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Friday, August 28, 2009

Harley Davidson, cult mobike, in India soon

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It took some time coming, but in a protracted two year mango for bike trade swap, it's finally here.

Iconic US cruiser bike manufacturer Harley Davidson has decided to launch its legendary bikes in India, the world's second largest two-wheeler market.

Harley's cruisers will emit their patented roar on Indian streets from mid-2010, when the company launches 12-15 o its bikes here.

The first ones to hit the roads could be the ones that were on display at New Delhi's Oberoi Hotel on Thursday the Fatboy and Night Rod Special. "India is important in our long term vision," said Keith Wandell, President and CEO of the $5.6 billion (Rs 27,000 crore) company.

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Now Salman too wants his own Indian Premier League team

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Actor Salman Khan may be the next star to own an Indian Premier League (IPL) team.

He met IPL chairman Lalit Modi on Wednesday and expressed interest in bidding for a team for the event's 2011 edition, which will see the addition of two more franchises.

Khan and Modi were at a meeting between the IPL governing council and its eight franchises. "Salman came in during the break along with some friends," Niranjan Shah, IPL governing council's vice-president, told HT. "They [Khan and his friends] made inquiries about buying a team."

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Sehwag gets his way, to stay with delhi team

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Virender Sehwag had already done what no Indian cricketer had before when he scored over 300 runs in Tests, twice. Outspoken and fearless, his taking on the might of the Delhi and Districts Cricket Association (DDCA) should have come as no surprise. What was surprising was that he got the better of them.

He did it very skilfully. The Delhi skipper, whose anti-DDCA outburst created a storm, first called up former India captain Tiger Pataudi on Monday. He asked Pataudi to accompany him to DDCA president Arun Jaitley's house that night, saying he needed the presence of Delhi's seniormost cricketer.

What Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir who also joined him for the meeting with Jaitley and DDCA general secretary Sneh Bansal basically wanted was that Delhi selections be fair.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Axed by Bhartiya Janata Party, Jaswant runs to old friend Atal

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The BJP, under unree from several quarters ever since it expelled its top former leader Jaswant Singh (71) from the party last Wednesday, was further embarrassed when former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee met him on Sunday morning.

A former key backroom boy for both Vajpayee and BJP parliamentary party leader L.K.
Advani, Sudheendra Kulkarni (52), also quit the party on Saturday, saying he felt he could no longer make any "meaningful contribution" to it.

Critics of the BJP's decision to sack Singh termed Vajpayee's willingness to meet him -- he is the first top BJP leader to do so publicly, since Singh was thrown out for praising Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah in his book -- as a signal that he disapproved of the harsh step.

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Friday, August 21, 2009

Route 36:World's first cocaine bar thrives in Bolivia

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Route 36 is an illegal pop-up cocaine lounge in Bolivia.

"Tonight we have two types of cocaine; normal for 100 Bolivianos a gram, and strong cocaine for 150 [Bolivianos] a gram."

The waiter has just finished taking our drink order of two rum-and-Cokes here in La Paz, Bolivia, and as everybody in this bar knows, he is now offering the main course. The bottled water is on the house.

The waiter arrives at the table, lowers the tray and places an empty black CD case in the middle of the table. Next to the CD case are two straws and two little black packets.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Gayatri Devi left it all to us: Grandkids

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Twenty-one days after her death, the grandchildren of Gayatri Devi, former queen mother of Jaipur, claimed she had left all her properties, worth about Rs 2,150 crore (Rs 21.5 billion), to them.

Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Devraj Singh, 28, and his sister Lalitya, 30, said: "We are the only natural legal heirs entitled to succeed. Her last will, in our favour, was left with his Highness Maharaja Sawai Bhawani Singhji of Jaipur ... this is in the knowledge of all family members."

Though they did not reveal details of the will, HT found out it is a one-page unregistered document, written in English, and says: "all my movable and immovable properties will go to my grandchildren Devraj Singh and Lalitya".

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Stop fighting, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh tells BJP on meet eve

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From the time they heard the results of the Lok Sabha polls, BJP leaders have been at one another's throats. That's how they are going into a summit starting Wednesday to ascertain what went wrong, and figure the road ahead.

But before they'd shut the door on the world for the three day chintan baithak (summit), they got a sharp reminder from their parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), to stop fighting, and behave.

The Sangh told them to put their heads together, find out what went wrong and come out with a revival package with specific emphasis on younger leaders, the next generation.

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Friday, August 14, 2009

State calls doctor to discuss health scheme

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Taking cognizance of the Hindustan Times report `Delhi does not want me, says India's top doctor,' Delhi government invited cardiac surgeon Dr Devi Prasad Shetty for talks on Thursday morning.

Chairman of Narayan Hrudayalaya, one of the world's busiest heart hospitals, Dr Shetty proposes a low premium micro health insurance model for Delhi. The insurance model will significantly lower the cost of surgery and be available to all, according to his proposal.

Yashaswini Health Insurance Scheme, the project Dr Shetty started in Karnataka has been adopted by the state and is offering healthcare to more than three million people. He wants a similar model in Delhi but was unsuccessful so far.

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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Super Saina numbs Anastasia in opener

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Saina Nehwal's campaign opener in the World Badminton Championship was expected to be nothing more than a fitness test. Down with chicken pox 10 days before the tournament, the world number 6 needed to assess herself before taking on the big guns.

The Indonesia Super Series champion did not pass the test with flying colours but gave enough proof that she would get better with time.

Saina's second round encounter, she had a bye in the first round, against Anastasia Prokopenko of Russia began on a sluggish note, but as the game progressed the 20-year-old started to move fluently. Saina needed just 27 minutes to register a 21-10, 21-17 win

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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Coming soon: Bigger, fatter Indian Premier League

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Come 2011, and the Indian Premier League will be bigger.

On Tuesday, the IPL Governing Council announced the addition of two new franchises as well as an increase in the number of matches to 94.

"There'll be 94 games in all with each franchise playing 18 preliminary matches, instead of 14 games as in the past," said IPL commissioner Lalit Modi. The 2010 edition, however, will see the addition of just one match: a play-off for the third and fourth places.

Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Visakhapatnam and Dharamsala have been added as new venues.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

India turns auto haven

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They are bitter rivals, competing day in day out for the same prize across the world but with recession eating into their business like never before automobile majors Suzuki, Hyundai and Honda have a common denominator -- India.

The three Asian auto majors have seen their sales decline heavily in developed markets in recent months, but their performance in India has been as solid as ever.

Suzuki Motor Corporation saw its overall sales decline 22.4 per cent in April-June 2009, but its Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, posted an overall growth of 17.7 per cent, selling 2.27 lakh cars in the 3-month period.

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Swine flu kills two more, Prime Minister demands quick action

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Swine flu claimed two more lives late on Saturday and on Sunday, taking the death toll to four, even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stepped in to review the situation on Sunday and directed the health ministry to contain the spread of the disease.

Singh asked the health ministry to set up a panel of doctors to provide correct information to those who sought it, and directed his office to closely monitor the situation.

Pravin Patel (43), an Atlantabased NRI visiting family in Ahmedabad, died on Sunday morning after testing positive on Friday.

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Friday, August 7, 2009

Footballers pay to play for top oil company

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On Thursday, petrochemicals major Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), announced their sponsorship of the $100,000 (about Rs 48 lakh) six-nation Nehru Cup football event at a glitzy New Delhi function. This is the same company whose football team manager repeated inflated the travel and daily allowance (TA/DA) ) of contracted players and collected the same in cash from them every month.

The manager, Subashish Mazumdar, told Hindustan Times that one of the reasons he did that was to supplement the incomes of the club's fringe players -- those who join when there is shortage in the team and are not given a regular salary by the company.

His comments are on tape.

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

We saw Clinton and knew it was over

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Former US President Bill Clinton returned on Wednesday after a dramatic visit to North Korea. In the 20 hours he was there, he won the freedom of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to the North's reclusive government and dined with its ailing leader Kim Jong-il.

Laura Ling (32) and Euna Lee (36) stepped off the plane in Burbank, California, and rushed to their families. Clinton embraced Al Gore, founder of Current TV, which employs the journalists.

"Thirty hours ago, Euna and I were prisoners," Ling said. "Then suddenly we were told we were going to a meeting... When we walked through the doors, we saw Bill Clinton... We knew instantly the nightmare was finally coming to an end."

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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Pakistan sees al Qaeda hand behind Christian killings

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Islamist militants from groups linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban are suspected of being behind the mob violence that killed eight Christians in central Pakistan over the weekend, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, an outlawed pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim sectarian group, and its al Qaeda-linked offshoot, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), were suspected of orchestrating the attack in Gojra town, according to Rana Sanaullah, Punjab's law minister.

Incensed by unsubstantiated allegations that the Koran had been desecrated by a Christian, an angry mob torched dozens of houses in the town on Saturday,

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Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Jayawardene's century seals series for Sri Lanka

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Mahela Jayawardene hit his first one-day century in two years as Sri Lanka thumped Pakistan by six wickets on Monday to grab a winning 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

The former captain made 123 and shared an opening stand of 202 with Upul Tharanga (76) as the hosts cruised past Pakistan's challenging 288-8 in the 47th over of the high-scoring match.

Sri Lanka, who had won the preceding Test series 2-0, made light work of an improved batting display by Pakistan in which teenager Umar Akmal led the way with 66 off 65 balls.

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Monday, August 3, 2009

Rakhi Chooses Non Resident Indian groom

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Finally Rakhi Sawant did not chicken out.

Rakhi Ka Swayamvar on NDTV Imagine ended on Sunday night with Rakhi choosing Elesh Parujanwala, a Canada-based NRI, as her bridegroom from among the array of males who came seeking her hand in marriage.

In a show that drew unprecedented interest, she maintained he had everything she was looking for in a man.

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Supreme Court decision has Pakistan in fix, Musharraf may stay away

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While it's still early to say what the long term implications would be of the Supreme Court (SC) verdict, one outcome that is clear -- former President Musharraf would not be returning to Pakistan any time soon.

Leading lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan told reporters that while he would want Musharraf to be put on trial, "I don't see him coming back to Pakistan any time soon."

Ahsan and other legal figures are also of the opinion that the SC decision would also make other dictators "think twice" before they try and subvert the constitution of Pakistan.

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