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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Thursday,April 17, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 26 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Hollywood names Sedition charges Woolmer hits Bob Hope ‘Citizen slapped on VHP out at Smith’s of the Century’ hardliner Togadia appointment Page 10 Page 9 Page 15 WIN WITH THE TIMES Cars to ACs, fridges to paints – all may go off the shelves if the strike continues Bumper Photo: Sanjay Sekhri Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. What do you do when a Truckers’ stir tomato goes on strike? monsoon? You Picket. — Anonymous No chance NEWS DIGEST hits India Inc TIMES NEWS NETWORK SARS just a cold? The virus By Neera Bhardwaj & Byas Anand New Delhi: For those hoping for a re- that if this continues, refrigera- causing SARS is a new form of the TIMES NEWS NETWORK prieve from drought, the message tors and ACs will not be available common cold, scientists have con- on the shelves in a week’s time. firmed, BBC website reported. The from the meteorological department New Delhi: Fresh fruit and veg- is brutally simple: Don’t expect a Sales, needless to say, are be- WHO said tests prove it is a mutant etables are not the only items ginning to suffer with many form of the corona virus, the cause ‘‘bumper’’ monsoon this year. that will become tough to find as firms re-writing their monthly of the common cold. India Meteorological Department the truckers’ strike entered its chief R R Kelkar said on Wednesday targets. Take paint companies. Saddam reward: The US has put third day on Wednesday. Corpo- that forecasts indicate a south-west Already, the widely-distributed a reward of up to rate India has started feeling the monsoon on the ‘‘lower side of product is missing from small $200,000 on the heat, as the strike has begun towns and villages. ‘‘We moved a head of Iraqi Presi- normal’’. paralysing manufacturing and In newly-devised technical terms, lot of stocks to branches in antic- dent Saddam Hus- distribution across industries. ipation of the strike. However, sein. Posters distrib- this would be 96 per cent of the long- A cross-section of firms period average, for the June-Septem- they are since lying in the uted also offer a re- warned that if the strike contin- godowns of these centres,’’ says ward for the arrest ber season as a whole. People throng the vegetable market at Paharganj in the Capital on Wednesday ued, consumers can expect con- regional head of a leading paints of other Iraqi lead- With an error margin of five per sumer goods — from cars to ACs, company. ers, whose names cent either way, the monsoon could fridges to paint — to go off the Those in the transport busi- appear on a recently released list of inch closer to what is considered shelves in a week’s time, perhaps 55 most-wanted Iraqis. P11 normal or fall further short than pro- ness are perhaps the worst hit. THE BIG STRIKE: DAY 3 earlier. For three days now, Gati, a pack- Securing the skies: One and a jected. But it won’t be a great mon- Maruti, Telco and other vehi- soon. There is also a 21 per cent er and mover has not seen a sin- half years after the 9/11 terrorist at- cle manufacturers say they will chance of drought — defined as rain Govt says Truckers say gle truck move. ‘‘Customers mov- tacks in the US shook the entire be forced to halt production as less than 90 per cent of the long-period “ We have enough stocks for 15 “ We have exempted trucks ing cities to new jobs are suffer- world, the authorities are trying to raw material supplies dry up. average — as well. days. We will cancel the licence of carrying perishable ing,’’ says RD Chaudhry,regional make the airspace over Delhi and Delhi Safal Stalls Says Maruti’s managing director IMD, however, is saying nothing on head, Gati. other metropolises more secure. P8 Potato 5.00 7.00 any trader immediately if found essentials from our strike. Jagdish Khattar: ‘‘We cannot last the timing of the monsoon. The dates Companies are now making hoarding or rumour mongering.” This applies all over India. beyond a couple of days.’’ Silent radar: India has developed will only come by May-end. Onion 7.50 10.00 contingency plans. Kapil Kapoor, Member tankers are Telco has been using its own a low-probability intercept radar for The forecast, released on Wednes- Tomato 12.00 16.00 but... “We have no control over MD, Timex Watches, says: ‘‘The naval applications. It cannot be taking gas, oil and milk day, is driven home by new models Banana 15.90 24.00 the vendor in the street.” vehicles to ferry components courier companies are already detected by an incoming aircraft and across the country. which have enabled the department to Brinjal 12.00 18.00 — Shailja Chandra, Chief Secy, Delhi from vendors to the plant at unable to move stocks by road. can escape from an anti-radiation but... “ They will stop Pune. How long this solution will We are now working out plans to missile attack. P7 make initial assessments well ahead Elsewhere of the usual May-end schedule, giving CHECK PRICES AT if talks with last is not known as drivers fear send supplies by air.” Comment: Hacker cracker?: Ankit Fadia a longer lead time. Kolkata Earlier Now 27121044 (control room of government do not get that striking truckers might re- If they don’t want to boasts about being a hacker, as the Comment: Let’s hope the old jokes Tomato 6.00 10.00 APMC) or on anywhere on Thursday.” sort to violence. completely alienate public sym- pathy, truckers should go back to 17-year-old says they are ‘‘good about the weatherman’s accuracy — Cabbage 3.00 8.00 www.delagrimarket.com — Baba Sahib Dhumal, president, Cons umer electronics compa- guys’’ who spot loopholes in web- or rather, the lack of it — come true. AIMTC, truckers union nies are already facing such work, while negotiating with the sites and not ‘‘crackers’’ who misuse Mumbai fears. ‘‘Our trucks are stuck at authorities the best deal they can Or it could be a very grim year indeed Tomatoes 12.00 24.00 this ability to do illegal things. P7 for the economy and people in THE GOOD NEWS: Mango prices tumble as there are no various places as truckers are get with retrospective effect. Cauliflower18.00 30.00 Edit: Truckload of Trouble Elephant probe: A three-member drought-affected areas. trucks to take them away chary of taking them forward,” All prices are per kg More reports on page 8 committee of experts began its in- More reports on Page 8 says one. The industry estimates quiry into the controversial death of a rogue elephant calf in Chhattisgarh RAIN SPOTTING by viewing the footage shot by wildlife filmmaker Mike Pandey’s team and discussed it with the lady under fire for the calf’s death — Outsourcing? US tax returns calculated here ‘elephant woman’ Parbati Barua. P9 By Chidanand Rajghatta India, a development that has led to turns numbering hundreds to India sults. They seem very satisfied with TB detection: Scientists are TIMES NEWS NETWORK quite a stir in the accounting commu- after a pilot study last year showed en- the quality, not to speak of the speed developing ‘‘Bio-MeMs’’-based mi- nity. Numbers are hard to pin down, couraging results. and cost factors, says Bill Carlino, Ed- cro diagnostic kits to detect tuber- Washington: Millions of Americans but according to Kishore Mirchan- The business is still in its infancy, itor-in-Chief of the journal Account- culosis that will reduce time taken to sweated it out on Tuesday, struggling dani, President of Outsource Part- but we are looking at over 100,000 re- ing Today, which has tracked the identify the disease from over a 21% probability of drought to meet the deadline April 15 — for fil- week to a few hours. ners International, the firm that turns going to India this coming year, trend over the past year. 39% probability below normal ing their annual tax returns as ac- claims to have triggered the develop- says Mirchandani, whose firm has a Expectedly,not everyone is thrilled countants and post offices stayed YOU SAID IT by Laxman 14% probability near normal ment, more than 10,000 returns went 300-person operation in Bangalore with the outsourcing of what some open late to accommodate the lag- to India for scrutiny this year. and is looking to expand because of regard as sensitive financial 23% probability above normal gards. Many will be hoping the Indi- The accounting firm Ernst and the growing demand. Several tradi- information. In the latest issue, the ans have lived up to their reputation probability excess Young alone is believed to have for- tional American firms are also lining magazine Practical Accountant ran a 3% for sound number-crunching. warded 7500 American tax returns to up to send returns to India, after pilot column by a New York accounting • It will be a normal monsoon In keeping with the great outsourc- its subsidiary in India after transfer- projects showed significant reduc- professor questioning the trend on • New model enables early forecast ing trend that has swept across Amer- ring a tax partner familiar with U.S tions in costs and turnaround times. grounds of security and job loss to • Built on 38 years’ data. ican businesses, thousands of US tax tax laws there.