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New Delhi, Monday,April 28, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 36 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Potter helps author French defence Mahela, Hashan Rowling past the minister begins steer Lanka to Queen in UK rich list visit with Taj trip safety in 1st Test Page 10 Page 5 Page 15 WIN WITH THE TIMES As strike begins today...

Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. No blackmail, If we are to teach real peace A-I cancels 37 flights in this world, and if we are TOI to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to Suspends 15 begin with the children. DJB tells water — Mahatma Gandhi more pilots NEWS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK tanker owners Making Delhi move faster: The New Delhi: The government on By Saurabh Sinha Sunday toughened its stand latest in our series on how to tackle TIMES NEWS NETWORK traffic problems in the Capital looks against the striking Indian Pilots A tanker may at encroachments, and ways to get Guild (IPG) for refusing to oper- New Delhi: The Delhi Jal “reach your home as rid of them. P3 ate flights due to the SARS scare. Board (DJB) said it will not Air-India, meanwhile, suspended Murder weapon found: A month give in to the ‘‘blackmail’’ of late as 1 or 2 am, after the assassina- 15 more pilots after they refused private tanker operators con- but it will definitely tion of former Gu- to turn up for duty despite an ul- tracted to deliver its water. jarat home minister timatum issued by the manage- There are 375 such private reach Haren Pandya, the ment. The airline had suspended tankers which have threat- — Senior” DJB official CBI on Sunday lo- 12 pilots on Saturday and issued ened to go on strike from cated the weapon showcause notices to 50 others. Monday. This means DJB apparently used in Indian Airlines has already will have to rely only on the the private tankers could the crime. The stepped in to lift stranded passen- 587 tankers owned and oper- even be arrested if they try to weapon was recov- gers from the Gulf after A-I can- ated directly by it. disrupt the movement of ered following the interrogation of celled 37 flights to that sector till This impasse will worsen DJB’s tankers. ‘‘They need to the three persons who were arrested the end of the month. the suffering of Delhi al- be disciplined. There are so in Andhra Pradesh for their alleged Two flights out of Delhi — ready reeling under a worse- many complaints of their involvement in the assassination. AI747 to Dubai on Monday and than-usual summer water selling our water which is VAT deadline: Officials are confi- AI835 to Abu Dhabi and Muscat shortage caused by the clo- supposed to be delivered free; dent that if there is yet another slip- for Tuesday — were cancelled. Af- sure of the upper Ganga not going to dry areas; doing page in meeting the deadline of 15 fected passengers were being re- canal for cleaning. It will fewer kilometres than states switching over to VAT from booked on a special IA flight and mean greater dependence on claimed to get more fuel com- June 1, the delay would not be for on those of other carriers, an A-I private — and expensive — pensation and having trip more than a few days. P5 spokesman said. tankers which draw and sell meters that don’t work,’’ al- • 20 patients signed bonds and left leged the DJB chief. Farmers’ grievances: Prime Min- Five flights were cancelled on Panic attack in Kolkata groundwater. ‘‘In the past, ister Vajpayee and UP chief minister Saturday affecting nearly 800 • Workers’ union threatened strike whenever there was a crisis He said this year the board Mayawati along with some Central passengers. the private tankers have al- had maintained a strict vigil While wary pilots • Panic-stricken doctors disappeared most doubled their prices. to prevent such abuse which and state ministers discussed the The IPG’s 200 pilots had re- scrambled AI grievances of UP sugarcane farmers fused to fly to the SARS-affected • Surgical masks came at a premium, They charge anything from increases public inconven- in the wake of some private sugar Hong Kong and Singapore, and flights, a SARS but were sold out by afternoon Rs 200 to Rs 400 for delivering ience, and had fined several patient caused to a house,’’ said H K Yadav,a tanker owners. ‘‘Our strict mills’ refusal to pay the farmers the even refused to fly with crew • And everyone within 100 yards of the state advisory price (SAP) of Rs 95 members who had visited these havoc at Kolkata’s resident of Kalkaji. action is the real cause of for every quintal of sugarcane. P5 countries in the past 10 days. Apollo hospital hospital — including journalists — To avert this, DJB chief P their strike call. Till now, carefully covered their noses K Tripathi said: ‘‘We will run they were making money NCERT book criticised: Experts ‘‘Nearly 45 per cent of the without any check,’’ he said. have claimed that the new NCERT flights from the Gulf have been our tankers round-the-clock. book ‘‘Contemporary India’’ (class cancelled due to the strike and other hand, civil aviation minis- not affect the A-I services as we Comment: Most people will feel We may buy more tankers.’’ Sources say that increased IX) makes chauvinistic and baseless the stations most affected are ter Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said are now training 24 new pilots that A-I pilots are already a pam- Senior DJB official G C vigilance is as much the re- claims. It is one-sided in its portrayal Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat,’’ chargesheets and inquiries are and they would be commissioned pered lot and are only using SARS Nandwani said more drivers sult of this being an election of the reforms movement. P9 an A-I official said. ‘‘But all our being initiated against the erring by June this year,’’ Hussain told as an opportunistic ploy to make will be employed to run the year. The DJB is under pres- flights to US, London, Paris and pilots and the government would TNN. A-I is also recruiting five re- more money. Far from winning tankers. ‘‘A tanker may reach sure to deliver so that votes YOU SAID IT by Laxman Frankfurt will continue.’’ even terminate their services. tired pilots for a short period to public sympathy, their indisci- your home as late as 1 or 2 are not lost on account of wa- IPG has threatened legal action ‘Terminations would follow augment its pilot strength. pline will only build up a case for am, but it will definitely ter supply,which, is solely in against the management. On the and we are confident these would Related reports on pages 9 and 11 disinvestment in the airline. reach,’’ he said. government hands. Tripathi said the owners of Related report on page 2 Engineers, docs stay Kareena to launch Radio out of IAS, say MPs Mirchi today TIMES NEWS NETWORK Training costs TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: MPs do not want doctors New Delhi: Kareena and engineers in the IAS. Miffed at the •Lakhs of rupees wasted when Kapoor will formally thought of government money ‘‘going engineers, doctors are selected for launch Delhi’s much- down the drain’’ when an IIT graduate the civil services awaited Radio Mirchi or MBBS joins the civil services, a key •Such candidates block other aspi- 98.3 FM today. Listeners He wears the mask that way Parliamentary panel has asked the gov- rants from becoming professionals will be able to tune in to because TV news affects him ernment to ban graduates from profes- greatly these days, he says! •They also take the foundation the much-awaited station sional courses from appearing for the tomorrow. The Bolly- civil services examination. course lightly as they will be declared passed eventually wood star, along with Mr indiatimes.com POLL The committee, headed by Congress Vineet Jain, Managing MP Pranab Mukherjee, expressed con- Director, Times Group, Yesterday’s results: Do you think Indian cern over the increasing number of en- Shastri National Academy of Adminis- and Mr A P Parigi, Man- Airlines and Air-India pilots are justified gineers and doctors getting selected to tration. This lack of interest has been aging Director, Radio in refusing to fly to SARS-infected the civil services. attributed primarily to a sense of com- countries? Mirchi, will announce The members said government ex- placency among these trainees that the highlights to the Yes 62% No 38% penditure on each student runs into they will eventually be declared passed. media this afternoon. lakhs of rupees but when he opts out of Trainees who fail some subjects are Kareena will also inaugu- • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose the profession and joins the civil serv- to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. allowed to take the examination again rate Radio Mirchi’s ice, ‘‘all the money spent on him goes and again till they eventually get cutting-edge facilities at Today’s question: Do you think India is down the drain’’. What the committee through. ‘‘The confirmation of services Okhla. doing enough to contain SARS as found more disturbing is the fact that of those who fail in various subjects compared to other infected countries? The Delhi launch these students block the seats in the makes a mockery of the word proba- makes Radio Mirchi the Cast your vote on professional courses, preventing other tioner,’’ the committee observed. largest private broadcast- www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 aspirants from becoming engineers Therefore, it stressed the urgent need er with a national foot- and doctors. for the government to re-examine its print. Mumbai, Pune, The committee has, therefore, asked policy regarding probationers, stating Ahmedabad and Indore the UPSC and the Centre to consider de- that those who fail to clear all the ex- have already made it barring candidates on whom the gov- aminations set out for them should be their number one listen- ernment has spent large sums of mon- declared failed and their services ter- ing choice right since the ey,particularly in professional fields. minated. The committee said a proba- inception of their 98.3 The panel also noted that candidates tioner who fails to clear the exam for FM stations a year ago. who do pass the civil services examina- reasons beyond his or her control may Kolkata and Chennai will WEATHER tion show scant interest in the founda- be given one chance to reappear. But if be able to bite into the tion and probationary courses conduct- the candidate fails again, then his serv- Mirchi shortly. Max. 36oC/ Min. 24.6oC ed by the Mussoorie-based Lal Bahadur ices should be terminated. Moonset: Monday — 1615 hrs. Moonrise: Tuesday — 0439 hrs. Sunset: Monday — 1854 hrs. Sunrise: Tuesday — 0543 hrs. Is Gandhinagar greenest of them all? Partly cloudy sky with possibility of rain/thundershowers in some areas. Maxi- By Presley Thomas As one drives from Ahmedabad to- mum relative humidity on Sunday was 57 Green capital TIMES NEWS NETWORK wards Gandhinagar, the scenery per cent and minimum 26 per cent. starts to change. A cramped, dusty Gandhinagar: Some years ago •Gandhinagar has 425 trees per hectare, 100 trees per hectare landscape is slowly replaced by wide when a worldwide survey adjudged open spaces and a blur of green from Islamabad as the greenest national more than Islamabad — the greenest city in the world the canopy of lakhs of trees that en- capital in the world, the authorities velope Gandhinagar. Your lungs, in Gandhinagar started counting •It has an enviable 22 trees per which choke in Ahmedabad, can tell the number of trees in Gujarat’s person, and the nearest city, the difference. capital city. Ahmedabad, does not even According to the forest depart- Islamabad’s record of 325 trees per average a tree per person ment Gandhinagar has 32 lakh trees, hectare was a tall order to emulate. made up with 35 species including But when the count ended in Gand- •Gandhinagar has 32 lakh trees neem, gulmohar, banyan, pipal, hinagar, officials were surprised to in 56 sqkm mahua and rhine, in its 56 square find there were 425 trees per hectare. kilometres. Book your Classifieds Today, if you try telling people 24 hours service: “51-666-888” lakh trees for a 1.5 lakh population, There are, however, some con- that Gandhinagar is the greenest Gujarat’s capital has an enviable 22 cerns that the officials are being Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” capital in the world, you will proba- trees per person. forced to deal with. The ATM of information bly get a snigger from those who That’s saying a lot, considering With no healthy monsoon for the The Largest Classifieds Site have an impression that Gujarat is a that the nearest city, Ahmedabad, last three years, ground water here semi-arid region with a perpetual does not even average one tree per has already gone below 800 feet leav- problem of drought. person. ing the trees high and dry.‘‘The only But Gandhinagar, perhaps, has There are of course no surveys for solution is implementing water har- * 18 + 8 pages of Delhi Times the statistics which would turn oth- Ahmedabad which can help draw a vesting and conservation pro- + 10 pages of Education Times er cities green with envy. With 32 comparison. grammes,’’ says Desai.

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2 Monday,April 28, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi Discipline tanker operators, say residents TIMES NEWS NETWORK Delhi’s water sources drying up New Delhi: As news of the Our demands private Water Tankers’ Asso- To chat on SMS send 'cchat' to 8888 ciation going on strike HARYANA UTTAR PRADESH are fair, says “I am open to doing item songs” reached Kalkaji-based Source Plant Capacity Source Plant Capacity — DEEPTI GUJRAL, Model Seema Agarwal, her reac- Q. What is your shifted to Mumbai about a tion was of anger and not Yamuna Chandrawal 90 mgd Ganga water Bhagirathi 100 mgd association aim in life?- Ice year back I have just fin- shock. Yamuna Wazirabad 120 mgd TIMES NEWS NETWORK A: To be a suc- ished a business manage- Despite the fact that the Bhakra, Yamuna Haidarpur 200 mgd cessful actress. ment diploma. area gets water supply only Bhakra storage Nangloi 25 mgd New Delhi: Reacting to Q. Are you in- Q. Who is your inspiration?- once a day and the depend- the Delhi Jal Board (DJB) terested in do- Waiting4u ence on tankers has charges of abuse and cor- ing films? Have you been A: I am my own inspiration. grown more than ever, CURRENT CRISIS ruption, Water Tankers’ approached to do item num- Q. What’s your advice to up- she said the operators need Association president R K bers in Bollywood?- Tarun coming models?-Hunk_cool ● A: Yes, I am interested in A: To be honest with your- to be disciplined once and Ganga Canal’s drying up Sharma said: ‘‘Apart from for all. ● acting in films. I haven’t self and to know that you Three wells in Okhla diesel charges, the DJB been approached yet but I are good enough for the ‘‘The quality of water sup- closed pays us Rs 330 and Rs 200 would definitely love to do profession that you are opt- plied by the operators is not ● per tanker for eight-hour good and strong roles that ing for. good. Often the drivers fill Haryana sending just 25 mgd, not 40 mgd, shifts of big and small show my talent and passion Q. Is it tough being a public water from a tubewell and tankers, respectively. We for acting. I am open to (do- figure?- Jennifer pass it on to the consumers,’’ to Nangloi plant want the charges to be ing) item songs but it should A: It feels nice to be known she said. ● Often the water coming hiked to Rs 950 and Rs be a good concept with a and get all the attention. It Agreed P C Khanna, a res- 650.’’ good director directing me. makes one feel important. I from Haryana is so Q. How did you came into don’t mind being famous!!! ident of A-3 block in Then, there’s other rea- Janakpuri and a member of polluted that the plant has this profession?- Amit79 For complete chat log on to son. ‘‘The fuel charges are the local resident welfare as- to be shut down A: I started modelling when I http://chat.indiatimes.com paid by the DJB, assum- sociation (RWA). ‘‘We get ● Owners of private tankers ing that our tankers run several complaints from res- CHATTING LIVE ON INDIATIMES TODAY threaten to go on strike four km per litre. Our idents saying the water is of- GROUND WATER 3 pm: Blossom 4 pm: S Reddy tankers, however, have a ten sold out before it reaches THE RESULT Source Plant Capacity Kochhar MD, Dr Reddy's the person who asked for it. mileage of 2.5 km per Aromatherapist Laboratories ● Ranney wells Many plants 95 mgd On beauty and On globalisation at The drivers are also rude,’’ Demand of 830 MGD litre,’’ he said. (MGD: million gallons a day) health problems Dr. Reddy's he said. remains unmet Terming these demands as ‘‘blackmail and extor- DJB chief P K Tripathi Times graphic tion,’’ DJB chief P K Tri- said the agency was aware route chart. We have also im- agency hires? While the DJB ence between the private and drivers are scared of losing a of these problems and posed a fine of Rs 10,000 on owns and operates 587 the DJB tankers. Both make government job if we get pathi said: ‘‘They accepted had taken steps to discipline the erring tanker owners,’’ tankers, it hires 375 tankers a killing on peoples’ misery. complaint against them. the rates in January. How the tanker drivers this he said, adding that this from private operators to fer- A thirsty person will cough But the drivers of the have all their expenses year. drive was the real reason for ry its water. up any amount to get water,’’ private tankers are poorly risen in just three months ‘‘We have deputed several the strike. Padam Singh, a resident of he said. paid. They know they can when they get the water officers to keep a check on But are DJB tankers any Garhi in Nehru Place said: Tripathi defended DJB join another firm if they free and the fuel charges the drivers and maintain a better than the ones the ‘‘There’s hardly any differ- tankers by saying: ‘‘Our are fired.’’ are paid by us?’’ he asked.

Sanjay Sekhri Computer centre raided, pirated software seized TIMES NEWS NETWORK ly, Macromedia. Auto desk, Porland and Oracle. ‘‘This New Delhi: A month after the first time that the police the Delhi Police began its have seized software of mul- crackdown on users of pirat- tiple companies from just ed software, the crime one place,’’ said the officer. branch raided a computer in- Thirty-two hard disks were stitute in east Delhi on Fri- also taken into custody. day night and arrested its owner. The team also seized The police said Chandra pirated software worth Rs Kant Sharma’s Sarvodya one crore from the premises. Computer Training Institute The raid was a part of the has been imparting training crime branch’s bid to curb on computer aided design en- software piracy.After having gineering. He also had mod- failed to stop the sale of pi- ules for short courses. rated software, the crime Like all the other insti- branch has now started tar- tutes, Sharma had also pur- geting places where the de- chased a compact disc at a Nurseries in Govt hospitals mand exists. cheap price and copied the New Delhi: The Delhi state Delhi’s health and family ‘‘Pirated software is now various softwares to the oth- government is considering welfare minister A K Walia being sold clandestinely.It is, er computers and educated setting up nurseries in all its said, ‘‘According to available therefore, difficult to nab the students. hospitals in order to provide data, 43 babies out of every them. But if we target the Computer centres are specialised treatment to ba- 1,000 die of various complica- users, it will deter training among the top users of soft- bies born with various com- tions within one month of institutes from purchasing ware and are likely to feature plications. their birth in Delhi.’’ TNN cheap pirated software,’’ an high on the crime branch’s officer said. list. Although the crime The software which has branch has raided several EXAMINATION ALERT been seized belongs to multi- places in Nehru Place, the de- ple companies like Adobe mand for pirated software IT Visitors listen to a talk by the Dalai Lama at the India Habitat Centre lawns in New Delhi on Sunday. Base Systems, Microsoft, Tal- has kept the industry alive. 18.05.2003: National Entrance Test for 4-yr U G Programme in Information & Communi- cation Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Metro sops to go, fare hike in Sept Six buildings to Technology, Gandhinagar [www.da-iict.org]. TIMES NEWS NETWORK headed by a high court judge. ENGINEERING On track ‘‘The fare structure was New Delhi: The second sec- evolved by the National be sealed today 18.05.2003: (1100-1400 hrs) Entrance test for B E programmes of tion of the Metro rail — be- Council of Applied Econom- Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, Pune tween Tis Hazari and Trina- ic Research (NCAER) who New Delhi: Six highrise He said the buildings could (www.bharatividyapeeth.edu) gar — is all set to be opened 18.05.2003: B E Admission Test (BEAT-2003) for admission to B E recommended that we keep buildings here, including Su- be reopened once the DFS from September 2003. With courses of Dr B R Ambedkar University Institute of our fare low initially. A dis- per Bazar in Connaught verifies that all the safety the opening of the section, Engineering & Technology, Khandari Campus, count of 20 per cent was sug- Place, will be sealed on Mon- provisions have been in- the concessions will be gested for the first section. stalled. Agra-282002 [www.geocities.com/iet_agra]. day for their ‘failure’ to ad- scaled down to 10 per cent As more facilities are provid- Sharma said Shakuntala LAW and the fares will go up mar- here to 12-point safety norms ed, the fares will be brought Apartments and Guru Angad 18.05.2003: All India Entrance Test for admission to NALSAR ginally. This is the second to the rationalised amount,’’ issued by Delhi Fire Service Bhawan have already com- section of the first line be- (DFS). University of Law, Hyderabad (www.nalsarlawuniv.org; a DMRC official said. plied with some of the provi- www.nalsarpro.org and www.icadr.org). tween Shahdara and Rithala The fare review committee Deepshikha, Hemkunt sions. The fire chief blamed covering 24 kilometres (km). •The first phase of the Metro project — comprising three is yet to be formed. ‘‘But it Towers, Pragati Bhawan, the ‘‘dilatory tactics’’ of the MANAGEMENT lines between Shahdara and Rithala, Delhi University (DU) The current fare rates — will be formed before the Shakuntala Apartments and owners for the delay in ful- 11.05.2003: Written NMAT (www.nmims.edu). between Rs 4 and Rs 7 — are, and Central Secretariat and Barakhamba Road and concession is reduced to 10 Guru Angad Bhawan are the filling norms. MEDICINE/ ALLIED in fact, promotional rates Dwarka — will be completed in September 2005. per cent. Once the committee other highrises that will be ‘‘The owners say that these aimed at drawing passengers •Tis Hazari to Trinagar — September 2003 is formed, DMRC will have sealed, said DFS chief R C regulations were not in place 18.05.2003: All India Competitive Written Test (PMT) for admission to to the rail service. ‘‘Since the •Trinagar to Rithala (8.5 km) — March 2004 only a recommendatory role Sharma. when they constructed these MBBS at Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi first section between Shah- •DU to ISBT Kashmiri Gate (4 km) — December 2004 in the matter of fixing fares,’’ Another unsafe building, buildings. Hence, they are re- (www.bhu.ac.in) at Varanasi, Delhi, Kolkata and Hyderabad dara and Tis Hazari was a •ISBT to Central Secretariat (7 km) — September 2005 he said. Sagar Apartments, will not luctant to bear the additional 18.05.2003: CET 2003 for admission to BPT, B Pharm, B Sc (MLT) and truncated one, we decided •Barakhamba Road to Kirti Nagar (9.2 km) — June 2005 The rationalised fare rec- be sealed for now as its re- financial burden,’’ he said. BOT of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi give our passengers a conces- •Kirti Nagar to Dwarka (13.9 km) — September 2005 ommended by the NCAER ceiver has asked for some Sharma said the burden of (http://ipu.ac.in) 18.05.2003: Delhi University Medical- sion of 20 per cent on the ra- will be revised only after a more time to fulfil the neces- compliance depended on the Dental Entrance Test (DUMET) for MBBS/BDS of Univer- tionalised fare fixed for the period of three years. This sary requirements, he said. size of a particular building sity of Delhi, Faculty of Medical Sciences, 6th Floor, V P opening of the second sec- over long distances. A pas- first phase,’’ said Delhi Metro period will begin once the ‘‘We had written to the pro- but estimated it to be in the Chest Institute Building, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007. tion. Once the entire line is senger travelling from Shah- Rail Corporation (DMRC) first line is completed in prietors of these buildings range of Rs 30-50 per square RELIGIOUS TEACHER chief spokesperson Anuj completed the discount will dara to Rithala will spend March 2004. ‘‘The fares will many times to comply with feet. Dayal. be withdrawn completely. only Rs 12.50,’’ said Dayal. be reviewed according to the the guidelines. We had issued Besides the highrise build- 18.05.2003: Written Examination for screened applicants for The hike will, however, be Even then, the maximum The first fare structure for rate of inflation,’’ the official sealing warnings to them in ings, slum clusters in the city recruitment ofReligious Teachers in the Army as Junior marginal. ‘‘The maximum fare will freeze at Rs 12.50 for the Metro rail was decided by said. September last year itself,’’ were major fire hazards, Commissioned Officers for RRT 39 and 40 course fare of Rs 8 will go up by journeys of 18 km and above. the DMRC, but following In fact, once the entire first Sharma said, adding ‘‘when particularly this summer, [ref: Employment News 1-7 Feb ‘03]. about a rupee,’’ he said. This This will be the maximum hikes, if any, will have to be phase is ready,the cost of op- they seemed to have had no ‘‘due to the utter disregard TECHNICAL EDUCATION (WWW.DELHI.TECH.EDU) fare for the first phase. ‘‘The approved by a three-member erations will come down to 87 concession will be scaled effect, we had to order seal- for safety norms,’’ Sharma 03.05.2003: CET for full-time Diploma course in Architectural paise per passenger km. down to 10 per cent with the benefit of the Metro is really fare review committee to be ing of these highrises.’’ said. PTI Assistantship, Automobile, Chemical, Civil, etc. disciplines, Interior, Medical Lab Tech etc. (excluding Computer Engg) in Govt. run and privately management Kapoor and presentations legislator Ravinder Bansal. opment during World polytechnics/ institutions (Dept of Training and Technical SCHOOL were made by Alka Pradhan, The function was presided Women Summit on Interna- Education, Govt of Delhi) Pradeep Jain and Usha over by Arjun Dass Singhal. tional Women’s Day at IIC. 04.05.2003: CET for full-time Diploma courses in Art for Drawing NEWS Sharma. Suresh Pant from Secretary R K Gupta pre- The five teachers are: A L teachers, Beauty Culture, Commercial Art, Fashion NCERT spoke to the Hindi sented the annual report and Chaudhary, Meena Gadi, Design, Library Sciences and Textile Design (addl Hindi workshop: teachers from different Rakesh Gupta gave the wel- Sangeeta Kamal, Neera Bala aptitude test for art based courses) in Govt. run and Vivekanand School, D-Block, schools of Delhi. come speech. The pro- and B K Sodhi. Students privately management polytechnics/ institutions (Dept of Anand Vihar, organised gramme was organised un- who won the award are: Kavi sammelan: Maharaja Training and Technical Education, Govt of Delhi) ‘Sambodhan’, a Hindi work- der the guidance of Mohin- Itasha, Megha, Ankita, Surb- 10.05.2003: CET for full-time Diploma course in Pharmacy in Govt. run shop on communicative Agarsain Public School, der Bansal, I C Goel, Naresh hi Sharma and Surpriya. Ashok Vihar, organised a and privately management polytechnics/ institutions skills. The workshop was or- Mohan Mittal, Suresh Jindal (Dept of Training and Technical Education, Govt of Delhi) ganised by Hindi department kavi sammelan to mark the and R K Aggarwal. Principal awarded: Prin- grand finale of the its silver cipal, Delhi Public School, 11.05.2003: CET for full-time Diploma course in Modern Office head Asha Srivastava, Sand- Practice (Hindi/ English) in Govt. run and privately hya Dutta and other mem- jubilee celebration on April Awards for KV: Ten teach- Gurgaon, Aditi Misra was management polytechnics/ institutions (Dept of Training bers of the department. In- 10. A Saraswati vandana ers and students of Kendriya awarded the Avantika peace augurating the workshop, and inter-school prize distri- Vidyalaya, Janakpuri, were award by a group of contem- and Technical Education, Govt of Delhi) school principal Kiran Khan- bution was held on the occa- presented with the Women porary artists and intellectu- (This is an indicative guide. The dates may change.) na highlighted the impor- sion. The chief guest was Empowerment and Liveli- als on April 24 at a function tance of Hindi in our day-to- state environment minister hood Award by the Indian at Hindi Bhawan, Rouse Av- turning day lives. The programme Deep Chand Bandhu, BJP Society for Integration of enue for her contribution in point was anchored by Rani leader Mange Ram Garg and Women and Children Devel- the field of education.

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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Monday,April 28, 2003 3 MAKING DELHI MOVE FASTER Doctor held Encroachments: A Rs 26,000 cr loss every year for raping KK Laskar By Rahul Chhabra 17-year-old TIMES NEWS NETWORK Fact file TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The city loses •One-third of arterial New Delhi: The police have Rs one crore per kilometre roads never used by arrested a 40-year-old per annum due to obstruc- vehicles due to Ayurveda doctor for alleged- tions caused by encroach- encroachments. ly raping a 17-year-old girl ments on roads. The total Encroachments cost who had visited him for treat- road length in the city is • crores in terms of time ment at his Sultanpuri clinic. 26,000 km. loss, fuel wastage and Jugal Kishore was arrested A study conducted by the environmental damage. on Friday night and sent to Central Road Research Insti- Tihar jail. tute (CRRI) says the eco- •Wear and tear of ‘‘Kishore lived in the same nomic impact of encroach- vehicles increases by 30 ments are much more than neighbourhood as the victim. per cent if traffic speed The victim’s father works this. dips to 20 km per hour. CRRI scientist, Nishi Mit- with the Municipal Corpora- tal, said encroachments also tion of Delhi,’’ deputy com- cause noise and air pollu- Planning and Architecture, missioner of police (north- tion but there is no mecha- said: ‘‘The discomfort west) Sanjay Singh said. nism available yet to quanti- caused by encroachments to According to the victim’s fy these in monetary terms. pedestrians and motorists complaint, she went to visit ‘‘If a third of road’s width cannot be quantified but the doctor at his Abhimanyu is encroached by hawkers or LOOKING THE OTHER WAY: The police are also responsible for encroachment of roads these factors are largely re- Clinic. ‘‘She complained of sponsible for incidents of stomach ache and asked the illegally parked vehicles, Syama Prasad Mookerji where hawkers and illegally the absence of encroach- the motorists are forced to road rage and violation of doctor for medicine,’’ Singh Marg facing the Old Delhi parking vehicles have eaten ments,’’ said Rohit Baluja, rules.’’ said. The doctor then sexual- use horns six times more Railway station, Vikas Marg into road space. president of Institute of over a stretch of one km as ‘‘A driver inconvenienced ly assaulted her. Although in Laxmi Nagar stretch and ‘‘The traffic would have Road Traffic Education. compared to a road with no by encroachments has a the girl did not complain im- several roads in Karol Bagh moved 5 to 10 km faster on P K Sarkar, transporta- obstructions,’’ she said. higher chance of picking up mediately, she spoke to her are some examples of roads these congested stretches in tion department, School of a fight on road than any oth- parents about the incident er driver. He may also try to when her father returned Problems Who is at fault? Solutions over-speed to make up from work. for the time lost in jams The parents then informed Choked footpaths: Traffic police: Fail to protection money. • • •Tow away: Enforce caused by encroachments,’’ the police who took the girl to Footpath, service lanes check illegal parking and Civic agencies: rules banning illegal he said. Sanjay Gandhi Hospital. and roads encroached movement of cycle rick- • parking on busy roads. A CRRI team which sur- ‘‘The medical examination for operating illegal shaws on main roads. Inspectors take bribes veyed 15 locations, includ- has concluded that the girl shops. to allow illegal vendors to •Free footpaths: Examples: Karol Bagh and operate. Engineers do ing Karol Bagh, Old Delhi was sexually assaulted,’’ Vikas Marg Remove illegal vendors •Road blocks: Vehicles not install correct signage from footpaths and Railway Station, Central Singh said. illegally parked on roads. •Police: Allow such as no parking, tow roads. Market, Roshanara Road, encroachments for a price. away and use footpath. Krishna Nagar and Garhi, Fake driving licence •Slow movers: Pedes- Example: Old Delhi •Check illegal trade: found footpath space in trians and cycle rick- Example: Roadside Don’t allow shops to these areas was encroached racket busted vendors in Karol Bagh Railway station road. shaws forced to come open up on main roads upto 75 per cent. TIMES NEWS NETWORK on to main roads, and Vikas Marg pay •Public: Poor civic sense. in residential areas which ‘‘In all the cases encroach- forcing vehicles to between Rs 50 to Rs 500 Walk on roads instead of have inadequate parking ments had reduced road New Delhi: With the arrest slow down. a month to police as vacant footpaths. facility. lane capacity by 35 per of a medical practitioner and cent,’’ said Mittal. an engineering student, the northeast district police claimed to have busted a gang involved in producing fake driving licences. Sewage crisis Light showers cool city, According to the police, the accused Dr Babu Lal Bharti (33), a resident of Ghaziabad and Jitender (21), looms as drains but April remains dry resident of Shahdara, pre- pared fake driving licences and sold them at a price. The TIMES NEWS NETWORK Shimla, Dwarka-based showers may be expected in police claimed to have recov- lawyer Arvind Sinha said: the next 12 hours,’’ a weather New Delhi: After a hot week ered fake driving licences remain clogged ‘‘We were most unhappy to official said. with temperatures hovering and equipment used to print be returning to soaring tem- The Met department at- close to 40 degrees Celsius, the same during a raid con- By Pradeep Rana peratures, but we were wel- tributed the change to a cy- Bone of contention Sunday turned out to be a ducted on Jitender’s resi- TIMES NEWS NETWORK comed by a pleasant weather clonic circulation of winds perfect weekend for Delhi- dence in West Jyoti Nagar in here. What a way to end out over Punjab, Haryana and New Delhi: Authorities in •Mid-March to May-end ites. A light shower and cool Shahdara. Delhi obviously don’t believe is the right time for winds pulled the tempera- trip,’’ he said. north Rajasthan, resulting in that the best time to repair desilting drains tures down by 5.7 degrees to a For the weather depart- low pressure over the area. the roof, drains in this case, •Sewers backflow in pleasant 36 degrees. ment, however,it wasn’t such This low pressure was cou- is when the sun is shining. monsoon if not desilted Ashok Kurien, resident of a pleasant month. The over- pled with the western distur- The drains in the city have on time R K Puram said: ‘‘I was wait- all rainfall recorded on Sun- bances over Kashmir and Hi- not been desilted as per day was just 0.4 mm. With the machal Pradesh. •Last year, too, there ing for sundown because it’s schedule and a sewage back- too hot in the day to travel. month almost through, the Though clouds have been flow crisis seems imminent were complains of city is far behind its April hovering over this region for clogged or backflowing But the light drizzle changed when rains arrive. it all and I was out.” rainfall average. a few days, Delhi remained Contractors are yet to ac- sewers from many areas The city gets about 11.5 relatively dry and neighbour- despite the MCD claim- For Shalini Pundeer of cept tenders floated by Mu- Siddharth Extension in mm rain in April. In fact, a ing states like Haryana, Hi- nicipal Corporation of Delhi ing that it had finished brief and scanty spell earlier machal Pradesh, Punjab and desilting south Delhi, the drizzle came (MCD). Two reasons are be- as the much-needed relief. this month cooled the city, Jammu and Kashmir re- ing cited. Many contractors ‘‘My cooler stopped working but added little to the rain ceived heavy showers. Contractors are irked over say they have not been paid on Saturday and I was in a kitty.On April 15, the meteor- In April 1983, however, the this,” said the councillor. for the past three years. fix. I was wondering how to ological department had city received an exceptional MCD standing committee According to Vishwas Na- get it repaired on a Sunday. hoped for a little more rain, seven days of rainfall, chairman Ram Babu Sharma gar councillor R S Pawar, Thank God for the drizzle.” but the clouds didn’t oblige. recording 183.5 mm of rain admitted there had been an MCD changed the mode of Returning to the heat of Finally,it drizzled on Sunday. against the average of inordinate delay in desilting, payment because contractors Delhi after a cool holiday in ‘‘More dust storm and 11.5 mm. were overcharging. but claimed that the agency MCD’s vigilance wing de- was not to be blamed.‘‘So far tected the practice and contractors have been inflat- stopped payment to such con- ing the bills. After changing tractors. Last year MCD de- the mode of payment, we cided to change the system of spend only Rs 7 lakh against payment. Instead of paying the Rs 10 lakh we were pay- by the number of sewage ing earlier even as the mounds, it decided to pay by amount of sewage desilted the weight of sewage desilted doubled,’’ Sharma said. from the drains allocated to ‘‘I have also ordered the each contractor. commissioner to blacklist ‘‘The money MCD was pay- such contractors and hire ing to them reduced by half. daily wagers. We will finish the task by June 15,” he said.

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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER READER’S GRIEVANCES OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few places in sub-Himalayan west Bengal, Sikkim, Jammu ing calculated. While some NATIONAL and Kashmir and at isolated places in Andaman and Fee refund Mumbai: I-A 0700, Nicobar islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Megha- calculate 20 per cent and 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, laya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Gangetic west Bengal, another 15 per cent on the 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, J&K attack has police on alert I joined CMC, Kamla Na- Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttranchal, Himachal 2300 Jet Air 0650, remaining amount, others Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwa- By Maneesh Pandey said. Al-Madeena is a cover- New Delhi district said, gar,in 2000 for a diploma in 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, da, Vidarbha, Chattisgarh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Advanced Software Tech- simply go for 35 per cent 1935, 2030, 2200, TIMES NEWS NETWORK Terror threats up name for Lashkar which ‘‘Following the Saturday in- Sahara 0700,1800, 2025 INDIA WORLD nology (e-DAST) and my straightaway. Past experi- KOLKATA: I-A 0700, was involved in the strikes cident, vehicles around In- ences with the MCD sug- ★★ Max Min Max Min Max Min New Delhi: The police •Security intensified roll number was 1600 ,1700,1945 Delhi 42 25 Amsterdam 22 12 on Parliament and J&K As- dia Gate are being thor- Jet Air 0600, 1720, Guwahati 29 21 have sounded a red alert in around residences of ND079A00370. I had even gest that those who have Mumbai 32 26 Dehradun 37 20 Bahrain 33 21 sembly. The use of Ambas- Sahara 0620,1915 the city and beefed up secu- President, PM and oughly checked. The visi- deposited Rs 29,500 at the paid more than what was CHENNAI: I-A Chennai 36 26 H’bad 39 23 Bangkok 35 28 sador cars with pilot lights tors to Rajpath are being en- ★★★ Kolkata 36 23 Indore 39 23 Beijing 29 13 rity around all major gov- deputy PM institute’s Kamla Nagar required will not be com- 0640,0955 and police uniforms are 1645,1900 Jet Air Bangalore 35 23 Jaipur 41 27 Chicago 14 03 ernment buildings and in- couraged not to stay for long centre, but soon the centre pensated. — A K Mukher- 0645,1900 Ahm’bad 42 26 Geneva 32 12 • Doordarshan and AIR similar, the officer said. Lucknow 43 29 stitutions following the at- after 10 pm.’’ closed down. My repeated jee, 11-A, Nivedita Enclave, BANGALORE: T’puram 34 25 Patna 39 25 Hong Kong 32 22 buildings under specific The recent spate of at- I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 41 26 London 19 08 tack on the Doordarshan of- Similar security arrange- pleas to the institute for re- A-6, Paschim Vihar. Rajkot 41 25 threat tacks in the valley has been Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 40 26 Shimla 26 11 Los Angeles 21 12 fice in Kashmir. ments are in place south, funding of the remaining Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 39 25 Srinagar 11 08 Moscow 03 -04 analysed by security ex- PF problem HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 Security around Door- • Militants planning at- west and northeast Delhi as amount have fallen on deaf perts who believe that mili- GOA: I-A 1200, darshan and All India Ra- tack on India Gate using well. In south Delhi, securi- years. The authority con- Sahara 1200 TRAIN RESERVATIONS tants are targeting govern- I worked with M/s HV dio (AIR) buildings and oth- rocket launchers ty around CGO Complex cerned has failed to heed KULU: Jagson 0630, ment buildings to gain pub- Equipment (P) Ltd, 113-114, 0650, 1215 ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 1400 hrs. on er vital installations has has been intensified. The the requests for refund of AHMEDABAD: 27.04.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. • Cyber cafes and newly licity. This time the intelli- 92, Deepali Building, been strengthened. An in- many other students as I-A 0600,1700★★1845, rented properties under gence input has specifically production centre of DD Nehru Place, from May 5, Jet Air 0610 Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl telligence input of possible well and I hope the insti- special scrutiny mentioned of a three- and VSNL buildings in 1995 to January 6, 2002. I GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: NORTH militant strike on buildings tute is brought to book im- I-A 0555★★, 1010• 4033 Jammu Mail 28.04 05.05 20.05 29.04 pronged threat to the south Delhi have been had applied for the with- ★ Jet Air 1010 and crowded market places mediately for taking stu- 4645 Shalimar Exp — 28.05 28.05 29.04 has also contributed to the from terrorist outfits like VVIPs, some diplomatic brought under a special se- drawal of my provident Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, 2403 Jammu Exp 28.04 19.05 25.05 23.05 dents for a ride. — Auguru Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish- missions and government curity net. fund (DL/9317/145), but the EAST heightened security meas- Pratap Kumar, A-531, Kela Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) e-Mohammed.’’ buildings. In northeast Delhi, the PF department sent me a 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 29.04 29.04 19.05 — ures. Sadan, Shastri Nagar, Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, 2304 Poorva Exp 01.05 01.05 13.05 28.05 The involvement of Al- The militants had police is on guard against letter stating that my com- (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- A senior officer said, Near Gulabi Bagh Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2382 Poorva Exp 02.05 05.05 19.05 27.05 ‘‘There is a specific threat to Madeena, a little known planned to disrupt Republic any attempt to rake up pany did not deposit the 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 06.05 18.06 11.05 communal tension among amount for 2000-01 & 2002- INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 13.05 16.05 21.05 strike at vital government outfit, in Saturday’s attack Day parade this year and Tax trouble 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 30.04 13.05 21.05 buildings and military es- in the valley is a clear indi- threatened to assassinate communities living in 02. The assistant commis- BANGKOK/TOKYO: 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 03.05 01.05 29.04 13.05 I have received a house tax sioner told me he did not Thai Air 0010 tablishments across the city cator of things to come, he leaders. A police officer of the area. (TG-316), I-A 0050 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 11.06 27.05 notice from the Municipal know about the company. (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 28.05 10.06 27.05 Corporation of Delhi He also asked me to give 2554 Vaishali Exp 28.04 19.05 22.05 09.06 FRANKFURT: Lufthansa (MCD) office in Rajouri my complaint on a stamp 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 30.04 29.05 21.05 AMSTERDAM: KLM 2802 Purshottam Exp — 29.05 28.05 21.05 Garden. They have fixed paper. An official with the 0140 (KL-472) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 01.06 10.06 18.05 Court asks for Khattar’s health report Rs 8,120 as ratable value of Nehru Place office of the LONDON/NEW YORK: 4230 Lucknow Mail 01.05 06.05 07.05 19.05 the MIG flats in our en- provident fund organisa- British Air 0210 (BA- WEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK mediate surgery. While asking Trehan pending. Asking the CBI to produce 142), A-I 0715 (AI-111) clave. Thus the annual tion recommended action 2904 Golden Temple Mail 29.04 04.05 10.06 13.06 to speficy the date of surgery, the court more records, the judge said that the in- PARIS: Air France 0040 2926 Paschim Exp 28.04 10.06 13.06 16.06 New Delhi: A city court has asked the house tax has been fixed at against the company, but (AF-147) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 30.04 07.05 09.06 — also asked how long Khattar needed to vestigating agency has failed to submit Rs 810. They give 20 per till date no action has been SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 01.05 05.05 04.06 — Tihar jail authorities to submit a report be in hospital. The court also dismissed papers which implicate Chander. cent rebate if the tax is taken. Last year, another Airlines 2315 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 05.06 12.06 01.05 stating the present condition of the bail application of DDA’s suspended (SQ-407), I-A 0050 ‘‘The record which shows that the ac- paid on time. They are giv- employee of the same com- 1078 Jhelum Exp — 10.06 22.05 06.06 Dharambir Khattar, the alleged middle- commissioner (IC-855) 2916 Ashram Exp 28.04 02.05 07.05 04.05 cused made any demand from M/s DLF ing an additional 15 per pany wrote many letters to HONG KONG/SEOUL: man between senior DDA officials and (land) Anand Universal Limited has also not been A-I 2340 (AI-312) SOUTH cent rebate to group hous- the PF department with 2616 G T Exp 28.04 01.06 09.06 13.05 private builders. Mohan Sharan ROME/MANCHESTER: DDAGATE pointed out. CBI is required to either ing societies that maintain similar grievances, but to 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 05.05 03.06 10.06 31.05 Khattar had claimed that he is suffer- stating that the A-I 0300 (AI-131) file further detailed reply or to produce their own services and the no avail. I request the high- 2432 Trivandrum Raj 06.05 N.A. 24.06 — ing from chest pain and needed to be op- investigation was still in a progressive AIR INDIA 2626 Kerala Exp — 14.06 11.06 03.06 relevant record before this court which er authorities to look into erated upon. But he had declined to un- stage and a part of the bribey was re- flats are occupied by the MUMBAI: 0315 (AI 2618 Mangala Exp — 09.06 11.06 28.05 shows the role played by the accused owners. In the absence of the matter and ensure that 755), 0345 (AI 156), 2628 Karnataka Exp — 03.06 03.06 06.05 dergo operation at the All India Insti- covered from Sharan’s house. upto now,’’ the judge said. any clear directive, there I get the PF amount due to 0615 (AI 146), 2330 2724 A P Exp 06.05 04.06 09.06 07.05 tute of Medical Sciences and had re- The court held that Sharan’s name The documents have to be submitted (AI 112) 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 13.06 21.06 16.06 — are glaring discrepancies me. — Yatinder Singh, E- quested the court to permit him to get was also mentioned in the conversation on May 3 and the argument would take GOA: 1245 (AI 643) 7022 Dakshin Express — 11.05 — 29.04 in the way the rebate is be- 288, East of Kailash. treated at Escorts. which has been recorded by the CBI. place two days later. A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 No. of passengers dealt on 26.04.2003 (Delhi Area): 61,958 (N. Rly. Area) (Air.)25652050, British Air: 2,41,250. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all Khattar also presented a letter from Additional sessions judge Prem Ku- On Friday,the court had also rejected (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for mar, however, kept the bail application Readers should send their contributions addressed to Readers’ Grievances 23323310, Singapore Airlines computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. Dr Naresh Trehan before the court. The the bail application of suspended DDA c/o Metro Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 (Information supplied by Indian Railways) letter states that Khattar needs an im- of director (land) Jagdish Chander chairman, Subhash Sharma.

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK leaders to New Delhi: The government has, for meet RSS talk about sugar the moment, shut the door on trans- TIMES NEWS NETWORK pute. Across western UP genic crops. farmers have been on the New Delhi: Sugar, and not The inter-departmental Genetic En- warpath over the issue. top brass the strain in the BJP’s ties gineering Approval Committee (GEAC) Experts say the average has rejected the case for commercialis- with the BSP,its UP coalition TIMES NEWS NETWORK sugar recovery from a quin- ing transgenic cotton in north India partner, was the subject of tal of high-yielding cane in and asked for more trials on genetical- New Delhi: In the run- discussion at a meeting that region is 10-12 per cent. ly-modified (GM) mustard. up to the crucial assem- chaired by Prime Minister This comes amid clear indications bly assembly polls later Vajpayee on Sunday. With the Lok Sabha polls not that the government no longer believes this year and the gener- UP CM Mayawati met the far away,the BJP and the BSP the first harvest of pest-resistant Bt al elections in 2004, sen- PM, DPM Advani, agricul- are keen to deny the opposi- cotton in south and central India is as ior BJP leaders, led by ture minister Ajit Singh and tion any mileage. ‘‘satisfactory’’ as it had earlier main- the Prime Minister, will food minister Sharad Yadav. The private mill owners’ tained. meet the RSS top brass The dispute centred excuse: the statutory mini- Anti-GM activists may end up hav- for a three-day interac- around the refusal of the mum price (SMP) fixed by ing the last laugh. For, in an admission tion from May 1. state’s 52 private sugar mills the Centre is Rs 69. Mayawati that their monitoring mechanisms Sources said on Sun- to pay the farmers the state demanded the power to de- leave much to be desired, officials now day that the PM will at- advisory price (SAP) of Rs 95 cide the SMP stay with the say the three Bt cotton hybrids from tend the first session on for every quintal of sugar- state government. Mahyco Monsanto — cleared for condi- May 1 and the conclud- cane. The other 49 mills have Though Sharad Yadav tional commercialisation last year — ing session on May 3. accepted the price structure. seemed unwilling, the impli- have not performed as well as the best The meeting comes in The reason both Vajpayee cations of the issue were not of non-transgenic varieties. the wake of a decision and Mayawati agreed to talk lost on those who met. So, the The GEAC also refused Proagro taken at the BJP’s na- sugar at 10.30 am was the po- PM agreed to set up a com- Seed’s application for commercialisa- French defence minister Michele Alliot-Marie poses in front of the Taj Mahal in Agra on Sunday. tional executive meet- litical factor behind the dis- mittee to resolve the issue. tion of transgenic, higher-yielding ing in Indore earlier this mustard. month where the need Five months after this first came up to have frequent interac- before GEAC, the committee decided France to hardsell defence deals tions between the BJP the trials conducted by the Indian and RSS front organisa- Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi: French defence minis- minister Yashwant Sinha, Deputy verge of finalising a technology tions was stressed. (ICAR) on this were not ‘‘conclusive’’. ter Michele Allint Marie will hold a Prime Minister L K Advani and may transfer deal for the acquisition and Apart from dis- Nor was the committee satisfied that high-level military and security dia- also call on Prime Minister Atal Bi- manufacture of advanced fighters to cussing the forthcoming health risks had been addressed. logue with her Indian counterpart hari Vajpayee. fill the breach between phasing out assembly polls in Mad- ICAR has been asked to conduct fur- George Fernandes here on Monday. Besides the international and the of the ageing Mig series and the de- hya Pradesh, Rajasthan, ther trials to decide yield benefits and Her team will hold delegation-lev- subcontinent security scenario and layed induction of the indigenous Chhatisgarh and Delhi, risks that alien genes in Proagro’s mus- el talks with Indian officials led by the developments in Afghanistan, light combat aircraft. a host of issues are like- tard may cross over to local varieties. defence secretary Subir Dutta and the two sides are expected to focus Alongwith the French Dassault, ly to crop up. ICAR, said an official, would decide secretary, defence productions, N S on expanding military-level cooper- the other competitors are US’ Lock- For instance, ahead of how many trials are needed. Sisodia, according to official sources ation between the two countries. heed Martin with their offer of F-16 the WTO ministerial Since mustard is a food crop, ‘‘fur- here. The French are likely to make a fighting Falcons and the Russians meeting at Cancun in ther studies’’ are needed to establish The French defence minister is pitch for 140 advanced Mirage 2000- with their upgraded Mig-29 and SU- Mexico in September, health safety. also likely to meet external affairs V5s to India. New Delhi is on the 30MKI. PTI the Swadeshi Jagran Manch has been de- manding that the gov- ernment ensure that In- VAT a race against time Paswan working dian interests are not compromised. By Priya Ranjan Dash The ruling BJP, fearing June 1. The empowered com- On the Ayodhya issue, TIMES NEWS NETWORK loss of its traditional support mittee met again on April 23 towards third front the RSS is putting pres- base among traders, is op- and removed a number of sure on the government TIMES NEWS NETWORK role of the chief minister in New Delhi: It is a race posed to VAT’s introduction. glitches with regard to uni- to pass legislation to against time for 15 major aggravating the crises that Its spokesperson V K Malho- formity of VAT laws. New Delhi: The political hand over the disputed moved me. In fact, it was not states to introduce VAT in tra predicted on Sunday that It also sought to blunt the scene in Bihar is a crowded and ‘undisputed’ areas just resignation from the gov- lieu of sales tax from June 1, ‘‘differences among states’’ opposition to VAT by provid- house with the Lok Janshak- to the Ram Janmabhoo- ernment but subsequently I admit finance ministry offi- could delay VAT by six-eight ing relief to small traders. ti’s Ram Vilas Paswan mak- mi Nyas. cials here. But they do not months. He said the finance Therefore, traders with an ing moves to forge a third had spent more than 80 days think the task is impossible. minister will make a state- annual turnover of less than front with parties like the in Gujarat campaigning The Centre is not directly ment about it in Parliament. Rs 40 lakh will be free from CPI and NCP. against the internecine responsible for implement- Officials, however, say the VAT procedures. The two other political clashes engineered by the ing VAT, but officials say it empowered committee of The committee is meeting forces are Laloo Yadav’s RJD state government. remains committed to sup- state finance ministers, a again on Tuesday to sort out and the Nitish Kumar-led ‘‘My protest was not only porting the states to carry body formally vested with the remaining issues of uni- NDA. Paswan is determined against the Gujarat govern- out this ‘‘path-breaking tax the responsibility of moni- formity of VAT legislations not to rejoin the NDA. ment, but I had spoken out reform’’. No different mean- toring the implementation of of different states. Paswan said, ‘‘When I de- against the manner in which ing should be read into fi- the tax, reported on April 8 The officials point out that cided to sever my relation- the Centre tried to shield nance minister Jaswant that 15 major states, in addi- the 15 states going for VAT, ship with the NDA, it was not Modi. I feel nothing has Singh’s statement in the Lok tion to Haryana, which had plus Haryana, account for personal. It was the tragedy changed to warrant rethink- Sabha that states are to in- already switched over to VAT over 75 per cent of the total in Gujarat, particularly the ing on my part.’’ corporate VAT law changes from April 1, were ready to trade and manufacturing vol- to make them uniform. introduce the measure from ume in the country. Two killed in boat mishap Srinagar: Two children were killed and 22 rescued af- ter a boat carrying 28 school- children capsized in a stream in Kupwara district in J&K on Saturday, according to of- ficial sources. The aid of the Army and police divers has been sought to search for the four missing children. The children were returning to Jagerpora after attending school when the mishap oc- curred. PTI

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Monday,April 28, 2003 9 Will Hitler be the hero SARS is here to stay, but no need to panic By Kalpana Jain ‘‘People should not panic, cerned, there are still gaps Experts caution that the travelled all over the world for tomorrow’s children? TIMES NEWS NETWORK but report to a hospital if in knowledge about it and, diagnostic tests are not since 1918 are the Asian flu they have any symptoms,’’ hence the scare. But, till ‘‘foolproof ’’.‘‘The disease is of 1957 and the Hong Kong By Pranava K Chaudhary were important but repre- NCERT books II New Delhi: Now that the he says. now, only 3 per cent of the as contagious as an open tu- flu of 1968. Both these virus- TIMES NEWS NETWORK sented only one aspect of the common cold virus has sur- Pneumonia kills several infected have developed the berculosis case,’’ says K K es, too, are known to have reform movements. Patna: Dwelling on Swami • Communists, Kisan faced in a virulent form as thousand people a year. In acute form of the disease. Aggarwal of the Indian mutated in pigs. ‘‘The worst feature of the Vivekanand’s speech at the Movements, the National SARS, it will not leave the 2000, 1.3 million people in ‘‘There is nothing like an Medical Association. Comment: Despite the Cen- Parliament of Religions at Movement during the textbook is the clear effort to environment. Just like in- the US were admitted to infected or an affected coun- SARS is nowhere close to tral health ministry’s assur- Chicago, the new NCERT 1920s and 1930s introduce a communal bias fluenza, which first struck hospitals with pneumonia, try anymore. It’s just that the first known pandemic ances that the medical sys- in the teaching of history in in 1918, people need to learn book ‘‘Contemporary India’’ Gandhi’s seminal of whom about 64,000 died. some have reported and caused by a mutant virus tems are in full alert to meet • various ways. The primary to deal with it. (class IX) says: ‘‘(Swamiji) es- ideas, contributions of Globally, an estimated some have not,’’ says Datta. that the world suffered — the SARS emergency,the ex- effort is to teach that commu- tablished the superiority of Nehru and Subhas ‘‘SARS will spread. We four million children die Not all, who come in close the ‘Spanish flu’ of 1918 ample, first of Bhopal and Indian thought and culture Chandra Bose nalism was born and existed cannot avoid it. As time every year due to respirato- contact with SARS patients, which killed over 20 million now of Kolkata, show that over the Western mind.’’ in India only in the form of passes, the mortality will ry tract infections, with a will not develop clinical people. This deadly influen- this is far from the case. An ‘‘Do we want our students • Role of communal Muslim communalism,’’ he come down,’’ says emeritus majority being reported symptoms of the disease. za originated from pigs and action plan should be de- to be brought up on this type forces in Gandhiji’s says.According to him, the medical scientist and for- from India. Tuberculosis Eventually,there will be few was spread by soldiers dur- tailed by the Centre and cir- of chauvinist and utterly assassination Hindu Mahasabha or the RSS mer director of the National alone claims over 1,000 lives benefits in putting suspect- ing World War I. culated to all state capitals baseless statement?’’ asks • Nazi anti-Semitism, find no mention; nor their ef- Institute of Communicable every day in India. ed people through home Two other mutant forms for dissemination further historian Bipan Chandra. the killing of over seven forts to arouse communal Diseases, Dr K K Datta. But as far as SARS is con- quarantine, says Datta. of the flu virus that have down the line. He clarified that although million Jews during feelings among Hindus. AFP Swamiji did make an impact World War II The partition is declared to at Chicago, this played an im- be the result of Muslim com- portant role in creating self- Patients flee from anti-Semitism or the killing munalism but the responsi- respect among Indians and bility of Hindu communal- not on the intellectual devel- of over seven million Jews, nor is the Nazi view that all ism as well, as was brought opments in the rest of the out by Gandhiji and others Kolkata hospital world.The book, according to Africans and Asians, includ- ing Indians, were an inferior and by later scholars, is not Chandra, is a combination of Times News Network employees and union mem- race brought out. The Italian mentioned. ignorance and prejudice. ‘‘It Kolkata: Patients from the bers have threatened to go Fascists’ view is similarly ac- ‘‘Jinnah’s critique of is not based on research of AMRI-Apollo hospitals fled on a ceasework unless cepted, he said. Gandhiji as anti-Muslim is the last 50 years,’’ he says. ‘‘It after news spread that one of Asitabha Purakayasta, the brought out but not is essentially based on older, Chandra says that the the patients was tested pos- patient who tested positive pre-1950 textbooks or even treatment of the 19th century Savarkar’s and Golwalkar’s tive for the SARS even as an- for SARS on Saturday made-easies.’’ Indian renaissance is ‘‘utter- critique of Gandhiji as anti- other person, suspected to evening, was removed to the On Nazism the book says: ly onesided’’; the role of Hindu in the same language infected with the virus, was Beliaghata ID hospital. ‘‘The ideology of the Nazi Lokhitvadi and other Maha- and manner. hospitalised after arriving At noon, not a single doc- party was a sort of fusion of rashtrian reformers, the re- Comment: Polluted air, pol- in Kolkata. tor had turned up for work. German nationalism and so- formers in south India, and luted food, polluted water. Patients’ relatives lined Hospital authorities have cialism.’’ This, according to Young Bengal is missing. Now we have polluted educa- up outside the AMRI-Apollo come in for sharp criticism Chandra, is to accept the self- Instead, there is onesided tion — which is perhaps the hospital on Sunday wearing for not divulging the infor- perception of the Nazis. emphasis on Bankimchan- worst of all. masks. mation earlier. Chandra points out that dra Chatterji and Swami Sacred Space ‘Learning Experi- Around 20 patients signed When contacted, CEO of the book does not refer to Dayanand, both of whom ence’ on Edit Page personal risk bonds to en- AMRI-Apollo Jose Vergese sure that they were shifted said: ‘‘We are following the A family living near the Advanced Medical Research Institute hospital wear masks while to other hospitals. Agitated government’s instructions.’’ standing on their balcony in Kolkata on Sunday. No consensus in Govt Demand for surgical masks may outstrip supply By Byas Anand — is picking up. both in the disposable (single use) over judicial commission TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘These specialised masks are al- and re-usable form — have a bacte- ready in short supply and, in the ria filtering efficiency of 99.5 per High demand By Rakesh Bhatnagar solute power vested in the ju- However, former Supreme New Delhi: Specialised N95 respi- days to come, may not even be avail- cent. These are three-layered face TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kolkata: Chemist shops made diciary to manage its affairs Court chief justices such as ratory masks are disappearing from able,’’ says Sandeep Jain of AR En- masks with a clip on the nose, and would be replaced with a A S Anand, S P Bharucha the city as manufacturers are trying a killing on Sunday as people New Delhi: The BJP-led Na- terprises, a surgical equipment are made according to N95 specifi- mechanism where the execu- and J S Verma and former to meet the burgeoning demand queued up to buy surgical tional Democratic Alliance manufacturer. cations issued by the US health au- tive, through the law minis- judge and member of NHRC from overseas markets and health masks all over Kolkata. Dispos- government has as yet failed While there are over 100 surgical thorities. able paper masks, normally ter, had a say. K T Thomas have opposed authorities across the country. to evolve a consensus across mask makers in Delhi and the Rajesh Singh, another Delhi- priced at Rs 3 per piece, sold at A parliamentary commit- the setting up of the NJC. While there’s no acute shortage of the political spectrum over neighbouring region, only 40-odd based surgical mask manufacturer, Rs 10 in many parts of the city. tee, headed by Pranab Who would know better the specialised masks at the mo- the setting up a National Ju- firms are equipped to produce the even stated that the supply shortage But experts pointed out that Mukherjee, attributed the de- about the merit of a lawyer ment, manufacturers warn that do- dicial Commission (NJC) to N95 standard respiratory masks. has led to certain authorities dis- ordinary masks being sold in- lay in the justice delivery sys- than a judge himself was mestic demand — from those travel- Priced at around Rs 3 a piece, tributing the normal surgical mask appoint, transfer and disci- stead of surgical masks. TNN tem result- their contention. ling overseas or visiting the airport these specialised masks — available among their staff. pline judges. Both the gov- ing in a After studying the Consti- ernment and the Constitu- LEGAL backlog of tution Review Commission’s tion Review Commission over two recommendation, noted Con- want to do away with the ex- VIEW crore cases stitutional lawyer Ravi Kiran isting collegium system, to the ‘‘pol- Jain said though the CRC where the executive has been itics of the judiciary’’ . recognised that the inde- sidelined. ‘‘The situation is alarm- pendence of judiciary and ju- With a consensus eluding ing,’’ it said and added ‘‘the dicial review was the basic the issue, the next Lok Sabha failure to fill up the judicial features of the Constitution, is likely to be involved in the vacancies promptly cannot it felt the NJC’s composition process. The current Lok be shielded or defended in should be such that the exec- Sabha is left with three ses- the name of judicial inde- utive gets a say in the selec- sions if general elections are pendence.’’ tion of judges. held before the budget ses- It said:‘‘Members of the If at all there has to be a sion next year. collegium are prone to field NJC, what should be its com- Prime Minister AB Vajpay- candidates of their position is the moot question. ee, law minister Arun Jaitley choice...The give and take in Those who believe in the in- and attorney general Soli J the collegiate consultation dependence of judiciary,vote Sorabjee are unanimous on has the potential of under- for transparency in the selec- setting up the NJC as the ab- mining merit.’’ tion of judges.

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10 Monday,April 28, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi

Thai efforts AROUND THE WORLD Reuters Rowling richer than the Queen Minnie wants a date: raise hopes in Minnie Driver wants to get London: Boy wizard Harry her first marriage broke cluding vast swathes of cen- back to the dating circuit. Potter has conjured up down, the single mother tral London real estate, adds battle against The Irish actress, who previ- enough cash to catapult au- wrote most of her first book, up to a total fortune of 4.9 bil- ously dated Oscar-winner thor J K Rowling past the Harry Potter and The lion pounds. Matt Damon, veteran US ac- tor Harrison Ford and Josh Queen on Britain’s annual Philosopher’s Stone, in a cafe Hans Rausing, creator of malaria Brolin, is currently single. “I “rich list”, published in the as her baby slept. the Tetra-Pak long-life milk really feel like this pariah. It’s Mae Sot (Thailand): Hopes Sunday Times newspaper. Of her fortune, 150 million carton, remains number two, unbelievable. I just can’t get With 280 million pounds, came from her books and the with 4.8 billion pounds. For- are rising on the global front- a date,” she was quoted as line battle against malaria, the author, who wrote her rest from film rights and Har- mula 1 motor racing czar saying by The Sun. ANI first novel about a boy wizard ry Potter merchandise. The Bernie Ecclestone is in third with a recent experiment in Allen on stage: Woody while a single parent living fifth book in the series is due place, moving up from fifth western Thailand halving Allen will make his theatrical on a state benefit of only 70 out this summer and the even though his total wealth the disease’s mortality rate, and a major breakthrough by directorial pounds a week, is now UK’s third film is on its way. actually fell. debut in New 122nd richest person. The Queen, with 250 mil- The global market slide British researchers an- nounced last week. York in May, The annual survey of the lion pounds is ranked a mere has hurt the super-rich: the with a two- The disease, which is both 1,000 richest people in Rowling 133rd on the list of her total wealth of the 1,000 rich- act play preventable and curable, Britain showed Rowling, 37, Rowling’s current finan- wealthy subjects. est Britons is down by about called kills more than one million the wealthiest woman in the cial circumstances are a far For the third year running, two percent on last year. But Writer’s people a year. showbusiness section, has cry from those she faced after Britain’s richest person is there are still 21 billionaires Block that From July 2001 to Septem- more than quadrupled her the birth of her first child, the Duke of Westminster, in the country,the same num- the comic ber 2002, the provincial film director and actor wrote. fortune in the past two years. Jessica, 10 years ago. After whose property empire, in- ber as last year. Agencies health office in Thailand’s Though he is best known for western Tak province, which his work in cinema, Allen has Dogs to sniff out Reuters borders Myanmar, ran an ex- never stopped writing plays. perimental initiative aimed He penned his first, Don’t signs of cancer at controlling the malaria en- Drink the Water, in 1966. demic to the area. Some of his plays, such as London: Man’s best friend is It resulted in a 30 percent Play It Again, Sam, were to be trained to sniff out the drop in the number of cases adapted for the big screen. It is the first time he will direct leading cause of cancer in caused by the Plasmodium actors on stage. The pre- men. falciparum parasite, which is miere is set for May 15. AFP Researchers from Cam- the most dangerous of the bridge University and the four forms of malaria and is Where Tom and Jerry city’s renowned Adenbro- frequently highly resistant to were born: Animator Joe okes hospital are to apply for drugs. The number of cases Barbera, co-creator of car- funding for a trial to use dogs in the area fell to 43,000 over toon legends Tom and Jerry, to spot signs of the cancer. the period, compared to The Jetsons and Yogi Bear, hopes to save the studios The 12-month trial will in- 62,000 from the same period a volve alsatians and labradors and offices where the figures year earlier, while the num- were first sketched. Barbera, being coached to detect signs ber of deaths dropped by 42 92, wrote a letter to the City of cancer in patients’s urine percent, with 36 fatalities Council this week opposing a samples, with the dogs’s suc- compared to 62 previously. proposal to demolish two of cess rate recorded at the end “This initiative to control three buildings that once Singer Christina Aguilera at the 14th GLAAD Media Awards of the training. malaria is a world first under housed Hanna-Barbera Stu- ceremony in Los Angeles on Saturday. “We will train the dogs to these study conditions,” said dios in Hollywood to make distinguish the odour of Francois Nosten, director of room for a development of Mariah goes globe-trotting: Mariah urine from men with malig- the Thai research centre stores and apartments. ‘‘I sincerely hope that Carey will kick off her first world tour in more nant prostate,” Dr Barbara Held by sumo wrestlers, two babies break into tears during the ‘Baby-cry Sumo’ Shoklo Malaria Research we can protect the legacy and keep the roots than three years in Osaka, ceremony at Sensoji temple in Tokyo on Sunday. Seventy babies, below one year Sommerville, who is leading Unit (SMRU) and overseer of of Hollywood animation history firmly se- Japan, on June 24. The of age, took part in the annual contest. Japanese parents believe that sumos can help the research, told the Sunday the experiment’s results. The cured for the ages,’’ he wrote in the letter Charmbracelet World Tour, in make babies cry out a wish to grow up with good health. presented at a neighbourhood meeting, the Times newspaper. Reuters experiment was based on the support of her comeback al- Los Angeles Times reported. AP use of a cocktail of drugs to bum Charmbracelet, will also which the falciparum para- take the two-time Grammy- DUBYAMAIL site is not resistant. Patients Actress held on theft charge: The ac- winning US singer to North tress who plays the wise-cracking maid on America, where she will wrap This strip is really classic. The thing I were given a cocktail of two the television comedy Will & Grace has been up things in Manchester, like about it is the way it links humour drugs in a formula which re- arrested on suspicion of felony shoplifting New Hampshire, on September 23. Carey with the current affairs. Too good! duces the resistance of the from a Los Angeles department store, police will then go on to tour Europe. ANI — Aman Dhall, Moradabad parasite to the drugs. said on Saturday. Shelley Morrison, 66, was Meanwhile, a team of booked under the name Rachel Dominguez Carrey teams up with Kidman: Jim Thank you, Times of India, for this fun- British researchers an- Carrey and Nicole Kidman, are set to play ny strip. It is really excellent. Please earlier this week and released after posting nounced last week that they $20,000 bail, said Los Angeles police Officer husband and wife in the big screen version continue it and don’t mind what some of classic 1960s TV show Bewitched. While humourless people are saying. had identified the element in Don Cox. An arraignment is scheduled for the make-up of the malaria May 14. “She was arrested by loss preven- Kidman will take on Elizabeth Montgomery’s — Shahid parasite which enables it to tion agents,” Cox said. “We are merely facili- role as nose-twitching witch Samantha, tating the booking process.” Reuters Carrey will play her mortal husband. ANI e-mail: [email protected] become quickly resistant to new treatments. AFP

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The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Monday,April 28, 2003 11 DIASPORIUM US focuses on solving SARS: Fullstop to normal life Wine and dine Baghdad’s problems What did the grape say when the No movies or weddings in China, May Day festivities cut short Great Indian Elephant sat down on Baghdad: Iraq’s new US administrators abi, leader of the Iraqi National Con- AP it? Nothing, it just let out a little By Harvey Stockwin met Baghdad officials on Sunday to or- gress, had been invited to the meeting, & Agencies wine. A rather feeble sample per- ganise the restoration of vital services as had the Supreme Council for the Is- haps of a joke doing the rounds of to the battered city,essential if they are lamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the Beijing/Hongkong: With some of London’s most fashion- to win Iraqi hearts and minds and curb country’s main Shi’ite Muslim group. 24 more deaths being re- able Asian restaurants. Juice of mounting resentment. It was unclear whether they would at- ported from east Asia, the the grape in general and wine lists As disputes dragged on over who runs tend. Chinese government tight- in particular are very much the the capital and the rest of the country America is wrestling with the thorny ened up its quarantine ef- theme of the aspirational, celebri- after the overthrow of AFP task of restoring war- forts on Sunday. ty-clogged curryhouse at the mo- Saddam Hussein, US damaged services across Nine deaths were report- ment with Indian chefs trying Defense Secretary Don- Iraq and improving its ed in China, eight of them hard to match sophisticated spic- ald Rumsfeld arrived in relationship with a pop- from Beijing. Twelve deaths ing with tannin-free reds and aro- the Gulf to thank allies ulation suspicious, often were reported from Hong matic, dry whites. And the trend for their help in the Iraq resentful, over the con- Kong. Taiwan reported its looks set to cross the seas. One war. tinuing US role in the first SARS death and Singa- thrusting, entrepreneurial The US military an- country. pore’s toll climbed by two. Britain-based Indian beer compa- nounced on Sunday that Bodine herself met In Beijing, the authori- ny has launched a selection of pre- they had arrested senior two Saddam-era Bagh- ties shut down all business- mium French wines, produced in armaments official Gen- dad deputy mayors on es involving ‘‘mass public South Africa, in three Indian eral Hussam Moham- Sunday to try to get re- gatherings’’. cities. mad Amin al-Yasin, who pair work going, but she Cinemas, theatres, Inter- ranked 49 on a list of 55 snubbed returned exile net cafes and Karoke bars Eyebrow grooming most wanted Iraqis. Mohammed Mohsen were closed. All public li- Stepping up his efforts European womanhood may finally Zubaidi, who says he braries were shut until May to win over Iraqis in- runs the city. 8 and marriage registra- be discovering the Holy Grail of Watches carrying pictures of A security guard keeps vigil outside a closed cinema in Beijing on Sunday after the city creasingly suspicious of An aide said they dis- tions were stopped to pre- Oriental uber-grooming — the In- US intentions, the Saddam are selling briskly in authorities closed all cinemas, theatres, Internet cafes. dian technique of eyebrow-shap- Baghdad. A lot of foreigners, cussed restoring water, vent wedding parties. retired American gener- sewerage and waste col- Officials also have cut contain the virus and northern outskirts. in the north to Gansu in the ing. Eyebrower-groomer to the al charged with rebuild- including the Americans, are dying to take one home with lection services, severely short the upcoming week- threatening to severely pun- The most worrying part, south report single-digit rich and fabulous, Vaishaly Patel, ing the country pledged ish negligent officials. SARS outbreaks. with her impressive, three-month them, says one shop owner. damaged by US bomb- long May Day vacation in however, is that the statis- in a radio address on ing. an attempt to keep millions With Beijing’s cases tics released in the last ten This could mean that the waiting list and hefty fees, has ap- Sunday to help forge an honest govern- parently been installed as thread- In his broadcast, Garner tried to reas- of Chinese from traveling. showing no sign of ebbing, days indicate that the dis- disease is spreading slowly ment. hundreds of construction ease has now spread to 23 throughout mainland Chi- er extraordinaire. “Threading,” sure Iraqis that they would determine The stern measures were ‘‘I am here to help you rebuild your workers worked round-the- out of China’s 31 provinces na. It could also mean that raves one passionate beauty their own political destiny and that he introduced as the new Min- country and to turn your government clock on a new 1,000-bed iso- and municipalities. some officials in the columnist, “is a weird and won- was not planning on staying long. ister for Health, ‘‘Iron into one which serves you,’’ said Jay lation camp for SARS vic- provinces are still finding it derful Indian hair-removal tech- ‘‘I will be here for just a short time. Lady’’ Wu Yi spent her first Seventeen provinces, Garner. tims in the rural district of politically prudent to con- nique in which a slip knot of Just to help get things going. This is day as health minister vow- from Xinjiang in west to Fu- A senior aide said Garner would meet Xiaotangshan on Beijing’s duct a cover-up. strengthened cotton is run along your country and it’s your future,’’ the ing a nationwide effort to jian on the east, from Jilin 300-400 prominent Iraqis in Baghdad on an area, deftly whisking away retired general said. Monday to identify potential national hairs at the root”. The result, she An American television network re- leaders and discuss forming a new gov- ported that initial tests on a barrel of Bush offers says, is “elegant, naturally poised ernment. Food vendors in south China sweeps”. chemicals found by US forces in north- From Rashmee Z Ahmed, London Barbara Bodine, Garner’s coordina- ern Iraq had detected nerve and blister- to help China tor for central Iraq, said Ahmad Chal- ing agents.Reuters Beijing: US President AFP blamed for spread of virus George W Bush has of- Shunde: An hour south of province notorious for exot- miliar. fered to help China beat its Nepal Govt begins Guangzhou, the Dongyuan ic cuisine prepared with “Oh yes, I heard that a guy SARS epidemic, praising animal market presents end- freshly killed beasts. here died of that pneumo- Beijing’s efforts to fight less opportunities for an Indeed, preliminary stud- nia,” said Li Songyu, a 40- the disease as “extraodi- emerging germ. In hundreds ies of early SARS victims year-old wearing a neat tan nary”, state media report- talks with Maoists of cramped stalls that stink here in Guangdong have blouse, as she filleted live ed on Saturday. of blood and guts, wholesale found that an unusually frogs and dumped them into Bush offered “any possi- By Suman Pradhan monitoring committee — “to food vendors tend to verita- high percentage were in the a basket. “But it is very safe ble support and assis- TIMES NEWS NETWORK oversee and facilitate the ble zoos that will grace catering profession — a tan- and sanitary now.” tance” in a telephone call talks.” The facilitating com- Kathmandu: Three months Guangdong Province’s ta- talizing clue, perhaps, to In early January, alarmed to his Chinese counterpart mittee would also fix the after they agreed to a cease- bles: snakes, chickens, cats, how a germ that genetically health departments in Hu Jintao, Xinhua news dates and venues for the next fire, Nepal’s royal-appointed turtles, badgers, frogs. And most resembles chicken and Shunde, Heyuan and Zhong- agency said. round of talks. government and the Maoist sometimes rats, too. rodent viruses has gained shan all reported the Hu said China was will- Later, the Maoists held a rebels sat down for formal They are all stacked in the ability to infect thou- strange pneumonia clusters ing to strengthen coopera- separate news conference in talks Sunday in a bid to ush- cages one on top of another sands of humans. to Guangdong provincial au- tion with the internation- which they laid out their ma- er in peace in this Kingdom. — which in turn serve as One of the earliest cases, thorities. al community in the fight jor demands again. “We put But as the talks got under- seats, card tables and dining last December, was a seller It is unclear whether that against SARS but added forth all our political agen- way,a students’ revolt and ap- quarters for the poor mi- of snakes and birds here conclusion was passed on to that he was confident Chi- das on the table,” Bhattarai prehensions of political par- grants who work there. who died at Shunde’s First the Ministry of Health in na would eventually con- said, adding they demanded ties about the current peace If you were a corona People’s Hospital of severe Beijing, or ever reported to tain the outbreak. a round-table conference be- process continue to under- virus, like the one that caus- pneumonia. His wife and a international health Meanwhile Prime Min- tween all political forces be score the difficulty of finding es SARS, it would be easy to several members of the hos- agencies that might have ister Wen Jiabao said Chi- a lasting peace. held soon. That should be fol- move from animals to hu- pital staff contracted it as conducted an early na would emerge The government side was lowed by an interim govern- mans in the kitchens and well, setting off an outbreak investigation into the “stronger than ever” when ment and elections to a con- headed by Deputy Prime food stalls of Guangdong, a that now sounds eerily fa- problem. NYT News Service it finally beats SARS.AFP Minister Badri Prasad Man- stituent assembly. dal and the Maoists were led The talks came even as by Dr Baburam Bhattarai. students have virtually crip- Emerging after the talks pled life in Kathmandu and that lasted over three hours, other urban areas. They have both sides held a press con- called for two days of bandh, ference in which they said beginning tomorrow. the dialogue was held in a On another front, major “cordial atmosphere.” political parties — the Nepali Minister for Information Congress and the Commu- and Communication Ramesh nist Party of Nepal (Unified Nath Pandey, who is one of Marxist-Leninst) — continue the team members from the to distance themselves from government side, announced the talks, seeing it as a ploy An Indonesian policeman takes fingerprints from a damaged that both sides had agreed to by both the government and window at Jakarta’s international airport where a bomb blast form two committees — a fa- the Maoists to marginalise injured 11 people on Sunday. cilitating committee and a their role.

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12 Monday,April 28, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Lost Worlds Incorporating Quotas A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Salman Khurshid is a man of many it, particularly in UP? Destruction of Iraq’s Heritage parts. For Congress workers who came to We have something to offer them. You need No office in the land is more important Delhi for the block presidents’ conclave a product and a salesman. We have a good than that of being a citizen. By Mahendra Ved this time by the invading Taliban, where did recently, he came across as a fire-brand managing director and board of directors, the rare Gandhara artefacts end up? In — Felix Frankfurter The newspaper headline was heart-rending populist, espousing the cause of reservations but need good salesmen to walk the streets. the houses of their mentors. To be precise, — ‘7,000 years’ history, gone in 48 hours’. It in the private sector.But speaking to How to create a market niche, distribution Pakistan’s ambassador in Kabul. It is not was about the large-scale looting of artefacts Rajesh Ramachandran on the “commercial chain and how to advertise our product? We surprising that the Indian History Congress from the National Museum in Baghdad and viability” of the project, he donned the hat have brand equity, but how do we convert has alleged that “the attack on the National Small is Politic the sacking of the National Library. of a suave marketing guru: that into market presence? Politics is no The blame game had begun well before the Museum (in Baghdad) could not have The Union cabinet hasn’t acted a day too soon in deciding different from marketing because it is war reached a denouement. We had it on taken place without the connivance of the to bring a constitutional amendment to limit the size of You spoke at the block presidents’ conclave about helping a person make a choice, to the authority of British prime minister occupying forces” of the US and Britain. the council of ministers, both at the Centre and the states, of job reservations in the private sector. make his life better. Tony Blair, citing intelligence reports, that Russian minister for culture Mikhail to 10 per cent of legislative strength. Over the years, I didn’t seek reservations in the private So what’s your product based on? Saddam Hussein planned to destroy Islamic Shwidkoi had last month proposed a plan to India’s transition to coalition politics has thrown up a host sector. What I advocated was diversity in It’s based on giving the consumer choice. sites and blame it on the coalition. For avoid the destruction of heritage sights and of compromises and aberrations, but few as retrogressive the workplace. This has been approvingly Politics today is depriving the consumer of good measure, he quoted before the House historical monuments. Saddam Hussein’s as the spectacle of jumbo cabinets. Across the country, mentioned in the Bhopal declaration. It’s his choice, because he’s only being asked of Commons the UN Human Rights reports regime responded positively, but there was political managers have come to discover that one basically a tax relief formula for private whether he wants to remain poor along with of 1991 and 1992, soon after Gulf War I silence from the coalition partners. easy way of keeping opportunistic coalitions together, industries based on their employment list. his caste or with somebody else’s caste. documenting how Iraqi troops had dese- This silence was telling as nearly three is to “reward” almost any one of consequence with a You could give weightage points to the Things are being done in the name of Dalit crated Imam Ali’s shrine and destroyed years ago, these very countries articulated ministerial berth — complete with all the official spoils promoter based on the extent of the back- awakening and OBC resurgence, but there religious libraries at Najaf and how these the world community’s anger at the destruc- that go with it. Take for instance Behenji Mayawati’s wardness of each community employed. For are no real choices in either. The BJP,on the soldiers had stolen gold and jewellery. tion of the ancient Buddha statues in government in UP, where more than 80 legislators have instance, you could get one rebate point for other hand, provides no choice between the Each American armed forces’ unit Afghanistan’s Bamiyan province. been inducted into the ministerial ranks alone (not taking an OBC, two points for a woman OBC liberal, the spiritual, the heroic and the engaged in the war was supposed to have a We witnessed a war that posed serious counting those who’ve been ‘adjusted’ as heads of state-run and three for an OBC widow. This is an poetic strains of Hinduism. Our product civil affairs officer ready with plans and danger to 10,000 historic sites and monu- corporations). As Behenji’s political difficulties have entirely voluntary, incentive-based formula, is all about respecting the human mind and information to guide the combatants on ments all over Iraq, including the ruins mounted, so has the size of her cabinet. Known dissidents. just as tax holidays are given to industries in giving choices — whether it is through cultural sites in the war zone. But hear what of Babylon and Nineveh. The Shia sites at Suspect supporters. Influential opposition members. No backward areas. Women, minorities and capitalism or socialism. Lt Col John Kuttas had to tell the media Najaf and Karbala are actually among one has been spared the temptation of office. physically handicapped people should all be Are you the best salesman available for on April 5 in Kuwait City. Briefing on the the latter-day additions to a succession of Recently, at the swearing in of three more ministers — included in this employment list. your product in UP? protection of the cultural and religious civilisations that thrived along the Tigris two of whom had switched their allegiance days earlier — Do you expect this proposal of yours to be The board of directors should decide sites in Iraq, he said: “We are and the Euphrates. Some the chief minister duly declared that another expansion adopted and imple- who could market probably more concerned of the sites belong to the mented by the party? the product best was on the cards. Truth is, Behenji is not alone in any of about the actions the Iraqis palaeolithic age and date back I’d tried to raise and post people this, although her government is possibly the largest in may take — that Saddam to 100,000 years. We need a this issue in the Q&A accordingly. terms of minister to legislator ratio. From Maharashtra to Hussein and his thugs might white paper on what has Panchmarhi con- You still need the the North-East, coalition governments everywhere have do — and how he takes advan- happened to them, not only be- I didn’t seek reservations clave but did not get Nehru dynasty to witnessed the same gigantism. At the Centre, the NDA — a tage of our respect” (for the cause of the looting but also in the private sector. an opportunity and sell your product for coalition of more than a score of political parties — boasts cultural sites)... We are trying because of the airstrikes. What I advocated could make it public you. Why this cla- one of the largest-ever ministerial teams. The objection to to bring down this regime The disaster was foreseen. was diversity in the only in March. Nor- mour for Priyanka huge, unwieldy cabinets is not based on some abstract and if this regime chooses to Last September, Iraqi offi- workplace... It’s basically mally, there is a gap Gandhi in UP? political principle alone. It also stems from the belief that position itself in front of cials stated that they had a tax relief formula between principles Why is it that the in a democracy, the onus falls on the political class to lead monuments and artefacts, begun packing away treasures for private industries and pragmatic poli- Kapoors, the Khans by example, and set standards of behaviour. By having it’s a real problem.” from Assyria, Sumeria based on their two ministers where one — or even none — would do, our tics. But I hope employment list. and the Roshans There has never been an and Babylon to underground Udayshankar there is no gap here succeed in Bolly- political leaders are driving home the message that independent assessment of vaults in Mosul in prepara- because this propo- wood? They are not while everyone else in the country must adjust to the the damage to Iraq’s cultural and archaeo- tion for the war not the least to keep it from sal involves creation of more jobs and also it being forced on the viewers by anyone. They demands of a new market-driven economy, they are logical treasures following the 1991 Gulf War. being looted, The Independent reported. does not rule out meritocracy. A company themselves exempt from such compulsions. The pains of But western websites record looting by know their trade better because they learnt Col Kuttas assured us that the US force’s continues to get the benefit of diversity even downsizing and greater efficiency are for lesser mortals Saddam Hussein’s soldiers. There is also it from those who know better. action would be “measured and proportional if it replaces one employee from the list with alone. By deciding to bring in legislation, Atalji has taken the international concern at the complete The clamour you are talking about is even if an Iraqi military aircraft is found another. You can pick and choose and don’t the first step towards a much-needed political reform. disrepair that Iraq’s cultural heritage only the feedback of the marketplace where parked close to a historical site or a sniper have to go on with the same person. So far the It’s now for him to show that he’s serious about its fell into because scientists, archaeologists the product is in demand. In democracy you fires from priceless minaret.” But no matter response has been very positive, but new implementation by cutting the flab in his own team. and conservationists were prevented from either give people what they want or make his resolve and no matter how precise the initiatives take time to get accepted. carrying out their duties effectively by bombing of the coalition forces, the threat people want you. People already want UN-imposed sanctions. to them was serious. The Madhya Pradesh government’s diversity something and we are merely conveying proposal is restricted to government procure- VIEW The threat thus was three-fold: Destruc- Incidentally, Baghdad museum is located that demand, it is neither sycophancy nor ment for SC/ST hostels. Do you have a tion from war, disrepair because Saddam near a railway station, a telecom office, the dynastic politics. There is no point being policy to promote Dalit entrepreneurship, Hussein did not have enough funds to look Iraqi ministry of information and other contrarian and say that we won’t give apart from reservations? after the monuments and dacoity. The military sites. It was not hit in 1991. But on the people what they want. If somebody Idea of India is Bigger last point needs to be pondered on in the March 21, the information ministry building Apart from diversity in the workplace, else wants to launch another product let inventories of museums and private art was a target. Col Kuttas had no instructions preferential treatment can be given to a them do so and let the consumer decide Than Kashmir collections all across the West. This has to brief the media on the damage, if any, whole cross-section of society in contracts, what he wants. become essential after the large-scale to the shrines at Karbala and Najaf or in and purchases for the government and Would it help your product to have a ashmir, we all know, is not just another state. For plundering that took place in Baghdad and the town of Nassiriya. armed forces. The US government is effec- marketing alliance with Mulayam Singh? most Indians, it’s an article of faith. From differ- K other cities. There can be no excuse, no The point is: Has the war against Saddam tively carrying out this programme, so it No, because that would be an alliance ent premises, different shades of political opinion in condoning of this. But will the “concerned” Hussein, to “liberate” the people of Iraq, should not be a problem here. Also, the between a super store and a street corner India have arrived at a ‘consensus’: The country can- West pass adequate laws and take executive been won at the cost of an ancient civilisa- feeling of losing something that was shop. Though the latter can sell cheap, its not survive as a unified republic, much less a secular measures, collectively, and as individual tion that has, unlike most others, enjoyed rightfully theirs through privatisation quality is always suspect. The corner one, if Kashmir ceases to be part of it. On the left, this governments to ensure that the stolen a measure of continuity? Has there been could be overcome by vulnerable sections shop undoubtedly has its clientele, but has to do with the question of religious identity. The artefacts do not find their way to western a repeat of what the victors and the of society if they are offered something how long can it keep it? UP is in a state only Muslim-majority state in this country,Kashmir’s shores as they have down the centuries? vanquished did in the two World Wars more elsewhere. of limbo, there is ambiguity and uncertainty existence as part of India is proof that religion is not Take a recent example. When Kabul during the last century and what the Khmer Do you think these sops would bring of choice. Maybe we have not marketed the basis of our nationalism — a rejection of the Museum was plundered yet again in 1996, Rouge did in Cambodia? back to the Congress those who’ve deserted our product well in UP. two-nation theory, which led to the Partition. Hence, no settlement which re-opens the question of the state’s accession to India. On the right, Kashmir is not so much about people as about territory — an integral Mind is Matter: part — indeed, the crowning head — of the sacred geographical body that is Bharat Mata. Umbrella Saga And there has stood the matter for more than half a By C Rav priest). The diligent people again started to show off Nurture It century. A time in which New Delhi has fought three of the West and also of their umbrellas. But for a When Adam and Eve wars, suffered tens of thousands of army and civilian China and Japan turned short while. Most people By Parmarthi Raina Learning Experience needed an umbrella they casualties, and generally made itself extremely the umbrella into a fashion now complain that the new Results of recent studies pub- The company of thieves made a mat of dried leaves Believe nothing, unpopular with the people of the state. Surely,it’s time statement. The British brolly is still too heavy, too lished in the British Journal could make one think and act and fixed a stick in the O monks, merely to take a fresh look at Kashmir — and not through the gentry even developed a large and occupies too of Psychiatry pronounce that like a thief, whereas the com- middle. That still is the because you have been prism of nationalistic anxieties. For starters, the passion for the umbrella much space in a briefcase diet has a direct bearing on pany of saintly people could basic umbrella the likes told it... or because it is integrity of a Union that calls itself democratic and one prime minister or handbag. Some maintain the behaviour of juvenile well influence the mind to of which are even now to traditional, or because cannot be maintained by force of arms but only by delinquents. Certain types of emulate their pious thoughts be found in plenty in shot into prominence for no that in a heavy downpour you yourselves have moral and political suasion. Two, India’s secularism, food brought about — though and activities. Apart from the countrysides every- other reason than carrying it’s of no use and they imagined it. Do not if it is to mean anything at all, cannot be a function very gradually — distinct visible changes in a person’s where. Millennia later, his own round the clock. have to fall back on the believe what your of what the Kashmiris may or may not do. Third, changes in the behavioural behaviour, food, sensual in- their descendants learnt And, yes, anywhere in old faithful. teacher tells you Kashmir’s alienation from India has secular rather pattern of the delinquents. puts and one’s activities cre- to make the canopy col- civilisation, East or West, a Moreover, they say, it’s merely out of respect than religious roots. Militancy in the Valley has in Foods affect animal beha- ate permanent impressions, lapsible and attached a lady without a parasol was too frail, and even the most for the teacher. But recent times acquired religious overtones — thanks to viour as well. For instance, a (samskars), on the subtle sub- very simple hook at the not considered a lady at all. expensive kind is prone to whatsoever, after due Islamabad — but it was for long an indigenous and se- dog fed on raw meat for any conscious mind. After a per- end of the stick. The im- However, with the pro- give in without warning. In examination and cular movement, directed at New Delhi’s cynical high- length of time turns out to be son’s death, these samskars provement is remarkable gress of steam engines and the old days too there were analysis, you find to be handedness. In that sense, Kashmir is no different more ferocious than a simi- are carried over to the next but insignificant compared, horseless carriages the breakages, but these were conducive to the good, from the North-East. Just as no one has suggested that lar breed fed on vegetarian body,and are instrumental in for instance, to numerous glory of the umbrella accepted as an act of God. the benefit, the welfare the North-East is alienated from mainstream India be- foods. Sastras explain that shaping the future behaviou- cause it’s Christian, no one should suggest that Kash- ignoble metamorphoses gradually started to wane. As life becomes faster of all beings — that Ladies and gentlemen be- and space narrower, man is mind is also matter, albeit ral pattern of the individual. doctrine believe and mir is estranged because it’s Muslim. And finally, the suffered by some other subtle, and, like the body, It is natural for man to idea of India is bigger than the sum of all its parts. To good things of life like pen, came faceless passengers growing impatient with his cling to, and take it who fought for a foothold other best friend. He now is nourished by food. The seek sense enjoyment. In as your guide. think that the future of India depends on the future of razor, watch and so on. Chandogya Upanishad says: fact, Vedic scriptures indeed in crowded buses and sub- wonders why technology Gautama Buddha Kashmir is to betray a lack of faith in that idea itself. Leaving aside the cere- “Mind consists of food, include it as one of the four monial or symbolic umbrel- urban trains, and found can’t give him something ✥ little scope for romanti- miraculous, say a compu- prana (life force) of water pursuits of life — dharma, COUNTERVIEW las, the practical umbrella and speech of fire.” artha, kama and moksha. One test of the correct- cising with their huge terised hat — or a hairband has always been very close The rishis had known that Vedic scriptures, however, ness of educational umbrellas. — which could repel both to human hearts. In India, it is not only food that affects warn that even a man of procedure is the Many a good decades rain and shine. But that in some communities an the mind; every input wisdom is not immune to the happiness of the child. Kashmir Defines later,the umbrella regained possibility is still a far umbrella constitutes an through any of the five sense- attraction of sense objects. important item of a some of its old glory with cry and the umbrella Maria Montessori organs into the mind-body Moreover,sense enjoyment is ✥ The Indian Union groom’s presents from his the arrival of the new age invented by our first complex affects it ephemeral and in-laws. Also in some rites, variety — smaller, lighter parents is likely to continue No trace of slavery he Indian Union is not just a nation-state; it is a and, in turn, the one’s desires are one is offered to God (read and telescopic. People for a long time to come. behavioural pat- never satiated. ought to mix with the Tunique concept based on the ancient principle studies of the freeborn of — vasudhaiv kutumbkum (the world is a family). tern of an indi- The scriptures re- vidual and ter- commend that the man... No study, It encompasses a variety of religions, languages, CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS pursued under ethnicities and cultures and is the acme of multi- med such inputs pursuit of worldly ahaar. Audio-vi- pleasures, kama, compulsion, remains cultural coexistence under a common law and in a rooted in the memory. common market. One fifth of the world population Try War Crimes II sual inputs from be tempered by Plato lives in the Indian Union, which despite its many Although I fully agree with the trial of Kudos to Siddharth Varadarajan for his music, images dharma and con- ✥ shortcomings remains a pioneering experiment — an leaders of the former Iraqi regime, as a article ‘Ungrateful Ali: Painful Paradox of through ears and THE fined to permitted experiment in multicultural global co-existence under matter of justice, British and American war Embedded Freedom’ (Apr 25). The facts eyes, and smell parameters. Vedic It is the supreme art of universal laws and norms. Unfortunately, too many crimes must be punished too. By their use revealed in the article show the extent of and touch throu- SPEAKING scriptures state the teacher to awaken internal and external pressures are at work to under- of cluster bombs, the US and Great Britain suffering of the people of Iraq for no gh the nose and TREE that it is the three joy in creative expres- mine the uniqueness of the Indian Union. Externally, violated the Treaty of Ottawa. Also, several faults of theirs. In my opinion, both skin are food to attributes of pra- sion and knowledge. the mind. Therefore, what we kriti (material nature) that the threat is from Pakistan and internally it is from Iraqi civilians were shot by American George W Bush and Tony Blair should Albert Einstein the Hindutvawadis with their stress on monocultural troops at checkpoints. be tried in the International Court of are regularly exposed to will control man’s thoughts and have a definite influence on actions. Sattva-guna inclines ✥ parochialism. Pakistan’s two-nation theory, which The justification given by American mili- Justice for the killing of innocent Iraqis us. Regular exposure to high- one toward pure and noble The function of educa- is essentially an argument against Hindu-Muslim tary spokesmen was the threat of suicide and the destruction of Iraq. ly provocative and violent thoughts which lead to virtu- tion has never been to co-habitation, is a direct attack on the Indian credo of attacks by Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes. — Naushad Ansari, Dehradun shows/images on television, ous and altruistic actions; free the mind and unity in diversity. For far too long, we have heard it This makes no sense, because it doesn’t Internet and other media in- rajo-guna inclines one to- spirit of man, but to said by the Pakistani elite that India with its myriad change the fact that shooting civilians is a Sarkari Spoils fluence the mind of the view- ward generating wealth and bind them; and to the diversities would not be able to stay united. This des- war crime. Of course, the American troops Apropos of the editorial ‘Maya Jaal’ er, particularly of the young. a sensual lifestyle that leads end that the mind and pite the break-up of Pakistan in 1971 and the Indian have the right to take security measures, (Apr 21), the BSP has always propagated Reportedly, heavy metal to arrogant and selfish ac- spirit of his children Union’s survival as a single entity for 55 long years. but not at the cost of Iraqis for whose safety the appropriation of sarkari spoils. and rock music stimulate the tions; and tamas inclines one should never escape. If Kashmir separates from India, that will disprove they are responsible as the occupying army Mayawati has been in and out of office on a mind to act in passion. Read- toward mental and physical the strength of India’s unity, indeed that will according to the Geneva Convention. Jules Henry affirm the two-nation theory. For this reason alone, couple of occasions and she has not shown ing horror stories, watching inactivity, punctuated by an- ✥ — Astrid Essed, Amsterdam any qualms about distributing the perks of horror movies and hearing gry,violent actions leading to Kashmir must and will stay with us. Besides, times Academies that are have changed. Secessionism is no longer favoured office among her Dalit supporters. The BSP eerie music associated with stagnation and decay. Every- has, however, remained content doing this death and ghosts, is said to thing that is part of material founded at public in international politics, and increasingly, even From timesofindia.com expense are instituted separatist groups are opting for autonomy within a and has not really attempted to oppose or arouse one’s dark and evil nature can be placed into one alter the social structures that generate propensities. On the other or the other or a combination not so much to democratic set-up. This is true as much for Iraq and cultivate men’s natural Turkey as Bosnia, Serbia, Cyprus, Chechnya and even Conserve Water inequality in the first place. For all practical hand, listening to hymns and of the three gunas, where one purposes, its policies are conservative and bhajans, watching movies of them predominates. So abilities as to Sri Lanka. Of course, all this is not to underplay restrain them. the Indian vulnerability to secessionism. 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Looking for growth All in a scam Boosting ties US treasury secretary John Snow French business tycoon French deputy foreign min- (left) and Colombian President Alvaro Bernard Tapie was called at ister Renaud Muselier (ex- Uribe (extreme left) are exploring the US Court House as a treme right) discusses trade ways to promote economic growth. witness in a financial scam in- and investment ties with Snow will also meet local business volving the purchase of Excec- Bangladesh foreign minister communities in Colombia utive Life by Credit Lyonnais Murshad Khan (right)

MARUTI’S PUBLIC A model for an MTNL finalises WLL-M tariffs OFFER By Sanjay Anand tariffs for both the services with Watch your pocket rected all phone companies to TIMES NEWS NETWORK TRAI by Tuesday. According to pay IUC to one another for ter- Cashing in on equitable world sources, Garuda users will pay minating or completing calls on New Delhi: MTNL is planning •Calling Reliance and Tata to introduce 20 second pulse for Rs 1.20 for three minutes for call- Indicom’s WLL-M will cost each other’s networks. This has its WLL-M (mobile wireless in lo- ing on WLL-M phones of Re- Rs 1.20 for 3 minutes led all phone companies to file liance and Tata Indicom. For new set of tariffs with TRAI. growing profits financial system cal loop) service Garuda, with different rates for calling cellu- calling cellular phones from •Calling cellphones will cost To avoid raising retail tariffs, iding on improved margins and By Jay Bhattacharjee The nearest parallel is the lar and fixed line phones. WLL-M, people will pay about 75 75 paise per minute and fixed and WLL-M phone compa- cost-cutting initiative, Maruti insurance mechanisms that It is also working on new tar- paise per minute or about 25 fixed phones will cost 90 nies are trying to lower the pulse he Bush think-tank Udyog posted a pre-tax profit of Rs protect people against major iffs for cellular service Dolphin, paise for 20 seconds. Calling paise per minute rates so that people can talk for R would be unhappy 162.7 crore in the nine months ended De- risks in their business and where per minute charges may fixed phone will cost 90 paise per shorter duration if they want to with the radical sug- •To file with TRAI by Tues- cember 2002. These audited profit figures T personal lives. The Schiller go up. minute or 30 paise every 20 keep their bills from going up. gestions of the Yale don day; final tariffs may under- are part of the yet-to-be-made-public draft system would employ sophis- seconds. Cellular companies, on the other Robert Shiller on revamping MTNL, which operates in Del- go marginal changes prospectus that Maruti has submitted to ticated financial techniques Dolphin’s rates for cell-to-cell hand, are expected to increase the global financial order. hi and Mumbai, plans to add SEBI for its forthcoming public offer. to safeguard people from sys- calls are expected to go up and the outgoing call rates. All in- Readers may recall that about 4 lakh WLL-M connections In preparation to the Rs 830 crore issue, range from Rs 1.80 to 0.98 per coming calls will be free from Shiller’s book published in temic hazards such as de- each this year. It is reworking rates don’t go up too much. to be launched by June, MUL has stated minute; for cell-to-WLL-M, from May 1. March 2000 demolished the cline in house prices because tariffs to add interconnect user They said the idea behind in- that its profit would register a sharp jump Rs 2.10 to 1.30 and for cell-fixed illusions of one of the great- of variations in the macro- charges (IUC)—which range troducing shorter pulse for WLL- The impact of such a tariff re- in the 2002-03 fiscal. The Rs 162.7 crore est stockmarket efferves- economic environment and from 0.30 to 50 paise per minute lines, from Rs 2.30-1.50. Sources M service was to provide sub- structuring would be that it profit is nearly 37 per cent higher than its cences in recorded times — employment losses caused by — in retail call charges and pass said that these rates may under- scribers an option of paying less would be cheapest to talk to same PBT of Rs 118.3 crore in 2001-02. the IT and Internet chimera. technical advancements. on additional costs, at least par- go some changes before being in a costly telecom tariff regime, services -fixed line to fixed Although audited profit figures for the Schiller now proposes a The whole paradigm is tially,to customers. filed with TRAI because officials which takes effect from May 1. line, cell to cell and WLL-M to entire 2002-03 fiscal have not been pre- much grander scheme, an based on the assumption that MTNL is expected to file new are trying to ensure that phone Under new tariffs, TRAI has di- WLL-M. sented, the bottomline is expected to fur- there would be progressive overhauling of the global fi- AFP ther improve, owing to growth in the com- nancial system. But, Shiller governments and business pany’s volumes in the last quarter. prefers to think of his ideas communities who would im- CII pegs growth Though the prospectus paints a rosy as a ‘‘democratisation’’ cru- plement this brave new picture of the market, Maruti and other sade. He proposes to do this thought process. It must be players have been driving through tough stressed that the ethos under- at 6-6.4 per cent times due to rising input costs. Besides, Crusader? lying Shiller’s ideas is a deep heavy discounting and freebies have be- ideological aversion towards New Delhi: With the immediate threat to In- come the order of the day to boost sales. •Schiller for overhauling inequality. dian industry proving to be short-lived in Car sales of Maruti, which controls over global financial system This resolute moral foun- view of the successful completion of Iraq 50 per cent share of the market, remained •This can be done via dation of Shiller against in- war, India’s GDP growth is expected to be nearly flat at 2.75 lakh units in 2002-03, risk-management tool equality and in favour of a 6.0-6.4 per cent in this financial year, accord- while the industry grew 6.4 per cent to designed to secure the risk-free environment for all ing to CII. 5.41 lakh units. wealth of countries citizens sets him apart from As compared to a growth of 4.4 per cent in While stating that the company might the conventional American 2002-03, stems from marginal expectations face competition from global car majors value system that prevails from the services and manufacturing sector, in the small car segment, the prospectus through a revolutionary and nowadays. It also has impor- which are expected to grow by 6.5 and 7.5 per said, Maruti will enhance its product novel risk-management tant ramifications for the in- cent respectively,CII said in its revised fore- range. The offer document has stated that mechanism that is designed ternational political pecking cast for 2003-04. The services and manufac- Maruti will save a sum of Rs 150 crore to secure the wealth of coun- order. Both the shifts in in- turing sector had grown by 6.1 and 7.1 per every year as Suzuki Motor has decided tries rather than destroy it. come and wealth between cent respectively in the previous fiscal. to cut down on the royalty rates and Since investors in this people in one country and be- But despite this optimism, CII, however, prices of components from April 2. country have been the vic- tween different countries cautioned that new risks have come about The prospectus stated that Suzuki in- tims of the same bubble that over a period of time come with the SARS epidemic whose impact on tends to make Maruti its R&D hub for swept Wall Street and Nas- under Shiller’s scrutiny. the economy was ‘‘hard to predict’’. Asia. With this, MUL would become the daq, it is worth one’s while to Individuals as well as ‘‘The immediate threats to Indian indus- only R&D centre for cars outside Japan study Shiller’s ideas and to countries do not undertake A Singapore youth walks by an advertising billboard in Singapore. The country’s key exports try have proved to be short-lived. Given the for Suzuki. Suzuki outlined its plan to assess their potential impact activities that pose economic rose a better-than-expected 21.2 per cent in March despite the Iraq war and SARS outbreak. abundance of indicators that support a pos- make Maruti the major hub for interna- on the developing world and risks for them. Once there is itive outlook, we maintain our forecast of a tional activity, including exports. MUL’s emerging markets. Shiller a national and indeed global lower bound of 6.0 per cent and upper bound Gurgaon facility is already the largest does not think that the stock- risk mitigation mechanism of 6.4 per cent in 2003-04,’’ CII said. overseas plant of Suzuki with an annual market is an accurate indica- in place, the whole scenario M&S poised to expand base The agriculture was set to grow by 2-4 per production capacity of 3.5 lakh cars. tor or measure of the risks changes. His macro-securi- cent in this financial year as compared to that ordinary persons take in ties need a regulatory organ- By Neera Bhardwaj Ashok Kaul, CEO, ‘‘We are M&S India is likely to break- negative growth of 3.1 per cent in 2002-03. PTI Byas Anand their routine existence. isation that would be mam- TIMES NEWS NETWORK looking at expanding mer- even before the projected moth, not in terms of head- chandise as well as prices, in time period and hence the He proposes what he calls New Delhi: Marks & count, but in terms of re- both directions.’’ The compa- plans to add more stores. The ‘‘macro-markets’’ where Spencer, the UK-based giant sponsibilities and skills. prices would be arrived at on retail chain that started here ny is also going to venture economies of scale is anoth- the basis of broader vari- Shiller’s seminal ideas, al- with two stores in 2001-end, is into mass media advertising er reason. ables like GDP fluctuations beit utopian at this juncture, now looking to expand base from mostly doing below-the- The stores in India, which or inflation. These macro- are a welcome change from in India. While the third, line activities like sending attract a number of existing markets can be made possi- the contemporary manipula- 4,500 sq ft M&S store was mailers and holding events to M&S shoppers, have had ble by the significant ad- tions that goes on in financial opened in Gurgaon on Satur- ensure a wider audience. many learnings. Kaul says vances in IT and the conse- markets and stock exchanges day, one more is being read- And, whatever be the per- apparel sizes and pricing quent flow of data and infor- at the cost of the ordinary ied in Mumbai and Banga- ceptions about the number of were the two main surprises. mation across each country. investor. lore each, to open to public by footfalls at the M&S stores There is still a large cus- Risks would become much (The author is a Member of around September. currently, Kaul says they are tomer base that remains more transparent in the new the DSE. jbinvestfin@india- M&S is also looking to ex- heartening enough for the mainly aspirational, admits framework. times.com) pand its customer base. Says chain to plan expansion. Kaul.

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NATIONAL NIIT, CAC in alliance for Trukin’: The truckers’ strike was finally systems re-engineering: dissolved last week, but not before giving NIIT has entered into an al- Inflation zooms to 6.47 corporate India a big scare. Many plants liance with Japanese system per cent: High prices of INC had to shut down — like Sulajja Firodia integrator CAC Corporation electricity and manufactured Motwani’s Kinetic — and the impact for system re-engineering for products drove up inflation to will reflect on the monthly targets. the Japanese market. The al- a two-year high figure of 6.47 liance will offer solutions to per cent for the week ended Japanese organisations trans- April 12, as against a mere forming from legacy systems 1.37 per cent in the year-ago to open systems, a company period. Despite the govern- statement said, adding that in ment’s anti-inflationary poli- the first year of implementa- cies to check inflation, price tion, the alliance is expected increase in essential com- to generate orders worth $ modities, including fruits and 8.47 million. It will also offer vegetables, led to a 0.30 per new synergies to help NIIT’s cent hike in point-to-point Japan operations access the wholesale price index (WPI) vast opportunity in systems from a week ago level of 6.17 re-engineering space. per cent, apparently due to the brisk buying compounded RBI may cut bank rate by fears on an imminent by 0.25-0.50 per cent: truckers strike. RBI of India is likely to cut the bank rate by 0.25-0.50 per Elitex to position India cent and reduce the cash re- as global R&D hub: Elitex serve ratio (CRR) further in its 2003, the annual event of the credit and monetary policy for IT department which begins 2003-04, to help enhance liq- today, will help position India uidity and manage govern- as a hub of global R&D. The Rana’s back: Rana Talwar, ment’s borrowing programme. ex-CEO of Stanchart, has event will throw light on tech- Switch in strategy: Days The bank rate, which is al- nology incubation, global IP decided to take control of the ready at a three-decade low before the commercial launch ailing Centurion Bank with a protection, emerging growth of Reliance Infocomm’s WLL of 6.25 per cent, is likely to be areas, innovation to enhance 48 per cent equity stake. revised downwards while the services, the company said it Rana, who is expected to be digital unit, R&D-led success would reduce its dealership CRR may see a cut as part of besides e-readiness. chairman of the reconstituted the Apex bank’s plan to bring scheme and instead shift board, says he will give the Indigenous technologies focus to its own retail network. it down to 3 per cent over the will also be on display. bank a strong retail focus. medium term period.

A file picture of con- China investment is director general Carlos INTERNATIONAL troversial Irish singer long-term: ANZ chief: The Ghosn. Ghosn, presenting Sinead O’Connor head of Australia’s third Nissan’s preliminary results Fiat management goes who has reportedly largest bank, ANZ Group, for the last FY, which show a back to basics: Two announced she is hinted on Sunday his determi- record net profit of $ 4.12 months after taking up the quitting the music nation to stay in China for the billion and zero debt, said he reins, Fiat’s new management long haul. Chief executive was convinced the global has already begun outlining business for good John McFarlane said estab- auto business was moving its strategy, based on a return and no longer wants lishing a presence in China towards more integration. to the Italian industrial to be ‘famous’. The conglomerate’s traditional singer made her was part of a strategy that strengths: Things with announcement in a would see the bank’s invest- ET INSTA POLL ment in Asia increase. It could wheels. Umberto Agnelli, message to a fan Yesterday’s results: take up to 20 years for foreign the new group president — website and plans Do you spend more money on businesses to become prof- to make her final entertainment now than you itable, so companies had to did five years ago? recordings next take a long-term view. month. Yes 71% No 27% Nissan readies for next • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of a post once held by his late ‘‘The Fiat group produces wave of auto mergers: the general public. brother Giovanni — promised cars, industrial vehicles, Nissan Motor is ready to take Today’s question: Is the strike to present a full strategy for tractors and diggers. This is part in the next wave of world by Air India pilots justified? the group’s future by July. our history and future..’’ auto mergers, according to its

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14 Monday,April 28, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi Govt extends Open Sky till June 30 By Byas Anand TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: In view of ex- pected rush of leisure trav- ellers during ensuing sum- mer holidays, the civil avia- tion ministry has extended its limited Open Sky policy to the European carriers till June 30, 2003. The facility, civil aviation minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain said, would be avail- able only to the European carriers, “as we are expect- ing a huge out-bound and in- bound traffic this summer.” The Gulf-based and Asian carriers have been kept out of the Open Sky facility. “Under this, the European carriers can either upgrade their aircraft or increase fre- quency to India and operate as many flights as they wish. The traffic has been low on the Asian side due to SARS,” he added. Industry insiders also pointed out that the scheme was being extended to ease the traffic flow in case Air-India’s operations to the West get affected due to the pilots strike. The limited Open Sky was initially offered to American and European airlines for three months beginning Jan- uary to meet the rush of stu- dents and travellers leaving India. But it could not be billed as a success, and the rush notwithstanding, most international carriers have decided to give the incentive a miss. This had led to huge offloadings and even a hike in air fares. The limited ex- tension is already drawing flak from the industry,which is terming the move as gov- ernment’s myopic view on revenue gains. “Poor response from the US and Europe on the previ- ous Open Sky attempt was due to the feeling that com- mercial benefits in such a short-term arrangement were not adequate. Same will be the case this time round,” says a foreign airline repre- sentive.

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Agassi gains No 1 spot Davenport weds Gayle smashes ton Andre Agassi, who will turn 33 on American tennis star Lindsay Windies’ opening batsman Chris Tuesday, is the oldest man to gain the married investment banker and Gayle celebrated his recall to the No 1 spot in the world rankings since the collegemate Jonathan Leach at a Test team with a century for the ATP adopted computers to decide it in ceremony in Hawaii on Friday. Vice-chancellor’s XI in a match 1973. He wrested the honours from The couple was joined by friends against Australia in Bridgetown. He hit Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt and family for the ceremony 129 in the side’s 1st innings total of 290 South Africa’s Paul Adams finished with a match haul of ten wickets in their innings victory against Bangladesh

If Shoaib Akhtar does not improve his behaviour and Bahutule takes 5, general discipline, he has no place in the team — PCB chief Delhi-TN tie on even keel Kanwaljeet Singh Mumbai enter final Lt Gen Tauqir Zia By Dinesh Chopra edge before depositing itself in By Peter Pears TIMES NEWS NETWORK wicket-keeper Vijay Dahiya’s safe and then in the next over, SPORTS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK missed the line while trying to New Delhi: Narender Singh Negi gloves. AFP drive again against the pacy just adores hindi movies for their Negi produced a replica of the Vadodara: Mumbai spinners Avishkar Salvi. sheer drama. He’s hoping for some same to get rid of an assured S. Sairaj Bahutule and Ramesh Salvi did have to wait long ‘first day, first show’ action to un- Suresh for 35. The visiting skip- Powar delivered a tottering to pick up his third wicket in fold at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadi- per’s slow walk to the pavilion sug- Baroda the knock-out punch um. So what if it isn’t a Friday to- gested that he had no clue what hit to floor hosts by and innings the match as debutant Dhiren day, Negi wants to steal the show him. As for Negi, his celebrations and 138 runs on the third day Salvi, looking all at sea, hung from now on in the Ranji Trophy culminated with a run to the third- of their Ranji Trophy semi-fi- out a limp bat in the path of a semifinal tie. man boundary. nal match that ended prema- delivery for Vinayak Samant “Tamil Nadu sure have an edge Earlier, Vijay Dahiya and turely at the GSFC ground behind the stumps to take a but we too can force a twist to the Mithun Manhas resumed Delhi’s here on Sunday. regulation catch. Dhiren had the tale. The first session will be batting from 127 for four on a Trying to wipe out a huge a pair in the game. very crucial for us,” he said with rather cool (by Delhi’s standard) first innings deficit of 260, Baroda (1st innings): 130 all out. words zipping at some speed. Sunday.But the opposition imme- the Baroda batsmen never re- Mumbai (1st innings): 390. OK, now we know where that diately turned on the heat. ally applied themselves for Baroda (2nd innings)(overnight 16 for 1): Dahiya was the first to go off a the second time in succes- Connor Williams c Jaffer b Powar 6, Satyajit comes from. Negi is a die-hard Parab b A Salvi 19, Rakesh Solanki c & b Shahrukh Khan fan. persistent L. Balaji (2/70). He did- sion to hand Mumbai a victo- Bahutule 38, Dhiren Salvi c Samant b A Salvi Negi also admires Steve n’t add even a single run to his ry in a platter with about two 0, Tushar Arothe c Mane b Agarkar 1, Ajit Waugh’s gumption. If Negi can overnight score of 19. As if in and half days to spare. Bhoite c A Salvi b Bahutule 19, Nayan Mon- protest, Manhas too departed on With the exception of gia c Agarkar b Powar 6, Irfan Pathan (Jr) b promise to be half as good, Indian Bahutule 4, Rakesh Patel lbw Bahutule 0, cricket can party every weekend. his individual score of 31. Saran- young Rakesh Solanki, who Zaheer Khan st Samant b Bahutule 15, Russia’s Anastasia Myskina takes For the time being, it is as distant deep Singh is an adventurous once again showed that he Valmik Buch not out 0. Russia into the Fed Cup World as Arjuna Ranatunga and Shane soul. That was exhibited in his 20- was a talent to be taken notice Extras (7-nb, 5-b, 2-w): 14. Total: 122 all out. Group quarterfinal after beating Warne meeting for dinner. run knock that had three hits to of, the rest of the Baroda bat- Croatian Iva Majoli in Moscow on the fence. Senior ting made it look like a Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-36, 3-36, 4-40, 5- On Sunday, the 90, 6-102, 7-102, 8-106, 9-115. Sunday. Myskina won 6-2, 7-5. RANJI SEMIFINAL pro Rahul 25-year-old Delhi slaughter of the lambs as the Bowling: Agarkar 9-5-10-1(1w),A Salvi 7-2- Sanghvi failed to do the same and Knight retires from ODIs: Eng- paceman left a bit of his own went down for 122 in the sec- 13-2(1w), Bahutule 13.2-4-21-5(3nb), Powar was out for just three runs. land opener Nick Knight on Sunday touch. Both he and Amit Bhandari ond innings. 17-4-58-2(4nb), Mhambrey 5-2-15-0. announced his retirement from One- (32) added 62 gold-flaked runs for Now, Tamil Nadu would be hop- With skipper Connor No change in side day cricket. The 33-year-old, hit by a the final wicket. Delhi’s innings ing that their batsmen do what Williams falling at stumps on niggling knee injury recently, has was struggling on life-support sys- the bowlers did. And ensure the Saturday, Baroda expected Meanwhile, Mumbai skipper played in 100 ODIs — averaging tem at 194 for nine when the two best place for Negi to search for Satyajit Parab to come up Paras Mhambrey said that 40.41 and hitting five centuries. His met in the middle. The final score dramas is a nearest movie with his fourth century of the Mumbai would not make any departure leaves England coach of 256 looks a lot healthier than theatre. season. But the opener flat- changes in their squad for Duncan Fletcher with the task of Tamil Nadu (1st innings): 327. tered to deceive at the start of the Ranji Trophy final that. Both then returned in an ex- Delhi (1st innings): A Chopra lbw b Suresh 30 G finding a suitable replacement for the tended final session to leave Tamil Gambhir c Raaju b Balaji 31 V Sehwag b Srinivas 0 THE DOUBLE TROUBLE: Delhi medium-pacer Amit Bhandari providing a play on Sunday as on-drove against the winners of the man described as “a fantastic ser- Nadu at 88 for four in the second M Manhas c Dhandapani b Srinivas 31 V Kumar c vital rearguard action against Tamil Nadu on the third day of the Ranji spinner Ramesh Powar for match between Delhi and vant” to the One-day game by chair- innings. Foreheads of the visitors Raaju b Dhandapani 12 V Dahiya c Raaju b Balaji Trophy semifinal tie at the Ferozeshah Kotla here on Sunday. two successive boundaries Tamil Nadu. 19 N S Negi c Dhandapani b Srinivas 44 Sarandeep man of selectors David Graveney. aren’t exactly creased as they have Knight said he had been mulling over Singh c Ramesh b Suresh 20 R Sanghvi st Raaju b the cushion of 71-run first innings Dhandapani 3 S Gill c Sivaramakrishnan b Dhan- retirement for some time. “I was des- dapani 12 A Bhandari not out 32. perate to play in the World Cup hav- as well. Also, the Anna of the side S.Sharath is unbeaten too with Extras (lb-5, w-2, nb-15): 22 ing missed out on the last one, but Total: 256 all out. Farcical rainy interlude at Ferozeshah Kotla Sadagopan Ramesh. I’ve got other challenges ahead Fall of wickets: 1-58, 2-59, 3-75, 4-96, 5-129, TIMES NEWS NETWORK The two umpires for this prestigious be geared up for such elementary things of me. ”AFP Tamil Nadu could have been a 6-139, 7-165, 8-180, 9-194. little more at peace but for some semifinal match — F Gomes and AM is unbeatable? All this farce left a wet spot Bowling: Balaji 28-7-70-2, Srinivas 23.1-7-47- New Delhi: If it’s Delhi and District Indian Railways win silver: In- disciplined Delhi bowling. Darts 3, Suresh 14-4-34-2, Dhandapani 27-7-96-3, Sahiba — and the BCCI observer R.S. on the Ambedhkar Stadium end of the Cricket Association, drama can’t be too dian Railway lost to Russian Railway were flying all over the place as Sivaramakrishnan 3-1-4-0. far behind. Almost 80 minutes of play was Rathore had no choice but to rush to the wicket as groundstaff tried to dry it up. 110-68 in the world railway basket- the Kotla wicket seemed to have Tamil Nadu (2nd innings): V Sivaramakrishnan c Dahiya b Bhandari 0 S Suresh c Dahiya b Negi 35 lost when afternoon showers hit the Fer- middle to do the needful. Even the umpires and the Tamil Nadu ball championships held at St. Pe- freshened up after an afternoon tersburg, according to Railway S Sriram c Sanghvi b Gill 16 H Badani lbw b Se- ozeshah Kotla on Sunday. “It’s strange that something as elemen- team management over-reacted. The spot shower. hwag 5 S Ramesh batting 20 S Sharath batting 5. sports secretary NC Choudhary on The number of personnel deputed to tary as this can’t be done properly at a was almost a couple of feet outside the Bhandari was the first one to hit Extras (nb-7): 7, Sunday. The teams were led by Sud- cover the square was inadequate. Then, Test centre,” a surprised Rathore re- right-hander’s legstump and posed no real the bull’s eye when he got an out- Total: (for 4 wkts) 88. hir Kumar Hooda. Other players in Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-35, 3-43, 4-72. instead of covering the pitch they stood marked later. danger to the players. Even the plethora of of-sort Vidyut Shivaramkrishnan the squad were Ram Kumar, Mahen- Bowling: Bhadari 6-1-21-1, Gill 9-0-29-1, Saran- for good six minutes on adjacent wickets Even the covers used were obsolete. left-handers in TN side won’t have given it with a beauty.The ball just reared dra Singh, Trideep Rai, Riazuddin, deep 11-8-4-0, Sehwag 6-0-25-1, Negi 3-1-7-1, as rain came down. Why an association like the DDCA can’t a second glance. Md. Ishluddin, Tony Leslie, M. off a length, taking batsman’s Sanghvi 3-1-2-0. Pandey. Coach: Ajmer Singh. TNN Mumbai international marathon: Top ten men’s and women’s athletes each from the Jayawardena steers SL to safety AFP world’s top 50 marathoners will vie Colombo: Mahela Jayawardena after resumption. Sri Lanka slipped for top honours in the Standard Char- roared back to form after a night- from their lunch score of 114-2 tered Mumbai international marathon marish World Cup to steer Sri Lanka to 134-4, but defiant batting from to be held here on January 18 next. towards safety in the first Test Jayawardena and Tillakaratne Minister of state for external affairs Vinod Khanna, who was instrumental against New Zealand here on Sun- ensured against a middle-order in bringing the marathon, told re- day. The stylish right-hander, who collapse. porters that $210,000 prize money scored a mere 20 runs in 10 matches The pair saw off the second new meet is one of the richest in Asia. PTI at cricket’s showpiece in South ball claimed under darkening skies Africa last month, hit an unbeaten before rain halted play 11.5 overs Kalam’s gesture to Wilson: Presi- 58 as the hosts replied strongly to early. A watchful Jayawardena has dent A P J Abdul Kalam sent his best New Zealand’s 515-7 declared. so far hit eight boundaries against wishes to former world billiards cham- Sri Lanka survived an uncertain his captain’s 13.AFP pion Wilson Jones, who is recovering period soon after lunch to close the from heart attack in Mumbai, and con- tributed Rs 10,000 towards his med- third day’s play at 267-4 in their first SCOREBOARD ical expenses. PTI innings, still 248 runs behind with New Zealand (1st innings): 515/7 declared six wickets in hand. Sri Lanka (1st innings, overnight 4/1): BETTING METER New captain Hashan Tillakaratne S Jayasuriya b Bond 50 made 71 not out in an unbroken fifth- C Vaas c Fleming b Bond 4 CRICKET K Sangakkara c Oram b Wiseman 67 wicket stand of 133 with Jayawarde- M Jayawardena batting 58 West Indies vs. Australia series na after New Zealand had grabbed H Tillakaratne batting 71 Australia winning 2-0 12/1 two crucial wickets in post-lunch. Extras: (lb 14, nb 3) 17 Australia 2-1 20/1; Australia 3-0 6/4 Total: (For 4 wkts, in 84.1 overs) 267 Kumar Sangakkara and Sanath Fall of wickets: 2-11, 3-114, 4-134. Australia 3-1 7/1; Australia 4-0 10/11 Jayasuriya, who put on 103 for the Sanath Jayasuriya scored a 50 as Sri Bowling: Tuffey 14-4-39-1, Bond 16-3-64-2, Draw 2-2 66/1 third wicket before lunch, were sep- Lanka were struggling to avoid fol- Oram 15.1-5-39-0, Vettori 21-6-59-0, Wiseman as per ladbrokes.com 18-4-52-1. arated in the space of 20 runs soon low-on against the Kiwis on Sunday. Andy Flower skeptical Adams spells doom for Bangladesh AFP about Zimbabwe tour Chittagong: Paul Adams finished with a 10-wicket London: Former Zim- match haul as South Africa inflicted an innings defeat on babwe batsman Andy Bangladesh in the first Test here on Sunday. Floewr has said he has Bangladesh were left 60 runs short of making South “mixed emotions” about Africa bat again as the left-arm spinner took five for 69 the country’s forthcom- to help bowl out Bangladesh for 237. ing tour of England. It was the third five-wicket effort for Adams, who had Flower,now playing for taken five for 37 in the first innings. English county Essex, together with Adams on Sunday took the wickets of former captain black team-mate Henry Olonga, Flower Akram Khan, Mashrafe bin Murtaza and Enamul staged a black-armband protestduring Haque as Bangladesh, overnight 185 for five, folded up the World Cup. But unlike some critics of just 55 minutes into the day.AFP the Mugabe regime who want the tour SCOREBOARD scrapped, Flower,35 on Monday,was less Bangladesh (1st innings): 173 M Murtaza c Pollock b Adams 0 certain. “I have mixed feelings about South Africa (1st innings): 470/2 decl T Baishya not out 0 whether this tour should take place,” Bangladesh (2nd innings): E Haque c & b Adams 11 Flower wrote in the Sunday Telegraph. J Omar c Boucher b Ntini 71 Extras: (b 5, lb 10, w 6, nb 2) 23 M Hossain lbw b Pollock 5 Total: (All out, in 82.4 overs) 237 “There will be demonstrations and I H Bashar c Boucher b Pollock 75 Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-138, 3-173, 4- actually think that will be a positive Ashraful c Smith b Willoughby 28 183, 5-185, 6-213, 7-224, 8-224, 9-224. A Kapali c Boucher b Adams 7 Bowling: Pollock 13-9-12-2, South African skipper Graeme Smith and teammates thing because it will give the human Md Salim lbw b Adams 0 Willoughby 18-6-47-1, Ntini 16-4-37- rights activists a chance to highlight the A Khan c Dippenaar b Adams 16 1, Dawson 12-4-48-0, Adams 18.4-5- congratulate spinner Paul Adams after he dismissed the last Bangladeshi wicket of Emanul Haque on Sunday. problems in Zimbabwe,” he added.AFP K Mahmud st Boucher b Smith 1 69-5, Smith 5-2-9-1. ‘Rawalpindi Express’ asked to mend his ways Islamabad: Pakistan Crick- the team along and spent a lot of mon- et Board chief Lt Gen Tauqir after the ey on his welfare, even when Zia has warned express disastrous match officials reported his Pak awaits fixing evidence speedster Shoaib Akhtar campaign action,” he said. Karachi: Pakistan is awaiting evidence of match-fixing from that his cricket career could in the Shoaib, who was reported the International Cricket Council before it decides whether be over if did not “improve World Cup. three times for throwing to reopen a World Cup 1999 probe, an official said on Sunday. his behaviour”. “Regard- before it was discovered he “If the ICC has solid evidence they should send it to us “Let me make this clear. If less of has an abnormally flexible and if (the charges) are of such a serious level then we Shoaib does not improve his whatever elbow, has a long history would send it to the government or to the judge who did the behaviour and general disci- the selec- of clashes with team inquiry for further action,” PCB chairman Lt General pline, he has no place in the tors might think or plan, in managers. Tauqir Zia said. In last month’s meeting in Johannesburg team... his cricket is fin- my book, if Shoaib can’t im- “He was allowed a lot of the ICC questioned Pakistan’s fixing report conducted by ished,” Zia was quoted as prove his attitude and be- latitude because we thought Lahore High Court judge Justice Karamat Bhandari. saying on a website. come more focussed on he was a genuine match- The Bhandari report, released in June last year, con- Shoaib, the fastest bowler cricket, his career is over,” winner. But he let the coun- cluded that there was no evidence of match-fixing in Pak- in the world, was one of the Zia said. “The Board and my- try down badly in the World istan’s surprise defeats to Bangladesh and India, clearing AFP eight players dropped from self have supported him all Cup,” Zia said. PTI the Pakistan team of wrongdoing.

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attention to their diet and fitness train- organised a national-level event yet, FEERREE ing. Of course, the players are up in could have been full of pitfalls, but Ra- IIFFF NNTT arms. Klusener insists that “Our fail- jasthan Chess Association supremo S DD ure had nothing to do either with our L Harsh managed went through with it Beating the heat at Kotla condition or the way we prepared for without any major hiccups thanks to a Sanjay Sekhri the tournament. It had more to do with set of dedicated team from Bikaner, he way our skill levels.” He pointed out that all where they organise national-level things are the players had passed a fitness test at events more frequently. going at S Cape Town’s Sports Science Institute ST S “Officials here were interested in Ferozeshah TR E S two weeks before the tournament. introducing national-level chess to the T ROKE Kotla, Delhi’s water That the United Cricket Board sees people of Jodhpur.But we thought this reservoirs will van- it differently is evident from the fact event would be the right one for them ish faster than imag- that several of the stars are no longer as the top players from the continent ined. In sweltering Eat, drink and be merry with the team. Both Pollock and would be participating and it would in- heat Delhi and Boucher lost their positions but were spire others here,” was how Harsh ex- Tamil Nadu are he rain gods and the inventors of lucky enough to stay in the team. plained his decision. “It was not as dif- playing for a place the controversial Duckworth- While the UCB maintains that they ficult as we thought earlier.” in the Ranji Trophy T Lewis system can smile, sit back “are concerned about the issues men- The tournament attracted people final. Temperatures and relax. They didn’t have much to do tioned in Andrew Gray’s report in par- from all over Rajasthan and the idea of refuse to come down with the hasty exit of the South ticular and they are being addressed as showing the games online clicked, in a hot, hot April. African cricket team in the first round part of an ongoing process to improve with the site registering thousands of Fluids and a lots of of the World Cup. The blame is now be- the team’s performance,” coach Eric Udayshankar hits everyday. According to Harsh, them are the order of the day. Natu- venue won’t be possible. Another al- ing shared by excessive eating, exces- Simmons shot off an angry letter cas- Jodhpur people showed a lot of inter- ternative thou-ght of was to start the simply can’t take the field without eat- rally, the players are looking for an sive drinking and too many chocolates! tigating the journalist for irresponsi- est in the website and most of the offi- game at 6:30 in the morning. This too ing bananas. “I feel very weak if I don’t excuse to have a water break. ble reporting. But the damage has al- cials brought their families to show is a far cry. Whatever be the conse- According to a report prepared by eat bananas everyday.In fact, I am also Suggestions are being thrown in ready been done. them how it worked. quence, the Indian board needs to fitness expert Dr Andrew Gray and superstitious to some extent on that. what could be the alternative if Del- take a call on this. Whatever way you psychologist Dr Clinton Gohwiler a Specially on the day of matches I need hi reaches the finals and have either Banana freak Leap of joy look at it but stretching the domestic couple of months prior to the World to eat bananas and I am restless till I Mumbai or Baroda playing in May. season to accomodate an India A Cup, senior Proteas cricketers were ant to know something about the get a few. The situation is somewhat he chain of reverses suffered in in- One of them is play a day-night final tour to the West Indies was one step guilty of living an indisciplined life. eating habits of our top hockey difficult when we are touring a coun- ternational cricket has created des- in Mohali or Gwalior. ahead with a couple backwards. Herschelle Gibbs was “bingeing”, Al- W stars? Not unusually exciting, try where bananas are not easily T peration in Bangladesh. But on an- This was shot down as a neutral lan Donald was drinking and captain but, yes, somewhat interesting. Unlike found,” Tirkey reveals. The next time other front there are signs of cheer. Shaun Pollock could not stay away some South African cricketers, no he is on tour sly out a cargo of bananas The football victory in the SAAF Prominent among them was nine- ries, sponsored this year by Navision, from chocolates! Others, including drinks, no chocolates for them. for Tirkey to find the strength for his championship at Dhaka a few weeks time Olympic gold medalist Carl saw Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Ban- Lance Klusener and Mark Boucher, Former Indian captain Dilip Tirkey penalty corner drives. ago was hailed as a major achievement, Lewis, who himself has had a rough gladesh and India in the fray, with In- were credited with not paying enough goes bananas over bananas. He just Other team members too have dif- and why not? They had dethroned In- last week. The 41-year-old crashed his dia again emerging champions. But ferent food fads. Jugraj Singh and dia. But the real fruits of the triumph sports car in Los Angeles and then apart from golf, the objective is to pro- Deepak Thakur cannot do without a were still to follow. The country re- failed a series of sobriety tests. The mote goodwill between the nations, an Kotla’s proxy warriors at it couple of glasses of fruit juice. The ceived a massive leap of 13 points in case is scheduled to be heard on 7 July opportunity for the hosts to lay out next time Jugraj’s drag-flicks don’t their world ranking, which now stands in Los Angeles Superior Court. the red carpet as organizers of the or the proxy groups in the Delhi looked at it as cricket season defined click or Deepak is not on the mark, at 144. They are 27th in the Asian conti- Back in 1988, Lewis admits he tested event always do. and District Cricket Association in the rules of the cricket board. blame it on the orange juice they must nent, six places behind India. India’s positive for three banned stimulants The organizers do a great job, fi- F even the selection of the Delhi Is Bhatia so indispensable? Chief have missed. Goalkeeper Devesh fortunes have more or less stayed sta- found in cold medications. But Lewis nancing the travel of teams, extending team for the Ranji Trophy semi-fi- coach Bishan Bedi thinks so and so Thakur and Daljit Singh train on tionary — 21st in Asia and 122 in the dismisses claims that it gave him any 5 star hospitality, pic-king up all tabs. nals was good enough to test their do a couple of selectors. More so, be- chicken. As for good old captain Dhan- FIFA world rankings. Losing to Turk- advantage, adding that he was just one But this year’s championship suffered relative strengths. They tried to sit cause Bhatia turned out for Tamil raj Pillay, he may be a small eater but menistan on aggregate in the recent of the hundreds of athletes let off after from some lack of professionalism in in judgment over the qualification of Nadu for a couple of seasons and even he freaks out on butter-chicken. Olympic qualifying round was an op- testing positive between 1988 and 2000! running the event. And diplomatic Rajat Bhatia to play for Delhi. Delhi were playing the team from Jodhpur on chess map portunity frittered away, the rivals be- The USOC first disqualified him then content was missing. Did the DGC not In the end, chairman of selectors down south.Unfortunately, every- ing ranked only 135. A lot more requires accepted his appeal, which was based take the SAARC seriously? Neither the to be done to raise the stock of the game and senior vice-president Chetan thing at the DDCA is seen in narrow he Asian Team Chess Champi- on his assertion that he had ingested the president nor the captain were present in the country.From the SAAF tourna- Chauhan had his way as he threat- political equations. Somewhere onships that ended at Jodhpur a stimulant inadvertently through taking at the press conference and although ment Maldives gained seven points and ened to quit if the decision over the down the line the club loyalties of T few days back was, on the whole, a an over-the-counter herbal remedy. the club president hosted the dinner cooling-off period for anyone re- the players got entangled to vitiate third placed India only three. successful one for the hosts, though all These facts came to light after for- that night, where was the interaction turning home after playing for any the atmosphere. the three gold medals they landed were mer USOC director for drug control Dr. between hosts and visitors? The Sri other state is changed to accommo- The issue was taken to an emer- Using drugs, so what? for individual achievements. What Wade Exum released 30,000 pages of Lankan team manager,an ex-president date Bhatia. gency meeting of the executive com- was a tad disappointing was the fact documents. While the USOC has dis- of the Sri Lankan Golf Union, and the The DDCA had taken a decision mittee where quite a few members ndian sport need not worry about that despite three teams each in the missed all talk, head of the World Anti- Nepal manager,the Captain of his club, that any player wanting to return to blamed a senior director for drag- the 13 National Games medal win- fray in both sections, India could man- Doping Agency,has accused the USOC are important golf personalities. Yet the Delhi fold after enjoying greener ging the issue to the board room to I ners who were tested positive for one manager asked Wanderer,‘‘Who is age only a silver and a bronze in the drug abuse. It can take solace from the of a cover-up. pastures elsewhere must wait for a see where he stood in the war of the captain of the Delhi Golf Club? men’s team championship and a fact that it has acted against the errant season before being considered for proxies. Traditions of Indian hospitality and bronze in the women’s. sportspersons. On the other hand, 19 Delinquent diplomacy selection. Chauhan carried the house and graciousness deserved better. However, the event was a grand suc- Americans who won medals at the 1988 he SAARC Golf Championship The selectors differed on the inter- Bhatia has to sit out. The outcome of cess from the point of view of the or- Seoul Olympics were allowed to com- played at the Delhi Golf Club is pretation as some felt that it should the meeting is clearly seen as a terri- ganisers. Hosting an international pete by the US Olympic Committee somewhat unique, combining spo- be the calendar year while the others ble blow to the proxy king. T event at Jodhpur, which has not even (USOC) despite failing drug tests. rt with diplomacy. The fifth of the se-

Gagan hits ton: Gagan Kho- CAPITAL SPORT Shubhangi elected: Former da hit a strokeful 103 to guide cricketer Shubhangi Kulkarni Dempo defeat ONGC beat Rajasthan Colts by arm to claim 3 for 15 to help his Wonder in semis: In the 4th was on Sunday elected the 8 wickets in the semifinal of the team book a summit clash with Namdhari Cup, Wonder Club new secretary of the Women’s Hussain lists his targets Om Nath Sood memorial crick- ONGC. defeated Harry Cricket Club by Cricket Association of India, Tollygunge 3-2 Rajasthan Colts: 239 for 8 in 40 overs et tournament. Besides Khoda, 40 runs to advance to the defeating incumbent Anuradha London: England captain Hussain, 35, wrote in the Indies are due to tour Eng- Kolkata: Dempo Sports (Rohit Sharma 91, Sunil Joshi 3 for 38) Dutt in the elections held in Nasser Sunday Telegraph. “This land - explained Hussain. Ajay Ratra chipped in a scintil- ONGC: 242 for 2 in 34.2 overs (Gagan semifinal. Rishabh Srivastava Club, Goa, overcame a strong lating 72 for the winners. who bagged 4 for 29 was the New Delhi. The 44-year-old Hussain summer we have two against “Stepping down as captain challenge from Tollygunge Khoda 103, Ajay Ratra 72). Shubhangi, who represented In the other semifinal, riding on chief architects of victory. has said he Zimbabwe, then five against of the England One-day side Agragami to prevail 3-2 in a India in 18 Tests and 27 One- Pankaj Thakur’s all-round per- FCI: 187 in 39.2 overs (Akash Malhotra Wonder Club: 183 for 5 in 25 overs wants to South Africa ... obviously opens the door for a seventh National Football formance, FCI defeated Air Sa- 53, Pankaj Yadav 36, Dinesh Yadav 4 for (Akash Kumar 96, Vikas Garg 4 for 31) day internationals between play 100 “This winter we may have new leader, but I did that be- 1976 and 1991, won by 16 League encounter here on hara by 53 runs. Pankaj scored a 23) Air Sahara: 122 in 31.4 overs Harry CC: 143 in 21.4 overs (Vikash Tests, be- as many as nine Tests; three cause I think the England stubborn 36 and then turned his (Pankaj Thakur 3 for 15). Garg 61, Rishabh Srivastava 4 for 29). votes to 10 against Dutt. Sunday. Clifford Miranda, E come his in Sri Lanka, two in One-day side will be better off B Chenna and Stanley Colaco country’s Bangladesh, four in the West without me, just as I think, at found the target for the win- longest Indies. “That makes - given the moment, the Test side will ners who finished their en- serving skipper and lead the selection and barring injury - be better off with me.” Eng- gagements with 35 points team to more Test victories 97 Tests. “In other words, I land’s longest serving captain from 22 matches. For the lo- than anyone else before he want to continue to play until is Hussain’s former team- cals, Niladri Chakraborty retires. “As for the first goal, I the end of next summer” - mate Michael Atherton who and Ashim Biswas reduced have played 81 Tests so far,” when New Zealand and West led his country in 54 Tests. AFP the margin. PTI Mohammedan held CROSS COUNTRY TIMES NEWS NETWORK hopes of State Bank of Tra- Vijayalakshmi bags crown vancore, who will take on Mo- Mumbai: Grandmaster Nguyen Anh Dung of Vietnam won New Delhi: The excitement hammedan Sporting in the in the final round of the sec- the Commonwealth men’s chess title when he drew his tenth concluding match on Tuesday. and last round match against Indian GM Dibyendu Barua. ond division National Football Both Haywards and Mo- League remained alive as the Woman Grandmaster S Vijayalakshmi of India won the hammedan have four points women’s title with a victory in her tenth round game. match between Mohammedan each while SBT have three Following is the standings: 1. Ngyyen Anh Dung (8.5-Vietnam). 2. Kasimdzhanov Rus- Sporting, and Haywards points to their credit. tom (7.5-Uzbek), Vladimirov Evgeny (7.5-Kaz), Dibyendu Barua (7.5-India), S Vijalakshmi Sporting de Goa ended in a Delhi is always a home (7.5- India). PTI goalless at the Ambedkar Sta- away from home for the black dium on Sunday. and white outfit but the Sun- The barren draw between day crowd went back disap- Delhi rout Chandigarh 10-0 the two top teams raised the pointed. New Delhi: Delhi registered a convincing 10-0 win over neighbour Chandigarh in the North Zone qualifying round match for the National under-21 football championship for M. Begum Mohra favoured Dutta Roy Trophy. According to the information received TIMES NEWS NETWORK 1,200m: Sikander 1, Super Trooper 2, Car- here, Amit Rawat and Kuldeep Thariyal scored three each nival Crown 3. Comfort Zone Plate: while Saurav Bist scored twice. Skipper Irfan Khan and New Delhi: Begum Mohra is 1,200m: Magical Hawk 1, Pyara Sathi 2, Anant Thapa scored one apiece. AFP likely to claim the Mo- Champion Reef 3. hammed Ali Memorial Tro- Swift And Silent stuns: phy, the main event of the Swift And Silent lifted the Rastogi enters main draw Delhi races on Monday. Trainer’s Trophy at the Selections: Imperial Gold Plate (div.I): Mumbai races on Sunday. New Delhi: Sixteen-year old Karan Rastogi defeated Aus- 1,000m: 3.15pm: Jayashree 1, Gran Geste Results: Gratitude Plate: Millennium King tralian Luke Bourgeois 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 to enter the main draw of 2, Fire Spell 3. Imperial Gold Plate (div.II); 1, Where Eagls Dare 2, Norton 3. Wisdon- 1,000m: Beauty of Iran 1, Kanishka 2, High mPlate: Secret Path 1, Divine Elegance 2, the $25,000 servo ATP challenger tennis tournament. Vishal Yield 3. Creativity Plate: 1,100m: Brave Yannis 3. Classic story Plate (div.II): Bal- Uppal won 6-3, 7-6, (7/2) against Nathan Healey of Australia Lancer 1, Strides of Success 2, Most lina 1, My way 2, star Trustee 3. Trainers in the third round. Durablle 3. Mohd Ali Memorial Trophy: Trophy: Swift And Silent 1, Montekin 2, Results (Qualifying, 3rd round): Jonathan Marray (GBR) bt Tushar Liberhan 6-2, 6-1; 1,100m: Begum Mohra 1, Decptive Move Race The Moon 3. Jockey’s Trophy: An- Vishal Uppal bt Nathan Healey (GBR) 6-3, 7-6 (7/2); Karan Rastogi bt Luke Bourgeois (Aus) 2, Pacific Queen 3. Good Bye Cup: tilles 1, Czai 2, Al Gibran 3. 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Jonathan Erlich (Isr) bt Somdev Dev Verman 6-2, 1-6, 1-6. PTI THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLENCE AFP FOOTBALL Premiership, England: Birmingham 3 Middlesbrough 0, Bolton 2 Arsenal 2, Charlton 2 Southampton 1, Chelsea 1 Fulham 1, Everton 2 Aston Villa 1, Leeds 2 Blackburn 3, Sunderland 0 Newcastle 1, West Brom 0 Liverpool 6 German Bundesliga: 1860 Munich 0 Borussia Dortmund 0, Borussia M’glad- bach 2 Bayer Leverkusen 2, Hamburg 4 Nurnberg 0, Hertha Berlin 2 Hannover 96 0, Schalke 1 VFL Bochum 2, VfB Stuttgart 1 Hansa Rostock 1, Wolfsburg 0 Bayern Munich 2, Bayern Munich champions. Italian Serie A: Atalanta 2 Torino 2, Roma 2 AC Milan 1 Spanish Primera Liga: Athletic Bilbao 3 Real Betis 1,Atletico Madrid 0 Osasuna 1 TENNIS ATP Tour Open Seat Godo, Barcelona (semifinals): 2-Carlos Moya (Spa) beat 16-Agustin Calleri (Arg) 7-6 (7-2) 6-2, 4- Marat Safin (Rus) beat 1-Juan Carlos Fer- rero (Spa) 6-4 6-3. US Men’s claycourt championships, Houston (semifinal): 2-Andy Roddick (USA) beat Olivier Mutis (Fra) 4-6 6-1 6- 2, 1-Andre Agassi (USA) beat Jurgen Melzer (Aut) 6-4 6-1. GOLF Houston Open, Humble, Texas: 3rd round (par 72, USA unless stated) - 200 Fred Couples 65 68 67; 201 Mark Calcavecchia 68 65 68; 202 Stuart Ap- pleby (Aus) 66 70 66; 203 Trevor Immel- man (Rsa) 70 68 65; 204 David Suther- land 69 67 68, Robert Gamez 71 66 67, MONKEY BUSINESS: Security personnel take off a soccer maniac who snatched at Jay Haas 67 67 70, Scott McCarron 69 Bayern Munich’s Giovanne Elber’s (R) pants after Bayern secured their German soccer 68 67; 205 John Riegger 70 68 67. championship title.

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Armin Kremer (R) and his co-driver Fred Berssen of Team MRF display trophies after winning the APRC inaugural round in the Subaru Rally in Canberra, Australia, on Sunday. By Sukhwant Basra Then Argyle had a flat in the The Aussies continued TIMES NEWS NETWORK final stage and had to limp their jig on their home Canberra: In the blink of a home to the finish. Such are ground as they took the top moment, a second elapses. the fortunes of motorsport. It four spots of the rally. They But in rallying it can spell does get kind of close. Shop- were, however, competing forever. After 263 kms and ping in the speed zone is all only for the Australian Rally three days of gravel wrest- about minding the pennies. Championship. This is Sub- ing, Team MRF’s Armin Kre- Doppelreiter came in third aru land and two of them mer shaved the clock 0.7 sec- in the unmodified cars cate- landed on the podium. The onds abreast of the competi- gory. The wilds of Canberra team dedicated their per- tion to register a landmark lived up to their car-chomp- formance to their Boss Pos- for Indian motorsport. This ing ways as 11 crashed out sum Bourne who’s confined seconds tinged historic as it to hospital after an accident a handed MRF the first win for SUBARU RALLY week ago. an Indian team in the Asia- The APRC results (final): Overall: Armin Pacific Rally Championship over the weekend. A total off Kremer/Fred Berssen (Team MRF Tyres, 22 made it through. Lancer Evo 7) 1 (2hrs, 53mins, 56.7secs); Ge- on Sunday. off Argyle/Steve Smith (Racetech Seats, It did go down to the wire. The rally was held up, be- Lancer Evo 6.5) 2 (2:53:57.4); Fumio Nuta- Kremer edged ahead of Day lieve it or not for 20 minutes, hara/Satoshi Hayashi (Advan-Piaa, Lancer Evo 7) 3 (2:54:05.5); Chris Atkinson/Ben One leader Geoff Argyle in because cows were found Atkinson (Monster Sport, Suzuki Ignis Super the 22nd and last stage of the wandering on the track! Yes, 1600) 4 (3:03:36.7); Brian Green/Fleur Peder- event and that too only be- it happens even in Australia. sen (Racetech Seats, Lancer Evo 6) 5 (3:06:13.8); David Doppelreiter/Ola Fioene cause he changed his suspen- The skies continued to pour (Team MRF, Lancer Evo 7) 6 (3:06:19.0); At- sion just before he went in. and the track churned into sushi Masumura/Yukinori Fukumura (Super Feeling the car behave a bit slush. In spite of the chill in Alex, Lancer) 7 (3:17:56.9); Haruo Takakuwa/Paul Flintoft (SMSGH Takakuwa, funny,he ripped off the parts the air, overnight leader Impreza) 8 (3:19:02.5). from teammate David Dop- Japanese Fumio Nutaharas Group A (modified cars): Argyle/Smith 1; pelreiter. And the original car decided to overheat. Atkinson/Atkinson 2; Green/Pedersen 3. part broke down under Dop- Thus his chances for the top Group N (unmodified): Kremer/Berssen 1; pelreiter after the first 100 spot boiled over and he Nutahara/Hayashi 2; Doppelreiter/Feone 3; meters of the stage itself. spilled to third. Masumara/Fakumara 4; Takakuwa/Flintoft 5.

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