The Hindustan Times back issues from Tuesday, January 6:
CERTIFIED MAYHEM
Jan 06, 2009 ... Preeti Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- This past weekend, I reluctantly watched that greatly awaited rip-off - Ghajini. My overwhelming memory of the movie is a kaleidoscope of killer metal rods, twisted necks, sweaty terrified women hiding from men sent to ...
TIME FOR THAT LONG ROAD TRIP
Jan 06, 2009 ... N. Chandra Mohan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The travails of the automobile industry are emblematic of the deepening global economic crisis. While the focus of attention is on the bailout of the American Big Three (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler), similar ...
TATA TELE, SREI GROUP IN PACT FOR TOWER BUSINESS
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) has merged its tower business with Quippo Telecom Infrastructure Ltd, a company promoted by the Kanorias of SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd. Quippo will pay around Rs 2,400 crore in cash to Tata ...
LOANS EASE UP: RS 56,000 CR MORE FOR BANKS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Mahua Venkatesh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Cash-short companies can look forward to a greater supply of money from which to borrow. As much as Rs. 56,000 crore are expected to be added to the pool of lendable resources of public sector banks over the next three ...
THINK LOCAL, GO GLOBAL: BHEL TO SHOP IN CHINA
Jan 06, 2009 ... Anupama Airy Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- If Bollywood can go to China, why not BHEL? While the country's frenetic film industry celebrates a Look-East globalisation policy with the anticipated release of "Chandni Chowk to China" next week, BHEL Ltd, whose origin ...
REMOTE CONTROL SOLUTION TO INFORMATION SECURITY
Jan 06, 2009 ... Devraj Uchil Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- If you have been worried that the critical data shared with a company could be misused or accessed by unauthorised persons, you can now secure or delete data at the receiver's end by just clicking a few buttons - even days ...
ROLLS ROYCE EYES INDIA'S NUKE PIE
Jan 06, 2009 ... Anupama Airy Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- After the entry of French nuclear major Areva, it is now the UK-based Rolls Royce which has evinced a keen interest to participate in India's civil nuclear programme. Rolls Royce, already a world player in ...
GUJARAT SHIFTS INDUSTRY POLICY FOCUS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Rathin Das Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The Gujarat government on Monday announced a paradigm shift in its industrial policy with more emphasis on holistic socio-economic development of the state rather than just industrial growth. Coming as it did just a ...
SLOWDOWN'S POSITIVE SIDE: POWER CUTS EASE
Jan 06, 2009 ... Yogesh Joshi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The ongoing economic slowdown may have hit many people badly, but it too has a positive side like bringing down down the electricity demand in Maharashtra. While the Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad zone in the state has ...
SPOTTING SKELETONS IN THE DDA CLOSET
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Udit Raj, President, Indian Justice Party, claims he had alerted DDA officials about the scam in October, yet no action was taken. "Why did not they (DDA) look into the allegations about application forms bearing fictitious ...
ALREADY HOT PROPERTY
Jan 06, 2009 ... Neelam Pandey & Karan Choudhury Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Even after the alleged scam in the DDA Housing Scheme 2008 came to light about a week ago, 25-odd property dealers operating out of Dwarka's Sector 11 continue to 'deal' in flats offered under the ...
DDA SCAM SURFACED AFTER PROPERTY DEALERS FELL OUT
Jan 06, 2009 ... Vijaita Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The alleged irregularities in the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) housing scheme 2008 could not have been unearthed had it not been for a property dealer who fell out with a big real estate player. It was this property ...
POLICE LOOK FOR CONCRETE LEADS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Vijaita Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has served a notice on the Income Tax (IT) department, asking it to assist in the probe into the DDA 'scam'. Permanent Account Number (PAN) cards, which are issued ...
DDA BREAKS WALL OF SILENCE
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- For the first time after allegations rocked Delhi Development Authority (DDA) that draw of lots for the 5,238 flats conducted by it last month could be rigged, the agency on Monday came out with a detailed clarification saying the ...
BJP HUNT ON FOR NEW DELHI CHIEF
Jan 06, 2009 ... Anuradha Mukherjee Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- In the aftermath of the BJP's defeat in the Delhi Assembly elections, the party is hunting for a new state president to replace outgoing chief Harsh Vardhan. Even as Vijay Kumar Malhotra, leader of Opposition ...
ROCKLAND TURNS AWAY PATIENT SEEKING FREE FOLLOW-UP
Jan 06, 2009 ... Jaya Shroff Bhalla Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- On Monday morning when Anjum Begum took her husband Fakru Hassan to Rockland Hospital for a follow-up after an operation, she was refused free treatment. She was asked to pay for scanning and other tests, ...
ROBBERS CAUGHT AFTER HIGH DRAMA IN KALKAJI
Jan 06, 2009 ... Naziya Alvi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Bank staff and customers foiled a daring daylight robbery bid at a bank at Kalkaji in South Delhi on Monday afternoon. A few hours later, two people, including a policemen and civilian, were injured when the robbers ...
DRIZZLE MAY AGGRAVATE FOG
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- There is bad news for those hoping for an early respite from the fog. A slight drizzle early on Monday morning cleared the sky but may make matters worse for the city and its adjoining areas hit hard by the fog cover, as it injected ...
DON'T RELY ON RAILWAY HELPLINES
Jan 06, 2009 ... Avishek G. Dastidar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- In this fog season, if are relying on a helpline to know the status of your train, don't expect to get the correct information. If massive train delays due to fog are causing unending misery to passengers, ...
DUSU OFFICE BEARERS DAMAGE PROCTOR'S OFFICE
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Unable to secure permission to use the varsity polo grounds to host an annual fest, three DUSU office bearers allegedly vandalised the proctor's office on Monday afternoon. Vice president Manohar Naagar, secretary Ashish Chaudhury ...
COURT CUTS SHORT DDA'S DEMOLITION PLAN
Jan 06, 2009 ... Sumit Saxena Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- A CITY court on Monday restrained Delhi Development Authority (DDA) from demolishing 300 houses in Singalpur village in Shalimar Bagh area. The court said no to demolishing a particular house in the village, aborting the ...
KNOW WHAT GOES INTO YOUR CIGARETTE
Jan 06, 2009 ... Harish V Nair Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- In eight months' time, you will find a packet of cigarette disclosing percentage of ingredients like nicotine and tar in detail. The rule, in the interest of public health, will be enforced with help from the United ...
ACROSS INDIA, TRUCKS GO OFF THE ROADS
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The nationwide transporters' strike began on Monday with negotiations between the government and agitating truckers failing to make any headway. The government threatened to cancel permits of transporters, who said they would ...
75-YR-OLD MAN HELPS THWART BANK ROBBERY
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Braveheart bank employees and a spirited septuagenarian helped thwart a bank robbery bid in Kalkaji on Monday. A police spokesman said four assailants came on two motorcycles armed with pistols to rob Central Bank in ...
GURGAON SCHOOLS CHANGE TIMINGS
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Taking the cold wave and fog into consideration, the Haryana government has issued mandatory orders asking all the private as well as government schools in Gurgaon to open at 10 a.m. up to January 14, with immediate effect. These ...
IT'S ALL IN THE FAMILY
Jan 06, 2009 ... Deepika Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- There's a new dawn for tennis's first family. We are not talking about the Krishnans, but the Khannas. And we are not talking about players but so-called administrators. In its recent AGM, 26-year-old Aditya ...
AN UNUSUAL BONDING
Jan 06, 2009 ... Dhiman Sarkar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- When they are not at each other's throats, they are usually unanimous in condemning the referee. But for two days in Goa, I-League coaches strayed from the trait that defines their trade worldwide, bonding with each other ...
TALENT SPOTTING AT SUB-JUNIOR NATIONALS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Sahil Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The Archery Association of India is closely monitoring the progress of archers at the 29th Sub-Junior Nationals, which is being considered an important stepping stone for a 2012 London Games medal prospect. In focus ...
BOFORS FIRES THROUGH
Jan 06, 2009 ... Sukhwant Basra Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- In the thirteen year history of the Chennai Open, only four times has there been an Indian qualifier into the singles main draw. Twice over it has been Rohan Bopanna. The 28-year-old had last managed the feat in ...
SECURITY KEY ISSUE IN CMS' MEET
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Terrorism, strengthening of intelligence network, coastal security and security of key establishments, including atomic installations, will be discussed at the conference of chief ministers to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan ...
PLACEMENTS MUST FOR COLLEGE ACCREDITATION
Jan 06, 2009 ... Swaha Sahoo Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) has laid down new guidelines to accord accreditation. It will now depend on students' satisfaction and how well placed the students of that particular institute are after completing ...
AIR INDIA SACKS 10 OVERWEIGHT HOSTESSES
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Air India has handed over pink slips to ten air hostesses for being overweight. "All these air hostesses were grounded three to four years back and they haven't flown since then," said an Air India spokesman. "They ...
HOME LOANS FOR POOR GET CHEAPER
Jan 06, 2009 ... Vikas Pathak Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The poor can soon avail of house loans at low interest rates. Close on the heels of public sector banks announcing a lowering of interest rates on house loans up to Rs 5 lakh to 8.5 per cent, the government has decided to ...
EC NOTICES TO DMK, AIADMK
Jan 06, 2009 ... M.R.Venkatesh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- THE ELECTION Commission on Monday issued notices to the DMK and AIADMK, threatening to withdraw their election symbols for their alleged offering of money to voters to solicit votes for the by-polls in the Thirumangalam ...
BLAME PAK, NOT JUST TERRORISTS: MENON
Jan 06, 2009 ... Tushar Srivastava Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- New Delhi on Monday not only handed over to Islamabad the evidence of Pakistani links to the Mumbai attacks, but also launched a major diplomatic initiative to inform the international community that the conspiracy was ...
PC'S US VISIT BY THE WEEKEND
Jan 06, 2009 ... Nandini R Iyer Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram is likely to visit the US by the end of the week to intensify pressure on Pakistan. Chidambaram is expected to meet US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Director of the Office ...
PAK INTELLECTUALS WARN COUNTRY OF ISOLATION
Jan 06, 2009 ... Nagendar Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Pakistan-based human rights activists, intellectuals and writers have warned their government of "self-annihilation and isolation" in case it kept its eyes shut on the existence of terrorist outfits within the ...
US WILL PURSUE THE PROBE TILL END: MULFORD
Jan 06, 2009 ... Tushar Srivastava Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- THE US will pursue investigations of the Mumbai terror strikes to its logical conclusion, David C. Mulford, the US ambassador to India said here on Monday. Asked for his reaction to reports that Jamaat-ud-Dawa ...
BAWANA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE ROADS TO BE UPGRADED
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- To ensure better services and facilities, the Delhi Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC) has taken up a road improvement project at its Bawana complex. DSIIDC managing director Manoj Parida said ...
STUDENTS PROTEST AT ISRAEL EMBASSY
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- About 70 students of Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi University and JNU were detained for a few hours for protesting in front of the Israel Embassy on Monday. The protest was against Israel's attack on Gaza. All ...
GOC VISIT
Jan 06, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. GUWAHATI, Jan 5 -- Lieutenant General VK Singh, , GOC-in-C, Eastern Command on a two-day visit to the forward areas took first-hand account of the difficulties and challenges being faced by the ...
BOOST EDUCATION
Jan 06, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 06 -- Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's call for more investment - both government and private - in research and development is timely and underscores the urgent need to boost our human resource development ...
TRADITION DISRUPTED
Jan 06, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 06 -- The cadres of the Maoist party, which currently governs Nepal, are apparently greater believers in the rule of the bullet, rather than the rule of the ballot or law. This was made amply evident in the ...
A LOOK AT FUNDAMENTALISM AND JIHAD
Jan 06, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 06 -- The chaos noticed across Assam and elsewhere in the wake of terrorism is worth an honest introspection. It is simply not just about highly energised, dedicated men and women sophisticatedly advanced in ...
INDIA'S OUTDATED AIR DEFENCE
Jan 06, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 06 -- At a time when the competence of India's three Armed Services is under the scanner following the Mumbai mayhem, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) in its latest report has pointed out to serious ...
MEWALAL - A LEGEND WITH A DOWN-TO-EARTH NATURE
Jan 06, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 06 -- The 1951 Delhi Asian Games gold medalist, Sahu Mewalal passed away at a state-run hospital in Kolkata on December 27, 2008. The 82-year-old former Olympian was suffering from old-age ...
'VIOLATION OF DISCIPLINE WON'T BE TOLERATED'
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Stressing upon maintaining discipline in the party, All India Congress Committee (AICC) secretary and co-in-charge of Uttarakhand affairs, Bhola Pande, on Tuesday asserted that the party will not tolerate violation of party ...
JUVENILE SHELTER HOMES FUNCTION WITHOUT HEADS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Deep Joshi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- HUNDREDS OF street kids lodged in juvenile shelter homes across the state are deprived of the kind of attention they need in terms of care and rehabilitation. Officials attribute the problem to most juvenile shelter homes ...
FOREST DEPT'S RESEARCH WING VICTIM OF NEGLECT
Jan 06, 2009 ... Nihi Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- WITH A non-functional Research and Development (R&D) wing, research programmes of the State Forest Department are at the mercy of other private or government-aided institutes. Uttarakhand Forest Department ...
YOUTH DODGES ABDUCTORS, 'REVEALS' TERROR PLOT TO POLICE
Jan 06, 2009 ... Darpan Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- THE UTTAR Pradesh Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) detained a youth here on Monday and questioned him in connection with some alleged terror plots. Police sources said a team of the Anti-Terror Squad detained Abhay Gangwar (25) - a ...
BID TO FIND MORE ABOUT MAHABHARATA
Jan 06, 2009 ... S. Raju Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Students and professors of the History department of the CCS University may soon conduct excavations in the region to locate the route of the armies of the Kauravas and Pandavas who fought in Kurukshetra. The department ...
ENGINEER'S MURDER: BJP WANTS CBI PROBE
Jan 06, 2009 ... S. Raju Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- PARTICIPATING IN party's ongoing fortnight state level 'Pradesh Bachao' movement, thousands of BJP workers and leaders staged a dharna in front of the divisional commissioner's office on Tuesday afternoon. They were arrested and ...
AMU TO START COURSE IN ISLAMIC BANKING
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- THE ALIGARH Muslim University will start a new course in Islamic banking and finance to meet the increasing demand of trained personnel in the subject from the next academic session. This was decided by the Academic Council ...
HOME LOANS FOR POOR GET CHEAPER
Jan 06, 2009 ... Vikas Pathak Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The poor can soon avail of house loans at low interest rates. Close on the heels of public sector banks announcing a lowering of interest rates on house loans up to Rs 5 lakh to 8.5 per cent, the government has decided to ...
LOCALS HELP GUJARAT'S JOBLESS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Rathin Das Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- Gujarat'S famed tradition of philanthropy has come to the rescue of diamond polishers as the crisis in the meltdown stricken industry has deepened with the owners seeking more time to restart their ...
LONDON DREAMS COME HOME
Jan 06, 2009 ... Disney Brar Talwar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- A sunny Monday afternoon packed a star-studded surprise for the people of Mullanpur, near Chandigarh - Salman Khan walked into this sleepy village, clad in a black pathani salwar, topped with a check kurta, sleeveless ...
BABY BOY HAD TWIN BROTHERS WITHIN
Jan 06, 2009 ... Anuraag Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- In a rare instance, two parasitic male twins - both devoid of hearts - were successfully removed from within their two-and-half-month-old living brother by surgeons at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) hospital on ...
KANNUR'S KILLING FIELDS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Ramesh Babu Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- In the land of martial art Kalari Payattu, warriors do not roam the streets. But maimed fighters - grim reminders of a never-ending war between the red and saffron parties - are found on the streets of Kannur, the north ...
LIFE IN TATTERS AFTER DIABETES STRIKE
Jan 06, 2009 ... Naziya Alvi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- JJ Hospital officially discharged her three weeks ago but Kanchan Mistry, a 55-year-old woman who has lost both her legs to diabetes, has nowhere to go. Mistry, who is in ward 10, laments that her husband, a factory worker, ...
IT DOESN'T MAKE THE GRADE
Jan 06, 2009 ... N.K. Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- In his closing remarks during the conclusion of the recent Parliament session, the Rajya Sabha Chairman lamented the hasty passage of many important Bills, which resulted in a failure to discuss either their legislative ...
ONE BIG, HAPPY FAMILY
Jan 06, 2009 ... Chandrajit Banerjee Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The economic crisis and terrorist attacks in Mumbai have severely affected India's mid-term growth plans. But, fortunately, India has an asset that only a few nations possess - a dynamic and huge diaspora the GDP of ...
FAT OF THE MATTER
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- It's clearly the shape of things to come. Air India (AI) has weighed in against 10 airhostesses who were found to have piled on a few extra pounds. Earlier, the airline had offloaded the women, grounding them as it were in the hope ...
KEEP THEM TONGUE-TIED
Jan 06, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- New Delhi, unlike many commentators falling over each other to 'demand justice' from Islamabad, knows what not to expect from Pakistan. India's handing over material that links the November 26, 2008, terrorist strikes on Mumbai is ...
STATE GOVERNMENT LEVIES TAKE STING OFF TAX BREAKS FOR CARS
Jan 06, 2009 ... Sumant Banerji Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The Centre proposes, the state disposes. The Central government's plan to revive demand for the ailing car industry with excise duty cuts totalling 8 per cent is coming undone because of state-level levies that ...
DABHOL IN FIX OVER GE GEAR
Jan 06, 2009 ... Anupama Airy Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 6 -- The Dabhol power project once championed by Enron has moved into a new jinx. After controversies related to its original contract, feedstock use, pricing and the subsequent bailout after founder Enron's collapse, it is now ...