The Hindustan Times back issues from Friday, December 19:
YES MAN
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 18 -- Directors: Peyton Reed Genre: Comedy Cast: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel, Bradley Cooper Synopsis: Based on a memoir by British author Danny Wallace, the story centers on a man who decides to change his life by saying 'yes' to ...
HOPE AND DESPAIR
Dec 19, 2008 ... Neha Bhayana Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- BHAVESH BAJAJ squealed with delight every time the red balloon he was rubbing with his tiny fingers emitted a crackling sound, at the Christmas party for thalassemic children at Jaslok Hospital on Thursday. Vinod ...
WIFE ACCUSES GOA MINISTER OF BIGAMY
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Goa Police have sought legal opinion on a complaint of bigamy against a cabinet minister in the Goa government. The complaint filed against high profile Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco by his allegedly estranged wife Sara ...
2 RELIGIONS, 1 FAMILY. AND IT'S HAPPY
Dec 19, 2008 ... Darpan Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Wahid Khan (80) has four nephews - Shaukat Ali, Mahendra Singh, Achal Singh and Bajua. They all live together with their father, Gaznavi. Unique? But Sandhan, a remote village in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh, has, for ...
TRIBALS HOLD KEY TO PEACE
Dec 19, 2008 ... Soumyajit Pattnaik Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The focus in Kandhamal district has now shifted to the Kui Samaj (association of tribals who speak Kui), which has yet to decide whether to support the Orissa shutdown called on Christmas Day. The call has been made ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH AT THE COST OF OUR ECOLOGY
Dec 19, 2008 ... Chetan Chauhan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- ECONOMIC GROWTH is taking a toll on the country's ecology. Natural resources are being consumed at an alarming rate and little is being done to replenish them. By September 23, India had consumed its share of ...
WON'T ALLOW MISUSE OF TERROR LAW: PC
Dec 19, 2008 ... Nagendar Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- THE NATIONAL Investigation Agency and a tighter anti-terror law would soon come into effect as the Rajya Sabha gave its consent to the new arrangement on Thursday night after a seven-hour debate. The new agency ...
TRUANT MPS FACE SONIA IRE, TOLD TO EXPLAIN
Dec 19, 2008 ... Saroj Nagi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Congress president Sonia Gandhi has taken serious objection that as many as 68 of the party's 152 members, including a dozen ministers, had played truant from the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, giving the UPA government some ...
MOBILES TO KEEP TRACK OF PATNA DOCS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Binod Dubey Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Bihar government has decided to keep a tab on doctors through mobile phones. The aim: to check absenteeism, track their movements constantly and connect the field-level medical officers with their supervisors. The ...
10 YRS OF SUCCESSFUL LIVER TRANSPLANTS
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Sanjay Kanthasamy is now 10 years and 5 months old. He was 17 months old when he underwent liver transplant surgery at Delhi's Apollo Hospital, making him the first case in India to have undergone the procedure. Today he is ...
NGO CHALLENGES DDA DECISION TO DEDUCT RS 5,000 FROM APPLICANTS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Satya Prakash Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Barely two days after the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) announced the results of latest housing scheme offering 5238 flats, an NGO on Thursday challenged its reported decision to deduct Rs 5,000 from the amount to be ...
WE HAVE SOLVED TYAGI MURDER CASE: POLICE
Dec 19, 2008 ... Peeyush Khandelwal Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The police claimed to have solved the murder of senior Congress leader Pradeep Tyagi who was shot in his Ghaziabad home by three unidentified assailants on December 11. The announcement came an hour after ...
'CUSTODY' DEATH: FAMILY TO APPROACH NHRC
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Bhagmal Tyagi's family is now planning to approach the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the High Court to plea his case. They also want to bring up the alleged custodial death of Bhagmal's brother Yogesh Tyagi on December ...
VERDICT ON ANSAL APPEAL TODAY
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Delhi High Court will pronounce its verdict on Friday on appeals filed by Sushil and Gopal Ansal, owners of the Upahaar cinema, and 10 others, challenging their conviction for a fire tragedy in the theatre that killed 59 ...
ALL SCHOOLS HAVE TO PUBLISH ADMISSION CRITERIA: COURT
Dec 19, 2008 ... Swaha Sahoo Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Delhi High Court on Thursday instructed the Directorate of Education to ensure all schools which have opened admission for nursery publish their admission criteria. The High Court was responding to a Public Interest ...
BIG SCHOOLS CONTINUE TO FLOUT RULES
Dec 19, 2008 ... Vikas Pathak Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- A year-and-a-half after a Parliamentary committee asked the government to take strong action against Delhi schools that went back on their promise of reserving 25 per cent seats for poor children in return for concessional ...
END OF ROAD OR NEW BEGINNING FOR THEM?
Dec 19, 2008 ... Jaya Shroff Bhalla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Seven-year-old Jamal insists he is 14 years old, 14 being the legal age to work. But his height and build tell a different story. He was the youngest child rescued on Thursday morning in a raid conducted by the ...
SPICEJET FLIGHT MAKES EMERGENCY LANDING
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- A Jammu-bound SpiceJet flight with 159 passengers and crew on board had to land under emergency conditions at the Delhi airport on Thursday after tyre debris, suspected to be of the same plane, were found on the runway. The ...
'WHICH JAIL DO YOU PREFER?'
Dec 19, 2008 ... Harish V. Nair Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- "Which jail do you prefer?" asked a furious judge of the Delhi High Court to the Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS) U.K. Vohra on Thursday. The official had appeared in the court in response to a contempt notice ...
THREE MEN DETAINED FOR 'SELLING' CHILDREN TO EUNUCHS
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Three men were detained on Thursday for allegedly kidnapping three children and selling them to eunuchs in Welcome area of northeast Delhi, police said. The family members claimed that even though the two boys went missing nearly ...
MAN TRIES TO POISON GRANNY FOR PROPERTY
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The police has arrested a man who, in collusion with his friend, tried to kill his own grandmother for her property. The two people are Arvind Kumar (28) and Roshan Lal (46) - both residents of Main Sagarpur in Southwest ...
MAN TRIES GRAB TO RS 250-CRORE PLOT, LANDS IN POLICE NET
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police arrested a Mohali-based person on Thursday for allegedly trying to grab 34-acres of prime land worth over Rs 250 crore in the posh Vasant Kunj area. The accused, Gurdial ...
ATIF, JUNAID PLANTED BOMBS IN GK
Dec 19, 2008 ... Sumit Saxena Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Delhi police filed the second charge sheet in the Greater Kailash bomb blast case on Thursday. Police have alleged Atif Ameen and Junaid planted the bomb at two separate locations in the busy Greater Kailash-I market ...
TERROR MAIL SENDER PEERBHOY TO BE BROUGHT TO DELHI
Dec 19, 2008 ... Vijaita Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Mohammad Mansoor Asghar Peerbhoy, the software engineer arrested by Mumbai police a month ago for sending terror mails after the Delhi blasts, will be brought to the city for interrogation in January next ...
MELTDOWN EFFECT: MALLS WANT TUESDAY OFF CANCELLED
Dec 19, 2008 ... Sanjeev K. Ahuja Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Christmas is a week away and New Year celebrations not much farther, but footfall in continues to plummet in wake of the global economic meltdown and Mumbai terror strike. Faced with dwindling visitors, Gurgaon mall ...
OVER 2,000 VIOLATORS FINED IN TRAFFIC CRACKDOWN
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Continuing their crackdown against traffic violators in Dwarka, Delhi Traffic Police on Thursday prosecuted more than 2000 people. Of the total challans, maximum 269 were for speeding. "Apart from this, 56 persons were ...
FIRST DAY, FIRST SHOW
Dec 19, 2008 ... Moushumi Das Gupta/Atul Mathur Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Delhi Assembly wore a festive look on Thursday as it met for the first time after the elections to administer oath of office to the new set of 70 MLAs. While for the veterans - many of whom were sworn ...
BRT'LL STAY, SO WILL CONFUSION
Dec 19, 2008 ... Atul Mathur Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Bus Rapid Transit is here to stay. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit made it clear when she called a review meeting on BRT soon after the first assembly session on Thursday. The confusion over design, too, is back ....
OKAY, BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH
Dec 19, 2008 ... Avishek G. Dastidar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- THE INFLATION graph might have taken its sharpest dives in months but Capital's homemakers who have been fighting the dual attack of inflation and recession in economy for the past one year, said it was too little ...
JUST ONE TIGER LIVES IN PANNA RESERVE?
Dec 19, 2008 ... Chetan Chauhan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Panna tiger reserve in Madhya Pradesh is threatening to go the Sariskaway, where th big cats vanished in 2004. Officially, it has just eight surviving male tigers, down from 24 in the 2006 tiger census. Unofficially ...
GENETICALLY MODIFIED BRT TO RUN ON
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's back. In her first executive meeting after being sworn in as Delhi's CM for the third time, Dikshit reviewed a project her BJP rival had promised to scrap if elected: the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) ...
...BUT YOUR MONTHLY KITCHEN EXPENSES DEFY GOVT DATA
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The government's decision to cut petrol and diesel prices earlier this month has helped push the inflation rate below 7 per cent and offered extra room for the Reserve Bank of India to slash interest rates further. But there ...
MORE 26/11 AFTERSHOCKS
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- India's cricket tour of Pakistan has been officially called off, with the government refusing permission in view of "recent developments as well as the overall circumstances prevailing at present". The decision "was based on ...
BUYING A HOME? GOOD DEALS MAY COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT
Dec 19, 2008 ... Vandana Ramnani Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The limited period offer of lower home loan rates from public sector banks might help save a little over a thousand on your EMI, if you go for a home now. But if wait, chances are, you will save much more from a widely ...
NDFB AFFAIRS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 19 -- The recent move of the general assembly of the National Democratic Front of Boroland (NDFB) to remove the chairman of the outfit Ranjan Daimary alias DR Nabla from his position was a surprising move and ...
TOURISM IN NE
Dec 19, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 19 -- Tourism, which continues to be in a fledgling stage in Assam and other north-eastern States except Sikkim, received a major jolt following the serial blasts in the State and Mumbai terror attack. The ...
MUMBAI STRIKE: ATTACK ON INDIAN NATIONHOOD
Dec 19, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 19 -- The November terror strike in Mumbai by Pakistan is not an attack on this metropolis or its people along with foreign tourists. It is an attack on India. It is the desperate attempt of those terrorists ...
NUCLEAR DEAL: BOON OR BANE FOR INDIA?
Dec 19, 2008 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Dec. 19 -- Prior to the signing of the historic nuclear deal, by President George Bush on October 9, 2009 at the White House, many debates and wars of word took place in the country regarding the pros and cons of ...
JOBLESS FATHER WANTS DEATH FOR SON SUFFERING FROM SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- A jobless father in Jharkhand and his wife have sought death for their suffering son. Kalidas Munda is a resident of Village Potka, Chakradharpur district of West Singhbhum division in the state. His son, 11-year-old Gulshan, ...
A CHAT WITH GOD
Dec 19, 2008 ... Pankaj Kumar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Prayer is a simple way to get inner strength to face obstacles, receive God's help and thank Him for what he has done for us. We can either repeat the prayers written by saints or just tell God our hopes and fears like a ...
PEOPLE UNAWARE OF BIRTH AND DEATH REGISTRATION DESPITE LEGAL COMPULSIONS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Shikha S. Shukla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Despite a legal compulsion of registering every birth and death, residents of most districts in Uttarakhand failed to get these important events registered. According to a survey conducted by United Nations Rights of ...
HARIDWAR TOPS IN CRIMES AGAINST SC/STS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Rakesh Ranjan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Haridwar district topped the list of crimes against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes in Uttarakhand for the present year, while Udham Singh Nagar came second. As per the data available with the Uttarakhand ...
TALKS ON WITH SP FOR LS POLL ALLIANCE: RAHUL
Dec 19, 2008 ... Umesh Raghuvanshi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- CONGRESS GENERAL Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said talks were on with the Samajwadi Party for an alliance in coming Lok Sabha elections. "It's in progress," said Rahul, while replying to a question whether the ...
PIL ROUTE TO SEEK 26/11 REDRESS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Malvika Nanda Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- ALL THE candlelight vigils and peace marches staged in the aftermath of 26/11 have failed to soothe the common man's frayed nerves. Some are disgusted with such 'tokenism' and consider them a 'waste of ...
OVER 50,000 EMPLOYED IN INDUSTRIAL ESTATES
Dec 19, 2008 ... Utpal Parashar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The three industrial estates set up at Sitarganj, Haridwar and Pantnagar by the State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand Limited (SIDCUL) have managed to provide employment to 51,438 persons till date in ...
POLICE SEIZE CHINESE HANDSETS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Darpan Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- THE POLICE have launched a crackdown on shops dealing with Chinese cellular phones, which don't have the International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, in various districts of Agra following a government order ...
AGRA UNIVERSITY HAS ITS SHARE OF CONTROVERSIES
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- EVEN AS Chief Minister Mayawati suspended the Registrar of Choudhary Charan Singh University (CCSU) V.K. Sinha in Meerut on Tuesday after the alleged leak of question paper for the Bachelor of Dental Surgery examination on December ...
TRIBALS HOLD KEY TO PEACE
Dec 19, 2008 ... Soumyajit Pattnaik Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The focus in Kandhamal district has now shifted to the Kui Samaj (association of tribals who speak Kui), which has yet to decide whether to support the Orissa shutdown called on Christmas Day. The call has ...
UNDER COVERED!
Dec 19, 2008 ... Namya Sinha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Finally, there's good news at hand! Through some quirk of inflation and recession, you can now afford to party on New Year's Eve -in style. In an effort to get people out of their houses and on the dance floors, bars, pubs ...
ECONOMIC GROWTH AT THE COST OF OUR ECOLOGY
Dec 19, 2008 ... Chetan Chauhan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- ECONOMIC GROWTH is taking a toll on the country's ecology. Natural resources are being consumed at an alarming rate and little is being done to replenish them. By September 23, India had consumed its share of ...
WEIGHING IN ON THE SIDE OF THE VICTIM
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The process has been painfully slow, but one by one, the obstacles to a rape victim getting justice are being eliminated. The most striking provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Bill that was just passed in the ...
CABINET SET TO INCREASE SUPPORT PRICE FOR WHEAT
Dec 19, 2008 ... Zia Haq Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The Cabinet is likely to announce next week an increase in the minimum support price (MSP) for wheat. With general elections scheduled for next year, this crucial exercise in national food management could be electorally ...
NOISY SCENES BY OPPOSITION RESULTS IN ADJOURNMENTS
Dec 19, 2008 ... Utpal Parashar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- It was a day of adjournments in the Uttarakhand Assembly on Friday, with the morning session witnessing as many as six adjournments as a result of ruckus created by opposition Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ...
EXPLOSIVES FOUND FROM HOUSE IN ALLAHABAD
Dec 19, 2008 ... BK Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- A POLICE swoop following a tip-off about a domestic fight led to the chance recovery of a big cache of explosives and arms from the house of an alleged criminal Imtiaz belonging to Kala Danda locality in Himmatganj, under ...
LOONY TUNES
Dec 19, 2008 ... Barkha Dutt Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- If there is anything more tragic than India's Muslims having to vouch for their nationalism in the aftermath of every terrorist strike, it is the insane utterances of some of their self-appointed saviours. By the time this ...
FATHER OF INDIA'S EMI CULTURE SAYS GOODBYE
Dec 19, 2008 ... Sandeep Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Often credited as the person who brought scale to Indian retail banking, KV Kamath, through ICICI Bank, has changed the way Indians bank. Kamath took retail lending to the doorsteps of the Indian household, leading to a ...
'THERE IS OPTIMISM FOR INDIA'
Dec 19, 2008 ... Rajendra Palande Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Chanda Kochhar, the ICICI Bank's Managing Director and CEO-designate, is conscious of the demands of her new assignment. On the KV Kamath legacy Mr Kamath is an icon and an institution in himself. I have to ...
NEW FACE, NEW CHALLENGES
Dec 19, 2008 ... Rajendra Palande Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- There's a bigger challenge that awaits Chanda Kochhar, named the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank, than steering the country's second-largest bank through the economic ...
POWER WOMEN LEAD CHARGE IN NATION'S HIGH-FINANCE GAME
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- The anointing of Chanda Kochhar on Friday to head ICICI Bank is the crowning glory for the woman who turned out to be the winner in a race of accomplished home-bred talent in the country's largest private bank. But it is not just in ...
PARASVNATH TO PUT ON HOLD 12 SEZ PROJECTS
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Parsvnath Developers Limited on Friday announced that it has put on hold 12 of its 17 Special Economic Zones (SEZs) projects due to cash crunch. "We have put on hold 12 SEZs for acquisition of land", chairman of Parsvnath group ...
DESI BABU ENGLISH MEM
Dec 19, 2008 ... Renuka Narayanan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- India making it big everywhere couldn't have had a more apt example. The young Indian girls, hooked on to Mills&Boon romances for decades, will now get to enjoy an Indian setting, in Penny Jordan's latest book A ...
WE ARE PROBING SATYAM ISSUE, SAYS BHAVE
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- "We are still in the midst of things that are continuing to unfold," CB Bhave, Chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said at the conference on securities market convened by NISM (National Institute of Securities ...
THE RESTORATION MAN
Dec 19, 2008 ... Mini Pant Zachariah Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- By his own admission, Chetan Raikar is a short-tempered man. But his wide smile and calm demeanour camouflage this trait pretty well. Even when he talks of walking into the Taj Mahal Hotel on December 1, two days ...
WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHY GLOBAL INSTITUTIONS FAILED: PM
Dec 19, 2008 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said that while the world's response to many global challenges have remained national or regional. "The response of the developed countries to the challenges of our times, be it financial ...
ANGRY STROKES
Dec 19, 2008 ... Gargi Gupta Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 19 -- It was an extraordinary situation that Norbert Bisky found himself in on November 27. The young painter who's been called the 'shooting star of German art' had flown into Mumbai the day before for the opening of his ...