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WIN WITH THE TIMES Balloons today, books tomorrow Cut-offs for PTI Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Army brass wants popular Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep courses dip us out of war. cast-iron camps TIMES NEWS NETWORK — Maria Montessori New Delhi: There is good By Rajat Pandit Bracing up ta-based 16 Corps com- news for students waiting for NEWS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK mander Lt-Gen T P S Brar the second cut-off list. Cut-off •New plan underway and other senior officers. percentages for hot-selling New Delhi: Army head- Sources said the stepped- Minor tortured to death: A mi- quarters has taken a ‘‘seri- to fortify J&K camps courses like commerce and nor, working as a domestic help in up measures would include ous view’’ of the security economics have dipped by the house of a former SP MLA in Includes brick walls, brick walls, 15-feet-high lapse which allowed the fi- • one to two per cent. A few Hardoi, died of torture inflicted by electrified fences and electrified barbed wire popular colleges such as Hin- dayeen squad to storm the his employer’s family who suspected sanitised corridors fences and ‘‘sanitised corri- du, Kirori Mal, Bhagat Singh Sunjivan Army camp near him of theft, police has said. P11 dors’’ around Army camps, have, however, closed admis- Jammu on Saturday and •Patrolling to be wherever possible, to make sion in these courses. CAS meeting today: The big gun down 12 soldiers and stepped up them more secure. Pa- While the cut-off percent- broadcasters will have a meeting wound seven. trolling around the camps age for B Com (Hons) in pop- with the government on Monday. In the aftermath of the will also be bolstered to de- ular colleges such as Hindu, They are likely to inform which of horrific Kaluchak camp be remembered that no their channels would stay pay, and camp can be made fully im- tect ‘‘suspicious activity’’. Hansraj, Gargi went down by massacre in May 2002 — This becomes imperative their individual prices. Some of the pregnable. If a brain- roughly one per cent, in oth- which almost led to a war since repeated attacks on broadcasters have already indicated washed, heavily-armed je- ers such as AND, ARSD, B R with Pakistan, the Army Army or paramilitary the prices of their channels. P7 hadi is hell-bent on com- Ambedkar, College of Voca- top brass had ordered that camps by fidayeen gunmen mitting suicide, it’s diffi- tional Studies fell substan- Security breach: A security security in and around all can create morale problems cult to stop him,’’ said tially by two to three per breach was prevent- such camps in J&K should for troops, already engaged cent. A dip of 0.1 per cent af- ed in the high-secu- an officer. be swiftly upgraded to in nerve-wrecking counter- fects 50 to 60 students, while a rity cavalcade of While that may well be thwart fidayeen attacks. insurgency operations. decrease by one to two per Prime Minister Vaj- true, the Sunjivan incident But it’s quite apparent It was the Pak-backed cent affects hundreds. payee on Sunday in that the measures have not has certainly sent shock Laskhar-e-Taiba which in- Chanakyapuri when In history and psychology, worked, with the two ter- waves down the South troduced such suicide at- two motorcycle- the cut-off dipped by about rorists on Saturday even Block corridors, with borne youths were tacks in J&K in the post- one point in most colleges. managing to reach the bar- Army chief General N C Vij Kargil period. Contrary to that, there was a stopped from going rushing to Jammu on Sun- past the barricade installed near racks inside the Sunjivan One of the first such ma- marginal decrease in the cut- Teen Murti. P2 camp and killing the day to review the situation. jor attack was on the off of BA vocational sub- jawans sleeping there. Gen Vij discussed steps Badamibagh cantonment jects. In the College of Voca- VHP attacks PM: Close on the ‘‘The court of inquiry or- to fortify all Army camps in in Srinagar, the headquar- tional Studies, the dip for In- heels of the RSS attack on PM over dered into the Sunjivan in- J&K in his meeting with ters of the 15 Corps, in No- surance, IRPM, R&T was a Kashmir, the VHP has asked Advani cident will pinpoint the Northern Command chief vember 1999, which left rough 0.25 per cent, while in to quit the government if he finds lapses. It should, however, Lt-Gen Hari Prasad, Nagro- nine soldiers dead. Vajpayee a hurdle in the path to tem- subjects like OMSP, the cut- ple construction at Ayodhya. P11 off remained constant. But there are a few sur- New Pak envoy: Pakistan’s High prises too. At least three col- Commissioner-designate to India ‘If Tibet, why not J&K?’ leges — Daulat Ram, Hindu Aziz Ahmad Khan will reach India to- and Ramjas — declared ad- day after crossing the Wagah border Islamabad: Describing Autonomous ‘‘roadmap’’ on Kashmir mission closed in Hindi to formally restore high-level diplo- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Region was with a mediation from a (Hons) in the first list itself. matic ties between the countries. Vajpayee as a ‘‘man of part of the third party, Musharraf said Cut-offs for both Sanskrit More power: Delhi’s power woes peace’’, Pakistan president territory of India had been rejecting and Hindi dip the most in ma- could be over by 2005. The Cabinet Pervez Musharraf on Sun- the People’s third-party mediation. jority of the colleges. has cleared the PowerGrid Corpora- BYE, FREEDOM: Schools reopen on Monday. Children make the most of the last day said he hoped the ‘‘flex- Republic of ‘‘I have given my four- Science courses offered lit- tion’s joint venture with Tata Power Sunday of their summer vacation at India Gate. ibility’’ India had shown on China. point formula of step by tle hope for students, reflect- for laying a transmission line to wh- Tibet during the Indian But Vaj- step approach. Till India ing the increased popularity eel up to 3,000 MW from Bhutan. P3 leader’s recent China visit Musharraf payee clari- and Pakistan are not sin- of the courses. Hindu, Han- happened in the case of fied on Fri- cere in finding a solution to sraj, Kirori Mal and Humane Delhi Police: A year af- Kashmir also. day that the statement laid Kashmir, there could be Venkateswara closed admis- ter he took over as the commission- Niazi’s gun hasn’t run ‘‘The flexibility India has emphasis on Tibet being an no momentum. Kashmiris sion in Physics (Hons), while er of Delhi Police, R S Gupta feels shown on Tibet is a wel- autonomous region. have to be involved in any Dayal Singh, Hindu and that the Delhi Police has started to TIMES NEWS NETWORK over to Lt-Gen Aurora was a proper come sign. One can only Replying to a question on eventual solution,’’ he said. Ramjas closed admission in transform into a more friendly and a service weapon of the Pakistan Army. It New Delhi: The Army on Sunday hope it happens in the case India’s stand on Tibet, Mu- Addressing a meeting in Chemistry (Hons). Similarly, humane force. P5 was a revolver, not a pistol,’’ said an clarified that the weapon handed over of Kashmir too,’’ Mushar- sharraf told the TV chan- Los Angeles, Musharraf a large number of colleges, by Lt-Gen A K A Niazi to Lt-Gen J S Army officer. raf said during his visit to nel that ‘‘at Agra, Vajpayee claimed India is buying including Dayal Singh, Han- by Laxman YOU SAID IT Aurora, Eastern Army Commander ‘‘The weapon handed over by Niazi Los Angeles in an inter- and me had agreed that weapons from ‘‘all round sraj, Hindu, Ramjas and during Pakistan’s surrender in the 1971 was a .38 calibre revolver which Lt-Gen view aired by Pakistan’s there could be no peace in the world’’ and this should Khalsa, closed admission in war at Dhaka, was in safe custody at Aurora, in turn, presented to the IMA,’’ Geo TV. the sub-continent without be stopped. B Sc (Hons) Maths. the Indian Military Academy museum he said. The pistol stolen from the mar- In the joint declaration the solution of Kashmir’’. Ruling out a war with In- The cut-off for Botany, in Dehradun. itime heritage hall of the National Mu- signed by Vajpayee and his About remarks made by dia, he said there should be however, fell from 74 to 70 in The pistol stolen from the National seum could be one of the weapons sur- Chinese counterpart Wen external affairs minister strategic balance in the Daulat Ram, 78 to 76 in Gargi, Museum in the Capital on Saturday rendered by other Pakistan military of- Jiabao earlier this week, In- Sinha, rejecting his propos- South Asian region. PTI 77 to 75 in Hansraj and 71 to ‘‘could’’ have been that of another ficers during the surrender, he added. dia agreed that the Tibetan al for a West-Asia type of Musharraf’s lies nailed: P13 67 in Khalsa College. Pakistani officer. ‘‘The weapon handed Naval gallery closed: P3 Cut-off list: P2 Rain check Sunday, Monsoon misses date June 29 Delhi TIMES NEWS NETWORK terns, with the easterlies looking more kindly on these areas, for the much- New Delhi: Don’t be fooled by the brief awaited monsoon to bring relief from Sunday showers. The met office says the heat and dust. the monsoon is still a couple of days Rain, said Kalsi, has been good in east Must be a thoroughly spoilt brat, Kolkata away from Delhi. If it had kept its date of Bihar, even in parts of eastern UP, making his poor father carry his with the Capital, monsoon should have and along the west coast. Not much ac- school books! June 28 stepped in on Sunday. tivity is expected at the moment in cen- Mumbai Chennai On Sunday, S R Kalsi, additional di- tral and western India. rector-general of the Indian Meteoro- ‘‘Though light amount of rainfall was logical Department, said there was no recorded in Delhi and nearby areas in sign of the easterlies which would bring the last 24 hours, it does not fit into the Less soon monsoon in the monsoon. In other words, the cir- parameters which are required to de- • Pre-monsoon showers culation patterns which define the mon- clare a monsoon,’’ said an IMD official. in parts of the Capital soon’s arrival just aren’t in place. Flow of westerly winds over north- indiatimes.com POLL • Monsoon late by 2-3 Kalsi said what Delhi is witnessing is ern plains would take some time to stop. the westerly flow. The showers, too, are Would Bollywood films without days due to changed Delhi and its nearby areas, however, are song-and-dance sequences make circulation pattern over due to this. ‘‘We had seen the western expected to receive pre-monsoon show- for better viewing? northern plains disturbance over Pakistan in the morn- ers in the next two days, he said. ing, it drifted southeast,’’ he said. So There was a delay of about a week in Yes 54% No 46% • Rains continued to lash rest of the country, parts of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal the arrival of monsoon over eastern VOTE NOW: Do you think India should including neighbours Pradesh and Delhi saw rain. and central parts of the country, except legalise gay marriages? Punjab and Himachal But Delhi and its neighbourhood in south Rajasthan where it came be- Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 need a change in the circulation pat- fore its expected date, said the official. WEATHER Perfect at 10, successful ever after o o Max. 38.8 C/Min. 25.4 C Ajit Ninan Moonset: Monday – 8.10 pm By John Elliott and Zoe Thomas and Tom Schuller, said the findings Moonrise: Tuesday – 6.31 am London: Researchers have identi- were “quite remarkable” and “high- Sunset: Monday – 7.23 pm fied personality traits in 10-year- ly significant”. Sunrise: Tuesday – 5.27 am olds that can determine how “This shows the curriculum Mainly cloudy sky. Rain/thundershowers successful they are likely to be needs broadening away from nar- likely in some areas. Maximum as adults. row concerns of competence, more relative humidity on Saturday 84% and towards a wider sense of the pas- minimum 40%. While the team from London Uni- versity found that badly behaved toral aspects of children’s lives and their social and personal develop- children are more likely to turn into ment,” he said. Book your Classifieds dysfunctional adults, they also un- The research found that children 24 hours service: “51-666-888” covered unexpected attributes that who fidgeted, destroyed their be- help predict success. Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” longings, were disobedient and bul- The ATM of information Contrary to the expectations of lied others — “externalising behav- researchers, children who were of- The Largest Classifieds Site iour” — were more likely than oth- ten worried, frequently played on ers to be dissatisfied with their their own, cried a lot and were fussy adult lives. and fearful had a tendency to devel- Children who stole, got into fights * 20 + 8 pages of Delhi Times op into successful adults. project tracking the lives over 30 and told lies were also more likely + 20 pages of Education Times This “internalising behaviour” as years of 12,000 people born in 1970, than their less troublesome a child meant that, as an adult, a were presented at a seminar at 11 peers to be unhappy in later life. person was less likely to smoke, Downing Street last week. They had a greater chance of being turn to crime as a man or become a Although there have been similar out of work, smoking and not voting teenage mother as a woman. The re- studies before, none has looked so in elections. searchers said this could be because closely at the social factors in youth However, children who had solitary children tend to make up that can predict success in later life. plenty of self-esteem and had their own minds rather than submit Professor John Bynner of London good friendships with other chil- to peer pressure. University, who wrote the report dren enjoyed better chances of suc- The findings, part of a research with his colleagues Leon Feinstein cess as adults. Sunday Times, London
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Fun, food at own risk Mohammed Ilyas By Bhadra Sinha reported on the same day station. TIMES NEWS NETWORK from the same place. ‘‘Two In her complaint, Jain said cases were registered in one when the family members New Delhi:If ever Gaurav day.It seems that few days be- went back to the locker after Gidwani decides to make an- fore these incidents another having tried the rides, they other trip to Fun and Food theft took place. This was, noticed that the lock of their Village, he is sure to carry an extra set of clothes. Gid- however, not reported to the locker was lying broken. wani’s trip to the amusement police,’’ an official said. When they did not find any of park on last Tuesday turned The management of the their belongings, the Jain into a damp squib. Gidwani amusement park started put- family called for the manag- had to return home draped in ting stickers asking visitors er. When the manager re- a towel, bor- to leave their belongings at minded them about the stick- rowed from their own risk. But Gidwani er, the latter claimed there TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA the amuse- claimed there was no such was none on their locker. ‘‘To A-2/14, SAFDARJUNG ENCLAVE, NEW DELHI-110 029 ment park’s sticker. While he had the key, save their skin, the manager Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) an Autonomous Body set up by an Act of management the duplicate one was with asked his men to put the the management. sticker on the locker. We, Parliament, invites tender for Security Agency for the office premise. Interested par- after his The other complainant, however, protested and as a ties may collect the specifications for bid from the undersigned free of cost and sub- clothes were stolen from whose clothes and Rs 18,000 result a crowd collected near- mit their quotes upto 15.00 hours on 18.07.2003. The quotes of the firms must be the locker. were stolen, too supported by,’’Jain said. accompanied by an earnest money of Rs. 10,000/- in the form of Demand Draft Although Gidwani. Promila Jain said It was this commotion that drawn in favour of TRAI. the police did she and her family members brought Gidwani to the lock- The quotations will be opened at 15.30 hours on 18.07.2003. register the were shocked to see their er room, where he discovered Sd/- case, they are locker empty. Only the car that his belongings were Sr. Research Officer (GA) rather sur- keys were left there. But stolen too. While the Jain Tele: 26101934 Fax: 26103294 prised since a what really bewildered her family atleast found a few of similar theft davp 1308/11/2003 was that two of stolen items their clothes, Gidwani failed incident was were found at the local police to find even a single one. Release compensation: SC New Delhi:The Delhi High Court on Friday ordered the re- lease of Rs seven crore, deposited by erstwhile Delhi Vidyut Board, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and Delhi Police, to the relatives of 59 people who died in the Uphaar tragedy in 1997. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Pradeep Nandrajog passed an order while hearing a petition moved by DVB seek- ing directions to the registrar general to accept a cheque of Rs 2.45 crore. TNN Shankar Sawhney and Ruchita Puri judge the junior RJ hunt at Radio Mirchi Summer Carnival which concluded at Pragati Maidan on Sunday. Security breach in PM’s cavalcade averted
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi:A security breach was narrowly pre- vented in the high-security cavalcade of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Sunday afternoon in Chanakyapuri area. Two motorcycle-borne youths were stopped from going past the barricade installed near Teen Murti. The two were, however, detained because they were reportedly speeding.‘‘The motorcycle hit the barricade which was installed minutes before the cavalcade had to pass the route,’’ an officer said. The two persons, identified as Bhupinder Singh and Ravinder, attempted to cross over the securi- ty barricade near Teen Murti, set up to facilitate the passage of the Prime Minister’s motorcade coming from the Research and Referral hospital where he underwent an eye surgery. Alert securi- tymen immediately stopped the youths. The two said they were unaware of the security restric- tions and had breached it unconditionally. They said they were residents of Gole market.
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Robbers beat woman and child to death: A brick kiln contractor’s JNU results: The Jawaharlal Nehru University has declared results for 35-year-old wife and 14-year-old son were brutally beaten death and his the 2003-04 entrance examinations in Sociology, Philosophy, Community mother severely injured, by unidentified robbers on Saturday night. The Health, Social Medicine among others. Students will be called for viva- Naval gallery closed assailants decamped with cash and jewellery. TNN voice. Students can check their results on website: results.inu.ac.in. TNN TIMES NEWS NETWORK was, however, the most important. (In)security update The police are also gathering in- New Delhi: A day after the theft of formation from the closed circuit There are 225 CCTVs a .38 calibre Chinese pistol was re- • televisions (CCTV) installed at the installed inside the National ported from the National Museum, museum. There was no CCTV Museum the authorities have closed the stalled inside the Naval gallery. Naval Gallery where the weapon •One CCTV, each, at the ‘‘From the CCTV we are trying to was on display. entry and the exit gate read Ali’s movements and find out They,however,refused to specify who did he speak to on that day,’’ for how long the gallery will re- • There is no CCTV inside the the officer said. main closed. Naval Gallery He added that even though it Crime branch officials, mean- would be a long process, it might while, continued to question the nam. help them to get some lead in the guard, Akbar Ali on whose state- At present Ali is a resident of investigation. ‘‘We will identify all ment the police registered a case. Naraina. The police have also those persons and then question Although the finger-prints lifted questioned B R Saini, the second them,’’ the officer said. from the fibre-glass box displaying Navy guard who was absent on According to him the missing the pistol resemble Ali’s, a police Saturday when the incident took weapon could be somewhere in- officer said it cannot conclusively place. ‘‘It was not an official holi- side the museum and has been prove his involvement.‘‘He claims day for Saini. The two guards have stolen in connivance with a muse- he touched the box daily,’’ the offi- worked on a mutual agreement for um official. The museum is being cer added. taking leaves,’’ the officer added. thoroughly checked by the CISF Whoever stole the pistol, un- During questioning, the police personnel. ‘‘If the thief had at- screwed one side of the box and asked Saini whether Ali showed tempted to sneak out the weapon stole it. During his interrogation an extra interest in the pistol. Sai- from any one of the three exit Ali told the police that he joined ni replied in the negative. ‘‘The gates, the metal detector would the Navy in 1985. Before coming to two are responsible for guarding have beeped and raised an alarm. Delhi two years ago, he was posted around 80 items inside the Naval Nothing of this sort was report- at Cochin, Goa and Vishakapat- gallery,’’ the officer said. The pistol ed,’’ the officer added. Fee hike: Students who want to enrol for the Delhi University’s School of Correspondence New line to give Studies will not have to pay more fees. The deci- sion to hike the fees was approved by the DU executive council in its meeting held on Saturday. BA/B Com students will have to pay 3,000 MW to city Rs 2,000 per annum as compared to the earlier Rs 1,300. MA/M Com students will have to pay By Sanjay Dutta Rs 3,500 as compared to the which is consuming 3150 earlier figure of Rs 1,500. The TIMES NEWS NETWORK MW, would need at least 300 council also approved a need- MW extra each year. The based rebate scheme. TNN New Delhi: Delhi’s power Tala transmission link will woes could be over by 2005, improve availability in Delhi with the Cabinet on Saturday as well as other deficit north- clearing state-owned trans- ern states,’’ Shahi said. mission utility PowerGrid Singh said the 1,600-km- Corporation’s joint venture long transmission line would with Tata Power for laying a be laid jointly by the two transmission line to wheel companies at a cost of Rs up to 3,000 MW electricity to 1,100 crore, but PowerGrid it- Delhi from Bhutan. self would construct the sub- Confirming the move, stations at a cost of Rs 900 PowerGrid chairman R P crore. Singh said the Tatas Singh said the power will be were taken as a partner after brought from Bhutan’s 1,000 National Grid of the UK ex- MW Tala, Bengal’s 500 mw cused itself saying it had a Teesta and other hydel as more lucrative $6 billion US well as coal-burning projects project. that are to go on stream in Singh said International the eastern and north-east- Finance Corporation, the ern parts. Asian Development Bank Power secretary R V Shahi and State Bank of India have said Delhi’s need for electric- evinced interest in providing ity is growing at over 10 per the Rs 770 crore loan compo- cent each year.‘‘At a very con- nent without any counter- servative estimate, Delhi, guarantee from the Centre. Fine print is no excuse, firms still liable By Pushpa Girimaji ing to Tip Top Dry clean- ers, Ranchi, on the due Have date. you ever Meanwhile, a fire com- looked pletely destroyed all the at the goods at the dry cleaners fine premises. print on When Kumar asked the a cash dry cleaner to make good receipt his loss, the dry cleaner issued pointed to the conditions by a re- printed on the back of the tailer? If you check it care- receipt. One such condi- fully, you will find a series tion was that the dry of terms and conditions cleaners liability ceased that impose unreasonable after two months if deliv- restrictions on the rights ery was not taken on due of consumers. date. Goods once sold will not The dry cleaner said be taken back or ex- this absolved him of any changed is a common con- liability.When pressed fur- dition that can be seen on ther, he pointed to another almost all receipts. condition that said: In case Similarly, if you scruti- of fire, theft, misplace- nise the receipts of dry ment or interchange, the cleaners, you may find liability of the dry cleaner terms that is limited to limit their only 50 per liability. cent of the For many CHECK OUT cost of the years, shop- clothes. keepers have used such He eventually paid Ku- one-sided conditions to es- mar only Rs 5,000 towards cape responsibility for the the cost of a suit, two poor quality of goods sold coats, one shirt and a tie. or services rendered. But Disgusted, Kumar today, they are not even knocked at the doors of the worth the paper they are District Consumer Dis- printed on. putes Redressal Forum, A recent order of the which awarded him Rs National Consumer Dis- 15,350. putes Redressal Commis- On the ground that this sion has cleared any went against the condi- doubts that consumers tions printed on the re- may have had on that ceipt, the dry cleaner ap- score. pealed against it, only to The central issue in this be rejected by the highest case was whether the consumer court in the drycleaner can use the country — the National conditions printed on the Commission. back of the receipt to es- In an earlier order too, cape his liability for the the National Commission goods accepted for dry had held that the condi- cleaning. tions in small print limit- Sunil Kumar, the com- ing the liability of a couri- plainant, had not taken de- er were not valid as the livery of the clothes that customers’ attention was he had given for dry clean- not drawn to it.
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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at many places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, NATIONAL Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripua, West Bengal and ‘Everything Mumbai: I-A 0700, Sikkim, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Who’s responsible for Delhi? 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Chattisgarh, Coastal Andhra 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Pradesh, Rayalaseema, coastal Karnataka Kerala and Lakshadweep 2300 Jet Air 0650, MCD, NDMC, DDA, Delhi government... there’s a surfeit of agencies which are suposed to run 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, and at a few places over the rest of the country outside west ra- 1935, 2030, 2200, jasthan where it will occur at isolated places. Delhi. Do they use this fact to pass the buck, and run away from their responsibilities? Then, what is chaotic’ Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD 1520, 1800, 2025 Mustafa Khan KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min happens to the citizen seeking solutions to poor sanitation, dug-up roads, and projects wasting 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 38 29 Guwahati 31 25 Amsterdam 27 16 Executive with a consultancy firm Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 29 25 Dehradun 32 25 Bahrain 37 28 our money with needless delays at ITO Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 38 23 H’bad 32 25 Bangkok 33 25 The agencies work at cross-pur- CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 31 26 Indore 32 23 Beijing 31 17 By Shubhajit Roy and Himanshi Dhawan 0640,0955★★★ Bangalore 32 21 Jaipur 38 30 Chicago 28 13 poses. The policies adopted by 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 38 27 Geneva 30 16 TIMES NEWS NETWORK them are always causing incon- 0645,1900 Lucknow 37 26 BANGALORE: T’puram 32 24 Patna 32 23 Hong Kong 30 26 Whodunit? Who’s to blame? venience to residents because I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 34 25 Rajkot 37 27 London 22 12 New Delhi: Swati Chakrabarti they have no idea of what the Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 31 25 Shimla 25 17 Los Angeles 24 16 For a city Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 27 22 Srinagar 32 17 Moscow 20 11 that no one other agencies are up to. The law and order is HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 out of control. Everything is chaotic whether it GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS really seems Sahara 1200 to be taking is dug up roads, water or sewage. KULU: Jagson 0630, ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 1400 hrs. on care of, Del- 0650, 1215 29.06.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. Preeti Sahani AHMEDABAD: hi has a lot A private company professional I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl of guardi- living in east Delhi Jet Air 0610 NORTH GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: 4033 Jammu Mail 01.07 07.07 13.07 13.07 ans. Some There are a lot of traffic prob- I-A 0555★★, 1010• ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 22.07 17.07 13.07 own land, lems when 2403 Jammu Exp 04.07 14.07 15.07 20.07 Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, others serv- civic agen- Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 30.06 30 .06 04.07 — ice its basic needs and yet no single author- cies are at PEOPLE 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 02.07 02.07 02.07 16.07 Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, ity will take the flak for its potholes, ex- work be- (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 30.06 30.06 30.05 18.07 posed cables, dripping subways and its bla- cause the roads are already Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 04.07 02.07 17.07 TALK tant daylight rapes. congested and badly INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. N.A N.A. N.A. 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 30.06 02.07 01.07 With a population of 1.3 crore, the city planned with obstructions like electric poles BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 02.07 03.07 03.07 02.07 has at least four agencies that own land and Air 0010 (TG-316), I-A 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 23.06 22.07 in the middle. Our complaints go completely 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 08.07 22.07 24.07 a dozen assorted service-providers who con- unheeded. FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 30.06 09.07 07.07 09.07 tribute to an unholy chaos. 0305 (LH-761) Pratibha Dhyani 2816 Puri Exp — 30.06 03.07 03.06 Be it laying power cables, sewer lines, AMSTERDAM: KLM 2802 Purshottam Exp — 13.07 07.07 13.07 Insurance company employee 0140 (KL-472) cleaning drains, trimming trees, providing 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 13.07 11.07 01.07 The major causes of accidents LONDON/NEW YORK: 4230 Lucknow Mail 03.07 08.07 09.07 09.07 natural gas, building homes, getting British Air 0210 (BA- are these mismanaged roads WEST garbage lifted, making streetlights work, 142), A-I 0715 (AI-111) 2904 Golden Temple Mail01.06 01.07 03.06 11.07 and waterlogging. Route diver- PARIS: Air France 0040 widening roads, each process is a bureau- 2926 Paschim Exp 30.06 08.07 14.07 18.07 sions are also affected due to (AF-147) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 01.07 03.07 03.07 — crat’s delight. A mere signature could un- unplanned road digging. SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 01.07 30.06 02.07 — fold in trips to a dozen offices and greasing Airlines 2315 (SQ- 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 10.07 17.07 03.07 Garbage remains piled up the palms of another score, leaving the citi- 407), I-A 0050 (IC-855) 1078 Jhelum Exp — 14.07 15.07 13.07 and residents have to suffer in unsanitary con- HONG KONG/SEOUL: 2916 Ashram Exp 30.06 09.07 09.07 03.07 zen confused, empty-handed and dazed. A-I 2340 (AI-312) SOUTH ditions due to this lack of coordination. ROME/MANCHESTER: 2616 G T Exp 30.06 07.07 07.07 02.07 Admits Delhi chief minister Sheila Dik- A-I 0300 (AI-131) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 03.07 01.07 08.07 02.07 shit, ‘‘The multiplicity of authority in Del- 2432 Trivandrum Raj 01.07 22.07 15.07 — AIR INDIA hi leads to inefficiency caused by lack of co- 2626 Kerala Exp — 01.07 30.06 07.07 MUMBAI: 0315 (AI 2618 Mangala Exp — 14.07 13.07 01.07 ordination. And that makes it easy for the 755), 0345 (AI 156), 2628 Karnataka Exp — 07.07 12.07 30.06 lawbreaker to exploit this vacuum.’’ 0615 (AI 146), 2330 (AI 2724 A P Exp 03.07 14.07 03.07 09.07 Lack of coordination between various 112) 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 08.07 14.07 14.07 — GOA: 1245 (AI 643) 7022 Dakshin Express — 06.07 — 02.07 agencies has been the bane of the city. For No. of passengers dealt on 28.06.2003 (Delhi Area): 43,429 (N. Rly. Area) instance, a city MLA gets Rs 1.9 crore every A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,06,416. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all Central Public Works Delhi Jal Board (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for year to carry out development activities in Civic agencies • • (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. his area. But the MLA has to sanction even Department 23323310, Singapore Airlines (Information supplied by Indian Railways) •Delhi government • Forest department 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 the smallest work like repairing a boundary •Cantonment Board •Delhi Municipal • Flood and Irrigation wall to the civic agency. But if the colony •Delhi Development No rain yet: The south-west days due to ‘‘some change’’ has not been handed over by the Delhi De- Corporation • Mahanagar Telephone in the cyclonic circulation, Authority monsoon which was expected velopment Authority (DDA) to the Munici- •New Delhi Municipal Nigam Limited to hit the city on Sunday has an Indian Meteorological Council Service providers Internet service- been delayed by three to four pal Corporation of Delhi (MCD that oper- • Department (IMD) official said providers on Sunday. ‘‘Some change in ates in 96 per cent of the city) the work can •Public Works • Traffic police the cyclonic circulation had remain pending for several years. Department • Power companies • Mobile companies delayed the arrival of monsoon. To compound this problem is the fact that However, light rains were both MCD and the New Delhi Municipal lating to public order, police and land have While MCD owns some roads others are di- recorded in some parts of Council (that provides service to three per been kept beyond their jurisdiction. vided between DDA, Public Works Depart- east Uttar Pradesh,’’ the cent of the city) are governed by Central Government officials say,the Vidhan Sab- ment (PWD) and Central Public Works De- official said. TNN Acts and the Delhi government has limited ha cannot frame its rules of business gov- partment (CPWD). control erning the ministers’ executive powers. ‘‘MCD is always blamed for water-logging over their They have been vested with the President. during monsoons at ITO bridge. The fact is function- And the rules make generous references to that the road belongs to the PWD and we are ing. Unlike the Centre so that even the draft bills are re- not responsible for desilting it,’’ a MCD offi- other ferred to the Centre before they are intro- cial said. states, the duced in the assembly. If civic agencies cry foul over the blame Delhi as- Yet to attain full statehood, Delhi’s ad- game, Delhi government too is not far be- sembly ministrative head is the Lieutenant-Gover- hind. Dikshit says, ‘‘The Delhi government does not nor. He is a Union government representa- is sandwiched between the Union govern- have leg- tive and oversees subjects like law and or- ment and the civic bodies. We do not have islative der, finance and land. Again, maintenance any rights or authorities, but still face pub- powers of roads, sanitation, garbage disposal and lic criticism.’’ with re- other such functions are controlled by three In an effort to remedy this, Delhi govern- spect to all different civic bodies — MCD, NDMC and ment had constituted the Virendra Prakash subjects in the Delhi Cantonment Board (DCB). Committee. The report suggested the re- the state. Herein lies the catch. Primary school ed- structuring of the MCD into five small divi- For in- ucation is looked at by the civic bodies but sions. It also recommended that both the stance, secondary education is controlled by Delhi corporations and land be brought under the matters re- government. Health is shared by both. control of the Delhi government. Our city’s problems By Shubhajit Roy and Himanshi Dhawan Some solutions TIMES NEWS NETWORK Agencies: New Delhi: Sandhya Mehra, a res- •Should use technologies like ident of Greater Kailash woke up Global Information System last week unable to get out of her (GIS) to create a clear map of home, marooned by civic neglect. who owns what and where The storm water drain owned by the Municipal Corporation of Del- •Must make efforts to hi (MCD) outside her residence had streamline their functioning clogged following a mild shower. Several frantic phone calls later, it •Should coordinate better was discovered that electricity amongst themselves wires and telecom cables had been Citizens: put inside the drain and covered •Can use the Right to Informa- up, leaving no room for rain water. tion Act to know about the ‘‘The only way for me to venture developmental works planned out of the house was if I could hire in their area a boat from somewhere,’’ an exas- perated Mehra said. •Should contact NGOs like One does not need to dig deeper Parivarthan and Chetna who to discover how flawed the city’s have information on the functioning is. It is held to ransom working of many agencies and daily by civic agencies and parallel can give advice centres of authority working at cross-purposes. And the result is CITY REPORT This lack of coordination marks POWER CENTRE-1 a colossal waste of public money. Says municipal councillor Vijendra Gupta from traffic snarls, potholed roads, dis- Rohini, at present a rupted and delayed services of wa- hub of developmental ter, power, telecom and natural gas. activity, speaks of a Traffic, of course, is the first ca- common place occur- sualty of any road digging exercise. rence. ‘‘The corpora- Says Arun Kampani, deputy com- tion spent almost Rs 4 missioner,traffic police (New Delhi crore in developing range),‘‘Traffic police officers have the Badli industrial to goad the various civic agency of- ficials and get the work done.’’ While road digging and failure to restore them to normal within a pre-fixed time-frame, routinely af- fects the flow of traffic many proj- ects too are delayed. North Delhi Power Supply (NDPL) was unable POWER CENTRE-2 to lay down crores worth of cables in Naraina area for almost a year because they did not get road-cut- ting permission for 500 m of road. ‘‘ We met every one including of- ficials from the civic agency,urban development minister Dr A K Walia area with dense car- and the chief minister before we peted roads only to got permission,’’ a NDPL official discover that Delhi Jal said. Even Indraprastha Gas Board (DJB) digging Limited’s (IGL) ambitious plan up the same roads to of a Ring-shaped pipeline was shut- lay down sewer lines tled between five agencies, until the two months later. DJB Supreme Court intervened. ‘‘The finally ended up pay- apex court appointed a committee ing Rs 2 crore as headed by LG to sort differences. restoration charges This made for the completion of but it is finally public the 32-km pipeline,’’ said an IGL money being wasted,’’ official. Gupta said.
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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Monday,June 30, 2003 5 Personal growth Jamia announces results TIMES NEWS NETWORK Face behind the better force New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia has declared annual By Sachin Parashar Sanjay Sekhri with the Times results for MA Hindi, MA Sociology, MA HRM, televi- TIMES NEWS NETWORK sion journalism, Arabic and Russian. Students can con- nder the aegis of Times living, laying special empha- tact respective departments for their results and any New Delhi: One year after UFoundation, an array of sis on the benefits of holding other details. he took over as the commis- personal growth and spiritu- discourses on the communi- sioner of Delhi Police, R S al events are scheduled to be ty level. Gupta believes Delhi Police held at 4, Tilak Marg, New Times Foundation has has started to metamor- Delhi. The Foundation, on been receiving a good re- phose into a more friendly, July 5 and 6 is organising sponse with its spiritual art humane force. Money Mantra by Sangeeta workshops. To be conducted Gupta acknowledged that Gupta of School of Holistic by Mandira on July 5, this the clamour for transforma- Healing. This programme workshop will train art en- tion of the force from lathi- will provide tips on enhanc- thusiasts of all ages in Tan- wielding cops, a throwback ing wealth by using ones sub- jore paintings. to the British Raj, to proac- conscious and chanting of On July 6, Times Founda- tive problem solvers work- special mantras. Apart tion in collaboration with ing in collaboration with the from conducting a medi- the Delhi chapter of Osho community is justified. tation session, Sangeeta World Foundation is or- ‘‘The policemen have to be will be available for ganising a pro- receptive to the needs of the advice on financial gramme titled, Tun- common man. The mindset gains. ing In. This is to of a 60,000-strong force will Food and be hosted by Ma take time to change, but it is Prana, an FOUNDATION Dharm Jyoti happening,’’ said Gupta. hour and a and promis- The commissioner said half programme, slated for es to be an interesting inter- efforts are on to ensure that July 6, is being organised by active session, coupled with people are not apprehensive the Foundation in conjunc- dance and dhwanis meant for about approaching the po- tion with Dhyan Foundation. relaxing the human body. lice. ‘‘I have asked the Yogi Ashwini Ji of Dhyan Regular events conducted by deputy commissioners of Foundation will speak on the Golden Age Foundation, As- police to look into every FIR subject of food and its scien- trology Workshops, Pranam filed. Even senior officers tific effect on the human Foundation and Surya Foun- will call up the com- body. He would also lecture dation are ongoing high- plainants to make sure their on foods integral relation- lights. For Money Mantra, Delhi Police commissioner R S Gupta is happy that the city’s police force is more friendly ship with prana. contact Sangeeta Gupta at grievances are being ad- and humane now. He complets one year in office on Monday. dressed,’’ stated Gupta. On July 4, the Foundation 9811142249. To participate in According to the commis- Job at hand Winds of change in association with the spiri- the spiritual art workshop, sioner, corruption is no tual organisation — Brah- call 51660203. For more longer a bugbear for Delhi •Crime against women, setting up of •For better police-public coordination, makumaris is organising a lifestyle related events, log on Police. special courts for trial of rape cases the DCPs will have to maintain a register community discourse pro- to: http://spirituality.india- ‘‘Postings and transfers on every FIR filed gramme. This event will fea- times.com, or e-mail: times- were often said to be influ- •To ensure the success of servant ture discourses on personal [email protected] enced by vested interests. To verification drive •Duty officers will undergo training and growth techniques for better for more information. avoid this, we have set up a •Action against tender mafia and illegal learn how to handle complainants much committee of senior officers Bangladeshis in the city like receptionists in hotels Woman and child which will be responsible for postings. For lower level •Modernisation and forensic •The SHO or ACP will visit a com- beaten to death officials, we have comput- development alongwith better traffic plainant’s residence to enquire whether or not his problem has been solved Ghaziabad: A brick kiln erised the system. We pro- management contractor’s 35-year-old wife vide the data to the comput- and 14-year-old son were er and let it decide who is el- the courts,’’ said the com- ior officers to meet them,’’ dem to curb the threat,’’ as- brutally beaten death and igible for what,’’ said the missioner. maintained Gupta. serted Gupta. his mother severely injured, commissioner. As for the violence The commissioner admit- The commissioner fur- by unidentified robbers on On crime against women, Saturday night. The as- the commissioner said that against senior citizens, Gup- ted that Delhi continues to ther admitted that security ta said residents had as cru- be a target of Pakistan-spon- of Parliament was a major sailants decamped with the number of rapes have cash and jewellery. gone down this year even as cial a role to play as the po- sored terrorism. concern. The police say, he admitted that it was diffi- lice. ‘‘Come what may,we can’t ‘‘All recommendations Dharamvir of Hapur’s cult to curb the menace. ‘‘There are 10 lakh senior compromise on Delhi’s secu- made in the joint parliamen- Tatarpur locality,a contrac- ‘‘In many cases, the ac- citizens in the city. It’s not rity. The entry near India tary committee report, in- tor at a brick kiln, had gone cused are known to the vic- possible for the beat consta- Gate was banned against cluding installation of mod- out to work on Saturday tims. The conviction rate is bles to visit them personally stiff resistance as we knew ern security devices, are be- night. He returned on sun- low because most of the vic- every day.They have to trust it was a target. The intelli- ing implemented to ensure day to find his wife and tims are not willing to fight us and tell us their prob- gence agencies, police and better security for Parlia- child dead. Investigations as they are humiliated in lems. I will ask even the sen- people have to work in tan- ment,’’said Gupta. are underway. TNN A solution to poaching By Saurabh Sinha TIMES NEWS NETWORK Endangered New Delhi: The Union envi- Animal Killed for ronment and forest ministry Tiger Bones, skin, nails is exploring the possibility of Leopard Skin allowing private persons to Peacock Feather, meat breed wild animals and ex- Deer Antler, musk, meat tract medicinal products Wild pigs Meat from them. Rhinoceros Horn Disclosing this, the min- istry’s special secretary, M K For example, deer are being ensure the well-being of ani- Sharma, said an attempt is be- killed for their musk and mals even in the zoos run by it ing made to revive a deer antlers. due to poor staff strength. farm in Uttaranchal where But if reared commercially, How will it run after scores of musk was extracted from the they can complete their entire private individuals who animals. lifespan and continue yield- would run the farms?’’ asked ‘‘In about a year we will for- ing musk and antlers for an expert, who did not want to mulate the policy for running many years. be named. captive breeding farms. Then ‘‘The idea is to conserve Questioning the economics we may allow private parties wildlife by interlinking their of the trade, he said: ‘‘For ex- to breed wild animals as so- survival with the economic ample, a zoo spends about Rs cio-economic projects that well-being of people, specially 50 lakh on a tiger that would be commercially viable by involving those who live on completes its lifespan of 20 for them,’’ said Sharma. the fringes of forests and pose years. He claimed the country a grave threat to wildlife and But even if all its parts are lacked the infrastructure to forests,’’ Sharma said. sold after it dies naturally, a protect its animals and birds Among the animals whose private breeder won’t get from being killed for their private breeding may be al- more than Rs 20 lakh.’’ various body parts. lowed are tigers, rhinos, pea- Moreover, he asked, if the ‘‘There’s a demand for cocks, deer and birds. private breeding programme these things which is being ‘‘The policy would have fails, what is the guarantee met, illegally and brutally.For very strict provisions to en- that the breeder will not sur- example, deer are killed for sure that the animals are not reptitiously smuggle animals musk; tigers for their skins harmed in any way by the pri- from the wild to increase his and bones and rhinos for their vate breeders,’’ Sharma, who numbers? horns,’’ he said. is also director-general But for the dwindling popu- This demand can be met (forests) said. lation of wild animals here, legally and without harming However, critics term the any move that may help stop animals in any way through move impractical. ‘‘The gov- their mindless killing would this project. ernment has been unable to be welcome.
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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Monday,June 30, 2003 7 Crucial CAS meeting today Cong dummy manifesto at Shimla TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘We hope the broadcasters tantly higher than the average will make clear their final posi- price of a channel incorporated New Delhi: In a last-ditch at- By Rajesh Ramachandran ‘‘Congress and Political Chal- va and electoral preparedness, the also effectively counters the for- tion on the issue,’’ an official in in a free-to-air bouquet. The tempt to end the CAS impasse TIMES NEWS NETWORK lenges’’ being worked out by vet- leaders are busy preparing policy eigner issue against Sonia,’’ said the information and broadcast- other point the I&B ministry before July 14, the big broad- eran leader Arjun Singh. documents, to be vetted by coordi- an AICC functionary. ing ministry said on Sunday, insisted, while justifying CAS, New Delhi: A ‘‘dummy’’ election Secularism and a middle-of-the- nation committee chairman The attempt to equate Muslims casters and the government are manifesto of the Congress party meeting on Monday. when asked about the expecta- was that in the new regime the road economic policy that could Pranab Mukherjee and then ac- with Pakistanis, communalisa- tion from the meeting. monthly cable television bill will be unveiled when the party be termed socialist for its accent cepted by party chief Sonia Gand- tion of the national flag, the at- The broadcasters are expect- presents its policy papers on most ed to communicate to the gov- Quizzed about the govern- would come down significantly. on protecting the public sector hi, to be presented in Shimla. tack on cultural organisations op- ment options, he remarked, ‘‘The Prime Minister wanted national issues in the party’s could be the ideological meeting The party is expected to take a posed to the RSS will all be part of ernment which of their chan- ‘‘We are at a critical pass.’’ CAS to be consumer friendly three-day Shimla conclave, start- ground for striking alliances. strong stand on inclusive ‘‘Gand- the documents on nationalism nels would stay pay, and their Some of the broadcasters but the profit motive has pre- ing July 7. ‘‘Surely we will provide an ideo- hian nationalism’’ to counter the and secularism. The Bhopal Docu- individual prices. The issue has have already indicated the vailed in the industry,’’ a min- The party’s basic policy frame- logical platform for alliances in Sangh Parivar’s cultural national- ment on Dalit upliftment could be acquired crucial importance work within which it will accept our Shimla document,’’ said a sen- ism. ‘‘The Gandhian idea of the the basis for Congress policy on since the ambiguity over the prices of their channels — in- istry source remarked. alliances with other parties in ior Congress leader. country belonging to all those the weaker sections, — this will be status of the pay channels has dividual and bundled. The gov- Monday’s meeting is taking various states will also be delin- From national security and the who have made it their home will dealt with in the part on social em- created uncertainties in the in- ernment had earlier insisted place among broad hints that eated in the party document on international situation to Hindut- be vigorously pursued because it powerment. dustry leading to a slowdown in that the price of a single pay the government will adopt a the import of set-top boxes. channel should not be exorbi- ‘‘soft-entry’’ approach. PTI Tohra: Punjab CM is doing it wrong TIMES NEWS NETWORK Patiala: Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh has come under attack from senior Akali leader Gurcharan Singh Tohra for raids on houses of former CM Parkash Singh Badal in connection with a disproportionate assets case. The persons being harassed on pretext of corruption could try to pay in the same coin whenever they returned to power, Tohra said at Chanarthal Kalan on Saturday. Addressing a public gathering, he said Singh was setting wrong precedents against his politi- cal rivals and their families. Instead of using agencies like Vigilance Bureau to harm and de- fame his political opponents in the name of cor- ruption, he should have adopted the policies A human chain organised by members of All Assam Students Union in protest against the diversion of through which even senior Congress leaders the Manas river water at Noah Para area in Bongaigaon District in Assam on Friday . were tried on the same charges, Tohra said. Liberhan panel: The Liberhan panel visited the Saryu banks on Sunday to see what routes the 7 militants, major karsewaks could possibly have taken while entering Ayodhya be- fore the demolition of the Babri killed in Valley mosque on December 6, 1992, sources said. Justice M S Liber- TIMES NEWS NETWORK jor, Bhupinder Singh, han visited Naya bank along the were killed in an en- Saryu and went round Panchkosi Jammu/Srinagar: Sev- counter that lasted three Parikrama Marg. PTI en militants and an Army hours. Two AK rifles, a Major were killed in sep- Pika gun, 320 rounds, 14 arate encounters in Jam- magazines, 16 grenades, mu and Kashmir on Sun- one grenade launcher day. At least four mili- and some documents tants were killed in an en- were recovered from the counter at Abhama vil- spot. lage in Pulwama district A top Pakistani area in Kashmir late on Sun- commander of the day evening. The en- Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami counter was continuing was killed in Poonch dis- at the time of filing this trict on Saturday,sources report. said. In Doda, militants In Thanamandi Hills abducted and later killed in Rajouri district, two a civilian on Saturday militants and Army Ma- night. Geelani’s move will result in disunity: Jamaat By M Saleem Pandit TIMES NEWS NETWORK Srinagar: The Jamaat-e-Is- lami has slammed ex-Hur- riyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani’s efforts to create a new political conglomerate, saying it will lead to disunity. The Jamaat-e-Islami spokesman said the ills with- in Hurriyat should be fought while remaining within the conglomerate. He said any ef- fort to create an alternative will tantamount to creating confusion and disunity. Taking a dig at Hurriyat chairman, Geelani said those who took part in the as- sembly elections last year and did not boycott them, and not those who distance or desert the APHC, were traitors.
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‘Change’ in AP New leadership in China key to ties stand upsets By Manoj Joshi informed and willing to do holds the arguably most pow- of President, Wen would re- Pakistan, Jiang also told Is- TIMES NEWS NETWORK business. They say that erful position in China — the place Zhu Rongji as Prime lamabad in 1996 to work out where talks with the older chairmanship of the Central Minister, Wu would become problems with India the way Tibetans New Delhi: The key that de- generation tended to be for- Military Commission of the the Chairman or Speaker of the Chinese were doing — by By R P Nailwal termined malistic, Vajpayee was able Communist Party. the NPC in place of Li Peng, putting aside contentious is- TIMES NEWS NETWORK the timing to engage the new leaders in Vajpayee’s visit also came and Li Zhaoxing Foreign sues while forging ties in oth- of the substantive discussions by at a time when the Chinese minister In place of Tang Ji- er areas. Dehra Dun: Tibetans resid- Prime posing questions and getting have witnessed the US forces axuan. The fourth generation Chi- ing in Uttaranchal are re- Minister’s answers in return. establish them- Given this nese leadership, like the sentful of India’s ‘‘changed’’ visit was Timing his visit in June selves in Cen- dramatic over- third comprising Li Peng, stance on Tibet. They plan to the leader- 2003, Vajpayee was able to in- tral Asia, Iraq haul of the top Jiang and Zhu Rongji is al- express their unhappiness on ship ENGAGING teract with the entire fourth- and a new con- echelons of the most entirely technocratic. the issue to the Union gov- change in generation leadership, begin- frontation Chinese govern- Hu began his career as a hy- ernment through their gov- China. Speaking at a press BEIJING-I ning with a meeting with emerging in ment, the MEA dropower engineer, Wen has ernment-in-exile at Dharam- conference in Shanghai, Vaj- A participant at a rally named ‘Walk On The Rainbow,’ President Hu Jintao in St Pe- North Korea. recommended that the new specialised in geomechanics, sala in Himachal Pradesh. payee himself alluded to this organised by a gay rights group in Kolkata on Sunday. tersburg earlier in the The November 2002 Chi- leadership be given time to having graduated from the ‘‘If the Indian government when he said that the visit month. nese Communist Party Con- settle down before engaging Beijing Institute of Geology. believes that Tibet is a part of had enabled him to meet the His host in Beijing was gress was convened primari- them. It is not as if the older Wu has specialised in electri- China, then what about our new leadership in China, and Premier Wen Jiabao, who ly to put a new leadership in leaders are hardliners on In- cal engineering, Vice-Presi- future and nationality?’’ to see that ‘‘inkey saath baat Kolkata gays cry took office in March this place by appointing Hu Jin- dia. Li Peng as Premier host- dent Zeng is a Beijing Insti- questions Samkyi, general agey badaee jaa saktee hai year, chairman of the Na- tao as the general secretary ed Rajiv Gandhi and P V tute of Technology graduate. secretary of the Regional Ti- (We can move ahead with tional Peoples Congress (Par- of the party. It also decided Narasimha Rao in 1988 and (This is the first part of a betan Women’s Association. this leadership)’’. liament) (NPC) Wu Bangguo, that at the NPC in March 1993 respectively. three-part analytical series on She was attending a con- for equal rights clave of Tibetans organised Officials accompanying Vice-President Zeng Qing- 2003, changes would be made Jiang signed the accord on Sino-Indian relations) By Dhiman Chattopadhyay women who believe in ● here on Saturday to deliber- the Prime Minister say this hong, and former President at the governmental level. Hu CBMs during his visit to New Next: Vajpayee and the art TIMES NEWS NETWORK alternative sexuality, had ate upon the ‘‘changed’’ posi- leadership is articulate, well- Jiang Zemin, who currently would also assume the office Delhi. Though seen as pro- of the possible very little in the way of tion of the Indian govern- Kolkata: This was one ral- demands. ment that came to the fore ly that did not disrupt traf- ‘‘We have just one de- during Prime Minister Atal fic. And if those who wit- mand — society at large Bihari Vajpayee’s visit to Sino-Indian relations on a new path: Envoy nessed the 150-odd gays should stop treating us like China early this week. Scores walking down the thor- criminals and accept us as TIMES NEWS NETWORK pressed on the question of Tibet, the two Prime Ministers in appoint- of rivals’’, the envoy said the declara- of Tibetans from various oughfares of Kolkata on its part,’’ said secretary of recognising the Tibet Autonomous ing special representatives showed tions made by both Prime Ministers parts of the state attended Sunday, sniggered and Integration, Rafiquel New Delhi: The ‘‘Sikkim-for-Tibet’’ Region (TAR) as a part of Chinese the political resolve to address this very clearly stated that relationship the meet. passed comments, they Haque Dowjah. process between India and China has territory.’’ dispute. ‘‘So I can expect a speedy dis- between the two countries was not There are about 15,000 Ti- were in a minority. Commemorating the ‘already’ started, but it will take The envoy was echoing Prime Min- cussion and a more effective way to against any country. betans in Uttaranchal. They The occasion was a rally 34th anniversary of the ‘‘some time’’ for this to come about, ister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s assertion have this issue resolved,’’ he said. It would not affect the existing re- have been living in Dehra — ‘Walk on the rainbow’, historic Stonewall Day Ri- the Chinese envoy to India, Hua Jun- that Sikkim would be recognised by India has nominated National Se- lationship or friendship between Chi- Dun, Nainital, Almora, hosted by ‘Integration’, the ots in 1969 when the Man- duo, has said. China as part of India with the ‘‘pas- curity Adviser Brajesh Mishra as its na and other countries and India and Pithoragarh, Pauri and city’s first gay rights hattan police clashed with Asked whether the Chinese posi- sage of time’’. ‘‘All I can say is that special representative, the Chinese other countries. Hardwar since 1959. Tibetans group, along with five oth- homosexuals outside the tion in the joint declaration with In- China has already launched a have nominated Dai Bingguo, the Stating that Vajpayee’s visit has consider the PM’s shift in the er organisations. gay bar Stonewall Inn, the dia was a de facto recognition of process to address the concerns of In- senior-most vice minister in the Chi- created a ‘‘win-win’’ situation for stand on Tibet as a ‘‘great Yet, at the end of the day, gay rights activists took Sikkim by China, he told a TV chan- dia on the question of Sikkim.’’ nese foreign ministry. both sides, he said India and China blow’’ to their hope that they the spokespersons for the out a procession in south nel: ‘‘I think we very much appreci- On the Sino-Indian border issue, Terming that India and China have improved their mutual trust would be able one day to re- state’s 10,000-odd men and Kolkata. ate the stand the Indian side has ex- Hua said the agreement reached by were ‘‘very good’’ partners ‘‘instead through this visit. turn to a free homeland. Judiciary provides a ray of hope for the oppressed By Rakesh Bhatnagar Constitution. for the present state of af- TIMES NEWS NETWORK The reservations for the fairs. SCs and the STs were to However, judicial ac- New Delhi: Attorney-gener- cease to exist in 1960, 10 tivism has enlarged the al Soli Sorabjee’s opinion years after the framing of scope of affirmative action that the Centre could the Constitution. in the country. provide reservation to The Constitution was pe- With the courts taking the economically backward riodically amended to keep upon themselves to undo the citizens only through a Con- intact the quota in the hope wrongs done by the execu- stitutional amendment has that their plight would im- put paid to the government’s tive or to make the latter ful- prove. fil its Constitutional obliga- attempt to come out with a As of now,the reservation quick formula to woo tions, the scope of Right to would Life and Articles 226 and 32 voters ahead of the elec- cease to tions. of the Constitution has been LEGAL exist in widened. Under the present politi- 2010. cal scenario, it will be diffi- While a high court’s inter- VIEW Ad-vention could be sought for cult for any government to dressing a muster the requisite the protection of one’s Fun- sub-commission on the pro- damental Rights (Article strength for an amendment, motion and protection of irrespective of the castes to 226), the Supreme Court can human rights, Sorabjee had be moved for a similar relief which the legislators be- talked of the government’s long. denied to a class or a group concern for the SCs and the of helpless citizens. Former PM P V STs. Narasimha Rao’s formula of The various directions a 10 per cent reservation for He said by 2000, 1,294 com- passed by the apex court the economically backward plaints relating to the viola- to protect the environment candidates, as also those tion of rights of Dalits had can also be termed as an belonging to the socially been received and action affirmative action for backward classes, in gov- taken on them. the protection of the funda- ernment jobs was rejected Sorabjee noted that ‘‘Dal- mental right to breathe by the Supreme Court 11 its are not the only one to be fresh air. years ago. subjected to discriminatory Sadly, many other direc- The court had fixed 50 per practices’’. tives passed with the same cent as the maximum limit Non-implementation of vigour and for public benefit for providing reservations, various legal provisions have been violated with im- as per the provisions of the could be one of the reasons punity. Conman posing as CBI officer held in Kolkata Dhiman Chattopadhyay TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kolkata: For three years he had been fooling hoteliers, restaurateurs, cyber cafe own- ers and even the police, making a fortune by posing, sometimes as a CBI officer, at other times as an IPS officer — taking hefty bribes, staying in hotels for free and getting his lunch and din- ners paid for. Luck finally ran out for Surya Bose Roy Chowdhury,27, on Saturday night. He was nabbed from a central Kolkata hotel where he had gone posing as the Sub-Divisional Police Of- ficer of Contai, come to collect his monthly ‘hafta.’ After his arrest, the Criminal Investiga- tion Department officials dis- covered Roy Chowdhury had indeed been a cop once, before being sacked for cheating a Japanese couple. A Sub-Inspector then, he had been caught red-handed in 1999, while cheating the couple; he was pretending to be a deputy superintendent of po- lice with the CBI. “He was arrested while un- dergoing a course at the Bar- rackpore Police Training School. But he was let off after having served his sentence. Since then he had disappeared and the police also took little notice of his whereabouts,” said Special SP (CID) Manoj Malviya, said on Sunday. It was just four days before that the police got its first tip, when a city resident registered a complaint. “When we started investigating, based on a sketch of the person described to us, we were shocked when owners of almost all hotels and cyber cafes we went to told us the man was known to them as a DSP,”Malviya said.
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Salman to appear on July 2: Nine months after actor Salman Khan rammed his vehicle into a shop killing one person and injuring four others, he will face the trial in a sessions court Amend IPC, CrPC to tackle communal forces, says Sonia on July 2 with the examination of a key witness. The first witness TIMES NEWS NETWORK to depose against Salman will be his former police bodyguard. PTI more effective in tackling commu- creased, such offences be treated as ding fine on the perpetrators of to communal harmony,’’ wrote New Delhi: Congress president So- nal disturbances. In a letter to congnizable and special courts be communal violence. Sonia. nia Gandhi on Friday sought Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpay- set up to try such offences. The provisions of the National The Congress has also attacked amendments to the Indian Penal ee, Sonia suggested that the period ‘‘The special courts could be em- Security Act could be widened to al- Deputy PM L K Advani for his visit Code (IPC) and the Criminal Proce- of imprisonment for those convict- powered to award compensation to low preventive detention of a per- to the US and the UK with ‘‘an army dure Code (CrPC) to make them ed of communal offences be in- the victims and impose correspon- son if he is perceived to be a threat of officials along with their wives’’. ‘Ambassador’ of India’s rich heritage
he white Amby is the plain vanilla vehicle of independent India. And T the red one is its sacred carriage. Shortly before photographer Raghubir Singh (1942-99) died, he wrote, ‘‘As I jour- neyed all over India, I came to understand that if one thing can be singled out to stand for the past 50 years of India...it has to be the Ambassador.’’ This omnipresent car,manufactured by Hindustan Motors beginning in 1957, is ‘‘the people’s car, the politician’s car, In- dia’s Rolls Royce, the family car and also a part of cow dung-coated India’’, Singh wrote. It is ‘‘a part of the Indian earth.’’ Singh’s case is more than made by ‘‘Auto Focus: Raghubir Singh’s Way Into India’’, a show of nearly 50 of his photo- graphs featuring the Ambassador at the Sackler Gallery in Washington until Au-
gust 11, and by ‘‘A Way Into India’’ (Phaidon Press), a book of 120 photos that accompanies the show. Although Singh’s main mentor was Henri Cartier-Bresson, his pictures have a lot more in common with Garry Wino- grand’s gaily-coloured photographs of America in the 1960’s. Why? Because of the cars and because Singh split with Cartier-Bresson over the issue of colour film. You can’t, Singh argued, capture In- dia without your Kodachrome. The Ambys in these pictures are pink, yellow,grey,red (for sacred occasions and important people), black (a nefarious colour in Indian culture), two- toned and, above all, white (the purest and the most common kind). But the Amby is not mere- ly a colourful metaphor. As Debra Dia- mond, the curator of the exhibition, writes, Singh drove a rented Ambassador all over India, using it ‘‘to see, scale and order the world around him’’. In some of Singh’s pictures, the car’s windshield is the imperfect lens through which the subject is shot. In others, the side windows form a giant pair of glasses through which the landscape can be seen. In still others, the car’s rear-view mirror is a frame within a frame. One complex photograph, taken on a rainy day in 1995 on Periyar Road, Kerala, has the long, narrow format of a movie screen; the top is bounded by the ceiling of the car and the bottom by the dash- board. The central image, seen through the rain-speckled windshield, is a blurred figure: A girl running down the silvery road towards the car, her progress ticked off by white fence posts. One arm hefts a large sack; the other is bent at the elbow, holding a piece of rain-repellent plastic to her head. Directly above her head floats another head, the reflection of a woman seen in the car’s rear-view mirror. NYT News Service Ivory trade still on defying ban
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Ivory trade in India is till flour- ishing and a ban on the illegal business has driven it underground, says a new report on the issue. A survey by TRAFFIC India, part of a wildlife trade monitoring network pro- gramme run by WWF and the World Conser- vation Union, found that Orissa, Assam and UP were among the most active production and collection centres, with the most active markets for worked ivory — among the areas visited — being Murshidabad, Udaipur, Jaipur, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. Other areas of active ivory trading were out- side main towns such as Varanasi, Bangalore and Mysore. Cities such as Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai are cited as retailing centres. Nepal, says the report, stands out as the in- ternational destination for Indian ivory carv- ings. Indian ivory is believed to be exported upto 40 different countries. Examining the trade over two years, 2000 and 2001, the survey found foreigners as well as Indians purchase artefacts such as carv- ings, jewellery and seals produced in India. The report also identified a close link be- tween demand for ivory artefacts among In- dians and use in traditional ceremonies. According to the study which was released on Thursday, the main sources for raw ivory in India are poaching, domesticated ele- phants, smuggled African ivory and pre-ex- isting ivory stock. The states which figure on the supply list include Assam, Orissa, Karnataka, UP and Uttaranchal. Despite the difficulties in gathering infor- mation on an illegal trade, the survey team found it ‘‘surprisingly easy not only to locate, contact and speak to those involved in the ivory trade, but also to find those willing to supply ivory in carved as well as raw form. Overwhelming evidence, therefore, suggests that carving and trade in ivory, although reduced and largely opportunistic in nature, continues more or less clandes- tinely.’’ Profits, it seems, outweigh the risks of being caught.
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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Monday,June 30, 2003 11 Omar ‘anguished’ at Bakery verdict Minor help tortured to By M Saleem Pandit guardian of our Constitu- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Speaking out tion, our secular character, and our very ethos when Post-riots, Gujarat Srinagar: Omar Abdullah, death at ex-MLA’s house through its silence it con- MP and president of the Na- dones what is happening in Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui truth. er, Shiv Narain, who has tional Conference, said in a Gujarat?’’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘The post-mortem exam- two other minor children. statement issued here on Making a scathing attack police grope in dark ination confirms death by He told TNN that the ex- Lucknow: A minor, work- Sunday that he was deeply on the BJP government in ante-mortem injuries... MLA’s son found his re- anguished by the acquittal of ing as a domestic help in there is evidence of frac- volver (an unlicenced one, Gujarat, Omar remarked it TIMES NEWS NETWORK riots of last year and the af- all the 21 accused in the Best the house of a former MLA, tures, of burn injuries, of it appears) missing and sus- has shown itself to be singu- termath were handled. Add Bakery carnage case. Ahmedabad: Police officials died of torture inflicted by electrical shock,’’ DIG (Luc- pected Nirmal’s hand. And, larly incapable of being just the interference in the force’s He suggested Muslim MPs say the post-Godhra pogrom his employer’s family who know Range), AK Dwivedi, on June 19, began thrash- and fair. The only course of professional working and the should constitute a group against Muslims has severe- suspected him of theft, po- told TNN. ‘‘I have asked the ing the boy. action left now is to allow the result is the loss of interest and visit Gujarat to review ly affected their ability to get lice said. area Dy SP to investigate Another servant in the CBI to investigate and pre- in their job by many officers. the situation there more than intelligence tips from that The torture took place at the entire affair.’’ house carried the news to pare the cases so that the In this polarised situation, a year after the riots. He said guilty are brought to book community. Hardoi, 60 km from here, The ex-MLA in question Shiv Narain, who rushed Centre’s silence says a CID official, ‘‘the local it should not be a case of ‘out “ and face the harshest punish- Thus, they say,they had no and the local police station belongs to the opposition there and was shooed out police, with their intensive of sight, out of mind’. The is deafening. How ment that the law allows, he meaningful information on officials tried to hush the Samajwadi Party. Despite by musclemen and warned interrogation tactics, (get) six NC MPs would be happy opined. the stocking of weapons in matter, saying the boy died efforts, his version could to stay silent. can torching more leads than us.’’ to participate in the group, He recalled as a result of ‘‘sensitive’’ areas, as evi- of cholera. Pressure from not be had. The sequence of events An instance of this is the he added. of the Hindus be criticism, both domestic and denced by the recent random local citizens forced an au- The boy, Nirmal, 10, is from there to the death is two alleged Chhota Shakeel Omar said the Govern- terrorism and international, the nation seris of explosions in this topsy which revealed the the son of a paan-shopown- still not entirely clear. ment of India, of which, re- was assured after the riots city. gangmen, shot dead in a re- torching of Muslims cent encounter, who are said grettably, he was a part then, that justice would be done There was an announce- Liberhan did nothing while thousands and the guilty would be pun- ment to revamp the intelli- to have come with a brief to be allowed to go kill two ministers. The police panel: The of innocent men, women and ished as harshly as the law al- gence branch, post-Godhra Liberhan pan- says this is one of the better children were brutally mur- unpunished? lowed. and there another after for- el visited Ayo- ’’ instances of intelligence dered in Gujarat in 2002. — Omar Abdullah He observed that justice mer state home minister dhya on Sun- Their only crime was that must not only be done, it Haren Pandya was shot dead gathering and execution. Yet, day to see they were Muslims, he rued. must be seen to be done and on March 26. Between the investigators have been un- what routes He said while those al- gradually being set free. that will happen only when two incidents is a report pre- able to track, ‘Nasir,’ the al- karsewaks legedly guilty of the despica- Omar further said: ‘‘The justice is blind to religion. pared by a Mehta committee leged contact of the slain ‘as- could have ble act that took place in Centre’s silence is deafening. He maintained if Godhra on revamping the CID (intel- sassins.’ taken to enter Godhra have been booked un- How can the torching of Hin- was terrorism than so was ligence) whose recommenda- In general, with scant in- the town be- der Pota (Prevention of Ter- dus be terrorism and the what followed, so was what tions are yet to be effected. formation on local set-ups, fore the Babri rorism Act) and are being torching of Muslims be al- happened at Best Bakery and Senior state police officers “the police teams are unable demolition. PTI treated as terrorists, those al- lowed to go unpunished? every other place where Mus- admit there is a severe strain to actually penetrate into legedly responsible for the How can the NDA govern- lims were killed in cold in the force’s relations with lanes and by-lanes,” admits a massacre that followed are ment lay claim to being the blood. Muslims, due to the way the senior official. Kolkata cooks up a veggie’s delight A gross denial of Reuters Reuters justice, says Left
New Delhi: The Left parties Baroda as ‘‘one of the worst have demanded that appro- incidents’’ during the priate legal steps be taken in communal riots in Gujarat the Best Bakery case. last year, it said that the case ‘‘The Best Bakery crime is was a graphic illustration of a test case on whether law how justice had been denied can be enforced and justice to the victims of all such rendered,’’ the CPM said in a crimes. statement on Saturday. The CPI also made a plea to The party called for neces- the highest judiciary for re- sary legal action for hearing opening the case. ‘‘It is the case in appeal. crystal clear that the author- ‘‘The trial of the accused ities failed to protect the wit- was marked by intimidation nesses,’’ remarked CPI na- of witnesses, blatant negli- tional secretary Atul Kumar gence by the police and Anjan. shoddy prosecution by the He said it was for the state authorities,’’ the party Supreme Court and the lead- said. ing legal luminaries to take Terming the killings of 14 an initiative for re-opening people inside the bakery in the case. PM committed on temple: BJP
TIMES NEWS NETWORK AND PTI Raipur: Asserting that there was no Models sport outfits made of vegetables during a food festival at in Kolkata on Saturday. difference of opinion between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpaye and Deputy L K Advani on the Ayodhya is- sue, the BJP on Sunday rejected VHP’s demand for their resignation for fail- RSS, VHP step up attack, ing to enact a law for the construction of the Ram temple, saying it was not on the NDA agenda. BJP general secretary Pramod Ma- play Advani against Atal hajan said Vajpayee was never op- posed to temple construction. TIMES NEWS NETWORK S Sudarshan has slammed ‘‘Whatever is happening is under On the offensive the PM for lacking ‘‘clarity of Atalji’s leadership. What Advaniji New Delhi: The Sangh Pari- vision’’ on the Kashmir issue wants is exactly what Atalji wants. var has trained its guns at and has termed any proposed There is no difference of opinion be- the Prime Minister. While dialogue with Pakistan a ‘‘fu- tween them,’’ Mahajan said. the RSS has attacked the PM tile exercise’’. Sudarshan has Mahajan said the Union govern- over the proposed Kashmir said that it would not be ment will not bring any legislation to talks, the Vishwa Hindu ‘‘fair’’ on the government’s hand over the Ram temple site to the Parishad has sought to put part to ‘‘adopt a give and take Hindus. He clarified the BJP had only deputy PM L K Advani on a policy’’ on Kashmir because 182 members in the NDA government, pedestal while isolating Vaj- ‘‘we have nothing to give as adding that the other partners were payee. Pakistan has already taken not keen on the legislation. After the ‘loh purush-vikas the Occupied Kashmir and VHP international general secre- purush’ controversy on the now we have to take it back.’’ tary Pravin Togadia ruled out any dia- succession within the BJP Sudarshan was reportedly logue with the BJP or the Prime Min- and about who would lead “It won’t be fair addressing an RSS function ister on the temple issue. He also re- the party in the next general in Jammu on Saturday, jected any mediation by the RSS. elections, the VHP on Satur- to adopt a give whereas the VHP had its two- day asked Advani to quit the and take policy on day working committee government if he finds Vaj- meeting at Raipur. VHP chief SIMI activist payee a hurdle in the path to Kashmir as we have Ashok Singhal claimed that temple construction at Ayod- nothing to give. if Advani resigned from the hya. ’’ government, ‘‘this will re- flees from Meanwhile, according to — K S Sudarshan store the faith of millions of agency reports, RSS chief K Hindus in him.’’ Nagpur prison TIMES NEWS NETWORK Nagpur: Activist of the out- lawed Students Islamic Move- Govt maps its failures ment of India (SIMI) and an accused in the Mahal pipe- By Anita Katyal schemes are evenly spread. the services provided. bomb case Sheikh Mushtaq TIMES NEWS NETWORK On the other hand, there DWCD officials maintain are large number of dis- this exercise will enable Sheikh Shafi escaped from the New Delhi: The govern- tricts in states like Ra- them to prioritise their fu- police custody while being ment may not be imple- jasthan, Uttar Pradesh, ture investments and en- brought here from Jalgaon. menting its welfare Arunachal Pradesh, Oris- sure “objective deployment The 19-year-old was among schemes effectively but at sa, Meghalaya and Jhark- of funds”. With large areas ten SIMI activists who were least it knows how to map hand where these schemes and populations not getting taken to Jalgaon in connection its failures. have not reached at all. The any benefit of these with another case linking In a series of maps, the projects sanctioned by the schemes, they say,it will be- them with Hijbul Mujahideen department of women and DWCD range from provi- come possible to tell the extremist outfit and were be- child development (DWCD) sion of creches, working states that they make requi- ing escorted back under tight has sought to graphically women’s hostels, short stay site efforts to reach out to security. According to police represent the geographical homes, vocational training these uncovered districts or sources Shafi gave the police imbalances in the location of women and the ICDS. where expansion should team of ten a slip when they of its various projects. Us- “These schemes are usu- take place. “For instance, stopped at a roadside dhaba ing the Geographical Infor- ally sanctioned on the basis areas of high nutritional near Karanja Ghatge in Ward- mation System (GIS), nor- of proposals received from deficiency may be given ha district early on Saturday. mally associated with the the state governments, preference for future proj- An unconfirmed version of mapping of natural re- which decide where they ects,” an official said. the incident was that all the sources, the department want these located... we ba- The department now ten SIMI activists tried to es- has now mapped the spread sically react to a request,” plans to map the census cape from the custody but the and location of its projects, explains a DWCD official. data on children in the 0-6 police managed to catch nine. right down to the district With these maps, he says, it age group along with the But top officials here said level. will become possible to as- existing anganwadi centres Shafi, on the pretext of going The results reveal the in- sess the geographical dis- at the village level. This, of- to the toilet, ran away with his equitable distribution of parities in the implementa- ficials said, will enable handcuffs taking advantage of these schemes. There are tion of these schemes as them to see if there is any the darkness. The ten were ar- states like Maharashtra, these highlight the geo- shortfall in the number of rested for allegedly planting a Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, graphical spread of the ex- centres as against the pre- pipe-bomb in the vicinity of Kerala and Andhra isting sanctioned projects scribed norm of 100 chil- the VHP office and the RSS Pradesh where these and show the shortfall in dren per centre. headquarters in the Mahal area of the city in May 2001.
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Thank god you didn’t make fun of Reuters Indira Gandhi. She might have execut- red tape, and all the way ed you Miner amputates arm: An Australian miner amputat- back to a reunion and a new — Raj ed his own arm with a knife home in North Carolina. Dubyaman is like Abhishek Bachchan. after becoming pinned under ‘‘What makes this dog so Nobody likes them but they still persist. a tractor, police said Sunday. great is, look at the irony,’’ — Akshay K Colin Jones severed his arm Joyce said. ‘‘We took this dog below the elbow with a short- from Iraq, we trained it and For bouquets log on to bladed craft knife. The 43- we used it for our own securi- www.timesofindia.com year-old miner became ty.’’ Joyce got Fluffy out of trapped late Saturday night necessity. When Fluffy was e-mail: [email protected] 1.5 miles underground in a not allowed to return with him coal mine near Lake Mac- to the US, Joyce began a quarie, just south of Newcas- campaign with e-mails and tle on Australia’s east calls to the State Department. Acupuncture coast.Police said his tractor, More than 32 US senators which was carrying 3.4 tons contacted him, asking what Are animals happy? of limestone dust, was be- they could do to help. AP helps, no lieved to have tipped over af- By David Barboza ter hitting a hole on a sharp No support for Arnie: kidding an a white leghorn hen bend in a mine shaft. Another Sen. Edward M. Kennedy be truly happy? That’s worker discovered the injured says he won’t support the miner and sounded an alarm, he boy was just 8, one question re- gubernatorial ambitions of C but Jones didn’t want to wait Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tbut he suffered from searchers are asking in the Crohn’s disease, a for rescue. Doctors had who’s married to Maria Shriv- emerging academic field hoped to reattach his arm but er, Kennedy’s niece. Schwar- painful intestinal in- called “animal well-being.” flammation. He was on were unsuccessful because zenegger has indicated that These researchers video- of the extent of the crush in- medication, but strug- he may run for governor as a tape chickens at play or rig juries. AP Republican if Californians gled with frequent doors so pigs can use their vote to recall Gov. Gray headaches, one of the snouts to choose between eat- Lost and found in Tokyo: Davis. “Listen, Arnold is potential side effects of ing their food alone or hang- If it can be lost on the teem- great,” the Democratic sena- the treatments. ing out with other swine. The ing streets of Tokyo, it can be tor from Massachusetts said. Dr. Lixing Lao, a li- scientists attend conferences found in the city’s cavernous “And I never argue with lost-and-found center, where censed acupuncturist to hear papers with titles like Arnold, particularly when he’s and director of the tra- everything from diamond holding me by my ankles up- “Hyperaggressiveness in rings to dentures and millions ditional Chinese medi- Male Broiler Breeder Fowl.” side down. But I intend to cine research program of dollars in stray cash await support the Democrat.” Shri- Through behavioural re- their rightful, if forgetful, own- at the University of search and animal biology, ver is the daughter of Eunice Maryland’s Center for ers. On any given day, about Kennedy Shriver and R. Sar- the experts try to find out: 800,000 items pack the four- Integrative Medicine, gent Shriver. “I’m not sure Are cows ever happy? Do pigs story warehouse, with 5,000 where Arnold gets his politi- suggested acupuncture feel pain? What do chickens new ones trucked in every cal instincts,” he said. AP to the boy and his par- really want? Chickening out from pain morning for an annual haul of ents. They know they’re asking the United States, most are “It’s hard to talk about hap- 220,000 articles of clothing, Virgins tout abstinence: They agreed to try it touchy-feely questions of a crammed into cages, stalls piness, so we’re trying to re- 30,000 mobile phones, and after a series of In a city known more for sin system that profits from and indoor barns before be- duce the number of negative 18,000 eyeglasses and than virtue, a group of virgins weekly treatments, the Actress Rachel Hunter arrives for the premiere of “Pirates mass slaughter.But they con- ing killed. Their food is care- emotional experiences,” Pro- 17,000 wallets. ‘‘I’m not sur- from around the country child noted a dramatic of the Caribbean: The Curse of The Black Pearl” in sider themselves pioneers. fully rationed to promote op- fessor Pajor said. For now,re- prised anymore by what peo- gathered this weekend in Las drop in pain. “In the be- ple lose,’’ says the custodian, Anaheim, California on Saturday. “Asking scientific ques- timal growth. searchers are seeking to Vegas to send a message: ginning, it was done veteran police officer Nobuo caches of wheelchairs, snow cently, someone turned in a tions about an animal’s feel- In recent years, especially eliminate pain, suffering and wait until marriage. It was a once a week for several Hasuda as he pads along the shoes, motorcycle helmets, martial arts suit for traditional ings is brand new,” says Ed- in Western Europe, compa- frustration. clash of the “Good Girls” and months,” Lao remem- cramped paths between trumpets, porno videos. Re- Japanese fencing — freshly mond A. Pajor, an associate nies have felt rising pressure Of course, if it were up to the sin-seekers as about 200 bers. “When the condi- used and still reeking of professor of animal behav- to treat animals humanely. the animals, they might sim- teens, parents and youth tion was controlled, it sweat. AP iour at Purdue University. Some food retailers have in- ply prefer longer lives. Dairy counsellors descended on was less frequent.” the Strip to pass out cards These Dr. Doolittles are fi- troduced labels indicating cows that used to be milked Dirrty! MTV cuts Aguilera video Dog of war: They met in Eventually, the boy did- promoting abstinence. “What nanced in part by restaurant that an animal was raised for five to seven years are northern Iraq under the most n’t need acupuncture to MTV has censured parts of Christina better place to bring this than chains like McDonald’s and with care. now milked for two or three trying of circumstances. Army control the pain. Lao is Aguilera’s latest video ‘Can’t Keep Us Sin City?” said participant KFC, which have been ac- Yet that’s still far from en- years before being made into Sgt. 1st Class Russell Joyce one of a growing num- Down’ saying that it is livid and offensive. Deanna Grimm, 24, of Sioux cused of helping to create suring that the animals are hamburger. and his unit needed a guard ber of acupuncturists It has asked the artist to make cuts both Falls, S.D. “They need to hear harsh conditions on animal happy a state that is hard Then again, if the animals’ dog. A scruffy, rail-thin Ger- and other health-care in the lyrics and video. The artist has cre- it.” The seventh annual Na- farms, where chickens, pigs to define for human beings lives are destined to be short, man shepherd needed a providers who offer the ated the video with the help of David La tional Abstinence Clearing- and cattle are bred en masse. but that scientists are perhaps it’s all the more home. Though most of the ancient Chinese therapy Chappelle. The video outdoes even house Conference features Of more than eight billion nonetheless trying to attain important that they be sweet. “Dirrty” in terms of bared flesh. The cable soldiers in the Special Forces seminars on the history of ab- to children. Reuters for livestock. NYT News Service unit thought the dog looked stinence and the conse- farm animals processed in Christina channel is particularly offended by a scene in which Aguilera plays suggestively too frail, Joyce felt it de- quences of premarital sex. Rapper arrested: Authorities arrested American rapper DMX with a water hose. Aguilera says she is livid because she served a chance. He fed it, Convention exhibitors dis- on Saturday for using profanity during a concert the night before believes a male performer would not be censored. “She trained it and, almost as a played various abstinence on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts and Nevis, the police said. doesn’t say that a male performer would get away with it, joke, named it Fluffy. Through items, including “Keep It” un- The rapper, who was nominated last year for a Grammy for best but she does feel that there are double standards and it all, man and dog forged a derwear depicting a large red rap solo performance for “Who We Be,” performed an hourlong she’s upset,” says a spokeswoman for the artist. ANI commitment that lasted stop sign with the message concert Friday night before an enthusiastic crowd of about 3,000 through war and government “No Trespassing.” AP at St. Kitts’ annual music festival. AP Paris even has a ‘deaf’ cafe By Matthew Campbell Yet this is a world apart from tions are emblazoned on the the usual hubbub of the backs of the waiters’ T-shirts Paris: Tourists in Paris often Parisian bistro: orders are in an effort to encourage cus- complain about the difficulty transmitted to the chef in tomers to experiment in the of attracting a waiter’s atten- silent gesticulation and on language of signs. tion but at the Cafe des terrace tables under the vio- “It seems to work very Signes there is no point in let awning are leaflets de- well,” said Martine Lejeau- raising one’s voice. All the scribing what signs to use for Perry, a former art history waiters are deaf. placing an order. student who runs a local gov- They have been thrown “It is no use speaking loud- ernment centre for the deaf into the deep end of the serv- ly,” they advise customers. and helps supervise the cafe. ice industry in a govern- “The servers cannot profit “I am not a businesswoman ment-funded effort to boost from what has guided us but we are managing to bal- equal opportunities for dis- since our early childhood - ance the books. We’re serv- abled people in the work- words and sounds: they are ing more than 50 meals a place. Their new watering deaf. Please be indulgent.” day.” She had the unusual hole on the Left Bank is being Place mats display images idea of offering deaf people hailed as a breakthrough in of the sign language alpha- work as waiters after a previ- helping the deaf. bet, as do the pepper and salt ous cafe on the site closed It looks like any other cafe. cellars. The same illustra- down. Sunday Times UK’s heart patients may head for India London: In a bid to over- come the long waiting lists in Britain’s national health service (NHS), some patients suffering from heart and lung ailments may be flown to India for surgery quickly and at almost half the cost, a media report said Sunday. NHS chiefs are currently in talks with medical author- ities in India to consider the proposals in a desperate bid to cut waiting lists, the Sun- day Times said. A department of health spokesman, however,said pa- tients would only be sent to India in exceptional circum- stances. Dr Yaswant Mehrotra, managing director of India’s Apollo Hospital network, told the paper: ‘‘We expect negoti- ations to work out within months. Once this arrange- ment is in place, patients on British waiting lists can be transferred to Apollo’s car- diac, orthopaedic and oph- thalmology departments. “The facility will be avail- able not only for Non- Resi- dent Indians but any patient wishing an early appoint- ment and treatment. “From our point of view, there is a lot of money in it,” he said. The Indian opera- tions would cost around 3,000 pounds — half the price of surgery in Britain — includ- ing the cost of the 12,800-km return flight. More than a million people in the UK are currently on NHS waiting lists. One has to wait up to nine months for a cataract operation and s ix months for heart surgery here. The government pledged to use private facili- ties in Britain to break the log-jam in waiting times for routine operations. PTI
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Many restaurants use simple pagers, often in the form of It Shakes, coasters, to make the most efficient use of tables during busy DIASPORIUM We’ll get Saddam: Bremer periods. The devices, which operate on short-range radio sig- nals, vibrate, flash lights and sound messages to inform cus- AP London: US and British forces in And You tomers waiting at the bar or outside that a table is ready. Date with LSE Iraq will suffer further casualties The London Stock Exchange (LSE) until supporters of Saddam Hussein is continuing to wiggle its rear and carrying out the attacks are stamped Are Stirred CONTACT Metal contacts on the top and flaunt its virtues at Indian compa- out, Paul Bremer, the US civil ad- bottom allow many pagers nies and its pulling out all the ministrator in Iraq, said on Sunday. to be stacked on a battery stops. With the big guns of the But occupying forces in Iraq are de- charging unit, pancake style, Confederation of Indian Industry termined to capture or kill Saddam SPILL-RESISTANT, for simultaneous recharging. in town this week, the LSE is host- and his backers to impose law and SEMI-TRANSPARENT ing a seminar “to discuss business order, he said. HARD PLASTIC CASE perspectives on India from both “The chances of catching Saddam MICROPROCESSOR the UK and Indian side” and to are very high,” Bremer told BBC A small chip analyzes the radio “highlight the benefits of listing in Television. “We will catch him. I signal. If it detects a code unique to the pager, it activates London for Indian companies”. think it is important that we either the lights,voice alert and Not frightfully subtle, of course, capture or kill him.” RADIO vibrator. but the bottom line, as always, is US and British troops seeking to RECEIVER the balance sheets. Listening in impose law and order in post-war BOARD will be Rahul Bajaj, co-chair of the Iraq have come under attack repeat- Pagers are radios that MOTOR VIBRATOR Commonwealth Business Council, edly in recent weeks. are tuned to receive a A simple electric motor CII head Anand Mahindra and Uncertainty about Saddam’s fate single frequency. A has a small weight minister of state N.K. Singh. was allowing his supporters to cow base-station transmit attached off-center to ordinary Iraqis by asserting that he ter sends signals that the spindle. When the Gourmet Merchant and they would return to power, the are picked up by the spindle turns, the Ismail Merchant, Mumbaikar, veteran US diplomat said. pager’s antenna. motor shakes like an New Yorker, Londoner, citizen of “There are people who out here, Transmitter power of out-of-balance the world, has been cooking “live” particularly remnants of the old this system is 2 watts. washing machine. before an assembled Mayfair regime...still fighting us,” he said. TRANSMITTER RANGE crowd of hats, cravats and “We will capture and if necessary The range of the system is deter- achkans. The legendary film pro- kill them until we have imposed law mined largely by the radio frequency ducer, gourmet, sometimes gour- and order on this country. used. A very high frequency version “It is unfortunately the case, we (27 megahertz) will work mostly with- mand lent his name and his chop- LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES will continue to take casualties. But in a restaurant or just outside. An ul- frying skills to further the cause of The diodes’ flash is visible SPEAKER there is no strategic threat to the tra high frequency version (420 to his favourite London curry house. through the cover. Rather big-hearted of him, one coalition here,” he said. MUTE BUTTON 470 megahertz) has a longer range. might think, except that he does An Iraqi civilian was killed and get the signal honour of having a two US military police soldiers were menu selection named after him. wounded in Baghdad on Sunday The interestingly jumbled-up, when an explosion targeted a US convoy, the latest in a series of hit- beautifully-run Chor Bizarre is A US soldier takes cover during a raid in Baghdad on Saturday. now evolving a whole new kind of and-run strikes on occupation tea ceremony at the upmarket de- forces. countries. Iraq, said, “Security is deteriorating partment store Harrods. But the Hours earlier in a separate inci- “They do not appear to be operat- day by day.” Bremer rejected criti- markets, alas, are sniffy. Harrods dent on Saturday night, attackers ing under any central command and cism that the Bush administration is deeply in the red. For weeks, its lobbed two grenades near U.S. sol- control,” Bremer said. had not thought out its plans for controversial owner, Mohammed diers guarding the Iraqi National At least 22 Americans have been post-war Iraq. “We have a plan but al-Fayed, has been trying to sell Museum, the soldiers said. Nobody killed by hostile fire since President it’s a difficult plan to execute,” he the store to the highest bidder. was hurt. George W.Bush declared major com- said. There aren’t many around. Might Bremer said attacks on bat over on May 1. Six British mili- He forecast that within three or Merchant be the answer, complete “coalition” troops were coming from tary police were killed in the south four weeks, some sort of political with a Cotton Mary chai? remnants of Saddam’s Baathist of Iraq on Tuesday. council of Iraqis would be estab- ● Rashmee Z Ahmed in London network and his militias, and possi- Dominic Nutt of the charity lished — a first step towards self-gov- bly militants from neighbouring Christian Aid, which has workers in ernment. The New York Times Journalists Musharraf’s lies nailed Hillary is bogeywoman for Bush breach royal By Chidanand Rajghatta Washington (which backs less of the political honey- Ajit Ninan TIMES NEWS NETWORK By Tony Allen-Mills (NRSC), declared: “If Re- Musharraf ’s military regime moon between the two coun- security and says it is acting against tries. publicans don’t take imme- Washington: The FBI indict- Washington: She is not terrorist camps), and the in- Given that nine of the 11 diate steps to counter her, London: An undercover ment of 11 suspected standing for president, but side view, especially in law- men charged are US citizens, Senator Clinton will contin- journalist breached security Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Senator Hillary Clinton’s enforcement and intelligence it suggests Washington is ue to rise unimpeded to the at Windsor Castle just five the US reveals that Pak- reluctance to be drawn into circles, which shows Pak- cracking down on radicals on very pinnacle of power in days after a comedian istan’s military ruler Pervez the 2004 race for the White istan serving as a platform to its own turf too. House has not stopped her Washington and we will see slipped inside the royal resi- Musharraf has consistently terrorists from across the Law enforcement authori- becoming a prime target in the dawning of a new, more dence and gatecrashed lied to Washington, New Del- world. In fact, the FBI action, ties announced both actions President George W Bush’s liberal Clinton era.” Prince William’s birthday, a hi and the world on the sub- the first to address the issue on either side of Mushar- rapidly accelerating cam- On the NRSC website, the newspaper reported Sunday. ject of terrorist camps. of terrorism directed against raf ’s visit to Washington, ev- paign for re-election. pack of official Democratic The Sunday Mirror tabloid According to US officials, India, could completely idently to avoid embarrass- Republican strategists challengers to Bush is being said a reporter and photogra- at least seven members of the change the US-India dis- ing the Bush administra- last week launched a new ignored while a prominent pher were allowed into pri- group travelled to Pakistan course on the subject. tion’s guest. fundraising appeal that sin- red warning sign exhorts: vate grounds surrounding and received training in The indictment charges According to US officials, gled out Clinton’s “ambi- “Stop Hillary Now.” the castle without security small arms, machine guns the indictment relies partly tion and prolific fundrais- Democratic officials dis- checks being made, although and grenade launchers at a the men with violating the on the testimony of an un- ing” as the main danger to missed the Republican ef- they did not enter the build- LeT camp in northeast Pak- Neutrality Act, which bars named, unindicted co-con- the party’s majorities in fort as an attempt to divert ing. Police chiefs said no istan. Some of them even Americans or US residents spirator who was close to the both the Senate and the attention from Bush’s fail- members of the royal family fought against Indian troops from attacking friendly coun- House of Representatives. ing policies. “I love these Re- were in residence during the in Kashmir. tries with which the US is at group and who turned ap- In an apparent attempt to publicans,” said Terry incident Thursday and de- The disclosure blows apart peace, in this case India. prover to provide incriminat- exploit conservative disgust McAuliffe, chairman of the nied it amounted to a breach the repeated contention by It also explicitly refers to ing information about the with the success of Clin- Democratic National Com- of security. Musharraf and his establish- terrorist activities directed others as part of a deal with ton’s newly published auto- mittee. ‘‘The secure protected area ment that Pakistan is not a against India in the name of the government. biography, Living History, Yet other Democrats ac- was not breached at any safe haven for terrorists, that jehad. The charges reveal that the Republicans are warning knowledged a real problem: stage,’’ Scotland Yard said in there are no terrorist camps Together with last week’s men met often at private that neither Bush’s re-elec- none of the nine declared a statement. In a separate in- in Pakistan, and that “noth- arrest of Iyman Faris, the homes and mosques in the tion nor a repeat of last Democratic challengers cident, the force said it ar- ing is happening on the Ohio truck driver of Kash- Washington area to listen to year’s congressional victo- has anywhere near the rested four men, all aged in LoC.” miri origin, the actions show lectures on and discuss the ries should be taken for celebrity or money-making their 20s, in the early hours The charges also bring to that the US is now getting se- righteousness of jehad in granted. sent to party activists, Sena- of the National Republican power of the former first of the morning Sunday, as the fore the vast disconnect rious about cornering ex- Kashmir, Chechnya and else- In a fundraising letter tor George Allen, chairman Senatorial Committee lady. Sunday Times they tried to get into the between the public and polit- tremists trained in and where. castle grounds. 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14 Monday,June 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Bonding with Beijing Grand Designs A THOUGHT FOR TODAY The National Institute of Design (NID), disciplines. For example, we’re working on Trade First, Territory Later Ahmedabad, is abuzz with several new new currency and coins which are visually The Best Bakery massacre is a blot on initiatives, including the inauguration of impaired-friendly. The idea is to design By M K Venu automatically.The two countries will have to the cultural city of Vadodara. the travelling exhibition, “The Great Arc”, products that include in its reach the lobby together to squeeze concessions out of celebrating the bicentenary of the non-privileged people. — Judge H U Mahida German philosopher Immanuel Kant once the developed economies from multilateral great Trigonometric Survey of India. said it takes a lifetime for reason to evolve in platforms such as WTO. Prime minister So you agree that design is not only about Darlie O Koshy, NID’s executive director, humans. This is even truer for nation-states Vajpayee has, therefore, rightly said that adding value to products but also enhancing tells Narayani Ganesh that design does which have giant-sized egos. Indeed, it has India and China must transcend bilateral the quality of life across society. Speedy Injustice not have to be the preserve of the privileged Certainly.The institute has a commitment taken over 50 years of diplomatic stalemate relations and present a global vision. — it can revolutionise the social sector too: to the social sector. We are the national After the sham Best Bakery case, between India and China to realise what was A simple example will illustrate this de facto all these years must eventually point. There are two issues on which in the consultant for khadi; we design rural it’s time for the CBI to take over become de jure. A small beginning has been longer term both China and India will have What is “The Great Arc”? products and textiles, pottery, ceramics, agarbatis and paper, among other pro- A democracy, text books will tell you, is characterised by made in this regard with China recognising necessarily to work together at the WTO. It is a travelling exhibition the NID is Sikkim as part of India and in return India One, the linking of environment with trade ducts. We are trying to tap local design the rule of law. This means that whenever a crime takes designing for the department of science and resource by empanelling designers across place, a case under the relevant law is registered, which is endorsing the Tibetan Autonomous Region and investment. And two, progressively technology, the Survey of India (SI) and the as part of the territory of China. gaining greater access for Indian and the country and helping them form then investigated by the police. This is followed by a trial in British Council. It will have 5,000 sq ft of commercial alliances. If all other de facto positions in regard to Chinese workers in the other developed which the court pronounces on the guilt or otherwise of the walking space, telling the story of the great The NID has been a consultant for coir for the border question become de jure over time economies. This will be mandated by the accused. India is evidently a democracy.Indeed, it is, going quest, amplifying the fact that anything you the last two years. We’ve designed a new (and who knows, they well might), then very logic of the nature of global economic by numbers, the world’s greatest. As such, it’s a reasonable see can be mapped. Whether you are looking yarn, making 1,300 m from just one kg of history will indeed have come full circle. If a growth in the coming decades. expectation that this simple routine — the so-called due for Dwarka or the nearest McDonalds, a coir, in Alleppey. In the north-east, NID is comprehensive solution does come about in process of law — will be carried out here in all criminal In a shorter time-frame, the two countries good map can give you the information. setting up a bamboo and cane development due course, then one could argue that India cases. On the face of it, this is exactly what happened in the may appear to work at cross-purposes and The Great Arc will be inaugurated in centre with government collaboration. We might as well have accepted the package infamous Best Bakery case in Vadodara in which 14 people even make some compromises with the Cambridge on July 15 and travel round will be conducting classes; we’ll look at offered by Chinese premier Chou En Lai in were burnt alive in post-Godhra mob violence. At the end of developed economies to get specific trade- the world. Later, it could become the SI’s creating new bamboo products. Our Craft the fifties. But then, it must necessarily take the fast-court trial, however, the case has been summarily related gains. But there is no mistaking permanent exhibition. Maybe this will Development Institute in Srinagar is a Rs 12 a lifetime for reason to evolve. thrown out and all 21 accused released because “there was that in the longer term the two will have to inspire Indians to become more map-savvy crore project — NID will manage it for the not an iota of evidence” against them. Worse, the judge No one should know this better than prime persuade the US into accepting a sort of — which they’re not at present. next four years. At Cuddapah, AP, we’re has accused the police of fabricating evidence to frame minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who had framework that the Kyoto Protocol seeks to Are maps going to play an important role in designing new toys and other products “innocents”. The verdict implies that the police failed — strongly opposed any quid pro quo solution institutionalise. The reason is simple. Unless the future of design? from stone waste. In Hyderabad, we’re quite deliberately — to apprehend those actually involved as a young parliamentarian in the early the developed economies are forced to The future lies in intelligent mapping. developing a master plan, including sign- either de-industrialise or facilitate cheaper in carrying out the horrific outrage. sixties. Hopefully, the politico-bureaucratic Our graphic design ages and maps. elite in both countries has technology transfer to the de- Best Bakery was among the worst cases of violence in students have map- We are trying to ge- realised that it makes no veloping world, incremental the aftermath of Godhra. It was also the first to come up ped Ahmedabad; nerate indigenous sense at all to allow territorial growth in the world economy Q&A for hearing. Long before the 44-day trial ended, it was now they’re working business solutions. disputes to come in the way will remain very poor. This apparent that the case was something of a sham: Of the on Hyderabad. We’re We have to move How is design expan- of the two most populous will not help anyone, inclu- 120 witnesses listed by the prosecution, more than a third also focusing on forward from designing ding patient-benefits nations with rapidly growing ding the OECD countries. a Design Business for a privileged few to in the field of never made it to the box. Of the 73 who did, more than half economies having a robust turned hostile. The prosecution’s prime witness and main This realisation has, of Incubator (DBI). At designing for everyone. medicine? interaction with each other. late, turned into a sort of complainant, who was “escorted” to the trial by the local California recently,I The 20th century Our indigenous- The key to building a scare for the OECD countries BJP legislator, told the court that she’d neither seen nor saw two incubators belonged to design ly designed pre-natal durable India-China partner- in the wake of the inexpli- heard anything about the incident... Cynics will argue that — one of which for profit, in the 21st infant incubator ship is to de-territorialise cably long-drawn-out demand the verdict is no surprise. From the anti-Sikh carnage in was for NASA. Nor- century design should (Shashank, 1989) their bilateral relations. This recessions in countries like mally, bright stu- be socially responsible. was a major hit. We Delhi in 1984 to the Bombay riots in 1992, “riot” cases in Udayshankar is a must for the two nations Japan, Europe and the US. dents, once they pass are planning to have India have long since ceased to result in convictions. Since outlining a common vision for global growth. Some of the most erudite economists in out, are snapped up a full-fledged post- most episodes of communal violence are politically In a few decades, India and China will have the West are groping in the dark and by the market. But a student who wants to graduate plan for medical equipment design. engineered, shielding the guilty is very much an accepted over 55 per cent of the world’s population can’t seem empirically to understand the innovate cannot afford to actualise his ideas We have been helping design or improve part of the post-riot “healing” process. For all that, the under 35 years of age. With this strength global economic behaviour these past on his own... Suppose a student thinks of a prosthetic and other medical aids. We Gujarat case cannot be ignored. In the wake of post-Godhra (as human resource and consumers), if the many years. The time may be ripe, there- small plastic device with a spout to act as a designed a “grasper” to help arthritic violence, the National Human Rights Commission had two countries speak with one voice in fore, for countries like India and China to dispenser.Now,he may not be able to execute patients grasp objects in their hand. pointedly asked the state government to hand over the any multilateral fora, the world will have no pursue jointly an agenda in terms of it all on his own. The DBI will incubate the What is your overall vision for design? investigation in five select cases, including Best Bakery, to option but to listen. getting the best deal on the linking of idea for him for seven to eight months. The Design should be people-friendly, which the CBI. At the time, the Modi government had rejected the In some ways, this is mandated by the trade with environment. They must also department of biotechnology has given us a also means eco-friendly. Whenever possible, request on the ground that cast needless aspersions on very law of nature. For the cyclical nature of push for progressively greater access for grant of Rs 250 lakh for this. With help from local suitability should be kept in mind. the integrity and competence of the state police. After history itself will pitchfork the two nations Indian and Chinese workers in the venture capitalists, students can become Second, we should not become design- what the court said on Friday, Mr Modi will hopefully to a position of primacy.India and China had developed economies. small entrepreneurs. The NID will receive a centred, we should be design-led, to find transfer the remaining cases to the Central agency. But over 40 per cent share in world output at the Meanwhile, India and China can comple- small royalty for its facilitating role. solutions. We have to move forward from this, given his record, is hoping for a lot. end of the 17th century.This can be regained ment each other’s economic strengths Don’t the IITs have something like this designing for a privileged few to design- in the 21st century,in the first half. So the two through mutually beneficial trade and already? ing for everyone. Also, we must realise nations must put border disputes on the investment treaties. For instance, the CII has The IITs have technology-based incuba- that the 20th century belonged to design Foreign universities explode back-burner. Territory mattered more in an projected that the Chinese pharmaceutical tors. This will be the first time a design-based for profit, in the 21st century design on the Indian scene era when land and agriculture were the main market could be the fourth largest in the incubator will be created, This will help should be socially responsible, in line wealth producers. With rapid globalisation world by 2010 and Indian pharma companies select and nurture ideas from the concept to with the importance being given to corporate VIEW and the consequent elimination of time and must quickly move to get a share of the working or commercial prototype stage. social responsibility. distance, it is the role of human resource pie. Similarly, Chinese small and medium Are designers in India leading from the front What do you think of the proposal for a huge that has become critical to gain an economic enterprises (SMEs) are big consumers of IT or are they are just copying western ideas? shopping mall around the Taj Mahal? Any Foreign Degree Better edge. India and China will have a decided products and services. India has a clear edge There is definitely a movement in terms It’s atrocious. Designers should design advantage in this respect, as other developed there. In the manufacturing sector, where of looking at emerging areas of design — for need, not greed. Even the NID was asked Than Studying Here societies progressively age. China has a greater competitive edge, India earlier, only the physical world was to submit a plan for development around the ore foreign universities are coming to India to The logic of demographics will ensure the can give easier market access. If there is being looked at. Now there’s the virtual Taj. We submitted an approach paper to Mlure students through their portals. Attractive largest share of incremental productivity sincerity on both sides, a win-win situation world, too. So we’re constantly looking the UP government last year. But nothing options are on offer, fee structures have been in this region. But this will not happen is waiting to be exploited. at emerging areas, combining different has come out of it so far. made flexible. Good news, you’d have thought but officialdom’s heavy hand is coming down on such educational institutions. The predictable refrain is that these offer third-rate education. But why this Symbiotic Mysticism sudden concern for students, when all these years, Autumn at Aotea precious little has been done to make higher education By Ayesha Heble when the music stopped, else, exposing his papery, In Devotional Poems more attractive? For most students, a bad foreign and then it was only to wrinkled skin and shrivel- The old man seemed entire- By A N D Haksar university remains preferable to the nerve-wracking turn the cassette around led body to the elements, The Good Earth ly oblivious of the lack effort to get into a halfway decent Indian univer- and start all over again. and his wife, seated on one Few have heard of the mystic local tradition. At the level of audience. The only audi- So long as the earth sity. Take a premier Indian university like Delhi What had attracted me in of the wooden benches at poems Brahma Prakash or of religious ideas, there is ence he seemed interested preserves her forests University. For the 93,000 students who pass the the first place was the mu- the side of the square, with Dasa Avatar by the mediae- record of ginans sung to in, or had, was an equally and wildlife, man’s boards, only 55,000 college seats are available. And this sic. It was honky-tonk mu- a walker in front of her, on val Muslim saint Pir Shams. Sikh and Hindu gatherings old lady with pure white progeny will continue is a far better ratio than in other parts of the country. sic, of the Scott Joplin va- which was placed a cassette Both are famous ginans of in East Africa. So what happens to those who don’t make it. Some hair, wearing a blue frock, to exist. This is the riety,and I first heard it as I recorder, playing the music South Asia’s Ismaili commu- The acculturation with the go into correspondence courses which are looked sitting on a bench in front Hindu approach was crossing the square. that I had heard. nity, sometimes also known larger Indian environment is down upon by society and put you at a disadvantage of him, looking quite dist- towards the conser- Rafi and I had agreed to The old man, as I said, as Khojas or Aga Khanis in reflected also in the name vis-a-vis job opportunities. ant and not at all interested vation of ecology. meet in the Aotea Square, was juggling just for her. popular parlance. Satpanth by which the Off-beat courses are few and far between, so for in the performance he was Upanishads in the heart of Auckland, They didn’t seem to be Ginans are hymn-like Ismaili tradition came to be those who can pay, a foreign university is the best putting on for her benefit. ✥ the city in which we now doing it for money as there poems of spiritual import. known. “The pir,” says Asni, option. With our craze for all things foreign, even a The act involved the They are revered by the faith- “introduced his teachings as find ourselves — after class- was no hat placed on the Mankind is a part of degree from a lower-end educational institution juggling of six slightly ful in deep veneration as a natural culmination of es at the university where ground. Quite a few people nature and life depends abroad would be enough to get the student a job here. dirty-looking yellow bean- repositories of wisdom and local belief systems.” One he studies and I teach. I was stopped and listened and on the uninterrupted In any case, we reckon without the enterprise of the bags, and he wasn’t parti- spiritual knowledge, and as ginan cites the mythological 10 minutes early and so de- watched — two elderly functioning of natural Indian student. She sees a foreign university,however cularly adept at his art. But transmitting the essential king Harichandra as a model cided to catch the late after- Japanese tourists taking systems which ensure lowly rated, as a foothold into the educational this did not seem to bother teachings of the Holy Qur’an of righteousness. Another is him — or the audience — at noon sun in mid-March, the photographs of each other, the supply of energy opportunities that the West has to offer.The outrage at in the vernacular. Composed titled Darshan diyo mere and nutrients. foreign universities holding out false promises is all; he just picked up the first few days of autumn — a couple of New Zealand in Sindhi, Gujarati, Hindus- nath, a popular sentiment. amusing considering the number of education scams offending bean-bag and this being the southern policemen on their beat, a tani and Punjabi among oth- In Dasa Avatar, as noted Civilisation is rooted we have seen here. In some instances, students here continued as if nothing hemisphere with the sea- college student on her way er subcontinental languages, by Islamic historian Anne- in nature, which has have been admitted, for a large fee of course, into amiss had occurred. He was sons at all the wrong times. to or from somewhere, a the oldest are ascribed to the marie Schimmel, “Muslim shaped human culture and influenced all universities which simply don’t exist. Others charge immersed in his perfor- It was then that I heard young Maori woman with pirs or saints who first and Hindu traditions seem to artistic and scientific swingeing capitation fees and throw merit to the mance, alternately throw- the music drifting across her baby, and me. We all preached Ismaili Islam in merge as the poet represents achievement, and living winds. We have no right to complain. We either ing the bags into the air, from one corner of the stopped whatever we were India nearly 1,000 years ago. Ismaili Islam as fulfilment of in harmony with nature upgrade our higher education system and make it running them along his square, and followed it to doing for a couple of The tradition continued, Hindu religious tradition.” gives man the best more attractive to students, or stop whining when arm, catching them behind catch sight of the incongru- minutes and watched this and recent composers inclu- In such mythopoesis, the opportunities for the foreign universities exploit the opportunities here. his back and, yes, occasion- ous-looking couple — an old little performance of love... de the Karachi saint, Sayyida tenth avatara of Vishnu is ally dropping them. The man, dressed only to brown and then continued along Imam Begum, in the 19th renamed Nakalanki (stain- development of his COUNTERVIEW only time he stopped was boxer shorts and nothing our way. century. “Ginans are recited less), and is identified with creativity,and for rest daily”, writes Ismaili scholar Ali, the first Shia Imam. and recreation... Ali Asni, “when- Such an assimi- Man... must fully Beware the Foreign Schools, CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS ever members lationist appro- recognise the urgency congregate for rit- ach sees no con- of maintaining the They are a Scam Women Power of all member states of the UN. That is both ual prayers.’’ The tradiction bet- stability and quality of phoren-sounding name, preferably one that a great privilege and responsibility that recitation is itself ween people’s re- nature and of conser- Aevokes memories of ‘cool Britannia’, and a pro- Apropos of the Q&A ‘Not a Woman’s World’ those of us who work at UNIFEM are mind- a ritual on special ligious identity ving natural resources. mise to deliver phoren education to your doorstep — of (Jun 27), UNIFEM is not at all the only ful of every day.Additionally,it was not occasions like and their partici- The UN World Charter course with the mandatory phoren degree. Welcome to women’s organisation with worldwide UNIFEM alone that said, “we need to talk birthdays of the pation in indige- for Nature the latest scam in education. A majority of these legitimacy and support. There are scores of about women’s human right.” That achieve- Prophet and the nous culture. It ✥ these and UNIFEM exists precisely because ment was through many years of collective Imam, and on the is natural that it colleges which advertise for students in India have THE When we respect the of our partnerships with them and support organising and hard work by a global net- new year, Navroz. should be opposed never been heard of in their own countries. Certainly, environment, then from them. What is unique about UNIFEM work. Finally,the chapter on ‘Gender Equa- Outside the SPEAKING by those who they are not a patch on the formidable educational nature will be good to is that it is the women’s fund of the United lity in the Annual Economic Survey’ was context of formal tend towards ex- institutions of the West, to which students from us. When our hearts are Nations, and as such, the only such fund an initiative of the government of India. worship, ginans TREE clusivism. Ginans all over the world flock. Rather these institutes flock good, then the sky will established through a consensus agreement — Joanne Sandler,deputy executive director are sung as auspicious bless- were termed by some ortho- to countries like ours. Since the admission of students be good to us. The trees for programme, UNIFEM ings and quoted as proverbs. dox commentators as lacking is usually done in the consulate premises, there is are like our mother and They feature in concerts and as Islamic personality. an air of legitimacy to the whole business. But in From timesofindia.com father, they feed us, Half-baked Justice cassette recordings. Elements which constitute fact the consulates have little to do with admissions. nourish us, and provide This refers to the headline ‘Best Bakery The contents of ginans are culture are being viewed The colleges, no doubt, are cashing in on the us with everything; accused now off the hook’ (Jun 28). The varied. Some are supplica- increasingly from a purely Indian rage for all things foreign. Yet the fact Wily Musharraf the fruit, leaves, the judgment has endorsed Attorney General tions for grace and enlighten- religious perspective in parts remains, that they are nothing but money-making Apropos your editorial, ‘Price for Pervez’ branches, the trunk. Soli Sorabjee’s view that the criminal ment, like Ruhani Visal or of South Asia today. The enterprises. The bewildering array of combinations (Jun 27), the plans of Pakistani president They give us food and justice system of the country is on the verge spiritual union by Pir Hasan adoption of Arabic and offered may at first seem alluring, but the catch Pervez Musharraf to extract maximum satisfy many of our of collapse. Such verdicts only serve to Kabiruddin. Others, like Mo- Persian cultural elements involved is that many such combinations are not benefits from US president George Bush needs. So we spread the make the citizens sceptical about the true man Chetamani or warning and more is considered by recognised in the country of origin. Sometimes, have not materialised. The biggest item dharma (truth) of meaning of justice. There was no justice for to the faithful by Pir Sadrud- some as an essential aspect of even the certificates are worthless, because they on his wishlist, F-16 aircraft, has been protecting ourselves the victims during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, din, impart ethical and moral Islamisation. Then there is are not granted recognition elsewhere. denied to him. Rather, he has received a and protecting our nor did those affected by the post-Godhra instruction. Yet others deal the process of Sanskritisa- Let us not forget that such institutes thrive in stern warning to have no dealings with environment, which riots in Gujarat get justice. It is regrettable with cosmological themes or tion, now reformulated as our metros because of our own neglect of higher North Korea. But the admiration lavished is the dharma of that the judge did not deliberately use avail- the mystic life, like Brahma Hindutva. Both result in education. Cut-off marks for universities are un- upon him by Mr Bush, as a “moderate the Buddha. realistically high, the syllabi are often outdated, able powers to analyse the witnesses who Gayatri and Boojh Niranjan greater cultural distancing Muslim committed to modernising Maha Ghosananda teachers are lackadaisical about their profession, and turned hostile. There is nothing new in the by the same saint. Devotion between the two communi- Pakistan”, can be used by him to bolster ✥ the choices for combinations restricted. For example, his position back home. In the current fact that witnesses are coerced to turn and piety is a common ties, to the detriment of both. a student of history cannot study ‘still photography’ political situation, the US cannot afford to hostile by pressure or by use of money. theme. One feature of ginans The word ginan is similar One who neglects or along with his core papers. Examination patterns lose Pakistan as an ally in its war against — Subhash C Agrawal, New Delhi is of wider interest for plural to jnana, which means disregards the existence are tedious. Commerce students are still forced to terrorism. And Pakistan cannot afford to Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page societies. It is the Ismaili wisdom. This goal is by no of earth, air, fire, water write long answers on subjects like public enterprises displease America. 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KAUTILYA GROUND HANDLING M&M’s next SUV is Rexton TURBULENCE Foreign debt will By Byas Anand The vehicle would mark Planning big tion between Daewoo and TIMES NEWS NETWORK M&M’s entry into the premi- Ssangyong, and Daewoo had Private airlines um SUV segment and will even marketed the vehicle in New Delhi: After Scorpio, M&M to enter premium compete head-on with the • Ireland just before its col- what? The suspense is finally SUV segment with Rexton not do us part likes of Chevrolet Forrester lapse. over.Mahindra & Mahindra is and Suzuki Grand Vitara. Mode of launch to be Besides, M&M is also mak- get the nod planning to roll out a new By Jairam Ramesh been liquidated or converted While Durante said the exact decided by July-end ing inroads into a number of sports utility vehicle (SUV) By Byas Anand into medium-term debt. High- price positioning is yet to be international markets with The status paper sourced from the stables of Plans to export Scorpio to TIMES NEWS NETWORK cost debt has been retired. Lib- finalised, industry watchers its Scorpio. “We have already on external debt Ssangyong Motors, a compa- Asean nations and Europe eralisation of gold imports has said the vehicle is expected shortlisted five destinations New Delhi: The home ministry has fi- just released by ny once owned by Daewoo Mo- taken place and this has caused to sport a tag of around Rs for the Scorpio, including nally given the nod to private domestic the ministry of tors. The SUV,christened Rex- finance, the workers’ remittances through 13-15 lakh. valuable technology transfer Russia, China, Gulf, south and carriers — Jet and Air Sahara — to carry ton, will be positioned a notch ninth in the se- official channels to rise substan- The Rexton RX 290, the ve- as we will would seek to central America and Indone- out self handling of all their airport ac- above its existing Scorpio. ries is, as usual, tially and add to our reserves. hicle slated for India, is pow- include some of its learn- sia. We expect at least four of tivities. Civil aviation ministry sources M&M has already conduct- comprehensive. Forex reserves have mounted ered by a 290 litre turbo diesel ing from the Rexton on the these ventures to be JV pro- said the home ministry cleared the pro- ed clinical trials on the vehi- As of end-De- impressively without a signifi- engine and has ‘shift on the Scorpio.’’ duction bases,” company COO posal on Friday evening. cle and is firm on launching fly’ capability from 2 wheel Pawan Goenka said. The civil aviation ministry has also de- cember 1992, India’s external cant increase in external debt. Ssangyong, a truck and the SUV in India. Company drive to 4 wheel drive. Besides, as part of its first cided to go ahead with the proposed debt stood at around $105 billion In recent months, NRIs appear sport utility vehicle producer to have taken advantage of in- president Alan Durante said: Company sources pointed anniversary plans, the Scor- upgradation and privatisation of Delhi or at about $100 per every Indi- from South Korea, was pur- an. Over the past decade, our ex- terest rate differentials between ‘‘We will finalise the mode of out that in return, M&M will pio is also set to enter Euro- and Mumbai airports through the chased by Daewoo in 1998 and ternal debt has increased by India and the US, (although its launch, whether it will be seek Ssangyong’s network to pean markets like Italy,Spain, lease route. about $20 billion and over the some proportion of so-called produced here or imported market its Scorpio in Korea later split off as part of its re- Serbia and Macedonia, where The ministry has proposed that inter- past two decades, it has multi- “NRI deposits” could well be RI and sold as an fully-built im- and other Asean markets. structuring exercise. The Rex- M&M has put in place distri- ested parties will have to set up joint ven- plied almost five-fold, with the money going out and coming ported vehicle, by July-end.’’ ‘‘There may also be some ton was designed in collabora- bution channels. tures, with the airports authority of In- dia (AAI) taking 26 per cent stake. bulk of the increase taking back). The status paper echoes AFP place during 1985-90. Why then the RBI and minimises the inci- ‘‘We have given our proposal of the pro- is such a whopping level of debt dence of such “arbitrage”. Mar- posed route for airport upgradation to the that Indians owe foreigners not ket perceptions are different. finance ministry.This will now be sent to cause for much worry? Why is The transition from a fixed to the cabinet for a final approval, and we that the World Bank classifies a market-determined exchange expect to invite expression of interests India as a less indebted country? rate has been smooth — al- from private operators within the next First, the structure of our ex- though there is concern that re- two months. The deal will be closed and ternal debt is different than cent trends showing the contin- the final JVs are expected to be in place what prevails in other heavily uing appreciation of the rupee within 8 months,” ministry sources said. indebted countries. 44 per cent vis-a-vis the dollar caused in However,the centre, the sources added, of our external debt is to bilat- part by the weakening dollar in will not allow private airlines to partici- eral and multilateral organisa- global markets, will soon hurt pate in the airport upgradation exercise. tions (of which over three- Indian exports. This apprecia- Though the airports would be leased out fourths is on very concessional tion reflects an imbalance be- to the new respective JVs, all existing terms. This reflects our tradi- tween supply and demand for contracts with airlines and duty free shop tional aid, not trade syndrome dollars in India -- supply is in- operators would continue. that has been changing but not creasing relentlessly but de- On the ground handling issue, the fast enough as in China. mand is sluggish because of de- sources said the home ministry has Second, barring China, India pressed economic growth. Forex cleared the proposal, which will now be has the lowest external markets are also very thin. sent back to the Cabinet Committee of debt:GDP ratio at slightly over What is killing India is not ex- Security (CCS) for a final nod. 20 per cent and debt service to ternal debt. It is internal debt. “Any proposal that has been cleared by current receipts — the key ca- With declining interest rates, CCS can only be amended by the CCS.” pacity to repay debt on time — is concern on the fiscal deficit (and While the domestic airlines have been around 14 per cent. The danger- the revenue deficit) has dimin- allowed self handling, the foreign carri- ous component of external debt ished on the grounds that it is ers will have to lease out their ground is short-term debt that matures “manageable” and that is has handling activities to either of three gov- in less than a year. This caused not caused a collapse as it did in ernment-appointed firms — Indian Air- India’s financial collapse in 1991 1990/91 because of a booming lines, Air-India and AAI. when as a proportion of total external sector. This smugness These three organisations are already debt it exceeded 10 per cent and is misplaced. A few days back, moving ahead with the setting up of their when it accounted for about 380 the CAG revealed that the cen- respective ground handling ventures. per cent of our foreign exchange tre’s fiscal deficit in 2001-02 was Auto giant Honda’s humanoid robot Asimo is hired as a store clerk for customer services by the Takashimaya department store. reserves. Today, these numbers actually 6.8 per cent of GDP as have changed and short-term compared to a budget estimate debt is 5 per cent of our forex re- of 5 per cent of GDP. With a serves-the lowest in the world. combined national fiscal deficit SAP chief on India visit This proportion increases al- of over 10 per cent of GDP and TIMES NEWS NETWORK most five times when short-term with the revenue deficit ac- galore on Sunday night, and will catch his flight to the next stopover, Tokyo, is reckoned not by original but counting for over two-third of Bangalore: Dr Henning Kagermann, residual maturity (long-term this aggregate, is it any wonder from here on Monday night. the 53-year-old physicist and mathe- Top executives he will likely meet in- maturing within a year). that both essential public invest- matician who took over the reins of While we have always been ment and private investment are clude Wipro boss Azim Premji, Infosys SAP as CEO and chairman barely a prudent in repayments, Since not taking place at the rate that CEO Nandan Nilekani and representa- early 1990s, the external sector the needs of the country month ago, is commencing his first tives of its customers such as ONGC, has been managed with striking demand? Asia-Pacific sojourn in his new capaci- BPCL, M&M, Hero Honda and Asian success. Volatile debt has either [email protected] ty, from Bangalore. The chief of the $7 Paints. A meeting with state govern- billion software company flew into Ban- ment officials is also likely.
EXECUTIVE DIGEST Mutual funds to grow NATIONAL Hindi-Chini, software, further, says KPMG: Hav- hardware: Prime Minister AB ing grown by nearly 20 per FIIs record Rs 9,640 cr Vajpayee and Nasscom chief Kiran cent in the last ten years, Indi- inflows in H1: Foreign Insti- INC Karnik highlighted India’s IT prowess an mutual fund business is tutional Investors (FIIs) have to the Chinese. Seeking closer ties poised for further growth but recorded net inflows of Rs Neutron Agnelli: Fiat between the two nations, Vajpayee lack of focus, under perform- 9,640 crore ($2030.3 million) chief Umberto Agnelli will envisioned an infotech superpower ance and overemphasis on in the equity and debt market axe 12,300 jobs and close of collaboration. Assets Under Management during the first half of calen- 12 of its global units under dar year ending June 28, (AUM) was damaging investor a revamp exercise. Though confidence and preventing it 2003. FIIs have invested Rs mum on India, dealers 33,806 crore while recording from attaining higher trajecto- fear buyers will drive ry, according to a recent sales of Rs 24,165 crore dur- past their show- ing the period under review, KPMG study. Despite a rooms due to growth of 20 per cent in AUM SEBI said. Out of the total net uncertainty. purchases of Rs 9,640 crore, to Rs 1,09,300 crore till March net inflows of Rs 3,210.7 2003 from Rs 68,193 crore crore ($681.1 million) came in ten year ago, the study said June itself. Net investment by the latest figures showed a FIIs till June 28 was at Rs decline in the activity. PTI 68,589.3 crore while the num- Bajaj to launch World ber of FIIs stood at 509. PTI Bike in July: Bajaj Auto Inflation rate falls to is all set to launch a 125cc 4.97%: India’s annual infla- World Bike next month, tion rate fell in the week to which will be sourced by its June 14 below the five per Japanese technology partner cent mark for the first time Kawasaki for the international since early March after a fall markets. Codenamed 612, in cereal prices. Analysts fore- the motorcycle would be cast further falls in the infla- initially introduced in the do- tion rate would allow the cen- Switching off: Cisco Systems high-profile mestic market and later sold tral bank to cut interest rates India president Manoj Chugh suddenly put in in overseas markets by Kawa- again. Wholesale price infla- his papers after three years with the company saki Heavy Industries, a com- tion eased for the 4th straight that is often referred to as the plumber of the pany official said but refused week to 4.97 per cent in the Internet. Chugh says he wants to do other things, to divulge details about pro- week to June 14 from the and a successor is yet to be appointed. duction target or export earn- same week last year. Reuters ings from the new bike. PTI
German chancellor Lagardere. “I don’t see why the deadlocked negotiations INTERNATIONAL Gerhard Schroeder Vivendi Universal, which has with members this week. “We walks on way to taken the decision to focus on want to get back and talk to Top central bankers see attend a two-day telecoms and media, would the people we represent,” sluggish global recovery: closed meeting of sell its audio-visual unit,” Wayne Ranick, spokesman Central bank governors from the cabinet in Bertrand Meheut told French for the United Steelworkers of around the world said on Neuhardenberg, weekly Le Journal du Di- America, said. The sides have Saturday they expected a near Berlin. manche. He noted, however, been in talks for weeks. Reuters slow and sluggish recovery in Schroeder on that Canal Plus has a number the global economy. The gov- Sunday announced of partnerships with French ET INSTA POLL ernors gathering in Switzer- a plan to bring group Lagardere, which holds land for an annual meeting of forward tax cuts. 34 per cent and 27 per cent, Yesterday’s results: Should cor- porates put more money into the Bank for International Set- respectively, of Canal Plus sluggish pickup across the sponsoring our hockey team? tlements (BIS) saw a “gradual Canal Plus eyes stronger units Canalsatellite and world moving into next year,” ties with Lagardere: The Yes 91% No 9% Can’t say 00% Multithematiques. Reuters Bank of England Governor Sir head of Vivendi Universal’s • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of Edward George said. “The Canal Plus said in an inter- Goodyear, union contract the general public. mood is one of guarded opti- view on Sunday he doubted talks fail: Union leaders Today’s question: Are you more mism... but with guarded kind Vivendi would sell its cable broke off contract talks with optimistic about the economy of underlined,” Bank of Cana- unit, although he could not Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co now than three months ago? da Governor David Dodge rule out strengthening Canal’s but decided against calling To vote, log on to http://economictimes.indiatimes.com told reporters in Basel. Reuters ties with media group for a strike before discussing
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16 Monday,June 30, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi Is the Wi-Fi internet boom turning into bust? t all sounds ominously fa- boom, many firms have and they will come approach mental challenges facing pub- miliar. A new technology rushed to set up public Too hot to handle? taken by many firms during lic hotspots. The number of I emerges and is rapidly em- hotspots in airports, hotels, Number of Wi-Fi hotspot locations worldwide, ’000 the dotcom boom. people who carry laptop com- braced by technology enthusi- shops and restaurants, hoping Users may be deterred by puters around is quite small. asts. Hundreds of firms to charge for Wi-Fi access. 160 high prices. Even after a re- Daniel Sweeney of Forward spring up, hoping to cash in Public hotspots are out- cent round of price cuts, using Concepts, a consultancy, on its expected breakthrough numbered by private access Others 140 T-Mobile’s network of points out that travelling busi- into the mass market. Profits, points, but their numbers are Retail outlets 120 hotspots costs $6 per hour, $40 ness people and other road or having a sensible business growing fast. There are ex- Community hotspots per month, or $360 per year. warriors have proved an illu- model, are forgotten in the pected to be more than 70,000 Hotels & conferences 100 Other operators in America sory market for wireless-data rush. But demand proves elu- this year (see chart). Consor- Airports, stations, ports charge $40-70 per month. firms in the past. Unless Wi-Fi sive, a painful bust ensues, tia in America, Europe and 80 Prices in Europe are as high is added to mobile phones, and only a handful of firms Asia have announced ambi- as $150 per month. most people will not carry a survive. It happened during tious plans to build tens of 60 A study by ForceNine Con- Wi-Fi-capable device. And un- dotcom mania and is now thousands of hotspots over sulting found that demand for like a mobile phone, which 40 about to happen again, albeit the next few years, even Wi-Fi hotspots was highly can be used anywhere, any on a smaller scale, to Wi-Fi, a though there is little evidence 20 price-sensitive, and that fur- time, Wi-Fi hotspots depend popular way to surf the inter- of any demand for them. Pri- ther cuts might boost demand. on casual usage. That’s a net wirelessly. vate equity investors are 0 Only 3 per cent of tech- shaky foundation for a com- Wi-Fi is mainly used in throwing money at Wi-Fi 2001 02 03* 04* 05* savvy American consumers munications business, says homes, schools, universities firms over $1.5 billion since Source: Economist (Gartner Dataquest, June 2003) * Forecast surveyed said they would pay Sweeney. and offices. People with Wi-Fi- 2000, says Rajeev Chand of $2 per hour for Wi-Fi access, The coming shake-out in capable laptops can get online Rutberg & Company. It all bucks coffee shops in Ameri- dollars a month. The Wi-Fi but 20 per cent said they Wi-Fi will force operators via access points that can link looks like a bubble. A recent ca. Around 25,000 people ac- hotspot at Amsterdam’s would pay $1. However, a sub- to identify which of their computers within 50 metres report from Forrester says, scription to one many hotspot locations make cess the hotspots each week, Schiphol airport is used by or so to the internet. Gartner it’s as if the dotcom boom and network of hotspots does not sense. They should concen- Dataquest, a research firm, es- bust never happened. which works out at an average only a dozen people each day. entitle you to use others, so trate on business users, advis- timates that 15m Wi-Fi adap- Perhaps the best-known of less than two users per day Operators are gambling that you may need one subscrip- es Andrew Cole of Adventis, a tors for computers were sold network of hotspots is that op- per hotspot. But the cost of demand will pick up as they tion in the airport, and anoth- telecoms consultancy. The worldwide last year, and 4.4m erated by T-Mobile, a wireless connecting each hotspot to the build more hotspotseerily er in the coffee shop. bubble, he says, is in con- access points. Alongside this operator, in over 2,000 Star- internet is several hundred reminiscent of the build it But there are more funda- sumer Wi-Fi. The Economist
Reuters Indian skill with Chinese labour, a recipe for success By Byas Anand TIMES NEWS NETWORK Together we win New Delhi: Three years af- •India Inc sees cutting ter India Inc first saw China edge in partnering with as a major threat to its very Chinese firms own existence, the fear factor has almost vanished. And, •To combine low-cost rising from its ashes is a feel- Chinese manufacturing ing of co-existence and fruit- with Indian quality skill ful partnerships. •Software, auto firms A large percentage of the eye bases in China representatives of industries that The Times of India launch its Arena Multimedia spoke to said partnering with brand there with 20 new cen- China was the ideal way tres initially,then ramping it ahead to becoming an eco- to 60 centres in 18 months. nomic superpower. Their success is threaten- What brought about this ing the Chinese software sudden change in opinion? firms. “Indian companies are It’s more of coming to terms more flexible in making spe- with reality,say analysts. cialised goods, especially in The auto industry, for in- designing management solu- stance, had feared an on- Trains park at Kuro depot in Seoul. South Korea urged striking rail workers to return to work as union groups threatened to launch tions for industries,” China’s sympathy strikes after president Roh Moo-hyun began to get tough on labour unrest, detaining 1,000 workers. slaught of cheaper priced People’s Daily reported. bikes and scooters. However, Indian companies are be- Indian consumers want more ing wooed by the Chinese as than just lower tags. No won- Tourism holds key to north-east development der, most of the dozen-odd they feel that it will help do- Chinese bike makers, who mestic employment and the By Sudhir Sahi cussing on economic and social now made access easy and given Tawang monastery guards had appointed dealerships local industry move up the regional planning, communica- a boost to the joint tourism mar- relics linked with Buddhism’s and even announced plans value chain. Even lesser he seven sisters are stitch- tions, power, flood-control, en- keting initiatives. arrival and is the birthplace of known business houses like ing a new gameplan for for India, have vanished. trepreneurship development Tourism ministry’s Rediscov- the sixth Dalai Lama. It also The likes of Telco, M&M, Drish Shoes and Oscar Elec- T economic revival. Thirty and security for thirty years, er India campaign aims to pro- houses the War Memorial that tronics, and skilled labourers TVS, Apollo Tyres and other years after the north eastern now included sustainable mote domestic destinations honours those who fell in 1962. particularly from the dia- council was formed for social auto biggies are putting fin- tourism as a focus area for de- among the local traveller. Here Meghalaya is the cave capital ishing touches to their re- mond cutting and polishing and economic upliftment of the velopment. too, the northeast is a focus area of India. Diehard underground spective China ventures. industry are earning their region, individual states are Image and accessibility east where culture, eco-tourism and cave explorers across the world “We have now realised that bread from the Dragon. now out to promote themselves of the Siliguri Corridor and en- adventure together hold the key. frequently return to the Garo, China and India are the last “Chinese labour is not as as the most preferred tourist try regulations had, for long, de- Guwahati is the primary gate- Khasi and Jaintia Hills. two bastions of the automo- skilled as Indians who have destinations. terred visitors to the region. But way for the region and the new The Association of Tour Op- bile industry. Only way for- been doing cutting and pol- And, a little help from the cen- improved road and air connec- Alliance Air services include a erators of north-east India now ward is to move hand in ishing for past four decades. tre, in the form of improved air tivity, including Air India’s in- direct Guwahati feeder to Dima- want IFCI’s affiliate Tourism Fi- hand,” says a Telco official. Flexible labour laws are be- connectivity and a promotional ternational services between pur in Nagaland. Other facili- nance Corporation of India to Infotech biggies Aptech ing framed to attract our campaign, is helping them Guwahati and Bangkok, backed ties include the Pawan Hans open a Guwahati office exclu- and TCS have been voted the labourers,” says an official at achieve this new found goal. by better information and eas- chopper service from Guwahati sively for northeast tourism leading IT trainers there. the Gems and Jewellery Even the NEC has, after fo- ing of permit stipulations, has to Tawang. projects. Aptech is now planning to Export Promotion Council. A-I offers interactive service for enquiries By Seema Kamdar TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: The next time you call up the Maharaja, he may depute his virtual voice to talk with you. In what is probably a first deployment for a public sector company,Air-India has installed a speech recognition interface for its enquiry services in Mumbai and Delhi. Launched earlier this month, the software of- fers the information re- quested on the same num- bers — 144, 145 and 26828899 in Mumbai and 25652049 in Delhi — that formerly used an interac- tive voice response (IVR) system. Instead of punch- ing keys on your tele- phone keypad or getting gruff answers from hard- nosed operators, you will be greeted with a pleasant mechanical voice that asks you to speak your query instead. In English, Hindi or Marathi. The software is even conditioned to recognise minor tone inflections. This means you don’t have to say ‘yes’ in a cer- tain tone only. You may say, ‘ya’ or ‘ok’ or ‘hanji,’ and proceed to inquire about flights on the Mum- bai-Frankfurt sector. The new, improved in- teraction with the Ma- haraja answers queries on flight departures and arrivals, and lost baggage. And even if you fail to make sense of it, the old keypad mode is just one poke away.
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The Times of India, New Delhi, Monday,June 30, 2003
Vaughan’s return Hagi’s new job Fergie keen on Hughes Good news for England. Skipper Former Romanian midfield star Wales manager Mark Hughes is Man Michael Vaughan, out with back Georghe Hagi will take over United boss Alex Ferguson’s top target to trouble, should play against coaching reins at Bursaspor. The replace deputy Carlos Queiroz. But Zimbabwe on Tuesday in the 36-year-old signed a contract the club needs to dole out extra ongoing tri-series after a scan with the Turkish first division club money to meet Hughes’ demand, which showed no major damage this weekend the club once declined Ralf Schumacher wins first Formula One title at home
I’m starting to have more Fancy fixing confidence in my abilities and I’m here to win the tournament on, says Pak — Andy Roddick India Masters of Hamburg AP skipper Latif TIMES NEWS NETWORK converted their second PC. Pil- SPORTS DIGEST lay’s timely pass to Deepak New Delhi: Pakistan cricket AFP New Delhi: The Indian hockey Thakur in the 24th minute result- captain and the oirginal team reached another high on ed in the third goal while Dilip whistle blower on match-fix- Sunday when they won the Ham- Tirkey converted the fifth PC in ing, Rashid Latif, has ap- burg Masters tournament in Ger- the 59th minute to make it safe. pealed to the International many. India beat Spain 4-2 in the The Spaniards, preparing for Cricket Council to remove final league match of the tourna- the European Championships the 15-over fielding restric- ment and finished on top of the which they will host at Barcelona tions in one-day games in or- points table after Germany could in September, reduced the margin der to curb “fancy fixing”. only draw 4-4 with Argentina in a from the second penalty corner In a letter to the ICC, re- thrilling encounter, as per infor- on the stroke of half-time leased on a cricket website, mation reaching here. through Eduardo Aguilar to Latif said the fielding re- India, who recently won a 3-na- make it 1-3. They tried their best strictions encouraged bet- tion event in Australia, began in to keep their chances alive and ting. He said even though whirlwind fashion against Spain, scored their second through vet- “the soul of the game is not not letting coach Rajinder Singh eran Juan Escarre who scored off really threatened by match- down. Indian forwards did a com- the fourth penalty corner to close fixing” at present, “we have mendable job as they combined it even further at 2-3. But the ever- certain loopholes within the well to damage the Spanish ar- reliable Tirkey took the game be- format and the laws of mada. Gagan Ajit Singh, Baljit yond the Spaniards. matches, which have resulted Singh Dhillon, Deepak Thakur The win took India’s tally to six in the birth of ‘fancy fixing’”. and Dhanraj Pillay were simply points from two wins and a loss Latif suggested that a rule Saadi Kadhafi, son of Libyan unstoppable. And though captain leaving Germany on five points at to have at least four players leader Moamar Kadhafi, holds up Pillay did not get a chance to second spot with a victory and and the bowler in the 30-yard his new Perugia soccer team jer- score himself, he was instrumen- circle for the entire 50 overs sey during Kadhafi’s official player two draws. Coach Rajinder Singh, tal in shaping the goals. would be a better option. presentation in Torre Alfina on when contacted on phone from Sunday. Kadhafi is on a one sea- India’s penalty corner conver- here, sounded very tense when Latif drew a parallel in Test son contract and will play in the sion rate was once again impres- Germany were playing Argenti- matches too and said the Italian Serie A tournament. sive as they converted three out of na. “I am keeping my fingers teams should be penalised the five they earned. They forced crossed. But the boys have played for not completing 30 overs in their first penalty corner in the sec- very well and I am proud of them. one session. Bangladesh lose tour opener: ond minute itself which was duly They have proved that the suc- Latif also suggested the Bangladesh lost the opening match converted by Kanwalpreet Singh cess in Australia was not just a creation of a special commit- of their cricket tour of Australia by 29 as India opened their account. flash in the pan,” he said. tee of “recently retired cap- runs Sunday against a Queensland A buoyed Indian team kept the Well, the draw between Ger- tains” to look into the issue of Academy of Sport invitation side in pressure up and in the 18th many and Argentina ensured the match-fixing. “The idea is to Brisbane on Sunday. Set 175 runs minute Gagan Ajit, who was Indian hockey players (from left) Jugraj Singh, Dilip Tirkey and Dhanraj Pillay celebrate the fourth goal tension gave way to hearty cele- look closely at all the restric- for victory, Bangladesh were skittled named player of the tournament, against Spain at the Hamburg Masters on Sunday. brations. tive laws and rules.” PTI for 145 after tea on the third day of the four-day game at Allan Border Field. The Academy’s last three wick- Smith praises ets added 23 to their overnight total Windies hit back before they were dismissed for 176. Kallis cracks another century Brief scores: Queensland Academy 201 (L. Kallis’ character Carseldine 92, J. Hopes 53; T. Baishya 3-33) and Canterbury (England): Jacques wicket against South Africa in a tus. Hall had already justified his 176 (D. Payne 52, L. Carseldine 31 not out; A. Ka- Kallis’s second hundred in two days One-day International. promotion up the order, after his London: South Africa cap- through Colleymore pali 4-27, A. Hossain 3-25) beat Bangladesh 203 was the cornerstone of South Both men started cautiously be- eight-ball unbeaten 23 yesterday, by tain Graeme Smith said for 9 decl. (A. Kapali 55, M. Ashraful 39, K. Mashud Kingston: Corey Collymore induced an edge from Dhar- Africa’s 46-run win over Zimbabwe fore hitting authoritative bound- the way he partnered Kallis in a Jacques Kallis’s 107 against 38; J. Hopes 4-35) and 145 (H. Sarkar 33, H. took a career-best seven for masena (20) which was Bashar 33; D. McKenzie 3-28). AP in the triangular series One-day In- aries. Friend, on 42, however, was fourth-wicket stand of 91 in 88 balls. England in their six wicket dropped by South Africa captain Hall faced just 51 balls including tri-series defeat at The Oval 57 against Sri Lanka to leave snapped up by West Indies ternational here on Sunday. Kallis’s West Indies with 212 to win skipper Brian Lara at first J&K elections: The Jammu and One-day International best of 125 Graeme Smith, running back from three sixes and three fours as he re- here on Saturday was a testa- mid-off, off the bowling of medium- vived the innings. Fast bowler Dou- ment to the all-rounder’s on the third day of the sec- slip, and three balls later, the Kashmir Cricket Association elec- not out, his 10th hundred at this lev- ond Test Sunday. By lunch, same combination claimed tions were held on Thursday in which pacer Alan Dawson. glas Hondo, in for Gary Brent after character. el, came just 24 hours after his 107 in the West Indies had reduced the dangerous Vaas (21). Dr Farooq Abdulla was declared re- South Africa’s six wicket defeat by Friend, whose fifty came off 60 missing Zimbabwe’s four-wicket win Kallis’s father is suffering from cancer. His son has the target by 20 for the loss of Collymore, who suffered elected as president and ML Nehru England at The Oval on Saturday, balls, including five fours, then against England, took two for 29. adopted the number 65, his Chris Gayle. an accident a few years back as general secretary of the associa- the Proteas’ first game of the tour- promptly lofted left-arm spinner One ball before the end of the in- Nicky Boje for a straight six. But nings Zimbabwe pace bowler Andy father’s age as his shirt num- Collymore helped skittle because of which he changed tion by justice KK Gupta under nament. whose supervision and convenorship Boje broke the partnership when he Blignaut was ordered out of the at- ber, and arrived late in Eng- Sri Lanka’s second innings his action, cleaned up the re- At Canterbury, Kallis faced 147 the elections were conducted. DDCA had Ebrahim, on 40 chipping tack by the umpires for bowling his land because of his parent’s for 194 after resuming on 129 mainder of the lower-order balls including one six and 14 fours. vice president CK Khanna was the straight to Smith at midwicket, hav- second full toss above waste height. condition. for five. Collymore gained a as Muttiah Muralitharan (6) In reply to South Africa’s 272 for five, BCCI observer of the elections. TNN ing faced 68 balls including five The result might have been different His innings was the cor- crucial breakthrough when spooned a catch to mid-on, Zimbabwe could only manage 226 for fours. had not Kallis been given five lives. nerstone of South Africa’s he bowled Sri Lanka captain and Thilan Thushara (13) Kahlon finishes 28th: A poor fi- nine, Travis Friend top scoring with Hashan Tillakaratne for 7. gave Lara a third catch. nal round forced top Indian pro Friend continued in aggressive He would have been run out on 16 seemingly defendable 264 for 82. South Africa all-rounder Andrew fashion, lofting Boje for another six, or 35 if either of Zimbabwe captain six and afterwards Smith in- Kumar Dharmasena and Not out at the break were Harmeet Kahlon to finish 28th in the Hall made a dashing 56 and then Chaminda Vaas shared an West Indies bats Wavell $4,00,000 SK Telecom Open in Seoul and with 20 overs to go Zimbabwe Heath Streak’s throws had hit. Kallis sisted Kallis, who missed the weighed in with 3/38 in his contri- needed another 140 runs. But on 82 was also dropped, off a low caught tour of Bangladesh, had not enterprising stand of 35 for Hinds (10) and Ramnaresh on Sunday. Harmeet had scores of the seventh wicket before be- Sarwan (6). The first Test 69,69,75 for a total of 3 under par bution to victory which means all Friend was bowled by medium-pac- and bowled chance by Hondo, on 21 been pressurised to come to coming Collymore’s victims. match was a rain-affected 213 in the rain-interrupted event three teams now have a win apiece. er Hall having faced 93 balls includ- and, on 60, bowler Grant Flower England. “It was Jacques’s The Barbadian fast bowler draw at St. Lucia. AFP where the 2nd round was washed Dion Ebrahim and Friend com- ing two sixes and five fours. At 146 failed to gather Sean Ervine’s decision. He didn’t come to out. However, the Oil India employee piled a second-wicket stand of 109 in for three in the 34th over Zimbabwe accurate throw with Kallis short of Bangladesh. His father is re- SCOREBOARD won a prize for an eagle on the 10th 132 balls, Zimbabwe's best for any were unable to maintain their impe- safety. AFP ally sick.” AP hole in the 1st round. Korean KJ SCOREBOARD And Smith added: “First Sri Lanka (1st innings): 208 M. Jayawardene c Jacobs b Edwards 32 Choi won the event in a playoff. TNN Jacques is a fantastic crick- West Indies (1st inns, overnight 4-0): R. Kaluwitharana b Taylor 23 C. Gayle c Sangakkara b Nissanka 31 H Tillakaratne b Collymore 7 Padhye & Dalal do well: The In- South Africa: eter, he is also a great charac- W. Hinds c Kaluwitharana b Nissanka 19 K Dharmasena c Lara b Collymore 20 G. Smith lbw b Hondo 7 dian pair of Anil Padhye and Rajesh ter with a great will to suc- R. Sarwan b Vaas 31 C Vaas c Lara b Collymore 21 H. Gibbs b Blignaut 5 ceed. His father has always B. Lara lbw b Muralitharan 10 T Thushara c Lara b Collymore 13 Dalal finished 12th in the first-ever J. Kallis not out 125 M. Samuels c Tillakaratne b Nissanka 14 M Muralitharan c Sarwan b Collymore 6 European Open Bridge Champi- J. Rudolph c Flower b Price 32 wanted him to play cricket O. Banks c Tillakaratne b Nissanka 2 P Nissanka not out 0 onships that concluded on Saturday A. Hall c Flower b Ervine 56 for South Africa and I think R. Jacobs lbw b Muralitharan 16 Extras: (b-4, lb-6, nb-7, w-2) 19 M. Boucher b Hondo 17 it (the innings) will help his V. Drakes b Muralitharan 30 Total (all out, 54 overs) 194 night at Menton, France. S. Pollock not out 12 J. Taylor c Muralitharan b Dharmasena 1 Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-43, 3-80, 4- Extras: (lb4, w11, nb3) 18 dad.” Turning to the match Collymore c Sangakkara b Nissanka 13 118, 5-118, 6-138, 7-173, 8-176, 9- BETTING METER Total: (for 5 wkts, 50 overs) 272 as a whole Smith said defeat F. Edwards not out 5 184. Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-29, 3-84, 4-175, 5-220 in South Africa’s first game Extras: (b5, lb3, nb5, w6) 19 Bowling: Edwards 15-2-54-1, Collymore GOLF Bowling: Streak 10-1-50-0; Blignaut 8.5-1-66-1 Total: 191 16-2-57-7, Drakes 11-3-29-0, Taylor (2nb, 3w); Hondo 9.1-3-29-2 (2w); Price 8-1-37- of the tournament was “not a 2003 The Open Championship Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-59, 3-85, 4-107, 10-1-38-2, Banks 2-0-6-0. 1; Ervine 5-0-39-1 (1nb, 1w); Marillier 4-0-19-0 tragedy”. 5-110, 6-123, 7-162, 8-163, 9-175 West Indies 2nd innings: T Woods 4/1 (1w); Flower 5-0-28-0 (1w). “I thought anything above Bowling: Vaas 15-4-33-1, Thushara 10- C Gayle lbw b Vaas 0 E Els 10/1 Zimbabwe: 1-36-0, Nissanka 12.3-0-64-5, Mu- W Hinds batting 10 J Furyk 16/1 D Marillier c Boucher b Ntini 3 260 was a good score. But we ralitharan 11-3-23-3, Dharmasena 5-0- R Sarwan batting 6 D Ebrahim c Smith b Boje 40 didn’t create enough pres- 27-1 Extras: (lb-1, nb-1, w-2) 4 (as per ladbrokes.com) T Friend b Hall 82 Sri Lanka (2nd innings): Total (for 1 wkt, 6 overs) 20 G Flower c Dawson b Kallis 27 sure in the first 15 overs. There were too many bound- M. Atapattu c Jacobs b Taylor 28 Fall of wicket: 1-1. LIVE ON TELEVISION S Matsikenyeri run out 5 S. Jayasuriya lbw b Collymore 13 Bowling: Vaas 3-2-11-1, Thushara 3-0- A Blignaut c van Jaarsveld b Hall 6 ary balls,” Smith said. K. Sangakkara c Jacobs b Collymore 12 8-0. Star Sports: 1630 hrs: Wimbledon Championships H Streak c Hall b Dawson 5 Openers Marcus Trescoth- S Ervine c Smith b Pollock 11 T Taibu not out 18 R Price b Hall 8 ick (114 not out) and Vikram D Hondo not out 12 Solanki (106) became the first INDIANS IN COUNTY Extras (lb-2, w-5, nb-2) 9 English batsmen to make Total (for 9 wkts, 50 overs) 226 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-112, 3-146, 4-158, 5- One-day International hun- Durham dance 170, 6-176, 7-178, 8-200, 9-212. dreds against South Africa, Sehwag revives Bowling: Pollock 10-1-35-1, Ntini 10-1-44-1, the pair sharing a 200 stand Hall 9-0-38-3, Dawson 8-0-47-1, Boje 7-0-30-1, South African Jacques Kallis (L) defends his wicket in front of Zimbabwe’s Kallis 6-0-30-1 bowler Douglas Hondo (R) during their Natwest series match, at the Saint — an England record first Leicester with ton Lawrence Ground in Canterbury, on Sunday. wicket partnership. AFP to spinners’ tune London: Virender Sehwag silenced his London: Spinners Murali wicket of Muchall at the critics by hitting a blistering century to Kartik and Amit Mishra score of 240. lead his county Leices- shared seven wickets be- A defiant eighth wicket tershire’s fightback in Week Two is all about nerve-and-volley tween them as India ‘A’took a stand of 66 runs raised by Ian their English county comfortable first innings Hunter and Nick Phillips saw championship match By Akshay Sawai dre Agassi and French Open cham- Henman-Ferrero last-eight alley meet eighth seed Jennifer lead despite a fine century by Durham crossing the coveted against Notting- TIMES NEWS NETWORK pion Juan Carlos Ferrero. Or it scrap. Little man on a roll, Olivier Capriati. No. 3 Justine Henin Gordon Muchall on the third 300-run mark. Hunter made a hamshire at Grace Road could be between Henman and Rochus, is the potential winner in could be up against Russia’s Maria day of the four-day match quickfire 44 from 54 balls on Saturday. London: The first week of Wim- Philippoussis. the pre-quarterfinal against Sharapova. In bottom half action, against Durham at the River- with the help of five fours Indian team’s open- bledon is over and we are smiling. But the baseliners have the clout Alexander Popp. In the quarters he fifth-seeded Lindsay Davenport is side stadium in Chester-le- and a lone sixer, while ing batsman Sehwag There are two reasons why. One, a in this part of the draw. Let’s play meets the winner of Agassi-Philip- likely to be in a shoot-out with Street on Sunday. Phillips contributed 19, be- was unbeaten at stumps on the second few serve-volleyers are around for guess. Given the surface and his poussis. Those who like to take fourth seed Venus Williams. Sec- Durham declared their fore Kartik parted them. day having smashed a wonderful 121 off the second week. Two, India’s Le- form, Mirnyi should get past chances will pick Philippoussis. ond seed Kim Clijsters should have first innings at 333 for nine, Durham declared their in- 122 balls with 23 boundaries in his ander Paes, Mahesh Bhupathi and Jonas Bjorkman, an experienced We like to take chances. it easier against Paola Suarez or 149 runs behind India ‘A’ nings shortly before close. team’s total of 159 for two in reply to a Sania Mirza have gotten off the Swede who mimics well and re- The women’s tournament has Silvia Farina Elia. score of 482-9 declared. By Just three overs were possi- steady Nottinghamshire’s first innings mark with confidence. turns better. Roddick will be the produced a formula script. In the Paes, Bhupathi roll on; Sanaa the end of the day, India ‘A’ ble in India ‘A’second innings total of 326. Last year’s Wimbledon allowed favourite against Paradorn quarters, top seed and reigning loses: India’s Leander Paes and were three without loss in and all the three runs were The England Test captain Nasser baseliners to return to dominance. Srichaphan, the Fight of Asia. champ Serena Williams should Martina Navratilova of the US en- their second essay to extend scored by Shiv Sunder Das. Hussain celebrated his first champi- In the Lleyton Hewitt-David Nal- their lead to 152. That makes it A-Rod against The tered the second round of the India A (1st innings): 482 onship century in four years as Essex bandian final, the tournament saw Beast in the quarters. Put your mixed doubles on Saturday. In one The star of the day for the Durham (1st innings): J Lewis b Bhandari built up a first innings lead against its first backcourt-oriented cham- cash on Federer getting through of the last matches on Day Six, the hosts was the 21-year-old all- 20, M Gough st Patel b Mishra 56, G Kent at Chelmsford. The England cap- pionship round since 1978, when the defence of Spain’s Feliciano fifth seeds opened a new chapter of rounder Muchall who batted Muchall c Patel b Mishra 121, G Pratt c sub tain finished on a mountable 192 in a to- b Kartik 10, N Peng c Patel b Kartik 5, V Bjorn Borg beat Jimmy Connors Lopez and meeting Sjeng Schalken their rapport, beating Anastasia for close to five hours to com- Wells c Pathan b Mishra 1, P Mustard c tal of 423 for five in response to the vis- in straight sets. The serve-volley- or Rainer Schuettler. Though Myskina (Russia) and Jamie Del- pile a 121-run knock that in- Rayudu b Kartik 2, I Hunter c Gambhir b itors’ 381. ers left in the tent this year are not Schuettler made the Australian gado (UK) 6-4 6-4. cluded 12. Kartik 44, N Phillips b Balaji 19, A Davies many either, but they are good. However, once leg-spinner not out 9, N Hatch not out 3, Extras: (b-4, Pakistan leg-spinner spinner Mush- Open final in January, we go with Top seeds Mahesh Bhupathi (In- lb-10, w-2, nb-27) 43, Total (for 9 wkts taq Ahmed had a high point when he Guarding the net are Roger Feder- Schalken, who reached the quar- dia) and Paola Suarez (Argentina) Mishra got rid of Gough, decl, 123 overs) 333. Fall of wickets: 1- took his championship tally to 44 wick- er, Mark ‘Scud’ Philippoussis, Tim terfinal at Wimbledon and the also won their opening round, de- stumped by wicketkeeper 36, 2-175, 3-204, 4-232, 5-240, 6-241, 7- ets by taking three for 52 as Sussex Henman and Max Minryi. semis at the US Open last year. feating the English pair of Arvind Parthiv Patel, the Indians 244, 8-310, 9-327. Bowling: Balaji 18-3-45-1, Pathan 19-6- tightened their grip on Warwickshire The fourth-seeded Federer is ex- Crowd support, if nothing else, Parmar and Anne Keothavong 6-2 were able to claim wickets at 37-0, Bhandari 8-0-37-1, Kartik 45-10- to have them facing the follow-on at pected to meet No. 5 Andy Roddick should see Henman past Nalbandi- 6-1. In the junior girls event, In- regular intervals. Gary Pratt 112-4, Mishra 32-7-85-3, Gambhir 1-0- Hove. Warwickshire, chasing 545, in a finish-the-chores-grab-the- an. Ferrero, floating through the dia’s Sanaa Bhambri did not have (10) and Nicky Peng (5) were 3-0. stumbled to 194 for eight by stumps on sofa semifinal. Henman lies in the delicious aftermath of a Grand much to hold back Zsuzsanna Ba- dismissed cheaply by Kartik, India ‘A’ 2nd innings: S S Das batting 3, G Gambhir batting 0, Extras 0 Total (for no the second day and still need a further bottom half, where the semifinal Slam title, is a good bet against bos of Hungary in the first round. who finished with 4/112, be- loss, 3 overs) 3. Bowling: Hatch 2-1-3-0, 202 to make the hosts bat again.AFP could be between second seed An- Grosjean. Get ready, then, for a Sanaa lost 3-6 3-6. fore Mishra produced the big Davies 1-1-0-0.
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Udayshankar Doctors recommend that all ath- FEERREE letes should undergo intensive heart IIFFF NNTT tests to detect such cases. That recom- DD That dirty look mendation was also made at the in- Milkha Singh at it again quest of Anna Loyley,26, who died Udayshankar t’s all in the mind, as they say. seconds after completing the Bath ilkha Singh somehow remains When it comes to appreciating half marathon in March in the UK. in the limelight. He is now Ibeauty there will be some who M making news by demanding S will show the beast in them. A few Winning is not all nomination of eminent sportsper- ST S visiting female swimmers in the jun- sons to the Rajya Sabha. TR E S or 20-year-old Sikander Ali, son of ROKE ior national championship last week As the campaign catches on, a former Delhi golf caddie, now a had little hesitation revealing to Milkha has roped in Bishan Singh F driver, the Amit Verma memorial Wanderer that they felt ‘uncomfort- Bedi to take up the cause with the tournament, which concluded yester- able’ performing in the presence of Prime Minister. He also made a po- Very special mission day at the Delhi Golf Club, was all-im- male spectators in Delhi. litically correct statement by sug- portant. Last year he had finished run- verthing they do is Special. Their “Delhi boys, keep off,” said a gesting the names of cricketers ner-up. This year he had been working world transcends all that’s beauti- champion swimmer from Karnata- Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Bedi, hard at his game, determined to win, ful and serene. They only know ka. “We travel all over India, but the E not only for the trophy, but because he along with Ajitpal Singh and P T one thing — love and be happy. About general feeling is that the Delhi hoped that a good performance there Usha, for the nomination. Which 7,000 athletes with learning disabili- crowd is not sportswomen-friendly. would help him acquire his own set of sportsperson will argue against it? ties are participating in 21 Olympic- Many of them come here to give us golf clubs. He was playing this tourna- What Milkha and others have not style disciplines in the Irish capital of that dirty look,” she added. They, ment with clubs lent to him by a DGC spelt out is what will be their likely Dublin. India, fielding an 83-member however, do not feel the same way member. contribution if they go to parlia- contingent in the Games, is taking part while performing in other places. No The first day Sikander played par, ment. Will they be just ornamental in 11 of the events. Blessed by the wonder, Delhi’s women swimmers the second day he carded 74 and was ly- pieces in the House like many oth- Celtic muses, India came up with a lagged far behind the ones from Kar- ing second in his category with every ers? commendable performance at the nataka and Maharashtra. chance to win. But after he had sub- Of all the nominated members’ games, striking gold in bocce doubles, mitted his card, he had a nagging feel- speeches, the one that really stands table tennis, swimming (backstroke), ing that something was wrong. Going out is that by the late R K Narayan cycling and athletics. a leaf out of their tenacity and dogged- and death even in very young adults. when he pleaded to reduce the bur- ness. over his game with his coach, he re- But the most special was reserved Many of these cases are also de- alised that inadvertently he had given den of school bags on the backs of for Mahaveer. Hailing from Delhi, this scribed as the ‘Long QT syndrome’, a a wrong score on the 14th hole. He re- schoolchildren. But who cared? The mentally challenged kid reticently Sudden death syndrome particular disorder of the electrical turned to the recorders, asked to see school bags continue to be more shut off all adversities of Nature. He ameroon’s Marc-Vivien Foe, 28, system of the heart. The problem cen- his card and pointed out his error, pitiably burdensome than ever. Singh, shooter Karni Singh, hockey had promised his guardians, the sis- suffered a fatal heart attack while tres on the length of time it takes the telling them how this had happened The list of sportspersons who player Aslam Sher Khan, cricketers ters at the Missionaries of Charity, C playing in the Confederations electrical system to recharge following and that he was disqualified. have either entered politics or held that he would definitely win a medal Cup. Deaths such as his are a rare oc- a heatbeat. ‘‘Winning would have meant so responsible positions in administra- Chetan Chauhan and Kirti Azad for the country.And he did that in style curence in professional soccer. But all This is known as the QT interval. much to me,’’ he said. But not this way. tion world over is pretty impressive. have all contested elections to get when he combined with Geeta of Hi- such accidental deaths, in soccer or People who have a long QT interval are Mike Cunning could not have said it Former hockey captain Jaipal into parliament. machal Pradesh to win the doubles in other sports, have been due to heart more vulnerable to a very fast, abnor- better. In glaring contrast, in the same the bocce event, beating competitors problems or lightning strikes. mal heart rhythm. When this rhythm tournament, two sub-juniors, well son (the New South Wales coach at the The current players’ association has from Chinese Taipei, Cayman Islands Possible causes could have been the occurs, no blood is pumped out from equipped, parents well heeled, were time). Taylor: No bullshit, who is it? also expressed unhappiness with the and Seychelles. Sudden Adult Death Syndrome the heart, and the brain quickly be- disqualified for colluding in marking Voice: It’s Bob Simpson. The team is way things are being run, specially over It’s Olympic success for all those (SADS), when the heartbeat races comes deprived of blood, causing sud- wrong scores on their cards. They had down at the ground and you’re late! the fact that no players are consulted on kids who represented India there. May without warning. This can cause faint- den loss of consciousness and not learned that golf is a game of hon- The book goes on to say: “The slum- how the game should be run. be the senior Indian team should take ing — or in very rare cases — collapse sudden death. our, as Sikander has done. bering rookies were penalised when In the Caribbean, West Indian crick- they reached the ground, still wiping et board president Wes Hall criticised AP How to be a good catcher sleep from their eyes. Simpson ham- the ICC for the ill-timed two-match se- ow Mark Waugh and Mark Taylor mered them with fielding drills. ‘We ries against Sri Lanka after the first became one of the all-time great must have taken about 300 catches Test ended in a draw following rain in- H slip catchers? This query may each that morning,’ recalls Mark.... terruptions. Players have often ac- have hit us 502 times (the number of Perhaps the Simpson grilling helped cused the ICC of making money at the catches these two Marks have cupped lay the foundation for two of the great- former’s expense. between them). Waugh spills the beans est slips fieldsmen of recent years.” However, the players themselves are in his book Mark Waugh The Biogra- So people, that’s the catch. found to indulge themselves in money- phy. He describes how after celebrat- making activities such as promoting ing Taylor’s 21st birthday both of them Did you flay the ICC today? corporate causes, playing county forgot to arrange for next morning’s hese days, criticising the Interna- cricket, or even acting in films! These wake-up call. tional Cricket Council seems to be activities surely keep them busier off While Waugh was sobre, Taylor had T the favourite past time of all and the field than when they are on the gulped down a handful of beers. The sundry.While Wisden has been critical field, so the ICC might be doing them a following morning the phone did ring of the ICC’s approach of managing the favour by making them play cricket! Left: FIFA president Sepp Blatter, Cameroon players and staff members gather for a minute of silence to pay homage and the conversation between Taylor game, last week it was Dennis Lillee to Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien Foe (centre) who died suddenly in Cameroon’s Confederations Cup soccer and the voice on the other side went who questioned the rationale behind semi-final against Colombia in Lyon, France. At right is the French team paying homage to Foe. like this. making minnows Bangladesh play Taylor: Who is it? Voice: Bob Simp- Tests with powerhouse Australia.
CAPITAL SPORT A perfect One INDIANS ABROAD DSA League: Young C-6 Vasant Kunj School will Ralf leads Williams one-two Magic Moment Sports made short work of clash in the final of the inter- Nuerburgring (Germany): bled from the 26th lap when ded off into the gravel after India win 10 more gold school open vasant Kunj TIMES NEWS NETWORK Golden Stars 2-0 in a Group Ralf Schumacher led a an engine failure ended Kimi the collision with Montoya as III match of the DSA open cricket tournament. In the New Delhi: One Magic Mo- New Delhi: Ketan Bhobe won three gold medals in bad- Williams one-two in the Eu- Raikkonen’s hopes of retak- the Colombian tried a daring clubs football championship. first semis Qutub beat B-7 ment won the Juvenile Sprint- minton and Aslam Pasha claimed two in athletics on a ing the overall lead. Mohd. Mamid and Anand by 94 runs, while in another ropean Grand Prix on Sun- overtaking manoeuvre on lap ers’ Million (Gr III) at the Ban- bumper day for India at the Special Olympic Games in Brazilian Rubens Bar- scored one apiece in each C-6 defeated Section A VK day after a dismal afternoon 43. He kept the engine run- galore races on Sunday. Dublin, Ireland, which saw the country nearly double their half. In another encounter, School by 18 runs. for Formula One’s two title richello was third for Fer- ning, returning to the track Results: Nad Al Sheba Plate: Flying Spur 1, medals tally overnight. India won as many as 45 medals on frontrunners. rari, ahead of Spain’s Fer- in sixth place after four mar- Buddy 2, Nesara 3. Skyline Plate (div.II): Cop- Punjab Heroes came from In the inter-school open VK per Sky 1, Madam Martina 2, Flawless Diamond Saturday,including ten gold medals, to take their tally to 92 behind to hold Young Bengal basketball tournament Ralf ’s Colombian team- nando Alonso in a Renault. shals pushed his car clear. 3. Honeyday Plate: Newmachar 1, Generic from 47. Ketan, who had won gold in badminton singles, Association to a 2-2 draw. Mount St Mary’s and Bal mate Juan Pablo Montoya Michael Schumacher skid- The five-times world cham- Emperor 2, Perfect Ten 3. Skyline Plate (div.I): took the top honours in the doubles and mixed doubles. Grand Pere 1, Almonar 2, Zimmermann 3. Ju- Bharati will clash in the final. finished second, ending local pion, thwarted in his search venile Sprinters’ Million (GR III): One Magic Aslam Pasha, Runi Khatun, Mohd Salim Shaik, Hunny DDCA U-15 cricket: RR Gymkhana in semis: hopes of a Schumacher one- for a 50th career win for Fer- Moment 1, Onnu Onnu Onnu 2, Higness 3. Saini, Prabhjot, Perpetua were the other gold medal win- Sumit Kundu’s 78 propelled two finish when he nudged rari, moved up to fifth place Hampi Cup: Star Sensation 1, Own Vision 2,At- ners for India.PTI Left-arm spinner Puneet torney 3. M Ali Asker Memporial Plate (div.I): Bright Club to a 15-run vic- Anand scalped four for 10, Ferrari’s championship three laps from the finish Snow Deer 1, Tribal Dance 2, Banzai 3. tory against Delhi Eagles to while Tarun Kumar took leader Michael into the grav- when McLaren’s David Mysore handicaps: Hyderabad Race book a quarterfinal berth in el with 17 laps remaining. Coulthard skidded off in a Club Gold Trophy: 30 & abv: 1,400m: Marvel Hari records crafty win three for 5 in RR Star 63, One So Wonderful 59, Gullane 58, Al- DDCA under-15 cricket tour- Gymkhana’s overwhelming It was Ralf ’s first win since cloud of dust, narrowly miss- most Heaven 57, Yours Mine N Ours 57, Nakhchivan (Azerbaijan): Grandmaster P Harikrishna nament. 94-run victory against Patel Malaysia last year, his fifth ing Alonso. The German al- Squeeze 56.5, Baaja Bajav 55, Grey Bull 55, Il surged ahead with a finely crafted victory over Kanep Bright Club: 181 for 5 in 35 overs Nagar Gymkhana in Madhu career victory,and it came on most took fourth place at the Diablo 55, Axe 54.5, Jersey Lightning 54.5, Po- Meelis of Estonia in the eighth round of the World Ju- (Sumit Kundu 78, Veer Bahadur 46; tential Force 54.5, London Bells 54, Annodomi- nior’s chess here on Sunday.The other Indian hope Surya Naman Gupta 3/59), Delhi Eagles: Vihar U-15 cricket. the eve of his 28th birthday line, nearly touching the rear ni 52.5, Ronson 51.5, Echo Star 50.5, Jai 166 for 6 in 35 overs (Shobhit Chan- RR Gymkhana: 186 all out in 29.5 on Monday. of Alonso’s car as he desper- Bharath 50.5, Regal Rock 50, Valencia 49.5, Shekhar Ganguly drew with Izoria Zviad of Georgia. The Line of Control 49, Renzino 48. Harangi Dam dok 49, Nitin Saini 42) overs (Rahul Yadav 35; Sandeep, Ralf beat Montoya by 16.8 ately sought a way past, but lead however changed hands between fellow Azerbaijanis Plt: 20-35: 1,600: Echo Star 60.5, Royal as top seed Shakhriyaz Mamedyarov took his tally to six Joginder 3/25), Patel Nagar: 92 all out seconds in a race that explod- he still became the first For- caribbean 59, Blazing Rock 58.5, Crystal Delight Inter-school VK cricket: in 22.2 overs (Pankaj 40; Puneet 4/10, points after beating Kadir Guseinov in a long drawn ed into action after a proces- mula One driver to score 58.5, Foolish Pursuit 56, Stormsky 56, Suratha Qutub Cricket Academy and Tarun Kumar 3/5) 55.5, Spanish Armada 54.5, Airtel 54.5, Mabmo game.PTI sional start. He led untrou- 1,000 points. Reuters King 53.5, Pride Valley 52.5, Royal Incrnte 52.5.
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AP Cameroon doctor denies doping in Foe’s death: Cameroon team doctor Olivier Assamba said doping had nothing to do with the Eto’O dedicates death of Marc-Vivien Foe. Foe collapsed during their Confed Cup semi-final against Colombia in Lyon and later died. An autopsy did not verify the cause of death though he had previously complained Spanish win to Foe of stomach pains and diarrhoea. “I’d like to stop the speculation and urge respect for the death of Marco,” he said. AFP Elche (Spain): Cameroon’s semi-final win Cameroon over Colombia in Lyon. striker Samuel “This victory is for him,” Eto’O struck said Eto’O who left the two goals to ground straight after the lead Real Mal- match to fly to Paris where lorca to victory in the Span- Cameroon face France in ish Cup here on Saturday the final of the Confed Cup and then dedicated the win on Sunday. After scoring to international teammate his first goal on Saturday, Marc-Vivien Foe who died af- Eto’O ran to the Mallorca ter collapsing at the Confed- supporters, removed his erations Cup on Thursday. shirt and pointed to the sky Eto’O, who had flown to dedicate his goal to Foe back from France where just as Thierry Henry had the Confederations Cup is done for France in their being played to take part in win over Turkey on Thurs- the final, scored in the 72nd day. Eto’O had left France and 83rd minutes of the 3-0 before Thursday’s tragedy. win over Recreativo Huelva His goals followed a first- Turkey (R) and Colombia players keep a minute’s silence in memory of Cameroon’s Marc-Vivien Foe before their Confedera- but his thoughts were with half penalty by Uruguyan tions Cup match for the third place in Saint Etienne on Saturday. Foe who died following Walter Pandiani. AFP Turkey roast Colombia, finish 3rd Saint Etienne (France): Turkey strik- Hernandez, who got the winner er Okan Yilmaz, who missed a crucial CONFEDERATIONS CUP against Japan, tested Omer Catkic on penalty in Thursday’s semi-final loss to the winner.” Turkey got off to an elec- the half hour but the Turkish captain France, made amends here with a late tric start with Tuncay’s storming left was well up to the challenge. goal to earn his country third place in footer which had Colombia keeper Os- The Copa America champions had the Confederations Cup. car Cordoba grappling for thin air. plenty of possession in the first half but Okan’s superb 87th minute strike on This was the Fenerbahce striker’s nothing to show for it, their best spell top of Tuncay Sanli’s third minute ef- third goal since his international debut coming right at the end when midfield- fort gave Turkey a 2-1 win over Colom- against the United States nine days ago er Jairo Patini produced a number of bia, the South Americans’ second half and it evoked memories of Hakan chances, all blocked by Catkic. score coming from Giovanni Hernan- Sukur’s first minute score in their 3-2 Colombia, who had suffered a year dez. Turkey coach Senol Gunes said af- win over South Korea in the long goal drought before arriving in terwards: “This match showed a high play-off for third place at last sum- France, looked set for a certain score standard of football and we were happy mer’s World Cup. when a pass from the right beat two with the result and the whole of the Galatasaray midfielder Volkan Ar- defenders but Victor Aristizabal’s shot tournament. slan conjured up a nifty lob which hit the post. Substitute Eudalio Arria- “After our first goal, the Colombians sailed over the Colombian defence in ga then produced some fireworks down did well to equalise but we did well to the 20th minute but this time Cordoba the left for Colombiabut Turkey’s control the situation and eventually get was too quick for Tuncay. held on. AFP Aussies seethe over ‘unethical hijack’ Sydney: The Australian foot- WORLD CUP SPOT ball community was devas- tated on Sunday over the the Oceania confederation, of shock of losing the Oceania which Australia and New Confederation’s automatic Zealand are the dominant place at the 2006 and 2010 countries, may as well be World Cup finals promised by scrapped. He said it would be FIFA president Sepp Blatter. better for Australia to be part FIFA’s executive commit- of the Asian confederation. tee at a meeting in Paris on The last time a team from Saturday voted overwhelm- Oceania qualified for the ingly 22-1 to give Oceania’s World Cup finals was New half a slot to the South Amer- Zealand in 1982. Australia icans after strong lobbying made their only appearance from the South American in Germany in 1974. federation, CONMEBOL. Meanwhile, Australian Blatter had made getting and New Zealand soccer offi- Oceania an automatic berth cials said on Sunday they one of his campaign pledges could lose millions of spon- when he was running for his sorship dollars following a second term. Oceania Confed- decision by ruling body FIFA eration president Basil to strip Oceania of direct Scarsella said the decision “is World Cup qualification. a disgrace and I think it is po- Soccer Australia’s acting litically driven to accommo- chairman Les Avory said date the powerful South Amer- FIFA “should be ashamed of icans. It’s unethical, it’s im- themselves”. “How can you moral, call it what you like.” throw someone a lifeline... Aussie coach Frank Farina And then cut us adrift? we’re blasted the decision, which either part of the family or he said was made for the ben- we’re not,” said Avory. Spon- efit of the game’s superpow- sorships with Australian tele- ers. “It’s a disgrace. It’s a po- vision’s Seven Network and litical decision,” Farina said. Airline Qantas are in jeop- “FIFA should tear up its mot- ardy. However Australian to ‘for the good of the game’ sports minister Rod Kemp al- and throw it out the window.” leged, bad management by Farina said the decision Soccer Australia was to blame was a massive setback for for the overturning of entry Australian soccer and said into the finals. Agencies
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(Left) A tennis fan gets protection from the sun at Wimbledon on Saturday. (Right) British fans cheer home favourite Tim Henman who beat Sweden’s Robin Soderling in straight sets to reach the last 16 on Saturday. California dreaming: Mark Russian beauties: Anna er? Asked if he’d like to play for to change tactics to suit the Philippoussis looks happy in Kournikova may not be here. England, he replied: “I’ve been conditions. “It says a lot about his new California home. The But many Russian women are playing for Germany the last 26 fickle natures and jealousy,” Australian who defeated into the fourth round and years and it doesn’t look like Glynn said. “Lleyton has an Radek Stepanek 4-6, 7-6 (7), three are teenagers. They are: it’s going to change.” The Eng- important match and it hurts. 6-4, 7-6 (6) to reach the fourth 21-year-old Elena Dementie- lish media also asked US’ But this has enabled him to round, moved from Florida to va, 21-year-old Anastasia James Blake similar questions. learn whose support he can San Diego following last Myskina, 16-year-old Maria His mother is also English. appreciate.” Sharapova, 18-year-old Svet- year’s Wimbledon, partly be- Dad’s defence: Lleyton He- Perfect champion: Nine- cause “maybe Florida was a lana Kuznetsova, 18-year-old Vera Zvonareva. witt’s father Glynn has jumped time Wimbledon champion little bit unlucky for me.” “I to the defence of his son, who Navratilova has come up with went for a surfing trip for a Colour me English: With became only the second de- her perfect tennis player: week. I ended up going to Tim Henman the only English- fending men’s champion beat- Pete’s Sampras’ serve, Steff San Diego, hooked up with man still playing at Wimbledon, en in the first round. After the Graf’s forehand, Justine some guys there. I fell in love the local media are desperate loss, he was criticised for Henin-Hardenne’s backhand, with the people there. I just for another English angle. How sticking too close to his moth- the legs of Serena Williams, felt like it was time for a about Alexander Popp, the er and father — they travel Chris Evert’s mind — and her change.” German with an English moth- with him — and for an inability own volley. Teens hold Indian flag in the singles By Ashis Ray TENNIS TRAIL wo years ago, Leander Paes lost to French- be able to represent the Indi- T man Nicolas Escude in an Fed Cup (the women’s ver- the second round at Wimble- sion of the Davis Cup) team. don, in a year when the latter, Among the boys, Karan noticeably adept on grass, Rastogi, accommodated in the won both his singles on the main draw as a result of with- same surface to memorably drawal, is pitted against 3rd- carry his country to victory seeded Dudi Sela of Israel in over Australia in the Davis the round one; while Somdev Cup. Regrettably, his has Dev Varman meets Devin been the last glimpse of an Mullings of the Bahamas. If Indian in senior singles at the latter wins, his next oppo- the All-England Club. nent could be the seeded Gy- By tradition, the under-19s orgy Balazs of Hungary. get underway on the middle, Mirza, Bhambri, Rastogi “people’s” Saturday. In ac- and Dev Varman are round- tion, in the girls’ section, ing off a disappointing six- were a person of Indian ori- tournament tour of Europe. gin and a resident Indian, Indeed, except for the 16-year- both seeded. Sunitha Rao, of- old Rastogi reaching the ficially of the United States, semi-finals at Frankfurt, they is the top seed, while 16-year- have little to report. Progress old Sania Mirza occupies the is about turning tables on 16th spot. Both advanced con- ranked players. As the pedi- vincingly into the second greed Prakash Amritraj has round. But, if they both cross emphasised in the past three the next hurdle, they will col- weeks in the stifling, summer lide in the last 16. heat of India, there is no sub- Meanwhile, in the bottom stitute to success. half of the draw, another In- The doubles is, of course, a dian, Sanaa Bhambri, was different story. Mahesh Bhu- eliminated in the very first pathi and his partners are round. If, as expected, the In- the number one seeds in both dian parliament this year ap- the men’s and mixed doubles; proves dual nationality with while Paes with David Rikl the US, Rao would acquire are seeded fifth. Bhupathi the option of playing for In- and Max Mirnyi have been dia. In fact, she would even more consistent.
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