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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Saturday,August 16, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 32 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Sport Jude Law and wife No entry: Laloo stops Saeed Anwar Sadie Frost are Togadia in his tracks, announces split wide open sends him packing retirement Page 8 Page 5 Page 13 WIN WITH THE TIMES Ajit Ninan Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Only a peace between equals can last. America blacked out — Woodrow Wilson NYT 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.