The Hindustan Times back issues from Tuesday, August 19:
INTEGRATED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 19 -- India's progress in foodgrain production is mainly attributed to introduction of high yielding varieties of crop since 1965-66 and thereafter increased use of chemical fertilizers during the nineties ....
PAY HIKE
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 19 -- The Central government has finally accepted the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission presided over by Justice B N Srikrishna with some modifications and announced hike in the salaries of 50 lakh ...
BAMBOO TECHNOLOGY
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Aug. 19 -- It is heartening to note that the Cane and Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC) of Guwahati within two years of its functioning has achieved the distinction of getting global soon with its knowhow to help ...
Equity markets start in the red
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- Indian equity markets, which opened lower Tuesday following weak global cues, were in the red in initial trade. Banking, technology, auto and power stocks were under selling pressure. The ...
Nobel laureate unveils loan for poor Indian heart patients
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, Aug. 19 -- Bangladeshi Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunis Tuesday launched a novel loan scheme of the State Bank of India (SBI) for cardiac treatment of poor patients at Narayana Hrudayalaya health city ...
Dunlop plans 10 MW captive power plant at Shahgunj
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kolkata, Aug. 19 -- City-based tyre manufacturer Dunlop India Ltd is planning a 10 MW captive power plant at its manufacturing unit at Shahgunj in West Bengal, a top company official said here Tuesday. "We are ...
Dubai to host meet on commodity development
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 19 -- A regional conference on commodity development will be held here this month against a backdrop of a severe food crisis and unprecedented inflation globally. The Amsterdam-based Common Fund for ...
India-Pakistan trade can cross $9 bn, says Assocham
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Trade between India and Pakistan can reach $9 billion in the next few years despite political differences, industry lobby Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) said here ...
World Bank asks India, China, US to find Doha solution
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick wants the United States, India, and China to work with WTO Director General Pascal Lamy to come up with a compromise on the Doha round of world trade ...
Telecom watchdog wants advertisers to measure television ratings
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Indian telecom watchdog Tuesday said the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), an organisation set up by advertisers last September, should oversee television audience measurement and ...
Finnair to reschedule India flights from winter
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Nordic carrier Finnair has decided to reschedule its operations to India from this winter to offer better connectivity and convenient flight timings to at least 12 destinations in Europe, a senior ...
Hindustan Unilever seeks partnerships to market products
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL), with interest in personal and home care products and food and beverages, Tuesday said it wants partnerships with state bodies and NGOs to market fast moving consumer ...
Anil Ambani group launches direct-to-home TV service
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group launched its direct-to-home (DTH) television broadcasting service here Tuesday under the "Reliance Big TV" banner with a bouquet of 202 channels for customers across ...
Lupin enters into alliance with US firm
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- Pharmaceutical major Lupin Laboratories has entered into a promotion and marketing agreement with US-based Forest Laboratories for its Aerochamber line of products, it announced Tuesday ....
Punjab's woollen traders lose Kashmir market
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Shimla, Aug. 19 -- The ongoing agitation in Jammu has robbed Punjab's woollens industry of a ready market in the Kashmir valley. "Hosiery items worth millions of rupees will be left unsold unless the government ...
Equity markets go further in the red early afternoon
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- Indian equity markets went further in the red early Tuesday afternoon. There was heavy selling pressure on metal, power, FMCG and capital goods stocks. All the sectoral indices were losing ground ....
ITC Infotech acquires software testing firm in US
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- ITC's wholly-owned subsidiary ITC Infotech India has acquired New York-based information technology company Pyxis Solution for an undisclosed amount, it announced Tuesday. In a filing to the ...
Mobile phones will become main marketing tool: ICICI head
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Mobile phones will provide marketers the key to increase their reach, the head of India's second largest bank, ICICI Bank, said here Tuesday. "Mobile advertising and marketing through ...
Equity markets continue downslide
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- Indian equity markets continued their losing streak and closed in the red for the fifth day running, on the back of weak global cues. Selling pressure was witnessed by all the sectors. Except ...
No hindrance in merger of associate banks: SBI chief
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, Aug. 19 -- State Bank of India (SBI) chairman O.P. Bhatt Tuesday said he did not see any hindrance in merger of associate banks with the SBI despite protest strikes by some of the employees. "I see ...
Gold once again catches fancy in India as prices dip
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Prices of gold in India, the largest market for the metal in the world, may have started to climb up slightly after dropping to a multi-month low last week, but there has been no let up in demand, ...
Bahrain commissions study on small, medium sector
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 19 -- Bahrain has commissioned leading American provider of credit information on businesses and corporations Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) to conduct a detailed study of the Gulf nation's small and medium ...
Gulf on course for a common currency: report
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Aug. 19 -- The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is on schedule to meet the key requirements by 2010 for a common currency, according to a report. The report, 'An Assessment of Progress Towards GCC Monetary ...
Trade unions to go on nationwide strike Wednesday
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Government functioning will likely slow down Wednesday with employees of all state-owned banks as well as Left-backed trade unions calling nationwide strikes over separate issues. Airport ...
Anil Ambani group launches direct-to-home TV service
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group launched its direct-to-home (DTH) television broadcasting service here Tuesday under the "Reliance Big TV" banner with a bouquet of 202 channels for customers across ...
Oil majors against pricing policy change
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- State-owned oil majors don't want the petroleum product pricing model to be changed from trade parity to base export parity model as recommended by a high-power committee on fuel pricing, Minister ...
Huffman got 'Desperate Housewives' role in complaining audition
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- Actress Felicity Huffman got the role in the hit TV show "Desperate Housewives" after an audition where she complained about the troubles of motherhood. Huffman has three children and she ...
'Bigg Boss 2' gets maximum viewership first night
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The introductory episode of the second season of TV reality show "Bigg Boss" drew maximum viewership in its time slot among general entertainment channels (GECs). Over four million viewers sat ...
Haripriya has high expectations from 'Mukhyamantri I Love You'
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Bangalore, Aug. 19 -- Kannada actress Haripriya says she wants to be as popular as Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai and has pinned her hopes on forthcoming controversial film "Mukhyamantri I Love You" to make it ...
Lohan spotted with partner Ronson in LA
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- Actress Lindsay Lohan and her rumoured same-sex partner Samantha Ronson were spotted hugging and getting intimate in Hollywood recently. Thesun.co.uk reports that they two were embracing each ...
Indian students making most of Australian scholarships
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Melbourne, Aug. 19 -- As Australian education degrees get greater recognition in India, students are availing themselves of the many scholarships awarded by the Australian government to pursue further studies and ...
Fungus helps beetles digest hard wood
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- An obscure fungus in the gut of Asian longhorned beetles, which helps the insect munch through the hardest of woods, could help develop methods to control the pest and break down biomass for ...
Sydney residents oppose Buddhist monastery development
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Aug. 19 -- A Buddhist society's plans to build a temple in south-western Sydney is facing an outcry from residents, coming as it does close on the heels of the recent furore over a proposed Islamic school in ...
DNA extracted from discarded shark teeth
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- Extracting shark DNA posed problems, not the least of which was carrying out biopsies on live and rather uncooperative specimens. Now, two Macquarie University marine scientists, Heidi ...
Australia concerned about troops' safety following Musharraf's resignation
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Aug. 19 -- Australia Tuesday expressed concern over the safety of its troops in Afghanistan following the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf and recent political developments in ...
Desi Obama can cook dal, but finds naan tough
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama considers himself a "desi" who is an expert at cooking dal and other ethnic dishes, though he isn't that good at making naan, the Indian ...
Tamil Nadu fuel crisis spells losses for fishermen, rice growers
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Chennai, Aug. 19 -- Tamil Nadu's transporters, fishermen, cold storage operators and vegetable and food grain growers could lose at least Rs.250 million a day because of an acute diesel crisis triggered by an unending ...
Will Sherlyn Chopra replace Jade Goody in 'Bigg Boss'?
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- With Jade Goody on her way back to Britain from Indian reality show "Bigg Boss" after she was diagnosed with cancer, speculations are rife that item girl Sherlyn Chopra will take her ...
'Munnabhai' inspires seminar on modern Gandhigiri
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Johannesburg, Aug. 19 -- Bollywood film "Lage Raho Munnabhai" has inspired a slew of protests worldwide using Gandhian methods, such as people swamping officials with flowers. Now it's the turn of the academics to ...
Julia Roberts' niece slammed for hairy arms
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- Superstar Julia Roberts' niece Emma was slammed and picked on for having hairy arms on the set of her new movie. Julia too was ridiculed for having underarm hair for her role in "Notting ...
Custom designed catalysts to revolutionise production
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- Chemists have engineered a synthetic version of a natural enzyme which had the same catalytic power as that of its counterpart. These designer enzymes could revolutionise areas like drug ...
Zayed fell on face while doing stunt in Bangkok
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- Zayed Khan, who's currently into performing his own stunts, had an accident when he jumped out of a high-rise building in Bangkok while shooting for "Blue". The fall went wrong and Zayed's forehead ...
Delhi ready for mega tryst with art and its business
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The capital is gearing up to welcome what could perhaps be the country's most eventful art season. The first of three back-to-back mega art events in the capital starts Wednesday. Global ...
Reliance Petroleum may be allowed to sell products at home
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The petroleum ministry will suggest changes in taxation norms to allow Reliance Petroleum, a 100 percent export oriented company, to sell its products in the domestic market, a senior official of ...
State-owned bank employeess to strike work Wednesday
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Employees of all state-run banks will strike work Wednesday to protest against privatisation and merger of public sector banks. The All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), the All ...
For Washington, Musharraf is history
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- As key ally Pervez Musharraf resigned as Pakistan president, Washington talked of strongly supporting the new democratic regime in Islamabad to continue its "war on terror". President George Bush ...
My prayers are with Jade Goody: Shilpa Shetty
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, who is now hosting TV show "Bigg Boss", said she was shocked to hear that British reality TV star Jade Goody, a participant on the series, had been diagnosed with ...
Obama, McCain welcome Musharraf resignation
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- The two leading US presidential candidates have welcomed the resignation of Pervez Musharraf as Pakistan president saying it should help Islamabad focus on the fight against Al Qaeda and violent ...
Spears gets a new look...and new man?
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- Troubled pop star Britney Spears, who is making an impressive comeback professionally, has got herself a new look and she might have found a new man in her life too. Spears has got her hair ...
Yuvraj is a bundle of energy: Bipasha
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Aug. 19 -- Bollywood actress Bipasha Basu had a great time working with cricketer Yuvraj Singh while shooting an ad campaign. "It was fun and Yuvi is a bundle of energy. It feels great working with ...
Chris Rock's wife and I are good friends: Kerry Washington
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- Actress Kerry Washington, who has appeared in hits like "Ray", has laughed off reports that she wrecked comedian Chris Rock's marriage, saying she and his wife are still good friends. Kerry ...
BlackBerry Bold's home launch this week
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Toronto, Aug. 19 -- Canadian telecom giant Research in Motion (RIM), which skipped its own backyard earlier this month to unveil its much-hyped BlackBerry Bold in Austria, Russia and Turkey, will reportedly launch the ...
Duffy worried about image back home
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- Upcoming Welsh singer Duffy is scared that people back in her hometown might think that success has changed her. Duffy is one of the most successful British artistes this year. She has not ...
Musharraf to seek refuge in London: report
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- Former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf could seek refuge in London, a British newspaper reported Tuesday. The Daily Telegraph quoted an unnamed senior Western diplomat in Islamabad as ...
Indian-American sets record in robot assisted surgery
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Aug. 19 -- Indian-American urologic surgeon Ashok Hemal and colleagues have performed more robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to repair abnormal openings between the bladder and vagina known as fistulas than ...
Bacteria may help farmed lobsters ward off infection
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Aug. 19 -- A beneficial bacteria, which wild rock lobster larvae host naturally, could help their farmed cousins ward off infections and remove a large barrier to commercial production. Microbial ...
Nepal flays India as floods ravage border areas
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, Aug. 19 -- Officials and endangered families in Nepal's border villages are blaming India after heavy rains damaged a barrage and triggered floods that have destroyed thousands of homes and are feared to ...
'Pakistan PM's US visit tipped scales against Musharraf'
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Aug. 19 -- Pakistan's ruling coalition used Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's visit to Washington last month to "convince" US President George W. Bush to stop supporting his "old ally" Pervez Musharraf, a ...
Jade Goody detected with cancer, to leave 'Bigg Boss'
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Aug. 19 -- British reality TV star Jade Goody, who came to India to participate in the second season of Indian show "Bigg Boss", has been detected with cancer and will now leave the series. Goody, 27, ...
UAE sends statement on Iran actions on island to Arab body
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Abu Dhabi, Aug. 19 -- The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Federal National Council (FNC) has a sent a copy of its statement over the recent Iranian action of setting up offices in UAE's Abu Mousa island to the Arab ...
Musharraf's exit: another blow to Bush foreign policy
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- Had George Bush's presidency not already entered its lame duck months, the less than flattering departure of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf so close to the time when Russian Prime Minister ...
Nepal to send its goddesses to school now
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Kathmandu, Aug. 19 -- The winds of change that transformed the sleepy Himalayan kingdom of Nepal into a secular republic and turned its god-king into a tax-paying, law-abiding commoner, have now overtaken the nation's ...
Time to move beyond Musharraf: Pakistani media
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Aug. 19 -- With Pervez Musharraf having stepped down as Pakistan's head of state, the country's ruling coalition should now move ahead instead of harking back to the past, editorials in leading English ...
Sri Lankan teachers to learn English in Hyderabad
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Colombo, Aug. 19 -- The Indian government has offered scholarships to 41 Sri Lankan government schoolteachers to undergo a special English training course at the reputed English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU) ...
Pakistan situation 'fragile', but no power vacuum: US
Aug 19, 2008 ... Report from Indo-Asian News Service brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Aug. 19 -- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice does not subscribe to the view that Pervez Musharraf's resignation as president would leave a power vacuum in Pakistan though admittedly the country is in a ...