http://www.thehindu.com/ The Internet edition of The Hindu, India's national newspaper en-us Copyright 2009 The Hindu Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/hindux.gif http://www.thehindu.com/ 468 50 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111657900100.htm No clean chit to anyone, says Home Secretary Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111657810100.htm President Rajapaksa says party will take a decision soon Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111658050100.htm United Nations: Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon observed a 24-hour fast in solidarity with a billion hungry people worldwide, his spokesperson Marie Okabe has said. Mr. Ban, who observed the fast this weekend, days ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111657730100.htm SINGAPORE: United States President Barack Obama on Sunday called for the unconditional release of Myanmar’s celebrated democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi. Under house arrest under the orders of Myanmar’s military rulers, ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111653941000.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111653951000.htm Kolkata: No decision has been taken either by the ruling Left Front or the Communist Party of India (Marxist) — its largest constituent — to advance the 2011 Assembly elections in West Bengal in the wake of the reverses suffered by ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111653911000.htm LUCKNOW: A day after Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh parted ways with Kalyan Singh, the former Bharatiya Janata Party leader accused him of being an opportunistic politician and stressed the need to strengthen the Hindutva ideology, as ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111653981000.htm New Delhi: Headley, a U.S. citizen who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 and resides primarily in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 3, 2009, by the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) at O’Hare International ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111660041000.htm Thrissur: Kerala Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan said on Sunday that a man named Tahawwur Hussain Rana visited Kochi and stayed in a hotel there. “It is being investigated whether he was the one later arrested in the U.S. ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111660081100.htm NEW DELHI: A Pakistani national allegedly involved in espionage activities has been arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here by the Special Cell of the Delhi police. Several defence-related and sensitive documents have ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111654101300.htm Leaders’ stress on a new growth paradigm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111654131300.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111652211600.htm At last, the Indian team will be at full strength when the first Test against the Sri Lankans gets underway at Ahmedabad. The team management will have welcomed the return of Zaheer Khan warmly, for he is a bowler for all conditions. The ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111660772000.htm It has been almost 150 years since the pioneering group landed in Natal Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111657980100.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111654041100.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111654351800.htm NEW DELHI: The Centre has decided to invite qualifying bids for three Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPPs) by early 2010. “The RFQs [requests for qualifications] for the three UMPPs in Tamil Nadu, Orissa and Chhattisgarh will be ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111654450100.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111654710100.htm AIZAWL: At least 300 deserted huts of the Bru community were set ablaze at Bungthuam in Mizoram on Sunday, in arson that was triggered by the killing of a youth by suspected Bru rebels on November 13. Around 300 Bru families have ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111656571800.htm ‘Will continue to stay away till government approves hike in stipend’ Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111656630100.htm KOLKATA: One person was killed in the Belpahari thana area near Lalgarh in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on Sunday evening on a day when activists of the Maoist-backed Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee (PSBJC) ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111657720100.htm Owner and three others arrested Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111657990100.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111658000100.htm CHAIBASA (JHARKHAND): Maoists blew up an under-construction panchayat building at Dumbuli in West Singhbhum district on Saturday night. — ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111658100100.htm MUMBAI: State Bank of India said on Sunday that the examination for recruitment of clerks in Maharashtra passed off smoothly, and there was no disruption, as threatened by the MNS to protest against “outsiders” taking the test. ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111658230100.htm LUCKNOW: The former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Kalyan Singh, has called Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh a “traitor” and said he is willing to return to the BJP. His son Rajbir Singh has resigned from the SP. — ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111658240100.htm ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: The Pakistan troops killed 17 militants and recovered 22 bodies of suspected Taliban fighters in the country’s restive northwest and tribal areas on Sunday. — PTI ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111660091100.htm To examine if courts can impose odd conditions Mon, 16 Nov 2009 Cricket http://www.thehindu.com/2009/11/16/stories/2009111660501700.htm Sangakkara remains unfazed by history; Dilshan makes a swift recovery Mon, 16 Nov 2009