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NEWS DIGEST History’s worst grid crash stuns The Times of India and No big deal, we’re Navbharat Times Combo. the ‘powerful’ so used to it, say Now just Rs. 75/- By Chidanand Rajghatta Call:9622983983 TIMES NEWS NETWORK Delhi residents Washington: Niagara in na- tive American means ‘‘at the By Diya Koshy Lovers killed: Two teenagers, who neck’’. Much of northeast US TIMES NEWS NETWORK wanted to get married despite re- had its jugular pressed after a sistance from their parents, were New Delhi: There’s dark days ahead in power grid breakdown in the hacked to death by their families the land of the free and the home of the Niagara region cut off electric- with the approval of villagers brave. Thousands of panicky New York- ity to six states and southern in Etmatsarai, 17 km from ers flooded the city streets in a stark re- Canada in the most monumen- Bulandshahr. P5 minder of the immediate aftermath of tal infrastructure collapse in Asha Bhosle’s dues: The Bom- American history. the 9/11 attacks. Only this time America bay High Court ordered music com- Some 50 million people in a was being treated to a day in the life of pany Magnasound to deposit Rs 70 600-mile swathe from New York Delhi. The crisis at hand: A powercut. lakh in court by September 5 after it to Cleveland, Detroit to Toron- Delhiites watched amused as Gover- failed to pay royalty worth over Rs 1 to, are victims of the blackout nor George Pataki, Mayor Michael crore to noted singer Asha Bhosle that is still in effect in many Bloomberg and even President Bush despite an HC order passed two called special Press conferences to reas- months ago. P5 regions at the time of writing. Elevators stopped mid-shaft, sure a distraught nation that this was FIRs against TN leaders: The subway trains stalled mid-tun- ‘‘not a terrorist act’’. Bush assured them Chennai police on Friday registered nel, traffic lights turned off, that they were pulling out all the stops FIRs against DMK president M and whole systems ground to a to fix this ‘‘national problem’’. Karunanidhi and senior leaders of halt shortly after 4 pm on a ‘‘It’s really hilarious how they fly off other political parties under ESMA busy Thursday evening in ar- the handle,’’ said V. Phillip a manage- for allegedly instigating Tamil Nadu guably the most industrialised ment executive. ‘‘Can you imagine Vaj- government employees who had region on the planet. payee declaring a national emergency if gone on strike on July 2. P5 Primed by 9/11, everyone’s we had a power cut? And if everything Shaurya Chakras awarded: The first thoughts turned to terror- came to such a standstill every time the defence ministry for the first time ism and Washington ordered A view of the New York City skyline from the East River at dusk following a power failure on Thursday. A huge power failure swept lights went out, Delhi would have had a posthumously honoured three per- F-16s to air patrol, but within through parts of the Northeast and Midwest US and Canada, shutting down trains, subways and airports. summer of Sundays.’’ sonnel of the J&K police — sub-in- the hour US President George Mansie Khanna, a Mumbai lawyer spector Ravijee Fotedar, sub-in- Bush ruled out terrorism as the currently in the city, said: ‘‘What’s the spector Ranbir Singh and constable cause of the blackout. He prom- Deadly gridlock “We're a superpower with a third-world grid” big deal? Downtown New York looked Gulzar Ahmed Dar — with Shaurya ised to investigate and prevent ONTARIO Ottawa Former US energy secretary Bill Richardson just like Bombay on any day of the Chakras for fighting militancy. a recurrence. SUSPECT: A ‘9-sec event’ week. It really makes you wonder Politicising celebrations: Inde- “We’re slowly but surely cop- along what's known as Cause: Still in dispute. Effect: Never-before how mollycoddled they are as a nation pendence Day celebrations in Patan, ing with this massive national the Lake Erie Loop, Ohio Boston But something knocked out traffic jams in New York and that complacency does get its the ancient capital of Gujarat’s for- problem,” Bush told reporters. Toronto New power near the Canadian and Detroit comeuppance.’’ For Dipika Rang, an Indian student mer Rajput rulers, turned out to be a “I’m confident we can get York border and the system began 10 airports shut down war of words between CM Narendra things up and running.” Detroit to demand power for other currently in the US, the crisis was like Modi and Congress leaders who For a few hours, the world’s New Mobiles erratic, coming home. ‘‘While the nation pan- CANADA areas. Neighbouring areas held a parallel function with Vitthalb- most powerful nation was, lit- Jersey ATMs stop working icked, I just felt a little nostalgic. It just hai Pandya, father of slain minister Chicago Cleveland Philadelphia didn’t have any spare power. made me think of how much I missed erally,power less. Subways, commuter Haren Pandya, hoisting Tricolour. P6 USA Extra demand caused each my chai and pakoras on the balcony, The trigger for the collapse OHIO trains stop. People was said to be a power plant in Washington DC area to fail in turn, leading watching the rain and waiting for the Advani’s claim: Terming the Op- stuck in elevators position sponsored no-confidence the Niagara area bordering US to a domino effect lights to come back on.’’ motion a challenge, Deputy Prime and Canada where some of the ‘‘I had to stop myself laughing when I Minister L K Advani has asserted basic technology dates back to no adverse weather in the the Kolar gold fields, probably blackouts led to widespread Americans use about 14,000 saw friends jamming their cellphones that it provided an opportunity to the the time of Thomas Edison, region, and a more plausible the earliest instance of modern chaos and looting, Americans, kwhr per capita of electricity, trying to reassure relatives in other government to project its achieve- who, having electrified the explanation was the sheer technology transfer between particularly New Yorkers, some 30 times more than the parts of the country. Can you imagine ments during the last four years. P5 world with the first light bulb antiquity of the system. the US and India. showed the best side of human Indian average (415 kwhr per calling your mother and saying ‘there’s MP move: On Independence Day, in 1878, engineered the first Incidentally,the same Gener- There was no particular nature, facing the crisis stoical- capita). The US also produces a national crisis. Battee chalee gayee’.’’ functions were held in the 52,727 transmission of electricity in al Electric company of Edison spike in demand (temperatures ly and soberly. eight times more electricity Rang’s classmate Allison Tucker had Madhya Pradesh villages to transfer the region in the 1880s. that built the plants around Ni- were only about 33 degrees Cel- The collapse also served to il- (3235 billion kilowatt hours) a slightly different take on the matter. government assets and property Canadian authorities said agara was commissioned in sius) to explain the great Amer- lustrate the extent of American than India for a population that ‘‘Are you telling me you guys deal with worth Rs 9,000 crore in rural areas the blackout was caused when 1902 to install one of the first ican power collapse that dependence on energy and the is about one-fourth of India’s. this every day? How do you get anything to gram sabhas, the fourth tier in the lightning struck a power plant hydro-electric power stations dwarfed similar breakdowns in humongous nature of con- Blackout puzzle trail leads from done? You guys are awesome. But then Panchayati Raj structure. P6 but US officials contested the in India at Sivasamudram on 1965 and 1977. sumption in the world’s most Ohio to Canada: P9 again all my Indian classmates have explanation, saying there was the Cauvery river to illuminate But unlike in 1977, when the industrialised nation. Air travel enters Dark Age: P11 been really smart.’’ YOU SAID IT by Laxman Over the moon by ’08, says PM Sanjay Sekhri TIMES NEWS NETWORK proof shield on a rain-drenched day, was aimed entirely at the domestic New Delhi: Every Independence audience, apparently in view of the day governments make tall promis- forthcoming elections. es but this August 15, Prime Minis- Indeed, it was a state-of-the-na- ter Vajpayee promised, quite literal- tion speech celebrating five years of ly,the moon. Calling for ‘‘a great leap for- the first non-Congress government, ward’’, he said India would send its listing achievements sprinkled with own spacecraft, ‘Chandrayaan-I’, to statistics and promises — of moon the moon and pledged that the first landings and river-linking. Indians would set foot there by 2008. Like President Kalam on Thurs- Closer home, he also held out the A securityman holds an umbrella for day, Vajpayee, too, lambasted reli- prospect of more Indians setting PM Vajpayee as gets on to a car to gious bigots, but only briefly and to- inspect guard of honour on Friday. foot in Pakistan and vice-versa . He wards the end of his speech. Protec- Filling up these potholes year after urged Islamabad to give up its ‘‘anti- The “K” word seemed very much tion of religious minorities, as also year is becoming too uneconomi- India outlook’’ and ‘‘walk together’’ on his mind. In response to the stri- of the other deprived sections was cal. I’m going to suggest building on the road to peace. dent speeches of President Mushar- and would remain, one of the cor- a fly-over across these roads! ‘‘This road is decidedly bumpy. raf and Prime Minister Jamali on nerstones of governance under his There are even mines strewn along Pakistan’s Independence day on leadership, he said. this path. Yet, once we start walk- Thursday, he cited the democratic His remarks came even as Gu- ing, we will find the hurdles getting processes gone through in Jammu jarat CM Narendra Modi celebrated out of our way,’’Vajpayee said in his and Kashmir. Mobile telephony I-Day away from Ahmedabad, I-Day address from the Lal Qila ram- would be introduced there next which reminded him of the mediae- parts. ‘‘We have spent 50 years fight- week despite it being a security-sen- val Muslim founder Ahmedshah. ing. How much more blood is yet to sitive area. Modi’s choice, a clear appeal to the indiatimes.com POLL be spilt? The two of us need to fight Except for the references to Pak- Hindutva forces, was Patan, the 12th Should India allow the national flag to be against poverty, against unemploy- istan, Vajpayee’s sixth Red Fort century capital of Rajput kings. worn as an article of clothing? ment and against backwardness.’’ speech, made from behind a bullet- Scientists go over the moon on PM: P6 Yes 40% No 60% VOTE NOW: Will Tere Naam bring public opinion back in Salman’s favour? ... But children are drenched in rain Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 By Sachin Parashar from the rain now. We can’t even It was already raining heavily TIMES NEWS NETWORK carry umbrellas,’’ rued Sunita when the children arrived around 6 WEATHER Singh, a teacher of a government am and sat through the ceremony in New Delhi: A black umbrella school in Old Delhi. the open till 8.15 am. Many were shielded Prime Minister Atal Bi- o o The children were not even al- seen trying to cover themselves Max: 29.2 C / Min: 24.8 C hari Vajpayee from the rain as he Moonset: Sunday – 9.30 am lowed to wear their personal rain- with sheets of polythene. Moonrise: Saturday – 9.41 pm addressed the nation from the ram- coats as security officials and teach- As it continued to pour,the initial Sunset: Saturday – 7.00 pm parts of the Red Fort. Congress ers feared it would be difficult for excitement of just being there soon Sunrise: Sunday – 5.51 am president Sonia Gandhi donned a them to locate the students. gave way to despair for those seated Mainly cloudy sky with a few spells of raincoat to keep herself dry. Their plight was in stark contrast in the galleries. ‘‘We stayed rain/thundershowers likely in some areas. No such luck for thousands of to another 3,500 children who sang overnight in the school to get here; Maximum relative humidity on Friday 98% children from different schools who patriotic songs and the national an- we did not want to miss the ceremo- and minimum 80%. had come to hear the Prime Minis- them along with the NCC cadets. ny at any cost, but the rain has ter outline his vision of future In- Book your Classifieds They had been provided with rain- spoiled it all,’’ said Ankit of Ramjas dia. Close to 10,000 children sat in coats by the Delhi administration. school. 24 hours service: “51-666-888” the galleries without any protection Colourfully dressed, they were seat- Among the VIPs, former PM Times InfoLine “516-86-86-8” from the rain as security officials ed in the form of India’s map. I K Gujral sought extra protection The ATM of information prevented them from carrying their The buses that brought the school by covering his head with a plastic The Largest Classifieds Site umbrellas inside. children to the Red Fort were sub- bag. For those enjoying security ‘‘While we were preparing for the jected to security checks at various cover, their securitymen held the ceremony a few days ago, two boys points. And on every occasion, the umbrellas. Diplomats and others collapsed due to extreme heat. children were made to get down in did not have such luck and were * 16 + 8 pages of Delhi Times There was no protection from the the rain as security personnel totally drenched by the time the + 8 pages of Times Property heat then and there is no protection scanned the bus. function ended.

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2 Saturday,August 16, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi Deeper underground...... Does fear keep TOI To chat on SMS send 'cchat' to 8888 freshers silent? “Poverty should have no connection with education” — ARINDAM CHAUDHURI, Dean IIPM TIMES NEWS NETWORK The terror year Q. Would it be benefi- should have no connection with New Delhi: Why do victims cial for us to move education. By making illiteracy a of ragging find it so difficult • Hindu has expelled from government de- consequence of poverty the soci- termined price mech- ety wrongs an individual twice. to blow the whistle on their one student from the hostel for ragging anism to market de- Q. What is your new book all tormentors? More often than termined one? - kalranidhi about?- fem2321 not, threats of physical harm The accused had A: Market determined price A: The Great Indian Dream is an coupled with social sanction • threatened ‘‘physical mechanism is in any case what attempt to take economics to the force the victim to keep mum. harm’’ to the victim if he we are following. In these days of layman. Economics is something Take the instance of ‘squealed’ globalisation, we really don't that affects our lives yet the Prakash Rajpurohit, the IIT- have much of an alternative. common man is made to believe Delhi fresher who ran away • Seniors had reportedly However, it may be pertinent to that it is too complicated for him from Aravalli hostel when he asked the victim to strip say that in some core sectors in a to understand. The Great Indian could no longer endure the and go across the corri- country like India, we do require Dream breaks through this inhuman ragging. In his po- dor shouting abuses government intervention. illusion and in simple words tries lice complaint he said he was Q. What are the key requirements to make the people realise about asked to have sex with his to make India a healthy and the problems that India faces seniors, describe his parents fresher at Motilal Nehru educated nation?- Geeta today. In summary, the dream conjugating and simulate a Medical College in Alla- A: The key requirement to make that we talk about in the book is rape. The traumatised stu- habad was beaten and tor- India a healthy and educated about a poverty free India of dent had to seek psychiatric tured, with seniors even at- nation is political will and tomorrow where every human investment in the sectors related has access to health, education intervention. tempting to burn his private to health and education. and employment. It’s about giving On Friday he identified parts with a lighter. Too ter- rified to speak, Harsh en- Education is the cheapest thing dignity of living to every Indian. four of his tormentors. that a government can give its dured the tor- There were people. Poor nations like Vietnam many others, ture for a have near 100% literacy. Poverty like Rajpuro- RAGGING month. The spanking new underground ticket counter at Red Fort. hit who un- Indeed, ter- • Films are family business: derwent this ror is the key Farhan Hashmi ON CAMPUS Mahesh Bhatt's nephew Farhan trauma — in on which sen- 12.30 pm: Rhea Pillai iors operate. Consultant psy- Hashmi, who makes his debut with silence. Their seniors had Art of Living Instructor Footpath, makes no bones about threatened them with a so- chiatrist Dr Jitender Nagpal HC to dispose of Meena Bazar case On the benefits of the his star connections. cial boycott, whose conse- said for victims confronting Art of Living quences can be disastrous for a senior is like being a TIMES NEWS NETWORK the shopkeepers have ob- process would be completed notices to the petitioners on For complete chat log on to To listen, log on to a newcomer. hostage in a terrorist situa- tained a stay on the eviction by the end of this year. December 10 last. No action New Delhi: Delhi High http://chat.indiatimes.com http://talkradio.indiatimes.com Ditto for Vinayak Natara- tion. ‘‘Usually the peer pres- proceedings initiated The 38 shopkeepers have was, however, taken by the jan, a fresher in Hindu col- sure not to spill the beans, is Court Chief Justice B C Pa- against them. approached the court fol- ASI. The eviction order was lege, for whom the stripping so large that the victim just tel has asked a single judge The Union government’s lowing dismissal of their passed on proceedings initi- proved to be the breaking introjects all the trauma,’’ he Bench to dispose of a peti- advocate Sanjay Jain told appeal by an additional ated by Municipal Corpora- point. ‘‘I was being asked to said. Not all students are tion filed by 38 shopkeepers the court that but for these district judge. tion of Delhi, which was wear formals despite the emotionally strong and may of Meena Bazar, inside the proceedings, Red Fort By a notification on July given control of the disput- sweltering heat, fill water be driven to attempt suicide, Red Fort, challenging their would have been cleared 31 last year,the area in ques- ed areas in 1956. bottles, and bend at 90 de- Nagpal added. eviction from there. of illegal occupants by tion was declared a protect- On the last date of hear- grees to wish seniors despite Students who have under- Chief Justice Patel and August 15. ed monument under Sec- ing on May 30, Justice having having a spinal prob- gone the trauma as freshers Justice B D Ahmed directed The advocate for the tion 4 of the Ancient Monu- Vikramjit Sen wanted to lem,’’ he told The Times of In- agree. ‘‘I used to be so terri- the judge to expedite army informed the court ments Act, 1956. know whether MCD or dia earlier. fied of seniors and preferred the matter and asked the that his client agreed to va- On the basis of this noti- ASI was the appropriate Past incidents have been to spend the night on a park advocates not to seek cate the historic monument fication the Archaeological authority to take action in even more horrific. Three bench,’’ said a third year stu- adjournments. At present in a phased manner and the Survey of India had issued the matter. years ago, Harsh Aggarwal, a dent of Ramjas hostel. Good Monsoon: Winter birds arrive early at zoo TOI TIMES NEWS NETWORK start leaving in early Septem- ber when their young ones New Delhi: The heavy rains are strong enough for the that lashed the city this year return journey, paving the have advanced the arrival of way for the arrival of the winter migratory birds in the winter migratory birds. Delhi Zoo. While each year Among the first winter ar- the local migration would be- rivals is the ornithologist’s gin by August-end, this time delight — colourful painted winter arrivals like the storks. These birds, which be- painted storks are already busy nesting here. come mute 16 weeks after ‘‘The summer migratory hatching, are coming from birds like the ivis and co- neighbouring states like morant haven’t begun leav- Uttar Pradesh, Haryana ing the place yet. While their and Rajasthan. chicks are still young, the ‘‘The painted storks are winter migration has begun nesting here early this time. early this time,’’ said Delhi They will breed and hatch Zoo director B S Bonal. Both and then fly off sometime in the winter and summer mi- March,’’ Bonal said. gratory birds are chirping to- There are two types of mi- S Singh congratulated gether in the zoo’s water bod- grations — ‘‘true’’ migration the team for their ies. Bonal attributed this ‘un- of long-range birds from quality work. common’ phenomenon to the places like Siberia and local Peace mission: Tagore lowering of temperatures migration of winged crea- tures from neighbouring International School, East of due to the heavy rains. Kailash organised an inter- states. These birds come here Every April, thousands of house debate competition birds of nearly 100 species for breeding as they feel pro- on the topic - ‘Lahore bus like Golden Oriole, hoopoo, tected in the natural envi- service resumed, another and barbet begin arriving rons of the 175-acre zoo. Kargil in the offing’. Stu- from south India. ‘‘The food Bonal said: ‘‘The birds feel dents spoke vociferously on cycle is linked to their flying safe here in the absence of the resumption of Delhi- to Delhi in summers. Due to predators. We maintain a SCHOOL NEWS Lahore bus service and its the city’s humid climate, good stock of fishes and a wa- Van mahotsava: Pragati possible outcome. The there’s a greater availability ter body for them..’’ Public School, Dwarka, or- winners were Aakash of insects and fruits like ja- The zoo is now waiting for ganised a plantation drive (Nehru house), Suvarcha muns and berries for them. ‘‘true’’ migration that begins week from August 4 to 8 on (Tagore house), Lubna Moreover, the zoo makes in November. You look for- the occasion of van (Tagore house) and Gaurav them feel at home and safe,’’ ward to seeing pin-tail ducks, mahotsava. One sapling (Gandhi house). a zoo official said. shoveller ducks, common each was planted by every These are a few of the early-arriving guests at Delhi zoo. Debate: Queen Mary’s The birds breed here and teals, coots and dabchiks. class. A short skit based on School conducted an chipko movement was also inter-school debate compe- staged in the morning as- tition on August 7. The Tax worries? MCD Man held for sembly. Nature walk was topic for the debate was undertaken at district Development sans pollu- park where different types tion. Many prestigious A karate chop to scare goons beating his of flora and fauna were at hand with help schools took part in the observed and collected by debate. The toppers were By Surabhi Upadhyay mental organisation (NGO) in the students. TIMES NEWS NETWORK students from Montfort TIMES NEWS NETWORK Action plan coordination with the police. domestic help Guru remembered: School, Lancers Convent, New Delhi: If you feel your colony does not ‘‘The aim of the exercise is to TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Charlie’s Angels • Police to work in coordi- GHPS, Hemkunt Colony St Marks and DPS Rohini. have adequate civic amenities and has watch out. If the police’s plan nation with colleges to first identify problems faced by School principal Neelam women, and then educate them Ghaziabad: A Ghaziabad celebrated Guru Harkrishan been wrongly put in a higher category that materialises, Delhi’s college empower girls Ji birthday on July 25 under Kapoor congratulated the attracts greater taxes in the Municipal about the legal action that can businessman has been ar- winners. girls may soon give the power- rested for beating and at- the aegis of the chairman Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) unit area girls a run for their money.The • Unarmed combat training be initiated,’’ said Baniwal. tempting to murder his 19- S Harjinder Singh Khanna Nature care: To instil in taxation system, then help is at hand. The north district police plans to and workshops on laws on Unarmed combat training and treasurer SHS Moni Municipal Corporation of Delhi will form a sexual harassment to be will be a weeklong exercise in year-old domestic help. The the children an appreciation join hands with Delhi Universi- victim has been hospitalised and principal Manjit Singh for all forms of plant and municipal valuation committee this month ty college authorities and kick conducted in girls’ colleges which students are to be taught Randhawa. Jaishree after she sustained several animal life, Class V students where people can take their grievances and basic self-defence manoeuvres. Pawar, S S Sandhu, Avtar off a series of drives to empow- Workshops were con- of Cambridge Primary get a hearing. • Instructors from the police wounds and contusions. Singh, S Kulwant Singh er young women of the city. ducted in some colleges School, New Friends ‘‘If the committee feels the colony does not training college and black belts The businessman, Amit Arora were also present. Unarmed combat training, earlier Colony presented a ballet. enjoy the benefits of that category, it will be deputed for teaching stu- Jain of B-269, Ram Prastha, Karah prashad and Guru workshops on law and lectures who was handed over to the The ballet was about ani- may change its status to one that has a lower dents. ‘‘Although details are still ka langar was served after mals and plants found in on general safety are on the police by his neighbours, has rate of taxation,’’ said Municipal Corporation ducting the workshops. We were to be worked out, we welcome the Diwan. the rain forests and the cards as part of the initiative. been booked on charges of of Delhi’s chief assessor and collector waiting for the freshers to settle the police’s initiative,’’ said need to protect them from While the drive is already on in attempted murder. A local Workshop: Fr Agnel Feroz Khan. colleges like Indraprastha (IP) down and the project will most Miranda House principal S K human degradation. court denied him bail, on School hosted a workshop The unit area system of house tax which College for Women, Daulat likely start next week,’’ said Suneja. Thursday. The neighbours for students of Classes IX Tree plantation: The will come into effect from April 1, 2004, has Ram College and PG Women’s deputy commissioner of police The north campus area has a also smashed Jain’s car. and X. It was organised by primary school of Gyan divided colonies into seven categories on the Hostel, Miranda House is next (north) Sanjay Baniwal. few sensitive zones when it Link Road police station the association for the Bharati School, Saket basis of civic amenities there. on the list. The workshop on law will be comes to safety for women. The advancement of the de- chief, D R Nanoria, said, observed a tree plantation Residents of colonies like Sunder Nagar ‘‘We are in touch with Miran- about three hours long, and will stretch between Ring Road and I prived (AAD) in collabora- ‘‘The domestic Sanjita, a res- week. During the week, and Friends Colony that are in the highest ‘A’ da House authorities for con- be conducted by a non-govern- P College is one such place. tion with American Soya children brought saplings category will pay the highest tax rates of ident of Orissa, was hired by Bean Association (ASA). Jain through a placement and planted them in the about Rs 6 per square feet. The workshop included an school under the guidance agency in Dilshad Garden in Those in Sultanpuri and Mangolpuri — audio visual presentation by of the teachers and the among those listed in the lowest ‘G’ category Delhi. Jain was to give her a well known nutritionist school gardener. colonies — will pay the least amount of about Conjoined twins now with NGO monthly salary of Rs 1,600 Dr Kavita Reddy, followed Rs 2 per square feet. which she says was never by an interactive session Go green: Jain Bharati TIMES NEWS NETWORK Pringalwada Charitable Society The twins have just two legs The committee will have its office either at paid. And, a month ago Jain by the students. Mrigavati Vidyalaya cele- on Thursday.’’ and each of the leg gets nervous started beating her regularly brated eco-club week from the Town Hall or in India Habitat Centre. New Delhi: The two-month-old AIIMS officials said four Delhi- signal from their two different with iron rods.’’ Installation art: Goodley July 28 to August 2. Impor- conjoined twins who were under- based non-government organisa- brains. ‘‘Even if all the organs, Sanjita told the police she Public School, Shalimar tance of trees was empha- Bagh won the second prize going tests at the All India tions (NGOs) had also shown in- including the legs, are given to was given just a few biscuits sised and poems related to for installation art at the Institute of Medical Sciences terest in adopting the Siamese one baby it will not be able to to eat, every two or three environmental issues were (AIIMS) have been discharged and fourth International Chil- recited by students of twins but the custody was given to walk,’’ said Gupta. days. And, she was not al- dren’s Festival of perform- handed over to an Amritsar-based the Amritsar-based society by a Doctors have ruled out the pos- lowed to sit under a fan or primary section. charitable trust. ing art 2003 held at Kamani five-member committee. sibility of separating the twins drink cold water. When it auditorium. The school Elocution: Mehndi and The twins were crying and ‘‘The committee’s main con- joined at the lower abdomen. ‘‘We rained, Jain used to throw team of art teacher Ruchi English elocution competi- sleeping together but the common cern was to select an agency maintained a close watch on them her out to spend the night in Bhandari and students tions were held in Pragati life pattern may not last forever, which could bring them for regu- and conducted tests to know the the rain. Two hours before Vidya Vishwanathan, Public School, Dwarka on and this requires intensive nurs- lar test,’’ said an official. D K Gup- details of their internal organs,’’ his child returned from Sakshi Arora, Reema Bajaj August 4. The programme ing. AIIMS spokesperson Shakti ta of the department of paedi- said an official. These tests were school, she used to be asked and Ekta Mehra, made the concluded with a note sig- Gupta said: ‘‘The legal formalities atrics surgery, AIIMS, said: ‘‘The mandatory to get all possible sci- to wait for him in the sun, installation on the theme nifying the efforts taken by were completed before a magis- two are healthy and no decision entific information and to remain said Nanoria. WAR. School director the children to enhance trate and the twins were handed on their surgical separation has prepared for any unforeseen even- Her wounds were alleged- Dr G D Singh and principal their talents. over to officials of the All India yet been taken.’’ tuality in future, they said. ly inflicted by a steel sandasi.

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Above: With rain playing spoilsport, chief minister Sheila Dikshit had to inspect empty chairs during the Independence Day ceremony at Chhatrasal stadium on Friday.

Right: These award-winning NCC cadets may have had no doubts in their mind, but chief minister Sheila Dikshit evidently was not sure whether right was right or right was wrong, at the Independence Day ceremony at Chhatrasal stadium on Friday.

Left: The Tricolour still holds promise.

Top left: When it comes to showing your Tricolour affinity, age is no bar. Insider may Cultural park Court convicts Romesh Sharma New Delhi: The Delhi gov- have had ernment has sanctioned TIMES NEWS NETWORK Crime file es were cross-examined dur- Rs 3 crore for a neighbour- ing this trial. And the argu- hood cultural park to be New Delhi: Five years after built under the Raja Gar- Romesh Sharma was arrested in 1998 ment took about two months hand in food he was arrested, Romesh • den flyover. The park will Sharma, who allegedly had to be completed. •He was held under the Excise Act house a multiplex theatre, close links with an under- When Sharma was arrest- poisoning coffee home, yoga centre world gangster, was convict- •He is also accused of murdering his girlfriend, Kujum ed, he was booked under 14 ed for the first time on Thurs- Budhiraja cases. While he has been con- By Rahul Chhabra and a recreation centre. TNN TIMES NEWS NETWORK day. •A case under the Arms Act is pending against him victed in one, he got dis- A city court held Sharma charged in three. One case New Delhi: A preliminary guilty under the Excise Act ended in a compromise. His inquiry, conducted by the and sentenced him to two businessman claiming that from his first floor house. advocate, Ramesh Gupta, All India Institute of Med- years’ imprisonment. But as Sharma had forcibly taken The liquor quantity was 12 said: ‘‘The case under the ical Sciences (AIIMS) au- Sharma had been in jail possession of his helicopter. litres more than the pre- Arms Act is still pending and thorities into the recent since his arrest in 1998, his The complainant had also scribed limit as per the noti- one is at evidence stage. So is food poisoning incident at sentence will be considered said that Sharma took the fication under the Excise the Kujum Budhiraja mur- the trainee nurse hostel, as undergone. He has to pay helicopter on the pretext of Act. der case.’’ has hinted at foul play by Rs 2,000 as fine. using it for his election cam- Sharma was not granted an insider. Sharma was arrested on paign. Sharma was planning bail in this case for more There is another case in which Sharma has been ac- Forty trainee nurses be- October 20, 1998 by the south to contest elections that year. than two years. But even af- gan vomiting and com- cused of threatening a per- Delhi police. The investiga- When the police team ter getting released on bail, plained of stomach uneasi- tions against him started af- reached his residence, 30 Sharma stayed behind bars son. Gupta said: ‘‘While the ness within 15 minutes of ter the police received a com- Mayfair Garden, they found because he was facing sever- complainant has died, the eating dinner that was plaint from a Mumbai-based 50 bottles of foreign liquor al other cases. Nine witness- case is still dragging.’’ served to them in the hostel on Monday. ‘‘There is no proof yet of Four arrested accidental poisoning of food due to bacteria or fun- for running Illegal slaughter thriving, gi. The lab tests and the ini- tial questioning of patients do not suggest that they betting racket were served stale food. This police look the other way only leaves a possibility for TIMES NEWS NETWORK manual poisoning of food,’’ New Delhi: With the arrest By Sachin Parashar said an AIIMS official asso- of a woman and three others TIMES NEWS NETWORK Criminal treatment ciated with the probe. on Thursday, the northeast According to the official, New Delhi: More than • More than 10,000 illegal slaughters in the city daily district police claims to have it could have been deter- 15,000 animals are slaugh- busted a betting racket. •Much of this meat lands up in various illegal shops gent or any other undesir- tered every day in the city Deputy Commissioner of Po- in the city able elements in the food when only about 2,500 are lice (northeast), Praveer Ran- and drinks, which induced allowed. •The police, allegedly, let the truck carrying jan, said the accused were vomiting. According to a senior animals in without checking the certificate from an caught red handed while bet- ‘‘We have not ruled out vigilance officer of Delhi authorised veterinary officer which is mandatory ting over the South Africa- the possibility of someone Police, a recently held en- England test match, that is •According to experts, animals brought into the city, from the hostel or the quiry had revealed that being played in England. this way, are mostly unfit for eating kitchen mixing something in constables posted at The accused, Harish Aro- the food. May be someone the border security ra, Gunne Singh, Ajay Ku- tried to play a prank without pickets were allowing these mar and Pankaj had report- lice were told to take stated the officer. realising its implications,’’ trucks into the city by edly gone to Gunne’s Dilshad action.’’ The officer admitted said an official. Investigators charging money from Colony residence when the An officer, involved with that, a few days back, an- focused on the theory of foul them. police arrested them. the enquiry, said the way other enquiry was held play after the microbiology ‘‘We found that, while The police reportedly re- the animals were stuffed which revealed that department experts conclud- some were simply compla- covered about Rs 1 lakh cash, into the trucks was ab- the problem persisted ed that chances of fungal or cent in allowing these a Maruti Zen car that had al- solutely criminal. even after the DCPs had bacterial infection were low trucks in, there were others legedly been purchased with ‘‘They had more than 100 been asked to curb the in this case. who were extorting mon- the betting money, five mo- in a truck meant for 40. The practice. ‘‘Stale food carries mi- ey,’’said an officer. bile phones, nine MTNL legs of the buffaloes had Deputy commissioner of crobes which may lead to The vigilance depart- landline instruments, a been broken to prevent police (southwest), Tajen- symptoms like vomiting and ment had recommended ac- pager, a calculator and a tele- them from standing dra Luthra, however, said, stomach ache. But in such a tion against two erring con- vision set from the premises. and they had been piled ‘‘There was a remark made case of food poisoning, there stables, but it wasn’t Harish Arora, a Class X over one another,’’ said the by the vigilance about the is an incubation period of six clear whether the district drop-out, the gang’s kingpin officer. Kapashera border that this to 12 hours before a victim police had actually allegedly received bets from According to the police, was happening either due starts vomiting after eating taken an action, the officer across the city.He reportedly the two security posts to negligence or complicity the food,’’ said an official. added. received the betting rates which were under scanner of some police personnel AIIMS spokesman, Shakti from a Mumbai property Confirming the incident, were the Singhu border posted there at the time. We Gupta, said the final report of dealer, Mukesh. joint commissioner of po- in northwest district are taking all precautions the tests conducted on food According to the police, lice (vigilance) Kanwaljeet and Kapashera in south- to avert this.’’ samples collected from the Gunne Singh, is a diploma Deol said, ‘‘Some discrep- west. Joint commissioner of hostel will come in a couple holder from Lucknow Med- ancies were noticed in the ‘‘We had submitted a re- police (southern range) of days. ‘‘Tests are also being ical College. She reportedly Singhu and Kapashera port to the joint commis- Satish Chandra, however, conducted on body fluids of came to Delhi in search of a border areas in the enquiry, sioners and the DCPs were refused to comment on the victims who started vomiting job in 1997, but met Harish after which the district po- informed of the menace,’’ incident. after eating the unhygienic and joined the betting racket. food,’’ he said. No tyres: DTC buses idle By Himanshi Dhawan losses of several crores,’’ the depots. TIMES NEWS NETWORK the official said. ‘‘This has never happened DTC has 2,600 buses that before. We always had full New Delhi: Commuters can are stationed at 32 depots. Ac- strength on such festive occa- wait for hours in the swelter- cording to sources there are sions so that commuters are ing heat and pouring rain 15-20 buses at each depot that not inconvenienced,’’ a gov- but the Delhi Transport are lying idle. ernment official said. Corporation (DTC) couldn’t ‘‘The original tyres wore Officials have complained care less. out and DTC has not been that while on one hand the Though there is a paucity able to provide new ones,’’ DTC is buying more vehicles of buses running in the city, the official said. to strengthen its fleet on the over 480 DTC buses have Officials blame the failure other, the corporation is ap- been not been able to ply for of DTC’s technical team, parently not even concerned over two months because the which comprises of over about running the existing Corporation has not provid- 7,000 personnel, who have ones. ed new tyres. been unable to provide equip- Transport minister Ajay The CNG buses are barely ment and expertise at the ap- Maken admitted that there two years old and are in good propriate time. was a problem with buses running condition. Accord- According to DTC rules all standing idle at the depots. ing to DTC officials, each buses must be plying on na- ‘‘We had given orders for new bus costs between Rs 15-16 tional festivals like Raksha tyres but the company lakh. Bandhan and Bhai Dhuj to backed out at the last minute. ‘‘It is a complete waste of facilitate passenger move- We are working on a solu- assets to have new buses ment. tion so that all the buses will standing at the d epots. The However, this year all 480 be on the road soon,’’ Maken corporation is running in to buses remained standing at said.

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4 Saturday,August 16, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi

FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rainfall likely at East: Arunachal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, WB, Sikkim, Oris- NATIONAL sa, Jharkhand and Bihar; North: UP, Uttaranchal, Mumbai: I-A 0700, Haryana, Punjab, HP,J&K and Rajasthan; Central: MP,Vi- 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, darbha, Chattisgarh; Peninsula: Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, New device for pollution checks Kerala, Gujarat state, madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada,AP,TN, in- 2300 Jet Air 0650, terior Karnataka; Islands: Andaman and nicobar, a few places in By Himanshi Dhawan Swati Chakrabarti 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Lakshadweep. such a system are 1935, 2030, 2200, TIMES NEWS NETWORK that it is tamper Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD 1520, 1800, 2025 proof and will cut KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min New Delhi: For all those vehi- Central server down on the man- 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 32 25 Guwahati 35 27 Amsterdam 22 1 cle owners who have managed where data Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 30 26 Dehradun 33 24 Bahrain 37 32 is collated power required to Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 35 26 Hyd’bad 31 23 Bangkok 35 27 to hoodwink pollution checks and challan check emission CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 29 26 Indore 30 23 Beijing 33 16 there is still time to mend ways. issued ★★★ norms. 0640,0955 Bangalore 29 20 Jaipur 33 25 Chicago 27 17 The transport department is 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 33 26 Lucknow 31 26 Geneva 3 21 ‘‘This system can 0645,1900 planning to set up a ‘remote T’puram 32 23 Patna 34 27 Hong Kong 31 27 also be used for nab- BANGALORE: sensory system’ at busy road I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 30 23 Rajkot 31 24 London 27 16 bing offenders in Los Angeles 32 20 Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 33 25 Shimla 22 16 junctions that will check the other cases such as Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 27 21 Srinagar 29 14 Moscow 18 13 pollution level of the vehicle, HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 defective license GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS take its photograph and even plate, over-speeding Sahara 1200 cut a challan through a com- KULU: Jagson 0630, and checking the fit- ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2002 hrs. on puterised central server. 0650, 1215 15.08.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. ness of a vehicle,’’ AHMEDABAD: All this will be done without I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl the official said. halting the vehicle and without Takes Jet Air 0610 NORTH The department GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: photograph 4033 Jammu Mail 16.08 18.08 20.08 20.08 the driver’s knowledge that his of the I-A 0555★★, 1010• Records plans to give the ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 27.08 25.08 18.08 vehicle is being monitored. vehicle's 2403 Jammu Exp 19.08 20.08 20.08 01.09 licence plate opacity of smoke project on a ‘build- Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, According to transport min- in vehicle emission Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST operate-own’ basis to Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 16.08 16.08 19.08 — ister Ajay Maken, the proposal a private company 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 17.08 16.08 16.08 21.08 is being considered. ‘‘The sys- ness of smoke that the vehicle the challan will take a matter of Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, that can share a percentage of (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 18.08 18.08 18.08 25.08 tem will keep a check on vehi- emits and take a picture of the minutes,’’ a transport depart- Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 17.08 25.08 22.08 the fines collected through the cle emission norms. It will also license plate. ment official said. INTERNATIONAL 2392 Magadh Exp 16.09 16.09 19.09 18.09 challans. 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 16.08 16.08 16.08 assist in better enforcement of The data thus stored is then The device can record data of BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 18.08 16.08 16.08 16.08 transmitted to a central server a new vehicle every two sec- The proposal is at a nascent Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 04.09 31.08 traffic laws without allegations A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 17.08 26.08 03.09 of harassment,’’ he said. from where officials can take a onds and is ideal at toll bridges stage and will take some time FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 17.08 21.08 16.08 18.08 The remote sensing system printout of the challan. The where vehicles slow down. before it is implemented. 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 16.08 18.08 18.08 The system is already exist- AMSTERDAM: North 2802 Purshottam Exp — 21.08 18.08 18.08 includes two devices that will challan is sent to the offender But it can also be used at im- west 0140 (NW-037) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 19.08 19.08 17.08 be installed on both sides of the by courier. portant locations like ITO, Con- ing in Asian countries like Sin- LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 18.08 19.08 20.08 20.08 crossing. These two devices ‘‘The whole process from naught Place, Dhaula Kuan and gapore and Bangkok apart 0210 (BA-142) WEST PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail17.08 17.08 19.08 27.08 will check the ‘opacity’ or dull- recording the data to cutting Noida Mod. The advantages of from Australia and the USA. 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 18.08 17.08 24.08 28.08 A-I 0735 (AI-141) 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 17.08 21.08 19.08 — Mohammed Ilyas SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 18.08 16.08 18.08 — Medals Airlines 2315 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 21.08 28.08 21.08 (SQ-407), I-A 0500 1078 Jhelum Exp — 19.08 21.08 27.08 for CBI (IC-855) 2916 Ashram Exp 16.08 19.08 18.08 18.08 officers: ROME/GENEVA: SOUTH On the oc- A-I 0350 (AI-171) 2616 G T Exp 16.08 18.08 18.08 18.08 casion of HONG KONG/OSAKA: 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 17.08 20.08 20.08 20.08 A-I 2320 (AI-318) 2432 Trivandrum Raj 17.08 30.08 27.08 — Indepen- 2626 Kerala Exp — 21.08 18.08 26.08 dence Day, AIR INDIA 2618 Mangala Exp — 21.08 16.07 16.08 13 officers MUMBAI: 2628 Karnataka Exp — 18.08 18.08 18.08 of the CBI 0520 (AI 136), 2145 2724 A P Exp 17.08 17.08 18.08 18.08 (AI 309), 2205 (AI 311), 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 18.08 30.09 26.08 — have been 2330 (AI 112) 7022 Dakshin Express — 16.08 — 18.08 awarded No. of passengers dealt on 14.08.2003 (Delhi Area): 54,310 (N. Rly. Area) President’s A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,12,505. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for Police (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. Medal for 23323310, Singapore Airlines (Information supplied by Indian Railways) 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 distin- guished READERS’ GRIEVANCES and meri- torious Stagnant water cleaning and overhauling service. of the sewer system in the Two offi- There is a puddle of dirty area. cers in- rain water on the road in Sunil Gogia, B-196, Der- cluding SP front of my shop No.4046, awala Nagar, Opp.Model Akhileswar Naya Bazar, since the last Town. Prasad three weeks. It is an apt were breeding ground of mos- Poor bus service awarded quitoes which can give rise I would like to draw atten- the me- dals. TNN to epidemic. tion towards the plight of I have complained to MCD commuters of Noida, espe- commissioner, deputy cially of Sector-33, where a commissioner, JE (IV) ex- number of government ecutive engineer (V) ZE, sector/public sector em- MLA, CEO and chief Engi- ployees stay. neer of Delhi Jal Board There are very DTC bus- and mayor, councillor, but es for route no 392 for no action has been taken Dhaula Kuan between 6 am till date. The sewer in the to 7 am. Students of south area, too, has not been campus and Dwarka- cleaned since the last two Dhaula Kuan schools hard- years. ly get space to stand in the I request the concerned Old habits die hard. Kites soared in the walled city the minute rain stopped drumming the roofs. bus. authorities to look into the matter urgently. We, therefore, request Archit Gupta, 4046, Naya the concerned authorities Bazar,Delhi. to take up the issue and in- Choked sewer crease the frequency of Delhi to get its first fashion bar buses on this route. By C R Jayachandran all set to take Delhi’s cocktail hors-d’oeuvres from authen- sories, publishing, music and Devi Dutt Balodi, B-137, I wish to draw the atten- TIMES NEWS NETWORK and fashion circuit by storm. tic Japanese, Italian, Mexi- multimedia products. NTPC Colony, Sector-33, tion of the Municipal Cor- Apart from being a hip bar can and Chinese kitchens. FTV sources said the Ban- Noida. New Delhi: For those fre- poration of Delhi towards and lounge attracting mod- ‘‘No specific date has been galore FBL is host to several quenting pubs in Delhi, rub- els, celebrities, corporate settled on as there are certain international events. It also the unhygienic conditions Bus plight bing shoulders with Yana prevailing due to choked groups and fashion con- formalities and logistics that showcases Indian fashion I wish to draw the atten- Gupta and Nina Manuel or scious individuals alike, the need to be addressed first,’’ taking it well beyond the tele- sewer lines in the service maybe even Naomi Campbell lane behind house number tion of DTC authorities to- fashion bar will provide an FTV sources said. vision screen. wards the service of bus may not be a fantasy any- international fashion experi- The FBL is Fashion TV’s Located at Le Meridien it B-196 Derawala Nagar (op- more. posite Model Town) de- route No.418 between Jal ence. first venture in the lifestyle brings the international ex- Vihar Terminal and Shah- Fashion TV India is all set Fashion events, exclusive business in India as per its perience to India. The pric- spite repeated complaints to launch one of Asia’s dara Terminal. previews and product brand extension strategy for ing is also at par with market to MCD authorities. Sew- biggest fashion bar & lounge DTC had stopped its serv- launches are expected to take the Indian market. trends. ers are over-flowing on the (FBL) later this month near ices on this route about a place at regular intervals Fashion TV India will also At its launch, leading fash- street. the Qutab Golf Course, over- Will the MCD authori- decade ago. with top models walking the incorporate businesses re- ion designer Rohit Bal had 52 looking the majestic Qutab ramp. volving around lifestyle into of his most stunning cre- ties kindly look into the Rajesh Gupta, L-67, Sri Minar. matter to ensure proper Niwas Puri, N. Delhi The FBL in Delhi is also its fold. ations on display and 18 of After launching Asia’s likely to have foreign female These initiatives include India’s most happening mod- Readers should send their contributions addressed to Readers’ Grievances first FBL in Bangalore last bartenders, signature F- the FBL, fashion cafe and sa- els walked down the make- c/o Metro Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. December, FTV India, is now drinks, a French DJ and lon, merchandise and acces- shift ramp. Traders resent new What happened to maintenance? To Dhaula Kuan

Delhi Cantt Kirby Cariappa Army Golf sales tax notification 2 Rly Stn Place Vihar course 1 TIMES NEWS NETWORK posed to be 11.39 per cent while ...... the actual growth rate this year Nangal Pratap New Delhi: The new notification has been 9.47 per cent’’ said the Baird Place Arjun on increasing the ceiling on sum- Raya Chowk Vihar official. mary assessment of sales tax was The riders in the scheme in- supposed to bring an end to ‘‘In- Army (R&R) clude conditions which are not Church Road spector Raj’’or arbitrary harass- required even in regular cases. Hospital ment by sales tax officials. 1 - 2 No road signages are present on this stretch of road For example, in regular cases, However, the notification, an- traders who have defaulted for ...... The stretch where the road surface is damaged To NH8 nounced in the the budget and no- the past four years can file tax, tified in May, has so many riders while in the summary assess- that filing tax has become even ment the default period has been more complicated than before. brought down to one year. Rough passage in Delhi Cantt Summary assessment is an un- Another strange condition is complicated way of filing sales that any business which has not tax, now available to those shown a growth in the previous By Urvashi Gulia ‘‘Sometimes the traffic lights MES and they delegate the work to traders who have an annual financial year will not be eligible TIMES NEWS NETWORK around Kirby Place are in the blink- us,” said an official on conditions of turnover of up to Rs 2 crore. Ac- under the scheme. A detailed list er mode, and especially at night, anonymity. cording to figures available from of item on which tax and non-tax New Delhi: Mention Delhi’s can- most of these lights do not function The official went on to add that the sales tax department for the items also has to be attached to tonment area and the first thought properly. It isn’t an uncommon out of 10,500 acres of the canton- quarter ending in July, June fig- the summary assessment form. is that of open roads and green thing to get stuck in a jam close to ment area, only 200 comes under ures show that less than 200 ‘‘These riders are arbitrary, spaces. The latter is true but the for- Kirby Place even after 11 pm,’’ said board. “Of this 90 acres is nothing traders had filed returns. and instead of making mer not entirely. Ranjita Mathur, a resident of but drains,’’ said the official. ‘‘This figure is extremely wor- things simpler, they are The stretch bewteen Kirby Place Janakpuri. Asked about road re- rying and we are planning to ad- complicating matters fur- and Arjun Vihar, which lies in the Another regular com- pair work he said that vertise about the scheme to make ther,’’ says M K Gandhi, Delhi Cantonment area, caters to a muter along the stretch, tenders worth Rs 33 TRAFFIC it more popular,’’ said an official president of the All-India large chunk of west and south-west Ashish Sinha, has simi- lakh, for dense carpet- in the sales tax department. Tax Advocates Forum. Delhi bound traffic, to and from lar complaints about Del- ing of the road surface, TRAUMA There are over 1,67,000 regis- ‘‘If the riders remain, Dhaula Kuan. hi Cantonment roads. have been floated. tered sales tax payees, almost 1 then I doubt whether the Apart from being extremely busy He said: “The non-functioning ‘‘We are waiting for the monsoon lakh being those who have an an- sales tax department will at all times of the day,the road is de- traffic lights are a regular menace to get over,’’ he said. On the issue of nual turnover of around Rs 2 be able to reach its target void of any traffic signages and here. There is a perpetual hotch traffic signages and other road ac- crore. ‘‘The projected growth rate of Rs 4400 crore this road accessories. potch of traffic at all hours of the cessories like reflectors he again for sales tax this year was sup- year,’’ he added. The road surface is broken in sev- day because no motorist is sure said that tenders worth Rs 10 lakh eral places and the streetlights nev- whether he is supposed to move or have been floated. er work. not.” ‘‘Reflective studs and deliniators ‘‘I have never seen the street- When contacted Delhi Canton- will be installed, road median gaps lights functioning. There are no ment Board (DCB) officials said will be closed and proper boards in- markers for speed-breakers and no that they are not directly responsile dicating speed-breakers and other reflectors along the road median. for the maintenace of the road. such things will be put up,’’ he said. The road is fine between Arjun Vi- ‘‘Delhi Cantonment Board may Another DCB official, on condi- har and the Baird Place fork, but af- be the local body but a major por- tion of anonymity said, ‘‘Things ter that, especially in this stretch, it tion of the land belongs to the Army will not improve till we don’t have is horrendous,’’ said Kapil Pathak, and its agencies look after it. The control over the decision making a resident of Dwarka. road in question comes under the process.’’

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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Saturday,August 16, 2003 5 Expression of freedom, with a different kind of flag... Laloo sends back Togadia Pankaj Nangia By Vijay Swaroop am, he was asked by Patna’s district working president Raghunandan TIMES NEWS NETWORK magistrate and the senior superin- Singh charged the state government Patna: Vishwa Hindu Parishad tendent of police to get back to the with denying Togadia the right to leader Praveen Toga- aircraft, which later took off for Del- unfurl the national flag. dia was barred from hi via Ranchi. The state government RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav entering Patna on offered him the ticket for the return told reporters on the sidelines of the Friday morning and flight. official Independence Day ceremony forced to take the Togadia had come to hoist the na- that the district administration had same flight which tional flag at a school established in been directed not to allow Togadia had brought him 1986 by the former RSS chief, the late into Bihar. “If he still insisted, he from Mumbai. Rajendra Singh, in Phulwarisharif. would have been arrested and taken Togadia The VHP working Later, he was to participate in a to Beur (central) jail,” he said. president had come ‘sankalp’ programme and meet the Laloo said he wanted Togadia for a two-day tour of Bihar. Appre- media. He was also expected to visit prosecuted for his anti-national ac- hending a breach of peace, the state Muzaffarpur. tivities. “On the day when the coun- government decided at a high-level Outside the airport, slogan-shout- try is remembering Mahatma Gand- meeting on Thursday evening not to ing VHP activists turned restive. hi and non-violence, Togadia was allow Togadia to enter the city. Their leaders courted arrest to lodge planning to spread violence and As Togadia alighted from the Air their protest against the treatment communal hatred through his Sahara flight from Mumbai at 9.35 meted out to Togadia. VHP city speeches,” he said. Lovers killed One more Jaya strike by parents TIMES NEWS NETWORK N Varadarajan and CPI’s R Nallakannu, the latter two the state heads of their D S Kunwar Chennai: The city police crime branch parties. TIMES NEWS NETWORK registered a case on Friday afternoon Said Karunanidhi: ‘‘I heard about this under the strict Tamil Nadu Essential Bulandshahr: A teenage Independence Day gift. And I always This largest towel in the world, made in the tricolour, was unveiled by Deputy PM L K Advani on Friday in New Delhi to mark the Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) couple is alleged to have been said it was the state government which hacked to death by their fam- 56th anniversary of Independence. The towel weighs over 500 kg and is 419-metre-long. The makers hope to enter the Limca against DMK chief K Karunanidhi and instigated the strike.’’ Book of Records. the state heads of the Congress, CPM ilies with the approval of vil- When asked if this would help bring lagers in Etmatsarai, 17 km and CPI for allegedly instigating state the opposition together, Karunanidhi government employees to go on strike in from here, according to po- answered in the negative. lice. Revised fares for July. But the DMK chief added: ‘‘However, That strike was crushed in days and, Irshad, 20, and Gulshama, students, elderly if they are going to put all of us behind 18, are said to have been in Not all want cola, last week, chief minister Jayalalithaa bars, we will finalise the seat-sharing in love for years and wanted to TIMES NEWS NETWORK directed derecognition of all the em- prison.’’ Karunanidhi left for a tour of get married despite refusal ployee unions, too. Besides Karunanid- the southern districts on Friday night, by their parents. They were New Delhi: The ministry of hi, the chief minister’s prime political saying the Jaya regime was like ‘‘Tugh- IA is high on stores civil aviation on Thursday killed after being found to- foe and predecessor, the cases have been said it would further ratio- laq’s darbar’’ and foisting false cases to gether outside the village, ac- TIMES NEWS NETWORK served juices in tetra packs. nalise the discounts offered filed against state Congress working divert citizens’ attention from malad- cording to the police report An IA spokesperson from Del- for air travel to senior citi- president EVKS Elangovan, the CPM’s ministration. registered at the Kotwali de- Mumbai: Indian Airlines (IA) hi, however, clarified that cans of zens and students, even as it hat station on Thursday. has stopped placing Coke and Pepsi and Coke were still kept in decided to offer life-time free No-trust to be Police say they’ve arrested Pepsi on the tray along with other the aircraft’s galley. ‘‘We give it juices while serving executive travel on domestic and inter- the girl’s father,Chand Khan, only when an executive class pas- national routes to all Bharat Vaiko needs to be out class passengers in the wake of his brother and their two senger asks for it,’’ he said. Ratna awardees. our speaking the recent controversy involving sons. Attempts are being He said the airline was placed Indian Airlines and Al- both the soft drinks, an IA of Pota, says MDMK made to identify others who in a dilemma after the CSE’s dis- liance Air were losing Rs 60 tree: Advani were involved. Gurdarshan spokesperson stated. closures. ‘‘Some passengers get crore a year due to conces- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Singh, DIG, Meerut Range, The decision was taken follow- angry if we do not serve Pepsi TIMES NEWS NETWORK sions offered to senior citi- New Delhi: Tamil Nadu’s MDMK party, said police are camping in ing the controversial revelation and Coke. At the same time, there zens and students, civil New Delhi: Deputy Prime which is an ally of the NDA at the Centre, has the village and the bodies made by the Centre for Science are a few who have complained if aviation minister Rajiv Minister L K Advani has sought the release of its leader Vaiko and have been sent to the district and Environment (CSE) in its these two soft drinks were served. Pratap Rudy said: ‘‘We called the Opposition spon- eight of his associates, arrested under the hospital for an autopsy. study relating to the pesticide We are really in a fix,’’ he added. are looking at ways and sored no-confidence motion a Pota by the Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK gov- The killings are said to contents in Pepsi and Coke. The The Delhi-based spokesperson means of rationalising it ‘‘challenge’’ and asserted ernment in Tamil Nadu. have taken place on Wednes- spokespersons of both the compa- said the airline has written to the further and adding more bal- that it provided an ‘‘opportu- Several MPs belonging to the NDA have day night after the couple nies have, however, contested the ministry of food processing seek- ances.” nity’’ to the government to submitted a signed petition to the Pota review had a rendezvous on the out- findings in the study. ing clarifications on the CSE project its achievements dur- committee on Thursday urging it to ‘‘look skirts of the village. As the Juices and soft drinks are dis- study.‘‘We have specifically asked ing the last four years. into the misuse and abuse of POTA’’ in the news of their meeting tributed to executive class pas- them whether we should stop car- ‘‘I’m happy that the Oppo- case. Vaiko and others have been under in- spread, the girl’s father asked sengers as a welcome drink as rying Pepsi and Coke on our sition has not only chal- carceration for the past 13 months. his family and others to help soon as they board the aircraft. flights. So far, we have not got any lenged us, but also provided look for her. Economy class passengers are reply,’’ he said. us with an opportunity to K K Laskar project our achievements during the past four years,’’ Advani said, after hoisting Pay Asha royalty the national flag at his resi- dence on the occasion of In- now, HC tells dependence Day on Friday. He said looking back at 56 years of Independent India, Magnasound the country had made TIMES NEWS NETWORK progress in all spheres of life, but still the people had not Mumbai: It is almost two months worked to their potential. since the Bombay High Court ‘‘We have to overcome our passed an order directing music shortcomings and try to company Magnasound to pay roy- work hard for fulfilling the alty worth more than Rs 1 crore to target of becoming a devel- noted singer Asha Bhosle, but she oped nation by 2030,’’ he said. has not received any money yet. Meanwhile, external af- The HC ordered Magnasound on fairs minister Yaswant Sinha Thursday to deposit Rs 70 lakh in has deferred his visit to Sri court by September 5 failing Lanka in view of the no-con- which a provisional liquidator fidence motion against the would take charge of the company. NDA government in Lok Sab- President A P J Kalam greets former president K R Narayanan at the A division Bench headed by Jus- ha on Monday. Independence Day reception hosted by him at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday. tice Hemant Gokhale also said the company’s appeal challenging an earlier order of appointment of a SC on Hindu woman’s inheritance provisional liquidator would stand dismissed if it failed to de- By Rakesh Bhatnagar testate shall devolve according to the gants not belonging to her mother’s posit the amount. TIMES NEWS NETWORK rule specified in section 16 of the side before the Cuddalore trial court The melody queen will be enti- tled to withdraw Rs 50 lakh from New Delhi: Setting at rest the con- Act. First, the property would de- in Andhra and later the high court. the court after the money is de- troversy over inheritance of proper- volve upon the sons and the daugh- A Supreme Court Bench of Justices posited. At the last hearing, the ty belonging to a Hindu married ters (including the children of any M B Shah and Dr A R Lakshmanan, court had ordered Magnasound to woman who dies without leaving a pre-deceased son or daughter) and however, set aside the judgments will (intestate) or issueless, the also the husband. and held that since Rajathiammal pay the singer Rs 30 lakh by July Supreme Court has ruled that her Thus, the court explained that if a had inherited the property from her 31 as part payment of her royalty husband or father-in-law can have Hindu female inherited property mother, the properties acquired by dues. The company’s cheque, how- no claim over it if she had acquired from her father or mother, neither her from her mother would go to the ever, bounced, said her lawyers such an estate from her mother’s her husband or his heirs would get heirs of her father and, therefore, Ravi Kadam and Birendra Saraf. side. such property but it would revert to her sisters and brothers who are the The court recorded the state- The Supreme Court said that such the heirs of her father or mother. sons and daughters of Chettiar ment of the company’s managing cases were covered by section The judgment is a fallout of a 30- would be entitled to her estate. director Shashi Gopal that no fur- 15(2)(a) of the Hindu Succession Act, year dispute over the inheritance of The court said section 16 of the ther extension to pay the money 1956. Under the relevant section: property left by Rajathiammal, who Act ‘‘evolves a new and uniform or- would be sought. ‘‘Any property inherited by a female died intestate and issueless. She had der of succession of property (by a Bhosle had moved the HC in Hindu from her father or mother inherited movable and immovable female Hindu) and regulates the 2002 after the music company de- shall devolve, in the absence of any property from her maternal aunt’s manner of its distribution’’. faulted on payment of her royalty. son or daughter (including the chil- side. Her father, Venugopal Chet- Section 15 (2) also makes an ex- She had entered into a contract dren of any pre-deceased son or tiar’s children i.e. her own brothers ception when a female dies intestate with Magnasound on June 10, daughter) not upon the other heirs through his first and second mar- and issueless or children of a pre-de- 2000, for recording an album with but upon the heirs of the father.’’ riages made claim on the properties ceased son or daughter. Then the Adnan Sami titled ‘Kabhi toh The term ‘‘other heirs’’ specified left behind by their married sister rule prescribed is to find out the nazar milao...’. She was to be given in section 15(1)(a) of the Act says the who died intestate and issueless. source from which she has inherited royalty on the sale of the album. property of a female Hindu dying in- They lost to another set of liti- the property. Most wanted gangster killed

TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: Gangster Suresh Manchekar (42), who was on the most wanted list of Thane police, was shot dead in an en- counter in Kolhapur in the wee hours of Friday. He was wanted in 30 cases of murder and extortion. ‘‘This is my Independence Day gift to Thane and Mum- bai,’’ said inspector Ravindra Angre of Thane police, who led a 15-member team which fi- nally caught up with the dreaded gangster. Police wait- ed for him after a tip-off that he would arrive at Ujjwaldeep Hotel at Gandhi Nagar corner near the ST stand in Kolhapur at 2.30 am. Manchekar reportedly got down from a car and was asked to surrender, but he al- legedly fired at the police.

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6 Saturday,August 16, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi More security in the air for IAF Lone candle flickers at Wagah By Rajat Pandit Positive signs Ahmedabad, Chennai and sponding anti-ballistic mis- Reuters TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kolkata into the IAF’s air de- sile systems capable of neu- By Yudhvir Rana TIMES NEWS NETWORK •Airports Authority of fence network. The indige- tralising missiles with a New Delhi: Though India nously-developed Tactical range of up to 2,500 km, is India radars in five states Wagah: “Hind, Pak dosti will have to wait for some Air Defence Information Dis- also being planned. being integrated zindabad,” shouted the time to get AWACS (airborne play System software is like- India, apart from surface- peaceniks from India and warning and control sys- ly to be used for this integra- based radars, has also made •Significant progress in Pakistan as they lit a lone tems), the IAF is finally mak- airborne surveillance tion. significant progress in air- ing some headway on other candle at the checkpost systems Moreover, to improve its borne surveillance systems. here at midnight. fronts to bolster its surveil- air defence capabilities, In- Induction of a large number lance capabilities to detect, •Additional low-level Parliamentarians dia has already acquired the of Israeli long-range ‘‘Aero- Kuldip Nayyar and Raj identify and intercept hostile transportable radars also advanced ‘‘Green Pine’’ fire- stat Programmable Radars’’ aircraft and missiles. to be inducted Babbar were joined by 12 control radar from Israel, in the form of sensors lawmakers from Pakistan The multi-layered Air De- which can detect and track mounted on blimp-like large fence Ground Environment to celebrate the 10th Mid- time in order to initiate tacti- incoming missiles from balloons tethered to the night peace festival. System (ADGES) network, cal action,’’ said an officer. around 500 km away. ground with long cables, for They, however, forgot to tasked with management of Towards this end, the oper- IAF also plans to begin the instance, is already under- take candles to the zero India’s vast airspace, is now ational capabilities of Air much-delayed induction of way. line from the venue of the being upgraded and mod- Defence Directional Centres, additional low-level trans- And, with the US nod to Is- function. One candle was ernised, say sources. Base Air Defence Centres portable radars and the com- rael to sell Phalcon early hurriedly procured to ‘‘The idea is to boost the and Joint Air Defence Cen- plex Integrated Air Defence warning radar systems to In- light up the occasion. ability to detect an enemy tres in various strategic loca- Command and Control Sys- dia, the long-pending AWACS Earlier addressing the aircraft as far away as possi- tions in the country are be- tem to fill the existing gaps in project has also taken a step gathering, Aizaz Hassan, ble, primarily by radars but ing strengthened. low-level radar coverage. towards completion. Indian the leader of the Pakistani also by intelligence and mo- Some progress has also In addition, induction of AWACS will have the Phal- delegation, said, “We bile observation posts. And been made to integrate the static phased array radars, con systems mounted on the chose not to speak from then identify it as ‘friend or five Airports Authority of In- coastal radars and over-the- Russian Ilyushin-76 heavy the political stages set up foe’ in the shortest possible dia radars at Delhi, Mumbai, horizon radars, with corre- transport military aircraft. at Mochi Darwaza in La- hore on our Independence AP Day and preferred to ad- dress our fellow brethren Scientists go over at Amritsar.” “Eih channa ve sanjha, Border Security Force jawans and Pakistani Rangers exchange traditional sweets to mark suraj ve sanjha, badal ve Independence Day at the Wagah border on Friday. sanjha, hava ve sanjhi te the moon on PM pher asi vakh kyun hai (We share the moon, the sun, By Srinivas Laxman this nation a major space clouds and air, then why Pak still on the Kashmir track TIMES NEWS NETWORK power.’’ Vahia’s remarks as- are we separate)?” he sume significance because asked. TIMES NEWS NETWORK Midnight Peace Festival upset the slow efforts. Mumbai: Prime Minister the TIFR, which is the cradle here; half of them returned Ramesh Lal Motwani, mem- Raj Babbar said the peo- Wagah: Despite track-II Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s an- of India’s space programme, ple of the two countries home on Friday. ber of the Pak National As- diplomacy and friendly nouncement in his Indepen- is playing a key role in the should not allow anybody They felt if a permanent sembly from Larkana, meetings between MPs and dence Day address about an moon mission. else to spoil bilateral rela- solution couldn’t be found Sindh, said cordial relations businessmen, Kashmir re- unmanned moon mission by An excited Nehru Science tions, while Nayyar ex- immediately, both govern- with India would be a boon 2008 has finally confirmed Centre director G S Rautela pressed happiness over mains the core issue be- ments should contemplate a for minorities in Pakistan. that the ambitious project said the mission will provide their efforts of making tween New Delhi and Islam- soft Kashmir border, to en- Any action against Muslims has received the green signal a major boost to the develop- cordial relations with Pak- abad and this will have to be able people of the erstwhile in India has a retaliatory ef- from the Centre. ment of science and technol- istan. “The presence of addressed at some time, undivided state to meet and fect in Pakistan. The PM has named the ogy in the country. He ob- MPs from Pakistan is a unanimously feel MPs from trade with each other. Aizaz Hasan, leader of the flight ‘‘Chandrayan served that the Indian lunar proof of our success.” Pakistan. They agreed a peace Pak delegation said both Pratham’’. The lunar mis- flight should concentrate on Ironically, the common Twelve MPs from various process begun now could governments should try to sion is expected to cost about those areas of the moon man didn’t seem too im- Pakistani political parties take years to deliver results remove the impression that Rs 400 crore. The rocket to be which have so far not been pressed with the candle- had come to India on Thurs- and cautioned against peo- their policies were aimed used for the mission will be studied by the US and the for- light vigil. day to participate in the 10th ple from both sides who’d against each other. the highly-proven four-stage mer Soviet Union. Polar Satellite Launch Vehi- Bharat Adur, a scientist at- cle (PSLV), which is expected tached to the Nehru Centre, ...Tripura not to be launched from the said the lunar flight will es- J&K peaceful, only 1 shooting Volunteers take part in Independence Day celebrations Satish Dhawan Space Centre tablish India’s capability to at Patan, 135 km from Ahmedabad, on Thursday. at Sriharikota, near Chen- undertake missions to plan- TIMES NEWS NETWORK crowd at the Bakshi stadium people’s endeavour which led so lucky, 26 nai. ets in the solar system. here, chief minister Mufti to a discernible change in the Srinagar: For the first time Vajpayee’s announcement A report, prepared by the Mohammed Sayeed in speech ground situation. in the past 13 years of mili- has evoked tremendous re- Ahmedabad-based Physical asked militants to give up It is very clear that if peo- fall to bullets tancy, Independence Day in sponse from the city’s space Research Laboratory (PRL) arms as guns had no role in ple can remove Farooq Ab- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Modi, Pandya’s Jammu and Kashmir was fraternity. Space scientist M in 2001, said an Indian lunar the present era. dullah from power, they have N Vahia of the Tata Institute mission to place a low-alti- celebrated in an almost ten- Overwhelmed by the pres- every right to change his gov- Agartala: Suspected All Fundamental Research tude polar orbiter around the sion-free atmosphere here on ence of a large number of ernment as well, he said Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) (TIFR) said the lunar project moon, was a possibility. Friday. people at the stadium, Mufti adding that the people were militants killed 26 people on father slug it out the eve of Independence Day is important for India be- According to this report, Barring an incident where said: ‘‘I will restore peace, not the fountain head of power By Sourav Mukherjee and prabhat feri and ekta cause it will help create new the orbiter will be designed unidentified militants shot at of graveyards, but of dignity in a democratic system. in two simultaneous attacks TIMES NEWS NETWORK rally were organised. technologies, which will be and built at the ISRO satellite two persons, killing one, in and make Jammu and Kash- Mufti said he did not want in West Tripura district. If Modi blamed ‘‘former useful in various other sec- centre at Bangalore. Bandipora village in north mir an abode of amity with to speak about past elections, Eleven and 15 people Patan: Battlelines were rulers’’ for poor education tors as well. It will have the capability Kashmir, the day passed the people’s cooperation.’’ but it was only during the Oc- were killed in Daspara and drawn in this heritage and health standards in He said, ‘‘These new tech- of orbiting around the peacefully amid unprece- Mufti said while his coali- tober assembly polls, that the Baralunga villages respec- township as the Tricolour Gujarat, Pandya was more nological challenges will give moon for five years, conduct- dented security arrange- tion government has taken people realised their right to tively. unfurled. India a tremendous amount ing experiments and trans- ments. some steps for normalisation make the government lay in Fourteen people were in- Independence Day cele- direct in his attack. He called Modi a ‘‘dictator of self-confidence and make mitting data. Addressing a massive in Kashmir, it is mainly the J&K and not New Delhi. jured in the well coordinated brations at the ancient ATTF attacks in West Tripu- Capital of Gujarat proved more dangerous than the autocrat of Serbia’’. ra. Some are reported to be in to be a war of words be- critical condition. tween chief minister The state-sponsored In- dependence Day celebra- In another incident, five Narendra Modi and Vit- BSF jawans were injured in thalbhai Pandya, father of tions and the parallel flag- Rs 9,000 cr is cost of Digvijay’s I-Day gift hoisting programme of North Tripura on Thursday slain state minister Haren afternoon. Pandya, supported by sen- the Congress kicked off al- By Suchandana Gupta Special functions were held in the sabhas whereby all government they will be in charge of the main- most simultaneously. TIMES NEWS NETWORK 52,727 villages where all govern- property were handed over to them. tenance and utilisation of these No senior policeman or se- ior state Congress leaders. curity agency officials could Residents of Patan spent At the M N Science Col- ment assets and property in the ru- The property includes communi- properties. The state will only pro- Bhopal: By giving Rs 9,000 crore be reached for comment. the day cheering their lege ground, Modi chided ral areas were transferred to the ty halls, panchayat buildings, vide the funds. Despite tight security, leaders as they took pot- the farmers agitating worth of government property to ownership of the gram sabhas, the schools, tubewells, tanks, ponds, According to the state govern- armed militants raided two shots at each other and against a power tariff the villagers of Madhya Pradesh on fourth tier in the Panchayati Raj waiting rooms, anganwadi con- ment, each village has become rich- Bengali-dominated villages played to the gallery by hike. At Junagunj Bazar, the occasion of the country’s 56th structure introduced in Madhya structions even morgues and cre- er by approximately Rs 40 making promises for a bet- Shankarsinh Vaghela of Independece Day on Friday, chief Pradesh in January 2001. matoriums. lakhs worth of property and the at Daspara (Totabari) in ter tomorrow. the Congress took on Modi minister Digvijay Singh has en- On Friday agreements were Under this, the villagers were total amount of property Kalyanpur police station Earlier in the day, pro- and supported the farm- sured that no one else can beat him signed between state government declared the legal ‘‘maliks’’ (own- transfer is to the tune of Rs 9,000 to area and Baralunga in Telia- grammes like ghanta nad ers’ agitation. at this game. officials and sarpanch of the gram ers) of the property. Henceforth, Rs 10,000 crores. mura police station area around 9.30 pm.

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8 Saturday,August 16, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi

BRICKBATS Jude Law and AROUND THE WORLD Dubyaman is funny. It makes me laugh Reuters twice a day. First, when I don’t under- Oldest thief: Texas police stand it, secondly, when I realise that wife part ways there are others like me who were un- said have arrested a 91-year- able to understand it. London: English actress old man suspected of rob- — Subhash Siddhu Sadie Frost is to divorce her bing an Abilene bank, possi- It seems “Brickbats” is being published bly making him the oldest only to popularise “Dubyaman”. film star husband Jude Law, her publicist said on Friday. bank robber in US history. JL — Dr V D Verma Hunter Rountree, who goes The 37-year-old actress and by the nickname “Red,” was For bouquets log on to fashion designer was divorc- www.timesofindia.com arrested on Tuesday on sus- ing London-born Law after picion of stealing about e-mail: [email protected] five years of marriage be- $2,000, Abilene police said. cause of “unreasonable be- They said they had no havior,” Frost said in a state- records to prove it, but they ment. “I have come very re- thought Rountree was the luctantly to the decision that oldest person ever to rob a my marriage to Jude is over,” bank in the country. Police she said. said Rountree, who was not Your mobile called me names “We have agreed that a di- armed, asked a teller to stuff vorce is the only way forward money into a large envelop Sydney: Remember those Ajit Ninan in affluent areas or at but we have equally agreed with the word “robbery” writ- classroom taunts of “fat- schools where the students that we will do all in our pow- ten on it. A witness took so,” “elephant ears” or had access to cell phones er to make certain that this is down the license number of worse? Imagine those and computers, it was on as painless a process as pos- his vehicle and he was ar- rested about 15 miles outside taunts being circulated the ri se everywhere. sible for the benefit of the Abilene. Reuters around cyberspace for “It’s more widely spread children. They are our num- thousands to see. and more noticeable,” she ber one priority and have al- Lovers’ padlocks: The Children in Australia are said. “We’re certainly see- ways been and will remain Hungarian city of Pecs is taking school-yard bullying ing new technology bring- so,” she added. fighting a losing battle to new, high-tech levels, ing it into the fore.” The couple separated at against padlocks which with cell phone text mes- Cyberbullying was most the start of the year shortly lovers are secretly clamping sages and e-mails replacing common among 12 to 14 after the birth of their third on statues and gates all over the traditional note-passing year olds, and boys were child, Rudy. the city centre as symbols of their enduring affection. The and name-calling, a parents bullied just as much as Frost also has a son from her previous marriage to for- curious tradition dates back group said on Thursday. girls, she said. to the early 1980s when Cyberbullying can be One thing hasn’t changed mer Spandau Ballet guitarist lovers began fixing single just as hurtful, allowing - a child’s ability to find the turned actor Gary Kemp. padlocks, without any mark- children to circulate cruel sore spot of their play- Hollywood star Law, 30, ings, on a wrought iron fence rumors about ther victims “The days of the nasty technology.” ground opponents. was nominated for an in the heart of Pecs, which A model wears a creation by Walter Rodriguez during more widely than ever, said scribbled note could be After surveying 40 class- “They say something Oscar for his role in “The has a magnificent cathedral Colombia Moda fashion show in Medellin on Thursday. Sharryn Brownlee, presi- over,” she said. “(cyberbul- rooms across Australia’s about your masculinity or Talented Mr. Ripley” and re- and ancient Christian tombs. the day the barrier first ap- network. Newton (1642- dent of the New South lying) is prevalent because most populous state, the your physique, all the areas cently worked with Aus- With no room now left on the peared in 1961. Visitors to 1727), who formulated the Wales state parent and Citi- it’s fairly repetitive, be- federation found that while adolescents are sensitive tralian actress Nicole Kid- fence, couples, both locals Berlin often search in vain theory of gravity and is con- man in the forthcoming and tourists, are fastening zens Federation. cause it’s so easy with new bullying was more common about,” says Brownlee. AP for remnants of the wall. sidered to have laid many of “Cold Mountain.” Reuters their love tokens on anything Thirteen years after the two the foundations of modern that will hold a padlock, in- Germanys reunited, only science, ranked ahead of cluding statues. AP small stretches of the wall Winston Churchill and Painkillers raise risk of miscarriage still stand. And holes have Princess Diana, grabbing Split wide open: Forty- more than 21 per cent of the London: Pregnant women used during pregnancy, they Joker in the royal pack two years after the Berlin been hammered into those who take certain types of added. Researchers in Cali- by souvenir hunters. vote. Viewers were asked to TOI Wall went up, Germans are vote for the greatest among painkillers, including as- fornia found that use of as- By Rashmee Z. Ahmed him,” he said, adding that Some sections are fenced still divided —over what to ten British personalities pro- pirin and other non-steroid TIMES NEWS NETWORK off. Reuters pirin, are up to 80 percent Harry had “worked his socks do with the remains of the filed in a BBC documentary more likely to miscarry, sci- based anti-inflammatory off” to get the results. London: Prince Harry may concrete eyesore that kept Newton the great: The pi- series entitled “Great entists said on Friday. But drugs (NSAIDs) increased Charles, who went on to have all but officially regis- them apart till 1989. Chip it oneering mathematician and Britons”. AFP paracetamol is not a risk, re- the risk of miscarriage by 80 study anthropology and ar- into chunks and sell it off to physicist Sir Isaac Newton tered himself as royal dunce, Tight-jeans contest: The gardless of how often it is percent. The risk was much chaeology at Cambridge, tourists? Or declare it a has been named the greatest higher when NSAIDs were knave and joker-in-the-pack Idaho Bonner County Fair or- by achieving remarkably low achieved much higher A-lev- World Heritage site? The Briton of all time by overseas taken close to the time of el grades than Harry, and is question remained on voters in a poll conducted by ganizers are saying if the grades in his school-leaving jeans don’t quite fit, don’t conception. now seen to be an intellectual Wednesday’s anniversary of the BBC World satellite news exams after months of al- wear them. Or at least don’t Paracetamol, aspirin, and giant compared to much of other NSAIDs, all suppress leged “hard work” and a life- expect a prize. Fair officials Prince Harry the British royal family. fatty acids which are need- time surrounded by priceless have canceled plans for a News that Harry has just tight-fitting jeans contest be- ed for the implantation of paintings, works of art and ing about whether its school- Tiger cubs to walk on wild side about scraped through two cause of community com- exotic travel. leaving exams or A-levels are Two endangered south China tigers an embryo in the womb. But subjects at school-leaving lev- plaints. “Some ladies in the NSAIDs act on the whole The 18-year-old red-haired far too easy to pass with 95 will be sent to the wilds of South prince’s exam results, made el is sufficient to qualify him community think that it’s in- body, paracetamol acts only per cent of examinees clear- Africa to help them rediscover their public on Friday, are being for “cannon-fodder”, royal appropriate,” fair manager on the central nervous sys- ing the tests. killer instincts, a government offi- seen as a remarkable royal watchers said. “He can now Rhonda Livingston said. Op- tem, hence has no effect on But commentators said cial and state media says. The intervention in the ongoing Harry’s low-key perform- apply for a commission in the cubs, born at the Shanghai zoo ponents of the tight-fitting pregnancy. Reuters jeans contest took their com- national outcry about the ance had proved that army, the aspiration foist this year and weighing 10 and 12 ease with upon generations of royals kg, would be taught how to hunt and “regain their long- plaints to county commis- Britain’s A-levels were not sioners, who deferred to the which British that easy after all, despite a destined never to ascend to lost wild nature”, the Beijing Star Daily reported. “Chi- 17-year-olds the throne, run their own tel- nese tiger cubs go to South Africa to ‘study abroad,’ “ Bonner County Fair Board. life of privilege. Even so, loy- The women were worried the pass their evision production company, the headline read. The tigers are due to be sent to Africa ally sticking to the script, contest would exploit those school-leav- nor do well at exams,’’ com- in September, and are slated for return to China in 2008, Harry’s proud father, Prince who competed for the ing exams. At the newspaper said, adding that a conservation park Charles has saluted his aca- mented one correspondent. most painted-on pair of present, the would be built to house them. AP demically-undistinguished For more go to jeans, Livingston said. AP UK is agonis- younger son. “I’m proud of www.timesofindia.com Enjoy your swim London: Now you can enjoy music while taking those laps in the pool, thanks to a gadget that has been devised by a student. The first underwater digital music play- er, called Soundwaves has been developed by Sam James, who has graduated with a BSc in industrial design from Brunel Uni- versity. His matchbox-sized device clips on to a pair of goggles and transmits MP3 music through the skull and into the inner ear using technology borrowed from hearing aids. ANI

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Iraqis offer Blackout puzzle trail leads from Ohio to Canada some tips to AFP NYT Washington: Investigators said the largest power black- beat the heat out in North American his- Baghad: Iraqis who have tory said Friday they believe suffered for months with the power disruptions began little electricity gloated in the US Midwest — not Friday over a blackout in New York or Canada as some the northeastern United had said. The North Ameri- can Electric Reliability States and southern Cana- Council, an industry-spon- da and offered some tips to sored group monitors the help Americans beat the transmission system, said it heat. believes the problem started ● Sleep on the roof in northern Ohio. ● Sit in the shade “That’s where the infor- ● Head for the beaches mation is starting to point,” ● Shower frequently Ellen Vancko, a spokes- ● Check for bitter-enders woman, said in an interview. — “They should go to the “It looks like that’s where power stations and see the collapse started.” what the problem is,” sug- Ontario premier Ernie gested Ahmed Abdul Hus- Eves also said Friday: “We sein, 21. “Maybe there are do have information that the followers of Saddam Hus- problem occurred in the up- sein who are sabotaging per Midwest United States.” their power stations.” But even the focus on Ohio ● Get a generator brought immediate skepti- ● Call in the Iraqis — “Let cism. The chairman of the them take experts from Ohio Public Utilities Com- Iraq,” said Alaa Hussein, mission, Alan Schriber, call- 32, waiting in a long line ed it “speculation at best” for gas because there was and said industry experts he no electricity for the contacted Friday continued pumps. ● to focus attention on Canada LONG WAY HOME: People stranded outside Penn Station and (right) a crowded Brooklyn Bridge in New York City on Thursday. Use foul language: and upstate New York. “When the power goes out, And a private company Inc., of Middleton, Wiscon- well as southeastern Cana- Michigan site further. day and into Friday from ing from a Midwest power migrated to New York. As I curse everybody,” said that monitors the grid said sin. da. Trungale said his compa- A spokeswoman for First New England to Michigan. plant started the downfall of the power fluctuated, gener- Emad Helawi, a 63-year-old its technology showed the One reason it may be so ny’s monitoring stations Energy Corp., whose elec- William Museler, president the grid at 4:11 p.m. ators in New York tripped off accountant. “I curse God. I problem started in Michi- difficult to pinpoint the recorded a power disruption tricity service area stretches of the New York Indepen- Thursday. to protect themselves, an act curse Saddam Hussein. gan. “That was the epicen- cause is the speed in which in Connecticut only 2 sec- along Lake Erie in Ohio, de- dent System Operator, He said the power swings of self-preservation that And I curse the Ameri- tre,” insisted David Trun- the cascading outages raced onds after the first problem clined to speculate on the which manages the state’s became so large that the On- made it possible to restore cans.” gale, vice president of across the Northeast and was recorded in Michigan. cause of the disruption electric grid, said “huge” tario system could not sus- power Friday morning, ● Most common sugges- SoftSwitching Technologies Ohio Valley to the west as He declined to describe the which shut off power Thurs- power fluctuations originat- tain them, and the problem Museler said. AP tion: Take to the streets AP Israel releases Al Qaida leader 73 more Blair named in Kellygate AFP By Rashmee Z. Ahmed stoutly denied on camera any Palestinians TIMES NEWS NETWORK knowledge or involvement in in US custody the public unmasking of Kel- London: In a significant AFP ly and the events leading up Jerusalem: Israel Friday “sexing-up” of a dull judicial Bangkok: The Al-Qaida’s freed 73 Palestinian prison- to his death. Asked if he had Asian mastermind who al- inquiry, Tony Blair’s name “blood on his hands”, an ers whose release had been has appeared, for the first legedly oversaw a string of delayed by Prime Minister ashen-faced Blair had stuck time, in the judicial investi- terrorist bombings that Ariel Sharon after the twin to his story. gation into David Kelly’s killed hundreds and has been suicide bombings on Tues- The inquiry heard that death. Blair’s involvement linked to the Sept. 11 attacks day that killed two Israelis. Kelly, an acknowledged tech- emerged during evidence is being interrogated at a se- Israeli President Moshe nical authority on Iraq’s given by Martin Howard, the cret location by US investiga- Katsav had signed the weapons capability, was ap- tors, officials said Friday. clemency order on Monday deputy chief of defence intel- parently close to a nervous Thailand said Hambali for the release of these pris- ligence. breakdown after he un- Tony Blair was nabbed in a raid on an oners, most of whom were This development comes masked himself to the gov- apartment after a tip off in convicted for criminal of- days before the British prime been told Blair intervened ernment as the BBC mole. the ancient temple city of fences. minister actually gives evi- personally to ensure the In recognition of his “vol- Ayutthaya on Monday night. They were taken by buses dence about the events lead- nervous, over-wrought and untary” admission of guilt, A Thai newspaper said he to four checkpoints in the ing up to the apparent sui- pannicky scientist was sub- Howard had recommended was plotting a terrorist at- West Bank and one in Gaza cide of the UK’s Iraqi ject to a rigorous second Kelly’s name and face be kept tack in Bangkok during a Strip, local media reported. weapons expert. round of questioning over out of the spotlight. forthcoming summit of Asia The latest releases came Days, or possibly weeks be- his leaking of information to The civil servant had rec- Pacific leaders, including US fore Blair, his controversial ommended the British gov- Hambali nine days after Israel freed a BBC journalist. President George W. Bush, 334 Palestinians, including chief spin doctor Alastair And No. 10 was apparently ernment “show some regard who described the radical this was denied by Indone- some belonging to Islamic Campbell and defence secre- found “to be content” with its to the man himself”, who Muslim as ‘‘one of the sian police. militant groups, in a goodwill tary Geoff Hoon take the decision to subject Kelly to a “was not on trial” and had world’s most lethal terror- But many fear it might gesture. stand at the inquiry, Blair’s public, televised bout of “come forward voluntarily”. ists.’’ A cache of explosives trigger a wave of revenge at- However, the suicide at- office and aides may have questioning despite a sen- was also discovered, The Na- tacks by his Jemaah Is- tacks in a shopping centre been directly implicated. ior civil servant’s advice tion newspaper said. lamiyah group — accused in near Tel Aviv and a Jewish The inquiry, which has al- to the contrary. Just Residents who witnessed the Oct. 12 Bali blasts, that Settlement in the Gaza Strip ready run for four days, has weeks ago, Blair had his arrest said that he had killed 202 people, the August on Tuesday has threat- lived in the building for only 5 Marriott Hotel bombing in ened to derail the peace two weeks. They said officers Jakarta, in which 12 died, process. Attorney Gener- smashed down the door of and a spate of deadly blasts al Elyakim Rubinstein his one-bedroom apartment in the Philippines. said releasing Palestin- and took him away after a vi- Hours after the catch was ian prisoners was danger- olent struggle. announced, Indonesian po- ous because of the diffi- Officials in Thailand said lice said a suspect in the Mar- culty in keeping them he had been flown to Indone- riott blasts was arrested out- from engaging in terror- sia under US custody. But side Jakarta. AP ist activities. PTI France resists Lockerbie deal Paris: France was on Fri- one official said. “They’re day resisting a US-backed trying to get a better deal plan to lift UN sanctions for their own people by against Libya in exchange punishing the Pan Am 103 for financial compensa- families and it’s absolute- tion for victims of the 1988 ly outrageous.” Lockerbie aircraft bomb- Pan Am flight 103 was ing, saying that victims of the US airliner which ex- a later attack should also ploded over the Scottish get a similar pay-out. town of Lockerbie on De- France “is not prepared cember 21, 1988, killing all to waver on this,” spokes- 259 people aboard and 11 woman foreign ministry on the ground. spokeswoman Cecile Poz- Libya, two of whose na- zo di Borgo said on Thurs- tionals were sentenced day,referring to a demand and jailed over the attack, that Libya provide more has now agreed to pay out compensation for the fam- 2.7 billion dollars (2.4 bil- ilies of 170 people killed in lion euros) to victims’ the 1989 blast that brought families in exchange for a down a French airliner gradual lifting of interna- over west Africa. tional sanctions. US officials in Washing- However, France has ton expressed outrage at said it wants similar com- the French reservations, pensation for the families and said Paris had threat- of the 170 people who died ened to use its veto at the when an airliner operated UN Security Council to by UTA was blown out of block a resolution lifting the sky by a bomb over the sanctions against Libya. Sahara Desert less than a “The threat has been year later, on September made and it is still there,” 19, 1989. AFP Mixed reaction from victims’ families Cape May Court House: It’s a ‘‘tawdry payoff,’’ some relatives of Lockerbie bombing victims say, but others contend the $10 million per family set- tlement may be the only justice available. ‘‘This reduces the slaughter of my innocent, beloved daughter to a business deal,’’ said Susan Cohen, 65, whose 20-year-old daughter, Theodora, died on Pan Am Flight 103. ‘‘They have withheld this for 15 years now, and I think most of us have reached a point where we’re just tired,’’ said 86-year-old Beulah McKee, who lost her son Charles in the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. ‘‘We want it over.” AP

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10 Saturday,August 16, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Coke & Kashmir Bank on Ela A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Her name is now synonymous with the really have a different vision as women? Imaginary Homelands of Post-nationalism micro-credit revolution which reversed the Have we spelt out our plans for the We know that when something bad occurs, people are fortunes of thousands of women in Gujarat. future, how will we as women politicians By Jug Suraiya one’s earth in the post-nationalist era than supposed to try to take care of one another. Similarly, she has been at the forefront of be different? what could be called the ‘‘Nauru syndrome’’. organising vendors in the state. But perhaps Much of your work has been in the field of — The New York Times Today when Coke, along with other bottled The tiny Pacific island enjoys a high stan- her most challenging task to date is that of micro-credit for women. But, in other parts of drinks, is embroiled in the ‘Colagate’ contro- dard of living, thanks to the phosphate it rehabilitating women riot victims in the world there is a lot of criticism that it versy, it might be instructive to look back exports and which is obtained from the de- Ahmedabad. Ramon Magsaysay award only lures women into a debt trap. What has 10 years when Coca-Cola made a triumphal posits of guano, bird droppings, which con- Area of Darkness re-entry into India after its expulsion in 1977. winner and founder of Self-Employed been your experience? stitute a large part of the land mass of the Women’s Association Ela Bhatt spoke to If micro-credit schemes are implemented Then, as now, Coke, and Kashmir, raised coral island. Even as they bless the spin-off The US blackout provides a contrast to Lalita Panicker of women’s empowerment in the proper way, this cannot happen. vexatious questions about nationalism. benefits of recycled fertiliser, Naurans pon- our stoic acceptance of life’s crises or rather lack of it and the way forward: Credit for women is an unmet need which In the mindscape of India’s consuming der whether their success will spell the dis- must be fulfilled. Women in rural areas Crippling afternoon blackout. Cities on the verge of classes, the re-entry of Coca-Cola might solution of their country come the inevitable Women were the particular target of violence have not had access to finances for ages. My collapse. Cascading computer crashes. Automobiles caught also be remembered as the year when a day when the last shipload of guano draws in the Ahmedabad riots. Why do you think experience here has been very positive. It has in gridlock. Men and women trapped in elevators and sub- re-assessment of Kashmir’s relationship away,leaving behind nothing of Nauru but a this happened and what is being done to empowered women, it has changed gender ways. Waves of pedestrians on crucial traffic intersections. with the Union became mootable. The two disembodied Cheshire cat smile hovering in rehabilitate the survivors? relations for the better. Elsewhere, a death toll of over 3,000 as temperatures events might, in popular perception, have empty air as testimony to what might be con- Women are always the easiest target in any What is the woman’s priority when she secures soared, and hospitals and morgues began to overflow. So linkages other than of coincidence. If things sidered the world’s most successfully accom- conflict situation. Why,even to break strikes, a loan? what’s new? Perhaps not in India where life has long been go better with Coke, could things also not plished exercise in post-nationalism as yet. women are threatened with rape or violence. It usually goes towards redemption of a saga of enfeebling disadvantages. For Indians summer go better with the going of Kashmir? The only true homeland of the artist is the The process of recovery for riot victims is debts. Then she starts a small business. translates as water-shortage and heat-related deaths. Mon- The juxtapositioning could indicate the country of the imagination, says Salman very complex; they say time is a great healer Do women default on loan repayments? soon is joy laced with disease and misery. And winter is glimmerings of what might be termed a Rushdie, victor and victim of another but I feel work is a better healer. Women Our repayment rate is 94 per cent which I about cold waves, power outages and deaths due to expo- nascent post-nationalist consciousness. dimension of post-nationalism. In a world begin the healing process when they physi- think is pretty good. In those cases where sure. For us life’s like that. We survive the daily chaos Far more significant than the actual where orthodox boundaries are being eroded cally and emotionally stay together, work they are unable to repay, we help out with through innovation, through simple improvisations. Yet, it changes which have taken place on the or swept away, the creation of imaginary together. We can only hope that carrying out raw materials etc to try and empower them is a different story when these third-world afflictions tran- ground is the transformation of mental homelands necessarily becomes a growth normal daily activities will bring some relief. economically to pay. scend geographical boundaries and cross into the first- horizons, what in marketing terms is industry: Come to where the country is; Are women now more willing to speak about Most women in India work in the unorganised world, leaving their searing imprints on the affluence of referred to as the mindset of the consumer. come to Marlboro flavour. Post-nationalist what happened? sector.What can be done to secure their rights? the West. The power outage that hit North America brought The ‘‘khadi curtain’’ which for years space becomes restructured on the basis More women are coming forward to We have to explore options like setting the region to its knees, of course. But it also showcased the screened India from two-way access to the of brand compatibility rather than the register cases of rape. We could not force up cooperatives and self-help groups at helplessness of a people programmed to live a life of order world at large has been substi- mundane principle of cotermi- them earlier, they the village level. We by a system so efficient that it provides almost no fallback. tuted with an increasingly nousity: Malabar Hill is closer did not have the must endeavour to The heatwave in France illustrates a similar un- porous membrane permitting to Manhattan than it is to its courage to come build up a capital preparedness; when disaster strikes, the clock-work the interflow of a new stream immediate physical environs. Q&A forward. Even now, base for women. discipline of daily life unravels, unable to accommodate the of self-consciousness. Post-Freudian psychology has many do not want to Within our education Women must be unexpected. What added to the panic in the US was the Mera joota hai Japani/ Meri ruled out amorphous, ill-defined identify the rapists. system, in society perceived as owners initial fear that the blackout may have been the handiwork patloon Inglistani/ Sar pe lal emotions like love, and its Have you faced any and families, women and managers, not of terrorists. For New Yorkers, especially,the power outage topi Rusi/ Phir bhi dil hai Hin- reverse, and replaced them with problems from the are treated as lesser as users and bene- was an eerie echo of the confusion and chaos that followed dustani sang Raj Kapoor to a the neural dynamics of the state government in beings... We need ficiaries. My own the terrorist attacks of 9/11. In the end, it turned out that generation for whom a passport individual gratification of to inculcate in women the American blackout was the ironic consequence of an functioning among experience has been was a remote status symbol. specific drives and demands; the concept that antiquated power grid. As a former energy secretary the riot victims? that when women ‘‘Foreign returned’’ bestowed an identity is a question of inter- they as human acidly commented, “We’re a superpower with a Third I have not because take charge of their enviable added dimension to preting and adjusting the jigsaw beings are valuable. the prime minister Udayshankar own affairs, they are World grid.” In a reflective editorial, The New York Times indigenous identity. But when pieces. Shorn of jargon, this has entrusted the able to empower underscored the challenges developments of this kind foreign has become inextricably approach is not dissimilar to an task of rehabilitation to our organisation. each other. Women must work on the princi- posed to 21st century cities. “Yesterday,the low-tech became domestic, and vice versa, what locus standi exercise in marketing strategy based on a What do you see as the future repercussions ple that no one can give or take anything king. The best stereo system in the world could not hold a can we reserve for the Hindustani dil, other hypothesised consumer profile. of this violence? from you, you must do things for yourself. candle to a child’s battery-operated radio.” We should know. than that of a sentimental relic of the past — As far back as the 1970s, Alvin Toffler Women are able to reconcile somehow or For the vast majority of us, candle-light dinners, far rather like the lal topi Rusi which has estimated that the average US citizen was To what do you attribute the extremely poor the other to what happened to them. But it is from being redolent with romance, are part of humdrum undergone a similar metamorphosis in daily subjected to some 2,000 marketing status of women in India? their young sons I am worried about. They everyday existence. In fact, we take all these trying brand definition and positioning? messages and had identified the problem of Women are not valued as human beings. want to hit back through violence. The experiences as a training to hone out the tenacity to live Such questions may be of particular finding a focal point, a still centre in the Within our education system, in society government cannot remove this anger and life at any cost, to learn to tolerate the intolerable. In our relevance — or indeed of total irrelevance — turning whirl of images. Since then the issue and families, women are treated as lesser besides people have no faith in governments. banes we find a paradoxical blessing. Perhaps that’s one to a generation which is more intimately has gained complexity, in the US and beings. Increasingly, women’s bodies are The only way this anger can be managed is humbling lesson the first world can learn from us. acquainted with Santa Barbara than the elsewhere, with the growth in transnational- becoming central to her being, she is nothing through giving them productive work. Santhal Parganas; which knows that it ism, both in terms of products and popula- more than a property which men want to Facing up to the makes good economic sense to holiday in tions. The so-called cricket match test of Do you think moves like the Women’s possess. Women themselves are inter- Pataya, Thailand, rather than Bogmalo, Goa. determining brand loyalty as posed by the Reservation Bill would make a difference to nalising this and being forced to use their Chinese dragon A product of the early industrial age, the British Conservative MP, Norman Tebbit, the lot of women in India? bodies as capital. They have lost their ghetto mentality of nationalism — complete suggested that misplaced patriotism might I was never for it but kept quiet to show self-esteem and to make up for this, they VIEW with occasional gang wars against competi- be the last refuge of the spoilsport. solidarity with the women’s movement. You spend so much energy on beautifying their tors — has increasingly been called into The give and take of post-nationalism know, you have to build up political power. bodies. And the media actively promotes question in the electronic age global could help obviate such sticky wickets. In You cannot get away from the fact that this as women’s empowerment. We need to India All Set to supermart prophesied by McLuhan. While Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons, Thomas money gets you tickets and that parties will inculcate in women the concept that they as the features of nationalism have begun to More tells Richard Rich: ‘‘It little profits a put up winnable candidates. Women have to human beings are valuable and should Play St George blur almost everywhere, the consequent man to sell his soul for the world — but to enter politics and really work to build up a pursue independent goals. ever mind the inconclusive (for now) debate about issues raised are compounded in India by do it for Wales?’’ In the semantics of post- political base. Political power must be What about greater male involvement in Nhow genuine Chinese statistics are. Let’s look at factors as diverse as the NRI phenomenon nationalism such qualms need not arise, earned, not through reservations. But this securing women’s rights? real, incontestable trends. A few years ago, Chinese and ‘‘Toyota Hinduism’’ which make it even for it would be seen that the world and issue has kept alive the debate on women’s We should have got them on our side electronics company, Konka, launched its products in more difficult to define what being Indian Wales, or Coke and Kashmir, are equally rights and kept politicians on their toes. already. I still feel we have a chance because the Indian market. So how many units does Konka means, and to whom and why. fictive landscapes of the mind — as is the But women have not been able to acquire our men are more considerate and compas- sell? A fraction of what Indian firms achieve. Or take Perhaps nothing better demonstrates the soul, for that matter. the political clout to secure seats. sionate than in other countries. There is still the case of the motorcycle industry.Only one Chinese difficulties of keeping one’s feet firmly on (November 29, 1993) There is no alternative; besides, do we some morality and values left in them. company, Monto Motors, has actually launched its products here — and has cumulatively sold around 15,000 bikes in a market where 2.5 million motor- cycles are purchased every year. Meanwhile, Indian Lead Kindly Light Message of Gathas: two-wheeler manufacturers hold export orders worth almost $10 billion, and are actually eyeing the Chinese By V N Kakar spoon.” Mehta poured a Lots of correspondents market. The fact is, China’s perceived cost advantage spoonful first in the from USA and Europe were Its Relevance Ved Mehta came all the is neutralised by many factors. Manufacturing cost is minister’s cup, then in his coming to New Delhi to in- By B H Antia Driven by Technology only one of the costs involved in delivering value way from New York to New own. “Milk?” asked he. terview Raj Narain. As the Gathas are the divine goes hand in hand with to the consumer — distribution, support, and brand Delhi to interview the “No,” said the minister. media chief in the health The nihilism of songs composed by prophet responsibility for the conse- building are other major outflows. Add these expenses health minister. From my Mehta put the milk-pot ministry, I had to be pres- technology lies not Zarathushtra, more than quences of such actions. and Chinese imports aren’t so economical any office on the first floor of back in the tray from which ent. Ved Mehta was then on only in the fact that it 3,000 years ago. Gathic verses Zarathushtra’s main empha- more. Besides, the quality of many Chinese products Nirman Bhavan, I went he had picked it up. the staff of the New Yorker. is the most perfect reflect the communion which sis is on the here and now — is a real issue for consumers. Then, there are the down to the portico to No need to go into what The interview over, as he expression of the will the Prophet received from life on earth. At centrestage complexities of the Indian market, which have receive him. As he alighted took place between Mehta left the minister’s room, I to power, as Heidegger Ahura Mazda, the Supreme is the mind of man, which befuddled many an ace marketer. from his chauffeur-driven and the health minister. A wanted to escort him down believes, but also in Being. The Gathic verses are can create either a virtual Also, it’s not as if Indian companies are competitive car, he stretched forth his new government under to his car in the portico. He the fact that it lacks collected in 17 chapters, each heaven or hell. Each confor- only on home turf. India is now the world’s cheapest hand and said, “How are Morarji Desai had taken requested me not to do that. meaning. Why? and called a Haiti, incorporated mance to the Law of Asha, manufacturing base for colour TVs and refrigerators, you, Mr Kakar?” As he over in Delhi and Raj Still, lest he should trip, I To what purpose? into a ritual text, the Yasna. through good thoughts, good with Videocon claiming an export price of $68 for a walked into the health Narain was assigned the followed him, negotiating are questions that Ahura Mazda as the sole words, good deeds, is a bit 21-inch set, against the Chinese average of $76. Ever minister’s room and as the health portfolio. He had the staircase. And lest he technology does not creator and protector of the of heaven. Each deviation since the 1991 economic reforms, any number of health minister got up in defeated Indira Gandhi in should feel offended, I did ask itself. universe. The Avestan Ahura from the Law of Asha is a bogeymen have been brandished. But Indian industry his seat to greet him, he put the elections to Parliament so almost surreptitiously. means ‘lord of life’, and bit of hell. Octavio Paz has surprised everyone — including probably itself — it to him, “How come that ✥ from Rae Bareli in Uttar The chauffeur opened the Mazda means ‘all knowing, It is a cardinal Zoroastrian by its resilience and ability to re-invent itself. The you are wearing this green Pradesh. And he had car-door for him. Before omniscient’. The Zoroastrian faith that the world is Technology is a way Chinese scare too will fizzle out. Let them enter scarf on your head?” earned fame for his famous getting into the vehicle, he religion is based on the indeed getting better and of organising the software, Indian firms will migrate up the value The minister wanted to slogan ‘‘Ham ne nasbandi shook hands with me immutable and eternal that man’s role — through universe so that man chain. In a recent interview to this paper, economist pour tea for him from the ki nasbandi kar di” (I have and thanked me. Not for law of Asha which signi- good thoughts, good words, doesn’t have to Lester Thurow pointed out that while China is pot. Ved Mehta prevented sterilised sterilisation): escorting him back but for fies truth, order, discipline good deeds — is to leave it a experience it. harnessing globalisation to create manufacturing him from doing that. He This was following a the interview with the and progress. little more perfect than when Max Frisch jobs for high school-educated workers, India is himself poured the tea first campaign against the mass minister I had arranged. Asha is the Eternal Truth, he entered it. ✥ creating relatively high-skilled jobs for university- in the minister’s cup, then sterilisation programme How did Ved Mehta, the One Reality, the main- Law of Asha resembles the Humanity is acquiring educated professionals. The dragon may be a fire- in his own, and said, “How which, they say, was one of stark blind, know that spring of all manifestation law of cause and effect, the all the right technology breather, but India is full of fire-eaters. much sugar do you take?” the reasons for the defeat of Raj Narain was wearing and of all evolution. It is the laws of Karma. Zarathushtra for all the The minister said, “One Indira Gandhi’s party. a green scarf on his head? Great Law, the Divine Plan reiterates: “As you sow, so wrong reasons. COUNTERVIEW of God, according to which shall you reap.” With this Buckminster Fuller CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS the universe is fashioned. law of Asha is tied up the ✥ Tennyson’s words describe conception of happiness and They’ll Make Chopsuey Water Transfer water-related problems can be found only it best: “That God misery, heaven Technology presumes through principles of sound hydrology. who always lives and hell. Those there’s just one right Out of Us Apropos the Q&A, ‘Nature’s Way’ (Aug 4), — Chetan Pandit, New Delhi and loves,/ One who follow the way to do things and environmental concern has become God, One Law, law of Asha, walk there never is. ata lies. Anecdotes don’t. So, before we jump to synonymous with criticism of all One Element,/ on the path of Robert Pirsig conclusions that the tiger has the potential to Liberian Peg D engineering works in the water sector. And one far-off truth, righteous- ✥ challenge the dragon, let’s look at three interesting Vikas Singh has interestingly explained However, the critics should at least get their divine Event,/ To ness and good- anecdotes. They not only showcase China’s strategic how news is prioritised at daily edit You cannot endow even facts right. Delhi’s share in Yamuna waters which the whole ness, out of which intent, they also prove why China is set to become a meetings held in newspaper offices the best machine with is only 6 per cent. So it is wrong to say “all Creation moves.” happiness comes. global benchmark. According to BusinessWeek, “It (‘Learning about Liberia: And Demystifying initiative; the jolliest the water in Yamuna is drawn for Delhi’s Zarathushtra Samuel Laing has taken Ranbaxy 11 years to win permission to build the Newspaper’, Aug 9). Although I don’t THE steam-roller will consumption”. Similarly,it is wrong to say formulated a reli- described the a modern HQ in another part of town... it took understand the logic, I accept his definition: not plant flowers. that interlinking project will change the gion free from SPEAKING relevance of the Ranbaxy five months to establish itself in the ‘‘...5,000 people die due to floods in Walter Lippman course of the rivers. The rivers will dogmas, com- Zoroastrian reli- southern city of Guangzhou.” That’s Chinese investor- Bangladesh, it will be a small story for one TREE ✥ continue to flow in their natural courses. mandments, and gion thus: “It is overfriendliness for you. Now look at its overarching day.If 5,000 Wall Street bankers, traders Only some water will be transferred from compulsions. Man is evident that this simple and It was naive of the overresolve. The host of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing’s and analysts get killed by a terrorist attack, one place to other, through canals. endowed with reason, with sublime religion is one to 19th century optimists mayor has said the city will surely speak English by it will hog several pages for days to come’’. The Delhi of tanks and step wells with freedom of thought, word which, by whatever name we to expect paradise from then. If that happens, Indian TV audiences can expect Both Bangladesh and Wall Street are a clean Yamuna flowing by it — that and deed. He is free to choose may call it, the best modern technology — and it is another friendly neighbourhood surprise in five relevant to us, but why Liberia? I am continues to haunt the romantics — had a between good and evil. But thought is fast approximat- equally naive of the years: Chinese footage without sub-titles. Now try to sure very few Indians can pin-point Liberia population of only a few lakhs. There was with the gift of Vohu Manah, ing. Men of science like Hux- 20th century pessimists get a taste of Chinese cultural imperialism: Tourists on the world map. hardly any abstraction from the river the Good Mind, he can ley,philosophers like Herbert to make technology the shopping for native American curios in the US are According to Mr Singh, repeated coverage upstream, and the ground water extraction be encouraged to adhere Spencer,poets like Tennyson, scapegoat for such old often surprised to find them made in-yes-China. in newspapers across the world prompted was also very little. These are facts that the to the righteous path, the might all subscribe to it; and shortcomings as man’s Economists argue about the weakness of the his boss to commission a piece on Liberia. romantics ignore. To argue that a city of Law of Asha. even enlightened Christian cruelty,immaturity, Chinese mass-production construct; econometricians Newspapers and websites across the world this size located in a monsoon-driven divines like Dr Temple, are greed and sinful pride. debate GDP statistic; management gurus make have also been talking about the floods in Zarathushtra urged that climate can live only on tanks, is pure each person should accept not very far from it. Peter Drucker Powerpoint presentations on the diaspora disadvan- fantasy.A solution to the country’s Sind, Pakistan. The toll is rising and the ✥ tage. Yet one thing is amply clear: The non-English number of displaced people is reportedly only those beliefs that he It is good to always speaking dragon is learning to spit code. Gartner more than a million. Yet none of the Indian himself concluded to be remember to follow the Technology made expects China to near India’s software exports in four From timesofindia.com newspapers have focused on this calamity. true after independent principle of righteousness large populations possible; large years at a noodle-hungry rate of over 600 per cent. One would believe that with Pakistan observation, after hearing (Ashoi) in our daily lives populations now Don’t forget: Cheaper Chinese labour and friendly figuring high on the list of our prime from gurus and after because: “If there is Cow vs Chicken make technology policy will attract top-quality expertise from both US minister’s priorities, the devastation self-instruction about the Righteousness in the heart,/ If cruelty to animals is the basis for seek- indispensable. and India. China hopes that FDI will create a software caused by the floods in Sind would merit nature of the universe: “Do there will be Beauty in ripple-effect, spawning its own nudists on late shifts. ing a ban on cow slaughter, why not have you listen with your own character,/ If there is beauty Joseph Krutch similar bans on the killing of buffaloes, some (if not continuous) coverage. Don’t be surprised: The future has already arrived in ears,/ Do you look with in character,/ there will be ✥ goats (Gandhiji loved them), chickens — Prakash Chander,Mumbai China through cyberspace. China has 68 million Net the best inspiring divine Harmony in the home,/ If Technology makes and crabs. These poor creatures are being users, more than twice that of India. The dragon is Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page intelligence,/ At the creed of there is harmony in the it possible for people overlooked only because they don’t have Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New scaling global walls to become a titan, India is dwarfed your own choice, each man home,/ there will be Order in to gain control over high-profile and powerful supporters. If Delhi-110002. email:[email protected] for himself./ In order to the nation,/ and if there is by its bureaucratic barriers. When Andy Grove No. 195 Vol. 54. Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via everything, except all animals are to be treated equally,one Rs.3, Indore and via 50 paise. National edition: No aircharge.Price in Nepal: NEP Rs 5, except instruct himself through our order in the nation,/ there chanted Only The Paranoid Survive, it wasn’t meant Sunday: NEP Rs 7. RNI No. 508/57 MADE IN NEW DELHI REGD. NO. 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Intellectual violation Jalanomics Wireless mouse revolution A model of Chinese car maker Geely. Speaking at what could Sony’s new wireless optical mouse has Toyota Motor has sued Geely for $1.7 be his last conference as six colour variations and will be put on million in damages alleging intellectual RBI governor, Bimal the market next month with an es- property right violations. Geely’s Merry Jalan said that India’s timated price of $50 each. compact car logo is very similar to Toyota’s forex reserves are among Wireless mouses are clearly and Geely used Toyota’s name in campaigns the highest in the world gaining favour in the market

Disney dissolves WTO tie-up with Modi, Global air travel enters Dark Age NEGOTIATIONS AFP By Byas Anand Troubled flight Long way ahead eyes new channel TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Around 1,600 •No flights from the US TIMES NEWS NETWORK Air-India passengers were landed in Delhi and to Cancun left stranded across India Mumbai on Friday New Delhi: Walt Disney is finally getting and the US as the largest ate on Tuesday night, bleary-eyed ready to entertain Indian couch potatoes power failure in US history •US-bound flights trade negotiators from the EU and through its own arm. After bitter wranglings, blacked out cities, disrupt- disrupted as airports L the US claimed to have sealed a pact Walt Disney Company and Modi Enterprises ing flights and throwing are mostly closed for reforming agricultural trade. Not be- said they have dissolved their decade-old joint- travel schedules off gear. fore time. The World Trade Organisation venture arrangement — WD India Private Ltd • Hundreds of flights The transatlantic flights of meets in Cancun, Mexico in less than four — on expiration of licensing arrangement. cancelled globally other European carriers weeks to salvage the Doha round of trade This amicable settlement means Walt Dis- have also been delayed, re- talks. Failure to reach a deal on farm sub- ney Television will have no further road sulting in no flights from who are booked to travel on sidies and Doha would be done for. blocks to invest in the latter’s subsidiary in In- the US arriving in Delhi these flights, to take their Trade theory is elegant; trade negotia- dia. Disney,which has been around town with and Mumbai on Friday connecting flights as sched- tions are not. Any issue that cannot be re- movies, TV shows and merchandise in India, night. uled. solved can always be obscured. But the is likely to launch a new channel aimed at chil- Even a Virgin Atlantic text of this latest deal is a classic of the dren and young adults. The scenes of chaos fol- flight to New York returned genre, full of fuzzy language, fussy jargon ‘‘India continues to be a major priority for lowing the blackout have and fudged commitments. It calls for re- Disney and we remain fully committed to our left many passengers star- to London midway across the Atlantic due to the forms, cuts and caps without putting fig- customers and clients here. We have had a pro- ing at indefinitely long ures on almost any of them. blackout, while British Air- ductive business partnership with Modi En- delays. Take the contentious issue of subsidis- ways cancelled five flights terprises in India,’’ said senior vice-president Two Air-India flights, ing exports, for example. The text offers a from Heathrow to North and managing director of Walt Disney Televi- both originating from the commitment to eliminate subsidies, over America, affecting some sion International (Asia Pacific) Doug Miller. US, have been delayed in- COMMERCE AS USUAL: Beer sales shot up on the streets of New York. time, on those products of particular in- 1,400 passengers, including ‘‘We have settled the issue amicably.Disney definitely as the airports terest to poor countries. Which products, will now be on their own in India,’’ said Lalit have been closed. Conse- services to New York, Cars slam brakes Internet survives Landlines saviour exactly? It doesn’t say. And how long be- Modi, chairman, Modi Enterprises. Modi will quently, the flights sched- Philadelphia, Toronto and fore the subsidies are eliminated? Again, etroit, the heart of nternet performance now concentrate on online lottery business. uled to leave for Newark Montreal. he regular public tele- we are left to fill in the blanks ourselves. North America’s auto- Both the companies signed a pact to dissolve and New York on Saturday At Frankfurt interna- D Itracker Keynote Systems Tphone network general- All that can be known from the text is that the joint business partnership after expiration have also been rescheduled. tional airport in Germany, motive industry was shut said the outage has not ly kept working after the export credits, which America favours, of 10-year arrangement. ‘‘We were able to Even other international incoming US flights were down Thursday evening by slowed the net. “At this time, power went out in parts of will be phased out just as quickly (or make significant contributions towards rais- carriers, including Air delayed by up to seven the cascading power out- the Internet is performing six states yesterday after- slowly) as the export subsidies the EU so ing the salience of the Disney brand and tele- France, British Airways hours. An Air France offi- ages. “We have plants in all normally and major Web noon, but the cellular sys- cherishes. vision programming in India,’’ Modi said. In and Lufthansa had to cial said its three aircraft the impacted areas and sites in the US are also per- tems in affected areas were The pact’s commitments on import tar- October 2001, Disney had moved the FIPB reroute and cancel some of remain blocked in New we’re still assessing the im- forming normally, although often unable to cope. Wire- iffs are even more opaque. The EU and seeking permission to set up a 100% sub- their transaltantic flights. York waiting for power to be pact,” GM spokesman Pat a few of the news Web sites less network operators said America will try to improve access to Morrissey said. GM em- sidiary company for the purposes of launch- “AI 144 operating on the restored at JFK. A fourth are showing slightly longer their networks were unable their markets in not one but three differ- ing ‘The Disney Channel’ in India. plane, bound for New York, ployees even had to walk to handle the heavy traffic Newark-Paris-Mumbai sec- download times,” Keynote ent ways, blending these measures by Modis had protested on the grounds that the had to be rerouted to Mon- down from their skyscraper as large numbers of people tor and AI 112 on the New spokesman Dan Berkowitz some secret formula they do not see fit to businesses of the existing JV firm and the treal and was also waiting by the Detroit River. simultaneously tried to divulge. Some tariffs will be cut, although York-London-Delhi-Mum- wrote in an e-mail. proposed wholly-owned subsidiary were simi- bai route have been delayed. for the go-ahead to land at Ford Motor spokesman reach friends, family and the pact does not say by how much. Some Technology companies in lar. Disney and Modis are working together to As a result the flights for the airport. Ed Lewis said 23 of Ford’s business associates. product lines will even be duty-free. Still formalise transition plans. Saturday have also been de- Lufthansa had to cancel 44 plants in North America New York such as IBM were The land-line network, others will be subject to a Swiss formula layed,” an A-I spokesperson two flights between Frank- were down. Those plants in- affected. America Online which is built with backup coefficient. That’s clear then. said. furt and New York, one clude assembly, stamping, spokesman Nicholas Gra- power, continued operating, Besides promoting exports and dis- China says no to MS, But the airline has asked incoming flight from engines. Chrysler spokes- ham said the company, the although spikes in calling couraging imports, the EU and America its passengers from Hyder- New York and the corre- woman said nine of its 13 fi- largest US net service, had volume sometimes caused also spend a lot of money supporting abad, Ahmedabad, Kochi, sponding return flight out nal vehicle assembly plants witnessed a dip in simulta- callers to encounter fast their farmers, either by keeping their to use local software Chennai and Bangalore, of Frankfurt. had been hit. Reuters neous users. NYT News Service busy signals. NYT News Service prices artificially high or by giving them money directly, based on such things as Beijing: In an attempt to end the monop- the number of livestock they keep or oly of global software giant Microsoft, ma- acres they reap. jor Chinese ministries on Friday started Tuesday’s pact acknowledges that upgrading its domestic software, by using Toyota seeks to pay $20m to parent for new car these domestic support measures do in the latest edition of WPS office software By Byas Anand Toyota has already given product is still at the design out that the vehicle would production preparation and fact distort trade. It promises to reduce made in China. TIMES NEWS NETWORK its associate firm — Toyota stages and we are trying to initially be sold alongside its training its employees on the the measures that most distort trade and Fifteen Chinese ministries, including Kirloskar Auto Parts — the ascertain the amount of in- existing model. “If the cus- new vehicle. to put a cap on direct payments to pro- ministry of commerce, ministry of for- New Delhi: Toyota Kir- go ahead to locally produce vestment needed for the proj- tomer preference shifts from In addition, it will also ducers. This time the agreement even eign affairs and ministry of state security, loskar Motors has sought to the engines and transmis- ect...But there will not be Qualis, we will discontinue pay Toyota a royalty of 5 per provides a number: spending on direct will be the first users of the new edition of pay $20 million to its parent sion, axle and gearbox for any fresh equity infusion it.” cent on domestic sales and payments will be limited to 5 per cent of WPS office software, the leading Chinese company Toyota Motor Cor- the new model. from the parent firm and the The company’s existing 6 per cent on exports of the the value of agricultural production. newspaper, People’s Daily, reported. An of- poration of Japan as royalty ficial of the state assets supervision and “This will be out first de- entire expense for this proj- plant at Bidadi in Karnataka vehicle. This pact is not so much a trade deal as and technical assistance fee signed and made-in-India ve- ect will be met through in- would be upgraded to facili- Besides, Toyota Kirloskar it is a signal that the EU and the United administration commission, Fei Lin, told for building its first made-in- the ruling Communist Party’s mouth- hicle. We are planning a high ternal accruals.” tate the manufacture of this Auto Parts will pay around States are not yet willing to give up on the India world car. The new piece, that his experience indicated the level of local content in this Though he said the new new model. TKM will pay $4.8 million as technical as- Doha round. Don’t cancel your tickets to world car — a new multi-pur- WPS outperformed overseas-made office car to control costs,” Toyota MPV is not being developed around $20 million to Toyota sistance fee for producing Cancun just yet, is the unstated but sub- pose vehicle (MPV) — is slat- Kirloskar director (market- as a replacement for the ex- Motor Company for provid- engines, axles and propeller The Economist software in document typesetting. Reuters stantive message of this pact. ed for launch in 2005. ing) Satoshi Aoki said. “The isting Qualis, Aoki pointed ing additional assistance for shafts for the new model. EXECUTIVE DIGEST Trai to start work on NATIONAL KMCL (Konark Metallurgical Jewellery expo gets Maruti plans service unit in Chennai: Coke Limited) plant will go on underway: A three-day jew- Jagdish Khattar-led Maruti Udyog stream by the year-end ellery exhibition showcasing Macmillam set to cross will set up a Maruti service though it will take a few some of the most glittering masters (MSA) unit, its after months more for it to function number portability soon Rs 100 cr sales in ‘03: creations, including exquisite- Shifting its core competence sales service arm, in Chennai at full capacity of 8.8 lakh ly crafted diamond and pearl- New Delhi: Switching over from publishing to information with an investment of Rs 13 tonne annually,’’ MMTC CMD studded pieces, by major de- crore. The project would be SD Kapoor said. He said of to a different cellular serv- outsourcing, Macmillan India signers from across the coun- is all set to cross Rs 100 crore operational by January, 2004. the 8.8 lakh tonne metallurgi- ice provider with same try got underway here on Fri- sales mark this year and aims The MSA, with a customer cal coke to be produced from number could now become at a 20 per cent sales growth base of 23,000, has two KMCL, six lakh tonne will be day. Titled ‘Zak Jewels 2003’, possible as the Telecom to over Rs 140 crore by 2005. outlets in Delhi. used captively for the compa- the event boasts of participa- Regulatory Authority of In- ‘‘Macmillan hopes to cross ny’s own Neelanchal Ispat tion from more than 40 reput- dia (Trai) will start work- Rs 100 crore sales turnover in Nigam plant and the remain- ed craftsmen, whose exclu- ing on ‘number portability’ 2003,’’ managing director der sold at home. PTI sive collections ranging from plan in October. Rajiv Beri said. The Indian bridal, traditional, antique, “It is a complex thing to subsidiary of UK-based com- Bhel, Nordex in wind gift, casual and contemporary energy JV: In a bid to ex- bring in number portabili- pany expects to generate Rs style jewellery, are on display. ty. It needs a whole lot of 50 crore sales from its pub- pand and diversify, Bhel said The object of the event was on Friday it would aggressive- changes in the numbering lishing wing. The e-learning to popularise Indian designer ly start taking up non-conven- scheme, in the equipment. and information process ini- jewellery abroad, said the tional energy projects and has So, we will start the process tiatives would contribute the expo organiser Syed Zakir entered into a strategic tie-up in October,” Trai chairman rest towards the current year Ahmed. PTI sales target. It posted Rs 82 with Netherlands-based Pradip Baijal said. crore sales with 30 per cent Nordex for a pilot project in HAL launches centre of Implementation of num- wind energy. ‘‘We will go done it,” Baijal said. On the issue of quality of bottomline last year. The Ajit Ninan excellence: The centre of ber portability assumes sig- He said Trai would ask services, he said Trai had company has been recording aggressively for non-conven- excellence in composites was nificance as it would allow without the RBI licence, even having enabling provision in tional energy projects. We consultants to study the issued some standards, and a 20 per cent sales growth inaugurated on Friday by Hal customers of one service as there were 221 new pro- bye-laws to transact banking are now bidding for more and network and suggest most has already put out a sur- with 25-35 per cent margins chairman NR Mohanty at the posals for setting up urban business, without approval. PTI more wind energy and other provider to migrate to an- viable and suitable meth- vey on its website. “But we for the last 2-3 fiscals, he said cooperative banks. In the aircraft researach and design other operator, while re- ods for implementation of should not monitor quality adding ‘‘Macmillan will like to MMTC coke plant to such projects,’’ Bhel’s director wake of multi-crore govern- of industrial systems and centre of HAL. The centre is a taining the same phone number portability. of services and serve no- sustain the trend’’. PTI open by year-end: Leading ment securities scam, involv- products HW Bhatnagar said. facility catering to the growing number. “We will appoint some- tices. In fact, the consumer ing home trade, mainly in Ma- state trading enterprise demands of composite struc- 495 cooperative banks MMTC’s ambitious Rs 2,250 Bhel would have an order “We are appointing a one who has done this in will reject poor quality of without RBI licence: harashtra and Gujarat, the book of over Rs 100 crore in tures, which are extensively consultant who will tell us other countries,” he point- service.” Pointing out that banking regulator has already crore venture to convert im- As many as 495 cooperative the area of non-conventional used in Dhruv helicopters and how various countries have ed out. the market should deter- written to state registrars of ported coal into metallurgical banks at national, state and coke will be operational in the energy, he said adding that light combat aircraft Tejas and done this. One way of doing Asked about the consult- mine the quality of service, district levels are understood cooperative societies, asking Bhel was exploring a long- space programmes, an HAL them not to register societies, next three months. ‘‘The it is to deploy a powerful ant who would be appoint- Baijal said “we should to have been functioning term relation with Nordex. PTI press release said. PTI computer. There are also ed for number portability, make it possible for the con- many other platforms for Baijal said “we have short- sumer to quickly change INTERNATIONAL Dragonair will drop Carlsberg H1 net profit industry. In a memo to staff this. A lot of countries have listed many companies.” service.” PTI challenge to Cathay: up 4%: The Danish brewer released to the media, Qantas Hong Kong’s No. 2 airline, Airways chief executive Geoff Sri Lanka H1 exports up Carlsberg posted on Friday Dragonair, said on Friday has a four per cent rise in net Dixon said the airline would 18% in 2003: Sri Lanka’s split operations into separate Rivals make Verizon plan difficult dropped efforts to keep part- profit in the first half of the exports rose by 18 per cent in business units in what he Washington: Verizon riers from being erected for sary because customers al- ner-turned-rival Cathay Pacif- year and said it was keeping the first half of this year to described as ‘‘a sustainable Wireless on Thursday ac- customers who ask to ready switch at a steady ic Airways from flying into its full-year outlook on $2,378 million, up from future’’ program. AFP cused rivals of trying to switch carriers without giv- clip, and the companies mainland China, where Drag- operating profit. Net profit $2,012 million in the corre- make it difficult for cus- ing up their numbers. have demanded the FCC ad- onair generates most of its rose to 709 million kroner sponding period last year, the tomers to switch service Rival carriers like Sprint dress several technical is- revenues. Dragonair spokes- from 680 million in the same ET INSTA POLL central bank said on Friday. woman Bevis Yiu said her providers without giving PCS “make it clear that sues before they go for- Imports rose seven per cent period in 2002. Profit fell 10 Yesterday’s results: up their telephone num- they will slow or block a company had decided not to Bottles of herbal extract on ward. to $3,078 million dollars, but per cent to 1.203 billion euros Is the Indian economy freer bers. Starting November 24, customer’s desire to change appeal a ruling that allowed show at the Hong Kong than the Indian polity? The FCC wireless bureau the trade deficit narrowed to from 1.374 billion. AFP Federal Communications carriers and keep the same Cathay Pacific to fly to the Convention and Exhibition Yes 52% No 43% Can’t say 05% in July told Verizon Wire- $700 million during the first mainland cities of Beijing, Center on Friday. Hong Qantas plans major cost Commission rules will re- numbers until the cus- • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users quire US wireless carriers tomer fully settles up,” said less and the trade group half of 2002. ‘‘This reduction, Shanghai and Xiamen, which Kong could become hub for restructuring: Australian who chose to participate, and not necessarily of with increased forex inflows the general public. to offer customers the abili- Verizon Wireless in its fil- representing most wireless are the backbone of Drago- Chinese health products, flag carrier Qantas on Friday Today’s question: carriers that they could not due to growth in tourism, port nair’s business and it worries officials said at the the ty to switch while keeping ing with the FCC. unveiled plans to slash $650 Could the cola companies have delay a customer move services and capital account that competition from Cathay, Modernisation of Chinese million off its costs in a major their telephone number. Sprint and other wireless managed the crisis better? even if accounts or fees flows, boosted the stability in a part owner of Dragonair, will Medicine and Health restructuring amid increasing To vote, log on to Verizon Wireless asked carriers have said number the exchange rate.’’ AFP http://economictimes.indiatimes.com the FCC to prevent new bar- portability was unneces- were due. Reuters cost it millions of dollars. AP Products exhibiton. volatility in the global aviation

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AFP Pfizer braces for competition New York: Pfizer Inc faces the world’s top-selling drug, potence drug from Bayer AG one of its biggest marketing with $8 billion in annual and GlaxoSmithKline Plc. challenges in years as rivals sales, while impotence treat- Pressure is mounting for for its two best known drugs, ment Viagra, with nearly $2 Pfizer to bring out new Viagra and Lipitor, prepare billion in sales, has become a drugs. It says it is optimistic to hit pharmacy shelves by household name. about a smoking cessation the end of the year. US regulators are expected drug and a new type of cho- Lipitor, for cholesterol, is to approve Levitra, a new im- lesterol fighter. Reuters

A customer checks discounted prices of air conditioners, hit by a slump in sales because of the recent cool summer, at a Tokyo electric shop on Friday. In sharp contrast to historic summer heatwaves in Europe, Japan is chilling with cold weather and the economy threatening to slice one $8.4 billion off its GDP, a private research institute said. Vivendi bids fall short London: Vivendi Universal’s dream of landing a $14 billion cash-rich deal for its US entertainment em- pire is fast evaporating with final bids likely to fall short of the mark, sources said on Friday. As the deadline for bids looms on Monday,the me- dia giant is facing a dwindling field of contenders for its Universal film, television and theme park busi- ness, with most valuing the assets at least $1 billion below Vivendi’s price tag. Vivendi chief Jean-Rene Fourtou is sticking by his $14 billion demand, de- spite the exit of another contender on Thursday, Comcast Corp. “I don’t think anyone is going to get to $14 billion,” said another source. Fortou is now facing three op- tions: Accept a bid below its price tag; pursue a JV with NBC or Comcast; or go it alone. Reuters Essar Oil’s first RPO in September Mumbai: Essar Oil (EOL) is set to roll out its first retail petrol outlet (RPO) at Ratna- giri next month. This will be the first such RPO to come up in the private sector after the administered price mechanism was done away with. The first franchaisee outlet would be opened in the first week of September, EOL chief executive (mar- keting) RK Verma said on Friday said on Friday. With financial institu- tions approving debt re- structuring proposals last month, the Essar Group company is going full steam ahead to put in place its re- tail outlets to start with. PTI UK fund managers’ job mart reviving London: Britain’s fund management businesses have been roiled by a spate of key players joining new firms in recent weeks in what re- cruiters say may be a sign that the fund job market is emerging from the doldrums. Companies such as Schroders plc, In- sight Investments and Edinburgh Fund Managers have seen fund managers quit, while firms like ISIS Asset Management have been snapping up fresh talent. These moves may suggest UK’s finan- cial jobs market, still reeling from the three-year bear mar- ket in stocks, is show- ing signs of life al- though conditions re- main tough. The City, London’s financial district, has seen an estimated 35,000 finance profes- sionals across differ- ent sectors lose their jobs, a fall of about 10 percent in two years, according to the Cen- tre for Economic and Business Research. Recruiters say al- though some fund managers still have to cut costs, the worst of the job downturn may be over. “We have seen a notable increase in the last eight weeks. There has been a sea change. People are in- terested in getting good people on board,” a headhunter for a large City re- cruitment firm, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. The fund manage- ment business, seen at one stage as a growth spot, has be- come tougher as eq- uity markets tumbled and margins became squeezed. Reuters

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Cold Turkey for Enke Medals forfeited El Guerrouj for Worlds German goalkeeper Robert Enke Argentina will forfeit two medals won Morroco will bank on world 1500m champ has made a hasty return to Spain, at the Pan American Games, after Hicham El Guerrouj who will also run the after just 14 days with Turkish club rower Ulf Lienhard tested positive for 5,000 at the World Athletics in Paris. Fenerbahce. ‘This is not my world,’ cocaine. ‘Anything other than Others in the star-studded squad include said the former Barcelona ’keeper cocaine would be more pardonable,’ double 400m hurdles winner Nezha now seeking a second try in Spain fumed the Games organisers Bidouane, Salah Hissou and Khalid Skah Lina Krasnoroutskaya upsets Kim Clijsters to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament in Toronto

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I only hope Liverpool and United stumble with their new signings so that we cane gain an early lead. India ready for Dutch treat — Thierry Henry even manages a top three here in couple of weaknesses, which the Coming to hockey itself, it is go- HIGH STICKS Amsterdam. world has come to associate us ing through an identity crisis. The SPORTS DIGEST Pargat Singh Our best has been a third place with. For one, we need to keep the world body as well as the top feder- AFP at this very venue. But that was cylinders firing for all 70 minutes, ations of Europe need India and After the Olympics and the Asian way back in 1982. It’s been 21 years and then make good even the half Pakistan to do well and stay among Games, the Cham- since. chances that come our way. the best. For it is the charm of see- pions Trophy for The Indians will be pitted Finally,the team cannot afford to ing Indian artistry against Euro- me, is the most ex- against the very best, including relax even in the last five or 10 sec- pean muscle that excites the hock- citing tournament the Olympic champions the onds. Many a time we have lost in ey fan. Also, it is well known de- in hockey. Sure, Netherlands, World Cup winners that last few moments. spite lack of success, hockey ig- each year the team Germany, Australia, Pakistan and Who can forget the last three nites a lot of passion back home in plays a lot of other Argentina. On a given day, each of minutes of India’s match against India. The expectations after Syd- events, but this them is simply unbeatable. But Poland at the Sydney Olympics, ney and Hamburg in the last few event is about the then, one might counter, so is In- when a semi-final berth looked so months have been further raised very best teams in the game. dia. But India’s ability to maintain close. India were already the Asian by monumental sponsorship. Imag- For that very reason, a perform- a consistent level is much less than Games champions at that time and ine now, if India wins Champions ance in this event is what I consid- some of the above mentioned an Olympic medal to go with it Trophy and maybe even a medal at er as the true indicator of a team’s teams. could have changed the face of In- Olympic Games. strength. India is currently riding On the positive side, I must ad- dian hockey.Of course, along with That would give cricket a run for a wave of optimism, that has been mit that this current Indian side is the players’ performance a lot else its money. somewhat hyped up following vic- looking quite good. They have needs to stay top class, but that’s tories in Australia and Hamburg. combined well, scored well and de- something we will not discuss (Former India captain Pargat But I personally will not put those fended well. here, because my views on that are Singh, will be writing exclusively title wins anywhere near, if India But we must guard against a well known. on India’s matches in Amstelveen)

Mickael Brisset during training in Champions feel heat of Asian powers Angers, central France. The 18- year-old, born without a left fore- Amstelveen: The heat wave prevailing here CHAMPIONS TROPHY Dieter Schuermann of the German team arm, is a forward at French second might have left the locals gasping, but the con- said he would wait until the first round of division side, SCO Angers. ditions could well help the Indians break their ing to reveal them now.You will see for yourself matches before he would predict, while echo- Pakistan cricketer Saeed Anwar anounces retirement in jinx in the Champions Trophy which begins tomorrow. All I can say is that we will obvious- ing the sentiments of Pakistan coach Tahir Za- Karachi on Friday. Radcliffe ruled out: Britain’s here on Saturday. ly stick to our attacking style,” he said. man. Paula Radcliffe announced on Fri- The Indians, who are yet to win the champi- As regards the composition of the 16, Rajin- World Cup winners Germany are fielding a day that she was withdrawing from onship in their nine previous attempts, will der said he will wait till the last moment before “development team”, a move that attracted the World Athletics Championships start their campaign at the Wagener Stadium deciding on the two to be dropped from the con- strong reaction from the International Hockey in Paris later this month. Radcliffe, when they take on hosts and Olympic champi- tingent of the 18. Federation (FIH). But Schuermann defended Anwar finally who for the past year has taken the ons Holland. “We have time until one hour before the by saying that the side has its sights trained on marathon world by storm and is the The weather conditions might not count for match to announce the 16. So, I am giving it a qualifying for the 2004 Olympics in Athens by fastest woman ever over the dis- much on the morrow, but the Indian players lot of thought and will decide tomorrow,” he winning the forthcoming European Nations tance, had only made herself avail- certainly revelled in the sunshine and were a said. Cup in Barcelona. able for selection for both the The Dutch would be looking to capitalise on calls it a day picture of confidence as they prepared for the Australians have brought a team that is 5000m and 10,000m in Paris on acid test of individual as well as collective abil- the obvious home advantage and given the strong on experience, but not lacking in pow- Karachi: Pakistan opener bearded Anwar told re- Monday, but will now not compete ity. might of their team, they would be starting out erful legs with several young players in the Saeed Anwar, whose 194-run porters at a news conference in either event. AFP Fortified by recent victories Down Under as the hot favourites. squad. The team spent a few days in Athens innings is a world record for in southern Karachi. Makelele told not to play: Real and in Hamburg four-nation tournament, Though they find the weather conditions a where they played a few practice games at the a One-day International ‘‘But I enjoyed my cricket Madrid doctors said that rebel mid- coach Rajinder Singh felt that the Indian team touch too hot for comfort, they would be riding Olympic venue before coming here. match, announced his retire- and it was an honor for me fielder Claude Makelele is suffering was right on top as far as confidence was con- popular support that is sure to lift the players. Most experts here reckon that it would be a ment from international to represent Pakistan in in- from ‘‘a slight emotional problem’’ cerned. Not for nothing that the Champions Trophy toss-up between the Dutch and the Aussies for cricket on Friday. ternational matches,’’ he and recommended that he does not Looking ahead to the team’s opening game tournament is always regarded as the toughest the title. Holland toured Australia earlier this Anwar last played for Pak- said. play for the club this weekend or for against the Dutch, the coach predicted a tight event in international hockey. None of the year for a five-Test series and lost 0-3 with two istan in their unsuccessful Anwar was drawn into a the French national team next match. coaches was willing to even make a guess, matches drawn. campaign at this year’s match-fixing inquiry by week. With a reported offer from “I expect a close match. We do have some much less a prediction, as to which of the six A pacy Australia won the final Test 6-1, a re- World Cup in South Africa. Pakistan’s Justice Malik Chelsea still in the air, Makelele plans for the Dutch, but obviously,I am not go- teams would win the title on August 24. sult that the Dutch would be keen to avenge.PTI Since then Anwar has Qayyum. He was fined ended a two-day pay strike against been overlooked by selec- 300,000 Pakistani rupees af- Real Madrid by turning up for a tors. He was not asked to ter he refused to cooperate medical check on Friday at the CRICKET UPDATE play for Pakistan in the ODI with Qayyum and testify at club’s training ground. Team doc- AP tors issued a statement saying they series at Sharjah. the inquiry. had observed that the 30-year-old South Africa stop BCCI sanction for ‘‘I was a little disappoint- ‘‘It was sad that I was midfielder was ‘‘suffering a slight ed when selectors ignored dragged into the match-fix- emotional problem due to his per- England at 445 Ganguly trip: Dalmiya me after the World Cup,’’ the ing inquiry,’’ Anwar said. AP sonal and professional situation. AP The Pak opener at a glance Subsidy for events: Maharash- Nottingham: England were dis- Kolkata: Indian cricket skipper Sourav tra government has decided to pro- missed for a match-controlling Ganguly took prior permission from BCCI Test matches vide subsidy in the range of Rs 445 on a deteriorating pitch in before embarking on his recent week-long 3,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh for school the third Test against South trip to Australia, where he took batting tips M R HS Avg. 100s 50s Ct games to promote sports activities Africa at Trent Bridge on Friday. from former Aussie great Greg Chappel as 55 4052 188* 45.52 11 25 18 in the state, according to state Veteran batsman Alec Stew- part of preparations on fast tracks ahead of health minister Digvijay Khanvilkar. art scored 72 runs with 11 fours the tour Down Under later this year. ODIs The subsidy would be given for and held the lower-order togeth- “Yes, he took prior sanction of the board,” M R HS Avg. 100s 50s Ct taluka, district, zonal and state level er after England were at one BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said tournaments to encourage sporting stage reduced to 347 for six. here. 247 8823 194 39.21 20 43 42 activities, Khanvilkar, who is also South Africa start their first in- Ganguly left for Australia on August 6 and the guardian minister of Solapur nings after the tea break. visited a cricket academy in Sydney a day district, said after unveiling the na- later and spent two hours with Chappel. PTI tional flag on independence day on Stewart, 40, frustrated the South Africans as England bat- Friday. PTI Extortion charges ted into the fifth session, and Bengal in driver’s seat Junior tennis: Over 300 young- well in charge for the first time sters would be seen in action in the in three Tests. Skipper Michael Bangalore: Left-arm spinner Shib Sagar Adidas-MCC junior national hard Vaughan won the toss on Thurs- Singh grabbed four wickets and skipper Ut- against Alon in SA court tennis championship to be day and decided to bat first. pal Chatterjee scalped three as Cricket Asso- held in Chennai from August 18 to Sydney: The South African by the news agency. At lunch on day two, England ciation of Bengal dismissed Karnataka State 23. The organisers said that the All woman who accused Aus- “There’s a guy who I be- were 370 for six having lost three Cricket Association for 276 and took a 27 run India Tennis Association has done first innings lead in the final of the KSCA tralian leg-spinner Shane lieve is some or other associ- wickets for 74 runs after start- away with the under-16 nationals All-India Invitation MRF Trophy Tourna- Warne of sending “raunchy” ate of Shane Warne - I’m not ing the day well placed at 296 for and instead decided to hold the U- ment here on Friday. Replying to Bengal’s text messages to her mobile, quite sure what his relation three. Nasser Hussain, who on 18 and U-14 nationals concurrently 303, KSCA were dusmissed in 89 overs with has been charged with extor- is to Shane Warne - he opened Thursday made his first Test from this year to facilitate smooth opener Robin Uthappa top scoring with 56. tion in her own country. a case of extortion against a hundred in nearly a year, re- graudation to higher levels. PTI England's Nasser Hussain goes down after being hit on the Stuart Binny and Affan Sheriff both made 52 Spokeswoman for South 45-year-old woman,” she said. sumed on 108 not out with debu- helmet by South Africa’s Makhala Ntini during second day’s while A V Sandeep chipped in with 42. Shib African Police, Mary Mar- A lawyer representing Co- BETTING METER tant Ed Smith 40 not out. Agencies play of the Third Test at Trent Bridge on Friday. Sagar Singh and Chatterjee, also a left-arm tins- Engelbrecht, confirmed hen Alon though said formal on Friday that a charge of ex- charges had been laid over FOOTBALL SCOREBOARD spinner, shared the spoils, taking four for 71 and three for 86 respectively. In second in- tortion had been laid against the affair, he would not go USA PGA CHAMPIONSHIP PCB cleared to host Bangla P Mickelson 5/1 England (1st innings, overnight 296/3): nings, Bengal were 34 without loss. PTI the 45-year-old Helen Cohen into detail. V Singh 6/1 N Hussain lbw b Pollock 116 Karachi: A Pakistani court Association (KCCA) on Tues- Alon in response to a com- “Charges have been laid M Weir 7/1 E Smith c Boucher b Kallis 64 on Friday cleared the nation- day challenged a PCB deci- plaint made by Gavin Vare- and the police are busy in- E Els 9/1 A Stewart c Smith Adams 72 Anti-doping code urged T Woods 10/1 A Flintoff c Pollock b Hall 0 al cricket board to host next sion to withdraw its rights to jes, an associate of the con- vestigating those,” lawyer J Furyk 16/1 A Giles b Hall 22 week’s Test match against host Tests and One-day Sydney: World champions Australia have troversial bowler. Gary Moonsani said. (as per ladbrokes.com) J Kirtley c Smith b Ntini 1 called for the introduction of an anti-doping “The charges being laid is “The investigation proce- S Harmison c Pollock b Adams 14 Bangladesh in the southern matches, which had put the LIVE ON TV J Anderson not out 0 port city of Karachi, court Karachi Test against code in cricket saying there is no place for extortion, the police are in- dure takes a considerable Extras: (9 b, 8 lb, 4 w, 4 nb) 25 sources said. Sindh high Bangladesh in jeopardy. performance enhancing drugs in the sport. vestigating... one charge of time, that’s basically the rea- ESPN: 1925 hrs: English Premier Football League. Total: (All out, in 146.3 overs) 445 “Cricket Australia was a pioneer when we extortion,” Martins-Engel- son. But formal charges have 0430 hrs (Sunday): Major League Baseball Satur- Fall of wickets: 4-322, 5-334, 6-347, 7-388, court judge Ataur Rehman KCCA filed the petition after day: San Francisco Giants vs Montreal Expos. 8-408, 9-440. ordered the parties to “main- the PCB last month decided proactively moved to introduce an anti-dop- brecht was quoted as saying been laid in South Africa.”PTI Star Sports: 1300 hrs: Tri-Nations Series Rugby: Bowling: Shaun Pollock 36-18-65-2 (1 w, 4 tain a status quo and set Au- to set up provincial cricket ing policy,modelled on the Australian Sports New Zealand vs Australia. 1515 hrs: England vs nb), Makhaya Ntini 33-3-137-2, Andrew Hall gust 28 to hear the petition,” associations to organise Commission, into our sport here in Aus- South Africa, 3rd Test, Day 3. 0430 hrs (Sunday): 24-6-88-3 (1 w), Jacques Kallis 27-7-92-1 (1 Tennis Masters Series: Western & Southern F’cial w), Paul Adams 26.3-7-46-2 (1 w). they said. cricket matches at district tralia. We strongly support an anti-doping Probables sweat it Group Masters. The Karachi City Cricket level. AFP code,” CEO James Sutherland said. PTI PTI out with fitness tests Kumble blasts bias against spinners Bangalore: Flexibility and tests besides addressing is- aerobic tests, vision tips and sues of vision skills and nu- TIMES NEWS NETWORK a bit unfair.” ever he’s got an opportunity. nutrition, and more. trition. The sharp reply though It’s important to keep the Bangalore: It was as if a The 36 probables, includ- All these exercises were unexpected, wasn’t out of faith going.” ing Sourav Ganguly and held under the watchful eyes batsman had hit him for a place. After all Kumble has He was also critical about six. An usually-poised Anil Sachin Tendulkar, were put of coach John Wright, new been the biggest match-win- people, including those in the through these to assess their physical trainer Gregory Kumble came out firing in ner of India for long, at least media for being lenient to- defence of fellow spinners. fitness levels in the first two King and physiotherapist in India. wards batsmen. “If a spinner days of the conditioning Andrew Leipus at the Na- The question that prompted “If you look at the record does not get five wickets in his blistering response was camp here for the gruelling tional Cricket Academy here. spinners have played key role his first innings then he is season ahead. From Saturday,the regular whether the role of spinners both in India and abroad not not good. Everybody looks at in Indian cricket has dimin- The probables also had an training is expected to begin. only in Tests but in One-day- that kind of criterion which hour-long Yoga session on For members of Indian ished of late. ers as well,” he said after the is unfair.” Dismissing the idea with Friday and it is going to be a team who did duty at the morning fitness session on “When it comes to bats- routine for the rest of the World Cup, the fitness tests utter contempt Kumble said, Friday. Proposing longer men everyone including me- “In the last 12-13 years spin- camp which concludes on were nothing new as King is stints for spinners Kumble dia tend to be lenient towards August 26. To measure the adopting more-or-less the ners have played an impor- said, “I think it’s important them. If a batsman doesn’t tant role whether it’s in India fitness levels, the cricketers same techniques of his pred- to give them (spinners) confi- score, people say he needs were made to run a distance ecessor Adrian le Roux with or abroad. People look at dence. There are a couple of five or six innings to get into spinners in terms of One-day of 20 metres at various whom he was in touch. spinners who have been per- the groove. But in case of a speeds, jump vertically,given The probables are finding it cricket and carry that opin- forming well. (Murali) bowler you expect results ion to Test matches which is power and strength exercis- good and enjoyable but it is Karthik has done well when- overnight.” he said. Sourav Ganguly waves the tri-colour on way to the NCA in Bangalore on Friday. es, abdomen and muscular tiring as well. PTI

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14 Saturday,August 16, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Anand at par with Judit Mainz (Germany): World No. 3 Vish- There are no rest days and everyday two wanathan Anand levelled the score winning games will be played to determine the win- the second game against the world’s best ner of what is also referred to as the unoffi- woman player Judit Polgar cial Rapid World Championship besides be- of Hungary in the Chess ing touted as the battle of sexes. Classics 2003 tournament at Anand faced the Petroff defence that he Rhinegoldhalle here. has himself played a number of times. Em- Trailing after losing the ploying a setup that gave him some trouble first game, Anand looked against Hungarian Peter Leko, Anand was unaffected by the reverse in off to a flying start as Judit failed to find the this eight game series and best defence when faced with tough circum- outsmarted Polgar in the stances. second game with sheer brilliance. Anand came up with a brilliant intermez- Coming into the tournament after his su- zo in the middle game with his knight on the perb come back to win the second place in 25th move and Judit was left defenceless the Dortmund Tournament last week, all thereafter. Judit had to part with her rook eyes will now be on Anand on the second day for a knight and Anand had no trouble in of the tournament today that will feature converting his extra material into a full games 3 and 4. point. PTI CROSS COUNTRY vana Shetty of Mysore was Vandana wins the runner up with 287. PTI Abhinn ousted Chennai: Vandana Agarwal Bangalore: Reigning na- of Kolkata, predictably Feroze Ali tops tional champion Abhinn clinched the South India Shyam Gupta crashed out of Ladies Open Golf title, the Coimbatore: Feroz Ali the All India senior ranking season’s opener at the Cos- played a brilliant round of badminton tournament here mopolitan Course on Friday. three-under 69, to top at the on Friday, losing to Andhra She aggregated a total of 305 end of 54 holes on the third Pradesh’s J.B.S. Vidyadhar for four rounds followed by day of the Cotton City Open, 15-12, 9-15, 4-15 in the semifi- Mayali Talwar at 309 and the second leg of the Hero nal. The pair of Jwala Gutta Shalini Malick 312 for the Honda Indian Golf tour 2003- and Shruti Kurien (both second and third places. 2004, on Friday.day. PSPB) lifted the women’s Anajali Chopra, a single Scores (after 54 holes): Feroz Ali (213) Vi- handicapper and Shruti jay Kumar (217) Pappan and Mukesh Ku- doubles title, easily beating Khanna finished fourth and mar (220), Digvijay and Shiv Prakash (221), the pair of Trupti Murgunde S Madaiah, Seeraz Kalra (both 222), Uttam (Mahrashtra) and Fathima fifth. Sharadanjali Singh Singh,Amiritinder Singh (224) Vishal Singh, claimed the handicap title D S Raghuvanshi, Sanjay Kumar, Rahul Nazneen Mohammed (Ker- with a net of 285 and Bha- Ganapathy, Rafiq Ali, A Gupta (all 226).PTI ala) 15-1, 15-8. PTI Artois favoured TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Artois, who is tracking well, is expected to make a winning debut in the Governor’s Trophy,the main event of the Pune races scheduled for Saturday. Selections: Prize Fighter Plate: 1,400m: 2.45pm: Seville Star 1, Burt Lancaster 2, Rhythmofthemeadows 3. Backgammon Plate: 1,600m: Truffles 1, Music Prospec- tor 2, Cape Vaticano 3. Midnight Mad- ness Trophy: 2,000m: Senor Tango 1, Inkling 2, Sweet Success 3. Governor’s Trophy: 1,400m: Artois 1, Aerostation 2, Flag Bearer 3. Everynsky Trophy: 1,000m: My Way 1, Aries 2, Brave Victor 3. Certainty Plate; 1,100m: Smokey Joe 1, Latest News 2, Dillinger 3. DN Zodge Plate; 1,600m: 5.45pm: Romantic Forev- er 1, Snow Fire 2, Princess Maha 3. Key To Luck pleases: Key To Luck pleased in the morning try-outs here on Thursday. Inner-sand; 800m: Sexy Gal (Rajin- der), Key To Luck (Neeraj) and Triple Cheer (Shekhawat) - 53 secxs: 1st and 2nd named started 5L behind and finished lev- el with the last named with plenty in sad- dle. Flying Hawk (Rampravesh) and Sure (Shekhawat) - 57 secs: they were extend- ed fully in the straight, former is coming up. Time To Wyn (Pawan) and Powerof- conviction (Shah) - 55 secs: pair was kept on a tight leash, former to be noted. Amazing King (Saleem) ansd Prince Hon- ey (Balwant) - 52 secs; former trounced the latter by 8L. Bahurja (Imran) - 52 secs; tracking well.

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The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Saturday,August 16, 2003 15 Reality bites world No. 1 For once our boys Reuters Toronto: Russia’s Lina Krasnoroutskaya left others panting produced the biggest upset of the tour- By Nilanjan Datta nament, defeating new world No 1 Kim For a change, the new kids TIMES NEWS NETWORK Clijsters to reach the quarter-finals of on the block, dared to dream beyond the NFL teams and the WTA event here on Thursday. New Delhi: In the aftermath expressed their desire for Krasnoroutskaya, the 19-year-old of East Bengal’s victory at playing abroad. “We hope, we ranked No. 41 in the world, recovered the Asean meet in Jakarta, all will get a chance,” Manjit, from losing the first set to record a 1-6, 6- the achievements of the U-18 the son of a farmer echoed. “I 4, 6-1 victory. national squad which an- don’t mind playing the lower “I’m very surprised,” said Krasnorout- nexed the Ian Rush Trophy in divisions of various Euro- skaya, whose best performance on the Wales last month, have al- pean Leagues. There has to WTA Tour this year was a semi-final in most gone unnoticed. be a start,” Praveen opined. Doha. But for Delhi’s Praveen Subhas Mondal, the defen- “I didn’t expect it from myself. I had Rawat, Ludhiana’s Manjit nothing to lose. She’s the No. 1 in the Singh and Rajpur’s Subhas sive blocker in the team world and I just did it.” Mondal (South 24-Parganas, which preferred to operate in After Clijsters took the opening set in West Bengal), the Ian Rush a 3-5-2 format, rated Argen- just 19 minutes, the Belgian looked on Trophy is already history tinean giants River Plate as course for a routine victory. and they are tuning them- the most technically sound But, after dropping her serve in the selves mentally for the JRD team. “They couldn’t match fourth game of the second set having Tata championship camp, us in speed. Hence, they tried been up 40-15, the 20-year-old Belgian pro- which is to kick-off in the to slow down the game. They duced a number of unforced errors to al- ‘Steel City’ from August 19. aimed at regulating the pace. low the Russian back into the match. “Stephen-sir has taught us We should play more such Krasnoroutskaya then opened up a 5-2 not to bask in past glory,” the matches,” he stated, adding, lead before taking the match into a decid- 18-year-old Praveen, said. “The referee robbed us of a ing set and, as Clijsters began to show “We have been told to be in win in that match.” signs of fatigue, closed out the match by shape even during the off- What about the physique? holding to love in the final game. season.” “They were more robust and Elsewhere in third round action, No 5 “The amount of crowd- stout. But it’s all a mental seed Anastasia Myskina also went out, support we received in Ire- game. We made it up with our losing 2-6, 6-1, 6-1 against Elena Demen- land and Wales was amazing. mobility.We were able to run tieva, the No 9 seeded Russian. Not only NRI’s, but a lot of faster than the Europeans,” Roddick, Coria in quarters: Guiller- natives used to cheer us,” Praveen said. “We didn’t mo Coria, the highest seed remaining in Praveen, who had suffered a have any fixed playing the Tennis Masters Series-Cincinnati knee-injury in the Milk Cup, eleven. The starting line-up draw, moved into the quarter-finals on added. used to be adjusted according Thursday with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Mikhail What was Stephen’s (Con- to the opponent,” Praveen in- Youzhny of Russia. stantine) contribution? “He formed. Sixth seed Coria, who won three clay always talks about the weak- Stephen refused to pick court titles last month, established a 70 nesses of our opponents. We any single individual as the percent first serve percentage.He was improved on positional-play spearhead behind the win. joined in the quarter-finals by red-hot and off-the-ball handling. We “There are others too. Zehry American Andy Roddick who beat James worked on many variations (Zirsanga), Malsawma, Sub- Blake in straight sets. on the dead-ball situations hashis (Roy-Chowdhury), Vi- Coria was able to save four of five and it paid off,” Manjit, who mal (Perrier)..., they can break point opportunities in the 75- played as the defensive block- script a new future.” minute match, only surrendering his er informed TNN. “Our They can. But in a country serve in the third game of the first set. team-meetings were quite where many a ‘Youth Devel- Coria was able to break Youzhny’s comprehensive. He brings opment Programme’ is still serve on five of 12 chances - in the second, out the best in you. It’s a joy in its infancy, skepticism sixth and eighth games of the first set playing under him.” stays paramount. and the fourth and sixth games of the THE YOUNG GUNS second set. The diminutive Coria is slat- ed to play the 6ft 5in Max Mirnyi, of Be- Praveen Rawat (Defender): bler. Prefers to switch posi- larus, in the quarter-finals. Mirnyi Kim Clijsters of Belgium hangs her head after losing a point in the second set of Utility player. tions and stretch the game earned his quarter-final berth with a 6-4, her match against Lina Krasnoroutskaya of Russia, at the Rogers AT&T Cup in Always there to the flanks. Was Stephen’s 6-7 (9), 6-4 win over Hicham Arazi. Agencie Toronto, on Thursday. as the sup- man for dead-ball situations porter in the and was in the Asian all-star defence. U-18 team. Loves to Manchester find winning solution overlap. Zehry Jir- Sort of the sanga TOI Paris: Manchester City policeman a coach loves to (Medio): The made a winning return to Eu- have in the squad. undisputed ropean football after a 24- leader in the Manjit Singh (Medio): year absence on Thursday His midfield. vision of the field and distri- Has the with a comfortable 5-0 UEFA bution of long balls drew unique abili- Cup qualifying round, first praise from plaudits. Quick ty of being the creator and leg defeat of Welsh village reader of situations. Loves destructor at the same time. side TNS Llansantffraid. to unleash long-rangers. Can be rough if the situation City, managed by former demands. Was selected for England boss Kevin Keegan, Malsawma the Asian all-star U-18 team. were playing their first com- (Medio): petitive match in their new Possesses Subhas Mondal (Sweeper): 30,000-seater City of Man- an untiring Extra-ordinary anticipation chester Stadium and it was pair of legs. and razor-sharp reflexes. left to new signing Trevor A slippery Blessed with a tall physique Sinclair to score the first goal customer (over six-feet) and is an ex- with a stunning volley after and an ex- cellent header. His stabbing just 14 minutes from an Eyal cellent drib- tackles keeps many a striker Berkovic corner. Shaun Wright-Phillips, de- fenders Sun Jihai and David Phillips becomes a Saint: Sommeil as well as record Premiership side Southampton signing Nicolas Anelka on Thursday completed the added second half goals $4.8 million signing of former which will ensure City, who England striker Kevin Phillips won the old Cup Winners from Sunderland. AFP Cup back in 1970, will travel to the Millennium Stadium Lens's forward Munir Diane (R) vies with Torpedo defender in Cardiff in a fortnight. AFP Vakhtang Kvadagiani (C) during their match on Thursday. Voller omits Deisler: Ger- man national coach Rudi Voller announced Thursday his 20- man squad for the friendly against Italy in Stuttgart on Au- gust 20, choosing not to rush Bayern Munich midfielder Se- bastian Deisler back to the in- ternational fold. Despite injuries to midfielders Torsten Frings and Dietmar Hamann, Voller has left out Deisler, who last played for his country back in May 2002 in a 6-2 win over neighbours Austria. Twice- capped SV Hamburg midfielder Christian Rahn is the surprise inclusion in a squad weakened by the loss of key players. AFP

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16 Saturday,August 16, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Mickelson strikes right note Myriad mantra for success AFP Rochester: Phil Mickelson’s had one tee shot that went By Vineeta Pandey quest to put an end to being into the rough so I really did- Midfielder Bimal Lakra doesn’t TIMES NEWS NETWORK shave, doesn’t wash his clothes and called the best player never n’t have to deal with it which even doesn’t fold his shirt on the day of to have won a major recieved obviously made it easier,” he New Delhi:Superstitious sportsmen the match. a major boost here on Thurs- added. can go to any extent to maintain that Baljeet Singh Dhillon prays for at day when he led after the first It was plenty tough on winning routine. Wearing the same T- least five minutes before leaving for round of the PGA Champi- Thursday for Woods, who is shirt time and again is quite regular; match. “If at all I miss it, then I link onship. driving himself to distrac- the athlete makes sure he has it along. the team’s failure to it,” says the for- The 33-year-old leftie was tion. There are even some who don’t care mer captain. tied with unheralded Aussie Last month, he binned his two hoots about hygiene and will wear Young forward Tushar Khandekar Rodney Pampling after they Nike driver for his old Ti- the same pair of socks for days togeth- both shot four-under 66s. er. Never mind the stink, it is part of doesn’t wash his winning day’s T- tleist in a bid to improve his shirt. “I simply put a lot of deodorant It put them one shot ahead driving. But there was no their mantra to score goals for the of American Billy Andrade nation. and use it the next day.” sign of improvement when There are some who don’t resort to and two shots ahead of Mas- he opened with a four-over And then there are the grubby ones ters champion Mike Weir any such thing. Goalkeeper Bharat 74. AFP who don’t bother if their unshaved and former US Open champi- face looks a tad bad. Maybe, apart Chettri, midfielder Viren Rasquinha on Lee Janzen. from the superstition bit they know it and forward Tejbir Singh do not believe “It was a good start,” said Power won’t adds to their macho image as well! in any such aid. “To me all this does not Mickelson. “Heading into And yes, there are some who even sac- matter. What matters most is how I go this week I knew I was play- rifice a bath before the match. All the out and play on that day,” said Tejbir. ing better than I had all year black out meet cooling can be done on the field when Dhanraj Pillay too is superstitious. because of my performance Rochester: Organisers of they sweat buckets. He prays and visits temples before big last week.” the 85th PGA Champi- And the Indian hockey players are matches. And he strongly believes in But Mickelson is trying to onship will play Friday’s no different. Even in times gone the luck. let himself get too far ahead, second round of the year’s druids with magic sticks would follow “I would agree that Lady Luck is refusing to contemplate final major golf tourna- a set pattern to woo the grace of Lady smiling on us right now. Otherwise, about Sunday. ment despite a declared Luck. The present lot ain’t any differ- not let the soap slip out of my hands Argentina wouldn’t have played so “It’s Thursday right now, state of emergency here ent. Take Gagan Ajit Singh. The dash- during my bath because I consider brilliantly to hold Gemany to a draw in and there is a lot of golf left. in the wake of mass pow- ing striker never forgets to take his that a bad omen,” he says. the last league match which ensured It was one good day, it was a er outages. “Everything is lucky stick with him. It’s broken and Dilip also avoids seeing blood if any our victory in Hamburg Masters.” nice start but it nothing more on schedule,” said Kerry of no use on-field, but Gagan makes of his teammates gets injured. “Even if However, there’s hard work and than that,” said Mickelson. Haigh, managing director sure he carries it always. “It is my first it be a cut while shaving in the morn- team coordination also which makes It was a stunning perform- for the PGA of America. hockey stick and I believe it is very ing, or an accident on the field, I avoid the Indians look so good on the field to- ance from Mickelson and Rolling blackouts shut lucky. I always pick that first before seeing blood. No, its not that I get day.And yes, they do not forget to kiss Pampling as some of the scared, but the omen is bad,” he says. the ground and look at the sky to Vijay Singh of Fiji refers to his notes on the eighth tee, during down New York City and taking out my playing stick,” says world’s best players, includ- thank the Almighty. the first round of the PGA Championship in Rochester, New much of the Northeastern Gagan. Goalkeeper Devesh Chauhan starts ing Tiger Woods, struggled York, on Thursday. United States and Canada Then there is Dilip Tirkey, the bul- wearing things from the right side: “I So, fans, the next time you want Ju- over the challenging par-70 on Thursday, including wark of our defence who has the oner- wear socks and shoes on the right leg graj Singh’s headband and he refuses Oak Hills course. time between Australia and — that’s the key,” said Pam- here, although there was ous ask of thwarting rival forwards first. I also put on my right T-shirt or Prabhjot Singh does not part with Vicious rough was making the United States, threaded pling. no disruption of opening- time and again. The durable adivasi sleeve first. I also recite the Durga his bandana, don’t misinterpret them it a nightmare for many of his way around the chal- “The rough is just brutal. round play at Oak Hill does the balancing act with his soap Kawach for 15 minutes to gain to be stingy. These are just essential the players but the 33-year- lenges to go bogey-free. If you hit it in there, basical- Country Club. AFP on the day of a crucial match. “I would strength.” arsenal for success. old Pampling, who splits his “Keeping out of the rough ly you are chipping it out. I GRAFFITI Portugal call Ajit Ninan German coach Campbell faces trial: Arsenal de- fender Sol Campbell faces trial by video ‘new’ Ronaldo following his clash with Manchester Unit- Lisbon: Manchester Unit- ed’s Eric Djemba-Djemba in the Commu- nity Shield in Cardiff last weekend. Eng- wary of Indians ed’s new teenage striker land centre-back Campbell reacted an- Cristiano Ronaldo has been By Vineeta Pandey grily to a challenge by the United player CHAMPIONS TROPHY called up by Portugal coach in the game which was won by the Reds TIMES NEWS NETWORK Luiz Felipe Scolari for the on penalties. TV replays caught Camp- lands and Eng- football friendly against New Delhi: The Germans land in the first bell kicking out Cameroon midfielder, are the world champions. But Kazakhstan on August 20 in who was spoken to by referee Steve phase.” the current Indian team is Chaves. The former Sport- Bennett for a raised boot which hit the Thereafter, ing Lisbon player became making them feel threatened. the players Arsenal defender in the chest. Camp- the most expensive teenager “If the Indians get off to a were given a bell’s actions will now be studied by the in British football when he good start then they stand a short break to video advisory panel as the FA decide on signed a five year deal with whether to hand down any punishment. fair chance of winning this ensure that the Premiership champions title,” Bernhard Peters, Ger- Peters they don’t get Authorities approach imams: man national coach told TNN worn out be- for $20 million.AFP Turkey’s religious affairs authorities have over telephone, adding: “We fore the crucial tournament. urged imams to preach against rising will be closely watching their “In the second phase, we Chelsea plan to football violence in the country. “Collec- progress.” concentrated on the sprint tive swearing among sports fans is a be- The Hamburg Masters training, practicing short haviour intolerable from a humanitarian bid for Crespo tournament which India won corners and on the tactical and a religious aspect,” the religious af- fairs office said in their sermon guidelines a couple of months back was aspects.” The Germans are London: Free-spending published on their website. “Our prophet an eye-opener for the Ger- known for their methodical English Premiership side has said that cursing at a Muslim is a sin,” mans. Though the side dis- play and the focus this time Chelsea are set to make a bid suggesting that imams use Friday prayers played a good show in the will be not to concede penalty to land Inter Milan’s Argen- across the country to preach against vio- tournament, the coach feels corners. “Penalty corners tine ace Hernan Crespo, ac- lence. Football violence is a growing con- that they need to work hard- will be vital this time be- cording to reports. Chelsea cern for Turkish authorities, particularly er for the bigger challenges. cause of new rules.” have signed a number of big ahead of a potentially explosive Euro “The Champions Trophy Peters finds the current In- names since Russian oil ty- 2004 qualification game between Turkey will be followed by the Euro- dian team very talented. coon Roman Abramovich and England in October in Istanbul. pean Cup. That is another “They have come up very took over the club and have very important tournament well since the World Cup in now earmarked Crespo as Morrison quizzed: English Premiership Kuala Lumpur,” said Peters. side Birmingham have released a state- for us. We have to qualify for their next target ahead of ment after striker Clinton Morrison was the Olympics and there isn’t The Indian team may not the August 31 transfer much time after the Champi- have been able to beat the deadline. AFP questioned by police following an incident man’s sport and likely to remain so for Moscow Country Club, where a $27,000 earlier in the week. Morrison was in a car ons Trophy,” Peters said, Germans in the Hamburg years to come. Mikhail Ushakov, the membership fee is due before you step thus clarifying their stand to Masters, still Peters feels that which was later found to have drugs in it Saint Petersburg champion and a on the green. Despite the many obsta- send a second-string team for this side is capable of deliv- when stopped by police. “The facts are wealthy businessman with substantial that a car Clinton was travelling in was cles, golf is experiencing a boom, with the Champions Trophy. ering high-class results. “The holdings in gold extraction in Siberia and club membership rising fast and the US found to have drugs in it when it was in one of Russia’s largest shipyards, be- These are back to back tour- Indian team has an excellent stopped by police in a routine check,” Masters tournament screened on nation- naments, and a week was too goalkeeper,” Peters said of lieves golf is “more refined and intellec- al television for the first time this year. said the statement. “Clinton, who is un- tual than any other sport.” Like the im- short to facilitate player re- Devesh Chauhan. able to drive, had accepted a lift in good mense majority of Russia’s estimated Supporters vandalise pitch: Hajduk covery,he had indicated. “Then there is Dilip Tirkey faith from someone he didn’t know. Clin- 1,500 regular golf players, Ushakov is a Split Stadium looked like a potato field The coach has very carefu- who is just too good during ton is no way involved with drugs and re- recent convert, having first encountered ly laid out the training pro- penalty corners. I think he is alises accepting a lift from someone not after some of the club’s angry supporters the sport during a visit to Ireland six grammes for his team. The known to him was the wrong thing to do.” dug holes in revenge for the recent defeat also one of the best defenders years ago. Businessmen form the im- to Finnish side Haka in the UEFA Cup preparation was divided into in the world. The current Ivan’s gone golfing: The Mercedes mense majority of members of the Dyuni first round. The vandals sneaked into the two phases. “We had long side is a good blend of youth and BMWs parked outside the club- golf club outside the city, as they do at stadium after Hajduk lost 2-1 to Haka in camps followed by prepara- and talent. They combine house say it all: golf in Russia is a rich the largest of Russia’s three clubs, the Finland, and dug around 20 holes. tion matches against the well with the seniors in the teams of France, The Nether- team,” Peters complimented. Five teams in Premiership fray: Henry London: Arsenal’s French striker Thierry Henry said on Thursday that this year’s race for the Premiership crown will be between five teams. He also believes that the Gunners’ lack of activity in the transfer market could work to their advan- tage as they have a settled squad for the start of the new campaign which gets underway this weekend. Henry is confident Ar- senal can mount a serious title bid despite having made only one significant signing, but accepts that the Gunners and United cannot expect to have it all their own way, given that Chelsea, Liverpool and Newcastle will also chal- lenge. Chelsea’s 100-million- dollar summer spending spree has put them firmly in the reckoning, while Liverpool and Newcastle cannot be ruled out. “Peo- ple are talking about us and Manchester United, but Chelsea have bought some really good players and if they can put them all together, they can be really good,” said Henry. “Liverpool and Newcastle are also trying to go one step further and this sea- son is going to be even more competitive than last season. AFP

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