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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Monday,June 23, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 42 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International City Report Times Sport Benazir’s poetic Multiplicity of Serena Williams plea on her 50th authorities leaves all set to defend birthday traffic in a mess Wimbledon crown Page 12 Page 4 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES Solution to Established 1838 Ayodhya by Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. China inches closer on border The good neighbour looks July 7: Seer beyond the external By Manoj Joshi in the early 1980s. But the Indian Time to talk business acceptable’’ in Chinese state- By Swati Das accidents and discerns TIMES NEWS NETWORK side has consistently refused to ments of late. TIMES NEWS NETWORK those inner qualities that bite. Indian officials pointed out It could mean that the Chinese make all men human and, Beijing: The acronyms, MUMA that all it means is that the Chi- Talks have been have realised that there is no Chennai: After a meeting or MAMU, are barely known out- •First PM to “ therefore, brothers. nese get Indian territory they oc- taking place with point in prolonging the border with the Union ministers side a select group of experts in visit China in — Martin Luther King cupied between 1950 and 1962, a decade issue with endless rounds of Jaswant Singh and George India and China. They stand for while letting India keep what it China on this sterile negotiations, and are Fernandes at the Kanchi ‘‘Mutual Understanding and •Ceremonial Mutt, the Kanchi always had — the state of welcome today (border) issue and willing to jump-start the process NEWS DIGEST Mutual Accommodation’’ and Arunachal Pradesh. of resolving the matter. Shankaracharya Jayendra ‘‘Mutual Adjustment and Mutu- at historic Great we want to take Saraswati Swami on Sunday But now the Chinese have Hall of People To this end, they are willing to Venkaiah meets RSS chief: al Understanding’’, and they’ve come up with a new version of them forward. We go beyond the Zhou and Deng hoped ‘‘something would BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu been doing the insider rounds this formula. Chinese premier •Meeting with formula, and toundertake sub- come about by July 7’’ as so- met RSS chief K Sudarshan on Sun- for decades. Premier Wen are also focusing lution to the Ayodhya issue. Wen Jibao told a group of resi- “ stantive negotiations with India day to brief him about the chintan Both were put forward by Chi- dent Indian journalists in Bei- Jiabao later in on how to move ahead in other on the vexed western sector While refusing to reveal baitak that took place in Mumbai nese officials to float the idea of jing that the Chinese side stands the day where, by Indian understanding, details of the proposals he and explain the government’s initia- areas of our relationship. a package deal that would sup- for a fair, reasonable and mutu- China has occupied several had sent to the All India Mus- tive on Ayodhya. The meeting is sig- port China’s claim on Ladakh in lim Personal Law Board nificant as an RSS representative ally acceptable solution. thousand square kilometres of exchange for its claims on justment. In short, MUMAMA. Chinese official spokesman’s (AIMPLB), he said: ‘‘We are was present at the BJP meet. P11 This can be found through bi- Indian territory through mili- Arunachal Pradesh. lateral talks in accordance with Elements of this formula statements. tary aggression. in touch with the Muslim re- New Pak envoy: Pakistan’s High This formula was put forward the principles of consultations were put to Prime Minister Vaj- What does this new Chinese India Inc lusts for China pie: P9 ligious leaders and the pro- Commissioner designate to India by Premier Zhou Enlai in 1960, on an equal footing through mu- payee in his recent meeting with posture mean? No one is taking Long way to catch the dragon: P15 cess is going on amicably.’’ Aziz Ahmad Khan will arrive in India and repeated by Chinese tual understanding, mutual ac- Chinese president Hu Jintao in any bets, but they do point to the Edit: Beijing Business After the scheduled July 6 on June 30 to take over his new supreme leader Deng Xiaoping commodation and mutual ad- St Petersburg, and in the use of the term ‘‘mutually Sacred Space: P14 meeting of the AIMPLB posting while his counterpart, Shiv- committee, he expected a shankar Menon, is expected to positive response to his takeover his posting in Islamabad in PTI peace initiative. When asked the second week of July. P10 if assurances to the Muslim Militants inject poison: In the community on Mathura first such incident, militants killed a India, Pak will and Kasi formed part of his woman by injecting her with poison peace formula he said: ‘‘We in a village in Poonch district of J&K, want to resolve the issue official sources said in Jammu. peacefully through a negoti- Scandal in Uttaranchal: Oppo- track each other ated settlement.’’ sition leaders said they would not al- On the VHP leaders attack- low the state assembly to function By Chidanand Rajghatta Washington has already ing his peace mission, the normally till a five-member House TIMES NEWS NETWORK prepared India for some mod- Acharya remarked: ‘‘In a est arms shipment to Pak- democracy, everyone had a committee probing the former rev- Washington: Both India and enue minister Harak Singh Rawat’s istan, including possibly F-16 right to express their views. affair with an unmarried woman ta- Pakistan will have an ear to fighter planes. Let the VHP say what bles its report in the House. the ground and an eye on the Fernandes, who flew a sor- they want.’’ fish lens this week as leaders tie in one of India’s new Paramhans discharged: Mahant of the two countries visit the Ram Chandra Paramhans left for Ay- Sukhoi fighter jets, told Rain check United States and China, re- journalists that New Delhi did odhya after he was released from spectively their friend and hospital on Sunday. not have to worry about US Sunday, ally, at the same time. F-16s to Pakistan since it June 22 Amnesty on Pak: Amnesty Inter- India, strategically and has adequate superiority with national has came down hard on Is- diplomatically more secure the Sukhois. lamabad’s claim of having curbed for its recent entente with the India will also watch US ap- Delhi militancy saying the extremists, who US, will, nevertheless, keep a proach to Pakistan on the is- were banned or detained, were re- close watch on whether Wash- sue of troop deployment in leased with days or weeks. ington will put more pressure Iraq. Washington has infor- Kolkata Intruder in Windsor Castle: The on Pakistan to curb its mili- mally sought Pakistani UK government has ordered a probe taristic policies and adventur- troops, but it clearly is into how a man, identified as ism in Kashmir as promised more interested in an Indian Mumbai Chennai standup comedian Aaron Barschak, by President Bush. commitment given the greater burst onto the stage at Prince Far more skeptical of international credibility it William’s 21st birthday party at Gen. Musharraf than the can bring. Windsor Castle and snatched a Bush administration, New Although it has not microphone from the prince. Delhi will also weigh US explicitly stated so, a US invi- • Duststorms with squalls Brazil stay afloat: Brazil kept economic aid to Pakistan and tation to Pakistan might re- likely in Delhi their Confederations Cup hopes BY GEORGE, THIS IS GOING TO BE SOME RIDE: Defence minister George Fernandes in an anti-gravity suit, the passage of military sup- sult in New Delhi declining to • Monsoon has advanced alive with a 1-0 win over the United accompanied by Wing Commander N S Jamwal ready for a sortie at Lohegaon Air Force Station near plies to a country India be- go to Iraq. over, Gujarat, Maharashtra, States in Lyon on Saturday. Adri- Pune on Sunday. (Right) Fernandes in the cockpit of a Sukhoi fighter jet with Jamwal by his side. lieves is congenitally hostile Pakistan too is keeping Andhra Pradesh, West ano’s first-half goal saved the World and neurotic and has wasted a close watch on Prime Bengal and Sikkim Cup winners’ blushes after their its economic lifeline in a futile Minister Vajpayee’s visit to • The northern limit of opening defeat against Group B proxy war. China, which Islamabad re- leaders Cameroon. P19 monsoon passed through Judging from the utter- gards as its all-weather Barmer, Ajmer, Bhopal, Now, Taj probe under scanner ances of Deputy Prime Minis- friend and ally. Nagpur, Jagdalpur, YOU SAID IT by Laxman ter L K Advani and defence For more go to Jamshedpur and Purnia By Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui contracts for removal of sand minister George Fernandes, www.timesofindia.com TIMES NEWS NETWORK have been given by the state Work has stopped, government despite the fact that Lucknow: The Taj Heritage Corri- such sand mining is a source dor project is set to cause yet anoth- says Jagmohan of revenue instead of expenditure. er embarrassment to the Uttar New Delhi: Union culture And all this has gone unnoticed, Pradesh government. sources say. Even though chief minister minister Jagmohan on Sunday But Rohit Nandan, the state Mayawati has ordered an inquiry visited Agra and found that government’s director (informa- to find out how the construction work on the controversial tion), told this reporter: ‘‘We of a shopping mall behind the Heritage Corridor project are probing an issue and not an Taj was cleared, doubts have near the Taj Mahal had been individual.