The Hindustan Times back issues from Monday, November 26:
Indian can't see own documentary in Pakistan
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Karachi, Nov. 26 -- An Indian director who spent nearly a year making a documentary on the dying art of classical music in Pakistan was denied a visa to visit Karachi to attend its screening, a media report Monday ...
Prince Charles snubbed by Commonwealth leaders?
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- Prince Charles was snubbed by Commonwealth leaders at the closing of their summit in Kampala, a newspaper said a week after the heir to the British throne was reported to have lobbied to succeed his ...
Arab corporate leaders to discuss environmental responsibility
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Abu Dhabi, Nov. 26 -- More than 120 business leaders from the Arab world will meet on Nov 29 in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to discuss corporate environmental responsibility and ways to promote ...
Eight killed as typhoon sweeps Philippines
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Manila, Nov. 26 -- Eight people have been killed while two others remain missing as Typhoon Mitag moves across the northern tip of the Philippines, the national disaster relief agency said Monday. The National ...
Tobacco Regulatory Authority in place by next year: Ramadoss
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Nov. 26 -- If India's Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss and his party, the PMK, execute their plans on tobacco control successfully in Tamil Nadu, then it could be the first Indian state to become smoking-free ...
Benazir files nomination for Pakistan poll
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Nov. 26 -- Former Pakistani prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto filed her nomination papers for national assembly elections Monday in the southern city of Larkana, her hometown in Sindh ...
Nepal professional groups protest Maoist atrocities
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, Nov. 26 -- Nepal's leading professional organisations, whose staunch support last year helped opposition parties topple King Gyanendra's regime and come to power, staged a protest march Monday against the ...
Tamil rebels kill four civilians in Sri Lanka
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Colombo, Nov. 26 -- Four civilians were shot by Tamil rebels in a remote village in north central Sri Lanka Monday morning, police said. One woman and three men were working in a field when the rebels stormed the ...
Indian float at Sydney parade ushers in Christmas cheer
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Nov. 26 -- An Indian float with nearly 70 bhangra, folk and Bollywood dancers dressed in bright hues and finery, made eyes turn as the first ever Christmas parade kicked off the Yuletide spirit in ...
Russia's arms exports could exceed $5.5 bn in 2007
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Moscow, Nov. 26 -- Russia may set a new record in sales of military equipment to foreign countries, with exports estimated at over $5.5 billion in 2007, state-controlled arms exporter Rosoboronexport said Monday ....
US concerned over arrests of Russian opposition leaders
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Nov. 26 -- The White House and the US State Department have expressed concern over the detention of opposition leaders during a peaceful demonstration in Russia during the weekend. Several ...
'Jayshree', British spy, gives rare interview to BBC
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- Listeners of the BBC Asian Network woke up Monday morning to get a rare peek at the work of Asian agents working for British intelligence agencies currently grappling with several threats to ...
MMA religious alliance on verge of split
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Nov. 26 -- Pakistan's six-party Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) is on the verge of a split with its chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad likely to seek a separate symbol for his Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) to enable it to ...
Nursery admissions: court backs Ganguly committee again
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- The Delhi High Court Monday asked all unaided minority schools in the capital to implement the Ganguly committee's recommendations. A bench comprising Chief Justice M.K. Sharma and Justice ...
IFFI venue was once dilapidated hospital
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Panaji (Goa), Nov. 26 -- Not too long ago patients hobbled around here, plastered and in bandages, and sick children shed many a tear. Today the International Film Festival of India's (IFFI) dreams are being nurtured ...
Without Kolkata, I will die as writer: Taslima
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Nov. 26 -- Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who has been staying under tight security in New Delhi after she was bundled out of Kolkata following riots over her stay in India, Monday said she would die as a ...
UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. GUWAHATI, Nov. 26 -- Failure of the administration to deal with the situation resulted in the deterioration of the law and order situation and turned Beltola area of Guwahati city virtually into a battleground on November 24 ...
Violence mars strike by tribals, Assam on alert
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati, Nov. 26 -- A 36-hour general strike called by tribals across Assam Monday was marred by violence, with strike supporters killing one person and injuring at least two others in sporadic incidents, officials ...
Earthquake jolts Delhi residents out of bed
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- An earthquake that was described to be of "slight intensity" by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) jolted residents of the national capital and neighbouring areas out of bed at 4.42 a.m ....
Talent show winner becomes 'Sikh idol'
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ludhiana, Nov. 26 -- In the end, nothing came in his way - not even his being a turbaned Sikh and still taking a shot at a national singing contest. Punjab's industrial city of Ludhiana broke into celebrations after ...
India has 240 mn buildings, but few are quake resistant
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- India has over 240 million buildings, both residential and commercial, but few are built to be quake resistant, warns a top official of India's apex body for disaster management. And disasters - ...
LAND, COMMISSIONS AND POLITICS
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. GUWAHATI, Nov. 26 -- More than 25,000 landless persons from all over India marched to Delhi in late October to demand their constitutionally guaranteed right to a life with dignity. The reaction of the Union Government was ...
Uttar Pradesh lawyers strike work to protest blasts
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Lucknow, Nov. 26 -- Lawyers from various bar associations in Uttar Pradesh stood together Monday to protest Friday's synchronized blasts that ripped across the local courts in Varanasi, Faizabad and Lucknow, leaving 13 ...
The vanishing art of painting Bollywood posters
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Panaji, Nov. 26 -- They once fired the Indian imagination and built dreams for millions but today, hand painted Bollywood posters are being displaced by technology and the changing needs of the time. A workshop ...
Guerrilla killed in Kashmir gunfight
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Srinagar, Nov. 26 -- A separatist guerrilla was killed Monday in a gunfight with security forces in Kashmir. The security forces laid an ambush following specific information about the movement of militants in ...
Can journalism keep pace with India's mushrooming media?
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- India is on an extraordinary media proliferation spree. Delhi just got its 14th morning daily in English, the tabloid Mail Today. New TV channels have been surfacing at the rate of two a month, ...
Father declares son dead for marrying against his wishes
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ranchi, Nov. 26 -- A man in Jharkhand performed the last rites of his son, who is alive, for marrying a girl whose family has a history of leprosy. Sunil Hansda, 25, a resident of Dhanbad district, around 240 ...
India needs the nuclear deal: Upendra Chivukula
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Nov. 26 -- If the India-US civil nuclear pact does not go through, there will be a problem, believes Upendra Chivukula, the Indian origin deputy speaker of the New Jersey assembly. "India is the ...
MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. GUWAHATI, Nov. 26 -- A workshop on 'Mathematical Programming and Related Topics in Optimization' was organized by the Department of Statistics from November 12-14. The Kolkata-based Indian Statistical Institute ...
UP SERIAL BLASTS
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. GUWAHATI, Nov. 26 -- Six blasts, within five minutes, in different places such as Varanasi, Lucknow and Faizabad in UP killed 13 and injured 59 persons. This time the terrorists targeted not religious places or market ...
IAF gets Rs.800 mn for US Red Flag drill
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- Brushing aside objections of the Left parties that support the government, the Indian Air Force (IAF) has finally been sanctioned Rs.800 million ($20 million) for participating in the prestigious ...
Nasty politics in India's IT hub
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, Nov. 26 -- The image of Karnataka and especially IT hub Bangalore - already dented by unsavoury political happenings in recent weeks - faces further erosion as political parties have begun a nasty campaign ...
Tremors shake Delhi, rattle people
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- A moderate earthquake shook the national capital and surrounding areas at 4.43 a.m. Monday morning, making people jump out of their beds, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or ...
Free medical camp by Reliance attracts several villagers
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Nov. 26 -- Nearly a thousand villagers were treated for various ailments at a free medical camp organised by Reliance Energy Ltd. (REL) in Maharashtra's Thane district. Villagers from 15 rural pockets ...
Senior Congress leaders out of Himachal assembly poll race
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shimla, Nov. 26 -- While Himachal Pradesh Housing Minister Harsh Mahajan has decided not to contest the forthcoming assembly elections, state Civil Supplies and Horticulture Minister Singhi Ram has been left out of the ...
Kerala village conducts audit of job guarantee scheme
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kozhikode (Kerala), Nov. 26 -- In official parlance, audit usually means scouring the account books in the solitude of a government office. But a village in Kerala changed all that when it scrutinised the works under a ...
Patil asks states to improve intelligence gathering
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- Denying any failure of central intelligence agencies in the serial bombings in Uttar Pradesh last week, Home Minister Shivraj Patil Monday asked the states to beef up intelligence gathering ...
Taslima: hounded in her house of words
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, nov. 26 -- Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has willy-nilly turned into an itinerant minstrel, hounded by commissars and fanatics alike, intoning her outcast song of angst against the lies of religion and ...
Gruffudd invited fans outside his house for tea
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- "Fantastic Four" star Ioan Gruffudd was so shocked when he confronted two fans outside his house that he invited them inside for a cup of tea. Gruffudd was initially uncertain on how to ...
World Cup chess: Gopal takes ex-world champ to tie-breaker
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Moscow, Nov. 26 -- India's unheralded G.N. Gopal continued to torment former FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdhzanov with a second draw sending their first round match of the World Cup into a tie-breaker. Gopal, ...
London's Covent Garden owner building centre in Jaipur
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Jaipur, Nov. 26 -- Prozone Liberty - a joint venture between Liberty International Plc of Britain, owner of Covent Garden in London, and retail firm Provogue India Ltd - will spend Rs.20 billion ($500 million) to build ...
Riot warning over Oxford union's invitation to racist leader
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- A controversial Oxford University debate to be addressed Monday night by the head of the racist British National Party, Nick Griffin, and pro-Nazi historian David Irving has sparked a high-profile ...
Allen wants to retire at 25 to raise pigs
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- Outspoken English singer Lily Allen wants to make just one more album so she can retire at the age of 25 and raise pigs. The 22-year-old singer revealed she was sick of celebrity life. "I'd ...
IFFI's first Pakistani film strikes instant chord
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Panaji, Nov. 26 -- Shoaib Mansoor's "Khuda Kay Liye", the first Pakistani film ever to be included in the official line-up of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has struck an instant chord with audiences ...
English Premier League results and standings
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- Following are the results of the English Premier League matches played Sunday: Fulham 2 Blackburn Rovers 2 West Ham United 1 Tottenham Hotspur 1 Following are the standings of ...
Tata's Chhattisgarh steel project still mired in controversy
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Raipur, Nov. 26 -- Protests over acquiring 5,098 acres continue to dog Tata Steel's proposed project in Chhattisgarh's southern Bastar region. The district's top official says the acquisition is moving forward. But ...
Better management, global help restrict Bangla cyclone toll
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- The death toll in Hurricane Sidr that slammed Bangladesh's southern coast has remained at four digits, around 3,300, defying the initial alarm, thanks to improved disaster management by the ...
Strike in Jharkhand to protest violence in Assam
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ranchi, Nov. 26 -- Life was affected in Jharkhand following a general strike called by various political parties and tribal organisations to protest violent clashes during a tribal rally in Assam last week in which one ...
Government to help food processing industry grow
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Nov. 26 -- The Indian food processing industry is logging an impressive growth rate of 18 percent, up from eight percent in 2004. The government would pitch in to facilitate the sector's growth, said a top ...
Big B to play a cool god in new film
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Nov. 26 -- The legendary Amitabh Bachchan will soon be seen as a cool, dude-like god in writer-turned-director Rumi Jaffrey's new film "God, Tussi Great Ho". "Big B plays a spunky, funny, doughty and ...
'Economic boom to drive UAE banking sector higher'
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Abu Dhabi, Nov. 26 -- The economic boom in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will continue to drive the growth of banking sector in the Arab federation, according to a study. The study released Sunday by the ...
Depp gifts vineyard to girlfriend Paradis
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp has gifted his long time French girlfriend Vanessa Paradis a vineyard to celebrate the release of her new album and for working hard for ...
Blunt averse to spending on luxury items
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Nov. 26 -- Singer James Blunt doesn't want to spend too much money on luxury items because he can fit all he needs in just one bag. Blunt is hesitant to spend his earnings on expensive items and prefers ...
Spain satisfied with 2010 World Cup draw
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Madrid, Nov. 26 -- The draw for the qualifying groups of the 2010 World Cup has been greeted with relief and satisfaction in Spain. The seeded Spaniards have been placed into European group 5, with Turkey, Belgium, ...
Himanshu Malik unfazed by his 'nude' past
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Nov. 26 -- Every time there is a scandal involving nude pictures of actors big and small, pat comes the reply, "That wasn't me. That was my morphed picture." But model-turned-actor Himanshu Malik has no trouble ...
Indonesian earthquakes kill six
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Jakarta, Nov. 26 -- Two strong earthquakes struck the eastern Indonesian island of Sumbawa early Monday, killing at least six people and injuring more than 70, officials and state media report said. The first quake, ...
Pakistan fell short by 100 runs: Malik
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- After losing the first Test to India here Monday, Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik said that if his team had scored 100 runs more the result could have been different. "We scored about 100 ...
'Bagher Bachcha' - director's tribute to a lost friend
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Panaji, Nov. 26 -- Director Bishnu Dev Halder's "Bagher Bachcha", which opened the non-feature film section of the 38th International Film Festival of India's (IFFI) India Panorama segment, is a tribute to his friend ...
World Cup slogan released - after a while
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Durban, Nov. 26 -- The official announcement of the slogan for the 2010 World Cup was delayed as the speakers who were to introduce it to the audience at the preliminary draw ceremony in the South African coastal town ...
Satyam bags contract for 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Durban, Nov. 26 -- Indian global consulting and information technology service provider, Satyam Computer Service, has become the first Indian sponsor of FIFA World Cup, having been selected as the official IT service ...
'No actress was ready to play a contented prostitute'
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Panaji, Nov. 26 -- Narrating the story of a prostitute in love with her profession in "Ammuvagiya Naan" became a litmus test as most of the actresses backed out of the role, says Rufus Parker, the producer of the film ....
Croatian Premier Sanader declares election victory
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Zagreb, Nov. 26 -- Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader declared victory hours after parliamentary elections while ballots were still being counted in a see-saw race. "I will not and cannot proclaim victory before all ...
India to remove tariff barriers for least developed neighbours
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dhaka, Nov. 26 -- India has pledged it would take necessary steps to mitigate or eliminate non-tariff and para-tariff barriers to trade by the end of this year for the least developed countries (LDCs) among its ...
Parties meet for dispirited last effort in Kosovo talks
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Vienna, Nov. 26 -- Leaders from Serbia and Kosovo are scheduled to embark on a last round of talks Monday afternoon to thrash out a compromise over the future status of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo. The two ...
Seventh successive win at Kotla for India, more landmarks for Tendulkar
Nov 26, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 26 -- India defeated Pakistan by six wickets to achieve their seventh successive win at the Feroze Shah Kotla Monday. The win that gave India a 1-0 lead in the three Test match series extended India's ...