OID‹‰‰†‰KOID‹‰‰†‰OID‹‰‰†‰MOID‹‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Friday,May 9, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 30 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Keanu Reeves’ ISRO over the moon Mumbai beat TN $200,000 gift for as GSLV blasts to claim their 35th Matrix stuntmen into space Ranji Trophy title Page 12 Page 8 Page 19 WIN WITH THE TIMES Now pay for Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. End terror, be friends: PM Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely PTI groundwater more arduous. Infiltration has — George Bernard Shaw By Saurabh Sinha TIMES NEWS NETWORK No free drinks NEWS DIGEST come down, New Delhi: The Centre has •Groundwater laws are cleared a Bill that levies a being routinely flouted George boycott: Congress mem- charge on Delhi’s groundwa- says Armitage Only one lakh of the ber Jagmeet Singh Brar embar- • ter. Now the Delhi Water estimated three lakh rassed senior party members in the TIMES NEWS NETWORK AND AGENCIES Board (Amendment) Bill is to tubewells are registered Lok Sabha when he defied the party be passed by the Delhi assem- New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal decision to boycott defence minister bly to become a law, Delhi Jal •If the Bill is passed, all George Fernandes by tabling a call- Bihari Vajpayee on Thursday Board (DJB) chief P K Tri- tubewells will have to ing attention motion. P7 called on Pakistan to end cross- pathi said. be registered border terrorism and be friends. Sonia’s message to CMs: Con- Experts attribute the mas- gress president Sonia Gandhi on However, he rejected Pakistan’s sive fall in the city’s water •The Bill will not be Thursday sent a strong message to proposal for de-nuclearisation of table to the fact that ground- applicable in Delhi Cantt all her 15 chief ministers to take South Asia, saying, ‘‘Islamabad’s water is free and people are and NDMC areas stern action against all those who nuclear programme could be In- misusing it. The agency re- disturb social peace. She was ad- dia-specific, ours is not.’’ sponsible for checking its to ‘‘break open the door of dressing the Congress Parliamentary In Islamabad, after a 90-minute misuse — Central Ground any premises’’ where Party meet. P7 meeting with President Mushar- Water Authority (CGWA) — groundwater is being illegal- raf, US deputy secretary of state I-T raids on Patna schools: In a is too short-staffed to imple- ly drawn if the property own- Richard Armitage told reporters crackdown on the residential prem- ment its rules. er refuses to let officials in- ises of the proprietors of Patna- that the Pakistani leader had as- For levying the charge, ei- spect it. based DPS, International School sured him there was no infiltra- ther meters would be in- The board can also seize and ST Severin School, investigators tion, and if there was some ter- stalled on tubewells or a fixed equipment being used. of the I-T department on Thursday rorist infrastructure in Pakistan- cess would be levied on the Presently, only people in seized documents suggesting huge occupied Kashmir, it would be basis of the tubewell’s diam- south and southwest Delhi tax evasion. P11 ‘‘dismantled tomorrow’’. eter,Tripathi said. If the user need to take the CGWA’s per- Pakistan came under further does not install the meter, mission before installing Fashion museum: Pink-haired pressure to end cross-border ter- punk icon Zandra Rhodes opened ‘‘the board may itself install tubewells. But the Bill pro- rorism with a new legislation the doors of an innovative fashion a water measuring device poses that the DJB’s permis- museum in London, showing off taking shape in the US Congress. and recover the cost from the sion should be mandatory in dresses to die for. P12 The legislation calls for sanctions defaulting user of groundwa- all parts of Delhi. if Pakistan does not mend its ter,’’ the Bill states. The rates will be finalised ways. The Bill permits the DJB once the Bill becomes a law. Holding out an olive branch to Pakistan, PM Vajpayee said in the Lok Sabha: ‘‘I have told our Pakistani friends that friends can be changed but not neighbours. Bill suggests women We have to live here. We either PEACE CAN BE A MOUTHFUL: Women members of the visiting Pakistan parliamentarian delegation have langar live as friends or we keep fight- at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Thursday ing, making ourselves a butt of quota in boardrooms ridicule before the world. By Prabhakar Sinha ly unhappy with the move. He said unlike Pakistan, India • Pakistan to approve India’s choice of its TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ashok Haldea, secretary of had other concerns in the region. Suppose an High Commissioner within a week “India-Pakistan hockey the Institute of Chartered The reference was apparently to New Delhi: Corporate Accountants of India, said China’s emergence as a major • To maintain its nuclear arms policy of match is on and news boardrooms may no longer it would be counter-pro- military power. India, he pointed “minimum deterrence” comes of terrorists remain male clubs. The ductive. ‘‘The board plays out, subscribed to the ‘no first- Companies (Amendment) • “How about a chukker?” Pak legislators killing 50 people in a vital role in the running strike’ nuclear doctrine. Bill tabled in Parliament of a company — selection Rebutting criticism for yet an- invite Indian army chief for a polo game Jammu and Kashmir. on Wednesday by the fi- YOU SAID IT by Laxman What kind of hockey of its members should be other initiative despite the disas- • “Let’s play cricket again” says Indian nance minister suggests on the basis of merit.’’ trous consequences of his bus sports minister Vikram Verma would that be? reserved seats for women A senior consultant said trip to Lahore and the Agra sum- ” on the boards of public the provision would en- mit with General Musharraf, Va- companies. courage other groups to jpayee said a country of India’s speech. process. ‘‘That must have sur- Perspective: About 90 per cent of The provision, coming make their cases. ‘‘In a size and stature could not sit idle He said the spontaneous par- prised Pakistan as well,’’ he re- the present populations of both on the heels of yet another parliamentary democracy without exploring peace. ticipation of the people in the as- marked. He felt the message and India and Pakistan were born af- failure in introducing the like India, they may next ‘‘I do not hold myself responsi- sembly elections in Jammu and import of the Jammu and Kash- ter 1947, when the two countries women’s reservation Bill suggest reservation on the ble for the (failure of the) Lahore Kashmir had been a clear indica- mir elections were yet to be fully were created. When will the in Parliament, may create basis ofcaste,’’ he said. episode; I am ready to grab every tion of the people’s aspiration for assessed. young renounce the dubious more sexist furore. It has The concern voiced by opportunity to give peace a peace. Vajpayee termed the The other event influencing the legacy of their parents and left it to the Company Law India Inc is that though the chance, for we do not want to go strong and enthusiastic gather- decision to revive the dialogue grandparents? Board to prescribe the motives are worthy, it will on spending on heavy weapons,’’ ing at his recent public meeting was the US attack on Iraq leading Neighbours cross Wagah: Page 11 number of women direc- not help strengthen corpo- the Prime Minister said during in Kashmir as the turning point to the fall of the Saddam Hussain US Congress puts pressure: Page 13 tors on the board. rate governance. the course of his 25-minute for the resumption of the peace regime. Sacred Space: Talking Peace Corporate India is clear- Related report on page He denied that the Lahore declaration had tak- Can’t connect, TRAI again en place without adequate preparation and at- Who is the one to be escorted to What you pay for a 10-minute tributedDon’t the Kargil incursion leak to a disputeraids: be- the cell, Sir? tween the political and military leaderships in local call in Delhi Pakistan. Giving details of his telephonic talk with Pak- indiatimes.com POLL From Cellphone WLL-M landline Vajpayee to CBI istan premier Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Vaj- Yesterday’s results: Do you think the landline Rs 12 Rs 8.4 Rs 4.8 payee said the latter ThadIMES proposedNEWS NETWORK ‘‘a game of government should give voting rights to: hockey’’ between the two countries. Vajpayee along with dual citizenship to people of New Delhi: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian origin? said that in his reply, he had appreciated Ja- From Cellphone WLL-M/landline mali’son interest Thursday and expressed involvement concern in hockey in the Rajyabut Sabha Yes 45% No 55% raisedover the the issue leakage of cross-border of information terrorism. about the ‘‘I raids con- cell Rs 4 - 24 Rs 6 - 28 said, ‘Supposeducted by an investigating India-Pakistan agencies hockey to thematch media. Sev- • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose eral MPs had said leaking such information tar- to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. to: Airtel/Hutch rates for different packages is on and a flash comes of terrorists gunning down nished50 people the somewhere image of the in personJammu concerned. and Kash- Today’s question: Would you consider Pak mir, whatVajpayee kind of assured hockey the would MPs thatthat be?’’he had Ja- asked the MPs’ peace mission to India as real signs Cellphone WLL-M landline mali, CBIaccording and officials to him, of admitted other investigating that Pakistan agencies to of thaw in Indo-Pak ties? too wasdesist concerned from leaking about terrorism.