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WIN WITH THE TIMES Summer’s same old dark and dirty secret Four questions remain In Delhi, summer is the cialistic god ensures that ciencies and corruption. But Where are How will Where are the Is Syria next? 1 Saddam, his 2 the war end 3 weapons of mass 4 Could be, as Established 1838 great leveller. Everybody they are worst affected by they reckoned without poli- Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. reels under its onslaught of the shortfall in water supply. tics. A naivete particularly sons, Tariq Aziz and formally? destruction which Bush has accused power cuts which leave the To the generator bill, add unforgivable, even inexpli- Mohammed Sahaf? With no Iraqi to triggered the invasion? Syria of having chemi- If the entire universe Nobody knows. The US sign the instrument With no evidence of cal weapons. US also together with all its wealth city in the dark and swelter- that of the tankers. This cable in a politics-endemic is conducting DNA of surrender, US WMDs, finding a ‘smok- feels threatening Syria is given to you, still it can ing, and add to the burden year may be different only in city. And if this weren’t neither satisfy your tests on human will simply declare ing gun’ is top priority or Hizbollah in of its partner in grime: water that it could be worse. Not enough,there’s the truckers’ remains. And accusing its viceroy, Jay for the US military. Lebanon might give craving nor will it be shortages. better, as Delhiites expect- strike. Just into Day Two, able to protect you. Syria of providing Garner, as being in Turning a blank will be Israel leverage against Swanky south Delhi may be ed. They expected that the supplies and their prices are sanctuary to them. charge now. PR disaster for Bush. Palestinians. — Lord Mahavira able to pay for captive pow- privatisation of power distri- still holding. But ... er systems, but some so- bution would exorcise ineffi- (See Page 3...) AP NEWS DIGEST
Pesticides in food: Nearly 90 per cent of pesticides end up contami- Power: Now it’s all about politics nating the air, soil and water, eventu- ally entering the food chain as a By Pratyush Kanth slow poison. Intake of small quanti- TIMES NEWS NETWORK POWER GAMES ties of these residues, along with New Delhi: All those who food, may lead to cancer, reduced • Power theft in posh areas is far life span, increased cholesterol and thought that privatisation would more than in slum clusters metabolic and genetic disorders. P7 mean fewer power-cuts in the city • Two guest-houses in Alaknanda are in for a major disappointment. steal more power than a big slum Iraq-like situation in Pak: Exter- There will be no harsh measures cluster there, a BSES worker said nal affairs minister against power thieves as the Yashwant Sinha • Darkest days in 2002: In July, Sheila Dikshit government does 6-9 hr power cuts were normal said the grounds on not want to risk its popularity in which the US-led an election year. coalition invaded er situation this summer. ‘‘We tied up with other states for Iraq also existed in Senior Congress leaders are don’t have a magical wand. We are procuring 4,000 MW of power. Pakistan and could convinced that raids against pow- warrant a similar er thefts will be a huge gain for the aware that it is just a matter of a About 50 per cent of the total military action BJP. ‘‘The rich steal more power few weeks before all political par- power available does not reach the against the country. than those living in slums. But the ties start attacking us for not doing consumer.It goes unaccounted due number of slum-dwellers is quite enough to tackle the summer pow- to thefts and faults. BPCL privatisation: The large and they also mean a big er crisis,’’ said a BSES official. ‘‘A consumer, who pays his bills Supreme Court on Monday issued votebank. We cannot afford to dis- The power scenario in the city and draws only that much power notice to the Centre on a PIL chal- lenging the proposed privatisation of please both these segments before seems grim. Power consumption he is authorised to, will continue the Bharat Petroleum Corporation the assembly elections in Novem- in the city is likely to peak to 3,700 to suffer power cuts while influen- Ltd and the Hindustan Petroleum ber,’’ said a Delhi minister. MW a day this summer. But the tial power thieves, including polit- Corporation Ltd. P7 Officials of the private distribu- peak power supply may hover ically-linked industrialists, may tion companies refused to guaran- around 3,300 MW a day,despite the continue to enjoy special treat- Iraqi women cheer the British 3rd Regiment Corps, in Amarah, central Iraq, on Sunday. Bangalore gasping: A study con- tee any drastic change in the pow- Delhi government’s claim to have ment,’’ said a Tata Power official. ducted by the Lakeside Medical Centre and Hospital of Bangalore has found that nearly seven to eight lakh children in the city suffer from Water: All sources unreliable coughing, wheezing and other respi- Job done in Iraq, US ratory ailments due to the alarming By Saurabh Sinha air pollution levels. P8 TIMES NEWS NETWORK DELHI RUNNING DRY Panel defends DD: The standing committee on IT headed by Opposi- New Delhi: A severe shortage of Heading for the pits: Areas in raw water has made drinking now aims at Syria tion leader Somnath Chatterjee has South Delhi like Greater Kailash, water a mirage in several parts defended DD on the question of Chittaranjan Park, South Extension By Chidanand Rajghatta cal weapons, a long standing US suspicion of Delhi. paying taxes saying that Prasar TIMES NEWS NETWORK that has never been aired openly. While there hasn’t been a major Vasant Kunj, Vasant Vihar Bharati is a public broadcaster. P9 “Each situation will require a different re- rise in demand since last year, the Trouble brewing: Soutwest Delhi, Washington: Signalling a new muscular ap- sponse. First things first. We’re in Iraq now,” supply has been hit badly. East Delhi YOU SAID IT by Laxman proach post Iraq war, and sending tremors Bush told reporters on Sunday. ‘‘The Okhla treatment plants through the Arab world, the US has now Similar warnings to Syria were issued by used to produce about 19 million warned Syria of consequences if it does not But the water released from 650 MGD — of which nearly 30 per Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Sec- gallons a day (MGD) mainly stop cross-border exfiltration and harbour- the state, about 25 MGD instead of cent is lost in transmission — has retary of State Colin Powell. for south Delhi. But this time ing Saddam Hussein regime fugitives. the 40 MGD it is supposed to re- further widened. the excessive level of ammonia The Bush administration also issued what Asked if Syria was next on the US hit list, lease, is often so polluted that it in ground water being drawn While Delhiites used to partially it called a “blanket statement” to countries Rumsfeld said in a television interview, can’t be used. from ranney wells for the plant bridge the gap by running their around that world that it would not tolerate “That’s above my pay grade. Those are the has led to a loss of production With the Upper Ganga Canal tubewells, last year’s failed mon- terrorism and pursuit of weapons of mass kinds of things that countries and presidents of nearly three to four MGD,’’ a that brings water from the soon has led to one of the lowest destruction. decide. That’s broad national policy.” senior Delhi Jal Board (DJB) Ganges to the city closed for water tables in the city. Washington stopped short of threatening Secretary of State Powell said on official said. Kumbh Mela preparations, the While the entire south-west war against Syria, but the menace was un- Monday that the US would consider The situation has been aggra- Bhagirathi treatment plant in east Delhi has hardly any sweet mistakable when several top US officials various diplomatic and economic measures vated, as the Nangloi plant Delhi will experience a shortfall groundwater left, even in other turned the heat on Syria over the weekend. against Syria if it continued to go against which also supplies water to the of 20 MGD. parts tubewells are running dry President Bush joined his cabinet princi- American interests. area and south-west Delhi relies Due to this, the gap between the and people are drilling further to pals on Sunday in rebuking Syria for failing See Edit Page article: Death of ‘Chemical’ Ali on water from Haryana. demand of 830 MGD and supply of scrape the aquifers. to cooperate with the US, and going public See also Sacred Space: Whose Iraq? with the assertion that Damascus has chemi- More reports on page 9
POTA must be used against terrorists only and not against Trishuls lodge legitimate criminals lke burglars, robbers, cheats, murderers and Use dipper, or pay so on... Togadia in jail
TIMES NEWS NETWORK indiatimes.com POLL a fine of Rs 100 Ajmer: Vishwa Hindu Parishad gen- Yesterday’s results: Do you agree with eral secretary Praveen Togadia has TIMES NEWS NETWORK Julia Roberts that Aishwarya Rai is the eral complaints against high been remanded to judicial custody till most beautiful woman in the world? beam driving. ‘‘Several persons New Delhi: Driving with head- April 16 for defying the ban order on complained that it was difficult lights on high beam is now pun- carrying and displaying trishuls. Yes 61% No 39% to maintain clear visibility be- ishable. He was arrested on Sunday night af- cause the car coming from oppo- • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose Starting Wednesday,as part of ter he distributed trishuls to VHP to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. site direction was on high a special drive, traffic police will workers in Ajmer.Togadia was booked Today’s question: Do you think Monica target those who inconvenience beam,’’ Golcha added. under the Arms Act. Lewinsky is the best choice to host a re- The city roads are well-lit, The VHP has called for a Rajasthan ality show for lovers? others by driving on high beam. DCP (Traffic) Satish Golcha therefore high-beam driving can bandh on Tuesday to protest the ar- Cast your vote on said: ‘‘Driving on high beam is be avoided, he said. rest. Senior VHP leaders, including in- www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 an offence under rule 112 of the The department will deploy ternational vice-president Acharya Delhi Motor Vehicle Rules. The traffic police on city roads even Giriraj Kishore, have started arriving offender can be prosecuted.’’ though there is no special provi- in Jaipur. In Ajmer, the police arrested Although the fine for the of- sion to have staff on night duty. VHP leaders Gopi Kishan Syria, fence is just Rs 100, the DCP said ‘‘It would not be a night long Sarveshwar Agarwal and Janwarilal the drive is important to ensure drive. Special teams would posi- Chaudhary in connection with the 650 discipline on Delhi roads. tion themselves at specific tridents that were recovered from Golcha said the rule states it is places for two to three hours their office on Saturday. All have been a motorist’s responsibility to everyday,’’Golcha said. booked under the Arms Act. WEATHER manipulate headlights so that The drive will continue for 10 In Bhilwara, the police raided the there is no danger or inconven- days. Depending on the drive’s houses of VHP and Bajrang Dal lead- Max. 39oC/ Min. 27oC ience to any person. success rate, the police would ers throughout Sunday and on Monday Moonset: Wednesday — 0538 hrs He said the drive was initiated take a decision on whether to morning, arrested Amrit Lal Khemka, Moonrise: Tuesday — 1716 hrs after traffic police received sev- stop or extend it. Chitarmal Agarwal, Suresh Goyal and Sunset: Tuesday — 1847 hrs Subhash Baheti. Sunrise:Wednesday — 0555 hrs Partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain/thundery development accompanied with squall in some areas. Max. relative hu- Bond crew not casting about yet midity on Monday 46% and Min. 18%. Neelabh By Rashmee Z Ahmed cine chastity to the sexu- Book your Classifieds TIMES NEWS NETWORK ally-permissive sequels. 24 hours service: “51-666-888” Asked if Bond might London: James Bond’s still end up with an Indian Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” minders have emphatical- leading lady, McCormack The ATM of information ly denied asking Aish- would only say, “Perhaps. warya Rai or any other In- The Largest Classifieds Site But we have not thought dian actress to be 007’s of it at the moment”. playmate in the next in- stalment of moviedom’s Reports from Mumbai biggest brand. quoted Imagio Entertain- * 18 + 8 pages of Delhi Times “These are rumours. ments, London, saying + 4 pages of Financial Times We have not approached they had offered only Rai Aishwarya... we have no the role. Other names script, no casting agent, mentioned included Femi- not even a date for the na Miss Indias Lara Dutta film,” said Catherine Mc- Bond 21, insists the speculation and Priyanka Chopra. Cormack of Eon Productions, the about Aishwarya Rai is reminiscent But McCormack denied Imagio company that creates 007’s cinemat- of other Bond films, other times and was acting under the authority of ic exploits. other countries. the Bond producers. “We have never The company, which says it does- Eon’s denial comes on the heels of asked them to do any work for us. n’t know when, where or with whom reports that Rai was likely to bring When we get a script, we’ll get an it will embark on the next Bond film, her Indian beauty and notions of agent and they will look around.”
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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Tuesday,April 15, 2003 3 Assault case Khattar healthy, says AIIMS 20 years on, DDA forced against KK Laskar TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mahipalpur New Delhi: A panel of doc- to rebuild unsafe flats tors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) By Pradeep Rana Chronograph construction was substan- MLA’s kin has declared Dharambir TIMES NEWS NETWORK dard and did not conform to minimal safety standards, Khattar, the alleged middle- New Delhi: Finding no tak- 1982: DDA awards con- By Maneesh Pandey the report said. man in the Delhi Develop- ers for 465 flats declared un- tract of 465 flats at Dil- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Following the negative re- ment Authority (DDA) land safe and substandard for shad Garden and port, the DDA terminated New Delhi: The southwest scam, fit to be discharged past 20 years, the Delhi De- Khichripur the contract and awarded district police has registered from hospital. velopment Authority (DDA) Early 1983: Safety ex- The report was submitted contract of remaining flats a complaint against relatives has now decided to demolish perts declared flats un- of Mahipalpur MLA for as- in a sealed envelope to met- and re-build them. safe and substandard. to another contractor. ropolitan magistrate G P During the switchover, saulting a woman. The flats, built at Dilshad DDA fires contractor The two accused are broth- Singh on Monday. It states the previous contractor al- Garden and Khichripur, 1985: Contractor de- er,Pratap Singh, and nephew, that Khattar had no medical legedly lifted the building would have cost not more camps with building ma- Sandeep, of Mahipalpur complications and was not material worth Rs 8 lakh than 2 lakh each in to an al- terial from the site MLA Mahender Singh. The required to remain in hospi- from the site and disap- lottee at the time they were 1987: Contractor steals complainant, Shakuntala tal. It however, advises that peared. The company was constructed. Now the same more building material Devi, alleged that MLA’s he be treated regularly. blacklisted and an FIR was would not cost less than Rs 1988: Construction of brother and his son allegedly Following this, Singh said lodged. As the work pro- 12 lakh as per the current remaining flats com- assaulted and molested her. Khattar should be in the cus- gressed on remaining flats market rates. plete, ready for sale. But According to the police, tody of Central Bureau of in a snail-paced manner, the The wasteful exercise has people refused take al- the incident took place on Investigation (CBI) for two same contractor again de- cost the DDA anywhere be- lotments March 29 at about 10.30 pm — days if the hospital permits. camped with more building tween Rs 50 crore to 75 crore, 1993: DDA tried to sell just behind the MLA’s office material. So another FIR The CBI, which produced apart from the costs borne them re-plastering, but in Kishangarh village. was lodged. Khattar before Singh’s court in their demolition and oth- allottee saw through Deputy commissioner of on Monday, will have to ap- er overheads, admits a sen- ploy and did not buy Flats were finally built police (southwest) Tejinder pear before special judge ior DDA official, not want- 2003: Demolition and re- but when people learnt they Master fixer Dharambir Khattar was produced at Patiala House court on Monday. Luthra said: ‘‘The police is Prem Kumar on Wednesday ing to be named. building of flats begins in did not have safety clear- investigating the charges of with a fresh request for his Khattar’s health. The board Public School Education So- in construction. The CBI With the same amount the a phased manner ance, none of the allottees alleged molestation against custody. had refused to give a report ciety to retain a piece of land said Khattar had asked co- DDA could have raised more came forward to occupy Pratap and Sandeep.’’ Khattar was moved to AI- on the basis of tests con- in Shalimar Bagh although accused Ashok Kapoor to de- them. As for 200 flats in R- than 2,500 flats, he said. struction of Dilshad Garden The complainant, Shakun- IMS on April 10 from Max ducted by the private nurs- they had not constructed liver a DDA letter to Amrit- Block of Dilshad Garden, While almost all the 265 flats flats too had started. tala, said she saw Tinnu and Medcentre, following an or- ing home. anything even lal Kapoor, a member of the at Khichripur have been they too were found to be of The work should have Sandeep throwing stones in der by Prem Kumar. He was Khattar was three years after society,on March 1, 2003, and pulled down for fresh con- substandard construction her plot. When she protested, admitted to the private nurs- arrested on DDAGATE getting posses- collect Rs 2.5 lakh on his be- structions, the 200 flats at been completed by 1983 end. and unsafe. But by the time 200 flats the boys abused her. While ing home after he reported April 8, a day af- sion papers. half. Dilshad Garden will be Finding no takers, DDA Tinnu ran away,Sandeep was were constructed, the Na- of chest pain and a speech ter he moved for anticipato- Khattar had allegedly de- CBI has already arrested razed by the end of this year. tried showcase them again joined by Pratap and his wife, tional Council of Building problem. ry bail before a special court. manded Rs three lakh from former DDA vice-chairman The DDA in 1982 had by making some changes. who allegedly assaulted the The special judge had, Although he is an accused in Modern Public School Edu- Subhash Sharma and for- awarded the contract to a Materials in Ballabhgarh Walls were thickly plas- complainant. however, not considered the three cases, the CBI has ar- cation Society to help then mer employee of DDA Model Basti based construc- sent its report to DDA say- tered. But a wary allottee In the skirmish, Shankuta- reports of Max Medcentre rested him for only one. retain a piece of land. Ashok Kapoor for their al- tion company to build 265 ing that the buildings failed did not even step near the la’s clothes got torn and her and directed that a medical He was arrested for al- He had also offered to get leged involvement in the flats in the Khichripur. in ‘‘impact testing.’’ flat with fatter walls, resting golden chain and earrings board be formed to monitor legedly helping Modern the penalty waived for delay case. About the same time con- The material used in the on same weak foundation. misplaced. A case against un- der Sections 341 and 323 have been registered against Prat- ap and Sandeep. ‘‘The IPC Man kills his Sections amounts to wrong- No water, but bills arrive on time Police blacklists ful restraint and hurting the four children, complainant,’’ Luthra said. By Pradeep Rana Empty reserves ‘‘But the borewell has been The DCP said Pratap Singh runs away to TIMES NEWS NETWORK misused so badly that there is also involved in two other is hardly any water left in it. cases of trespass, house theft New Delhi: Rajinder Singh its own staffers • Pipeline supply is dead. There is only Many illegal connections and extortion in the Vasant commit suicide of Govindpuri Extension in borewell water have been drawn from this By Maneesh Pandey Kunj station. The cases are south Delhi has not got any • Borewell supply is also drying up borewell to the houses at the TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hall of shame pending trial, he said. TIMES NEWS NETWORK water in his tap for past nine because of diversions to illegal lower side,’’ said a housewife, In one case Pratap had al- New Delhi: The Delhi Police • The ‘‘infamous’’ police months, but he gets the bill connections requesting anonymity. legedly assaulted the victim Ghaziabad: A man poisoned have blacklisted eight police stations include Rohini, regularly. • Also, people with illegal connections ‘‘As a result, people on the and demanded Rs 20 lakh. his four children, on Sunday stations based on public com- Patel Nagar, Malviya Na- Singh is one of the hun- leave taps open all night lower side enjoy the supply The victim later complained night, after a fight with his plaints received in the first gar, Mehrauli, Timarpur, dreds of such residents on from the pipeline as well as that the local police was wife. Salim (33) then disap- three months of 2003. During Uttam Nagar, Shakarpur the 19th street of this down- the borewell. But here we get shielding Pratap since he is peared from his Shahid Na- bill for a commercial connection. this period, the Delhi Police and Nandnagri town locality, who have been paying only borewell water, but pay for bill for the brother of the local MLA, gar residence, leaving a note ‘‘It has been dry for ages. Now all it received a total of 3,958 pub- bills to the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) with- both — borewell as well as pipeline sup- • From 61 policemen said Luthra. saying he was going to kill out getting any water for months. has is some ornamental value,’’ says lic complaints of which 1,637 himself too. Kumar, pointing to the tap. A tub below ply,’’ she said. facing vigilance action in In another case in 1999, the ‘‘It’s been ages since I saw water in were against its own errant Nargis’ brother Gulsher, a the tap indicated the people have not According to the residents, this also the first quarter of last complainant alleged that the tap. I have to fetch water from home personnel. steel fabricator, said she lost hope. amounts to huge wastage as many peo- year, the number this Pratap had forcibly entered but pay the bill on the commercial rates According to the vigilance called him on Sunday after- The houses in this part of the locality ple keep their taps open and if they for- year has gone up to 63 her plot. for the shop connection,’’ said Singh, branch, 63 policemen have noon and asked him to take are built at a higher level than the oth- get the water keep running out whole who runs an electrical appliances re- faced disciplinary action this •Most of the complaints her away as Salim had beaten ers because the terrain is slightly hilly. night. year and 205 police personnel range from torture and pair shop. ‘‘My business of repairing The residents fear that if misuse of her. The children stayed be- washing machines has shut down be- There are two types of supplies to the have been put on a‘‘secret beating to harassment hind. area. One is the underground pipeline the borewell continues like this — watch list.’’ cause I have no water to test the ma- which has been dug deeper for the sec- • Public complaints last At about 11.30 am on Mon- chines,’’ he added. supply. This feeds the whole area, but ‘‘The latter’s activities are year in the same period day, Nargis’s sister, Samana, houses on the higher side do not get any ond time now — there will be no water under close surveillance in left below the ground. were 4,830 of which came to check on the chil- Singh’s neighbour Ashok Kumar, water at all. the wake of allegations of 1,751 were against dren and found them dead in who runs a flour mill, has been luckier. Second is through borewells dug by ‘‘The level has already gone down to misconduct on duty against policemen their beds. The police was He has a bored handpump at home and DJB, which is the only succour to this just 10 feet. It can finish any day,’’ says them. Beside there are eight called and the bodies were re- brings water from there, but pays the water-starved pocket. Jagdish Lal, a local resident. police stations which have moved for autopsies. They been categorised as ‘black Police commissioner R S said Salim had probably spots’ in Delhi policing,’’ said Gupta said: ‘‘The discipli- mixed poison with tea and joint commissioner (vigi- nary action is being takenon- served it to his children. lance), Kanwaljit Deol. ly to improve the conduct of Salim and Nargis had been Royal cheques bounce, ‘prince’ wanted the force on duty and reduce She said the action against in-house corruption.’’ married for 10 years. They the 63 policemen include 16 TIMES NEWS NETWORK had four children Rukhsar his son are accused of issu- wad have to appear before when they failed to respond, cases of corruption and sev- Major disciplinary action ing cheques worth Rs 43 the court on July 7. we got the case registered,’’ has been ordered against sev- (7), Reshma (5), Samir (3) and New Delhi: A Delhi court en cases pertaining to misuse lakh to a Delhi based com- The complainant, Asif Gupta said. en police personnel, includ- Wasim (1). ‘‘But, there was has issued a non-bailable of police power while on pany even though there Garg said he used to supply According to him, the ac- ing a sub-inspector, five as- discord between the couple warrant against Sangram duty. In another seven cases, from the beginning. Two were ‘‘insufficient funds’’ in coal to Gaekwad’s company. cused have to appear before allegations of negligence and sistant sub-inspectors and a Singh Gaekwad, scion of head constable. years ago, Salim had set him- the Baroda royal family and their bank account. Metro- Garg heads a company, M/s the court on every date of non-registration of cases self on fire and Nargis also his son, Pratap Singh Gaek- politan magistrate J P Hindon Carrying Corpora- hearing or file an applica- were substantiated against lnformation is being gath- sustained serious burns wad in a cheque bouncing Narain also issued the war- tion Prviate Limited, in tion for exemption. But on policemen. ‘‘The maximum ered in areas notorious for il- while trying to save him.’’ case. The warrants were is- rants against K K Gaur, Preet Vihar. March 9, only two of the ac- public complaints regarding licit liquor and drug manu- The police said Salim was sued after the father and deputy general manager While appearing for cused filed an application. misconduct have been re- facture. ‘‘On four occasions, not traceable. They said he son failed to appear before a (purchase) of Gaekwad’s Garg, advocate D K Gupta The court has exempted ported from the northwest decoy policemen purchased left a note saying, ‘‘I cannot city court. company, M/s Baroda Ray- contended that the cheques the co-accused, Sangram district, followed by the west. drugs openly in the city. The take the fighting anymore. The two are wanted in on Corporation Limited, a were for money which Singh’s wife Asaraje Gaek- The south and northeast respective beat officer was And, Nargis often goes away, five cases of cheque bounc- Mumbai-based company. Gaekwad’s company owned wad, and one of the compa- were next on the list.’’ suspended,’’ Deol said. leaving the children. I will ing which are more than Gaur, Sangram Singh Gaek- to his client. ‘‘We served ny’s directors, J P Singh on kill myself where she can two years old. Gaekwad and wad and Pratap Singh Gaek- them legal notices. But medical grounds. never find my body.’’
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Of the 121 streetlight poles 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Delhi has adequate food supply for 15 days, says city government Pharma/ bachelor in hotel 1935, 2030, 2200, installed in the DDA-LIG TOI Sahara 0700,1800, 2025 INDIA WORLD TIMES NEWS NETWORK management courses to Flats Pocket-13, Dwarka KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Uttar Pradesh colleges and ★★ Max Min Max Min Max Min Phase-I, 59 have been with- 1600 ,1700,1945 Amsterdam 09 02 New Delhi: Movement of Jet Air 0600, 1720, Delhi 39 27 Guwahati 28 21 the exam for BSc in Hospi- out necessary fittings for Mumbai 33 27 Bahrain 32 25 goods throughout the coun- Sahara 0620,1915 Dehradun 35 20 tality and Hotel Adminis- last two years and the af- CHENNAI: I-A Chennai 36 25 Hyd’bad 39 24 Bangkok 36 28 try stopped from dawn on Beijing 14 06 tration offered by the Na- fected pockets are left in 0640,0955★★★ Kolkata 37 27 Indore 39 21 Monday, with the All India 1645,1900 Jet Air Bangalore 34 23 Jaipur 39 26 Chicago 14 -02 tional Council for Hotel the dark. Will the con- 0645,1900 Ahm’bad 39 24 Lucknow 42 25 Geneva 08 -01 Motor Transport Congress Management and Catering cerned officials look into BANGALORE: T’puram 34 24 Patna 41 24 Hong Kong 27 20 (AIMTC), a premier truck I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 41 23 Rajkot 37 23 London 09 -01 Technology, New Delhi, the matter to avoid any un- Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 39 26 Shimla 24 11 Los Angeles 23 14 union, going on an indefi- have been scheduled si- toward incident taking Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 39 18 Srinagar 27 12 Moscow 03 -04 nite strike. HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 multaneously for May 4, place because of darkness. GOA: I-A 1200, Prices and availability of 2003. In fact, the UPSEAT — C L Dangwal, President Sahara 1200 TRAIN RESERVATIONS most goods haven’t been rescheduled the exam from KULU: Jagson 0630, RWA, 38 Pocket-13, Phase-I, 0650, 1215 ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on that affected for now be- April 27 to May 4 without Dwarka AHMEDABAD: 14.04.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. cause the stockists and gov- proper notice. We will have I-A 0600,1700★★1845, ernments had a month’s no- Jet Air 0610 Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl to forego one of the exams Dual policy GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: NORTH tice. But Fruits and vegeta- and lose our fee. I-A 0555★★, 1010• 4033 Jammu Mail 18.04 21.04 27.04 21.04 bles in the open market are The authorities may While a CSIR pensioner- ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 22.05 20.05 21.04 likely to be among those to kindly reschedule the pa- beneficiary of CGHS is bla- Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, 2403 Jammu Exp 19.04 28.04 28.04 05.05 tantly denied credit facili- Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST get affected first. pers. — R K Pandey, B-3/8, Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 15.04 15.04 23.04 — There was excess supply P&T Colony, Janakpuri. ties by private recognised 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 16.04 16.04 16.04 21.05 Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, of fruit and vegetables in hospitals, his counterpart (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 15.04 22.04 25.04 20.05 Central Government pen- Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 17.04 14.05 24.05 Delhi’s Azadpur Mandi. ‘‘A Result confusion sioner placed in an identi- INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 24.04 22.04 23.04 review meeting of senior of- 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 16.04 18.04 23.04 I had appeared for B A Eco- cal situation enjoys trou- BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai ficials was conducted to as- 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 17.04 18.04 16.04 19.04 nomics (II & III Year) in ble-free health care service Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 30.05 19.05 sess the situation and it was A-I 0050 (IC-855) April 2001. My enrolment as he is provided with cred- 5622 North East Exp — 20.05 27.05 20.05 concluded that there would FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 15.04 03.05 22.04 02.06 No. is 117161 (allotted by it facilities for treatment in 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 17.04 23.04 24.04 be no shortage of supplies school of correspondence private hospitals. AMSTERDAM: North 2802 Purshottam Exp — 03.05 23.04 29.04 for next fortnight,’’ said Ha- Wholesale markets in Delhi remained unaffected on the first day of the nationwide west 0140 (NW-037) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 27.04 27.04 22.04 truckers’ strike that began on Monday. is S-97 BA (Pass)-7875). But It is unfortunate that the LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 19.04 22.04 21.04 29.04 roon Yusuf, Delhi food and my name does not appear credit facility which is so 0210 (BA-142) WEST supplies minister. fortnight,’’ the minister basis. uled to return till the end of PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail 16.04 16.04 09.06 11.06 either in the list of pass easily available to a Cen- 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 15.04 01.05 11.06 11.06 ‘‘Potato has arrived 50 per said. The government also Several rounds of talks this week. But Jatinder Mo- candidates or fail candi- tral Government pension- A-I 0925 (AI-143) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 23.04 24.04 28.04 — cent in excess of the normal ruled out the scarcity of with heads of the Union han Saxena, secretary-gen- dates. er is denied with impunity SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 18.04 16.04 16.04 — and onion was four times,’’ milk as Mother Dairy and ministry of road transport eral of the AIMTC, says he Airlines 2315 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 01.05 29.04 17.04 Despite several visits to to a Central autonomous (SQ-407), I-A 0050 1078 Jhelum Exp — 02.06 09.06 26.05 Yusuf said. Delhi Milk Scheme (DMS) and highways (MORTH) will now only talk to the the school of correspon- body pensioner. (IC-855) 2916 Ashram Exp 16.04 30.04 16.04 16.04 ‘‘The stock of cooking gas have their own chain of proved abortive. Minister minister and won’t settle for dence at Moti Bagh-II and Why can’t the CSIR DUBAI: SOUTH and petroleum is also suffi- tankers. The Delhi govern- Bhuvan Khanduri has left anything less than total ac- A-I 1540 (AI-723) 2616 G T Exp 16.04 16.04 03.06 20.04 North Campus, Delhi Uni- make similar, if not better, HONG KONG/OSAKA: 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 18.04 15.04 08.06 21.04 cient to meet the require- ment says it would monitor for his Uttaranchal con- ceptance of their charter of versity, I have not been in- arrangements? — R C Ma- A-I 2320 (AI-314) 2432 Trivandrum Raj 15.04 N.A. N.A. — ment of the city for next the situation on day-to-day stituency and is not sched- demands. 2626 Kerala Exp — 09.06 06.06 28.05 timated about the result. — heshwari, C1 A-42 B MIG AIR INDIA 2618 Mangala Exp — 09.06 06.06 23.05 Preeti Kapoor, 12/294, DDA Flats, Janakpuri MUMBAI: 2628 Karnataka Exp — 15.04 15.04 15.04 0440 (AI 830), 0820 2724 A P Exp 16.04 08.05 23.05 22.04 Readers should send their contributions addressed to Readers’ Grievances (AI 130), 2205 (AI 313), 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 15.04 15.06 03.06 — 5 lakh Maharashtra truckers join strike c/o Metro Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. 2330 (AI 112) 7022 Dakshin Express — 22.04 — 15.04 No. of passengers dealt on 13.04.2003 (Delhi Area): 35,503 (N. Rly. Area) TIMES NEWS NETWORK and an order of the Bombay them.’’ which carry essential com- A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 1,43,077. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for high court directing that ve- Other demands include, modities had been exempt- (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: Mumbai: About five lakh 23323310, Singapore Airlines computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. hicles older than 15 years be roll back of excise duty on ed from the strike. ‘‘The 5 held in police encounter (Information supplied by Indian Railways) 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 trucks, tempos and tankers scrapped. truck chassis, amendments strike will go on until all stayed off the roads in Ma- New Delhi: The Delhi police Bawaria. Doctor kills self:A young medical graduate reportedly com- Buses apart, the AIMTC in the Carriers Act, 1865, to our demands are conceded. harashtra on Monday with has handed over a ten-point make it compulsory for This is our only recourse to have arrested five men and The police said the dacoits mitted suicide at her Sector 21-B residence on Thursday. Her the transporters joining an claimed the accused had al- had allegedly fired at them parents were away from home at the time of the incident, the charter of demands to the goods to be insured. ‘‘We call attention to our plight. indefinite all-India strike. authorities. The main de- cannot be held responsible We had a three-hour meet- legedly assembled to commit when the police party tried police said. The victim, Pooja, was the daughter of R P Gupta, A nationwide strike has mands include a uniform if pilferage takes place ing at Masjid Bunder where a dacoity in Alipur area. The to apprehend them. ‘‘They an assistant director in the Union energy ministry.TNN been called by the All India road tax, abolition of toll along the route,’’ pointed the AIMTC president Baba arrests were made after a then tried to escape but the Motor Transport Congress tax, and keeping truckers out the president of the Dhumal and all truck own- brief encounter between the police team returned fire and (AIMTC) to protest against outside the purview of Val- Bombay Goods Transport ers were vociferous in con- police and dacoits. apprehended the dacoits,’’ The accused are Sike, deputy commissioner of po- the hike in diesel prices, ue Added Tax (VAT) which Association Raman Khosla. tinuing with the strike,’’ Sunil, Kewal Bawaria, Jogin- lice (north-west) Sanjay varying rates of road tax, will ‘‘impose hardships on He said those vehicles Khosla said. der Bawaria and Sunil Singh said.TNN Gender sensitisation Illegal sewer lines plan for Delhi Police plague water drain New Delhi: In an effort to police personnel.’’ deal more effectively with the The participating staff rising number of crimes were asked to fill a question- in Lajpat Nagar against women, a ‘gender naire about their knowledge sensitisation’ programme of laws regarding crimes TIMES NEWS NETWORK modate sewer lines against has been initiated for the Del- against women and their as- the rules, Earland alleged. New Delhi: Residents of La- hi Police to improve the man- sessment of how they would Perhaps most vulnerable jpat Nagar Part-II fear the ner in which such cases are deal with a particular case. are the patients coming to outbreak of water-borne dis- handled. During the sessions, which the eye hospital. ‘‘While pa- eases, as the rain water drain In th drive 104 sensitisa- started on March 8 2002, tients inside the hospital are running through the locality tion programmes, targeted at problems such as overbur- safe as far as infections are has become a sewage pond all police stations in Delhi, dened staff and tutored concerned, they are prone to For booking: due to illegal sewer connec- have been planned over one statements given by infections once exposed to Remembrance year. women to police, came up, tions into it. About 90 resi- drain while coming or going dences live along the drain in (with photo): Rs. 1200/- ‘‘The programmes include Rao said. from the hospital,’’ said P J for 10 lines; discussing individual case ‘‘Another interesting fact the E and F blocks of the lo- Methews, a technician. each extra line Rs. 250/- studies through interaction we realised was that on many cality. ‘‘When the sun sets, stink- and simulation,’’ said joint occasions even senior offi- ‘‘We are leading a night- ing fumes from the drain en- Obituary, Ceremony, commissioner of police cers had doubts and differ- mare life. Sewage is visible in velop the locality. One can In Memoriam (all without photo): (training) U N B Rao on Mon- ences of opinion about what the drain from Ram Pul to not stand outside even for the eye hospital. Earlier, Rs. 275/- for four lines; day.‘‘Our objective is to initi- sections to apply when a cer- five seconds because of the each extra line Rs. 50/-. ate gender sensitisation tain crime against women is there was no sewer water and mosquito infestation,’’ says only rain water used to flow through introspection within reported,’’ he said.PTI Prabha Chopra, a housewife. For information, in a small channel into the MCD sanitation superin- call: 51-666-888 drain,’’ said Yoginder Nath, a tendant Ram Pal admitted retired civil servant whose there was a ‘‘problem’’ of lives here. sewage water getting mixed Another resident, Richard with the rain water drain, Earland, said the channel but he declined to comment was destroyed due to wrong how it came up against the mechanical desilting. The bye-laws. drain was widened by the The area municipal coun- Municipal Corporation of cillor Subhash Malhotra ex- Delhi (MCD) to connect sew- pressed inability to remove er lines of some shops, work- the sewer lines connected to shops and business houses the drain. ‘‘The shopkeepers flourishing in the locality. have cemented the ground af- The municipal bye-laws, ter laying the sewer lines. I however,do not permit sewer don’t want to incur their dis- connections to a rain water pleasure by going about de- drain. Yet the drain was dug molishing them,’’ said Mal- deeper and broader to accom- hotra.
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Today’s Hurdles Mahavir Jayanti Varsity teachers procession: The Jain Samaj will Last day to get pollution certificate take out a proces- TOI sion on the occa- TIMES NEWS NETWORK protest increase sion of Lord Mahavir Jayanti at New Delhi: Petrol pumps throughout the city are 8 am. It will start from gearing up to meet the last-minute rush on Tuesday Model Basti and end at — the last day for motorists to get their pollution in work hours Parade Ground. Motorists under control (PUC) certificates. The Delhi state transport department will start are advised to avoid By Anuradha Mukherjee Model Basti, Filmistan, prosecuting motorists driving without PUCs from TIMES NEWS NETWORK Recommendations Rani Jhansi Raod, Pahari Wednesday. Dhiraj, Sadar Bazar, Qutab Deputy director of transport department, Vinay New Delhi: A section of the •Strengthen tutorial sys- Road, Khari Baoli, Kumar, said: ‘‘In the drive we will prosecute those teaching fraternity has come tem and re-introduce it Chandni Chowk, Dariba violating the pollution guidelines. Any motorist down heavily on Delhi Uni- where it doesn’t exist Kalan, Kuon Nathiwala, found without PUC will be fined. versity’s (DU) move to ‘‘in- •Introduce internal eval- Esplanade Road and On the first occasion, the motorist will be fined crease working hours’’ for uation to the extent of 25 Parade Ground. Rs 1,000. The second time, the fine amount will be teachers. They say this a per cent Rs 2,000.’’ move to implement the Uni- Road work:Traffic on Transport department officials said the comput- versity Grants Commission •180 teaching days per Zakir Hussain Marg will erisation of PUC certificate centres started on Jan- (UGC) directive on 22 hours year remain affected due to the uary 15 and will complete three months on April 15. of teaching in a week. maintenance work on a •Student-faculty com- ‘‘There are about 345 such computerised centres DU authorities, however, mittee in each discipline sewer line. The New Delhi across the city from where the PUC certificates can said these fears were mis- Municipal Council (NDMC) in colleges for discussing be made. The earlier deadline to get the PUC cer- placed and that the decisions started the work on teaching problems tificate made was March 31. The deadline was de- were a result of demands by Sunday night and traffic ferred for 15 days which is ending on Tuesday,’’ an teachers over a period of will return to normal to- and Development (AAD) officer said. time. At present, teachers in morrow. Till then only one chairman S S Rathi. He said In March, the transport department had made it most DU colleges teach for carriageway on the Oberoi mandatory not only for the vehicles in Delhi, but 16.5 hours a week on an aver- the matter would be brought hotel-India Gate route will also those entering the city from neighbouring age. up in the executive council be will remain functional. states to get a PUC certificate obtained from Delhi The Academic Council meet as well. The other side will remain centres only. Vehicle owners who do not have PUC certificates by Wednesday will be fined Rs 1,000. (AC) in a recent meeting According to him, the UGC closed to traffic. adopted the recommenda- recommendation for a 22- Power cuts: tions of the Tandon Commit- hour teaching week was Electricity tee on Academic Reforms struck down by the Delhi supply to and Accountability. Among University Teachers’ Associ- Janakpuri, Conductor stabs passenger over fare row other things, teachers have ation (DUTA) as it was aimed Nangloi, taken exception to the recom- at proving that DU had sur- Paschimpuri, TIMES NEWS NETWORK rested the driver of the mini but when he resisted Kumar was killed by another van for fighting. mendation for introducing a plus teaching staff. Uttam Nagar, Bindapur, bus, Satish Kumar. The po- allegedly stabbed him with a driver. Praveen Dua (24) was Police said, when Dua paid system of notifying three AC member Gurmohinder Najafgarh, Kakrola, Nagli New Delhi: A 24-year-old lice said Angad was admitted screwdriver. stabbed to death on Sunday no heed, Jagtar allegedly hours per week where teach- Singh also raked up the issue Sakarwati, Zafarpur, man was stabbed with a to Swami Dayanand hospital Though he was grievously night in Gandhi Nagar area. took out his knife and ers will be available to stu- of infrastructure. ‘‘The AC Jheemarpura, Wazirabad screw driver by the conduc- and was operated. ‘‘He has injured, Angad managed to The police are still searching stabbed Dua’s friend Chawla. dents for consultation. has resolved to introduce tu- and Bhai Permanand tor of a mini bus in east Del- sustained a deep wound in inform his friend who called for the accused, Jagtar He sustained injuries on his ‘‘This is simply an attempt torials. We are not against Colony will be affected hi on Monday. his stomach,’’ a police officer the police control room. The Singh. The two reportedly arm. He then allegedly to please the UGC. We don’t the move, but a lot of colleges between 10 am and 4 pm An altercation between the said. PCR van reached the spot had a fight a few days ago. stabbed Dua five times. The have anything against stay- do not have enough class- victim, Angad, and the ac- According to the police, and took Angad to the According to the police, victim was immediately tak- ing for an extra three hours rooms for holding tutorials,’’ cused, Rakesh Kumar, three the accused accosted Angad hospital. Dua and his friend Vishal en to a private nursing home every week, but there is no he said. DUTA president Govt to pay fee days ago, over pricing of the when he was waiting for a ‘‘The victim is still uncon- Chawla were taking a walk in and subsequently moved to need to mention this on the Shaswati Majumdar said she tickets is said to be the rea- bus at Kailash Nagar bus scious and we have not man- the colony park. Guru Tegh Bahadur. timetable. In due course, the did not have a problem with son behind the incident. Ku- stop at 10:30 am. aged to record his state- Jagtar, allegedly caught up ‘‘Dua was declared dead on contact hours will be con- the recommendations apart of poor SC/ST mar has been arrested. The accused reportedly ment,’’ the officer added. with them and threatened arrival there,’’ the police offi- verted to teaching hours,’’ from the quantification of students in The police have also ar- tried to manhandle Angad, In another incident a man Dua with dire consequences cer said. said Academics for Action contact hours. public schools Hospital turns away IMES EWS ETWORK MCD to float Rs 250 cr T N N New Delhi: Delhi state chief minister Sheila Dikshit an- ‘low-risk’ deliveries nounced on Monday that the bonds for civic centre TIMES NEWS NETWORK run by the state government. government would pay the TIMES NEWS NETWORK receipts of property tax,’’ he ‘‘We are taking first deliver- New Delhi: Guru Gobind fee for students from sched- Money matters said. ies as they are in the high New Delhi: The much-de- Singh Hospital in west Delhi uled castes and tribes study- The MCD will now need to risk category. Women carry- ing in public schools. layed construction of MCD’s For the City Centre, the is not booking second deliv- • seek approval of the Union ing their second child are re- Delhi state education min- 25-storey civic centre at MCD has got a higher ery cases for the past one government before floating ferred out if they are not at a ister Raj Kumar Chauhan Minto Road seems possible FAR than normally month due to a staff crunch. municipal bonds. The Indian high risk,’’ gynaecology head said this was to encourage now with the civic agency approved by the Union Barring ‘‘complicated’’ cases, Credit Rating Agency Dr Sushma Dureja said. people from these communi- getting the nod from credit urban development the hospital is referring the (ICRA), which was hired by She said although the de- ties to educate their children. rating agencies for generat- ministry routine ones to maternity the MCD for assessing its fi- partment was well-equipped, ‘‘But the help will be extend- ing Rs 250 crore by floating centres run by the Municipal •The civic agency is the shortage of staff was ed only to those students bonds. nancial sustainability, has Corporation of Delhi. trying to convince the forcing doctors to refer some whose parents have a yearly The project has been hang- said the city centre project For patients like Bhanu- ministry to hand over the patients elsewhere. income which is less than Rs ing fire for the last 18 years was fit for long term loans. mati, who is carrying her land for the project at a Of the four senior resident 48,000,’’ he said. due to shortage of funds with ‘‘The credit rating given to second child, this is proving price that was fixed two doctors the hospital has, one He said the payments MCD. The civic agency had the project is equivalent to to be a testing time. ‘‘I first decades ago is on maternity leave. The would be made against not even managed to pay the what was given tothe Ahmed- went to Deen Dayal Upad- services of two others have record of payments. ‘‘They cost of the land to the Union •In first phase of the abad municipal body two hyaya Hospital which re- recently been terminated. would have to come to the de- government. bond issue, the MCD years ago,’’ said Naresh ferred me here. Now I have The fifth post, which is re- partment and submit the The lack of financial disci- is likely to raise Takkar,jointmanaging direc- been referred to the area ma- served for an ST candidate, is bills. The money would be pline in the MCD had made it Rs 100 crore tor and chief rating officer of ternity centre,’’ she said. The lying vacant. ‘‘We may re- transferred to an account difficult for it totake loans ICRA. nearest maternity centre is specially created for this pur- from government lending civic agency’s first ever Mehta said the bonds issue in Khyala. sume taking routine cases pose,’’ he said. agencies. The civic agency is bonds issue. ‘‘The Rs 250 would not be open to public. Guru Gobind Singh Hospi- once the new people join,’’ Dr He said while no records known tomisuse funds re- crore proposed to begenerat- ‘‘We are eying institutional tal is a 100-bed hospital being Dureja said. were available about how leased for specific projects to ed through municipal bonds investors and we are confi- many such students are pay the salary of its one lakh would only be used for the dent our bonds would be studying in public schools, workers. construction ofthe city cen- fullysubscribed within the the facility would be extend- MCD commissioner, tre. The repayment of the first two days of the issue,’’ ed to all those who come Rakesh Mehta, assured this principle amount and the in- said a confident lookingcom- forward. will not be the case with the- terest would be met through missioner.
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INDIA DIGEST AFP Consider this: Pesticides hit people, not pests By Chandrika Mago poison. since 1990, from 60,000 metric limits. TIMES NEWS NETWORK What makes this worse is that tonnes of technical grade mate- Obviously, there is something over 80 per cent of all pesticides Toxic chain rial to about 43,000 metric tonnes wrong with the use if ‘‘about 85- New Delhi: The next time you are used on cotton, rice, vegeta- in 2001. Pesticide use in India is 90 per cent of pesticides applied happen to pass by a sugarcane bles and fruits, covering just a • Nearly 90% of pesticides low, about 0.45 kg a hectare, com- never reach the target pests’’. field, think how difficult it would third of the cropped area. Many never reach pests pared to figures of 1-12 Pests present small targets be to spray pesticides to the max- of these pesticide compounds re- • Instead they end up kg/hectare for countries such as and the application efficiency is imum effect there. main in the soil, building up to the US, Korea and Japan. low, says Sharma. ICAR assis- It would be difficult to enter toxic levels with repeated use — contaminating soil, air, water But that doesn’t minimise our tant director-general (plant pro- the field, let alone spray pesti- particularly in soils with low or- • The toxic residues enter the troubles, however. Scientists tection) O P Dubey describes a cide. And that is just one of the ganic matter and microbial bio- food chain point to the ‘‘widespread con- range of problems: Ignorant problems in pesticide abuse. diversity. tamination’’ of soil, water and farmers, small holdings which Officially,nearly 90 per cent of Indian Council of Agricultur- food. Samra and Sharma cite fig- allow pests to migrate from a the pesticides never hit the pests al Research deputy director-gen- intake of even small quantities creased cholesterol and many ures indicating that more than field which is sprayed to another but end up contaminating the eral J S Samra and assistant di- of these residues, along with metabolic and genetic disorders. half of all food items are con- which is not, cheap spurious air, soil and water — eventually rector-general (soils) P D Shar- food, may lead to cancer, a re- Strangely, pesticide use has taminated, with residues cross- chemicals and scant work on pes- entering the food chain as a slow ma say this is dangerous: A daily duced life span and fertility, in- been shown to have reduced ing the maximum permissible ticide application technology. SJM takes on Vajpayee, Fernandes plays A man distributes food to spectators, as he swings from a pole during a festival dedicated to down Sinha’s Shiva in Kolkata on Monday. Shourie on WTO regime Bengalis celebrated the last day of their calendar year today. TIMES NEWS NETWORK had read carefully what Ambedkar statement had said on economic issues, he New Delhi: The Swadeshi Jagran TIMES NEWS NETWORK Aga Khan meets Kalam: A dele- would apologise, Thengde stressed. Manch (SJM) and the Bharatiya New Delhi: After proclaiming that gation led by Aga Khan, spiritual Recalling the PM’s response to Mazdoor Sangh (BMS) — both RSS Pakistan was a stronger case than leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, criticism of the government’s outfits — singled out the Prime Iraq for pre-emptive military strikes, met President Abdul Kalam at Rash- labour reforms had been ques- Minister and union communica- tioned — that no mai ka lal could the government now seems to be ton- trapati Bhavan on Monday.PTI tions minister Arun Shourie for dictate terms to the government, ing down the rhetoric. Grenade attacks: Two persons criticism. Thendge made an oblique reference First, external affairs minister were on Monday injured in grenade Flagging off a month-long yatra to Jaichand and Mir Jafar. Yashwant Sinha had declared that attacks by militants at the famous to draw attention to the negative Pakistan was ‘‘a fitter case’’ than Iraq Nishaat Mughal Garden, on the impact of the WTO regime on Attack grounds for strikes if possession of weapons of banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar just Monday, SJM convenor P Murlid- mass destruction, export of terrorism two days after it reopened for the har Rao said the aim was to pres- •Govt facing economic crisis and absence of democracy were the public. This is the second such inci- surise the government into taking a due to foreign domination criteria for such an action. Then, de- dent in four days.PTI strong stand to protect Indian inter- caused by globalisation fence minister George Fernandes ex- ests, particularly those of farmers Insat-3A placed: India’s multi- pressed ‘‘full agreement’’ with Sinha. and workers, at the next WTO s •Unemployment on the rise purpose satellite Insat-3A was due to wrong economic policies But, on Monday, Fernandes told a placed in its geostationary orbit in ummit, slated for September in TV channel that Sinha’s statement the third and final stage of orbit-rais- Mexico. was ‘‘essentially a casual statement ing operation conducted on Monday This, he said, was their political He said there are many and not any policy decision’’. from the master control facility at agenda which was part of a larger Jaichands and Mir Jafars amongst Fernandes went on to clarify that Hassan in Karnataka.PTI national mission. us, asking whether the government Sinha did not speak of a pre-emptive On the occasion of Ambedkar had forgotten about these two. strike. Sinha was ‘‘simply making a Jewellery shop blast: A watch- Jayanti, Dattopant Thengde, But even as Thengde and Rao at- statement’’ that if Iraq had been at- man of a jewellery shop died in an founder of SJM, BMS and the tacked the government, they also tacked by the US-led coalition forces explosion at suburban Bandra in Bharatiya Kisan Sangh, flagging of took a swipe at the Congress, saying because it had ‘‘dictatorial one-party Mumbai on Monday even as prelimi- the yatra at the Constitution Club it was responsible for bringing In- rule’’, then Pakistan too ‘‘falls into the nary investigations ruled out the in- here, hit out at Shourie without dia under the WTO regime. same category’’. volvement of any terrorist outfit in the naming him: He said a journalist Rao said the Congress should ‘‘There was no suggestion to any- blast.TNN who had now become a minister take some active steps now to con- body that he or she should take any Animation film festival: The had criticised Ambedkar and tain the negative impact of WTO, kind of action,’’ said Fernandes. French ambassador in India Do- though he may have quoted him rather than just criticising it. Incidentally, the US had reacted minique Girard inaugurated the five- correctly in his book, he had quoted The result: Not only had govern- sharply after Sinha’s statement by day French animation film festival in him out of context and thus written ment expenditure on transport, en- saying that no direct parallel could be Hyderabad on Monday. PTI an ill-informed book. ergy and water declined, but even drawn between the situation in Iraq If the journalist-turned-minister on education and health. and Pakistan. Notice to Centre on BPCL, HPCL TIMES NEWS NETWORK Market blues New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued •Order should not be notice to the Centre on a viewed as a stay on public interest petition disinvestment of HPCL (PIL) challenging the and BPCL planned privatisation of •HPCL and BPCL the Bharat Petroleum Cor- together command a poration Ltd and the Hin- 40 per cent petro dustan Petroleum Corpo- market share ration Ltd. Centre for Public Inter- •The cabinet panel est Litigation (CPIL) coun- approved disinvest- sel Rajinder Sachar and ment of 38.2 per cent Prashant Bhushan said of the equity shares in the government’s decision BPCL and 34.01 per did not have parliamen- cent in HPCL tary approval. Earlier on March 24, a together command a 40 per Bench of Chief Justice V cent petro market share, N Khare and Justice S B were nationalised through Sinha agreed to hear a an Act of Parliament in similar petition filed by the 1970s and CPIL con- the Federation of All India tends that disinvestment Petro Traders and others. in these two companies It clarified that ‘‘this order could be done either by re- shall not be construed as pealing or amending the any stay of disinvestment acquisition Acts con- of HPCL and BPCL’’. cerned. There was no oth- HPCL and BPCL, which er way of going about it.
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8 Tuesday,April 15, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi BJP activists to Naidu-NDA learn how to communicate What will rise more: Prices or mercury? equation By Priya Ranjan Dash expectations. Consumer blues two-year high of 6.24 per flation rate, based on WPI, TIMES NEWS NETWORK A couple of triggers are cent. But nobody is losing which has been inching up TIMES NEWS NETWORK hinges on presenting themselves now. •Prices spiral at the slightest dislocation of market sleep over that. The WPI primarily on account of in- New Delhi: For the first time New Delhi: This summer The all-India truckers’ has mostly been benign in ternational oil price increas- could turn out to be a season after the BJP came to power, strike that began on Mon- • Truckers’ strike and VAT can trigger inflation so far as common people es in the wake of the Iraq elections it will be holding a four-day of discontent with prices of day and the promised are concerned. They nor- war, is set to come down in camp from April 16 for 150- items of daily use threaten- switch to VAT, a new sys- mally do not buy goods in the next couple of weeks. ing to slip out of the con- • A cut in fuel prices may not ensure stable prices for By Mahendra Ved odd fulltimers on the out- tem of taxation, by 16 states consumer tonnes and quintals, but in Indian oil companies, TIMES NEWS NETWORK skirts in Gurgaon. sumer’s reach. with effect from June 1. small consumer packs of which have had to increase The objective, party Officials as well as econo- Last time there was a one kg or below. . retail prices of petrol, diesel Hyderabad: With his ear to sources said, is to help them mists maintain there is nine-day strike, prices high price they charge the tax paid on input is given Last year around this and other oil products, are the ground, Andhra Pradesh look inwards, increase their nothing particularly wrong touched the roof. There is no consumer. credit for while the output is time, the inflation rate was expected to slash prices on chief minister N Chan- dedication and commitment with the Indian economy. logic as to why goods al- Similarly,the value-added taxed. Good reasons why only 1.6 per cent. But was Tuesday.A further cut in pe- drababu Naidu, emerging to the BJP and its ideology Nor is there any problem ready stocked in shops tax (VAT). The consumer prices should come down in- there mehangai? Any house- troleum product prices will from recent bypoll setbacks, and improve their communi- with the global situation. should cost more just be- has been assured that VAT stead of going up. But ask wife would vouch for the fact take place end of April. is keenly awaiting the out- cation skills. But in India, prices tend cause trucks have been off would not add to the inci- the trader and the answer is that there was. The fact is The WPI would thus come come of October assembly Party MP and ideologue to go up with the slightest the roads for a week. But dence of tax on goods, but quite the opposite. the WPI has never been a down to the trend levels of polls to see how far the in- Bal Apte, who is in charge of dislocation in the market. It they do, and the shopkeeper, would in fact reduce it. The Inflation, as measured by good measure for the rise in four to five per cent. But that cumbency factor will affect the training, will address the just needs a pretext — some- the dealer and the trader VAT, unlike sales tax, avoids the official wholesale price consumer prices. does not clearly assure sta- the political fortunes of his party workers. Then commu- thing to trigger inflationary have a ready answer for the ‘‘tax on tax’’ and thus, the index (WPI), is already at a Also, officials say, the in- ble prices for the consumer. arch rival, the Congress. nications expert Vishal Shar- Not that he is about to ma will speak on modern switch sides. But it will de- methods of communication, AFP cide whether he should post- followed by a session with Dr pone the elections in the state Harish Shetty on ‘‘self-intro- DD’s tax troubles by 18 months. It will also de- spection’’ and another on termine his attitude towards ‘‘self-development’’ by Dr the ruling National Democ- Aruna Kolgut. ratic Alliance (NDA), whose stem from its government at the Centre he supports from outside. As of now, it is status quo corporation label? on both counts. However, the country’s one-time king- TIMES NEWS NETWORK public broadcaster with a maker doesn’t want to be the clear mandate and not as a future king or for a national New Delhi: In its battle with commercial organisation.’’ role. the government on the ques- He pointed to the 10th Plan He fended off queries on tion of paying taxes, Door- document of the Planning all these issues while inter- darshan has found support Commission which saw the acting with the media. ‘‘Why from unexpected quarters — programmes of AIR and DD do you want me to reveal my the standing committee on IT as ‘‘aimed at disseminating strategy 18 months before the headed by Opposition stal- information of developmen- elections?’’ he countered. wart Somnath Chatterjee. tal issues and they cannot be Naidu does not place his The problem arose with treated merely as revenue future plans in any time- Jaswant Singh’s budget pro- generating enterprises.’’ frame. But he insists, ‘‘I am posal last year amending the What has caused confu- totally engaged in my state. I law that had so far given sion is the broadcaster’s deci- have no aspirations to come Prasar Bharati corporation sion to brand itself as a cor- to Delhi.’’ tax exemption, as it was un- poration, giving the impres- The approach is matter-of- der the government. sion that its working have a fact, that does not over-em- While amending section 22 commercial nature. phasise the role of a state of the Prasar Bharati Act, The committee, however, satrap and a regional ally of the government argued that pulled up the information the NDA. He is careful not to the arms of the corporation and broadcasting ministry send any negative signals to — DD and All India Radio — for underutilisation of budg- Delhi. This, at a time when had come of age, occupying etary allocations for the soft- the word in New Delhi is that space in the marketplace and ware programme for Jammu Naidu, on whose numbers working on commercial and Kashmir. ‘‘The commit- the Vajpayee government en- lines. No such tax exemp- tee is perturbed to note that joys the majority in the Lok tions were necessary. even after the lapse of more Sabha, is no longer the Cen- While the broadcaster ex- than two years, the ministry Assamese dancers perform traditional folk dances during the Rongali Bihu harvest festival in Guwahati on Monday. tre’s blue-eyed boy. pressed its inability to pay in- has not been able to revive come tax on the precise plea the J & K special software that as a loss-making organi- package,’’ the report said. sation it was being supported The committee regretted Bangalore’s children pay the price for pollution by budgetary allocations that despite allocation of ad- only, the committee saw the equate funds in the 10th Plan By Seethalakshmi S. ‘‘Coughing and wheezing among Disease in the air fected. ‘‘Children who travelled to far issue differently. television coverage in the re- TIMES NEWS NETWORK children, specially of school-going off schools, which may not be located In the report tabled in Par- gion was yet to reach the Bangalore: The city’s toxic air is age is on the rise because they inhale Incidence of asthma higher in heavy traffic zones, were not liament last week, Chatterjee promised level of 95 per cent • choking the lungs of its children. air that has high content of sulphur- among girls than boys in rural spared either as they inhaled the poi- said, ‘‘The committee is of of the population. It hoped Nearly seven to eight lakh children dioxide and carbon-monoxide due to Bangalore sonous air while travelling to their the view that section 22 clear- that ‘‘proper attention will be (over 50 per cent) suffer from cough- uncontrolled vehicular emission. In- schools,’’ Paramesh said. ly manifests that the inten- given to implement the spe- ing, wheezing and other respiratory haling sulphur dioxide causes in- • Carbon-dioxide from The incidence of respiratory ail- tion of the government was cial package in a time-bound ailments due to the alarming air pol- flammation of the lungs. Thousands cow-dung, used as fuel for ments in Bangalore’s children has to treat Prasar Bharati as a manner.’’ lution levels. of children need emergency help and cooking, is a major pollutant risen sharply from nine per cent in our hospital alone has treated over A study by the Lakeside Medical Nearly 67.4% children, living 1979 to 30 per cent in 1999. ‘‘All our 2,900 such children from January to • Centre and Hospital here has found in single-room huts, suffer from studies have proved that air pollution December 2002,’’ H.Paramesh, pedi- that asthma and other respiratory asthma is the culprit and not the climate, ailments accounted for 50 per cent of atric lung specialist at the Lakeside which has not changed for the last 20 the emergency cases among children hospital told TNN. years in our city.The pollen count in in hospitals. Doctors attributed only The study found that while 32 per fered from respiratory problems, 11 Bangalore has come down due to six per cent of asthma cases in chil- cent of children studying in schools per cent of those studying in schools largescale construction,’’ Paramesh dren to genetic causes. located at heavy-traffic zones suf- located at low-traffic zones were af- added. Karunakaran’s nominee loses to Sonia’s men
TIMES NEWS NETWORK Thiruvananthapuram: In a major setback to senior Con- gress leader K Karunakaran, his nominee Kodoth Govin- dan Nair lost out in the Rajya Sabha elections here. The Congress party’s offi- cial candidates — Vayalar Ravi and Thennala Balakr- ishna Pillai — won the polls on Monday. LDF candidate K Chandran Pillai (CPM) also got elected to fill the three RS vacancies from Kerala. AICC general secretary Vayalar Ravi secured 38 first votes and Thennala Balakr- ishna Pillai, former KPCC president polled 36 votes, while Kodoth Govindan Nair, expelled from the party, had to be content with 26 votes.
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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Tuesday,April 15, 2003 9 George loyalists want Nitish out
TIMES NEWS NETWORK ference of the party, held on Birendra from the primary Mayawati goes all out against SP Sunday. membership of the party AP Patna: As a retaliatory meas- Another demand of the with immediate effect. TIMES NEWS NETWORK ure, the Samata Party faction Fernandes faction is the re- Bashishth is considered to be led by defence minister Lucknow: The Bahujan moval of Nitish from the post very close to Nitish. George Fernandes has urged of leader of the NDA in Bi- Fernandes refused to talk Samaj Party (BSP) has reg- the Central leadership to ex- istered 137 cases against har as he is no match for RJD to mediapersons when they pel railway minister Nitish chief Laloo Prasad Yadav, approached him at the Patna Samajwadi Party leaders Kumar from the primary Mulayam Singh Yadav and Jha added. Brahmanand airport for getting his reac- membership of the party Mandal, MP,P K Sinha, MLC, tion over the expulsion of Amar Singh and opposition with immediate effect. leader in the assembly Mo- Ganesh Paswan and Bhai five MPs and legislators. Reason: He has been in- hammed Azam Khan, on Birendra (both MLAs) were Nitish is learnt to have dulging in ‘‘anti-party, anti- charges of stealing and also present at the press con- said he would go by the deci- constitutional and autocratic doctoring BSP tapes and ference. sion taken at the state execu- activities’’ and trying to attempting to malign the The meeting of the Samata tive committee meeting on ‘‘split the party’’. party. state executive committee Sunday as he is in favour of This was stated by BSP Releasing the copies of convened by its state conven- curbing indiscipline. vice-president and UP such a resolution on Monday er Bashishth Narayan Singh, The ‘‘expelled’’ leaders are chief minister Mayawati at his residence, former state MP, here on Sunday, had not ready to take notice of while addressing a mas- SP president Raghunath Jha ‘‘unanimously’’ adopted a the decisions taken at the sive pardafash rally at said the resolution was unan- resolution asking the Central ‘‘so-called state executive the Ambedkar Maidan imously adopted at the Darb- leadership to expel Jha, Man- committee meeting’’ on here. hanga ‘‘workers’ right’’ con- dal, Sinha, Paswan and Sunday. Mayawati said the SP leaders could face imprison- ment up to three years and a fine if found guilty. The SP had recently released two CDs allegedly showing Mayawati asking her party MPs and MLAs to donate a part of their sansad and vidhayak nidhi to the BSP coffers and also VENGEANCE: Crowds at chief minister Mayawati’s rally in Lucknow on Monday. Nearly 400,000 people attended the event. some allegedly controver- She alleged that the oppo- CD, she refuted the charge tion with the evil traditions liated’’. sial remarks about Hindu sition parties had released that she had said anything and practices prevalent in She said even today in deities. ‘‘doctored and tampered’’ against Hinduism. Hindu society. some backward areas, Mayawati accused the op- CDs under a ‘‘well-planned She said the SP wanted to The chief minister said Dalits were not allowed position parties of hatching political conspiracy’’. create a rift between the she would ‘‘embrace entry into temples by a conspiracy to discredit her Mulayam must tender an BJP and the BSP by plotting Buddhism if the unequal manuvadis. party and dared Mulayam to apology if the allegations to show the latter as an treatment meted out to ‘‘Lakhs of Dalits, along prove the latest allegations levelled by him are proved ‘‘anti- Hindu party’’. Dalits persisted and with me, would also em- of corruption levelled false, she said. Mayawati said the re- they continued to be brace Buddhism,’’ the chief against her. Referring to the second marks were made in connec- discriminated and humi- minister said. Mulayam unfazed, brushes off charges TIMES NEWS NETWORK & PTI about Mulayam’s ‘‘misuse’’ of dis- ‘It is political vendetta. cretionary funds as CM. ‘‘Both the Goraya (Jalandhar)/ New Del- state assembly and the CAG had hi: Samajwadi Party chief Mu- The cases registered cleared Mulayam Singh’s use of dis- layam Singh Yadav on Monday cretionary funds,’’ he said. dared the UP administration to ar- against me are base- Singh said that from April 19 SP rest him and dismissed as baseless activists would take out cycle rallies the charge that he misused govern- less...I am ready to in every UP district to protest ment funds during his tenure as the against Mayawati’s ‘‘blatant cor- state chief minister. go to jail if I have done ruption and political vindictive- Apparently unfazed by the filing ness’’. The three-week campaign of FIRs against him by the anything wrong’ will culminate in a rally in Luc- Mayawati government, he said, ‘‘It know on May 12. is political vendetta. The cases reg- He said that making available the istered against me are baseless. The I have done anything wrong.’’ yatra. We had always tried to main- Mayawati tapes was an ‘‘insider’s comptroller and auditor general, On Mayawati’s allegations that tain communal harmony.’’ job’’ from the BSP camp. Denying the high court and the state assem- the tapes were doctored, Yadav chal- In New Delhi, the Samajwadi Par- the tapes were doctored, he said the bly have already given a clean chit lenged her to get it probed by the ty has charged that Mayawati was onus of proving them fake was on to my decisions.’’ CBI and if the allegations were being used by the BJP to harass Op- Mayawati. ‘‘By registering cases against me, proved correct in the inquiry, he position politicians. Singh said that he would not be Mayawati is taking revenge for the would resign from politics. SP general secretary Amar Singh surprised if Mayawati used her ad- SP release of video CDs showing On allegations that he was ‘‘anti- said that ‘‘if Prime Minister Vaj- ministration and police to harass her asking her party MPs and Hindu’’ and had ordered firing payee is the collector, then and even arrest him and Mulayam. MLAs to donate a part of their local against karsewaks during his Mayawati is the patwari’’. ‘‘Such a thing can happen and we area development funds to BSP cof- regime, Yadav said, ‘‘It was the BJP Singh claimed that the so-called are ready for that,’’ he said. He, how- fers,’’ he alleged. which had tried to divide Hindus ‘‘unmasking’’ rally could not reveal ever, denied any move on his part to He said, ‘‘I am ready to go to jail if and Muslims by taking out the rath anything. He refuted her charge seek anticipatory bail.
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10 Tuesday,April 15, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi
Nicholson a Stay healthy, AROUND THE WORLD Reuters rage at US add milk to Kylie’s beauty secret: Scientists complete Pop star Kylie Minogue has finally hinted that medical box office your tea science may Los Angeles: Millions of Auckland: Scientists have have helped North American moviegoers genome mapping found that tea with milk is a to maintain signed up for a little Anger safer drink than black tea. her sexy Management therapy from People who drink tea without looks — the London: Scientists have The completed sequence flawless skin Adam Sandler and Jack Gene sequence milk have relatively high lev- completed the finished se- will help scientists to iden- and her fa- Nicholson over the weekend. els of oxalates, waste prod- quence of the human •The draft sequence of tify the 25,000-30,000 genes mous ‘butt’. The singer, who The first collaboration be- genome, or genetic blue- in humans, including those ucts that have to be passed always denied that she had tween the screen stars sold a human genome was out of the body in urine, the print of life, which holds done three years ago. involved in complex dis- Botox injections to remove record $44.5 million worth of the keys to transforming eases such as cancer and di- study at Lincoln University wrinkles, collagen implants in tickets in its first three days, medicine and understand- •It has already helped in abetes. The finished se- near Christchurch found. her lips and a bum lift, has in- according to studio estimates ing disease. discovering a mutation quence is expected to spark In a small number of peo- dicated, in the latest issue of issued on Sunday. That’s Less than three years af- that causes a deadly a boom in genomic re- ple the oxalates accumulate Glamour magazine, that she’s more than the combined total ter finishing the draft of type of skin cancer. search in the pharmaceuti- to form kidney stones. had professional help in of the rest of the movies in the three billion letters that cal industry and to under- Putting milk in tea reduces maintaining her body. “It’s the top 10. make up human DNA and •The completed se- pin biomedical research in the risk because the calcium been reported I’ve had all The comedy stars Sandler two years earlier than ex- quence will help to iden- the coming decades. in the milk combines with kinds of surgery — even as a mild-mannered New pected, scientists said Mon- tify the 25,000-30,000 New treatments, cus- the oxalate and allows it to be types I didn’t know existed. All I’ll say is that I try to be Yorker forced to receive day the set of instructions genes, including those tomised drugs to individual excreted normally. counselling from a hothead involved in diseases like “So it’s safer to drink tea sensible and take advantage on how humans develop genetic profiles and earlier of what’s available to me,” anger management guru and function is done. cancer and diabetes. diagnosis of disease are ex- with milk, or green tea,” Lin- she was quoted as saying. ANI played by Nicholson. Marisa “We put out the draft se- pected to be among the ini- coln food scientist Geoffrey Tomei co-stars. Peter Segal quence as a way of getting Sanger Institute, said. tial benefits. Savage told the New Zealand Penn’s guns missing: Ac- (Nutty Professor II: The it out to scientists as quick- The Human Genome Pro- “We shouldn’t expect im- Herald. AFP tor Sean Penn’s car, stolen as Klumps) directed. ly as we could. It gives them ject has already aided sci- mediate major break- he had lunch near the Univer- Anger Management’s something to work with entists in discovering a mu- throughs but there is no Pak convicts 4 for sity of California campus at strong debut set personal and get going, but the aim tation that causes a deadly doubt we have embarked on Berkeley, has been recovered but two guns inside were bests for its two stars. San- was always to generate a type of skin cancer and ac- one of the most exciting US consulate blast dler’s previous best opener missing, police said on Sun- reference sequence for the celerated the search for chapters of the book of day. The car was found Fri- was 1999’s Big Daddy ($41.5 Karachi: A Pakistani court human genome,” Dr Jane genes involved in diabetes, life,” Allan Bradley, direc- day in Richmond, nine miles on Monday sentenced two Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones at the premiere of the film, million) and Nicholson’s was Rogers, head of sequencing leukaemia and childhood tor of the Wellcome Trust from where it was stolen, said militants to death for their It Runs in the Family, in New York on Sunday. The film 1989’s Batman ($40.5 million). at the Wellcome Trust eczema. Sanger Institute, said. Reuters Lt. Arnold Threets of Rich- role in a deadly car bomb at- stars the acting powerhouse Douglas family and includes Reuters mond police department. tack outside the US consulate Kirk, Michael, Diana and Cameron Douglas. Penn was driving a black in Karachi last June. 1987 Buick Grand National, a collector’s Spanish town adopts Paltrow: Talavera DUBYAMAIL Mohammad Imran Bhai favourite. Reuters de la Reina, a market town 90 miles west of You are doing a great job by condemn- and Mohammad Hanif Ayub the Spanish capital of Madrid ing Bush. He doesn’t understand that if were given the death penalty Office wins BAFTA awards: Actor and talks have failed it doesn’t mean that writer Ricky Gervais has landed two major on a main road to Portugal, he can go to war.If Bush’s logic is right, after being convicted with awards on television’s big night of the year for has adopted Oscar-winning then we can also attack Pakistan. We two other men, Arslan US actress Gwyneth Paltrow. should surely do it without taking care Sharib Farooq and Zubair the acclaimed comedy The Office. “We would of the UN, because if Bush can play The town named her “la hija Ahmed, who were both sen- like to thank the BBC for leaving us alone to with the laws of the UN why can’t we? get on with it. Wise move really,” said Gervais adoptive,” or the adopted — Kshitij tenced to life imprisonment. after the show about a cringingly embarrass- daughter. As a teenager, she I love this comic strip.You are amazing. A fifth defendant, Moham- Keep up the good work and God bless ing boss won BAFTAS for Best Comedy Per- had visited the town to stay you. mad Ashraf, was acquitted. formance and Best Sitcom. The Best Actor with a local family and learn Spanish. She has — Sameer Sharma All five men belonged to award went to Albert Finney for his portrayal been visiting the same family regularly ever e-mail: [email protected] the Harkatul Mujahedin of Churchill in The Gathering Storm. Reuters since. ANI al-Alaami. AFP
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The Times of India, New Delhi GULF WAR II Tuesday,April 15, 2003 11 UK fishes out Tikrit falls, Saddam loses his last bastion Tikrit: US Marines backed by Nasiriyah on Tuesday which will hope will help stop the orgy of ourselves as peaceful people who lic services. “Islamic state! Islamic old document tanks stormed into Saddam Hus- begin the process of shaping the looting that followed the dramatic got stuck with a dictator. Hopeful- state! Not American, not Ameri- sein’s final stronghold on Monday, future Iraqi government. collapse of Saddam’s 24-year iron- ly we’ll get a leader who respects can!” protesters chanted. seizing control of his hometown But the whereabouts of Sad- fisted rule last week. people and lets them be in peace,” US officials tried to hasten the Tikrit in possibly the last major dam, who was born in a village Marines charged into Tikrit at said Hussein al-Khalidi. return of Iraqi security forces to slam Syria military action of the Iraq war. near Tikrit in 1937, remained un- dawn after a fierce overnight aeri- Normality appeared to be slowly across the capital, organising a AP With the fall of Tikrit, the US known. al bombardment of remnants of returning to Baghdad, battered by meeting of hundreds of police. By Rashmee Z Ahmed said that the phase of military op- US Brigadier General Vincent the Republican Guard. There was two weeks of air raids followed by Some former Iraqi officers hurled TIMES NEWS NETWORK erations was nearing an end and Brooks told reporters at war head- no sign of the jubilation seen four days of near anarchy. Some abuse at Saddam and others at- London: In a remarkably work of recovery may begin soon. quarters in Qatar there could still when other Iraqi cities fell. A stat- kiosks and food stores opened. tacked his statue with hammers calibrated trans-Atlantic “We are in this transition from be fighting, but that it would not be ue of a resplendent Saddam on Traffic jams once again started to and metal bars. pincer movement, London decisive combat into providing an “organised regime effort”. US horseback stood unscathed and clog the streets. In Najaf, tribal leaders halted a confirmed it too “had con- governance for the Iraqi people of forces now see the main threat as pristine pictures of him adorned But the occasional crackle of siege by armed men of the home of cerns about Syria for quite their own choosing,” US war com- hit-and-run attacks by paramili- lamp-posts. gunfire could be heard in the dis- Shi’ite Muslim leader Grand Aya- some time” within hours mander Gen Tommy Franks said. taries. However, some locals flashed tance, and, with water and power tollah Ali Sistani and took control of President Bush warn- Franks said he had invited In Baghdad, more than 2,000 thumbs-up signs and said they supplies still cut, a few hundred of the spiritual centre where two ing Damascus to “cooper- Iraqis from both inside and out- Iraqi policemen reported back for were glad that fighting appeared Iraqis demonstrated to complain clerics were hacked to death last ate” or else. side the country to a meeting in work in a move that US authorities over. “It’s a huge relief, we think of about the lack of security and pub- week. Agencies But Britain said it had no intention of invading Syria after Iraq. AFP Tony Blair’s cabinet big WAR DIARY hitters alternately cau- tioned and cajoled Syria on Monday, even as they Nuke programme repeatedly denied it was next on the hit-list of a chief surrenders resurgent, militarily- supreme, muscular Anglo- Head of Iraq’s nuclear pro- American alliance. gramme, Jafar al Jafar, has sur- London’s push towards rendered, a leading television said what observers quickly on Monday. Quoting US sources, dubbed the “diplomatic NBC television network reported Syria is not on the US-UK that Jafar had surrendered to a daisycutter” came as hitlist, British Foreign British officials resurrect- Secretary Jack Straw foreign government, details of ed for this paper 14-month- assured Damascus. which are unclear but US officials old “minutes of evidence” say they will have access to him. presented to the British volved in Iraq’s weapons of Jafar headed Iraq’s nuclear pro- parliament in May on mass destruction pro- gramme for nearly two decades “Syria’s development of grammes might escape and could provide information. missile defence systems”. across the border into Syr- The “minutes” were ear- ia, obviously boosting Syr- Chalabi not in the race lier cited by Defence secre- ia’s own efforts in those di- tary Geoff Hoon to justify rections.” Ahmed Chalabi, one of Iraq’s best- London’s sudden anxiety Blowing hot and cold in known opposition leaders with about Syrian weapons. turns, London warned strong support in the Pentagon, Hoon denied it was sud- Damascus to be forthcom- said he did not plan to play a polit- den, telling foreign jour- ing on three counts: with ical role in his homeland. ‘‘I want nalists: “We have been con- information on its “unlaw- to take part in the reconstruction cerned about not just (Syr- ful holdings (of chemical of the civilian society,’’ Chalabi ia’s) weapons of mass de- weapons); physical and hu- told French Le Monde by phone struction but also about man intelligence on “fugi- from Nassiriya. Asked if he in- their means of delivery”. tives from Saddam’s tended to play a political role But sources admitted to regime” who are alleged to there, he said: ‘‘Absolutely not. I have fled from Iraq into am not a candidate for any post’’. this paper that the “evi- Looters caught inside a bank by US soldiers lie on the ground with money strewn all around them in Baghdad on Monday. dence” presented to the Syria and “answers to im- House to Commons had portant questions (about) not been about Syrian “whether they have been weapons of mass destruc- developing any kind of il- Military campaign ending, but what does it take to end the war? tion (WMD) at all, and only legal or illegitimate chem- ical or biological pro- about missiles. By Manoj Joshi Doenitz signed ? and ethnic scores need to be settled away from its responsibilities as who dominated the polity till now Meanwhile, citing grammes”. TIMES NEWS NETWORK In Iraq, the entire leadership and then there is the matter of the the military victor of the war. are not likely to be supportive of “much evidence of consid- As part of his carrot- seems to have vanished and it is un- foreign conqueror. American success will now be any American dispensation. As for erable cooperation be- and-stick approach, Blair New Delhi: According to reports, likely whether there is any author- Having won a military victory, measured not by the power of its the Kurds, the Turkish factor will tween the Syrian govern- spoke to Syria’s Britain- two US aircraft carriers have been ity with which the US can receive a the coalition is confronted with the military machine, but how well it limit their gains. ment and the Saddam trained opthalmologist- ordered back home from the Per- regime in recent months” president, Bashar al-Assad sian Gulf. This is the surest indica- surrender. In these circumstances much more difficult task of win- can manage the task of politically The US is unlikely to hand over British Foreign Secretary on Sunday, while sending tor that the main American mili- war termination is likely to come ning the peace. So far their per- reconstructing Iraq. Setting up a the keys of its new kingdom to any Jack Straw said: “Syria is Foreign Office Minister tary operations of the Iraq war are through a declaration of the Anglo- formance has been abysmal. In the puppet regime is non starter. independent Iraqi authority. Too not next on the list... there Mike O’Brien to talk at an end. American victors that the hostili- name of post-liberation euphoria, The plan of installing Ahmed much independence would not suit is no next list”. turkey with Damascus on What will it take to end this war ? ties are at an end. they have allowed looting and van- Chalabi as a friendly pro-consul has the US purpose of moulding Iraq in Hoon said: “Our imme- Monday. The death of Saddam, or evidence This does not mean that they dalism to take place. come apart even before it was im- its chosen image. Just how the US diate concern is the risk For more go to that he has indeed died ? Is their will. The turbulence from the over- The US may not, in the words of plemented. The prickly Shias are sees this issue is evident from its re- that some of those in- www.timesofindia.co need for formal surrender of the throw of Saddam’s regime may Colin Powell, want to be a police unlikely to take to any pro-Ameri- luctance to involve the UN in any kind Hitler’s successor Admiral take some time to settle. Old feuds force in Iraq, but it cannot walk can ayatollahs and the Sunni Arabs political role.
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12 Tuesday,April 15, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Death of ‘Chemical’ Ali Small Inputs, Big Changes A THOUGHT FOR TODAY K S Ram first visited Bastar in 1978, on Two grades of amchoor sell in the market Nailing the Lie of Iraq’s WMD holiday from Mysore. Then, as a bank officer, — black and white. Customers prefer the They don’t know this is a museum? he chose to work there, and two decades later, white to black and so the black sells at only They don’t like a museum? By Vidya Subrahmaniam so-called rogue regimes? In October 2002, the CIA produced a voluminous document that he went on to head a cement company. Bastar half the price of the white. But the bulk of — Nidal Amin, Iraq national museum’s deputy director April 5: The ‘allied’ forces claim to have painstakingly detailed the exact status of — the beautiful but remote and ‘backward’ amchoor is black. We wondered — the source killed Ali Hassan al-Majid a.k.a. ‘Chemical’ Iraq’s allegedly formidable range of WMD. A tribal area — had become his home. Ram of the mangoes being the same, how are Ali, the brutal Iraqi general who earned the month earlier, the International Institute for found his true calling when he became some white and others black? nickname for allegedly ordering a 1988 poi- Strategic Studies had brought out a similar project director of the district literacy With help from the NDDB, we investigated Victory & Vandalism son gas attack that killed hundreds of thou- report on Iraq’s WMD. This material formed programme. He tells Narayani Ganesh how this matter and found that the amchoor cut The looting and destruction of the national museum at sands of Kurds. In an audio tape that was the basis of the Bush administration’s case he helped link the literacy movement to the with iron knives turned black whereas the Baghdad recalls what happened a century earlier when subsequently unearthed, Ali was said to have that the world couldn’t afford to wait for tribals’ traditional economic activities, amchoor cut with steel remained white. A the Western armies ‘‘liberated’’ Peking. That was thus ordered the genocide: “I will kill them Saddam to be formally disarmed by the UN. using the Van Dhan Mission and technology stainless steel knife cost Rs 10, and an iron all with chemical weapons. I will continue to wanton pillage ‘legitimised’ by Kaiser’s instructions to Consider the key conclusions reached by to enable traditional knowledge: knife only Rs 2. Using iron knives, the tribals attack them with chemicals for 15 days.” the German troops to behave like the Huns. This time it the two reports. On Nuclear Weapons: Iraq lost out on income amounting to Rs 400 lakh Ali was such a nasty piece of work that What do tribals in Chhattisgarh need most per annum. The solution was simple — was a case of sheer callousness. When US secretary was a step away from going nuclear, the only Saddam Hussein was believed to have right now — healthcare, education or food? either replace iron with steel or dunk the of war Henry Stimson was given a list of potential obstacle being the insufficient availability of deliberately put him in charge of defending weapons-grade fissile material. A further All three, of course. But perhaps micro amchoor in an anti-oxidant like lime water Japanese targets for nuclear attack, he removed Tokyo southern Iraq — so that the invading troops evidence of Iraq’s nuclear ambition was its market reforms — to effectively check which is easily available in paan shops. and Yokohama with the remark that there should be would know just what was in store for them. “aggressive attempts to obtain high-strength predatory exploitation by market forces — What about tamarind? entities to negotiate war termination. When Germany Yet, Ali died without using even an ounce aluminium tubes”. can really help empower them. Then tribals Bastar produces around 35,000 metric tons surrendered there was an administration headed by of the huge quantities of chemical agents the On Chemical Weapons (CWs): Baghdad can get a more equitable deal in the of tamarind every year. Under the Van Dhan Admiral Doenitz. As a result, the conquest did not lead US establishment, the CIA and even private had begun renewed production of chemical haat-bazars where they sell their produce. programme (‘‘wealth of the forests’’), we to anarchy and chaos except when it happened as part defence institutions said Iraq had in its warfare agents, including mustard, sarin, This way, tribal income can be greatly were scouting around for more remunerative of a plan for a few days as in Berlin. Obviously, those possession. The man who so cruelly gassed cyclosarin and VX. Saddam himself had a enhanced without financial assistance from markets for Bastar’s imli (tamarind). who planned meticulously for military operations for thousands of his own people was suddenly so stockpile of a few hundred metric tonnes of the government. Trifed (a government body involved in the regime change in Iraq did not bother to assess the transformed that rather than touch the stuff, chemical weapons agents. Iraq also had a But isn’t it also true that education programme) sent a sample to a corporate enormous civil dislocation, humanitarian suffering he died a horrible, inglorious death. known ability to marry chemical warheads often drives them away from traditional buyer in the UK. The quality was found to consequent on breakdown of infrastructure and the April 7: US marines advancing into Bagh- to its rockets and artillery pieces. knowledge? be poor. We contacted CFTRI, Mysore, dad joyously shed their chemical protection Yes, most tribals see education as a dis- for technological inputs. Workshops were massive looting and mayhem that would inevitably On Biological Weapons (BWs): Iraq had suits, following an official communication lethal and incapacitating BW agents, includ- abling factor for this reason. Elders are hurt held for the tribals. follow. The Geneva Convention makes it clear that ruling out further threats of a chemical or a to find that class 10 pass (or fail) boys are The training content, though, can hardly the responsibility for the safety and security of a ing thousands of litres of anthrax, and had biological attack. the ability to deliver them by bombs, missiles averse to doing tradi- be described as population coming under military occupation is Was the danger over because the US forces and rockets. During Gulf War I, Saddam had tional jobs. The boys being ‘technical’ — entirely that of the occupying force. Those who were now in control of Baghdad? Not at all. instructed his military units to use the BWs are caught between ‘‘Spread a plastic undertake regime change cannot plead that their The joyous shedding happened amid bloody if the coalition forces advanced towards two worlds as they Q&A sheet when pluck- responsibility does not extend to policing duties. fire-fights between the allied forces and the Baghdad. Since then, Iraq’s BW programme find themselves ill- Elders are hurt to find ing the tamarind As the staff of the Iraqi national museum said in still-intact Iraqi regime. Indeed, even as the had grown larger and more advanced. equipped for either. that class 10 pass from the tree so agony one US tank commander or just five marines marines were throwing off their suits just Just why would anyone go to such absurd So can technological (or fail) boys are averse that it doesn’t get could have prevented the looting and pillage of Iraq’s outside Baghdad, inside, the Iraqi regime lengths to produce prohibited WMD and not inputs serve as to doing traditional dirty; wash your millennia old heritage. Obviously the troops were not was holding briefings and Iraqi guards use them when they were most needed? aids to development, jobs. The boys are hands before setting sensitised to prevent what was clearly an enormous were firing rockets at the allied forces. More Judging by the intelligence reports, one without undermin- caught between to work on them; crime being perpetrated before their eyes. After this, incredibly, the young marines were nearing terror after another awaited the invading ing tried and tested two worlds as don’t walk upon a traditional methods? heal of tamarind; how are the Iraqis to be persuaded that US forces Baghdad around the same time official forces — from hundreds of tonnes of sarin they find themselves America claimed it had found an Iraqi gas to rocket attacks of thousands of litres of Ninety per cent ill-equipped for either. cut your nails...’’ are ‘‘liberators’’ and not occupiers and connivers of Udayshankar storage site for chemical weapons just south of Bastar’s produce But the results cultural pillage. Occupation of a city without an anthrax. If earlier Saddam wanted BWs to be of the city. used to prevent the entry of coalition forces leaves the area in were amazing. Bas- orderly surrender by the defeated side is bound to result Nonetheless, the advancing US troops into Baghdad, why did he not use it even a raw, unprocessed form. So the tribals lose tar’s imli has not only acquired a huge in total breakdown of law and order and release of knew no fear. What if the Iraqis had tipped after they entered Baghdad this time? the benefit of value-addition. Also, any tech- market in Delhi, it also commands the criminal and anti-social elements into the city.Those US their rockets with chemical agents from the Pro-war experts will argue that had nology-aid has to match inputs with needs. If highest price. officials who exulted at the ‘‘liberation’’ of Iraqis after site the Americans said was a chemical Saddam and ‘Chemical’ Ali used WMD, they not, it will go the way of the solar cooker and Technology inputs are required for decades of tyranny,and decried media reports about the weapons store? Obviously,the chemical suits would have lost their case before the world. improved choolah which failed because of a simple functions like grading, sieving, sufferings of a people subjected to lawlessness and were shed because there were no chemical But is there anything left for them to lose? ‘dumping’ approach. packaging, harvesting etc. The hill grass anarchy, must know the responsibilities that go with weapons — neither with the dreaded ‘Chemi- Besides, surely neither man was the kind Mohd Yunus, founder, Gramin Bank, (used to make brooms) in Abhujmarh, for ‘‘liberation’’. Indeed, liberation is the easy part. cal’ Ali nor with the Iraqi regime. The young that cared much for world opinion, much less Bangladesh, found that poor Bangla women instance, is often cut under-size — the What is not easy is to demonstrate the will to stay on, marines had been stuffed into their chemical for an honourable place in the annals of were in chronic debt not because of ideal size is 36 inches-plus — simply because and see a difficult task right to its end. And that includes suits merely to advance the American argu- history.After all, weren’t they “evil” men? large-scale borrowing but because of a debt the tribals who cut the grass have never showing sensitivity to a land long considered the ment that Saddam had chemical weapons There are no WMD and today we have this of a mere 30-40 takas. Yunus discovered been advised of the right size required. that a simple bottom-end bank could So micro market reforms are essential — to cradle of human civilisation. and had every intention of using them. on the authority of UN’s chief weapons After this, who would ever believe inspector Hans Blix, who alleged that “the revolutionise the lives of the poor. There protect the tribals from unscrupulous anything said about Iraq’s WMD? To be sure, invasion of Iraq was planned in advance.” was no need for high-end technology or middlemen and ensure they get a fair share the last hasn’t been heard on this. On Sunday, Further that “the US and UK were not capital-intensive investment. of the profit. Kings’ Cross Colin Powell insisted that the US would find concerned about finding any banned WMD.” Have there been instances in Bastar when What kind of figures are we talking about? WMD in Iraq. “There is no question about There should be no more technical aid has helped improve and market The gross tribal produce in Bastar There is a tradition of monarchs voluntarily abdicating the fact that there are WMD. We will find doubts about who should produce of traditional knowledge? amounts to Rs 1,000 crore. But Rs 510 crore the throne in the larger interest of their people. In this them,” he told BBC. Of course, the WMD will claim moral victory in this Mango is a major forest produce in Bastar. is lost annually — says a 1999 CAG report — part of the world, there is a scriptural basis for kings be ‘found’. But who’ll ever believe that they war. Not the side that went Provisions of Panchayat Act 1996 (Extension because of exploitation. opting out of temporal power at a certain stage, often to were there all along, but that neither Saddam to war citing the danger to Scheduled Areas) confers ownership Two approaches can help tackle rural adopt a life of asceticism. In recent history, rulers of nor his deadly cousin was up to using them, of Saddam’s WMD, but status on tribals in respect of non-timber poverty: Increase the tribals’ income and nearly 500 princely states in the subcontinent gave up when the time came to use them? the side that said the forest produce. Since the Bastar mango check loss of revenue at the hands of their kingdoms for enabling a peaceful transition to a After this, who’ll believe the tomes WMD were a mere pre- is of average quality only, the demand is exploitative market racketeers. This way, new political order. Now, the Dalai Lama, Tenzin produced by powerful governments, their text. There should equally for cut mango pieces, amchoor. Bastar you can — like in cricket — both score runs Gyatso, has reiterated that if he is the last God-King of intelligence agencies, and indeed, private be no doubts about the next produces more than 4,000 metric tons of and field well. Bad fielding is the bane of the Tibetan people, he will be happy.Although, he is one institutes, as clinching evidence against American stop: Syria. amchoor per annum. official poverty alleviation programmes. of the most spiritually enlightened leaders, his move this time is a masterly act of statesmanship. He has already put in place an arrangement where, after him, Mahavira’s Thoughts the temporal and spiritual leadership of the Tibetan people will no longer be one entity. His successor, the Panchen Lama, is a political prisoner in China, and the On Economics Karmapa’s escape from China and arrival in Rumtek in Whose Iraq? Sikkim has not eased matters of succession. After By Acharya Mahaprajna Gyatso, the Chinese may well foist the Panchen Lama as Today, economic policy is the same. We are undeniably For centuries Iraq was his political and spiritual heir, leading to protests and designed to help us achieve connected — that is why we divided into competing tribes, clans, cities and violence which the Dalai Lama wants to avert. a new global order with lead both dependent and optimum economic configu- independent lives. As an religious sects. With the Like the Dalai Lama, whose compassion combined rations. Earlier, output maxi- intrinsic part of existence, rising tide of Arab na- with political acuity has led him to pre-empt loss of misation and mass-scale we could influence the entire tionalism and the final lives in a conflict after his time, king Gyanendra of production was necessary world. So one who tries to collapse of Ottoman Nepal too could take the high road to end the civil to satisfy the escalating analyse and comprehend rule in 1918, the idea war. True, there have been no acts of war since demands of a growing popu- himself also understands the of the nation-state the insurgents agreed to negotiations but the kingdom lation. But demands are entire universe. appealed to educated is in a state of war. The Maoist rebels who want a motivated. Violence has bred The second parameter of Iraqis, who joined in the democratic republic have now suggested that king stress and strain, seriously Mahavira’s economic policy popular 1920 uprising Gyanendra could play a role similar to that of endangering world peace. is non-violence. Ancient against Britain. Cambodia’s prince Norodom Sihanouk. That would With increasing demands, scholars have said: Jeeven After crushing the re- mean a more evolved constitutional monarchy than the our problems have only jeevasya jeevanam — Life is volt, Britain proceeded prevalent one where the army reports to the king who multiplied. Does this mean the basic element of any to create an Iraqi state, could intervene to dismiss an elected government and that an economic system living being. However, this is partly in response to the which gives rise to these only partially true; it is not assume executive powers. In the scheme proposed by demands of these tendencies is necessarily right to take it as the total the Maoists, a throne council would elect the king nationalists, mainly flawed? Is there an alter- reality. But to live, violence to cement its own thus upturning the principle of a divine right to rule. CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS native compatible with cannot be given up entirely. interests in the region. The Maoist assertion of the talks being between globalisation? So Mahavira said that un- two states — and not between a rebel group and a The paper model of the celebrating the fall of Saddam Hussein that Post-industrial revolution, necessary and aggressive vi- new Iraqi state strongly government — is a gross exaggeration, but the fact Plunder of Baghdad have been shown incessantly across TV developed nations acquired olence should be discouraged resembled any western remains that the insurgents are running a parallel dominant control over world — even the smallest of the The news story ‘7,000 years gone in 48 hours’ channels over the past few days. It uncovers democratic state of resources. But industrial small creatures deserve to be administration in large parts of the country. In a (Apr 14) was shocking. The loss to world the truth behind the naive celebrations of that time: It had a pollution began to threaten protected from violent acts. situation that could easily slide back into conflict, the heritage because of the plunder of the an oppressed people who perhaps do not constitution, a cabinet, the environment. Powerful Ved Vyas wrote in the king must decide wisely on the best way to sustain the museum in Baghdad is irreparable. The realise that they are only exchanging one a parliament, political nations became more of a Mahabharata that nobody is monarchy alongside multiparty democracy, these two artefacts recovered from the historical kind of tyranny for another. Saddam may parties, free elections threat than sources of superior to man. Mahavira being the twin pillars of stability in Nepal. sites of the Mesopotamian Civilisation in deserve to be ousted, but no amount of and an impressive strength, as they also said that. Iraq were housed in this museum. All these rhetoric by Bush and no amount of naivete number of newspapers had their eyes on That might be so, priceless articles are now lost. The by an oppressed Iraqi people can hide the and periodicals. economic empire- but it is also true plunderers perhaps never realised that by truth behind America’s war on Iraq. The building. that nobody is However, the model Aishwarya’s Bondage looting the museum, they have not only poignancy of the image is further enhanced Mahavira said more irrational bore little resemblance erased traces of their own history but also a by the silent, almost deferential posture Reports that four Indian actresses are in the running that the one who than man. When to reality and little precious part of world culture. The US may of the soldier. The sentiments of Sama for the role of the next Bond girl indicate that the rejects the people we add these resemblance to a viable ‘reconstruct’ the buildings it destroyed in must surely find an echo in the hearts of makers of 007 movies — Eon Productions — are well and the world, two truths, the democratic state. Iraq, but can it bring back the historical many around the world. aware of not just the glamour of Bollywood stars but rejects his own whole truth be- Ma’ruf Rasafi, an treasures it allowed to be looted? The — Sowmya Rajaram, via e-mail also the depth of the Indian market. Devdas’s Paro — existence; and the comes clear. Iraqi poet of that physical injuries suffered by Iraq might THE Aishwarya Rai — appears to have the edge with casting one who rejects Mentally and period, wrote about heal with time, but what about the agents having had discussions with her.It has even been Tribes in Turmoil his own existence SPEAKING physically,human the incongruity. indignity and trauma? rejects the exis- beings are highly Mohammad Tarbush reported that Ms Rai could stop over in London for — V K Joshi, New Delhi Ethnic cleansing unleashed by the majority TREE tence of the evolved — man’s “The Role of the Mili- another round of discussions after fulfilling her Dimasa tribe against the indigenous Hmar world. He said: “Do not reject consciousness and wisdom is tary in Politics”, a case responsibility as a jury member of the Cannes Film and other tribes in Cachar and North the existence of the world superior to any other living study of Iraq to 1941 Festival. Two of the other Indian actresses reportedly Candid on Camera Cachar Hills of Assam requires immediate and do not reject your creatures. But even this is ✥ being considered are also beauty queens turned attention. The Dimaraji Revival Demand The front page photograph on April 12 of existence as well. The most only a partial truth. It is actresses — former Miss World Priyanka Chopra and Committee (DRDC) and its armed wing, the A flag, a constitution, Iraqi student Sama Samira telling off an important principle of envi- presumed that man can do Dima Halam Daoga (DHD), are attempting and a national former Miss Universe Lara Dutta. The fourth name American soldier in Baghdad was fantastic. ronment is that you are not almost anything. He can kill to carve out a separate homeland under the assembly — being mentioned is that of Preity Zinta who, like It captured candidly the sheer hypocrisy of the only element. When you animals and birds and does banner ‘Cachar for Kacharis’ in the Cachar, each one a distortion Aishwarya, is by now a seasoned actress. Ms Zinta has ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’, and the ability do something for yourself so on a large scale. Would he North Cachar Hills, and adjoining of the true meaning... also won a bravery award in real life for standing up in of a discerning minority,of which Sama is you must know your action/s still qualify as a superior Dimasa-inhabited areas. The pogrom is He who reads the a Mumbai court and deposing that she had received an a part, to see through it. The picture is an will impact the entire world.” creature? The superiority directed initially against the Hmar tribe, constitution will learn extortion threat from the underworld. However, the effective rebuttal of images of Iraqis So what can an individual complex has, in fact, misled who are relatively more advanced and that it is composed ac- international media buzz on who the next Bond girl will do? How do his actions affect him so much that he has educated among the minorities in the area. cording to the mandate. the rest of the world? become uncontrollable. In be is focusing on Aishwarya. Reports suggest that In doing so, the DHD has broken the ground He who looks at From timesofindia.com the process, he has become a Bond producer Barbara Broccoli has decided to cast rules of the ceasefire with the government Mahavira observes from the flapping banner creature of destruction. Aishwarya so as to facilitate a massive movie audience of Assam. The campaign is a threat, not the perspective of anekanta will find throughout Asia. Aishwarya has been described as a Stop US Bashing only to the minority tribes, but also to the that when a finger makes a Material gain alone cannot that it is billowing combination of Nicole Kidman, Cameron Diaz and larger, diverse, plural and secular tradition movement, the entire world provide protection. Erictron in the glory of aliens. US bashing has become a fashionable vibrates. All inter-linked observed: We should under- He who sees our Catherine Zeta-Jones. Julia Roberts, the well-known pastime now for pseudo-intellectuals, of India. Despite the grave situation, the Hollywood actress, has called her the most beautiful state and Central governments have atoms are activated. This stand that mere material is national assembly will bleeding heart liberals and human rights know that it is woman in the world. Eon Productions is said to be remained silent spectators. concept of all life and matter no defence. When the feeling activists all over the world, India being being inter-linked has been of non-protection is realised, constituted by and for keen on starting the next project with Die Another — David Buhril, New Delhi no exception. These worthies should explained by Jain acharyas: a basic change will take any but the electors. Day — released last November — grossing $400 million, pause and remember that the world Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page We are not alone. The princi- place. Our capacity to control He who enters the some 60 million more than The World Is Not Enough. would today be under a despotic regime Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. email:[email protected] ple of anekanta symbolises emotions would increase. ministries will find With Pierce Brosnan’s dates already said to be called the Third Reich, which Adolf No 89 Vol. 54. 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Doordarshan TECHNOLOGY Govt may allow fresh bids for SCI TICKER plans to offer TIMES NEWS NETWORK ability, the committee will approve Selloff process cals & Fertilisers, Hindustan Cable, Apple may buy ‘‘rebidding’’ in the shipping major. National Building Construction New Delhi: With no foreign suitors So far, four bidders — Videocon, • FDI cap regarding foreign Corporation and ITDC hotels in in sight for the soon-to-be-divested BPL, Essar and Sterlite — are in Patna, Bhubaneshwar, Jammu and DTH service Shipping Corporation of India, the companies bidding for SCI may Universal Music the fray for SCI. Only Essar has a be relaxed Jaipur. Cabinet Committee on Disinvest- tieup with American Marine Asso- However, officials admit that the e has gone New Delhi: Doordarshan is planning to offer ment will meet on Tuesday to de- ciates. Officials say that the 26 per • A-I, IA will be put off process of disinvestment has from col- the direct-to-home (DTH) service and is like- cide if the 26 per cent cap on the cent cap on foreign companies is ‘‘a privatisation list for a year slowed down to a large extent. ‘‘De- Hlege ly to place its proposal before the government holding by foreign companies in major handicap’’ which was ac- • Firming up norms for spite severe setbacks last year, we dropout to com- by the end of this month. bidding consortia should be re- knowledged by the core group of employees bidding for PSUs were enthusiastic but now it seems puter guru to The Rs 500-crore proposal was cleared at a laxed. secretaries on disinvestment while there is a general feeling not to movie mogul, and Disinvestment losing steam meeting of the Prasar Bharati Board last In addition, Air India and Indian suggesting rebidding in SCI. • hardsell privatisation,’’ says a sen- on Friday Apple week and the free-to-air Doordarshan will Airlines will be taken off the pri- Disinvestment officials are up- ior disinvestment ministry official. Computer’s Steve soon make all efforts to talk to other channels vatisation list, at least for a year. beat with the shipping ministry’s hands very soon. The government He feels the delay in SCI’s disin- Jobs appeared to bring them on to its DTH platform. The meeting is also expected to response which had sought a year’s would be left with 25 per cent while vestment is difficult to understand. ready to add the ti- “The point is to give a wider choice to view- take up the disinvestment of a host time to change FDI rules in ship- the rest would go to employees. For months, he says, the govern- tle of chief of the ers and there has to be a good mix of free-to- of PSUs and hotels of ITDC. It ping. However, it is felt that if the The CCD will also decide on the ment has been aware of the rea- world’s No 1 mu- air and pay channels. The Prasar Bharati would also firm up guidelines for CCD gives a go ahead for change in disinvestment of Hooghly Printing sons behind the poor response. ‘‘It sic company to his Steve Jobs will devise its own strategy,” I&B minister employees making bids for PSUs. rules, 51 per cent of SCI along with Company, Hindustan Newsprint, could have been easily rectified,’’ resume. Ravi Shankar Prasad said at a press confer- According to sources, in all prob- management control could change Tide Water Oil, Rashtriya Chemi- he says. Apple Computer Inc, which Jobs co- ence along with Prasar Bharati CEO KS Sar- founded in 1976 in his parents’ California ma, after inaugurating Prasar Bharati’s mar- home and now runs as CEO, is in talks to AFP keting division in Delhi. acquire Universal Music Group for up to On Prasar Bharati’s decision to go in for Hughes net profit $6 billion, a source said. DTH, Prasad said that in a competitive sce- While the merging of a computer and nario, DD should look ahead. Sarma said music company may not make sense to with the infrastructure and engineering ex- some analysts, others who know of the 48- perts available with DD, it could offer better down 27 per cent year-old Jobs’ reputation as a maverick DTH services than anyone else. It is estimat- TIMES NEWS NETWORK businessman say he has made a lot of ed to cost Rs 500 crore in five years. money doing things others thought made Three players have applied for DTH li- New Delhi: Hughes Software Systems’s net no sense. cences and one has already been given a li- profit for 2002-03 fell by 27.39 per cent to Rs Since the late 1990s, when downloading cense to operate the service. 37.90 crore from Rs 52.20 crore in 2001-02. Its digital music files to PCs or burning The board has also approved a proposal to revenue fell by 6 per cent to Rs 220.40 crore (copying) them onto personal CDs started re-impose licence fee on television and radio from Rs 234.90 crore in 2001-02. The compa- growing in popularity, the PC industry sets and plans to present a proposal on this ny’s profit margin during the period, which and music makers have been at odds over before the government, Sarma said. came under pressure, fell from 21 per cent issues of copyright piracy. However,the minister evaded questions on during 2001-02 to 16.5 per cent in 2002-03. Putting Apple and Universal under one this saying the government will take a deci- It, however, registered sequential growth roof would lend Jobs a powerful voice to sion after it receives a concrete proposal from in Q4 net profit (21 per cent over Q3) at Rs push the industry ahead — and he doesn’t the Prasar Bharati. Prasad said he was hap- 13.6 crore while revenue grew sequentially even have to rap, sing or play guitar. py that DD and AIR had met revenue targets. by 12 per cent to Rs 63.7 crore. HSS, which If Jobs acquires Universal Music, he Sarma said the proposal for commercial forayed into the BPO vertical in 2002, is ex- will add to his technology and movie exploitation of land available with Prasar pecting that the new initiative would con- holdings, a music company. tribute 7-8 per cent of the revenue in 2003-04. Bharati was being worked on and the board Gartner bullish on PC growth: Eco- had sought site-wise details. DISHING UP WAR: Business in China is cashing in on the growing interest about the Iraq war among people. Enthused by a relatively good perform- nomic growth and strong offerings by PC About DD’s plan for going digital, Sarma A war dish of “Tomahawk missile bamboo shoots” is served at a local restaurant. China’s state-owned media ance during the last three quarters, the assemblers will be the key drivers of de- said DTT was available in the four metros companies have also capitalised on surging advertising revenues with more than 400 million Chinese keenly company has projected a sales growth of 35- mand, expected to grow by 18 per cent, in with the required set-top box.PTI watching war developments. 40 per cent and net profit growth of 40-45 per the Indian PC market in 2003, says a re- cent for 2003-04. MD Arun Kumar said, ‘‘We port titled ‘‘India: PC Market Outlook, have shown consistent quarter-on-quarter 2003’’ by Gartner Dataquest, a division of growth in the last three quarters and con- technology research firm Gartner Inc. Bharti Cellular leads, but BSNL rings louder: COAI tinue to work towards predictability and ‘‘With a population to rival China, In- scalability.’’ dia has a lot to offer in terms of demand TIMES NEWS NETWORK subscriber base, although it growth was very strong in Kumar felt that though the overall tele- but a low GDP per capita means that mar- launched the CellOne service Cellular cheeseboard certain cases. In Andhra com scenario was still unclear, ‘‘the worst gins will be tight. Although the forecast is New Delhi: The cellular in- only in August. In several Pradesh, BSNL showed a Subscribers as on March 2003 seems to be behind us’’. Moreover, HSS’ po- for strong volume growth in 2003, the dustry continued on its high telecom circles it began oper- subscriber base of 24,541 for sitioning gives credence to it achieving margins will be stretched’’ said Vinod growth of about 100 per cent ations even later. November, when AirTel, during the fiscal April- Top 4 circles Top 4 firms higher growth in the coming years, he said. Nair, research analyst with Gartner Hutch would maintain sec- Hutch and Idea had 3,04,293, During last week’s tech meltdown, fol- March, 2003, but it was the Delhi 18.06 lakh Bharti 30.07 lakh India. ond position only if it adds 50,664 and 3,12,883 customers. lowing Infosys’ poor guidance for 2003-04, The consumer segment is still very state-owned BSNL that stood Essar group’s 1,82,857 sub- Mumbai 16.89 lakh BSNL 22.05 lakh By March-end Airtel added Gujarat 10.04 lakh Hutch 21.06 lakh Hughes did not lose much ground. In the attractive considering the large popula- out for building up a rapid scribers in three circles to its 6,172 subscribers, Hutch lost two trading sessions following Infy’s an- subscriber base within Maharashtra 9.09 lakh IDEA 12.08 lakh tion of first-time buyers. Local white-box 2.16 million customers, in 1,300 subscribers and Idea nouncement, HSS stock lost only Rs 5 to assemblers have a strong hold on the do- months of launching servic- view of the pending integra- added 507. BSNL signed up close at Rs 198 on Friday.At EPS of Rs 11.27, mestic market with 66 per cent of the to- es. tion of the two companies. of 227 per cent, though because of a nation-wide 1,92,565 subscribers. its stock is currently quoting at 17.5 tal PCs being sold. BSNL has knocked-off For now, the two are listed BSNL’s rapid ramp-up did footprint through its already In Orissa, Reliance Tele- times of EPS. Branded players need to aggressively Hutchison from the second separately. impact the growth rate of existing fixed-line network com had 61,587 customers in Despite the fact that the industry is facing target the local white-box assemblers. position by gaining 2.25 mil- Bharti’s AirTel continued leaders like AirTel, Hutch infrastructure and bundling November when BSNL had stiff competition and billing rates are This is lacking, as they presently seem to lion customers, about 18 per to be the biggest cellular firm and Idea. of tariffs, which was hurting just 7,995 customers. In under tremendous pressure, the company be fighting amongst themselves for mar- cent of market share of the with over 3 million sub- COAI chief TV Ramachan- the private industry. March, BSNL’s subscriber has given a positive outlook with improved ket share.TNN total 12.68 million cellular scribers and highest growth dran said BSNL grew rapidly The impact of BSNL’s base shot up to 70,332. margins.
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between amount 164.12 per porters’ Association, its presi- NATIONAL MT on HDAN prills and dent A Shaktivel said. Jaitley $183.08 per MT on ldan prills promised to examine these Fourth deputy governor from Russia and iran and projects and grant the neces- for RBI likely: The govern- landed value of imports. sary approvals, he added. ment is weighing the option of creating the post of a fourth ‘New norms not to hit NDTV launches Hindi, deputy governor in the sugar exports’: The Gov- English channels: NDTV Reserve Bank to oversee ernment has sought to allay was back on air on Monday activities of cooperative bank- fears that under the new strin- with the simultaneous launch ing sector which has seen a gent release mechanism In- of its round-the-clock english series of scams in the last dia’s sugar exports will be hit and hindi news channels - two years. “There is a provi- and said the exports in the NDTV 24x7 and NDTV India. sion for a fourth deputy gov- current fiscal are expected to Two weeks after its contract ernor in RBI. We are consider- rise to 20 lakh tonnes. “The ended with Star, NDTV now ing the option, and give the effective release control under joins the race with private deputy governor the respon- the amended Essential Com- news channels, including Aaj sibility of regulating the coop- modities Act will marginally Tak, Zee, Sahara and Star. erative banks,” a senior fi- increase the domestic prices Though the content in NDTV’s nance ministry official said. What is the true picture of rural India? Is it that of a rich but is unlikely to make ex- Hindi and English channels farmer showing off his just acquired luxury segment car? ports uncompetitive,” a top varied a little, both went on air Fertiliser output declines Or is it that of a ‘reverse migrating’ labourer going back to government official said. He at 2 PM. NDTV president 7.4%: Hit by low demand his small piece of land in Bihar because his factory in Lud- said at the most domestic Prannoy Roy said Rs 10-12 due to drought, total fertiliser hiana shut shop? These are the sort of questions that have prices will increase by Rs crore of advertising has been production in the country fell inspired the ET Knowledge Series on Rural Economy, 2,000 per tonne but sops of tied up for these two chan- by 7.4 per cent to 1.090 mil- released now as both a book and CD-ROM. Releasing the around Rs 4,000 per tonne or nels which will be available in lion tonnes during February CD-ROM at the annual summit of CII’s national council on nearly $85 will ensure India about 12 million cable homes. this year compared to the agriculture in Mumbai last week, Union minister for tightens its grip and explores NDTV has tied up with Sony corresponding month last agriculture Ajit Singh observed that there was a lack of new markets in the world Discovery’s One Alliance for year. The decline in produc- debate in popular media on issues facing rural India. sugar trade. distribution. tion was noticed in both ni- trogenous as well as phos- Anti-dumping duty on recommended imposition of Jaitley moots Tirupur Bourses, forex market phatic nutrients. The produc- ammonium sought: The duties equal to the difference common brand: Com- closed: Select markets tion of nitrogen at 0.808 mil- directorate general of anti- between the amount $148.58 merce and industry minister including BSE, NSE, foreign lion tonnes during February dumping and allied duties has per MT on ammonium nitrate Arun Jaitley has evinced keen exchange and money market 2003 recorded a decline of recommended imposition of melt from Russia and Iran and interest in projects like the were closed on Monday for 8.3 per cent over February, provisional anti-dumping duty their landed value of imports. Tirupur common brand and ‘Ambedkar Jayanti’. However, 2002, according to the Fer- on imports of ammonium ni- It has also recommended a warehouse project in Europe, most of the commodity tiliser Association of India. trate from Russia and Iran. It duty equal to the difference as proposed by Tirupur Ex- markets were open.
global holdings in pay televi- ment, called a consent de- earlier, easily beating ana- INTERNATIONAL sion operations, and INL is cree, reached between the lysts’ forecasts, helped by retaining its 66 per cent of firms and the commission. growth in its consumer busi- Murdoch arm, Australian ness. The No 3 US bank said New Zealand’s Sky TV. INL’s Citigroup Q1 profit jumps firm in deal: New Zealand’s publishing business includes it earned $2.42 billion, or Independent Newspapers Ltd 18%: Citigroup Inc, the $1.59 per share, in the quar- The Dominion Post, The largest US financial services (INL) said on Monday it had Press, The Sunday Star- ter, compared with $2.18 bil- signed a heads of agreement company, said on Monday its lion, or $1.38 per share, a times, Sunday News, seven first-quarter profit rose 18 per to sell its publishing business regional dailies and 61 year earlier. for $649 million to Australia’s cent, helped by growth in its community publications. John Fairfax Holdings. INL is consumer business and fewer 45 per cent owned by Rupert Pfizer-Pharmacia deal bad loans. The company said ET INSTA POLL Murdoch’s News Corp. Indus- gets FTC nod: Pfizer Inc it earned a record $4.1 billion, Yesterday’s results: try observers believe Mur- said on Monday that US regu- or 79 cents per share, from Are you happy with the new doch is consolidating his lators have cleared its $57 bil- continuing operations, up landline tariffs? lion acquisition of rival Phar- from $3.48 billion, or 66 cents per share, a year earlier. Yes 19% No 77% macia Corp after the drug- As China promises to build • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users makers agreed to divest world class infrastructure Bank of America Q1 who chose to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. some overlapping assets. for the 2008 Olympic games, profit rises 11%: Bank of Pfizer said the Federal Trade it is spending billions of America Corp said on Mon- Today’s question: Will you Commission unanimously dollars to build new roads change your savings plans be- day that first-quarter profit cause of the rising inflation rate? voted to accept an agree- and transport systems. rose 11 per cent from a year
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The Times of India, New Delhi, Tuesday,April 15, 2003
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AFP FROM THE INDIAN DRESSING ROOM We don’t want to end up with robots on the field. We don’t want the sport to be Americanised. Sourav ‘backs out’ — Steve Waugh of Bangladesh tie SPORTS DIGEST Dhaka: Indian captain AP Sourav Ganguly is likely to Injury blow for sit out of India’s triseries match against Bangladesh Harbhajan on Wednesday to give rest London: Indian spinner to his troubled back. Harbhajan Singh’s hopes In the event of Ganguly of featuring for Lan- opting out, Virender Se- cashire this season have hwag, the stand-in vice- been put on hold because captain in the absence of of a finger injury, the Eng- Rahul Dravid, will get the lish country cricket side honour of leading the team said on Monday. for the first Harbha- time in his jan is cur- blossoming rently play- career. ing for India With In- in a one-day dia virtual- tournament ly assured in of a place in Bangladesh Sunday’s fi- despite dis- nal, having won both their comfort in the middle fin- matches so far, Ganguly ger of his right hand, does not want to take the which affected his perform- risk of aggravating the in- ances during the World Spain's Magui Serna holds aloft the jury and has expressed his Cup. He was due to arrive Estoril Tennis trophy after defeating desire to be rested, team as Lancashire’s second Germany's Julia Schruff 6-4, 6-1 in sources said on Monday. overseas player on April 28 the final at Lisbon on Sunday. The 30-year-old Indian skip- but after talks between the per has been afflicted with Pak say no to Asia Cup: Pak- county and the Indian su- istan has dashed hopes of a revival the back problem for quite perstar,his arrival has been in cricketing ties with arch-rival India some time now and had put on hold indefinitely. after announcing their withdrawal even decided not to partici- “Harbhajan has been from the Asia Cup in Bangladesh, of- pate in the triseries here playing through a bit of but changed his mind after pain and he needs a break ficials said on Monday. “We have in- South African batsman Jacques Rudolph’s bat flies in the air in the tri-series match against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Monday. formed the Asian Cricket Council few key players opted out. to let finger settle down,” (ACC) of our inability to participate in Left-arm pacer Zaheer said Lancashire coach the Asia Cup and will issue further Khan, who suffered a ham- Mike Watkinson. “It seems details next week,” Pakistan Cricket string injury in Sunday’s a period of rest is the best Board (PCB) director Chishty Mu- tie, may be rested, too. PTI way for both parties.”AFP jahid said. The PCB took the deci- sion after India refused to tour Pak- SA heat bakes Bangladesh Ajit Ninan istan for a Test and one-day series scheduled for April-May this year. Dhaka: A resurgent South Smith himself. Dippenaar (66 not Bangabandhu wicket. jumped out and was stumped off Pakistan, in a tit-for-tat response, African side put behind a dismal out) was the highest scorer, his Earlier, Gibbs (62) and Smith left-arm spinner Mohammad had said they will not tour India in loss to India at the weekend by 16th one-day fifty coming off 80 de- (45) put on 112 runs in just 16 overs Rafique after hitting eight fours 2004. The latest decision ends any scoring a rather comfortable 83- liveries with seven fours. but threw away their wickets. off 46 deliveries. Rudolph chipped hopes of a restoration of cricketing run win over Bangladesh onMon- He put on 105 runs Gibbs’s 17th one- in with a brisk 44 off 45 balls. ties between Pakistan and India. PTI day in the TVS Cup three-nation for the unbroken TRI-SERIES day half-century A successful chase under lights Sonal crashes out: Sixth seed tournament here. fourth-wicket stand came with the help never looked likely despite unim- Sonal Phadke of India crashed out of A fine batting display by South with McKenzie (55). Dippenaar of ten boundaries off 63 balls be- pressive display by the South the opening round of the $10,000 African top-order helped them was scratchy to start with but then fore he was run out going for a sec- African bowlers, among whom Bhawna Swarup ITF tennis tourna- score a gigantic 294 for 3 on elect- settled into his groove to hit some ond run following a misfield by only Shaun Pollock and Allan ment losing to Yael of Israel on Mon- astonishing strokes on a slowish Javed Omar at mid-off. Smith Dawson bowled well. AFP day. Phadke, who conceded the first ing to bat at the Bangabandhu Na- tional Stadium, after which they set meekly, offered some fight in the SCORE BOARD second before losing the match 1-6, bowled the opposition out for 211 ‘We’re on the right track’ 6-7. Three other Indians in the fray — in the last over. South Africa: S Hossain lbw b Pollock 1 Iciri Rai, Anjuri and Sheena Jain — The young South African skip- Dhaka: After his team’s 83-run victory against G Smith st Mashud b Rafique 45 A Kapali lbw b Pollock 27 also suffered humiliating defeats in the per Graeme Smith, only in his sec- Bangladesh, South African captain Graeme Smith H Gibbs run out 62 Akram Khan lbw b Pollock 15 said his side had improved a lot from the previous J Rudolph c Tareq b Rafique 44 K Mashud c Smith b Dawson 11 first round. Meanwhile, third seed ond One-day International at the B Dippenaar not out 66 Wilawan Choptang of Thailand beat match against India and was on the “right track” K Mahmud c McKenzie b Ntini 40 helm, had the satisfaction of see- N McKenzie not out 55 M Rafique b Dawson 15 Iciri in straight sets 6-2, 6-2 while Jung ing all his batsmen come good af- to win the title. “We improved a lot from the last Extras: (b-4 lb-10 nb-2 w-6) 22 T Baishya b Pollock 3 Yoon Shin drubbed Anjuri 6-0, 6-0. PTI ter a forgettable 153-run loss to In- game against India. But a lot of improvement is Total: (For 3 wkts, in 50 overs) 294 T Aziz not out 1 Fall of wkts: 1-112, 2-132, 3-189 Extras (lb-1, w-14, nb-4) 19 Sikh Regiment win: Sikh Regi- dia in his first match. still required,” said Smith who won his first One- Bowling: Tareq 7-0-50-0 (nb-1), Baisya Promising set of batsmen Boeta day International as captain of South Africa. 10-0-54-0, Mahmud 2-0-29-0, Rafique Total (all out, in 49.3 overs) 211 ment Centre, Punjab and Bhopal Fall of wkts: 1-24, 2-82, 3-83, 4-112, Dippennar, Herschelle Gibbs, Neil He said the inexperience of some of the bowlers 10-0-43-2, Kapali 10-0-45-0, Hossain Eleven recorded big wins on the 4-0-23-0, Ashraful 7-0-36-0. 5-140, 6-141, 7-174, 8-204, 9-210. opening day of the 41st Bombay McKenzie chipped in with their remained a cause of concern but was satisfied Bangladesh: Bowling: Ntini 9-1-51-2, Willoughby 8- Gold Cup hockey tournament at the useful contributions. These efforts with the overall performance. “In some depart- J Omar c Boucher b Ntini 9 0-32-0, Pollock 9.3-0-36-4, Dawson Mahindra Stadium. The Sikh Regi- were supplemented by useful ef- ments we did well. Batsmen spent some time in the M Ashraful c Boucher b Adams 52 10-1-26-3,Adams 10-0-42-1, Smith 3- H Bashar b Dawson 18 0-23-0. ment Centre trounced a hapless forts from Jacques Rudolph and middle and scored important runs.” PTI Bombay Customs 6-2, after leading 5-0 at half time, while Bhopal Eleven crushed Maharashtra State Police 6- NCA trainees will 0, after sitting comfortably 4-0 at the Sachin to undergo surgery interval. PTI By Gautam Bhattacharyya first five One-dayers out of a get dope education Vijay moves ahead: Vijay Kumar By Dinesh Chopra TIMES NEWS NETWORK seven-match series in New moved to the fifth position on the TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kolkata: Sachin Tendulkar will Zealand after twisting an ankle Hero Honda Golf Tour’s 2002-03 New Delhi: With a string of Hyderabad Na- season Money List after winning Rs be undergoing a minor while slipping at the tional Games doping cases coming to light, 175,000 for his top-place finish in the surgery on his left hand nets. The hand injury, SRF all-India matchplay golf champi- soon. The Master Blaster, of course, has been a alarm bells have been set ringing at the Na- onship. With the Chandigarh Open who skipped the ongoing well kept secret which tional Cricket Academy corridors too. To keep scheduled as the last event of the tri-series in Dhaka, will be he wants to correct be- the trainees aware of prohibited substances, season starting from April 17, Vijay, leaving for the US on April fore embarking on a NCA is adding doping education to their cur- who was placed sixth prior to the 26 for a six-week sojourn long season. riculum from this season. only matchplay championship on the including the operation. Meanwhile, things A NCA official told Times News Network on Indian Golf Tour, now tallies Rs Revealing this to the have been relatively Monday: “Certainly there’s a need to educate 835,590 in 12 outings. PTI TNN, sources close to the super- quiet on the endorsement front the players, coaches and physios on this. Ear- Vaikuntam passes away: R star said that the injury was sus- for him in spite of such an awe- lier,only the teams travelling abroad were up- Vaikuntam, the chairman of the Bas- tained during the New Zealand inspiring effort in the World dated. But this season it’ll be one of the im- ketball Federation of India (BFI) tour and had aggravated be- Cup. “A few projects are in the portant parts of the curriculum and the boys passed away on Monday after a brief cause Tendulkar continued pipeline, but they may take will have an expert talking to them.” illness. He was 84. Vaikuntam was playing with it. While not going sometime to materialise,” the In the past seminars have been conducted considered as the great grandfather into details of the injury, the sources said. It’s been late last to keep the coaches and the physios abreast all of Indian basketball. PTI sources admitted: “It was quite year that ‘Tendulkars,’ the mul- round the country informed. “We have had ex- a bit of pain that he played ti-cuisine restaurant was perts like Indian team’s physiotherapist An- BETTING METER through in the World Cup to launched in Mumbai in the pres- drew Leipus lecturing on the issue but we TENNIS emerge as the Man of the Tour- ence of the entire Indian team. thought educating the players themselves was nament. However,with no crick- The venue of the next stop has paramount because they are all on their own Wimbledon women’s singles once they graduate from the NCA. Experts Serena Williams 8/13 et between now and the Asia been a closely guarded secret, will visit all the ZCAs besides Bangalore.” Venus Williams 9/4 Cup, he decided to give Dhaka a though it’s likely to be a toss-up Kim Clijsters 7/1 skip and go for the treatment.” between Sydney and Dubai. Lamenting the lack of expert sports medi- Jennifer Capriati 16/1 Tendulkar, for whom the When contacted, Sanjay Narang, cine at NCA, the official said: “There aren’t Lindsay Davenport 16/1 South Africa edition was the business associate of Tendulkar enough people in India with expertise on this as per ladbrokes.com fourth Cup, had skipped the refused to confirm it. and we may invite someone from South Africa or Australia.” Smith’s appointment as captain was premature ALL-ROUND VIEW ans would have suggested that they blooded in a home series, which is six Happily, runs in this period came were likely to be beaten. On Sunday months away, rather than in the diffi- from two players — Mohammed Kaif Ravi Shastri it was quite the opposite, showing cult conditions. and Dinesh Mongia — who had not how dramatically India have turned Nevertheless, he now has to be made the most of their opportunities The Indian team the tide. South Africa played bad seen as an investment and not judged in last three months. Pressure on seems to be going from cricket. on the results here. them to retain their places obviously strength to strength. Everything associ- Smith himself will made the difference, but the more Another powerful per- ated with their game have to learn rapidly creditable is that both responded to formance on Sunday — the discipline, the from his mistakes. To the challenge. snuffed out South vigour, the aggressive deprive Shaun Pollock A score of 250 was always going to Africa’s aspirations in attitude — was miss- of the new ball was an be competitive; to chase more than quick time. The bat- ing. I believe a change inexplicable decision. 300 on this surface was impossible. In ting was at full throttle, the bowlers in leadership and Also, he will have to try the oppressive heat and on slow turn- eager to take wickets and the hunger ers, India are clearly the favourites to win unmistakable. sweeping changes in and make better use of the side have compli- left-arm spinner Paul because South Africa will struggle to South Africa, desperately low on find wicket-taking bowlers. self-confidence and looking for fresh cated rather than Adams on these tracks. direction, were simply not up to fight helped matters. I thought the Indian What impressed me was that out a side that is running like a well- Graeme Smith’s ap- charge in the last 10-12 Sourav Ganguly is not interested in oiled machine. Six months back, if pointment as captain overs was fabulous and small niceties and is playing hard to these two teams had walked out to was premature. He put paid to South win this tournament by picking the play, the body language of the Indi- should have been Africa’s hopes of upset. right players for each match. TCM
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Valderrama retires: Famed Colombian soccer player Car- los Valderrama announced on Monday that he will quit play- ing professional soccer after 22 Thipsay breaches Chinese Wall years. “The time has come to say goodbye to soccer,” By B. Shrikant ster,ranked 161 ELO ahead of dated his position in the mid- spot with 17 points while In- down to just one point as sec- Valderrama, also known as TIMES NEWS NETWORK him. It was a good round for dle game by winning another dia ‘B’ also remained in con- ond placed Vietnam blanked “Pibe,” said in Barranquilla. the hosts as all the three pawn. He developed his tention with 16.5 points. Kyrgyzstan 3-0 and now has Jodhpur: Veteran Grand- The 42-year-old further added teams in both sections won pieces as per a plan which 14.5 points. India ‘A’,who also master Pravin Thipsay The round didn’t go well that he had plans to become a their matches. gave him control of all the blanked Bangladesh 3-0, was breached another Chinese for India ‘C’, overnight third, professional coach. AFP India ‘B’ and China were important squares. In the close behind at 14 points. wall for India at the Asian as they could manage only 2.5 tied at 1.5 each with one two rooks and bishop ending, points against minnows Round 7 results: Men: China lost to India Teams Chess Championships ‘B’ 1.5-2.5; Kazakhstan bt Vietnam 3-1; In- board to go after R B Ramesh Thipsay launched a strong Malaysia. Sriram Jha com- here on Monday. Thipsay, Kingside attack that clinched dia ‘C’ bt Malaysia 2.5-1.5; Sri Lanka lost came up with a brilliant plan got the better of Yu mitted blunders and lost on to India ‘A’ 0-4; Kyrgyzstan lost to Uzbek- Shaoteng, the lowest ranked the issue in his favour. the second board but Lanka istan 0-4; Iran bt Macau 4-0; Turkmenistan to outwit Zhang Zhong in the The victory for India ‘B’ seventh round here that en- player in this Chinese team. Ravi and Dinesh Kumar bye. Women: Iran lost to China 1-2; Kyr- Earlier, Sandipan Chanda Sharma ensured the victory gyzstan lost to Vietnam 0-3; India ‘A’ bt sured India ‘B’ a 2.5-0.5 victo- ASIAN CHESS Bangladesh 3-0; India ‘B’ bt Sri Lanka 3-0; ry against the Asian power- had lost tamely to former by winning on the third and Malaysia lost to India ‘C’ 0.5-2.5; Kaza- Asian champion Xu Jun four boards. house. also came in handy for India khstan bt Turkmenistan 2.5-0.5. Stand- while Koneru Humpy suc- Unlike their men’s team, ings (after round 7): Men: 1. India ‘A’ 18.5 This was India’s first-ever ‘A’ as they grabbed sole lead cumbed to nerves and was the Chinese women contin- pts; 2. China 17.5 pts; 3-4. Kazakhstan and victory against China in any with a 4-0 rout of Sri Lanka. forced to draw against Ye ued their position at the top India ‘C’ 17 pts each; 5. India ‘B’ 16.5 pts; men team event and comes The big victory against a 6. Vietnam 16 pts; 7. Uzbekistan 15.5 pts; close to the women team’s Jiangchuan from a pwan-up with a 2-1 victory against lowly opponent took India ‘A’ 8. Iran 15 pts; 9. Turkmenistan 14.5 pts; path breaking 2-1 win against position. That meant all Iran. World Champion Zhu to 18.5 points and they 10. Malaysia 13.5 pts; 11. Kyrgyzstan 10 the Chinese earlier in the hopes for India ‘B’ rested on Chen and World Cup winners pts; 12. Sri Lanka 7 pts; 13. Macau 4 pts. leapfrogged to a full point lead tournament. Thipsay.And he didn’t disap- Xu Yuhua won their games Women: 1. China 15.5 pts; 2.Vietnam 14.5 His vast experience and point. over second placed China. easily but Wang Yu lost to pts; 3. India ‘A’ 14 pts; 4. India ‘B’ 13.5; 5. India ‘C’ 13 pts; 6. Kazakhstan 11.5 pts; 7. command on theory stood In an irregular Sicilian Kazakhstan, with a 3-1 vic- Salman Mahini Mona. Chi- tory against Vietnam, and In- Iran 10.5 pts; 8. Bangladesh 8.5; 9. Kyr- Thipsay in good stead as he variation, Thipsay won a na, thus moved to 15.5 points gyzstan 8 pts; 10. Malaysia 7 pts; 11.Turk- outplayed the Chinese young- pawn early and then consoli- dia ‘C’ were sharing the third but had their lead to cut menistan 6.5 pts; 12. Sri Lanka 3.5 pts. Posen all set for a song Salgaocar overturn Mahindra TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mood 3. U Dear Plate: 1,400m: Respectful 1, A Weapon 2, Heart of Courage 3. Fatorda: Football can be in- breather but the advantage then, the signs were ominous New Delhi: Posen should an- Saturday’s handicaps: Fol- triguing at times. The Mahin- could well have been in for Team Orange. The goal it- nex the DRC Managing Com- lowing are the handicaps for dra United versus Salgaocar Mahindra’s favour had strik- self was a beauty, Barreto mittee Juvenile Sprinters Mumbai races for Saturday. Sports Club battle at Nehru er Mongba Aby Samson putting his own stamp of Cup, the main event of the Madras Race Club Trophy: Cl I: 1,000m: Stadium, Fatorda, was one showed a little more creativi- class with a wickedly curling Delhi races for Tuesday. Columbus 59, Bud Royale 58.5, Flasher such obvious example. Hosts ty in front of the goal. out-step from 25 yards out to Selections: Johnie Walker Plate (div.I): 58.5, Tasmac 53, Expolding Wonder 50. Salgaocar Sports Club scored Mohun Bagan prevail: a smooth build-up down the 1,200m: 3.10pm: River Fantasy 1, Kazi- Ace Ruler Plate: Cl III: 1,600m: Mar- a rollicking 5-0 win over There were moments of mag- busy left. ranga 2, Maru 3. Johnie Walker Plate malade 60, Music Prospector 58.5, Ener- Mahindra United, in what ic on Monday that made Opportunities were creat- (div.II): 1,200m: Lingo’s Jewel 1, Boy 2, gizer 57.5, Rainy Stream 57.5, Signor Es- was predicted as a needle mockery of Mohun Bagan’s ed and squandered, with Tol- Gran Geste 3. Ashav Plate: 1,100m: cobar 57.5, Star of Nature 57, Star Dusk Prince of Cheats 1, Astounding Wish 2, 56.5, Louis Cyphre 54, G Alliance 52, Quick contest. position in the 7th Oil PSU lygunge too having a say, be- Winning Melody 3. DRC M Committee Decision 51.5, Saphire Princess 51.5, Son- And all this happened, at a National Football League, fore Chhetri was gripped by a Jevenile Sprinters Cup: 1,200m: Posen 1, ic Symphony 50, Wine N Song 49.5. Star time when Mahindra were but there were also moments moment of inspiration. The Black Fighter 2, Pledge 3. Azaad Plate: Witness Plate: Cl IV: 1,100m: Viking Vic- supposedly high on confi- that confirmed why they youngster who came to the 1,600m: Pyara Sathi 1,Anjolie 2, Delightful tor 61, Aveste 60.5, Soviet Fire 60. dence after their 2-0 win over big league from Delhi’s City East Bengal, just a few days NFL ROUNDUP Club, received a cross in the ago and Salgaocar not exact- Tolly box and just dribbled ly at their awesome best. have floundered. Jose past everyone who came in Goals from Tomba Singh Ramirez Barreto and Sunil the way, including a desper- (22nd), Sunday Seah (33rd), Chhetri’s brilliant goals did ately lunging goalkeeper. Climax Lawrence (67th) and take the defending champi- Churchill down HASC: a brace from substitute strik- ons past Tollygunge Agraga- In Bangalore, Churchill er Sebastian Endro (75th and mi at the Salt Lake Stadium Brothers played well within 83rd) were the highlights of here, but the second session themselves to defeat the sec- an unexpected win in the 7th exposed a porous defence ond division bound HASC, Oil PSU NFL. that anyone could have Bangalore by the odd goal in The win enabled Salgaocar walked through. three in the Oil PSU 7th NFL Sports Club remain in the Tollygunge did, on a num- encoutner at the Bangalore hunt for the second spot ber of occasions; it’s another Football Stadium. while the loss meant Mahin- matter that they forgot how Ghanian striker Yusuf dra United’s slim hopes of to put the ball into the net! Yakubu scored both the goals what the management says It took just six minutes for for the Goan team while Ish- as “decent finish” were all Mohun Bagan to open the ac- faq Ahmed, selected for the but over. count and, with their flowing India-under 23 team, gave Salgaocar led 2-0 at the game having taken roots by HASC the lead. TNN/PTI We aim to win, AP not contain Lara: Waugh Georgetown (Guyana): Australian cricket cap- tain Steve Waugh said beating the West Indies was more im- portant than containing opposing skipper Brian Lara in the four-Test series. “We won this Test by nine wickets, so I’m not worried about Brian Lara,” Waugh said on Sunday following Australia’s victory over the Serena Williams gestures as she misses a point during the home squad. “I’d be happy if championship match against Justin Henin-Hardenne of Brian made 100 every match Belgium on Sunday. and we won by nine wickets.” Waugh led the visitors to a comfortable win just before tea on the fourth day and a 1- Serena finds her 0 series lead. Fast bowler Ja- son Gillespie set it up with a five-wicket haul and man-of- the-match Justin Langer match in Justine sealed the victory with an un- beaten 78. Charleston: Belgium’s Jus- the Australian Open in Mel- Lara’s 110 and Daren Gan- tine Henin-Hardenne bourne, Paris and Key Bis- ga of Trinidad made the Aus- wrecked Serena Williams cayne and there had been tralians work harder than ex- hopes of going through the talk that she could make his- pected for success with a year unbeaten when she de- tory by going though the year third wicket stand of 185 on feated her 6-3, 6-4 to win the unbeaten. Williams, 21, al- Saturday. “You want a battle $1.3 million WTA event here ready holds all four of the in a Test match. Brian and on Sunday. Grand Slam titles - Aus- Daren played well,” Waugh It was the first time that tralian, French, Wimbledon said. “But I was especially the world No 1 had lost since and US. But on this occasion, happy with the way we going down to another Bel- she looked distinctly out of played today.” gian player Kim Clijsters in sorts struggling with her Gillespie wrecked the low- the final of the WTA Tour forehand and timing. er order as the home team Championships in Los Ange- Williams said that it had lost five wickets for 17 runs to les in November. been an off-day for her and crumble from 381 for five She had won 21 straight that left her at the mercy of overnight to 398 all out. AP times this year lifting titles at an in-form Henin. AFP
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Tarun scintillates: Tarun Yogesh excels: mar’s deadly spell (5/19) Sharma hit a quickfire 77 as HCL Technologies beat Lu- helped Pusa Youngsters beat Young Friends scraped past cent Technologies by 4 wick- Telefunken Cricket Club by United Delhi Cricket Academy ets in the Reebok Cricket five wickets in the DDCA A-I by a run to advance to the tournament. Yogesh Mehra division super league at RSC quarterfinal of the Hedgewar who claimed 2 for 21 and lat- ground. er hit a strokeful 35 for the Telefunken CC: 190 for 9 in 40 overs cricket tournament at the (Suaib Prasad 56, Sushil Kumar 39, RSKP ground. Besides Tarun, winners was declared ther Sunny Grover 37; Jitender Kumar 5/19, Ihsan Bakshi claimed 4 for 22 man of the match. Rajesh Brown 2/19) lost to Pusa Young- for the winners. Lucent: 113 in 25 overs (Yogesh sters: 192 for 5 in 33 overs (Rajesh Young Friends: 186 for 7 in 40 overs Mehra 2 for 21) HCL: 114 for 6 in 14.3 Brown 44; Sunny Grover 2/36, Shakher (Tarun Sharma 77) UDCA: 185 for 6 in overs (Yogesh Mehra 35). 2/21). 40 overs (Ishan Bakshi 4 for 22). Results of the other events: Delhi Admn win: An un- Mohit shines: Mohit Shar- beaten knock of 71 by Naren- Reebok Cricket tournament: Motorola: 180 for 8 in 25 overs (Alok Singh 45, ma chipped in a strokeful 71 der Malik and a deadly spell by left-arm spinner Subhash Ranjeet Jha 24; Ramee 3/34) tied with to guide Hansraj Cricket Canon: 180 for 6 in 25 overs (Prashant Academy to as thumping 99 Chander (4/10) helped Delhi Sharma 53, Ravi Kiran 31; Puneet run victory over Dronacharya Administration beat West Del- Mishra 2/33). Cricket Academy in the hi Cricket Academy by nine wickets in a league match of Om Nath Sood memorial cricket tour- GMLA U-14 cricket nament: Indian Air Force: 213 for 9 in tournament. the 2nd Rajdhani Cup tourna- 40 overs (Imtiaz 75, Deepak Bhaskar HRA: 251 in 40 overs: (Mohit Sharma ment at Najafgarh Sports 58; Praveen Thapar 3/51) lost to LB 71, Gurpreet Singh 47) DCA: 152 in Club ground. Shastri CC: 214 for 3 in 37.3 overs 34.4 overs (Abhishek Narang 44). WDCA: 137 for 3 in 32.3 overs (Virat (Dalip TT 109, Rajan Gupta 36 not out). Kohli 43, Nitin Chugh 43; Subhash Chander 4/10, Sanjeet Tomar 2/18) lost 5th Little Masters cricket trophy: Uni- DDA triumph: DDA defeat- to Delhi Admn: 141 for 1 in 22 overs versity Coaching Centre: 187 for 5 in 35 ed Siemens 2-0 to lift the 3rd (Narender Malik 71 not out, Rajender overs (Chayan Kokcha 94 not out, Tarun Teri Cup badminton. Kishan Bhardwaj 27, Ombir Thakran 31 not Preet Singh 37) beat Bharat National out). Academy: 176 in 34.3 overs (Akshay Maharaj overcame Rohit Khu- Sharma 30 not out, Abhishek Kapoor rana 15-7, 15-2 while Nandlal 32, Saurabh Nishchal 33; Ashish Yadav beat K Jaiswal 15-13, 15-3. DDCA league: Jitender Ku- 2/20, Akash Gupta 2/37).
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THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE AFP ATHLETICS Danish SAS-Ligaen: AB Copenhagen 3 Flora London Marathon: Men’s Wheel- Koge 1; AGF Aarhus 3 FC Midtjylland 2; chair: 1 J Jeannot (Fra) 1hr 32mins AaB 1 Farum 2; FC Copenhagen 1 Esb- 2secs; 2 D Weir (GB) 1:34:48; 3 D Leme- jerg 0; Viborg 0 Silkeborg IF 0. unier (Fra) 1:34:50. Ukrainian Premier League: Women’s Wheelchair: 1 F Porcellato (Ita) Chornomorets 2 Tavriya Symferopol 0; 2hrs 4mins 21secs; 2 T Grey-Thompson (GB) 2:04:54; 3 P Craig (GB) 2:06:54. Karpaty Lviv 2 Metalist 0; Metalurg Mar- BASKETBALL iupol 1 Metalurg Zaporizhzhya 1; Vorskla National Basketball Asssociation Poltava 2 Kryvbas 1. Orlando 89 Boston 86; New Jersey 94 Czech Gambrinus Liga: Bohemians 0 Toronto 86; Atlanta 101 Washington 100; Blsany 0; FK Teplice 1 FC Boby Brno 1; Cleveland 104 New York 99 (OT); Dallas Jablonec 0 Hradec Kralove 0; Olomouc 1 117 Golden State 108; Houston 101 FK Tescoma Zlin 0; SK Ceske Budejovice Seattle 86; LA Clippers 101 Denver 79. 3 Liberec 3; Synot 3 Banik Ostrava 1. FOOTBALL Greek Ethniki Katigoria: AEK Athens 6 FA Cup: Semifinals: Arsenal 1 Sheffield Iraklis 1; Aigaleo 0 OFI Crete 4; PAOK Sa- United 0; Watford 1 Southampton 2. Spanish Primera Liga: Atletico Madrid 3 lonika 2 Aris Salonika 0; Panionios 0 Espanyol 3; Celta Vigo 1 Real Betis 0; Mala- Olympiakos 0. ga 1 Valladolid 0; Mallorca 3 Racing San- Russian Premier Liga: Spartak Moscow tander 3; Rayo Vallecano 1 Athletic Bilbao 1 Krylia Sovetov 1. 1; Real Sociedad 4 Real Madrid 2; Recre- Scottish Premier League: Celtic 2 Kil- ativo Huelva 1 CD Alaves 0; Valencia 1 Os- marnock 0; Dundee United 1 Rangers 4. asuna 0. SNOOKER Italian Serie A: Atalanta 1 Reggina 1; Regal Scottish Open, Edinburgh Bologna 2 Juventus 2; Empoli 2 Chievo Final: David Gray (Eng) bt Mark Selby 1; Modena 0 Lazio 0; Roma 2 Parma 1; (Eng) 9-7 (73-32 77-0 47-34 47-76 78- Torino 1 Piacenza 3; Udinese 0 Brescia 0. 47 70-24 0-63 41-66 9-102 24-67 77- German Bundesliga: Schalke 3 Cottbus 30 71-62 21-70 57-75 71-56 65-18). 0; Wolfsburg 1 Hannover 96 0. TENNIS Turkish Super Lig: Ankaragucu 2 Ko- ATP & WTA Estoril Open, Portugal caelispor 0; Elazigspor 4 Adanaspor 2; Women’s final: 2-Magui Serna (Spa) bt Fenerbahce 3 Genclerbirligi 3; Trabzon- Julia Schruff (Ger) 6-4 6-1. spor 0 Istanbulspor 0; Gaziantepspor 2 Men’s final: Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) bt Bursaspor 1. 4-Agustin Calleri (Arg) 6-4 6-3. Dutch Eredivisie: FC Groningen 1 Ex- ATP Grand Prix Hassan II, Casablanca celsior 0; NAC 0 Ajax 3; RKC 1 RBC 2. Final: Julien Boutter (Fra) bt 1-Younes El Austrian Bundesliga: Admira Wacker 1 Austria Vienna 2. Aynaoui (Mor) 6-2 2-6 6-1. Belgian Jupiler League: Anderlecht 2 WTA Family Circle Cup, Charleston Argentine David Nalbandian serves to French Richard Standard Liege 1; Charleroi 1 Gent 2; Ex- (USA) Gasquet during a first round match at the Monte-Carlo celsior Mouscron 1 Antwerp 0; Mons 2 Final: 2-Justine Henin-Hardenne (Bel) bt Tennis Masters on Monday. Nalbandian won 6-4, 6-0. KV Mechelen 0. 1-Serena Williams (USA) 6-3 6-4. Chen set for Queens vs Kings clash By B. Shrikant told the Times News Network on Sunday. renowned foreign coaches to train TIMES NEWS NETWORK The Chinese superstar, who was youngsters in the country, AICF secre- stunned by India’s S. Vijayalakshmi in tary P.T. Ummer Koya said. In a plan Jodhpur: As the Asian Teams Chess the third round, will be hoping that the worked out in association with the Championships draws to an end, reign- women would manage to put it across Sports Authority of India, the AICF will ing World Champion Zhu Chen’s the men in this money-spinner. On re- bring four coaches inclduing Evgeny thoughts are with the upcoming Four turning to China, Zhu Chen would sit Vladimirov, former second to Garry Queens vs Four Kings match to be down for some extensive preparation Kasparov — who has coached the Indi- played at four places in her home coun- for the event and will also be testing her an team ahead of important tourna- try from May 22 to June 7. In this unique preparation in a event in Greece. As far ments in recent times, Maxim Sorokin match-up, four queens of women’s as the Asian Teams Chess Champi- and Sebrakov. chess — Zhu Chen along with Chinese onship, the reigning queen of the chess Coaching will also be imparted at the compatriots former World Champion world was not totally satisfied with her National Chess Academy coming up at Xie Jun, World Cup winner Xu Yuhua performance but said she was happy as Calicut. It would be a residential acade- and Zhao Xue — take on four men stal- long as her team was doing well and my which will have around 20 coaches warts — Alexander Khalifman of Rus- stayed on course for a title. training the youngsters. Top Indian sia, Nigel Short of England, American ★★★ players will also visit the academy reg- GM Yasser Serrawan and Chinese With the talent pool in the country ularly for give lectures and interact strongman Ye Jiangchun. The matches growing, there is a need for better with the trainees. will be played at four places in China — coaching for the budding chess players. The AICF is also planning to organise Beijing, Ji’nan, Xi’an and Chingqing. And the All-India Chess Federation a national-level blitz tournament to “It’s an extention of the Two Queens seems to have started planning in this help Indian players prepare better for vs Two Kings held last year,” Zhu Chen regard and will be inviting four the tie-break in World Championships.
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18 Tuesday,April 15, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Left is right & Weir is Master of Augusta AFP Augusta: Mike Weir has be- come the first left-hander to win a major in 40 years after he edged out American jour- neyman Len Mattiace in a playoff for the 67th US Masters. The 32-year-old Weir, who also became the first Canadi- an to secure a grand slam ti- tle, clinched victory on Sun- day with a bogey-five at the first extra hole, the 495-yard 10th, where Mattiace missed the green with his approach. Mattiace failed to get down in a further three shots and Weir, who had found the cen- tre of the green with his sec- ond, had the luxury of three putts for the green jacket in a tournament squeezed into three days after Thursday’s play was washed out. Both players had complet- ed the regulation 72 holes at Augusta National on seven- under-par 281, Weir closing with a 68 and Mattiace with a best-of-the-day 65, as Tiger Woods’s hopes for an un- precedented third consecu- tive title disappeared. Phil Mickelson, after a 68, finished third at Augusta for the third year running while Mike Weir of Canada celebrates with wife Bricia Weir after Woods, who had been chas- winning the 2003 Masters golf tournament on Sunday. ing his ninth career major, battled to a 75, and had to set- Scores tle for a share of 15th at two- 281- Mike Weir (CAN) 70-68-75-68 (won in a playoff on 1st extra hole) ; Len Mat- over 290. tice 73-74-69-65, 283 - Phil Mickelson 73-70-72-68; 284 - Jim Furyk 73-72-71- 68; 286 - Jeff Maggert 72-73-66-75; 287 - Ernie Els (RSA) 79-66-72-70, Vijay The 35-year-old Mattiace, Singh (FIJ) 73-71-70-73; 288 - Scott Verplank 76-73-70-69, Mark O’Meara 76-71- who missed the cut in his 70-71, Jonathan Byrd 74-71-71-72, Jose Maria Olazabal (SPA) 73-71-71-73, David only previous Masters ap- Toms 71-73-70-74; 289 - Retief Goosen (RSA) 73-74-72-70, Tim Clark (RSA) 72- pearance in 1988, set up his 75-71-71; 290 - Davis Love 77-71-71-71,Angel Cabrera (ARG) 76-71-71-72, Paul Lawrie (SCO) 72-72-73-73, K.J. Choi (KOR) 76-69-72-73, Rich Beem 74-72-71-73, victory hopes with a superb Tiger Woods 76-73-66-75; 291 - Ricky Barnes (a) 69-74-75-73; 292 - Bob Estes eagle at the par-five 13th, and 76-71-74-71; 293 - Brad Faxon 73-71-79-70, Adam Scott (AUS) 77-72-74-70, then birdied 15 and 16 before Scott McCarron 77-71-72-73, Chris Riley 76-72-70-75, Nick Price (ZIM) 70-75-72- bogeying the last. 76; 294 - Sergio Garcia (SPA) 69-78-74-73, Charles Howell 73-72-76-73, Darren Clarke (NIR) 66-76-78-74, Hunter Mahan (a) 73-72-73-76, Fred Couples 73-75-69- But, almost immediately, 77; 295 - Kevin Sutherland 77-72-76-70, Nick Faldo (ENG) 74-73-75-73, Loren Weir holed a five-foot birdie Roberts 74-72-76-73, Rocco Mediate 73-74-73-75; 296 - Billy Mayfair 75-70-77- putt at the 500-yard 15th to 74, Shingo Katayama (JPN) 74-72-76-74; 297 - Kenny Perry 76-72-78-71, Robert Allenby (AUS) 76-73-74-74, Craig Parry (AUS) 74-73-75-75, Justin Rose (ENG) 73- draw level with Mattiace at 76-71-77, Phil Taturangi (NZL) 75-70-74-78; 298 - Jeff Sluman 75-72-76-75; 301 the top of the leaderboard, - Pat Perez 74-73-79-75, Ryan Moore 73-74-75-79; 302 - John Rollins 74-71-80- and parred the final three 77; 304 - Jerry Kelly 72-76-77-79; 305 - Craig Stadler 76-73-79-77. holes to force the playoff. American Jim Furyk, who triple-bogey at the par-four a professional by just one closed with a 68, secured third to card a 75 for fifth at shot on Saturday before surg- fourth spot at four under two under. ing into contention with his while third-round leader Jeff Woods, who avoided his superb 66, began the day four Maggert fought back from a first missed cut in a major as off the pace. Reuters Cantona, Shearer voted best London: Alan Shearer and switching to United a year Seaman was given an award Eric Cantona were voted the later. He stayed at Old Traf- for the most number of clean best players of the first ford until his retirement in sheets over 10 years. Seaman, decade of the English Pre- 1997. The Premier League also England’s No. 1 goal- mier League. Newcastle said almost 750,000 votes keeper, had 130 shutouts striker Shearer was named were cast by fans in 184 coun- since 1992. the top domestic player and tries. The overall player of David Beckham won goal former Manchester United the decade will be announced of the decade for his strike forward Cantona the top on Sunday. on the opening day of the overseas player in the first 10 ‘‘We can now sit back and 1996 season. Beckham scored seasons of the Premier reflect on a decade that has the goal from the halfway League. seen over 113 million fans line -- 60 yards (meters) away The League debuted in pass through the turnstiles from the goal -- in United’s 3- 1992-93. The awards were de- to watch players from 82 dif- 0 win over Wimbledon. cided in an online vote by ferent countries in 34 differ- Peter Schmeichel’s save fans on the Premier League’s ent teams score over 10,000 from John Barnes in Man- official web site www.pre- goals,’’ Premier League chester United’s 1-0 win over mierleague.com. chairman Richard Scud- Newcastle on Dec. 21 1997 Shearer also won awards amore said. was named save of the for outstanding contribution Manchester United man- decade. Barnes met Stuart to soccer and for being the ager Alex Ferguson was Pearce’s cross with a header Premier League’s top scorer. named manager of the destined for goal until The former England cap- decade. Under Ferguson, the Schmeichel dived to palm the tain won the title with Black- Reds have won the Premier ball around the post. burn in 1995 and has helped League title seven times in 10 Liverpool’s 4-3 win over Newcastle revive its league years. Newcastle on April 3 1996 fortunes over the past six Gary Speed recorded the was named match of the years. most number of appearances decade. Stan Collymore Cantona helped Leeds and -- 352 out of a possible 392 in scored the equalizer and in- Manchester United to league the 10 years of the Premier jury time winner for Liver- titles. The French striker led League. Speed has been with pool. Team of the decade: Schmeichel; Gary the way for international Newcastle since 1998 after Neville,Tony Adams, Marcel Desailly, Denis players in England when he spells at Leeds and Everton. Irwin; Beckham, Patrick Vieira, Paul Sc- joined Leeds in 1991, before Arsenal goalkeeper David holes, Ryan Giggs; Cantona and Shearer. GRAFFITI Reuters
Southampton’s James Beattie dons a tartan hat as he celebrates the team’s win over Watford in the FA Cup semifinal in Birmingham on Sunday. Southampton won 2-1. It’s a matter of nose: AC Milan captain Olympics super-heavyweight champion who Paolo Maldini on Monday underwent surgery is being groomed for the top. The former to fix a broken nose and club doctors said he fighter wants a 10 million pounds ($15 mil- may recover in time for the second-leg quar- lion) bout. But Harrison’s manager Colin terfinal of the Champions League against Ajax McMillan says before all this Bruno has to Amsterdam next week. Maldini, 34, broke his prove himself in warmup matches. nose in a collision with Inter Milan striker Christian Vieri during the Milan ‘‘derby’’ on Seaman’s new role: David Seaman could Saturday that AC Milan won. Maldini will miss still be Arsenal’s No. 1 goalkeeper next season Tuesday’s Italian Cup semifinal with Perugia at the age of 40 — or he could be coaching and Saturday’s league match with Empoli. his successor. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Monday that Seaman would Prove you are worth it: Former heavy- be involved with the club next season, either weight champion Frank Bruno has been told as a player or goalkeeping coach. Seaman to prove himself again if he wants to take on marked his 1,000th career match Sunday with new British hope Audley Harrison. Bruno set a standout save to help Arsenal to a 1-0 win tongues wagging last week when he said over first division Sheffield United and a place that after seven years off-ring and at 41, he in the FA Cup final. Wenger said he hasn’t de- felt he could beat Harrison, the Sydney cided on Seaman’s role for next season.
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