Hindustan Times launches business paper 'Mint'

HT's much-awaited pink paper is finally out.

Mint. Yes that's the name of the paper, different from the run of mill Expresses, Times and Moneys. Wall Street Journal is an exclusive partner.

The website is http://www.livemint.com

Raju Narisetti is the Managing Editor. Mario Garcia has designed the paper. For more information you can go to this link.
Seems financial dailies have a competition. Though Economic Times is a market leader with Business Line, Business Standard, Financial Express and DNA Money also having a chunk of biz readership in the country.

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Bal Thackeray's comments on President

This one is surely in a very bad taste even by Bal Thackeray's standards. In a rally in Mumbai, Thackeray first said that Kalam can't see clearly because of the hair in front of his eyes.

He reportedly went on to say that Kalam can see only the 'Chaand and Taara' (Crescent and Star). The Shiv Sena supremo was referring to the plea for mercy from the kin of Parliament attack accused Afzal Guru.

The party mouthpiece Samna editor later said Thackeray has been a cartoonist and his comments should be taken as a 'vyangya'. The octogenarian politician has been a rabble-rouser all his life and has created wedge in the society all through his political life. He had instigated Marathis against South Indians, then Muslims and later its campaign against North Indians.

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