The Hindustan Times back issues from Tuesday, December 2:
CM DEMANDS MANMOHAN'S RESIGNATION
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- CHIEF MINISTER Mayawati on Sunday demanded resignation of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh. Mayawati said that Dr Singh and his Cabinet should take moral responsibility for the terrorist attack on Mumbai and resign. The Chief ...
'STATES SHOULD RAISE COMMANDO FORCES'
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- UNION MINISTER of State for Home, Sriprakash Jaiswal has said all the states should raise a commando force -State Security Guards (SSG) on the lines of National Security Guards (NSG). "All states of India should raise a force ...
DGP, HOME SECY REVIEW GYANWAPI SECURITY
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- STATE'S DIRECTOR General of Police (DGP), Dr Vikram Singh and Home Secretary Kunwar Fateh Bahadur made an inspection of the hyper -sensitive Gyanwapi Complex here on Sunday evening. Both officials observed the security arrangements ...
HIV POSITIVE COUPLE TURNS MATCHMAKER
Dec 02, 2008 ... Anuraag Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- FILM STARS Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan will share their second wedding anniversary on April 20 next year with Banarsi couple, Amrit and Asha. Doesn't ring a bell? Well, Amrit and Asha's are not famous, but ...
'NO DIRECT ADMISSIONS ON MGMT SEATS'
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- THE UTTAR Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) has deprived the management of private engineering institutes of the right to take direct admissions on management seats. The order would be implemented from the next academic ...
NO REGRETS, I WILL GO TO JANNAT, SAYS KASAB
Dec 02, 2008 ... Stavan Desai Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- AJMAL Amir Kasab, who moved around the streets of south Mumbai and fired indiscriminately on Wednesday night, killing several people, has no regrets. He has hardly ever flinched during investigations. That's because Kasab ...
MUMBAIITES RAGE AFTER THE STORM, BUT IS ANYBODY LISTENING?
Dec 02, 2008 ... Kiran Wadhwa Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- At Marine Drive, over 2,000 people gathered on Sunday, carrying angry placards saying 'Am I going to die next?' and 'I want to vote but is there a deserving candidate?' At the Hanging Gardens on Malabar Hill, over ...
SHADY MONEY DEALS UNDER SCRUTINY
Dec 02, 2008 ... Gaurav Choudhury Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The government is examining more than 1,000 suspicious transaction reports from various entities in the financial sector that it believes could be linked to funding of terrorist activities in the country. The ...
BEING TIED UP IN KNOTS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Sujata Anandan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Home Minister Shivraj Patil's head rolled on Sunday and there is a clamour for Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's resignation. It would, however, have been impossible to 'sacrifice' the CM while retaining the ...
AWAKE, AT LAST
Dec 02, 2008 ... Kushalrani Gulab Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- I'm angry. No, angry doesn't begin to describe how I feel. I'm furious. Incensed. Livid. Fuming. I'm every single word in the thesaurus that describes the condition we all know as anger, and a lot more that no word can ...
DEALING WITH THE NEIGHBOUR
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- There is little doubt that the origins of the Mumbai terror attack lie within the borders of Pakistan. The only question now is: how does India now proceed to ensure that the source of terror - at least the one against which India ...
CITY BLIGHTS
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Well, of course Mumbai has 'bounced back'. What did one expect? That a shipload of crazed terrorists would grind the city to a halt? But let's please not use 'the spirit of Mumbai' as a skirt behind which Mumbaikars in particular and ...
INDIA INC TIGHTENS SECURITY, BE PREPARED FOR TOUGHER CHECKS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Lalatendu Mishra and Gaurav Choudhury Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Corporate offices and industrial establishments are redrawing their security plans after attacks in Mumbai last week, and so are hotels. Be prepared now to be patient as they frisk you and check ...
EXPORTS FALL IN OCT, FIRST DIP IN 5 YRS
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The country's monthly export data showed a fall for the first time in five years on Monday as the maiming effect of a slowdown in the key US market began to bite. Policy makers in the commerce and industry ministry are grappling with ...
AIR INDIA TO SLASH FARES BY RS 400
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The state-run carrier, Air India, has decided to reduce fuel surcharge for all domestic sector flights by Rs 400 from Tuesday. The fuel surcharge is Rs 2,350 for sectors below 750 kms and Rs 3,100 for sectors over 750 ...
CAR SALES PLUMMET IN NOV, RECESSION FEARS LOOM LARGE
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- It is turning out to be one of the worst years for the domestic automobile industry in recent times. After a dismal performance during the festive season last month, sales of almost all major car and two wheeler companies crashed in ...
SECOND LIFE: TRIDENT TO RE-OPEN IN 10 DAYS
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The Trident hotel of the Oberoi Group, housed in one of the sea-facing towers at the Trident and Oberoi hotel complex, which was damaged in the November 26 terror strike, will open in about ten days, the official spokesperson for the ...
CHEVROLET, HONDA RULE QUALITY CHARTS
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- There has been a marked improvement in quality in new cars across the country in the last one year, a survey by JD Power Asia Pacific 2008 said. The survey with a sample size of over 6,000 people who bought a new car between November ...
SALT ON WOUNDS: BUSINESS EVENTS PUT OFF
Dec 02, 2008 ... Lalatendu Mishra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Terrorist attacks in Mumbai have added security fears to the layers of uncertainty triggered by a local economic slowdown and recession in advanced economies. As a result, business conference organisers have postponed ...
DHONI, BIG BEE JOIN HANDS TO SWEETEN DABUR HONEY
Dec 02, 2008 ... Saurabh Turakhia Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- With more people getting conscious about health and hazards of sugar intake, honey companies are wasting no time in pushing the natural sweetener as a better alternative with lesser calories. Dabur, which has ...
ESSAR IN TECHNOLOGY PACT WITH KOBE STEEL
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Essar Steel has signed an umbrella agreement with Japanese steel major Kobe Steel for a comprehensive business partnership across various core sectors. The Japanese firm will provide technological know how to Essar to make ...
GDP TO FALL TO 5.3% NEXT YEAR: NOMURA
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- India's growth momentum has hit a hurdle after growing at an average of 9.3 per cent over the past three years. The GDP growth in 2009-10 is forecast to be at a low of 5.3 per cent, with the first quarter ending June 30, 2009 ...
DOT PROPOSAL MAY HIT TATA, IDEA, AIRCEL
Dec 02, 2008 ... Manoj Gairola Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The proposal of a three year lock-in-period by the department of telecommunications (DoT) on the sale of equity in new licencee companies, if implemented, will have serious repercussions on three firms - Tata Teleservices, ...
SEZS LOSE SHEEN AMIDST CREDIT CRISIS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Arnab Hazra and Vandana Ramnani Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- A shrinking export market and the squeeze on credit in the wake of the global financial crisis are forcing many companies to shelve plans to set up special economic zones. They are either going slow or ...
26/11 COULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED
Dec 02, 2008 ... Vir Sanghvi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- As the investigation into the intelligence failures that preceded the Mumbai attacks proceeds, there is evidence that even quite specific information that was gathered was either not properly analysed or not acted ...
AIRCRAFT LANDS ON CLOSED RUNWAY IN KOLKATA
Dec 02, 2008 ... Saptarshi Banerjee Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- More than 10 Airports Authority of India (AAI) employees and about 100 passengers of a SpiceJet flight from Bagdogra escaped a major accident on Monday afternoon, as the aircraft landed on the closed main runway at ...
TERRORISTS GOT CAUGHT -- AND GOT AWAY
Dec 02, 2008 ... Stavan Desai Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The hijacked fishing trawler that brought the 10-man squad of terrorists to Mumbai's shore on the night of November 25 was actually stopped by an unidentified Indian coastal patrol vessel - and let off because the suicide ...
CM GOING, DEPUTY GONE
Dec 02, 2008 ... Nagendar Sharma, Srinand Jha and Ketaki Ghoge Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- POWER Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde is the frontrunner to become chief minister of Maharashtra, replacing Vilasrao Deshmukh who is to become the second Congress leader shown the door since ...
40 MUSLIMS DIED IN MUMBAI
Dec 02, 2008 ... Tasneem Nashrulla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- In the greatest irony of the Mumbai attacks, more than 40 Muslims, at the present count, died in acts of terror carried out in the name of their religion. At least 183 people died in the attacks last week. One ...
SEEKING ADMISSION? CHECK YOUR PROFILE
Dec 02, 2008 ... Swaha Sahoo Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- As schools brought out their criteria for nursery admission to meet the November 30 deadline, parents were faced with an indisputable fact -- their academic, extracurricular and professional achievements or failures would ...
HELLO, CHECK, CHECK
Dec 02, 2008 ... Tanya Ashreena Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Although security in hotels has been enhanced, cinema halls have not yet added onto their security mechanisms as yet, nor are they planning to. Cinema halls, a target which can result in huge death tolls in the event of a ...
RED TAPE SOLE SECURITY MEASURE AT MANY OFFICES
Dec 02, 2008 ... Sidhartha Roy & Sanjeev K Ahuja Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Despite the Delhi bomb blasts in September or the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, most office buildings in Delhi that are well recognized icons on the capital's skyline are not completely ...
NO SHOPPING FOR TROUBLE AT MALLS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Sanjeev K Ahuja & Manoj Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The most popular malls in Delhi and Gurgaon attract 25,000 to 45,000 shoppers every weekend and have realised the potential threat. Gurgaon has about a dozen malls. They had started frisking and entry ...
SECURITY GETS TOUCHY-FEELY AT THE BIGGER HOTELS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Tanya Ashreena Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Following the attack on Taj and Oberoi hotels in Mumbai, hotels in the capital have also beefed up security. Apart from taking measures to enhance their own security, hotels like Taj in Delhi have also tied up with the ...
SAINIK FARMS GETS LEGAL POWER CONNECTION AFTER 40 YEARS
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- FOR THE first time since its inception 40 years ago, Sainik Farms will have legal electricity connections, phasing out a long era of diesel generators and inverters that have been powering the colony's 5000 houses. Sainik Farms is an ...
REPOLLING IN 9 BOOTHS TODAY
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- THE ELECTION Commission on Monday ordered re-polling in nine booths in three assembly constituencies. The decision was taken following different complaints from these booths in Malviya Nagar, Matiala and Burari assembly ...
MUMBAI EFFECT: FIRECRACKERS CREATE PANIC
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- TWO PLASTIC bags containing some explosive substances, apparently crude firecrackers, created panic at a busy market in south Delhi's Kotla Mubarakpur area on Monday evening. The explosives, hidden in earthen pots and tin boxes, ...
METRO CORP PLANS STRONG EAST-SOUTH LINK
Dec 02, 2008 ... Atul Mathur Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- If all goes well, there will be a Metro link between Ghazipur and Dhaula Kuan by 2015. The proposed route is part of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's (DMRC) Phase III plan, sent to the Delhi government for ...
JAPANESE FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- A 50-year-old Japanese woman, Oda Kaoru, was found dead at a Karol Bagh hotel in central Delhi on Monday. A French national, Agase Jean Marie, whom she had introduced to the hotel management as her husband, was also found in a ...
WHY THE TAJ SURVIVED
Dec 02, 2008 ... Mini Pant Zachariah Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- A lesser building would have collapsed from the pounding it took during the anti-terror operations that lasted 59 hours, but the Taj hotel stands intact. While the inside may be gutted, the structure itself withstood ...
AS INDIA BLEEDS, ARMY CHIEF TOURS SA
Dec 02, 2008 ... Rahul Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Army chief General Deepak Kapoor is facing criticism for not cutting short his foreign tour at a time when the country is crippled by its worst ever terror strike. Creating a vacuum in the top military leadership, the army ...
NDMC CHIEF SUMMONED OVER LAND ACQUISITION
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) chairman to appear before it in connection with the alleged acquisition of a piece of land alongside Jantar Mantar road without complying with the ...
ROBBERS ON BIKE ROB CASH VAN
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Armed robbers opened fire on a vehicle of a toll tax collecting company and fled with Rs 13.38 lakh at a busy traffic intersection at Mukerba Chowk in north west Delhi on Monday afternoon. The cashier and another employee were ...
COURT RESCUES WIDOW FROM LAND MAFIA
Dec 02, 2008 ... Sumit Saxena Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- A city court has come to the rescue of a 60-year-old widow, Surjeet Kaur, who allegedly faced eviction from her DDA apartment in Dwarka by an alleged real estate shark. Kaur had alleged that attempts had been made to sell ...
COMPETITION TO SELECT BEST DESIGN FOR INDOOR STADIUM
Dec 02, 2008 ... Neelam Pandey Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has organised a competition for architects, to arrive at a more aesthetically conceived design for constructing an indoor multipurpose stadium in the city. This national level ...
TWO PEOPLE, ONE AIM: FIGHTING AIDS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Jaya Shroff Bhalla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Agniva Lahiri, 28, is a transgender committed to HIV prevention. The people he works with are "laundas" - young boys who dress up as women and dance at weddings, usually in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar - and often get ...
'DEATH DUE TO HEART ATTACK IN MISHAP COVERED UNDER INSURANCE'
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- A person who dies of cardiac arrest following a mishap is entitled to accidental insurance claim, the Delhi Consumer Commission has held. "If any person meets with an accident including vehicular accident and if death occurs due to ...
BURIED IN THE RUBBLE, TEN QUESTIONS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Neelesh Misra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- As Mumbai copes with one of the world's worst terrorist attacks in years, several questions remain. 1 Security officials say the terrorists received no local aid and carried all the arms and ammunition in rug sacks ...
TERROR COMMANDS CAME FROM NARIMAN HOUSE
Dec 02, 2008 ... Abhishek Sharan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- "Unke commando hain, maaro, maaro *&%$# (Their commandos have reached there, kill them)" "Uda do(shoot them)" "Grenade phenk, grenade phenk(Throw grenade)" "Jalaa de (Set fire)" These were some of the ...
24X7 COVERAGE UNDERMINED OPS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Chitrangada Choudhury Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Did the detailed, real-time coverage of the 60-hour battle between commandos and terrorists by Indian TV channels endanger the operations and the safety of the hostages? Sources close to the National ...
'DID WE SERIOUSLY BELIEVE WE WERE WATCHING ALONE?'
Dec 02, 2008 ... Vishal Dadlani Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- A live, minute-by-minute broadcast of counter-insurgency measures during a live operation against terrorists may well have been detrimental to our forces, to the extent of being responsible for some of them sustaining ...
THIS IS PLAIN INSENSITIVE
Dec 02, 2008 ... Ramesh Babu and B.R. Srikanth Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- TURNED AWAY from the house of slain NSG major Sandeep Unnikrishnan in Bangalore by his grieving father, Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan on Tuesday failed to show any grace in the matter. In fact, ...
NAQVI'S 'LIPSTICK AND POWDER' COMMENT LANDS HIM IN SOUP
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's comment to TV channels that some women with "lipstick and powder on their face" were indulging in demonstrations and abusing politicians following the Mumbai terrorist attack has landed him in ...
ANTONY WANTS ANSWERS FROM NAVY CHIEF
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Defence minister A.K. Antony on Monday sought an explanation from the navy chief, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, over the Navy's alleged lapses to act on specific intelligence inputs pertaining to the Mumbai terror strike. The ...
PAWAR FORCED CONG HAND ON DESHMUKH
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- It was the decision by Nationalist Congress Party Chief Sharad Pawar that forced the Congress to quicken the decision to remove Vilasrao Deshmukh from Chief Ministership. Till Sunday evening, the Congress top brass was not ...
ACTIONS MUST MATCH WORDS, PAK HIGH COMMISSIONER TOLD
Dec 02, 2008 ... Tushar Srivastava Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Turning up diplomatic pressure on Islamabad, India has demanded strong action against those Pakistani elements responsible for the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai. Vivek Katju, special secretary in the MEA, conveyed ...
'WE'LL RESPOND & INDIA WILL TRIUMPH'
Dec 02, 2008 ... Nandini R Iyer & Aloke Tikku Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- AN HOUR into his new job, Home Minister P. Chidambaram said on Monday evening that he was aware "of the sense of anguish and shock among the people of India". "I've heard the anguished voice of India," ...
BULK CANCELLATIONS ACROSS INDIA
Dec 02, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The terror attacks in Mumbai have led to an atmosphere of gloom in the tourism industry. There have been bulk cancellations of tour programmes and a steady fall in hotel bookings in Kerala, Rajasthan, Agra, Maharashtra and ...
TWO EARTHERN VESSELS
Dec 02, 2008 ... Dr Narinder Kumar Puri Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- Two earthen vessels were kept since long, on the roof of my house. One vessel was kept straight up, open to the sky whereas the other one was kept reversed. The first vessel always filled with water in the rainy ...
KARUNANIDHI, MARANS PATCH UP
Dec 02, 2008 ... M.R. Venkatesh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The 18-month-long stand-off between the UPA constituent DMK's first family and the Maran brothers - Dayanidhi and Kalanidhi, who own the Sun TV Network - took a dramatic turn this evening as both families smoked the peace ...
2 KILLED IN ARMY JOB RALLY CRUSH
Dec 02, 2008 ... Aseem Bassi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- TWO PUNJAB village youth aspiring to join the Indian Army died in a stampede at the entrance of the recruitment camp at Khasa in Amritsar early Monday morning. As soon as the gates of the recruitment centre opened, ...
BJP READY TO BACK FEDERAL AGENCY, BUT WITH A RIDER
Dec 02, 2008 ... Shekhar Iyer Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- As P.Chidambaram took over as Home Minister from Shivraj Patil, BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said replacement of individuals cannot be a substitute for policy. If there is no policy change, there is going to be no ...
'THIS ROAD LEADS NOWHERE'
Dec 02, 2008 ... Neelesh Misra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- The two 20-something men who allegedly planned the multiple bombings in the Capital walked in slowly, without handcuffs, as the three men and a woman in the room stared in silence. They were human rights ...
ENGLAND TO TOUR, CONDITIONS APPLY
Dec 02, 2008 ... Anand Vasu Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- ENGLAND WILL tour India for two Tests after all, but their trip - from airport to airport - is likely to take place with the shadow of commandos hovering over the players at every step. After lengthy and detailed negotiations ...
'INDIA, PAK MUST STAND TOGETHER NOW'
Dec 02, 2008 ... Bivabasu Kumar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 2 -- IN THE wake of the recent terror strikes that many fear could turn India into a pariah for world cricket, the newly-appointed Director General of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Javed Miandad, has extended support to the ...