The Hindustan Times back issues from Monday, August 18:
INVESTORS CAN OPT FOR EXCHANGE TRADED FUND
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 18 -- ARUNDHUTI, a teacher in a girl's higher secondary school, asked her friend recently: "Do you know what is the meaning of ETF"?ETF means Exchange Traded Fund.I know that it is the extended form of the ...
INDIA- THE TARGET OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 18 -- Mumbai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Varanasi, Lucknow, Faizabad, Hyderabad, Malegaon, Jaipur, Bangalaore, Ahmedabad- all these Indian big and smaller cities have a common experience recently for dubious reasons ...
PHENOMENAL PHELPS
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 18 -- American swim sensation Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian ever by winning a record eight gold medals in a single Games to take his career Olympic gold tally to a stunning 14, thus breaking ...
CM'S REMARKS
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 18 -- Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently accused the Gauhati High Court of making "sweeping remarks" and asserted that foreign nationals would never become kingmakers in Assam, but he himself also could not ...
ROLE OF ABDUL GAFFAR KHAN IN FREEDOM STRUGGLE
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 18 -- The 'Partition' of India (1947) and the birth of two nation States was a saga of both joy and sorrow, aspirations and frustration. Some leaders of the 'Freedom Movement' became very powerful to reshape ...
Tea gardens strike in West Bengal deferred
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Aug. 18 -- The indefinite tea gardens strike in West Bengal called by Coordination Committee of Plantation Workers (CCPW) for wage related issues, which was scheduled to start Monday, has been deferred for the ...
Equity markets slip into red early afternoon
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- Indian equity markets continued to trade flat early Monday afternoon after a volatile session. There was buying interest in technology, FMCG and capital goods stocks while metal, oil and gas and auto ...
Sensex closes 78 points down
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- The Indian equities market closed in red. The 30-share benchmark of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) sensitive index (Sensex), which opened at 14,681.14 points, touched a low of 14,600.65 ...
Bids to select spectrum allocation manager floated
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The Department of Telecom (DoT) Monday began inviting bids from companies wanting to manage the e-auction for spectrum allocation of next generation mobile applications in 22 telecom ...
Mahindra acquires China firm through joint venture
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi/Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- The Mahindra Group's farm equipment arm Monday signed an agreement with one of top three Chinese tractor manufacturers to set up a majority-owned joint venture with an investment of $26 ...
Sarovar Hotels focussing on branded budget hotels
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- City-based Sarovar Hotels and Resorts, which opened the country's first branded budget hotel Hometel here last week, plans to open eight more such hotels in the country in order to tap the mid-upper ...
Equity markets in the green in early trade
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- Indian equity markets, which opened lower Monday, moved into the green in initial trade. The 30-share benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), the Sensex, opened with a loss of ...
BSNL to convert Karnataka public call offices into info kiosks
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, Aug. 18 -- State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will convert its public call offices (PCOs) in Karnataka into electronic information and transaction kiosks with free broadband connectivity ...
Markets end with losses in a choppy trade
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- Indian equity markets closed in the red Monday for the fourth day running, in an extremely choppy trading session. Weak global markets also dampened the investors' sentiment. The market ...
CII signs accord with IGNOU for training workforce
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Monday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) to train students with requisite employability ...
Gulf meets on turning Indian remittances into investments
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 18 -- Two investor meets will be held in the Gulf in November this year under an Indian government initiative to help overseas Indians channelise their remittances into actual investments back in the ...
State Bank officers strike work
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Aug. 18 -- Officers of the biggest commercial bank in the country, the State Bank of India (SBI), went on a nationwide token strike Monday to protest the government's decision to merge the State Bank of ...
Montek emphasises need to hit social sector targets
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The country's Planning commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia underlined here on Monday the need for effective achievement of targets set under various social sector ...
Prince Charles ignorant about Green Revolution, say intellectuals
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Agricultural scientists, economists and activists have criticised Prince Charles for trying to undermine India's Green Revolution and asserted that the agri-movement saved scores of people from ...
User fee guidelines for airports announced
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday announced the draft guidelines for user development fees at airports, a charge that authorities levy on passengers on international flights. The ...
Landslides hit transportation of apple crop in Himachal Pradesh
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shimla, Aug. 18 -- Apple growers, particularly in the Shimla district, are up in arms against the Himachal Pradesh government for its failure to clear landslides on various highways during the past few days, resulting ...
Over 1,500 new jobs in Dubai marina industry likely
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 18 -- A growth surge in Dubai's marina industry will lead to the creation of 1,500 new jobs, according to a luxury marina developer and management company. Island Global Yachting (IGY), in a ...
ICICI Bank plans exclusive private equity fund for small & medium businesses
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Aug. 18 -- India's largest private lender ICICI Bank is planning to set up a $200 million (Rs.8 billion) private equity fund exclusively for the small and medium enterprises (SME) sector, a top company ...
India fails to make to ADB top slot
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- India's Ashok Kumar Jha, former finance secretary, has lost out to China's Zhao Xiaoyu in the election to the post of vice-president of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). China's Zhao ...
Apollo Tyres seeks state help over Kerala unit lockout
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Trissur (Kerala), Aug. 18 -- The Apollo Tyres management, which declared a lockout at its Perambara unit near here over a labour dispute, now wants the Kerala government to intervene, a senior company official said ...
80,000 officers of State Bank, associates strike work
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata/Mumbai/Chennai, Aug. 18 -- About 80,000 officers of the State Bank of India (SBI) and its seven associate banks went on a nationwide strike Monday to protest the government's decision to merge the State Bank of ...
Regulator allows computer-to-phone calls now
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Soon, for the first time in the country, you would be able to make calls from computers to fixed line as well as mobile phones. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Monday ...
Kerala to hold handloom show, buyer-seller meet
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 18 -- Kerala will host a two-day handloom exhibition and a buyer-seller meet in October to promote the handloom products, a senior minister said here Monday. It would be held here Oct ...
Small industries' exchange likely to come up this fiscal
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Aug. 18 -- The capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) may clear the proposal to set up a dedicated exchange for the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by the end of this ...
Delhi an e-waste dumping yard?
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Delhi, which is already reeling under high pollution, has now to deal with another environmental challenge - e-wastes. According to an industry lobby's estimate, over 2,000 trucks dump around ...
Eight in fray for Oman telecom firm stake
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 18 -- Eight telecom operators from Asia, Europe and the Middle East have been selected from the pre-qualification process for the sale of a 25 percent stake of Oman's leading telecommunication services ...
Central undertaking staff to go on strike Wednesday
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Public sector employees will go on a strike Wednesday to protest against disinvestments and outsourcing in state-owned enterprises, a state-owned company warned the Bombay Stock Exchange ...
UTV Software acquires US gaming company
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- India's leading media and entertainment company UTV Software Communications announced Monday that its UK unit IG Interactive Entertainment has acquired 80 percent stake in the California-based gaming ...
Bahrain to host global Islamic banking forum
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 18 -- Bahrain will host the 15th annual World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC), the largest gathering of Islamic finance leaders in the world, Nov 23-25. The event will help shape new growth ...
Manisha spent birthday playing ugliest character of her career
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- It was Manisha Koirala's birthday on Saturday, August 16. And she was on the sets playing the most challenging role of her career. "It's not a role that I carry home with happiness. In Deepti ...
Ram Gopal Varma wants to expose the media
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma is exasperated with the media - so much so that he is now working on a script to reveal the tactics of the industry. "I am just on the verge of finishing a script ...
Daunting task to make Kishore Kumar biopic: Rensil D'Silva
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- Writer Rensil D'Silva is puzzled by the haste shown in announcing legendary singer Kishore Kumar's biopic and his name as the writer of the project. He says it will take him a year to put together ...
'Maan Gaye...' - a heady mix of romance, comedy and thrill
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- They tickled the funny bone of moviegoers in their 2006 film "Pyaar Ke Side Effects". Now Rahul Bose and Mallika Sherawat team up once again in the funny flick "Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam", which ...
Sister claims Peaches got married because of depression
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 18 -- Pixie, the sister of Peaches Geldof, says the 19-year-old got married to her boyfriend of just four weeks because she was depressed. Peaches, daughter of former rock star and humanitarian Bob ...
Faris feels bad about mocking Diaz in 'Lost In Translation'
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 18 -- Actress Anna Faris says she still feels bad about having unknowingly mocked actress Cameron Diaz in the award winning movie "Lost In Translation". Faris played the role of Kelly, a B-list ...
Deora to meet oil firm heads to discuss fuel pricing
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Petroleum minister Murli Deora will discuss with the heads of state-run oil majors about the B.K. Chaturvedi Committee's recommendations on fuel pricing, the government said here ...
Ila Arun sings at good pal Neena Gupta's post-wedding bash
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- Ila Arun's throaty voice filled the night as Neena Gupta's bosom pals, filmmaker Kalpana Lajmi and Soni Razdan, were on their feet dancing with gay abandon in an impromptu post-wedding bash thrown ...
Friends of Wood's wife say he won't live with mistress
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 18 -- Friends of Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood's wife Jo have refuted the claims of his 20-year-old mistress Ekaterina Ivanova that she and Wood were going to live together, calling her a "silly ...
Winehouse getting inspired by "Wizard of Oz"
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 18 -- Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse is obsessed with the movie "The Wizard of Oz" and is making her new album on the basis of the Hollywood classic. Thesun.co.uk reports that Winehouse's ...
Madonna's husband says he is proud of her
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 18 -- British director Guy Ritchie gave an emotional speech at a small party he threw for his popstar wife Madonna on her 50th birthday, saying he was proud of her and loved her very ...
General Hospital star Berman marries real estate broker
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Aug. 18 -- Julie Berman, star of the TV show "General Hospital", married commercial real estate broker Michael Grady in Los Angeles Aug 15. Berman, 24, who plays the troubled daughter of Luke and ...
More than half college students have suicidal thoughts
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 18 -- More than half of 26,000 students surveyed across 70 colleges and universities across the US admitted having at least one episode of suicidal thinking at some point in their lives ....
Malaysian PM opens campus of ethnic Indian university
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 18 -- Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi opened the new campus of the ethnic Indian-run Asian Institute of Medicine, Science and Technology, now renamed by its acronym, AIMST in Kedah ...
Nepal's Maoists struggle with dissent ahead of swearing-in
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, Aug. 18 -- An ethnic politician's warning to Maoist chief Prachanda that his prime minister's "crown" came with thorns proved true with the former rebels still struggling to satisfy their allies and name a ...
Anwar Ibrahim says sorry over assault on media during poll campaign
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 18 -- Campaigning to win a parliamentary by-election while being probed for a sodomy charge levelled by an aide, Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has apologised over the attack on several ...
Aditya Pancholi's father dead
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- Aditya Pancholi has lost his aged father who suffered a massive heart attack following a gall bladder rupture. The 80-year-old died at a hospital here Saturday, Pancholi said. "His ...
Anti-depressants may impair driving ability
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 18 -- People prescribed antidepressants seem to have less control over driving than people who don't and depressed people on antidepressants are much worse off driving. University of North ...
Musharraf may quit after address to nation
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Aug. 18 -- Speculation over Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's resignation reached a feverish pitch Monday with some officials saying he was likely to quit in the evening after addressing the nation in ...
Prachanda begins power stint with China trip
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, Aug. 18 -- Nepal's new Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda will make his first visit abroad with a trip to Beijing this week to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. The ...
Hydrogels provide scaffolding for growth of bone cells
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Aug. 18 -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed hydrogels that may provide a suitable framework to enable bone regeneration. The hydrogels have been found to encourage the growth of ...
Adults fooled easily when kids fib
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 18 -- Children can easily fool adults with their denials but are more likely to be caught when they cook up something that never happened, according to a new study. "The large number of ...
Indian mission in South Africa to outsource visa services
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Pretoria, Aug. 18 -- The Indian mission in South Africa will soon begin outsourcing visa services to prevent "annonying" delays for tourists, India's Tourism and Culture Minister Ambika Soni said here. "Tourism ...
Breakthrough to make cheap hydrogen fuel possible
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 18 -- A breakthrough could revolutionise the renewable energy industry by making hydrogen - heralded as a clean, green fuel of the future - cheaper and easier to produce ...
Better hair care products in the offing
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 18 -- The first detailed microscopic analysis of the changes in individual strands of hair when they interact with one another, will be the key to developing improved shampoos, conditioners, and other ...
Leave or face more deaths, Taliban warns Canada
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Toronto, Aug. 18 -- In its first direct threat to any US ally in the war on terror, the Taliban warned Canada on Sunday that either it quit Afghanistan or face increased attacks on its troops and aid workers in the ...
Renewable energy will remain daydream without global cooperation
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Salzburg, Aug. 18 -- India needs to multiply its power output five times in the next 22 years. The current plan is to do this largely through thermal plants. But that will accelerate climate change, which can "gravely ...
Eight dead in Spanish road accident
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Castellon (Spain), Aug. 18 -- At least eight people have been killed and 45 injured when a bus they were travelling in crashed on a highway near the tourist resort of Oropesa del Mar, some 20 km from this eastern ...
Pakistan is my love, Musharraf says before resigning
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Aug. 18 -- The penchant for grandstanding and the famous one-liners did not desert Pervez Musharraf even at the time of his worst political crisis. "Pakistan is my love" was his parting line before he ...
Three Indians die in UAE fire accident
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 18 -- Three Indian workers were killed and four injured when a fire broke out in a house in the emirate of Ajman in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). While two workers were reportedly asphyxiated in ...
Musharraf demits office after nine years as president
Aug 18, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Aug. 18 -- Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Monday announced his resignation from office during a televised address to the nation, ending an era in Pakistani politics that started almost nine years ago ...