The Hindustan Times back issues from Thursday, January 29:
GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 29 -- Assam Governor, in his customary Republic Day address, reiterated his appeal to the militants to shun violence and come for dialogues within the framework of the Constitution of India. But such appeals ...
SELF EVIDENT REALITY
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 29 -- That corruption has become a way of life in India is a self evident reality. Any endeavour to quantify the level of corruption or identify the most corrupt agencies is a futile exercise, of little help to ...
DR BHUPEN HAZARIKA: TATHAPITO HOWA NAI KLANTA
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 29 -- In the days of our youth, the major topic of our conversations was the songs of Dr Bhupen Hazarika. In our leisure moments when the numerous perplexities of our mind made us restless, his powerful songs ...
COMMUNITY RADIO: A TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from the Assam Tribune brought to you by HT Syndication. Guwahati Jan. 29 -- Radio is the most vibrant mass communication tool of the recent times. This medium became outdated in the late twentieth century because of the rapid expansion of the television or other electronic media ....
ONCE HE WAS A KING, NOW A PARIAH
Jan 29, 2009 ... Ashok Das Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- From a hero to a pariah, what a fall fir Raju (which, incidentally, means 'king' in Telugu). Slogan-shouting youth brigades that parked themselves opposite Chanchalguda central jail have vanished. The bouquets and flowers are ...
LIKE GRANDFATHER...
Jan 29, 2009 ... Damini Purkayastha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Last week veteran artist Tyeb Mehta and his grandson, Ali Akbar came together to paint for Khushi, a Delhi-based NGO. Mehta, who never collaborates with artists on paintings, decided to paint with his 25-year-old ...
KHAI KE PAAN BENARAS WAALA
Jan 29, 2009 ... Damini Purkayastha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Indian traders brought back the betel leaf from Indonesia 2000 years back, thanks to its medicinal properties and its usefulness as a mouth freshner. As its popularity spread inwards from the coastal area into ...
VEGETARIAN WITH A DIFFERENCE
Jan 29, 2009 ... Marryam H Reshii Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- The city is divided into three types of people. Some have been vegetarians since birth, others have been steadfastly non-vegetarian and still others are ex-non-vegetarians who have stopped eating meat for reasons of ...
KARNATAKA CM AGAINST PUBS
Jan 29, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa sparked off a controversy on Thursday when he refused to ban the Sri Ram Sene and came down hard on pub culture as a distortion of the Indian tradition. "Pub is not a part of our ...
AIRCRAFT FIND BUYERS IN SMALL TOWN INDIA
Jan 29, 2009 ... Samiran Saha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- With the Lok Sabha elections round the corner, there is a sudden buzz around aircraft sellers and chartered service firms as poll managers finalise campaign plans for leaders to dart across the country in minimal ...
UK, US JUDGES DECLARE ASSETS, INDIAN JUDGES DON'T WANT TO
Jan 29, 2009 ... Nagendar Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- On January 21, his first day in office, the President of the United States, Barrack Obama, signed his first official document. It read: "Starting today every agency and department should know that this administration ...
HOUSEWIFE MURDERED AT HOME IN S. DELHI
Jan 29, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- A 34-year-old housewife was found murdered at her Nauroji Nagar home in south Delhi on Thursday afternoon. Manju Joshi was alone at the time of the incident. Her four-year-old daughter Tavishi was in school and her husband away at ...
MAN KILLS SELF FOR LANKA CAUSE
Jan 29, 2009 ... M.R. Venkatesh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- IN THE first signs of violent protests in Tamil Nadu against the continued military offensive against Tamils in northern Sri Lanka, a 26-year-old youth set himself on fire on Thursday. A senior police officer ...
THERE'S A LOT IN A NAME
Jan 29, 2009 ... Neha Sharma Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- It's not Elastic, or Broken and Happy Hearts, or Breaking Away. Saif Ali Khan's first home production, until now called just Production No 1, has been christened Love Aaj Kal. The film is helmed by Jab We Met director ...
SHOOTER RANA AIMS AT LS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Utpal Parashar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- After two unsuccessful attempts, ace shooter Jaspal Rana turned third time lucky on Thursday with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) naming him as the party candidate from the Tehri seat for the forthcoming Lok Sabha ...
GROUP DEMANDS 'GREATER NEPAL'
Jan 29, 2009 ... Anupam Trivedi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- The state government has raised its eyebrows over the demand for the formation of 'Greater Nepal' by a small Nepalese group. According to reports, a group called United Nepal National Front had staged a protest outside ...
MELA WORK MOVING AT SNAIL'S PACE
Jan 29, 2009 ... S.S. Jaiswal Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Work on the Kumbh Mela 2010 projects is crawling despite several high level meetings held to review its progress and warnings by Mela Officer Anand Bardhan. Keeping in view the fact that all arrangements for the ...
JULIA ROBERTS WOWS INDIANS IN US WITH HER BINDI
Jan 29, 2009 ... Darpan Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Hollywood actor Julia Roberts won many a heart in Agra when she flew down to the city to see the Taj Mahal last week. Now, the Pretty Woman star is creating waves back home too with her Indian clothes and ...
TRIPLE MURDER IN ALLAHABAD
Jan 29, 2009 ... BK Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Allahabad was rocked by a triple murder on Wednesday. Dr Deepa Agrawal, reader in Sanskrit at ADC, a constituent college of AU, her husband P.K. Agrawal and their 22-year-old son Amit were found brutally murdered in their ...
ASP'S GUNMAN SHOT DEAD
Jan 29, 2009 ... Anuraag Singh Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- The official gunman of an Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) was shot dead and his service rifle was looted in Mirzapur district on Wednesday. Daya Shankar Patel (40) was found murdered near a small bridge, at a ...
A FAST MOVER, PEDDLING HIS BRAND OF HINDUTVA
Jan 29, 2009 ... Yogesh Joshi, Presley Thomas and Satyajit Joshi Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Sri Ram Sene chief Pramod Muthalik has a similarity with the Malegaon blast case accused, Lt Colonel Prasad Purohit and Sameer Kulkarni. For, he too thought the Sangh Parivar was going ...
'WE'RE TOO TERRIFIED TO SPEAK UP'
Jan 29, 2009 ... Purva Mehta Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- My 21-year-old daughter is on a visit from Bangalore for her term break and met her school friends at Amnesia Lounge for lunch. This was possibly her second visit to Amnesia. There was no liquor being consumed at their ...
BEG THEIR PARDON
Jan 29, 2009 ... Lalita Panicker Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Perhaps the most heart-rending image of the recent Gaza crisis was that of a man kneeling beside the bodies of his three small children. They lay like broken dolls on the floor of the mortuary as the father, half-crazed ...
NO MORE HANDHOLDING, PLEASE
Jan 29, 2009 ... Bharat Karnad Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- The Mumbai terrorist attacks of 26/11 produced mutual finger-pointing by surprised agencies, a hurried rearrangement of the security furniture, contradictory statements by political leaders, much huffing and puffing by ...
RECESSION-HIT TEENS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Neha Ahuja Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- If you thought being a teenager would make you immune to recession, you're wrong. HT City spoke to some youngsters across campuses and found that life has taken a downturn for them too. "The increase in the price of ...
SECULARASANA
Jan 29, 2009 ... Mondy Thapar Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- For years, I've been trying to get the media and, indeed the world at large, to notice India's great syncretic, pluralistic culture. But no one seems to have given my efforts much importance. So when I opened yesterday's ...
FREEWHEELIN' DYLAN
Jan 29, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Bob dylan, thanks to a generation of ex-hippies and peaceniks now spending the last stretch of their professional lives as ad execs and other responsible tax-paying citizens, has been a byword for counter-culture. While some ...
WORKING FOR THE JOBLESS
Jan 29, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- As the world economy hovers on the brink of a nasty, brutish and prolonged slump, the ranks of the jobless are set to multiply. According to an 'optimistic' scenario, the number of unemployed across the world will rise by 18 million ...
YOGA KNOWS NO RELIGION
Jan 29, 2009 ... Rhythma Kaul Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Despite clerics in Indonesia and Malaysia banning Muslims from doing yoga that includes Hindu chants, it's business at usual at New Delhi's Morarji Desai National Institute of Yoga (MDNIY). "We've got a request ...
YOGA IS UNIVERSAL, SAY INDIAN ULEMAS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Renuka Narayanan Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Mullahs in Indonesia may have labeled yoga 'un-Islamic', but India's ulemas refuse to do so. They take a staunchly commonsensical and culturally attuned position on this centuries' old practice. "It is a good ...
MORE SUITORS QUEUE UP FOR SATYAM
Jan 29, 2009 ... HT Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- The number of potential suitors to acquire beleaguered Satyam Computers is growing by the day as the fraud-hit firm takes its first tentative steps to wipe off the loss of image and business after its former chairman B Ramalinga ...
DISCLOSURES FOR INSURERS IN THE OFFING
Jan 29, 2009 ... Falaknaaz Syed Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Insurance companies soon have to make a hoard of mandatory disclosures. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) is preparing the framework for corpoarate governance norms in the wake of Satyam issues, ...
GAIL FORMS ETHICS PANEL FOR CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Jan 29, 2009 ... Anupama Airy Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Post-Satyam fiasco, good corporate governance seem to have become the buzz-word amongst the country's leading companies. The impact is visible, not only in the case of private firms but even in the public ...
GOVT SAYS WORST OVER FOR STEEL SECTOR, KEEPS SAIL EXPANSION ON TRACK
Jan 29, 2009 ... Sumant Banerji Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- With the steel industry witnessing a torrid three months between October-December last year, the government on Thursday said there was no revision of expansion plans of state-run steel major Steel Authority of India Ltd ...
PULL SOME STRINGS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Namya Sinha Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 29 -- Jan 30 How to Tell It This production from Turkey combines puppet theatre, shadow play and traditional Turkish theatre. In the show, which creates and breaks illusions, the master writer is shown telling stories to the ...
YOUNIS HAS TO PERFORM WELL TO LEAD FROM THE FRONT: INZIMAM
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Karachi, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The change in leadership of the Pakistan's cricket team has been welcomed by former stalwarts of the game in the country. Veteran Pakistan cricket players are of the view that ...
GOVERNMENT APPROVES CREATION OF "NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ABIOTIC STRESS MANAGEMENT"
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The Union Cabinet has agreed to establish "National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management" at Malegaon (Baramati) in Maharashtra, which will cost the government Rs. 73.50 crores in the ...
I EXPECT FULL SUPPORT FROM MALIK: YOUNIS KHAN
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Lahore, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): New Pakistan cricket captain Younis Khan has said that he and his predecessor Shoaib Malik share a cordial relationship and would like it continue. Khan hoped that despite the change ...
SPIRIT AIRLINES' BEER APRONS AND SEXY ADS LEAVE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS LIVID
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Melbourne, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Flight attendants in the US are livid over being forced to wear uniforms promoting beer, and insist that turning them into walking billboards is unacceptable. Spirit Airlines is ...
BERNIE MADOFF: 'I'M A PRISONER IN MY OWN HOUSE'
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New York, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Fraudster Bernie Madoff, who is under house arrest for running a 50 billion dollars Ponzi scheme, is reportedly complaining that he's being made a prisoner in his own palatial ...
JENNIFER ANISTON TURNS REAL-LIFE HEROINE; RESCUES LOST DOG
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Actress Jennifer Aniston rushed to rescue a dog after she spotted the pet wandering lost and alone. The former 'Friends' star was driving to her California home when she spotted ...
ADOLESCENTS WITH UNPOPULAR NAMES MORE LIKELY TO COMMIT CRIME
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): A recent study on juveniles in the United States suggests that adolescents with unpopular first names are more likely to engage in criminal activity. David E. Kalist and Daniel Y ....
CLINT EASTWOOD'S 'MAGNUM FORCE' TO GET MUSICAL MAKEOVER?
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Cult singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock is reportedly planning to produce an off-Broadway musical based on Clint Eastwood's 'Magnum Force'. The Dirty Harry sequel, released in ...
THE TOP 10 DUMB BLONDE QUOTES REVEALED
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): It looks like blonde stars have traded fame and fortune for a large slice of their brains, at least that's what their quotes suggest. Paris Hilton recently goofed when she said that ...
OBAMA'S STYLE SET TO TURN `BUSH'S STIFF' WHITE HOUSE WARM!
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Compared to President Bush, his successor Barack Obama has a style of his own, one that is relaxed and warm, and not at all stiff. As a first step, Obama, who hates the cold, ...
SINGLE FERNANDO VERDASCO POSES FOR PICS WITH NICE-LOOKING GIRLS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Melbourne, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Tennis star Fernando Verdasco, who has just broken his four-month courtship with Ana Ivanovic, was recently seen enjoying himself at St Kilda's Hotel Barkly. The Spaniard and his ...
A THIRD OF BRIT WORKERS 'WATCH PORN IN OFFICE'
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): One in three workers in the UK have admitted to having watched pornography on their computer while at work, according to a survey. According to the survey carried out by email ...
ASHLEY COLE LINING UP EXTRA-SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY FOR WIFE
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Footballer Ashley Cole has plans to make Valentine's Day extra special for his wife Cheryl, so as to repair the damage caused by his alleged fling with a hairdresser. He will invite ...
GOVERNMENT APPROVES OF INDIA'S MEMBERSHIP WITH IRENA
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The Union Cabinet has agreed on the proposal for India joining the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and contributing 112,500 US dollars for it in the first year. The ...
GUT WORM MAY HELP TREAT ASTHMA
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The humble worm could hold the key to wiping out asthma and other conditions which are on the rise due to the modern mania with cleanliness, reckon scientists. Researchers in ...
NEW PORNOGRAPHY LAWS COULD MAKE COMIC BOOKS ILLEGAL IN BRITAIN
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): New laws designed to tackle extreme and child pornography could make owning mainstream comics like Batman or Judge Dredd illegal in Britain, campaigners have claimed. Comic book ...
BECKHAM REPRODUCES HIS STUNNING FREE KICK TO WOO CAPELLO
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): English midfielder David Beckham produced his greatest game in years to wow coach Fabio Capello in order to earn a recall to the national side. Beckham, 33, swung home a sensational ...
PREGNANT BRISBANE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SHOPLIFTING FORCED TO SHOW BELLY
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Brisbane, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): A 40-year old Ipswich woman, who was eight-and-a-half months' pregnant, was forced to lift her shirt after being wrongly accused of shoplifting at the Springfield Lakes 1st Choice Liquor ...
DAWN FRASER DAUGHTER IN RACIST EMAIL SCANDAL
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Melbourne, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The daughter of swimming legend Dawn Fraser is investigating how a racist email urging immigrants to leave if they fail to assimilate was circulated from her address. When ...
MAMMALS THAT HIBERNATE OR BURROW ARE LESS LIKELY TO GO EXTINCT
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): A new study published in The American Naturalist suggests that mammals that hibernate or that hide in burrows are less likely to turn up on an endangered species list. The study's ...
`I AM 200 PERCENT INNOCENT,' ROBINHO TELLS HIS PALS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Brazilian striker Robinho has told friends he is "200 per cent" innocent of an allegation that he raped a teenager in a Leeds nightclub. Robinho said that he went voluntarily to see ...
CABINET APPROVES MODIFIED SWARNA JAYANTI SHAHARI ROZGAR YOJANA SCHEME
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Cabinet has given its approval to some modifications in the Centrally sponsored Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana (SJSRY) scheme to improve the delivery and systems to the ...
NOT ENOUGH AMERICAN TROOPS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN AFGHANISTAN: MULLEN
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen, has categorically said that there aren't enough American troops to make a difference to the allied offensive against the ...
UK MAY GIVE RIGHTS TO 36,000 GURKHA SOLDIERS TO SETTLE
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The British Home Office is likely to give 36,000 Gurkhas who served in the British Army before 1997, the right to settle in the country with their families. New settlement rights due ...
GOVERNMENT REVISES THE MINIMUM SUPPORT PRICES FOR RABI CROPS
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has revised the minimum support price for Rabi crops. Briefing reporters in New Delhi on Thursday afternoon, an official spokesman ...
CABINET APPROVES PACT BETWEEN INDIA AND UNEP
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. New Delhi, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The Cabinet has approved a proposal for an Agreement between India and the United Nation's Environment Programme (UNEP) for capacity building in the field of protection and conservation of ...
HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTERS USE INTERNET TO KEEP HER POLITICAL TORCH ALIVE
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged to avoid political infighting, but there are still some of her supporters carrying a torch for her ideas, and perhaps for an electoral ...
OBAMA TO TAP GARY SAMORE FOR WMD 'CZAR'
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Washington, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The White House is likely to tap Gary Samore, a veteran arms control negotiator in the Clinton Administration, as its new "czar" for preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction ...
NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO CHOOSE HUBBLE'S NEXT DISCOVERY
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. Cape Canaveral (California, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): The National Aeronautic and Space Agency (NASA) has invited the public to vote for one of six candidate astronomy-related objects for the Hubble Telescope to observe in ...
JORDAN TO PARTICIPATE IN CELEB POLO MATCH AT BRITISH OPEN
Jan 29, 2009 ... Report from Asian News International brought to you by HT Syndication. London, Jan. 29 -- (ANI): Jordan, real name Katie Price, has confirmed that she will be participating in a celebrity polo match at the British Open Show Jumping Championships. The glamour girl was left fuming ...