OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Thursday,July 31, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 28 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Steven Spielberg New terror in Veerappan England coach to make a land: 20 STF members wanted Hussain ‘Wild West’ epic down with viral fever to stay Page 12 Page 8 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES Established 1838 High in the air Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Babri breather for Advani Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do By Srawan Shukla CBI had oral CBI is trying to day in the closed-door screening not know what religion is. TIMES NEWS NETWORK may mean flat evidence that weaken the (no public or media, only judge — Mahatma Gandhi these leaders case against and counsel present). Tran- Rai Bareli: The CBI admitted on were present the eight; it has scripts of only three out of the Wednesday that barring one tape in Ayodhya on already re- seven tapes were made available NEWS DIGEST that contained the speech of Sad- December 6, placed the to the court; the sound in the AFP on our face hvi Rithambhara, the other tapes 1992, and incit- original fourth tape was inaudible. submitted by it for closed-door ed the crowd chargesheet The CBI says only these seven By Saurabh Sinha screening before a special court resulting in charging the tapes were used by the state TIMES NEWS NETWORK Experts’ concern here trying the Babri Masjid the demolition eight with police’s crime branch (CB-CID) New Delhi: Manhattan on demolition case did not contain of Babri criminal con- as evidence when it investigated • Guidelines violate the speeches of Deputy PM L K L K Advani M M Joshi the Yamuna. Strange as it Masjid. spiracy. this case. In other words, the the special status of Advani, Union minister M M ‘‘We had submitted these tapes The CBI seems to have deliber- CBI is using the same CB-CID may sound, the guidelines for Joshi, BJP leader Uma Bharati to corroborate CBI charges ately given the court only those chargesheet, when their ambit the Master Plan 2021 envis- Delhi as a historic city and Sangh Parivar leaders Ashok against these eight accused. In tapes which do not have any was to probe more if it was age infrastructure-starved Singhal, V H Dalmia, Vinay Kati- video tapes, they can be seen sit- speeches of these eight leaders. necessary. Delhi as a city of highrises. • Highrises will exert yar and Giriraj Kishore. ting on the dais while others are There are at least 20 video/audio ‘‘Where are those ‘clinching The guidelines say that the tremendous load on CBI counsel S S Gandhi, said, giving fiery speeches, inciting cassettes; the CBI has presented evidences’ the CBI claimed to issue of vertical construc- infrastructure however, that the agency had those present,’’ said Gandhi. only four video and three audio have in its possession against tion needs to be reconsid- ered. Higher floor area ratio ‘‘oral evidence’’ against all the Gandhi’s argument is a candid tapes as evidence. Advani and others?’’ asked a • Construction will (FAR) in the congested old A sadhu heralds the first day of the eight accused. He maintained the admission of the charge that the These were viewed on Wednes- defence counsel. Kumbh Mela in Nashik on city and ‘‘special area’’ can spawn slums for Wednesday. Report on page 7 be considered, it says. labourers ‘‘The character of New • Controlling fires would Blast kills 10 policemen: Five Bush takes Delhi is essentially that of a CRPF jawans and five state police- Democracy’s watchdog gets Magsaysay award garden city.These guidelines be a herculean task men were killed in a powerful land- Pankaj Nangia directly contravene the spirit ‘personal of the city,’’ said urban de- mine blast in Vejnigiwada forest near higher buildings come up signer K T Ravindran. Malkangiri in Orissa on Wednesday. here,’’ he said. The Peoples’ War Group is suspect- Writer Patwant Singh responsibility’ Experts wonder how the ed to be behind the blast. agreed. ‘‘Delhi is one of the Union urban development Washington: President most historic cities of the Two-child norm: The Supreme ministry could propose such George W. Bush on Wednes- world. But unlike Paris, Court on Wednesday upheld a changes when the Supreme day accepted personal respon- Rome and Athens, the hap- Haryana government legislation im- Court had frowned on the sibility for a controversial hazard urban growth has posing the two-child norm on government’s move to allow portion of last winter’s State finished its special status,’’ sarpanches and their deputies. P8 an extra floor in houses, of the Union address, dealing he said. Sahabuddin’s arrest order: Bi- barely two years ago. The with claims that deposed Leave alone aesthetics, ex- har police on Wednesday issued or- Centre had then sought a Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein perts say the city will not be der for the arrest of RJD MP Mo- was seeking nuclear material higher FAR for buildings in able to take the load exerted Delhi. Incidentally, the move hammed Sahabuddin, attending the in Africa. monsoon session of Lok Sabha, in by highrises. was made be- ‘‘I take personal responsi- connection with a kidnapping case ‘‘A high build- fore the munic- bility for everything I say, ab- two years back. ing is an ener- MASTER ipal election solutely,’’ the president said at gy-consuming while this one Mobile phones in J&K: The de- a White House news confer- monster. fence ministry is ready to allow mo- MUDDLE–II comes in the ence, seeking to quell a con- Everything — run up to the bile telephone services in Jammu troversy over a controversial like water and all other mate- and Kashmir but with certain condi- assembly polls. claim that has dogged his ad- rial — first have to be pulled tions, sources said on Wednesday. The ‘‘Union and Delhi gov- ministration for weeks. up and then distributed ernment will show cause Sunny lambasts sledging: Sunil Speaking at his first solo throughout. Given Delhi’s why there should be no stay Gavaskar has warned that sledging news conference since March, climate, they would need on the notification allowing is ruining cricket. Without naming the president said the deaths tremendous air-condition- construction of an extra Australia, Gavaskar said it were the of Saddam Hussein’s two sons ing. Where is all this energy floor considering the fact champions who were setting a marked progress in assuring going to come from?’’ asked that basic civic amenities wrong example by their intimidatory the Iraqi people that the old urban expert H K Yadav. tactics. P15 for existing dwelling units regime was gone forever, but Singh said the spurt in are not available,’’ the said ‘‘I don’t know how close building activity would apex court had said in YOU SAID IT by Laxman we are’’ to finding the deposed prompt an exodus of labour- December 2001. TOI Archieves dictator. ers into the city. ‘‘Our politi- Given the lack of infra- ‘‘Closer than we were yes- cians will ensure that slums structure, specially of terday, I guess. All I know is are constructed for them and sewage treatment, the court we’re on the hunt,’’ he added. then would authorise these had said ‘‘such addition of Despite nearly daily deaths of illegal clusters to create a construction would lead to Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh won the award for his “convincing validation of free and fair polls American troops in post-war vote bank,’’ he said. increase in pollution and as the best hope of democracy in strife-torn India.” The other Indian winner of this year’s Magsaysay is Iraq, Bush appealed for pa- Delhi’s chief fire officer, R perhaps, extinction of Shantha Sinha, for working to eradicate child labour in Andhra Pradesh. tience as Iraqi’s try and form C Sharma, said, ‘‘In old Del- Yamuna river’’. a new,free society.‘‘I didn’t ex- hi, people have built up to Whether the city can have pect Thomas Jefferson to five floors and we can’t reach a Manhattan skyline, re- Shiv Sena bandh emerge in Iraq in a 90-day them in case of a fire. I don’t mains to be seen. What assurance? stops Mumbai period,’’ he said. AP know what will happen if Future shocked: P3 in its tracks None, says Advani TIMES NEWS NETWORK It’s your democratic right; declare TIMES NEWS NETWORK given by the Mumbai: Shiv Sena’s new executive a strike, disrupt normal life, create PM. Basu’s de- New Delhi: Deputy Prime Minis- president Uddhav Thackeray on chaos. But see that common mand was Wednesday demonstrated he could people don’t suffer ...! ter L K Advani made it clear on echoed by Wednesday that Prime Minister force Mumbai’s 12 million citizens to the Congress stay indoors as well as his father, Bal Atal Bihari Vajpayee had not giv- members. en any assurance to UP chief Thackeray,had done several times in minister Mayawati, which led to However, Ad- the past. the withdrawal of her demand for vani categori- The bandh, marred by several in- the resignation of Union tourism cally said: ‘‘No cidents of stone-pelting, was ostensi- and culture minister Jagmohan assurance has bly called by the Sena and its ally,the in connection with the Taj corri- It is all Maya been given. The BJP, to protest the bomb blast in a indiatimes.com POLL dor controversy. PM had told city transport bus on Monday.