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Established 1838 Gingee, Ajit Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. too far Life’s aspirations come in Lok Nayak bridge the guise of children. from Laxmi Nagar to — Rabindranath Tagore quit ahead ITO to remain closed for load bearing stud- ies from 8 pm today to 8 am on Monday of reshuffle Traffic load will be diverted to Old ITO By Smita Gupta Bridge which will be TIMES NEWS NETWORK The churning made two way New Delhi: The resigna- •Rajnath Singh may tions late on Friday of agri- get agriculture ministry culture minister Ajit Singh Gingee Ramachandran and minister of state for fi- • may be replaced by nance Gingee Ramachan- C Krishnan dran paved the way for the entry of two new faces in the •Shahnawaz may go out Vajpayee ministry. of civil aviation BJP sources said party NEWS DIGEST general secretary Rajnath Singh would replace Ajit to bring in a minister each SP move: The Samajwadi Party Singh in the same portfolio, from the election-bound Cranes parked all along has clarified that it is ready to align while Ramachandran’s states of Madhya Pradesh the ITO bridge with the Congress in UP for next MDMK colleague, most like- and Rajasthan, Prahlad Patel year’s polls and has no reservations ly C Krishnan, would take and Kailash Meghwal, re- Alternate routes about Congress chief Sonia Gandhi his place. spectively, with minister of • Nizamuddin Bridge leading such an alliance. P11 After a late evening meet- state status. From South & Cent Delhi Gates grant: The disbursal of the ing at the Prime Minister’s Indian Federal Democratic • Nizamuddin Bridge $100 million Gates Foundation grant SNAP VICTORY: Two elated students of Convent of Jesus and Mary capture their moment of triumph by clicking a residence, attended by Party convener P C Thomas to reduce HIV transmission in India photograph of themselves on a mobile after getting their CBSE class XII results in New Delhi on Friday. Deputy Prime Minister Ad- from Kerala and T Chauba & Noida Toll Bridge will begin from July and will be used vani, finance minister Singh of the Manipur State For South Delhi to address high-risk groups in the Jaswant Singh and BJP pres- Congress Party — which re- 100 high prevalence districts.P8 ident Venkaiah Naidu, at cently merged with the BJP • Okhla Barrage Resolution welcomed: India which the case of civil avia- — may also find berths as From Okhla, Sarita Vihar, Delhi improves its report card tion minister Syed Shah- ministers of state, to give the welcomed the UN Security Council Faridabad nawaz Hussain about whom changes an all-India look. resolution on Iraq as it will pave the TIMES NEWS NETWORK poor marking of the English core • Pontoon Bridge way for rebuilding of the war-devas- serious allegations have sur- Trinamul chief Mamata CBSE ranking papers. A typical case is that of a tated country. P8 New Delhi: The suspense has fi- faced was again considered, Banerjee will be back in the From Old Delhi student from St Columba’s who it was decided to move him to Cabinet, with BJP sources Union of states: The standing nally been broken. The Class XII Pass percentages in schools • Old Bridge or scored above 90 in all other sub- a lesser portfolio. saying she will get either committee meeting in Hyderabad of CBSE results are out. The good Wazirabad Bridge news is that Delhi students seem to CENTRES Pvt Govt jects and got a 60 in English core. On Thursday,he was being coal or civil aviation; the BJP the Southern Zonal Council, attend- Principal of DPS R K Puram, Dr From north Delhi ed by chief secretaries, reached a have done better than last year considered for youth affairs would, however, like to keep Delhi Shyama Chona said: ‘‘There are broad agreement on forming a union with the total pass percentage go- 90.48 77.09 and sports; on Friday, there civil aviation. Mamata’s col- nearly 40 students in my school of southern states for economic ing up to 74.63 per cent. This brings Ajmer 83.99 7.44 was even talk of a new min- league, Sudip Bandopadhyay, From ITO to cooperation. P11 up Delhi’s position to a respectable who have got scores averaging 90 in istry of minority affairs be- is going to make it as a min- Laxmi Nagar third out of the six CBSE zones. Chandigarh all subjects except English where ing created for him. ister of state. Biswas interrogated: Former 79.85 81.14 However, though the CBSE web- they have scored in the 60s.’’ At a meeting earlier in the Textiles minister Kashi- Distance increased form CBI additional director U N Biswas site had 60 lakh hits till 12 noon, Allahabad 72.58 — Perspective: While heartily con- day at the Prime Minister’s ram Rana appeared to be the 3.4 km to 9.1 km was interrogated by Narcotics Con- (via Nizammudin Bridge) trol Bureau officials in Kolkata in many students were unable to Guwahati 71.94 50.14 gratulating and applauding those residence — when BJP gen- frontrunner for the rural de- connection with the drug haul from check their results due to massive who have excelled, a word of con- eral secretary Pramod Maha- velopment ministry, now an Travel time increases by his tenant’s premises last week. P7 power cuts in the morning in areas Chennai 90.36 75.08 solation to those who haven’t done jan was present in addition additional charge with ur- 20 minutes such as Lajpat Nagar, Munirka, as well as they hoped: Don’t worry, to Advani, Jaswant Singh ban development minister YOU SAID IT by Laxman and Noida. A few students went to you’re in excellent company,for the and Naidu — it was decided Ananth Kumar. their schools to find out the results. given by CBSE chairman Ashok list of achievers who fared poorly The pass percentage for girls was Ganguly. Out of the 1,32,300 stu- in school includes Winston 81.22 per cent and for boys a dismal dents from Delhi, 16,289 will have Churchill and Albert Einstein. 68.75 per cent. ‘‘Girls appear to be to appear for compartmental ex- Also, let’s not forget famous drop- more focused and have fewer dis- ams this year. A common com- outs like Bill Gates and our very tractions,’’ was the explanation plaint in Delhi schools was the own Dhirubhai Ambani. For many, IRS is ‘I Rob Service’ By Pratyush Kanth TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mantras to attain lucrative posts New Delhi: The arrest of income- • Play golf. It will im- grandchildren biwi-bachche shopping tax deputy commissioner Anurag prove your networking • Call up the batch- and pick up the tab, Vardhan has once again exposed the with your top bosses, mate who got on the re- smarmily making them sordid story behind postings in the plus their businessmen cent transfer list and promise, ji, that they will Indian Revenue Service. Greed, not Where have I the time to attend dosts and political wheedle out his ‘con- come again official matters? Ever since I need, determines where many mem- dalals tact’ and the going rate • An extravagant Diwali bers of the service want to work. became a minister, all my time is • Send two new air for this posting gift opens the doors to spent defending myself against I-T officials told The Times of In- dia that cities like Mumbai, Delhi, conditioners to your • Keep your political the seniormost homes opposition attacks, allegations, senior every summer charges... Chennai, Bangalore, Calcutta, Hy- contacts well-lubricated • When there’s a mar- derabad, Ahmedabad and Surat are • Throw lavish parties at all times.Shower riage in your family, preferred not because they offer a for him and his hang- them with the latest your boss’s wife should indiatimes.com POLL good quality of life but because they ers-on. Organise a show-off gizmos get a diamond set be- Would you prefer to see Aishwarya Rai in offer greater pickings. Corrupt offi- magic show for his • Take your senior’s fore the bride. traditional Indian attire at Cannes rather cials mint crores. ‘‘Tax evaders in than in western outfits? the metros find it easy to buy off cor- where tax payers’ grievances are set- charges and it means fistfuls of mon- Yes 89% No 11% rupt officials and the risk of getting tled, is another prime posting. ey every day. The ‘most wanted’ caught with the grease money is low- ‘‘The rate of the posting depends posts in customs are air cargo, sea VOTE NOW : Do you agree that fidelity and er. Smaller towns offer khudra on positions, for example a deputy ports, inland container depots and abstinence, and not condoms, should be paisa (small change),’’ confessed an commissioner’s posting in Mumbai, airports. the focus of anti-AIDS campaigns? official. like Anurag Vardhan’s, comes at Rs A posting for a deputy commis- Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 The most coveted I-T postings are 10 lakh. A commissioner has to pay sioner in Mumbai costs Rs 15 lakh those where top businessmen, pro- Rs 15 lakh,’’ said a source. and for a top commissioner the go- fessionals and companies are as- In customs, all postings which ing rate is Rs 50 lakh,’’ said a source. sessed. Search and seizure wings deal with trade on a day-to-day basis The top city postings for customs of- which carry out raids are also are considered to be a rich mine. ficials are Mumbai, Chennai, Kand- sought after. The appeals wing, ‘‘These posts are called ‘current’ la, Delhi, Cochin and Kolkata. WEATHER Now playing: An Indian Beautiful Mind Max: 34.5oC / Min: 21.2oC Neelabh Sunset: Saturday: 7.10 pm By Chidanand Rajghatta Ramanujan had come to Cam- Sunrise: Sunday: 5.26 am TIMES NEWS NETWORK bridge in the early 20th century at Moonset: Saturday: 1.17 pm the invitation of English mathe- Washington: It was sheer chance Moonrise: Sunday: 2.15 am matician G H Hardy,who spotted his that Prof Krishnaswami Alladi and Partly cloudy sky with the possibility of genius through correspondence. Prof George Andrews heard about a rain or thunder storm in some areas. Maxi- Hardy was a stentorian atheist who new play centred on the Indian mum relative humidity on Friday 96% and valued rational thought and intellec- minimum 54%. mathematician Srinivasa Ramanu- jan while on a visit to San Francisco tual rigour.Ramanujan was a devout for a conference of the American and religious man who attributed Mathematical Society. his gifts to Goddess Namagiri. Actually,they should have known. Drawing on the contrast and bond Prof Andrews is considered the between these two men, and throw- world’s foremost authority on ing in a goddess and a legendary Ramanujan and had discovered the mathematical figure Pierre de Fer- lost notebooks of the Indian genius mat into the equation, Hauptman in 1976. Prof Alladi chairs the confected a play that is being re- University of Florida’s Department viewed as witty, intelligent and sur- of Math, whose periodical edited told there were just two tickets left. prisingly accessible to the math- by him is called The Ramanujan ‘‘We could not believe our luck be- challenged. Book your Classifieds Journal. cause it was Saturday evening and Hauptman, who teaches theatre at 24 hours service: “51-666-888” But, unknown to them, a little we called just a few hours before the Queens College in New York, said he Times InfoLine “516-86-86-8” known American playwright who play,’’ Prof Alladi said. had been struck by Ramanujan’s sto- The ATM of information hadn’t studied math beyond high ‘‘But I had a feeling that the God- ry ever since he read about him in dess of Namakkal had preserved high school and was determined to The Largest Classifieds Site school and never been to India had written a play that opened to these seats for us.’’ The goddess is write a play about him. rave reviews at the Bay Area’s Auro- one of the central characters of Ira Critics have noted that Partition ra Theatre last month. Hauptman’s play Partition — so comes after the success of several * 24 + 8 pages of Delhi Times When Prof Andrews called to called after an area of math Ra- math-based stories like Proof, + 10 pages of Times Property check for ticket availability, he was manujan worked on. Arcadia, and A Beautiful Mind.
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2 Saturday,May 24, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi Score well and have a ball Sanjay Sekhri To chat on SMS send 'cchat'
The sweet smell of success Pulkit Gambhir, the Delhi topper Unfazed by the sudden media attention for topping the CBSE exam in Delhi, Pulkit Gambhir is concentrating on the IIT en- trance exam. A student of Delhi Public School, R K Puram, Gambhir scored 95.8 per cent in science. ‘‘It’s nice to be a topper. I used to read about toppers in the past, but now everybody is going to read about me,’’ he said. On his mantra of success, Pulkit said: ‘‘I have no idea. The day I find out, I’ll be the happiest man on earth,’’ he said non- chalantly. His mother Rohini Gambhir, a financial analyst, said:‘‘I knew he was brilliant, but now he’s proved it. As a working mother I used to feel guilty leaving him, but now I feel its the quality of time that one spends with the child that matters.’’ Amit Gera A student of Lovely Public School, Priyadarshini Vihar, Gera has scored 91.2 per cent in science. Having preformed excellently in CBSE, Gera is now preparing for the IIT exam.
Shobhit Gogia Is the top scorer from Amity Inter- national School, Noida, with an ag- gregate of 93.2 per cent. He attrib- utes his success to the hard work, his parents and teachers. Nidhi Gupta Has scored 100 per cent in mathe- matics. Her aggregate in com- merce is 93.4 per cent. A student of Sachdeva Public School, Gupta as- pires to do her MBA and join the Indian Administrative Services.
Megha Agarwal Has scored 92 per cent in com- merce. A student of Bal Bharati School, she used to study almost 10 hours a day. She didn’t step out of house from January onwards.
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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Saturday,May 24, 2003 3
THE GREAT DIVIDES Language barrier crops up again What you can do, I can do better
TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK sexes.‘‘Girls are more focussed, less dis- HINDI VS ENGLISH GIRLS VS BOYS tracted than boys,’’ he says. New Delhi: That Delhi suffers from a New Delhi: Boys not girls were the He adds that girls take subjects like language divide has been proven by the weaker sex in this year. The gender war humanities, home science etc which CBSE result. While 93.6 per cent stu- Hindi aside, the half-a- decade old trend of 81.2 % 68.8 % have a higher mean of pass percentages dents passed in Hindi elective, only 35.9 Elective girls outstripping boys in the CBSE than boys who take science and com- per cent managed to pass in English board examinations seems to be prov- merce. elective. 93.6 % ing this. This year too the pass percent- the difference continues to catch notice. ‘‘The mean pass percentages for sub- The CBSE has no explanation, except age for girls stands at 81.22 while for Last year, the pass percentage for girls jects like physics, chemistry, maths is that fewer students opt for the latter. boys its an ignominious 68.75. was 77.74 while for boys it was 64.86. more extreme. Either you pass or you The pass percentage in science sub- English While the gap has remained consis- According to Chairman CBSE, Ashok fail, averages are against it,’’he says. jects was comparable, with 82.9 per cent tent at 12 percent since last year with Ganguly, the difference can be attrib- That aside there really appears to be passing in physics, 81.5 per cent in Elective both sexes improving at the same rate, uted to characteristic features of both no apparent reason for this gap. chemistry and 83.7 per cent in biology. Incidentally, 86 per cent students man- 35.9 % aged to clear maths, known for induc- ing phobia in students. The highest pass percentage was in Hindi (93.6), fol- marks above 95 per cent in subjects oth- the morale of the students. lowed by business studies (91.2). Despite the fact that the pass percent- er than English. ‘‘It’s hard to believe Some of the principals have shot mis- age in English core was 86.6 per cent, it that students fared badly in English. sives to the CBSE chairman, requesting appeared to be the most hated subject These are students who won interna- an inquiry into the matter. ‘‘There are after declaration of result. For the Eng- tional essay competitions and debates,’’ at least 40 students who are high scorers lish score remained in the 60s. Take the principal Ameeta Wattal said. but have scored in 60s in English...,’’ instance of Springdales, Pusa Road, She said low marks in English had said DPS, R K Puram, principal Shyama which had at least 20 students who got pulled down the average and affected Chona. State schools get their act together TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Can you compare oranges GOVT VS PRIVATE to apples? According to Rajendra Ku- mar, director, Delhi, this is the same as Public comparing the performance of govern- ment schools and independent public Schools schools. For many years now, govern- ment schools had been consistently lag- 90.5 % ging behind public schools in the per- centage of students who had passed. Last year, the gap was around 12 per- Govt cent with the pass percentage of gov- ernment schools being 72.77 and public Schools schools 90.22. This year the gap has re- duced although it remains significant. 76.3 % Government schools pass percentage stands at an improved 76.28 per cent while public schools have a pass per This year, Rajendra Kumar says that Government schools have often been centage of 90.48. government schools are to be congratu- accused of dragging down the overall The reason for a low pass percentage lated rather than pilloried for their per- pass percentage of Delhi due to their according Rajendra Kumar is not that formance. Education minister Raj Ku- poor performance. government schools do not have good mar Chauhan attributes this to regular This year though, the pass percent- teachers or facilities.‘‘Many of our stu- inspections, building of question age of Delhi has gone up by three per- dents do not get adequate amount of at- banks, and dedicated teaching. After cent from last year. tention at home, nor do they have the all, says Chauhan, the majority of chil- • The results team: Pallavi Majumdar, kind of environment that would push dren studying in government schools Nistula Hebbar, Himanshi Dhawan, them towards academics,’’ says he. come from JJ and slum clusters. Anuradha Mukherjee, Hena Shah Schools wear a deserted look as students log on the Internet TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Taking a lesson from its experience last year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), decided to put the Class 12 results on its website on Friday morning. However, a number of students across the city complained that they could not log on. The rush to find out results was such, that the site was clogged with demands. Till 12 pm, the website recorded over 60 lakh hits from all over India. Ankit Srivastav, a Class 12 student of Assisi Convent in Noida, tried to access his result on the Internet. After trying to log on for over six hours, he de- cided to visit his school to check the result. ‘‘Ankit had asked me to check his result as my office connec- tion is faster. I kept trying to open the website from 9.30 am to 4 pm, but I was not successful,’’ said Radhika Sharma, Ankit’s aunt. In many parts of the city,stu- dents were left in the lurch due to long-drawn power cuts. Areas like Lajpat Nagar, Munirka and Noida experienced massive power failures in the morning. Students were seen hanging outside cyber cafes, waiting for the electricity supply to be re- stored. ‘‘There’s no electricity here. I have been waiting for the past two hours,’’ said Arnab Chat- terjee of Naval Public School, who was waiting to log on to the Net. Very few students, howev- er,went to their schools to check results. Most schools in the city were near deserted with most stu- dents choosing to check their results on the Internet. Schools like DPS, Mathura Road, Mater Dei Convent and St Columba’s were mostly empty. Only a handful of students had dropped in to ‘‘meet friends or double check their marks’’. Class 12 student attempts suicide
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Having failed in Class 12 exams, a girl set herself ablaze in Kalyanpuri on Friday. She suffered 95 per cent burns and was admitted in Guru Tegh Bahadur hospital. ‘‘After returning home, she set herself afire. The neigh- bours tried to rescue her,’’ said a police official. In another inci- dent, an 18-year-old girl hung herself on Thursday night in Siddharth basti in south Delhi. She reportedly left a note saying she had perfomed badly in ex- ams and wanted to end her life.
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4 Saturday,May 24, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi
FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at many Pak diplomat 2 dead in police encounter places in Andaman and Nicobar islands, Orissa and Ut- NATIONAL tranchal, at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam TIMES NEWS NETWORK Upadhyay. Mumbai: I-A 0700, and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Piped gas for S Delhi faces charges ‘‘The persons in the car 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, west Bengal and Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Ghaziabad: Two unidenti- 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and coastal Andhra Pradesh and at By Shubhajit Roy stopped the vehicle on the 2300 Jet Air 0650, fied assailants were killed in isolated places in Jharkhand, Bihar, Chattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, TIMES NEWS NETWORK Overview & plan for next 5 years road near Lal Kuan flyover 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, a crossfire with the police Kerala and Lakshadweep. for funding and ran towards Chipiana 1935, 2030, 2200, near national highway (NH- Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD New Delhi: Several south Planned areas for next 5 years Areas to be taken up shortly village. They were firing 1520, 1800, 2025 Delhi colonies will get con- 24) on Friday.A revolver, two KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min Areas executed Execution in progress terrorists gunshots at the police,’’ a po- 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 39 21 Guwahati 30 24 Amsterdam 16 11 nected to piped natural gas pistols and several live and Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 34 28 Dehradun 35 19 Bahrain 40 29 lice official said. (PNG) supply in a month’s TIMES NEWS NETWORK empty cartridges were also Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 44 30 Hyd’bad 43 — Bangkok 36 26 recovered from the spot. While two of them died, CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 35 23 Indore 40 26 Beijing 30 16 time. The fuel will be sup- one managed to escape in the 0640,0955★★★ Bangalore 35 22 Jaipur 41 30 Chicago 14 04 plied to only those house- New Delhi: The special cell According to local police, 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 40 23 Geneva 16 08 three persons were travelling cross-fire. The police is yet to 0645,1900 Lucknow 31 23 holds which will use it for has filed a chargesheet Hong Kong 32 27 find the antecedents of those BANGALORE: T’puram 34 25 Patna 34 26 cooking purposes. against former Pakistani in a Toyota Qualis at high I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 41 28 Rajkot 38 27 London 17 13 Shahdara killed in the firing. But they B’eshwar 39 24 Shimla 26 10 Los Angeles 31 14 The Indraprastha Gas North Delhi deputy high commissioner to speed on Friday evening, Jet Air 0635,1715, found that the vehicle, in Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 36 23 Srinagar 20 12 Moscow 27 12 Limited (IGL) is expecting India, Jaleel Abbas Gilani in when the police was alerted. HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 about 4,000 consumers here. connection with the alleged ‘‘We were near Lal Kuan po- which they were travelling, GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS Sahara 1200 ‘‘The pipe-laying work is in funding of separatists in In- lice post when we were had been stolen from Gur- KULU: Jagson 0630, dia. informed about the speed- gaon. The police has started 0650, 1215 ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on progress. We will soon be Central Delhi 23.05.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. ing vehicle going from Hapur search operations for the AHMEDABAD: ready to supply to the houses Noida Gilani was, however,put in I-A 0600,1700★★1845, column number two, a per- to Delhi,’’ said Kavi Nagar third man, who managed to Jet Air 0610 Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl in south Delhi,’’ said A K De, GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: NORTH IGL’s managing director. son who is not being sent up police officer Shatrughan give the police a slip. I-A 0555★★, 1010• 4033 Jammu Mail 26.05 03.06 16.06 03.06 At present, there are 8,000 South Delhi for trial. A senior police offi- ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 27.06 24.06 03.06 households in Delhi which cer said:‘‘He cannot be sent Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, 2403 Jammu Exp 28.05 17.06 17.06 18.06 R Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST get the gas in their kitchens, for trial because he enjoys Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 27.05 30.05 30.05 — E 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 much like tap water. Besides, diplomatic immunity.’’ Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, 2304 Poorva Exp 28.05 11.06 18.06 18.06 (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 26.05 10.06 16.05 17.06 there are 75 restaurants and pleted in December last year. west Delhi are also likely to The others who have been M Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 20.06 27.06 23.06 11 five star hotels which are The colonies to be connect- have the facility. charged under various sec- INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 04.06 09.06 09.06 tions of Pota are Anjum Za- E 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 26.05 05.06 06.06 connected to the supply. ed in a month or so include Piped natural gas not just BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 26.05 27.05 26.05 29.05 IGL’s head of PNG, Nizamuddin, Jangpura, Lod- ensures uninterrupted gas marud Habib and Shabeer M Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 03.07 24.06 Ahmed Dhar. Habib and A-I 0050 (IC-855) Peeyush Tripathi, said: hi colony, New Friends’ supply,but also controlled us- B 5622 North East Exp — 23.06 27.06 24.06 Dhar were arrested on Feb- FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 26.05 11.06 12.06 17.06 ‘‘Once we lay our pipelines, colony, Sukhdev Vihar, age. 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 05.06 23.06 14.06 we can easily cover many Bharat Nagar, Sarita Vihar, ‘‘It can be used from cook- ruary 6 for allegedly piping R AMSTERDAM: North 2802 Purshottam Exp — 17.06 18.06 16.06 south Delhi colonies. We Jorbagh, Asiad village, ing and heating water to run- money from Gilani to Kash- west 0140 (NW-037) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 24.06 24.06 13.06 A LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 25.05 29.05 02.06 09.06 have plans to spread to far- Chanakyapuri, Connaught ning air-conditioners,’’ said mir-based terrorist organisa- 0210 (BA-142) WEST flung areas in the east and Place, Sarojini Nagar, Naoro- an official. The installation tions. N PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail 03.06 16.06 17.06 18.06 Habib was apprehended by 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 01.06 17.06 20.06 23.06 north-west Delhi as well.’’ ji Nagar, Neeti Bagh and Gul- costs are also reasonable. C A-I 0735 (AI-141) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 11.06 16.06 16.06 — The ambitious Rs 400-crore mohar Park. ‘‘We charge Rs 5,000 for in- a team of the special cell For booking: E SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 09.06 12.06 16.06 — project launched in 1998 to ‘‘By the end of 2003, about stalling a regulator, pipes, from Nehru Park. She be- Airlines 2315 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 26.06 26.06 19.06 provide PNG is now limited 23,000 consumers are expect- valve and meter inside the longs to Khwateen-e-Markaz (SQ-407), I-A 0500 1078 Jhelum Exp — 02.07 23.06 19.06 Remembrance (IC-855) 2916 Ashram Exp 31.05 22.06 23.06 12.06 to areas like Kaka Nagar, ed to be brought under the house. If the user wants us to which is one of the wings of ROME/GENEVA: SOUTH Bapa Nagar, Pandara Road, fold of piped gas,’’ claimed connect it to the bathroom, All Party Hurriyat Confer- (with photo): ‘God’s A-I 0350 (AI-171) 2616 G T Exp 05.06 16.06 22.06 09.06 Pandara Park, Sunder Nagar, another official. The areas we do it with additional ence (APHC). Rs. 1200/- for 10 lines; HONG KONG/OSAKA: 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 10.06 16.06 22.06 10.06 finger A-I 2320 (AI-318) 2432 Trivandrum Raj 24.06 06.07 01.07 — Golf Links and Sujan Singh where the project is being charges,’’ said Tripathi. Her accomplice, Shabeer each extra line 2626 Kerala Exp — 23.06 19.06 17.06 Park. considered are Patparganj The price too, according to Ahmed Dhar, was arrested AIR INDIA 2618 Mangala Exp — 26.06 23.06 12.06 on the same day from Rs. 250/-. touched MUMBAI: 2628 Karnataka Exp — 20.06 21.06 18.06 Tripathi said the expan- and Mayur Vihar in the east IGL, works out to be cheaper 0520 (AI 136), 2145 2724 A P Exp 16.06 22.06 22.06 12.06 sion plans for PNG got a ma- and Vasant Kunj, Vasant Vi- than LPG. ‘‘It is 10 per cent Malviya Nagar where he Obituary, Ceremony, him, and (AI 309), 2205 (AI 311), 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 14.06 30.06 30.06 — jor boost ever since the 45-km har and JNU in the south. Ro- cheaper than LPG,’’ said the runs an organisation, Kash- In Memoriam 2330 (AI 112) 7022 Dakshin Express — 16.06 — 09.06 No. of passengers dealt on 22.05.2003 (Delhi Area): 65,768 (N. Rly. Area) circular pipeline was com- hini and Pitampura in north- official. mir Awareness Bureau. The (all without photo): he A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,75,436. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all team had recovered Rs 3.70 (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for Rs. 275/- for four lines; (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: slept.’ 23323310, Singapore Airlines computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. lakh from Habib. During lat- 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 (Information supplied by Indian Railways) er raids at the Kashmir each extra line Rs. 50/- Awareness Bureau office, the -Tennyson For information, police team further seized Rs call: 23302351 two lakh, incriminating doc- 51-666-888 DDA cancels uments and video films. allotted land for misuse TIMES NEWS NETWORK functionaries in exchange of favours. New Delhi: The Delhi De- The Hari Chand velopment Authority Prakash Wanti Charitable (DDA), on Friday, can- Society’s building in Siri celled the land allotment to Fort had allotted a large three institutions run by portion of its building to a master fixer Dharambir bank. A section of the Khattar. The institutions building was also being were allegedly misusing used as a hotel. the land for commercial The land was allotted to purpose. the Society in 1982 and ille- Land allotted to a chari- gal activity was detected in table trust in Siri Fort In- 1998. ‘‘The allotment of the stitutional Area, a nursery land was cancelled in 1998, school in Vasant Kunj and but Khattar a religious The Chandni Chowk festival, which begins from Sunday, will showcase the cultural flavour of had managed the country. Organised by Union minister of state (labour and parliamentary affairs), Vijay trust in East to hold on to Patel would Goel, the festival will have a bouquet of performances ranging from a ballet to Mushaira and DDAGATE the property Nautanki to folk items. Mumbai-based singers KK, Penaz Masani and Suresh Wadekar will be reclaimed using his by the DDA. also present patriotic songs during the festival. Old and beautiful havelis of Chandni Chowk links with DDA brass,’’ will also be opened for public view. A foodie’s delight, the festival will offer the specialties ‘‘The authority has is- said an official. from Old Delhi cuisines. sued eviction orders to the institutions. All three A plot allotted to Hari properties will be seized Prakash Educational Wel- by June-end,’’ said a senior fare Society for running a 2 killed, 1 hurt by DDA official. nursery school had been In all three cases, the converted into a hostel. land was allotted at a con- ‘‘The allotment was can- armed assailants cessional rate. Khattar, an celled after the DDA land accused in DDA land scam, scam. The Society has TIMES NEWS NETWORK Meena is Azad’s second was allegedly misusing the been given time to hand wife and Gaurav is the eldest New Delhi: Two persons, in- land as hotels and offices. over possession to DDA. son of Gobind Sharma, who The hotels, CBI officials The occupants will be cluding a woman, were stays in K-block in the same said, were frequented by forcefully evicted if they stabbed to death by two locality.The police have ruled call girls. Khattar alleged- do not comply with the armed persons on Friday in out robbery as the motive be- ly used their services to eviction order,’’ said an northwest Delhi. According hind the incident. oblige senior government official. to police, the incident took Gulshan told the local po- place in the house of one lice that two assailants en- Nand Lal Azad at D-44/A, tered the house and attacked Rama Vihar in Sultanpuri at the inmates with knives. As a Khattar’s kin held about 3 am. result of the stab wounds, Azad is an electrical engi- Meena and Guarav died on New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) neer with the Delhi Develop- has arrested Devender Khattar, younger brother of al- the spot, while Purnima was ment Authority and was not rushed to Sanjay Gandhi leged middleman in DDA scam Dharambir Khattar, for present in the house at the allegedly purchasing 24.66 kg of gold to gift to former Memorial Hospital in Mongol time of incident. Four per- high court judge Shameet Mukherjee and sacked DDA Puri. sons were there in the house. vice-chairman Subhash Sharma. The message has been sent They were Azad’s wife, The CBI said Devender Khattar bought the gold from to Azad at his native place in Meena (40), his daughter MMTC’s retail sales counter at Jhandewalan for Rs 1.44 Uttar Pradesh and efforts are Purnima (21), son, Gulshan crore. The investigating agency, which had raided De- being made to contact other vender’s premises on May 19, claimed Dharambir Khat- (14) and Gulshan’s friend, relatives of the deceased. tar provided him the money to purchase the gold. Guarav (18). Presently, Gulshan is under Devender has been arrested in the case in which The police said Meena and the care of the local police. Mukherjee is accused of accepting illegal gratification Gaurav died in the incident, The police said the mode of from Dharambir Khattar and property dealer Vinod while Purnima is still in a entry suggests it was friendly Khatri for passing an order in their favour. TNN critical condition. Gulshan as there are no signs of force- escaped unhurt. ful entry.
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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Saturday,May 24, 2003 5 Money fuels transfers in income-tax and customs By Pratyush Kanth in Mumbai, has once again and customs officials. Had he been in customs, he har. He did geography (honours) said, ‘‘We lay traps for all corrupt sent a clear message that both the TIMES NEWS NETWORK proved that the transfer and ‘‘Money begets money in both would have been caught paying from Patna university and mar- officials. But the raids on former services need cleaning up. posting policies followed by these services. Officials make more,’’ said a source. ried a girl from another caste customs chief B P Verma, other ‘‘Both the income-tax and the New Delhi: The arrest of deputy both the Central Board of Direct money and then bribe their sen- Anurag Vardhan’s colleague against the wishes of his parents, customs officials, and also on the customs officials have a lot of commissioner (income-tax) Taxes (CBDT) and Central Board iors, politicians or dalals who from the 1994 batch told The without taking any dowry. He I-T officials shows that we are public dealing to do and hence Anurag Vardhan by the Central Excise and Customs (CBEC) is move freely in the North Block for Times of India that he was a ‘‘sim- changed after his posting to getting maximum information some of the officials start abusing Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on flawed. a more lucrative posting. ple and fairly honest’’ officer Chennai and nine years later has about corruption from these serv- their power and take bribes. Even Thursday, for allegedly paying a CBI sources said that over the Vardhan was caught paying Rs when he began his career. landed himself in CBI custody,’’ ices.’’ A source in the CBDT said the government is suffering a bribe to a minister’s personal as- past one year,raids have been car- four lakh because he was in the ‘‘Anurag’s father and father-in- said a bureaucrat friend of his. all the raids conducted by the CBI huge revenue loss due to these sistant for a more lucrative post ried out on about 100 income-tax income-tax department. law both were IAS officers in Bi- A senior official in the CBI on the IRS officials recently has corrupt officials,’’ said a source. Another top I-T official arrested by CBI PTI TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The arrest of a personal assistant to the minister of state for finance and a deputy commissioner of income-tax on Thursday night seems to have opened a Pandora’s box for the depart- ment. The CBI on Friday con- ducted raids on the premises of another income-tax offi- cial C M Naik, an assistant commissioner.While moving an application seeking cus- tody of Perumalswamy, per- sonal assistant to the minis- ter of state for finance, and Anurag Vardhan, the tainted income-tax deputy commis- sioner, the CBI said they were awaiting results of the raids at Naik’s house. The agency also claimed Perumalswamy alias Babu, PA to Union minister of state that more income-tax offi- for finance Gingee Ramachandran, taken into the custody, cials may be involved in the after the CBI arrested him for taking bribe to fix an official scam. ‘‘The accused need to transfer in New Delhi on Thursday. be interrogated to unearth involvement of other per- in his transfer performa. sons in this racket,’’ CBI Vardhan’s advocate Di- said. nesh Mathur denied the alle- Associate held Vardhan, meanwhile, gations. While opposing New Delhi: The CBI claimed he had sought his CBI’s application seeking have arrested one more transfer to Mumbai for his Vardhan’s custody, Mathur person in connection submitted his client’s chil- children who are reportedly with the bribery case. dren had not had food since suffering from Autism. Even Padmanabhan works as Thursday night. ‘‘Only their in his transfer performa a project associate in father can help them eat,’’ Vardhan claimed that his IIT, Delhi. The accused Mathur said. three-and-half year old son is had apparently accom- suffering from Prevasive De- Perumalswamy, who al- panied Perumalswamy velopmental Disorder and legedly accepted money from to Vardhan’s house on Vardhan to facilitate his has speaking problem. Thursday night. transfer to Mumbai, too de- Vardhan further said that Padmanbhan denied nied the allegations. his son is getting treatment the allegations in the from a Mumbai-based hospi- Additional sessions judge court. He said:‘‘Al- tal and there has been con- Prem Kumar, however, re- though I had gone with siderable improvement in manded both to CBI custody. Perumalswamy I stayed his health. ‘‘My wife and my- While the CBI had sought 10 in the drawing room days’ custody for both, the self have to visit Mumbai while he and Vardhan judge remanded Vardhan for every three weeks which is went into another four days. Perumalswamy difficult physically as well as room.’’ financially,’’ Vardhan stated was remanded for 10 days. Minor abducted, police question role of journalist By Maneesh Pandey ‘‘I’ve received calls from TIMES NEWS NETWORK Faisal that Asmita is very de- pressed and apparently tried New Delhi: A minor girl was to blackmail me emotionally. allegedly abducted from a The boy and girl knew each five-star hotel in New Delhi other from Lucknow and I district on the night of May was being pressurised to al- 18. low them to get married. I did The police raided the not approve of the marriage house of a journalist in south as my daughter is still a mi- Delhi late on Thursday night nor,’’ he said. in the case. Deputy commissioner of The Lucknow-based girl, police (New Delhi) Manoj Asmita, who will complete 17 Lall confirmed the incident, years in July, is the daughter but refused to comment, say- of a businessman, Amar ing the case is under investi- Singh. gation. Singh had checked in room But it is learnt that police number 1730 of Inter-Conti- raided Zafar Agha’s house in nental hotel alongwith his Hauz Khas at 10 pm on Thurs- family, including two daugh- day. ters, on May 16. Agha is a journalist with a Singh said Asmita went news portal and Faisal is the out of the room to listen to a nephew of his wife. A case of mobile call at 11.10 pm and kidnapping a minor has been went missing after that. He registered in the Connaught said: ‘‘After waiting for a Place police station. while, I called on her mobile Singh told the police that and she told me not to worry. when he came to Delhi in The phone was switched off April, Aga’s wife had called after that.’’ him to allow the two to get The family was to leave the married. city on May 21. The father has Singh alleged that the boy alleged that his daughter had is in regular touch with her. been kidnapped by one Faisal He had also received Faisal’s (26), son of an advocate from call once on May 19 and an- Lucknow. other on May 21. Truck owner held in road rage case TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: With the arrest of the owner of the truck that crushed Rajinder Singh, the younger brother of city’s Con- gress leader,the northwest dis- trict police claimed to have solved the road rage case of Wednesday night in Azadpur area. Singh (49), the younger brother of Harcharan Singh Josh who is secretary in All-In- dia Congress Committee, was killed following an altercation with driver of a truck having a Himachal registration num- ber. The incident occurred at 10.30 pm on G T Karnal Road, opposite fruit mandi. The police arrested Jagdish Sood, a resident of Shimla, Hi- machal Pradesh. Sood admit- ted the involvement of his truck in the accident.
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6 Saturday,May 24, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi J&K’s shock and awe operation AFP By Rajat Pandit The groundwork for the TIMES NEWS NETWORK massive Army operation, ap- proved at the highest levels, Surankote: It’s an ideal began in January itself. ‘‘We mountainous area for guerril- used the winter months to las to set up ‘‘secure bases’’ construct three helipads at and plan terror strikes in pop- the Wansi, Said Baker and ulation centres elsewhere. Ranjati ridges, at an average The thickly forested terrain is height of 10,000 feet,’’ said rugged, with ridges and rivers Maj-Gen Lidder. difficult to negotiate. The period was also used to The area remains snow- surreptitiously construct bound for several months. ‘‘mule tracks’’ and ‘‘forward What makes it even more for- dump stores’’ for troops. The bidding is the sheer absence of second phase saw the Army roads, or any civil administra- preventing the Gujjars and tion worth its name. It takes Bakarwals, nomadic tribes, over 10 hours of strenuous from venturing into the hills. trekking to reach the area. ‘‘The Central government ap- So, it’s no wonder that proved Rs 7.5 crore compensa- Army’s Operation Sarp tion package for them and it Vinash (annihilation of paid handsome dividends snakes) was planned meticu- since we deprived the terror- lously to smoke out the well- ists of their eyes and ears,’’ entrenched terrorists who said Maj-Gen Lidder. had established underground Phase three saw an estimat- bunkers and hideouts in the ed 10,000 troops, including Hill Kaka mountains over the special forces and Rashtriya last three to four years. Rifles, backed by assault heli- ‘‘The aim was to shock and copters, swing into action Soldiers patrol in Jaran Walan Gali, an Indo-Pak border area around 250 kms from Jammu, on Friday. awe them...we killed 62 terror- with well-coordinated as- ists and destroyed 94 hideouts saults. The first attack on officer, adding that the Army, satellite phone, three cellular and caches. The operation is April 22 left 13 terrorists dead in turn, lost only two soldiers. phones, and surgical and med- still on and we are hunting the and their resistance crumbled Assault rifles, rocket-pro- ical equipment. The satellite ones who fled the area,’’ said soon after. pelled grenades, explosives, phone was used for calls to Rashtriya Rifles’ Romeo Force ‘‘Most of those killed are Pika machine guns and anti- Kotli, Sailkot, Abbotabad and commander, Maj-GenHardev Pakistanis. One terrorist even personnel mines, among other Muzaffarabad in Pakistan; Lidder, on Friday.Around 300- had his photograph taken in weapons, were seized in large Mumbai, Kolkata, Kanpur, 350 terrorists were probably front of the India Gate and numbers. Ahmedabad in India; and based in the area. Parliament in Delhi,’’ said an The Army even found a even Kuwait. Inching ahead towards airborne radars TIMES NEWS NETWORK ter a high-powered Israeli dele- deal. It said the US had earlier surised Israel into cancelling a gation led by Maj-Gen Yosi Ben objected to the deal because of similar signed deal with China New Delhi: India has moved Hannan visited India for ne- rising tensions between India in 2000. closer to acquiring the Air- borne Warning and Control gotitions with his Indian coun- and Pakistan. Incidentally, Israeli Prime Systems (AWACS) with the US terparts. Though there is no American Minister Ariel Sharon is ex- reportedly giving the go-ahead The Israeli newspaper, equipment involved in the pected to visit India in the near to Israel to sell the Phalcon air- Haaretz, on Thursday reported Phalcon radars, Tel Aviv coor- future. Israel in recent years borne early warning radars to that Washington had lifted all dinates its defence sales with has become one of the largest New Delhi. its objections, without any con- Washington. suppliers of military hardware The move comes a month af- ditions or limitations, about the The US had earlier pres- and software to India.
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PTI Trinamul split over who joins Mamata in Delhi TIMES NEWS NETWORK berth, his rivals have MP for a Cabinet berth. backed MP Akbar Ali A visibly angry Mamata Kolkata: Possibilities of Khondekar, arguing that walked out of a Press con- the Trinamul Congress’ re- this would help the Trina- ference in Kolkata after me- entry into the Union cabi- mul regain its support base diapersons told her that net has given rise to bitter among the minorities. Sudip Banerjee had met rivalry in the party,sources Sources say Trinamul Union home minister L K in Kolkata said on Thurs- Congress chief Mamata Advani to demand greater day. Banerjee, peeved over the representation of the Tri- With party MP Sudip ongoing feud, had told her namul in the Cabinet. ‘‘Any Banerjee beginning an in- close circles that she would party MP is entitled to meet BJP and Akali Dal activists protesting against a hike in water tariffs during a Matka Phodo tense campaign to bag a not recommend any other national leaders. But I did Andolan at the municipal corporation office in Ludhiana on Friday. Left for broader writers’ unity have shifted focus from the like Gaddar and Jawala- was outside the ambit of pol- electoral battle to a battle for mukhi. itics. ‘‘There is no question of the mind. As an important Since then, the idea has political parties coming into against first step, it has proposed a done the rounds of such or- the picture; The battle broad front for writers, ganisations in different parts against obscurantist, conser- artists and theatre activists of the country. The Indian vative and reactionary think- against communal, conserva- People’s Theatre Association ing is in the realm of ideas — com- tive and obscurantist forces. (IPTA) headed by veteran ac- that battle is important.’’ The idea was first mooted tor A K Hangal and the PWA If their share of the vote in at the national conference of have agreed that there is a both assembly and Parlia- the Progressive Writers As- need for wider unity of writ- mentary elections in the re- munal- sociation at Hyderabad last ers and artists against com- cent past is any indicator, the month. The PWA session munalism and ‘‘imperialist Left parties have seen a adopted a resolution calling conspiracies to enslave the steady erosion in their mass for a wider front that would world through economic base. The collapse of the So- ism go beyond the Left orbit. bondage and military viet Union and globalisation TIMES NEWS NETWORK Cultural activists from the means’’. are cited by the Left ideo- New Delhi: Aware that it is Naxalite factions attended Asked about the unity ef- logues as reasons for the de- no longer growing as a politi- the session. Among them fort, CPI general secretary A cline. cal force, the Left seems to were popular personalities B Bardhan insisted that it Apparently knowing that NCB questions Biswas Kolkata: Top officials of the hints at the presence of a major Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) interantional drug cartel in the on Friday interrogated former metropolis. CBI additional director U N Confirming this development, Biswas in connection with the Banibrata Basu, DIG, CID (spe- major drug haul from his ten- cial), said they have already ant’s premises last week. moved a court for permission to Biswas’s questioning follows interrogate the arrested in this the arrest of a casual employee connection. of Mizoram House here who The NCB sleuths had earlier gave his name as a reference to N arrested five foreigners from Thanga, the Mizo tenant of the Thanga’s residence in the Salt former CBI additional director, Lake area during a raid on May NCB sources said. 17 and had seized 24 kg of drugs The sources, however, refused valued at Rs five crore. to divulge further details, saying Thanga, however, had ab- the questioning was still on. sconded. Thanga’s wife and Meanwhile, the state police brother have been detained in have also begun a parallel in- Shillong, Meghalaya for interro- quiry into the drug bust which gation. PTI Social Welfare Board’s pro- grammes re- dundant: CAG
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Fifty years after it was set up to help disadvantaged women and children, the programmes run by the Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB) have failed to make a mark. Most of them have become redun- dant. It is time to reassess the need for continuing the board’s various activi- ties, says the latest report of the Comp- troller and Auditor-General (CAG), in effect hinting that the board should be wound up. Coming down heavily on the board’s functioning, the report says erratic funding has resulted in large unutilised funds while the funds which were released to NGOs were misused. No action was taken against errant NGOs though the programmes for which they were given money failed to yield the desired results. The state social welfare boards have also proved to be ineffective as they have not been given legal status, the re- port points out. According to the CAG report, the CSWB has over the years scaled down many of its programmes. For in- stance, under the programme of eco- nomic empowerment, only 39 produc- tion units were sanctioned during 1996-2002 against 537 units in 1994-95. No grants have been sanctioned under the agro-based dairy units for the past six years. In several other cases, the pro- grammes have proved to be non- starters as the money allocated for them are all used for salaries. The report points out that the entire grant of Rs 767 lakh ear- marked for community develop- ment schemes and 99 per cent of grants for the border areas proj- ects were used for payment of salaries and establishment charges. Less than one per cent of the money was available for the implementation of the pro- gramme. The socio-economic pro- gramme, meant to provide sus- tained employment to disadvan- taged women and handicapped persons, has also been going pro- gressively downhill. The report reveals that a large number of NGOs given funds under this scheme either did not establish the production units or were closed shortly after the initial take-off. In 2002, 418 units in 22 states, which were sanctioned Rs 3.18 crore, were closed. The loans advanced by the board have proved to be dead
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8 Saturday,May 24, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi Baby swaping case: Accused held Hyderabad: The police on place in the Nayapul govern- Friday arrested Mahmooda ment maternity hospital. Govt plans to promote Kashmir tourism in Gulf Begum, whose girl child had Latha had given birth to a been swapped with the male male child at the hospital. By M Saleem Pandit sites in the country would be for various tourism-related Earlier, the Centre had la, its electrification, con- and gurdwara renovated child of Latha, a resident of She filed a complaint with TIMES NEWS NETWORK highlighted, the primary fo- projected in Jammu and sanctioned Rs 1.07 crore for struction of a Yatrika and among other repairs. cus in the union tourism Kashmir. the famous Khir Bhawani repairing the fencing for the A shrine for the Muslims, neighbouring Ranga Reddy the police when she found Srinagar: To boost Kash- district. DNA tests conducted she had been handed over a ministry’s tourist map in The official said the shrine and Rs 1.03 crore for holy spring and premises at Aishmuqam, will also be de- mir tourism, the Centre has on Begum, Latha and the ba- girl child. The case had ex- the Gulf this year will be amount was meant for the the Mattan pilgrimages. Khir Bhawani. veloped. The proposed work decided to showcase Kash- bies have confirmed the posed chinks in the adminis- Kashmir, an official said. first phase of the 7 projects The funds for Khir At Mattan, a Yatrika and includes construction of a mir in the Gulf. He said the ministry has being taken by the state gov- Bhawani would be spent on public conveniences will be hall, pavements, fencing and swapping case. tration of government hospi- Though other tourism also sanctioned Rs 6.60 crore ernment with the Centre. renovating the dharamsha- constructed and the temple development of parks. The swapping had taken tals. TNN Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM CBI sees smoking gun in Gingee By Sanjay Dutta ice officers is a multi-tiered interrogation of all those ar- TIMES NEWS NETWORK one. Theoretically, names rested is likely to stick to Ra- and postings can be changed machandran. sets Chennai on fire New Delhi: Gingee Ra- on the transfer list at any The detectives say they are machandran’s resignation as stage. aware of Ramachandran’s TIMES NEWS NETWORK TOI minister of state for finance The CBI picked up its first ‘‘interest’’ in the transfer and a day after the CBI arrested clue from IIT-Delhi’s Centre postings of revenue officials. Chennai: The thermometer his personal assistant in- at the met station here reads for Atmospheric Studies. A So, is the former minister of creases the probability of the man identified as Padmanab- state the next target in the 43 degrees celcius. The sum- investigating agency train- mer is peaking. It is getting han, gave Swamy a ride on CBI’s sight? ‘‘That is certain- ing its sights on him in the his motorcycle to the ren- ly a logical possibility, hot and hotter. The city is revenue officers’ transfer parched— parched for good dezvous with Perumal on though officially there has scam. Thursday. not been any movement to music. The stage is perfect Though Ramachandran for Radio Mirchi. The CBI on Friday arrest- seek the government’s nod to has denied any knowledge of ed Padmanabhan and se- make a move against him,’’ There was an air of ex- his PA’s misdeeds, he is not pectancy at The Ball Room of cured court permission to one detective said. above suspicion, sources in keep him in custody for four The move will possibly Taj Coromandel. Vineet Jain, the agency say.However, offi- Managing Director, The days. come after the agency gath- cially the CBI is not talking. Some of the dirt that is ers more ammunition to nail Times of India Group and The procedure of effecting Chennai’s heartthrob Jyoti- sure to spill out in the next Ramachandran, the detec- the transfer of revenue serv- few days in the course of the tives said. ka take the trolley in a set- ting which replicated a cine- ma studio. Sonia writes to Addressing the media, Vineet Jain, Managing Director of The Times of India Group Jain said, ‘‘the launch of our and Chennai heartthrob Jyotika at the launch of Radio Mirchi PM on fighting station comes at a time when in Chennai. Radio Mirchi has established the world that even works in Bhubaneshwar and Jabalpur drought itself as a leader in Mumbai, recession. There is no reason pending), Radio Mirchi is TIMES NEWS NETWORK Indore, Ahmedabad, Pune, that it should not flourish in targeting a total addressable Delhi and Kolkata’’. India. population of 160 million New Delhi: Terming the The launch of Chennai ‘‘Every reform process has people. monsoon forecast uncertain and the soon-to- be launched its own hurdles. We, as the According to him, the cate- and unclear, Congress presi- stations in Bhubaneshwar leader in this nascent indus- gory of radio is ‘‘very power- dent Sonia Gandhi on and Jabalpur are steps to try, believe that a spirit of ful’’. This is because of af- Wednesday wrote to the translate ‘‘our national foot- partnership between the fordable cost, excellent reach Prime Minister seeking his print’’ strategy on ground, he Government and the private and the interactive medium. intervention to avoid added. Indeed, with the radio companies will ensure Jyotika, the sizzling drought-related distress and SARS scare forces launch of stations in four that the reform process in damsel from South Indian shortages in the coming metros, Radio Mirchi has this sector will be the second cinema, said, “Radio Mirchi months. now established itself as a big-bang success after tele- has hit Chennai like a storm. Sonia also asked for the re- postponement of National Brand. com and the issues facing the All my film colleagues are lit- vamping of the public distri- Recently some sections of industry will be ad- erally hooked on to Radio bution system that is now the media have reported on dressed,’’Jain added. Mirchi. ‘‘beyond the reach of the the fluctuating fortunes of Radio Mirchi had a soft This channel is for youth most vulnerable (sections)’’. Mansarovar yatra the private radio companies. launch on May 5 and ‘‘we are and for the old and impor- She urged the PM to consider TIMES NEWS NETWORK Normally, the yatra be- Is this a problem with radio overwhelmed by the initial tantly for the very young.’’ direct food transfer to vul- gins in mid-June and con- or is it a failure of the private research findings,’’ A P Pari- She added that it was indeed nerable groups like single- New Delhi: The Kailash tinues till September with radio companies? gi, CEO, Entertainment Net- beautiful to make people woman headed households. Mansarovar yatra has approximately 14 batches “I believe it is neither,’’ work India Ltd, brandowners hum a line in such a hectic ‘‘It would be a major been postoned indefinitely of pilgrims being sent Jain said and added that of Radio Mirchi, said. life. ‘‘This will bring real en- tragedy if, in spite of the due to the closure of the every week. Each batch commercial radio has a He said that after the first tertainment into our lives,’’ massive stocks of foodgrains, Tibetan Autonomous Re- has about 35-40 pilgrims. proven revenue model across phase (with two stations in she quipped. we are not able to prevent dis- gion (TAR). The Indian Announcing the post- government was informed ponement of the yatra, the by the Chinese authorities external affairs ministry that they were not allow- said on Thursday that the ing any tourists into the draw for the selection of TAR in an effort to keep yatris was also being post- the area SARS free. poned. The draw would be Therefore, the yatra held once there was confir- which passes through the mation of the yatra and Lipulekh pass, has been the number of batches and postponed till the Chinese the yatris would be adjust- government opens up the ed according to the quan- route. tum of delay.
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SC order on VRS Gates Foundation aid will target high-risk HIV groups New Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that once TIMES NEWS NETWORK the Bill and Melinda Gates tion of India. Alexander said reached. The Foundation intravenous drug users, an employer accepts the Foundation assistance, direc- National reach the IOC, with 2,000 retail out- would help set up mobile truck drivers and other iden- voluntary retirement New Delhi: The 100 million tor, India AIDS Initiative, lets on highways would pro- clinics for treatment of STI tifiable clients of sex work- dollar Gates Foundation •Foundation will work with IOC and scheme application of an Ashok Alexander, told TNN Trucking Corporation of India vide the points for communi- and also create a national STI ers. He said the high-risk employee, the latter can- grant to reduce HIV trans- that the Foundation has cation as well as treatment franchise whereby quacks groups had still not been suf- not withdraw from the mission in India will be used worked on a programme of •IOC’s 2,000 retail outlets will be points for sexually-transmitted in- could be encouraged to refer ficiently covered. scheme even if he contin- primarily to address high- action that is scaled, focussed for communication and treatment fections. people to MBBS doctors. As for not going to states ues in service beyond the risk groups in the 100 ‘high and integrated and could Trucking Corporation will provide 50 The Trucking Corporation Alexander said while the the where the infection rates cut-off date due to lack of • prevalence’ districts. The dis- well present a new model on to 75 such halts of India, again with a AIDS virus may have moved are still not known to be funds to settle his dues. bursal of the money will prevention. tremendous reach all over In- into the general population, high, Alexander said: ‘‘We’re This ruling was given start on July. The Foundation would dia, would provide 50 to 75 there was still a need to focus not leaving them out. We’re on Thursday by a Bench Laying down a road map work with a district focus as programme. To begin with, it — the Indian Oil Corporation halting points for trucks on the high risk groups, such just deferring them by six while disposing of a batch for an effective utilisation of also have a national highway has identified two partners and the Trucking Corpora- where interventions could be as commercial sex workers, months or so.’’ of petitions concerning the VRS acceptance of certain employees of Andhra Pradesh State In- dustrial Development Corporation. PTI DF partners divided on Jalgaon bank controversy TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: Twenty ministers of the Nationalist Congress Party,including deputy chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal, have called on chief minister Sushilkumar Shinde thrice in the recent past seeking the transfer of commissioner for cooperation Ratnakar Gaik- wad. So far, the CM has not given his consent. The demand for the trans- fer stems from Gaikwad’s non-implementation of a stay order passed by minister of state for cooperation Babasaheb Kupekar. The issue relates to the re- cent corruption accusations made by social activist Anna Hazare against minister for food and civil supplies Suresh Jain, also of the NCP. Jain was chairman of the Jalgaon district cooperative bank from 1992 to 1996 and for a brief while thereafter. Recently, due to irregulari- ties, NABARD ordered that the bank’s board of directors be replaced by an adminis- trator.Kupekar subsequently stayed the appointment of the administrator but Gaik- wad has not implemented it. The matter is fast becom- ing a prestige issue between the Congress and the NCP, the two main constituents of the ruling Democratic Front (DF) government. Suresh Jain is spearhead- ing the campaign against Gaikwad. Several NCP lead- ers want Gaikwad removed because he is taking a tough stance against cooperative sugar factories that have financial irregularities. Samata MP takes on Nitish
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Railway minister Nitish Kumar is under fire from fellow Bihar MP from the Samata Party, Brah- manand Mandal, who has accused the former of corruption. Mandal, who belongs to the George Fernandes faction of the party, has written to Prime Minis- ter Atal Bihari Vajpayee seeking a Central Bu- reau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry into his al- legations. Asked about Mandal’s charges on the sidelines of a function on Tues- day, Nitish said his life was an open book and that he was ready for an inquiry by any agency. ‘‘But if these allegations are against the railway ministry and if he can substantiate them, I will get these charges looked into.’’ In his letter, Mandal has alleged that ‘‘most of the Railway contracts in Bihar have gone to known mafia gangs of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Their close- ness to Nitish Kumar is no more a secret’’. Referring to Bridge No 18 on Fathua-Hilsa rail section — that he claimed was damaged before its inauguration — Mandal alleged that ‘‘the underworld has been given full share of the railways’ contracts. There is every possibili- ty of major accidents happening and they are sure to involve huge loss of life and property’’. Mandal alleged that the crime mafia ob- tained railway construc- tion contracts after the pre-qualification condi- tion of ‘‘credential veri- fication’’ was done away with.
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IN BRIEF Govt okays NTPC BHEL’s 400 kv Certificate for NFL: National Fer- tilizers Limited has been accorded NHPC net up at sub-station ‘certificate of registration — quality Kahalgaon plan management system’ by the British in Karnataka Standards Institution Management TIMES NEWS NETWORK Systems for its corporate and cen- Rs 511 crore TIMES NEWS NETWORK tral marketing office for compliance New Delhi: The power ministry has cleared TIMES NEWS NETWORK during the current fiscal, he with the requirements of ISO 9001, National Thermal Power Corporation’s Rs said. Work on the 300 mw New Delhi: The first 400 kv 2000. TNN 5,500 crore plan to raise the capacity of Ka- New Delhi: National Hydro- Chamera Stage-II project in step-up sub-station of Kar- halgaon super thermal power project in Bi- electric Power Corporation nataka, constructed by PowerGrid TL commissioned: har from 840 mw to 2,340 mw, according to Himachal was likely to be (NHPC) has reported a net Bharat Heavy Electricals Suresh Prabhu, former Union minis- chairman C P Jain. commissioned next month, profit of Rs 511.4 crore in 2002- Limited(BHEL) on turnkey ter of power, felicitated R P Singh, Work for setting up two 500 mw units while 390 mw Dulhasti project 03, up from Rs 470.9 cr in the basis, was on Thursday dedi- CMD, PowerGrid on the commis- would be taken up in the first phase and the will come later this year. sioning of 220 kv 41 km transmis- previous year, despite a drop cated to the people by the extension work is likely to be completed Prasad said the corporation sion line from Colvale to Ponda sub- in turnover. within 40 months. will invest Rs 32,226 cr during chief minister S M Krishna. stations in Goa, last week. The The turnover declined mar- National Thermal Power Corporation has the Tenth Plan. Of this, NHPC Set up at Talaguppa near transmission line was completed in ginally to Rs 1,327.45 cr from will get equity support of Rs already completed the earth-levelling works Shimoga, the sub-station record time and is expected to im- Rs 1,349.6 cr in the previous 14,200 crore from the Centre. and the tender for boilers, turbines and gen- will facilitate the flow of prove power supply in the state. TNN fiscal, which is a peculiar phe- He said part of the borrow- erators would be floated in June-July. power to the extent of 450 nomenon in the hydel sector. ing has already been tied up ICSI-SEBI seminar: A national Work on the third phase to set up another mw from Sharavathy to Announcing the unaudited while for the remaining seminar on ‘Securities Laws and 500 mw unit would commence after the com- Bangalore. financial results, chairman amount, NHPC is exploring Capital Market — the Road Ahead’, pletion of the first two units. BHEL’s scope of work en- Yogendra Prasad said NHPC the market. During the cur- was organised by the Institute of National Thermal Power Corporation gen- visaged design, manufacture, would add 18,789 mw by 2012. rent fiscal the corporation Company Secretaries of India and erated 140.87 billion units of power during erection, testing and com- ‘‘We will start work on various would tap the domestic bond the Securities and Exchange 2002-03, showing an increase of 5.76 per cent missioning of the sub-station projects totalling capacity ad- market for Rs 500 crore. Board of India in New Delhi on over the last year. on turnkey basis. dition of about 3,700 mw this The corporation has also Thursday. TNN The company has also formed a While the transformers year as most of the clearances sought offers from interna- The Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society, earlier and reactors were manufac- Feedback from PSUs is invited. subsidiary for generating hydro- electricity. have been acquired.’’ tional banks like ABN Amro, known as Instrumentation Society of America (ISA), Delhi Address mail to: News Editor, Times House, tured at BHEL’s Bhopal The chairman said the corporation had The corporation will com- Deutsche, Standard Chartered section, felicitated Rohit Bhardwaj (left in the picture), The Times of India, 7 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, plant, the circuit breakers executive director of Panipat refinery, for his outstanding New Delhi 110002. Fax (011) 371-5832, 332-3346. chalked out an ambitious plan to become a mission two projects adding and Credit Lyons to raise $350 contribution in the field of instrumentation and automation email ID: [email protected] 40,000 mw-plus power generating corpora- about 690 mw to its capacity million. were supplied by its Hyder- tion by the end of the year 2012. abad plant. over the years.
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INDIA DIGEST Katiyar to begin his AP SP favours tie-up with Congress yatra from today TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘trumped up’’ charges, were ac- TIMES NEWS NETWORK SP stand tually an indictment of the state the demand for the abroga- New Delhi: The Samajwadi Par- tion of Article 370, and the administration’s vindictive ap- ty has favoured a tie-up with the •No reservations about Sonia New Delhi: Development achievements of the BSP- proach. Congress in Uttar Pradesh for Gandhi leading the alliance has a new face in Uttar BJP coalition and the NDA He alleged that two upright po- next year’s general election and Pradesh. On Friday, BJP regime at the Centre would •The BJP has surrendered lice officers investigating the state president Vinay Kati- clarified it has no reservations itself to Mayawati be raised during his yatra. about Sonia Gandhi leading such Madhumita murder case had yar, describing the Ram tem- ‘‘The aim of the yatra is to an alliance. •The assembly byelection would been transferred for pursuing ple as a ‘‘development issue’’, widen the party base so as to ‘‘We made such a proposal be a test case for the ruling al- the right course. Expressing indicated it would be the in- ensure that we get a mandate long time back and it is hearten- liance’s future doubts about the impartiality of spiration for the jagran yatra similar to 1991 in the next the probe being conducted by the ing to learn that senior Congress •Attempt to arrest the top SP he is embarking on from Sat- elections and can then con- leader Arjun Singh has now leaders a conspiracy to give the state police, he demanded that urday in Garh Mukteshwar struct the Ram Temple,’’ he floated the idea,’’ SP general sec- alliance an empty field the case be handed over to the in UP, and which will con- said. Party president M retary Amar Singh said on Fri- CBI. clude in Varanasi on June 18. Venkaiah Naidu and Murli day. Singh claimed that the attempt The objective, he said, is to Manohar Joshi would also He said his party had called for ‘‘At the moment,the lotus (BJP Singh said the judgments by to arrest top SP leaders was part regain the 1991 mandate to participate in the yatra. a grand alliance to challenge the poll symbol) is in the mouth of the Supreme Court and the Luc- of a conspiracy to give the BJP- construct the temple in Ayod- Claiming that items sup- BJP-BSP combine in the state. the elephant (BSP symbol); we know Bench of the Allahabad BSP alliance an empty field in hya. Additionally,Muslim in- porting the existence of a want to see how long the BJP High Court, giving relief to SP the Lok Sabha election. vasions right up to Babar, Howrah Bridge as seen from Burra Singh claimed that the coming temple had been unearthed hums the hathi mere sathi tune,’’ president Mulayam Singh Yadav Bazaar in Kolkata. assembly byelection being fought ‘‘Mayawati has become an in- cultural nationalism, the during the current excava- together by the ruling alliance in he said claiming that the BJP had and himself against the strument in the hands of the BJP BJP’s troubled relationship tions in Ayodhya, Katiyar re- Curfew in Sarsa: Indefinite curfew UP would be a test case for its fu- surrendered itself to chief min- Mayawati government’s attempt leadership to do their dirty with the BSP,population con- peated his appeal to the Mus- was clamped on Sarsa village in ture. ister Mayawati in the state. to put them behind the bars on work,’’ he said. trol and the situation in Jam- lims to give up their claim to Anand district on Friday following mu and Kashmir, including the disputed site. clashes between Patels and Bhar- AP vads on Thursday. One person died Indian naval in the clash.TNN Gangster held: Underworld don Chhota Rajan’s associate Madhu ships in Unusual suspects Kuttappan, who hatched the con- spiracy to kill Dawood associate Sharad Shetty in Dubai, was arrested Persian Gulf from Antop Hill in Mumbai on Thurs- TIMES NEWS NETWORK rounded up in UP day night. TNN On board INS Mumbai: The TIMES NEWS NETWORK Anuj Misra became a target after re- 2 held in Mulund blast case: Indian Navy has begun de- Two men were arrested by the crime ports that air-tickets with the initials ploying its ships to the Per- Lucknow: All those with the initials branch from Kurla in Mumbai on Fri- Mrs AM were recovered from Madhu- sian Gulf and North Arabian ‘‘A M’’ and named Satya Prakash — mita’s house. Unaware that the air day in connection with the Mulund watch out. Despite being given a clean blast of March 13. The two, Rashid Sea to secure the country’s tickets had the name Mrs AM Tri- chit by the lone eye-witness of Mad- Ansari, 35, and Harun Rashid alias oil supplies, Rear Admiral pathi on it, the SO went all out to humita Shukla’s murder, some Lohar, 28, were booked under the Vijay Shankar said on Thurs- trace A M — who this time happened Prevention of Terrorism Act for being day. He was speaking to re- youths are paying for over-enthusias- to be Anuj Misra. tic police officials trying to favour ex- part of the conspiracy. TNN porters on board Navy’s Del- Anuj Mishra was targetted despite hi class destroyer, INS Mum- minister Amar Mani Tripathi. the fact that Deshraj gave him a clean Sky bus project: PM Atal Bihari bai, which participated in a The case may be with the CB-CID, chit. Reportedly, Rishi is still in the Vajpayee is expected to visit Goa in joint exercise with the Russ- but a handful of police officers are custody of Amar Mani’s men. June to kickstart work on the Rs ian navy in the Arabian Sea. trying to trace an A M for a Satya 350-crore Sky Bus Metro project be- Nearly 60 per cent of In- Prakash in their efforts to bail out ei- Madhumita case tween Mapusa and Panaji. TNN dia’s oil supplies come from ther Amar Mani Tripathi or the gov- CRPF in North-east: The Central the Persian Gulf. Private In- ernment. •Satte was tortured in police Reserve Police Force is gearing up dian shipping companies Sailors lined up on the bow of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva during the Indo-Russian One such case involved the Circle custody despite being given to take over counter-insurgency op- have appreciated the Navy’s naval exersise in the Arabian Sea off the Mumbai coast on Thursday. Officer (CO) Hazratganj Shailendra clean chit by witness erations from the Army in the North- presence in that region, as it Kumar Singh who picked up Satya Eastern states. Four CRPF battalions has resulted in lower premi- Prakash alias Satte, on Tuesday after- •Anuj Mishra targetted as his have already taken over from the ums for their vessels passing noon in spite of the fact that the one- airline ticket had the initials AM (Amar Mani Tripathi) BSF in Manipur. TNN during the Iraq war. Talks with Pak later: George time petty criminal had been given a Army team scales Everest: Currently,at least one ship clean chit by the Deshraj, the lone TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘When we reach the time for should be settled bilaterally.’’ Fourteen members of a joint Indo- of the Western Naval Com- eye-witness. talks it will be held, but it Parrying a question on in- Nepal Army climbed Everest early mand is on forward deploy- Chennai: The much-publi- Satte was taken to the Sultanganj ment. Indian naval ships are (the time) is not very close.’’ filtration, Fernandes said: HC nudge to probe Thursday. All 14 members, including cised talks between India and police station where he was allegedly also making port visits in the According to Fernandes, ‘‘There are days when our tortured. Satte was allegedly forced to TIMES NEWS NETWORK seven sherpas, scaled the peak Pakistan will not be held im- through the traditional South Col region and recently the INS the important fact is that troops gun down several in- admit to his involvement in the poet- mediately or in the near fu- Lucknow: After the High Court ad- route in three batches.TNN Mumbai paid a visit to Abu Pakistan has taken certain truders and days when there ess’ murder and that he was the fa- ture, as the Centre plans to Dhabi and Oman. decisions and asked some is no activity at all on the bor- ther of the child Madhumita was mitted the PIL, the CB CID on Thurs- New AIDS programme: The Vol- He said the defence estab- concentrate more on confi- terrorist groups and its lead- der. You can’t really say any- pregnant with at the time of the mur- day got the computer image of the untary Health Association of India lishment had taken a serious dence building measures, ers not to step into certain thing at the moment.’’ der. However, Satte was released the two assailants of Madhumita made has welcomed the decision of the note of Chinese naval activi- said Union defence minister areas. But, to what extent About the assistance pro- on the basis of description provided National AIDS Control Organisation next morning after a few journalists George Fernandes on Friday. these decisions are being im- vided by the armed forces to by the lone eye-witness of the killing to move away from a condomcentric ties on India’s western and came asking about him. Speaking after presenting plemented is not known. the Lankan administration — her domestic help, Deshraj. approach to one which emphasises eastern flanks. The Chinese In another such case, senior sub in- are helping build the Gwadar the gallantry and meritori- Ruling out the question of in flood relief, he said, all as- other routes of transmission. TNN spector Ganesh Bajpayee swooped A team of sleuths was dispatched port in Pakistan which can ous service medals to the third party intervention in sets have been put at Sri Lan- down at the hostel room of Anuj Mis- to Lakhimpur to bring in Madhumi- NHRC seeks report on Gujarat: be used as abase for their Coast Guard personnel at an the Kashmir issue, as sought ka’s command, as the Army, ra at IIT Kanpur and arrested Rishi ta’s sister to Lucknow so her state- The NHRC has asked Gujarat’s DGP warships, protecting tankers investiture ceremony here, by Pakistan, Fernandes said: Navy and the Air Force will Kumar Khare from the premises. ments could be recorded. to submit a report on protection to carrying oil back to China. the defence minister said: ‘‘Our stand is clear that it provide all the assistance. riot victims and witnesses deposing in various trial cases and the com- mission inquiring into last year’s vio- lence in two weeks. TNN ‘Secular’ Naidu still with NDA Ahimsa in politics: The Prime Minister, spelling out the moral Hyderabad: Putting his reported dif- But we have been very clear from the dilemma of a politician who wished ferences with the BJP leadership beginning that there will be no com- to practise ahimsa, said: ‘‘I have writ- over the Gujarat issue firmly behind promise on secularism,’’ Naidu said. ten a poem entitled, Main jang nahin him, TDP supremo and Andhra chief Making a distinction between ideo- hone doonga, but if a war is forced minister N Chandrababu Naidu on logical differences and practical po- on us, we will have to fight. When vi- Friday said he was looking forward litical engagement, he said: ‘‘We dif- olence is met with violence, then that to a continued and meaningful rela- fered with BJP leadership on Gujarat cannot be described as ahimsa or tionship with the NDA. and made our point forcefully.But de- non-violence.’’TNN ‘‘Our relationship will continue. velopment is on the agenda now.’’ BJP now says it backs Govt decision on CAS TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘The BJP has not taken any was ‘‘studying’’ the issue, stand on CAS. We are study- but added: ‘‘If there are any New Delhi: A day after BJP ing it and will talk to the in- suggestions from party president M Venkaiah formation and broadcasting members, we will forward Naidu said the implications minister about it.’’ them to the government.’’ of the controversial Condi- Party spokesperson Muk- tional Access System (CAS) His remarks are signifi- thar Abbas Naqvi went a cant since reports from the for cable TV viewers needed step further. He said that in party have suggested that to be studied, the BJP ap- principle, the party en- pears to have developed cold dorsed the government’s de- CAS would not go down well feet. cision to implement CAS. with its constituents. Stressing that the BJP was ‘‘The government has taken Naidu had said on not trying to stall the imple- a step in the right direction. Wednesday that he would mentation of CAS in the We are not in favour of discuss the matter with Ravi four metros from July 14, stalling it.’’ Shankar Prasad when the Naidu said on Thursday: He denied that the party latter returns from abroad. South set for economic zone TIMES NEWS NETWORK licit distribution of sandal- The key agenda wood oil. It was also decid- Hyderabad: The standing ed that the Regional Coor- committee meeting here of • South zonal council dination Committee com- the Southern Zonal Coun- seeks to prevent prising DGPs of the states cil (SZC) attended by chief inter-state crimes of the zone should meet at secretaries came to a broad • Plans intelligence- least once in a quarter. understanding on forming sharing to prevent There was unanimity a union of southern states communal clashes among all concerned on for extending cooperation imposing a ban on the op- on economic matters. The Export and tourism • eration of mechanised proposal was mooted by ad- promotion measures boats for fishing during the ditional chief secretary, also are of vital concern monsoon period in the in- Karnataka, J P Sharma. terest of preservation of The standing committee meeting of the council was marine wealth. of the SZC comprises chief held on August 20, 1997. The governments also secretaries of southern The committee dis- agreed to work out inter- states. Its main role is to cussed several issues of re- state tour packages. The monitor the progress of gional importance. Among proposal for an integrated implementation of recom- them were the need to de- waterways transport sys- mendations made by the vise measures to prevent tem connecting Kakinada SZC at its last meeting and inter-state crimes, energis- in the state with Mercu- scrutinise the agenda ing the field machinery to nam in Tamil Nadu was items sponsored by the gather intelligence to pre- found to be techno-econom- states and Central min- vent communal distur- ically feasible. istries concerned. bances, and export and It was also decided that Chief ministers and tourism promotion. urgent measures would be ministers from the states It was agreed that there taken for the improvement are members of the SZC should be closer inter-state of infrastructure facilities and the deputy prime min- coordination to tackle san- in each state in order to ister its chairman. The last dalwood smuggling and il- give a boost to exports.
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12 Saturday,May 24, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi EPF interest rate might be cut by 0.5 pc Rotation rules at TIMES NEWS NETWORK Sources say the Central Cut not hike retary in the labour min- cut would come after the GM crops panel Board of Trustees (CBT), istry Baleshwar Rai, felt general polls next year.’’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK the-parcel began, A M New Delhi: Unmindful of which runs the EPFO, •If accepted, the cut the cut was inevitable as Citing figures, he said at Gokhale chaired this com- Wednesday’s nationwide would take up the recom- the interest rates on spe- 9 per cent, the CBT, which New Delhi: Four chiefs in mittee. He moved out of the industrial strike and oppo- will be effective from five months. If that sounds mendation at its next April 1,retrospectively cial deposits have been re- manages the EPFO, would ministry in January. A new sition by Union labour meeting. If accepted, the duced by one per cent. be left with a deficit of Rs like a precarious job, it’s also additional secretary, Meena minister Sahib Singh, the rate cut will be effective •Labour unions had In fact, sources hinted 105.18 cr. But if it was one that becomes controver- Gupta, held fort briefly be- finance and investment restrospectively from been demanding a there could be a further brought down to 8.5 pc, sial with each meeting. It’s fore the charge was given to sub-committee of the Em- April 1. ‘‘There is no hike in the interest rate cut in EPF interest rate there would have been a the job of chairperson of the Sushma Choudhary.Now, it’s ployees Provident Fund chance of the CBT not ac- next year. A labour min- surplus of Rs 218.98 crore. genetic engineering approval Duggal’s turn amid rumours Organisation (EPFO) on cepting the rate cut,’’ a •But the panel felt the istry official said: ‘‘Keep- He felt the CBT would committee (GEAC) which is that he, too, may move out. Thursday recommended a committee member said. cut was inevitable ing public pressure in have been most comfort- coordinated by environment Where does this leave cut in the EPF interest Though labour unions mind, the recommended able if the interest was 8 ministry and which clears GEAC’s workload on decid- rate by 0.5 per cent — from had been demanding a the sub-committee, rate cut this time is only pc. The surplus thenwould genetically-modified (GM) ing the fate of GM crops and 9.5 per cent to 9 per cent. hike in the interest rate, chaired by additional sec- half a per cent. Another have been Rs 541.4 crore. crops for commercialisation. creating a monitoring mech- Till the game of passing- anism that is credible?
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The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Saturday,May 24, 2003 13 AP Samosas and the great Indian family cinema in UK By Rashmee Z Ahmed TIMES NEWS NETWORK London: Here’s a hot tip for Bollywood, as it struggles with years of declining ticket sales at home: Slash prices to the small change of 50 paise per ticket and fill cinema halls to overflowing. And in Britain and west- ern Europe, sell your block- busters to the world’s first no-frills, low-price cinema, which opened on Friday and get a headstart on Holly- wood’s biggest players — Co- lumbia Tristar, Warners, Universal Paramount, Fox and Disney. These may not be tips for A photograph taken by NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft shows the Earth as seen Hindi filmdom’s world domi- from Mars. The picture shows Earth from 86 million miles away as a small blue dot orbited by nance but Bollywood’s its even smaller moon. finest may do worse than lis- ten because they come exclu- sively from a man who pio- neered no-frills air travel and now wants the world to throng his new, no-frills cine- Sherpa sprints to the top ma halls. Multi-millionaire Stelios Haji-Ionannou, who de- scribes himself as a “serial of Everest in record time entrepreneur”, knows all AFP about adding up the small Kathmandu: A Nepali sherpa has set a change. record for the fastest ascent of Mount He’s cut out the popcorn, Everest by reaching the top of the world’s coke and ice cream and offers highest mountain in 12 hours and 45 min- film tickets for 20 pence each, utes, the tourism ministry said. just a fraction of the normal The record comes a week before the 50th price in Britain. anniversary of the first ascent of Everest He told this paper that his by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Nor- new, no-frills cinema hall, in gay and was achieved on the same route the small, soul-less British they had pioneered. Pemba Dorjie Sherpa, town of Milton Keynes near a 25-year-old guide, started from base camp London, was a great concept at 5,350 metres on Thursday afternoon and for the big Indian family. reached the summit on Friday morning, Tickets are cheap, audi- the ministry said. ences are encouraged to Normally,climbers take about a week to bring their own samosas, get from base camp to the top of the 8,850 onion bhajis or even peanuts metre mountain. The previous record was Indian-style, “provided they 16 hours and 56 minutes set three years ago Pemba Dorjee scaled the Everest on don’t make a mess”. Friday in a record time of 12 hrs 45 mins. by another sherpa, Babu Chiri. He died in Bollywood’s biggest pro- 2001 on another climb of Everest. “Pemba of this month, as part of the anniversary ducers can be confident they Dorjie Sherpa has been successful to set celebrations. will pack cinema halls to the world record of fastest climbing in 12 New Zealander Hillary, now 83, was in overflowing, he said. hours 45 minutes,” the ministry said. Nepal on Friday to be the guest of honour It is a great concept for Bol- Pemba, part of a Belgian expedition, fol- at a series of events in Kathmandu next lywood to partner, the 35- lowed the traditional South Col route that week. Tenzing died in 1986. More than year-old son of a Greek ship- had been used by Hillary and Tenzing. 1,200 climbers have reached the Everest ping magnate suggested. A record 65 expeditions are on Mount summit and 175 people have died on its Everest this season, which runs to the end slopes. Reuters For more go to www.timesofindia.com
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14 Saturday,May 24, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi Beauty and the Indian beau New York’s AROUND THE WORLD Reuters Reuters For diabetics, Ninth Symphony sold: mayor can The importance of Beethoven’s Ninth Sympho- ny, with its ecstatic Ode to go on and on Joy, was underlined Thurs- laughter is the day when the final manu- about J.Lo script, which was annotated by the composer, sold at New York: He’s a multibil- auction for $3.47 million. A lionaire, the mayor of New collection of Mozart sym- best medicine York City and someone who’d phonies was sold for a record $4 million at a 1987 auction. have no trouble finding a The previous owner of the New York: A small study glucose, both patients and date. But that hasn’t stopped shows that diabetics may be medical providers would Beethoven manuscript was a Michael Bloomberg from be- private foundation, which has better able to process the sug- recognise the importance of coming another star-struck ar they consume during it, and it would improve their not been identified. It report- fan when the topic turns to edly plans to use the money meals if they order a side of mental health” and quality of Jennifer Lopez. to set up a charitable fund. A laughter with their food. life, Hayashi said. ‘‘Jennifer Lopez is another single sheet of Beethoven’s Laugh if you will, but re- All of the diabetic patients great New Yorker,’’ the may- early draft of the opening of searchers in Japan found included in the study had or said. ‘‘She comes from the the Ninth sold last year for $2 that people with type 2 dia- type 2 diabetes, which occurs Bronx, and I’m here to... million, eight times more than betes — the most common when the body fails to re- umm ... make sure that I’m the estimated price. Reuters form of the disease — had a spond to insulin, the hor- willing to shake hands.’’ smaller rise in post-meal mone that clears the blood of Halle is the hottest: Hol- Pausing a moment, the lywood actress Halle Berry blood glucose (sugar) when sugar after a meal and de- mayor forced the issue with has been they watched a comedy show posits it into cells. the grace of a guy who’d just named as than when they listened to a During the study, reported watched an endless loop of world’s sexi- humourless lecture. in the May issue of the jour- J.Lo’s Jenny From the Block est woman The researchers, led by Dr nal Diabetes Care, Hayashi video, in which she cavorts by a FHM Keiko Hayashi from the Uni- and colleagues measured the on a yacht in a skimpy bikini. magazine versity of Tsukuba, also blood glucose levels of 19 dia- ‘‘I’d even have dinner with poll. The 34- found the same results in betics and five non-diabetics Jennifer Lopez,’’ he said. ‘‘I year-old ac- people without diabetes. before and after they ate the tress was the assume Jennifer Lopez Poorly controlled blood same meal. first black woman to top the would want to have dinner sugar can increase the risk of On one day, participants poll. The Oscar winner with me. I don’t know.I never diabetes complications such listened to a 40-minute lec- pipped Aussie pop princess met the young lady, but I’d Singer Britney Spears at a press conference in New York as heart disease, kidney fail- ture, which the researchers Holly Valance, 20, for the No. certainly be willing to.’’ on Thursday to announce a charity auction which will ure and blindness. describe as “monotonous” 1 spot, according to a report feature most of her stage costumes. The proceeds from When a reporter pointed Hayashi said people with and “without humorous con- in The Sun. However, the the auction will go to the Children’s Foundation. out that the mayor’s face ap- modest actress said, “I’m not diabetes have a lot to worry tent.” On the second day,par- peared to have reddened so sure if I live up to it.” Pop Dixie Chicks booed: For- Rod Stewart to divorce about —diet, exercise and ticipants watched a Japanese while he discussed the star Britney Spears, 21, was mer country music darlings wife: Veteran British rocker keeping their glucose and in- comedy show. the Dixie Chicks are still pay- Rod Stewart singer-actress, he replied, third. Among British women, sulin levels in check. And The researchers found that ing a price for criticising the is divorcing ‘‘Of course, I’ve always ex-S Club member Rachel stress is known to increase post-meal blood glucose lev- US-led war against Iraq. The his estranged British actress Elizabeth Hurley with her boyfriend, blushed.’’ Stevens, 25, was the highest the risk of elevated blood glu- els were higher after the bor- trio was snubbed at the wife, model Indian-born Arun Nayar, at the American Foundation for The mayor’s comments placed at No. 4. ANI cose, the researcher noted. ing lecture than after the Academy of Country Music Rachel AIDS Research (amFAR) benefit party hosted by Elizabeth came a day after he appeared “If positive emotion such comedy show, in diabetics Matrix director’s assets Awards on Wednesday while Hunter, Taylor during the Cannes film festival on Thursday. on a radio program and told a frozen: The Matrix Re- audience members booed Britain’s Sun as laughter reduced blood and non-diabetics alike. Reuters pair of disc jockeys, ‘‘I tell loaded may be one of the the very mention of the ab- newspaper you what — who I really want biggest movie hits of the sent group’s name. Instead reported Fri- BRICKBATS to have ... J.Lo.’’ year, but co-director Larry of showing up at the Las Ve- day. The 57-year old rocker Is there any politics involved? Why He made the remark in re- Wachowski will need more gas ceremony, the three-time — best known for hits like Do don’t you introduce some opposition sponse to an invitation from than bullet-time martial arts nominees performed a song Ya Think I’m Sexy? — split leaders like Sonia Gandhi or Laloo one of the hosts to meet to collect his full paycheck live via satellite from Austin, from 34-year-old Hunter four Prasad Yadav in your comic strip in- for the film. A Los Angeles Texas. They received a “pret- years ago, and both have stead of ridiculing the PM all the time? singer Ricky Martin, who Superior Court judge has ty big negative response,” since had widely publicised — Kapil Sethi was scheduled to appear on Dubyaman is absolute nonsense. And frozen Wachowski’s business the show’s host, Reba McEn- relationships. Hunter is best you call it a comic strip? God, where’s the radio program. assets in a bitter divorce fight tire, said afterward. Later known for her liaison with the humour? Spare us the ordeal. Lopez is making a film in between the reclusive film- during the ceremony, presen- cheeky British pop star Rob- — Somesh Rai Canada and was unavailable maker and his estranged ter Vince Gill jokingly mum- bie Williams, while Rod For boquets go to for comment. But the radio wife, Thea Bloom, who bled their names when listing Stewart has been widely www.timesofindia.com station, WKTU-FM, has claimed he was concealing the contenders for entertain- photographed with leggy girl- e-mail: [email protected] launched an effort for the two funds from her.Reuters er of the year. Reuters friend Penny Lancaster. Reuters to meet. AP
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The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Saturday,May 24, 2003 15 Blix doubts Iraq had WMDs Pak wants N-test AFP Berlin: Chief UN weapons talks with India inspector Hans Blix said he Uday plans to was starting to suspect Iraq Islamabad: Pakistan is pre- Pakistan was prepared to dis- had no weapons of mass de- pared to discuss formalisa- cuss, including non-deploy- struction, and that his surrender tion of a moratorium on nu- ment of nuclear weapons. teams remain ready to help clear testing with India, the He said a formal agree- Washington: Uday Hus- in the country if required, a country’s foreign secretary ment by the countries to noti- sein, the elder son of de- newspaper reported Friday. has been quoted as saying. fy each other of ballistic mis- posed Iraqi leader Saddam ‘‘I am obviously very in- The state-run Associated sile tests would constitute an Hussein, is considering sur- terested in the question of Press of Pakistan said Riaz import ant confidence-build- whether or not there were rendering to US forces but is Khokar made the statement ing measure. He said pre- serving the conventional bal- weapons of mass destruc- hesitant because of the way at a session of the UN Con- ance in South Asia was criti- tion — and I am beginning US officials are handling ne- ference on Disarmament in cal and a major responsibili- to suspect there possibly gotiations, The Wall Street Geneva on Thursday. INS Tarangini is currently taking part in the New York Fleet ty of countries that exported were none,’’ he told the Ger- Journal reported Friday. “It is...important for both Week. The picture that appeared with the report ‘INS Tarangi- weapons. man daily Der Tagesspiegel. The daily, citing a “third India and Pakistan to engage ni evoking awe and envy in US’ in the edition dated May 21 He said transfers of new If that were the case, he party” familiar with the in serious discussions for nu- was that of INS Taragiri. weaponry, including anti- said, Iraq’s evasive behav- talks, said Uday was hiding clear and strategic stability missile and early-warning iour in recent years could out in a suburb of Baghdad in our region.” systems, would oblige Pak- be due to Saddam Hussein’s and, before turning himself Khokar said Pakistan and Blame civet cats for SARS istani countermeasures. fixation with Iraqi honour An Iraqi boy plays with a gun made out of old soft drink in, wanted to know the spe- India were already observing Hong Kong: The coronavirus which causes SARS has been and wish to dictate the con- cans in Basra on Friday. cific accusations he faces, as a voluntary moratorium on His comments followed a traced to civet cats, researchers at the University of Hong ditions under which people ‘no’ in many situations and Blix, whose inspectors left well as the conditions under nuclear testing and added: report that the US had Kong said. A government statement said, “The finding has could enter the country. gave the impression he was Iraq just before the begin- which he would be held and “This could be formalised.” dropped objections to Israel extremely important implications for the control of this in- APP reported him saying selling India the advanced fection.” SARS first emerged in China’s Guangdong province ‘‘For that reason, he said hiding something,’’ added ning of the US-led war. AP interrogated. AFP there were several measures “Phalcon” radar system.AP where wildlife restaurants serve a range of exotic species. AFP
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16 Saturday,May 24, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi 50 Years of DNA Conditional CAS A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Star India CEO Peter Mukerjea is strongly sat down and come out with a broad Secret Story of Life’s Secret in favour of deferring the implementation formula... CAS has got to be designed to If abstinence and faithfulness had been so saleable, of conditional access system (CAS). The we would not have had so many babies. By Noel Lobo Watson had come to assist — won the Nobel make it convenient and friendly for the prize for chemistry the same year that Crick, market leader seems to be wary of facing consumer. We should defer it until there is — Monalisa Mishra, project director, Positive Life The Eagle was not a pub that I went to Watson and Maurice Wilkins shared the life under the new regime. Consumers, he adequate supply of boxes in the market. for the occasional half pint of bitter though prize for medicine. That was in 1962. tells N Vidyasagar, simply aren’t convinced Instead of rushing to implement in four it was the nearest one to my college. But An interesting cameo is provided by the about buying the new set-top boxes: cities, the government may delay it and I now wish that I had done so on the last day reaction of the DNA pioneer Erwin Chargaff implement it in stages. Till Condom Come of February 1953. when Kendrew took the pair of them to meet. Broadcasters have been lobbying to get Right now, the upgradation required at Our battered and bruised sanskriti has much to be grateful Had I been there I would have been among He dismissed them as ‘scientific clowns’. CAS deferred. Why are you opposed to the the cable operators’ end is simply not in for to health minister Sushma Swaraj who has unfailingly the first in the world to hear Francis Crick And listen to this: Crick had twice flooded implementation of CAS? place. Under the CAS regime, if I want come to its rescue. First, in her avatar as information and announce that he and Jim Watson had found the corridor outside Bragg’s office because to watch HBO, I see the line-up of movies. broadcasting minister when she made ceaseless efforts to the secret of life. Not that it would have had CAS is, genuinely,a good thing. It began as he forgot to secure his suction pump; and I also prefer to see the line-up of movies prevent women newscasters from wearing sleeveless much meaning to me, an aspiring engineer, consumers were frustrated at the arbitrary Watson knew so little chemistry that he coming on other channels. I can then call blouses and now,in her espousal of abstinence in the battle not a scientist. There were only about price increases by cable operators. CAS once used a Bunsen burner to warm some my cable operator to tell him that I don’t against HIV/AIDS while downgrading the role of the 50 people in the entire world who were allows the consumer to pick channels of inflammable benzene. No wonder that Bragg want to try HBO and want to watch Star condom. Knowing the minister as we do, her pronounce- working on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) his choice. We are not against CAS. But declared DNA research banned for more Movies or vice versa. ments are probably premised on the fact that promoting the 60 days before the product is to be launched, at the time. And they came to know about than a year. This was when they got their use of condoms is tantamount to encouraging promiscuity, consumers cannot even buy a set-top box. The cable operator should be able to the double helix only on May 25, 1953 in first DNA model wrong by misjudging the which many of our netas seem to believe is an alien We are not ready for it. immediately do the switching. But there is the magazine Nature in a short 900-word amount of water by a factor of 10. western practice unknown to morally superior Indians. Consumers have to understand how nothing in place. What is the frequency at summary by Crick. But by some feverish work throughout Sushmaji is entitled to her own code of ethics and values in the system works and be prepared to which the consumer can change channels? The article ended with this tentative February 1953 produced the right model. “We her personal domain but when she seeks to incorporate pay for it. We don’t have boxes even for Also, If I move house from South Extension sentence — which every molecular biologist never anticipated that the answer would them in national policies which will have a vital impact on 10 per cent of the over six million metro to some other part of Delhi, the box may not should be familiar with — “It has not escaped come out so suddenly,in one swoop and with the lives of so many people, many will question her. At cable homes. work. How will people buy boxes when there our notice that the specific pairing we such finality”, recalls Watson. Bragg was almost four million, India has the second largest number of is such lack of clarity? have postulated immediately suggests a completely won over. He became their Why should the deadline of July 14 be HIV-infected people in the world, and the infection rate is possible copying mechanism for the strongest supporter. Watson’s sister typed extended? Why is it that no one is worried about the rapidly increasing. In such a situation, all measures to genetic material.” the short paper for Nature while Crick’s wife The consumer doesn’t want to pay Rs 3,000 consumer when he purchases, say, a cellphone? combat the pandemic must be explored. Since 85 per cent of No wonder that Watson admits to having made the drawing of the double helix. The for an analog box or Rs 5,000 for a digital Why this worry only in the case of CAS? HIV transmissions are through sexual contact, the promo- felt ‘slightly queasy’ that lunch time at The paper was no overnight sensation. I must box. We have to allow 12 to 18 months to Because the government has mandated tion of condom use is crucial in any prevention strategy. Eagle lest there was some slight flaw in their have read, but do not recall, the bit in the take this process CAS. If you don’t Gandhian abstinence must ideally be the best deterrent, model of DNA that they had university weekly which I forward and make have the boxes on but as our burgeoning population testifies such restraint is built in their tiny office at the bought every Saturday; it all players come July 14, your TV not practised as universally as the minister would like. Cavendish Laboratory during described their feat as ‘the together and work Q&A screen will go blank. Though the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) the preceding four weeks. biological equivalent to crash- jointly. The worst Consumers will not director assures us that the minister’s directive is not about We have to cut the He had every reason to be ing the sound barrier’. thing that could be able to watch pay excluding condoms but placing them in a more compre- monopoly that is in nervous for only four weeks But I do recall reading The happen is to try channels. We are not hensive programme, this can only serve to create further existence at the cable earlier their main rival, the Double Helix and being quite and fail. If you look going to convert pay confusion on an issue on which there is little awareness. operator level before great chemist Linus Pauling, taken aback at the accounts of at other markets channels into free to Moral issues ought not to obfuscate the HIV/AIDS preven- implementing CAS. had goofed spectacularly petty rivalries, jealousies and like Korea or Tai- air channels. tion strategy. The emphasis must be on generating aware- How will the service when putting together his backbiting among scientists. wan, it took them But broadcasters ness of the virus and its modes of transmission and, of improve if the same own model. That is how an Crick was sore at first, but anywhere between haven’t yet announ- course, how best to protect oneself. The bulk of our popula- monopoly exists under article by Peter Richards later admitted that he ‘came two to three years to the CAS regime? ced the price list of tion is below the age of 25, in other words sexually active. Udayshankar put it which appeared in CAM, out of the book rather well’. introduce CAS. pay channels? To expect them to curb their natural urges and practise abs- the Cambridge University Not so Maurice Wilkins who But in India, in tinence is a recipe for disaster. The minister might like to The cost of pay alumni magazine, to which I owe most of had been good enough to share unpublished an unorganised market, we are trying to study the approach adopted in other conservative societies channels is public knowledge. Currently, what follows. work of his with the duo, only to see them do it in six months. Moreover, we have to like Thailand. Faced with galloping rates of infection, then we charge Rs 30 for all our channels, and That cocksure announcement in The Eagle beat him and his colleagues at King’s Col- cut the monopoly that is in existence at health minister Mechai Viravaidya launched a country- that may not necessarily change under the was typical of Crick: Witness the opening lege, London. One of the King’s team was the the cable operator level before imple- new CAS regime. wide information campaign centred around the condom. sentence of Watson’s The Double Helix:“I outstanding Rosalind Franklin. It was her X- menting CAS. What if the government doesn’t agree to defer Health officials tirelessly targeted everyone from school- have never seen Francis Crick in a modest ray photographs of the DNA molecule which How will the service improve if the the implementation of CAS? children to commercial sex workers to promote condom convinced Watson and Crick that the mole- mood”. And yet it is Jim Watson who strikes same monopoly exists under the CAS use. The result — infection and birth rates dipped. A recent me as being rather brash. He arrived in cule was a double helix. Her brilliance was Overnight, the industry, which is worth regime?... It’s like buying milk from one survey published in this paper shows that Indians are more Cambridge from Chicago, a tall gawky not recognised, partly because she rubbed Rs 25,000 crore, will shrink by half. vendor in a particular area. The supplier can sexually active and adventurous than ever before. The biologist to learn X-ray analysis, but with a her colleagues up the wrong way,so much so Producers will not get paid. The advertising do anything to the quality of milk. He can minister’s message, pious though it is, will find few takers. hunch that DNA was the key to under- that many refused to work with her; and part- industry will take a tumble. The cable add water, charge a higher price. standing living organisms. He had a PhD ly because she died an early death in 1958. operator is not going to be paid by the VIEW from Chicago by the age of 22, having been Crick is still at work at the Salk Insti- Post-CAS, I still won’t have the choice of consumer because the latter might argue admitted to the university there at 15. tute at La Jolla researching the nature of choosing which cable operator I get the that since he is not getting his favourite A description shows him as thin as a string consciousness. Watson at 75 is very much in signal from. I am part of the industry but channels, why should he pay? bean, knees in the air, shirt tails flapping, public eye, a scientific statesman, rooting for I cannot change my cable operator. A We have informed our producers that One Norm for Israel, socks concertinaed around ankles, laces the Human Genome Project and keen that regulatory authority needs to be formed. from July 14 we won’t be able to sustain trailing from tennis shoes. A crew cut and DNA research should go on. He still visits Like in telecom, we must carve out our agreements. The film industry will Another for India shorts, even in winter, complete the picture. Cambridge regularly. territories and have cable operators bid for suffer equally. Because we won’t be able to And of course he found the food at Clare, his Besides the plaque commemorating the licences for them. If I don’t like my BPL buy movies and music rights for television. n all the talk about a ‘road map’ for the future of the college, uneatable. epoch-making discovery of DNA in the Old mobile service today, I can switch to Airtel Palestinian-Israeli conflict, one crucial factor has Do you think Direct-to-Home (DTH) and CAS I Crick had worked on mines during the Cavendish Lab — an unimpressive building or Orange. But that is not possible in the been overlooked. For all that the US, the UN, the should have been rolled out simultaneously? war; was 36, 12 years older than Watson; close to my college, almost dingy to look at — cable industry. European Union and Russia are exerting to bring and he did not have a PhD. In fact, he was there is now one to show the spot where Everywhere in the world, you have got that about an independent Palestinian state, there is no working on haemoglobin towards this end Crick and Watson first burst forth with the But haven’t the cable operators and choice. You can either go for cable or DTH. sign whatsoever that Israel will sign on the dotted line. under the visionary Max Perutz who was astounding news. It was unveiled last month broadcasters already wasted a lot of time... We have received the letter of intent for DTH. Far from it. Ariel Sharon insists that terrorism aimed studying the structure of proteins. Perutz by Jim Watson. I must see it on my next visit CAS was mandated in January 2003. I would think the service might be available at Israel must stop before Tel Aviv can consider the and his deputy John Kendrew — whom to The Eagle — where else! Now five or six major broadcasters have in the next 9 to 10 months. idea of an independent Palestinian state. Israel has been at the receiving end of the terrorist ire of Palestinian extremists such as the Hamas, the Islamic Jehad and the Al-Aqsa. The latter are opposed to a So Sensual, yet settlement on the basis of the road map and would like to wreck the initiative. But it is not as if Israel is suffering all this in silence, as is the case with India. So Spiritual Compared to India, Israel is, in fact, in a commanding Heat and Dust position with the Palestinians. It has both superior By Harsha V Dehejia intelligence and military capabilities and is in O clouds, showerer occupation of Palestinian territory. Israeli military In Indian tradition shringara which madhurya resonates. rasa or the emotion of ro- If Krishna symbolises ma- of rain, action has all but destroyed the security infra- May you send waters structure of the Palestinian Authority. mance is considered the raja dhurya and the verdant Vrin- rasa, an emotion that not davana resonates with it too, From the firmaments, Even so, Israel has been able to demand that the O sustainer of Palestinian Authority first put an end to terrorism. only celebrates and defines the gopis are equally tender our humanity but equally in expressing and experienc- the universe, The US’s pressure on Israel is limited to asking the Mayest Thou enhance Israeli prime minister to engage in a dialogue with the our evocation of divinity. ing their love for Krishna. Of all the various expres- Whether it is in longing, the wealth newly appointed Palestinian prime minister. So far, Of pious men... Israel has completely had its way in dealing with the sions of shringara that of participating in the leelas of O divine Cloud, issue. And Mr Sharon has shown no inclination to Radha and Krishna is consid- Krishna or being charmed by There lies hidden accept the ‘road map’, which is crucial for a final ered supreme, not because it his flute, waiting in anticipa- within Thee settlement of the conflict. Contrast this with the has been beautifully depicted tion, or adorning themselves The treasure of American approach to India and Pakistan. Whereas but because of the ethos of for a cherished meeting, the immortal joy; the US expects the Palestinian Authority to put an end madhurya that underpins gopis in equal measure reflect Bestow on us a to terrorism, there is no such insistence with regard to and informs this love. the madhurya of Krishna. little of it, Pakistan, which continues to plead that it has been The Bhagavata Purana Madhurya of the gopis is So that we may unable to prevent cross-border terrorism against posits Krishna as a symbol of sweetness or tenderness — it live a happy life. India. It is quite clear that there are two sets of madhurya, referring to him stands for unconditional and standards operating here. Israel holds a special place as madhukara. In the tenth selfless love for Krishna, a Rig Veda in the American scheme of things, whether that is CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS chapter Krishna exhorts the love that joyously embraces ✥ on account of its strategic location in West Asia or residents of Vraj to turn sacrifice and pain, a love What dreadful hot because of the power of the Jewish lobby. Rooting Out Dowry Many people justify dowry as a form away from onerous Vedic which accepts longing weather we have! of female inheritance. Unfortunately,the rites even at the risk of and separation, a love that It keeps me in a COUNTERVIEW I sincerely thank you for the true Hindu Succession Act of 1956 has failed incurring the wrath of Indra. requires surrender and re- continual state journalistic fibre displayed in your report to guarantee equal inheritance of a Krishna’s mission was to nunciation, that is prepared of inelegance. spread the dharma of love, to abandon what it has con- “Check dowry law misuse by women: daughter. Dowry (or streedhan) given at the Jane Austen HC” (May 22). The authorities and time of marriage to a young, inexperienced and not just a moral order. sidered svaikya, one’s own, ✥ W Asia Can’t Compare bride under the demands of her future Krishna exudes madhurya and embrace the parakiya,a lawmakers have a wrong notion that they How beautiful husband and his relatives cannot serve as through his acts and his ges- love that is experienced and can stop the custom of dowry or bride- is the rain! her inheritance. A daughter should be tures, his words expressed for its With Subcontinent burning just by passing strong punitive After the dust and able to inherit equally like a son at the time and his flute, his own sake and for To compare Washington’s approach to the Israel- laws. But the stronger the law, the greater heat, in the broad of the death of the parents, not at the time clothes and acti- no other ulterior Palestine conflict with that towards India and Pak- is the scope of its misuse. and fiery street, and At the first international conference of her marriage. vity. Loving, ten- or samasaric mo- istan is to compare apples and oranges. A situation der, lyrical, soft, tive or gain. in the narrow lane; where two nuclear rivals are locked in historic on dowry and bride-burning held at Marriage should be based on love and how beautiful Harvard University in 1995, a six point commitment, not on money or property delicate and frag- The atman is hostility is way out of the league of the eminently rant, he played believed to be is the rain! more manageable Israel-Palestine conflict. General programme to eradicate dowry and bride- transfer. A bride should refuse to marry burning in India was initiated where the if there is any demand for dowry.In this mellifluous notes female and the H W Longfellow Musharraf can do little to rein in the powerful on his flute, paramatman, ✥ military intelligence and jehadi groups, and no road legal approach was balanced with a context, all young women should follow the spiritual approach and other socio-econo- example set by Nisha Sharma. played pranks, THE male. Vaishnava How singular, and map from Washington can circumvent this reality. In wore attractive shringara litera- yet how simple, mic ways of reform. Unscrupulous people If the husband or his relatives demand contrast, in the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat clothes and orna- SPEAKING ture casts the the philosophy misuse the dowry laws, and real victims dowry after the wedding, a bride should has long been the sole wielder of power. It is only now ments. He was atman in the form of rain! continue to suffer. This will change if the immediately leave home. Even if she that he has taken a beating. Suicide bombings are a graceful, charm- TREE of the nayika Who but the punitive laws are balanced with reformative is harassed and beaten up, a bride does fact of life that every Israeli lives with and it is ing and sensitive; passionate seeking her beloved. The rich Omniscient one and preventive laws. not leave her husband’s home because perfectly legitimate for the Israeli government to but not lustful, demanding and elaborate description of could have devised According to government statistics, there is a stigma attached to divorced insist on a cessation of such acts before accepting a but not aggressive. All this nayikas in Vaishnava litera- such an admirable 7,000 brides are killed every year in India. women in India. road map. And since it has been unable to secure such add up to the madhurya of ture is a paradigm of the arrangement for guarantees from the Palestinian Authority,it becomes The actual number may be double. In This problem can be addressed if the fact the total number of brides killed and Krishna, defining his love various moods and situa- watering the earth! incumbent upon Washington which has promoted dowry victims are made financially which he shares with the tions of the questing atman. the peace process single-handedly to push the maimed on account of dowry may be independent. This is a positive outlook Ure gopis of Vrindavana. Whether it is the vasakasajja ✥ Palestinians to fulfil Tel Aviv’s demands. over 25,000, which exceeds the annual UN based on a spiritual approach to life, as The idyllic Vrindavana who adorns herself in antici- It has become fashionable among many commenta- estimate of 21,000 civilians killed or opposed to revenge and punishment sought The daily showers maimed in landmine accidents all over provides the perfect setting pation of the amorous rejoice the thirsty tors to put the onus for peace entirely on Israel by a frustrated bride under the current rendezvous or the mana who and perhaps the hawkish pronouncements of prime the world. punitive dowry laws. for the sweet love of earth and bless the The only way to stop bride-burning is Krishna. It is where the lyri- is easily offended but yet flowery buds. minister Ariel Sharon have not helped much. But, to Most of the above points are tabulated to stop dowry altogether. The legislature cal Yamuna flows, peacocks yearns for her beloved, the expect him to accept any proposal which precludes an in the six-point programme that was sweet and innocent longing Matthew Prior end to terror attacks is unrealistic and unfair. Unlike should make laws to declare a marriage dance in ecstasy, birds sing ✥ developed in six international conferences passionately, flowers bloom of love is discernible. the geography of India and Pakistan, where it is null and void as soon as dowry is demanded. Fear no more the between 1995 and 2003. We appeal to and whisper words of love, Madhurya is richly sen- difficult for anyone to guarantee an end to infiltration, This will erase the idea of dowry completely heat o’ the sun, the government to implement these winding creepers caress the sual; at the same time it is the border between Israel and Palestine is relatively from the mindset of people. Not the furious plans. National leaders should accept trunks of trees as a premika serenely spiritual, it has both easy to monitor. The time to insist that Israel wins winter’s rages; our invitation and sit down to find some embraces her beloved, a theology and an aesthetic of the confidence of the Palestinians is long past. The solutions to the problem. Thou thy worldly branches bend to provide a its own and so it bridges the only way to get things moving in a positive direction is From timesofindia.com task hath done, sacred and the secular and for Washington to impose a road map, irrespective of — Himendra Thakur,President, Ad Hoc blessing with a sylvan Home art gone, whether the conditions in it are absolutely fair to The Third Eye Committee, Antarjyoti, New Delhi canopy for every tree is a remains a foundational prin- and ta’en thy wages. both parties. 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Zooming through Seeking a bigger pie On an Asia high While launching Santro Xing in Alan Bootes, president of Pfizer, said Subaru automobiles Chennai, Hyundai Motor said it he was targeting to boost its share of president Kyoji Takenaka was partnering with petroleum the Japanese prescription drug launches Legacy Touring majors HPCL and BPCL for market to 11 per cent by 2010, up Wagon. It’s on sale in authorised service technicians from the current seven per cent by Japan and prices range across the country. reinforcing sales and development between $17,466 and $26,412
Selling rate: Currency notes Rupee Value US $: 47.40 UK £: 77.55 Euro: 55.50 S Fr: 37.70 Yen (100): 41.65 A $: 32.10 NZ $: 28.40 S $: 28.40 Saudi Riyal 13.00 UAE Dirham 13.30 Thai Baht(100) 113.95 Source: SBI, Mumbai
Petrol, diesel DESTINATION to be cheaper ECBs flare up as rupee gains ground SOUTH-EAST ASIA By Vinu Lal corporates, lined up ECB re- 40 basis points from over 100 Forward premiums have ‘‘Companies can easily get SARS fears, TIMES NEWS NETWORK quests before merchant basis points a month back. fallen to their lowest level in a clean spread of 2 per cent if next week bankers fearing imposition ‘‘Several companies are nearly 10 years and with the they go for external financ- Mumbai: Companies are of a ceiling, said sources. tapping ECB route consider- 12-month Libor hovering ing even after hedging their TIMES NEWS NETWORK making a beeline to the inter- As a result, sources said ing the recent crash in for- around 1.20 per cent, borrow- dollar exposures. Interesting- cheap fares national bond markets as ru- that over Rs 500 crore worth ward premium and compa- ing costs will be significantly ly, several AA-rated corpo- New Delhi: Oil minister Ram Naik on s the dreaded SARS seems to be pee continues to beat down domestic floats have been de- nies are increasingly using lower than domestic issues, rates also are lining up exter- Friday saw a further drop in petrol and the dollar. In the first two coughing its way out of most of ferred for now to explore op- external funds for both short- said sources. nal funding options unlike in southeast Asia, the travel and air- diesel prices next week on the back of months of the current finan- A portunities in overseas mar- term and long-term financ- Meanwhile, there has been the past where only blue-chip line industry in the region are now work- the rupee getting stronger against the cial year, over $1.5 billion kets and the companies in- ing. On Wednesday,there was a fresh interest from FIIs to companies got foreign loans ing overtime to emerge from the shadows Greenback and international crude oil worth of external commer- clude some of the Tata Group a sustained rally on corpo- park their monies in Indian at competitive rates,’’ said a of this virulent fever. The result: Huge prices sliding in the wake of the UN cial borrowings (ECBs) have lifting sanctions against Iraq. companies, Reliance Info- rate bonds in anticipation of short-term debt market cash- fund manager. sops and bargain deals are pouring in to already been tied up, accord- comm, IRFC and few other tightened liquidity since ing in on the arbitrage oppor- Companies are also rais- the market for both leisure travellers and ‘‘A stronger rupee means cheaper ing to market estimates. crude imports, which gives scope for a blue-chip companies. there will be a dearth of fresh tunities available here. ing foreign currency loans corporates. Recently, money markets further cut in retail selling price of On the bond markets, this issues in the near term. Com- Sources said that on May 19, within the $100m ceiling on In fact, with WHO lifting the travel ad- were rife with rumours that petrol and diesel,’’ Naik said on Friday news had a drastic impact on panies have started making a block deal of Rs 450 crore automatic approval for exter- visory against Hong Kong and declaring RBI is expected to announce after inviting global bids for tapping corporate yields where the queries for longer term inter- worth of August treasury nal commercial route since a couple of other SARS-free, these coun- a temporary ceiling of $3 bil- gas in coalmines. spreads between the govern- national money which will bills were purchased by an anything above will have to tries are hardselling themselves to India lion to curtail the mad rush Though technically the oil market- ment and Triple-A rated cor- impact the domestic liquidi- FII. In the past 10 days, FIIs get clearance from the fi- Inc in an effort to bounce back as the pre- ing companies are free to set their for external funding. Several porate securities narrowed ty,’’said Rajiv Anand of Stan- have bought in over Rs 1000 nance ministry,’’ said a fund ferred destination for dealer junkets. The prices, they treat a cue from Naik prac- corporates, including small substantially to less than 30- dard Chartered Mutual. crore T-bills. manager. efforts, industry insiders say,are already showing results, though limited. tically as an order. Naik defends his AP prompt saying as a regulator, he has to “We are already deep into summer sea- ensure that the oil companies do not son and these countries are trying to MTNL reduces catch hold of whatever traffic comes indulge in profiteering and pass on the price benefit to consumers. The cuts their way,” says a travel industry insider. are expected on May 31. And that reflects in the offers available in Last year,the country spent Rs 84,000 cellular tariffs the market: A three day/four night travel crore, or $ 1.8 billion, on crude imports package for two to Malaysia along with when the rupee averaged 50 against the free shopping coupons, sight-seeing tours dollar and international oil prices av- by 60 per cent and tickets to various entertainment eraged $ 30 a barrel. parks is available for Rs 22,000. The rupee is now ruling at two-year TIMES NEWS NETWORK Meanwhile, Thailand is offering trav- ellers to pay for one night’s stay in the high of 46.90/91 to a dollar and New & Agencies country and stay an extra day free. They York’s benchmark light sweet crude New Delhi: Taking head-on the private cel- are also offering up to 50 per cent dis- tumbled $ 1.05 to $ 27.98 a barrel after lular operators, state-owned Mahanagar count cards that can be used in restau- the sanctions on Iraq were lifted on Fri- Telephone Nigam Ltd on Friday announced rants, health clubs, golf courses and even day. In London, the price of Brent upto 60 per cent reduction in tariffs for cell- hospitals across the island nation. crude fell 24 cents to $ 25.97. to-cell long distance (STD) calls. Cell-to-cell Pinki Arora, representative of the Both these developments would ben- STD tariffs have been fixed between Rs 1.80 Tourism Authority of Thailand, says: efit domestic oil companies as they im- per minute in the plan with monthly rental ‘‘Thailand is estimating losses of $0.60 port 70 per cent of crude requirement. of Rs 1000 and Rs 1.90 in the plan with billion for its tourism industry alone. But Since April, the oil firms have cut monthly rental of Rs 250. we feel things are fast coming back to nor- petrol and diesel prices by Rs 3 per litre Bharti had recently announced Plan 0, 1, 2 mal. We are now launching special each as global prices fell. After over wherein the tariff for local call on cell-to-cell schemes, which includes offering free three months of surge in prices, the oil was fixed at Rs 1 and cell-to-cell STD call at stays, discount coupons et al.’’ firms had cut prices on April 15 and 26 Rs 2 with monthly rental of Rs 399, which in- and then on May 15. Not to be left behind, the country’s flag cludes free airtime of Rs 100. As per MTNL’s carrier Thai Airways is also planning The Indian basket of crude, compris- new tariff plan, charges for a local call be- ing Oman/Dubai crude oil and Brent in promotional fares this season that, offi- tween cell-to-cell has been reduced to just Rs cials say, will be almost 10-15 per cent the 58:42 ratio, has averaged $ 25.54 A money changer affixes the new euro exchange rate against the U.S. dollar in his shop window in downtown 0.30 a minute for plan having monthly rental cheaper than the normal net air fare to a barrel since the last price revision Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday. At his shop one has to pay $1.234 for one euro. The euro rose above US$ 1.18 on of Rs 1,000 while local call to fixed line and on May 15. Friday as it resumed its rapid climb against the greenback. the country. ‘‘We are already seeing a WLL phone will cost Rs 0.60. small revival as far as corporates go. In case of a plan with a monthly rental of Some of the leading business houses, in- Rs 250, local call on cell phone will cost Rs cluding LG and Samsung have already IRDA to set up agency for safety ratings of cars 1.60 while on fixed and WLL phone it will approached us with plans for dealer jun- cost Rs 1.90 a minute. STD charges on fixed kets,’’ adds Thai Airways area sales man- By Prabhakar Sinha the third party insurance. signed ratings on the basis of per- buyers. At present, many of the do- line and WLL phone will depend upon the ager (India) Ravinder Talwar. distance. For distance upto 200 kms, STD TIMES NEWS NETWORK IRDA chairman N Rangachary formance at the testing centre. Ran- mestic car manufacturers do not con- P Manoharan, director, Tourism call will cost Rs 1.90 in the lowest monthly said a team of senior officials includ- gachary said that such practice is form to the safety norms. Malaysia (India), says its Showcase New Delhi: The Insurance Regu- rental plan. For distance between 200 to 500 ing him has visited the US to under- well established in the developed However, they meet these norms Malaysia campaign will be expanded in latory and Development Authority is kms, the STD call would cost Rs 2.90 and Rs stand the concept. He added that a fa- countries. while exporting these models to Eu- June with price cuts and a host of value working towards developing quality 3.90 for distance beyond 500 kms. Tariff for cility would be set up to test samples rope or the US. This is mainly be- additions. “We have a Rs 22,000 package ratings regarding safety features of A high grade in the test would Short Messaging Service (SMS) has been of vehicles of all the manufacturers. cause, Indian buyers are not sensi- now for a couple for three nights. This cars and other motor vehicles. To- mean that the car is safe and would fixed at Rs 0.80 per SMS. June, we are planning to extend the days wards this end, IRDA will set up a The Tamil Nadu government has al- attract lower premia against acci- tive to the safety norms. Meanwhile, MTNL and BSNL have taken while cutting the package cost. We will rating agency. ready proposed to give 50 acres of dents and other similar eventuali- A senior car manufacturer said a fancy for mobile rings than the tinkle of also be throwing in some value additions The objective of IRDA’s rating land near Chennai. ties. And, a low grading would signi- rating of safety features of cars fixed-line phones. Consider this: During the in terms shopping coupons.” Special pro- agency is to help general insurance The test would mainly focus on the fy unsafe vehicle and would attract would play a pivotal role in buying a current five-year Plan (2002-2007), BSNL will motions are also being planned with oth- companies in fixing the tariff while performance of the safety features of higher premia. The concept is ex- car and people would be ready to pay add 2.18 crore mobile phones against 81.7 er airlines, including IA, which have di- insuring the vehicles as well as for a vehicle. The models would be as- pected to become popular among for additional safety features. lakh fixed phones and about 68 lakh WLL rect flights to Malaysia. Byas Anand phones. EXECUTIVE DIGEST
exclusively. The step has teledensity followed by 11.60 NATIONAL Dabur forays into been necessitated in the in Punjab and 11.13 in Bangladesh: Dabur chief Suzuki proposes top wake of multi-crore scams of Kerala. Rural India continues level changes at Maruti: Anand Burman is setting up co-operative banks across to be backward in the a joint venture next month the country”, Adsul said. PTI telecommunications sector Post-IPO, Suzuki Motor Corp in Bangladesh for produc- is planning to undertake some Airtel launches location- as the connections remain ing hair and oral care at 1.49 per cent compared to top-level management products, in order based service: Airtel on changes in its Indian arm Friday announced the launch 15.16 per cent in the to expand FMCG urban areas. PTI Maruti Udyog Ltd. Suzuki has business. In the of ‘Around Me’, India’s first lo- proposed to induct J Sugi- proposed JV, Dabur cation-based service by any NIIT to raise Rs 50 crore mori as joint managing direc- will hold over 60 per cellular operator in India. in bonds: The board of tor in charge of finance, hu- cent stake and ‘Around Me’ virtually allows India’s biggest computer man resources, information make an initial any registered AirTel postpaid training firm NIIT Ltd has technology and corporate investment of subscriber to use his/her mo- decided to borrow up to services. Maruti’s current $1 million. bile phone as a local naviga- Rs 50 crore through a private JMD Y Nakamura will return tor and find out about various to Japan to take up a fresh placement of non-convertible utilitarian and entertainment debentures, the BSE said on assignment. Amongst the options available in the local Friday. The issue has been other changes proposed are vicinity. This service is avail- rated ‘AA+’ by the CRISIL, the appointment of S able only in Delhi circle, and Takeuchi as JMD in-charge will soon be available across indicating high safety. PTI of production engineering, the country. It is available on IBM ties up with Anuron supply chain and engineering. easy to use drill down menu for e-business solutions: Takeuchi will replace Naka- to all AirTel post-paid cus- IBM India has tied up with mura. M Osada will be made Ajit Ninan tomers, using a 32K SIM Anuron Hitech Pvt Ltd, a head of engineering division, card.TNN software solution provider of while H Totsuka has been available to the customers. e-procurement application to proposed for the post of 4th deputy governor for Teledensity rises to 5%, We will get these special RBI in two months: Union deliver e-business solutions plant manager. TNN Delhi on top: Reforms in applications built-in by spe- minister of state for finance the telecommunications to companies. “This partner- Telco plans application cialised body builders,” com- Anandrao Adsul has said the sector have started showing ship with IBM India gives oriented light trucks: Tata pany director Ravi Kant said. fourth deputy governor of results as teledensity in the Anuron the ability to offer Engineering is planning to Launching the Tata 207 DI Reserve Bank of India (RBI) country has gone up to five complete solutions and there launch application oriented model, he said, the firm ex- would be appointed within per cent at the end of March, will also be opportunities options on its 207 light pick- pects to post a 10 per cent two months. “The post of 2003 compared to 3.64 in for joint development, up truck platform. “We are in growth in sales. The base sin- fourth deputy governor with March 2001. According to customisation, marketing, the process of identifying the gle cab pick-up is priced at RBI is revived to look after the official figures, Delhi stood sales and integrated sup- options that can be made Rs 4 lakh. TNN co-operative banking sector on top with 26.85 per cent port”, a press release said. PTI
merchandise and theme park to treat the hepatitis C and B ums, making it the No. 8 U.S. INTERNATIONAL tickets were a symbol of viruses and a variety of can- provider of personal insur- Disney clout a few years ago, cers. Maxygen has previously ance lines. The firms expect Disney may sell stores, but executives have said the formed partnerships with pri- the deal to close by year’s chain over-expanded. Reuters vately held Danish drugmaker end. Prudential said it agreed speed up closures: Walt Lundbeck and Brisbane, to sell the national line to Disney Co is considering Roche inks $230m hepa- California-based InterMune Liberty Mutual for a loss of shedding its money-losing titis deal with Maxygen: Inc to develop altered forms $149 million. Reuters chain of stores in North Amer- Roche Holding has said it had of interferon. Reuters ica and Europe and will prob- struck a $230 million deal ably speed up store closures with U.S. biotech firm Maxy- Liberty snaps up Pruden- ET INSTA POLL as it prepares for a sale. gen Inc to develop hepatitis tial unit for $540m: Liber- Disney sold its Japanese drugs, using Maxygen’s tech- ty Mutual Group has said it Yesterday’s results: stores in 2001 to the compa- nology that shreds genes and agreed to buy the personal Do you expect CAS to be ny that operates Disney then recombines them into property and casualty insur- postponed? theme parks in Tokyo, and it new genes with altered prop- ance business of Prudential Yes 58% No 27% Can’t say 15% said on Thursday the licens- erties. Under the deal, Maxy- Jack Sheehan, senior V-P Financial Inc for 540 million, • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of ing model in that deal could gen will attempt to develop and partner of Bechtel expanding its customer base the general public. be good for the worldwide more-effective forms of alpha Corporation on the recon- in 47 U.S. states. Privately Today’s question: chain of 501 Disney-owned interferon, an immune system struction of Iraq, during the held Liberty, which is based in Do you watch Doordarshan for stores. The stores selling protein that is the active in- 9th Arab Investment and Boston, will take over Pruden- anything other than cricket? products such as Mickey gredient of Roche and Scher- Capital Markets Conference tial’s $1.1 billion of automo- To vote, log on to Mouse and Winnie the Pooh ing-Plough Corp drugs used in Beirut on Friday. bile and homeowner’s premi- http://economictimes.indiatimes.com
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18 Saturday,May 24, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi McDonald’s CEO promises payoff from sharper business focus Kazaa software Chicago: McDonald’s chief executive In a year that has brought the world’s ‘‘We are shifting our strategy from know we need to be relevant to today’s McDonald’s shares were pummelled on Jim Cantalupo addressed shareholder biggest fast-food company its first-ever building more restaurants to adding consumers.’’ A former head of McDon- news that a single cow in Canada had on a high, concerns ranging from mad cow dis- quarterly loss, rising concern about more customers to the ones we already ald’s sprawling international business, tested positive or mad cow disease, a fa- ease and dirty bathrooms to the taste of obesity and the impact of world events have,’’ Cantalupo said at his first annu- Cantalupo was brought out of retire- tal brain-wasting disorder. In late 2000, its coffee, promising that the company like the Iraq War on sales, Cantalupo al meeting as CEO, which took place in ment late last year after former CEO McDonald’s European sales began to set for record can reverse flagging worldwide sales said McDonald’s was up to the task of the company’s Oak Brook, Illinois, Jack Greenberg resigned. fall on consumer fears after outbreaks and lift its battered stock price. turning the business around. headquarters on Thursday. ‘‘We also His remarks came just two days after of mad cow there. Reuters Los Angeles: Sharman Networks Ltd on Thursday said its Kazaa file-sharing soft- ware was on track to set a record in the next day as it becomes the most-popular free program on the Web with over 230 million downloads. By hitting that total, Kazaa would sur- pass the popular ICQ instant messaging program, Sharman said. Kazaa’s growing popularity comes at a crucial time for the music industry as it battles file-swapping services in court and tries to develop commercially viable online music servic- es. As of late Thursday, the Kazaa Media Desktop application - a file-sharing soft- ware that has drawn the wrath of the mu- sic industry by enabling its users to swap songs for free — had been downloaded 229,150,955 times, as measured by Down- load.com, which is owned by CNET Net- works Inc. Sharman said it expected Kazaa would top the record set by ICQ. As of Thursday, ICQ has been downloaded 229,363,307 times, according to Download.com. A Sharman spokeswoman said Kazaa has been receiving an average of 366,000 downloads per day, whereas the ICQ ap- plication has been receiving an average of 50,000 downloads per day,as measured by Download.com. This week, media software maker Rox- io Inc bought struggling online service Pressplay,launched by Vivendi Universal and Sony Corp, Apple Computer Inc re- cently launched its own online music service, which analysts say has been a standout success in the struggling sector. Record labels suffered a setback in April when a Federal judge ruled song- swap networks Grokster and Morpheus should not be shut since they do not con- trol what is traded on them. Kazaa, which is involved in a separate lawsuit with the recording industry, also distributes licensed files, including music, movies, games and software through a partnership with a company called Altnet. Reuters Qualcomm introduces new mobile chips New York: Qualcomm Inc., on Thursday moved to bolster its position as leading supplier of mobile phone technology in the Americas and Asia, introducing new chips that will let mobile phone users download large amounts of data without draining battery power. San Diego, California-based Qualcomm unveiled three other new chips and an- nounced two contracts, including a re- newal, for wireless operators in Latin America and South Korea to offer data services using its downloading software. The moves came on the heels of a chal- lenge last week from rivals Nokia, STMi- croelectronics and Texas Instruments Inc., who announced a partnership to sell CDMA chips. ‘‘Our chip and software portfolio is ex- tremely strong and expanding,’’ Qual- comm president Anthony Thornley said at its annual meeting with Wall Street an- alysts here. Qualcomm owns most of the patents to CDMA, or Code Division Multiple Access, the dominant wireless technology in US cellular networks and the second-most common phone technology in the world. It licenses its technology and provides more than 90 per cent of the chips for CDMA phones. Its strong CDMA wireless technology has helped Qualcomm outperform other telecommunications equipment compa- nies hurt by the sluggish economy and lower industry spending. But more rivals are entering the mar- ket, trying to erode Qualcomm’s share in chips. The company has said growth has been slower than expected in two key markets, India and China. Reuters Intel changes tack on chips Amsterdam: US semiconductor maker Intel said on Friday it will not buy the new generation of chip lithography tools just launched on the market, casting doubt over the future of these machines. The world’s largest chip maker will not buy so-called 157 nanometer lithography tools but instead hopes to extend the life of its current generation of 193 nanome- ter tools until it can jump straight into the successor of 157 nanometer tools, called Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) tools. EUV machines, which can make even finer electronic circuits than the 157 nanometer tools, are still under develop- ment and are not expected before the end of the decade. Lithography tools are used to project an image of circuits and transistors on sili- con wafers. Netherlands-based ASML, the world’s largest maker of chip lithography tools and an Intel supplier, earlier said it had been informed by Intel of its decision, taken earlier this week. An Intel spokesman confirmed his company would not buy 157 nanometer machines and would go straight to EUV but gave no details. ASML said it was hopeful other compa- nies besides Intel would still buy the 157 nanometer machines. ‘‘We haven’t heard from IBM, for instance,’’ a spokeswoman said. Intel’s decision to skip the new system could mean the machine was not up to what would be its more demanding usage compared with IMEC, or could be ex- plained because Intel has a lot of develop- ment money riding on EUV, industry sources said. Reuters
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The Times of India, New Delhi BUSINESS TIMES Saturday,May 24, 2003 19 ITC net profit up 15.27% in ’02-03 TIMES NEWS NETWORK cigarette business contin- ued to operate in an envi- Kolkata: India’s largest ronment that posed ‘‘an in- tobacco company ITC Ltd creasing order of chal- reported on Friday a 15.27 lenge’’. per cent rise in net profit Like all cigarette mak- in the 2002-03 financial ers in India, ITC is battling year on the back of rising to keep sales by volume revenue from its mainstay from falling in the wake of cigarette business. The company’s net prof- increased taxes aimed at it jumped to Rs 1,371.35 discouraging smoking and crore up from Rs 1,189.72 restrictions on advertising crore in 2001-02, as ciga- tobacco products and puff- rette revenue increased 9.3 ing away in public places. per cent driven by an im- ITC said it was resorting proved product mix and to innovative modes of 4.1 per cent volume packaging to drive ciga- growth. rette sales in terms of vol- ITC’s net sales turnover ume. The company has surged 15.94 per cent in the been increasingly trying year ended March 2003 to to reduce its dependence Rs 5,865.78 crore. on cigarettes by branching On a consolidated basis, out into the agri-business ITC said the group posted category, hotels, paper- a net profit of Rs 1,372.97 board, packaged foods, crore on a net income of clothes retailing and greet- Rs 6,360.87 crore in 2002-03. ing cards. ITC has recommended a Its exports of cigarette dividend of Rs 15 per leaf tobacco jumped to Rs share for the past financial 220 crore in 2002-03 from year. ITC’s shares fell mar- Rs 187 crore in 2001-02. ginally over two per cent Exports of other agri- to close at Rs 677.40 at the commodities touched benchmark BSE on Friday. Rs 845 crore in the past The company said its financial year. IOB plans Rs 100-cr IPO
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: To make use of the current bull trend in banking sector stocks, Indian Overseas Bank will launch a Rs 100 crore intitial public offer in the next three months. IOB chairman and MD SC Gupta said that capital mobilisation would require to enahance its capital adequacy ratio from the existing 11.39 per cent to over 12 per cent. He said that there are chances that the next Basel Convention would suggest to enhance the capital ad- equacy ratio from the existing 9 per cent to 12 per cent by 2005. With the help of forthcoming IPO, he said, the bank would prepare for faster growth. Gupta said that the detail of public offer would be finalised by mid-July. The government equity in bank is expected to be brought down to 61 per cent from the present 75 per cent.
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20 Saturday,May 24, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi Sensex gains AP Shares blossom on 9 points Mumbai: Boosted by a sharp rally in key old-economy Dow rise, $ flat in Asia heavyweight counters, the Sensex notched up a fresh Singapore: Asian stock mar- the summit is limiting sell- The United States reported gain of 9.05 points to close at kets blossomed on Friday, ing,” said Yutaka Miura, jobless claims increased in 3049.84 on the stock exchange tracking Wall Street where deputy manager of equity in- the latest week, triggering on Friday, cutting short a investors put money on a U.S. formation at Shinko Securi- another bout of weakness in brief two-session decline, recovery, while the threat of ties. the dollar in New York trade. even as select software Japanese intervention kept “It’s not really likely, but However the fear of Japan- shares reeled under selling the dollar on an even keel af- there is always the possibili- ese intervention kept the pressure. ter it weakened overnight. ty that something will come greenback within a tight Under the lead of SBI, oth- Oil prices steadied after a out regarding Japan’s eco- range in Asian trade. er pivotals such as HLL, Tel- fall on news that the U.N. Se- nomic problems, or issues “Although U.S. stocks are co, Tisco, Hindalco, HPCL, curity Council had voted to like the bad-loan clean-up.” performing well, forex mar- HDFC, Bajaj Auto, Grasim end sanctions on Iraq and al- The gain in New York was ket participants appear to be and L&T registered sharp to low it to resume exporting driven by investor hopes of reacting to weak U.S. macro- moderate gains, dealers said. oil. an economic recovery this economic figures and selling Despite positive advices Gold eased as investors year, building on positive the dollar,” said Kosuke from Wall Street, IT locked in profits after a comments by Fed chairman Hanao, head of forex sales at bellwether Infosys Tech Royal Bank of Scotland in drawn-out rally and ahead of Alan Greenspan earlier in remained at the receiving Tokyo. a long weekend in both the the week. end, leading to bearish United States and Britain. The dollar moved in a band The enthusiasm spread trend in the software sector,a Many investors were reluc- of 117.22-117.43 against the across the Pacific, with dealer said, adding ‘‘had tant to carry positions into yen while the euro was last at South Korea ending 2.7 per there not been a steep fall in the break — Monday is $1.1677/81, little changed cent higher.Australia was up RIL, Infosys Tech and ITC, Memorial Day in the United from the overnight $1.1694. over one per cent, Hong Kong the rise in the Sensex would States and a bank holiday in The range-bound dollar al- have been more pro- gained 1.5 per cent and Sin- Britain. lowed some more profit tak- nounced’’. gapore rose 1.2 per cent. Asian stock markets how- ing in gold. Spot gold was last The Dow Jones industrial ever had a rare day in the Taiwan strengthened 1.8 at $365.80/6.50 per ounce, average and the tech-heavy sun. Japan’s Nikkei index per cent while Thailand against $366.80/367.50 last Nasdaq composite index on closed off highs but still up stocks hit a 10-month high. quoted in New York. Thursday ended remarkably 1.65 per cent, powered by a 0.9 “There are reasons to be a It had fallen over four dol- higher by 77.59 points and per cent gain in the Dow bit more optimistic, not rag- lars on Thursday, as dealers 17.68 points respectively. Jones average. ingly so, but I think the worst locked in profits from a rally The BSE-30 share sensi- Tokyo traders were also of investor depression is which stretches back to early tive index opened slightly up hoping that measures to over,” said Hans Kunnen, April. at 3041.63 and moved in a nar- boost the economy could head of investment markets Front-month NYMEX oil row range of 3060.48 and come up at a summit later in research at Colonial First futures were last at $28.88 to 3036.42 before concluding at the day between Prime Min- State in Sydney. the barrel, flat from $28.85 3049.84 as against Thursday’s ister Junichiro Koizumi and “Investors will soon be see- overnight. close of 3040.79, a net gain of U.S. President George W. ing positive returns in equi- They had fallen 0.6 per 0.30 per cent. Bush. ties. Basically it’s cash that’s cent on Thursday following The BSE-100 index rose by “We’ve had the strong re- out there and nervousness news of the widely expected 10.91 points to end at 1562.94 A money changer affixes the new euro exchange rate against the U.S. dollar in his shop window in bound overseas, and the about being in cash,” Kun- Security Council vote lifting from previous close of downtown Frankfurt, Germany, on Friday. At his shop one has to pay $1.234 for one euro. The euro rose above US$ 1.18 on ‘event risk’ associated with nen said. sanctions on Iraq. Reuters 1552.03. PTI Friday as it resumed its rapid climb against the greenback. Security fears keep IMF, World Bank out of Iraq Washington: Security fears what the needs are on the are keeping the International ground.” Monetary Fund and World The resolution mentioned Bank from sending teams to the establishment of a develop- Iraq to assess the cost of re- ment fund for Iraq to be held by building, officials from both in- the central bank. Horst stitutions said on Thursday. Koehler, IMF managing direc- The United Nations Securi- tor and World Bank President ty Council voted 14-0 on Thurs- James Wolfensohn will be day to end 13 years of crippling members of a board oversee- sanctions on Iraq, and gave the ing the fund. United States and Britain ex- Speaking before the U.N. traordinary powers to run the resolution was passed, the IMF country and its lucrative oil in- also said it had concerns about dustry. security. But both the IMF and the “It is my understanding that World Bank said they were not there is a relatively limited quite ready to go into the coun- number of international or- try.The bank said it has sent a ganisations in the country in team assessing Iraq to neigh- part because of security rea- bouring Jordan. sons and the need to find, deal “The World Bank manage- with counterparts,” IMF Ex- ment welcomes the U.N. Secu- rity Council Resolution and we ternal Relations Director Tom are actively taking steps to re- Dawson said at a press brief- spond,” said Jean-Louis Sar- ing. bib, World Bank vice president The World Bank estimates of the Middle East and North that Iraq faces an alarming Africa region. health situation with about 128 He said bank experts have of every 1,000 Iraqi children been assessing the most press- dying before the age of five ing needs for the country for compared to an average of 54 weeks now,mainly in the areas per 1,000 children in the re- of health, education, power, gion. water and economic manage- Maternal mortality is near- ment. ly ten times worse than in Jor- “We hope to build on this as- dan and the average Iraqi in- sessment by sending a team of come has fallen dramatically international experts into Iraq to $1,200 from $3,700 per capita as soon as it is safe to go to see in 1980. Reuters Bush names Bolten as US budget director Washington: President up of Bush’s economic team. George W.Bush picked trusted Bolten takes over the job at adviser Joshua Bolten on a time of record deficits, which Thursday to serve as White the administration blames on House budget director, a job at the economic downturn, the the center of a brewing elec- jolt from the September 11, tion-year battle over record 2001, attacks, and wars in budget deficits. Afghanistan and Iraq. Bolten, who was a deputy Democrats blame Bush’s tax White House chief of staff, cuts for deficits expected to vowed to be “a tight-fisted cus- eclipse a record of $290 billion todian of the people’s money” in 1992, when Bush’s father while advocating Bush’s tax- was in the White House. and-spending priorities, which Daniels, who held the job Democrats blame for turning since January 2001, fought record budget surpluses into pitched battles with both Re- record deficits. publicans and Democrats in His nomination as the direc- the U.S. Congress over the ad- tor of the Office of Manage- ministration’s tax-and-spend- ment and Budget must be ap- ing plans. proved by the Senate, which Democratic congressional could prove difficult. aides said the new budget di- Bush’s choice for deputy rector should expect more of budget director, Clay Johnson, the same in the run-up to next has been held up for months by year’s presidential election. Sen. Robert Byrd of West Vir- Bolten said he hoped to have ginia, the top Democrat on the a “good working relationship” Senate Appropriations Com- with Congress, but he left little mittee. doubt he was ready to fight, Bolten, 48, will replace promising to be “a tireless ad- Mitch Daniels, who is stepping vocate” of Bush’s agenda. down to launch an expected “I have to believe that (rela- run for governor of Indiana. tions) will be much improved. Bush called Bolten one his One thing that he and I have to “closest and most trusted ad- recognise is that we are on the visers.” Largely behind the same team,” said House Ap- scenes, he helped craft the ad- propriations Committee ministration’s tax-cutting Chairman Bill Young, a Flori- agenda and was instrumental da Republican who frequently in last year’s sweeping shake- clashed with Daniels. Reuters
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The Times of India, New Delhi, Saturday,May 24, 2003
For greener pastures Bohdan appeals ban Srinath wanted Star striker Baichung Bhutia is keen Czech tennis player Bohdan Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly will on more assignments in foreign Ulihrach, suspended after testing request Javagal Srinath to tour Australia in countries. He believes playing positive for Nandrolone, has ap- December. He wants the services of the abroad will give him experience pealed to the Court of Arbitration seasoned fast bowler for the tour. He feels and exposure which is needed for Sport to overturn a two-year three pacers and two spinners would be at the highest level ban. He was fined $43,770 ideal to tame the champions China continue to dominate World TT
It’s disappointing they got Ajit Ninan on the ground. There’s se- curity staff all around and Fleming-o dance shocks Pak they got on. AP — Geoff Marsh on two protes- Dambulla(Sri Lanka): Skip- ing sixes and five boundaries tors walking onto the ground per Stephen Fleming’s 65 off 111 deliveries to put the Ki- drove New Zealand to a four- wis on the victory course. SPORTS DIGEST wicket victory on Friday in the Starting with a 54-run open- AP tri-series final against Pak- ing stand with Chris Nevin istan, clinching their second (17), Fleming went on to add 59 overseas One-day title. runs for the second wicket The Black Caps bowled Pak- with Lou Vincent (13) before istan out for 198 in 50 overs and being caught by Younis Khan then rode on the foundation at covers off pace bowler Mo- provided by Fleming to reach hammad Sami. 200 for six in 45.2 overs. Sami came back from an er- The victory fulfilled Flem- ratic first spell to claim three ing’s desire to add a rare over- for 42, but Pakistani bowlers seas one-day tournament win conceded 44 extras — the sec- to the 2000 ICC Trophy tri- ond highest score in New umph. Zealand’s innings — to miss Having broken a seven- out on their second successive match losing streak against title. Pakistan during the first of Middle-order batsman their two league matches, New Khan slammed a 70 off 85 Zealand’s experience helped it balls, his 17th half-century in prevail against a young Pak- 83 matches, to give Pakistan a istani team that was missing fighting chance despite a poor their star bowler Shoaib start. Michael Chang (R) picks a number Akhtar. With Pakistan struggling at during the French Open draw at New Zealand had won the 56 for four in the 20th over, the Roland Garros Stadium in Paris first league encounter by sev- Khan smashed seven bound- on Friday. The French Open starts en wickets, but Pakistan aries and shared two produc- on Monday. bounced back to prevail by 22 tive stands with Shoaib Malik Butcher cuts ton runs in the second round. (34) and captain Rashid Latif London: England’s Mark Butcher, who hit 21 fours Strong bid by India: India is con- Fleming struck three tower- (20). AFP fident of breaking the Australia-Eng- Butcher took full advantage and a six, was clearly in the land-Canada axis and winning the SCOREBOARD of his good fortune to make mood to cash in after his two right to host the Commonwealth 137 on the second day of the lives the previous day, when Games in 2010, Indian Olympic As- Pakistan: 20-0. first Test against labouring he had escaped a close lbw sociation secretary Randhir Singh Mohd Hafeez c McCullum b Tuffey 0 New Zeland: Zimbabwe. call on 10 before being F Athar c McCullum b Oram 9 Chris Nevin c Malik b Sami 17 said in New Delhi on Friday. New Y Hameed lbw b Mills 6 S Fleming c Khan b Sami 65 Butcher,resuming on 52 af- dropped at second slip on 36. Delhi and Hamilton, Canada will Y Youhana run out 25 L Vincent run out 13 ter being given two first-day With England resuming on make their bid for the 2010 event at Y Khan not out 70 S Styris b Sami 22 let-offs, unfurled a string of 184 for three, the 30-year-old London on May 30 before the Com- S Malik b Vettori 34 C Cairns c Razzaq b Ahmed 18 fine off-side boundaries opened up with a flurry of monwealth Games Federation A Razzaq run out 10 J Oram c Khan b Razzaq 12 R Latif c Tuffey b Oram 20 C Harris not out 5 against some wayward bowl- boundaries. makes its choice in Jamaica in No- Mohd Sami c Harris b Oram 7 B McCullum not out 4 ing to reach his seventh Test Seamer Andy Blignaut, vember. Singh will lead India’s pres- S Ahmed c McCullum b Tuffey 2 Extras: (13lb, 6nb, 25w) 44 century as England were all who never settled, was cut entation in London along with sports D Kaneria c McCullum b Tuffey 0 Total: (for 6 wkts in 45.2) 200 out for 472 in their first in- square in the first over. minister Vikram Verma.Agencies Extras: (6lb, 6nb, 3w) 15 Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-113, 3-151, 4- Total: (all out in 50 overs) 198. 152, 5-170, 6-194. nings. Heath Streak was then clat- Indian badminton squad: Ab- Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-11, 3-39, 4-56, 5- Bowling: Mohd Sami 10-0-42-3 (4nb, Butcher hit 90 in bound- tered through mid-on as he 113, 6-136, 7-179, 8-194, 9-198, 10-198. 9w), Shabbir Ahmed 8.2-0-36-1 (1nb, hinn Shyam Gupta and Nikhil Bowling: Daryl Tuffey 9-2-32-3 (3nb, 1w), 5w), Abdur Razzaq 3-0-20-1 (1nb, 2w), aries, dominated as the bat- Kanetkar will lead India’s challenge Kyle Mills 8-0-36-1 (2nb, w2), Scott Styris Mohammad Hafeez 8-1-25-0 (3w), Danish ting conditions improved be- SCOREBOARD in the World Badminton Champi- 10-2-34-0, Jacob Oram 10-1-38-3 (1nb), Kaneria 10-2-35-0 (6w), Shoaib Malik 6- New Zealand bowler Jacob Oram in action during the final of the tri-series fore falling to a fine catch by onship, which has been rescheduled Daniel Vettori 10-1-32-1, Chris Harris 3-0- 0-29-0. England (1st innings): against Pakistan at the Rangiri Stadium in Dambulla, Sri Lanka, on Friday. Mark Vermeulen at short to take place from July 28. The midwicket after a six-and-a- M Trescothick c Ervine b Blignaut 59 World Championship which were to M Vaughan b Streak 8 half-hour stay. M Butcher c Vermeulen b Price 137 be originally held in Birmingham, He shared a fifth-wicket N Hussain c Hondo b Friend 19 England from May 12-18, was post- ‘Lax’ security at Lord’s stand of 70 with Alec Stewart R Key c Taibu b Streak 18 poned due to the the outbreak of A Stewart c Taibu b Streak 26 Stop the Aussies: Lara and put on 68 for the sixth SARS and would now take place A McGrath b Ervine 69 with debutant Anthony Mc- A Giles b Blignaut 52 from July 28 to August 3. PTI annoys Zimbabwe coach Port of Spain (Trinidad): Skipper Brian their team with nine batsman in the last Grath (58 not out) before tir- S Harmison c Ebrahim b Ervine 0 Lara has urged his top-order batsmen to ap- match, yet still went under. M Hoggard c Ebrahim b Blignaut 19 Moscow in the race: Moscow London: Zimbabwe coach Geoff Marsh attacked ply themselves in the first 15 overs and give Ponting said his team’s winning sequence ing towards the end of his in- J Anderson not out 4 entered the battle to host the 2012 the security arrangements at Lord’s Cricket Extras (14b, 27lb, 3w, 17nb) 61 the West Indies the chance of stopping the would inevitably end, but hopefully not this nings. It was the highest test Olympics on Friday joining Ground after protesters managed to walk onto the score by an Englishman Total (all out, 133.1 overs) 472 favourites Paris, London and New outfield here during the first day of the first Test Australian juggernaut in the Caribbean One- weekend in Trinidad as the Australians at- Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-121, 3-165, 4- day cricket series. tempt to wrap up the series. against Zimbabwe. 204, 5-274, 6-342, 7-408, 8-408, 9-456 York. AFP against England. The touring side, mean- Bowling: Heath Streak 37-9-99-3, Andy Demonstrators opposed to the policies of Zim- The World Cup champions extended their “We’re playing well, if we stick to the ba- Blignaut 26.1-4-96-3, Douglas Hondo unbeaten One-day International sequence while, were left to kick them- BETTING METER babwe President Robert Mugabe had gathered out- sics and keep doing them well we know we 14-4-45-0, Sean Ervine 22-5-95-2, to 20 games with a 25-run win over the West selves for the second day. On Travis Friend 13-2-49-1, Ray Price 20-6- side the ground before the start of play. are going to be competitive in most games, GOLF Indies in St Lucia last Wednesday and will Thursday,when only 59 overs 44-1, Grant Flower 1-0-3-0. But Marsh was angered by the way two protest- so that’s what we are focusing on,” he said. Annika Sorenstam in Colonial Specials wrap up the seven-match series with victo- were possible, they had failed 69 Or Less 4/1 ers strolled onto the playing area yesterday while The Australians remain unbeaten in one- ry in either of this weekend’s matches in to bowl the right line in help- 70-73 6/4 the match was in progress— despite the massed day internationals since losing to Sri Lanka 74 Or More 10/11 Trinidad. ful swinging conditions. On ranks of security staff patrolling the perimeter. by 79 runs at the Sydney Cricket Ground on as per ladbrokes.com. The Windies have lost their last 10 ODIs Friday they lost their length “It’s disappointing they got on the ground. January 9 this year. against Australia, but Lara knows what and failed to take wickets in There’s security staff all around and they got on,” Since then Australia’s dominance has needs to be done if his team is not to play clusters. LIVE ON TV Marsh said. “You shouldn’t just be able to walk on taken in the World Cup in southern Africa second-fiddle again to Ricky Ponting’s high- AP ESPN: 1510 hrs: England vs Zimbabwe (1st Test, like that. when they beat all comers, culminating in rolling squad. Day 3). 0100 hrs (Sunday): Spanish Football Lord’s owners MCC were critcised for their lax their 125-run demolition of India in the fi- League: 2002/03. “In two of the three matches we lost the nal in Johannesburg on March 23. Star Sports: 1900 hrs: West Indies vs Australia (4th security last year when a spectator walked onto match in the first 15 overs when we were ODI). the outfield to meet India batsman Sachin Ten- With compacency increasingly becoming batting losing that amount of wickets, so us a threat to the all-conquering Australians, dulkar after he’d been dismissed. AFP batters up front need to apply ourselves a lot team coach John Buchanan has warned his better,” Lara said on Friday. players not to even contemplate a clean “We should not be losing wickets during sweep of the seven-game series. AFP that period.” Break it like Beckham: 1 more Lara, master batsman that he is, has also TEAMS to shoulder the blame with poor scores in West Indies: Chris Gayle, Devon Smith, Wavell Hinds, Marlon the opening three matches of 23, 5 and 4. Samuels, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara (captain), Ricardo “Of course, they’ve dominated at least Powell, Carlton Baugh, Ridley Jacobs, Omari Banks, Vasbert obscure bone becomes a star Drakes, Mervyn Dillon, Corey Collymore, David Bernard, Ryan two of the three matches so far and we have Hurley. London: First the metatarsal, now the ‘‘If you gave me one million dollars I to find a way to turn things around,” Australia:Matthew Hayden,Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting (cap- scaphoid. couldn’t name the bone which he has dam- he said. tain), Jimmy Maher, Michael Clarke,Andrew Symonds, Michael Bevan, Brad Hogg, Ian Harvey, Andrew Bichel, Brett Lee, Jason Britons are learning about lesser known aged, but I just hope he recovers as quickly “W’s strong bowling attack has dominat- Gillespie, Glenn McGrath, Nathan Hauritz. England’s Mark Butcher celebrates his century at Lord’s bones of the body every time soccer star as possible so he can have a normal life dur- ed the Windies, even after they stacked during the first Test match against Zimbabwe on Friday. David Beckham breaks one. ing the summer.’’ ‘‘He should not miss any Last year it was the metatarsal bone in football as a result of this bad break, but the his left foot. On Thursday, Beckham frac- inability to sign autographs over the next tured his right scaphoid, the bone between few weeks will disappoint many fans,’’ The Sleeping AIFF, bad coaches, insecure players the thumb and the wrist, in England’s 2-1 Times wrote. win over South Africa in Durban. Last year, Beckham broke the bone in his By Ranjan Chowdhury The Tata Football Academy came as a breath of fresh air for foot- Back to the youth again. As with most news about Beckham, the foot playing for Manchester United against ball lovers, who thought of it as the great panacea to the many ills Germany, a great footballing injury was featured on the front and back Deportivo la Coruna in a Champions outh Development nation, is trying to regain pages of British newspapers Friday. League. AP Programme — it has of Indian soccer. Coach Ranjan Chowdhury explains why the past glory. Thus, soccer has ‘‘David Beckham doesn’t do ordinary AFP Ybeen the buzzword in dreams remained unfulfilled and why his pupils found it hard to been made compulsory in clothes or haircuts— and he doesn’t do or- the soccer world for several survive in the mainstream schools and a project called dinary injuries either,’’ The Mirror wrote years now, revolutionising ‘2010’ has been launched with coach has a feel of him, he’s year? Because they are re- Friday next to a graphic of hand bones. soccer in its wake. And six- government support. Mark out. A player must be stable INDIAN SPORT luctant to attend clinics and ‘‘Less stylish players might strain their teen years back (in 1987), my words: Seven years from in mind so that he can give use training centres. groin or tweak a hamstring.’’ someone in India too dared SLEEPING now, we will all look at them, off his best all the time. It’s We have the facilities at The Independent said: ‘‘Forget about the to dream. The Tata Football speak of them but never be high time, that we intro- TFA, but the wards never metatarsal. That bone is so last year, con- Academy was formed on the GIANT able to imitate them. duce three or five-year con- come back to get themselves signed to David Beckham’s fashion dustbin lines of Brazil’s famous Sao Only if we could copy along with the Alice (hair) band. The bone Paulo Academy with high tracts. I would also request ex- assessed. Only Baichung some of their dedication. But to break this year is the scaphoid.’’ hopes of galvanising the Let’s now shift to the footballers to get educated Bhutia visited us last year then, changing one’s mindset The injury could sideline Beckham for football scene in the country. coaches. Not many are up to on modern techniques. One for a fitness check-up. Profes- is probably the hardest thing up to six weeks. Now,a few questions come the mark. Nowadays, any ex- cannot blame the federation sionalism is not merely a in the world. The Manchester United midfielder will back often — could the TFA player can become a coach. all the time. In this context, word, it’s a dream to be re- As told to Nilanjan Datta. miss England’s next friendly on June 3 achieve its goal? And when But great managers need not the contribution of the alised. Majority of the lot is Ranjan Chowdhury is one against Serbia-Montenegro. He was already will TFA produce a Patrick be great players themselves. Sports Authority of India Kupomonduk (a frog in the of the very few Indian soccer suspended for the Euro 2004 qualifier Kluivert or a Thierry Sometime, I have been left also needs to be tracked well). They cannot see be- coaches to hold a profession- against Slovakia on June 11. Henry? amazed at their ignorance. down. yond. There are dadas in al license — from Sehanau, Beckham was injured after landing awk- Let me clarify. Setting up Sports medicine is Latin to It’s not that the players are Kolkata who teach nothing Germany. As the TFA coach wardly under a first-half challenge from of an academy alone will them. ‘‘Woh sab me kuch all good. When the NFL was but dadagiri. since its inception, he has Thabang Molefe. He continued playing but never stem the rot. Once the nahin hota. Maidan pe ladai started in 1995/96, every club Look at any revolution in seen many of his talented came off early in the second half and was players are into the main- hota hai,’’ is what a coach, coveted my boys (all U-19 the world. The middle class wards fade into oblivion. taken to a hospital for X-rays. stream, it’s all about sustain- who trains an NFL club, had players). Then, the clubs has played a major role in it. Aloke Das, Gautam Ghosh, With his hand and forearm in a cast, ing the momentum. How can to offer. paid anything between 12 to We pick up downtrodden Khemtang Paite... the list is Beckham flew back to London with the rest the All India Football Feder- Just imagine the best tal- 15 lakh to boys who were boys from remote areas. If long. Despite earning big of the team Friday. ation (AIFF) and the so- ent in the country being han- subsisting on a monthly honesty and sincerity are money, they couldn’t keep It’s unclear whether Beckham will be called elite clubs shun re- dled by such people. They stipend. No surprise that their strong points, their their motivation going. Has able to play for Manchester United on its sponsibility? are the ones who groom they lost their mind. poor IQ level often lets them it something to do with the preseason tour of the United States in July. Soccer in India is not youngsters at the grass-root Don’t misunderstand me. down. Actually, the middle psyche of an Indian sports- His absence would be a major blow as Man even semi-professional. The level, serve as AIFF spotters I’m not against players earn- class has moved more and man or is the stagnant sys- United seeks to break into the American one-year contract system and provide feedback for the ing money. It never comes more towards academics, tem at fault? The problems market. makes a player insecure. So selection of the national easy. I would only advise veering away from the sport- persist, without a solution in ‘‘I feel very sorry for David because that after six months, he starts squad. Why can’t the AIFF them to spend a bit of it on ing arena. If they ignore foot- sight. was his last game of the season and he has David Beckham holds his injured hand hunting for another club. make it compulsory for any their own fitness. But they ball, it’s up to the AIFF to Readers can send their got that painful injury,’’ England coach during the friendly match against South Just look at the number of coach to possess a minimum hardly care to be fit. Why do bring back the interest. Mar- views on timessport@india- Sven-Goran Eriksson said. Africa in Durban on Thursday. players who change clubs ‘A’ license before he works Kolkata players complain of keting is the key word in the times.com or fax at 23323346, each year. Even before the with an NFL club? injuries all through the modern world. 23324173, 23715832.
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AP CROSS COUNTRY Sonal, Liza to clash in final crashing out in straight sets to storm into the fi- Chile make it to final nal in the boys under 18 group of the National Duesseldorf: Chile will face In another Blue Group New Delhi: Sonal Phadke downed second seed Ranking Tennis Championship. Siddharth will the Czech Republic in the final match, Germany also took an Isha Lakhani and top seed Liza Pareira quelled take on fifth seed M Jeevan in final. PTI of the World Team Cup after unassailable 2-0 lead over a spirited challenge from Archana Venkatra- Fernando Gonzalez and Sweden. Rainer Schuettler man to enter the final of the $5000 ITF women’s Ramesh emerges winner tennis circuit event. Sonal made the most of an Marcelo Rios claimed straight- beat Magnus Norman 6-1, 6-3 error prone Isha Lakhani to win 6-4 7-5 while Chennai: IM R.B. Ramesh of Indian Oil Cor- set wins over their Argentine and Lars Burgsmueller de- Liza had to come back from a set down to defeat poration emerged winner in the FIDE rated opponents on Friday. feated Thomas Enqvist 5-7, 6- fifth seeded Archana 6-7 (4/7) 6-3 7-5 in the semi- open chess tournament when he settled for a Gonzalez beat 2002 Wimble- 4, 6-4. finals. Sonal combined with Ankita Bhambri to draw against another IM Sundarrajan Ki- don runner-up David Nalban- The Czechs advanced by win the doubles title 7-6 (7/3) 6-0 against Shruti dambi (BPCL) in the ninth and final round.PTI dian 6-4, 7-5 and Rios swept beating the United States 2-1 aside Gaston Gaudio 6-3, 6-3. on Thursday. AP Dhawan and Sheetal Gautham. PTI Dempo down Vasco 2-1 INDIANS ABROAD Patil shocks third seed Kohli Margao: Dempo came from behind through Pune: Unseeded local challenger Siddharth Faizal Martin’s brace to edge past Vasco 2-1 Patil sent third seed Sumit Gupta of Uttar and collect full points in the U-19 Junior Na- Railway spikers win world crown Pradesh and top seed Saurabh Kohli of Mumbai tional Football League. PTI New Delhi: The Indian Railways team won the gold medal for the first time in the World Railway Volleyball Champi- onship in France. The triumph in the 16-nation tourna- ment comes close on the heels of a silver medal at the Laura Negrisoli of Italy serves to Sui Fei Lau of Hong Kong during their World Table World Railways Basketball Championship in St Peters- Tennis Championships match at the Bercy Stadium in Paris on Thursday. burg last month. In final, India defeated Yugoslavia 25-23, 32-30, 21-25 25-23. PTI Girls crash out in quarterfinals 1st gold goes to China New Delhi: The Indian girls’ team made their exit with a quarterfinal defeat in Asia-Oceania qualification tie of Paris: China won the first in the men’s singles for reigning men’s the ITF World Junior Tennis championship in Melbourne. of what could be a clutch of champion Wang Liqin, Olympic title The girls’ lost their doubles against Japan. PTI gold medals with Ma Lin holder Kong Linghui, world number two and Wang Nan’s victory in Ma Lin and Qiu Yike, the man who oust- the mixed doubles at the ed Timo Boll on Wednesday. table tennis world champi- Kong brushed aside Greek Ntaniel onships on Friday. Tsiokas, while inspired by his unscript- Watched on television by ed win over Boll Qiu followed up with a an estimated 300 million fans back home 4-1 defeat of Austrian Kostadin they beat compatriots Liu Guozheng and Lengerov. In the women’s singles Chi- Bai Yang 4-3 (9-11, 10-12, 11-0, 11-7, 11-9, 5- na’s top three all made it safely into the 11, 11-8) in front of a sold-out Bercy arena. next round, yet it was not all one way China, who executed a clean sweep of traffic as Romania’s Otilia Badescu gold medals at the past two champi- walked off with a sizeable scalp in Chi- onships, are favourites to win the na’s Guo Yan, the world number ten. women’s singles and doubles, and men’s Meanwhile, the two players from doubles with Vladimir Samsonov of Be- Yemen and Saudi Arabia who refused to larus Europe’s one big hope of landing take on an Israeli have been banned for the men’s singles. This was Ma Lin’s sec- the rest of the year. Hani Al-Hammadi ond mixed doubles title, but the first for from Yemen and Nabeel Al-Magahwi China’s second top rated woman and de- were suspended after their boycott was fending singles’ champion Wang Nan. the subject of an official protest to the Earlier, there was third round success ITTF, by the Israeli delegation. AFP CAPITAL SPORT DDA Academy triumph: Namdhari Cup: Gold Star DDA Football Academy ‘B’ Academy beat Wonder Crick- prevailed over DDA Football et Club by 7 wickets in the Academy ‘C’ 3-1 to annex Namdhari Cup. the five-a-side Ambuja Cup Wonder Club: 164 in 32.5 overs football tournament. Amar (Ananya Sen 47, Ramit Gill 4 for 22) Gold Jyoti defeated Ambuja 1-0. Star: 165 for 3 in 21.1 overs (Dinesh Kaushik 65, Ramit Gill 25). Sanjay scintillates: Rajd- Results of other sporting events hani Sports defeated Delhi DDCA U-15 league :Pahari Dhiraj Club: Blues by 74 runs in Lala Rag- 157 in 40.3 overs (Prateek Jamla 76, hubir memorial tournament. Manish Adhikari 4/ 27) beat Alpine Club: Rajdhani: 212/6 in 27 overs (Sanjay Ver- 97 in 33 overs (Tushar Kaushik 3/13). ma 68, Ashish Sharma 61) Delhi Blues: SPS: 178 in 38.2 overs (Hitesh Tyagi 138/7 in 27 overs (Gaurav Marwah 49). 4/40) lost to KG Colts: 181/ 3 in 29 overs.
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The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Saturday,May 24, 2003 23 ‘I was feeling a little sick’ Texas: Sweden’s Annika AP Sorenstam has already made EVES & PUTTS history. Now she’s trying to •First woman to play in make the cut. Still, no matter PGA tour what happens in the second round of the Colonial, the • Scored 1-over 71 in first woman to play in a PGA opening round Tour event in 58 years has al- ready accomplished most of •Is tied 73rd. The top-70 what she set out to do. (plus ties) advance “Personally,I came here to •Got her birdie on the par- test myself. I’m very proud of 3 13th with a 15-foot putt the way I was focusing and the way I made decisions and ter two days of rain for an stuck to them,” Sorenstam opening 64. He led by one said after her opening 71 on stroke over Mark Calcavec- Thursday. “That’s why I’m chia and Patrick Sheehan. here. I wanted to see if I With a gallery that stood a could do it. That’s all that dozen deep and strained to matters.” At 1-over par, see every shot, Sorenstam Sorenstam proved — at least showed how she has become for a round — that her game the most dominate female stacked up against the play- golfer in 40 years. She won 13 ers on the men’s tour. tim es in 25 tournaments “It looked like the way around the world last year. she’s playing, she could easi- She missed only one fairway ly compete on this level,” at Colonial. And on the four Phil Mickelson said after his greens she missed, she was 67. She handled everything close enough to use her put- like a champ. Sorenstam WOMEN POWER: Annika Sorenstam exults after making a ter. “She wanted to experi- might have been nervous all birdie on the 13th hole. ence this Tiger mania, be- day — ‘‘My heart was beat- cause she thinks that’s going ing, I felt a little sick in my better than Sergio Garcia tion “reeks of publicity,”also to help her,” said Jesper stomach, my hands were (72), Tom Lehman (73) and had a 71. Sorenstam was tied Parnevik, a fellow Swede. sweaty,’’ she said — but she two dozen others. for 73rd, with the top 70 and “When she comes to the never played like it. Defending champion Nick ties advancing to the final two next major, it’s going to be Her first-round score was Price, who said her appear- rounds. Rory Sabbatini took like playing a Wednesday in the middle of the pack, but ance on a sponsor’s exemp- advantage of a soft course af- pro-am for her.”AP SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE
FOOTBALL (Kor), Mark McNulty (Zim), Ricardo Gon- International Match: Argentina zalez (Arg), Ronan Rafferty, Peter Hed- John Wright may Uruguay Postponed, South Africa 1 Eng- blom (Swe), Gary Orr, Mikko Ilonen (Fin), land 2, Norway 2 Finland 0. Niclas Fasth (Swe), Colin Montgomerie, Four Nations Tournament: Scotland SP Ernie Els (Rsa), Trevor Immelman (Rsa). 4 Rep of Ireland SP 3, Wales SP 0. SNOOKER guide India A GOLF Challenge Tour Event Four, Prestatyn 1st round scores from the Bank of (semi-finals): Kurt Maflin (Eng) beat By Gautam Bhattacharyya doesn’t know much about,” America Colonial Country Club Fort Craig MacGillivray (Sco) 5-3, James TIMES NEWS NETWORK BCCI sources said. Worth, Texas. — (USA unless stated Leadbetter (Eng) beat David McDonnell Meanwhile, the India A Kolkata: The India A squad par 72): 64 Rory Sabbatini (RSA), 65 (Eng) 5-3. squad is certain to see a new Mark Calcavecchia, Patrick Sheehan, 66 for the England tour, to be TENNIS coach as well skipper from Dan Forsman, Jesper Parnevik (Swe), 67 WTA Tour Open de Espana Villa de picked up on the morrow, is Stephen Ames (Tri), Olin Browne, Chad Madrid - Trofeo Volkswagen, Madri the squad which toured the Campbell, Stewart Cink, Glen Day, J.J. likely to have India coach West Indies during the last d(quarters): Barbara Schett (Aut) beat (4) John Wright accompanying Henry, Brandt Jobe, Spike McRoy, Phil Clarisa Fernandez (Arg) 6-2 6-3, (7) Iroda World Cup. It’s almost certain Mickelson, Craig Parry (Aus), Brett Tulyaganova (Uzb) beat Cara Black (Zim) them. The 75-day sojourn, Quigley, Loren Roberts, Mike Sposa, that Ashok Malhotra, who 7-5 6-4, (1) Chanda Rubin (USA) beat (5) which will have ‘Test’ match- toured the Caribbean and Duffy Waldorf, Brian Watts, Jay Paola Suarez (Arg) 6-2 6-4, Maria Antonia Williamson, 68 Billy Andrade, Rich es, begins from June 22. was subsequently ‘promoted’ Sanchez-Lorenzo (Spa) beat Emmanuelle According to well-placed Beem, Jeff Brehaut, Greg Chalmers Gagliardi (Swi) 6-1 3-6 6-4. as the assistant coach of the (Aus), Marco Dawson, Luke Donald, Jim ATP Tour Internationaler Raiffeisen sources, the BCCI boss Jag- senior team to Bangladesh Furyk, Brian Gay, Matt Gogel, Cliff Kres- Grand Prix, St Poelten, Austria mohan Dalmiya will finalise ge, Justin Leonard, Frank Lickliter II, last month, will make way for (Quarter-finals): (1) Andy Roddick Rocco Mediate, Corey Pavin, Kenny Per- with the five wise men how to a new incumbent. (USA) beat Richard Krajicek (Ned) 7-5 6- ry, Tim Petrovic, Jeff Sluman, Esteban use Wright for this assign- Speculation is already rife 1, Martin Verkerk (Ned) beat Flavio Toledo (mex), 69 Pat Bates, Bob Burns, ment. “With the senior team as to who could take over, Steve Flesch, Harrison Frazar, David Saretta (Bra) 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-2), (8) David Sanchez (Spa) beat Mario Ancic free till October,this tour will even though Chandrakant Frost, Jay Haas, Per-Ulrik Johansson offer Wright a scope to take a (Swe), Len Mattiace, Billy Mayfair, Gene (Cro) 6-1 6-4, (6) Nikolay Davydenko Pandit has suddenly Sauers, Joey Sindelar, Kirk Triplett, Bob (Rus) beat Anthony Dupuis (Fra) 7-5 6-1 look at the fringe players he emerged as a dark horse. Tway, Scott Verplank, 70 Woody Austin, English County Briny Baird, Cameron Beckman, Tom (DIV 1): Chelmsford: Surrey 376 (M.Bick- Byrum, Alexander Cejka (Ger). nell 141, Azhar Mahmood 77, G.Thorpe Volvo PGA Championship at the West 52; G.Napier 4-82). Essex 252 (J.Dakin 59, A.Flower 51; M.Bicknell 4-67). AIFF has plans Course, Wentworth, Surrey: (Gbr and Irl unless stated, par 72): 66 Darren Edgbaston: Warwickshire 280-9 Clarke, 67 Thongchai Jaidee (Tha), (J.Troughton 120; M.Saggers 4-50) v James Kingston (Rsa), Alastair Forsyth, Kent - play abandoned for day - rain. 68 Graeme McDowell, Justin Rose, An- Leicester: Middlesex 201 (D.Maddy 5- for junior teams drew Coltart, Arjun Atwal (Ind), Greg 49). Leicestershire 136-8 (S.Cook 4-33) Owen, Soren Kjeldsen (Den), Peter Bak- - play abandoned due to rain. By Nilanjan Datta players play for the top clubs. er, Ian Woosnam,Adam Scott (Aus), Jose Horsham: Sussex 619-7 declared TIMES NEWS NETWORK So we won’t be able to field Maria Olazabal (Spa), Peter Senior (Aus), (M.Prior 133, R.Montgomerie 105, the best side,” he added. Gordon Brand Jnr, 69 Richard Bland, R.Kirtley 103 not out, P.Cottey 58,T.Am- New Delhi: The upcoming It was earlier learnt from Jamie Donaldson, Stephen Leaney brose 55). Nottinghamshire 85-1 - play Federation Cup in Kolkata (Aus), Michael Campbell (Nzl), Kevin Na abandoned. sources that paucity of funds may witness an India U-20 Reuters was acting as a hindrance. squad locking horns with the “Logistically, we are facing elite teams, AIFF secretary problems. We have to offer Alberto Colaco informed the boys salary, accommoda- Times News Network on Fri- tion and other facilities. A lot day. In addition to this, the of travelling is also involved. AIFF will field an India U-19 And then there are no team in the second division funds,’’ another senior feder- of the National Football ation official disclosed to League this season, he fur- TNN . The move would have ther informed. delighted soccer lovers in the ‘‘For the last 20 years, we Capital as the junior team are fielding three age-group was scheduled to play its teams in Goa League. So home matches here. there’s no reason as to why “The dates of the U-18 Milk we can’t do it in the NFL too,” Cup (19-25 July,in N. Ireland) Colaco said. are clashing with the Federa- He, however, dismissed tion Cup. We’re looking into ONE UP: England players celebrate after scoring their talk of the Indian U-19 side it,’’ Colaco said about U-19 first goal against South Africa in Durban on Thursday. playing in the NFL. “We have team’s participation in the to go step by step. Many U-19 16-team Federation Cup. Bowyer’s transfer Newcastle: It’s official: Lee Bowyer is joining Newcastle United. Bowyer, 26, signed a four-year deal with the Mag- pies on Friday. AP
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