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Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. China axes minister, mayor People try non-violence for a AP Beijing: China’s health minister Samata rift week, and when it ‘doesn’t work,’ they go back to and Beijing mayor were sacked violence which hasn’t from key Communist Party posts worked for centuries. on Sunday,soon after the country reported a jump in SARS deaths — Theodore Roszak and nearly a 10-fold increase in out in the cases in Beijing. NEWS DIGEST The dismissals were possibly a punishment for mishandling the Making Delhi move outbreak of the killer flu. faster ‘‘The central committee of the open again The third in a series of Communist Party of China has traffic solutions. Page 3 removed Zhang Wenkang as sec- TIMES NEWS NETWORK retary of the leading CPC mem- The story so far Dawood’s associate: Anil Parab, bers’ Group of the ministry of New Delhi: Defence minis- believed to be a close associate of health and Meng Xuenong ter George Fernandes’ ‘‘sur- • On April 13, Nitish underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, as deputy secretary of the CPC render’’ to railway minister loyalists sought the was being brought to Mumbai Beijing Municipal Committee,’’ Nitish Kumar in the internal expulsion of Fernandes’ on an Air India flight after being the official Xinhua news agency power struggle in the Samata supporters in Parliament deported from Dubai, according to reported. This is an indication Party has turned his sup- and in Bihar official reports received late that Zhang’s days as minister porters against him. They • On Saturday, Fernan- Sunday night. may be numbered. are seeking his resignation des averted a split by Maya backs off a little: Uttar The new fatalities raised Chi- from the Union cabinet. acceding to many of Pradesh chief na’s death toll to 79 and its total ‘‘You have forfeited all Nitish’s demands number of reported cases to minister Mayawati moral right to remain the de- • On Sunday, two has instructed offi- 1,814, Gao Qiang, an executive fence minister,’’ Samata MPs vice health minister, said. The Fernandes loyalist MPs cials to get clear- Raghunath Jha and Brah- sought his resignation most dramatic jump was in Bei- ance from courts manand Mandal said in a let- from the cabinet before arresting jing, where the number of infec- ter to Fernandes. A monk prays for an end to SARS in Hong Kong on Sunday ● Hong Kong reported 19 deaths over the Samajwadi Party tions soared from 37 to 347. In the letter,released to the weekend, taking the toll to 88 ● China’s overall toll was 79 ● In Singapore, 2,400 people in a vegetable leaders and others Fernandes also appointed ‘‘With such a situation, with market were put under a 10-day quarantine after being exposed to a man diagnosed with SARS. media on Sunday, the MPs named in FIRs filed more than 300 patients in Beijing, asked Fernandes how he a Nitish faction member, Comment: in connection with the ‘‘misuse’’ of the situation is already very There’s a virtual ex- Meanwhile in India could defend the country, Prabhunath Singh, as head of discretionary funds. serious,’’ Gao said, adding plosion of information about the when he could not protect the a disciplinary action com- mystery virus, with each revela- Doping charge: Andhra Pradesh there could be 400 more cases interests of his supporters. mittee. tion more confusing than the oth- Delhi New Zealander and Gurgaon girl in the clear athlete Uday Laxmi has accused the in Beijing. The crisis in the party has With these appointments, Sports Authority of Andhra Pradesh The government also cancelled er. It’s time an agency like the Mumbai Another suspected case arrives from Bangkok been brewing since January. Nitish’s control over the par- and the federations of forcing the the week-long May Day vacation, WHO put out a reliable and The party was on the verge of ty apparatus has become athletes to take to drugs so that the trying to stop tens of millions of accurate advisory on coping Doubts Virologists aren’t sure of ICMR’s methodology a split last Sunday, when the near total. Fernandes re- state could do well at the Hyder- Chinese from travelling and with SARS. (Report on Page 7) Nitish faction sought the ex- mains the party president abad National Games. P15 spreading the virus. Agencies Hong Kong reviews treatment: P10 pulsion of Fernandes loyal- without any real powers. ists in Parliament and the Bi- Jha and Mandal described YOU SAID IT by Laxman har legislature. Fernandes as a ‘‘weak and On Saturday, a day before helpless’’ leader who has be- leaving for China, Fernandes come a ‘‘rubber stamp’’ for 4 nations may be barred from Andaman oil bought peace with Nitish by Nitish’s ‘‘unconstitutional suspending three Bihar legis- activities’’. By Sanjay Dutta Bidding matters identified deep sea areas as the blocks through competitive bid- lators loyal to him. He also Jha, who was earlier re- TIMES NEWS NETWORK most promising. This has been ding and would hurt efforts to get accepted the replacement of moved as the Bihar Samata foreign investment. The two Andaman blocks borne out by the big gas finds by his supporters with Nitish unit president, claimed that Port Blair: Under pressure from • The defence ministry then said have a very good prospect Reliance and Cairns off the loyalists as party leaders in petty squabbles within the the defence ministry, the petrole- foreign companies be allowed to of gas, say officials Andhra coast last year. the Bihar assembly and the party had helped the ruling um ministry may bar companies Declining to identify the blocks, bid only if they take Indian firms legislative council. RJD in Bihar. from some countries — including •Govt plans to offer the blocks Naik said he would meet defence as majority partners that should China, Malaysia, Pakistan and In- in the fourth round of bidding minister George Fernandes after have majority stake. donesia — from hunting for oil and his return from China. ‘‘Together, However, even such joint gas in the highly prospective •Naik and Fernandes to decide we will decide before May which ventures with companies from Kashmiri Marine in Iraq deep sea exploration blocks on which two blocks to offer China, Pakistan, Myanmar, In- two Andaman blocks are to be of- Silicon Valley: ‘‘My son is in Kuwait — was among around the Andaman and Nicobar donesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh fered,’’ Naik said. somewhere in Iraq, fight- the many South-Asian ser- Islands, say officials. fourth round of international bid- and the Arab countries should not Exploration in the Andamans ing the battle which we vicemen who left their The decision comes even though ding scheduled in the first week of be allowed. have been hanging fire for years as could not do in our home- families to answer the call We took your picture from one of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation’s May, oil minister Ram Naik told the defence and oil ministries Comment: The two recent major land, Kashmir.’’ These of duty in Iraq. your early photographs for this (ONGC) overseas investment arm, Times News Network on Sunday. locked horns on whether foreign gas finds off the Andhra coast have election poster, Sir. were the words of Laxmi N Born in Karan Nagar, ONGC Videsh Ltd, is partnering The officials said the two blocks firms should be allowed to hunt for obviously incentivised an all-out Raina, proud mother of a Kashmir, Siddhartha stud- China’s CNPC and Malaysia’s lay deep in the sea east of the An- oil in the strategic area. search for oil and gas. A pragmatic 22-year-old US Marine re- ied in Michigan to become indiatimes.com POLL Petronas in the Greater Nile oil- daman Island and have a very good Initially, the defence ministry priority should be given to this sec- servist who was drafted an automotive engineer. field in Sudan. prospect of gas. wanted the blocks to be offered to tor to reduce India’s dependence into active duty on Now, he is a sniper and Yesterday’s results: Is the PM’s offer of The government plans to in- Directorate-General of Hydro- only Indian companies like ONGC. on imports, the uncertainties of February 26. ‘‘a real good one’’, says his friendship to Pak a setback to India’s clude two Andaman blocks in the carbons (DGH), the country’s care- The petroleum ministry said this which were forcefully driven home Sidhartha Raina — now father. PTI policy of coercive diplomacy? 26 fields that will be offered in the taker for oil and gas assets, has was against the policy to offer all by the Iraq war. Yes 52% No 48% AP • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose Sreedharan, to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. Today’s question: Would you prefer seeing Govinda doing serious roles Sehwag: Time’s rather than comedies? Cast your vote on Asian Heroes www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 New Delhi: Batting sensa- tion Virender Sehwag has featured on the cover of the prestigious Time magazine’s annual edition of Asian he- roes, which also names metro man E Sreedharan and an NGO which helped Gu- jarat’s riot victims. WEATHER The three Indian names are among the 29 outstanding Max. 35.9oC/Min. 22.9oC individuals and groups from Moonset: Tuesday — 0927 hrs. Asia ‘‘whose extraordinary Moonrise: Monday — 0010 hrs. courage, charisma or genius Sunset: Monday — 1850 hrs. enable them to make a big Sunrise: Tuesday — 0549 hrs. difference in their societies Mainly clear sky. Likely to become partly or fields’’, Time said in a re- cloudy towards afternoon. Maximum rela- lease here. tive humidity on Sunday 49 per cent and The second edition of Asi- minimum 15 per cent. an heroes described Sehwag as ‘‘India’s latest cricket sen- WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE, AND NOT A MATCH TO PLAY: On Sunday, rain sation who is not just an icon washed out the finals of the three-nation cricket tournament in Dhaka, where but an inspiration because of Sourav Ganguly went swimming. his modest background’’. PTI Patients told to bring their own water Infections rise as Safdarjung goes dry Book your Classifieds By Bhadra Sinha gloves. Since there is no water, we er even they refused to help us,’’ a 24 hours service: “51-666-888” TIMES NEWS NETWORK are unable to wash our gloves and nurse said. are forced to use the unclean ones re- According to her, this is the first Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” New Delhi: Safdarjung Hospital has The ATM of information peatedly,’’ said a doctor. time Safdarjung Hospital has faced been without water for the past four The Largest Classifieds Site ‘‘If a patient is suffering from such a severe water crisis. ‘‘During days. Emergency services have been some skin disease, it is likely summers, water supply has always jeopardised. And chances of infec- that the dirty gloves are passing been erratic. This year too we got tion spreading among both patients the infection to others. We might water for about an hour a day.But for and doctors have increased. * 18 + 8 pages of Delhi Times also get affected,’’ another doctor the last four days, the taps have gone + 10 pages of Education Times ‘‘The worst hit have been the ma- complained. dry,’’ she added. ternity wards, labour room and He added that they only rinse the Hospital medical superintendent emergency wards. We have been ask- gloves in water and do not wash Dr Jagdish Prasad said he had con- ing the patients’ relatives to buy wa- them with soap. ‘‘Whatever little wa- tacted the CPWD, which has prom- ter from outside,’’ a nurse said. ter there is in the department has ised to ‘‘improve the situation soon’’. Patience has been running dry on been brought by the relatives. We Whatever that means. this account. Surely this is the basic have to use it in a miserly fashion,’’ Dr Prasad said that because of the minimum they can expect from any he added. chronic summer water crisis, he has hospital, let alone one of this size Complaints to seniors have got kept 1000-litre tanks for every 15 and standing. no response. ‘‘On the first day of the beds. ‘‘I have given strict directions Doctors and nurses are con- crisis, the security guards were to my staff not to waste water, espe- cerned. ‘‘We do not have disposable asked to fetch buckets of water. Lat- cially in toilets,’’ he said.

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2 Monday,April 21, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi US citizen DJB rejects World Bank’s tariff proposal held for By Saurabh Sinha householder’s water bill. In the red sumers’ actual consump- giving fake TIMES NEWS NETWORK But as only 77 per cent of tion. This is mainly attrib- the total 1,400,000 DJB con- New Delhi: While the Delhi Jal Board’s (DJB) annu- uted to the lack of meters To chat on SMS send 'cchat' to 8888 New Delhi: The Delhi Jal nections are metered, and of al revenue is about Rs 220 crore, its annual revenue that can work despite the Board (DJB) has rejected green cards which 43 per cent don’t even expenditure is Rs 480 crore. The revenue is just huge fluctuation in the sup- “This is a new sunrise industry”— NISAR MERCHANT, the tariff hike proposal work, the board says even a enough to meet the annual power bill. By Bhadra Sinha Dean -Academics & Head of Mgt Faculty, IEM,SNDT, Mumbai made in an interim report of ply pressure. higher tariff may not make ‘‘The cost of improving the infrastructure, reduc- The board had even TIMES NEWS NETWORK Q. What are the tion and events execute the World Bank. The report much difference, at least in ing water losses by replacing old pipes, extending the prospect in these communications on sought a loan of Rs 1,600 New Delhi: An American was recently submitted to the domestic sector. pipelines and debt servicing is about Rs 700 crore. Ide- event manage- ground. For example, exe- crore from the World Bank citizen of Chinese origin was the DJB. ‘‘We strongly feel that a ally, we should earn about Rs 1,000 crore annually to ment?- New cuting a press conference five years ago to upgrade the arrested for giving forged The water in Delhi is fixed charge should be avoid crisis situation by augmenting the infrastruc- A: This is a new on ground is an event. infrastructure and set up American green cards to two among the cheapest in the levied on domestic connec- ture,’’ said DJB chief P K Tripathi. sunrise industry. Q. Do you send students for the Sonia Vihar plant. DJB women in a bid to send them country. The lowest slab for tions. This charge can be de- But, urban designer K T Ravindran said the DJB, The prospects are not re- practical training?- Bindu to the US. With the green domestic connection is 35 cided on the lines of Delhi that employs 29,000 people, should first improve its ef- secretary Puneet Goel said: stricted just to event man- A: Yes, for practical training. cards, the two did not need to agement companies. Em- And various events that are paise per kilolitre (kl or municipal corporation’s ficiency and reduce its expenditure. ‘‘Any hike in wa- ‘‘Following the request, the get American visas on their ployment prospects with organised by the institute 1,000 litres). (MCD’s) unit area system ter price should be made only to cover the deficit that World Bank conducted a Chinese passports, on which FMCG and other companies are managed to by our stu- The World Bank had pro- for property tax. People liv- exist after DJB has cut its operating cost to the barest project preparation facility they had come to India from as also advertising agencies dents. We also send our stu- posed to raise the slab to Rs ing in posh colonies will minimum. People should not pay for its inefficien- study. The hike was among Hong Kong. are good. dents for events organised 2.30 per kl for the first 30 kl have to pay more,’’ said DJB cies,’’ he said.TNN the several proposals made The women were arrested Q. Are event management by event management com- and Rs 6 per kl for 30 kl and chief P K Tripathi. in the report. As for the on Friday after the immigra- and PR not similar?- Doll panies or other corporates. above for domestic connec- gories that get less water he added. grant, it all depends on ‘‘We will, however, take tion personnel at the Indira A: Essentially, PR is a form For complete chat log on to tions. The proposal sought while calculating the fixed The DJB has failed to whether the report is ac- of informative communica- into consideration the Gandhi International Air- http://chat.indiatimes.com an almost three-fold rise in a colonies in the upper cate- rates for different places,’’ charge tariff on the con- cepted by the DJB.’’ port discovered that their green cards were fake. CHATTING LIVE ON INDIATIMES TODAY Sanjay Sekhri Joint commissioner of po- 2 pm: popular cafe Fake currency lice (operations) S K Chaud- Palash Sen culture hary said: ‘‘Following their Singer 5.30 pm: Deepti Gujral interrogation, the man, Xin On what is in circulates in store for Jian Chen, was later picked Euphoria’s fans up from Janpath Hotel.’’ 4 pm: Model Chandni Chowk, According to a police offi- Naresh Malhotra On her cial posted at the airport, Director, Cafe Coffee Day tryst with police on alert Chan Fang and Lisia Oxia On the growth potential of the modelling were slated to go to Miami By Maneesh Pandey via Paris on an Air France TIMES NEWS NETWORK flight. Chen went to the air- New Delhi: A large number port to drop them. of counterfeits, in denomina- After checking in, the tions of Rs 100 and Rs 500, are women showed their pass- feared to be in circulation in ports and green cards at the Chandni Chowk. immigration counter. The of- Deputy commissioner of ficers there got suspicious. police (north), Sanjay Baniw- ‘‘The papers used to make the al, said an alert was sounded card was very thin and even after the Reserve Bank of In- its colour was unusual,’’ the dia (RBI) branch in Nagpur officer added. sent suspected counterfeits The women were detained worth over Rs 71,000 to Delhi and the police informed the Police for verification. American embassy. The ‘‘The fake currency was women revealed they had part of a monthly transac- come to India from Hong tion, running in crores, to the Kong on Indian visas. ‘‘One Nagpur RBI branch,’’ said of them had landed here on Baniwal. According to him, March 26 and the other came this is not the first case. ‘‘At on April 16,’’ the officer said. least four such cases have Chen came to India during been reported to the Kotwali the same period. All the three area police in Chandni were staying at the Janpath Chowk. In one of the cases, Hotel in Connaught Place. the fake currency ran into After learning about lakhs,’’ Baniwal said. Chen’s involvement, a special The local traders are be- team under ACP Harmeet ginning to get wary. Accord- Chief minister Sheila Dikshit being welcomed on her arrival at Khampur village in West Delhi to inaugurate a chaupal on Sunday. Singh arrested Chen. ing to Subhash Goel, a local trader and member of Delhi Hindustani Mercantile Asso- ciation, traders suffer humil- Drivers aid robbers in moving buses: Police iation each time fake notes are detected in the transac- By Maneesh Pandey What robbers mean by There are some who follow ductors are paid by the crim- tion by the banks. TIMES NEWS NETWORK the buses in Tata Sumos. inals,’’ the officer said. ‘‘We are unable to detect •Roketo — Stop Other gangs follow in Maruti Due to this connivance, counterfeits as in our busi- New Delhi: It’s back to busi- vans, TSRs, and motorcycles during surprise police check- ness for bus robbers and •Jogo — Signal for pickpockets to get down from bus ness, crores of rupees ex- •Jogne do — Victim is getting down from the bus and communicate on mobile ing the criminals succeed in change hands daily. A few pickpockets in the city. Five 4 •File — To block victim while taking out money phones with their associates concealing their arms under held for Jangpura robbery thousands of counterfeit armed robberies have been in the moving buses. the ladies seat, in the tool box TIMES NEWS NETWORK reported in moving buses •Rela — Push from the rear notes do not get noticed,’’ he •Dher — Push from rear and block victim’s path ‘‘What lures them most is near the driver’s seat or first said. this year, of which three oc- that it’s easy money earned aid box in the rear of the bus. New Delhi: With the arrest of four persons, the police have curred in one week in April. •Chappar — Box The police said that it is Vatch kane — Inner pocket in a space of 10 to 15 minutes. The bus drivers also apply solved a robbery case in south Delhi’s Jangpura area. The po- Even as the Delhi Police • difficult to detect these notes Chahati Kane — Upper pocket In a bus robbery on April 4 in sudden brakes or put on lice also recovered from the arrested persons three stolen mo- have rounded up about 250 • as they are not new notes and •Buna kane — Rear pocket the Tilak Marg area, eight parking lights to alert crimi- torcycles, a mobile phone, a loaded country-made pistol and have been in circulation for suspects, there are still about •Bhasuri — Indicates there is a problem, escape warning armed youths robbed two nals against police patrol. a knife. Deputy commissioner of police (south) P Kamaraj long. ‘‘These notes only get 50 gangs, each with eight to passengers of Rs 23,000 and a Police commissioner R S said: ‘‘On April 7, three intruders entered the house of Di- detected when they pass the 10 members, operating in the mobile phone and escaped. Gupta, said: ‘‘There are other nesh Mahajan, a businessman. They inquired about his wife, scanner of bigger banks like city. And they are striking tween Rs 15,000 to Rs 30,000 a gang leaders like Bara Raja On April 7, three robbers stumbling blocks. The victim Alka Mahajan, a teacher in St Paul’s school. Suddenly they RBI,’’ an officer said. with impunity owing to the day. They say that 15 gangs of central district use a black took way Rs 51,000 from a who are mostly from outside overpowered Mahajan and robbed him of his cellphone, gold fact that bus-drivers and con- are operating in the north- colour Maruti Esteem, which man in Kirti Nagar,’’ he said. are hesitant to lodge com- jewellery worth lakhs and Rs 25,000.’’ Bhagidari award ductors are in connivance west district, followed by 14 he leaves in the parking lot. ‘‘The interrogation of plaints and they are not The police arrested Nadeem, Yashpal, Parag and Avdesh with them. in the northeast and eight in Another is Chota Raja of Daboo, leader of a notorious ready to assist the police in on Friday afternoon. A senior police officer said the west. northwest Delhi, who follows gang of bus robbers, revealed test identification parade. for DJB, police some of these gangs earn be- The officer said: ‘‘Bigger his gang in a Maruti Zen.’’ that most drivers and con- And they get away easily.’’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK EXAMINATION ALERT New Delhi: The Delhi Jal ARCHITECTURE Board (DJB) bagged the first prize for spreading the mes- 17.05.2003: CET 2003 for 5-year B Arch of Guru Businesses pick Radio Mirchi for promotions Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, sage of bhagidari scheme. The second position has been Delhi (http://ipu.ac.in). TIMES NEWS NETWORK awarded to the Delhi Police. can provide them with local audi- tisers, especially local ones, is its likeable and enjoyable. Plus, its far HOTEL MANAGEMENT Joint commissioner of po- ences when it launches by the end of reach. more cost effective than television. New Delhi: Gone are the days when 01.05.2003: Written Test at Mumbai for Hotel Mgt & lice B K Gupta received the this month. In addition, the station A big shot in the arm for Radio A spot on any of the newer channels the recurring question among ad- Catering Tech at OSHM, Calicut award on Delhi Police’s be- can also provide them with low- Mirchi has been the A C Nielsen Ra- might be cheaper, but I have no way vertisers about radio was — ‘‘Does (www.orientalschool.com) half from chief minister cost, high-returns opportunity to dio Audience Measurement (RAM) of knowing if my intended audi- it work?’’ Ask Shalini Singh, a sales 05.05.2003: Written Test at Delhi for Hotel Mgt & Catering Tech at Sheila Dikshit. The award build image by offering giveaways study of Mumbai released last ence has even seen the ad!’’ manager with Radio Mirchi. After OSHM, Calicut (www.orientalschool.com). carried a citation and the cer- and prize promotions. month. While the 2002 report placed Upmarket restaurants such as pounding the pavements in several 07.05.2003: Written Test at Bhopal and Kanpur for Hotel Mgt & tificate of excellence. DJB’s In fact, Radio Mirchi is the first Radio Mirchi just below Vividh NOIDA’s Fortune Cookie have found shopping enclaves, calling on local Cater-ing Tech at OSHM, Calicut G C Nandwani and Delhi Mu- private radio company to have a na- Bharati, in 2003, Radio Mirchi as- radio a great medium to differenti- (www.orientalschool.com) nicipal corporations’s Ravi businesses and being their media tional footprint with operational sumed leadership position amidst ate itself from the competition. consultant she finds a sea change in stations in Mumbai, Indore, Ahmed- the slew of private FM broadcasters Owner Deepak Gupta opines: ‘‘Ra- 15.05.2003: Written Test at Guwahati for Hotel Mgt & Catering Tech Dass also received awards at OSHM, Calicut (www.orientalschool.com). from Dikshit. the advertisers’ perception about abad and Pune, and is about to in Mumbai. Says Sunit Sachar,Vice dio Mirchi’s success in other cities The Delhi Police has been the commercial opportunity offered launch in Delhi, Kolkata and Chen- President, Marketing, Parsvnath convinced us that radio can work as IT by private FM. nai. Being part of The Times of In- Developers: ‘‘While I would still con- a primary branding medium. We roped in the bhagidari 17.05.2003: Written Test for PG D of IIT (PGDIIT) in Information Today retailers like Sirs & Hers scheme to look into problems dia group is obviously an enormous tinue advertising in newspapers, ra- were also impressed with their Technology by IIT, Bombay through Distance Education of traffic management and are convinced that Radio Mirchi advantage. But what attracts adver- dio gets attention in a way that is slick production values.’’ program of Kanwal Rekhi School of Information removal of encroachments. Technology (www.dep.iitb.ac.in) 18.05.2003: Interview of candidates selected through Written Test for above program (www.dep.iitb.ac.in). the same class also ex- JOINT ENTRANCE TEST/ EXAM SCHOOL celled by securing the 14th and 20th rank, respectively. 17.05.2003: oint Entrance Examination Orissa for admission to first NEWS year degree in Engineering/Technology/Architecture/ Principal awarded: R MBBS/BDS/Pharmacy/MCA and lateral entry of State Sandhu, principal of Khai- candidates to third semester of degree courses in Painting contest: tan Public School, Noida, Sumermal Jain Public Engineering/Technology [www.bputjee.utkal.ernet.in] has been selected for jewel 17.05.2003: Joint Entrance Test-2003 for 4-year B Tech in IT/ School, Janakpuri, organ- of India award for her con- Computer Science & Engineering, Electronics and ised a painting contest on tributions in the field of edu- Jainism and Iraq War. About cation. The award was con- Communication Engineering, Biotechnology and 700 students took part in it. ferred by the international Bioinformatics at Jaypee University of Information The best 10 entries were school of education and Technology (JUIT), Waknaghat and Jaypee Institute of judged by Sonali Jain, management in its seminar Information Technology (JIIT), Noida Preeti Ahluwalia and Rach- on individuals achievement LAW na Mahajan. Speaking on and national progress. The the occasion, Anuvrat act- school will also be awarded 17.05.2003: (10 a m) All India Entrance Test for 5-year Law at ing president G R Kanwal Vidya Rattan Award. Symbiosis Law College (SLC), Pune said saints and statesmen [e-mail: [email protected]] should jointly take effective Golden jubilee: Happy 18.05.2003: All India Entrance Test for admission to NALSAR steps to immunise the School, Daryaganj, flagged University of Law, Hyderabad (www.nalsarlawuniv.org ; world against war. off its golden jubilee cele- www.nalsarpro.org and www.icadr.org) brations on April 19 at Ra- Students excel: 98 stu- jghat. The guests of honour PHARMACY dents of Sherwood Convent on the occasion were sec- 17.05.2003: Entrance test for B Pharm at Poona College of School took part in the Na- retary Rajghat Samadhi Pharmacy, Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University, tional Level Talent search committee; Krishan Kumar Pune (www.bharatividyapeeth.edu). examination conducted by secretary Happy School Unified Council India on and eminent members of SANSKRIT January 13. Debika Mitra of the management. A human 17.05.2003: Pre-Shiksha Shastri Test by Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan Class 8 secured 83rd rank chain formed by Happians, (Deemed University), Janakpuri, New Delhi-58 for in the national level. In the holding banners and plac- Shiksha Shastri (B Ed) Course 2003. 5th national science ards on the themes of olympiad held on January peace, harmony, environ- (This is an indicative guide. The dates may change.) 30, Debika again topped ment, conservation the list by securing the 3rd stretched across two gates turning rank in the state. Ankit of Rajghat along the Ring point Singh and Nitika Yadav of Road.

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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Monday,April 21, 2003 3 MAKING DELHI MOVE FASTER PCR gets another obscene call Residents New Delhi: Barely five days soon after the call was re- after the Delhi Police appre- ceived at 9.30 pm, officials on rampage hended a man for making ob- rushed to Karol Bagh. The No green signal, Delhiites see red scene calls, a similar call was call was made from a PCO on in powerless received by a policewoman at Padam Singh Road in the the police control room on area. The police are trying to Delhi traffic is constantly stuck at major intersections. This results in a loss of colony, 5 held Saturday. The police said identify the caller. TNN time and tempers. Here are some ways to ease these distress signals. TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: In the first incident of power riot in the city, residents of a 1. ITO crossing south Delhi locality 2. Patel Road-Rama went on a rampage and Road intersection set afire an electric sub- near Shadipur station in New Friends flyover Colony on Saturday 2 night. Five persons have 1 3. J B Tito Marg-Siri 5 been arrested. Fort Marg intersec- According to the po- tion near Archana lice, there was no power Cinema in the Batla House local- ity in New Friends 3 4. Mehrauli-Gurgaon 4 Colony for the past three Road and days. The private con- Mahipalpur Road tractor, Mohammad intersection near Aslam, had reportedly Andheria Morh been unable to fix the 5. Laxmi Nagar T-point fault. Unable to bear the heat, the residents went on a rampage at 10 pm and set the sub-station Tito Marg- Sri Fort on fire. Fire tenders was Laxmi Nagar T-point ITO crossing called in and the police Time lost in peak jam: Time lost in peak jam: 6 minutes Time lost in peak jam: 7 minutes rushed to the spot. 5 minutes In retaliation, the em- Monetary cost per car: Rs 4 to 8 Monetary loss per car: Rs 5 to 9 ployees of the sub-sta- Monetary loss per car: Solutions: Solutions: tion beat up an STD Rs 5 to 7 booth owner, Mo- Solution: • Create hurdle-free right turn • Flyover link between Indraprastha Road and Deen hammed Idris, and dam- movement from Vikas Marg or ITO Dayal Upadhyay Marg. aged his property. They A flyover on J B Tito Marg. Bridge towards Mother Dairy by building Expected cost: Rs 30 crore. allegedly held him re- This would spare traffic a pass under the Vikas Marg. Very little sponsible for instigating signals to manage vehicles digging would be needed to create an • An underpass at the Ring Road, parallel to the existing the residents. moving on Sri Fort road only. underpass for the right turn due to pedestrian subway opposite IP power station to divert Expected cost: Rs 25 crore existence of a natural depression on the left vehicles moving towards Tilak Bridge from ITO Bridge. The vehicles can use the underpass and again Gains: Like Moolchand and left of Vikas Marg near the PWD office. come up to the ground level and use a service lane Defence Colony flyovers, the Expected cost: Rs 10 crore. running along a drain up to Tilak Bridge. The drain can new flyover will speed up the • An elevated left loop for right turn traffic. also be covered to share the traffic load along south-central link. The flyover Expected cost: Rs 10 crore. with the service lane. would compliment the new Gains: Traffic movement on Vikas Marg flyover which is being built at Expected cost: Rs 10 crore. up to Preet Vihar Crossing would Andrews Ganj and Tito Marg Gains: Reduced load on Indraprastha Road leading get smoother. T-point. to ITO crossing.

Patel Road-Rama Road Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road & Mahipalpur Road Time lost in peak jam: 7 minutes Time lost in peak jam: 4 minutes Monetary loss per car: Rs 7 to 9 Monetary loss per car: Rs 4 to 7 Solutions: Solutions: • Flyover on Rama Road to bypass the roundabout. • Widening of Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road towards the side of Expected cost: Rs 25 crore. Chattarpur village. Vehicles going from Mehrauli towards Gurgaon may get a stoppage-free passage. • Shadipur flyover over railway line can be extended over the Expected cost: Rs 3 crore. roundabout and taken up to Moti Nagar crossing. A clover may be added for free left turn on Najafgarh Road. • Left loop for right turn. It may pass over or under the Mehrauli road. Expected cost: Expected cost: Rs 50 crore. Expected cost: Rs 15 crore. Gains: The traffic signal immediately after the flyover’s descent Gains: Heavy vehicles on the highway would get separated from can be removed. other vehicles. Research: Rahul Chhabra, Infographic: Jagriti Bhartia Tihar courts New Delhi: Special courts were organised in Tihar jail to dispose of petty offences. The courts were presided over by two metropolitan magistrates who disposed of 62 cases. Sources said this was the 34th such court here. Cases of about 2,500 prison- ers have been heard so far. The courts are also being organised to decongest Tihar jails. There are over 12,000 in- mates lodged in Tihar. TNN

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4 Monday,April 21, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi

FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER READER’S GRIEVANCES OF DELHI Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at many places in Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan west handed over to me. Now NATIONAL Bengal, Sikkim and at a few places in Arunachal No freehold Mumbai: I-A 0700, Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Bihar and at the DDA is blaming me for 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Glut in mandis, but prices shoot isolated places in Andaman and Nicobar islands, Gangetic west not having forcefully occu- 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Neeraj Paul My wife Girja Ganjoo, Bengal, Orissa, east Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, pied the plot soon after the 2300 Jet Air 0650, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, interior TIMES NEWS NETWORK (Kashmiri migrant) had 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep. applied for conversion to front wall of the construc- 1935, 2030, 2200, New Delhi: Retail prices of Sahara 0700,1800, 2025 INDIA WORLD freehold and after complet- tion was demolished. I KOLKATA: I-A 0700, fruits and vegetables went even approached the lieu- ★★ Max Min Max Min Max Min ing all the formalities and 1600 ,1700,1945 Amsterdam 17 05 up by 30-50 per cent on Sun- tenant-governor, but in Jet Air 0600, 1720, Delhi 38 23 Gangtok 20 14 having made all the pay- Bahrain 31 21 Sahara 0620,1915 Mumbai 33 25 Guwahati 29 22 day, the seventh day of the ments due, an NOC was is- vain. The DDA may please CHENNAI: I-A Chennai 36 27 Dehradun 32 20 Bangkok 37 28 nationwide truckers’ strike. over the plot of land to me 0640,0955★★★ Kolkata 35 27 H’bad 40 26 Beijing 18 05 sued on 18-09-2000 (annex- 1645,1900 Jet Air Bangalore 36 20 Indore 37 20 Chicago 09 04 But supplies in the whole- ure-I). at the earliest. — Prem 0645,1900 A’bad 38 24 Jaipur 36 25 Geneva 21 07 sale markets continued to Subsequently, the serv- Chand, 14/398, Dakshin- BANGALORE: T’puram 35 25 Lucknow 42 23 Hong Kong 30 24 pile up.‘‘There is a comfort- puri Extension, New I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 39 22 Patna 39 27 London 22 06 ice charges and the ground Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 39 27 Rajkot 37 22 Los Angeles 20 11 able supply of essential rent were deposited on 11- Delhi-62 Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 36 18 Shimla 17 06 Moscow 14 03 items in the market,’’ a trad- HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 10-2000, thereafter the case Loan papers GOA: I-A 1200, er said. file was forwarded to L&B Sahara 1200 TRAIN RESERVATIONS ‘‘Most vegetables are KULU: Jagson 0630, (Housing) by the Accounts I availed of a Citi Home 0650, 1215 ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 1400 hrs. on grown in the neighbouring Section under their loan of Rs 5 lakh in 1991, 20.04.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. AHMEDABAD: areas,’’ a trader said. ‘‘To NO.1593/EZ/MP on 11/12- I-A 0600,1700★★1845, and paid all the instal- Jet Air 0610 Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl ensure that their crop does 10-2000 after which date the ments through post-dated GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: NORTH not rot, the farmers are us- fate of the file is not ★★ cheques without default- I-A 0555 , 1010• 4033 Jammu Mail 22.04 27.04 29.04 27.04 ing all means to transport ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 26.05 27.05 23.04 known. ing. I paid the last instal- Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, 2403 Jammu Exp 24.04 07.05 07.05 19.05 them to Delhi.’’ My wife had personally ment in September 2002. Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST He said the real problem approached the assistant According to the bank’s Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 22.04 23.04 29.04 — 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 was of transporting these director L&B (housing) own communication, noth- Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, 2304 Poorva Exp 23.04 23.04 24.04 22.05 (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 22.04 02.05 28.04 23.05 vegetables to other parts of many times and he would ing is outstanding against Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 22.04 22.05 16.05 India. The vegetables and every time refer her to one my loan account. Despite INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp N.A. 01.05 29.04 16.05 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 21.04 23.04 19.05 fruits were piling in Delhi’s of the officials. Unfortu- repeated calls and re- BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 22.04 23.04 23.04 23.04 nately, my wife passed minders to the Delhi and Air 0010 (TG-316), wholesale markets because 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 08.06 22.05 away on May 26, 2002, Chennai offices of Citi I-A 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 21.05 05.06 23.05 of the strike, he said. FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 21.04 07.05 20.05 03.06 Chairman of the Azad- which has forced me to ap- Bank, they are not settling 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 30.04 30.04 19.05 proach for the redressal of my account and returning AMSTERDAM: KLM pur Agriculture Produce Local farmers are trying hard to ensure that their supply reaches Delhi markets. 2802 Purshottam Exp — 06.05 21.05 19.05 our grievances as we have 0140 (KL-472) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 09.05 27.05 29.04 Marketing Committee, Ra- my original papers. Also, LONDON/NEW YORK: 4230 Lucknow Mail 24.04 29.04 29.04 13.05 jendra Sharma, said about The supply of tomatoes was Onions cost Rs 5 per kg and their wholesale prices. been suffering for a long the collection department British Air 0210 (BA- WEST time. — G L Ganjoo, 149-C, of the bank has called me 142), A-I 0715 (AI-111) 2904 Golden Temple Mail 22.04 01.05 09.06 11.06 401 tonnes of onions arrived also stable at 436.9 tonnes. tomatoes Rs 7 per kg. While potatoes were being PARIS: Air France 0040 2926 Paschim Exp 22.04 28.05 13.06 12.06 over the weekend. ‘‘This is The cost of potatoes at The same vegetables sold for Rs 8 per kg, onions Pocket-F, MIG Flats, G T B several times and threat- (AF-147) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 24.04 28.04 08.06 — 50 tonnes more than the pre- the wholesale market was were, however, being sold in cost Rs 10 and tomatoes Rs Enclave. ened that I would have to SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 22.04 27.04 28.04 — pay penalty for reasons I Airlines 2315 (SQ- 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 01.05 12.06 24.04 vious day’s supply,’’ he said. Rs 2.5 per kilogramme. retail markets at four times 18 per kg. Land allotment 407), I-A 0050 (IC-855) 1078 Jhelum Exp — 08.06 21.05 03.06 am unaware of. Authori- HONG KONG/SEOUL: 2916 Ashram Exp 21.04 01.05 23.04 24.04 For the past 15 years I have ties may please look into A-I 2340 (AI-312) SOUTH the case. — Kuriakose J ROME/MANCHESTER: 2616 G T Exp 22.04 23.04 04.06 23.04 been knocking at the doors A-I 0300 (AI-131) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 27.04 23.04 09.06 21.04 of the Delhi Development Vari, S-236, GK Part-II. 2432 Trivandrum Raj 22.04 N.A. N.A — AIR INDIA 2626 Kerala Exp — 10.06 09.06 29.05 Prostitution charges not false: Court Authority (DDA) for a plot Money order MUMBAI: 0315 (AI 2618 Mangala Exp — 09.06 09.06 26.05 that had been allotted to 755), 0345 (AI 156), 2628 Karnataka Exp — 01.06 02.06 21.04 By Bhadra Sinha the officers guilty. me after our house in a 2724 A P Exp 21.04 21.05 02.06 29.04 I had remitted Rs 4,500 0615 (AI 146), 2330 TIMES NEWS NETWORK The police story The women also sought compensa- (AI 112) 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 21.04 09.06 09.06 — slum (jhuggi) had been de- through TMO from East- 7022 Dakshin Express — 06.05 — 21.04 tion from Delhi police for implicating molished (demolition slip ern Courts post office on GOA: 1245 (AI 643) New Delhi: The Delhi high court has •On April 29, 2000, the additional No. of passengers dealt on 19.04.2003 (Delhi Area): 57,318 (N. Rly. Area) them in a false case. dated November 26, 1988). August 8, 2002 (receipt A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,35,177. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all given a clean chit to police officials ac- station house officer of Rajouri Gar- (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for Senior advocate for the police, Gopal Initially,I was allotted plot No.1954) to my brother (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: den police station received infor- 23323310, Singapore Airlines computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. cused of framing false prostitution Subramanium, refuted the allegations. no. DI/120 Poothkalan Bechan Yadav, Bantolva 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 (Information supplied by Indian Railways) charges against women working with a mation about prostitution at Banni Thanni, D Guys Den beauty parlour. He accused the women of hiding facts which had already been oc- village, PO Rasalpur, Sita- beauty parlour three years ago. pertaining to the case. Subramanium cupied illegally. Subse- marhi, Bihar.It’s been over Man robbed, shot in W Delhi While dismissing a petition, filed by •A raiding team was formed said the lower court judge has the pow- quently, following orders six months now and my the women, the court held that the case under the supervision of the area er to accept or reject the police case. from the permanent Lok brother is yet to receive the TIMES NEWS NETWORK He was stopped by one hearing should continue in the lower assistant commissioner of police. The statement of Ajay Kumar, a de- Adalat (DDA), I was allot- money order. Bhupendra Singh Mehta, a court. coy customer who helped the police to ted plot no. D1/197 in the I have spoken to Eastern New Delhi: In a case of rob- The team contacted public resident of Raghubir Nagar. Though the crime branch had closed • arrest the women and parlour’s owner, same colony on June 25, Court PO officials several bery-cum-murder, a 42-year- witness Ajay Kumar, who agreed Mehta fired at Arora with a the case few months after it was filed in was also submitted to the high court. 2001. To my horror, this times. I even lodged a com- old man succumbed to his in- to become a decoy customer. juries in west Delhi on Sun- locally-made pistol and tried 2000, the lower court judge had refused Kumar gave his statement on oath and plot had also been en- plaint with SSP Link Road, day. According to the police, to rob him. He tried to es- to accept its closure and asked the local • The team raided the parlour said when he went to the beauty par- croached upon. Again, the Jhandevalan, New Delhi the victim, Ved Arora, had cape, but was overpowered police to continue with it. The women, and arrested the women. lour, the owner offered him women. DDA Lok Adalat ordered (ref A-21, January 3, 2003) gone to Seven Seas banquet by locals on the spot. accused of running a prostitution rack- He was allegedly asked to pay Rs 2,000 that the construction be but in vein. I request the et under the garb of a beauty parlour, for the services. In his statement, demolished. The DDA postal authorities to either hall in Raja Garden area on The victim was admitted the team which apparently raided Saturday night and left the to a private nursing home Banni Thanni, had challenged the low- Kumar said after he made a part pay- staff, however, only demol- ensure that the TMO is de- er court’s order. the parlour. ished the front wall of the place at about 1.15 am for his where he succumbed to the ment of Rs 1,000, he was asked to chose livered or refund the They had claimed the case was filed A show cause notice, which was is- illegal construction on Au- amount. — Rakesh Yadav, house in Rajouri Garden. injury on Sunday. from six women who were presented on the basis of a vague complaint. They sued by the then police commissioner to before him. gust 26, 2002. Neither was C/o Manoj Kumar, 74-A, also alleged that the police registered a the members of the team which con- When the police team raided the par- the encroachment re- 11nd Floor, Gautam Nagar, false case because they had protested ducted the raid, was also placed before lour on Kumar’s signal, they caught the moved nor was the pot New Delhi against a sub-inspector, Ritu Raj, who the high court. The women argued that women in a compromising position. had sought sexual favour from them. the notice was a proof of the fact that Two Rs 500 currency notes were also Readers should send their contributions addressed to Readers’ Grievances c/o Metro Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. The accused sub-inspector was a part of the police commissioner had also found recovered from one of the women. Constables held for extortion TIMES NEWS NETWORK Thomson Road in Kamla R Market area, three police- New Delhi: The Delhi Police men stopped him. arrested two constables for Head constable Mahesh extorting money from a resi- E dent in Kamla Market on and constables Satinder and Dharmender asked Bansal to Wednesday.One more police- M man, involved in the extor- sign on a paper and started tion case is absconding, the demanding Rs 20,000. They police said. The police said threatened the victim that if E the victim, Sachin Bansal he does not pay the amount, (35), came to Connaught they would frame in a case. Place on Wednesday and was The policemen took away his M going to his house in Shah- mobile phone and a gold dara. When he reached chain. B

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Monday,April 21, 2003 5 Mufti happy, Hollywood Vajpayee’s offer of talks to Pak Farooq cautious blockbusters after PM’s visit on Zee MGM meant to gauge public opinion Srinagar: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s visit & Indiatimes By Manoj Joshi hand at breaking the logjam. has evoked mixed reactions TIMES NEWS NETWORK BJP backs PM The promise of halting infiltration in the Valley. TIMES NEWS NETWORK permanently was made to the US While chief minister Mufti New Delhi: It can’t only be poetic li- officials in May-June 2003 and Mohammad Sayeed dubbed lose on the heels cence that led to Prime Minister Atal General Musharraf will have to come the visit as ‘‘historic’’, for- of acquiring the Bihari Vajpayee to offer an uncondi- up with a convincing explanation as to mer chief minister Farooq C best movie of the tional olive branch to Pakistan on Fri- why Pakistan has not acted on his com- Abdullah said the statements year, Chicago, Zee MGM day,and then making it conditional the mitment. regarding Pakistan were has announced an on- day after. The Prime Minister’s visit to the ‘‘confusing’’. line tie-up with india- While the first portion of his 17- Kashmir valley has resulted in a small, Mufti, in an interview on times.com to extend the minute public address was extempore, but significant movement on the do- Sunday, said :‘‘For the first viewing experience to he did have a prepared text which was mestic front. time a Prime Minister has the audience. distributed to the media. The Hurriyat Conference terminated not only made a serious at- The movies, which There was no reference in either of its three-day hartal protesting the tempt to address the (Kash- will be telecast over the them of the demand that Pakistan end Prime Minister’s visit, a day before it mir) issue from the Valley’s year, will have top Box cross-border terrorism. was scheduled to end. Their leaders’ ex- soil but also extended a hand Office performers as Then on Saturday, the Prime Minis- planation was that the strike’s success of friendship to Pakistan.’’ well as movies that are ter himself declared that he had per- made its continuance redundant on the Abdullah cautioned New slated to become block- haps not quite articulated his position third day. Delhi against taking any step busters. clearly,or maybe the Pakistanis had not BJP hopes Pakistan For his part, Vajpayee announced to resolve the Kashmir issue Some of movies ac- heard him properly, but the condition “ that the Centre’s interlocutor would be with Islamabad without do- quired include Serendip- remained unaltered: Pakistan would responds positively to the visiting the Valley soon with an offer ing any groundwork. ity, Everyone Says I Love have to end cross-border terrorism be- PM’s bold gesture of for talks with all parties, in other The chief minister asked You, Jacky Brown, fore India extended its hand of friend- words, the Hurriyat as well. the militants to join the Birthday Girl, Full ship. extending a hand of This is a noteworthy development be- process of dialogue during Frontal, The Cyder Vajpayee’s Friday remark was not cause the hawks in the Centre have the visit of the Centre’s in- House Rules, Confessions aimed at embarrassing the Pakistani friendship, paving the way sought to freeze the outfit out of any terlocutor N N Vohra’s, of a Dangerous leaders but to get a measure of Indian for meaningful talks be- Kashmir dialogue. On the other hand, which begins on Monday. Mind, Tadpole and public opinion. tween our two countries Hurriyat hardliners had boxed the or- On Hurriyat’s stand, Say- Duplex. His about-turn in offering an uncon- ’’ ganisation into a no-win corner. eed said, ‘‘I am being told that To promote the films, ditional dialogue to Islamabad, after in- — M Venkaiah Naidu The 2003 state assembly elections re- they would also fall in line. Indiatimes will create a sisting for the past two years that India vealed that the Hurriyat had much less After all one should take note micro site hosting infor- would talk only after Pakistan ended influence in Kashmiri politics than of the fact that the amalgam mation on all the cross-border terrorism, did not get any Zafrullah Khan Jamali and foreign min- they claimed, especially in the country- called off its second day’s movies. adverse notice in the media. ister Khurshid Kasuri who were clearly side. strike during PM’s visit.’’ Even the omission of the Nadimarg However, it also showed that in the Meanwhile, Hurriyat chief Ashvini Yardi, busi- overjoyed with Vajpayee’s Friday offer ness head, Zee English massacre did not occasion any special heartland of separatism, the urban cen- Prof Abdul Gani Bhat admit- for an unconditional dialogue. and Zee MGM says, criticism. tres of the Valley, Srinagar, Sopur, ted that there was a change ‘‘With these acquisi- So on Saturday, the PM happily cor- Both New Delhi and Islamabad now Anantnag and Baramullah, the Hurriy- in the PM’s mindset with re- tions we will be increas- rected course much to the embarrass- await the arrival of American officials, at does continue to command consider- gard to the resolution of the ing our repertoire mani- ment of Pakistani Prime Minister Mir fresh from their Iraq victory,to try their able support. conflict. TNN & PTI fold. “The tie-up with Indi- atimes is a part of the ‘Bihar worst performing state’ channels effort to inter- act with viewers. It Patna: A report of the Con- over the lack of development composite ranking and gen- will surely create ex- federation of Indian Indus- in Bihar,’’ Union small-scale eral achievement. citement and en- try (CII) places Bihar at the industries minister C P In respect of composite sure appointment view- bottom of the development Thakur said on Sunday. ranking, Kerala, Maharash- ing.’’ ladder. The report is based on 14 tra, Tamil Nadu and Punjab Agrees Mahendra The study was prepared by parameters and has put all have been put in the A cate- Swarup, CEO of Times the economists of the Rajiv the states in five categories gory. They are followed by Internet Limited, Gandhi Institute of Contem- ranging from A (best per- Gujarat, Karnataka, Hi- ‘‘Through the unique porary Studies. ‘‘The report formance) to E (worst per- machal Pradesh and contests being set up, was quoted extensively by formance). Bihar, the only Haryana in the B category, movie aficionados can President A P J Abdul Kalam state to be put in the E cate- Uttaranchal, AP, J&K, West look forward to an un- when he called MPs from Bi- gory, has scored zero in both Bengal in the C category. TNN paralleled interactive har to Rashtrapati Bhavan in experience while win- March to express his concern ning hoards of prizes through the different contests. “It’s yet another Indi- atimes offer of unlimit- ed excitement to its surfers and unrivalled exposure to partnering brands.’’

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Monday,April 21, 2003 7 SARS: Jigsaw for experts By Kalpana Jain TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hazy picture Mumbai reports New Delhi: Has the SARS • Tests specific to new case while virus entered the country SARS yet to be or not? The answer to this developed two get cleared is confusing as some virol- • No reports yet of ogists are pressing for a infections caused by New Delhi/ Mumbai: A scientific review of the re- Goa patient 47-year-old passenger, who sults. arrived in Mumbai from A diagnosis of SARS is Bangkok on Saturday impossible till specific tests matches were that of the night, was admitted to hos- are developed and validat- new corona virus, he says, pital after health officials at ed. Even the US, with some supporting the work of the airport suspected that of the best medical re- ICMR’s National Institute he was suffering from search centres, has not con- of Virology (NIV) in Pune. SARS. Manjit Gurmukh firmed a single SARS case, ‘‘The virus has been seen in Singh was suffering from the scientists say. the respiratory secretions, hypertension and high While this is not to criti- blood as well as urine sam- blood pressure and slight cise the functioning of the ples of the patient in Goa.’’ breathlessness. Indian Council of Medical The World Health Organ- Meanwhile, the test re- Research (ICMR), virolo- isation has asked a group of ports of the New Zealander, gists say the ICMR has not top scientists to be avail- who had been admitted to disclosed any details. able if a review of the re- Delhi’s RML hospital with But commenting on the sults becomes necessary. SARS-like symptoms, were Goa case, ICMR director- These experts point out found to be negative. The general N K Ganguly says: that not a single case of in- girl in Gurgaon, who was ‘‘There is no possibility of fection through contact put under home quaran- any error.’’ Ninety-three with the SARS patient in tine, has also been found to per cent of the sequencing Goa has come to notice. be negative. Vajpayee takes On divorce, wife stock ahead should get back of session TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: An informal her property high-level meeting, convened by Prime Minister Vajpayee By Rakesh Bhatnagar husband is a ‘‘trustee’’ of the at his residence on Sunday TIMES NEWS NETWORK properties belonging to his evening, discussed budget-re- wife. He must hand them lated matters as well as the New Delhi: The jurisdiction over to her after divorce. week-long truckers’ strike, of family courts is no longer The SC dismissed a Kerala- among other issues. restricted to bringing about based husband’s appeal Parliament is reconvening an amicable settlement against a HC verdict which on Monday after a 10-day among litigating spouses. had upheld a family court’s break and when the finance They now enjoy wider pow- order accepting the claim of Bill comes up for discussion, ers to deal with claims over the petitioner’s wife over finance minister Jaswant movable or immovable prop- properties. Singh will have to address erties. They were married in 1988. the protests relating to the The Supreme The husband gave Budget that have been com- Court has held that her ‘talaq’ in 1995. ing from different parts of the Statement of Ob- LEGAL The wife moved the the country. jects and Reasons of family court, seek- Sources said the subject of the Family Courts ing claim on certain the BJP’s ties with the BSP Act, 1984, shows that VIEW properties which also came up at the meeting, the jurisdiction of these her husband had purchased with the senior leaders tak- courts extends to properties by selling her gold orna- ing a serious view of UP owned when the couple lived ments, and the cash which chief minister Mayawati tar- together and even to those ac- she had received at the time geting BJP general secretary quired after they started liv- of marriage. Rajnath Singh. (Mayawati ing separately by law. has said that she will order ‘‘The jurisdiction of the The husband, however, an inquiry on how three of family court extends in rela- claimed that the family court her predecessors in office, in- tion to properties of spouses had no jurisdiction to deal cluding Rajnath, had used or of either of them, which with a matter relating to a di- their discretionary funds.) would clearly mean that the vorced couple. The court This is the first time that properties claimed by the could hear only such peti- the BJP leadership has parties as a spouse of other, tions that involved a subsist- shown concern for Rajnath. irrespective of the claim ing marriage, he said. A meeting of UP BJP lead- whether the property is Disagreeing with his con- ers is likely to be held later claimed during the subsis- tention, the court has said this week, after which the tence of marriage or other- the Family Court Act seeks PM and Deputy PM L K Ad- wise,’’ said a Bench compris- to exclusively empower the vani will meet Mayawati sep- ing Chief Justice V N Khare, designated courts to deal arately to try and impress Justices S B Sinha and A R with matters relating to prop- upon her the need for better Lakshmanan. erty of the spouses or either relations between the two According to the court, a of them. parties. The other political issue discussed at Sunday’s meet- Interceptors to fight militants ing was the forthcoming pan- chayat polls in West Bengal New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) which the BJP and the Trina- plans to acquire interceptors so they can eavesdrop on mul Congress will be contest- communications between militants and their contacts ing together. across the border. Trinamul chief Mamata ‘‘It doesn’t cost much. Some intercept equipment costs Banerjee, who met BJP chief about one lakh rupees and is useful for intelligence gath- Venkaiah Naidu earlier in ering,’’ CRPF D-G S C Chaube said here on Saturday the day to point out alleged adding that most militant outfits and underworld oper- irregularities in the electoral ators used sophisticated wireless networks now. TNN rolls, also met the PM and DPM later in the evening.

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AROUND THE WORLD Reuters DIASPORIUM Hong Kong reviews treatment Ford film in trouble: Dis- astrous test screenings have Hong Kong: As the SARS death toll patients with a cocktail of drugs devising new drug combinations to led produc- Arun Nayar, who? in Hong Kong rises alarmingly,with combining Ribovarin with steroids trial which even if not as successful ers to re- seven new fatalities Sunday, health to reduce inflammation of the lungs. as the current treatment “could still shoot scenes Who on earth is Arun Nayar, the officials are desperately searching Although officials maintain the be used as a complement or alterna- of Hollywood gossips are wondering, over the for alternative treatments. combination has a 95 percent suc- tive for those who did not respond Homicide, a London canapes fancifully shaped Despite the spike in deaths which cess rate, the recent spate of deaths well.” new action as mini-naanwiches and suchlike has raised the SARS mortality rate has led them to re-evaluate the use He added that authorities did not film starring ethnic treats. from 4.5 percent to six percent, Act- and dosage. rule out the use of Chinese medicine veteran US actor Harri- He’s darkly handsome, a rich busi- ing Chief Executive of the Hospital One approach would be to tackle and an expert group had been tasked nessman and former Oxford boy. son Ford and Pearl Harbour Authority,Dr Ko Wing-man, insisted the virus directly and “see whether to look into this method. hunk Josh Hartnett. “Harrison He has the love — or lust — of Liz the treatment remained “the best we have other agents that are even In some of the six percent of cases and Josh are good in it. But Hurley, actress ordinaire and self- anywhere on earth”. better or have a synergistic effect where patients did not respond to the word is that some of the publicist extraordinaire. But does However he admitted “about five with Ribovarin,” said Health Secre- treatment, doctors were trying scenes just didn’t work. Har- Mumbai, Nayar’s home port-in-a- percent” of patients did not respond tary Yeoh Eng-kiong. “Sometimes immune-boosters and drugs used rison is a cop who also sells storm, even know him? and that doctors did not know why. we find that two drugs are better to treat AIDS patients, said Head of real estate. Josh is a cop Not as a Cassanova, Mumbaikars With no cure, vaccine or diagnos- than one, so you attack the virus at the department of microbiology who’s also a yoga teacher. authentic canape-scoffing voice tic test for the illness, hospitals in two points of its biology.” at Hong Kong university, Yuen Some people who saw the Shobha De is being widely quoted Hong Kong have been treating SARS Ko said medical authorities were Kwok-yung. AFP film didn’t know whether it to say. “Everyone is asking who was to be a comedy or a cop AP this non-entity is... he doesn’t film. They’re working to fix rate,” De has told the deeply curi- Hayek goes that now,” Teenholly- ous British media. The London wood.com quoted an insider party circuit is riveted. Ah well, as saying. .ANI says one fashionista, at least Liz 3-D in next Belle bottom: Jennifer won’t have to share the limelight. Lopez, better watch out as Spy Kids film here comes Britney Spears to Korma karma challenge you for the title of Washington: Brace yourself pop’s hottest bottom. Spears Curry capers for the faddish, diet- to see Salma Hayek in a was recently seen showing obsessed West are now trumpeting rather unusual role. off her curves in a cropped top and dangerously low- the health-giving qualities of “car- In the upcoming film, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over,the slung jeans while shopping in diac-friendly,tomato-based” rogan Los Angeles, reports The josh and jalfrezi dishes, would you third movie in the hit Spy Sun. She had a toned, flat believe? They’re rich in lycopene, Kids series, the Oscar-nomi- stomach and a developing, dieticians are counselling curry- nated Mexican actress will rounded rear. Wonder what holics with an eye on the unforgiv- use her new pigtails to fly. J.Lo has to say. ANI ing calorie count. Hayek joins Spanish actor Aloo gobi is good too, apparently. Antonio Banderas and Amer- Spider-Man in legal web: Also, a packet of papads weight for ican stars Sylvester Stallone A sticky web of legal intrigue weight to a bag of crisps. Korma Palestinian journalists hold a protest march to condemn the killing of television and Bill Pullman in the new over Spider-Man movie mer- karma in a bag. cameraman Nazeh Darwazeh in Ramallah on Sunday. Darwazeh died in Saturday’s Spy Kids movie as a secret chandising is in the hands of Tiger Woods’ girlfriend Elin Nordegren, at the Tiger Jam VI ● Rashmee Z Ahmed in London shootout in Nablus. Five Palestinians and an Israeli soldier were killed in an Israeli agent, Dora, who uses her a Los Angeles judge, who is benefit concert in Las Vegas on Saturday. Proceeds from tank raid into the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Sunday. hair to fly. expected to decide next the event will fund children’s charities supported by the And she is thrilled to play a week whether or not it will be Tiger Woods Foundation. tough spy on the big screen untangled entirely in public. arrested for allegedly robbing a local credit DUBYAMAIL despite the many problems Comic book publisher Marvel Enterprises has union, FBI Special Agent Gary Johnson said. filed suit against Sony Pictures Entertain- When Dubyaman makes fun of our PM she came across. The preacher admitted to robbing five other ment, seeking to terminate its Spider-Man li- and hurts the feelings of the Hindus it “It was great but I got a banks in the area, Johnson said. Reuters is intolerable. I don’t know how people censing agreement with the movie studio af- like this senseless strip.The creators of pimple and when I thought ter the upcoming sequel to last year’s block- Parton turns patron: Country singer Dolly the strip seem to have lost their sense about it in 3-D, I started to Parton will award four high school seniors in of humour. People supporting it should buster film. Reuters be ashamed of themselves. panic,” Hayek told Teenhol- her native Sevier County $15,000 college — Nagaraj R Manoli lywood.com. The movie is Priest robs bank: An Oklahoma minister scholarships. Parton, who graduated from While you show Bush in a Superman due to be released in July. has been charged with bank robbery after he Sevier County High School in 1964, started dress, our beloved PM struggles in his allegedly held up several banks near his the Dolly Parton Scholarship in August 2000. dhoti-kurta. Try to make him a little Hayek was nominated for trendy. the best actress Oscar for Fri- parish and used the church van to escape. “I’m inspired when I see kids from my home- — Shivendu, Ghaziabad da, a film that documented Warren Preston Brown, a minister at the Bible town who try their hardest and reach for their Baptist Church in Norman, Oklahoma, was dreams,” Parton said. AP e-mail: [email protected] the life and loves of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. ANI

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The Times of India, New Delhi GULF WAR II Monday,April 21, 2003 11 Iraqis waiting US seeks long-term access to four key bases AFP for McDonald’s, By Thom Shanker and relief aid and for recon- west Asia invites charges of and Eric Schmitt naissance patrols. But as the empire-building and may Washington: The US is invasion force withdraws in create new targets for ter- planning a long-term mili- the months ahead and turns rorists. So without fanfare, cellphone firms over control to a new Iraqi the Pentagon has also begun tary relationship with the emerging government of government, Pentagon offi- to shrink its military foot- Baghdad: Iraqis hope to en- followed the collapse of Sad- Iraq, one that would grant cials expect to gain access to print in the region, trying to tice foreign companies, from dam’s regime. the Pentagon access to mili- the bases in the event of ease domestic strains in engineering firms to fast- But Agopian, an Armen- tary bases and project some future crisis. Turkey and Jordan. food outlets, back into the ian, knows them. They were American influence into the Whether that can be In a particularly impor- country to meet a desperate his clients. “This villa be- heart of the unsettled re- arranged depends on rela- tant development, officials need for investment capital longs to China Oil ... there, gion, senior Bush adminis- tions between Washington said the US was likely to re- and job opportunities. it’s Yunis Brothers, a tration officials say. and whoever takes control duce forces in Saudi Arabia, “Iraq is a hungry land, it Lebanese company trading US military officials in Baghdad. If the ties are as well. The main reason for needs everything,” said Yusif in power generators. (Russia spoke of maintaining per- close enough, the military that presence, after all, was Sirop Agopian, owner of the oil giant) Lukoil is farther haps four bases in Iraq that relationship could become to protect the Saudi govern- luxury al-Finjan restaurant away,” he said. Agopian lists could be used in the future: one of the most striking de- ment from the threat Iraq that provided catering for the among his regular customers one at the international air- velopments in a strategic has posed since its invasion UN agencies until they left executives and representa- port just outside Baghdad; revolution now playing out of Kuwait in 1990. Baghdad days before the war. tives of French carmaker another at Tallil, near across West and Southwest Already, in Turkey, where “Mobile phones exist al- Peugeot, Turkish engineer- Nasiriya in the south; the Asia, from the Mediter- a newly elected government most everywhere in the ing firm Tekfen, and most of third at an isolated airstrip ranean to the Indian Ocean. bowed to domestic pressure world, not in Iraq. Every sin- the diplomatic corps that de- called H-1 in the western A military foothold in and denied the US access to gle aspect of the infrastruc- serted Baghdad. Iraqi Christians pray during Easter mass in the Chaldean Church of St. Ephraim in Mosul desert; and the last at the Iraq would be felt across the bases and supply lines for ture needs massive overhaul These companies were pro- on Sunday. The clergymen compared the US occupation of Iraq to the crucifixion of Christ. Bashur air field in the Kur- border in Syria, and, in com- the war, the US has with- — Iraq really offers a great viding services and goods dish north. bination with the continu- “There will be some kind that has yet to be defined dict the administration’s of- drawn nearly all of its 50 at- business opportunity for for- under the UN-supervised oil- The military is already ing US presence in of a long-term defense rela- whether it will be full-up op- ficial policy of rapid with- tack and support airplanes eign companies,” he said. for-food programme. No US using these bases to support Afghanistan, it would virtu- tionship with a new Iraq, erational bases, smaller for- drawal from Iraq, officials at the Incirlik air base, from “From new aircraft for Iraqi companies are among them. operations against the rem- ally surround Iran with a similar to Afghanistan,” ward operating bases or just say.The US is acutely aware which they flew patrols over Airways to McDonald’s, The former Iraqi govern- nants of the old govern- new web of American influ- said one senior administra- plain access.” that the growing American Iraq’s north for more than a there is a market for every- ment’s policy of awarding ment, to deliver supplies ence. tion official. “The scope of These goals do not contra- presence in West and South- decade. NYT News Service thing.” contracts was driven by poli-

Foreign firms around his tics. This will change soon. AP restaurant in the upscale The main foreign players in Karradeh district are closed. Iraq will be US companies Food aid for Signs indicating their names benefiting from a special gov- Self-styled governor were removed, to avoid the ernment budget to rebuild zoo animals looting and vandalism that Iraq. AFP picks Baghdad panel Baghdad: Baghdad’s starv- ing zoo animals are getting Baghdad: The man who de- Zubeidi denied however help from the US-led military clared himself governor of that he was trying to form a When Saddam went coalition and the govern- Baghdad announced Sunday government. “These are mu- ment of Kuwait, which have that 22 committees have been nicipal committees,” he said. sent them a convoy of emer- set up to run the capital with “Priority number one,” fishing with grenades gency food, US Central Com- defence and foreign affairs was to bring back security to mand announced Sunday. among their responsibilities. the city, Zubeidi said adding Washington: One of Sad- brimmed hat giving a talk “Twenty-two committees that he had met former dam Hussein’s favorite about hygiene, asserting The food arrived Saturday, Centcom said in a statement have been constituted and judges on Saturday to consid- pastimes was fishing, but that women should bathe put in charge of the adminis- er a return of law and order in lieu of a fishing rod he twice as often as men. datelined Baghdad. “In re- sponse to a request to the tration of Baghdad,” Mo- as well as some 200 ex-army used grenades, according “The smell of a woman hammad Mohsen Zubeidi officers “to discuss the future to a French filmmaker is more noticeable than coalition from the Baghdad Zoo for assistance in caring told a press conference. of the army.” who caught rare footage of the smell of a man, accord- Among the roles given to “We all want to cooperate,” the Iraqi leader. ing to Saddam Hussein,” for animals there, a two-week supply of fruits, vegetables, the committees were water, said Zubeidi who claims to Documentarian Joel Sol- Soler told CNN. education, health, transport have been elected by city eld- er went to Iraq to make a Soler also smuggled out and meat, as well as a one- month supply of dry feed, and planning, but also de- ers, despite statements from film about architecture footage of the Iraqi leader Chief Warrant Officer David Williams, one of the seven freed American prisoners of war to fence, foreign affairs and in- US forces that there is no gov- but ended up with a DVD tossing a grenade into a was donated by the Kuwaiti return home, gets a welcome kiss from his wife in Fort Hood, Texas, on Saturday. formation. ernor of Baghdad. AFP titled Uncle Saddam after pond. “He loved fishing, government,” it said. spending two months in- but fishing with grenades. The zoo has been complete- terviewing Saddam’s ar- So when he went fishing ly destroyed after being chitects and cousins. he took a scuba diver and a turned into a battleground One of those cousins en- grenade, and he threw the during the US capture of the abled Soler to obtain grenade into the water and capital last week, and many footage of Saddam dressed suddenly you had hun- of its big cats and other ani- mals appear severely mal- in a tie and a white dreds of fish dead.” AFP nourished. AP

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12 Monday,April 21, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi The American Century Story of Slums A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Architect-turned-town planner Gita Dewan not have money to spend on the poor. Turn it to India’s Advantage Verma’s recent book, ‘Slumming India’, Every year, the budgets of state and When a Dalit ki beti does something, it draws all-round By K Subrahmanyam support to extremists is stopped, inter- looks at why our cities are deteriorating Central governments are allowed to lapse. condemnation. If this is not a casteist mindset, what is? Many of the pessimistic assessments on national terrorist activity will become into one vast urban mess. She speaks to This year, the Delhi government has spent — Mayawati the consequences of the US attack on Iraq manageable. Terrorism has few supporters Rashme Sehgal about the critical only 45 per cent of its housing budget. were the result of wishful thinking. The and middle classes, even in Islamic issues that affect the quality of life And most of this money has been spent on cardinal principle in assessment is that it countries, are not in its favour. The govern- in Indian cities: official housing. should be scrupulously objective. This was ments of almost all Islamic countries The plan had anticipated that 4.25 lakh Maya Jaal have joined the war against terrorism. By poor families would require housing. The overlooked by those who predicted a long Why is urban India in the process of becoming census corroborated this figure. If these The Mayawati phenomenon has turned the politics of war, disruption in oil supplies, flight of resorting to terrorism as a preferred one vast slum? strategy, Islamic extremists have irretrie- families have not been provided with Uttar Pradesh topsy-turvy. Her personal evolution, from Indian expatriates, upsurge in Islamic Because our town planners are allowing vably damaged their cause and the US is houses, it’s because of the huge implemen- small-time rabble-rouser to political prima donna, is the populations, stiff resistance by Iraqi armed our cities to die... If sprawling farm houses stuff legends are made of. Her fan following is the kind her forces and Stalingrad and Berlin type of exploiting this. tation backlog which needs to be addressed are allowed to occupy prime space, then immediately. competitors can only dream of. And, her guts so awesome, house-to-house fighting in Basra and Those who argue that the US strategy is the poor will have no choice but to huddle in The urban poor are being offered less it sends the mightiest, including such men as the dreaded Baghdad. Assessments cannot always be not likely to promote democracy in West Asia huts as there is only so much urban land to and less. Normative plot sizes for low- Thakur, Raja Bhaiyya, scampering for cover. Unsurpri- absolutely accurate but the gap between the or elsewhere may well be right. But then that go around. If fancy malls, used by a few, are income group housing are declining steadily. singly,each time she zeroes in on a rich and influential tar- prediction and subsequent reality is an may not be Washington’s aim. The purpose allowed to occupy prime spaces, then shops If earlier, the poor were to be given 25 get, her popularity scales new heights within her Bahujan indication of the degree of objectivity in may be to ensure the arrival of the American catering to the needs of the majority will square metre plots, their size is now Samaj constituency. Mayawati’s chief-ministerial reign is carrying out the exercise. century, that Americans have the highest come up on the roadsides. If a few big down to 12.5 square metres. Poor kids proving to be a headache — not just for Mulayam Singh Now that US has occupied Iraq and standard of living in the world and that industrial houses are given prime sites, then are being forced to go to schools in small Yadav, her rival of many years, but equally for the BJP asserted its dominance as the sole super- America remains the sole indispensable smaller ancillary factories will invariably rooms in squalid slums or even in bosses, who are in alliance with her.Mayawati has followed power, it is necessary to make an objective nation. Just as British imperialists used to come up in residential areas. The root cause open streets... a single-point agenda since assuming office in Lucknow — assessment of its future moves and their talk about their civilising mission, the US of urban slumming lies not in urban poverty In Delhi, there are some one lakh indus- doing whatever it takes to consolidate her base, whether impact on our interests and security. establishment indulges in rhetoric on but in urban greed. trial units, which are operating in places that involves spending public funds on a lavish birthday,in- Washington is likely to follow up its victory democratisation. The US combines in itself Aren’t you being too sweeping and harsh? that were not meant for them. The Master stituting cases against Mulayam or discomfiting the BJP by over Iraq with further pressures on Syria, the highest military, economic, and techno- Plan had anticipated the number of units calling on her supporters to embrace Buddhism. When the Saudi Arabia and Iran to get them to fall logical power in the world and outranks When I point a finger at professionals, I and made land allocations accordingly, lady cut a mammoth birthday cake in full view of the world, in line with US policy objectives. It also the combination of the next five nations. include myself in that category. We town but instead of developing these spaces, popular reactions were uniformly negative. Yet, within her seems highly probable that a Palestinian It is unrealistic to expect that American planners have abdicated our professional the government is talking about regularisa- own growing support base, the act was seen as a vindica- solution is likely to be imposed on terms imperial power is likely to be resisted responsibility and are to be blamed for tion of sub-standard tion, as sweet revenge for years of upper caste domination. less favourable than expected militarily by other major the larger failure development sites The BSP has always propagated appropriation of sarkari under the Oslo accord. industrial nations. around us. Why, for such as Bawana, spoils, and now more so under the forceful supervision of The logical question, there- The countries which oppo- example, should a Q&A which is in complete Mayawati. Indeed, party elder Kanshi Ram once famously fore, is whether such aggres- sed the Iraq war are trying to politician be com- violation of the described himself as an opportunist — an opportunist who sive moves by the US will not placate Washington after its menting on how a It’s wrong to say plan. The original grabbed opportunities. In the last 18 months, Mayawati has trigger off adverse reactions victorious conclusion. It is city should develop. that the government allocations are be- targeted a line-up of BJP bigwigs such as Rajnath Singh in the Islamic world and doubtful whether the major It is the duty of does not have money ing put to up- and Vinay Katiyar,not to mention going after Raja Bhaiyya, result in terrorist upsurges. economic powers could even the Institute of to spend on the market uses, which a BJP-Samajwadi Party favourite, considered something of While that probability cannot unite effectively to counter- Town Planners to poor. Every year, we neither need a terror in the state. But Raja Bhaiyya’s supposedly formi- be discounted and must be vail the economic clout of the speak out when the budgets of nor can sustain. dable clout and the support offered to him by both the BJP taken seriously, our assess- United States. Nor can we rule space is being en- state and Central and the SP, have only succeeded in elevating Mayawati to ment should not overlook that out that US actions in its own croached upon by governments are This story is being icon status among the under-class sections. Significantly, this factor will definitely self interest may on occasion vested interests. allowed to lapse. repeated in all our Udayshankar these include Muslims, who not long ago were deeply have featured in Washington’s calculations. hurt our national interest and security.Some Take the example cities. In Andhra, resentful of her alliance with the BJP.As a popular Muslim The US assessors may be right or wrong but would argue that it does so to some extent of how the draft of there is a slum journal put it, with each one of her actions, Mayawati has certainly, they will not have overlooked it. even today.At the same time, it is also possi- the National Hawkers’ Policy was dictated upgradation programme going on in all only further diminished the BJP’s credibility.Future histo- Therefore, if they are pressing ahead with ble that Washington, as set out in its nation- by certain women’s NGOs when statutory cities. Slumming is about the squalor that rians will surely count this among her achievements — to such an aggressive policy, they must have al security doctrine, may attempt to cultivate plan provisions already existed for the is a result of overcrowding. Upgrading have won the trust of Muslims while still co-habiting with concluded that the risks are worth taking. India in its own interest. In that case, there hawkers. Pressure from these organisations slums without dealing with the issue of the BJP.Yet, she herself will probably revel in the fact that, They may have felt justified in that conclu- are bound to be new opportunities for this saw two separate but simultaneous policy overcrowding will not solve the problem. even if momentarily,she turned the caste order on its head. sion from the course of events during country. A unipolar world is, therefore, far interventions from the PMO and the Isn’t it a fact that the poor in this country have the Iraq campaign. While there were more complex and difficult to manage than ministry of urban development. Basically, been forced to live in slums because we are anti-war demonstrations worldwide, there the bipolar system we have been used to. anyone with an axe to grind can today an over-populated country? VIEW were no acts of terrorism or upsurges of Such difficult circumstances call for a very join hands with politicians to promote his The master plans for almost all our mass violence. Of course, this does not sophisticated national response. The age-old or her cause. cities have earmarked land for the poor. To necessarily mean that they cannot happen. Indian wisdom talks of a four-fold strategy — What has this got to do with the large numbers cite the example of Indore, resettlement Media as an Ally of In Washington’s calculation, dominance Sama, Dhana, Bedha and Danda (concilia- of slums that have come up in our cities? areas for the poor were duly designated all over oil-rich West Asia and reconstitution of over the city. But instead of utilising this tion, purchase, division and punishment) as Take Delhi, where the Master Plan 1990 regimes there appear essential steps in land, the city authorities chose to upgrade quintessential realpolitik in dealing with had set aside nearly 5,000 hectares for making the 21st century an American one. the existing slums without using the land National Interest adversaries, friends and the powerful. The hawkers, slums and for industry. Over a Washington has already initiated its war that was available. he ostensibly one-sided coverage of the invasion underlying purpose of such a strategy is to decade has passed but this land has against terrorism following 9/11. That war I was the official impact consultant for this of Iraq by CNN and other western news advance one’s own interest and in today’s still not been developed. Not giving the T has to be continued since Al-Qaida and other scheme. What was the result of the crores of organisations has triggered outraged comment about knowledge-based dispensation, India with hawkers their due, is a scam that has extremists are continuing to wage their war rupees spent on this upgradation effort? ‘presstitution’ and about the media compromising its its vast population and knowledge pool financial ramifications running into thou- on the US. It is immaterial whether that war Drains in this area remain choked, the objectivity in order to uphold national interest. But has unrivalled advantages in this respect. sands of crores. why should there be any surprise at the behaviour of originated with the West being seen to be Unfortunately, populism rules the roost sewage is blocked and the water has become unfair to Islamic grievances or a belief on in political, economic, social, foreign and I have arrived at a figure of Rs 10,000 contaminated, creating serious health the western journalists? In its role as the fourth estate, crore by computing the worth of the the media in any democratic country has an important the part of sections of Islamic extremists national security policies. China appears problems for the residents. that having defeated one superpower in to have decided to deal with the challenges land which has been converted into The project has not benefited the poor. role to play in the national establishment. As such, it shops and the amount of extortion money obviously cannot ignore its responsibility at a time of Afghanistan they could defeat the other. of the times with sophisticated realpolitik The solution lies in giving the poor the There is a school of American thought which and knowledge-based modernisation. In that a hawker has to shell out to the police land. The master plans for cities have to crisis. Like the political opposition, the media is and MCD. fully within its rights to scrutinise and criticise maintains that if regime changes are India, that realisation is yet to dawn on be implemented. Otherwise, why are they government policy right up till the time war is brought about in West Asia and financial our political class. It’s wrong to say that the government does being made in the first place? actually declared. But once the first shot is fired, and the first soldier is committed to the field, the opposi- tion immediately closes ranks behind the government All Statues Have of the day — and so should the media. That is not just God Save the Queen its patriotic duty,it also makes sense from the point of view of self-preservation. After all, if the enemy By Malathi Jaikumar “It is a heritage building, passion as she went on. “It successfully occupied and over-ran a country,wouldn’t silly,” replied Alice. was one of the most presti- Feet of Clay It was a humid summer day it give far less freedom to the press of the subjugated “It is a silly building,” gious colleges at that time. By Manoj Das Unattached Action nation than the defeated government did? in Chennai when we ran screamed the Queen, Many students from here The Anglo-American war in was nothing. He was no- This ideological viewpoint is buttressed by the into a traffic snarl on the rounder than ever before, have become leaders in He who knows for Iraq had many aspects to it, where on the radar screen. commercial one. For one thing, war fuels jingoistic South Beach Road near draped in yards of a various fields. Some of the certain that happiness but the most poignant image Why do so many leaders fervour, and people are much more likely to read the architectural splendour voluminous saree. “Off most brilliant teachers and misery,birth and to many was that of the dra- hanker after statues? The publications, or watch channels, that match the of Queen Mary’s College. with QMC.” have taught here. The very death are due to the matic collapse of Saddam’s reason is simple; it verges popular mood. Why blame Time if it makes a huge fuss Nearly a century old, it “But heritage buildings stones of the building effects of past actions, larger-than-life statue in on the infantile. Psychologist about all-American female helicopter pilots or the represents one of the have been destroyed since resonate with the wisdom does not find anything Baghdad’s Firdaus Square. Otto Rank diagnosed four daring rescue of Jessica Lynch? Americans would earliest steps towards the the beginning of time. and culture of our land. To to accomplish, and Ordinarily a statue is an streams of man’s urge for much rather read these feel-good stories than depress- emancipation of women. Temples were broken to imagine all this reduced to thus becomes free inanimate semblance — immortality: (1) developing a ing tales about the ravages of the war on the Iraqi Discordant with the sere- build the Qutab Minar.I say a rubble.” She ended in a from care and is not sometimes accurate and belief in the indestructibility people. So it makes eminent commercial sense to toe nity of the structure were demolish the college and choked voice. attached even though sometimes grotesque — of a of the soul (Otto Rank is the nationalistic line. This fusion of nationalism splashes of khakhi — put up statues,” suggested The Queen, who had engaged in action. hero (who can turn into a only analysing a process, not and commercialism is best exemplified by Rupert groups of women consta- Mayawati. been getting redder in the villain in another time). But questioning its truth); (2) Ashtavakra Samhita Murdoch’s vast conglomerate. Though owned by bles looking rather bored “There might be rem- face, shouted, “What are a statue is a symbol of much hitching one’s wagon to the xi.4 the same group, different newspapers and channels and uncomfortable. nants of a Ram mandir you complaining about? more: of the fascinations of a star of an ideology that one ✥ may profess completely divergent points of view, On the opposite side under the QMC. We must When 5,000-year-old muse- particular age, the sway of a ‘knows’ would survive one; On account of his depending upon which part of the globe they are based under a huge pandal was a excavate,” hissed Bal um pieces are being broken personality, machinations, a (3) trying to leave behind connection with the in. And never mind if the line consciously taken large gathering of people. Thackeray.“Or else.” to smithereens in Iraq collective ego motivated by a great deed or creative work deeds of previous by one outpost of the Murdoch empire differs from Impulsively I jumped out “Or else what?” piped up you are worried about that put out by another. This is a perfect example of and was soon in the midst the ideology of the day... that should outlive one’s incarnations, the an Italian girl with an an 89-year-old building? In the main, however, all physical life and, at the most glocalisation at work. The reach may be global, but of the animated group, individual self (jiva), Alice band. Change is progress. It is a depends on what the motivat- common plane (4) ensuring the content is tailored to suit local tastes. some of whom looked dreams and awakens. “A Bharat Bandh,” grow- compulsion of time. Down ing force was behind its continuation of one’s line oddly familiar. The hum of He plays in the led the Tiger, rattling his with QMC.” making — was it the subject through offspring. We can COUNTERVIEW voices was broken by a three cities. rudrakshams. “Arre Bhai. Yeh Queen himself ? Was it his syco- very well add to this list the loud collective shout that Kaivalyopanishad 14 A sudden hush fell on the ki raj thodi na hai. Aur phants, or was it the result of erection of the statue. The rent the air now and then. ✥ gathering as the 102-year- mahilaon ke liye college a popular demand? more unsure a dictator is No Place for Nation “I really do not see what old QMC alumna stood up. wollege ki zarrorat hi kya A statue being commis- about his place in history,the The law of karma says the fuss is all about,” said “I have wonderful memo- hai? Isko Ghoshala bana sioned by the subject himself keener he grows to ensure that for every action in Global Village the Mad Hatter, thumping ries of QMC,” she started dein,” drawled Laloo. The of course compromises its his survival and glorifica- there is a reaction. the table and adjusting his tremulously, her voice crowd roared. very credibility. tion through erec- Driven by the stream he revolution in information technology has made hat every five minutes. gathering strength and That is when I woke up. Its most vulgar tion of statues. of thoughts in one di- Tnational interest an obsolete term, certainly in manifestation in Nobody would rection, which consti- terms of media content. The Worldwide Web and CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS our own time was dare remind him tutes desire, an action satellite television have turned the planet into what in the Dominican of the second is performed. From Marshall McLuhan called the global village. As Misplaced Religiosity Truth about US Republic. The pre- century Roman the action performed citizens of this global community, we have got sident, Generalis- thinker-states- with desire, desire for Apropos of ‘Trial by Trishul’ (Conversa- ‘Stop US Bashing’ by V V S Mani (Conversa- accustomed to a multiplicity of views and are simo Trijulo, man Marcus more of the same or tions with Readers, Apr 19), it is naive to tions with Readers, Apr 15) took me by increasingly sceptical of one-sided government managed to erect Cato’s statement: something different believe that VHP activists distributed surprise. Those whom Mr Mani calls propaganda. Take the US invasion of Iraq. For every over 2,000 statues ‘‘I had rather peo- arises. We are born trishuls as a religious act. If the objective ‘pseudo intellectuals’ and ‘bleeding heart THE version of news that CNN and other faithful American of himself. The ple should ask because we have was indeed religious, other traditional liberals’ are actually the ones who restore channels aired, there was an equally powerful process of demoli- SPEAKING why no statue ended our last life still methods like the blowing of conchs could our faith in humankind. Also, by claiming counterview that came from Arab networks like tion began within had been erected caught in this chain of have been adopted. The comparison with that it was the US that saved the world from TREE Al Jazeera and Al Arabia. For proof we need only look hours of his as- in my honour action and desire. the kirpan carried by Sikhs is misplaced. Hitler, Mr Mani completely glosses over the at two dramatically contradictory images of the war sassination on May 30, 1961. than why one had!’’ Your personality is The concept of the ‘warrior saint’ is role of the USSR in the World War II. The — one of triumphant American soldiers and cheering In south India, huge hoard- But the last word on the the conglomeration of central to the Khalsa’s philosophy.Kirpans nuclear holocaust inflicted on Hiroshima- locals pulling down Saddam’s statue in Firdaus ings of political and filmi statue culture had been desires accumulated have never been distributed with rabble- Nagasaki by the US seems to have been Square on April 9, and the other of Saddam mingling personalities appear and dis- pronounced by poet P B through all your deeds rousing speeches around election times, and completely erased from his memory too. with crowds in a Baghdad suburb on the same day.One appear with great regularity, Shelley in his Ozymandias,a from this moment most devout Sikhs carry them discreetly Even if the US did save us from Hitler’s des- was telecast by the western channels and the other a sort of indication of who is stirring and effective anti- backwards beyond under their clothing. The law does treat the potism, it is inflicting the same on us now. surfaced recently on Abu Dhabi TV.Which version of in power and who is not. dote to ambition: ‘‘I met a birth to your previous kirpan as a weapon and Simranjit Singh — Seemi Pasha, New Delhi the ‘truth’ defines any single national interest? traveller from an antique life and even further. Mann was denied entry into Parliament And what could have In a country as vast and diverse as India, can there land/ Who said: Two vast As long as we have with it. The Rajasthan government Homeless & Insecure become the world’s most ever be one defining monolithic national view? What and trunkless legs of stone/ even one desire we are has acted correctly,although the charge valuable statue (in monetary is India’s national interest? Is it that of the Bombay I am a Kashmiri Pandit who was forced out Stand in the desert... Near still caught in the of sedition against Pravin Togadia does terms) never made it to com- Club, an elite grouping of major industrialists? Is it of her home by Pakistan-sponsored them, on the sand,/ Half wheel of karma and not seem to stick. pletion — no sooner had the that of village India where Gandhi said India’s soul terrorism. Recently,24 members of my magnificent pedestal been sunk, a shattered visage lies, will take rebirth in — J M Manchanda, via e-mail resides? Is it that of Mayawati’s resurgent Dalit India? community were brutally slaughtered. They given the final touches, the whose frown,/ And wrinkled this world to try to Or is it that of Atalji’s government of India? If the were the ones who put their faith in the se- project had to be abandoned. lip, and sneer of cold com- satisfy that desire. We government were to declare a war in the national From timesofindia.com curity provided by the Indian government. This was because its model, mand,/ Tell that its sculptor will play again in the interest, should a ‘patriotic’ media encourage young During PM Vajpayee’s speech in Srinagar ‘Napoleon’ Jean Bedel Bokas- well those passions read/ ‘three cities’ of people to fight and die for their country? If the media on April 18, not a tear was shed for the dead sa, president of the Central Which yet survive, stamped waking, dreaming and did this, would it not be going against an equally valid Restore Antiques and not a word spoken for those displaced African Republic, was over- on these lifeless things,/ The deep sleep. The three national interest as represented by the community of by the violence. Why is no one speaking for thrown and his government hand that mocked them, and cities are also known The plea of American museums that the parents of the young men who were being exhorted to the Kashmiri Pandits? Is it because they do toppled. He had crowned the heart that fed:/ And on as the gross, subtle ban on import of antiques be lifted must lay down their lives for a transitory national interest not form a votebank for any political party? himself Emperor — he the pedestal these words ap- and causal bodies, be acceded to, else the priceless antiques which could become irrelevant only too soon. 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KAUTILYA MARKET Aussie, US spat over Iraq deals MUSINGS Marwari men, Sydney: Australia and the United States Reconstruction drama US growers are muscling in on under the —the staunchest of allies during the war guise of providing aid. “We have been Non-action and in Iraq —are shaping up for a hotly-con- •Australia opposes US plan to dent concerned about the US’s use of a mix- tested trade battle over rebuilding the the lucrative Iraq wheat market ture of aid and commercial services to money & matters war-ravaged nation. break into new markets,” Agriculture Trade issues are expected to be high on •Australia has a $480 million annual Minister Warren Truss said. “We would economic mess By Jairam Ramesh rupt this unity are enemies of the agenda when Prime Minister John wheat export market in Iraq expect the US to respect the markets that The irrepress- their country and their commu- Howard visits Bush’s Texas ranch early we have in Iraq.” ut for the inability of our political ible Sarojini nity alike.’’ Could there be a next month to discuss the post-war Iraq. •US farm lobby will pressurise to Alan Tracy, president of American class to get its act together, as Chi- Naidu once told more eloquent statement on Howard has been urged by Australian get American wheat into Iraq wheat lobby US Wheat Associates, was Bna has done, and work for the bet- Gandhiji-Bapu, if Indian secularism than this? businesses to seek assurances US firms unrepentant, promising the Australians terment of the people of the country, only you knew Adhar alludes to the unusual- will not receive preferential treatment on and then ultimately an Iraqi administra- a tough battle in the Iraqi market.”When there is a good case for bullishness. Our bureaucrats and politicians, however, what it costs the ly warm friendship between rebuilding contracts and issue a “hands tion, we just expect to see a fairly operat- that time comes, hopefully sooner rather Jinnah (and his sister Fatima) mess things up either through inaction, country to keep off” to US farmers intent on taking a ing market.” than later, the US will cede the market to you in poverty! and Dalmia—a most unlikely share of Australia’s lucrative wheat mar- incorrect action or inverted action! That With the role of the UN in the rebuild- no one,” he said. “The Australians have Now, we have a clearer pic- duo to find mutual common ket in Iraq. Howard said earlier this is because their focus is not on the eco- ing process still unclear, US Commerce forgotten that Iraq was one of America’s ture. BR Nanda’s In Gandhi’s ground. Jinnah is demonised in month that his government’s approach to top markets before we led the efforts to nomic well being of India, but more on Secretary Donald Evans said all coalition Footsteps: The Life and Times of this country. How many will re- reconstruction would proceed “with a kick Saddam out of Kuwait.” votes and on notes. countries should be able to play a role in Jamnalal Bajaj, Medha member that in 1916 Sarojini very clear eye to Iraq’s long-term future, New South Wales state agriculture Take the truckers strike, for example, Kudaisya’s The Life and Times of Naidu hailed him as the ambas- but also to our national interest in terms rebuilding Iraq. But opposition trade minister Ian Macdonald said the Howard one that is costing a manufacturing loss GD Birla and Neelima Dalmia sador of Hindu-Muslim unity? of peace and security and commercial in- spokesman Craig Emerson said it was government had to ensure Australian in- of Rs 1 billion. per day. Their main com- Adhar’s Father Dearest: The Life And that three days before Pak- terests”. clear Australia would face an uphill bat- terests were protected. “The US has nev- plaints are two; one they want to be ex- and Times of RK Dalmia, shed istan formally appeared on the Trade Minister Kark Vaile was more tle to win Iraqi contracts over US rivals. er exported significant quantities of empted from the VAT regime (indicating new light on the close links, world’s map, speaking to its con- blunt. “We are prepared to compete with The main bone of contention is Aus- wheat to Iraq but undoubtedly there will that they are prone to evade taxes) and financial and otherwise, that stituent assembly, Jinnah had the Americans,” he said. “When there is tralia’s $480 million a year wheat export be pressure from the US farm lobby to get two they don’t want the Supreme Court diktat to discontinue vehicles more than existed between the Indian declared: ‘‘....in the course of an interim administration established, market in Iraq, which Australia argues American wheat into Iraq.” AFP industrialists and politics. time Hindus would cease to be 15 years old, for environmental reasons. AFP Today, this nexus might even Hindus and Muslims would Earlier, traders and small retailers also be called ‘‘crony capitalism’’, cease to be Muslims, not in the Rajah Beedi set to protested the VAT regime and the nation- but that would be grossly unfair religious sense, because that is wide launch of it has been postponed. to our founding fathers, men of the personal faith of each indi- The reason is votes -with several state highest integrity and rectitude. vidual, but in the political sense restart auto dream elections coming up, the government is It would also be unfair to the as citizens of the state’’. scared of political repercussions. businessmen themselves whose This is as fine a definition of The plethora of public holidays which By Byas Anand we have witnessed is the result of inabil- support to the Congress before secularism as any.And in one of TIMES NEWS NETWORK independence was motivated those typically sub-continental ity of any government to reduce them, very heavily by altruistic in- ironies, Jinnah’s only grandson, New Delhi: The Guruvayoor (Kerala)-based never mind that they cause economic stincts as ‘‘contributions’’ to na- a prominent industrialist of beedi maker Rajah Beedi says it is finally loss. Why shouldn’t it be possible for a bold government to declare a list of 2 or 3 tion-building. Mumbai, is very much part of ready with its long-pending dream to drive national holidays (like Republic and In- Reading these books in the RSS/BJP circuit. into the automobile business. The family- dependence Day) and say, 12 other reli- today’s context would also lead For long, business has been a run enterprise is in the process of produc- gious holidays, to be chosen by the em- to the conclusion that Indian dirty word here. True, histori- ing light commercial vehicles (LCVs). ployees? That way businesses and banks businessmen—like Birla and cally government policy has en- The prototypes of the three- and four- continue to operate, the government is Dalmia—were ardent advocates couraged dishonesty. The tax wheeler offerings have already been pre- not biased against any community and of Hindu communalism as well, system still does. On the other pared. “We are getting the models certified the economy does not suffer. what with their generous under- hand, we continue to have poli- and will then set up a production unit,” said For an example of inability to decide writing of temple cies in the name of protecting Abdul Zuhin, MD of Rajah Beedi. there is none better than the right royal construction, of printing press- labour that have resulted in a The company hopes to commercially mess created in the telecom sector. The es churning out religious litera- The Iraqi dinar-dollar exchange rate has settled around the 3,000-mark in recent situation where you have sick launch the LCVs—to be positioned in the fight between cellular operators and the ture and of cow protection cam- days. Dealers say they are uncertain about the long-term prospects of the dinar. industry but no sick industrial- budget segment—in August this year. A WLL services continues, with TRAI not paigns, to give just three exam- ists. In the past, the shenanigans wholly-owned subsidiary—Rajah Motors— only devoid of the necessary resolve to ples. Apart from Gandhiji him- of Indian capitalists led to the will manage the automotive business. act like an authority but making strange- self, Pandit Madan Mohan ‘‘every time I see an Indian busi- IT investors lose in April This isn’t the Rajah Beedi’s first flirtation ly incomprehensible comments as well! Malaviya was a great favourite nessman, my socialist instincts with the auto business. An earlier attempt As a result consumers suffer the lack of of businessmen of those times come out’’ syndrome. By Vinu Lal and Tina 38,154 crore. Wipro and other sector like steel, the to develop a multi-utility vehicle—dubbed communication and improper service. and Kudaisya details the Chopra Karkhanis But this is fast changing. Indi- Infosys contributed to the returns on tech stocks Kazwa—was a non-starter. A similar flip flop is shown in the case intimate relationship of the Bir- an businesses are in the midst of TIMES NEWS NETWORK fall as the former, which are still higher as the Now,Rajah Beedi has turned its attention of tax exemptions given to North Eastern las to this venerable founder of a sociological transformation. had a market cap of Rs steel sector on an average states to encourage setting up of manu- the Hindu Mahasabha and of Mumbai: It was a disap- to the commercial vehicle segment. “With There is a fresh generation con- 31,002 crore in March, would give a net profit this segment booming, we feel it will be ide- facturing bases. Tobacco companies have the Banaras Hindu University. scious of both corporate respon- pointing April for tech- savvy investors. Within a saw its value fall to Rs margin of 12-13 per cent,’’ al to mark our entry into the automotive apparently misused the provisions which Malaviya is seen to be Hindu sibilities and social imperatives. 22,164 crore and that of a fund manager said. ‘‘Se- arena,” says Zuhin. are now sought to be annulled retrospec- This will accelerate with greater short span of 20 days, in- revivalist. But it was Malaviya Infosys dipped to Rs lect technology compa- Rajah isn’t alone in its quest to rub shoul- tively. Retrospecticity of amendment of who once wrote in his newspa- competition and globalisation, vestors in top 10 technolo- 19,225 crore. nies will continue to out- ders with global automotive giants. Many laws is undesirable; it simply saps in- per Abhyudaya: ‘‘India is not a as well as with market-friendly gy stocks, including In- fosys, Wipro and Satyam, Fund managers said perform the sector but have tried and ended in the scrap heap of In- vestors’ faith. Little wonder then that In- country of the Hindus only.It is regulation. Government is get- dia gets a tenth of China’s FDI and a frac- have seen their assets de- FIIs provided some buy- the sector itself is wit- dia’s auto mart. To name a few,Sunrise Auto a country of the Muslims, the ting out of business and that is tion of the indirect investment flows from pleting by Rs 40,000 crore. ing support at lower lev- nessing a lot of volatility (otherwise known as Sipani Auto of Badal Christians and the Parsees too. good. But now business has to FIIs. We just haven’t got our act together. An analysis said, these els and there have been due to external market and Dolphin fame) and Standard Motors, The country can gain strength get out of government and that What does all this inaction, inverted ac- stocks, which had a mar- substantial delivery- conditions like pricing makers of Standard 2000. And of course and develop itself only when the can happen when more trans- tion and incorrect action mean for in- ket capitalisation of Rs based transactions in the pressures and growing there were a host of wannabe sportscar people of different communities parent systems of financing of vestors? It means less investment last few trading sessions. domestic competition,’’ makers like Lakshmi Cord Clothing from of India live in mutual goodwill political parties are put in place. 79,213 crore as on March interest. J Mulraj and harmony. Those who dis- [email protected] 31 lost their value heavily ‘‘If we compare the tech said a Motilal Oswal Se- Coimbatore, DLC Sagitta from Mumbai and by April 20 to touch Rs sector stocks with any curities official. Overseas Concept of Chandigarh. EXECUTIVE DIGEST Cola crusade comes to Africa FIIs net buyers in AFP NATIONAL equities: The foreign institu- Dakar: Sarr Elyse took a sip Keeping the faith?: tional investors (FIIs) were net from a plastic cup. Like an ex- SBI eyes Rs 9,000cr BOSS KV Kamath-led ICICI buyers in equities at Rs 34.3 perienced wine taster, she INC growth: SBI has set a Bank has set up a crore while abstaining from swilled the dark liquid growth target of Rs 9,000 panel to probe the any activity in debt market around in her mouth then rumour that caused a crore for its personal banking during the trading week end- swallowed. mini-run recently. But segment, including Rs 5,000 ed April 18. Mutual funds also “I love Coca-Cola and this isn’t the problem poor crore in housing loans, during netted purchases in equities is not Coca-Cola,” she said depositor faith the fiscal 2003-04. “In 2002- and debt at Rs 24.47 crore with a slight grimace. in the country’s 03, this segment recorded a and Rs 183.29 crore respec- It certainly wasn’t and rise of Rs 6,644 crore at Rs banking system? tively in the period under re- that’s the point of Mecca- 24,349 crore over the previ- view, according to SEBI. FIIs Cola—a soft drink named af- ous fiscal, bolstered mainly recorded net outflows of Rs ter Islam’s holiest shrine and by the housing category, and 287.6 crore on the first day of created to protest against US in the current year, we have the trading week followed by foreign policy in West Asia. set a higher target of Rs 9,000 netting purchases of Rs 94 crore”, a top SBI official said. Senegal is one of the first Market mayhem: After Infosys, it was crore and Rs 227.9 crore on Housing loans were up by Rs sub-Saharan African coun- Wipro’s turn to bleed the bourses. Even April 16 and 17 respectively. 3,951 crore at Rs 12,150 tries to put Mecca-Cola on as some Old Economy firms made hay, On the debt front, the foreign crore in FY-03, he said. the market, and it’s an obvi- don’t count out the return of the IT funds did not indulge in any ous choice. The population is Makah Cola is being touted as a replacement for Pepsi and Inflation dips to 6.17%: bluechip firms. transaction. Coca-Cola in Pakistan. Aeronautical Society’s 95 per cent Muslim and oppo- The inflation rate slipped to sition to the war in Iraq has ing stupid, drink with com- Cola Co., based in Atlanta, 6.17 per cent in the week end- new executive panel: The been more vocal here than mitment.” Fardoun’s son has not commented directly ed April 5 from the 2-year high Aeronautical Society of India Long vacation: After elsewhere in the region. of 6.24 per cent a week ago, has nominated the new exec- Ibrahim says the advertising on its upstart rival, but said transport anchorman BC Thousands took to the despite rise in prices of fruits utive committee for its Delhi campaign has not yet started on Wednesday in announc- Khanduri’s efforts to and vegetables, edible oil, ce- branch, with Ajai Kumar, di- streets to protest against the because posters have not ar- ing its quarterly results that soothe the truckers ment and transport equip- rector (Aeronautics), DRDO as fighting in Iraq, and now rived from France, but he has it had not been significantly failed, the week-old ment. A fall in prices of naph- its chairman for 2003-04. In- Mecca-Cola, which has sales high hopes for word-of- hurt by a rise in anti-US feel- stir now threatens to tha, furnace oil, textile prod- dian Air Force representative of about 5 million bottles in mouth marketing. ing in some parts of the wreck manufacturing ucts, paper and machine tools GS Bhatura has been ap- Europe, will gives thirsty Elyse is one of the first to world recently. activities across India. checked the rise in inflation, pointed vice-chairman, while Senegalese a thought-provok- taste the new beverage at a The first shipments of Worried companies have which was only 1.5 per cent a Debasis Saha, manager ing, alternative thirst slaker already started searching tiny shop in the city centre. Mecca-Cola have been deliv- year ago. The inflation might to the US brand. for alternative distribution (scheduling and support serv- Unfortunately for Fardoun, ered to the African countries come down in the coming channels. ices) Air Sahara is among the “Being a Muslim, I was at- she is Catholic, and a little of Mauritania, Libya and Su- weeks if fuel prices fall in tan- other members of the tracted by the name Mecca- reticent about whole-heart- dan as well as Senegal. A dem with global oil prices. committee. Cola,” said Hassane Brahim edly backing the political spokeswoman in Paris said Fardoun, the businessman viewpoints behind Mecca- the company expects to ship behind the drink’s distribu- Cola’s existence. to Gabon and Mali in the INTERNATIONAL A job seeker scans OPEC will try to stabilise duction quotas fixed in tion in Senegal. “I will do my “Why not Roma-Cola?” she coming weeks. A bottling situations-vacant oil prices: OPEC members March. Most OPEC members best to penetrate the Sene- said, sounding a little miffed. plant has opened in Morocco ads in Kuala will take steps to stabilise oil have been producing at maxi- galese market with this new Mecca-Cola has already where the cola is being dis- Kodak sales in China to mum capacity to keep sup- Lumpur. The SARS prices when they meet next product.” The drink’s launch found fans in Africa and else- tributed in five districts in be hit due to SARS: The outbreak is crippling week, with a target price of plies plentiful during the war. US-based film giant Eastman coincided with increasing where. Casablanca. “It’s doing better Malaysia’s lucrative $25 a barrel, Algeria’s oil min- But some oil ministers fear Kodak expects sales of its popular opposition to US for- The cola with a crusade is than we expected,” said tourism industry as ister said. Worried about a OPEC might be oversupplying consumer products such as the market just as demand eign policy and the first six- the brainchild of French Omar Elalami, president of hotel occupancy possible price crash, oil min- film and disposable cameras starts falling to seasonal low. packs of Mecca-Cola were de- businessman Tawfik Math- Mecca-Cola, Morocco. rates plunge and isters for the OPEC plan an livered to two shops in Sene- to suffer due to the outbreak emergency meeting on Thurs- louthi, who launched the Elalami says Mecca-Cola is workers face gal’s capital Dakar the same of the SARS virus that has day in Vienna. Oil prices have drink in November in sold at the same price as that layoffs. ET INSTA POLL swept through much of Asia. fallen sharply since peaking at week US troops stormed France. The drink is sold in charged by “the Americans. While the impact on its busi- Yesterday’s results: Baghdad. More will follow if tity, the tens of thousands of consumer business that almost $40 a barrel on Febru- several European countries As this is a quality product, ness is still an unknown quan- Should strikes be banned it sells well. and West Asia as well. we don’t see why we should tourists avoiding Asia since would be affected,” said Petit. ary 27, before the war in Iraq. in ndia? the outbreak of SARS are “But when you see that all re- “Prices will be stabilised,” Al- At first glance, the 1.5-litre Mathlouthi, who is origi- cut the price.” Mecca-Cola is bound to hit sales in the re- tail sales in Hong Kong are gerian oil minister Chakib Yes 76% No 21% Mecca-Cola bottles look just nally from Tunisia, says 10 not unique. There is a wide like Coca-Cola. But closer gion, chairman and president down by 40 or 50 per cent, Khelil said. “Our objective re- • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users per cent of the profits will go range of similar ideological who chose to participate, and not necessarily of study shows a green mosque, to help Palestinian children drinks, like Muslim Up or of Kodak Asia, Henri Petit, that’s big,” said Petit. Kodak mains to maintain prices in the general public. said. “We are trying to assess entered China 10 years ago, the range of $22-28 a barrel Arabic writing on one side and another 10 per cent to British-based Qibla-Cola, Today’s question: and the sales pitch in French ourselves what the impact will growing market share fast, and, if possible, around $25.” Has the truckers’ strike affected European charities. whose Web site cries “Liber- be, but at this moment we are taking a dominant position He said OPEC members your personal finances? and Arabic: “No more drink- Soft drink behemoth Coca- ate your taste”. Reuters still guessing ... it’s mainly the over arch rival Fuji of Japan. would decide to return to pro-

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14 Monday,April 21, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi Philips unveils Tough times ahead new products By Pratyush Kanth for hardware sector TIMES NEWS NETWORK By Chetan Krishnaswamy growth by 30-35 per cent from the Shanghai: Philips unveiled a range of prod- TIMES NEWS NETWORK current 20 per cent. It will also ucts at the Asia-Pacific summit held here re- New Delhi: Post-2005, all IT manu- help business migrating from grey cently.These include a small recording audio facturing, including PC assembly, to the organised sector. It esti- jukebox that can store 3,000 songs and trans- may exit India, with no incentive mates that the government loses port computer data, different models of mini left for the segment, according to almost Rs 500 crore annually due and micro audio systems, digital video hardware body MAIT. And, the re- to the non-conformity to excise recorders (DVDRs) and projectors, projection duction of customs duties on IT duty by the hardware sector. televisions (PTV). Underlying its strong fo- products to zero by that time, in India has a PC population of just cus on the fast-growing Asian market, line with the WTO commitments, about 9 per 1,000 people, compared Philips also launched new GSM phones — will not help. to the global average of 28 per the Philips 330 and 630. For quite sometime now, hard- 1,000. The primary reason for this The Philips 330 is a visual call system, con- ware proponents have been urging is the prohibitive cost. Nearly one- sisting of multi-coloured ‘‘bunny-shaped’’ fifth of the costs of a PC is due to the government to address the is- LED. With its fotocall function users can the unfriendly tax regime. sue of high taxation. They feel the identify the caller. It comes in three colours Gartner Dataquest says, “India, country has missed the hardware — lacquer white, brilliant silver and shining bus. The excise duty at 16 per cent PC market outlook 2003”, forecasts red. GM (Asia Pacific), Bob Pillay said: ‘‘We is the single largest tax component strong volume growth this year, would like to turn the world into a connected and should be reduced to 8 per but with stretched margins. The planet. If Philips has its way,broadband will cent, feels the industry. Reduction research group had earlier pre- be as much a part of homes as gas, light and in excise is expected to bring down dicted PC shipments to increase 18 prices by at least 8-10 per cent. per cent this year following the 12 water connections.” MAIT says this can fuel market per cent growth in 2002. (This correspondent was in Shanghai at the invitation of Philips)

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The Times of India, New Delhi, Monday,April 21, 2003

Kato loses his fight Shaq’s bundle of joy Ready to reconcile Japanese motorcycle star Daijiro Shaquille O’Neal got a good news Australia and Jelena Dokic are ready Kato lost his fight for life, failing to before the NBA playoffs. His wife, to forget their acrimonious split with recover from injuries sustained in the Shaunie, was blessed with a baby an eye on Athens Olympics. Dokic is Japan Grand Prix. Kato, 27, suffered boy on Saturday. Shaq, who was having a rethink as she is ineligible injuries to his head, chest and neck present at the birth, will be back in to represent Serbia and Montenegro, when he spun off the Suzuka track action for LA against Minnasota former Yugoslavia Michael Schumacher wins his first race of the 2003 Formula One

Everybody who tested positive should get busted. There Tri-series final shouldn’t be any coverups — Maurice Greene SPORTS DIGEST Big loss and a victory put off by a day AFP REUTERS/AFP Imola (Italy): World champi- Dhaka: A heavy thunder- er once in the league stage of on Michael Schumacher storm forced the TVS Cup tri- the tournament and both the swept to an emotional victory angular series final between teams were looking forward to in the San Marino Grand India and South Africa to settle scores in the floodlit en- Prix on Sunday just hours af- be postponed to Monday counter at the Bangabandhu ter hearing the heartbreak- which had been kept as the National Stadium. ing news that his mother had reserve day. The thunderstorms, which died. Both Michael and The thunderstorm, accom- are quite common in the brother Ralf agreed to take panied by strong winds month of April, had come part in the race despite the lashed the stadium about 20 down shortly after the first death of their mother Elisa- minutes before the scheduled leg match between South beth who had passed away at toss forcing the groundsmen Africa and hosts Bangladesh a Cologne hospital in the ear- to cover the pitch and the ad- but had not disrupted the ly hours this morning. jacent areas. match. But on Monday, it Ferrari ace Michael put in The two umpires — Alim came before the match leav- a remarkable performance in Dar of Pakistan and Akhatu- ing the organisers with no the circumstances to clinch ruddin of Bangladesh — de- option but to postpone it to his first win of the season. cided to abandon the match tomorrow. World championship at 4.25 pm local time after in- Rain had also affected In- leader Kimi Raikkonen, who specting the ground condi- dia’s ICC knock-out final stopped just twice in his tion which was found to be clash with Sri Lanka in McLaren, briefly threatened unfit for play. Colombo in late September Schumacher in the latter half After all the matches in the last year. After rain washed of the race but was eventual- tournament had been com- off the final match twice in- Bored South African pacer ly forced to settle for second pleted without any rain in- cluding on the reserve day, Makhaya Ntini (standing right) place. Third was Ferrari’s terruptions, Sri Lanka tosses a ball as his team’s tri-se- Rubens Barrichello whose the thunder- THUNDERSTRUCK and India ries final against India is aban- doned due to heavy rain in Dhaka hopes of a second place were storm played spoilsport in were declared joint winners. on Sunday. dashed by a disastrous final the final, much to the dismay The Indians had lost the pit stop. of a few thousand spectators last match to South Africa by Srinath off to Durham: India Test Michael had started from who had thronged the stadi- five wickets but captain bowler Javagal Srinath left for Eng- pole but was immediately um well before the start of Sourav Ganguly insisted that land on Sunday for one-and-half passed at the first corner by the match. the defeat would not dent the Ralf, who had shared the The thunderstorm lasted morale of his team when month stint with English county side Winner in grief: Ferrari’s F1 world champion Michael Durham as their bowling coach, an front row, in a Williams. Ralf for about half an hour but they go into the final as what Schumacher (L) cannot hide his emotion on the podi- experience that’d help him decide successfully kept the five- left the ground completely mattered most was how the um despite winning the San Marino GP at Imola on whether to continue to play competi- time world champion behind soggy which ruled out the boys played on that particu- Sunday. The mother of Michael and Ralf Schumacher tive sport or retire. He said that he’d him until he pitted for the possibility of a prompt start lar day.‘‘We are disappointed (R), who is seen in the pits before the race, died in play three matches for Durham before first time on the 16th lap but to the summit showdown. that we could not have a hospital in Cologne, Germany earlier on the day. returning to India in June first week. struggled to get away cleanly. The groundsmen started the game. We are now looking On his stint as a bowling coach, Sri- That allowed his brother, been Raikkonen, the winner in mopping up operations im- forward to the final tomor- nath said that he’d share his on-field who had tried twice in the Malaysia, who looked impressive mediately after the rain row. Hope the weather is knowledge with the boys. PTI early stages to squeeze back in the second half of the race after ‘Michael was exemplary’ stopped and the Super Sop- good,’’ Indian team manager Cricket for disabled: Baljinder into the lead, to put in a flying starting in fifth place on the grid. per was also put into use to Gautam Dasgupta said. Singh will lead a 13-member Delhi lap to grab the initiative and Schumacher pitted for the sec- Imola: Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari bosses praised the German’s dry up the ground as early as The extra day could prove team for the disabled in the 14th inter- enough time to take his first ond time with 28 laps remaining of courage on Sunday after the five-time world champion won the San Mari- possible. But the sky re- to be a blessing in disguise state cricket tournament to be held in stop two laps later. the 62-lap race and kept a narrow no Grand Prix on the day his mother died. mained overcast and the out- for the Indians as it would Patna from April 23-25. P.S. Chauhan The McLarens of Raikko- lead from the hard-charging “It was very difficult for Michael, but he did his job and to do it like that field was too damp. give some of the injured play- will be the coach of the side. nen and David Coulthard Raikkonen who had battled his was just fantastic,” said Ferrari sporting director Jean Todt who stood in The umpires had no hesita- ers an additional day to re- The squad: Baljinder Singh (captain), Anand for the driver at the post-race press conference. “I think the way he drove Prakash (v. captain), Pramod Kumar, Rajender Ku- briefly inherited the first two way into the second place after Ralf tion in calling off play after cover fully. mar, Ranu Soni, Harjeet Singh (wk), Samim Ahmed, places until they pitted on Schumacher had stopped for a sec- shows just what he is as a man and that was very important.” they inspected the ground There were some doubts Sachin Kumar, Satish Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Raju laps 21 and 22 leaving ond time. Technical Director Ross Brawn said the decision to race was entirely once the covers were taken off. on the fitness of Zaheer Kumar, Vijay Sharma, Manish Chandela, Manager: Michael Schumacher to take However, Raikkonen’s second Schumacher’s. “We said it was his decision and what ever he decided we Nisar Ahmed, coach: P.S. Chauhan, Escort of the ‘‘There will be no play today. Khan, who had suffered a team: Chander Yadav. TNN back the lead. stop after 44 laps took over 10 sec- told him we would support him,” said Brawn. “He has given us a tremen- The match will be played to- slight hamstring injury and By the 31st lap, he had built onds and his challenge faded away dous boost in very difficult circumstances. What he did today was exem- morrow,’’ Dar said. The final was also down with fever,and Jadeja vs BCCI: Indian board was up a nine second advantage as did Ralf ’s whose Williams also plary.The timing of the win was crucial after we had such a difficult start had generated much interest the team management was still awaiting legal opinion to decide over his brother but it had fell steadily off the pace. AFP to the season.” AFP after both India and South not too sure whether to field whether to challenge the arbitration Africa had defeated each oth- him. PTI award in favour of Ajay Jadeja in the AP match-fixing controversy. “We are awaiting a legal opinion. We are likely Bangladesh rope in to get it in a day or two. And then, ‘Pacers could stand India we will decide on our next course of action,” board president Jagmohan Whatmore as coach Dalmiya said. Jadeja had moved the Delhi High Court against the discipli- Dhaka: After guiding Sri Lanka to un- nary committee’s order and the two in good stead Down Under’ precedented heights, Australian Dav What- sides decided to resolve the issue more, who has been appointed as the new Dhaka: India coach John some good prospect, has really added to the through arbitration. PTI Bangladesh coach, will try his hands at res- back-up play- Wright on Sunday said the bench-strength and will give urrecting the sagging fortunes of the coun- Bourne fighting for life: Top ers,” said the team’s pace attack was doing that much more confidence try. He replaces Pakistani Mohsin Kamal New Zealand rally driver Possum coach, who well and held the key to their when the team is playing out- whose contract was expectedly not re- Bourne was still in a drug-induced joined the success on a tour of Australia side the sub-continent,” said newed after the team’s disastrous World coma Sunday night following a car team here af- later this year. the former New Zealand opener. Cup campaign. accident on a mountain road near ter making a “Our seamers have been do- “Ideally we should have Whatmore, a former Aussie Test crick- Queenstown in the South Island on short trip to Friday. Bourne’s Subaru Forrester ing a good job and can do well around 10 seamers,” he added eter, will be offered a two-year-contract by on the Australian tour,” said New Zealand in jest. India are here without collided head on with a fellow com- on his fa- Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) begin- petitor’s Grand Cherokee Jeep dur- Wright, whose contract was ex- five frontline players-superstar ther’s death. ning on May 1. Whatmore was discarded by ing a pre-race course inspection on tended by one year by the Indi- Wright Sachin Tendulkar, dependable “Zaheer Sri Lanka after the team’s indifferent show Friday for this weekend’s Silverstone an Board earlier this month. batsman Rahul Dravid, experi- in the World Cup. Sri Lanka, who were Race To The Sky event. Subaru India start a tour of Australia (Khan), Ashish (Nehra) and enced leg-spinner Anil Kumble Ajit (Agarkar) have been bowl- guided to their only World Cup triumph in spokesman Ian Chesterman said in December this year for a and seamers Javagal Srinath ing well and it is also good to see 1996 under Whatmore, managed to reach that Bourne remained in a “serious four-Test series to be followed and Ashish Nehra. youngsters like (Aavishkar) the semi-final of the recent World Cup in but stable condition.” AFP by a triangular tournament But they have tested their re- Salvi come through.” South Africa but failed to impress. also featuring Zimbabwe. serves, capping leg-spinner Salvi, a paceman from Mum- Mass circulated vernacular newspaper BETTING METER “Our fast bowlers were very Amit Mishra and batsmen Gau- The Daily Jugantor said in a report on Sun- bai who has modelled himself ENGLISH FOOTBALL effective during the World Cup tam Gambhir and Abhijit Kale, day the senior executives of the board fi- on Australian great Glenn Mc- 11/8 Sheffield United and one of the main reasons for apart from Salvi, all of whom nalised Whatmore’s selection at a meeting 8/5 Leicester our success,” said Wright, who Grath and has an almost identi- played for India A on a recent held here on Saturday. The Board will for- 10/11 Birmingham coached the team that made the cal action, was blooded during tour of the West Indies. mally announce the name of the new coach 12/5 Southampton final of the 14-nation tourna- an ongoing three-nation tour- However, the India coach felt at a press conference scheduled Monday, PLAY ANOTHER DAY: India’s captain Sourav Ganguly waits for the 4/6 Blackburn ment in South Africa. nament here, featuring South that a replacement would not be the report said. Whatmore will be the match referee’s decision on the tri-series final against South (as per ladbrokes.com) “Our pace attack could do Africa and hosts Bangladesh. easy to find for Srinath, who is fourth coach of the team since the country Africa in Dhaka on Sunday. The tie was postponed for Mon- well in Australia as we have “Salvi is an outstanding contemplating retirement. AFP attained Test status. PTI day following heavy rainfall. Buffet time continues for Aussie batsmen AP Officials forced us to Port-of-Spain: Vice-captain Ricky into action, driving him for two fours Ponting closed in on his first Test in his first over of the day and anoth- double century as Australia contin- er in the next. Gilchrist also handed ued their onslaught in the second out some punishment to Collins, take drugs: AP athlete Test against West Indies on Sunday. hooking him for four. He completed Ponting, in outstanding form after his 16th half century, featuring six New Delhi: In a sensational twist to the The Amateur Athletic Federation of In- scoring 140 in the World Cup final fours and one six, in emphatic style, ongoing doping controversy, Andhra dia on Saturday slapped two-year bans on and a hundred in the first Test in hitting three boundaries in the same Pradesh athlete Uday Laxmi on Sunday ac- two athletes for doping offence but Laxmi’s Guyana, was 195 not out at lunch on over off Mervyn Dillon. cused the officials and sports federations case was pending before it because the the second day. Earlier on Saturday, Ponting and of forcing the athletes to take to drugs. procedural formalities had not been Australia, resuming at 391 for Darren Lehmann plundered a record In a hard-hitting interview to a TV chan- completed. three, progressed to 517 without fur- stand to give Australia an overpow- nel, Uday Laxmi, one of the 22 athletes to Laxmi said doping was common among ther loss with Adam Gilchrist un- ering start. Lehmann broke through have tested positive at the Hyderabad Na- Indian athletes and even Sports Authority for his maiden Test century in his tional Games last year, said she and many of India was aware of it. She said the Na- SECOND TEST 10th Test as the pair put on 315 runs of her colleagues were tional Institute of Sport for the third wicket for Australia. forced by the Andhra THE DOPE TRAIL in Patiala was a “major beaten on 74. West Indies, who sur- Lehmann was out for 160 four Pradesh officials to take centre” for doping prisingly decided to field only three overs before the close, giving debu- drugs so that “Andhra Pradesh could come activities and there were several shops frontline bowlers on a slow pitch, ap- tante wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh on top”. around the institute that sold “all kinds of peared to have no answers as their er- his first Test dismissal. Agencies Uday Laxmi said the officials of Sports medicines”. ratic attack was comprehensively Authority of Andhra Pradesh (SAAP) had Laxmi said she was surprised that why punished. SCOREBOARD told them at a training camp that they many of her teammates, who openly took Ponting, 146 overnight, quickly Australia (1st innings, overnight 391/3): “need to win medals for AP at any cost”. injections with anabolic steroids, were not completed his 150 in the third over of J Langer lbw b Dillon 25 caught. M Hayden lbw b Dillon 30 “You need not worry about any doping the morning off Marlon Samuels. He R Ponting batting 195 tests as they are mere official eyewash,” Laxmi, who had to undergo abortion then kept his score ticking along D Lehmann c Baugh b Drakes 160 she quoted the officials as saying. thrice to participate in the National with ones and twos against a defen- A Gilchrist batting 74 Laxmi won the two gold medals at the Games, said the federations force the ath- Extras: (b-9, lb-5, w-7, nb-12) 33 sive field set in an attempt to reduce Total: (For 3 wkts, at lunch) 517 Hyderabad National Games, in 400m hur- letes to use any means to win medals and Australia’s prolific first-day scoring Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-56, 3-371. dles and 4x400m relay, besides a bronze in when the same athletes get caught, they rate of over four runs an over. TON-UP TWOSOME: Australian batsman Ricky Ponting (L) hugs teammate Darren Bowling: Dillon 28-1-116-2 (2 nb), Collins 26-2- 400m run. She had also won the gold medal are left in the lurch. She said such attitude Ponting began to find the bound- Lehmann after Lehmann completed his maiden Test century in the second 123-0 (2 nb), Drakes 25-3-94-1 (2 nb, 1 w), of the officials had made their profession Samuels 18-1-82-0, Bernard 12-1-65-0 (2 nb, 1 in the 400m at the Punjab National Games ary again when hapless left-arm fast Test vs West Indies in Port-of-Spain on Saturday. Ponting also scored a centu- w), Sarwan 1-0-3-0, Hinds 7-0-20-0. in 2001. utterly unrewarding.PTI bowler Pedro Collins was brought ry and the two combined for a massive 315-run 3rd wicket partnership.

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16 Monday,April 21, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi

with India. This is a major shake-up in made Ramnaresh Sarwan as Brian spared this popular team and the old FFEREN the cricket world and also an accept- Lara’s deputy. values have gradually been losing DI T ance of India’s cricketing clout in the The Sri Lankans, however, reposed ground. The nation’s oldest club last Play golf, live longer D market. The Aussies invariably toured their faith in veteran Hashan Tilleker- week was again the centre of a contro- other countries either in August-Octo- atne as a replacement for Sanath Jaya- versy when coach Subrata Bhattachar- Udayshankar ber or March-May to the resentment of suriya, who insisted on being relieved jee lost his job for instigating certain ob Hope, who will others, more so by the Indians. of the chores of captaincy by resigning players against the interests of the be a century S There appears to be a catch some- twice. Marvan Atapattu will handle club. Normally, non-performance is young on May 29, TRO ES where. Maybe, the Australians are the One-day side by way of serving his the cause of showing the door to a B is a total golf ad- OK making a virtue of a necessity. If the apprenticeship before he eventually player or coach, but in this case more dict. So was the late Australian fans will be missing big- takes over from Tillekeratne for the serious charges were made against the Chaudhury Raghubir time cricket in November, is it because Tests too. Nasser Hussain stays as Test coach, also a player of some 16 years Singh who, even in his the country is hosting the Rugby captain after he quit as One-day cap- standing in the past. 90s, seldom missed his Australian climb-down Union World Cup? tain following England’s failure to There were signs of discontent morning round. So are many “Super Seniors”, t last the Australian cricket board The real reason could be that crick- qualify for the ‘‘Super Six.’’ among certain other players because their numbers legion, at has been forced to climb down. For et can’t be played when the stadiums Smith resorted to some weird tactics of financial reasons much to the dis- the Delhi Golf Club, in- A years they refused to let their are being requisitioned for rugby. in the first game against India. There comfiture of the officials. Hopes of cluding the irrepressible sponsors and, importantly, their do- will surely be comparisons between breaking the ice were hardly visible. Dr Bharat Ram, disdain- mestic cricket down by going on a tour Captains young and old Sehwag and Kapil Dev who was cata- This was strange since the club is be- ful of using a cart even during their November-March season pulted into the hot seat in a North-West ing sponsored by none other than an f Graeme Smith at 22 is considered when he is well into the which clashed with all Test-playing clash that led to a game of musical affluent liquor baron who only recent- too young to be the captain of South 80s. So, does golf pro- countries excepting England. chairs between the Haryana Hurri- ly gave several VIPs a joyride to the I Africa, what about Virender Se- World Cup in South Africa. mote longevity? If Bob By announcing that they would be cane and Sunil Gavaskar who swapped hwag who, at 24, was asked to captain Hope is an example, the visiting India in November for a trian- captaincy more than once. It is too ear- With the new season drawing India in the Dhaka tri-series or the answer is yes. gular series involving New Zealand ly to see any sparks of intuitive leader- near, the club management would tiny Tatenda Taibu who has been The celebrations for and hosts India, they made it appear as ship in Sehwag, but the Delhi lad is be required to take steps to build named vice-captain of Zimbabwe. Not Sir Bob Hope, an hon- if they were only reciprocating an certainly a daredevil as Kapil was, at up the strength of the side. The to be left behind, the West Indies have orary knight of the coun- arrangement of sharing the season least while batting. National League had brought no cheers to them. try of his birth, England We care for you, champ — started in Hollywood Vaikuntam of basketball on April 15, when he was The big difference between a world named Hollywood’s Citi- champ then and now is money. Vaikuntam, 84, who passed zen of the Century for T What better example do we need away in Mumbai last week be- having made the world laugh for so are inseparable. In 1995, teeing off at than this man called Wilson Jones? R longed to a rare breed of sports many decades, and for entertaining the Desert Classic with President The world billiards champion of half a officials. Ever heard of a secretary- American troops from World War II Bill Clinton and former Presidents century ago and guru of many a stal- general or president of a national to Operation Desert Storm. George Bush and Gerald Ford, his warts who followed, Jones always re- sports federation not going overseas Too frail now to attend the cele- concluding remark was, ‘‘Clinton mained a man of modest demeanour even to attend the meetings of inter- brations, Bob once said, ‘‘Golf is my had the best score. Ford the most er- and means. Not only the billiards fra- national federations? He had always profession. I tell jokes to pay my rors and Bush the most hits..me, I ternity but many others have come for- let such things to other, smaller men. green fees.’’ For him jokes and golf cheated better than ever!’’ ward with offers of help to the frail old A bachelor, RV,or Vaikuntam Sahib champion who is recovering in a Mum- to countless admiring basketballers bai hospital from a second stroke. and officials, spent all his waking in streamlining the game as chairman why cricket is unique... we all make From the chief minister of Maha- hours at Mumbai’s Indian Gymkhana of the Technical Committee. mistakes.” rashtra to the Om Aggarwal Trust at Matunga and the last few years at an BFI secretary-general Harish Shar- Brave words indeed. But Wanderer (run by Jones’ student Subhash Ag- Old Age Home. Some of his protigies, ma is keen on honouring the memory wonders if his reaction would have garwal) to the players’ association and Indian Gymkhana secretary ‘‘Chinu’’ of this unassuming man. The best trib- been different had the match been a federation, everyone has contributed. Srinivasan, Ramani and M Venkatesh, ute to him would be to start a national close one or if the Aussies had nar- Till his last stroke a few years back making sure he was at peace with basketball league. rowly lost the Test. he was into coaching for a modest fee himself. As a matter of fact, a fan on the In- of Rs 100. He never cared for money is For him, basketball was a passion Cricket is unique ternet had this to say about Waugh: what the fraternity believes. Whether and that, perhaps, made him too soft an “It’s nice to say all that when you are he cared for it or not, one thing is for official. He was indulgent towards re- s expected, Steve Waugh and his winning. When a few Englishmen re- sure. No one will want an old world calcitrant officials, particularly refer- men started with an easy win in fused to walk on contentious catches champ to be left uncared for in his ees, and players, saying that its very A the first Test against the not-so- in the recently-concluded Ashes series, sick bed. easy to suspend or expel them for their strong West Indies. There were some Waugh was fuming over the limited misdemeanours. But will that serve the controversial decisions too, but the technology available for the third um- Unusual sacking purpose, he would ask. Vaikuntam’s Aussie captain, also enjoying his pire to adjudicate close catches and contribution can’t be measured in record 157th Test cap, refused to criti- how it could change the fortunes of a ohun Bagan has undisputably words. He served Indian basketball in cise the umpiring. cricket match. And now he’s talking Washington Wizards’ guard Michael Jordan (C) with his teammates after been the premier soccer club in every capacity.He was president of the “You don’t want to end up with ro- about how human it is to err!’’ receiving the US flag that flew over the Pentagon on the anniversary of the M the country, always studded federation at a time when every other bots out there,” said Waugh. “We don’t September 11 terrorist attacks, in the pre-game ceremony of the final game of with stars and a plethora of achieve- federation was looking for a politician want the sport to be Americanised. We his career against the New York Knicks at Washington, DC. Jordan was ments to boast of. But the vagaries of or bureaucrat to head it. Before that he want to have controversy and we want presented the flag by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld. time and circumstances have not was secretary-general and he did a lot to have something to talk about. That’s Harinder is best as India rule SAARC golf, yet again Kahlon ends CAPITAL SPORT Mathur shines for Rajasthan Colts: Hedgewar Sona Jewellers Cup. New Delhi: India reasserted their su- was played at the Classic Golf Resort. hole before he beat a battling B.G. title drought Deadly bowling by man-of-the-match Rajash- Brief scores: GBSDCA: 148/9 in 40 overs (Prateek Pawar 91, premacy as the golfing superpower of In the final, which was played on Lalitha Kumara. tan medium-pacer Sumit Mathur (4/27) and Manik Wadhwa 17, Yogesh Nagar 3/17, Sawant Saini 2/18, Shobhit Kaushik 2/19) lost to Salwan Boys: 149 for 2 in 26.1 the region as they drubbed Sri Lanka 3- matchplay format, Jaideep Patwardhan Final results: India bt Sri Lanka 3-0 (Harinder Gupta Chandigarh: Harmeet good batting by skipper Rohit Jhilani (41) overs (Tarun Chaudhary 63, Yogesh Nagar 58 no) 0 to clinch the fifth SAARC Golf Cham- was a 6&4 winner against N Amara- (Ind) bt BG Lalitha Kumara (SL) 19th hole; Jaideep Pat- Kahlon finally ended his title helped Rajasthan Colts (Jaipur) beat South Other Results: DDCA league: DTC 178 in 38.4 overs: Kulvinder pionship trophy at the par-72 Delhi Golf prathama while India’s No 1 amateur wardhan (Ind) bt M Amaraprathama (SL) 6&4; Keshav drought on the Hero Honda Delhi Colts by 17 runs to enter the quarter-fi- Singh 76 n.o., Pradeep Deswal 3/35, Ankur Budhiraja 3/36. Ravi Club here on Sunday. Keshav Misra won 3&2 against JMD In- Misra (Ind) bt JMD Indika Santha (SL) 3&2) Golf Tour with a superb vic- nals of the 13th All India Om Nath Sood me- Brothers 179/4 in 37.3 overs: Neeraj Sharma 56, Mahesh Shar- Loser’s plate: 1. 146 - Bangladesh (Md Siddikur tory in the rain-truncated morial cricket tournament. ma 2/30. This was India’s fifth consecutive vic- dika Santha. Rehman 72, Mohd Milon Ahammad 74, Mohd Sayum Chandigarh Open on Sunday. Rajasthan Colts 148 in 34.1 overs: (Rohit Jhilani 41, Sant Delhi Colts 250/5 in 40 overs: Arjit Gill 61, Kanav Kumar 60, tory and the fourth time that they beat The Best Individual Player of the 85) 2. 162 - Nepal (Tashi Ghale 75, CB Bhandari 87, Ram 3/22, Amanjeet 3/32), South Delhi Colts 131 in 39 overs: Rahul Sharma 2/51. Essex Farms 139 in 22 overs: Jitender Sri Lanka in the finals. Last year, India Championship title was bagged by Deep Basnet 87); 3. 172 - Bhutan (Karma Lama 81, A birdie on the final hole (Sumit Thakur 4/27, Pankaj Gupta 3/26). Singh 48, Aniruddh Tripathi 4/24, Maninder Singh 3/21, Suraj beat Bangladesh when the tournament Harinder Gupta who was pushed to 19th Ugen Dorjee 91, Dawo Penjore 94). PTI sealed a well deserved win Verma 3/29. for the pro whose final round Sahibzada Ajit Singh hockey: Guru Young Delhi 194 in 34 overs: Rajinder Singh 57, Ashish Khanna Harkishan Public School (GHPS), Loni Road, card of three-under 69 hand- 2/19, Amit Sharma 2/33. Delhi Wonders 196/3 in 34 overs: Amit defeated GHPS, Vasant Vihar 7-1 in a league Sharma 48 n.o., Manish Chawla 45, Surender Kumar 42. ed him a tournament tally of match of the All-India Sahibzada Ajit Singh Patel Nagar 179 in 33.1 overs: Dushyant Sharma 75, Arjun Negi 11-under 205. Gold Cup hockey tournament. Umesh (2nd), 5/17. Hind Cricket Club 181/5 in 27 overs: Puran Kumar 58, Ra- Kahlon had gone without a Sandeep Singh (5th, 10th), Rohit (25th, 57th), jesh Kumar 2/24. title in domestic tour in the Reebok cricket tournament: Hughes Software: 130/9 n 25 Pankaj (26th, 50th) scored for the winners overs (Tarun Makkar 37, Mahvir Singh 3/20, Vineet Sharma last three years though he while A. Minnas (47th) pulled one back for the 2/20) lost to Gillette: 131 for 5 in 23 overs (Anjeev Lohia 35, did manage a few runner-up losers. In an earlier match, GHPS Hemkunt, Sharad Aggarwal 1/3). finishes. Three strokes be- Delhi defeated GHPS, Vasant Vihar by a soli- Cricket coaching: Sachin Tendulkar’s coach Ramakant hind the winner, was second tary goal margin. JP Singh scored the winner. Achrekar and former India cricketer Eknath Solkar will train young cricketers free of charge on April 24 and 25. Besides, the placed Amandeep Johl at Salwan boys in final: Yogesh Nagar’s all- two will also be a part of the coaching camp from May 1 to 31. eight-under 208. Shiv round performance 93/17 & 58 n.o.) and 63 The venue for this session will be DDA Sports complex, Paschim Vihar and Central School, Sector-3, Rohini. Prakash made an impressive runs by Tarun Chaudhary helped Salwan final round charge with a Roller skating camp: Selection trials for the National champi- Boys School beat Gyan Bharti South Delhi onship of roller skating, to be held in Kolkatta from 4-9 May, course record equalling sev- Academy by 8 wkts to enter the final of the Dr will be held on Tuesday at the Talkatora Stadium. en-under 65 to finish third. PTI

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Big victory for THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE AFP FOOTBALL ladolid 1 Valencia 0, Villarreal 1 Mallorca 1 ‘Mosquito’ bites Coria Barclaycard Premiership: Aston Villa 2 Chelsea 1, GOLF Airlines; W. Rly Bolton 1 West Ham 0, Charlton 0 Birmingham 2, Everton Algarve Portuguese Open at Vale do Lobo: 211 Fredrik AFP 1 Liverpool 2, Fulham 2 Newcastle 1, Man Utd 3 Black- Jacobson (Swe) 64 76 71, 212 Brian Davis 70 71 71, Greg burn 1, Middlesbrough 0 Arsenal 2, Southampton 3 Leeds Owen 66 70 76, 215 Richard Sterne (Rsa) 73 73 69, Mar- hold EME 2, Sunderland 1 West Brom 2 cel Siem (Ger) 71 68 76, 216 Phillip Price 73 71 72, David French Ligue 1: AC Ajaccio 1 Bordeaux 6, Auxerre 1 Le Lynn 71 72 73, Jamie Donaldson 72 71 73, Charl Mumbai: EME, Jalandhar Havre 0, Bastia 1 Montpellier 2, Lyon 0 Lille 0, Nantes 1 Schwartzel (Rsa) 72 70 74, Bradley Dredge 69 73 74, held Western Railway, Mum- PSG 1, Rennes 2 Nice 2, Sedan 4 Troyes 0, Sochaux 0 Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 69 71 76, 217 Maarten Lafeber (Ned) bai, to a 2-2 draw while the Guingamp 0 73 73 71, Andrew Coltart 71 71 75, 218 Mikael Lundberg star-studded Indian Airlines German Bundesliga: 1860 Munich 1 Hamburg 1, Borus- (Swe) 75 71 72, Matthew Blackey 74 71 73, Steve Web- ster 72 73 73, Ben Mason 75 69 74 drubbed Sikh Regiment Cen- sia Dortmund 1 Bayern Munich 0, Cottbus 1 Borussia M’gladbach 1, Hannover 96 2 FC Kaiserslautern 1, Hansa TENNIS tre (SRC) 3-0 in the Pool-B Rostock 0 Hertha Berlin 1, Nurnberg 0 Arminia Bielefeld ATP Masters, Monte Carlo (semis): (1) Juan Carlos Fer- quarterfinal league matches 0, Werder Bremen 0 Wolfsburg 1 rero (Spa) beat Vincent Spadea (USA) 6-3 6-4, Guillermo of 41st Bombay Gold Cup Spanish Primera Liga: Real Madrid 1 Barcelona 1, Val- Coria (Arg) beat (2) Carlos Moya (Spa) 7-6 (7-3) 6-2 WTA Bausch and Lomb Championships, Amelia Is- hockey tournament at the IRON MAN: Bulgaria’s Milen Dobrev on land, Florida (semis): (10) Elena Dementieva (Rus) Mahindra Stadium on Sun- his way to winning the 94kg clean and beat (1) Justine Henin-Hardenne (Bel) 3-6 6-4 7-5, (2) day. jerk gold in the European Weightlifting Lindsay Davenport (USA) beat (3) Jennifer Capriati (USA) EME took a 2-0 lead after Championships at Loutraki, Greece. 6-3 5-7 6-2 goals from F. Herenj in the 27th minute and Gurmail Singh in the 53rd minute. But they failed to hold on to it as the railwaymen came back strongly in the 54th minute HOCKEY

when their centre forward K.S.B. Shanta Kumar scored off a Prem Singh pass. With just a minute to go for the fi- nal whistle Shivendra Singh TASTE OF SUCCESS: Defending champion Juan Carlos Ferrero proved that he is the Master at Monte Carlo after beating Guillermo Coria in the final on Sunday. converted the sixth penalty corner to pull alevel. Monte Carlo: Spanish top Given the cold and heavy ment. Coria managed to save Last year’s runners-up In- seed Juan-Carlos Ferrero re- conditions, which made the a match point with the help of dian Airlines, Delhi, were tained his crown at the court slower than earlier in the net cord but eventually too good for a hapless SRC. Monte Carlo Masters with a the week, service games were bowed out to a service winner. Skipper Lazrus Barla con- 6-2, 6-2 win over Argentina’s almost irrelevant and Fer- It was Ferrero’s first title this verted a penalty corner in Guillermo Coria on Sunday. rero was broken twice in the season. The Spaniard, cur- the 13th minute to put Air- The win made Ferrero, 76 minutes of a one-sided rently third in the world, won lines ahead. nick-named ‘mosquito’, the match, to no avail. his last tournament in Hong Sameer Dad mad it 2-0 in first player since Austrian It was Ferrero’s eighth ca- Kong in September. the 19th minute off a Mukesh Thomas Muster in 1996 to re- reer title while Coria was Title for Serna: agui Ser- Kumar pass and Ravinder tain the title. playing in his first Masters na won her second WTA Tour Singh rounded off the tally The top seed outshone Co- Series final and the Spaniard title after beating Australia’s in the 30th minute. ria on a rainy day in the prin- was far too experienced for Alicia Molik 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the On Monday, in two Pool-A cipality, which forced organ- his opponent. Budapest Grand Prix final on matches, Karnataka Eleven isers to have the final played He broke Coria six times to Sunday.Second-seeded Serna take on CISF, Chandigarh, over three sets instead complete his 12th successive of Spain won her second ca- while Indian Oil clash of five. match win of the tourna- reer title at Estoril. Agencies against Bhopal Eleven. PTI Good win for Bookie’s Delight TIMES NEWS NETWROK New Delhi: Bookie’s Delight (KPG Appu astride) pipped Singi- ta in the Byculla Club Trophy in the Mumbai races on Sunday. Results: Surrealisme Plate: Dillinger 1, Handsome Lad 2, Swift And Silent 3. Calluna Plate: Sugar Babe 1, Fashionable 2, Menorca 3. JD & Peggy Banatwalla Trophy: Protege 1, Destined Path 2, Sonic Girl 3. Kailshapat Singhania Trophy: Snow Star 1, Royal Secret 2, Ciraja 3. Fer- rari Plate:Inner Secret 1, Londoner 2, Native Son 3. Byculla Club Trophy: Bookie’s Delight 1, Singita 2, Self Styled 3. Rock of Gibraltar Plate: Amaranaza 1, Chekmate 2, Partner Perfect 3. Alanis catches eye: Alanis caught the eye in the morning try-outs here on Sunday. Inner-sand: 800m: Golden Bell (Saleem Khan) - 54 secs: fully in hand. Alanis (Bhawani) - 48 secs: excelled nicely. 3 Y-O Caller One (N Singh) - 53 secs: moved freely. Al Jawat (Am- jad) - 49 secs: not extended. Puara Sathi (Balwant) - 53 secs: moved nicely. Sikander (Pramod) and Strides of Success (RB) - 51 secs:former was pushed to finish 3L ahead. Moun- tain of Light (Rampravesh) - 52 secs; tracking well. 3 Y-O Begum Mohra (Narain) and 3 Y-O Phooljhari (N Singh) - 1.04 secs: former easily finished 4L ahead. Right Combination (Ram- pravesh) - 58 secs: easy.

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AFP Mind your head: A wood- en trellis partition did some- thing the West Indies bowlers have struggled to do against the Australian cricket team in Port-of-Spain on Saturday. The trellis fell down on pace- man Brad Williams’ head, knocking him off his seat and to his knees while he watched his batsmen in ac- tion in the second Test. He was spotted later with an ice pack on his head and when the incident was replayed on the big screen in brought plenty of ribbing from his team-mates taking delight at his misfortune.

Fergie’s verdict: They are his club’s prized posses- sions. So it came as no sur- prise that Manchester United wants to retain David Beck- ham and Ryan Giggs. United manager Alex Ferguson has quashed rumours that the duo could be on their way out of Old Trafford at the end of the season — with Beck- ham going to Real Madrid and Giggs going to Inter Mi- lan. However Ferguson be- lieves that Real are “playing games” ahead of their Cham- pions League quarterfinal Bernie Ecclestone, the president of the Formula One, second leg showdown on poses with an Easter egg he received from members of Wednesday and insisted that the staff in the paddock of the Imola racetrack on Sunday. both his star forwards will while also lowering the risk of better off. still be wearing United shirts hyponatremia, or low sodium next season. in the blood, which is caused Flunked test: A Colom- by overhydration. bian rider with the Belgian Less water, more good: Marlux team, Maurizio Ardila, Long-distance runners Banking on Becks: A has been banned from taking should drink only as much gambler called William part in Sunday’s Amstel Gold liquid as they lose to perspi- Wordsworth is in line for a Race after failing a blood ration — a change from pre- bumper pay-out if David test, according to official vious recommendations that Beckham plays his last game sources. In accordance with they drink as much as they for Manchester United International Cycling Union can to avoid dehydration. against Arsenal. The 53-year- (UCI) regulations, Ardila will The guidelines announced on old fan is hoping Becks will now be banned from com- Saturday by USA Track & announce his decision to join peting for a minimum 15 Field say that runners should Real Madrid after the title days. Twenty-four riders, drink when they’re thirsty, showdown at Highbury on from the Lotto, Fakta, and rather than trying to ‘‘stay Wednesday. If his stake of Marlux teams, were chosen ahead of their thirst’’ by £20, at odds of 50-1, proves for the random test prior to drinking constantly. Doing so fruitful, the builder with the the race, the fourth leg of the will prevent dehydration poetic name will be £1,000 10-race World Cup. Real-Barca deadlock Punish all leaves title race open drug cheats, Madrid: Real Madrid hung kick a fallen Carles Puyol in says Greene onto their place at the top of the face. Another six yellow the Spanish first division af- cards were brandished dur- Walnut (California): Reign- ter a scrappy 1-1 draw with ing second half. ing Olympic 100m champion Barcelona on Saturday as the Maurice Greene called for an title race was thrown wide Juve inch closer to title: In investigation into allegations open. Rome, Italian champions Ju- that prominent US Real have 61 points from ventus took a step closer to Olympians, like Carl Lewis, their 30 games with Deporti- retaining their title after de- failed drug tests in the build- vo La Coruna and Real So- feating AS Roma 2-1 at a rain- up to the 1988 Seoul Games. ciedad four points adrift in soaked Delle Alpi Stadium “Everybody who tested second and third respectively. on Saturday. All the goals positive should get busted. Real took the initiative came in a blistering 13 There shouldn’t be any against their Catalan visi- minute spell in an otherwise coverups,” said Greene at the dreary match. tors when Ronaldo got their Mount San Antonio College Del Piero’s penalty on the opening goal after 15 min- Relays where he won the half hour mark gave the title- utes. 200m. holders the French mid- The charges, reported this SOCCER ROUND-UP lead, before fielder Claude week in the Daily Telegraph the Italy international dou- Makelele chipped the ball to- in London and the Orange bled his tally by rounding off wards the box and Raul head- County Register,came in doc- a flowing move. ed on to leave the Brazilian uments released by former with only Barcelona goalie Roma gave themselves US Olympic Committee anti- Roberto Bonano to beat. hope when in-form striker doping official Dr Wade Barcelona fought back Vincenzo Montella halved Exum. quickly and Luis Enrique the deficit just before the Exum’s papers indicated scored against his old club af- break, but the home side held Lewis was one of 19 promi- ter 31 minutes. on for a crucial win as they nent American athletes who Five players were shown attempt to land a 27th Scud- tested positive but were still yellow cards during a frac- etto. Defences were firmly on allowed to compete in South tious first half although, sur- top in an evenly-balanced Korea. Lewis was awarded prisingly, no names were second-half in which neither the gold medal in Seoul in the added to the book of referee side produced a clear-cut 100m after Canadian Ben Cesar Muniz during or after chance. The victory saw Ju- Johnson was stripped of his a 21-man melee in which ventus restore their six point victory for failing a dope test punches were thrown follow- lead at the top of the table after the race. ing an incident in which with just five games of the Johnson tested positive for Zinedine Zidane appeared to season left. AFP the steroid stanozolol. AP

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Real Madrid striker Ronaldo (left) shoots past Barcelona's Gabriel Garcia during their Spanish league match in the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid on Saturday. Goswami holds third seed Mumbai: Vedant Goswami In the other matches, pion R B Ramesh of India de- of India caused a mild flutter endgame wizard Ruslan feated compatriot Nikhilesh when he held third seed Scherbakov of Russia ac- Kumar while Neelotpal Das Grandmaster Vasilios Kotro- counted for WIM Nisha Mo- got the better off Prasanna nias of Greece on the open- hota while defending cham- Rao. N Neelakantan of India ing day of the Common- pion P Harikrishna also lost to GM Marat Zumaev wealth chess championship made a winning start. Uzbekistan in a close game here on Sunday. C’WEALTH CHESS while GM Surya Sekhar Gan- Goswami came up with a guly was lucky to escape with deadly counter-attack in Top seed GM Rustom a draw against Asian (Jr) Caro Kann defence to neu- Kasimdzhanov of Uzbek- champion Tania Sachdev. tralise the advantage Kotron- istan had to use all his expe- Important results: R Kasimdzhanov (1) bt S ias had build up in the mid- rience to overcome WIM S Meenakshi (0), K Sasikiran (1) bt D Harika (0), dle game before the latter Meenakshi in 37 moves. V Kotronias (0.5) drew E Valdimirov (0.5), P Harikrishna (1) bt S Ghate (0), E Valdimirov (1) agreed for a truce in 37 Among other Indians in ac- bt A S Nassir (0), T Vakhidov (1) bt S C Sahu moves. tion, reigning British cham- (0), D Barua (1) bt C J Arvind (0). PTI

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