The Hindustan Times back issues from Thursday, November 15:
Cyclone lashes Bangladesh coast, floods islands
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dhaka, Nov. 15 -- A powerful cyclone buffeted the southern Bangladesh coast Thursday after its peripheral winds touched off high waves and floods on the country's islands, officials said. Nearly a million people living ...
Australia court reserves ruling on Haneef's visa
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Nov. 15 -- A full bench of the Federal Court of Australia Thursday reserved its decision on a visa appeal of Indian doctor Muhammad Haneef, who had been incarcerated here before terrorism charges against him ...
US consul general discusses political crisis with Bhutto
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Nov. 15 -- A senior US diplomat crossed barbed wire Thursday to meet former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who is under detention in a Lahore house, to discuss the situation in Pakistan. US ...
Small island states appeal for their survival
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Colombo, Nov. 15 -- Small island states that face the prospect of going under water as sea levels rise due to climate change sent an SOS to governments around the world Wednesday evening. The Male declaration ...
Surprises certain in Gujarat polls, says former top cop
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ahmedabad, Nov. 15 -- Former additional director general of police R.B. Sreekumar, who fell foul of the Narendra Modi government over the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, believes the state could throw up surprises in the ...
Heavy rainfall, high tides forecast in Orissa
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bhubaneswar, Nov. 15 -- The very severe cyclonic storm Sidr over the Bay of Bengal is expected to trigger heavy rainfall and cause high tides late Thursday in Orissa's four coastal districts, meteorological officials ...
Bihar lawyers on strike to protest senior advocate's murder
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Patna, Nov. 15 -- Hundreds of lawyers in Bihar went on a daylong strike Thursday to protest the murder of additional public prosecutor Ramnaresh Sharma last week, allegedly by Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) MP Surajbhan ...
Wildlife poacher nabbed in Agra
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Agra, Nov. 15 -- Wildlife poacher Brajesh Upadhyaya was arrested here by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police after absconding for more than a year. STF officials nabbed him Wednesday when ...
TRS unveils statue of mother Telangana
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Hyderabad, Nov. 15 -- In an attempt to give an impetus to the movement for separate statehood to the backward Telangana region, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) Thursday unveiled the statue of Telanagana talli (mother ...
Bodies of 3 Indian workers sent from Dubai
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Nov. 15 -- The bodies of three of the seven Indian workers, who were killed in an accident at a bridge construction site here last week have been sent to India, with the rest to follow soon. "We sent ...
Parliament to debate N-deal on Nov 27
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- The Indian parliament will discuss the contentious nuclear agreement with the US on Nov 27-29 after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh returns from Singapore and Uganda. The Business Advisory ...
Controversial orgasm theorist regaining scientific favour
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Half a century after he died in ignominy in a US prison, physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich - best known for his claim of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm - is on his way to being ...
Parliament cannot discuss Nandigram, says left
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- The Left parties Thursday said violence in the communist-ruled West Bengal's Nandigram cannot be discussed in parliament as it was a state subject. "Nandigram is a state subject and it can ...
Assam killings probe indicts Mahanta, security forces
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati, Nov. 15 -- A probe ordered by the Assam government Thursday blamed then chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and the security establishment for 'secret killings' of relatives of separatists between 1996 and ...
Pakistan theme tops fiction and non-fiction bestsellers list
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- There are no new surprises in the bestsellers list this week but Pakistan theme tops both fiction and non-fiction lists. "Deception: Pakistan, The United States and The Global Nuclear" which ...
Bright and ethnic, Pakistan pavilion has it all
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- The Pakistan pavilion at the Indian International Trade Fair (IITF) is a clash of contrasts. On one hand are stalls flooded with white onyx stone sculptures and on the other are multi-hued, bright ...
'Worst democracy better than dictatorship'
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Nov. 15 -- Calling for restoration of democracy in their country, two eminent Pakistanis have expressed the hope that struggle for citizens' rights will succeed one day. "Without democracy, the basic ...
Dubai Air Show concludes with global sales record
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Nov. 15 -- The 10th Dubai Air Show concluded Thursday with onsite sales figures of over $100 billion - the highest ever for any global aviation event. The air show came to an end with the Emirates, the ...
Musharraf will be president till new man steps in: minister
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Nov. 15 -- Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, whose term as president expired Thursday, will continue in office until the next person takes oath, Information Minister Tariq Azim said here ...
British premier to visit India in January: envoy
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 15 -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to visit India in January, Indian High Commissioner to Britain Kamlesh Sharma said Thursday. Brown told a large gathering of Asians at the House of ...
New initiatives to change Meghalaya's face: chief minister
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Upgrading the civil airport, building a multi-speciality hospital and boosting tourism - Meghalaya is all set for a makeover with these and more initiatives, says Chief Minister D.D ....
Abbas urges Israelis to back Mideast conference
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ramallah, Nov. 15 -- Eleven days before a key Middle East conference in the US, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Israelis Thursday to support peace moves, saying that continued occupation would not bring them ...
Inebriated policeman runs over woman, boy in Delhi
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- A Delhi Police constable was arrested Thursday after he rammed a mini truck into a rickshaw in an inebriated state, killing a woman and critically injuring her nephew in west Delhi, officials ...
Campaign warns Punjabis against immigration, marriage frauds
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chandigarh/Jalandhar, Nov. 15 -- In Punjab, where the ambition of nearly half the population is to go abroad, the government has started an advertisement campaign warning against immigration, marriage and job frauds ...
Three suspected Islamic militants killed in Manila
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Manila, Nov. 15 -- Three suspected Islamic militants, believed to be involved in a bomb attack in the House of Representatives complex, were killed Thursday in a clash in the Philippine capital, an army spokesman said ....
Thy name is Hathras, sorry Mahamaya Nagar
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Hathras/Mahamaya Nagar (Uttar Pradesh), Nov. 15 -- Till 1997, this town was always called Hathras. But Mayawati was elected chief minister of Uttar Pradesh that year, and the town's identity crisis started with the ...
Artists highlight urban disparity in India
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Artists from India and abroad are here to use their paintbrushes to raise awareness about rising inequality in urban India, and at least one is driving home the point by comparing pigeons and rag ...
Delhi High Court grants bail to Icelander
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- The Delhi High Court Thursday ordered Delhi Police to release on bail an Iceland national who was arrested here following a Red Corner notice by Interpol for his alleged role in a money laundering ...
China issues blueprint for communist-led political system
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Beijing, Nov. 15 -- China Thursday issued a blueprint for the expansion of its "multi-party cooperation system" under the leadership of the ruling Communist Party, saying consultation with eight state-approved minor ...
Villagers cry for peace in Nandigram
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Nandigram (West Bengal), Nov. 15 -- After a long turf battle that has lasted 11 violent months, soldiers in this resistance hub against forced industrialisation are now hopelessly shattered and uprooted from their ...
Artists to stage counter rally amid Nandigram tension
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Nov. 15 -- Nandigram continued to occupy centrestage in West Bengal Thursday with reports of Marxist cadres intimidating villagers, and several intellectuals readying for a march to express solidarity with the ...
Water shortage hits Delhi
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Tens of thousands of people in the Indian capital went without potable water for the third day Thursday after two water treatment plans were shut down by the authorities. The crisis has ...
'Modi is Gujarat, and Gujarat is Modi' will be BJP campaign
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will go to the Gujarat assembly elections next month with Chief Minister Narendra Modi as the party's mascot. His face will figure in stickers, badges and ...
Spain develops first hybrid airplane-helicopter
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Madrid, Nov. 15 -- Spain's National Institute of Aerospace Technology has developed the first airplane-helicopter hybrid, an unmanned aerial vehicle that will be operational in 2010 and is designed to monitor borders ...
CID charges 10 men in Bihar lynching case
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Patna, Nov. 15 -- The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Bihar police filed a charge sheet Wednesday against 10 people accused of lynching 10 men on suspicion of being thieves two months ago. The ...
West Bengal goes on cyclone alert
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Nov. 15 -- West Bengal went on alert as meteorological department officials said a severe cyclone is likely to hit the coastal areas of the state late Thursday or early Friday morning. "A very severe ...
AGP angry over delay in talks with rebels
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati, Nov. 15 -- The ruling Congress in Assam is facing the ire of the opposition for not pushing the peace process with several insurgent groups in the state, particularly the National Democratic Front of Bodoland ...
Raman Singh calls collectors to assess welfare schemes
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Raipur, Nov. 15 -- Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh will preside over a collectors' conference here Nov 20 to assess various welfare schemes and centrally funded schemes with a focus on assembly polls which are ...
Saudi Arabia culls bird flu infected poultry
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Riyadh, Nov. 15 -- Saudi Arabia has culled 50,000 birds at a poultry farm after the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus was detected, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported Thursday. The ministry of agriculture ...
Arrest of two journalists rocks Andhra assembly again
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Hyderabad, Nov. 15 -- The arrest of two journalists in the state once again rocked the state assembly Thursday with the entire opposition coming down heavily on the ruling Congress government for its action and the ...
Indian role in Myanmar wins praise from junta, UN
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- India has won praise from both the United Nations and the Myanmar military over its quiet diplomacy of pushing the junta into reconciliation talks with various opposition groups to end weeks of ...
India's Myanmar policy and the Mizoram connection
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Nov. 15 -- India's evolving political approach to events in Myanmar (Burma) is moving fairly rapidly: it now appears in conformity with a large section of international opinion, advocating internal dialogue, ...
Hard choices a must to combat climate change: IPCC
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Climate change caused by humans has reached a point where all governments must make hard choices to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions even as they prepare to deal with an inevitable global ...
My life is like a movie screenplay: Dev Anand
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Nov. 15 -- Bollywood legend Dev Anand said his life has been like a movie screenplay, which is why he has written his autobiography "Romancing with Life" in the same manner. "My life has been like a ...
IANS scribe wins award for highlighting children's issues
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bhubaneswar, Nov. 15 -- IANS Orissa correspondent Jatindra Dash has been given the Sisu Sathi 2007 (Friend of Children) award for consistently writing on children's issues and highlighting their problems. The ...
India unlikely to resume arms supplies to Nepal
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, Nov. 15 -- A new multi-party government is in power in Nepal, but India is not planning to resume arms supplies that were stopped in February 2005 to show displeasure over King Gyanendra's bid to rule by ...
'Forest villages' in Tripura to curb militancy
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Agartala, Nov. 15 -- Tripura has undertaken an ambitious scheme to set up 'forest villages' with the twin objectives of flushing out militancy and developing basic facilities in remote areas. Clubbing together ...
Home ministry to introduce traffic rules in NCERT books
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 15 -- Alarmed by the growing number of road accidents and subsequent deaths, the home ministry is planning to include traffic guidelines as part of the school curriculum so that youngsters can imbibe ...
Israeli strike kills three Palestinians
Nov 15, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Gaza City, Nov. 15 -- An Israeli attack killed three Palestinian militants and wounded as many in the northern Gaza Strip Thursday afternoon, hospital officials and witnesses said. An Israeli military spokeswoman in ...
Leaving it to the Left
Nov 15, 2007 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- Left to themselves, the leaders of the Left would have certainly found nothing unsavoury in the points made by former armed forces chiefs, bureaucrats and scientists in an open letter to Members of Parliament (reprinted on this page ...
Rs 100-crore plan to tame elephantiasis in 20 states
Nov 15, 2007 ... Sanchita SharmaHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- OVER 500 million people in 20 states will be treated over the next two years to eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis or elephantitis, the Health Ministry announced on Thursday. The budget for the national programme is kept at Rs 100 ...
BJP sings Jeetega Gujarat to Congress Chak De
Nov 15, 2007 ... Shekhar IyerHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- JEETEGA GUJARAT is the BJP's reply to Chak De Congress. The saffron party has chosen this slogan for their campaign with Narendra Modi as its icon. Initially, an impromptu theme for a function to be addressed by the Gujarat ...
End of the road for Bluelines
Nov 15, 2007 ...Harish V. NairHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- THE DELHI government has said its plan to phase out the city's killer Bluelines in phases by 2012 and replace them with a new fleet run by corporate houses had enough built-in safeguards to ensure safety on the roads, amid ...
Abused after being rescued
Nov 15, 2007 ... Chetan ChauhanHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- Being sexually abused on the streets of Delhi for several months was no less traumatic than the process of reaching a child protection home for 14-year-old Narender (name changed). All this happened in the city on the eve of ...
BJP sends team to gauge situation
Nov 15, 2007 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- WITH THE dissension among the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) city unit activists now in the open, the party high command despatched a two-member team, on Wednesday, to gauge the mood of the workers. The two members, organisational ...
Saregama eyes revenue from television, cinema
Nov 15, 2007 ... Saurabh TurakhiaHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- Music company Saregama plans to get a significant chunk of revenue from television and cinema in the next five years. Speaking to Hindustan Times, B R Sharan, chief creative officer at Saregama said: "The Ficci PwC ...
Airlines allowed to fly bigger aircraft for winter rush
Nov 15, 2007 ... Samiran SahaHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- THE GOVERNMENT on Thursday allowed all international carriers flying in and out of India to increase their capacities by deploying larger aircraft to meet the winter rush. "To counter the winter rush, all airlines would be allowed ...
Big boys play it right
Nov 15, 2007 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- At last, Imran Khan is being noticed. The Tehreek-e-Insaaf leader and former cricket superstar has been trying to tell an uncaring world that he is not in a league any less than the Bhuttos and Musharrafs of this world in his importance on the ...
In-laws-to-be thrash man for hiding baldness
Nov 15, 2007 ... Rahul KarmakarHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- This could be a 'hair-raising' warning for all sons-in-law. The future in-laws of a 33-year-old man thrashed him black and blue on Monday night besides "confiscating" his wallet, mobile phone, motorbike and driving license. The ...
Rush hour turns into hell on NH 24
Nov 15, 2007 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- An overturned truck on NH 24 halted the morning rush hour traffic on Thursday morning. Motorists heading for Delhi from Ghaziabad, Indirapuram and other parts of East Delhi were stranded for hours during the peak hours in the ...
Bus crew cut off Charbhagh for 2 hrs
Nov 15, 2007 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- CHAOS PREVAILED for over two hours at Charbagh after conductors and drivers of city buses staged a blockade at Nathha intersection protesting assault on a conductor on Thursday noon. The agitators demanded arrest of the Maruti ...
Maya's review meet: Officials on their toes
Nov 15, 2007 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- FOLLOWING CHIEF Minister Mayawati's crackdown on district officials for showing slackness in development activities, officials of the Varanasi divisional administration are on their toes. With the CM's pending visit to Varansai on November 27, ...
Hurriyat floats new J&K plan
Nov 15, 2007 ... Arun JoshiHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- Kashmiri separatistconglomerate All Parties Hurriyat Conference has called for a "pre-1953plus" status for Jammu and Kashmir as a starting point for a Kashmir solution in recognition of new realitieson the ground. The ...
Solar initiative to help save power
Nov 15, 2007 ... Moushumi Das GuptaHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- It is a scheme, which if implemented successfully will help save 30 MW electricity annually in the Capital, which is facing an acute power shortage. And the best thing is that the government would not have to spend a penny in ...
Litterbugs' pockets cleaned
Nov 15, 2007 ... Sayli Udas-MankikarHindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 15 -- Some success and some goof-up. This is how the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) anti-littering campaign began on Thursday. Almost 1,000 civic marshals from private security agencies would be scanning the city to ...