OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Tuesday,May 27, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 34 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International Delhi Times Sport Betrayal. How Saddam’s To college with snob Roger Federer cousins deliberately value - South Campus dumped out of gave Baghdad away gets as hip as North French Open Page 13 Page 5 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES Established 1838 Outsourced: Death in Silicon Valley Lahore bus Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Peace is a natural effect By Chidanand Rajghatta outsourcing to India, an issue The India connection the deal with Indian companies of trade. TIMES NEWS NETWORK that now seems poised to become will effect no more than 5 per cent a major sticking point between • Bank of America employee of the bank’s 21,000 employees, or — Montesquieu Washington: On a recent April the two countries. Several US about 1,100 jobs, in its technology to run again sees the pink slip on his desk afternoon in Silicon Valley, mo- states are already considering and operations division. NEWS DIGEST ments after he was told he had legislation to ban or limit out- • He comes out, steps into According to some surveys, the been laid off from his computer sourcing. Bank of America is one the parking lot, shoots himself US has lost at least 800,000 jobs in 130 Pak prisoners to be freed Report on Balco : The interests of programming job at a Bank of of the several major US corpora- the past year and some 3.3 million workers of Balco and Modern Foods America training centre, Kevin tions — General Electric, Mi- • His employer outsourced jobs will move overseas over the TIMES NEWS NETWORK progress in the steps an- have been overlooked by the new Flanagan stepped into the park- his job to India nounced by our PM, and crosoft, Intel are among others — next few years because of out- New Delhi: India on Monday owners, Sterlite and Hindustan ing lot and shot himself dead. there is evidence of Pakistan under scrutiny for outsourcing sourcing, mostly to India. announced resumption of Lever, according to the committee Some of America’s technology taking firm and credible ac- jobs to India. The Bank created life was indeed as a result of his The Bank has also acknowl- the Delhi-Lahore bus link constituted by the Prime Minister to workers, who like Flanagan have tion against cross-border what is called a “Global Delivery job being outsourced.” edged it has asked local workers and the release of 130 Pak- look into their privatisation. P11 also had to collect pink slips over terrorism and dismantling Centre” in 2000 to identify proj- “Did he blame India for his job to train foreigners because such istani prisoners in Indian the last several months, think the infrastructure of support Turkey plane crash: Seventy- ects that could be sent offshore. loss? No. He blamed the ‘system’. knowledge transfer was essen- jails, taking forward the to terrorism.’’ four people, mostly Spanish peace- they know why Flanagan took his Since then it has signed agree- He couldn’t understand why tial. According to Tom Flanagan, peace initiative launched by So far, the government has keeping forces serving in life: Bank of America not only ments with Infosys and Tata Con- Americans are losing jobs. his son was “totally disgusted” Prime Minister Vajpayee in not acknowledged any evi- Afghanistan, were killed when a outsourced his job to India, but sulting Services (TCS) to provide Rather I should say he under- with the fact that he and his fel- Srinagar on April 18. Ukrainian plane crashed in north- dence of Pakistan taking forced him to train Indian work- solutions and services. stood it economically, but not low-workers had to train foreign- The late evening an- west Turkey on Monday. P13 steps against terrorism nor ers to do the job he had to give up. In an e-mail exchange with this emotionally,” Flanagan said. ers to do his job. “That, Sir, is a nouncement came as a sur- Jolt to Jadeja: The Delhi High In the weeks since his death, correspondent, Kevin’s father Bank officials, who did not re- travesty,”he said in one e-mail. prise as there was no men- any reciprocal movement on Court has rejected Ajay Jadeja’s the techies have used the incident Tom Flanagan said “a significant turn calls relating to Flanagan’s For more go to www.timesofindia.com tion of it in a routine briefing the part of Pakistan on the plea for a return to grade cricket fol- as fuel to fire a campaign against reason for which my son took his death, have said in the past that ‘Kevin didn’t blame India’: P13 earlier in the day. proposals made by Vajpayee. lowing a BCCI petition that chal- The timing and manner of The bus link, instituted fol- lenged Justice J K Mehra’s award Mohammed Illyas the announcement suggested lowing Vajpayee’s famous La- setting aside the five-year ban im- that the decision had been hore yatra, was suspended on posed on him following the match- Mumbai don taken with an eye on the January 1, 2002, following the fixing controversy. P4 Prime Minister’s three-na- December 13, 2001, attack on shot dead tion tour beginning on Parliament but its resump- Tuesday. tion will depend on a recipro- The external affairs min- cal gesture by Pakistan. in Bangkok istry said the decision was in This is not likely to present accordance with the PM’s any problems as Jamali had TIMES NEWS NETWORK emphasis on the importance announced that Pakistan of people-to-people contacts. wanted to restore road and Mumbai: Gangster Ejaz Lak- rail links. dawala, who extorted money However, less than three weeks ago, while announcing India had announced the from film producers and resumption of civil aviation shopkeepers, was shot dead the decision to seek Pak- istan’s consent for India’s link and the restoration of its by four Chhota Shakeel aides high commissioner in Islam- in a crowded market in high commissioner in Islam- abad, the external affairs abad through Vajpayee’s Bangkok at 10.30 p.m. on Sun- speech in Parliament. How- day, police sources here said. ministry had said that the measures suggested by Pak- ever, while India has an- His eight-year-old daughter nounced the name of its high was a witness to the killing. istani Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, in- commissioner, Pakistan is Lakdawala was hit by six cluding resumption of rail yet to do so. YOU SAID IT by Laxman bullets, including two on and road links, would be con- Discussions on civil avia- TOI Archives the head, and died at a hospi- sidered only in tandem with tion links also seem to be tal in Bangkok late on steps taken by Pakistan stalled as Pakistan says it Sunday night. against terrorism. wants to take the process for- Reacting to the killing, city The external affairs min- ward through officials while police chief R S Sharma said istry had said: ‘‘These (road India wants a response on the city was not likely to wit- and rail links, sports con- overflight rights. ness its fallout. He said extor- TECHNICAL SNAG: Neelam, wife of the recently appointed civil aviation minister, Rajiv Pratap Rudy, brings her own tacts, etc) can be considered ‘Thaw slow but steady’: P7 tion and gang-related deaths experience of the airline industry to bear on his new office as he took charge on Monday. in due course as we see US role irks Jamaat: P7 were on a decline. The police suspect that Lakdawala’s cousin, Fazal alias Farooque, was involved in the killing. ‘‘Fazal had Hotel deleted evidence tipped off the Shakeel gang about Lakdawala’s where- abouts in Bangkok,’’ said a crime branch officer. Appar- on envoy’s son: Police ently, Fazal, who worked for Lakdawala, had a quarrel Can’t we prepare one permanent By Bhadra Sinha security officer who promised to with him over distribution of review instead of the bother of TIMES NEWS NETWORK hand over the CCTV recording. A req- money a few weeks ago. Lak- reviewing the drought areas year uisition in writing was also made to dawala was earlier a hench- after year? New Delhi: The Delhi police have is- the hotel,’’ the officer said. But when man of Chhota Rajan but sued a look-out circular against Man- the police received the recorded cas- split from the gang in 2001 soor Ali (24), son of Senegal’s envoy sette, they found the incriminating indiatimes.com POLL and formed his own group. Ahmed Al-Mansoor Diop. Mansoor frame missing. Ejaz’s infamy: P11 Has Indian society woken up to a liberal Ali has been accused of killing his When questioned, hotel authori- outlook on sex? driver, Dilver, during an altercation Goon ka badla goon ties claimed that it had not been saved Yes 40% No 60% in a five-star hotel parking lot on in their hard-disk. The hotel’s com- Saturday night. munications manager, Sakshi Dure- VOTE NOW: Has PricewaterhouseCoopers’ These Mumbai dons also The circular was issued on Sunday met their end abroad at the ja, said: ‘‘The incident didn’t happen rating of Sachin as the world’s night despite Ali’s claim to diplomat- hands of rival gangs inside the hotel so the hidden cam- fourth best Test batsman shaken your ic immunity. confidence in him? eras were unable to record it.’’ ‘‘We wrote to the ministry of home Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 Sharad Shetty Dureja said: ‘‘Our guards react im- Killed in Dubai in Jan ’03 affairs (MHA), which in turn wrote to mediately to any altercation inside by Chhota Rajan the ministry of external affairs the hotel.’’ The police officer coun- (MEA).