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WIN WITH THE TIMES AFP PW conducted blast dry run in Chhattisgarh 45 days ago CCD meets Established 1838 Reuters Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. today, oil is I do not want the peace that the key issue passeth understanding. Mines planted I want the understanding By Sanjay Dutta which bringeth peace. TIMES NEWS NETWORK — Helen Keller New Delhi: Damned if it 3 months ago does, damned if it doesn’t. That is the predicament for By B V S Bhaskar the blast was carried out in the Cabinet Committee on TIMES NEWS NETWORK Chhattisgarh, 45 days ago. Disinvestment (CCD), when The real strike was carried it meets on Friday to ponder Khammam/Hyderabad: A Shaarod Shubbechha out by members of the Peo- over the Supreme Court judg- day after the abortive assas- Durga Puja festivities symbolise the ple’s War’s military wing, ment asking the government sination bid on Andhra victory of good over evil. The festival the Central Military Com- to seek lawmakers’ nod be- Pradesh chief minister N marks the slaying of demon mission (CMC). fore selling the two oil PSUs, Chandrababu Naidu in ‘Mahishasura’ by Durga - the mother The trial was conducted HPCL and BPCL. Tirupati, it has come to light goddess. Durga idols are installed at Light decorations featuring Harry Potter on in the presence of PW boss On the one hand, the disin- giant pandals and worshipped with that the mines were laid half display outside a Durga puja pandal in Muppala Laxmana Rao alias vestment ministry under chanting of mantras and blowing of a foot inside an embank- Kolkata on Wednesday. Ganapathi and other central Arun Shourie — and to that conches. The puja ends with ment built for the Tirumala committee members at a extent, the Vajpayee govern- Vijaydashmi when the idols are taken shrine authorities three for visarjan, or immersion. training camp in Dantewada ment itself — would like to months ago. send a signal that it means Anti-Bush T-shirt is This is the reason why the district in Chhattisgarh. A security personnel, who con- recce of the Tirumala ghat business when it comes to NEWS DIGEST road was done nine months privatisation. fine, rules US court ducted a regular search op- eration, failed to detect the ago, the sources added. On the other hand, those in Detroit (US): A high school student has the directional mines. A PW source said top nax- the business of politics, such as oil minister Ram Naik, right to wear a T-shirt to school with the face The state government on alite leaders Patel Sudhakar Reddy, Satyam, Sakhamuri would prefer caution as busi- of US president George W Bush and the Thursday said it had set a Appa Rao and eight others ness and politics could make words ‘‘international terrorist’’ on the front, special team to probe the se- were assigned the task of a disastrous cocktail for a a federal judge has ruled. curity lapse. Home minister planning the ambush. And a ruling party that has to seek ‘‘There is no evidence that the T-shirt cre- Devender Goud said the PW special team of the People’s people’s mandate in four key ated any disturbance or disruption,’’ US dis- planted 17 claymore mines Guerrilla Army (PGA) was states within a few months. trict judge Patrick J Duggan said in the rul- — nine exploded — on a re- taining wall. They were trig- set up for the operation. This makes one thing cer- ing released on Wednesday. Three places were short- tain. The CCD is unlikely to The American Civil Liberties Union gered from about 100 m. Sources say a dry run to listed for the strike: Hyder- STILL SHAKEN: Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu toe the disinvestment min- (ACLU) of Michigan had sued the Dearborn abad, Bhadrachalam and heads for the airport in Tirupati on Thursday. istry’s line of challenging the School District on behalf of the student, Tirupati, where Naidu is an court verdict. Though the Bretton Barber. Six detained annual visitor. After initial suggestion has the backing of Barber was 16 when he wore the T-shirt on recces, the Bhadrachalam ‘‘The hit was so accurate, had the law ministry,the political Hyderabad: The police a day he was scheduled to present a ‘‘compare option was dropped. The PW fallout of such a move is be- on Thursday picked up it been some other car (not a and contrast’’ essay in English class. Barber then dropped Hyderabad ing seen too hot for the gov- RSS abandons Joshi: The RSS six civil rights activists has asserted that it never supported had chosen to compare Bush to former Iraqi too, because it felt Naidu’s bullet proof one) things would ernment. The Opposition from the temple town of Union HRD minister M M Joshi’s leader Saddam Hussein. security system was strong noise against the privatisa- Tirupati. Three of them have been different today... resignation. In a lead piece on their Following this, an assistant principal there. Another reason was tion of the oil companies has are activists of the AP website, Sangh chief Sudarshan has had ordered Barber in February to the possibility of collateral been muted. But challenging Civil Liberties Commit- ‘‘The blessings of Lord overturned all rumours to the con- conceal the anti-Bush message or go damage to ordinary people. the court verdict would be in- tee. Two others belong trary saying they were always non- home. Dearborn High said it worried Probe looks at loopholes: P8 Venkateswara saved the chief terpreted as the ruling coali- to Rayalaseema Praja committal over the issue. P7 about inflaming passions at the suburban Edit: The Forgotten Wars tion’s lack of respect for the Samithi. PTI minister” — a security officer Secretive tehelka probe: The Detroit school, where a majority of students Dubyaman: P12 judiciary,putting it on the de- examination of the tehelka tapes by are Arab-American. AP fensive at the hustings. a foreign forensic expert is shrouded in mystery with the commission of inquiry refusing to divulge the name J M Coetzee of the expert. Tehelka says the ex- Pak targets Al-Qaida, 12 killed pert has said the tapes examined so far are doctored without once asking World warming up wins Nobel Islamabad: Pakistani troops five kms of the border in mation that several Al-Qaida for the recording equipment. P6 killed at least 12 Al-Qaida sus- South Waziristan tribal men were hiding there. Pak- pects and captured 10 others agency. The captured mili- istan has deployed some for literature in a major offensive launched tants, mostly foreigners, were 60,000 troops along its border Stockholm: South African on Thursday against the ter- paraded blindfolded with with Afghanistan to check to climate change writer ror network holed in a rugged hands tied behind their backs the movement of Taliban and John tribal region bordering in front of journalists from suspected Al-Qaida militants. Afghanistan. the foreign media who were “We believe that some Al- By Chandrika Mago Effects of GLOBAL WARMING Maxwell TIMES NEWS NETWORK Coetzee According to Maj Gen taken by the Army to the Qaida men have taken shelter won the Ameer Faisal, about 12 Al- scene of the operation. in South Waziristan tribal indiatimes.com POLL New Delhi: Could that musty smell in Mt. Everest: Khumbu 2003 No- Qaida militants were killed Defence spokesman Maj belt after carrying out at- your closet be the smell of climate Glacier retreated over 5 km Is it too harsh to impose a life ban on bel litera- in a gunfight that broke out Gen Shaukat Sultan said the tacks in Afghanistan’s Pakti- change? Is that mildew on your shoes since 1953 cricketers for sledging? ture prize after troops laid siege to a offensive was launched in the ka province,” Maj Gen and clothes a sign of global warming? Tien Shan Mountains, on Thurs- suspected Qaida base within morning on receiving infor- Shaukat Sultan said. PTI Yes 61% No 39% Meteorologists may reel off data to China: Glacial ice reduced by day, the prove this year’s monsoon wasn’t VOTE NOW: Who would you prefer Swedish longer and wetter than normal, but one quarter in 40 years J M Coetzee watching: Ash in Chokher Bali or academy people are convinced that weather Katrina Kaif in Boom? Fiji: Average shoreline said. Coetzee, ‘‘who in innu- patterns are changing. Summers are Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 receding half a foot per year merable guises portrays the hotter and winters shorter. And this 370,000 surprising involvement of year, the prolonged high humidity led Mediterranean: acres forest land burned in the outsider’’, will take YOU SAID IT by Laxman to the invasion of mildew into homes both Greece and Italy in 1998 home the prize sum of $1.3 TOI Archives in the Capital. City dry-cleaners are million, the jury said. reporting heavy traffic, with resi- Adelie Penguin population Coetzee’s novels, which dents carrying in damp clothes, full shrink by 33% in Antartica of mildew. include Disgrace, Waiting R K Pachauri, chairman of the In- 20 species of frogs and toads For The Barbarians and In ter-governmental Panel on Climate disappear from the forests of The Heart of The Country, Change (IPCC), accepts that there is a Costa Rica, South America are characterised by well- whole range of anecdotal evidence, crafted composition, preg- indicating change. But whether it is a summer, with temperatures in nant dialogue and analytical natural climatic variation, regional Britain touching 37.9 degrees Celsius brilliance, the jury said in change, or global warming fuelled by and near the Rhine, 40 degrees. Aus- its citation. But it also called gases from power generation, indus- tralia suffered its worst drought in a Coetzee ‘‘ruthless in his crit- tries and transport, is yet to be con- 100 years. So, is all this just a natural icism of the cruel rational- clusively determined. variation in weather, a regional ism and cosmetic morality IPCC, a scientific body whose re- change or a sign of global change? of the Western civilisation’’. ports form the basis of the official The India Meteorological Department While Coetzee makes the view on climate change, predicts glob- is not willing to commit itself to cli- distinction between right al warming will wrap most of South mate change. Unless all the parame- and wrong crystal-clear, he Asia in a cycle of floods and drought. also portrays it as being ulti- Since we are finding it increasingly ters are examined, it is difficult to mately pointless. His latest difficult to avoid accidents, I have Pachauri believes there is an in- draw drastic conclusions. a plan here to build hospitals crease in the frequency of extreme Studies inspire limited confidence, work, Elizabeth Costello: alongside the rail tracks! weather events. Delhi’s summers are but Pachauri is now hoping to Eight Lessons, is a mixture of hotter, its winters shorter. The Hi- steer IPCC into getting a fix on essay and fiction. Coetzee malayas are much warmer. Shimla, extreme weather events and was born in 1940 in Cape WEATHER which used to get snow every Christ- localised effects. Till then, who Town. His background is mas, no longer does. Andhra Pradesh knows the mildew in your cupboard both German and English. Max. 33ºC/Min. 18.7ºC this year suffered a 27-day heat wave. may be sounding the warning note on In 2002, he moved to Aus- Moonset: Friday – 11.09 pm tralia where he is attached to Moonrise: Saturday – 2.46 pm Searing heat sapped Europe this a changing climate. University of Adelaide. AFP Sunset: Friday – 6.05 pm Sunrise: Saturday – 6.16 am Mainly clear sky. Maximum and minimum temperature will be around 33 and 19ºC We could do with more of saying less respectively. Maximum relative humidity on Thursday 89% and minimum 29%. By Gurcharan Das our lawyers ramble on; our execu- that all managers suffer from an tives try to impress with lengthy overload of paperwork and files, it is The following appears in honour of memos; our politicians, well, try to simple, factual, and logical. The brevity, the defining characteristic of get in a word. reader can scan it in minutes and leaders. And of The Times of India That less can be more is especial- grasp its contents. 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Traffic accident: Rajendra Prasad (40), a resident of the Teen Murti police complex, ldied when a Maruti-800 hit him, in front of the Shahenshah Restaurant on Willingdon Crescent Road on Wednesday night. Prasad was taken to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital, where he was declared dead. The car driver, Rajesh Metro Rail spreads its wings To chat on SMS send 'cchat'
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The Times of India, New Delhi DELHI Friday,October 3, 2003 3 MCD pulled up for poor lighting New Delhi: The municipal councillors pulled up Woman held for stealing and selling baby the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials for turning a blind eye to poor condition of street By Lalit Kumar lice that her husband, Satya Prakah nessman, Prem Gautam, of 174 Di- when Sangita and Sheila were lights in the city. TIMES NEWS NETWORK who was an insurance agent came nagarhi, had given birth to male walking to the hospital with the The MCD commissioner Rakesh Mehta, however, to know of the birth of a twins at twins on June 18. On September 26, baby, Sheila’s dog happened to fol- maintained that as per Delhi government direc- Ghaziabad: A 19-year-old woman tions, the corporation would ensure that 90 per cent was arrested alongwith her mother Delhi’s Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospi- Sangita of Jatwara rented a room low them. The mother handed over tal on June 18. ‘‘Efforts are on to nab in their house introducing herself the baby to take the dog back. When of the street lights work by Diwali. near Mori Gate area for stealing her BJP councillor Vijendra Gupta slammed the pri- Satya Prakash as we suspect he as a nurse at the nearby Nagar Hos- she returned, Sangita had disap- landlady’s three-month-old baby. vate companies for poor service and cited a Delhi The duo were nabbed while they might be involved in other such cas- pital. Soon after, one of the twins peared with her baby. Police survey which said that nearly 50 to 60 per were trying to sell off the baby to a es,’’ said investigating officer A P fell sick and Sangita offered to get Nagar hospital informed Sangita cent of street lights childless couple for Rs 15,000. Bharadwaj. According to the police, him examined by a doctor at Nagar did not work with them. A case of in the city do not The accused, Sangita, told the po- Poonam, wife of Ghaziabad busi- Hospital. On Monday morning, kidnapping was filed. work. TNN
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Debashish Chakravarty, accused of credit card fraud, being produced in the Patiala House Court on Thursday. Man arrested for credit card fraud TIMES NEWS NETWORK cyber crime investigation cell received a complaint New Delhi: The Central Bu- from the railways.’’ The rail- reau of Investigation has ar- ways were getting e-mails on rested a person for credit their website from the gen- card fraud. The accused, De- uine card holders, asking bashish Chakra-varty, is a former employee of a Direct them not to issue the bills. Selling Associate of a bank The officer said: ‘‘The ac- issuing credit cards. cused was creating bogus Chakravarty had report- identities on the website for edly cheated several credit booking tickets. He collected card holders. He had man- the tickets from the New Del- aged to procure their credit hi Railway Station.’’ card numbers, expiry details On Wednesday, Chakra- and even the photocopies of varty visited the railway sta- the cards. He got the details tion and produced a ficti- on the pretext of opening tious certificate authorising new bank accounts for the him to collect the ticket. On customers. Instead of open- verification, the railway au- ing accounts, Chakravarty thorities found his personal misused the details and pur- employment details to be chased railway tickets fake. He was apprehended by through the Internet ticket- a CBI team. Chakravarty ing facility of the Indian was produced before a mag- Railways on their website. istrate on Thursday and sent A CBI officer said: ‘‘The to judicial custody. NHRC issues notice to AIIMS, LNJP
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Nation- al Human Rights Com- mission has issued no- tices to the medical su- perintendents of All In- dia Institute of Medical Sciences and Lok Nayak Hospital following a complaint by an HIV positive kidney patient. The complainant, Ashok (name changed), had alleged he was de- nied treatment by the hospitals as he was HIV positive. The two hospi- tals are specialised in- stitutions for treating HIV positive patients. The Commission has now asked both hospi- tals to furnish Ashok’s medical investigation report within four weeks. Ashok claimed, he also went to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospi- tal, Safdarjung Hospital and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital for help. ‘‘We may seek replies from these hospitals as well,’’ said a NHRC official. He said doctors in the Lok Nayak hospital of- fered to get me financial help from a NGO if I got myself treated at a pri- vate hospital. ‘‘A dialy- sis at a private hospital costs Rs 5,000 — three times more than the cost at a government hospi- tal,’’ he said. Woman dead in hit and run case
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi:A 60-year-old woman died after being hit by an unidentified tanker on Wednesday night at Malviya Nagar in south Delhi. Police said the victim, Harmeji, was hit by the vehi- cle while crossing the road in front of Pushpa Bhavan. She died on her way to the hospi- tal. A case of causing death by rash and negligent driv- ing has been registered and efforts are on to trace the ve- hicle.
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FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER OF DELHI Rainfall likely at East: Arunachal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, sub-Himalayan NATIONAL WB, Sikkim, isolated places: Gangetic WB, Orissa, Mumbai: I-A 0700, Jharkhand & Bihar; Central: isolated places: Vidarbha, 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, Chattisgarh; Peninsula: many places: Kerala, a few places: Madhya Soldiers freedom forgot 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Maharashtra, Marathwada, TN, Karnataka, isolated places: South 2300 Jet Air 0650, By Nistula Hebbar vide a proof of residence. 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Gujarat state, Konkan and Goa, AP; Islands: many places: Andaman Count down 1935, 2030, 2200, and Nicobar and Lakshadweep. Mainly dry weather will prevail. TIMES NEWS NETWORK To prove that one is a free- Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD dom fighter, the applicant 1520, 1800, 2025 New Delhi: The city, which •Freedom fighters in Max Min Max Min Max Min must give a proof of resi- KOLKATA: I-A 0700, counted 1,200 freedom fight- Delhi in 1989: 1200 1600★★,1700,1945 Delhi 34 21 Guwahati 31 25 Amsterdam 17 08 dence along with a prison Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 29 26 Dehradun 30 16 Bahrain 35 27 ers in 1989, when the freedom •Freedom fighters in identification certificate by Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 34 26 H’bad 32 23 Bangkok 31 26 fighters cell was first consti- CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 35 27 Indore 26 20 Beijing 17 11 2003: 544 including 12 two freedom pensioners that 0640,0955★★★ tuted in the city, is now left Bangalore 30 20 Jaipur 33 23 Chicago 13 03 women the applicant spent time in 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 34 25 Lucknow 31 23 Geneva 17 06 with only 544 of them. Those 0645,1900 jail with them. An additional BANGALORE: T’puram 34 24 Nagpur 32 23 Hong Kong 32 26 who operate the cell fear that •Freedom fighters from I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 25 22 Patna 32 25 London 20 06 in the next ten years the cell Azad Hind Fauj: 394 personal knowledge certifi- Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 34 26 Rajkot 37 24 Los Angeles 23 17 cate is also required. Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 31 19 Shimla 22 13 Moscow 18 07 would lose its raison d’etre. HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 At the last head count req- sioners is the toughest job of Officials in the cell admit GOA: I-A 1200, that no one has ever com- Sahara 1200 TRAIN RESERVATIONS uisitioned by Rashtrapati all. ‘‘Many change addresses KULU: Jagson 0630, Bhavan, the number had al- but don’t inform the cell plained that the pension was ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on 0650, 1215 02.10.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. meagre. ‘‘Till date we haven’t AHMEDABAD: ready reduced from 556 in about it,’’ says an official. I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl 2002 to 544 in August 2003. Out The city has only 12 women received a compalint. Maybe Jet Air 0610 NORTH of these, 394 fought in Netaji freedom fighters. One was because many avail the Cen- GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: 4033 Jammu Mail 05.10 10.10 12.10 13.10 I-A 0555★★, 1010• Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indi- registered just a month ago. A tre’s pension scheme, or are ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 24.10 17.10 13.10 2403 Jammu Exp 06.10 20.10 13.10 20.10 an National Army (INA). The south Indian, she was a cook too self respecting,’’ said an Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST cell which looks after the pen- in the Rani Jhansi Womens’ official. In a recent meeting of Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 04.10 04.10 28.10 — the commitee though, a reso- 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 04.10 04.10 04.10 01.11 sion, Rs 2,251, and the full regiment of the Azad Hind Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 03.10 03.10 03.10 03.11 medical reimbursement says Fauj or INA. For two years lution was passed that the Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 06.10 29.10 03.11 that keeping track of the pen- she had not been able to pro- pension amount be increased. 2392 Magadh Exp 03.10 14.10 04.10 09.10 INTERNATIONAL 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 03.10 03.10 04.10 BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 03.10 03.10 03.10 04.10 K K Laskar Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 04.10 31.10 A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 21.10 31.10 07.11 FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 03.10 13.10 07.10 13.10 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 08.10 08.10 15.10 AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 20.10 14.10 14.10 KLM 0140 (KL-472) 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 14.10 14.10 14.10 LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 04.10 04.10 10.10 12.10 0210 (BA-142) WEST PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail 04.10 04.10 06.10 14.10 0040 (AF-147), 2926 Paschim Exp 05.10 03.10 14.10 25.10 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 05.10 07.10 08.10 — A-I 0205 (AI-159) 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 09.10 03.10 07.10 — SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 09.10 09.10 09.10 Airlines 2315 (SQ-407), 1078 Jhelum Exp — 14.10 08.10 14.10 A-I 0050 (IC-855) 2916 Ashram Exp 03.10 15.10 07.10 09.10 DAHRAIN: SOUTH A-I 0245 (AI-818) 2616 G T Exp 05.10 08.10 12.10 12.10 ROME/MANCHESTER: 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 06.10 07.10 13.10 14.10 A-I 0300 (AI-139) 2432 Trivandrum Raj 19.10 16.11 02.10 — HONG KONG/SEOUL: 2626 Kerala Exp — 05.10 06.10 14.10 A-I 2340 (AI-310) 2618 Mangala Exp — 13.10 07.10 07.10 AIR INDIA 2628 Karnataka Exp — 08.10 07.10 13.10 2724 A P Exp 03.10 13.10 13.10 13.10 AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI: 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 07.10 21.10 21.10 — 0010 (AI 127) 7022 Dakshin Express — 08.10 — 07.10 MUMBAI: 2030 (AI 471) No. of passengers dealt on 1.10.2003 (Delhi Area): 58,951 (N. Rly. Area) A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 22,9,255. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all The Jhandewala temple in its annual Navratri glory. (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. 23323310, Singapore Airlines (Information supplied by Indian Railways) 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 Durga’s here, fun in tow 22-year-old commits suicide in S Delhi By Mohua Chatterjee Shaoni Mitra (of the TVS Saregama TIMES NEWS NETWORK ried last year and had a 7- TIMES NEWS NETWORK fame) are here all the way from Mum- bai. They will take turns over Sapta- month-old son. She was New Delhi: For those who haven’t left New Delhi: A 22-year-old found hanging from the fan mi, Ashtami and Navami evenings at committed suicide in her town this extended weekend, all roads different pandals including Minto in the bathroom. lead to Chittaranjan Park and other Mehrauli residence on Road and Safdarjung Enclave pujas. Reasons for the suicide are Durga Puja hubs in the city. If you Thursday morning. not yet clear, said police offi- ‘‘I love the atmosphere. It’s almost want to live it up, give discos and pubs like a college fest on a bigger scale,’’ According to the police, cers investigating the case. a go. With big-time Bangla the victim, Rekha, got mar- No suicide note was found. said Gunjan Chauhan, a first bands — Cactus, Parash year student at St Stephens. Pathor, Arohi and post-mod- The not-so-young should ern urban Bengali songs by not feel left out. Celebrated Suman Chattopadhyay, singers like Jatileshwar Nachiketa and Indraneel — Mukhopadhyay, Haimanti from Kolkata, all set to rock CHILL Shukla and Shampa Kundu the city. are here from Kolkata. ‘‘I love this. It’s so different FACTOR This year’s star attraction from the usual places that we is leading actress Rituparna Sengupta go to. The open-air performances are and her dance troupe. She will be ac- really good. One rarely gets to hear companied by actress June Maliya. this kind of music (the Bengali rock ‘‘The best part is the whole of CR bands),’’ says designer Jatin Kochar. Park and other puja pandals turn into For those who prefer Hindi and food streets — chicken rolls, fish fries, Bengali film songs, playback singers biriyani, mutton chop, kebabs, you Sudesh Bhonsle, Jolly Mukherjee, name it... and its all there,’’ says Vinod Rathore, Babul Supriyo and Rahul Ram, lead singer,Indian Ocean.
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Train timings changed: Due to regriding work on bridge num- Protests mark ber 93 between Budi and Chhan Arorian stations on the Pathankot-Jammu section of the Ferozpur division on October 10, rail traffic will affected in this sector for a day. The 4034 Jammu anti-quackery day Tawi-Delhi Jammu Mail will depart from Jammu Tawi at 5.25 pm ‘Problem’ bus stands identified instead of 3.40 pm. The 2471 Mumbai Central-Jammu Tawi Mohammed Ilyas New Delhi: More than 300 doctors Swaraj Express and 9111 Ahmedabad-Jammu Tawi Express will By Urvashi Gulia (IRTE) said, ‘‘Ideally bus stops staged a dharna at Rajghat on Thurs- terminate at Pathankot. TNN TIMES NEWS NETWORK should be segregated into bus day which was observed as the Nation- bays. Ideally, they should not be New Delhi:Threading your way al Anti-quackery Day. located on arterial roads. through a maze ofspeeding buses Besides endangering the lives of However correct location and jostling with fellow com- thousands of people, quacks have also needs to be determined on the ba- muters to board a bus near the been found to be involved in circulating sis of detailed surveys on passen- Andrews Ganj flyover in South fake drugs, said Delhi Medical Associa- ger volume, frequency of buses tion president Anil Bansal. Extension is every commuter’s and availability of supportive ‘‘Since there is no check on the activ- nightmare. The same holds true means of transport like autorick- ities of quacks, campaigns such as for the Laxmi Nagar T-point and shaws.’’ those for rational use of drugs have the Rao Tula Ram Marg near the According to traffic officials, failed miserably,’’ he added. Moti Bagh junction or, for that the list is not complete yet as DMA has been demanding early im- matter, at most bus stops across their drive to identify more trou- plementation of the Anti-quackery the city. blesome bus stops continues. Bill, even as the government plans In a bid to stem the problem, Joint commissioner of police raids on quacks. TNN the Delhi traffic police has sent (traffic) Qamar Ahmed said: ‘‘We Delhi Transport Corporation have only made suggestions to (DTC) a list of 48 bus stands the DTC. They,too, should under- which need to be relocated. take a study and shift such bus These bus stands in question stands to locations where they are either close to junctions,fly- cease to be obstacles.’’ overs or located on roads with a DTC officials acknowledge merging traffic. They pose a haz- they received the list about a ard for bus commuters besides week ago. Bus bays have their ripple effects too, especially with most private impeding the flow of traffic due ‘‘It is being processed. It has to the random manner in which operators not following the time table and stopping at stands for more than a few minutes. been referred to our traffic de- buses stop. partment and they will carry out According to recommenda- movement or endanger the lives lines which, according to traffic a survey to see what can be done. tions of the India Road Congress, of commuters or other road experts, ‘‘must be followed.’’ Shifting may take some time bus stops should be so located users. These are not statutory Rohit Baluja, president, Insti- though,’’ said Suneet Mudgal, that they do not hinder traffic regulations but are formal guide- tute of Road Traffic Education spokesperson, DTC. Simulators to give cops driving lessons
By Sachin Parashar TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Delhi Police will soon buy simulators Training time to help officers and con- stables hone their driv- •Last year, Rs 20 lakh ing skills. was spent on teaching ‘‘Acquiring these elec- policemen how to drive tronic simulators is a •Most constables still part of our endeavour to don’t know how to drive ensure multi-tasking in a four wheeler the force. The officers Simulators will ensure and jawans alike can • better drivers, which will practice driving on these help in emergencies simulators without causing damage to any of our vehicles,’’ stated special commissioner (adminis- tration) and acting police commissioner K K Paul. The officer added that the move to buy simulators will also mean that the recurring expenses incurred in teach- ing the staff how to drive, will be done away with. ‘‘Last year, more than Rs 20 lakh was spent on making the staff learn driving. This will involve just a one-time expendi- ture,’’ said Paul. According to police officers, most of the recruits don’t know how to drive and these simulators will come to them as a boon. ‘‘Many of them come from a rural back- ground and don’t know how to drive. Incidents of dam- ages being caused to police vehicles while training re- cruits, are common. This will help prevent that,’’ said a senior police officer. ‘‘Many a time police personnel are dependent on driv- ers for their movement. Now with the simulators, more and more staff will be encouraged to learn driving,’’ added the officer. Most of the Police Control Room (PCR) staff are de- pendent on a professional driver which can be dangerous in case of an emergency.‘‘What if the driver is injured in a shootout? The constable or the assistant sub inspector (ASI) must be able to take over,’’ said the principal of the police training college, A A Farooqui. Senior police offi- cers admitted that most of the constables don’t know how to ride a motorcycle, let alone a four wheeler. Recruitment scam: Senior food ministry official held TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A deputy di- rector with the ministry of food and consumer affairs, Suresh Chandra, has been arrested by the southwest district police for facilitat- ing recruitment in armed forces, using forged docu- ments. Police said that the ar- rest has helped them un- earth a major racket in which young men were be- ing lured from villages on the pretext of getting them jobs in the forces. ‘‘We had received infor- mation about the gang in August. A former army personnel, Ram Sewak, was arrested for imparting training to these youths and arranging fake certifi- cates for them. After the disclosures made by him, we arrested another ac- cused, Jitendra Kumar, who used to prepare the fake documents,’’ said deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Tajen- dra Luthra. During interrogation, Kumar disclosed that he used get these documents attested by Chandra. He al- legedly charged around Rs 1,000 for each attestation. ‘‘He had links with the staff of SDM offices at various places, who charged be- tween Rs 2,500 to Rs 6,500 for preparing fake caste or domicile certificates,’’ added Luthra. Police said Chandra came to know a lawyer and started attesting marriage certificates for a fee. ‘‘He gradually became fa- miliar with other advocates and touts and started to at- test forged documents,’’ stated Luthra.
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6 Friday,October 3, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi Cong, George How Direct-To-Home is it? Tehelka probe’s mystery expert war hots up By Akshaya Mukul But the commission sion, said, ‘‘I have no idea By N Vidyasagar Over 45 million TV homes agreements with ASC. Over For rural homes, it’s a new New Delhi: Threatened with TIMES NEWS NETWORK maintains that the expert where the tapes have gone.’’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK in India live without a cable 800 homes across the country dimension. Patel says it legal action against by the de- did find portions ‘‘doubt- But Tarun Tejpal of TV connection and ASC is got onto DTH service. The won’t make a difference as New Delhi: The examina- fence minister George Fer- New Delhi: Residents of ful’’. When asked about the Tehelka, who has asked the targeting a potential 10 mil- only new entrants in the ASC residents in his village have tion of the Tehelka tapes by nandes against Congress Sanjan village in Valsad dis- expert’s identity, Justice commission to grant him lion TV homes from this seg- package are channels like no idea of what cable TV a foreign forensic expert is chief Sonia Gandhi, the Con- trict, Gujarat, could not be- ment. Smile, Premier and CCTV 9, means with or without Star Phukan told TOI, ‘‘It is not more time to submit the lieve that a television set can increasingly getting gress has launched a belated ‘‘It is a visual treat for us a Chinese channel with Eng- Plus, Set Max or Zee. ‘‘We be- important to know the recording equipment said, counter offensive. carry 50 channels. Many res- shrouded in mystery with on Gandhiji’s birthday,’’ says lish audio. Four radio sta- lieve that DTH will improve name’’. But would it not af- ‘‘Those who made tapes do At a press conference in idents, who had access so far the Justice S N Phukan Dixesh Patel, a Sanjan resi- tions are also included in this our quality of life.’’ fect the credibility of the not know where the tapes Bhopal on Monday, Fernan- to Doordashan, got a taste of Commission of inquiry re- dent. Patel, who let local resi- pack. ASC as a strategy is push- process? ‘‘No, because I had are going.’’ He said ever des had threatened to sue what cable television means fusing to divulge the name dents to have a peep of cable On Day one, the digital ing DTH at rural couch pota- passed an order in May since the Phukan commis- Gandhi for her utternaces on through direct to home of the expert. via DTH, says that it is worth quality picture and sound of toes rather than their urban making it clear that the ex- sion came into being, it has the coffin scam. He had also (DTH) television service. Alleging that the process a wait all these years as DTH service seems to have counterparts. ‘‘They are the pert’s identity would not be not done anything except challenged the Opposition Subhash Chandra’s ASC adopted by the commission many in his village will have scored over the absence of ones who need cable TV serv- revealed,’’ Justice Phukan sending the tapes for foren- leader to produce proof of Enterprises became the first is ‘‘scandalous’’, Tehelka an option to graduate direct- channels like Star Plus, Set ice immediately. But sub- said. He also asked TOI to sic examination despite the corruption in the coffin deal to launch DTH services, ly to digital cable service. Max, Discovery, among oth- scribers in metropolitan says that the anonymous talk to the commission’s fact that Venkataswami during the no confidence mo- bringing in much awaited DTH took off with 50 exist- ers. ‘‘It didn’t matter much as cities are keen to buy DTH,’’ foreign expert while asking secretary,S Dasgupta. had twice passed orders tion in Parliament. freedom to television homes ing channels — but without we have not snapped our ca- says a senior ASC official, for the recording equip- ment at no point said that When contacted, Dasgup- stating that the tapes need The Congress had let the who now can have access to some foreign channels like ble connection,’’ said a Gur- adding, $80 package for DTH challenge go unanswered cable TV without the cable Star, Sony and ESPN — gaon resident who has sub- is cheapest anywhere in the tapes examined so far ta, who is administrative not be sent for forensic ex- were doctored. in-charge of the commis- amination. during the Parliamentary operator. which have not yet signed scribed to DTH. the world. debate.TNN
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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Friday,October 3, 2003 7 AFP George agrees to probe MiG crashes, looks for remedies By Srinivas Laxman TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: Defence minister George Fernandes who always maintained that the MiG-21s of the Indian Air Force were absolutely safe despite the se- ries of accidents that have oc- curred, has finally agreed that a solution has to be found for the spate of crashes. The credit for this goes to Kavita Gadgil who lost her 27- year-old son, Abhijit, in a MiG- 21 crash on September 17, 2001 in Rajasthan. Since then she Buddhist monks pray at the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi on Thursday. has launched a campaign to find out the real cause behind the spate of MiG-21 crashes. For this purpose she has RSS distances itself from formed the Abhijit Air Safety Foundation which is based here. Between August 5, 2000 and Joshi resignation drama July 14, 2003, 30 MiG-21s have crashed killing 17 pilots. De- By Rajesh Ramachandran was chargesheeted by the summoning the BJP chief spite this, Fernandes said TIMES NEWS NETWORK Rae Bareli court in the Babri over the resignation drama. there is nothing wrong with Masjid demolition case. ‘‘All references to the RSS the aircraft and dismissed sug- New Delhi: It is now official. It was widely speculated chief or words put in his gestions that it is a ‘‘flying cof- The HRD minister Murli that Joshi had resigned with mouth by the writer to lead to fin.’’ Manohar Joshi is out in the RSS’ blessings so that the the inference that Sri Sudar- However, following a repre- the sun, without the RSS Parivar could anoint him as shan, or cadres of the RSS sentation made by Gadgil to umbrella. the BJP president and also are supporting Joshiji’s res- him on July 26, 2003, he wrote In no uncertain terms, the foist him on to the leadership ignation, are just an imagi- a letter to her dated July 29, Sangh has stated that neither of the temple agitation that nation. We are non-commital 2003, in which he said: ‘‘There its chief, K S Sudarshan, nor would begin mid-October. on that point’’, wrote Sudar- can be no two views about the the RSS cadre, has supported But the lead item on the shan’s executive assistant. need to find a solution to the Joshi’s resignation. Appar- RSS website on Thursday The RSS website went on problem of the MiG crashes. ently, Sudarshan is upset tells a different story under to say: ‘‘The report contains At the same time, we must not with Joshi loyalists for drag- the headline ‘‘RSS chief Sri many untrue statements to forget that these crashes are ging the RSS into the resig- Sudarshanji clarifies stand support speculative conclu- not just a couple of years or nation controversy and also on Dr Joshi’s resignation’’. sions. Even false statements even 35 months old. This histo- for making people believe the The write-up is Sudar- like Sudarshan summoning ry of MiG crashes go back to RSS was whole-heartedly be- shan’s angry response to a Naidu and giving him a the early eighties,’’ he stated hind Joshi’s actions after he news item on Sudarshan tongue-lashing.” in his letter. Fernandes said that the Verbal assault for Amarmani whole nation has to join hands to tackle the problem Lucknow: Slain poetess Madhumita’s elder sister of the MiG crashes. Nidhi Shukla and mother Shanti Devi’s confrontation with Amarmani on Thursday saw some high drama as the two women accused the former minister of playing foul with the poetess. Amarmani adamantly shot down their claims, sticking to his one-liner that whatever the two were saying was all concocted. The confrontation took place in the presence of the inves- tigating officer from the CBI. Nidhi mentioned the dates and timing along with names of the eye-witnesses to some of the heated ar- guments between Amarmani and Madhumita at the latter’s Paper Mill colony where she was shot dead. TNN
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8 Friday,October 3, 2003 INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi
AP New Muslim secular group formed Mumbai: Gandhi Jayanti this year will witness the for- Careful planning mation of a new national body — Muslims for Secular Democracy (MSD). The members of the new body include educationists, businessmen, doctors, lawyers, journalists, artistes, and but little luck women activists from Pune, Kolhapur, Kolkata, Bhopal, Allahabad, Patna and elsewhere in the country. By T Sunil Reddy Among the issues that the MSD will look at will be the TIMES NEWS NETWORK growing religious intolerance, the Ayodhya issue, cul- Sudhakar Reddy ture policing, the Uniform Civil Code, state subsidy for Hyderabad: Like all ideologically motivated guerrilla groups, the Peo- Haj and population control. TNN ple’s War (PW) group spends a few is prime suspect years planning its major operations, like the one that narrowly missed as- TIMES NEWS NETWORK sassinating Andhra Pradesh chief Hyderabad: Even as the inves- minister Chandrababu Naidu on tigators grapple to come to Wednesday. terms with the attack, fingers After analysing the previous inci- are being pointed at he possible dents and the guerrilla group’s liter- involvement of Patel Sudhakar ature, senior officials engaged in Reddy,one of the top operatives counter-extremist operations are of People’s War. surmising that ‘Operation Naidu’ Intelligence agencies track- was planned meticulously for a very ing PW say Sudhakar Reddy, long time before it was executed on known by Suryam in the PW, the road to Tirumala. has not been seen in the Nalla- Security experts said that once mala forest and Andhra region, the PW’s central committee (CC) his favourite hiding locales, in gives the go-ahead for a big opera- the last couple of months. tion, special teams are constituted It was earlier thought that he Officials examine the car which was carrying Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu when the for the job. One or two central com- might have been shifted to the explosion took place near Tirupati on Wednesday. mittee members are given charge Dandakaranya belt (Bastar and and are not required to inform the Probe begins into Taj Highway Project: Gadchiroli). But the Tirumala top leadership about operational de- blast is making the agencies The judicial commision set up to inquire into alle- tails. “It’s no wonder that PW did not suspect the real reason for Sud- gations of malpractices in the Rs 2500-crore Taj even inform its Chittoor district Express Highway project has started its probe hakar’s hibernation was to plan unit or for that matter the Ray- into the scheme launched by Mayawati. ‘‘She a big hit. will be summoned if required,’’ retired High Court alaseema leadership about the at- Sudhakar was accused of judge S R Mishra of the one-man commission tack against the chief minister,” an masterminding the killing of officer said. said on Wednesday. PTI then panchayat raj minister A The CC drafts young cadres from Madhava Reddy in a landmine different places for the action team. blast near Ghatkesar on the out- Team members never meet, except skirts of Hyderabad. on D-day. Dry runs are conducted at hideouts using explosives against chain, and the PW has perfected the dummy targets. To elude the intelli- art of delinking the chain,” a top po- gence radar, team members are giv- lice official said, pointing out that it en specific tasks such as scouting is difficult to unearth the whole con- ambush spots, spying target move- spiracy. ments, procuring explosives, prepar- Only rarely have the police suc- ing bombs, and planting them at des- ceeded in identifying the action ignated locations, and finally setting teams that carried out sensational off the blast. No member of the team operations. The only major success knows what another is tasked with, in this respect was when four of the nor his whereabouts, nor even his five-member team that killed IPS of- name. ficer C Umesh Chandra and former After several such operations in home minister A Madhava Reddy the past, police learnt later that the were hunted down and killed by a action teams had not even informed police crack team in Hyderabad the PW central and state committees three years ago. Individual action about the time and venue of the op- team members were eliminated in eration. “Operations of Wednes- separate and chance encounters but day’s magnitude involves a big not as a group. Don’t ban Ayodhya rally, says Singhal Allahabad: Asking the ocratic. But there will be BJP to stop its double- grave consequences if the talk on the Ayodhya issue, Centre or the state gov- the VHP on Thursday ernment tried to ban the warned the Central and march,’’ he told reporters the Uttar Pradesh govern- here. He, however, did not ments of grave conse- elaborate on the nature of quences if they tried to the grave consequences. ban its ‘‘Ayodhya March’’ On media reports quot- on October 17. ing a senior police officer VHP international about the plans to deal president Ashok Singhal with the VHP’s meeting also rejected the proposal in Ayodhya, he said ‘‘if for construction of a the official’s statement re- mosque adjacent to the flected the perception of Ram Temple in Ayodhya the government, then saying ‘‘no mosque will be they should be prepared allowed to be constructed for the consequences.’’ in the vicinity of the tem- The meeting in Ayod- ple. Muslims can con- hya has been planned to struct a mosque in Sahan- put pressure on the Cen- wa village, about eight km tre to expedite legislation from Ayodhya.’’ for handing over the ‘‘The ‘‘Ayodhya March’’ undisputed land to the and the public meeting Ramjanambhoomi Nyas, will be peaceful and dem- he said. PTI UP CM to expand cabinet today Lucknow: The much-await- ed Cabinet expansion of the Mulayam Singh Yadav gov- ernment in Uttar Pradesh will take place on Friday, of- ficial sources said here on Thursday. The cabinet expansion would be the second one af- ter Yadav was sworn in as chief minister on August 29. There are reports that be- tween 55 to 60 minister may be inducted to facilitate ade- quate representation of all the allies, especially those who defected from the BSP to join Mulayam. PTI
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Recognition to IME withdrawn: The Centre Gau rakshak Jogi: Chhattisgarh CM Ajit Jogi CPM may make a bid to oust Antony: The UP cabinet expansion today: The much- has withdrawn recognition of the Institution of donned the mantle of a gau rakshak and struck an CPM again hinted on Wednesday that it would awaited Cabinet expansion of the Mulayam Singh Mechanical Engineers (India) for the purpose of emotional chord with hundreds of cow worshippers make efforts to dislodge the Antony government in Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh will take place employment under the Central government, accord- on Wednesday. Jogi took out a gau raksha rally at Kerala, by taking advantage of growing divisions in on Friday, sources said here on Thursday. Report- Intangible plan? ing to sources. This decision was taken after a re- Dhamtari and announced the constitution of a the Congress camp and the UDF government after edly, the new members may number between 55 to view was carried out by a high level committee. TNN three-tier cattle wealth protection committees. TNN its drubbing in the Ernakulam bypoll. TNN 60 to facilitate representation of all the allies. PTI Another mission to save heritage By Akshaya Mukul TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The culture ministry is in the process of launching a mission to conserve the country’s ‘intangible heritage’ by devel- oping a national policy and an over-arching legislative framework. This mission will be similar to the much hyped National Manuscript Mission which is yet to gain momentum. In common man’s parlance, it is about conserving the country’s folklore, mytholo- gy, rituals, music, dance and such oral traditions. Globalisation might be the government’s mantra but the mission document deplores the ‘‘negative impact of the overpowering multinational business interests at the local and national level’’, resulting in traditions and arts becoming commodities. Officials say the mission document will soon be sent to the Prime Minister’s Office for approval and the project will start with- in two to three months. The rationale for the mission: ‘‘Urgent need to rediscover the past and integrate it with the present, in an attempt to revive that perennial stream of its heritage for contemporary India.’’ Why? One official explains: ‘‘On the one hand, modern society has created a market- driven, consumerist, mixed culture, and on the other, it has also become subject to distortion, decontextualisation and dilution.’’ This has led to erosion of the oral and guru-shishya tradition and mindless imita- tion of western ideals. The mission would endeavour to raise awareness regarding the value of heritage and carry out extensive documentation of intangible heritage. Each expression of her- itage will be preserved by making exhaus- tive inventories and storing them electroni- cally for the future. The inventory would have a three-tier list- ing: A comprehensive national inventory of India’s cultural assets, with basic categories and sub-categories; lists of cultural expressions in need of urgent safeguarding; and lists of treasures of intangible For advertising details, call: Ravi Popli at 9818115161 or E-mail: [email protected] cultural heritage.
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INDIA Friday,October 3, 2003 11 A new temple Key blasts suspect card played arrested By Rajesh Ramachandran in the undisputed land in re- TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK turn for the disputed land. Mumbai: The crime There is also another formu- branch on Thursday ar- New Delhi: There appears to la of giving an assurance on be a possibility of yet anoth- rested Zahid Patni, al- Kashi and Mathura in return legedly a key conspira- er round of negotiations be- for the disputed land’’. tween individual Muslim tor in the August 25 The Vishwa Hindu bomb blasts case. He has leaders and the Sangh Pari- Parishad had announced a var as the government seems been booked under Pota grand rally in Delhi on Octo- and will be produced in keen on a negotiated settle- ber 15 and a march to Ayod- ment of the Ayodhya issue. the special court on Fri- hya on October 17. Though day for remand. Though it is not clear all these agitational pro- whether the same negotia- Patni, 26, returned to grammes do help the BJP in Mumbai from Dubai on tors would be involved in this times of elections, this time round of talks too, Sangh Tuesday and was ques- the Parivar is keen on a tioned by the police. The Parivar sources said the BJP solution. wants to begin construction police have no satisfac- ‘‘Around three lakh people tory reply as to why Pat- of a temple at the Babri would come to Delhi, every ni returned to the city. Masjid site before the Vajpay- BJP MLA in Gujarat could Crime branch sources ee government at the Centre mobilise 1000 workers each. said his family mem- completes its term. Still, it is a question of the bers were being grilled Any forward movement on VHP’s credibility. After five by the police here and this issue could be read from years in power, the BJP too they are believed to have references to Ayodhya in RSS cannot go back to the people pressurised him. chief K S Sudarshan’s Vijaya asking for votes in the name Patni, a Konkani Mus- Dashmi speech in Nagpur on of Ram temple yet again. The lim, is believed to have Saturday. However RSS agitation began in 1983 and indoctrinated several spokesman Ram Madhav there has to be some conclu- people in Dubai for the said, ‘‘Our stand remains the sion’’, said a Parivar leader. mission to plant bombs same. The whole area should The RSS is not keen on giv- in Mumbai, to avenge be handed over to us. And ing away land in the vicinity the killing of Muslims Kashi and Mathura are non- of the Babri Masjid site, nor in the post-Godhra negotiable’’. is it ready to give an assur- pogrom in Gujarat. But a senior Parivar leader ance on Kashi and Mathura. Sources said Patni told TOI that, ‘‘Pejawar Swa- On the first proposal, the had arranged for a pri- mi and Kanchi Sankara- Parivar response seems to be vate screening of a charya have over a month that the mosque could be con- video film on the Gu- ago mooted the idea of hand- structed seven km away from jarat pogrom for the oth- ing over a couple of acres for the Masjid at Mir Baqi’s er co-accused. the construction of mosque mazar in a nearby village. Dignity first, cries Udit New Delhi: Instead of agitating for a Ram temple at Ayodhya, BJP leaders should focus their attention on ‘‘giving freedom and dignity’’ to safai karam- charis, Indian Justice Party leader Udit Raj said Thursday.He was speaking at a rally of the Balmiki community organised under the banner of the the Rashtriya Bahujan Shakti Morcha. ‘‘Can there be any bigger blot on Hindusim than the fact that its adherents still have to carry night soil on their head and clean human excreta with their fingers?’’, said Raj. He said giving them digni- ty would ‘‘give more mileage and respect to Hin- duism than building thousands of temples’’. TNN
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12 Friday,October 3, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi
AROUND THE WORLD Reuters Chill out at oxygen bar: Once upon a time there was a fairy tale University students going to a bar may not seem unusual. AFP Potsdam: Peddlers of fairy over the lost art of story- It is when the bar is serving tales don’t often turn up telling. up bottle of oxygen, not beer. An oxygen bar, where the looking like they came off ‘‘Fairy stories are little only intoxicant is purified air, worst in a collision. Hein- messages,’’ said Dickerhoff. was the attraction at the Uni- rich Dickerhoff has an arm To a therapy group of versity of Nebraska-Lincoln in a sling, a large white plas- grieving parents who had student union on Wednes- ter above his left eye and fa- lost a child, he related an day. ‘‘I’m not wasted,’’ UNL cial bruising. The results, Argentinian story of a student Tim Randall, 23, said he said, of a decidedly un- woman whose beloved after inhaling 97-per cent fairylike encounter between husband had died. pure oxygen for about five his bicycle and a car. And She cried so much that a minutes. ‘‘I’m more relaxed.’’ he’s got bad news for Snow wise old woman told her Students lined up for the White fans. how she could contact him chance to sit at one of three stools and inhale the oxygen It turns out that the vil- through a magic, candle-lit scented with one of 12 aro- lain of the piece isn’t her mirror at dead of night. She mas, including lavender, vain stepmother after all lived in his mystical world vanilla and strawberry. ‘‘It but, wait for it, her biologi- for a while, became preg- smelled like incense,’’ Ran- cal mother. nant and returned comfort- dall said. As an added op- The Brothers Grimm ed to the real world. tion, students could also put sanitised the tale to placate ‘‘None of the experiences on earphones that played a the sensitivities of early of those parents had any- monotone sound meant to 19th century central Eu- Children listen to fairy tales in Potsdam near Berlin during the International Fairy Tale thing outwardly compara- block outside distractions. AP rope. ‘‘An evil mother just Congress last week. ble with the fairy tale,’’ Why cookies crumble: wasn’t acceptable,’’ said Dickerhoff explained. Scientists say they may have Dickerhoff, who as presi- Potsdam, outside Berlin, world. Throughout the baroque church to a book- ‘‘But the imagery of it worked out why the cookie dent of the European Fairy where 400 story-tellers, re- week, dreamy tales of kind shop. was such that each saw their crumbles. It is widely as- Story Society knows more searchers and academics kings, naughty elves and The serious side of things own story reflected in it, and sumed that biscuits crumble than most about the issue. have been mulling tales of their ilk were told to groups included parallels with their deep-rooted hope... because they are manhan- It’s been a big week for enchanted castles, dashing of children and adults in modern life, debates on the that death is not the final dled. But researchers at Loughborough University in magic and mystery fans in princes and the nether- settings ranging from a nature of evil and anguish truth.’’ AFP central England say the prob- Spanish actress Paz Vega presents her latest film lem may be due to cooking ‘Carmen’ in Madrid on Wednesday. techniques and humidity. Halle splits ‘‘When you take (a biscuit) a good ol’ mayonnaise rub- look at his daughter before Vitamins help save out of the oven it likes to ab- down. ‘‘It helps keep their marrying her, according to a sorb moisture ,’’ Loughbor- coat shiny, but you can only Saudi newspaper. Al-Watan with hubby ough University’s Ricky Wild- put it on the black parts,’’ daily on Wednesday said that health care costs man told BBC Radio on said 13-year-old Lydia the father also asked the Los Angeles: Actress Halle Thursday. ‘‘If the humidity of Brown, who had entered her prospective groom to pay Washington: Want to save health care dol- Berry announced she has the atmosphere is set incor- pig in the annual swine com- 5,000 riyals, apparently as lars? Give vitamins to the elderly,a study pub- separated from her husband, rectly, some parts of the bis- petition at the Coosa Valley down payment on a dowry, lished on Thursday suggests. R&B singer Eric Benet, after cuit are trying to dry out while Fair. Lydia and her 15-year- once his daughter —who is The study,done on behalf of the US Centers less than three years of mar- some parts of the biscuit are old sister Naomi came from currently divorcing her first for Medicare and Medicaid Services by health riage. trying to suck moisture in. Dade County to enter Lucy in husband and father of her care consultant The Lewin Group, finds that “Eric and I have had mari- This sets up internal forces the junior swine competition child —agreed to the mar- vitamins could improve health, making elder- tal problems for some time within the biscuit and it effec- and open swine competition. riage. The paper said the Catrina Stager, a Pepperell groom, a Saudi who is al- ly people less likely to need drugs or hospital now and have tried to work tively self destructs.’’ Reuters High freshman, stuck to baby ready married and has five care. The Lewin Group study found that daily things out together,” Berry Prize pigs: The sound of oil to keep her pig’s coat children, paid both sums use of a multivitamin by older adults is a rela- said Wednesday in a state- clippers whirring and the shiny. ‘‘I start about an hour but called off the deal tively inexpensive yet potentially powerful ment. “However, at this scent of baby oil filled the air before the show, shaving and when he found that the way to improve one’s health,” Lewin said in point, I feel we need time backstage, as prize pigs brushing her, she said. Reuters bride had been married the report. As people age, and especially after apart to reevaluate our before. Reuters were primped and pampered Peek-a-boo: A Saudi father age 65, the immune system generally weakens, union. We ask that you re- for their big moment in front leaving them vulnerable to infections. spect our privacy as we are has demanded a suitor pay ‘Enchanting’ Arun: British of the judges. Lucy’s pre- 190 pounds just to have a model-actress Elizabeth Hur- “The five-year estimate of potential savings going through this emotional ferred beauty treatment was ley had nothing but praise resulting from improved immune functioning time.” Benet’s representa- for her millionaire beau Arun and a reduction in the relative risk of coro- tives did not immediately re- Nayar at a recent interview nary artery disease through providing older turn a call for comment. It’s just math for Renee on American TV. “I have a adults with a daily multivitamin is approxi- Tabloids have speculated very nice new boyfriend mately $1.6 billion,” the report concludes. Reuters about instability in their re- Actress Renee Zellweger said Wednes- called Arun. He’s half Indian lationship from nearly the day that putting on weight for her up- and half German. He’s actu- moment the “X-Men” star coming role in the ‘‘Bridget Jones’’ se- ally enchanting. I couldn’t be LUV2HATE MAIL married Benet in January quel has been a piece of cake — but no happier at the moment. doughnuts. ‘‘It’s really just math. I’ve Don’t stop Dubya cause it is the best 2001. Berry and Benet met in Everything’s so much nicer in way to get names printed in the paper. 1999 at a party to celebrate been eating lots of really fattening food. I my life now and he is lovely... read that I’d been eating doughnuts, but Keep it up the premiere of Berry’s HBO and now I’m really embar- — Prateek Panda they’re not really my thing,’’ Zellweger rassed and self- conscious!” movie “Introducing Dorothy said as she braved a rainy London I like Dubyaman very much, not for its Dandridge,” about the first Renee the music.com quoted her as humour but because I love reading hate evening to attend the premiere of her saying in the show ‘Live with black woman nominated for mails. current film ‘‘Down with Love.’’ Zellweger was wrapped Regis and Kelly.’ “I don’t — Rajneesh a best- actress Oscar with up warmly in a black wool coat and knee-high black even understand a word of 1954’s “Carmen Jones.” boots to greet fans outside the premiere cinema in what he does. It’s all sort of For bouquets log on to Berry became the first Kensington, southwest London.. Zellweger said she has www.timesofindia.com computers or something. I black woman to win a best- been working with a nutritionist. AP can just send an email; that’s e-mail: [email protected] actress Oscar for her work in about as far as I can get.” ANI 2001’s “Monster’s Ball.” AP
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The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Friday,October 3, 2003 13 New questions Suu Kyi ‘soft’ on junta emerge about Hu calls for more democracy AFP Yangon: Myanmar’s oppo- cy (NLD) leader was held at By Joseph Kahn sition leader Aung San Suu a secret location for nearly Arnie’s past Beijing: President Hu Jin- Kyi told visiting UN envoy four months in a crack- Sacramento: Fresh allega- tao made a vague but insis- Razali Ismail that she is down on her party which tions surfaced that Arnold tent call for more democra- willing to work with the saw its entire leadership Schwarzenegger sexually ha- cy in China on the eve of the military junta on a new na- put under detention. “Aung rassed women in the past, as country’s National Day hol- tional reconciliation San Suu Kyi told him that the movie star prepared to iday, raising expectations process, diplomats said she wanted to be released capitalize on his lead in polls that the new leader might Thursday. with the others. She doesn’t by blitzing California with support introducing greater “Suu Kyi has said that want to be the focus of at- campaign events days before pluralism in the one-party she’s willing to work with tention on a one-off re- the state votes on whether to state. (Prime Minister General) lease,” the diplomat said. recall its governor. In an address to the rul- Khin Nyunt,” said a West- Myanmar’s junta is under Six women — including a ing Politburo delivered on ern diplomat who attended Razali, who was in Myan- intense pressure to free the British television host — ac- Tuesday and made public a briefing given by Razali mar to try to advance the 58-year-old democracy cam- cused Schwarzenegger in in- by China’s official news before he left Yangon after a roadmap as well as secure paigner before a Southeast terviews with the Los Ange- service today, Hu said the three-day meeting. Aung San Suu Kyi’s release Asian summit next week les Times of groping them on Communist Party must un- Khin Nyunt last month from house arrest, failed to which risks being overshad- movie sets and in other set- dertake a “sweeping sys- unveiled a seven-point secure her freedom during owed by the issue. But Raza- tings over the last three temic project” to increase “roadmap” to democracy in his talks with the ruling li’s mission was predomi- decades, the newspaper re- public participation in gov- the military-run state, generals, the source said. nantly focused on promot- ported in Thursday editions. ernment and enforce the which includes free and Before being confined to ing a reform initiative to Schwarzenegger spokes- rule of law. He repeatedly fair elections to be held un- her home last week, the Na- end four decades of military man Sean Walsh denied the emphasised the need for der a new constitution. tional League for Democra- rule in Myanmar. AFP allegations in comments to democracy. the Times, saying the actor “We must enrich the had not engaged in improper forms of democracy, make conduct toward women. democratic procedures Newlyweds in front of the Russian Orthodox Church in Harbin on National Day. There Walsh said the claims were a One more gets death for blasts complete, expand citizens’ were an unprecedented number of marriages on Wednesday as couples took advantage political attack in the days orderly political participa- of a nationwide rule change making it more convenient to get married. Bali: The last of four main dants — Samudra and Am- tion, is serious about con- leading up to the Oct. 7 recall tion and ensure that the suspects in the deadly rozi bin Nurhasyhim — have fronting the threat of Islamic election, in which Schwar- people can exercise demo- ern-style democracy. ernment official who is now tions within the Commu- nightclub bombings on In- received death sentences and militancy, and that its legal zenegger is one of the lead- cratic elections, democratic Even so, Hu’s National a leading political analyst nist Party, meaning that donesia’s Bali island was a third — Ali Imron — re- system is capable of punish- ing contenders to replace decision-making, democrat- Day speech was his boldest in Beijing. “But he is mak- multiple candidates may convicted Thursday and sen- ceived life in prison for the ing terrorists. Gov. Gray Davis. ic administration and dem- call for accelerated political ing very clear that he is in compete for positions and tenced to death by firing Oct. 12, 2002, attack that Ghufron told the judges Momentum has been ocratic scrutiny,” Hu said. change since he became favour of political reform. the party rank and file may squad. killed 202 people, mostly for- that he would appeal. ‘‘The building for Schwarzenegger, Chinese leaders promote general secretary of the People’s hopes will be have a say in who gets pro- Ali Ghufron, alias eign tourists. verdict is not in line with Is- with a new Los Angeles Times the concept of democracy Communist Party last No- raised that he intends to do moted. Mukhlas, was ‘‘proven guilty Twelve have received lamic teachings,’’ he said. poll showing the actor with a mainly as a way of enhanc- vember. He became presi- some significant things.” Hu may also consider al- of planning a terrorist action prison terms ranging from During the trial, Ghufron ad- big lead over other candi- ing the credibility of the dent in March. The speech contained no lowing people to begin ... and we the judges sentence seven years to 16 years. mitted to being the opera- dates. Communist Party and fight- “Hu is focusing on im- specifics. But people who choosing township or coun- him to death,’’ Judge Cokor- The verdict is the latest tions chief of Jemaah Is- Schwarzenegger had sup- ing corruption among low- proving the operation of the follow politics closely in ty leaders, expanding local da Rai Suamba said. sign that Indonesia, the lamiyah _ the al-Qaida-linked port from 40 per cent of like- and middle-ranking offi- existing system, not chang- Beijing universities and in- elections that have been per- Two other key Bali defen- world’s largest Muslim na- extremist group. AP ly voters, the poll found. AP cials. Hu almost certainly ing the system itself,” said stitutions are expecting him mitted at the village level does not plan to push West- Wu Jiaxiang, a former gov- to broaden the role of elec- for many years. NYT News Service
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14 Friday,October 3, 2003 ENTERPRISE G The Times of India, New Delhi NHPC targets 4,357 MW in Tenth Plan By Alok Sinha states and shift in priority 10th Plan and 14,404 MW in TIMES NEWS NETWORK by government to power the 11th Plan (2007-12) pro- generation based on fossil vided the required statutory Chairman and managing di- fuels. clearances and investment rector of National Hydroelec- The NHPC has been ham- sanctions are accorded in tric Power Corporation strung with a number of time. On our part, we will (NHPC) Yogendra Prasad factors. What are these? complete all the ongoing says only 10 per cent of the Remoteness of the loca- projects expeditiously in the viable hydro-power potential tion of hydroelectric proj- 10th and 11th Plans, contin- CMD of NTPC C P Jain presents the cheque of the final divi- has been developed so far in ects demands development ue with our survey and in- dend of Rs 308 crore to Union power minister Anant G Geete. the country. In an interview of infrastructure and en- vestigation works and to TNN, he talks about why abling facilities such as preparation of DPRs which hydro-power potential is roads, communication sys- will enable taking up of new NTPC pays dividend largely untapped in India tem, etc before starting the projects continuously year and the achievements, plans actual construction of a after year. and role of NHPC. project. Land acquisition Active construction activ- India possesses immense and rehabilitation of the ities on eight projects of of Rs 708 crore hydro-power potential but land oustees are complex 4,490 MW are on in full TIMES NEWS NETWORK the actual generation is time-consuming tasks. swing. We have taken up 11 low. What explains this The time required for projects of 10,824 MW in- New Delhi: The NTPC has paid an annual dividend of Rs 708 disparity? clearances from govern- stalled capacity for detailed crore to the Government of India for the financial year 2002- India is endowed with hy- ment agencies and authori- project report and infra- 03, a Press statement issued by the corporation said. dro-power potential of about ties, including state depart- structure development, The cheque of the final dividend of Rs 308 crore was pre- 2,50,000 MW.As on August 31 ments and the ministry of CMD of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Yogendra Prasad which include the 240 MW sented to Union power minister Anant G Geete by the CMD this year, hydro-potential to environment and forests, re- Uri-II (J&K), 1,000 MW Pakal of NTPC C P Jain in New Delhi. Secretary,power, R V Shahi the tune of only 27,010 MW sults in delay in starting of sioning’’ in relation to set- terms of performance, as ahead of schedule. Dul (J&K), 231 MW Cham- and other senior officials from the ministry of power and the has been developed. This the project. While there has ting up of hydro projects. per an MoU signed with the The NHPC has been gen- era-III (Himachal), and 520 NTPC were present on the occasion. The NTPC had paid an comes to about 10 per cent of been some streamlining in With an investment base Union ministry of power, erating additional revenue MW Parbati-III (Himachal). interim dividend of Rs 400 crore in March this year. the viable potential. The obtaining various statutory of over Rs 1,86,000 million, it the NHPC has been achiev- by its consultancy service to In addition, the NHPC This is the ninth consecutive year that the NTPC has paid share of hydro-power in our clearances, there is a need is ranked among the top ten ing ‘Excellent’ rating. clients both in the public and the MP government dividend to the Government of India, starting from Rs 65 power system is about 26 per and scope to further expe- companies in the country in The NHPC has also exe- and private sectors. The have formed a JV company crore in 1993-94. cent. dite the clearances. terms of investment. The cuted projects on deposit NHPC is registered as a con- known as the Narmada Hy- The NTPC, with a total generating capacity of 21,249 MW, The key issues why the What have been the NHPC has ISO-9001 for its work/turnkey basis in India sultant in the area of hydro- droelectric Development is one of the most professionally managed companies in In- hydro-power share is so low achievements of the quality management system and abroad, including the power with international Corporation for execution of dia and recently received the ‘Best Employer’s Award’. The are long gestation periods, NHPC? and ISO-14001 for environ- Devighat HE Project (14.1 funding agencies like the the 1,000-MW Indira Sagar corporation plans to be a 58,000 MW-plus company by 2017. financial problems, environ- In its existence of over 27 ment standard in corporate MW) in Nepal, the Kurichu World Bank, the ADB, the and the 520-MW Omkaresh- The NTPC organised a one-day national seminar titled mental issues, geological years, the NHPC has become office. HE project (60 MW) in African Development Bank, war projects in MP.Work on ‘Hindi in the UN’ recently.The main aim of the seminar was surprises, rehabilitation the major organisation for The NHPC has got seven Bhutan and the Kalpong HE etc. various components of the to discuss how India is gearing up to establish Hindi as one and resettlement, water hydro-power development in commissioned power sta- project (5.25 MW) in the An- What are your future Indira Sagar project is in of the official languages of the UN. sharing disputes among India, with capabilities to tions with an installed ca- daman & Nicobar Islands. plans? full swing and the project is states, detrimental law and undertake all the activities pacity of 2175 MW and has All these projects were exe- The NHPC plans to add scheduled for commission- order situation in many from ‘‘concept to commis- made profits consistently.In cuted in a short period and 4,357 MW of capacity in the ing in May 2005.
New BEL CMD: Y PNB’s festival Gopala Rao took over as the CMD of bonanza the Rs 2,500- crore de- New Delhi: Customers wish- fence PSU ing to avail retail loans have Bharat Elec- reasons to cheer up as the tronics Ltd Punjab National Bank (PNB) (BEL) on has launched the festival sea- Wednesday. son bonanza, under which at- He succeed- tractive concessions are be- ed V K ing offered to customers in Koshy, who its retail credit schemes. The retired on rebates under the bonanza Tuesday, ac- are valid upto December 31, cording to a 2003, a Press statement is- company re- sued by the bank said. lease. PTI As a part of the bonanza, the bank is offering reduc- tion in interest rates. Float- ing rates for housing loans have been reduced by 0.25 per cent to 7.75 per cent for a re- payment period of up to five years and by 0.5 per cent for a repayment period of more than five years. TNN
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The Times of India, New Delhi INTERNATIONAL Friday,October 3, 2003 15 US pushes new Bush praises Jamali for ‘war against terror’ AFP By Chidanand Rajghatta chastened and changed Pak- Iraq resolution TIMES NEWS NETWORK istan vis-a-vis democracy and terrorism. Troops not for United Nations: The UN Se- Washington: Pakistan’s “We want a long, lasting curity Council launches a Fresh efforts Prime Minister Mir Zafarul- friendship with the United money: Kasuri new round of talks on Iraq lah Jamali abjectly sought States, and that is why I’m •The day when Iraqis — and received — a ‘pat on Islamabad: Pakistan on Thursday, as the United govern themselves must here — to bring a message of Thursday said its deci- States presents a revamped the back’ from US President the new democratic come quickly George Bush for his coun- sion to send troops to resolution hoping to con- setup which I set in Pakistan Iraq was not in any way vince other nations to pro- •US occupation is try’s return to democracy the last ten months. And, and its fight against terror- “associated” with re- vide money and troops for ‘temporary’ and will last in short, we intend ceiving money from the Iraq but without setting a till a representative govt ism amid increasing skepti- getting that through.Of cism on both counts in United States. date for an end to the US-led is established course, with a pat on the “Pakistan is a presti- American political and occupation. back as far as President gious country. The is- •Control should be ‘‘pro- strategic circles. The draft fine-tunes the Bush is concerned,” Jamali sue of sending troops to gressively undertaken’’ Jamali held talks with language in a bid to win over said. Iraq is not associated by the governing council Bush over lunch at the countries like France that US officials said the two with money”, foreign want a speedy handover of White House on Wednesday leaders discussed a wide minister Khurshid during which he dished out power but stops short of fix- recognised, representative range of topics including A Pakistani soldier stands guard over Al-Qaida prisoners captured in Angoor Ada. Mehmood Kasuri told ing a date to end the US occu- government is established by a litany of complaints about Kashmir. President Bush BBC Radio. “If it had pation. the people of Iraq.’’ India: from its acquisition of emphasized “the need for di- The advice appeared will be no talks. Musharraf had made com- been associated with US ambassador John Ne- France has said six arms to its refusal to hold alogue between India and premised on Pakistan dis- Over at the State Depart- mitments to end the cross- money, it would have groponte released the draft months should be enough talks with Pakistan over Pakistan,” White House mantling the infrastructure ment, spokesman Richard border activity in Kashmir. been decided much ear- Kashmir. of terrorism, without Boucher reminded a ques- For more go to on Wednesday at a meeting time for the United States to spokesman Scott McClellan lier,” he said. PTI www.timesofindia.com with veto-wielding Security give sovereignty to Iraqis. He also sought to project a said. which, India has said, there tioner that President Council powers Britain, Chi- The United States says that na, France and Russia. He deadline is unrealistic. In- also gave it to Germany, a stead, the draft says that con- current council member. trol in Iraq should be ‘‘pro- ‘‘The day when Iraqis gov- gressively undertaken’’ by ern themselves must come the US-appointed Iraqi gov- quickly,’’ says the draft, erning council. which alters an earlier ver- The new draft also appears sion that met resistance on to expand some UN responsi- the council when presented bilities but does not lay out in September. It underlines the central role that France, that the US occupation is Germany and Russia have ‘‘temporary’’ and will last been demanding for the ‘‘until an internationally world body in Iraq. AFP
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16 Friday,October 3, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Tainted by Terror Bank on Bollywood A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Three years after achieving industry status, NRIs used to see Indian films. With Dilwale US Not Easy with Pak Alliance showbiz is struggling to matchmake film- Dulhania Le Jayenge, we subtitled a film in Commitment to all-round reforms has been the makers and film financiers. Veteran film English for the first time. Since then, the By Gautam Adhikari key to Andhra’s success. as cautious, if inconsistent, backing in producer Yash Chopra, head of FICCI’s business has grown. Now, every Indian film conflicts with India. — N Chandrababu Naidu Washington, DC: When world leaders entertainment committee, is working to is subtitled in English, Malay, Arabic, and gathered in New York for the United Nations Nevertheless, American support proved bridge this gap. In an interview with French. In the UK, our movies are released at General Assembly recently,Pakistan’s presi- unreliable for Pakistan. Even during the N Vidyasagar, he says that there ought theatres, which otherwise feature English dent Pervez Musharraf was all over the infamous “tilt” of Henry Kissinger towards to be a change of mindset among bankers movies. In the US, that hasn’t happened so The Forgotten Wars Islamabad during the 1971 Bangladesh war, American media. TV channels and newspa- about financing film projects: far and we have to work towards that. Attack on Naidu is a reminder of internal pers were eager to snag exclusive interviews the US sent warships steaming up the Shahrukh Khan is the biggest star in battles other than Kashmir with him. In contrast, prime minister Atal Bay of Bengal in a warning to India not Is the film industry any closer to corporati- the overseas market. He has the greatest Behari Vajpayee was barely seen or heard. to go too far but couldn’t prevent the break- sation today than three years ago? pull and his films have done the biggest Wednesday’s attack on the life of Andhra Pradesh chief Before we start bristling with resentment, up of Pakistan. Things are changing for the better. First, business so far. minister Chandrababu Naidu and his colleagues in the tem- we might ask why this was so. The During the Soviet-Afghan war of the 80s, showbiz is not a glamour industry any more. What potential does the Asian region have ple town of Tirupati, reprehensible though it is, points to reasons are complicated but an important Pakistan under the late General Zia ul-Haq Corporatisation is happening and Indian for Indian movies? the schizophrenia that lies at the heart of India’s security one could be that the Pakistanis went all out once again basked in the light of US films in recent times have done good It is sad that Asia accounts for just 10 to concerns and planning. So preoccupied is official and met- to place their leader on as many media attention. That was when the formidable ISI business in the overseas market, although 15 per cent of our total earnings, even though ropolitan India with the ongoing cross-border proxy war in platforms as possible to fight negative began to flourish, with an American wink we haven’t fully utilised the potential that we are culturally, emotionally, and geogra- Kashmir and its violent echoes elsewhere, that it prefers to impressions of their country that have and a nod, by training and directing exists there — especially in the Asian region. phically very close to this region. There are overlook the countless ‘little’ wars that are daily being been mushrooming lately. The general had mujahideen fighters while Saudi money But we are, unlike the West, increasingly doors open for us in China, Japan, Singapore, waged in other parts of this large and heterogeneous land: to face many tough questions. flowed in to fund madrassas for generating moving towards digital theatres. The new Malaysia, Mauritius, Kenya, Sri Lanka, etc Whether it’s the People’s War Group in parts of Andhra, Openly expressed doubts now abound future supplies of radicals. The US adminis- crop of our film-makers and producers but we have to tap the potential. Muthu did MP,Maharashtra and Orissa or assorted Maoist outfits and about this long-term ally of the United tration looked the other way the entire have more respect for their own creative great business in Japan but after that we private upper caste armies in Bihar or the many insurgen- States. “Is Pakistan a friend or foe?” asks a decade as Islamabad developed its nuclear talent. So, we are ready to take on global haven’t entered that market. I want to expand cies and inter-tribal conflicts that are going on across much recent headline in Time magazine. Colum- weapons capability, until 1989 when it competition. But while financiers like IDBI and open an office in China, except nobody of the north-east. For the most part, these “forgotten” wars, nists, like Jim Hoagland of the Washington clamped sanctions after the bomb was are doing a good job, our bankers, on the can go there without government help. particularly those involving militant left-wing groups, are Post, have for months been raising questions virtually in place. With the end of the Cold whole, have not grown up. Do you see better business for Indian films this neither new nor particularly intermittent. But since they about the value of Pakistan’s military War, Pakistan’s importance faded again in In what way? year compared to the last one? are largely confined to the rural hinterland, and directed at leadership as a trustworthy partner. Today, US strategic eyes. By the time of the Kargil While the industry is becoming more Definitely.We should be doing much better local symbols of authority — be they police informants, vil- talking heads on TV sound sceptical of conflict in 1999, the US was clearly on India’s professional, transparent and methodical, than last year. The year 2002, except for the lage headmen or sundry class and caste ‘enemies’ — rather Islamabad’s manoeuvres, which to some side, forcing Pakistan to retreat. bankers are not taking adequate risks. success of Devdas, was very bad for us, but than high-profile political and security targets, they fail to of them look suspiciously like hunting Although the brief democratic interludes Our artists, directors, technicians are only because we made bad films. This year, engage the attention of the metropolitan media and the with American hounds while under Benazir Bhutto and world class. But business has been great middle class that it caters to. This disinterest, if any- running with terrorist hares. Nawaz Sharif were toasted those who are sup- great because we thing, is even more pronounced in cases of state repression Then there are the books. in Washington, a growing posed to give money Q&A have made different and terror — popularly known as encounter killings The French philosopher- consensus after 9/11 is that, have to change their genres of films. The — in which Mr Naidu’s state has, unfortunately,abounded. reporter Bernard Henri- in Pakistan, for all practical mindsets. They are I visualise the entertain- audience is basically Not surprisingly, public opinion on the issue remains Levy’s Who Killed Daniel purposes, democracy is toast. living in the past, ment industry to be looking for some- shockingly ill-informed and creates little pressure on the Pearl?, in which he points Today, in the war against not realising that the at the top of Indian thing different. The elected governments to address it. It would, for instance, be a finger at Pakistan’s ISI terrorism, it doesn’t matter new generation has business. The power industry has great clear to even a casual observer that the influence and for complicity in the Wall who rules in Islamabad as ideas and poten- of Indian cinema is expectations this activities of militant left-wing outfits in this country are Street Journal correspon- long as he delivers. That tial, but no money. growing across the quarter. largely confined to areas of immense social and material dent’s gruesome murder, is is to General Musharraf ’s Groups like Tata and world. We are making How does the indus- deprivation. In Andhra, which has had a long history of left now out in English. A book advantage. But the ground Birla should back our presence felt in try compare to Holly- extremism, the conditions have been further aggravated by the overseas market. by Gerald Posner, Why realities in Pakistan are to talented youngsters. Udayshankar wood today? the distress faced by small and medium peasants, resulting America Slept? which describes mysterious his disadvantage. The business is Talent-wise, our in a disturbingly high number of suicides in recent times. coincidences of terrorism related activity He has found it hard to explain, for changing everyday. Stephen Spielberg has artistes, cameramen, directors and sound Yet, the state government’s response to the situation has involving Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, instance, how among a band of Taliban been underwritten by banks for whatever he specialists are good. But we are still far away been more by way of containing the adverse media fallout has hit the sixth spot in the New York Times fighters — captured in summer by US spends. In India, We have great film-makers, from Hollywood in terms of scripts and sto- of these deaths rather than taking mitigating measures on bestsellers’ list in its very first week soldiers — three were in-service Pakistani but no great bankers. ries. That’s a sad thing for a big country like the ground. The resulting political vacuum has enabled the of publication. army officers. Yes, the three are being held; Where is the Indian film industry heading? ours. But we are becoming better every day. voice of extremism to flourish and, over time, extend its The general has a job cut out for him. He they’ll be court-martialled; they were “mav- I visualise the entertainment industry to What is your take on the big divide between reach beyond the borders of the state. Clearly, this knows that the US alliance is crucial for ericks” on leave from the army. But their be at the top of Indian business. Globalisa- the older generation and the younger one? stalemate cannot be allowed to go on. If the aftershock his country and might erode irretrievably if capture raises the question increasingly tion has already happened. It is not only in I always feel that age doesn’t matter. In of the attack on Mr Naidu’s convoy makes the political attacks on Pakistan’s credibility continue. asked in Washington, quoted by Time: films, but music, fashion, TV, sports and creative work, you get energised every day. establishment across the country more responsive to the As it is, he has a chore selling American “Whose side, exactly,is Pakistan on?” event management. The power of Indian You have to have the passion to make films. fact that the external threat is not the only challenge to friendship to folks back home; he doesn’t Not only the administration, but inde- cinema is growing across the world. When- You cannot make a film without passion. national security,it might be the first step towards finding want the ties to fray at the American edge pendent analysts, such as the writer Robert ever a big Indian film is released in the UK, it What is the biggest change you see happening solutions to problems that cannot be wished away. also. Hence, he takes all the media he gets. Kaplan and Gen Anthony Zinni, have said makes it to the Top 10 charts alongside other in the industry? The US has not been a reliable ally of General Musharraf needs support because Hollywood films. We are making our pre- The emergence of digital theatres through Row over Kofi Annan’s proposed Pakistan. Saudi Arabia and China have been “what would come after him would be a sence felt in some of the overseas markets. the use of DVD projectors. There are already meeting with Tamil Tigers far more consistent and dependable. It all disaster”. Stephen P Cohen of the Brookings What is your view of co-productions and about 100 digital theatres across the country began in the 50s, in the early years of Institution, a veteran Pakistan expert, dis- cross-over movies, which are the latest rage? and by the end of the year this figure will go VIEW the Cold War, when Washington found agrees. In a forthcoming book on Pakistan When it comes to co-production, there are up to 500. This will help in cutting down costs New Delhi’s neutralism in world affairs, as he asserts that General Musharraf ’s problems. If you try and keep the partner and tackling piracy. The implementation articulated by non-alignment, grating and successor is likely to be a similar general country happy, you end up being unhappy of existing laws has not been very helpful. It’s Fuss Over a turned to favour Islamabad. John Foster and that the potential for a radical leadership yourself. The only films that work in this Technological developments had so far Dulles, president Eisenhower’s secretary taking over is low. The real danger, he context are costume and historical dramas — helped the smugglers and pirates. But now Storm in Kofi Cup of state, who like the current president had feels, is that General Musharraf will slip into films on Gandhi, Taj Mahal etc... Indian films they are in our favour. Earlier, new films n unnecessary controversy has been whipped up a with-us-or-against-us mindset, found personalised rule like Ayub Khan and Zia that have done well overseas are not were released in tier three and four cities Aover whether and where it would be proper for non-alignment “immoral”. Pakistan, on the ul-Haq and not know when to give up power, crossover movies. The biggest earner so far after six months or even a year. But now Kofi Annan to meet the LTTE leadership during the other hand, sided clearly with the US in the while Washington, once again, finds itself is Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, which made there are moves to simultaneously release UN secretary-general’s forthcoming visit to Sri Lanka. Cold War and was rewarded accordingly “supporting an individual, when Pakistan Rs 30 crore in the overseas market. Basically, the film everywhere since the digitalised Could this be an attempt to scuttle the ongoing with aid and military supplies as well needs to build institutional integrity”. a good film works everywhere. Earlier, only version costs the distributor just Rs 2,000. peace process? Every time there is a development that heralds a significant advance in the peace process, roadblocks are put up in the name of constitutional Invincible Durga limits, sovereignty and national security. This Three-in-one happened most recently with the proposal for an By George Martis interim administration structure that would reflect the volunteered to work the ones to zoos and circuses. fields. Kaitan was educated A century later, when I On Call Always political realities in the north-eastern province. The When my great grandfather scuttle lobby immediately declared this unconsti- and became a famous was raising my family Durga’s Beauty (GGF) Casimir Lobo was lawyer. He was nicknamed whilst in the Indian navy, By Niti Paul Mehta tutional and, therefore, unimplementable. It was raising his family at O Daughter of the conveniently forgotten that the ceasefire agreement ‘Pili’ Kaitan because he the trend was ‘Hum do, The Markandaya Purana celebrated at the end of the Kelarai, a village near raised tigers at home. hamare do’, thanks to my and the Vamana Purana rainy season. It is the time Mountain of Snow! The (CFA) between the Wickremesinghe administration Mangalore, India had the greatest of poets like and the Tamil Tigers too had no constitutional sanc- GGF’s other main pas- GGF and his ilk. Almost chronicle how Mahishasura, when the breeding season dubious distinction of ne- time was to catch tigers every couple had two kids, the wicked buffalo-king, a for mosquitoes and other Brahma — in trying tion. In a situation where the constitution provides no gative population growth. assiduously to portray solution for ending a conflict, other alternatives have alive. He devised a huge boy and a girl. I proved an demon possessing monstrous disease-bearing germs and Though a simple farmer, trap akin to a rat-trap with exception, thanks to my power and deadly weapons viruses (both water-borne Thy beauty,fail to find to be considered. The CFA has prevailed for 19 months GGF was far ahead of any other object to and there have been no acts of war. The CFA was not a a tiny cage within for the ancestor’s genes. When of destruction, waged a and air-borne) draws to a his time. He gracefully bait. One day when my Madhu was born at Kochi, war against the gods and close. With the end of the describe it through violation of the statute but technically went beyond accepted his first-born, my comparison. For, even the book in the larger interest of peace and security. father, an eight-year-old the duty doctor, Surg Cdr defeated them. rains the weather changes grandmother as God’s kid, with a kid in his Barbara Ghosh, who had Mahishasura dislodged for the better. Navratras the heavenly damsels A similar doctrine of necessity would justify gift. She was followed by (who are the most Mr Annan meeting the rebels, especially in the context arms approached the trap three daughters, happily Indra and occupied the are observed for nine days, four more gifts. He happily to place the bait, he was welcomed me into the throne. Indra fled to save marking the advent of the noted entities available of prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s support for accepted them because to to compare in respect a ‘major role’ for the UN in the peace process. If an terrified to see a tiger Three-D-Club. I had no himself. This shook the celes- new season. Fasting and counter the dwindling already trapped with its chance to emulate my GGF tial world and so enraged eating a different kind of of beauty) attain, out of elected government of a UN member-state — in this population, more girls were their eagerness to case Sri Lanka — can parley with the LTTE, and mate circling around because by then Emergency Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva food purifies the system. the solution. He had furiously. The one outside was declared. Couples were that they began to emit fire Durga as protector of experience Thy beauty, jointly seek foreign financial assistance and engage the nothing against boys who only to an imaginative international community, then why kick up a fuss must have been a tigress compelled to have only from their eyes. From the life is thanked for helping were useful in the fields. identification with the over the UN’s chief executive talking to the LTTE? because in the animal two, a boy and a girl. How- fusion of these beams of fire, devotees tide over the long Sixth delivery, everyone State of Oneness with Representatives of other international agencies, world it is believed that ever, Sanjay Gandhi was carrying the radiant divine period of disease and was clean-bowled. The Siva, which is difficult including the UNDP, are working and meeting Tamil the female does not aban- magnanimous enough to energy, a female figure, drought. As she is also boy was named Cajetan to gain even by officials in the LTTE-held areas. The LTTE is banned don her mate in distress. permit those who had two Goddess Durga, was born. Mother Earth (Bhoodevi), the (Kaitan). Thinking the tide severe austerities. in India and the US, but not in the European Union, Luckily, one plucky toddy- of the same kind, to have Durga had 10 arms and goddess of vegetation. She is had turned for more work- and, in Sri Lanka, it was de-proscribed before the peace tapper chased the tigress one more go. Beyond that rode a tiger. So she also came also Goddess Shakambhari, Sri Shankaracharya ing hands, GGF persisted, talks began in September 2002. Any alternative to a brandishing his sharp sick- one had to face the axe. to be known as Sinha-Vahini. the goddess of agriculture. ✥ only to get two more gifts. le. Otherwise it would have Do I have any regrets? She was armed with Shiva’s The soil is prepared for military solution that has failed to end the 20-year-old The verse attempts It is a different story that been the end of my pop, Well, no, except that a trident, Vishnu’s chakra and the cultivation of the conflict should be welcomed, and Mr Annan should not to describe the Kaitan was not allowed to leave alone my beginning. boy would have carried Indra’s thunderbolt. Thus new crop. In some homes be stonewalled before he has taken even the first incomparableness of work the fields by his GGF never killed a tiger but on my name for whatever armed she fought Mahisha- the ritual of sowing and step to boost the peace process. the beauty of the Devi seven doting sisters. Sisters handed over the trapped it is worth. sura and destroyed him. sprouting of barley in small through a highly Born out of the combined pots is observed. COUNTERVIEW indirect poetic device. divine energy of Durga is a sym- CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS The heavenly damsels Brahma, Vishnu bol of woman are the most beautiful and Mahesh, Dur- power and also Double Standards on Shivaji welcomed Muslims in his state. The beings known to poetic Learning English ga is the most of emancipation court proceedings of 1657 lists names of fancy.When the poet powerful of Hin- and self-reliance. In an era of liberalisation and globalisation, Muslim qazis (judges) who received seeks to describe the Terror UNacceptable du gods and Simultaneously, it is disappointing to note that some of the regular salary to adjudicate on cases. Devi’s beauty by N secretary-general Kofi Annan has no business goddesses. Killing Durga is portra- state governments are yet to introduce, Shivaji also welcomed Muslims in his comparing it to theirs, meeting the chief or any other functionary of Mahishasura, she yed as being beau- U or are in a quandary regarding the intro- army.The first unit was a group of 700 he finds that this will the banned LTTE. Rather than accept the LTTE’s emerged the savi- tiful and bejewel- duction of English as a compulsory subject Pathans, who had left Bijapur after the be most inappropriate. invitation and find himself placed in an awkward at the primary level. These days, people treaty with Mughals. Individual Muslims our of the gods. led — an en- THE Swami Tapasyananda dilemma — because of the conflicting demands of the are learning foreign languages to gain like Sidi Ibrahim, was a trusted commander She is worship- chantress (sur- Sri Lankan government and the LTTE — Mr Annan international competency. in Shivaji’s army.Nur Khan Beg was one ped as Durga, SPEAKING muni mohini) or ✥ should simply stay away. Surprisingly, the Sri Lankan Therefore, can we really afford not to of Shivaji’s closest confidants. Kali and Shakti. TREE one who can She walks in beauty, government has no objection to the meeting as such; learn English now? Here’s a request to Mr Togadia must know that Shivaji’s Durga’s most distract even a like the night/ Of it’s objection is to Mr Annan meeting LTTE supremo opposing groups: Please come out of the confrontations with Mughals were not important role is as the confirmed ascetic. She is per- cloudless climes and Velupillai Prabhakaran in Tiger territory since that cocoon of matribhasha before time runs based on religious identities. The skir- goddess who waged war ceived also as a dominating starry skies:/ And all would confer legitimacy on the rebel organisation and out. Learning English doesn’t imply that mishes between the two were for political against evil. Soldiers invoke and all-subjugating force. that’s best of dark and its ‘separate state’. Perhaps it agreed to Mr Annan’s one is insulting one’s mother tongue. supremacy.In short, Hindu-Muslim enmity her to seek her blessings Durga’s most popular bright/ Meet in her proposal for meeting a rebel representative in the — Keerti Sheoran, Faridabad was non-existent during Shivaji’s reign. The before going to battle. Even image is that of the Mother aspect and her eyes. Lord Rama worshipped her Goddess. As Mother of the calculation that the rebels, certainly Prabhakaran, time has come when such communalists Lord Byron before facing Ravana in bat- Universe, Durga is all- would not fall for the bait of a meeting in Colombo. But Shivaji & Islam like Mr Togadia must be reined in. ✥ the Tigers jumped at the opportunity and offered to — Shariq Alavi, Lucknow tle. Answering his prayers, pervasive. She is Jagdamba, meet Mr Annan in Wanni in northern Sri Lanka. Praveen Togadia, the VHP leader, was she appeared before him and the mother of the world. Oh, thou art fairer than In his drive to achieve peace at any cost, Ranil recently speaking at a meeting of Muslims US Disinvestment blessed him, assuring him of She is benevolent, loving, the evening air/ Clad Wickremesinghe seems to be heedless of the implica- convened by the minority cell of the BJP.As victory. The Pandavas, too, selfless, sacrificing, forgiving in the beauty of a As your editorial ‘Baghdad Blues’ (Sep 29) tions of his actions. The UN, an organisation of nation- usual, he warned Muslims that they must sought a boon from her. and full of concern equally thousand stars. mentioned, there is indeed a strong case for states, is being dragged into political gamesmanship. toe his line of convictions, if they wish to Before going into hiding for all her children. Like Christopher Marlowe US disinvestment in Iraq. With the rest of The LTTE is a proscribed terrorist outfit and its chief live in India peacefully.Further, he emphati- during the last year of their a good and kind mother, ✥ cally declared that his ideal is Shivaji. the world not joining the US bandwagon, exile, they prayed to her. she cares equally for all is wanted for Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination, besides Never lose an There is considerable evidence that things can only get worse. A volte face is Pleased, Shakti blessed them her children, good or bad. a number of other heinous crimes. Mr Annan, as essential primarily due to the impending opportunity of seeing the world’s first civil servant, should not be rubbing and assured them that the Idols of the goddess for the US elections as also for allowing the UN to Kauravas would not be able Durga Puja festival are anything that is shoulders with terrorists. He should call off his visit From timesofindia.com do reconstruction work in Iraq. A UN beautiful, for beauty is before other countries join the growing protests in Sri to find them during the year made from chunks of earth supervised force with nominal coalition of their hiding. collected from the entire God’s handwriting — Lanka. Otherwise, it would mean that the UN is only representation is the need of the hour. a wayside sacrament. a step away from presuming sanction for more such Assassination Bid Besides destroying evil, locality. The most important — Lt Col (Retd) N R Vaid, Delhi Ma Durga protects the chunk of earth for this Welcome it in every unwarranted interventions. Tomorrow, it could be The attempt on Andhra CM’s life is fair face, in every fair Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page virtuous and the needy. She comes from the commercial Kashmir and Nagaland, and the day after, Nepal, shocking. What kind of people’s war is Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New is generous and is specially sex workers’ courtyard. Ma sky,in every fair flower, where Mr Annan might drop in to shake hands with it when you attack leaders who have been Delhi-110002. email:[email protected] kind to the weak, poor and Durga’s image remains and thank God for it as militants, separatists and terrorists. If Mr Annan has democratically elected by the people of No. 236 Vol. 54. Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via a cup of blessing. 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TRADING Budget on track, but elections may mar party COMPONENTS By Priya Ranjan Dash Salary,pension and other es- A hard look at the numbers Centre’s deficit stood at 5.9 per Ashok Lahiri, ‘‘At least three Thai deal divides TIMES NEWS NETWORK tablishment expenditure are a cent of GDP last fiscal and is states — Karnataka, Punjab New Delhi: The good news is problem, concedes additional Tax collections are up 10%... budgeted to be marginally low- and Tamil Nadu — have fol- secretary (budget) D Swarup, er at 5.6 per cent this year.Tak- lowed the Centre’s lead.’’ that the Union budget is on ● 2003-04: Rs 85,000 crore * ● 2002-03: Rs 78,000 crore ** auto majors track six months into the cur- but the real mess in govern- en together with the states, the A cash management system rent financial year. The bad ment finances is elsewhere. But non-tax revenues are static... ‘‘desired’’ level of the com- was introduced this year. ‘‘But By Byas Anand news is that this is simply not ‘‘Interests payments, subsi- bined deficit is 6.8 per cent it is early days yet to say if TIMES NEWS NETWORK enough to put the economy on dies, defence and transfer to ● 2003-04: Rs 26,600 crore *** ● 2002-03: Rs 25,500 crore *** against the base year level of that’s working well,’’ says New Delhi: The government’s proposed a high growth trajectory. And states account for 80 per cent of 9.3 per cent. Swarup. But the first quarter And major subsidies continue... inclusion of auto components in a free the coming elections bode ill total spending,’’ says Swarup. It is not that the managers review shows that the six (As proportion of GDP in 2001-02) trade agreement (FTA) with Thailand has for any effort to remedy things. As the World Bank notes in are not trying, but politicians, largest spending ministries divided the automobile industry. While The government’s managers its India Development Policy ● Power: 1.4% (Rs 33,200 crore) who are the final authority, (accounting for 54 per cent of car market leaders, who have invested are relieved that this year’s Review, government finances, ● Food and fertiliser: 1.4% (Rs 35,200 crore) are thwarting the effort. total government spending) both at the Centre and states, They diluted the Fiscal Re- spent only 22 per cent of their heavily in indigenisation, and domestic fiscal trends are comfortable, ● Petroleum: 0.3% (Rs 6,300 crore) parts makers, are opposing the move, a coming on top of last year’s need major repair and this sponsibility and Budget Man- budget against a cash need of year’s Union budget has made agement Act, but even then 27 per cent of the budget that section of MNC car makers are support- good performance. But they Causing deficits to rise ing the pact saying it would enable free also concede that merely only a feeble attempt in that (Govt deficit (Centre and states) as proportion of GDP) this was a welcome first step they had projected. The cash direction. Finances of the that is supposed to keep gov- management system is surely flow of latest technology into India. sticking to the budget numbers ● ● ● The domestic industry has even Centre and the states have 1992-97: 7.2% 1997-2002: 9.3% 2002-03: 10.4% ernment’s borrowings within giving the government greater is not good enough. Deeper termed it as an attempt on part of the big- steadily deteriorated over the * Up to September 5 ** Up to August 31 *** Up to August 31 the budgeted limited of 5.6 controls over spending and op- cuts are needed in government ger Japanese players to weaken the grow- last 15 years and the fiscal per cent of GDP. tions to plan its borrowings. expenditure because the ing popularity of Indian small cars in Eu- mess is turning out to be a brings out the urgent need for 2002-07. The ‘‘desired’’ level of This is having a positive Thirdly, the gross tax collec- borrowings budgeted for this ropean markets. year in absolute terms are just huge roadblock for India’s fiscal correction if the econo- the Centre’s deficit as a pro- impact on states, but only tions this year up to Septem- my has to grow at the targeted portion of GDP is estimated at “It has come at a time when three Indi- too large to sustain high economic wellbeing. on some of them. According ber 5 have been up 10 per cent an car makers — Maruti, Hyundai and economic growth. The 10th Plan document also rate of 8 per cent a year during 3.6 per cent. Against this, the to chief economic adviser or by Rs 8,000 crore. Telco — have managed to make inroads AP into the European markets. Our strength Services up lies in a strong domestic component base. This FTA is an attempt to attack this Unctad projects 5.4% The services sector base,” says Hyundai Motor India presi- continued growing dent BVR Subbu. in the first half of When the issue was raised at the in- 2003-04, says a dustry body meeting, insiders said, Toy- GDP growth for India CII-Ascon report. ota and Honda rallied in its favour. How- •Cellular services ever, officials from these firms were not New Delhi: The United Nations even as per capita labour costs rose grew 180% available for comment. Conference on Trade and Develop- in certain sectors like textiles and Meanwhile, Automotive Component ment (Unctad) on Thursday p roject- transport equipment, in 2000. •Housing finance: Manufacturers Association (ACMA) has ed a 5.4 per cent GDP growth for In- On the Asian economy, the report 35 per cent joined forces with these market leaders to dia in 2003, much higher than the says despite weak global demand •Project consultancy: oppose the proposal. “We have already Asian average of 4.4 per cent. and the impact of Sars, Asian 43 per cent written to the government that auto com- The projection on India is in economies picked up this year,large- ponents should not be included in the ear- Software industry, • ly harvest scheme in FTA as it would kill sharp contrast to the 6 per cent ly because their macroeconomic and domestic and exports: the domestic industry,” says Vishnu growth estimated by the Asian De- balance-of-payment positions al- 20% and 40%, Mathur of ACMA. velopment Bank, but higher than lowed for more expansive monetary respectively the 5.1 per cent estimated by the In- and fiscal policies. Lucas TVS CEO TK Balaji further stat- ternational Monetary Fund. Expressing concern that the •Construction indus- ed that the FTA would create a major dis- In its trade and development re- world economy was in a state of try, production and ex- parity between imported raw materials port for 2003, Unctad has placed In- “malaise” and little improvement ports: 14% and 43%, and finished components. “If it comes dia’s growth after China and Iran in expected over 1.9 per cent growth respectively through, we will have a situation where Asia, with China estimated to grow rate recorded last year, it warned •Tourism, air cargo steel and other raw materials are being by 7.1 per cent, and Iran poised for a of a political backlash and loss of transportation: 13% taxed on import but the finished product Finance Minister Jaswant Singh and former RBI Governor Bimal Jalan share a light 5.7 per cent growth in 2003. faith in markets and openness •Lease segment: -3% is coming at zero duty.This can not be al- moment during the latter’s felicitation function hosted by the CII in Mumbai on It said Indian labour productivity unless immediate corrective meas- lowed as it would render the domestic in- Thursday. Jalan was hailed for his contribution to strengthen the Indian economy. had made strides in manufacturing, ures were taken. PTI dustry uncompetitive.” Asean, India to sign pre-free trade pact New Delhi: As part of its last year in Phnom Penh, ternal Affairs Minister Yash- Vajpayee would also pay a Look East policy, India will Cambodia, that New Delhi want Sinha said earlier this bilateral visit to Thailand sign with the 10-member and the grouping should en- week while addressing mem- next week in the second leg of Asean a major “framework ter a free trade agreement. bers of the Harvard faculty his two-nation tour and hold agreement” as a precursor to “It is a matter of great sat- in the US. wide-ranging talks on terror- a free-trade arrangement isfaction to us that the frame- Sinha said, “This major ism and other key issues during a regional summit to work agreement for this pur- breakthrough should con- with the Thai leadership. be attended by Prime Minis- pose has been finalised be- tribute to an increasing inte- The fight against terror is ter Atal Bihari Vajpayee in tween India and Asean and gration of the India-Asean also expected to figure high Bali, Indonesia, next week. will be signed at the second economic space over the on Vajpayee’s agenda during Vajpayee had suggested at India-Asean summit at Bali coming years, including a his meeting with Asean lead- the first India-Asean summit in a few days from now,” Ex- free-trade agreement”. ers in Bali. 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EXECUTIVE DIGEST
NATIONAL Reva plans to sell 15% A grand amusement for Surat: stake for Rs 75 cr: The Lalit Suri’s Grand group is planning promoters of Bangalore- Reliance Info eyes 30% to set up an amusement park and based Reva Electric Car Co return on capital: Target- a corporate retreat in Surat, with are in talks with global private ing an ambitious 25 per cent an investment of Rs 260 crore. equity investors to raise Rs share in mobile telecom Narendra Modi’s Gujarat 75 crore by offloading 15 per services, Reliance said it’s government is planning to give cent equity, its MD Chetan infocomm venture would the project a fast-track Maini said. The company is break even in the very first clearance. also preparing to launch its year of its commercial electric car Reva in the UK by operations. “We will be able January 2004. He identified to generate 30 per cent return the IFC, the private lending on capital employed... We are arm of the World Bank, as targeting market share of 25 one of the investors it was in per cent. With all these talks with. PTI parameters in place, we are sure to break even in the first HRH group of hotels year of our operations,” says plans stake sale: The Manoj Modi, ED of Reliance HRH Group of Hotels has Infocomm. PTI initiated talks with foreign institutional investors and Metro Tyres aims at 10% international hotel chains to topline growth: Metro expand its business and Tyres is aiming for a 10 per enhance presence in the
cent growth in turnover this Ajit Ninan country, its CMD Arvind fiscal to Rs 330 crore and Singh Mewar said. The pro- Rs 500 crore in the next three facility, Metro group MD Indian Hotels to buy US moters plan to offload up to years on the back of a foray Rummy Chhabra said. The property: Indian Hotels Ltd, 25 per cent equity through into the domestic 2-wheeler Ludhiana plant, which was part of the Tata group, have private placement to FIIs, he tyre market in technical set up at a cost of Rs 40 decided to go ahead with the said. “We are also talking to alliance with Continental AG crore, would start production acquisition of a hotel property global hotel chains for a of Germany. Metro would by the middle of October, and in the United States. The branding and marketing tie- invest Rs 20 crore this year to it hopes to garner 5 per cent board of directors of Indian ups. We are also open to increase production of two- market share this year in the Hotels considered and ap- giving them management wheeler tyres at its Ludhiana two-wheeler tyre industry. PTI proved the proposal. TNN control,” Mewar said. PTI
INTERNATIONAL China vehicle production of solid-gold traditional tops 4-mn units China’s chests for an eye-popping vehicle production, covering 100 million yen each, or BP upbeat on natgas, everything on wheels from approximately $903,500 flags hefty profit: Britain’s sedans to tractors, is each. Tanaka Kikinzoku BP said the US natural gas expected to top 4 million Kogyo KK says the chests prices it received in the third units for the first time ever are replicas of a traditional quarter fell less sharply than this year, state media said. wooden box used in the Edo benchmark prices, in a The figure, based on period. Reuters trading update that flagged estimates by unidentified near-record profits for the oil economic officials, will be up industry. The energy industry from 3.25 million units last ET INSTA POLL giant said the effect of asset year, it said. In the first eight Yesterday’s results: sales on its output in the months of the year, vehicle quarter would be offset by Can the Sensex breach the production hit 2.73 million 5,000 mark before Diwali? its multi-billion dollar Russian units, up 36 per cent from the joint venture sealed in Defence for Frank Quattro- Yes 50% No 43% Can’t say 07% same period in 2002. AP August. Analysts have been ne, former tech banker at • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of closely watching BP’s Credit Suisse First Boston, Japan’s bullion house to the general public. performance. High gas prices sought to prove his client sell treasure chests: Today’s question: in the United States have was unaware that subpoe- Although it admits it has no What do you spend on most been a big contributor to nas had been issued for clear buyer in mind, Japan’s during the festival season? profits for the industry this documents relating to hot biggest bullion house said on To vote, log on to http://economictimes.indiatimes.com year. Reuters stock offerings. Thursday it would sell a pair
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18 Friday,October 3, 2003 BUSINESS TIMES The Times of India, New Delhi Hybrid cars cheap to make, says Toyota Jobs abound in Celeb endorsements: AFP The stakes get higher India’s IT sector Bangalore: Software engi- Hiring spree By Amrita Nair-Ghaswalla and neer Prakash just quit his job Kaajal Wallia Top grossers in Bangalore, but he’s not •Firms are slashing TIMES NEWS NETWORK worried. “The market is payrolls in the US and booming. I can pick and Europe to cut costs Mumbai: Celebrity endorse- choose a firm of my choice,” ment stakes just got higher. said the 28-year-old engineer, Jobs are being moved Indian skipper Saurav Gan- • who has been in the industry in favour of India’s guly and event management for about five years. low-cost engineers firm Percept D’Mark have Companies are slashing inked a new five-year deal, payrolls in the US and Eu- •Wipro, Infosys hiring expected to net Saurav a cool Amitabh Aishwarya Rai Rahul Dravid rope to cut costs, moving soft- fast, but bulk intakes Rs 45 crore. Saurav’s earlier are at entry-level Pay package Pay package Pay package ware work offshore and cre- three-year contract had ating thousands of jobs for bagged Rs 15 crore, but it had Rs 8 crore Rs 1 crore Rs 60-75 lakh • The IT sector added Brands Brands Brands India’s low-cost engineers. 130,000 jobs in the year dissipated into a public fight Headhunters are scram- and later into a reconcilia- ICICI, Versa, Coke, Nakshatra Pepsi, Air Sahara, Pepsi, Parker Diamonds Hutch bling to fill the new jobs. • The sector now tion drama. “The shelf life of a job boasts of 650,000 jobs Though Sanjay Lall, CEO hunter has come down to two of Percept D’Mark refuse to industry sources point out to the brand but also give it weeks from about two the managing director at Ma confirm Ganguly’s new that Shah Rukh Khan report- high recall value. ’’ months,” said Gautam Sinha, Foi Management Consul- cheque, he said, ‘‘Saurav and edly charges Rs 2.5-Rs 3 crore Concurs McCann Erick- chief executive at TVA In- tants, a leading headhunter. our firm are back on track. I per commercial, while son’s Prasoon Joshi, fotech, which is placing genuinely feel there is Saurav and Aishwarya net ‘‘Celebrities are worth every Walk-in interviews are about 90 software workers a common in the shining of- enough potential in celebri- Rs 1 crore. Rahul Dravid, Pre- penny they earn. A clean, month, double the number ties to take a brand ahead.’’ ity Zinta and Kareena natural fit with the product Workers of Japan’s auto giant Toyota mass-producers of gas-electric hybrid fices of companies in the from the start of the year. technology hubs of Banga- What also underscores the Kapoor are reportedly paid enhances the brand’s value. make final checks on Toyota’s gasoline- cars, of selling them at a loss given the Top home-grown exporters point is the recent two-year Rs 60-75 lakh, while Virender And for firms with an annual electric motor hybrid engine vehicle — labour-intensive assembly required. But lore, Madras and Hyderabad such as Wipro Ltd and Infos- in the south and Delhi and contract between pharma Sehwag gets Rs 50 lakh. turnover of Rs 500 crore, Rs Prius — for the line-off at the company’s the numbers speak for themselves: The ys Technologies Ltd are also Tsutsumi plant in Toyota city, central Japan Mumbai in the west. major Dabur and superstar ‘‘In comparison, well- 5-6 crore for an endorsement Prius’s current assembly line rolls out on a hiring spree but the bulk Amitabh Bachchan for an known professional models is a cheap and smart deal.’’ on Thursday. Toyota said it has received around one car every minute, versus one Call centres have been of their staff additions are magnets for job-hunters in unprecedented Rs 8 crore. are paid a pittance of Rs 1 But do celebrity endorse- 17,500 orders in one month for the every eight to 10 minutes for the previous second-generation car, launched in Japan entry-level positions. the past few years, but it is Likewise, Coke signed up ac- lakh to Rs 2 lakh per com- ments really work? Kakkar model. And although it needs to pass last month.Not long ago, several leading India’s software sector, in- only in the last six months tor Aamir Khan for a stag- mercial,’’ says Kakkar. Adds says celebrity endorsements through 11 extra stops during assembly auto makers, including the world’s biggest, cluding the back-office serv- that software jobs are flood- gering Rs 6 crore. B Narayan Swami of Indica only work when commercials compared with a regular car, productivity General Motors Corp, questioned the ben- ices industry, added 130,000 ing the market after a two- ‘‘Celebrities with maxi- Research Media and Enter- are original. ‘‘Otherwise, the has improved by at least 15 per cent for efit of developing hybrid cars, arguing they — nearly 25 per cent — to its year crunch. India’s software mum recall value like tainment Practise, ‘‘It’s a celebrity receives the flak.’’ the current model, a factory official said. were merely an interim solution before workforce in the year to services exports rose to $9.5 Sachin, Amitabh and win-win situation for the And what when the deal goes “This is proof that mass production of the zero-emission fuel-cell vehicles took over. March, taking the sector to billion in the past year to Shahrukh get paid more,’’ ac- brand and the celebrity. The sour? ‘‘Brands are bigger Prius has started in earnest,” a top They accused — possibly accurately — 650,000. Wage costs are rising March and are forecast to cording to ad film-maker high-profile stars not only than the stars that endorse Toyota and Honda Motor, the only other company official points out. but are not yet a threat for a Prahlad Kakkar. Advertising provide instant recognition them,’’ says Joshi. grow 26 per cent this year. nation that churns out about “Many Indians overseas 200,000 engineers per year, are uncertain about their analysts say. Software work- jobs and are coming back,” ers with two years of experi- said Smita Goswamy, who Spyware technology can shatter privacy, trust ence are paid about Rs 25,000 runs HR Solutions, a small AP ($545) a month, roughly one consultancy based in Baroda. By Gene Emery thing a computer has been loaded it on my non-net- However, “eBlaster” only sixth of what their US coun- A full-page advertisement Providence: Her name is used to do. worked computer at home, I recorded my side of the con- terparts earn but a princely from IBM screams: “The The products are known immediately began getting versations in Internet Relay Susie. Her profile on Yahoo wage in a country with an av- global giant is at your desk- collectively as “spyware”. duplicates of all e-mails I re- Chat, an older chat system. says she’s a student in Aus- erage per capita income of top with the opportunity of a Company owners can use it ceived, along with a list of I was also unable to get the $480 a year. tralia, “single and looking.” lifetime. Can you afford to ig- to see if their employees are every Web site I visited, program to record mail from “MNC salaries are 50 to 60 The problem is what she’s nore it?” Yahoo, which set up goofing off. Married people when I visited it, and how a Yahoo account. as prom- per cent higher at the entry- looking for. a software centre in Banga- can use it to check on a long I was there. ised. It would only log what I level and 30 per cent higher If her profile is to be be- lore in July, is tapping local spouse. Parents can use it to At first, the report from typed. “eBlaster” recorded at the middle level when com- lieved, Susie is just 13, yet she colleges for talent, said see if their child is visiting the chat rooms was little lim- everything I wrote in a Mi- pared with Indian IT services has been found freely surfing Venkat Panchapakesan, who obscenewebsite.com. ited, There was no way to tell crosoft Word file, but did not companies,” Mumbai-based shifted from Yahoo’s US cen- “adult” Yahoo chat rooms One such product, the name of the room I was log any of the keystrokes in Kotak Securities Ltd said in a tre to head its software unit. where, in some cases, the top- “eBlaster 3.0” from Spector- in, or what other people were the DOS program I use.” recent report. Accenture and Oracle are ics are often too twisted to Soft ($100), claims to record saying in the room, which Despite its limitations, A fall in US employment expanding furiously but list in a family publication. every keystroke a person wouldn’t have been very “eBlaster 3.0” secretly strips visas for foreign workers are their staff in India is still less Keeping an eye on children makes, copy each piece of in- helpful for Susie’s parents. away most of the privacy of partly driving the expansion than a quarter of Infosys and as they surf the Internet has coming and outgoing e-mail, When I told SpectorSoft anyone using your PC. My plans of high-tech firms such Wipro, which employ about always been a challenge. log chat-room conversations that their product didn’t live greatest concern is that the as IBM, Accenture and Ora- 17,000 and 21,000 people re- Savvy kids know how to cov- and take down every instant German authorities broke up 38 child pornography rings with up to its billing, they sent me information gathered by the cle in India. Visa curbs dis- spectively. links to thousands of suspects around the world. Police offi- er their tracks after visiting message relayed through to a “patch” on the Internet. program is, as a matter of courage Indians from seek- “Overseas firms are even cers take a closer look during an investigation in the flat of a forbidden sites. AOL, MSN and Yahoo. (Unfortunately, most con- routine, sent via Spector- ing jobs abroad and some are hiring from mid-sized In response, some software suspect. Recently, MSN Chat shut its services in several The spy can control which regions on the back of such increasing misuse. sumers won’t know to look Soft’s computers. already returning. local players,” said Banga- companies have developed types of information will be for it.) With the patch, I was Not only is the spy seeing “Clearly, the romance of lore-based Shambhu Agraw- products designed to track logged. A summary of the log also get sent. But it doesn’t al- worked computer with a fire- able to see all sides of the all the IDs, passwords and jobs overseas is no longer al, who handles technology secretly where a surfer has is periodically e-mailed to ways work as promised. wall, the programme didn’t conversation in Yahoo chat credit card information, so is there for most Indian placements at ABC Consul- been and virtually every- the spy. Copies of all e-mail When I tried it on a net- do anything. However,when I rooms and instant messages. SpectorSoft. Reuters techies,” said Pandia Rajan, tants. Reuters Oil prices up on tight inventories New York: World oil prices have edged up Inventories of distillate fuel —heating as the latest weekly snapshot of US crude and diesel oil — increased by 100,000 bar- oil inventories showed supplies still rela- rels to 131.3 million during the week, the tively tight going into the winter. report said. New York’s benchmark Light Sweet But inventories remained tight by his- Crude contract for delivery in November torical standards, said Refco energy mar- rose 19 cents to $29.39 a barrel. In London, ket analyst Marshall Steeves. ‘‘They’re un- Brent North Sea crude oil for November der the five-year average,’’ he said. delivery advanced 27 cents to $27.88. Prices had eased a little in earlier lon- Weekly US oil inventory data showed don trading, however, as some investors that stocks of crude oil held steady at 280.8 took heart from news that the distillate million barrels last week. fuel stocks were up. 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The Times of India, New Delhi, Friday,October 3, 2003
Maradona museum Coach sacked Schumacher to quit? The cleats Diego Maradona wore during the Malaysian Hockey Federation Formula One rarely takes no for an 1986 World Cup finals went on display as fired their German coach Paul answer. No matter how many times Michael part of a touring museum in honour of Lissek. The sacking follows a Schumacher denies that his retirement is the player. The exhibit, called ‘M10’, string of poor results, even when imminent, some people continue to expect contains items accumulated during Malaysia had home advantage in an emotional announcement after next Maradona’s 27-year playing career events such as the Asia Cup week’s Japanese Grand Prix Real win, United lose in Champions League
I am not exactly sure when that is going to be, but ‘We’re mentally maybe this will be the last Munaf makes presence felt time Iwill play at Perth. AFP —Steve Waugh on retirement By Peter Pears TIMES NEWS NETWORK ready for Pak’ SPORTS DIGEST Rajkot: Untested speedster Munaf Patel’s mid- Lahore: South Africa skip- istan authorities drafted po- China triumph: Houston Rockets dle-order breakthrough was not enough to tilt per Graeme Smith said his lice and soldiers in to provide center Yao Ming led China to a 106- the balance in favour of India A as opener team had put security fears a ring of steel around each of 96 victory over rivals South Korea to Mark Richardson compiled a chanceless knock to one side and were mental- the tourists’ games. Smith ad- clinch the Asian men’s basketball of 128 to see the visiting New Zealand side fin- ly ready to take on Pakistan mitted the long-running de- championship title. Yao dominated ish the opening day at a comfortable score of in Friday’s opening one-day bate over security had impact- on both ends of the court last night, 299 for 5 at the RMC ground here on Thursday. game here. ed on his team’s preparations. scoring a game-high 30 points and The tall 20-year-old lad from Bharuch had Smith will lead the Proteas “I think two weeks of dis- snatching 15 rebounds in his 40 min- the Kiwis on their knees when he took three in the first game of a five- cussing security is definitely utes on the court. China’s Li Nan wicket, including that of skipper Stephen match series played under going to play on your mind.” scored 26 points, while the team Fleming, in the space of 13 deliveries just after unprecedented security as The local administration has shot 67 per cent from the field. The lunch. However, Richardson’s very disciplined South Africa’s on-off tour of decided to deploy around 2,000 victory ensured China a berth in the innings that was made during the full duration e in the 2004 Athens Olympics next Pakistan finally gets under- policemen and 150 elite com- of play, anchored the New Zealand side mandos to provide security year. AFP way in earnest at Gaddafi through the storm that Munaf and fellow medi- Stadium. during the match. Del Piero’s contract: Juventus um pacers Sreesanth and RP Singh had South Africa cancelled the Pakistan: Inzamam-ul Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Yousuf Youhana, You- striker Alessandro Del Piero has re- whipped up on a conducive surface. tour because of security con- The 32-year-old south paw, who has two Test nis Khan, Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razzaq, newed his contract with the club un- cerns last month before it Rashid Latif, Saqlain Mushtaq, Mushtaq til June 2008, the Italian champions hundreds and a highest first class knock of 306 was hastily rescheduled with Ahmed, Shoaib Akhtar, Mhd Sami, Shabbir said in a statement on Thursday. The under his belt, cobbled together two useful Ahmed, Umer Gul, Salman Butt, Faisal Iqbal. a shortened itinerary days statement said Del Piero would be stands; first with Craig MacMillan (30) and South Africa: Graeme Smith, Mark Bouch- later.Matches in the violence- er, J Kallis, Shaun Pollock, Neil McKenzie, J paid 7.9 million Euros a year, includ- then with Jacob Oram, who also remained un- wracked city of Karachi and Rudolph, Robin Peterson, Andrew Hall, Alan ing 2.3 million Euros in advertising beaten on 59 (6x4, 2x6, 126mins). Richardson’s Dawson, Makhaya Ntini, C Langeveldt, Peshawar were ditched from rights. Italian international Del Piero, century was studded with 18 well-struck Andre Nel, Boeta Dippenaar, H Gibbs, Paul the new schedule, while Pak- Adams. AFP 28, was laid up for two months last boundaries and a six. season with a thigh problem and Coming off from long break, the Kiwi open- sustained a calf injury two weeks Pak-SA in One-dayers: A summary ing duo of Richardson and Lou Vincent took ago that will keep him out of action things easy in the morning to see off the threat Mts Won Lost NR Tied until November. Reuters from the medium pacers. But then left-arm In Pakistan 5 3 2 0 0 RANKINGS spinner Murali Kartik struck a telling blow on In South Africa 16 5 11 0 0 the morale of the visitors with his very first de- At neutral venues 15 3 12 0 0 TENNIS livery in the match when he floated one around Total 36 11 25 0 0 The top 10 men: Vincent’s legs to castle the clueless Kiwi open- 1 Juan Carlos Ferrero (Esp) 4,195 Highest Team Totals 2 Andy Roddick (US) 4,165 er.Thereafter,Kartik held the visiting batsmen 3 Roger Federer (Swi) 3,825 on a tight leash. After lunch, Fleming was look- Pakistan: 335-6 (in 50 overs) at Port Elizabeth in 2002 4 Andre Agassi (US) 3,670 South Africa: 321-8 (in 50 overs) at Nairobi (Gym) in 1996 5 Guillermo Coria (Arg) 3,000 ing his classy self while tackling the wily craft 6 Carlos Moya (Esp) 2,640 that Kartik was plying and negotiating the Lowest Team Totals 7 Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) 2,525 rookie pacemen. Pakistan: 109 (in 32.3 overs) at Johannesburg in 1995 8 Rainer Schuettler (Ger) 2,495 New Zealand (1st innings): M Richardson batting 128, L Vincent b South Africa: 101 (in 26.5 overs) at Sharjah in 2000 9 David Nalbandian (Arg) 2,145 Kartik 11, S Fleming b Patel 27, S Styris c Dasgupta b Patel 8, N Astel 10 Sebastien Grosjean (Fra) 1,850 lbw b Patel 0, C McMillan c Chopra b Sreesanth 30, J Oram batting 59 Highest Individual Innings (as per atptour.com) Extras: (b-4, lb-12, nb-20) 36. Total: (for 5 wkts in 80 overs) 299. Pakistan: 135 (off 129 balls) by Salim Elahi at Port Elizabeth in 2002 Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-79, 3-91, 4-91, 5-180. Bowling: Patel 19.4- BETTING METER 4-64-3, R P Singh 19.2-4-68-0, Sreesanth 12.5-5-22-1, Kartik 29-3- South Africa: 124 (off 117 balls) by Daryll Cullinan at Nairobi in 1996 98-1, Ramesh 5.1-2-18-0, Gavaskar 4-0-13-0. CRICKET Leading run-getters Pakistan vs South Africa, 1st ODI, Lahore Pakistan: 806 runs in 29 matches (ave 31.00) by Inzamam-ul-Haq Pak 5/4; South Africa 4/7 South Africa: 1054 runs in 24 matches (ave 55.47) by Gary Kirsten (as per ladbrokes.com) Ganguly retained skipper Best bowling in a match LIVE ON TV Mumbai: Meanwhile, Sourav Ganguly was Pakistan: 5-16 (in 6.1 overs) by W Akram at East London in 1993 South Africa: 5-25 (in 7.1 overs) by L Klusener at Cape Town in 1998 DD Sports: 0930 hrs: Three-day match: India A vs retained as the captain of Indian cricket New Zealand (day 2). team for the forthcoming two-Tests against Leading wicket-takers ESPN: 0530 hrs (Sat): Major League Baseball Divi- Pakistan: 58 wickets in 32 matches (ave. 24.90) by Waqar Younis sion Series. New Zealand at home. Ganguly would also lead India in the triangular one-day series South Africa: 33 wickets in 19 matches (ave 19.42) by Lance Klusener Star Sports: 2330 hrs: PGA Tour Golf: American Ex- New Zealand batsman Mark Richardson ducks on the first day of the warm-up match against press Championships. which has Australia as the third team. PTI By Rajneesh Gupta India A in Rajkot on Thursday. Richardson scored an unbeaten 128.
CRICKET UPDATE Waugh hints AP Strong team at retirement for rehearsal Perth: Australian Test Perth: Zimbabwe on Thurs- cricket captain Steve Waugh day named a virtual full- on Thursday gave the strength side to clash with strongest hint yet that re- Western Australian from tirement from international Friday in a three-day re- ranks may be on the hori- hearsal for the first Test zon.Waugh, 38, made it clear starting next week. the new season just starting The only notable omis- in Australia may be his final sion from the team to shape summer of Test cricket at up at the WACA Ground is home. Waugh has frequent- paceman Douglas Hondo, ly spoken of victory in next who has a thigh strain. September’s trip to India as His non-selection almost a major goal before he quits. certainly means the 24-year- Asked if that was still the old right-arm operator will case, Waugh replied: “I am not come into consideration not exactly sure when that for the Test, getting under is going to be, but there is a way next Thursday. The good chance this will be the three-day outing gives the last time I am going to play Zimbabwe batsmen a valu- in Perth.” Waugh next week able opportunity to adjust to will lead his side in Perth in the pace of the Perth wicket, the first of two Tests against considered one of the boun- Zimbabwe. India remains on ciest and fastest in the world. Waugh’s “unfinished busi- They will be tested by vet- ness” list after his side lost 2- eran former Test fast 1 there in a dramatic three- bowlers Jo Angel and Paul Test series in 2001. Waugh Wilson, both past their best has been in brilliant form but still formidable on their since making a career-saving home turf. Zimbabwe go century against England at into the game in buoyant the Sydney Cricket Ground mood after a morale-boost- in the New Year Test, having ing seven-wicket victory scored four centuries in his Ravi Shastri (L), Sourav Ganguly and Geoffrey Boycott (R) over a Chairman’s XI on past seven Tests. AFP pose at a Puja pandal in Kolkata on Thursday. Wednesday. AFP Blind moves: It’s there in the mind Mohammed Ilyas By Siddharth Saxena black squares slightly raised TIMES NEWS NETWORK over the whites. Playing since he was in the ninth New Delhi: There is this un- class, Dhayalan now knows usual silence about chess. the chessmen like the back Playing it, or even watching of his hand. it — the very atmosphere “I don’t want to be marked screams for silence. And the players, as per demands of out for special treatment,” their discipline, are usually says the third year student of blind to any throng that may English literature at Madras gather around their board. Christian College. “I travel At the Parasvnath Inter- to chess tournaments and national Chess Tournament enjoy participating, despite that got underway in the any hardship. I try my best Capital on Thursday, the to be like others you call nor- biggest group hung over mal,” he says. Tamil Nadu’s S Dhayalan’s Yet, it’s not been easy for board as he rattled veteran Dhayalan, who is on the M R Khan. And the 20-year- verge of becoming a nation- old was oblivious of all the Visually handicapped Tamil Nadu’s S. Dhalayan at the al level player. “I need sup- attention. But there was a Parasvnath International chess in the Capital on Thursday. port,” he adds. “My dream is slight difference. tally as he planned his How does he know the to become a Grandmaster, This son of a Kanchipu- moves. As if he was playing black men from the white? and I feel I can achieve it in ram dye-maker is visually some silent sonata on the pi- He has had small nails in- the next three years. But it’s challenged since birth. In a ano, Dhayalan’s hands serted onto the black pieces my need for chess-playing fa- case of Braille chess, Dhay- would skim over the chess- and he gropes for the protru- cilities that poses the biggest alan used his fingers to feel men, and feel the squares on sions while planning his challenge.” The computer the position on the board, the board. It made for rivet- moves. Dhayalan has a spe- tops his wish-list because memorizing each one men- ing viewing. cially-designed board — the ‘‘all top players use it.’’
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20 Friday,October 3, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi
India bag two gold: India CROSS COUNTRY Lee causes major upset: INDIANS ABROAD made history by bagging two Lee Childs of Britain stunned Swabhiman gold medals in the Asian Grover shocks: Eight-year- top seed Michal Mertinak of Celerity favoured kayaking and canoeing cham- old Sahaj Grover of Delhi out- Slovakia 6-4, 6-2 to sail into Gupta-Shokeen in final pionships. D V S Negi notched played BS Shivanandan in the the quarterfinals of the $25,000 TIMES NEWS NETWORK takes a beating New Delhi: Sumit Gupta and Vivek Shokeen advanced into RACES up a gold medal in the K-1 opening round of the Rs three ATP Challenger series.. The In- New Delhi: Celerity, who Cape Vaticano 3. By Dinesh Chopra 1000 metres junior men cate- lakh prize moneyParsvnath In- dian challenge in the singles the doubles finals of ITF tournament in Islamabad. They finished second in her last Brown Sugar stuns: TIMES NEWS NETWORK gory while Navin Sahu and ternational Chess tournament . ended with Harsh Mankad beat Siributwong Peerakit and Sivendran Nishendiran 7-5, outing, should make amends Brown Sugar (Silva Storai Satya Kumar bagged the sec- The other top players had an making his exit, losing to M 2-6, 6-3. In the final they face Shahzad Khan and Wasif New Delhi: On Thursday in the Majestic Eagle Trophy, atop) caused an upset by get- ond gold in KT-2 1000 metres. easy time. TNN Baghdatis of Cyprus 6-4 7-5. Cheema of Pakistan. morning, Swabhiman ended. Boys doubles quarters: Shahzad Khan/Wasif Cheema bt Lalit Mann/Sandeep Kumar 6- the main event of the Pune ting half a length better of The same afternoon Swabhi- 3, 6-2; Sumit Gupta/Vivek Shokeen bt Siributwong Peerakit/ Sivendran Nishendiran 7-5, races scheduled for Friday. Red Chief (MA Gallagher 2-6, 6-3. Girls doubles quarters: Ditthim Punjaporn/Khunpitak Punchanok bt Mulay Dak- Selections: Erin Way Plate: 1,000m: man was killed. Swabhiman sha/Wannasuk Nungnudda 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Kakhandaki Shweta/Venkatesh Poojashree bt 2.45pm: Fire dancer 1, Magnificence 2, astride) in the Hindy Deccan (self-esteem) was the name Arudpragasam Amita/Abey Singhe Thiyumi 6-0, 6-1. TNN Seattle Swan 3. Rhythm Trophy: 2,000m: Derby (Gr I) at the Malakpet Rewarding Moment 1, Partner Perfect 2, given to a sports festival Parmeshwari 3. Dragon Seed Plate; Race Course, Hyderabad, on which culminated at the Na- 1,600m: King Emperor 1, Sevilla 2, Aescu- Thursday. Silva Storai be- tional Stadium on Thursday Abhinn in pre-quarters lapius 3. Cartier Million Plate; 1,400m: Roofer 1, Rare Edition 2, Amazing Eyes 3. came the first woman jockey amidst avoidable frenzy as no New Delhi: Abhinn Shyam Gupta maintained his momen- Majestic Eagle Trophy: 1,000m: Celerity to win Derby at the Indian winners, numbering no less tum to reach the pre-quarterfinal of the German Open bad- 1, Star Holme 2, Dontspenditall 3. Icarus soil. Self Appointed and De- than 2000, were made to queue Plate: 1,400m: Early Bird 1, Sonic Girl 2, minton tournament on Thursday while Pullela Gopichand, Reasoning 3. Baraloy Plate; 1,200m: cent Proposal finished third up and jostle for their prizes. Nikhil Kanetkar and Chetan Anand made their exits. PTI 5.45pm: Romantic Hero 1, Montekin 2, and fourth respectively. Organised by ‘‘In- draprastha Sports Excellence Trust,’’ the six-day meet end- ed in chaos as officials had no clue how to go about distrib- uting the prizes. The winners, their coaches and even par- ents were running from the back door to the front of change room no. 2 to collect their stuff. There was more. Anyone armed with a piece of paper signed by Trust’s general sec- retary Kuldeep Rana and muscle power could lay hands on the ‘‘coveted’’ prize. “I agree there’s mismanage- ment but what to do?,” said Rana himself. “There’re no se- curitymen to stop these par- ticipants.” The lucky few who man- aged to lay hands on the good- ies were still not happy. “My shoe size is number 8 and this one is 12,” said one. In one cor- ner these kits were being sold and a deal could be struck for anything between Rs. 500 to 2,000.
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22 Friday,October 3, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Real win, United upset AP London: Champions League had to come from two goals favourites Real Madrid had to down to draw 2-2 with Sparta come from behind to beat Por- Prague in Rome. Red cards to 3-1, holders AC Milan were were also flourished as held 0-0 by Celta Vigo and Panathinaikos had a player Manchester United lost 2-1 at sent off but grabbed a late VfB Stuttgart on a night of equaliser to hold Rangers 1-1 in Greece, while Olympique surprises on Wednesday. Marseille hammered 10-man Chelsea suffered a shock 2-0 Partizan Belgrade 3-0 with a defeat by 10-man Besiktas at Didier Drogba hat-trick. Stamford Bridge, while Lazio The unexpected began after Table after 2 rounds just seven minutes in Portu- gal, where Costinha put Porto W D L F A P ahead against Real and the Group A hosts went on to dominate pos- Bayern 1 1 0 3 2 4 session. However,they conced- Celtic 1 0 1 3 2 3 Lyon 1 0 1 1 2 3 ed an Ivan Helguera equaliser, Anderlecht 0 1 1 1 2 1 fell behind to a Santiago Solari Group B strike and had their fate sealed Internazionale 2 0 0 5 1 6 after the break by a Zinedine Dynamo Kyiv 1 0 1 3 2 3 Zidane volley. Lokomotiv 0 1 1 0 2 1 Arsenal 0 1 1 0 3 1 The win kept Real firmly at Group C the top of Group F with six Monaco 2 0 0 6 1 6 points, followed by the team Deportivo 1 1 0 3 1 4 they trounced 4-2 a fortnight FC Porto’s Pedro Mendes AEK 0 1 1 1 5 1 ago, Marseille. The French tackles Real Madrid’s Zine- PSV 0 0 2 1 4 0 dine Zidane during a Champi- Group D club’s task at the Stade Velo- Juventus 2 0 0 4 2 6 drome was eased by a red card ons League group F match in Real Sociedad 2 0 0 3 1 6 in first-half stoppage time for Porto on Wednesday. Galatasaray 0 0 2 2 4 0 Partizan’s Andrija Delibasic. telis Konstantinidis making it Olympiacos 0 0 2 1 3 0 Milan stayed top of Group Group E all-square three minutes from Rangers 1 1 0 3 2 4 H with four points following the end despite the Greeks Stuttgart 1 0 1 3 3 3 their draw in Spain, while having Yiannis Man. United 1 0 1 6 2 3 Ajax Amsterdam were 2-0 win- Goumas dismissed Panathinaikos 0 1 1 1 6 1 ners over Club Bruges with a on 47 minutes. Group F brace from Wesley Sonck. Real Madrid 2 0 0 7 3 6 Chelsea’s squad Marseille 1 0 1 5 4 3 Ajax are second in the has been assem- Porto 0 1 1 2 4 1 group on three points, ahead bled at a cost of Partizan 0 1 1 1 4 1 of Celta on two. But on a mis- £111 million but Group G erable night for English clubs their night was ef- Lazio 1 1 0 4 2 4 there were humbling defeats Besiktas 1 0 1 2 2 3 fectively over after Chelsea 1 0 1 1 2 3 for United and Chelsea, also half an hour as Sparta 0 1 1 2 3 1 looking for a second win. Sergen Yalcin’s Group H Rangers’ draw propelled finishing and Milan 1 1 0 1 0 4 them a point clear at the top of some comic-book Ajax 1 0 1 2 1 3 Celta 0 2 0 1 1 2 Group E. Emerson gave defending guided Club Brugge 0 1 1 1 3 1 Rangers a 35th minute lead Besiktas to victo- but they failed to prevent Pan- ry. Reuters CAPITAL SPORT Hockey League: PNB DPS cricket: DPS, R.K. Academy beat Chhota Nag- Puram beat DPS, Ranipur by pur 9-0 in the super league 161 runs in the All India In- match of the Delhi State ter-DPS cricket tournament. Hockey League for clubs. In other matches, DPS. Mandeep (1), Pradeep Kr (2), Ranchi beat Dwaraka by 1 Satpal (2), Yashpal (1), Prab- run; Angul beat Gurgaon by hakar (1) and Rajender (2) 4 wickets; Mathura Road de- were the scorers. In another feated Mewat by 9 wickets; match, Stance Club beat Noida beat Maruti Kunj by Khalsa Blues 6-1. Manoj (3), 11 runs; Rohini defeated Sumer (2) and Sudhir (1) Kanpur by 13 runs; Greater scored for the winners while Noida beat Aligarh by 8 Jaspreet reduced margin for wickts and Vasant Kunj Khalsa. Meanwhile, selec- crushed Patna by 301 runs. tion trials for Delhi U-20 Tropical beat Swift: Tro- team will be held on Octo- pical beat Swift by 8 wickets ber 6 at Union Academy in the Air Cargo Club of Del- School at 2.30pm. hi cricket tournament. Gaurav’s fine spell: Scores: Swift: 60 in 17.1 overs (Jai Bhatia 5 for 17) lost to Tropical 61 for 2 Guarav Shokeen claimed wkts in 12 overs. four wickets as Shank- aracharya Vidyalaya beat Abhilash shines: Abhi- York Club by 2 wickets in lash captured three wickets the DDCA u17 cricket meet. as Gyan Bharti School, Scores: York Club 173 in 33.2 overs Saket defeated Rama Krish- (Varun Maingi 45, Sunil Shokeen 31, na School by 30 runs in a Gaurav Shokeen 4/30) lost to league match of the 4th Par- Shankaracharya Vidyalaya 174 for 8 in 35.5 overs (Amit Chawla 43, Piyush le Cup inter-school under 17 Mehnderita 3/42) by 2 wickets. cricket tournament.
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