*TOID90603/ /01/K/1*/01/Y/1*/01/M/1*/01/C/1* New Delhi, Monday,June 9, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 42 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International City Report Times Sport The Clintons sought If you’re chasing the Lara fails to marriage counselling good life, the suburbs save Windies after Monica affair are the place for you against Lanka Page 12 Page 2 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES Down Under, Indians thunder Good news US looks to Monsoon arrives, many Established 1838 AP Kerala areas get good rainfall Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Dust haze blows over but Peace, prosperity, liberty Delhi rain only by month-end and morals have an intimate Coming connection. cash in on Rain over some southern soon and eastern states — Thomas Jefferson Advani visit Breathe easy, the rain has landed Focus on Iraq, military bases and is moving up By Chidanand Rajghatta Also on the table will be TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK the issue of Indian military bases and training facilities New Delhi: The rain gods finally relent- Washington: A meeting for the US, amid a burgeon- ed, with the south-west monsoon hitting with the high priests of Pen- ing defence relationship that Kerala on Sunday, a week behind sched- tagon precedes one with the has already seen joint exer- ule. Several parts of the state reported pandas of Washington’s Dur- cises of the kind Washington ‘‘good rainfall’’. The advent of the mon- ga Temple for Deputy Prime usually reserves for its allies soon over Kerala seems to have brought Minister L K Advani, who ar- like Japan and South Korea. hope to several other parts of the coun- rived in the US on a week- try, reeling under severe heat wave con- NEWS DIGEST long visit, amid a political American ships and planes now have a case-by- ditions for the last few weeks. flap at home but high expec- The met office says the heat wave con- UP Oppn retracts: Apparently tations here. case access to Indian bases, lacking the numbers to topple the but recent reports suggest ditions are likely to abate in the next 48 The city and the govern- hours in the worst-hit state of Andhra Mayawati government, the four ma- ment were closed for the that the Pentagon is keen on jor Opposition parties in Uttar a formal, long-term arrange- Pradesh, as well as Chhattisgarh. weekend, but Advani — who The met department also said with the Pradesh on Sunday decided not arrived in New York on Sat- ment. US military officials to parade the MLAs supporting south-west monsoon having advanced urday and took a train Sun- made a strong pitch for such them before governor Vishnu Kant a deal in a recent Pentagon into Kerala and south Tamil Nadu, con- Shastri. P7 day morning to get to Wash- ditions are now favourable for its ad- ington — headed straight to report titled, ‘‘Indo-US Mili- tary Relationship: Expecta- vance into coastal and south interior PM’s bonus for Nagaland: Prime the Pentagon. Karnataka within two days. Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on tions and Perceptions.’’ The The fact that Defence Sec- The department said: ‘‘The off-shore Sunday announced a Rs 365 crore report also makes scalding retary Donald Rumsfeld and trough in the east Arabian Sea is now ‘‘peace bonus’’ for Nagaland. He observations about what US his aides felt it necessary to well marked. The monsoon south-west- also promised ‘‘new steps’’ to en- officials see as Indian cussed- fit in a Sunday appointment erlies have strengthened and deepened. courage economic activity and en- ness and rigidity in its deal- — it was not on the original Seasonal monsoon trough has become hance employment opportunities in ing with the US military. schedule — points to the ur- more organised.’’ J&K, Nagaland and Mizoram. P11 While the controversial re- gent order of business be- In Kerala, among the areas that re- port points to lot of hiccups Vohra in Jammu: Centre’s inter- tween the two sides. ported ‘‘good rainfall’, were Kozhikode at the operational level, given locutor on Jammu and Kashmir, N N Topping the agenda is the (14 cm), Kochi (8 cm), and Aleppey (7 cm). Vohra, arrived in Jammu on Sunday the little military interaction immediate question of Indi- Rain or thundershowers have oc- on a week-long visit, for the second an troops for Iraq, where the between the two sides for curred at many places in Nagaland-Ma- round of talks with political and so- American military is getting decades, Rumsfeld and his cial leaders. P6 nipur-Mizoram-Tripura and West Ben- bogged down in an increas- Pentagon aides seem keen to gal and Sikkim and at a few places in As- Farooq faces probe: The J&K ingly hostile situation. New bring about greater strategic sam and Meghalaya, Orissa, Jharkhand, government has asked the state vig- Delhi has so far hedged on US coherence by bringing India Bihar,east UP,Uttaranchal, east Madhya ilance department to proceed with request on various technical into some sort of security SWEET REVENGE: Gagan Ajit Singh beats Australian goalkeeper Stephen Lambert and defender Pradesh and Lakshadweep and at isolat- an inquiry against former chief min- grounds, but Rumsfeld is ex- arrangement. Bevan George to score India’s second goal in the final of the three-nation tournament in ed places in Chhattisgarh, Rayalaseema, ister Farooq Abdullah and five senior pected to aggressively push For more go to Sydney on Sunday. India beat Australia 5-3 to avenge their loss last week. Report on page 17 Tamil Nadu and south Karnataka. officials on the charge of swindling for a commitment. www.timesofindia.com public money. P6 Dossier goof-up: Tony Blair’s 11 Shia police closest advisors have expressed re- Politicians keep off Ayodhya, says Kanchi seer gret over the UK government’s lack of ‘‘care’’ in using and publicising in- trainees shot telligence data on Iraq’s weapons of By Mahendra Ved politicians would have to be kept as with neighbouring countries, worded Hindi speech, inter- Gandhi and the Congress that mass destruction. P13 TIMES NEWS NETWORK out of the issue. and Ayodhya was ‘‘a link in this spersed with Sanskrit shlokas, they should seek inspiration from dead in Pak The seer said his continuing ef- chain’’. The court was expected to she cautioned against ‘‘basing so- the true tolerance and liberalism by Laxman New Delhi: Prime Minister Vaj- forts in this direction could suc- give its verdict soon and the issue ciety on hatred’’. that is characteristic of ‘Higher YOU SAID IT Quetta: Eleven police payee on Sunday declared his ceed if there is ‘‘government’s as- could be resolved, either by this She stressed: ‘‘We cannot Hinduism’. We are gratified that TOI Archives trainees from Pakistan’s mi- government’s keenness to resolve surance (ashwasan), swami’s ef- verdict or a negotiated settle- change history. But we can learn they seem to be paying heed to nority Shia Muslim commu- the Ayodhya tangle and received nity were shot dead and an- fort (prayas) and the Muslim com- ment, he said. But both were ‘‘not lessons from it. At the same time, our suggestion. Because the infu- support and blessings from one of munity’s cooperation and confi- exclusive’’ and they could be com- repeating past mistakes to uphold sion of genuine spiritual values, other nine injured in a sec- the country’s highest seers, Shan- tarian attack in Quetta on dence (vishwas’’. bined to arrive at a solution. traditions would be wrong.’’ as opposed to distortion of reli- karacharya Jayendra Saraswati Sunday,police said. It was a significant move by Va- Even more significant was the Perspective: In our Speaking gion, cannot but have a vastly of Kanchi Kama Koti Peetham. ‘‘Two men came riding on jpayee, who declared his govern- presence of Congress chief Sonia Tree column, published on June 6 beneficial impact on the function- a motorbike and opened fire But the Shankaracharya put a ment had brought the country Gandhi, who did not directly re- (‘Soniaji, Hinduism is Not Just ing of our polity. with a Kalashnikov at the ve- stipulation that politics and into the ‘‘problem-solving phase’’, spond to Vajpayee. But in a well- Ramayana’), we had indicated to Picture on page 6 hicle carrying the police re- Reuters cruits to their school at 4.00 pm,’’ Raja Ishtiaq, the officer Haryana goes in charge of a local police sta- tion, said. back to glass Police pull fast ‘‘Ten others were injured in the shoot-out while five remained unhurt,’’ syringes Ishtiaq said. one in poet case Sure, I would love to — for how ‘‘It is a sectarian attack be- By Manvir Saini many days? cause all the police cadets TIMES NEWS NETWORK By Hina Kausar Alam TIMES NEWS NETWORK New twist were from the Shia sect,’’ the Panchkula: It’s back to the deputy inspector general of basics for health authorities Lucknow: The Uttar Balochistan police, Hu- in Haryana. At a time when Pradesh police appear to mayun Jogezai, said. there is no alternative to sin- have played out a farcical ‘‘We were returning to po- gle-exposure disposable sy- probe into the murder of lice training school from our ringes across the world, it poet Madhumita Shukla, homes after spending the has been decided to discon- especially on the much- weekend and suddenly two indiatimes.com POLL tinue their use in all govern- awaited DNA fingerprint- men came on a motorbike ment hospitals across the ing of a foetus purported Do you see Bhindranwale’s and open fire on our vehicle,’’ state, to make way for re-us- to be from her womb.