The Hindustan Times back issues from Wednesday, December 17:
10 KA DUM
Dec 17, 2008 ... Rahul Sabharwal Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 16 -- A day after he flung his size-10 shoes at George W Bush, TV journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who committed the defiant act, has become an international hero. In Saudi Arabia a man has offered ten million dollars to buy ...
PVT BANKS MAY GIVE CORPORATES MORE TIME
Dec 17, 2008 ... Mahua Venkatesh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Private banks are looking to provide a fresh lease of life to the corporate sector, in the wake of the domestic slowdown and liquidity crunch. Even as worries over increasing default rates loom large, banks have ...
JET STAFF SUFFOCATE IN COST SQUEEZE
Dec 17, 2008 ... Ruchi Hajela and Samiran Saha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Salary cuts, lower allowances, overtime reduction, slashed overseas perks - Jet Airways employees are solidly feeling the pinch of the slowdown as the airline cuts costs. In a circular, the airline ...
DEBT FUNDS FANCIED AS BANK RATES HEAD FOR SLIDE
Dec 17, 2008 ... Sandeep Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Debt funds schemes offered by mutual funds could turn out to be the investors' favourite as deposit rates of banks are set to fall in the coming weeks. Within debt funds, bonds that carry sovereign guarantee of the ...
INDIA INC ASKED TO PRESENT PROGRESS REPORT ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has convened a meeting next week to take stock of India Inc's voluntary affirmative action plan on jobs to scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) individuals. Principal secretary in ...
AIRLINES STARE AT DARK YEAR-END
Dec 17, 2008 ... Samiran Saha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The Christmas season is unlikely to bring cheer for the airline industry as terror attacks in Mumbai, high passenger fares and the global financial meltdown have played spoilt sport. As against a record 1,40,000 ...
TRAI SEEKS INFRA FIRM, SUBSIDY FOR RURAL PHONES
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested that an infrastructure company to improve telecom penetration in rural areas should be funded by the universal service obligation (USO) fund which is created from the ...
NO RELIEF IN SIGHT FOR TEXTILE, APPAREL SECTOR
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Profitability in Indian textile and apparel sector has been hit due to the higher input cost and non availability of credit as well as forex losses, and the situation is likely to persist until December 2009, Fitch Ratings said in ...
'INDIA EMERGING LEADER IN MOBILE MARKETING'
Dec 17, 2008 ... Anita Sharan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Lowe Lintas, the agency whose work is behind conspicuous campaigns for products like Sunsilk shampoo and Fair & Lovely cream, is eyeing India as an emerging leader in mobile marketing, with significant potential for ...
BUTCHER OF MUMBAI NOW ON VEG DIET
Dec 17, 2008 ... Abhishek Sharan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- 7.30 am Breakfast: two pavs, two vadas, a cup of black lemon tea. 11.30 am Lunch: vegetarian thali of two chapatis, two or three cups of rice, dal, a curry, a dry vegetable preparation, papad, sliced onions, salt. 3 pm ...
MCD LEADER SHARMA IN TROUBLE AGAIN
Dec 17, 2008 ... Neelam Pandey Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Leader of opposition in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi Jai Kishan Sharma is back doing what he is best at-bad mouthing the BJP. Under fire for passing remarks about Mayor Arti Mehra's jacket, Sharma took a dig at BJP ...
INSURANCE FIRM OFFICER CAUGHT TAKING BRIBE
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- THE Delhi government's Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) on Tuesday arrested an officer of the United India Insurance Company while accepting bribe. Complainant Anish Yadav filed a claim with the United India Insurance Company after his ...
REMOVE THOSE ILLEGAL HOARDINGS OR GET READY TO PAY A HEFTY FINE
Dec 17, 2008 ... Neelam Pandey Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- IF YOU have hoardings on your rooftop, better remove them yourself. If you don't, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will do it for it -- and charge a hefty amount for it. The civic agency is planning to ...
JET FUEL'S CHEAPER, SO CUT FARES, GOVT TELLS AIRLINES
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The government on Tuesday asked airlines to cut fares mirroring falling jet fuel prices, but companies, reeling under heavy losses, were in no mood to oblige. Aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices have fallen by over 50 per cent since ...
NOVEMBER WAS A CRUEL MONTH FOR TAX RECEIPTS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Gaurav Choudhury Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The downturn in the country's industrial sector, which saw output in October contract for the first time in 15 years, appears to have got worse through November. Official data released on Tuesday showed ...
NO FEAR OF ECONOMIC RECESSION, SAYS PC
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- THERE IS no fear of an economic recession in India and the prices are showing a downward trend in all major commodities, the government said on Tuesday. "Many countries are indeed already in recession or facing recession. India is ...
ENTER PELE, THE 3D STAR
Dec 17, 2008 ... Abhijeet Kulkarni Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Thirty-one years after playing in India with a cosmos of stars, Pele has renewed links with the country inking a $62 million deal. The man who forced a break in a war and once kept the Shah of Iran waiting will be the ...
BILL GIVES OVERRIDING POWERS TO PROBE OFFICERS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Nagendar Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- THE GOVERNMENT on Tuesday set in motion the process to seek Parliament's nod on its war against terror with the introduction of a bill to create a National Investigation Agency (NIA). Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram ...
BJP WILL BACK 'INCOMPLETE' BILL
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Former Law minister and BJP general secretary Arun Jaitely said his party would back the UPA's two new anti-terror bills though they are "incomplete and reluctant" steps to combat terrorism. He said the BJP wished Home ...
AS AIRFARES RISE, FOREIGN TOURISTS USE BERTH RIGHT
Dec 17, 2008 ... Avishek G Dastidar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- It is an overseas 'mail' order that the railways can't 'express' their joy about. The International Tourist Bureau of Northern Railway, which facilitates rail travel by foreign tourists from the Capital, has recorded ...
TIME FOR LOAN SHARKS TO BEWARE!
Dec 17, 2008 ... Vijaita Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Three years ago, in October 2005, 28-year-old Himanshu Sharma, a resident of Sriniwaspuri, committed suicide after recovery agents thrashed him outside his house. He had reportedly defaulted on the payment of Rs 1,338, a ...
DIKSHIT, SIX COLLEAGUES TO BE SWORN IN TODAY
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- On Wednesday, Sheila Dikshit will take charge as Delhi chief minister for the third time after she is administered the oath of office by Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna. Dikshit will be sworn in along with six cabinet ...
5,238 PEOPLE BECOME LUCKY OWNERS OF DDA FLATS
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Hordes of expectant applicants gathered outside the Vikas Sadan headquarters of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Tuesday, hoping their names would be among the list of successful owners of DDA flats. Security ...
TEENAGER COLLAPSES, DIES AFTER RACE
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- NAVEEN KHARAB ran his best during the annual sports day of his management institute on Tuesday not knowing that it was to be his last. The 19-year-old BBA student died of a heart attack soon after he came first in a 100 metre race ...
INCREASE SECURITY FOR STUDENTS: CABINET SECY
Dec 17, 2008 ... Vijaita Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Terming them "the softest of soft targets", the Cabinet Secretariat has asked Delhi Police to beef up security at schools and colleges. In a written communication, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar has asked the ...
CHAMKI HAS TWO NEW FRIENDS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Swaha Sahoo Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Meet Toto and Elmo, your child's new best friends. Toto is just like your little one, curious about everything he sees and hears and always ready with questions. Elmo is three and a half. He is a red monster and along with ...
WHEELS OF CHANGE: GOVT SCHOOLS TO GET MOBILE SCIENCE VANS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Ritika Chopra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Science lessons in Delhi government and MCD schools may soon get cured of boredom. Aiming to pry the subject and monotony apart, the Directorate of Education will roll out 10 mobile laboratories to educate students ...
WORK BEGINS ON GURGAON'S FIRST SOLID WASTE UNIT
Dec 17, 2008 ... Sanjeev K.Ahuja Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The municipal corporations of Gurgaon and Fardiabad and the National Building Constructions Corporation (NBCC) finally commenced work on Gurgaon's very first solid waste management facility in village Bandhwari just off ...
HC STAYS IMPRISONMENT OF FORMER WATER BOARD CHIEF
Dec 17, 2008 ... Harish V Nair Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed the two-weeks imprisonment handed down to former Delhi Jal Board (DJB) chief, Arun Mathur, for polluting the Yamuna by not repairing broken sewer lines in S Block of Greater ...
SPEAKER FORWARDS NAMES TO HOME MINISTRY FOR 'ACTION'
Dec 17, 2008 ... Saroj Nagi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Tuesday referred the case of the three persons named in the cash-for-vote scam to the Home Ministry for "appropriate action", a day after the report was tabled in the ...
NON-BAILABLE WARRANT AGAINST RAJ THACKERAY
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Another arrest warrant has been issued against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray in Jharkhand. Judicial Magistrate Anil Kumar issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Thackeray on Tuesday for failing to ...
JHARKHAND MINISTER DUMPS FIANCEE
Dec 17, 2008 ... Firoz Mirza Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Jharkhand health minister Bhanu Pratap Sahi has been accused of getting engaged to a girl at Bharatpur in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh and then ditching her to marry another girl. Umesh Kumar Singh, father of ...
TIME IS THE ONLY ANSWER, SAYS KAVITA KARKARE
Dec 17, 2008 ... Sweta Ramanujan-Dixit Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- She is calm and her replies brief, two traits that remind you of her husband, slain Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare. "This is an extremely difficult time for us, especially for the children," said ...
JEWS REFUSE HOUSE TO NEW RABBI
Dec 17, 2008 ... Naziya Alvi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- After the death of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, who headed Mumbai's Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish center that worked from the Nariman House here, his successor Rabbi Ryvka Liba Goldberg is now looking for a safe new place to restart ...
BENGAL DELAYS ACTION, PANIC SPREADS
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- As the West Bengal government machinery took more than 24 hours to start culling operations in just one gram panchayat area of Malda district, 340 km north of Kolkata, the bird flu panic spread in the state capital on ...
ATHLETE SELLS MILK TO CHASE C'WEALTH DREAM
Dec 17, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Rani Yadav, 18, is a champion athlete and has 15 national medals to prove it. Her dream is to win the 20-km walk at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. This year alone, Rani has won four gold medals in the 10-km walk event at the ...
GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER
Dec 17, 2008 ... Thomas Paul Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- The Gospels by Mark and Luke speak glowingly of 'the widow's mite', of how one day Jesus watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came ...
SMALL MERCIES
Dec 17, 2008 ... Lalita Iyer & Tasneem Nashrulla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Television production schedules can be trying even for the super-fit. And working on a serial, with the unrelenting pressures of daily deadlines, can be a professional actor's nightmare. Actors have ...
BROAD SPECTRUM
Dec 17, 2008 ... Anand Vasu Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- ENGLAND have conducted themselves remarkably well in their interactions with the media with Kevin Pietersen leading the way. The reassuring thing has been a concerted effort not to complain, but it seems Mohali might just ...
THE ICC OFFICIAL COMES DOWN HEAVILY ON INDIAN BATSMEN FOR SLOWING DOWN GAME
Dec 17, 2008 ... Anand Vasu Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- THE INDIAN team is rightfully riding a wave of euphoria after their historic win over England at Chennai but they might just curb their enthusiasm when they see that Chris Broad, the match referee has the same views as Ricky ...
WHAT'S IT WITH KARTIK?
Dec 17, 2008 ... Anand Vasu Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- WHEN ANIL Kumble became captain of India, he had plenty to deal with. When he ceased to be India's main spinner, it seemed he had handed the mantle over to Harbhajan Singh. But the latter's performance over the last ...
INDIA, ENGLAND LAND INTO MASSIVE SECURITY COVER
Dec 17, 2008 ... Vinod Kumar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- THE INDIAN and English teams touched down in Chandigarh on Tuesday for the second Test starting December 19 at Mohali. No sooner the players arrived, a massive security cover was thrown around them, and the team bus ...
CHANDIGARH FIRM SIGNS PELE FOR ANIMATION FILM
Dec 17, 2008 ... Abhijeet Kulkarni Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Thirty-one years after playing in India with a cosmos of stars, Pele has renewed links with the country inking a $62 million deal. The man who forced a break in a war and once kept the Shah of Iran waiting will be the ...
I'LL MAKE INDIA'S F1 DRIVER, SAYS MALLYA
Dec 17, 2008 ... Sukhwant Basra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- INDIA WILL have to wait before its first Formula one team owner puts one of our own on the grid. In a pointed query as to why he chose to ignore Narain Karthikeyan without even testing him, Mallya slammed back blunt: "In ...
BUSY 2009 FOR MEN'S HOCKEY TEAM
Dec 17, 2008 ... B Shrikant Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- AS INDIAN hockey's annus horribilis nears end, the ad hoc committee governing the sport in the country has lined up a number of tournaments to help prepare for major events in 2010. On and off the field, Indian ...
ROOKIES DEFEATED NOT DISGRACED
Dec 17, 2008 ... Somshuvra Laha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 17 -- Post the Mohun Bagan shocker, Vasco coach Elvis Goes had commented about the newcomers from the North-East: "As far as I can see, Oil India are playing better than most of the I-League teams. I expect them to give us a ...
ASSAM SITUATION
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 17 -- The Lok Sabha discussed the insurgency situation in the North East with special reference to serial blasts in Assam providing a unique opportunity to the Members of Parliament from the North East to high ...
TRIUMPH OF SPIRIT
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 17 -- India's historic win in the Chennai Test will surely be a part of cricketing folklore, not merely for the manner of victory or quality of cricket, but because the Test itself was a defiance against ...
BOUNDARY DISPUTE-A RECURRING PROBLEM
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 17 -- Assam, like the rest of the North East, is a problem-ridden State. But, there are some problems which are not just long-standing but also ungovernable. It is because of their very character that the ...
PROPERTY TAX HIKE BY GMC
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 17 -- The happenings during the past couple of decades have transformed Guwahati into a horrifying city. It is not the law and order situation alone, but also the attitude of the authorities concerned, which ...
LORGAT TO TARGET SLOW OVER-RATES, VERBAL ABUSE
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Dubai, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat has identified slow over-rates and verbal abuse as two key areas that must be kept in check for cricket to maintain its feel-good factor over the coming ...
AKHTAR VOWS TO BE FIT ENOUGH TO PLAY IN 2011 WORLD CUP
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Karachi, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has vowed to make himself fit enough to be considered for the squad for the 2011 World Cup, despite persistent injury problems. "I believe I still ...
AKHTAR URGES PCB TO LAUNCH CASH-RICH T20 LEAGUE TO ATTRACT CRICKET STARS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Karachi, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar believes Pakistan can lure foreign cricket stars back to the country by showing them the money. The enigmatic pacer star told reporters here on Tuesday that ...
IF INDIA TOURS, PAK WILL BE NO PUSHOVERS: HAQ
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Karachi, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Pakistan cricket vice-captain Misbah-ul-Haq believes India has risen in Test stature primarily on the back of their prolific batters, and especially because of Sachin Tendulkar. Haq ...
SAUDI INTELLIGENCE OPERATION FOILED QAEDA PLOT AGAINST HAJ PILGRIMS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Lahore, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): The Saudi Arabian Government last week launched a huge counter-terrorism operation to neutralize al Qaeda from carrying out a terror strike on Muslim pilgrims taking part in the ...
POLLING FOR SIXTH PHASE IN KASHMIR BEGINS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Srinagar, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Polling for the sixth phase of assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir began this morning. Voting is being held in sixteen constituencies spread over five districts of Doda, ...
SHEILA DIKSHIT TO BE SWORN IN AS DELHI CM TODAY
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Sheila Dikshit will be sworn-in as the Chief Minister of the national capital for the third successive term today. Lieutenant Governor Tejendra Khanna will administer the oath of ...
LOK SABHA TO DISCUSS BILL FOR NATIONAL INVESTIGATION AGENCY
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Lok Sabha will hold a discussion on the bills aimed at setting up the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and another legislation to strengthen the existing laws against terror. On ...
BRANGELINA PREFER A LOW PROFILE CHRISTMAS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Brad Pitt has revealed that when it comes to Christmas, he and partner Angelina Jolie try not to spend excessively. The 'Burn After Reading' actor said that the couple preferred to ...
PAKISTAN IS NOT AN ENEMY OF INDIA: ZARDARI
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Islamabad, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): President Asif Ali Zardari has said that Pakistanis and Indians are made of the same mud, and added that "we are not the enemies of India. "We look enormously, and we always react ...
ASTRA MICROWAVE WINS INR 138 MILLION ORDER FROM ANTRIX
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Hyderabad, Dec. 17 -- (ANI/Business Wire India): Astra Microwave Products Ltd today announced that it has received an INR 138 million order from Antrix Corporation Ltd. The commercial arm of India's Department ...
ALICE ACHIEVES ENERGY RECOVERY AT 11 MILLION VOLTS
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Scientists in the UK have successfully demonstrated energy recovery on the ALICE advanced particle accelerator design, creating a beam with a total energy of 11 million electron ...
ALEXANDRA BURKE'S RECORD-BREAKING SONG INSPIRED BY SEX
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): The song that British soul/pop singer Alexandra Burke sang, and which also broke a chart record, is said to have been inspired by 'sex'. Burke, who is the winner of the fifth series ...
CLIMATE WARMING CAUSING ECOSYSTEM CHANGES IN TEMPERATE LAKES
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): A new study has linked ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes to climate warning. The study, conducted by researchers at Queen's University ...
BOLLYWOOD USES FASHION SHOW FOR FILM PROMOTION
Dec 17, 2008 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Mumbai, Dec. 17 -- (ANI): Models sashayed down the ramp in Mumbai on Tuesday to promote an upcoming film 'Ghajini' starring Bollywood actor Aamir Khan. During the promotion of the film in a Mumbai's suburban ...