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New Delhi, Saturday,January 4, 2003 Capital 32 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport North Korea talks Son’s debut film keeps Indians desperate to peace, wants Vilasrao Deshmukh and redeem themselves dialogue with US his office on their toes in the 4th ODI Page 11 Page 9 Page 15 WIN WITH THE TIMES Pak says

Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Bandh hits Bihar, stuns Laloo no to US If you would convince others, seem open to Lallan Kumar conviction yourself. TIMES NEWS NETWORK on hot — Earl of Chesterfield Patna: More than a thousand people were arrested and hun- NEWS DIGEST dreds injured as violent protests against the Rabri government pursuit Naga rebels: National Socialist and the police brought Bihar to Council of Nagaland (I-M) leaders, a standstill on Friday. A state- By Chidanand Rajghatta led by Isak Swu and Thuingaleng wide bandh had been called to TIMES NEWS NETWORK Muivah, are likely to arrive in New protest the killing of three Washington: The United Delhi on January 8 for peace talks youths in a fake encounter here with Central representatives. They States and Pakistan dressed last Saturday. will also meet the Prime Minister. P6 up their weekend spat on the The police fired several hun- Afghan border on the first Shunu Sen no more: India’s pre- dred rounds in the air and also working day of the year, but mier marketing guru, lobbed teargas shells to control ties between the most allied a manager par excel- crowds in many places across allies is fraying amid lence and a people’s the state. person to the core, mistrust and recrimination. The Railways took the un- The US military an- Shunu Sen, died of a precedented step of stopping 200 heart attack in New nounced it had the right of trains for 12 hours in the state. Delhi on Friday. He hot pursuit into Pakistan to was 63. P13 There was total chaos at Patna hunt down terrorists and station as passengers clamoured that Pakistan had agreed to River cleaning: The Union envi- for refund of their tickets. it. But Islamabad denied ronment ministry has set a January Hundreds of passengers on any such deal. 31 deadline for eight states to initi- the North-East Express had to ‘‘There is no room or legal ate river-cleaning schemes. P6 go without food and water when sanctions for any cross-bor- J&K festival: Aiming to resusci- supply ran short of demand at der operation by US forces to tate the tourism and the handicrafts the station. Roads were blocked pursue fugitives into Pak- sectors of J&K, the Mufti Mohamm- at different places. Buses stayed istani territory,’’Pakistan in- ed Sayeed government is currently off the roads. terior minister Feisal Saleh showcasing the beauty of the state In Patna, there were pitched Hayat was quoted as saying. at a 15-day festival in New Delhi. P7 battles in the streets. Leader of Officials sought to down- Pota invoked: The Mumbai police the opposition Sushil Kumar play Sunday’s skirmish in on Friday booked four accused in Modi, former Union minister C which US forces bombed Pak- the Ghatkopar bus blast case under P Thakur and BJP MLA istani forces inside Pakistan. the Prevention of Terrorism Act Rameshwar Prasad sustained In any event, what became (Pota) along with various Sections of head injuries in a police apparent is the speed with the IPC and the Arms Act. A special lathicharge. which the US military pub- court sent the accused to police Demonstrators also ended up A bus hired by the police to ferry arrested bandh supporters is torched by an angry mob in Patna on Friday. licly announced its retaliato- custody till January 17. P 9 torching a bus commissioned by mad pursuit of power...People so tense that the police opted not at the police. When the police en- Dak Bungalow crossing where ry action. The message was Poll reforms Bill: The President the police to ferry protesters will not allow them to succeed. to enter the area. They posi- tered the area in the afternoon, political workers staged a clear: Don’t mess with us. has given his assent to the Repre- to jail. The Centre is conspiring to tioned themselves nearby. they had to use teargas shells dharna. It appears there is a sim- sentation of the People (Amend- While the National Democrat- topple the Rabri Devi govern- ‘‘We will not interfere unless and lathicharge to disperse the The police had to lathicharge mering resentment among ment) Bill. But the Supreme Court is ic Alliance (NDA) accused the ment by instigating people to in- we are provoked,’’ said crowd. at least half-a-dozen times and the US ground forces about yet to give its judgment on a petition Bihar government of trying to dulge in violence just to show Sachivalaya police station DSP Older people were seen en- fire 10 rounds of teargas shells. sniper attacks from gunmen challenging the Ordinance. kill its leaders, RJD chief Laloo that law and order in Bihar has Arshad Zaman. couraging youngsters to attack There was heavy brick-batting who then disappear into Prasad Yadav reacted by saying, collapsed.’’ A mob virtually took over the the police. The battle continued between the police and the Pakistan. ‘‘They (NDA leaders) wanted to Ashiana Nagar, the scene of area, blocking the road with for more than five hours. bandh supporters. The military not only does repeat Godhra in Bihar in their last Saturday’s encounter, was burning tyres and pelting stones There was high drama at the Related report on page 5 not share the political estab- lishment’s view of Washing- ton’s ally but is also not constrained by diplomatic Train mishap niceties that is the domain of the state department. again, Rlys Over the weekend, Uncle Leopard felled by police bullet Sam got as tough and blunt Graphic: Neelabh as he can get. admit error By Saurabh Sinha See Edit: Uneasy Musharraf TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A bullet fired by the New Delhi: It’s the second police on Thursday while hunt- accident on the same section ing down a straying leopard in Sunita free in two days. The first time, south Delhi resulted in the ani- the Railways and its passen- mal’s death on Friday. to compete YOU SAID IT by Laxman gers were lucky.This time, 18 The bullet went unnoticed till passengers were killed. And Friday when the leopard died TIMES NEWS NETWORK railway minister Nitish Ku- and an autopsy showed that its New Delhi: Sunita Rani’s mar, who told reporters on kidney,intestines and lungs were doping case seems to be a typ- Friday that ‘‘human failure’’ damaged by internal bleeding. ical Bollywood drama. You led to the tragedy, has prom- On Thursday, zoo officials know the end, yet the direc- ised to act against those who believed that they had captured tor stretches the story till you are found negligent. the animal only with the help On January 1, passengers of tranquilliser darts. Two get bored to the bone. on the Hyderabad-Purna pas- were fired within the space As the athlete waits with senger train escaped when of two hours. bated breath for her medals two wheels of the engine Zoo director B S Bonal and to be given back, the Ama- came off. state wildlife officer Bipin Be- teur Athletic Federation of Friday’s accident is the lat- hari said the bullet was found India secretary Lalit Bhanot est in an unrelenting series embedded in the leopard’s body presented a letter from Inter- Kamaljeet Singh national Association of Ath- of accidents which put a during the autopsy. The officials said no bullet letics Federations anti-dop- question mark on railway Veterinarian Dr Panneer Sel- mark was visible on the five-and- ing officer, Dr. Gabriel Dolle, safety. vam, who had fired the tranquil- a-half-year-old leopard when it saying: “Having completed Preliminary reports indi- liser darts, said: ‘‘The leopard did was brought to the zoo in a criti- the investigations, the IAA- I told you! Accept money only, you cate the accident occurred not die from an overdose of cal condition on Thursday night. F’s position finally is that are starving...not gas balloons for when the driver of the train anaesthesia. Both the police bul- ‘‘We gave him drugs so that it hawking! applied the emergency let and the first tranquillising could come out of sedation. But this is not a case which shou- brakes to avoid a collision shot hit him simultaneously on the leopard died early on Friday ld be pursued any further as Book your Classifieds with a goods train stationed Thursday night.’’ morning,’’ Dr Selvam said. a doping offence under IAAF on the same track. The leopard caused wide- rules...and that the matter 24 hours service: “51-666-888” His death sent the wildlife offi- How did two trains end up spread panic in the neighbour- may be closed.” cials into a tizzy. A nervous Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” on the same track? The min- hoods of Neb Sarai and Saket, Bhanot explained that wildlife official admitted: ‘‘We The ATM of information ister suggested a signalling which are both close to the green “due to the discrepancies in are not prepared to handle such The Largest Classifieds Site error. The driver of the ex- cover on the ridge. The leopard the doping report of the situations.’’ press train spotted the tail was on the loose for several Seoul laboratory, IAAF has lamp of the goods train and hours from afternoon. People Comment: What beastly people! I not accepted the report and applied the emergency tried to capture him using a strayed by mistake into so-called Sunita has been exonerated WEATHER brakes. The mandatory in- cricket net. The police were civilisation, got shot and died for of charges.’’ He added that quiry by the commissioner of no fault of mine. And they call us Max: 16oC / Min: 9oC called and then officials of the Sunita is now free to railway safety will be held at The leopard caught in Neb Sarai died at the Delhi Zoo on Friday. wildlife! Moonset: Saturday — 1907 hrs. wildlife department and the zoo. compete in national and Moonrise: Sunday — 0922 hrs. the spot on January 5 and 6. international events. Sunset: Saturday — 1737 hrs. Sunrise: Sunday — 0715 hrs. Fog in the morning. Mainly clear sky later. Fall in night temperature. Minimum temper- Waugh joins exclusive 10,000 club ature will be around 6oC. Maximum relative Airport privatisation put off Sydney: Steve Waugh scored an un- 18th boundary to bring up his 29th humidity on Friday 97% and minimum 78 %. TIMES NEWS NETWORK While Swaraj refused to war footing. ‘‘They were forgettable century to become the Test century. divulge details on the air- also unanimous in the view third player to score 10,000 Test runs He joined the immortal Don Brad- New Delhi: The Union Cab- port privatisation issue, that the areas of air traffic indiatimes.com POLL in an emotional innings in the fifth man as the scorer of most Aus- inet on Friday deferred by sources told The Times of control and security should Yesterday’s results: Do you think Indian Ashes Test against England here on tralian hundreds in Tests. Gavaskar one month the decision to India that Prime Minister be controlled by the govern- team is over-dependent on Sachin’s Friday. holds the record with 34. privatise the four metro air- Vajpayee has sought a fast ment authorities even after performance? Cheered on by a 41,000 strong At the close of a great day, Waugh ports. It also asked the civil track method to privatise the privatisation.’’ crowd at the Sydney Cricket was unbeaten at 102. Before the Test, aviation ministry to hold a Yes 61% No 39% the four airports. Swaraj said a relief pack- Ground, the 37-year-old Australian Waugh said he hadn’t placed any em- detailed consultation with ‘‘The Cabinet has been age has been approved by • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose skipper joined compatriot Allan phasis on the milestones, adding the finance ministry to to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. presented with different the Cabinet to revive the ra- Border (11,174) and India’s Sunil that the sheer volume of tests stood chalk out a fast track routes of going ahead with dio paging industry.‘‘While Today’s question: Do you support bandhs Gavaskar (10,122) in the exclusive in his favour. ‘‘If you follow the roadmap for privatising the the privatisation over the shifting it to revenue- shar- as a means of protest? 10,000-club. process, it will come,’’ he said. airports. past few months. He has ing regime, the government Waugh produced one of his great- For a man said to be past his The Cabinet also tried to Cast your vote on now sought a firm roadmap has proposed to fix the rev- www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 est innings in this record-equalling prime and not meriting a place breathe back life into the for speedy privatisation and enue share at 5 per cent, 156th Test with exquisite timing. He among the top six batsmen in Aus- long-dead radio paging in- also asked the civil aviation which includes universal came in to bat to applause with Aus- tralia, Waugh proved there was plen- dustry by deciding to termi- nate the fixed license fee ministry to finalise the re- service obligation.’’ tralia in strife at 56 for three and guaranteed selection beyond the ty of life left in the old dog. Agencies regime and also waive li- quirement for any budget- The existing city and took on the English bowlers with Sydney Test. Comment: Wah Waugh! Another cense fee outstandings from ary help from the finance circle paging operators typical pugnaciousness. When Waugh reached 69 with a milestone for cricket’s marathon paging firms amounting to ministry,’’ the sources will now be allowed to mi- With every boundary, the deter- cut off spinner Richard Dawson for man. While younger stars may get Rs 450 crore, information added. grate from fixed-license-fee mined ‘Ice Man’ of cricket, made a four, he raised his 10,000th Test run the plaudits, Australia’s Captain and broadcasting minister The entire Cabinet, the regime to the revenue-share mockery of speculation about his to be greeted with applause. Courageous has proved yet again Sushma Swaraj said. 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2 Saturday,January 4, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi MCD to relocate 75,000 shanties But after a clarification from the court

TIMES NEWS NETWORK a clarification from the court about the restrictions on of- New Delhi: Despite court re- fering alternative sites,’’ he strictions on offering alter- said. MCD and Delhi state native sites to slum dwellers government would jointly ap- during relocation drives, the proach the court to seek clar- slum department of Delhi ification on the slum reloca- Municipal Corporation tion policy,he said. (MCD) plans to shift 75,000 Jain said a flower market shanties from public land in would be inaugurated at the next financial year. Mori Gate to rehabilitate the Presenting the slum com- over 300 flower dealers oper- mittee’s budget in the Stand- ating from Khari Bauli. ing Committee on Friday, Standing Committee chair- deputy chairman of standing man, Ram Babu Sharma, committee, Ashok Jain, said said he was hopeful of an the department was under- early end to an impasse cre- Release funds to MCD: Mukhi taking a survey of the ated by restrictions on offer- shanties located on the east- ing alternative sites. ‘‘Almost TIMES NEWS NETWORK authorities did not get along ern and western embank- half of the MCD’s slum wing well, the city government ment of the Yamuna and oth- would be rendered defunct if New Delhi: Leader of the op- was not releasing funds to er major drains in the city. the policy of alternative sites position in Delhi Vidhan Sab- the corporation. He said the department is tempered with,’’ he said. ha, Jagdish Mukhi, attrib- Mukhi said the state chief would not shift any shanty Sharma said the Union uted the sad state of city minister should coordinate till March this year so that roads and overflowing with her finance department and Delhi state government the residents’ children can garbage dumps to lack of co- so that the MCD’s money was would highlight the MCD’s ordination between the Delhi released within January. appear in exams. ‘‘The action concerns over changes pro- state government and the would be initiated only after posed in the relocation policy. Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD). Mukhi said since the two Gilani case: Govt seeks 2 days TIMES NEWS NETWORK However, the director- metropolitan magistrate general of Military Intelli- along with joint commission- New Delhi: The Union home gence (MI) informed the er of police (special cell) ministry on Friday sought court that documents seized Neeraj Kumar and home two days time to submit its from him carried no classi- ministry under secretary B R stand on the release of jour- fied information as claimed Dhiman. nalist Iftikar Gilani. by the police. Locha told the court that Chief metropolitan magis- Earlier, the court had ob- the documents seized from trate Sangita Dhingra served that the government’s Gilani were not a secret and Sehgal deferred the matter to contention, that he possessed could have been procured January 7. classified information, has from an open source. The police had alleged that been contradicted by the Iftikar Gilani, a son-in-law Gilani possessed “secret’’ opinion of the MI chief. of Hurriyat Conference documents that put the secu- The MI chief, O S Locha, leader Syed Ali Shah Gilani, rity of the country at risk. had been summoned by the is in jail ever since his arrest in June last under the Offi- cial Secrets Act (OSA). Police had filed a report al- leging the information con- tained in the documents seized forms Gilani house was ‘‘prejudicial to the secu- rity of the country and had serious ramification on the operational plans in Jammu and Kashmir.’’

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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Saturday,January 4, 2003 3 Tips to fare Spurious drugs worth Rs 2 crore seized Wife knew of Katyal’s suicide TIMES NEWS NETWORK unit. This was barely 50 me- pain killers. These were be- tres from the Tila Mor police ing sold in Delhi, UP, Bihar, TIMES NEWS NETWORK checked out at 9.35 am on Thursday. going to commit suicide,’’ Lall said. well in the Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad post. A hunt is on to track the Gujarat and other states. The Katyal’s body was recovered from a At 11.30 am, Katyal spoke to his wife, police has seized spurious others. Jeetendra Kumar, the drugs were sold in attractive New Delhi: The Haryana businessman Santro which had no number plate and Alka, and son Rijul (13) on their mobile drugs worth Rs 2 crore, pack- who shot three of his deceased broth- man arrested, is the son of a packages that carried the was parked opposite Marina Hotel. The phone. He apparantly told them of his Boards aging material and sophisti- er’s trade partners in Rohtak on prominent Bulandshahar batch number of drugs pro- body bore an injury mark on the right intention to commit suicide. ‘‘The wife cated packing machinery cloth merchant. duced by well-known multi- Wednesday, spoke to his wife and chil- By Pallavi Majumdar temple and the police recovered one .32 reportedly requested him not to take from a unit in the Sahibabad The district police chief nationals like Cadilla, US Vi- dren before committing suicide in his TIMES NEWS NETWORK police station area. car in a Connaught Place parking lot. Webley Scot revolver from the car. such an extreme step and later in- Chandra Prakash said that tamins, Wallace, Ranbaxy, The police on Friday confirmed that Ra- Lall had said on Thursday that finan- formed the Rohtak police about the New Delhi: It’s that One of the operators of the the spurious drugs, ‘‘mainly Alkem boratories, Sarabhai man Katyal shot himself between 11.30 cial dispute between the business part- call,’’ the officer said. time of the year again racket was arrested at the comprised of antibiotics and Piramal and others’’. am and 12.30 pm on Thursday. ners could have led to the murders. According to the autopsy, a pellet when students are get- Katyal checked into Jukaso Inn in CP ‘‘Katyal had killed his business part- wound was found in the head. Blood ting ready to take their on Wednesday night and left the hotel ners, Sunil Manchanda and Anupam samples and visera have been sent for board exams. But don’t on Thursday morning, the police said. Nirula, at their Alfa Surgical Factory investigation to check if he was drunk. be nervous. A well- ‘‘At the motel, Katyal entered his name on Hissar Road, Rohtak, at about 6.15 Coincidentally,one Suresh Mehta, an worked out strategy will as Rajkumar, a resident of Hardwar,’’ pm on Wednesday. He later went to the accountant who had his office in Jan- see you through with deputy commissioner of police (New residence of Suresh Magoo in the Mod- path, came to the spot and informed the flying colours. Delhi) Manoj Lall said. el Town area of Rohtak, called him out police that the body lying in the car Boards exams have a Jukaso Inn’s receptionist Parvesh and shot him dead in front of Magoo’s could be of Raman Katyal. The police notorious reputation of and waiter Vijay identified the deceased family,’’ the DCP said. said Mehta informed Katyal’s relatives turning students into after seeing his photograph in the Lall said Katyal had called his broth- on telephone and it appeared that he nervous wrecks. Mush- morning newspapers. They confirmed er-in-law, Sudhir Mahto, a resident of was aware of all the three murders. rooming helplines are that Katyal had stayed in room no 111 on Kaithal, at 10.30 am on Thursday. Lall said the police spoke to Katyal’s ample proof of this. So Wednesday night. The duo said he ‘‘Katyal told Mahto that he had killed relative in Fatehabad, Haryana, who is the increasing tally of checked in at 9.45 pm on Wednesday and Nirula, Manchanda and Magoo and was confirned the Rohtak incidents. annual suicides. However, school prin- cipals feel that students only need to keep a few Wildlife department ill-equipped things in mind. For instance, stop By Saurabh Sinha tor looking after its 1,200 in- bullet simultaneously. such information, we can preparing for entrance TIMES NEWS NETWORK mates. The post for a second The police, who were out cordon off the area, keep the exams and concentrate vet has been lying vacant for in riot gear to catch the leop- people at a safe distance from on the boards. New Delhi: After a leopard over two years now. ard on Thursday, did not the predator and contact the “With the IIT en- was captured in Neb Sarai on Despite the presence of sound too optimistic either. wildlife department.’’ trance test shifted to Thursday, The Times of India wildlife and zoo officials at Joint commissioner of po- But Thursday’s incident, May this year, students spoke to some officials to Neb Sarai, zoo veterinarian lice (southern range) Satish which happened two years af- can come back to it after chalk out a contingency plan, Dr Panneer Selvam said the Chandra said: ‘‘The police their exams,” said Gyan should a similar situation ter a similar incident in Gad- leopard was hit with a tran- are not equipped to handle Bharti principal R C arise in future. Here’s what haipur in south Delhi, and quillising dart and the fatal such situations. Once we get four years after a leopard was Shekhar. they had to offer. Most schools are be- caught in Faridabad, seems Delhi’s chief wildlife war- ginning their pre-board to have made the department den A K Sinha said: ‘‘Don’t exams from Monday. aware of the need to formu- panic. Don’t face the animal. Principals feel that the Tranquilliser basics late a better plan. ‘‘We will Get inside a safe place and pre-boards act as a good improve the situation and call either the police or the The equipment: Guns hydrocholoride. The mix is revision mechanism. think about a round-the- wildlife department.’’ and pistols used for inject- called helabrum mixture. ‘‘Since the format of clock helpline,’’ said Sinha. But since the wildlife de- ing animals with anaesthe- The dosage: It depends question papers is based Meanwhile, where the partment does not have a 24- sia from a distance. Dart on the weight of the on the CBSE exam, it is leopard came from is still hour helpline, their officials syringes are used on ani- species. The safe limits a good testing mecha- puzzling the authorities. can only be contacted during mals that are near, by tested on animals are: for a nism for students,’’ office hours on working days blowing. Gap stick is used 116-kg Indian lioness, its 2 Deputy conservator of Shekhar added. only. The department does to inject by hand. ml; for a 94-kg tiger, 2.3 ml; forests (south) R S Prashant A proper strategy in- not have the infrastructure to The drugs: Ketamine for a sambar, 3-5 ml. said, ‘‘It could have been hid- cludes following a real- deal with such situations. hydrochloride is mainly Revival: Revival drugs ing in some farmhouse or istic time-table. A blan- ‘‘We don’t have a veterinari- used for captive carnivores are given to arouse the could have come from the ket coverage of one sub- an who can tranquillise the and monkeys. For herbi- tranquillised animals. ridge. With police assistance, ject does not help. In- animal. We just bank on the vores and some other ani- (Source: Central Zoo Au- we plan to search some farm- stead, the winning strat- zoo to lend its only doctor,’’ mals, it is mixed with an- thority scientific officer houses randomly to check if egy is to devote some admitted a senior official. other chemical, xylazine Vipul Chakraborty) wild animals are being time to every subject. The zoo has only one doc- reared illegally.’’ Police to tackle eve-teasing TIMES NEWS NETWORK riot equipment, fire extin- teasing, lady police officers guishers and tear gas. Efforts are being used as decoys to New Delhi: The north dis- were also on to make a trap perpretators. They were trict police have decided to dossier of criminals in the also being appointed at the come down heavily on eve- area and to locate and deport Maurice Nagar police station teasers and petty crime. illegal immigrants. to make it easier for victims Deputy commissioner of He claimed that crime had to approach the police, Bani- police (DCP), north, Sanjay registered a decline in 2002. wal said. Baniwal, on Friday said the ‘‘A total of 3,537 cases were In another drive launched district had not witnessed registered under the Indian against eve-teasing in Delhi any major crime despite be- Penal Code in 2002 against University, 383 people were ing a sensitive area. 3,998 in 2001. There were 145 arrested under various sec- He said the pickets in- cases of heinous crimes in tions of the law. stalled here were well- 2002 compared with 150 the The district police is also equipped with automatic previous year,’’ he said. laying stress on checking weapons, wireless sets, anti- To check incidents of eve- auto thefts. 2 arrested for auto theft in CP parking lot

TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The New Delhi district police arrested two persons who were involved in theft of a Fiat Palio from Connaught Place on Decem- ber 30. The car was stolen from a parking lot. The police apprehended Parveen Yadav alias Sanjay,a resident of Raj Nagar in Palam Colony. Acting on information pro- vided by Sanjay,the police ar- rested one of his associates Prem Shankar Srivastava and the car was recovered from Meerut. The police said Srivastva was also involved in a Rs 3- crore theft in a reputed travel company in Connaught Place in July 2001. The police are on the look- out for the third accomplice, Ranjeet alias Dimple.

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4 Saturday,January 4, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi

FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rain or snow is likely to occur at isolated places in Traffic diversions Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and NATIONAL Kashmir. Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at Mumbai: I-A 0700, a few places in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Tamil from today 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep and at isolated places in Gangetic 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, West Bengal, Orissa, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, TIMES NEWS NETWORK 2300 Jet Air 0650, north Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh Gujarat region, 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Maharashtra and Goa states, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. 1935, 2030, 2200, New Delhi: Due to Pravasi Sahara 0700,1800, 2015 INDIA WORLD Bhartiya Divas celebrations, KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min 1600★★,1700,1945 Max Min traffic will be diverted from Guwahati 23 09 Amsterdam 10 02 Jet Air 0600, 1720, Delhi 16 09 January 4 to 9, between 4 pm Sahara0705,1915 Mumbai 29 20 Dehradun 18 06 Bahrain 18 13 CHENNAI: I-A Chennai 29 21 Hyd’bad 28 19 Bangkok 32 25 and 7 pm in central Delhi. 0640,0955★★★ Kolkata 25 13 Indore 24 14 Beijing -01 -08 According to the traffic po- 1645,1900 Jet Air Bangalore 28 16 Jaipur 17 08 Chicago 00 -02 0645,1900 Ahm’bad 24 13 Lucknow 21 08 Geneva 13 08 lice, vehicles would not be al- BANGALORE: T’puram 32 21 Patna 21 09 Hong Kong 18 16 lowed to go towards Vijay I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 23 12 Rajkot 25 12 London 13 08 Chowk from Dalhousie Road, Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 27 16 Shimla 13 02 Los Angeles 21 07 Krishna Menon Marg and Sahara 0715, 1745 Pune 28 13 Srinagar 11 -03 Moscow -08 -22 HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 Moti Lal Nehru Marg. 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INDIA Saturday,January 4, 2003 5 Gujarat win is our beacon, says PM

TIMES NEWS NETWORK AFP Bangalore: Prime Minis- ter Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Friday said Gujarat had put the BJP on the victory path and set the tone for other assembly elections. Addressing party work- ers and legislators at the HAL airport before em- planing for Delhi, Vajpayee said: ‘‘Gujarat has created a good atmosphere for us and has shown us the way. It is for the partymen to keep up the tempo and strengthen it to enable us to go to the peo- ple. We expect the same re- sults in other states like Ra- jasthan, Himachal Pradesh, MP and even Delhi.’’ Vajpayee said: ‘‘You should continue the victory trend in Karnataka, but Karnataka should not be- come like Gujarat.’’ This statement left party legisla- tors puzzled. ‘‘We do not know if he meant there should be no communal overtones here,’’ some leg- islators told Times News Network. The Prime Minister urged party legislators to Prime Minister Vajpayee hands over a copy of the ‘Indian popularise the Centre’s Science Policy 2003’ to HRD minister M M Joshi at the achievements and use it as 90th Indian Science Congress in Bangalore on Friday. a plank to win. ‘‘This is a ments take credit; if it fails, Vajpayee took a dig at time of negative campaign- the Centre is blamed. This MPs: ‘‘Every MP wants to ing. Party workers must is very unfortunate.’’ speak in Parliament. But all gear up to counter this cam- Claiming that the coun- of them begin by saying In- paign against us. Our try’s economy is strong, Va- dia is an agricultural coun- achievements should not be jpayee said despite various try. Don’t we know that? masked by such campaigns. states reeling under This is because they are not You must tell the people drought, there is no short- well-prepared to speak.’’ about the Centre’s achieve- age of foodgrains. He, however, chose to ments.’’ The PM is understood to tread a cautious course on The PM chose the Public have told the Karnataka the VHP’s deadline to the Distribution System (PDS) BJP not to repeat the mis- Centre over the disputed as an example of wrong takes it committed during land in Ayodhya. ‘‘It is the publicity for the Centre. ‘‘If the 1999 assembly elections. VHP’s stand, and will al- the PDS system succeeds, ‘‘Prepare adequately before ways be. It is not the stand respective state govern- going to the people.’’ taken by the government.’’ Four booked under Uneasy calm in Pota in Mumbai Mumbai: Four persons, ac- cused in the December 2 Ghatkopar bus blast case, Patna varsity were on Friday charged un- der the Prevention of Terror- By Soroor Ahmed Two groups of RJD sup- ism Act (Pota) by the Mum- TIMES NEWS NETWORK porters, one led by Khurshid bai crime branch. Patna: Patna University and Alam Siddiqui, president of The blast had killed two its colleges, the veritable bat- the Patna Mahanagar unit of persons and injured 34. tlegrounds of the 1974 Jaya the RJD and another led by Prakash movement, wore a The case will be the first Pawan Kumar Yadav,general under the Pota in Mumbai af- calm and quiet look during secretary of the state Chha- Friday’s bandh. Not a single ter the police dropped the tra RJD, took out rallies op- charges against alleged Al- prominent opposition leader posing the bandh call. — even those who grew with Qaida operative Mohammed Commenting on the indif- Afroze. A team arrested Ab- that movement — visited ferent attitude of the stu- these campuses as the strug- dul Mattin, Sayyed Khwaja, dents, Brajesh Singh, owner Mushammil Ahmed and gle has shifted to Bailey of Nalanda Girls Hostel near Jahir Shaikh. All are alleged- Road, near Ashiana Nagar Bhikana Pahari said: ‘‘Col- ly linked to the banned Stu- where three students were lege and university students dents Islamic Movement of killed on Saturday. have either shifted to their India (SIMI).TNN Save for the torching of a native places or have moved police picket and a few tyres, to Bailey Road where the real there was no other noticeable struggle is going on.’’ Howev- activity in the campus. How- er his associate cut in to say ever, shops remained closed that unless and until the stu- and for the first time in many dents of campuses are in- years, autorickshaws re- volved, the agitation would mained off the roads. not snowball into a people’s The senior-most BJP man movement. to lead the protests was San- Lall Babu, an ardent BJP jay Singh, the state executive supporter and a senior high member of the Akhil court advocate whose house Bharatiya Vidyarthi Pari- is in front of the Patna Uni- shad. He, along with six oth- versity gate, appeared a disil- ers, courted arrest. Sanjay is lusioned man. ‘‘This stir can not the student of Patna Uni- in no way be compared to the versity. 1974 movement,’’ he said. Dual citizenship issue considered New Delhi: The issue of dual citizenship is in an ad- vanced stage of discussion at the highest political level, secretary in charge of policy planning and diaspora in the external affairs ministry J C Sharma said on Friday. Addressing a Press confer- ence to announce the inaugu- ration of the Pravasi Bharati Divas, with an invocation composed by Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Bismil- lah Khan, Sharma said the concept had been accepted in principle by the government as was evident from Prime Minister Vajpayee’s speech while accepting the report of the high-level committee on January 8 last year. TNN

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6 Saturday,January 4, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi After petrol, LPG to go up TIMES NEWS NETWORK nies raised the prices of higher than the Rs 4,495 leave a dent of about Rs 2,500 petrol and diesel by an aver- crore sanctioned in the Bud- crore on their bottomlines. New Delhi: After petrol age of Re 1 on Thursday fol- get for the purpose. While deciding the sub- and diesel, the price of lowing a flare-up in the in- The finance ministry re- sidy component, the Budget cooking gas is likely to be ternational prices of crude. cently sanctioned a flat Rs had taken a $ 24-25 a barrel increased by at least Rs 16 a cylinder before the Budget The oil companies are los- 71 per cylinder rate of sub- as the benchmark price for to bridge the growing sub- ing over Rs 350 crore every sidy on cooking gas. This is crude which is now hover- sidy burden in the wake of month on providing subsidy still short of the Rs 120 to Rs ing around $ 30 a barrel. the rising global crude oil on cooking gas and 130 effective subsidy per Declining to quantify the prices. kerosene for the poor as cylinder as per the current expected hike in the LPG ‘‘The Prime Minister has they are importing the LPG global crude prices. price, Naik said, ‘‘Con- been apprised of the impact or buying it from refineries These companies were be- sumer sensitivity and inter- of the rising crude prices and private producers like ing reimbursed Rs 45 per est will be kept in mind.’’ and the need for a hike in Reliance at international cylinder till October for sell- He said, ‘‘In June, the gov- the LPG price. The issue prices, but selling it at a dis- ing LPG at subsidised price. ernment had cut excise will now be decided at his count. They will now get an addi- duty on petroleum products level,’’ oil minister Ram The oil companies’ sub- tional Rs 900 crore on ac- by two per cent to check ex- Naik said on Friday. sidy burden could well count of the increased sub- cessive volatility in the State-owned oil compa- reach Rs 7,000 crore, much sidy level but it will still global oil prices.’’ Naga rebel PTI leaders to meet PM

TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Naga rebel group led by Isak Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah, of the NSCN(I-M) faction, is likely to arrive on January 8 for peace talks. They are to meet Prime Minister Vajpayee the next day, home ministry sources said on Friday. This will be first time in 30 years the two leaders would be returning to India for negotiations. Though no major accord is likely to be signed between the government and the in- surgent group, the high-level talks are expected to pave the way for the launch of a polit- ical process involving the NSCN (I-M), the sources said. While NSCN (I-M) general Lord Swaraj Paul with West Bengal Governor Viren J Shah at a function in Kolkata on Friday. secretary Muivah, who al- ready has an Indian passport, is expected to arrive from the Netherlands, the group’s chairman, Swu and three oth- BJP steps away from VHP ers, have been issued pass- ports by the Indian mission TIMES NEWS NETWORK bursts against the BJP in general and the in Oslo and will arrive from PM in particular.While refusing to engage the Norwegian capital. New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party in a dialogue with the VHP, Shastri, how- The government has ac- (BJP) on Friday appeared reluctant to join ever, did react sharply to its personalised ceded to the group’s demand issue with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad attack on the PM. by allowing the ban on it to (VHP) despite the latter’s strong criticism ‘‘Vajpayee is the Prime Minister of the lapse on November 26 and of Prime Minister Vajpayee’s enunciation entire country, not just of the BJP or the withdrawing cases against of Hindutva and its decision to revive the VHP...Anybody who attacks him should Muivah for an alleged plot to Ayodhya issue. In fact, the party cancelled think ten times before doing so,’’ he added. assassinate Nagaland chief its official daily press briefing while its As for the rest, Shastri maintained that minister S C Jamir. senior leaders parried all queries about as far as the BJP was concerned, it stood the latest outburst by VHP vice-president by the PM’s interpretation, adding: ‘‘Just River-cleaning Giriraj Kishore who had on Thursday said as the BJP is entitled to its views, the VHP the government had ‘‘betrayed and cheat- is entitled to its own.’’ ed’’ them on the temple issue. The BJP, according to him, did not feel plan deadline Describing the PM’s Goa musings as the need to react to every statement made ‘‘pseudo-Hindutva’’, Kishore had charged by the VHP, particularly since the party By Chandrika Mago that those ‘‘willing to make any compro- had already clarified its position. TIMES NEWS NETWORK mises for the sake of retaining power had As for the VHP’s plans to revive the Ram New Delhi: The environ- no right to make such statements’’. temple issue, Shastri said: ‘‘This has al- ment ministry has set a Jan- Senior BJP leader Sunil Shastri had a ways been on their agenda.’’ The govern- uary 31 deadline for eight tough time fending questions from media- ment, he said, would intervene when the states, which have been drag- persons about the VHP’s periodic out- issue came up. ging their feet on river-clean- ing schemes, to initiate some kind of action. In a letter to the chief sec- retaries of Tamil Nadu, Pun- Jaffer Sharief isn’t quitting, jab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaran- chal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Ra- jasthan and Orissa, environ- he is just arm-twisting ment secretary K C Misra conveyed that the states’ fail- TIMES NEWS NETWORK hi, B L Sharma ‘‘Prem’’. ure to act on the projects, to- But his move has been met talling Rs 1,792 crore, will be New Delhi: Senior Con- The dissident with a mix of intrigue and construed as lack of interest. gressman C K Jaffer amusement at party head- The ministry is also exam- Sharief ’s resignation letter Arm-twisting quarters. Sharief holds no ining the possibility of put- to party chief Sonia Gandhi Sharief’s resignation is position in the party at the ting some budgetary or Plan was dictated by ‘‘political being seen as a pres- state or the national level. strings in order to force the compulsions’’, party sources sure tactic He is known to put pres- states to focus on the opera- here said on Friday. sure on the party leadership tion and maintenance of Karnataka chief minister No first-timer of the day whenever he has waste water treatment S M Krishna was likely to ef- Sharief is known to been unhappy with the Kar- plants. The lackadaisical atti- fect a ministerial reshuffle put pressure on party nataka chief minister, the tude of the states is of partic- soon, the sources said, and leadership whenever PCC chief or with the party’s ular concern at a time when Sharief was keen to get a he is unhappy with the Central leadership. He has the Planning Commission larger role for his son-in-law, chief minister been a dissident of sorts dur- has set a 2007 deadline for Syed Yasin. Sharief has often ing the tenures of successive taken indirect digs at the Kr- cleaning the country’s major ter to Gandhi is, obviously, a Congress chief ministers — rivers and the government is ishna government. pressure tactic. If it is sent to from Veerendra Patil and De- keen to press ahead with its According to a source, varaj Urs to Gundu Rao. the Lok Sabha secretariat, plan to link the country’s ma- Congress spokesman S At the same time, he is con- Speaker Manohar Joshi will jor rivers. Jaipal Reddy said Sonia had sidered a leader with grass- Officials say the states received Sharief ’s letter, but have to act upon it. root support, who can organ- have not even prepared the the contents were ‘‘not There is a precedent to ise things and is resourceful mandatory detailed project known’’. this. The then Speaker P A when it comes to funding the reports for proposals worth Reports say Sharief has Sangma had promptly ac- party’s panchayat poll cam- Rs 300 crore — it wants these ‘‘resigned’’ from his Lok Sab- cepted the resignation of paigns, especially when it has in at least by January 31. ha membership. But the let- BJP’s member from east Del- not been in power in the state. Digvijay gets a new face for Dalit agenda

TIMES NEWS NETWORK months’ salary for not serv- CM of his political ambi- New Dalit face ing his notice period. Ac- tions and wanted a ticket to Bhopal: The Congress in cording to the state govern- contest from an assembly Madhya Pradesh is making ment, Dahima has been re- seat in Ujjain. But Digvijay space for the next Ajit Jogi. First step lieved from his service with had refused to accept his In 1986, when former Prime Maan Dahima resigns effect from January 1, 2003. resignation then. This time, Minister Rajiv Gandhi was from the IAS to join On Wednesday, he joined however, Digvijay is pro- recruiting bureaucrats for Digvijay Govt as the chairman of Madhya moting Dahima as part of the Congress, the then chief Parallel story Pradesh Scheduled Caste his Dalit agenda. minister Arjun Singh chose (Finance and Development) For the upcoming assem- Ajit Jogi, then an IAS offi- Ajit Jogi also resigned Corporation. He will get a bly polls scheduled to be cer. Jogi resigned from the from the IAS to join ticket for elections when held in December this year, IAS to join the Rajya Sabha. Congress they happen. there is a likely BJP-BSP Fifteen years later, Jogi is Future action There are some parallels combine in the offing. In the chief minister of Chhat- between Dahima and Jogi. such a situation, the BSP in- tisgarh. Now MP chief min- Cong will give Dahima Like Jogi, Dahima too is a fluence from UP might ister Digvijay Singh has se- a ticket from Ujjain Dalit though his roots are prove a tough fight for the lected another IAS officer to not in Madhya Pradesh. Congress in MP’s districts join the Congress. He is cepted by the state govern- Jogi belonged to the Chhat- bordering UP. Maan Dahima, a 1977 batch ment. tisgarh region of undivided Senior BJP leaders be- IAS officer who resigned As per the CM’s orders, Madhya Pradesh. lieve that in case of a BJP- from his post of secretary, Dahima does not have to Dahima hails from an SC BSP combine, the 36 per medical education, on Tues- serve his three months’ no- community of Rajasthan. cent strong Dalit votebank day. Dahima’s resignation tice, as required for volun- Five years ago, before the in the state will swing and application for volun- tary retirement. He also will 1998 assembly elections, against the Congress and tary retirement has been ac- not have to pay three Dahima had informed the for the BJP-BSP.

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Saturday,January 4, 2003 7 Harish Tyagi J&K festival White Valley in Capital to boost tourism New Delhi: A festival show- turns grey casing the beauty of Jammu Srinagar: No snowfall, and Kashmir and its culture no metre-long icicles. is being held in the national Welcome to Kashmir capital by the state tourism Valley, an erstwhile department. tourist spot, which is Aimed at promoting the having one of its state as a tourist destination dullest winters. Even and reviving its handicraft with a minus five de- industry,the 15-day long food grees Celsius tempera- and craft festival, besides dis- ture, a clear sun is Meltdown shining. playing rich cuisine, will also The curse that • Very little snowfall showcase the state’s folk mu- plagued Jammu and in last 5 years sic and dances. Kashmir since the in- Inaugurating the festival, surgency began in • Rivers in the state first of its kind in last ten Republic Day Parade rehearsal at Rajpath in New Delhi on Friday. 1989, seems to spell an may run dry years, to be organised by the ecological disaster. • Agriculture and J&K Tourism Development The December-Janu- tourism suffering Corporation (JKTDC), state Stars add sparkle to small parties in Ahmedabad ary period, traditional- chief secretary S S Billowria ly referred to by locals said on Thursday: ‘‘Nestling as the chilla kallan, By Harit Mehta and Sagarika and Bali Brahmb- They charge anything be- to rope in Kavita Krishna- a close friend of Laalan, who in the lap of dazzling, snow- Priya Adhyaru used to mean heavy hatt have all joined the party tween Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 murthi or Falguni Pathak to helped the family in organis- capped Himalayas, Kashmir TIMES NEWS NETWORK snowfall and huge ici- with the localites here. lakh per event, according to entertain our guests, who ing the event. valley is undoubtedly a jewel Many more names are ex- event management compa- had flown in from South While residents are enjoy- cles. But this year’s negligible precipitation spells ill Ahmedabad: After being in in India’s crown.’’ pected to join the league with nies. And this amount does Africa, Britain and the US. ing the trend, event manage- omen not only for tourism but for agricultural as well. the news for riots and earth- the party season picking up. not include air fare and lodg- But since Sagar is a big fan ment firms are making hay. The snows of December and January feed Kashmir’s ‘‘There is no need to adver- quakes, Gujarat’s commer- of Shaan and Sagarika, we With the affluent of rivers and lakes. ‘‘Heavy snowfalls after January 31 tise it but we want the eter- cial capital is rocking for a decided to invite the duo,’’ Ahmedabad ready to splurge means practically nothing’’ said a local, Nissar Hussain. nal beauty of Kashmir, their different reason. A bevy of Starry nites said father Dixit Shah, an on private parties, the event They melt quickly in the spring rains. rich cultural heritage, to be singers are now ready to turn • Bollywood singers NRI businessman from management companies are For the last five years, ‘‘Kashmir has been receiving known world over and this very little snowfall and its perennial snow reserves are on the heat and the city’s par- replacing small-time bands Nairobi. Around 500 guests happily flooded with assign- festival is a step in that direc- exhausted,’’ said Abdul Samad (68), an orchard owner in ty animals are shaking to attended the party. ments. tion,’’ he said. • Daler Mehndi, Shaan, Sagarika the apple-rich town of Sopore. ‘‘If this winter as merci- Bollywood’s beat. The Contractors, a US- Says Jaideep Mehta of and Bali Brahmbhatt favourites less as the others, we would have a serious situation’’. ‘‘Tourism is the backbone City residents have gradu- based business family,on the True Innovations: ‘‘The • Artistes charge between Lack of irrigation in most districts has been forcing of the state’s economy and by ated from hiring small music other hand invited the king trend of inviting celebrities Rs 5-10 lakh for one show the state to issue farmer advisories, asking locals not to organising these cultural ex- bands for their private par- of Punjabi pop — Daler from Mumbai for small gath- plant paddy in areas with scant irrigation facilities. travaganzas, we will get peo- ties to roping in Bollywood Mehndi — to perform at the erings — be it a birthday par- The lack of snowfall has affected winter tourism as ple across the country acc- singers to put up an exclusive Playback singers Sunidhi ing. When Sagar Shah com- marriage reception of their ty or a wedding reception — well. Some hardy souls still come to have a glimpse of show. Chauhan and Babul Supriyo pleted 18 years on December son Laalan on December 25 is fast picking up.’’ quainted with the cultural the ‘‘snowy meadows’’ in Gulmarg. But the bad news is Big-time Bollywood stars are expected to perform at a 20, his parents gave him a ethos of the state,’’ Billowria at their residence. Mehta’s firm was instru- that even Gulmarg had precious little snow this year. have started replacing these wedding on February 23. surprise gift. said. ‘‘It was a small gathering mental in making arrange- ‘‘There was a foot-deep snowfall a few days ago, but the small-time bands at select The star sheen that these They got in Indi-pop stars This will also convince of around 700 people. Daler ments for a small event in sunshine is melting it. If this continues, there would be gatherings.Prominent names artistes add to parties, how- Shaan and Sagarika for the started at 10 pm and went on which Bali Brahmbhatt per- them that Kashmir is a safe no snow,’’ said Abdul Aziz, a travel operator.IANS like Daler Mehndi, Shaan, ever, does not come cheap. function. ‘‘We were planning till 3 am,’’ says Ruchir Modi, formed. destination,’’ he added. PTI

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8 Saturday,January 4, 2003 ENTERPRISE G The Times of India, New Delhi

BRIEFLY Housing bonds Scope awards: NTPC and Indi- Govern with fairness: Shekhawat anOil won Scope Gold trophies for oversubscribed execellence in governance for 2000- TIMES NEWS NETWORK TISCO (CMD RN Tata) — and TIMES NEWS NETWORK one from the public sector — 01 and 2001-02. Ranshtriya Ispat New Delhi: Companies set Nigam and Electronics Corporation IBP Co limited (CMD MS Ra- New Delhi: The bonds float- up business after taking of India were given silver trophies machandran) — as the best ed by National Housing Bank loans from banks, financial for turning around to profit and companies for the ICSI Na- (NHB) for 2002-03 to raise Rs institutions and, also launch growth. TNN tional Awards 2002. The sec- 75 crore on private placement initial offers (IPOs) to the basis have been oversub- PNB videoconferencing: Punjab retaries of these three com- public. All this is public mon- scribed. The offered issue National Bank started a video con- panies were also honoured. ey. The firms which observe was opened from December ferencing facility in New Delhi on the fairness, transparency, ac- Cipla chief Yusuf hamied New Year’s Day which will link 25 was honoured with the Life- 23 to December 27. countability and social re- NHB in a press statement sites comprising head and zonal of- time Achievement award. sponsibility are good and said that the maturity period fices, training centres and some im- Justice Venkatachaliah those which don’t must emu- of the bonds would be for 10 portant branches. This will save the said that quality of gover- Two hydro projects late the formers. years with the put-and-call bank’s cost in travelling and time. TNN nance depends on the quality While addressing the invit- option at the end of the sev- Bhel exports gas turbines: Bhel IBP Co. Ltd. chairman MS Ramachandran and MD Arun Jyoti of people who constitute the launched in Uttaranchal ed doyens from the legal, cor- receiving the ICSI National Award for Corporate Governance enth. The bonds are tax-free has commissioned the first ever 159 porate and professional board of directors and its top from Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat in New Delhi. and earmarked to support New Delhi: The Uttaranchal government mw gas turbine in Iraq accomplish- worlds, here on Tuesday in management adding, ‘‘The ing the state-of-the-art contract of the bank’s Golden Jubilee signed a memorandum of undertaking with the award distribution cere- tablished their empire. Small also said corrective steps had board has to be a conscien- Rural Housing Finance Rs 870 crore. TNN National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) mony of the The Indian In- investors are often at the re- been in place. tious keeper of the enter- Scheme (GJRHFS). Dehra Dun on Tuesday for two hydroelectrici- MMTC official retires: MMTC’s stitute of Company Secre- ceiving end. We need to de- The jury, chaired by for- prise.” The GJRHFS was ty power projects, on the river Bhagirathi. The chief general manager taries (ICSI) for excellence in velop an equity culture mer Chief Justice of India ICSI chief S Gangopad- launched in 1997-98 on the oc- first, Lohari Nagpala project (for 520 mw of MJ Rehman retired on corporate governance, Vice where public participation Justice MN Venkatachaliah hyaya hoped that by institut- casion of the country’s 50 electricity), will be located on the Gangotri Tuesday after serving for and corporate response can comprised 15 top select cor- ing these awards, a cult of ex- President Bhairon Singh years of Independence. It en- road near Uttarkashi and the second, Tapoban- 36 years. He was look- be wedded.’’ porate professionals, aca- cellence will be set in motion Shekhawat asked the compa- visaged to construct 50,000 Vishnugad project (for 360 mw) on the ing after North Zone.TNN Earlier,secretary of the de- demics, consultants, bureau- to ‘‘become a mass move- nies to take a ‘‘value-driven dwelling units with Rs 500 Rishikesh Badrinath road near Joshimath. Af- partment of company affairs crats and CMDs. ment’’. His deputy Pavan Ku- Feedback from PSUs is invited. approach’’ in quest for excel- crore from the financial in- ter signing the MoU in presence of chief min- Address mail to: News Editor, Times House, (DCA) Vinod Dhall said, ‘‘Ma- The jury voted for two pri- mar Vijay explained that the lence. stitutions and cooperative ister Narain Dutt Tiwari, NTPC CMD CP Jain The Times of India, 7 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, jor corporate failures are of- vate sector companies — Dr criteria of evaluation were New Delhi 110002. Fax (011) 371-5832, 332-3346. He said, ‘‘Corporates have agencies. The commercial fi- said the projects were long overdue in the hill email ID: [email protected] often ignored the public on ten the result of incompe- Reddy’s Laboratories Limit- on the basis of ‘‘standard nancial institutions will join state.TNN whose money they have es- tence, fraud or abuse.’’ He ed (CMD K Anji Reddy) and norms’’. the projects.

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PTI INDIA DIGEST 3 students Goa, Kerala on PTI Son’s film keeps forced to high alert over eat excreta arms supply

TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK Deshmukh busy Jabalpur: In a shocking inci- Thiruvananthapuram: The dent, three primary students Kerala coast is being combed By S Balakrishnan bit to make the film a box-office hit. were allegedly made to eat after intelligence reports TIMES NEWS NETWORK The chief minister’s public rela- human excreta by their said that underworld don Da- tions officers have doled out free pass- school teacher in Damoh dis- wood Ibrahim had sent a Mumbai: Chief minister Vilasrao es to mediapersons for the movie, Deshmukh is a particularly busy man trict for picking up a fight. shipload of arms to the ex- which was released on Friday. The teacher has been sus- tremist groups working in these days. Apart from the grim The excitement of Congressmen is drought situation, the worsening con- pended and a case registered India. palpable. Many of them have bought against him. The search is being done IN FULL BLOOM: A flower on dis- dition of the state’s economy and tickets for the first day, first show. ‘‘I According to reports jointly by the Navy, Coast play at a show organised by Horti- crippling power shortage in rural Ma- am going to watch the movie so that I cultural Society of India in Kolkata harashtra, he has some family mat- reaching here, the incident Guard, customs and revenue can tell the chief minister what a took place last month at intelligence agencies. The re- on Friday. ters to take great actor his care of too. Aamghat government pri- ports, it is understood, men- son is,’’ a Con- mary school, 40 km from the tion that the ship left the Girl commits suicide: A 19-year- With his son gress corporator old girl hanged herself at her resi- Ritesh making district headquarters, under Dubai coast in the third week said. A Congress the Jabera police station. of December. The plan is for dence in Mumbai on the New Year a debut ap- activist took the day following an altercation with her The teacher, Surendra it to land either in Goa or pearance in trouble of going Net friend. The friend has been ar- Mishra, forced — Rahul, Kerala. Hindi film, Tu- THE OFFICIAL STORY to the famous rested for abetting her suicide. PTI jhe Meri Rameshwar and Latorilal — Since Kerala has a large Siddhi Vinayak to eat human excreta. Anoth- network of water bodies, and Officials derostered: Two airport Kasam,the • CM’s office pitching in to make temple on Tues- er student, Barelal, helped the state is not as keenly officials, attached to the communica- Deshmukh Tujhe Meri Kasam a hit day to offer the teacher. Mishra let the watched by secret agencies tions wing and air traffic control in family is • PROs doling out passes prayers to Lord Mumbai, were on Friday derostered pulling out all children go home after ex- as western India, Dawood • Mumbai bigwigs attend premiere Ganesh to help tracting a promise from them might direct the carrier to pending an inquiry by the Director stops to en- make the movie General of Civil Aviation after a ‘‘near sure that the • Congressmen book tickets for that they would not tell any- take the Kerala route. first day, first show a success. one. However, they told their The ship is purportedly miss’’ between a British Airways and movie is a hit. According to a Royal Jordian aircraft over Mumbai parents about the incident af- transporting dates and arms Ritesh is reports, police last week. PTI paired with ter a couple of days. Accord- are hidden in the date pack- inspectors and ing to Rahul’s grandmother, ages.Land and sea patrolling Report sought: The West Bengal newcomer Genelia D’Souza in the ward officers are also persuading when she sought a clarifica- have been intensified be- government has begun to gather de- film. their friends and acquaintances to tion from the teacher, he mis- Mangled bogies of the Manmad-bound passenger train lie at tails of the New Year eve assault on Deshmukh’s other son, Amit, is tween Chavakkad and Man- watch the film. The film is being mar- behaved with her. railway tracks near Parli, 300 km from Hyderabad, on Friday. jeswaram. a traffic sergeant by reserve force into setting up sugar factories in the keted extensively with the promos be- constables who were teasing a cooperative sector in Latur. However, ing shown on the tube repeatedly. A woman. It said it could do little if the recently there have been indications large number of billboards have also woman did not come to testify. PTI that Amit may follow in the footsteps come up in the city. Trained cooks for mid-day meals in Andhra of his father and enter politics. Panchtantra on CD: Netguru In- The film is produced by Ramoji Rao Bitten by the Bollywood bug, dia, a subsidiary of Nasdaq-listed and is directed by noted Telugu film TIMES NEWS NETWORK I V Subba Rao said the gov- lakh students is taken up, Netguru Inc., on Friday launched an Ritesh, an architecture student, has director Vijaya Bhaskar. The cast in- ernment will enlist the serv- aberrations of these kind are animated series on the fables of decided to stay out of politics. And if cludes Shakti Kapoor, Satish Shah, Hyderabad: Perturbed by ices of various catering agen- Kitchen rules but natural, the chief minis- Panchtantra on video CD. The CD the chief minister’s son is being cast Jaspal Bhatti and Anuradha Patel. On the indisposition of more cies to train the cooks in ter said. would be made available in Hindi, as the hero of a film, how can the Thursday, a grand premiere was held than 400 students with the preparing the mid-day meals New chefs The government, he said, mantralaya officials be out of the English and several foreign lan- at Imax Adlabs multiplex, which was launch of the mid-day meal at schools. The experts, he Govt to enlist services was learning from the mis- PTI scene. Naturally, they are doing their scheme at various schools on guages. attended by Mumbai bigwigs. said, will be asked to stay put of trained cooks takes and will ensure that Thursday, Andhra Pradesh in the respective schools for such mistakes do not recur. chief minister N Chan- at least ten days. The reason Use of more spices and drababu Naidu on Friday or- More than 400 schoolchild- Over 400 children fell tamarind in the food proba- A commando dered the requisitioning of ren in Anantapur, Nizam- bly caused the problem, he trained cooks for the pro- abad, Guntur, Kurnool and ill at the inaugural mid- added. Feathered friends from day meal unit of the gramme. Prakasam districts were tak- Stating that guidelines on Naidu told newspersons en ill after the meals on Cooking mode preparation of food have here that trained cooks will Thursday. been issued to schools, he abroad survive on pipes fairer sex be positioned in schools hav- The chief minister said CM asks schools to said school managements ing over 100 students. ‘‘The the condition of those affect- use only gas for food have been asked to cook food By Shyam Parekh receding fast. It will dry up Kolkata: West Bengal is rais- cooks will train the locals.’’ ed is stable now.When a mas- preparation by using gas and in no case, TIMES NEWS NETWORK soon,’’ he says. ing a unit of women com- School education secretary sive programme covering 75 use firewood. Dry vacation The farmers give details mandos. Nava Talao: (Surendrana- about the crop. ‘‘We need to According to police chief gar district) The migratory Bad holiday water the crop four times Dinesh Vajpai, the govern- birds to Gujarat used to flock The Nal Sarovar is no during 110 days that it takes ment has agreed in principle to Nal Sarovar, their tradi- more a holiday home to be ready for harvest,’’ says to begin work on raising the tional watering ground, till it an elderly local Arjanbhai. dried up due to scanty rain- for migratory birds unit, which will combat ter- Nobody is willing to say rorism. fall. When they turned to Alternative who gave them permission to Nava Talao, a large water ‘‘The chief minister has Nava Talao in Little lift water. Continuous lifting cleared the idea and the re- body located in the Little Rann of Kutch is the of water has resulted in the Rann of Kutch, as an alterna- cruitment will begin soon,’’ new temporary abode waters receding upto one km Vajpai told reporters on tive destination, that is now in the past few weeks. Thursday evening. becoming a casualty of farm- There is not much infor- vehicles running over their Most serving women con- ing. mation that others can offer pipes. ‘‘Keep off. It will take stables, he said, do not meet Thousands of pelicans, about the lake. ‘‘No one flamingos, painted storks us two hours to repair this,’’ knows who owns the lake, the physical standards of and ducks can be spotted one of them shout. there is not even a survey of commandos or are past the along with brick and con- But they are willing to its size. But money is collect- required age. crete tanks and a web of talk. ‘‘We have paid Rs 200 to ed by some locals and their Vajpai said women com- coloured plastic and rubber 250 per bigha for water lift- organisation to distribute mandos were a novel concept pipes leading to the adjacent ing, how can you drive over water to 3,300 acre of farm for states although such a farms. Some of the pipelines it?’’ they ask. land,’’ says a local ornitholo- unit existed in New Delhi. run for almost two km to wa- They have also seen the gist Shabbir Mallick. He has He said the need for ter fields that grow water in- lake shrinking over the been campaigning to save the women commandos had been tensive crops like cotton and months. ‘‘This lake was very lake. ‘‘There is a HC order re- felt on several occasions and jeera. big, almost double till few stricting the lifting of water the police were taking it up Farmers are angry to see months ago. Now the water is from such water bodies.” as a priority.IANS TV skips condom Spinfed, 7 ad after protests cotton mills Bhubaneswar: Protests by some legislators forced the Orissa Doordarshan to stop to be shut telecasting a condom adver- tisement. in Punjab Twenty-one legislators from various political parties By Ajay Bharadwaj — including the ruling Biju TIMES NEWS NETWORK Janata Dal — last month Chandigarh: About complained to the Informa- 2,700 employees will lose tion and Broadcasting Minis- their jobs with the Pun- ter, Sushma Swaraj, against jab government decid- the advertisement, calling it ing to wrap up the Pun- vulgar. jab Cooperative Cotton ‘‘Although we need to cre- Marketing and Spinning ate awareness about sexually Mills Federation (Spin- transmitted diseases, we fed) and all the seven should not allow pornogra- cotton mills associated phy,’’ said one of the with it. legislators, Santosh Singh In addition to the Saluja.’’ Agencies winding up Spinfed, the cabinet sub-committee also took stock of the status of six public sec- tor units about whose closure the government had decided in the past. In the case of Spinfed and the associated mills, while Rs 18 crore would be required for disen- gaging workers, it would cost Rs 27 crore to retrench them. The em- ployees would be enti- tled to go in for VRS which was cleared by the state cabinet at its meeting last Monday. The cabinet sub-com- mittee had found after a detailed study that it would not be feasible to revive the defunct coop- erative spinning mills given the scenario of the spinning industry in the country and the con- straints of functioning of these mills in the co- operative sector. Spinfed was estab- lished in 1980 to help set up new cotton mills and coordinate their work- ing. Seven mills were set up in the cotton belt with a working capital of Rs 84.13 crore.

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10 Saturday,January 4, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi

Hip-hop group AROUND THE WORLD Second cloned baby to be that sings AP about Islam born this week, says cult is a hit in US Paris: A second cloned baby will be AFP their child,” she told France 2. Newark (New Jersey): This born this week, a firm claiming to The unknown “parents” of the is one hip-hop group that have produced the first human clone cloned baby known as Eve, and the puts The Prophet before prof- said on Thursday, although it has principals involved in her birth, have it. Native Deen, named after failed to carry out genetic tests it been summoned to appear before a the Arabic word for ‘‘reli- promised to provide as proof. Florida court to determine if she gion’’ or ‘‘way of life,’’ is a Chief executive Brigitte Boisselier should be placed under court protec- trio of young Muslim men of Clonaid, set up by a cult that be- tion, the plaintiff-lawyer said Thurs- who sing only about their lieves mankind was created by aliens, day. “The clerk of the court of faith. told France 2 television and BBC Two Broward County, Juvenile Division, They strive to be role mod- in Britain that another cloned baby has set a hearing for an arraignment els for music fans who might was due to be born somewhere in Eu- scheduled on January 22,” attorney otherwise be drawn to gangs- rope before the end of the week. Bernard Siegel of Miami said. ta rap and hope to educate But in interviews with both TV sta- “The legal custodian — the parents Americans about Islam. tions, the French scientist and cult — are required to be there, as well as ‘‘Islam is our daily life,’’ member said DNA tests on baby Eve, the respondents, Clonaid and Rael,” said 29-year-old Native Deen born to a 31-year-old American he said. “Failure to appear amounts to member Joshua Salaam. ‘‘It woman last Friday, had been put off giving consent of an adjudication of forms what you do, who you because the parents were anxious the child to a guardian. They have to are, what you eat, when you about keeping their identity secret. appear.” sleep, how you pray, every- Drew Barrymore and Sam Rockwell in a scene from Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Clonaid had said it would take DNA Rael, or the Raelians, is a sect which thing. We just sing about The film, which marked the directorial debut of George Clooney, won the Las Vegas Film samples on Tuesday to pacify skeptics believes the human race was started what we know, and who we Critics best picture award. and would provide the results a week Brigitte Boisselier, chief executive of by aliens who landed on Earth 25,000 are.’’ later. “These tests have not been car- Clonaid, said DNA tests on the first years ago and cloned the first human. Native Deen has its origins Owner bulldozes his pub: A British pub on December 20 in anticipation of legal action against her by London’s Great Ormond Street ried out. We have had to push them cloned baby will be done on Tuesday “Perhaps the second child will be in an annual Islamic youth owner drove a bulldozer into his own premis- to pacify the critics. es in a fit of rage after his staff refused to Hospital. The hospital, which was awarded back,” Boisselier said, saying the more accessible because it is in Eu- conference in Minnesota. On serve him a drink after New Year’s eve cele- the copyright to Peter Pan in 1929 by the baby’s parents felt under pressure af- me they are giving themselves anoth- rope and the country in which he or the last day of each confer- ence, participants would sing brations, a London-based daily reported Fri- character’s creator, Sir James Barrie, has de- ter a Florida lawyer this week asked a er 48 hours to decide whether or not she will be born may be less sensi- manded Somma stop publishing her book, or rap for their peers. day. Robert Tyrell, 45, struck the 16th-century state court to appoint a legal guardian they will do the tests. The parents tive,” Boisselier said, adding the birth inn three or four times with his digger, bring- claiming its rights run until 2023. Reuters Salaam, Abdul-Malik Ah- for the baby. have gone home and they just want was due in days. “It will be this week,” ing down part of its roof and sections of the “For the time being the parents told some peace and to spend time with she said. Reuters mad and Naeem Muhammad walls, the Daily Telegraph reported. His antics Row over Redford’s credit card: He all met at these conferences, forced a group of 15 drinkers who had been could have had a nice meal and free ski-lift struck up a friendship and celebrating at the North Star pub in Steven- passes. But a man who tried to get auto- formed the group two years ton, west of London, to flee the building at graphed memorabilia for finding Robert Red- DUBYAMAIL ago. Since then, the three 3:30 am on January 1. AFP ford’s lost credit card got a visit from the cops The sarcastic way in which this strip have released many singles instead. Police in Orem, a city close to Red- exposes the malevolent facet of the and cassettes independently Peter Pan copyright challenged: Peter ford’s home and his Sundance resort, say the politicians and brings forward what and over the Internet — Pan has flown into a Canadian federal court man found the card Saturday near a conven- they actually think of national issues is in a copyright lawsuit over whether the rights ience store and called the resort to report the laudable. enough to gain a following for steady gigs at mosques, to the legendary boy who vowed never to find. But after being offered free ski-lift pass- —Sahil Tagotra grow up have moved from Neverland to the es and dinner for two if he would bring the weddings and conferences. I like the Dubyaman strip very much. I public domain after more than a century. card to the resort, the man insisted on some Their lyrics address topics Canadian writer Emily Somma has filed a pre- signed Redford memorabilia. When a resort like Modi’s character most. Please including tensions between make one episode on Michael Jackson. emptive lawsuit aimed at protecting her book, representative responded that Redford “does Islamic and secular After the Rain: A New Adventure for Peter not do that kind of thing,” the man said Red- —Ambrish Mishra, Rewa lifestyles, pride in Islamic Pan, her lawyer said on Thursday. Somma ford wouldn’t get his card back and hung up, e-mail: [email protected] culture, and fulfilling reli- filed suit in US District Court in San Francisco Orem Police Lt. Doug Edwards said. AP gious obligations. AP

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The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Saturday,January 4, 2003 11 AFP No American Europe reeling from cold, floods will be safe in Paris: The death toll from a AFP floodwaters reached 1.5 me- bitterly cold winter in tres in some areas. Poland neared 200 on Friday The railway line between Pak: Jehadis while several other Euro- Lisbon and Oporto was pean countries faced the closed with 300 km of track Islamabad: Hardline Islamists threatened prospect of devastating under water. In Germany, a Americans in Pakistan and burnt effigies of flooding as river levels con- thawing of ice led to in- President Bush on Friday in nationwide ral- tinued to rise amid heavy creased river levels leading lies against a possible war on Iraq and the US rain. the authorities to limit traf- Al-Qaida hunt. Most of the 183 victims of fic flow near rivers. Near the Poland’s cold snap were Moselle and Sarre rivers, “If the US attacks Iraq there will be open men in their 40s who died of traffic was totally banned. war here,” Maulana Samiul Haq, a leader of hypothermia after drinking Incessant rain also the newly powerful Islamic party alliance, heavily and going to sleep in swelled watercourses in hollered before some 400 impassioned protes- the open. A quarter of them Bavaria and Cologne while tors outside Islamabad’s Red Mosque. were vagrants who slept in several campsites and car “No American will be safe here,” he doorways and on stairwells. parks on the banks of the warned, as protestors yelled “Death to Amer- Meanwhile residents in Rhine were waterlogged. ica” and brandished placards inscribed with Belgium, Britain, Germany Eastern Germany was not “Stop Muslim Genocide.” and Portugal were prepar- spared, with some roads A tribal protester brandishes an AK-47 The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), ing for heavy flooding as wa- closed in Saxony-Anhalt rifle during a protest rally in Landi Kotal which won massive gains in Oct elections, led tribal area on Friday organised by the ter levels rose. Britain was and Thuringia. rallies in the capital, Peshawar, Karachi, La- on high flood alert as heavy The situation was also hardline parties against a possible hore and Multan. attack on Iraq. rain pounded large parts of critical in Belgium amid Some 2,000 protestors marched through La- the country, hampering rail more pessimistic weather Haq may be envoy to India: Pakistan hore chanting “war against Iraq is war transport and worrying forecasts. Belgian media re- plans to appoint its former foreign minister against Islam.” In Peshawar more than 3,000 homeowners in vulnerable Forced out of their home by the overnight flood, Tony and Sarah Barham carry their ports said a woman had of state Inamul Haq as protestors hit the streets for rallies led by areas following weeks of un- children through a road flooded by the River Bourne in England on Friday. gone missing while riding its next high commis- MMA chiefs Qazi Hussain Ahmed and interrupted downpours. claimed 19 lives and left one a band of heavy rain swept Portugal, flooding damaged her bike near a river in the sioner to India if and Maulana Fazlur Rehman. With sodden ground and billion pounds of damage. across the southeast. “The dozens of homes and de- centre of the country. when the two coun- In Karachi MMA president Shah Ahmed rivers reaching the tops of “There could be flash rivers are right up to the stroyed two bridges. Fire- Rescuers were also trying tries decide to nor- Noorani warned of “war” by jihadi groups if their banks after a wet start floods almost anywhere,” tops of the banks and they fighters helped residents of to find another woman who malise diplomatic rela- the US attacks Iraq.“It is in their own inter- to the new year, officials said Ray Kemp, a just cannot take any more,” the riverfront area of the fell into a river during a rain tions. Haq, who retired est not to attack Iraq, otherwise it can be all- feared a repeat of the floods spokesman for the British he said. central town of Agueda to storm in the northwest of as the foreign secre- out war between the Americans and the jiha- that hit UK in 2000 which environmental ministry, as In central and northern evacuate their homes after the country on Sunday. AFP tary last year before he di forces,” Noorani said. AFP was made a minister, formed part of the in- ner ring of President Ranil rebukes Chandrika Musharraf’s foreign policy advisors, Dawn reported. Initially Musharraf wanted senior Colombo: Sri Lanka’s prime minister deliv- N Korea wants talks with US to avert crisis foreign ministry official Kamaran Niaz as ered his first public rebuke to President high commissioner to New Delhi but in Chandrika Kumaratunga on Friday,warning Beijing: North Korea reiterated Fri- words.” He said the US decision to in- Chinese media urged “common Foreign Minister Wang Yi. view of recent elections after which Khur- her not to antagonise peace-broker Norway. day that it wanted a dialogue without clude Pyongyang among an “axis of sense” from both sides in the escalat- Without referring to China and shid Muhammad Kasuri has taken over as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe pre-conditions and a non-aggression evil” had prompted the North to re- ing dispute. In an editorial, the China South Korea, Choe said outside help the new foreign minister, Haq was tipped told the president: “I must urge a note of cau- pact with the US, as China urged store a plutonium-based nuclear pro- Daily said Bush and his administra- in bringing Washington to the nego- to go to India. PTI tion in your intended intervention with the “common sense” from both sides. gram. “With this we were forced to tion must tone down their rhetoric. tiating table was welcome, but unless prime minister of Norway,” referring to her North Korea’s ambassador to Chi- take self-defence measures against China is a long-time ally and major the countries had the clout to influ- Pak to question jeweller: Pakistani formal protest against Norway’s top envoy na Choe Kim-Su said Pyongyang felt this threat to national dignity and to aid-provider to the isolated North Ko- ence decision-making “it would be security agencies will investigate a jeweller here, Jon Westborg. Kumaratunga lodged the threatened by Washington’s “Cold our right to existence,” he said at a rean regime. Following high-level better for them to be quiet”. who says his picture is among those of protest against the envoy to Norwegian War style of thinking” and did not press conference in Beijing. talks Thursday with a top South Ko- “If there’s any country which has five people suspected by the FBI of illegal- believe President Bush’s statement “The reason for this lies in the fact rean envoy, Beijing pledged to do interest in a peaceful solution in the ly entering the US, officials said Friday. A Prime Minister Kijell Magne Bondevik. that he had no plans for an assault. that the US administration listed the what it could to help de-escalate the Korean peninsula, they should urge picture closely resembling Mohammad Westborg was accused of violating Sri Lan- “North Korea cannot believe these DPRK as a target of its pre-emptive issue. Neither side offered any de- the US to conclude a non-aggression Asghar, a 32-year-old jeweller in Lahore, ka’s customs regulations and diplomatic but with the name Mustafa Khan Owasi, norms by being the “consignee” for radio words,” he said. “All the time they say nuclear attacks ... and broke down tails about the nature of the coopera- treaty ... and they should urge the US was among pictures of five men placed on transmitting equipment ordered by the rebel they have no intention to attack the the US-DPRK agreement framework tion agreed on during South Korean to respect international agreement DPRK (North Korea) by military de- by suspending the supply of fuel oil.” Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tae- and respond with dialogue to the the FBI’s website last week. AFP Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in October. AFP vices, but who can believe these Choe’s comments came as official Shik’s meeting with Chinese Vice DPRK,” said Choe. AFP

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12 Saturday,January 4, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi EDITEDIT PAGEPAGE A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Baby Boys on Order There is no question of allowing any Govt cannot curb dictate what is right or wrong. In patriarchal favour of one sex. Sex selection for hot pursuit into our territory. reproductive Medical technology should empower India there is no non-medical reasons violates the basic couples with greater freedom of choice. principles of equality. Devaluation of one — Feisal Saleh Hayat, Pakistan’s interior minister freedom; Indians free choice; gender Depriving them of treatment options only sex in favour of another would encourage should not be creates blackmarkets and engenders selection is gender discrimination from the earliest ashamed of their unethical practices. It is better to have an violence against stage of human development. The Indian Uneasy Musharraf desire to have sons open system which is quality controlled women Constitution forbids any form of discrimi- and reliable because it is performed ethi- nation based on sex and thus sex selection The old, old thing about reaping as you sow, looks Aniruddha Malpani Sabu M George violates the fundamental tenets of the Infertility specialist; pionee- cally. This is why the introduction of legal CWDS; filed PIL to amend finally like happening to our western neighbour.Indeed, red India’s first PGD baby abortion in India in 1971 was such a major the PNDT Act Constitution. Countries like the UK, Hong these are far from happy times for Pervez Musharraf. step forward for women’s health. Kong and some states in Australia, prohi- The scientific sounding justifications for First, the reported bombing by a US warplane following Bharati Desai, a well-educated business- A common criticism against PGD for sex bit sex selection for ‘‘family balancing’’. using sex determination to produce only clashes between American and Pakistani soldiers on woman, came to me for a consultation a selection is that it will cause an unbalanced Traditionally, conception took place at sons were first given in 1975 by ‘eminent’ the Pak-Afghan border. And now a not-so-veiled threat year ago. ‘‘I have two beautiful daughters, sex ratio in the country.In reality,PGD will the time of fertilisation. Today, some scientists from the All-India Institute of from the US that it could choose the hot pursuit option and I love them dearly. I now want to allow couples to balance the sex ratio in doctors are redefining the term ‘concep- Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. against Pakistani intruders into Afghanistan. To complete my family,and would like to have their own families. For example, take tion’ to mean the time of implantation in These ‘pioneers’ asserted in the journal compound the general’s woes, the religious right, al- a son. Can you help?’’ she asked. She couples with a baby girl, who want to have the woman’s body rather than the time Indian Paediatrics that destruction of a few ready buoyant from its electoral victories, has seized on opted for preconceptional sex selection a second baby. If they leave things to when fertilisation occurs. This is in order female foetuses will not affect child sex treatment using Preimplantation Genetic chance, half of them will have a second to justify PGD, which really speaking, is not the developments to sharpen its anti-American stance. ratios. They advocated sex determination Diagnosis (PGD). She now has a bonny girl, causing an unbalanced intrafamily pre-conceptional but a post-conceptional As much is evident from the strongly-worded resolution as a way to liberate Indian women from baby boy. Happy ending? Yes. The tragedy sex ratio. On the other hand, PGD will method. Conception itself has been re- passed by the religious right-controlled legislature of undergoing endless pregnancies to have is that the treatment she used is now allow them to have a balanced sex ratio defined to claim greater ethical liberties for Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, and Friday’s sons. The virtual absence of medical ethics being strictly regulated by the Indian in their family. manipulating gender choice. Professionals protest demonstrations across the country. For the US government, so that family balancing in the profession resulted in 15 lakh appropriate language to facilitate social PGD is the ultimate form of family plan- too, there are worrying signs that their plans for may no longer be an option for other ‘missing’ girls who were eliminated before legitimisation of emerging technologies. ning. Often couples will keep on having Afghanistan have not quite succeeded. Official America Indian couples. birth during 1995-2001 following foetal Gender discrimination can be in the babies until they get the boy they desire, so has already described as a serious security threat the sexing. Doctors in our country have fierce- form of infanticide, foeticide, embryocide The ministry of health and family that they end up having many girls whom regrouping of the Taliban and Al-Qaida in the tribal ly resisted any attempt to regulate medical or, before conception, as ‘future sperm welfare has now introduced an amend- they do not want. PGD actually helps pro- areas of Pakistan and their forays into Afghan terri- practice, whether by the government, the separation’. Since female infanticide ment in the PNDT (Prenatal Diagnostic tect girls by ensuring that parents who do medical councils or others. The gradual but requires at least nine months, female tory.That Pakistan’s NWFP government is sympathetic Techniques) Act to include preconcep- not want to have girls will not have them. definite shift of the control over public foeticide up to three months, female em- to the Taliban and Al-Qaida only makes matters worse. tional sex selection procedures under So every girl who is born will be wanted. One year after the Karzai government was installed, its purview. health from public institutions to private bryocide, potentially, just a few weeks, and After all, if we allow adoptive medical entrepreneurs has its writ does not appear to run beyond Kabul. The The ICMR (Indian Council of Medical sperm separation, a few days, it is becom- parents to select the sex of their ensured that business interests proposed Afghan national army is now recognised to be Research) has also issued guidelines which ing easier to produce only boys. So, the baby, then can’t we allow sex take precedence over public years away.Add to this the re-emergence in Pakistan of will prevent IVF clinics from performing earlier the stage at which sexing is done, selection in conception? The TIMES health. Regulation of sex preconceptional sex selection. Why should the graver the social consequences. religious parties with sympathies for the Taliban and ideal society is one where selection has to be considered the government interfere in such a Till 1981, for 100 years, child sex ratios in Al-Qaida, and the fact that the two organisations have individuals have the freedom to SAMVAD in this (Indian) context. personal and private area? The rationale is Punjab were around 900 girls per 1,000 boys. regrouped in the tribal territories, and the prospects decide what they want to do. The PGD technique involves that allowing Indians access to sex selec- This deficit of girls was due to deliberate seem truly dismal for a country the US just recently The fact that PGD is so expensive and fertilising the egg and the sperm outside tion procedures will result in too many neglect and also female infanticide. Foetal liberated from the Taliban. The US’s biggest problem intrusive means that few couples are likely the woman’s body, in a laboratory. Embryo Indians choosing to have baby boys, and so sex selection was promoted by private may well be to safeguard Afghanistan from renewed to make use of it simply on a whim or refers to the developing human organism increasingly distort the sex ratio. clinics from 1979 and in two decades child Talibanisation. General Musharraf carries on walking fancy — so it will not really affect sex ratios formed after fertilisation till the end of sex ratios in Punjab dropped below 800 This is a distorted view. Curtailing the tightrope, evidently hoping that he can continue to in the population. 56 days (foetus refers to the period from (Census 2001). As the international medical PGD is deliberate encroachment on an pledge support to the US in its war against terrorism Suppose researchers develop a simple the 57th day, ending at birth). In PGD, the journal Lancet had said, “new technologies individual’s reproductive freedom, and even as he pursues his policy of proxy war against inexpensive technique which you could use embryos of only the desired sex are have the potential to create new problems should be actively opposed by all of us. India. So far he has adroitly managed the task, and in the privacy of your own bedroom to implanted in the women’s body, the others for society”. Progress in technology is indeed consolidated his power behind a manifestly While it may be reasonable to pass laws select the sex of your baby. Under the are destroyed. PGD was developed in the inexorable. Initial costs of new methods manipulated democratic facade. The US leadership, for to protect the female foetus, to extend PNDT Act, the government would not allow West to sort out embryos with inherited are bound to be high, and history shows this to try to regulate preconceptional you to use this technique! There is no its own reasons, has given him a long rope. However,the diseases like haemophilia. Sex selection for that over time, costs come down. So demo- reproductive choices is dangerous. We reason why Indians should be ashamed situation appears to be unravelling. On the one hand, satisfying the greed for sons results in graphic predictions made by doctors who should not police so personal and intimate of their desire to have boys. This is a part destruction of female embryos. This kind General Musharraf has to contend with the popular promote sex-selection for self-serving rea- an aspect of our lives as reproduction, of our ancient culture and tradition, and of embryocide violates the basic principles sons are highly problematic. The rhetoric anti-American mood in Pakistan and the increasing because of fuzzy claims about sexism we need to accept this. of bio-medical ethics: To do no harm legitimacy of religious parties sympathetic to the of choice is only to mask an extreme form or hypothetical fears for the health of The Indian National Population Policy and to do good. of violence against women. Freedom Taliban and Al-Qaida. On the other, he has to retain his yet-to-be-conceived children. and the International Population Confer- Dr Malpani’s clients have all chosen to and choice come with responsibility. It is position as the US’s ally. On Friday, the Pakistani inte- In the crusade to protect the health of ence in Cairo clearly state that informed have boys. This fact itself reveals the the duty of the government to regulate rior minister rejected the American hot pursuit idea, to unborn children who are just a gleam in individuals can act responsibly in the light discrimination against girls. Therefore, individual choice for greater social good. satisfy domestic lobbies. Will the general now find ways their parent’s eyes, we should not trample of their own needs, and should be free choice in a patriarchal society like India is The recent shift in Indian medicine is to facilitate the same to curry favour with the US? on the rights of parents themselves. to make their own reproductive decisions not really free choice. Whether the dis- evident when we look at the history of sex If we allow people to choose when to have as regards their family. crimination occurs at the embryonic, foetal selection. In 1975, government doctors at babies, how many to have, and even to The amendment which restricts the or newly born stage, it is an act of violence AIIMS made predictions about cutting edge terminate pregnancies if they inadvertent- reproductive freedom of Indians has been against women. When to have babies, how technologies, while today private medical Ulta Pulta ly get pregnant, then why not allow them cleverly disguised as a measure to protect many to have and the decision to terminate practitioners grab headlines. In today’s Over the years, Gujarat may have emerged as the to select the sex of their child? The basic the girl child, and since this is such a a pregnancy are all gender-neutral choices, “liberated” economy, it is no surprise that, self-styled laboratory of Hindutva politics but no one purpose of technology is to give man politically sensitive issue, opposition to it while gender selection is a discriminatory we, at the Centre for Women’s Development will deny that it was in the dusty plains of Uttar more control over his destiny. We need has been muted, even though most doctors act. Allowing adoptive parents to choose Studies (CWDS), have to respond to moti- Pradesh that it first acquired prominence. And given to give due credit to people’s intelli- privately agree that such an amendment the gender of the child does not affect child vated, illogical and unethical statements the numbers game in Parliament, it is still the electoral gence, and allow them to choose for is unethical since it restricts personal sex ratio, therefore this cannot be equated made by medical entrepreneurs. All the arithmetic in UP that will determine Hindutva’s themselves, rather than let the government reproductive freedom. with the use of PGD, which pre-selects in more reason to regulate sex selection. long-term destiny.It stands to reason therefore that the BJP should want to follow its spectacular showing in Gujarat, by getting its act together in UP. That said, there is a great deal of confusion about exactly how the Temples as Places party intends to go about retrieving the lost ground. The signals so far are mixed. On the one hand, there is the familiar slogan of repeating the “Gujarat experience” in UP.On the other — perhaps in deference to the knowl- Of Deep Insight edge that UP is a different kettle of fish — there is a fren- Be Happy By Dinesan Namboodiripad zy of activity that is popularly described in the Hindi No human being heartland as jod tod ki rajniti or the politics of (cynical) Temples and other places of thanthri or head priest can make another opportunism. In the first group belongs state party worship play a significant breathes life into the temple. one happy. president Vinay Katiyar’s aggressive public cam- role in cultural reformation. Literally, thanthri means W H Auden paign of co-opting the country’s foremost Dalit icon, The innate vibrations, someone who helps one to es- ✥ B R Ambedkar, as a votary of Modi-style Hindutva. cultural complexion, and cape from worldly wants. Happiness consists in In the second, fall efforts to woo old-timers like former spiritual qualities resonate The thanthri does that by the practice of virtue. chief minister and OBC leader Kalyan Singh back to the all around the devotee. So chanting sacred mantras, they are more than places of which are powerful when Simon Bolivar fold. Neither of the tactics is without its dangers. The ✥ Ambedkar gambit carries the risk of alienating the worship; they are cultural chanted in special ways, rendezvous centres for tradi- described as udaatham, Happiness depends party’s coalition partner and future electoral ally in the tional community activities. anudaatham and swaritham. more on the inward state, the BSP.The Bahujan party,under the leadership They are also meeting places There are five different disposition of mind of chief minister Mayawati, has already made it for families and friends. types of pujas: physical than on the outward abundantly clear that it views with grave concern the The serving and server cleansing of the temple, circumstances. BJP’s intended poaching of its Dalit support base. As for concept between the para- collecting flowers for rituals, Benjamin Franklin Mr Singh, the overtures to him will be resented by many matma (cosmic conscious- offering flowers to the deity, ✥ in the party who’d felt marginalised by the Lodh ness) and the jeevatma (body chanting different mantras, There is a happiness leader’s attempt to carve out a larger-than-life role for consciousness) is discernible and meditation. in me himself in his earlier avatar as a Hindutva hardliner CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS during worship. Temple Temples enable devotees Which lives in spite who’d presided over the destruction of the Babri means body or embodiment. to share sacred and blissful in society.He successfully stemmed the tide of all masjid. Whether or not the BJP succeeds in its game Our ultimate goal is to attain experiences that the yogi has Truth about Hitler of socialism in Germany by deluding the The days of pain plan will remain a matter of academic discussion, moksha—renunciation with- attained through rigorous and misery Apropos of ‘Scary Icons’ (Conversations lower middle class and fostering hatred out pre-conditions. On ob- and painstaking sadhanas. unless it can persuade Ms Mayawati to dissolve the against the Jews. He was an enemy of That sometimes assembly and call for fresh elections. As things stand, with Readers, Jan 2), as a German visiting taining liberation from wor- These experiences are often I recall. India, I am scared about this strident freedom, peace and humanity.Whatever there is considerable doubt over whether Behenji would ldly possessions, the seeker displayed and illustrated on A little joy whose defence of Hitler. Anybody who talks about ‘discipline’ he is supposed to have imbued agree to that quite so easily, particularly because an becomes one with the Brah- temple walls. The sringara roots are deep, Hitler as being a statesman, great leader in German national life cannot be divorced man. Regardless of the kind rasa is given importance in improved performance by the BJP is likely to erode from his concentration camps. And keep on or politician knows nothing about 20th of worship, truth-realisation such illustrations. Sringara holding-on, rather than enhance her authority.But when the stakes — Padmalata Thakur,Patna century European history. can remove the pall of gloom denotes the sublime union And even though run so high, and the mood, post-Gujarat, so buoyant, can It was not Hitler leading Germany,but the cast by worldly posses- of prakriti and purusha or anyone blame the BJP for trying so hard? the times I weep, whole Nazi organisation, using Hitler as a One Islam sions. Knowing one- jeevatma and para- ...Are solid as a stone. great agitator. And that in fact is the only The edit ‘Unique Islam’ (Dec 31) attempts to self is to know the matma. The temple thing he really was. You cannot divide that project Islam in India as being a different truth and for this, is constructed, tak- There is a happiness part of German history up into good things entity.Please do not try and change the regular interaction ing into considera- in me Box-office Bust That’s near to and bad things that the Nazis did. The eco- character of a religion. Islam is one with the learned tion the intellectual, “Why should people go out and pay for bad films”, nomic ascent and the success of the Third globally.Behaviour of Muslims might is necessary. THE mental and physical having wings, demanded Sam Goldwyn, the Hollywood movie pro- Reich was produced by theft and murder. differ from country to country according Once sage Nara- SPEAKING aspects of the devo- And I’m convinced ducer, “if they can sit at home and watch bad television So if young India wants a criminal organi- to regional customs. This does not mean da asked Lord Vish- tees. Since the same it’s sure to be for nothing?” Something like that happened in the world sation to lead the country,they are doing that Islam also changes. nu to explain the TREE intricate methods Each time my of Indian films in 2002. Film producers, distributors, right by looking up to Hitler. They should do Moreover, saying in the edit that Indian guru-shishya rela- with which a hu- Angel sings. and theatre-managers lament that box-office-wise, 2002 their homework before talking about things Muslims have by and large been free of tionship. Lord Vishnu asked man body is created are also Sometimes I feel it’s they obviously don’t understand. Al-Qaida and extremism, and suggesting Narada to travel to earth employed in the construc- not enough, was an awful year, with almost 90 per cent of films This meagre bit I give, ‘bombing’, with even the star system feeling the singe, — Mica Weiss, Frankfurt, Germany that the National Integration Council where a worm would ex- tion of a temple, the rich consider how to deal with a possible plain the relationship to him. cosmic vibrations present in And that this life so and losses topping Rs 300 crore. The bad patch, it is said, cold and rough, was caused by weak scripts, out-dated formulae and a II Al-Qaida attack, reflects the general Narada reached the worm. the temple get transmitted to distrust of Muslims in Indian society. As he was about to speak, the the devotees. When the ...Is not where fall in the mass appeal of mega stars. With assembly and I am flabbergasted by the boldness with I should live... which teenagers have justified their — A Sohail Siddiqui, Organisation of Indian worm died. Narada returned devotee walks around the parliamentary polls due in the next 18 months, the star- to Vaikuntha. Lord Vishnu deity in a clockwise direc- crossed film industry is bound to work out some quid acclamation of Hitler as a hero. Young Muslims for Change, New Delhi Because this happiness next asked him to go and tion the vibrations from the in me pro quo with politicians to tide over this dip. Arindam people learn by example, and in today’s world of globalisation and disinvestment, Worthless Words meet a newborn calf. The sanctum sanctorum reach Was planted long ago, Chaudhuri, the management expert now into films, says moment Narada met the calf, him through the surya nadi Modi-ism and Lalooism, no wonder fascists The PM’s New Year swipe at the VHP does To shield me from the “bad year for films was due to lack of management it too fell down dead. Nara- or eda. Similarly, acts like things to be, and marketing principles and intellectual bankruptcy”. are becoming icons of the youth. It is com- not mean anything. It seems part of a mon knowledge for students of history that da returned, disappointed. prostration, and giving While I remain below, In all other industries, he says, marketing starts even well-orchestrated plan of the sangh parivar. Hitler represented the anti-socialist forces Next, Vishnu sent him to a offerings to the temple equip God cut my earth-bond before the product is conceptualised. Bollywood kingpin After all, the Godhra carnage and its king’s newborn son. Narada the devotee for realisation. gruesome aftermath has happened during moorings, Bharat Shah said, “only a genre of radically different reached the palace where the Temples also help the devo- And granted Vajpayee’s tenure as prime minister. What newborn welcomed him and tee realise goals in life and films, perhaps thrillers and horror films, will salvage From timesofindia.com did he do? Lauded Narendra Modi and I should be business”. The demand is for entertainment, with a said that the worm and the thus gradually detach from Attuned to Heaven’s attended his swearing-in ceremony.I wish calf he had earlier visited worldly pleasures. Through capital E, and audiences have no time for dark themes that instead of trying to find definitions for voices, through and issue-based films. So comedies and thrillers will do, Fuzzy Logic were in fact he, and just the noble deeds, the mind is ...This happiness in me. Hindutva, our prime minister remembers sight of Narada had been equipped to absorb and re- but sadly,art films about rural and middle class are out. As the cricket World Cup tournament that he is the head of the entire nation Grace E Easley Thus being seen at unconventional films in English sufficient for the two species alise the truth. The ‘realised’ ✥ approaches, the Indian team plunges into and focuses on its development. to attain liberation. The devotee tends to evolve from such as Somnath Sen’s Leela or Rahul Bose’s Everybody greater depths much to the despair of — Sushil Dayal, Delhi baby’s reply removed all of temple worship to self wor- There is only one way millions of fans in our cricket-crazy Says I’m Fine is great, but being seen even dead, near Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page Narada’s doubts. ship. One starts to worship to achieve happiness on showing of films like Danger and Yatharth is strictly country.There is also a strange Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi- The story suggests that oneself and this helps realise this terrestrial ball, 110002. email:[email protected] no-no. Films made abroad but with an Indian connec- mathematical phenomenon at work. even one’s proximity to an that the devotee is one And that is to have The less the team wins the more it seems No 4 Vol. 47. Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via Rs.3, either a clear tion such as American Desi, Bend it Like Beckham and Indore and via 50 paise. National edition: No aircharge.Price in Nepal: NEP Rs 5, except Sunday: enlightened person can have with the divine and is thus to be earning. It could be said that it earns NEP Rs 7. RNI No. 508/57 MADE IN NEW DELHI REGD. NO. DL-25002/92. 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Chemicals top dumping Double century by Dow Targeting the young India initiated highest number A trader laughs as he talks on The new Toyota Scion-xB at of anti-dumping cases against the phone on the NYSE on the Greater Los Angeles chemical and petrochemical Thursday. Wall Street had a Auto Show on Thursday. Two products which accounted for strong start to 2003, with the models from the Scion label nearly one-third of the 144 Dow Jones Industrials are debuting at the show and cases initiated since 1992 surging more than 220 points are aimed at young drivers No pre-Budget Marketing guru Shunu Sen dies Sundays with meetings this TIMES NEWS NETWORK skills.” And Sen Shunu was generous in By Ravi Dhariwal New Delhi: India’s Icon of Indian marketing his praise even for premier marketing his rivals. Remem- hen my daughter Radhika was guru, a manager par • During his 30-year stint at Hindustan Lever, bers Das: “Shunu’s two, she used to refer to Shunu’s time, says FM excellence and a peo- Shunu built household brand names like Lipton, response to the W flat on Carmichael Road in Bom- ple’s person to the Liril and Surf. launch of Ariel bay as ‘Baba’s Sunday office’. I used to work By Priya Ranjan Dash issues confronting the econo- core. Shunu Sen, ex- for Shunu, during the week, and every Sun- TIMES NEWS NETWORK • He is best remembered for his strong focus on was outstanding.” my,’’ Singh told captains of marketing director day, for almost six years — quite naturally Hindustan Lever and the customer as the centre of marketing strategy. Subsequent to New Delhi: Finance minis- industry, trade unionists, for Radhika it was Baba’s Sunday Office’. CEO Quadra Adviso- his retirement ter Jaswant Singh on Friday farmers’ leaders, consumer What she didn’t know was that I had also activists, small businessmen, ry, died of a cardiac from Hindustan chipped away at another ritu- He had a razor-sharp mind that helped Lever, Sen did a eaten more meals on Indu’s dining table arrest in New Delhi Udayshankar al involved in the process of economists, financial czars than our own. on Friday.He was 63. two-year stint with budget-making. In a step and scientists in the letter me sell Lalitaji for Surf. When everybody had Shunu was such a boss. Himself a worka- A home-grown the RPG group as which could help demystify calling off their annual tete- ‘‘ holic, he filled up his juniors’ weekends marketing whizkid, rejected it, Shunu supported it. president ( market- the budget for the people, the a-tete with the budget-mak- with work. And we used to be working on a Sen has universally ing services), RPG FM dispensed with the ‘‘cus- ers. —Alyque Padamsee, former head of Lintas hundred ideas, countless projects, five Singh explained that while been acclaimed as Enterprises and as tomary pre-budget consulta- group marketing meetings at the same time with an en- he wants to benefit from one of India’s ” tourage of advertising agencies, market re- tions’’ with the various lob- sharpest marketing minds. For HLL before retiring as group “Shunu will be remembered for advisor. bies, pressure groups and the their views, the dozen-odd searchers, even film stars, sometimes all at someone who joined Hindustan marketing advisor for the bringing corporates closer to Sen was also greatly respected usual set of economists and meetings that the FM holds the same time. Shunu believed that ‘‘whilst Lever as a management trainee Unilever group of companies in the customer. He practiced a for his courage and grit. Even other ‘‘experts’’. with various groups have people who begin many things finish few, in 1960, Sen had come a long way India. He then took up an inter- when a spinal surgery went Instead, in a letter to 150- over the years become less very strong sense of values, people who begin few things, finish none’’. to be identified as the icon of In- national assignment for wrong in 1990, leaving him con- odd individuals and organi- and less useful. ‘‘A meeting which was very unique in the Focus was not Shunu’s forte. dian marketing. Sen would al- Unilever Plc, London. fined to the wheel chair,Sen nev- sations, the FM sought their with many in attendance at business community.” Sen was You threw a problem at Shunu and you ways be remembered for ad cam- And those who had a chance er let that become an impedi- ‘‘valued thoughts’’ on the en- the same time does not pro- the head of CII’s committee on got 100 potential solutions. Each one as cre- paigns like Liril, Lipton and to work with Sen remember ment. “He was a man of tremen- suing Budget in writing, vide adequate time or oppor- marketing. ative as the other. The problem was Shunu Surf, which gave rise to house- their experiences till date. dous courage,” says Tarun Das. even as he emphasised that tunity to individual experts And for someone who was believed each of those were totally work- hold catchwords. Alyque Padamsee, former head their inputs are most wel- to express their views in a fo- Sen’s one-time professional ri- Padamsee agrees. He says: able. An out-and-out optimist. He never, of Lintas who worked with Sen come ‘‘at times other than cussed and satisfactory man- In fact, in over 35 years of his val, Gurcharan Das, former “He had the strength to laugh at read couldn’t, select one idea. You had to for 14 years, says: “He had a ra- Budget time as well’’. ner,’’ he said. ‘‘Thus, obtain- experience in sales and market- CEO of Procter & Gamble, re- any problem that came up, pick one and implement it. That was his zor-sharp mind that helped me Officials said the FM does ing your written views would ing, Sen helped launch many members him with great whether they were marketing style — creative, non-directive. Brought the sell Lalitaji for Surf. When not want economic policy be far more relevant and use- brands like Close-up, Pepsodent, warmth. “Even though we were problems or personal.” That is best out of you. Idea leadership became everybody had rejected the idea, discussion to be merely a ful than holding meetings Liril, Wheel and Surf. He is also competing aggressively we were how the marketing and advertis- management word much later — Shunu Shunu supported it.” one-shot annual pre-Budget with several participants at credited with turning around good friends all along. (In fact,) ing community is likely to re- walked it. Lest I mislead you, he had the affair. He believes that any the same time.’’ many business divisions at Hin- Tarun Das, director general, it is the competition that member Sen best: Spreading ability of getting into excruciating detail on day is a good day for dis- Officials said the pre-budg- dustan Lever. Sen worked on a CII, who worked closely with brought us together.I had a lot of laughter, cheer and of course a subject — ask anyone who has seen HLL’s cussing the issues con- et consultations over the whole range of assignments at Sen for several years now says: respect for his marketing the marketing gospel. JC Calendar — and Shunu could lift himself fronting the vast and com- years had been reduced to and look at the really big picture. What pro- plex Indian economy. It fol- mere photo-opportunities for pelled him was not his wheelchair, but opti- lows that policy-making is a representatives of the vari- mism, passion and humour. With his mis- continuous process and the ous pressure groups and ex- When God ran short of angels chievous smile, he launched and re- annual Budget need not con- perts with the FM. Even launched and restaged many brands and tain all the government ini- though the FM spends three By Suhel Seth ence check on us. I mentioned three names: ing and marketing conglomerate in India as ideas. In fact it is difficult to pick an HLL tiatives on the economic hours for each of these dozen first met Shunu Sen in 1994 with Simi Russi Mody; Mrinal Sen and Ranjan Kapur also in the world. brand and say Shunu had nothing to do front. meetings, he is usually no Garewal when he was staying at The Taj of O&M. Shunu said he would check with But he wore these responsibilities with with this. I am sure millions of investors in ‘‘We are moving towards wiser after the meeting. Typ- I Mahal in Mumbai just before leaving for Ranjan and get back to me. immaculate ease. And this was largely due the HLL stock have made money because of opening up the Budget-mak- ically, there are at least two- what would be his last assignment for That evening itself he was the Guest of to the infallible support of Indu, his wife, his passion and his genius. ing process and making it dozen speakers at these meet- Unilever in London. A man who could dance Honour at the A&M Awards. As he was be- who more than being a wife was a true soul- Shunu was a marketing legend. Shunu more transparent. The re- ings which allows only a few any woman off the floor was now confined ing wheeled off the ramp I desperately tried mate to Shunu. His window to the world he tutored many HLL board members, includ- lease of consultation papers minutes for each speaker to to a wheelchair, but it was just his body.His to attract his attention, which, of course, he often could not see. ing Vindi Banga and Arun Adhikari. He on direct and indirect taxes list his ‘‘demands’’ or wishes. spirits were soaring higher than the fastest saw through. And then came the phrase that Today Shunu is no longer amidst us. In taught us how people buy, what motivates as well as the ‘Mid-Year Re- Most experts are part of the bird one could imagine. And his laughter would become so much part of my life: person, that is. But his spirit will be the in- people, what brand management is, how to view’ are steps in that direc- routine year after year and made optimism seem so inadequate. That ‘‘Suhel baby,you’re on.’’ spiration for the innumerable people he in- deal with agencies. tion and meant to encourage they usually keep harping on was Shunu Sen for you. I never imagined I We began a relationship that day — spired to brave all odds. Shunu never criticised or shot down an informed public debate on their pet suggestions. would meet Shunu ever again. March 11, 1996 — and it continued till this To those who saw him wheeling himself ideas. When we were working on the ‘Lali- But that was not to be and in March 1996, morning when God ran short of angels and to every play, concert and party. Shunu was taji’ campaign, most of the marketing de- after having started Equus along with my needed Shunu there. For me, Shunu was not not an ordinary man. He was a giant who partment were against it. There would have brother, we began the search for a chair- just the non-executive chairman of Equus: lived like us. A man who not only dared to, been no Lalitaji without Shunu’s support. Insulin prices set to fall man. Eclectic as the agency was, we needed he was also my partner in a marketing con- but indeed climbed every last blue moun- My personal take on Shunu will always a fine man with a fine mind and not some sultancy called Quadra. And it was here that tain. be that he was one of the most colourful, Bangalore: The Rs 650-crore Indian insulin market is decorative name that we could have easily Shunu’s legendary mind sprang back into His humility was infectious to the point fun, bright people who could illuminate any about to be caught in a price war whirlwind. Big multi- asked for. It was thus with great trepidation action. that one thought he was being inversely conversation. A party with Shunu was in- national corporations such as Novo Nordisk and Eli Lil- that I rang the doorbell of Shunu Sen’s then I have never seen Shunu, in all these snobbish but for those of us who knew and deed a party.I don’t think he ever had an en- ly are lowering human insulin prices. Novo Nordisk, the home in Friends Colony in Delhi and asked years, ever ever downcast — even when a loved Shunu dearly, this was a human trait emy. Even his fiercest competitors used to Danish pharma giant, is slashing the prices of its dia- if he would consent to be chairman. pretty girl at a party called him uncle, only both rare and unique to him. He always got consider him a friend. Ask Gurucharan Das betes drugs by 25 per cent. In a couple of months, four of He had impeccable credentials and could to be told that his name was Shunu! The his point across but rarely without a smile. or Karsan Bhai Patel. For me he was a its brands — Human Mixtard, Actrapid, Monotard and have easily said no. Shunu was the market- man never had a handicap. The world was I can only think of what Shakespeare said Guru. Every meeting with Shunu lit up my Human Insulatard __ will only cost Rs 145 per vial of 40 ing guru at one of India’s finest companies; his oyster right till the very end. He was do- in Julius Caesar: ‘‘The elements were so mind. Go well, Shunu. May the light you iu/ml, down from Rs 197. came with a giant reputation and was now ing three big jobs till the day we took him to mix’d in him, that all the world might stand showered on many fortunates brighten And, Eli Lilly has cut prices of its Huminsulin by one- the president of marketing services, RPG hospital on December 20, 2002: chairman of up and say,This was a man.’’ Bye-bye, guru. your path. third. Lilly’s human insulin vial of 10 ml will now cost Enterprises. He asked me if I could give him Equus; chairman of Quadra and the coun- (The author is CEO of Equus Redcell and (The author, ED, BCCL, worked directly Rs 145, down from the previous price of Rs 218. TNN some names with whom he could do a refer- try head of WPP India, the largest advertis- founder-director of Quadra) with Shunu Sen for six years at HLL)

EXECUTIVE DIGEST transaction documents, which T+2 rolling settlement NATIONAL FM for greater private role: include shareholders and from April 1: SEBI will intro- Jaswant Singh feels the govern- sharepurchase agreements duce T+2 rolling settlement Jagson Air to become ment should withdraw from are likely to be finalised soon, cycle on the stock exchange scheduled operator: In- sectors where private paving the way for invitation from April 1 to reduce risks in dia’s smallest private carrier participation is more of financial bids. the capital market and protect Jagson Airlines Ltd has got productive and efficient. investors’ interest. The market the government’s nod to be- Scope of the govern- Taipei Cultural Centre to regulator would issue sepa- come a scheduled operator. ment remains largely in shift office: Taipei Econom- rate instructions to intermedi- With the approval in place, the social and infrastruc- ic and Cultural Centre (TECC) aries and exchanges shortly firm is planning to add eight ture sectors. Freer in New Delhi is moving to its and take steps to ensure new feeder aircraft to its fleet the market, stronger new office at 12 Paschimi smooth transition from T+3 and also create around 100 should be regulation. Marg, Vasant Vihar from cycle to T+2 settlement mech- new jobs over the next 18 January 13th, 2003. The visa anism by widening use of months. “We are planning to division would remain closed electronic fund transfer and add more pilots and crew on January 13 and 14, 2003 straight through processing, a members for the new aircraft on account of moving to the SEBI release said. Under the as also expand the ground new office, but it will reopen T+2 cycle, the conformation staff,” Jagson V-P Air Com- from January 15, 2003. for institutional trades by cus- modore VN Johri said. It is todians should be done by also planning to commence Gokhale is new FCI 11.00 am on T+1 basis. operations in the western and chairman: AM Gokhale on southern parts of the country, Ajit Ninan Friday assumed charge as the BHEL office gets safety in addition to starting flights chairman of the Food Corpo- Dhirubhai Ambani entrepre- liance Industries Ltd A/c RIS,” certification: BHEL’s inte- on the metro sections. ration of India. He succeeds S grated office complex in New neurs, who will accept book- the company said in a release. Nautiyal who has been ap- Delhi has bagged the Reliance Infocomm ings on behalf of the compa- Financial bids for EIL by pointed chairman of National OHSAS-18001 certificate cautions customers: Re- ny. “We would like to caution February-end: The govern- Highway Authority of India, a from Dutch-based Det Norske liance Infocomm Ltd has cau- all customers that no one is ment is likely to invite by Feb- FCI release said. Prior to the Veritas for adhering to global tioned customers against authorised to accept any cash ruary-end financial b ids for new appointment, Gokhale, safety standards. The office making payment for promised on behalf of the company. All disinvestment of 51 per cent an IAS officer of the 1968 complex has also become the delivery of Reliance India Mo- payments as per our tariff plan stake in Engineers India Ltd to batch from the Nagaland country’s first integrated com- bile. It has clarified that it is in have to be made by account a strategic partner along with cadre was the additional plex with solar power genera- the process of appointing payee cheques or demand the management control. Ac- environment and forests tion to get this unique distinc- points of sale agents and drafts only in favour of Re- cording to sources, the draft secretary, it added. tion, a BHEL release said.

‘US car engine plant to Japan’s top executives McDonald’s shuts down INTERNATIONAL be jointly managed’: A US gloomy about economy: ‘Innovate’ initiative: Mc- OPEC may hike output plant to produce a new four- Over 90 per cent of Japanese Donald’s Corp, in a cost-sav- cylinder gasoline engine as business leaders have a neg- ing move, said it has pulled by 500,000 bpd: OPEC the plug on “Innovate” proj- could hike production by at part of a JV between Daimler- ative view of the economy, Chrysler AG, Hyundai Motor according to a poll published ect, which had been envi- least 500,000 barrels a day if sioned as a global digital net- prices remain above $ 29 a Co and Mitsubishi Motors by Kyodo news agency. Corp will be jointly managed Among 100 presidents of ma- work linking its restaurants, barrel after January 15, an headquarters and vendors. OPEC source said. “If the oil by all three. The three compa- jor Japanese companies sur- prices continue between $ 29 nies agreed in December to veyed by the agency in De- and $ 30 then we might have jointly manage the US plant, cember, 77 said the economy ET INSTA POLL a good case in support of an Chrysler group president had stalled and 14 said it was increase in production,” the Dieter Zetsche said at the deteriorating. The executives Yesterday’s results: Who will win source said from its head- Greater Los Angeles Auto blamed the slowing US econ- the big cellular fight? quarters in Vienna. In March Mori Building CEO Minoru Show. The companies will omy and sluggish Japanese GSM Optr WLL Optr Consumer 2000 OPEC adopted a price Mori points to the Roppongi announce the location of the consumer spending for pro- 08% 17% 75% band mechanism under which Hills Mori Tower, part of the plant within the next three longing Japan’s decade-long • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users it increases output by sprawling complex of office months. The US plant, which stagnation, Kyodo said. How- who chose to participate, and not necessarily of 500,000 bpd if the price of its buildings, shops, cafes set will be completed in 2005, is ever, 81 of those polled said the general public. reference basket of seven to open in April, that promis- one of three to be built by the they expected the economy Today’s question: crudes remains above $ 28 es to be on the scale of NY’s Do you feel confident about companies. The others will be to grow by up to 1 per cent in financing your retired life? for 20 working days. Rockefeller Centre. in South Korea and Japan. real terms in financial 2003.

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Birmingham sign deal Gottwald triumphs Stewart’s milestone Birmingham City have recruited Felix Gottwald of Austria Alec Stewart, 39, moved past Geoff French World Cupper Christophe emerged the winner in the Boycott’s 8,114 runs to become Dugarry on a loan deal, described the 7.5 km sprint competition of England’s third highest scorer club’s biggest ever, from Bordeaux the nordic combined skiing in Test. He’s now behind until the end of the season with a World Cup event in Oberhof, Graham Gooch (8,900) view to a permanent deal eastern Germany and David Gower (8,231)

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ODDS & EVENS Whom to back in India plan Remarkables comeback today’s match By Ahmed Abbas Rizvi AFP Ajit Ninan TIMES NEWS NETWORK India: 6/5 Sachin unlikely New Zealand: 8/13 Queenstown: Words hardly do the John Davies Oval jus- to play today tice. It is magical, with the TIMES NEWS NETWORK Whom to bat with in today’s match aptly-named mountain range Remarkables forming a Queenstown: New Zealand India New Zealand breathtaking backdrop and V Sehwag 7/2 N Astle 10/3 have totally domi- their snow-covered peaks S Ganguly 5/1 S Fleming 7/2 nated the series R Dravid 5/1 M Sinclair 4/1 glowing in the sunshine. against India. But M Kaif 7/1 C McMillan 5/1 There can be no other more it has not dulled Y Singh 8/1 C Harris 6/1 idyllic venue than this virgin the public’s inter- Arcadia at Queenstown’s est; the ‘sold out’ Event Centre that is hosting boards outside the pictur- CRICOSPHERE its first ever One-day inter- esque John Davies Oval are national on Saturday. an indication of just that. In a Queenstown is a If the Indians were looking city of just about 11,500, over strange, strange for inspiration, than no ven- 8,000 tickets have been sold place. You could ue in world cricket could be out. But if the fans are ex- be on your evening more capable of lifting their pecting that rare chance to soup or morning’s sagging fortunes. And the watch the Mumbai maestro, scrambled egg and visitors will surely need in- No decision on Mongia Sachin Tendulkar bat, they suddenly you’ll spiration in high doses. For could return disappointed. hear that shrill in IMES EWS ETWORK they are caught with their T N N Though Sourav Ganguly the background...aaaaaaaaaa. The backs to the wall; they are in said, ‘‘we’re trying to get number of times they take that Queenstown: Down 0-3 in the seven-match One- a win-all and lose-none situa- Sachin fit but we’ll have to bungee jump, me wonders if they day International cricket series, India have an up- tion. One more defeat and it hill task ahead of them. Skipper Sourav Ganguly wait and see tomorrow,’’ it is prefer the world upside down! No will be all over for Indians in wonder they are blessed with the knows that, but he takes inspiration from the past unlikely Sachin will play.The only the fourth match of the when India have scripted similar escapes. team management is unwill- best weather. Saturday promises seven-game series. no different with a max of 22 Sourav agrees there will be a need to change ap- ing to risk Sachin’s injury be- The Indians are desperate proach. ‘‘We’ve not lasted 50 overs, so we may to fore the World Cup. ‘‘He is too degrees C and 11 on the lower and it is likely to reflect in scale. look at some changes based on the fitness of Sachin precious to take a chance the team selection on the Tendulkar and Dinesh Mongia.’’ with,’’ is a common refrain GROUND REALITIES morrow. There will be a few Sourav said no decision has been taken on Mon- as the team management harsh decisions taken and gia yet. ‘‘We’ve to see how Mongia reacts, he’s ar- sticks to the ‘‘conservative’’ Dada alias The some might cause heartburn. rived only Thursday, so he may still be jet-lagged. approach it has adopted from Bengal Tiger alias But at least a couple of them We’ll see how he copes up in the nets.’’ the beginning. The Hero Honda could be justified — like the Man alias The Shirt plan to go with a four- Off dude is sulking. pronged pace attack. What He says the ground should be surprising is that it beneath is shaky. He SA batsmen make merry has taken the Indian think- says nothing comes on to the bat. tank a whole month to realise Cape Town: South Africa declared on It was the third time in five seasons He says can’t hit through the line. the futility of going in with a 620 for seven, two short of the country’s South Africa have declared within sight We say it’s top-level cricket. We say spinner on these tracks. highest Test total, on the second day of of a new record. They made 621 for five muster guts to stay there. We say, The John Davies Oval the second Test against Pakistan at New- against New Zealand in Auckland in for Christ’s sake, don’t lose it sitting pitch, as the curator claims, lands here on Friday. 1998/99 and 600 for three in the dressing-room. By the looks will have consistent pace and South African captain against Zimbabwe in of the greenish wicket here, Dada bounce. But it hasn’t escaped Shaun Pollock hit two Harare last season. may be contemplating another of the extra moisture that has successive sixes off Pak- Boeta Dippenaar hit 62 those post-match briefs. Sadly, the been in the New Zealand air istan off-spinner Saqlain and Neil McKenzie 51 as key is going in easily and sadly, this summer and it could very Mushtaq, the first sailing South Africa built on sideways movement is just as well be double-paced like out of the ground onto an their record single-day to- obvious. some of the other pitches we adjacent railway line, be- tal of 445 for three on the IN THE AIR have had earlier. So going in fore taking a single to end first day. Pollock with Javagal Srinath, Zaheer the 135th over of the in- slammed 36 not out off 19 Khan, Ashish Nehra and Ajit nings and immediately balls with four fours and Live on ESPN: Indian players train at the nets in Queenstown against the background of the Remarkables Agarkar would be wise. leaving the field with two sixes. Jacques Kallis Match: 4:30 AM mountain range ahead of their fourth One-day international on Saturday. partner Nicky Boje. was the only batsman out Telecast: 4:20 AM. Amongst other likely changes, Parthiv Patel might the jetlag, would be replacing Adams and Scott Styris wouldn’t want to relax. Skip- The declaration came 29 in the morning session, be making his long-awaited VVS Laxman and we could replacing Paul Hitchcock, per Stephen Fleming has minutes before the sched- trapped leg before by SHOTMAKERS ODI debut and Dinesh Mon- see Mohd Kaif batting at Lou Vincent and Mathew already said this match could uled tea break, enabling Md Sami for 31 when he gia could be opening the bat- No.3 — a position that has Mason. be a series-deciding finale. an early tea to be taken be- went back on his stumps. Squads, India: Sourav Ganguly (captain),Virender ting with Virender Sehwag. long been advocated as the The Black Caps side for India will have to pick up fore Pakistan started the massive task of South Africa (overnight 445/3): J Kallis lbw b Sami 31, H Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, V V S Laxman, Mohammad Rahul Dravid has been best position for him. Saturday’s game will be some confidence in their bid scoring 421 to avoid the follow-on. The to- Dippenaar c Akmal b Saqlain 62, N McKenzie c Akmal b Za- Kaif, Yuvraj Singh, Sanjay Bangar, Dinesh Mongia, to keep the series alive. hid 51, M Boucher b Saqlain 7, S Pollock not out 36, N Boje Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Javagal Srinath, having some off days behind New Zealand, besides boosted by the return of the tal equalled South Africa’s third highest not out 7; Extras: (b1, lb5, w1, nb21) 28 Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar, Parthiv the stumps, and this being a hoping to seal the series at three and the trio will be And the magnificent set- of all time. South Africa made 620 against Total (for 7 wkts decl., 135 overs) 620; Fall of wickets: 1- 4-0 here, have other aims keen to contribute to the ting of the Queenstown Australia in Johannesburg in 1966/67, a 368, 2-413, 3-414, 4-463, 5-548, 6-557, 7-594. Bowling: Patel, Rakesh Patel. critical match, the Indians Waqar 28-4-121-1, Sami 28-2-124-1, Zahid 25-3-108-2, New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (captain), Nathan don’t need any mishaps. So from this match. They have domination of the hosts. ground may help them do record which was broken with a total of Saqlain 50-3-237-3, Younis 4-0-24-0. Astle, Matthew Sinclair, Craig Mcmillan, Chris Har- they could opt for the special- made three changes to their It’s only the fifth time New just that. It could be the psy- 622 for nine declared against Australia in Pakistan: Taufeeq Umar batting 85, Saleem Elahi c Smith b ris, Scott Styris, Brendon McCullam, Daniel Vettori, side as they continue their Zealand have won four ODIs chic Viagra they so severely Durban in 1969/70, a match in which Pol- Pollock 10,Younis Khan not out 44, Extras: (nb2) 2; Total (for ist glovesman Parthiv and ex- one wicket, 45 overs) 141; Fall of wickets: 1-36, Bowling: Andre Adams, Daryl Tuffey, Kyle Mills and Jacob preparation for the World in a row. need to cure their impoten- lock’s father, Peter, and uncle, Graeme, Oram. clude Sanjay Bangar. Mon- Pollock 12-3-24-1, Ntini 10-2-35-0, Kallis 8-2-20-0, Hay- gia, if he has recovered from Cup — Chris Harris, Andre Surely, the Black Caps cy on this tour. played prominent roles. ward 5-0-34-0, Boje 10-2-28-0. AFP This Waugh is not yet over AFP Sydney: Steve Waugh hit the last SCOREBOARD ball of the day for four to com- plete a brilliant century after be- England (1st inn) (264 for 5 overnight) Australia 1st innings R Key lbw b Waugh 3 J Langer c Hoggard b Caddick 25 coming only the third player to J Crawley not out 35 M Hayden lbw b Caddick 15 pass 10,000 Test runs on an emo- A Stewart b Bichel 71 R Ponting c Stewart b Caddick 7 tional second day of the final R Dawson c Gilchrist b Bichel 2 D Martyn c C’dick b Harmison 26 Ashes match against England. A Caddick lbw b MacGill 7 S Waugh not out 102 M Hoggard st. G’christ b MacGill 0 M Love c T’cothick b Harmison 0 His unbeaten 102 was his 29th S Harmison run out (Langer) 4 A. Gilchrist not out 45 Test century, equalling the late Extras (b6, lb3, nb13) 22 Extras (b2, lb5, w2, nb8) 17 Don Bradman’s Australian Total: 362 Total: (for 5 wkts) 237 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-32, 3-198, 4-210, 5- Fall of wickets: 1-36, 2-45, 3-56, 4-146, 5- record, and helped the home side 240, 6-332, 7-337, 8-348, 9-350 150 reach stumps at 237 for five. They Bowling: Gillespie 27-10-62-1, Lee 31-9-97- Bowling: Hoggard 13-2-65-0 (5nb), Caddick are still 125 behind England’s 2, Bichel 21-5-86-3, MacGill 44-8-106-2, 16-3-88-3 (2nb), Harmison 13-4-44-2 (1nb first innings total of 362 but far Waugh 4-3-2-1 2w), Dawson 9-0-33-0 better off than when skipper Waugh came to the crease with STEVE WAUGH’S BATTING STATISTICS his side on the ropes at 45-3. Playing in his 156th Test, Steve Waugh completed 10,000 runs when he reached In one of the most amazing 69 during his innings against England in Sydney on Friday. finishes to a day’s cricket, Waugh smashed spinner Steve Waugh’s countrywise Test record Richard Dawson on Friday Opp M I NO Runs Hs Ave 100 50 0 through extra cover to go from 98 NZ 23 34 5 1117 151* 38.52 2 7 3 to 102 and whip the capacity Syd- Ind 14 24 4 823 150 41.15 2 3 2 ney Cricket Ground into a frenzy. Pak 20 30 3 934 157 34.59 3 3 5 “I don’t think it gets any better SA 16 25 2 1147 164 49.87 2 7 2 than that, scoring a hundred off SL 8 11 3 701 170 87.63 3 3 - the last ball in front of your WI 28 47 6 1966 200 47.95 6 9 3 Zim 1 1 1 151 151* - 1 - - home crowd and playing the way Eng 46 72 19 3194 177* 60.26 10 14 6 I did today,” Waugh said. “I felt it Total 156 244 43 10033 200 49.91 29 46 21 was my day and it was just Home 81 128 18 5042 170 45.84 13 26 8 meant to happen. The adrenaline Away 75 116 25 4991 200 54.85 16 20 13 was almost overwhelming and As Cap 45 67 9 2820 199 48.62 12 6 5 Steve Waugh acknowledges the crowd after overpowering but I felt I had to — Rajesh Kumar reaching his century on the second day of the fifth get the hundred tonight.” Reuters Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Warne bowls ROAD TO WORLD CUP Bacher softens after surgery I’ll be fit in time: Flintoff Aussie alert Sydney: Shane Johannesburg: World Cup Warne on Friday London: Burly all-rounder produced his county form at was getting close to full pace.” cricket boss Ali Bacher on gave Australia’s Andrew Flintoff said on international level and has Flintoff said both Roberts Friday played down an World Cup hopes a Thursday he would be fit for been beset by injury and and England doctor Peter Australian warning to trav- major boost by next month’s World Cup after weight problems, said he was Gregory were happy with his ellers that terrorists might bowling for the first time undergoing a rigorous train- happy with the way his pro- progress and he felt a lot clos- strike in South Africa, a since shoulder surgery last ing programme back in Eng- gramme had been going and er to being fitter than when month ahead of the 2003 month and declaring he was land. The 25-year-old was was confident he would be fit he went out for the Ashes World Cup. “feeling good”. sent home early from the dis- by mid-January,the deadline tour, where both he and York- Bacher, executive director The legspinning wizard astrous Ashes tour having set by the selectors. shire paceman Darren Gough of the 2003 ICC World Cup, made his return just 18 days failed to recover from a groin “I’ve had a hard couple of had to return home without told the Johannesburg- after surgery to re-set a dis- operation and since then has weeks, building up strength bowling a ball in anger. based daily The Star he had located bowling right shoul- been trying to get fit under around my groin area and my “I can only speak for my- met police chiefs and had der and was not expected to the supervision of physio- general fitness,” he told the self but I know I a m a lot been assured the event, like learn until January 12 or 13 therapist Dave Roberts at his Sun. “I had a good bowl in the closer to full fitness now than the UN earth summit last when he could start bowling county side Lancashire. nets the other day, the ball I was when we flew out for year, would be without ma- again. AFP Flintoff, who has rarely re- was coming out well and I the Ashes,” he said. AFP jor incident. AFP

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16 Saturday,January 4, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Schuettler played Kucera dumps Canas By Ranavir Bose game. It proved to be an extremely fruitful a tactical game TIMES NEWS NETWORK tactical manoeuvre as the final scoreline of 6- 1,7-5 showed. He attacked the mediocre Canas By Narain Karthikeyan Mark played some powerful Chennai: Karol Kucera, the 26-year-old un- serve from the outset and got two early break t was mix fortunes at the shots and served at 206 seeded player from Slovakia caused the tour- points. Though Canas forced deuce, it was ITata Open tennis champi- km/hr, it was not enough. nament’s first major upset when he sent the not sufficient as Kucera broke him neverthe- onships on Thursday. While The doubles between Lean- top seed Guillermo Canas packing with a less to take away the advantage. the first match of the day saw der Paes and David Rikl masterly display on Friday. In doing so, he Meanwhile, sixth-seeded German Rainer defending champion Guiller- against Simon Aspelin of also exacted a revenge on the Argentinian, Schuettler was also bundled out 6-2, 7-5 by mo Canas sail smoothly Sweden and Jim Thomas of having lost to the same opponent in the semi- Frenchman Jean-Rene Lisnard. Paradorn against Jiri Vanek of the US was the much awaited final of the Tata Open last year. used his powerful serve-and-volley game to Czech Republic, it was a dis- one. It was quite a close Karol Kucera unleashed a barrage of shots beat Armenia’s Sargis Sargsian 6-4 6-4. appointing finish to Mark match with Leander and Rikl from his arsenal on his opponent and being Results: 2-Paradorn Srichaphan (Thailand) beat Sargis Sargsian successful more often than not. (Armenia) 6-4 6-4, 4-Juan Ignacio Chela (Argentina) beat Tomas Philippoussis’s match again- winning it 6-4, 7-5 to make it Behrend (Germany) 6-4 6-3, Karol Kucera (Slovakia) beat 1-Guillermo st Rainer Schuettler. to the quarter-final round. I Kucera lost no time in taking the battle to Canas (Argentina) 6-1 7-5, Jean-Rene Lisnard (France) beat 6-Rainer It was evident that Canas am glad that both Mahesh the enemy,playing Canas at his own baseline Schuettler (Germany) 6-2 7-5. meant business in court and and Leander are playing Harish Tyagi he never let the Czech pose well. GAMEPLAN any real threat to his win- ning plans. Canas won 6-4, 6-2 and has made progress to the quarterfinal where he will play Karol Kucera. I am look- ing forward to this match. The second singles match between Philippoussis and Schuettler was quite disap- pointing. Schuettler was very tactical with his shots and he was sure to win the match as he stuck to his gameplan bril- liantly, never giving Philip- poussis any chance to get back into the match. Though CRPF overcome Air India TIMES NEWS NETWORK locked 1-1 with their op- ponenets till half time, took New Delhi: Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) defeated the lead through two goals by Air India 3-1 to qualify for the Jolen Topno. semifinals of the Chhatrap- Earlier,Kishore Kumar gave ati Shivaji Hockey tourna- Air India the lead in the 6th ment being played here on minute and CRPF’s Mukesh Friday. CRPF, who were equalised in the 27th minute.

TFA goalkeeper Subroto Paul dives to save a corner as Mohammedan Sporting’s Riahjul Mustafa looks on during Durand Cup quarterfinal match at the Ambedkar Stadium on Friday. Tame return for Sporting By Nilankur Das end, the 1-1 draw didn’t do justice to the inex- TIMES NEWS NETWORK perienced TFA boys. New Delhi: Paul Simon could have com- As for Mohammedan Sporting, they posed another of his masterpieces; only this seemed to have forgotten their thinking caps time, the ‘Sound of Silence’ that engulfed the back in the hotel. They failed to do what JCT Ambedkar Stadium on Friday, was ‘deafen- did two days back against the same oppo- ing’. The cause: Mohammedan Sporting, who nents — slow down the game. Instead, they showed up in the Durand Cup after five years, tried to keep up with TFA’s pace and after go- failed to hold on to an early lead against Tata ing out of breath, they tried the bullying tac- Football Academy teenagers. tics. The latter only resulted in skipper Hus- Just a short while ago, the same crowd had sain Mustafi getting the marching orders gone into ruptures when Nigerian Abdula- from SSCB referee Ashokan following his teef Seriki celebrated Sporting’s strong re- second booking. Seriki put Sporting ahead turn to the soccer mainstream. But soon the in the 5th minute and local boy Thapa re- TFA colts got into the groove — short passes, stored parity in the 44th minute. flank movement and sharp, defence-splitting Earlier, in the first match of the day, Vasco runs. The experienced Sporting defence of Sports Club, Goa, who are one of the top Hussain Mustafi, Riahzul Mustafa, Insan Ali favourites in the ongoing NFL, also found the and Amandeep Singh just didn’t know what going quite tough against the gutsy Army XI. had hit them. That the armymen won by just one goal, Coach Mohammed Habib had to push back struck by Bikash Gurung, hardly reflected the his namesake Habib Adekunle as a defensive grip they had on the match. Preetam Bahadur screen. But everything seemed futile against was denied by goalkeeper Rogerio Ramos and the 18-year-olds Malswama, Jerry Jirsangha, the upright; Saroj Gurung, Raghu Kumar and Chitra Sen and Sumit Thapa who swarmed Prabir Debnath were all denied by the keeper the Sporting box, chasing every ball like men and the list of missed chances was endless. (sic) possessed to give the black-and-white Saturday’s matches: PSEB vs Salgaocar (1pm); East brigade unwelcome New Year jitters. In the Bengal vs Air India (3pm). Rishab, Alok advance African pair By Indraneel Das champion Alok Kumar came strikes for Tolly TIMES NEWS NETWORK back from a first frame shock TIMES NEWS NETWORK Jammu: Playing golf at Peb- to record a century break and Bangalore: It was a tactical ble Beach and watching wade his way past young Kan- display of controlled aggres- Michael Schumacher on the ishk Jhanjariya of Madhya sion. The 2-1 scoreline under- F-1 tarmac are his dreams. Pradesh 30-62, 138-0, 68-30, 81- lined this fact as Tollygunge He excelled in sub-junior ten- 8, 67-57 in a late night match. Agragami put up a splendid nis and now plays snooker. With three wins from three performance to have the He is a former junior nation- visits Alok is assured of a scalps of the Hindustan al champion and missed the place in the pre-quarters but Aeronautics Sports Club in flight to Busan by just one needs a win to top Group A. the Oil PSU 7th National point (to Pankaj Advani). No 2 seed Dharmender Lil- Football League encounter One thing is sure, Rishab ly continued his blazing form on Friday. Thukral has all the shots in recording his third win from Kenyan Moses Oira put his reprtoire which make for as many matches when he them ahead in the 21st a champion. Now he is in the beat R Loganathan of Rail- minute with an angled head- hunt for that elusive title in ways 57-36, 64-43, 40-48, 77-39, er. Nigerian Akeem Abolami the senior circuit. 89-12 in a late night match. converted a spot kick mid- The Delhi lad displayed his Earlier in the day, Lilly, way through the second half superb form on the table dur- broke young Pankaj Advani’s for insurance cover. HASC ing the preliminary league winning run with a 4-2 (68-35, pulled one back in injury matches at the 69th National 18-88, 32-93, 66-7, 83-57, 64-57) time as Jagadeesh placed snooker championship here victory. After losing the first home his penalty kick. on Friday.Rishab has pocket- frame the Advani, bugged by a Tollygunge took their ed all three matches till now sore throat and fever, came points tally to 10 from eight back strongly in the second and with one match left he games, having won three, and third, but lost concentra- has already qualified for the drawn one and lost four. tion in the last three frames. pre-quarterfinals after his HASC stay out on four points In Group G, Sandeep Duggal win against Deepak Kamra of with one win, a draw and six and Rupesh Shah have been Uttar Pradesh in four defeats in eight outings. With scratched from the tourna- straight frames 63-5, 60-3, 67- their star striker Ashim ment on disciplinary grounds. 39, 98-9 with a highest break Results: Group A: K Jhanjariya (MP) bt Biswas away in the national of 63 (his highest so far). If he Abhijoy Ghosh (HP) 4-0, Alok Kumar bt. K camp and coach Aloke wins his last match, he will Jhanjariya (MP) 4-1, Abhimanyu Arora (J&K) Mukherjee being drafted in top the Group ahead of Bri- w.o. Group B: Dharmender Lilly (Pun) bt R Loganathan (TN) 4-1, Dharmender Lilly as the assistant coach for the jesh Damani of West Bengal. (Pun) bt Pankaj Advani 4-2. Group C: K same, Tollygunge were rud- ‘‘I’m doing well till now,but Rhometra (J&K) bt Harpreet (HP) 4-1. Group derless. But their confidence hope to do better as the tour- D: Rishab Thukral (Del) bt Deepak Kamra also grew what with the de- (UP) 4-0, B Damani (WB) bt Manav Dhawan nament progresses,’’ Rishab (MP) 4-1. Group E: Varun Taneja (Rly) bt Atul fence manned by Sujit Neogi, said. Predominantly a snook- Chomal (Raj) 4-1, Rafat Habib (Rly) bt Lucky Debkumar Sasmal, Amitava er player, Rishab felt the stan- Vatnani (AP) 4-1. Group F: Shyam Jagtiani Chanda and Dipayan Majum- dard of the game in India had (Rly) bt A Danda 4-3. Group G: Neeraj Kumar w.o. Group H: Rajat Taneja (Del) bt J Ganesh dar giving nothing away. improved considerably. (TN) 4-1, Siddharth Parekh (Rly) bt Rajat Goalkeeper Arindam Ghosh Meanwhile, defending Taneja (Del) 4-1. too did a neat job. For their husbands’ cause t first glance one might wonder as to what ★★★ Atwo attractive ladies are doing at the ven- Everything is available at this secluded ue where even serious billiards fans are found venue — right from an STD booth to a fast missing. Annie Uppal and Ruchika Kumar food joint. And if you can’t digest the food make a unique pair they are at the Hari Niwas then there’s a doctor, too. Dr KS Sethi, a state Palace banquet hall almost every day since the health department medico, is seen tucked in National snooker champi- a corner of the banquet hall onship started. They are no busy diagnosing a complaint ladies players, either. They are TIMES IN JAMMU or two. Though the sport is here with their husbands. An- Indraneel Das considered to be the safest in nie finds snooker boring but is the planet, an occasional mus- happy to be there with husband Anuj Uppal of cle strain cannot be ruled out, either. ‘‘I just Delhi. ‘‘No choice but to watch,’’ is her simple had a couple of muscle strain cases during explanation. ‘‘Getting used to it,’’ she adds the tournament till now,’’ says the jovial doc- with a sweet smile. Ruchika, Alok Kumar’s tor.The most frequent cases he gets are those wife, can’t watch her husband play because of an upset stomach or a viral fever. ‘‘There their two-and-a-half year old kids doesn’t have are few cases of cold and fever, but stomach to patience to sit quietly for long hours. ‘‘You trouble is more common with players be- can’t help it, but it’s nice to have them beside cause of change of food and water,’’ he ex- you,’’ explains Alok. plains.

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The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Saturday,January 4, 2003 17 Rajiv on the comeback trail By Vineeta Pandey jury turned operated my knee again in never even watched it on the TIMES NEWS NETWORK into a grave January 2001 that it started TV. I got into heavy drink- one. In Mil- improving,” said Mishra, ing,” he confessed. New Delhi: Rajiv Mishra. ton Keynes who made his comeback af- It was after a lot of coun- Sirf naam hi kafi hai. The he had ter five years while playing selling that he has picked up player used to say when scored nine for his employers Northern the stick again. “I’m sur- asked about his address in goals and Railway in the Chhatrapati prised you still remember Banaras, five years back. To- his dream at Shivaji hockey tournament. me,” he told this reporter. day, even his neighbours that time Rajiv’s was a striking pres- “But I’m not the same Rajiv hardly remember him as a was to win ence on the field with his Mishra. I have just made the hockey player. the Olympic and Asian lithe body,curly locks and the beginning again and I have a The name got buried in the Games gold medals. But then red bandana. He still has long way to go. I need a phys- history books as new bunch came the injury during the those curls but has put on a ical trainer to bring me back of youngsters grabbed the India-Pakistan series in 1998. lot of weight and has lost a into shape. I also need good limelight after the 2000 Ju- He ignored it and continued. lot of pace. But he feels that medical advisor to guide me. nior World Cup victory. Before long, the injury took a the fact he has picked up the And above all, I need people But Mishra was least both- turn for the worse and Rajiv hockey stick again is an who can show faith in me. ered. The hero of 1997 Junior was operated upon. achievement in itself. “This Trust me, I still have a lot left World Cup’s runners-up Indi- “A battery of tests and then is my first tournament in five in me. It’s just not all over,” an team in Milton Keynes the operation. But nothing years. The injury lead to de- said Mishra as he walked up had unofficially hung quit happened. It was only after pression. I started hating the to join his teammates for a hockey after a freak knee in- Dr Anant Joshi of Mumbai game I loved the most and post-match jogging session. Sriram steers South home By Solomon S Kumar TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hyderabad: He may not have the grace and elegance of a left-hander but one thing that he does posses in ample abun- dance is pluck. Tamil Nadu’s southpaw S Sriram once again showed that he is a great utility man and can deliver the goods whenever needed. Friday was no different as South, chasing 221 for a win against Central in the Prof DB Deodhar Trophy at the Gymkhana ground, were in a spot of bother early on. Losing promising youngsters Rowland Barrington (0) and AT Rayudu (1) with just five on the board was not the kind of a start that the defending champions had envisioned. Hemang Badani (23) and local boy N Arjun Yadav steadied the innings with a 55-run partnership for the third wicket before Badani fell to a brilliant catch, on the second attempt, by Nikhil Chopra at gully off the hard-working Sanjay Pandey. With the overcast sky and windy conditions helping the seamers, there was a certain amount of disquiet in the South camp. But Sriram had other ideas as he hammered the Cen- tral bowlers to all parts of the ground. And with Arjun play- ing the sheet anchor role to perfection, South romped to a sev- en-wicket victory with more than 10 overs to spare and in the bargain gained an additional bonus point. Sriram remained unbeaten on 89 and hit nine fours and a six off left-arm spin- ner Murali Karthik. Arjun was not out on 96 off 128 balls and struck 11 boundaries and a six off off-spinner Nikhil Chopra. Brief scores: Central Zone: 220 (Jyoti Yadav 33, Gagan Khoda 31, Amay Khurasia 81, Balaji 3/36, Ganesh 3/40) South: 221 for 3 (N Arjun Yadav n/o 96, S. Sriram n/o 89, Harvin- der 2/41, Pandey 1/34). SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE INTERNATIONAL: FOOTBALL: Primera Liga: Real Madrid 3 Sevilla 0 MOTOR SPORT: 25th Dakar rally, France - Egypt: Stage 2, Narbonne - Castellon, 43km special Leading cars: 1 Stephane Peterhansel & Jean-Paul Cottret (Fra) 38min 48sec, 2 Giniel De Villiers (Rsa) & Pascal Maimon (Fra) 39:05, 3 Hiroshi Masuoka (Jpn) & Andreas Schulz (Ger) 39:22, 4 Gregoire De Mevius (Bel) & Alain Guehennec (Fra) 39:32, 5 Ari Vatanen (Fin) & Kristina Thorner (Swe) 39:35 Leading bikes: 1 Richard Sainct (Fra) 41min 40sec, 2 Alfie Cox (Rsa) 41:55, 3 Cyril Despres (Fra) 42:17, 4 Joan Roma (Spa) 42:44, 5 Marc Coma (Spa) 42:46 BASKETBALL: National Basketball Asso- ciation: Miami 107 Atlanta 73, New York 95 Toronto 75 TENNIS WTA Classic, Auckland, New Zealand: Quarter-finals: (2) Eleni Daniili- dou (Gre) beat (5) Paola Suarez (Arg) 1-6 6-1 7-6 (7-4), (1) Anna Pistolesi (Isr) beat Jill Craybas (USA) 6-3 6-1, Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Swi) beat Laura Granville (USA) 3-6 6-3 6-4, Yoon-Jeong Cho (Kor) beat Vera Zvonareva (Rus) 7-6 (7-1) 1-6 6-3 Hopman Cup, Perth: Round Robin, Group A (Seedings in parentheses): (4) Belgium bt (8) Uzbekistan 3-0 (Kim Clijsters (Bel) beat Iroda Tulyaganova (Uzb) 6-3 6-2, Xavier Malisse (Bel) beat Oleg Orgorodov (Uzb) 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 6-2, Kim Clijsters & Xavier Malisse (Bel) beat Iroda Tulyagano- va & Oleg Ogorodov (Uzb) 6-1 6-1 Group B: Australia bt Czech Republic 2-1 (Alicia Molik (Aus) beat Daja Bedanova (Cze) 7-6 7-5, Jiri Novak (Cze) beat Lley- ton Hewitt (Aus) 6-2 3-6 6-3, Lleyton He- witt & Alicia Molik (Aus) beat Jiri Novak & Daja Bedanova (Cze) 4-6 7-5 10-4 ATP Championships, Adelaide: 2nd rd: Kristof Vliegen (Bel) beat Arvind Parmar (Gbr) 6-2 6-2, (6) Alberto Martin (Spa) beat Richard Gasquet (Fra) 7-5 6-1, Brian Vahaly (USA) beat Vince Spadea (USA) 7- 6 (7-1) 6-2, Richard Krajicek (Ned) beat Franco Squillari (Arg) 6-4 6-3 WTA Hardcourts, Australia: Quarter-fi- nals: (2) Nathalie Dechy (Fra) bt (8) Bar- bara Schett (Aut) 6-4 6-2, (7) Marie-Ga- iane Mikaelian (Swi) bt Maria Antonia Sanchez-Lorenzo (Spa) 6-4 2-6 6-4, (1) Patty Schnyder (Swi) bt (6) Meghann Shaughnessy (USA) w/o, (4) Elena Bovina (Rus) bt Tathiana Garbin (Ita) 6-1 2-6 6-4 ATP Qatar Open, Doha: Quarters: Stefan Koubek (Aut) bt A. Vinciguerra (Swe) 6-3 6-4, (6) M. Youzhny (Rus) bt F. Vicente (Spa) 7-6 (9-7) 6-3, (3) Younes El Aynaoui (Mor) bt (8) F. Santoro (Fra) 3-6 6-3 6-3, (9) Jan-Michael Gambill (USA) bt (1) Roger Federer (Swi) 6-4 7-5

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Serena settles Name And Fame ready to shine TIMES IN QUEENSTOWN TIMES NEWS NETWORK Pink Squirrel 3. Kitty Bank Plate (div.II): Raul gives Real an Cricketer tourists: A costly call-up: New one little bag down to Queen- score, US 1,200m: 5.30pm: Bin Tin Tin 1, Diamonds New Delhi: Name And Galore 2, St Lucinda 3. Queenstown is the self-styled Zealand allrounder Scott stown in time,’’ Bernie Styris Fame, winner of two races in Prevalence shines: ‘adventure capital of the Styris was delighted to be said. That’s one costly all-up! qualify for final world’ and the Indians seem back in the Blacks Caps impressive start a row, is well poised to com- Prevalence caught the eye in squad. But his folks weren’t High on spirit: Medi- plete a hat-trick in the New the morning test-trials held to be enjoying everything it umpacer Paul Hitchcock Perth (Australia): World has to offer. Skipper Sourav so glad, though were entirely Madrid: Real Madrid started lez got Real off to a good start Millennium Cup, the main on Friday. failed to to make the New number one Serena Williams Ganguly sampled Queen- different reasons. Styris faced the 2003 in impressive fash- with his eighth goal of the event of the Bangalore races Inner-sand: 200m: Prevalence (Ram- Zealand team for World Cup settled a score with Kim Cli- stown’s tourist attractions, a mad scramble, a costly one ion by comprehensively out- season after just nine min- jsters at the Hopman Cup scheduled for Saturday. pravesh) - 10 secs: she should win. Noble at that, to get his gear to — a tournament of a lifetime playing Sevilla and beating utes, the Spanish interna- Nancy (Rampravesh) - 12 secs; easy. Ala- experiencing the thrilling for most. But he is not feeling here on Friday as the United Selections: Subhashnagar Plate: Queenstown from Hamilton the Andalusian visitors 3-0 in tional heading home a Luis nis (PS Inda) - 12 secs: pleased. Divine Shotover River jetboat ride the least bit sorry for himself. States beat Belgium 2-1 to 1,400m: 2.30pm: Predecessor 1, Red Power (rampravesh) - 14 secs: easy. Har- along with his deputy Rahul after being told of his selec- an occasionally fractious Figo cross after shaking off reach the final. Flame 2, Crystal Hill 3. Ashoka Chakra tion in the World Cup team Instead of moping about match on Thursday. his marker Pablo Alfaro and monic Glory (Arif) and 2 Y-O Manaslu Dravid on Thursday. The team cursing his luck, Hitchcock Williams, beaten by Cli- cup: 1,200m: Clear Cut 1, Smart Striker 2, (Narender Kumar) - 13 secs: pair shone. and for the remaining One- The European and world finding the Sevilla goalkeep- also went for a helicopter ride has taken it as a sign he jsters in the WTA Tour Star Clarity 3. Kitty Bank Plate (div.I): Octavia (Shahid) and 2 Y-O Band Baaja dayers late on Wednesday club champions moved up to er Antonio Notario out of po- 1,200m: Royal Heights 1, Rebelwithcause and playing on the snow-cov- needs to work harder if he Championships in Los Ange- (Gulfam) - 12 secs: former caught the eye. night. While he flew to second place in the Spanish sition. Brazilian midfielder 2, Burning Roma 3. New Millennium Cup: Prince Honey (Naheem) - 14 secs: handy. ered peaks. On Friday again, wanted to play again at inter- Queenstown from Wellington first division with 30 points Flavio Conceicao increased les in November, avenged the 1,400m: Name and Fame 1, Ansbach 2, Acacia Blossom (Naheem) - 13 secs: they went boating on the sce- national level. ‘‘It’s a good defeat with a battling on Thursday to rejoin his New from their 15 games and have Real lead in 29 minutes. Taipan 3. Tungabhadra Plate: 1,200m: All moved quite well. 2 Y-O Daring Eagle (N nic Lake Wakatipu. But just Zealand teammates after kick. The selectors have more Rainbows 1, Southern Godess 2, now closed the gap on the un- Zidane couldn’t be kept off women’s singles perform- Singh) - 12 secs: excelled nicely. Shub (RB) one person had the guts to playing for Northern Districts or less said there’s still room ance, winning 7-5, 6-3 in 67 Allespagne 3. RH Charles Memorial and 2 Y-O Super Swift (Ali) - 13 secs: pair try bungee jumping — apna beaten league leaders Real the scoresheet though for the Plate: 1,400m: Zidane 1, Blue Gardenia 2, pleased. a day earlier, his parents for improvement,’’ Hitchcock minutes. Jallandhar de puttar Harbha- Bernie and Heather were hur- said. ‘‘I have to go away and So- entire The Belgians hit back to jan Singh. ‘‘Darna kya hai riedly trying to get his Black be even better when I return. I ciedad game and level at 1-1 when Xavier isme ji,’’ he tells you. ‘‘Maut Caps playing gear down to have to be positive and re- to five he got the Malisse beat James Blake 7-6 aani hai to kabhi bhi aa Queenstown from Hamilton. gard missing out as a minor points. third after (8/6), 6-2 in the second rubber jayegee.’’ ‘‘It’s going to cost $400 to get glitch.’’ Ahmed Abbas Rizvi Raul 73 minutes. at the Burswood Dome. Gonza- AFP Then the Americans clinched victory when they won the decisive mixed dou- bles 7-6 (8/6), 3-6, 10-5 (in a Su- per Tiebreaker). In Satur- day’s final of the AU1$mil- lion (US$540,000) nine-nation mixed teams event, Williams and Blake will line up against Australia’ s world number one Lleyton Hewitt and Alicia Molik. Both countries will be at- tempting to win the crown for the second time. In Friday’s women’s sin- gles, Williams was desperate to atone for her defeat to Cli- jsters in Los Angeles. In re- cent days, the pair had put their own slants on the result of that match. Williams claimed she went down because she was tired after a heavy playing sched- ule had left her drained. AFP

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