OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Wednesday,May 28, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 44 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International Business Times Sport Mariah Carey to Shaw Wallace’s Komal Maldini braces up relaunch album Wazir initiates a human for Champions with 4 new tracks resources revamp League final Page 14 Page 17 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES AP Domestic Established 1838 Pak names Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. air fares A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually take a dip look forward to the trip. Aziz as new TIMES NEWS NETWORK — Caskie Stinnett New Delhi: Even as the mer- cury rises, the Indian airline NEWS DIGEST industry is gearing up to fly domestic air fares to a new PM in Germany: Beginning his low. While Air-India an- three-nation tour, Prime Minister Vaj- India envoy nounced a restriction-free payee arrived in Berlin on Tuesday. special summer fare on its This is the first official visit by an In- By Aunohita Mojumdar dian Prime Minister to Germany Peace by peace... domestic flights, Air Sahara TIMES NEWS NETWORK introduced the companion since P V Narasimha Rao’s visit in April 28: 1994. P7 New Delhi: Pakistan has chosen Jamali free travel scheme along with foreign office spokesman Aziz calls Vajpayee, its Sixer and Super Sixer Punjab’s missing: A report, Re- PMs talk peace Ahmed Khan as its high commis- schemes. duced to Ashes, documenting the May 2: India According to A-I, the sum- disappearance and killing of Sikhs sioner to India. While the Pak- istani foreign ministry did not an- says it will send mer fares for flights depart- during Punjab militancy a decade back its envoy, ing between 8 am and 8 pm ago, has been released. P13 nounce his name officially, pend- ing India’s formal approval of the resume air links would be five per cent lower Riots case: A second riot victim ‘‘agrement’’, official sources con- May 13: Shiv than the Apex fares being told a fast track court on Tuesday firmed on Tuesday that the papers Shankar Menon named envoy offered by carriers like that the 21 accused in the Best Bak- had been sent. May 20: Pakistan announces Indian Airlines, Jet Airways ery case in Vadodara were not part and Sahara. And the night The nomination sets at rest spec- curbs on Hizb Sir Edmund Hillary and his wife, June, share a light moment with Junko Tabei, the first woman to of the mob which burnt 12 persons climb Mt Everest, during official ceremonies in Kathmandu on Tuesday. Another picture on page 15 fares on flights departing be- ulation about the identity of Islam- May 26: India says it will in the bakery’s furnace during the tween 8 pm and 8 am would abad’s envoy to India. Earlier, Pak- resume bus to Lahore communal riots last year. P12 be 15 per cent lower than the istani prime minister Mir Zafarul- May 27: Pak names Aziz Ahmed Apex fares. lah Jamali had said Riaz Mo- Khan as its envoy for Delhi A Delhi-Mumbai day fare hammed Khan, Pakistan’s man in Low point of tallest peak? on A-I will be close to Rs Beijing, would be sent to New Del- timed India-Pakistan one-day By Chandrika Mago of the garbage is being re- 4,700, while the night fare hi. Ironically, it was left to Aziz cricket match. It was Zia’s ‘‘cricket TIMES NEWS NETWORK Cold comfort moved.’’ would be in the range of Rs Ahmed Khan — acting in his ca- diplomacy’’ that became a byword Sudhir Sahi, a former secre- 3,400. There is no advance A glacier close to Hillary’s pacity as spokesperson — to con- later on, being credited with reduc- New Delhi: Fifty years after it • tary of the Indian Moun- purchase condition and the first camp has retreated tradict Jamali’s announcement by ing Indo-Pak tensions in the wake was first conquered, golden ju- taineering Foundation, says maximum number of seats 5 km up the mountain saying no name had been finalised. of the near military confrontation bilee expeditions seem to be mountaineers attempt to climb allocated is nearly 80 per cent Khan, who served as Pakistan’s during Operation Brasstacks. tripping up and down the • A network of small ponds Everest all-year round. Climb- of the capacity. deputy high commissioner in New Officials and others who inter- world’s highest peak in a dis- near Island Peak has ing operators offer guided ‘‘A traveller can book a Delhi between 1985 and 1987, is no acted with Khan then speak of his play of what critics term crass merged into a long lake tours, charging up to $ 65,000 ticket under this scheme stranger to India. Though condi- commercialisation. People are ‘‘positive attitude’’. According to • Sudden glacial floods has per person. Nepal charges even a day prior to travel and tions were quite different then — one observer, his ‘‘punctiliously apparently oblivious of fears of about the same amount to just the cancellation charges Kashmir had not yet erupted into a severe ecological damage. wiped out old wooden correct’’ approach towards India as bridges book the peak for a six-member have been kept at Rs 100 for violent movement — tensions were spokesperson — in contrast to the South Col, at 26,000 ft, usual- expedition and about $ 4,000 as the special night fares,’’ says high because of Indian accusa- more abrasive style of Riaz ly the last major camping point a garbage deposit fee. an A-I spokesperson. tions that Pakistan was arming Mohammed Khan — ‘‘was proba- prior to the ‘assault’ on the bish and the bodies of 73 The disadvantage for the by Laxman But the Himalayas are suf- YOU SAID IT and supporting the Khalistan bly a factor in his selection as high peak, is described as the high- mountaineers have been fering from much more than traveller will be the absence TOI Archives movement. commissioner’’. est rubbish dump in the world. brought down from Everest just a garbage problem. Last of a fixed departure time for Aziz made a mark in the Capital, His nomination is thought to Tents, cans, foodstuff, wrap- since 1996. ‘‘There is a lot of year, a team backed by the UN A-I’s domestic flights. as did his wife, Aisha, a social have been strenuously backed pers, cylinders, climbing gear, garbage,’’ acknowledges Sir Environment Programme ‘‘But that’s compensated by worker described by one observer by the Pakistani foreign packing material, even bodies, Edmund Hillary,who first suc- found that the glacier which the price and the fact that as ‘‘a woman of great poise and secretary, Riaz Khokhar. Consid- are left behind. cessfully scaled the peak with came close to Hillary’s first some of the timings offered dignity’’. Khan accompanied ered straightforward and upright, According to one news re- Tenzing Norgay on May 29, camp had retreated 5 km up by us are not even available General Zia-ul-Haq to Jaipur in Khan has had wide and varied port, at least 300 tonnes of rub- 1953. But he is hopeful. ‘‘Some the mountain. with the domestic carriers,’’ February 1987 for the fortuitously experience in the region. the spokesperson added. Outsourcing a controversy to India Ejaz is dead, Rs 7,100 cr Outsourcing industry’s size in 2002 but who is 107,000 jobs In call centers, back office ops, data entry, translation, animation, accounting, GIS Rehman? 65% growth Overall growth in software sector is just 30% TIMES NEWS NETWORK Caught between the pole and the and Agencies lamp post, are you? Silly man, why don’t you walk on the road like THE TRIGGER POINTS THE RESPONSE Mumbai: The Mumbai po- everybody else! • Dec 2002: New Jersey Senate plans Bill to Software body lice have stuck to their stand ban outsourcing work to India. Later withdrawn Nasscom has hired that the man shot dead in Resentment rises as outsourcing hubs a PR agency in the Bangkok on Sunday night indiatimes.com POLL • was indeed gangster Ejaz start closing down in the US and UK. Jobs Has PwC’s rating of Sachin as the US. Industry not Lakdawala, despite reports world’s fourth best Test batsman shaken move to India worried, says to the contrary from your confidence in him? • 4 US states are planning a fresh ban on outsourcing to India business as usual Bangkok on Tuesday. These reports had Yes 19% No 81% claimed that the person shot VOTE NOW: Should cricket be at on Sunday night in the reintroduced in the Commonwealth Thai capital was business- Games? man Syed Rehman and he Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 Leave us alone: Digvijay was battling for life in a hos- By Suchandana Gupta him.’’ Upon persist- pital there. TIMES NEWS NETWORK ent questioning, he His wife said on Tuesday said, “Leave us that she had been receiving Pachmarhi: Factionalism in the alone.’’ intimidating phone calls Congress in Madhya Pradesh seemed The poll mani- and was convinced the gun- most evident on Tuesday when chief festo was to be dis- man would try again. minister Digvijay Singh was forced to cussed at the The reports claimed the WEATHER retort ‘‘For God’s sake, don’t encroach ‘‘bhadas nilako police were planning to on our privacy.’’ sammelan’’ intend- move Rehman to a more se- Max temp: 40.3oC/Min: 27.8oC Most senior state and central Con- ed to give state Con- cure hospital where he Digvijay Singh Sunset: Wednesday – 7.12 pm.