OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Monday,August 11, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 38 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International City Report Times Sport Hoon may be UK Delhi Police: Dedicated I don’t care for govt’s fall guy peacekeepers or awards, says in Kelly case champions of platitudes? shooter Anjali Page 13 Page 2 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES AFP Established 1838 PM dangles quota, Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. Advani lures Delhi — John F Kennedy NEWS DIGEST ‘All are not born equal, Deputy PM showcases HC to hear Pepsi plea today: Soft drink major Pepsi’s petition so level field needed’ statehood, Khurana seeking to restrain the publication By Pratyush Kanth TIMES NEWS NETWORK of the ‘‘pesticide report’’ on colas TIMES NEWS NETWORK by the Centre for Science and New Delhi: Kicking off the BJP’s campaign Environment is likely to come up Jaipur: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for the Delhi assembly elections slated for lat- for hearing before the Delhi HC on Sunday announced that economically er this year, Deputy Prime Minister L K Ad- on Monday. weaker sections from all castes could be giv- vani announced on Sunday that the govern- en job reservations if the Opposition cooper- ment would introduce a Bill to grant state- 2 die in Ahmedabad blast: Two persons were killed and 21 injured, ates with the government on a constitutional hood to the national capital in the current seven seriously, in a fire due to a amendment. session of Parliament. ‘blast’ at Ektanagar, Danilimda, on He offered to introduce a He also defended the re- Sunday, official sources said in Bill to this effect in Parlia- cently-issued controversial Ahmedabad. Officials were trying to ment if other parties, includ- Delhi Master Plan guidelines. find out what caused the fire, a po- ing the Congress, agree. Making it clear that Madan lice officer said. P10 Addressing the BJP’s ‘Pari- Lal Khurana was the BJP’s vartan Rally’ here, Vajpayee chief ministerial candidate, 7 hurt in Doda attack: Seven said that all people are not while addressing the party’s persons were injured, two of them born equal and that ‘‘we ‘‘parivartan rally’’, the critically, when militants hurled a have to create a level playing Deputy PM praised him for grenade at a bus stand at Bhader- Former Bihar chief minister Laloo Prasad Yadav accepts greetings at the Islamabad international airport on field for them’’. changing the ‘‘shape’’ of Del- wah in Doda of Jammu division. Saturday while Pakistani member of parliament Kushmala Tariq (right) looks on. A 60-member Indian delegation including some 30 MPs are on a goodwill visit to Pakistan. ‘‘Reservation was only giv- EYE ON POLLS hi and urged the people to Close shave for passengers: en to SCs/STs, but later on it • PM says Oppn support make him the next CM. The passengers of the Delhi-bound was realised, especially in Ra- Though the BJP’s rally Goa-Nizamuddin Express had a jasthan, that people who are needed for quota for came a day after the Con- miraculous escape as six bogies economically poor needed poor, cutting across gress’ ‘‘August Kranti rally’’, of the train derailed in Satara Pak mangoes for Prez, PM reservation even if they caste lines at which party president So- district of Maharashtra in the wee are not socially backward,’’ nia Gandhi had attacked the of Sunday. By Himanshi Dhawan continued despite the ups and day on an Emirates flight that left said Vajpayee. • Advani says Delhi NDA government at the Cen- Adulteration unchecked: Adul- TIMES NEWS NETWORK downs in the relationship of the Karachi on Friday evening. After He said the issue of reser- statehood Bill in current tre, Advani desisted from at- teration has assumed a high degree two countries,’’ a senior Pakistani custom officials gave the clearance vation should be settled session of Parliament tacking the Opposition party. of sophistication despite regulatory New Delhi: While Laloo Yadav official said. at 8 pm, the Pakistani protocol of- before the impending elec- Instead, he left it to senior rules. If one is not careful about and his fellow parliamentarians Interestingly, the tradition of ficials delivered the mangoes to tions so that there are no so- • Deputy PM defends party leader V K Malhotra what one buys, one could ingest convey India’s message of love and gifting mangoes has altered a their destinations. Each of the ten cial tensions and people don’t Delhi Master Plan to do the needful. Malhotra adulterants ranging from the rela- peace to Islamabad, Pakistan Pres- little. Till last year the external af- boxes weigh ten kilograms and fight over it. guidelines said: ‘‘It is unfortunate that tively harmless used tea leaves to ident Pervez Musharraf and fairs minister, the home minister have been especially gift-wrapped Vajpayee also asked MPs the Congress passed a iron filings, saw dust, sand and even Prime Minister Mir Zafurullah and the defence minister, and offi- to retain the quality and freshness. not to waste time in Parlia- resolution to make a foreign- dung powder. P11 Khan Jamali have sent five boxes cials in the ministry of external af- The packaging was good enough ment discussing frivolous issues. er its leader on August 9, the day the party Conflicting claims: None of of mangoes each for their Indian fairs received this generous boun- to tempt the contingent delivering The Prime Minister said the Centre had had launched the Quit India movement Sivakasi’s 600-odd firecracker units counterparts. ty. This year the numbers have them. ‘‘The quality of the fruit is not discriminated in aiding the 14 states against foreign rule.’’ employ children anymore, claim The Chausa mangoes were de- been restricted and only the Presi- so good that we felt like having which had been hit by drought this year. He Malhotra said if the Central Vigilance manufacturers but NGOs and livered to the residences of Presi- dent and Prime Minister get to some ourselves,’’ an official said in said interlinking of rivers had been proposed Commission’s report, covering the period some politicians have refuted dent A P J Abdul Kalam and Prime taste the fruit. a lighter vein. to prevent drought in the country. 1989-99 was publicised, it would ‘‘expose the the claim. P10 Minister A B Vajpayee on Sunday. The mangoes, also called ‘Jan- Lost Pak kid to head home: P5 Senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan also corrupt deals of the Congress’’. addressed the rally and spoke on state BJP In his speech, Advani maintained that Del- Change in UK laws: Eastern ‘‘This is a traditional goodwill nat Ka Phal’ and ‘Samar Bahisht’ Laloo finds himself at home in Pak: P11 gesture that has never been dis- (Fruit of Heaven) arrived Satur- Put a stop to terror, says Sonia: P11 president Vasundhara Raje’s campaign. hi should get statehood and said the home European gangsters will be allowed Raje ends Rajasthan poll campaign: P10 ministry had already drafted the Bill. to live and work in the United Kingdom for a 200,000 pounds fee, under the new changes to the coun- try’s immigration laws, the Sunday Express reported. Dirty drive ahead Soli: SC ruling YOU SAID IT by Laxman on strikes is for the Governator ‘uncalled for’ By Tony Allen-Mills New Delhi: Attorney-general couple of hours before Arnold Soli J Sorabjee on Sunday came ASchwarzenegger rocked Cali- out strongly against the fornia with his entry into state poli- Supreme Court ruling on right tics as a Republican candidate for to strike, saying its observa- governor, the man most of America tions that government employ- knows as the Terminator was sit- ees have “no moral or equitable ting in his Santa Monica office right to go on strike” were awaiting a crucial phone call. “uncalled for” and “beyond Time was running out for the comprehension”. Austrian-born former body-builder He said the right of collective to decide whether he was ready to bargaining and ancilliary right turn his back on Hollywood to to strike was an invaluable become the “Governator” — the Arnold Schwarzenegger right of the employees. “It was tough guy California apparently secured after years of toil needs to wrestle it away from the the history of California”. No, I don’t use the usual pesticide and effort.” brink of bankruptcy. Within hours of Schwarzeneg- Taking an overall view of the anymore. I spray some soft drink There were serious doubts in ger’s announcement, a photograph nowadays! working conditions in India, he Hollywood that Schwarzenegger appeared on Drudge’s website show- said, “There can be horrendous would risk the intense personal ing the actor’s head between a pair situations in which the employ- scrutiny that would greet his ar- of bare breasts. It was an old picture ees have no effective mecha- rival in the campaign. — Schwarzenegger, 56, looked nism for redressal of their But there was only one opinion decades younger — but it was a grievances and are left with no that mattered to Arnie as he waited taste of what may lie ahead for option but to resort to strike.” in his wood-panelled office. As the Shriver and the couple’s four chil- However, he was in agree- hours ticked away to Saturday filing dren. “There’s going to be accusa- ment with the view of the court indiatimes.com POLL deadline, the Terminator was wait- tions of steroid use, adultery and that strikes cause grave incon- Will ‘no work, no pay’ rule for MPs end ing to hear from his wife.