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Established 1838 leader among Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Army officer killed for his organs? Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between By Rajat Pandit the body was the Major’s. But it been surgically removed, he tale signs of surgical removal of ‘‘We have not come across any 82 killed in its ideals and its realities, TIMES NEWS NETWORK was what they read in the autop- said, ‘‘There is a possibility...but his organs’’. organ racket case in recent between its heroic sy report that chilled the mili- I can’t say for sure.’’ Dr L C Gupta, a Delhi-based times. The GRP thinks it was an Mathura: On the morning of tary police: key organs — in- He ruled out the likelihood of autopsy surgeon and forensic accident. But it could also be sui- Najaf blast possibilities and its August 23, the UP Government sorry achievements. cluding the kidneys, heart, the missing organs being ‘‘eaten expert, on studying the autopsy cide since there was some ten- Najaf: A car bomb killed at railway police (GRP) found a lungs, spleen and gall bladder — by animals or dogs’’. He also dis- report, also ruled out an acci- sion in the officer’s family.’’ least 82 people and wounded — Agnes Repplier neatly severed body on the rail- were listed as ‘‘missing’’. missed the possibility of an ac- dent. Without rejecting the But persons close to the fami- 229 others outside one of way tracks a few metres from This raises the sinister cident. ‘‘Train accident victims murder-for-organs theory, he ly contest this. ‘‘Shankar was to Shia Islam’s holiest shrines NEWS DIGEST Mathura station. They sent it for possibility that the officer was usually have head or leg in- speculated the missing organs pick up his Lt-Colonel rank in a in the central Iraqi city of a post-mortem, cremating it a victim of the nefarious trade juries. But the way this could have been ‘‘completely few days. He had been married Najaf on Friday, medical Akshardam accused held: The eight hours later, instead of the in organs prevalent in the body was cut in two pieces, it crushed’’ or ‘‘ripped away’’ from to Veena for over a decade and sources said. Ahmedabad police have arrested usual 72 hours. region. In 1991, the police busted could not have been an accident. the body due to the passing had a eight-year-old daughter,’’ Iraq’s best-known Shia five persons, who they claimed were It was only the next day an illegal kidney transplant I cannot say whether it was train’s sheer weight and ‘‘tor- said one. Muslim politician, Ayatollah conspirators in the terrorist attack on the police got in touch with racket at an Agra-based medical homicide or suicide,’’ added sion force’’. ‘‘The authorities seem keen to Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, the Akshardham temple in Gujarat Army authorities who were head of the Iran-backed on September 24 last year, which facility. Dr Agarwal. Both Army and police author- close the case by simply dubbing searching for Major S Ravi Supreme Assembly of the Is- killed 33 persons. P7 Dr K G Agarwal of the Mathu- GRP officials were not avail- ities are baffled by Shankar’s it a suicide or accident, without Shankar, second in command of ra district hospital, who super- able for comment, but persons death and refuse to provide clear conducting thorough investiga- lamic Revolution in Iraq Film screening stopped: Sup- the 1 Corps Grid Signal Regi- vised the Major’s autopsy, told close to the Major’s family sus- answers. ‘‘Our investigations tions. Shankar had taken casual (SAIRI), was one of the casu- porters of Bihar CM Rabri Devi’s ment, reported missing by his the Times of India, ‘‘The organs pect foul play. ‘‘We feel his body are in progress,’’ said a senior leave to go to his sister’s house alities, official said here. controversial brother, Sadhu Yadav, wife Veena. were completely missing’’. was placed on the tracks in such officer at the 1 Corps HQ. in Kota to meet his parents,’’ The Najaf educational hos- did not allow Prakash Jha’s new pro- A photograph confirmed that Asked whether they might have a way as to obliterate any tell- A police officer, in turn, said, he added. pital reported 81 dead and 200 duction, Gangaajal to be screened wounded from the bombing, in Patna on Friday. They alleged that Manoj Chhabra said Doctor Ali Jawad, a sen- the film defamed their leader as the ior resident at the medical fa- villain was named after him. P9 cility.Another person was re- More Pak boys freed: Five Hindu Mulayam in and ported dead, as well as 29 boys from Pakistan, who were ar- wounded, at the city’s gener- rested over a year ago for illegally al hospital, said Doctor Hus- crossing the border, will return sein al-Wan. home with sweet memories of a the cases are flyin’ The blast took place out- six-year-old Palanpur girl who tied side the shrine of Imam Ali a rakhi on their wrists earlier this By Archana Srivastava and Independent MLA shortly after Hakim deliv- month. P9 TIMES NEWS NETWORK Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias ered a Friday sermon. Raja Bhaiyya and his father PM in Jammu: Addressing a Press Lucknow: Mulayam Singh Meanwhile, Hakim’s Conference in Jammu, Prime Minis- Udai Pratap Singh, and two brother, Abdel Aziz, con- Yadav was sworn in as the ter Vajpayee on Friday said a solu- other Independent MLAs — firmed the ayatollah’s death chief minister of Uttar tion to the Kashmir impasse would Akshaya Pratap Singh and from Baghdad in remarks to Pradesh in a star-studded take time. He, however, admitted Dhannjay Singh. Al-Manar television, the ceremony here on Friday. that the situation in J&K was improv- Yadav said: ‘‘This is just a channel of Lebanon’s radical ing and the people were more Immediately after taking beginning, as cases filed Shia Muslim movement relaxed. P6 the oath of office, Yadav fired against others under the Hezbollah, . More trouble for Blair: A day af- the first salvo at his prede- draconian law like the Na- ‘‘The cowardly explosion ter British Prime Minister Tony Blair cessor Mayawati, announc- tional Security Act and the targeted the ayatollah who took the witness stand in the Kelly ing the withdrawal of Pota Goonda Act will be reviewed was martyred along with a death probe, his chief director of cases slapped by her govern- shortly.’’ large number of his body- communications Alastair Campbell ment against political lead- He also announced meas- guards,’’ said Abdul Aziz, a announced his resignation. P11 ers. ures like clearing the govern- member of Iraq’s US-spon- Risk factor raised: In a con- ‘‘There is no need for this ment’s dues of Rs 1,340 sored Governing Council. tentious conclusion, a new survey (Pota), as it is a politically crore to the cane growers and SAIRI’s office in Tehran for overseas investors in London motivated action on part of private sugar mills and re- was the first to report that raised the country’s overall risk as- my predecessor,’’ he said. duction of hospital registra- Hakim, who favoured cooper- sessment and said Monday’s twin The immediate beneficiar- tion fees. ation with the US-led forces bomb blasts in Mumbai could lead Page 3 breaks through the Laxman rekha: Sahara Group chairman Subrata Roy, Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan, Tina ies of the withdrawal of Pota More reports and picture on occupying Iraq, was killed to a new cycle of communal vio- Ambani and Parmesh Godrej at Mulayam Singh Yadav’s swearing-in at the Laxman Ground in Lucknow. cases are former minister page 8 in the blast. AFP lence in India. P13 YOU SAID IT by Laxman Poll DUSU poll, promise fulfill hoga ke nahin? TOI By Pallavi Majumdar TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Safe buses and gender sensitisation sound great, but don’t forget the samosa. It’s Delhi U election time, and the corridors are crawling with manifestos as wannabe student leaders come begging for votes. Some promises are as new as the kurti you bought for the first day of college. Ones like Yet another bus accident!...if I had group insurance. Others are as Poster campaign at the Khalsa Evening College still been in the opposition party, I old as Papa’s trophies. Into this would have demanded the imme- hoary league fall such never-say-die on campus cuisine. DUSU veterans say diate resignation of our C.M.! perennials as more U-specials, and bringing out a manifesto can be an eye- compact campuses. If your parents opener. ‘‘Only the issues that touch the were to drop by, they’d be transported raw nerve work,’’ said an Akhil back to their own DU election days. Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad’s Promises are fine, but yaar, what’s (ABVP) functionary. Their USP this the funda on fulfilling them? Can we year is their stand against internal as- blame student leaders for making role sessment (25 per cent). ‘‘This is a farce models of their political seniors, because the clasrooms are crowded,’’ a indiatimes.com POLL and taking their cue from the national member said. scenario? The idea, said an insider,is to cash in Does the nomination of Bollywood stars General hype aside, there are some on the anxiety. to Rajya Sabha serve any purpose? must-dos. ‘‘The top item on the winning The National Students Union of In- Yes 16% No 84% candidate’s agenda is organising a good dia has promised more job-oriented college fest,’’ said Kumar Abhijit, for- courses and more evening colleges. VOTE NOW: Is the mingling of business mer KMC hostel president. Other groups like the Students Federa- tycoons and film stars with politicians a healthy sign? The agenda in Shri Ram College of tion of India, Chhatra Lok Janshakti Commerce is no different. ‘‘The aspi- combine have sought to fight against Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 rants promise a good freshers tick-off fee hikes and self-financing courses. (read party), and improving college in- ‘‘Internal evaluation will lead to frastructure,’’ a student said. favouritism and victimisation of stu- WEATHER Canteen renovation is always an iffy dents,’’ the manifesto reads. promise.‘‘They did get the place white- But, hey guys, anyone thought of is- Max: 34oC / Min: 28oC Moonset: Saturday – 8.41 pm washed, but the menu remained the sues like outdated syllabi, deteriorating Moonrise: Sunday – 9.29 am same right down to the soggy bread- quality of research, or the gross lack of Sunset: Saturday – 6.45 pm pakora,’’ another student added with a accountability among teachers? You’re Sunrise: Sunday – 5.59 am burp that was a deliberated comment mad or what? Mainly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain/thundershower in some areas. Maxi- Sanjay Sekhri BETTER THAN A POLICE mum relative humidity on Friday 89% and MEDAL, NO?: Shooter minimum 75%. 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2 Saturday,August 30, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi Pulse polio 5 bus robbers programme held in NW AIIMS OPD fends for itself To chat on SMS send 'cchat' to 8888 TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK TOI "The new kriya enables you to meditate easily" By Abantika Ghosh New Delhi: The northeast New Delhi: The next phase — RHEA PILLAI, Instructor, Art of Living TIMES NEWS NETWORK district police have arrested of pulse polio immunisation five bus robbers who were al- Q. How can Art of ally therefore, what works for one programme will be organ- New Delhi: The city may be on red alert following the Living help?- Co may not for other. But in studies Mumbai blasts with policemen scrutinising vehicles and legedly involved in a number ised in the city on September of cases in southwest Delhi. A: Today there is an conducted by AIIMS, it has stated 14. key buildings, but walk into the out patient department of awareness in the that Sudarshan Kriya increases the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and you’ll be The police reportedly seized The programme will cover several sharp edged weapons modelling industry NK and antioxidants enzymes in children up to 5 years. taken aback by the vulnerability of the spot. that the physical expression of body and that a regular practice It’s business as usual with over 8,000 patients thronging from the accused. Health minister A K Walia ‘‘The accused had assem- beauty is enhanced by the inner prevents diseases including the corridors with no semblance of security alert in sight poise and this grace is expressed infections and even cancer. said as compared to the 24 po- bled near Dhaula Kuan to save the existence of a few nonchalant guards at the en- in the look, the walk and the talk. Q. Where do you get all that lio cases that were reported trance. When this correspondent visited the OPDs at the commit robbery in a bus Q. How is inner beauty connected patience that we have heard and in the city last year, only Rajkumari Amrit Kaur building, the corridors were when they were arrested,’’ with outer body? - Sahar read about?- Shal three polio cases have come swarming with patients and attendants, some dozing on said deputy commissioner of A: A stress free mind or a stress A: In spending a little time with to light this year. with their baggage. The metal de- police (crime) Dependra free existence leads to a healthier yourself, whether it be formally ‘‘The last case was report- tectors or any other checking were Pathak. mind and body. meditating or informally, so there ed in April. No polio case has HEALTH prominently missing. The main accused, Q. What is the difference in the is much that you experience and been reported in the last four ‘‘AIIMS is a very sensitive place Farukh, reportedly revealed new kriya and the older one?- jay patience is one of them. months,’ he said. because it’s fairly high profile. We that the gang used to rob pas- A: The new kriya works through Q. How much has Art of Living HAZARD eliminating the grudges in the helped you cope with life? - Jour keep reviewing the security situa- sengers when the bus would system and enabling you to A: The benefits are many. Some tion here during periodic meetings with the police. But the pass through a lonely stretch. The accused would mainly meditate easily and relatively are confidence, increase of cre- campus is huge, falling under the jurisdiction of two police easier on time as well. ativity & productivity, peace and stations. So even if we try our best, ensuring foolproof se- target passengers in inter state buses. The police said Q. Does Art Of Living bring relief joy in personal relationship and a curity is a tall order,’’ confessed an official in charge of se- from diseases like cancer?- Kripe removal of fear and anxiety. curity at the hospital. that they had developed a code language to communi- A: Yes, this has been proven. For complete chat log on to The hospital has both private security personnel and it’s Every system responds individu- http://chat.indiatimes.com own men. The official added that since the red alert, per- cate with each other while sonnel posted at vital installations inside the campus, like committing robberies. The gang reportedly car- the power, oxygen and water pumps had been strength- 1 pm: Rajat Raina ened. ‘‘But if we try to keep track of every person who ried knives to ensure that there was no resistance from Model • ‘Is Dara Singh’s Rajya Sabha comes to the OPD, it will be like looking for a needle in a On how viable is model- berth for sports?’ haystack. We cannot restrict the entry or camping of peo- passengers. The police said that efforts are underway to ling for male models Milkha Singh says, if it is, then his ple in the OPD. So, we are helpless. The best we can do is to 3.30 pm: fight demanding the nomination The city is on a red alert, yet at AIIMS, people simply walk seize the stolen goods from into the OPD with bag and baggage and camp there, keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best,’’ said a sen- Sanjeev Kapoor of sports stars to RS, has been the accused. All have been minus any security checks. ior hospital officer. Master Chef successful. booked under the Arms Act. On Khana Khazana and To listen, log on to the fine art of cooking http://talkradio.indiatimes.com the presence of Dr B C Agarwal, Sangeeta Sabharwal and J K Maheshwari. Students presented a cultural programme. The chief guest gave away prizes to the teachers of Shiksha Deeksha, meritorious students and participants. Theatre workshop: DPS Dwarka organised a theatre SCHOOL NEWS workshop for the students of classes VI to IX conduct- Independence Day: Stu- ed by the National School dents of Bhatnagar Interna- of Drama. The workshop tional School, Vasant Kunj highlighted the technicali- celebrated Independence ties of acting, delivering Day. School principal Jyot- dialogues, preparing sna Sobti hoisted the flag. scripts, modulating voice A colourful tableaux high- and communicating lighting the culture and through body language. heritage of India enthralled the audience Investiture ceremony: Jain Bharati Mrigavati Celebration: Shiksha Vidyalaya held its investiture Deeksha, a special unit of ceremony recently. The the Sidheshwar Senior ceremony began with the Secondary School, Gur- lighting of the lamp by gaon for the under privi- school principal V B Sood. leged children and SNS Head boy Chander Shekhar, foundation celebrated head girl Sangeeta Duhan, Independence Day. The co-head boy Tarun Goel, chief guest Pradeep Kumar co-head girl Mamta Lamba, (estate officer, HUDA) and class monitors and guest of honour D S prefects were conferred Dhanda planted trees in badges. The proceedings the school ground after the concluded with an oath flag hoisting ceremony in taking ceremony.

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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Saturday,August 30, 2003 3 Ghaziabad engineering college students riot A new twist to By Lalit Kumar At R K G Institute of said Sharma. the freshers’ hostel when family jewels TIMES NEWS NETWORK Techies or criminals Technology (RKGIT), police They reportedly broke the there was a blackout. By Bhadra Sinha were called in after 70 sen- legs of chairs and attacked They beat up the genera- Ghaziabad: Police were •Students in two Ghaziabad engineering colleges go TIMES NEWS NETWORK Smuggle muddle iors, who had been suspend- the freshers. tor operator and did not al- called in after students of on a rampage ed for ragging and vandal- ‘‘The police had to use low him to switch on the New Delhi:If your baggage •7 packets of jewels two prominent engineering ism, resisted being sent •They had been suspended for ragging and rioting their canes to quell rioting,’’ power standby,’’said Dube. is no longer the safest way to recovered colleges in the district who home. College authorities he added. They broke the lock on smuggle in goods, now even In both the colleges, the seniors broke into the fresh- Jewels weighed 1.5 had been suspended for rag- said they would ‘‘be rusti- • About a dozen students your underwear can no • ers’ wings of the hostels and thrashed the juniors the steel shutter of the hos- kilograms ging freshers allegedly re- cated if an inquiry con- were hurt in the incident, tel’s entrance and smashed longer deliver the goods. sorted to rioting. firms the charges against •Police called in to control the mob however, only two were seri- furniture and window- Twenty-three old Chand •Accused was on his way At Dr K N Modi Institute them’’. ously injured, said Dr Rajin- panes. Mohammad learnt this the back from Bangkok of Engineering and Tech- ‘‘We have also fined each der Trisal of Modi Eye Hos- They also ragged the 100- hard way after the customs episode was triggered of tion is sealed off with a steel nology (KNMIET), police re- of them Rs 1,500 for the dam- pital where the students odd freshers, used abusive department intercepted him sorted to lathi charge after age they have caused,’’ said when some freshers refused shutter.But these senior stu- were treated. language and slapped them, at the international airport the officer said. about a dozen freshers were faculty member S N Dube. to wish the seniors on dents managed to enter and At RKGIT, the seniors had he claimed. on Wednesday while he was Mohammad had left for injured by the rioting According to KNMIET ad- Wednesday night. ragged, abused and beat up been trying to rag the fresh- Later, the offending sen- trying to smuggle in rubies Bangkok on August 22. It was seniors. ministration chief Avinash An argument ensued. Lat- the juniors. The institute of- ers at night, said Dube. iors were given a heavy and sapphires in his under- learnt during his interroga- The college has been Sharma, strict steps had er, at about 12 am, the senior ficials rushed to the spot But they could not enter breakfast and sent home. wear. tion that an Indian probably closed down and the hostel been taken to curb ragging students went to the top and brought things under the freshers’ hostel due to This, too, was not acceptable The preventive depart- gave him the gems there. The vacated. Institute officials this year because of which floor of the hostel where the control,’’ he said. the tight security. to the seniors. ment of customs found seven officer said customs authori- said they dropped the hostel some senior students were freshers live. After a while, however, ‘‘But at about 4 am on ‘‘We had to call in the po- packets of jewellery hidden ties became suspicious when residents at Ghaziabad rail- irked. ‘‘We have very tight secu- the seniors changed their Thursday, about 70 second lice as the students refused in the lining in Mohammad’s they noticed that he had been way station. Sharma said the entire rity, and the freshers’ sec- mind and charged upstairs, year students barged into to leave,’’ said Dube. underwear . ‘‘It seems that to Bangkok for a week. the underwear was specially ‘‘When asked about his made so that he could smug- profession, he was incoher- gle the jewels,’’ said an offi- ent. He is not fluent in Eng- Gang of bus cer. lish but was attempting to an- According to him, Moham- swe all our queries only in No money to spend, SPA in a financial soup robbers busted, mad was wearing two pairs English,’’ the officer said. Af- Sanjay Sekhri of underwear. ‘‘One of them ter a physical check it was By Pallavi Majumdar had a lining and the packets found that he had hidden the TIMES NEWS NETWORK 11 arrested were kept carefully within gems in his underwear. The New Delhi: The School of TIMES NEWS NETWORK the lining. He was asked to gems weighed 1.5 kilograms. Planning and Architecture wear a second pair to ensure Commissioner, customs, K (SPA) is in the midst of a fi- New Delhi: The anti-kidnap- that the packets did not fall R Bhargava said:‘‘A similar nancial crisis. ping branch of the crime out,’’ the officer added. case of smuggling gems into It is facing difficulties in branch on Thursday claimed Mohammad was on his the country took place four paying the salaries of the to have busted a gang of bus way back from Bangkok years ago. The modus staff, has stopped the schol- robbers with the arrest of 11 when he was apprehended. operandi adopted was simi- arship of 1,000 students and persons. During his interrogation he lar. The price of those gems done away with visiting The accused were alleged- admitted that the gems were at that time was about Rs 36 faculty. ly active in the West Patel Na- in his possession. But, he lakh.’’ The school’s annual grant, gar area in the west district. added, that the gems were He added that since sur- almost Rs 70 crore, has been The police said that they had meant for a businessman. veillance at the airport has scuttled by the Ministry of also conducted robberies in ‘‘After landing in Delhi, become tough, it was becom- Human Resource Develop- the central district. somebody was to pick up Mo- ing increasingly difficult to ment (MHRD), following ‘‘This was a result of the hammad from the airport,’’ smuggle goods in baggage. its objection to private intelligence we had recently consultancy by faculty developed on pick pockets HC reserves verdict in parliament case members. and bus robbers. They were New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Thursday reserved its Since April, the premier all arrested by a special team verdict in reference to the death sentences meted out to the training, research and con- constituted for the purpose,’’ Parliament attack accused. The case was referred to the sultancy institute has been said deputy commissioner of court after the three appealed against the conviction and the surviving on ‘‘leftover mon- police (crime) Dependra sentence. The state has also filed an appeal seeking enhance- ey’’ and fees collected from Pathak. The accused were ment of punishment for some of the offences. students. mainly active in buses which The bench of Justices Usha Mehra and Pradeep Nandrajog ‘‘We have somehow paid were overcrowded. reserved the order after the arguments by the contesting par- the salaries for August, but ‘‘Most of the accused had ties. The arguments in this case began on April 2. TNN we do not know if we will be earlier been arrested on able to manage it next charges of robbery and pick month. The institute has The SPA’s canteen gives no indication that the institute is going through a rough financial patch. pocketing. Two of those ar- been forced to stop the leave rested are juveniles. The po- travel allowance and health institutional consultancy Following the controversy, According to him, while said it was tantamount to lice said that the juveniles benefits of the staff,’’ regis- projects to be taken up. They director A K Maitra had filed engineering consultancies taking away the autonomy of were being treated as per the trar D R Bains said. want a rule where 35 per cent papers for an early retire- required intensive use of lab- the institute. Juvenile Justice Act 2000,’’ of the project money goes to ment two months back, in oratory infrastructure which ‘‘As of now, there are rep- The hostel renovation has added Pathak. been postponed and study the institute with the con- June itself. the IITs could provide, in a resentatives from the alum- tours of students have be- sultant retaining 65 per For the record, the min- ‘‘creative’’ field like architec- ni, faculty and Members of come a purely local affair, he cent,’’ a faculty member said. istry does not allow private ture, it was an ‘‘individual Parliament, but the new MoA added. Under the existing rule, fac- consultancy in Indian Insti- service.’’ proposes to do away with The 800-strong student ulty members taking up pri- tutes of Technology (IITs). But that is not the only that,’’ Garg added. community fear the institute vate consultancies were pay- But experts said the compar- contention. SPA has, report- ‘‘If some things have gone may close down. According ing roughly six per cent of ison was not realistic. edly, resisted signing a new at the school, the government to School of Planning and the total project worth to the ‘‘Teaching architecture is Memorandum of Associa- cannot blame the school Architecture (SPA) sources, institute. like practising medicine... tion (MoA) which will lead to alone. The government could the institute seems to have The ministry had, in fact, one has to have a hand on a change in the constitution have monitored the schools locked horns with the MHRD pointed out certain irregu- the pulse to have a hand on of the governing council. through the general and ex- over two issues. larities in the payment of the profession,’’ former President of the SPA alum- ecutive councils,’’ Raori The ministry wants only consultancy fees. SPA director V P Raori said. ni association Vijay Garg added. AAD thrashes opponents in DUTA election Sanjay Sekhri TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Aditya Narayan Mishra of the Acade- mics for Action and Development (AAD), supported by the Indian National Teachers’ Congress (INTEC), won the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) election with a total of 2,200 and a margin of over 761 votes on Thursday. He was followed by Amar Deo Sharma (1,437) representing Democratic Teacher’s Front (DTF) and N K Gautam (1,099) of the National Democratic Teachers’ Front (NDTF). Mishra teaches political science in Aurobindo Col- lege. Seventy-three per cent polling was recorded with a total of 4,961 votes being cast on Thursday, marginally higher than last year’s 70 per cent. Of the 15 DUTA executive posts, all three candi- dates of AAD — J Khuntia, Ved Pal and Rekha Day- al — won. Rajeev Kumar Kunwar,Rajib Ray,and San- jaya Kumar Bohidar won from DTF. NDTF bagged four seats with Pradumn Kumar, Mukesh Aggarwal, M Yogi and K B Gupta. The manifestos reveals an interesting fact, that the issues are the same. Take a look at some of the issues: Assured third promotion, professorship in colleges, parity to librarians or even protest against the academic reforms. ‘‘Just like students, even teachers Where else does one get to meet over 6,000 teachers at one time but at DUTA’s election venue are disillusioned by DUTA politics and feel that noth- — Arts Faculty in north campus, Delhi University. ing much is being achieved,’’ said a DUTA veteran. No leads in CP firing case Councillor’s brother By Sachin Parashar ing to verify if the pistol was Gunsmoke TIMES NEWS NETWORK of a Chinese make as had convicted for murder earlier been suggested. New Delhi: The sensational •105 people use guns of TIMES NEWS NETWORK The police are also explor- Pal had strangulated Ram robbery at World Trade Tow- the same make as the ing the possibility of the in- and attempted to burn his er on Wednesday evening has one used in attack New Delhi: A city court has volvement of a foreign na- body when he was arrested. the police zeroing in on all convicted the brother of a tional in the robbery. ‘‘For- Investigations on as to The police said Ram used the licensed owners of • municipal councillor on eign nationals are also under wether gun was of Chi- to run a factory to manufac- weapons of the same calibre murder charges. Additional the scanner as some of them nese make ture metal for the production as that which was allegedly sessions judge J M Malik also of cooker. ‘‘Pal owned a cook- have recently been held for slapped a fine of Rs 25 lakh used in the Swiss Air office. different crimes in the dis- •Involvement of a for- er manufacturing factory The police have apparently eign national is not ruled on Mahinder Pal, brother of and he owed a lot of money to trict,’’ said the officer. A Geeta Colony councillor Ban- prepared a list of all owners sketch of the accused has out Ram for which the victim si Lal. of 7.65 mm pistols in the city. been circulated by the police. was pressuring the accused,’’ •Accused knew layout Malik has asked Pal to give ‘‘As per the list, there are The accused had, however, an officer said. of building the amount to the victim’s 105 people who have this gun masked himself using a According to the police, family. The judge held that licenced in their names in white handkerchief. the amount was somewhere Meanwhile, DCP Lall said the city.We are trying to ver- The deputy commissioner the police had proved the around Rs 51 lakh. When that police are organising a ify if any of them or their of police (New Delhi), Manoj case with the help of their Ram asked for his money Pal workshop on security in mul- weapon was in any way in- Lall, however, said, ‘‘We are witnesses. told him to come to his facto- ti-storeyed buildings in the volved in the incident,’’ a sen- approaching the case with an According to the police Pal ry on June 28, 1999. Instead of city. ‘‘We want people to ior police officer told The open mind. All angles are be- had murdered businessman paying him, the accused mur- know and understand what Times of India. The officer ing painstakingly explored.’’ Daulat Ram on June 28, 1999. dered Ram. the security should be like in added that the used cartridge A senior officer said that these buildings,’’ stated Lal. Goel for PTAs in MCD schools: Parent teacher associations found on the office premises the accused seemed to be a will be formed in MCD schools to create conducive atmosphere suggested that the weapon professional who was very The police had admitted on and ensure the upkeep of schools, said Chandni Chowk MP and was a regular pistol. ‘‘There much capable of striking Wednesday that that there Union minister of state Vijay Goel. Goel, who conceptualised the was no bulge in the cartridge again. ‘‘He was apparently was a security lapse on the ‘School Sudhar Yogna’, said renovation work was on in 12 MCD which suggests that it was an well versed with the layout of part of the private guards at primary schools. He, however, said that children would not be original pistol,’’ stated the of- the building,’’ admitted the the tower in allowing the ac- able to reap the benefits of the scheme until the parents extend- ficer. The police are also try- officer. cused inside. ed their co-operation. TNN

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4 Saturday,August 30, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi

FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER READERS’ GRIEVANCES OF DELHI Rainfall likely at East: Arunachal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, WB, Sikkim, Oris- NATIONAL sa, Jharkhand, Bihar; North: many places: Uttaranchal, Errant auto drivers being booked Mumbai: I-A 0700, HP, J&K, South Rajasthan, UP, Haryana, Punjab, north Old age pension 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Rajasthan; Central: MP,Vidarbha, Chattisgarh; Peninsula: Gujarat, TOI I am a senior citizen but have not received 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, By Urvashi Gulia 2300 Jet Air 0650, Konkan, Goa, madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, coastal AP,Telan- my payment under the old age pension TIMES NEWS NETWORK 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, gana, coastal Karnataka, Rayalaseema, TN, interior Karnataka, scheme at the Mansarovar Park post office 1935, 2030, 2200, Kerala; Islands: Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep. Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD New Delhi: They blatantly flout despite several reminders. My account num- 1520, 1800, 2025 ber is 4251646. I have come to know that the KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min rules and often give the city’s 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 34 27 Guwahati 33 26 Amsterdam 21 14 commuters a tough time. But money for January 2001 had been sanctioned Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 29 25 Dehradun 30 23 Bahrain 37 32 now the traffic police claims to on the 8 of that month, but officials at the Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 34 26 Hyderabad 27 23 Bangkok 33 27 Jhilmil Park post office have refused to re- CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 32 26 Indore 26 22 Beijing 31 14 be closely watching the city’s au- 0640,0955★★★ Bangalore 26 19 Jaipur 31 25 Chicago 27 19 torickshaw drivers. lease it unless they are paid some kind of 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 31 25 Geneva 31 16 0645,1900 Lucknow 35 27 A special drive to prosecute commission. I am hereby requesting the au- BANGALORE: T’puram 33 21 Patna 34 26 Hong Kong 31 27 thorities to look into the matter and take ap- Bhopal 26 23 London 22 12 erring auto drivers was I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Rajkot 31 24 propriate action against the errant employ- Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 29 24 Shimla 24 17 Los Angeles 28 17 launched on August 18. Alto- Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 25 21 Srinagar 28 18 Moscow 17 09 gether 2,306 autorickshaws had ees so that I get my due. HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 been prosecuted till August 25, Kamlesh Aggarwal, C-18, Mansarovar Park, GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS Sahara 1200 out of which 290 have been im- Shahdara KULU: Jagson 0630, ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on pounded. In total, over 63,634 au- 0650, 1215 29.08.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. AHMEDABAD: tos have been prosecuted since MBA certificate I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl January. I had enrolled for a M.B.A.Course from Indi- Jet Air 0610 NORTH ra Gandhi National Open University,Maidan GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: 4033 Jammu Mail 30.08 31.08 07.09 07.09 An autorickshaw can be im- I-A 0555★★, 1010• pounded if its driver violates a Garhi, New Delhi in 1997 (Enrolment ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 12.09 14.09 08.09 2403 Jammu Exp 31.08 08.09 09.09 15.09 NO.970122910). I have completed all the 21 Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, permit. Overcharging, refusal to Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST ply and tampering meters are all Courses ( including MS-100) project work) re- Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 30.08 01.09 01.09 — 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 30.08 30.08 31.08 03.09 permit violations as specified by quired for the course by the end of the term Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 01.09 02.09 01.09 05.09 the Motor Vehicles’ Act (MVA). in December, 1999. I was issued a revised Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 02.09 03.09 03.09 Auto drivers may be prosecuted grade card ( Certificate No.0023028 dated 4th INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp 31.08 01.09 30.08 31.08 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 30.08 30.08 30.08 for misbehaviour, not wear- January, 2001) for the term end exam June, BANGKOK/TOKYO: 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 31.08 31.08 30.08 31.08 ing uniform and not plying by 2000. I have already received three certifi- Thai Air 0010 (TG- 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 11.09 13.09 cates ( DIM, PGDIM & PGDHRM) on comple- 316), A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 31.08 04.09 18.09 meter. FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 30.08 01.09 01.09 01.09 The fine amount is Rs 2,000. tion of the requisite number of courses. It 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 30.08 01.09 30.08 An impounded vehicle is re- has been over about 3 years and I have not re- AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 10.09 01.09 01.09 ceived my certificate of completion of MBA. Northwest 0140 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 07.09 02.09 31.08 leased only after the owner pays (NW-037) 4230 Lucknow Mail 01.09 03.09 02.09 01.09 the fine and gets a court order. I have written several times to the Director ( LONDON: British WEST The prosecution drive is par- Despite punitive drives against autorickshaw drivers, thousands of them on the city’s roads continue to SR&E) along with copies of the mark sheet Air 0210 (BA-142) 2904 Golden Temple Mail31.08 31.08 01.09 09.09 make commuting a pain for Delhiites. but have not received any response till date. PARIS: Air France 2926 Paschim Exp 30.08 01.09 02.09 11.09 ticularly active in Connaught 0040 (AF-147), 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 30.08 02.09 01.09 — Place, Vikas Marg, Mayur Vihar Autowallahs watch out ing number of autos that rant auto drivers. They can call Buddh Prakash, Scientific Officer( Chemical), A-I 0735 (AI-141) 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 01.09 31.08 01.09 — Phase I and II, Bhajanpura, Mod- National Test House (NR), Kamla Nehru 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 04.09 11.09 04.09 are being brought in the helpline or write in the com- SINGAPORE: Sin’pore el Town market, North Campus, Nagar,Ghaziabad Airlines 2315 (SQ- 1078 Jhelum Exp — 02.09 02.09 09.09 •Prosecution since January: everyday. plaint cards that are available on 407), I-A 0500 (IC-855) 2916 Ashram Exp 31.08 03.09 01.09 04.09 ISBT, Karol Bagh, South exten- ‘‘The drive is being con- any of the permanent police SOUTH 63,634 Village roads ROME/GENEVA: sion, Lajpat Nagar and Dhaula ducted throughout Delhi. pickets,’’ said joint commission- A-I 0350 (AI-171) 2616 G T Exp 30.08 01.09 01.09 31.08 Titarpur is an urban village under the juris- 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 31.08 31.08 04.09 07.09 Kuan. • Prosecution since August 18: We want autorickshaws to er of police (traffic) Qamar HONG KONG/OSAKA: 2,306 diction of Municipal Corporation of Delhi. A-I 2320 (AI-318) 2432 Trivandrum Raj 31.08 14.09 30.09 — ply in compliance to the Ahmed. 2626 Kerala Exp — 02.09 01.09 09.09 In the Parliament Street cir- MCD is wholly responsible for proper main- AIR INDIA 2618 Mangala Exp — 10.09 08.09 08.09 • Autorickshaws impounded permit. People, too, should He added that this the drive cle, alone, the total prosecution tenance of the village, but the maintenance MUMBAI: 0520 2628 Karnataka Exp — 01.09 31.08 31.08 figures have crossed the 702 since August 18: 290 come forward and help us would continue till the auto driv- 2724 A P Exp 31.08 02.09 31.08 08.09 work in the village is not been carried out (AI 136), 2145 (AI 309), mark already. by complaining against er- ers mend their ways. 2205 (AI 311), 2330 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 01.09 09.09 08.09 — • Traffic helpline number: 011- properly by MCD ( West Zone). (AI 112) 7022 Dakshin Express — 01.09 — 31.08 The staff at the Parliament 23378888 The road from House No.WZ-55 to WZ-71 No. of passengers dealt on 28.08.2003 (Delhi Area): 50,523 (N. Rly. Area) Street police station, where the A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 1,92,166. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all which is badly damaged for the last 10 years. (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for impounded autos are being tak- • Complaint cards available at (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. police pickets There are innumerable pits in the road and 23323310, Singapore Airlines (Information supplied by Indian Railways) en, said they don’t 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 dirty sewerage water has stagnated in the have place to keep the increas- pits. Requests to the Deputy Commissioner, MCD (West Zone) Rajouri Garden have not yielded results. Will the Municipal Commis- sioner look into the matter? Sweets may taste sour after price hike Secretary, Titapur Residents Welfare Association, WZ-97, Shiv Mandir,Titarpur TIMES NEWS NETWORK may take place during the festi- ernment that they were already is charged in Himachal val season,’’ said Akhil Bhartiya paying 4 per cent sales tax on the Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Readers should send their contributions addressed to Readers’ New Delhi: Buying sweets this Khadya Mishthhan Namkeen raw material used for sweets. Kashmir. In Haryana the tax is Grievances c/o Metro Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. Diwali may burn a hole in your Vikreta Mahamandal secretary ‘‘After the hike, the total tax on nominal. pocket with the Delhi govern- Satish Verma. the product will come to 12 per The Delhi government in its ment deciding to hike sales tax Hari Gidwani of Chaina Ram cent which is high. We are being budget for March 2003 had pro- on sweets from 4 to 8 per cent. Sindhi Confectionery in Fateh- forced to hike the prices,’’ exposed the hike. ‘‘The govern- It is not just the buyer who are puri felt the hike was unfair as plained Verma. ment was collecting about Rs 22 worried, sweetmeat dealers ap- buyers prefer sweets over gifts. The current rate of sales tax crore when the sales tax was prehend a slump in sales. ‘‘The Verma said the traders had in neighbouring states is four fixed at 4 per cent. It expected to consumer is not ready to believe approached the Delhi govern- per cent or less. The Mahaman- collect Rs 50 crore in sales tax af- that the tax on sweets was hiked ment to review its decision. dal said in Madhya Pradesh the ter the hike, but that won’t be af- in April and that another hike The association told the gov- rate is four per cent. No sales tax ter sales fall,’’ said a trader. Slum-dwellers oppose PDS malpractices

TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: On a day when the Union food ministry acknowl- edged that problems continue to plague the public distribution system (PDS), public grievance over the same spilt on to the city’s roads on Friday. Residents of poor colonies came together to demand that records of ration dealers be made available to them under the right to information law. Residents of Sunder Nagri, New Seemapuri, Welcome Colony, Tughlaqabad, Jehangir- puri, Govindpuri, Tahirpur and Dakshinpuri gathered at the Gandhi Peace Foundation, to dis- cuss how records were fudged and rations siphoned. An activist of Parivartan, the group which has taken up the issue, said that in all, 157 applications were filed on Friday for records — but though a delegation of concerned citizens like Magsaysay award winner Aruna Roy met the city’s food commissioner, there were no assurances from the local government. A survey of the system in Sun- der Nagri revealed the dismal state of affairs. Take the case of Triveni, a slum-dweller earning Rs 650 a month. Whenever she has been able to procure rations, she has had to pay a higher rate. With an Antyodaya card, she should get 25 kg wheat a month at Rs 2 a kg and 10 kg rice at Rs 3 a kg. But she would pay Rs 5 and Rs 10, respectively. But when she sought, and got, information under the law, she found her ration dealer had siphoned the entire entitlement for months through a series of false receipts and false thumb impres- sions in her name. It is alleged that she has been ‘‘hounded’’ ever since she filed a complaint. After a list of beneficiaries of the PDS system in the Sunder Na- gri area, was obtained, it was found that some of the beneficiaries had never got the cards — but that ration was being drawn against these.

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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Saturday,August 30, 2003 5 Bougainvillea will do what grills can’t Cable body Illegal sex clinics TOI By Saurabh Sinha and Asked if the order wasn’t approaches Shubhajit Roy coming a bit too late as al- TIMES NEWS NETWORK most the entire city’s aes- to get the axe thetics have been destroyed HC for CAS New Delhi: Even the Munic- TIMES NEWS NETWORK ipal Corporation of Delhi by road dividers, a senior of- Guidelines (MCD) looks sick of the dif- ficial said grills are regular- New Delhi: Everything you by Sept Fines on doctors who ferent varieties of road di- ly stolen by drug addicts and wanted to know about your • vagabonds. ‘‘Now that this advertise, especially at viders like central verges or TIMES NEWS NETWORK dingy neighbourhood sex railway crossings grills that are haphazardly order has been passed, we clinic on a prosaic certificate will not replace the stolen New Delhi: The cable hanging on the wall. This is built all over the city. Test of medicines grills,’’ he said. networks association the latest plan of the Delhi • In a recent order, munici- Mehta has also banned (CNA) filed a petition be- government. The health de- pal commissioner Rakesh •Of 35 clinics surveyed grills between pavements fore the high court seek- partment of the Delhi gov- Mehta has banned central earlier, 8 run by quacks and roads without the prior ing implementation of ernment appears to be taking verges from roads that are approval of the chief engi- the conditional access the city’s sexual health very less than 80 feet wide. neer of the area. system (CAS) in Delhi seriously after a series of tem of medicine that they ‘‘On wider roads, the cen- ‘‘Till now the junior engi- from September 1. complaints came to them practice. tral verges will not be more neers used to have cuts fixed The petition claimed about the scores of unregis- ‘‘Some clinics follow cer- than four feet wide so that with contractors and would that the implementation tered sex clinics operating in tain indigenous systems of the limited space on the car- grill the entire road,’’ said a would be as per the July the city. medicine like Ayurveda, riageways is not wasted by source. 10 notification of Gov- According to health minis- Unani and others like home- Central Road Research In- ernment of India. ter A K Walia, the department opathy, these systems are stitute’s head of transport The body filed the peti- of health has started a survey recognised by the health de- DESIGNER planning, T S Reddy tion following the gov- of all sex clinics in the city. partment,’’ he said. said:‘‘The move is welcome, ernment’s decision to im- ‘‘We received many com- But first those doing the DILLI but it should be implement- plement CAS in Delhi af- plaints about these clinics survey will be visiting Delhi’s Grills like these may soon become a thing of the past with MCD deciding on planting ed carefully keeping in mind ter the assembly elec- and before formulating any railway stations and cross- big dividers,’’ said Mehta. Bougainvillea shrubs on central verges in the city. the character of the roads.’’ tions. Bill to stop quacks, it was de- ings. ‘‘Doctors are not sup- These dividers will not have He said MCD should set up a The Bench of Chief cided to survey these clinics,’’ posed to advertise, and many iron grills and only roads. But people jump that can withstand high tem- where the traffic is such that specialised traffic engineer- Justice B C Patel and Jus- he said. of these ‘‘doctors’’ advertise bougainvillea bushes will be across them. So instead of peratures, pollution and a divider is needed to pre- ing cell for this purpose. tice A K Sikri, deferred The survey will not just be on the boundary walls of rail- planted there. having them, we will have needs little water but still vent mishaps. ‘‘Even in such Great ideas. But given its the matter stating that it a head count of the clinics or way station, our mandate is ‘‘The purpose of having just bushes,’’ he said. This has a lot of foliage. places, there will be only an track record, it remains to be would be proper to hear even that they have genuine to impose fines on them as grills is to prevent pedestri- particular species was cho- The only exception on un- iron grill and not a central seen if MCD can implement the petition after the gov- degrees or not, but will classi- well,’’ said an official in the ans from running across sen as it is a ‘tough’ variety der 80 feet wide roads will be verge,’’ he said. them. ernment comes out with fy them according to the sys- department. the notification extend- ing the date of imple- New norms to protect mentation of CAS. The association’s advo- Metro is Delhi’s USP for cate Jayant Bhushan and street children Inderbir Singh Alagh said that till now the gov- TIMES NEWS NETWORK plaints about abuse especial- ernment had not come Commonwealth Games ly of the girl child despite up with the new notifica- New Delhi: Delhi govern- sensitisation programmes tion but announced the Times graphic ment’s social welfare depart- for the police and the social decision to implement CP ment will soon draft a ‘code Shadipur welfare department. This CAS after the elections. of conduct’ that must be fol- manual of conduct will pre- Talkatora Mandi IG Stadium lowed when dealing with House scribe a formal set of rules Stadium street children with special where none exist,’’ a depart- Indraprastha Shivaji Central emphasis on the girl child. ment official said. Ganesh Nagar This decision was taken Raja Garden Stadium Sect Dikshit has also asked the in a meeting held by Delhi department to strengthen Tilak Nagar Safdarjung Games chief minister Sheila Dik- their outreach programme Tomb shit with the social welfare Underground National Village and deploy more people at department, civic agencies, police stations. ‘‘This issue Elevated AIIMS Stadium Vasundhara Municipal Corporation of Enclave was brought to my attention Surface Delhi (MCD), New Delhi Mu- when I met 70-80 children Green Park Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium nicipal Council (NDMC) and who complained about being Vasant Valley HauzKhas Delhi Police recently. abused verbally and physi- School Enclave ‘‘We receive regular com- cally by the police,’’ she said. IIT Siri Fort Sports Complex Vasant Kunj Sec-A

By Anuradha Mukherjee the Metro lines in the areas where the TIMES NEWS NETWORK competitions will be held have to be ready,’’ said DMRC managing director E New Delhi: The Delhi Metro now means Sreedharan. This will not only allow the much more than a swift journey. It is now visitors to flit from stadium to stadium, being presented as the face of a modern, but will also give them an opportunity to techno-savvy Delhi — capable of hosting get a feel of the city. ‘‘We will be treating the next Commonwealth Games in 2010. the Noida corridor as a high-priority line. The Metro will improve connectivity be- On NH-24 a Games tween seven stadiums, sports complexes Village is sched- and a games village on NH 24 that will host METRO uled to come up,’’ the games. The stadiums — Shivaji Stadi- said Sreedharan um, Talkatora Stadium, Dr Ambedkar MATRIX DMRC chief Stadium, IG Stadium, National Stadium, spokesperson Anuj Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and Siri Fort Dayal said an indoor stadium and a pro- Sports Complex — are either bang next to posed rugby field at Yamuna Sports Com- the Metro line or a km or two away from it. plex may also benefit. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) ‘‘Buses will be run between Yamuna has also proposed to prepone the target Sports Complex at Surajmal Vihar and the date for the completion of Phase-II to 2009 Shahdara Metro station to connect the two instead of the present 2010 if Delhi is se- like it was done during the Asiad, only this lected as the venue for the games. time buses will be required for very short ‘‘Since the games will be held in 2010, stretches,’’ said Dayal. Kasturba Hospital Public grievances gets renovated TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The newly-ren- panel can’t bite ovated children’s ward at TIMES NEWS NETWORK the information. The admin- Kasturba Hospital was in- istrative reforms department augurated on Monday. The New Delhi: The Public was sent the list last year, and state government has as- Grievance Commission till now only a few inquiries sured that funds needed for (PGC) empowered to deal have been ordered. the hospital’s development with cases on the Right to In- Out of the 15 cases, four would be provided without formation Act, 2001, often deal with the department of delay. A special immunisa- finds itself powerless after a education, one with MCD’s tion service will be decision on the cases has education department, 3 cas- launched at the hospital. been taken. es deal with the Registrar of Foundation stones for The PGC has sent a list of Co-Operatives’ office and oth- three community halls 15 cases on which informa- ers with various district rev- were laid in Hastsal. MCD tion has not been provided by enue departments. In most of will construct these halls at officials, despite directions these cases incomplete infor- a cost of about Rs 3 crore. from the PGC. The list, sent to mation was furnished despite the administrative reforms the PGC ruling. However, in department, of the Delhi gov- one case, dealing the revenue ernment, last September has department in east Delhi, the so far drawn a complete charge is providing false in- blank. No fines have been formation to the applicant. levied on defaulting officers. In all cases the PGC had or- ‘‘While the Act provides for dered that information be fur- fines on errant officials, there nished within a week of the is no agency to make sure that order. A year and six months the orders of the PGC are has already elapsed. complied with,’’ said an offi- PGC chairman, P S Bhatna- cial in the PGC. gar says that the administra- Defaulting officers are to be tive reforms department has fined Rs 50 per day, for every assured him that all cases of day that they delay in giving default will be acted upon.

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6 Saturday,August 30, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi Barriers melt before cross-border beauties AFP Jain figurines found, but no Ram By Royden D’Souza odhya region, yet inexplicably, consideration is that coins and puted site at Ayodhya are the TIMES NEWS NETWORK there is no sign of a temple at the terracotta figurines typical of the same, the question that now aris- disputed site. Sunga, Kushana and Gupta peri- Lucknow: The latest ASI report es, is whether it is the Jains who od were found, but none of them on the disputed site does identify This is all the more strange can claim ‘first right’ over Ayod- were depictions of Rama or a ‘‘temple-like structure’’ dating when one considers the fact that hya? Dashratha. back to the 12th century AD based the Gupta kings were great pa- Whatever may be the outcome, Interestingly, and to be con upon findings such as an ‘Amala- trons of Hinduism. the fact remains that in the entire sidered in conjunction with this, Ayodhya region where excava- ka’ and a ‘Pranala’ — though oth- In addition, say archaeologists, is the fact that the tions have been undertaken by er archaeologists say these struc- Lord Ram was born excavation conduct- the ASI since 1975 — at the dis- tural components are not unique in the palace of King ed at Hanuman puted site, at Hanuman Garhi and to temples of the time. Dashratha. DIGGING Garhi by Prof B B Sita-ki-Rasoi — despite the dis- However,by the ASI’s own reck- If there was a tem- Lal in 1976 threw up covery of numerous coins and oning, there exists no indication ple built on the very DOUBTS-II a grey terracotta fig- terracotta figurines of varied an- of any temple-like structure hav- spot where he was urine that was dated back to the tiquity,none of them are connect- ing existed from 1200 AD to 1500 born, there would have been some fourth century BC. This figurine, ed to Rama Sita or Laxman, or BC (the expected antiquity of a remains of palatial structures or according to Lal, turned out to be Dashratha. Ramayana site), i.e. over a period at the very least a fortification the oldest Jain figurine found in And most significantly, no ter- of 2,700 years. And that, say schol- wall. India at the time. racotta figurine or idol of Ram, ars, is truly a mystery. However, ASI excavations at Keeping this key discovery of Sita, or Laxman belonging to any Right from the 15th century BC the disputed site have found noth- the Jain terracotta figurine in vintage, was found by the ASI at to the end of the Gupta period, ing suggestive of such a structure mind, coupled with the consider- the disputed site. there were a series of Hindu or antiquity. ation that the antiquity of the rulers who held sway over the Ay- What also has to be taken into Hanuman Garhi site and the dis- ● Concluded HC: Report, Pakistani models take part for the first time in a fashion show in New Delhi on Thursday. The event showcases creations of Pakistani and Indian designers. Absolute trash, say experts but keep TIMES NEWS NETWORK What’s amiss ture found by the ASI is being cit- ed as evidence that a temple exist- within limits New Delhi: Hitting out at the Ar- ed at the site. Disputing this theo- Dialogue and violence can’t chaeological Survey of India’s re- •It wasn’t a temple as bone TIMES NEWS NETWORK fragments with cut marks — ry,Suraj Bhan said this structure port on the excavations in Ayod- belongs to the Sultanate period — Lucknow: The special hya, several eminent historians sign of animals being eaten — have been found. and not the early mediaeval Bench of the High Court, on Friday described it as an ‘‘ab- period — as its floor and the plas- hearing Ayodhya suits here, go hand-in-hand: Vajpayee solutely unprofessional’’ docu- •Glazed ware has been ter on the wall are made of lime on Thursday clarified that AP ment, full of omissions and one- TIMES NEWS NETWORK found — this was not used and surkhi mortar used in that the print or electronic media that it ought to talk first to the sided presentation of evidence. Union interlocutor, N N Vohra. in temples period. Moreover, he said, a is not prevented from publi- Srinagar: India wants a mean- They accused the ASI of tam- cation of and comments on On the Hurriyat insistence that ‘Surkhi’, lime-mortar bond- mehrab (arch), typical of the me- ingful dialogue with Pakistan, pering with the evidence to suit • the ongoing proceedings. it would talk only with the PM, ed floor point to a mosque diaeval period was noticed by him but that won’t be possible if ter- its own conclusions and said the The Bench said unfair and Vajpayee said it was for the gov- while the plan of the alleged mas- rorist activity continues, Prime findings from the site suggest that malafide publication of the ernment to decide at what level sive burnt brick structure tallies Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee the structure below the demol- court’s proceedings, which the talks should take place. also constitutes an equally defi- with that of the Babri Masjid. said in Jammu on Friday. ished Babri Masjid could well nite piece of evidence which mili- tends to undermine the au- Asked if the Hizbul Mu- That this structure was not a Asked if the Union govern- have been a mosque and not a tates against the temple theory as thority of the court or lowers jahideen should be spoken to, the Hindu temple, he said, is clear ment had a solution for resolving temple. this was not used in temples. its dignity or shakes the peo- PM said the government was will- from the fact that it does not cor- the Kashmir problem, he said, Giving details of the ASI’s ‘‘acts Then again, the ASI has found ple’s confidence in the ad- ing to talk to anyone, provided respond with the Hindu Nagar “For so many years, no solution of omission and commission’’ at a ‘‘surkhi’’ and lime-mortar bonded style of temple of that period. ministration of justice, shall was found. It will take time. Even they laid down arms. Press conference, noted scholar floor which, according to Habib, be dealt with sternly. Earlier, at his departure from Besides, Suraj Bhan said, no ar- talks have not begun. A conducive Irfan Habib said a decisive piece ‘‘is obviously the floor of an earli- tifacts normally used in temples These observations were Srinagar, the PM said he had an- atmosphere has to be created of evidence which negates the er mosque’’. like conch shells, aarti lamps and made on the application of nounced a series of programmes (it).” On the demand from Pak- possibility of a temple is the pres- Supporting his contention, not- dhoopdan have been found at the advocate Zafaryab Jeelani for and projects for economic devel- istan for ceasefire in Jammu and ence of animal bones. ‘‘Bone frag- ed archaeologist Suraj Bhan said site. All the evidence, he said, sug- recalling/modifying the ear- Prime Minister Vajpayee speaks opment of the state during his Kashmir, he told a press confer- in Jammu on Friday. ments with cut marks are a sure the ASI has used the evidence se- gests that the structure was a lier directions issued by the ence: “I cannot understand. If earlier visits, in May 2002 and sign of animals being eaten at the lectively and concluded that it mosque and not a temple. special Bench on February they stop firing, there will be a said, “If Hurriyat leaders are April 2003. site and therefore, rule out a tem- found remains of an early medi- According to lawyer Rajeev 21. The prayer for recall was ceasefire. There is no violence willing to talk, they are wel- The Centre is closely monitor- ple existing at the site at that aeval temple constructed in the Dhawan, the ASI report has no made against the direction from our side.” come.” He said Deputy Prime ing their implementation, he time,’’ Habib said. 11-12th century which continued legal significance and is, at best, by which the media was re- Asked if the government was Minister L K Advani had already said. Adding, he was happy to Similarly, he said, glazed ware, to exist till the early 16th century. a view expressed by a set of strained from publishing any willing to talk to the separatist referred to the issue on Thursday note all state ministries are in- often called Muslim glazed ware, The massive burnt brick struc- ‘‘experts’’ . article on a matter pending Hurriyat Conference, Vajpayee with a message to the Hurriyat volving themselves in this, too. for adjudication.

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Saturday,August 30, 2003 7 Jailed Pakistani For talks, end terror: PM Srinagar youth involved boys will be AP Jammu: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday said India wants a meaningful dialogue with Pak- heading home istan but this would not be possible in aborted CTO strike By Pramod Panwar if terrorist activities continued. By Saleem Pandit was going to attend a mar- the militant attack at a time TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘We want a meaningful dialogue TIMES NEWS NETWORK with Pakistan. But if terrorist activ- riage. His parents say they when the Prime Minister had no idea about his in- and chief ministers of dif- Palanpur: Tears streamed down the ities continue, it will not be possi- Srinagar: One of the fiday- volvement with militants. ferent states were present cheeks of five Hindu boys from Pak- ble,’’ the Prime Minister told a een militants, who engaged Hundreds of people here belied the claims of istan, inmates of the remand home crowded press conference here. security forces in a 12 hour here, when they talked about going On the demand from Pakistan for encounter after their at- thronged Ishtiyaq’s home the state government about back home on Thursday. ceasefire in the state, the Prime Min- tempt to storm the tele- on Thursday evening after the situation in Jammu and These boys — Premji (14), Sonu (16), ister said: ‘‘I cannot understand. If graph office here on Wedn- his body was buried at Eid Kashmir. Ramji (15), Chhagan (14) and Kisan (14) they stop firing, there will be a esday was foiled, turned Gah graveyard here by the These attacks prove that — were released by a juvenile court af- ceasefire. There is no violence from out to be a local youth. state police. India can never persuade ter being arrested over a year ago for il- our side.’’ Ishtiyaq Ahmad Motta Apparently, the other militants to give up armed legally crossing the border. ‘‘It is difficult for me to state any- (22) of Chattabal was pur- militant involved in the struggle and enter into the They are happy they are going home thing,’’ he said on being asked what suing graduation in com- CTO attack succeeded in disgraceful talks, nor and sad because they will have to part was Pakistan’s compulsion in not puter sciences. He had been giving the slip to the securi- would militants allow any with six-year-old Palanpur girl Rasi, moving forward on the peace fasting for the past three ty forces, the sources said. person or group to knock at who tied rakhi on their wrists earlier process. Asked if the government days, his relatives and Meanwhile, Jamiet-ul- such doors and achieve dis- this month. was willing to talk to separatist Hur- friends said. He left home Mujahideen (JuM) militant grace and ignominy, JuM ‘‘I always wanted to return home. riyat conference, Vajpayee said: ‘‘If Prime Minister Vajpayee speaks in Jammu on Friday. on Wednesday saying he outfit in a statement said chief, Abdullah, said. But now the thought of leaving nani Hurriyat leaders are willing to talk, ben behind makes me sad,’’ says Pre- they are welcome.’’ for holding meaningful talks,’’ he concrete proposal before the centre mji. He was picked up by the BSF about He said Deputy Prime Minister L said. in this regard. ‘‘Let the proposal first a year-and-a-half ago when he strayed K Advani had already referred to the On the situation in J&K, Vajpayee come. Then we will consider it.’’ into Indian territory while chasing issue on Thursday.About Hurriyat’s said there has been a change there. Downplaying the recent break-up goats. The other boys also met with the insistence that it would talk only ‘‘People are more relaxed and are in BSP-BJP ties, he said: ‘‘This hap- same fate. They anxiously awaited with the Prime Minister, he said it hopeful. The government there is do- pens in politics. It is nothing new.’’ their return to their homeland in the was for the Centre to decide at what ing purposeful work. People have ex- To a query about BSP leader remand home. level the talks should take place. pectations from the government. It Mayawati’s claims that she will ‘‘ex- Rasi brought happiness in their lives ‘‘Even the informal talks have not was not there earlier.’’ pose’’ the BJP, he said: ‘‘You will when she tied rakhi this year, bringing started. Whether the talks should be The Prime Minister rejected Pak- have to ask her why is she so angry.’’ back memories of their sisters. formal or informal is yet to be decid- istan’s insistence of discussing the The Prime Minister was asked ‘‘We can never forget Rasi. She not ed,’’ he said. Kashmir issue first before coming to about whether the split would affect only compensated for the love of our Asked whether the Centre has a other problems. ‘‘That is what they the outcome of the assembly elec- sisters but her rakhi also proved to be readymade solution for resolving (Pakistan) say. We don’t agree with tions in five states. ‘‘The future will lucky for us. Orders for freeing us came the Kashmir problem, Vajpayee it. Kashmir is one of the issues tell whether it will have any im- soon after she came to the remand made it clear that it would take time. which is to be discussed,’’ he said. pact,’’ he said. home to tie rakhis and got sweets for ‘‘For so many years, no solution Regarding Mufti’s plea for a ‘‘soft ‘‘Even Mulayam Singh Yadav is us. Next year, when my sister Kukoo was found. It will take some time for border’’ between India and Pakistan feeling need for forming a coalition ties a rakhi, I will remember this little it. Even talks have not begun. A con- in J&K to enable people to move government. It is an age of coali- girl here,’’ says Premji. ducive atmosphere has to be created across freely, he said there was no tion.’’ PTI Warrants on ‘Mob stopped the ambulances’ Geelani, Malik TIMES NEWS NETWORK MP Ehsan Jafri was among after the massacre, that the an old lady at Gulbarg who Jammu: A Tada court on those who were massacred ambulances returned to the told him ‘‘sab khatam ho Friday issued fresh arrest Ahmedabad: A doctor who when the mob attacked the massacre site and took gaya’’. warrants against four ac- runs a fleet of ambulances locality a day after the away 1 dead body from the Another witness, Ranjit cused, including former Jam- in the city deposed before Godhra incident. spot to the Civil Hospital, he Singh Rajput, a 75 year-old mu and Kashmir chief min- the Nanavati-Shah commis- It was on March 1, the day said. The doctor said he met man, told the commission ister Gulam Mohideen Shah, sion probing the Gujarat that he had gone to a travel Jamait leader Syed Ali Shah riots saying his vehicles agency located just next to Geelani and JKLF Yasin Ma- were prevented from Gulbarg Society on Febru- lik, in the national flag ‘‘dis- shifting Gulbarg Society Key confession retracted honouring’’ case of 1987. massacre victims to ary 28 when he met a youth who claimed that he had re- The presiding officer of hospitals. Tada/ Pota court after issu- Dr Prahlad Mohan told in Godhra carnage case ceived a splinter injury as a result of bullets fired by ing warrants against Shah, the commission, during a By Leena Misra Malik, Geelani and Hurriyat day-long hearing on cases Ehsan Jafri. TIMES NEWS NETWORK Naresh Bansilal, who leader Ghulam Nabi Sunji pertaining to Meghanina- for non-appearence, sent ar- gar police station on Friday, Ahmedabad: The confession on which the prosecu- also deposed before the commission, said he had rest warrants to DGP, J&K that the mob which had tion case was based in the Sabarmati Express carnage for execution. gathered at Gulbarg Society in Godhra on February 27, last year has been retract- also encountered several people in the mob on that Jamait-e-Islami leader deflated the tyres of the am- ed. Geelani’s advocate Mehraj- day who had bullet injuries. bulances which reached the The confession, recorded by a court many months ud-Din filed an application He, however, did not specify spot at around 5 pm on Feb- ago, made by a Jabbir Yamin Behera, led to the arrest for his exemption from the whether they had been fired ruary 28 last year, the day of of Maulana Hussain Umarji, a 53-year-old Godhra personal appearance, on the by Jafri. the massacre. cleric, whom police and prosecution then described as basis of health grounds. Jafri’s widow is among Earlier in the day,the am- the prime conspirator. Behera, on Thursday, told the But Razdan refused to those who are scheduled to bulances had made two special POTA (the anti-terrorist law) court, which grant exemption and asked testify before the commis- trips to the spot and had held a sitting inside the Sabarmati Jail here, that the the advocate to produce the shifted some 15 to 17 victims judicial confession recorded in his name was sion from Gulbarg Society. accused in the court and then with acid burns, bullent in- “forced”. He is learnt to have said that he was assured A heavy security cordon seek the remedy of exemp- was thrown around the Cir- juries and other wounds to of being treated as a witness when he gave the state- tion. PTI the hospital. ment, but was then taken as an accused, and his broth- cuit House annexe for the Dr Mohan said that that it er, too, was arrested. hearing by the commission was during the third trip The Pota court is said to have taken Thursday’s and a large number of that the path of the ambu- statement on record. But legal sources do not attach witnesses from both com- lances were blocked and the much importance to Behera’s backtracking, after so munities are awaiting their mob did not allow them to many months. turn to speak to the com- shift the victims. Congress mission.

BARC’s training Tripura the most centre: London- based World Nuclear University of the World Nuclear Asso- violent state, ciation has chosen Bhabha Atomic Re- search Centre’s train- says NCRB report ing school as one its over 20 nodal centres TIMES NEWS NETWORK for enhancing human resources for promot- Agartala: Beleaguered by decades-old in- ing peaceful use of surgency, Tripura has achieved the dubious nuclear energy. PTI distinction of being the most violent state in N-E DGP meet: the country. DGPs of seven N-E According to the National Crime Record states and Sikkim Bureau (NCRB) figures for 1998-2000, the tiny would meet in Shil- North-Eastern state’s ‘‘share in violent long on Sept 5. PTI crimes’’ is highest at 36.7 per cent of the total crimes, as against the national average of 13.5. While three other states from the region — Nagaland, Meghalaya and Assam — follow close, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Sikkim are other states where the crime record is above the national average. According to the NCRB, ‘‘violent crimes’’ include murder, attempt to murder, culpable homicide not amounting to murder, dowry deaths, kidnapping and abduction, dacoity, riot and arson and acts affecting property, public safety and women (rape). The NCRB said, ‘‘During 2000, the percentage share of violent crimes reported in the country was 13.5 per cent of the total IPC crimes reported. During 1998 and 1999, it was 14.3 per cent and 13.5 per cent respectively.’’ Of the total 2,38,381 violent crimes reported in 2000 from the states and union territo- ries, 42.7 per cent crimes were violent crimes ‘‘affecting life’’ (1,01,781 cases). Crimes, which affected property during the period, were at 12.3 per cent, those affecting public safety stood at 38.1 per cent and violent crimes against women at 6.9 per cent (16,496 cases). ‘‘The percentage share of violent crimes to total IPC crimes (13.5), reported in their respective states during 2000, provides us with a view of the criminality witnessed in various states,’’ said the NCRB. The states with percentage share above all-India average were Tripura (36.7 per cent), Nagaland (29 per cent), Meghalaya (29 per cent, Assam (27.4 per cent), Bihar (26.1 per cent). The other states were: Manipur (25.1 per cent), Jammu and Kashmir (23.4 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (22.4 per cent), Arunachal Pradesh (17.7 per cent), Rajasthan (16.3 per cent), West Bengal (16.2 per cent), Orissa (14.4 per cent) and Sikkim (14.1 per cent).

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8 Saturday,August 30, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi

AROUND THE WORLD Take an audio tour of Boston AFP AP Boston: After spending venience of the audio de- the morning walking the vices. streets of Boston, follow- ‘‘We just walk down the ing the red line that street like we’re talking marks the famous Free- on cell phones. I have a re- dom Trail, tourist John ally hard time reading Koch couldn’t help but ex- something while I’m claim how easy a new au- walking,’’ said John dio guide of the city’s his- Koch, who just two days toric walking tour is to earlier ran the Boston understand. Marathon. ‘‘It really en- ‘‘For an outsider who is capsulates it for us. It totally uninitiated, it was gives the essential facts.’’ just great. This guy is People accustomed to right in my ear.He’s clear, The hand held digital devices, which can be used with leading Freedom Trail he doesn’t have a Boston earphones, or held to the ear like a cell phone, offer tours while playing the accent,’’ Koch said over a two hours of narrative about all things Boston, using part of a character from beer at Boston’s Union sound effects, celebrity voices, music and character history agree. Oyster House across from portrayals. Sam Jones leads tours Faneuil Hall, one of the structured sightseeing Ellen Goodman, actors while portraying William stops on the Freedom groups. ‘‘What they’ll get from the Freedom Trail Dawes, one of the Minute- Trail. out of this is their inde- Players, and others, the men who rode with Paul The trail is a 4-km tour pendence,’’ said Linda device can be held up to Revere. He said the cos- that links 16 historic sites. McConchie, executive di- the ear like a cell phone or tumed tour guides initial- Visitors can follow a red ly worried the audio rector of The Freedom can be used with head- Singers Britney Spears (left) and Madonna kiss as Christina Aguilera looks on during the line emblazoned through guides might attract Trail Foundation. ‘‘It’s a phones. 2003 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Thursday. city streets, linking the big step for us because Sightseers can punch a flocks of walkers away sites that stretch between what we are always trying number into the audio from the old-fashioned Polygamist clan: A Guinness Book of World a pilot episode by Deputy Boston Common and the to do is to get people to box corresponding to tours. He’ s not so wor- woman who escaped from a Records was announced Justice Minister Pierre Bedi- Charlestown waterfront. come back to the Freedom each site and hear its his- ried, anymore. polygamist clan at age 16 af- Thursday. It took Castelar er, a close party ally of Presi- five days to manufacture his dent Jacques Chirac. Reuters Using a lightweight, Trail, make our story ac- tory. The tour is designed ‘‘When we first thought ter being physically and sex- hand-held digital device, about the project, we ually abused has sued the in- record-shattering 14-m cigar cessible, make it easy to so sightseers can go at — a feat that far surpassed Punk catfish: Scientists visitors can guide them- thought that it might de- fluential family, seeking more understand why the story their own pace in any or- than $110 million in dam- his first milestone: a 3-m ci- studying an unspoiled jungle selves along the trail tract a little away from of the Revolution is der they choose. ages. The lawsuit by Mary gar he and his buddies rolled river wilderness in Venezuela while listening to ‘‘Hear meaningful to us and also Koch, 48, and his wife our tours, but they made a Ann Kingston names 242 in 1999 as a way to attract on Thursday announced the Freedom!’’ It was intro- to make it fun.’’ Norma Koch, 46, were vis- big effort to keep us in- family members and 97 busi- passing tourists. AP discovery of 10 new fish duced earlier this year to Featuring the voices of iting Boston from Fort volved in the project,’’ species, including a red- nesses operated by the Live-in politicians: liberate the Boston sight- Sen. Edward Kennedy, Wayne, Indiana. They said Jones, who narrates Kingston clan in and around tailed tiddler, a “punk” catfish French families are to eat, seer from traditional Boston Globe columnist said they enjoyed the con- part of the audio tour. AP the Salt Lake Valley. The law- with a spiky head and a pira- sleep, work and play with suit alleges the clan, also nha that eats fruit as well as their own live-in politician in a said to be known as the ‘‘Or- flesh. Among the new fish new reality TV show that trig- der,’’ is a ‘‘secretive religious species logged were a tiny gered controversy Thursday Youngest in class face stress ‘Romeo and Juliet’ society and economic organ- fish with a blood-red tail, a even before its first airing in isation’’ that promotes sexual variety of tentacled armored London: The youngest children in any school year October. Seeking to narrow abuse of girls through illegal catfish, whose tangle of spiky face more stress than their older peers and are at for Prince Charles the gap between the French and underage marriages, in- protuberances on its mouth greater risk of developing mental illness, scientists and their often remote politi- London: Oscar-winner Gwyneth cest and polygamy. AP and forehead has earned it have found. A survey of more than 10,000 children in cal rulers, “36 Hours” will fol- Paltrow and British actor Joseph the name of “punk” fish, and Britain between the ages of five and 15 showed that re- Biggest smoke: A veteran low a volunteer for nearly two a new piranha. Reuters Fiennes will recreate the famous gardless of when their school year began, if they were Cuban cigar maker broke his days as they go about their Romeo and Juliet balcony scene for the youngest in the class they faced greater stress. second world record for usual lives with a top politi- Venice tales: Oliver Stone Prince Charles at a charity show, “It is a moderate stress and, given that it applies to a rolling the longest stogie in cian in tow. First up is a mid- has dined with him, Glenn organisers said on Thursday. wife in a working class sub- Close has serenaded him lot of kids, it is a serious health threat,” research the world. Jose Castelar The co-stars of the 1998 film Cairo’s recognition by the urb of Paris who is joined for and Hollyw ood mega-pro- leader Robert Goodman said. Goodman and his team ducer Joel Silver can’t live at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry “Shakespeare in Love” will play the AFP star-crossed lovers for the heir to without him when he comes at King’s College, London, said the study stripped away to Venice. But you’ve proba- seasonal factors that can cause stress. the throne at an open-air London theatre next Monday. bly never heard of Francesco “Other studies have also found that the younger in Greco. The 68-year-old taxi Paltrow won an Oscar for her the school class tend to have lower levels of university boat captain has come as role as wealthy beauty Viola de entrance,” Goodman said. Reuters close to the stars as anyone Lesseps who steals the heart of during his 40 years plying the Shakespeare, played by Fiennes, canals of Venice. “There are and helps him overcome writer’s so many stories,” he said. block. Like the time he picked Among other actors performing Robert De Niro up at the air- selected Shakespeare scenes will be port. The “Taxi Driver” star Paul Scofield, Diana Rigg and Jane told him to ditch the press Lapotaire. The event will take place and after a hair-raising chase at Shakespeare’s Globe, a replica through Venice’s twisting canals Greco finally delivered Elizabethan theatre on the south De Niro to the door of his ho- bank of the River Thames. tel in perfect secrecy. “Glenn The money raised will go to the The world’s first anti-aging sheeted mask ‘Revital Wrin- Close...she was funny and Prince’s Trust, a charity set up by klelt’, containing pure retinol, to remove crow’s feet and sang on the way over to the Prince Charles to help disadvan- darkness under the eyes was unveiled in Tokyo on Friday. Lido.” Reuters taged young people. Reuters

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Saturday,August 30, 2003 9

AP RDX for Mumbai blasts Tripura is the came from Nepal: IB most violent Agartala: Beleaguered by TIMES NEWS NETWORK be hiding, these officials claimed. No ar- decades-old insurgency, Tripu- rests have been made so far. ra has achieved the dubious Mumbai: The RDX explosive used in Senior police officers are tightlipped. distinction of being the most Monday’s twin blasts here was smuggled Apparently, senior IB officers, who have violent state in the country. into India from Nepal, according to in- some vital clues, have asked the Mumbai According to the National telligence bureau (IB) officials. crime branch to refrain from giving Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of ‘‘speculative stories’’ to the media. figures for 1998-2000, the tiny Pakistan allegedly used one of its agents More than 20 persons have been de- North-Eastern state’s ‘‘share in to smuggle in the explosives from Nepal tained for interrogation in Mumbai, violent crimes’’ is highest at to Bihar a month ago. Thane and Pune. Joint police commis- 36.7 per cent of the total The police suspect a huge quantity of sioner (crime) Satyapal Singh, who will crimes, as against the national RDX was brought in, of which five kg head the anti-terrorist squad, average of 13.5. was used in the blasts at Mumbadevi and said, ‘‘Even if we have the ATS, it can While three other states Gateway of India. never be fool-proof. Terrorism is a global from the region — Nagaland, A police team from Mumbai has al- phenomenon, with money being spon- Meghalaya and Assam — fol- ready reached Bihar to search for a man sored from one country, the conspiracy low close, Arunachal Pradesh, who is believed to have received the RDX hatched in another, training provided to Manipur and Sikkim are other consignment and brought it to Mumbai terrorists in a third country and blast ex- states where the crime record by road. This suspect is part of the ecuted in a fourth. Unless there is proper is above the national average. group that executed the blasts, the offi- co-ordination and exchange of informa- According to the NCRB, ‘‘vi- cials said. tion between countries and several olent crimes’’ include murder, ‘‘He, along with a couple and a child, investigative agencies, we simply cannot attempt to murder, culpable were travelling in the taxi which explod- counter the threats posed by terrorists homicide not amounting to ed at the Gateway of India,’’ a senior of- and miscreants.’’ murder, dowry deaths, kidnap- ficer said. He stated that the Lashkar-e-Taiba had ping and abduction, dacoity, The debriefing of the taxi driver, Shiv a unit in Saudi Arabia that funded ter- riot and arson and acts affect- Narayan Pandey, revealed the suspects rorist operations in Mumbai. Some of ing property, public safety and Participants of a boat race paddle traditional boats in the Brahmaputra in Suwalkuchi village, about 50 km west of Guwahati, conversed in fluent Urdu. The three did- the suspects hiding in Saudi Arabia in- women (rape). on Friday. The annual competition commemorates the death anniversary of 16th century saint Shankar Dev. n’t know the city’s roads and were seeing clude Tahir Ali alias Janab and C A M The NCRB said, ‘‘During the tourist spots for the first Bashir, both aides of Dr Jalees Ansari 2000, the percentage share of Panja garlands Mamata: time, Pandey reportedly told the investi- who is in an Ajmer jail. violent crimes reported in the Ajit Panja cemented his return gating team. ‘‘We are on high alert, especially dur- country was 13.5 per cent of ISI trying to enter A tearful to the Trinamul Congress on The police suspect the three are from ing the Ganesh festival,’’ Singh said. ‘‘We the total IPC crimes reported. Thursday by welcoming party outside Mumbai. A team has also been have held meetings with the Ganesh During 1998 and 1999, it was supremo Mamata Banerjee at a sent to Gujarat, where a fourth accom- mandals and other citizens’ groups, seek- 14.3 per cent and 13.5 per cent farewell to public meeting in Kolkata with plice, believed to have taken part in the ing their co-operation in keeping tabs on respectively.’’ TNN the Armed forces Pak friends a thick garland.of marigold. TNN explosion at Mumbadevi, is suspected to abandoned bags.’’ By Nirmalya Banerjee officers, who would divulge By Pramod Panwar TIMES NEWS NETWORK the information unsuspect- TIMES NEWS NETWORK ingly. Kolkata: Eastern command Some of these calls, he Palanpur: Bitter-sweet general officer commanding- said, had been traced even to tears streamed down the in-chief J S Varma agrees Lahore, Karachi and Dubai. cheeks of five Hindu with intelligence reports that As a precaution, the Eastern boys from Pakistan, in- Pakistan’s ISI is working on a command authorities were mates of the remand long-term plan of getting ISI now changing telephone home here, when they operatives recruited in three numbers frequently and talked about going back wings of the armed forces. making P&T telephone num- home on Thursday. In an interview with TNN, These boys – Premji (14), Lieutenant General Varma ber unlisted ones, making it difficult for ISI operators to Sonu (16), Ramji (15), said reports suggested that Chhagan (14) and Kisan ISI operatives were gaining get them. The intelligence agency (14) – were released by a entry into the country, ob- juvenile court after be- taining fake ration cards to had its bases in Bangladesh as well as the Terai region of ing arrested over a year prove their citizenship and ago for illegally crossing then trying to get enlisted in Nepal. The changing demo- graphic pattern on the Indo- the border. the armed forces. They are happy they As a preventive measures, Bangla border had helped in its functioning. are going home and sad the recruitment centres had because they will asked the police to be more The Army had tightened up security along the Indo- have to part with six- vigilant in checking the year-old Palanpur records of applicants. ‘‘We Bhutan border, so that militant groups from the North- girl Rasi, who tied rakhi are largely dependent on the on their wrists earlier police in this regard,’’ Varma east could not cross over to the Himalayan kingdom. Pro- this month. said. ‘‘I always wanted to The efforts of the ISI, visions going into Bhutan were being checked thor- return home. But now though, were restricted to the the thought of leaving oughly, so that the militant process of recruitment of nani ben behind makes camps were denied food and jawans, he said. The norms of me sad,’’ says Premji. medicines. recruitment in the officer He was picked up by the Despite warnings from the cadres were too stringent BSF about a year-and-a- Bhutan government that the and the vigilance too strict half ago when he militants must wind up their for such attempts to succeed. strayed into Indian ter- ISI agents were also trying camps in the Bhutanese territory while chasing to gain classified informa- ritory, about 17 such camps goats. The other boys tion, particularly about were still functioning inside also met with the same movement of Army forma- Bhutan, he said. Among fate. They anxiously tions, mainly through ran- them, eight belonged to the awaited their return to dom phone calls. ‘‘One would United liberation front of their homeland. Rasi call up, posing as a senior Asom (Ulfa), seven to the Na- brought happiness in Army officer, and ask for lo- tional democratic front of their lives when she tied cations of formations.’’ Bodoland (NDFB) and two to rakhi on their wrists The calls were usually di- the Kamtapur liberation or- this year. rected to non-commissioned ganisation (KLO). Sadhu stops ‘Gangaajal’ flow By Dipak Mishra Bhardwaj, adding the petition has been TIMES NEWS NETWORK filed at Sadhu Yadav’s behest. A section of film distributors said the Patna: Noted film director Prakash Jha’s film’s Sadhu Yadav bore no resemblance new production, Gangaajal, was not al- with the real-life leader. Prakash Jha him- lowed to be screened here on Friday by self said over the phone from Delhi: ‘‘Ob- supporters of chief minister Rabri Devi’s controversial brother, Anirudh Prasad, viously,they (protesters) have not seen the alias Sadhu Yadav. They alleged Jha was film. I hope they watch it first.’’ If they did, defaming the ruling party, the RJD, and he said, everything would become clear. Sadhu Yadav, by naming the villain of the Even as long queues were witnessed for film after him. obtaining tickets for the first show at According to sources, film distributors Veena, the theatre owners decided not to have been warned against screening of the screen the film, leaving cinema-goers fum- film in Bihar. Sadhu Yadav himself is cur- ing. ‘‘I have heard the hall owners have rently in Singapore on holiday. been threatened with dire consequences if The film was released nationally on Fri- they dare to screen the film,’’ said Ravi day and was to be shown at Veena and Ap- Pandey,a post-graduate student. sara cinema halls here. But the agitated Later, the cinema hall manager said the followers of Sadhu Yadav tore down film will be screened only when the con- posters of the film. troversy ends. The owner of Apsara cine- Later, Sadhu Yadav’s supporters filed a ma hall, Santosh Kumar, also decided not petition in the Patna High Court, seeking a to screen the film at the last moment, ban on the screening of the film. ‘‘Sadhu though he claimed non-receipt of the film’s Yadav’s name has deliberately been used to print to be the reason. He denied any tarnish his image,’’ said advocate Rajesh threat by Sadhu’s followers. Heated world: Is this freak weather or climate change? TIMES NEWS NETWORK conference and the detailing left 30,000 eels dead in of extreme weather events, the river. New Delhi: Was the Andhra juxtaposed with the available Pachauri, who is leaving heat wave or the hot weather science on climate change, for an IPCC meet in Europe which has sapped Europe, indicated the link he was try- on Saturday, says that in the just a freak weather event or ing to make as part of the fourth report, they hope to fo- a sign of climate change? ‘‘broader overview’’. cus on regional assessments R K Pachauri, chairman of The 1990s were the hottest while trying to quantify the the inter-governmental panel decade in recorded history risks better and keep a focus on climate change (IPCC), and extreme weather events on adaptation and mitigation hedges his bets. are said to have doubled in of the effects of climate He, however, admits that it the last 10 years. change. should be regarded as ‘‘a This year’s tally: A 27-day For instance, said the man warning bell’’ which should heat wave in AP, against who is also heading an AP spur greater research and in- the usual of seven days, committee on how to tackle vestigation. which left 1,664 people dead; heat waves, putting in place Now busy working out the a heat wave in France (11,000 early warning systems or scope of IPCC’s fourth as- people have died this year providing basic information sessment report, supposed to though the French govern- on what to do if someone has be completed by 2007, ment hasn’t directly made a heat stroke. Pachauri said on Friday that the link); the highest Or, exploring possible al- they would try to see how to recorded temperature in ternative employment for a ‘‘get a fix’’ on extreme weath- Britain, 37.9 degrees Celsius; rickshaw-puller who cannot er events. and a high of 40 degrees afford to stop work during a But the timing of his news near the Rhine, which hot summer.

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10 Saturday,August 30, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi

AROUND THE WORLD The future of space flight AFP NYT Mesquite, Texas: Rus- sell Blink is squeezing into a spacesuit. It is the real thing, made for Russ- ian astronauts. John Car- mack, his fellow dreamer, bought it for $5,000. Like the technologies for making rocket engines that White Knight, a twin-turbojet carrier aircraft and showed up in industrial (right) Starchaser Mockup. catalogs, it was, simply, Or it could be in any of The American space out there. the other two dozen teams agency would create “Isn’t it amazing what from five countries that “the plutonium-pow- you can get on eBay these are hoping to win the X ered toaster,” says Dr. days?” Carmack says Prize, a contest whose Charles Lurio, a space with a wicked smile. founders hope will jump- consultant. If the past of space- start a private space race The contest is mod- flight lies with Nasa, the and create a space eled on the Orteig future of spaceflight may tourism industry. The Prize, the competition be starting here, in a clus- competition has garnered that led to Charles ter of office parks east of the interest of space Lindbergh’s transat- Dallas. freaks, tech zillionaires lantic flight in 1927 A small group of dedi- like the founder of Ama- with his Spirit of St. cated hobbyists led by zon.com, Jeff Bezos, and Louis. Another well-regarded Carmack, a software mil- more. Each team is approach- team, Canadian Arrow, Singers Britney Spears (left) and Madonna kiss as Christina Aguilera looks on during the lionaire, is trying to build “The environmental ing the prize in its own fulfills a lifelong dream of 2003 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Thursday. a rocket from largely off- impact study is a big has- way. Rutan’s company, its founder, Geoff Parrot’s parody: A parrot’s the world. Jose Castelar urb of Paris who is joined for the-shelf components sle,” Carmack says, and Scaled Composites, is the Sheerin. parody of a damsel in dis- Cairo’s recognition by the a pilot episode by Deputy that the members expect the federal aviation ad- most closely watched. It is An industrial designer, tress caused quite a com- Guinness Book of World Justice Minister Pierre Bedi- will take Blink into space ministration is trying to Rutan who designed Voy- Sheerin is creating a motion. Tucson police and Records was announced er, a close party ally of Presi- on the cheap. determine what kind of ager, the first airplane to rocket that would make firefighters broke down a Thursday. It took Castelar dent Jacques Chirac. Reuters Then again, the future process should be used to fly around the world with- Buck Rogers comfortable. door after being called to a five days to manufacture his may lie in a very different regulate the flights. out refueling. His X Prize He will launch it on an house and hearing a record-shattering 14-m cigar Punk catfish: Scientists place: a high-tech shop in But advocates of space entry has two stages: a offshore barge in the woman’s screams coming — a feat that far surpassed studying an unspoiled jungle the Mojave Desert, Scaled exploration say there has sleek, twin-turbojet carri- Great Lakes system for a from inside. But police soon his first milestone: a 3-m ci- river wilderness in Venezuela Composites, where Burt to be an alternative to er aircraft, the White straight-up, straight- realized that the sounds gar he and his buddies rolled on Thursday announced the Rutan, an innovative avi- what they see as the ex- Knight, and a second- down flight, and he plans weren’t coming from a in 1999 as a way to attract discovery of 10 new fish species, including a red- ation designer, is putting pensive, bureaucratic stage rocket, Space- to recover the capsule woman in woe. “The parrot’s passing tourists. AP tailed tiddler, a “punk” catfish together his own craft. over-engineering of Nasa. ShipOne. from the lake. NYT News Service screams sounded identical to those of a distressed adult Live-in politicians: with a spiky head and a pira- female,” Officer Andrew French families are to eat, nha that eats fruit as well as ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Davies said in his report. The sleep, work and play with flesh. Among the new fish Youngest in class face stress ruckus was the work of Os- their own live-in politician in a species logged were a tiny car, a 2-year-old yellow- new reality TV show that trig- fish with a blood-red tail, a London: The youngest children in any school year for Prince Charles naped Amazon parrot. gered controversy Thursday variety of tentacled armored face more stress than their older peers and are at Police found him intermit- even before its first airing in catfish, whose tangle of spiky greater risk of developing mental illness, scientists London: Oscar-winner Gwyneth tently making laughing and October. Seeking to narrow protuberances on its mouth have found. A survey of more than 10,000 children Paltrow and British actor Joseph screaming sounds as he the gap between the French and forehead has earned it the name of “punk” fish, and in Britain between the ages of five and 15 showed Fiennes will recreate the famous sat inside his large white and their often remote politi- a new piranha. Reuters that regardless of when their school year began, if Romeo and Juliet balcony scene for cage. AP cal rulers, “36 Hours” will fol- they were the youngest in the class they faced Prince Charles at a charity show, low a volunteer for nearly two Venice tales: Oliver Stone greater stress. organisers said on Thursday. Biggest smoke: A veteran days as they go about their has dined with him, Glenn “It is a moderate stress and, given that it applies The co-stars of the 1998 film Cuban cigar maker broke his usual lives with a top politi- Close has serenaded him to a lot of kids, it is a serious health threat,” re- “Shakespeare in Love” will play the second world record for cian in tow. First up is a mid- and Hollyw ood mega-pro- rolling the longest stogie in wife in a working class sub- search leader Robert Goodman said. star-crossed lovers for the heir to ducer Joel Silver can’t live Goodman and his team at the Department of the throne at an open-air London without him when he comes Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at King’s College, theatre next Monday. to Venice. But you’ve probably never heard of Francesco London, said the study stripped away seasonal fac- Paltrow won an Oscar for her China bans Tomb Raider II tors that can cause stress. Reuters Greco. The 68-year-old taxi role as wealthy beauty Viola de Chinese authorities have banned the second Tomb boat captain has come as Lesseps who steals the heart of Raider blockbuster starring Oscar-win- close to the stars as anyone Shakespeare, played by Fiennes, ner Angelina Jolie after complaining that during his 40 years plying the and helps him overcome writer’s it portrays the country negatively, it was canals of Venice. “There are block. reported Friday. Andrew Cripps, presi- so many stories,” he said. Among other actors performing dent of United International Pictures, the Like the time he picked selected Shakespeare scenes will be movie’s Asian distributor, told the South Robert De Niro up at the air- China Morning Post that Lara Croft Paul Scofield, Diana Rigg and Jane port. The “Taxi Driver” star Tomb Raider — The Cradle of Life had told him to ditch the press Lapotaire. The event will take place failed to win approval from China’s cen- at Shakespeare’s Globe, a replica Angelina and after a hair-raising chase sors. “We are very disappointed but I through Venice’s canals Elizabethan theatre on the south cannot say we are surprised,” Cripps was quoted as say- Greco delivered De Niro to bank of the River Thames. ing. The report said censors had axed the film because it the door of his hotel in secre- The money raised will go to the damaged China’s reputation, giving the impression of a cy. “Glenn Close... she was Prince’s Trust, a charity set up by country in chaos. AFP funny and sang on the way Prince Charles to help disadvan- over to the Lido.” Reuters taged young people. Reuters

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The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Saturday,August 30, 2003 11 Inquest into Diana-Dodi crash ordered AP By Rashmee Z Ahmed been some speculation a joint and hear at least 10 key wit- TIMES NEWS NETWORK inquiry may be announced nesses the world has not for- next week. mally interviewed so far. They London: With fateful timing, Dodi’s father, the London include Francois and Valerie exactly 48 hours before Diana businessman Mohammed al- Levistre, who claimed to have and Dodi’s sixth death anniver- Fayed, has long campaigned for seen a “big flash” coming out of sary on Sunday, the world has a public inquiry, claiming the the tunnel just before the crash been told it might finally be on crash was no accident. Brenda Wells, who claimed she the verge of solving the most Despite millions of websites was prevented by a motorbike famous and mysterious car with conspiracy theories to from going down the crucial crash in history. match, there is little public approach road to the crash-site On Friday, the British au- clarity about the circum- ahead of the crash and Gary thorities announced a one-mil- stances surrounding the tragic Hunter,who said he saw two ve- lion-pound inquest into Dodi’s death of the most pho- hicles race out of the tunnel, death “sooner rather than lat- tographed woman in the world, including a mysterious dark er”. It is thought effectively to Diana, Princess of Wales. car. constitute the first official pub- The only investigation so far The crumpled Mercedes in lic inquiry on British soil into has been conducted in secret which Diana and Dodi made Diana’s death. by a French judge, who issued a their last journey,is likely to be The inquest, long delayed by 6,000-page report that was nev- shipped from Paris to England legal and police procedure, is a er published. and examined for the first time requirement under British law Dodi’s inquest will be con- It will be the first official inquiry in UK into the Diana-Dodi crash. here. when a body is returned to the ducted by coroner Michael east English county council of joint hearing. The death in a Paris under- UK following a death abroad. Burgess, who is also responsi- Surrey, where Dodi lived and Even so, any inquest into the pass on August 31, 1997, has al- The tragic couple has not had ble for suspicious royal deaths. his inquest will be held, said car crash is expected to delve ways remained a black hole of an inquest so far and there had A spokesman for the south- there were “no plans” for a deep. It is expected to summon suspicion and controversy. Reuters Campbell decides to step down By Rashmee Z Ahmed tational bias. vealed to have been involved TIMES NEWS NETWORK The announcement, late in Kelly’s public naming and on Friday, has set tongues shaming as a government London: In a bombshell for wagging in Westminster’s in- mole. Britain’s embattled Blair ad- cestuous political village, Often called Britain’s ‘‘real ministration, Tony Blair’s prompting questions about deputy prime minister’’ and chief spin doctor and the what, if anything, Campbell ‘‘the second most powerful UK government’s chief di- knew about the death of person in Britain’’, Campbell rector of communications David Kelly. has been Blair’s political Alastair Campbell has con- On Monday, the widow of partner for nine years. troversially announced his the dead government scien- And the two men have resignation. tist is to be publicly interro- been regarded as so close Campbell’s announced de- gated on the circumstances the words of one are said parture comes almost exactly leading to his death. to reflect the views of the 24 hours after Blair took the Kelly, Britain’s leading au- other. witness stand in the Kelly thority on Iraqi weapons of Late on Friday, Campbell death inquiry. mass destruction, had secret- said it had “been an enor- It’s timing is considered ly told the BBC he was un- mous privilege to work for hugely significant for an ad- sure about Blair’s case for someone history will judge ministration under siege by Gulf War II. as a great transforming Mary Ann Tripoli weds Lester Searcy outside the Harley Davidson motorcy- hostile headlines around the Campbell, one of Blair’s prime minister.” Blair re- cle company headquarters in Milwaukee, US, on Thursday. Fourteen couples world, accusations of exces- closest friends and political sponded with warm words of will be married to mark the 100th anniversary celebrations of the company. sive spin and undue presen- allies, has already been re- praise. North Korea talks end for now Beijing: North Korea nuclear crisis talks closed on Friday with what the six nations had predicted to be the best possible outcome — agreement to meet again — but that didn’t stop Pyongyang from taking a parting swipe at the United States. Frustrations had bubbled to the surface during the three days of meetings at a secluded state guesthouse in Bei- jing amid signs the world’s most reclusive communist state had told its US foes it would prove its nuclear credentials by carrying out a test. The only concrete result came when host China said all six countries — the two Koreas, Japan, Russia, the United States and China —- were in agreement to work towards a Korean peninsula free of nuclear arms and would meet again within two months. It set no place or date and predicted future talks to end a nuclear standoff that erupted 10 months ago would not be easy. Reuters

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12 Saturday,August 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Disease as Development Raja’s Raag A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Atomic scientist, minister of state for defence, making roofs and lavatories, digging wells. Marketing HIV/AIDS for NGO Profit member of Parliament, gifted musician, dog- The rest I spent on the tribal area of We speak of fertility so much, yet there is no word on lover — Raja Ramanna is a man of many Chamaraja Nagar near Veerappan country, infertility which so many Indian women suffer from. By Shastri Ramachandaran cause the former is an internationally marketed success with immense scope for net- parts. On the eve of his departure home to for development work. — Mrinal Pande Modernity and development are as much working. Conferences and seminars, work- Bangalore after a six-year tenure in the In the last 50 years, what have been our most about disease as they are about health and shops and study programmes, invariably in Upper House, the father of India’s nuclear notable achievements in science? wealth. In every age, societies have courted exotic resorts and five-star hotels, speak of a programme spoke to Narayani Ganesh: We have developed self-sufficiency in Baby Blues a disease as fashionable. In Europe, particu- new genre of travel that may appropriately building complex things like nuclear larly in the 19th and early 20th century,sexu- be dubbed AIDS tourism. Every conference I tried to confirm the appointment before reactors. Huge progress has been made in Infertility rising among ally transmitted diseases were considered and seminar is a platform for magnifying the coming but your phone isn’t working... space development. We’ve acquired excellent chic. It was a fashion among the ‘cultured’, Sorry... I came home from my last day in medical skills, although we still import most rich and poor in India problem, exaggerating the numbers affected such as the aristocracy,artists and writers, to and, of course, ‘spreading awareness’ — all Parliament (Aug 26) to find the phonewallahs of the equipment. Globally, discoveries in A curious phenomenon is going almost unnoticed in the actually take pride in being afflicted by with a view to wresting more funds which, in yanking off the line. I told them to wait for a biology have been very exciting — also the field of population management. While we have been venereal disease. There are accounts of how turn, spawn more NGOs who keep the couple of days... Anyway,in a few days I’ll be use of the laser in studying molecules. focused on population growth and fertility, infertility bored, aristocratic women preoccupied sole- chakkar going with more conferences. Thus, off to Bangalore. Can we launch moon missions by 2008? among men and women is on the rise in India, just as it ly with diversions to amuse themselves actu- crores of rupees are spent discussing and As an Upper House member, could you draw There is no problem in terms of capability. is elsewhere in the world. Stress is a major factor in ally offered to pass on their disease to writers debating how to spend the hundreds of the government’s attention to issues in science? Beyond that, you should address that infertility among the poor. The back-breaking grind of and intellectuals to whom they took a shine. crores that are available even while planning I’m afraid not. Ministers and others in question to (ISRO chief) Kasturirangan. daily life and the exaggerated pressure to produce children Much like venereal disease in that period, how to get more money to achieve a government have more faith in astrology. I But I think we should go to Mars if we have immediately after marriage have contributed to the today HIV/AIDS seems to have become a ‘behavioural change’ among the high-risk once pointed out to the minister for science that kind of technology.And we need to take inability to conceive. And it is increasingly affecting the fashionable cause for the rich and the groups. Simply put, ‘behavioural change’ and technology that I had read the Brihad care of safety issues. poorer sections of society. Despite low incomes, couples powerful. Everybody — NGOs, governments, means getting people to use condoms. Samhita (from the Parliament library) and What about the safety of nuclear reactors? are willing to shell out vast sums of money in order to get celebrities, film stars, condom manu- In a globalised world, market forces driven was stunned to find that it recommended We have a separate group, the Safety treatment and produce a biological child. Among the facturers, advertisers, media, politicians, by the interest of the advanced economies that as soon as twins are born, one should be Committee on Atomic Energy,which reports better-off and career-oriented, the tendency to put off socialites, cultural activists, businessmen — dictate the agenda which is business. In the killed off to avoid untoward happenings. I directly to the prime minister. The recent having the first child is creating problems. Stressful jobs loves HIV/AIDS. The cruel exception is interests of its business, the West has made mean, how can anyone follow this kind of leak at Kalpakkam was negligible — if and age take their toll and often urban couples find that the people who are suffering from the HIV/AIDS a business proposition that thing? The minister replied that I should Chernobyl was classified as 7 on the scale of they are unable to conceive when they are ready to start a dreaded disease. developing countries have to accept. Even read palm leaf sources, not these books. nuclear leaks, Kalpakkam would be barely family. According to the World Health Organisation, Led by external research and lobbies, HIV/AIDS-related research, regardless of So, when politicians think that their one. But on the beaches of Kerala and there are 60 to 80 million infertile couples worldwide. In driven by international finance and boosted many and varied findings end up prescribing strength lies in keeping large numbers elsewhere, where there are no atomic reac- India, 10 to 15 per cent of couples in the reproductive age by media hype, AIDS prevention projects and condoms and medicines for STD. And cash- of people ignorant, how can we bring about tors, radiation occurs naturally — so one group are estimated to be infertile. And fertility clinics awareness campaigns have strapped Third World govern- scientific progress? cannot identify a worldwide are doing booming business. become a booming industry. ments and public broad- Should more scien- particular health In fact, Indian infertility experts are being sought out This is a cash cow that casters are forced to massively tists enter politics Q&A condition with a nu- by patients from all over the world — not just for their skills everybody wants to milk for fund campaigns for condom in order to ensure clear reactor alone. but also because services here are cost-effective. With the profit it can fetch along use. That the campaign had to a more scientific Ministers have more The fact is, our growing demand, fertility clinics are mushrooming all with the respectability, if be taken off Indian television, outlook? faith in astrology... So, future lies in nuclear over the country from Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and not the prominence, that is in the face of public protests, What is the use when politicians think energy. Coal creates of scientists coming so many environ- Delhi to the backwaters of Kerala, to even far-flung towns assured by association with meant that much more money that their strength lies in into politics if they mental problems. in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh. The potential infertility a public health issue. The down the drain. The only keeping large numbers treatment market in India is estimated, conservatively, AIDS prevention lobby has winners in this global cam- have to spend all The amount of of people ignorant, how to be over Rs 25,000 crore per year, reports the draft outline cultivated every influential paign have been condom ma- their time trying to uranium required is for formulating national guidelines for accreditation, section within the country nufacturers and advertisers. convince ministers? can we bring about only a few kilograms True, we have a sci- scientific progress? whereas you need supervision and regulation of assisted reproductive and funding agencies abroad. NGOs are All this is not to suggest that HIV/AIDS is Udayshankar technology (ART) clinics in India. According to members flourishing and as the number of affected not a public health priority, but, on the entist for president; enormous amounts of the drafting committee, there is an urgent need to bring people keep swelling, so do the coffers of contrary,to emphasise that it is not treated as he says the right of coal to generate in regulatory legislation because a large portion of the those in the awareness and prevention such. Anti-AIDS campaigns have been things, but how much power does he have? the same amount of energy. money spent by infertile patients will be unaccounted business. Like sex, HIV/AIDS too has been hijacked to provide the stage or party setting So how should we take science to the But what about waste disposal? We can’t for and many of these patients belong to the low-income commodified, with the industry thriving for the glitterati who enjoy the hype and ground level? dump it in the sea like the French did, can we? groups. The infertile poor have a double burden to bear: on the people who are suffering from it. hysteria associated with these events. There How can we take science to the grassroots Yes, that is a problem but the quantities That of social stigma and financial constraints, both of In a country of over one billion, there are is supreme unconcern for the condition of when primary education is virtually are very small, so we can safely bury it at which drive them to quacks. The Indian ART market four million cases of HIV/AIDS. As has been the affected four million. For instance, AIDS non-existent in villages? As an MP, I tried to the site of the nuclear reactor itself — as is abroad is presently dominated by demand from infertile pointed out in these columns, the number of treatment in the form of active retroviral go and visit a village school. At Raichur, a being done now. The process is being closely NRIs, closely followed by other Asian emigrants. Indian people suffering from tuberculosis (TB) and therapy (ART) offers no cure. This has been village in Karnataka, I found that visitors monitored, every couple of hours. Thorium, clinics are known to supply eggs-on-demand according malaria put together is five times as much. capitalised upon by the awareness-preven- were routinely taken only to two model in fact, has great potential in energy to the specifications of potential buyers. Assisted Air and water-borne diseases are rampant in tion lobby for grabbing a bigger share of the schools. At the school I chose to go to, I saw production. And it poses no threat to the reproductive techniques have now been around for more the country as are infectious diseases and funds, which curiously enough are not something unforgettable. The roofless build- environment or the people. A hundred than 25 years — it is time to take stock, create public malnutrition. These are simply dismissed as assigned for basic remedial measures. It is ing was dilapidated, there were no lavatories, years from now, we might find another way awareness on the issue and put in place safety regulations. inescapable tropical maladies instead of conveniently forgotten that ART is necessary and no sign of a teacher. On the grass, girls of disposing of nuclear waste. being treated as public health priorities. In for mitigating the condition of an affected and boys were seated in orderly groups, and You are also a musician. What do you think of Supreme Court calls for the prevailing climate of globalisation, person but unaffordable by the vast majority. they were engaged in either drawing the concept of the music of the spheres? where government has been withdrawing Instead of seeing this reality, the govern- pictures or working out simple sums. I learnt That’s nonsense. Sound requires a a uniform civil code from public health, the only exception seems ment and politicians are falling into the that the teacher comes at 4 p.m. every day medium. If only the earth has atmosphere, VIEW to be HIV/AIDS. Earlier this year, the Global awareness trap. The recent convention on and leaves at 5 p.m. See, this is the state of how can sound be produced in atmosphere- Fund — a financial institution set up during AIDS at the parliamentary forum exposed our primary schools — no structure, no less space? We’ve developed systems we call the G-8 summit in 2001 for targeting diseases that politicians, while eager to join the teachers, no classes, no lavatories. Bright music. Otherwise, there is only noise. We Gender Justice Demands of poverty — approved Rs 650 crore in its bandwagon, know little or nothing about the children in rural India suffer this neglect. might have learnt music from the birds. second grant to fight HIV/AIDS and TB. issues at stake. In the circumstances, the I once asked Suresh Prabhu, power Do you think a very thin line divides physics Predictably, Rs 500 crore was earmarked to government should leave this business to minister, when you say you have electrified a and philosophy? A Common Law HIV/AIDS as against Rs 150 crore to TB. those who have the money to invest in it for village, does it also include the local school? They’re getting increasingly closer. What ny mention of the need for a uniform civil code The obsession with HIV/AIDS as a so- their own reasons and get on with other What did you do about it? is quantum mechanism but a philosophy? Aattracts the charge that it would be needless called issue of public health dominates to the pressing priorities in governance and more I used most of my local area development But it’s stupid to separate science and art. interference in personal laws and freedoms, that it is exclusion of, for example, tuberculosis, be- serious issues of public health. money on repairing schools in Raichur — Isn’t there beauty in mathematics? an attempt forcibly to homogenise society. Change must come through a common community consensus is an oft-repeated mantra. This is to challenge the very concept that laws are required to bring about positive Leadership Qualities social change. Given the many social challenges that we face, we simply cannot leave things to social consensus. The law is required, as an exemplar, to lay In Vighneshwara down the parameters of what is permissible and what is not. We cannot, for example, say that child marriage By Swami Swaroopananda Forgive and Forget is the social norm in parts of Rajasthan and it is for On assuming office Ganesha, the elephant- capable leader must be aware the community to change its ways. Similarly,sati was as chief minister, headed God, combines with- of the grossest aspects of a the norm in many parts of India until strong deterrent Uttar Pradesh, in himself all the essential job as well as its minute, laws came about to wipe out this evil. Most personal Mulayam Singh Yadav qualities of a successful meticulous details. Like laws discriminate against the disadvantaged and today ordered leader. Pati means master or the elephant’s trunk, the women and they stand to benefit from a common civil withdrawal of leader. Gana stands for the discriminative faculty of a code. For example, while the UCC will prevent a the “politically attendants. Hence He is leader with an evolved Muslim man from taking four wives, it will equally motivated” POTA ensure that he pays alimony if he divorces his wife. also called Vinayaka,the intellect can help solve gross supreme leader of the ganas, problems as well as settle cases... The UCC will eliminate the undue economic advan- News release, tages accruing from the Hindu Undivided Family law. one who attends upon and subtle issues. Good and follows at all times Lord evil are represented by the August 29, 2003 Similarly, Christian women will no longer be discri- ✥ minated against in property and inheritance matters. Shiva. He is also Vighnesh- two tusks of the elephant. So, really it is a win-win situation for everyone. In an wara, Lord of all obstacles. A strong leader must dis- I am he who blots out anarchic society like ours, it is vital that laws govern Ganapati has two spouses: criminate between right and your transgressions our interactions. When the law has been laid down, it Buddhi or intellect and Sid- wrong and all other dualities, for my own sake, and eventually gets implemented, though perhaps less dhi or achievement. Ganesha and then form his judgment I will not remember than perfectly.For example, it took a law to get people represents perfect leader- before taking action. your sins. to start wearing safety helmets on Delhi’s roads. In the ship. He is the possessor of Ganesha has a wide mouth Isaiah 43.25 more advanced nations, uniform laws cover all aspects perfect wisdom — a fully and a large belly, indicative ✥ of life and have contributed to the formation of order- CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS realised being. To a student of a healthy appetite and Whatever defect I have ly societies. The malaise caused by so many different of Vedanta, the “path of enthusiasm for life. Similar- of eye, of heart, personal laws can only be rectified by imposing, if Keep Vigil routinely use statistics to mislead people. knowledge” is the prescribed ly, a successful leader is of mind, necessary, strong remedial measures. The UCC may This is why one is forced to question path, which is essentially ready to stomach all types or whatever excess not bring about instant reform and create a more just Bomb blasts can only be controlled by a the clean chit that Sushma Swaraj has intellectual. So, a leader of experience, whether there is, society immediately. But, if it is enforced now, its vigilant public which notices and reports so readily handed out to the cola must have a ‘great head’ to auspicious or inauspicious. may Brihaspati benefits will trickle down to the next generation. suspicious activities. We must remember manufacturers. conceive and understand the The mouse is a tiny fidgety remedy it. that a predominant section of the minority — Geraldine H, Mumbai logic of spiritual thought. creature that darts from Gracious to us be the COUNTERVIEW community has nothing to do with The truth of Vedanta can one food to another, nibbling Lord of the world. nefarious activities, but unfortunately Mooning Around be comprehended a little from Yajur Veda keeps quiet out of fear or a false sense only through everywhere. This ✥ Reforms, not Uniformity, of brotherhood. The people in the largely The prime minister, in his I-Day address, listening to a denotes a mind said that India would launch its flight to Carry us across, minority localities need to be extra teacher. There- full of desires, as by a boat vigilant. Also, the police needs to be the moon. One wonders, however, whether fore, Shravanam ever-hovering Is the Real Issue the moon mission should be given priority across the sea, more cooperative and encourage people or listening is from one longing for our good, n jurisprudence, mala fide intent is often regarded to come forward with information. instead of our basic needs. This is, quite depicted by Gana- to another. There as sufficient ground for the inadmissibility of a literally,a million-dollar question. Shining bright, I — V Seshadri, Mumbai pati’s large ears. is a mouse with- drive away our sin. particular legal provision. The first problem with the I put this question to 20 citizens (10 well- Difficult and in each of us, current demand for a uniform civil code, particularly educated and 10 semi-literate) and all Rig Veda No Trust thorny issues are THE capable of eating ✥ from the political right, is that it is mala fide in intent. 20 answers were in favour of basic needs resolved by intel- away all merits. It is concerned less with providing justice to minority It is often said that there are three types such as clean drinking water, education Without forgiveness of lies — lies, damn lies and statistics. ligent listening. SPEAKING The mouse is women than with forcing a particular political ideo- and cheaper medical facilities. The moon Quarrels and con- surrounded by an life is governed by... logy down their throats. As for the Supreme Court’s Statistics can be used to mislead people can clearly wait. TREE an endless cycle and much depends on the mode of data flicts come up in assortment of observation that a uniform civil code is required to — Husain E Begulwala, Mumbai an organisation, at the enticing sweets but it looks of resentment bring about national integration, it cannot stand up to collection and sampling techniques and retaliation. employed. In our country,politicians cash workplace, or in the family — up at Ganesha, seeking serious scrutiny. The identity of the Indian republic Virus Writers all because no one is ready to His permission to eat. A Roberto Assagioli was historically premised on a simple formula: Unity in on the ignorance of the masses and ✥ Apropos of the ‘Worm Week’ (Business listen. After listening, the in- competent leader must in diversity. Our founding fathers didn’t believe that dividual must independently check all temptations, and Never does the human the idea of Indian nationhood was in any way threat- Times, Aug 23), virus writers are becoming From timesofindia.com a scourge for the computer systems. After reflect (manana) upon what rise above selfish desires, soul appear so strong ened or compromised by having a diverse set of laws he has heard. For this he personal ambitions and as when it forgoes in areas such as marriage, divorce and maintenance. Blaster, and Welchia, now the fastest Long Road spreading ‘Sobig’ is reported to have caused needs to be sensitive enough aspire to work for the revenge, and dares The reason why the Constitution still incorporated the to be aware of all creatures. welfare and happiness of all forgive an injury. A decade ago we were told that Mumbai havoc and paralysed the computer systems. idea of a uniform code within the directive principles His intellect must have his followers. E H Chapin would be made into another Singapore. A few questions arise: is that reform of personal laws was seen as a step the depth and width to Vighneshwara has four ✥ Now we are set to take on Shanghai, What kind of sadistic pleasure do towards ensuring women a better deal. understand the entire world arms representing the forgetting that the investment in the the worm writers derive from such a Forgiveness is the key The real issue in the debate on UCC then is neither of plurality. He must have four inner equipment, an- reconstruction of that Chinese city in destructive activity? Would such misguided to action and freedom. nationalism nor equality before the law, but gender the subtle discriminative tahkaran. In one hand, he the last 10 years has been more than geniuses ever be apprehended or is it really Hannah Arendt justice. A uniform civil code, in other words, is not and power, viveka, to distinguish has a rope and in another an $45 billion. Indeed, at any given time impossible to trace them? What has been ✥ was never an end in itself but only a means. If the the changing perishable axe. With the axe he severs in the last decade, 25 per cent of the its economic impact on India? Is there no It is far easier to current debate on UCC is seen in that light, it will be matter from the Eternal. the attachments of his large-scale civil construction machinery IT-security mechanism to keep the so-called forgive an enemy obvious that even bona fide proponents of a uniform He must be able to filter devotees and with the rope he used in the world has been in Shanghai. ‘hackers and spammers’ at bay? after you’ve got law have missed the wood for the trees. The focus of all information, and retain pulls them closer to the Eventually this new competitor to One hopes that Ankit Fadia, the ‘‘ethical even with him. debate ought to be not uniformity but reforms and only the good and the noble Truth, and ultimately binds Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore will — hacker’’ would come up with some how they can be made more acceptable to those for in his mind. them to the highest goal. Olin Miller whom they are intended. And given the current besides its waterfront and a couple ‘‘e-vaccine’’ against the virus. ✥ A cool, clear head is a In his third hand, he political context — where many minorities justifiably of heritage areas — be given a total — R K Malhotra, New Delhi necessary attribute of a holds a riceball (modak) rep- He that cannot forgive regard UCC as a deliberate and motivated infringe- makeover. The distance between powerful leader. The trunk resenting the rewards of the others breaks the ment of their culture and identity — the agency for Shanghai and Beijing is similar to Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New coming down the forehead joys of devotion to God. 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Profits down under Discounts galore On an Asia high John Mulcahy (extreme left), People converge at a 100 yen Alstom chief Patrick Kron sees CEO and Chris Skilton, CFO, of ($.85) discount shop in Tokyo Apac as a growth market as Australian financial services as Japanese consumer prices it sharpens focus on power group Suncorp Metway, in July fell 0.2% from a year and rail transport ventures announce a H2 profit surge of earlier to extend the decline to following a massive 46% in FY02-04 a 47th consecutive month government bailout

Selling rate: Currency notes Rupee Value US $: 46.35 UK £: 73.20 Euro: 50.50 S Fr: 33.80 Yen (100): 40.85 A $: 30.60 NZ $: 27.35 S $: 27.20 Saudi Riyal 12.75 UAE Dirham 13.00 Thai Baht (100) 113.10 Source: SBI, Mumbai

Tata to roll out TWO-WAY Cub for light NYSE chief’s pay under the lens TRADE ichard A Grasso has But each of the execu- sation committee maintain and the number of listed Indo-Pak biz succeeded at what tives and bankers asked not that Grasso’s total compen- companies has soared. truck market R some would consider to be identified, as Grasso is sation should be compared They cite the brave public an impossible task: Making one of their primary regu- more with that of the chief face he presented to the By Byas Anand Wall Street gasp in aston- lators. Wall Street execu- executives of financial world in the days after Sep- links to soar TIMES NEWS NETWORK ishment at someone else’s tives have been assailed for services firms than with tember 11. Multimillion- TIMES NEWS NETWORK compensation. the size of their own com- the heads of quasi-public dollar pay packages are New Delhi: Ratan Tata seems to be finally A dozen Wall Street exec- pensation packages, espe- regulatory institutions. common on Wall Street. Cit- New Delhi: The government on Friday driving closer to realising his dream of utives and bankers all said cially amid the stock mar- Bankers who know Gras- igroup’s chairman, Sanford cleared three CII proposals, aimed at en- rolling out a Rs 1 lakh car. His flagship firm that Grasso’s reported com- ket’s decline. But now it is so spare little praise for the Weill, received a total pack- hancing trade and commercial links with Tata Motors, erstwhile Telco, is in the pensation of $12 million they who are incredulous job he has done at the Big age of more than $200 mil- Pakistan. The proposals are: Setting up process of preparing a 700cc four-wheeled and above in the last two that the Big Board’s chair- Board. They say he has suc- lion in one year and execu- an Indo-Pak CEOs’ forum, allowing light commercial vehicle christened Cub. years and the $140 million man should be paid a yearly cessfully marketed the ex- tives like James E Cayne at ‘‘made in Pakistan’’ exhibition to be held And insiders say, this would form the base for Richard A Grasso in deferred savings and re- amount that not only ap- change overseas and en- Bear Stearns and Henry M in India and launching a joint website. his People’s Car project. tirement benefits that the proaches their rich awards, said it would be inappropri- sured that it continues to Paulson Jr at Goldman The government has conveyed its con- Though the Cub is being planned initially NYSE board awarded him but is in cash, not stock ef- ate to comment. grow and prosper. Buoyed Sachs have each received to- currence to these proposals, said the ex- as a cross between a three-wheeler on Wednesday were drasti- fectively risk-free. An official close to the ex- by the recent gains in stock tal compensation exceeding ternal affairs ministry spokesman. Along and a light commercial vehicle, and would be cally out of line for the ex- Grasso would not com- change said the consultants prices, the exchange’s total $15 million in a year during with its step-by-step progressive ap- positioned as a goods carrier, officials point- proach to improving relations with Is- change’s chairman. ment, but NYSE spokesman who work with its compen- market value has doubled the bull market. NYT News Service ed out that this is being viewed as step closer lamabad, New Delhi is keen to move for- towards rolling out the Rs 1 lakh car. AFP ward on reviving bilateral trade links. The new vehicle will sport a 700cc diesel Currently, Indo-Pak trade is just about engine that is being developed in-house. ‘‘It $240 million. Business leaders are confi- will be positioned as a rural transport vehi- SAP India eyes bigger dent that it could grow to $2 billion. “Un- cle that will be used for a dual transportation official” business is at $1 billion anyway. purpose, that is both a load and a people car- CII president Anand Mahindra said the rier,’’ the official said. But a company CEO forum would be launched in part- spokesperson, when contacted, refused to pie of market share nership with Young Presidents Associa- comment. By Gaurav Bhagowati turing space — auto, aerospace, de- tion (YPO) and have 15 CEOs each from The vehicle, officials said, is slated to hit TIMES NEWS NETWORK sign and construction, components, the two countries. The first meeting is ex- the streets within a year and would chemicals, pharma and mining. Ac- pected mid-September in New Delhi. It be positioned as Tata’s entry-level light com- New Delhi: SAP India, the wholly- will hold meetings every six months. cording to an IDC estimate, SAP In- mercial vehicle to take on the might of three- owned subsidiary of business soft- Mahindra said the these three initia- dia’s share of the pie is 60 per cent in wheeler firms like Bajaj Auto and Piaggio. ware solution giant SAP AG, is plan- tives would go a long way in facilitating ERP and 29 per cent in CRM. This also a part of the Tata group firm’s ning to sharpen its focus on SMBs the development of ‘‘soft infrastructure’’ Sedghi also said that SAP was plans to expand its LCV portfolio to include a (mid-sized businesses). Besides, SAP that is essential for business and trade vehicle with a payload of around one tonne. is working towards growing its mar- bullish about growth in India, ties between the two countries. among its markets in the Asia-Pacif- But industry insiders pointed out that con- ket share in other verticals like serv- ‘‘We are encouraged that the govern- ic region. ‘‘India is among the top version of the Cub into a low-cost passenger ices, utilities, BFSI and government, ment of India has welcomed our three four markets in the region, the other car would be an uphill task for the Tatas, con- Alan Sedghi, president and MD, SAP new initiatives to facilitate business ties three being Australia, China and Ko- sidering the huge costs involved in meeting India and Thailand, told The Times between India and Pakistan,’’ said the existing safety norms. of India on Friday. rea. These are key markets.’’ He said Mahindra. Indian businesses realise that they Meanwhile, Tata Motors is also planning ‘‘SMBs have always been an inte- Industry representatives said the fo- can benefit from the right IT solu- to launch application-oriented options on its gral part of SAP strategy worldwide. rum would have several advantages like tions and ‘‘SAP will leverage that’’. 207 light pick-up truck platform. In India, we are the market leader in relationship building, information shar- Driving home his point, Sedghi ‘‘We are in the process of identifying the the SMB space with around 35 per ing and encouraging policy discussions options that can be made available to the cus- cent of the market. We will continue said that SAP Labs in Bangalore was besides promoting trade and investment. tomers. Based on their requirements, we will the firm’s largest and fastest grow- to aggressively push our weight be- Similarly, the exhibition will give out get these special applications built-in by spe- ing development centre outside hind areas where we want to ad- the message that Indians are not against cialised body builders. It will be a made to or- Models display jewellery during the opening of the 46th Great India Jewellery Germany and that there was in- vance our business over the next two buying goods from Pakistan. The web der options rather than a made to stock op- Show in Chennai on Friday. The World Gold Council has said that demand for creasingly a trend of moving devel- years,’’ Sedghi said. SMBs con- site, on the other hand, would ensure up- tion,’’ a senior company official said. the precious metal is set to rebound in 2003, thanks to good monsoons. opment work from other countries, tribute around 20 per cent to SAP’s dated flow of information on global revenues, he added. like China for instance, to the Ban- economic/trade data and allow people to Sedghi, however, pointed out that galore centre. ‘‘India’s good talent is keep track of business events of the two India’s security risk downgraded: EIU the company would maintain and the advantage, we will continue to countries. grow its dominance in the manufac- tap this.’’ By Rashmee Z Ahmed note, it added that sub-conti- cult to prophesy the ‘‘scale’’ math of the blasts, British TIMES NEWS NETWORK nental vibes overall were of retaliation. diplomats made a point of likely to improve because The survey,published here not warning tourists and London: Mumbai’s twin ‘‘conflict with Pakistan is on Friday by the Economist businessmen to stay away bomb blasts on August 25 less likely as governments in Intelligence Unit, said the from Mumbai. could lead to a new cycle of both countries seek to im- blasts had negative implica- ‘‘In this month’s Country communal violence in India prove relations’’. tions in the short term for In- Risk Service report we have and the country’s overall risk In a contentious conclu- dia’s security environment. adjusted our score for India’s assessment has risen, said an sion, the survey warned The dramatic conclusions, security risk to 54 from 50 authoritative new survey for ‘‘(Hindu) retaliation is now winging their way electroni- (where a score of 100 is the overseas investors — some- likely’’ because ‘‘most of the cally to the in-boxes of pres- most risky),’’ the survey what dramatically and 52 who died in the Mumbai ent and potential investors, pointed out. dispiritingly. bombings were Hindus’’. But have caused concern. For more, log on to But on a more encouraging it cautioned that it was diffi- In the immediate after- www.timesofindia.com

EXECUTIVE DIGEST Allianz Bajaj customer NATIONAL Billion-dollar dreams: Reliance chairman Mukesh base over 2 lakh: Allianz Labour commissioner Ambani wants the $16 billion company to last for Bajaj Life Insurance Company centuries and institutionalise his father Dhirubhai has crossed an individual prohibits DCM strike: The Ambani’s achievements. He said in a BBC interview Bharatrams-led DCM Ltd got customer base of two lakh in that there were few companies that have 23 months, making it the a shot in the arm with the lasted centuries. labour commissioner of Pun- second private life insurance jab prohibiting workers from entity to achieve this mark. going on a strike. The strike During the current fiscal (April has already hurt manufactur- to August 27) the firm has ing processes of a lot of com- covered 62,000 customers panies, including Maruti and collected premiums Udyog Ltd. DCM on Friday worth Rs 30 crore. PTI also announced that some of Bank branches will lose the workers have rejoined relevance: Indian Banks’ their duties and partial opera- Association (IBA) chairman tions are expected to restart Dalbir Singh said with rapid shortly, it added. TNN development in communica- Vijaya Bank in asset tion and computing technolo- management JV: The Ban- gies, physical presence of galore-based Vijaya Bank is branches will lose its rele-

setting up a joint venture with Ajit Ninan vance. “Structurally, further Punjab National Bank and rationalisation of branch net- Principal Financial Group of work needs to be attended to the US to form an asset man- and the system has to agement, trustee and distri- Essar Steel shareholders Tata aims Rs 400 crore change accordingly,” Singh bution company. An MoU has approve capital cut: Es- spares sales: The commer- said. Restructuring capital been signed between the sar Steel Ltd said its cial vehicle business unit of was another area of concern. three parties at Iowa in the shareholders have given their Tata Motors expects to post With public sector banks US for setting up this venture. go ahead to reduce the firm’s an over 20 per cent growth in (PSBs), this involves return of Vijaya Bank, which intends to equity share capital by 40 per spare parts sales at over Rs capital to the government and merge its housing arm with it- cent and issue 0.01 per cent 400 crore this fiscal. It has issue of equity in capital self this year, has seen its net cumulative redeemable also targeted to add over 100 market. In PSBs, the fear of profit for Q1, ended June 30, preference shares. They also more service centres to its vigilance for taking commer- touch Rs 80.90 crore, up gave their nod to increasing network of 530 centres this cial decisions needs to be 98.43 per cent from the same and reclassifying the year, head of customer Ser- lessened, it not eliminated, quarter a year ago. TNN authorised share capital. TNN vice S M Sharma said. PTI Singh said. PTI

him on Friday, a US official France sees investment INTERNATIONAL confirmed. The 18-year-old, in 2003 rising 2%: French whose name and hometown industry chiefs expect invest- US economy on recovery was not available, was ac- ment to rise a meagre two per path: The US economy cused of writing one version cent this year, a key survey revved up at a 3.1 per cent of the ‘‘blaster’’ infection, showed, underscoring busi- growth pace in the second which spread quickly across nesses’ nervousness about quarter, in another sign that the internet weeks ago. AP the economic outlook. Reuters the world’s largest economy is gathering momentum. The Hyundai Motor names rise in gross domestic product new President: Hyundai ET INSTA POLL (GDP), revised upward from Motor, South Korea’s largest Yesterday’s results: an earlier estimate of 2.4 per automaker, named Park Will you invest in a private cent, the strongest since the Hwang Ho as its new presi- sector pension plan? second quarter of 2002, sur- Restaurant staff prepare steak sandwiches while dent to replace Kim Dong Jin, Yes 37% No 57% Can’t say 06% prised economists. Agencies people queue for the free who was appointed V-C. Kia • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of FBI closing in on author give aways in Singapore. Motors, which is 36.3 per the general public. of Net ‘worm’: The FBI has Singapore’s goods and cent owned by Hyundai Mo- Today’s question: identified a teenager as the services tax will be raised to tor, also named Yoon Kook Do you get free beverages at author of a damaging virus- five per cent in January 2004 Jin as president, replacing your workplace? like infection unleashed on the despite the city-state’s Kim Noi Myung, who will be- To vote, log on to http://economictimes.indiatimes.com Internet and plans to arrest sluggish economy. come Kia’s vice chairman. TNN

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14 Saturday,August 30, 2003 STOCKS The Times of India, New Delhi

122.05, 124.40, 120.20, 121 Blue Star 100, 102.95, 102 Eveready Ind 25, 23.25, 23.45 Hind.Motors 17, 17.33, 16.05, 16.70 37.45 Whirlpool 25.45, 25.70, 24.45, 24.60 101.25, 104, 101, 103.70 24.55, 24.55, 23.30, 23.45 16.55, 17.30, 16.55, 16.75 38.50, 40, 36.15, 36.90 Wipro 1088, 1133, 1055, 1065.55 Blue Star In 144.45, 154, 144, Everest Inds 91, 93.70, 85, 85.65 Hind.Org.Chm 23.25, 23.70, 22.85, Kopran 51.60, 54.70, 49.05, 53.35 1098, 1132, 1051.25, 1068.85 146.10 87, 93.65, 85, 87.05 23.10 51.75, 54.85, 49, 53.75 NSE SHARE INDEX BSE SHARE INDEX Sensex gains 32 points Wockhardt 500, 510, 495, 499.45 148, 154, 143, 145.10 Excel Inds. 109.40, 118, 103.15, 23.50, 24, 22.85, 23.15 Kothari Prod 177.55, 178.05, 177.50, 510, 511, 496, 499.35 BOC 40.90, 41.60, 40, 40.65 117.05 Hind.Power 41.25, 43, 42.30 177.55 1375 4400 Zee Telefilm 106, 108.20, 101.75, 41, 41.90, 40, 40.55 107.95, 117, 103.55, 115.45 Hind.Sanitar 81.90, 77, 80.95 198, 198, 178.60, 179.40 102.30 Bombay Burma 52, 55, 48.25 77, 81.40, 76, 79.90 KPIT Cum.Inf 225.25, 233.60, 4244.73 Mumbai: Led by HPCL, equities soared to their dizzy heights in 108, 108, 101.60, 103 51.85, 51.85, 48.75, 48.75 F Hind.Spg &Wg 12.75, 13.30, 12.55, 218.05, 221.45 1350 1341.05 4300 4212.29 Zensar Tech. 92, 94, 88.30, 90.15 Bongaigaon R 79.40, 82.25, 78, 12.60 228, 234.25, 218.50, 221.90 the fourth consecutive price rally and ended with sharp rises even FAG Bearings 85.05, 83.55, 85 1352.55 4200 90.70, 94, 88.25, 90.20 78.30 12.05, 12.05, 12.05, 12.05 KRBL 52.50, 53.25, 52, 52.75 1325 as profit booking by investors pared part of gains at the fag end on 79.90, 82.40, 78.05, 78.70 85.45, 86.45, 84, 85.25 Hitachi Home 24, 27.60, 22.50, 27.40 53.80, 53.80, 51.50, 51.85 1340.30 4205.56 the BSE on Friday. B1 - GROUP BPL 47.45, 47.65, 44.20, 44.70 Fairfield At 22.05, 19.96, 19.97 23.30, 27.25, 23, 26.75 Krebs Bioche 174.30, 189, 167.30, 4100 47.80, 47.90, 44.30, 44.70 FCGL Inds. 4.10, 4.20, 3.91, 3.95 Honda SIEL P 111, 123, 120.30 182.80 1300 The BSE benchmark 30-share that opened strong at 4235.26, later 3 BPL Engg. 8, 7.46, 7.50 FCI OEN Con. 122, 125.50, 121.20, 122, 123, 121, 121.50 Krishna Life 3.35, 2.95, 3.05 4000 7.80, 8, 7.45, 7.50 123.55 Hotel Leela. 27.85, 26.55, 26.65 Krone Comm 86, 87.90, 83.35, 84.10 1275 surged up to the day’s high at 4277.64 before ending at 4244.73 as BSEL Infra. 24, 24.70, 23.50, 24.55 120, 125.90, 120, 123.85 25.60, 27.90, 25.60, 26.60 KSB Pumps 88.90, 88.45, 90 3900 3M India 384.95, 370 FCL Techno. 20.15, 24.80, 23.65 against Thursday’s close of 4212.29, a net gain of 32.44 points or 0.77 384.90, 388.95, 364.30, 374.25 26, 26.05, 24.05, 24.95 89, 90.25, 88, 89.75 1250 BSL 30.50, 31.60 23.05, 23.95, 23, 23 I 3800 per cent. The broad-based BSE-100 index advanced further by 26.39 A 31.35, 32.25, 31.30, 32.05 FDC 62, 70.25, 68.50 L Burrough Wel 500, 479, 495.35 62.45, 70.45, 62.45, 68.35 I-flex Solu 1245, 1267, 1220.10, 1225 3700 points to 2229.25 from previous close of 2202.86. HPCL witnessed A Sarabhai 7.01, 7.80, 6.85, 7.66 Fert.&Chem-T 29, 28, 28.05 1236.50 Lakhani (I) 72, 74.90, 70.95, 72.70 29, 29.15, 28.30, 28.85 1300, 1300, 1220, 1239.75 Lakshmi Au.C 118, 119.40, 111, Aarti Drugs 50.05, 54.95, 48.10, C 1200 3600 brisk activity and flared up to the day’s high at Rs 449.40 before clos- 54.10 Finan.Techno 17.60, 15.30, 15.70 IFCI 16.29, 16.55, 15.52, 15.65 112.50 ing at Rs 429.85 as the government started the first leg of due dili- Aarti Inds. 105, 108, 102.50, 107.20 Camlin 62.95, 65.40, 61.80, 64.75 First Leasin 26.70, 27, 26.25, 26.95 16.50, 17.90, 15.10, 15.70 119, 120.50, 110.25, 112 August 27 August 28 August 29 August 27 August 28 August 29 107.70, 107.90, 102, 106.30 Camph.& All 31.75, 32, 31.05, 31.50 27.50, 27.50, 26.15, 26.55 IL&FS Invt.M 33, 33.25, 30.20, 30.35 Lakshmi Elec 65, 66, 64.05, 64.85 gence exercise, thus taking a giant step forward in the PSU’s pri- Aarvee Denim 22.05, 24, 22, 23.40 Canara Bank 130, 122.40, 124.15 Flat Product 119.75, 123, 119, 31.05, 31.70, 28.75, 29.30 Lakshmi Mach 2780, 2741, 2810 Aban Loyd 285, 288, 280, 282.05 128, 128, 122.50, 124.45 122.50 Ind.Swift 94.85, 98.90, 92.50, 97.90 2760, 2810, 2725, 2799.50 +0.85% CHANGE OVER PREVIOUS CLOSING +0.77% CHANGE OVER PREVIOUS CLOSING vatisation. RIL too was in keen demand on reports that the compa- 295, 295, 280, 283.40 Canfin Homes 39, 37.80, 38.10 Flex Enginer 17.75, 18.35, 17.25, Ind.Swift La 29.90, 35.60 Lanco Inds. 14.25, 14.70, 13.75, ny has started due diligence for HPCL, brokers said. PTI ABC Bearings 16.90, 15.50, 15.65 39.40, 39.40, 37.80, 37.90 17.45 30.70, 35.50, 29.90, 35.50 13.94 ABG Heavy In 24.50, 25.50, 24, 25.45 Caprihans(I) 25, 24.10, 24.35 18.30, 18.45, 17.50, 17.55 India Foils 10, 10.45, 10.32 Landmarc Lei 8.20, 9, 8.99 Abhishek Ind 9.85, 9.95, 9.50, 9.80 Carborundum 152.10, 154, 151, 152 Flex Foods 11.50, 11.90, 11.45, 10.85, 10.85, 10, 10.40 LCC Infotech 6.40, 6.40, 5, 5.25 100, 110.20, 100, 106.45 SAT Invest. 16.48, 14.56, 14.75 Themis Medic 51.70, 53.25, 49.70, KEY: The BSE quotations of a scrip are given in the first line while the quotes in ital- 9.90, 10.05, 9.70, 9.85 147, 155, 147, 153.50 11.50 India Gelat. 15.35, 16 LG Balkrish 180, 181, 176.25, 177 NRC 20.79, 18.52 Satnam Over. 54.40, 59.60, 53.70, 52.15 Adam Comsof 13.67, 14.19, 12, CCL Products 19.50, 19.90, 19.20, Flex Inds. 34.10, 35.25, 33.50, 33.95 India Glycol 63.40, 64, 59.55, 59.90 176, 181.50, 176, 180.30 19.75, 20.50, 18.90, 18.90 58.05 Thiru A.Sug. 36.50, 36 ics are those of the NSE.The quotations are in the sequence of the day’s opening, Nucleus Soft 78, 81.50, 75, 77.10 54.25, 59.75, 52.75, 57.40 36, 37.80, 35.50, 36.25 high, low, and closing. Each time a company’s closing share price falls below its “last 12.34 19.50 34.50, 35.65, 33.80, 34 India Gypsum 32.20, 32.10, 32.50 Liberty Shoe 68, 69, 67.95, 68.90 Addi Inds. 32.50, 32, 32.50 Ceat 44.05, 45.30, 43.05, 43.45 Floatglass 35, 35.25, 34, 35.05 33, 33, 31.55, 31.55 69.50, 69.50, 68.10, 68.50 74.50, 83.50, 74.50, 78.90 Satvah.Ispat 17.50, 18.85, 17.75 Thirumalai 69.95, 72.70, 69.90, offer price” on BSE, the name of the company is underlined. Advani Oerli 33.10, 40.45, 38.80 46, 46.35, 43, 43.40 33.15, 35.40, 33.15, 34.80 India Nippon 281.10, 278.55 Lloyds Steel 7.90, 8.40, 7.36, 7.69 Saurash.Cem. 14.50, 13.85, 13.98 72.10 39.75, 40.50, 38, 38.35 Centur. Bank 15, 14, 14.07 Forbes Gokak 100, 90, 90.70 289, 289, 275, 275 7.80, 8.45, 7.45, 7.85 O Savita Chem. 88.75, 87.20, 88.05 71.95, 71.95, 70, 71.35 88.45, 88.45, 87, 87.95 Tide Water O 1139, 1116, 1127.85 ABB 475, 478.80, 467, 475.60 German Remed 450.50, 449.05, 474 Moser-Baer 289.80, 281, 282.45 Aegis Logis. 14.20, 14.43, 13.50, 14.45, 14.70, 14, 14.05 Fortune Info 22, 23.45, 22.85 India Polyfi 9.25, 10.20, 9.87 Logix Micro. 18.50, 18.70, 17, 17.05 OCL (I) 204, 208, 204.05 460.10, 480, 460.10, 475.50 420, 495, 420, 488.05 284.90, 287.80, 281.75, 283.55 14.13 Cerebra Inte 6.75, 7.50, 6.50, 6.99 Foseco (I) 178.05, 187, 186.15 Indian Card 55.25, 59, 58.90 Loy.Tex Mill 73 SBI Home Fin 20.90, 21.40, 19.65, TIL 15.25, 16.95, 15.20, 16.35 Odyssey Tech 16.10, 16.80, 15.05, 19.80 16.55, 17, 16.55, 16.65 Abbott (I) 319.80, 327, 316, 321.65 Gillette (I) 510, 515.50, 500, 506.85 Mphasis BFL 370, 379.80, 364, 368 13.50, 14.30, 13.45, 14.15 CESC 51.05, 51.70, 49.05, 49.15 180.10, 186.90, 180, 185.95 57, 59.90, 57, 59.05 Lumax Ind 48, 52, 47.50, 50.80 15.39 ACC 208, 215.75, 206, 212.40 510.10, 517.30, 499, 502.15 402, 402, 360, 370 AFT Inds. 59, 62.90, 58.50, 61.75 50.20, 51.90, 49, 49.45 Frontier Inf 5.99, 6, 5.25, 5.33 Indian Hume 1250, 1238 46.30, 48.85, 46.30, 48.10 20.95, 21.45, 19.50, 19.75 Timex Watch 13.55, 13.80, 13.20, Oil Country 15.90, 13.75, 13.87 Schenec.Beck 71.10, 71.30 13.22 207, 215.75, 206, 212.45 GlaxoSmith.C 280, 283.95, 275.15, MRF 1450, 1455, 1423, 1430 Aftek Infosy 311.80, 318.50, 300.25, CG Igarshi M 57, 60, 59 Fulford (I) 256, 268, 250, 258.25 1245, 1245, 1234, 1234 Lyka Labs 32.95, 31.60, 34.35 15.60, 15.90, 13.70, 13.80 Adani Export 196, 191.25, 192.90 279.10 1450, 1450, 1425, 1431.80 302.65 56, 61.20, 56, 58.35 Futura Poly. 8.75, 9.10, 8.60, 8.61 Indian Resor 82, 79 31, 34.75, 30.75, 34.70 Schenec.Herd 36 Timken India 40, 40.45, 39, 39.05 Omax Autos. 75.50, 82.20, 75, 81.30 37.90, 37.90, 35, 35.30 Tips Indus. 42.90, 44, 41.20, 41.30 270, 283, 270, 280.75 MTNL 129.85, 131.20, 121, 123.05 310, 320, 300, 302.20 Chemfab Alk. 28.65, 28.75 Indian SeamM 17.50, 17.55, 15.75, 76.70, 82.65, 75, 81 BSE SPECIFIED GlaxoSmith.P 440, 447.95, 432.60, 130.50, 131.25, 121.05, 123.75 Agro Dutch I 26.40, 26, 28.30 Chemplast Sa 29.15, 28.40, 29 G 16.50 M Search Chem. 21.50, 21.40, 23.75 41.50, 42.80, 41.25, 41.40 Ondeo Nalco 335 22, 23.75, 21, 23.75 TN Telecom 13.88, 14, 12.21, 12.49 & NSE INDEX 440.60 Mukta Arts 61, 62.25, 57.60, 58.05 26, 27.90, 26, 27.90 29, 29, 28.40, 28.50 Indo Gulf Fe 74.40, 74.50, 72.80, Onward Techn 27.35, 28, 26, 26.20 442.10, 446, 431.20, 437.55 61, 62.50, 58, 58.60 Chettinad Ce 74, 76, 71.50, 73 Gabriel (I) 152.50, 156.90, 149, 73.90 Maars Soft 14.25, 15, 13.52, 13.63 Selan Explor 19.50, 20.15, 19, 20.04 12.25, 13, 12.15, 12.60 Agro Tech Fd 57.95, 55.50, 56 154.60 14, 14.95, 13.50, 13.65 27.15, 28.45, 25.80, 26.20 GNFC 43.05, 43.60, 42.10, 43.20 National Alu 133, 135.30, 131.05, 56, 57.10, 55.60, 55.65 Cheviot Co. 162, 162.40, 151.05, 74, 74.30, 73.05, 73.65 Sesa Goa 214.70, 218.95, 209.10, Todays Writi 40.50, 42.80, 39.05, Galaxy Enter 42, 43.40, 40.60, 40.65 Macmillan (I 225.50, 220, 220.60 Opto Circuit 79.40, 80, 77.50, 78.45 210.25 42.40 194, 198.90, 191.90, 193.75 43.50, 43.50, 42, 43.10 133 Ahmed.Elect. 69, 70.45, 68.55, 69.15 151.85 Indo Mat.Car 90, 91.80, 89.05 79, 80, 78, 78.75 Adlabs Films 59, 60.95, 58, 59.05 Grasim Inds. 610, 633, 608.60, 135.20, 135.20, 131.10, 134.15 Chola.Inv&Fi 50.50, 52, 50.70 Gammon (I) 170, 170.50, 160, Indo Nationl 345, 335.15, 335.20 227, 227.75, 220.30, 220.95 210, 218.70, 208.05, 210.60 39.10, 42.50, 39, 41.10 69.90, 71, 69, 70.05 169.75 Madhav Marb. 20.75, 21.50, 20, Orbit Multi 0.90, 0.85 58.90, 60.80, 58.50, 59.65 618.35 Nestle (I) 570.50, 584, 579.20 Ahmednagar F 59.50, 60, 59.20 50.75, 51.90, 50.10, 51.20 347, 350, 347, 350 Sesha.Paper 61.30, 64.50 Torrent Guja 17, 17.40, 16.10, 16.90 168, 172, 165, 170.05 20.30 Orchid Chem 172, 182, 165, 180.40 61, 63.70, 61, 63.35 Tourism Fina 11.50, 10.81, 10.98 Alstom Proj. 121.90, 123, 117.90, 613.95, 632.50, 608, 619.95 Neyveli Lign 44.45, 45.35, 43.50, 61, 61, 60.15, 60.15 Chowgule Stm 8.76, 9.33, 8.83 Indo Rama Sy 53, 62.70, 52.95, 171, 183.90, 165.10, 180.55 122 GSFC 28.10, 28.15, 26.25, 26.75 43.90 Ciba Sp.Chem 116, 118.95, 117.05 Gandhi Sp.Tu 23, 23.25, 21.20 58.55 Madhucon Prj 72.50, 72.90, 71.45, Sh.Cements 91.50, 94.50, 90.90, 11.25, 11.50, 10.75, 10.90 Ajanta Pharm 46.50, 46.05, 54.65 Garden Silk 36.75, 37.30, 35.80, 72 Orient Info. 41.75, 44.75, 41, 42.40 121, 123, 118, 122.10 27.95, 27.95, 26.50, 26.65 50, 50, 43.70, 44.05 46.25, 54.60, 46.20, 54.15 Cinevistaas 32.95, 30.50, 31.15 53.40, 62.80, 53.40, 58.55 91.85 Toyo Rolls 53, 53.95, 52.25, 53.10 36.90 Madras Alum 175, 167, 170 41.50, 46.85, 40.25, 42.45 91.10, 94.30, 90.65, 92.05 Transnat.Sec 26 Andhra Bank 44.10, 45.25, 41.60, GTL 70.45, 73.65, 70.10, 70.50 Nicholas Pir 361.40, 384.05, 359, Aksh Optifib 22.10, 22.50, 21.85, 30.70, 32, 30.20, 30.75 Indraprast.M 16.35, 16, 16.50 Orient Paper 27.15, 27.25, 25.50, 43.55 71.45, 73.60, 70.20, 70.50 381.05 City Union B 52.50, 50.90, 51.25 37.35, 37.95, 35.85, 36.35 16.10, 16.50, 15.90, 16.20 Madras Cem. 5881, 5940, 5690, Sh.Digv.Cem. 39, 36 Transpek Ind 24, 22.20, 22.55 22.05 Garware Poly 33.05, 34, 33.25 5930 26.40 44.50, 45.30, 41.40, 43.55 Guj.Amb.Cem. 226.50, 235.50, 362.45, 384.40, 359, 379.25 22.50, 22.50, 21.70, 21.85 51.95, 52, 51, 51.20 Indusind Bnk 28.55, 28.60, 27.40, Sh.Rama Mult 9.88, 9, 9.04 Transport Co 39.40, 38, 38.15 Garware Wall 23, 23.50, 22.75 5849, 5923, 5740, 5879.25 28, 28, 25.80, 26.45 9.40, 9.75, 8.80, 8.90 40.50, 40.50, 38.05, 38.25 Apollo Hosp. 148.70, 151, 148, 226.30, 230.35 NIIT 141.40, 144.75, 135.75, 136.65 Albert David 50, 56.90, 48.50, 54.55 Clariant (I) 161, 162, 158, 161.95 27.60 Oriental Con 30, 27.25, 29.90 149.20 229.40, 235.05, 226.10, 231 141.25, 144.85, 135.20, 137.15 162, 165, 160, 163.75 Gati 50.80, 46, 46.20 29, 29, 27.50, 27.70 Madras Fert. 27, 27.50, 26, 26.25 Shah Alloys 62.50, 66, 62.20, 62.70 TRF 40.50, 39, 39.05 Albright & W 190, 199, 193 Genesys Intl 45.60, 42.50, 42.85 26.35, 27.50, 26.25, 26.55 Oriental Hot 90, 87 154, 154, 148.50, 150.05 Guj.Gas Co. 468.05, 473.50, 466.10, Nirma 460, 435, 439.55 Alembic 299.80, 318, 297, 313.30 Classic Diam 44.10, 44.75, 43, 43.55 ING Vysya Bk 453.50, 464.50, 450, Shalimar Pai 38, 39.30 Trigyn Tech. 21.55, 22.45, 20.60, 45, 45.75, 42.65, 43.25 Mah.Scooter 89.50, 90.80, 87.50, 89.10, 89.85, 87.55, 88.05 Shamken Mult 9.89, 9, 9.44 20.75 Apollo Tyres 184.90, 191, 180.50, 467.40 420, 445, 420, 438.55 308.90, 318, 296, 313.60 Clutch.Auto 15.10, 15.50, 14.91, 462.85 Oswal Chem. 7.75, 8, 7.25, 7.41 188.25 470, 475, 466.25, 471.45 Novartis (I) 257.50, 262, 255, 256.45 15.25 Geodesic Inf 186.30, 190, 174.05, 374, 463, 374, 461.60 88.30 9.50, 9.95, 9.05, 9.45 21.80, 22.75, 20.55, 20.95 Alfa Laval 384, 385, 380.10, 381.70 176.45 86.30, 89, 86.30, 88.50 7.70, 7.90, 7.40, 7.45 184, 191.40, 181.10, 189.55 Guj.Mineral 107.45, 113, 107.05, ONGC 614, 625, 610, 614.20 399, 399, 380.10, 381.35 Coates (I) 108.05, 108.95, 107 Innovis.E-Co 0.95, 1.02, 0.98 Shamken Spin 5.15, 5.25, 4.95, 5.15 TTK Healthca 31.60, 33, 30.40, 32.45 Arvind Mills 44.75, 45.60, 43.40, 109.90 621.90, 625, 608, 616.05 109, 109, 106.30, 106.50 George Willi 53, 54.35, 52.65, 54.05 Insilco 17.75, 17.10, 17.30 Mah.Seamless 150.70, 155, 147, Shanti Gear 148, 140.05, 144 TTK Prestige 16.35, 15.20, 15.77 Alka (I) 1.33, 1.35, 1.08 53.15, 54.40, 53.15, 54.05 147.75 P 45.20 108.25, 111.90, 106.80, 109.70 Oriental Bnk 180.90, 181, 171, Alkyl Amines 21.65, 21, 21.20 Cochin Minrl 15, 16.40, 14.75, 15.15 Inter.Travel 39, 37.50 145, 148, 143.20, 144.80 16.25, 16.40, 15.80, 15.90 45, 45.50, 43.55, 45.20 HCL Infosys. 170.80, 173, 157.65, 172.55 Color Chips 7.95, 9.42, 7.55, GIC Housing 21.55, 21.90, 21.20, IOL Broadban 10.70, 10.27, 148, 151.90, 148, 148.45 Panacea Biot 39.50, 40.75, 38.75, Sharyans Res 15.10, 15.50, 15.10 Tube Invest. 135, 139.90, 132, Allahabad Bk 20.50, 19.50, 19.60 Mahavir Spg. 87.60, 84.25, 84.90 Ashok Leylan 155.80, 164, 162.65 159.80 181, 181.90, 172.60, 173.80 20, 20.40, 19.50, 19.65 8.03 10.48 40.40 Shasun Chem. 287, 302, 270.20, 132.75 156.10, 163.50, 155.65, 162.20 168, 173.90, 157.25, 160.95 P&G Hygiene 485, 517, 491.15 7.50, 8.90, 7.50, 8 Ion Exchange 29.30, 29.95, 86.85, 87, 84.10, 84.80 40.35, 41.05, 39.25, 40.70 296.55 136.85, 136.85, 130.55, 132.25 Alok Inds. 26.80, 28.50, 26.50, 26.80 Mahind.Gesco 21.50, 16.55, 18.60 Asian Paints 305, 309, 302, 307.90 HCL Techno. 191.40, 196.80, 179.50, Padmalaya Te 91, 92, 88.05, 88.45 27, 27.80, 26.60, 26.80 Colour Chem 224, 218, 219.15 29.15, 29.55 Pantaloon Re 157.80, 156, 170.35 285.50, 302, 277, 298.95 Tudor India 18.90, 19, 17.30, 18 309.50, 309.50, 303.35, 307.50 183.65 92, 94, 87.85, 88.30 222, 222, 217, 219.45 IP Rings 77, 79, 73.50, 76.50 18.50, 19.50, 18.50, 18.80 156, 170.75, 155, 170.75 Shaw Wallace 39.60, 42, 39.20, Tuticorin.Al 5.10, 6, 5.80 Alps Inds. 28.10, 29, 26.25, 27.90 Mahindra Ugi 15, 16.40, 14.86, 15.07 Aurobindo Ph 435, 487, 431, 464.45 192, 196.90, 180, 185.05 Pentamedia G 12.98, 13.04, 12.02, Alstom 38, 40, 38.20 Compucom Sof 32.90, 34, 32, IPCA Lab. 470, 507, 452.25, Paper Prod. 141.10, 146.90, 137.25, 41.30 TV 18 114.80, 127.05, 123.60 438, 487, 425.15, 465.95 HDFC 485, 488, 470.30, 482.55 12.18 32.70 503 15.90, 16.40, 15, 15.25 143.20 Shirpur Gold 36.95, 37.45, 30.65 117.90, 127.70, 115, 124.50 Amara Raja B 71, 71.75, 69.50, Majestic Aut 26.70, 20.90, 21.65 Aventis Phar 435, 443, 432.10, 488.95, 488.95, 470, 482.60 13.45, 13.45, 12, 12.15 70.15 Compudyne Wi 16.50, 17.20, 475, 506, 450.30, 502.65 144.50, 145.90, 138.55, 143 37, 37.40, 30.60, 30.60 TVS Autolec 140.30, 141, 135 439.05 HDFC Bank 280, 280.90, 273.40, Pfizer 408, 425, 405, 418.70 16.10, 16.50 Isibars 8.40, 7.70, 7.74 Malwa Cotton 31.65, 30.80, 30.85 Paramount Co 7.55, 8.98, 7.51, 8.50 Shiv Vani Un 28.40, 30.50, 29.90 TVS Srichakr 54.10, 57, 55 70, 71, 70, 70.10 31, 31.50, 30.50, 30.75 432, 443.90, 432, 439.45 275.45 409, 426.95, 404, 418 Ambica Agarb 38.95, 38.50, 38.90 16.50, 17, 16, 16.25 Ispat Inds. 15.60, 16.77, 15.15, Parekh Plati 10.20, 10.46, 9.87, Shrenuj & Co 34, 32.60, 32.65 Aztec Soft. 32.85, 34.30, 30.25, 274, 280.55, 272.05, 275.70 Philips (I) 99, 105.45, 104.05 Computech In 8.35, 8.65, 7.90, 15.82 Man Inds.(I) 74.80, 67.50, 67.75 10.05 32.65, 33.90, 32.25, 33 U Ambuja Cem.R 8.90, 9.40, 8.60, 8.91 Mangalam Cem 14, 14.85, 13, 14.05 30.85 Hero Honda 295, 298, 288, 290.55 Pidilite Ind 291, 292.90, 290, 291 8.20, 9.35, 8.20, 8.90 7.98 15, 16.75, 15, 15.90 10, 11, 9.90, 10.15 Shriram Inv 17.90, 16.25, 17.20 14, 14.70, 13.60, 14.10 Shriram Tran 16.80, 16.95, 16.05, UB Holdings 24.55, 25.50, 24.25, 33.40, 34.50, 30.10, 31.15 299, 299, 288.10, 294.30 289, 294, 289, 290.90 Amex Info. 20.40, 21.40, 19.05, 8.80, 8.80, 7.85, 8 IT & T 14.50, 13.75, 16.23 Parry Agro 83, 98, 97 24.65 Bajaj Auto 717, 729.90, 715, 728 Hexaware Tec 245, 246.90, 217.50, Polaris Soft 145, 151.45, 141, 142.30 Cont.Const. 16.80, 15.70, 16.20 14.80, 16.35, 13.75, 16.35 Manglr.Chem 7.04, 7.10, 6.40, 6.49 Parry’s Conf 148, 149.90, 136, 136 16.25 19.15 Manugraph In 30.60, 30.80, 29.30 Ucal Fuel 247, 248.50, 245.05, 719, 733.95, 714, 729.55 221.10 144.30, 151.80, 141, 142.95 Amforge Inds 60.95, 65, 59, 63.25 Control Prnt 36, 37.90, 34, 36 ITC Hotels 77.10, 81, 80 Patel Engg. 177, 188 16.50, 17, 15.65, 16.70 Maral Overs 16.70, 17.20, 17.10 Siemens VDO 65.05, 70, 63.15, 69.45 246.20 Balaji Tele. 71.40, 73.50, 70.30, 246.85, 246.85, 217.20, 221.75 Pun.Tractors 169, 171.95, 165.25, Amrutanjan 81.40, 92.30, 91.15 Core Health. 6.06, 7.30, 7.11 80, 80.95, 78.05, 79.90 Patspin (I) 13.50, 14.30, 14.23 249.90, 251, 246.10, 247.95 70.95 Him.Fut.Comm 27.70, 28.50, 26.95, 167.65 6.55, 7.20, 6.55, 7 IVP 31, 28, 28.60 16.95, 17.35, 16.75, 16.90 14.05, 14.50, 13.80, 14.15 Siltap Che. 64.45, 62.20, 62.25 Amtek 70.80, 67, 67.95 Mascon Globl 11.86, 11.87 Ultramarine 74, 75, 72.75, 73.75 71.75, 74, 70.70, 71.10 27.10 169.40, 170, 165.25, 167.85 Amtek Auto 205, 210, 201.70, 203 Corom. Fert. 72.50, 71.30, 31, 31, 29, 29.60 PCS Inds. 24.60, 25.20, 24.50, 25 62.10, 62.70, 61.90, 62.35 Matrix Lab. 770.20 Simbh.Sugar 15.50, 15 Unichem Lab 231, 259.70, 256.05 Ballarpur In 64.75, 68.80, 64.50, 27.85, 28.50, 27, 27.10 Ranbaxy Lab. 960, 1007, 1001.20 207, 209.10, 202.10, 202.80 72.50 IVRCL Infras 74.05, 77.75, Pennar Alum. 5.69, 5.75, 5.30, 5.36 245, 261, 245, 255.95 68.20 Hind Lever C 219, 223, 217, 220.80 975, 1007.85, 970, 1000.55 72.20, 72.80, 72.10, 72.55 73.55, 74.90 Matsush.Tele 9.90, 10.30, 9.40, 9.79 Pentagon Glo 3.40, 3.64, 2.90, 3.09 Simplex Conc 68, 61, 63.05 Andrew Yule 18.60, 19.72, 18.80 9.80, 9.85, 9.20, 9.65 Uniflex Cabl 9.75, 9.25, 10.70 64.05, 68.60, 64.05, 68 217.60, 224.95, 217.60, 220.85 Raymond 132, 135.45, 134.85 Ankur Drugs 20.80, 21.95, 20.50, Cosmo Ferr. 10.58, 9.83 72.70, 77, 72.70, 74.80 Pentasoft Te 10.75, 10.90, 9.85, 9.97 Sintex Inds. 69.90, 70.95, 67.75, Matsushita L 47.50, 50, 49.90 69.60 Union Bank 47, 48.75, 46.05, 46.70 Bank of Baro 148.45, 148.90, 142, Hind.Oil Exp 54.25, 56.50, 53.75, 134, 136, 133, 134.75 21.35 Cosmo Films 86.30, 88, 85, 10.70, 10.85, 9.85, 9.95 48.05, 48.80, 46.40, 46.80 143.70 54.30 RCF 37.50, 38.40, 36.10, 36.40 86.25 J Mefcom Capit 5.10, 4.32, 5 Pharmacia He 110, 121.10 68.85, 70.80, 67, 68.45 Ansal Prop. 14.35, 15.50 Mega Corpn. 4 Unitech 54.60, 58.20, 56.60 147.90, 148.70, 141.85, 144.15 54, 56.20, 53, 53.95 37.30, 38.50, 36, 36.40 AP Paper 106.80, 112.65, 103, 85.05, 88.85, 85.05, 86.05 108.05, 119.70, 108.05, 119.35 Sirpur Paper 65.05, 68.75, 68.20 Jagatjit Ind 27.30, 27.50, Melstar Info 19, 19.55, 17.90, 18 65.20, 69, 64.60, 67.55 57.80, 57.90, 57, 57.75 Bank of Ind. 54, 55.25, 51.40, 53.55 Hind.Zinc 51, 51.30, 49, 50.05 Rel Capital 79.40, 80.80, 78.05, 110.10 Creative Eye 15.50, 15.95, PHIL Corpn. 6.70, 7.75, 7.50 United Brew. 101.65, 102.50, 87, 54.10, 55.30, 51.45, 53.75 Hindalco 901.30, 920.30, 911.40 78.35 14.86, 15 25.50, 25.80 19.50, 19.70, 17.90, 18.10 7.30, 7.90, 7.30, 7.40 Siyaram Silk 50, 48.55, 49.25 Apcotex Lat. 34.60, 36, 35 Jagsonpal Ph 115, 109, 111.05 Mercator Lin 134.10, 140, 132.90 96.30 BASF 135, 139.50, 134.05, 138.90 914.30, 921.30, 895, 912.20 79.40, 80.65, 77.60, 78.50 39.45, 39.45, 34, 35.20 14.90, 15.75, 14.85, 14.95 Phillip Carb 47, 48.40, 45.05, 45.25 Skanska Ceme 244, 244.55, 240 111.50, 112, 106.10, 109.65 Metroche.Ind 22.20, 23.50, 22.15, 233, 233, 233, 233 United We.Bk 28.45, 28.50, 27.85, 28 134, 139.40, 134, 138.90 Hinduja TMT 204, 210, 200, 201.15 Reliance Ind 395, 404.75, 393.30, Aplab 34, 34.25, 33.70, 34 Crest Comm. 36.50, 35, 35.15 47.30, 48.95, 45.60, 46 28.90, 28.90, 27.80, 27.90 Bata (I) 39.15, 37.50, 37.70 204.80, 210.40, 200.20, 201.40 398.55 35.05, 37, 34.80, 35.25 21.25 Jai Corp 80, 86, 79.10, 81 22.20 Phoenix Lamp 21.10, 23.20, 21.05, Snowcem (I) 20, 19.40, 19.45 Aptech 56.75, 58.10, 53.25, 54.15 22, 22, 21.05, 21.20 80.50, 84.90, 80.05, 81.90 MICO 7600, 7800, 7730 Univer.Cable 17.50, 19.20, 17.35, 36.50, 38.35, 36.50, 37.85 HLL 188.50, 189.50, 184, 184.50 399, 404.75, 393.75, 400.70 56.70, 57.80, 54, 54.70 CRISIL 380, 399.90, 385.10 22.80 19.60, 20, 19.30, 19.60 GIVO 3.05, 3.99, 3.70 Jain Irrig. 74.75, 75.05, 71.15, 71.50 7641, 7850, 7526, 7838.45 Soffia Soft. 23.55, 24.85, 21.50, 18.39 Bayer Cropsc 228.50, 235, 231.20 188.15, 189.85, 183.90, 185.60 Rolta (I) 74.20, 76.40, 70.55, 71 Archies 61, 58.10, 61 380, 400.05, 380, 385.80 Pioneer Embr 43.45, 41, 41.30 17.85, 18.75, 16.80, 18.75 232.65, 232.65, 225, 229.90 HMT 22.60, 23.20, 21.90, 22.10 74, 76.50, 70.50, 71.35 Cybertech Sy 11.70, 12, 10.65, 11 Glenmark Pha 348.30, 371, 347, 75, 76, 71.20, 72.55 Mid-Day Mul. 26.50, 27.50, 25, Plastiblend 44.70, 45.60 21.90 60.40, 62, 59.50, 61.60 366.30 Jain Studios 17, 18.90, 17.10 25.20 Upper Ganges 26.50, 23.35, 24.05 Bh.Earth Mov 94.90, 98, 94.20, 95.25 22.40, 23.20, 21.55, 21.95 SAIL 40, 42.30, 38.50, 40.70 Arvind Rem. 6, 6.21 11.40, 12.15, 10.55, 10.85 PNB Gilts 29.60, 29.90, 29.05, 29.60 23.40, 24.50, 21, 22 358, 368.95, 348, 365.60 17.90, 18.70, 16.80, 16.90 25.25, 28.70, 25.15, 25.45 Softsol (I) 13.49, 12.50, 12.58 27.85, 27.85, 23.25, 23.60 95.40, 98, 94, 95.85 HPCL 418, 449.40, 429.85 39.50, 42.20, 38.50, 40.95 6, 6.20, 6, 6.20 29.60, 29.85, 29.25, 29.70 Usha Martin 40.25, 41, 38.55, 39 Bharat Elect 388, 416, 407.05 420.70, 449.85, 417.30, 431.15 Satyam Comp 237, 239.45, 225.15, D Global Tr.Bk 25.30, 26, 24.90, 25 Jaipan Inds. 10.50, 9.75, 9.84 Mindteck 17.95, 19, 17.80, 18.25 Polyplex 84.05, 84.90, 82.50, 83.85 Software Tec 12.90, 12.20, 12.26 Asahi (I) Gl 79.10, 84.65, 82.75 25.60, 25.70, 24.90, 25 Jay Bh.Marut 45, 44.50, 46.40 Mirza Tanner 38, 39.50, 38.45 39.50, 41, 38.70, 39.15 389, 416.70, 387, 406.85 Hughes Soft. 350, 356.90, 338, 226.60 84, 84.50, 81, 82.40 80, 85.90, 78.10, 83.75 13.90, 13.90, 12.25, 12.45 Daewoo Motor 7, 7.26, 6.25, 6.42 GMM Pfaudler 94, 93.05 41.55, 45.75, 41.55, 44.85 39, 39.35, 38.60, 38.65 Solectron Ce 57.95, 61.50, 56.25, 59 Usha Mat.Inf 5.55, 6.10, 5.51, 5.70 Bharat Forge 429.90, 439.95, 416, 343.70 234.45, 239.50, 225.15, 227.40 Ashapura Min 95, 93.10 Porrits&Spen 100.15, 102, 100.15 6.70, 6.70, 5.65, 5.70 435.75 353.15, 356.90, 338, 345 Saw Pipes 167, 172, 169.05 Dalmia Cemen 220.35, 225.25, 217, GMR Techno. 16.30, 17.15, 15.50, Jayant Agro 45.05, 44.50 MM Forgings 131.25, 135.95, Praj Ind. 61, 70, 58.50, 66.80 Solvay Pharm 175, 184, 169, 180.75 Ashima 18, 17.15, 17.95 219.50 15.55 45, 45, 44, 44 131.10, 132.75 Uttam Galva. 16.80, 17.75, 15.80, 420, 439, 415, 437.25 IBP 635.70, 667, 632, 658.45 168, 172.40, 167, 169.40 17.25, 18, 17.25, 17.55 58, 65.40, 58, 62.20 Sona Koyo St 143.05, 143.95, 220.65, 225, 220.25, 223 Goa Carbon 59.40, 59.50, 55.25, Jaypee Hotel 11.25, 12, 11.50 Mobile Tele 11.80, 13, 12.90 138.50, 138.70 16.90 Bharti TeleV 69, 69.95, 66.50, 69.25 634.95, 668, 628.05, 658.65 SBI 449, 460, 436, 439.25 Ashok Ley.Fn 54.30, 56, 55.20 Precision Wr 43, 45, 42.55, 43.25 16.40, 17.60, 16, 16.75 68.90, 70, 66.10, 69.30 ICI (I) 144, 145.50, 143, 143.15 447.40, 449.75, 436.10, 440.70 Danlaw Tech. 31.20, 31.35, 29.50, 57.50 Jayshree Tea 44, 43.25, 43.90 Modipon 27.35, 28.70, 27.80 43.50, 45.45, 42.10, 42.55 Spel Semicon 4.82, 4.85, 4.36, 4.39 55.75, 56.20, 54.60, 54.80 30.55 Godavri Fert 97.10, 98, 96.25, 97.10 42.30, 44, 42.30, 43.50 Monalisa Inf 0.46, 0.48, 0.43, 0.46 BHEL 347.35, 359.80, 351.10 144.50, 144.50, 143, 143.30 Shipp.Corpn. 97, 102.20, 95.85, Asian Elect. 74.20, 72.20, 72.75 Premier Auto 10.80, 11.40, 10.50, SPIC 12.50, 12.79, 12, 12.30 V 355, 359.70, 347.50, 351.90 ICICI Bank 186.10, 176.20, 179.50 99.20 Datapro Inf. 1.59, 1.26, 1.35 96.30, 98.50, 96.30, 97.35 JBF Inds. 23, 27.40, 26 Monnet Ispat 59.10, 62.50, 57.75, 10.97 12.95, 12.95, 12, 12.35 73.50, 74, 72, 73.10 DCM 14.15, 14.85, 14.75 Godfrey Phil 407, 421.55, 410 JBM Tools 50, 47.40, 48.80 58.10 Bombay Dyein 65.45, 66.45, 64.15, 182, 186, 177, 179.70 97, 102.30, 95.75, 99.30 Asian Hotels 103.25, 105, 100.05, Premier Inst 252, 256, 253.35 SPL 24.50, 23.75 Vaibhav Gems 25.70, 25.95, 25.20, 64.90 IDBI 40, 40.35, 37.25, 37.70 Shyam Teleco 48.05, 50.50, 47.90, 15, 15, 14.20, 14.85 412, 413.95, 408.60, 409.75 49.90, 51, 47.75, 48 Monsanto (I) 920, 905, 913.85 251, 259.90, 251, 254 22.65, 24.85, 22.65, 23.20 25.80 104.65 DCM Shr.Con 91, 90, 90.05 Godrej Cons. 136.90, 145, 135, JCT 7.61, 7.80, 7.49, 7.54 911, 920, 901.10, 912.10 66.95, 66.95, 64, 64.90 40, 40.50, 37.20, 37.75 48.70 102, 104.95, 101, 104 Premier Tyre 9.01, 9.50 SQL Star Int 8.89, 9.28, 8.60, 8.70 Vanavil Dyes 45, 42, 43.15 BPCL 327.70, 346, 331 IDBI Bank 38.95, 35.80, 36.50 48.10, 50.50, 48, 48.65 92.80, 92.80, 90.55, 90.75 135.70 Jenson&Nicho 7.90, 8.25, 7.40, 7.65 Morarjee Goc 24.45 Prism Cement 12.50, 11.50, 11.72 SREI Int.Fin 10.55, 10.64, 10.10, Vardhman Pol 49.50, 49.05, 49.35 Assam Co. 26.50, 27.25, 24.50, DCW 20, 20.40, 19.75, 19.85 139.90, 145, 135, 136.30 7.55, 8, 7.55, 7.75 24.50, 24.55, 24.50, 24.55 329, 346, 328, 333.40 38.30, 38.90, 35.85, 36.70 Siemens 399.50, 418, 415.85 24.80 11.50, 12.40, 11.50, 11.75 10.30 49.70, 50.45, 48.95, 49.60 Britannia 560, 565, 557, 560 IGate Global 254.90, 265, 246.20, 402, 419.95, 398, 415.90 20.45, 20.45, 19.80, 19.85 Godrej Inds. 36.55, 37, 35, 36.35 JIK Inds. 18.75, 17.50, 18 Morepen Lab 15.66, 14.60, 15.66 Pritish Nand 29.45, 30.15, 28.65, 10.80, 10.80, 10.10, 10.35 Vardhman Spg 83, 84.20, 81.50, Astrazen.Ph. 480, 480.20 Deccan Cem. 39.55, 41.10, 39.75 38, 38, 35.50, 36.80 18.50, 18.50, 17.75, 17.75 14.70, 15.70, 14.70, 15.70 550, 564, 550, 560.30 249.80 Silverline T 7.80, 8, 7.50, 7.52 477, 477.50, 477, 477.50 29.95 SRF 31.50, 31.65, 30.10, 30.25 81.75 BSES 327.50, 339, 326, 333 258, 264.70, 246.55, 249.95 SKF Bearing 66, 64, 64.75 Deepak Fert. 25.75, 26.40, 25.60, 26 Goetze (I) 45.50, 46.70, 44.65, 45.20 Jindal Drill 214, 224, 220 Morgan Stan 12.57, 12.98, 12.56, 29.90, 30.50, 29.10, 30.10 27.80, 31.65, 27.80, 30.55 83.10, 84.60, 81.50, 82.45 Atcom Techno 15, 15.59, 14.50, 25.25, 26.40, 25.25, 25.75 45, 47, 45, 45.25 Jindal Iron 151.90, 166.85, 150, 12.90 328.05, 339, 326, 333.50 India Cement 32.50, 34.70, 31.90, 65.80, 66.20, 64.25, 64.55 14.54 Priyad.Cemen 19.90, 20.88, 18.16, SRF Polymers 23.50, 24, 23.10, Varun Ship. 16.24, 16.25, 15.50, Cadila Healt 292, 300, 280, 297.95 32.85 Sonata Soft. 14.50, 15.20, 14.04, Deepak Nitr. 54.55, 55.70, 53.80, Goldiam Int. 31.90, 35, 32.50 160.50 12.55, 13.05, 12.55, 12.95 19.85 23.50 15.55 15.25, 15.60, 14.50, 14.55 55.05 Goldstn.Tech 22.90, 21.95, 23.75 152.55, 166.45, 150.05, 161.10 Motherson SS 188, 190, 184, 189.70 290, 300, 281.70, 298.05 32.50, 34.50, 31.75, 33.05 14.15 Atlas Copco 250, 253, 242, 250.55 20.50, 21.30, 19.10, 20.35 SRG Infotech 1.97, 1.65, 1.69 16.50, 16.50, 15.70, 15.80 Castrol (I) 208.95, 209.15, 204, Indian Alumi 160, 145, 146 14.35, 15.10, 14.10, 14.20 Dena Bank 21, 21.50, 20.50, 20.70 22.80, 23.75, 21.75, 23.75 Jindal Photo 54.75, 55, 52.75, 52.85 195.95, 195.95, 187, 194.10 Prraneta Ind 4.12, 4.14, 3.85 1.70, 1.90, 1.65, 1.70 Vashisti Det 12.25, 14.35, 14.01 Atlas Cycles 75.55, 78, 76.25 21.70, 21.70, 20.45, 20.70 Goldstn.Tele 9.10, 9.75, 8.66, 9.06 53.50, 54.40, 52.50, 52.80 Moving Pictu 7, 6.11, 6.50 204.75 155.90, 155.95, 147, 147.50 SPICE 41.75, 42.35, 42.25 77.95, 78, 76.70, 77.50 PSI Data Sys 72, 76, 72.75 Sri Adhikari 68.25, 71, 68.65 14.40, 14.60, 13.65, 14.05 Century Enka 119.25, 128, 119, Indian Hotel 263, 256.80, 259.90 SSI 103.50, 107.95, 99.60, 100.35 Denso (I) 36.10, 37, 35.10, 36 9.50, 9.50, 8.75, 9.10 Jindal Poly. 187.55, 177.50, 179.70 Mro-Tek 15.90, 15, 15.08 71.10, 76, 71.10, 72.20 68.60, 70.95, 68.40, 68.80 Venky’s (I) 54.50, 56 Atul 44.50, 46.90, 44.25, 45.30 Dewan H.Fin. 23, 22.85, 23.50 Gonter Peip 10.29, 9.20, 9.68 188, 188.45, 176.10, 181.15 15.70, 15.85, 15, 15.10 125.65 256.90, 263.90, 256, 258.05 104, 107.20, 99.60, 100.70 45.05, 46, 44.50, 44.85 PSL 67.90, 63.25, 63.70 Star Paper 21.10, 20.80, 20.90 56, 56.90, 56, 56.80 116.50, 128.40, 116.50, 124.80 Indian Oil C 367.40, 390, 367, 384.10 STC India 100, 98 24.70, 24.75, 23, 24.30 Goodlass Ner 273.50, 276, 274.35 Jindal Strip 317.70, 324.90, 309.50, MRPL 42, 43.50, 41.75, 42.10 66.30, 67.50, 63.15, 63.70 21.25, 21.45, 20.85, 21.20 Veronica Lab 11.35, 11.50, 10.05, Auto Axles 174, 183.80, 182.65 DFM Foods 6.70, 8, 7.98 274.80, 277, 273, 275.75 311.60 42, 43.45, 41.55, 42 Century Text 111.50, 114.60, 109.20, 368, 390, 367.10, 382.95 98.15, 99, 98.10, 98.45 183.95, 183.95, 175.05, 180.10 Pudumjee Pul 25, 26.55, 26.35 State Bnk Bi 1136.10, 1184, 1120.10, 11.32 110.35 Indian Ov.Bk 29.80, 30, 28.80, 28.95 Sterl.Biotec 50.40, 47.50, 49.50 DGP Windsor 7.30, 7, 7.27 Goodricke 36.50, 38.90, 37.20 317, 325.80, 308, 312.90 Mukand 31.30, 31.35, 28.50, 29 26, 26.75, 26, 26.20 1136.15 Vesuvius (I) 107.50, 112.75, 110 Avanti Feeds 31.50, 31.80, 30.90, 7.25, 7.45, 6.65, 6.90 Goodyear (I) 34, 34.75, 33.55, 34.05 JJ Exporters 32.10, 33.50, 32, 32.60 29, 31.45, 28, 29.20 110.70, 114.50, 109.20, 110.65 29.45, 29.70, 28.80, 28.95 49.90, 50, 47, 49 31.60 Pun.Alkali 12.15, 10.30, 10.61 State Bnk My 1520, 1558.95, 1481, 110.50, 112.80, 110, 110.40 Chambal Fert 17.50, 17.95, 17.10, Indian Rayon 182, 186.25, 181, Sterl.Optica 57.25, 54.05, 54.20 Dhampur Sugr 26.20, 24.40, 24.80 Grabal Al.Im 24.50 JK Corpn. 14.25, 14.50, 14.01, 14.08 Mukand Engrs 12.80, 13.15, 12.50, Pun.Chemical 166, 173, 170.90 1486 Viceroy Hot. 15.85, 16, 15.50 Avery (I) 30.70, 34.25, 33 26.40, 26.40, 24.35, 24.70 Graphite Ind 56.30, 59, 57.50 JK Inds. 38.95, 37.80, 38.45 12.72 17.25 181.15 57.10, 57.45, 54, 54.35 Avon Organic 46.90, 52, 43.15, 51.35 Pun.Communi. 55.75, 58.50, 58 State Bnk Tr 1030, 1050, 1040.35 Videocon Apl 19.24, 19.40, 17.31, 18, 18.10, 17.25, 17.30 186, 186.90, 180.65, 181.70 Sun Pharma. 495, 511.50, 490.50, Dhanalak.Bnk 21.35, 21.95, 20.80, 57.75, 59, 56, 57.95 JK Synthetic 9.49, 9, 9.80 12.95, 13.35, 12, 12.60 Pun.Nat.Bank 176, 178.40, 170.10, Std.Indust. 8.25, 7.60, 7.75 17.41 Chennai Pet. 85.90, 89.20, 84.65, Infosys Tech 3896.80, 3980, 3830, 504.85 B 20.95 Grauer & Wei 32.40, 31.30 JL Morison 129.95, 130.05, 129 Munjal Auto 52.70, 55, 54.25 171.90 8.20, 8.20, 7.75, 7.85 19.30, 19.35, 17.25, 17.45 85.10 3910.40 492.20, 514, 485, 504.95 Dharamsi Mor 10.50, 10.97, 9.86, Gravity (I) 13, 13.05, 10.55, 11.10 JMC Projects 21.60, 22, 20.60, 20.95 Munjal Showa 207, 210, 201.50, 177, 177.85, 171, 173.25 Sterl.Inds. 518.50, 520, 495.05, Videocon Fin 24.05, 26 87, 89.10, 85.05, 85.55 3945.35, 3980, 3820.35, 3925.85 Syndicate Bn 28.25, 28.70, 27.05, Bajaj Auto F 67.25, 67.50, 65, 66 10.68 Greaves 26.60, 24.50, 25.50 Jog Engg. 10.25, 10.80, 9.71 205.05 514.35 25.20, 25.60, 24.75, 25.45 Cipla 925, 1025, 1010.45 Infotech En. 115, 119.45, 108.55, 27.30 65, 66.50, 64.50, 65.90 Dhunseri Tea 17, 18.75, 18.10 Grind Norton 149.75, 152.20, 145.25, Jubilant Org 248.50, 273.95, 273 204, 208, 200.05, 205.20 R Sterl.Tools 65.10, 65.40, 62.50, 65.10 Vidhi Dyestu 14.16, 16.60, 16 933.25, 1025, 933, 1008.55 109.80 28.20, 28.50, 27.10, 27.35 Bajaj Elec. 35.05, 35.50, 34, 34.75 Divi’s Lab 657, 709.85, 653.05, 150 250.10, 276, 249.05, 274.45 Murd.Ceram 19.45, 19.25, 20.75 Stl.Strips W 17.75, 18.35, 17.65, Vikrant Tyre 16.90, 16.16, 16.39 Bajaj Hindus 155, 158, 150, 150.65 700.40 Gruh Finance 25, 25.35, 24.55, 24.65 Jupiter BioS 84, 92, 82.10, 90.85 Mys.Cement 13, 11, 11.44 Rain Calcing 20.55, 20.90, 19.60, 17.66 Vinati Org. 17, 18, 16.80, 17.55 CMC 458, 467, 445, 448.80 117, 120, 109, 110.35 Syngenta (I) 132.80, 127, 128.25 19.70 455, 463.90, 446.10, 449.20 Ingersoll R 252, 300.10, 247.50, Tata Chem 94.30, 95.25, 92.10, 155, 156.80, 150, 151.80 660, 710, 650, 700.40 GTC Inds. 19.10, 17.60, 18.01 Jyoti Struct 59.40, 61.35, 56.55, 12.30, 12.60, 11.25, 11.45 Su-raj Diamn 16.70, 16.85, 16.50, Vindhya Tele 27.25, 27.75, 26.65, Bajaj Tempo 268, 276, 263, 275.05 Dolat Inv. 4.40, 3.71, 4.30 17.55, 18.55, 17.50, 17.85 57.65 20.50, 20.80, 19.25, 19.85 16.55 26.85 Colgate 145.15, 150, 147.05 299.45 92.95 Raj.Spg.&Wvg 28, 28.95, 27.75 148, 149.80, 145.60, 146.55 248.20, 300, 248.20, 287.50 94.35, 95, 91.10, 92.70 Bal Pharma 31.90, 35, 30.50, 33.75 Dolphin Off. 20.43, 15.85, 20.35 GTN Textiles 32.55, 33.05, 32, 32.15 60, 61.80, 56.50, 57.65 N 17.45, 17.45, 16.60, 16.65 27.75, 27.75, 26.70, 27.05 Donear Inds. 160, 155.30 33, 33.10, 32.10, 32.45 28.25, 29, 28, 28.25 Container Co 420.10, 424.95, IPCL 148.75, 154.80, 151.65 Tata Elxsi 90.30, 93, 89, 89.65 Bal.Law.Vanl 15.15, 16, 15.90 Nagar.Agrich 17.70, 17.35, 17.90 Suashish Dia 22.55, 20.90 Vintage Card 10.10, 10.50, 10.41 Balaji Dist. 7.87, 7.30 DSJ Comm. 0.92, 1.05, 0.91, 0.95 Gufic Bio Sc 28.70, 25.90, 27 K Rajesh Exp 115.85, 116, 115.15 Subex System 182.45, 182, 213.90 10.10, 10.80, 10.10, 10.45 410.10, 413 150, 154.85, 149, 151.80 92, 93.15, 89, 90.10 Nagar.Const. 71.50, 72.35, 69.60, 115, 116, 114.90, 115.40 421, 425, 409, 412.85 ITC 820.90, 837, 818, 832.40 Tata Motors 275.45, 285.90, 273.50, 7.80, 7.85, 7.40, 7.40 0.85, 0.95, 0.85, 0.85 Guj.Alkalies 40.40, 37.15, 38.10 Subhash Proj 29.70 Vinyl Chem. 12, 12.25, 11.75, 11.87 DSP Merrill 305, 290 39, 40.40, 37.55, 37.95 Kaashyap Rad 3.38, 3.40, 2.92, 2.99 69.70 Rajshree Sug 27.10, 28, 25, 25.55 Corpn. Bank 201, 216.75, 212 824, 837, 818.20, 832.25 280.10 Balkrish Ind 122, 125, 120, 122 Kabra Extr 81, 70, 71.65 Nagar.Fertil 9.40, 8.77, 8.85 28.30, 28.40, 26.85, 27 12.40, 12.40, 11.40, 11.80 Balmer Law.I 41, 42.90, 42.30 Duphar-Inter 194.80, 199, 192, Guj.Amb.Exp. 18.50, 19.25, 18.40, 25.90, 26.35, 24.65, 25.20 Subros 103.50, 100, 112.05 VIP Indus. 29, 28.05, 28.65 210, 215.50, 206.50, 211.85 ITI 22.50, 23, 22.20, 22.35 277.60, 285.75, 273.10, 281.05 67.50, 76.50, 67.50, 72.10 9.20, 9.20, 8.75, 8.85 Rallis India 90.35, 90.90, 87.05, Crompton Gr. 99.80, 110.50, 107.65 22.40, 23, 22.05, 22.25 Tata Power 194.40, 197.50, 192.25, Balmer Lawri 87, 91.25, 90.25 195.20 18.50 Sulzer (I) 140.10, 145.50, 143.25 28.50, 28.95, 28.10, 28.50 18.50, 19.40, 18.50, 18.80 Kajaria Cer 41.65, 42.20, 41.50, 42 Nahar Export 27.50, 27.95, 27, 27.25 87.50 101, 111, 100.50, 107.95 J&K Bank 218.50, 222.90, 214.60, 193.35 93.50, 93.50, 89.75, 89.95 41.65, 42.30, 41.65, 42.15 27.45, 27.95, 27, 27.10 Sundaram Cla 343, 342.05, 349 Visaka Ind. 35, 36.15, 35 Balrampur Ch 177.10, 179.70, 175, E Guj.Apollo E 62, 63.95, 61.50, 62 89.70, 90.50, 87, 88.35 345.10, 355, 345, 353.85 35.50, 36, 34.50, 35.35 Cummins (I) 78.25, 81.85, 77.50, 216.75 195, 197.15, 192.85, 193.95 Kakatiya Cem 49, 50.85, 47.75, Nahar Indl.E 15.60, 16.25, 16.05 Rama Newspri 8.40, 8.45, 8, 8.01 78.45 219, 221.70, 214.70, 216.85 Tata Tea 233.10, 245.70, 241 177 Guj.Flouroch 87.30, 94.95, 89.45 Sundaram Fst 527, 542 Visesh Info 9.90, 10.25, 9.50, 9.63 Eicher 50.95, 49.10, 49.30 88.35, 92, 87.20, 89.80 48.90 Nahar Intl. 10.50, 11, 9.67, 10.53 8.35, 8.50, 7.90, 8.05 80.95, 80.95, 78, 78.35 Jaiprakash I 64.80, 68.80, 63.85, 234.40, 245.90, 233.55, 241.85 179.75, 180, 175, 179.55 50.40, 50.40, 47.30, 49.55 48.65, 50.50, 48, 49.25 10.30, 11.10, 9.90, 10.35 525, 543, 525, 539.45 10, 10.40, 9.25, 9.55 Banco Prod. 71, 72.10, 70.10, 71.40 Guj.H.Chem 26.50, 26.70, 25.90, 26 Ramco Inds. 216, 218, 215 Sunflag Iron 10.50, 10.60, 9.52, 9.75 Vision Organ 2.50, 2.68, 2.45, 2.53 D-Link (I) 90.90, 91.75, 86.10, 86.85 67.45 Tata Telcom 136, 153, 151.70 Eicher Motor 170, 171, 166, 170 Kale Consul. 41.95, 43.85, 40.50, Nahar Spg. 103.60, 104.35, 100, 220.05, 220.05, 213.10, 213.55 91.45, 91.45, 85.50, 86.60 65, 68.85, 63.10, 67.50 135.60, 154, 135, 151.20 Bank of Punj 28, 28.25, 26.50, 26.70 26.60, 26.90, 25.95, 26.05 Super Spin. 101.10, 101.30, 98 2.50, 2.70, 2.35, 2.45 173, 173, 167, 170.15 Guj.Ind.Pow. 32.95, 30.50, 30.65 40.85 101.60 Ramco Systm 273, 251.25, 254.65 Dabur (I) 66.25, 67, 64, 64.75 JB Chemical 256, 265, 251.95, Thermax 262, 292, 287.90 28, 28.35, 26.25, 26.70 EID Parry 134.90, 136.50, 133.75, 42.50, 44.50, 40.50, 41.15 102, 104.80, 101.15, 102.50 Supreme Inds 131.75, 128 VJIL Consult 9.90, 10.50, 9.32, 9.40 Bank of Raj. 24, 28, 26.95 32.85, 32.85, 30.20, 30.75 266.50, 272.50, 253, 256.15 129, 132, 128, 129.35 Voltas 101.55, 102.80, 97.15, 100.65 66.80, 66.80, 64.10, 64.80 262.20 260, 289, 260, 284.55 135 Kalpa.Power 43.50, 45, 43, 44.85 Narmada C.Pe 17, 17.25, 16.50, Rane Brake 186.40, 183, 190 Digital Glob 487.45, 511.80, 504.10 260, 265.90, 251, 263.60 Thomas Cook 238.50, 239.95, 27.85, 28.40, 26.70, 27 Guj.Sidh.Cem 9.71, 10.25, 9.26, 9.46 Supreme Petr 18.60, 19.40, 18.25, 101.50, 102.40, 97.20, 100.10 136, 136.35, 132.25, 135.65 10, 10.25, 9.10, 9.50 42.55, 45, 42.55, 44.65 16.70 Rane Madras 71.50, 72, 70, 70.05 490.50, 511.80, 490.50, 505.10 Jindal Steel 716.50, 750, 714, 235.50, 236.50 Bannari Aman 167.55, 163.50, 165 EIH Asso.Hot 17.60, 18.25, 16.40, Kalyani Brak 345, 345.25 17.35, 17.35, 16.50, 16.90 18.40 VST Indus. 188, 173.70, 174.90 156.35, 161.85, 156.35, 161 Gulf Oil Cor 155, 138.60, 156 71.95, 73.25, 71, 71.10 19.20, 19.50, 18.25, 18.40 182, 192, 175.60, 176.35 Dr.Reddy’s 1120, 1161, 1110, 720.75 241.90, 241.90, 235.15, 236.10 17.20 335, 365, 335, 365 Nat.Steel &A 15.18, 15.75, 14.51, Ravalgaon Su 2700, 2755, 2600, 1152.60 714, 749, 714, 725 TISCO 246.95, 257.25, 242.05, Bayer (I) 1440, 1450, 1402, 1435 Eimco Elecon 53, 58.30, 58.20 Kalyani Shrp 9.75, 10.50, 9.30, 10.46 14.77 Surana Tele 20.25, 21, 20, 20.65 VST Tillers 38.15, 39, 37.50, 37.60 Bayer ABS 102.15, 107.50, 106.85 H 2630 20.25, 21.50, 20, 21 VXL Instrum. 28, 28.05, 26.90, 27.05 1109, 1165.50, 1109, 1151.85 Kochi Refin. 166.80, 172.50, 162.40, 252.10 59, 60, 58.50, 58.55 Kalyani Stel 56.50, 62.50, 60.20 15.30, 15.90, 14.50, 14.80 Rayban Sun O 52.85, 53, 51.25, Dredging Cor 390, 403, 384, 387.75 163.80 248.75, 257.30, 242.35, 253.35 102.95, 107.90, 102.95, 106.40 Elder Pharma 81.95, 97.10 Harr.Malayal 20.79, 21.40, 20.25, Kanoria Chem 42, 42.50, 41.50, Natco Pharma 82, 80, 89.20 Surat Elec. 129, 135.80, 133 Bayer Diagno 234.90, 238, 225.10, 52.20 134.40, 137, 131, 132.60 W E-Serve Intl 635, 655, 626, 640.45 167.05, 172.75, 162.40, 164.20 Titan Inds. 79.40, 79.90, 77, 77.15 81.50, 97.05, 81.50, 96.85 20.58 42.25 82, 89.45, 81.20, 89.45 Reg.Ceramic 31, 33, 30.70, 32.95 625, 653, 624.90, 645 Kotak Mah.Bk 212, 216, 209, 209.60 79.70, 80, 77, 77.55 226 Elecon Engg. 25.75, 27, 26.55 21.20, 23, 20.05, 20.85 42.10, 45, 42.10, 44.50 Nath Seeds 11.10, 11.42, 10.91, Surya Roshni 20.65, 21.40, 20.35, Berger Paint 93.05, 94.50, 93, 94 30.40, 32.70, 30.30, 32.35 20.60 Walchandngr 43.25, 45.15, 45.05 EIH 210, 213, 203, 208.85 214, 214.75, 208, 209.95 TN Newsprint 65.05, 72.10, 65, Elect.Kelvin 9.01, 9.19, 8.50, 8.73 Hathway Bhaw 10.90, 11, 10.50, Karnatak Bnk 86, 86.10, 83, 83.80 11.20 Rel.Ind.Infr 57, 58.75, 55.10, 55.40 48.90, 48.90, 45.25, 46.15 208.90, 210, 204, 207.90 L&T 287.90, 295, 283, 289.15 71.40 94.85, 95, 92.80, 93.85 Electro.Cast 300.05, 306, 300, 10.84 86, 86.55, 83.50, 83.80 11.20, 11.50, 10.90, 11.10 21, 21.50, 20.25, 20.65 BF Utilities 17.15, 18.25, 17 57.50, 58, 56.10, 56.45 Surylak.Cott 30.50, 32 Warren Tea 48.35, 51.75, 49.55 Engineers (I 301, 309.55, 296.10, 287, 295, 285, 289.90 64.50, 72.20, 64, 71.20 300.95 Hatsun Agro 61, 64, 61.60 Karur Vysya 276.10, 286, 276, National Fer 62.70, 64.75, 61.55, Relaxo Footw 34.40, 36.40, 36.25 Wartsila (I) 119.10, 130, 122.15 300.95 LIC Hsg.Fin. 146.90, 146.95, 136, TN Petro 21.80, 22, 21.20, 21.35 Bhagya.Metal 32, 31.50, 34.65 302, 306, 300, 300.50 Havell’s (I) 181.70, 185, 178.50, 283.90 63.70 32.80, 32.80, 30.70, 30.70 Bhansali Eng 76.25 Revathi Equ. 125.95, 126.85, 125.10, Sutlej Inds. 56.15, 57.90, 57 120, 124.75, 118.50, 119.90 303, 308, 295.20, 300.95 137.65 22, 22, 21.30, 21.30 Elgi Equip 49, 50.55, 48.10, 49.85 179.10 275, 286, 275, 284.25 National Per 1090, 1100, 1056, 126.15 Wellwin Ind. 15.05, 15.38, 14.62, Escorts 52.45, 53, 51.35, 51.60 145, 147.25, 137, 138.65 Torrent Phar 349, 377, 346, 366.60 Bharat Bijle 630, 622.35 49, 50.95, 48.35, 49.60 179.90, 183.50, 177, 178.45 KDL Biotech 20.05, 21.50, 19.20, 1059.55 59.90, 59.90, 57, 57 Bharat Rasay 36, 35.05, 37 Rico Auto 215, 224.80, 210.05, Suven Pharma 280, 295, 264.50, 14.69 52.90, 52.90, 51, 51.60 LML 43.30, 44.35, 42.50, 42.60 345, 382, 345, 369.10 Elgitread (I 225 Hawkins Cook 19.90, 19, 19.10 21.25 Nava Bh.Ferr 98.70, 96.50, 96.70 223.85 15.25, 15.45, 14.60, 14.70 Essel Propac 207, 212.25, 204, 43, 44.50, 42.55, 42.75 Trent 212.90, 205, 205.20 38.45, 38.50, 36.20, 36.55 225, 225.80, 225, 225 Hazoor Media 8.20, 7.39, 7.47 20.85, 21.70, 19.10, 21.45 100.40, 100.40, 96, 96.55 290.45 Bhartiya Int 33.60, 32.10, 34.70 220, 227, 211, 222.75 Swaraj Engin 222.10, 220 Welspun (I) 59.75, 60.40, 56.50, 205.45 Lupin 441.90, 481.90, 432.20, 212.20, 212.20, 202.05, 204.80 Elpro Inter 25.90, 24.70 HBL Nife Pow 38, 39.70, 39 KEC Inter. 25, 23.55, 23.80 Navneet Pub. 142.90, 143.80, RPG Cables 13.50, 12.10, 12.80 57.45 208, 213, 204, 205.65 460.75 TVS Electron 76.90, 78.40, 74.50, 33, 34.80, 32.05, 34.55 Emco 49.95, 50, 47.10, 47.60 HEG 48.80, 48.90, 47.50, 48.45 25, 26, 23.55, 23.75 139.60, 140.60 223, 223, 219, 220 Bhushan Stl. 58.70, 62, 57.20, 58.55 13.45, 13.45, 12.25, 12.50 Swaraj Mazda 184.85, 170.25, Welspun Guj. 24.55, 24.60, 23.50, Exide Inds. 82.70, 84.95, 81.60, 442.65, 481.55, 432.50, 465 75.40 Encore Soft 12.47, 11.40, 11.49 47.50, 50, 47.50, 48.15 Kerala Ayurv 12.50, 12.15, 13.65 143.45, 144, 138.75, 140 RPG Life Sci 28.05, 32.50, 28, 31.90 23.90 82.25 M&M 197.60, 203.10, 200.15 77.90, 78.90, 74.55, 75.10 BI 123.75 Eonour Tech. 3.90, 4.09, 3.84, 3.86 Helios & Mat 22.70, 23.50, 21.75 Kerala Chem. 27.90, 25.10, 26.40 NCL Inds. 8.80, 9.15, 8.55, 8.83 174.45 Bihar Caustc 26.60, 27.20, 25, 25.45 28.15, 32.80, 28.15, 32.15 175, 175, 170.15, 173 Wendt (I) 465, 475, 470 85, 85, 82.10, 82.70 199.25, 203.50, 198.50, 200.95 TVS Motor Co 748, 750, 726.50, Epic Enzymes 11.90, 12.68, 12.28 Henkel Spic 22.05, 22.85, 21.55, Kesoram Inds 47, 49.50, 46.60, Nelco 31.50, 32.50, 30.55, 30.85 RPG Transmi. 10.49, 10.75, 9.95, 10 West Coast P 182, 184, 180, 181.40 Federal Bank 167, 167.45, 163, Marico Inds 211, 218.90, 208, 732.05 Bimetal Bear 142, 144, 140 Esab (I) 44, 46.90, 42.25, 44.90 21.85 48.45 32.50, 32.75, 31, 31.20 Syncom Form. 25.90, 24.30 Binani Inds. 22.25, 21, 21.10 10.30, 11.10, 9.95, 10 Synergy Log 11.30, 11.45, 10.10, 181.55, 184.90, 181.55, 184 165.20 213.70 738.70, 740, 722, 734.85 44.50, 46.25, 42, 44.90 Heritage Fds 65, 66.90, 66.60 46.15, 49.50, 46.15, 48.30 Neuland Lab. 110.75, 110.70, 121.20 RS Software 28.25, 32.80, 26.55, 27 Widia (I) 144, 137, 138.85 165.50, 168, 165, 165.50 208, 219, 207, 215.80 United Phosp 324.80, 320, 381.45 Biopac (I) 7 ESI 44.90, 43, 43.50 65.10, 68.50, 65.05, 67.10 KG Denim 18.10, 18.80, 18, 18.15 NHN Corpn. 11.45, 11.25, 11.45 10.25 Birla Corp. 47.80, 48.90, 44, 48.35 28.40, 29.50, 26.20, 26.90 Wim Plast 36.60, 37.25 Finolex Cabl 112.85, 114, 110.05, Maruti Udyog 227, 238.40, 235.45 321, 378.40, 321, 377.25 44, 44.80, 42, 42.85 HFCL Infotel 17.50, 18, 17.75 Khandwala Se 11.90, 12.75 Nilkamal Pls 35.05, 38.85, 35, 38.45 Ruchi Soya 56.70, 57, 50.05, 51 Wimco 29.25, 30, 27.60, 28.25 110.70 232.05, 238.50, 231.50, 235.40 UTI Bank 76.70, 76.75, 73.15, 73.30 46.50, 48.90, 45.10, 48.45 Eskay K’N’It 4.10, 3.90, 3.99 Hi-Tech Gear 141 12.25, 13, 12.25, 12.95 40.50, 40.50, 37.40, 38.70 T Birla Eric. 16.90, 17, 16.50, 16.69 52.90, 55, 51.50, 52.05 29.95, 30.50, 28.20, 28.40 114.40, 114.40, 110, 110.90 Mastek 245, 252, 231, 232.95 76.90, 76.90, 73, 73.65 Essar Oil 18.60, 19.40, 18.20, 18.55 141, 141, 141, 141 Khoday (I) 17.39, 14.50 Noble Explo. 7.10, 7.30, 7.01, 7.08 T Spiritual 45.20, 45, 46.90 Wockhardt Lf 28.75, 32.25, 27.55, Finolex Inds 56.50, 59, 56.20, 56.70 244, 252.45, 230.20, 234.40 Videocon Int 62.40, 68, 59.10, 59.45 17.10, 17.20, 16.55, 16.70 Essar Ship. 19.40, 20, 18.60, 18.65 Hikal 305.05, 354, 301.45, 343.40 Kinetic Eng. 79.25, 80.45, 78, 79 NOCIL 13, 12.13, 12.27 Birla Glob.F 24, 23, 23.15 S Taj GVK Hotl 69.20, 70.55, 67.50, 31.70 56, 59.40, 56, 56.60 Max (I) 105, 108, 101.70, 105.30 63.15, 64.35, 59.20, 59.90 Essar Steel 27.95, 29.75, 26.70, 301.25, 350, 301.25, 343.75 Kinetic Moto 33, 33.50, 31.50, 32.85 12.55, 12.80, 11.55, 12.25 68.75 28.50, 32.25, 28, 31.25 Gail (I) 130.35, 135.70, 133.30 105, 108.85, 102, 105.50 Vijaya Bank 28.65, 29.40, 27.05, 22.50, 24.50, 22.50, 23.10 27.90 Himat. Seide 170, 162, 164.80 Kirloskar Br 150.50, 155, 150, Noida Toll 8, 7.76 S Kumars Nat 7.10, 7.17, 7, 7.06 Birla Yamaha 23.50, 23.05, 23.10 65.10, 70, 65.10, 68.75 Wyeth 336, 348, 328, 339 132.50, 135.85, 131, 133.50 Mcdowell Co. 46.60, 47.25, 45.90, 46 27.20 27.60, 29.75, 26.55, 28.20 168, 168, 165, 167.80 151.50 7.85, 8.15, 7.85, 8 7.15, 7.15, 6.90, 7.10 Tanfac Ind. 23, 24, 22.80, 23.35 331, 349.80, 326.10, 341.90 GE Shipping 71.50, 69.50, 70.05 46.80, 47.20, 45.95, 46.05 28.65, 29.80, 27.10, 27.25 BITS 1.80, 1.45, 1.50 ETC Networks 48.50, 50, 45.25, Hind.Constn. 90.50, 92.40, 87.25, Kirloskar Oi 184, 190, 183.10, 189.20 Nova Petro. 35.50, 35, 35.90 S.I.Bank 59.95, 56.50, 56.65 BLB 7.80, 7.10, 7.95 TASC Pharma. 17, 18, 17.85 72.50, 72.50, 69.75, 70.05 Merck 319, 324, 312.10, 317.50 Visual Soft 211, 217.20, 198.15, 45.50 88.30 183.25, 188, 183.10, 185.55 38.60, 38.60, 34, 34.30 60.90, 60.90, 56.25, 56.40 17, 17.45, 17, 17.45 Y Geometric So 376.95, 400, 343.25, 319, 327, 312, 318.50 200.35 7.50, 8.20, 7.50, 8 48.80, 48.80, 45.35, 46.05 92, 92.75, 87.15, 88.55 Kit-Ply Ind. 9.30, 10.30, 9.86 Novopan Inds 35.25 S.I.C.Agency 11.90, 12.25, 11.85, Blow Plast 19, 18.11, 18.45 Tata Coffee 108, 109.50, 105 350.65 MIRC Electr. 202, 195, 197.30 214.40, 217.45, 198.15, 200.75 Eurotex Inds 18, 17.50, 17.60 Hind.Inks&Re 287, 288, 281.55, 282 9.25, 10.30, 9.25, 9.90 35, 35.25, 34.55, 35.25 11.98 110, 110, 103.75, 104.45 Yokogawa Blu 66.15, 68, 67.90 378, 394.80, 342.25, 348 203.90, 203.90, 196.05, 198.75 VSNL 123, 124.70, 120.35, 120.80 Blue Dart Ex 91, 92.45, 89.20, 90.15 17.65, 18, 17.30, 17.50 285.05, 287, 280, 282.25 KLG Systel 38.80, 39.45, 36.60, NRB Bearings 100, 110, 109.65 11.90, 12.10, 11.05, 11.95 66.55, 67.50, 66.55, 67 91, 93.50, 91, 92 Tata Finance 44.20, 44.25, 42.55, Sabero Org. 18.99, 17.46, 18.45 42.75 17.90, 19, 17.55, 18.55 43.50, 44.25, 42.60, 42.80 Z Saint-Gobain 18, 17.30, 17.90 Tata Honeywl 258.35, 284.90, Zandu Pharm 2040, 2099, 2070 Sakthi Sugar 31.10, 33.35, 32.17 254.05, 276.60 Name NAVs Prices (Rs) Name NAVs Prices (Rs) Name NAVs Prices (Rs) Name NAVs Prices (Rs) 32.55, 33.40, 31.55, 32 2000.05, 2050, 2000.05, 2027.30 257, 284.90, 257, 273.90 Zenith Comp. 17, 15.62, 15.81 MUTUAL FUNDS (Rs) Sales Purchase Salora Int. 52, 49.50, 49.75 Tata Infomed 154, 161.95, 151, (Rs) Sales Purchase (Rs) Sales Purchase (Rs) Sales Purchase 52, 52, 49.60, 50.15 16.80, 16.90, 15.65, 15.90 Open-ended Schemes 153.20 Zenith Exp. 40, 40.25, 40, 40.10 Samkrg Pist. 48.05, 49.75, 47.35, 154.80, 161, 150.20, 152.20 Cash Plus-Inst.(D) 10.79 10.79 10.79 47.70 Zenith Info. 16.55, 16.70, 15.49, Gilt Series (Cum) 13.39 13.66 13.26 Growth (D) 14.20 14.41 14.20 GIC Mutual Fund Tata Infotec 312, 324, 301, 303.55 15.86 D Yield Plus(Div) 12.49 12.74 12.49 Gilt Series (Reg) 13.39 13.66 13.26 Income (D) 10.50 10.50 10.50 Balanced 12.93 13.19 12.80 Samtel Color 26.90, 27.85, 26.55, Tata Invest. 205, 196, 197.65 D Yield Plus(G) 15.64 15.95 15.64 Growth (Cum) 18.26 18.63 18.26 Income (G) 18.99 18.99 18.99 D’Mat 10.15 10.35 10.15 26.65 16, 16.60, 15.30, 15.65 Name NAVs Prices (Rs) 200, 204.75, 198.50, 199.35 ZF Steering 127, 128, 123, 123.50 Equity Plan 20.92 20.92 20.92 Growth (Reg) 12.86 13.12 12.86 Income Bond (D) 10.55 10.55 10.55 Debt (G) 10.62 10.62 10.62 27.50, 27.50, 27, 27.10 Tata Metalik 61.95, 64.35, 62.70 (Rs) Sales Purchase FMP Quarterly Group 1 (D) 11.12 11.12 11.12 Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum 12.47 12.47 12.47 Income Bond (G) 12.53 12.53 12.53 Fortune 94 10.38 10.59 10.38 Sandesh Ltd. 129, 123.30, 124.15 Zicom Electn 37.25, 36, 36.25 FMP Quarterly Group 1 (G) 11.35 11.35 11.35 62.90, 64.45, 62, 63.10 Zigma Soft. 5, 4.11, 4.27 Liquid Instl. 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Stp (D)(Z) 10.57 10.57 10.57

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The Times of India, New Delhi, Saturday,August 30, 2003

Glam gals of athletics Schumi’s warning Up above the bar Move away tennis babes, athletics’ Don’t write us off yet, says Michael Goalkeepers make news mostly for their glam gals are here. Yipsi Moreno of Schumacher. The Ferrari ace in- blunders. But Gianluigi Buffon has Cuba and Russian Debbie Harry, gold tends to fight it out to the final done it by winning the European and silver winners in hammer at bend. With two points separating Player of Year award ahead of Paris, have proved that athletes can the top three, he needs to do just Carlos (best defender), Nedved be good and can look good too that in the 3 remaining races (midfielder) and Nistelrooy (striker)

Anju Bobby George reaches long-jump final at World Athletics

We worry about break points and pulled hamstrings and here he is with the possibility of dying This Mahabharata has a happy ending within a short time. Sanjay Sekhri TIMES NEWS NETWORK —Martina Navratilova Hall, hockey star Gagan Ajit Singh received the loudest cheers when he rose on Leander Paes New Delhi: The rancour and misgiv- to receive his Arjuna. His electrifying ings of the past few weeks gave way to goals against Pakistan in the recently- SPORTS DIGEST bonhomie, pride and joy as the coun- held Champions Trophy must have try’s highest sports awards, the Arjuna AFP been fresh in everybody’s memories. Awards, were given away here on Fri- Among the awardees were several day by President APJ Abdul Kalam. veterans but it were the babes who stole The feeling was epitomised beautifu- ly by runner K.M. Beenamol and shoot- the limelight. Gagan, who at 22 is al- er Anjali Bhagwat. The two ladies, who ready a DSP with Punjab Police, was at were seen hugging each other during his linguistic best as he was made to an- the dress rehearsal on Thursday, stood swer media queries in Hindi, English proudly side by side to receive the first and Punjabi. Young golfer Shiv Kapur and most prestigious award of the day: landed for the awards on Friday morn- the Khel Ratna. ing itself, coming all the way from US. The entire episode had erupted into a And he was scheduled to leave for Giuseppe Gibilinsco of Italy cele- controversy when the awards commitee Cairns in Australia the same night to brates after winning gold in the recommended two names for the Khel join the Indian contingent for the No- men’s pole vault final on Thursday Ratna and 21 for the Arjuna. The gov- mura Cup. Mamta Kharab, the elfin during the 9th IAAF World Athlet- ernment initially refused to cross the hockey striker, was another youngster ics Championships at the Stade de stipulated numbers but eventually who seemed to be enjoying it all with France near Paris. agreed to make an exception. her family. The Rohtak lass was happy Beenamol and Anjali, however,had to that she got the honour so young. Footballer discharged: Bengal share the Rs 5 lakh award. Later in the day,Beenamol and Anjali footballer Somnath Das who was in- The President then handed over the alongwith Arjuna awardee IM Vijayan jured during the U-16 National Foot- Dronacharya (for best coaches), Arjuna were felicitated at a function by Malay- ball Championship semifinal was dis- (best sports persons), Dhyan Chand ala Manorama. charged from the Aizwal Civil Hospi- (lifetime achievement)and Maulana Well, curtains have come down on an- tal on Friday morning, hospital Abul Kalam Azad (university for best other year’s awards. The controversies sources said. Das was unconscious achivement in sport) awards. are seemingly behind us. But there’s no after he banged his head against the While cricketer Virender Sehwag was Khel Ratna winners K M Beenamol (R) and Anjali Bhagwat (C), Arjuna awardees Shiv Kapur (2nd L) and IM Vijayan (2nd R) and guarantee that they won’t come back to barpost during their semifinal against the obvious favourite at the Durbar Dronacharya awardee Renu Kohli (L) at the the awards function on Friday. taunt us again. Meghalaya. PTI Satdium to be renovated: The Do you really know them? List of awardees historic Karni Singh Stadium will be Straight from the heart developed as a heritage site and the Ram Mehar Singh: The 31- Thandava M Muthu: Muthu, athletics. He won in the handi- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (Rs 5 lakh, scroll, Rajasthan Sports Council would year-old kabaddi 28, reaped a rich re- capped category. medal): K M Beenamol (athletics), Anjali spend certain percentage of its an- stalwart captained ward of two silver Bhagwat (shooting). Anjali Bhagwat (shooting): I never criticised nual grant on its renovation, secre- the Indian team and a bronze at the Inder Pal Singh: Inder was Dronacharya (Rs 3 lakh each, statuette, any selection. I’ve high regard for Beenamol. I tary Harsh Vardhan Bhatnagar said which won the gold Manchester Com- part of the coxless scroll): Renu Kohli (athletics), Jaswant Singh was only putting forth my case as a genuine on Friday. “Out of the total Rs one at the 2002 Busan monwealth Games fours squad which (athletics), M K Kaushik (hockey), E. Prasad one. Good performance has to be recognised crore, which we receive as grant Asiad. The tall and handsome last year to earn his spurs. The garnered a bronze at Rao (kabaddi), H D Motivala (yatching). the same year. from the state government, a certain Singh was also a member Railwayman, who finished 10th Busan. The rower Arjuna (Rs 3 lakh each, statuette, scroll): percentage would be spent on de- of the team which won the gold in the 2001 World Champi- also had a silver and Anju B George (athletics), Virender Sehwag velopment of the Stadium,” he in- Alok Kumar (billiards and snooker): It means the world for a at the 1998 Bangkok Asiad and onship, has been the national a bronze at the Asian Champi- (cricket), Gagan Ajit Singh (hockey), Mamta small town man like me to have reached thus far.A cherished formed. PTI onships in 1999 and 2001 Kharab (hockey), I M Vijayan (football), the 2001 Asian weightlifting champion in 1995, dream has been fulfilled. The atmosphere here is majestic Championship. 1999 and 2002. respectively. He has numerous Ravikant Reddy (volleyball), T M Muthu BETTING METER successes at the domestic (weightlifting), Nitin Mongia (sailing), Suma and it imbues a sense of responsibility in you. Ravikant Reddy: An interna- Ramesh Tikaram: Ramesh is level. Shirur (shooting), Anwar Sultan (shooting), Gagan Ajit Singh (hockey): I’m happy that I’ve ATHLETICS tional veteran of too gifted a sports- Alok Kumar (billiards & snooker), Md Ali Qa- World Championships Sujeet Mann: The 24-year-old mar (boxing), K Sasikiran (chess), Shiv Kapur got this award at a young age. It’s a huge mo- Men’s 200m (event winner) more than a decade, man to be deterred Ravi was the skipper by physical adversi- wrestler from Delhi (golf), Ram Mehar Singh (kabaddi), Mantu tivation. It’s good that the govt decided to award D Patton 7/4 showed his promise S Buckland 2/1 of the volleyball ty. The Bangalorean Ghosh (table tennis), Palwinder Cheema all 21 names. Since the award gives a lot of en- early while landing J Capel 9/4 team which finished has excelled in bad- (wrestling), Sujeet Mann (wrestling), couragement, more and more should get it. S Suegetsu 10/1 a bronze at the Asian Saraswati Saha (athletics), Inder Pal Singh D Campbell 12/1 a creditable fifth at the Busan minton and athletics at interna- Championship in Mamta Kharab (hockey): The phone at my home in Rohtak JJ Johnson 33/1 (rowing), Ramesh Tikaram (disabled athlete). Asiad. The Andhraite also cap- tional level. However, nationally, 1999. He repeated the feat in has been kept busy ever since the news broke out. Congrat- F Fredericks 50/1 tained the side which won the he has been quite successful in Dhyan Chand (Rs 1.50 lakh each, plaque, U Emedolu 80/1 2000. While he placed 6th scroll): Ram Kumar (basketball), Dharma ulations have been thick and fast. I thank my parents and my Sivanthi Gold Cup international sports like cricket and carrom (as per ladbrokes.com) at Busan, he has been the Singh Mann (hockey), Charles Cornelius team for making it possible. Now, I aim to do even better. tournament in 2002. While hav- too. Ramesh won gold and sil- National champion from 1996 (hockey), Om Prakash (volleyball), Smita Shi- LIVE ON TV ing shone as a allrounder, it’s as ver at the world disabled bad- to 2001. role Yadav (rowing). Virender Sehwag (cricket):The award is an in- ESPN: 1925 hrs: English Premier Football League. a setter that the 28-year-old has minton in 2002 and 3 gold in an Abul Kalam trophy (Rs 2 lakh, trophy): Guru spiration to perform better in the future. It will Star Sports: 2030 hrs: US Open tennis. made a mark. international paralympic meet in —Compiled by Shashank Shekhar Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. motivate me to score more and moreruns.I’m thnkful to cricket which has given me so much fame and recognition. CRICKET UPDATE Shiv Kapur (golf): I landed here just a few hours back, all the way from US, for the awards. The toil was well worth it. The Shoaib can return atmosphere is pretty cool. The award is an incentive to do Every batsman is my enemy number one: Salvi well. I’ll now strive for the Khel Ratna. to Durham: PCB By Nitin Naik experience. ‘‘Sachin, Sourav, Zaheer, Ajit were 39-run last wicket partnership with Irfan K Sasikiran (chess): Numbers should not be a TIMES NEWS NETWORK all extremely helpful.’’ Skipper Ganguly said Pathan to win a nail-biting one-day game Peshawar: Pakistan will allow Shoaib consideration while selecting Arjuna awardees. in the camp that two slots in the Test team were against Lancashire. ‘‘That was very exciting,’’ Those deserving should be given the honour Akhtar torejoin English county Durham Mumbai: The walls of the simple dwelling of open, and they could go to a quickie and an says Avishkar puffing his cheeks. ‘‘But I knew after the second Test against Bangladesh Avishkar Madhav Salvi room are adorned with even if it means exceeding the limit set by the opener.Avishkar can lay claim to the fast bowl- sitting in the dressing room that I would government. after all. Earlier, the Pakistan Cricket life size posters of a certain Sachin Tendulkar. ing slot especially if Javagal Srinath decides to help the team win. I normally play well under Board had second thoughts about releas- ‘‘Oh I am a huge fan of Sachin, probably his hang his boots. ‘‘I don’t really think about all pressure.’’ ing him after Mohammed Sami was ruled biggest,’’ gushes the 21-year-old Mumbai speed- Ramesh Tikaram (disabled athlete): Of course, it’s the that,’’ is his matter-of-fact riposte. Talk about Avishkar modelling himself on greatest honour of my life. The awards ceremony was fan- out of the ongoing Test against ster, who is just back from the 13-day fitness The first-year engineering drop out from the great Glenn McGrath and he quips, ‘‘I just Bangladesh with a hairline fracture of camp at Bangalore. ‘‘I like his approach to Sriram Polytechnic, Airoli is certainly in the like his action. I haven’t copied him. I admire tastic. It was a privilege to receive the award from the Pres- the ankle. But PCB chairman Lt. General cricket and life and his humility,’’he adds. selector’s good books after his impressive per- his accuracy, temperament and aggression. I ident and to interact with so many sporting stars. It was a Tauqir Zia told reporters on Friday: The lanky fast bowler, who made an impres- formances for India ‘A’on the tours to West In- have trained under Frank Sir (Tyson). He too golden moment. “Akhtar will join Durham soon after the sive start to his international campaign in the dies and England. ‘‘I bowled really well in doesn’t think that I copy McGrath. So I don’t second Test.” He said the bowlers’ en- tri-series in Dhaka earlier this year says the fit- West Indies pikcing up 29 wickets in five know what this fuss is all about.’’ Nitin Mongia (sailing): My family is probably the only one in forced absence would allow the selectors ness camp was ‘‘hectic but lots of fun.’’ ‘‘Greg matches. In England I split the webbing on my Avishkar is really upbeat about the new sea- the country to boast of three Arjuna awardees. My father S K to try out new bowlers in the third Test (Gregory Allen King), our new trainer was bowling hand and could play only in the latter son. ‘‘I am eager to play in the Challenger, the Mongia got it in early 80s while brother Ashim won it in late and One-day Internationals. Durham had brilliant. He gave everyone a fitness regimen half of the tour.’’ Irani Trophy and the India ‘A’ game against 90s. I’m glad to have completed the trio. released Shoaib under the understanding and by the 13th day the results were awesome.’’ And play he certainly did picking up four New Zealand. Irani Trophy will be great. that he would return to them after the Avishkar also says that rubbing shoulders wickets in the match against South Africa. He After a long time all the top players would be I M Vijayan: I’m happy and relieved. I’ve got the award at the second Test, which ends on Sunday. Reuters with the senior cricketers was a great learning also contributed with the willow stringing a in action.’’ fag end of my career. If I hadn’t got it this year, probably I wouldn’t have got it ever. Nasser’s loss could Reuters Pak fight back after Damp Derby be Thorpe’s gain forces no play London: Graham Thorpe will find out on Kapali claims hat-trick Derby (England): Rain pre- Agassi sets up Friday if he will get an England recall this Peshawar: Leg-spinner Alok were the other men out and vented any play on the first season when the squad for next week’s fi- Kapali recorded at stumps Bangladesh were day of South Africa’s three- nal Test against South Africa at The Oval Bangladesh’s first hat-trick 52 for four with a lead of 118 day tour game against Der- Kafelnikov clash is announced. Thorpe, 34, could be back in Test cricket in an exciting runs. Razin Saleh was un- byshire here onThursday in on international duty at his Surrey home third day’s play against Pak- beaten on 7 and Kapali on 4 what was the tourists’ last New York: World number ground after former captain Nasser Hus- istan in the second Test at Pe- after a day full of fluctuating match before next week’s one Andre Agassi dispatched sain broke a toe in South Africa’s over- shawar on Friday. fortunes. fifth Test against England at stubborn Swedish southpaw whelming 191 run fourth Test win at Kapali wrapped up Pak- Earlier in the day, Rafique The Oval. Andreas Vinciguerra 7-6 Headingley. Thorpe has not played inter- istan’s innings for 295 with bowled a probing line and South Africa lead England (7/1), 6-1, 6-4 here on Thurs- national cricket in over a year since mak- three wickets off successive length and bowled all but one 2-1 in the five-Test series. The day to book a third-round US valiant effort in his first Proteas are due to rest sever- ing the last of his 77 Test appearances balls to give Bangladesh an over from one end in the first Open date against a familiar match against the two-time against India at Lord’s last season. After al key players for the Der- important lead of 66 runs. two sessions to halt Pak- foe — Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Slam winner. that match he took a break from all crick- byshire game with batsman But Pakistan hit back istan’s progress after they re- Vinciguerra, ranked 92nd, On the women’s side, et in a bid to resolve personal problems Gary Kirsten — who scored was playing only his second through express pacer sumed at 134-2. French Open champion Jus- caused by the end of his marriage. AFP 190 runs in total at Heading- hardcourt match since Feb- Shoaib Akhtar who dis- Rafique finished with his tine Henin-Hardenne, the ley — and fast bowler ruary.But he tested Agassi in missed first innings century second five wicket haul, 5- second seed from Belgium, Makhaya Ntini among those the first set and dueled him maker Javed Omar for 118, to help Bangladesh take beat Croatia’s Silvija Talaja Queensland want expected to sit out this through seven deuces in the nought and Hanan Sarkar for a 66-run lead for the first time 6-1, 6-2 in 51 minutes, while match. AFP seventh game of the final set 7 in the second innings. in 23 Tests they have played sixth seed Jennifer Capriati Law in their order Habibul Bashar (28) and since gaining Test status in before giving up a service Bangladesh players gather around Alok Kapali break. took 63 to down Slovakian Mohammad Ashraful (7) 2000. AFP Stewart retires Brisbane: Australian Stuart Law may be after the first ever hat-trick for Bangladesh dur- French Open champion Martina Sucha 6-1, 6-1. in the runs for Lancashire but Queens- ing the second Test in Peshawar. SCORE BOARD Durban: Former South Juan Carlos Ferrero, the Capriati, a three-time Slam land desperately want him to continue Africa wicketkeeper Errol third seed from Spain, beat champion, faces France’s Bangladesh (1st innings): 361 Emilie Loit next. that form into the next domestic season. Shabaash Bangladesh: Zia Pakistan (1st innings, overnight 134/2): T Umar c Mashud b Rafique 75, Inzamam Stewart announced his re- Austria’s Jurgen Melzer 1-6, The 34-year-old has been enjoying a pur- b Rafique 43, Y Youhana not out 64, R Latif st Mashud b Rafique 40, S Malik lbw b tirement from cricket on Fri- 7-6 (7/2), 6-2, 6-4 and Argenti- Thai 11th seed Paradorn ple patch with Lancashire, scoring 1,400 Islamabad: Praising the touring Bangladesh Rafique 0, S Akhtar b Mahmud 15, S Ahmed c Mortaza b Kapali 8, D Kaneria lbw Ka- day at the age of 34. na’s fifth-seeded Guillermo Srichaphan advanced by runs at 82.35 but for Queensland last sum- team for their gutsy show in the on-going Test se- pali 0, U Gul lbw Kapali 0 Stewart was due to be ousting Slovakia’s Dominik Extras: (lb-1, nb-5) 6 Coria, a French Open semifi- mer injury-riddled Law struggled making ries against Pakistan, PCB chairman Lt Gen Total: (All out, in 108.1 overs) 295; Fall of wickets: 3-159, 4-178, 5-242, 6-250, named as Mark Boucher's nalist, bounced Czech Bo- Hrbaty 6-4, 6-4, 6-3. Todd Mar- only 169 runs at 14.08. With Matthew Hay- Tauqir Zia said he had firmly opposed an ICC 7-265, 8-289, 9-289 understudy for this year's hdan Ulihrach 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 tin won his 400th ATP match, den, Jimmy Maher, Martin Love and An- move to withdraw the minnows’ Test status. Bowling: Mortaza 18-6-48-0, Kabir 13-3-61-0, Mahmud 21-6-42-2, Rafique 45-13- World Cup until he withdrew Australian sixth seed Lley- ousting Dutch 16th seed Mar- 118-5, Saleh 7-2-13-0, Ashraful 2-0-9-0, Kapali 2.1-1-3-3 drew Symonds set to be unavailable at dif- “I made them (ICC members) realise in the Bangladesh (2nd innings): H Sarkar c Umar b Akhtar 7, J Omar c Latif b Akhtar 0, from a South Africa A tour to ton Hewitt rallied to oust tin Verkerk 6-3, 6-4, 6-7 (5/7), ferent times with the Australian Test and meeting, held in Monte Carlo, that withdrawal H Bashar lbw b Gul 28, M Ashraful c Umar b Kaneria 7, Rajin Saleh batting 5, A Ka- Zimbabwe in January. He South Korea’s Lee Hyung- 7-6 (11/9). One-day teams next summer,coach Terry of Bangladesh’s Test status would not help pali batting 4; Extras: (lb-1) 1 played six One-day Interna- Taik 5-7, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. Lee lost Friday matches feature Total: (For 4 wkts, in 18.4 overs) 52; Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-20, 3-43, 4-43. tionals and 98 first-class Oliver says Law’s experience is vital to anyone,” he told reporters in Karachi on Bowling: Akhtar 6.4-1-25-2, Shabbir 5-2-14-0, Gul 3-1-3-1, Kaneria 4-1-9-1. nine matches in a row enter- Andy Roddick, against Croa- his side’s success. AFP Thursday. PTI matches with Natal. Reuters ing the Open but made a tia’s Ivan Ljubicic. AFP

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in the second semifinals. PTI won gold medal in the 60 kgs catego- Prasad bagged a total of 1317 Arjun wins title ry in women’s section of the senior points followed by Majhi Swayan Bangalore: Arjun Singh recorded Advani advances national powerlifting championship (1315) and Tarundeep Rai (1312) in his second straight win when he an- here. Manjula lifted a total of 375 kgs the FITA round of the tournament. nexed the Hero Honda Open South Mumbai: National champion (152.5 kgs squat, 72.5 in benchpress In the women’s category, Dola here on Friday. Arjun shot three-un- Pankaj Advani of Karnataka and and 150 in deadlift). topped with 1309 points and was der 69 on Friday to finish with a total sixth seed Manan Chandra of Delhi Jyothi (335kg) won the silver while closely followed by Chakravolu of 10-under par 278. He finished seven recorded identical wins in their final Indira Salian (325kg) bagged the Swuro (1307), Reena Kumari (1304) strokes ahead of second placed Gau- league matches to storm into the pre bronze. In the 67.5 kgs, Punjab’s and Sumangala (1283) points. PTI rav Ghei while Digvijay Singh fin- quarter-finals of the CCI men and Mandeep Kaur (455kg) won gold while Jiji P and Lekha won the silver ished third with 287. PTI women invitation snooker tourna- Tanvir’s record ment here on Friday. Top seed Ad- and bronze. PTI Railways in final vani drubbed former national cham- Chennai: Army’s Tanvir Kaur set a Lucknow: Jyoti scored a hat-trick as pion Sarang Shroff of Maharashtra Prasad, Dola lead new mark in the clay pigeon skeet for title favourites Railways beat 4-0 to top Group-A while Manan women in the Mavlankar shooting Haryana 5-2 to storm into the final of crushed fourth seed Varun Taneja by Kolkata: Satya Dev Prasad of Uttar championships in Alamadi. Tanvir the 52nd senior national women’s an identical margin in Group-E. PTI Pradesh and Jharkhand’s Dola erased her own mark of 16/50 when hockey championship here on Fri- Banerjee led the men’s and women’s she shot 24/50. day. In the final, to be played on Sat- category respectively in the FITA Tamil Nadu’s J Jayesh Chand urday, Railways will meet Indian Gold for Manjula round on the first day of the Nation- claimed the gold in the men’s section Universities, who pipped Punjab 1-0 Mangalore: Karnataka’s Manjula al ranking archery circuit meet. of clay pigeon skeet shooting. PTI INDIANS ABROAD Indians in gold hunt New Delhi: Mohammed Ali Qamar nament being played at Edmonton. (light flyweight) and Ramanand (light But other Indian teams — junior girls, weight) kept alive India’s hopes of bag- cadet girls and junior boys — failed to ging a gold medal as they reached the fi- reach the same stage as both the eves nals of the Commonwealth boxing lost in the semifinals while the colts championship at Kuala Lumpur. bowed out in the last eight on Thursday. Akhil Kumar (flyweight) and Di- wakar Prasad (bantomweight) had to be Sailors fare poorly content with bronze after they lost their TIMES NEWS NETWORK semifinal bouts. Heavyweight boxer Johnson and Jitender Kumar (light Mumbai: Indian sailors, attempting to heavyweight) also assured themselves of earn berths to next year’s Olympics, finished last in the Pre-Olympic regat- at least a bronze medal. PTI ta in Athens on Thursday. Standings including discard: Laser: Rajesh Choudhary Title clash with Korea — 32nd out of 34 (31, 32, 31, 29, 32, 26, 17, 24, 23, 30, 22) 265 points; 49er — Malav Shroff and Sumeet Patel New Delhi: Indian cadet boys thrashed 22nd and last (20, 22, 22, 20, 23, 21, 14, 21, 20, 21, 22, 22, 20, 18, 23, 22) 285; 470 — Farokh Tarapore and Amit Thailand 3-0 to set the title clash with Ko- Arvind 28th out of 30 (23, 15, 24, 29, 28, 29, 27, 31, 25, rea in the team event of the STIGA 24, 30) 285; Star — R Mahesh and Nitin Mongia 17th out Canadian Junior Open table tennis tour- of 18 (17, 19, 9, 16, 15, 9, 13, 19, 16, 14, 15) 143. CAPITAL SPORT Shahdara rout Nationals: Title-contenders Shahdara Football Club routed Indian Nationals Football Club 3-0 in the DSA senior division league at the Ambedkar Stadium. Paritosh scored a brace while Bhupinder completed the rout. Shahdara, who have 8 points from 4 matches, led 1-0 at the interval. In another match, City Football Club trounced Collegians Foot- ball Club 7-1. Naveen and Fazal scored a brace each while Dalbir, Faiz and Irfan netted one apiece. In the last match of the day, defending champions Indian Airforce scraped past Tarun Sangha by a solitary Danny goal. Corporate soccer: GE Capital thrashed Aptech 8-0 at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium as the Kingfisher Corporate-5 kicked-off in the Capital on Friday. Hemant scored four for the winners while Piyush scored a brace. Siddharth and Subhro scored one apiece. Godfrey Philips defeated PN Writer Corporation 4-2 in another match. Other results: Indian Airlines b Hughes 6-1; Orient Craft b Turner 1-0; Amex b Grey Worldwide 4-0; Stan- dard Carton b Hudco 5-0; Walter Thopmson b Sports Promotion Team 3-0; Hero Honda b McCann-Erickson 4-0; HCL b Ernst & Young 3-1; Galileo Travels d/w Radio Mirchi 1-1; Indian Airlines ‘B’ b Media Football Club 2-1. Alok excels: Kendriya Vidhyalya Sangathan (KVS), Pushp Vihar beat Kendriya Vidhyalya Sangathan (KVS), Sainik Vihar by 47 runs in the KVS under-19 regional cricket tournament for school boys at KVS no. 1 at Delhi Cantt. In another match KVS, Murad Nagar beat KVS, Vikas Puri by six runs. KVS, Pushp Vihar 137 in 17.1 overs: (Alok 41, Vinay 4/29, Pradeep 3/23), KVS, Sainik Vihar 90 in 15.3 overs: (Alok 3/5, Ashwani 2/13, Brij Bhushan 3/24, Nitin 2/17). KVS, Murad Nagar 118/7 in 20 overs: (Ankit 38 n.o., Vinod 3/19), KVS, Vikas Puri 112 in 17.3 overs: (Sachin 3/21, Vipin 2/4, Arun 2/10). Forthcoming event: The 3rd Dendayal Upadhaya memorial all-India table tennis tournament will be held at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium from 21-24 September. Entries close with Hukum Singh, organising secretary DTTA or R.K. Sharma (Manager, Talkatora Stadium) on September 15.

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The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Saturday,August 30, 2003 17 Ponomariov-Kasparov We’ll team up again: Navratilova showdown called off New York: Martina Suffering reporters following a first- world.” Paes’ return might Navratilova has promised to from severe round victory in the women’s force Navratilova to put her Moscow: The chess govern- The head of FIDE, based in be at Leander Paes’s side headaches, doubles at the U.S. Open. retirement plans on hold. ing body FIDE on Friday aban- the Swiss city of Lausanne, when her mixed doubles the Indian “Whenever he decides to play “I definitely will not be doned a long-awaited show- said Ponomariov would now partner has recovered from Davis Cup again, I’ll be playing. playing in 2005,” said down between official world have to defend his title at a illness and is ready to return leader was “I was devastated for days. Navratilova, who equalled champion Ruslan Ponomariov world championship match to tennis. admitted to It obviously brings things Billie Jean King’s record by and the world’s top player Gar- to be held in December in Navratilova, who teamed hospital into perspective. We worry capturing her 20th Wimble- ry Kasparov,blaming the title- Ukraine. Ilyumzhinov ex- up with Paes to lift the Wim- last week about break points and don title with her victory in holder for the collapse. pressed the hope that other bledon mixed doubles title with a suspected tumour but pulled hamstrings and here the mixed doubles. a series of tests revealed a FIDE president Kirsan top grandmasters would earlier this year, expressed he is with the possibility of “But 2004 I haven’t decided tiny lesion on the left side of Ilyumzhinov told reporters agree to compete, creating an her relief on Thursday after dying in a short time. yet. There’s a possibility I in Moscow the match was undisputed world champion. learning the Indian player his brain. “I told him (Paes) whenev- “That was an eye-opener for will play next year but we’ll cancelled after Ponomariov “All the major players will had been told by doctors he er he comes back that we’ll everyone I think in the tennis have to wait and see.” Reuters failed to meet several dead- get invitations, Garry Kas- did not have brain cancer as play again,” Navratilova told lines to sign a contract for the paraov, Vladimir Kramnik, was first diagnosed. 12-game showdown that had Ponomariov. Then we would- been due to be held in Yalta, n’t need any further matches Ukraine starting next month. to unite (the chess world),” Ponomariov, who at 18 be- he said. AFP came the youngest-ever FIDE world chess champion in Jnuary last year at a competition boycotted by the top- ranked players, Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, had set a series of conditions for the match. “We agreed to nearly all the compromises, but Ponomariov still didn’t sign. That side was just looking for reasons not to hold the match,” Ilyumzhinov said.

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18 Saturday,August 30, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi White crowned fastest woman ‘I’ve to better my AFP WORLD ATHLETICS best for a medal’ By Sunil Warrier Anju’s career-best is 6.74 Saint Denis (France): Kelli White complet- TIMES NEWS NETWORK metres while her finest ed an exceptional women’s sprint double at this year has been 6.65m the World Championships, something not Mumbai: There is a con- which she attained in the even Marion Jones has been unable to do. spicuous note of disap- US soon after beginning to Now she goes for a unique triple. pointment in Anju Bobby train with Olympian Mike This weekend, White will try to add the George’s talk even after Powell. Subsequently she 4x100 relay for a third sprint gold, something following Neelam Jaswant has not crossed 6.60 in any even Germans Silke Gladisch in 1987 and Ka- Singh (discus) into the fi- of her European meets. trin Krabbe in 1991 could not accomplish. nal of the World Athletics ‘‘I think 6.80-6.85m White ran to victory in the 200 metres on Championships. The long should bring in the bronze Thursday to add to her 100m gold four days jumper cleared 6.59 metres earlier. medal,’’ she says. Husband in her only valid jump at and coach Bobby has a dif- Jones wasn’t here to defend her 200 title af- the Stade de France in ter giving birth to a son on june 28. ferent opinion. ‘‘It will de- Saint-Denis (France) on pend on the performance “I can only be Kelli White, I cannot be any- Thursday evening to ad- one else. I made a mark for myself and hope- on the day,’’ he says. vance as the sixth-best Anju was assured of fully I’ll be appreciated for who I am,” White amongst 12 qualifiers. said, in a thinly-veiled reference to the absent qualifying after her first She is slightly per- jump. ‘‘I was dissuading Jones. “A lot of the women here feel under- turbed on not being able to appreciated and I think we’ve all proven we her from jumping again,’’ attend the Arjuna Award said Bobby.‘‘But she could- can run fast” function in New Delhi on White certainly did, clocking 22.05 sec- n’t hear us.’’ Friday morning. ‘‘It’s ‘‘I just gave it a go,’’ post- onds, the fastest in the world this year. She once-in-a-lifetime chance later said that she was exhausted. cripted Anju. ‘‘I was hop- and I was not present,’’ she “I was spent. I didn’t have any energy,even ing to touch the qualifying said. ‘‘How I wish the dates to celebrate. Even holding the flag was hard mark of 6.65 metres.’’ could have been adjusted.’’ work. This was race No. 8 for me.” Only four jumpers at- With the long jump final Anastasiya Kapachinskaya of Russia took tained the mark for auto- scheduled for Saturday silver in 22.38 seconds and Torri Edwards of matic qualification. The (9.35 IST), Anju, however, the United States, who already won silver in next best eight completed has not lost her focus. ‘‘I’m the 100m, took bronze in 22.47 secs. the final list of 12. ready to fight,’’ she said. ‘‘I White’s double was the first ever for a With 25 in the fray,Anju, woman from the United States, the preemi- know I’ll have to better my ranked world No. 8, was in Derek Miles of the US in action at the men’s pole vault final on Thursday, during the 9th IAAF World Athletics Championships near Paris. nent nation in sprints. Gladisch and Krabbe best for a medal. I have the tough Group B which also achieved a double in the sprints, but and cleared the next three heights, 5.80, 5.85 His coach of eight years, Vitaly Petrov,was one else was. But I knew that I’m probably nothing to lose, the pres- threw the best two their relay squads failed to win gold. and 5.90, all in his first try. Sergei Bubka’s mentor 20 years ago when the the strongest finisher in the world and I saw sure will be on the others.’’ qualifiers. Giuseppe Gibilisco also achieved a unique “This is my day,” said the Italian, who hid pole vaulting great won the first of his record that she (Pechonkina) was dying. accomplishment, becoming the first Italian his face when his rivals were making their fi- six world titles. “Once I got a sniff, I believed in myself to win the pole vault gold medal in World nal jumps. Jana Pittman of Australia came from far enough.” Championships or Olympics. He cleared 5.90 Brits settled for silver at 5.85 and Patrik back to win the gold medal in the 400 metre Yipsi Moreno of Cuba, the Pan American metres to beat two men who have already Kristiansson of Sweden edged Markov for hurdles, surging ahead in the final straight to champion, retained her title in the hammer gone over 6m in their careers, Okkert Brits of the bronze medal. Both cleared 5.85 metres, cross in 53.22 seconds. throw with a heave of 73.33 metres. European South Africa and Dmitri Markov of Aus- but the Swede had a better second height. US hurdler Sandra Glover took silver in champion Olga Kuzenkova of Russia took sil- tralia, the defending champion. Brits failed in his first attempt at 5.90, then 53.65, ahead of Yuliya Pechonkina of Russia, ver at 71.71 and Manuela Montebrun of Gibilisco twice improved on his personal passed on the height, only to miss both his who set a world record this season and led France won bronze with 70.92. best during the competition. remaining attempts at 5.95, which Gibilisco most of the way before fading in the finish to Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco and Ke- “I was really scared at 5.75,” said Gibilisco, sat out. end with the bronze in 53.71 secs. nenisa Bekele of Ethiopia stayed on course who missed the height in his first two at- “When Okkert missed, I thought I would “I knew I’d be down at the 200m,” Pittman for unprecedented World Championship dou- tempts and then decided to go straight for faint. Champion of the world, Mamma Mia,” said, speaking nearly as rapidly as she ran. “I bles when they breezed into the final of the 5.80, a gamble that paid off. He changed poles Gibilisco said. just ran my race, I didn’t know where every- 5,000 metres. AP Times Graphic SOCCER WATCH Just a stomach Who’ll reign in Spain? Looking to Real: The (12 million dollar) fee with a permanent move at the The high-adrenalin soccer caravan called Spanish Liga Spanish league will open for Glasgow Rangers for Barry end of that period. Carew bug: Bhutia begins on Saturday. A look at the top teams business on Saturday, a Ferguson, according to re- starred for Valencia in three wealth of talent on show to ports on Friday. Newspapers impressive Champions TIMES NEWS NETWORK Real Madrid (Champions) make the rest of the conti- reported that the Scotland League campaigns, and last Strengths: The galaxy. Ronaldo, Zidane, Figo, Raul, nent green with envy, with captain would be paid 9 mil- season scored seven goals Mumbai: Baichung Bhutia Roberto Carlos and Beckham to choose from.What one or two notable excep- lion pounds (14 million dol- in 23 games as Valencia nar- walked out of hospital and into more can a coach want? tions. Chelsea may have lars) over five years — rowly missed out on another the team bus on Friday morn- spent more than 100 million 35,000 (55,000 dollars)-a- place in that competition. ing. Hospitalised due to dyhy- Achilles’ heel: The galaxy, again. For it does- week. Everton had also been Everton boss David Moyes n’t always play like a team. Central defence is pounds (157 million dollars) dration and other ailments, the on turning themselves into in the running to sign the has been searching for rein- ebullient striker was dis- still weak. Talks on with Roberto Ayala Premiership title material and Scotland midfielder but their forcements after he missed charged and informed that he The X-factor: David Beckham Manchester United may bid of 6 million pounds (9.5 out on Fulham’s Sean Davis. is ‘‘perfectly okay’’. ‘‘It was just million dollars) was turned have the “new” Ronaldo. But The Makelele deal: a stomach bug,’’ he said to TNN Real Madrid insist they have down. Ferguson was expect- Deportivo la Coruna (third ) Chelsea were reported on while travelling in the Perak usurped United as the ed to be unveiled after a Strengths: Consistent, balanced side. Friday to be poised to com- FC team bus. ‘‘We have a match biggest club in the world - medical later Friday and Experience of finishing in top bracket of the plete the signing of Real on Saturday and I am feeling and the crown they wear to- could even be rushed into a league. Madrid’s France international day is more bejewelled than debut against big-spending completely fit to play.’’ midfielder Claude Makelele Achilles heel: Scored 67 goals last season. any seen before at club level Chelsea on Saturday. Bhutia landed in Malaysia on for 14 million pounds (22 mil- But nearly half of them came from Roy Makaay. in the history of the game. August 23 on a two-month loan Everton seek Carew: lion dollars). Media reports in He’s gone now. Prising David Beckham away from East Bengal to Perak. He English Premiership side Britain and France said that The X-factor: Striker Diego Tristan. from Old Trafford means the played for 25 minutes the same Everton were reported on despite Real Madrid’s reluc- crown sits heavier than ever day and for the full match on IAAF act to Can he deliver? Friday to have launched a tance to talk about the trans- upon the club’s corporate Thursday. Perak won 5-0 with bid to land Valencia’s Norwe- fer, both Chelsea and the head and president Florenti- Valencia (5th) gian striker John Carew be- player himself were confi- Bhutia coming thrice to scoring no Perez, along with Por- avoid chaos Strengths: The tightest defence in La Liga. fore Sunday’s transfer dead- dent they could complete and assisting in two goals. tuguese coach Carlos line. The Liverpool club were the deal before Sunday’s ‘‘I had a stomach upset on Saint Denis: World track Achilles’ heel: Not strong on scoring. Injury-prone Queiroz will feel obliged to locked in negotiations over a transfer deadline. And SKY Thursday,’’ informed Bhutia. officials are taking steps to Ruben Baraja isn’t helping coach Benitez. deliver. The X-factor: Argentine playmaker Pablo deal that will bring the Nor- Sports News reported that ‘‘After the match I began to feel avoid the kind of chaos Aimar Barry for Blackburn: wegian international to the player arrived in London sick. I was dehydrated and run- caused by Jon Drum- Blackburn Rovers have Goodison Park on an initial on Friday for a medial at the ning temperature too. The club mond’s false-start disquali- year-long loan with a view to London club. Barcelona (6th) agreed a 7.5 million pound officials did not want to take fication from the 100-metre AP any chance and immediately heats at the World Champi- Strengths: On a comeback trail. Signings of Rustu Recuber and admitted me to a hospital in onships. Rolaldinho have raised hopes at the Nou camp. Ipoh. The sudden change of Now, race officials will Achilles heel: President John Laporta, in his zeal to corner food quality is probably what remove the starting blocks pre-season glory, hasn’t looked at the balance of the side. De- caused it.’’ Bhutia’s contract immediately from the lane fence is suspect. runs upto October 4 and he is of any disqualified runner. The X-factor: The mobility of the scheduled to play at least 11 Names of disqualified ‘Rabbit’ — Javier Saviola. matches. ‘‘I’m quite happy with athletes will be removed my performance so far. Even from the scoreboard start Other teams: the club officials have ex- list or a DQ will be put next Real Sociedad (2nd); Celta pressed satisfaction.” to the name. AP Vigo (4th); Athletic Bilbao (7th); Real Betis (8th); Real Mal- lorca (9th); Sevilla (10th); Os- asuna (11th); Atletico Madrid (12th); Malaga (13th); Valladol- id (14th); Villarreal (15th); Racing Santander (16th); Espanyol (17th); Murcia (1st in second division); Albacete (2nd in second division); Real Zaragoza (3rd in second division). Last season’s position indicated in brackets. Women made up with the colours of the Italian Serie A league teams. Women pugilists gearing up for Italian sojourn By Pradeep Kumar EXPOSURE TOUR one gold and three bronze TIMES NEWS NETWORK medals at the 2nd world Lal, one of the coaches asso- championship in Turkey last New Delhi: The Indian ciated with the camp. One of year. The gold was bagged by women boxers are gearing up the big events that the Indi- Merrycom. for Italian challenge. A 15- ans would like to do well is They now want to continue member squad, including the the 2nd Asian women’s box- the progress and win more world boxing championship ing championships to be held medals in upcoming meets. medallist M.C. Merrycom, in Hissar, Haryana from No- With this in their mind, will embark on a training- vember 18. Chandra Lal said, the thurst cum-competition pro- And the upcoming tour of during the camp was on gramme to be held in Rome Italy is a welcome develop- physical conditioning and beginning from September 3. ment for the boxers had improving technique. Though the Italians are missed two similar chances ‘‘And the Italian trip will ranked well below the Indi- of testing their skills. A com- help us measure abilities of ans in world rankings, the petition in Pyongyang was our boxers and prepare them squad members are hopeful postponed and another one for the bigger test at Hissar.’’ of utilising the better train- in Hungary was called off. He added that unlike the ing facilities and match prac- The North Koreans are the previous Asian champi- tice for bigger challenges reigning Asian champions onship, in which the North ahead in the season. and competing against them Koreans excelled, China are ‘‘We’ll try to use this expo- would have helped the likely to pose a bigger threat sure trip to remove fear of Indians. to the Indians. competition in the minds of India have done well in in- The team, which will leave our boxers and to prepare augural Asian meet in for Italy on September 2, will them mentally for the bigger Bangkok, winning three sil- be accompanied by coaches tests awaiting them in the vermedals and one bronze. Chandra Lal and Anoop near future,’’ said Chandra The women pugilists won Kumar.

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