The Hindustan Times back issues from Wednesday, July 16:
Indians wary of planning vacations on the Internet
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- Indian travellers are still not confident of planning their holidays online. Call it the fear of the intangible or the chip of technology on their shoulder, Internet travel portals are yet ...
Equity markets up in early trade
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- Indian equity markets gained ground early Wednesday following strong cues from other Asian markets. There was buying interest in capital goods, technology, banking and select metal ...
Poor monsoon threatens Karnataka's free power for farmers plan
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, July 16 -- A poor monsoon may derail the promise of free electricity to small farmers, a promise made recently by B.S. Yeddyurappa, Karnataka's first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief ...
Kolkata's Ruia Group to set up tyre plant in Guwahati
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, July 16 -- The Kolkata-based Ruia Group, on an acquisition spree over the past few years, is setting up a Rs.4 billion greenfield tyre plant in Assam, company chairman Pawan Kumar Ruia said here. The ...
Parsvanath picks 38 percent stake in Nano City
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- Realty major Parsvanath Developers has picked up a 38 percent stake in entrepreneur Sabeer Bhatia's much-hyped Nano City Haryana project, the company said here Wednesday. Parsvanath will ...
Equity markets maintain modest gain early afternoon
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- Indian equity markets were maintaining their modest gains early Wednesday afternoon, with buying interest in banking, capital goods, technology and select metal stocks. At 12:30 p.m., the ...
Sensex closes 100 points down
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- Indian equity markets closed in the red Wednesday. The 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Sensex, which opened at 12,740.78 points, touched a low of 12,514.02 ...
$7.5 bn US aid proposed for Pakistan
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, July 16 -- Non-military aid to Pakistan could be tripled to $7.5 billion over five years if the US Congress clears a bill, a newspaper report here Wednesday said. Joseph Robinette Biden, chairman of ...
LIC overseas arm ties up with Qatar's Doha Bank
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, July 16 -- Qatar's Doha Bank has tied up with LIC (International), the overseas subsidiary of India's Life Insurance Corp (LIC), to market a range of insurance, retirement and investment products in West ...
Tata Teleservices net loss $8.67 mn in first quarter
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd (TTML) has announced a net loss of $8.67 million (Rs.347.15 million) during the first quarter of fiscal year 2008-09, compared to a net loss of $7.10 million ...
Daiichi deal on track, says Ranbaxy as scrip recovers
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi/Mumbai, July 16 -- Even as its scrip recovered after taking a beating in the past two days, India's top drug maker, Ranbaxy Laboratories, Wednesday said its takeover by Japan's Daiichi Sankyo is on ...
India Post to induct more freighter aircraft to boost services
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- Faced with stiff competition from private courier services, India Post plans to induct four more freighter aircraft by the year-end to beef up speed post services to almost 15 major cities, a ...
Paswan warns steel dealers against selling over market rates
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- Action would be taken against dealers selling steel products at prices higher than market rates, steel minister Ram Vilas Paswan said here Wednesday. "Certain dealers and traders have sold ...
HDFC profit up at Rs.4.68 bn in first quarter
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- Housing Development Finance Corporation Ltd (HDFC) Wednesday posted profit after tax (PAT) of Rs.4.68 billion ($117.02 million) during the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal (2008-09) as ...
Goa is where Bollywood loves to holiday
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- Goa is definitely the favourite holiday spot for most Bollywood celebrities. From Esha Deol and Arshad Warsi to Imtiaz Ali and Malaika Arora Khan - they all prefer to hit the golden beaches to ...
Sri Lankan troops capture strategic Sea Tiger base
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Colombo, July 16 -- Sri Lankan troops have captured fresh territory held by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as well as a strategically important Sea Tiger base in the northwestern Mannar district, the ...
Experts warn against breast self-exams
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 16 -- Examining one's breast for symptoms of cancer may not be advisable as it has led to twice as many biopsies with negative results in women. In two large studies of 388,535 women in Russia ...
Post-Kabul attack, India needs to be more assertive in Afghanistan
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- The vehicle-borne suicide bomb attack at the entrance of the Indian embassy in Kabul and the resultant casualties have created a furore in the Indian national security establishment and the ...
Kerala invites air taxi operators to promote tourism
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Thiruvananthapuram, July 16 -- Kerala's tourism minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan Wednesday invited the private sector to start helicopter taxi services in the state. "We welcome all those interested in operating ...
US lawmaker Biden to push n-deal 'like the devil'
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 16 -- A key US lawmaker has vowed to push the India-US nuclear deal in the Congress "like the devil" if New Delhi gets its end done, but fears its passage is going to be "very, very tight". "I ...
Zinc could reduce infant mortality in diarrhoea
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 16 -- A zinc supplement could help cut down millions of diarrhoeal deaths among infants every year in the developing world, according to a study. The findings of the study supports World ...
For the first time, Canada deports US war deserter
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Toronto, July 16 -- Canada has for the first time deported an American war deserter to possibly face court-martial at his Fort Knox base in the US. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Vancouver Tuesday ...
Israeli films more popular abroad than at home: Director
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- Acclaimed Israeli director Eran Riklis says while films from his country are finally getting global recognition, they are not as popular back home. "Films that work internationally don't ...
Acting easier than writing: Rahul Bose
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- Actor Rahul Bose, who has written the screenplay for his film "The Whisperers" that was showcased at the ongoing Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival, says it is easier to act than to write a scene on ...
UAE plans housing for labourers with families
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Abu Dhabi, July 16 -- In a move that will benefit thousands of expatriate labourers, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is going to build labour accommodation complexes to let workers keep their families too. The ...
Ledger's father proud of 'The Dark Knight'
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 16 -- The late Heath Ledger's father is "proud" of his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight" and says the film is everything the family hoped it would be "and more". Ledger's family flew to ...
Global warming to hit you in the kidneys
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Toronto, July 16 -- Scientists have warned that global warming will soon hit us where it hurts the most: kidneys. In their new study published in Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Scientists journal ...
Chris Brown to take a break from singing for 'Bone Deep'
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 16 -- RnB star Chris Brown is all set to take a break from his singing career to work in a movie. He is in final negotiations to join Matt Dillon and rapper T.I in a new thriller "Bone Deep", ...
'Dr Death' Jayant Patel expected in Australia by weekend
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, July 16 -- Justice seems closer home for former patients of India-born American citizen Jayant Patel, who is expected to be in Australia by this weekend to face charges for 16 offences, including manslaughter ...
Indian elephants threatened as Britain backs China move on ivory
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 16 -- Animal support groups fear for elephants in India and Africa following the British government's official backing to China to buy ivory. The government voted in China's favour at the UN, ...
At 24, Katrina sprints on path to success
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- As she turns 24, Britain-born Katrina Kaif, who was initially written off by critics for her strong foreign accent, can boast of having carved a niche in Bollywood in just five years. Her ...
Lakhia moves on to comedy with 'Generation X'
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- After two back-to-back action films, "Shootout At Lokhandwala" and "Mission Istanbul", director Apoorva Lakhia's next project "Generation X" combines the thrills with some comedy too ....
Down on luck? Make the 'Kismat Konnection'
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- After five years, director Aziz Mirza returns to the film world to tell the story of an architect struggling for his big break in "Kismat Konnection", which is releasing Friday. Mirza's ...
US to probe Kabul's charges of terrorism against Pakistan
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 16 -- As a bill proposing tripling of non-military aid to Pakistan was introduced in the US Congress, President George Bush said Washington would investigate Kabul's charges that Pakistan had a hand in ...
David Beckham's drives anger Victoria
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 16 -- Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham is angry with husband David for driving alone at night without any bodyguards because she fears the Soccer star will get into car chases with the ...
Kidman, Urban refuse to sell their newborn daughter's pictures
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, July 16 -- Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman and her singer husband Keith Urban have reportedly rejected multimillion-dollar offers to publish the first pictures of their newborn daughter Sunday Rose ....
Tattoos linked to personality disorder in some
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 16 -- The presence of tattoos on criminally inclined psychiatric patients is linked with antisocial personality disorder, or ASPD, according to a new study. ASPD is characterised by several ...
ANZ Bank to outsource New Zealand jobs to India
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, July 16 -- ANZ Bank will move 238 back office jobs from Wellington and Auckland to India. The announcement comes close on the heels of another of Australia's four leading banks, the National Australia Bank ...
Quentin Tarantino flew to France to sign up Brad Pitt
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, July 16 -- Oscar winning director Quentin Tarantino flew to France to convince Brad Pitt to star in his new movie "Inglorious Bastards". Hollywood.com reports that Pitt is currently in France after ...
Timberlake's granny wants him to get married in his mother's backyard
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 16 -- Pop singer Justin Timberlake, planning to marry girlfriend Jessica Biel, is looking for an exclusive private island, but his grandmother wants him to tie the knot in his mother Lynn's ...
Tommy Lee shows personal pictures of Pamela Anderson to friends
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 16 -- Rocker Tommy Lee shows off intimate snaps of ex-wife Pamela Anderson to his friends and is "proud" to be in a relationship with the star. Lee, who reunited with Anderson again earlier this ...
Priyanka refused to kiss Harman in 'Love Story 2050'
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, July 16 -- When it comes to rules, Priyanka Chopra makes no exceptions, even if it is boyfriend Harman Baweja. The actress refused to kiss the newcomer in "Love Story 2050" though a kiss was part of the ...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim arrested
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kuala Lumpur, July 16 -- Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim was Wednesday arrested for questioning by police, giving a fresh twist to the political controversy over the sodomy charge against him. His car ...
US poised to bomb Pakistan: reports
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London/Islamabad, July 16 -- US troops in Afghanistan are massing close to the border with Pakistan, poised to launch bombing raids on suspected terrorist bases in the North Waziristan region, British and Pakistani ...
The group Kerala's reformed alcoholics swear by
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kozhikode, July 16 -- Many in Kerala, which has one of the highest rates of per capita alcohol consumption in India, say they would never have got over their addiction to liquor but for Alcoholics Anonymous ...
Jharkhand government chief pilot serves resignation notice
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Ranchi, July 16 -- Unhappy with his service conditions, Jharkhand government's chief pilot Ajay Srivastav, who flies the only helicopter owned by the state, has served a resignation notice. Srivastav, in his ...
Heavy rains predicted in Uttar Pradesh
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Lucknow, July 16 -- Heavy rains will lash several districts in Uttar Pradesh in the next 48 hours, a met official said here Wednesday. "As the monsoon has moved lower down the foothills of the Himalayas, heavy ...
Celibate snow leopard to get foreign female companion!
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shimla, July 16 -- Single at six can sure be lonely - at least if you are a male snow leopard! To help one such captive big cat in a Himalayan nature park, the authorities are scouting for a partner from ...
UPA sure to win confidence vote: Paswan
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Patna, July 16 -- Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader and central minister Ramvilas Paswan has given a vote of confidence to the Congress-led government saying it was sure to win the trust motion in parliament and that ...
Is NATO readying to strike northwest Pakistan?
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, July 16 -- After deploying troops across the Kurram Agency along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has sent soldiers to the North Waziristan Agency (NWA), raising ...
iPhone to help find your parked car
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Daytona Beach (Florida), July 16 -- A software developed by a US company enables the recently launched Apple iPhone 3G to give turn by turn directions, that help people find their parked vehicles. The software ...
â[euro]~New property law will hit Bangladeshâ[euro](TM)s Hindu minorityâ[euro](TM)
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dhaka, July 16 -- Bangladesh's caretaker government has been cautioned against promulgating a law that would encourage land grabbers to illegally seize properties belonging to minority Hindus, accelerating a process ...
Chandigarh docs find safer cataract-glaucoma treatment
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chandigarh, July 16 -- A team of ophthalmologists from Chandigarh has evolved a way to concurrently treat two eye diseases - cataract and glaucoma - without post operative complications. And that's great news for a ...
'Accident' turns out to be planned murder of Indian
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, July 16 -- What was initially believed to be a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of an Indian here has turned out to be a well-planned murder. The police in Dubai arrested two Asians, one of ...
Shirdi set for three-day Gurupournima festival
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shirdi (Maharashtra), July 16 -- The temple of 20th century saint Shri Sai Baba here is all set for a grand celebration of Gurupournima, a special day that extols the lofty guru-shishya (teacher-student) ...
Amarnath land row: Jammu shuts down again
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Jammu, July 16 -- A shutdown was observed here again Wednesday after some Hindu groups, demanding that a controversial plot in the Kashmir valley be handed over to a temple trust, rejected Governor N.N. Vohra's call ...
Cigarette cos. manipulate menthol levels to lure young smokers: Study
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, July 16 -- Tobacco companies manipulate menthol levels in cigarettes to hook young smokers, a new study says. "The tobacco industry has carefully manipulated menthol content not only to lure youth ...
Sobhraj's fiancée haunted by kidnap, torture threats
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, July 16 -- Catapulted into headlines worldwide after the news of her engagement to criminal mastermind Charles Sobhraj became public, Nepali girl Nihita Biswas is now facing the flipside of her controversial ...
'Removable splints better than cast after ankle surgery'
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 16 -- People recover faster after ankle surgery if they are provided with a removable cast or splint to enable them to exercise, instead of having their foot plastered. In case of stable ...
Orissa man cuts his tongue to â[euro]~appeaseâ[euro](TM) deity
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bhubaneswar, July 16 -- A man cut his tongue with a razor blade in an Orissa temple to appease a deity, the police said Wednesday. Aswini Patel, 25, of neighbouring Chhattisgarh state visited Rourkela, some 500 ...
Terrorism obsessed Bush ignored emergence of India, China: Biden
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, July 16 -- A senior US lawmaker has accused President George Bush of ignoring larger forces shaping the world "like the emergence of China, India, Russia and a united Europe" due to an obsession with the ...
Full-day kindergarteners' early advantage fades soon
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, July 16 -- Children in full-day kindergarten have better reading and math skills than children in part-day kindergarten, but these initial benefits fade soon after the children leave kindergarten ....
Haryana to recruit over 7,300 policemen for national capital region
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chandigarh, July 16 -- The Haryana government will recruit 7,372 policemen at various levels for the maintenance of law and order in those areas of the state which fall in the national capital region (NCR) around New ...
Footpaths to generate electricity from pedestrians' footsteps
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, July 16 -- A new technology under development by a British company would allow harnessing of the power of footsteps of pedestrians to generate electricity for lighting up public places. The technology, ...
Sonia Gandhi to visit Andhra Pradesh Thursday
Jul 16, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Hyderabad, July 16 -- A hectic schedule awaits Congress president Sonia Gandhi on her day-long visit to Andhra Pradesh Thursday. Gandhi will inaugurate a port, lay the foundation stone for an electricity ...