http://www.thehindu.com/ The Internet edition of The Hindu, India's national newspaper en-us Copyright 2009 The Hindu Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/hindux.gif http://www.thehindu.com/ 468 50 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112155851000.htm Optimism prevails on both sides eventually implementing all aspects of the agreement Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112155861000.htm NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be accorded a Guard of Honour on the South Lawn in the White House when he reaches Washington for the first state visit by any head of state or government under the Obama presidency. This, ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161861400.htm HYDERABAD: Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu has said the party would decide the next president and that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had nothing to do with the day-to-day political affairs of the organisation. He told journalists ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161841400.htm Mumbai: Sanjay Raut, Sena MP and editor of the party mouthpiece Saamna admitted to The Hindu over telephone that those who targeted the IBN offices in Mumbai and Pune on Friday were Shiv ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161911500.htm I had no idea when I heard the firing that they were terrorists, says SI Kakde Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161951600.htm “It could form the basis of a U.S.-India declaration that could undermine the country’s long-term economic growth” Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161851400.htm NEW DELHI: Disputing the current approach in handling the international financial crisis and terming it as a typical capitalist solution, an international meeting of communist parties and workers on Friday advocated that socialism is the only ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153911100.htm NEW DELHI: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora informed the Lok Sabha on Friday that the magnitude of last month’s fire at the Indian Oil Corporation depot in Jaipur was so massive that it virtually left no time to put in ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112153941100.htm NEW DELHI: The Union government on Friday urged civil society organisations to ask Left-wing extremists not to disrupt the Assembly elections in Jharkhand. While expressing confidence that the State people would face the challenge of the ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112154802000.htm GUWAHATI: Three National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants were killed in two separate encounters in Assam on Friday, police sources said. An NDFB militant was killed at Podumpkhuri in the Jalukbari area of the city in an ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112155831000.htm Guwahati: Money diverted from the development fund of Assam’s North Cachar Hills Autonomous Council (NCHAC) to the militant outfit Dima Halam Daogah (Jewel Garlosa faction) has gone to Thailand, Singapore and Nepal for procuring illegal ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158321300.htm New Delhi: Ahead of the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror strikes, President Pratibha Patil will inaugurate a two-day International Conference of Jurists on Terrorism here on Saturday. International Terrorism, International ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158341400.htm KOLKATA: Life in the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal was severely affected following a 12-hour strike called by the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) on Friday demanding the regularisation of ad hoc workers of the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158352200.htm Kochi: History was created at the Southern Naval Command here on Friday when the first two women combatants of the Navy were awarded with the ‘wings’ at an impressive passing-out ceremony. Rear Admiral Sudhir Pillai, Flag ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112158362200.htm BERHAMPUR: Two members of the ‘Chasi Mulia Adivasi Sangh (CMAS)’ were killed when police opened fire on them to prevent arms loot at the Narayanpatna police station in Koraput district on Friday afternoon. Inspector in ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112159081200.htm Kolkata: After a considerable period , things have begun looking up for the Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Bengal project located at Salboni in Paschim Medinipur in the heart of the State’s Maoist stronghold of Lalgarh. It is while returning ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161611000.htm Mumbai: A mysterious letter threatening to trigger multiple bomb blasts in different places of the city, including the Raj Bhavan and the Chief Minister’s residence, threw the police into a tizzy and prompted them to step up security ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161641000.htm NEW DELHI: With the nearing of the first anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, Defence Minister A.K. Antony on Friday reviewed, at a meeting, the overall security situation and asked the Army, Navy and the Air Force to remain ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161691000.htm NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission that aims to add 20,000 MW of power in India by 2022. “The Cabinet has sanctioned Rs.4,337 crore for the initial activities in this ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161741100.htm Hurriyat chairman hails joint statement of U.S. and China Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161751100.htm Election Commission for including youth in election process Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161821400.htm New Delhi: Observing that the 1.3 billion people of China have the “right to know the reality,” the Dalai Lama has advised the Communist regime there to shun “censorship and distorted propaganda.” He also said ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161891500.htm New Delhi: The Central Empowered Committee of the Supreme Court has said in its report to the court that Andhra Pradesh had taken the stand that all the mining leases “are in a compact block, there is no unallotted forest area lying ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161921500.htm NEW DELHI: Anticipating a slew of special programmes ahead of the first anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Friday issued an advisory to television channels drawing broad parameters for such ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161931600.htm We need to move from Gross Domestic Product to Green Domestic Product, says Jairam Ramesh Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161941600.htm NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday fixed Rs.19 as the porting charge (the amount to be paid by a subscriber to the recipient operator) for availing the mobile number portability (MNP) facility, which is ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161961600.htm Belgaum: B. Shankaranand, former Union Minister, passed away at a private hospital here in the early hours of Friday. He was 84 and leaves two sons, including Om Prakash Kanagali, a former Minister in Karnataka, and six daughters. Mr. ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112161971600.htm PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and the State police on Friday dismissed media reports about a possible terror threat to the coming International Film Festival of India (IFFI), set to begin here on Monday. Speaking to ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112162891200.htm NEW DELHI: The Opposition stalled the proceedings in Parliament for the second day on Friday over the new sugarcane pricing policy. Opposition members raised slogans in both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, highlighting the plight of ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112162901300.htm It is linked to a weighted basket of four major currencies Sat, 21 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/21/stories/2009112162990700.htm SHIMLA: Eight labourers involved in snow clearance operations at Rani Nalla near the 13,500-foot-high Rohtang Pass were killed in a high-velocity snowstorm on Friday. Workers engaged by various hydro-electric projects in this region ... Sat, 21 Nov 2009