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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Tuesday,January 7, 2003 Capital 24 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Saddam accuses Venkaiah flays Cong England win final UN inspectors remark against BJP’s Test and avoid of espionage Gujarat campaign Ashes whitewash Page 11 Page 7 Page 15 WIN WITH THE TIMES Sanjay Sekhri Ask before hot Established 1838 Bigger gas Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. 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.