The Hindustan Times back issues from Monday, July 14:
RISING UNEMPLOYMENT
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati July 14 -- The problem of unemployment, especially educated unemployment, is assuming alarming proportions in the State with more and more youths adding to the rapidly rising graph of the unemployed. A huge wastage ...
FLOOD HAVOC IN LAKHIMPUR AND DHEMAJI DISTRICTS
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati July 14 -- It will probably be no exaggeration to say that floods are as much a serious social problem as any natural calamity like drought or earthquake. Whereever they occur, floods not just leave behind a trail ...
FDI BETTER OPTION THAN FII
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati July 14 -- The high rate of economic growth, which we have been enjoying for the past few years appears to be under strain, given the soaring prices of petroleum products and rate of inflation rising to 11.5 per ...
ASSEMBLY SESSION
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati July 14 -- The Monsoon Session of the Assam Legislative Assembly, which begins on July 14, will give an opportunity to the opposition parties to raise vital issues concerning the people of Assam and to seek ...
Traffic jams rule the roost on Monday
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- Heavy rains followed by water logging, broken roads, demonstrations and police barricades ... the reasons may be varied but the results are inevitably the same, always. Prolonged congestion at peak hours has become a regular feature on Delhi ...
A world that is secretly stupid
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- With apologies to Ye Ed and my mother (my only reader), this column is going to have to change. No longer will it be about books and their mysterious and not-so-mysterious connections with the world. Instead, it will be about books and their ...
Cross border infiltration up in Jammu and Kashmir
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Rajouri (Jammu and Kashmir), July 14 -- It is the perfect setting for infiltrators to cross into Indian territory - tall bushes, haze, intermittent rains and undulating hills dotting the well-guarded but porous ...
CPI-M leader opposes party stand on trust vote
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, July 14 -- Dissent surfaced in the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Monday with West Bengal Sports Minister Subhas Chakraborty saying it would not be correct to vote against the Congress-led government ...
Of photographs that simultaneously convey distance and proximity
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 14 -- Can a photograph simultaneously convey a sense of distance and proximity? If it's been taken by a student of prominent German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, it most certainly can - ...
The new who?
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- Another Bollywood classic is set for a remake. This time it's Manmohan Desai's mad, fun, fabulous multi-starrer Amar Akbar Anthony. That full-on masala movie - which had everything from brothers separated in their childhood to a mother going ...
HC refuses to quash proceedings against ITC
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- THE ALLAHABAD High Court has refused to quash the criminal proceedings against Milan Anand, the branch manager of ITC Ltd, Ram Chandra Singh, District Agriculture Officer, Orai and Anoop Mittal pending in the court of Judicial Magistrate, Orai ...
Drivers tend to be cautious while carrying passengers
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 14 -- Motorists admonished for talking on the phone while driving have often asserted that it's no more hazardous than talking to a passenger. As it turns out, a new study has quashed these claims, ...
Hindustan to felicitate toppers
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- HINDI HINDUSTAN has decided to felicitate meritorious students of the city who topped in Class X and XII, of different boards, in their respective schools. Hundreds of city students and their family members will attend Hindustan ...
JMM to decide on trust vote July 19
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ranchi, July 14 -- The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), a key ally of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), will July 19 decide on whether or not to support the Manmohan Singh government during the trust vote in ...
Iran seeks closer ties with China, support for nuclear programme
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Beijing, July 14 -- Iran Monday said it seeks closer economic and political cooperation with China and support for its nuclear programme, the official IRNA news agency reported. In a meeting with Chinese ...
Virtual reality
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- If your marriage was made online, there's a one in three chance that you will be sitting in front of a marriage counsellor, say experts. Psychiatrists in the capital have recorded an increase in the number of married couples, who met in cyber ...
Ranbaxy denies US allegation, says Daiichi deal on track
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 14 -- Indian pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Monday denied the US allegations that it forged documents to get marketing approval for its products in that country, and pledged to defend its position by ...
Emissaries of Musharraf, Sharif to meet?
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, July 14 -- Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif may have said that he would never talk to President Pervez Musharraf, but efforts are now underway for a possible meeting between their emissaries as ...
Ronnie Wood's wife of 23-years walks out on him
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 14 -- Ronnie Wood's wife has decided to end her 23-year marriage after learning about his relationship with an eighteen-year-old Russian bargirl. Jo Wood left a furious message on the ...
Men more at risk of clotting than women
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 14 -- Males are more at risk of thrombosis or blood clotting than women, particularly after heart attack and stroke, according to a study. Ethan Weiss and colleagues at the University of ...
Kabul attack casts shadow on India-Pakistan talks
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi/Islamabad, July 14 -- The suicide attack on the Indian mission in Kabul is threatening to cast a shadow on the India-Pakistan dialogue as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team has pulled out of talks ...
HC defers hearing on Neelam Katara's plea
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- THE DELHI High Court on Monday deferred hearing on a plea filed by Nitish Katara's mother Neelam seeking death penalty for her son's killers - Vikas and Vishal Yadav. A bench headed by Justice B.N. Chaturvedi adjourned the matter ...
Market closes 140 points down
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 14 -- The Indian equities market closed with a loss Monday. The 30-share benchmark of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitive index (Sensex) which opened at 13,360.34 points, touched a low of ...
Derailed by n-deal, Marxists look for new friends
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 14 -- CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat's sudden embrace of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is the first significant fallout of the Left's failure to put up a broader front against the India-US ...
Nine years on, court issues notice on Chennai steel market
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, July 14 -- Government decisions often remain only on files to be forgotten - but a 9-year-old unimplemented order has drawn notice of the high court here following a PIL. A division bench of the ...
Europeans killing Asian style
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- FORMER PAKISTAN Olympian Jahangir Ahmed Butt on Monday accused European countries of introducing certain rules, which were killing the Asian style of hockey, especially in Pakistan and India. "I find the changes as part of a conspiracy ...
UK Premier League transfer fee fever may cross 500 m pound mark
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 14 -- An incredible 150 million pounds has already been forked out in the form of Premier League transfer fees, and sources within the British football fraternity, expect last yearâ[euro](TM)s record 500 ...
'Hellboy II' tops weekend box office
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 14 -- 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' topped the weekend box office with an earning of 35.9 million dollars. Slipping to the second spot on the top ten highest grossing movies list was Will ...
Admn to pay more to farmers
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- WITH THE district administration and Manbela farmers reaching an agreement on Monday, the administration has decided to increase 33 per cent in the rate for acquisition of land per acre of farmers at Manbela, Karim Nagar, Hamirpur, Pokhar ...
Aziz Mirza to go on three-year break after 'Kismat Konnection'
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 14 -- Director Aziz Mirza, whose latest film "Kismat Konnection" releases Friday, says he has no plans to make another film for the next three years. "I will go on a long holiday after the release ...
'Dream' inspiration for a real murder
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- Early on April 7, 1996, sentry Charan Singh was sleeping like a log. As he lay in a guard quarter in Manipur after a tiring 12-hour duty, Singh woke up with the flash of celestial light. Riding on a horse, Goddess Lakshmi told him: "the person ...
BSP plans political offensive against SP-Cong & Co in state
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- Bahujan Samaj Party national president Mayawati has planned to go on offensive against the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in Uttar Pradesh. According to a BSP leader, the party is planning to hold a massive rally in the state capital to hit ...
Himachal Pradesh to promote wind power energy
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shimla, July 14 -- Buoyed by the success of hydro power projects, the Himachal Pradesh government is now planning to tap wind power potential in a big way. Addressing delegates from the PHD Chamber of Commerce ...
Recovery goons barge into exec's home in Mumbai
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- A film distributor has alleged that five ICICI Bank agents barged into his suburban Bandra home on Monday morning to recover a car loan he had 'defaulted' upon. This followed threatening calls to recover Rs 5,400 from Anwar Irani for ...
Higher fuel prices may help cut road fatalities, says expert
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 14 -- A researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) believes that higher fuel prices may lead to a reduction in the deaths from road accidents. Dr. Michael Morrisey, director ...
Jharkhand ministers alarmed after killing of lawmaker
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ranchi, July 14 -- The killing of a Jharkhand lawmaker by suspected Maoist guerrillas on Wednesday has got state ministers alarmed about their safety. On Wednesday, Janata Dal-United (JD-U) lawmaker Ramesh ...
Drugs worth Rs.50 mn seized in Uttar Pradesh
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Lucknow, July 14 -- The Uttar Pradesh police have seized about five kg of morphine, a banned drug, worth Rs.50 million from an alleged peddler, an official said Monday. The drug trafficker, Shivjeet, was ...
Nicotine-based drugs 'may help treat dementia'
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 14 -- Nicotine has toxic effects and carries a strong risk of addiction, but now scientists at King's College London have found that it may hold the key to new treatments for dementia. Researchers ...
Bhutan's Prime Minister to arrive in India today
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 14 -- Bhutan's first democratically elected Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley will arrive here today on a four-day visit. Thinley will be accompanied by a high-level delegation including Foreign ...
Nine years on, Kargil war hero recalls Pakistan captivity
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Jorhat (Assam), July 14 -- It's been nine years since the India-Pakistan conflict in Kargil, but Wing Commander K. Nachiketa, who's now posted at the Indian Air Force (IAF) base here in Assam, still clearly recalls his ...
Customs, excise duty collection up 9.2 percent
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 14 -- India's customs and central excise revenue collection shot up to Rs.191.25 billion ($4.4 billion) in June this year against Rs.175.06 billion in the year-ago period, up by 9.2 ...
Market trading flat at afternoon trade
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 14 -- The Indian equities market was trading flat in the afternoon trade Monday. At 1:00 p.m., the 30-share BSE Sensex was down by 36.86 points at 13,432.99. At the day's low, it touched ...
Beli Hospital to have blood bank soon
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- IT'S ANOTHER step to save the lives of patients who meet fatal end either due to blood shortage or blood related disorders, needing immediate transfusion. The State's third blood bank in Allahabad district is all set to open at Tej Bahadur ...
Wood's wife calls it quits after his affair with teen
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 14 -- The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood's wife has decided to leave him after a 23-year marriage because of his involvement with an 18-year old Russian bar maid. Jo, 53, relayed her ...
AMU lecturer on foreign journal board
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- Asad U Khan, senior lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Unit in Aligarh Muslim University has been appointed a member of the editorial board of six international scientific journals. The journals are Bioinformation, ...
Doped out?
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- MOHAMMAD ASIF'S cricketing career is as good as over if the substance he tested positive for during the inaugural Indian Premier League was indeed nandrolone, as sources have suggested. IPL officials, while announcing that Asif had failed a ...
A different Devdas and Paro in Sudhir Mishra's version
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 14 -- It's an incarnation of the classic love-torn couple Devdas and Paro as never seen before - fighting each other as political adversaries in Sudhir Mishra's version of "Devdas" that goes on the floor ...
New hearing aid technology helps you hear even in a really noisy place
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 14 -- Is your hearing aid making it difficult for you to communicate in noisy environment? Well then try out the new open-fit one developed by researchers from Washington University School of Medicine ...
Robert Downey Jr gets $200,000 Bentley as 'Thank You' gift!
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 14 -- American actor Robert Downey Jr was gifted a Bentley worth 200,000 dollars by movie bosses for the success of the movie 'Iron Man' in which he played the lead role. The movie, which was ...
HC directs tehsil officials
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- TAKING SERIOUS note of illegal auction of land of farmers who could not repay bank loans, the Allahabad High Court has directed the higher authorities to look into the procedure followed in such auctions. The court also directed the ...
MU doctors create history
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- IN A few weeks from now Chotu would have fully regenerated normal liver as doctors had to cut 75 per cent of his vital organ to save him.Chotu's is the first successful resection of liver tumor. The right side of the two-year-old child's liver ...
Thoda pyaar... thoda cricket
Jul 14, 2008 ... Anil Merani Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- Kavita Kaushik will host a cricket-based reality show. The actress refuses to elaborate. She only assures us that she will not do a Mandira Bedi ...that is, show up in noodle-strapped blouses. Kavita is currently in ...
One killed in grenade attack in Jammu and Kashmir
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Jammu, July 14 -- One special police officer was killed and two others injured in a grenade attack Monday outside the police lines in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. The two injured ...
Mystic magic
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- Former tennis pro, Rohit Rajpal, who recently launched his high-street label - Mystic Monk, is all praises for the response of the fashionistas. Recently its brand ambassador Fardeen Khan and his gorgeous wife Natasha rocked the party at F Bar ...
India's former chief justice Y.V. Chandrachud dead
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 14 -- Former chief justice of India Justice Y.V. Chandrachud died here Monday morning following a brief illness, an official said. Chandrachud was 88. His son, Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud, is a ...
Kargil hero recalls war and Pakistan captivity
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Jorhat (Assam), July 14 -- The deafening roar of the aircraft flying overhead is his constant companion. It is also a daily reminder of Kargil war hero K. Nachiketa's painful severance from flying fighter planes ....
Indo Rama to set up US branded furniture chain in India SEZs
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, July 14 -- Indo Rama Retail Holdings Pvt Ltd, the Indian franchisee of the US-based Office1Superstores, is planning to set up stores inside the special economic zones (SEZ) of India. Indo Rama is the ...
SP MLA charged with threatening Bareilly family
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- A SAMAJWADI party MLA along with two private security personnel allegedly stormed into a house and issued threats to a family at gunpoint in Bareilly last Friday night. An FIR was registered with the Cantonment police on Saturday. No ...
German help to set up language institute
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- THE UTTARAKHAND government is planning to set up an international language institute in the state with the help of Germany's Hamburg University. Addressing a press conference in Dehradun on Monday - after returning from a four-nation ...
Pacer Asif fails IPL dope test
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- MOHAMMAD ASIF'S cricket career is all but finished with the Indian Premier League announcing that it was he who failed the dope test conducted in the course of the tournament. With Asif having tested positive for the banned steroid Nandrolone ...
Businessman shot dead in Bihar
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Patna, July 14 -- A businessman was shot dead near a railway station here Monday morning, the police said. Manish Kumar, who supplied medicines to NTPC staff working on a power project at Barh, ...
Deja Vu
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- BY ALL indications, the confidence vote Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will seek on July 22 will go down to the wire, rekindling memories of the tantalisingly close division that knocked Atal Bihari Vajpayee out by a margin of one in April ...
CPI-M wants speaker to quit, Chatterjee unwilling
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 14 -- The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), determined to oust Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government over the India-US nuclear deal, is in a spot, thanks to Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath ...
Atiq refutes Amar's claim
Jul 14, 2008 ... Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, July 14 -- EXPELLED SAMAJVADI Party (SP) MP Atiq Ahmad today scotched Amar Singh's claim that he (Atiq) was still with the his party. Atiq's statement gains importance in the backdrop of the fact that till the other day he was fervently looking for ways ...
Salahuddin's close aide arrested: Kashmir police
Jul 14, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Jammu, July 14 -- Police have arrested a close aide of Syed Salahuddin, head of the United Jehad Council (UJC), from a border district in Jammu and Kashmir. Abdul Rashid Bhat alias Mansoor Bhai of Doda was ...