Articles by HT Correspondents
Probe into killing of BJP MLA?s son
ONE OF those killed in the Aligarh violence was identified as the son of the BJP MLA from Sasni constituency in Hathras district. Following the death, the BJP demanded the removal of inspector general of police, Kanpur zone, Rizwan Ahmad, who is camping here. The deceased was identified as Yogi Nath alias Vickki, son of BJP MLA Devki Nandan 'Kori.
Published on Apr 11, 2006 01:32 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Aligarh/lucknow
Anger, denial, agony: Mandal Two is here
THE RE-EMERGENCE of the Mandal regime a la Arjun Singh has not gone down too well with the concerned parties -- educators and students. While some lashed out openly against the HRD Ministry's proposed move to enforce 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in central government-funded educational institutions, others were muted in their criticism.
Published on Apr 07, 2006 12:19 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, New Delhi/ahmedabad/lucknow
Anger, denial, agony: Mandal Two is here
The re-emergence of the Mandal regime a la Arjun Singh has not gone down too well with the concerned parties -- educators and students.
Updated on Apr 08, 2006 02:21 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, New Delhi/ahmedabad/lucknow
Arrests kick up a row, stir launched
THE Special Task Force (STF) busting terrorists? module, which was involved in serial blasts in Varanasi last month, has kicked up a row. In the aftermath of the arrests of Wali Ullah, Rizwan and Shaad Ali, the people of Phulpur and Amorha resorted to agitation on Thursday.
Published on Apr 07, 2006 01:06 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Lucknow, Amroha
Anger, denial, agony: Mandal Two is here
THE RE-EMERGENCE of the Mandal regime a la Arjun Singh has not gone down too well with the concerned parties -- educators and students. While some lashed out openly against the HRD Ministry's proposed move to enforce 27 per cent reservation for OBCs in central government-funded educational institutions, others were muted in their criticism.
Published on Apr 07, 2006 12:56 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, New Delhi/ahmedabad/lucknow
CM to file papers today
CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan would tomorrow file his nomination papers at Sehore to contest the Budhni Assembly Constituency by-election. The polling would be held on April 24.
Published on Apr 04, 2006 12:39 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Bhopal/ Sehore
Pay more to (l)earn more
THE BRIGHT young things at the Indian Institutes of Management will now have to pay a bit more for those coveted diplomas. On Sunday, IIM Ahmedabad hiked the annual fees for its postgraduate diploma course from Rs 1.58 lakh to Rs 1.77 lakh. The IIMs in Kolkata and Indore had decided to raise their fees on Saturday ? Kolkata (from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 1.75 lakh) and Indore (Rs 1.25 lakh to Rs 1.50 lakh). Fees at the IIMs had become a contentious issue in 2004 when the then HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi had unilaterally announced that they would be reduced to Rs 30,000 per annum.
Updated on Apr 03, 2006 01:24 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Ahmedabad/kolkata
VIII Board exams start
A TOTAL of 80,000 students from the division appeared for the eighth Board examination that began from today. According to District Education Officer (DEO) Purushottam Pandey the examination began with Hindi paper from 2 pm. 354 centres had been made in the district in which 4,8334 students appeared for the exams.
Published on Mar 29, 2006 02:29 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Indore/mhow
Bird flu in Burhanpur village
THE UNION Department of Animal Husbandry today confirmed that a few samples of poultry bird from Icchapur village in the Burhanpur district in south-west MP had tested positive for bird flu.
Published on Mar 29, 2006 02:28 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Bhopal/indore
SP bags Kauriram assembly seat
A SHARP division in the BJP led to the victory of ruling Samajwadi Party candidate Ram Bhuwal Nishad in the Kauriram assembly by-election, in Gorakhpur on Monday.He defeated his nearest rival Shital Pandey of the Bharatiya Janata Party by over 10,000 votes. The remaining five candidates, including that of the Congress, forfeited their deposits. Nishad had won this seat in the 2002 assembly election on a BSP ticket. However, his election was later challenged and the Supreme Court had disqualified him.
Published on Mar 28, 2006 12:15 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Gorakhpur/lucknow
How call centres look from London
A report in The Sunday Times says call centres in India are a den of 'extramarital affairs and drug parties'.
Published on Mar 20, 2006 06:20 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, London/gurgaon
How call centres look from London
A report in The Sunday Times says call centres in India are a den of 'extramarital affairs and drug parties'.
Updated on Mar 20, 2006 08:08 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, London/gurgaon
Here?s how call centres look from London
ARE CALL centres a den of "extramarital affairs and drug parties"? Or to say it with the stiff British upper lip, do they "tune in to decadence". So says a report in The Sunday Times (of London). Back in Gurgaon, the suburbia of outsourcing, as they prepare for another graveyard shift, the employees wonder what the fuss is all about. "With the salaries we get, most of us can afford to go to discs and party. Some may even make out. Many professionals do that, so why single out BPO employees?" asks a call centre executive.
Published on Mar 20, 2006 12:32 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, London/gurgaon
Blast trail on road to nowhere
THE HUNT for the Varanasi bombers suffered a setback on Saturday with eyewitnesses failing to identify the eight persons detained in connection with the blasts, including Sadik Ali and Ansar Ali, who resembled the sketches released by the police.
Published on Mar 13, 2006 10:01 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Hardoi/varanasi
Nationwide red alert sounded
EDGY GOVERNMENTS across the country issued alerts immediately after blasts ripped through the sacred town of Varanasi. Directions to bolster security at key installations were issued and extra vigil ordered around temples.
Published on Mar 08, 2006 02:33 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Lucknow/new Delhi/mumbai
Naxalites kill seven more
SEVEN PERSONS were killed and several injured in Naxalite violence on Monday in Basaguda village of Dantewada district. In a violent attack, the ultras killed five villagers in a relief camp and seriously injured eight others in Basaguda. They also blew up a passenger bus.
Published on Mar 07, 2006 12:31 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Dantewada (bastar)/ Raipur
Court gag on Godhra report
A division bench of the high court, comprising Justice M.R. Shah, on Monday ruled that no agency, including Parliament or the Railway Ministry, should act on the U.C. Banerjee panel report pending its interim order on the matter on March 8.
Updated on Mar 07, 2006 04:02 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Ahmedabad/new Delhi
Rebel moves SC, Cong ups ante
BSP MLA Rajendra Singh Rana, one of the 40 BSP rebel MLAs, moved the Supreme Court on Thursday against the High Court order asking the Speaker to decide afresh on the merits of the BSP's disqualification petition against 13 of them.
Published on Mar 03, 2006 01:22 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, New Delhi/lucknow
Students find extra time useful
On the first day of Boards, students appeared relaxed after writing their first paper, which was English.
Published on Mar 02, 2006 04:33 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, New Delhi
Bird flu hits India
40,000 chickens have died in Maharashtra the past week no human cases so far
Published on Feb 25, 2006 06:57 PM IST
None | Sanchita Sharma and HT Correspondents, Delhi/mumbai/bhopal
Two more cases filed against Yaqoob Qureshi
A CRIMINAL case was filed against Uttar Pradesh minister Yaqoob Qureshi in the court of the Chief Judicial magistrate in Lucknow on Wednesday for declaring the controversial reward of Rs 51 crore to anyone killing the Danish cartoonist who caricatured Prophet Mohammad recently.
Published on Feb 23, 2006 01:40 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Lucknow/varanasi
People begin to offer money, gold to Yaqoob
FOR ALL those who doubted Haj Minister Haji Yaqoob Qureshi?s standing in collecting the money and gold he promised for killing the Danish cartoonist, here is some news. Aid from far-flung places, in the form of gold ornaments and registry of properties, has already started pouring in for the cause.
Published on Feb 22, 2006 01:12 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Meerut/lucknow
?Focus on KPO to outdo China?
IIM BANGALORE Director Prakash Apte on Saturday stressed the need for India to look beyond IT-enabled industries and focus on manufacturing and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) if it was to stay ahead of competitors, particularly China.
Published on Feb 19, 2006 03:50 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Indore
Anti-virals next week
DRUG COMPANIES have speeded up the launch of anti-virals to fight bird flu in the country. Cipla will be the first to launch its generic bird-flu drug in Maharashtra. Cipla chairman Y.K. Hamied said the drug (cost: Rs 1,000 per strip of 10 tablets) would be available in stores ?early next week?. The drug should be taken orally in a 5-day course, two tablets a day.
Published on Feb 19, 2006 12:53 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Mumbai/delhi
No human cases so far
Bird flu has struck India. Nearly 40,000 chickens have died in farms in the Navapur tehsil of Maharashtra?s Nandurbar district over the past week. The Central goverment?s hi-tech High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal has confirmed eight birds from Navapur were killed by the H5N1 strain of the bird flu.
Published on Feb 19, 2006 12:53 AM IST
None | Sanchita Sharma and HT Correspondents, Delhi/mumbai/bhopal
PMO comes clean on Muslim data row
Distancing itself from the ongoing controversy, the PMO on Monday released the terms of the reference of the Rajindar Sachar Committee.
Published on Feb 18, 2006 07:44 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents and Agencies, New Delhi
Rs 51 cr for cartoonist?s head
THE OUTCRY against the cartoons of Prophet Mohammad took an ugly turn today with Uttar Pradesh Haj Minister Haji Mohammed Yaqoob announcing Rs 51 crore for the head of the Danish lampoonist while violence marred protests in Hyderabad and communal clashes erupted in Muzaffarnagar.
Published on Feb 18, 2006 12:07 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, New Delhi/ Lucknow/ Hyderabad
UP tainted trio?s fate in House hands
The Uttar Pradesh Assembly will on Friday decide the fate of the three MLAs, one a minister in the Mulayam Yadav cabinet, who were caught accepting a bribe on camera on Wednesday. The decision was taken at an all-party meeting presided over by Speaker Vidhan Sabha Mata Prasad Pandey. Chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, Leader of Opposition Lalji Tandon and leaders of all major political parties attended the meeting called following a motion moved by the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Pramod Tiwari to bar three MLAs from attending the House.
Published on Feb 17, 2006 01:23 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Lucknow
Seer frisked, followers cry foul
Disciples of spiritual leader Asaram Bapu caused a furore at Delhi airport on Monday morning when they set up a strident protest against personnel of Jet Airways.
Updated on Feb 14, 2006 02:07 AM IST
None | HT Correspondents, New Delhi/mumbai/ahmedabad
Flash strike by Sahara pilots
PASSENGERS ACROSS the country scheduled to fly Air Sahara were stranded on Sunday as pilots went on mass leave, opposing the merger between Sahara and Jet Airways.
Published on Feb 13, 2006 12:09 PM IST
None | HT Correspondents, Delhi/mumbai