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New Delhi June 1, 2003, Capital • 46 pages including Men & Women & Classifieds + 8 pages of Delhi Times Price Rs. 2.75 Memories of another day.... AP PM talks terrorism Sindhudarshan brings India together through its rivers. Dancers and musicians carry waters from rivers across the country to Leh and pour them into the Sindhu, another name for the Indus. with world leaders By Manoj Joshi ed: The two big neighbours TIMES NEWS NETWORK Vajpayee’s biz needed to cooperate to pro- mote peace and security in Met leaders of four of St Petersburg: In the past • the region. twenty-four hours, Prime the five permanent members of the UNSC The Indian side was appre- Minister Atal Bihari Vajpay- ciative of Putin taking time ee has been working for his • Met Chinese President off from his hectic engage- supper.Of the five permanent for the first time ments to meet Vajpayee. The members on the Security 20-minute discussion touched Council, he has met the lead- • Shared table with Bush, Putin and EU head upon sensitive subjects relat- ers of four and interacted ing to military-technical co- with a number of other at heads of state dinner; by design say officials operation and space. world leaders. The PM met There was substantive dis- the Chinese President Hu cussion between Vajpayee Jintao for the first time on able the two leaders to dis- and the British and French Saturday morning. cuss issues of mutual con- leaders. Both of them, along At 10 pm on Friday, he met cern. Specially since they are with Germany will be hosting SNAPSHOTS French President Jacque not scheduled to have any bi- the Pakistani leader Pervez AP Chirac at a banquet after lateral meeting, neither here Musharraf next month and which he met Russian nor in Evian on Sunday. they propose to tell him that President Vladimir Putin Earlier, Vajpayee’s meeting terrorism was unacceptable. around midnight. with Jintao was followed by a Vajpayee’s meeting with His hectic schedule on Sat- meeting British Prime Minis- Blair was significant. The urday continued through din- ter Tony Blair. British leader reiterated that ner where he shared a small Foreign secretary Kanwal Pakistan needed to address table with President George Sibal, indicated that the cen- terrorism with seriousness. Bush seated to his left, Costas tral theme at these meetings Indian officials say, their im- Simtis, head of the European were support for the PM’s ini- pression is that France and Union, to his right and Presi- tiative on Pakistan, a rejec- Britain are telling Pakistan dent Putin across. The dinner tion of terrorism, discus- the ball is now in their court. was hosted by Putin for the sions on Iraq, the role of the Sources say, the US is put- visiting heads of states. UN and Iraq’s reconstruction. ting pressure on Islamabad as US President George Bush and wife Laura at a crematorium at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Official sources said this The interaction with Jin- part of a larger effort on ‘‘re- Poland on Saturday. Ms Bush is handed a red rose by an unidentified guide. seating arrangement ap- tao was formal. Various Sino- forming’’ it to ensure that ex- peared to be by design to en- Indian mantras were repeat- tremists do not take over. NY swings to Kama Sutra love Old is new for DU syllabus By Nona Walia Hip-hop and happening By Mohua Chatterjee ter 27 years and will be in- temporary Indian English TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK troduced in the new ses- writing. Academic and au- sion, beginning July 2003. thor Rukmini Bhaya Nair New Delhi: The hotel lounge may New Delhi: Amitav Ghosh, never be the same again. At a One of the new compulso- feels, ‘‘Contemporary writ- Arundhati Roy, Vikram ry papers ‘‘Perspectives on ers are important. Yet, swanky singles bar called K Space Seth or Shobhaa De may in Midtown New York, quasi-spir- Indian literature in English when syllabuses are radi- Prabjot Singh is congratulated by have enriched English liter- itual converts are thronging to translation’’, includes ex- cally changed, there is a captain Dhanraj Pillay (9) after scoring ature courses at universi- learn from a frieze of Kama Sutra cerpts from the Mahabhara- conservatism about it.’’ the winning goal in their match against ties in the UK, US and Aus- ta, works of Mirabai, Kabir, Modern Indian Writing Pakistan at a men’s hockey tournament positions. Inside the sensual para- tralia, but the Delhi Univer- dise, plasma screens play Mira Rabindranath Tagore, includes the works of Gand- in Perth. India won the match 2-0 and sity, in its new improved Nair’s Kama Sutra; scented jas- Bankim Chandra Chatter- hi, Rammohun Roy,Ambed- plays Australia in the final on Sunday. Masters degree course in mine candles are lit to ‘‘arouse jee and Mirza Ghalib. kar, Namdeo Dhasal, Subra- English, has included none sexual energies’’; aphrodisiac Most of the members of maniyam Bharti, Ramanu- EPF interest retained: The govern- of their works. cocktails like Jaipur Moon are the syllabus committee feel jan, Iqbal, Tarabai Shinde ment retained the 9.5 per cent return on In fact, the university has translated Indian literature and Girish Karnad. employees’ provident fund. The move is served with tantric tikkas and sensual samosas by waitresses not accommodated any con- is far richer than Indian ‘‘The syllabus has been said to be an effort to woo the middle temporary India English English writings and, there- designed so that English lit- class in view of the coming elections. P11 who wear revealing saris like sarongs and whisper: ‘‘As you writer, the only exception fore, worthy of inclusion as erature can be studied in Petrol, diesel prices down: Public wish’. Women in low-waist jeans Karinna Gore-Schiff with Mallika Chopra at the lounge. being Salman Rushdie’s composite Indian literature. the Indian context,’’ says a sector petroleum marketing companies get their palms read, men get their Midnight’s Children.The The course revision is be- senior member of the syl- on Saturday passed on the benefit of the GETTING IN: Entry free. If it gets crowded, beauty and fame help. course has been revised af- ing viewed as a loss for con- labus committee. bodies hennaed and hi-flying New DJ BEATS: Chura liya, Hum tum ek kamre mein band ho, Prince’s recent appreciation in the rupee value to Yorkers watch the demonstration consumers by way of a 10 paise per litre of Kama Sutra postures by ‘suit- Erotic City and Justify My Love by Madonna cut in petrol and diesel prices. P5 ably-clothed’ women. DRESS CODE: For men, vintage sneakers, distressed jeans. For This lounge was the idea of ho- women, deconstructed T-shirts and micro-minis indiatimes.com POLL telier-playboy Vikram Chatwal K-KOCKTAILS: Jaipur Moon, (Absolut Kurant, lime juice, and Gotham and Mallika Chopra, Does Vajpayee’s statement on retirement Cointreau, jasmine, touch of Chambord, rose petal) reflect a defeatist attitude? children of new-age guru Deepak SIGHTINGS: Actresses Marisa Tomei, Patricia Velasquez, models Chopra. Vatsayan’s old art has Carmen Kass, Al Gore’s daughter Karinna, designer Ritu Beri Yes No 44% 56% been reborn as Yoga of Love here TIME-PASS: Astrologers, body henna and KS demonstrations and The New York Times de- VOTE NOW: Is Pakistan serious about shutting down terrorist camps in scribes this taste of India as an Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir this time? ‘aperitif.’ Says Chatwal: ‘‘The The response has been ebul- channelling sexual energy into Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 Kama Sutra inspired us to create a lient. When scantily-clad Manjit something creative. We’re trying palace’s den, where people would gyrated and sang, Hum tum ek to stimulate the senses. This meet and indulge in a historical kamre mein band ho, on the open- lounge is a space for momentary practice that is both sensual and ing night, Flea of Red Hot Chilli indulgence.’’ Dancer Mallika stimulating.’’ He has invested Pepper hit the dance floor. Rapper adds a cerebral touch too: ‘‘We did $350,000 in the NY project and is Puff Daddy and Jay Z were zapped a lot of research on how to tanta- looking towards lounges in Lon- by her Chura liya snake dance lise the senses. We want our don, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, number. Patricia Velasquez, de- guests to have a sensual, spiritual, Boston, Chicago and Montreal. signers Diane Von Furstenberg intellectual experience.’’ WEATHER ‘‘Sex can be a spiritual experi- and Ritu Beri have dropped by and All this through the KS? Why ence, if practised right. We’re pro- studied the revealing stone carv- not? KS is where Indian spiritual- Max temp: 43.8oC/Min: 24.7oC viding a sensual rather than a sex- ings of KS poses on the walls. And ity and sex meet. “The idea is Sunset: Sunday – 7.14 pm. ual environment and hope to so has Al Gore’s daughter. to use the rich art, texts, science Sunrise: Monday – 5.23 am. channelise sexual energy to Explaining its USP, Gotham and practice of sexuality and Moonset: Sunday – 8.29 pm. achieve a higher state of con- Chopra says: ‘‘The Kama Sutra is- present them in a sensual atmos- Moonrise: Monday – 6.47 am. sciousness,’’ says Chatwal. n’t simply about sex but about phere,’’ she adds. Mainly clear sky with dust haze, duststorm or thunderstorm accompanied by squall is likely in some areas. Maxium relative humidity on Saturday 38% and minimum 13%.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK to get in the car at about 12.40 cup of tea. children, including four that they have got vital clues the officer said. pm. Later as he was entering daughters. His wife had ex- showing assailants links During investigation it New Delhi: A 40-year-old es- Gupta received bullet in- his Honda City car, parked in pired two years back. His with the deceased. was found that three years tate agent was shot dead by juries on his back and fore- the rear lane, the assailants son, Bhano (18), used to assist ‘‘Robbery was not the mo- back Gupta’s receptionist, unidentified assailants in the arm and was stabbed in the attacked him. him in business.’’ tive as Gupta’s mobile and Rekha, had filed a rape case busy South Extension area face and head. Deputy commissioner of Gupta had moved into 47 other items were left un- against the deceased which on Saturday afternoon. The family members ruled police (south) Vivek Gogia Housing Society of South Ex- touched,’’ a local police offi- was later withdrawn after The victim was rushed to out any personal enmity, but said: ‘‘Gupta used to deal in tension-I two years back. Ear- cer said. It is learnt that Gup- the two parties compro- AIIMS where he was de- the local police said the as- properties and was running lier he used to stay in Kotla ta used to deal in disputed mised. clared dead. sailants were apparently a restaurant in South Exten- Mubarakpur. properties. The police will also investi- According to police, Suren- known to the victim. sion Part-II. The assailants fled the spot Apparently, a rift erupted gate the possible role of der Gupta was attacked by Gupta left his house at He also dealt in mobile soon after the attack and between Gupta and his asso- Rekha in this case. The police unidentified assailants near about 11.30 and stopped at a phones and chit-fund fi- there were no eye-witnesses. ciates over some payment have registered a case of Slum cluster being demolished at Reshma Colony near his house when he was about neighbour’s house to have a nance. He is survived by five However, the police claimed and they allegedly shot him, murder. Kirti Nagar on Saturday. Congress ministers disrupt demolitions TIMES NEWS NETWORK tion with the local police was to demolish about New Delhi: The demoli- 3,000 slum clusters hous- tion action after a minor ing about 20,000 slum fire broke out at a slum dwellers. cluster in west Delhi area, DDA spokesperson said: on Saturday morning, ‘‘As per the survey, there threatened a political stir are over 2,900 slum clus- with city’s Congress lead- ters in the area, but only ers trying to disrupt the civic action. 2,000 are eligible for reloca- This is the second time tion. The slum dwellers in a month when a demoli- are to be relocated in Sec- tion has been disrupted by tor-27 of Rohini.’’ Congress workers. The police said city’s On Saturday, six Con- Congress leaders threat- gress leaders, including ened to raise a political four ministers of the Delhi storm by staging a sit-in at government, were de- the spot. tained by the local police Among those present for blocking the demoli- were health minister A K tion. Deputy commission- Walia, education minister er of police (west), Satish Raj Kumar Chauhan, Golcha, said: ‘‘About 25 to transport minister Ajay 30 jhuggis were burnt in Maken, industry minister the Reshma Camp of Kirti Deep Chand Bandhu, food Nagar after fire erupted and supplies minister Ha- there at about 8.20 am roon Yusuf and Congress when Delhi Development leader Jagdish Tytler. Authority (DDA) was de- The DDA had tried to de- molishing the structures molish the clusters a in the area.’’ month ago on April 30, but The police said a total of chief minister Sheila Dik- 32 persons were detained shit staged a sit-in to stop under DP Act and two per- the demolition. This time, sons were arrested for the police claimed, the their alleged role in slum demolition work was com- fire. The DDA in coordina- pleted despite disruption.
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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers likely to occur at many places in Andaman and Nicobar Islands; at a few places in Minor rape victim NATIONAL Arunachal Pradesh,Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland - Mumbai: I-A 0700, Manipur - Mizoram, Tripura, sub-Himalayan WB and 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Sikkim, Kerala and Lakshadweep and at isolated places in 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Gangetic WB, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttarnachal, HP, J&K, 2300 Jet Air 0650, 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Konkan and Goa, madhya Maharashtra, AP,Tamil Nadu and interi- detained in police 1935, 2030, 2200, or Karnataka. Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD 1520, 1800, 2025 KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 42 25 Guwahati 32 26 Amsterdam 24 14 Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 34 29 Dehradun 39 23 Bahrain 36 18 station for 3 days Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 45 30 Hyd’bad 42 31 Bangkok 37 27 CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 39 29 Indore 42 25 Beijing 29 18 TIMES NEWS NETWORK cused’s house as a domestic 0640,0955★★★ B’lore 37 22 Jaipur 43 31 Chicago 19 07 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 43 27 Geneva 25 11 help. 0645,1900 Lucknow 44 27 New Delhi: The Paschim Vi- Hong Kong 32 27 When she complained to BANGALORE: T’puram 34 27 Patna 42 28 har police has been accused I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 41 29 Rajkot 40 26 London 26 13 the police, they took her into Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 40 29 Shimla 28 19 Los Angeles 26 17 of keeping a rape victim, their custody on May 18. Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 36 24 Srinagar 27 12 Moscow 17 04 who was a minor, inside the HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 They got her statement GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS police station for three days, recorded before a magistrate Sahara 1200 which is in violation of the KULU: Jagson 0630, on May 20. 0650, 1215 ★ 9arliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on law. In this statement the girl AHMEDABAD: 31.05.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. The victim told the court I-A 0600,1700★★1845, did not identify the accused. Jet Air 0610 Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl that some police officers also She was kept in police cus- GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: NORTH tried to influence her. She al- tody for three days. When I-A 0555★★, 1010• 4033 Jammu Mail 07.06 17.06 24.06 17.06 ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 01.07 01.07 16.06 leges they asked her not to this was brought to the Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, 2403 Jammu Exp 06.06 26.06 27.06 26.06 identify the accused before court’s notice, Mann trans- Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST the magistrate. Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 06.06 06.06 06.06 — ferred the investigation from 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 Metropolitan Magistrate Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, 2304 Poorva Exp 04.06 18.06 18.06 19.06 Raj Bala to sub-inspector (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 09.06 16.06 17.05 23.06 Santosh Snehi Mann took Savita. She further directed Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 20.06 02.07 30.06 cognizance of the allegations that the victim should be sent INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 13.06 12.06 16.06 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 06.06 11.06 12.06 and directed the police com- to Nari Niketan. BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 03.06 03.06 05.06 09.06 missioner to look into the Four days later Nari Nike- Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 07.07 07.07 matter. A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 25.06 29.06 03.07 tan’s superintendent moved FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 01.06 17.06 18.06 18.06 The magistrate also ques- an application before the 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 19.06 25.06 18.06 tioned the role of a woman court seeking permission for AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 25.06 23.06 17.06 KLM 0745 (KL-476) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 27.06 27.06 17.06 sub-inspector who allegedly a professional counselling LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 03.06 07.06 11.06 16.06 pressurised the victim in to for the victim. 0210 (BA-142) WEST withdrawing the statement After the counselling ses- PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail 10.06 18.06 24.06 24.06 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 12.06 18.06 24.06 26.06 she made. sion, the victim wanted to A-I 0735 (AI-141) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 11.06 19.06 19.06 — ‘‘The role of sub-inspector give another statement be- SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 17.06 16.06 17.06 — Raj Bala and her supervisory fore the magistrate. Airlines 2315 (SQ-407), 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 26.06 26.06 19.06 I-A 0050 (IC-855) 1078 Jhelum Exp — 07.07 25.06 27.06 officer must come under In her second statement, HONG KONG/OSAKA: 2916 Ashram Exp 12.06 24.06 24.06 16.06 scrutiny during investiga- SOUTH she accused the police offi- A-I 2320 (AI-318) tion,’’ Mann said, asking the ROME/GENEVA: 2616 G T Exp 14.06 18.06 23.06 12.06 cers of influencing her. A-I 0350 (AI-171) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 11.06 18.06 24.06 12.06 police commissioner to 2432 Trivandrum Raj 24.06 06.07 01.07 — She also told the court that AIR INDIA transfer the investigation in the accused got her pregnan- WINNERS OF RADIO MIRCHI’S 9-8-3 KISMAT KHOL DE CONTEST: 2626 Kerala Exp — 24.06 23.06 18.06 (From top) Shahleen Singhal and his son won a gift 2618 Mangala Exp — 30.06 26.06 17.06 to the matter over to the cy aborted through AHMEDABAD: voucher from Amba Jewellers; Anjali Singhal poses with 0120 (AI 610) 2628 Karnataka Exp — 24.06 24.06 14.06 crime branch. medicines administered by a MUMBAI: 0615 (AI 140), 2724 A P Exp 16.06 24.06 25.06 18.06 The minor girl, who came her gift voucher from Indus Ford; Satyapal Makkar and his 0700 (AI 170), 1855 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 16.06 30.06 30.06 — ‘‘madam’’. Mann has direct- wife with their gift voucher from Dewland Juices. (AI 301), 2145 (AI 319) 7022 Dakshin Express — 22.06 — 11.06 from West Bengal to work in ed the police to even investi- No. of passengers dealt on 30.05.2003 (Delhi Area): 58,542 (N. Rly. Area) Delhi, was allegedly raped by A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,46,031. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all gate and (Air.)25652050, British Air: her employer’s married son (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for identify the 23323310, Singapore Airlines computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. Lovely for over a year.She re- Anju’s brother 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 (Information supplied by Indian Railways) ‘‘madam’’. portedly worked at the ac- speaks in Vikas identified in Katara case Ilyasi case TIMES NEWS NETWORK mar gets injured or attacked, the accused’s vehicle was unable to New Delhi: The brother-in- senior officers would be ‘‘person- pass. While identifying Vishal, law of Suhaib Ilyasi, New Delhi: A person who saw Ni- ally’’ held responsible. Kumar said the accused abused tish Katara with his alleged Prashant Singh, said he did According to the police, the wit- and asked him to remove the not know if Ilyasi fought killers, Vikas and Vishal Yadav, ness had an argument with the scooter. with his sister Anju over on the day he was murdered iden- two brothers. Kumar admitted the In defence, the accused’s advo- dowry. Singh said his sister tified the brothers in the court on police statement and identified cate Bal Gopal claimed Kumar never complained to him Saturday. He reiterated to have the Tata Safari in which he had had a genetic disorder and was about Ilyasi demanding mon- seen the accused along with their seen the accused with the victim. unable to see clearly.The court re- ey from her. missing associate, Sukhdev Pe- The vehicle was brought to Pa- buked him saying he was not an He further told the court helwan. tiala Courts. expert. on Saturday that even if the After Ajay Kumar gave his state- On the day of the incident, Ku- The court, meanwhile, sum- couple had differences, they ment, Additional Sessions Judge mar had gone to Ghaziabad to at- moned Vikas’s sister, Bharti settled it mutually. ‘‘It was a S N Dhingra directed the Deputy tend a wedding on February 16, Singh. This is the fourth time the love marriage and there was General of Police, Uttar Pradesh, 2002. Kumar told the court his court has issued summons no demand from the groom’s and Inspector-General of the scooter broke down on his way against her. Singh is in London. side,’’ Singh said before Ad- Meerut range to provide security home. She has now been asked to appear ditional Sessions Judge to the witness. Dhingra said if Ku- Since the road was narrow, the before the court on July 4. Aruna Suresh. Singh had never supported R Burman the claim that Ilyasi killed Anju .Singh is the only one supporting Ilyasi, who claims that Anju stabbed her- self.TNN
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Six arrested in Remembrance (with photo): Rs. 1200/- for 10 lines; employment scam each extra line Rs. 250/-. TIMES NEWS NETWORK maining could be paid once she got the appointment let- New Delhi: With the arrest Obituary, Ceremony, ter. On February 10, she was of six persons, the Mandir called to the hospital with Rs In Memoriam Marg police is claiming to 30,000. (all without photo): have busted a gang of cheats ‘‘All the four accused met Rs. 275/- for four lines; who were duping people on her and she gave the money the pretext of promising each extra line Rs. 50/- to them. Narender handed them jobs in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital. over one letter to her which Deputy commissioner of mentioned that she had to For information, undergo a medical examina- call: 23302351, police (New Delhi), Manoj 51-666-888 Lall, said: ‘‘The accused are tion on February 14. She was identified as Surendra Pal examined in a Maruti van on Singh, Man Mohan Sharma, the pretext that there were Narender Kumar, Wazir lot of candidates and this Maseeh, Jogender Singh and would save some time .’’ Balwant. Balwant works as a Joginder posed as a doctor class-IV employee in the and conducted the examina- health ministry, Wazir is em- tion. She paid Rs 5,000 and ployed with RML’s welfare was was declared medically commissioner and Joginder fit. She was asked to come on is an ambulance assistant.’’ March 14 with the remaining On May 28, Vandana Shar- amount. ma reported that while get- On March 14 she was hand- ting her son treated in RML, ed an appointment letter af- she met with Surender Pal, ter paying Rs 25,000. She was who promised her a govern- asked to join on April 10, but ment job in the hospital . when she reached RML, she Later Narender, Maseeh found that the appointment and man Mohan joined letter was a forged one. She Surender and all the four as- complained to RML authori- sured her a job for Rs 60,000. ties and identified Joginder, They asked for half the mon- who came in the medical su- ey as an advance and the re- perintendent’s room.
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DELHI SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 5 Need a chill pill? Try India Gate Manchester IT professional held for dowry By Lalit Kumar In the FIR filed on June 15, software firm and he and under a burning sun and TIMES NEWS NETWORK 2002, Goel said Ramakant’s Kavita moved to Manchester. sleep on the scorching burn- father Prem Chand Agarwal Goel said Ramakant contin- PEOPLE ing pavement. For us it only Ghaziabad: A Manchester- and his family visited Ghazi- ued to torture Kavita even af- means getting out of aircon- based software engineer was abad and finalised the mar- ter moving to England. He al- ditioned bedroom, having a arrested in Bangalore on Fri- riage. Goel told Agarwal he leged that Ramakant left POWER chilled milkshake, getting day for allegedly demanding could spend Rs 5 to 6 lakh on Kavita with her brother in into our AC car and getting dowry from his in-laws living the wedding. ‘‘Agarwal Norwich and disappeared. Question of the week out at AC office. Who cares if in Ghaziabad. agreed to this and suggested The arrest of Ramakant’s the temperature outside is 45 Son of a former Uttar that we pay Rs 1.5 lakh in father had earlier been put Pradesh district judge, Ra- ● Ways to beat the heat: or 50 degree. What really cre- cash,’’ Goel said. off by the Allahabad High ates the heat for us is the elec- makant Goel has been According to Goel, just be- Court. your best chillout joint, tricity bill, that’s when we booked for dowry harass- fore the marriage ceremony, The court had, however, have to wipe our sweat. For ment and bigamy. Agarwal demanded an addi- declined to quash the FIR your best weekend On Saturday, the local ad- PLUs the only way to beat the tional Rs 5 lakh in cash. lodged by Goel against Ra- getaway, your favourite ditional chief judicial magis- heat is to work hard, earn ‘‘They also asked me to hold makant and his family. thirst quencher? trate P V Pathak reserved the marriage ceremony in Goel has also accused Ra- enough to buy ourselves all judgment on Ramakant’s bail the comforts of life. Banda where Agarwal was makant of bigamy.‘‘I have al- petition. posted,’’ he said. ready produced what pur- Favourite thirst quencher — Ramakant had got married Summer is back with a bang. Restaurants what else but chilled beer. The FIR said Rs 5 lakh was ports to be a certificate of a are teeming with people adding to the heat. I to Kavita, a software engi- paid at the time of the mar- marriage between Ramakant Sameer Mathur,Bharati neer, on December 6, 2001. chillout at the nearby park to. It’s cool and Teleadventures riage. and Banashankari, in Illi- pollution free as well. Leh is a wonderful Kavita works in England. Ac- After the marriage, Ra- nois, on April 6, 2001,’’ Goel weekend getaway if you can afford to fly. cording to Kavita’s father makant and his family start- claimed. The best way to beat the heat is to have lots IN THE LINE OF FIRE Rudra Kumar Goel, Ra- ed harassing Kavita to get a of jalzeera and milk shake. makant had left his daughter flat in Noida. ‘‘They used to Brijesh Yadav, Mangol Puri My favourite chill- In the gruelling and disappeared. He was beat her up,’’ Goel alleged. out joint is the Delhi heat the traced in Bangalore, where If I knew swimming it would be a swimming Later, Ramakant joined a Dublin at The Mau- desire for any- he was arrested. pool, since I don’t, it’s Oysters at Appu Ghar, rya. I like it because thing other than only if it’s not too crowded.My best weekend of its distinctive water melon getaway is the Yoga session at Bharatiya Yog character and the juice just vapor- Sansthan. Held at the beautifully landscaped array of drinks and ises. I have gal- lawns of the Punjabi Bagh Club it provides a eats they serve. lons of it. It’s genuine coolness to the mind. Favourite As for thirst quencher it’s ei- refreshing any thirst quencher — coconut water. It is full of ther a glass of chilled beer dur- time of the day or night. My minerals and vitamins and is a good diuretic. ing the day or Old Monk soda in favourite chillout joint is Lite Ashok Gupta, Bali-Nagar the evenings. Whilst at work I Zone at the India Habitat Cen- My way to beat the heat having a Manhattan gulp several glasses of chilled tre, its cool ambience is just Mania at Nirulas, other ice-creams also good coconut water. right for summer. Weekend this is easily the best. Try some water melon Weekend getaway? Srinagar getaway — Samode in Ra- juice it’s heavenly. Best weekend getaway — is where I would always head to. jasthan. the cool lawns of India Gate with ice cream It is a short flight away and its I’m not very brave when it carts at hand and UPSC Chaat wala a stone’s serenity is magical. The other is comes to hitting the road in throw away. The Wildflower Hall in this heat but Samode is Shweta Bhatia, Malka Ganj Mashobra. enough justification. What heat are we talking about. The heat is Suhel Seth, CEO Equus Redcell Nalini Singh, Media really for those who can’t afford a fan, those Advertising Personality who don’t have water to bathe, who slog it out Petrol, diesel now cheaper TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Public sector pe- troleum marketing compa- nies on Saturday passed on the benefit of the recent ap- preciation in the rupee value to consumers by way of a 10 paise per litre cut in petrol and diesel prices. Petrol would cost Rs 30.30 per litre in Delhi against the prevailing Rs 30.40 a litre, while diesel prices has gone down from Rs 19.18 to Rs 19.08 per litre. The new prices would be effective from Sat- urday midnight. The recent rise of the ru- pee against the US dollar has made oil imports cheaper.
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6 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 DELHI Court rejects former V-C’s bail plea Four stories, four TIMES NEWS NETWORK the DDA office and not leave the country without permission. New Delhi: The bail applica- In the second case, Sharma tion of former DDA vice-chair- has been accused of removing man Subhash Sharma was re- advocate Geeta Mittal at the in- different ends... jected by additional sessions stance of alleged middleman judge Prem Kumar on Saturday. Dharambir Khattar. The allega- A mirror on the conflicting moods of Generation Next, Sharma had appealed seeking tions state that Khattar wanted as it struggles with the skewed admissions system release in the case involving for- Mittal to be removed because as ● mer Delhi high court judge, per Mukherjee she was strongly 90 per cent and above The world at my feet Shameet Mukherjee. contesting DDA’s claim in the Tanvi Malik (91.7 per cent, commerce), The Central case pertain- Delhi Public School, Mathura Road t’s like a dream come true. I am happy Bureau of In- ing to the with all my marks except English in vestigation I widening of which I got 78 per cent. I wanted Eco had arrested DDAGATE Aruna Asaf (hons) in St Stephen’s very badly and I Sharma in two Ali road. think I stand a good chance. People tell corruption cases. One pertains me that SRCC is the best commerce col- to the case in which the former Sharma, the CBI said, made a lege in the country and I will surely get vice-chairman allegedly accept- special note to remove Mittal af- admission there. ed money from DLF officials for ter Khattar spoke to him on Feb- My parents were extremely happy allowing them to increase the ruary 18, two days before with the results because now I can pick floor area ratio. In this case Mukherjee passed an order the college and course of my choice. Sharma has been granted bail favouring property dealer Vin- I am also appearing for the Bachelor of by the high court. od Khatri.To prove Sharma’s in- Business Studies (BBS) entrance for the Conditions have been im- volvement, the CBI has placed College of Business Studies. If I get posed on him. The court has taped conversation between through, then I would like to pursue said Sharma should not visit Khattar and the accused. Masters in Business Economics from D School. I was also looking at doing a course at Amity.But I realise it would be a better option to study at DU if I want to appear for the civil services later. My parents want me to go to LSR. I guess that is a good option, but I would still prefer north campus. It is much more lively. Admission should not be a problem. ● 70-80 per cent Have I really done well? Sonam Chawla (75 per cent, commerce), he results came as a shock. I was ex- Mater Dei Tpecting at least 85 per cent. I have giv- en papers for re-evaluation and I am hop- ing the results come out on time. As for applying in colleges, I don’t have much of a choice, do I? After all, beggars can’t be choosers. I would have liked to do B com (Hons) from a good col- lege or Journalism and Mass Communi- cation from Lady Shri Ram but one needs distinc- tion even to appear in the CAPITAL entrance ex- amination. STORY Now I am left with few op- tions like English, Journalism, Psychol- ogy.I may even try in colleges like Gargi for English in which I scored 60 per cent. Since I have been a good student, they might agree to give me a recommenda- tion so I can appear for the entrance. I also want to try my luck at BBA and am appearing in the entrance examina- tion for College of Commerce. Another option is Bachelors in Fine Arts from College of Art. I have been good at draw- ing and I want to try my luck at it. ● 50-60 per cent Bhuvnesh (66 per cent commerce), Where do I go from here? Modern School, Barakhamba ith a percentage like mine, there is Wno chance for a good college. I had hoped to pursue B Com (Hons), but the results completely shocked me. Since the honours cut-offs rarely go below 80s, I have no option but to try for B com (pass) in second-rung colleges. But, since I was good at dance and dramatics in school, I stand a chance in the extra-curricular activities quota. I am planning to try in Hindu. But I am not too sure since I don’t have national level certificates. My parents were obviously not too happy about the results. My dad wanted me to sit for the National Law College in Bangalore, but I was not interested. The second option is that I join B Com (Hons) through correspondence, do ex- tremely well in the first year and then migrate to a good college like Hindu or Ramjas. I am also thinking of a course in a private institute like Amity or Rai Foundation. In the long run, I am look- ing at doing my MBA, because that is an evergreen degree. But I would prefer DU because it offers a fuller life with all the fests and fashion shows. That would also give me an opportunity to try modelling. ● 50-60 per cent Really, no hope for me Nupur Bhargava (60 per cent, commerce), hen the result came, I was shocked. Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan WI realised it left me with almost no option. I had expected above 80 per cent. I have given papers for re-evaluation, but I don’t know if that will help or if it will come in time for DU admissions. I am appearing for the BBS entrance. Earlier, I wasn’t too serious. But now I realise I have few options and am work- ing hard. I have also applied for bachelor of financial investment analysis in DU. The other option is joining the corre- spondence course in B Com (H) and then migrating to a college. I will also keep some DU options op- tions. I may just get B Com (pass) in a col- lege like Aurobindo. Forecast: Paris may vanish, Kolkata may drown By Tanu Thomas K Wild. scietific twist to time trav- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Dwarfing debates on el,’’ says Pankaj Saxena, Di- weapons of mass destruc- rector Programming with New Delhi: Imagine a tion and the environment, Discovering Networks (In- world where rodents are as the series takes a look at dia). large as sheep, turtles are what the Earth will look One animal that is partic- larger than the largest di- like hundreds of millions of ularly interesting is the nosaur that ever lived. years from now. Involving a evolved turtoise, the tora- Paris disappears under core team of biologists, pa- ton. This will roam the blankets of ice over 2 miles leontologists and climatolo- marshes that will cover thick and Kolkata no longer gist used all their imagina- Kolkata 100 million years exists, its just marshland. tion to fast forward the evo- from now. Welcome to Earth — a hun- lution to 100 million years. If the tremendous size of dred million years from The series was made over the animals of the time — now. a period of six years and the rats, spiders and tor- Natural history is Dis- cost ‘‘as much as a Bolly- toises — leaves you puzzled. covery Channel’s forte. Af- wood movie’’. There is a specific reason. ter diversifying into travel, The vehicle is time travel. ‘‘We made them larger to educational and scientific ‘‘Time travel is intriguing make them more interest- programmes, it is back as but very little has been ing,’’ says John Adams the an unquestionable authori- done on a scientific level. executive producer of the ty on the subject with their Discovery decided to take series who first came up new series, The Future is up the challenge of giving a with the idea.
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K K Laskar K K Laskar Silk Route to bridge the gap between India and China By Sujata Dutta Sachdeva JNU. Lama is currently working on a Sikkim TIMES NEWS NETWORK government-sponsored project analysing the scope, nature and direction of trade and how New Delhi: Pre-1962, it was one of the short- the Nathu La route could benefit both India est routes to Tibet. Caravans loaded with mil- and South Asian countries. ‘‘Bangladesh, let, rice, oranges and tea from Sikkim and Mayanmar and Bhutan can use the pass for North Bengal moved up the Nathu La pass trade with China. Since they have to move and entered Tibet, returning the same way through India to reach the pass we can bene- with a cargo of silk, musk, sheep blankets, fit too,’’ he says. gems and jewellery. When Tibetan prince Piyush Behl head of CII’s China desk ex- Phuntsog Namgyal was crowned Sikkim’s plains: ‘‘India’s trade with China has grown ruler in 1642, trade reached an all-time high. by 120 per cent in the first quarter of 2003. Even British forces under Francis Younghus- For the first time, the balance of trade is in band used the route for their 1904 invasion of our favour. Opening the route has immense Tibet. business possibilities for India and our trade However, in 1975, after Sikkim became an basket could increase.’’ Indian state, the pass was closed. Except for Professor B B Bhattacharya of the Insti- the occasional Indian tourist who went up to tute of Economic Growth feels India, specifi- see Nathu La — the site of the massacre of cally the Northeast, would benefit economi- Indian soldiers by the Chinese Army 35 years cally.‘‘An active trade route will generate em- ago — the route saw little activity.Unofficial- ployment, warehousing and a lot of related ly though, local trade continues even today. activities can take place.’’ With the thawing of Indo-China relations The Sikkim government has been pushing and Prime Minister Vajpayee’s forthcoming hard for opening up Nathu La — India’s high- visit to China, talks of opening up the Silk est mountain pass — for over a decade. Ac- Route is gaining ground in India. Many poli- cording to a top Sikkim government official, cy makers are optimistic that it will open up ‘‘The home and the defence ministry have new vistas of economic cooperation between given their clearances already, it will boost the two nations. ‘‘For India, it can be a win- Sikkim’s economy, which now survives on a win situation,’’ says Prof Mahendra Lama of 90 per cent central hardout.’’
Devotees take a holy dip in the Brahma Sarovar, Kurukshetra, during the solar eclipse The solar eclipse as seen in Kurukshetra on Saturday. on Saturday. Century’s first solar eclipse enthrals enthusiasts New Delhi: The century’s In Haryana, thousands of Up to 5 km-long queues eclipse. annular eclipses, different first solar eclipse occurred devotees, including women blocked all routes in Kuruk- The district administra- from a total eclipse in which on Saturday morning and and children, took holy shetra and people had to tion had made elaborate the sun is fully eclipsed by was visible in many parts of dips in Sannehit and make a beeline to take a dip. arrangements for the occa- the moon and only the coro- northern India where Brahm sarovars (ponds) in Guru Nanak Dev is be- sion. Deputy commissioner na, the outer radiation of devotees thronged to take a Kurukshetra amid tight lieved to have visited Ku- Abhilaksh Likhi said the the sun, is visible from the holy dip in various sacred security. rukshetra on the occasion of mela (fair) had been divided earth. In this eclipse, Indi- rivers. According to Hindu a solar eclipse around into 12 sectors and each ans saw 20 per cent of the The eclipse was visible mythology, whoever takes 1499-1509 AD. Mughal em- sector had been put under a sun as eclipsed. between 7.35 am and 8.39 am dip on the occasion of solar peror Akbar is believed to sector magistrate. The eclipse was visible in Delhi, Jaipur, Srinagar, eclipse in the two sarovars have come here in 1567 on The country’s first solar from several parts of the Agra and Haryana. attains salvation. the occasion of a solar eclipse fell in the category of world. PTI
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8 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 INDIA President’s day out in Bihar K K Laskar TIMES NEWS NETWORK Bhavan had said the Presi- responded. He said he saw no dent wished to visit this in- contradiction between sci- The trip to Bihar was a stitution. ence and Buddha’s teachings. poignant one for President A Kalam also visited Khan- ‘‘There was, in fact, a lot of P J Abdul Kalam as it qah Rahmani, one of the similarity between the two,’’ brought back memories of leading Muslim educational he said. The President re- his various visits to the state. institutions of the country minded the monk that Bud- He remembered his visit to headed by the secretary of dha’s quest was for truth and the ashram of Swami All India Muslim Personal science, too, looked for truth Sivanandji where he was Law Board, Maulana Mohd through experiments. comforted as he was dejected Wali Rehmani. Kalam recited He added that the defence over his failure to make it as the first seven stanzas of the requirements of the country an IAF pilot. In Gaya, he sat holy Koran here. ‘‘He told the cannot be overlooked. The under the Bodhi tree as he gathering that he had also President reminded the gave a sermon to monks and started his education from a monk that while the country elaborated on his belief that President A P J Abdul Kalam madarsa,’’ said Maulana was exporting Buddhism to Buddha’s teachings were not Rehmani. other countries, invaders out of sync with the pursuit Kalam said here. In Gaya, the contradiction came and caused immense of scientific knowledge. At ‘‘I was sitting in the last could not have been more harm to the country. This Paliganj in Patna, farmers row as the swamiji gave a dis- pronounced as President A P cannot be allowed to happen. reminded him of how he had course on the Bhagwad J Abdul Kalam, also known In Paliganj in Patna, come here as the first scien- Gita,’’ recalled Kalam. as India’s missile man, sat farmers had a candid inter- tific advisor to the Centre. ‘‘After the discourse,’’ con- under the Bodhi tree, the seat action with the President. In Munger, the President tinued Kalam, ‘‘Swamiji of Lord Buddha’s enlighten- Earlier, as the first scientific Abdul Kalam first paid a vis- called me and asked me why I ment, and delivered a ser- advisor to the Centre, Kalam it to this remote Bihar town was sad? He then showed me mon to a select group of had visited the place on Octo- over 45 years ago when he the chapter where Lord Kr- monks on Saturday. ber 28, 2000 and had interact- met Swami Sivanandji at ishna asks Arjun to defeat Bhadant Priyapal, a Bodh ed with the farmers on the Rishikesh. The President re- the ‘defeatist tendency’ in- Gaya-based monk, wanted use of new technology, HYV called his encounter with side,’’ Kalam said. Kalam the President to explain the seeds and ‘‘zero tillage’’. The Swami Sivanandji which said this had changed his life. apparent inconsistency be- farmers, who spoke on the oc- changed his destiny. ‘‘I was Interestingly, the school tween his nuclear mission casion, and the President, dejected after I failed to make had not extended an invita- and love for Buddha and his who made a brief speech, re- it to the post of an IAF pilot,’’ tion to Kalam. Rashtrapati teachings. A smiling Kalam called the October visit.
Devotees take a holy dip in the Brahma Sarovar, Kurukshetra, during the solar eclipse on Saturday. Sins are washed away as sun eclipses
TIMES NEWS NETWORK the peal of temple bells mixed with not do any work and go out as foetus cries of ‘‘Bam Bam Bhole’’ that res- develops abonormality due to the sun- New Delhi:Devotion clearly won the onated round the four corners of the light during an eclipse. day on the first solar eclipse of the lake. The eclipse was visible between Even the ritual bathing in the millennium. The blistering heat 7.35 am to 8.39 am. sarovar has no significance except the notwithstanding, over 1.5 lakh devo- ‘‘We have come here from Panipat to religious and historical reasons. The tees gathered at Kurukshetra to wash away their sins in the waters of the have a holy dip,’’ said Kajal, a house- reason many people come to Kuruk- Sannheit and Brahm Sarovars. The wife who was there with her 9-year-old shetra is because the Mahabharata steady stream of devotees was visible daughter. ‘‘While many believe that mentions a solar eclipse. As far back as soon as one entered Kurukshetra. one must not even leave the house on as the 2nd century B.C. Aristotle had And the authorities seemed to have this day, I am here to atone for all the discovered that solar and lunar made it a point to make life as difficult wrong that I have done last year. But eclipses were physical or natural phe- as possible. With vehicles not being al- whatever you do, do not look at the nomenon and had no ill force against lowed near the venue, it was disheart- sun,’’ she added. anybody. ening to see an old woman faint with Superstitions like this are still This was further substaniated by exhaustion by the side of the road. At prevalent with many. Scientists say Arya Bhatta in the 6th century B.C. the venue, however, the excitement that there is absolutely no reason why But for those that gathered there it was palpable. Sadhus and vendors a solar eclipse can do any harm, ex- was a chance at a new beginning or selling knick-knacks jostled for space cept to the eyes if the sun is looked at even just a chance to go out and have a with Vivek Oberoi wannabes in imita- without any protection. good time with the family. And for tion Levis’ and housewives with bawl- But there are many who believe that those of you who are wondering, the ing infants. one should not cook or eat during the old woman by the road side made it in And as the first shadow fell on the sun eclipse, and pregnant women should time for her tryst with atonement. Can Dad make the Hrithik magic work? By Dominic Ferrao Meaning that if Rakesh TIMES NEWS NETWORK A slice of difference Roshan’s calculated risk takes off, the film may well go Mumbai: Hrithik Roshan, •Daddy Rakesh Roshan is set down in movie history as a boy enigma, superstar in to relaunch his son with Koi cult film, a path breaking 2000. Redoubtable in 2003. Mil Gaya film. And Rakesh will win all Suddenly the very same adu- •Hrithik is playing a mentally the accolades for going where lators who raised him to icon repressive character with the no man (star) has gone be- level in 2000 were as keen to mind of a child fore. And if anyone is more bring him down. A revolution was needed to • The film is a space project than determined to make it replace the icon atop the with a space ship, outer work it is Hrithik himself. pedestal. space creatures and a Because it is for him that the And Big Daddy Rakesh friendly alien stakes are so high. Either Roshan has intervened to this reinvention, in terms of take up the construction • The film is inspired by the character and distinct story, process of the superstar are- Robin William’s starring TV will elevate him to different na. And the revolution is serial Mork & Mindy levels or it may,well... promising to be a drastic one Hrithik, however, doesn’t — one that may well change time that a hunky, glam- ence!’’ think it is a risk for him as an the face of Indian cinema for- ourous, sex-symbol lead hero Yes, the film has a space actor. ‘‘I don’t think it is that ever. is playing a mentally regres- ship, outer space creatures much of risk for an actor,’’he Come July and the unveil- sive character with the mind and even a friendly,outworld- claims, ‘‘In fact, it’s a bless- ing of a magnum opus may of a child. That itself is ly alien making a stunning ing. It’s a chance of a lifetime well take place. Rakesh enough to elicit gasps of dis- entry into the Indian movie to do something different. Roshan is set to relaunch his belief among his many score world, a la E.T. Sensational But yes, as far as the film is son with Koi Mil Gaya.And fans. And secondly,the film is stuff alright, for the Indian concerned, it is very very what is different about the so hatke from the earthly of- movie scenario. But one risky.’’ second father-son offering is ferings of Planet Bollywood, needed, if only for the viva la To conclude, sources say the totally different treat- that its actually a space proj- difference, from the sleep-in- the film is inspired by the ment of the subject, the star ect. Says Hrithik: ‘‘I wanted ducing scripts being churned runaway hit TV serial Mork and the performances. In to do a film where people and out by brain dead assembly & Mindy.While that created a fact, it is as alien as it can get friends say,Hey,don’t see this line zombies. few stars, what Koi Mil Gaya from the run-of-the-mill that on the small screen, it’s a big Koi Mil Gaya follows the will do for Hrithik remains to is biting the dust in cinemas screen film. It’s an effort to no-guts no-glory route by tak- be seen. One thing is for sure. across the country. create a new understanding ing a risk that not many Indi- By this film hang a lot of Firstly, it’s for the first in the minds of the audi- an makers would dare take. hopes and aspirations.
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INDIA SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 9 CBI files chargesheet against ASI excavations: Doubts over transfer By Sakina Yusuf Khan The court’s statement But many sympathise with TIMES NEWS NETWORK casts a shadow on Mani’s Progress report Mani. Advani, others in Babri case leadership. Earlier, a report ‘‘His hands were tied. He New Delhi: More than two •So far, ASI has dug over 50 by an independent archeolo- months after the Archaeolog- trenches was following diktats of ar- TIMES NEWS NETWORK The special judicial mag- dio-video cassettes filed by gist group — comprising R C ical Survey of India began chaeologist S P Gupta, who istrate V K Singh exempted the CB-CID, along with its Thakran, joint secretary, In- •The Find: Terracotta pieces, Rae Bareli: The Central excavations at Ayodhya, a has been prevailing upon ASI the accused from personal chargesheet, be preferred dian History Congress, and silver pendant with an Urdu Bureau of Investigation clinching evidence is yet to in Delhi. Left to Mani, he appearance but only for as per rules and fixed June Amal Ray, deputy director, inscription, coins from Akbar’s would have wound up the ex- (CBI) submitted its be found. Saturday. 13 as the next date of hear- Directorate of Archaeology period, fragments of green cavations by May 10. Delhi chargesheet against the Meanwhile, B R Mani, the The CBI SSP M ing of the case. & Museum, West Bengal — glazed ware, moulded bricks, forced an extension hoping eight accused in the Ayod- leader of the ASI’s excava- Narayanan had appeared The counsel for the de- had questioned the survey’s crude pillar bases, graves,etc. that they may come upon hya demolition case before tion team was replaced last before the special court on fence sought against per- method on ‘‘professional Temple supporters point to some evidence that could the special Ayodhya Court week on the court’s order. • May 13 and sought time to sonal appearance till fur- grounds’’. lotus feet imprints, terrocotta strengthen the case of a tem- here on Saturday. Was the court unhappy ple,’’ says an ASI official. file the report and docu- ther orders for the accused. ‘‘The aim of the ASI team, figurines and the stone slab in The list includes Deputy with the way excavations ments on the grounds that They pleaded that in the from the beginning, seems to trench J3 with an inscription What’s Majhi’s USP? Insid- Prime Minister L K Ad- were conducted under Mani? its counsel had taken ill content of the present secu- have been simply to look for which they read as ‘Ram’ ers say following the court vani, human resource de- suddenly. Is Hari Majhi, the new in- rity scenario it would be in- any find that could be re- Muslim litigants point to the order, ASI had to find a new velopment minister Murli cumbent, better equipped? • The court had fixed the expedient to the accused motely construed as part of green glazed tiles as evidence leader. Manohar Joshi, state BJP last day as May 31. from every angle to appear The court stated: ‘‘It’s not the remains of a temple and of Muslim habitation He had to be senior to chief Vinay Katiyar, BJP The counsel for the de- in person in the court. necessary to comment much ignore any negative evi- Mani. ASI’s senior-most ar- leader Uma Bharti and fence Mahipal Ahloowalia, It would also create diffi- upon the work of the team dence,’’ said the report. chaeologist S R Bisht didn’t els. No Hindu temple is expected a map on the basis VHP leader Ashok Singhal. Maniraj Singh Rathore and culties for the local admin- leader of the ASI for last find favour with Gupta. It further stated, ‘‘So far, known from these times any- The CBI counsel SS Vimal Srivastava sought istration in addition to more than two months. of the Tojo Report and details the three trenches, where where in India.’’ The choice fell on Majhi, Gandhi also filed a supple- time for the scrutiny of hampering the working of We think it proper that an- of work done on each trench. digging has been conducted, who is not an excavation ex- mentary report containing documents and also the applicants in the dis- other team leader is appoint- Such a map was not prepared ed by the director-general, have revealed nothing of any Explaining Mani’s re- by the ASI. The court felt the pert. the statements of 39 wit- asked for the copies of the charge of duties of their of- ASI. However, Mani shall temple remains although the moval, Zafaryab Jilani, coun- excavations were not pro- nesses, documents and papers submitted by the fices. So Mani will continue to be also continue to work in the digging has gone below 3.5 sel for the Central Sunni ceeding in a scientific man- the de facto leader, it seems. press reports relating to the CID, crime branch The magistrate heard team.’’ metres and early historic lev- Waqf Board says, ‘‘The court ner.” investigation of the case (CB-CID). their pleas and granted ex- No. 198/92 done by the The court ordered that emption from personal ap- agency after September the copies of newspapers, pearance to the accused 10,1993. photographs, pictures, au- only for Saturday.
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10 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 INDIA Shilpa’s father goes missing TIMES NEWS NETWORK The parent trap till Wednesday with direc- tion to seek regular bail from Surat: Bollywood actress the Surat court. Shilpa Shetty’s father Suren- •If Surendra Shetty is not traced A police team was dis- dra Shetty, who went under- soon, he will be declared an patched to Mumbai to arrest ground after a city court offender Surendra immediately after turned down his bail plea in •Reports say Sunanda was an alleged extortion case, is the rejection of his bail plea arrested when she landed from here. The team reached likely to be declared an of- Dubai but was released on bail fender and his property at- Mumbai on Saturday and tached if he is not traced •However, police say there is no went to Surendra’s Andheri soon, city police commission- confirmed news about her arrival residence but could not find er V K Gupta told TNN on him. The Surat police are in contact with their counter- Saturday. TV report about Sunanda’s of Surendra to approach the Shilpa’s mother Sunanda arrest was not correct and Gujarat High Court, seeking parts from Mumbai and are Shetty, who was on a transit there was no confirmed news regular bail. His anticipatory seeking their help. bail granted in the same case about her arrival in the coun- bail plea in an extortion case Surendra and Sunanda by a Mumbai court till June try. A Mumbai court had was rejected by the district have been accused by the city 12, was reported to be arrest- granted transit bail to and session court here on police of taking the help of ed at the Mumbai airport on Sunanda till June 12 and di- Friday.The court also turned gangster Fazl-ur-Rehman to her arrival from Dubai on rected her to seek regular down his plea for a 15-day recover Rs 80 lakh from Friday night and later re- bail from a Surat court on or stay on the order to enable Pankaj Agarwal, owner of leased on bail on furnishing before the same date. him to appeal in the HC. Surat-based Praful Sarees, a personal bond. Sources confirmed that He was on a transit bail for whom Shilpa had done an However, Gupta said the there was no move on behalf granted by a Mumbai court ad assignment. Thank God for leaking pipes
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People fill up the water from a pipeline leakage in Chennai on Saturday. Foreign footballers draw big bucks, evade tax Mohua Chatterjee and Raju Bhattacharjee Playing ball TIMES NEWS NETWORK Top five foreign players New Delhi: In the early ‘80s (last season): Iranian duo Majid Baskar •Joes Barreto (Brazil, Mohun and Jamshed Nassiri took Bagan) — Rs 50 lakh Kolkata football by storm. Ever since, football clubs •Yakubu Yusif (Ghana, have signed on foreigners as Churchil Brothers) — the highest-paid players in Rs 35 lakh the domestic football circuit. The trend continues: This •Mike Okoro (East Bengal, season, Mohun Bagan has Nigeria) — Rs 25 lakh signed on Igor Shkvirin from •Marcos Pereira (Brazil, Uzbekistan as technical di- Vasco) — Rs 20 lakh rector and East Bengal has signed on South African •Douglas da Silva (Brazil, physical trainer Kevin John- East Bengal) — Rs 16 lakh son for a month. Add to this 100-odd foreign footballers al- Indian players: ready here. Cricket and golf •Baichung Bhutia — (Mohun were corporatised long ago, Bagan) Rs 25 lakh yet football clubs continue to give away dollar payments •Jo-Paul Anchery (JCT) informally and illegally. — Rs 15 lakh Says All India Football Federation president Priya ‘‘We pay for the players’ Das Munshi explains that Ranjan Das Munshi: ‘‘Earn- food, house rent, travel and there are three categories of ing in dollars and carrying kit,’’ admitted Anjan Mitra, foreign footballers. Those the money back home should general secretary, Mohun with student visas have no no longer be a problem in to- Bagan club. problem. Those with tourist day’s liberal economic Clearly, a player can’t bill visas, need to get them re- regime. One must declare it the club under the above newed. Then there are those and pay taxes.’’ But, in reali- heads for Rs 50 lakh in a city who come on business visas. ty,the bulk of the money paid like Kolkata. So what does he ‘‘Since the tax liability is on is in ‘‘black’’ — essentially,to do? He gets a subsistence the clubs they don’t show avoid taxes, both by the play- amount — the major chunk much in the books and if ers and clubs, say club offi- of the payment is made in some amount is paid through cials. their home countries vouchers, there is little one Most foreigners prefer the through ‘‘middlemen’’ based can do. We tried for tax ex- major chunk of the payment there. The clubs pay the emption for footballers up to in dollars. Since the ‘ama- equivalent amount to the age of 30, but the finance teur’ clubs, can only pay in the middleman’s account in ministry has agreed to an ex- rupees, ‘indirect routing’ of India. emption of up to Rs 75,000. the money suits them. Also, According to a East Bengal Since the National League since football is not profes- club official, ‘‘The semi-pro- has a semi-professional sta- sional in India, foreign foot- fessional structure of the tus we have problems regard- ballers can’t get a work per- clubs force us to follow this ing payment,’’ he adds. Once mit. ‘‘We have asked the fi- arbitrary system of pay- it acquires a professional sta- nance ministry to exempt ment. Each of the big clubs tus, like the European footballers from tax, since have at least three foreign leagues, there will be no their peak form lasts only for players now, which is a real problems. ‘‘But that will take three to four years,’’ they say. headache for the treasurers.’’ time,’’ he says.
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INDIA SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 11 Two killed and three Army personnel injured in encounter in the Valley EPF rates to stay at 9.5 pc Srinagar: Two persons, in- cluding a captain were in- Rifles from inside a house, was reportedly a Congress Jammu and Kashmir. In an- cluding a militant, were jured in the encounter. sources said. activist. other incident in a village in TIMES NEWS NETWORK tal benefit to 9.5 per cent. The ingly,simulated the expected killed in a gun battle in Nan- The exchange of fire took A civilian, Ghulam Mo- Meanwhile, police have Anantnag district thirteen decisions were taken at a returns. wadpora in Beerwa in place at Nanwadpora when hammad Bhat, was killed found the body of a Janata people, including two BSF New Delhi: The government meeting chaired by labour Even though the EPF re- Badgam district on Saturday. about six militants opened when he got caught in the Dal activist kidnapped by soldiers, were injured in a on Saturday retained the 9.5 minister. turn for 2003-04 will be main- Three Army personnel in- fire on soldiers of Rashtriya cross-fire, sources said. He militants a few days ago in grenade explosion. TNN per cent return on employ- In the wake of a general tained at 9.5 per cent for the ees’ provident fund (EPF) for lowering of interest rates, an employees, the CBT decision this year to woo the middle EPF rate cut had been antici- to cut rate immediately drew class savers, with an eye on pated for long. The CBT, ear- flak from central trade union the impending elections. lier headed by then labour organisations. In a joint The Central Board minister Sharad Yadav, had, statement, AITUC, CITU, Trustees (CBT) of the EPF decided not to reduce the in- TUCC, AICCTU, UTUC and decided to cut the interest terest rates after pressure UTUC (LS) strongly con- rate to nine per cent from 9.5 from the finance ministry. demned the rate cut and per cent. But it also decided The rate cut follows recom- termed it as ‘‘yet another at- to give a bonus of half a per- mendation of finance and in- tack on the workers’’. They centage point on the occasion vestment sub-committee in said workers would be loos- of golden jubilee of EPF dur- view of falling interest rate ing Rs 700 crore a year be- ing 2003-04, restoring the to- in the economy and accord- cause of the rate cut. Govt may hike offer size in Maruti IPO
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The govern- ment is planning to divest an additional 10 per cent equity in Maruti Udyog Ltd in the initial public of- fering slated to open June 12. This will bring down the government holding in the country’s largest car maker to 10 per cent from 45 per cent now. ‘‘In case the issue is oversubscribed, we have the option of divesting an additional 10 per cent in the company and retain the over-subscription. This is an option that we are looking at and a final decision will be taken only after the launch of the IPO,’’ Naresh Narad, sec- retary, department of heavy industries told me- diapersons at the launch of the roadshow for the IPO in Delhi. The government, which has already bought the 0.5 per cent employee holding in Maruti for Rs 115 a share, initially intended to offer 25 per cent of its holding in the company. The IPO is for 7.2 crore shares of Rs five each and the floor price has been set at Rs 115 per share. “This offer size may be hiked by another 10 per cent,” Narad added. For the remaining stake, he said, the govern- ment may either look at selling it off to Suzuki four months after the IPO or go for a second round of public offer after the one- year lock-in period. Meanwhile, addressing the media, Osamu Suzuki, chairman and CEO of Suzuki Motor Corp, which owns 55 per cent equity in Maruti, said the Japanese auto maker will continue to launch small cars in In- dia to strengthen its lead- ership position and ex- pand its share in the grow- ing domestic small car market. Maruti, he said, will also start exporting cars to southeast Asia on its own, besides using the Suzuki network for the European markets. “Maruti is en- hancing its focus on ex- ports. Last fiscal, Maruti had exported 32,000 cars and this year, we intend to export 39,000 cars from In- dia.” Advani in Leh to open Sindhu festival By M Saleem Pandit TIMES NEWS NETWORK Srinagar: Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani ar- rived in Leh on Saturday on a two-day visit. Advani is slated to inaugurate the seventh Sindhu Darshan festival at Sindhu Ghat on Sunday. Talking to reporters, Advani said this was his eighth visit to the Sindhu river. He added that he would participate in the festival for the seventh time. Advani said the festival was a symbol of national integration as it strength- ened the bond between various regions and com- munities. At Leh airport earlier in the day,he was received by Jammu and Kashmir gov- ernor G C Saxena and chief minister Mufti Mo- hammad Sayeed, among others. According to sources, a record number of 5,000 tourists had arrived to at- tend the festival and many more were expected to join them. The Mufti said the festi- val had evoked a good re- sponse this year, adding that tourists should be en- couraged to reach the fes- tival venue by road.
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12 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 INDIA LET’S TALK PARENTING We know what you are Can the states be Space is needed far behind? UTTAR PRADESH: UP the state is in the grip of a with Ma-Baba too chief minister Mayawati is drought and has a huge doing this summer... on a 15-day foreign tour of deficit. And, in any case, loodlines are a Udayshankar England, Canada, US, why should the deputy CM strange thing. With the Indian heat and dust getting unbearable, it’s time for our politcos to France and Switzerland to go for the IIFA awards if it’s Children can B invite capital from NRIs and not to get away from the inherit so much take to cooler climes. There’s always enough justification for a foreign tour. foreign industrialists for heat? from their parents the cash-strapped state. To DELHI: The Lieutenant and yet be decidedly Sunday Times finds out who’s going where this summer and for what Neelabh impress investors, the CM Governor of Delhi, Vijai different. Which also By Rashme Sehgal has taken along a large en- Kapoor, left for London this best sums up Megh- TIMES NEWS NETWORK tourage, which includes week to support the Indian na Gulzar,the daugh- principal secretary P L Pu- Olympic Association’s bid ter of Gulzar and his is the mother of all nia and Industrial Develop- for hosting Commonwealth Raakhee. At present, junkets. The minister ment Commissioner Games — 2010 in Delhi. she’s completing her T of state for external Thank God for sports — it father’s biography affairs Digvijay Singh is Shashank Shekhar Singh. provided the opportunity and writing the leading a 70-member delega- It’s not just the chief min- for a cool summer break. script for her next tion for a Hindi Sammelan to ister’s prerogative to take to But state health minister A film. Excerpts from a Surinam. cooler climes when temper- K Walia prefers to be in Del- conversation: The delegation which atures soar. hi. ‘‘Why go westward when How much time leaves on June 5, includes BJP leader Kalraj it’s equally cool — 20 and 26 do you spend with not just Hindi poets and Mishra, incharge of party degrees Celsius in here at your parents? writers, politicians, bureau- affairs, is on a 10-day for- the secretariat’s aircondi- Since my work crats. Even petty clerks have eign tour accompanied by tioned office. space is in my fa- hopped on to the bandwag- seven other parliamentari- KARNATAKA: But Kar- ther’s house, I spend on. Nobody wants to miss ans. During the 10-day so- nataka is different. No min- three or four hours this exotic destination. journ, Mishra will visit ister or MLA in Karnataka with him everyday. The list of delegates was Dubai, Athens, Zurich, Lis- has gone on a foreign jun- But if that wasn’t so, recently increased after the bon, Madrid and London. ket. About a year back, the I would make sure intervention of the prime In addition to the chief Speaker and chairman of that I eat at least two meals with him a week. I try to minister, Digvijay Singh re- minister and Mishra, anoth- both Houses of the Karnata- meet my mother at least two or three times a week. vealed. Reason? Vajpayee er 15-member delegation of ka legislature mooted a Are your parents strict disciplinarians? wanted that writers and lit- UP MLAs is headed for a plan, under which the annu- Mom was more of a disciplinarian. Before my mar- eratteurs from other region- four-nation tour, which in- al travel allowance of each riage, even my father was very particular about the al languages be included in cludes a stopover at Switzer- legislator be pooled for a time I came home. Till I was about 20-21 years of age, he the delegation. land. single ‘‘educational’’ tour of said that I should return home at sunset. The latest he ‘‘We are going to celebrate Beginning June 22, the 18- some South Asian coun- would allow for a late night was one o’ clock. the arrival of the first Indi- day tour will take the MLAs tries. If the amount was in- Do your parents try to see your point of view? an in Surinam 130 years ago to Norway, Sweden and the sufficient to cover travel They always have. Even when I didn’t have one. on this same day.The US and United Kingdom, besides costs, the legislator was to Any taboo subjects? UK may have larger NRI Switzerland. The delega- pay for the balance amount There are somethings I can speak more freely with populations but it is in coun- tion, led by Speaker Kesari from his own pocket. my mother, while other topics are easier to talk about tries such as Trinidad, Mau- New York and London, hop- 8, several members of this fact that they took their plea Nath Tripathi, would also with dad. But there’s nothing that I can’t talk about. ritius and Fiji where Hindi ing for a tete-e-tete with the group plan to use this oppor- right up to the Prime Minis- include the leader of the Op- This, however,was stalled If your dad wanted you to be a doctor/engineer can be heard on the streets,’’ Cuban leader Fidel Castro. tunity to travel further. ter. K C Pant was in London position in the UP Assem- because a private citizen and you wanted to join a rock band or become a said Digvijay Singh, who is He will return after June 20. Lok Sabha speaker two weeks ago for the Indo- bly, Azam Khan. MLAs of filed a public interest litiga- model, what would you do? delighted at being provided Latin America seems to be Manohar Joshi will visit Lis- UK round-table meet, other political parties will tion in the Karnataka High I would be upfront about my choice and decision. But with an opportunity of the flavour of season what bon later this month, while chaired by Swaraj Paul. also find a representation in Court against ‘‘frivolous’’ that’s because my parents have brought me up in such chairing this meet. with external affairs minis- Pramod Mahajan returns on Another member of the the delegation. The tour has junkets. This case was sub- a way that I take my own decisions. Their only criteri- And, why not, considering ter Yashwant Sinha also Sunday after a trip to Planning Commission, N K been sponsored by the UP sequently dismissed by the on was that there should be dignity in whatever I did. it is the Ministry of Exter- leaving for Brazil on June 2 Boswanna. Mahajan had Singh, was in Cannes recent- Commonwealth Parliamen- court as unfounded, but has Do you smoke or drink in front of them? nal Affairs which is footing to attend a three-nation for- earlier this year led another ly for the film festival. He is tary Association. acted as an effective deter- the bill for the majority of eign minister 22-member now on his way to Stratford rent for legislators’ tours. I have an occasional beer. ANDHRA PRADESH: delegates hopping over to meet from ‘parliamentary on the west coast of US. The case was also raised Can you talk to them about sex? Did they talk to Andhra chief minister Surinam. Singh hastily ex- where he will delegation’ to Petroleum minister Ram as a privilege motion in you about sex and love during your growing/im- DEEP Chandrababu Naidu’s deci- plains, ‘‘Most of the dele- go to Lima. Cai-ro, Johan- Naik back from Sri Lanka af- both Houses of the legisla- pressionable years? sion to send all 294 MLAs in We discussed love. Sex, no. When I was a teenager my gates are travelling in the Sushma nesburg, Cape ter inaugurating Indian Oil ture, but was not discussed economy class. We are not Swaraj, just FOCUS Town and Dur- petrol pumps is ready to take batches of 40 set a new as it was sub-judice at that mother did try to talk about the birds and bees in her trend in jumbo junketeer- round-about fashion. She told me she had discussed the paying for the 10 Parliamen- back from ban with a off for London, Houston and point. Legislators, however, tarians on this trip, who will Geneva, after attending the stopover at Dubai. Perth for road shows to in- ing. Though Andhra is suf- expressed their unhappi- idea with dad before broaching it with me. fering from its worst Is the relationship you have with your parents travel in first class. Their World Health meet is pack- Mahajan succeeded in tak- vite bids for oil exploration. ness as being portrayed as own parliamentary office ing her bags once again. She ing the group even though Naik’s office justifies: ‘‘A drought, the last batch of 40 ‘‘people hungry to swallow different from what they had with their parents? MLAs is now packing its Most definitely.And it’s certainly for the better. What will pick up their tab.’’ will lead a 20-member parlia- Vajpayee had himself reject- minister going on a road- public money on pleasure For most people going mentary goodwill delegation ed the plan twice. show can hardly be de- bags to head eastwards forc- junkets’’. ma-baba and I share is more of a relationship. My par- ing the already bankrupt ents’ relationship with my grandparents was more of a there, this is one more op- to Hungary,Bulgaria and Ro- Not everyone possesses scribed as a junket.’’ Some legislators went so portunity to do some ghoom- mania from June 6-12. The Mahajan’s persuasive skills. Manohar Joshi is heading state to cough up another far as to claim that they had family tie. few crores for their travel. Could you live with them after marriage? na phirana — I still do not Indo-US Parliamentary Fo- Forty-five MPs, who are part for Lisbon this month, while never been abroad are were No. Certain distances are important for the health of know what propagation of rum led by BJP MP V P Bad- of the Standing Committee information and broadcast- MUMBAI: Deputy chief humiliated by the implica- a relationship. That’s why I chose to stay separately af- Hindi can we expect to do in noor and co-chaired by Con- of External Affairs, are ing minister Ravi Shankar minister Chhagan Bhujbal tions of the PIL. ter marriage even though I’m a stone’s throw away from Surinam?’’ says Dinanath gress MP Kapil Sibal left for sulking as they are being de- Prasad back from London was in South Africa recent- (Inputs from Shubhajit both my parents. Mishra, BJP MP in Rajya New York on May 30. nied permission to make a via Cannes has winged his ly for the IIFA film awards. Roy (Delhi) Archana Sri- Jitesh Pillai Sabha, on his way back, While the official meet- foreign trip since the last way to Thailand to attend a Small mercy — he didn’t vastava (Lucknow) Singh will stop over in Cuba, ings will continue up to June two years. This, despite that media conference. take his family along. But Sowmya Aji (Bangalore)
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14 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 SPECIAL REPORT It’s a whole College new world iotech, Law, Insurance, IT, Mass Communications, Business Economics — these are the new buzzwords on Indian campuses as the class of 2003 readies to step B into a brave new world. Then there’s also Heritage Management, Hotels and Tourism, and Management Sci- ence... A ready reckoner on some hot new courses ... Delhi ● Business Economics: Considered a market-friendly course, it is a combination of commerce and economics. Six Daze colleges — Bhim Rao Ambedkar, SGGS College of Com- merce, College of Vocational Studies, Ram Lal Anand (evening), Maharaja Agrasen and Khalsa (evening) — offer the course. Number of seats: 30-40 each. Its popularity can be 84%: So near, yet so far... gauged by the surging number of applicants every year.More ith 84 per cent, I have only my optimism to carry me than 400 students apply for the 30 seats in the College of Vo- through... I had always hoped that one day I would call cational Studies, according to principal Chander Prakash. W myself a proud Stephanian. When I scored 84.25 per Admissions are done after an aptitude test. cent in the Boards, I was quite happy.But my happiness was ● BA (vocational): Of the several vocational subjects on of- shortlived, when I realised that even with 84 per cent, I stood fer in Delhi University, Industrial Relations and Personnel nowhere. St Stephen’s was way beyond my reach. Today,I can Management (IRPM) and Insurance top the list. IRPM is of- picture myself keeping my fingers crossed for second and fered in at least nine colleges, including Delhi College of Arts third cut-offs or going from one good college to another, hop- and Commerce, College of Vocational Studies, and Hansraj. ing to get ANY course, insignificant maybe, just so Number of seats: 40-50 each. Many colleges have now started that I could be a part of that prestigious institution. making efforts to find placements for students. My hopes of doing English (Hons) or Psychology (Hons) from LSR are also bleak, fading away into the mist of com- Mumbai petitiveness. I am not celebrating my success, rather I am un- ● BSc (IT): To be eligible, you re- certain about my future and worried about what will happen quire 45 per cent in Class XII Hot New next. boards, with maths as a sub- I stand on the threshold of a new academic life, yet un- ject. Diploma holders in certainty dogs me at every step. And I am not alone. computer engineering, There are many more students who face a similar cri- computer science, com- sis where, even though one’s goal is in sight, the puter technology, civil hurdles are so many that even an 84 per cent does engineering and allied not help. On my part, I can only do my bit and subjects can also ap- pray that I have a chance. Things can STILL go my ply. More than 50 col- way,and my optimism should cheer up all those who leges of Mumbai Uni- are in the same boat . May God bring me LUCK!!! versity, including El- COURSES ● Anushka Seth, Modern School, Delhi phinstone, SIES, Khalsa, offer the course. Number of seats: at least 60 seats per college. ● BMM (Bachelor of Mass Media): For eli- Mid-summer nightmare gibility, minimum 50 per cent required at the very year, there’s a rise in the number of stu- higher secondary level. The syllabus in- dents appearing for the class XII boards, as also cludes the entire range from standard mass E in the number of those seeking admission in col- media subjects like mass communication leges. Everything else remains static. However, this fundamentals, journalism, and public re- year, there is a slight increase in the number of institutions lations to world history, economics, soci- offering avenues off the beaten track. Some are fly-by-night ology, literature, brand-building, and so moneyspinners, but there are others that actually deliver on. Around 24 colleges (at least 60 seats high quality services. each) already offer the course. This rush of institutions is just a symptom of the malaise that afflicts the Indian education system. On far too many oc- Chennai casions, the system has been tinkered with and short-term ● BSc (Visual Communication): solutions are put in place. There has hardly been any attempt Requires passing an entrance test. to seek a long-term solution to the basic problem that makes MOP Vaishnav College for Women the transition from school to college so traumatic. (40 seats) and Loyola College are The basic problem is that the boards do not look at how the two that offer this course. best to certify a child after 13 years at school but try to solve ● BSc (Electronic Media Stud- the university’s problem of criteria for admission. The ies): MOP Vaishnav and Anna Uni- school boards must keep the best interests of the children in versity offer the course that in- mind while coming up with an assessment and certification volves scripting and electronic jour- scheme. In trying to certify the school experience and at the nalism. same time, trying to be a filter through which universities can select/reject the students, the boards end up doing a Pune shoddy job which fulfils neither objective. Unfortunately,Del- ● hi bears the brunt of this problem as students from all over MSc (Biotechnology): Pune University is the first in the country arrive here in droves looking for a higher quali- the country to offer a five-year integrated Master’s course ty education than the one available at home. The story gets in biotechnology. It will allow Class XII students to enrol repeated every year in June. directly for an integrated post-graduate course. After com- ● Arun Kapur, Principal, Vasant Valley School pleting the course, students would be allowed to take a one- year extension and earn an M Tech degree in biotechnolo- gy.Selection for the 30 seats will be done through an all-In- dia entrance exam. Eligibility criteria: 60 per cent in Sci- But Junior is not dumb Your ordeal has just ence subjects . ● MBA (Biotechnology): Since September last year, the y son is not dumb. He’s never been dumb. Then why university of Pune’s department of management sciences are the 10-odd colleges — the ones he wants to enter — begun. Cut-offs, has been offering a full-time MBA programme in biotech- M trying to tell me so? Why are they trying so hard to nology.The idea is to create managerial manpower for this close their doors to seemingly normal, happy kids who have colleges, courses, emerging sector. Aspirants for the 60 seats will need a de- the right answers to most of the questions — at least to those gree in Science, unlike other MBA programmes. They will that matter? career... also have to undergo a 200-mark entrance test besides a Ever since the CBSE Class Xll results were declared, life group discussion and an interview. has been a veritable worry line for me. Not only have I begun to measure life in decimals, I have also become edgy at home, Don’t worry. Bangalore distracted at the workplace and desperate for a break- ● BA (Communicative English): This is a vocational through. I have scanned all the cut-off lists of all the premier Sunday Times leads course which equips students for media-related jobs. The colleges and have mentally written them off Junior’s my- Sunday Times leads course is offered in three colleges — Mount Carmel, Jyoti Ni- future-college list. Of course, I haven’t told him so and have vas and Christ College. While the cut-off varies, the mini- stood patiently in the long queues at Delhi’s dream colleges you through the mum eligibility requirement is a second class. Students from in the mid-May sun. I have given him GK tests for the sundry any stream can apply. Internship is mandatory for all three entrance exams which begin tomorrow. I have enrolled him maze and tells you years. ‘‘The course gives a varied exposure to all kinds of me- for prohibitively expensive coaching classes for colleges dia and equips us to handle any job. It offers a wide range of which offer just 50-60 seats. I have attended sundry education possibilities,” says Aparna Subramanyam, a II year BA (CE) fairs, and have simply written off foreign universities as ‘be- what’s hot, student, Mount Carmel College. yond-my-modest-means’. ● BSc (Biotechnology): Started in response to the biotech- And I have rung up all my old friends and acquaintances happening nology boom, as many as 29 colleges have now got the green in distant metros, pleading with them to send me details signal to offer the course. Although the minimum qualifica- about the best colleges, best courses. I have also made my tion is a second class, colleges normally prefer students with reservations for Mumbai, Pune, Kolkata and Bangalore and not hands-off a high percentage. While some of the colleges offer good in- which have all to be covered this month. But only after 15 frastructure, others are facing problems like shortage of lec- forms have been submitted to 15 colleges here. turers and infrastructure. My son? A bright young lad who scored 85 per cent and has ● Reports: Pallavi Majumdar, Delhi; Swati Das, Chennai; Jhimli the answers to most of the questions. Mukherjee Pandey, Kolkata; Siddhartha D Kashyap, Pune; Anupa- ● Lament of a harried parent Photo: Neeraj Paul ma G S, Bangalore; Anishka Misra, Mumbai Yes, there’s life beyond the best You know every- terion: Equal weightage is given to Principal A S Reddy believes a lot of courts, and international exposure. What lies ahead... Hot New thing about Board percentage and entrance test. academic effort has gone into bridg- Students also give free legal advice to Sweating over ● The future belongs to designers. them: Premier ing the perception gap between north the poor. Hot New the right combi- ‘‘Products, footwear, accessories, exhibi- colleges and SBMJC, Bangalore and south campus colleges. ‘‘In the nation of sub- tions, sets — everything will need design- their high cut- past few years we have had a steady Sophia Shree B K Somani jects? Don’t wor- ing. So there will be jobs for all kinds of offs. But there’s USP :Good academic record, em- stream of university toppers from ry, say career designers,’’ predicts Kum Kum Tandon, life beyond the phasis on all-round development South Campus,’’ he says. Since 1995, Rs counsellors — author of Career Options after 10+2 and best. A look at Polytechnic, Mumbai JOBS COLLEGES his college has earned a name for Venkateswara alone has had univer- there are ample beyond. the new campus- Tchurning out toppers in fields as sity toppers in subjects as varied as USP: Popular for un- opportunities for ● With shopping malls and fancy restau- es that could be beckoning you... diverse as business management and Biochemistry, Sociology, Commerce, conventional cours- everyone... rants coming up everywhere, visual mer- microbiology.The courses at Sri Bha- and Physics. In fact, ‘‘our cut-offs go es like travel and If you are academically oriented... chandising is becoming a key growth MOP Vaishnav College for gawan Mahaveer Jain College (SB- higher than those of Hindu in many tourism, food tech- ● Biotech is the BIG opportunity for stu- area. A diploma in visual communica- MJC) include BSc in biochemistry subjects,’’ Reddy claims. The college nology... dents of science. ‘‘As more pharma com- tions can open doors for many. Women, Chennai and biotechnology; B Com with com- offers 2,200 seats. The most popular tep into the demure panies join the race, jobs will be created ● For those with a flair for words, there puters; BCA (Bachelor of Computer courses include Economics, Com- Spink building for research and marketing profession- will be choices galore in ad agencies and USP: Prepares each student for Applications) and BBM (Bachelor of merce and pure science courses. tucked in a bylane of als,’’ says Previn Malhotra, counsellor. FM channels. ‘‘The growth in the enter- life ahead Business Management). The accent Bhulabhai Desai Road and you re- ● Education is big too, thanks to the boom tainment and media sectors will also fuel hen students graduate from here, is on all-round development — the National University of alise there’s life beyond the IITs and in high-end private schools and colleges. the demand for behind-the-scenes hands they are armed with more than a W badminton, basketball, volleyball IIMs. A delicious aroma floats out of ‘‘There is an acute shortage of good facul- like producers, on-line editors, music di- degree. They pass out with a CV and swimming (men) teams are uni- Judicial Sciences, Kolkata the kitchens where wannabe chefs ty members,’’ says Malhotra. rectors and so on,’’ says Usha Alburque. loaded with work experience, thanks versity champions. learn the ABCs of hotel administra- ● IPR or Intellectual Property Rights is ● Starting salaries: Rs 10,000-15,000 to five internship stints. ‘‘They un- USP: Minimal textbook teaching, training through mock courts tion and food technology. Glossy pic- bound to take off, specially after India has dergo training in different industrial tures of foreign locales lead you into become a WTO member. ‘‘Law graduates If you are smart and savvy... houses. By the time they leave col- Sri Venkateswara t’s quite different from your aver- the classes for the travel and tourism specialising in cyber law, environment, The service sector will continue to boom. lege they are not only able to decide Iage law college. What sets the NUJS College, Delhi apart are its unique courses, its course. Bright teaching aids adorn corporate or IPR can expect to do well,’’ Which means more avenues in HR, public on a career, but they actually get job says counsellor Usha Alburque. relations, hotel management, insurance, method of teaching and its sensitivi- the walls of the pre-school teacher offers,’’ says principal K Nirmala USP: St. Stephen’s of ● Health services is another big sector. adventure travel... ‘‘Students should ty towards social issues. The first training section. Students of the fine Prasad. The college has six schools — the South With an aging population and longer lifes- choose integrated courses or a diploma batch will pass out in 2004.NUJS of- art department are the brains behind for Business, Information Technolo- enky, as it is popu- pans, opportunities in this sector will dou- course along with their degree,’’ advises fers an integrated five-year BA, LLB many of those sleek advertisements gy, Media Studies, Food Science, So- Vlarly called, is now ble, say experts. Everyone associated with Tandon. Starting salaries: Rs 15,000-18,000 cial Science and Languages.The syl- considered the St (Hons) degree. Admission is through selling you soaps and sarees. Today, the six departments of the health can expect to cash in on the boom. The bottomline: Follow your passion, labus also incorporates 60 hours of Stephen’s of Delhi an all-India test. However, IT and IT-enabled services will says Malhotra. ‘‘Don’t look at what’s hot . polytechnic are giving full-fledged in- finishing school. Students are University’s South Eligibility criteria: 50 per cent in remain the sunniest prospects. You need just one job. If you are hard- stitutes like the Dadar Catering Col- trained to function both at the work- Campus. Over the Class XII and age below 20 years. ● Starting salaries: Rs 10,000-20,000. working you will find the right slot.’’ place and at home as wives and years it has emerged as a destination lege and Xavier’s Institute of Com- Teaching methodology: case studies, If you are creative ... Sujata Dutta Sachdeva daughters-in-law. The admission cri- for the ‘hip and happening’ crowd. minimum textbook theory, mock munication a run for their money.
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Lanka mulls over LTTE demands: Sri Lanka’s beleaguered government was Saturday Militants vow mulling how to respond to Tamil Tiger guerrillas who rejected the latest offer to revive stalled peace talks, officials said. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s government was expected to give a response to Friday’s categorical rejection of greater financial authority in exchange for re- to resist Pak entering peace talks, officials said. They said government peace negotiators were studying the four-page rebel letter and a formal response could be expected early next week. The LTTE said a bid to shut fresh proposal sent to them Tuesday by the government through peace broker Norway was insuffi- cient to revive the stalled peace bid. AFP terror camps Muzaffarabad: Pakistan- based militants vowed on Saturday to resist Islam- abad’s efforts to close their offices in Pakistan-occupied- Kashmir. Leaders of several militant groups said Pakistan had giv- en them until May 31 to close down offices in PoK, a move seen as part of Pakistan’s ef- forts to mend ties with India. “There is a consensus, so far, among the mujahideen groups that they would not leave the base camp,” a mili- tant group member said be- fore a meeting of anti-Indian groups in Muzaffarabad, cap- ital of PoK. Militants said Pakistani authorities were trying to stop them crossing a the LOC, for the first time in years. The move was a be- trayal of their cause, they said. “Since early April, mu- jahideen are not being al- lowed to cross the LOC,” an official of the outlawed Pak- istan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba group said. Meanwhile, Maulana Ma- sood Azhar, leader of a mili- tant group accused of the 2001 Indian parliament at- tack, was barred from ad- dressing a party conference in Peshawar by Pakistani au- thorities. He later addressed a gathering and hailed Al- Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar as “he- roes of muslim world”. Azhar, who has re-named his banned terror outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad as Kud- dam-ul-Islam, was barred from addressing Deefa-e-Is- lam conference organised by his party on Friday at Press club in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s volatile North West Frontier Province, on the grounds that his party has been banned. Agencies Intelligence reports fuel Indian doubts on Pak efforts By Mohua Chatterjee TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Vajpayee government is cynical about Pakistani President Mushar- raf ’s new announcement that he would close down militant camps in PoK. Government sources say this is not the first time that the move has been ordered. It’s a routine exercise to show US and India, that it is taking steps to curb cross- border terrorism. So the gov- ernment is following the sit- uation closely. The reason is simple: The ground situation based on the latest intelligence reports with the home ministry says: ● Five active new ‘‘launch camps’’ have come up along the LoC. ● The ISI has opened vari- ous training camps on a large plot of land in Muridke, an area close to Muzafarrabad in the PoK. ● New ‘‘launch camps’’ have come up in the Hasan region in the forward Kahuta area in Nakiyal, Khoi Ratta, Samahni, Dhali Bagh areas. ● Recruits or mercenaries have direct instructions from the ISI to get themselves in- ducted without any ‘‘pre-ac- tivities’’. ● There are strict instruc- tions from an ISI command- er, identified as Brigadier Nasir Hussain, who is also the director of Operations, Kashmir Wing, in the ISI, that the infiltrators should remain covert. ● The fresh recruits are being taken care of by an or- ganisation called the Refugee Management Centre. ● The instructions are that they must not stay in the ‘‘screen posts,’’ they should not ‘‘make any reconnais- sance movements along the LoC’’ and that they should be ‘‘sent on a checked-and-con- trolled manner’’ and most importantly there should be ‘‘no covering fire from Pak- istani forces for these men when they are crossing over’’. ● The same instructions have reportedly been passed onto the chairman of the Muttahida Jehadi Council (MJC) which has also been coordinating terrorist activities. ● The camps area is cov- ered with tall trees. A sign- board of Lashkar-e-Taiba has been put up right at the en- trance of the area. ● Apart from LeT, Hizbul Mujahadeen, Jaish-e-Mo- hammad, Hurriat-ul-Jehadi- Islam camps are also there.
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AP INTERNATIONAL GRAFFITI Reuters Blame it on trousers: Swaziland’s absolute monarch has singled out women wearing trousers as the cause of the world’s ills in a state radio sermon that also condemned human rights as an “abomination be- fore God”. “The Bible says curse be unto a woman who wears pants, and those who wear their husband’s clothes. That is why the world is in such a state today,” Mswati, Kournikova ruler of the impoverished feu- dal nation of about one mil- lion, said. Women on the set to wed streets of capital Mbabane were not impressed. “The king says I am the cause of Iglesias the world’s problems be- Washington: Russian cause of my outfit. Never tennis beauty Anna mind terrorism, government corruption, poverty and dis- Kournikova is set to ease, it’s me and my pants. I walk down the aisles reject that,” said Thob’sile with pop star Enrique Dlamini. Reuters Iglesias. The high-pro- file couple are all set to Home photo irks take their vows of to- Streisand: Barbra getherness on the Streisand has filed a $10-mil- Caribbean island of the lion lawsuit against a multi- Dominican Republic. millionaire who posted a British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife Cherie admire the Amber Room of the Catherine Palace in St. Petersburg on high-resolution photograph Enrique’s famous of her Malibu estate on an In- crooner father Julio Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday officially opened the painstakingly recreated Amber Room, which was lost after Germantroops dismantled and carted it off during World War II. ternet Web site documenting Iglesias will not be at- erosion along the California tending the ceremony to coast. The lawsuit, alleging be held in Casa de Cam- violations of the diva’s right po. The twenty-one-year- If it’s police inefficiency, it must be London to privacy and of the state’s old Russian star and the anti-paparazzi law, was filed Actor Harrison Ford with his girlfriend, actress Calista pop singer have been ow many times have world, but Tony Blair is not tus as a victim of Blair’s war local thana. My local HBO under seal on May 20 in San- Flockhart, during ceremonies unveiling his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday. Ford’s new film, dating since February you heard a foreign Turkmenistan’s flamboyant on Iraq? Six weeks after Sad- gave it to me straight, to ex- ta Monica Superior Court. A Hollywood Homicide, opens in June. last year. Hcorrespondent, on lo- president Saparmurat Niya- dam Hussein was ceremoni- plain why he was unable to longtime environmentalist The pair, living in cation in Delhi, griping zov,who managed to alter the ously tumbled off his police my street and stop and supporter of liberal politi- was removed from Athens’ Moscoso issued a presiden- Florida, have gone to about (a) the weather (b) po- seasons of the Turkmen year. pedestal in Baghdad’s Fir- vandals from smashing the cal causes, Streisand asked Henri Dunant hospital on tial decree allowing all but great lengths to keep lice apathy (c) bureaucratic Niyazov, of course, named dous Square and Blair windows on my car and steal- the court to order Kenneth May 20. No details were giv- highly essential workers to Adelman to remove her name their romance a secret inefficiency? In London, ar- rushed to kiss Basra’s babies, ing all its wheels. That was en on how the machine was take a half day and go home and the photo of her estate and away from the me- guably Europe’s crime capi- here’s what the British prime last week. removed. AP before beauties from around from his Web site, www.cali- the globe take the stage at a dia glare, according to a tal, one is six times more like- minister really helped ac- A few days later, over- Go home early for Miss EURO forniacoastline.org. Reuters convention center in Amador, report in The Sun. ly to be mugged than in New complish: Seven-thousand- stretched old PC Plod was Universe: Panama an- a former US base on the Pa- ATM stolen: Police arrest- The blonde tennis ace York, there are fewer bobbies two-hundred policemen on back. Under his arm he had a nounced that government cific coast. It seems authori- ed two Albanian men Friday was briefly married to every day on the local beat VISION the streets of Baghdad. But load of leaflets, a sort of citi- workers could pack up early ties were troubled by the and sought three accom- Russian ice hockey star and police routinely prefer hardly any bobbies visible at zen’s DIY crime prevention on June 3 and head home to possibility thousands of gov- plices for allegedly stealing Sergei Fedorov two not to get their hands dirty, Rashmee Z Ahmed all on London’s restless manual. And he had a wry focus on the Miss Universe ernment workers might clog an automatic teller machine years ago. Her relation- offering a Telephone Investi- streets. The cops are busy smile, along with a graceful pageant. Apparently taking roadways and keep others from a hospital. Police said ship with Enrique has gation Service instead! one month of the year after policing the minor anti-war apology for the Metropolitan her hosting duties very seri- visiting Panama stuck on the the ATM containing $65,000 ously, President Mireya seen lots of highs and It may surely be appropri- himself, another after his demonstrations continuing Police’s abject inability to road — making them miss Reuters lows, with trouble brew- ate then to whinge right back mother and changed all the (with little logic but oodles of stop the bad guys stealing my some of the show. AFP ing in November 2002 at on two of those three com- rest around to suit his tastes. deranged do-gooder zeal) to front gate one recent week- McDonald’s sues food the MTV Europe awards plaints from Delhi’s foreign So never mind Britain’s fa- disrupt the British capital. day night. critic: McDonald’s has sued in Barcelona, where he journos: the weather and po- mously unpredictable weath- At least that’s the story one Crime in London, he re- one of Italy’s top food critics was spotted with party lice apathy. er. What of the police? In this gets from the local Home peated like a mantra, is just for raking its restaurants over girl Emma Jones.ANI The weather is a lost cause. respect, one can only ask, is Beat Officer (HBO), which is something you have to live the coals, but the critic says He may want to save the it safe yet to declare one’s sta- Britspeak for the thula at the with. he has no intention of going Model sues Playboy: A back on saying its burgers BRICKBATS professional bikini model who taste of rubber and its fries of cardboard. McDonald’s of This strip is absolutely ridiculous and says she was falsely portrayed Italy said the critic’s com- unpatriotic.You are taking advantage of as a “lesbian porn star” by the right to freedom of expression. ments were “clearly defama- Trash this strip immediately. Playboy has sued the adult en- tory and offensive to McDon- — Tanay Mishra tertainment company. Jennifer ald’s and to the more than Dubyaman is going from bad to worse. Whitney claims that she was Stop it and come up with something 600,000 Italians who each more innovative. Don’t make fools of videotaped naked at an “artis- day freely choose to eat in a yourselves. tic body painting promotion” at McDonald’s restaurant”. Crit- — Raj Tejas the Playboy Mansion and un- A scene from the new computer animated film, Finding ic Edoardo Raspelli said he For bouquets go to wittingly wound up on the cov- Nemo, shows Marlin (left) desperate to find his missing had received hundreds of e- www.timesofindia.com er of a videotape called “Play- son Nemo is joined on his mission by a forgetful fish mails supporting him against the fast-food giant. Reuters e-mail: [email protected] boy Mansion Parties, Hottest named Dory. The film opened in the US on Friday. Moments.” Reuters
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INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 17 Video games Nepal parties hold talks fetch degrees Rain-wary Americans pray for sunny days NYT t’s probably cruel to relate the hard winter, have been left to decide on new PM in US colleges this to readers in India who holding their chairs and tick- have been broiling under the ets. Golf courses and tennis Kathmandu: The leaders of Nepal’s Maoist rebels. Dallas: David Najjab is an I relentless May sun, but if there clubs are empty. five major political parties were un- ‘‘We are still discussing the major educator with an unusual is some way to package and Typically, Memorial Day, the decided Saturday on who would be problem — he’s trying to lure issues and problems in the country transport those clear skies, heat last weekend of May when the next prime minister following the students who are serious that need to be immediately resolved. and light, Washington would be American honour their fallen resignation of Lokendra Bahadur about making a career out of It is not just about who gets to be in the first city to bid for it. soldiers, is supposed to mark Chand, but agreed the post must be fun and games. the government but rather how the Last week, Washingtonians filled from within their ranks. As director of the new the onset of summer. nation can be saved,’’ said Madhav gloomily celebrated a dubious ‘‘We have not finalized who we are school of video game making That’s when American fami- Kumar Nepal, general secretary of anniversary — one full month going to propose to the king as the at Southern Methodist Uni- lies fire up their outdoor barbe- the United Marxist Leninist Commu- without a single clear, sunny next prime minister ... but we stand versity, Najjab plans to at- cue sets (76 per cent of Ameri- nist Party of Nepal. day. firmly by our demands that there tract students by using some can families own a barbecue Leaders of the five parties met for should be a government led and rep- of the area’s game luminar- It was a month during which, set; it’s a $10 billion annual more than two and a half hours on resented by the major political par- one writer said glumly, the business). This Memorial Day, Friday with Gyanendra and Crown ies as teachers and speakers. ties,’’ Amik Sherchan of the Nepal But he’s got plenty of com- skies have been “the dull-gray it rained. In fact, it’s rained Prince Paras, their first time in the colour of file cabinets, and al- every weekend for six weeks. People’s Front party said. petition from schools around Chand’s resignation on Friday fol- palace since they launched a protest the country.Formal game ed- most daily bouts of rain make it About the only sector of the campaign in April to remove Chand. seem as if Zeus is spitting on economy doing well is the light lowed opposition protests earlier this ucation remains a relatively month saying his appointment had Political sources said Gyanendra us.” Memorial Day, observed on the last week of May, is supposed to business. A local store called untapped area, but the emer- been unconstitutional. set a 72-hour deadline for them to According to the local met of- mark the onset of summer. That’s when American families fire up SunBox is reporting six times gence of video game schools The king appointed pro-monar- come up with a name. fice, the Washington Metro area their outdoor barbecue sets. This year, it rained. But the shower the average customer inflow to makes sense in the 30-year- chist Chand after firing an elected Lilamani Pokharel, leader of the has not seen a full day of sun- couldn’t dampen the spirit of a group of New Yorkers. buy halogen floor lamps and as- old industry,said Jason Della government led by Sher Bahadur opposition People’s Front, said shine — defined as a day during sorted light fixtures. Roca, director of the Interna- year. It snowed on 19 days in has been constantly damp and Deuba on Oct. 11. Gyanendra had tried to “deceive” which an ob- But it will all end soon. Only tional Game Developers As- winter (as op- clammy. There are fears that Deuba had wanted to postpone par- the parties by offering an olive server can stand weeks from now, Washingtoni- sociation. posed to the nor- the Met office will change its liamentary elections scheduled for branch just as demonstrations were The games industry em- anywhere in ans will be suffering from MAD mal three days name to the Wet office. November, citing concerns about growing. Agencies ploys about 30,000 in the US, this region and ONLY IN of snow) and it The local economy,which has — Maddening August Days. and demand is expected to see blue skies rained relent- already gone for a six following That’s when it will steamy, grow by about 15 percent, or with less than 30 AMERICA! lessly in spring. the economic downturn and the sticky and sweltering, with not 5,000 jobs a year, Najjab said. percent cloud The average war on terror, is in a dismal a drop of rain or a cloud in the Salaries in the industry cover — since Chidanand Rajghatta May tempera- state. sky. About the same time most vary from $49,000 for new April 28. ture has Outdoor restaurants and of India will be, not SAD or game designers with a few There have been only 17 clear dropped from 24 degrees Cel- parks, which anxiously await MAD, but hopefully glad with years’ experience to $300,000 days since the beginning of the sius to 20 degrees Celsius and it the spring and sunny days after monsoon rains. for seasoned veterans. AP
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18 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 ALL THAT MATTERS
TALKING TERMS Dileep Padgaonkar Should we extend reservation to the upper castes? Beneath the bonhomie Yes, for there are economically backward among them too No, quotas do not help soical integration nor improve lives Dhaka: The bonhomie between Indians More reser- tional amendment to imple- fits as the OBCs? After all, You can’t VP Singh unleashed his in office. Having repeatedly and Pakistanis during a conference of vations! ment these new reservations. economic backwardness af- have it both Mandal mantra. Who do you encashed the Hindutva hun- South Asian journalists here this past People get I must clarify that the BJP fects people across caste ways. Once think was at the head of the di, it has nothing left to go on. week perplexed the other participants agitated at is not extending the reserva- lines. for all, the anti-Mandal mayhem?It was There’s Modi and his ‘mira- no end. Until only the other day the ri- the mention tion quota because of the Ra- The Indian constitution party of the the too-holy-by-half BJP, cle’ of course, but no one vals were indeed prepared to nuke one of extend- jasthan chief minister’s re- granted reservations for a pe- righteous with the Congress a shame- knows whether such savage another. But now they could be seen ing reserva- cent decision to extend a 14 riod of 15 years, to people en- must choose faced second. And what was laboratory experiments can trading pleasantries all day and often tions to the per cent quota for the poor tering the Lok Sabha and the — and so the basis of its opposition? be repeated in the wider economical- amongst the forward castes. I Vidhan Sabha. But reserva- must poor Simple. Quotas for the back- world. Here then is the par- into the late hours of the night. And this Pramod Mahajan Mahesh Daga in the capital of a nation which had at- Gen Secretary, BJP ly backward was among the first politi- tions for the socially back- Asst Editor, TOI old Con- ward classes would implode ty’s ultimate tribute to the tained its freedom following a war the two countries had amongst the cians to support the Mandal ward had no time bar. These gress — the Indian polity from with- Mandal messiah: A 14 per fought 30-odd years ago. forward castes. But let’s con- Commission recommenda- reservations should, then, be whether it is for or against in. ‘‘Yadav. Kurmi. Koeri... Is cent quota for the upper caste However, what the other participants could not witness sider the situation rationally. tions. What is more, way eliminated only when pover- quotas. We all have short there an Indian out there?’’ It poor. In defeat, VP had pro- was the perceptible shift in mood once the two sides sat The Indian Constitution back in 1985, the BJP nation- ty is eliminated. memories, but take your would penalise individual claimed that time will prove down for a formal discussion on issues of bilateral con- created 13 per cent reserva- al executive passed a resolu- As told to Rashme Sehgal mind back to 1990 — when merit and ‘institutionalise’ him right. It has. cern. Though largely free from acrimony, the exchanges tion for SCs and 12 per cent tion in Bhopal supporting mediocrity. ‘‘Would you The case for Mandal was were anything but relaxed. But they were instructive all for STs. In 1989, with the im- reservation for the economi- rather your daughter was op- based on a lot of history.The the same in that they revealed the extent of the mistrust on plementation of the Mandal cally weak amongst the up- SUNDAY DEBATE erated upon by a ‘quota’ sur- ‘upper Shudras’ — all 3,743 both sides as well as a great deal of uncertainty about the Commission recommenda- per castes. Deepak Harichandan geon?’’ There was no end to ‘castes’ in BP Mandal’s 1980 fate of Prime Minister Vajpayee’s latest peace initiative. tions, reservations were ex- An adoption of that resolu- the ‘sins’ of Mandal. Think of report — had faced docu- The mistrust is easily explained. More than 50 years af- tended to backward classes tion will not bring the whole it, even Advaniji got into his mented discrimination in the ter Partition, the reasons that led to it continue to haunt by almost 25 per cent. These country under reservation. It Toyota Ram Rath only to heal past. No one can argue that both countries. Even liberal Pakistanis pooh-pooh India’s were a necessity,but there re- will extend the quota by a the ‘rift’ caused in Hindu so- the poor among the upper secularism as a sham and point to the killings in Gujarat mained a set of economically mere 10 per cent. Today if 50 ciety by quotas. castes have suffered likewise. as the latest evidence of the validity of the two-nation the- backward people who did not out of 100 jobs are reserved, Has anything changed To be sure, every democra- ory. Moreover, they are convinced that India’s economic fit into either the SC/ST or another 50 remain open to since to warrant a U-turn? cy that is committed to equi- success in recent years, the modernisation of its military the OBC category.That’s why merit. If the ratio changes to Not really. If anything, we ty and justice needs some machine and the growth of the BJP only serve to fuel New the reservations must be ex- 60-40, what’s the big deal? now know that Mandal was form of affirmative action. Delhi’s hegemonic ambitions. tended to the backwards The Indian youth is whole- hardly the great secular up- But affirmative action has Some hardline Pakistanis believe that the way to resist amongst the forward castes. heartedly supporting this heaval it was made out to be. never been based, anywhere this hegemony is for their country to promote a militant This new lot will increase move since several crore up- At best, it caused the growth in the world, on economic form of Islam at home, to bleed India in as many places as reservations by only 10 per per castes are not covered by of regional caste-based fiefs status alone. From race to possible and to ensure that the armed forces, as the cent. It will cover some for- any reservation. Critics ar- which promoted the interests caste, it has always required guardians of the Pakistan ideology,do not compromise on ward castes such as Jats, gue that Brahmins have of the already well-off, or something more as its justifi- Kashmir. Such talk confirms the worst fears of Indians. Marathas, Brahmins, Lin- ruled India for centuries. But what cowbelt sociologists cation. In other words, not In their eyes, any sign of Pakistani flexibility can be gayats and Vokilas. More im- why must a poor Brahmin call the ‘rising’ middle just poverty but poverty that purely tactical in nature. Their strategic goal — to seek portantly, eight crore Mus- suffer today simply because castes. It neither helped so- is the result of other inherent parity with India at all costs — cannot change. For, to ac- lims will also be covered. Of the Prime Minister is a Brah- cial integration nor im- and inherited disabilities. knowledge the democratic and secular credentials of India course the government must min? Likewise, why must a proved the lives of the truly The case is yet to be made and to admit India’s significance as an emerging global first identify the economical- poor Rajput pay because Bha- dispossessed. that this fundamental link economic and military power would sooner than later ly backward classes not cov- iron Singh Shekhawat is the So why does the BJP want should be done away with in shake the very foundations of the house that Mohammad ered by the existing reserva- Vice President? Why cannot quotas? Because today it’s at India. Even if the cry of Ali Jinnah built. tions. Besides, the Parlia- the poor amongst the upper the end of both its wits and a Garibi Hatao, unlike caste, This historical baggage adds to the confusion about the ment must pass a Constitu- castes claim the same bene- forgettable five-year tenure no longer fetches votes. tasks at hand. The Pakistanis had more or less reconciled to General Musharraf ’s about-turn on Afghanistan follow- ing 9/11, not least on account of the perks that came their ERRATICA way as a front-line state in the war against terrorism. But Bachi Karkaria Laloo meets the President with no signs of normalcy returning to Afghanistan, espe- cially after the invasion of Iraq, questions have been raised The media has been full nothing could be fodder from the truth. and Subhash.’’ He triumphantly presented whole of Patna into one.’’ about American intentions regarding Pakistan itself. of the President’s his- Determined to impress the Prez, the First them to the scientist, ‘‘Ee hai bhaiyya, here’s Then, on winds of fire, the two swept On Kashmir, too, confusion is writ large. The rhetoric toric train ride in Bihar, Husband had mugged up his daughter’s sci- my personal theory of relativity!’’ through the cerebral swathe, culminating in about the freedom struggle of the Kashmiris continues. and all the people he ence text book. Then, having secured a pri- Kalam, always excited by ignited minds, a nuclear fusion of science and spirituality. But there is a grudging acknowledgement that the recent wowed, from the railway vate hour with the Missile Man, he launched warmed up. ‘‘Do you know the Theory of Kalam quoted the paradox of ‘Schrodinger’s assembly elections in J & K were free and fair and that this staff to Patna Patni No 1. into his trajectory like an ICBM. ‘‘Mananiya Everything?’’ Laloo preened, ‘‘Theoory ka, I cat’ who is ‘dead and not dead’, and the cor- has marginalised the separatists to some extent. Moreover, But few know that there Rashtrapatiji, we both had humble begin- know even the practice of everything, from responding duality in the particles and after 9/11, there is a growing realization that the jihadis was a top-secret meeting nings. While you gave India the big stick of railla to mob rule.’’ The scientist patiently waves of quantum physics. Our poll-itican, who were sent to create mayhem in the Valley and else- between the Patna Pati defence technology, I have only a lathi. But, explained that this theory was about the who was eminently qualified to write an where in India pose a threat to Pakistan’s own unity. and the Rashtrapati. Sir, do not think that I am a peasant who has oneness of all the forces of nature. ‘‘You’re electoral rig veda, responded with the an- Against this background, the Pakistanis are pinning This was not some sentimental Yadavon never been transferred from land to lab.’’ teaching ME?’’ Laloo drawled. “I have rolled cient verse. How did it matter if he said their hopes on the pragmatism of their rulers and espe- ki baaraat. Laloo wanted to upgrade the im- He continued ‘‘Huzoor, I also have all the all forces of legislature, executive and judi- ‘neta, neta, neta,’ instead of the original cially on the statesmanship of Vajpayee. Barring a few, age of Bihar especially after the scientist- scientific theories at my finger-tips. Who ciary into one!’’ ‘neti, neti, neti’? Both, after all, are about the who insist that the latest peace offensive is a charade, most President’s recent rocket to its MPs. The else can recite anything backward with Now all charged up, the President shot out negative path to the goal. go along with the view that the two countries must proceed state had once again been declared an ab- greater authority than I? Forget Newton, I questions as in Mastermind, and Laloo re- At the end of the session Laloo composed step by step to normalise their ties: solve less contentious sconder on development. Laloo could not even know Oldton. Puchhiye, puchhiye, ask sponded like an unguided missile. Game a slogan, Jab tak rahega railla mein salaam, issues first and, once a congenial atmosphere is created, understand why the state should be so un- me about any question.” Theory? ‘‘As a politician,I have to think like tab tak rahega Dilli mein Kalam. He then or- address the Kashmir issue. fairly branded, considering that every single The acclaimed Kalam smiled indulgently, my opponents to maximise my gains.’’ Big dered the President, ‘‘Repeat it after me.’’ The cautious approach suggests that even though it will Bihar politician was fully engaged in hu- and said, ‘‘Achha, do you know about Ein- Bang theory? ‘‘I started as a singular entity * * * be quite a while before Indo-Pakistani bonhomie at the per- man development — his own. Everyone stein?” Laloo spat out his response as swift- of intense density and see how I have ex- Alec Smart said, ‘‘How should you sonal level extends to the two governments, something sneered that Bihar was synonymous with ly as a squirt of paan-juice. ‘‘Arre ho Rabri, panded to create my explosive universe.’’ attach pix of the solar shadow to your missing in their relations so far can now be sighted on the corruption. Laloo strongly believed that come here and bring your brothers, Sadhu Black hole? ‘‘My Mrs and I have made the m@il? With e-clips.’’ horizon: hope as a prelude to trust.
JUGULAR VEIN MEN AND IDEAS Jug Suraiya PASSING THOUGHT Gurcharan Das A sense of possibilities
I made a new friend daughter to a good school. Soon they will and I wonder what Laloo Prasad would Neverest saga last week. Shashi Ku- be leaving for Boston where his company make of him. Shashi escaped but the mar is twenty-nine has transferred him for a year’s training ones left behind either don’t have a school A literally top-of-the-world morning to and comes from a tiny at their customer’s office. to go to or go to schools where teachers you folks. This week’s Jugular Vein is village in Bihar,where Shashi is an average, affable young In- don’t show up. They get sick too often be- being broadcast to you from the summit his grandfather used cause the water is unclean and there is no of what used to be called Mount Everest dian, but what makes him different is to be a low caste share- that he has a sense of life’s possibilities doctor. Does Laloo think of these things? and what now has appropriately been cropper in good times Does he ask how Shashi earned his possi- renamed Neverest. Let’s see who we still and lives and works in an environment and a day labourer in that encourages this attitude. His grand- bilities? The simple answer is that any- have hanging around here. Ah, there’s hard ones. They were father would have been beaten had he one with education, computer skills, and the entire entourage of former Miss so poor that on some nights he didn’t get dared to think of such things, and it is some English can make it today in India, Worlds who’ve come up here to show to eat. But his father somehow escaped partly our 1991 reforms that have given and it doesn’t have to be an IIT, for much that they’re not past their peak. And this bondage and got a job in a transport of one’s potential can be realised by who are fulfilling their collective pledge to work ceaseless- company in Darbhanga. Since they Shashi a chance. Prior to 1991 jobs with dignity and possibilities existed largely learning at the workplace, as Shashi did ly for the uplift of humanity by having uplifted themselves couldn’t quite manage on his father’s at his first job in a BPO company earning in the government, and if you got an edu- by charter helicopter to Neverest. And what’s this? An en- salary, his mother began to teach for Rs Rs 3000 a month. Now, here is a challenge cation and didn’t get into the government tire reshuffled NDA cabinet, proving that political wilder- 400 a month in a private school in their for our education policy! ness is Neverest paradise enow. Chill out, guys, and give you faced a hopeless future. The middle neighbourhood, where Shashi was edu- For Shashi, it is a good time to be alive my best to Gingee Ramachandran and tell him not to ac- class remembers well the nightmare ‘‘ed- cated free under her watchful eye. Deter- in these days of ferment. His proud moth- cept any wooden nickels. ucated unemployment.’’ But all this is mined that her son should escape the in- er confesses that she did not understand Hey,we have a casualty.A guy on a stretcher with an IV changing: services have exploded since dignities of Bihar, she tutored him at much of what was happening to them drip stuck in him. Excuse me, sir. Did you hurt yourself our economy opened up, and with tele- night, got him into college, and when even when it was happening. She simply while climbing up? What’s that? You didn’t hurt yourself he finished, gave him a railway ticket com reforms a new Fortune 500 company did what she had to. On the way home climbing up, you hurt yourself in Bangkok by getting in for Delhi. is relocating its back office to India every from Gurgaon I think of life’s possibili- the way of four bullets fired at you by some people who Today,Shashi is a middle manager in a day. In three years, people employed in ties and of Rainer Maria Rilke’s lines: thought you were someone called Ejas when you’re actual- business process outsourcing (BPO) call BPO alone have grown tenfold to 200,000, A billion stars go spinning/ through the ly someone called Rehman, and the doctor ordered putting centre in Gurgaon with customers in and at this rate they will be two million night, /blazing high above your head. you in cold storage for a while till the heat dies down, and America and he exudes the confidence of by 2008 and educated unemployment will But in you is the presence that/ will be, what’s colder than here? Well, I’m not sure if frostbite is Ah, here is our smart new engineer from the chemical a young man with promise. He earns Rs be gone forever. Shashi is a testimony to when the stars are dead. the best treatment for gunshot wounds, but I’m sure you plant to see us! Don’t look so worried, young fellow: 25,000 a month, lives in a nice flat, which globalisation. know what you’re up to, even if no one else seems to. what’s the problem? he bought last year with a mortgage from Shashi is also a Yadav and belongs to [email protected]; post Wonder who that fellow is, scribbling things in a note- HDFC, drives an Indica and sends his the same caste as Bihar’s chief minister, box 3046, New Delhi110003 book. Another Sunday columnist? Couldn’t be. Looks too well fed to be a hack. But the beard, specs, bald head sug- gest a literary connection. Hi, there. You a writer? What’s that? You’re not just a writer but a famous writer of novels SWAMINOMICS which no one reads so you go about doing sensational Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar How hungry are Indians? things like having affairs with beautiful young women so as to get written about in the society columns so that even The monsoon is Organisation conducts surveys vergence between the poverty and this omission. within a village, villagers may if no one reads you anymore everyone reads about you and hunger ratios. Poverty has fallen, Some people may doubt the ac- overstate their living standards to therefore knows you’re a famous writer? Hey,that’s pretty about to arrive, every five or six years to measure and people are poverty in the country. One of the but hunger has fallen much faster. curacy of the data. My friend P. keep up appearances with neigh- smart thinking. So what’re you doing right now which will The proportion of rural Indians Sainath once told me that it hurts bours. But if somebody from out- anxiously scan- questions asked is whether people get you written about some more? You’re writing an un- saying they are never hungry rose the pride of people to say they are side asks the question, villagers ning the skies. get enough food every day of the readable novel called The Last Sigh of the Yeti which to 94.5 per cent in 1993-94, and to hungry, and so they claim to have will tend to understate their living Two of the last year.If not, do they get insufficient you’re hoping turns out to be so abominable that someone 96.2 per cent in 1999-00. The urban full bellies even when they are hun- standards and claim great distress, three years have food in some months of the year, or else, maybe the Yeti Association, passes yet another fatwa proportion was 98.1 and 98.6 per gry.I wondered, is this so? Or is it a since they know it might get some seen poor rains, in every month? on your head and you get even more written about and less cent respectively. The chronically lame rationalisation of those who compensation or benefit. read than you already are? That’s the way to go, bro. Only and the drought The accompanying table shows hungry (who experienced hunger have been exposed as exaggerating That sounds a fair assessment don’t let Naipaul beat you to the punch line. last year was the facts. In the 1983 survey,81.1 per in every month of the year) shrank hunger? If the surveyed people do to me. I believe the hunger data Who else is here? Those two look interesting, walking the worst for decades. How bad cent of people said they were never from 2.4 in 1983-84 to 0.7 per cent in not lose pride in claiming to be do not understate the truth, and arm in arm. Tall thin guy with a long black beard wearing is the hunger caused by such hungry.So, barely 19 per cent were 1999-00 in rural areas, and from 0.8 poor, why should they lose pride in may overstate it. Only around 3 per a white bedsheet and a towel wrapped round his head. And deprivation? ever hungry during the year — to 0.3 per cent in urban areas. claiming to be hungry? cent of Indians suffer from hunger. the other, plump chap in a suit, tie and moustache. Hey,fel- Roughly a quarter of the popula- less than half the proportion Many readers will be amazed. I checked this out with a nephew las. Care to give me an interview? What’s that you said, tion remains below the poverty recorded as being under the pover- Impossible, some readers will Why, they will ask, does the media working for an NGO in the villages with the beard? You only give interviews on video tapes line. Readers may conclude that ty line. Government economists say.The TV news last year was full never highlight these data? Well, of Rajasthan. I asked, will people which are encrypted with coded messages that none but a quarter of the population goes were embarrassed by this diver- of people who were not only hun- let me plead guilty along with the truthfully tell surveyors whether your secret acolytes understand? Hot ziggetyzoo for hungry. Not so. Indeed, hunger gence between the poverty ratio gry but sometimes starved to others: we have all focused on the they are hungry? My nephew you. But I’m right out of encrypted videos, not to mention is remarkably low in India. Only and hunger ratio: they had long death. Very true. But remember poverty figures and ignored the thought a minute before replying. secret acolytes, so I guess we’d better take a rain cheque 3 per cent of people say that they do claimed that the poverty line had that 3 per cent of India’s popula- hunger data. I now seek to rectify If the question is asked by people on that one. not get enough to eat every day been calculated on the basis tion means 30 million people. How about you, in the suit? Hey, what’re you turning of the year. of adequate nutrition, and the Rural hunger declines That is a huge number in absolute your pockets out for? You’re turning them out to show me You might think this is an claim now looked absurd. terms, and explains why the media you’re clean out of WMD? Well, I’m sorry, pal, but even if achievement worth boasting about. Their reaction? Why, to drop the Year Enough food Hungry in Hungry can find them quite easily in you’d had any I wouldn’t be able to take it under the colum- However, few economists mention embarrassing question on hunger every day some months every month distressed areas. nists’ code of ethics which prohibits us accepting any gifts the data on hunger. Those who altogether for the next survey in Clearly a hunger ratio of even of material significance. So if you find ’em, donate them to have made a living by claiming that 1987-88! You do not have to explain %% %3 per cent is too high for a country a deserving charity.There’s a good chap. poverty is high are most likely data that are not collected! Howev- 1983 81.1 16.2 2.4 of our size. We need to bring it Who’s that mooching down the mountain. You, there! to keep silent on this. But surely er, other economists expressed out- down to zero. But let us boast a Why’re you going down, when everyone’s coming up? we need to talk about an important rage at this, so the question was 1993-94 94.5 4.2 0.9 little about the fact that we have What? You’re going down because you wish it had never issue where much progress has restored in the 1993-94 and 1999-00 1999-00 96.2 2.6 0.7 reduced the ratio from 19 per cent been made. to 3 per cent. It is an achievement been there to begin with? 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MATH EXTINCTIONS LETTERS e4 Endgame about the family go- Why do doctors have ‘plus’ symbols? Reshuffle Politics Dr Chandrashekhar of Dubai, ing to the fair. It is clear that the husband will require three trips. AFP his refers to the UAE, and Suhas Shenai of cept that hydrogen bonding news report, [email protected] have First trip: Calculate the time re- T OPEN SPACE causes all peaks to shift ‘Reshuffle weakens both almost simultaneously quired for the husband to drop his wife at the fair which is Why and how do moles to lower energy — making NDA, strengthens BJP’ sent in two (alas, math) prob- occur? lems which are quirky and nine minutes. During this time the colour greener. This (May 25). Cabinet queasy enough respectively the faster boy covers a dis- A mole is a coloured growth effect is augmented by reshuffles have been not to be run as Endgames. At tance of 0.6 km while the slow- on the skin. It consists of scattering within snow, taking place with the same time they're lateral er one travels 0.45 km. Second cells that contain melanin, a which causes the light to alarming frequency in and “aha!” though to be ruled trip: Now the distance required dark pigment. Moles may be travel an indirect path, thus the present govern- in here. Meaning either you get to travel is (6 - .6) = 5.4 km with present at birth and are of- providing more opportunity ment. This is unfortu- it or you don't. 1. The mathe- relative speed of the husband + ten called birthmarks. How- for absorption. nate because reshuffles matical product (a - x) (b - x) faster child (40 kmph + 4 kmph ever, most moles first ap- — Jimmy D. Kerawalla, can affect a ministry’s can be represented without = 44 kmph). pear during childhood or recd via email efficiency.The speed of parentheses by multiplying it The time required is 7.36 adolescence. Moles may oc- economic and organi- out as follows: ab-ax-bx+ x^2. minutes. The time required to cur on any part of the body. ANY ANSWERS? sational reforms being Similarly for three factors, (a - x) drop the child will be double - They vary in size and may carried out in certain (b - x) (c - x) can be represent- ie, 14.72 minutes. During this be flat or raised. They range What is TRP in TV termini- ministries could be ed as abc-abx-acx+ax^2- time for which the second boy in colour from light brown logy? How is it calculated? slowed down. Reshuf- bcx+bx^2+ cx^2-x^3. Now walks is 0.736 minutes to bluish-black. Most moles — Kartik Patel, Ahmedabad fles also send out an here's the problem: Multiply the (14.72*1/20). are small and do not change unfortunate and wrong following 26 factors and display What is the difference The total distance tallies to in appearance. While most message: ministers who 1.186 km (.45 km first trip + between a corvette and a moles are harmless, in rare frigate? take an interest in MINDSPORT .736 km second trip). Third trip: cases, however, a mole can — Sharath Krishnan, refurbishing their Again the distance to be trav- develop into a cancerous ministry’s image are Mukul Sharma elled is 4.814 km (6 - 1.186) Mumbai tumour called a melanoma. A Bangladeshi woman along with a child paints the ground in a Dhaka street during a not welcome. with the relative speed of 43 What’s the origin of the — Utkrisht Yadav, Delhi `traffic art' event. QUESTION: Where did ‘traffic art’ make its debut? — Subhash Chandra the result without the use of kmph. The time required is term ‘veto’? parentheses: (a - x) (b - x) (c - x) Why do doctors have ‘plus’ many times does a person The Latin word “ante” is cated birds, selectively Agrawal, Delhi 6.717 minutes; hence the total — Dhruman Purohit, recd (d - x) ... (z - x). (DC adds: “This symbols? What does it blink his eyes in a day? generally used in the sense tamed to carry home mes- time to drop him is 13.43 min- via email should take either less than a utes. Thus the total time for the mean? To prevent the drying up of of before, with regard to sages tied to the neck or leg. Typically Indian minute or more than a couple family to reach the fair is 37 It is not a plus sign but the eyes, lacrymal fluids (tears) position, order, or time (an- A dove is a stocky bird very What is the origin of the of days.”) 2. By using only addi- minutes and nine seconds. sign of the Red Cross, which are secreted. The eyelid teroom, antenatal, etc.). In a similar to, but generally expression, ‘It ain’t over agree with Jyotir- tions and deductions, find the —Abhijit Ghonge, is a voluntary organisation spreads the secreted lacry- game of poker, each player’s smaller than a pigeon. It until the fat lady sings’? Imaya Sharma’s lowest ten-digit multiple of 198 [email protected] in the field of medical serv- mal fluids when one blinks. stake, which is put into the is gentle and those who — Prashant Iyengar, views in the Sunday that has each and every digit ENDGAME ices. It was founded by Hen- Blinking is also protective pool before (ante) the game oppose violence are referred Bangalore debate, ‘Has corruption from zero through nine. Solvers become part of the Indi- Two players are writing in turn ry Dunant about 150 years in function i.e. it prevents begins is also called as to as doves. Why are fish plates on a cannot perform any multiplica- an DNA’ (May 18). Given natural numbers not exceeding ago. The sign is always the entry of foreign parti- “ante” (or bet). And “upped — Sriram Shashank, railway track called so? tion or division or trial permuta- our ‘chalta hai’ attitude, p. The rules forbid them to found on hospitals, nursing cles and micro-organisms the ante” means that the Hyderabad — Himanshu Gaharana, tion of the digits without a log- we should be the last ic. Solvers also cannot use cal- write the divisors of numbers homes, clinics, dispensary, and thereby prevents stake is increased in an Why does a glacier ice often recd via email that have already been written. ambulances, etc. The Blue damage to the eyeball. If event (or situation). appear blue? ones to complain about culators or computers or any What is ‘Google dance’ corrupt officials. We The person who cannot make Cross was introduced in the these somehow enter, the — Kuldeep Kumar Jain, Glacier ice often appears sort of a ready-reckoner for ar- all about? have only learnt how to riving at the solution. (SS adds: his/her move loses. (a) Who US but it is not as popular as lacrymal fluid and blinking Mumbai blue to the eye because it — Manish Jethra, Jaipur sit back and complain. “A bright 8th Std student can (and how) can win if p = 10? (b) the Red Cross, which is action help clear them. A What is the difference be- absorbs all the colours of Pro-active measures solve this puzzle mentally with- Who wins if p = 1000? found worldwide. Doctors normal person blinks 20 tween a pigeon and a dove? the spectrum except blue, You ask. Or you answer. in 15 minutes, as will be evident —Submitted by Roopak Suri, use this sign so that times a day and the duration A pigeon is a medium-sized which is scattered back. As Mark the envelopes seem to be an unheard from the solution given by me. [email protected] they can be easily identi- of blinking is around 0.3 seed-eating bird with a with water, this colour is ‘Open Space’ and address of commodity in India. That is a clue as well as a seconds. your answers and Is it any wonder then Snailmail: D-268 Sushant Lok-I, fied, especially during an small head, short legs and a caused both by the absorp- questions to: challenge.”) — Shankar Y. Janiwarad, that corruption is part Gurgaon, Haryana 122001 emergency. cooing voice. It’s very simi- tion of red and yellow light Open Space, Sunday Times of India, — Rajendra Kumar Surana, Shigli lar to but generally larger (leaving blue). The absorp- II Floor, S&B Towers, 40/1, M.G. Road, of the Indian DNA? DEAR MS, Email: Raipur What does the phrase than a dove. There are many tion spectrum of ice is simi- Bangalore — 560 001 — Biju Raman, Unfair-Enough-Dept: [email protected] email: [email protected] Why do we blink? How ‘upped the ante’ mean? varieties of wild or domesti- lar to that of the liquid ex- via e-mail This is with reference to your Website: www.mindsport.org
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The Sunday Times of India, New Delhi, June 1, 2003 In the fast lane Toyota won’t rebel A legend’s backing Tim Montgomery is the fastest man Ford, Renault, Ferrari, Mercedes and Annika Sorenstam may not have made on earth. Now he insists he’s just BMW want a breakaway GP circuit if the cut on the PGA tour but has earned hitting his stride en route to 9.75 FIA does not award the manufacturers the admiration of Martina Navratilova. seconds: “I’m getting stronger. I am more revenue. But Team Toyota ain’t The legend insists that the glare of 28 and this is when sprinters peak. interested saying an independent publicity was the actual reason why My time’s coming” body is always better Annika’s short-game faltered West Indies inflict another defeat on the Aussies
BRIEFLY Hinds proves Aussie SPORT Reuters India beat Pak to enter final AP tormentor again Perth: Continuing their recent domination of their arch-rivals, India registered a fluent St George’s (Grenada): vertently helping the ball 2-0 victory against Pakistan in their last Opener Wavell Hinds scored over the boundary for anoth- league match here on Saturday to move into a career-best 125 not out to er six in the process. Lee re- the final of the three-nation invitational guide West Indies to a three- turned to the attack in the hockey tournament. wicket win over world cham- 40th over, Sarwan driving his Unperturbed by the loss they suffered in pions Australia in their One- first delivery to the covers their previous league match against Aus- day International match on where Andrew Symonds took tralia, India persisted with their attacking Friday. a low diving catch to make it game and scored through strikers Baljit West Indies, chasing Aus- 181 for three. Singh Dhillon (18th minute) and Prabhjot tralia’s 252 all out, won in 48.4 It was Australia’s second Singh (55th minute) to win the first match be- overs to reduce their deficit defeat in a row. Australia, tween the two sides this year. in the seven-match series to who won the toss, were left India, who finished their league engage- 4-2 with one game to play. rueing their missed chances ments with two wins from three matches, “Wavell played a fantastic after Adam Gilchrist, with a will meet Australia in the final on Sunday. . innings but we never really run-a-ball 64, and Matthew The victory was India’s fourth in the five nailed any partnerships,” Hayden had hammered 90 in matches played between them in the last one Australia captain Ricky the first 15 overs. AFP year. “As usual the match was quite exciting. Ponting said. But we prevailed as we played well in all the Hinds put on a 114-run SCOREBOARD departments and dominated them for most third-wicket stand with Australia: 252 part of the match,” an elated Indian coach Ramnaresh Sarwan (50) after West Indies: Rajinder Singh said after the match. Brian Lara had fallen cheap- C Gayle c Gilchrist b Lee 18 W Hinds not out 125 India, who have come to the tournament ly only for Australia’s quicks B Lara c & b Symonds 15 aiming to fine-tune their skills for the Cham- to hit back and put the home R Sarwan c Symonds b Lee 50 pions Trophy in August and next year’s side under pressure again. M Samuels b Lee 0 The 26-year old opener ham- R Powell c & b Lehmann 1 Athens Olympics, began well by exerting R Jacobs c Maher b Bichel 8 Tiger Woods reacts after missing a par pressure on the opposition defence with mered six sixes — five of D Bernard lbw b Gillespie 7 putt on the 18th hole of the Muirfield some fine moves, led by mercurial striker which were to his favoured V Drakes not out 0 Village Golf Club in Ohio, US on Satur- Dhanraj Pillay, Dhillon and Prabhojot Singh. long-on slot and five bound- Extras: (b-4, lb-15, w-8, nb-3) 30 day during the second round of the Total: (For 7 wkts, in 48.4 overs) 254 Though the Indian strikers completely aries — preying mainly on Fall of wickets: 1-23, 2-67, 3-181, 4- Memorial Tournament. outshone their counterparts in the first 15 the Australian spin bowlers. 181, 5-193, 6-213, 7-244. minutes, success came only in the 18th He survived a scare at the Bowling: Lee 9.4-2-50-3, Gillespie 9-2- half-century point when 33-1, Bichel 10-0-52-1, Symonds 4-0- Jadeja returns to official cricket: minute when they earned a penalty corner. 19-1, Hogg 10-1-35-0, Hauritz 5-0-35- Having won a temporary repreive from the Putting into play all his experience, Dhillon Brett Lee spurned a catching 0, Lehmann 1-0-11-1. High Court in a protracted legal battle scored off the penalty corner to give the side opportunity at long-on, inad- with the Cricket Board, Ajay Jadeja on 1-0 lead which the Indians managed to hold Saturday returned to the cricket field, till the half time. turning out for Air Sahara in the Lala Hari Pakistan, desperate to snatch a big win for Lankans suffer pay cuts Ram Memorial day-night cricket tourna- a place in the final, stepped on the gas for an ment here. A High Court order, on Colombo: Sri Lanka’s crick- per cent from the match fee of equaliser in the second half. But they failed Wednesday, allowed Jadeja to play in do- eters, under fire for a string $1,750 for each Test match mestic competition even as the Indian to penetrate the Indian defence due to some of below par performances, and $1,250 for every One-day board’s appeal against the order of a brilliant defending by former captain Dilip are facing a 30 per cent pay International. court-appointed Arbitrator quashing the Tirkey and Jugraj Singh who kept the rival cut as the authorities attempt However, the fees will be five-year ban on the all-rounder is still strikers at bay with some fine work. to raise the dipping stan- increased by 50 per cent for pending. PTI “Against Australia, we were disappointed dards by introducing win against one of the top with the defenders. But today all of them spe- performance incentives on four ranked sides and 25 per Mhambrey calls it a day: Former In- cially Tirkey and Jugraj played really well to Saturday. cent for a win against teams dian paceman Paras Mhambrey on Satur- thwart Pakistani moves,” Rajinder Singh The Board of Control for placed fifth to eighth in the day announced his retirement from first- class cricket. Mhambrey, who led Mum- said. Pakistan’s desperation to score the Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCC- International Cricket Coun- bai to their record 35th Ranji Trophy tri- equaliser helped the Indians in taking fur- SL) said on cil (ICC) world umph recently and also played two Tests ther lead when Prabhjot Singh came up with Saturday that THE SHAKEUP rankings. and ODIs against England in 1996, said a brilliant goal 15 minutes before the hooter it was slashing The players that he decided to quit from first-class to put his side in a comfortable position. the fixed contract fees as part are also entitled to an addi- cricket so that he can concentrate on India carefully negotiated the final min- of the shake-up. Sri Lanka tional $500 for each win. The coaching assignments. Mhambrey has utes of the game playing sensibly and hardly did not impress despite mak- cuts reflect the tightening fi- played over 300 first-class matches. He gave any opportunity to rival team to have an ing the semifinals of this nancial situation of the has played 60 Ranji Trophy fixtures, tak- aim at their goal. year’s World Cup and later cricket board, which an- ing 208 wickets and claimed five wickets Rajinder Singh lauded the team effort for failed to make the finals of a nounced a $2.7 million loss 11 times and ten wickets once (against the win and did not think that the absence of four-nation tournament in for 2002. Gujarat at Valsad in 1997-98). He has also Sharjah and a tri-series at some senior players in Pakistan side includ- The contracted players are: Hashan Tillek- scored 1174 runs in Ranji Trophy matches ing Sohail Abbas and former captain Mo- home. from 65 innings for an average of 20.50 eratne, Marvan Atapattu, Sanath Jayasuriya, hammed Nadeem helped India’s cause. Muttiah Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Ma- with a century and four half centuries to The board reduced the “It was good to see the seniors and junior India’s Prabhjot Singh exults after scoring the winning goal against Pakistan at a three-nation number of contracted play- hela Jayawardena, Kumar Sangakkara, Rus- his credit. PTI sel Arnold, Dilhara Fernando, Kumar Dhar- playing well in tandem. It is a good sign for hockey tournament in Perth on Saturday. India won the match 2-0 and will meet Australia in ers to 12 from the previous masena, Prabath Nissanka and Thilan Ahn the hero: South Korea’s World the game in the country. ,” he said. PTI the final on Sunday. year’s 15 and decided to cut 30 Samaraweera. AFP Cup hero Ahn Jung-Hwan struck the de- cisive goal to beat Japan 1-0 on Satur- day in a match to commemorate the an- niversary of both countries co-hosting the 2002 World Cup finals. The J-league Redhot Robredo dumps Hewitt; Clijsters,Venus canter club’s Shimizu S-Pulse striker, who Paris: Lleyton Hewitt’s French Open Earlier, Kim Clijsters and Venus Williams lost a set in the second fourth Grand Slam championship and scored the winner to knock out Italy in INDIANS IN PARIS the World Cup last year, did it again with dreams evaporat- Williams made short work of their op- round, but Clijsters and Capriati have her first since 2000, said her title only four minutes left on the clock to ed when he lost a ponents, each losing just three games each dropped only nine games in three chances are slim compared with the avenge the Koreans’ defeat to Japan in two-set lead to go en route to the fourth round of the matches. Those advancing Saturday Williams sisters and Frenchwoman Bhupathi-Mirnyi Seoul last month. Korea, the surprise down 4-6, 1-6, 6-3, French Open. On another warm, hu- are hoping to end the reign of defend- Amelie Mauresmo. Davenport will Cup semi-finalists, and their Asian rivals 6-2, 6-3 to Spain’s mid day in Paris, second seeded Cli- ing champion Serena Williams, who next play No. 24 Conchita Martinez, were neck and neck in the first half, but Tommy Robredo jsters beat Argentina’s Paola Suarez 6- beat Barbara Schett 6-0, 6-0 on Friday. who skwept Tina Pisnik 6-3, 6-3. That in third round neither had a clear scoring chance. AFP in the third round 2, 6-1 in just over an hour. Suarez, seed- Capriati said she wasn’t fazed by put the Spaniard in the fourth round at New Delhi: India’s Mahesh Bhupathi on Saturday. ed 30th, had six double faults and 45 that lopsided score. “I don’t think any- Roland Garros for the 14th time. Agencies BETTING METER and Max Mirnyi of Belarus moved into Having let slip unforced errors. one cares about those results,” she the third round of the men’s doubles in a 2-0 advantage in the fifth set, the Aus- said. In men’s play, No. 32 Arnaud Results FORMULA ONE No. 3 Venus Williams had six aces and the French Open with a straight sets tralian world number one sealed his Clement won an all-French showdown Women’s singles, 3rd round: Lindsay Davenport Monaco Grand Prix beat No. 26 Silvia Farina Elia of Italy 6- victory against the French pair of fate in the seventh game when he gift- on center court, beating qualifier Nico- (US x6) bt Nathalie Dechy (Fra x25) 6-3, 7-5, Kim Cli- M Schumacher 8/11 1, 6-2 in 52 minutes. The tournament is Thierry Asciione and Julien Varlet in ed the 28th-seeded Spaniard a break las Coutelot 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. “It wasn’t a jsters (Bel x2) bt Paola Suarez (Arg) 6-2, 6-1, Jennifer D Coulthard 6/1 the first for Williams since an abdomi- Paris on Saturday. R Barrichello 6/1 with a double fault. great match, a tight match that the Capriati (US x7) bt Julia 6-1, 6-2, Nadia Petrova (Rus) nal strain forced her to stop playing dur- bt Marissa Irvin (US) 6-1, 6-1,Venus Williams (US x3) The second seeded pair won their JP Montoya 8/1 fans would have liked to have seen,” Pumping his fist, Robredo stepped ing a final in May in Warsaw. “I’m doing bt Silvia Farina Elia (Ita x26) 6-1, 6-2, Vera Zvonare- second round match 6-3, 6-4, according (as per ladbrokes.com) Coutelot said. va (Rus x22) bt Maria Sanchez Lorenzo (Spa) 6-3, 6- up the pace to grind out the win after OK,” Williams said. to information received here. With temperatures near 30 degrees 4,Conchita Martinez (Spa x24) bt Tina Pisnik (Slo) 6- three hours and 24 minutes, breaking No. 6 Lindsay Davenport also ad- 3, 6-3, Magdalena Maleeva (Bul x15) bt Rita Grande In another men’s doubles second LIVE ON TV Celsius (in the low 80s), No. 12 Sjeng Hewitt for the third time in the set. vanced, defeating No. 25 Nathalie (Ita) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, round clash, fifth seeded pair of Lean- Schalken quit while trailing No. 19 Fer- ESPN: 1900 hrs: West Indies vs Australia (7th ODI). Robredo will take on either three- Dechy of France 6-3, 7-5, while No. 7 der Paes of India and David Riki on Star Sports: 1715 hrs: Formula One Championship: Mona- nando Gonzalez 7-6 (4), 6-3, 3-1. Men’s singles, 3rd round: Arnaud Clement (Fra x32) times former champion Gustavo Jennifer Capriati took advantage of a bt Nicolas Coutelot (Fra) 6-4, 6-3, 6-2, Fernando Czech Republic defeated the US pair of co Grand Prix. 0000 hrs (Monday): Spanish League. Schalken said he has been bothered by Ten Sports: 1430 hrs: French Open Tennis (Day 7). Kuerten or Gaston Gaudio for a place shaky showing by Ukrainian qualifier Gonzalez (Chi x19) bt Sjeng Schalken (Ned x12) 7-6 Rich Leach and Brian MacPhie 3-6,6- a virus. Davenport, bidding for her (7/4), 6-3, 3-1 retired. in the quarterfinals. Julia Vakulenko to win 6-1, 6-2. 2,6-1. PTI Indian golf: Immense talent, limited opportunity Reuters
By Donato Di Ponziano Celebrated golf coach Donato Di Ponziano has the expertise and the neu- I’m happy that the Indian Golf Union is thinking about I’ve been a golf coach for trality to dissect the Indian golf scene. He finds our pros talented enough building a national golf acad- more than but shackled by the lack of sponsorship in their quest for glory abroad emy which should be a refer- two decades Then, Indians receive one that economically well-off ence point on all golfing mat- and have trav- with warmth and value INDIAN SPORT countries can do well in golf ters. elled to more friendship. These two aspects SLEEPING which is also known as an That will go a long way in than 20 coun- are most important for me. elite game. In fact, financial creating a better structure. I tries to help All this makes me look for- GIANT security sometimes induces had a dream for Indian golf. golfers find ward to my visits. a slumber which inhibits Much of it has been realised. the right Talking about talent, I’ve process to identify quality hard work needed to make it The rest should also see the swing and coaches the cor- worked with some of India’s coaches is followed as good good in any sport. light of day. rect methodology of impart- leading pros like Harmeet coaching is crucial to the de- What India needs is more —As told to ing instruction. And I’ve Kahlon and Amandeep Johl. velopment of golf. A good infrastructure and more Shashank Shekhar been coming to India every The results are there for coach not only teaches you money.In Europe, a PGA lev- Donato Di Ponziano has year since 1996 to hold clinics everyone to see. They are top the techniques but also looks el pro finds a sponsor with- conducted more than 100 clin- for teachers and to give tips class golfers now. Then peo- at your unique needs — the out much difficulty to take ics around the world. The Ital- to golfers, be they pros, ama- ple like Jyoti Randhawa are diet, mental and physical fit- care of all their touring ex- ian is the vice-president of the teurs or juniors. Working in doing very well. And I can ness. I’ve been trying to penses. Sadly, here in India, European PGA besides being India has been an absolute tell you, in 3-4 years’ time, the streamline golf teaching the players find it difficult to the chairman of its Advance privilege. The experience has golf scene in India will be here in India too and I’m hap- sustain themselves in ab- Education Committee. He’s been very special, better than much more vibrant with py that the response has been sence of sponsorships. been involved with Indian anywhere else. many more champions. very encouraging. Hopefully, This is making things real- golf for the last seven years Why do I say that? Firstly, But aspiring golfers here it will percolate down to the ly dicey for them as it is im- and is convinced of its poten- Indian golfers are hugely tal- need to find playing facilities lower echelons. Of course, it perative for a golfer to go out tial of becoming a world pow- ented and are becoming in- comfortably. There aren’t will take some time before In- and play on the big stage to er. Will our sponsorship envi- creasingly receptive to mod- enough driving ranges where dia can have a big enough know where he stands and ronment mature to deliver ern coaching techniques. people can go and start hit- pool of good teachers. what further training is re- Ponziano’s optimism and The same is true with the In- ting balls, the first step to- Golf is gaining in popular- quired. Indian golfers must help Indian golf come of age? dian golf coaches. In fact, tal- wards golfing excellence. In ity all over the world, India play on the Asian Tour and Or will it be another story of ent comes naturally to Indi- Europe and US, basic facili- included. And with the kind then the European and US much promise, little delivery? ans, just as it comes to us ties are available everywhere of talent here, India is well- Tours to really come up to the Readers can send views Latinos. (It’s another thing and that’s why so many top equipped to exploit the bur- highest level. But that will re- to timessport@indiatim- that we often waste that tal- golfers come out from there. geoning interest with proper quire substantial money es.com or fax at 23323346, Kim Clijsters of Belgium stretches during her third round match against Paola Suarez of ent on wasteful activities). Then, in Europe stringent planning. And don’t think which is not forthcoming. 23324173. Argentina at the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday. Clijsters won 6-2, 6-1.
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22 SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA New Delhi, June 1, 2003 SPORT
For probably the first time in our sports If others echo veiled opti- mism, Suresh Kalmadi, pres- history, our top sportspersons are being ident of the Indian Olympic Association and Amateur prepared for a big event, the Athens Athletics Federation of In- Olympics, with more than an year still to dia, is more than gung-ho go. Times News Network looks at the this time. He believes that the Athens on our mind country will win a few various federations and sports that have medals in the Athens Games Ajit Ninan itself. ‘‘This time we are not already gotten off the blocks going merely to participate. By Indraneel Das sessions ensued (like al- We will be among the medals. And he believes his own baby, irca August 2004, the ways); fingers were pointed the AAFI, will be in the fore- greatest sporting at each other (like always) front. spectacle on earth and finally no tangible solu- The AAFI has also identi- will return to its tion emerged (like always). C The cries for overhauling fied four events for roots: the historic city of men and seven Athens. The Olympic Games the limpid system slowly events for may have seen more hype, died down. women for more glitz and more contro- Exactly one year later, however, someone heard the the Games versies since it started a little (see box). It over a hundred years ago in soft sobbing of Indian sport: the Army, the one bastion has chalked that tiny Greek city. But this out a de- time it’s going to be very,very that still commands every- body’s respect and admira- tailed train- special. ing pro- Especially for India. Be- tion. It decided to step into the vacuum and launched gramme too lieve it or not, for the first so that the time in its sporting history, Operation Olympic Gold, a the country has actually Rs 60-crore project. One year started preparing for the later the Federation of Indi- sion. So we don’t have Games that are still one year an Chambers of Commerce any problem in pro- and three months away. The and Industries and the Con- viding the best infra- Sleeping Giant was showing federation of Indian Indus- structure and getting signs of stirring. Of course, tries offered to help the cash- the best coaches for our it is not yet a concerted effort strapped sports federations. trainees,” explains Va- where all the major powers Inert officials quickly sudeva. (including the government, grabbed the opportunity and The Army identified 10 the federations and the mon- furnished their plans in asso- disciplines keeping in ey-bags) have come up with a ciation with the SAI. The mind its ward’s traditional partnership isn’t exactly daring Mission. It’s at least a strengths and weaved its ath- running at 100 miles per hour beginning. And that’s the plans around them (see box). porting In- letes but at least some of the coun- players are best news. Operation Olympic Gold role. But it’s providing the dian Olympic Association. peak try’s medal prospects have al- sorted out,” ex- Almost fortuitously we may have set its sights on the biggest impediment to on the However, the official con- plains M P Ganesh, seem to have a few athletes ready embarked on foreign Athens Games. “But we Olympic sport in the coun- big ceded that sponsorship executive director (teams), who are potential medal win- exposure trips, through both won’t stop at Athens,” says try: finance. The FICCI has stage. would depend solely on the SAI. “Right now we are con- ners too: Anjali Vedpathak, training and competitions. Vasudeva. “It will be an on- already signed an MoU with mileage that the sponsors de- centrating only on the train- Leander Paes and Mahesh The then Chief of Army — going process and you will the SAI to promote Olympic Other rive from this venture. FICCI ing aspect.” Bhupathi, Karnam Gen S Padmanabhan — initi- see some concrete results in medal prospects. FICCI has federations 2008. Two years is too short a believes sponsors would CII’s Shikhar Olympic Malleswari and Anju George. ated the Army plan, with full also received the list of po- have al- too are just time for results. But I am come forward in a big way medal is another off-shoot of Not bad at all. The Indian co-operation from the Min- tential winners from the SAI, ready behind. Box- sure we will win at least one only if the four key parties — this mission. But due to some hockey team is, like it always istry of Defence. By 2001 July, along with their projected qualified, ers, lifters and or two medals in Athens,” he player, sponsors, federations problems the steering com- does before the Olympics, the Operation was formally costs till the Olympics. It in- Vedpathak, sailors are all adds. “We have already ac- and the IOA — come together mittee that was formed a year creating a few ripples of its launched with the setting up cludes exposure, training un- has also been being sent with quired the services of for- under one platform. back was dissolved a few own. of the Army Sports Institute. der foreign coaches, equip- adopted by CII. an eye on the eign coaches in various disci- months later; it’s waiting for The biggest storm, howev- “After Sydney,we gave a seri- ment etc. The Sports Authority of The others too are Games. er, came packaged with the ous thought and decided to plines and we will be upgrad- India, interestingly,has iden- a new committee to be set up concentrating on soon. Still, it has lent a help- Sydney 2000 disaster: despite promote sport as we had the ing our scientific wings too,” “Sports is, after all, a busi- tified 17 disciplines in which winning the quota We may or may ing hand to some federations. a billion prayers, we man- necessary back-up to sustain says Vasudeva. ness,” points out an official medals can be won but it’s places. ‘‘Our marks- not win any medals The Wrestling Federation of aged only one medal, and a long-term programme,” The Army is also sending associated with the sports di- still waiting to move for- men are improving at the Athens Games India, for example, will be that too a bronze in women’s says Maj Gen Ashok Vasude- its own teams abroad for vision of FICCI. “We in FIC- wards. It, of course, has a steadily. We are con- too. But this time, at given Rs 40 lakh for training weightlifting (not yet a very va, director general (officiat- training and exposure in se- CI look at sports too as a com- valid and practical argu- centrating on quali- least, it wont be for Indian wrestlers. So far,three competitive field). The eso- ing), Military and Training. lect disciplines. modity that can be market- ment: hardly any Indians fying first, says want of training. teric world of Indian sports “Our present Chief of If the Army has a full- ed.” All the FICCI is seeking have qualified for the wrestlers have been selected national coach was laid bare on the dissec- Army Gen. N C Vij is also a fledged sports programme, needs is some cooperation Olympics. “We’ll come into to train abroad. In shooting, Prof. Sunny —With inputs from tion table. Brainstorming great supporter of this mis- the FICCI is playing a sup- from the federations and the the picture only after the top gun and the only Indian to Thomas. Pradeep Kumar The Army blueprint IHF looking at Olympics Shooters on the prowl ■ Friendly wind blowing It has identified 10 disciplines with The strength of athletes at ASI an eye on Athens.What it entails and and ASNs (273): Archery 21 men, By Pradeep Kumar among those vying for where the potential winners will be Athletics 55, Boxing 53, W’lifting 12, hooting is Olympic glory.‘‘We have three trained: Yachting 17, Shooting 46, Wrestling with great expectations Sone of the more World Cups and Asian ■ Army Sports Institute, Pune: 27, Rowing 30, Equestrian 12 for the Indian sailors few disci- shooting championships, Athletics (middle and long distance), ■ The foreign coaches: AVL Galar- By Vineeta Pandey Belgium in By Sunil Warrier shortly for participating in plines which which was postponed to next, Boxing (Lt weights), Archery, raga (Cuba, sports medicine special- December Weightlifting (Lt weights), Diving ndia are yet to qualify for various events as part of an has given us to earn the quota places,’’ na- ist), Raul Despaigne Isaac (Cuba, and is our classes and seven (fixed board). Ithe Athens Olympic hock- exposure trip before taking up reasons to tional coach Thomas said. boxing), Fidel Castor Cisneros (Cuba, working Fsailors. That could be In- smile. Hopes Mumbai:Yachting weightlifting), Hiram Lamadrid ey event — they will be try- the qualification challenge. INF School, Mhow: Shooting out the dia’s representation at the Valdes (Cuba, athletics), Liberman ing to do that in a Madrid These sailors may earn India are high as Vedpathak Shooting CME, Pune: Rowing modalities Athens Olympics. But for Leonid (Russia, wrestling), Chao tournament in March 2004. a a berth in the Olympics but our shooters ■ Belgaum: Wrestling for con- that to happen, the sailors Events: Men: Air rifle, trap and Hong Gi (Korea, archery), Sasa Mam- But the India Hockey Federa- the YAI plans to hold fresh tri- have been recording good double trap, air pistol, free pistol; Meerut and Bangalore: Equestrian. ducting at have to get the better of not ■ ic (Yogaslavia, rowing), Igor Raenko tion is already looking at a als to select the most capable scores and are keen on not Women: Air rifle, sport rifle 3 position The action plan: (Russia, pistol shooting), Stanislav least two just the conditions but the ifs 1. Identify talent from major compe- medal in the Games. IHF sec- candidate in each class. The only winning the Olympic ■ Events to participate in: 2003: Lapidas (Kazakhstan, rifle), Vladimir interna- and buts as well. In an un- titions at different levels, straight retary K. Jyothikumaran Dhanraj Pillai biggest challenge for the quota places but also acclaim Three world cups (Croatia, Ger- Andreev (Kirgystan, shotgun) tional precedented move, the Yacht- from state associations, regimental sailors does not come on the at Athens. many, Korea), Afro-Asian Games, centres plus recruiting rallies ■ Exposure trips: Sailing: 13 Aus- feels qualifying was not an meets, before and after ing Association of India and waters but off it. How to Rifle shoot- Commonwealth shooting meet 2. Training under foreign coaches tralia (Jan 6-25), Shooting: 1 Australia area of concern. Olympic qualifiers. IHF has the Department of Sports 2004: Asian shooting, Four world raise money for the Olympic er Anjali 3. International exposure (Mar 8-12) and 8 Germany (May 1- “Of course, we can’t take plans to send the team on a have agreed to send entries cups, National championships 4. Diet, chalked out by a specialist 30), Boxing: Cuba (May 6-Jun 19) campaign? Hiring the servic- Bhagwat has qualifiers lightly but getting European tour too where in 470, 49ers, Star and Laser. es of a foreign coach is the already into the Games should not be they can be pitted against Firstly, the sailors have to costliest and new equipment earned a quo- Athletics a big problem. The aim is to some clubs and national earn the Olympic berths. has to be purchased too. ta place in FICCI initiative SAI plans win a medal.’’ The team will teams. “The plan is to train There are 18 in 49ers, 16 in ■ Events identified for participa- ‘‘The YAI and the DoS have women’s air ■ go through the grind in the in Germany and then go to Star,41 in Laser and 30 in 470. rifle event tion: Men: 4x400m, 800m, discus Signed an MoU with SAI to support Right now it’s not getting advanced 75 percent of the Bindra throw, shot put. Women: 4x400, upcoming Champions Tro- Europe for the matches,” The contenders are: Malav medal hopes. Has chalked out a actively involved apart from expenses but to raise the oth- and others 800m, 1500, long jump, discus detailed plan to acquire sponsor- clearing players for trips abroad. phy where a good showing Jyothikumaran said. Shroff and Karthik Deodhar er 25 is indeed difficult,’’ says may follow suit in the coming throw, hammer, heptathlon ship for elite athletes, including Ab- SAI will focus on the players after will be a big morale booster The Afro-Asian Games too in 49ers, R Mahesh and Nitin Tarapore who will be partici- months. Abhinav Bindra (air ■ Events to participate in: 2003: hinav Bindra,Anju B George, Bobby the qualifiers as they will be playing the will provide the team with a Mongia in Star, Rajesh pating in his fourth rifle), Samresh Jung (air pis- World athletics championships Aloysious, Mohd Qamar Ali, Som ■ SAI has identified 17 disci- best outfits in the world. good competition. IHF is also Choudhary in Laser and Bahadur Pun, K Malleswari, etc. Olympics if selected. ‘‘All of tol), Jaspal Rana (free pistol), (Paris); Asian Athletics champi- plines in which Indian can win As for exposure, the Indian preparing the juniors so that Farokh Tarapore and Amit onships (Manila); Training-cum- medals in Athens. us are looking for sponsors Deepali Deshpande, Suma Probables sport and target spon- team is currently touring the best ones can be accommo- Arvind in 470. competition programme in Europe; ■ who are not easily attracted. Shirur (air rifle), Manavjit sor: 1. Weightlifting — Jindal Right now SAI is concentrating Australia and will also play a dated in the senior squad. For While the Star team is al- Participation in various invitational Steel; 2. Yachting — Essar Ship- on the training part of the players We are hopeful that if we do Singh, Mansher Singh, An- them, a tournament in USA is ready in Europe and the 49ers meets; Afro-Asian Games ping; 3. Athletics — ONGC and IO; at the national camps at various tournament in Germany lat- qualify, the financial burden war Sultan (all trap shooters) er. Besides, the IHF has lined first in line followed by other are based in America, the oth- 2004: International meets by 4. Wrestling —Spic SAI centres. will be lessened.” and Rajyavardhan Singh IAAF/AAA, Invitational meets up a four-match series with invitational tournament. er two teams will be leaving Rathore (double trap) are
he following deal, elected to finesse or not; T reported by Jon BRIDGE and ducked a Club to Ralf on pole CROSS COUNTRY Sveindal, Bergen, Prakash Paranjpe East. Norway, is from the When East backed the ♣ IOB retain basketball title quarter-final round of the N Dealer None Vul Queen at trick two, in Monaco GP Coimbatore: IOB, Chennai, reasserted their supremacy Vanderbilt 2003. Boye Boye's elimination Monaco: Germany’s Ralf by retaining the Nachimuthu Gonder Cup in the 45th All Brogeland of Norway ♠ 4 3 options were reduced. Schumacher put Williams on India Basketball tournament here on Saturday.In the last was South and Tony ♥ A K J 2 However, he still had a pole position for Sunday’s league encounter,holders IOB defeated Kochi Customs 82- Forrester of UK was ♦ K T 8 winning line up his Monaco Formula One Grand 56 and topped the table by winning all the three league North. ♣ 7 6 5 2 sleeve. He won the Prix alongside the McLaren ♣ North opened 1C, East Ace, removed two of championship leader matches it played to retain the coveted trophy for the third ♠ Q J 9 2 ♠ A K T 8 7 6 overcalled 1S, South trumps ending in Kimi Raikkonen. year in succession. ONGC, Dehradun, was declared run- ♥ ♥ T 7 4 3 forced with 2D and West Q 9 5 Dummy. He luckily found While Ralf claimed the ners by better quotient. Earlier in the evening, Central ♦ ♦ raised to 3S. North J 7 9 4 a 2=2 division; ruffed a second pole position of his Railway annexed the 2nd all-India basket ball tournament ♣ ♣ ♥ passed, East raised to K J 4 3 Q Spade, finessed Jack, career, older brother for the CRI Pumps Trophy for women, defeating Eastern ♥ 4S and Boye Brogeland ♠ 5 cashed AK. In the Michael’s run of poles for Railway 58-46. KSEB, Thiruvananthapuram, and South Central Railway were placed third and fourth place in the bid 5C. Had West ♥ 8 6 process, he discarded a Ferrari came to an end after passed this, South might Club and exited with the women’s section. PTI ♦ A Q 6 5 3 2 a highly strategic session on have ended up in 5C, fourth Heart (discarding ♣ A T 9 8 Saturday when cars qualified inevitably going down yet another Club). East on different fuel levels under Gokhale,Thipsay among leaders one. West elected to only had Spades at this new regulations. Kozhikode: Seventeen players, including former Asian double, and Forrester ♠Q, South would have had an point. The forced ruff World champion Michael women champions Bhagyashree Thipsay and Anupama promptly ran to 5D. easy time. He would have and sluff gave Boye qualified fifth fastest after Gokhale and IWM Saheli Dhar Barua, were leading with West led the ♠Q and East eliminated Spades; Brogeland his 11th trick! starting the last three races two points each at the end of the second round of the 30th did his best by overtaking eliminated Hearts in the on pole. The Ferrari driver ♠ National Women’s B chess championship here on Satur- with K and shifting to the process, developing a trick www.demicoma.com has also won the last three ♣Queen. Had East ducked with ♥Jack whether he [email protected] day.Top seed Swati Ghate and second seed Tania Sachdev and is seeking a record- were among 16 players trailing behind with 1.5 points he reigning British equalling sixth Monaco suc- apiece. The six-day Championship is played on a nine- TChampion R.B. Ramesh CHESS ‘Aussies living in cess this weekend. point Swiss format and the top 14 finishers here will play Williams have not won in of Indian Oil, Chennai, was Pravin Thipsay in the National ‘A’ Championship. PTI one of the victims of Grand- fool’s paradise’ Monaco since 1983. master Dibyendu Barua in Ralf lapped in one minute the Commonwealth Chess Sydney: Australia’s total 15.259 seconds, 0.036 faster JCT beat Mahindra to enter final Championship sponsored domination of world cricket than Raikkonen who leads Margao: Sunil Kumar’s golden goal helped JCT score a 2- by the Union Bank of India is endangering the sport both Ferrari’s Schumacher by two 1 win over Mahindra and set up title clash with East Ben- recently. In their encounter, at home and abroad, the re- points after six races. gal in the 2nd Junior U-19 National Football League at the Ramesh appeared to be in tiring head of the Interna- Colombian Juan Pablo Nehru Stadium here on Saturday. Kulbir Singh’s last an advantageous position tional Cricket Council said. Montoya put his Williams on minute goal neutralised Mahindras’ 25th-minute strike but allowed a brilliant tacti- “On many occasions I have the second row alongside Re- by Sajid Ansari to take the match into extra-time. Kumar cal stroke, enabling the alert put it to the Australian Crick- nault’s Jarno Trulli. Agencies scored the golden goal in the 25th minute of extra-time to Barua to turn the tables. In et Board that they are living put JCT into the final. In the other semi-finals played at the diagram, White has just in a fool’s paradise,” said GFA’s Duler Ground Mapusa, East Bengal dominated the moved his King to ‘h2’ Malcolm Gray, the former match with a 2-0 win over Dempo. Both the goals were from ‘g1’. This turned out to board chairman and outgo- scored in the second half through Satyajit Dutta (49th) be the decisive mistake. followed 2.Qxd4? (Despera- ing ICC chief. and S K Azim (64th). The final is slated for June 2. PTI POSITION: tion. He could have limited “Their team is the best White: Kh2;Qf4; Rc1; Bb1; the loss of material to just team in the world undoubted- Nf3; P-a3,b2,d4,e5,f2,g2,h4. ly, they’re financially secure, Kannan, Ghouse are top seeds Black: Kg7; Qe7; R-c8, Bd7; one Pawn with 2.Rxc8 or Mumbai: Vijay Kannan and former Davis Cupper 2.Rd1. Even the other option, their administration is at Nc6; P-a4,b5,d5,e6,f7,g6,h5. least equal to the best in the Mustafa Ghouse (both from India) are the top two seeds in 2.Nxd4, would have been PROBLEM: Black to play & win. world. “It is very easy in Aus- the men’s singles of the $6250 prize money MSLTA-ITF better though it loses to SOLUTION: Barua, playing tralia to have a rosy view of Satellite (first leg) tennis circuit to be held at the Dr G A Black, found out an unex- 2...Rxc1 followed by an even- cricket and not realise the Ranade Centre here from June 2 to 7. pected but thematic combi- tual ...Qxh4 ch. The text loses problems internationally.It’s Following are the seedings: 1. Vijay Kannan (Ind), 2. Mustafa Ghouse (Ind), 3. Sunil nation and won the game an exchange and a Pawn). 2. Kumar Sipaeya (Ind), 4. Tomer Suissa (Isr), 5. Prakash Amritraj (USA), 6. Ajay Ra- easily with 1..Nxd4! There a very serious problem,” he maswamy (Ind), 7. Vinod Sridhar (Ind), 8. Eliran Dooyev (Isr). PTI Rxc1 Black soon won. told a newspaper.AFP
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Disabled fans: The FRENCH FRIES PGA Tour on Friday Monaco is fantastic AP said that it has settled Demise of curtsey saddens Serena: Serena Williams a lawsuit by two dis- By Giancarlo Fisichella during Grand Prix weekend is in- said she was sad to hear of Wimbledon’s recent decision to abled golf fans seek- have to admit it: Monaco is credible, it’s like Formula One abolish the traditional centre court curtsey at the All England ing better wheelchair my favourite circuit. It is a and Hollywood all rolled into one. Club.”When I was younger I always looked forward to having a access to a dozen I challenging and technical It’s always a big challenge to chance to curtsey. It was just a dream. When I first did it I was annual tournaments track, which really suits my style find a good set-up for Monaco and just so excited. Venus taught me and told me how to do it,” ex- in Florida. The Tour of driving. I have had some great this time it is going to be even plained Serena, her elder sister having twice won the title be- had taken steps for results and podium finishes more of a challenge with the new fore she came along and beat her sibling last year. the disabled before the lawsuit was filed. there so I am really looking for- qualifying rules. Historically Money trouble: Martina Navratilova seems reluctant to part ward to my next race in Monaco Monaco is very difficult for over- with cash these days, even if she has won more than US$20 on Sunday. It’s a fantastic loca- taking, but with the new layout million playing tennis. A winner of 57 career Grand Slam titles tion, with its unique street cir- around the swimming pool it will — including 18 singles trophies — the 46-year-old is back cuit and beautiful harbour set- be interesting to see if it will be competing in the doubles and mixed doubles at this year’s ting, and I’m not just saying this any easier to overtake there. French Open. According to her, she’ll need to win both to cover because it’s where I live. I just In retrospect, the Austrian her expenses. ‘‘I want to pay my hotel bill. It gets expensive out love the place. The atmosphere Grand Prix was quite an eventful here,’’ she said. race with two aborted starts. My Animal lust is what you need: American Vince Spadea Jordan-Ford felt good in practice said animal lust was what was needed to deal with red clay— and warm-up on Saturday before but he was clearly a little short on the commodity as he slid out the race, and so going into the to Dutchman Martin Verkerk.”Claycourt tennis is all about being qualifying session I felt I could physically almost like an animal and just wanting. It’s more than really push and get in the top ten. shot-making. It’s wanting to sacrifice your body.” On race day, however, I had a lot of problems as I was strug- Local hero: Amelie Mauresmo, France’s best hope for a title gling with a lack of grip because at the French Open, found out while watching television on Fri- my tyres were blistering badly.So day that she’s on course for a quarterfinal showdown against I had to be really careful for the defending champion Serena Williams. ‘‘I won’t die from that piece of news,’’ the fifth-seeded Mauresmo said. ‘‘It doesn’t Carlos Moya pours water on his head during his entire race. To have a difficult change anything. I’m focused on the next match.’’ third round match at the French Open on Friday. race, and then to have to retire with just six laps to go with an electrical fault is very disap- pointing. Gameplan CAPITAL SPORT
Public sector wins: In a dra- matic finish All India Public Sector beat Collage Group on the spin of the coin in the 7th Lala Hari Ram Aggarwal Memorial Day-Night cricket tournament at the Karnail Singh stadium. Both teams were locked at 234 each after which Public sector proved lucky. Brief scores, Collage Group 234/6 in 30 overs: (Virender Sharma 71, Mayank Tehlan 66, V. Arvind 2/48). All India Public Sector 234/8 in 30 overs: (Rajinder Bisht 95, Gau- tam Gopal 67, Ashok Thakur 2/33, Sanjay Gill 2/35).
DSA league: Five times cham- pion Food Corporation of India (North Zone) prevailed over Em- ployees State Insurance Corpora- tion (ESIC) 5-1 in Group-A of sen- ior division league match in the Delhi Soccer Association annual institutional league championship being held at Dr. Ambedhkar Sta- dium on Saturday. In group A of A divison DDA held a formidable RBI to a goalless draw while in a group B match Custom & Exise defeated Indraprastha Powere Generation Company Limited by 2-0. Following are the results of other events: DDCA hot weather cricket tournament: LB Shastri CC: 145 for 9 in 40 overs (Sonu Singh 28, Kartikey Bhatia 24; John Anthony 3/25) lost to MCD: 146 for 5 in 29.5 overs (Ravin- der Rawat 50 not out, Jaideep Chaudhary 44; Rohit Yadav 2/21). Syndicate Bank: 160 in 39.3 overs (Diwakar Jha 38, Bhola Shankar 33; Sonu Vaid 2/17) lost to Inborn Cricketers: 163 for 2 in 31.3 overs (Rohit Sharma 59 not out, Sonu Vaid 50). DDCA U-15 cricket tournament: Delhi Colts: 165 in 29.4 overs (Ankit Kumar 63 not out; Sudesh Nair 3/32) lost to Little Master: 170 for 3 in 15 overs (Dhruv Dawar 54, Hi- manshu Virmani 31, Bhaveshya Pal 30). 27th Lala Raghubir Singh cricket tourna- ment: KN Colts: 187 in 39.2 overs (Robin Bist 50, Mobin Ahmed 46; Sachin Choudhary 5/26, Virender Sharma 3/26) lost to College Group: 190 for 6 in 38.2 overs (Sachin Choudhary 47 not out, Sunil Rawat 39). Laxman Dass memorial cricket tourna- ment: South Delhi Colts: 151 in 39.3 overs (Vivek Kumar 41, Amanjeet Singh 28; Iresh Saxena 3/25) lost to FCI: 152 for 1 in 22.3 overs (Rajinder Bisht 70 not out, Naveen Negi 38, Akash Malhotra 37). Summer League cricket tournament: Shanti Sports Academy: 208 for 8 in 30 overs (Ankur Julka 84, Sahil Kukreja 45, Lalit Choudhary 31; Sunny Verma 4/65) beat Cambridge Foundation: 170 in 30 overs (Ayush Gulati 51; Lalit 3/24).
RACES Name And Fame is favourite TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: According to the in- formation received here, Name And Fame should lift the Karnata- ka Cup (Gr III), the main event of the Bangalore races scheduled for Sunday. Selections: Melbourne Plate: 1,200m: 2.30pm: Squa Suvier 1, Park Street 2, Superi- ority 3. Fire Haven Plate: 1,100m: 3.00pm: Wishbone 1, Star Again 2, Tashann 3. Sir M Visvesarsvaraya Memorial Cup (div.I): 1,400m: Royal Carnival 1, Dizzy Lizzy 2, Fal- conet 3. Karnataka Cup (Gr III): 1,600m: Name And Fame 1, Kia Ora 2, Adolfito 3. Bar- aloy Plate: 1,400m: Chant Royal 1, Water Brook 2, Alexine 3. Mamma’s Mink Plate: Di- amond Rock 1, Kyosoba 2,Triple Treasure 3. Sir M Visversvaraya Memorial Cup (div.II): 1,400m: 5.30pm: Limitations 1, So Supreme 2, Special Request 3. Martina also misses Mr. and Mrs.Agassi Paris: Martina Navratilova agrees with French Open fans: It’s too bad Steffi Graf ’s preg- nancy prevented her from play- ing mixed doubles with Andre Agassi. Otherwise, Roland Gar- ros might have had three former No. 1 players on center court at the same time. Navratilova and Leander Paes, who won the mixed dou- bles title at the Australian Open, are also playing at the French. She relished the prospect of fac- ing Graf, who retired in 1999, and Agassi. ‘‘That would have been the match of the tourna- ment, I think,’’ Navratilova said. ‘‘Neither one was really much of a specialist in doubles. So the two of them together, I would have liked our chances. No mat- ter how great Andre and Steffi are, it would have been more dif- ficult for them in the mixed, but it would have been fun.’’ AFP
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Nistelrooy wants Kluivert: Man United’s Ruud van Nistelrooy Ferdinand out wants his club to sign his fellow Dutch striker Patrick Kluivert. AFP I’m still young at heart: Capriati Paris: At 27, Jennifer Capriati is now come up short time and time again in Paris as so far she has lost just nine one of the veterans in women’s tennis, against the Williams sisters and has games. but she says she is not ready to fling in seen Belgian youngsters Kim Clijsters Against Vakulenko, she played her the towel to the new generation. and Henin-Hardenne pass her in the best match of the tournament taking but Rooney fit “I still feel I can hang in with the rankings. the initiative from the very first ex- young guns out there,” said the New She also needed time off to recover changes against an opponent making London: England centre-half reasons. Yorker after breezing into the last 16 of from eye surgery to remove sunspots her Grand Slam debut in Paris. Rio Ferdinand is to miss the “I would like to emphasise the French Open. “Inside I still feel after becoming the first defending She broke the 19-year-old Vaku- friendly international the excellent cooperation be- like a youngster.” champion to bow out at the first hur- lenko’s serve three times to take the against Serbia-Montenegro tween Manchester United Capriati had just scored a straight dle in the Australian Open in January. first set in 25 minutes and kept up the on Tuesday and the Euro 2004 and ourselves over this is- sets 6-1, 6-2 win over Julia Vakulenko But Capriati said after that tough pressure in the second to run out an qualifier with Slovakia on sue.” Eriksson will not be of the Ukraine, her third easy match start to the year she had taken a break easy winner, sealing qualification on June 11, because of a knee in- calling up a replacement for in a row as she sought to recapture the and found a new self-contentment her third match point when her oppo- jury. the matches at Middlesbor- kind of form that lifted her to a stun- which she was enjoying and which she nent hit long. The former West Ham and ough and Leicester respec- ning win at Roland Garros two years hoped would show in her play. Capriati appears headed for a quar- Leeds defender, 24, is now tively. ago. “The first thing that matters is be- ter-final showdown with third-seeded due to have surgery next Ferdinand, who became That victory came hard on the heels ing happy with myself because there compatriot Venus Williams, who week. Britain’s most expensive of her first Grand Slam victory at the is life after tennis. I just want to make scored a straight sets win over Silvia Following an examination player when he joined United Australian Open and it was only in the sure that I have a life after it is all Farina Elia of Italy. by club medical staff Friday, for 29 million pounds (46m semi-finals at Wimbledon the follow- over,” she said. But first she must get past the dan- United said in a statement on dollars) from Leeds in 2002, ing month that her clean sweep dream “There was a lot of personal stuff gerous Nadia Petrova of Russia, an their official website: “Rio sustained the injury while was ended by Belgian Justine Henin- going on with my relationships,” she opponent who has given her trouble in Ferdinand’s left knee was ex- playing for England in Dur- Hardenne. added, “but now everything is in order the past. amined today and following ban during last week’s She briefly rose to World No 1, but it and I am happy with things.” “She has a big serve, big shots off the discussions between the friendly win over South has been a struggle since then for the The American’s renewed confidence ground and she moves well for such a Manchester United medical Africa. former teenage prodigy as she has has certainly showed in the first week big girl,” Capriati said.AFP team and the England doctor But there was better news it was felt to be in Rio’s best for Eriksson and England Sorenstam back interests that he undergo an when Everton said Friday arthroscopy (keyhole sur- their teenage forward Wayne to LPGA Tour with Perry in lead,Tiger five back gery) at the beginning of Rooney would be fit for the Dublin: Kenny Perry shot a of 13-under-par in 1997. the 1998 U.S. Open at The next week. Serbia-Montenegro match.In a big bang four-under-par 68 to move He is an impressive 30-un- Olympic Club, while Goosen “As a result, he will be un- a statement on their official into the second-round lead at der-par over his last 108 has not since the 2002 Bell- available for the next two website, Everton said that Aurora: Annika Soren- the Memorial Tournament holes. South Classic. England games.” having examined the teenage stam, in her return to the on Friday as Tiger Woods “I actually left a few out Janzen had a chance to England coach Sven-Goran forward’s knee injury follow- LPGA Tour, flirted with stayed in contention on his there,” Perry said of his win earlier this year at the Eriksson said: “We are very ing his return from Eng- history, breaking her own first U.S. appearance since round that included four BellSouth Classic in At- disappointed to lose Rio Fer- land’s training camp at La course record with a 10-un- the Masters. birdies. lanta, but a final-round 77 dinand but this is obviously Manga, Spain, they were sat- der-par 62 at the 1.2 million Coming off a win at the “I really wanted to shoot ruined his chances. the right decision for medical isfied he was fit. AFP dollar golf tournament Colonial last week, the 42- something in the 60s today Recently, though, he has here on Friday. year-old stands on 11-under- just to get in position for the drawn on those experiences. Sorenstam, of Sweden, par 133 at the par-72, 7,224- weekend and I was able to do He finished tied for 14th took advantage of soft con- yard Muirfield Village Golf that. I was proud of my and 18th during the tour’s East Bengal hire ditions early Friday but Club. round.” Perry’s stretch over latest swing through Texas. ended the day in a tie for Perry leads by a shot over the last weeks is reminiscent “I think what happens is the lead with American former U.S. Open winners of 1995 when he was tied for when you get in the hunt it Rosie Jones, who finished a Retief Goosen of South the 54-hole lead in three exposes your flaws a lot S.African trainer 62 with consecutive birdies. Africa (67) and Lee Janzen straight events. more,” Janzen said of his The two have a three- (67). He ultimately tied for third Atlanta experience. Kolkata: Aiming big for the “We are trying to provide stroke lead over Canada’s Former champion Fiji’s at the AT&T Pebble Beach “I saw what I needed to Asean Cup in Thailand next all necessary facilities as Lorie Kane and Angela Vijay Singh (69) and Spike National Pro Am, won the work on to get better.” month, East Bengal on Fri- sought by the coach. The Stanford. McRoy (68) are tied for fourth Bob Hope Chrysler Classic Goosen has simply been day appointed South African physical trainer will work A week after playing in a on eight-under 136, a shot and tied for second at the fighting some bad habits physical trainer Kevin Jack- along with him to tone up the PGA Tour event, Soren- ahead of second-year tour Nissan Open. that have made it difficult son— the first Indian outfit players. We have a one stam burned Stonebridge professional Chad Campbell “Well everything that can for him to score well. to do so— while making month contract with him,” Country Club, totalling who shot a 70. go my way is going my way,” Either he is hitting the elaborate arrangements for East bengal football secre- eight birdies, two eagles Easing himself back into Perry said. ball well and not making night practice and hiring tary Santosh Bhattacharjee and two bogeys. the tour after knee surgery in “The four or five-footers putts or vice-versa. five star hotel suites for the said. She had thoughts of her December,world number one that I need to make for par, “You got to just keep month-long training begin- Besides, the club has ap- second career 59 after she Woods went round in 71 to I’m making right now to grinding away,” Goosen ningon Sunday. proached a five star hotel on reached nine-under with join defending champion Jim keep the momentum and the said. “For most of these Jackson, whose name was the outskirts of the city for an eagle at No. 14. Furyk (70) and two others at swing is going my way.” players out here, it only referred to club coach Sub- making residential arrange- “There was four left and six-under 138. Both Janzen and Goosen takes something really small has Bhowmick by Indian ments for the players as also I was nine-under at the Woods is seeking to win shot one better than Perry to click and get going.” cricket team physical trainer availing facilities like gym- time, and I added it up,” the event for a fourth time. on a more difficult day for The cut was made at two- Adrian le Roux, arrived here nasium and swimming pool, said Sorenstam, who card- Perry has not slowed down scoring than Thursday’s be- over 146 and several promi- on Friday and would take he said, adding “we are also ed the only 59 on the LPGA since the Colonial scoring nign conditions. Staying in nent players will not be com- charge from Sunday to shape trying to organise practice Tour two years ago in record of 19-under-par last sight with the leader is im- peting over the weekend, in- up the players before the matches before the tourna- Phoenix. “That would be a week for his fifth PGA Tour portant for both players as cluding Spain’s Sergio Gar- tournament. ment”.PTI magic number again, so I win and has the lowest sec- each is in the midst of a dry cia, Scott Verplank, Paul was playing a little ond-round total since Scott spell on the PGA Tour. Azinger and course designer Only triumph will keep aggressive.” AP Hoch’s record performance Janzen’s last win came at Jack Nicklaus.Reuters Newcombe plans me at Juventus: Lippi to have a quiet life Gymnast Raducan Rome: Juventus coach Mar- with my grandson Lorenzo,” Sydney: Former Wimbledon cello Lippi said Friday he said Lippi, whose contract champion John Newcombe lends image to a doll would quit if he fails to guide ends in 2005 but has a one- has recovered from a stroke the Italian club to Champions year extension clause. and insists his partying days Bucharest: A doll in the im- result of the demand on the League success next season. “To have only won twice in are behind him, the 59-year- age of pixie-like Romanian Japanese market” the manu- Juventus lost to AC Milan seven finals (in the club’s his- old Australian said on Satur- gymnast Andreea Raducan facturers Aradeanca said. on penalties in Wednesday’s tory) is a poor return for a day. is to be launched on the mar- After having her medal all-Italian final in Manches- team like Juventus that has The former Australia Davis ket here Sunday. taken away, Raducan was ter, Lippi’s third failure in won more league champi- Cup captain was often pho- The 19-year-old, compared welcomed as a hero in Roma- four European Cup finals as onships than anyone (in Serie tographed celebrating in bars with legendary Romanian nia where authorities gave coach of the Turin club. A). I’m determined to get us after victories and in the Nadia Comaneci after her her full financial compensa- brilliant all-round winning “We will try again with all to a fifth final.”His only tri- 1970s was a drinking buddy of tion for the medal and spon- performance at the Sydney our energy to win the Cham- umph was against Ajax in US President George W.Bush. sors offered her a replace- pions League final next year. Rome in 1996, but Lippi is far “One of the minor blood Olympics, had her gold medal taken away for using a ment medal and car. If we do I will stay,otherwise from dishearted by his record vessels came out the left side She went on to win three I’ll leave to spend more time on Europe’s biggest stage. AFP of my brain and just blocked cold medicine that contained a banned substance. golds at the 2001 world cham- out,” Newcombe said on Sat- pionships, and helped urday of his health scare in The ‘Barbie-like’ doll, cost- Romania win world titles April. ing $20 , is expected to boost in 1999 and 2001 and the “Fortunately, it was a mi- the company’s turnover by 20 nor one and I wasn’t left with percent. “Dressed as a gym- Olympic team gold in Sydney too much damage, which is nast, the doll was created as a before retiring last year.AFP repaired now. AFP Lomu on kidney dialysis treatment Wellington: New Zealand’s Jonah Lomu is starting dial- ysis treatment for the kidney disease which has plagued his career and kept him side- lined since early April, All Black doctor John Mayhew says. Lomu, 28, will undergo the treatment three times a week for the rare nephrotic syn- drome he was diagnosed with in 1996, Mayhew said in a Rugby Union statement on Saturday. “We have had to move to dialysis as a result of a re- cent deterioration in Jonah’s kidney function.” Reuters
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