OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
New Delhi, Friday,May 2, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 30 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport American Life: Jaya’s prescription Rafique helps Madonna’s new for SARS: Papaya Bangladesh restrict album is No.1 and tulsi leaves SA in 2nd Test Page 12 Page 10 Page 19
WIN WITH THE TIMES
Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. How is the AC? Good, send one more When the choice is to be right or to be kind, TIMES NEWS NETWORK Following this submission, Jain, however, said the sec- always make the choice special judge V K Jain declined tion which the lawyers referred Dharambir Khattar & Vinod Khatri Dharambir Khattar & New Delhi: Vinod Khatri: ‘‘To- that brings peace. to grant Mukherjee immunity to gave protection to judges Shameet Mukherjee morrow is the date in court...’’ Khattar: ‘‘... I can provide the copy of the under the Judge Protection Act, against private action. The Cen- — Dr.Wayne Dyer Dharambir Khattar: ‘‘Send order running into six pages. If you Khattar: ‘‘How is the AC? Is it 1985, and sent him to the CBI’s tral government, state govern- me the samaan (bribe).’’ want to add or change something you can fine?’’ custody till May 7. ments, Supreme Court or Delhi NEWS DIGEST Vinod Khatri: ‘‘...I had sent do that...’’ Mukherjee: ‘‘Yes it is very good... the samaan to you earlier but I Jain said: ‘‘I have not been HC were empowered to prose- Khatri: ‘‘ .. I will give you my fax number but there is some problem.’’ learnt it has not reached the able to convince myself that law cute a judge, Jain said...... send me the order...’’ Khattar: ‘‘.. I will get it done Bank strike today: Leading bank gives a judge immunity from Senior advocates, including R unions will go on a nationwide strike boss (Shamit Mukherjee)...he Khattar: ‘‘It is not safe to send the order tomorrow.’’ said ask DK to see me...’’ prosecution if he indulges in K Anand, former president of on Friday protesting the govern- corrupt practices and misuses HC Bar Association, A S Chan- through fax. I will call you up 10 minutes Mukherjee: ‘‘Ask him to send ment’s failure to meet their demands The transcript of this taped his official position.’’ dioke, secretary of the associa- later and read out the judgment to you.’’ one more two ton AC.’’ Mukherjee at Patiala House courts including an early wage revision. conversation between master fixer Khattar and property deal- He did not concede the plea of tion, D K Sharma and I U Khan Militant strike in J&K: In the er Khatri is in the CBI’s custody. lawyers, including Delhi HC were present in Mukherjee’s de- Mukherjee and Khattar. recovered from Khattar’s Jang- because she was presenting the fourth strike in a week, a suicide It was read out to a packed Bar Association president D C fence. The court room was ‘‘Khatri is absconding but we pura office on March 26. authority’s case strongly. Khat- three-member squad of militants courtroom by the agency’s Mathur, appearing on behalf of packed to capacity. A large num- will arrest him soon,’’ Singh Singh told the court that the tar informed Khatri who paid made an abortive bid to storm a lawyer, T P Singh, who contend- Mukherjee. About seven advo- ber of lawyers from the HC were told the judge. On the perusal of judgment was of the case Azad money to former DDA vice- Border Security Force camp in ed that former Delhi High Court cates argued for Mukherjee, also present in the court to wit- the transcript, Jain commented: Singh Vs the DDA. chairman Subhash Sharma and Pulwama in J&K on Thursday night, judge Shamit Mukherjee, Khat- claiming he could not be arrest- ness the proceedings. ‘‘It is a serious matter.’’ He also ‘‘In that case, Mukherjee got Mittal removed from the triggering a gunbattle which left one ed because he was protected un- Singh also read parts of the read the six pages of an un- asked Khattar to get the DDA’s case,’’ Singh said. militant dead, BSF sources said in tar and Khatri were involved in Srinagar. dubious deals. der the Act. taped conversation between signed judgment which the CBI advocate, Gita Mittal, changed Related report on Page 3 Sangh Parivar-Govt meet: A three-day meet of Sangh Parivar AFP leaders and representatives of the BJP and the government began in New Delhi on Thursday. P7 India wary of Pak designs at UN Osama may be in Pak: Pak- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Freeze again? ism in response to a question. Asked istan’s President Musharraf said on about the US State Department’s report Thursday there were indications that New Delhi: India will view any Pak- on terrorism the spokesperson said Osama bin Laden was alive, and he istani move to raise the Kashmir issue • Pakistan, having taken over the that in so far as it spoke about infiltra- might be hiding in tribal territory on in the UN Security Council (UNSC) as presidency of Security Council, is tion, this had been evident to India for the Pakistani-Afghan border. a setback to the ongoing overtures of insisting on a discussion on Kashmir friendship, officials suggested, re- a long time. Recognition of Pakistan’s • India says this will be a setback role in this needed to be followed up, he YOU SAID IT by Laxman sponding to questions. to Indo-Pak ties and will not be in Pakistani ambassador to the UN Mu- said, adding that this was where the in- keeping with its recent overtures ternational community had failed. nir Akram has said Pakistan, which of friendship takes over the rotating presidency of He also dismissed the implications the UNSC for a month beginning in the report of the responsibility of Thursday, would like a discussion on On other comments emanating from non-state actors saying India was well- unresolved issues like Palestine and Pakistan relating to confidence build- aware of the nature of the groups and Kashmir on May 13th. ing measures and offer of Jamali to their backing. Asked about this, the external af- visit India, the spokesperson said India He also refused to comment on the fairs spokesperson said India had ex- would respond to proposals as and US decision not to designate Pakistan tended a hand of friendship and it was when they were made. as a terrorist state, saying the determi- for Pakistan to see whether raising the However, the spokesperson reiterat- nations were made by another govern- issue was compatible with that move. ed India’s stand on cross-border terror- ment according to their processes.
Union health minister Sushma Swaraj and Delhi health minister A K Walia visit the newly built special wards for SARS patients at the Infectious Diseases Hospital in New Delhi on Thursday. (Related reports on Page 10) US declares Hizb terrorist outfit By Chidanand Rajghatta port released on Wednesday signals a group (which would attract punitive SARS blame game TIMES NEWS NETWORK sharp uptick in Washington’s intoler- action), but it is considered a prelude to Take your hands off! I told you not ance to violence, even by popular local it as the administration begins to initi- to be chummy with me in public! Washington: Ahead of a visit to South groups claiming greater legitimacy. ate internal legal steps to make such a Sushmaspeak Asia by US Deputy Secretary Richard Maharashtra reacts Armitage next week, the Bush admin- Three other groups promoting ter- declaration. In other words, the groups rorism against India — Al Badr, are first ‘‘identified’’ and then ‘‘listed’’. indiatimes.com POLL • Mumbai health authorities Health Services Deputy Director istration has addressed some funda- mental Indian concerns on terrorism, Harkat-ul-Jihad Islami, and Harkat-ul- The notifications came on a day Yesterday’s results: Do you think released the city’s first SARS P P Doke said: ‘‘Look at the protests in Jihad Islami (Bangladesh) — have also when Pakistan busted an Al-Qaida ring Laloo’s lathi has overshadowed primarily by identifying the mainline Togadia’s trishul? case, Bhaskar Murthy, before Kolkata. We fortunately do not have the Kashmiri insurgent group Hizb-ul-Mu- been named in the report. The first two in Karachi and netted a major suspect test reports were available same attitude here.’’ jahideen as a terrorist organisation. are Pakistan-based and the naming of in the USS Cole bombing, earning ful- Yes 52% No 48% Unlike other Pakistan-backed terror- the last group endorses Indian charges some praise from the Bush administra- • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose • Murthy now being treated in Civic executive health officer added: ist groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and of terrorism emanating from tion, and Deputy Secretary Armitage to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. Delhi’s Infectious Diseases ‘‘The patient had no symptoms then and Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Hizb is consid- Bangladesh. described as ‘‘truly frightening’’ the Today’s question: In view of government’s hospital was believed to be SARS negative.” ered an indigenous Kashmiri outfit The notification in the annexure to situation between India and Pakistan. statement on WHO reports, do you and its inclusion in a list detailed in the the terrorism report does not consti- For more go to www.timesofindia.com think India’s response to SARS Britain jolted over terror links: Page 13 was a panic reaction? 2002 Patterns of Global Terrorism Re- tute an immediate listing as a terrorist Cast your vote on www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 Modi care New Delhi: This is a record New Delhi planning to of sorts. Gujarat CM Naren- dra Modi gave an IAS officer a double promotion to make sell missiles to friends him chief secretary. Pravin Laheri was MD, Gujarat By Rajat Pandit The Indian missile likely to have Tourism and principal secre- WEATHER TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘tremendous’’ export potential is tary rural development till ‘‘BrahMos’’, the 290-km-range anti- Wednesday morning. Then... Max. 40.1oC/ Min. 26oC New Delhi: To boost defence exports, ship supersonic cruise missile being Moonset: Friday — 1947 hrs. India plans to sell missiles to ‘‘friend- jointly developed with Russia. Moonrise: Saturday — 0641 hrs. ly countries’’ in the near future. The Sunset: Friday — 1857 hrs. systems being earmarked for export India and Russia plan to begin the Sunrise: Saturday — 0539 hrs. range from cruise missiles to anti- induction of this air- breathing mis- Mainly clear sky. Duststorm/thunderstorm tank guided missiles. sile — virtually all other anti-ship accompanied by squall likely in some areas. Defence sources, at the same time, missiles either fly at subsonic speeds Maximum relative humidity on Thursday 51 stress that the missiles to be exported or have a much shorter range — into per cent and minimum 23 per cent. will in no way contravene interna- their armed forces in the next six to tional norms or exceed restrictions seven months. imposed by the Missile Technology Thereafter, the export potential of Control Regime (MTCR), even though ‘‘BrahMos’’, which can fly at a veloci- India is not a signatory to it. ty of up to 2.8 Mach and can be Established in 1987 by the US and launched from a variety of platforms, other Western powers but with no sta- will be actively explored. tus in international law, the MTCR There will be an estimated $10 bil- bans export of missiles capable of de- lion demand for such missiles in the livering a 500 kg payload over 300 km. coming years.
Book your Classifieds 24 hours service: “51-666-888” Britain hops onto a ‘green’ rickshaw Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” The ATM of information By Rashmee Z Ahmed dian tricycles, he points out, are TIMES NEWS NETWORK hardly a match for London’s new, The Largest Classifieds Site telegenic, aerodynamically-shaped London: The British capital may vehicles. “Our rickshaws are de- have just got aboard the greenest signed to function as mobile three- ride of them all – the sleek, high-tech * 22 + 8 pages of Delhi Times dimensional urban advertising bill- rickshaw, which is advertising its boards, unlike the Indian rickshaw. muscle-powered, point-to-point That is the main difference”. cruises in high-pedestrian areas as Agrees Polly Stainbank, director London’s newest, coolest and most of Promobikes UK, which wants the eco-friendly on the planet. Metrobike soon to colonise other What’s more, routes and fares are London’s mayor, Ken Livingstone, British cities: “Our vehicles have not fixed; the new, so-called Metro- is understood to be keen on taking a loads of space for advertising. bike is unlicensed; negotiation or In- ride on the green side, in common They’re built for that, unlike the Eu- dian-style haggling with the driver is with the authorities in Berlin and ropean pedicab, which is like the In- allowed, possibly even encouraged, six German cities, four other Euro- dian rickshaw, and doesn’t look fu- to spice up the ride. pean capitals, Tokyo and Kyoto. turistic, clean or at all suitable for And like the cliched coals to New- Matusewski freely admits the debt advertisers”. castle, the Metrobike’s original, six- he owes the rickshaw. On the phone Actually,say experts, the clean de- year-old Teutonic avataar,thefrom Amsterdam, where he is over- sign of the Metrobike may still not Velotaxi, may be heading straight for seeing the city’s enthusiastic conver- make it environmentally cleaner Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata too in sion to the concept of pedal-powered than its uglier, more unwieldy Indi- 2005, its German creator Lugar Ma- urban transport, he said: “There was an relation. Unlike the totally hu- tusewskei has told this paper. ecological inspiration from the Indi- man-powered rickshaw, the futuris- Never before may the idea behind an rickshaw, the power-pedalling tic European vehicle possesses a India’s humble cycle rickshaw have and the three wheels”. weak cycle motor to help the driver been so hip. But the unwieldy, often grotty In- on steep rides.
TOID20503/CR2/01/M/1TOID20503/CR2/01/C/1TOID20503/CR2/01/K/1TOID20503/CR2/01/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
2 Friday,May 2, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi Poor facilities in TOI presents food awards Manoj Kesharwani hospitals despite TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: In a first-of-its- To chat on SMS send 'cchat'
TOID20503/CR1/02/M/1TOID20503/CR1/02/C/1TOID20503/CR1/02/K/1TOID20503/CR1/02/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Friday,May 2, 2003 3 Judge passed orders in cases not his IITian tops civil service exam By Bhadra Sinha Road by the Public Works De- TIMES NEWS NETWORK CBI yet to find partment. While the cases were filed by different per- Cameraman, New Delhi: Former Delhi •Who made the Six of top 20 successful candidates are Delhi students sons, the CBI alleges that high court judge Shameet changes in the order lawyer injured Sanjay Sekhri Mukherjee passed orders in they were fronts for property By Anuradha Mukherjee •Where was the order dealer Vinod Khatri. TIMES NEWS NETWORK cases that were not being in scuffle heard by him, the Central found from Dharambir In his order passed on Feb- New Delhi: It’s tough to get Bureau of Investigation Khattar’s office typed ruary 17, 2003, Mukherjee al- New Delhi: A lawyer lowed the petitioner’s per- through Ankur Garg’s (22) (CBI) has alleged. While pass- •How did the high and a private TV chan- telephone number. He is a ing an order in the case of mission to hold a sub-divi- nel’s cameraman were court’s judicial files reach sional magistrate’s inquiry. celebrity tonight. The Indi- Azad Singh versus Delhi De- Khattar’s office injured in a clash when an Institute of Technology velopment Authority, He dismissed the DDA’s re- former judge Shameet (IIT), Delhi, graduate has Mukherjee also passed an or- quest to widen the road by 45 Mukherjee was being topped the civil services ex- der with respect to four other metres and said it could be taken out of the Patiala amination this year. cases filed to oppose the DDAGATE done only by 20 metres. House courts. A total of 1,57,486 candi- widening of Aruna Asaf Ali Mittal was removed imme- Lawyer Narender Ku- dates took the exam of road. tar spoke to property dealer diately after she asked the mar Srivastava and DDA to file an appeal against whom 286 finally made it to ‘‘Mukherjee wanted his Vinod Khatri who paid for- cameraman D K Shar- this order.On February 20, in the civil services — Indian judgement in one of the cas- mer vice-chairman Subhash ma were allegedly in- the order that was recovered Administrative Services es to be applied to all related Sharma to get Mittal re- volved in a scfuffle after from Khattar’s Jangpura of- (IAS), Indian Police Ser- pending cases. He also men- moved,’’ the officer said. some lawyers prevented fice, the former judge had vices (IPS) and Central Ser- tioned their suit numbers in ‘‘We were surprised to get Sharma from filming asked the SDM to hold a fair vices Group A and B. his order,’’ a CBI officer said. a note from chief legal advis- Mukherjee. While Sri- inquiry and not behave like a Garg has made it to the When DDA’s counsel in the er S K Tandon, transferring vastava received in- DDA’s officer. IAS in his maiden attempt. high court Gita Mittal asked the case to Rakesh Munjal,’’ a juries on the forehead ‘‘We had opposed the in- A graduate in electrical en- the authority to file an appeal DDA officer said. and forearm, Sharma quiry because it was easy for gineering, he chose chem- before a division bench, she According to a CBI officer, complained of pain in the residents to ma nipulate istry and physics as his op- was removed. ‘‘At Mukher- five cases were filed in the the neck. TNN tional subjects for the exam. jee’s instance, the alleged the records,’’ the officer said. Anxious aspirants throng the UPSC Bhawan to check out their results on Thursday. high court opposing the Speaking from his home- middleman Dharambir Khat- widening of Aruna Asaf Ali town Patiala, Garg sounded she said. A graduate in in- But for Mahajan, already a 7th ranker Swati Sharma is ecstatic. ‘‘An engineer top- strumentation and control part of the Indian Civil Ac- a Hindu College alumna. ping the civil services exam engineering, she chose ge- counts Services, it was Second ranker Avinash Trader robbed should serve as a fitting re- ography and psychology as merely an attempt at im- Champawat is a post-gradu- ply to those who think engi- her optionals despite never proving his cadre. ate from JNU, while Sid- neers should stay out of the have studied Arts. Of the top 20 candidates, dhartha Mahajan is an of Rs 3 lakh Indian Administrative Ser- Baba Kharak Singh Marg at least six have a Delhi con- SRCC and Campus Law vices (IAS),’’ Garg said. resident and 12th rank hold- nection. Centre, DU, product. Six- TIMES NEWS NETWORK His thoughts were echoed er Siddharth Mahajan (27) While 3rd ranker teenth rank holder Ban- New Delhi: Three armed says he was slightly taken Aswathy S from Thiru- dana Preyashi is also a DU by Noida-based Avantika men robbed Rs three lakh Gautam (22), another engi- aback by his rank. ‘‘I didn’t vananthapuram is the na- alumna and has done her from a factory in northwest neering graduate from Ne- expect to do so well. This is tional topper among graduation from In- Delhi on Thursday morning. taji Subhash Institute of my third attempt,’’ he said. women, Delhi topper and draprastha College. Deputy commissioner of Technology, Dwarka. ‘‘It’s totally undemocratic to sug- police (northwest), Sanjay gest that engineers should Singh, said three men broke be kept out. We need expert- Village to get its first IAS officer in the factory of Chander Mohan Gupta in D-block ise in all fields in the servic- TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘But who is this paran district of Bihar. A Wazirpur Industrial Area at es,’’ said Gautam. Singh?’’ he was asked. farmer’s son, Singh is the 6 am on Thursday and took She, too, has qualified in New Delhi: Lokesh Ku- ‘‘Main hee hoon (I am),’’ he first man from his village away Rs 3 lakh lying in the the first attempt and stood mar Singh replied. Singh is the 10th to make it to the civil serv- almirahs. 15th rank. For Gautam, an could bare- rank holder. ices. Army Public School ly believe On regaining his bear- ‘‘Where I come from, no The police said the factory (Dhaula Kuan) alumna, this his eyes. ings, Singh is careful to one has even become a manager, Hitesh (24) and se- was the ultimate dream. ‘‘I ‘‘Please mention that he has stud- gazetted officer,’’ he said. curity guard, Nek Ram (50) did not think I would get read this ied in the Hindi medium. ‘‘IAS was a mission tried to stop the robbers, but through and had already name for A researcher in Luc- while studying history in they threatened the two with started preparing for the me... which know University, he hails Lucknow University. Fi- knives and got away. the next exam. Every time I rank is it?’’ he pleaded from a small village, Sagar nally, the impossible has A case of robbery has been felt my confidence ebbing, with bystanders. Churaman, in east Cham- happened.’’ registered in Ashok Vihar my father buoyed me up,’’ police station. ‘Don’t bar DTC to revamp workshop TIMES NEWS NETWORK idea of checking vehicular doctors from pollution of existing vehi- New Delhi: The Delhi Trans- cles,’’ state transport minis- port Corporation (DTC)is civil services’ planning to convert its ram- ter Ajay Maken said. shackle workshop into an in- The existing inspection TIMES NEWS NETWORK spection and maintenance system at Burari is inade- quate to inspect the in-use ve- New Delhi: The Delhi state unit to fix its new fleet of hicles. branch of the Indian Medical Compressed Natural Gas-run The system is not only Association (IMA) on Thurs- buses and private commer- short of proper equipment, day criticised a parliamen- cial vehicles. tary panel’s recommendation ‘‘The plan to build a new but also unable to handle the to the government to disal- inspection and maintenance large number of vehicles go- low professionals from join- workshop stems from the ing for annual inspection. ing civil services. The association said that instead of awarding these medical graduates who excel in other streams, the govern- ment is trying to say that such professionals are not qualified to become civil ser- vants. The association pointed out that there are about 8,000 to 10,000 qualified doctors who are either underem- ployed or unemployed. ‘‘If they join the Indian Ad- ministrative Services, they will actually be serving the country as they have the in- tellectual capability to excel in any field,’’ said Dr Vijay Malhotra, IMA’s honorary state secretary.
TOID20503/CR1/03/M/1TOID20503/CR1/03/C/1TOID20503/CR1/03/K/1TOID20503/CR1/03/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
4 Friday,May 2, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi
FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few Facts on SARS places in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep and at NATIONAL isolated places in Andaman and Nicobar islands, Mumbai: I-A 0700, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, What are the symp- 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Manipur, Mizoram,Tripura, west Bengal and Sikkim, Orissa, Jhark- Burglaries plague VIP flats toms of SARS? 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, hand, Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, 2300 Jet Air 0650, TOI Sudden onset of fever ac- 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, south Konkan and Goa, By Maneesh Pandey bours noticed this and raised Chattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. 1935, 2030, 2200, TIMES NEWS NETWORK an alarm. companied by one or more Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD respiratory symptoms such 1520, 1800, 2025 The burglars escaped with KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min New Delhi: Residents of some brass locks. as dry cough, shortness of 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 39 26 Guwahati 33 22 Amsterdam 16 08 government flats on Pandara breath or difficulty in Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 34 27 Dehradun 33 21 Bahrain 28 23 ‘‘Soon after the burglary Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 35 26 Hyd’bad 38 26 Bangkok 35 27 Road have seen an alarming attempt at my house, another breathing. In addition, the CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 36 22 Indore 42 25 Beijing 29 13 increase in thefts and burgla- person must have a history 0640,0955★★★ theft was reported from B Bangalore 32 22 Jaipur 40 27 Chicago 17 08 ries in the past few months. of travel to one of the af- 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 44 27 Lucknow 36 23 Geneva 23 12 block last week. In another 0645,1900 Residents claim there were at fected countries or close contact with a SARS patient. BANGALORE: T’puram 31 23 Patna 33 21 Hong Kong 30 24 case, a cycle was stolen from I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 42 25 Rajkot 43 24 London 18 10 least seven thefts in the area an enforcement official’s Can a SARS patient continue to spread Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 38 23 Shimla 23 15 Los Angeles 19 12 in the last one month. The lo- Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 40 25 Srinagar 26 11 Moscow 13 08 house in the same block,’’ the infection even after he has recovered HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 cal police put the figure at Sarkar said. GOA: I-A 1200, five this summer. completely? Sahara 1200 TRAIN RESERVATIONS Admitting that thefts had KULU: Jagson 0630, The presence of senior po- risen ‘‘marginally’’ in the Experts say once the patient recovers and all the symp- 0650, 1215 ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on lice officials in the area has toms go away, there is no further transmission of the AHMEDABAD: 01.05.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. area, a senior police official I-A 0600,1700★★1845, failed to act as a deterrent. In said frequent transfers of disease. However, a home quarantine upto 10 days is Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl Jet Air 0610 fact, recently,the house of an government officials was the advised even after complete recovery. GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: NORTH I-A 0555★★, 1010• 4033 Jammu Mail 03.05 07.05 24.05 07.05 assistant commissioner of main reason for the increase What precautions can you take? ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 29.05 02.06 06.05 police (ACP) was burgled. Security is a major concern for Pandara Road residents. in crime. Cover your nose and mouth while sneezing or coughing, Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, 2403 Jammu Exp 07.05 21.05 27.05 26.05 ‘‘The burglars entered his here,’’ the resident said. make away with our chil- ‘‘There are so many people Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST avoid shaking hands if possible, wash hands frequently, Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) house from the back door and 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 04.05 07.05 21.05 — ‘‘Most thefts take place in dren’s cycles.’’ entering these flats on the avoid unnecessary travel to affected countries and if you 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 07.05 08.05 21.05 28.05 Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, made away with several the afternoon when houses Bhatia said majority of the pretext of knowing the offi- have any symptoms report to a health care facility (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 02.05 05.05 20.05 02.06 items,’’ a resident said. Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 08.05 18.05 19.06 are locked,’’ said Rakesh thefts were reported in B- cer,’’ the officer said. immediately. INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 19.05 19.05 22.05 ‘‘There’s a deputy commis- Bhatia, a programme officer block. His own house was The police said both the 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 06.05 17.05 22.05 sioner of police or an ACP at in the health ministry. ‘‘Cou- burgled last month. Tilak Marg and Tughlak BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 06.05 05.05 06.05 16.05 Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 16.06 29.05 every second block. There ples are out working and Leela Sarkar, another resi- Road police stations had A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 01.06 16.06 29.05 are police personnel posted children are in school till 2 dent, was luckier. Last week, launched a drive against sus- FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 04.05 21.05 26.05 09.06 outside their houses. And yet pm. If they can’t lay hands on some burglars tried to break pects in the area. They have 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 03.05 05.06 22.05 No drinking water AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 29.05 29.05 22.05 we have so many thefts anything else, the burglars into her house. Some neigh- detained 30 people so far. KLM 0140 (KL-472) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 06.06 15.06 20.05 LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 06.05 07.05 12.05 19.05 0210 (BA-142) WEST PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail 05.05 07.05 11.06 13.06 in MCD schools 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 02.05 13.06 16.06 16.06 A-I 0205 (AI-159) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 02.05 05.06 09.06 — By Rahul Chhabra SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 06.05 02.06 05.06 — A survey conducted by the Airlines 2315 (SQ-407), 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 05.06 12.06 22.05 TIMES NEWS NETWORK MCD’s education depart- A-I 0050 (IC-855) 1078 Jhelum Exp — 13.06 22.05 07.06 ment in the last week of DAHRAIN: 2916 Ashram Exp 02.05 03.06 10.06 13.05 New Delhi: Thousands of April has come up with A-I 0245 (AI-818) SOUTH students in 35 municipal pri- ROME/MANCHESTER: 2616 G T Exp 07.05 02.06 09.06 22.05 shocking details about the A-I 0300 (AI-139) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 21.05 04.06 10.06 02.06 mary schools have been sur- poor state of civic amenities HONG KONG/SEOUL: 2432 Trivandrum Raj 24.06 29.06 24.06 — viving without drinking wa- A-I 2340 (AI-310) 2626 Kerala Exp — 16.06 12.06 04.06 in schools. 2618 Mangala Exp — 15.06 17.06 29.05 ter with the taps running dry The situation remains the AIR INDIA 2628 Karnataka Exp — 04.06 07.06 20.05 in the gruelling summer same despite the education AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI: 2724 A P Exp 07.05 10.06 10.06 19.05 heat. 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 14.06 21.06 23.06 — department receiving the 0010 (AI 127) More than 31 schools have MUMBAI: 2030 (AI 471) 7022 Dakshin Express — 29.05 — 04.05 largest budgetary allocation No. of passengers dealt on 30.04.2003 (Delhi Area): 67,112 (N. Rly. Area) tubewells to provide water which is 18 per cent of the to- A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,54,426. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all (Air.)25652050, British Air: for drinking purposes, but (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for tal annual budget of Rs 2,268 23323310, Singapore Airlines computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. the students continue to suf- crore. More than 8 lakh stu- 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 (Information supplied by Indian Railways) fer as the tubewells are out of dents are enrolled in 1,300 order. primary schools being run by A school in Hastsal, for in- the MCD. stance, neither has a pipeline ‘‘In 23 schools, even though supply nor a tanker service water is available through to cater to the students’ pipe supply and taps, stu- needs. dents are thirsty. The tanks The state of toilets in for storing water have been schools is also deplorable due rendered useless due to to the shortage of water. faulty repair,’’ said Arya. ‘‘There is no water available ‘‘Nine schools out of these in the toilet blocks of 111 pri- are yet to get a regular tanker mary schools,’’ said BJP supply,’’ he said. Septic tanks chief and opposition leader in 62 schools have not been Subhash Arya. cleaned.
TOID20503/CR1/04/M/1TOID20503/CR1/04/C/1TOID20503/CR1/04/K/1TOID20503/CR1/04/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Friday,May 2, 2003 5 Centre yet to release Rs 1,000 crore for development work Agency to give alternate land for water body TIMES NEWS NETWORK ent treatment plant (CETP) to construct the CETP. water body. Delhi government waits for its due to treat sewage before releas- The court had earlier After studying the area the New Delhi: The Delhi State ing it to Yamuna river. stayed the construction after DSIDC on Tuesday told the For the past few years, What the state government wants Industrial Development Cor- The DSIDC counsel Gita an advocate filed some photo- court that the place was not a poration (DSIDC) has agreed Mittal made this statement graphs stating that a CETP water body but a deep pit the Delhi government Rs 51 crore share from the Voluntary The canal is ready but the money hasn’t to give 4.5 acre of land as an before the Delhi high court was being constructed over a which got filled with water has not received funds Disclosure Income Scheme arrived. alternative site for the devel- on Tuesday. Following this water body in Naraina. during the monsoon season. Every state is entitled to a certain opment of a water body in assurance the high court When the Public Works De- Mittal said the CETPs were from the Centre, which it Rs 100 crore for relocating Bawana. The land is in lieu of Bench of Chief Justice B C partment (PWD) was called being constructed in the city percentage of the amount collected and developing slums the site where the DSIDC is Patel and Justice A K Sikri to the court, its officials said according to the Supreme claims is its due.This by the Centre each year. Four million people live in constructing a common efflu- gave a go ahead to the DSIDC the DSIDC was filling up the Court directions. year too, about Rs Rs 43 crore from the World Bank fund slums in the city. The state 1,000 cr is yet to arrive, Under a World Bank-funded wants central funds for relocating them pending the Planning project on technical educa- or developing the area. tion, the state government Rs 200 crore to develop courts Commission’s approval. has set up polytechnics and To develop courts in nine dis- We need the money for technical institutes. The Centre is yet to tricts, the state needs about reimburse the amount. Rs 500 crore. They want the development work in the Rs 150 crore excess share in taxes Centre to contribute. city, says the Delhi Delhi gets Rs 325 crore as its share Rs 250 crore for hospitals government.‘‘Every year, from central taxes. Although the tax col- About 33 per cent of patients lection has gone up in the past three the Centre gives us a visiting Delhi hospitals are years, Delhi’s share has not. from other parts of the coun- sympathetic hearing but Rs 100 crore for the Yamuna canal try. Delhi govt wants money does nothing to release The project cost Delhi Rs 380 to develop the city into a ‘health capital’. crore of which Rs 100 crore Rs 200 crore for providing housing the funds,’’ chief minis- was to be paid by the Centre. ter Sheila Dikshit said. to the poor
Entrance test: Re-examina- Estate agent tion for the math paper of the Kerala Engineering Entrance Test, 2003 will be held on May beats up 7. Candidates who opted for Delhi as the exam centre can appear for the re-test at Kerala couple, police School, Canning Road.TNN fail to act By Maneesh Pandey TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A couple resid- ing in the DDA flats in Vasant Enclave, Vasant Vihar, who protested the illegal activi- ties of an estate agent have paid a heavy price. They have been physically assaulted five times in the months of December and January, and live under con- stant threat. The couple al- leged the local police has turned a blind eye to their plight. Shankar Narayan, a char- tered accountant, and Vai- jayantimala Aiyer, a life in- surance advisor, have been living in 29-B, Janta Flats in Vasant Enclave since 1993. Anil Kumar, a local real es- tate agent, had recently bought the adjacent flat, 31-B. Narayan said: ‘‘Now Ku- mar owns five flats around our building and has also en- croached on public land.’’ The couple objected when Kumar tried to build flats next to their own thus block- ing out sunlight and ventila- tion. The construction is still on, they said. A police complaint was made on November 30, 2002. On December 8, Kumar and his family members alleged- ly entered Narayan’s house and physically assaulted them. Similar assaults were made twice in December and twice in January,2003. A complaint was also lodged with ACP (Vasant Vi- har) office, but in vain. Deputy commissioner of police (southwest), Tejinder Luthra, had even directed Vasant Vihar police to take appropriate actions against Kumar, but the couple al- leged that the police are not taking appropriate action. Police commissioner R S Gupta has directed the local police to initiate appropriate actions against the guilty.‘‘In personnel and such indisci- pline in their conduct in pub- lic dealing will not be tolerat- ed,’’ he said. Move to protect Himalayas
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Himalayas, the northern frontiers of In- dia for time immemorial, were the subject of a two-day meeting held in the city re- cently. The first Parliament of the Himalayan Culture, organised by the Himalaya Parivar, discussed ‘‘the threat to the security and identity of these mighty mountains.’’ The partici- pants spoke on both the caus- es of this threat as well as possible solutions to protect the Himalayas. The meeting also dis- cussed the environmental, social and economic prob- lems of this area, arising out of thoughtless cutting of trees throughout the fragile ecosystem and construction of big dams. The consensus of the meet- ing was that these resources must be tapped to spread peace, security and prosperi- ty.The focus, said the partici- pants, must be on how to pro- tect and increase the poten- tial of the natural energy available in the Himalayas. Other sessions dealt with issues such as dealing with the poverty of the people liv- ing in the Himalayan region and exploring ways of ensur- ing sustainable livelihood.
TOID20503/CR1/05/M/1TOID20503/CR1/05/C/1TOID20503/CR1/05/K/1TOID20503/CR1/05/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
6 Friday, May 2, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi
VEHICLES PROPERTY
BAZAAR
RECRUITMENT
SERVICES BUSINESS
TOID20503/LR1/06/M/1TOID20503/LR1/06/C/1TOID20503/LR1/06/K/1TOID20503/LR1/06/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Friday,May 2, 2003 7
AP IRS-2002 findings accurate: Media watchers TIMES NEWS NETWORK urban and rural category,HT gories. What the experts say did not feature in it at all. The IRS-2002 is the only Mumbai: The Indian Read- Hindustan, the Hindi daily readership survey based on ership Survey’s findings for • Study clearly states that The Times of India retains the top slot among English publications with 61 lakh readers from that group’s stable, had Census 2001, and is the 2002, released earlier this an urban plus rural reader- largest continuous media week, which noted a decline • The newspaper also retains the 10th slot across all ship of 54.9 lakh, according survey monitoring demo- of two per cent in readers of languages with 60.9 lakh readers to IRS-2001. The paper did not graphics, media habits and the print media across lan- merit a mention in the top 10 product\brand usage in In- guages since 2001, has drawn • Hindustan Times does not figure in the top 10 dailies, last year since the 10th posi- dia. For IRS-2002, an annual flak. Media watchers point to urban and rural category tion had a readership base of sample size of 2.29 lakh was a Hindustan Times article, 61 lakh and Hindustan was taken and a total of 986 towns which aims to rubbish IRS- 63.4 lakh readers, in a press the IRS survey) were clearly way down the ladder, said in- and 2,858 villages were sur- 2002, widely acknowledged as handout on Tuesday. informed about the error, dustry sources. veyed. the most dependable study The release further said and told that the ninth slot The urban figure for Hin- on media penetration. that ‘‘the two leading English should actually read Hindus- dustan was 26.3 lakh in IRS- The study clearly states publications (TOI and HT) tan, HT’s sister publication 2001, again way below the that the world’s largest daily are neck-to-neck with each in Hindi. The sentence allud- 10th slot, which was bagged English newspaper, The other’’. ing to the ‘‘neck-to-neck by Anand Bazaar Patrika Times of India, continues to Media analysts said it was race’’ was also to be deleted. with 37 lakh readers. Once retain the top slot among this mistake — which was al- The Media Research Users again, the paper had there- English publications with 61 most immediately rectified Council subsequently issued fore not merited a mention in lakh readers. — that HT had played up in a written corrigendum to the 2001 survey. TOI also retains the 10th its article. this effect. The rural readership of slot across all languages with Members of the press, ad- That fact appears to have Hindustan was 28.6 lakh in 60.9 lakh readers. The bone of vertisers and media planners gone unnoticed by the HT IRS-2001 and 33 lakh in IRS- contention appears to have who were present at the re- correspondent in his article, 2002, again way below the top been the ninth slot in the lat- lease of the survey on media watchers noted. They 10 readership table. The IRS ter category, which the sur- Wednesday by Media Re- added that since the IRS-2002 only caters to the top 10 Prime Minister Vajpayee and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani wait for the Vietnamese vey erroneously mentioned search Users Council and the survey mentioned only the dailies, which have made a Communist Party chief at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Thursday. as Hindustan Times, with NFO-MBL (which undertake top 10 dailies in the all India, mark in their respective cate- BJP, RSS meet to improve ties, plan for polls TIMES NEWS NETWORK Meeting agenda New Delhi: A high-profile three-day meeting of Sangh •Greater understanding Parivar leaders with the gov- a prerequisite for coordi- ernment and BJP represen- nated election campaign tatives began on Thursday. Forging a consensus The meeting’s underlying • on various contentious agenda is improving rela- issues tions between the RSS and the government. Though RSS spokesman the Bharatiya Mazdoor Ram Madhav described the Singh, the Vanvasi Kalyan meeting at the Chandiwala Ashram, the Vidyarthi estate in South Delhi as ‘‘rou- Parishad. tine’’, the conclave of senior The forenoon session of leaders of the RSS, all its af- the meeting was devoted to filiates and the government forge a consensus on various assumes significance as four contentious issues. Internal important north Indian security and Kashmir were states go to polls in the next also likely to figure in discus- six months. sions. A greater understand- ‘‘The meeting is aimed at ing among all the affiliates bringing in better coordina- would become a pre-requisite tion and understanding be- for a coordinated election tween all the affiliates of the campaign for the BJP. RSS and the government. A According to PTI, Madan- message of perfect under- das Devi was asked about the standing between the govern- outbursts against the govern- ment and the Parivar would ment by parivar outfits in- go out after such a meeting,’’ cluding the VHP and the said an RSS source. SJM. He admitted a ‘‘commu- Prime Minister Vajpayee, nication gap’’ among its affil- DPM L K Advani, HRD min- iates and said, ‘‘all organisa- ister Murli Manohar Joshi, tions look at national inter- BJP president Venkaiah ests in their own way. Naidu and general secre- They are free to express taries attended the meeting. their thoughts in a democra- The RSS was represented cy but that should be done by sarsanghachalak K S Su- with civility and without bit- darshan, the joint general terness. All issues can be secretary in charge of BJP, sorted out through communi- Madandas Devi, H V Se- cation.’’ shadri, M G Vaidya and the The Ayodhya issue, the spokesman Ram Madhav. J&K government’s ‘‘healing Ashok Singhal of the Vishwa touch’’ policy, the next WTO Hindhu Parishad (VHP), Mu- round in Mexico, religious ralidhar Rao of the Swadeshi conversions and ban on cow Jagran Manch (SJM) were slaughter are among the key present along with represen- issues to be discussed during tatives of other affiliates like the three-day meet. Excise loss on gutkha may lead to more masala By Rajesh Ramachandran TIMES NEWS NETWORK Money matters New Delhi: The Comptrol- •SC classified gutkha ler and Auditor General’s as a tobacco product note on the finance min- in 2000 istry’s failure to tax gutkha •But the amended in his report on Central ex- tariff order was imple- cise could provide the CBI mented in 2001 with the proverbial miss- ing link in the Flex Indus- •The CAG has as- tries scandal. sessed the loss at Flex industries CMD Rs 85 crores Ashok Chaturvedi and chief excise commissioner gutkha till the SC on Janu- Someshwar Mishra were ary 25, 2000 ruled that it arrested by the CBI on No- was a tobacco product. The vember 7, 2001. Mishra SC said gutkha did not confessed to the CBI that come under the state sales he had picked up Jhark- tax since such items are to- hand governor Prabhat Kumar’s entertainment bacco products and duty is bills, when the latter had leviable by the Union gov- been cabinet secretary.Ku- ernment. mar was forced to resign Following this, various but Yashwant Sinha, who commissioners of Central was finance minister at excise issued show-cause the time, successfully notices to gutkha manu- fought off the opposition facturers. charge that he had acted But the finance ministry improperly. and the CBEC slept over As the controversy the issue for a full year, raged on, it was widely re- amending the tariff based ported that the CBI was in- on the Supreme Court or- vestigating Chaturvedi’s der only on February 28, alleged role as a conduit 2001 in the Budget. for pan masala manufac- Later, the CBEC issued turer. instructions on August 2, Now, the CAG has found 2001 that gutkha need not that there was ‘‘a loss of revenue due to inordinate be classified as tobacco till delay in amendment in tar- the 2001 Budget and this iff ’’ for gutkha by the fi- led to the dropping of 44 nance ministry, thus caus- earlier show- cause no- ing a loss of hundreds of tices, involving duties of crores to the exchequer. Rs 51.3 crore made for AED Tobacco attracts addi- during the period between tional excise duty (AED), the SC ruling and the 2001 but it was not applicable to Budget.
TOID20503/CR1/07/M/1TOID20503/CR1/07/C/1TOID20503/CR1/07/K/1TOID20503/CR1/07/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
8 Friday,May 2, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi
T
TRAVEL O George loyalists look for greener pastures By Anita Katyal away on an important visit. publicly criticising Nitish. will look for ‘‘avenues’’ out- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Even the two Samata Rising discontent Fernandes’ supporters side the Samata fold. MPs, Raghunath Jha and claim that though they have ‘‘The party will not New Delhi: There is grow- • With Fernandes back, Brahmanand Mandal, who been left out in the cold, the split...it will gradually disin- ing apprehension among the rival camps are B had shot off an angry letter defence minister has en- tegrate,’’ said a Fernandes supporters of defence min- getting restive 10 days ago calling for the sured his re-election from camp follower. ister George Fernandes in defence minister’s ouster • The coming days Nalanda by giving in to the O the Samata Party after Nitish’s supporters, how- from the Union cabinet, could witness another railway minister. ever, do not endorse talk of he capitulated to his have been lying low. protracted battle He cannot win from his Fernandes loyalists leaving political rival, railway min- Now that Fernandes is Kurmi-dominated con- • Fernandes supporters the party. O ister Nitish Kumar, and sus- back, the two rival camps stituency without the fear they will be isolated They point out that only pended three of his own are getting restive and the support of Kurmi leader supporters. coming days could well wit- Nitish. five or six MPs and legisla- K If his loyalists have not ness another protracted bat- headed by party MP Prab- They fear that in the com- tors are unhappy with the articulated their frustration tle in the faction-ridden hunath Singh. ing months, they will be in- party leadership. vociferously, it is only be- party. The committee is also creasingly isolated within Dismissing all talk of dif- cause Fernandes wrote to The diatribe against Fer- mandated to initiate action the party and could well be ferences between the two them from China urging nandes has not gone down against other Fernandes denied the ticket in the com- leaders, they claim that Ni- Y them not to rake up intra- well with the recently set-up loyalists in Bihar, who have ing general elections. tish and Fernandes have al- party battles while he is disciplinary committee, already been suspended for They are biding time and ways acted in tandem.
O AFP U ‘Why is there no R money for culture?’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK capital works for the depart- ment is also reflected in the New Delhi: The reduction in demands for grants of the ur- the plan outlay for culture ban development ministry. has come in for criticism C ‘‘The committee took serious from Parliament’s standing note of the reduction in the committee on department of amount at the stage of re- L tourism and culture. In its report to the Rajya vised estimates by the urban Sabha, the committee has development ministry with- A also expressed displeasure at out taking the department of the ‘‘lackadaisical approach’’ culture into confidence,’’ the Archaeological Survey of In- report says. S dia (ASI) in publishing its The committee has recom- pending excavation reports. mended that the amount for Stating that its share of 0.2 capital works should be allo- S per cent of the total plan out- cated in the demand for grants of the department of Software professionals perform a popular number at a show in Bangalore on Thursday. lay is ‘‘abysmally low’’, the Seven bands from top IT firms in the city shed their mundane code-writing jobs to belt out committee has recommend- culture and placed at its dis- I popular tunes to a 600-plus audience. ed that the department be al- posal to ensure better imple- located more funds so it can mentation and control. fulfil its targets. ‘‘The gov- While criticising the ASI F ernment should address the for the delay in publishing its financial requirements more reports, the committee also realistically and allocate the found that it has meagre re- I amounts more judiciously,’’ sources which makes it diffi- the report said. cult for it to protect and E The committee found that maintain all the 3,616 monu- the amount earmarked for ments/sites under its charge. D Maharashtra S cuts tax on live shows C TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: The Maharashtra government has decided to A cut entertainment tax on live shows by half. The tax in the state was among the highest L in the country. Speaking to mediapersons after a cabinet meeting on L Tuesday, chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the entertainment tax of 39 per cent plus 10 per cent sur- charge had now been re- duced to 25 per cent. 2 The decision was taken af- ter the government observed that a large number of or- 3 ganisers had shifted outside Mumbai, despite the city be- 3 ing dubbed the ‘‘entertain- ment capital’’ of the country, he said. 0 The government now hopes to mobilise Rs 3 crore annually, whereas the entire 2 collection last year was about Rs 1 crore. While such shows were not 3 taxed earlier,the government imposed a steep 50 per cent tax in 2000 under revenue 5 minister Ashok Chavan. In comparison, Karnataka charges 10 per cent enter- 1 tainment tax and Andhra Pradesh does not charge any- thing at all. 2 3 3 0 2 3 5 2
2 3 3 0 2 3 5 3
TOID20503/CR1/08/M/1TOID20503/CR1/08/C/1TOID20503/CR1/08/K/1TOID20503/CR1/08/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰‹ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰‹ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰‹ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰‹ C
The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Friday,May 2, 2003 9
INDIA DIGEST A winner among winners PTI ‘Chronic hunger not a priority for state Govts’ Sanjay Sekhri By Parul Chandra of November 28, 2001, asking states to TIMES NEWS NETWORK provide cooked mid-day meals in all pri- mary schools whether government-run New Delhi: ‘‘The elimination of chron- or government-assisted within the next ic hunger does not get anything like the six months. Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, priority it deserves in policy planning Uttar Pradesh and Haryana have not and Budget allocations. One symptom of implemented the order even about 1.5 Rajesh Khanna receives the Raj this is routine violation of the Supreme years after it was passed. Kapoor Award at the 40th Marathi Court’s orders by the respondent gov- The report says ‘‘there are many seri- Film Awards night from chief min- ernments.’’ ous concerns’’ regarding the targeted ister Sushil Kumar Shinde on the The third report of the commissioner public distribution system (TPDS). For eve of Maharashtra day in Mumbai appointed by the SC, N C Saxena, to one, the list of Below Poverty Line on Wednesday. monitor the implementation of several (BPL) families meant to benefit under schemes aimed at providing food securi- the TPDS is ‘‘highly unreliable’’ as the Lankan talks: Key figures in the ty to the poor, says this and much more. selection procedure was ‘‘defective and Lankan peace process will have Saxena was appointed commissioner often misused.’’ The result, says the re- talks with India’s top leadership in in the light of a writ petition filed by the port, is that many poor households don’t the next few days. While the Sri People’s Union for Civil Liberties Lankan Minister for Economic re- have BPL cards. forms Milinda Moragoda and (PUCL), Rajasthan, in April 2001 asking Curiously,even though foodgrains are Bernard Gunatilake, a senior official, that the huge foodstocks in the country provided at subsidised rates to BPL fam- both involved in the peace process, should be used to check hunger and ilies, the off-take by states remains low, were to arrive on Thursday night, the starvation. prompting Saxena to ask for ‘‘urgent in- Japanese special envoy and the While noting that the court’s inter- vestigation and action’’. norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister vention has resulted in states taking The report also takes note of the di- will follow.TNN measures to provide food to the poor, version of foodgrains meant for the PDS Drainage scam: One of the sen- ‘‘there has been virtually no response pointing out how ‘‘a substantial part of ior-most IAS officers in Punjab, Ra- from state governments’’ in states like the food listed from FCI godowns is ap- Actresses Urmila Matondkar, Sonali Bendre with former cricketer Sunil Gavaskar after they received the Maharashtra jesh Chhabra, who is principal sec- Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. propriated by vested interests and never Gaurav awards during Maharashtra Day celebrations in New Delhi on Thursday. retary, Medical Education and Re- As an example, take the court’s orders reaches the intended households’’. search, has been named as an ac- cused in the Rs 300-crore drainage scam even as the investigating po- lice team questioned another senior BPCL to go it alone IAS officer Bikramjit Singh in the case in Chandigarh on Tuesday. TNN Arguments still on over Andaman oil Indo-Bangla ties: India and on Bina refinery By Sanjay Dutta yard of its unified command at Singapore visited Port Blair as Bangladesh have agreed to revive TIMES NEWS NETWORK Point-counterpoint the joint boundary working groups Port Blair, which overlooks key part of Milan, an Indian Navy TIMES NEWS NETWORK with a 16.3 per cent internal east-west sea routes. exercise, in 1999. to work towards early resolution of New Delhi: The defence min- Defence ministry does not rate of return,’’ Naik said. • Defence analysts point to the New Delhi: Bharat Petrole- border demarcation. A decision on istry’s opposition to allowing want foreign vessels near its Again in 2000, warships from The completion of the re- possibility of leakage of data on um Corporation Ltd (BPCL), this was taken at the meeting of the firms from neighbouring coun- unified command at Port Malaysia, Thailand, France and finery had become a major the Andaman Sea’s peculiar lay- which is to be disinvested foreign secretaries in Dhaka on April tries to hunt for oil and gas in the Blair Japan visited several Indian debating point between the 29-30. TNN Andaman archipelago does not ers of salinity as a major con- ports, passing through the An- through public offering, will oil and disinvestment min- hold water as foreign naval ves- cern for the defence ministry. daman Sea. Indonesian naval complete the proposed refin- istries. The latter wanted the MEA on Afghanistan: The re- •But you don’t need ships ‘‘The Andaman Sea has more ery at Bina in Madhya placement of ISAF forces in sels have operated in the area as vessels also visited Port Blair in completion of the refinery to to spy on a country; there varied layers of salinity than Pradesh on its own at a cost Afghanistan with NATO forces has part of joint exercises with the 2001. be left to the new owners. But are other means like satel- other seas. At particular salinity of Rs 6,354 crore. evoked no comment from India. Indian Navy since 1999. lites Recently, during the Afghan the oil ministry wanted no Asked about the implications of this At an official-level meeting levels and depths, submarines operations, US Navy warships The Cabinet Committee on such leeway,saying the coun- can evade detection,’’ one ana- regularly passed the Malacca Economic Affairs (CCEA) on change, the external affairs with the petroleum ministry last Final decision in a few try needed the refinery in • lyst said. Strait under escort of the Indian Tuesday night cleared spokesperson said it was ‘‘too gen- week, the defence ministry days when oil minister Ram view of future demand eral’’ a question to answer. TNN The analysts said the presence Navy. BPCL’s proposal to raise its backed down on its long opposi- Naik meets defence minister growth. of foreign survey vessels would Both Naik and his officials re- equity in the six-million 11 dead in Rajouri mishap: At tion to allowing firms from Chi- George Fernandes BPCL will now raise its eq- not substantially increase the tonne per annum refinery least 11 persons were killed and 40 na, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pak- fused to comment on the issue. uity contribution in the re- istan and West Asia to operate in threat of electronic snooping. ‘‘Whatever decision we (with from from 26 per cent to 50 finery from Rs 549 crore to Rs injured, when a passenger bus fell blocks east of Port Blair in the 26 ‘‘The Chinese are already run- into a deep gorge in Rajouri district the area. But a final decision will George Fernandes) take, it will per cent. 1,271 crore, which is equal to blocks for which it will invite ning a naval base in Myanmar’s of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday. be taken in a few days when oil take care of the country’s securi- Oil minister Ram Naik 50 per cent of the revised eq- Coco Island off the Andaman Rescue operation had been minister Ram Naik discusses the bids from exploration firms in ty concerns. The country’s secu- said on Wednesday that the uity requirement for execut- coast. You don’t need ships to spy launched and the injured have been issue with defence minister the first week of next month. rity comes first and oil and gas move would not have an im- ing the project. Oman Oil hospitalised in Rajouri, sources said. George Fernandes. The defence ministry has al- on a country. There are other comes later,’’ Naik had said dur- pact on the disinvestment Company will hold about Five of the seriously injured were What is certain though is that ways been cagey about having means like satellites.’’ ing his visit last week to Port process. ‘‘With the uncertain- two per cent equity, while flown to Government Medical Col- the government will include two foreign survey ships with hi-tech Indeed, warships from Sri Blair to inaugurate IndianOil’s ity removed, the share value the rest is to be garnered Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia and lege Hospital in Jammu. PTI highly-prospective deepwater equipment sailing in the back- LPG bottling plant. will be pushed up in the long from financial institutions run as it is a paying refinery and the public.
AFP
Daily wage labourers Sitamma and her brother Laksh- manan leave a market in Bangalore on Thursday after failing to secure a job for the day. 11-yr-old brews liquor for a living
By Roli Srivastava be included as hazardous TIMES NEWS NETWORK under the Child Labour Prohibition and Regula- Mumbai: The job: Brew- tion Act (CLPRA-1986). ing hooch in a daru The girls had moving bhatthi, making five kg of tales to narrate. Maya papad everyday, rolling from Nagpur, for instance, agarbattis or carrying brews liquor all day three kg of bricks in the in a daru bhatthi. She is heat of a brick kiln. Work- barely 11. ing hours: Seven days a She carries huge drums, week, over 12 hours a day. brews liquor on a high The pay: Rs 5 to Rs 20 a day. flame and has to inhale the The worker: The girl child. smoke all day. ‘‘My eyes These pitiful tales of hurt,’’ she said, adding child labour — which that for brewing one drum could be the stories of she earns Rs 5. She brews around 40 million girl four a day. child workers in the coun- Not because she wants try — were shared by 30 to earn more, but because young girls (seven-to 14- the employer cuts her year-olds) on the occasion salary if she brews less. of Anti-Child Labour Day She is the only child who here on Wednesday. The works in the bhatthi.The meeting was organised by adults who do the same the Campaign Against work earn twice as much, Child Labour (CACL). she said. The girls also met the Amravati’s Suman Cha- chief minister to put forth van begins her day by car- their demands and discuss rying 10 bricks (almost 3 their problems with him. kg) on her head. A brick And, formal education was less on her head is reason on top of their agenda. enough for the kiln’s owner The CACL has demand- to hit her or threaten to fire ed that all forms of labour, her from the job. The Rs 20 especially girl child labour, she earns goes to her father.
TOID20503/CR1/09/M/1TOID20503/CR1/09/C/1TOID20503/CR1/09/K/1TOID20503/CR1/09/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
10 Friday,May 2, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi
AP Papaya and tulsi leaves will keep SARS away, says Jaya TIMES NEWS NETWORK will strengthen your immu- The committee will com- nity and keep SARS at bay.’’ prise representatives of the Chennai: Even as Tamil Commenting on the status Airport Authority of India, Nadu reported its first con- of the SARS-affected case, Port Trust, Indian Medical firmed case of SARS, the Jayalalithaa said a private Association, National Insti- state government sought to TV channel had quoted a tute of Epidemiology, Na- play down the threat. doctor as saying that all the tional Institute of Epidemi- Chief minister J Jay- 15 relatives of the patient, ology, National Institute of alalithaa, herself, has ad- Ezhumalai, were fine. Medical Research, the state vised that papaya and tulsi Earlier, state health min- health department and leaves keep SARS away. ister S Semmalai an- non-government organisa- When the issue came up nounced in the House that tions (NGOs). in the state assembly on all district hospitals had Two hospitals in Chen- Wednesday, Jayalalithaa been put on alert and a nai and another in Vellore said: ‘‘Take papaya and tul- high-level committee would will be equipped with spe- si leaves every day. This monitor the disease. cial SARS wards.
ZERO-CASE OF SARS: WHO representative to India Dr Salim J. Habayeb talks to mediapersons after a press briefing on SARS in New Delhi on Thursday. Habayeb said there are no SARS cases in India and there never were. A-I to hire 40 captains, first officers TIMES NEWS NETWORK union...While pilots are wel- be done through walk-in in- Flight fights come to rejoin duty, it is terviews, a first in the histo- New Delhi: The Air-India clarified that neither the ry of any airline. The air- management decided on •15 more IPG pilots report for duty government nor the A-I line also rewarded five pi- Thursday to recruit around management has any inten- lots who had resumed duty 40 captains and first officers •A-I said its schedules tion to revoke the derecog- by promoting them to the on a one-year renewable were coming back to nition of the IPG or the dis- executive cadre. contract even as 15 more normal ciplinary action, including A-I has also initiated the striking pilots broke away suspension, taken against process to recruit pilots laid A-I will recruit pilots from the Indian Pilots Guild • the agitating pilots,’’ he off by foreign airlines in an laid off by foreign airlines (IPG) and reported for duty. said. attempt to break the IPG ag- With this, 35 pilots have now An A-I official added that itation over SARS and get ignored the IPG directive gressing positively,civil avi- the airline’s flight schedules flight operations running and resumed duty. ation minister Syed Shah- were also cruising back to normally. Meanwhile, IPG officials nawaz Hussain reiterated normalcy as more and more The airline intends to re- pointed out that the guild that the airline manage- pilots were returning to cruit pilots of Indian origin has initiated talks with ment will not negotiate any work and were being ros- from Singapore Airlines, Union labour minister further with the IPG. tered for duty. Thai Airways, Cathay Pacif- Sahib Singh Verma to re- ‘‘Neither the civil avia- The fresh recruitments ic and Malaysian Airlines, solve the stand-off. Even as tion ministry, nor the A-I would replace the 47 sus- which have made pilots re- Verma stated that talks be- management proposes to pended pilots and help the dundant following the tween the government and have any talks with leaders airline operate normal serv- SARS outbreak in southeast the striking pilots were pro- of the derecognised ices. The recruitments will Asia. Student group left in the lurch by Kuwait Airways By K R Sreenivas find another airline. girls and an elderly lady fac- TIMES NEWS NETWORK The students had been ulty.‘‘Also, most of the group Bangalore: It was a night- booked on Kuwait Airways at members had reached the mare for a group of students a discounted fare of Rs 20,000 Mumbai airport and we had who had confirmed tickets to plus taxes of Rs 4,900, thanks a tough time communicating go from Bangalore to London to corporate booking. But the to them that they should re- via Mumbai by Kuwait Air- airline just dumped them de- turn to hotels or relatives un- ways. manding they pay Rs 26,000 til alternative arrangements The airline informed them plus the taxes, when they got were made,’’ Manish said. on April 30 that they cannot the A-I passengers. Finally,the students had to leave the country for their IBA CEO Manish Jain told shell out Rs 3,500 more per two-week internship pro- TNN: ‘‘The Bangalore office passenger to Royal Jordan gramme in the UK. The rea- of Kuwait Airways had also Airlines and the group left on son: They were getting pas- confirmed to my travel agent Thursday morning to Lon- sengers from Air-India at about the tickets. It all hap- don via Oman. ‘‘They had ap- higher fares. A-I had can- pened after getting the in- pointments at the Indian celled its flights due to the voice and the tickets. The High Commission in London strike by its pilots. group had already landed in and Mahendra British Tele- The 38 students and two Mumbai when we got the com, but they had to lose the faculty members from the message from the Kuwait appointment with the Indian School of Management of Airways telling us that we High Commission. Somehow, the Indian Business Acade- had to pay the higher fare Mahendra British Telecom my (IBA), Kanakpura Road, and all hell broke loose.’’ managed to give another ap- Bangalore, had to scurry to The students included 11 pointment,’’ Manish added.
TOID20503/CR1/10/M/1TOID20503/CR1/10/C/1TOID20503/CR1/10/K/1TOID20503/CR1/10/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰‹ K
The Times of India, New Delhi Friday,May 2, 2003 11
TOID20503/NR1/09/K/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K OID ‰ ‰ † OID ‰ ‰ † M OID ‰ ‰ † C
12 Friday,May 2, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi
Scientists map AROUND THE WORLD Anti-war Madonna a big hit genome of AP Los Angeles: Pop star boost this time out from the rialism and the superficial sive music at a chaotic time. Madonna’s new album, stir she created with the orig- trappings of stardom, which At its weakest she sounds anthrax germ American Life, opened at No. inal video accompanying the some observers noted as like a gal who’s grown con- New York: Scientists say 1 on this week’s US pop title track to American Life. ironic coming from the Mate- tent with hubby and kids and they’ve found potential new charts despite a critical de- The video, featuring im- rial Girl. the hard-earned privilege of targets for drugs and vac- bate about whether the Mate- ages of Madonna tossing a Her new album has drawn hiring the help to keep her- cines against the anthrax rial Girl’s latest effort lives hand grenade at a Bush look- decidedly mixed reviews, in- self at tip-top tautness,” the germ by deciphering and an- up to its hype. alike, was pulled shortly af- cluding some of the most magazine’s Ken Tucker alyzing the bacterium’s com- American Life sold 241,000 ter its release earlier this scathing of her career. One wrote. plete genetic makeup. its first week in stores, a re- month. The performer said particularly harsh notice Still, as the only new re- Studying the 5.2 million spectable debut by most stan- that scene and other war-re- called it the “most wretched- lease last week from a high- “letters” of the germ’s DNA dards but far below the lated imagery was being mis- ly empty thing she’s ever profile artist, American Life code, researchers identified 420,000 units tallied three interpreted by some as criti- done.” comfortably clinched the No. several genes that might play years ago by her last release, cal of the US and the Bush Entertainment Weekly, 1 spot in the album charts. key roles in anthrax infec- Music, according album sales administration while the na- however, thought much of Hard-core rapper 50 Cent tions. Such genes might tracker Nielsen SoundScan. tion was at war with Iraq. the music was, “refreshingly remained in the top rungs of prove to be good leads for de- Madonna, whose 20-year The song itself, like much —hell, shockingly — the charts with two releases, veloping new treatments. recording career has often of the album’s lyrical con- earnest.” rising three spots to No. 2 The effort is especially cru- thrived from controversy, no tent, is a critique of Ameri- “At its best,her new album with his debut album Get cial for anthrax, which can doubt gained a commercial ca’s consumer culture, mate- offers blunt, questing, deci- Rich or Die Tryin’. Reuters be lethal, as it is a potential weapon of future terrorism. Reuters The analysis is presented in Nature by scientists at the Institute for Genomic Re- Thai beauty pageant finalists Jarupat Boonprasert (left) and Kamonluk Chaichana- search in Rockville, Mary- jetjumnog at the 8th annual Jumbo Queen Contest in Nakhon Pathom on Thursday. Were Einstein, land. The institute deci- has nipped his older brother Prince William phered the genome of an iso- Dial 999 for dinner: An angry husband made an emergency call to police — because for the title of favourite young British royal late of the so-called “Ames” his wife refused to cook him his dinner. The among girls aged 10 to 14, according to a Newton autistic? strain of Bacillus anthracis. man dialled 999 in a fury, demanding help survey. The poll, carried out by Mizz Maga- Previous work had shown from officers because his wife was busy dec- zine, found that seven out of ten of its read- London: Albert Einstein “Newton seems a classic this isolate resembles the orating, Avon and Somerset police in western ers fancied Harry, 18, over William, 20, who and Isaac Newton were ge- case. He hardly spoke, was one used in the fatal attack in England said on Thursday. “My wife’s left me is second in line to the British throne after niuses but scientists be- so engrossed in his work Florida in 2001. with two salmon sandwiches which was left their father Prince Charles. “Our readers love lieve they may have suf- that he often forgot to eat, The research provides a over from last night, and I’m sat in the chair Harry’s fun, devilish ways and his wacky fered from Asperger syn- and was lukewarm or bad- “much expanded list of po- here and she’s out there decorating,” the man hairdo,” Mizz editor Sharon Christal said Wednesday. “At last: a student royal who drome —a form of autism. tempered with the few tential virulence genes,” said told the police operator. In another call, a doesn’t know what a hairbrush looks like and The condition is a disor- friends he had,” New Sci- Claire Fraser, president of woman phoned police to say she couldn’t find her glasses and needed them to cook doesn’t care.” AFP der that causes deficien- entist magazine said on the genomic institute and an her potatoes. Reuters cies in social and commu- Wednesday. author of the paper. The Kidman puts on disguise again: Nicole genes were identified be- nication skills and obses- Baron-Cohen said Ein- Brothel shares go up: Australian in- Kidman is at it again. Following in the foot- cause they resemble those sive interests. But it does stein was also a loner and vestors have plunged enthusiastically into the steps of her Oscar-win- whose functions are known not affect learning or intel- as a child he repeated sen- world’s oldest profession as a Melbourne ning performance in The in other bacteria. AP lect and many people with tences obsessively. Al- company became the globe’s first listed Hours, in which she wore a prosthetic nose AS have exceptional tal- though Einstein made brothel. Shares of the bordello enterprise, which hired Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss to to disguise her looks, the ents or skills. friends and spoke out on Fish, too, feel stunning Aussie actress Although it is impossi- political issues, Baron-Co- spice up its stock listing and touts itself as a recession-proof, five-star hotel, doubled on sports sun-bleached hair ble to make a definitive di- hen suspects he showed pain, says study their first day of trading on Thursday. About under a ragged scarf, agnosis in people who are signs of Asperger syn- London: Scientists say that 1.4 million shares of the company — called tired bags under sunken dead, Simon Baron-Cohen drome. eyes and second-hand after years of debate, they The Daily Planet — changed hands. “Obvi- of Cambridge University “Passion, falling in love clothes in her upcoming now have proof that fish feel ously the price is going to go up. It’s sex... and Ioan James of Oxford and standing up for justice film, Dogville. In this pain. The research found and everyone knows sex is a smart invest- University studied the per- are all perfectly compati- For the seventh time, Halle Berry is on People magazine’s an- 1930s period film, Kid- that fish have receptors in ment,” Fleiss told reporters just before the sonalities of Einstein and ble with Asperger syn- nual list of the ‘50 Most Beautiful People in the World’ — but shares started trading. Reuters man plays Grace, a woman who arrives in their heads and that subject- Newton to see if they had drome,” he told the weekly making it there repeatedly, she says, isn’t easy. Julia Roberts Dogville, an isolated American town in the ing them to noxious sub- Spoof on US invasion: As France won- Rocky Mountains, on the run from gangsters, symptoms of AS. science magazine. Reuters is on the list for a record eighth time. Also appearing this year is Grammy winner Norah Jones. stances causes “adverse be- ders how Washington might punish it for op- reports The Herald Sun. ANI havioural and physiological posing the war in Iraq, a spoof Paris newspa- changes.” per has let its imagination run wild and re- Ivory donates personal papers: Film- DUBYAMAIL “This fulfils the criteria for ported a US-led invasion to topple President maker James Ivory, known for his lavish peri- od dramas and longtime cooperation with Great work, fellas. Dubya and Atal look animal pain,” said Dr Lynne Jacques Chirac. The Monde, a satirical take- off on the daily Le Monde and a French-bash- producer Ismail Merchant, donated his per- real cool. Work on the content a bit to Sneddon who headed the re- sonal papers to the University of Oregon on give it a comical, hilarious finish. search, published by the Roy- er’s fantasy come true, hit newsstands around France with wacky tales of chaos Wednesday. The 26 boxes of papers include — Akshay Kumar Raja al Society,the national acade- production files, screenplays, photographs, my of science. amid a fictitious invasion that echoes the real Bravo, it’s really a bold strip to make war just waged in Iraq. “American, British and correspondence with actors and actresses, fun of the news makers. Great job The team from the Roslin Monaco forces land in France,” the front- notebooks, press kits, movie reviews and done! Keep on continuing the good Institute and the University work for people like me who read the page headline screams. “Chirac calls for re- costume designs spanning 53 years and newspaper for this strip only. of Edinburgh found the fish sistance and disappears ... Pro-American up- nearly 40 films. The documents include some had polymodal nociceptors, of Ivory’s University of Oregon class papers, rising on Left Bank in Paris.”Reuters — Jitu receptors that respond to tis- where he studied architecture hoping to be- come a movie set designer. AP e-mail: [email protected] sue-damaging stimuli, on Harry’s hairdo wins hearts: Prince Harry their heads. Reuters
TOID20503/CR1/12/M/1TOID20503/CR1/12/C/1TOID20503/CR1/12/K/1TOID20503/CR1/12/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K OID ‰ ‰ † OID ‰ ‰ † M OID ‰ ‰ † C
The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Friday,May 2, 2003 13 Riots in Berlin, SARS tightens grip Israeli troops London tense China: 11 more in Gaza kill 6 150 killed in Turkey quake deaths reported AP on May Day 11,000: People Bingol, Turkey: A power- Palestinians ful earthquake killed up to London/ Berlin: German quarantined in Beijing 150 people in a mountainous riot police clashed with rock- Jerusalem: Israeli and Beijing Zoo: Animals Palestinian leaders are al- region of southeastern throwing demonstrators in given vitamins and Turkey early on Thursday, Berlin and violence was ex- ready voicing conflicting in- demolishing a boarding pected in other European Chinese medicine terpretations of the long- school and trapping 150 capitals at rallies marking awaited roadmap peace plan, small children under the the Labour Day holiday on Beijing builds 1,000-bed the latest attempt by interna- rubble. Thursday. SARS hospital in 8 days tional mediators to end more Transport minister Ali In London, radical anti- than 31 months of violence. Coskun said 84 people were capitalist activists had a hit- May Day: Passes Just hours after the unveil- confirmed dead and 390 in- list of more than 50 ‘‘compa- with a whimper in ing of the plan, more vio- jured in the quake that nies of mass destruction’’ in China as people took lence broke out. Israeli rocked the region at 3:27 am their sights in protests that troops killed six Palestini- local time and flattened police feared could turn vio- heed of government ans, one of them a young more than a dozen build- lent. Authorities in London, advice to stay indoors child, during a raid Thurs- ings in Bingol city. Berlin and some other capi- day on an eastern suburb of Housing Minister Zeki tals were ready for distur- People’s Gaza City, doctors said. The Ergezen said unconfirmed bances after past protests Bank of Israeli military said troops reports put the estimated turned violent. Berlin police China: came under heavy fire and death toll as high as 150. were out in force, with some Quarantine six soldiers were wounded. Rescuers clambering over 7,500 on city streets braced for used The roadmap peace plan is the demolished primary for battles with anarchists af- Villages around Beijing supported by a rare global banknotes school dormitory building, ter 27 police officers and an put up barricades to block consensus that neither of the where many children slept unknown number of as- for 24 hrs warring sides wants to re- as the quake struck, said More than 100 children were trapped when their school dormitory collapsed due to the sailants and bystanders were traffic from the capital buff. ‘‘For the first time in a earthquake in Bingol, Turkey on Thursday. before they could hear cries from injured in three hours of putting them very long time, Israel and the him to a nearby ambulance. of the school. Prime Minis- A reporter on the scene below the masonry. clashes overnight. Singapore: back into international community Bystanders cheered as ‘‘Who knocked the build- ter Tayyip Erdogan: ‘‘There said many buildings in the In London, anarchist have a partner to go back to Research firm is 3-4 circulation rescue workers pulled one ing down?’’ Veysel Dagde- are around 150 of our little centre of town were com- groups published the names weeks away from the table with,’’ UN envoy dazed boy from the col- len, aged 12, asked after be- ones there... May God pre- pletely destroyed by the and addresses of the firms on Terje Roed-Larsen said after lapsed building and carried ing rescued from the ruins serve us from the worst.’’ force of the tremor. Reuters their hit-list — oil compa- developing a test kit Hong Kong: meeting the new Palestinian nies, arms manufacturers, that can detect SARS 12 patients who PM Abbas. ‘‘We have, hope- banks and multinationals — recovered suffered fully,a peace process going.” 7 US soldiers hurt SARS Masks: Palestinian foreign minis- on various Internet sites. relapses. 5 more dead Pak assumes UNSC presidency Police mobilised 4,000 offi- Surgical-quality face ter Nabil Shaath called for in grenade attack cers in the British capital to masks offer the best Doctors detect damage ‘‘implementing the roadmap Islamabad: Pakistan on Pakistan’s permanent rep- the impact of incursions by Fallujah: Attackers lobbed guard against violence. Or- protection, according in the lungs of immediately’’. Eight Pales- Thursday assumed the Presi- resentative in UN, Munir Islamic militants into Indian- ganisers hoped mass anti- tinians were killed in Gaza two grenades over a wall and dency of the UN Security Akram, said that his ruled Kashmir. to the British medical some recovered into a compound of US war rallies earlier this year City during a heavy Israeli Council for May. country wants to convene a US deputy secretary of would give impetus to the weekly, The Lancet SARS patients military raid into an eastern troops early Thursday in the In another development, special meeting of the Secu- state Richard Armitage will May Day events. Reuters district. Agencies tense city of Fallujah, US President George W.Bush rity Council on May 13 to dis- have the infiltrations issue at wounding seven soldiers. praised Pakistan on Wednes- cuss UN’s role in pending dis- the top of his agenda when The attack came a half-day day over its arrest of six al- putes like Palestine and he makes a visit to South after US troops opened fire Qaida suspects, but the state Kashmir. Asia between May 5 and 11. on anti-American demon- department raised concerns The US state department On Thursday, Armitage strators, killing two and about a ‘‘terrorist threat’’ praised Pakistan as a vital said that the Indo-Pak situa- wounding 18, according to posed to India by Pakistan- ally in the campaign against tion is ‘‘truly frightening’’. hospital officials. AP based Islamic militants. global terrorism but noted Agencies
TOID20503/LR1/13/M/1TOID20503/LR1/13/C/1TOID20503/LR1/13/K/1TOID20503/LR1/13/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K OID ‰ ‰ † OID ‰ ‰ † M OID ‰ ‰ † C
14 Friday,May 2, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Science & Speculation Trishul Tangle A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Jaipur: Low-profile and soft-spoken, was increasingly threatened by the pheno- Behind the Veil of Cosmology Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot menal rise in the number of trishul Like the United States, India faces took everyone by surprise earlier this distribution programmes in the wake of By Jayant Narlikar a significant terrorist threat. the universe was, say 100,000 years old, it was month when he decided to clamp down Gujarat, we had no option but to act, what so densely packed with scatterers of light — US state department on Pravin Togadia of the VHP.The with the VHP talking of turning Rajasthan Greek myths talk about the sculptor that no coherent image can be seen of Pygmalion who crafted the statue of a firebrand Hindutva leader was arrested into another Gujarat. We just couldn’t anything prior to that epoch. Imagine that for distributing trishuls and making let that happen. beautiful woman as none of the women you are in a theatre trying to guess what lies around him seemed attractive. He fell in inflammatory speeches. In a conversation Mr Advani has been quoted in the press Audit of Terror on the stage behind a thick screen, when with Neelabh Mishra, the chief minister as having told you at the chief ministers’ love with his creation. The modern Big Bang someone comes and tells you authoritatively India is the world’s worst victim of terror. And that’s cosmologist is the present-day counterpart defends his government’s action: conference that while the VHP’s trishul drive official. Not according to New Delhi, but Washington. The what exists there. You are entitled to ask on was ‘thoughtless’, any action against it would of Pygmalion, preferring his creation, the what authority does he say what is going on US state department’s latest report “Patterns of Global Big Bang model to the real universe. Though many civil society groups and be ‘foolish’. He also said that you were being Terrorism” recognises that India continues to be the worst behind the screen, since like you he too individuals have welcomed your action selective with facts when you claimed that According to the Big Bang model, the cannot see beyond it. hit by terrorism. India was subjected to 67 terrorist attacks universe began in a gigantic explosion against the trishul distribution ceremonies, he’d concurred with you on the design of in 2002, compared with nine in Israel, eight in Pakistan with matter and radiation created out of Big Bang cosmologists are trying to guess the RSS-VHP-BJP combine has criticised it the VHP trishul? and seven on the West Bank. The report also notes that nothingness. In the early stages, the universe what lay behind the thick screen of radiation as a ban on religious activity and as an If I was selective with facts, why didn’t “extremist violence in Kashmir fuelled by infiltration from was extremely hot, dominated by radiation. from the wrinkles spotted on the screen by attempt to divert attention from your non- Mr Advani contradict me when I made the Pakistan across the Line of Control threatened to become Since then it has been expanding and WMAP. Do they have a cast iron theory that performance in an election year. What do statement two months ago? As for his advice a flashpoint for a wider India-Pakistan conflict during because of that it cooled down. Theorists allows them to interpret so confidently what you have to say on this? that a ban on VHP’s trishul drive would be most of the year”. However,having recorded these facts, the expected some relic radiation of that hot lay behind the screen from its wrinkles? Let me first make it clear that the foolish — if he has been quoted correctly on report glosses over Pakistan’s role by referring to it as period to have survived today. With the Have physicists verified that strange matter Rajasthan government has not banned any this — I want to go on record that he gave me a “key ally” in Washington’s anti-terrorism campaign. discovery in 1965 of smoothly distributed all and dark energy exist? Alas, No! religious symbol — much less Lord Shiva’s no such advice. In fact, I never sought Pakistan has been ranked third — after the US and pervasive microwave radiation, the Big Bang Particle physicists who are concerned trishul. Indeed, we’ve banned nothing. We his advice on any action the Rajasthan Switzerland — in its efforts to seize terrorist assets; it has idea received a boost. with the pristine structure of matter are have merely regulated, under the Arms government intended to take. At the confer- also been lauded for handing over 500 suspected Al-Qaida This made the cosmologists more still groping in the dark to figure out these Act, the distribution and carrying of sharp ence, I had merely requested action from and Taliban terrorists to the US. In order to maintain its ambitious in their efforts to know what the fundamental issues, and till these are well weapons with more than one blade. In the Centre. As for my informal conversation military and intelligence bases in Pakistan, Washington universe was like close to those traumatic sorted out, claims of having found what the the name of distributing trishuls, the with Mr Advani, I don’t think it would be has to be soft on that country’s leadership. However, moments of creation. After three decades of universe was like so early after its creation VHP was arming its cadres in thousands proper for me to divulge it unless the this line does not fit in with the statement made by US concerted effort by the leading theoreticians must be treated with considerable caution. with triple-blade sharp daggers that other side forces my hand. ambassador to Pakistan Nancy Powell, warning Islamabad in the field backed by several spectacular In my childhood Hindi storybook I read could kill or cause grave injury. With this Was the arrest of Mr Togadia absolutely against turning into a platform for terrorism, a view observations, today’s Big the episode of a motorcyclist regulation in place necessary? upheld by the US state department. Bang cosmologists are confi- going through a village in now, anyone procur- Yes, he broke the The Pakistani media has made no secret of the fact dent that they know precisely remote area at night. No ing, carrying, dis- law of the land, in- that banned terrorist outfits are functioning openly after what the universe is made of one saw the rider, but his playing or distribut- Q&A flamed communal changing their names. The leaders and most of the cadres and precisely how it has wheel-marks on the dusty ing such weapons If I was selective with passions and threat- earlier arrested have been released, and several have even evolved to that state. track were visible. What did would have to obtain facts, why didn’t ened the peace. Ever been elected to the national assembly. The Pakistani Scientific traditions imply those marks represent? The a licence from the Mr Advani contradict since the NDA gov- supreme court has held that Al-Qaida is not a terrorist that a model so confidently villagers had never seen a appropriate authori- me when I made the ernment assumed organisation, since it has not committed any terrorist claimed to be precise is based motorcycle before and so ty.Lord Shiva’s icon- statement? As for his office, such people act in Pakistan violating Pakistani laws. After much on well-founded physical were completely foxed by ic trishuls, which advice that a ban on have behaved as prevarication, General Musharraf finally conceded that theory with uniquely sup- the marks. are traditionally VHP’s trishul drive though they are Osama bin Laden might have found a safe haven portive evidence. Here is They approached the only blunt in design, are would be foolish, he above the law. But within Pakistan. To clear up such glaring contradictions, what a cosmologist will tell wise man in the village who not covered by our gave me no such advice. no one is above the US report should be enlarged to become an inter- you if you ask him how the had answers to all questions. notification. They Udayshankar the law. national audit of terrorist activity. This would give the US universe started. Its early history up to the Having pondered over the query and would, as before, But was it correct to state department an unvarnished account of terrorist epoch when it was 10 million billion billion inspected the marks that worthy replied: continue to adorn temples, shrines and charge him under Section 121(A) — conspi- organisations, how they continue to function by changing billion billionth part of a second old, was “These are the marks left by a rolling religious ceremonies. racy to overawe the state with a show of force? their names, and how many of the cadres of banned determined by an as yet unknown law of millstone pulled by a cat”. Cosmologists Let me also clarify that there is no restric- I can’t comment on that because it’s the organisations are still in custody and how many have been gravitation that is supposed to describe have learnt the art of confident assertion tion in the state against any religious job of the local police to define a crime that is released. Such a balance sheet would be more effective in spaces of extremely small size. and have improved on the village pundit. meeting or dharma sabha. Action will only committed and book it under the appropriate generating pressure on the Pakistani leadership to clean After the explosion, the universe grew in Is all astronomy so speculative? Just be taken in the case of public functions or legal provisions. It’s the job of the judiciary up its act. If Washington is truly serious about rooting out age and size, and new basic laws came to because the astronomer theorises about meetings where weapons covered by the to pass a judgment on this. the menace, in its own interests, it should initiate a determine its behaviour. For example, at distant stars and galaxies does not mean that Arms Act are distributed or inflammatory Senior VHP leaders have said that regularly updated audit of terrorism. the age of around a billion billion billion he is expecting to get away with theories that communal speeches made. As far as elections Mr Togadia was arrested at the behest of billionth part of a second, the universe no one can check. The study of interiors are concerned, we would fight them on the Sonia Gandhi. underwent a very rapid phase of expansion, of stars like the Sun, has been based on basis of our performance. She came to know about it through the VIEW that lasted till the age of the universe well-tested physics, has clear predictions But why did your action against trishul press as did everybody else outside the increased hundredfold. This fleeting stage, that have been observationally confirmed. distribution come so late in the day and appropriate circles in the state government. called inflation, is believed to have Other examples where observations directly so suddenly? Does your action signal a sort of policy for Laloo & Maya have profoundly influenced the properties of the check theories include studies of inter- It was not sudden. I had been, since other Congress state governments as well? universe as seen today. The seeds of all stellar dust, structures of radio sources, October 2001, regularly writing to the Other state governments should decide on the galaxies and clusters of galaxies seen morphology of galaxies etc. prime minister and the home minister the basis of the law and order situation on Conned the Public today were sown at this early epoch. The essential feature of a scientific about this. Since the VHP was carrying the ground in their respective states. f rallies could substitute for reality, then dema- On the basis of the recent findings of experiment is that it is repeatable. If you out its trishul programme all over the Are you fearful of a backlash? Igogues will rule forever. Or such at least is the the satellite WMAP sent out by NASA the can explain the brightness of the Sun in country, I considered it a national problem By not responding to the VHP-BJP fervent hope of Hindi heartland’s two great political cosmologists confidently assert that the terms of its mass, so must your formula and wanted the Central government to bandh call or the latter’s attempts to icons of the last decade: Laloo Prasad Yadav and universe is 13.7 billion years old, that it has apply to several other stars with different intervene. I also raised the matter at a incite communal violence in the wake of Mayawati; the first a self-styled messiah of the poor, 23 per cent strange kind of dark matter as masses to see if it checks out. meeting of the National Integration Council Mr Togadia’s arrest, the people of Rajasthan the second a real-life “Dalit ki beti”. Both Laloo and opposed to four per cent of ordinary matter The situation in cosmology is different. last year, and with Union home minister have shown that they don’t, by and large, Mayawati are, in their own charming ways, text-book that we are familiar with, that the bulk of There is but one universe. It is not a L K Advani at the chief ministers’ approve of the politics of violence and demagogues. They love the sound of their own its contents are in the form of (as yet repeatable experiment. So extra caution conference earlier this year. Since no communal hatred. Even Vasundhara Raje voice, believe that they are bigger than the cause they unknown) dark energy. is required in making claims about its action from the Centre was forthcoming Scindia’s parivartan yatra is not getting represent, have a deep but barely disguised contempt The Big Bang theory tells us that before physical properties. and the law and order situation in Rajasthan much response in the state. for those they claim to lead, and, finally, are blessed with ambitions that are limitless in scope but purely personal in nature. For all these reasons and more, they have little patience for things like governance. Parents as Teachers Instead, they come into their own at spectacular The Minesweeper public spectacles — from Mayawati’s dhikkar and By Saroj Kulshreshtha pardafaash rallies in Lucknow to Laloo’s lathi some power that propels sinister. Time is running And Facilitators me on. Click, click, click, out and after a quick cross- maharaila in Patna on Wednesday — where they It drives me crazy yet the Guru Arjan Dev Jayanti usually followed by an ago- ing of fingers I make my By Swami Tejomayananda can whip up mass frenzy and soak up the awe and eternal optimist in me I am at peace... adulation of their gullible followers. nised Oh! Smiley rounds choice. Smiley’s Law has goes on, hoping and play- up his lips in joyous floored me yet again. It Parenting is difficult, espe- your image. When you look The Guru has brought Laloo was once quoted as saying that he didn’t ing. This game is all googly cially when dealing with at it objectively, you will me peace. believe in development. Not surprising that in the anticipation each time I has, however,done wonders and has no fine points. children in their teens. discover that what bothers I am free from dozen or so years that he has presided over the destiny make a move. The silly to my patience. Welcome to the nasty world Teenagers can be resistant you more is your image. pain and sin. of Bihar, the state hasn’t seen any. No one knows for icon goes by the name of The reason for my conti- of the Minesweeper. I and rebellious. The more Every jeeva belongs to Daily I repeat the sure about Behenji’s views on development. But if her Smiley but those who nued dalliance with this personally call it the you want to teach or advise God. Parents only supply the Name of God. actions are anything to go by,it’s not about roti, kapda know him will vouch for wretch is that I find it mindblaster. the fact that soon he turns terribly humiliating to be them, the more they revolt. material of the physical body All my ills have and makaan but about extravagant parks and gardens The dilemma is: Should we for the jeeva to live in. They A reasonably sensible to Wily and then plain beaten by a mere computer. disappeared. And I’ve and the occasional birthday bash, where she can mock let them do what they want do not give birth to the jeeva. person, one would think, Mr Scrooge. He is my Also, one day I hope to come gained salvation. her own by wearing huge diamonds and cut a birthday to do or force them to do Parents must play the role would keep off dangerous enemy No. 1 with whom I out tops in three consecu- God’s greatness cake the size of a small paddy field. Middle-class what we want them to do? of an instrument. Swami things like mines. What am engaged in a losing tive games. Once I score a is unfathomable. liberals, stricken with guilt, call this a great act of These questions cannot be Chinmayananda used to say then made me a devoted battle of wits. hat-trick I will be able to It is in God’s company vicarious or symbolic empowerment for the assem- answered in a general or that the parent’s role is slave of this wasteful This single-minded pur- quit as a winner. that one finds bled multitude. In reality, it’s nothing more than a sweeping manner. Every like that of a farmer or a pastime? I thought that all suit has not improved my Having achieved a mini- deliverance. huge but perverse ego trip which buys into rather than individual is unique and no gardener. We do not create computer games must be memory as each time the mum time of 21 seconds ✥ challenges the same dominant symbolic order that principle or set of rules the seed or the soil. The totally based on logic and mined areas are different. for the game for beginners O Godmen! Know this they otherwise claim to be fighting. Besides, liberation can be effective all the time. potential power is already in would be good exercise It is not even logical. The I had moved on to the for certain in your mind: is in the ultimate analysis not just about symbols but A man with six children said the seed. The role of a farmer for the mind. slot you click on hoping intermediate level. I have The True One solves also substance. On any “objective” assessment of their that before marriage he or a gardener is to prepare I have been proved wrong to derive maximum help been able to complete all your problems, rule, it’s difficult to see how Laloo and Mayawati have had six theories of raising the soil, sow the seeds at the but the game has kept me usually turns out to be a the frame full of 40 mines He defeats all your benefited anyone other than themselves and their near children. Then he married right time and supply the hooked? Truly,it is akin to a mine. At times there is just only twice. So frustrated sworn enemies. and dear ones. True, the poor need their circuses. But and had six children. Now required amount of water, soldier’s dangerous forays one mine left and two did I get that I have gone He saves the honour of just occasionally,they need some bread as well. he has no theories. shade, and sunlight — in on the mine-laden battle- squares. The two slots back to the easier game to When faced with a prob- short, provide a conducive His devotees. field. I am possessed by seem equally innocent or improve my play. Kings and king’s kings COUNTERVIEW lem — whether with refer- environment for the seed ence to parenting or any to grow. are all under His sway. CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS other issue — we must re- If parents are cautious He drinks the great member to keep cool. There from the very beginning, drink of nectar. They’re Role Models is no use becom- children will not Remembering His Name Wannabe Babus Political Triangle ing over-anxious be rebellious. If I became fearless. In the company of Professionals craving for a job in the One hopes that the ongoing talks between or stressed. First, we want them to For the Have-nots Godmen I gave away administrative services is a colonial legacy Maoist rebels and the Nepalese government we need to calm imbibe the right everything else. o Laloo Yadav’s legion of detractors, his lathi that we have been unable to outgrow even will help restore peace in the Himalayan down and app- values, then we I fell at the feet of rally must have come as a godsend. What better after more than 50 years of independence. kingdom. Political parties have cornered roach the issue in too have to follow T the Omniscient. opportunity to show up the man as the nation’s top It is naive to assume that people want to themselves into an overtly aggressive stand a relaxed manner. the same rules. Says Nanak, His protec- clown? What better occasion to accuse him of blowing join the ranks of the bureaucracy to serve regarding the solution to the current stand- We must know Sometimes par- tion alone I have sought. up the taxpayer’s hard-earned money? Indeed, what society.There might be some who do, but off. Having gone to war on a platform of that the situation ents ask me, ✥ better way to prove that he has done nothing for the their presence is microscopic. No doubt constitutional change, the Maoists now seek we are facing is THE “Swamiji, when poor and the downtrodden except hold rallies in their doctors and engineers too have a right to peace with a compromise on an interim not unique. For should we start On merit I have no name? A few months ago, the same ire was directed at alter their career prospects, but then they government with their participation. example, when a SPEAKING teaching our chil- chance of salvation, Mayawati, when she, aglitter with diamonds and should do so at their own expense. There exists a triangular political conflict doctor sees a pa- TREE dren values and I commit faults sapphires, cut a huge birthday cake. Writers of popu- If those quitting the National Defence in Nepal between the Maoists, the king and tient with a spe- culture? “I tell every moment. lar columns wrote anguished commentaries on the Academy midway are asked to return the political parties. This combination has cific ailment, he does not them, “Before the child is You are the forgiver; do obscenity of it all. Mayawati was accused of using her the amount spent on them by the govern- made Nepal politics rather tumultuous get unduly excited — he born.” Because, only if you forgive me. And cruise underprivileged background as a justification for ment, why shouldn’t the same rule and inimical to democracy.That the restora- deals with patients every- have these values in you, you Nanak across the ocean. squandering public funds. Make no mistake. What apply to other professional courses as tion of the democratic process is prime day. But for the patient, can help your child imbibe I am an ungrateful offended sensibilities here was not that a chief minis- well? At least this will prevent the ‘best priority for the king holds true. But for this his condition is unique. He them. The process of learn- sinner, ter had flaunted her wealth, but that Mayawati had brains-cum-wannabe babus’ from wasting he must disentangle himself from the web therefore expects immediate ing begins when the child A stranger with done so. Honestly,is this the only time we have seen a four precious years and blocking seats of contradictory political demands. attention. is in the mother’s womb. little understanding. woman holding high office wear diamonds in public? for those who are genuinely interested in — Chiranjib Haldar,Kolkata Whenever you feel that What is required is not He who has given me Have we never had Maharajas-turned-MPs host osten- the profession. your children are mis- a magical solution but a life and comfort, tatious public ceremonies? Yet, when the latter hap- — Asit M Kaushik, Meerut Wrongly Quoted behaving or going out of right way of looking at I don’t seem to pens, the elite classes almost never protest. Instead, know Him. ‘A Thought for Today’ (Apr 19) attributes the control, it would be helpful to things. In Sanskrit there is a the celebration becomes a social occasion, a page-3 do. remember your own teenage small verse that deals with In order to gain Just why is it expected of the Laloos and Mayawatis quote — ‘‘There’s little likelihood of a riches and profit From timesofindia.com spread... every precaution is being taken’’ — years. While parenting we parenting. It says, “Fondle that they should always wallow in the misery of their generally forget what we did your children up to the age of I look around own wretched backgrounds? And yet, consider the to me. I wish to make clear that neither did everywhere. I say this, nor have I given any interview or as children. Not too many five. The next ten years be impact Laloo and Mayawati make on their respective Rally Season people can claim not to strict with them, discipline Not for a moment do I communities each time they make a symbolic written to any representative of TOI. remember the bountiful First Mayawati’s ‘pardafaash rally’, My designation has also been wrongly have been rebellious while and educate them and when assertion of their political power. Politics is as much growing up. Some people they are 16 years old, treat God... Drunkards, about rhetoric and symbols as it is about governance. then Mulayam’s ‘cycle rally’ and now mentioned — I am not the director of the thieves, and those who Laloo’s ‘lathi maharaila’. These show National Institute of Communicable may have rebelled only at them like your friends.” When Mayawati wears diamonds, that touches a the mental level but some Once they have been given talk ill of others, deep chord in her community which sees it as an act of where India as a nation stands in the Diseases (NICD). I live in their company. 21st century.What use are these lavish — Dr S K Satpathy, Addl Director (PH) & form of resistance must the right vision and values, defiance, as sweet revenge for years of subjugation. have manifested at one they will follow them to a If you please, you may The gesture is also a signal that if she can make it big, rallies except for boosting the egos of HOD (Epid), NICD, Delhi forgive the false along their organisers? They are a sheer time or another. large extent. Finally, pray so can her community. For all his alleged sins, it is a Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page to the Lord to help your with the truthful. near social revolution that Laloo has achieved in waste of time, money and energy.Every Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New On reflection, you will find Says Nanak, if God political leader claims to be patriotic Delhi-110002. email:[email protected] that your worries are not child make up his mind and blighted Bihar. There is another irony here. Today, to inspire him. If you pray so desires there is virtually no political opposition barring Laloo and nationalistic. It is time our leaders No. 104 Vol. 54. Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via because children in general Rs.3, Indore and via 50 paise. National edition: No aircharge.Price in Nepal: NEP Rs 5, except and remain calm, things will Even stones may sail and Mayawati. If the former has emerged as the understand the true meaning of these Sunday: NEP Rs 7. RNI No. 508/57 MADE IN NEW DELHI REGD. NO. DL-25002/92. Published for are misbehaving. You are the proprietors, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd., by Balraj Arora at Times House, 7, Bahadur Shah change — for the good. across the ocean. terms instead of reducing them to Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110 002 and printed by him at 13, Site IV Industrial Area,Sahibabad (UP), worried because your chil- only political leader with the courage to challenge MNS Printers Pvt. Ltd., Industrial Area, Phase II, Panchkula, Haryana - 134109 and Vasundhara Guru Arjan Dev meaningless slogans. Printers Ltd., Tiwari Ganj, Faizabad Road, Chinhat, Lucknow. Regd. Office: Dr Dadabhai Naoroji dren are misbehaving. Also, (The writer is head, Chin- the BJP, the latter is doing all she can to undermine Road, Mumbai - 400 001. Editor (Delhi Market): Bachi Karkaria-responsible for selection of news Tanveer Alam, via e-mail under PRB Act. Executive Editor: Shekhar Bhatia. © All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or the action of your child has maya Mission worldwide) the party while being in alliance with it. in part without written permission of the publisher is prohibited. Postal Registration No.: TN/Chief PMG/399/2002 a direct impact on you and http://spirituality.indiatimes.com
TOID20503/LR1/14/M/1TOID20503/LR1/14/C/1TOID20503/LR1/14/K/1TOID20503/LR1/14/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K OID ‰ ‰ † OID ‰ ‰ † M OID ‰ ‰ † C
The Times of India, New Delhi, Friday,May 2, 2003
A business call SARS no fear Making a move Australian financial services Malaysia’s AirAsia will not Sony’s new 5-mega pixel group AMP’s chief executive pull back its expansion plans digital camera DSC-V1 has Andrew Mohl said the firm is due to the SARS outbreak. 5.3 million pixels CCD and splitting its London-based The deadly disease is unlike- costs $833. Moody’s may cut operations and writing down its ly to hamper revenue or credit rating of Sony as it is not likely value by $1.6 billion business growth, it said to make a swift return to strong profit
WLL cheaper, TECHNOLOGY US-64 soars as trading gains pace TRACKER By Vinu Lal US-64 units reported average Gathering steam per cent while a profile gov- deals reported on the ex- but still not TIMES NEWS NETWORK trading volumes of 60 lakh ernment security is current- changes. ‘‘Banks are offload- IBM chairman and 90 lakh units on the BSE ly trading at 5.60 per cent. ing US-64 units because they Mumbai: As corporates •Widespread optimism and NSE, respectively. over premium Trading in the US64- have to adjust the tax-free start booking profits on their On June 1, all US-64 counter touched a record status of these bonds against a common US-64 investments, trading unitholders who have not re- •Brokers are taking up high on April 9 amid vol- their cost of borrowings,’’ a to visit India in the US-64 counter is gath- deemed their units will be is- huge positions umes of 4.9 crore units. The broker said. ne more high-profile CEO’s name ering volumes. The unit sued 5-year tax-free, tradable price has been hovering in There are also a lot of in- price touched a record high •In April, US-64 was 2nd will soon be added to Bangalore’s bonds guaranteed by the gov- the Rs 10.20-10.40 range. In vestors who have sold their visitor’ book. Samuel J. man’s mobile of Rs 10.40 on the Bombay ernment of India. A UTI largest in trade volumes fact, during the past month, units at a premium rather O Palmisano, chairman & CEO of world’s Stock Exchange on Wednes- spokesperson, commenting US-64 recorded the second than opting for the tax-free largest computing company IBM Corpo- day. Market sources said be issued bonds in lieu of the By Sanjay Anand on the renewed interest in largest trading volumes after bonds. Brokers who are ac- ration with revenues of $81 billion, will traders are buying heavily units. Brokers said the mar- TIMES NEWS NETWORK US-64 units, said all Satyam Computer Services. cumulating these units are be flying into Bangalore on May 5 on a into these units due to wide- unitholders holding the se- ket expects these bonds to Brokers who are taking up betting on substantial capi- two-day visit. This will mark the first- New Delhi: Despite a hike in WLL-M (mobile spread optimism that the US- curity in demat form are en- start trading at about Rs 104, huge positions in the US-64 tal gains by selling them to ever visit by an IBM chairman to India. wireless in local loop) call charges, the service 64 bonds will start trading at titled to trade. UTI has said as against their face value of counter said public sector provident funds and individ- During his two-day stay here, the 51- may still be a wee bit cheaper to use for local a substantial premium. that all beneficial owners of Rs 100. This will work out to banks have been active sell- ual clients at a later date, year-old Palmisano is expected to visit — and, in certain cases, STD — calls than cel- During the past month, US-64 units as on May 31 will a yield of slightly less than 6 ers, with quite a few block sources said. IBM units and meet employees and cus- lular services. tomers, in addition to an interaction with At the same time, one thing is clear as day: the city’s corporate honchos. A 30-year From this month, WLL-M service will not be IBM veteran, Palmisano served previous- anywhere near the poor man’s mobile it was ly as IBM’s president and chief operating touted to be, particularly with incoming calls ‘We don’t realise how fit we’ve become’ officer,after holding senior leadership po- on cellphones being made free from Thursday. TOI sitions in virtually all of IBM’s business Besides, WLL-M call charges will be on per By Sunit Arora units. Interestingly, IBM is keeping the minute basis as opposed to a three-minute ba- & N Vidyasagar chairman’s Indian sojourn totally under sis earlier. TIMES NEWS NETWORK wraps. Not all experts agree that WLL-M is cheap- Since becoming CEO in March 2002, he er. They cite high entry costs for the service. New Delhi: Mumbai’s favourite corporate honcho is fast learning has had major initiatives to position the GSM cellular subscribers have benefits like company for profitable growth path and automatic roaming and MMS. Besides, they how to navigate the hurly-burly that is Delhi. And the new Confed- industry leadership. Among the key ini- say, telecom regulator TRAI is yet to clear im- tiatives are the acquisition of PriceWa- mensely popular SMS for WLL-M operators. eration of Indian Industry (CII) president seems remarkably unruf- terhouseCoopers Consulting and several A first glance at the tariffs announced by software companies, the pending sale of some phone companies like Reliance, Tata In- fled by the politics, the hectic trav- elling to come, and even Delhi’s no- the hard disk drive business, a major re- dicom and Hutch, indicates that ‘‘affordabili- torious traffic. alignment of the microelectronics unit, ty’’ gap between WLL-M and GSM cellular has Just in from meeting the Prime and the outsourcing of desktop manufac- reduced considerably.However, WLL-M might Minister,and an hour before he was turing. Palmisano took over as chairman still have a touch of economy. to head back to Mumbai to cele- of IBM on January 1, 2003, succeeding Since not all tariffs plans are yet public, in- brate his birthday on Labour Day, Louis Gertsner. cluding those of AirTel, the tariff landscape we caught up with the cool-as-cu- Bose plans India tech centre: Bose Cor- continues to be in flux. cumber head of Mahindra & poration has decided to set up a wholly- For now, new tariff packages by Reliance Mahindra. ‘‘It’s difficult not to like owned technology centre in Hyderabad. and Indicom put the average local WLL-M to the PM. A statesman differentiates The centre — Bose Technology Centre fixed calls from Re 1 to 0.65 paise a minute for himself by looking at what is the Private Limited — will be an extension of monthly commitments ranging from Rs 295 to end goal in terms of quality of the research and development software 999, instead of Rs 1.20 for three minutes and Rs life.’’ engineering group located at the compa- 200 rental until Wednesday. The cost will be That seems to define Mahindra ny’s headquarters in Massachusetts. however Rs 1.20 for 90 seconds for MTNL’s too: a suave, quick-thinking ideas The company, founded by Amar Gopal fixed phones to WLL-M phones. man who has been quietly groomed Bose, has decided to commence recruit- Cellular outgoing calls still average about for the high-profile CII job for three ment of software engineering talent for Rs 2 per minute. Besides,companies are plan- months now. If Mahindra has al- its tech centre beginning this month, it ning to add 0.30-0.50 paise per minute to the ex- ready hit the ground running, he said in a statement. The firm intends to isting airtime rates, raising end user cost to takes that analogy further while de- hire 30 software engineers for the centre Mahindra & Mahindra’s Anand Mahindra delivers his first address after taking over as the new CII president. and expand operations in the country. about Rs 2.40 per minute. scribing the state of corporate In- ‘‘Software content in our audio prod- On the other hand, entry level WLL-M hand- dia today. ‘‘When you are running ‘‘I’d rather be here now than when should not be fixated by rules. ‘‘The ests. In other words, ‘‘a process by ucts is growing and will continue to do sets are costlier than GSM ones. While WLL-M so hard, you sometimes don’t re- the airplane’s heading down- Indian mind is devious and bril- which speak now, align your inter- so,’’ says Bose president John Coleman. compatible Kyocera, LG or Samsung handset alise that you have become fitter.’’ wards,’’ Mahindra smiles. liant enough to bypass any regula- ests, come out with what your is- costs about Rs 6,500, on down payment, a GSM Mahindra’s reflecting the feeling Mahindra insists that recent talk tion that you create.’’ sues are — and then hold your The set-up phase for the technology Nokia handset is available for less than Rs of buoyancy sweeping through ex- about India emerging as a viable al- However, he did say that CII peace.’’ centre is underway. The first project is 5,000. ports-driven manufacturing. Citing ternative to China isn’t SARS-driv- would look at finding a process to As he rushed away, Mahindra — scheduled to start in September 2003. The Besides, for those who want to enjoy a full Bharat Forge’s Baba Kalyani talk- en. It’s just the tip of the iceberg, see how companies with poor com- a contemporary of filmmaker Mira centre in Hyderabad will initially focus colour of surfing the Net, a GPRS, MMS en- ing about booming business (‘I the action started as early as De- pliance could be kept out of the Nair from his Harvard days — fired on development and production of engi- abled GSM compatible handset is available for don’t have to market anymore, I cember 2002, he says. ‘‘A recent re- forum.’’ a parting shot: There would be a big neering software and continuous verifi- about Rs 9,000. Similar WLL-M handset costs don’t make phone calls’), Mahin- port says 50 per cent of Indian busi- Clearly waiting for the statutory push to the India brand at Cannes cation of production code related to a va- at least Rs 15,000. dra’s upbeat: ‘‘The trigger has nessmen surveyed didn’t believe question on CII’s now-on, now-off later this month. riety of Bose audio products. But as consumers go through the maze of come. Earlier it was fashionable to they would challenge China. In re- relationship with Gujarat chief Clearly, media and entertain- ‘‘A centre in India gives us access to tariff and service choices, WLL-M has move say no one’s investing, let us down- ality, India is going to be a lower- minister Narendra Modi, Mahin- ment is one thing the Mumbai man software engineering talent, enabling us decidedly away from being a part of fixed size. Suddenly, you’re saying, cost destination for a longer period dra deadpans: ‘‘You’re not going to will bring to the table. To which, to take advantage of skills sets from vari- phone service (which it technically is) to being ‘Should I invest again?’’ of time.’’ Talking about the con- get headlines from me on this.’’ The he’s quick on the draw: ‘‘Wherever ous parts of the world,’’ said company di- closer to a mobile service. Of course, the legal He’s also mighty relieved that tentious issue of corporate gover- CII, he said, will try and find a tem- you are, the bottomline is rector Rakesh Pandey. battle between WLL-M and cellular services this has happened at the right time. nance, Mahindra said companies plate to ‘reconcile’ differing inter- the same.’’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK still rages.
EXECUTIVE DIGEST
index is targeted to be intro- The plant also produces other NATIONAL Alagh to step down as duced at district level within a brands like CD100SS, Dawn, Britannia CEO: Sunil Alagh, year’s time. He said govern- Splendor and CD-Dawn. TRAI seeks clarification the high-profile MD and CEO of ment was facing a dilemma on Reliance plan: Telecom confectionery major Britannia on the level at which such an OBC revises interest regulator TRAI has sought Industries, is planning to index, to measure the quality rates for SSIs: Oriental clarification from Reliance on step down at the end of his of power, should be brought Bank of Commerce (OBC) has its new tariffs, according to current term, ending February in, namely 11kv, 33kv or distri- revised interest rates on ad- sources familiar with the de- 2004.‘‘The matter would be bution transformer level. vances to small scale sector. velopment. It was not clear considered by the board Accounts with credit limits until late evening whether the of directors meeting to Govt reconstitutes above Rs 2 lakh and upto Rs issue had been resolved. be held in June,” the Coffee Board: Government 25 lakh would now be Sources said the clarification company said. has reconstituted Coffee charged prime lending rate of related to certain STD tariffs Board for a period for three 11 per cent only against the offering WLL-M to WLL-M years as per the provisions of earlier rate of PLR + 2 per calls at Rs 0.40 per minute the Coffee Act, 1942 and Cof- cent. The rate for credit limits within a telecom circle, as an- fee Rules, 1955. The new 32- above Rs 25 lakh and upto Rs nounced by Reliance on member board includes, 50 lakh has been brought Wednesday through a press among others, Hamid Ashraf, down to 13 per cent from statement. managing director, Tata 13.5 per cent. Rates for limits Cosmo Films to close Coffee, Gautam Darkar, com- above Rs 50 lakh will contin- down two subsidiaries: mercial controller beverage ue at PLR + 3 per cent. Cosmo Films Ltd has decided and head, Hindustan Lever, Ravi Deol, managing director 25 per cent dividend by to close down two of its sub- PNB Gilts: PNB Gilts has sidiary firms — Cosmo Plant- of Barista and Ranjit Raj, Ajit Ninan declared a 25 per cent divi- gene and Sterling Hitech — executive vice president of Nestle India from industry. dend for 2002-03 against 24 as part of a decision to focus Goodlass Nerolac sets Rs 39.84 crore up from Rs per cent in the previous year. on core competencies. While 90% dividend: Buoyed by a 27.36 crore last year. Hero Honda unit rolls out It is inclusive of the 10 per Cosmo Plantgene was en- 50 per cent growth in gross Reliability index for 5 millionth bike: Hero cent declared in the third gaged in the business of pro- profit, Goodlass Nerolac Honda has achieved another quarter of 2002-03. It earned power planned: Govern- ducing hybrid seeds, Sterling Paints Ltd has announced a ment proposes to introduce a milestone with its Daruhera a net profit of Rs 92.51 crore used to make potassium sili- 90 per cent dividend. Its reliability index for power to plant, in Haryana, becoming for the year ended March cate for use in black-and- 2002-03 gross sales of Rs 791 cover major centres and capi- the first Indian two-wheeler 2003. Operating profit im- white TV picture tubes. “We crore marked an increase of tals within the next six plant to produce 5 million proved by 10 per cent to Rs had tried to sell them, but 11.7 per cent year-on-year. months. Speaking at a semi- units. The 5 millionth motorcy- 186 crore. Profit before tax, failed. Now we intend to wind Pre-tax profit stood at Rs nar on transformers, power cle was a Splendor, the lar- however, shrunk to Rs 150.01 up these arms,” company ED 56.09 crore, while net profit secretary R V Shahi said the gest selling single motorcycle crore from Rs 176.26 crore in and CEO Sushil Mittal said. increased 45.6 per cent to model across the globe. 2000-01.
pany to produce engines with said growth was set to slow $1.9 million after payment of INTERNATIONAL China FAW Group Corp by to its lowest pace in five years preferred dividends, or 2 cents the end of this year. The five as its markets become satu- per share, from $21.3 million, Toyota to build engine billion yen ($42 million) plant rated or draw in competitors. or 18 cents per share, a year plant in China: Toyota Mo- to be built in Changchun, Ricoh reported a consolidat- earlier. Revenue fell 21.5 per tor Corp will build an engine where China FAW has its ed net profit of 72.51 billion cent in the quarter to $165.9 plant in the northern Chinese headquarters, will start pro- yen ($610 million) for the busi- million. In the first quarter, ex- city of Changchun by 2005 ducing 50,000 engines a year ness year that ended on penses fell 6.2 per cent from and its Hino Motors unit will in 2005, the paper said. March 31, up 17.7 per cent a year earlier to $161.6 million. start producing trucks and from the year before. diesel engines in Shanghai Ricoh posts record profit, from 2004, a Japanese news- sees growth slowing: Ri- Nasdaq Q1 profits fall 90 ET INSTA POLL paper said on Thursday. Ni- coh Co Ltd, Japan’s second- per cent: The Nasdaq Stock Yesterday’s results: hon Keizai Shimbun said Toy- Will VAT ever be implemented largest office machine maker, Fed chairman Alan Green- Market Inc on Wednesday ota would launch a new com- in India? posted another record profit span during testimony be- said first-quarter earnings fell on Thursday and forecast fore the House financial nearly 90 per cent from a year Yes 57% No 35% more growth ahead as buyers earlier, as the No. 2 US stock services committee in • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users snap up its high-speed Washington, DC. He said the market was hurt by slower who chose to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. copiers and colour printers US economy is poised for a trading volumes, fewer listed despite a dull economy. But post-war rebound, but the companies and increased Today’s question: the company, while turning in competition. Nasdaq said Do you understand the new outlook is blurry and busi- phone tariffs fully? its ninth record result in a row, ness caution is an obstacle. first-quarter earnings fell to
TOID20503/CR1/15/M/1TOID20503/CR1/15/C/1TOID20503/CR1/15/K/1TOID20503/CR1/15/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K
10 Friday,May 2, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi
TOID20503/NR1/10/K/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K
The Times of India, New Delhi Friday,May 2, 2003 17
TOID20503/NR1/11/K/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K OID ‰ ‰ † OID ‰ ‰ † M OID ‰ ‰ † C
18 Friday,May 2, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi After tobacco and banking, pharma comes under attack AFP ig tobacco, big bank- al, Eliot Spitzer, won a $1.4 knock-out punchthough that prescription-drug benefit for large chunk of the costs of ing and now big phar- billion settlement without may change. The real battle the elderly means that near- Medicaid, which provides B ma? It seems fanciful ever bringing formal involves state governors and ly half of elderly Americans coverage for the poorest. to speculate during a week charges against banks, nor their budget officers, and lack prescription-drug cov- Some states are following in which Pfizer reported hinting at what such centres on the vexed ques- erage at some point in the Michigan’s pioneering use profits, for its latest quarter, charges might be.) tion of drug pricing. year, according to AARP, a of approved-drug lists to of $4.7 billion, that Ameri- The campaign against Big America spends huge lobby group. At the same wring discounts from drugs ca’s mighty pharmaceuti- Pharma borrows some of money on drugs ($149 billion time, the Internet is making firms. (Because exclusion cals giants might find them- these earlier tactics. States in the year to February, ac- more Americans aware of from such lists means that selves vulnerable to the po- such as Connecticut and (in- cording to IMS Health). But the high prices they pay for doctors must obtain hard-to- litical attacks that have tor- evitably) New York, thanks prices in America are also drugs compared with shop- win approval to prescribe a mented some of the coun- to Spitzer, are filing suits much higher. The market pers in other countries. drug, the industry argues try’s other large industries. against drug firms that chal- has more freedom to set Some have begun to shop for that such tactics amount to The attack on the tobacco lenge sales and marketing prices than governments al- cheaper drugs online from holding patients hostage.) industry (worth $22 billion practices which the industry low in Canada, Europe or Canadian Net pharmacies Michigan now says it wants in settlement payments so says have gone on for years. Japan. which have sprouted along the same discount of up to 70 far to the states alone) fo- Connecticut’s, for instance, For the drugs companies, the border. per cent enjoyed by the Vet- cused on smoking’s harmful claims that the state has the politics of these arrange- The states, which face the erans Health Administra- effects, and made full use of been scammed by drug com- ments have become toxic. biggest hole in their budgets tion, and is inviting other the courts. The post-bubble panies seeking to make a One problem is that voters since the second world war, states to join hands. assault on investment bank- profit off our neediest citi- personally bear more and are finding ways to harness The industry used to ing is highlighting sales and zens. But so far, these law- more of the cost of expen- this anger. Although they do thwart such tactics by citing marketing practices, and is suits seem designed more to sive, branded drugs in not contribute to Medicare, a patients’ access. But as the using the court of public harass and distract the A customer browses through supplements next to empty shelves at a pharmacy in Kuala America and hence feel federally-financed health- politics sour,the industry in- opinion as much as lawsuits. drugs industry with bad Lumpur. Malaysia has ordered a recall of all products manufactured by Australian pharma those high prices directly. care scheme for elderly creasingly finds itself hav- (New York’s attorney-gener- publicity than to deliver a firms Pan Pharmaceuticals. The lack of a comprehensive Americans, the states pay a ing to justify. The Economist
AP Retailers win $3bn suit over debit cards New York: Thousands of duce debit card fees, Con- the outcome. “We’re pleased was important so consumers major US retailers including stantine said. MasterCard In- Payback time that we’re able to come to an could have more choice. Re- Wal-Mart and Sears have set- ternational will pay $ 1 bil- understanding with the mer- tailers, who filed suit seven Visa will pay $2 billion tled their anti-trust case lion and reduce fees. • chants community,” he said. years ago, said the process ul- to retailers and cut debit against Visa and MasterCard The case against Visa had “It’s good to be able to move timately cost people more card fees over debit cards, winning $ 3 been scheduled to go to trial forward without litigating money. billion and lower transaction this week; MasterCard set- •MasterCard will pay $1 this case in the courts.” Analysts said Visa was fees for use of the popular tled with the retailers on billion and reduce fees The Visa deal announce- likely feeling intense pres- plastic. The deal was hailed Monday.The card companies •Retailers claimed that ment came after a federal sure to settle the case rather by the retailers’ lawyer as a faced billions of dollars in Visa and MasterCard judge postponed opening than face a trial that threat- “major victory” for mer- damages if they lost at trial. trapped them and forced statements in the trial until ened to drag well into sum- chants and their customers. The retailers had claimed to pay high fees Friday, saying he hoped he mer a trial that could have “The world of debit is that Visa and MasterCard was offering “breathing been more difficult without about to change for the better, trapped them into paying •Consumers to gain room” so the sides could set- MasterCard fighting along- for merchants and for con- high fees by demanding that from the decision tle. The judge must approve side. If the merchants pre- sumers,” said the retailers’ stores that accept their cred- the deals, which include im- vailed at trial, Visa would lead attorney,Lloyd Constan- it cards also accept their deb- mediate $ 25 million pay- have been liable for damages ble resolution that serves the tine, after signing a deal with it cards. ments. running into the tens of bil- interests of consumers, mer- Visa USA on Wednesday Visa US said in a statement Tarman, said Visa would lions of dollars. chants and our member fi- night. “Five million mer- that it had reached “an im- modify its “honour all cards” “It’s a terrific day for con- nancial institutions,” said chants will now get relief portant agreement in princi- policy and that, beginning in sumers,” David Balto, a for- Daniel Tarman, a Visa vice- from excess fees that were ple” with the plaintiffs and January, merchants can de- mer FTC policy director, president. forced down their throats.” would change its debit card cide whether to continue to said. “Consumers will see the The Visa deal calls for the policies. MasterCard’s general accept Visa’s debit cards. benefits of lower prices, company to pay roughly $ 2 “We believe this settlement counsel, Noah Hanft, said his Visa and MasterCard said greater choice and safer deb- An Enzo Ferrari is displayed at Korea Import Motor Show in Seoul. Under the theme “mobility billion to the retailers and re- is a reasonable and responsi- company was satisfied with the “honour all cards” policy it card products.”AP unlimited”, about 100 cars are on display by 17 leading foreign automakers. IndianOil coins Rs 1,500 cr retail strategy By Sanjay Dutta our rivals,’’ IOC marketing process of setting up their eyeing the maze of national TIMES NEWS NETWORK director PK Agrawal said. own retail network. The ex- and state highways as these IOC now has 7,961 outlets isting retail outlets are lucra- have proven to be a big seg- New Delhi: IndianOil Corpo- across the country and 60 per tive as these are located in ment for diesel and lubri- ration plans to spend up to Rs cent of the market. prime spots in metros and cants sales. Indeed, a chain of 1,500 crore in the next three Only 5 per cent of these are key towns. highway outlets criss-cross- years to create a shield company-owned company Agarwal said IOC would ing the country forms the against poaching of dealers operated, while 45 per cent add 1,000 new retail outlets hub of Reliance’s marketing by private sector rivals and are comapny-owned dealer this year. It is concentrating strategy. open 1,000 new retail outlets. operated. on the major highways, par- IOC also plans to revamp ‘‘We are looking at a situa- The remaining 50 per cent ticularly the Prime Minis- and modernise some of its tion where 60 per cent of our are open to poaching by pri- ter’s golden quadrilateral major strategic petrol sta- outlets would be company- vate players like Reliance, Es- network. tions before Reliance opens owned to avoid poaching by sar and Shell who are in the Private retailers are also its first outlet next year. Corporate mindset changing, says IFC TIMES NEWS NETWORK potential to achieve a GDP about shrinkage of job op- to tread. growth of 8.5 per cent per an- portunities in the country if Talking about Iraq, he said New Delhi: International Fi- num. There was a clear shift reform processes like privati- that IFC would pursue the nance Corporation’s (IFC’s) in the mindset of Indian cor- sation are expedited. IFC, he World Bank policy for its op- total exposure in India will porates from the rent-seeking said, would like to play the erations in Iraq. As World soon cross $1 billion mark attitude a couple of years catalyst role to this effect. Bank was not operating in from its present level of $700 back to improving efficiency IFC has recently sanc- Iraq since 1971, IFC also had million, said IFC chief Peter and compete in the global tioned $200 million to HDFC no exposure in that country. Woicke, who was here to sign market, he said. Ltd to increase the housing But now, as the situation has an MOU with Confederation To achieve higher growth, activities in the country. changed, he said. of Indian Industry (CII) to ex- he recommended speedy im- Woicke said IFC would like to The MoU with CII would pedite sanction and disburse- plementation of economic re- take exposure in the electric- enable CII and IFC to work to- ment of loans to mid-size In- forms in the country. For ity and water distribution gether, exchange views and dian corporates. this, he said, private entre- companies if they were pri- share experiences, partici- Woicke, who is also the preneurs could play an im- vatised. IFC would like to fi- pate and host events to pro- managing director of World portant role in allaying fears nance ventures in segments mote sustainable private sec- Bank, said that India had the in the minds of politicians where private sector hesitate tor development in India. Online music tries a new tune ince Napster arrived in 1999 to pioneer the S unfettered exchange of music files over the In- ternet, the record industry has responded with a 2- pronged strategy. It has done its best to stop illegal file-swapping in the courts. And it has backed several subscription-based online music services, to provide a legal alternative to piracy. So far, neither approach has had much impact. But the events of the past few days may prove a turning point for online music, in the courts and in the market. On the face of it, the legal battle is going just as badly as ever. Napster is gone, having been killed last year by a lawsuit launched by the music industry’s ‘‘big five’’ having more luck trying to subscribers, compared service, called iTunes Mu- record companies. But hit file-swapping networks with tens of millions of sic Store, rejects monthly KaZaA, Grokster and other in another way: By target- file-swappers. subscriptions for a simpler file-swapping services that ing users directly. The appeal of subscrip- model: Each track from its have sprung up in its place The industry has been tion-based music services is 200,000-track library costs are now even more popular quietly stepping up other ef- limited for 2 reasons. $0.99. Once purchased and than Napster was in its hey- forts to pursue individuals Rather than buy music out- downloaded, a track can be day, and are proving much by legal means — a strategy right, as they do on CD, copied on to as many as harder to shut down. that could end up hardening users rent it for the dura- three computers, burned on On April 25th, a Federal some consumers already-re- tion of subscriptions. to CDs, and transferred on judge in Los Angeles sentful attitude towards the Whereas a track on a CD (or to Apple’s popular iPod agreed, ruling that the record industry. downloaded from a file- portable music-players. firms behind Grokster and Despite industry backing swapping service) can be There is no need to buy an Morpheus, two popular file- for several subscription- transferred on to a portable entire album just for one or swapping programs, were based online music servic- music player or to a CD, two tracks. not guilty of contributory es, such as Rhapsody, press- such transfers are either Apple boss Steve Jobs infringement, just as mak- play and MusicNet, re- prohibited by online music hopes that because there is ers of video recorders are sponse has been tepid. services, or cost more. no subscription fee, pur- not responsible for the use Lee Black, an analyst at So the launch on April chasing a track will become of such machines for piracy. Jupiter Research, estimates 28th of a new online music an ‘‘impulse buy’’. So far, This was a setback, but that such services have service by Apple could be a the new service is available the record companies are topped out at around 350,000 big step forward. The new only in America The Economist
TOID20503/CR1/18/M/1TOID20503/CR1/18/C/1TOID20503/CR1/18/K/1TOID20503/CR1/18/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‹ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‹ OID ‰ ‰ † ‹ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‹ C
The Times of India, New Delhi, Friday,May 2, 2003
Olonga praises England Montgomery eyes mark Hewitt, Venus pull out Cricketer in exile, Henry Olonga has It will his first outdoor 100m race of the The Italian Open has lost two of its big stars praised the England team for refusing season, but Tim Montgomery is already even before the start. Lleyton Hewitt and to play in Zimbabwe during the upbeat. The 100m world record holder Venus Williams have pulled out of the World Cup. His words are expected says he can better his 9.78 sec mark at event in order to prepare for French to bolster protests planned during this week’s meet in Mexico. He will be Open. Venus, currently playing in Zimbabwe’s tour of England up against compatriot John Drummond Warsaw Cup, wants to rest Anand and Anjali adjudged best sportspersons
I would like to play in the 2007 World Cup and Rain may spoil then quit both forms of the game after that Aussies make a sedate start Sri Lankan offspinner Bridgetown: Sent in to bat, Aus- slip Ramnaresh Sarwan off the Reuters Muttiah Muralitharan Kandy party tralia were 151 for two against the first ball of the day bowled by Jer- SPORTS DIGEST West Indies after 36 overs on maine Lawson, who then muffed a Kandy (Sri Lanka): Persis- the two teams carried their tent showers are threatening first innings into the final day. AP Thursday in their third Test. straightforward return catch Before a sellout crowd, Justin when the batsman had four. the leadup to Sri Lanka’s sec- The defensive approach of the Langer made 78 before giving a The home team has made five ond and final Test match two teams and the rain-hit simple catch to Chanderpaul off changes to their side from the sec- against New Zealand in this fourth day,when 1 1-2 sessions Banks. Skipper Ricky Ponting was ond Test in Trinidad. central Sri Lankan city of play were lost, spoiled any not out on 45 while new batsman Batsmen Chris Gayle and Shiv- which starts on Saturday. chance of a result. Darren Lehmann was yet to open narine Chanderpaul come in at the The arrival of the two A repeat show of unexcit- his account on Barbados’ hard, expense of Wavell Hinds and Mar- teams from Colombo on ing cricket in Kandy could true Kensington Oval pitch. lon Samuels, both of Jamaica. Tuesday was met with heavy prove disastrous for the or- Matthew Hayden had been caught The bowling department gets the rain that washed out the ganizers, who took a big risk at first slip for 27 in Vasbert biggest shake up with Tino Best practice ses- in schedul- Drakes’ first over. and Omari Banks making their de- sion. Local SECOND TEST ing the Test Fortune favoured Langer, how- buts and Jermaine Lawson return- cricket offi- match in ever, as he was dropped by second ing after recovering from chicken cials were worried at the Kandy during May,one of the pox. All three are 21-years-old. prospects of the wet spell ru- wettest months for the re- SCOREBOARD Best is a Barbadian pacer, while ining Kandy’s first major gion. The options available to cricket match in a year. the organizers were to play Australia: Banks, an off-spinner, becomes the first player from the tiny Leeward West Indies Jermaine Lawson during a practice session in Barbados on The temple city of Kandy the second Test in the south- J Langer c Chanderpaul b Banks 78 Wednesday. Lawson returns in the squad after missing the second Test. M Hayden c Gayle b Drakes 27 island of Anguilla to represent the and its surrounding areas ern coastal town of Galle or R Ponting batting 45 West Indies in Test cricket. McGrath, who had been in Aus- dley Jacobs has been ruled out of have seen heavy rain during at another of Colombo’s D Lehmann batting 0 The experienced Mervyn Dillon, tralia caring for his wife who was the third Test against Australia af- the past week, and a forecast three Test grounds. Kandy Extra: (nb-1) 1 left-armer Pedro Collins and all- receiving cancer treatment during ter failing a fitness test. of further showers during was chosen for its cooler Total: (For 2 wickets, after 36 overs) 151 rounder David Bernard get the ax the first two matches, returns in Jacobs has returned to his na- the Test match has damp- climes, but the problems of Fall of wicket: 1-43, 2-151. from Trinidad. place of left-arm wrist spinner tive Antigua and will be replaced ened the enthusiasm of scheduling a series during Former West Indies bowler Court- Bowling: Lawson 6-0-31-0, Best 7-0-40-0 cricket lovers. April and May has returned (nb-1), Drakes 9-0-31-1, Banks 8-0-40-1, Australia made just one adjust- Brad Hogg. by Carlton Baugh, who made his ney Walsh (L) stands with bowler The first test match in to haunt the Sri Lankan Mervyn Dillon (C) and Sir Garfield Gayle 6-2-9-0. ment to the lineup that easily won Jacobs ruled out of third debut in the second Test in Colombo ended in a draw after board. AP Sobers during a team practice at the first two Tests. Pace ace Glenn Test:West Indies wicketkeeper Ri- Trinidad. Agencies the Univeristy of the West Indies in AFP Barbados on Wednesday. Rafique puts skids Murali to pick Muralikrishnan wins: Former na- tional under-25 champion B T Mura- and choose likrishnan of Railways emerged under South Africa champion with 7.5 points in the B C Colombo: Sri Lankan off- Cochin All-India FIDE rated chess Dhaka: Bangladesh leg-spinner Mohammad spinner Muttiah Muralitha- tournament in Kochi on Thur Rafique delivered the best performance of his ca- ran has said he would now be sday.Though Aghyadip Das (GNCA) reer to help restrict South Africa to 264 for six at the selective about the tourna- and top seed Himanshu Sharma of close on day one of the second Test on Thursday. ments he plays in, so as to cut Haryana also finished with 7.5 points Left-arm spinner Rafique took four for 59, the down on injuries and keep each at the end of the ninth and final third best Test figures by a Bangladeshi, after himself fit for the 2007 World round, Muralikrishnan emerged cham South Africa won the toss and chose to bat in Cup. pion on better progressive score. search of their second win of the series. “I think I may have to con- Final position:1. B T Muralikrishanan 7.5 pts, 2. sider playing just the major Arghyadip Das (GNCA) 7.5 pts, 3. Himanshu Sharma The tourists’ batsmen struggled to come to terms 7.5 pts, 4. M B Muraleedharan (Ker) 7 pts, 5. Maria with a bare pitch offering turn and inconsistent tournaments to prolong my Arul (TN) 7 pts, 6. Alex Thomas (Ker) 7 pts, 7. U C bounce until Jacques Rudolph and Mark Boucher, career till World Cup 2007 so Mohanan (Ker) 7 pts, 8. Ravikumar (Chattisgarh) 7 who each made 71, shared a fifth-wicket partner- that physical strain is less,” pts, 9. E P Nirmal (B C Cochin) 7 pts, 10. Malleswara the spin wizard was quoted Rao (AP) 6.5 points.PTI ship of 107. Both fell to rash as saying on a website. “I would like to play in the Kaif joins Derbyshire: India bats- shots, Rudolph los- SCOREBOARD 2007 World Cup and then quit man Mohammad Kaif signed a four ing his wicket for South Africa (1st innings): both forms of the game after month contract with Derbyshire on the first time in G Smith c Ashraful b Baishya 15 Wednesday. Kaif, 22, has been draft- tests following his H Gibbs c Baishya b Rafique 21 that,” said Murali, who is set ed in as cover for injured New unbeaten 222 on de- J Rudolph st Selim b Ashraful 71 to become highest wicket tak- B Dippenaar c Hossain b Rafique 1 er in Test cricket. Zealand batsman Nathan Astle as but in the opening N McKenzie lbw Rafique 7 Derbyshire’s second overseas player, match of the series, M Boucher b Rafique 71 He, however, said “plans the other is Australian Michael Di but their stand S Pollock batting 41 can change but that is what I Venuto. India middle-order stroke- pulled the South R Peterson batting 15 am thinking now”. Extras: (6 b, 6 lb, 4 nb, 1 w, 5 pen) 22 player Kaif will come in for Astle’s Africans round Total: (For 6 wkts, in 90 overs) 264 The 30-year-old had been temporary replacement Shahid Afridi from the precarious Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-49, 3-51, 4- dogged by injuries through- when the Pakistan international’s position of 63 for 63, 5-170, 6-219. out last year when he spell with the English county comes Bowling: Tapash Baishya 14-4-44-1 (1 dislocated his shoulder dur- four shortly after w), Mashrafee-bin-Murtaza 15-1-47-0 to an end. Derbyshire hope that Kaif, lunch. Gibbs scored (4 nb), Khaled Mahmud 10-5-22-0, Mo- ing the Sharjah Cup and who has previous English experience 21 before driving hammad Rafique 29-6-59-4, Alok Ka- South African batsman Mark Boucher (R) is clean bowled by Bangladeshi bowler Mohammad Rafique (not in picture) as field- missed the first few matches with Leicestershire, will make his loose ball from pali 11-2-33-0, Mohammad Ashraful 9- er Mehrab Hossain (R) jumps in the air and wicktkeeper Mohammad Salim looks on during the first day of the second Test at of England tour. county debut in the second division 0-37-1, Mehrab Hossain 2-0-5-0. Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka on Thursday. Rafique. Reuters He underwent a hernia op- County Championship match against eration in November and Glamorgan at Swansea on June 4. AFP then sustained a torn SL board goes to polls: Sri Lan- quadracep besides a niggling ka’s troubled cricket control board is Streak pleads for trouble-free tour groin. PTI set to hold elections in June after be- ing managed by government-ap- London: Zimbabwe captain Heath views and our players can be respected the Zimbabwe cricket team since the Ganguly keen to pointed committees for the past four Streak pleaded on Thursday with oppo- the same.” World Cup earlier this year. years, officials said on Wednesday. nents of President Robert Mugabe’s Political controversy has surrounded During the team’s opening match in play 100 Tests The Board of Control for Cricket regime to let his team’s cricket tour of February, against Namibia in Harare, (BCCSL) ran into trouble following its England go ahead without disruption. Zimbabwe players Andy Flower and Kolkata: Indian skipper last election in March 1999 when in- A small group of no more than 10 pro- Henry Olonga wore black armbands Sourav Ganguly dreams to cumbent chief Thilanga Sumathipala I tried to stop play 100 Test matches for the defeated a close relative of President testers led by Stop the Tour organiser and issued a statement lamenting the Peter Tatchell, who has tried to have ‘death of democracy’ in Zimbabwe un- country,wishing to reach the Chandrika Kumaratunga. AFP magic figure in a few more Mugabe arrested for alleged human der Mugabe. Andy: Chingoka years. World badminton called off: rights violations, gathered outside the Both Flower and Olonga, who are “I wish I could carry on for The world badminton championships east gate at Lord’s where Streak and London: Zimbabwe’s senior cricket now playing cricket in England, have a few more years. My goal is due to take place here next month Zimbabwe officials were holding a me- administrator on Thursday said he said the tour should go ahead as a have been called off because of fears to turn out in 100 Test match- dia conference. had tried to stop leading batsman means of focusing attention on Mu- over the SARS virus, the sport’s es,” Ganguly, who has played They carried placards saying “No Andy Flower from retiring from in- gabe’s regime. world governing body IBF an- ternational cricket. 67 Test matches and scored nounced on Wednesday. Almost 350 cricket while Mugabe kills” and “Latest Streak admitted during the World more than 4,000 runs, said at score: Zimbabwe 3,409 tortured, 260 Zimbabwe Cricket Union chair- Cup the duo’s stance had created an players from 48 countries were ex- man Peter Chingoka, speaking at a a felicitation function here. killed”. Tatchell, whose group disrupt- awkward climate around the team and pected to descend on England’s Lord’s media conference shortly af- The informal function, a second city from May 12 to 18 but ed an England and Wales Cricket Board made it hard for them to focus solely on ter the squad’s arrival in England, ‘pleasant evening with the IBF decided to cancel the tour- (ECB) Lord’s media conference on Zim- cricket. also insisted Flower had never been Sourav Ganguly’, was organ- nament. AFP babwe in January, has said his group “It is always difficult to do that,” threatened with being dropped be- ised by the Cricket Associa- will continue to demonstrate through- Streak said. “We’ve had it for a long BETTING METER cause of his political protests. tion of Bengal to honour the out the two-Test tour. “Even before the World Cup, time now. Sports people have to try to Indian skipper for the way he But fast bowler Streak urged them find a balance.” FOOTBALL Andy Flower had made up his mind led the national squad to the not to do anything which would prevent However, Streak said he would have Champions League winner he was going to play for Essex,” World Cup final in South Real Madrid 4/5 the cricket from proceeding as Chingoka said. “We tried to hold on no hesitation in leading his players off Africa earlier this year. AC Milan 4/1 scheduled. to Andy Flower. We offered him a the field if he felt it was unsafe for them Ganguly, visibly moved by Inter Milan 9/2 “I hope they will respect our right to to continue - something Australia skip- the presence of a large num- Juventus 9/2 two or three-year contract. That (as per ladbrokes.com) go on with our trade. We respect other showed goodwill on our part.” AFP per Steve Waugh did during a one-day ber of present and former Ajit Ninan people’s views and we just hope our international at Trent Bridge in 2001. AFP Bengal Ranji stars. PTI An evening of fun, frolic and awards AP By Bobilli Vijay Kumar walked in, but that was creat- Yes, yes, Mandira Bedi. grets to inform that the colour along the next time. If there TIMES NEWS NETWORK ed more by her entourage of This time she was enacting of her blouse, and more im- is a next time, that is. New Delhi: There were no policemen and hangers-on. the role of the master of cere- portantly its depth, cannot be The winners were, howev- stretch limos, flashing bulbs Ladies and gentlemen, mony, opposite Sidharth reported (without confirma- er, proud and happy. They or shrieking fans. welcome to the inaugural Basu. One, however,deeply re- tion from her, that is) as she were actually rubbing shoul- India’s top sports person- edition of the Hero India had cleverly hidden it behind ders with cricketing stars alities were quietly brought sports awards function that ...and the winners are her long, black saree. (like Yuvraj Singh and into the Indira Gandhi stadi- was held on Wednesday. Kabaddi: BC Ramesh It was a nice, full-length Parthiv Patel) while top film um in freshly-painted buses The evening was graced by Weightlifting: N. Kunjarani Devi show of fun (Dino Morea and stars were performing for most of the sports personali- Shooting: Anjali Bhagwat Mallaika Arora symbolising them. The good news is that and hired cars; they looked Golf: Jyoti Randhawa sheepishly at each other, ex- ties who had memorable Hockey: Dhanraj Pillay the perfect symphony be- Sachin Tendulkar didn’t changed smiles with ques- trysts with the year 2002. Ma- Football: Baichung Bhutia tween sports and films), frolic grab all the awards; even the tion marks on their faces hesh Bhupathi. Dhanraj Pil- Chess: Viswanathan Anand (Sekhar Suman with his best team of the year didn’t Badminton: P. Gopichand SARS, lathi-charge and crick- go to the cricket team. It (who could that be?) and lay.Bhaichung Bhutia. Pullela Tennis: Mahesh Bhupathi quickly disappeared into the Gopichand. Sourav Ganguly. Cue Sports: Geet Sethi et-bashing) and games (re- went to the women’s hockey womb of the stadium. B.C. Ramesh (Errr, all right if Cricket: Rahul Dravid tired NBA stars actually giv- team. And one could see you can guess his field of ex- Athletics: Neelam J. Singh ing a display of slam-dunk). why: they were all sitting in It was only when Shilpa Other sports: Palwinder Cheema Shetty, Salman Khan and cellence you can win a free (wrestling) The organisers must espe- a huddle, giggling and laugh- Vivek Oberoi glided towards ticket to this year’s Oscars). Male young achiever: Shiv Kapur cially be commended for get- ing all the time, even when their seats (separately, one There were almost all for- (Golf) ting so many accomplished they were not on the field. Female young achiever: Koneru must add) that a flutter raced mer greats too, right from Humpy (chess) sportsmen and egos under For all those who are won- across the half-empty stadium Tiger Pataudi to Sunil Best team: Women’s hockey team the same roof. And that too, dering if Salman Khan and (or half-full, depending where Gavaskar to Jaideep Mukher- Sportsman of the year: V Anand on the same evening. If any- Vivek Oberoi exchanged Sportswoman of the year: Anjali you are looking from); later, jea, P.K. Banerjee to P.T.Usha, Bhagwat thing, one only hopes that pleasantries, or anything else, Hockey star Dhanraj Pillay and shooter Anjali Bhagwat (right) after receiving the awards for there was another flutter Michael Ferreira to Pargat Lifetime achievement: Kapil Dev they will remember to bring the answer is a sad no. They excellence at the Hero Indian Sports Awards ceremony in New Delhi on Wednesday. Apart when Delhi CM Sheila Dixit Singh, to Mandira Bedi. a couple of extra mikes didn’t even look at each other from being best shooter, Anjali also bagged the Sportswoman of the Year award.
TOID20503/CR2/19/M/1TOID20503/CR2/19/C/1TOID20503/CR2/19/K/1TOID20503/CR2/19/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ K OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ M OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ C
20 Friday,May 2, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Vengsarkar leads sweep at Van Lottum upset by Thai treatment By B Shrikant Udomchoke showed gumption to reg- Udomchoke later.He held his serve to land in the other semifinal. MCA elections TIMES NEWS NETWORK ister an upset win over top seed John win the set 7-5. The in-form Carraz, who won his New Delhi: Thai Danai Udomchoke van Lottum of the Netherlands. The That break turned the match on its maiden title at Bangalore, had an TIMES NEWS NETWORK loves India. Conditions being similar, lanky Thai recovered from a one set head and Udomchoke, now brim- easy time on Thursday as he ended Mumbai: The Bal Mahad- he feels at home in the Capital. He has deficit to overcome van Lottum 3-6, 7- ming with confidence, broke van Lot- the run of Israeli qualifier Jonathan dalkar group retained power had good results here too — a Satellite 5, 6-0. He won eight games in a row to tum’s serve in the second thanks to Erlich 6-1, 6-3. Erlich, who had to go seal the issue. two blistering shots through the with a thumping majority title and a semi-final berth in a through three sets in three matches flanks. That proved the last nail for in the main draw, looked too exhaust- winning 15 out the 16 posts $25,000 Challenger event here way Udomchoke lost the first set easily, Van Lottum as he wilted under pres- ed to put up a fight. Heuberger on the contested in the biennial back in 1999 (he lost to Leander Paes, van Lottum earning the lone break in sure. He double faulted twice , lost other hand had to use all his re- elections of the Mumbai who went on to beat Mahesh Bhu- the eighth game. But the Thai, going serve in the 4th game sources to down his fighting compa- Cricket Association on pathi to win the title). He had reached for winners early, ATP CHALLENGER and started throwing triot Yves Allego 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4. Wednesday. Sharad Pawar the semifinal of the $50,000 event at changed his tactics tantrums, yelling at The Indian interest ended in dou- was elected president, unop- Vietnam but crashed out in the first and came back fighting in the second ball boys and linesmen. A bad loser bles also as Harsh Mankad and Vishal posed. Former India skipper round at Bangalore. set. After games went with serve he indeed. Uppal went down tamely to the Israeli Dilip Vengsarkar, who was A semifinal place has been his best took charge of the proceedings in the In the semis, Udomchoke will take pair of Jonathan Erlich and Andy the standard-bearer in the result at the Challenger level thus far 12th game to break his rivals’ serve. Ram 6-4, 6-3 in a quarterfinal match. campaigning for Mahad- as he failed to cross the stage on four Udomchoke unleashed a couple of on Louis Vosloo of South Africa. who occasions. On Friday, he hopes to be defeated Frenchman Rodolphe Cadart Results: Singles (quarterfinals): 2-Gregory Carraz (Fra) dalkar group, not only polled hard winners was also helped by two bt Jonathan Erlich 6-1, 6-3; Danai Udomchoke bt 1-John the highest votes (245). fifth-time lucky in the semifinals of silly mistakes by van Lottum. “That 6-4, 6-2 in the other quarterfinal. van Lottum 3-6, 7-5, 6-0; Louis Vosloo (RSA) bt Rodolphe The following were elected: President: Sharad the Indian Oil Servo $25,000 ATP was a crucial break. I had changed Fellow Frenchman and winner of Cadart (Fra) 6-4, 6-2; Ivo Heuberger (Sui) bt Yves Allegro Pawar. Vice-presidents: Dilip Vengsarkar (245), Challenger tennis tournament at the my tactics and instead of going for the Bangalore Challenger Gregory (Sui) 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-4. Ravi Sawant (197). Joint secretaries: Prof Rat- Doubles (semis): Lukaev (Bul)/Vlasov (Rus) bt nakar Shetty (230), Lalchand Rajput (174). Trea- DLTA Courts here. winners early,started hitting the ball Carraz, the second seed here, takes on Schukin/Tereshchuk (Rus) 6-3, 7-6 (4). Quarterfinal: surer: Ramesh Kosambia (204). In the quarterfinals on Thursday, deep and keeping it in play,” said fifth seed Ivo Heuberger of Switzer- J Erlich/A Ram (Isr) bt H Mankad/V Uppal (Ind) 6-4, 6-3. Managing committee: Dr P.V.Shetty (239), He- AP mant Waingankar (233), Milind Rege (229) , Nitin CAPITAL SPORT Dalal (203), Avi Sule (185), Sameer Bandekar Eglevsky routes (172), Madhu Patwardhan (164), Avinash Kadam (154), Laxman Chauhan (151), Ramesh Wajge Delhi in semis: Delhi de- Club beat South Delhi Club (145) (all Mahaddalkar group) and Sanjay Patil 165 feated Jammu and Kashmir by 2 wickets in the Shera Eaglecrest (Barve-Halbe group). 2-1 to advance to the semifi- Pandit memorial tournament. TIMES NEWS NETWORK nal of the North Zone qualifier Mrinal bagged 4 for 26 and for the national U-21 M. Dutta then chipped in a stubborn New Delhi: Eglevsky (PS 48 to help his team advance Ray trophy being played in Chauhan atop) claimed the to the last eight stage. Balia, UP. According to infor- Martial Law Trophy at the mation received here, South Delhi Club: 200 for 9 in 40 overs (Nischal Gaur 90, Raj Kapoor 63, Mrinal Mumbai races held on Thurs- Kuldeep Thapliyal netted both Saini 4 for 26) Youngsters Club: 202 for day. the goals for the winners. Del- 8 in 39.3 overs (Mrinal Saini 43). Results: Exclusive Virtue Plate: Super Cop 1, hi will take on Himachal Your The Lady 2, Island Pearl 3. Agni Plate: Mil- Pradesh in the semifinal. lennium King 1, Own Trumpet 2, Vishalakkshi 3. Deadly Hemant: RR Martial Law Trophy: Eglevsky 1, Eaglecrest 2, Inter-club transfers: The Gymkhana routed Subhania Road Runner 3. River Haven Plate: Fraud 1, Delhi Soccer Association’s Club by 57 runs to move into Storm To Glory 2, Thoughtful 3. Irish Boss Plate: the semifinal of the U-19 Twist Afleet 1, Ride The Lightning 2, I’m Honoured (DSA) inter-club transfer will 3. Simply Superb Plate: Saphire Princess 1, be held at the Ambedkar Sta- Prabhawati tournament. Bat- Sonic Symphony 2, Secret Obsession 3. Odyssey dium from May 15-21.The in- ting first, Preet Pal hit a hurri- Plate: Where Eagles Dare 1, Good Thinking 2, Soi Dissant 3. ter-institutional league will cane 85 to help his team reg- start at the same venue, the ister 210 in their stipulated 40 Saturday’s acceptances: overs. In reply, Subhania Asset Plate: Cl V: 1,000m: 3.00pm: Moira release further disclosed. The 61, Riboletta 59,Tropic of Fear 54.5, Celestial Fan- league will kick-off from May stumbled to Hemant Bansal’s tasy 53.5, Pride N Prejudice 53.5, Own Trumpet 15. deadly spell. Bansal claimed 52.5, Priyanka 48. Regal Domain Trophy: 4 for 25. 1,200m: Dare To Dream 55, Lord of The Ring’s 55, Dileep shines: In the BDM RR Gymkhana: 210 for 8 in 40 overs Road Runner 55, Shining Star 55, Opium 53.5, (Preet Pal Singh 85) Subhania: 153 in Party Girl 53.5,Velocette 53.5. Shandaar Plate: Cl Cup, BNCA defeated RPSD- 35.3 overs (Gaurav 43, Hemant Bansal 4 IV: 1,000m: Elusive Charm 61, Bahudhana 59.5, CA by 5 wickets to advance for 25). Infamous 58, Demedicie 57.5, Royal Charmer to the quarterfinals. Dileep TT, 56.5, Touch Wood 56.5, High Voltage 55.5, Tio Pepe 52. Prima Facie Plate: Cl IV: 1,400m: who scored a facile and Rishi excels: Najafgarh Rashomon 61, Quick Decision 59.5, Wine N Song bagged 3 for 24 44 was the Sports Club defeated MCC 58, Handsome Lad 57, Lord of Thunder 55.5, Right chief architect of victory. by 74 runs to move into the Arrow 55, Berliet 52.5, Attia In Sunlight 51. Star BNCA: 185 for 9 in 40 overs: (Dileep TT last four of the 2nd Rajdhani Contender Plate: Cl III: 1,200m: Silver Blue 60, 3 for 24) EPSDCA: 186 for 5 in 33.5 Cup. Rishi Bohar, who scored Line of Control 58, Cats Whiskers 56.5, Gesund- overs (Dileep TT 41). heit 54.5, Latest News 54.5, Positano 54.5, a breezy 74 was declared the Acharya 53, Ravissant 53, Stunning Force 53, Mrinal scintillates: Mrinal man of the match. Dillinger 52, Nothing Better 52, Tarascon 52, An- NSC: 228 for 6 in 35 overs: (Rishi Bohar chors Aweigh 48. Haughty Run Plate: Cl V: Saini’s brilliant all-round per- 74) MCC: 153 for 3 in 28.3 overs (Vijay 1,200m: Tagged For Terror 60, Grand Finale 59.5, formance helped Youngsters Malik 49). Cyvana 59, Living Logic 59, Tagamet 58.5, Castle Beauty 56, Sphinx 55.5,Always Be Mine 55, Bach- elor 54.5, Powell Power 53.5, God Bless 51, Thn- derball 50.5, Mesopatamia 49.5, Rodeo Romeo Libyan Football Federation’s vice-president Al-Saadi Gadhafi 49.5, Speedster 47. Recardo Plate Cl II: 1,200m: (L) and Argentina’s captain Juan Pablo Sorin cut a cake, Snow Star 60, Exploding Wonder 58.5, Royal Se- bearing the logo of their teams during a reception after the cret 56.5, High Handed 55, Code Red 54, Crown Affair 51.5, Mandalay Bay 51, Arabian Fighter exhibition match between Libya and Argentina in Tripoli on 49.5, Divine Elegance 48.5, Royal Standard 47.5. Wednesday. Argentina beat Libya 3-1. Book on cricket: Vice-presi- dent Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on Thursday said he appreciat- ed the game of cricket for earn- ing India recognition. He was speaking at a function, where Sunil Gavaskar presented him a book on cricket - ‘the portraits of the game’ - authored by for- mer cricketer Shyam Bhatia. PTI
TOID20503/CR1/20/M/1TOID20503/CR1/20/C/1TOID20503/CR1/20/K/1TOID20503/CR1/20/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K OID ‰ ‰ † OID ‰ ‰ † M OID ‰ ‰ † C
The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Friday,May 2, 2003 21 Seniors have to prove fitness, says Rajinder Bangalore: Singh The Indian Dhillon, hockey team Baljit Singh has begun its Saini and preparations Dhanraj Pil- for the lay — had Champions been called Trophy and to the camp Athens to see if they Olympics in could carry right earnest Fighting fit: Pillay, Mukesh on till the and national Olympics. coach Rajinder Singh be- The qualifiers would be held lieves that the Asian style of in Madrid next March. attacking hockey will be the “I will observe the seniors key to success. The Indian for 15 to 20 days. I would like probables kicked-off on them to play at least one in- Thursday a month-long ternational match to see how training camp for the double they perform and also ob- leg May 28 to June 8 invita- serve their fitness level. Their tional tournament, involving selection would be based on India, Pakistan, Australia, performance and fitness. Age Australia A at Perth and Syd- will not be a consideration at ney. all,” Singh added. “My main aim (at the One area of concern for camp) is to build a team for the coach is the midfield, Olympics qualifying and where he has only new play- Olympics,” Olympian Rajin- ers to depend on. It is this der Singh said. area that he would like to He said senior players — strengthen with seasoned Mukesh Kumar, Baljeet campaigner Baljit Saini.PTI
THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE Reuters
Japanese women’s soccer national team forward Mio Otani (L) fights for the ball with L-League (Ladies league) defender Yue Sasajima during a match at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Thursday. National team won 2-0. FOOTBALL 3-Sjeng Schalken (Ned) bt Wayne Arthurs European Championship (Qualifying): (Aus) 7-6 (7/4) 6-3; 5-Yevgeny Kafelnikov Group 1: Israel 2 Cyprus 0; Malta 1 Slove- (Rus) bt Alexander Waske (Ger) 7-5 4-6 6- nia 3. Group 4: Latvia 3 San Marino 0. 3; Radek Stepanek (Cze) bt 2-Paradorn Group 8: Andorra 0 Estonia 2. Group 10: Srichaphan (Tha) 6-3 6-2; 8-Jarkko Georgia 1 Russia 0. Nieminen (Fin) bt Jean-Rene Lisnard (Fra) International friendly matches: Belgium 6-3 6-0. 3 Poland 1; Bulgaria 2 Albania 0; Czech Re- BASKETBALL public 4 Turkey 0; Denmark 1 Ukraine 0; NBA Championships Play-offs: 1st Finland 3 Iceland 0; France 5 Egypt 0; Ger- round (best-of-seven): Indiana 93 many 1 Serbia & Montenegro 0; Holland 1 Boston 88 OT (Boston leads series 3-2); Portugal 1; Hungary 5 Luxembourg 1; San Antonio 94 Phoenix 82 (San Antonio Lithuania 0 Romania 1; Rep of Ireland 1 leads series 3-2); LA Lakers 120 Min- Norway 0; Scotland 0 Austria 2; Slovakia 2 nesota 90 (Los Angeles leads series 3-2); Greece 2; Sweden 1 Croatia 2; Switzerland New Jersey 89 Milwaukee 82 (New Jer- 1 Italy 2; Libya 1 Argentina 3. sey leads series 3-2). TENNIS SNOOKER WTA J&S Cup, Warsaw: 2nd round: 4- Embassy World Championship, Jelena Dokic (Yug) bt Myriam Casanova Sheffield (Quarterfinal, best of 25 (Swi) 7-5 7-6(14/12); 7-Anna Pistolesi frames): Mark Williams (Wal) bt Stephen (Isr) bt Jill Craybas (USA) 6-0 7-5. Hendry (Sco) 13-7 (55-57 96-23 131{131 WTA Croatia Open, Bol: 2nd round: break}-1 64-65 115{115}-5 0-76 89-1 Tathiana Garbin (Ita) bt Emmanuelle 77-64 28-75 64-34 5-71 72-39 1- Gagliardi (Swi) 5-7 6-4 7-5; Ludmila Cer- 111{111} 82-12 70-33 80-0 46-92 81-0 vanova (Svk) bt Angelika Roesch (Ger) 6-7 62-22 71-44). Ken Doherty (Irl) bt John (2/7) 6-3 6-1; Silvija Talaja (Cro) bt 2-Sil- Higgins (Sco) 13-8 (62-9 85-16 via Farina Elia (Ita) 1-6 6-3 6-2. 107{107}-0 66-65 66-1 83-44 71-58 ATP Valencia Open, Valencia (2nd 100-7 64-9 112{112}-9 0-117{113} 24- round): Flavio Saretta (Bra) bt Frantisek 78 12-74 52-64 57-67 57-62 31-69 68- Cermak (Cze) 7-6 (7/3) 6-4; Anthony 56 75-7 8-94 71-1). Stephen Lee (Eng) bt Dupuis (Fra) bt Fernando Vicente (Spa) 7- Marco Fu (Hkg) 13-7 (45-65 0-132 74-57 6 (10/8) 1-6 6-0; Nicolas Massu (Chi) bt 46-60 76-15 122-20 83-25 4-119 86-24 8-David Sanchez (Spa) 6-4 6-3. 88-8 67-43 51-7 71-4 40-66 75-72 15- ATP BMW Open, Munich (2nd round): 67 68-41 27-72 62-56 63-42). Turning up the heat TIMES NEWS NETWORK podium places may well sur- prise. The rally will also make New Delhi: As it is the Thar unique demands on the ma- begins to sizzle at this time of chines as well as the drivers. the year, add a ‘Storm’ to it “Many cars have had addi- and things begin to get excit- tional cooling systems in- ing. Come Saturday, the stalled on their radiators. Dri- serenity of the desert will re- vers will have to be wary of verberate to the Maruti heatstroke,” says Jayesh De- Suzuki Desert Storm Rally. sai of Northern Motorsports, Traversing a distance of 500 the organisers of the event. kms, 160 of them competi- A total of 170 plus people tive, the rally will see 24 vehi- monitoring the route and cles pitted against the hostile seven ambulances along with conditions. 12 fast inter- The two-day DESERT STORM vention vehi- event will cul- cles form the minate in Jaipur on Sunday safety backup for the rally. evening. A total of 10 competitive The event has been partial- stages will test the mettle of ly affected by the truckers the drivers. Competitors, who strike earlier in the month. have gone for a pre-event rec- “We were planning to field ce reveal that Esteems are get- some cars, but the strike did ting bogged down in some not allow us to plan our logis- stages. The Desert Storm will tics,” said Tony Rodricks of be primarily a four wheel Team MRF. It is learnt that drive Gypsy dominated event. Maruti has been making ef- An event of this stature is forts to get the two factions in being organised in the Indian Indian motorsport — MAI desert after nearly a decade and FMSCI — to settle their and the present crop of rally- differences and it seems to ists have no competitive expe- have made progress on this rience in sand-driving. The tricky front.
TOID20503/CR1/21/M/1TOID20503/CR1/21/C/1TOID20503/CR1/21/K/1TOID20503/CR1/21/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † K OID ‰ ‰ † OID ‰ ‰ † M OID ‰ ‰ † C
22 Friday,May 2, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi
GRAFFITI AFP Paradorn bites dust Munich: Czech Radek second career win at the ven- Stepanek bounced top Thai ue. Finnish eight seed Jarkko Paradorn Srichaphan from Nieminen, twice a clay final- the second round of the ist last April, overcame 400,000-Euro ATP tourna- France’s Jean-Rene Lisnard, ment here on Wednesday, winning 6-3, 6-0 as light be- scoring a 6-3, 6-2 upset over gan to fade. the Asian ace. Dokic struggles: In Warsaw, Paradorn, seeded second Jelena Dokic struggled into and fresh from a solid win on the quarterfinals of the Monday, had it all to play for $700,000 WTA event on on the clay of the Iphitos Wednesday, battling back Club. But 2002 from 1-4 in the surprise semi- TENNIS ROUNDUP first set and finalist holding off Stepanek had his own agen- four set points in a dramatic da, which included pouncing second set tiebreak before on the increasing errors of overcoming Miriam Casano- the seeded player. va 7-5, 7-6 (14/12). Russian veteran Yevgeny In a minor upset, 10th Kafelnikov moved into his seeded Russian Tatiana fourth quarterfinal of the Panova was beaten 6-2, 6-1 by year as he won his fifth Sandra Kleinova, but seventh match from his last three seeded Anna Pistolesi swept tournaments on clay. The past Jill Craybas 6-0, 7-5. The fifth-seeded veteran ad- Polish challenge floundered OOH LALALA: South African sports minister Nconde Balfour (L), singer Vicky Sampson (C) vanced in pain with a 7-5, 4-6, as both Marta Domachowska and finance minister Trevor Manuel rejoice after signing the South African 2010 Soccer 6-3 victory over German and Sakowicz failed to sur- World Cup Charter Bid prior to their friendly against Jamaica in Cape Town on Wednesday. Alexander Waske, only his vive the first round. Agencies Nouma picks up ban: cles. Besiktas president Ser- manager Alex Ferguson, ac- Controversial French striker dar Bilgili told reporters. cused by UEFA of bringing Pascal Nouma picked up a Empty stadium awaits soccer into disrepute by sug- gesting the Champions seven-month ban on England: England could Wednesday from Turkey’s face playing their next Euro League quarterfinal draw was football authorities for caus- 2004 qualifier in an empty rigged. Ferguson was widely ing a furore by making an ob- stadium if a UEFA disciplinary quoted in English newspa- scene gesture in a league panel meeting on Thursday pers as suggesting UEFA had game while playing for Besik- imposes one of its toughest conspired to force United to tas - a gesture which had al- penalties to punish racist meet defending champion ready led to his sacking. abuse and pitch invasions by and favourite Real Madrid in Nouma caused a storm when fans during last month’s cru- the quarterfinal round. “It was he celebrated scoring a goal cial match against Turkey. a nice draw, wasn’t it,” Fergu- against Fenerbahce in a first The European governing son was quoted saying in the division match on April 20 by body’s disciplinary committee News of the World newspa- putting his hand down his also will discuss a case in- per. “I think they picked it shorts and grabbing his testi- volving Manchester United themselves.” Red Devils confident, Old Lady confused London: After an amazing “If we do manage to come 13-point turnaround, Red out on top, it will be an in- Devils Manchester United credible feat and one I would can recapture the league title rate among our best achieve- from Arsenal this weekend. ments,” the 61-year-old Scot Eight points behind eight said two months ago when weeks ago, the Reds go into his team was eight points Saturday’s home game adrift of the Gunners. against Charlton five ahead Meanwhile, in Rome, Ju- of the Gunners. If Alex Fer- ventus coach Marcello Lippi guson’s team wins, then the has a vexing decision to Gunners must beat Leeds on make: put his best squad for- Sunday or say goodbye to ward and attempt to clinch their Premier League title. the Serie A title Saturday, or Even if Arsene Wenger’s hold back slightly and re- players beat Leeds, they main fresh for Tuesday’s would have to win their last Champions League semifinal two games against Southamp- at Real Madrid. ton and Sunderland and hope For the first time this sea- United loses its final match at son, all of Lippi’s top players Everton. “They must be get- are healthy, making the deci- ting more and more anxious sion even tougher.Alessandro as the matches go by,” said Del Piero scored twice in The United winger Ryan Giggs. “It Old Lady’s 2-1 win against was a big psychological blow Brescia last Sunday, showing when we went top and the mo- he has recovered from a leg mentum of firmly with us. injury that kept him out for We know from experience several weeks earlier this there is nothing worse then year. French striker David being caught and then over- Trezeguet played the first 56 hauled in a championship minutes against Brescia and race. The closer the team be- appears to be regaining his low you gets the more anxious form from a shoulder injury. you become. The boot is on Midfield virtuoso Pavel the other foot this season and Nedved, who is being promot- I’m sure Arsenal are wonder- ed by media for this season’s ing what happened to the Golden Ball award in Europe cushion they had.” is healthy as well. AFP AP
IT’SMINE: Brazilian Ronaldinho Gaucho (middle) fights for pos- session with Mexico’s Duilio Davino during a friendly at the Jalisco Stadium on Wednesday. Big boys make merry Paris: Mighty nations tria and more known for pro- France, Spain, Argentina, ducing skiers than football, Germany and Italy all won won 1-0 against Saudi Arabia friendlies on Wednesday in Capital city Vaduz. night though, in a setback for In other milestones, the former Asian champions, Patrick Kluivert equalled Saudi Arabia fell to tiny prin- Dennis Bergkamp’s record of cipality state Liechtenstein. 37 goals for Holland in their 1- France thrashed Egypt 5-0 1 draw against Portugal in at the Stade de Eindhoven. France, Spain SOCCER FRIENDLIES Barcelona beat Ecuador striker Kluiv- 4-0, Argentina won 3-1 in an ert could have reached the intriguing match in Libya, mark much earlier had he not Germany beat Serbia and refused to play for the nation- Montenegro 1-0 and Italy had al team for some time. The a 2-1 success in Switzerland. next highest scorers for the However the state of Dutch national side are Faas Liechtenstein, tucked be- Wilkes (35), Abe Lenstra (33) tween Switzerland and Aus- and Johan Cruyff (33). AFP
TOID20503/CR1/22/M/1TOID20503/CR1/22/C/1TOID20503/CR1/22/K/1TOID20503/CR1/22/Y/1 CMYK