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WIN WITH THE TIMES Iceman goeth: Steve Waugh declares his innings Now, taxmen AFP Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Real gain is send notice A man who has never gone to school may steal from a to Daler, but freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. in Siachen where is he? — Theodore Roosevelt By Nidhi Sharma Casualties will go down 50% TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEWS DIGEST New Delhi: The in- By Rajat Pandit come tax department is HC notice to Nitish: The Nagpur TIMES NEWS NETWORK now on the lookout for bench of the Bombay High Court Ceasefire means... Punjabi pop singer has issued showcause notices to New Delhi: The Army an- Union railway minister Nitish Kumar Losses go down Daler Mehndi. ticipates a sharp drop in the India has lost 2,500 men in The department has and railway recruitment authorities high casualty rate in the for- on a petition that accuses them of Siachen since 1984; served a notice on midable Siachen Glacier- Pakistan has lost as many. Daler, asking him to favouring candidates from Bihar for Saltoro Ridge sector with railway jobs. Casualties on both sides explain the income the ceasefire with Pakistan likely to fall significantly tax returns of his EC may challenge CAT: The coming into effect on the company, DM Enter- Election Commission is likely to world’s highest, coldest and India’s control admitted tainment. seek legal remedy against the Cen- costliest battlefield from Extending the ceasefire on The department has tral Administrative Tribunal after the Wednesday. the LoC to the Actual Ground latter quashed an EC order on the sent for scrutiny the I-T ‘‘The casualties could Position Line will ensure returns filed by Daler’s removal of district collectors of come down by as much as 50 Pakistan acknowledges Jashpur and Bastar. P10 company in the last per cent on both sides,’’ said area held by Indian troops financial year as it Madhumani yet to be traced: a senior Army officer. Inces- But retreat is out suspects non-declara- After securing a non-bailable war- sant artillery, mortar and Mutual troop withdrawal tion of assets and finan- rant against Madhumani Shukhla, machine gun duels over the cial deals. the CBI on Wednesday conducted last several years have from the glacier is unlikely. Army officials say India has Last week, a notice raids at various places in UP and Ut- Steve Waugh in the Members’ Stand at the Sydney Cricket Ground after announcing on Wednesday that he meant that replenishment of was sent to the char- taranchal to track her down. P9 better positions, it doesn't will retire after the last Test, to be played at this ground, against India in January. Report on page 17 ammunition and supplies tered accountant of has to be done continuously. trust Islamabad to respect Spotlight moves from Judeo: the AGPL the absconding singer The BJP and the Congress seems to I’m an ordinary cricketer Troops also have to face under Section 143(2) of have forgotten the Judeo episode. The frontier man Back to pavilion pulmonary and cerebral the I-T Act seeking Both PM Vajpayee and Congress Tests: 164; Runs: 10,660; In a column exclusive to TOI, Steve Waugh ❝ oedema, hypothermia, hy- (LoC) to the 150-km-long Ac- more details of expen- chief Sonia Gandhi at respective poll Avg: 51.25; Centuries: 32 takes us along his momentous career. Excerpts: At breakfast the other day, poxia, frostbite and, of tual Ground Position Line diture and financial rallies spoke nothing about the cor- course, severe mental stress (AGPL) in Siachen was, of transaction. ODIs: 325; Runs: 7,569; My best moment Rosie (his seven-year-old course, also to get Pakistan ruption case. P10 Avg: 32.90; Wickets: 195 in the harsh terrain at alti- According to a senior Akin to climbing Everest was beating the Windies daughter) said to me, I don't tudes over 22,000 feet in mi- to accord some sanctity to I-T official, a scrutiny Captaincy: 40 wins in 53 on their home turf in 1995. I actually slept in the nus 50 degree Celsius. the positions held by Tests put him on top of the list want you to go away anymore notice is sent to com- whites, batting shoes and the baggy green. ‘‘It’s not usually the shell Indian troops. mercial enterprises and ❞ AFP The LoC, in the Simla My worst moment or round per se which kills... companies only when On the horizon it can trigger avalanches, Agreement, stops at grid ref- I still recall sitting in Eden Park as a 20 year old, the department sus- ● make troops run to their ice erence point NJ-9842, leav- Needs 515 runs to become after scoring 0 and 1, being verbally assaulted by pects fraudulent decla- the highest Test run-getter caves,’’ said an officer. ing the area beyond it unde- ration or hiding of ex- John Bracewell during a match we lost. Though the Army refuses lineated. India, which con- ● penditure. Needs three more Test tons trols the heights, wants the to break Gavaskar’s record The final frontier to disclose casualty figures, The official, however, In a perfect world it would have been nice to have estimates suggest it could be two countries to exchange added that if the de- Unfulfilled dreams a crack at it (beating India in India). over 2,500 soldiers since maps authenticating their partment gets definite indiatimes.com POLL Sydney opera 1984. Pakistan has faced a positions on the AGPL, but inputs on tax evasion His dream of beating India in similar toll. Pakistan will have none of on its own, it can Do you agree with Bedi that Tendulkar India will have to be pursued Sydney to me is the perfect place to retire. It’s The Army’s objective be- it. Since 1984, Indian troops does not have endurance Waugh with wife Lynette in serve summons or no- by another captain one of the best venues, it’s been my home ground hind proposing extension of have held this line, thwart- for long innings? throughout. Read full column on page 17 Sydney on Wednesday. tice under Section 131 of the ceasefire along the 778- ing Pakistani moves. the I-T Act. Yes 48% No 52% km-long Line of Control No fire could mean more talk: P7 VOTE NOW: Will the Eid ceasefire lead to a breakthrough in Indo-Pak relations? Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 Redford tries to wrest YOU SAID IT by Laxman a green title from India

By Chidanand Rajghatta TIMES NEWS NETWORK Washington: America wants it back. No, not the outsourced jobs. And not the GE-404 engines, or the fire-finding radars. It wants to win back a title that has unexpectedly come India’s way — the honour of hosting the world’s ‘‘greenest’’ building. That champion designation for the most environment-friendly build- ing in the world was won earlier this month by the CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre in Hyderabad, A simulated image of the CII-Sohrabji an acclaim that went largely Godrej business centre in Hyderabad. He had not looked at a single file unnoticed in India. among others, the project is rated a for months thinking he was going Awarded by the US Green Building Version 2 Platinum, the highest possi- to retire soon. Now he has got Council (USGBC), the designation ble award for sustainable design, ahead an extension. He is worried he recognises structures which combine has to study all those files and of the Version 1 Platinum won by only take action! new technologies and materials with three other buildings in the US. energy-efficient architecture. But the Americans haven’t been sit- WEATHER Among the unique features of the ting on their Green haunches. Within Hyderabad structure is the use of wind days of the Godrej-CII-Grover combine Max. 25ºC/Min. 8ºC towers to reduce ambient temperature, receiving the award, Hollywood legend Moonset: Thursday – 8.52 pm making air conditioners virtually re- Robert Redford inaugurated a 15,000-sq- Moonrise: Friday – 11.25 am dundant. Ninety per cent of the 20,000- ft building in Santa Monica, California, Sunset: Thursday – 5.24 pm sq-ft building does not require lights which also uses some revolutionary Sunrise: Friday – 6.54 am during daytime because of the way it is techniques, and is now bidding to be- Mist in the morning. Mainly clear sky. designed. The building uses water har- come only the second building to get a Minimum temeperature will be around vesting, and most of the material used Version 2 Platinum award. 7ºC. Maximum relative humidity on is recycled and recyclable. Named after the actor himself, the Wednesday 76% and minimum 24%. In fact, the Indian design is consid- refurbished building, which houses ered so revolutionary that USGBC had the Natural Resources Defense to upgrade its rating system to recog- Council, also uses recycled and nise its unique features. Designed by recyclable material, natural light, rain Vadodara architect Karan Grover, water harvesting, etc. With the Tiger in his den IIM panel sets AFP Feb 15 as new

More than 100,000 jobs at date for CAT Ahmedabad: The Common www. .com Admission Test (CAT) for India’s No.1 Jobs site the IIMs will be held on Feb- ruary 15 next year, IIM, Book your Classifieds Ahmedabad, director Bakul 24 hours service: “51-666-888” Dholakia said on Wednesday. CAT was cancelled last Sun- * 20 + 8 pages of Delhi Times day following leak of ques- tion papers. The fresh date was decid- ed upon by the directors of six IIMs. All other modali- ties of the re-test, including printing of questions papers and security related details, were still under discussion. ‘‘Details regarding the printing of question papers were yet to be decided by the CAT Group and they would RARE CLICK: LTTE chief V Prabhakaran (R) be kept confidential as al- welcomes EU external relations commissioner Chris Patten (L) in Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka, on ways,’’ Dholakia said. TNN Wednesday. Report on page 13 IIM ‘bhais’ look for CAT: P8 Dubyaman: P13

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SPEEDSTATS Case against Nirmal Sharma Horses mauled near PM’s house What other services should ATM offer? By Sachin Parashar Cruel intentions blade or some other sharp- club employees. Cong worker TIMES NEWS NETWORK edged weapon,’’ said club The fact that there is no According to a survey by eFunds, 50% of ATM card-holders visit New Delhi: The Delhi an ATM at least weonce a week. On the horizon are ATMs that will manager Kulwant Singh. clue about who attacked the Police have registered a New Delhi: Barely 100 me- •Six Race Club horses deliver news headlines, full motion video, movie tickets etc. attacked with a sharp- The incident was noticed on animals even six days after case against a Congress tres from the Prime Minis- Saturday morning by the the incident has ensured ter’s residence on Race edged weapon worker and an inde- Stamps 50% trainers. The club has con- that the place is rife with ru- pendent candidate of Course Road, six horses of A goat belonging to a • stituted a team to probe the mours. An employee said the Delhi Cantonment. the Delhi Race Club were in- club employee mauled Cheque encashment 48% incident. that the injuries could even While the accused jured following an attack A goat, which was graz- have been caused by an ani- faces charges of threat- with a ‘‘sharp-edged ing in the area, had also mal. ‘‘It’s very difficult to Events tickets 36% their stables. ening and injuring Tan- weapon’’ on November 21 been attacked. ‘‘The goat, say if it was an animal or a vir Singh, the latter has night. According to staff, ‘‘All the horses had in- too, has received similar in- human being. We are wait- been booked for distrib- the horses were attacked af- juries on their faces. It juries,’’ said Singh. The ing for the inquiry report,’’ uting defamatory notes ter they had been locked in seems somebody used a goat belonged to one of the stated Singh. about Congress leader Kiran Chaudhary. Chaudhary is the Congress candidate from the Delhi Canton- ment area. TNN

Source: USA Today Tokas flies high, in plastic planes By Himanshi Dhawan all the plastic planes avail- Though he refuses to give TIMES NEWS NETWORK able in Sadar Bazaar, creat- a figure as to the number of ing a ‘‘shortage’’ in the planes he has bought, Tokas New Delhi: There are no market. bounds to flights of fantasy. boasts ‘‘every house has And no one knows this bet- He distributes planes one’’. Another reason for ter than Hiren wherever he goes. bombarding his voters with Tokas. ‘‘I knew I had to this gimmick is the fact that Standing as an DELHI find a symbol that he was expelled from the independent can- people would reco- Congress over bribery didate from R K BALLOT gnise easily. Any- charges. But Tokas defends Puram, Tokas has body can stop a car himself saying that the alle- found a unique way to popu- or a bus but not a plane. Like gations were false. ‘‘People larise his election symbol-a a plane flies high, so will my know I have their best plane. He has bought almost name and work,’’ he says. interests at heart,’’ he added.

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Pankaj Nangia TOI Powercuts: Power will be affected in Sanjay Enclave and parts Olympic gold of Jain colony between 10 am and 6 pm on Thursday. North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) will be revamping Shalimar Bagh and Civil winner loses Lines districts. TNN medal, money TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: An Olympic hockey gold medallist was robbed of his gold medal from near Gurudwara Bangla Sahib on Monday evening. Balbir Singh (65) has said in a complaint to the police that his bag was stolen by an au- torickshaw driver. ‘‘Singh had gone to the gu- rudwara to offer prayers. He left the bag inside the au- torickshaw and asked the driver to wait,’’ a police offi- Former Miss World Yukta Mookhey campaigns with Model Town BJP candidate, Ashok Aggarwal. (R) Congress’ Kanwar Karan Singh with supporters. cer said. Besides the gold medal, Singh reportedly lost a 100 pounds and Rs 10,000. ‘‘Singh Wooing with stars In sync with locals retired as a coach for interna- tional hockey players. He was By Himanshi Dhawan By Maneesh Pandey meeting in Bada Bagh in GT Kar- colonies of DESU, DTC and MCD, part of the team which won TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK nal industrial area. When asked if residents of Rana Pratap Bagh, De- the gold medal in the 1962 she was interested in politics, rawalan, Gujrawalan, Mahendru New Delhi: Model Town con- New Delhi: The Congress candi- Olympics,’’ the officer added. Mookhey denied it and said, ‘‘I Enclave and Model Town have Singh is a resident of stituency voters can be excused for have come to extend moral, emo- date from Model Town, Kanwar pledged support,’’ claimed Singh, thinking that the last few days Karan Singh, was untraceable on Chandigarh. He had come to tional and mental support for who is contesting for the third Delhi to meet his son who have been a Bollywood party Ashokji.’’ Wednesday morning. All efforts to time. He claims to do at least three reach him on the telephone failed. lives in Saket. On Monday rather than an assembly election Agarwal of course has plenty of padyatras and as many public Singh explained later, he was actu- evening, Singh took an au- campaign. Bharatiya Janata Par- that. He commands the support of meetings. ally inside a mosque in Sangam torickshaw to go to the gurud- ty’s (BJP) candidate for the con- not just the trader community but Singh won the last election by Park. wara at Connaught Place. stituency, Ashok Agarwal, has his experience as a student leader 11,000 votes. He claimed he would pulled out all the stops when it has held him in good stead with The sitting MLA had joined the sail through the hustings with a comes to parading ‘‘celebrities’’ substantial youth sup- local Muslim communi- similar margin this year. whether it is Deepti Bhatnagar,As- port. I‘‘I have done more ty to offer prayers on Id. However, at the mention of bad rani or ex-Miss World Yukta work with my personal DELHI After an assurance of roads and poor sewage in Model Mookhey. commitment like getting support from Muslim town, the MLA said the 50-year-old Agarwal, however,promises that water connections for BALLOT voters, Singh started his sewer lines had been changed and despite the stream of pretty faces, colonies, getting roads door-to-door campaign dense carpeting of the roads was he is focussed on the area’s prob- made than my opponent Kunwar at Rana Pratap Bagh. As drum under process. lems. He has even threatened to be- Karan Singh (sitting Congress beats rent the air and residents Besides being pitted against gin official rounds on the day poll MLA) has done in his five years flung garlands at him, Singh BJP’s Ashok Aggarwal, Singh results are announced. with a budget of Rs 10 crore,’’ he knocked at every door for support. faces strong opposition from with- On Wednesday, Agarwal was ac- added. And much like a Hindi He then settled down to schedule in. Lok Jan Shakti candidate and companied by Mookhey in a yellow movie director, Agarwal promises his meetings with various sabhas Congress councillor Nathu Ram and red salwar kameez who spoke a sensational climax, a bigger star, of different communities and Nagar’s brother, Vinod Nagar is about ‘‘Ashok bhaisaab’’ at a public on the last day of campaigning. RWAs. ‘‘Besides the government likely to eat into Singh’s vote bank. Parties bare claws, fight to create issues Illicit liquor TIMES NEWS NETWORK V K Malhotra. seized Crossfire The Congress, on the other hand, New Delhi: Just five days before raised the bogey of a land scam and New Delhi: The crime polling day, the BJP and the Congress •BJP alleges that Congress is laid it at Khurana’s door. According to branch seized 20 cartons have bared their claws and the mud- shielding party worker who raped a a statement released by Delhi Pradesh of illicit liquor from slinging has begun. In an issueless elec- minor last Saturday Dwarka in southwest tion so far, the BJP tried to make the Congress Committee (DPCC) Congress blames BJP for being Delhi on Wednesday. rape of an eight-year-old in Kamla Na- • spokesperson Jagdish Tytler, the scam party to a Rs 65-crore land scam Two persons were held. gar constituency on November 22, into is worth nearly Rs 65 crore. According to the Congress, after the ‘‘Each carton con- a political issue. •Campaigning so far has largely tained about 44 bottles. Supreme Court had stayed, in 1996, the On Wednesday, Delhi BJP chief been without any major issues These were meant for sale of certain plots of land which were Madan Lal Khurana, and area candi- distribution among to be developed as green areas, the own- date Satya Prakash held a press confer- gullible voters before the commissioner, R S Gupta, Shadi Ram ers of one of these plots in Kirti Nagar, ence along with the girl’s father Naresh election,’’ said deputy and Malik had been interfering with British Oxygen Company Ltd sold their Kumar. commissioner of police the investigation. plot to another company, Lohia They alleged that Congress sitting (crime) Dependra The revelation of the victim’s kin Builders. The Congress alleged that the MLA Shadi Ram and councillor Shaloo Pathak. In another raid, and the address in a public forum land was sold with active connivance of Malik were trying to shield the ac- at Bawana, the police ar- the Delhi Development Authority cused, Arvind, a Congress worker. Ac- raised questions on the ethics of the rested a man and seized cording to a written complaint submit- situation. ‘‘The victim’s father came to (DDA). They further alleged that the 13 cartons of illicit ted by the victim’s father to Delhi police us voluntarily,’’ said BJP spokesperson plot was undervalued. liquor. TNN PM, Sonia to use choppers TIMES NEWS NETWORK Neelabh New Delhi: Fretting com- muters in Delhi are in for some relief. Both Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vaj- payee, and Congress pres- ident Sonia Gandhi have decided to travel by chop- pers within Delhi for their various political engage- ments. Party sources said both the Bharatiya Janata Par- ty (BJP) and the Congress are afraid of losing voters who may get annoyed by shown in the party’s elec- long traffic. tion expense,’’ said Delhi Vajpayee will be flying Pradesh Congress Com- to an election meeting in mittee (DPCC) spokesper- Pitampura on November son Jagdish Tytler. Gand- 29, while Gandhi will be hi had flown to Bawana to airborne through most of inaugurate the Rajiv Thursday on her way to Gandhi Khel Parisar a three rallies. couple of months back. The Congress, already Vajpayee had also flown reprimanded by the EC down to Dwarka to inau- for the alleged misuse of gurate a housing complex. an official aircraft in A recent rally addressed Chhattisgarh, is playing it by Vajpayee in Chirag Dil- safe in Delhi. A private li had caused traffic jams chopper has been char- in south Delhi. ‘‘After this tered by the All India Con- it was decided that the gress Committee at Rs Prime Minister should fly 50,000 per flying hour. to the venues rather ‘‘All requisite permis- than be driven, as this sions have been received would be more convenient for the use of the chopper for commuters,’’ said a and the costs will be BJP source. Police shoot alleged criminal in Ghaziabad

TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad police shot dead an alleged criminal, Amarpal, in an encounter in Kotwali on Wednes- day. Amarpal, who was riding a motorbike, was reportedly chased by a police patrol jeep and shot dead near a farm house off National Highway-I. Amarpal alias Pala had murdered Delhi lawyer Balkis- han in Sultanpuri in 1998. He was also wanted in connection with a Rs 9 lakh bank robbery in Panipat and nearly fifty ab- duction cases. He carried a reward of Rs 15,000 on his head. Amarpal was spotted by Kotwali sub-inspector, B M Singh, during a routine patrol near the Bank of India’s NH- 1 branch at about 12.30 am. ‘‘He saw two men riding a CBZ Honda motorcycle. He signalled them to stop but they would not. They fired at Singh and sped away towards Arya Farms,’’said a police officer. A patrol jeep stationed nearby chased the culprits after Singh sent a message on the wireless. The motorcycle hit a boulder and the two men fell down. The two allegedly fired at the policemen and in the ex- change of fire, Amarpal was killed. His companion fled.

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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rainfall likely at at isolated places in Jammu and Kash- mir, north Tamil Nadu, a few places south Tamil Nadu Bells for some, NATIONAL and Kerala. at many places Andaman and Nicobar and Mumbai: I-A 0700, Lakshadweep. Mainly dry weather will prevail over the 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Duplicates jazz up poll show rest of the country. Cold wave conditions prevailed in some parts 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, of Punjab. Night temperatures were appreciably below normal TOI 2300 Jet Air 0650, TIMES NEWS NETWORK 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, in Jammu and Kashmir, northeast Rayalaseema, south Telangana, honks for others 1935, 2030, 2200, in some parts of Orissa and were below normal in Jharkhand. Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD New Delhi: After Hema By Himanshi Dhawan 1520, 1800, 2025 Malini, Amisha Patel and Wedding rush KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min TIMES NEWS NETWORK 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 25 08 Guwahati 28 16 Amsterdam 08 07 Vinod Khanna, it’s the turn Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 34 23 Dehradun 25 07 Bahrain 22 17 of Riyaz Pathan and New Delhi: Wedding bells •Over 10,000 weddings Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 29 22 Hyd’bad 29 12 Bangkok 32 26 for some can mean traffic may be held in the city CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 29 18 Indore 30 15 Beijing 07 -3 Shankar Poojari to hit the ★★★ on Thursday 0640,0955 Bangalore 28 17 Jaipur 28 09 Chicago -1 -6 campaign trail. snarls and drunken brawls 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad NA NA Lucknow 27 10 Geneva 11 03 for others. This wedding sea- 0645,1900 Well, before you start • No regard for rules BANGALORE: T’puram 33 23 Patna 28 10 Hong Kong 26 17 son has hardly given resi- Bhopal 30 15 wondering, Pathan and about dry days I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Rajkot 33 18 London 08 02 dents in and around Vasant Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 30 16 Shimla 19 08 Los Angeles 18 08 Poojari’s claims to fame are • Authorities say they Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 31 12 Srinagar 15 -3 Moscow 02 -5 for being look-alikes of Vihar and Vasant Kunj any HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 cause for cheer. About 10,000 are helpless GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS Amitabh Bachchan and Sahara 1200 Sachin Tendulkar respec- weddings may be held in the KULU: Jagson 0630, city on Thursday. ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on tively. their hands up in helpless- 0650, 1215 26.11.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. Farmhouses and banquet AHMEDABAD: The two will be cam- ness. ‘‘We have no power. We I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl halls in these areas are paigning for the BJP candi- can only charge up to Rs 500 Jet Air 0610 NORTH booked every night and so as fine. This is completely in- GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: 4033 Jammu Mail 28.11 01.12 08.12 02.12 date from Kamla Nagar, I-A 0555★★, 1010• are the roads leading to effective in controlling such ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 17.12 16.12 01.12 Surya Prakash. 2403 Jammu Exp 03.12 08.12 09.12 09.12 them. Dry days and elections problems. The police is bet- Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, According to Prakash’s Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST also have done nothing to ter equipped to tow away ve- Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 27.11 02.12 09.12 — supporters, duplicate Mad- 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 dampen the spirit. hicles or stop blaring mu- 2304 Poorva Exp 27.11 27.11 27.11 14.12 huri, no not Antara Mali— Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, Despite orders from the sic,’’ MCD commissioner (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 01.12 28.11 01.12 16.12 but an appropriately Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 28.11 09.12 22.12 Delhi govt and the Munici- Rakesh Mehta said. named Madhu, will INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp 27.11 02.12 27.11 01.12 pal Corporation of Delhi Deputy commissioner of 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 28.11 28.11 27.11 29.11 also be campaigning for BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 21.12 23.12 BJP candidate from Kamla Nagar, Surya Prakash, on the campaign trail along with that there should be no com- police (southwest) Tajinder Air 0010 (TG-316), A-I 5622 North East Exp — 02.12 09.12 31.12 him. mercial activity in farm- Luthra said: ‘‘We have been 0050 (IC-855) 2554 Vaishali Exp 27.11 03.12 01.12 04.12 Prakash had started the Amitabh Bachchan and Sachin Tendulkar look-alikes. FRANKFURT: Lufthansa houses, lawlessness reigns. taking strict action on com- 2816 Puri Exp — 27.11 27.11 03.12 deluge of film stars in the Verma to cam- Smriti ‘‘Tulsi’’ The major event for 0305 (LH-761) 2802 Purshottam Exp — 08.12 02.12 04.12 ‘‘My son used to return plaints against noise pollu- AMSTERDAM: KLM 0140 2003 Delhi Assembly elec- paign for him. Irani has been the BJP was dream girl (KL-472) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 09.12 28.11 28.11 home from Gurgaon at 8.30 tion and we do seize equip- 4230 Lucknow Mail 01.12 02.12 09.12 08.12 tions by filing his nomina- Another candi- DELHI quite liberal in Hema Malini’s day out at a pm. Now, it takes him two LONDON: British Air WEST ment which can only be re- 0210 (BA-142) tion papers accompanied date who has lending her serv- public meeting on Wednes- hours longer,’’ said O N leased the next day. We have PARIS: Air France 0040 2904 Golden Temple Mail 29.11 01.12 08.12 16.12 2926 Paschim Exp 28.11 14.12 15.12 18.12 by film stars Satish been quite for- BALLOT ices to BJP candi- day. (AF-147) Shukla, Vasant Kunj Federa- already imposed Section 144 SINGAPORE: Sin’pore Air 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 01.12 11.12 14.12 — Kaushik and Deepti Bhat- ward in roping in dates in Delhi, as Congress president So- tion of Residents Associa- under which marriage pro- 2315 (SQ-407), A-I 0050 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 02.12 02.12 03.12 — stars is Saket candidate Vi- has been veteran actor nia Gandhi will also be ad- 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 11.12 11.12 11.12 nagar. tions president. cessions are not allowed on (I-855) jay Jolly, who got Amisha Sunil Dutt with regard to dressing rallies in the city ABUDHABI: A-I 1810 1078 Jhelum Exp — 15.12 10.11 09.12 He also roped in popular Authorities, however,have certain roads.’’ (AI-765) 2916 Ashram Exp 01.12 03.12 01.12 03.12 anchor and actor Aman Patel to Delhi. 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Rajya Sabha member Hema Malini, MP Anita Arya and Virender Babbar of the BJP at a public meeting in Paharganj on Wednesday. Businessman robbed: A businessman was allegedly Last days of fair, kidnapped and robbed of Rs 3.5 lakh at Dwarka in south- west Delhi on Tuesday. The prices plummet police said that Rakesh Gup- ta was on his way home to By Arundhati Basu Sector 6 in Dwarka with his TIMES NEWS NETWORK brother when he was inter- New Delhi: One more day to go before the cepted by three men in a car. trade fair ends and shoppers here are go- The three were armed with ing into a tizzy. With the prices having knives. They allegedly forced been slashed by nearly half, it’s a bargain their way into Gupta’s car. for you out there. They drove off with the mon- The hall for electronics, furniture and ey in the car and dumped good living offers you domestic goods for Gupta’s at Sector 16. TNN a steal. Majestically-carved wooden doors, mini-bars, you name it and they have it at Hall number one. Sofa-cum-beds, DILLI KA also known as fu- tons, come as MELA cheap as it can get. Single futons are now available at only Rs 3,000. ‘‘With the fair about to end, you can be sure that prices will be slashed heavily. The international pavilions are eager to sell before they make a move as they have to pay duty charges for carrying their stuff back,’’ said DCP,IITF, Rajiv Ranjan. A Chinese official, however, said, ‘‘It all depends upon the crowds tomorrow. We can even hike the prices if there is a de- cent crowd.’’

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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Thursday,November 27, 2003 5

TIMES-TNS MODE POLL Election candidates must declare assets Five arrested for rioting in Gurgaon TIMES NEWS NETWORK two-wheelers parked at the lice said that the donations they started pelting stones at 11% said no Do current 16% said no Should 16% think they should Kabir Leather Export were being collected on the us at 9.30 am. Soon, they not declare Gurgaon: A leather factory Factory. instructions of the local stormed the factory tried to candidates was ransacked and 30 vehi- Should regulations A senior police officer de- clergy. set it afire. They also set ensure that who are cles torched after a dispute nied that the violence was The miscreants claimed fire to the vehicles on the candidates broke out between two communal. ‘‘It was essen- that an object was thrown at premises,’’ said Sekhri. who make candidates contesting groups over collection of tially a dispute between the them from inside the factory. Nearly a 100 bicycles parked declare declare funds at Udyog Vihar in Gur- same community,’’ he said. The owner of the factory, near the factory were also false 89% said yes 84% said yes 84% think gaon. Five persons were According to him, the dis- Vikram Sekhri, denied the torched. their arrested from the spot for declarations all their they should pute broke out between two allegation. The police said that the assets? assets? rioting. groups of Muslims after ‘‘The factory opened as mob broke the windowpanes be debarred? The mob set afire close to they had offered prayers on usual at 9 am. We were work- of the factory and set on fire 10 cars and more than 20 the occasion of Eid. The po- ing inside when suddenly, the store units. Will declaring 37% said no Should 44% think its Record milk sale assets not fair on the candidates who 56% think TIMES NEWS NETWORK reduce the candidates to candidates are contesting declare the should declare New Delhi: The Mother influence of declare the assets of the assets Dairy crossed a record of money in 1% said 62% their relatives of their sorts on Tuesday evening. they don't said yes assets of their relatives also On the eve of Eid, the milk politics? know co-operative sold a record 20 relatives? lakh litres of milk. The high sales are being GENERAL OPINION attributed to the high con- sumption of milk and milk Declaring assets is Declarations may But at the same time Candidates who make Declaring assets of products during the festival necessary; current reduce the influence of may influence the false declarations relatives should not be of Eid. regulations do ensure that money in politics voters’ decision should be debarred forced on the candidates HC pulls up city court for ‘biased’ order

TIMES NEWS NETWORK mar’s property in Con- to register either case. Feud facts naught Place since 1986. Ku- Kumar had alleged he was New Delhi: A city court’s • MM, Congress worker mar allegedly wanted to unlawfully restrained by order to register an FIR evict him. A civil suit re- Thakral from entering the against a Congress worker Thakral were involved in a property dispute garding this was pending. premises. Thakral ap- on a complaint filed by a Before moving court, both proached the high court and metropolitan magistrate • The lower court direct- had tried to lodge FIRs alleged that the magistrate (MM) has been set aside by ed the police to register against each other in the lo- had adopted a partial atti- the Delhi High Court. an FIR against Thakral. cal police station. But the po- tude in dealing with his com- A counter complaint filed Thakral’s counter com- lice had reportedly refused plaint. by the Congress functionary plaint was not admitted had been rejected by the low- er court. The HC while pulling up mar had filed a complaint in the city court for treating a city court seeking registra- the two complaints in a bi- tion of a FIR against Con- ased manner, said both the gress functionary Jagdish complaints should be tried Thakral. Thakral has re- together. MM Praveen Ku- portedly been a tenant in Ku-

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Thursday,November 27, 2003 7 PM: It took long No fire could mean more talk to convince Pak Assam wants a CBI probe AP Raipur: In his first public By Manoj Joshi suicide attacks which are so Guwahati: The Assam conference here on Reiterating that the car- comments on the border TIMES NEWS NETWORK difficult to stop.’’ government has decided to Wednesday. “We will soon nage took place due to lack ceasefire, PM Vajpayee on Nevertheless, New Delhi ask for a CBI probe into the write to the Centre for a of sufficient security force, New Delhi: The only shots Wednesday said Pakistan is heartened by the fact that recent killing of Biharis in CBI probe. All the facts Gogoi said of late 15 more to be heard along the Line of agreed to it ‘‘after long per- the Pakistani initiative the state. should be revealed as to companies of para military Control in Jammu and Kash- suasion’’ and expressed con- came after Islamabad “We have decided for the who was responsible for the force had arrived, raising mir on Wednesday were launched a crackdown on fidence that the truce would sounds of metaphoric cham- CBI probe because if the attacks,” he said. the strength to 125 compa- several terrorist groups like last long and cross-border state government was to Dismissing claims by the nies in the state. pagne corks popping. the Jaish-e-Mohammed and terrorism would end. The celebration was all conduct the probe then BJP and the RSS that ille- “Had the para military the Lashkar-e-Taiba which ‘‘After long persuasion, the Opposition parties will gal Bangladeshi migrants forces been present here the more intense because had continued to operate af- Pakistan has agreed for the the ceasefire came at the end allege that it was one- were behind the attacks, earlier we could have per- ter changing their names. ceasefire and I am sure it sided,” chief minister the chief minister said haps avoided such unfortu- of a violent year that saw ‘‘Talks are not on the anvil will last long,’’ he told an many extended encounters Tarun Gogoi told a press there was no evidence. nate incidents,” he said. PTI as yet,’’ says an MEA offi- election rally here. PTI between infiltrating terror- cial, ‘‘Pakistan has turned ists and the security forces off the terrorist tap. It can in summer. Till mid-Novem- turn it on again. So until we ber, 231 terrorists died try- see them dismantling it, we ing to cross the LoC, not will not be able to have sub- much different from the fig- stantial dialogue.’’ ure of 288 last year, but dra- However, there is likely to matically above the figures Pakistani Ranger (left) presents sweets to BSF battalion be movement on other issues for the past decade. commander at Wagah on the occasion of Eid on Wednesday. flowing from the 12-point Officials point to these fig- agenda relating to boosting ures to show that violence in istan continues to pump in Jammu. people-to-people ties and the state is truly a cross-bor- terrorists and weapons. The According to an intelli- restoring transportation der phenomenon. Violence number of foreign militants gence officer, Pakistani ter- links. While the initial Pak- in the hinterland has been killed is expected to be rorists do not engage Indian istani response was some- coming down as indicated by around the 500 figure it was security forces in a day-to- what petulant, subsequent fewer attacks on security last year. day manner. ‘‘They lie low remarks indicate that Islam- forces and civilians. So far, Better surveillance equip- and conserve their ammuni- abad may be willing to take only 267 security force per- ment has made cross-border tion and explosives which up dialogue on the issues. sonnel have been killed movement of large numbers come across the LoC which means the annual fig- of people a lethal affair. with great difficulty,’’ MORE ON OUR WEBSITE ure could be well below the But terrorists continue to says an officer. ‘‘They Indo-Pak ties 445 killed last year, and the get across in ones and move out to conduct Complete coverage high of 577 in 2001. twos across the serrated ter- special operations that But, say the officials, Pak- rain in Poonch, Rajouri and almost always involve visit www.timesofindia.com

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8 Thursday,November 27, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi IIM bhais meet IT probe into doc’s wealth Patna: With the investigation wing of the income-tax de- partment here initiating a probe into his assets on Wednes- day, the kingpin of the IIM-CAT papers’ leak racket, Ranjit to look for CAT Singh, has come under both the CBI and IT scanner. The chief commissioner of income tax (CCIT), Bihar, TIMES NEWS NETWORK nal inquiries by each of the Ashutosh Singh Thakur, on Tuesday asked the director (in- IIMs, for another it is wel- vestigation), Bihar and Jharkhand, Vijay Sharma, to look Ahmedabad: They were come for “every probe will into the returns filed by Ranjit during the past six years. six directors in search of act as an input to better the Thakur notes under the amended provisions of the Income unity. They met, discussed, system”. Tax Act, 1961, the department could inquire into Ranjit’s as- laughed and said they were And, if IIM-Lucknow di- sets acquired during the past six years only. “six brothers”. But none rector Devi Singh, who feels He said on Wednesday he did not wait for instruction agreed with the other in set- “our house has been from the CBDT or a request from the CBI before ordering a ting their house in order. robbed,” the ‘brothers’ probe into Ranjit’s assets, since an IT investigation into the For the directors of the seem to be in need of get- don’s properties was a corollary of the CBI probe. TNN six IIMs, who met here on ting closer soon. “CAT is Wednesday to discuss the the IIMs’ baby and only the modalities of the CAT re- IIMs have the expertise to CBI had a tip-off 3 years ago test, the routes to an order- handle a test that requires ly house seemed different. picking up the cream,” said Patna: Ranjit ‘Don’ Singh would have been reined in So, if the leak of the CAT IIM-Ahmedabad director years before had the CBI not sat on the recommenda- question paper is an “out- Bakul Dholakia. tion of the Bihar government for a probe into medical sider’s job” for one and “We do not know what entrance tests of 1996 in the state. pointing fingers bring the might happen in the fu- According to sources, state police chief DP Ojha, matter to an end, it de- ture,” is what IIM-Banga- then state vigilance chief, had recommended a CBI serves nothing less than lore director Prakash Apte probe into the Combined Medical and Dental Admis- soul searching for another. has to say on the question sion Test (CMDT) in 1999. The state government ac- And, if one felt it is up to that’s been on everyone’s cepted the proposal and referred it to the CBI. After the Union HRD minister to mind — will the CAT scam some time, the CBI refused to take over the probe be- explain why he ordered an lead the HRD ministry take cause of its “pre-occupations”. TNN inquiry in addition to inter- over the conduct of CAT?

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Thursday,November 27, 2003 9 Murmurs over selection Tourism dept woos US citizens By Surojit Mahalanobis destination. retary Rathi Vinay Jha says TIMES NEWS NETWORK The Internet link will be US markets can be tapped called www.incrediblein- through the Internet as process for CBI top job New Delhi: The tourism de- dia.org. Three previous cam- ‘‘they are habitual surfers’’. partment is set to launch the paigns, predominantly tar- ‘‘According to an estimate, TIMES NEWS NETWORK Chaube, DG, Central Re- fourth edition of its online geting European countries, only 10 per cent Americans Names shortlisted serve Police Force (1966 campaign to attract Ameri- go on a world tour. That New Delhi: The selection led to a 22 per cent increase batch); B B Mishra, special can tourists. It has invited means about 90 percent are process for the new CBI di- K Chakravarty, direc- in tourist arrivals. The de- secretary, Home, (1967 tenders from ad agencies for partment has now decided to accessible through the Inter- rector is raising eyebrows tor-general of police, batch); U S Mishra, special running an online media synergise their print and net,’’ adds Jha. among top IPS officers. The Gujarat (1965 batch); S director, CBI (1968 batch). campaign on top 10 US sites, electronic campaigns. present CBI director, P C C Chaube, DG, Central In the matter of selec- Sharma, retires on Decem- Reserve Police Force tion of the CBI director, selling India as an attractive Tourism department sec- ber 5. (1966 batch); B B the SC had laid down the Highly placed sources Mishra, special secre- criteria in a judgment sug- said that the cabinet secre- tary, Home, (1967 gesting that the designated tary had recommended the batch); U S Mishra, committee shall draw up a names of 11 seniormost of- special director, CBI panel of IPS officers on the ficers to the Central Vigi- (1968 batch) basis of their seniority, in- lance Commission (CVC) tegrity, experience in in- ‘‘for consideration’’. These their having worked in the vestigation and anti-cor- officers fulfilled the crite- CBI before. These four offi- ruption work. ria laid down by the cers are from the four se- Sources alleged that the Supreme Court. niormost IPS batches of ‘‘limited meaning’’ given But apprehensions are 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968. by the CVC (that is, previ- being expressed in top IPS The seniority of the other ous experience of working circles that the criteria laid IPS officers in these batch- in the CBI) to the criteria by the apex court is being es has been ignored. laid down by the apex ‘‘bypassed’’ by the CVC The four shortlisted offi- court ignores the officers’ which has ‘‘shortlisted’’ cers are: K Chakravarty,di- experience in investigation only four of the 11 officers rector-general of police, and anti-corruption for the post on the basis of Gujarat (1965 batch); S C work. Down to business on the tourism of health By Bhaskar Roy to healthcare facilities in some TIMES NEWS NETWORK of the European countries due to overcrowding and rising New Delhi: The government cost. will soon come out with a poli- Even for simple medical cy, providing a number of in- treatment, the waiting period centives, to promote India as a in some parts of Europe is said major health tourism destina- to be six to eight months. After tion. calculating the travel cost, the The policy will target pa- best medical facilities in the tients from Europe and the private sector in India will Middle East countries for treat- work out to be cheaper than ment at super-speciality hospi- those in the UK, the ministry tals and ayurvedic treatment claims. facilities in India. The government is consider- A task force is being set up to ing certain incentives to pro- prepare the detailed guidelines mote health tourism. Cheap for this ambitious project, land on city outskirts for set- health ministry sources said on ting up hospitals and tax con- Tuesday. The secretaries of cessions on health insurance both health and the Indian sys- are among the proposals under tem of medicine, along with consideration. representatives of the tourism, ‘‘The facilities in the super- super-speciality hospitals and speciality hospitals in India are the civil aviation sector, will be at par with those anywhere in members of the task force. the world and our doctors are The basis for this project is a as skilled as their counterparts recent study that has pointed to in Europe and America,’’ a the increasing inaccessibility ministry official said.

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10 Thursday,November 27, 2003 ELECTIONS ’03 The Times of India, New Delhi

DID YOU HEAR THAT? Rajputs don’t know whom to pitch for BJP: Praise Centre By Smita Gupta the community in Ra- that the BJP candidate, Sans So how does he claim that he Adding to the confusion ❝ TIMES NEWS NETWORK jasthan, ‘‘orphaned’’ as Singh Bhatti, is a local with is a BJP supporter if he are Girdhar Singh and Gir- for Gehlot’s work Oh gaddhon ke raja (king much by Bhairon Singh a good track record. doesn’t like the RSS’ activi- war Singh, supporters of the By Smita Gupta Jaisalmer: In the shadow of Shekhawat’s departure from ties? ‘‘I think the BJP has a new Samajik Nyaya Manch, of potholes), oh bijilee ke Jaisalmer’s magical golden Sadhana has barely fin- TIMES NEWS NETWORK state politics as threatened ished, when Narendra good economic agenda,’’ he set up essentially to secure dushman, tera muskurana fort, gleaming in the morn- by their political rivals, the Singh, a farmer and a pro- says. But eventually,it turns reservation for the upper Barmer/Pali: Devikot village, on the road from ing sunshine, drinking tea gazab ho gaya (For Digvijay Jaats, who have regained claimed BJP supporter,leaps out his inclination towards castes to counter the Jaats. Jaisalmer to Barmer, has a mixed population but is Singh). and discussing politics is a control of the pan- in: ‘‘ In this Barmer the BJP had more to do with ‘‘The SNM will support the dominated by Rajputs and Muslims. Samu Khan is all group of young jeans-clad chayats and ensured Lok Sabha area, Shekhawat than the BJP. BJP wherever it has put up a praise for chief minister Ashok Gehlot. ‘‘Thanks to his Rajputs. a chunk of govern- POLL which runs along Now that the pride of the Rajput candidate; elsewhere, strict management during the drought, no one died ❞ The conversation is not ment jobs through the Indo-Pakistan community is vice-presi- it will work to defeat the here.” It is only too evident that Congress government just animated, it often bor- reservation. MALL border, the RSS dent, that loyalty has waned. BJP,’’says Girwar Singh. ensured wheat reached the remotest of villages during ders on fisticuffs. The bone Bhanwar Singh doesn’t have 500 Narendra Singh is also up- Later, sitting in Siwana, the drought, and cases of pilferage were almost un- of contention? Both the Con- Sadhana, a businessman, is votes, but it has managed to set that in Sheo, a neigh- the BJP’s Manvendra Singh heard of. Narendra bouring assembly segment, admits, ‘‘Caste is no more a This is clear not just from conversations with vil- Modi, gress and the BJP have field- a BJP loyalist: He talks elo- get tickets for its pracharaks ed Rajput candidates for quently of the party’s na- in two of the eight assembly the BJP did not field Hari guarantee of allegiance to a lagers, but from what local BJP leaders say.If the Con- Gujarat chief Singh Sodha. Hari Singh be- political party.’’ Jaisalmer,resulting in divid- tionalist agenda, the RSS’ seats here because the RSS is gress is taking credit for delivery and management of minister longs to the Rajput ed loyalties — a reflection so powerful within the BJP. relief, the BJP claims it was the Centre’s money that ‘‘excellent work’’ in the bor- sub-caste of Sodhas, MORE ON OUR WEBSITE partially of the confusion in der areas to made it possible. At the BJP office in Sardarpura, the ‘‘The RSS is only spread- who had come across constituency from where Gehlot is seeking re-election, tackle the Elections 2003 ing communal poison here. the border, and to office-in-charge L S Bhargava says: ‘‘Yes, the drought madarsas Complete coverage So, I am supporting the Con- which Narendra management was good, but who gave the money?’’ and finally, gress’ Janak Singh Bhatti.’’ Singh belongs. visit www.timesofindia.com Vote’s the good word for Diggy? By Suchandana Gupta promises and forget them. TIMES NEWS NETWORK But our’s is a government that has fulfilled its prom- Madhya Pradesh chief minister ises. We promised free Digvijay Singh; Campaign trail; electricity to small farm- Nov 24. ers, we gave it,’’ he said. 7:30 am: Digvijay Singh opens ‘‘We said we will allot the door of his room in the cir- land to Dalits, tribals and cuit house in Mandsaur, ready to poor people in urban start another day of campaign- slums, and fulfilled our ing. A group of Congressmen promise. We said we’ll in- greet him with garlands of troduce village courts and marigold. It’s Monday, the day of we did. We held panchay- Lord Shiva. Hence, Digvijay’s at elections at every level, first destination is the temple of implemented 27 per cent Pashupati. reservation for OBCs and 8:10 am: Breakfast at the resi- ensured quota for women dence of a former Congress MLA. Neelabh at the panchayat level.’’ The CM helps himself to rotis, He then takes on the BJP, saying 5:30 pm: Digvijay is thrilled af- dal, a lot of ‘sev bhujia’, halwa for it had fulfilled none of its prom- ter addressing the public meeting dessert, washed down ises. here. He is sure the Congress will with a concoction ex- 11:15 am: Next speech beat rivals hands down. Dusk tracted from boiled ‘bel- falls and the CM travels by road pattis’ (leaves of the at Satwas. ‘‘Uma Bharti called me a rakshas (de- sitting beside the driver’s seat. wood apple tree). ‘‘This After nine public meetings and brew is for health, wealth mon). Do I look like one? equal number of election briefin- and happiness,’’ he ex- She called me Raavan. gs, he dozes off in the car. plains. Have I kidnapped any- 8:50 am: After a short body’s Sita? She told 9:55 pm: The CM is mobbed at meeting with party workers, his Union minister Vikram Verma Sumawali when he promises re- jeep followed by Congress cars, that his head was full of rub- venge against BJP for the treat- speeds towards the helipad. The bish,’’ he alleged. ‘‘A woman who ment meted out to Mayaw-ati. CM gets into a small four-seater speaks such language cannot be Sumawali has a predominant chopper. Checks his schedule of responsible enough to govern a Dalit population. public meetings, covering 470 state of six crore people.’’ 9:45 pm: Decides to visit Lax- aero-nautical miles in five dis- 4:00 pm: On the way to Karhal mi Narayan temple, but the gates tricts. For the next one hour, he in Seopur district, the CM feels are shut. Addresses two meet- reads the papers, glances through the need for some nourishment. ings, asks party workers to come a magazine and then takes a nap. He nibbles on a handful of out in large numbers for Sonia 10:00 am: Party workers greet peanuts and swallows a pill for Gandhi’s rally on Tuesday. the CM at Haat Pipaliya in Dewas his sore throat. At Vijaypur, he 12:00 midnight: Still address- district. Digvijay delivers first challenges the BJP to prove cor- ing party workers. Will halt for speech of the day, ‘‘Netas make ruption charges against him. the night at the circuit house. Fatigue sets in on the Judeo theme By Law Kumar Mishra TIMES NEWS NETWORK EC to challenge Raipur: Both the BJP and the Congress now seem to tribunal order have forgotten the Judeo New Delhi: The Elec- episode which was evi- tion Commission is dent from the speeches of likely to seek legal Prime Minister Atal Bi- remedy to the stand- hari Vajpayee and the off on the issue of the leader of the Opposition transfer of the dis- Sonia Gandhi in Chhattis- trict collectors of garh on Wednesday. Jashpur and Bastar Vajpayee appealed to in Chhattisgarh after the naxalites to join main- Tuesday’s order of stream politics and shun the Central Adminis- violence. Sonia Gandhi, trative Tribunal on the other hand, re- quashing the EC’s or- called the contributions der. of her late husband, Rajiv A senior EC official Gandhi, in launching the said on Wednesday, panchayat raj scheme and ‘‘Legal experts are ex- providing 33 per cent amining the tri- reservation to women in bunal’s order and we the civic bodies and pan- will most likely go to chayat organisations. the Chhattisgarh Laloo Prasad Yadav,the High Court in Bi- RJD president, addressed laspur.’’ election meetings for the The tribunal’s Congress and drew more Bench in Jabalpur crowds than Sonia. had held that the EC’s Addressing a gathering order was ‘‘not only at Jagdalpur and Raipur, illegal, improper but Vajpayee refrained from against all the settled raising the Judeo issue as tenets of law’’. The he did earlier at Ambik tribunal also gave a apur in Surguja, consid- clean chit to the col- ered to be the stronghold lectors. TNN of Judeo. RSS men jump in to help BJP By K K Jha TIMES NEWS NETWORK Indore: The outcome in 65 assembly seats in Mal- wa-Nimad region, comprising 15 districts in south west Madhya Pradesh, will shape the future of the BJP in the state. Though considered a BJP bastion at one time, the party fared poorly in the 1998 elec- tions, when it won only 17 seats. This time the BJP is getting full support of the RSS. Of the 65 seats, RSS candidates are seeking elections on the BJP ticket from 17 constituencies. Interestingly, 13 of these candidates are pitted against Con- gress ministers in the Madhya Pradesh cabi- net. In the last assembly elections, the Congress won 48 seats, which largely helped it gain an absolute majority in the undivided Madhya Pradesh as- sembly.The RSS with the help of its sister organ- isations like the Sewa Bharti has made inroads into the tribal votebank of the Congress. In Dhar and Jhabua districts, considered an invincible fortress of the Congress, political equations have undergone a sea change with the RSS and other Sangh outfits emerging as a major force.

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ELECTION DIARY Amarinder violated code, says EC notice to Cong TOI TIMES NEWS NETWORK of conduct by Punjab chief Amarinder had used Punjab status as a national party be Amarinder had used the minister Amarinder Singh. government aircraft for elec- not suspended or with- Punjab government aircraft, New Delhi: The Election This was the second time tion campaign in Madhya drawn. Amarinder has also C90 VT EHY, between No- Commission (EC) served a within a week that the EC Pradesh. been served a notice as to vember 15 and 17 for cam- showcause notice on the had served a showcause no- This time, too, the EC has why he failed to abide by the paigning in MP.The EC veri- Congress on Wednesday for tice on the party. asked the Congress to reply model code of conduct. fied the facts and found violation of the model code The EC said that within a week as to why its EC sources said that them to be true.

Film actor Raza Muraad holds a bicycle, symbol of the Samajwadi Party, in Bhopal. EC action: On the direc- tives of the Election Com- mission, senior IPS officer S R Kalluri has been re- moved as security officer to Chhattisgarh chief min- ister Ajit Jogi. His cell- phone has also been seized. No TV publicity: The Election Commission on Tuesday announced a ban on public meetings and display of election matters on television 48 hours be- fore the conclusion of the December 1 assembly polls. Gowda protests: Jana- ta Dal (Secular) has lodged a protest with the Ra- jasthan government against the alleged failure of the police to provide se- curity cover to former prime minister H D Deve Gowda during his visit. BJP on the offensive: The BJP on Wednesday claimed that veteran Con- gress leader Arjun Singh’s reported apology to the people for the power crisis and bad roads in MP showed that the Digvijay government’s days were numbered. Clash averted: Timely intervention by the police prevented a clash between BJP and Congress work- ers at Gauri Nagar in In- dore where the two parties were holding poll meets. Dalits’ cause: The Cen- tre for Dalit Human Rights has demanded from the EC protection from crimi- nal elements who could force them to vote for a particular party.

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AP Old con: A judge paid trib- ing during a lesson. The 18- ute Wednesday to an 82- year-old female students year-old fraudster’s re- from Siegburg, western Ger- silience, then jailed him for many, confessed after the 30 months. Raymond Lewis teacher ate the pudding and Oughton was convicted of needed treatment from a defrauding the government doctor for the effects of the to the tune of $194,400 by drug. Secretly administering claiming benefits for an eld- drugs is punishable under erly couple he invented back German law by up to five in the 1970s. He had pleaded years in prison. AFP guilty to 11 counts of fraud at an earlier hearing. ‘‘One can- What’s in a name? Quick. not help but admire your re- What comes to mind when silience,’’ Victoria state you hear the word Corleone? County Court judge Michael Mafia. Right? Local lawyer Strong told Oughton, who Antonio Di Lorenzo began a has been handed a total of signature drive on Tuesday to 22 prison sentences since change the name of the hill doing time for the first time in town south of Palermo made famous by “The Godfather” 1939. AP books and films of the 1970s. Stationary driver: A man He thinks enough is enough who spun his car wheels and wants the city’s name while four times over the le- changed to protect the inno- gal alcohol limit is guilty of cent, so to speak. But not drunk driving, a British judge everyone agrees. “Some ruled Tuesday — even people come all the way from though the car did not move. countries such as Denmark High Court judge Sir Michael to get married here so they Harrison said a lower court can say they got married in a was wrong when it acquitted Mafia town,” he said. “It’s an David Alderton, who spun his historic illness that we have wheels in anger on the lawn to cure. As an honest citizen, outside his house in Chich- I can’t tolerate this kind of ester, southern England, after stuff,” he said. Reuters an argument with his wife last April. He was approached by Horse hair: The secret be- police, and a breath test hind the shiny mane of ac- showed he was almost four tress Sarah Jessica Parker is times over the legal limit for finally out. And, believe it or not, it’s horse shampoo. Ac- driving. AP cording to Anthony Dicky, Doggie ticket: Dogs will “The Sex And The City” have to pay to travel on A model presents a dress from Versace’s collection at High star’s hairdresser, his Berlin’s public transport sys- Fashion Week in Moscow on Tuesday. famous client uses Mane ‘N tem, according to plans un- should pay the same price as of 40 euros, presumably paid Tail shampoo, which costs veiled Wednesday by the city a child, 1.4 euros. If it is by its owner. AFP just three pounds a bottle. network’s operating authority found without a valid ticket “Tons of celebrities are High on pudding: A Ger- for next year. As well as a on the system, which in- using it but they keep it un- man cookery teacher needed package of modifications to cludes buses, trams, a subur- der wraps because they medical treatment after three the series of annual, monthly ban rail and an underground know it sounds so non- students put amphetamines and cut-price tickets, the rail, the offending canine will glam,” The Sun quoted him into a pudding she was mak- BVG authority says dogs be liable for the full adult fine as saying. ANI Statue seeks cash to regain Liberty By Winnie Hu Michael R. Bloomberg ple who donate $100 or more. stallation of metal detectors New York: Two years ago, announced that the National to the campaign. and X-ray machines where the nation’s leaders urged a Park Service had teamed “The statue made a lasting visitors board ferries to the panicky public to strike up with a private foundation impression on my grandpar- island. There are more park back against terrorism by and a business giant, Ameri- ents when they first came to police officers and private embracing the normalcy of can Express, to open a America early in the 20th guards. everyday life. nationwide campaign to century,” Scorsese said on Garrett said that Congress But the failure to reopen raise money for the statue. Tuesday at a news confer- has increased annual operat- the Statue of Liberty after The city had requested ence at Battery Park. “I hope ing funds for the Statue of the World Trade Center federal funds, but withdrew that people will take the time Liberty and Ellis Island by attack became a silent that request when American to look closely at the ideas about $1 million, to $11 mil- reminder that New York Express pledged at least $3 and values the statue repre- lion, and is expected to in- and the world had changed. million. The company will sents.” crease it again next year. Now there are plans to re- donate 1 cent for every cred- Cynthia Garrett, a Nation- Still, Garrett said that she open the statue by next year, it card purchase in Decem- al Park Service superintend- approached the private Stat- after security is improved at ber and January. ent who oversees the Statue ue of Liberty-Ellis Island the 117-year-old statue, in- In addition, American Ex- of Liberty,said that an open- Foundation last spring to cluding the addition of press has commissioned the ing date had not been set. raise additional money. emergency exits. The Na- film director Martin Scors- Since the Sept. 11 attack, “It’s not that somebody tional Park Service, which ese to produce and narrate a the federal government has said no,” she said. “It’s maintains the statue, has es- documentary about the stat- has spent more than $2 mil- that this private support is timated the cost at $5 mil- ue that will be shown on the lion to improve security at part of the tradition of the lion. History Channel on Jan. 15, the statue and on Ellis Is- Statue of Liberty from her On Tuesday, Mayor and given as a video to peo- land. This includes the in- very beginning.” NYT News Service

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Reuters Warning: China warned Taiwan Wednesday it would respond UN rebukes Iran strongly if it moved closer to a vote on independence. Reuters for nuke coverup Vienna: The United Nations cooperation and openness”. nuclear watchdog con- The United States sees demned Iran on Wednesday Iran as part of an interna- over an 18-year coverup of tional “axis of evil” and be- its nuclear energy pro- lieves it has been using a se- gramme and said future vio- cretive atomic energy pro- lations of non-proliferation gramme to screen develop- obligations would not be tol- ment of nuclear arms — an erated. accusation Tehran denies. The UN International IAEA head Mohamed El- Atomic Energy Agency Baradei told a news confer- (IAEA) stopped short of re- ence he was pleased with the porting Iran to the Security resolution, but added: “It is Council, which could have pretty clear that the board is imposed sanctions. However, sending a very serious mes- arms experts suspect sage that failures in the fu- Tehran has more secrets and ture will not be tolerated and may face the UN’s supreme that the board will use all op- body in the future. tions available to it to deal The IAEA governing with these failures.” board adopted a resolution Iran hailed the resolution that “strongly deplores” as an “achievement” for Iran’s coverup over the past Tehran.“This resolution 18 years of a programme proved that Iran has fol- that involves uranium en- lowed its peaceful nuclear richment and plutonium re- activities with transparency processing — both of which and truthfulness,” foreign could be pointers to a nu- ministry spokesman Hamid clear arms programme. Reza Asefi said. But the resolution, which The US had hoped to send A still image taken from an amateur video made available to a French journalist on Tuesday shows militants firing a missile was put to the board after a Iran to the Security Council that hit a DHL cargo jet over Baghdad on November 22, 2003. The images show (anti-clockwise from top left) masked men week of haggling between for sanctions for “non-com- posing in a field with various launchers, a missile being launched, smoke as the missle is launched and an aircraft flying to- France, Germany and pliance” with its obligations ward Baghdad airport with what appears to be smoke trailing from a wing. The DHL cargo plane made an emergency landing Britain and US, also “wel- under the nuclear Non-Pro- at Baghdad airport. The attackers were shown escaping by car. comes Iran’s offer of active liferation Treaty. Reuters Rocket attack greets Straw EU warns Tigers against war Money motive Colombo: The European support for ending the war rebel website said the Tigers behind charges: Baghdad: Britain’s foreign secretary said on Wednes- Union on Wednesday that has left 65,000 dead, met told Patten, the EU’s exter- day a swifter transfer of power to Iraqis would improve warned Sri Lanka’s Tamil with guerrilla commander nal relations commissioner, Jackson lawyer security, hours after guerrillas fired rockets at the Tiger rebels not to revert to Vellupillai Prabhakaran in they would not return to Baghdad compound where he was staying. war and advised the ruthless the rebel capital of war, but put the onus on Los Angeles: Michael Jack- Jack Straw, on a surprise visit, told reporters he had guerrilla group to resume Kilinochchi. maintaining the current son’s lawyer vowed to ‘‘land been unaware of the blasts that echoed across Baghdad peace talks to end two He said he urged the ceasefire on the govern- like a ton of bricks’’ on any- on Tuesday night, when loudspeakers in the sprawling decades of fighting. Tigers to sincerely pursue ment. one who besmirches his compound of the US-British administration sounded ‘‘I made it plain ... that if peace talks that followed a ‘‘Our leader ... told Mr. Pat- client’s reputation and char- an alarm. violence returns, it will ceasefire brokered by Nor- ten it is not at all in the ged that molestation charges “Attack. Take cover. This is not a test,” blared loud- bring the impeccable con- way in February 2002. hands of the Liberation against the entertainer were speakers at the compound in one of Saddam Hussein’s demnation and hostility of Six rounds of talks were Tigers to ensure that there is motivated by money. former palace complexes. Sirens wailed, flares lit up the international communi- held, but the rebels pulled no return to violence,’’ the ‘‘If anybody doesn’t think the night sky and US helicopters clattered overhead. ty,’’ Chris Patten, a top EU out in April, saying they rebels’ top political official, based upon what’s happened Straw acknowledged that security conditions in Iraq envoy, told reporters after wanted more self-governing S.P. Thamilselvan, told so far that the true motiva- remained difficult.“I’m absolutely sure that a more meeting with the top rebel powers. TamilNet website. It is ‘‘com- tion ... is anything but mon- rapid political process will assist the security situa- leader. There was no immediate pletely’’ up to the govern- ey ... then they’re living in tion,” he told a news conference. AP Patten, who is in Sri Lan- comment from the rebels. ment ‘‘to see there is no re- their own Neverland,’’ Mark ka to show international Earlier, however, a pro- turn to war,’’ he said. AP Geragos said. 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14 Thursday,November 27, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Sons of the Soil GM for Survival A THOUGHT FOR TODAY New Delhi: Shivaramiah Shantharam True, that’s why you should have a good Unravelling the Idea of India of Biologistics, a Washington-based biotech critical evaluation system that will go into Almost one out of every four people in the world is Chinese, consultancy, is an expert on genetically questions of viability,toxicity and so on. you know, even though many of them might not look it. By Dilip D’Souza The Constitution urged us to turn our- modified (GM) products. In his earlier Is it worthwhile for developing countries selves into an educated whole by instituting — Joseph Heller Patrick Harker, dean of Wharton Business avatar as director,US department of agri- to incur the high costs of making and primary education for all, and that by 1960. culture (USDA), he formulated environment marketing GM products? School, told The Times of India recently Has that urging translated into reality? that he finds in India an “incredible sense and people-sensitive regulatory frameworks Yes, provided you have put in place safety The Constitution guarantees justice to for promoting the new technology. “A structures that will examine all aspects of Reinventing the Dragon of optimism and self-confidence”. It’s a every Indian, unqualified by caste, wealth “very exciting” time, he said, because of blanket rejection of all GM products is it. Then it will eventually become cost- China plans to revolutionise or religion. Would the victims of Delhi 1984, unjustified,” he tells Narayani Ganesh on effective. But don’t build a regulatory the “feel-good” factor he senses here. Bombay 1992-93, or Gujarat 2002, picking the global video industry But I wonder if dean Harker, or anyone, the sidelines of a national symposium on regime that is so demanding that it is not just three great Indian tragedies, agree that “Relevance of GM technology to Indian commensurate with the nature and quan- China seems set on a single-minded attack mode to asked some other Indians how they feel that promise has been fulfilled? become a superpower to reckon with on multiple fronts in about the economy, or anything. Indians, agriculture and food security” organised tum of risk. Proper risk-assessment should the future. First it won the right to host the 2008 Olympics for example, whose family and friends The truth is, the madness we’ve seen in by Gene Campaign: tell you what is risky; then you create the required regulation to minimise that risk. in Beijing, then it joined an elite club of just two member- have perished in Assam recently. It’s Assam, Bihar and Maharashtra of late is What kind of regulatory framework for GM What advice would you give to the Indian nations when it sent a man into space in October, and last our various sons of the soil, of course, hardly a matter the Constitution can solve. products would you suggest for India? government on this? week it announced a government-funded project to pro- hard at work soiling their hands. In So what if Article 19 gives us the freedom I would suggest an independent statutory Make sure you do proper risk assessment; mote an alternative to DVDs which the state news agency Mumbai, they not only stop a railway to move anywhere in our country? More regulatory body independent of ministerial put together a risk-management plan; and Xinhua said was aimed to “attack the market share” of the recruitment exam, they even vandalise a persuasive by far is the logic a son of the interference. It should be autonomous with then communicate that risk effectively. global video format. Called EVD for Enhanced Video Disc, railway office. soil mouths. Logic like that, a son like that, enforcement powers, staffed with good qua- I took a look at the department of biotech- work on which has been going on since 1999 with funding In Assam, they prevent Biharis from has contempt for a document written half lity risk-assessment experts working full- nology’s vision document and found that it from China’s State Trade and Economic Commission, taking a railway recruitment exam. In a century ago. time: Scientists, ecologists, environmental was too general — full of motherhood and the new home-grown format promises five times the Bihar, they “retaliate” by beating up Indeed: The theory of sons of the soil scientists and other experts who can do apple pie statements, spread too thin, a mere image quality of DVDs, higher computer data storage Assamese students in trains. Back in Assam is pernicious, wrong, foolish and several comprehensive risk assessment. wish list. There was neither a roadmap nor capacity and finer quality images for high-definition TVs. again, they “retaliate” for this “retaliation” other adjectives I could come up with. Should all countries follow an international clear policy on addressing social, ethical or Although currently priced at around 2000 yuan ($240) by killing Biharis: 50 and counting as But not because it violates the spirit framework? economic needs of society. There is much which is on the high side compared to 700 yuan ($85) for a I write. of a solemn public document. It is so Absolutely not. Environmental risk as- confusion about whether to have or not have domestically produced DVD player, the EVD is expected to What’s left that’s Indian? In nearly because it destroys us: You, me, Assamese, sessment is the process by which you a biotech policy.Eminent scientists like Prof cost less as the technology becomes widely accepted and 60 years, the spirit of Indianness we Biharis, Maharashtrians. Indians. Sons estimate or assess the interaction of the M S Swaminathan and biotech entrepre- economies of scale come into play. Up to 1.8 million EVD have found the strongest expression for is of the soil. Humans. I mean more than 50 In- organism you intro- neurs have said sets are expected to be manufactured in 2004 when they go hostility towards other dian corpses across Assam, duce into the envi- that it’s high time on sale, which will be boosted to over nine million in 2006. Indians. We become sons of this thing called “retalia- ronment. That is India had a national The reasons for China aggressively opting for its own some map-drawn tracts of tion”. With their recent Q&A why it is so impor- biotech policy. But version of an alternate video disc standard are not hard to soil when it suits us, sons cycle of retaliation, Bihar tant to conduct field Labelling of GM foods the DBT spokes- see. Besides its overarching motivation to carve out a who seem to have been and Assam have lived trials before GM is not an issue. It person has said that unique place in the global economy and shake off brought up only to assault once more through the seeds are made there is no require- previous dependence on foreign technologies as the other sons. mayhem that is the only has been politicised. available for com- ment for a separate Communist Party newspaper The People’s Daily recently Yet this Indian soil has thing sons of the soil There are all those mercial cultivation. biotech policy. This put it, there is also the fact that the majority of the world’s nurtured each of us, made ever produce. products out there Peculiarities of is not surprising DVD players — about 60 per cent — are made in China. us all what we are. Indian Tamil Nadu and Karna- that are not labelled. weather and soil because, tradition- This provides a perfect platform to launch EVD — soil, I want to emphasise. taka have seen some of conditions need to So why single out ally, official India is especially since large parts of China’s economy are still The perversity only starts the same, instigated by the GM products? be taken into Udayshankar so secretive; it is controlled by the state and as such it is in a better position there. In Assam, some sons dispute over the Cauvery. account, so every averse to public than most countries to ensure that such new technology of that soil call themselves How long before Maha- country has to work out its own risk- consultation and accountability. takes hold in the domestic market. Secondly, if things ULFA; in Maharashtra, rashtrians are beaten up management and regulation. go according to plan and the DVD format is ultimately other sons of this soil call themselves in the north, in “retaliation” for what Why promote GM products when it is jettisoned, it would mean that China would no longer have the Shiv Sena. Both speak the identical their brothers of the soil did in Mumbai? But isn’t it the case that most field trial data distribution, not production, that is creating to shell out huge licensing fees or make royalty payments language of “outsiders” taking away jobs Does all this qualify as protecting the lacks credibility because it is obtained from food insecurity in most places? to DVD patent holders. Of course, for all this to come about that “rightfully” belong to “locals”. But interests of sons of the soil? the same MNCs who are supplying the GM Even in the US, 14 million poor lack western content providers would have to support the new ULFA is a “banned outfit”, regularly called There is no fault line among us Indians seeds in the first place? access to food because of distribution format too, and critics think that’s not going to happen in anti-national. The Shiv Sena, we are told, is that we are not avidly exploring today. It is the job of the regulatory authorities problems. In fact, the Bill and Melinda a hurry. But China doesn’t really care too much because filled with fervent patriots. So fervent that Maybe we must, maybe every nation has to do a competent job of verifying whether Gates Foundation has made available a its own market is colossal. And its intellectual property they are an important part of the coalition to endure such exploration as it matures; the data is reliable or not. When fellow software called Second Harvest to track regulations are still of the wink-wink, nudge-nudge that runs the country today: A feel-good I don’t know. I do know that I am now scientists submit their research work for where the hungry are, where the surplus variety as far as piracy is concerned. thought if there ever was one. afraid it will tear us apart before it wears peer review,that’s what they do. Hard-nosed food is available, so that distribution logis- In Maharashtra, the Congress chief itself out. In a real sense, the fissures questions are asked; statistics are checked tics can be worked out. But to attribute Political iftar becomes a debating minister and his NCP deputy also speak put fear in me every day. I am frightened, thoroughly. That’s why regulatory bodies all food security problems to faulty point as Eid celebrations conclude the same language. Actually, politicians in as a non-Assamese, to enter Assam. (As should have experts as members. Take the distribution is an over-simplification. every state find it politically lucrative to do frightened, I’m sure, as an Assamese case of pharma companies conducting clin- We have to be mindful of the huge VIEW so. Sometimes they even do it outside their must feel to enter Bihar, or a Bihari must ical trials for new drugs. Is that data not tak- opportunity costs caused by delays in the states. In 1994, the Sena’s Bal Thackeray feel as he travels to Mumbai to take exams.) en at face value? It is not feasible to conduct diffusion of modern biotechnology. The went to Goa and urged audiences to “keep Frightened to speak my mother-tongue, parallel research to test out every R&D pro- problem is, there is too much discourse, A welcome maturing of non-Goans out of Goa” by implementing a Tamil, in Bangalore. Frightened to speak duct — but certainly,the results can be veri- which has in itself become an industry. permit system. Hindi in Gujarat, where a friend and I, fied with thorough analysis and scrutiny. Biotech and GM crops have entered India our democratic culture The irony of this advice coming from college kids at the time, were once man- Why do you say that labelling GM products through a tortuous route, which is largely is unnecessary? What about consumers’ right o argue that the politicisation of iftars is a a non-Goan seems to have escaped both handled for doing so. private sector-driven. But, in the interest to choice? Tperversion, which subverts its essential religious Mr Thackeray and his listeners. Where is The hatred that builds on either side of of Indian farmers, private-public sector meaning, is to get it wrong on both counts, namely, this logic, if it is logic, going to leave us? all those fault lines, that arcs too often I didn’t say that; I said labelling is not an partnership is important. The absence of the nature of religion and the nature of politics, Will we pursue it even if it means more lives across the lines, can have only one result: issue. It has been politicised. There are regulation is bad, but regulations that are particularly of the democratic kind. Except in rather lost? Will we hold to it until it breaks us? Murder. Bear witness, Delhi. Bear witness, all those products out there that are not too stringent and limiting only add to the naive liberal textbooks, religion has never been any What happened to those constitutional Gujarat. Bihar. Mumbai. Assam. Bear labelled. So why single out GM products? cost. For a GM crop to get approval, it costs one thing. It is as much about theology as it is about guarantees that any Indian can settle witness to this beast that is leaving a nation, But slackness in labelling other products can- $8 million in the US and $12 million in the rituals. As much about austerity, self-denial and and work anywhere in India? even the idea of a nation, in tatters. not justify leaving GM products unlabelled. EU. You have to strike a balance. philosophical meditation as about social, political and cultural theatre. To reduce the meaning of Ramazan to some fundamentalist interpretation of the canonical texts is, therefore, to take away this Do We Really Need complex religious semiotics. Throughout human Merchant in Venice history,but particularly in the subcontinent, religion By Tino de Sa onerous duties, I set out great many tourist lan- has always been woven into the life and fabric of with two friends on a guages. To my amazement To Go To War? the community — a matter not of individual belief, This is probably the Judging Others grand tour of Europe in he began speaking to me in By Osho a la early modern European Protestantism, but of most amazing coincidence a not-so-grand manner — halting, if accented, Hindi. Judge not, that ye be not communitarian practice. By trying to incorporate the you’ve ever heard of. knapsacks on our backs Thinking that he would Each decade a great war relationship, how medita- judged. For with what month of Ramazan into the ritual political calendar, I’d just been selected and Eurail tickets in be unfamiliar with India, is needed to unburden tion is related with war. But judgment ye judge, ye India’s politicians are no more than acknowledging to the IAS, and was a our pockets. I told him I was from Bom- humanity of neurosis. You I can see the relationship. shall be judged: and this basic fact. Indeed, this month, as the holy month probationer under training A fortnight into our bay. With a little encour- may be surprised to know My understanding is with what measure ye of Ramazan began, US president George W Bush, in Hoshangabad. The head- wanderings found us in agement, he became very that in the First World War, this: that if even one per mete, it shall be continuing a tradition started by his predecessor Bill quarters of this pictures- Venice. Two days of the voluble and rather fluent. psychologists became aware cent of humanity becomes measured to you again. Clinton, hosted an iftar dinner in the White House. que district lazes along Campanile, the Bridge of When...? How...? He of a very rare, strange meditative, wars will dis- Let’s look at the other side. Should the political the Narmada, in the very St Matthew, vii.1,2 Sighs, the glass-works and seemed quite poor and phenomenon. When the war appear — and there is ✥ culture of a democracy not take into account heart of Madhya Pradesh. outrageously priced gondo- uneducated, in his seven- continued, suddenly the no other way. That much the sensibilities of its people? The evolution of Exactly opposite this small las. The fellow I now ties and clearly not the proportion of people who quantity of meditative Abu Jariya, an inhabi- democracy and nation-states in the West, let’s town, across the river, lies speak of was not really globe-trotting sort. He used to go mad fell almost energy has to be released. tant of Basra, coming to remember, was made possible because of the the still smaller village of a merchant: more of an smiled enigmatically, and to nil. Suicides were not If one per cent of humanity Medina and being emergence of a statist public culture that subsumed Budni, known locally for Italian pheriwala. He sold then disclosed that he had committed, nor murders. — that means one in convinced of the within it the life of the community or nation. This its wooden toys and little kitsch baubles and post- spent three years in India People even stopped going hundred people — becomes inspired mission of culture was overtly secular but, in its symbolism and else. You haven’t heard of cards of a wide variety. — as a POW in the Second mad. That was strange — meditative, things will Prophet Muhammad inspiration, it clearly had Christian roots. In India, it? Unsurprising! Neither I was about to make a World War.Having enlisted what has that to do have a totally different asked him, according for a variety of reasons, there has always remained had I until then. Surround- purchase when Dilip called in Mussolini’s army, he with war? Maybe murders arrangement. Greed will be to a Muslim historian, a vast distance between the life of the state, as ed by a ring of forest- out that there was cheaper was captured in South declined because murderers less; naturally, poverty will for some great rule reflected in official rituals, and the life of the people, shrouded hills, Budni is stuff available at another East Asia, and then sent to joined the army, but what be less. Poverty is not there of conduct. as reflected in their diverse religious and community not even a dot on most stall. He spoke in Hindi, as a POW camp so remotely happened to people who because things are scarce; ‘‘Speak evil of no one,’’ practices. By belatedly trying to bridge this maps; just a wayside stop was our wont when we located, that it did not commit suicide? Maybe poverty is there because peo- answered the Prophet. divide, the Indian political class is showing a on the Bhopal road. wished to signal lower even have a fence. they also joined the army, ple are hoarding, because Sayings of the Prophet better appreciation of this democratic imperative What’s all this got to do prices or bargains else- ‘Where?’, I asked. ‘‘India but then what happened people are greedy. If we live ✥ than secular or fundamentalist critics. As for with Venice, you may well where. You can imagine is such a vast country,’’ to people who go mad? right now, there is enough, Kindle not the coals of iftars becoming page-3 events, blame it on the wonder. Patience. my shock when the post- he replied, ‘‘you may And then again in the the earth has enough to give sinners by rebuking media rather than the politician. On completion of my card seller said Namaste! not know the place. It was Second World War the us. But we plan ahead, we them, lest thou be burnt training, I received my But then, I rationalised, a village called Budni.’’ same thing happened, in hoard — then trouble arises. with the flame of the COUNTERVIEW first posting as sub- we were obviously Indian, Needless to say, all three a greater proportion; and Just imagine birds hoard- fire of their sins. divisional magistrate. Be- and these merchants of us bought his over- then the link was known, ing... then a few birds will It’s a slur on the holy fore I assumed these parrot greetings in a priced post-cards. the association. become rich and a few will Ecclesiasticus, viii.13 Humanity goes on accu- become poor; then Ameri- ✥ spirit of Ramazan mulating a cer- can birds will be- No man should be CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS tain quantity of come the richest, judged by others here in irst, we had the social transformation of iftar. neurosis, mad- and the whole this life, for the good or From the traditional water and date evening meal air force plane during campaign travelling. F Unfair Practices ness: each de- world will suffer. evil deeds that they do. taken after sunset to break the day-long Ramazan fast, A ‘‘hefty’’ fine, as suggested in your cade, it has to But they don’t Nevertheless deeds may it became an ostentatious feast held more to show off article, is but a mere rap on the knuckles Your editorial comment on the extreme throw it out. hoard, so there is lawfully be judged, but the host’s wealth and standing in society.Then began for a cash-rich party and wagging a stern nature of the election commissioner’s So when there no poverty. Have not the men, whether the political takeover of iftar. Arguably, there was a finger will do nothing to prevent such reaction to the misuse of the state aircraft is war — war you ever seen a they be good or evil. time when iftar served as a useful interface between by the Congress president is exactly what major disregard for rules. If rules and means when hu- bird poor? Ani- The Cloud of politicians and Muslim community leaders. However, allows for the breaking of laws and the concomitant punishment are there, they manity has gone mals in the forest THE Unknowing, xxix even this limited exercise would seem a corruption of consequent ‘‘chalta hai’’ attitude that per- apply to everyone, and have to be enforced mad as a whole — — nobody is poor, the original meaning and purpose of iftar; far from vades the electoral process. The Congress in a manner that will ensure no further then there is no SPEAKING nobody is rich. In ✥ being a stand-alone ceremony, the breaking of the president is no ordinary person, and misuse by any party in future. need to go mad TREE fact you don’t Our duty is to believe day’s fast is a symbolic act that has no meaning neither is the 110-year-old party.Therefore, — Jaya Jaitly, New Delhi privately; what is even see fat birds that for which we have outside of Ramazan, the Muslim holy month devoted both should have set an example. It is not a the point? All are mad — and lean and thin birds. All sufficient evidence, entirely to inner reflection and prayers. It’s a small misdemeanour like stamping a few Hindi Bias then there is no point in the crows are almost alike; and to suspend perversity then that today’s iftar has degenerated fake ballot papers. Indira Gandhi, as prime trying to become mad you cannot even recognise our judgment when into a showpiece do, a see-and-be-seen event hosted minister, had lost an election petition filed This refers to your report on the recruit- privately. When one nation which is which. Why? They we have not. to demonstrate the politician’s clout with the against her for misusing a mere govern- ment to class D jobs in the railways is murdering another, and enjoy,they don’t hoard. John Lubbock Muslim electorate. If the popularity of politicians ment official. Here, Mrs Sonia Gandhi re- (Nov 20). True, the railways are an all-India there is so much suicide Even to become fat means ✥ hosting iftars has come to be measured by the peatedly uses the same aircraft at the cost service. But for the last 150 years, vacan- and murder, what is the you are hoarding inside comparative lavishness of their feasts, the latter of the people of Chhattisgarh, despite legal cies of gangmen and khalasis were always point of doing these things the body — that is a miserly Judgment is not have also become a convenient backdrop for shady and election experts abounding in her par- filled up locally as and when they arose. on your own? You can mind. Misers become the knowledge of political deal-making. ty.Even the prime minister, who alone is An all-India (Hindi) written examination simply watch TV or you constipated; they cannot fundamental laws; it is Far worse, with beauty queens and corporate czars allowed to use such an aircraft, pays for the for a few thousand jobs will only create can read it in the papers. even throw out. They hoard: knowing how to apply a providing the glamour quotient at iftar parties, the problems. Applicants from Hindi-speaking knowledge of them. The problem is not war, they control even defecation, once purely religious ritual has also metamorphosed states will be at an advantage because they the problem is individual they go on hoarding Charles Gow into a page-3 fashion statement. The irony cannot From timesofindia.com can take the test from anywhere in India. neurosis. A man who has even rubbish. Hoarding is ✥ be greater. For Muslims, Ramazan is an obligatory But candidates who opt for a regional a habit. exercise in self-purification. It’s a time of worship, become enlightened looks Give your decisions, Game Fame language can take the test only at the To live in the moment, reading the Qur’an, doing charity and purifying one’s deep into the cause of never your reasons; centre within the region. The new scheme to live in the present, to behaviour through good deeds. The fasting and the The Indian Olympic Association things. Buddha, Christ, Your decisions may be is definitely partial to job-seekers from live lovingly,to live in friend- severe restrictions that go with Ramazan are specifi- president Suresh Kalmadi and his team Krishna, they have been right, your reasons are Hindi-speaking areas. ship, to care... the world cally intended to instil compassion for the less fortu- deserve praise for winning the tug of looking into the root, and sure to be wrong. — V Krishnamachari, Mumbai will be totally different. The nate and build self-control and will power.Humility is war to host the 2010 Commonwealth they have been trying to Earl of Mansfield individual has to change, the key word here. Indeed, lie, slander, greed and Games against stiff competition from Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page tell you: Change the root — ✥ Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New because the world is nothing covetousness are all sins that Muslims believe will Canada. 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Local flavour Santa’s in town Competition meet A salesgirl displays a bottle of a Around 250 Santa Clauses and French minister for research, native Philippine wine called angels can be booked in Berlin via Claudie Haignere, is Basi at an exhibition, being a hotline. On average, a Santa representing her country at held in Manila as part of the Claus gets twelve assignments the Competitiveness Council week-long Philippine Business during Christmas, which brings meet of the European Union Conference him around 300 euros in Brussels

ADVERTISING Torrent to infuse Air travel looking up this winter UNDER SCANNER By Byas Anand and international tourists. el towards the year-end. offloading at the airports,’’ he TIMES NEWS NETWORK While some charters have al- ‘‘Most of the outbound seats added. ready been booked from Ger- from India have already been While a bulk of the corporate Big Mac: Not Rs 100 crore in New Delhi: It’s carnival time many and the UK, domestic air- booked by either expatriates go- travel out of India is West- for the Indian travel industry. lines have withdrawn their ing home for Christmas or by bound, the desi leisure traveller Riding on increased business Apex fares to this sector for delegations returning after is still choosing southeast Asian loving it enough new facilities travel and higher individual most of December,’’ says an air- business meetings and conven- destinations. ‘‘Southeast Asia, spending on leisure activities, line industry insider. tions. There are some leisure particularly Bangkok and Hong By Rashmee Z Ahmed By Swati Bharadwaj-Chand production before the end the Indian travel trade is look- That’s not all, industry watch- bookings as well, but a chunk is Kong, continues to be the most TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK of 2005, with construction ing at a very busy winter this ers say the country is also set to still being taken up by the cor- favoured destination. There are London: After a lean year of bad Euro- expected to begin in the year. witness its best-ever outbound porate traveller,” says Manas no economy class seats available Ahmedabad: Torrent pean sales figures and even worse world- next couple of months. Total arrivals into India is travel this winter as economy Advisory CEO Ravi on the sector till end of Decem- Pharma is planning to in- wide publicity, McDonalds’ controver- The new facility is ex- poised to touch a high of three class tickets to almost all desti- Bhoothalingam. ber,’’ says Ankur Bhatia of ject around Rs 100 crore in sial beef fat and French fries saga has re- pected to manufacture million by this year-end, com- nations across the globe have The shortage of seats out of Amadeus India. ‘‘The country is setting up new facilities to claimed public attention with a banned tablets and capsules to be- pared to around 1.6 million in been sold out a month in ad- India and the government delay looking at an 18 per cent growth manufacture API (active advert said to ‘‘mislead’’ consumers gin with. The company is 2002. Even domestic travel is on vance. in announcing the open sky pol- over last year in both domestic pharmaceutical ingredi- a high, which has led airlines to Even the business and first icy have further cramped the sit- and international travel.” about the way it turns potatoes into slen- ents) and formulations to expected to produce 126 der finger chips with a high salt, sugar, crore tablets exclusively withdraw their much-touted dis- class on most airlines are choc- uation. ‘‘The announcement ‘‘This is the best November cater to the lucrative US counts on advance purchase of a-block till mid-December. Trav- came a little too late. Airlines that the industry has witnessed animal fat and calorie count. generic market. for its US operations, The all-new ad put out by McDonald’s, which it plans to market tickets to certain destinations. el agents, airlines and industry need at least a year to prepare as yet, both in terms of current The new facilities, be- ‘‘Goa remains the hot spot, watchers attributed this surge for new flights. This is now re- sales and forward bookings,’’ the world’s largest fast-food chain, is ing built according to through its new US sub- part of a portfolio of hip promotional sidiary. In terms of API, both among domestic travellers to a high level of corporate trav- sulting in fully booked seats and says an airline official. USFDA specifications, AFP material backed by pop star Justin Tim- will be coming up at Chat- the new facility will dou- berlake’s new single ‘‘I’m loving it’’. tral, close to the compa- ble the company’s manu- But many, it seems are not ‘‘loving it’’ ny’s existing manufactur- facturing capacity. Tatas plan 10 new and certainly not as much as ing facilities, sources said. While TPL’s API plant McDonald’s would want. The new investment has capacity of 15 MT of The banned ad, censored by Britain’s will be in addition to the bulk drugs per annum, it business hotels strictly self-regulated but severe adver- Rs 50 crore the company is has a formulations capac- TIMES NEWS NETWORK tising authorities, features a photograph pumping in to expand its ity of 500 crore tablets per of a potato in a red box of fries. It is existing API capacity at annum, 68 crore of hard New Delhi: The Tata group is penning an headlined, ‘‘The story of our fries (end of Chattral for the US mar- and soft gelatin for cap- expansion strategy for its business hotel story)’’. Somewhat contentiously, it now ket. “The project team was sules and around 300 crore division — Taj Hotels. Eyeing a surge in turns out, the ad claims the company put into place about a injectibles. In line with its corporate travel, Taj plans to set up 10 new makes fries almost like mum at home. It month ago and the project thrust on overseas mar- business hotels across the country, includ- selects potatoes, peels them, slices and is in the design stages,” a kets like Europe and US, ing one in Gurgaon, within three years. fries. source said. TPL has, in the last fiscal, ‘‘Six of them will be in non-metro cities. But early on Wednesday, the food When contacted, TPL modernised its API and While three new cities — Gurgaon, Coim- chain’s apparently basic bucolic claims officials confirmed the de- formulations facilities to batore and Kanpur — have been identified, were ruled out of order by advertising velopment and said the international standards at a team is working to shortlist the others. watchdog, the Advertising Standards project would be funded a cost of US$ 15 million. We also want to have a hotel near the Chen- Authority (ASA). The ASA’s Donna mainly through internal While, the API and for- nai airport and one in north Mumbai,’’ Jy- Mitchell told TNN, it was merely up- accruals. “We have mulations facilities have oti Narang, COO, Taj business hotels said. holding complaints from members of around Rs 120 crore in been approved by regula- The firm will initially look at a manage- the British public and the UK’s Food surplus cash. Besides we tory authorities from ment contract any of the existing proper- Commission from earlier this year. are a zero debt company,” Brazil, Philippines and ties in these locations, she said. ‘‘If we can- The complaints crucially allege that an official said. Algeria, the facilities have not find a suitable property, we are even McDonald’s has missed out less savoury According to officials, recently been approved by open to going in for a greenfield opera- parts of the great French Fries narra- the project was expected German health tion,’’ Narang said. tive, including the addition of salt, a dex- to commence commercial authorities. The group, she said, has commissioned trose solution, part-frying in beef tallow international consultant Landor to chalk and flying thousands of miles around out a rebranding and revamp strategy for the world before the chips reach their the chain. Besides, it has launched a major consumer. Fungus in US soya: China An Air New Zealand Airbus A320 takes off from Auckland’s international airport with a still upgradation programme for all its busi- But an embattled McDonald’s insisted from Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Air New Zealand on Wednesday unveiled four such ness hotels in India and abroad with an eye it had not misled its customers about the Shanghai: China said on Wednesday it had found fungus in specially designed planes in the run-up to the opening of the third and final film in the on grabbing a larger pie of the hospitality truth — and content — of its fare. a soybean cargo from the US, adding fuel to a simmering series, filmed on location in New Zealand. market. trade row between the economic giants marked more by its bark than its bite. No talks on WTO at summit: EU Japan said the row was unlikely to blow up into anything worse since both China and the US had too much to lose. ‘‘I New Delhi: The European Union on Wednesday said there don’t think it’s for real, they would both lose out,’’ Japanese would not be any dialogue with India on WTO issues when trade and industry minister Shoichi Nakagawa said. ‘‘It’s their political heads meet at the India-EU summit this week- more that the issue for the US is intellectual property rather end, even though trade issues will figure in the summit. than goods.’’The cargo of 60,500 tonne of US soybeans had ‘‘Talks on WTO issue are unlikley to take place during the been unloaded earlier this month, he added. summit,’’ Italian Ambassador Benedetto Amari told re- But the wider dispute was unlikely to stray beyond sym- porters on the fourth India-EU Business summit jointly or- bolic salvoes and it was in the interests of both countries to ganised by CII-Ficci. keep economic disputes from marring political cooperation, He said while EU was fully committed to multilateral analysts said. The rhetoric heightened this year with US trading system, the India-EU summit beginning Friday will complaints about China’s pegged yuan currency. Reuters focus on business interaction. TNN

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moters of Bajaj Electricals NATIONAL Nirma quits retail venture: Nirma’s have consolidated their stake Karsanbhai Patel is exiting from its low to cross the majority 51 per Equity funds lose steam profile retailing venture, Radhe. The cent mark after the rights is- in heated market: Extreme Rs 2,400-crore soap and sue closed on October 31. As volatility in the stock market detergent maker, which made a on November 1, promoter in October affected mobilisa- quiet entry into the food and stake in Bajaj Electricals has tions by pure equity funds, re- grocery retailing space in been hiked to 65 per cent sulting in only marginal net in- 2000, has disposed off one from about 49 per cent before flows into these funds. During of its three stores to Adani the issue, chairman and MD, October, total sales in growth group’s retailing venture, Shekhar Bajaj said. PTI funds was Rs 2,215 crore B2C India. while redemptions were at Rs ONGC strikes oil in 2,175 crore, Association of Assam: ONGC has discov- Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) ered new reserves of oil in data showed. Gilt funds, Assam, chairman and man- meanwhile, continued to mo- aging director Subir Raha bilise funds at a substantial said. ‘‘New oil bearing zone pace in October. The slow- has been discovered in upper down in equity fund mobilisa- Assam. The results are very tion was a marked departure encouraging and the reserves from July-September, when are promising,’’ Raha said. PTI sales in growth funds were SBI to upgrade tech for much higher than redemp- Ajit Ninan overseas operations: tions. Fund managers and State Bank of India has start- other industry players do not ed the process of overhauling expect to see significant in- the technology at its overseas flows into equity funds in No- kind in india. The plans, it Rs 9,600 crore. The gap in operations. ‘‘We propose to vember, either. TNN stated, include modernisation sales due to the demerger of and expansion of production its cement division, which upgrade the technology IFC to invest $15 m in capacity, environmental im- contributed over Rs 2,200 across our overseas opera- bonds issued by Bilt: In- provement. PTI crore to the sales in 2002-03, tions by phasing out the soft- ternational Finance Corpora- will be made up by enhanced ware solutions currently in tion will invest $15 million in L&T to meet 2003 sales revenue from overseas con- use and implement a core even after demerger: De- $45 million foreign currency struction projects. PTI banking solution with neces- convertible bond issued by spite the demerger of its ce- sary interfaces to suit the Ballarpur Industries. This is ment division, Larsen and Promoters hold majority business requirements of IFC’s first-ever bond of its Toubro expects to match the in Bajaj Electricals: The individual branches’’, last fiscal’s sales turnover of Bajaj family and other pro- a senior SBI official said. PTI

INTERNATIONAL the latter backs away from from its biggest trading spurning concerted efforts by steel tariffs ruled unfair by the partner. AP Democrats to block the bill. World Trade Organisation. By a 54-4 vote, the Senate Court reduces $290 m The threat followed one deliv- US Congress approves agreed to expand the pro- verdict against Ford: A ered earlier this month by the $395 b health reforms: gram by providing prescrip- California appeals court has European Union and, if car- The US Congress has passed tion drug coverage to 40 mil- cut a record $290 million ried out, would be the first the first sweeping overhaul in lion senior citizens and the punitive-damages verdict to time Japan has adopted such four decades of health care disabled. AFP $23.7 million for a Ford Bron- sanctions against imports for the elderly and disabled, co rollover accident that killed three people. The fifth district ET INSTA POLL court of appeal revised the Yesterday’s results: Is the BPO nation’s largest product liabil- backlash forcing Dell to shift ity award to conform with a tech support out of India? US Supreme Court precedent Yes 57% No 33% Can’t say 10% in April that capped large • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users awards. AP who chose to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. Japan threatens tariffs Today’s question: Can one on US steel imports: survive in international business Japan has threatened to im- without knowing English? pose $85 million in retaliatory To vote, log on to duties on US imports unless http://economictimes.indiatimes.com

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16 Thursday,November 27, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi

Japan’s economic recovery to lose steam in 2004, says OECD: Japan’s economy is powering ahead this year led by investment and exports but recession-hit smaller firms will take some of the steam out of overall growth in 2004, the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develop- ment (OECD) said on Wednesday. The world’s second largest economy is ex- India Inc continues pected to post 2.7 per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) this year, up from a meagre 0.2 per cent in 2002. AFP to bank on IIMs By Padmaja Shastri HR at HSBC. Moreover, the HSBC TIMES NEWS NETWORK recruitment process involves an “assessment centre methodology” Pune: Despite the scams and rack- that includes a series of stringent ets, students of the Indian Insti- tests on competency and personal- tutes of Management (IIMs) are ity with high predictive validity. still considered a catch by corpo- Anybody getting through nefari- rates. A poll of the human re- ous means will be thrown out by sources (HR) heads of leading re- this means, he said. The foreign cruiters showed the image of the bank is one of the largest re- premier management institutes in cruiters on the IIM campus and in- the country remains unsullied de- ducts 15 to 50 graduates. spite the events of the last few “This scam will not have any im- days, which have exposed a major pact on our recruitments from racket involving the leakage of IIMs and other top management Common Admission institutes. We be- Test (CAT) question lieve that if anybody papers. CAT OUT OF has got in through “Let us be logical. unfair means, he or Even if undeserving THE BAG she will be filtered people get in be- out in our process of cause of such leakages, they will interviewing and evaluation,” said not be able to survive the academ- Arvind Agarwal, head of HR at ic rigours of IIMs in the subse- RPG Group. “Also, if the alleged quent two years they spend there. leakage was happening in the past, If they aren’t discovered at the in- we would have known through in- stitutes, we will find them through formal circles,” he said. our evaluation process,” said “When we recruit someone, Prem Kamath, head of HR at Hin- what we see is whether the candi- dustan Lever. The company re- date is good and meets our re- cruits around 15 IIM graduates quirements. We are not unduly every year and does not foresee bothered about how they get into any change in the process because the institute,” said Santrupt of the scam. Mishra, director of HR at Aditya “We have been recruiting from Birla Group. Agarwal, who is from the IIMs for 20 years and have no the ‘73 batch of IIM-Ahmedabad, reason to believe we were saddled says, “I have the highest respect with rotten apples in the past,” for the credibility and credentials said Ronald Sequeira, manager of of IIMs”. Kajaria Ceramics charts expansion plan TIMES NEWS NETWORK ics, said. Next phase of the expansion would New Delhi: A boom in the housing be taken up in 2004 with an invest- sector and rising demand for ceram- ic tiles have prompted Kajaria Ce- ment of around Rs 150 crore, which ramics to embark upon an expansion would be completed by 2007. This plan. This include: Doubling capaci- would take the turnover of the com- ty from its existing level of 12 million pany to over Rs 500 crore, he added. sq mt per annum in the next three- To meet the demand, he said, the and-a-half-year and more focus on ex- company used to import 5 lakh sq mt ports with setting up of marketing ceramics tiles from China. The ex- networks in the developed markets, pansion, Kajaria said, would substi- MD, Ashok Kajaria, Kajaria Ceram- tute some of the imported items. AFP

Two Chinese women enjoy a smoke in Beijing. A report released on Wednesday says smoking is making a comeback among young, educated Chinese women. Cigarette firms are banking on good sales as female smokers unabashedly light up in public.

Moose’s Mighty Beanz are selling briskly. What’s hot in US stores this season By Tracie Rozhon tech electronics like thin mericans are already flat-panel televisions. As for Aout there, buying. And children, they are usually retailers are taking notes. choosing Leapster, a travel- Shoppers are sending size product from LeapFrog their signals about what Enterprises, the maker of they want this holiday sea- popular educational toys. son. Some of the most popu- One item selling well is a lar items are predictable - cable-knit sweater in the this year’s Barbie and Elmo colour of heather rose by J. and the latest Louis Vuitton Crew ($68). Scented candles suitcase. But some are not are in demand. And, the so predictable: Fig-scented passion-pink trench coat by candles and a three-pack of Burberry ($1,095) is selling Moose’s Mighty Beanz. well. The crazy Fair Isle Then there is the cream- scarf by Gap ($39.50), a and-black unpadded push- jazzy variation on the tradi- up bra at Victoria’s Secret, tional Scottish woven pat- selling fast, at $38. tern, is one of Gap’s biggest Analysts and store execu- bets for Christmas and one tives say that consumers of its top sellers in the are favouring the most weeks before Thanksgiving. colourful clothes and high- NYT News Service

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The Times of India, New Delhi, Thursday,November 27, 2003 Michael Phelps wins 200m Kings steamroll Grizzlies Ranking at stake in Cup final Michael Phelps of the United States dominat- Peja Stojakovic scored 26 points for the Australia meet Spain in the Davis Cup final in Mel- ed the field in the 200 metre middle distance Sacramento Kings as they disposed off the bourne from Friday and the winners will finish the freestyle event at the Sydney Skins Swimming Memphis Grizzlies 109-89 in a National Bas- year as the top-ranked nation in the world. Should championships in Sydney on Wednesday. Phelps ketball Association game in Sacramento, Cal- Spain win, then Australia, who will be represented won the event in a minute and 49.33s. He complet- ifornia, on Tuesday. Twelve of Stojakovic’s by Mark Philippoussis and ed 100 metres in 52.98s points came in the crucial third quarter Lleyton Hewitt will end the year in third place

Former BCCI secretary C Nagraj criticises suspension of Abhijit Kale

For a fraction of the price of a rugby World Cup ticket, it will be possible to watch one of the greats of all time bat. Indian bowlers Goodbye cricket, hello Udayan — The Australian newspaper on Sachin Steveda to move on to the ‘pursuit of his life’ ‘SIMPLY THE BEST’ Tendulkar AP given the stick Sydney: Australian Test captain Sachin Tendulkar: I think SPORTS DIGEST Steve Waugh, one of the greatest he set great examples in the Ajit Ninan batsmen in cricketing history who way cricket should be played also won millions of Indian hearts and in tough conditions he for his charity, on Wednesday an- would produce some nounced his retirement from inter- tremendous performance. national competition at the end of Anyone would want to play the upcoming series against India. like him — he was complete- The 38-year-old Waugh, a living ly at a different level as far as legend who turned the Australians mental toughness is con- into an invincible team in world cerned. He’s someone I’ve really admired, he’s shown cricket, will bring his illustrious over the years that he’s very 19-year-old career to an end after gutsy and when the time de- the fourth Test in early January.“I mands it he’s there to deliver. believe Sydney is the perfect Rahul Dravid: It is sad in a place,’’ Waugh told a press confer- way. He was one of my he- ence at the Sydney Cricket Ground, roes and someone I looked televised live throughout Aus- up to in international cricket. tralia. “I want to leave the game on I’ve played against Waugh, a high and I just think the time is met him and chatted with right now,’’ said Waugh, who led him during the course of my Australia to phenomenal 40 Test career and found him very wins from 53 matches, which in- helpful. He is right high up cluded only eight defeats and five there. He was a terrific pro- draws. fessional and a great crick- Malik to stay: Pakistani all-rounder The Australian captain, a role- eter. The intensity and com- Shoaib Malik is to stay with English model for aspiring cricketers the mitment he brought to his county cricket side Gloucestershire world over, compiled 10,660 runs in batting was phenomenal and for the 2004 season. Gloucester- great to watch. 164 Tests at an average of 51.25, be- shire’s new head coach Mark Alleyne Aussie PM John said they were pleased with the way ing the second highest run-getter Howard: It is a momentous he has fitted in with the team. behind compatriot Alan Border. He day for Australian cricket. I is second to Indian legend Sunil know there’ll be other oppor- Lanka to cap Dinusha: Sri Lanka Brett Hodge of Victoria Bushrangers pulls during his Gavaskar (34) in century makers tunities to honour him and to today named uncapped fast bowler unbeaten 153 against India on Wednesday. list with 32 hundreds, three more thank him. It will be a very Dinusha Fernando in a 15-man Melbourne: The Indian The pounding of the Indi- than Australian great Don Brad- sentimental Test match in squad to play England in next week’s bowling attack was made to an attack was so brutal that man. His records in the shorter ver- Sydney commencing on first Test at Galle. look mediocre by Australia’s the home team gathered 126 sion of the game was equally im- January 2 and I know that The squad: Hashan Tillakaratne (capt), Marvan Atapattu, Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela Jayawar- runs between lunch and tea pressive, collecting 7569 runs in 325 cricket lovers from all around dene, Thilan Samaraweera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Michael and then came back to collect matches at an average of 32.90. Australia will be following the Vandort, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Dharmasena, Upul 155 runs in the final session. Waugh, who made his debut in series and Steve’s personal Chandana, Chaminda Vaas, Dinusha Fernando, Dilhara Fer- KANGAROO contribution very closely. nando, Romesh Kaluwitharana. The Victoria batsmen were international cricket in 1985-86 He’s been a wonderful cap- most severe on off-spinner against India, said: “The upcoming Jr National TT : The 65th Junior HUNT Sydney Test will be my last for Aus- tain, a wonderful batsman, a National and Inter State TT com- Harbhajan Singh, who gave gritty, determined competi- first-class cricketers as Victo- away 117 runs from his 27 tralia should I be selected to play.’’ mencing at Kochi on Thursday. An emotional Waugh said tor. ria Bushrangers amassed 348 overs. Ricky Ponting: I have though he was a bit “sad” while BETTING METER for five on the second day of It was an even battle in made no secrets that I’d like the three-day cricket match the morning session as the taking the decision, he would en- CRICKET to do the job (leading Aus- at the Melbourne Cricket Indian new bowl bowlers gage himself in doing other things, tralia in Tests), but that’s not India vs Australia, Test series Ground here on Wednesday. concentrated on a steady which include some more philan- an issue for today. It’s about Top rungetter for Australia The visitor’s got a taste of line instead of generating thropic works in India. “There is Stephen Waugh and what a Matthew Hayden 3.75 the tough task ahead of them pace. that element of sadness,’’ Waugh great player and leader he’s Ricky Ponting 4.50 in the upcoming series on the Left-arm seamer Ashish said. “But the overwhelming emo- been for our country. Today Justin Langer 5.00 very second day of their tour Nehra, who is coming back tion for me is there is a lot more to Steve Waugh raises his bat after making century on the second day of their is about celebrating Damien Martyn 6.00 opener as the Victoria bats- after a long injury lay-off, do in life.”PTI fifth Test match against England in Sydney on January 3, 2003. Stephen’s success. Steve Waugh 7.00 man, led by Brett Hodge, tore gave the visitors an early source: bet365.com the bowling apart. breakthrough when he made Hodge, who has scored opener Jason Arneberger (8) RANKINGS 2,300 first-class runs this year edge an outgoing delivery to Hero Cup team was a determined bunch MEN’S TABLE TENNIS including 1,467 runs for vice captain Rahul Dravid in By Akshay Sawai POS PLAYER COUNTRY Leicestershire in the English the slips. in four matches Sachin, Kapil and Manoj. They vious year. It was a tough one County, scored a swashbuck- TIMES NEWS NETWORK out of six. For- were a fighting bunch who wanted and it made us more focussed for 1 Lin Ma China Scoreboard 2 Liqin Wang China ling 153 not out to record his mer India cap- to offer something exciting to the the next encounter against 3 Timo BollGermany 10th century of the year. India (1st innings): 266 for 9 decl. Mumbai: India’s most resonant tain Ajit people. South Africa. I also think Azhar 4 Vladimir SamsonovBelarus After the Indian skipper Victoria (1st innings): Jason success after the 1985 World Cham- Wadekar,India’s What do you remember of led from the front in the tourna- 5 Hao Wang China Sourav Ganguly declared the Arneberger c Dravid b Nehra 8, pionship of Cricket took place in manager at the the campaign? ment. Matthew Elliott c Chopra b Harbhajan 6 Werner Schlager Austria innings on the overnight Kolkata ex- competition, re- I remember Vinod’s innings in We haven’t won many tour- 7 Chih-Yuan Chuan Taipei 48, Brett Hodge batting 153, Jonathan 8 Linghui Kong China score of 266 for nine, the Indi- Moss run out 42, David Hussey c actly ten lives the experi- the final (68). The semifinal should naments of that scale since. 9 Kalinikos KreangaGreece an bowlers began on a steady Dravid b Nehra 21, Andrew McDonald JALDI 5 years ago. ence. be remembered more I guess. Why? 10 Peng-Lung ChiangTaipei note restricting the host to 67 lbw b Harbhajan 1, Ian Harvey batting The five-na- The Hero South Africa needed six runs from The Hero Cup team was bal- for one in the first session be- tion Hero Cup, which the Cricket Cup was the last over and I sent a message anced. Batsmen and bowlers were source: ittf.com 54. Extras (lb-6, w-1, nb-14) 21. To- fore lunch. tal: (for 5 wkts, 90 overs) 348. Association of Bengal hosted to Ajit Wadekar played before asking Kapil, Azhar and Sachin to in form and we had allrounders TODAY’S ACTION But that was to be the only Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-85, 3-192, mark its diamond jubilee, became the game was decide who will bowl. I thought it like Manoj and Kapil. After those high-point of the day for the 4-231, 5-232. India’s on November 27, 1993, when speared by major controversies. would be Kapil, but he seemed hes- two we always struggled for all- INTERNATIONAL visitors as Hodge, first with Bowling: Zaheer Khan 16-2-56-0, they pulled the plug on West Indies Does that make it a more pleas- itant. Sachin took the ball and did rounders. CRICKET: India vs New Zealand, women’s Test discard Matthew Elliot Ashish Nehra 19-3-56-2, Laxmipathy in the final. ant memory? a great job. Was it the highlight of your cricket Test, Day One, Vapi. Live on DD and then with Jonathan Balaji 20-3-84-0, Harbhajan Singh Anil Kumble, Vinod Kambli, Mo- India played as a team. That was What made the victory possi- managerial career? Sports from 9 am. Moss, launched an attack on 27-3-117-2, Virender Sehwag 6-2- hammed Azharuddin and Sachin more important. Everyone con- ble? One of them. I give more im- the Indian bowlers. 19-0, Sachin Tendulkar 2-0-10-0. PTI Tendulkar inspired India to victory tributed, from Vinod and Anil to The South Africa tour the pre- portance to Test cricket. In a perfect world, I would’ve had a crack at the final frontier FAREWELL FRIENDS Australia since Boxing Day 1985 I have have played a small part in that and excitement all rolled into one. It shape the values needed to survive and to use over the past 12 months when the been a part of people’s lives for nearly process. was also a massive relief because I’d al- succeed. I can still recall sitting in the jury was out on my form and position Steve Waugh 20 years. Many have shared my ups and Ricky Ponting has already shown he ways wanted to score a hundred and Eden Park change rooms as a 20-year- in the side. I certainly checked out a lot downs, they have seen my career de- has the qualities to be successful and expected to do so, but until you actual- old, after scoring 0 and 1, being verbally of the views that were written on me, Throughout my play- velop and have been tremendously sup- clearly has the respect of his peers, and ly do it, those doubts can linger and eat assaulted by John Bracewell during a some of which were perfectly reason- ing career, I’ve heard portive. When you get to a certain age crucially, seems to enjoy the added re- away at your self confidence. match we lost comprehensively. able, others debatable and some totally many times that you’ll as a professional cricketer, you tend to sponsibility that the captaincy re- Claiming the World Cup as rank out- It was a series loss, topped off by be- outrageous. All of which in the overall know when it’s time to be categorised. As a bowler, 33-35 is an quires. His role like all captains before, siders in 1987 on the subcontinent was ing bowled out for 102 in the second in- context didn’t matter because I knew call it a day. They said: age when the issues tend to focus on is to develop players and get the best the catalyst for the winning era we are nings. The dressing room was like a there was still a fire in the belly and the “One morning you will how much longer have you got rather out of them. To pass on traditions, cre- accustomed to now.Defeating England 4- morgue, heads were bowed, the occa- skill level was also there. just wake up and know than what’s happening now. ate your own and enhance the culture 0 on the ‘89 Ashes Tour was a coming of sional whispered work broke the eerie If I could trust myself, work hard instantaneously that A batsman may have the luxury of a and values of the team are important, age for the likes of Taylor, Jones, Hugh- silence, some uncomfortable glances at and keep it simple, I knew I could turn you want to retire or it’s time for a couple of extra years’ grace. But I will and a challenge that must be em- es, Healy and myself and remains my each other were exchanged, and the things around. Throughout my career change of direction.’’ always argue that age is irrelevant un- braced. It is an honoured position, favourite tour in terms of enjoyment. scent of a heavy defeat hung in the air. I have never needed any extra motiva- Well I’m here to tell you that it has less you have two competing players of which can be enormously satisfying, Akin to climbing Everest was beat- My thoughts drifted off to a place I tion to do well, because quite simply,all never been that black and white to me. equal skill, de- sometimes frustrating, but al- ing the Windies on their didn’t want to visit. I I ever aspired to was to make the most Over the years there have been mo- sire, commit- ways stimulating, and one that home turf — a feat we wondered if I’d ever of my ability and never give in no mat- ments of self doubt that haven’t always ment and fitness must never be taken for granted. achieved in 1995. Un- play in a winning Test ter the situation. If anything was ever had a straightforward answer, but levels. This crite- TIMES Playing for Australia has al- beaten for 15 years team, was I good enough needed to really get me going, it was whenever these challenging times have rion equally ap- ways been a huge honour — worldwide and 22 years to make the grade and someone writing me off. Perhaps this cropped up, they have always been ex- plies to youth EXCLUSIVE knowing you are representing by Australia, the win in could this team turn is why I performed so well in Sydney. tinguished quickly. Motivation must and if someone 20 million people, and living out Jamaica was probably things around. It was a I was amazed at the overwhelming come from within and as soon as that meets these requirements at 15 years of the dreams of many. It hasn’t always my most satisfying from moment that has helped support last year in Sydney, and from inner flame is doused, the will to suc- age, then their youth shouldn’t be used been smooth sailing, in fact Test crick- a team point of view. At me stay grounded dur- around the world and without doubt it ceed and carry on has only one conclu- against them. et was a struggle for the first couple of least that was my ex- ing the victorious times, inspired me to perform on the day. sion. For me it may be as simple as My decision to retire was made in years. I have to be thankful for the pa- cuse for waking up in and one that I’m glad I Charity work has been a real life ex- hearing a favourite song, watching consultation with my family and my tience of the selectors of the time. the whites, half spike experienced. perience so far and I love the associa- some cricket highlights or just having management. It’s been a decision that My first emotion upon hearing my se- batting shoes and baggy My first tour of Pak- tions I have with the kids in India and a game of backyard cricket with my has evolved over a period of time and lection was panic — am I good enough? green the next morning. istan was an examina- I look forward to continuing and ex- son Austin, to get the juices flowing. one I believe has been made at the right Will I be scared and intimidated by the A double century and tion of the toughest panding my role there. Shortly I will The thought of being able to achieve time. I’m glad that I didn’t finish after press and notoriety? Can I really be suc- a huge partnership kind. A string of ques- formalise my fundraising activities in something new everyday and to believe last season’s Sydney Test, even though cessful? with twin brother Mark tionable decisions, poor India, by setting up a foundation there, you can improve, have always drawn it would have been a fairytale finish. I I was also excited and thrilled at the was my greatest triumph in terms of form and a culture shock had me in a and set about raising funds to build a me to the challenges that lie ahead. knew I had something left inside. same time, but in reality I was hoping batmanship, because it was against the fragile state of mind, which culminat- new school near Kolkata. Over the past 18 months the ‘R’ word Deep down I felt I could still improve rather than expecting to do well. best attack, in the most critical Test, ed in a bizarre dismissal during the Sydney to me is the perfect place to has been a constant, never more than a and I didn’t want to finish while not My big breakthrough came after 26 under the most trying conditions. This second Test. retire for many reasons. It’s one of the couple of questions away at any given playing consistently well. Tests when everything just came to- was when all the sacrifices, training Just when I thought I was making best venues in the world; its been my press conference, regularly written As a team we still had important gether at Leeds for my first Test centu- and aspirations came together and some headway with a determined 20, home ground throughout my career; about in newspaper articles, and dis- goals to achieve, like winning in the ry.For me the first thing I recall is how made everything worthwhile. on what turned out to be the final de- all my family and friends will be there; cussed by just about everyone. Windies and historically taking on dry my mouth was when I reached 99. I Coming from a seemingly impossi- livery of the match I busted back an in- I will be playing against India, a team It has been both bewildering and ex- Bangladesh and Zimbabwe for the first couldn’t summon enough saliva to ble situation in the 1999 World Cup was nocuous ‘half tracker’ to the bowler. and country for which I have great ad- pected, from my perspective. The for- time in Australia. chew my gum, my heart began to also a memorable time and one to cher- Looking back this was no doubt the miration; my Indian friends will be mer because I’ve always seen myself as Many will say, “But what about the thump so hard I could feel it through ish because it was executed under in- lowest point in terms of self-belief dur- able to be part of the occasion through just a cricketer from the western sub- last frontier — winning away in In- my sweater and my palms sweated up tense scrutiny and pressure. When you ing my career. I believe in many ways the TV; I am very fit and on top of my urbs of Sydney who happened to be dia?’’ In a perfect world it would have so quickly that my grip on the bat was come through adversity it seems to you can judge a player’s worth to the game. I’ve always wanted to finish on lucky enough to live out his dreams been nice to have a ‘crack’ at it, but it threatening to become unstable. magnify the sense of accomplishment side by how they overcome adversity. my own terms and right now I feel as if and play for, and captain, Australia. will now be a challenge for Ricky When I pushed that single through and heighten the celebrations. Attitude will always be the companion I’m in the best form of my career, and I To have so much attention on my de- Ponting and the boys to take on. If Aus- the covers, it was just the greatest sen- Of course there have been many to this trait and without it there will be can’t think of a better word for anyone parture just feels strange, but I can also tralia do go on to win in India, I’ll feel sation, an overwhelming surge of sat- down times during the journey that no longevity in the sport. to say about me when I finish other understand that after having played for comfortable in the knowledge that I isfaction, contentment, tranquillity have influenced my character and help Many of these lessons have been put than. Why? Gameplan

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18 Thursday,November 27, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi In Oz, think Australian Aussies in awe of Sachin ALLROUND VIEW must add here also that a Their success is based as Melbourne: As Sachin Tendulkar sizzled at Ground (MCG) during the day. batsman can play a long in- much on mental strength and the MCG during the tour-opener against Vic- “Two sounds filled the stadium with their Ravi Shastri nings in Australia only if he ability as their fitness and toria on Tuesday, cricketers and writers echoes, variously the hammering, drilling is prepared to take a few stamina. Batsmen who are alike were tripping over each other in offer- and thumping of the labourers at their toils Batting in Australia blows on the body. The pain lacking in the latter two ing their tributes to arguably the greatest and the sweet crack of Tendulkar’s bat at can be a burden or threshold has to be high. virtues will find it very diffi- batsman of modern times. play. Both promised much entertainment in it can be fun. It can I am prioritising the men- cult to stay at the wicket for Australian inter- the days and years ahead,’’ Baum wrote. be dangerous, it can tal aspect because that will be long, for Australian grounds national Ian Harvey “Not even when Engineer and Contractor be exciting. The more critical than technique. are big, the boundaries are got around to Victo- played could an Indian innings have looked wickets Down Un- But skills are important too, long. Unlike the grounds in TODAY’S ria’s fielders at lunch better put together than when fortified by der have pace and bounce, as and none more than that India, where pushes and half break Tendulkar. we all know. Which means it which allows the batsman to drives can also fetch a bound- SPECIAL and “He moved into his work in will help bowlers, but bats- ary, in Australia batsmen told the afternoon. An exquisitely men will also be able to play have to be prepared to run them to “get behind the timed flick from the hip their shots. The onus is on ones, twos and threes all the bowler a bit rather than just brought two, a savage cut them to make things work. time. enjoy watching him bat.’’ four. Brett Harrop was not But it is no use going out To play a long innings, a Tendulkar made 80 bril- disgraced, just learning. An- there and batting without a batsman has to enjoy the liantly-crafted runs with 14 drew McDonald was sent sense of purpose, trying to challenge against odds. He fours which Greg Baum de- away to square leg, fine leg hit every delivery just be- must have such strong desire, scribed in The Age as “like and long on for three fours in cause the ball comes on to the that he should be mentally taking a tour of inspection: four deliveries. He, too, was bat. Shot-making can be fun. and physically charged up in the work was not complete as learning.’’ Batsmen have to play to a the middle for a fair period of per the design, but it was easy Malcolm Conn, writing in plan, and in such a way that time. This does not mean a to get the idea.’’ The Australian, declared Ten- their side can hope to win. one-dimensional approach. Left-arm medium-pacer dulkar as a “must-see attrac- Which means that at least the The batsman must also have Matthew Innes did get him in tion’’ of the series ahead. major guys should be aiming the ability to switch off be- the end but said he was fortu- “Tendulkar alone is enough to play innings of substance, tween overs, have a light- nate not to be bowling too to whet the appetite for the not just be a flash in the pan. hearted chat with the non- much to the Little Master. four Tests this series. Playing a long innings in cope with the extra bounce. striker, take the sledging in “He’d whip one off the stumps, then you’d “For a fraction of the price of a rugby Australia can be very de- This means that the back and stride — all this without los- bowl a little bit wider and he’d hit you down World Cup ticket, it will be possible to watch manding in many ways, let’s across movement has to be ing focus. past gully for four. Luckily, I wasn’t bowling one of the greats of all time bat.’’ make no mistake. It demands clinically perfect so that the Finally,to the most impor- too much when he was on fire.’’ Conn said the difference between the class great mental strength, tons of bat meets the ball on top of tant. At all times, the bats- Baum, ecstatic with what he saw of Ten- of Tendulkar and others was there for all to courage and tremendous self- the bounce, and apart from a man’s body language and ap- dulkar in the middle, described him “like a see. belief. The batsman needs to few with the horizontal bat, proach must send the signal tongue into a groove in the middle.’’ “The lesser mortals who batted above Ten- be single-minded in his ambi- most strokes are made by to the opponents that, ‘This The writer bordered on the poetic and saw dulkar treated each delivery as if it was a po- tion, and completely focused. playing through the line. Man Can Play’. You’ve got to a similarity between Tendulkar and the con- tential hand grenade but from the moment he Only then can he concentrate The Australians play crick- think Australian when you struction work being carried out in the returned to the crease after lunch, the right for long periods of time. I et harder than any other side. take guard. TCM northern stands of the Melbourne Cricket hander displayed his full armoury. PTI Subba seeks details from More, Roy Visakhapatnam: The crick- them to elaborate their ready to fix a new date for the et board’s inquiry commis- charges against Kale. I have hearing. “But they need to let ‘Kale’s version sioner D V also asked both the selectors me know in advance that they Subba Rao and the player to attend the would not be attending the must be believed’ oninquiry on Saturday,” Rao, hearing on Saturday. If any Wednes- also the chairman of the Bar such thing happens, we can Bangalore: C Nagaraj, fomr- day said Council of India, told re- fix another date,” he said. er joint secretary of BCCI he has porters here. The Commissioner has (1985 to 1990 on Wednesday asked na- Rao said Kale, against been asked to submit his criticised the board’s deci- CRICKETGATE II tional se- whom More and Roy levelled findings within 15 days. sion to suspend Abhijit Kale lectors Ki- charges that he tried to offer The report would be re- saying the scandal cannot be ran More and Pranob Roy to them Rs 10 lakh each for a ferred to the Board’s Discipli- a “one-way traffic” and the furnish details about their al- place in the national team, nary Committee for final ad- cricketer’s version must also legations against Abhijit would be given “a chance to judication and till that time be taken into account. Kale before attending the submit his explanation.” He, Kale would remain suspend- “The board’s decision hearing here on Saturday. however, said that if any of ed from participating in any without proper inquiry is un- “I have sent both More and the three failed to depose be- tournament conducted by called for and hasty,”he said. Roy fax messages asking fore him on Saturday, he is the Board. Agencies WI face a fighting total AFP Harare: Zimbabwe’s Mark Vermeulen and Heath Streak combined to set West Indies 230 to win the third of five One-day Internationals being played at Harare Sports Club here on Wednes- day,having put together a to- tal of 229-5. Vermeulen scored 66, the same number that effective- ly won the second One-dayer in Bulawayo on Sunday, while Streak was undefeated with 65. Lower down Taten- da Taibu hit out for 37 not out. Streak and Taibu put on 90 runs to give the Zimbabwe score some respectability following slow run-getting earlier that resulted from regular fall of wickets. The challenge set for West Indies should be met by Brian Lara’s men, although the batsmen have failed dismal- ly in their last two innings, for 128 and 125. Lara won the toss and put Zimbabwe in to bat. It was, on balance, the right deci- sion. With Mervyn Dillon, recalled to the side, leading West Indies bowler Mervyn Dillon attempts a run out with a the assault — he conceded kick at the stumps, as Zimbabwe batsman Heath Streak only 32 in 10 overs — the looks on, in the third One-day International at Harare Sports West Indies bowlers kept a Club on Wednesday. tight rein on the home team. only 11 and Trevor Gripper T Gripper c and b Hinds 17, M Vermeulen b Powell 66, C Wishart hit wkt b Drakes 7, S They also slowed down the 17. Stuart Matsikenyere Matsikenyere lbw b Hinds 8, H Streak not Zimbabwe batsmen by tak- scored only eight and Craig out 65, T Taibu not out 37. Extras (lb-9, w- ing wickets frequently Wishart, dismissed in un- 6, nb-3) 18 Total (for 5 wkts, 50 overs) 229 Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-53, 3-69, 4-85, 5- enough to cause concern. It usual fashion by clipping his 139. Bowling: Drakes 10-2-38-1, Dillon 10- was not until the 42nd over bails off with a foot, was out 2-32-1, Hinds 10-0—43-2, Collymore 10- that they passed four an for seven. 0-39-0, Samuels 3-0-23-0, Powell 5-0-35- over. Vusi Sibanda managed Zimbabwe: V Sibanda c Powell b Dillon 11, 1, Gayle 2-0-10-0. AFP ‘Defeatist’ NZ India ‘A’ snatch draw leave for Pak Auckland: A severely de- against Lankans pleted New Zealand squad TIMES NEWS NETWORK saw Munaf threaten to throw set off for a one-day series Ahmedabad: For three days the ball back at Wijesiriwar- in Pakistan in defeatist and a bit of the fourth, India A dane after the batsman had mood on Wednesday. were in total command. In the plodded it back to him. The group, already shorn final session on Wednesday Sri Since the Lankan did not of most of their best play- Lanka A took control and had move back Munaf reacted ers, boarded a flight from Shiv Sundar Das’s side with and threw the ball at the wick- Auckland to Lahore with- their backs against the wall. et. But it shot up off the pitch out vice-captain and spin- The visitors almost man- and bounced off Wijesiriwar- ner Daniel Vettori, who is aged to force a result. But as dane’s helmet. due to join them later after expected the first ‘Test’ of the Sri Lanka ‘A’ Ist innings: 244 India ‘A’ Ist innings: 369 his grandmother fell ill. three-match series between Sri Lanka ‘A’, 2nd innings: P Jayawardane b “There’s no glossing over these two teams ended in a Powar 76, I Daniel c Ratra b Patel 16, Jehan the fact that we could get draw. Mubarak lbw b Trivedi 2, Naveed Nawaz c well and truly hammered Gambhir b Powar 92, Lanka De Silva lbw b But tame, it was not. Like Trivedi 3, T Kandamby c Ratra b Patel 22, A over there,” all rounder Ja- life, in general, in this city Polonowita c Ratra b Patel 41, R Herath c cob Oram said before the where there’s never a dull mo- Badani b Powar 10, O Wijesiwardene c Bhan- 12-day trip. dari b Powar 19, T Lakshitha lbw b Patel 9, L ment, so it was at the Sardar Marlinga not out 0, Extras: (b-8, lb-5, nb-5) “You can’t make up for Patel stadium in Motera on 18. Total (all out in 132.4 overs) 308. Fall of the experience we’ll be Wednesday. wickets: 1-46, 2-49, 3-143, 4-154, 5-214, 6- missing and Pakistan have India A did have a chance 238, 7-252, 8-296, 9-308. Bowling: Munaf Patel 22-2-70-4, Amit Bhan- been playing some good to run through the Lankan dari 26-5-63-0, Siddharth Trivedi 20-5-51-2, cricket lately.” line-up but a brave, head Ramesh Powar 41.4-17-60-4, Rohan Four leading players down two-hour, eight-minute Gavaskar 2-0-6-0, S Sriram 16-7-30-0, He- mang Badani 2-0-9-0. Gambhir 3-0-6-0. withdrew from this tour, stand by Anushka Pollonowi- India ‘A’, IInd innings: S S Das c Nawaz b which was also delayed af- ta and Omesh Wijesiriwar- Lakshita 11, G Gambhir c Kandamby b Marlin- ter an anonymous threat dane for the eighth wicket put ga 5, M Kaif batting 50, H Badani b Lakshita 0, S Sriram c Daniel b Marlinga 4, R Gavaskar c was made against the New paid to the home team’s Jayawardene b Marlinga 13, A Ratra batting Zealanders. hopes. 13. Extras: (nb 6) 6 Total: (for 5 wkts, 24 Captain Stephen Flem- In a bid to separate the pair overs) 102 ing, batsman Nathan Astle Munaf Patel nearly ended his Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-32, 3-32, 4-47, 5-74. Bowling: Lakshita 6-0-31-2, Marlinga 10-0- and fast bowler Shane Bond career even before it has actu- 43-3, Polonwita 1-0-6-0, Herath 5-0-13-0, are out with injury. Agencies ally started. A rush of blood Wijewsiriwardene 2-0-9-0.

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TNN looks at the top five teams in the 12-team THE BIG 5: TEAMS TO LOOK OUT FOR NFL, the 8th edition of which, begins on Friday. The shipping giants are a faster than Jackson’s wards. ASEAN glory. They aim to ba and company enjoy an the boys focussed in the Assam teams storm into finals knitted unit. Something, East They don’t have a Baichung bask in the NFL sun. Coach injury-free run, if goalkeeper long run. Their irrepressible Bengal was prior to the Bhutia, but makes up con- Savio Mediera knows, this is Rajat Ghosh Dastidar main- team spirit can make the Mumbai: Reigning champions Assam CROSS COUNTRY ASEAN. They don’t have a verting every half-chance. their best chance. A number tains his Durand Cup form difference between the cup stormed into the final of the teams’ Punjab reach quarters Kevin Jackson, but run And what if they don’t have of ‘If’s’ hold the key. If Tom- and only if Savio can keep and the sip. — By Nilanjan Datta event in both the boys and girls sec- Results: Boys (semifinals): Assam bt Delhi 2-0 (Bahni- man Bora bt Himanshu Karbanda 15-7, 15-10; Bahniman Ludhiana: Punjab and Rajasthan boys Strengths SALGAOCAR est of defenders and tions on the second day of the 28th Ju- Bora/ Rajib Goswami beat Parvinder/ Apurva Vij 15-13, 7- reached the quarters of the 3km indi- • Haven’t played much then manoeuvre down nior National and Inter-state Bad- 15, 15-9); Maharashtra bt Andhra Pradesh 2-0 (Anand vidiual pursuit in the National Track they fade out too. Key players minton in Thane on Wednesday. Pawar bt B Kiran Kumar 15-2, 15-2; Anand Pawar/ Nishad and have the appetite. Tomba Singh: the flanks like lightning. Dravid bt P Sharat Chandra/ T Dinesh 15-4, 15-6); Quar- Cycling Championship on Wednesday. • Defence often plays In the semifinals for the Narang Cup, • The midfield can He chases to Dharamjit Singh: His terfinals: Delhi bt Uttar Pradesh 2-1, Maharashtra bt Rail- In the girls section, Karnataka, Maha- on a parallel line and Assam boys crushed Delhi 2-0 while ways 2-1. Girls (semifinals): Andhra Pradesh bt Maha- grate, it can sting. takes time to recover. every corner sudden burst of speed rashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala the girls trounced Haryana 2-0. Assam rashtra 2-0 (Saina Nehwal bt Sayali Gokhale 11-3, 11-6; • Relish dead-ball Sneaking-in is easy. and ‘Bends it Tomba can mock air-tight de- Dipti Shalini/ T Soumya bt Neha Pandit/ Sampada Sa- made it to the quarterfinals on Tuesday. National will meet host Maharashtra who de- situations. • Plays in spells and like Beckham,’ too. fences. Plays perfect hasrabuddhe 15-11, 15-9); Assam bt Haryana 2-0 (Krishna In the men’s 4km, Punjab Police, Ser- Football feated Andhra Pradesh 2-0 while Deka Raja bt Anita 11-3, 11-1; Krishna Deka Raja/ Rimi vices, Railways while in women’s sec- Weakness have a tendency of con- Bello Rassaq: He can support to Tomba. Hazarika bt Anita/ Kannu Priya 15-1, 15-9); Quarterfinals: Andhra Pradesh eves sidelined Maha- L eague • Slow down the game, ceding early. pocket even the sturdi- Colours: All green Andhra Pradesh bt Railways 2-0, Haryana bt Uttar Pradesh tion Railways, Kerala and Maharashtra rashtra 2-0 on way to the final. 2-0. PTI entered the medal winning stage. PTI CAPITAL SPORT Thukral wins: Rishabh Thukral won the Delhi State Se- nior Pool title by defeating Kamaldeep Singh 9-3. Anuj Up- pal who accounted for Amit Khan Sahib 9-5 was ranked runner-up. Kamaldeep and Amit came third and fourth re- spectively. Inter-ministry football: In the Inter-ministry football tour- nament, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting drew 1-1 with the Air Force Headquarters. TT championships: The Table Tennis Federation of India wiil conduct National Ranking Table Tennis Championships (North Zone) from December 8- 11, 2003 at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium. Entries from Delhi close on December 2. Fpr reg- istration contact, Shri Hukam Singh, Organising Secretary, DTTA, 6/2543, Seadonpura, Karol Bagh, New Delhi.

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Marat Safin tries his skills at miniature tennis during a visit to the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on Wednesday. Naked truth: Springbok skipper Corne Krige said on Wednesday that players were taking legal advice over images screened around the world showing South Africa’s national rugby team naked at a military- style “boot camp”. Photos tak- en from a “home video” were printed on the front page of every major newspaper here, and the images were screened around the world, causing an outcry in South Africa and calls for the heads of the team man- agement, including coach Rudolf Straeuli. South African pay-to-view channel MNET screened the first live pictures of “Kamp Staaldraad” (Camp Steel-wire) on Sunday night, showing the national squad crawling naked through the African bush. Fast and furious: Colom- bian Juan Pablo Montoya led a Williams one-two-three in For- mula One testing in Valencia on Tuesday as he started his preparations for what will be his final season with the British team. Montoya, a world title hopeful last season until his challenge fell away in the clos- ing races, clocked 1:10.081sec off a total of 69 laps with Ralf Schumacher and test driver Marc Gene just behind. The Colombian will drive for McLaren in 2005 where he is expected to unseat David Coulthard. Fiji says no: Fiji’s rugby boss on Wednesday called for the International Rugby Board to scrap a proposed competition in which the richest nine na- tions play each other in a mini- World Cup. The Nine Nations proposal, revealed on Monday by the Australian Rugby Union chief executive officer John O’Neill, calls for the current membership of the Six Nations and SANZAR’s Tri-Nations Se- ries to play every four years, al- ternating with the quadrennial Rugby World Cup. Passing the torch: Greek communities in Sydney and Melbourne will be a major fo- cus of the Athens Olympic torch relay when it arrives in Australia next year, the first country of 25 on a trip that in- cludes all cities that have host- ed a Summer Games. Follow- ing the traditional lighting at Ancient Olympia, birthplace of the Games, in late May of next year, the torch will travel to Athens before arriving in Syd- ney on June 4, 2004. The first runner on the Australian leg will be Cathy Freeman. It’s a deal! Major League Baseball has signed a develop- ment deal for at least the next two years with the China Base- ball Association to help prepare the nation’s talent for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The agree- ment will allow North America’s 30 major league clubs to scout and sign top Chinese talent.

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Dumdum’s Ashutosh Institute made short work of Saraswati Senior Secondary School, Rohtak 2-0 in the 43rd Subroto Cup football tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium on Wednesday. After a barren first half, Subhankar and Anup Datta scored one apiece. The Bengal boys, with their precision passing rattled the Rohtak boys but their finishing left a lot to be desired. Having only the goalkeeper to beat on numerous occasions, they fumbled in the striking zone. They take on Govt. School, Nagaland, who routed Sainik School, Imphal 5-0. Kobu scored three while Sakoterrajen, a brace. Army Boys, Danapur beat Guru Gobind Singh Sports College 2-0 in a keenly contested match. Arjun Tudu, who with his sudden burst caught the rival defence napping netted a brace. In the last match of the day, Oxford School, Aizawl thumped NCC Karnataka and Goa 7-0. Ajit guides Zara to thrilling win Railways register historic win over Delhi By Dinesh Chopra TIMES NEWS NETWORK that too. But for a change, nothing sy Harvinder Singh. and not individually. TIMES NEWS NETWORK scary for his mates. Eventually, the Delhi may have just one point to Because, even the Punjab team is New Delhi: Ajit Singh fired synergy of his short backlift and show after this game but they had known to have their own set of New Delhi: Jai Prakash Yadav is a the deciding goal in a shoot- sharp ball sense helped create histo- their share of plusses too. In the pranksters. hard-core prankster. Last October out between Zara and Ar- ry for Railways as they won their morning, Pradeep Chawla (82) Scores: Delhi 1st innings 195. Railways 1st innings Arsenal humble when Railways were playing the avali Polo to lead the former first ever Ranji Trophy game played like a champion. Someone 234. touring West Indians in Pune, he Delhi 2nd innings (overnight, 198 for six): P Chawla to an exciting 8-7 win on the against Delhi. And if he was strug- who’s given limited chances, ‘PC’ opening day of the Maharaja made some of his team-mates sweat. b Harvinder 82, Sarandeep Singh lbw b Yadav 6, Ab- ‘JP’ was carrying a scary mask. In gling against a raging viral fever, it should be applauded more for his hishek Sharma C Pagnis b Yadav 19, K Lal c Pagnis b Ya- Hari Singh Memorial Cup at dav 5, S Gill not out 15. Extras: (b-10, lb-14, nb-2) 26 Inter, stay alive didn’t show. mind than the strokeplay. Vijay the Jaipur Polo Grounds on the dead of the night he wore it and The three-wicket win seemed a lit- Dahiya getting runs and seamers — Total (all out in 110.3 overs) 278 Wednesday. In another en- went about knocking on the doors of Fall of wickets: 7-206, 8-232, 9-246. Paris: Arsenal dramatically injected new life into their tle distant when Railways, chasing Sanjay Gill, Narender Singh Negi counter, South Delhi van- his room-mates. They’d come out Bowling: Hussain 14-3-38-1, Bangar 19-5-37-0, hopes of reaching the Champions League knockout phase quished Army 13-5 to join rubbing their eyes only to have ‘JP- 240 to win, were 96 for four. But JP and Kunal Lal — bowling well too re- Harvinder 25.3-6-58-4, Parida 29-6-61-1, Yadav 16-1- with a 5-1 demolition of Inter Milan at the San Siro. didn’t flinch. He girded up his guts, flects well on the side. Kunal had a 43-3, Khanolkar 6-1-14-1, T P Singh 1-0-3-0. Thierry Henry set Arsenal on their way midway through Zara in the semifinal lineup. the-mask’ staring at them. Railways 2nd innings: S Bangar lbw b Gill 4, A Pagnis The other two semifinalists There are plenty of stories such as convinced Siddharth Verma (38) and good start with five wickets but for run out 0, T P Singh C Chawla b Kunal 26, J P Yadav b the first half but Christian Vieri equalised. will be decided after Thurs- this that the Karnail Singh Stadium, Yere Goud (26) of his victory plans him these are early days yet. Negi 101, S Khanolkar b Kunal 12, S Verma run out 38, Freddie Ljungberg put the visitors back in front and Hen- day’s match between Royal Railways’ home ground, has wit- and set about the job. This was after Delhi play Punjab next in Mohali. Yere Goud not out 26, S Wankhede b Gill 1, Harvinder ry added his second goal before Robert Pires and Edu com- Kashmir Army and Teach- nessed. Amit Pagnis, Sanjay Bangar and They must lend some muscle to their Singh not out 7. Extras: (b-21, lb-6, nb-2) 29. Total (for pleted the rout on Tuesday. 7 wkts, 62.5 overs) 244 Having started the day bottom of Group B, Arsenal know ers and between McDowells On Wednesday, there was another Tejender Pal Singh were all packed middle-order. Someone like Rajat Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-9, 3-68, 4-96, 5-198, 6-222, 7- Signature and Jindal Steel one added to the tally. Sure it fea- off. The final rites were performed Bhatia won’t be a bad choice. Then, 223. Bowling: Gill 15.5-3-60-2, Kunal 11-1-43-2, Negi that a victory over Lokomotiv Moscow at Highbury in their and Power. tured JP, sure JP was the winner in by Goud in the company of the gut- they’ll have to do well collectively 17-1-52-1, Sarandeep 9-0-27-0, Abhishek 10-1-35-0. final game will see them through to the second stage. Henry was in buoyant mood after defying the critics who had predicted another European flop for the English Pre- miership leaders.“People speculated about our commitment and desire but before tonight we didn’t have all the luck,” Ganesh’s sixer said Henry.“We didn’t show the true face of Arsenal in the Champions League until tonight. Everyone was waiting for us to do something in Europe and tonight we did.” Celtic endured a frustrating night in Glasgow where Bay- rips Rajasthan ern Munich held them to a scoreless draw which, combined with Anderlecht’s 1-0 defeat of Lyon, means that any of the Jaipur: A six-wicket haul by their lacklustre perform- four teams in Group A can qualify. former Indian medium-pac- ance on the final day and Group A: At Brussels: Anderlecht 1 (Tihinen 71) Lyon 0. At Glasgow: Celtic 0 Bayern er Dodda Ganesh helped were bundled out for 187 in Munich 0. Group B: At Milan: Inter Milan 1 (Vieri 32) Arsenal 5 (Henry 25, 85, Ljungberg Karnatka beat Rajasthan by 96.5 overs in their second in- 49, Edu 87, Pires 89. At Moscow: Lokomotiv Moscow 3 (Buznikin 28, Ignashevich 45- pen, Parks 89) Dynamo Kiev 2 (Belkevich 37, Shatskikh 65). Group C: At La Coruna: De- 69 runs in the Ranji Trophy nings. portivo la Coruna 3 (Hector 22, Valeron 51, Luque 71) AEK Athens 0. At Monaco: Mona- Elite Group ‘B’ match. Chas- Saurashtra 177 and 197 (K Vaghela 36, J Jobanputra 36). Maharashtra 443. co 1 (Morientes 34) PSV Eindhoven 1 (Vennegoor 84). Group D: At Istanbul: Galatasaray ing a victory target of 328 vs Juventus - postponed for security reasons At Athens: Olympiakos (Gre) 2 (Stoltidis runs, Rajasthan were all out 59, Castillo 71) Real Sociedad (Spa) 2 (Gabilondo 31, Schurrer 74). AFP for 258, 50 minutes before tea Baroda gain 2 to give Karnataka four Vadodara: A crucial first in- points for an outright victo- nings lead of 35 runs against ry. Ganesh, who had taken Punjab enabled hosts Baro- Liverpool battle two wickets on Tuesday, da secure two points as the added four more to his tally four-day Ranji Trophy tie to finish with six for 91 while ended in a draw here on the Venkatesh Prasad (2/48) and last day. Resuming at their to save season Sunil Joshi (2/67) shared the overnight score of 323 for remaining scalps. Paris: Four-time European dlesbrough at the weekend eight, Punjab batsmen could champions and 18-time Eng- left Gerard Houllier’s Liver- With these four points, add just 11 runs before being lish league winners Liver- pool side ninth in the Pre- Karnataka took their tally to bowled out for 334 in their pool face the stark reality of miership, 15 points behind six from three matches first innings replying to Bar- their decline as a soccer su- leaders Arsenal. while Rajasthan have four oda’s 369. Medium pacer perpower on Thursday as But the Merseysiders points from an equal num- Rakesh Patel was the wreck- they try to salvage their sea- believe the return of ber of outings. Karnataka 145 & 350. Rajasthan 168 & er-in-chief for the hosts son by progressing in the inspirational German mid- 258 (Pankaj Gupta 58, Rahul Kanwat 84; D claiming five wickets. UEFA Cup. fielder Dietmar Hamann, Ganesh 6/91). Baroda 369 and 247/6 (S Gaekwad 72, R They welcome Steaua for his first match of the Parab 56). Punjab 334. Bucharest of Romania to season, could be the boost TN, Bengal draw Anfield having drawn 1-1 in they need. UP-Mumbai draw the first leg of their second “Didi’s been a massive Tirunelveli: Brilliant cen- Lucknow: The slow and low round tie in the knowledge loss for us this season,” said turies by Badarinath and pitch at the Babu stadium that victory in Europe’s sec- England striker Michael Sarath and their fourth turned out to be the main ond string competition is Owen. wicket partnership of 229 culprit. Though Mumbai crucial in what has been a “I’m looking forward to runs helped Tamil Nadu to skipper Sairaj Bahutule disappointing campaign. having him fit and back, and draw their match against picked up six wickets, most Liverpool are not alone in so is everyone from the fans Bengal in the four-day Ranji of his dismissals came too their discomfort. through to the coaching Trophy Elite Group B league late in the day to make any Manchester City defend a staff and management. He’s match. Bengal, who lost to difference to the result. Ut- 1-1 scoreline going to Poland a fantastic player.” Rajasthan and Karnataka tar Pradesh had to bat out a to face Groclin, Italian gi- Kevin Keegan, who earlier, gained two points hundred overs on the final ants Roma have a slender 1- played a major role in Liver- from this match. day and they did it with 0 advantage heading to pool’s golden days of the Bengal 400. Tamil Nadu 188 and 397/4 (H Croatia to play Hadjuk Split 1970s, takes his Manchester Badrinath 190, S Sharath n.o. 101, S S Paul dogged determination to 3/103). deny Mumbai full points while German giants Borus- City side to Poland where from their Ranji Trophy sia Dortmund go into their Groclin will be confident of Elite A match. UP derived a trip to Sochaux with the tie progressing after battling to Easy for Orissa lot of satisfaction and confi- poised at 2-2. a draw in England two A 0-0 stalemate at Mid- weeks ago. AFP Cuttack: Seeking to climb dence for the battles ahead back to the Elite group of as Mumbai were on a high the Ranji Trophy after last after thrashing both Baroda year’s dismal show, Orissa and Delhi in their earlier UEFA moves big began their campaign in games. They now have 11 style crushing Goa by an in- from three and well on way nings and 99 runs in the to semi-finals as they pro- Plate division at the Bara- ceed to Vijayawada to take ties out of Turkey bati stadium. Goa, who were on Andhra from December 1. 41 for one at close on Tues- Uttar Pradesh (1st innings) 205. Mumbai Olympic flame to Nyon: Three Champions month. The Champions day and required to make (1st innings) 332. League and UEFA Cup ties League clash between Istan- 232 runs to avoid an innings Too much to shoulder due to be played in Turkey bul-based side Galatasaray Other results defeat, collapsed to 132 all pass through India over the next two weeks, in- and Italy’s Juventus, due on Elite group: At Vizag: Andhra 458 for TIMES NEWS NETWORK others too couldn’t shoulder. Fourth out soon after the lunch on cluding English Premier- December 2, will be played 7 decl. drew with Kerala 354 (C. He- seed Vijay Kannan opted out of his New Delhi: For the first time in the his- the fourth and final day of manth Kumar 94, G Shankar Rao 4 New Delhi: Rahul Madan is this busy tory of Olympic Games, the torch relay ship side Chelsea’s away leg outside Turkey, while Besik- joust against a fiery Vinod Sridhar against Besiktas, will be tas’s match against Chelsea, the match. Orissa claimed for 54, Shabuddin 4 for 94). physio who’s tending twenty patients will pass through India, the 2004 Athens citing a suspect shoulder with the moved abroad because of se- scheduled for December 9, five points from the tie in- At Guwahati: Assam 537 for nine (S a day at the $10,000 ITF tournament at Olympics Organising Committee an- score tied at a set apiece. Top seed curity concerns, UEFA said will also take place at a neu- cluding a bonus point. Sarvanan 89, R Sathish 133 n.o., DLTA. And he’s partially the reason nounced on Wednesday. Goa 235 & 132 (D Mohanty 2/19, Bipin Harsh Mankad was in control ahead 6- on Tuesday. tral venue. Sukhvinder Singh 112) draw with why Vishal Punna’s in the quarterfi- The Olympic flame, with the theme Singh 5/46, Sanjay Satpathy 2/36). Orissa 4, 2-1 when Naim Lalji of Britain too “The decision comes in The UEFA Cup tie be- Hyderabad 410/9 (Anirudh Singh 68, nals. 466/8 decl. cited a sore shoulder to walk out. ‘Pass the Flame, Unite the World’, on its the wake of the recent ter- tween Israeli side Haifa and Vinay Kumar 53, Arjun Yadav 91, Last week the lanky Vishal, who’s Ibrahim Khalil 89, Arland Konwar Sunil Kumar Sipaeya has always world-wide path to Athens for the 28th rorist attacks of November Spanish club Valencia, ranked on the wrong side of 1,000, Maharashtra win 6/141). hunted easy in Delhi. Today he added Olympiad, is scheduled to arrive in India 15 and 20 in Istanbul and fol- which had already been Plate group: At Ranchi: MP 133 and scripted a blitz to the final of the the scalp of last week’s finalist, on June 10 after it is lit in ancient lows a broad evaluation of moved outside Israel and Rajkot: Maharashtra de- 3.53/8 beat Bihar 85 (S Pandey Dehradun Futures. Perhaps his play- Britain’s Nick Crawley, to his collec- Olympia in May. the current threat to securi- switched to Turkey because feated hosts Saurashtra by 7/23) & 242 (Goel 81 n.o., N Hirwani ing shoulder was the most surprised Delhi Lt Governor Vijay Kapoor wel- ty,” European football’s gov- of security fears, will now be an innings and 79 runs to tion by virtue of a quick fire 6-0, 6-2 4/86). as it promptly registered its protest by comed the decision and said “we are ho- erning body said in a state- moved out of Turkey. gain five points on the fourth win. His long-term shoulder injury At Rohtak: Haryana beat Jammu & turning sore. Leading 4-3 against noured that Delhi will be a host city to ment after an emergency UEFA have not yet decided and final day of their Plate seems to be all fine now. Kashmir by eight wickets. third seed Matwe Middelkoop in his the first-ever global Olympic torch re- meeting. where the ties will now be ‘B’ Ranji Trophy match. Re- Another impressive player is Pak- In New Delhi: Services 233 & 175 (K second round match on Wednesday, lay.” The torch relay in Delhi will begin Turkish Prime Minister played and if it will be able to suming at their overnight Chawda 56, V Singh 6/42) lost to HP istan’s Aisam Qureshi who won the Vishal called for a medical timeout at the Qutub Minar and thereafter pass Recep Tayyip Erdogan con- stick to the current match score of 65 for three, 291 & 118/5 (M Bisla 76 n.o., F Mo- tournament last week. He too did not and beckoned the man who’s been through several of the city’s historical demned the decision, calling dates. Erdogan said Turkey Saurashtra continued with hammad 3/47). PTI waste too much time during a 6-3, 6-2 coaxing his shoulder to go on for the walkabout against Mikhail monuments like Humayun’s tomb, Red it a “very serious mistake” would protest formally to last few days. Rahul did his magic and Ledovskikh of Russia. Fort, Parliament House, India Gate be- that met the terrorists’ aims UEFA. “It is unfair. To say Vishal went on to do his. Matwe crum- fore culminating at the Major Dhyanc- of isolating Turkey. that terrorism has taken root Singles second round (Indians unless specified): J bled 6-4, 4-6, 4-6 and the biggest upset Smit (Ned) b D Doskarayev (Kaz) 1-6, 6-3, 6-1; S Krotiouk hand National Stadium. More than 50 people were in Turkey because of these of the day was registered. (Rus) b M Ouvarov (Gbr) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3; M Op Heijde (Ned) The torch relay will also pass through killed in two waves of bomb events is to give in to this It turned out to be a day that many b S Sev Varman 6-4, 6-2. South America and Africa. attacks in Istanbul this plague,” said Erdogan. AFP Queen Ernest ready for throne TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Queen Ernest is expected to win the Municipal Commissioner’s Trophy at the Mumbai races on Thursday. Selections: Rising Brave Plate: 1,000m: 2.30pm: Fire Dancer 1, Silver Line 2, Dancing Mys- tery 3. Gold Cavalier Plate: 1,400m: Fair Always 1, Cryptonite 2, Arabian Fighter 3. Basque Plate: 1,400m: Hope Floats 1, Royally Talented 2, Natural Dancer 3. Harbour View Plate: 1,000m: Silver N Gold 1, Armies of Light 2, Daisy Cutter 3. Municipal Commissioner’s Tro- phy: 1,400m: Queen Ernest 1, Dazzling Queen 2, One O One 3. DR A Karmally Trophy: 1,400m: Roofer 1, Rise 2, Leopardess 3. Solid Steel Plate: 1,200m: 5.30pm: Courageous 1, Bellagio 2, Checkmate 3. Net Work triumphs: Net Work (C Alford atop) lifted the Hyderabad Race Club Cup at the Kolkata races held on Wednesday.Barrier Ridge, Crowning Moment and Argento finished second, third and fourth respectively. Meanwhile, Dashing Chief (Amyn Merchant astride) claimed the Goolagong Cup by beating Arrayal and Crimson Rage 3.

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