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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Wednesday,August 6, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 44 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Judge shields Lights out: Jaswant We're ready for Cameron Diaz Singh wants bulbs Aussie sledging, from overexposure removed from House says Ganguly Page 14 Page 10 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES AP Established 1838 Green study finds Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us. — Henrik Tikkanen pesticides in colas NEWS DIGEST TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: In findings hotly Anything official about it? UK hikes students’ visa fee: contested by global giants Indian students planning to extend Coke and Pepsi the Centre After its bottled water bombshell, CSE has revealed their stay in Britain will now be ex- for Science and Environment that you should drink colas only if your ‘dil mangey pected to pay at least Rs 11,000 per picked up three bottles each head. The spiralling cost of British of 12 soft drink brands from more’ pesticides. visa extension fees, enforced just Delhi and found they con- days ago, are sure to deter Indians CSE says 12 cola brands have pesticide levels tained a ‘‘deadly pesticide from studying in the UK. P15 alarmingly higher than EU norms cocktail’’ which exceeded Eu- CEC against clubbing polls: ropean norms by around 11 to Chief Election Commissioner J M 70 times. But these do not MIRINDA Lyngdoh on Tuesday rejected breach Indian laws which, COKE PEPSI Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani’s said the CSE on Tuesday, are LEMON proposal for synchronisation of the weak or non-existent. Lok Sabha and the assembly elec- Rivals Coke and Pepsi, ac- 70 times 45 times 37 times tions, saying it was not in line with cused of ‘‘double standards’’, the Constitution. came together on Tuesday Cola bosses say BIS, the govt agency, says No trace of temple: A senior evening to challenge CSE’s archaeologist involved in the testing methods. They sought Policemen try to push reporters away from the site of an explosion at J W Marriott Hotel in Jakarta on “That’s bullshit.... we “We will apply excavation of the site near Babri an independent scientific in- Tuesday. The powerful blast killed 11 persons and wounded over 100. Another picture on page 15 masjid in Ayodhya has said no quiry into the matter, while follow much higher stricter rules for evidence of a pre-existing temple claiming that their products global standards. botled water and has surfaced so far. P9 were safe and world-class. PM’s assurance: The Prime Min- Our products are tested lo- Our kids drink these water used for ister has assured the domestic me- Terror strikes Jakarta,14 die cally, in accredited labs, and products” soft drinks” dia industry that his government internationally, said Coke would ensure that the nation’s laws Jakarta: A huge car bomb ripped glass. Australian tourist Simon Le- lamic militants on bomb-related and Pepsi chiefs Sanjeev DANGER CONTENT on foreign investment across all me- through one of the top hotels in In- uning had just arrived in Jakarta charges — including that of Abu Gupta and Rajeev Bakshi re- dia would be complied with in letter donesia’s capital on Tuesday, from Perth and was relaxing in his Bakar Bashir, an influential cleric. spectively. Both companies DDT and metabolites: and spirit. P7 killing 14 people and wounding room at the hotel when the explo- He is accused of leading the Je- claim that they operate with- Affect the nervous system. Rikku’s denial: Rikku Rakesh about 150. sion occurred. maah Islamiah network blamed for in European and American Probable carcinogens Nath, secretary to filmstar Madhuri The city’s governor said a sui- ‘‘The window blew in, blew me a series of attacks on Western tar- norms with ‘‘top-grade test- Lindane: Nerve poison. Dixit, denied on Tuesday being cide bomber was probably respon- across the room,’’ he said. ‘‘I got gets including October’s Bali ing, top-grade products’’. Affects the reproductive questioned by the Delhi Police for sible for the attack on the JW Mar- out of there as fast as I could.’’ The bombings that killed 202 people, Coke and Pepsi claim they system. Known carcinogen his alleged hawala links with gang- conduct testing at every stage riott Hotel — the second major Indonesian Red Cross said 14 peo- most of them foreign tourists. Can cause ster Dawood Ibrahim. P10 regularly. Even the govern- Chlorophyrifos: blast to hit Indonesia in less than a ple died and 150 were wounded. Police have said a Dutch bank- pneumonia, muscle paralysis, ment’s Prevention of Food Laloo moves SC: Former Bihar year. It was timed as thousands of ‘‘Thirteen bodies have been ing executive was among the dead, even death due to respiratory CM Laloo Prasad Yadav moved the workers poured out of offices for evacuated to hospitals while while two Americans, two Singa- Adulteration (PFA) conducts failure SC on Tuesday seeking release of lunch and mosques called the the last one, a human head poreans, an Australian and a tests, they claim. ‘‘We have a his passport for his proposed visit to faithful to prayer. without body, was just found by a New Zealander among those strong set of regulations Malathion: Affects the Pakistan. The passport was deposit- The blast ripped through the Red Cross team on the fifth floor of wounded. The official Antara news internally and externally,’’ nervous system. High ed as a condition for grant of bail to lobby and set fire to cars and taxis the hotel,’’ a senior Red Cross agency said 111 people were in- said Gupta. exposure can cause respiratory him in the fodder scam cases. P7 out front. Many windows in the 33- official said. jured, many seriously. CSE chief Sunita Narain paralysis and death Gangster’s mother sentenced: storey hotel were blown out. The national police chief, Gener- The Marriott, popular with for- said sample bottles picked up Wreckage from the charred lobby al Da’i Bachtiar, told reporters the eign businessmen, is in the from the US showed no trace Mother of alleged gangster Suresh by 22 times. On the list, all al- Here, there are no norms at Manchekar, Laxmi, was on was strewn over a wide area. car bomb blew up near the lobby, wealthy suburb of Kuningan on a of pesticides. Both the US legedly breaching the norms, all for an industry which is Tuesday sentenced to life imprison- Diners were eating lunch in not the basement as earlier reports major road through the city’s busi- and Europe have set stan- were Fanta, Mirinda Orange, established; it is not a ques- ment by a special court in Mumbai restaurants and cafes in the hotel suggested. He said the blast was ness district. The hotel is close to dards and rules under which Seven Up, Limca, Blue Pepsi, tion of small players.’’ on charges of murdering a builder and in a nearby office tower, when similar to the Bali bombings. the diplomatic area of Menteng citizens can drag companies Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi Rules on arsenic levels in who refused to pay extortion the blast blew out windows and Tuesday’s attack coincided with where many Western embassies to court. and Sprite. soft drinks, charged Narain, money in 2002. showered people with shards of high-profile trials of suspected Is- and consulates are based. Reuters However, CSE found high Prolonged intake of pesti- allow 0.5 ppm (parts per mil- individual pesticide residues cides can lead to cancer, at- lion), the Bureau of Indian Row over Best Bakery: The Op- in the Delhi samples: An av- tack the nervous system, de- Standards (BIS) says it position clashed with BJP members erage of 15 times higher for crease the sperm count and should be 0.25 ppm while the on Tuesday in the Lok Sabha while accusing the ruling party of targeting DDT and metabolites; 21 cause birth defects. limit for bottled water is 0.05 a constitutional body like the NHRC Basu: CPM to I’ll act, Kalam tells times higher for lindane; 42 Narain, aghast that ‘‘global ppm. ‘‘You are legally allowed after it petitioned the Supreme Court times higher for chlorphyri- giants’’ are not setting an ex- 50 times more arsenic in soft for a re-trial of the Best Bakery case support Cong fos; 87 times higher for ample, came down heavily on drinks than in bottled water,’’ outside Gujarat. P9 malathion. the government’s regulatory Narain said. The same, she MiG victim’s parents The mix, claims CSE, saw norms. ‘‘This is worse than alleged, goes for lead, copper YOU SAID IT by Laxman in LS election Pankaj Nangia Mirinda Lemon breaching the bottled water case. At and cadmium. TIMES NEWS NETWORK the European norm by 70 least mandatory certification Cola majors cry foul, say CSE TIMES NEWS NETWORK times, Coke by 45 times, Pep- is needed for this but there is report lacks fizz: P13 New Delhi: With MiG-21s continu- si by 37 times and Thums Up nothing for this food industry. What’s CSE all about? P13 Kolkata: Communist Party of ing to crash around the country, India-Marxist (CPM) leader President Abdul Kalam on Tuesday Jyoti Basu said on Tuesday assured families of the pilots killed that his party would support in these crashes that he was taking the Congress in the coming ‘‘a personal interest’’ on the issue of Lok Sabha polls and the frequent accidents in the IAF. assembly elections scheduled ‘‘The President also assured us he in five states.