OID‰†‰KOID‰†‰OID‰†‰MOID‰†‰C New Delhi, Monday,November 3, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 34 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International City Report Sport Britney feels like a Partying is no fun New Zealand middle-aged mum in Delhi as night looking to stop in the fast lane clubs close early Aussie juggernaut Page 12 Page 4 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES Fresh trouble in Reuters Core group will Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. prepare roadmap Peace making is a healing Gujarat; 3 killed process and it begins for Hurriyat talks with me, but it does TIMES NEWS NETWORK & PTI not end there. over cricket ball New Delhi: In the run-up to the — Gene Knudsen Hoffman Centre’s proposed dialogue with the TIMES NEWS NETWORK Hurriyat Conference, a senior group NEWS DIGEST of officials has been tasked with Ahmedabad: Communal violence returned to working out the thrust and focus of haunt Gujarat on Sunday,when clashes broke out the talks and providing all neces- at Viramgam, about 65 km from here, leaving sary input to Deputy Prime Minis- three dead and 45 injured — all over a cricket ball ter L K Advani. that landed inside a temple compound. The “coordination group” will Indefinite curfew has been clamped on the town, comprise the Centre’s interlocutor after it witnessed heavy stone pelting, arson and on Jammu and Kashmir N N Vohra, firing. One person was killed when the police fired cabinet secretary Kamal Pande, 15 rounds, while the other two were allegedly shot home secretary N Gopalaswami, In- by former municipal councillor Purushottambhai telligence Bureau director K P Jadhav. He was later arrested. Singh and former RAW director A S The police lobbed more than 30 teargas Dulat, who is now officer on special shells and grenades to bring the situation under duty in the Prime Minister’s Office. control. The group, which met on October Trouble started around 9.30 am, when a 24 and then briefed Advani last cricket ball landed inside the compound of a week, will prepare the groundwork temple during a cricket match being played at the before talks could be held with the Viramgam hospital grounds. A US Army helicopter lifts off as troops search the crash site where an American transport chopper was brought down by Iraqi guerrillas near Falluja on Sunday. The US said it would not be deterred by such attacks. Hurriyat leadership, sources said. Mobile revolution ‘‘When they tried to retrieve the ball, they were After the Hurriyat Conference In the first part of a series on the beaten,’’ state home secretary K Nityanandan gave a positive response to PM Vaj- consumer and the telecom sector, said. ‘‘After that, there was heavy stone pelting be- payee’s offer on October 22, the gov- we look at the implications of tween the two communities.’’ ernment expected the conglomerate unified licensing. P15 ‘‘This led to a scuffle between the players, who to take “some time” before the talks belonged to the minority community, and the lo- Iraq’s bloodiest reprisal could actually begin. Bus falls into valley, 24 killed: cals. Soon people began gathering and pelting Meanwhile, leaders of the As many as 24 tourists from Surat stones. Someone also fired a shot from a private Maulana Abbas Ansari-led Hurriyat were killed and 32 others injured firearm,’’ a police official said. 15 US soldiers die as guerrillas shoot down chopper are also busy holding discussions when their bus plunged into a valley Heavy stone pelting was reported from Chand- within the amalgam and separatist fali and Shetwad areas, while miscreants maraud- near Panchgani in Maharashtra. Baisa: Iraqi guerrillas shot down recreation break, had been would win the war in Iraq. leaders outside it. ed through the fast-emptying roads, setting fire to an American helicopter in Iraq on shot down. A US spokesman said two Chi- Sukhbir’s house evaluated: The shops, upsetting and looting roadside stalls. At Punjab Vigilance Bureau evaluated a Sunday, killing at least 15 US per- Some Iraqis were jubilant. “The nooks had been heading for Bagh- least 30 shops were charred and looted. house owned by MP Sukhbir Badal, sonnel and wounding 21 in the Americans are pigs. We will hold a dad airport when one was “shot son of Akali Dal chief Parkash Singh DIG (Ahmedabad range) AK Sharma, who bloodiest single strike on US-led celebration because this helicop- down by an unknown weapon”. No conditions for Badal, in Chandigarh on Sunday in reached the spot soon after the violence broke out, forces since they invaded Iraq to ter went down. The Americans are A witness in Falluja, Dawoud connection to a graft case. P10 told TNN: ‘‘The situation is now under control. oust Saddam Hussein. enemies of mankind,” said wheat Suleiman, said: “There were two talks, says Mufti The injured have been taken to various hospitals The crippled Chinook helicopter farmer Saadoun Jaralla. American helicopters. They fired a Srinagar: Jammu and Kash- Quattarocchi case: A CBI team in Ahmedabad. Twenty-five persons have been ar- came down in farmland at 9 am It was the third time guerrillas missile at one and missed, and mir chief minister Mufti Mo- has been sent to the UK to assist rested. A licensed 0.303 gun, with two empty car- near the village of Baisa, south of had brought down a US helicopter then they hit the other, which hammed Sayeed said on Sun- the British prosecutor-general in the tridges, has been seized from Jadav.’’ Falluja, a fiercely anti-US town 50 since president Bush declared ma- crashed and caught fire.” day that talks between the Cen- case against Italian businessman Thirteen-year-old Shauqat Mahboobhai, who Ottavio Quattrocchi. P10 km west of Baghdad. jor combat over in Iraq on May 1. In Falluja, residents said a road- tre and the Hurriyat Confer- suffered a bullet injury, told TNN from his hospi- US Army spokesman Colonel “Clearly it is a tragic day for Amer- side bomb had hit a convoy of US ence would be “unconditional” New suggestion for Ayodhya: tal bed that a group of local residents, led by Ya- William Darley told reporters that icans,” US defence secretary Don- personnel in civilian vehicles. At and that “no one should have Muslim groups may forego their dav, opened fire at them when they were going to the cause of the crash was under ald Rumsfeld told ABC television. least one vehicle was ablaze at the any misgivings about it.” claim over the disputed site in collect their cricket ball. investigation. Other US officials “In a long hard war we are going to scene, where gloating crowds “Horse can be brought to the Ayodhya if land were given to them His friend, Mohammad Shoaib Abdulqadar, 12, and witnesses said the helicopter, have tragic days.” But he said the shouted anti-US slogans. Reuters water but cannot be made to for building a Jama Masjid in the lay beside him, hit by a bullet near his chest. carrying troops on a rest and US would not be deterred and Arab states call for order: P13 drink,” he said in Ganderbal. PTI town, according to the newly set-up Picture on page 9 Ayodhya Jama Masjid Trust. P9 Police: Where’s Daler? TIMES NEWS NETWORK to cooperate with the police investi- Patiala: The Patiala Police are look- gations. Daler had ing for pop singer Daler Mehndi, appeared before whose interim anticipatory bail end- the Patiala Police indiatimes.com POLL ed on Saturday. Daler is wanted for on Monday, and alleged involvement in an immigra- had been interro- At 38, should Shah Rukh Khan change his tion racket. gated for seven lover boy image? Sources said two police parties hours, and then for have been sent to Daler’s farmhous- Yes 53% No 47% another four hours es and the other two to his office and Daler Mehndi on Tuesday. How- VOTE NOW: What caused India’s defeat home in Vikaspuri in Delhi; friends ever, Daler has not against Australia? and relatives the singer may try to shown up after that. a) Poor bowling b) Poor captaincy contact are being watched. DIG Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota said Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 The police are also looking for Daler had not given clear answers Daler’s wife Daljit Kaur,his sister-in- during his investigation. “He was YOU SAID IT by Laxman law, Balwinder Kaur and three oth- again served a notice to appear be- ers accused in the case — Surinder fore the police on October 30 but he Singh, Tejinder Singh and Harchand did not turn up and ignored the di- Singh. Daler’s brother Shamsher rections,” Sahota said. Singh is already in custody. Daler’s counsel Anand Parkash Daler’s anticipatory bail plea is had said Mehndi’s interrogation was scheduled to be heard again on Mon- complete. However, Sahota said this day. Granting him anticipatory bail wasn’t true; the police still wanted earlier, the court had directed Daler some answers from him. Too rich to be true: Arun calls off wedding with Liz All due to in-fighting among the By Rashmee Z Ahmed ministers. The one on the left was TIMES NEWS NETWORK appointed even before the other one was given the transfer order! London: Liz Hurley’s plans to meta- morphose into an Indian bahu in four months’ time, complete with a red Ver- WEATHER sace wedding sari, glitzy Mumbai nup- Max. 31.6ºC/Min. 13.2ºC tials and a permanently-tanned Indian Moonset: Tuesday – 2.11 am hunk all her own, are in ruins, accord- Moonrise: Monday – 2.11 pm ing to the only people who seem really Sunset: Monday – 5.35 pm to know or desperately to care — Sunrise: Monday – 6.35 am Britain’s trashy tabloid media.