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HONG KONG As Well 19 May, 2004; NOW! 1 SBICAR Bharat Sanchar LOAN Wednesday, 19 May, 2004 Vol. 3 No. 48 Gangtok Rs. 3 Nigam Ltd. the most convenient option Cell Sanction & Disbursement ne in 1 day Lowest interest rate at 9% Connecting India No prepayment charges TALK MORE, PAY LESS No processing charge Free Call Charges in Plan 399 Loan up to 90% Lowest SMS rate @ 40 paise Free accidental death CDMA Mobile at lowest rate insurance of the Lowest Rate in Leased Line, borrower ISDN, STD/ ISD Repayment up to 84 Free unlimited talk to any 3 months numbers by paying just Rs. 75 contact PT Bhutia 98320 35786 Bulk SMS, Bulk Mail or Chettri 94340 12824 Video Conferencing, Web-Hosting ICSE SHOCKER FOR SIKKIM a NOW REPORT GANGTOK, 18 May: The ICSE QUALITY IMPROVES, QUANTITY NOSEDIVES and ISC results were declared earlier this afternoon. Sikkim once again – outsmarted boys, that total girls appearing for the exami- ISC scoresheet for the Science Agarwal with 84.5 percent. As the which has only five schools affili- is. As has been expressed by most nations failing. It has also been stream reads – total appeared 40; principal says “The results for the ated to the Delhi Board fared school staff and to put it plainly, the learnt that at the last results there total passed – 38; failed – 2. ISC have been better compara- rather poorly in the exams com- girls have done better than boys. had been no failures. Rinki Agarwal with an average tively. The girls have done better pared to past results. For Joybells School which had Of the total of 70 students from of 87 percent topped the batch of than the boys.” Many would consider the total a total of 24 students appearing for St. Xavier’s Pakyong who appeared ICSE appeared this year in the sci- At the Tashi Namgyal Acad- number of 62 failures for the ICSE the Indian Certificate of Secondary for the ICSE, 42 passed with the ence stream. Physics and Maths emy, TNA, a total of 139 students exams from Sikkim a bit on the Education (ICSE) exams 13 of remaining 28 having failed the ex- were the contentious subjects for appeared for their ICSE exams. The higher side with only 4 of the same those appeared passed the exams ams. Yumi with an average percent- the failures, it is learnt. school did very well with 100 of for the ISC examinations, some with the remaining 11 unable to age of 84.6 percent topped the For the Arts section there were them securing first division marks semblance of academic excellence make it through. Anurag Jain with school. As Fr. Jeret Lepcha, princi- a total of 38 students who appeared including 41 distinctions. TNA, has however been secured. TNA’s an overall percentage of 90 per cent pal, informs, the subject in which for the ISC and all made it through too, has its list of failures with a Subrata Pradhan with average over- is the topper here followed by the maximum number of students with Rikpa Hishey having made it total of 19 for this year. As the staff all percentage marks of 95.8 per- Chopen Sangmu who averaged 70 failed is Science. He further says better than the others - in fact the of the school say, the year’s exami- cent is barely 3 percentage points percent. Anurag’s break up of that there has been an improvement best with an average percentage of nation results for ICSE have been behind the national topper. marks in Computer Science is 92, in individual performances. 83.6 percent. the best so far qualitatively with Besides, he has also secured the English 86 and 80 in Hindi. “Though we had expected some Apart from a lone failure in the 95.8 percentage marks secured by highest ever overall percentage While talking to the staff of the failures the present results are bet- Commerce stream the rest 11 stu- Subrata Pradhan, as mentioned ear- marks in his school. And as has school, it was learnt that the sub- ter than the past ones,” he says. The dents passed their ISC exams this lier, being the best ever recorded by been the trend lately all over the ject on which most of the students ISC results of his school were also year from St. Xavier’s. In this a student in the school. country irrespective of the level of tripped over was Maths. Girls have made known. stream, the highest percentage The ISC results too have been exams, girls seem to have done it averaged better with only two of the From St. Xavier’s Pakyong the marks was secured by Babita turn to pg 7 Sonia Declines Prime Ministership a NOW REPORT orn in the small town of Orbassano in the interiors Bof Italy, this one-time wait- ress at a Greek restaurant at Cam- bridge, England, during her student years, is today the cynosure of all SCHOOLS ENTERTAIN WITH SOCIAL MESSAGES eyes Indian. That the rest of the world might well be watching is ON ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION another complimentary to the larg- TURN TO PG 3 est democracy and Sonia Gandhi, with her ascension to the threshold of the prime ministership of India, has proven India to be the greatest HONG KONG as well. HONG KONG Having led the main opposition party, the Congress (I) from the BAZAAR opposition benches of Parliament for the past five years and through the dust and grime of Elections Any Item Rs. 90 to Rs. 150 FIRST 2004 has surely proven her to be Lok Sabha the Congress has made ership has over 300 seats in the Gift Items, Crockery & Other TIME IN the gutsy, gritty and determined a marked improvement of the 112 lower house of Parliament – SIKKIM character that a woman needs to be seats managed in the 1999 elec- enough for the Congress to form Attractive Goods! to survive in the not so sublime tions. With the support of the al- the government and Sonia Gandhi world of Indian politics. lied parties of the Congress the al- to become prime minister. Today, HOTEL BAYUL, MG MARG, GANGTOK With a tally of 144 seats in the liance under Sonia Gandhi’s lead- turn to pg 4 CMYK 2; NOW!; 19 May, 2004 ED-SPACE NOW! BAD DAY IN FIRST WITH THE NEWS BAGHDAD errorists had a deadly suc Sonia Can’t Say No cess in Baghdad yesterday when a suicide car-bomber Unless there is something specifically mentioned in the Constitu- T killed Izzedine Salim, who held the tion which debars naturalised Indians from holding the Prime Minis- ter’s office, there is simply no reason why Sonia Gandhi should not rotating presidency of the Iraqi become the Prime Minister. In fact, given the mandate that has Governing Council. come Congress’ way, unless the party denies all claims to forming Meanwhile, two U.S. soldiers the government, not having Sonia as the Prime Minister would tan- were treated for exposure to Sarin tamount to pulling a hoax on Indian voters. There are many rea- nerve gas after a roadside bomb sons why Sonia cannot say no to the post. The most important improvised from a gas-laden artil- reason is that the entire Congress campaign was launched from lery shell detonated near Baghdad. her shoulders promoting her as the prime ministerial candidate. All The injuries were relatively minor the MPs that the Congress has in the Parliament today won on their - but the shell raised concerns be- individual appeal with their constituencies. None was even aspiring cause it belonged to a class of out- for the top post. The overall and admittedly surprising swing in fa- lawed ordnance that the Saddam vour of Congress at the polls came because Sonia was leading regime claimed to have destroyed from the front. Voters all over the country voted for Congress on the before the 1991 Gulf war. belief that she would be the next Prime Minister. To prop someone else to the post now would be cheating those voters. There might The suicide bombing, at a tained the nerve gas Sarin. be those even in the Congress camp who will now have us believe checkpoint immediately outside the Artillery shells are commonly elsewhere used in improvised explosive de- that the party never announced Sonia as their prime ministerial can- Green Zone (where the Coalition didate. They will find no buyers. Sad though it is, but the nation’s Provisional Authority and the IGC IRAQ / USA vices; it’s not clear if the oldest political party is nothing without Sonia. But the party’s inter- have their headquarters), killed six And the attack’s success is an- bombmakers knew that this one nal politics does not concern us here. It is Sonia and whether she other people. other sign that the terrorists have contained gas. can or cannot become the prime minister. In fact, with the public The second IGC member assas- excellent intelligence - which may Nor is it clear if the shell is evi- mandate that has come her way, even that is a redundant argu- sinated by terrorists since the coun- well be fueled by the Coalition’s dence of recent Saddam weapons- ment. Of course Sonia can become the prime minister. She should. cil was set up last July (the first was panicky decision to hire rehabili- of-mass-destruction programs or Fact remains that she held an equally important post as the Leader Aqila al Hasimi, one of three tated former Ba’athists. merely a leftover from the massive of the Opposition for the past five years and no one seemed to have women on the IGC), Salim was a It’s all too likely that terrorists gas-production program found in any problems with that.
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