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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t pursuit, Pak worship it. Feed it. — Aubrey Eben finds lie on NEWS DIGEST tells America Veerappan aides caught: The police have arrested three aides of east coast Islamabad: The Musharraf Washington told Pakistani government has told the US newspaper Dawn. forest brigand Veerappan, who were By Sanjay Dutta reportedly present during the abduc- military not to enter its terri- ‘‘This means that if a tion of former Karnataka minister H TIMES NEWS NETWORK Fuel future tory without permission, de- situation requires hot pur- Nagappa, in Perambalur district in New Delhi: The east coast fence minister Rao Sikandar suit, it will be done but there Tamil Nadu on Monday. will be the country’s future Big potential Iqbal said on Monday. This will be no angry remarks came a week after a border- from either side, as we saw af- PM on history textbooks: Prime oil and gas bowl, with a po- Andhra and Orissa Minister Atal Bihari tential of supplying up to land skirmish that involved ter the December 29 inci- coast, areas south of American troops. dent,’’ a Washington-based Vajpayee said the seven billion tonnes of oil Rameswaram BJP was not at- and oil equivalent gas, the At the same time, Iqbal diplomat said. tempting to rewrite country’s caretaker of hydro- So far pledged continuing coopera- Pakistan on Sunday had tion with American forces in said it wanted to avoid any textbooks but was carbons assets has said. Gas finds off Andhra fighting terrorism and in repeat of a skirmish with US trying to present ‘‘The big gas finds report- coast 0.5 bn tonnes. the effort to apprehend troops near the Afghan bor- history in the right ed by Reliance and Cairn off 6.5 bn tonnes yet perspective, at a fleeing Al-Qaida and der last month and would co- the Andhra coast have al- function in Mumbai to be tapped. Taliban fugitives in eastern operate more closely to pre- ready borne this out. This is on Monday. P5 Afghanistan. vent miscommunication. just the beginning,’’ director- identify the potential blocks US and Pakistani military On December 29, a Pak- Israel tightens noose: In general of hydrocarbons deep under the seabed,’’ officials have agreed to con- istani border guard shot and response to twin suicide bombing Avinash Chandra told Times Chandra said. tinue the hot pursuit without wounded an American sol- in Tel Aviv, Israel decided on News Network. Chandra said the existing Monday to intensify raids against making their chase public. dier in the head in eastern The two gas finds make up geographical and seismic Iqbal said his defence offi- Afghanistan’s Paktika suspected militants and bar about half a billion tonnes of Palestinian officials from holding data collected over the years cials met representatives of province, very close to Pak- oil equivalent gas and at a key meetings in the West Bank and by ONGC and Oil India Ltd the US military Sunday in istan’s border. abroad. P11 pessimistic estimate, 6.5 bil- showed that the seabed in the the remote region of Angore The shooting prompted lion tonnes more is waiting east was similar to the oil Adda in Pakistan’s North US forces to call in an Gold at 6-yr high: Gold nudged its to be tapped, Chandra said. and gas producing areas off West Frontier Province. airstrike on a building where highest level for six years on Monday India imports 70 per cent the coast of Brazil. in Asia, oil hovered near a two-year ‘‘The US troops have been the guard was believed to of its requirement of 105 ‘‘We needed a new ap- clearly told that next time be hiding. peak and the dollar dipped as signs million tonnes of crude oil proach and to go deep under that the US and Britain were prepar- there will be no violation The US military said the and has 65 mmcmd (million the sea,’’ he said. The satel- ing troops for an attack on Iraq kept from their sides, and building it hit was inside cubic metres per day) of markets volatile. P13 lite mapping was followed that they will not cross our Afghanistan. Islamabad says gas against a demand of with a two-dimensional seis- border from Afghanistan,’’ one bomb landed on its Sachin cleared to play: Sachin 150 mmcmd. mic survey done from spe- Iqbal said. side; it is still examining Tendulkar has been cleared to take Reliance and Cairn have cialised ships. Pakistan President Pervez the matter. Agencies part in the three remaining matches reported seven tcf (trillion Chandra said the east Musharraf and US secretary Comment: The general will of the One-day International series cubic feet) and one tcf gas coast potential will allow In- of state Colin Powell have strike whatever deal he can, against New Zealand. P15 finds, respectively, from two dia to strike harder bargains agreed that troops on the but can he keep this a secret blocks in the Krishna-Go- while importing gas and oil ground would react accord- from the fiercely anti-US reli- davari basin which were auc- as it will narrow the gap ing to the situation but nei- gious parties? At some stage, tioned in 1999 by the govern- between supply and demand ther side would issue state- running with the hare and ment as part of a policy to for fuels. Schoolchildren participating in a Road Safety Week march organised by the Delhi ments without consulting the hunting with the hounds is bring private investment in The government offered Traffic police at India Gate in New Delhi on Monday. other, diplomatic sources in bound to get exhausting. exploration. 100 blocks identified by the The Oil and Natural Gas DGH in three rounds of auc- Corporation (ONGC) too is tioning since 1999. At least 68 working in an adjacent of these were awarded after Cong questions for Deshmukh, Gehlot block and has said it is near bids were received for 73 striking gas. blocks, Chandra said. By Mahendra Ved just back after a short stay in submitted a report recommending makes it that much difficult for the Besides the Andhra coast, Against this, 72 blocks TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai, said on Monday about a change. Congress to act. areas south of Rameswaram were offered before the auc- Maharashtra. Senior leaders Ambika Soni, A recent factor that has come and southwest of Thiru- tioning, bids were received New Delhi: The Congress central In case of Rajasthan, chief min- Pranab Mukherjee and P Shiv into play is the insistence of Na- vananthpuram have been for 13 blocks and only five leadership is under intense ister Ashok Gehlot and PCC chief Shankar comprised the team. tionalist Congress Party chief identified as having huge were awarded. pressure to make changes in Girija Vyas are both sought to be Party sources say K Natwar Sharad Pawar that the Congress potential. The Orissa coast Comment: Energy superpow- the Rajasthan and Maharashtra replaced before the perceived anti- Singh, who has been advising So- should strike a clear pre-poll al- leadership. YOU SAID IT by Laxman too has thrown up a big er in the making or just incumbency factor hurts the par- nia Gandhi on Rajasthan affairs, liance with like-minded parties. potential. gas? Seriously, this has No immediate action, however, ty’s interests in the elections due also favours a change. Comment: Gehlot admittedly is in The cost of identifying the stupendous implications for is being contemplated, say party later this year. As for Maharashtra, this is the a mess, with the state ravaged by blocks? Roughly Rs 18 crore. the country, from national sources — chiefly to ensure that it The three-member Manifesto third time in the last few months drought and a post-Gujarat BJP ‘‘Starting in 1995, we enlisted security to the import bill to does not appear as a knee-jerk re- Implementation Committee of the that pressure has been mounted to closing in for the kill. But can a the services of European and retail prices. Hopefully, this action to the Gujarat debacle. party that visited Jaipur last week, remove Chief Minister Vilasrao mere change of guard guarantee a US satellites that passed over will be the spark that lights ‘‘Nothing is on the cards,’’ ostensibly to review the drought Deshmukh. But the fact that he Congress resurgence? the areas 20 times a year to India’s future. Vayalar Ravi, general secretary, situation, is understood to have heads a multi-party coalition See Edit: Flip-flop Alliance Nagas to seek more powers By Bisheshwar Mishra law and procedure, (iii) adminis- TIMES NEWS NETWORK tration of civil and criminal jus- On the table tice involving decisions according New Delhi: The Isak Swu and Th to the Naga Customary law, (iv) Muivah-led National Socialist What they want ownership and transfer of land Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), The way they are increasing the Scope of special status and its resources....’’ which begins peace talks with the petrol price every other day this widened; reassessment The source said that NSCN-IM is going to prove far more Centre this week, is expected to of the boundaries. No leaders would press for enlarging economical soon! press for the enlargement of the special status for Nagaland under demand for Greater the ‘‘scope of special status under Article 371-A of the Constitution. Nagaland this Article, of course, to mutual Book your Classifieds ‘‘Nagaland would then enjoy Peace hopes satisfaction’’. There was no de- 24 hours service: “51-666-888” more powers than even Jammu mand for the creation of a With Naga tribes ‘‘Greater Nagaland’’ in the NSCN- Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” and Kashmir, which enjoys a spe- accepting NSCN-IM as IM proposal, the source claimed. The ATM of information cial status under Article 370. This their representative in The government has been talk- The Largest Classifieds Site is because Article 370 is only a temporary provision, while Article negotiations, there are ing to various rebel groups in Na- 371-A is a special provision,’’ a hopes of a breakthrough. galand for more than three highly-placed source in the gov- decades. But this is the first time WEATHER ernment said on Monday. tant Opposition leaders. that a sustained initiative, accom- The three-member NSCN-IM Nagaland already enjoys special panied by a ceasefire agreement Max. 15oC/ Min. 5oC team comprising Swu, Muivah and status under Article 371-A, which with the largest insurgent group, Moonset: Tuesday — 2205 hrs Rai Sing after arriving here on ensures that ‘‘no Act of Parliament the NSCN-IM, since August 1997, Moonrise:Wednesday — 1108 hrs Wednesday will meet Prime Minis- shall apply to Nagaland in relation has succeeded in changing the ven- Sunset: Tuesday — 1739 hrs ter Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Deputy to ‘‘(i) religious or social practices ue of talks from outside the coun- Sunrise: Wednesday — 0715 hrs PM L K Advani and other impor- of the Nagas, (ii) Naga customary try to New Delhi. Fog till forenoon. Cold day. Mainly clear sky. Minimum temperature will be around 5oC. Maximum relative humidity on Monday 97 per cent and minimum 67 per cent. Coed plazas to check DU eve-teasing indiatimes.com POLL By Pallavi Majumdar paths and benches. The university is The university has taken care of TIMES NEWS NETWORK making provision for parking space many small details: The plaza will be Yesterday’s results: Do you think dual on the parameters. a barrier free zone for the disabled, citizenship for NRIs can bring them New Delhi: Delhi University is con- closer to the Indian mainstream? The other plaza will be near the there will be a drainage system to verting two areas in the heart of the botanical gardens and will be called harvest rain water, and adequate campus into plazas where its young Yes 68% No 32% the Plaza Botanica. It won’t have lighting. ‘‘With the area well lit, it men and women can interact freely sculptures, but there will be engrav- will automatically securitise itself,’’ • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose without being harassed. to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. ings of rare plants in sandstone. It Nayyar added. ‘‘Universities are also about open will be very green and will lead up to The university will also use stan- Today’s question: Do you agree with Infos- spaces that are well lit and allow in- the botanical garden. dard signages in the plaza, to be ys chief Narayana Murthy that subsidy on teraction without fear,’’ vice-chan- higher education should be scrapped? The two plazas, designed by archi- replicated elsewhere in the campus, cellor Deepak Nayyar said. For as tect Pradeep Sachdeva of the Dilli he added. Cast your vote on many old timers would remember, Haat fame, are being financed and No posters will be allowed except www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 the only place one could take out done up by the Delhi Development on a designated wall at the entrance. one’s girlfriend to was the old coffee Authority. And if things go the way A Student Activities Centre is also house. the university wants, the two plazas coming up adjacent to this plaza. One of the plazas will be located will be ready by end of this year. ‘‘This could add the final touch to between the Arts Faculty and the Nayyar said the university was the plaza and become a student hub Central Library. The Vivekanand also trying to clean up the facades of in its own right,’’ officials feel. The statue which exists there will be in buildings in the area. It has already centre will house a gymnasium, the centre of this plaza which will be got funds from the Delhi govern- reading room, food court, common called University Plaza. ment for restoration of the Arts Fac- room, book shop, cyber cafe and an * 18 + 6 pages of Delhi Times There will be sculptures, paved ulty building. open amphitheatre.

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2 Tuesday,January 7, 2003 Entertainm ent: Best of Delhi T imes The Times of India, New Delhi Manoj Kesharwani Dog language is a hit A computerised gadget to help canine owners under- ? stand their dog’s needs has To chat on SMS send 'cchat' to 8888 proved an immediate hit after going on sale in Tokyo. “I will try to make it to “Andre Agassi is the Bowlingual comprises an the top 15 this year” toughest opponent” eight cm microphone to be — JUAN IGNACIO CHELA, — SARGIS SARGSIAN, attached to a dog collar, Tennis Player Tennis Player which transmits sounds to a Q: Which aspects Q: Coming from a of your game did small country like you work on to Armenia, how reach the ATP difficult was it for ranking of 23?-Ur you to reach where A: Besides improving on you are today?-Purnoo every aspect of my game, I A: It wasn’t very easy worked very hard on my because, there was no serve and volley. idol from Armenia and Q: What’s the goal for people didn’t have 2003?-Darini confidence in me which A: I want to win tournaments was the hardest part. like the Super Nine or may Q: Who has been your be even the grand slam toughest opponent?-Abhi title. I will try to make it to A: It’s Andre Agassi. I’ve the top 15 this year. played him four times and I Q: Which player do you think he’s the toughest. admire the most?-Dubaiman For complete chat log on to A: I like Pete Sampras. http://chat.indiatimes.com CHATTING LIVE ON INDIATIMES TODAY Ritesh Deshmukh Actor palm-sized console. The On his debut film Tujhe Meri Kasam and console immediately future plans for his acting career LIVE, 6 pm classifies the sounds into six FOR WHOM THE FLAME BURNS: Delhi Times tests the temperature of this season’s saree sizzle as yoga instructor Mini Thapar blows hot in a emotional categories: Manish Malhotra creation (To send this photograph to a friend, log on to www.timescity.com/delhi/) frustration, menace, joy, sorrow, demand and self- expression. It then shows Japanese language phrases Manish Malhotra: Dressing up Delhi! to fit the emotional state, such as ‘‘I am sad. I want to By Vinod Nair it had to happen. Mumbai is like to feel both young and dressing up the stars and de- wood, I thought of designing play’’ and ‘‘I am super angry. TIMES NEWS NETWORK not enough. To Delhi, it is. young-at-heart,’’ he ex- signing for the movies for so for people other than film I am going to explode!’’ ‘‘Around four years back, I plains, ‘‘So, my creations — many years, Manish finally stars. I started with Yash Retailers in Tokyo say the It had to happen. Manish checked out the retail essentially Indo-westerns — set his eyes on more regular and Avanti Birla and, subse- gadget is in great demand. Malhotra’s rising star has Harumi Ogishima, spokes- market and liked what I saw. bear a young and funky look people just four years ago. quently, supplied to Sheetal left many green with envy. Still, I wanted to test the The hottest actresses in woman for Hakuhinkan toy in Mumbai.’’ Between the sketch-book on waters on my home turf in DESIGNER DIARY showbiz might sling from store in Tokyo, said, ‘‘We his car seat and the racks of Mumbai before branching his creative satchel, but Next stop: Carma in Del- sold out of the ones that we upmarket Mumbai stores out,’’ says Manish, ‘‘Delhi, with lots of shades and Manish would rather not be hi. So, where does he go from had today.We have received where he showcases his where I will retail at Carma, colours.’’ straitjacketed as a Bolly- here? ‘‘Back to work!’’ Yes, a number of phone calls collections, this couturier marks a progression of my Shades. Colours. Bollywo- wood-only designer. ‘‘I have the man who believes in from customers all day has sandwiched a clientele plans.’’ od. It’s been a 12-year-long always been a costume de- fashioning his future is a about Bowlingual, and we which reads like a who’s Clothes make the man? affair to remember in Man- signer,’’he offers, ‘‘Once I es- busy man. will start selling the product who of beautiful women. So, ‘‘My clothes are like me. I ish’s case. So much so, after tablished myself in Bolly- [email protected] again as soon as we can get another shipment.’’ ‘The audience is always Whodunnit? All roads receptive to a good actor’ lead to 88 Antop Hill! What inspired you to make supposed to be my debut film. younger lot, I feel that Farhan your acting debut in In any case, 2002 was a bad Ahktar is good. By Pankaj Kapoor lkar (Rahul) arrives at 88 Antop Hill, he feels Bollywood? year for Bollywood in that not Which are your forthcom- TIMES NEWS NETWORK that perhaps, this time round, his instincts I decided to try my hand at too many films did well at ing films? might not be right. Three murders, six suspects, one address. acting around three years ago, the box-office. Yet, I believe As of now, there are two films ‘‘I play common man — a guy working in a That’s 88 Antop Hill for you — a movie made after I left my show Sa Re Ga that if one is a good actor, the in the pipeline — Kaash Aap bank who gets a phone call in the middle of by Kushan Nandy which begs to be ‘different’. Ma Pa. Although I signed up audience will be receptive — Hamare Hote, which is slated the night which sends him scurrying to 88 An- Starring Rahul Dev, Atul Kulkarni, Shweta for Kaash Aap Hamare Hote irrespective of whether one is for a January release, and Ra- top Hill,’’ says Atul Kulkarni, who shot to Menon and Suchitra Pillai, opposite Juhi Babbar first, jat Mukherjee’s Love fame with his role in Chand- shot in 47 days and could be Jaani Dushman is my launch- SONU NIGAM In Nepal. I would like ni Bar and will also be seen one of the first ‘different’ ing pad. Singer & Actor to gauge the reaction in Madhur Bhandarkar’s films of 2003. Antara Mali Do you feel that Jaani On his future of the audience Satta, ‘‘Each character in Dushman will establish you in filmdom to these two films So how different is ‘differ- the plot has a secret —and shows her in films? before taking on any ent’? Well, 88 Antop Hill is this makes the unveiling of Jaani Dushman was never more projects. being billed as an edge-of- the storyline really com- class Will you continue the-seat kind of thriller plus plex.’’ Shweta Menon, who to divide your time murder mystery in which has been seen in dance She finally made it WEATHER between TV and everything revolves around numbers in Hindi films, into the big league films? the address. The film, in plays a sex-worker named this year. With turn, is about six people Rain or snow is likely to occur I have been ap- MOVIE MYSTERY Teesta who has no guilt Company and Road, at isolated places in Jammu proached to host a who land up at 88 Antop Hill about her profession. But Antara Mali and Kashmir. Rain or thunder- launched via a multi-starrer or show on the lines of Kisme (where else?) for one reason when one of her customers proved that she showers are likely to occur or the other.Enter the twist. at isolated places in Andaman and Nicobar a solo-hero project. I am honest Kitna Hai Dum, for which I am wants something more than can not only act Islands, south Tamil Nadu, south Kerala to my work. At the same the anchor. But I would rather One that fateful night, a just a one-night stand, they but also look and Lakshadweep. Mainly dry weather will murder is committed. great. What prevail over the rest of the country. time, I will not be seen in stay away from the small head to, again, 88 Antop Hill. typical masala films any screen to avoid overexposure. ‘‘I portray a policeman in ‘‘If there is one thing I am more could a the film,’’ reveals Rahul Dev, film maker ask Indian Cities World Cities more. I want to do meaningful How passionate are you sure of, it is that nobody will cinema. about your singing career? who essays the role of be able to guess who the for? Antara is Max Min Max Min Arvind Khanvilkar in 88 shooting for Delhi 15 05 Who are the film-makers Very passionate! I have teamed murderer in 88 Antop Hill Amsterdam 07 05 Antop Hill, ‘‘It’s a role with a films like Anurag Mumbai 33 23 Bahrain 24 18 you want to work with? up with American singer is,’’ says Rahul, ‘‘I am look- Chennai 30 22 Bangkok 32 23 I would definitely like to work Reggie Benjamin, who is hot difference in that I play an ing forward to the release of the film.’’ As is, Kashyap’s Gulal and Kolkata 23 12 Beijing 06 -04 with Yash Chopra, Shyam property on the US pop charts. honest policeman who has an eye discerning of course, the audience. After all, having Main Bhi Madhuri Bangalore 29 15 Chicago 01 -07 enough to separate the innocent from the come to expect the expected from Bollywood, Dixit Banna Chahti Ahm’bad 29 15 Geneva 06 03 Benegal, Govind Nihalani, We will come out with an T’puram 33 25 Hong Kong 27 23 Prakash Jha, Mira Nair and album titled Ex-Centric. guilty and a determination not to rest till a there are 88 reasons to visit Antop Hill! Hoon which should be Bhopal 25 09 London 10 05 Deepa Mehta. Among the Manisha Almadi case is solved.’’ Unfortunately, when Khanvi- [email protected] released this year.

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CITY DIGEST West district to 2 held with poppy husk: Two Heftier fines sought for auto drivers persons were arrested and 22 kg of poppy husk was recovered from TIMES NEWS NETWORK terrents,’’ said Maken. chief secretary, food and supplies against them,’’ he said. As of now an auto driver has to commissioner and transport com- Till now the enforcement de- them by Vasant Kunj police on Satur- New Delhi: To make its drive improve policing pay only Rs 100 if he misbehaves missioner. partment has impounded about day. The police said the accused, against errant autorickshaws Radhey Shyam and Gajja Saini, both or refuses to drive passengers. If ‘‘We will step up our efforts to 300 autos that have been kept at TIMES NEWS NETWORK has been approximately 99 more effective, the Delhi state gov- residents of Kotputli (Rajasthan), the driver repeats the offence the catch autos that do not follow Burari. Before releasing an im- per cent, while over 70 per ernment plans to amend the Motor New Delhi: In the year 2003, were caught by the picket staff post- fines go upto Rs 200 and Rs 300 for rules. We will release the vehicles pounded auto, the original owner cent of the cases have been Vehicles Act and increase the fine the west district police plans ed at Rajokri border. The two were the second and third time, respec- only to the original owners and if of the auto would be asked to initi- solved,’’ he said. ten times. to emerge as a ‘‘sensitive po- travelling in a Rajasthan Roadways tively. they don’t turn up, we will not re- ate the procedure for permit trans- He laid emphasis on rou- Delhi state transport minister lice’’, addressing issues bus when they were caught during ‘‘Till now both the transport de- lease the autos,’’ Maken said. fer. ‘‘This would help us in updat- tine problems, including which affect the common vehicle check. The accused were Ajay Maken told The Times of In- partment and the Delhi traffic po- He said since several autos had ing our data and get the correct problems of encroachment, man. From instilling a sense carrying the contraband to Punjab, dia on Monday,‘‘We held a meeting lice were receiving complaints been clandestinely sold, the de- names and addresses,’’ he said. auto-rickshaw menace, blar- of security among the resi- where it is a popular intoxicant with joint commissioner of police from people individually. But now partment would bring out adver- The government is also plan- ing of loudspeakers during among truck drivers. A case under dents to checking petty (traffic) Maxwell Pereira and have we have decided to combine our ef- tisements in newspapers quoting ning to reverse a 1996 cabinet deci- late night functions, unau- NDPS Act has been registered. jointly decided to intensify the forts and amalgamate the figures registration number of impound- sion that allowed a person to pur- crimes, the west Delhi police will do it all. thorised parking, cases of Self-defence classes: The Crime drive against autorickshaws.’’ that each department generates,’’ ed vehicles so that the original chase unlimited number of au- burglaries, thefts and auto- ‘‘We will write to the Union sur- Maken added. owners could voluntarily attend torickshaws. ‘‘Prior to this cabinet The district police propos- Against Women (CAW) cell will be es to adopt a sensitive ap- lifting.’’ conducting a two-week self defence face transport ministry,asking for The transport department has the proceedings. ruling, a person could only pur- proach in dealing with com- The DCP added that such training programme on a regular ba- an amendment in the Act to en- also made its norms of releasing ‘‘Despite the advertisements, if chase one vehicle but then the lim- plainants, particularly in problems directly concerned sis for women and girls. The self-de- hance the fines. The increased impounded vehicles harsher. The the owners still do not show up, it was withdrawn. We plan to bring cases related to crime the local residents and help- fence training will be for two hours fines would be more effective de- meeting was also attended by the strict action would be initiated it back into effect,’’ he said. ing them will actually realise daily between 12 noon and 2 pm against women. Since securi- ty is the basic need of every the goals of community and will be imparted at the crime policing. (women) cell at Nanakpura, New resident, a special task force will be constituted to check The west district took lead Delhi. Interested women and girls Metro magic dazzles little commuters in launching the area polic- can contact Nirmal Verma, ACP crimes that affect the lives of ing plan, an innovative con- (CAW), Nanakpura, on telephone By Anuradha Mukherjee Neelabh local residents. That a ticket for pled with a child’s next 10 minutes of the journey. cept comprising three ingre- No. 26883650. TIMES NEWS NETWORK Deputy commissioner of Kashmiri Gate fascination with Delhi Metro Rail Corporation dients — element of sur- costs Rs 7 and the trains actually police (west) Dependra Woman raped: A 30-year-old New Delhi: Twelve-year-old Navin (DMRC) chief spokesperson Anuj prise, decentralisation and woman was allegedly gangraped by journey takes only turns the ride into Pathak spelt out these focus lives in a tenement near ISBT Dayal said this was due to the tac- community participation. It three persons in Vasant Kunj on Sat- 12 minutes was an unforgettable areas at the annual confer- Kashmiri Gate. Every morning he tic adopted by the corporation. was also the first to launch urday night. The police said the vic- something he did- experience. ence where he claimed that boards a bus to reach his school in ‘‘We targeted schoolchildren in a self-defence workshops in ed- tim lives with her children in a slum n’t know. ‘‘I can And Navin was the proactive policing in the Shahdara. Navin pays Rs 7 for a big way during the education drive ucational institutions for cluster in Bhanwar Singh Camp near take the Metro not the only child district, significant catches single journey. On days when he immediately before the services women. Seeing a rise in Kusumpur Pahari. She alleged that every day,’’ he smitten by the sys- and encounters has helped does not get a direct bus, he ends started,’’ he said. ‘‘We gave them crime against women, the lo- three residents of her locality raped said, the idea fi- tem. As the train change the image of ‘‘wild literature about the system and cal police also organised gen- her. Raju, a driver, who lives with the up spending up to Rs 10. Not a nally sinking in. prepared for an- west’’ to a ‘‘reformed west’’. victim, had slept in the neighbour’s mean sum for a mason’s son. asked them to visit the Metro with The DCP said: ‘‘The dis- der workshops. Once inside, other trip to Tis their parents,’’ he added. house that night. He is absconding. Navin’s school starts at 7 am and Navin’s curiosity Hazari, excite- trict takes pride in being the The district police propos- According to rough estimates, Power supply: Power supply will he boards a bus an hour earlier. ‘‘I was like that of ment was writ best among the nine districts, es to start programmes pol- about 30 per cent of the com- be affected on Tuesday from 10 am still get late sometimes,’’ he said. any other child large on the faces when it comes to total crime ishing the inter-personal muters are children. And the chil- to 4 pm in Shakarpur, Laxmi Nagar, For him the Metro was forbidden boarding the train of children in the detection in the city.’’Figures skills of usually blunt police- Preet Vihar, Vivek Vihar, Geeta territory. ‘‘I don’t have the money for the first time. coach. ‘‘Mummy, dren are not only excited about the show the west district regis- men. ‘‘The pitch, tone and Colony, Saurabh Vihar, Yamuna Vi- to pay for it. And I don’t think they The automatic yeh train apne aap trains, but also they are more par- tered about 6,820 Indian Pe- professional acumen of the har, Kailash Nagar, blocks E and F will let me in,’’ he explained, as he fare collection ma- chalti hai kya?’’ ticular about the dos and don’ts on nal Code (IPC) cases upto De- local policemen at the lower Krishna Nagar and district court stood outside the Shahdara sta- chines, the escala- asked Rajan (6). the Metro. cember 31 this year as rung will be toned down, par- Karkardooma. tion, trying to catch a glimpse of tors, and the automatic doors, cou- Rajan’s queries continued for the Maybe there is still hope for against 7,238 of last year. ticularly while dealing with the train. Delhi. ‘‘The total crime detection women,’’ Pathak said. Drunk ASI beats son to death TIMES NEWS NETWORK edly had an altercation with of a government school in his step mother Pooja (30),’’ Baba Haridas Colony. New Delhi: An assistant said deputy commissioner of Kapoor was separated sub-inspector of the Delhi police (southwest) Tejinder from his first wife, Lajwanti, Police allegedly beat his Luthra. ‘‘She complained in 1999. He had three sons, in- teenaged son to death in about this to Kapoor when he cluding Kuldeep, and a southwest Delhi on Sunday came home in an inebriated daughter by his first wife. La- night. The 14-year-old boy, state,’’ he said. jwanti lives with her broth- Kuldeep, succumbed to head Luthra said the ASI took ers, while Kapoor lives with injuries inflicted by his fa- Kuldeep to a room on the the Pooja to whom he is not mar- ther, the police said. first floor and beat him up. ried. He has two sons by The police said Raj Kapoor, He later threatened his chil- Pooja. an ASI with the police con- dren and wife not to discuss ‘‘Besides a case of murder, trol room of New Delhi dis- the issue. a case of bigamy is also being trict, beat his son at their res- The boy was found dead in registered since Kapoor’s idence in Jharaoda Kalan, the morning. The police said marriage with Pooja is not le- Najafgarh.‘‘Kuldeep report- the boy was a Class 7 student gal,” Luthra said. Shivani case transferred to sessions court TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, in which suspended IPS officer Ravi Kant Sharma is the main accused, has been transferred to the session court for trial. After finding all the docu- ments have been supplied to the lawyers of each accused and that there was no dis- crepancy in them, metropoli- tan magistrate J P Narain fixed January 18 as the date for taking up the matter be- fore an additional sessions judge. Apart from Sharma the other accused in the case are Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash, Sri Bhagwan, Ved Prakash Sharma and Ved alias Kalu. The Delhi Police has charged them with conspira- cy and the murder of Shivani Bhatnagar in her east Delhi flat on January 23, 1999.

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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER Pvt contractors to catch stray cattle OF DELHI Rain or snow is likely to occur at isolated places in TIMES NEWS NETWORK missioner to draft an incen- their owners. The civic Jammu and Kashmir. Rain or thundershowers are NATIONAL tive-based policy to rope in agency fines the owner Rs likely to occur at isolated places in Andaman and New Delhi: The Delhi Mu- Mumbai: I-A 0700, Nicobar Islands, south Tamil Nadu, south Kerala private contractors. ‘‘A pri- 1,400 for every cow it catches 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, nicipal Corporation (MCD) 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, and Lakshadweep. vate contractor may catch straying in residential areas. 2300 Jet Air 0650, Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country. on Monday decided to hire 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, private contractors to catch more animals if he is offered He said he would write to 1935, 2030, 2200, incentives,’’ he said. the police commissioner and Sahara 0700,1800, 2015 INDIA WORLD stray cattle on city roads. KOLKATA: I-A 0700, They are also asking the po- The MCD rounded up close work out a joint strategy. ★★ Max Min Max Min Max Min 1600 ,1700,1945 Amsterdam 07 05 lice to arrest owners of these to 8,500 stray cattle last year. MCD commissioner Jet Air 0600, 1720, Delhi 15 05 Guwahati 24 11 Sahara0705,1915 Mumbai 33 23 Dehradun 19 06 Bahrain 24 18 cattle. Out of these 6,500 were sent Rakesh Mehta said animals CHENNAI: I-A Chennai 30 22 Hyd’bad 30 14 Bangkok 32 23 During a discussion, to cow sheds run by the Delhi not claimed by their owners 0640,0955★★★ Kolkata 23 12 Indore 26 13 Beijing 06 -04 1645,1900 Jet Air Bangalore 29 15 Jaipur 20 09 Chicago 01 -07 leader of the House Ram state government and others within three days of their 0645,1900 Ahm’bad 29 15 Lucknow 13 05 Geneva 06 03 Babu Sharma asked the com- were released after fining capture were sent to sheds. BANGALORE: T’puram 33 25 Patna 14 10 Hong Kong 27 23 I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 25 09 Rajkot 31 17 London 10 05 Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 30 14 Shimla 15 07 Los Angeles 21 09 Sahara 0715, 1745 Pune 30 13 Srinagar 13 -05 Moscow -06 -12 Delhi to get HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 GOA: I-A 1200, Sahara 1135 TRAIN RESERVATIONS KULU: Jagson 0630, more power 0650, 1215 ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on 06.01.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. 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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Tuesday,January 7, 2003 5 PM kickstarts Congress leader RSS-run NGO We’re not rewriting Dual citizenship shot dead Ahmedabad: A Congress leader was shot dead by three for training motorcycle-borne assailants history, says Vajpayee similar to PIO outside a temple in Daman politicians By Aunohita Mojumdar nied to the dual citizens. on Monday morning. TIMES NEWS NETWORK and as regards the CM, they than 50 years after Indepen- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Dual citizens will not be Kalidas Fakir was killed TIMES NEWS NETWORK did not know why he did not dence, we have not been able entitled to be inducted into when he was coming out of Mumbai: Prime Minister turn up. to wipe out illiteracy from New Delhi: Dual citizen- Uttan (Bhayandar) (Ma- the civil services of the the Jalaram Temple in Bhim- Atal Bihari Vajpayee main- Deshmukh, however, at- the country.’’ ship may be a politically harashtra): Prime Minister states or the Union or in pur area around 9:00 a.m. tained on Monday that the tended a seminar on forensic He said government efforts loaded word, but the rights Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Mon- any sensitive organisa- said the police. The 70-year- BJP-led coalition govern- medicine, inaugurated by to improve education were and benefits of such a citi- day dedicated to the nation a tions in Army. old Congress leader was in ment at the Centre was not Deputy Prime Minister L K hampered by lack of re- zen are likely to be more RSS-run non-governmental Economic rights have al- liquor business. attempting to rewrite history Advani at Kalina, which was sources. ‘‘Illiteracy has come symbolic than substantive. organisation (NGO) which ready been extended to the All exit points in the town textbooks, but only present- organised by the govern- down, but after so many The model of dual citi- will ‘‘train those who are PIO, including the right to have been barricaded.PTI ing history in the ‘‘right per- ment. years of Independence, peo- zenship — proposed by the keen on a political career’’. acquire, hold, transfer and spective’’. A spokesperson for the CM ple shouldn’t have to put high level committee on Speaking at the function to dispose of immovable The Prime Minister said said though Deshmukh re- their thumb prints instead of the Indian diaspora — is dedicate the Rambhau Mhal- properties in India except here children should get the ceived the invitation from their signatures,’’ Vajpayee only marginally different gi Prabodhini Training Com- agricultural/plantation correct picture of India’s his- the education society he did said. from the Person of Indian plex (RMPTC) to the nation properties. The same will tory. ‘‘For years, they have not accept it. When pointed Moreover, government ef- Origin (PIO) scheme. at this Mumbai suburb, Vaj- be with dual citizenship. misinterpreted history,’’ he out that normally the CM forts had to be supplemented Apart from the right of payee said that ‘‘even though ‘‘Most of the things are said, adding that his govern- took part in all non-political with those from other sectors continuous residence — we have accepted that the given in the PIO card,’’ ment’s attempts to correct it functions attended by the as well, Vajpayee said. under which PIOs have to government’s powers should says secretary, NRI/PIO, J were met with criticism. PM, the spokesperson said Staing that determination register themselves in the be decentralised, we see that C Sharma. The one major Governor Mohammed protocol only demanded that and patriotism were needed Foreigners Regional Regis- the process of decision-mak- difference will be the abili- Fazal and chief minister Vi- the chief minister receive to ensure progress in the tration Office (FRRO) if ing is narrowing down to ty to settle back in India. lasrao Deshmukh were con- and see off the PM. However, country, he said ‘‘When I see they stay continuopusly fewer and fewer people’’. Very few persons will be spicuous by their absence. government sources said Indians working well outside for 180 days — there is lit- ‘‘If people enter politics entitled to dual citzenship While the governor was to Deshmukh did not want to be the country, I wonder why tle to distinguish the L M from the Indian diaspora. untrained and inexperienced preside over the function, the associated with a function or- they don’t do so here,’’ Vaj- in the affairs of the state, lok- Singhvi proposal of dual The right of dual citizen- CM was to be the guest of ho- ganised by pro-RSS elements. payee said. He added tongue- citizenship. ship should be restricted tantra (democracy) would nour. The organisers, Swami Speaking on the occasion, in-cheek that it could be be- give way to jadshashan (un- Political rights are de- to those who have acquired Vivekanand Education Soci- Vajpayee said, ‘‘It was a mat- cause of the different atmos- nied to PIOs and will be de- foreign citizenship. responsive administration),’’ ety, said Fazal was unwell ter of regret that even more phere. Vajpayee warned. Vajpayee complimented AFP the RMPTC for being the first such effort to train those keen on a political career. The RMP training centre is intended primarily as ‘‘a training ground for the Sangh Parivar activists’’, though it is also open to cor- porates and other organisa- tions for their human re- source development pro- grammes. Vajpayee recollected how former BJP MP Rambhau Mhalgi was snubbed by then Congress minister Y B Cha- van that planning was not the job of the Jana Sangh. With the launch of the first such centre to train political activists, ‘‘nobody will com- plain that planning is not the business of the Sangh,’’ he quipped. On the dais along with Vaj- payee and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani were Union IT minister and RMP president Pramod Mahajan, BJP national vice-president Gopinath Munde, director- general of RMP Vinay Sa- hasrabuddhe, treasurer Prat- Prime Minister Vajpayee lights an oil lamp on Monday while inaugurating the Vivekanand Ed- apbhai Asher, and others. ucation Society’s Hashu Advani Memorial Complex in Mumbai. Congress unsure Jaitley advises Cong to about poll alliances learn from Gujarat loss TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK Jaitley said: ‘‘If the Congress still New Delhi: With elections due in nine maintains that because these in- more states this year, the Congress ap- New Delhi: The BJP on Monday de- stances took place during the BJP pears keen to shed its ‘‘go it alone’’ stand scribed the Congress’ criticism of it for tenure, it must be held responsible, with regard to forging poll alliances and using Hindutva as a poll plank as an then this logic would dictate that the seat adjustments with other parties. At ‘‘exercise in self-deception’’. Congress take responsibility for Indira the same time, it is keen not to be seen as Responding to the Congress Work- and Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination .’’ being forced to do so after its Gujarat de- ing Committee resolution passed on Earlier, Jaitley announced that par- bacle. Sunday,party spokesperson Arun Jait- ty president Venkaiah Naidu had con- Does this mark a shift from the party’s ley said: ‘‘While the Congress resolu- stituted a 13-member election manage- ‘‘stand-alone’’ resolve arrived at over four tion has sought to hairsplit between ment and campaign committee for the years ago at Pachmarhi in Madhya Hinduism and Hindutva, it has failed assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh? Party sources insist there is no to introspect on its own serious lapses Pradesh. The committee is headed by shift from the basics. in the Gujarat campaign.’’ Hindutva Union minister Shanta Kumar but his ‘‘You can say we are ‘revising’ Pach- was never used by the BJP, he main- chief critic, chief minister P K Dhu- marhi, just the way we do from time to tained, in the context of religiosity but mal, has been made a member in a bid time, state to state,’’ a party office-bearer, in the larger context of culture and as to forge unity in the state unit. not willing to be identified, told Times defined by the Supreme Court. Other members include party MP News Network. He said the Congress had consistent- from Mandi Maheshwar Prasad Singh, The readiness to align with others was ly maintained that terrorism was not a who has been appointed co-convener of discussed at Sunday’s Congress Working poll issue but had now suddenly re- the committee, and presidents of the Committee meeting, but it did not form alised the virtues of making it an is- four frontal organisations at the state part of the resolution. It was left to sue. ‘‘The Congress maintains the BJP level — Vikram Singh Thakur of Yuva spokesman S Jaipal Reddy to give expres- is responsible for the attacks on Parlia- Morcha, Veena Thakur of the Mahila sion to the party’s thinking under the ment, Akshardham, Raghunath Morcha, Virendra Kashyap of the current circumstances. He talked of the Mandir and Godhra (violence). The Scheduled Caste Morcha and Subhash party having ‘‘an open mind, subject, of Congress is diluting Pakistan’s respon- Thakur of the Kisan Morcha. All MPs course, to reasonable appreciation of sibility in some of these acts through from the state and state unit office- ground realities’’. such irresponsible statements.’ bearers make up the other members. Nuclear command Counter terrorism structure will take with tech: Advani TIMES NEWS NETWORK for reforms so that justice Mumbai: ‘‘Terrorism has would not be delayed. months to be in place got a new edge because of Justice (retd) V S Mali- buddhibal (intellect) and we math, chairperson of the By Rajat Pandit Technology Vessel (ATC) need to counter it by using committee on reform of the TIMES NEWS NETWORK project, and the quest for a the latest technology,’’ criminal justice system, said submarine-launched bal- Deputy Prime Minister L K he would submit the report New Delhi: The govern- listic missile Sagarika Advani said here on Monday. to the Centre by March 31. ment may have announced ‘‘are still years away from Addressing the 14th All In- Malimath said criminals the formation of a Strate- completion,’’ said a de- dia Forensic Science Confer- were going scot-free because gic Forces Command to fence official. ence, Advani stressed on the oral evidence needed for con- manage the country’s nu- The 2,000-km-plus ballis- need for scientists and law- victing them was drying up. clear assets but it will take tic missile ‘Agni-II’ and the enforcers to join the forces ‘‘Crime has become so low- months for an effective ‘Prithvi’ tactical surface- against terrorism. risk that it is a profitable structure to be set up. to-surface missile, with a Advani spoke on the need business,’’ he remarked. An operational nuclear strike range of 150 km and weapon triad, with land, a one-tonne warhead, are air and sea-based plat- the only two land-based op- forms, can only come up in tions available. another few years. ‘‘It will take a year,if not Experts say the most ef- more, for the Pakistan-spe- fective arm of the nuclear cific 700-km ballistic mis- triad is the one which sile ‘Agni-I’ to be inducted. moves silently under the The IAF,of course, has air- sea — a submarine capable craft like Mirage-2000, of launching nuclear- Sukhoi-30MKI and tipped missiles. Jaguars, which can be con- This becomes all the figured to deliver nuclear more important for a coun- weapons,’’ said an official. try like India which has a Defence officials say the declared ‘‘no-first use’’ pol- groundwork for the tri- icy and should, hence, service SFC, which will have a credible second- primarily be based in Cen- strike capability ‘‘to inflict tral India, will begin once unacceptable damage’’ on the notification for its first the adversary. commander-in-chief (like- But the indigenous proj- ly to be Air Marshal T M ect to build a nuclear sub- Asthana) is issued in the marine, the Advanced next few days.

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Reuters Cabinet expansion in J&K next week Kolkata’s brave policeman is no more TIMES NEWS NETWORK sy, Trinamul Congress chief hospital, where he slipped Bhattacharjee and finance By M Saleem Pandit Mamata Banerjee claimed into a coma. minister Asim Dasgupta paid Kolkata: After battling for Mumbai bravery TIMES NEWS NETWORK here that Sen died three days The young sergeant had tributes to the brave ser- six days, traffic sergeant ago but the government kept fallen on tram tracks during geant. Commissioner of po- Thane: A 35-year-old Bapi Sen succumbed to the Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir the news under the wraps. the scuffle and injured the lice Sujoy Chakraborty also constable, Tukaram head injuries, he sustained chief minister Mufti Moham- Sen is survived by his wife lower side of his skull. accompanied them. Kadam, of Thane police mad Sayeed on Monday said he in a scuffle with five police- Soma and two children. The The constables, who were According to Chakraborty, gave up his life to pre- will effect a cabinet expansion men while preventing them younger child is merely thir- earlier charged with attempt ‘‘Sen’s wife is entitled to a job vent an undertrial from next week. He clarified that from eve-teasing a girl in teen-month-old. to murder, have now been on compassionate grounds. I escaping on Monday af- there were no differences with Kolkata. He suffered a car- The traffic sergeant was charged with murder under have told his brother to get in ternoon here. The un- coalition partner Congress over diac arrest at around 5.30 am assaulted by five policemen Section 302 of the IPC, said touch with me. Moreover, Rs dertrial, Rajesh Shiv- the members to be inducted. on Monday at the CMRI hos- when he tried to stop them DC (Central) Zulfiquar 2 lakh will be given to his lani, tried to escape by Mufti reiterated that the Cen- pital here and died soon after. from harassing a girl on the Hasan. ‘‘We will inform the family.We would write to the jumping off the However, what seems to be tre needs to initiate a dialogue road on New Year’s eve. The court tomorrow,’’ he said. government for compensa- balcony. TNN with the elected representatives the beginning of a controver- sergeant was rushed to the Chief minister Buddhadeb tion for his family.’’ and the separatist groups to re- solve the Kashmir issue. TB drugs may Traditional knowledge On the nature of the dialogue, Oil spills may no longer he merely said, ‘‘All cards are not to be opened beforehand. fight malaria digital library soon Good governance is the answer TIMES NEWS NETWORK to people’s woes. People here are be a sticky problem Bangalore: After having bitterly fought inter- more concerned about economic Bangalore: Scientists are national patent battles over turmeric, neem By Bhumika K retary Manju Shar- development than anything carrying out tests to find if and Basmati, India now wants to prevent pira- TIMES NEWS NETWORK ma told Times News else.’’ Good governance, he said, drugs for treating tuberculo- cy and wrong patenting of ayurvedic medicine Unsullied Network: ‘‘The tech- An elderly Kashmiri Muslim couple, going for Haj, sis can be used effectively to by coming out with a traditional knowledge will surely ease the situation in Bangalore: Oil nology has been bids farewell to relatives in Srinagar. The first batch fight malaria as well. digital library (TKDL). the state. spills and crude oil The remedy transferred to Sri- of 214 Kashmiris left for Mecca on Monday. If the drug works on hu- sludge have always The country would launch TKDL in Oilzapper is expected ram Biotech and ayurvedic medicine next month, said Council mans, it will be a major find- been sticky prob- BPCL Ltd and they ing as the malarial parasite lems for the world to to provide an environ- of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) di- ment-friendly remedy will soon set up two rector general R A Mashelkar at the Indian Sci- has developed resistance to deal with. Now,India big plants for produc- CWC verdict on Gujarat flayed drugs like chloroquine. is all set to provide for oil sludge ence Congress on Monday. tion in India. They Mashelkar said a dedicated team of 30 TIMES NEWS NETWORK Attributing his party’s success in Gujarat The discovery that the bac- an environment- The demand have entered into tie- ayurvedic experts, five information technolo- to cultural renaissance, he said the Congress teria afflicting TB and malar- friendly remedy. ups for exports. The Hyderabad: BJP president M Venkaiah The demand for gy experts and four scientists were currently had failed, due to its formula of Hindutva- ia patients are similar has ‘‘Oilzapper’’, a demand, so far, Naidu said on Monday,‘‘If the Congress tries Oilzapper is estimated working on TKDL, which is being prepared in bashing and minority appeasement. He made the treatment possible, consortia of bacte- has been from Gulf to undermine the (Gujarat) verdict, the party ria, has been devel- at 20 tonne a year six languages — English, German, French, claimed that the BJP got a resounding en- said Professor G Padmanab- nations.’’ will be undermined by the people.’’ han, former director of the oped by a team of the Spanish, Japanese and Hindi. dorsement from the Gujarat people for its slo- Reacting to the resolution passed by the Indian Institute of Science. Tata Energy Re- ‘‘The commercial Once it comes out, TKDL was planned to be gan of cultural nationalism. Congress Working Committee in New Delhi Delivering the keynote ad- search Institute (TERI), New Delhi, costs are very affordable. There is a expanded to include other Indian traditional on Sunday, alleging that the BJP’s campaign Naidu appealed to the BJP cadre to aid the dress at the plenary on in a project supported by the De- greater demand from foreign coun- medicine systems and followed up with other in Gujarat had broken all norms of demo- party in securing 300 seats in the 2004 Lok ‘Emerging technologies in partment of Biotechnology (DBT). tries than for internal consump- subjects, including folklore, said Mashelkar. cratic values, Naidu said the party should try Sabha polls. ‘‘Appeasement of none and jus- Biosciences and Genomics’ Oilzapper can play a crucial role tion,’’ she said. Oilzapper has an The TKDL comprises knowledge embedded to understand the mandate and stop criticis- tice for all would be our slogan,’’ he added. at the 90th Indian Science in saving the environment, land added advantage of easy mobility as in India’s ancient times in ayurvedic medicine. ing the BJP in the name of Hindutva. Coming down heavily on Opposition par- Congress, Padmanabhan reclamation and cleaning up it can be packaged in polybags. First, it will be translated into English and re- Speaking after laying the foundation stone ties, Naidu said that they had tried to distort said 48 out of the 50 malaria- sludges. It has already helped re- Refineries usually dump petrole- source-classified and codified. TKDL would for the state BJP’s new office building here, Hindutva, despite the Supreme Court’s ob- infected blood samples claim 200 hectare of farm and forest- um sludge into specially-designed match international patenting classification. he called for an all-party debate on Hindutva. servation that it was a way of life. He reiter- analysed from all over India land contaminated with crude oil sludge pits, which fill up in around ‘‘It’s the first time that an international He also alleged that some parties were trying ated that Hindutva would be the main plank were found to be chloro- spills in the country. four years. Moreover, the waste is patenting classification will be created for tra- to redefine nationalism and secularism. of the BJP in the coming elections. quine-resistant. Department of biotechnology sec- only dumped, not treated. ditional knowledge systems,” he said PTI

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Tuesday,January 7, 2003 9 Indo-US talks Mamata warms up to BJP avoid discussing TIMES NEWS NETWORK AFP N-doctrine needs delivery Kolkata: For the first time in nukes and Pak By Manoj Joshi two years, Trinamul Con- deployment’’ or withdrawal aware that India would not missile has gone through TIMES NEWS NETWORK gress chief Mamata Banerjee TIMES NEWS NETWORK was their victory. use nuclear weapons first, it the rigourous test regime shared a platform with BJP It appears that Mushar- was not clear as to how the that would enable it to be New Delhi: India and the US New Delhi: The decision to leaders at an impressive rally raf ’s now modified Decem- government were to re- seen as a credible delivery on Monday discussed the publicise and clarify India’s at the Brigade Parade ground ber 30 statement threaten- spond to a nuclear strike on system for nuclear ‘‘trinity’’ of civilian space nuclear command authori- on Monday. ing ‘‘unconventional war’’ if Indian forces on Pakistani weapons. and nuclear technology and Flanked by NDA convenor ty is another confirmation India were to but cross the soil. While the government facilitation of dual purpose and defence minister George of the fact that Indian secu- international border or the Now it has been clarified has kept the actual compo- hi-tech trade. However, they Fernandes and former CBI rity planners react to events Line of Control was the cat- that a nuclear, chemical or sition of the Political Coun- steered clear of discussing director Joginder Singh, Ma- rather than shape them. alyst in persuading the cab- biological attack on India cil and the Executive Coun- India’s reformulated nuclear mata announced an alliance It took the failure of ‘‘Op- inet to spell out India’s nu- ‘‘or Indian forces any- cil under the wraps, it doctrine or concerns about with the state BJP for the up- eration Parakaram’’ — the clear doctrine and its com- where’’ could invite a mas- would be better if it ad- Pakistan’s proliferation to coming panchayat polls. 2002 Army mobilisation on mand authority. sive nuclear response. dressed the succession is- North Korea. She also extended her sup- the border — to persuade In signaling to Pakistan Having explained the sue more clearly. Who The discussions took place port to the bandh call on Jan- the Indian political leader- that India has a credible nu- command issue, the govern- would be in charge if a nu- during the meetings that the uary 10 by the Party for De- ship to explicate the nuclear clear deterrent, which it ment must urgently address clear strike wiped out Del- visiting director, policy plan- mocratic Socialism (PDS), a command authority and will not hesitate to use if at- the gap in delivery capabili- hi? Would it be a council of ning, in the US State Depart- splinter group of CPM. Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee speaks to provide an outline of the tacked, the government has ties. Pakistan has for years chief ministers or a surviv- ment, Richard Haass, had defence minister George Fernandes in Kolkata on Monday. Calling for a broad-based nuclear doctrine. sought to reassure not just maintained an arsenal ca- ing cabinet member? with external affairs minis- alliance against the Left uance in the cabinet in party on whether Mamata A major factor in the fail- the public but the armed pable of being delivered This appears to be a hypo- ter Yashwant Sinha and for- Front, she inducted into the the wake of the defence had given any commitment ure was that India lacked forces of the country as through missiles. The Indi- thetical question, but every- eign secretary Kanwal Sibal. party both Singh and recent- scam prompted her to quit to get him elected to the Ra- the capacity, conventional well. an arsenal remains depend- thing about nuclear war The external affairs ly retired Additional Direc- the National Democratic Al- jya Sabha. Singh, on his part, and nuclear, to bend Pak- The government’s silence ent on Indian Air Force planning has an unreal spokesperson said North Ko- tor General of Police, Manas liance. waxed eloquent on how im- istan to its will. In fact, the had brought in an element fighters jury-rigged for the touch to it since, hopefully,a rea, including the steps taken Chakraborty,into the party. The presence of the for- portant it was to have honest Pakistan Army claimed of ambiguity in Army plan- purpose. India has no dedi- nuclear war will never be by the US, was discussed. Ironically,she had Fernan- mer CBI director prompted leaders like Mamata and Fer- that the Indian Army’s ‘‘re- ning. While everyone was cated bombers. No Indian fought. Sinha also mentioned the des at her side, whose contin- anxious enquiries within the nandes. cross-border terrorism issue.

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Hi-tech ways AROUND THE WORLD Reuters to rebuild US Bracelets for babies: Ba- China plans manned mission bies born to couples in rural South Korea will be present- By Harvey Stockwin Reuters landmarks in ed with silver bracelets in a TIMES NEWS NETWORK bid to reverse a falling birth rate, a report said Monday. Hong Kong: As the Shenzhou-IV (“Di- case of attacks The bracelets worth around vine Vessel-4”) unmanned space craft New York: US officials are $16 will be placed around the floated to the ground in Inner Mongo- employing 21st century tech- wrist of a baby if it is born in lia at 7.16 pm Sunday evening, it com- Yonchon-gun county in Ky- nology to help rebuild Amer- pleted the dress rehearsals for China onggi province, the Korea ica’s most recognisable land- to become the third nation to send Times reported. They would marks in case they are ever men or women into space. be a symbol “that the county damaged or destroyed by ter- When Shenzhou-V lifts off some- takes pride in the birth and rorist attacks, the New York time during the second half of this will be responsible until the Daily News reported. year, it will almost certainly be carry- baby becomes an adult,” Computer-imaging tech- ing at least two taikonauts, the Chi- Yonchon municipality nology is being used to spokesman Kim Jong-shik nese equivalent of Russian cosmo- record the entire surface of said. “The falling childbirth nauts and American astronauts. New York’s Statue of Liberty, rate is a serious problem The term is derived from the Chi- for example, and the same here. More and more people nese word for space —taikong. But the technology would be used to are moving out to the sur- Chinese have not yet officially con- reconstruct Washington’s rounding big cities, including firmed this. Capitol dome and other well- Seoul, while less people Shenzhou-IV, like Shenzhou-II and known landmarks and na- come in.” AFP Shenzhou-III, spent nearly seven days tional monuments, the daily (actually 162 hours) circling the Earth, A scientist rushes to the Shenzhou IV spacecraft after it touched down in Inner Rings rules box office: Mongolia in northern China on Sunday. reported Sunday. after the Long March rocket carrying The Lord of the Rings sequel Using cutting-edge laser has racked up a third week- it lifted off from Jiuquan, in Gansu main motivation for China’s space gramme, is cloaked in typically Chi- technology, the interior and end atop the North American province in northwest China, in the programme, inside the re-entry mod- nese secrecy, little is known about exteriors of the landmarks box office, outpacing its early hours of the morning on Decem- ule a banner carried the Chinese char- them, or even where they are actually are thoroughly scanned, predecessor and headed for ber 30. acters meaning “Celebrating the 16th training. yielding geometric maps that the magic billion-dollar mark The spacecraft orbited the globe 108 National Congress of the Chinese The secrecy is curious, since pride can be stored in digital in worldwide receipts. Else- times before the re-entry module was Communist Party” which was held and prestige are unlikely to be archives and computerised where, two arthouse hits en- detached from the orbiting module last November. aroused if the Chinese people know databases. Those blueprints tered the top 10 after suc- and brought down in Inner Mongolia. According to Chinese accounts, little about the programme. Clearly can be used to build dupli- cessful expansions: the Jack The orbiting module continues to “cir- taikonauts trained in the re-entry the four Shenzhou flights so far have Nicholson black comedy cates of the originals, the cle the Earth and to conduct space sci- module before it was sent into space. been mainly concerned to conduct ex- About Schmidt jumped 17 Daily News reported, adding Evidently between one and two dozen periments in order to minimize risks, places to No 5, and the musi- ence and application experiments” ac- that measurements are accu- ex-fighter pilots have been selected for thereby making sure that a manned cal Chicago rose four places cording to the China Daily. rate down to 6 mm. taikonaut training but, since Project flight is successfully completed when to No 9. Overall business be- As a reminder that national pride The Statue of Liberty is Hollywood star Angelina Jolie takes a break during the and communist party prestige is a 921, the code name for the space pro- it eventually takes place. gan the year on a promising filming of Tomb Raider 2 in Hong Kong on Monday. seen as particularly vulnera- note, with the top 12 films ble because its creator left no grossing $111 million, up six percent from the Thief snares deadly snake: An Aus- blueprints and only minimal year-ago weekend, according to tracking firm tralian thief got more than he bargained for DUBYAMAIL design sketches, so replacing Exhibitor Relations. Reuters when he grabbed a bag off a car’s passenger This is a really whacky comic strip.You the New York monument seat and found a venomous, red-bellied black can make it funnier by including some would otherwise have been Girls Aloud top charts: Girls Aloud, the snake inside. A police spokeswoman said the great comic characters like Laloo Ya- latest made-on-TV pop group, have held on all but impossible, officials thief stole the canvas bag after yanking open dav, Mulayam, Mayawati etc. The strip to the coveted number one spot the Official is a good morning breakfast to my said. the door of a four-wheel drive at traffic lights UK Charts Company says. The all-girl group’s eyes. “September 11 heightened in the Sydney inner-city suburb of Redfern — Anil Sharma debut single Sound of the Underground won fears that we could lose this late on Saturday. But the car’s driver, snake I appreciate your efforts in bringing out the race to be top of the pops at Christmas the strip. I read a lot of hate mails from handler Bradley McDonald, had the last thing, along with other high- ahead of their male rivals One True Voice. the the readers, about the strip. I don’t profile American icons, to laugh. The bag contained a 1.2 metre long know whether the message in the strip Both groups were created from TV show Pop snake that he had just snared in a nearby car cultural terrorism,” said is difficult for them, or the strip. Stars: The Rivals, but in 2003’s first chart on park. “It might teach him a lesson. The snake — Ravindra, Sullia Glenn Hill, an architecture Sunday, One True Voice’s Sacred Trust is the innocent party in this,” McDonald told professor who heads the e-mail: [email protected] slipped two places to No 5. Reuters reporters. Reuters scanning team. AFP

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AP Saddam says Iraq ready for war Israel hits back By Hassan Hafidh Reuters the inspectors were instead com- piling lists of Iraqi scientists, Baghdad: A defiant Iraqi Presi- asking workers misleading ques- dent Saddam Hussein on Monday at Palestinians tions, and gathering information declared his country was ready about army camps and “legiti- for war and issued his first public mate military production... criticism of UN weapons inspec- These things, or most of them, after twin blasts tors, accusing them of engaging are pure intelligence work.” in “pure intelligence work”. Rejecting Saddam’s charges, Jerusalem: As its helicop- That was quickly trans- In a 25-minute televised mes- Hiro Ueki, spokesman of the ters blasted Gaza early lated into a strike by heli- sage on Army Day, Saddam dis- arms monitors, said the inspec- Monday, Israel banned a copter gunships which missed US threats to disarm Iraq tors are “not spies” but conduct Palestinian delegation fired some 10 rockets on by force as “clamour, commotion their work “professionally” and from a London conference Gaza City,causing a power and hysteria” aimed at diverting “objectively”. on key reforms in retalia- cut and blasting two metal attention from US domestic and Meanwhile, the New York tion for a double suicide workshops allegedly used foreign policy failures, and the Is- Times reported that US President bombing in Tel Aviv that for producing mortar Haj pilgrims arrive at Karachi Airport on raeli occupation of Palestinian Bush’s national security team left 23 dead, some of them bombs and rudimentary Sunday on their way to Mecca. territories. was assembling plans for a post- immigrant workers. rockets. Tanks also raided Jamali denies leakage of nuke info: “As we monitor the hiss of Saddam Iraq that included a US Amid international con- Rafah in the southern Pakistani Prime Minister Zafarullah Jamali snakes and bark of dogs accom- military presence in the country demnation, Palestinian Gaza Strip. Iraqi troops march in front of the tomb of the unknown soldier in dismissed reports panied by continued aggression for at least 18 months with a civil- leader Yasser Arafat’s Fa- Helicopter gunships Baghdad on Monday to mark the country’s 82nd Army Day. Monday that scientists in the north and south of the ian administrator. tah movement issued a fired on the town’s refugee and officials had country, we act with the confi- mass in the Gulf and both sides rating the founding of the Iraqi Citing administration officials, statement denouncing the camp as some 20 tanks leaked nuclear infor- dence of the assured whose ac- dig in for possible confrontation, army in 1921, Saddam issued his it said the plan also calls for mili- blasts and warning groups moved in and troops blew mation and technology tions are not hurried or con- UN inspectors once again fanned first public criticism of the UN tary trials of the most senior behind such attacks not to up a house belonging to a as “mischievously mo- fused,” he said. “Here, we have out on Monday in search of teams. Iraqi leaders and a takeover of use its name in claims. militant of the radical Is- tivated.” He declared prepared for everything.” banned weapons. He said rather than searching the country’s oil fields to pay for In Jerusalem, Israeli lamic Jihad movement. “complete satisfaction” As tens of thousands of troops During an address commemo- for weapons of mass destruction, reconstruction. Reuters Prime Minister Ariel With Israeli troops al- with the command and AFP Sharon held an emergency ready occupying almost control structures of meeting with his security the entire West Bank, and Pakistan’s nuclear pro- cabinet after the bombing, reluctant to launch any gramme after a briefing Lanka peace talks by the National Com- which was claimed by sev- major strike in Gaza on the mand Authority, a military press statement eral rival Palestinian fac- eve of an expected US war said. Reports of information leakages were tions, and signalled the on Iraq, Sharon’s initial re- “highly irresponsible,” the statement quot- skip thorny issues army to “intensify the sponse was to tighten the ed him as saying. Japanese press agency anti-terrorist fight,” in- noose around Arafat and Jiji last month reported Pakistan had in- Nakhon Pathom: Sri Lan- Tamils in property currently cluding strikes on Pales- his near-defunct Palestin- formed the US that a number of its scien- ka’s peace negotiators opened occupied by security forces in tinian militants. ian Authority. AFP tists and military officers were “personally” their toughest talks here the island’s northern penin- involved in providing nuclear arms technol- Monday by side-stepping a sula of Jaffna will be dis- ogy to North Korea two years ago. AFP contentious military issue cussed Tuesday. that threatened the Norwe- The Tigers want the mili- Judges to take fresh oath: Judges of Nepal gets US guns gian-backed initiative. tary to shrink its “High Secu- the higher courts have decided to go for fresh oath of office that could formally mark Sri Lanka’s chief negotia- rity Zones” near military the end of the three year military rule and tor,G L Peiris, said the start of camps to allow civilians to re- the four-day talks went well, turn, but the army had called to combat Maoists revival of the constitution, the Dawn said. The higher echelons of Pakistan’s judiciary, but admitted they had set for a progressive de-commis- Kathmandu: A shipment of rifles were lighter and more which has been blamed by the country’s aside the thorny issues for sioning of long-range 3,000 M-16 assault rifles, part efficient than the guns cur- Bar Association and the political parties for Tuesday while agreeing on an weapons simultaneously. of US assistance to help rently used by its soldiers. not standing up to the military establish- agenda for the latest talks. The two sides agreed to Nepalese government forces The shipment is part of a ment, has agreed to go for a fresh oath, dif- “There was a great deal of take up human rights issues fight Maoist rebels, has ar- $17 million assistance pack- ferent from the one administered under the apprehension that there will and also decided on a custodi- rived in the Himalayan na- age from the US. The Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO), be irreconcilable differences an for millions of dollars ex- tion, news reports and offi- Nepalese army is expecting promulgated by President Musharraf after and the talks will break pected from donors for the re- his 1999 coup. The pro-military Jamali cials said Monday. another 2,000 guns soon, US down,” Peiris said here after habilitation of the northern government, which came to power after The weapons were deliv- training for the military and the recent general elections, said it be- the first day’s talks. “Nothing and eastern regions. ered on Sunday by cargo help in rehabilitating victims lieved that a new oath was not necessary of the sort happened.” Peiris said the World Bank plane, the Himalayan Times of the insurgency. but left the choice of taking it afresh to the He said the issue of de-es- as well as a UN agency were Hundreds of tricycles block the main intersection near the presidential newspaper reported. Royal Nepal is also due to receive judiciary itself. PTI calation and the resettlement being considered, but a final palace in Manila on Monday to protest against a planned phasing-out of Nepalese Army spokesman 5,600 Minimi rifles from Bel- of thousands of minority decision was still awaited. AFP the vehicles to control pollution problems. Deepak Gurung said the new gium. Agencies

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12 Tuesday,January 7, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi EDITEDIT PAGEPAGE Essence of Deterrence Begging the Question A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Put in Place the Strategic Triad A recent Delhi Police notification directs hundreds maybe. Initially, there were motorists, on pain of paying hefty monetary complaints about children being roughed up, We have lost the battle, but we are aware that By K Subrahmanyam retaliatory ability which would deter a sabre- fines, not to buy anything or give alms but after NGOs made representations to the we have got to win the war. rattling Islamabad depends on the explicit to beggars at traffic junctions. The police commissioner,the police have adopted — Congress spokesman S Jaipal Reddy Finally the cabinet committee on national and transparent projection of such a survi- ramifications of the move are however a more humane attitude. security has come out with its decisions on vable command and control system. This, in not confined to Delhi. The National Task Is the issue any closer to resolution? what are popularly called nuclear command turn, calls for, as has been done in the US, a Force on Vendors has submitted similar NGO representatives have met the Delhi Flip-flop Alliance and control. Not surprisingly,it has accepted clear projection of political and military suc- recommendations to the Centre. Meanwhile, chief minister. She has shown interest in the draft nuclear doctrine released in August cession and the survivability of command several NGOs have raised the issue of the drawing up a comprehensive scheme for Call it Congress, call it confusion. In deep shock after its 1999. It has endorsed the main principles and control to carry out punitive retaliation. livelihood of street children. Amod Kanth, child vendors. In fact, the Centre is also drubbing in Modiland, India’s principal opposition incorporated in the draft doctrine that the The first step is to have the strategic forces’ a joint commissioner with the Delhi Police interested in a national scheme for vendors. party is showing classic signs of demoralisation: Indian nuclear capability will be used only in command far away from New Delhi with full and a founder member of Prayas — an NGO For vendors, this is a livelihood issue — Defensive, bewildered, looking for straws to clutch. Take retaliation, but that the retaliation will be knowledge of targeting plans for retaliation. which works with street children — discussed a fundamental right. For the police or the latest buzzword in the party: Alliance. This is not a punitive. It also endorses that the nuclear Second, the political succession has to the relevant issues with Tripta Batra: municipal authorities, the issue is one of well-thought-out strategy, but a typical reaction to force will be based on a strategic triad, the be clearly defined. In the US, on 9/11, the keeping the city clean and the traffic defeat, one defeat. Indeed, judging by its flip-flop on the policy being to have a minimum credible president was taken to the strategic forces How do you view the notification? running smoothly. Basically, these are subject, the Congress might as well sum up its policy nuclear deterrent, supremacy of civilian headquarters and the vice-president whis- The idea behind it is to make the city contradictory demands. I’m myself facing thus: ‘No’ to alliance when the going is good, reverse control of the release of weapons and no del- ked away to a secret location. Whenever a presentable, and I have nothing against a predicament on how to reconcile the when things are bad. Not long ago, Congress bosses held egation of powers of use to the armed forces. threat is anticipated, the vice-president is that. However, we already have laws to deal demands of police work with the needs a grand conclave at Panchmarhi where they came The draft doctrine vested the power to separated and kept in an unknown destina- with traffic, the conduct of motor vehicle of the vendors. to the unanimous conclusion that they would stand release the weapon in the prime minister tion in constant touch with the president and drivers, and begging and vending on the As a member of the National Task Force alone, righteously,imperiously.Evidently,Congressmen and his designated successors. The cabinet other members of the National Security roads. What’s more, this notification affects on Vendors (NTF), what issues linked to the thought the BJP would be a short-lived phenomenon. committee on national security has now Council through safe and uninterruptible child vendors, above 14 years of age, directly. present row have you managed to address? Instead the BJP bandwagon began to lengthen alarm- announced the formation of two councils, a communication channels. US law provides When some police action impinges upon I am a co-opted member on the NTF for succession of up to more than 20. ingly.So, Panchmarhi was quickly junked, and alliance political and an executive one. Councils are people’s livelihood, a holistic view needs to . I represent the police point of view to a useful in discussing strategy,plans, logistics, Military succession too is well defined. be taken. You can’t take a partial view. certain extent. But I have also voiced the became respectable. Meanwhile came a series of state targeting policy and information campaigns. The command chain runs in normal times How would you have gone about it? concern of child vendors, thanks to my elections, most of which went in the Congress’s favour. But councils cannot replace command and from the president, to the defence secretary, No doubt the police should be concerned association with Prayas. And it is partly The pendulum had to swing the other way and it did. control functions. In the the chairman, joint chiefs about the safety of children at intersections. due to the latter that I’ve been inducted From despair to overconfidence, the talk was now about 1960s, countries like Ger- of staff and the strategic At the same time, the children are driven by into this body. Sonia Gandhi as PM. This is of course not to deny many demanded a finger on forces both in the US certain situations. Under the NTF,vend- Mrs Gandhi’s impressive political evolution. the nuclear button. After a and NATO. This is what They can be told to ing and non-vending The Sonia touch was there for all to see in Jammu and lot of deliberation, the US command and control is all be careful, but to zones have reported- Kashmir,where the Congress willingly took a back seat, created the NATO nuclear about. Islamabad had earli- remove them lock, Q&A ly been designated. thanks to some deft party management by the newest ministerial planning group er announced committees stock and barrel is We have looked at the Are traffic intersec- member of the Gandhi clan. But an important principle but kept the nuclear button like our newly-announced something else. I am problems of vendors tions part of non- of management is also that one must never lose one’s in the exclusive possession councils. But that was to convinced that child in a holistic way. They vending zones? cool. Of this we have seen little in the post-Gujarat of Washington. obfuscate the reality of its beggars should not are said to run 60 per Not yet. This has Congress. Part of the problem for the Congress is the Two years ago, there was nuclear weapons being in be on the road. But cent of India’s economy. to be done area-wise. baggage it carries by way of its splendid history. The a seminar in Bangkok com- the sole command of the regarding vendors, In any case, about The proposal we Indian National Congress ruled over us for four decades prising Indian, Pakistani chief of army staff. I have a different 90 per cent of India’s have given is that almost in the manner of a monarch. Though the and US strategists. The The Indian ‘no first view. Vendors, in- labour force is every city — big Pakistanis made a song and use’ policy and consequent cluding child ven- or small — will have coalition era brought down that edifice, the Congress Udayshankar unorganised. dance about their having retaliatory strategy requi- remains locked in the magisterial mode. So much so, dors, operate all a committee to committees for nuclear command and control res a delicate balancing between the impera- over the world. I decide these issues. it can’t accept that it can never win back the while the Indian draft nuclear doctrine tives of ensuring the survivability of the had an opportunity to travel to a few The committee will include representatives caste-coalition that once formed its formidable support vested the power solely in the prime minister retaliatory capability through deception, countries recently, and I found vendors of vendor associations, local organisations, base. Sonia Gandhi’s strategists must understand and his designated successors. I asked the for- camouflage, mobility and redundancy in everywhere. The police have to be coopera- municipal bodies, police and others. They that one party dominance has long been replaced by mer US defence secretary,William Perry,who strike capabilities. It must also impress upon tive, have to be humane, and look at the will decide what is to be done. Broadly,in the identity-based multiple parties. In other words, internal was present, for his views. He said committee the adversary that he cannot successfully situation in its totality. NTF report we have submitted to the gov- coalitions must give way to external coalitions. deliberations would be possible if a nuclear target the force and get away without How many children do you think are ernment, we have talked about the identity of Of course, strategy will differ from state to state, but action was being planned but when there has punitive punishment. While the former selling on the streets of Delhi, particularly vendors; they have no means of identifica- there has to be an overall blueprint, a vision. Sonia to be a response to a nuclear attack that has to considerations justify secrecy,the latter calls at intersections? tion, no voting rights. There has to be some Gandhi might also examine the BJP’s success. For long be, in all probability,an executive decision. for a transparent projection of capabilities It’s very difficult to say. There are about security for them in livelihood terms. They a political outcast, the BJP determinedly wooed and New Delhi is not going to plan a nuclear without compromising secrecy. This is 200,000 children out of school on the have to be given some kind of insurance and won its allies. Today, the BJP sets the agenda, while attack and under its ‘no first use’ doctrine where the strategic triad in the strike force streets or otherwise in Delhi. Those who are rehabilitation packages. the opposition reacts. Time then for the Congress’s will only respond to an attack. While contin- comes in. The command and control chain homeless or hanging around here and there We have looked at the problems of vendors backroom boys to grapple with the new reality. gency planning for such a retaliation can be from the political level to the implementing would be about 60,000 to my mind. And a in a holistic way. They are said to run deliberated upon, planned for and projected level should also reflect its survivability good number of these would be selling at 60 per cent of India’s economy. In any case, by the two councils, they cannot play an under the worst conditions of decapitation traffic intersections. about 90 per cent of India’s labour force is effective role in command and control which attack. That is the essence of deterrence. Has such a direction been issued anywhere unorganised. This sector makes a major Political Science is essentially an executive function. This How we proceed will be watched by our else in the country? contribution — you cannot overlook that. The prime minister, like the rest of us, has reason to decision has to be taken in minutes. That was adversary who has been indulging in I am not aware of it. However, under the To what extent do you think the recommenda- provocative nuclear sabre-rattling with- worry about the state of science in the country.And the the reason why the national security advi- Indian Police Act and/or the local municipal tions of the NTF will be implemented? sory board vested the power in the prime out much international disapproval. The The vendors’ associations are becoming same goes for the state of education as well. So all cre- laws, the police does, from time to time, minister and his designated successors. alternative chain of command and arrange- act against vendors or beggars in other active. They have also formed a representa- dit to him for using the occasion of the recent golden ju- The crux of command control is the ments to continue the vital institutions cities. For instance, the Bombay (Mumbai) tive body. I presume they will compel the bilee celebrations of the University Grants Commission command chain when the prime minister is of the republic without interruption in case Beggars Act is applicable to Delhi as well government to implement it (the NTF (UGC) to unveil a brave new vision on higher education in a position to exercise it and when he is not of a decapitation attack and the capability as other cities. recommendations). The issue affects the in the country.Starting with the hot potato of subsidies because of a decapitation attack on the Capi- for punitive retaliation should be impressed How many motor vehicle drivers have been entire unorganised economy — children, in higher education, Atalji pointed to the absurdity of a tal wiping out the entire political and mili- on the adversary and should be credible fined since the direction came into effect? women, workers, the homeless. The role of situation where rich students spend more on “private tary leadership. The credibility of the Indian to our own people. The police have prosecuted a couple of NGOs is also very important. tuition and pocket money” than on college fees. In the process, he gave voice to ideas which would have been deemed heretical only a few years ago: Educational loans, private-public partnership, merit-cum-means Mystical Nature of scholarships in place of across-the-board subsidies. Atalji also spoke with passion about the “atmosphere of indiscipline and non-seriousness that pervades many college and university campuses” and urged the Soundless Sound Know More teaching community to learn from the best western By Kailash Vajpeyi practices “in management of higher education”. The spirit soul The PM returned to the need for radical reforms, this In a world full of cacophony paradise,” (Vows of Amida bewildered by the time in the form of a brand new national science and and chaos, it does seem a Buddha 18). influence of false ego technology policy, at the 90th Indian Science Congress. little odd to talk about sound- Ajapa is basically related thinks himself the less sound. Interestingly, to electrophysiology. Silent Concerned at the increasing “bureaucratisation” of doer of activities that soundless sound or anaahat chanting generates a kind R&D establishments in the country, he spoke of the are in actuality has been given equal impor- of tapas, which flows in a carried out by the need to reverse the scientific brain drain by luring tance in almost all systems of rhythmic wave pattern. Hans three modes of back those who’ve migrated with “the necessary oppor- faith. Chanting is articulated Berger, a German physicist, material nature. tunities, recognition, standing and adequate material sound. The concept is echoed discovered that not only all compensation”. Ironically, while much of what Atalji Bhagavad Gita III.27 in other cultures also. living tissues are sensitive to ✥ said made eminent sense, his lament about the general The Bible states: “In the electric currents, but after a The person in fall in standards failed to carry conviction. Because far beginning was the word” certain time the tissue itself material conscious- from arresting the trend of academic decline, the NDA (John 1.1). Vedic scriptures generated small voltages. ness is convinced by government, over which he presides, has actually also affirm that the entire Today, Hans Berger’s experi- false ego that he is the cosmic creation began ment has been broken up contributed to it by openly politicising every known doer of everything. He with sound (Brihadrayanaka into many components by scientific and educational institution. From putting does not know that the Upanishad 1.2.4.). ‘God is instruments that can detect hand-picked political appointees in crucial administra- mechanism of body is word’ denotes the physicality fluctuations as small as one tive positions, to tinkering with the existing curricu- produced by material of sound but the concept of ten-millionth of a volt. It lum, from introducing dubious courses in the name CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS nature, which works nada, that ‘God is sound’, is would take about 13 million of promoting indigenous knowledge to rewriting under the supervision money by charging exorbitant rates all this more subtle, because it is of such currents to light a academic text books, scant regard has been shown for Boy Crazy of the Supreme Lord. while. There is also the question of hefty related to the Sanskrit word small flash light bulb. the sanctity and independence of scholarly life. At Apropos of ‘Baby Boys on Order’ (Times He takes credit for security deposits collected earlier. The nadi, denoting our stream The audibility of sound the same time, the resources allocated for education Samvad, Jan 4), Dr Aniruddha Malpani’s doing everything government should force the companies to of consciousness. Before waves depends on their justification of preconceptional sex selec- independently,and and scientific R&D have failed to match the growing retain security only on currently prevailing explaining the concept of frequency and velocity. A tion amounts to denying the baby girl the that is the symptom of demands of a country that aspires to potential knowl- rates. Moreover, it is against public interest ajapa or soundless sound, we sound wave may be audi- right to be conceived, leave alone born. The his nescience. He is edge economy and super power. Atalji is dead right in to leave such huge interest-free amounts must know about the power ble or inaudible, depending widespread desire for boys in India has factually bewildered his diagnosis of the ills that afflict our academic life, but in the hands of companies that could of the sacred word or sound. upon the medium through already led to the abortion of countless fem- by the false ego, which he must acknowledge too that his government has thus potentially close down any moment. Steven J Rosen, who wrote which it travels. All sound is ale fetuses. The strict regulation of precon- makes him forget his far been part of the problem rather than the solution. — Subhash Chandra Agrawal, via e-mail The Hidden Glory of India, the result of some sort of ceptional sex selection by medical practiti- eternal relationship says that a device striking. That is oners and clinics is meant to protect the fun- with the Lord. Power of Religion called tonoscope, why it has a begin- damental right to life of the girl child. The Apropos of ‘Beyond the Ballot’ by Siddharth graphically demons- ning and an end. Swami Prabhupada desire to ‘‘balance the family’’, as Dr Mal- Expat Cherie Varadarajan (Dec 18), the Gujarat riots and trates the power of But if there could ✥ pani puts it, cannot lead to a licence to kill. Cherie may mean dear in French but Tony Blair’s wife the subsequent victory of hardline Hindut- Sanskrit syllables to be a sound which is When the gods — Subhro Sanyal, Patna has just been voted the person most Britons want kicked va in the state has forced a reconsideration evoke forms in a THE unstruck, then it oppressed by Ravana out of the country after the exposure of her links to True Colours of the pros and cons of Indian democracy. physical medium. will have neither a appealed to Lord convicted conman Peter Foster who helped her buy two The Gujarat elections were a display of the The tonoscope is a SPEAKING beginning nor an Brahma, he replied: It took just one Hindutva-engineered power religion has over the minds of people. tube suspended over TREE end. Heard and un- While Ravana was flats in Bristol. Bristol is not too far away from victory for the BJP to drop all pretence Plymouth from where Sir Francis Drake set out to Whether it be Hindus voting en masse for a thin membrane heard both, it will asking for his boon, he of secularism and reveal its true colours. the BJP in Gujarat or the rise of Islamic and covered by a layer of fine definitely be imperishable. asked to be unconquer- circumnavigate the world during the reign of the first The party’s leaders are now openly talking Elizabeth, also known as the Virgin Queen before jehad elsewhere in the world, powerful dust. When sounds are A perfect example of able by the gandharvas about propagating and establishing ‘Hindu emotions are aroused on the basis of reli- (celestial singers), Shekhar Kapur of Bandit Queen fame got into the act. broadcast through the tube, soundless sound is described Rashtravad’ throughout the country.If gion. Instead of misusing these sentiments, corresponding designs form by Puran Singh in his book yakshas (sprites), gods Bristol has since then developed to an extent where it successful, this would signal the end of the as politicians do, they could be used con- in the dust that can tell us The story of Ram. Puran and demons. His boon is an attractive alternate address for the first lady of modern, democratic and pluralistic India structively for the cause of nation-building. something about the initial Singh arranged a series of was granted. His 10 Downing Street. However, following reports of that we live in today.Should the sangh — Faiza Abbasi, Aligarh sound that went through the lectures by Swami Ram Tirth contempt made him Foster’s involvement in firming up Cherie Blair’s parivar be allowed to subvert the tube. ‘‘While most sounds in Japan which evoked forget to mention men; property deals in Bristol, she is no longer first in the Constitution of the country in this manner? Chart Performances produce random ill-defined tremendous response. Puran he shall therefore be hearts of her countrymen. Out of 15,000 votes cast in a — R Prakash, New Delhi That V V S Laxman has not been included forms, the vibrations of Singh who authored Swami destroyed by none tongue-in-cheek poll conducted by BBC Radio 4,650 Insecure Security in the World Cup squad in spite of his good Sanskrit syllables produce Ram’s biography,writes: One other than a man. wanted Mrs Blair kicked out of Britain. Whereas, in a performance last year leads to unanswered quite a different result. If night after dinner when Ramayana 1.15.13-14 vote on whom they preferred as honorary Britons, At one level, the slashing of STD rates by questions. What is the process of selecting a the sounds of mantras can Swami Ram went to sleep, ✥ cellular companies endorses the necessity Aung San Suu Kyi topped with 61 per cent, followed by cricketer? There are several non-performers activate a gross element around 12.30 at night, he Brahma blesses of competition for consumer benefit. At Bill Clinton with 18 per cent, and — surprise, surprise in the Indian team that is playing in New such as dust, one can only (Puran Singh) heard a feeble practitioners of tapas another level, it reveals how the govern- — Saddam Hussein ranking fifth with seven per cent. Zealand. It is time to devise some sort of a imagine the power such sound as though someone (austerities) with great ment has allowed these companies to mint Maybe the respondents could have also been asked performance chart which should be the vibrations have on human was saying Ram..Ram...Ram. intellectual power to find an alternate country home for Mrs Blair. basis of showing a cricketer the door or consciousness,’’ he says. Puran Singh got up and which can lead first to An exchange programme with the Iraqi strongman From timesofindia.com retaining him in the team. This will defi- The power of the spoken opened the door — but no one renunciation and then could have been worked out but the presidential nitely help the cricketers apply themselves word, especially japa, has was there in the corridor. to God-realisation, but palace in Baghdad would be in the line of fire when Avoidable Killing better, not only to retain their place in the been described in other After a gap of about half can also become a squad but also to deliver better results. cultures also. Saint Paul said: an hour he again heard corrupting force if the the Texas Rangers unleash their weapons of mass Apropos of the news report ‘Leopard felled “Everyone who calls upon the same sound. This time practitioner loses sight destruction. 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Maruti dealers HYDERABAD cut sops ahead Gold at 6-yr high, oil prices up too BLUES Singapore: Gold nudged its tions for a possible war on ing the greenback too heavi- rose 1.57 percent to 8,713.33 Cellular tariffs highest level for six years on Iraq piled into the safe ly. The dollar found some in a half-day session follow- Monday, oil hovered near a haven of the bullion mar- Desi importers support after Japanese fi- ing an extended New Year of price hike two-year peak and the dollar ket. That sent gold briefly nance minister Masajuro holiday. dipped as signs the US and back to touch $ 353.75 an shy away Shiokawa said there was a “We’re pretty much on to fall further Britain were preparing ounce, a six-year high set global perception the yen autopilot tracking gains in By Byas Anand Mumbai: Soaring glob- t’s good news for mobile users as the troops for an attack on Iraq last month, before it eased was too strong and its cor- Wall Street and other major TIMES NEWS NETWORK al gold prices and poor Itariffs are likely to fall further once the kept markets volatile. to around $ 352.55 at 0600 rection would be natural. markets over the New Year demand in India, the interconnectivity issue (between GSM New Delhi: Just days before Maruti Udyog But stocks rallied in Asia, GMT. “War fears are continuing break,” said Masatoshi and CDMA/WLL service providers) is re- announcing a price hike, its dealers have de- world’s largest con- led by a surge in Tokyo, as The war preparations sumer, have forced bul- to hurt the dollar. The mar- Sato, manager of the equi- solved. Speaking at the Partnership Sum- cided to drastically cut discounts across all investors set aside war fears and the second month of a ket is also worried about the ties division at Mizuho In- mit organised by CII in Hyderabad, Bhar- models citing a growth in demand. Result: lion importers to stay on temporarily to focus on national strike in Venezuela the sidelines, traders outlook of the US economy,” vestors Securities. ti Enterprises CEO Sunil Mittal said, “A Discounts on WagonR and Alto have hopes for a recovery in the kept oil prices on the rise, said on Monday. “We all said Takashi Toyahara, Benchmark indices level playing field is imminent. Intercon- overnight been dropped from Rs 15,000 to Rs US economy. despite pledges from Saudi are almost sitting idle forex section manager at closed up 1.37 per cent in nectivity is a regulatory issue. We feel 1,500. “Markets have accommo- Arabia and Russia that they and waiting and watch- Nomura Securities. Taiwan, 0.85 per cent in this issue would be resolved by the end of Dealer sources said the gift bonanza dated the prospect of a US- would keep their crude sup- ing price movements,” The dollar was quoted at South Korea and 0.65 per the current financial year. Once this hap- launched last week by Maruti has also re- Iraq conflict and the strong plies flowing to world mar- said Narendra Singh 119.22 yen against 119.66 yen cent in Australia. At mid- pens, the price of GSM cellular service sulted into increase in offtake of vehicles. stimulus being delivered in kets in a bid to calm prices. Rathore, a gold trader in late New York trade on day, Hong Kong was up 0.7 would be just 15 to 20 per cent more than “Maruti has also launched a scheme offering the US and Europe...should US crude was up five Daily gold imports Friday. The euro stood at $ per cent, but Singapore had tariffs in wireless in local loop (WLL) free first year insurance. In the current sce- encourage stronger con- cents at $ 33.13 per barrel af- into Jaipur shrinked to 1.0437 against Friday’s $ slipped 0.6 per cent. services.” On the future reduction in nario, we have decided against offering high- sumer spending, economic ter rising as high as $ 33.33, only about 300 bars (of 1.0428. Despite jitters in oth- Strong US manufacturing prices, he said, “there are just two or er discounts,” says a Maruti dealer. growth and corporate recov- just short of a two-year high 116.64 grams) over the er markets, stocks had a data last week and Presi- three areas, where we can do something. Let’s look at the latest set of discounts: Es- ery,” said Michael Wilson, of $ 33.65 hit last week. past week, against the mostly upbeat day in Asia. dent George W Bush’s plan STD rate cut was announced last week. teem has the highest discount of Rs 3,500, Zen chief investment officer at The war worries left the normal 4,000 bars. Japanese shares closed to unveil an economic stim- The second area is international call and follows with Rs 2,500, while WagonR and Alto Ausbil Dexia in Australia. dollar struggling against India imports an av- their first session of the ulus package on Tuesday the third is local call. This is likely to be fetch a discount of Rs 1,500 each. The high de- Japanese investors re- the yen, but traders, fearful erage of 14,000 gold bars year with healthy gains in raised hopes for a recovery announced in the coming week.” turning from holidays of central bank interven- the wake of a rise on Wall in the world’s largest econo- mand for Maruti 800 and the Omni van has a day. Reuters Indo-UK trade to scale £10 billion: resulted into dealers withdrawing all rebates marked by news of prepara- tion, were wary about sell- Street. The Nikkei average my. Reuters The bilateral trade between India and the on these models. “Some dealers have waiting TOI United Kingdom will scale to £10 billion periods ranging between 7-10 days on these by 2007 in the wake of increasing cooper- models,” another dealer added. The discount ation between businesses in both the na- cuts come close to Maruti planning to an- Sahara’s news tions, British minister for trade and in- nounce a 3-5 per cent hike in its car prices, dustry Patricia Hewitt said. The trade be- likely to be effected by this weekend. tween both the countries is at £5 billion Market watchers feel that while the dis- channel in Feb now. “There is an ongoing effort to dis- count withdrawals would mean higher mar- mantle bilateral trade barriers between TIMES NEWS NETWORK gins for dealers, the end-consumer would not India and the UK and focus now is on en- be affected much as manufacturers are in- New Delhi: The battle among television ergy,telecom and other multiple sectors,” creasingly making the rebates transparent news networks is hotting up. The new en- the minister said. According to the data by offering free insurance and other freebies. trant in this dog-eat-dog world is the Sahara provided by the British ministry, UK is “Earlier the discount was discretionary as group, which claims to have already invest- the second largest trade partner to India some customers would bargain more while ed over Rs 300 crore for teleport and news next to the US. The UK industry has an in- others went without anything. Now everyone gathering technology. vestment interest in about 800 joint ven- tends to get equal rebates from the manufac- Sahara India will launch a 24-hour na- tures in India with a cumulative value of turer.” tional Hindi news channel — Sahara Samay £3 billion. However, Raj Chopra, CMD of Competent — in the third week of February, according ‘Retail banking holds the key’: Motors, one of Maruti’s largest dealers, feels to Sumit Roy,Sahara group deputy director. With project financing still on slow track, that transparency notwithstanding, these Sahara — which has business interests in retail banking is playing a prominent role lower discounts are unlikely to stay for long. aviation, parabanking, housing, mass com- in the sector with most of the lending fo- “When some of the smaller dealers start feel- munication and consumer products — is cused on retail market. In 1995-96, project ing the heat of lower footfalls, they will sud- confident about emerging as a dark horse in financing was to the tune of $10 billion in denly resort to higher rebates. The manufac- the television news sweepstakes. the country and retail lending was at $1 turer should step in here and stop such prac- Kapil Dev with Jaspal Bindra, CEO, India region, Standard Chartered Bank, at a press conference in New Roy said Sahara will also launch six re- billion. However, now the retail pie has tices.” But till such time the car makers step Delhi on Monday, where the legendary cricketer was appointed brand ambassador of the bank. The bank was gional news channels in Uttar Pradesh, increased to $15 billion and the project fi- in, it’s good news for the Queen. tragetting to grow at 20 per cent per annum in India, Bindra said. Madya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar,Delhi and nance is at $2-3 billion, ICICI Bank man- Mumbai in the next four months. aging director and CEO K V Kamath told Sahara Uttar — which will concentrate on the summit. However, the banking sector EC drops anti-dumping case against Moser Baer the Uttar Pradesh market — will go on air si- is now facing challenge in terms of multaneously with the launch of the na- changing customer needs and the con- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Puri, ED, Moser Baer India Ltd, said. slapped anti-dumping duties ranging around 50 per cent of its overall rev- tional news channel. ‘‘It is going to be chal- sumers calling the shots. With this development, stocks of from 17-40 per cent on the retail price enues, Puri said. lenging and do-or-die year for us,’’ said Roy. India to be net creditor, says expert: New Delhi: Moser Baer India Ltd the New Delhi-based Moser Baer of products by Taiwanese manufac- Earlier, Deepak Puri, CMD, Moser ‘‘We are confident to create a niche for us in India is likely to emerge as a net creditor (MBI), manufacturer of optical com- jumped 18.2 per cent on the BSE to hit tures, he added. Baer, said the EC ruling ‘‘validates the north Indian regional markets.’’ in another 15 months, director, chief pact disk, said on Monday that the an intra-day high of Rs 179, before Despite the favourable EC deci- our company’s stand and belief on Roy said the Sahara’s entertainment and economist for South East Asia and India European Commission has proposed closing at Rs 176.90. Market analysts sion, Moser Baer would, over the fair trade practices’’. The favourable news channels will be a free-to-air channel with Credit Suisse First Boston, P K Basu to terminate the anti-dumping move hope that the scrip is likely to regain next 6-12 months, continue to reduce conclusion of the anti-dumping in the CAS regime. Roy said the group is said. “I call India a stealth miracle. It is against the company regarding man- the Rs 200-level once again. Europe’s share from its exports pie. probe is expected to do away with the looking at collaborations with foreign part- one of the fastest growing economies in ufacturing of recordable compact Puri said that along with two Tai- This is part of its strategy to reduce uncertainty in the European Union ners for their entertainment channel Sa- the world. Over the last one year, India disks (CD-Rs). ‘‘It has been our busi- wanese companies, Moser Baer ac- risks and balance investments. The markets and among the company’s hara TV. However, Roy ruled out overseas has acquired some current account sur- ness principle to keep to norms and counts for around 70-80 per cent of company plans to shift focus on the shareholders as well. Moser Baer’s collaborations in their media business. plus and the country is likely to emerge practices in all areas of operation the global CD-R market. EC decision US, Japan and also on the domestic expansion plan of Noida facility, Samay will compete with Aaj Tak, Zee as a net creditor in another 15 months,” thus ensuring a high level of busi- will provide India a competitive ad- market. The EU accounts for around which was put on hold pending the News and Star News. Come April, they will Basu said at the summit being held in ness ethics and practices,’’ Ratul vantage. The commission had 60 per cent of its overall exports and probe, would probably take off now. also face competition from NDTV’s Hindi Hyderabad. TNN news channel. EXECUTIVE DIGEST

observing the international support centre called NATIONAL Madhuri to launch Emami long distance market and we Pinnacle technical support round II: Actress Madhuri Dixit have decided not to enter this centre for India. “Opening a SEBI to review number will do it for Emami again. She arena for the time being,” technical support centre is an of directorships: In a move will launch a second line of Net4India, chief executive extension of the importance to revamp corporate gover- beauty care products with officer (CEO), Jasjit we place on Pinnacle’s nance practices, Securities new herbal ingredients Sawhney, said. commitment to customers and Exchange Board of India like herbal oil extract. and partners in India,” will look afresh at the issue of “We are developing Mitsui to take 26% stake company’s country head number of company director- manuka oil,” in Chola Insurance: The Krishan Sanghi said in a ships that a person could Dixit said. Rs 4,200 crore Murugappa statement. hold. The market regulator’s Group promoted general in- corporate governance panel, surance venture, Cholaman- Polaris’ arbitration team headed by Infosys chairman dalam General Insurance for Singapore: A fortnight NR Narayana Murthy, would Company Ltd will shed 26 per after their problem with Bank consider various issues in- cent of its equity in favour of Artha Graha in Indonesia, a cluding board agenda and Mitsui Sumitomo of Japan. two-member team of Polaris reporting requirements, SEBI The Murugappa Group will is leaving for Singapore to ini- chairman G N Bajpai told hold 74 per cent. According tiate arbitration over the dis- reporters on the sidelines to a Cholamandalam release, pute. “A two-member team of a seminar organised by the with this tie-up, the total led by Arvind Kumar, a SC Centre for Corporate equity capital of the joint lawyer, who is also on the Governance. venture will swell to Rs 142 board of Polaris, is flying to Ajit Ninan crore from Rs 105 crore. Singapore on Tuesday to work Oilmeals exports fall by out strategies for initiating ar- period of the previous year, Net4India opts out of ILD Consequently the new com- 24 per cent: Barring rape- pany will be called Cholaman- bitration proceedings against seed meal, exports of the Solvent Extractors’ race: Another aspirant has Bank Artha Graha,” CEO Arun Association (SEA) said in a opted out of the race for dalam MS General Insurance oilmeals declined by 24 per Company Ltd. Jain said. Polaris has formed cent during the eight months statement. Of the total international long distance a team comprising Kumar, K of the current year (April to exports of oilmeals during the services with Net4India Pinnacle Systems sets Govindacharya, senior V-P, November). The total exports eight-month period, the approaching the department up tech centre in India: and Anil Verma, sales director, of oilmeals during this period steepest fall was seen in soy- of telecom to surrender its let- Nasdaq-listed Pinnacle Australian Operations, to ex- fell by 24 per cent to 8.62 bean meal which declined by ter of intent. “We have written Systems Inc, a leader in amine arbitration laws and lakh tonnes as against 11.40 43 per cent to 5.07 lakh to DoT for surrending our long digital video content creation take the case forward to the lakh tonnes during the same tonnes from 8.88 lakh tonnes. distance LoI. We have been tools, has said it has set up a stage of filing it in Singapore.

BHP Billiton CEO resigns Mitsubishi Motors spins Hitachi launches new INTERNATIONAL after 6 months: Shares in off truck division: Japan- HDD firm with IBM: Hitachi, NEC ask Intel Anglo-Australian mining giant ese automaker Mitsubishi Japanese electronics giant BHP Billiton plunged after the Motors Corp made its truck Hitachi said on Monday it has for investment in Elpida: launched a company combin- Japan’s Elpida Memory Inc, a company announced the and bus business a separate surprise resignation of chief company to focus on turning ing its hard disk drive (HDD) DRAM chip joint venture be- operations with those of US tween Hitachi Ltd and NEC executive Brian Gilbertson around its troubled car opera- after just six months in the tions. The new company, counterpart IBM to boost Corp, said on Monday its par- global competitiveness. ents have asked Intel Corp of job. BHP Billiton, the world’s Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and the United States for capital largest diversified mining Bus Corp, will be 43 per cent investment in it. An Elpida company, said Gilbertson owned by DaimlerChrysler AG ET INSTA POLL spokesman declined to com- resigned with immediate of Germany, which owns 37.3 ment on the size of the possi- effect because of “irreconcil- per cent of Mitsubishi Motors. Yesterday’s results: Are Indian TV ble investment. Securing out- able differences” with the The 89 billion yen ($745 mil- audiences beginning to tire of side investors to supply part company’s directors. He was lion) purchase by Daimler- family serials? of the 80 billion yen ($668 mil- President and CEO of Volvo replaced by Chip Goodyear, a Chrysler will take place in Yes 82% No 16% lion) needed to boost capaci- Car Corp Hans-Olov Olsson 44-year-old US national who March. Mitsubishi will hold 42 • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users ty — and cut costs — at Elpi- holds the North America joined BHP in 1999 as its per cent of Mitsubishi Fuso. who chose to participate, and not necessarily of da’s new semiconductor plant Truck of the Year Award for chief financial officer and be- Mitsubishi group companies the general public. is vital to achieve its target to their XC90 at the North came chief development offi- will make a collective pur- Today’s question: Is N R Narayana make its operations profitable American International Auto cer when BHP merged with chase of 15 per cent for 31 Murthy right in demanding that higher education should not be subsidised? by December. Show in Detroit on Sunday. Britain’s Billiton in June 2001. billion yen ($260 million).

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Jordan yet to decide Murali back in action The award goes to... Fisichella is in, Sato is out and Jayasuriya’s team got a big It’s Thorpedo versus Ronaldo, Irvine, Verstappen and Massa boost this weekend. Murali will Tiger Woods, Michael Schumacher, are hoping to jump into his be available for the VB Series Serena Williams and Tim Montgomery. No the seat. But F-1 team Jordan has match against Australia. He race is not in the pool but for the American decided to take time before bowled against a Victorian XI International Trophy. Ian Thorpe is favourite to deciding its line-up for 2003 and faced no problems retain the award that honours athletic excellence

I haven’t come to a decision Dravid should yet. There’s too much emotion around at the the moment. Tendulkar’s likely return is only silver lining lead the side: I want to sit back and have By Ahmed Abbas Rizvi Ajit Ninan dulkar himself remained very optimistic a workout. Now, he feels he can cope with a good think about it and TIMES NEWS NETWORK about his chances. ‘‘I have a very bright the demands of a One-day international,’’ sum up everything. Wellington: Finally there’s some good chance of playing,’’ he said after a strenu- said Wright. NZ media ous net session at Basin Reserve here on The former Kiwi opener was once again —Steve Waugh news for the Indians: Sachin Tendulkar Wellington: New Zealand Monday. Team physio Andrew Leipus has at pains to explain the poor Indian batting has been cleared to take part in the three media have been scathing in also given the go ahead. ‘‘He should be al- performance. ‘‘They’ve lost a bit of their SPORTS DIGEST remaining matches of the One-day Inter- their condemnation of Indi- right for Wednesday’s match,’’ said Leipus. touch; that’s clear from what I can see. It’s national series against New Zealand. an cricketers after the team’s AFP Indian coach, John Wright was also op- not so long ago they were successfully Though the series is lost, there’s still a lot capitulation in the seven timistic about Tendulkar’s chances of chasing huge totals. They can play but to play for and Tendulkar could provide match One-day series, which playing. ‘‘The physio (Leipus) and I had a the inspiration that the lackadaisical Indi- they’re out of touch. goes into the 5th tie Wednes- ans have been seeking so far. half-hour chat with Sachin after the ‘‘Even now, we can be back on track if day with India 4-0 down. The maestro, if he plays at the West- Queenstown defeat, and he’s confident of the batsmen realise the importance of dis- Writing in Auckland’s New pactrust Stadium on Wednesday, will be making a return in the next few days,’’ cipline. This series is over, not the tour. Zealand Herald, cricket corre- making his first appearance in a One-day Wright said. And Wright feels Tendulkar’s ‘‘Generally, conditions have been tough spondent Richard Boock said International since the washed-out finals of return will fire up the Indian side. ‘‘Obvi- and the wickets bowler-friendly but, then, it was time Sourav Ganguly the ICC Champions Trophy on September ously, Sachin’s presence alone should lift you’ve got to stop repeating mistakes. As it took a leaf out of Antarctic 30/October 1. It would be the 301st One-day- the confidence of the other batsmen. He happened, this time (at Queenstown) we A relaxed South African captain explorer Captain Oates’ book er of his illustrious career in which he has was set to play the third game but was kept had a fair wicket and, after getting a start, and considered “taking a long Shaun Pollock smiles after scored 11,544 runs and 33 centuries. Ten- off the roster as his ankle swelled up after the batsmen ought to have consolidated. clinching the series 2-0 against walk in the cold”. Pakistan at Cape Town on Sunday. “The Indian skipper has been missing in action so of- Akram goes to court: After fail- ten on this tour, that it would ing to prevail on the Pakistan Cricket hardly be a major blow if he Board (PCB) to lift the curbs im- sat out the Wellington match, posed on him in connection with the if only to give his team mates match fixing allegations, Pakistan’s England prevent the sweep a break,” Boock wrote. He top cricketer Wasim Akram has filed AFP said that if Ganguly was a a writ petition in the Lahore high Sydney: England finished their man of impressive influence, court challenging the “sanctions” miserable Ashes tour on a victo- able to inspire despite his own which barred him from being ap- rious note with a 225-run thrash- lean form, there would be a pointed as the skipper of the national ing of Australia to prevent a his- strong case for retaining him. team. Challenging the sanctions im- toric 5-0 series whitewash in the “If he was a shrewd old fox posed by PCB on the recommenda- final Test here on Monday. capable of pulling strings in tions of the match-fixing inquiry Pounded in their first three the field or reading the New commission headed by Justice Malik Tests to lose the series in a whirl- Zealand tactics and manufac- Qayyum in May 2000, Akram said wind 11 playing days before ex- turing counter strategies, that the commission had wrongly im- erting pressure in the fourth Mel- there would again be some plicated him. PTI bourne Test, Nasser Hussain’s sense in leaving him at the Pace duo sidelined: Australia will tourists saved their best until last helm. “But Ganguly appears resume the triangular one-day crick- to outplay the Australians. to be a player who relies on et series this week without injured Buttressed by Michael Vaugh- his own considerable genius strike pair Glenn McGrath and Jason an’s majestic second innings of to change the game single- Gillespie. Gillespie was ruled out 183 and 34-year-old paceman handedly and never really of Thursday’s day-night match Andy Caddick’s 7-94 to skittle has to think much about the against Sri Lanka after injuring his el- Australia for 226, England shoved team.”Reuters bow in Australia’s fifth Ashes Test to one side the memories of Aus- defeat here on Monday. McGrath, tralia’s superiority to savour a who missed the Test with a side special victory. strain, was also ruled out of the England set Australia an over- Dope test for One-dayer and, while champion whelming task of chasing 452 for legspinner Shane Warne is ahead victory, but swept to a massive Indian team with his recovery from a dislocated victory as Caddick produced his Wellington: The tour- shoulder. AFP second-best bowling performance ing Indian cricketers Challenger Trophy postponed: to wreck the vaunted Australian couldn’t be suspected of The Challenger Trophy, scheduled to batting lineup. taking performance-en- be held in Kolkata from January 18- In the end the victory was com- hancing drugs given 21, has been postponed till after the pleted in 54 overs — 34 overs on their poor showing on World Cup. While the board is yet to Monday — as Australia collapsed the present tour but nev- make any formal announcement, it under the concerted pressure ertheless a dope test will has decided to announce the new with bowlers Andy Bichel (49) be conducted on each dates only after completion of the and Brett Lee (46) the top scorers. member of the team be- mega-event on March 23. Top stars It was Australia’s first Test de- fore they fly out home feat at home in four years since of the Indian squad, who are now England spinner Richard Dawson (2nd from right) celebrates with teammates Nasser Hussain (right), John Crawley (centre) and Robert Key on January 15. taking a beating in New Zealand, England claimed the 1998 Boxing after dismissing Australian batsman Damien Martyn on the final day of the fifth Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday. The players are ex- have expressed their reluctance to Day Test in Melbourne and only pected to go for the test take part in the event — which their third to England in the last ence. “But, it’s been a very enjoy- play on a wicket and the ball shortly, according to a forced the Board to rethink. TNN SCORE BOARD 15 Ashes contests. able five days, it was a great Test swings around we have bowlers member of the Indian But Hussain was looking at the match, one of the best I’ve played and batsmen who can cope with England (1st innings): 362 J Gillespie not out 3 team requesting BETTING METER bigger picture when asked if in, not only because we won, but that.” Australia (1st innings): 363 S MacGill b Caddick 1 anonymity.The test, the Monday’s euphoric victory because of the (crowd) support, “It’s hard to maintain that sort England (2nd innings): 452/9 decl Extras: (b 6, lb 8, w 3, nb 3) 20 CRICKET source revealed, is an in- helped ease the pain of the 4-1 se- the conditions, Steve Waugh, of intensity and quality over a Australia (2nd inns, overnight 93/3): Total: (All out, in 54 overs) 226 A Bichel lbw b Caddick 49 Fall of wickets: 4-93, 5-99, 6-109, 7-139, 8- ternal measure intend- India vs NZ 5th ODI, Jan. 8 ries defeat. their team, our team... it was a long period of time and in this D Martyn c Stewart b Dawson 21 181, 9-224. ed to avoid any embar- India 5:4 “No, not really,it’s the same old great Test match. Test match we just weren’t good S Waugh b Caddick 6 Bowling: Hoggard 13-3-35-1 (1 nb), Caddick M Love b Harmison 27 22-5-94-7, Harmison 9-1-42-1 (3 w, 2 nb), rassment for India in New Zealand 4:7 story, we lost the Ashes 4-1 so “Let’s not suddenly make out enough and England capitalised the forthcoming World that’s the bottom line,” Hussain that everything’s turned better on their opportunities,” ad- A Gilchrist c Butcher b Caddick 37 Dawson 10-2-41-1. as per ladbrokes.com B Lee c Stewart b Caddick 46 Man-of-the-match & series: Michael Vaughan. Cup in South Africa. PTI told his post-match press confer- around,” he cautioned. “When we mitted Waugh. AFP Steve looks for ROAD TO THE WORLD CUP McMillan axed, new challenges Murder twist to Harare row Bond is back Sydney: Steve Waugh will TIMES NEWS NETWORK consider whether Test crick- Harare: Zimbabwe’s suit- stressed that they cannot cussions with other World et offers fresh challenges be- ability as a venue for next force their sides to with- Cup cricketing nations in Wellington: Craig McMil- fore deciding whether to ex- month’s Cricket World Cup draw from games in hopes of organising a group lan’s charmed existence in tend his glorious 156-Test ca- was in the spotlight again Zimbabwe. The Internation- boycott of Zimbabwe ven- the New Zealand cricket reer. The 37-year-old Aus- after a 27-year-old Aus- al Cricket Council has al- ues during the tournament, team came to an end on Mon- tralian skipper led the world tralian tourist was stabbed ways maintained that the due to open in Cape Town day when he was dropped for champions to a 4-1 Ashes se- to death at the country’s six World Cup matches due on February 8. the fifth One-day Interna- ries win, but not after Eng- prime tourist destination, to take place in Zimbabwe Boycott call in SA: In Jo- tional against India at West- land won the final Test by 225 the Victoria Falls. would go ahead as long as hannesburg, South African pacTrust Stadium in runs at the Sydney Cricket He was attacked as he the safety and security opposition lawmakers said Wellington on Wednesday. Ground on Monday. came out of the rain forest of the players could be on Monday that the plans to Pace bowler Shane Bond, Waugh said he would re- at the waterfall in north- assured. hold upcoming cricket NZ TEAM flect on his position over the western Zimbabwe on However, the ICC subse- World Cup matches in Zim- coming weeks following the Saturday, the police chief quently admitted that it babwe would lend legitima- who proved his fitness in a end of a gruelling interna- in Victoria Falls, might change its plans if cy to embattled Zimbab- domestic match on Sunday, tional season of eight Test Alexio Paradzai, told the situation deteriorated wean president Robert Mu- has returned to the side in matches in 12 weeks. “I think state radio. before the start of World gabe the same way the 1936 the only swap from the team I’ve said all along I’ll make an Both Australian Prime Cup tournament which gets Olympics in Berlin were that clinched the series at announcement after the Minister John Howard and underway on February 8. used to boost Hitler. Queenstown. ‘‘Craig has been struggling Test,” Waugh told ABC radio his British counterpart Aussie response: ‘‘The The matches would be Tony Blair have called on murder underscores the used, “in the same way as for form with the bat and has after the match. their respective teams to need for a boycott of World the 1936 Olympic Games in some technical issues to ad- “I haven’t come to a deci- pull out of their matches in Cup matches in the strife- Berlin were used to build dress,’’ said chairman of se- sion yet. There’s too much Zimbabwe during the World torn nation,’’ an Australian Adolf Hitler’s profile,” the lectors, Sir Richard Hadlee. emotion around at the the Cup cricket in protest at the foreign ministry main opposition democratic Team: Stephen Fleming (captain), Nathan moment. policies of its President spokesman said in Sydney alliance said in a statement, Astle, Mathew Sinclair, Scott Styris, Chris “I want to sit back and Robert Mugabe. on Monday. He said Aus- the South African Press As- Harris, Brendon McCullum, Jacob Oram, have a good think about it Andre Adams, Kyle Mills, Daniel Vettori, However, the duo have tralia was continuing dis- sociation reported. Agencies and sum up everything.”AFP Shane Bond, Daryl Tuffey. We do not want to disrupt our winning habit STRAIGHT DRIVE rounders in the side, a situa- top-order batsmen get a simi- the hook in spite of some pletely put India out of the tion that will only get better lar amount of time in the pretty ordinary batting. competition. I still feel that Stephen Fleming once Chris Cairns returns to middle, and given a chance We have been experiment- the Indian batting line-up is the side. I’d definitely bat first. The In- ing with various batting or- capable of firing, but time is We go into the last three The only worry is that our dians have set such low totals ders and bowling combina- certainly running out. I hear games against India with the batting has not been firing in three of the four games tions over the last 18 months, that Sachin Tendulkar will series under our belt thanks and this is why we plan to that we were actually let off so I feel we are done with that be making a comeback in the to yet another extremely dis- take first strike if we win the stage of our preparation. game at Wellington, so ciplined bowling effort. Once toss in any of the next three From now on, the correct maybe that will boost the vis- again we used the bounce games. Since we have already thing to do would be to rotate itors’ confidence. Losing six well on a wicket that was won the series, we should the bowlers and give them games — two Tests and four pretty good. At present we take the opportunity to get ample practice in the middle. ODIs — in a row can really are playing on momentum practice in various aspects of Shane Bond was cleared by dent one’s self-belief and a lot and the winning habit is so the game, including setting a the physio and has played rests on Tendulkar’s shoul- addictive that the boys don’t target. This series has been two domestic games last ders from here on. want it to break just yet. undoubtedly tough for bats- week, so he will be playing Our job is to ensure that The performance of Andre men, and the only way to get the next three games. We the Indians stay on the mat Adams, who was making a runs has been by grafting. I might consider giving Tuffey and the Black Caps are focus- comeback, proved that when took the opportunity to a break, but he seems to be ing on not getting compla- you have bench strength spend some time in the mid- enjoying bowling at the Indi- cent. We want to keep the every player tries to make the dle in Queenstown and it was ans so much, that it will take winning habit but this time most of the chances that quite a relief to be among the some convincing! I’d like the batsmen rather come by. We now have the runs once again. In fact, we have really than the bowlers to set up the luxury of quite a few all- I want to ensure that all the played superb cricket to com- win. Gameplan

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16 Tuesday,January 7, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Prevalence favourite for 2000 Guineas New Delhi: Prevalence, win- Northern Trioka Plate (div.II): 1,100m: Prince Carlito’s Way wins: Results: Splash Plate: Honey 1, Prince of Cheats 2, King of Mohra 3. ner of the 1000 Guineas, is in Empress of India 1, Roman Flame 2, Cormac Jerwah Plate; 1,200m: Power of Zero 1, Silent 3. Halebeedu Plate: Aerobee 1, Squeeze 2, Stats come to East Bengal’s rescue fine shape. She is well poised Winner 2, The Ghost 3. Doaba Stud & Agricul- Grey Bull 3. Treasure Girl Plate: Strawber- Harish Tyagi to lift the Tribhovandas tural Farm Cup: 1,200m: Hopes Are High 1, ry 1,Walk In The Clouds 2, Clipper 3. Varuna By Nilankur Das for this match,” he informed and ran anga. “We needed this defeat, the Seeker 2, Manaslu 3. Tribhovandas Bhimji Za- Plate (div.II): Silk Petals 1, Crystal Delight 2, Bhimji Zaveri 2000 Guineas, veri 2000 Guineas: 1,400m: Prevalence 1, No- TIMES NEWS NETWORK downstairs to be with his team as team was getting very complacent. ble Nancy 2, My Great Hope 3. Cornish Dame Caesarr 3. Continual Trophy: Carlito’s Way New Delhi: A man was sitting alone they were coming out of the ground, This should come as a wake-up call,” the main event of Tuesday’s Plate: 1,600m: Inner Voice 1, Quick Step 2,Aca- 1, Full Moon 2, Black Flower 3. Varuna Delhi races. cia Blossom 3. Sweet Lucky Delia Plate; Plate (div.I): Dream of Sun 1, Brave Risk 2, on the top tier of the Ambedkar Sta- defeated 0-1. was all he could say after a match Northern Trioka Plate (div.I): 1,100m: 1.30pm: 1,000m: 4.35pm: Winning Surprise 1, Divine Anjam 3. Lalbagh Plate: Brave Dream 1, dium. Seeing his sullen face, one did- Though credit is due to MEG for which saw mispasses, pedestrian Royal Charger 1, The Arowana 2, The Mob 3. Power 2, Gangotri 3. Omni Presence 2, Young Gentleman 3. TNN n’t to be a psychologist to conclude the way they played, East Bengal movement and awful ball-control. that his favourite team was losing. goalkeeper Sangram Mukherjee The second match, however, went But what made a Nigerian feel sad in must take the blame for the conced- on predictable lines. Salgaocar a Durand Cup match between East ing the goal. He fumbled with a drubbed Assam Regimental Centre Bengal and MEG, Bangalore? The harmless free-kick by Shiyad and without much fuss. Nigerian Dudu man was Mike Okoro, who had Ajith Kumar gleefully nodded in. Omagbemi scored the first hat-trick scored twice in East Bengal’s first And more than that, considering that of the tournament in the 3-0 victory. match. “We will be out of the tourna- they are one of the top contenders for What didn’t work for East Bengal, ment if we lose today,” he said. this year’s NFL, the rest of the East worked for the Goans. Obviously the burly striker didn’t Bengal team should feel ashamed Their move to try out Dudu in know that the Kolkata outfit would that they couldn’t score against a place of Liberian Sunday Seah came be through to the semis by virtue of a team that doesn’t have much of an off well, actually a little too well for better goal average and he grinned existence in Indian football. coach Savio Mederira, who now has from ear to ear the moment he was Even coach Subhas Bhowmick’s to decide between the two for the statistically updated. last resort Tushar Rakshit couldn’t semifinal against East Bengal on But why was the last tie’s hero sit- change the complexion of the match. Wednesday. ting out? “The coach wanted to try Trijit Das missed three golden oppor- Salgaocar striker Dudu Omagbemi in Tuesday’s match (semifinal): Mohammedan Sport- out Gilmar Gonzalves (from Brazil) tunities and so did Malsamwa Tulu- action against ARC in Durand Cup. ing vs Army XI 2.30pm. Pankaj storms into semis ‘Sponsors have By Indraneel Das without a warning. Rafat learnt it and it’s TIMES NEWS NETWORK nothing new he felt; so did Rishab of Delhi in the pre-quarters, who said later, ‘‘Pankaj was Jammu: Pankaj Advani will savour this mo- to show interest’ simply unstoppable’’. ment for the rest of his life. No he’s not won For the first two frames, Rafat was just a By Nilanjan Datta they doing it? the senior National snooker title, as yet, but spectator to Pankaj’s outstanding callisthen- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Unless the Federation has broken a jinx and is into the semifinals ics on the table. On his next visit to the table New Delhi: forces it down their throat no for the first time in his six-year-old career. He’s the only club or state association will That, too, after toppling two seeded players — after breaking the frame, Pankaj potted a long red in the far left from the right corner. Indian to take it seriously. Only the fa- No 4 Rishab Thukral, in the pre-quarters, and score a hat- ther can control his mischie- then Rafat Habib (No 5), in the quarters. ‘‘That sent out a sensation up my spine and it gave me the confidence I needed to play more trick and a vous child. Very few children What was more satisfying for the preco- double hat- do it themselves. cious 17-year-old was the way he was hitting difficult shots,’’ he said. Potting and canons never looked so easy. trick in an in- How’d you stop the talent- the ball. ‘‘It was fantastic,’’ Pankaj said after ternational ed youngsters from fading? He controlled his shots with great finesse and beating Rafat of Railways in the here late on tournament. Age hasn’t Basic education is a must went on to record a 59-break. Rafat seemed Monday. He next plays Siddharth Parekh of toned down Subhas for a player. Self-discipline rattled and never recovered. He missed a sim- Railways who beat Kamal Chawla 5-3. Bhowmick, the East Bengal comes next. For example, I ple red and gave away the frame to Pankaj 83- However, Yasin Merchant is yet to be test- coach. He still stands robust have made a diet-chart for ed in the tourney. On Monday, he stormed 22. The second frame was no different. Rafat with a do-or-die attitude. He my boys. But I don’t stay with into the last four beating Brijesh Damani in coiled himself up into his defensive shell, fears God, loves reading, is a them round-the-clock. Then, five straight frames for a showdown against shielding the object balls, but Pankaj had oth- disciple of Ramakrishna they are expected to go to the No 2 seed Dharmender Lilly of Punjab. Yasin er ideas. Gaining in confidence, Pankaj wait- Math and Mission and is a physio regularly. If they also recorded the highest break of the tour- ed for Rafat to make mistake. Rafat did and rare-breed among Indian don’t, their life-span as a nament, 135, in the morning when he beat that was all Pankaj needed. A straight red coaches who’s updated with player is shortened. Kanish Jhanjhariya in four straight frames and a fine cut to pocket the black and he latest soccer evolutions. He How would you rate the in the pre-quarters. rounded the frame with a 52-point break (84- spoke to Times News Net- physique of Indian players? The surprise of the championship has 0). The third witnessed Rafat coming back work. The excerpts: Poor. Genetically, the mod- been the ouster of defending champion and into the match with a small break of 21. Can the present club ern day generation is fragile No 1 seed Alok Kumar,who lost 3-4 to Madhya Pankaj, however made the decisive breaks of structure produce a pro- which is one of the major rea- Pradesh’s Kamal, a fringe player only. 33 and 43 enroute his 84-46 win. fessional set-up? sons for the poor perform- Snooker can be cruel, sometimes. It not Results: Quarter-finals (best of 9): Yasin Merchant bt B Unless the financial elites ance over the last two only needs talent and big concentration, it Damani 5-0, Dharmender Lilly bt Varun Taneja 5-2, Pankaj Advani show their interest it’s im- decades. Hyderabad and Kar- also needs immense patience. Despite play- bt Rafat Habib 5-3, Sidharth Parekh bt Kamal Chawla 5-3. Pre- possible. Much alike horse- quarters (best of 7): Kamal Chawla bt Alok Kumar 4-3, Sidharth nataka, that were once the ing well, you may be resigned to your fate — Parekh bt A Danda 4-1, Rafat Habib bt Kamal Rohmetra 4-2, racing the public money has supply-lines produced players of being a mere spectator when the opponent Pankaj Advani bt R Thukral 86-23, 74-23, 70-0, 63-12, Yasin Mer- to be involved. The clubs too with excellent physique. The pots ball after ball. You just have to bear the chant beat K Jhanjhariya 4-0, B Damani bt Shyam Jagtiani 4-3, have to generate their own day they stopped coming and torment in silence as the pressure multiplies Varun Taneja bt Sourav Kothari 4-2, D Lilly bt A Haque 4-0. money.If ‘Playwin’ can be le- playing in Kolkata, Indian galised by the government soccer died it’s natural death. CAPITAL SPORT why can’t betting in soccer be Whom would you pick in NZ U-17 squad: Following held in Chandigarh. Bhrigu’s Shakuntala Devi Dogra Memorial (U-19) legalised? an all-time Indian XI? players were selected to rep- gold medals came in free- Cricket Tournament: Pahari Dhiraj Crick- But majority of sponsor- It’s hard, I haven’t seen et Academy 223 for 8 in 40 overs (Mohit ship goes into cricket... resent North Zone team in pistol (sr men), standard pis- Sharma 65, Raman Gujral 40; Vikas Rathi much football prior to the 60s. the Under-17 Vijay Hazare tol (sr men), free pistol (jr 3/29) beat Haryana Cricket Academy 128 There was a time when Leaving that out, my dream- trophy knockout tournament men), air pistol (jr men). He all out in 31.2 overs (Ashwani Kumar 39; baseball was slow-poisoning team will be: Peter Thangaraj; to be played at Hyderabad. also won the silver medal in Sarvpreet Singh 3/18, Anuj Jain 2/42) by every other sport in Japan Jarnail Singh, T.A. Rehman, The first three-day match will standard pistol (jr men) and a 95 runs to reach quarterfinals. and Korea. But they had the DDCA League: Division B: Sonnex Club Arun Ghosh; Sudhir Kar- be played against South bronze in sports pistol. 223 all out in 34.1 overs (Rajesh Suneja zeal to market soccer and makar,Chuni Goswami, Yusuf Zone on January 25. Ball badminton: Following 85 n.o, Mukesh Arora 43; Kamal Kant they did it. I met Jagmohan Khan, Tulsidas Balaram, 3/35) lost to Bank of India 227 for 8 in 34 Dalmiya the other day and of- Kempia; P.K. Banerjee, Inder The squad: Ankur Jund (Pun, captain), players will represent Delhi overs (Sunil Rakhra 138, Santosh Kumar Gaurav Chabra (Del, v.captain), Gaurav University at the All India in- 28 n.o, Mohd. Ismail 2/37) by two wickets. fered to take him to market Singh. Reserves: Tarun Bose, Sharma (Del), Mandeep Singh (Pun), football in India. O. Chandrasekhar, Syed Nay- Mayank Sidana (Del), Rupeetinder Singh ter-varsity ball badminton Selection trials: Selection trials for chess (Pun), Uday Kaul (Pun, wicket-keeper), championship to be held at team for National School Games will be Shouldn’t the clubs eemuddin, Sudip Chatterjee, Naresh Kumar (Pun), Ankur Garg (Del), Andhra University, Vishkhap- held at Chhatrasal Stadium, Model Town, maintain under-age Gautam Sarkar, I.M. Vijayan on Wednesday at 3pm. Lokesh Sharma (Har), Hardavender (Pun), atnam from Tuesday. teams? If so, why aren’t and your’s truly. Monty Sharma (Him), Vikram Sharma Gold Star Cup Cricket: Harry CC 128 in (Him), Wilkins Victor (Del), Mudassar The team: Deepak Singh Bisht (captain), 29.4 overs (Manjov Singh 34 not out, Mushtaq (J&K). Standbyes: Anurag Day- Durgesh Uniyal, manoj Bartwal, Harish Vikas garg 38 , Sachin Gaurav 3 for 16) Chand, C Rajan, Harish Chandra Gaur, lost to Gold Star CA 129 for 3 in 19 overs Mondal out of Dhaka meet al (Him), Punit Bisht (Del), Lalit Vashisht Nardev, Manager Dr. PP Ranganathan. (Pargat Singh 38) by 7 wickets. (Har), Munish Raghuvanshi (J&K). TIMES NEWS NETWORK Rajiv Gandhi Memorial (u-17) cricket: Devender coach cricket title: Interface Bhrigu bags gold: Delhi’s Scindia Academy 172 for 9 in 35 overs 206 in 29.5 overs: (Suresh Tanwar 41, Kolkata: National coach Stephen Constantine dropped for- Bhrigu Dutt (GD Goenka pub- (Sonu Kasana 37, Sobars Joban 28, Kamal Surender Dayma 32, Kuldeep Diwan 3 for mer Indian captian Basudeb Mondal in the 20-member squad lic School) won four gold Chaudhary 26; Ramit Gill 3/13) beat Re- 27, Padamjeet Sehra wat 2/40). NCA mal Public School 129 all out in 25 overs 207/8 in 29.4 overs: (Jitender Gulia 51, for the SAFF Championship to be held in Dhaka from Janu- medals in the 27th Northern (Upmanay 27; Sobars Joban 4/35, Hemant Kuldeep Diwan 47, Surender Dayma 3for ary 10. Debjit Ghosh has been named as the captain. India Shooting Championship 2/5) by 43 runs to reach pre-quarters. 31, KS Rana 2 for 21). Team: Goalkeepers: Rajat Ghosh Dastidar, Virender Singh, Naseem Akhtar. Defend- ers: M. Suresh, Debjit Ghosh (captain), Sameer Naik, Roberto Fernandes, Selwyn Fer- nandes, Abhay Kumar. Midfielders: S. Venkatesh, Subhash Chakrabarty, Rennedy Singh, Jo-Paul Ancheri, Harvinder Singh, Jules Alberto, Lawrence Climax. Forwards: Alvito D’- Cunha, I.M. Vijayan, Ashim Biswas, Abhishek Yadav.

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INTERNATIONAL berto Martin (Spa) 6-3 6-2, Vincent Leading final round scores: 202 Hi- BASKETBALL Spadea (USA) beat Anthony Dupuis (Fra) royuki Fujita (Jpn) 67 68 67, 205 Yusaku National Basketball Association: San 6-3 6-4, Felix Mantilla (Spa) beat 5-Jose Miyazato (Jpn) 68 70 67, Ted Purdy Antonio 94 LA Clippers 86, New Orleans Acasuso (Arg) 6-3 7-5, Fernando Vicente (USA) 65 70 70, 208 Tomohiro Kondo 99 Toronto 84, Portland 92 New York 89, (Spa) beat Luis Horna (Per) 4-6 7-6 (7-5) (Jpn) 66 69 73,Tetsuji Hiratsuka (Jpn) 68 Sacramento 96 Miami 70, LA Lakers 109 6-2, Kenneth Carlsen (Den) bt Andre Sa 67 73, 209 Taichi Teshima (Jpn) 69 71 Phoenix 97. (Bra) 6-7 (7-9) 7-5 6-4. 69, James Oh (Kor) 70 67 72, 210 FOOTBALL Sanex WTA Tour Adidas International, Masashi Ozaki (Jpn) 68 68 74, 211 Hide- England’s FA Challenge Cup (third Sydney: 1st round: Elena Bovina (Rus) ki Kase (Jpn) 69 72 70,Akinori Tani (Jpn) round): Fulham 3 Birmingham 1, Man beat 5-Anastasia Myskina (Rus) 6-3 7-5, 72 68 71, Toru Suzuki (Jpn) 70 69 72, City 0 Liverpool 1, Wolverhampton 3 Tamarine Tanasugarn (Tha) beat Klara Daisuke Maruyama (Jpn) 69 70 72, Unho Newcastle 2. Koukalova (Cze) 6-2 3-6 6-2, Olga Bara- Park (Aus) 69 67 75, Dinesh Chand (Fij) Spanish Primera Liga: Barcelona 3 banschikova (Blr) beat Conchita Martinez 70 66 75, Nozomi Kawahara (Jpn) 71 71 Recreativo Huelva 0, CD Alaves 2 Es- (Spa) 2-6 6-2 6-4, 8-Magdalena Malee- 69, 212 Kenichi Kuboya (Jpn) 70 70 72, panyol 1, Real Madrid 4 Valencia 1, Real va (Bul) beat Silvia Farina Elia (Ita) 3-6 7- Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 71 70 71, Kat- Sociedad 2 Malaga 2, Sevilla 3 Mallorca 5 6-0. sumune Imai (Jpn) 71 69 72, Wook-soon 0, Villarreal 4 Atletico Madrid 3. Kang (Kor) 72 68 72, Taimur Hussain TENNIS GOLF (Pak) 71 69 72, Thongchai Jaidee ATP Tour Heineken Open, Auckland Asian PGA Tour, Okinawa Open, (Tha) 70 71 71, Katsuya Nakagawa (1st round): David Ferrer (Spa) beat Al- Southern Links Golf Club, Japan: (Jpn) 71 66 75. Harikrishna is joint second Hastings (England): Though he failed to defend his title, Grandmaster Pentyala Harikrishna had a positive start to the season finishing a creditable tied second in the Premier tour- nament of the Hastings In- ternational Chess Congress. Harikrishna trailed the winner GM Peter Heine Nielsen of Denmark by half a point after a victory against GM Glenn Flear of England in the ninth and final round. Nielsen stamped his au- thority on the category-12 tournament with an easy draw with GM Keith Arkell of England to emerge sole leader with 6 points. Arkell shared the second place with Harikishna on 5.5 points. Results (final round): Keith Arkell (Eng, 5.5) drew Peter Heine Nielsen (Den, 6); P Harikrishna (5.5) beat Glenn Flear (Eng, 4); Sergey Karjakin (Ukr, 5) drew Alexei Barsov (Uzb, 5); Krishnan Sasikiran (4.5) drew Vitaly Tseshkovsky (Rus, 2); Alexandra Kosteniuk (Rus, 3) beat Luke McShane (Eng, 4.5). Final Standings: 1. Nielsen 6; 2-3. Harikrishna, Arkell 5.5 each; 4-5. Barsov, Karjakin 5 each; 6-7. McShane, Sasikiran 4.5 each; 8. Flear 4; 9. Kosteniuk 3; 10. Tseshkovsky 2. PTI

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK was all they needed as they TIMES IN WELLINGTON attacked from flanks to tor- New Delhi: Punjab Police ment IA goalkeeper Ashish Completely unbeatable: Behind Wellington). but overall we are well above once again proved that they Cops ground IA for title Balal. They managed to The WestpacTrust Stadium is thanks to two good ‘‘Test are a force to reckon with sneak past him finally when an imposing modern struc- Indians cold shouldered: crowds.’’ when it comes to hockey in they proved their previous men retaliated with tight and Gagan Ajit Singh while Sarabjit (senior) combining ture. But for the cricket lover, New Zealand cricket fans the country. Unconquered in win was no fluke. At the marking and snatched the Jugraj Singh stood like a with Daljit scored the winner it can never come close to have gone cold on the Indi- Bad news for Indians: the last few months, the cops same time, they also ensured initiative when Baljit Singh rock between Dhanraj Pillay ten minutes before the close. the Basin Reserve. And one ans, with only 8000 tickets There could be more bad on Monday defeated Indian that the high-voltage clash Dhillon equalised through and the goalpost. of the biggest appeals of the pre-sold for Wednesday’s news for the struggling Indi- Airlines 2-1 in the final of had nothing of the sorts that At the end, it was the sur- Meanwhile, two senior Basin is its cricket museum One-day International in an batsmen if the pitch pre- Chhatrapati Shivaji hockey spoils their celebration. No HOCKEY vival of the fittest as the Pun- sports journalists — V. Sri- — the only one of its kind in Wellington. Any hope of as- dictions are true. The West- tournament to stamp their fights, barely any cards and jab men played with varia- vatsa (Times of India) and K. the country. The cricket mu- sembling a half-decent pacTrust Stadium pitch for superiority. the final saw good hockey at their very first penalty cor- tion in their Jaganadha seum is filled with must-see crowd at the stadium was Wednesday’s fifth One-day The two sides had met in display. IA attacked in waves ner, four minutes later. The game. Last Rao (PTI) — displays of old and new dashed by New Zealand’s International will assist the the Nehru hockey final when and took early lead with a Dhillon brothers — Baljeet fifteen were felici- cricket memorabilia — from seven-wicket win in Queen- bowlers early on, according they were involved in a virtu- penalty corner goal in the and Daljit, nick-named ‘Balli’ minutes tated on the the oldest cricket bat you are stown on Saturday. New to the curator. ‘‘There will be and ‘Dalli’ — combined well of aggres- occasion. ever likely to see, through to Zealand Cricket’s marketing al fist-fight before Punjab Po- 12th minute scored by a bit there with the new ball with Sarabjit Singh (senior) sive play great new displays of more manager Peter Dwan can see lice won. And on Monday, Mukesh Kumar. The Punjab but I’m very happy with the recent cricket mementoes. the writing on the wall for the pitch,’’ turf manager Trevor Amongst the many exhibits remaining three games, — most of which glorify the though sales are likely to be Jackson said. The bounce glorious Sir Donald Bradman helped by strong Indian com- and pace would be on the — is the cricket ball made munities in Auckland and ‘‘medium’’ side, he said. But from string by a Prisoner of Hamilton. ‘‘We all entered Jackson is erring on the side War and Dennis Lillee’s ‘‘infa- into this series thinking it was of caution because he wants mous’’ aluminium bat. And going to be very close, with a slightly drier surface than of course, there are those the possibility our guys normal to avoid excessive rare cricket books on sale.A would be on the back foot — movement. The toss will then trip is an absolute must, as we weren’t to know India become crucial once again. the Museum proudly claims, would be so poor. I suspect before you LBW (Leave we’ll be well below budget Ahmed Abbas Rizvi

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...Meanwhile in Sydney, Australian captain Steve Waugh watches his two children Rosalie (L) and Austin (R) hit a golf ball on the Sydney Cricket Ground after the final Ashes cricket Test against England on Monday. ‘Aussies are official No. 1’ Sydney: Rival captains Steve Waugh and Nasser Hussain are unanimous: Australia are the best side in the world cricket. England’s comeback 225-run victory in the fifth Ashes Test here on Monday coincided with South Africa’s move to the top of the International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings cour- tesy of a two-nil home series win against Pakistan. “Australia are officially No. 1,” Waugh said on Mon- day although he conceded Shaun Pollock’s men had achieved the difficult feat of beating India in India in 2000. “South Africa deep down would know that we’re a bet- ter cricket side than them,” said Waugh, whose team thumped the Proteas 3-0 in Australia and 3-1 in South Africa in an unofficial world championship series last year. “That’s not being big- headed, that’s being realistic, although from their point of view they can say they’ve won in the sub-continent, which we haven’t. AFP Hussain defends Caddick, Stewart Sydney: Nasser Hussain on Monday urged selectors not to drop team veterans Andy Caddick and Alec Stewart for the sake of change, unless their replacments were bet- ter than them. Caddick and Stewart were singled out as being past it when England slumped to an 11-day loss of the Ashes se- ries to Australia, but the campaigners were among the tourists’ star performers when England thrashed the world champions by 225 runs in the final Sydney Test on Monday. Caddick, maligned for much of the lopsided series, captured 7-94 and among them were the key wickets of Steve Waugh (6), Adam Gilchrist (37), Justin Langer (3) and Ricky Ponting (11). It was the 34-year-old’s best Test match return since his 7- 46 against South Africa in Durban in December 1999. Caddick’s 10 match wick- ets gave him 234 Test wickets and just two behind Alec Bedser, the sixth all-time leading English wicket-taker. Stewart, who turns 40 in April, hit 71 in the first in- nings and an unbeaten 38 when Hussain declared his team’s second innings at 452 for nine late on Sunday. The Surrey wicketkeeper, on his fourth Ashes tour to Australia, finished the series with 268 runs in four Tests at 44.6. Stewart took his Test ca- reer tally to 8,187 runs. Only Graham Gooch (8,900) and David Gower (8,231) have scored more runs for Eng- land.AFP

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