The Hindustan Times back issues from Tuesday, November 11:
MARADONA TO VISIT INDIA NEXT MONTH
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- It's official now. Diego Maradona will be arriving here on December 5 late in the evening. At a media conference at the Netaji Indoor Stadium on Monday, MP Shamik Lahiri announced the dates of the legend's visit to the city and his ...
SC JUDGES' PROMOTION: NOT FAIR, SAYS GOVT
Nov 11, 2008 ... Nagendar Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- THE GOVERNMENT has pointed that the Supreme Court collegium has overlooked seniority, regional and gender representations in its latest round of promotion recommendations for three high court judges to the apex ...
ALVA RESIGNS, MAKWANA ECHOES TICKET SALE CHARGE
Nov 11, 2008 ... Vinod Sharma & Saroj Nagi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Margaret alva is believed to have sent her resignation as Congress general secretary to Sonia Gandhi late on Monday. Her move came after she met A.K. Antony, chairman of the Disciplinary Action Committee ...
IS THIS BSP CANDIDATE RICHEST IN DELHI POLL FRAY?
Nov 11, 2008 ... Atul Mathur Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Although the last date of filing nominations is November 11, Kanwar Singh Tanwar is likely to emerge as the richest candidate contesting this year's Delhi assembly polls.One look at the assets he has declared indicates as ...
ROBBERY INSIDE S. DELHI BANK, POLICE CLUELESS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Rhythma Kaul Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Five armed men entered the E-block branch of UCO Bank at the busy Hauz Khas market, fired two rounds of bullets on the ground, hit a customer with the butt of a gun and decamped with Rs 35,000 on Monday. The robbery ...
DECLARATION TIME
Nov 11, 2008 ... Atul Mathur Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The real estate boom of the past few years, which saw property prices going through the roof, seems to have had little effect in posh East Nizamuddin. While a 1,500 square feet flat in the suburbs now costs close to Rs 1 ...
CROWD TROUBLE FOR BJP'S MALHOTRA
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The Election Commission has sought an explanation from BJP's chief ministerial candidate VK Malhotra for the show of strength outside the Returning Officer's office at the time of filing his nomination on Saturday.The Commission ...
MAN COMMITS SUICIDE AT METRO STATION; TRAINS DISRUPTED FOR 13 MINS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Rajiv Arora Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- A middle-aged man committed a suicide at the Janakpuri (West) metro station by jumping in front of a train on Monday afternoon. According to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, it happened around 12:12 pm on Platform 1 of the ...
BOMB HOAX
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. GUWAHATI, Nov 10 -- A bomb hoax created panic in Fatasil area this evening. Police, however, confirmed that ...
STRENGTHENING POLICE
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Nov. 11 -- The serial blasts on October 30 gave the wake up call to the Assam Government and finally a decision has been taken for strengthening the police force to deal with the situation with appointment of more ...
RBI RATE CUT
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Nov. 11 -- The decline in stock market coupled with deceleration in industry and infrastructure sectors, accompanied by rising current account deficit presently reaching to the extent of more than 2 per cent of our ...
US IMPERIALISM AND GLOBAL TERRORISM
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Nov. 11 -- October 30, 2008 is a black day for humanity, civilization, democracy and secularism. However, it is only another black day added to the long list of its kind recorded and repeated in history from time to ...
RBI POLICY TO RESTORE CONFIDENCE
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Nov. 11 -- "RBI inaction roil bourses", "RBI's no news is bad news for (stock) markets", screamed newspapers over the Reserve Bank's mid-year review, as the sensex tumbled to its 2005 level of below 8000 ....
... AND HE MADE A MARK
Nov 11, 2008 ... Itee Dewan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Designer Rahul Mishra, who created ripples in the fashion industry last year with his seamless creations has added another feather to his hat. He has been conferred the international designer of the year award by the ...
IT ISN'T ALL BLACK AND WHITE
Nov 11, 2008 ... Nida Mahmood Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- My sister is very keen on pursuing fashion as a careen option. I watched Madhur Bhandarkar's film Fashion and was wondering if the fashion world really is as depicted?-Paramjeet Kaur I wouldn't say that it's a ...
A UNIQUE JEWEL
Nov 11, 2008 ... Geetika Jain Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Venice is like no other place in the world. The historic city is a floating stage of 118 tiny islands spaced by 150 canals and tethered by 400 bridges. Walking through it is a unique experience where dingy alleyways give ...
HEY, LITTLE GIRL
Nov 11, 2008 ... Anil Merani Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Surili Gautam, the lead actress of Meet Mila de Rabba, is only 17 but looks much older. She plays Geet whose husband is killed on their wedding day ... the young bride is of course blamed for his fate. Geet is next ...
KASHMIR BAR BODY IN GOVT LIST OF SEPARATISTS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Aurangzeb Naqshbandi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- In a startling move, the Home Ministry has listed the Kashmir Bar Association (KBA) as one of the 49 separatist organisations operating in the Valley. The disclosure came in response to an RTI application filed by ...
ALVA SENDS QUIT LETTER TO SONIA
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Senior Congress leader Margaret Alva is learnt to have resigned as AICC general secretary. She reportedly sent in her resignation to Congress president Sonia Gandhi late on Monday. As general secretary, Alva was in charge of seven ...
THE RIDDLE OF YASHODA
Nov 11, 2008 ... Dr. T.S. Narayana Swamy Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- What was Yashoda's connection to Krishna according to mythology? Once Krishna left Gokul behind, she never attempted to contact him, preferring to retain the memory of him as a little boy. Krishna, who ...
AAMIR MAY BE CHIEF GUEST AT IFFI
Nov 11, 2008 ... Chetan Chauhan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- If the Information & Broadcasting Ministry has its way, Bollywood watchers and fans will be treated to a never-seen-before sight - Aamir Khan at a film function. The actor-director is a front-runner to be the chief ...
THREATENED, LEOPARDS ATTACK HUMANS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Nihi Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Leopards are facing threat in Uttarakhand. But that doesn't mean humans are any safer from the big cats. The man-animal conflict in past eight years has resulted in the loss of 174 lives in state -- the highest casualties ...
HRITHIK, ASH ON A HAT-TRICK
Nov 11, 2008 ... Princy Jain Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Bachchan are on the verge of scoring a hat-trick. Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali has cast them in a contemporary love story. This would be their third romantic pairing after Dhoom 2 and Jodhaa ...
TEACHERS OF KUMAON UNIVERSITY TO HOLD HALF-DAY PROTEST
Nov 11, 2008 ... Deep Joshi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- KUMAON University Teachers' Association (KUTA) has decided to organise a 12-hour 'Kumaon Bandh and chakka jam' on Wednesday to "pressure" the Centre into accepting its long-pending demand of according central university ...
CS RAISES EYEBROWS ON FUNCTIONING OF OFFICIALS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Anupam Trivedi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- IN AN apparent move to control the movement of senior babus who conduct duties with scant regard for procedures, Chief Secretary Indu Kumar Pande has issued direction to civil servants asking them not to proceed on leave ...
COMMUNIST PARTY TO GHERAO CM ON STATE CAPITAL ISSUE
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- THE state unit of the Communist Party of India (CPI) said party cadres will gherao Chief Minister B.C. Khnaduri on his arrival at Gauchar Mela in Chamoli district on Friday. The party has alleged that Khanduri was ignoring the issue ...
NO POLICE TRAINING ACADEMY YET
Nov 11, 2008 ... Rakesh Ranjan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Eight years have passed since inception of Uttarakhand but the state police department has failed to establish a police training college in the state and the department relies on neighbouring states for training of state ...
EVEN 'OBAMA' FAILS TO DETER TOUTS, HAWKERS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Darpan Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Inspired by the thumping victory of Barack Obama in the just-concluded US presidential election, the police here decided to name an operation after the President elect's name to reign in touts and hawkers - a perennial ...
KUSUM RAI FILES NOMINATION FOR RS
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- KUSUM RAI, BJP nominee for the lone Rajya Sabha seat, filed her nomination papers with fanfare on Monday. Accompanied by state BJP president Dr Ramapati Ram Tripathi, Lalji Tandon, BJP Legislature Party leader Om Prakash Singh, some ...
IIT SKELETON: DNA TEST PENDING
Nov 11, 2008 ... Wali Siddiqui Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- In a major embarrassment for the police, it has come to light that the 'DNA test' purportedly done on a skeleton found in IIT campus, by the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL), Hyderabad, is yet to happen. The DNA ...
A 'LAWFUL' COURSE TO ITALY
Nov 11, 2008 ... Rajeev Mullick Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- HOW ABOUT studying for the first six months of your LLM course in Lucknow and the remaining six months at Naples in Italy? This may sound strange but will soon become a reality. Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law ...
SEPARATE UP BOARD FOR PRIVATE CANDIDATES
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- With a view to improving the standard of higher secondary education, Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education has decided to hold High School and Intermediate examinations for private candidates through a separate ...
ADA WAKES UP TO ANOTHER VIOLATION BY BUILDER
Nov 11, 2008 ... BK Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- ALLAHABAD DEVELOPMENT Authority (ADA) seems to believe in retrospective action. Time and again, it has allowed illegalities in the construction of multi-storeyed group housing schemes and later ordered inquiries into ...
BARELY 13, AND WANNABE PAMS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Neha Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- At 12 or 13, a girl has enough to cope with in her changing body without asking for cosmetic surgery on top of it. But a lot of girls in Delhi are asking for just that. Dr Vimal Malik, director of Malik Hospital, ...
MORARJI & HIS MINISTER'S 'DEATH WISH'
Nov 11, 2008 ... Nagendar Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- HAVE YOU ever heard of a prime minister and his senior cabinet colleague waiting for each other's death? It may sound bizarre but it happened, shortly after the first non-Congress government was formed in ...
FEAR FACTOR IN NAXAL LAND
Nov 11, 2008 ... Stavan Desai Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Southern Chhattisgarh does not look like a region going to the polls in four days time. It's more like a war zone. There are para military forces everywhere: guarding every important location, patrolling key, urban areas, ...
NEW RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
Nov 11, 2008 ... Sagarika Ghose Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur is a woman representing 'Hinduism'. Yet, she is accused of killing innocents in bomb blasts at Malegaon in September. The alleged mastermind of the blasts is a serving Army officer Lt Colonel ...
DON'T GIVE IN TO PRETENDERS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Sadia Dehlvi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Something good is happening in the Muslim world. A man with a half-Muslim parentage will soon take oath as the American President. The Malegaon blasts are being fairly investigated. Recently, Muslim scholars, activists and ...
YES, WE KEYNES!
Nov 11, 2008 ... N. Chandra Mohan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The UPA government is perhaps taking the advice of economist John Maynard Keynes a tad too seriously. To get the economy out of the depths of a Great Depression, Keynes had advocated greater State intervention - public ...
NEITHER SEEN NOR HEARD
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- In any civilised country, bail for a man accused of raping a minor would have evoked outrage. Not so in India. Rohit Monserratte, son of Goa's powerful Education Minister, has been charged with raping a minor German girl, yet the ...
DIALLING DILEMMA
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The postman may always ring twice, but the Indian media - the first ones to comment on the need for India to develop a sense of self-worth - is crushed by the fact that the US President-Elect and Darling of the Free World Barack ...
BUSINESS DOWN IN MUMBAI
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- That Mumbai is a rising international business hub is known. But a report released by MasterCard on Emerging Markets Index reveals that while Mumbai tops the chart when it comes to financial services network and trading in shares ...
AIYAR, SIBAL SPAR OVER CLIMATE PLAN
Nov 11, 2008 ... Chetan Chauhan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- PANCHAYATI RAJ Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar's description of the National Action Plan on Climate Change as a "bureaucratic job" without the involvement of masses was rebuffed by Science and Technology Minister Kapil ...
GOVT ASSURES CUSHION FOR CRISIS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Tushar Srivastava Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- THE GOVERNMENT is committed to providing all possible support and assistance to ensure that the Indian economy is least affected by the global financial and economic crisis, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has ...
'YOUNG WORKERS, HIGH SAVINGS PUT INDIA ON STRONG GROUND'
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has underlined strong fundamentals in the Indian economy, saying high savings and a young working population signalled underlying strengths to boost growth. "Despite the global economic ...
NO FUEL PRICE CUT TILL OIL FIRMS STABILISE: PM
Nov 11, 2008 ... Tushar Srivastava Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh has ruled out the possibility of a reduction in prices of petrol and diesel in the near future. "Indian oil companies have to bear a very heavy burden and there are limits to subsidising ....
OCT EXPORT SIGN SHOWS TARGET IN TROUBLE
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Policy-makers in the commerce and industry ministry are grappling with options to boost exports amid shrinking order books as the country copes with one of the worst slowdowns in the world economy in the last 80 ...
INDIRECT TAX MOP-UP DIPS OMINOUSLY
Nov 11, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The crunch is telling on the government's revenues. Indirect tax collections have contracted sharply in October ,giving the first early signs of a possible industrial slowdown in the economy. India Inc, beset by sluggish ...
NOW, HOLCIM TO MANAGE WASTE IN INDIA
Nov 11, 2008 ... Lalatendu Mishra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Global cement major Holcim is bringing its waste management services to India. The company has set a revenue generation target of Rs 180 crore a year by 2012. To begin with, the waste management services of ACC ...
BRAND EXPERTS ADVISE CLIENTS TO BE JUDICIOUS, NOT PANIC
Nov 11, 2008 ... Saurabh Turakhia Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- As slowdown woes start creeping in and companies consider lowering their ad-spends, brand experts and ad-gurus believe that advertisers should be judicious, even careful, but not get panicky in the current ...
AVIATION SLOWDOWN HITS MAINTENANCE PROJECTS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Samiran Saha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- While airlines the world over struggles to stay afloat in the rough economic weather, aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) majors, that were looking at India as a ready to move in market also seem to have slowed ...
SLACK MOOD HITS LIFE INSURANCE, PREMIUM COLLECTION PLUNGES
Nov 11, 2008 ... Falaknaaz Syed Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The sluggish economic mood has affected the life insurance industry which has grown marginally at 4.34 per cent for the first six months (April to September) 2008 with a first year premium income of Rs 34,599.37 crore as ...
ASIA CALLING
Nov 11, 2008 ... Zabeeh Afaque Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The next time you plan to visit Gurgaon, you have one more place to party. The swanky and innovatively styled restaurant Asia 7 was launched recently at Ambience Mall and thrown open for foodies. Celebrity chef Nikhil ...
A DASH OF GLAM
Nov 11, 2008 ... Himadree Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- The bash hosted by Seema and Sandeep Jajodia and Amit and Nidhi Goel was the most talked about do of late. The who's who of the city, right from politicians, , socialites, fashion designers and artists decided to make an ...
MAKE A FRESH START
Nov 11, 2008 ... DR JITENDRA NAGPAL Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- I am 26-years-old and have just split with my boyfriend with whom I was in a meaningful relationship for three years. Though we split on amicable terms, I still feel a deep void and am numb about everything. Please ...
POP GOES FASHION ... AS HOLLYWOOD FIZZLES OUT
Nov 11, 2008 ... Jaydeep Ghosh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 11 -- Last week at the MTV Europe Music Awards at Liverpool, the evening's hostess Kate Perry of 'I Kissed A Girl' fame had as many as 10 costume changes during the show where each one was wackier than the other. Among ...
PAK SENATORS MOVE RESOLUTION FOR TREASON CASES AGAINST MUSHARRAF
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): Three Pakistani Senators, two from the Treasury benches and one from the Opposition, have reportedly called for filing treason cases against the country's former president Pervez Musharraf ...
EX-OZ CRICKETING GREATS BLAST "ORDINARY CAPTAIN" PONTING OVER HIS "RIDICULOUS DECISIONS"
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): Aussie cricketing greats and former skippers have blasted captain Ricky Ponting for his selection of bowlers on day four of the last Test in Nagpur which India won by 172 runs, thereby ...
ANGELINA JOLIE WILL 'DEFINITELY' HAVE MORE KIDS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): Angelina Jolie, who loves running after her six children, has revealed that she will 'definitely' have more kids. The Academy Award-winner said that both she and beau Brad Pitt ...
AFTER THRASHING OZ, INDIA JUMPS TO SECOND SPOT IN ICC TEST RATINGS
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Lahore, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): After thrashing the world champions, Australia, by 172 runs in the fourth and last Test in Nagpur yesterday and winning the series 2-0, India has gained seven ratings points to be placed at ...
BOUCHER SAYS NEW PAK GOVT IS "DETERMINED" IN FIGHT AGAINST TERROR
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): US Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher has reportedly said that the US has seen a lot of real determination in the new Pakistani government to fight ...
OBAMA WON'T ATTEND GLOBAL FINANCIAL SUMMIT IN NEW YORK
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): U.S. President-elect Barack Obama will not attend the Bush administration's global financial summit this weekend in Washington, his senior aide Robert Gibbs said on Monday. "He's ...
KREJZA DOESN'T WANT TO LET GO HIS CHANCE IN TEST CRICKET
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Sydney, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): Australia's new found spin-sensation Jason Kreja has said that after taking 12 crucial wickets in his debut Nagpur Test against India, he didn't want to let the chance to play a long innings ...
OBAMA'S AFGHAN WAR STRATEGY MAY BE MORE REGIONAL
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): A more regional strategy is likely to be implemented by the incoming Obama administration vis-à-vis the war in Afghanistan, including possible talks with Iran. According to the ...
VETTORI FEARS DREADED OZ BACKLASH IN TWO-TEST SERIES
Nov 11, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Brisbane, Nov. 11 -- (ANI): New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has said that after losing comprehensively 0-2 against India in the just concluded four-match Test series, the Australians might unleash a strong backlash ...