OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Friday,August 8, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 30 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International Business Sport Omar Sharif That’s entertainment, Doping watchdog convicted for Birla ties up with raps Australian head-butting cop Murdoch’s Fox board over Warne Page 12 Page 15 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES Established 1838 Rich children Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. IGI airport flies upper class Government is the Entertainment Division By Byas Anand is to be floated soon. ly provided behavioural training of the military-industrial TIMES NEWS NETWORK These steps, observers say, are Sprucing up on inter-personal dealing with dumped for temporary measures being put in passengers to 36 personnel and complex. New Delhi: The government has place to prepare the ground for customer service to 110 employ- — Frank Zappa decided to improve the look and • Shower and the much-delayed privatisation of ees stationed at the airport. feel of the Indira Gandhi inter- Delhi airport. snooze Special emphasis, he said, is national (IGI) airport in Delhi by being special Watch your favourite ‘‘All these new facilities will be IN TRANSFER also being laid on the security as- introducing services and facili- in place by the year-end. We pect particularly after physical PASSENGER LOUNGE By Nistula Hebbar newspaper roll out. ties that are in line with global are not investing much in frisking of passengers was dis- TIMES NEWS NETWORK The way we are Hot off the largest press in India! standards. these new facilities as most of it continued on the insistence of New amenities being consid- • Art gallery is being done in partnership with IN TERMINAL II OF THE civil aviation minister Rajiv New Delhi: A home for men- •Fives cases of well-to- Call 23302138. ered include a premium radio private firms. But it would gener- Pratap Rudy. do parents leaving their INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT tally-challenged destitute Between 10am and 5pm. taxi service, a porter service and ate additional revenue for AAI,’’ ‘‘Besides, an art gallery has children is not a place where children at Asha Kiran, Visits arranged post noon every fast-food outlets. A transfer pas- say sources. been commissioned at terminal one would expect to find chil- a home for mentally- Wednesday and Saturday. senger lounge is also being con- He says the aim is to bring the • Cha bar II of the international airport...A dren of affluent business- challenged children sidered at the international air- service standards at the Delhi OUTSIDE THE DOMESTIC coffee bar has also been proposed man and middle-ranking port terminal with ‘‘shower and airport at par with international outside the domestic arrival ter- •Parents said they were ARRIVAL TERMINAL bank officers. And yet, Asha unable to take care of snooze’’ facilities along the lines airports. ‘‘They are not mere cos- minal. We are also linking the air Kiran, the Delhi government- of the London Heathrow airport, metic changes, but even improve- traffic control (ATC) flight tim- the special needs of run home has five such ‘‘cas- the child according to Airports Authority ments on the operational side the AAI official added. ings with the AAI website to dis- es’’ under its care. NEWS DIGEST of India (AAI) officials. and are aimed at making the air- The authority, along with the seminate current information,’’ ‘‘We have had children •15 cases of parents The tender for this lounge port more passenger-friendly,’’ ministry of tourism, had recent- the official said. from affluent families for voluntarily giving up their many years now,’’ said Neeru children; inmate strength Nanda, secretary social wel- of home is 560 TIMES AFP fare, Delhi government. Modi govt files These inmates came here are children of business- more than a decade ago re- men,’’ added Sinha. One of appeal in Best ferred by the Juvenile Wel- these children, Kushal Man- fare Council. ‘‘At the time the gala died in April this year. Patient suffering: Expensive parents of these children Only one of them is a girl apparatus lies unused in hospi- Bakery case said they were unable to take lodged at the adult female care of the special needs of section of the home. tals for want of spare parts. P3 TIMES NEWS NETWORK the child,’’ said A K Sinha, ‘‘Only Kushal’s parents are Ahmedabad: The Modi gov- district officer, north west, still alive. In most other cas- Soft drink probe: The govern- ernment has filed an appeal in department of social welfare. es, the parents have died and ment has asked the officials of the the Gujarat High Court chal- Children are referred to the siblings are not interest- department of prevention of food lenging the fast track court’s the home by the Council un- ed in taking back the chil- adulteration to collect samples from order in the Best Bakery case der the Juvenile Justice Act, dren,’’said Sinha. the Coke and Pepsico plants. P9 acquitting all the 21 accused. 1986. Cases where parents In fact, when Asha Kiran Brutal ragging: In a shocking inci- The appeal is significant as voluntarily want to give up tried to contact some of dent of ragging, a student of Jal- it comes in conflict with the their children are called them, most had changed paiguri Government Engineering NHRC’s petition in the parental cases. their addresses and phone College in West Bengal was subject- Supreme Court seeking a re- Asha Kiran has 15 parental numbers. ed to night-long assault by seniors opening of the case and the cases out of a total inmate The Social Welfare depart- using iron rods and cycle-chains for transfer of four other carnage strength of 560. ‘‘In most cas- ment is now trying to hesitating to strip. cases outside the state. es, these are children of peo- discourage such admissions. Water assessment: The Water On Thursday, BJP workers ple who are too poor to take ‘‘We are planning to set Quality Assessme nt Authority, con- were protesting on the streets care of their children,’’ said up an OPD at the Sanjay stituted 3 years ago for monitoring against the NHRC’s move even Sinha. ‘‘In fact they are now Gandhi hospital, so mentally- surface and ground-water is still in as the state government filed adults, and are lodged in the challenged children with its formative stage, say officials. P11 its appeal. adult section of the home,’’ parents can be treated he added. without the home having to Bail plea rejected: A Siwan court The appeal contends that the ‘‘Only one is a child of a re- spend its resources on on Thursday turned down the antici- GOONJ UTHA PARLIAMENT: Ustad Bismillah Khan with President A P J Abdul Kalam moments before his historic trial court overlooked the tired bank officer,four others them,’’ said Nanda. patory bail application of RJD MP shenai recital at the Central Hall of Parliament on Thursday. Others in the picture are finance minister fact that the police had Mohammed Shahabuddin in con- Jaswant Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi. ignored the statement of the nection with an abduction case. main witness Zahira Shaikh Sentence in Bali blast case: An and instead treated that of George faces coffin flak Indonesian court on Thursday con- Raiz Khan as the first informa- victed and sentenced to death by Now, Kalpana tion report (FIR). New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was thrown out of gear on firing Amrozi bin Nurhasyim for his In what is being termed as Thursday when an angry and united opposition stalled role in the Bali blasts last year. P13 in the sky with It’s official, India’s ‘‘a balancing act’’, another ap- proceedings to demand privilege action against defence peal was filed on Thursday minister George Fernandes for denying a vital CVC re- Arnie’s new role: ‘‘Terminator’’ against an acquittal order movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger port on Kargil arms purchases to the Public Accounts on Thursday announced his surprise her colleagues delivered by the Godhra ses- Committee (PAC). This report was tabled in the Lok Sab- candidacy for the governorship of ‘worst ever’ N-leak sions court where an accused ha on Wednesday. No business could be transacted as Washington: California in October. P13 Salim Shaikh was acquitted in protesting opposition members repeatedly stormed the Seven asteroids By Swati Das a case involving an attack on well of the House shouting anti-government slogans. TNN circling the sun Kalpakkam radiation YOU SAID IT by Laxman TIMES NEWS NETWORK the Harijanvaas area in Lu- Detailed report on page 9 between the or- nawada on March 1. bits of Mars Chennai: Six employees of the •Leakage level between one and Jupiter are Kalpakkam Atomic Reprocess- and two. In Chernobyl, being named af- ing Plant (Karp) were exposed to the level was 7 ter the seven as- radiation levels far higher than • Barc has ruled out release tronauts, in- health standards allow due to a of radioactivity into the cluding India- leak on January 21. environment or danger to born Kalpana Bhabha Atomic Research Cen- the public Chawla, who Kalpana in the sky tre director Dr B Bhattacharjee Incident caused mainly died in the Columbia space shuttle admits it is the ‘‘worst ever radi- • due to an error in technical accident, officials announced on ation exposure incident in the 40- judgement Wednesday. Astronauts Kalpana year history of the atomic energy Chawla, Rick Husband, William Mc- department’’. Cool, Michael Anderson, David Karp is about a km away and in tion of ‘‘worrisome propor- Brown and Laurel Clark of Nasa the same campus as the main tions’’, Bhattacharjee said and Ilan Ramon of Israel died on atomic power plant, around 60 there was nothing to worry February 1, 2003, when Columbia km from Chennai.