OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Saturday,May 31, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 40 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Prince William loves Boss-killer Namdeo India clash with shopping, but is is fit and normal, say Pak in tri-nation hopeless at cooking his medical reports hockey meet Page 13 Page 11 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES Indian children hold America spellbound Shut PoK Sonia propels AP Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. camps by Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the her CMs into today: Pak foreign ministers. Islamabad: The Pakistan — W Averell Harriman government is reported to have set May 31 as the dead- line for militant groups oper- election gear ating from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) to wind up By Rajesh Ramachandran their camps. However, the TIMES NEWS NETWORK Election agenda outfits have vowed to resist any crackdown against Srinagar: The Congress par- them. ty has put in place quotas for Though there is no official students from Jammu and word from the Pakistan gov- Kashmir and also for chil- ernment on the deadline, dren of migrants from the highly placed sources in the state in professional courses ruling Muslim Conference in all the Congress-ruled which headed the govern- states. Punjab, Maharashtra, ment in PoK said the Rajasthan and Madhya Pakistan government was Pradesh have already made ‘‘firm’’ in its resolve not to al- generous offers for profes- • Focus on rural poverty and unemployment low militant groups like the NEWS DIGEST sional students and states Lashkar-e-Toiba and Jaish-e- like Kerala and Himachal • No ‘soft Hindutva’ like Muhammad and other splin- Nepal PM quits: Nepal was Pradesh have lent a helping ter groups to operate from plunged into political uncertainty in Gujarat for political hand in reviving the state’s PoK. again with the caretaker Prime Min- gains tourism. The militant groups have ister, Lokendra Bahadur Chand, re- Congress president Sonia signing on Friday following pressure been under pressure for the Gandhi made these an- mates that at current trends, from key political parties. P15 past few days to wind up nouncements while deliver- unemployment rates for their camps. Pakistan news EPF interest rate: The interest ing the inaugural address at youth will increase to 16 per The parents of Sai Gunturi, 13, of Dallas, mom Lakshmi and dad Sarma are even more exultant than their son who won the 76th annual National Spelling, Bee in Washington on Thursday. agency SANA reported on rate on the EPF is likely to come the Congress Chief Ministers cent by the end of the Tenth Friday that militant outfits down to 8.5 per cent from 9.5 per Conclave here on Friday. She Plan, she said. have been ordered to shut cent when the Central Board of said all sections of the J&K In a clear message against down their camps by Satur- Trustees meets on Saturday. P10 society should be engaged in soft Hindutva, Gandhi has day. The crackdown is aimed NCP charge: The NCP flayed the dialogue to address the legiti- congratulated Rajasthan CM Can you spell pococurante? at preparing the ground for mate grievances of all sym- Congress for taking the cue from the Ashok Gehlot for arresting AFP the forthcoming Indo-Pak BJP and playing Hindutva votebank pathetically. VHP leader Pravin Togadia. By Chidanand Rajghatta come tougher, more dramatic, and peace talks. politics. P7 The Congress has also sup- And in what could be inter- TIMES NEWS NETWORK had a wider audience. This year’s India along with the US ported the PM’s Pakistan ini- preted as a warning against Slender majority: The Mayawati event, telecast live on ESPN and has been insisting that Pak- tiative stating: We have all Washington: In the end, it all government will still have a majority the Gujarat-like experiments watched in schools and homes istan close all militant camps boiled down to “pococurante”. of nine members with the 14-mem- along believed that the doors with Hindutva by other Con- across the country, acquired an before the two countries be- ber RLD in the UP assembly decid- of diplomacy and the win- gress leaders, Gandhi said, Summoning a degree of noncha- added timbre following the gin talks to normalise rela- ing to withdraw support. P12 dows of dialogue with Pak- ‘‘Let us not look to what is lance after six nerve-wracking critical acclaim received by a tions as well as resolve differ- istan should always be kept electorally expedient’’. hours of wordathon, Sai Gunturi, documentary called Spellbound ences on various issues, in- YOU SAID IT by Laxman open and alive. As a poll plank the slogan, a 13-year old eighth grader from which captures the heart-stopping cluding Kashmir. TOI Archives Gandhi deviated from the ‘Congress ka haath, garib ke Dallas, Texas, spelled out p-o-c-o-c- suspense and behind-the- The US is said to be trying norm of earlier such meet- saath’, has been further elab- u-r-a-n-t-e (which means noncha- scenes tension and agony of the hard to bring Mujahideen ings and attacked the Central orated by Gandhi seeking lance) to win the 76th US National competition. groups and the Indian gov- government on lack of em- that her CMs implement ru- Scripps Howard Spelling Bee The event is also widely covered ernment to the negotiating ployment generation: ‘‘This ral poverty alleviation meas- Championship. in the mainstream American me- table. According to a report is one of our principal indict- ures, employment generation There was a brief collective dia, in part because it is hosted by in The Nation, the Pakistani ments of the BJP-led NDA schemes and to launch food- gasp from the audience followed a media house, and top partici- government is intentionally government’’. for-work programmes. by a deafening cheer as the judges pants are sponsored by their ‘‘avoiding’’ US efforts so as to Keeping apart time after On this count, she wanted confirmed that Sai had got it right hometown newspapers. Sai was give an impression that the dinner on Friday to discuss the CMs to emulate the Ma- to beat New York’s Evelyn Black- Samir Patel, 9, of Fort Worth, sponsored by the Dallas Morning Mujahideen groups are not the coming assembly elec- harashtra model and enact a lock, his only remaining rival Texas, is inconsolable after being News, which not only profiled him under its influence. tions, Gandhi has clearly in- rural employment guarantee (from 251 finalists). She had earli- eliminated in the 11th round. extensively before the competi- The report adds that a sen- dicated that the party is in an scheme and implement it in er fluffed on “gnathonic” (which zied scores who witnessed the nail- tion, but splashed his victory on ior CIA official has been vis- election mode and will un- three to four years. She has means fawning attention; she was biting daylong finale, swept him page one on Friday. iting New Delhi, Islamabad leash its attack on the Cen- asked the CMs to provide a misled into spelling it “nathonic” into their arms. For the Gunturis, spelling has and Dubai in an attempt tral government over rural timetable for eliminating the because the ‘g’ is silent). Among the words Sai spelt cor- become a family affair. Sai’s make both sides hold one-to- poverty and employment. backlog of SC/ST quotas in As the young man in braces col- rectly en route to the title sister Nivedita is a 1997 finalist one talks. The official, re- In 1999, 2000 and in 2002 government jobs, a welfare lected the trophy and a $12,000 win- were marmoraceous, mistassini, and he had to beat his brother cently contacted Mujahideen Pretty damaging remarks about there has been an absolute legislation for the unorgan- ners check — with lots more to fol- solfeggio, voussoir, halogeton, dip- Abhiram in the state level leaders in PoK, but they re- you, I admit. But I swear these are decline in both public and ized sector and for the demo- low — his parents Lakshmi and noous, peirastic, rhathymia. finals this year to advance to the fused to meet him and decid- strictly my private, personal views! private employment in the cratic and autonomous func- Sarma Gunturi, who were about With each passing year, the national round. ed not to become party to any organized sector. 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