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OID‰‰‰†‰KOID‰‰‰†‰OID‰‰‰†‰MOID‰‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Friday,January 10, 2003 Late City 20 pages Price Rs. 2 International India Times Sport London police arrest Preity Zinta stands up Lankans hand Aussies seven, hunt for more for prosecution in their first One-day in ricin case Bharat Shah case defeat of the year Page 13 Page 10 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES Sanjay Sekhri Tussle with Established 1838 Home loans Nitish may Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. We don’t love NRIs just for force George their money - travellers’ cheques will do. likely to get to shift base — Anonymous By Ambikanand Sahay TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEWS DIGEST New Delhi: If the signals Agni test-fired: The short-range emanating from Bihar and variant of the nuclear-capable Agni yet cheaper Karnataka are taken as ballistic missile was successfully By N Vidyasagar remains soft and the compe- pointers, defence minister test-fired on Thursday. The surface- TIMES NEWS NETWORK tition for customers increas- George Fernandes may shift to-surface missile can strike targets es its intensity.’’ his political base from Nalan- up to a distance of 700 km. P11 New Delhi: Spurred on by While the market is abuzz da to Mangalore. Punjab CM orders probe: falling bank deposit rates, with talk of a dip in home Indeed, the signals have Around 2,300 case home loan interest rates are loan rates, companies are been coming in loud and files pertaining to expected to go down by up to chary of admitting this in clear from both the places. kidney transplants 0.5 per cent over the next cou- public. ‘‘It is very early to say The bulk of the Bihar unit of have been recov- ple of months. the Samata party continues ered from private whether the interest rates When this happens, home will go down. All this will de- to be up in arms against nursing homes in loan customers will get a 10- Amritsar, Jalandhar pend on the cost of funds and Fernandes. year floating loan at 9 per the quantum of reduction in The rebellious partymen and Ludhiana. cent. Currently, floating Probe into the clan- deposit rates,’’ said Rajiv Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee with some recipients of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman awards after the in the state, who are now sup- home loans are available in destine kidney trade has been or- Sabharwal, chief operating inauguration of the first non-resident Indian conference in New Delhi on Thursday. More reports on Page 9 porting Nitish Kumar, have dered by chief minister Amarinder the range of 9.75 per cent to officer at ICICI Home Loans. refused to invite Fernandes Singh. P9 10 per cent for various Housing finance compa- for the state Samata execu- tenures. Fixed home loan nies and banks (not the na- tive meeting on January 19, No BJP alliance in Haryana: rates hover between 10 and The BJP has ruled out any alliance tionalised ones) have already PM announces dual citizenship making it clear he is no with the ruling Indian National Lok 10.5 per cent. begun to discount and offer longer welcome in Bihar. Dal in Haryana for the coming as- On a Rs 10 lakh loan for a cheaper loans than the pub- New Delhi: India extended dual Fatima Mir, businessman and phi- gether for the first time at the in- In fact, the defence minis- sembly polls. A senior BJP leader 10-year period, 9 per cent in- lished official rates. citizenship to People of Indian Ori- lanthropist from Kenya Manubhai augural session of the convention ter is described by his adver- alleged that the ruling party, led by terest equals an equated mo- Intense competition from gin in seven countries, a demand Chanderia, businessman from here. saries as a ‘‘rootless wonder’’ chief minister Om Prakash Chautala, nthly instalment of Rs 12,670 banks like StanChart, hanging fire for years. Hong Kong Harilila and business- Parliament was already consid- who is winning elections was working against the BJP. — a reduction of Rs 410 per Citibank and IDBI is pulling The necessary legislation will be man from Oman Kanakbhai. ering a Bill to establish a only because of the all im- B C Sanyal is dead: Doyen of month as per current norms. home loan rates down. introduced during the Budget ses- Earlier, the Prime Minister wel- welfare fund for overseas Indian portant support provided Indian art B C Sanyal died in New Industry leaders said the Meanwhile, the Vijay sion of Parliament, said Prime comed the Indian diaspora in his workers, Vajpayee said, adding the by Nitish. Delhi on Thursday after a brief clearest signal for this is re- Kelkar committee’s recom- Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. poetic style. ‘‘Jab jee chahe tab aa government planned to reserve a Those who have been fol- illness, family sources said. Born in duced bank deposit rates. mendation to reduce tax To mark the first-ever NRI con- jana, sada khulen hain dwar (come certain proportion of seats in lowing Bihar politics closely Dhubri in Assam, he was 102. P4 While State Bank of India breaks on home loans has vention in India, the Prime Minis- when you feel like, our doors are al- academic institutions to meet the know it for certain that Fer- Mirwaiz’s passport suspended: and ICICI Bank have hinted dampened market sentiment. ter also honoured 10 eminent PIOs, ways open),’’ said the Prime Minis- educational needs of children of nandes cannot win the Na- that they may reduce term The Centre has suspended the pass- including Mauritian premier ter, while inaugurating the the Gulf NRIs. PTI landa seat without Nitish’s port of former Hurriyat chairman deposit rates, Punjab Nation- Comment: The construction Anerood Jugnauth, former com- Bharatiya Pravasi Divas being at- support. Nalanda is a Kurmi- Mirwaiz Umer Farooq for four weeks, al Bank and Bank of Baroda boom is expected to acceler- monwealth secretary general Sri- tended by the Indian diaspora from Comment: The NRI meet, and pro- dominated constituency and saying he was a threat to the have already lowered rates ate further,as more and more dath Ramphal, Malaysian minister 60 countries. posals like dual citizenship, are Nitish is the unquestioned country. The Mirwaiz has been given on domestic term deposits. members of the middle-class D Samy Vellu and Mckinsey CEO The jugalbandi of octogenarian welcome first steps. But we should leader of the anti-Laloo, non- eight weeks to appeal against ‘‘Interest rates on home throng to fulfill the great In- Rajat Gupta. music maestros Pandit Ravi learn from China - whose diaspora Yadav OBC forces. the decision. P5 loans will invariably drop by dian dream of owning a Others honoured were British Shankar and Ustad Bismillah is bigger and more lucrative than Supporters of Nitish and Burqa order: In yet another burqa half-a-per cent soon,’’ said house. Let’s hope the finance MP Lord Navneet Dholakia, Khan cut a rare experience for the ours — how to reap maximum ben- Fernandes have been at log- order by a militant group, the Jamiat- Harsh Roongta, CEO, Ap- minister doesn’t spoil the Malaysian minister Ujjal Dosanjh, audience. efits from emigrant populations. gerheads for the past six ul-Mujahideen has asked Muslim naloan. ‘‘The overall interest party by slashing housing freedom-fighter from South Africa The two maestros performed to- See Dubyaman on page 12 months or so. women in the state to uphold the rate scenario in the economy loan sops. The Fernandes group, Islamic dress code and cover which is led by state party their head. P5 president Raghunath Jha, Lanka logjam: Sri Lanka’s warring did not invite Nitish for the parties announced deals on human NDA meeting in Patna on rights and a breakthrough on foreign Icy weather continues, 25 more die in Bihar January 2. Nitish’s support- funding at the end of peace talks ers want Jha removed from here on Thursday. However, they ad- New Delhi: At least 25 people The minimum tem- Pradesh, Kanpur and its With the death of 25 more peo- mitted that there was a deadlock be- were reported dead in Bihar in perature touched 4.8 de- COLD COMFORT IN DELHI adjoining areas contin- ple, the toll in Bihar rose to 48 in the party post. tween them on military issues. P13 the last 24 hours even as icy gree Celsius. ued to reel under the in- the current spell of cold that has On his part, Fernandes Max Min continues to support Jha, Hughes loss: Hughes Software winds and cold weather persisted Delhi also registered tense cold wave, as the persisted in the state for the past o o giving rise to speculation Systems has reported an over 21 across northern India. its coldest night of the Delhi 14.8 C 5.0 C mercury dipped to 5.8 six days. Most of the dead were MON o o that he is preparing to shift per cent drop in net profit in Octo- Deaths were also reported from season, with the mercu- Shimla 15.0 C 7.0 C degree Celsius from poor and homeless, official out of Nalanda. ber-December 2002 compared to other parts of the region, includ- ry plunging below five o o Wednesday’s seven de- sources said. But unofficial Delhi 12.0 C 6.1 C Political circles were not the same period in 2001. P15 degrees Celsius on TUE o o gree Celsius. ing Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. Shimla 17.0 C 3.0 C sources put the death toll at 155. surprised when reports of Lanka crush Australia: World In UP, the cold wave claimed Wednesday night, the The temperatures in the state o o Pilani was the coldest Fernandes rediscovering his champions Australia conceded their three more lives in Allahabad dis- Met office here said.