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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Thursday,July 3, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 28 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Terminator is Pota court issues Joining Real is a back, so is Arnold fresh arrest warrant dream come true, Schwarzenegger against Yasin Malik says Beckham Page 12 Page 9 Page 19 WIN WITH THE TIMES Human error Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. or inhuman The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter Train falls on people in the book. TOI conditions? — John Wilkes Golconda Exp crashes on By Rajesh Ramachandran NEWS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK 2 suspended for Taj project: New Delhi: The Railways have, pri- The Uttar Pradesh government on road, 18 die, driver blamed ma facie, atributed the Warangal ac- Wednesday suspended two senior cident to “human error” caused by By K V Ramana and the impact and gave way. the driver overshooting the signal. IAS officers, including principal sec- P V Kondal Rao South Central Railway gener- This had in the past also caused ma- retary, environment, R K Sharma, in TIMES NEWS NETWORK the wake of the controversy over the al manager Stanley Babu main- jor accidents like the one at Gaisal. Taj Corridor Project in Agra. Warangal: The Secunderabad- tained that overspeeding by the The Khanna committee report of bound Golkonda Express on driver had resulted in the acci- 1998 had suggested ways of min- Sushmita-Coke dispute: dent. Eyewitnesses said the mimising this persistent culprit: Bollywood star Sushmita Sen on Wednesday plunged from a rail train was travelling at around ● “The cost in terms of human life Tuesday refused to comment on overbridge, after it failed to stop at the Warangal station, killing 50 and 60 km per hour at the and suffering, due to the errors com- media reports regarding her time of the accident. contract problems with Coca-Cola 18 people and injuring 22 others. mitted by drivers, basically passing Both the driver Mohammad and harassment charges against Two of the injured are in a signal at a danger point, has been the company’s marketing head critical condition. Rasheed and assistant driver enormous.’’ Sripad Nadkarni. P5 The engine rolled from the Sammaiah escaped with minor There should be a ‘‘train protec- overbridge and fell on an auto- injuries. The injured were tion and warning system’’ so that ICAR project: The Indian Council rickshaw, a two-wheeler and rushed to the Mahatma Gandhi when the driver crosses a ‘caution’ of Agricultural Research is formulat- Memorial Hospital for treat- signal, he should receive a warning ing a Rs 40-crore project on trans- four vendors selling fish at a shanty on a busy road below the ment. Heavy duty cranes and which he should acknowledge. If the genics to develop an A-team spread grass cutters were pressed into across institutes which will focus on bridge. Three other coaches fol- driver fails to acknowledge the service to extricate the bodies solutions to unconquered diseases lowed the engine. Among the warning within a specified time, that destroy 14 crops. P5 dead were nine passengers and and the trapped passengers. there should be an automatic appli- eight others on the road below. The railway officials have an- cation of brakes.” Film on Waugh: Robert Joske, The incident took place nounced an immediate finan- BUT: The Golconda Express on chief of Duet, the company that around 10.20 am when the train cial assistance of Rs 15,000 for Wednesday did not stop after the ‘manages’ Australian cricketer Steve came hurtling down the tracks the families of the dead and Rs driver overshot the ‘caution’ signal. Waugh, has said they are looking for 5,000 for the injured. ● The committee’s recommendation an Indian director for the film on the and sped past Warangal station, Andhra Pradesh chief minis- showed just how inhuman were the cricketer. P8 leaving hundreds of passengers The scene just outside Warangal railway station, where the Golconda Express jumped the rails on the platform nonplussed. ter Chandrababu Naidu, who from a bridge and landed on the road below on Wednesday. conditions in which drivers lived. Mobile service in J&K: Though ‘‘We saw this horrifying sight was on a tour to West Godavari, Graphic: Neelabh The committee insisted that basic the Union home ministry has cleared of the train race past the station cut short his visit and rushed to amenities had to be provided within a proposal for commencement of and the engine land on the road, the accident site. After inspect- three years. mobile telephony service in J&K, the which is usually crowded and ing the scene, he said he would ● Railway officials say that most ac- defence ministry’s approval is still full of traffic during this part of speak to the Prime Minister and cidents involving the driver over- pending. P9 the day,’’ an eyewitness said. seek a thorough inquiry. shooting a signal happens due to BJP clarification: The BJP has The engine driver apparently He said railway accidents had poor visibility of the signal, medical clarified that the eight-page note realised that the brakes had become a regular feature in the reasons, including fatigue, and in- distributed by the party on Tuesday failed before reaching the state and that he would not al- toxication of the driver or entitle- on Venkaiah Naidu’s completing one Warangal station and alerted low the officials to play with the ment, that is a goods driver being year in office was meant to celebrate the station master, who diverted lives of people. Railway minis- asked to drive a passenger train be- his achievements. P10 the train to a loop line. ter Nitish Kumar told reporters cause of lack of personnel at that At breakneck speed, the in Patna that he did not have given point of time. Wimpy case: For the second the details of the cause of the Unless safeguards are in place, it time in three days, the Delhi HC train dashed off towards a rail issued notice to Punjab CM overbridge, around 100 metres accident but it could be either is too glib to damn the driver with Amarinder Singh and the state from the station and banged the driver’s mistake or some the charge of “human error”. The home secretary after hearing a against a barrage of sandbags technical failure. cause should more correctly be la- petition filed by Wimpy’s employees which failed to withstand The blame theory: P5 belled “gross official apathy”. who were arrested in a case involving former CM Parkash Singh Badal. P10 Rain check by Laxman Wednesday, Ayodhya plan: Now it YOU SAID IT July 2 Delhi is Muslim board vs clerics, Puri vs Kanchi Since Kolkata TIMES NEWS NETWORK June 30 New Delhi: Dealing a major blow to the on- going behind-the-scenes negotiations on Ay- Mumbai Chennai odhya, the Puri Shankaracharya and senior Muslim clerics have questioned the locus standi of the Kanchi seer and Muslim Per- • Delhi is still chasing the sonal Law Board to discuss the Babri issue. monsoon. No telling Participating in a seminar organised here when the heavens will on Wednesday by the Anjuman Minhaz-e-Ra- open up sool, Shankaracharya Adhokshajanand • For most of the country, Tirth of Puri launched a blistering attack on however, the monsoon his Kanchi counterpart Jayendra Saraswati, He concluded his two-hour has been 9% above the Centre and the Sangh Parivar. speech saying, “... and as I said normal in June. So far, He accused Jayendra Saraswati of being a just now...” and started all over 85% of the country has ‘‘mere pawn in the hands of the main players again! been covered and remaining in the dark about many • The weather office will things’’. Muslim clerics representing vari- forecast rainfall for this ous institutions assailed the AIMPLB, in- month on July 10 sisting it had no jurisdiction to enter into • In Assam 13 channels such negotiations. Maulana Taquir Raza of the Brahmaputra Khan, chief of Anjuman Ajmer Sharif, said river are flowing above the Board had exceeded its brief. the danger level Court pulls up ASI for tardy progress: P11 indiatimes.com POLL Is the BCCI-ICC contract row showing the Indian players in bad light? Turn of history: Palestinian Yes 61% No 39% VOTE NOW: Do you think train travel in India is getting riskier by the day? star rises over Bethlehem Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 Reuters Bethlehem, West Bank: Sirens blar- WEATHER ing, Palestinian police moved through the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Max. 38oC/Min. 29oC Wednesday,the second area turned over Moonset: Thursday – 10.22 pm by Israel under a US-backed Mideast Moonrise: Friday – 9.34 am peace plan. The handover of the an- Sunset: Thursday – 7.23 pm cient town comes after an upbeat sum- Sunrise: Friday – 5.28 am mit between the Israeli and Palestinian Partly cloudy sky. Rain/thundershowers premiers boosted hope for an end to 33 likely in some areas. Maximum temperature months of bloodshed. will be around 38oC. Maximum relative Clapping and cheering, residents humidity 79% and minimum 49%. leaned from their windows to watch about 60 police in dark blue uniforms march through town, followed by a sin- gle motorbike and two cars. Police said they were forced to walk because they did not have enough vehicles to trans- port all of them. ‘‘Welcome, welcome,’’ a grandmother, Palestinian forces take charge of Hilal Murra told them. ‘‘It’s better to see Bethlehem on Wednesday. them in the streets than the Israelis.’’ Army transport trucks started carry- out of us,’’ said Jaudat Joude, who has ing away armoured vehicles and con- been unable to reach his job at a tainers full of equipment from two Is- Jerusalem welding factory since the up- Book your Classifieds rising began almost three years ago.

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