The Hindustan Times back issues from Wednesday, December 5:
US varsities to offer joint courses for working pros
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ahmedabad, Dec. 5 -- India's working professionals who have missed out on their MBAs can now look forward to graduating in management from some reputed California-based institutions. The Ahmedabad Management ...
'Biofuels killing forests, adding to world hunger'
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bali (Indonesia), Dec. 5 -- Biofuels have been promoted as an answer to climate change as they can replace to some extent fossil fuels that cause global warming. But an international NGO disagrees, saying biofuels are ...
Malaysian Bar Council calls off rights march
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 5 -- Malaysia's Bar Council has called off its annual human rights march for Sunday following disagreements within the body. The lawyer-members argued the pros and cons of the march, with one ...
Geri apologises for leaving Spice Girls the first time
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- Spice Girl Geri Halliwell apologised to the band and their fans for having left the group earlier. The mirror.co.uk reports that Geri is sorry she ditched the girls just before their big US ...
Essar assured of gas supplies for Trinidad unit
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Port of Spain, Dec. 5 -- Essar Steel, which is setting up a major steel unit here, has been assured a liberal flow of natural gas for the next 20 years, a top official of the company has said. "We believe there ...
Bush sticks to his guns on Iran, faces Democratic flak
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Dec. 5 -- As President George W. Bush insisted Iran is still dangerous despite new US intelligence report that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003, critics are asking him to roll back the ...
Court gives Hasina permission to meet lawyers
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dhaka, Dec. 5 -- A Dhaka court has directed the government to allow former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to meet and consult her lawyers in a corruption case. Businessman Azam J. Chowdhury had filed the ...
London mayor's offer: free offices for Indian investors
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- After leading a high-profile business delegation to India that held 47 meetings in six days, the mayor of London has announced a tailor-made, free office space service for Indian businesses wishing to ...
Burton uses fake dead babies as Christmas decorations
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- Eccentric movie director Tim Burton who has made hits like "Sleepy Hollow" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is decorating his Christmas tree with fake dead babies and slime ...
Malaysian police were 'brutal,' Tamils tell court
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 5 -- Lawyers of a Tamil body have told a court that the Malaysian police were 'brutal' while dispersing a protest rally by Tamils here last month to voice their grievances. Media reports ...
Indian American girl tops science competition
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Dec. 5 -- An Indian American girl, Isha Himani Jain, has been declared national champion in one of the most coveted student science competitions in the US. The 16-year-old student of Freedom High ...
Power cuts crippling Tamil Nadu industry
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Coimbatore, Dec. 5 -- Tamil Nadu is reeling under one of the worst power shortages in recent years that is causing unprecedented production snags and losses to its vibrant industry. The State Electricity Board ...
Kunal Kapoor clears air on Sanjay Suri
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Dec. 5 -- A seemingly off-hand quote attributed in a daily to budding actor Kunal Kapoor has the otherwise-affable Sanjay Suri fuming. Sanjay is angry at "the juvenile behaviour of the new stars of ...
Gases that cause climate change at highest level ever
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bali (Indonesia), Dec. 5 -- Greenhouses gases (GHG) that lead to global warming reached their highest ever level in 2006, according to latest data collected by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). At ...
Cosmetics company sues Hatcher for contract breach
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- A cosmetics company is suing "Desperate Housewives" star Teri Hatcher for reportedly breaching a contract by promoting rival products. Hydroderm, a Los Angeles-based company, claims Hatcher ...
230 militants killed in Swat operations: official
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Dec. 5 -- Pakistan's security forces have killed over 230 militants and arrested 90, including some foreign nationals, since beginning their operations in the northern Swat region, an official has ...
Sivan's second Hindi film on a burning issue
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Dec. 5 -- Ace cameraman-filmmaker Santosh Sivan is shooting for his second Hindi venture "Dastaan" said to be on a burning issue. But what that is, no one in the cast is willing to tell. The film, with ...
Pakistan's third transition: Will it succeed?
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- In the 60 years of its existence, Pakistan has been under military rule for 32 years in three spells under four generals - Gen. Ayub Khan, who made himself a Field Marshal, Gen. Yahya Khan, Gen ....
US officials concerned about Britney's parenting skills
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- Officials of the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) are concerned about the wellbeing of Britney Spears' sons as they are not sure if the pop star is capable of looking ...
Fresh controversy over Nepal's envoy to India
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, Dec. 5 -- A fresh controversy has arisen over the post of Nepal's ambassador to India, a key diplomatic designation, with the Girija Prasad Koirala government now dragging its feet over the selection of the ...
Bangalore-Mangalore train chugs again after 11 years
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, Dec. 5 -- For reasons other than red tape, it has taken Indian Railways a whopping 11 years to resume passenger service between India's IT hub Bangalore and the port city of Mangalore in southern ...
'Don't invite outsiders,' Hindu body told
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 5 -- Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has asked a Hindu group espousing the grievances of the Indian ethnic community not to invite "outsiders" to fight its cause. Albar did not ...
Brazilian alcoholic drink Cachaca arrives in India
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- Famous Brazilian white spirit cachaca has found its way into India with company Diva Cachacha launching it in New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. Cachaca is distilled from fermented sugarcane ...
Island of gods has red carpet out for Indians
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bali (Indonesia), Dec. 5 -- Wherever an Indian goes in this island of the gods, the first question is: "Are you a Hindu? I am." From taxi drivers to tour guides to policemen, the question in this crowded little island ...
Jharkhand petroleum dealers threaten strike over VAT
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ranchi, Dec. 5 -- The Jharkhand Petroleum Dealers Association (JPDA) is planning to go on strike for the third time in the year to protest the anomalies in Value Added Tax (VAT). The JPDA will hold a meeting ...
Democratic presidential contenders face heat on immigration issue
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Dec. 5 -- The emotive issue of what to do with America's estimated over 12 million illegal immigrants, including some 300,000 Indians, is proving to be a hard nut to crack for Democratic presidential ...
New India, Brazil, South Africa shipping line mooted
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Johannesburg, Dec. 5 -- South Africa has suggested floating a private shipping company with government support as a way to boost trade between India, Brazil and South Africa. Government officials said that ...
Strip club asked to remove Minogue's picture
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- Lawyers of pop star Kylie Minogue have served a notice to an Australian strip club to remove a picture of her from their window. Contactmusic.com reports that Minogue's lawyers said the use of ...
Christmas toys await underprivileged kids in Chennai
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Dec. 5 -- One of India's largest toy makers, Funskool India Pvt Ltd, has decided to gift toys to underprivileged children here for Christmas. It is asking the city's schoolchildren to donate their toys, which ...
Irrfan Khan nominated for Spirit Awards in US
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Dec. 5 -- The American company Film Independent which honours independent films and filmmakers across the world has announced nominations for its 2008 Spirit Awards. And one of the contenders is Indian actor ...
129,100 Indians made Canada their home in five years
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Toronto, Dec. 5 -- Every fifth Canadian today was born abroad. The Toronto region scores even higher as every second person here is foreign-born and the highest percentage of these are Indians, followed by Chinese and ...
Lohan tops list of dumb celebrities
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- "Mean Girls" star Lindsay Lohan has topped a new list of dumb celebrities. The poll conducted by a newspaper judged celebrities based on their intelligence quotients (IQs), poor fashion ...
Pakistan's religious coalition parties seek separate symbols
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Dec. 5 -- Two key partners of the opposition Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), six-party religious alliance of Pakistan, have sought separate symbols for the Jan 8 elections, an indication that the grouping has ...
Jharkhand minister threatens official for not moving file
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ranchi, Dec. 5 -- An official of the Jharkhand government has said the state's Human Resources Development (HRD) Minister Bandhu Tirkey has threatened him with "dire consequences". Shivashankar Tewary, deputy ...
A Mumbai suburb revels in its past and present
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Dec. 5 -- For over a fortnight, the Mumbai suburb of Bandra lay in celebration - a heady mix of music, dance, art and theatre that spelt festivities as well as nostalgia for the young and old. Residents ...
US presses Congress to clear Colombia trade pact
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Dec. 5 -- US President George W. Bush has said that a failure by the Congress to ratify the free-trade treaty his administration negotiated with Bogota would be an insult to Colombia and leave a ...
Caddies from back home make Indian golfers comfortable
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangkok, Dec. 5 -- Caddies play an important role in every golfer's game is something every golfer knows for a fact. Most top stars have their regular caddies, who travel with them, and some players have different ...
Lack of blueprints delays Gorshkov refit
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- The absence of any blueprints for INS Vikramaditya (formerly Admiral Gorshkov), the 44,750-tonne Kiev-class aircraft carrier, is the principal reason for the delay in retrofitting the vessel for ...
Two foreign guerrillas, two troopers killed in Kashmir
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Srinagar, Dec. 5 -- Two foreign Islamist militants and two troopers were killed in a long drawn gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir that ended Wednesday morning. Police said the militants from Laskar-e-Taiba (LeT) ...
When groundnuts hold sway over India's Silicon Valley
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, Dec. 5 -- On two days every year, India's IT hub literally goes nuts over groundnuts. Thousands buy peanuts by the kilo as offering to Basava or Nandi, the great bull of Hindu god Shiva. The two-day ...
Lok Sabha adjourned again
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- The Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, was adjourned for half an hour for the second time Wednesday after members from Orissa insisted that the draft of the national mineral ...
Sonia to campaign in Himachal next week
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shimla, Dec. 5 -- Congress president Sonia Gandhi will campaign for the Himachal Pradesh assembly polls next week, party sources said Wednesday. She is set to hold a rally in the hill state's most populous ...
Publisher apologises for putting Prophet's picture in book
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Dec. 5 -- Vijay Goel, who published a book on India's former president Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, which contains a picture of Prophet Mohammed, has apologised for it. "It was not a deliberate act," he ...
Fitness may help older obese to live longer
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Dec. 5 -- Walking 30 minutes a day, five days a week is enough for older obese people to achieve moderate physical fitness that can help them live longer, a new study shows. The study conducted by ...
Pakistan headed for either democracy or chaos: US expert
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Dec. 5 -- Current developments in Pakistan could see a transition to democracy or plunge the country into chaos, the head of a US think tank feels. The dynamics of the war on terror were "not healthy ...
Delhi's top cop wants his men to shed 'chalta hai' attitude
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- Quietly, away from the limelight, Delhi's new Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal is proving to be a tough taskmaster. In just the five months he has held charge, Dadwal has made it clear that ...
India's Sasikiran crashes out of World Cup chess
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Moscow, Dec. 5 -- Krishnan Sasikiran allowed a winning chance to slip and crashed out of the World Cup at Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Pitted against former World champion Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov, the Indian ...
Antibiotics not useful in sinus treatment
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 5 -- Antibiotic drugs prescribed by doctors for sinus infections in adult may not be effective, says a study. Sinus infection or sinusitis is one of the most common complications of the common cold ...
Force India drivers debut in winter test run
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Dec. 5 -- The two Force India Formula One drivers, Giancarlo Fisichella and Frank Montagny, were over two seconds off the pace on the first of the four days of winter testing at the Circuit de Jerez in ...
Be prepared with climate change emergency kit
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bali, Dec. 5 -- Prepare yourself with a new emergency kit unless you take steps to stop climate change, a group of young activists told delegates at the UN conference here Wednesday. The members of the NGOs ...
Travelling to seven countries through photographs
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- Still blue waters kissing the beaches of the Maldives, lush green Sri Lanka and the rough terrains of Bhutan. The pictures taken by 120 people who participated in the South Asian Association for ...
Himachal politician is worth Rs.920 million
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shimla, Dec. 5 -- Tea garden king Brij Behari Lal Butial is the richest politician vying to be a legislator in the Himachal Pradesh assembly polls with his wealth estimated at Rs.920 million. A Congress ...
Force India commissions wind tunnel
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Dec. 5 -- In a significant development, Force India's wind tunnel at Brackley, close to their headquarters in Silverstone, England, has been commissioned and will soon be on a 24-hour running. The wind ...
Canadian wars over Air India inquiry
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Toronto, Dec. 5 -- The inquiry into the widely criticised investigation of the 1985 Air India bombing is further souring ties between the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIF) and the Royal Canadian Mounting ...
Balinese dance with a message: Save our forests
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bali (Indonesia), Dec. 5 -- One man was painted in leopard spots, another as a tree. The women wore the elaborate headdresses seen in temples throughout Southeast Asia. They danced in the traditional Balinese style, ...
Mamta demands Nandigram discussion, Lok Sabha adjourned
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- The Lok Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, was adjourned for half an hour Wednesday after Trinamool Congress chief and parliamentarian Mamta Banerjee disrupted the proceedings by ...
Eight Tripura officials barred from poll duties
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Agartala, Dec. 5 -- The Election Commission (EC) has barred eight senior civil service officers from carrying out election duties in Tripura, officials said here Wednesday. "The EC has taken this decision after ...
Pedestrians flouting rules face police wrath
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- Pedestrians in the national capital have to be careful as Delhi Traffic Police Wednesday began its drive against jay walkers to bring a sense of semblance to the city's roads. Traffic ...
Doctor kidnapped in Bihar
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Patna, Dec. 5 -- A doctor has been allegedly kidnapped in a Bihar town, police said. Manoj Kumar Verma, in his early 40s, went missing Monday night from Dalmianagar in Dehri-on-sone in Rohtas district. A case ...
Demand for jellyfish keeps Olive Ridleys starving
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bhubaneswar, Dec. 5 -- The rising demand for jellyfish in the overseas market is threatening the survival of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles in Orissa, experts say. Extensive fishing for jellyfish along the ...
Greenpeace demands strong Bali mandate
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bali, Dec. 5 -- International NGO Greenpeace Wednesday demanded a strong mandate from the UN climate change conference underway here that would keep global temperature rise within two degrees Celsius, though the world ...
Gentle giant, killer tusker...Godapani was this and more
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kaziranga (Assam), Dec. 5 -- A 60-year-old tamed Asiatic tusker which killed an American tourist as well as the elephant she was riding in 1999 at the Kaziranga National Park has died of old age, but not without ...
Keshubhai hogs the headlines in Gujarat
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ahmedabad, Dec. 5 -- Although he is neither contesting the Gujarat elections nor campaigning for anyone, former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief minister Keshubhai Patel is often hogging the headlines in the ...
123 pact doesn't ban test by India: Pranab
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 5 -- External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee Wednesday asserted that the nuclear deal with Washington did not ban a future test by India and that New Delhi will exercise the option if there was a ...
New fund mooted for transfer of clean technology
Dec 05, 2007 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bali (Indonesia), Dec. 5 -- Over 10,000 delegates from 187 countries gathered here for the Dec 3-14 UN conference on climate change Wednesday started discussing the possibility of setting up a fund that would help ...