Darjeeling witnesses unusual white Easter
More than an hour of hailstorm painted the town white on Good Friday. The town reeling under near drought like situation welcomed the heavy rain and the hail storm which definitely would came as a respite to the acute drinking water crisis. It was also.
Heavy rainfall paralyses Mumbai, no respite likely for next 48 hours
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted intermittent rain or showers, where isolated spells of heavy to very heavy rainfall might occur for the next 48 hours in the city. VK Rajeev, IMD director, western region, said, ���Like Friday, Mumbai.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 30.09.10
But the substantive part of the verdict, which could be delivered as soon as this week, is not likely to change, considering the time and attention that the High Court has already given to the case. For most.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. COLUMN. NO PLACE FOR OUTSIDERS. RUUD VAN WEERDENBURG. It took Judge Susanne Lehr 11 hours in Viennas Landesgericht ��� the most important court in Central Europe ��� to decide that the.. It is a prescription for paralysis.
Heat wave claims another life in Amritsar, toll rises to 4 in 3 days
The scorching heat wave prevailing in the region claimed yet a not her life in Amritsar, bringing the toll to four during the past three days. The body of a mendicant, in his sixties, was recovered on Monday from the area fall-ing under the purview of.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 14.01.11
HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. HE IS CLUB CLASS. Not yet being the masterful footballers that we hope to be in the future, Indians fans of the Beautiful Game were delighted to find Lionel Messi being anointed as the Fifa Footballer of the Year for the second.. Press notices were prominently put out in the widely-read Srinagar dailies Aftab and Alsafa, requiring Kashmiri Pandits to leave within 48 hours, failing which they would run the risk of being exterminated.
WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY; 2011 | Sheihu Salawatia
Although mobile phones have been flown on high altitude balloons before, this would likely be the first time such a device has gone into orbit several hundred kilometres above the planet. ���Modern.. June 8, 2011 at 8:48 am. Haruna Mohammed. China floods kill 24, force 100,000 to evacuate. BEIJING, June 8 (Reuters) ��� Heavy rain drenched a swathe of what had been drought-gripped southern and eastern China, killing 24 people and forcing more than 100,000 to��.
Pre-monsoon showers cool north
As the city received 4mm rainfall between 8:30 A.M. and 5:30 P.M., the weatherman said the winds were no doubt like monsoon ones and they were also flowing from the Bay of Bengal. But BP Yadav, the IMD Director, said, We will take data from our .
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 27.12.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. OUR TAKE. TAKING PEOPLE INTO ACCOUNT. To people like us, who have adequate government documentation, this news would, at least in the first go, not be of much import. But for those who have no such identification or are always on the move. Even as Mr Naidu observed his fast, his political rival Jaganmohan Reddy gave up his own dietary requirements for 48 hours on the banks of the Krishna in Vijaywada, for much the same purpose.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 06.10.09
FOOT IN THE DOOR. FROM RIO, WITH HOPE - BORIA MAJUMDAR. SPARE US THE MORALIZING. AUSTERITY NEED ALL ROUND - TARA GUPTA. MARRY AT LEISURE - G K GUPTA. HINDUSTAN TIMES. MANIPUR, STILL A PART OF INDIA. ITS PRIVATE BUSINESS.. Unlike India, slums in many Western cities are not hives of small-scale industry and production, but instead are likely to have a disproportionate number of unemployed residents. Affordable��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 29.12.10
While touring the rain- ravaged areas of coastal Andhra, Jagan announced that he would undertake a 48- hour fast, which he christened as Lakshya Deeksha ( Fasting for a specific objective), to demand a better relief... HINDUSTAN TIMES. THE PUNDIT. LETS WEATHER THIS CRISIS. At the best of times, the weather is unpredictable. But not so much so that one could not predict that it will invariably cast a dampener every year over the season of good cheer.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 15.04.10
He does not advocate surrender to the Maoists, describing them as blackmailers and hostage-takers, who extort protection money from businessmen, local mining contractors and the like, and, at election time, support ��� the highest bidder... US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner thrilled corporate audiences in Mumbai by showering praise on the performance of Indias economy and referring to the growing interest of corporate America in the prospects for��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 08.08.09
The need of the hour is bold reforms... The next 10 years would be dedicated as a decade of innovation were the words used by the president of India to conclude her address to Parliament on June 4.. HINDUSTAN TIMES. EDITORIAL. HIGH ROAD AND LOW ROAD. PRATIK KANJILAL. Why was everyone amazed about Emraan Hashmi being denied a home of his choice in Mumbai because of his religion? Hes not the first star victim of unequal opportunity.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 22.09.10
THESE days it doesnt just rain, it pours... HINDUSTAN TIMES. COLUMN. DONT DISCONNECT INDIA. S RAMADORAI. Indias attempt to connect all of its 626,000 villages with telecom and broadband services is more than a grand plan to put a telephone in everyones.. Given the current momentum ��� the markets have gone up by 10 per cent in a short two-week period ��� it is very likely that the indices will surpass their all time-highs recorded in early 2008.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 10.09.09
But after the show finished, the next programme, Ek Nayee Zindagi ��� a paid-time religious programme which I wish our Parliamentarians do watch ��� caught my attention. The 30-minute... It is clear that drought is not caused simply because the rains fail one year. Rather it is a. Without the government stepping in, a few holdouts could halt a project; and in a predominantly agrarian economy some agricultural land is likely to be acquired to set up industry. Though��.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 16.03.11
Apart from the one time that his security forces cracked down on protesters, King Hamad has allowed demonstrators to camp at Pearl Square without bombing them to death. He has freed.. The bottom line is that the Maoists must be in power during the run-up to the next election and integration of Maoist combatants and constitution-writing are secondary to securing power. The assumptions.. After 48 hours, the phone lines are not working again. I sit and wait.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 03.05.10
HINDUSTAN TIMES. NOT A PIPE DREAM. For a man whos been in the pharmaceutical business all his working life, advocating clean drinking water across the country might seem like a bad business idea. In fact, its health... Is it the scorching heat and the absence of rain?.. Barely 48 hours earlier, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had voted for the UPA government in the Lok Sabha, sparking off speculation about new possibilities in Uttar Pradeshs political theatre.
EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 28.09.10
NEXT time Amitabh Bachchan visits Mumbais famous Siddhivinayak temple at Prabhadevi or Hrithik Roshan visits the Saibaba temple at Shirdi to pray for their respective films success, they may have to stand for hours in the queue of devotees.. Rather, it would make it likely that the newly dominant economic model will not be a product of democratic capitalism, based on Western values and American leadership... It declined to 48% in 2004 and to 33% in 2009.
People in village near Pune slept as landslide buried them; 21 bodies found.
Heavy machinery has been mobilised to try to rescue those feared trapped at Malin village in Pune district, Maharashtra. (HT Photo). On Wednesday, around 7am, most of the villagers were sleeping inside their homes, when the torrential rain triggered.
Nehrus Juvenile Delusions and his 1962 China Blunder.
Nehrus monumental chinese blunder, an article written in 1962, at the time of the war itself, in the Time magazine INDIA: Never Again the Same Red China behaved in so inscrutably Oriental a manner last week that even Asians. It did offer Indias battered armies a badly needed respite.. Said the Hindustan Times: ���The latest Chinese proposals are not a peace offer but an ultimatum.. Even under the best conditions, a Jeep takes 18 hours to cover the 70 miles.
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EDITORIAL SAMARTH: EDITORIAL 12.07.11
There is time yet to retrieve Indian Railways from the brink of disaster. What is needed is known to all. What is missing is the determination to act swiftly, decisively. There is no dearth of excellent managers, engineers,��.