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New Delhi, Monday,January 20, 2003 Capital 34 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Fearful Saudi leaders S M Krishna faces revolt Agassi, Ferreira move seek a way to oust from within Cong after up; Davenport crashes Saddam Hussein Deshmukh’s ouster out of Australian Open Page 13 Page 10 Page 20

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Established 1838 Tragedy on Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. MTNL gives back cell links There are no necessary evils By Sanjay Anand in government. Its evils exist TIMES NEWS NETWORK INTERCONNECTIVITY MESS only in its abuses. ropeway: 7 — Andrew Jackson New Delhi: Cellphone users What went wrong? How was it fixed? were suddenly able to connect to For most of the weekend, cellular subscribers No one really knows. MTNL officials remained MTNL networks on Sunday after- NEWS DIGEST were not able to connect to MTNL phones unavailable for comment, but cellular officials noon, ending the two-day cell- and vice versa. said that their networks were working. MTNL connectivity problems. McDonald’s outlet stormed: Cellular operators AirTel and Why did it happen? What’s next? die, 60 saved Activists of the Sarvadharm Jivdaya Hutch confirmed that their sub- MTNL disrupted traffic because cellular operators Networks should work on Monday as cellular Samiti stormed a McDonald’s outlet scribers were able to talk to have been blocking WLL calls coming from operators explain their stand to the telecom TIMES NEWS NETWORK & PTI in Vadodara asking it remove display MTNL users from about 2 pm, but MTNL network. regulator, TRAI. boards saying beef was not served Pavagadh (Gujarat): Seven were unable to provide reasons there. P11 persons were killed and 20 in- for the restoration. Telecom networks of cell firms cell users pay basic operators. may also hear cell firms’ plea jured, when three of the ten Punnpur affair: In a low-key affair, ‘‘It was just like power going off and Indicom are not yet intercon- The parity, they say, will help against TRAI, BSNL, MTNL and cable cars on the ropeway to Congress president and then coming back,’’ said nected because the two sides are cell operators make incoming ca- Indicom on the interconnectivity a Mahakali temple in the Sonia Gandhi hand- Hutch VP, sales and marketing, fighting on commercial terms. lls free much like WLL-M (mobile war. Then cellular firms have to Panchmahals district col- ed over the keys of Harit Nagpal. AirTel officials Cellular operators resented the wireless in local loop) service. show cause to TRAI for continu- the house con- lapsed on Sunday. said a similar thing. fact that state-owned companies Cellular companies are op- ing to block Indicom’s calls from The deceased, including a structed by the It is believed that connectivity AICC to Ram Bha- MTNL (which operates in Delhi posed to basic phone companies MTNL/BSNL. TRAI also has to woman and a five-year-old The mishap occurred between MTNL and private cellu- • jan, the Dalit from and Mumbai) and BSNL (which (like Indicom, HFCL and Re- hear a complaint against MTNL’s boy,have been identified. on a mountain ropeway lar companies in Delhi was re- Punnpur who was operates in the rest of the coun- liance) being allowed to provide two-day connectivity disruption. This is the first mishap on to the pilgrim town of stored after some intervention by given a helping try) were taking away Indicom’s WLL-M, without being provided Meanwhile, communications the 700-metre ropeway be- Pavagadh senior government officials. hand by Priyanka Gandhi. P8 traffic, bypassing them. a level playing field. minister Pramod Mahajan will tween Macchi and Pavagadh, • Sixty pilgrims were Cell firms alleged that MTNL They blocked Indicom’s and Sunday’s restoration of servic- kick off a three day Supercomm a pilgrim town on a hill in BJP media units: BJP president trapped in seven cable was behind the service disrup- HFCL’s traffic on MTNL and es, said industry officials, needed India exhibition. Panchmahals. More than 50 cars dangling in the air Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday asked tion because cell-cell networks BSNL and have not restored it to be followed by a proper net- Comment: In the interest of the his party’s media units to highlight cable cars operate daily on • An inquiry has been continued to work. They did not even after a show cause from the work, interconnection deals and industry — and most importantly terrorism, illegal immigrants from the ropeway between Macchi ordered into the mishap rule out the possibility that Bangladesh, religious conversion telecom regulator, TRAI. resolution of the WLL-M case. in the interest of the consumer — and Pavagadh, which was • Eyewitnesses say the and the performance of the NDA MTNL could have retaliated after Cell operators are demanding On Monday, the telecom dis- the authorities should ensure commissioned 14 years ago. ropeway’s pulley came government. P7 cell firms continued to block the that basic phone companies pay pute tribunal, TDSAT, will begin a level playing field so that The mishap occurred off, leading to the calls of Tata Indicom that were them Rs 1.20 per call for connect- proceedings on the WLL-M case there are no further glitches in around noon, when one of collapse 24 hurt in blast: About 24 per- being routed through MTNL. ing with their subscribers like on the Supreme Court’s order. It connectivity. the ropeway’s cables snapp- sons were wounded in a grenade ed. It hurled three cable cars blast in a crowded market in Kulgam AFP He fell from the cable car into a trench. Seven cable in Pulwama district in south Kashmir on to a wire mesh, supposed on Sunday. Militants also killed an Pak action a cars were dangling in the air, trapping 60 pilgrims. All of to serve as a safety net in case ASI of the STF and his son in Bandi- of accidents. pora in Baramulla district. P11 them were rescued by Army violation of and Air Force personnel. Deepak’s father was still Waterfowls for dinner: A com- ‘‘All the 60 people trapped missing while his mother plaint lodged with the Orissa chief in seven cable cars were was in a semi-conscious state minister says that at least 100 mi- code: MEA rescued in an operation in the hospital. She sustained gratory waterfowls from the Chilka TIMES NEWS NETWORK injuries on her back, chest, lake were cooked and served at a that lasted seven hours,’’ Panchmahals district super- legs and hands. Deepak’s birthday dinner party hosted at the New Delhi: India has taken intendent of police N sister Ansuya said, ‘‘It was Bhubaneswar Club by senior IAS of- serious note of the harass- our annual badha. We come ficer Priyabrata Patnaik. P11 Kumar said. ment of its charge d’affaires According to some reports, for darshan every year, but Genome music: Spanish scien- in Pakistan, Sudhir Vyas. onlookers set ablaze the of- this was hardly what I tists have turned the human genome Vyas’ vehicle was blocked fice of Usha Braco, a Kolkata- thought it would be like. The into music. The end product is several times by intelligence based private company that badha was for me.’’ Genoma Music, a 10-tune CD, due officials while he was going manned the ropeways. Deepak’s uncle Bhikhu to be out in February. The melodies to attend engagements in Is- Tadvi said, ‘‘My sister were influenced, even dictated, by A magisterial inquiry has lamabad on Saturday. been ordered into the Jenuben, her husband the mood and rhythm of the underly- ‘‘We have received reports Govindbhai and Deepak ing genetic code. P12 mishap. According to eyewit- of tailing and harassment of nesses, the ropeway’s pulley were in the cable car. Deep- England qualify: England quali- Vyas (currently holding the came off, when three trolleys ak’s skull broke and the fied for the finals of the triangular charge in the absence of In- dashed against a beam. Halol PHC could do nothing one-day series despite losing to dia having any high commis- While three injured have except bandage it. He was lat- Australia by four wickets at Adelaide sioner in Pakistan),’’ exter- been admitted to a hospital in er sent here... They fell from Oval on Sunday. P18 nal affairs ministry Panchmahals district, 17 the cable car on to the wire spokesperson Navtej Sarna have been shifted to a Vado- mesh, but they bounced off.’’ by Laxman YOU SAID IT said on Sunday. dara hospital. Jaswantiben Patel (30) ‘‘This is part of a pattern A mixed sense of relief, from the Baroda Dairy es- of harassment of Indian grief and shock gripped the caped the disaster with mi- diplomats followed by Pak- survivors. norinjuries as the cable col- istani agencies. It is in viola- Among the injured admit- lapsed when they were close tion of the bilateral code ted to the SSG Hospital in to the starting point. ‘‘I was of conduct, international Vadodara was five-year-old lucky, I was close to the Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek Bachchan lead the funeral procession of literary giant and poet norms as well as the Vienna Deepak Patel. He succumbed ground,’’ she said. Harivanshrai Bachchan in Mumbai on Sunday. Obituary on page 10 Convention,’’ added Sarna. to severe head injuries. Picture on page 8 Fog blinds all traffic in city TIMES NEWS NETWORK braving chilly winds. STRANDED AGAIN Over 54 trains were either can- New Delhi: Fog disrupted air and • The prolonged spell of fog celled or rescheduled due to fog. rail traffic here on Sunday,leaving Many trains reached Delhi behind behind a trail of rescheduled has reduced flight operation Stop arguing without paying period at airports to just over schedule. At least 10 trains were re- flights, delayed trains and harried portedly running over 10 hours attention! You are shouting passengers. six hours a day about the US-Iraq issue and he behind schedule on Sunday, a rail- The visibility at the IGI airport • As train delays compounded is screaming about the cricket on Sunday, passengers spent way official said. contract row...! dipped below 200 metre at 10.49 pm On the roads, there were several on Saturday. Air traffic was dis- their entire day on platforms braving chilly winds minor accidents though no casual- rupted for over 11 hours. ties were reported. In one such ac- indiatimes.com POLL ‘‘After the long disruption, a cident on the Okhla-Noida toll hours a day.‘‘It is proving difficult Yesterday’s results: Do you think IITs Lufthansa flight was the first to bridge, a Baleno car hit a vehicle offer better education than US colleges? use the airport. The plane landed to clear the backlog as about 13 to whose driver stopped it in the mid- at 9.40 am,’’ said an airport official. 14 planes have not reached Delhi.’’ dle due to poor visibility. Yes 73% No 27% ‘‘The situation has been bad all At the domestic airport, the ‘‘The errant driver had not even chaos and inconvenience caused • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose through the week,’’ said a senior switched on his blinkers,’’ said a to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. Airport Authority of India official by delays reportedly led to heated traffic police officer. Today’s question: Do you think renaming on Sunday. arguments between passengers Tania, a private firm executive, Amethi will have an impact on Barring one day, fog forced clo- and airlines staff. claimed she almost lost her way UP politics? sure of airports throughout last Rail passengers were probably while returning home. ‘‘It was dif- Cast your vote on week, he said. worse off. As train delays ficult to drive in the green area www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 An Indian Airlines official said compounded on Sunday, crowds next to the IIT campus. I helplessly the prolonged spell of fog over the spilled over from waiting rooms to looked on as clouds of fog settled city had reduced flight operation platforms. Several passengers down on the road ahead,’’ she said. period at airports to just over six spent their entire day on platforms Related report and picture on page 4 What you should pay for cable TV WEATHER By N Vidyasagar jhawan, consultant Spectranet. The o o PAY TO VIEW Max. 17.1 C/ Min. 4 C TIMES NEWS NETWORK announcement is expected in the Moonset: Tuesday — 0929 hrs. next fortnight. Moonrise: Monday — 1951 hrs. New Delhi: Consumers will pay • Analysts say that Rs 200 a month to a cable operator is As for pay channels, they have to Sunset: Monday — 1750 hrs. about Rs 200 a month as cable sub- mandatorily be routed through a set- Sunrise: Tuesday — 0714 hrs. scription when the conditional ac- more than fair • The free-to-air channels top box — to be bought by the con- Fog till forenoon. Cold day with partly cloudy cess regime (CAS) kicks off on July sumer. An analog set-top box will o should not cost more than sky. Minimum temperature around 5 C. 14, 2003, say analysts. cost Rs 3,000, while a digital one will Maximum relative humidity on Sunday While cable operators feel the Rs 40 to cover the cable operator’s expenses cost Rs 6,000. 97 per cent and minimum 63 per cent. monthly amount should be Rs 350, Apart from this, consumers will industry watchers say consumers in have to buy pay channel bouquets Book your Classifieds the metros — where the CAS will be the cable operator’s operational from broadcasters. introduced initially — will resist. ‘‘A 24 hours service: “51-666-888” costs. Some of the existing free-to- There are three major bouquets — majority of consumers will not pay air channels include DD, Aaj Tak, Star (14 channels), Zee-Turner (17), Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” more than Rs 200,’’ said Haresh MTV,BBC, Sab TV,Sahara, Sun TV. and Sony (6) — including the small- The ATM of information Chawla, CEO, CNBC India. While the government is yet to fix er ESPN-Star Sports and Modi Net- The Largest Classifieds Site The final bill will depend on what a final figure, reports say this price works. The Star bouquet costs Rs 50. the government fixes as the maxi- could be under Rs 40. Comment: The government should mum price band for the free-to-air ‘‘Even if the government fixes Rs try and promote as much competi- TV channels. These channels do not 80 as a maximum price for free-to-air tion as possible so that the consumer * 20 + 8 pages of Delhi Times have to viewed with a set-top box. channels, the competition will bring is kept fully in the picture at the low- + 6 pages of Education Times The money will go towards meeting it down to Rs 30,’’ said Ajay Ni- est possible price.

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2 Monday,January 20, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi Su-30s to form Trishul on R-Day TIMES NEWS NETWORK The airshow will include three MI-17IVs, the advanced To chat on SMS send 'cchat' to 8888 New Delhi: A new ‘Trishul’ version of the high-altitude “Indian TV viewers expect a lot more than manoeuvre by three Sukhoi- helicopters used during the 30 fighter jets will be the cli- Kargil conflict, and four MI- mundane, cloned serials” — NAVEEN CHAMOLI, max of this year’s Republic 35 assault helicopters. Ten Media & Entertainment Strategist, Planman Life Day parade in which 25 air- deep-penetration Jaguars, in Entertainment Special pressure on filmmakers. craft will take part. two arrowheads, flying at 780 Q: According to you, what ‘‘As the three Su-30s fly kmph, will also take part in Q: When do you are the expectations of the over the spectators, the wing- the flypast. see the small Indian TV viewers?-Neo men will carry out upward Stating that the rehearsals screen revolution- A: The Indian TV viewer and outward splits and the for the flypast would begin ising and becom- expects a lot more than leader will execute a three- on Friday, the IAF appealed ing as interesting mundane, cloned serials. and-a-half turn ‘Vertical to the people not to throw as the big screen?-Rim One needs to map the mind A: Small screen has already Charlie’, to form the ‘Tr- eatables and garbage in the set of the Indian TV viewers started giving a lot of ishul’ over Rajpath,’’ Indian open along the flypast route to understand that only competition to the latter. A creatively designed Air Force (IAF) spokesper- since birds posed ‘‘a serious lot of what an Indian cine programming which touches son Squadron Leader R K threat to aircraft flying at low audience used to watch in his sense and sensibilities Dhingra said on Thursday. levels’’. movie halls, he can see it in could whet his appetite. the luxury of his house on Intelligent humour in our TV Photographs: K K Laskar TV. TV can bring much more serials is thoroughly lacking. diversity and this has For complete chat log on to already started putting http://chat.indiatimes.com CHATTING LIVE ON INDIATIMES TODAY 4 pm: Sandeep 12 noon: Pankaj Khanna Kohli Vastu Expert MD, Indian On Vastu for improving subcontinent, Yum! profitability Restaurants 2 pm: Dr Pradeep Nagrath On the restaurant industry in CEO, Pentavox Herbals Asia-Pacific On Ayurvedic herbals

Manpreet Brar awards winners of Dilli Dambola at The Grand New Delhi. (From left) Divya Trehan won a 29” Philips TV. Neelu Kapoor and Dinesh Dubey each won a 14” Philips TV.

Pop singer Anamika presents a Durian gift voucher of Rs 50000 to Virender Kumar Arora and a 14” Philips TV to Harsh Parmar.

MCD will probe parking lot fraud TIMES NEWS NETWORK MCD, Subhash Arya, said on Friday senior MCD officials New Delhi: A vigilance in- were involved in offering the quiry has been ordered into contractor rebates ranging the terms of contract be- from 25 to 40 per cent of the tween the Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) and a annual contract fee. contractor running an un- ‘‘Officials appear to have derground parking lot at shown undue favour towards Asaf Ali Road. the contractor. Not only were The civic agency’s deal for penalties waived, but also he ‘Chor Bizarre’ vouchers awarded as consolation prizes to Prabha Bhargav, Vikram, Ajeet Singh, Nidhi Chopra, Neeraj Virmani, Arvind Dhayal, Rahul Chaturvedi, V.P. Verma, the annual contract and suc- was also offered relief on the Naveen Verma, Deepshikha Mohan, Ashish, Praveen, Sidharth Bhargav, Preet Tanwar, Angel, S.J. Duvedi, Sandeep Malhotra, Rahul Mishra, T.R. Joshi, Anagat Chabra, cessive renewals is suspected payment of dues,’’ he alleged. Roopa Jain and Veena Joshi to have caused a loss of Chairman of the standing crores of rupees to the ex- committee, Ram Babu Shar- chequer. ma, ordered an inquiry into Three accident deaths: A 45-year-old vider. The police established his identity Officials of the remunera- the matter of award of con- cook with the Navy died in a road mishap on through the CSD identity card in his pocket. tive project cell have alleged- tract for the parking lot. ‘‘Of- TENDER NOTICE Saturday night. According to the police, the the Kashmere Gate police have registered a ly shown undue favour to the ficers and employees found The Executive Engineer, accident took place at the flyover opposite case of causing death due to rash and negli- contractor by offering con- guilty of irregularities Construction Division-II, the ISBT. Nathi Singh, a resident of Pauri gent driving. In another accident, two youths cessions in payment of dues. would be severely punished,’’ C.P.W.D., B-322, I.P. Bhawan, Garhwal, was found dead on the flyover di- died and one was injured on Saturday night. I.P. Estate, New Delhi-110002 Leader of the opposition in he said. NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS on behalf of President of India, invites sealed item rate tender (AN AUTONOMOUS BODY OF THE MINISTRY OF from the approved and eligible Racket in fake HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE) contractors of CPWD and those of appropriate list of MES upto 3:00 P.M. on 30.01.03 which arms licences SCREENING TEST shall be opened at 3:30 P.M. on the same day. FOR INDIAN NATIONALS WITH FOREIGN MEDICAL QUALIFICATIONS Name of Work: A/R & M/O 294 busted type-V qrs. and 26 type-IV (SPL) FOR qrs. at Nivedita Kung, Sector-X, TIMES NEWS NETWORK R.K. Puram, New Delhi. SH: MCI REGISTRATION Watch and Ward of unoccupied Faridabad: A licence clerk quarters and common Areas. in the deputy commission- National Board of Examinations has been entrusted by the Government Estimated cost: Rs. er’s office, a draftsman in the of India to conduct the Screening Test for Indian Nationals with foreign 15,06,501/-. Earnest Money: Rs. 37,663/-. Time Allowed: 12 SP’s office and an employee medical qualifications. The purpose of the screening test shall be only Months. Cost of tender: Rs. of a local arms dealer have to qualify for his or her registration with the Medical Council of India or 500/-. been arrested for their in- any State Medical Council and qualifying the same shall not confer any Complete conditions regar- volvement in issuing of fake other right whatsoever on a candidate. ding submission of tenders are arms licences. available in the office of the Draftsman Ashok Kumar The examination will be held on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th EE/CD-II, C.P.W.D., New Delhi. The contractor must submit allegedly forged the signa- March 2003 at Delhi. The exact venue of the examination will be valid Income Tax Clearance tures of the DSP and SP,used intimated to the candidate individually and can also be seen on the Certificate and Sales Tax fictitious ration card and website (www.natboard.org). Registration Certificate before helped one Chhote Khan, a tender papers can be sold to Bulletin of Information and Application form can be obtained from: resident of Ghaziabad, to get him. Tender papers can be an arms licence. A case of 1. Forms can also be downloaded from the website- purchased at the office between 11.00 a.m. and 4.00 p.m. on fraud has been filed against (www.natboard.org). The downloaded forms MUST be every working day except clerk Om Prakash, drafts- accompanied by a demand draft of Rs. 3500/- (form+exam fee) Sunday and public holiday upto man Ashok Kumar and drawn in favour of National Board of Examinations, New Delhi. 27.01.03. Receipt of application Faridabad Gun House em- for issue of tender form will be ployee Sunil Kumar, and his The envelopes may be superscribed - “Application for Screening stopped on 25.01.03 by 4.00 Test for Indian Nationals with Foreign Medical Qualifications. p.m. brother Rajiv Ranjan and All intending C.P.W.D. as well Chamanpal. 2. Assistant Controller of Examination as Non-C.P.W.D. contractors The case came to light dur- National Board of Examinations must have completed at least ing a special drive launched three works amounting to Rs. to unearth unlicenced arms. Mahatma Gandhi Marg, 4,52,000/- each of similar nature Ansari Nagar, New Delhi-110029 during last five years and they It was found that no one by (through Bank Draft of Rs. 500/- drawn in favour of National Board will have to produce the the name of Chhote Khan certificate to this effect at the lived at the given address in of Examinations payable at New Delhi) time of submission of Sehatpur village. The police Instructions contained in the current Bulletin for March, 2003 application for issue of tender. then traced Khan. Earnest Money (unless He told the police that examinations should alone be consulted for filling up the exempted) should be deposited application form. in Reserve Bank of India, New Ashok Kumar used his posi- Application form duly completed with all particulars should reach Delhi and receipt challan sent tion to get the fictitious pa- with the tender or it may be pers verified from Serai the Assistant Controller of Examinations, latest by 28th Feb 2003. deposited in the form of deposit Khawaja police station and Applications received after the last date will not be considered at at call receipt and fixed deposit forwarded the documents to of a scheduled bank guaranteed any circumstances. by the Reserve Bank of India in the licence clerk in the DC’s Incomplete application forms without requisite enclosures are favour of Executive Engineer, office after faking the signa- liable to be rejected and no correspondence whatsoever will be Construction Division-II, tures of the DSP and SP. The C.P.W.D., New Delhi. police said the three accused entertained in this regard. Sd/- Executive Engineer also helped some more peo- davp 1041(10)2002 Construction Division-II ple in getting arms licences. CPWD, New Delhi

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NINAN’S CITY Pvt participation sought in hospitals TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Delhi state government wants to run its 100- Your garbage will get you bedded hospitals with private participation. This was an- TOI By Rahul Chhabra nounced by city health minister A K Walia at the 97th birth TIMES NEWS NETWORK anniversary of Padma Vibhushan late Dharma Vira at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on Sunday. New Delhi: It’s a race against time. About 6,500 Walia said the government had started around 10 new hos- tonnes of garbage is generated in the city daily pitals and more were under construction. Hospital chairman and dumped at landfill sites. These sites are fast S K Sama also expressed a desire to help in the government’s getting filled and in the absence of any news on Bhagidari programme for the poor. Chief minister Sheila of new sites, the Delhi Municipal Corporation Dikshit presented awards to hospital workers. (MCD) seems to be heading for major trouble. MCD officials admit the city is running out of space to dump garbage but express helpless- ness as there is very little space left in the city and some neighbouring states have refused to provide landfill sites. The three existing landfill sites — at Bhal- swa, Ghazipur and Okhla — have already out- lived their utility. What you need is a defrost button ‘‘Bhalswa is overflowing, the Okhla site is out of use and Ghazipur cannot be stretched for more than a year,’’said director sanitation, V K This minister likes Mehrotra. ‘‘If a new site for a sanitary landfill (SLF) is not found soon, the situation could get facts, not fiction critical,’’ he said. By Ajay Maken (City power 2007, the and transport minister): LET’S MAKE city is ex- pected to ● Born on: January 12, 1954. Ajay DELHI BETTER produce Maken studied at St Xavier’s 8,000 School in Civil Lines where he was tonnes. ‘‘This will go up to 18,000 tonnes by awarded the best all rounder prize. 2021,’’ a senior official said. He joined Delhi University’s Han- MCD officials said the huge quantities of sraj College thereafter. For the garbage being dumped on overflowing landfill MOUNTAINOUS PROBLEM: The Ghazipur landfill is overflowing with garbage. first two years, he studied Chem- sites could collapse during heavy rain. ‘‘Addi- istry honours but then shifted to B tional load on an existing site might create A (Pass) in the third year when he cracks. This will allow pollutants to seep into DEADLY DUMPING was elected university president. the earth and contaminate ground water,’’ an Maken said the official said. Where we More to No concrete shift was essen- Additional commissioner Ramesh Negi said stand The three come About solution The IN THE tial because he the only way out was to shift Delhi’s garbage to existing landfill sites 6,500 tonnes of 142-acre plot in could not attend other areas in the National Capital Region. Chemistry prac- have outlived their garbage is Narela-Bawana NEWS ‘‘Delhi does not have land, but can invest in bor- utility. Bhalswa is generated every area is tied up tical classes. dering states where land is available and cheap- ● 1overflowing, the 2 day in the city. 3 in litigation. A Been there done that: The er,’’ he said. Okhla site will not last for By 2007, the volume is proposed site in Bhatti youngest Delhi Cabinet member, The MCD had pinned its hopes on a 142-acre more than 6 months and expected to touch 8,000 mines is facing opposition Maken’s tryst with fame reached plot in the Narela-Bhawana area, but litigation Ghazipur a year. tonnes. from environmentalists. its heights when he initiated pow- in the high court has come in the way.A 52-acre er reforms in Delhi. The distribu- plot in Jaitpur near Badarpur for building a tion of electricity was handed over landfill has also run into complications. to two private firms. During his ‘‘The only hope now are pits in Bhatti mines, tenure as transport minister, the which if given to us would serve the city for Clean ways of disposing waste city’s commercial vehicles shifted over 50 years,’’ said MCD commissioner Rakesh to CNG, and air pollution levels TIMES NEWS NETWORK costly to potential buyers,’’ garbage. Despite its failure, Mehta.Standing committee chairman Ram said an MCD sanitation de- the MCD had in 2000 proposed dropped. Even though glitches Babu Sharma said the fate of the project would New Delhi: As landfills are of- partment official. to set up by a power plant at marked the initial availability of depend on the environment impact report ten criticised for being an out- Chicken feed: The MCD the Ghazipur landfill. CNG, the procedures were about the two pits selected for use as landfill dated technique for garbage had chalked out plans plans to The Rs 12-crore project was smoothened out. sites. ‘‘The studies were ordered after environ- disposal, city planners have convert waste generated by supposed to use up around 800 ● Loves to: Switch TV channels. mentalists argue that using the pits would ad- tried to look for alternative Maken said he hardly had any versely affect the environment of the area,’’ he ways. Some ideas related to the Idgah abattoir into chick- tonnes of garbage daily and time to himself. But whenever he said. handling of garbage and man- en feed and tallow.A plant was generate 10 mw. did, he found going through differ- Mehta said earlier, the civic agency had se- agement of landfill sites for al- proposed to be set up in Trapping methane gas for ent TV channels very relaxing. lected seven pits, but environmentalists had ob- ternative use of waste are: Ghazipur, east Delhi, for this domestic use: State-of-the-art Maken also reads but never fic- jected saying these fell partly in the Ridge area Composting: The Delhi purpose. The waste from the technology was proposed to be tion. ‘‘I like to read books that and partly in the Asola sanctuary. Environ- Municipal Corporation (MCD) slaughter house is normally used to harness gases that are teach something new. I usually mentalists also feared that the liquid pollutants in 1999 opened a compost plant dumped at the Ghazipur land- emitted from garbage. MCD of- pick up authors who specialise in in the garbage would contaminate ground wa- at Bhalswa with capacity to fill. The chicken feed was to be ficials said garbage at landfill a certain subject,’’ he said. ter. ‘‘We then selected two pits, numbers 1 and process 500 tonnes garbage sold to poultry farmers while sites emitted 12 tonnes of gas ● Mantra of success: Focus and 7, neither of which fell in the area under the daily. Almost 40 per cent of tallow was to go units manu- per acre every day. As per the patience. Maken said he simply Ridge or the sanctuary,’’Mehta said. garbage brought to the plant facturing detergents and MCD’s plan, private entrepre- goes by what is to be done and does The environment impact report should calm gets converted into compost. soaps. neurs were to be provided land it. ‘‘I do not get distracted easily. I all concerns, he said. ‘‘We took care while se- But plant has suffered due to Power generation: The ill- at landfill sites for collecting simply go ahead and complete a lecting the pits. The site was declared suitable poor demand for the compost. fated Timarpur plant of 1980s, gases by boring pipes there. given task despite any number of for an engineered landfill in a study conducted ‘‘Due to a subsidy for chemical set up with assistance from the The gas was to be provided to hurdles,’’ he said. by consultants aided by the World Bank,’’ he fertilisers, the cost of compost Holland government, could households through pipes for said. produced by the plant appears never produce electricity from domestic use. ‘Fare increase won’t affect drive against auto drivers’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Delhi state transport minister Ajay Maken said even though a fare hike for autorickshaws was in the offing, the enforce- ment drive against those who refuse passengers or do not ply by the meter would con- tinue. ‘‘The drive is an ongoing process and will not stop. We may consider an increase in the fare structure but disci- plinary measures including impounding of autos would continue,’’ he said. Maken said the report of the committee formed to look into a possible hike had been forwarded to the cabinet for a decision. The recommenda- tions would then be sent to the Lt-Governor for ap- proval. A source in the transport department said: ‘‘After the hike, the minimum fare would be Rs 10. This would be incentive enough for autos to accept customers who may want to go a short distance. As of now the minimum fare is Rs 5.’’ The source added: ‘‘The fare per kilometre would be increased from Rs 2.50 to Rs 3.50. Despite the hike, passen- gers would probably have to pay less than what they have been paying. All autos would have to ply by the meter.’’ Besides, a hike in the night charges is also expected. ‘‘Passengers would have to pay about 20 per cent extra between 11 pm and 6 am,’’ the source said. Maken said: ‘‘We have made the autorickshaw unions accept a code of con- duct and we have also told them that a default would in- vite strict action from our en- forcement department. In all about 22 unions have accept- ed the code.’’ The source said, ‘‘The transport department is get- ting a distance-fare chart made. This chart would cover about 2,500 different destina- tions in the city.From Febru- ary 15, auto drivers would have to display this chart in their vehicles.’’

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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rain or snow is likely to occur at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Rain or NATIONAL thundershowers are likely to occur at isolated Power crisis for Mumbai: I-A 0700, places in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and south 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Tamil Nadu. Mainly dry weather will prevail over the Fog is too much for the ILS 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, rest of the country. The trough in the lower levels over southwest Neeraj Paul 2300 Jet Air 0650, bay now lies off south Tamil Nadu coast and adjoining Sri Lanka in By Rahul Chhabra 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, southwest bay. another 7 days, TIMES NEWS NETWORK 1935, 2030, 2200, INDIA WORLD Sahara 0700,1800, 2015 KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min New Delhi: Overcoming 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 16 04 Guwahati 26 08 Amsterdam 05 02 fog-related delays at the In- Mumbai 34 22 Dehradun 21 05 Bahrain 21 13 Jet Air 0600, 1720, dira Gandhi International says Maken Sahara0705,1915 Chennai 29 23 Hyderabad 28 13 Bangkok 32 22 CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 25 12 Indore 28 08 Beijing 02 -06 (IGI) airport, it seems, will TIMES NEWS NETWORK is due to a faulty transformer 0640,0955★★★ Bangalore 29 16 Jaipur 24 02 Chicago -04 -14 remain a dream in the near Ahm’bad 30 12 Lucknow 15 05 in Rihand. First the Power 1645,1900 Jet Air Geneva 06 -02 New Delhi: Residents of 0645,1900 T’puram 34 23 Patna 16 04 future due to limitations in Grid Corporation officials BANGALORE: Bhopal 27 06 Rajkot 32 16 Hong Kong 21 14 the advanced Instrumental many areas in Delhi woke to tried to repair the trans- London 08 02 I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 B’eshwar NA 11 Shimla 16 09 Landing System (ILS) Cate- a cold, grey and powerless former and when they failed Jet Air 0635,1715, Pune 28 10 Srinagar 09 -03 Los Angeles 28 11 Sunday morning. The city Sahara 0715, 1745 gory-III (A). they decided to get another HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 TRAIN RESERVATIONS The ILS Cat-III (A), which faced a massive shortfall in transformer from Dadri,’’ GOA: I-A 1200, guides a pilot to land and power supply that triggered he said. Sahara 1135 Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 1402 hrs. on take off from the airport in off loadshedding in several KULU: Jagson 0630, 19.01.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. Maken said the whole of 0650, 1215 ★ poor visibility conditions, is colonies. northern India was facing a AHMEDABAD: Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl incapable of ensuring air Despite the fact that most ★★ crunch. ‘‘All transmission I-A 0600,1700 1845, NORTH office complexes were shut, Jet Air 0610 traffic movement in zero lines are overburdened due 4033 Jammu Mail 20.01 20.01 26.01 20.01 GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: visibility. the availability of electricity 4645 Shalimar Exp — 29.01 30.01 20.01 to the breakdown. Even if I-A 0555★★, 1010• ‘‘More often than not the fell short by about 500 MW.In ★ Jet Air 1010 2403 Jammu Exp 20.01 20.01 20.01 29.01 EAST dense fog that envelops the many east Delhi colonies, the Short supply Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ 2302 Calcutta Rajdhani 21.01 21.01 26.01 — city in peak winter creates power supply went off at 7 Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2304 Poorva Exp 22.01 22.01 22.01 30.01 conditions with zero visibil- am and was restored only at 6853700, (Airport) 5665404 The problem Sahara: (City) 335901-9, 2382 Poorva Exp 20.01 20.01 21.01 17.02 ity. Such conditions usually 10 am. (Airport) 5675234/875, (Tele- 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 21.01 30.01 29.01 Checkin) 5662600. • Mon, Fri. set in about 11 in the Nita Mehta, a resident of • Although most 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 20.01 20.01 20.01 evening and last till noon Shakarpur said, ‘‘The day be- offices were shut INTERNATIONAL 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 20.01 20.02 20.01 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 25.01 22.01 22.01 20.01 the next day. And during gan miserably. It was cold on Sunday, there was NO ILLS HERE: While zero-visibility may have grounded flights, Delhiites were undeterred in BANGKOK/TOKYO: 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 16.02 16.02 this 12-hour period the Cat- and damp. I could not switch a shortfall of about Thai Air 0010 (TG- 5622 North East Exp — 21.01 12.02 18.02 their movement on a foggy Sunday morning. 316), I-A 0050 (IC-855) III (A) system is of little use on the heater. It was quite a 500 MW. FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 20.01 23.01 22.01 23.01 and all activities at the air- where in the world for civil ILS. ‘‘The facility is mainly few domestic airline pilots horrible weekend.’’ •The situation could 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 20.01 23.01 22.01 port comes to a grinding aviation. ‘‘We have no other being used by pilots of in- are using it,’’ he said. At Inderpuri in west Delhi, AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 29.01 05.02 26.01 take a week to KLM 0140 (KL-472) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 26.01 26.01 21.01 halt,’’ said an airport option but to live with the ternational airlines. Very ‘‘Besides, very few pilots the residents of BF-block improve. LONDON/NEW YORK: 4230 Lucknow Mail 24.01 26.01 27.01 26.01 official. limitations of the Cat-III (A) are believed to have com- said that they had been put- British Air 0210 (BA- WEST The Cat-III (A) system at ILS. There is no precedence Out of focus pleted the mandatory train- ting up with power cuts that Fault points 142), A-I 0715 (AI-111) 2904 Golden Temple Mail 21.01 22.01 21.01 10.02 IGI airport was imported of using a Cat-III (C) ILS at ing required to use the new lasted more than 10 hours, •The Dadri-Rihand PARIS: Air France 0040 2926 Paschim Exp 20.01 27.01 28.01 05.02 Fog alert (AF-147) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 21.01 24.01 26.01 — from Germany and in- civil airports and we are not system. Even the number for over three days. transmission line, SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 22.01 20.01 22.01 — stalled at a cost of Rs 50 considering it as a solution • Flight delays due to those trained for the lower Delhi power minister Ajay Airlines 2055 (SQ-07), which supplies 300 I-A 0050 (IC-855) 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 30.01 23.01 23.01 crore. The system enables for fog delays in Delhi,’’ he fog not ruled out in Category-II system is very Maken said the power short- MW, is yet to be HONG KONG/SEOUL: 1078 Jhelum Exp — 21.01 21.01 10.02 landing when runway visi- said. coming days. small,’’ he said. age was likely to continue for 2916 Ashram Exp 20.01 27.01 22.01 27.01 restored. A-I 2340 (AI-312) bility is 200 metres but is of On the other hand, pilots Glitches Civil aviation ministry of- another week. •The prolonged cold United Airlines 0215 SOUTH little help if visibility dips claim the Cat-III (A) ILS at ficials co-ordinating pilot (UA-2) 2616 G T Exp 20.01 21.01 21.01 20.01 ‘‘The weather conditions conditions have below this level. the IGI airport doesn’t work •The Instrument training with the Director ROME/MANCHESTER: 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 23.01 20.01 22.01 21.01 Landing System in- have aggravated and the pushed up power A-I 0300 (AI-131) 2432 Trivandrum Raj 21.01 28.01 21.01 — Aviation experts believe to perfection. ‘‘Recurring General of Civil Aviation power demand in the domes- AIR INDIA 2626 Kerala Exp — 20.01 20.01 22.01 city’s fog woes can be miti- communication snags be- stalled at IGI airport countered this by claiming demand beyond tic segment has gone up con- capacity. MUMBAI: 0315 (AI755), 2618 Mangala Exp — 30.01 26.01 21.01 gated only if Cat-III (C) sys- tween the control tower and is not capable of the number of pilots siderably.’’ 0345 (AI 156), 0615 2628 Karnataka Exp — 20.01 20.01 20.01 tem which helps blind land- the outer marker at IIT in blind landings. trained for Cat-II and Cat-III 2724 A P Exp 22.01 21.01 21.01 20.01 He said, ‘‘There would not (AI 146), 2330 (AI 112) ing and enables taxing of an Hauz Khas have never •The available ILS fa- (A) has been increasing GOA: 1245 (AI 643) 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 20.01 21.01 27.01 — be much change in the city’s the Northern Grid sends us 7022 Dakshin Express — 22.01 — 21.01 aircraft from runway to really given us the confi- cility at IGI airport is steadily. power situation till the more power, the present net- A-I: (City)3736446 /47/48 (Air.) the bay is installed at the dence to use the system not being used to its According one of them, 5652050, British Air :(Air.) No. of passengers dealt on 18.01.2003 (Delhi Area): 47,722 (N. Rly. Area) Dadri-Rihand transmission work is not capable of carry- 5652908, Lufthansa: 1,80,427. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all airport. freely,’’ said an domestic optimum due to lack nearly 100 Indian Airlines line was restored. This line ing it to us,’’ he said. 3323310, Singapore Airlines subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for :3356286, United Airlines: 91- computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. Chairman of Airport Au- airline pilot. of training of pilots. pilots, 140 Air India pilots brings us about 300 MW of The third unit of the Pra- (Information supplied by Indian Railways) 357 555, Thai Air: 3323638 thority of India (AAI), S K An AAI official said re- •Even trained pilots and around 80 pilots from power and has been out of or- gati power plant will start Narula, said a system so- curring fog delays are more lack faith in the private airlines had com- der since early January,’’ he functioning on January 29. phisticated enough for blind linked to lack of training of facility. pleted the training in Cat-III said. ‘‘We will get about 110 MW of landing is not used any- pilots in using Cat-III (A) (A) system till 2001. He said the line would be- electricity from this unit and gin functioning on January this should ease the shortfall 26. ‘‘The problem in the line considerably,’’ he said.

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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Monday,January 20, 2003 5 Inspector’s killers caught Mohammed Ilyas TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The west dis- trict police have arrested the killers of Delhi police inspector Abhey Kumar, who was fatally injured while fighting train dacoits on the Kalka Mail near Mughal Sarai six years ago. Kumar had killed two mem- bers of the Nitya-Satya da- coits gang. Kumar’s heroism made headlines in national dai- lies. The incident had oc- curred in March 1997 when Kumar was travelling to Ho- wrah on the Kalka Mail. He was going there in connec- tion with a kidnapping case that the Civil Lines police station was investigating. On Sunday, the police nabbed Nitya Sonar, the leader of the gang along with his younger brother and an associate who were living in Prem Nagar in the Sultanpuri area under Seema Singh, widow of inspector Abhey Kumar, with her brother-in-law Mani Bhushan at forged identities. Sonar is the Delhi Police headquarters on Sunday. wanted in more than 12 train dacoity/robbery cas- On Sunday, Sonar, his On Sunday, when the po- clothes. They also found es, deputy commissioner of brother Nand Kishore and lice nabbed the three ac- chemicals and materials police (west district) Depen- an associate were spotted in cused, they recovered two used for making bombs in- dra Pathak said. Nangloi and surrounded. In country made pistols and cluding sulphur, sulphuric He was arrested after the retaliation Sonar opened two live cartridges, a knife acid andpotassium nitrate. police received information fire but was eventually dis- and a polyethene allegedly Ration cards issued in dif- that criminals involved in armed. On interrogation, containing potassium chlo- ferent names were also re- several heinous cases in Bi- Sonar said that he, his rate used for making a covered. har were residing in Prem brother Vidhya and other crude bomb. On searching Sonar’s brother Nand Nagar, Pathak said. Follow- associates had carried out a their residential premises Kishore ran a TV repairing ing this a close watch was dacoity on the Kalka Mail in Prem Nagar, the police shop/ CD library in Sultan- maintained at the premises where inspector Kumar was recovered huge quantities puri, but was booked under and a team was sent to Mug- travelling. Kumar killed of looted items including the Explosives Substance hal Sarai to confirm Nitya Sonar’s two associates. Vid- cameras, wrist watches, Act a few months ago when Sonar’s antecedents and get hya was also killed in the walkmans, jewellery, suit- he was caught throwing a further details, he added. encounter. cases, a silver coin and crude bomb. Katara murder trial begins today TIMES NEWS NETWORK ning final arguments. He had The high court fixed Janu- Case trail refused to grant any adjourn- ary 20 for the response of Ut- New Delhi: The trial in the • February 16, 2002: Ni- ment and said the trial could tar Pradesh state police coun- Nitish Katara murder case is be held daily. sel, the same day when case scheduled to begin on Mon- tish Katara abducted from a marriage in Gha- Appearing on behalf of the was listed for final argument day.Rajya Sabha member D P accused, advocates K N Bal- before the trial court. Yadav’s son Vikas Yadav and ziabad and murdered. • February 23, 2002: gopal and G K Bharti argued Earlier last week, the ac- nephew Vishal Yadav are that another court of addi- cused had filed another peti- charged with abduction and Accused Vikas and Vishal surrender in tional sessions judge Manju tion in the high court saying murder of Katara, son of a Dabra, Madhya Pradesh. Goel was also conducting tri- he should be discharged in senior bureaucrat. • August 23, 2002: SC al in time-bound manner, as the Katara case. The accused Vikas Yadav, meanwhile, transfers trial from instructed by the high court. argued that there was no evi- has also moved the high Ghaziabad to Delhi. They said it was not practi- dence to suggest that Katara court to stay the trial. He has • November 23, 2002: cally possible to appear in an- had been forcefully taken pleaded that since he was ac- Vikas and Vishal other court as well, where away from the wedding cere- cused in the Jessica Lall mur- charged with abduction. they are supposed to proceed mony.Also, the hammer with der case as well, he could not on day-to-day basis. Balgopal which Nitish was killed was attend both hearings simul- 2002, charged Vikas Yadav said because of this situa- not sent along with blood taneously. and his cousin Vishal Yadav tion, the trial in Katara case smears for the DNA test to es- Additional sessions judge with abduction. The judge would be prejudiced and tablish whose son the de- S N Dhingra on November 23, had fixed Monday for begin- should be kept at abeyance. ceased was.

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Monday,January 20, 2003 7 Terror, Bangla migrants top Venkaiah’s hitlist TIMES NEWS NETWORK assembly polls, Hindu- Pep talk bashing appears to have New Delhi: BJP president taken a back seat, he added. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday Polls Talking to mediapersons asked his party’s media Asks cadres to aim for later, Naidu said: ‘‘The units to highlight terror- 300 seats in the next DMK is still BJP’s ally at ism, illegal immigrants Lok Sabha the national level even from Bangladesh, religious though there may have conversion and the per- Migrants Warns that illegal Bangla been some problems at the formance of the NDA gov- state level between the two ernment in the past four migrants could change India’s demography parties.’’ years. On the DMK’s criticism Addressing the party’s Hindutva of the manner in which the media cells, he asked party Media cells told to bring government had conducted cadres to prepare them- electronic, print media to the disinvestment process, selves for the assembly elec- their point of view he said: ‘‘We are ready for tions due in 10 states later consultations with our al- this year and said they ‘‘Cultural nationalism,’’ lies on this issue. There is should aim to win 300 seats he repeated, ‘‘is closest to nothing wrong with the in Lok Sabha elections next our hearts — you can call it DMK’s suggestion for a de- year. whatever you want. Even bate on the issue.’’ On the question of illegal political rivals like Madhya On whether the BJP immigrants from Pradesh chief minister would contest the coming Bangladesh, he warned Digvijay Singh are now be- assembly byelections in that if detection, deletion coming followers of Hin- Tamil Nadu, he said: ‘‘Let and deportation is not done dutva.’’ us see.’’ immediately,there could be He said BJP’s media Earlier, Naidu, while ad- a major demographic units had a big responsibil- dressing the BJP Scheduled change in the country. ity to bring the electronic Caste Morcha here, criti- Attacking the Congress, and print media around to cised previous govern- he said the party, which till the party’s line on various ments for not implementat- recently had been an ardent issues as they were its ing the reservation policy critic of the BJP’s concept biggest critics. and said the NDA govern- of Hindutva, was ‘‘chang- On the English media, ment was committed to im- ing its tune. But the party is Naidu said they were plementing the policy so expert in doing this, so one against the party because that there was 50 per cent wonders whether this is a they appear to be in tune reservation, as envisaged permanent change of atti- with British colonialism. in the Supreme Court tude’’. However, after the Gujarat verdict.

TOI Kalla to be Cong chief in Rajasthan By Prakash Bhandari TIMES NEWS NETWORK Jaipur: The Central leader- ship of the Congress has giv- en the clearance for making urban development minister Bulaki Das Kalla the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president in place of Girija Vyas. However, resentment is brewing in the state unit of the party with the strong lobby of the Jat community demanding that top post go to someone from the com- munity. Though sources said that the Congress high command had recommended that sen- ior minister in the Gehlot cabinet, Kamla — who is a Jat — be made the deputy chief minister, the lobby is insisting on the president’s post. It is also averse to Kamla being made the deputy chief minister as she is a ‘‘liberal’’. The Jat lobby headed by Member of Parliament Sis Ram Ola sent feelers to AICC general-secretary Ambika Soni that the high command should do some rethinking and not impose Kalla as the Activists of Panun Kashmir and Youth Wing of the All India PCC chief. Kashmiri Samaj lead a torchlight procession near the Jantar Another party MP, Col Mantar on Sunday to highlight the plight of the internally Sona Ram Choudhry, is sup- displaced Pandit community. porting the plea of Ola. The Jat leaders follow the diktat of the Jat Mahasabha and its leader Gyan Prakash Amethi’s new name stays Pilania has told Jat leaders not to accept the positions of Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh after renowned social re- PCC president and deputy chief minister Maywati on formist Chhatrapati Sunday termed Congress Shahuji Maharaj. chief minister. president Sonia Gandhi’s She said the question of He said a Jat getting the statement, on changing changing the name did not chief ministership is long Amethi’s name, as false arise since no district ex- overdue. and baseless. isted earlier in the con- Pilania, who is considered In a statement, the chief cerned geographical area. a father figure in the Jat com- minister said the name of Mayawati said by oppos- munity and led the anti-Con- the newly-constituted dis- ing the precursor of social gress agitation during the trict would not be changed change, Chhatrapati last Lok Sabha elections, at any cost and that Sonia Shahuji Maharaj, the Con- feels somebody from the com- should have cross-checked gress was showing disre- munity should head the gov- the facts before issuing spect not only to the ernment as it has been back- such a statement. sentiments of the back- ing the Congress for over half Mayawati said Amethi ward sections of the state, a century now.This will have constituency had been re- but also to the back a positive impact on the peas- constituted as a new dis- ward sections of the ants and the party could re- trict and had been named country. PTI turn to power under a Jat leader. DMK, BJP play down discord

TIMES NEWS NETWORK markets to foreign goods. Patch-up On whether he had de- Chennai: In the light of the manded that the commerce recent strain in BJP’s ties Disagreement portfolio — held by Maran, with NDA ally DMK, the DMK-BJP relations had now undergoing treatment in Prime Minister’s Office has turned sour over the di- the US — be given to a DMK sent an emissary to Tamil vestment issue member, Karunanidhi said, Nadu in an apparent patch- Truce ‘‘We never bargain for portfo- up move. PM’s emissary in Tamil lios.’’ Minister of state in the Goel had, in New Delhi, PMO, Vijay Goel, on Sunday Nadu, Vijay Goel, says DMK a reliable ally stated that his visit to Chen- held a 45-minute meeting nai was aimed at sorting out with DMK chief Karunanid- Rumours dispelled differences between the BJP hi. Goel says BJP is not and the DMK. Karunanidhi, Talking to mediapersons planning any truck with however, denied that Goel later, Goel termed the DMK Jayalalithaa had come to the state in the as a ‘‘reliable and valuable capacity of Prime Minister ally’’. He brushed aside ‘‘Two senior DMK minis- Vajpayee’s emissary. queries regarding any differ- ters, Murasoli Maran and T R Goel also denied reports ences between the two par- Balu, are in the Cabinet and I that the BJP was looking for- ties over the disinvestment foresee no problem,’’ said ward to some sort of align- issue. Goel. ment with the AIADMK. He Goel played down the reso- Karunanidhi too seemed said this was not necessary lution adopted by the DMK at keen on dispelling notions of as the DMK was a depend- its last executive meeting, a possible parting of ways. able ally. cautioning the Centre He said the resolution op- On a possible alliance with against privatisation. He cit- posed the sale of profit-mak- the BJP for the byelections in ed earlier instances when ing PSUs and those engaged Sattankulam, Karunanidhi NDA partners had expressed in essential services and said the party would discuss their views. throwing open of Indian the matter on Monday.

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8 Monday,January 20, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi Rajputs in TOI Two killed, 24 Sonia wraps up Gujarat seek hurt in attack Amethi foray 12 p c quota on J&K market TIMES NEWS NETWORK By M Saleem Pandit By Manjari Mishra TIMES NEWS NETWORK Gandhinagar: Close on the TIMES NEWS NETWORK Backing off heels of the demand put for- Srinagar: About 24 persons Lucknow: What her Playing safe ward by the Rajputs of Ra- were wounded in a grenade daughter started, Con- Sonia played down Dalit jasthan, Gujarat Rajputs blast in a crowded market in gress chief Sonia Gandhi issue brought up by have decided to stridently in- Kulgam in Pulwama district finished. In a well Priyanka sist on a 12 per cent reserva- in south Kashmir on Sunday. planned and closely- tion at the international Ra- Militants also killed an assis- guarded move, she hand- Fears jput conference at Gandhina- tant sub-inspector (ASI) of ed over the keys of a Wants to avoid another gar which will be held on the Special Task Force (STF) house, constructed by the Mayawati rally in January 25 and 26. and his son in Bandipora All India Congress Com- Amethi The demand will be made in Baramulla district on mittee, to Ram Bhajan. A Way out in the presence of two Rajput Sunday. dalit from Punnpur, Ram To defeat ruling combine ministers, Bhupendrasinh Militants hurled a hand- Bhajan’s cause was taken Cong may look towards Chudasma and I K Jadeja. grenade near a bus stand in by by Priyanka Gandhi Mulayam Talking to newspersons Kulgam market. No militant during her visit to Ame- here, conference convenor Rescue efforts in progress near the Mahakali temple in Panchmahals district in Gujarat on Sunday. outfit has claimed responsi- thi in November. Jayendrasinh Jadeja said, sembly polls. The Con- bility for the blast. Contrary to expecta- ‘‘We will demand quota both gress victory margin was The injured were shifted to tions that Priyanka would in education and jobs. We ful- wafer thin. different hospitals here, the do the needful, Sonia took fil the criterion of being a so- Housewives miss TV soaps, petition PM Congress chances of vic- police said. the last-minute decision cially and economically and handed over the keys tory in Gaurignaj are slim Three burqa-clad persons backward community By Mohit Dubey herself. in view of a pre-poll al- Marg, has brought together cable operator to air record- entered the house of ASI (SEBC) as fixed by the TIMES NEWS NETWORK United they stand Many feel Sonia is tak- liance between the BSP several like-minded telly- ed episodes of these serials. Mustaq Ahmad Bhat and and the BJP. According to Supreme Court.’’ bugs. They have called upon The issue owes its genesis ing a cautious approach as Lucknow: A group of irked SOS to PM opened fire on the inmates, reports, BSP may not field About 10,000 Rajputs from the PM to act on their prob- to a recent circular by the she does not want to open housewives in Lucknow have killing Bhat and his 18-year- a candidate to make the all over the world will partic- lem as ‘‘their member of Par- Star Group, which informed As their ‘member of too many fronts in UP. petitioned Prime Minister old son on-the-spot. way smoother for the BJP. ipate in the meet which will liament’’. A copy of the mem- of a hike in the prices and Parliament’, housewives Already,the Punnpur in- Vajpayee and information Bhat’s nephew was injured With poll mathematics demand quotas for Rajputs in orandum is also being sent to turned certain channels into want the PM to take cident has stirred a hor- proportion to their popula- and broadcasting minister action in the shoot-out, the police nets’ nest and Mayawati in favour of the ruling Sushma Swaraj and the en- pay channels. tion in each state. Sushma Swaraj to take ac- said. matched it with a dalit ral- coalition, the Congress tertainment commissioner, Cable operators have Cause ‘‘This is in lieu of the sac- tion against several cable op- Mustaq Bhat was targeted ly in Amethi. The Con- camp is panicky. A defeat for ‘‘necessary and prompt passed on the burden of en- rifice 664 Rajput princes erators, who have blocked Blocking of transmission possibly because of his asso- gress would not be keen on in Gauriganj segment of action’’. The kitty-party net- hanced payments to the hap- of serials following hike made for uniting the coun- transmission of the Star Plus ciation with the STF, the po- a repeat performance Amethi parliamentary work in these areas is also at less subscribers, with the in cable charges try,’’Jayendrasinh said. channel this week, denying lice said. ahead of the Gauriganj by- constituency would be per- work, to provide ‘‘further new subscription charges the ladies their must-see Result Militants damaged a BSF election. sonal blow to Sonia. Ef- Of the 664 princes who lost bite to the pressure group’’. varying between Rs 220 and vehicle in Sheerabad in Pul- The party is on a sticky forts have already begun to their privileges after the evening soap operas. As their first victory in Rs 260. Tony Sikka of the Sik- Major cable operator wama district’s Tral but wicket going by its per- forge an alliance with the country became independ- The move, spearheaded by this conflict, they have al- ka Cable Network says the has started airing formance in the last as- Samajwadi Party. ent, 200 belonged to 64-year-old Saraswati ready succeeded in putting hike in charges was to be recorded episodes there was no loss of life, a Saurashtra. Mishra, who lives on Sapru enough pressure on a major borne jointly by them. BSF spokesman said.

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10 Monday,January 20, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi Sinha to Iraq: Comply with Dissidents renew call for Krishna’s ouster UN directives By Mahendra Ved Veerappan has hurt the forts would be made to get a cabinet camping here said Trouble brewing Congressmen, particularly TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘pride of the Kannada peo- change at the government the central leadership had the Lingayats, the communi- TIMES NEWS NETWORK ple’’. level as well, well placed been apprised of the ‘‘alien- ty to which Nagappa be- New Delhi: The leadership Charges Patna: External affairs min- For the last one month, Karnataka party sources ation’’ of the CM from the longed, are drawing compar- change in Maharashtra has Inept handling of Cau- ister Yashwant Sinha re- they have been lobbying told Times News Network. people and the party. The isons with the efforts emboldened Karnataka very dispute and Nagap- quested Iraq here on Sunday here. Representations have Their main argument is CM, he claimed, has even mounted to get Rajkumar Congressmen who are seek- already been made to party that come next election, two been going to his own con- pa abduction case released two years ago. not to precipitate the ongoing ing the ouster of chief min- crisis in the Gulf region. He chief Sonia Gandhi, besides years from now, the party stituency only under heavy Advantage Oppn In this regard, the charges ister S M Krishna. Their general secretaries, Vayalar could suffer badly because security cover. levelled by former police said Iraq should comply with main argument is that his Rebels say Cong losing the UN directives on the is- Ravi, Oscar Fernandes and of Krishna’s handling of the The dissidents say that ground to JD, BJP chief C Dinakar that the handling of the Cauvery wa- Mukul Wasnik. two issues. The party, they the Krishna government government had paid a huge sue of weapons of mass de- ter dispute with Tamil Nadu Poll factor struction. Next week, they are ex- say,is already losing ground had allowed Nagappa’s ab- amount as ransom to Veer- and the death of former pected here for the impend- to a revived Janata Dal and duction to drag on for long appan to secure Rajkumar’s He said that it was the re- Party may suffer in 2005 minister H Nagappa in the ing change in the Pradesh the BJP. and failed to act effectively release had hurt Krishna’s sponsibility of Iraq to con- assembly polls custody of forest brigand Congress Committee. But ef- A minister in the Krishna till he was killed. Karnataka credibility. vince the UN inspectors that it did not possess such weapons. Iraq should imme- diately destroy such weapons Shinde set to if it did possess them. However, Sinha made it VHP criticises clear while addressing a win vote of A poet drunk on life in an Press conference that India was not in favour of any uni- Lyngdoh again confidence lateral US action against immortal Madhushala Iraq. India favoured multilat- By P P Singh TIMES NEWS NETWORK eral action against Iraq and, TIMES NEWS NETWORK At it again that too, under the supervi- Mumbai: Chief minister By Ambarish Mishra sion of UN if the situation so Guwahati: Chief Election Directives Sushil Kumar Shinde is all TIMES NEWS NETWORK Commissioner (CEC) J M set to win the confidence vote warranted, he said. He said Mumbai: Madhushala, the literary mas- Lyngdoh has come under fire Churches in Nagaland, in the special session of the that India was in favour of a terpiece of well- known poet Harivanshrai from the VHP once again. Meghalaya issued state legislative assembly on peaceful solution to the ongo- guidelines to voters Bachchan who passed away in Mumbai on ing Iraq crisis. The outfit’s international Wednesday. general secretary Praveen Togadiaspeak The Congress Legislature Saturday, intoxicated the Hindi heartland Sinha justified the pres- in the mid-1930s. ence of the US forces in Tagodia on Saturday at- In a democracy, this Party has issued a whip to tacked him for not reacting Thousands heard him in rapt attention Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, amounts to theocracy party MLAs to attend the to the Church issuing guide- at kavi sammelans as he unveiled his world saying both the Gulf coun- meeting. lines to voters and political To ensure that they are on view: A goblet of wine, a book of verse and tries had given their consent. to put an end to all such prac- parties in Meghalaya and Na- time, the Congress MLAs a life trapped in perpetual struggle. Traces Replying to a question, he tices. galand. have been asked to reach of Omar Khayyam? Harivanshrai often ad- said that he did agree with Togadia was speaking to The Church had asked peo- Mumbai by Tuesday evening, mitted that Khayyam’s Rubaiyat had the view that Iraq President mediapersons while on a ple to vote for candidates who to avoid any last minute de- moulded his sensibilities. Saddam Hussain should be three-day tour of the state. are ‘‘God fearing, guided by lays. Shinde is not taking The uniqueness of Harivanshrai as a lit- forced to resign. values, committed to work erary artist lies principally in his ability to He said the VHP had come anything for granted. He has Maintaining that except for the development of the overthrow chhayavaad, the swirl of mysti- under attack in Gujarat for also requested other partners for Pakistan, India’s relation- state and promote fundamen- cal romanticism which then was the USP merely advising voters while of the Democratic Front (DF) ship with all countries had tal rights of all’’. to issue similar whips to of Hindi literature. improved over the years, Sin- in these states, as well as Secretay general of the their members. Unmoved by criticism and steeled by do- ha said the world no longer Chhattisgarh, the CEC re- Council of Naga Baptist NCP leader and former mestic difficulties (financial worries, lone- formed any opinion about In- mained silent even as the Churches Rev. V K Nuh de- minister Dilip Valse Patil liness which was compounded by the un- dia on the basis of the propa- Church intervened directly nied the allegation and said will be coordinating with the timely death of his first wife, Shyama), ganda launched by Pakistan. in the electoral process by asking voters to support a they had only issued 15 Congress, for ensuring pres- Harivanshrai continued to write, combin- particular party. He pointed guidelines to the people of ence of members of the ing mature subtlety with discretion. out that the church issuing a Nagaland to help the Elec- smaller partners of the DF Harivanshrai’s Hindi translation of guideline to voters in a secu- tion Commission conduct a government. Macbeth and Othello has won critical ac- lar state amounted to theoc- free and fair election. AICC general-secretary in- claim. His four-part autobiography is con- sidered a seminal work. Harivanshrai’s racy. ‘‘We all know that EC charge of Maharashtra Vay- Bhushan in recognition of his sterling alar Ravi, who supervised marriage with Teji Suri changed the He said any directive is- guidelines are not followed. contribution to Hindi literature. He also the change of guard in the course of his life and, by his own admis- sued by any organisation We are only trying to help in won the Saraswati Puraskar. state, has left for Delhi. How- sion, his poetry. Taking a sabbatical from other than the Election Com- enforcing them and give One is prompted to recall Harivan- ever, he will return to Mum- Allahabad University where he taught mission amounted to a direct some directives from our shrai’s description of a cup of wine in bai on Tuesday to remain English, he went to the UK in the 1950s to interference with the elec- side which is in tune with the Madhubala: Mitti ka tan, masti ka man, available for consultations. obtain a doctoral thesis on WBYeats. toral process and it was the tradition and culture of kshan-bhar jivan — mera parichay!...(A Naga society,’’he said. Shinde inducted two cabi- Harivanshrai was nominated to the Ra- Election Commission’s duty net and nine ministers of jya Sabha in 1966. Three years later,he won body of clay, a mind full of joy, a momen- states on Saturday, giving the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award. In tary life — my introduction.) adequate representation to 1976, he was honoured with the Padma For more coverage, read Navbharat Times independents . Fundamental rights in focus once again By Rakesh Bhatnagar Shekhawat has identified TIMES NEWS NETWORK two hurdles in doing justice to the needy —corruption New Delhi: Vice President and lack of accountability. Bhairon Singh Shekhawat’s Only 15 per cent of the total criticism of the neglect of food grain allocated for the the needy by the Central and poor under the PDS is used state governments has gone for feeding them. The rest unheeded. Shekhawat even ‘‘never reach them’’, he said, exhorted the NHRC adding ‘‘any govern- to intervene and en- ment that can’t pro- sure that the author- LEGAL tect human rights is ities concerned act- not fit to govern.” ed in accordance with the Constitu- VIEW In the past also, tion. legal luminaries like Shekhawat has enlarged former Supreme Court chief the ambit of NHRC. So far, justice Adarsh Sein Anand the role of NHRC was consid- had passed certain judg- ered to be limited to probing ments on human rights. ‘‘Un- allegations of police excesses less human rights are made though some of its former the focal point in good gover- heads such as M N Venkat- nance, no progress is either achaliah and J S Verma had possible or sustainable as no passed directives to restore amount of economic develop- basic fundamental rights to ment can be sustained with- the needy. But NHRC’s man- out a baseline of respect for dates remained on paper. human rights,’’ Anand said. New crowns for Miss India unveiled TIMES NEWS NETWORK Bangalore: The 26 finalists of the Sunsilk Femina Miss India 2003 made their first public appearance at the F Bar of Le Meridien to unveil the newly designed crowns. The girls are in the city to take part in the semifinal to be held on January 24 at the Palace Grounds. The contestants unveiled the glittering crown at a cere- mony organised by the Times Infotainment Media Ltd and Trendsmith. The celebrity-studded evening be- gan with the arrival of the girls and a formal welcome by Suresh Badlaney, general manager of Le Meridien. The three crowns were then dis- played and the girls took turns presenting them, while the audience got a chance to view the three exquisitely crafted crowns at close quar- ters. Designed by Trendsmith Mumbai, each crown is stud- ded with 400 pieces of cubic zircon in various shapes and sizes, made at a cost of ap- proximately Rs 2,50,000 each. Trendsmith is part of the renowned jewellery house from the TBZ Nirmal Zaveri group of companies. The Sunsilk Femina Miss India 2003 pageant has reached a crucial stage now.

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Monday,January 20, 2003 11 Salman summoned to court on Jan 21 Finance minister Beig, militants’ new target Mumbai; Film star Salman Khan has been summoned by By M Saleem Pandit a meeting of the Lashkar-e- Threatened thrice The second threat came the militants, said Beig. the court on January 21 with TIMES NEWS NETWORK Taiba at Muzaffarabad, in when Beig started looking They want the state and the a warning that his absence Pakistan occupied Kashmir. into the problems of the peo- people to suffer, and hence would compel the court to is- Srinagar: With the J&K A price of Rs 50 lakh was First ple — visiting hospitals and the bid to derail every move sue a non-bailable warrant ready to start talks with placed on the head of the When Beig went to pay condolences to the family of educational institutions and aimed at the betterment of against him. Centre, militants have chief minister. Rs 40 lakh slain law minister Ghulam Mohi-ud-din Lone in Lolab other public places. The the people, he added. Magistrate S Y Sishode trained their guns on the was the prize declared for Second minister was asked to start ‘‘But I assure you that will give his ruling on Janu- two key people in the state — Beig. counting the days of his life. even if I face a threat to my ary 21 on the actor’s plea for chief minister Mufti Mo- When he started looking into people’s problems —vis- returning the vehicle which Mufti seems an obvious iting hospitals, schools and public places It was obvious, said Beig, life, I would go on... we can- hammad Sayeed and the target. But the choice of that the militants did not not afford to remain mute rammed into a bakery on state finance minister Beig is even more simple. Third want anyone to mitigate the spectators to what is going September 28 last year. PTI Muzaffar Hussain Beig. A Harvard law school Phone call at his Jammu official residence for being too woes of the people. on around us,’’ he said. The logic is simple — if graduate, Beig was an ex- active a minister The third time, Beig re- Beig has also reportedly the militants succeed, the tremely successful Supreme ceived a long distance call at taken on the sluggish bu- ‘‘healing touch’’ plans go for Court lawyer. gether the coalition with when he had gone to pay his Jammu government res- reaucracy. a six. Governance issues The former advocate-gen- Congress and giving shape condolences to the family of idence. Hypocrisy and lobbying will go on the backburner eral of J&K now holds sev- to the cabinet. Since he slain law minister Ghulam The caller warned him of will not be tolerated in the and fear psychosis will grip eral key portfolios in the joined the Mufti govern- Mohi-ud-din Lone in Lolab. dire consequences for being state administration, he is the state again. Mufti government — plan- ment last November, Beig ‘‘I was told to desist from too active a minister. quoted as having said. Gov- The decision to assassi- ning, finance, law and par- has been threatened thrice. visiting the Lone family, The pro-people policies of ernment officials need to nate the two was reportedly liamentary affairs. He was Beig recalled getting the whom they described as the new government are work to mitigate the prob- taken two weeks ago during also pivotal in cobbling to- first threatening phone call traitors,’’ said Beig. proving to be a problem for lems of the people.

AP IAS officer Gorshkov feasts on likely to join migratory Navy only by 2006 birds By Rajat Pandit By Rajaram Satapathy TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: It will take at Bhubaneswar: If you least three years for Russian ever wondered who are aircraft carrier Admiral Gor- the people who buy the shkov to be inducted into the thousands of birds Indian Navy, even if the killed daily in Chilka, package deal is inked in here’s a tip-off. March. A complaint lodged By then, India’s solitary with the chief minister carrier INS Viraat would be indicates that at least entering its last lap of opera- 100 migratory water- tional life and the indigenous fowls from the lake were construction of an air de- cooked and served at a fence ship would still be dinner party held at the about six years away. Bhubaneswar club on Navy Chief Admiral Mad- January 17. hvendra Singh dismissed The party was hosted criticism that the partly- by senior IAS officer burnt 44,570-tonne Admiral and club vice-president Gorshkov will prove to be a Priyabrata Patnaik on white elephant for India and his birthday.Senior gov- a sitting duck for adver- ernment officials and S.S. Dabolkar drives his 1935, Austin Harley car, at a vintage car rally in Mumbai on Sunday. Sixty-one vintage cars took part saries. prominent businessmen in the 125 km (78.6 Miles) rally. Though the 273-metre-long were among the nearly decommissioned carrier has 70 guests. been rusting at the Severod- The birds, mostly gad- vinsk shipyard in Russia for walls, shoevellers, wige- Beef or no beef, Big Mac in a soup a decade now, Navy officers ons, pochards and pin- insist it’s still in good condi- tails belong to the pro- TIMES NEWS NETWORK the outlet did not heed their schemes in various schools. said no other restaurant in tion. Admiral Gorshkov tected species as per the warning. ‘‘They can do business the city felt the need to make should join the Navy by mid- Wildlife Protection Act. Vadodara: It seems to be a ‘‘We will keep track of here without any hassles such an announcement. 2006 if the deal is signed in They were obtained no win situation for the US what is happening here. We from us. But we will not tol- McDonald’s functionaries March,’’ said a senior officer. from poachers operat- fast food major McDonald’s, here said the idea behind put- But that may be a little op- ing in Chilika lake, said which has now incurred the Meaty issues ting up the posters was mis- timistic since several Indo- Biswajit Mohanty, state wrath of activists here for taken. ‘‘It was for dispelling Russian defence projects co-ordinator of Indian posters saying beef is not • McDonald’s posters say beef not sold here apprehensions among those have run into huge time-over- Bird Conservation Net- sold in its outlets. • Activists say this implies cow meat is con- who come to eat here. Howev- runs. work, in his letter to the Sarvadharm Jivdaya sumable and this hurts religious sentiment er, it has been misunder- Officers are keeping their chief minister. Samiti activists stormed an • Clarification proves something is wrong, stood. The issue is being fingers crossed. ‘‘Admiral He demanded an im- outlet on Saturday, demand- say activists raked up unnecessarily,’’ an Gorshkov has to undergo an partial inquiry by an in- ing that the display boards be • Mountain out of a molehill, employee here said. extensive refit, including a dependent agency not removed. says McDonald’s A McDonald’s spokesper- bow ski-jump take- off ramp connected to the state SJS activists said the son in Mumbai said the at a 14-degree angle for the government. Action boards implied that beef was request you not to put such erate anything that hurts re- chain was foxed by the objec- MiG-29K fighters,’’ said one. should also taken consumable, but not sold at displays again, otherwise we ligious sentiments. The tions. ‘‘In any case we have The missile launchers on against the host and the the restaurant. They forcibly will return,’’ Jain told the boards have to be removed,’’ been maintaining total segre- the carrier’s front will be re- guests, he said. removed one such board and employees. said SJS vice-president R T gation of vegetarian and moved to make way for the When contacted, club asked the personnel working Jain, a former VHP ac- Shah. non-vegetarian material ski-jump for STOBAR (short manager Sanjib Pati de- there to remove the others. tivist, had earlier spearhead- Another activist, Deepak from the suppliers. It is also take-off but arrested recov- nied that migratory SJS general secretary and ed a protest against a fashion Gandhi, said the fact that the true that we do not serve beef ery) operations. ‘‘Then, we birds were part of the Bharatiya Janata Party contest a few years ago. He outlet had to make such an in India and have always tak- have to get the arrestor gear menu at the party. (BJP) functionary Niraj Jain also opposed eggs being announcement indicated en care not to hurt religious at the flight deck for the fight- threatened to come back if served in mid-day meal something was wrong. He sentiments.’’ ers to land,’’ he said.

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Reuters Madonna as guest star: Human genome set to music Madonna will make her episodic By Daniel Woolls AP sound cute but rudimenta- TV series Madrid: Imagine the hu- ry,the musical equivalent of debut in May on man genome as music. Un- PacMan in an era of Mi- ravel DNA’s double helix, NBC’s crosoft Xbox. Will & picture its components So the alphabet soup of Grace. lined up like piano keys and bases served as just that, She’s just assign a note to each. Run base lines to accompany one of your finger along the keys. melodies composed by Krull the big Spanish scientists did and his scientific colleague. names that just for fun and record- They say the melodies were called on by the sitcom to ed what they call an audio influenced, even dictated, help juice up ratings during version of the blueprint for by the mood and rhythm of upcoming “sweeps” months, life. The team at Madrid’s the underlying genetic code. which are used to help set Ramon y Cajal Hospital was In general, the genome local advertising rates. Demi intrigued by music’s lure music is an easy-listening Moore and Minnie Driver also how it can make toddlers sound that is vaguely New will guest star on Will & dance and adults cry and Age. One of the prettiest Grace, NBC said. In Febru- looked for hints in the ge- songs is based on Connexin ary, Moore will play a former netic material that makes 26, a human gene that caus- baby sitter to Jack (Sean Hayes) who meets up with us what we are. They also es deafness when it mu- him again. In another Febru- had some microbial genes tates. The DNA skeleton is ary episode, Driver plays a wax melodic. expressed with tinkling woman who romances A page of notations from a song based on the DNA of a The end product is Geno- bells and a flute melody Karen’s former husband and human gene called Connexin 26. Spanish scientists have ma Music, a 10-tune CD due does the rest. then really makes Karen recorded an audio version of the blueprint of life by out in February. “It’s a way Another song draws on a (Megan Mullally) angry by be- assigning musical notes to units of DNA’s double helix. to bring science and music yeast gene known as SLT2. friending pal Jack. AP closer together,”said Dr Au- they contain: adenine, gua- music. He arbitrarily as- Sanchez Sousa, the main rora Sanchez Sousa, a pi- nine, thymine or cytosine, signed tones of the eight- author of the project, is Rare Lennon-Jagger ano-playing microbiologist represented as A, G, T and note, do-re-mi scale to each fond of the sequence be- recording found: If rock and roll fans could conjure who specialises in fungi. C. These became the musi- letter. Thymine became re, cause it features a stretch in up their dream recording DNA, or deoxyribonucle- cal notes. for instance. Guanine is so, which one triplet of nitro- date, it might be a jam ses- US singer Mariah Carey performs at the NRJ Music Awards in Cannes, southern France, French-born composer adenine la and cytosine do. ic acid, is composed of long gen bases appears several sion between Beatle John on Saturday. strings of molecules called Richard Krull turned DNA Played solo on percus- times in rapid succession — Lennon and Rolling Stone nucleotides, which are dis- sequences a snippet of a sion, classical guitar or the a repetitive phenomenon an already stacked trophy tion from the films. Some messages with a note indi- Mick Jagger. A record collec- case. Laundry Service has years, he has not even at- cating which neighbourhood tinguished by which of four gene might look like AGCG- other instruments used on that has a musical equiva- tor in London says he has sold over 10 million copies tended the festival if he was they wanted them to be TATACGAGT into sheet the CD, the sequences would AP nitrogen-containing bases lent called obstinato. found just that — and will be worldwide and has picked up busy shooting a movie. But posted in. A special commit- offering the previously un- awards all over the world. this year, Redford has taken tee would pick out the best known recording at an auc- Shakira beat stiff competi- a higher profile, introducing ones to display. The illumi- tion next month. Tom Fisher tion, including Eminem, Sha- the opening-night film Thurs- nated boards, which normally said on Saturday he had nia Twain, and last year’s day with a passionate state- announce everything from MIT conference takes aim at spam bought the unmarked record best female artist at NRJ, ment of Sundance’s mission city festivals to traffic warn- from another collector. When Cambridge: It’s going to take the best “This is ingenious. There are some re- tric Research Laboratories. “And the Jennifer Lopez. “I’m over- to encourage diversity and ings, stand at key squares he listened to it, he was con- whelmed,” said Shakira, giv- dissenting opinions. “Some- and intersections all around and the brightest to slam the spammers. ally clever people making spam difficult theft efficiency ratio is about the same vinced it was Jagger on vo- ing her reaction by television times, I feel the need, if any- the French capital. Reuters Hundreds of programmers gathered to filter.” Organizers had expected a as stealing hubcaps and car radios.” cals, singing a raucous old backstage in Chicago, where thing, to remind people of at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- small gathering of 40 to 80 program- The conference wasn’t for the casual blues song called Too Many Actor Crenna dead: she is on a US tour. Reuters who we are and what we’re nology to apply their collective brain- mers, hackers and Internet activists, computer user. The speakers threw Cooks. Auction house Coop- doing,” Redford said. “It Richard Crenna, the Emmy power to a problem that has evolved but several hundred packed an audito- around hacker-speak like “bit buckets” er Owen says Lennon is part Redford steps out at sometimes gets blurred award- from annoyance to menace: the rising rium Friday to hear the latest in spam and “polynomial hashing,” occasional- of the backup band. It was Sundance: Amid the glitz, by all the surrounding fac- winning flood of unsolicited e-mail. counter-measures. ly tossing out terms like “spamacus in- recorded during Lennon’s so- celebrity-watching and deal- tors, the media, fashion, par- character making that has overrun his actor who Companies and Internet service For the more clinical, spam simply terruptus” and skewering unpopular called Lost Weekend, an 18- ties, which is fine. That’s all month period he spent in part of the deal, but it’s not starred as providers put up a fight with the latest poses a difficult technical challenge. software, sending chuckles through the 1974-75 estranged from wife a lovesick THE deal.” AP filtering programs, but spammers Others are downright offended by it. audience. Yoko Ono, when he made teenager quickly bypass their defenses. William S Yerazunis, an MIT comput- But the tone was serious. Spam traf- few recordings of his own, Parisians gearing up for on Our “This is the most dastardly thing I’ve er scientist, compared spam to petty fic has grown from 8 percent of Internet but dabbled occasionally Valentine’s Day: Declara- Miss ever seen,” said attendee John Graham, street crime cheap to carry out, prof- e-mail in 2001 to as much as 40 percent with friends like Elton John tions of undying devotion will Brooks expressing grudging admiration for a itable for the offender and enormously in 2002, according to Brightmail Inc., and David Bowie. Snippets flash across Paris’s municipal and technique he’s encountered in which expensive to halt. which provides filtering products for of the track played on British bulletin boards every 20 sec- Sylvester Stallone’s Green spam messages are broken up then re- “It’s really theft,” said Yerazunis, 46, several major Internet service television feature a growling onds next month as the Beret mentor in the Rambo French capital invents a new films, has died. He was 76. assembled in order to elude filters. a researcher at MIT’s Mitsubishi Elec- providers. AP Jagger in top form, although it is hard to hear any obvious way to say “I love you” on Crenna, whose credits also evidence of Lennon, who Valentine’s Day. Bertrand included Wait Until Dark, The DUBYAMAIL does not sing. Reuters Delanoe, the left-wing Flamingo Kid, and televi- mayor known for his innova- sion’s The Real McCoys, Those who don’t have any sense of hu- Cannes salutes Shakira: mour can be the only ones who do not tive city festivals, said the died Friday of pancreatic like the strip. I think you are expressing Shakira, the sultry Colombian electronic boards would car- cancer at Cedars-Sinai Med- the feelings and thoughts of common singer-songwriter, swept the Sundance Film Festival, ry the best short love letters ical Center, daughter Seana people through the strip. Please keep it board at the fourth annual Robert Redford figures now on Friday, February 14 — Crenna said Saturday. Cren- up. NRJ music awards on Satur- — Asha Gawri and then he has to step out Valentine’s Day — and na’s role on the CBS drama I like Dubyaman very much and never day, winning the best inter- from behind the scenes and throughout that weekend. series Judging Amy was re- miss it. You must introduce more char- national album award for remind people it’s really all Announcing the amorous ads cently put on hold as he bat- acters to make it more lively. I fail to Laundry Service, best inter- about movies. Redford gen- on Friday, he said they would tled cancer. Born in Los An- understand how some people feel that national song and best inter- it is a waste of space. erally prefers to stay in the “help Parisians tell each geles, Crenna’s career began — Rahul Fouzdar national female artist. The background so his own star other ‘I love you’”. He urged at the age of 10 when he chart-topping artist added to e-mail: [email protected] power does not steal atten- Parisians to send in their broke into radio. AP

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Bhangra in big league Motorists will Finally,a Bhangra anthem, one Mundian have to pay to Bach ke or Beware of the boys. Poised Saudis exploring ways No cheating to make it into the UK top 10, the godfa- ther of British Bhangra is an unlikely tax to get into sounding man called Panjabi MC, aka Rajinder Rai, from Coventry in the Eng- central London on Ayurveda, lish Midlands. Bach ke, which will give to overthrow Saddam the desi beat its first real, landmark en- London: A controversial AP try into By Patrick E Tyler scheme beginning next the Euro- month to charge motorists says Britain Riyadh: Increasingly desperate for entering central London DIASPORIUM pean big By Rashmee Z Ahmed league, to avoid war, Saudi Arabia is en- will come at a heavy price for TIMES NEWS NETWORK In focus may sound a bit like a group of farmers gaged in a campaign to incite drivers, and could also prove on a high in Jullunder. But it is at num- Iraqi security forces to over- costly for mayor Ken Living- London: An unseemly Health spat throw Saddam Hussein if he ber two in Germany and number three in stone, whose future may well modern marketing spat Britain planning to Austria at the moment and its real sig- continues to refuse to step down be riding on the scheme he has begun over the ancient or go into exile, officials here say. introduce Ayurveda in nificance lies in its perceived worth. And has pushed through. Ayurvedic system of medi- a big way in its health its symbolism. BBC Radio 1 acknowl- The Saudi leadership is advo- From February 17, mo- cine, with Britain reject- cating Hussein’s removal as part service. Experts edges that “the desi or bhangra sound torists entering the city cen- ing the claims of leading complain that it’s sells millions of albums and attracts of a war-avoidance strategy tre between 7 am and 6:30 pm, Indian Aurvedic practi- even as the kingdom signals diluting the therapeutic hundreds of people to club nights every Monday to Friday, will have tioners that it is “diluting” tradition week but is still ignored by the main- Washington that it will cooper- to pay a tax of five pounds 5,000 years of therapeutic stream music! industry”. ate extensively with an Ameri- ($8) — a move aimed at cut- tradition and allowing Celebrity clients can military buildup in the Per- ting traffic and pollution. quacks to “hijack” it for Madonna, Cher, Kate MTV yoga sian Gulf, including offering the Under the plan, motorists the consumption of West- Winslet and Demi use of crucial bases and air- will have to pay for entering ern fashionistas. Moore And staying with music, what to make of space, Saudi officials said. an area of around 20 square Delegates at a confer- the coupling of Patanjali and MTV? The Gopi Warrier, a layman It seemed possible that a num- kilometres. Some 230 cam- ence in London, attended music station known for its edgy, out-of- ber of Arab and Muslim states eras will be installed to pho- who chairs the privately- here-now body language is testing a by some 200 Ayurveda spe- could join the effort this coming tograph car licence plates, cialists from India and run British Ayurvedic whole new way of being, with the ulti- week as Turkey seeks to assem- which will then be checked Medical Council and owns mate 21st-century exercise video. Word is Britain, also blamed the ble Iraq’s neighbours for urgent with a database to see if the Indian government and the Ayurveda Company of that MTV Yoga sets the scene for the soul discussions in Ankara, Turkey’s daily fee has been paid. Great Britain, told this pa- wars among the corporate big boys, with more specifically, health capital, with an explicit agenda Mayor Livingstone says per: “I believe India should Nike kaftans, Starbucks incense and Nes- minister Shatrughan Sin- of averting military conflict, the charge will reduce traffic have at least a 60 per cent tle herbal teas coming soon to a corner ha for “indifference and though a number of Saudi offi- congestion in city centre by share of the huge market shop wherever you are. timidity” in the face of a cials said they considered this a 15 percent and cut journey concerted Western bid to in Ayurveda therapy and Embassy in row with MEA remote possibility. times by 30 percent. Current- “pilfer Indian intellectual products. But the Indian Turkey’s prime minister, Ab- ly some 250,000 motorists property”. government appears to The external affairs ministry in New dullah Gul, said on Friday that drive into the city centre on The stakes may never have gone to sleep and In- Delhi and the Indian embassy in Wash- he had encouraged Hussein to weekdays. have been higher as dian officials here are to ington have gotten into a wrangle involv- consider stepping down and, Hailed by green groups, Britain prepares to regu- blame that Britain plans to ing the use of funds for Indian commu- separately,a senior Saudi intelli- the project has unsurprising- late Ayurveda treatment introduce a lamentably nity events in the US. The embassy last gence officer is said to be en- ly not gone down so well with and training and explores short Ayurveda course of year hosted several events intended to gaged in discussions with Hus- motorists. According to a re- Americans gather outside the Richard Nixon Library in California on the possibility of becom- study before one can say sein’s son Qusay,on a proposal to cent survey, a third of Lon- showcase India’s awesome pluralism and Saturday to protest a possible US-led war against Iraq. ing the first Western na- one is qualified”. diversity. That meant colourful galas on offer amnesty to the Iraqi leader don’s drivers say they will try tion to offer India’s ancient Indian officials have al- many of India’s cultural and religious along with an exile home for to bypass the law and not pay ing a general amnesty plan, through war that will take therapy free on its Nation- ready rejected British pro- holidays — from Diwali to Id to Christ- members of his extended family. there was no concrete proposal everyone with him.” the tax, while 55 percent be- al Health Service. posals for 1150-hours com- mas to Guru Nanak jayanthi. The em- Iraqi officials have denied that yet. Another adviser to the royal lieve the scheme will do noth- Meanwhile, the battle pulsory training as too lit- bassy also held events for Navroze, the such talks are under way. “The Americans want to get court said senior officials were ing to reduce traffic conges- for control of the estimat- Parsi New Year, and Hannukah, the Jew- News reports of a Saudi plan Saddam out by military means, pressing the campaign mostly in tion during rush hours. ed 130-billion-pound global tle, because an Ayurveda ish commemoration, to show that India aimed at heading off a war by and we want to get him out by unofficial statements that they One of UK’s largest public market in alternative med- degree course in India is is home to almost all faiths in the world. encouraging Hussein’s removal, psychological intensification,” know will be broadcast into Iraq, sector unions, Unison, has icine is becoming increas- five-and-a-half years long. But the MEA has now put its foot down perhaps through a UN Security an adviser to the Saudi royal and through private diplomatic asked Livingstone to delay ingly urgent with Ayurve- However,Indian sources and asked the embassy to can the events Council resolution granting family said. “The most impor- and intelligence channels, “be- the project and to exempt da gaining Western street said a compromise, slight- for this year, saying that the funds are amnesty to senior Iraqi officials tant thing for the generals and cause no one wants this war” public sector workers from cred from its A-list celebri- ly longer, but still-truncat- better utilised to woo the American con- who assist in his ouster, have everyone else in Iraq is to sepa- and because “no one wants to be paying the tax. It fears mass ty consumers, such as ed training period may be stituency rather than pander to the NRIs. circulated in recent days. Saudi rate themselves from Saddam, quoted publicly as advocating resignations among key Madonna, Cher, Kate the price for having Ambassador Lalit Mansingh’s con- officials cautioned, however, especially if he wants to kill the overthrow of another sover- workers, saying the scheme Winslet and Demi Moore. Ayurveda in a British cur- tention that the events, besides energis- that while they were formulat- himself through resistance and eign state.” NYT News Service will cost each driver 1,200 Conference organiser riculum at all. ing the Indian-American community, pounds a year. Reuters were also attended by many American guests, hasn’t impressed foreign secre- tary Kanwal Sibal, who himself did a stint in Washington from 1993-1995. Nepal refuses to honour Tenzing London: Even fifty years after Tenz- est’s summit, arguing that he spent Award for South Asians ing Norgay attained glory by con- most of his life in India and even ac- quering Mount Everest with Ed- quired an Indian citizenship. When Americans refer to Asians, they mund Hillary, Nepalese government Tenzing, who grew up in Nepal invariably mean Asians from the Far refuses to honour him posthumously tending his father’s yak herds on a East, like from say China or Japan or Ko- as he had subsequently acquired In- high mountain pass below Everest, rea. Most ‘Asian’ organisations in the US dian citizenship. migrated to India in his teens. He are actually ‘East Asian’ organisations “There is a problem. Declaring found work as a porter on several pi- and people from the sub-continent sel- him a national hero is difficult,” oneering pre-war British expeditions dom feature in them. But the New York- Ganesh Karki, an official at Nepal’s to the Himalayas in Darjeeling. based Asian American Legal Defence Tourism Ministry,told The Observer. After he and Hillary reached the and Education Fund is a rare exception in trying to reach out to South Asians. Campaigners led by the Nepal Moun- summit on May 29, 1953, government This year the Fund is honouring Come- taineering Association want Tenzing in Kathmandu hailed Tenzing’s suc- dian Margaret Cho and Bhairavi Desai of to be made a “Rastriya Vibhuti” — an cess as its own, and swiftly awarded the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. The accolade awarded to the Himalayan him Nepal Tara (Star of Nepal) two will receive the Justice in Action kingdom’s elite dead. Previous recip- medal. award in February. ients include Lord Buddha, who was Shortly afterwards, however,Tenz- Reports from Rashmee Z Ahmed in born in the border town of Lumbini. ing accepted an Indian passport from London and Chidanand Rajghatta in But Nepal has so far refused to the then prime minister Jawaharlal Washington grant Tenzing the honour although Nehru, so that he could travel to Eng- he planted a Nepalese flag on Ever- land. PTI Bush fire rages in Australian capital, 4 killed

Canberra: Hundreds of peo- ple began sifting through the charred remains of their homes in Australia’s capital on Sunday, after the worst wildfires in the city’s history swept through suburbs, killing four people and forc- ing thousands to evacuate. At least 388 houses were destroyed, officials said. Hos- pitals treated about 240 peo- ple for burns and the effects of smoke from the fires that hit Canberra on Saturday. Many were residents who battled flames with garden hoses and buckets filled from swimming pools. Fire crews admitted they had been over- whelmed by the ferocity and magnitude of the flames. ‘‘I have been to a lot of bushfire scenes in Aus- tralia... but this is by far the worst,’’ Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday. By late Sunday, officials said all fires were contained, although some areas were still smoldering and there were fears strong winds fore- cast for Monday could reignite the crisis. Police pa- trolled charred and deserted neighborhoods following iso- lated cases of looting and suspicions that some fires might have been deliberately lit. At the height of the crisis on Saturday, when a state of emergency was called, fire- fighters called on people not to panic. Many residents re- ported no fire crews in their burning streets. More than 20 percent of the city was without power Sunday morning and red hot embers fell, sparking fears more lives and homes could be lost. A mist of fine ash blew through the streets and a thick pall of smoke hung over the city of about 320,000 people that’s surrounded by drought-hit farmland and tinder dry forests. AP

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14 Monday,January 20, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi EDITEDIT PAGEPAGE Sexuality Education Trial by Ordeal A THOUGHT FOR TODAY The midnight knock and months spent in came to my rescue too. Had there been Let’s Talk About it in India prison without any hope. Iftikhar Gilani’s dictatorship, I don’t know how long I I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; story could be set anywhere — in India would have survived. By withdrawing By Sunil Mehra but today it means getting along with people. can be ensured through imparting correct during the Emergency, or Russia during the fabricated cases against me, the government knowledge and skills to an individual. Stalinist years. And yet, it happened in the helped in removing the stigma of being The untouchability surrounding the word — Indira Gandhi Initiation of sexual activity in Sweden is India of 2002, a democracy wedded to the a traitor that had traumatised me, my sexuality in our country has been reinforced as late as 17 years and above. Studies from idea of rule of law. In an interview with family and friends. I was dubbed anti- at various levels in different forms. Political across the world strongly suggest that where Andalib Akhtar, he recounts the trauma national, ignoring my track record as a parties, intellectuals and parents themselves sexuality education is not provided through of the seven months he spent in custody nationalist. However, I will say those who have been the most significant antagonists Government for All proper channels, adolescents seek informa- before the government finally dropped the tried to pervert the system from within to the subject of sexuality. A political cartoon of the early ’80s had Indira Gandhi tion elsewhere. This information is usually trumped-up charges against him: must be exposed and punished. The expression of sexuality is influenced incomplete, incorrect and highly gender-in- gravely inspecting a queue of Congressmen and then by social, economic, ethical, spiritual, cul- Did Military Intelligence (MI) help you tell one of them, “You are the chief minister of sensitive; resulting in sexual coercion, rape, What are your feelings on being released in any way? tural and moral factors. Sexuality expressed unwanted pregnancy, sexually-transmitted Maharashtra, what’s your name?” That joke, as good from jail? positively,through consensual and mutually infections including HIV, and an environ- I am grateful that the MI head, an jokes always do, had a serious subtext. Under the then respectful relationships, enhances well- ment of insecurity for both boys and girls. I feel immensely relieved and, of army general, appeared in the court not powerful Congress ‘high command’, it was the lot of the being, health and quality of life of an It also influences the relationship between course, vindicated. But I also think that I once but twice and categorically rejected regional satraps to be used like pawns on a chessboard. individual. Adolescent sexuality is a norma- the two sexes significantly, since there is a was very lucky that I had been in the the charge that I had been in possession Does the chief-ministerial change in Maharashtra tive development process for that stage of lack of understanding between them. Above national capital. What’s more, I had friends of a classified military document that suggest that the Congress leadership is back to its bad life, not an aberration. all, sexual rights are human rights and not who had access to those in power. They imperilled the country’s security. At the old game? Not by a long stretch. If Sushil Kumar Shinde It may be worthwhile to examine the privileges or favours, but the entitlements of lobbied with political leaders. However, I same time, I feel sad that those bent upon has replaced Vilas Rao Deshmukh, it’s hardly because concept of sexuality education. Sexuality all young women and men. Who are the best shudder to think of the fate that awaits persecuting me not only dragged the army the junior Mrs G has suddenly decided to emulate education does not relate solely to the providers of sexuality education? It may not citizens in small towns when they are to the court but didn’t care even about her more illustrious mother-in-law. Indira made and physical aspects of sex. Often sexuality necessarily be schoolteachers or healthcare deliberately wronged by the long arm of the calling a general incompetent for giving state. Who speaks for them? With my release, me a clean chit — just to justify their unmade chief ministers at a time her party occupied education is termed as life skills education providers. International and even some I felt as though I had been transported prosecution of me. I believe that intelligence the commanding heights in Indian politics. As an and the contents include information on national experiences show that they are various life skills such as decision-making, often not prepared to carry it forward. from dark medieval times to the 21st century. agencies like MI will not be able to operate unrecognisable shadow of that once imposing political But I am really grateful to my friends and effectively if they are treated in this manner. force, today’s Congress is simply not in a position to be communication, body physiology and as- Our own recent findings reveal that pects of reproductive and sexual health. adolescents appear comfortable with their well-wishers who reposed faith in me even That will compromise the security and authoritarian. In other words, Mr Shinde’s appointment when I was behind bars. They tried their freedom of all Indians. is less a whimsical manoeuvre of an imperious boss It is interesting to trace the journey of parents, especially the mother imparting sexuality education in different settings. A best to get me free. They proved those Admittedly, there must be some mecha- than a tactical move by a party looking desperately accurate sexuality-related information. developed country like Sweden initiated Adolescents are placed in different settings, who fabricated cases nism in place to to arrest its decline. But is Mr Shinde a shot in the education on sexuality hygiene to its late there are married and unmarried adoles- against me wrong. I keep the intelli- dark or is there a larger design here? teen girls through its first woman doctor cents and, at the same time, there are particularly thank Q&A gence agencies un- There has been some attempt from within the Karolina Widerstorm as early as 1897. But it different needs for information between my paper, Kashmir der check and Congress to project Mr Shinde’s appointment as a was only in 1955 that sexuality education was 10-14 and 15-19 year adolescents. Youth/ Times, which stood I shudder to think of make them account- conciliatory signal to Dalits, not only in Maharashtra made compulsory in Swedish schools. There adolescents are the best communicators by me in all my the fate that awaits able, so that they but across the country. If that is indeed the case, was a national debate and it was adolescent for their peers on appropriate information. tribulations. citizens in small don’t fabricate cases then we are possibly seeing the beginnings of a much- participation that made this possible. A Without sexuality education being seen as What was you experi- towns when they against innocent needed overall strategy in the Congress. The post- recently-published country report from an integral part of the examination system, ence in Tihar jail? are deliberately people and instead gather valuable inte- Indira Congress’s biggest drawback has been its inabi- Uganda categorically states that sexual no school will take it too seriously. The It was hell. I was wronged by the lligence for the gov- lity to enunciate a clear vision of where it is heading. As abstinence may have played a significant media, especially electronic, plays an impor- beaten up by jail in- long arm of the ernment. But this a consequence, rather than setting the agenda, the role in reducing HIV infection; this is a tant role in adolescents/young peoples’ lives. mates. People called state. Who speaks strong reflection of the definite impact on for them? should be done with- Congress has been reacting to the BJP’s agenda, from We need sexuality education based on me gaddar or trai- Udayshankar out exposing them the lives of young people when sexuality is the cultural context and adolescent needs. tor. Interestingly, a playing second fiddle to the BJP on reforms to respond- to public gaze. ing to Moditva with soft Hindutva. Where is the Cong- discussed through proper channels. There is Sexuality in adolescence is a normative prisoner who was ress’s distinct all-encompassing ideology? Where are a comprehensive consensus that sexual development process, let us make sexuality convicted for murdering his mother What are your views on the Official the imaginative slogans that can capture the people’s health programmes encouraging abstinence a normal development and not view it and other family members, called me a Secrets Act? while providing medically accurate informa- minds? For all that Indira’s ‘Garibi Hatao’ was a mag- as a pathological development. This may gaddar and gave me lessons on patriotism. It’s time for all right-thinking persons, tion can actually reduce sexual activity and counter a lot of myths and misperceptions in nificent fraud, it worked wonders as a slogan. The same The days seemed endless. I began to lose including journalists and politicians, to promote good health among young people. our films and other media. hope. Everything I identified with slipped with Indira’s ’80s slogan: ‘A government that works.’ reflect seriously about amending the Act. Why is sexuality education linked to Recently, the apex institutions for educa- away. I thought I would never come out. Today, there is nothing from the Congress’s stable that It’s basically a legacy of the colonial promiscuity? This relationship seems to be tion in India have initiated the National However, things improved slowly. Friendly raj which can be misused by vested elements can match Hindutva’s powerful appeal. The Congress of based more on societal perception, myths Population Education Project. This has yet jail officials helped me escape the Indira stood for the little man. To counter the BJP’s in the government, to harass honest citizens. and misconceptions surrounding sexuality, to achieve wide acceptability. Life skills attention of hostile inmates. Then I In an era where greater transparency is sectarian appeal, Sonia’s Congress has to project an rather than on hard facts. Studies, sponsored education or family life education has also enrolled for a diploma in creative writing. all-embracing image. And what better way to do this the norm — Parliament has just passed the by MacArthur Foundation in particular, been strongly recommended by various UN But every week when I was brought to Freedom of Information Act — there can be than to promise a government that will not discriminate suggest that comprehensive sexuality institutions. We need to find a via-media to the court in a crowded bus, with hostile no place for draconian laws like the present between people, a government that stands for all? education does not cause increased sexual address the issue of sexuality through prisoners, I became desperate. I knew I Secrets Act. activity among adolescents. In fact, some different perspectives. We are at a stage was the victim of a conspiracy. What’s your final take on your own ordeal? studies suggest that the age of initiation of when we have to confront the issue of sexu- When did you first hear you were sexual activity increases and frequency of ality openly.Strategies, ground realities and being released? I can only hope that no representative Doom & Genesis sex and number of partners decreases with interventional experiences strongly suggest from the media — indeed no citizen — is On January 10, I learnt from the BBC sexuality education. that the sooner we impart gender- and value- forced to undergo the kind of trauma that The apocalyptic clock is ticking for the end of the world. that the government had decided to based sexuality education to our adolescents, I had to suffer at the hands of the official But don’t hold your breath, for it is still 7.5 billion The socialisation process of an individual withdraw the cases against me. It restored the better it shall be for the health and deve- machinery. Basically, the moral of my years into the future. In a soon to be released book, plays a significant role in how sexuality my faith that there is still a system lopment of our youth. story is that if it could happen to me today, The Life and Death of Planet Earth, two American is perceived. Experiences in social develop- in place in this country and I will at last (The author is execu- it can happen to anyone tomorrow. My astrobiologists, Donald Brownlee and Peter Ward, ment suggest that knowledge and education get justice. are first and foremost empowering; and tive director, MAMTA, case should act as a wake-up call to all declare that the earth has already begun its long devo- knowledge can never be disempowering or a Delhi-based NGO Did you lose faith in the system earlier? concerned citizens that a great deal of lution back to the primordial chaos from which it arose. the precursor to negative outcomes. From dealing with adolescent No, how can I lose faith in a system when vigilance is required to prevent excesses of Calculating the earth’s life on a 24-hour timescale, the the rights perspective, the ability to health and rights I am in it? No doubt the system led me the kind that the state is now capable of, authors say that corresponding to its 4.5 billion years of make informed choices is central. This issues) to hardship and misery but the system given the kind of powers it has acquired. existence, the earth has reached 4.30 a.m. On the same scale, by 5 a.m., animal and plant life would end and at 8 a.m. all water will evaporate from the earth’s surface. At noon, the sun, also on its last legs, will transform into Kama as Means a red giant star and gobble up the by-then barren earth. American Encounters The planet, along with its solar system companions, will By Ka Di Sontakke the only English story have met who like India be reduced to cosmic debris. Doomsday scenarios are An American lady accosted which I could easily get and who would like to To Moksha nothing new for humankind and are interwoven into us from behind when my from India as my Marathi return there. The others By K M Gupta mythologies of most religious traditions. But from wife and I were taking writings wouldn’t have simply despise it. I like Be the Non-doer the Nostradamus-predicted Antichrist to Hinduism’s made any sense to her. India”. (She had only some In Indian philosophy, kama Kamadeva, the god of our usual morning walk You are not the doer apocalyptic horseman, Kalki, these talk more in terms “When would we be able vague idea about Gandhi or sexual desire has been kama and love, brags: ‘‘If in Northridge, California. of any action here, of decimation of dharma, the established order, or of to see the beacon coming from India.) accorded an important place. anyone tries to beat me, I “Would you mind if I walk O Rama; so why do you life and vegetation, as in Native American Hopi myths. out from India?” she As part of my work I There are four kinds of grow manifold over his with you for some time?” assume doership? When inquired. “After about had been reading serious purushartha, ends of life, beating.’’ The attempt to That the very ground beneath our feet could cease to she asked. “Of course not”. one alone exists, who 50 years”. material. After a couple of and one of them is kama. subdue or win kama only exist was beyond human imagination until science We exchanged routine does what and how? “Fifty years!” months, I felt it’s time I This is because the world makes it burst out with advanced sufficiently to enable humanity to peek introductory information: Do not become inactive, I reconsidered. “It is read some American hu- was born out of kama. We greater force. billions of years into the future. While the finality of a “Oh, you are visitors”; either; for what is bound to take at least 20 mour. The only American know that all beings are born Since kama is the origin Judgment Day might have been a Damocles’ sword over “We are Hindus”; and so gained by doing to 25 years”, I said. humorist I was acquainted out of kama. What we don’t and quiddity of existence, believers in the Judeo-Christian world, Eastern thought on. Our surname was nothing? What has to with was James Thurber. know is that the cosmos itself it has to be accorded its has preferred to view reality as dynamic. For every practically unpronounce- On yet another occasion be done has to be done. But he is an old name. is a product of kama. How rightful place. Therefore death, there is a birth, whether it is the individual or the able for her. she told us about an Indian Therefore, rest in the friend of hers, a lady Many others must have was the world born? kama has been included as cosmos. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna’s vishwaroop, On another occasion she self. Even while doing doctor, who had claimed come up after him and I In the very beginning, one of the purusharthas. cosmic self, is depicted as perpetually devouring the took us home, showed us a all the actions natural she couldn’t have been should read them, I decid- according to the Upanishads, The ultimate purushartha green blouse, a gift from to you, if you are cosmos and its components from one end, even as one in India because of ed. So I accompanied my was sah akamayata. There is moksha — liberation of one of her Indian friends, unattached to those the other births new universes at every moment. All family and social restric- daughter-in-law to a library was the ‘worldstuff ’ or sad the soul from the clutches presented us a cup and actions, you are truly this, however, remains a moot point. For with the tions. It must be old times, I and said to the woman vastu in the beginning, and it of finite existence. saucer her Irish grand- the non-doer; if you are double-edged weapon of technology, humankind might conceded. “Not old”, she there: “I wish to read a top was seized with kama. It Generally, kama is regard- mother had given her, doing nothing and annihilate itself long before the prophesied end of the said. “She can’t be even 40”. American humorist”. agitated in kama and desired ed as an obstacle to moksha and said: “You now give are attached to that world. On the other hand, the ever-expanding frontiers “Do you have any parti- expansion. At the height of and brahmacharya while me one of your stories to “Visit India”, I said, “and non-doership you of science may encompass an ultimate escape route cular name in mind?” this agitation, there was celibacy is seen as an remember you by”. see for yourself how become the doer! When from global destruction. A decade ago, for instance, “No. Any top humorist bindu visphota. essential pre-requisite on Later I handed her a copy many lady doctors are all this world is like the practising there”. would do”. The word bindu means the road to moksha. The cloning would have been in the realm of fantasy.Today, of a short story published juggler’s trick, what is it is increasingly becoming a practical reality. It is way back in 1986 in After a pause she said, “Read James Thurber”, both a point and semen. guru commands, keep the When the guru advises his bindu, don’t let it fall. The to be given up and what impossible to envision what distant tomorrows may the Western Humanities “We ought to meet more. she said, directing me to is to be sought? bring. For evolution has a way of having the last Review, Utah. That seemed You are the first Indians I the humour section. disciples to keep to celibacy, reason given as to why kama Yoga Vasishta, chuckle on the oblivion that seeks to overwhelm it. he says: ‘‘Falling of bindu has to be overcome for the is death; keeping of bindu attainment of moksha is that Sage Vasishta’s precepts CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS is life.’’ Visphota kama is the opening to Sri Rama means bursting out. up of cosmic energy ✥ Election Fundas Appalling Attitude ridden sarcasm in ‘Not Frog, But Falcon’ Therefore bindu vis- while moksha is its Whatever with thy (Jan 9). Marshalling convenient historical phota denotes the opposite — which is heart thou dost desire, “More important than winning the election, is ‘Abuse of Power: Punish Those Who Jail facts won’t really get him to hold back the orgasm. The world shutting energy in That is thy God adored, governing the nation”, said US politician Adlai Innocents’ by Siddharth Varadarajan (Jan rising anger at ‘doctored history’. If was born out of THE all its diversity up undoubtedly; 14) brought tears to my eyes. While Iftikhar Stevenson, 50 years ago. “That is the test of a political sangh-led historians talk against the Aryan bindu visphota. One SPEAKING in its primordial Whatever thing is in Gilani languished in jail for seven months, party — the final, acid test”. But in India, elections loom Invasion Theory (AIT), was it not the can think of this cause, the world- thy heart always, the powers-that-be fiddled in the name of TREE larger than life in people’s and political parties’ minds. Marxists who insisted that ‘‘all references bindu visphota as stuff or sad vastu. That, be thou sure, national security.The insensitive attitude of A long election season will soon engulf us, and over the to the Muslim invasions be deleted’’ from what modern scientists So they are deemed natural thou shalt attain, at last. officials of the ministry of home affairs, as next 18 months, “the voice of turtles” will be heard all history books? There hasn’t been a retrac- speak of as the ‘big bang’ contraries. If rose be in thy heart, also the Delhi police and the Intelligence over the land. This is when partymen bestir themselves tion of that diktat by the West Bengal that generated the universe. However, anything that thou’lt be a rose; Bureau, is as appalling as it is frightening. from their long torpor, cobwebs are cleared in government yet. Instead, Romila Thapar, The big bang is the orgasm of belongs to this world can be If nightingale, then that Even 10 years ago, fairness and justice hurriedly-spruced up party offices, and hidden whose speciality is ironically the Mauryan kama in the worldstuff. turned into an instrument sweet-singing bird. were what we, as ordinary citizens, could persuaders and poll-fund collectors emerge from the period, now extends her ‘experience’ to the Bindu is also known for moksha and kama is no Thou art a part, God take for granted while dealing with those in Turkish era and says that Mahmud Ghazni woodwork. Manmohan Singh, former finance minister, variously as teja, prana, kam exception. Kama also can be is the whole; if thou authority.Today,the average citizen, even demolished Somnath because ‘‘it reminded and vaishwanara. It is the a means to moksha. But Engage and occupy was asked to suggest ways to extricate the Congress the most law-abiding one, is fearful, being at him of the pre-Islamic goddess Mannat bindu’s kam (energy) that actually doing this needs thyself, some while, from its financial crunch. Shiv Sena supremo Bal the mercy of those in power whose tenets in Mecca’’. Six hundred and fifty years becomes kham (space). From extraordinary skill. Some With that Great Whole, Thackeray faulted his party ministers at the Centre as for wielding authority,as shown in the after the Prophet did the same in Arabia? this energy was born matter sects of tantra use kama as it will fill all thy being, “Alices in Wonderland” because “they do nothing for present case, seem to bear no relation to A rather specious form of logic, if in the form of panchabhutas. an instrument of moksha. And make thee Whole. party, are club-less and dream of achieving national justice. I pray that our government will Mr Sen won’t mind his own sarcasm The panchabhutas are For these, kama is more The part becomes goals by 2012”. He summarily removed from office change its ways after this case. thrown back at him. mostly misunderstood. As spiritual and less carnal. the Whole. one influential incumbent because (to improvise on — Rufie D’Souza, Mumbai What Mr Sen and neo-Macaulayites Vedanta explains it, the Genuine practitioners of Goldsmith), “He gave to mankind what was meant for should realise is that nobody has made a panchabhutas include the Sufi Writings tantra achieve an experience ✥ his party”. Many all-party suggestions on poll reforms, Doctored History case that ‘‘India’s role as a dynamic solid prithivi, the liquid of oneness with the Divine at including state funding of election funds, have proved civilisation interacting vigorously with the apa, the gaseous vayu, the I can honestly say that I protest against Amartya Sen’s angst- the height of the physical non-starters. Samata Party’s Jaya Jaitly says, “The real world’’ is a fallacy.What is being objected to energy within matter, agni, orgasm. For them, kama is a I was never affected by Pandora’s box is the nature of fund collection’’. No one is the Marxist-Macaulayite axis straining to and the amount of space great magnetic pull towards the question of the wants to discuss it, because awkward unmentionables From timesofindia.com show India as an empty land colonised by an object takes up for its the divine and the orgasm success of an under- for all parties are the questions on probity, on party wave after wave of conquerors who laid on shape, called akasha. This is a perfect communion. taking. If I felt it was their own palimpsests of power and pelf membership, on its democratic functioning and spread Helpless Policewomen way, the world was born Kama as a means for the right thing to do, onto the ‘natives’, without the dispossessed of black money in India’s corporate sector and in out of kama. moksha is extremely individ- I was for it regardless of Apropos of the news story ‘Policy ties ever being there most of the time. governance. Election expenses invariably exceed legal Since energy is kama, the ualistic, slippery, esoteric the possible outcome. policewomen’s hands’ (Jan 16), the universe is imbued with limitations. The Income Tax Act allows parties to use — Ashok Row Kavi, via e-mail and unreliable as far as lay Golda Meir women constables must be applauded for kama. Matter in all its states practitioners are concerned, ✥ incomes from property, interest earned on fixed their attempts at making Delhi safer for Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page and diversity is kama, and Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi- and therefore its use is deposits and voluntary donations. The first two pre- women. Yet, it is ironical that those who Man’s Desires are limit- 110002. email:[email protected] the space that houses matter not advisable for the general sume inherited assets, which excludes new parties. In are trying to protect the public are not al- is also an expanse of kama. ed by his Perceptions; No 17 Vol. 54. Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via public. An example is the third, private donors demand anonymity because lowed to protect themselves. I think these Rs.3, Indore and via 50 paise. National edition: No aircharge.Price in Nepal: NEP Rs 5, except Sun- Kama is the substance of none can desire what he day: NEP Rs 7. RNI No. 508/57 MADE IN NEW DELHI REGD. NO. DL-25002/92. Published for the Osho, who took this extreme- (one suspects) their donations come from black money, courageous women should be allowed to proprietors, Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd., by Balraj Arora at Times House, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar the universe. That is why has not perceived. Marg, New Delhi - 110 002 and printed by him at 13, Site IV Industrial Area, Sahibabad (UP), ‘Times ly individualistic practice but it’s parties and politicians who get the blame. 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No long-haul flight PC shipments up in 2002 Edible oil imports dip “There will be a negative effect on Jordan’s economy and the No-frills airlines are beginning to The global PC market showed an After a long time, edible region. I cannot say Jordan take off in the Asia-Pacific region, estimated 2.7% increase in oil imports have shown a but limited air traffic rights, shipments to 132.4 million units declining trend, falling 8.8% will not suffer, but we national pride and other hurdles in 2002, returning to growth after to 3.1 lakh tonnes in Dec will not collapse.” could block long-term growth, a decline in 2001, Dataquest said. 2002 from 3.4 lakh tonnes Jordanian PM Ali Abu Ragheb on industry analysts say In 2001, shipments declined 4% in the previous year the impact of war in Iraq

How fair is cell MANAGEMENT M&M to phase out old models METAPHORS firms’ demand? By Byas Anand back after the introduction of the Sportz Business books TIMES NEWS NETWORK variant. M&M is now selling close to 700 By J Mulraj small towns and villages, and New Delhi: Riding on the spiralling de- units of the vehicle every month and ex- can only do so at a cost and pects to touch 900-a-month in a few months. h, what a tangled web an investment which far ex- mand for its latest sting Scorpio and losing shine Even the Max has been re-engineered with we weave when first ceeds that made by cellular Bolero, Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) is a new tooled-up body and roof, helping the e were offered a management we practise to deceive. players, including the licence bidding adieu to some of its older city-cen- O model garner monthly sales of around 900 book on geese once, recalls There can be no better exam- fees. tric models. The firm has decided to in- units. Stephen of Palgrave Macmillan, ple of this than the mess the Europe was for long a crease manufacturing capacity for Scorpio W M&M is working towards cutting down a publisher. Apparently a different goose telecom sector finds itself in, leader in mobile telephony. and drive it across the Great Wall. It also the waiting period for Scorpio. Introduced flies in the lead position every time. But due to failure of, ironically, The next big application was plans to steer its multi-utility vehicle in the last summer, production of the vehi- we don’t have any examples of geese run- communication but also of supposed to be 3G. European Bolero down the price ladder. cle is currently limited to 1,700 units a ning successful businesses. Somebody regulation. In all such games governments got greedy, like The firm has already rung down cur- month. M&M is in the process of strength- else published it. to capture public sympathy, ours did, and auctioned the tains on Armada and Armada Grand, and pio have already been incorporated in ening the supplier base and hike produc- The avian school of management theo- there is often a lot of ‘noise’ licences, for which European has restricted production of its two-seater Bolero and Max, helping us turn them ry may be small, but the search for appro- and it is essential for con- companies paid a total of jeep Classic. However, M&M will continue tion to 2,500 units a month over the next six around and boosting sales.” priate leadership metaphors is relentless, sumers and investors to re- over $ 100 billion to acquire. to produce its rural vehicles — Max and months. The firm is now fine-tuning plans given the collapse of this part of the move this noise and concen- But 3G failed to take off, Commander. On Bolero pricing, executive v-p Pawan to launch a left-hand driven version of books market. Business books are in the trate on the core issue. The largely due to the debt bur- M&M ED and president Alan Durante Goenka said: “We have already dropped the Scorpio as a completely built-up unit in wilderness, trying to get a sense of what cellular operators are seek- den for acquiring licences said: “The Armada and Armada grand tag to the sub-Rs 5 lakh level. We will re- South Africa, Indonesia, Russia and China. people want to read, says Raphael Saga- ing to protect their business but also due to technology were phased out as part of a natural pro- duce it further and will also look at a fur- “We in the process of negotiations with lyn, a literary agent who specialises in from competition by a far constraints imposed by the gression, while the Classic is now being ther stripped down version...may be closer one or two probable partners in China and the genre. Relying on zoology produces a more affordable service, GSM platform. produced only on specific customer de- to the Rs 4 lakh level.” The move follows hope to close the deal soon,” Durante limited field: Managing the Human Ani- WLL. They argue for a fairer Reed Hunt, the FCC com- mand. We are now moving into an all-new good response to recently introduced added. With this deal in place, M&M would mal by Nigel Nicholson, for instance, de- deal on two counts; one that missioner when the US line-up of city UVs with Scorpio and Bolero Sportz. become the first Indian firm to venture scribed the primeval instincts raging in they have paid huge licence opened up telecom in a big Bolero. Some of the learnings from Scor- Bolero, the officials said, has bounced into the highly protected Chinese market. the business suit. History is a more fruit- fees which WLL operators way in a 1996 Act, said that in ful source. haven’t and two that they are the resultant competition Some historical figures have left be- being asked to pay fees (Rs some investors make money Reuters hind handy management texts. Machi- 1.14 per call) to access fixed and others lose money; as Loss wipes out avelli is, of course, required boardroom line networks, whether the long as the system and con- reading. A couple of years ago, the sumers benefit it is okay. So Boston Consulting Group produced a ver- Telecom tangle the fact that cellular opera- net worth of sion of Clausewitz’s thoughts on strategy. tors have made huge invest- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, a Chinese ments in licence fees and so Regulation jam military strategist of some 2,500 years need protection, is unten- Amtrex Hitachi ago, far outsells Michael Porter’s latest TRAI has failed to take able; recent WLL entrants tome and has inspired some 50 or so prompt action and sort have made larger invest- By Narayan B Bhatt books with such titles as Sun Tzu’s Art of out the problems. ments in their networks to TIMES NEWS NETWORK War for Traders and Investors. Readers of ensure scale, and thus afford- Ahmedabad: A significant amoumt of Net The objective business books seem to like violent ability adherence to the USO. worth of Amtrex Hitachi Appliances has metaphors, observes Tom Davenport, On access charges, there been wiped out after a net loss of Rs 20.51 The consumers should who has a book on management-thinking may be a case for cellular op- crore for the fiscal ended September 30, benefit with affordable on the way. erators to be heard, and TRAI 2002. This loss has resulted into making the services and assured Some business authors see the careers and TDSAT should quickly reserves negative at Rs 14.23 crore while connectivity and mobility of historical figures as case-studies. Giv- settle the case. Negotiations the share capital is Rs 14.67 crore —the dif- en the imminent disaster and fragile call originates from fixed line of charges are best left to ference being positive by Rs 44 lakh. morale that today’s managers often face, and terminates on cellular or players; however, when So, the company has managed to save it- Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated voyage of- vice versa. WLL operators, agreement cannot be self from being classified a sick company fers inspiration, described by Margot being fixed line operators, re- reached, the regulator has to by showing a net worth of Rs 44 lakh. Morrell in Leadership Lessons from the ceive access charges. step in promptly and judi- But, within 60 days from finalisation of Great Antarctic Explorer. TRAI argues that the cellu- ciously.Authorities, in India, audited accounts, Amtrex Hitachi will If history does not work, try Shake- lar players have paid huge li- have an unfortunate habit of have to report to BIFR that over 50 per cent speare. Britain’s Cranfield School of cence fees of their own voli- shirking decision making, of its net worth has been eroded as per Sec- Students carry an anti-GMO slogan in Guangzhou during a campaign against genetical- Management offers courses, with the re- tion; nobody asked them to. hoping that the problem will tion 23 of the Sick Industrial Companies ly modified foods. China’s agriculture ministry has extended its temporary GMO import built Globe Theatre in London, on Man- This is correct. Cellular oper- resolve itself when the pa- (Special Provision) Act, 1985. rules to September 20, 2003, requiring soybean suppliers to re-apply for import permits. aging the Edge of Chaos: Leadership les- ators got an initial duopoly tience of players gets ex- On infusing fresh funds to shore up the sons from Hamlet. Stabbing rivals in metros and foolishly tried hausted. The SC lobbed the net worth, a company spokesperson said: through the arras, however, is not a com- to milk it (remember the Rs decision back to TRAI. If “Hitachi is in the process of acquiring the pulsory module. 16/minute call charges they players continue blocking ‘Rich must end agri subsidies’ promoter’s stake in the Lalbhai group, tak- Tomes in decline: With profits falling, imposed?). each other out the consumer ing its stake upto 54.6 per cent. After com- New Delhi: Amid conflicting view on Singh said he would hold separate meet- unemployment rising and Sophoclean They considered mobile te- cannot communicate and pletion of this process the promoters will WTO negotiations on agriculture, India ings with ministers of a large number of tales of corporate fraud and greed still lephony to be an expensive, TRAI’s first priority is to pro- decide the steps necessary for adequate fi- will strive for a common strategy with like- countries, including Japan, the United fresh in people’s minds, executives even metropolitan habit and be- tect the consumer. nancial planning for the business needs.” minded countries to mount pressure on ad- well-known, successful ones are no haved as such. Too bad for The consumer cannot be States, South Africa, Keniya, Pakistan and Recently,Hitachi has informed the stock vanced nations to substantially cut farm longer unquestioningly accepted as Sav- them that new technologies asked to decide whether or Sri Lanka as also members from Cairns exchanges that it plans to acquire the en- subsidies besides improving access. iors With Solutions. At the same time, the developed to make mobile te- not to opt for the service of group on India’s concerns during his tire shareholding of 19.40 per cent of JV “We will lobby hard to garner support market is glutted with business books, lephony, linked wirelessly in any particular operator with- three-day visit to Geneva. partner Lalbhai group. Hitachi is planning for our proposals on agriculture. We have many commissioned in the 1990s but not local loop, possible at much out assuring him of connec- Expressing optimism about building a to buy the Lalbhais stake at a price of to evolve a common strategy with like- delivered until after the market started more affordable cost. Also re- tivity and features like common “network of support” for Indian about Rs 41 per share as against the ruling minded countries to protect Indian farm its tumble or worse, after corporate scan- member that WLL players mobility. It is stupid to ask market price of Rs 22-23. Once the stake sector and interests of farmers”, agricul- proposals, he said “we want elimination of dals began to undermine the conceit of have a Universal Service him to bear the risk of sale is completed, Hitachi’s representative, ture minister Ajit Singh said before his de- export subsidies and substantial reduction executive infallibility. Economist and NYT Svc Obligation (USO) to provide uncertainty due to TRAI’s Shoji Tsubokuta, currently the joint MD, parture for Geneva for talks on the issue. of domestic support on farm items. PTI the affordable service in indecisiveness . will take control at the helm.

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NATIONAL Essar Shipping net up Heading for the 13% in Dec quarter: Essar basement: The 2003 opens with high Shipping’s net profit rose BOSS home loan war 13.38 per cent to Rs 16.36 inflation at 3.64%: The INC continues as ICICI crore in the quarter ended De- New Year saw a sharp hike in Bank cut interest on diesel and petrol prices with cember 31, 2002 against Rs certain tenures by 14.51 crore in the previous inflation surging to 3.64 per half a percentage cent, even as the rate was point. Clearly, the corresponding period. Total way below at 1.89 per cent in market is ripe for income during the quarter un- the comparable period in the even lower rates, der review stood at Rs 122.49 previous year. A marginal rise but is an interest crore against Rs 117.37 crore, in the heavy-weighted manu- rate bottom in a company release said. factured items compounded sight? Arvind Mills Q3 net at the woes of common people Rs 37 crore: Arvind Mills as price change, measured by Ltd has reported a net profit of WPI, shot up by 0.32 per cent Rs 37 crore for Q3 ended De- for the week ended January cember 2002 against a net 4 from 3.34 per cent a week ago. WPI rose by 0.2 per cent loss of Rs 22 crore in the to 167.3 against 166.9 in the same period of last fiscal. previous week. The man who would be Sales and operating income FIIs are net buyers in king: Steve Case, the man was at Rs 379 crore against equities: FIIs were net buy- behind the AOL-Time Rs 360 crore in Q3 of last ers in equities at Rs 536.7 Warner mega-merger, Debt market reforms: year, up 5.27 per cent. crore while netting sales of finally bows out to investors FM Jaswant Singh flags GCMMFL bags milk Rs 65.2 crore in the debt mar- pressure and scathing off retail trading of player award: Gujarat Co- ket during the trading week criticism on the government securities (or operative Milk Marketing Fed- ended January 18. MFs’ at- merger. Richard gilts) on stock exchanges, eration (GCMMFL) has traction towards debt market Parsons now but it remains to be bagged the UHT milk player continued year as they netted stands alone at the seen if small investors in India award and the highest inflows of Rs 342.5 crore while head of the largest bite this new retail availability award. The registering net sales of Rs media company in investment award is hosted by Tetra Pak 7.16 crore in equities, accord- the world. opportunity. ing to data SEBI. India and the food processing ministry.

UK retail tycoon Green Davis group prepares Major airline group gets INTERNATIONAL readies Safeway bid: Re- new bid for Vivendi: Bil- conditional ok: The US tail entrepreneur Philip Green lionaire oil man Marvin Davis conditionally approved an Fiat chairman job to go is preparing a cash takeover is preparing a new bid for the alliance among Delta, North- to U Agnelli: Fiat’s control- bid for Britain’s fourth-biggest entertainment assets of me- west and Continental airlines ling shareholders will supermarket chain, Safeway, dia company of Vivendi Uni- that would allow them to sell strengthen their role in its and is expected to confirm versal in a round of meetings seats on each other’s flights if management, with ailing hon- his intentions on Monday, the set for later this month, a they agree to rules aimed at orary chairman Gianni Agnel- Sunday Times reported. Such Davis spokesman said. “He keeping air travel competitive. li’s younger brother likely to a move would mark the fifth and his group will be leaving Low-fare airlines lobbied become chairman, La Re- bid plan for Safeway, already for Paris and looking forward against the deal. Eight state pubblica said. Umberto Ag- targeted by rival chains Wm to good, substantive talks.” AGs also opposed it. nelli, who looked to be taking Morrison Supermarkets Plc, J He declined to detail any of an increasingly central role in Sainsbury Plc and Wal-Mart Davis’ new financial plans or managing the crisis engulfing Stores Inc’s Asda, as well as give a date for the meeting. In ET INSTA POLL Fiat, is expected to be named US buyout giant Kohlberg November, Davis, who owned Yesterday’s results: Is hiring a chairman of the group in July, Kravis Roberts & Co. Green, the 20th Century Fox movie PC better option than succeeding Paolo Fresco, the who owns British clothes re- studio in the early 1980s, buying one? newspaper said. Agnelli tail groups Bhs and Arcadia, launched a $ 20 billion bid for would likely take the reins has requested the financial in- Vivendi’s movie studio, televi- Yes 18% No 78% only after a spinoff and recap- The number of Chinese formation given to Morrison sion and theme park assets • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of italisation of Fiat’s cash-burn- working in the farm sector before its offer 10 days ago, that include Universal Pic- the general public. accounted for 50.1 per cent ing auto unit, the newspaper Safeway sources said. Allan tures and the USA and Sci-Fi Today’s question: Do you said, while Fiat CEO Alessan- of the total labour force at Leighton, chairman of Royal cable TV networks. Vivendi support cellcos or WLL players dro Barberis would keep his the end of 2001, compared Mail, is also in talks with Mer- called the offer too low, but in the current face-off? post alongside Agnelli. with 70.5 per cent in 1978. rill Lynch on a possible bid. left the door open to talks.

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16 Monday,January 20, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi Microsoft introduces CD copy-protection software Cannes: Microsoft Corp an- The PC layer, laid digitally nounced on Saturday the in- on the same disc, can be mod- troduction of new digital ified by the content provider, rights software aimed at so that they could prevent, helping music labels control for example, burning songs unauthorised copying of onto another CD, said David CDs, one of the biggest Fester, general manager, dig- thorns in the ailing indus- ital media entertainment for try’s side. Microsoft. Stung by the common Universal Music and EMI, practice of consumers copy- cracked Sony Music’s propri- two of the biggest record la- ing, or “burning,” new ver- etary technology simply by bels in the world, “are very sions of a store-bought CD scribbling a magic marker excited about this because it onto recordable CDs, music pen around the edges of the enables the industry to build companies have invested disc, thus enabling playback a CD with their own protec- heavily in copy-protection on any device. tions built in,” he said, speak- technologies that have main- Microsoft believes it may ing at the Midem music con- ly backfired or annoyed cus- have come up with a solu- ference in southern France. tomers. tion. The new software is Microsoft has invested For example, most copy- called the Windows Media $500 million in digital rights proof CDs are designed so Data Session Toolkit. management, or DRM, for that they cannot be played on It enables music labels to music. The Toolkit was co- a PC, but often this prevents lay songs onto a copy-con- developed with technology playback on portable devices trolled CD in multiple layers, partners Phoenix-based Sun- and car stereos too. one that would permit nor- nComm Technologies and Last year, some resource- mal playback on a stereo and France’s MPO International ful software enthusiasts a PC. Group. Reuters AP

Evan Marriott (left) of the FOX Television show “Joe Millionaire” speaks to members of the media on Saturday in Los Angeles as Paul Hogan, who played the butler on the show, looks on. The session was part of the Television Critics Association press tour. SEBI to ink pact with If it’s broke, fix Chinese it right now By Jay Bhattacharjee are most ill-equipped to give regulator justice to investors who have inter is the seminar been victims of various eco- New Delhi: Securities and season in the capital nomic crimes. Exchange Board of India is and there is no bet- W Leaving aside the twin planning to ink an agree- ter place to have these VIP curses of sloth and venality, ment with its Chinese coun- talkathons than Vigyan Bha- the glaring reality is that the terpart for sharing of infor- van, the place that was origi- enforcers of corporate and mation on securities deal- nally designed by our man- economic laws in this coun- ings, which would assist the darins for such cerebral exer- try are lacking in the requi- regulators to unearth and cises. site skills and knowledge. take action against market However, the SEBI semi- It is in this context that one manipulators. nar last Friday on investor should examine the potential “We are planning to sign awareness of market prac- role in India an agreement with the mar- tices had both of forensic ac- ket regulator of China for in- the Prime Market mess countancy, formation sharing,” SEBI Minister and which is ac- chairman G N Bajpai said the finance The Problem quiring signif- here. minister as The regulator and the icant impor- The two leading emerging speakers, bourses are ill-equipped tance in market regulators — SEBI apart from a to give justice to in- North Ameri- and China Securities Regula- host of spe- vestors who have been ca and Eu- tory Commission — came cialists and victims of various rope. The into existence about a decade market ad- economic crimes. phrase itself ago following liberalisation ministrators. is a bit of an of the two economies and the Much was ex- The Solution oxymoron and growth of capital market. pected from Set up specialised audit sounds glam- The proposed agreement this high-pow- teams that help in litiga- orous and would be fourth in the series ered meeting, tion and investigate scary at the as SEBI has already signed and this ob- firms’ finances to find same time. As pacts with Securities and Ex- server was missing money. economic change Commission of US, not all that crimes have Malaysian regulator and Fi- disappointed, since there increased and investors have nancial Services Commis- were some surprising fall- started probing for evidence sion of Mauritius. outs from the discussions of corporate offences, foren- Bajpai declined to give a that the organisers may not sic accounting has assumed time-frame for the proposed have factored in. agreement but said the regu- pole position. lator intends to sign such The interesting phase of It is certainly a growth in- pacts with more regulators. the seminar got going when dustry in the US and there is “We are part of the Inter- the working sessions started. even an Association of Certi- national Organisation of Se- At this juncture, the concept fied Fraud Examiners, that curities and Exchange Com- of recovery of investors’ has nearly 3,300 accountants missions. So, we are always funds wiped out in the vari- as members and plans to add in touch with other regula- ous capital market scams an additional 1,500 in the tors,” he said. was put forward by some next year or so. The series of agreements panelists and audience mem- Now, it is this combination on information sharing as- bers. This had the big chief- of specialised financial, ac- sumes significance after the tains squirming; after all, counting and legal skills that share scam of 2000-01, when every analyst in this country we need in our regulators some brokers allegedly rout- and his/her pet poodle and stock exchanges. ed funds through overseas knows that the market regu- (The author is a Member of lator and the stock exchanges the Delhi Stock Exchange) corporate bodies. PTI Pharma vigilance system vital he continuing debate Administration, US, says Dr Vasantha Muthu- over the safety of the that most new drugs are ap- swamy, senior deputy direc- T drug nimesulide is a proved with an average 1,500 tor general, Indian Council of pointer to the absence of an patient exposures and usual- Medical Research (ICMR), effective and comprehensive ly for only relatively short makes the same point when system of pharmacovigi- periods of time. However, she emphasises the urgent lance in the country to moni- some drugs cause serious need for a comprehensive tor adverse drug reactions ADRs at very low frequencies system of pharmacovigi- (ADR) in general and to con- lance covering the entire duct independent post-mar- CHECKOUT country and laments that, so keting surveillance and safe- Pushpa Girimaji far, post-marketing surveil- ty evaluation of new drugs in lance of drugs in India has particular. and would require many been left to pharma firms. In the United States, where more exposures to detect the Even though India too set adverse drug reactions are reaction. A drug that is test- up a national pharamacovig- one of the leading causes of ed in a few thousand people ilance centre at the All Indi- morbidity and mortality in may have an excellent safety an Institute of Medical Sci- health care, it is estimated profile in those few thousand ences, as part of the WHO that about 6.7 per cent of hos- patients. However, within a programme, the Centre’s role pitalised patients have seri- short time after entering the in reporting ADRs has been ous drug reactions, with a fa- market, the drug may be ad- limited. Since the complete tality rate of 0.32 per cent. ministered to several million safety profile of a new drug Explaining the need for a patients. That means that for is defined only after it is in comprehensive ADR report- drugs that cause rare toxici- use in the market, we need to ing system, the Centre for ty, their toxicity can only be set up a competent system of Drug Evaluation and Re- detected after, not before, pharmacovigilance with ut- search at the Food and Drug marketing. most urgency.

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Border makes his pitch Quote pe quote Good news for Australia Allan Border has condemned poor It was like playing in an oven. Tribute Shane Warne gave the injury-hit quality of pitches Down Under as a to all those players who have scored Australian team some heartening threat to Australia’s position as top here and thumbs up to Dean Jones news ahead of the World Cup. The team. He was concerned by the for his double hundred in tied Test. champion leg-spinner showed some 19 “dodgy” tracks prepared this — Stephen Fleming during the 1996 of his old magic, claiming 2/41 off 10 days to go summer for domestic competition WC describing the Chennai heat overs against Victoria COUNTDOWN TO THE 8th CRICKET WORLD CUP

STAROSCOPE What Indian stars can hope for during the Cup Dinesh Mongia is of Revati nakshatra and Pisces lunar sign. His India: Black and blue birth lagna is Scorpio. As per solar sign he is SLOG OVERS an Arien. How the top teams have performed over the last year in One-dayers he significator in his Thoroscope is Venus and If cricket is a game of glorious un- bettering England and Sri Lanka in Jupiter, so he has acquired certainties, India are its most ardent the Tri-series in England. And who a space in Indian Cricket flag-bearers. Inconsistency and prodi- can forget the final of this event during the period of gality have been synonymous with In- which then seemed to have marked a Venus/Jupiter of January dian cricket for long. But the roller turning point for India as it broke it’s 2001 to September 2001. coaster spin that India have gone One-day final jinx by chasing a mas- Now, he is running under through in the last one year in limit- sive 326. Venus-Saturn. ed-overs cricket has been extraordi- It looked that Indian cricket had The World Cup 2003 should be a boom for Dinesh’s ca- nary even by their own whimsical come of age and was ready to com- reer. He will be a good and popular batsman. He is a prod- standards. pete as equals with the best. The uct of fire sun sign and Saturn in his fate house which It was only in September last year, view was only reinforced by a strong makes him a master of the tricks of batting. He can be a after an impressive Champions Tro- Champions Trophy campaign. delightful cricket star, solid even in World level matches. phy campaign, that India were touted Thus, the West Indians looked like He will play eminently watchable innings at whatever slot as a possible World Cup victor. The lambs to the slaughter when they he bats in. team exuded dynamism, all-round confronted India in the latter’s terri- During the Maha Kumbha of World Cup 2003, advance strength and a capacity to fight back tory for the seven-match ODI series. dates will be favorable to him i.e., the 3rd and 4th weeks of from difficult situations. Their graph But it was the Indian bowling which February.In the prime matches, Dinesh will probably not in ODIs in the previous months indi- was cut to shreds as the Caribbeans get too many chances because the entire dasa and Bhukti cated a big upswing. They had beaten notched up an unexpected 4-3 win. is not totally favorable to him. Yet his contribution will West Indies in the Caribbean before The halo started to shrink and the continue even after World Cup 2003. bubble burst completely on the New Scorecard 06 Zealand tour in December-January —Pt. Kewal Anand Joshi Played 40, 05 which saw the Indians go through won 21, lost 16, 04 the mother of all slumps. This time IN THE FAMILY no results 3 around, it was the vaunted batting 03 line-up which capitulated spectacu- Fond wishes from his father B L Mongia 02 larly. It’s a dream come true for all of us that he’s reached this In less than four months, Indians level. Especially since he started playing cricket quite late 01 have gone from being world-beaters in his life. Till class 10th he wasn’t into serious cricket. It to humble pie-eaters. And as it heads was only after he moved to the DAV School that he was South Africa for the World Cup, the selected to play for the Indian schools team that India team is beset with a crisis of confi- toured the West Indies. We do get nervous when dence. However, they can take heart he’s out there playing but have started to live with it. May God be with Dinesh and help him 02 from the fact that expectations are not running sky-high after the recent excel against all opposition. 04

England debacles. This should be welcome by the team. Now they should try and West Indies West

New Zealand 04 use the underdog tag to their advan- South Africa Sri Lanka Zimbabwe LOSSES05 05 WINS tage just as Kapil’s Devils did in 1983. SOUTH AFRICAN SAFARI Results since 1 Jan '02 —Shashank Shekhar On the road THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE GOOGLY icknamed Egoli (place of Ngold), Johannesburg Controversies and incidents glints as the largest jewel in ■ In the first Super Six s a child, Aamir Sohail might never have played the SA urban crown. A smor- game between Australia Awith a boomerang. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gasbord of diverse influences, and India at The Oval in let Venkatesh Prasad castle him in the Indo-Pak it is a place where gleaming 1999, Bill Lawry, Aus- quarterfinal at the Chinnasawmy Stadium in the skyscrapers contrast with the tralian commentator,was 1996 World Cup. traditional bustle of Indian quite upset and close to Even as Imran Khan flew in to be a special guest bazaars and traditional heal- tears as two pigeons paid in the television commentary box, chasing 290 under ers. Close by is Soweto — the for their lack of cricket the lights, Sohail (in the 14.5 over) showed his bat cradle of the struggle against knowledge with their urging Prasad to pick the white ball (quite brown by apartheid and the largest lives in two separate inci- then — after his hammering) from the cover bound- black township of the country. dents. The first instance ary.Little did he knew, that Prasad had grown up on The administrative capital is occurred when Indian A smiling Zulu woman wicketkeeper, Nayan the same ground. And that audacity can sometime an apt showcase for the Mongia smashed a drive backfire in queer ways. Sohail had no idea that what province Gauteng that boasts of an amazing 97% of ur- straight to Paul Reiffel in was coming next was going to become a high point of banisation. Yes, this ain’t the dark continent no more! the outfield in the 42nd the that World Cup. A worked-up Prasad sent the ★★★ over. Reiffel killed the pi- whole nation into raptures by bowling the southpaw with his next delivery. And immediately pointed to- he pitch is up and the fever is on in the host nation to geon with a throw back the extent that the Southern Sun Hotel group is train- from the boundary,which wards the dressing room, asking him to head to- T struck the bird in flight. wards the it besides giving him a mouthful. Veteran paceman Javagal Srinath used the conditions to great effect in New Zealand. India will need an en- ing more than 5000 staff from 65 hotels to be cricket Six overs later, another core from him if they are to make an impression in the World Cup. friendly. This lot are studying their googlies and yorkers fatality occurred when Ajit Ninan to be privy to the mysteries of the game before the Cup Ajay Jadeja, trying a cut BIRTH bowls them over. Word has it that even Ali Bacher thinks to third man, sent the ball uring the early THE BATTLEFIELDS that it’s a great idea. ★★★ flying into another pi- 1990s the Bloem- geon standing in the out- D Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein FIXTURES hen England take on Namibia at Port Elizabeth in field. fontein base was a cru- ■ At Perth in the 1991-92 cial nursery for the February 10: Sri Lanka vs Wthe eastern cape province and there may not be too Cup, Ravi Shastri com- country’s stars. The New Zealand much action on the field to hold the spectators to their young Hansie Cronje seats. Especially as there is a lot just beyond the stadium pleted a well-made fifty February 22: South Africa vs before skying a slog off captained Free State, walls. Former president Nelson Mandela’s village Mvezo Philip DeFreitas straight while Allan Donald Bangladesh for one. Scuba diving, mountain biking and the nation’s up in the air. The bowler, plied his trade on the March 3: Namibia only traditional healing village for others. perhaps distracted by slowish pitches at the vs Holland South African Tourism moving batsmen, ground. A large, open dropped the chance but venue, it often plays sec- March 8: Super Six game retained enough compo- sure to run Shastri out. ond fiddle to the rugby March 12: Super Six game ■ During the UAE in- stadium across the road, THE PITCH that the ball can go soft GOLDEN MOMENT and attendances at Tests nings against England at loemfontein nearly always relatively quickly, limiting n Australia’s 2002 and Oe-day matches Shahi Bagh Stadium, Pe- It was the turning point offers some encourage- boundary-scoring opportuni- tour of South Africa, shawar on February 18, have been notoriously B O ment to fast bowlers early on, ties but also negating much of Ricky Ponting had been 1996, England speedster Venkatesh Prasad: I really the region where ball had gone poorly attended by the don’t know what happened to and said, “I’ll hit you in the particularly at the start of the the penetration of faster struggling for form de- Dominic Cork, while Bloemfontein public. Aamir Sohail in that particular same place again.” I absorb spite his team’s over- bowling, saw blue spots LIFELINES morning session of day bowlers. The long-term over. He was tonking us all pressure well as has been whelming successes. At on the white ball. The um- Capacity: 20 000 games, with the ball nipping statistics show no marked Bloemfontein he hit his pires took some time to over and we thought the match epitomised by my performanc- off the seam and carrying difference between sides would be over in no time. The es against Pakistan. I didn’t say Highest innings score: 310/6 stride in spectacular style, find out the source and through to the wicketkeeper batting first or second, stroking one of the best stadium was full, the crowd anything. Instead, I decided to (50 ovrs), SA vs Aus, 1997 umpire Ramaswamy had One-day innings ever seen which was cheering when In- Lowest innings score: 90 well. Any batsmen willing to although those chasing scores a good look at one of the change my line by going round at the venue. Dazzling bats and asked the player dia were batting went ab- the wicket. As luck would have (37.1 ovrs), Ken vs Ind, 2001 take risks can score freely in are marginally better off, these opening overs of the probably a factor of the pitch with his off-side play and concerned to put a tape solutely quiet. I was bowling it, Sohail tried to play a similar Top individual score: 140, savage pulling against on the blue sticker which over the wicket to Sohail and stroke and was out clean Jayasuriya (SL) v NZ, 1994 game; but the pitch then often flattening out or baking in the short balls, the elegant had the brand name on it. he hit me through cover-point bowled. I think it was the turn- Best individual bowling: slows, making strokeplay dif- hot Free State sun for much of right-hander raced to 129 for a boundary. Then, for some ing point in that game. 5/42, Klusener (SA) v Ind, 1997 ficult. A hard pitch also means the day. from 126 balls. A brilliant Johannesburg —Rajesh Kumar reason he pointed his bat to —as told to Dinesh Chopra TURNING POINT The slip between the Cup and the leap Sourav needs all the support to turn it around he India-Australia encounter in the 1983 World Cup at Ajit Ninan TChelmsford (June 20) was a virtual quarter-final. The 2000 - both with his personal such respite for him in New maturity to take it all on his Australian captain, Kim Hughes withdrew to rest his injured SUPERBATS form as well the team’s for- Zealand. As the team contin- chin and move on. “The thigh and David Hookes led the Aussies for the first time. In- Sourav Ganguly tunes. There have been occa- ued to take a battering in remedy lies in all of us look- dian captain Kapil Dev won the toss and elected to bat. At sions, like in the first year of both forms of the game - Gan- ing back and thinking about 174 for six with the top six batsmen - Gavaskar (9), Moody. Aloof. Technically in- his captaincy when Ganguly guly’s bat yielded a total of 29 the good run we have had and Srikkanth (24), Amarnath (13), Patil (30), Kapil (28) and adequate...the allegations was in roaring form - espe- runs in the four Test innings not to sulk over what has Yashpal (40) - back in the pavilion, the Indians were in dan- still fly thick and fast when cially in One-day cricket - but while he managed to get into gone by,” Ganguly said the ger of being shot out for a low total. However, thanks to use- one talks about the Indian the team was floundering double figures only twice in other day. ful contributions from Kirti Azad (15), Roger Binny (21) and skipper Sourav Ganguly. But with an alarming regularity the seven One-dayers! Worse The same should hold true Madan Lal (12 n.o.), the Indians managed to score 247 off surprisingly enough, not in his case also - for Ganguly 55.5 overs. many of his peers would like did have a fine run with the The Aussies, who had scored a huge 320 against the In- to step into his shoes - which bat in the One-dayers the last dians only a week earlier in the same tournament, were a is often called the second time India toured the Pro- poor copy of their earlier confident self. They collapsed dra- most important job in India tealand in late 2001. matically, losing six wickets for 32 runs (from 46 for one to after the Prime Ministership. An owner of 8255 ODI runs This is precisely the reason 78 for seven) and when Madan bowled Allan Border for 36, with as many as 19 centuries, why he would need all the India’s entry into the semi-final was ensured with their 118- Ganguly is certainly there support when Ganguly leads run triumph. It was the nagging medium-pace of Madan and among the top five ODI bats- the ‘Men in Blue’ into the Binny (Man of the Match), who took four wickets each, that men in the world. His experi- eighth World Cup in less than in the finals. Then came a still, the dismissals came proved a bit too much for the opponents. The duo engi- ence of the last World Cup, three weeks from now. stretch in 2001 when his more by way of the tentative- where he was the second neered the slide which turned the game away from the for- drought of runs was offset by ness of a batsman short on midable Aussies. The triumph gave India four vital points During the New Zealand highest scorer among the In- nightmare, the Prince of some of the most enduring confidence or desperation dians after Rahul Dravid, which took their tally to 16 from six games. They finished success of the team like the rather than being bounced second in the Group B table behind West Indies to reach the Kolkata was candid enough should also give him the fillip to admit that things were nev- Test series triumph over out. to give his best shot - and semis. What happened thereafter is history. Steve Waugh & Co. —Rajesh Kumar er as bad for him ever since What, however, is encour- hope for the best ! taking charge of the team in However, there was no aging that he had shown the —Gautam Bhattacharyya

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18 Monday,January 20, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi

knowing him, of savour- Nasser slams ing his friendship, feels re- duced by his sudden death Cool Clarke guides Australia home officials for in a freak car accident. Before dawn on Satur- Reuters Adelaide: An ice-cool England’s opening day morning he was, typi- heavy schedule Michael Clarke, unflappable bowlers, Andy Caddick and cally, on his way to his in his first One-day interna- Jimmy Anderson, found London: England skipper course duty, despite the tional, guided Australia to a peak form to lift the side’s Nasser Hussain has come bitter cold. It was to be a thrilling four-wicket win hopes in the early overs as down heavily on cricket au- Mat or mud? date with destiny,ironical- over England in a tri-nations Australia began their small thorities for drawing up kharas are our ly, opposite the very cre- series One-day clash under chase. Anderson trapped heavy schedules resulting in mandirs and no at- mation ground where, lat- lights here on Sunday night. Jimmy Maher (0) in his first injury-induced gradual A tack in their func- er that day, the tributes Floundering with 104 for over, and Caddick accounted burnout of leading players tioning will be tolerated,’’ came spontaneously from six wickets in the 37th over, for Adam Gilchrist (four) in like Shane Warne, Muttiah says Mohinder Nigam, the golfers: a good man, Australia finished with 153 his second over. Captain Muralitharan and Darren president of the Indian no-one ever had a bad for six wickets — with 15 Nasser Hussain made the un- Gough. Style Wrestling Federation word to say about Bedi balls to spare — as they usual decision to allow Cad- “The intensity of modern of India. Reacting to Saab, tactful, polite, al- chased down England’s 152 dick and Anderson to bowl schedules has a direct corre- moves by the Wrestling ways cheerful, never all out. England’s consola- their full quota of 10 overs lation with the amount of in- Federation of India to afraid to say anything to tion in defeat was that they without a break. juries suffered by leading curb wrestling on mud, anybody, one to one, be- earned the single bonus The move paid dividends, players and despite my rais- Nigam asserts that the cause he had nothing to point which is likely to en- with Australia struggling to ing of this at international WFI writ won’t run on hide, everyone had a story sure they qualify to play Aus- 46 for two in the first 20 overs. captains’ meetings, the au- this issue and would be to tell. And tralia in the finals of the Anderson’s spell of 10 overs thorities appear blind to the challenged. ‘ for today’s $112,000 contest. (with six maidens) for a re- problem,” Hussain wrote in In the same vein, G.S. top golfers Clarke, 21, went to the turn of one for 12 was the his weekly column in The Mander, former chief of Bedi Saab wicket with his country an most economical spell by an Sunday Telegraph. the WFI, says ; ‘‘The mud was the uncertain 97 for four,but held England bowler in a One-day- “It seems as though the akharas are our nurseries helpful, fa- firm to make an unbeaten 39 er for almost 11 years. people in charge of interna- and a tradition and no therly pres- from 47 balls, with three It equalled former all- tional schedules are only in- one should think of dis- ence of boundaries. He and number rounder Ian Botham’s 2-12 terested in how much money turbing these.’’ their junior eight batsman Shane Watson from 10 overs against Pak- they can make in one calen- The concern of the WFI years. could be understood be- piloted Australia across the istan, also in Adelaide, in dar year. They sell every pos- cause international events One for your shelf line with an unconquered 49- March, 1992. When third- sible date to television com- take place on mats and the run stand which enabled the wicket pair Martyn and Be- panies, leaving the players as rules differ from those in hat guru of cricket home country to complete van scrounged 91 runs off 189 a final thought,” he said. home competitions. It statisticians, Bill their 11th successive win balls to take Australia to 96 “We mention this at cap- would not like to lose any T Frindall, rates it as against England. for two. AFP tains’ meetings and the ICC more time in getting Indi- best statistical compendi- representative says they are an wrestling to fall in line um on One-day Interna- SCOREBOARD looking into it yet nothing is with the modern trend. It tionals. India’s best known done. Despite assurances to must also be prepared for statistician Anandji Dossa England: Clarke 7-0-24-1. the contrary I have seen an M. Trescothick c Gilchrist b Bracken 6 Australia: resistance, for history tells calls the compiler an out- N. Knight c Gilchrist b Bracken 11 A. Gilchrist c T’cothick b Caddick 4 increase in the amount of us that reform is always standing statistician. M. Vaughan c Gilchrist b Williams 21 J. Maher c Stewart b Anderson 0 cricket rather than a reduc- resented. It’s mind boggling, but N. Hussain c and b Bracken 0 D. Martyn c Collingwood b Blackwell 59 tion and it worries me that A. Stewart c Maher b Watson 6 M. Bevan c Knight b Blackwell 30 young statistician Ra- P. Collingwood not out 63 B. Lee c Collingwood b Vaughan 0 the sport has become a mon- Power of ‘money’ jneesh Gupta has come up I. Blackwell b Watson 0 M. Clarke not out 39 ey-making exercise. with his stupendous effort, R. Irani c Bevan b Clarke 20 A. Symonds st Stewart b Blackwell 0 He said One-day cricket A. Caddick c Martyn b Hogg 6 S. Watson not out 13 he power of money One-Day Internationals: has always been played at a prevailed when the J. Anderson lbw Hogg 8 Extras (lb4, w2, nb2) 8 the Complete Record Book. M. Hoggard run out 5 Total (for 6 wickets in 47.3 overs) 153 frenetic pace but now field- T England and Wales Rajneesh, a Extras (lb2, nb4) 6 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-5, 3-96, 4-97, ing has become such an es- Total (all out in 48.3 overs) 152 5-104, 6-104 Cricket Board decided to qualified engineer and a sential part of the game that go ahead with their World Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-38, 3-39, 4-40, Bowling: A. Caddick 10-2-34-1, J. An- contributor to The Times 5-67, 6-71, 7-116, 8-122, 9-136 derson 10-6-12-1, I. Blackwell 10-2-26- coaches and captains are Cup match in Zimbabwe of India, has drummed Bowling: B. Williams 7-1-20-1, N. Brack- 3, M. Hoggard 7.3-0-35-0, M.Vaughan 5- asking players to dive around despite pressure from the en 7.3-2-21-3, S. Watson 7-2-18-2, B. 0-20-1, R. Irani 5-0-22-0 up innumerable facts and Michael Clarke (L) and Shane Watson of Australia share a lighter moment during their trying to save every British Government to Lee 10-2-28-0, B. Hogg 10-0-39-2, M. Man of match: Nathan Bracken (Aus). figures about the ODIs in One-day match against England at the Adelaide Oval on Sunday. boundary. PTI boycott the match to 316 pages. You name it and protest against human it’s there in the book, ROAD TO THE WORLD CUP rights issues. The Aus- priced at Rs 250. tralian government has also given up trying to per- Exemplary action Lehmann gets suade their team not to Hussain could be play there. hile there has support from Lanka threaten pull-out Meanwhile, protest been a groups in Zimbabwe have Wgroundswell of jailed for not shaking Chappell, Blewett Colombo: Sri Lanka on “In the event that the team if they won the World decided to organize sympathy for Australian Sunday issued a thinly squad members fail to do so Cup, taking place in Africa marches to expose to the batsman Darren Lehmann Adelaide: Australian bats- veiled threat to totally pull the BCCSL will be reluctant- from February 9 to March international community after he was given a five- man Darren Lehmann’s five- out of the World Cup tour- ly compelled to avail itself of 23, plus the doubling of hands with Mugabe nament or field a B team as all remedies available to it,” match fees from $700 to the excesses of Robert Mu- match suspension for match suspension for racial gabe’s regime. racial vilification, the fact London: England skipper politicians say the England vilification was “a cruel Sanath Jayasuriya’s men re- the board said in a statement. $1,400. An additional $20,000 Udayshankar remains that any Nasser Hussain’s decision team will find it all but im- twist of fate”, former Aus- fused to compromise on a A top cricket board source was also being offered if the pay demand. said the options included team entered the finals. racial slur, even if not to shake hands with Zim- possible to avoid being tralian Test captain and all- The Board of Control for fielding a different squad or The BCCSL said it had made half-seriously, babwean President Robert caught in Mugabe’s propa- time great batsman Greg Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCC- completely pulling out as paid 70 per cent of its total must not be encour- Mugabe during the team’s ganda net. However, Lamb Chappell said on Sunday. SL) said its offer of perform- Jayasuriya’s men were mak- revenue last year to its play- aged in any sphere of opening World Cup fixture dismissed the prospect of As family and friends ral- ance-based payments at the ing totally unacceptable de- ers and argued that the new life. The ICC chief ex- in that country, may land any member of the England lied around a devastated World Cup starting next mands. The players were in- pay demand would leave the ecutive Malcolm him in jail, a British daily re- team being arrested. Lehmann, Chappell — now month had been turned sisting on a 20 per cent share board without adequate Speed, for a change, ported on Sunday. England players have coach of Lehmann’s South down by the national squad. of the BCCSL’s guaranteed cash for promoting the game would win approval Two years ago Zimbabwe moral concerns: Hussain Australian state side — said in Indian for the ur- introduced a legislation also said that some of his The BCCSL was itself in a fee of 6.4 million dollars in rural areas of the island. he was the last player he ex- crisis with the International from the World Cup, but the BCCSL chief executive gency he showed in making it a criminal offence team-members had moral pected to be found guilty of for anyone concerns Cricket Council (ICC) which authorities were only will- said he did not see a way out dealing with the is- racial vilification. “This is travelling about had set a January 17 dead- ing to offer 10 percent plus of the match fee crisis, but sue. Match referee one of the most unkind of Clive Lloyd had let in the playing in line for Sri Lankan players an incentive payment. said the players must have many cruel twists of fate for Lehman off with a country to Zimbab- to sign contracts to play at The incentive was a the matter resolved “in a day Darren,” Chappell said. warning after the show any we. the tournament. $100,000 bonus to the entire or two.” AFP “Darren is one of the great player had tendered a sign of ‘‘I have PTI fellas of Australian cricket.” verbal as well as a disrespect asked the Chappell said: “He’s the written apology to for the players to quintessential Australian the Sri Lankans at President, read up on whom his remark the Sunday Times reported. it and the only thing I will and the quintessential Aus- was aimed. It was The law has already been say about Zimbabwe is that tralian cricketer — he plays Speed who, to the used to jail local people for we have a split in our con- it hard, but fair, and for him ECB chief Tim Lamb to be made an example like justified the decision say- surprise of many, took up breaches as minor as failing sciences because of what we the matter and insisted to cheer Mugabe’s motor- see on television,’’ Hussain this is sad. It seems so unjust ing that the ECB had al- — he’s such a likeable bloke ways found it perverse and that Lloyd take a second cade, and critics of the told Britain’s Press Associa- look at the incident and regime say Hussain could be tion in Adelaide, Australia. who is well-liked throughout inequitable when asked to the cricket-playing world. make an isolated and pure- hand out exemplary pun- prosecuted if he refuses to ‘‘They are getting conflicting ishment. shake hands with the dicta- messages but our board has Former Test star Greg ly symbolic gesture. But Blewett, who plays alongside Lamb insists that the team The whole episode has tor. Hussain made it clear agreed to go and we have once again demonstrated last month that he will re- signed our contracts so we Lehmann for SA, said he will not shake hands with would not judge his team- president Mugabe if he de- the growing influence of fuse to shake hands with Mu- are going. What we have are mate on the one-off indiscre- cides to attend. the Asian countries in gabe at the World Cup game young lads in hotel rooms world cricket, something scheduled to be played in watching on television about tion. He said he still regard- Fare thee well! the chauvinist white will Harare on February 13. Zimbabwe and asking them- ed Lehmann as “a great only scoff at. However, the England and Wales Crick- selves about the issue.’’ bloke” and not a racist. he Delhi Golf Club fact remains that the epi- et board Chief Executive Hussain said he was try- Yorkhsire to retain will never be quite centre of cricket is now in Tim Lamb had also main- ing to find out as much in- Lehmann: Lehmann will be T the same again. For Asia and not England or tained that the team would formation as possible about retained as Yorkshire county Bedi Saab is no more. He Australia. not play any part in “cere- the situation in Zimbabwe, captain next season despite was an institution. The monial activities” that including talking to his five match suspension club, and every member might be used to bolster Mu- Essex colleague Andy for making racial remarks, a who had the privilege of gabe’s position. Flower,the country’s leading spokesman for the club said Punjab governor and administrator of Chandigarh Union Territory, Lt. Gen J F R Jacob Zimbabwean opposition player. Agencies on Saturday. Agencies felicitates Dinesh Mongia at a function in Chandigarh on Sunday. UP off to a Kerala wrest initiative from MP Anand in joint lead after a draw Kochi: Kerala wrested the Tinu Yohannan and (3/29), M Sureshkumar (2/2) shaky start initiative from Madhya Sreesanth, who troubled and Sreekumar Nair (1/29), Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands): ers — Braingames champion Vladimir Humpy is placed a distant 12th right Kanpur: Hosts Uttar Pradesh dismissing them for them from the very first over. struck at regular intervals to World Cup champion Viswanathan Kramnik, Alexander Grischuk (both now on 1.5 points. Ivanchuk has not Pradesh were off to a shaky a paltry 112 in the first in- The hosts got an early dismiss mp 70 minutes after Anand quickly settled for a draw with Russia), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Ba- shown any brilliance at all in this event. start reaching 187 for six in nings to take a 44-run lead on breakthrough in the third lunch. Kerala too did not do Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk of reev and Ivanchuk shared the fifth spot In fact the magician from Lvov,Ukraine their first innings on the the second day in the Ranji over when Pasha was ad- well in their second essay Ukraine in the sixth round to remain in with three points each with seven more has not gone past the 20th move in the opening day of the Under-17 Trophy plate division semi-fi- judged leg before to Yohan- and lost wickets regularly,be- joint lead in the 65th Corus Chess tour- rounds remaining in this 14-player tour- last four rounds and has agreed to Vijay Merchant trophy crick- nal match at the Nehru Sta- nan, without any addition to fore captain Sunil Oasis (33) nament here. nament. In the Grandmaster ‘B’ tourna- draws just after or during the opening. et final against Delhi at Kam- dium here on Sunday.But MP RANJI TROPHY and Hemanthkumar (14) Anand shared the lead with world’s ment, former world junior girls cham- It was a Queen’s Indian defence as la Club grounds here on Sun- bowlers struck back later added 32 runs for the third highest rated woman Judit Polgar of CORUS CHESS Anand was probably looking for some day. and at draw of stumps, Ker- his overnight score of nine, wicket. MP off-spinner Ab- Hungary and local star Loek Van Wely exciting battle, knowing well that At close, Devendra Israni ala were 78 for five in their with the total on 23. bas Ali struck twice in the who put in another fine performance to pion Koneru Humpy failed to stage a Ivanchuk was win-less so far in the (12) and Vineet Singh (8) were second innings. MP lost two more wickets closing stages to put the beat erstwhile leader Evgeny Bareev of comeback after the second rest day too tournament. at the crease. Put in to bat, Ut- Resuming at their at the same total, before cap- Russia. All three have four points each and went down against GM Jonny Hec- Results (Round 6): Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukr, 3) drew hosts in further trouble. Viswanathan Anand (4); Vladimir Kramnik (Rus, 3) drew tar Pradesh lost opener Shiv overnight score of 21 for no tain Amay Khurasia and De- Brief scores: Kerala (1st inns): 156, MP (1st in their kitty and are followed by Grand- tor of Sweden. Alexander Grischuk (Rus, 3); Evgeny Bareev (Rus, 3) lost to Kant Shukla for a duck with loss, MP openers Muddisir vendra Bundela put on 38 inns) 112 (A Khurasia 42, Yohannan 2/18, master Alexie Shirov of Spain who was Top seed GM Zhang Zhong of China Loek Van Wely (Ned, 4); Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukr, 2.5) drew just two runs on the board. Pasha and Sachin Dholpure runs for the fourth wicket. Sreesanth 2/25, Ananthapadmanabhan defeated by Polish Grandmaster Michal continued with his winning run and Judit Polgar (Hun, 4); Michal Krasenkow (Pol, 2.5) beat Alex- 3/29). Kerala (2nd inns) 78/5: (S Oasis 33, ei Shirov (Esp, 3.5) Anatoly Karpov (Rus, 2.5) drew Teimour MERCHANT TROPHY faced problems in negotiat- But Kerala spinners k N A Kudua batting 3, V Lal batting 0, Pandey Krasenkow yesterday. scalped Dutch GM Harmen Jonkman to Radjabov (Aze, 2.5); Jan Timman (Ned, 1.5) lost to Veselin ing Kerala medium pacers Ananthapadmanabhan 2/21, Hirwani 1/27, Abbas Ali 2/2). PTI Shirov is on 3.5 points while five play- reach 5.5 points from six games. Topalov (Bul, 3). PTI Tanmay Srivastava and Ali Mortza set aside the initial CAPITAL SPORT shock to put on 52 runs be- India seek solace DP, Moonlight win: Delhi Police upset 15) cricket tournament at Bharat Nagar fore Tanmay was dismissed Harikrishna leads the table Dhaka: A new team is guaranteed to Indian National 1-0 with a goal from V. ground. for 12. But Murtza played Mumbai: Grandmaster P game lasted 31 moves. Ghate defeated Krutika lift the title when hosts Bangladesh Samson while Moonlight defeated Nestor with patience and compiled a Manav Sthali 120 in 34.5 overs: (Karan Anand 31, Harikrishna of Andhra Nadig in 34 moves. and Maldives lock horns in the final of Goans by a solitay goal scored by valuable 42 runs when he Puneet Chopra 4/23, Akhsay Arora 3/30, Lalit Kumar Pradesh was leading the International Master S Ki- Men’s (Round 3): K Sasikiran drew with the South Asian Football Federation Bikram Bhandari in the matches of DSA- 3/24), lost to N.C. Jindal School 124 without loss in was dismissed in the post- dambi, playing black, opened men’s section with three S Kidambi; Tejas Bakre bt S Soman; P (SAFF) Championship on Monday. SAIL Senior Division Football League. 17 overs: (Akhil Yadav 54 n.o., Chirag Sharma 51 n.o.) lunch session. with Caro Kann defence to Harikrishna bt S Satyapragyan; M R India, whose dream for a hattrick of points at the end of the third Sandeep Suri Memorial Cricket: LB Shastri: 223/8 in DDCA league, Rajnigandha Cricket Club 291 in 39.3 Arish Alam joined Ravi get a creditable draw against Venkatesh drew with Sriram Jha; Arvind titles was shattered with a 1-2 semifi- round in the National ‘A’ 40 overs (Gauatm Gambhir 79, Dalip TT 54, Naresh Jain overs: (Ajay Sharma 101, Gaurav 28 n.o., Dalik Kumar Kat Shukla and the duo took GM K Sasikiran while Shastry drew with Suvrajit Saha; V Sar- nal defeat against Bangladesh on Sat- 3/70, Kulvinder 2/57), lost to DTC 294/4 in 37.3 overs: Chess Championships here 27, Jaginder Singh 4/34, Jatin Khanna 2/37) bt Rajd- the score to 126 runs. NATIONAL A CHESS vanan drew with G B Prakash; Abhijit urday, will play in the consolation hani Sports: 219 all out in 39.2 overs (Manish Chawla (Mahesh Sharma 101 n.o., KulvinderSingh 84, Ashish While Alam was dismissed on Sunday. Kunte bt Dibyendu Barua; R B Ramesh third place play-off against Pakistan. 73, Ravi Yadav 34, Daman Jeet 30, Gaurav Mehta 25, Maheshwari 2/46). Amit Mishra 3/44, Naresh2/25) by 5 runs. for 12, Shukla emerged as the Playing white, Harikrish- Sachchidanand Soman, who drew with Lanka Ravi; R Saptarsh drew Indians will look for some solace DDA 147/9 in 35 overs: (Ravi Sharma 34, Pradeep with S S Ganguly; Neelotpal Das drew top scorer with 63. Piyush na took 43 moves to beat S got the better of GM Pravin when they meet bitter rivals Pakistan RP Jain Trophy A fine unbeaten knock Deshwal 4/20, Ali-bin-Azhar 2/16), lost to Ravi Broth- with P Mokal. Chawla chipped in with 27. Satyapragyan overcoming Thipsay yesterday, tasted de- for the second time in the tourna- (54) by Akhil Yadav and deadly bowling ers 148/6 in 26.3 overs: (Neeraj Sharma 60, Suresh the Nimzo Indian defence Women’s (Round 2): S Vijayalakshmi bt Kohli 4/33). For Delhi Ankur Garg and feat at the hands of IM Tejas J E Kavitha; Swati Mohota lost to R ment. They had earlier lost the group (4/23) by Akshay Arora helped N.C. Jin- Rajanigandha 138 in 30 overs: (Naveen Kumar 33, Ajit Ranjan claimed two adopted by his opponent. Ab- Bakre.In the women’s sec- Aarthie; Tania Sachdev bt Saimeera; Ee- league match 0-1. But it will be very dal school beat Manav Sthali by ten wickets in the 6th Reebok Rohtak Road Vipin Kumar 32, M. Madhavan 3/10, V.S. Salhotra 2/25), wickets each while Shawez hijit Kunte played the Cata- tion, WGM S Vijayalakshmi sha Karwade lost to D Harika; Y Pratib- difficult for the team to focus on the Ministry of health 140/7 in 25.3 overs: (Sanjeev Kalra Khan and Wilkin Victor took lan opening as he defeated had a smooth sailing against ha drew with Nisha Mohota; Krutika match after heartbreaking defeat Gymkhana R.P. Jain inter-school (uner- 34, Mukesh Kumar 2/34). one apiece. PTI GM Dibyendu Barua. The Kavita J E while WIM Swati Nadig lost to Swati Ghate. PTI against the hosts. PTI

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Manchester United’s Gary Neville shows his delight after his team beat Chelsea 2-1 during the Barclaycard Premiership match at Old Trafford on Saturday. Forlan demolishes Chelsea chances London: Chelsea boss Claudio Ranieri after half an hour and, after Paul Sc- tinue to upstage more illustrious rivals. paid tribute to Manchester United’s holes equalised six minutes before the However, reigning champions Valen- killer instinct after watching his side’s break, looked set to hold on for the draw. cia, despite playing with 10 men for over title ambitions destroyed by Diego For- Everton maintained their drive for a half the match, stay third after a 4-2 win lan’s injury-time winner. place in the Champions League by com- at Barcelona. Forlan ran on to a sublime through ing from behind to beat struggling Sun- ball from fellow South American Juan derland 2-1 at Goodison Park. Parma defeat Empoli Veron in the third minute of injury Tottenham are also not out of the Rome: Romanian striker Adrian Mutu time to clinch a 2-1 win that lifted Unit- running for a place in Europe and their tallied his ninth season goal as he helped ed back to within two points of Arsenal. chances were boosted by a 1-0 win at As- Parma beat Empoli 2-0 in an early match In other action, an Alan Shearer goal ton Villa that was secured through for- of Round 17, marking the halfway point after 10 seconds helped Newcastle down mer England striker Teddy Sheringham of the Italian Serie A. Manchester City 2-0 and lifted the Mag- in the 69th minute. Birmingham ended a pies over Chelsea into third place. run of three straight defeats with a 1-1 Sochaux thrash Lyon An Emile Heskey header after 14 min- draw at Blackburn. West Brom held Paris: Lyon fell 2-0 to Sochaux in the utes was enough to give Liverpool a 1-0 Leeds to a goalless draw. League Cup. Brazilian Santos gave victory at Southampton, their first win Sochaux early 2-0 lead before Sidney in 12 matches. Sociedad retain top spot Govou (2) and Pegguy Luyindula made it Forlan’s winner for United was a cru- Madrid: Real Sociedad beat Celta Vigo 3-2. Marseille cruised into the next round el blow for Chelsea who had taken a de- 1-0 on Saturday to hold on to the top spot with a 4-0 win over Creteil while Saint served lead through Eidur Gudjohnsen in the Spanish championship and con- Etienne beat Le Mans 3-2. Agencies Churchill meet ‘Pak coach is giving excuses’ Title for Arjun New Delhi: Arjun Singh TIMES NEWS NETWORK and nothing can snatch the East Bengal credit away from them,” said shot a final round six-under Kolkata: Churchill Brothers New Delhi: “Pakistan’s jun- Harender. 66 on his way to a convincing survived a scare to scrape ior coach Ayaz Mahmood is He charged back that Pak- victory in the Business To- into the final of the TVS insecure. He’s trying to save istan should concentrate on day-American Express Pro- Fiero 108th IFA Shield where his neck,” charged his Indian proper planning for their Am Championship. they will cross swords with counterpart Harender Singh juniors instead of indulging Arjun tallied nine-under city challengers East Bengal. after learning that the Pak- in mud-slinging. 135 for the two-day tourna- The teenagers of TFA sen- istan coach has accused the The coach was surprised ment. Besides winning the sationally came back in the Indian players of foul play. that why didn’t the Pakistan best individual pro score first semi-final at the Salt Harender’s reaction came coach raise the issue in prize, Arjun Singh was also Lake Stadium on Sunday af- after Mahmood had alleged Malaysia itself. declared the overall Individ- ter twice being in the red that some members in the In- “It’s a shame that they are ual Pro winner. Arjun Atwal against the Goan elites but dia under-19 squad that won selling rubbish stories now,” finished second at six-under couldn’t produce the final the four-nation tournament he said. 138 to finish runner-up. The spark. A depleted East Ben- in Malaysia were overage. Gill had earlier rubbished trio of Jeev Milkha Singh, gal carved out a deserving 2-0 “Ayaz is making lame excus- the charges and said that Amandeep Johl and Amritin- victory over Goan chal- es to save his job since his such things would put a ques- der Singh finished tied-third lengers Vasco SC in the sec- team has been winless. Our tion mark on the future of at two-under 142 and pocket- ond semi-final. TNN boys were in superb form Indo-Pak hockey ties. ed Rs 10,000 each. PTI

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AUSTRALIAN OPEN RESULTS Men (singles), 4th rd: Juan Carlos Ferrero (4), Spain, def. Mario Ancic, Croatia, 6-0, 6-3, 6-2; Wayne Ferreira, SA def. Sargis Short Henin achieves tall target, downs Davenport Sargsian, Armenia, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Andre Agassi (2), US def. AP Guillermo Coria,Argentina, 6-1, 3-1, ret; Sebastien Grosjean (12), By Rohit Brijnath utes. A tournament waiting for a errors, was never going to con- France, def. Felix Mantilla, Spain, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. Dou- Melbourne: It was the day ten- classic was delivered one. clude so timidly.Henin-Hardenne bles, 3rd rd: Mark Knowles, Bah/Daniel Nestor (1), Canada, def. Raphael Durek/Alun Jones, Aus, 6-3, 6-3; Albert Portas/Tommy nis’ long-limbed ladies were sup- Guillermo Coria, another Argen- broke back to 4-4, Davenport Robredo, Spain, def. Martin Damm /Cyril Suk (5), Czech Rep , 7- posed to remind us that height tine who carries Vilas’ name but broke to 5-4, the Belgian evened 6 (4), 6-3; Gaston Etlis /Martin Rodriguez (16),Argentina, def. Ota and reach are invaluable assets not yet his hefty game, quickly Fukarek /Petr Luxa, Czech Republic, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3; Jeff Coetzee the match again at 5-5, even con- /Chris Haggard (12), SA def. Wayne Black /Kevin Ullyett (6), Zim- in the modern game. Mostly tired of being tutored on the art juring a matchpoint at 7-6 which babwe, 6-4, 7-5; Michael Llodra /Fabrice Santoro (8), France, def. they did, yet, ironically, it was of baseline tennis by his idol An- Davenport erased with a pound- Yves Allegro/Roger Federer, Switzerland, 6-2, 6-4 Women (sin- one of the shortest players on gles), 4th rd: Venus Williams (2), United States, def. Nicole Pratt, dre Agassi, and defaulted with ing serve. The improbable was not Australia, 6-3, 6-2; Daniela Hantuchova (7), Slovakia, def. Patty show who wrote the tallest tale. an injured foot when down 1-6, 1- enough, the impossible followed. Schnyder (12), Switzerland, 7-5, 6-3; Virginia Ruano Pascual, In the morning, No.7 seed 3. This takes to nine the players At 7-7, 0.15, Henin-Hardenne Spain, def. Denisa Chladkova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-3; Justine Henin-Hardenne (5), Belgium, def. Lindsay Davenport (9), US 7- Daniela Hantuchova, who at an who have forfeited through in- served a fault and then collapsed 5, 5-7, 9-7 Doubles, 3rd rd: Kim Clijsters, Belgium/Ai Sugiya- elegant 6ft could make a living jury, and suddenly the phrase in slow motion like an old lady ma (7), Japan, def. Kirstin Freye, Germany/Dragana Zaric, Yu- on the catwalk, produced a mod- “the last man standing” appears fainting, her body ricked with goslavia, 6-1, 6-1; Serena/Venus Williams (1), US, def. Martina Navratilova, US/Svetlana Kuznetsova (16), Russia, 6-2, 6-3; Em- el performance to hold off 5 ft to have an ominous ring to it. cramps, her face taut in agony. manuelle Gagliardi, Switzerland/Petra Mandula, Hungary, def. 6in Patty Schnyder 7-5, 6-3, while Meanwhile, Juan Carlos Fer- Justine Henin-Hardenne cries in pain during her match against Davenport at the Australian Open. She limped to the chair, was cov- Zsofia Gubacsi, Hungary/Conchita Martinez Granados, Spain, 7- No.2 seed Venus Williams, a tow- rero, the No.4 seed with clay- ered with six ice packs (to her 6 (4), 6-2; Conchita Martinez, Spain/Nadia Petrova (8), Russia, But it was Henin-Hardenne’s Davenport could not swat. When down 0.40, at which point the Bel- def.Anna Kournikova, Russia/ Chanda Rubin (9), US 6-7 (3), 6-3, ering 6ft 1inches, stooped to con- court genes, insisted he is solv- first win over Davenport in six she was up 7-5, with three oppor- gian was presented with a mid- painful hip, underarms, neck), 6-3 Mixed doubles, 1st rd: Robbie Koenig, SA/ Els Callens, Bel- quer a hustling 5 foot 4in Nicole ing the mystery of hard courts encounters that illuminated cen- tunities for a 5-1 lead in the sec- court smash that pleaded to be and then, after an injury time- gium, def. David Rikl, Czech Republic/Tina Krizan, Slovenia, 6-4, Pratt 6-3, 6-2. by chastising Mario Ancic 6-0, 6- 6-2; Martin Damm, Czech Republic/Rita Grande, Italy, def. Gas- tre court. Davenport, 175 pounds, ond, it appeared Davenport’s re- put away but which she nervous- out, returned to serve a second ton Etlis, Argentina/Silvia Farina Elia, Italy, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7); But this was only an appetiser 3, 6-2. Ferrero in full flow re- wields her racket like a baseball turn to championship form after ly deposited in the net. serve ace! Thomas Shimada/Ai Sugiyama,Japan,def.Bob Bryan,US /Kata- for the afternoon’s feast, when a minds one of a car of a similar- bat, Henin, 126 pounds, like a a knee injury was still some dis- It was a mental error that ap- Flinching on the serve but still rina Srebotnik, Slovenia, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5); Kevin Ullyett, Zimbab- diminutive Justin Henin- sounding name, but next up for we/ Daniela Hantuchova (5), Slovakia, def. Andres Schneiter, Ar- rapier. In boxing terms this ap- tance away. But Davenport, peared to gnaw at the Belgian’s running, she fought off a break gentina/Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spain, 6-1, ret; Daniel Nestor, Hardenne, a mere 5ft 5 inches, him is 31-year-old South African peared a mismatch. whose casual body language con- self-belief, for she not only lost the point, held serve, and then final- Canada/Kristie Boogert, Netherlands, def. Wayne/Cara Black (6), produced a performance that re- Wayne Ferreira, a testing en- But Henin-Hardenne’s spec- ceals a quiet determination, held second set but went down two ly,incredibly,broke Davenport to Zimbabwe, 6-3, 6-4; Mike Bryan/Lisa Raymond (2), US def. San- sulted in a standing ovation in counter for both players and don Stolle/Catherine Barclay, Australia, 6-4, 6-1; Donald John- tacular footspeed and a tenacity her serve to 3-4, and then broke breaks, 1-4, in the third. But this close the match 9-7. The epic over, son, US/Rennae Stubbs (4), Australia, def. Peter Luczak/Christi- felling 6ft 2in Lindsay Davenport commentators. Ferreira beat that would embarrass a terrier Henin-Hardenne before the tale match, where both players alter- the Belgian raised her fist and na Wheeler, Australia, 6-2, 7-6 (4); Mark Knowles, Bah/Elena 7-5, 5-7, 9-7 in 3 hours and 13 min- Sargis Sargasian 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. seemed to even the equation, and took another twist. Serving for nated between painting the court then pounded her heart. There Likhovtseva (3), Rus vs. Jeff Coetzee, SA, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russia, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4). she buzzed around like a bee the set at 6-5, Davenport went with winners and littering it with was nothing more to be said.

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