, 2007 ... Sydney, July 26 -- Australia is considering selling uranium to India to fuel the nuclear reactors needed to keep pace with the South Asian country's soaring electricity demand, news reports said Thursday. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer is to put a submission to cabinet arguing that it ...
Pakistani nukes and global hazards
Jul 26, 2007 ... MUMBAI, July 26 -- The word "nuclear" has a way of quickening people's pulse. The recent earthquake in Japan would have been just another earthquake, but the fact that it set off a fire at the world's most powerful nuclear reactor, which subsequently leaked radioactive material, grabbed the ...
Rani of Jhansi continues to inspire: Sushmita Sen
Jul 26, 2007 ... Mumbai, July 26 -- Actress Sushmita Sen is currently neck deep in the pre-production work for her ambitious English film "Jhansi Ki Rani", which she says is a homage to a woman she admires tremendously. "By producing 'Jhansi Ki Rani' and casting myself in a role that I've cherished for ...
Boney pairs Ayesha with Salman
Jul 26, 2007 ... JhaMumbai, July 26 -- After hunting around for a heroine in every nook and corner of the film industry, Boney Kapoor has finally zeroed in on Ayesha Takia as Salman Khan's leading lady in "Wanted Dead and Alive", a Hindi remake of the Tamil blockbuster "Pokhiri". Many names, including ...
Miss Arab World Contest opens in Egypt
Jul 26, 2007 ... Cairo, July 26 -- The second Miss Arab World Contest has taken off in Egypt, with the participation of some 19 contestants.According to the organising committee at a press conference here Wednesday, the candidates to the contest came from 16 Arab countries, including Egypt, Lebanon, Sudan, Iraq, ...
Intelligent cars to send automated emergency call in accidents
Jul 26, 2007 ... Hamburg, July 26 -- The European Union is introducing an automated emergency call system for all new cars that could save about 2,500 lives each year, but sceptics argue that the system is too expensive and could be abused for vehicle tracking purposes. All new cars registered in Europe ...
Britain struggles to cope as Oxford too goes under water
Jul 26, 2007 ... London, July 26 -- Most Britons have never seen anything like it. As several towns went under water this week, hundreds of thousands of pounds have been raised for 'flood relief' - a term rarely heard in public discourse in Britain. For the past week, most Britons have been riveted to ...
Nuclear deal will build new relationship with India: US
Jul 26, 2007 ... Washington, July 26 -- The US says its nuclear deal with India would be in its national interest from several perspectives including an important priority of realising a different kind of relationship with New Delhi. "At the end of the day, what we produce and what we may agree to is ...
Teenage abortions rise in Singapore
Jul 26, 2007 ... Singapore, July 26 -- Teenage abortions are on the rise in Singapore prompting heightened concern over young people's cavalier views on sex, health ministry data said Thursday. Teens accounted for 1,391 abortions last year, with 19 performed on girls under 15, the ministry said ....
Shambo the bull to be killed today
Jul 26, 2007 ... London, July 26 -- Animal health inspectors of the Welsh Assembly Government are scheduled to reach the Skanda Vale Temple on Thursday morning to collect Shambo, the sacred bullock, for slaughter, according to temple officials. The Court of Appeal this week upheld the Welsh Assembly ...
Fonda still very particular about diet
Jul 26, 2007 ... New York, July 26 -- Though veteran Hollywood actress Jane Fonda is no longer obsessed about going to the gym, she is very particular about her diet. Fonda says she still likes to exercise for an hour, four or five times a week, but she is no longer as fixated on fitness as she once ...
Claudia Schiffer's father dies while playing golf
Jul 26, 2007 ... New York, July 26 -- Former supermodel Claudia Schiffer is in mourning after her 70-year-old father, Heinrich, died of heart attack in France. The retired lawyer had collapsed on a golf course in the city of Bitche, near the German-French border, where he had been enjoying a ...
Kate Moss seeks love advice from Rolling Stones rocker
Jul 26, 2007 ... London, July 26 -- British supermodel Kate Moss is seeking love advice from Rolling Stones rocker Ronnie Wood. The catwalk queen, who had split from boyfriend Pete Doherty earlier this month amid reports that he had cheated on her, has been staying at old friend Wood's residence to get ...
Sudhir Mishra to merge 'Hamlet' with 'Devdas'
Jul 26, 2007 ... Mumbai, July 26 -- After K.L. Saigal, Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan, it's Shiney Ahuja's turn to play Devdas, the ultimate tragic hero of Hindi literature, in Sudhir Mishra's next movie. The film, which will have a modern context and political leaning, will have the best of Saratchandra ...
Paintings at antique shop 27 years after theft
Jul 26, 2007 ... Bamberg, July 26 -- Four masterpieces by painter Lucas Cranach, the Elder (1472-1553) have been discovered in a German antique shop, 27 years after thieves ripped them from a church in communist-run East Germany. The foldout pictures on wood, each about 1 metre tall, depict the birth of ...
22 Korean hostages likely to be released Thursday
Jul 26, 2007 ... Kabul, July 26 -- Negotiations on 22 South Korean hostages are going "very well" despite some "technical problems", and they might be freed later Thursday, Afghanistan's Ghazni provincial police chief Alishah Ahmadzai said. He did not elaborate on the "technical problems", saying he ...
US rejects Iran's proposal of ministerial level talks over Iraq
Jul 26, 2007 ... Washington, July 26 -- The US has rejected Iran's proposal for talks at ministerial level between the two countries over the Iraqi security situation. "I don't see that happening at this point of time," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters here ...
Pakistan test-fires Hataf-VII missile
Jul 26, 2007 ... Islamabad, July 26 -- Pakistan successfully test-fired its 700 km range Hataf VII cruise missile Thursday, Geo TV said.President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz ...
US repeats warning of military strike in Pakistan
Jul 26, 2007 ... Washington, July 26 -- The US has asked Pakistan to do more to defeat terrorist forces on its soil, repeating its warning that Washington may launch a military strike against Al Qaeda "safe haven" in its tribal region. The warning came from US defence and intelligence officials at a ...
'Virginia Jihad' member sentenced for planning Kashmir attack
Jul 26, 2007 ... Washington, July 26 -- Another member of the so-called Virginia Jihad, a terrorist group training in Virginia to mount expeditions to attack India, including Kashmir, Chechnya, Russia and Pakistan, has been sentenced to 121 months in prison. Sabri Benkahla, 32, was also ordered Wednesday ...
Indian doctors ask Australian government to stop Haneef backlash
Jul 26, 2007 ... Sydney, July 26 -- Disturbed with the government's "couldn't care less" attitude, Indian doctors in Australia have said efforts must be stepped up to stop stereotyping of overseas trained medical professionals in the wake of their colleague Muhammad Haneef being charged with supporting ...
Teenager arrested for killing Sikh cabbie in US
Jul 26, 2007 ... Chicago, July 26 -- A teenager was charged with the murder of a Sikh cab driver whose burnt body was found early this month in Seattle. Earnest Lennell Collins Jr., 18, was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder of Jagit Singh, 43. He was arrested Monday from Chicago. Singh ...
Hymns at temple to prevent slaughter of Shambo the bull
Jul 26, 2007 ... London, July 26 -- A large number of Hindu families from all over Britain, Switzerland and New Zealand gathered early Thursday at the Skanda Vale temple in west Wales and began singing 'bhajans' to prevent authorities from taking away Shambo, the 'sacred' bull, for slaughter. Authorities ...
Japan asks Pakistan to end missile cooperation with North Korea
Jul 26, 2007 ... Islamabad, July 26 -- Japan has asked Pakistan to end its cooperation with North Korea on missile technology, even as the latter Thursday test-fired its Hataf-VII missile reportedly developed with North Korean help. At a Consultation on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation held here ...
Islamic countries criticise UN secretary general
Jul 26, 2007 ... New York, July 26 -- United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has come under attack for remarks that the UN Human Rights Council had ignored abuses around the world and targeted Israel instead. Ban angered the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) when he said in June ...
Libya, France sign nuclear, military pacts
Jul 26, 2007 ... Tunis, July 26 -- France and Libya have signed a host of agreements including a pact on a civilian nuclear reactor and military partnership, reports from the Libyan capital said. French President Nicolas Sarkozy met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli Wednesday when the agreements ...
US trade body sees $150 bn opportunity in India nuclear deal
Jul 26, 2007 ... Washington, July 26 -- The US-India Business Council (USIBC) says the India-US nuclear deal will create jobs and opportunities in India and across the US with the Indian nuclear industry planning a $150 billion expansion. "Government officials on both sides who are working on this ...
Four killed as floods hit Nepal's Terai
Jul 26, 2007 ... Kathmandu, July 26 -- After 29 people were killed in western Nepal in landslides triggered by incessant rain, floods have now engulfed parts of the Terai plains in the south, killing four people and creating havoc in a region already reeling under violence. Two people were swept away ...
India, China join WHO clinical trial registry system
Jul 26, 2007 ... Geneva, July 26 -- India, along with China, has joined the World Health Organisation (WHO)'s clinical trial registry system in order to ensure transparency and good quality of research activities. Both India and China have a rapidly expanding clinical trial research sector, WHO said in a ...
Indian consulate to have 'open house' on I-day
Jul 26, 2007 ...New York, July 26 -- The Indian consulate in New York plans to celebrate the 60th anniversary of India's independence on Aug 15 by holding an 'open house' at its premises in Manhattan. Consul General Neelam Deo will read the president's message to the nation on the occasion. It will be ...
Gen X of Indo-Mauritians cool about Indian roots
Jul 26, 2007 ... Louis, July 26 -- With the first of its kind Bihar Week celebrations set to roll here from July 27 this beautiful island nation is readying to trace and strengthen its ancestral connections. But the Gen-X of Bihari diaspora in Mauritius is quite blasé about its Indian origin ....
Cylinder blast in Pakistan kills five
Jul 26, 2007 ... Islamabad, July 26 -- Five people were killed and four injured when an oxygen cylinder exploded in a factory in southern Pakistan, media reports said Thursday. The accident took place in a factory in Hyderabad in Pakistan's southern Sindh province Wednesday night, when the oxygen ...
Indian American medico opens e-medical centre
Jul 26, 2007 ... New York, July 26 -- An Indian American doctor has opened a new state-of-the-art paperless medical centre in Maryland equipped with the latest technologies. Desai Medical Centre, which opened July 20 in Ellicott City, is the vision of Kartik J. Desai, who has been in the medical ...
Review of Haneef case will lead to charges being dropped: lawyer
Jul 26, 2007 ... Sydney, July 26 -- Charges that Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef supported a terror organisation could be dropped as early as Friday, said a prominent Australian lawyer as the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) moved to review all the material in the case. Peter Faris, a ...
Pakistan test-fires nuclear capable Hataf missile
Jul 26, 2007 ... Islamabad, July 26 -- Pakistan Thursday successfully test-fired its 700 km range Hataf VII cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, an official said here. Hataf VII, a terrain-hugging and radar-avoiding missile, can be fired from the French acquired Agosta submarine and also ...
Sri Lanka: A vital lifeline for families torn apart
Jul 26, 2007 ... Colombo, July 26 -- Shanthi Rajah left her home in the Tamil Tigers town of Kilinochchi to get medical treatment for her six-month-old baby, risking their lives while crossing battle zones to reach a hospital. After several weeks of no communication, her anxious husband asked the ...
Your friends could influence you to becoming fat
Jul 26, 2007 ... New York, July 26 -- You are more likely to be overweight if your friends are, and it doesn't matter if they stay near or far, say researchers. A new study states that obesity spreads as a kind of social contagion. It has found that having an obese friend makes a person 57 percent more ...
Suicide bombers strike soccer fans in Iraq, killing at least 55
Jul 26, 2007 ... Baghdad, July 26 -- Two suicide car bombings struck Iraqi soccer fans taking to the streets to celebrate Iraqi football team's victory in Baghdad, killing at least 55 people and injuring 135, police said. An attacker detonated his explosives-laden car among a crowd of jubilant Iraqi ...
Myanmar bans smoking near world-famous pagoda
Jul 26, 2007 ... Yangon, July 26 -- Myanmar has declared the platform around the world-famous Shwedagon Pagoda here as a tobacco and betel free zone, banning smoking and chewing of betel leaf there with effect from this weekend, media reports said Thursday. Such practices at the sacred site are ...
Over 50 guerrilla fighters killed in Afghanistan
Jul 26, 2007 ... Kabul, July 26 -- Over 50 Taliban guerrillas were killed in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan during a gunfight that ended early Thursday, a coalition statement said. During the 12-hour battle in Musa Qala district, the insurgents attacked from 16 separate compounds using heavy ...
Indian-Canadian couple accused of insider trading
Jul 26, 2007 ... Toronto, July 26 -- An Indian Canadian couple has been accused by Canadian market regulator of making nearly $1 million through illegal insider trading. The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has alleged that Shane Bashir Suman, who worked as an IT employee, had access to secret ...
Israel allowed transfer of 1,000 rifles to Palestinian Authority
Jul 26, 2007 ... Tel Aviv, July 26 -- Israel has authorised the transfer of 1,000 rifles from Jordan to the Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces in the West Bank, the Ha'aretz daily reported Thursday, quoting "security sources" from both sides. The transfer, the largest of its kind in recent years, ...
Authorities seize homemade submarine from Colombian drug gangs
Jul 26, 2007 ...Bogota, July 26 -- Colombian authorities have seized a homemade submarine allegedly used by drug traffickers for smuggling in Pacific waters in the north western Choco province on the Panamanian border. "This type of boat had a capacity to transport approximately four tonnes of cocaine ...
Outgoing commissioner wants Delhi Police to be people friendly
Jul 26, 2007 ... New Delhi, July 26 -- Stressing on the need to modernise Delhi Police, outgoing commissioner K.K. Paul Thursday said the attitude of police personnel should be changed so that they become people friendly. "During my tenure attitude and the work style of jawans have changed tremendously ...
Unusual baby draws crowds, worshipped as divine
Jul 26, 2007 ... Balasore (Orissa), July 26 -- Hundreds are flocking to a house in Orissa's Balasore district to glimpse and even worship a baby born with both male and female genitalia, being described as an incarnation of Hindu gods Shiva and Parvati. The baby, now five-and-a-half months old, ...
Kiran Bedi episode sparks a class divide in Delhi Police
Jul 26, 2007 ... New Delhi, July 26 -- The government decision not to name Kiran Bedi, one of India's most respected police officers, as the Delhi Police chief has led to a clear divide in the ranks, leaving the bulk of the constabulary and junior officers unhappy. Serving and retired officers in the ...
Blair meets UAE Army commander on Mideast peace
Jul 26, 2007 ...Abu Dhabi, July 26 -- Former British prime minister Tony Blair, who is currently touring the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the peace envoy of the Middle East Quartet, reviewed the peace process in the region with deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces here. Blair took stock ...
Monica Bedi returns to 'new life' in native village
Jul 26, 2007 ... MUMBaI, July 26 -- She might not entirely fit into her newly acquired role of a 'pind di kudi' (village girl) after being disgraced as the companion of one of India's most notorious mobsters Abu Salem and spending over five years in prison. But comely Monica Bedi is coming to terms with ...
Militants behead man in Kashmir
Jul 26, 2007 ...Jammu, July 26 -- Militants beheaded a civilian in a remote mountain village in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district late Wednesday night on suspicion of being an informer of the security forces. Four militants barged into the house of Mohammad Ibraham, 45, in Sumbher village in Ramban, ...
NGO faces Rs.60 mn suit over paedophilia charges
Jul 26, 2007 ... Panaji, July 26 -- An Italian in Goa has given a new twist to the state's intense debate over paedophilia by filing a Rs. 60 million lawsuit against a non-profit charitable trust that campaigns for such issues. South Goa-based Italian national Giorgio Lazinni, 59, recently filed a ...
Agra bursts at seams with Ajmer pilgrims
Jul 26, 2007 ... Agra, July 26 -- The city of Taj Mahal is seeing a massive influx of domestic visitors, mostly pilgrims returning from the Urs of Sufi saint Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti at Ajmer. And they are making a beeline for the 17th century white marble monument to love, which is fresh and sparkling ...
Suicide attackers storm CRPF camp in Srinagar
Jul 26, 2007 ... Srinagar, July 26 -- Two heavily armed suicide attackers stormed the battalion headquarters of a paramilitary force in the outskirts of the Jammu and Kashmir summer capital Thursday morning. The attack on the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp took place close to the Zakura Police ...