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Delhi, Saturday,October 4, 2003 Capital 44 Pages* Invitation Price Rs OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Saturday,October 4, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 44 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Sport Michael Douglas A side-effect of strike Oram hits asks Bush to support on Naidu: Sonia off ton against nuclear disarmament tribal Chhattisgarh India A Page 14 Page 13 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES Cabinet Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Every third MLA in UP a minister clears quota A passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a By Arvind Singh Bisht include many familiar veter- ister. for EBCs veiled longing for death. TIMES NEWS NETWORK Not really big and beautiful ans of UP’s sliding politics — The jumbo-size ministry is TIMES NEWS NETWORK & Naresh Aggrawal, Hari contrary to Mulayam’s own — Milan Kundera Lucknow: Five weeks after ● Mulayam has been a critic of AGENCIES Shankar Tiwari and Rajaram public assertions on the sub- becoming Uttar Pradesh chief jumbo-sized ministries Pandey,among others, besides ject and shows his political New Delhi: In what is being NEWS DIGEST minister, Mulayam Singh Ya- ● UP now has a record 98 ministers. people like Reoti Raman Singh dav expanded his council of compulsions. Of the 40 who seen as a pre-election move, Kalyan had 95 in 1997 and RK Chaudhary. left the BSP after it lost office the union cabinet on Friday ministers to a record high on Of the five ministers Mu- ● (two are in jail), he has made night decided to clear reser- Friday. Almost one in every Of Mulayam’s 220-odd MLAs, close layam had till Thursday, his The Times of India almost all of them a minister. vations for economically two of his 225-odd MLA sup- to half are ministers brother, Shiv Pal, was one and Of Ajit Singh’s RLD, 14 in backward classes (EBCs). and porters is a minister. ● 40 defectors from BSP; two are in foe-turned-ally Kalyan Singh’s UP now has a 98-member number, half are ministers, EBCs were not earlier cov- Navbharat Times jail; all but two of the rest are ministers son, Rajvir, was another. Mu- ered by the reservation poli- ministry,the highest-ever.Sev- three of cabinet rank. layam’s only son, Akhilesh, is cy. The government has also Combo Offer en have been given ministerial sembly is a minister. Mayawati was stingy by these Till recently, Ajit Singh had in the Lok Sabha. In Friday’s set up a commission to elicit rank as new chairmen of The largest ministry till standards. She ennobled only strongly advocated that no extended up to 30.11.03 expansion, another rising son, the views of state govern- state-run corporations. On the date was Kalyan Singh’s 95- 71, in her recently-concluded Rajkishore, heir of party ministry should exceed a cap at Rs 75 per month for all ments and work out the de- whole, every third member of member council in 1997. And tenure. leader and MP, Beni Prasad equal to one-tenth of a legisla- tails on this matter. Existing Combo Readers the 403-strong legislative as- that was in a House of 425. The new cabinet ministers Verma, became a cabinet min- ture’s number. A meeting of the cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister K.K. Laskar Atal Bihari Vajpayee, decid- Pak missile test: Pakistan on ed to amend Clause 4 of Arti- Friday successfully test-fired a short- range surface-to-surface ballistic Govt will go easy cles 15 and 16 of the Consti- missile, Hataf-III, capable of carrying tution to incorporate the conventional nuclear warheads. It word ‘‘economically back- has a range of 290 km and could hit ward class’’, Parliamentary targets in India. on oil PSU selloff Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told reporters here. Collision averted on runway: By Sanjay Dutta She said an additional Timely pullout of a Bangalore-bound want but I don’t see the Con- TIMES NEWS NETWORK clause would be added in Ar- Indian Airlines flight from the runway gress supporting any legisla- tion on this,’’ Deputy PM L K ticle 16 to empower the states at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Airport in New Delhi: Oil finally Advani told law minister to fix any quantum of reser- Mumbai prevented a collision with a turned out too hot to handle Jet Airways plane that was prepar- Arun Jaitley and Shourie vation in favour of any back- for the Centre, with the Cabi- ward class, including EBCs. ing to land. P12 net Committee on Disinvest- when they suggested building a political consensus. Swaraj said the Supreme Kay report on WMDs: Chief US ment (CCD) deciding to seek a The next option was the re- Court had earlier ruled that weapons inspector David Kay has clarification — and not re- 10 per cent reservation for submitted an interim report to the view — from the Supreme view petition. Both Jaitley and oil minister Ram Naik EBCs was constitutionally American Congress, saying no Court on its order asking the invalid and stated that Arti- weapons of mass destruction have government to seek permis- pointed out that the courts cle 16 of the Constitution, been found in Iraq. P15 sion from Parliament before dislike such moves. provided for reservation only selling Hindustan Petroleum Naik then suggested seek- Sensex high: Powered by a bull to socially and educationally and Bharat Petroleum. ing clarifications and said rampage on blue chips, the Bombay backward classes. For all practical purposes, this would save the govern- Stock Exchange’s 30-share Economic backwardness this means that disinvest- ment from facing further em- Sensex crossed the 4,500 mark was not a criterion, the apex ment in the two petro barrassment in case the after three years. P17 court had said and ruled that refiner and retailing compa- court were to reject a review reservation under clause 4 of Heads roll over AP blast: Two nies is off. At least till petition. days after the assassination attempt Article 16 should not exceed the elections. The review petition was on Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu, At its meeting on Friday, 50 per cent, she said. the state government suspended also not feasible as such a To overcome the con- the CCD weighed several op- plea has to be made within key officials, including a DIG.An in- The Metro on its new journey from Trinagar station in New Delhi on Friday. Report on page 5 tions but ultimately decided straints emerging from the quiry has also been ordered into the one month of the verdict. against toeing disinvestment apex court judgment, the At- security lapses. Only 13 days are left to the minister Arun Shourie’s torney General had suggest- IHF prescribes deadline. ed amendments to Clause 4 of line of challenging the court The CCD now had to con- verdict. Articles 15 and 16 to include a sider ways to meet the gov- The CCD felt that the three reference to the EBCs. An- This Diwali, you can brief rest for ernment’s fiscal targets if the legislative options suggested other amendment to enable two oil companies were not by the disinvestment min- states to provide more that 50 ‘tired’ Dhanraj istry would not be feasible as being sold. per cent in services by intro- choose your decibel the coalition did not have the Jaitley suggested an equity ducing a suitable clause un- TIMES NEWS NETWORK required numbers in the swap for the two companies. der Article 16, she said. By Pallavi Majumdar Naik agreed to the proposal, New Delhi: The Indian House. Addressing a BJP rally in TIMES NEWS NETWORK saying the option could be SOUND POLLUTION Hockey Fed- Besides, the Shiv Sena cate- Jaipur two months back, Vaj- discussed in detail. indiatimes.com POLL New Delhi: This Diwali when you UNDER CONTROL eration (IHF) gorically told the coalition payee had said the NDA gov- shop for your arsenal of crackers, you • The decibel level must be clearly sprung a sur- leadership that it will not According to the plan, ei- ernment was prepared to Who would you prefer watching: Ash in support any legislation to sell ther IndianOil or the Oil and bring in a Constitutional Chokher Bali or Katrina Kaif in Boom? can choose between the loud and the displayed on the box of crackers prise when it not-so-loud ones. The ministry of en- ‘‘rested’’ cap- the two oil companies. Natural Gas Corporation amendment to provide reser- Ash Katrina vironment has instructed cracker • The maximum allowed tain Dhanraj That’s where this option could buy into the two com- vations to the EBCs provided 52% 48% manufacturers to specify the decibel limit is 125 decibels Pillay be- got stuck. ‘‘You can try for panies and the government the Congress supported levels on crackers. sides key unanimity as much as you will get its money. such a move. VOTE NOW: Should there be a limit Bursting crackers is on the number of ministers in a And if your neighbour acts pesky • players Bal- Dhanraj government? on Diwali night and bursts crackers banned after 10 pm jeet Singh Saini and Baljeet Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 after 10 pm, you can complain to the on Diwali. Com- Singh Dhillon while naming Delhi police. Even the resident wel- plaints can probables for the inaugural Afro-Asian Games, starting by Laxman fare associations (RWAs) are all set to be directed YOU SAID IT play their roles in the campaign either to the later this month. TOI Archives against crackers. The Delhi Pollution local police The IHF stressed that Control Committee (DPCC) has in- station or to these players will be consid- ered for the Sultan Azlan volved 1,200 RWAs to help it watch 100 over Diwali night violations.
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