Hindustan Times: September 2009

Vijender pips Correa to move to the top spot in world rankings

India's numero uno boxer is now the world's top ranked pugilist. Olympic bronze-medallist Vijender Singh became the first Indian boxer to be ranked No. 1 in the world in the latest international federation (AIBA) ranking released recently.

The Bhiwani boxer, who was world No. 2 before the World Championships in Milan where he won bronze in the 75kg category, has grossed 2700 points.

Beijing Olympic Games silver-medallist Emilio Correa Bayeux of Cuba, who earlier held the top spot, slipped to No. 2 after skipping the Worlds.

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In stormy weather

Air India has now embarked upon a 36 month turnaround plan that entails sprucing up its planes and services, improving on-time performance, replacing old aircraft with fuel efficient ones and shutting down loss-making routes. But few believe the national carrier will actually make a comeback, at least in its current form.

And of the changes, many analysts ask "why now."

The state-run airline is going through a phase the worst in its 77-year history that many other airlines have gone through and some have survived.

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Vaccine to give fight against AIDS booster shot

After decades of effort, an experimental vaccine has been developed that reduces the risk of HIV the virus that causes AIDS in a third of the people who take it.

The biggest-ever trials done to test the efficacy of an AIDS vaccine on humans lowered infection risk by 31.2 per cent among 16,000 healthy men and women in Thailand, trial sponsor Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise said on Thursday.

"For the first time, we have a vaccine that confers protection in some people," Dr Alan Bernstein, executive director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, told HT from New York.

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Coming, a special package for Jammu and Kashmir

Like Naxal-affected districts, Jammu and Kashmir will also get an elaborate socioeconomic package with a twopronged objective of neutralizing discontent and effective utilisation of funds.

The package comes in the backdrop of the home ministry's view that more funds are required for development to contain discontentment considering that militancy in the state is losing public support.

A team of secretaries and additional secretaries from 17 ministries led by Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrashekar

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13 year old blogger has fashion world at her feet

There were florals, thigh-high boots, Victoria Beckham in a painted-on tan and Madonna in Gucci and new wrinkleless skin. But the true star of New York Fashion Week, which closed on Thursday, was Tavi Gevinson, a diminutive teenage fashion blogger from the suburbs of Chicago.

The fashion world has gone out of its way to court Tavi, who describes herself as a "tiny 13-year-old dork that sits inside all day wearing awkward jackets and pretty hats".

This month she is on the cover of Dasha Zhukova's relaunched Pop magazine, interviewed by Pixie Geldof in Katie Grand's new issue of Love, and has been pictured on the front rows of this season's biggest fashion shows, with editors and celebrities seated behind her.

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Jobless for 2 years, man puts daughter on sale in Pak

A jobless man who put his young daughter on sale in the city of Hyderabad on Friday has received an overwhelming response in the form of financial assistance and offers of employment a day later.

Muhammad Ayub, who has been jobless for two years now after he was sacked from a state electricity company, offered to sell his daughter so that his family could make ends meet.

Ayub sat in front of the Hyderabad Press Club and made his offer. His daughter and other family members were with him when he announced his decision.

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Sprinting to finish line

"196 days to go!" screams a desktop calendar at the site office of Delhi Airport's upcoming Terminal 3. Outside the office, work on the new international-cum domestic terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport is going on at a frenetic pace.

About one lakh (100,000) visitors, including athletes and officials, are expected in Delhi for the 2010 Commonwealth Games Terminal 3 would be their first touch point.

The massive structure of the terminal is already visible as you travel down the road to the existing airport, as 78 per cent work is complete.

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Security fears may cramp austerity drive

Rahul Gandhi's televised train journey to and from Ludhiana has thrown up serious questions about the limits to which high-risk leaders can stretch austerity in public life.

There's palpable alarm in security and Congress circles that the train Rahul took on his return journey on Tuesday night came under a hail of stones. Some party leaders are believed to have taken up the matter with the director of the special protection group (SPG), which is responsible for Rahul's security, and also Congress president Sonia Gandhi, who herself flew economy class on Monday to Mumbai.

A source confirmed to HT a review of both mother and son's travel programmes with emphasis on foolproof security was being undertaken.

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United States raid kills Somali Al Qaeda Leader

US commandos have e of the most wanted killed one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa in a daylight raid in Somalia.

Western intelligence agents have described Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan as the ringleader of Al Qaeda cell in Kenya responsible for the bombing of an Israeli hotel on the Kenyan coast in 2002.

Nabhan may have also played a role in the attacks on two US embassies in East Africa in 1998.

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Dhoni gets his figures right

If cricket is about problem solving, Mahendra Singh Dhoni seems to have all the answers at the moment. Ahead of the final, Dhoni had said that winning the toss was 60% of the job done, and putting 270 on the board increased the chances of success to 80%. His batsmen went one better, posting 319 for five, a score that has never been successfully chased at the R Premadasa Stadium. Kumar Sangakkara's team was unable to rewrite history, succumbing to 273 and defeat by 46 runs.

For the ninth time under Dhoni, India had emerged victors in a limited-overs episode. There was nothing certain about this outcome, especially in the light of India's thrashing at Lanka's hands on Saturday. But resilience has not been in short supply in this group.

Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid set the tone with an unhurried 95-run stand. Dhoni then took the game into his hands, walking out at No. 3, as Tendulkar ground the bowling.

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6 dead after fall from tallest building

Six workers died today after plunging 20 floors down a lift shaft in Hong Kong's tallest skyscraper and the fourth tallest building in the world, police and local reports said.

A police spokesman said emergency workers called to the International Commerce Centre in Kowloon's popular Tsim Sha Tsui area removed three injured workers, who were all certified dead on arrival at hospital.

Firemen later recovered the bodies of three other workers.

The spokesman said preliminary findings showed that the workers were working on a platform in a lift shaft on the 30th floor when it suddenly gave way and fell to the 10th floor.

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Popular, by hook or by jab

Vijender Singh has added another glorious chapter to Indian sports after assuring the country its first-ever medal in the World Boxing Championship. After bagging the bronze in Beijing, the Bhiwani boxer had said that winning a medal in the Olympics was not the end of the road for him and that he was hungry for more.

In an exclusive interview with the Hindustan Times after his quarterfinal bout, Vijender spoke about his latest achievement and the semifinal bout on September 11.

Excerpts: Now that you are assured of a World Championship medal, what's the feeling like? Winning medals for the country give sportspersons the greatest satisfaction. The championship is not over yet and I have a semifinal bout coming up. So, I am concentrating on that rather than celebrating.

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Corporate gone, India on

If some of India's players are a bit confused about just who they are playing for, you can't blame them.

Less than 24 hours after they were slugging it out for Air India at the Corporate Trophy in Bangalore, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh and Suresh Raina found themselves at a centre-wicket net under lights at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

The players barely had time to change clothes, heading straight from their hotel to a practice session that everyone attended.

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Jet to stay grounded

There's more trouble in store for Jet Airways passengers on Wednesday -unless the airlines' management and its rebellious pilots manage to strike a peace deal overnight.

Jet Airways responded to the mass sick leave taken by 300 of its 760 pilots on Tuesday -which disrupted 186 flights and affected 13,000 passengers -by sacking three more senior commanders associated with its pilots' union.

The National Aviators' Guild (NAG), the pilots' union that Jet Airways does not recognise, retaliated by threatening to "completely shut down operations" on Wednesday.

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Pankaj Advani is billiards world champion

Pankaj Advani on Monday became only the second Indian to win the World Professional Billiards Championship when he beat defending and nine times champion Mike Russell 2030-1253 in the final at Leeds, England.

The 24-year-old Bangalore based Advani made a break of 226 and six more centuries in the final against Russell, who represents Qatar.

"To have beaten Russell was most satisfying," he later said.

Advani joined Geet Sethi as the second Indian to win both the world professional and the International Billiards and Snooker Federation's world billiards titles.

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Dhoni earns most: Forbes

You've seen him running in his Reeboks and quenching his thirst with a Pepsi. And by doing so and playing some cricket matches too Mahendra Singh Dhoni has raked in a cool $10 million (Rs 48 crore) in the past year?

Dhoni tops the Forbes' list of 10 top-earning cricketers in the world, with Sachin Tendulkar coming second with $8 million (Rs 38.4 crore). The list figures three other Indians Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly (see box).

The list was prepared taking into account a cricketer's income from his IPL franchisee, from the national team and from commercial endorsements over the last 12 months.

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Power play in a time of death

Mass hysteria, uncontrollable crowds, lakhs of weeping mourners, reports of "spontaneous suicides" and a highstakes political drama marked the funeral of former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Rajasekhara Reddy on Friday.

There were 10 km-long traffic jams on the state highways leading to Idupulapaya, Reddy's estate, where he was buried next to his parents, in accordance with Christian rites, on his 300-acre family estate.

But even before Reddy, who died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday, could be laid to rest, there was a rising crescendo of powerful voices demanding his son Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, 36, a first-time MP from Cuddapah and a controversial industrialist, be made his successor.

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The man only death could stop

After the 14th Lok Sabha polls were over in Andhra Pradesh in April this year, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy-- landlord by legacy, medical doctor by profession, devout Christian by faith -headed for Shimla on vacation.

"We thought, either he was winning hands down, as he was predicting, or he was set for a long vacation," recalled Union minister Ambika Soni who knew him closely for more than a decade. "Central leaders were a bit sceptical about his claims."

After YSR was proved right, he went to Bethlehem the birthplace of Jesus in Israel on pilgrimage, during which he also prayed at Jerusalem's wailing wall, a Jewish holy site.

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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy-Missing‎

Elite commandos armed with night vision equipment joined 2,000-odd security personnel, six choppers and Sukhoi jets to scour a large swathe of forests over which a helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YSR Reddy went missing Wednesday.

There was no success, however, in what could be India's biggest ever search operation. The man in question is one who deserves much of the credit for the Congress party's surprise return to power in 2004 and a repeat of that victory in 2009.

"No good news yet ... we are keeping our fingers crossed," Home Minister P. Chidambaram said in New Delhi.

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Unique Nilekani unveils his unique ID plans

For the next nine months at least, Nandan Nilekani, chairperson of India's unique identification (UID) number authority, will not be leaving Indian shores.It will be the longest period in his professional life that he has never stepped out of the country.

The former Infosys head is even ready to miss the annual World Economic Forum at Davos in January 2010, which he has been attending for over a decade.

All so as to ensure he keeps the deadline he has set himself and provides the first UID number within the next 18 months.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Vijender pips Correa to move to the top spot in world rankings

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

In stormy weather

Friday, September 25, 2009

Vaccine to give fight against AIDS booster shot

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Coming, a special package for Jammu and Kashmir

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

13 year old blogger has fashion world at her feet

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Jobless for 2 years, man puts daughter on sale in Pak

Friday, September 18, 2009

Sprinting to finish line

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Security fears may cramp austerity drive

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

United States raid kills Somali Al Qaeda Leader

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Dhoni gets his figures right

Monday, September 14, 2009

6 dead after fall from tallest building

Friday, September 11, 2009

Popular, by hook or by jab

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Corporate gone, India on

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Jet to stay grounded

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Pankaj Advani is billiards world champion

Monday, September 7, 2009

Dhoni earns most: Forbes

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Power play in a time of death

Friday, September 4, 2009

The man only death could stop

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy-Missing‎

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Unique Nilekani unveils his unique ID plans

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