The Hindustan Times back issues from Monday, December 8:
'MAULA KHAIR KAREGA' SAID BABA
Dec 08, 2008 ... Mukesh Kwatra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- I had gone for my morning walk as usual on a Sunday when I happened to meet one of my old schoolmates. He suggested that we jog together and I willingly accompanied him for a ten-minute jog. On my way back home my ...
CONGRESS TRIPS ON PAWAR PLAY
Dec 08, 2008 ... Pankaj Vohra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The decision of the Congress leadership to appoint Ashok Chavan as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra appears to be prompted by its obsession to contain the state's top leader and close ally Sharad Pawar. In the process, the ...
PROOF THAT KASAB IS FROM PAK
Dec 08, 2008 ... Vijay Dutt Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Pakistan had been demanding proof that Ajmal Amir Kasab, the gunman in the custody of Indian authorities, was a Pakistani as claimed by India. That proof, impossible to refute, has been provided by British newspaper The ...
ANIMAL SACRIFICE CONTINUES AT BUNKHAL MELA
Dec 08, 2008 ... Abhinav Madhwal Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The Bunkhal Mela held in the Raath area of Pauri district for a day was yet again witness to the sacrifice of hundreds of cattle in the name of appeasing the Goddess. The district administration and the opponents of ...
CENTRE NOT IN FAVOUR OF OLD KAILASH-MANSAROVAR ROUTE
Dec 08, 2008 ... Deep Joshi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- THE CENTRE has turned down a proposal recommending that an ancient trekking route to Kailash Mansarovar - an important Hindu pilgrimage in Tibet - be used as a detour by yatris (pilgrims) during the annual ...
RAINS BECOMING DEADLIER BY THE YEAR
Dec 08, 2008 ... Shikha S Shukla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- This monsoon, 108 people - 22 more than last year - lost their lives to flash floods, cloudbursts and landslides in Uttarakhand. The figures keep on increasing and it seems that disaster management and mitigation ...
PCC CHIEF SLAMS BJP GOVT'S FISCAL RECORD
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Pradesh Congress Committee chief Yashpal Arya has blamed the BC Khanduri government in Uttarakhand of failing to cut costs and increase revenue in the last 20 months. "The BJP government has been accusing the previous ...
CPM MAY SEEK CONG SUPPORT, SAYS KARAT
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Showing signs of a thaw, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat said his party would not dither in seeking support of the Congress to form the next government at the Centre. He was, however, quick to point out that chances of ...
NO ROLLBACK IN TAX CUTS
Dec 08, 2008 ... Brajendra K. Parashar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- DESPITE THE Centre having reduced prices of diesel and petrol, the Uttar Pradesh government has no immediate plans to rollback fully or partially tax cuts it had made in respect of diesel and petrol to offset the ...
NO NEW YEAR BASHES THIS TIME
Dec 08, 2008 ... Qazi Faraz Ahmad Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Partygoers in Lucknow may have to reconsider their plan this festive season as most hotels are not planning any Christmas and New Year bash. Taj Residency deputy sales manager Shabahat Husaain said, "This year there ...
BBC SAYS SORRY FOR AIRPORT REPORT
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- THE BRITISH Broadcasting Corporation has apologised for wrongly reporting on Thursday night that six people were killed in a shootout at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport. The incorrect report, based on the information of ...
NOW ONLINE 'QURBANI' IN VOGUE
Dec 08, 2008 ... Sunita Aron Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- If online sermons and online pujas can proliferate, why not online qurbani? With Id Al Adhha (Bakhri Id) falling on Tuesday, more and more busy, urbanised, new age Muslims are using the Internet to perform this Islamic ...
SHARP FALL IN MUMBAI HOTEL BOOKINGS
Dec 08, 2008 ... Lalatendu Mishra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Will Mumbai go the Bali way? About three years have passed since Bali had been bombed by terrorists, killing 222, but foreign tourists still stay away from the Indonesian island. Similarly, after last week's ...
IT'S TIME TO GO PUBLIC
Dec 08, 2008 ... N. Chandra Mohan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- As the world economy hovers on the brink of a nasty, brutish and prolonged slump, there is no doubt that a coordinated global fiscal stimulus is what is urgently needed. Fear and panic have gripped stock markets ...
KEEP MAKING THE PITCH
Dec 08, 2008 ... Kadambari Murali Wade Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Ten days ago, somebody asked me, does sport really matter? It took me less than a second to say no, it doesn't. Mumbai was being brutalised, people were calling this India's 9/11 and we didn't know where the world ...
GET STRAIGHT TO REPAIR WORK
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal have got off to an encouraging start by forbidding any celebrations surrounding their taking up office. But, it would be far too premature at this ...
TREE FOR ALL
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- You can accuse the Indian police of inefficiency, but after the brilliant plan they hatched last week in Tagoreland, Santiniketan, there's not an iota of doubt that they are extraordinarily talented when it comes to low-cost ...
WHY MALEGAON?
Dec 08, 2008 ... Chitrangada Choudhary Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Malegaon is neatly divided into Hindu and Muslim ghettos, a ramshackle city. None of its major roads have sewers or stormwater drains. It is a city of looms, built through waves of migration of weavers and workers ...
THE MOURNING IN MALEGAON
Dec 08, 2008 ... Chitrangada Choudhary Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Residents of this bereaved town, 285 km northeast of Mumbai, are now pushing for the 500-metre stretch to be named. It was a bomb planted in a motorcycle outside Abdul Ansari's shop on September 29 that has now ...
GOVT TAKES FISCAL RISK IN PACKAGE
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The virtual "mini-budget" measures announced on Sunday may have brought cheer to many in India Inc's companies in an otherwise gloomy slowdown scenario, but the package would leave a bigger hole in the government's books in the ...
HURRY FOR YOUR FD! RATES LIKELY TO DROP
Dec 08, 2008 ... Mahua Venkatesh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- If you are looking to lock in your money in bank fixed deposits, do it right away. With the Reserve Bank of India bringing down key policy rates on Saturday, banks are preparing to reduce rates of interest - both for ...
INDIA INC EXPECTS RATES TO SOFTEN
Dec 08, 2008 ... Suprotip Ghosh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Banks are under pressure to significantly bring down lending rates, but corporate chiefs are considerate towards their dilemma. "The prevailing high interest rates are expected to continue for a couple of more months at ...
SEBI'S DEMAND FOR TRANSPARENCY FROM ITSELF A WORLD'S FIRST
Dec 08, 2008 ... Gautam Chikermane Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Last week, CB Bhave, chairman, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), announced among many other things, the introduction of a new regime of transparency. Under this, we will get access to all behind the scene ...
JOB PORTALS FEEL A BIT JOBLESS AS HIRING CRUNCH BITES
Dec 08, 2008 ... Ruchi Hajela Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Job portals are perhaps feeling joblessness as the economic slowdown and uncertainty of future business prospects is making recruiters defer and limit if not freeze their hiring plans. Info Edge's flagship job ...
RETAIL PROBLEMS HIT APPAREL SUPPLIERS
Dec 08, 2008 ... Saurabh Turakhia Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Apparel manufacturers, who supply to organised retailers, are having a tough time. The global financial crisis has hit exports hard and now, the domestic scenario has also worsened. Retail apparel sales shrunk ...
TESTING TIMES FOR A TESTING COMPANY
Dec 08, 2008 ... Ruchi Hajela Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Bangalore-based leading skill assessment company MeritTrac that conducts pre-recruitment tests for organisations has witnessed close to 50 per cent drop in business from Information Technology and banking companies over the ...
DELHI FLAT OWNERS RE-SELL IN DOWN MOOD
Dec 08, 2008 ... Gaurav Jha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- With property values falling, frenzied property owners in Delhi NCR (National Capital Region) now seem to be in a selling wave, fearing further fall in the prices of their property. Businessman Rahul Gupta is in a ...
COUNTING OF VOTES IN 5 STATES TODAY; PUNTERS BET ON BJP VICTORIES
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Despite being in power in three of the five states where assembly election results will be announced on Monday, and thus expected to face an anti-incumbency sentiment, the BJP is likely to do much better than the Congress if bookies ...
BUREAUCRAT ROARS FOR VS
Dec 08, 2008 ... Ramesh Babu Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The ongoing crisis in the faction-ridden Kerala CPM deepened further on Sunday with Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan's handpicked bureaucrat lashing out at the CM's advisors for toppling important cabinet decisions. Talking ...
A JEHAD AGAINST JEHADISTS
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Hundreds of Muslims from across the city gathered at Jantar Mantar on Sunday to hold a silent protest against terrorism. Muslim organisations, religious leaders and common citizens spoke out vehemently against the Mumbai attacks and ...
GURGAON GETS A MASTER SECURITY PLAN
Dec 08, 2008 ... Sanjeev K Ahuja Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Gurgaon police have for the first time drafted a Master Security Plan for Gurgaon (MSPG). The plan not only involves procuring sophisticated security gadgets for maintaining law and order but also encompasses a disaster ...
PASSENGERS HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT AIRPORT SECURITY
Dec 08, 2008 ... Sidhartha Roy Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Indira Gandhi International Airport is on high alert following intelligence inputs of a terror attack and Friday's incident in which two gunshots were heard at the departure terminal. Passengers, however, said that ...
SOON, AN END TO CONGESTION
Dec 08, 2008 ... Nivedita Khandekar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- DELHIITES have lost count of how many times there's a traffic bottleneck on a busy arterial road because more than half of the road was dug up for repairing a pipeline. But if the ongoing digital mapping of Capital's ...
PARENTS EYE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
Dec 08, 2008 ... Ritika Chopra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- With most reputed schools having handful or no vacant seats in Kindergarten, the options for those seeking direct admission to pre-primary (or KG) seem little. Christian minority schools, however, have turned out to be a ...
SHEILA OR MALHOTRA? WAIT ENDS TODAY
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- WHO WILL occupy Players Building? In less than 24 hours from the time this report is being filed, Delhiites will have the answer. Counting of votes to all the 69 assembly seats, which went to polls on November 29, will start at 8 ...
MOSQUITOES IN PEPSI BOTTLE
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- THE DELHI Consumer Commission has awarded a man, who found mosquitoes in a Pepsi bottle, a compensation of Rs 5,000. "The quality of one of the bottles was poor as it contained dirt/mosquitoes and as such it has to be declared as a ...
DEMAND LOW, BUT CITY SEES POWER CUTS
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- FOR THE past few days, several parts of the city have been witnessing power cuts ranging between two and four hours in the morning. While Janakpuri residents are fed up calling helplines saying, "they are of no help in answering ...
GET THAT POLLUTION CHECK DONE, NOW
Dec 08, 2008 ... Atul Mathur Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- IF YOU forget to take your vehicle for the mandatory pollution under control (PUC) check every quarter, don't worry. The Delhi transport department will ensure you don't. Under a new scheme, the department will send ...
MARRIAGES LEAD TO JAMS ON SUNDAY
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Returning to Delhi with his family after a long-pending visit to a relative at Sonepat, Sanjeev Chug encountered a massive jam the moment he crossed Delhi border. "Even on a Sunday evening, the road was clogged. We had so ...
MAKE WAY FOR THE MACHINES
Dec 08, 2008 ... Sidhartha Roy Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- DELHI METRO Rail Corporation's (DMRC) fleet of coaches next year will be much safer and sturdier, thanks to special Italian robots that are being used to manufacture them. Each costing Rs 45 lakh, these new ...
METRO SET TO ENTER N. DELHI
Dec 08, 2008 ... Atul Mathur Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Six years since it started its operations, Delhi Metro is all set to make its first journey to north Delhi. Terming it a 'New Year gift' to residents of north Delhi, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will make its ...
OVER 47% DELHI KIDS HAVE SLEEP DISORDERS
Dec 08, 2008 ... Jaya Shroff Bhalla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- More than 47 per cent of schoolchildren in Delhi suffer from some form of sleep disorder. A recent study from published in Indian Journal of Sleep Medicine found that several school going students in the Capital snore ...
BAN USE OF MERCURY IN HOSPITALS, SAYS WHO
Dec 08, 2008 ... Avishek G. Dastidar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has taken up the cudgel for environmentalists who have been pleading with the Indian government for years without success to phase out use of mercury based medical instruments in ...
RS 30-CR PACKAGE NOT FOR ALL GURGAON ROADS
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- THE HARYANA government, which announced a Rs 30-crore package for repairing Gurgaon's potholed roads under the jurisdiction of Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA), it is still to do its bit for roads maintained by the Public ...
AROUND THE WORLD RIDING A BICYCLE
Dec 08, 2008 ... Manoj Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Daisuke Nakanishi is man on an extraordinary mission: to make a million friends around the world. But the more extraordinary aspect of his mission is the fact that this native of Osaka, Japan, has been travelling from ...
600 GURGAON RESIDENTS RUN FOR INDIA
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- OVER SIX hundred residents of Gurgaon woke up early on Sunday to participate in the 'Run for India' half marathon at Leisure Valley Park in Sector 29. With an aim to change India, over 200 families with children and senior citizens ...
INDIA WAKES UP TO POTENTIAL OF GRECO-ROMAN
Dec 08, 2008 ... Sahil Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The 53rd National Wrestling Championships that concluded here on Sunday proved to be a major success. But for the spectators, it was only a source of entertainment as most of them were unaware of the technicalities and ...
MARADONA AT HOME IN MOTHER HOUSE & BAGAN TENT
Dec 08, 2008 ... Nilankur Das Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Year 1986, the year of Diego Maradona, was the first time when the World Cup entered India's drawing rooms courtesy Doordarshan. The country watched enthralled how a diminutive bundle of muscles weaved magic with the ball, ...
HIMALAYAN WIN TITLE
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Simran Shergill's name was on everyone's lips during the post-match party at the Jaipur Polo Ground on Sunday. The tall Himalayan Horse/Equisport player was the toast of the day as he brought the Sona Polo machine to a grinding halt ...
DEMPO CRUSH UNITED
Dec 08, 2008 ... Abhijeet Kulkarni Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Four United SC defenders surrounded Ranti Martins inside the six-yard box as if providing security cover to the Dempo striker in their own area. None of them even moved to block a hopeful Joaquim Abranches's cross from ...
OBAMA'S TEAM
Dec 08, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 08 -- There is flexibility to the American democratic system not prevalent in the British version that we in India have adopted. The US President can handpick individuals for important positions in the ...
MARY KOM'S FEAT
Dec 08, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 08 -- Mary Kom has once again brought laurels to India and particularly done the North-East proud by winning the fourth successive world championship gold medal. Although her feat could not help the defending ...
POLICE REFORM-THE NEED OF THE HOUR
Dec 08, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 08 -- In the wake of the well planned barbaric attack by terrorists in seven locations in Mumbai city within a couple of hours on the night of November 26 last, Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh in his address ...
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A NATIONAL CONCERN
Dec 08, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 08 -- Mamoni Rajbangshi (20), daughter of a petty grocery shopkeeper of Kharghuli area, Guwahati, was married formally to an auto-rickshaw driver of the same locality about one and a half years back. Soon after ...
GOVT TO LAUNCH CYBERWAR ON TERROR
Dec 08, 2008 ... Nagendar Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- RATTLED BY the effective use of internet by terrorists to send across their messages before and after terror attacks, the government for the first time has decided to legalise tapping of internet connections and define ...
STILL STRESSED? DON'T WATCH RERUNS OF ATTACKS
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Last week, Dr Arti Sharma, a psychologist with Seva Niketan, spoke to an 11-year-old girl who was traumatised by what she saw of the terror attacks on TV. She asked the child to illustrate her feelings on paper. "She seemed ...
ANTI-INCUMBENCY IS BEATABLE
Dec 08, 2008 ... Pankaj Vohra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The Congress win in Delhi and the BJP's in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh are not as much victories of these parties but of the three chief ministers who have beaten anti-incumbency. Sheila Dikshit, Shivraj Singh Chouhan ...
GOVT HIKES COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE BY WILD ANIMALS
Dec 08, 2008 ... Nihi Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- Uttarakhand Wildlife and Forest Department will now pay higher compensation to victims of man-animal conflict. This was decided at a State Wildlife Board meeting headed by the chief minister. In the meeting, ...
MISHAPS ON ROADS CLAIM HALF OF ALL ACCIDENTAL DEATHS IN STATE
Dec 08, 2008 ... Utpal Parashar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The roads of Uttarakhand continue to be the leading cause of accident deaths in the State for the second consecutive year. The latest Accident Deaths and Suicides in India-2007 released by the National Crime Records ...
EXCLUSIVE MENTAL HOSPITAL IN STATE LACKS FACILITIES, STAFF
Dec 08, 2008 ... Shikha S Shukla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- People who were waiting for the state's exclusive mental hospital to come up still need other options. The hospital lacks admission facility for seriously ill patients. The hospital has come up after an eight-year-old ...
WINTER GAMES MATERIAL HELD UP AT MUMBAI PORT
Dec 08, 2008 ... Anupam Trivedi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The preparations for the South Asian Federation (SAF) Winter Games, to be held in Auli in March, seem to have become a mockery. The agencies concerned first failed to complete work in time before the winter chill set in ....
BAN USE OF MERCURY IN HOSPITALS, SAYS WHO
Dec 08, 2008 ... Avishek G. Dastidar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has taken up the cudgel for environmentalists who have been pleading with the Indian government for years without success to phase out use of mercury based medical instruments in ...
CHANGES LURE WINGED VISITORS TO NAWABGANJ
Dec 08, 2008 ... Pawan Dixit Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- ONE OF the finest bird sanctuaries in the state, Nawabganj Bird Sanctuary, is host to more than 10,000 migratory birds at the moment. More than 20 species of birds from Central Asia and Siberia have flocked to the sanctuary ...
'LIST OF BJP CANDIDATES READY'
Dec 08, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- STATE UNIT chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ramapati Ram Tripathi said the list of nominees for the Lok Sabha elections is almost final and that the same would be presented before the Central Election Committee at its next ...
SO, WHERE IS RITESH?
Dec 08, 2008 ... Princy Jain Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 8 -- The ever-amiable and available Ritesh Deshmukh is nowhere to be found. After his much-televised visit to the Taj and Oberoi in Mumbai post 26/11, the actor has been seen on the Bollywood circuit. On November 30, the ...