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Established 1838 cricket wash Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. SC halts HPCL, BPCL privatisation Underlying most arguments against the free market By Rakesh Bhatnagar vestment through an executive order. government company.The Bench said: dirty willow is a lack of belief in TIMES NEWS NETWORK Two public interest petitions — filed ‘‘We find that on the language of the freedom itself. by the Oil Sector Officers Association Act, such a course is not permissible at PIPELINE on the field New Delhi: The Centre’s plans to pri- (OSOA) and the Centre for Public In- all.’’ The government, which currently — Milton Friedman vatise public sector undertakings suf- terest Litigation (CPIL) — had chal- holds 51 per cent stake in HPCL, has The TIMES NEWS NETWORK fered a setback on Tuesday with the lenged the privatisation of the two proposed to offload 34.01 per cent stake blocked court Supreme Court order, stopping disin- ● Mumbai/Bangalore/ NEWS DIGEST PSUs. They had said that the govern- to a strategic partner along with man- The only Kolkata: vestment of two oil majors — Hindus- ment should have approached Parlia- agement control, while five per cent question (is) tan Petroleum Corporation Ltd and National Twin blasts accused held: Za- ment for enacting a suitable law for the will be offered to employees at a con- whether the Cricket hid Patni, prime accused in the Au- Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. privatisation of the two companies cessional rate. A Bench of Justices S Rajendra method to disin- Academy gust 25 twin bomb blasts in Mum- which were acquired in 1974 through OSOA’s counsel F S Nariman had chairman Babu G P Mathur said: ‘‘The govern- vest is permissible bai, has been detained by the Dubai parliamentary legislations. said as the oil companies were nation- Brijesh Pa- police and will be deported to India, ment is restrained from going ahead Agreeing with the petitioners’ con- alised through an Act of Parliament, tel has the police said on Tuesday. P13 with the disinvestment process for The minister tention, the Bench noted that the pre- the government, to uphold parliamen- rubbished HPCL and BPCL.’’ ● Disinvestment No Indo-Pak summit: External amble to the Acquisition Act, through tary norms of governance, should claims of affairs minister Yashwant Sinha said The government had resorted to the which HPCL and BPCL were made gov- have approached it with a Bill either to will now become nepotism in an interview to Pakistan daily ‘The disinvestment of the two cash-rich div- ernment undertakings, specifically repeal the Nationalisation Act or mod- an impossibly in selec- News’ that Vajpayee’s visit to Islam- idend-paying companies without seek- stated: ‘‘In order to ensure that the ify it suitably to permit disinvestment complex process tion made Rohan Gavaskar abad for the Saarc summit in Janu- ing Parliament’s prior approval. ownership and control of petroleum through an executive order. by former India skipper ary next year did not confirm an The court said the policy of disin- products distributed and marketed in Centre’s counsel Harish Salve said Humble pie Nari Contractor. Contractor, Indo-Pak summit. P13 vestment had not been challenged; India by the said company are vested under the Constitution, it mattered lit- ● PM approves sale of however, says he stands by Liberhan acts tough: The Liber- what was objected to was the manner in the State and thereby so distributed tle as to how a company was created as remaining stake in five his remarks relating to the han Commission probing the Babri in which the two companies had been as best to subserve the common good.’’ the law governing PSUs, like Balco, PSUs already selection of Rohan Gavaskar, demolition has asked the Delhi High privatised by the government. It said Thus, the Act did not indicate that BHEL and Maruti, was the same. privatised (P17) son of Sunil Gavaskar, and Court to dismiss the petition filed by the companies could be privatised only the government companies could be Ram Naik calls it historic: P5 Udit Patel. former UP chief minister Kalyan by repealing or amending the Act and transferred to private parties, wholly Ruling fuels blame game in BJP: P5 Contractor made the re- Singh against the Commission for the government could not order disin- or partly,to any company other than a Setback to privatisation, says India Inc: P17 Graphic: Sabyasachi marks after another former summoning him as witness. P9 Test cricketer Ashok AFP Ghaziabad trouble: Thousands of Mankad replaced him as rioting traders of Hapur and Ghazi- West Zone Talent Resource abad beat up the Ghaziabad DM Development Officer. and SP (city), set fire to the DM’s car Bhutan allows The ouster came in the and smashed vehicles at the Hapur wake of what Nari believed police station on Tuesday. P4 was ‘‘a casual conversation’’ with Gavaskar’s friend and Army of ex-militants: The Army former Mumbai player is planning to raise Territorial Army Army operation Milind Rege at a recent func- battalions of surrendered militants in Jammu and Kashmir to boost the tion, during which Nari morale of counter-insurgents follow- By Akshaya Mukul camps belonging to three dif- questioned the inclusion of ing the killing of their leaders like TIMES NEWS NETWORK ferent militant groups have Rohan in the India ‘A’ team’s Kuka Parray. P11 been neutralised. ‘‘I cannot tour of England earlier New Delhi: Bhutan has give the details at this stage. this year. Breather for Advani: The agreed to allow Indian forces All I can say is that it would Contractor also queried Supreme Court upheld a Patna High to neutralise 20 militant be a joint operation between the selection of Patel’s son Court decision expunging those camps on its soil, a highly- Udit for the Border-Gavaskar parts of the report by the Bhagalpur the forces of the two coun- placed source in the home scholarship to Australia re- Riots Commission which severely tries,’’ he said. ministry said here on cently. Contractor alleged criticised Deputy PM L K Advani. P9 According to him, in the Tuesday. that NCA director and chair- initial years, Bhutan did not VHP demand rejected: The BJP This was one of the major man Brijesh Patel, Sunil pay much heed to these on Tuesday said the VHP demand to outcomes of Bhutan King Gavaskar and chief of Indi- convene a special session of Parlia- Jigme Singye Wangchuk’s camps. But it has now come an cricket board TRDO, Dilip ment to bring a legislation for the talks with Deputy Prime to realise the negative impact Vengsarkar,had ‘‘ganged up’’ construction of a temple in Ayodhya Minister L K Advani, the of such a presence, especially to oust him. could not be met as support on the source added. on the younger generation. Rohan, who plays for Ben- issue were lacking in Parliament. Talks on these lines have ‘‘At a time when the gal, has recently been named been taking place for a Bhutanese polity is undergo- in the Rest of India squad for long time. The go-ahead had ing reform, the kingdom is the upcoming Irani Trophy come earlier but it was eager to distance itself from tie against Mumbai. being kept under wraps. ‘‘It subversive acts being con- Patel said the Australian would be a hush-hush affair,’’ ducted from its soil,’’ the Cricket Academy report is how the source predicted source added. showed that Udit’s bowling is any operation against the The source cited King good both technically and indiatimes.com POLL A policeman emerges from an insurgent hideout during a raid in Srinagar on Tuesday. Report on page 11 militant camps. Wangchuk’s speech at the tactically. In Kolkata, board Asked if Indian forces have banquet on Monday to drive president Jagmohan Will Sourav Ganguly make a good TV home his point about the se- show host? gone to Bhutan, the source Dalmiya said: ‘‘I am yet to JPC to ‘taste’ said, ‘‘We have received the cret understanding. In his find out about this whole con- Yes 25% No 75% fine details of Bodo influence speech, the king referred to troversy over Rohan.’’ Rs 8.40, please! Not in the kingdom, including the the militant camps and ad- Former India players Saba VOTE NOW: Is homosexuality becoming all drinks more acceptable in Indian society? pattern of funding.’’ But he mitted that they are a threat Karim and Arun Lal backed refused to divulge if these to ‘‘Bhutan’s security.’’ Rohan’s selection. Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 for pesticides TIMES NEWS NETWORK a paisa more, or less YOU SAID IT by Laxman New Delhi: The first meet- By K V Ramana TOI Archives The hitch over grievance redressal ing of the joint parliamen- TIMES NEWS NETWORK began. The bank officers quickly tary committee (JPC) into came forward to compensate him by the cola issue came up with Hyderabad: Colonel (retd) K A Pad- depositing Rs 200 in his account. But, indications that its mandate manabham is a tough customer. At Padmanabham put his foot down. ‘‘I to suggest safety standards least, that’s what the honchos at the told them that I would accept only Rs criteria for soft drinks, fruit ICICI Bank realised recently. 8.40, not a penny more. I wanted the juice and other beverages A resident of Sainikpuri, Padman- bank to reimburse my telephone may include milk and liquor. abham, who has an account in the charges at the rate of Rs 1.20 for three JPC chairman Sharad bank’s Karkhana branch, had a query minutes,’’ he said. Pawar said their term of ref- about his son’s account. Padmanab- The customer refused to accept the erence is to examine bever- ham operates his son’s deposit as the amount in cash. He wanted a cheque. ages where water is the main latter is an NRI. This stumped the ICICI officials. For, constituent. It could include One morning, Padmanabham the bank does not accept cheques be- tea, alcohol, virtually any- called the bank’s call centre asking low a denomination of Rs 50 as a mat- thing. The government defi- for the balance in his son’s account. ter of policy. Technically, therefore, nition is limited, and does Not convinced about the caller’s cre- Padmanabham wouldn’t be able to not include milk and liquor. dentials, the customer service execu- encash his cheque. ‘‘What the government says tive refused to readily part with the ‘‘I am follower of Bharat Ratna A P We have at last succeeded in is not important; what Par- information. Padmanabham’s call J Abdul Kalam. Efficiency should be- getting rid of beggars, pavement- liament says is important,’’ was put on hold. And, he kept holding come part of our system. How much dwellers, hawkers! —- We have said Pawar. on for more than 20 minutes. they pay me does not matter, the atti- dug up every inch of the pavement The 15-member, Pawar-led Annoyed, he managed to get across tude of the officials at the service end in the entire area! committee met for the first to some senior officers of the bank. does,’’ Padmanabham says. Finally, time on Tuesday for over two- ‘‘They were very nice and coopera- he got his Rs 8.40 cheque. It was deliv- WEATHER and-half hours. Only one tive,’’ Padmanabham recalls. ered to him with an apology note. member was absent. Max. 29.9ºC/Min. 24.2ºC Moonset: Thursday – 0:47 pm Moonrise: Wednesday – 10:23 pm Sunset: Wednesday – 6:24 pm The snakepit that was Cancun Sunrise: Thursday – 6.08 am Ajit Ninan Mainly cloudy sky with one or two spells of By Priya Ranjan Dash isters from 146 countries, these dele- rain/thundershowers in some areas. TIMES NEWS NETWORK gates said the least developed coun- Maximum relative humidity on Tuesday tries had an inkling that behind 97% and minimum 75%. New Delhi: In local Mayan lan- their back, some of the middle-in- guage, Cancun means a snakepit. As come large developing countries, in- thousands of delegates from across cluding India, China and Brazil, the world left the Mexican were busy striking their own deals Caribbean resort, ruing the failure with the world trade majors such as of their week-long endeavour, sto- the US and the EU. ries of intrigues played by nations Leader of the Indian delegation through nights of long knives in Arun Jaitley had on Monday enu- pursuance of their commercial merated to The Times of India the goals were told on Tuesday. sequence of events of the final mo- WTO talks are supposed to be ments. ‘‘We had an outright victory about give and take and about trade- ing WTO negotiations in the new ar- in sight. But I regret that we had no More than 93,000 jobs at offs. But no such spirit prevailed in eas including investments and com- declaration at the end,’’ Jaitley said, Cancun, trade diplomats said. Be- petition that apparently triggered referring to major concessions India hind pious public statements, coun- the walkout. Many delegates are, was about to gain out of the rich www. .com tries rich and poor stuck to their however,convinced that the walkout countries in the ‘‘greenroom’’ talks. India’s No.1 Jobs site guns and fought shadowy battles. was prompted by a feeling of betray- In the past too, India harboured a The Cancun meeting had to be al among these poorest countries of feeling that when it came to the Book your Classifieds wound up abruptly on Sunday after the world at the hands of some of crunch, fellow developing nations 24 hours service: “51-666-888” Kenya led a walkout of poorest their own ‘‘third world allies’’. had always deserted it in previous countries of the world in Africa, the Throwing light on the darkest of rounds of trade talks. Was it pay- * 36 pages with timesascent Caribbean and Asia. It was the Eu- intrigues played out in the dying back this time? + 8 pages of Delhi Times ropean Union’s insistence on start- moments of the conference of min- Dubyaman: P14
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2 Wednesday,September 17, 2003 DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi
Official caught taking bribe: A Delhi Vidyut Board inspector charged with taking a bribe to clear requests for an electricity connection was sentenced to one year’s im- prisonment by a city court on Tuesday. Special judge Di- Park with abandon in GK-I nesh Dayal also ordered the accused V K Gupta to pay a To chat on SMS send 'cchat'
Reservoir inaugu- rated: An under- No show by Bharti, ground reservoir, with a capacity of 53 lakh litres, and booster demands air fare pumping station was TIMES NEWS NETWORK inaugurated at Ujwa Village in Najafgarh on New Delhi: The special court of additional Sunday. The Delhi Jal sessions judge, S N Dhingra issued fresh Board has framed a summons to Bharti Singh, daughter of scheme amounting to Rajya Sabha MP D P Yadav, whom Nitish Rs 2,159 lakhs to Katara wanted to marry. She has now been rationalise patterns of asked to appear and testify on October 8. water distribution in 16 villages of outer Delhi. The court issued fresh summons after The reservoir will cost Bharti failed to appear in the court despite Rs 175 lakhs. TNN repeated summons earlier. In a fax message from London where she is now living, Bharti had asked for to and fro air tickets. Issuing the summons, the court said the duration was short and it was not possible for the court to send air tickets. It has, how- ever,asked Bharti to depose following which her application will be forwarded to the UP government for reimbursement. Earlier, the court had expressed displeas- ure over the failure of the Indian High Com- mission in UK to serve summons to Bharti. It directed the official concerned in the MEA to appear before the court and explain their position. Katara was allegedly murdered by Bharti’s brother Vikas Yadav and cousin Vishal Yadav who were against Katara’s relationship with their sister.
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Woman strangled: A 36-year-old woman, Seema, was strangled at her residence in Chattarpur village in Mehrauli on Monday night. The police said that the body was first noticed by the landlady. The body was found lying on a bed with a piece of cloth wrapped around the neck. Police said that there was no ransacking of the room. A case of murder has been registered in the Mehrauli police Man, sister blackmail woman, caught station and efforts are on to nab the accused, said the police. TNN
TIMES NEWS NETWORK legedly showed her the pa- tember 13 she was caught by Picture imperfect pers bearing her signatures, her mother. Then she nar- New Delhi: The southwest stating that she had mar- rated the whole incident af- police have registered a case •The two drugged, photographed and blackmailed her that they would tell the world that she was married ried him. ‘‘He then demand- ter which a complaint was against a man and his sister ed money from her and filed in the Mayapuri police for extortion. The 30-year- •She tried to steal money to cover up her shame threatened that otherwise station. old accused, Vikram, al- he would go to town with An officer, however, said legedly took the girl to a ho- •But had she, in fact, married him? the fact that they were mar- that police are trying to ver- tel, drugged her and later ried,’’ stated a police officer. ify reports that the girl had told her that she had mar- sister Deepika, offered her a victim is a student of fash- The police said that the actually married the ac- ried him. He had clicked lift to Tilak Nagar.‘‘She said ion designing. girl was apparently in a cused. compromising photographs that she was give something The accused then alleged- state of shock after the inci- ‘‘An input suggests that of her and was using this to to eat and she began to lose ly took the 22-year-old girl to dent even though she re- the marriage was extort money. consciousness. Then she a hotel where they took the frained from telling her registered. However, some The girl has alleged in her was taken to a temple where pictures. After a few days, family about it. differences cropped up be- complaint that she was she was made to sign some the police said, Vikram The girl then allegedly tween them and the girl standing at a bus stand in papers,’’ said deputy com- again approached the vic- tried to steal money from walked out of it. We are as- Mayapuri on July 17 when missioner of police (south- tim claiming that he was her residence to pay the ac- certaining the truth,’’ said the accused, alongwith his west) Tajendra Luthra. The legally her husband. He al- cused. ‘‘However, on Sep- the officer. Rs 2 lakh looted in Jangpura Ext Uncle held for raping 4-yr-old New Delhi: A 19-year-old man was arrested by the southwest TIMES NEWS NETWORK the possibility of the dacoits Ruksana, said he was not at district police on Tuesday for trying to rape a 4-year-old girl. being known to the family. A home, the unidentified man The police said the victim was the man’s niece. The incident New Delhi: A daylight da- senior police officer said: said he wanted to hand over a took place on Monday night in the Mayapuri area. coity was reported in Jang- ‘‘One of the assailants en- wedding invitation and ‘‘The accused, Sachin, is a slum dweller in the area. The pura Extension, south Delhi, tered the house on the pre- asked for a glass of water. matter was reported to the police by the victim’s mother,’’ on Tuesday afternoon. Six text of meeting Bawa’s son.’’ Ruksana, apparently, left said a police officer. A medical examination was being car- armed men reportedly, en- Bawa, who owns a factory the door open and went to get ried out on the girl, he added. tered the house of A K Bawa was at his office in Okhla at water. The man and his asso- The child helpline has been contacted by the police to help and gagged his wife, daugh- the time of the incident. ciates, meanwhile, entered the girl recover from a state of shock. The police said the case ter and family friend and es- Police said, at 1:20 pm, a the house. They tied Ruk- has also been referred to the crime against women’s cell. TNN caped with Rs two lakh, mo- young man rang the door bell sana, her mother and friend bile phones and jewellery. and asked for Bawa’s son while rummaging through The police did not rule out Rehman. When his daughter, their belongings. Man arrested for aiding terrorists
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: In a follow-up to the Millennium Park encounter, the special cell arrested a 51-year-old hawala operator from his Karol Bagh office on Tuesday evening. Rajen- der Prasad, the police al- leged, had delivered funds to Noor Mohammad Tantray. On Tuesday, the police took Tantray into custody for two days. Additional sessions judge S N Dhindra re- manded Tantray to the po- lice custody after addi- tionalo commissioner of police, Rajbir Singh said some additional facts had emerged. Tantray was one of the three arrested with a huge cache of arms and ammunition from Sadar Bazaar area on August 30, the day when the en- counter took place. Two alleged Jaish ter- rorists were killed during the encounter. Prasad, the police said, has been in the hawala trade for more than 11 years. The enforcement direc- torate had arrested him in 1998. He has reportedly ad- mitted to have accepted Rs 20 lakh from a Dubai- based person. The money was to be handed over to Tantray in Delhi. ‘‘He has identified the Dubai-based man as Sethi. This could be an as- sumed name,’’ claimed a senior Special cell officer. According to him Prasad delivered the funds to Tantray on August 27, three days before the en- counter.
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Wednesday,September 17, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi FLIGHTS OUT WEATHER 4 DELHI OF DELHI Rainfall likely at East: Arunachal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, WB, Sikkim, Oris- NATIONAL sa, Jharkhand and Bihar; North: UP, Uttaranchal, Mumbai: I-A 0700, Haryana, Punjab, HP, Jammu, Kashmir, east Rajasthan 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, and Rajasthan; Central: MP (West MP), Bidarbha and Chattisgarh; 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, Peninsula: Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, 2300 Jet Air 0650, Hapur traders burn DM’s car 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, Marathwada, AP, TN, interior Karnataka, Kerala; Islands: Andaman ‘Enough evidence 1935, 2030, 2200, and Nicobar and Lakshadweep. Pankaj Nangia Sahara 1700, 0935, INDIA WORLD By Lalit Kumar 1520, 1800, 2025 TIMES NEWS NETWORK KOLKATA: I-A 0700, Max Min Max Min Max Min ★★ Delhi 30 25 Guwahati 34 24 Amsterdam 21 08 to nail Sharma’ 1600 ,1700,1945 Jet Air 0600, 1720, Mumbai 30 25 Dehradun 28 22 Bahrain 37 28 Hapur (Ghaziabad): In a Sahara 0620,1915 Chennai 38 27 Hyd’bad 33 23 Bangkok 30 25 clear case of justice gone TIMES NEWS NETWORK agency said that out of six CHENNAI: I-A Kolkata 34 27 Indore 23 21 Beijing 25 19 wrong, thousands of rioting cases that Sharma figured 0640,0955★★★ Bangalore 30 19 Jaipur 33 24 Chicago 23 14 New Delhi: Despite the re- 1645,1900 Jet Air Ahm’bad 33 26 Geneva 17 08 Hapur traders, enraged at a in, in four he ‘‘stands as an 0645,1900 Lucknow 33 24 instatement of former T’puram 33 23 Patna 31 25 Hong Kong 28 25 recent crime spurt, beat up accused’’. BANGALORE: DDA vice-chairman Sub- I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Bhopal 25 22 Rajkot 31 23 London 26 13 the Ghaziabad district mag- In the other two cases Jet Air 0635,1715, B’eshwar 34 26 Shimla 23 16 Los Angeles 24 17 istrate (DM) and superin- hash Sharma, the CBI that were registered in Sahara 0725, 1745 Pune 29 19 Srinagar 30 13 Moscow 17 07 has decided to go ahead HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 tendent of police (city), set July, investigation by the GOA: I-A 1200, TRAIN RESERVATIONS fire to the DM’s car and with its plan to seek sanc- police is still continuing. Sahara 1200 tion from the concerned KULU: Jagson 0630, smashed vehicles and furni- Taking exception to his ★ Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on authorities to prosecute 0650, 1215 16.09.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. ture at the Hapur police sta- reinstatement, the agency AHMEDABAD: him. I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl tion, on Tuesday. pointed out that since he According to sources, Jet Air 0610 NORTH Police officers, quickly had been arrested and in GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: 4033 Jammu Mail 17.09 17.09 22.09 17.09 the agency has in its pos- I-A 0555★★, 1010• formed a security ring custody for more than ★ Jet Air 1010 4645 Shalimar Exp — 16.10 14.10 17.09 session ‘‘sufficient and sol- 2403 Jammu Exp 20.09 22.09 25.09 12.10 around the DM. Two deputy two days, ‘‘he was deemed Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, id evidence’’ to justify his Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ EAST SP’s were also roughed up. to have been suspended Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 17.09 17.09 17.09 — The six policemen present at arrest and decision for from service in accor- 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 2304 Poorva Exp 17.09 17.09 17.09 18.09 Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, the station locked themselves prosecution. dance with the rules of (Airport) 25675234/875, (Tele- 2382 Poorva Exp 19.09 19.09 03.10 31.09 Checkin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. 2312 Kalka Mail N.A. 18.09 17.09 01.11 in and, climbing to the roof, The ‘‘evidence’’ includes suspension’’. 2392 Magadh Exp 17.09 23.09 17.09 18.09 Sharma’s taped conversa- INTERNATIONAL fired several rounds in the It pointed out that 2402 Shramjeevi Exp — 17.09 17.09 17.09 tion on phone, forensic re- BANGKOK/TOKYO: 2418 Prayag Raj Exp 17.09 17.09 23.09 17.09 air to save themselves from This Ambassador car suffered at the hands of a mob in Hapur on Tuesday. charge-sheeting an ac- Thai Air 0010 (TG-316), 4056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 22.09 09.10 the mob. DM Santosh Yadav’s ports testifying their au- cused in a criminal case A-I 0050 (IC-855) 5622 North East Exp — 17.09 17.09 31.10 car was completely gutted. (Rural), Anil Kumar, has near his Railway road dairy, station and the Hapur Chau- thenticity and other had nothing to do with the FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 2554 Vaishali Exp 17.09 18.09 17.09 23.09 0305 (LH-761) 2816 Puri Exp — 17.09 17.09 17.09 Two fire tenders, which been asked to identify the at about 10.30 a.m. Tuesday.’’ pla, and shouted slogans documentary evidence, continuation of his sus- AMSTERDAM: 2802 Purshottam Exp — 15.10 17.09 18.09 CBI sources said on KLM 0140 (KL-472) rushed to put out the fire, other negligent Hapur police- According to Singh there against the police. None of pension. 8476 Neelanchal Exp — 21.09 19.09 19.09 Tuesday. ‘‘It is more important to LONDON: British Air 4230 Lucknow Mail 21.09 20.09 20.09 22.09 were also damaged. men. A strong force of the po- ‘‘had been several crimes in the rioters had been arrested 0210 (BA-142) WEST Reinforcements were also lice and Provincial Armed Hapur in about a week. And, until this report was filed, on Sharma being an IAS of- build up strong cases PARIS: Air France 2904 Golden Temple Mail 18.09 18.09 18.09 02.10 rushed to the spot. Police re- Constabulary has been de- the police had been both lax Tuesday evening. Mean- ficer, sanction for his pros- against the high and 0040 (AF-147) 2926 Paschim Exp 17.09 19.09 19.09 03.10 SINGAPORE: Sin’pore 2952 Mumbai Rajdhani 18.09 22.09 18.09 — sorted to a lathi charge at the ployed at Hapur to prevent and unable to solve the while, the district magistrate ecution has to be sought mighty corrupt elements Air 2315 (SQ-407), from the department of A-I 0050 (I-855) 2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 18.09 17.09 17.09 — police station, and one at the further trouble. According to crimes. So, we have suspend- has requested the state au- than to charge-sheet in ABUDHABI: 2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 25.09 25.09 18.09 tehsil, to disperse the rioters. Meerut range deputy inspec- ed the inspector incharge. thorities to post a district po- personnel and training such cases in haste,’’ the 1078 Jhelum Exp — 23.09 18.09 24.09 A-I 1810 (AI-765) tor general of police, Guru- And, renewed efforts are on lice chief in Ghaziabad, which comes under the agency said in a release. MOSCOW: 2916 Ashram Exp 17.09 17.09 17.09 17.09 The Hapur police station A-I 1115 (AI-515) SOUTH chief was also suspended, for darshan Singh, who rushed to prevent further incidents soon. The position remains home ministry. All the cases involving ROME/GENEVA: 2616 G T Exp 17.09 18.09 17.09 17.09 laxity and inability to curb to Hapur, ‘‘The trouble start- and solve earlier ones.’’ unfilled since the outgoing Explaining the status of Sharma, the agency A-I 0350 (AI-173) 2622 Tamil Nadu Exp 17.09 17.09 17.09 17.09 2432 Trivandrum Raj 21.09 02.10 19.10 — crime. More suspensions are ed when Ashok Garg, a dairy Singh said that, on hearing police chief, Chandra the investigation, an offi- said, pertained to DDA AIR INDIA 2626 Kerala Exp — 17.09 18.09 22.09 expected at the police station. owner, was shot dead by of the murder, hundreds of Prakash, was transferred cial from the investigating scams. AHMEDABAD: 2618 Mangala Exp — 22.09 21.09 18.09 three men on a motorcycle traders gathered at the police last week. 0115 (A-I 3112) 2628 Karnataka Exp — 17.09 17.09 18.09 Superintendent of police MUMBAI: 2724 A P Exp 18.09 21.09 17.09 21.09 0315 (A-I 722), 0615 2430 Banglore Rajdhani 20.09 22.09 07.10 — (A-I 142), 0700 7022 Dakshin Express — 17.09 — 16.09 Trigger-happy (A-I 802), 2145 (A-I 315) AC ‘mandis’ on cards No. of passengers dealt on 15.09.2003 (Delhi Area): 53,770 (N. Rly. Area) A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 2,19,887. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all TIMES NEWS NETWORK (Air.)25652050, British Air: subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for cop dismissed (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. Mixed response to DJB scheme 23323310, Singapore Airlines (Information supplied by Indian Railways) 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 New Delhi: The Delhi Police New Delhi: The Delhi government plans to By Himanshi Dhawan of payments is a responsibility build and develop 10 air-conditioned agricul- dismissed the constable accused TIMES NEWS NETWORK Proposal outlines of killing a trailer driver, from many are unwilling to accept. tural produce markets in the city to facilitate ‘‘This is a Bhagidari of sorts. service on Tuesday. The inci- New Delhi: In response to the • Bhagidari between farmers. Chief minister Sheila Dikshit said We have contacted all 1,300 dent in question occurred on RWAs and DJB this while inaugurating the fully-equipped interaction with resident wel- RWAs through letters asking Saturday night. new building and campus of Narela agricul- fare associations last month, them to contact centre-level of- The incident took place on • Letter asks RWAs to tural produce marketing committee (APMC) Delhi Jal Board (DJB) has ficials if they do not get redres- Mehrauli-Badarpur road when nominate one person to on Tuesday. She also distributed cheques changed its tack to a more con- sal at the local level,’’ P K Tri- the accused constable, Anil Ku- collect billing dues amounting to Rs 1.8 crore to farmers as relief sumer friendly one. The ges- pathi DJB CEO said. mar, shot the driver after a heat- for procuring cattle fodder. ture however has evoked a • If there is no redressal at The letter suggests contact- ed exchange . The trailer had al- Dikshit said the air-conditioned mandis mixed response so far. local office, residents can ing the executive engineer in legedly hit the constable’s mo- (markets) will be constructed on the lines of The DJB has written letters approach the executive fields relating to revenue, wa- torcycle which provoked the Azadpur market. ‘‘The creation of these man- to 1,300 residents associations engineer concerned ter supply, sewage in case of a constable. TNN dis would eliminate middlemen and help farm- in Delhi asking them to contact problem. ‘‘Residents are still ers sell their products directly to buyers,’’ she officials at their centre at has also asked RWAs to nomi- required to go to the zonal of- said. The government has already procured a Varunalaya at Jhandewalan if nate one resident each who can fice with complaints. But if piece of land at Andheria Mor to construct one their problems relating to wa- collect payments. Though resi- they don’t get redressal, they such mandi. ter, sewage and billing pay- dents have welcomed appoint- can approach senior officials,’’ Citing the case of Narela APMC she said ments go unattended. The DJB ing of nodal officers, collection Tripathi added. such ultra-modern complexes would facilitate marketing of agricultural produce where both the seller and the buyer would carry out trans- Summons for actions in a modern environment. Officials said it would help farmers to directly interact with retailers. They said that computerisation M L Khurana within the complex is also on the cards. TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A Delhi court has issued sum- mons to Delhi BJP state chief Madan Lal Khu- rana to appear before it on October 20 in a defamation case. Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit had filed a defamation suit against Khurana for making allegations of corruption against her. Sources said the high court has asked Khu- rana to appear to re- spond to the summons. Khurana had alleged Dikshit had diverted government funds for election purpos- es. The funds were granted by the Central govern- ment to be allo- cating it to power compa- nies. He de- manded a CBI in- quiry in the mat- ter.
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Reuters SC ruling fuels Opposition Our stand vindicated, euphoric claim trade unions TIMES NEWS NETWORK nationalising them, Parlia- blame game in ment had said that the oil in- at ‘oil slick’ New Delhi: Trade unions dustry is far too important across the political spectrum for economic development TIMES NEWS NETWORK on Tuesday welcomed the and for national security. Supreme Court order against New Delhi: The Opposition It would be politically the Centre’s decision to a shaken BJP has welcomed the Supreme privatise the HPCL and the wrong and economically in- Court order on the disinvest- By Smita Gupta BPCL. correct to hand over their ment of the oil majors, HPCL TIMES NEWS NETWORK Secretary of the CPM-affil- control to private companies, and BPCL, saying their stand iated Centre of Indian Trade CITU said. It said that with- New Delhi: The Supreme SJM sees an has been vindicated. Unions (CITU) Swadesh Dev out a new legislation repeal- Court’s ruling that oil majors The Opposition wanted the Roy said the apex court had ing the Acts in Parliament, HPCL and BPCL cannot be opportunity, entire issue of disinvestment vindicated the stand of the privatisation of these oil disinvested till Parliament to be re-examined, indicating trade unions by criticising PSUs will be an assault on approves it could not have that it would oppose the sale slings mud ‘‘the NDA government’s deci- parliamentary democracy. come at a worse moment of the oil majors ‘‘tooth and sion to privatise the bluechip, National secretary of the for the BJP. TIMES NEWS NETWORK nail’’ in both Houses of profit-making and strategi- BJP-affiliated Bharatiya The party’s official line Parliament. New Delhi: The cally important oil PSUs by Mazdoor Sangh A N Dogra echoes disinvestment minis- The Samajwadi Party de- Supreme Court’s verdict bypassing Parliament’’. said his organisation ter Arun Shourie’s reported against the privatisa- scribed it as virtual endorse- CITU said the HPCL and had been opposing the disin- response from Berlin — that tion of oil PSUs without ment of the report of the Par- the BPCL were created by the vestment plan since the it is a ‘‘major setback’’ for parliamentary approval liament’s standing commit- Acts of Parliament and while beginning. economic reforms — but pe- has given an opportuni- tee on petroleum, headed by troleum minister Ram Naik ty to the Swadeshi Ja- Mulayam Singh Yadav. Petroleum minister Ram Naik at a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday. from Mumbai has described gran Manch (SJM) to Congress spokesman S the court verdict as ‘‘his- criticise the disinvest- Jaipal Reddy castigated at- toric’’. ment ministry, seek re- torney-general Soli Sorabjee With the Prime Minister examination of its for tendering ‘‘false and per- away on a 13-day foreign tour, methodology and also verse advise’’ to the govern- Ram Naik calls it historic the blamegame has already the creation of an oil ment on the privatisation of TIMES NEWS NETWORK begun. Party sources said the conglomerate compris- the oil majors through execu- lic sector oil companies con- However, the NDA was government will first ask At- tive action. tributed over Rs 23,000 crore aware that it was in a minor- ing ONGC, GAIL, IOC Mumbai: Petroleum minis- torney-General Soli Sorab- ‘‘They were nationalised to the exchequer last year,’’ ity in the Rajya Sabha, he and HPCL. ter Ram Naik on Tuesday jee, whose advice was sought through Acts of Parliament he said. added. SJM national conven- termed the Supreme on the subject, where things and logic follows that they Refusing to be drawn into Naik regretted that the SC er Muralidhar Rao told Court verdict on the disin- went wrong. should be privatised through any controversy regarding verdict was being described The Times of India, vestment issue as a ‘historic Sorabjee’s reply will deter- Acts of Parliament.’’ his disagreement with by the media as his victory, ‘‘This is a severe blow to judgment’. mine the government’s next Reddy also cited ‘‘substan- Shourie over the disinvest- but the Centre’s defeat. At- the policies of the disin- He, however, refrained step. But party sources say he tive grounds’’ for his party’s ment issue, Naik said he had tempts to create a rift be- vestment ministry. It from criticising his col- will probably claim his ad- opposition to the oil compa- presented his views on the tween the NDA and the BJP was going ahead disre- league, disinvestment minis- vice emanated from the gov- nies being privatised. ‘‘The matter to the cabinet, which or between him and Shourie garding the sane advice ter Arun Shourie, by claim- ernment brief he was given. oil sector is of strategic im- had also considered would not succeed, he said. given by nationalist ing that the Union cabinet as While indications on Tues- well-wishers.’’ portance and must remain in Shourie’s side. Replying to questions, a whole had taken a decision day were that the BJP would RSS joint general sec- public hands,’’ said Reddy. After all the angles were Naik said the cabinet would to divest the government’s not mind pinning the blame retary in charge of the There was opposition to taken into account, a deci- consider the issue after the share in the Hindustan on Sorabjee or even Shourie, BJP Madandas Devi the government’s move even sion was taken by the cabi- nodal ministry — the disin- Petroleum Corporation Lim- sources say Sorabjee’s brief also said the RSS consid- within the ruling NDA, Red- net. ‘‘I am a party to the deci- vestment ministry headed by ited (HPCL) and the Bharat came from the law ministry. ers oil as strategic along dy said, adding that this sion. Therefore, my personal Shourie — studies the SC Petroleum Corporation Lim- Indeed, this is why the Oppo- with railways, defence would make the Opposition’s views do not matter,’’he said. judgment. ited (BPCL). sition parties are asking for and telecom where it task easier in and outside On the reaction of the Con- Also, other ministries like law minister Arun Jaitley’s wants a strong govern- Parliament. Addressing a press confer- gress and the Left parties, petroleum and finance would resignation. ment presence. CPM leader Somnath Chat- ence here, Naik said the SC Naik said they would eventu- also be asked to submit their But after the historic de- terjee maintained that Par- verdict may have affected the ally reconcile once the factu- say. As the attorney-general fence Jaitley put up for India liament should look into the share markets, but the intrin- al position was explained to was consulted at the time of at Cancun, the BJP would not something that has the full whole issue of disinvestment sic value of the two giants them. These parties had ear- taking the earlier decision, like to see him in any contro- backing of the RSS, too. As afresh and time had come to would remain unaffected. lier opposed the Insurance he would be asked to tender versy. On Tuesday, party party sources said, Jaitley’s stop disinvestment of nation- Neither would their prof- Regulatory Act, but later sup- his opinion in view of the SC president M Venkaiah Naidu defence of India’s interests, al assets by ‘‘reckless’’ itability go down. ‘‘The pub- ported it, he said. judgment now. said, ‘‘The BJP records its particularly of its farmers, is methods. profound appreciation of the an issue the BJP will find ‘‘We have never opposed Indo-China meet resolute defence of national useful in the coming elec- privatisation of loss-making New Delhi: India and China interests by... Jaitley and the tions. state-owned units,’’ he added. are likely to hold the first Indeed, BJP sources said Indian delegation... in Can- His colleague Basudev meeting of their special rep- cun... Jaitley’s tough and before Jaitley left for Can- Acharia went a step further, resentatives to discuss the skilful negotiating stance en- cun, he had not initially been demanding the resignation of protracted boundary prob- abled India to emerge as the as keen on taking as strident law and disnvestment minis- lem next month. leader of the developing a stand as was eventually ters, Arun Jaitley and Arun countries... The BJP is happy taken, but Naidu had made it Shourie, who, he said, had The two sides were work- that India has become the plain that in an election year, given wrong advice to the ing on mutually convenient voice of the developing the BJP could not afford to government and misled Par- dates for the meeting be- world.’’ soften its stance. And Jaitley liament. tween national security ad- Clearly, the BJP does not ‘‘brilliantly articulated’’ He also wanted the disin- viser Brajesh Mishra and want Jaitley to take the rap the brief he was given, vestment of other PSUs to be China’s senior vice foreign for the HPCL/BPCL fiasco, sources said. stopped immediately. minister Dai Bingguo. PTI
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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Wednesday,September 17, 2003 9 Remarks against Panel seeks Iraq option: Was it dismissal of Advani expunged Kalyan’s plea TIMES NEWS NETWORK verdict. New Delhi: The Liberhan open, asks Vajpayee The Bench said the high commission, probing the New Delhi: Certain ‘deroga- court had rightly taken the demolition of the Babri PTI tory’ re- TIMES NEWS NETWORK masjid at Ayodhya, asked the marks pas- decision to expunge the ‘‘of- fending portion’’ of the re- Delhi High Court on Monday New Delhi: With terrorism sed again- port as Advani, who was then to dismiss a petition filed by and the volatile situation in st Deputy former UP chief minister neighbouring Iraq high on Prime Mi- BJP president, was not given the mandatory notice under Kalyan Singh. He had ap- his agenda, Prime Minister nister L K pealed to the High Court Atal Bihari Vajpayee Advani by Section 8(b) of the Commis- sion of Inquiry Act by the against the commission sum- reached Turkey on Tuesday a judicial moning him as a witness. panel. to a red carpet welcome. commis- In the written reply filed in The state government had Before leaving for his 13- sion that the court through its counsel probed the said that there was no need day visit to Turkey and LK Advani Anupam Gupta, Commission 1989 Bha- then New York to attend the for Advani to approach the secretary S K Pachauri galpur riots, in which about 58th United Nations Gener- high court for expunging the termed Singh’s petition as 1,000 people were killed, fi- al Assembly (UNGA) ses- remarks as it was only con- “totally misconceived and nally stand expunged. sion, Vajpayee put a ques- sidering the report and had not maintainable”. The court The Supreme Court on tion mark on the efficacy of not decided to act on the ba- is scheduled to hear the peti- Tuesday rejected a Bihar gov- the UN itself. sis of the same. tion on September 19. Singh ernment appeal, seeking ‘‘There are a number of Advani’s counsel Harish has so far refused to appear restoration of the remarks issues of international con- Salve, a former solicitor-gen- before the panel as a witness, which were earlier expunged cern facing the world and eral, had supported the high contending it would preju- particularly our region. by the Patna High Court. court decision, saying a The commission had se- dice his defence in the CBI The role and structure of person’s reputation was Prime Minister Vajpayee waves to photographers on his verely criticised Advani for case on the demolition. PTI the UN has itself been intrinsically related to his arrival at Ankara airport in Turkey on Tuesday. his article in the RSS mouth- called into question by fundamental right to life and some recent develop- the question. even if there is an ‘‘explic- piece, Panchjanya. Advani had petitioned liberty. ments,’’ said the PM, with- On July 14, while reject- it’’ UN mandate, would Advani’s fundamental out elaborating. the high court, saying the ing the US request for send- have to be taken after study- right was breached when the This comes in the back- ing Indian soldiers to Iraq ing the ‘‘ground situation’’ commission had made the commission, without giving drop of India indicating to act as part of the Ameri- both in India and Iraq. remarks without giving him him an opportunity to defend that it would be much bet- can-run ‘‘stabilisation for- ‘‘The UN is going to meet. a chance to appear before it. himself, went on to criticise ter if the UN, not the US, ce’’ there, the government If it (UN) takes a decision, A Bench of Justices played the ‘‘key role’’ in had declared it would ‘‘con- we will also take a deci- Brijesh Kumar and Arun Ku- him on the basis of his arti- Iraq, both at the political sider’’ sending troops to In- sion,’’ Vajpayee said at the mar dismissed the Bihar cles in the party magazine and security levels. India dia if there was an ‘‘explic- airport. government’s appeal chal- published four years after the has also been trying for a it’’ UN mandate for it. Developments in Iraq lenging the high court’s 1996 riots took place, Salve said. long time to get a perma- The defence ministry, in and the US bid for a fresh nent seat in an expanded turn, is of the view that it is UN resolution to enable a UN Security Council. not possible to spare troops multilateral force there will Vajpayee was non-com- for Iraq, given the Army’s figure in the talks between Key BJP meeting, mittal about whether India ‘‘heavy commitment’’ along the PM and US President was still keeping its options the border and in counter- George Bush on the side- open on sending troops to insurgency operations at lines of the UNGA session Iraq. ‘‘Was it open?’’ he re- the present juncture. Any in New York beginning but where’s Joshi? decision on sending troops, from September 23. marked, on being asked TIMES NEWS NETWORK not shown up, it was as- sumed that he was other- New Delhi: Forty-three of wise engaged. ‘Occupational the BJP’s 59 Central minis- Arun Jaitley, Sha- ters, led by Deputy PM L K trughan Sinha and Vinod Advani and finance minis- Khanna were abroad while Scrabble: The safety’ policy ter Jaswant Singh, showed Yashwant Sinha, Arun up at BJP president M Shourie and Rajnath Sin- meet today Venkaiah Naidu’s resi- gh had begged off, plead- dence on Monday morning ing prior engagements. new buzzword TIMES NEWS NETWORK for a meeting ahead of the The meeting, held at the forthcoming assembly instance of the PM, re- By Piali Banerjee New Delhi: A two-day state gaming site where players elections in four states. viewed projects undertak- TIMES NEWS NETWORK can keep increasing their labour ministers’ conference But a notable exception beginning here on Wednes- en by various ministries, ratings and play tough was HRD minister Murli especially in the four elec- Mumbai: Pramit Kamat, day is expected to decide a games. Bhandarkar also Manohar Joshi who appar- tion-bound states of Ra- one of Mumbai’s leading ‘‘national policy on occupa- uses word study software ently had not been invited. jasthan, Madhya Pradesh, scrabble players, is known tional safety and health’’. that provide lists of the Responding to Joshi’s re- Chhattisgarh and Delhi. as ‘Armpit’ in scrabbling According to the Interna- most probable seven-letter marks to that effect to a TV Ministers were asked to circles. But, the nickname tional Labour Organisation, words in scrabble. channel, a BJP func- give two days each from has nothing to do with two million workers around In a scrabble situation, tionary sought to cover up September 25 till October 2 body odour. It’s just that there are about 150,000 the world die from work-re- the letters of his first the party’s faux pas, say- to participate in the par- probable words. While the lated accidents and diseases ing a message had been ty’s programmes and to in- name is an anagram of world’s best players would every year. the word. conveyed over the phone teract with party cadres in know 90 per cent of them, In India, the official figure and when the minister had the states going to polls. ‘‘Our relationship with Mumbai’s best players showed ‘‘a steady declining words is such that we look know 60 per cent. However, trend’’ in accidents in ports for anagrams all the time,’’ even though they know the and mines — from 1,245 in explained national scrab- words, they don’t know 1998-99 to 860 in 2002. ble champion Akshay what many of them mean. According to Union labour Bhandarkar. ‘‘The basic ‘‘Scrabble isn’t about minister Sabib Singh Verma, skill required for the game improving one’s English,’’ a task force was set up fol- is looking at a jumble of said Kamat. ‘‘Learning the lowing a recommendation by letters and forming words meanings of words would the Planning Commission to from them.’’ create an information formulate a national policy Scrabble is a nascent overload. Merely knowing on occupational safety and sport in India, more so in as many words on the health. Mumbai. The Mumbai scrabble list as possible, is The report of the task Scrabble Club was formed enough. Instead, a mathe- force has been circulated in 1998 and its 400 mem- matical ability to calculate among Union ministries, bers play one-day tourna- the probability of letters state governments, trade ments every weekend. and words is more impor- unions and employers’ bod- There’s an annual Nation- tant.’’ So, if there are 70 ies for comments. al Scrabble Championship words in which ‘q’ can be at which players compete used without ‘u’, Kamat Pandya mur- to qualify for the world can recall all of them in 70 der case: The Pota court championship. The next seconds (qi, qat, qanat, championship will be held has rejected among others), but don’t CBI’s applica- in Malaysia next month, ask for their meaning. tion, seeking and Bhandarkar and Ka- The difference between to prohibit the mat will represent India. the world’s and Mumbai’s media from re- How do players train players lies in the state of porting the themselves in the city? their finances. While the proceedings in ‘‘The best way is to keep first prize at a tournament the Haren playing the game against in the US could be $1,000, Pandya mur- players better than you,’’ local scrabble tourna- der case. It re- replied Bhandarkar. He ments offer less than jected the plea recommends a free online Rs 1,000. for in-camera hearings. TNN
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10 Wednesday,September 17, 2003 ENTERPRISE G The Times of India, New Delhi Vishwakarma Sidbi signs MoU with OBC for Paradip refinery not awards: Bhel staff corner co-financing small scale sector viable, says IndianOil TIMES NEWS NETWORK most honours New Delhi: Indian Oil Cor- sible even with the addition- New Delhi: Small Industries Problem of plenty TIMES NEWS NETWORK poration (IOC) has said that al incentives over and above Development Bank of India the Rs 9,800-crore Paradip re- •Refinery was sched- sales tax incentives from New Delhi: Employees (Sidbi) has entered into a finery in Orissa will be unvi- uled for commissioning Orissa government. Domes- of Bharat Heavy Electri- memorandum of under- able despite fiscal conces- in 2004-05 tic sale will be at the cost of cals Limited (Bhel) have standing (MoU) with Orien- sions as setting up of the 9 additional export/backing won the maximum num- tal Bank of Commerce (OBC) million- tonne refinery will •IOC wants to resched- down by IOC and its sub- ber of Vishwakarma in a bid to improve the credit end in a glut of products forc- ule it to the XIth 5-yr Plan sidiary refineries,’’ the re- Rashtriya Puraskars flow to the small scale sector. ing other refineries to export (2007-2012) port says. among public and pri- The MoU was signed by V or run below optimal capaci- • Glut of products will Sources said IOC has pro- vate sector companies K Chopra, CMD, Sidbi and B ty. posed that the schedule of in the country. D Narang, CMD, OBC. Under forcing other refineries to Sources said a feasibility run below capacity Paradip refinery be finalised Out of a total of 30 the arrangement, both the study prepared by IOC on the after 2-3 years such that max- awards, Bhel has bagged banks would work together instructions of the Prime imum products are evacuat- as many as 13 of these in the areas of financing of Minister’s Office (PMO) Paradip refinery does not ed without significant export for the years 2001 and projects relating to SSI sec- states that a deferment or ex- take into account the loss in- or idlying existing refinery 2002. In the same period, tor, service sector and infra- emption of sales tax by the curred by other IOC or sub- capacity. six National Safety structure. Orissa government for 11 sidiary refineries due to ad- ‘‘In case it is decided to ini- Awards have been The loan proposals would years would push the pro- ditional exports or backing tiate the project after 2-3 bagged by Bhel’s manu- be entertained by both the in- ject’s internal rate of return down (in capacity),’’ IOC years, following incentives facturing plants located stitutions for term loan as (IRR) to 10.33 per cent from adds. would be required: Restora- at Trichy and Banga- well as working capital. the current 2.56 per cent and While IOC’s Barauni refin- tion of sales tax deferment lore. The participative credit the return on equity (RoE) to ery will have to back down for 11 years as originally Significantly,the com- would ensure SSIs have the 12.26 per cent from the cur- output from 5.4 million granted by Orissa govern- pany and its employees benefit of availing of work- rent 1.26 per cent. tonnes to 1.8 million tonnes, ment and 50 per cent excise have been winning both ing capital through the large But that would not be others like Koyali, Chennai duty concession on domestic these national awards, network of the OBC branch- enough to justify the project. Petroleum and Haldia will sale of petroleum products in instituted by the govern- es specially in the northern ‘‘The project will be viable have to export to accommo- line with the concessions ment of India, ministry region, besides the term loan with 100 per cent sales tax de- date Paradip’s products. granted to northeast refiner- of labour, consecutively under various schemes of ferment for 11 years together Koyali will have to ship out ies,’’ IOC suggests. since their inception. Sidbi. 8 million tonnes, Chennai 2 Thirteen Vishwakar- with 50 per cent exemption in The 9 million-tonne As per the Tenth Five Year million tonnes and Haldia 0.6 ma Rashtriya Puras- excise duty on products for Paradip refinery was origi- Plan estimates, there is a million tonnes, besides 2 mil- kars, under different B D Narang, CMD, OBC and V K Chopra, chairman, Sidbi at the signing of MoU. 15 years,’’ IOC says in its nally scheduled for commis- term loan requirement of Rs lion tonnes export from categories, have been report. sioning in 2004-05, but the 1,23,000 crore for the small institutions for the SSI sector OBC branches would be im- ernment. Paradip refinery, sources shared by 30 employees The IRR then climbs to state-run refiner wants to scale sector industries dur- would facilitate fulfilment of plementing the participative Delhi and Jaipur are im- 15.76 per cent with an in- added. reschedule it to the XIth Five of various Bhel units for enhanced flow of credit to credit arrangement, to start portant clusters in the list in ing the entire plan period. creased RoE of 20.36 per cent. ‘‘Full evacuation (of petro- Year Plan (2007-2012) as cur- their innovative sugges- the sector. with focus would be on the which Sidbi and OBC would Participative credit arrange- ‘‘However, the improve- leum products produced by rently the country has sur- tions. While all the Sidbi and clusters identified by the gov- be jointly funding. ment between the apex level ment in project IRR of Paradip refinery) is not pos- plus refining capacity. PTI LIC wants 15-yr bonds for its pension scheme New Delhi: Life less next fiscal. To take care of Insurance Corpo- the woes of pensioners in a ration (LIC) has falling interest rate regime, gov- asked the govern- ernment launched the pension ment to provide scheme in July with an assured 15-year bonds for return of 9.0 per cent. subsidis- The government promised ing Var- LIC to subsidise the interest rate ishtha S B Mathur differential between the assured Pension return and the actual yield on in- Bima Yojana, which re- vestment, which was now about ceived overwhelming re- 6-7 per cent. sponse crossing Rs 2,000 The government has provided crore in sales within three Rs 30 crore to LIC in the budget months. for the pension scheme. But the ‘‘We wanted a 15-year subsidy amount has mounted as bond with a coupon rate LIC crossed the Rs 2,000 crore of 10.40 per cent for the target well before March next Varishtha Pension Bima year. The total transaction cost Yojana,’’ LIC chairman S of the pension scheme comes to B Mathur said on the side- around 9.38 per cent as against lines of a micro-finance the asssured return of 9.0 per seminar here. cent. In addition, the insurer has LIC has asked the gov- to incur other administrative ernment to provide the costs. bonds according to the ‘‘The coupon rate of 10.4 per magnitude of premium cent on the bonds would cover collected, he said, adding the entire cost of transaction,’’ the requirement may be Mathur said. PTI PNB Housing raises $5 m by way of ECB
TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi:PNB Housing Finance Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Punjab Na- tional Bank has raised $5 million by way of external commercial borrowings (ECB) arranged by Standard Chartered Bank, New Delhi. The cheque was presented to S S Kohli, CMD, PNB. Speaking on the occasion, V P Choud- hary,managing director of the company informed that the company has plans to raise $25 million by way of ECB. The ne- gotiations for the remaining amount of $ 20 million are in the advanced stages. He further informed that the company would soon raise commercial paper of Rs 250 million. The instrument has received the high- est rating by CRISIL. In addition, the company’s line of credit facility has been raised to Rs 200 crores. The company has launched a special festival offer for home loan seekers up to November end in view of the forthcom- ing festival season and also due to reduc- tion in incremental cost of borrowings. Govt aims for 5,000 MW from wind power New Delhi: Minister for non- conventional energy sources M Kannappan said on Tues- day a comprehensive roadmap had been evolved for generating 5,000 MW wind power by 2007. ‘‘A roadmap has been evolved to produce more ener- gy from wind power with the active support from the indus- try and other stakeholders,’’ Kannappan said at a meeting on renewable energy here. The country has a total in- stalled capacity of 4,000 MW of power from renewables, ac- counting for 3.6 per cent of the total power generation ca- pacity. However, the installed capacity for wind energy stands at 1,950 MW at present. ‘‘The capital needed to at- tain higher growth would mainly have to be met through private invest- ments,’’ he said. The minister asked poten- tial investors to take advan- tage of credit facilities offered by financial institutions. PTI
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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Wednesday,September 17, 2003 11 From Torkham Surrendered rebels to Wagah: Tale to Valley’s defence of two borders TIMES NEWS NETWORK By Mahendra Ved New Delhi: The Army is gearing up to TIMES NEWS NETWORK raise Territorial Army (TA) battalions Militants, two BSF Torkham (Afghanistan): As one comprising surrendered militants approaches this Afghan border (Ikhwanis) in J&K as part of the plan to personnel killed boost the morale of counter-insurgents checkpost leading to Pakistan, the TIMES NEWS NETWORK only imposing sight visible is the following the killings of their leaders Khyber Pass, the traditional gate- like Kuka Parray. Srinagar: Two militants and two way through which armies have ‘‘The proposal is in the final stages BSF jawans have lost their lives and stormed into India’s north-west now. It is likely to be cleared by the Cab- seven jawans have been injured in down the ages. inet Committee on Security (CCS) militancy-related violence in Jam- The drab look is in sharp con- soon,’’ said Army vice-chief Lt-General mu and Kashmir since Monday trast to Wagah, the transit point on Shantonu Choudhary on Tuesday. evening. the Indo-Pak border.So, despite the Setting up TA battalions for the A close lieutenant of Kuka Par- tense relations between India and Ikhwanis will provide them a legal rey, the terrorist who became a Pakistan, Wagah sees the martial framework to operate in counter-insur- counter-insurgent and who was drill by the two neighbours’ smart- gency operations, apart from a regular shot dead last week, was also killed ly clad border guards that accom- income and continuity of employment. by militants. Seven hideouts of mil- panies flag-hoisting and lowering Ikhwanis played a vital role in the itants have been found by the BSF every day. turning the terrorist tide in J&K during and Army across Jammu and Kash- A large number of people travel the mid-1990s but are now increasing mir since Monday. from Lahore to Attari on the Pak- under threat from terrorists, angry at Abdul Rashid Khan, a close asso- istan side and from Amritsar to them for switching sides. ciate of Kuka Parrey, was killed in Wagah on the Indian side to watch Lt-Gen Choudhary said the surrender Kulgam. He was a top commander the ceremony every evening. But at rate of militants in J&K had come down of Parrey’s Ikhwan-ul-Muslimoon. Torkham, the retreat ceremony is in recent times since their ranks were conducted by a platoon of soldiers now dominated by foreign mercenaries, now foreign elements. on both sides carrying out the drill most of them Pakistanis. In 1994-95, The Union and state governments, as in a routine manner, with a lone around 98 per cent of the terrorists were well as the Army, are committed to soldier sounding the bugle. The local Kashmiri youths. But the profile bringing Kashmiri militants into the only onlookers are the intending changed drastically by 2002, with over 60 mainstream. A ‘‘rehabilitation pack- travellers anxious to make their per cent of the militants operating age’’ for surrendered militants, which journey after completing the te- south of Pir Panjal being foreign merce- will allow them to set up milk coopera- dious paper work involved in emi- naries. Similarly, around 55 per cent of tives and other private ventures, is also gration. the terrorists in the Kashmir valley are on the anvil, said Lt-Gen Choudhary. After retreat, the border cannot be crossed. These men, women and children — even babies in mothers’ arms — are stuck in the no-man’s land. 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12 Wednesday, September 17, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi
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The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Wednesday,September 17, 2003 13 Zahid will be Saarc yes, but summit no, says Sinha deported to Islamabad: Prime Minister ‘‘I am bringing expecta- mu and Kashmir before In- individuals through the Line to what might have Atal Bi- tions down, because every- dia-Pak peace process gath- of Control, he said the new been expected, the process hari Vaj- one thinks that if Vajpayee ered full pace. peace process, however, initiated by Vajpayee India soon payee’s travels to Islamabad for the Referring to the current found a large number of sup- has received wide support in visit to Is- Saarc meet, summit-level di- pace of the peace process ini- porters in both the countries India as indeed it has in Pak- TIMES NEWS NETWORK & PTI lamabad alogue will take place be- tiated by Vajpayee five which indicates that the istan.’’ in January tween India and Pakistan,’’ months ago, Sinha coun- process will remain sustain- In this regard, he pointed Mumbai: The prime ac- next to at- Sinha said. selled patience. able. out the support enjoyed by cused in the August 25 tend the ‘‘The point remains that ‘‘When you’re dealing Sinha said barring an ‘‘ac- the initiatives on both sides twin bomb blasts, Zahid Saarc meet there must be adequate with relations between India cident’’, there was no possi- to promote people-to-people Patni, has been detained need not preparation for a summit- and Pakistan, there is a need bility of the Indo-Pak tension contacts. by the Dubai police and Yashwant Sinha necessari- level meeting, and I don’t see to be patient. I think impa- becoming an election issue in ‘‘The recent people-to-peo- will soon be deported to ly provide enough time for such a sum- tience has spoiled things in the next general elections in ple contact will show that the the country, the police a platform for a summit be- mit to take place,’’ he said. the past, impatience may India. people of the two countries said on Tuesday. tween India and Pakistan, Sinha also made it clear spoil things once again,’’ he Asked whether there want peace. The Union govern- said external affairs minister that Pakistan should take said. was any opposition to peace “Therefore, barring an ac- ment has already initi- Yashwant Sinha in an inter- further measures to prevent While expressing disap- in India as it was poised for cident, I should think that ated the process to de- view to Pakistan daily militants from crossing the pointment over Pakistan’s re- national elections next Pakistan will not be an issue port the accused, The News. LoC and infiltrate into Jam- luctance to block the flow of year, Sinha said, ‘‘Contrary in Indian elections.’’ PTI sources said. Zahid was allegedly associated with the group out to avenge the SC intervenes in Delhi may Godhra killings in Gu- jarat. The group carried out three blasts in the show the city — at Ghatkopar, the Maharashtra Gateway of India and way for CAS Zaveri Bazaar. He is facing the New Delhi: Left to de- charge of hatching college chaos cide the dates of their the conspiracy for the own to roll out CAS, blasts and arranging fi- TIMES NEWS NETWORK pertaining to minority and with no coercion from nance for the purpose, private unaided colleges. the Centre, Mumbai and New Delhi: Within a month sources said. The high court had ruled Kolkata may opt to go of its judgement which had The arrest of Arshad that admissions to medical along with Delhi only to- sought to clear any confusion Ansari, co-accused in courses would be only wards the year-end. over the fee and admission the blasts, led to the ar- through the state-conducted This became evident process of aided and unaided rest of Zahid in Dubai. common entrance test (MH- at a meeting of top offi- professional colleges, the The Mumbai police sup- CET) while those for engi- cials of the states con- Supreme Court on Monday plied information about neering would be through cerned. The meeting had to intervene in the ongo- Zahid to the CBI which, the centralised admission was convened on Mon- ing chaos in the admission of in turn, requested the process based on merit list. day by information and Dubai police to arrest students into Maharashtra’s broadcasting secretary unaided private medical and After the admission him. process for the state quota in Pawan Chopra. Sources further said dental colleges. None of the state gov- The court ordered status medical courses was com- Zahid’s arrest will help pleted by the government, ernments spelt out their quo and issued notices to the intentions in clear the investigation fur- the colleges could admit stu- Maharashtra government on terms. But they indicat- ther. dents to the remaining seats a petition filed by the state’s ed their inability to Zahid had met Nasir of the state quota and the unaided professional institu- adopt CAS immediately. and Sayed Mohammed management quota through tions challenging a Bombay While West Bengal Hanif in Dubai and had the MH-CET, it had said. High Court order rejecting has sought clarifications brainwashed them to The court also ruled that their plea for 15 per cent and would like to wait carry out the blasts. there will be a uniform fee Nasir was killed in an management quota seats at a till after the Puja festi- structure for the manage- encounter recently, higher fee. val, Maharashtra has ment quota which will be de- while Hanif has been ar- A Bench of Justices S Ra- said its police force is cided by the respective col- rested with two others, jendra Babu and G P Mathur stretched following the leges subject to approval by including his wife also expressed its anguish Mumbai twin blasts. the high court-appointed Fahimida. that the controversy had re- Two old adversaries — committee. Meanwhile, the mained unresolved and Shiv Sena chief Bal Thane police have caused anxiety among stu- On August 14, the SC ruled Thackeray and his one- launched a combing op- dents. The Bench asked the no professional institution time right-hand man, eration in Mira Road, Maharashtra government to could charge capitation fee Maharashtra’s deputy following information file its reply to the petitions from students seeking admis- CM Chhagan Bhujbal — that terrorists were hid- within two weeks. sion there and said ‘‘impart- have all but joined hands ing in the area, sources In its petition, the Associa- ing of education is essential- against CAS. TNN said. Zahid and Nasir tion of Management of Un- ly charitable in nature’’. were childhood friends, aided Private Medical and The private unaided or mi- police sources said. Dental Colleges of Maha- nority institutions imparting Though their rela- rashtra said that by the order technical and medical educa- tionship was forged in of August 23, the high court tion could decide their own Dubai, Zahid and Nasir had taken away the right of fee structure which must be knew each other from the institutions to their au- scrutinised by a committee their childhood days in tonomy and the right guaran- headed by a retired high Mumbai. teed by the SC in its judge- court judge in each state, the ment in the T M A Pai case apex court had said.
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14 Wednesday,September 17, 2003 INTERNATIONAL The Times of India, New Delhi
Bruce Willis, AROUND THE WORLD Cake ’n’ cream calm nerves AFP First baby in 17 years: Istanbul cabbies admitted By Sandra Blakeslee Brooke Burns The first baby in 17 years has that often they have to turn been born on the Pacific Is- to their fares for help, and hen life is not going so smoothly and ‘date hard’ land of Pitcairn, celebrated acknowledged there was Wpeople reach for goodies full of fat and for a 17th century naval room for improvement. AP mutiny but today troubled by sugar, they are doing more than surrender- New York: She’s young, Clinton’s cookbook: Now allegations of sexual abuse. ing to cravings. Comfort foods like chocolate she’s blonde and she’s only everyone can eat like former The birth Sunday of a daugh- cake and ice cream literally blunt the body’s 25. That’s former “Bay- President Bill Clinton. “The ter, Emily Rose, to Nadine watch” babe Brooke Burns, Clinton Presidential Center response to chronic stress, scientists report- and Randall Christian, was Cookbook” includes 250 ed last week. the current love interest of announced by Seventh Day recipes and is on sale to The finding, published in the online edi- Bruce Willis, 45. Adventist academic Herbert raise funds for the founda- tion of The Proceedings of the National This should cheer up the Ford. Most of the 40 people tion building Clinton’s presi- Academy of Sciences, confirms what many actor, who has had an attack living in the British colony be- dential library. Co-author of the blues after ex-wife long to the church. In recent people know firsthand. Eating calorie-rich Shannon Butler tracked years these have been death food seems to calm the nerves, but eating too Demi Moore began romanc- down celebrities, politicians notices. Ford said Emily was much can lead to obesity, depression and ing a-decade-younger-than- and former White House the first child in 17 years born more stress. her Ashton Kutcher. workers to fill a 264-page fea- on the island, 2,160 km This is the first time it has been shown that While the latest match turing main courses, side southeast of Tahiti. AFP the tendency to overeat in the face of chron- Foods full of fat and sugar switch off stress should settle the score, Willis dishes and desserts. Included ic stress is biologically driven, said Dr. Nor- your stress or you’ll be inviting all sorts of is said to be concerned at the Net Casanova: A profes- in the book are Sen Hillary man Pecoraro, a postdoctoral fellow at the chronic health problems.” time Ashton spends with his sional “Internet lover” has Clinton’s chocolate chip University of California at San Francisco Until this work, it was not known that meta- daughters. “Bruce just can’t been arrested. The man, cookies, Bill Clinton’s chicken enchiladas, Elizabeth Taylor’s who helped carry out the research in rats. bolic signals from the body could turn down believe how close his girls identified as Qiao, was arrest- What is true for stressed-out rats, he said, is have become to Ashton,” says ed in Beijing Monday after spicy chicken and Barbara activity of the stress hormone axis, said Dr. Streisand’s Southern lemon also true for humans. Bruce McEwen, a neuroendocrinologist at a friend. “He doesn’t want his being accused of cheating a ice box pie. AP In fact, “if you are overly stressed, it’s Rockefeller University in New York, who was daughters to drift apart from woman of 120,000 yuan probably a good idea to overeat, at least in the not involved in the study.The findings provide him.” Willis met Burns, a di- (about $14,457 US). Police Oldest person turns 116: short run,” Dr. Pecoraro said. “But if you de- a new set of mechanisms for understanding vorced mother of a three- said Qiao met his victim, a The world’s oldest person velop a thick tire of fat around your ab- how chronic stress and anxiety interact with year-old girl, Madison, at a 40-year-old woman, sur- turned 116 in Japan named Lin, in an Internet chat domen, you need to figure out a way to reduce food, Dr. McEwen said. NYT News Service Rolling Stones concert. IANS Tuesday. Kamato Hongo, room in 2001. Qiao told Lin who was born in 1887 and he was a 27-year-old gradu- currently lives in Kagoshima ate working as an assistant LUV2HATE MAIL City, 950 km southwest of manager at a Beijing compa- ny. He convinced her that he Tokyo, celebrated her birth- I really love to hate the Dubya-the- day quietly “by doing her pointless-man. was in love with her. Lin start- ed giving him money whenev- usual dance with her arms,” — Surabhi Mathur her 47-year-old grandson er he asked. AFP Dubyaman has a strange sense of hu- Tsuyoshi Kurauchi, said. “She mor that only nitwits can find funny. The ideal cabbie: Istan- Francesca Chillemi, 18, from Barcellona was crowned is OK. This is simply another — Alok Sharma bul’s taxi drivers have long Miss Italy in Parma on Monday. day for her,” he said. “We had a reputation as highway speak a foreign language if posed that cabbies ban don’t care about the world For bouquets log on to cowboys, but the latest at- possible and offer his fare an loud music, learn some first record or anything like www.timesofindia.com tempt to rein them in has left umbrella if needed,” Turkey’s aid, have basic maths and that. We just want her to many cynical. “A taxi-driver Standardisation Board has know the layout of the town be natural, without any pain,” e-mail: [email protected] must be polite, know how to recommended. It has pro- like the back of their hands. he said. AFP
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Poland rises AFP Will Brent East make history? to greet By Rashmee Z. Ahmed Brent East both a model for week; and at the other one a TIMES NEWS NETWORK multi-culturalism and its few days ago,” she rattles Ravi Shankar most monstrous nightmare. off. London: A tiny part of At the start of hard day of Labour candidate Robert TIMES NEWS NETWORK England — with the largest campaigning, Fernandes Evans, currently a member Warsaw: Sri Sri Ravi and most magnificent Hin- told this paper: “I was born of the European Parliament Shankar met the President du temple outside India at and brought up from Hindu who was parachuted into and First Lady of Poland one end of it — goes to the parents — my grandfather Brent East, parades around here on Monday. In a whirl- polls on Thursday unno- came from south India, I getting a tilak and an aarti. wind tour of the Polish capi- ticed by much of the world, can understand what The “Hindu vibes are too tal, he was the keynote speak- but it could well be an acid Navratri and Diwali are, much, man”, a hip, young er at the Peace Concert, com- test of Britain’s famous having celebrated them Indian resident tells this memorating the events of multi-culturalism. from childhood. And I know correspondent. Uma Fernandes 9/11. For, the parliamentary how pleased people are that But commentators say The programme, attended by-election for the London border, stands the several- they’ve got at least one Brent East’s political impor- by more than 3000 people and constituency of Brent East million-pounds-worth, pale Asian parliamentary candi- tance may be wider and hosted by Krysztot Kolberger, is like no other. magnificence of the Neas- date from a major British deeper than its multi-cul- a leading Polish actor, fea- As the UK’s uniquely den Temple. political party.” tural stew. If Blair’s Labour tured many singers, musi- melting-pot constituency, And despite traditionally Sour Labour officials, Party does worse than be- cians, and rock bands and Brent East (population voting Labour, sections of who are defending the con- fore, it will signal the first culminated in a meditation 102,000) is a confusing eth- Brent East are miffed with stituency, say the “pleas- clear, electoral disaffection led by Sri Sri. nic stew, of white British, Tony Blair’s incumbent par- ure” may not translate into with Britain’s most popular Over 100 journalists and Irish, Indian, Caribbean ty because it refused to field votes. The deceased incum- Labour prime minister in Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Rabbi Moshe Hirsh, leader of the and African. a Hindu for parliament. In bent Labour MP had a history. media executives from all Natori Karta movement in Ramallah, in a show of support on Tuesday. But it is overwhelmingly theory, the Hindu anger 13,000-plus majority, they If Labour is unaffected, over Europe participated in a flavoured by its vocal and could make history. say. says sociologist Sunil Patel, lively press conference fol- well-organised, 10,000 Indi- Uma Fernandes says she Fernandes, a community it will show the Asian-Indi- lowed by private interviews an vote bloc. It has a nine- is waiting to make history nurse, long-time resident an-Hindu vote is fragment- with Sri Sri and a reception. Israel rejects Arafat’s offer per-cent Hindu population as the Conservative Party’s and local politician, says ed and does not amount to First Lady Jolanta Kwas- and a 17,340-strong Asian first woman MP of Indian “the high Asian popula- much, so far. Either way, niewska hosted a state lunch- Jerusalem: Yasser Arafat triggered revenge bomb- ened in recent weeks, both electorate. origin and Hindu birth. tion” will help her case. “I election night in Brent East eon honouring His Holiness wants to reach a truce with ings by Islamic militants in by Israel’s targeted killings On the constituency’s Analysts say this makes was at Neasden temple last is worth a second look. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar at the Israel, his national security the past. of leaders and fugitives and president’s official state re- adviser said Tuesday,but Is- Arafat and his designat- by attempts by the United AFP ception hall. The programme raeli officials brushed aside ed prime minister Ahmed States, the European Union was attended by top govern- the offer, demanding in- Qureia are not in touch and the Palestinian Author- Blair, Chirac, ment ministers and officials, stead that the Palestinian with the Israeli govern- ity to stop the flow of funds military and police officers, Authority crack down on ment on a proposed truce, to the group. Schroeder to corporate presidents and militant groups. officials said. Hamas, Islamic Jihad CEOs, leaders from 14 reli- Arafat himself struck a But there are high-level and militants linked to gions and a host of other dig- conciliatory tone, but contacts between the Pales- Arafat’s Fatah movement meet on Iraq nitaries. stopped short of making a tinian Authority and the declared a unilateral halt to The First Lady lauded Sri specific ceasefire offer. ‘‘We militant group Hamas on a bombings and shootings in London: British Prime Tony Sri’s efforts to bring people say to the peace supporters new ceasefire, said a senior June, but the truce col- Blair will meet Saturday in from all communities and re- in Israel that we extend our Palestinian official, speak- lapsed last month in a new Berlin with Chancellor Ger- ligious groups together. Sri hand to you to revive ing on condition of flareup of violence. hard Schroeder and with Sri’s talk emphasised the im- peace,’’ Arafat said in a anonymity. Israel had been suspi- Jacques Chirac of France, portance of relaxation as speech to about 2,500 Pales- Palestinian officials have cious of the unilateral and Blair’s office said Tuesday. part of each person’s daily tinians at his battered West said they were given to un- temporary cease-fire, say- Blair fell out with the other routine. Bank headquarters. derstand by the United ing it was a ruse to allow two in the buildup to war in Sri Sri presided over cere- In the West Bank town of States that it backs the idea militants to regroup, and Iraq. Asked whether Satur- monies to inaugurate the Art Dura, meanwhile, Israeli of a mutual truce, provided the Palestinian Authority day’s session was a fence- of Living Ashram in Taras- troops killed an Islamic it is followed by some ac- to sidestep the requirement mending meeting, Blair’s ka. The day-long Vedic cere- militant fugitive in an ar- tion against the militants, of the ‘‘roadmap’’ peace spokesman said: ‘‘I won’t monies were attended by rest raid, witnesses and the such as a weapons roundup. plan to dismantle the deny that part of the ration- nearly 1,000 people from army said. Such raids have Hamas has been weak- groups. AP ale of having this summit is more than 30 countries. to look forward on Iraq.’’ Martin Howard, deputy chief of the British defence intelligence staff, told the Blow for Arnie, poll Hutton inquiry Tuesday into Kelly’s death that the ministry’s strategy for deal- in California put off ing with media questions about the unidentified San Francisco: Candidates The circuit court’s decision source had not been intended Illusionist David Blaine reclines in a glass box next to the Tower Bridge in London on in California’s recall election was stayed for a week to al- to reveal Kelly’s name to Tuesday, the 11th day of his latest endurance feat. He is attempting to spend 44 days in the vowed to plow ahead in their low for such appeals. journalists. Agencies box without food. courting of voters after a ju- Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante, dicial panel postponed the the only major Democrat vy- ballot, which could now be ing to succeed Davis if he is more than five months away. recalled, and Republican can- ‘‘I thought I was running a didate Arnold Schwarzeneg- sprint, and it looks like I may ger promised to continue Globally, girls are better students have to run a marathon,’’ campaigning as the courts said Steve Smith, an adviser decide when to hold the elec- London: Women have over- The gender gap collar, high-skilled” jobs by versity, compared to 62 per to Gov.Gray Davis, the target tion. taken men at every level of the time they are 30, com- cent of men. In Iceland, 80 of the recall. ‘‘And I don’t Davis planned to continue education in developed •15-year-old girls are pared to only 51 per cent of per cent of women go into even like running that his tour Tuesday with na- countries around the world, more confident than boys. This picture of girls higher education as against much.’’ tional Democrats, campaign- a study said Tuesday. boys about getting with higher expectations 42 per cent of men. A three-judge panel of the ing with presidential candi- And girls are now more high-income jobs than boys is repeated in the In the UK, the figures for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- date Sen. Bob Graham of confident of getting better- US, Japan, Italy,Spain, Ger- 2001 show that 49 per cent of peals ruled Monday that Cal- Florida and the Rev. Jesse paid, professional jobs than •Girls are ahead of many, France and Aus- women entered university, ifornia’s planned use of Jackson, a civil rights ac- their flagging male counter- boys in literacy in all 43 tralia. compared to 41 per cent of punch- card ballots would tivist. Schwarzenegger and parts. countries surveyed And girls have good rea- men. Schleicher said boys disenfranchise thousands of Republican state Sen. Tom International education son to be more confident were lagging as they are Californians. McClintock were to seek the figures, published by the •Boys are more than boys, because academ- more susceptible to being susceptible to being The court did not set a new blessing of fellow Republican Organisation for Economic ically, around the globe, put off education by disrup- date for the recall, but backed Peter Ueberroth, who Co-operation and Develop- put off by disruptions they are more successful — tions in their home environ- at home a suggestion from the Ameri- dropped out of the running ment, showed a consistent which is likely to lead to ment. can Civil Liberties Union last week. picture, across cultures and higher income jobs. “Boys seem less able to that balloting be held during ‘‘This recall has been like a continents, of women dreas Schleicher, head of In literacy skills, 15-year- overcome obstacles to edu- the March 2 presidential pri- roller coaster. There are achieving better results analysis at the OECD’s edu- old girls are ahead of boys cation whether it is peer mary. more surprises than than men. cation directorate. in every one of the 43 coun- group pressure or a lack of One of the groups behind you can possibly imagine,’’ The OECD survey is a de- “The 1990s have seen a re- tries in the OECD survey.In family support,” he said. the effort to yank Davis from Davis said. ‘‘I’ll continue tailed comparison of educa- markable change in the UK, the gap in literacy The survey also warned office planned to appeal to to make my case to the tion achievement and women’s expectations and scores between girls and that the developed world the U.S. Supreme Court to people that a recall is not spending in 43 developed achievements,” Schleicher boys at this age is 26 per faces a looming shortage of keep the recall date Oct. 7. good for them.’’ AP countries including the said. The survey found that cent. teachers as the current United States, the UK, in almost every developed And this school-age gen- workforce ages and gradu- Japan, Italy, Spain, Ger- country,15-year-old girls are der gap leads to an increas- ates are lured into more lu- many, France and Aus- more confident than boys ingly stark difference be- crative jobs in the private tralia. about getting high-income tween the success of male sector. In 15 out of 19 mem- The success of girls is a jobs. and female students in get- ber countries for which data complete reversal of what For example, in the Unit- ting into university. was available most primary would have been expected a ed Kingdom, 63 per cent of In New Zealand, 89 per school teachers are at least generation ago, said An- girls expect to have “white cent of women enter uni- 40 years old. PTI
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16 Wednesday,September 17, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Coercive Conversions Re-discovery of India A THOUGHT FOR TODAY Jean-Claude Baumgarten is president of over the long term. Your visibility and Erasing Age-old Traditions in North-east the World Travel & Tourism Council. As presence in the global markets must be much I am sorry for what I have done. I love music and chief emissary of its mandate to raise aware- more. If our predictions are right, India will By Francois Gautier Tribals constitute about 30 per cent of I don’t want to hurt the artists I love. ness about the full economic importance of be one of the 10 ‘developed’ countries in Tripura’s 3.2 million people, who are mainly “The 21st century will be spiritual or it will this industry, he was in India this time for travel and tourism. This sector can grow by — Brianna LaHara Hindus, with Christians comprising around not be”, French writer, politician and the Srinagar Retreat of the council’s India 7-8 per cent annually, whereas the average 10 per cent. The majority-Christian NLFT, philosopher Andre Malraux once said. What Initiative. He spoke to Bachi Karkaria: for the world is 4 per cent. Accept it as a fighting for an independent tribal homeland he meant was that unless the world shifts in legitimate sector of the economy. Today, it since 1989, has, of late, issued diktats to Song Sung Blue the 21st century from the narrowly religious What’s the prognosis for India? constitutes 4 per cent of India’s GDP, if you Hindu villagers against celebrating any to the larger perspective of spirituality, it India has a huge domestic market. Some consider the spillover activities. The goal religious festivals. “The NLFT has been Competitive pricing is the only will go towards self-destruction. 90 to 100 million people have a standard of should be 9 per cent, the world average. trying to foment communal and sectarian What do we see today? The biggest living that allows them to take a vacation. The private sector has the historical/natural solution for music industry tension between the tribal and non- monotheist religion in the world — Chris- You have a product that is ranked among heritage on a platter. Why should the tribal population in Tripura, a trend that As symbols go, it’s hard to imagine a more potent one. tianity — continues to claim that its God is the 10 best in the world, with an amazing government give them any more concessions? has dangerous portents,” says a senior A 12-year-old girl, Brianna LaHara, became the first person the only ‘true’ God and that those who do not diversity of destinations. All the ingredients There are needier sectors. police official. to settle a lawsuit launched by giant music companies believe in Him have converted to the ‘true’ are there. But not the results. True. But not relevant. We are talking against 261 individuals for sharing music files over the religion by any means. Jesus Christ was an Nagmanlal Halam, secretary of the Domestic tourism has normalised in the of what travel and tourism brings to the Internet. Some would argue that the lawsuit itself was apostle of peace, of love, of compassion and Noapara Baptist Church in Tripura, was last two to three years. But in international country. It’s the biggest creator of jobs symbolic to begin with: Over 700 million music files are brotherhood. One very much doubts that he arrested a few months ago with a large travel, India is nowhere near utilising its and wealth in the world. It helps slow down shared by 10 million American households each month, so would approve of what is happening in his quantity of explosives. There has indeed potential. Countries with far less infrastruc- the crippling movement from countryside why did the industry target so few people? Presumably, it name today. Take, for instance, the forced been many allegations about the close links ture, with a hygiene environment similar or to the city. was hoping that by focusing on a few prolific swappers, it conversions in the north-east. Christian between the state’s Baptist Church and the worse than India’s, are far more successful. You are ignoring the dark side of tourism. It would scare others into submission. So far, however, it only missionaries, with active monetary and rebel National Liberation Front of Tripura Where’s the roadblock? is seen to corrupt local culture. seems to have triggered a consumer backlash. In fact, a political support from the West, have been by political parties and police. There are The absence of an inter-sectoral commit- It’s easy to say Thailand has become a coalition of companies that run Internet song-sharing converting poor and innocent tribals in the also other separatist movements in the ment. Travel and tourism is integrally linked whorehouse because of sex tourism, but services have offered to pick up the cost of Brianna’s $2,000 north-east of India without any hindrance north-east, such as the Mizo or the Bodos, with decisions on wider global concerns. that’s simply not true. Foreign tourists apart, settlement, with the president of one of them saying the for the past 300 years. As a result, Nagaland who are not only Christian-dominated, but Finance, communications, transportation, you are helping your own people understand giant record labels “give Joe Stalin a good name”. From a is today 90 per cent Christian, Mizoram also sometimes function with the covert diplomatic relations, security concerns, each other better. It counters divisive forces. strictly legal point, the music industry does have a valid 86 per cent and Meghalaya 64.6 per cent. backing of the missionaries. health. Every successful destination has We don’t want to be perceived as regressively case. Ignorance of the law has never been accepted as a This process is going on full speed at What conversions do to the psyche of India integrated these areas. exotic. All our other ambitions demand a valid excuse for breaking it. So the argument offered by this very moment: There are now 1,20,000 is catastrophic. They threaten a whole way Which country is a good example? modern image. Your own French officials many — including Brianna — that they were unaware they Christians in Tripura, a of life, erasing centuries of In the early 70s, Thailand’s product was go out of their way to downplay the were doing something wrong doesn’t hold. 90 per cent increase since tradition, customs, wisdom, similar to yours: decadent ‘soft’ image, The problem is, the music industry could end up winning 1991. The figures are even teaching people to despise Culture, exoticism, and present the the legal battle, but losing the PR war. If it wants to avoid more striking in Arunachal their own religion and look beaches — with in- Q&A aggressive hi-tech that, it should revisit that most fundamental of marketing Pradesh, where there were westwards to a culture which frastructure at about persona instead. lessons, understanding what consumers want. In this case, only 1,710 Christians in 1961, is alien to them. Look how the the same level. The In international travel, That used to customised music, free of cost. Cracking down on online but 1,15,000 today, as well as biggest drug problems in difference was that India is nowhere near be the bureaucrat’s file-swapping may not boost CD and cassette sales, for the 700 churches. All this is often India are found in the they had no alterna- utilising its potential. image of France. simple reason that consumers are increasingly unwilling to done by means of ‘economic north-east, or how Third tive major industry. Countries with far less But we’ve made shell out comparatively large amounts to buy a bundle of conversions’. “Miracle boxes” World countries, which have The Thai govern- infrastructure, with a them realise that we songs in which they may actually like only one or two. Some are put in local churches: been totally Christianised, ment realised — on hygiene environment don’t have to be companies understand that. Universal Music Group The gullible villager writes are drifting away without the prompting of similar or worse defensive about the recently slashed the wholesale price of its CDs by almost a out a request — a loan, a nationalism and self-pride. “I local and foreign than India’s, are far culture, couture and third. Apple Computer has sold more than 10 million songs was told after conversion that more successful. pucca house, fees for the son’s entrepreneurs — Udayshankar cuisine. It’s wrong at 99 cents each on its iTunes online music store, launched schooling. A few weeks I should not wear a bindi on that tourism was for a country to hide in May.Of course, the question remains, why would anyone later, the miracle happens. And the whole my forehead, as it is a heathen custom”, crucial for the economy. Today, it’s become what’s been built over centuries. The two are spend even 99 cents if they could get the song for free? family converts, making others in the says Shanta (not her real name) of part of conventional thinking. Each taxi not mutually exclusive. A vibrant past gives Perhaps they would, if they realised that the very music village follow suit. Agartala, whose family converted recently driver despaired when tourism slowed the confidence to build a dynamic future. they love would dry up if artists and their intermediaries Is this ethical? No country in the world to Christianity. Her friend Sushma, who has down a couple of years ago. And what did How would you prioritise infrastructure? do not get duly paid for their efforts. Consumers must would allow this. France, for instance, has a come back to her original religion, says that Omar Abdullah talk about at Srinagar? The The No. 1 has to be communication. acknowledge that there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but minister in charge of keeping a tab on one of the Indian missionaries from Kerala boatmen of Dal Lake. The trickle-down effect Airports are communication. It doesn’t make the industry too must ask itself whether it can’t make “sects”. And sects means anything which told her “that I would go to hell if I in good times and bad affects goes deep. sense for your airports to be in the state they buying music more convenient and affordable. Ultimately, does not belong to the great Christian family. ever entered a temple again. But I don’t Tourism is like liberty.Only when you lose are. You don’t have to build a super-duper the issue will be resolved only when both parties can say Recently, two French schoolteachers were understand, she continues, when I was a it, do you see how important it was. technological marvel. An airport with clean ‘the price is right’ — and mean it. imprisoned by the police for a few days Hindu, I found nothing wrong in going to What’s wrong with our image? toilets, efficient queues and welcoming host- because they were Brahmakumaris and a church, or to a mosque for that matter”. You haven’t created one. A survey shows esses can be achieved in a matter of months. had used some Brahmakumari precepts This is not to say that there are no that everyone has his or her own image of There’s also communication between WTO deadlock after in their teaching. Christians in India today who try unobtru- India. Spiritual, cultural, historical. Raj, the airports and city. Tourists think nothing of Cancun meet There is also a direct linkage between sively to put into practice Christ’s precepts. Taj — and Kashmir. Amitabh Kant (deputy going to a temple on a bad road, full of honk- conversion and secession. Tribal Hindus You can also find missionaries, such as director for tourism) is trying to create a ing and cows — that’s part of the experience. VIEW in Tripura, for instance, have formed Father Ceyrac, a Jesuit, who has lived for catch-all image. But how much money does But there has to be a proper highway from vigilante groups, claiming attempts by more than 60 years in Chennai, tending to he have? Rs 15 crore? Even the most beautiful terminal to city,with dedicated lanes for bus- separatist militants to convert people at the poorest sections of this society, while woman in the world has to be packaged. es and taxis. Come out of Delhi or Mumbai Brave New World of gunpoint to Christianity. Rampada Jamatia, respecting their culture. But let’s face it: Then, there’s the reputation of ineffi- airport, and you step into a mass of chaos. a leader of the Jamatia tribal community, Christianity is dwindling in the West and the ciency,dirt, confusion; a place where you fall Is there nothing in our favour? Economic Non-alignment recently told AFP that forced conversions paedophile and sexual scandals which have sick. All these can be circumvented. You Your big advantage is that India doesn’t were being carried out by the outlawed also rocked the Vatican has eroded faith in have to ‘positivise’ the negatives. Bangkok’s have the image of being a rip-off. And its hroughout the Cold War era, non-alignment was National Liberation Front of Tripura Christianity. The Church is thus looking tuk-tuks aren’t the most efficient or cleanest security record is becoming a plus-plus Ta political slogan — a balm for the collective (NLFT). “We believe up to 5,000 tribal for new converts in the Third World, form of transport, but they were co-opted because other countries are getting worse. conscience of a generation of Third World liberals villagers were coerced into converting to particularly in India, where people have into the image. India is not only fantastically gifted in brought up on memories of anti-colonial struggles. In Christianity by the NLFT during the past such an innate tendency to spirituality. Is there any hope for us? tourist attractions, but also fantastically the post-Cold War scenario, however, it has become couple of years,” Jamatia said in Jirania, Indeed, the Pope has earmarked this new You are just starting, but on too small a gifted for service. I think we’ll get there. an urgent economic necessity. Those who dismiss the 25 km east of capital Agartala. millennium as “the Evangelisation of Asia”. budget. You need much more commitment Voila! All of a sudden it will happen. unprecedented show of unity by the developing world at the Cancun ministerial as of no consequence, miss this simple point. That it was neither sentimentality Cosmic Balance and nor moral outrage that drove as many as 80 developing countries to rally behind the likes of India, Brazil and Doctored Dilemma China. It was economic rationality and self-interest — By Tino de Sa was of no consequence. their medicine, and who even at the obvious risk of antagonising the rich and World Peace My friend, the district and On first joining as possess a touching faith powerful. With the West refusing to make good on its Look Within sessions judge, was a district collector, I called in the lightning efficacy of By Frederic Lamond promise of eliminating agricultural subsidies — made determined doctor. This on him, and happened their potions. Thou seest reality in the at the Uruguay round of trade talks 10 years ago — Until 3,000 years ago, all reli- and can neither be added to worthy gentleman was to make some off-hand A barrage of telephone transitory body because millions of farmers across the developing world have gions were pantheistic and nor reduced — although it forever on the lookout for remark about a slight calls saw me mudd- of ignorance. Remove been pushed to the brink of rack and ruination. polytheistic as Hinduism, can be converted to matter an illness to cure. In his headache. I was quite ling through with non- this ignorance that veils And the farm sector remains the biggest employer in Taoism and Shinto still are. and back again — neither view, everyone had an unprepared for the volley committal noises. The thy true knowledge, and the poorer countries. Cancun, in other words, was They tolerated the religions God nor man can create ailment, minor or major. of queries that followed. next morning I was called know thy Self as pure, literally a battle for survival. of other tribes and cultures, anything without destroying There was no malady,real In the face of such concern, before dawn, to again free, divine, absolute. That’s also why it may not prove quite so easy for the recognising in their worship something else. This is the or imagined, which could I expanded on my indisposi- report on my condition. I Srimad Bhagavatam US and its allies to break this new-found unity of the same divine energies power the Jews call JHVH, not be brought to light by tion. Before I knew what assured him that I’d never XI.iv the poor through bilateral trade agreements and as their own, albeit with the Christians — God the his cross-questioning, and hit me, the chaprasi was felt healthier. But the ✥ regional trading blocs: You don’t expect a man to different names. father, Muslims — Allah and made the subject of his ordered to disentangle the luminary was not to be sign his death warrant, even if you put a gun to his Why then did patriarchal, Hindus — Shiva. The knowledge of one’s eager diagnosis. steaming cup of aromatic fobbed off. With the dogged head. Admittedly, among those who came together monotheistic religions arise Power is neither evil nor identity with the pure At some point in his coffee from my fingers, and persistence of a missionary, at Cancun, there are many who depend dispropor- in the Middle East 3,000 years undesirable. If only the force Self that negates the distinguished legal career, I was made to swallow some the learned judge brought tionately on foreign trade for their economic growth ago, and spread in their of love existed, the universe (wrong) notion of the he’d decided to dabble in greenish granules with two to bear greater skill on his and well-being — most notably,China — and who can’t Christian forms throughout would never have moved identity of the body and homoeopathy. Not quite glasses of tepid water. cross-examination than he be reasonably expected to risk a long-term trade Europe and then on to from its original state of un- the Self sets a man free satisfied, he sought the Of course, the judge would have on a hardened war with the West. But global trade is a two-way the European colonised differentiated nothingness. even against his will knowledge of the ancients would never dream of criminal in the dock, and street. Just as China needs the western market for its overseas territories during But if only the force of when it becomes as by devouring obscure tracts charging a fee. Every little there was nothing left but burgeoning exports, so does multinational capital in the last 1,500 years? Why destructive creation existed, firm as the belief of on ayurveda and unani. white pill, every precious to admit to having an America and Europe depend on the dragon economy did these monotheistic reli- the whole universe would be the man that he is From this developed a extract of some wild entirely imaginary cold in for its future growth. The same is true, albeit to a gions fight so fiercely to like the Sun: an endless a human being. potent amalgam of medical root, every dried leaf and the head, as well as, for lesser degree, of economies such as India and Brazil. eradicate nature worship in series of thermonuclear Adi Sankara experience, or so he foul-smelling powder was good measure, an acute This is of course no cause for triumphalism. But the the lands they controlled? explosions creating new ✥ believed, which could be dispensed absolutely gratis. pain in the stomach. basis of hope, and a long-term economic strategy, Why did Christianity pro- elements, but which last only put to use in the larger All he expected was that Thereafter, I began living Jesus said: Whoever that builds on the gains of Cancun. Call it the agenda mote a dualistic antagonism a few microseconds before interests of society. That, you kept him informed of from ailment to ailment. knows the All but for economic non-alignment. between the spirit and the dissolving again in the fiery a person may be quite your progress — every I learnt that if I wanted flesh, with only the former furnace. We owe the process fails to know himself 10 minutes. He was one to keep the judge’s friend- lacks everything. COUNTERVIEW content to live with an conceived as being in the of evolution on earth — in affliction, or that another of those healers who have ship, I must always ‘‘image of God’’? which continents, moun- The Gospel according may wish to opt for conven- a compulsive desire to satisfy him with something I was pondering these tains, plants and animals to Thomas Don’t Celebrate Over tional allopathic remedies, know the exact effects of to cure. questions shortly have appeared ✥ after my initia- and live actively No one can be saved CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS tion in February long enough to without self-knowledge. Spilt Champagne 1957 into what is experience their this is organic farming and the use of St Bernard he bitter irony of Cancun is that its failure seems Rajdharma now called Wicca: own life, but techniques like vermiculture. Pilot studies ✥ to be a cause of celebration by the developing a pantheist mys- which can also T With the executive and legislative institu- in these areas need to be undertaken world. True, the G-22 alliance drove home its moral tery cult that re- slowly evolve in What we are and tions standing as mute witnesses to the immediately to save us from the growing point about the iniquitous farm subsidies given by vives the worship succeeding gene- what we may be events in Gujarat, it was left to the judiciary threat of poison. the West. But in the long or even medium term, a of the Neolithic rations — to the Is revealed by the to keep the Best Bakery case on course. The — S M Purohit, Mumbai breakdown of negotiations isn’t going to help anyone, earth mother god- ongoing delicate light within. NHRC has rightly raised the issue in the THE whether developed or developing. If, as it is often dess and her con- balance between Shirley Maclaine, Supreme Court. It is worthwhile remember- claimed, the economically stagnant North needs the sort the horned SPEAKING these two anta- ‘Going Within’ ing that soon after the riots the prime Of ‘Gangaajal’ & Cricket burgeoning markets of the South — particularly of god of ferti- gonistic cosmic ✥ minister had asked Gujarat chief minister TREE China and India — to stimulate and maintain its own India’s most notorious state, Bihar, is once lity. Shortly after- forces. Narendra Modi to uphold his Rajdharma. Perhaps it is time to growth, the South needs the North even more for its again in the news because chief minister wards the answer came to me Most of the supporters of a Later, Atalji had even lamented that he review our life and indispensable technological and other inputs. Indeed, Rabri Devi has remained a silent spectator in a sudden flash of insight. return to ancestral traditions could not face the world community. to the unlawful activities being carried The evolution of the uni- and religions do so in order relationships to make globalisation is a reality which cannot and must not the changes we have be wished away all the more so because of periodic — Mukund B Kunte, New Delhi out in the state against the screening of verse and especially of life on to protect their cultural Gangaajal. Since one of the characters in earth has been the product identity against the spread been putting off for glitches. The supposed solidarity of the G-22 nations another time. will soon break down in the face of this reality. Toxic Times the film goes by the name of Sadhu Yadav of a dialectical antagonism of globalisation and con- (the MLA brother of the CM), his support- between two forces of nature: sumerist values, but I feel In addition to working After a brave show of defiance, they will one by one There has been a lot of hullabaloo about the on relationships, it can succumb to pressure and be constrained to deal ers are outraged. Isn’t there an old English One is the highly conser- this is not enough to promote quality of water used by soft drink and adage: ‘Guilty conscious is always suspi- vative power of love, which world peace and protect the also be a time to work with the developed countries. mineral water bottlers. The root cause for on inculcating deep Forget the African countries, which are largely cious’? In any case, now that the NDA has seeks to maintain all living planet’s ecology. There are this seems to be the quality of groundwater, attained majority in the Rajya Sabha too, species and ecological equi- many patriarchal aggressive spiritual beliefs dependent on western aid for their survival, even so what is the guarantee that our daily which can anchor China, the giant of G-22, would asphyxiate without why doesn’t the Centre impose President’s libria just as they are at any gods and values in many supply is not as contaminated? The obvious rule in Bihar to eliminate misrule there? given point in time, and is traditional religions, and us in emotionally its foreign trade, which accounts for 40 per cent of reason for this phenomenon is the difficult times. its total economy. A net importer of agricultural Bihar is also in the news for gifting the embedded in the genetically these should be curbed as extravagant use of chemical fertilisers state’s prestigious ‘Khel-Kirti Samman’ to inherited instincts of all much as those of patriarchal Rani Raote, products, China needs western markets for its and pesticides. One obvious answer to fast-growing manufacturing sector. Brazil, the other ‘state-prince’ Tejaswi Yadav by the ‘‘royal’’ living species, including Christianity or Islam. We Psychotherapist major dissenter at Cancun, is also hugely dependent parents Laloo Yadav and Rabri Devi. The humanity. This power is should build instead on the ✥ Patna high court should intervene to stop on the West, particularly America, for trade. Its From timesofindia.com generally represented by worship of our earth and I see...an opportunity the CM from misusing her post and present- successive financial crises have practically mortgaged one or more goddesses and love goddesses, who will for America to ing the award to her son, who has no signi- it to the World Bank, with all that it implies in terms fertility gods in those reli- help develop our ecological re-examine our culture, La Place or Newton? ficant achievement in sports to his credit. of overt and covert pressure in regulating its economy gions that anthropomorphise intuition: not exclusively but to re-examine how we and trade practices. 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Value-added cellphone Hi-tech PDA Power play Microsoft will put a version of its Sony’s wireless local area Chief executive officer of Windows in mobile phones. Microsoft network personal digital Apple computer Steve collaborated with AT&T Wireless and assistant works with Jobs introduces its new Motorola to provide e-mail, instant Bluetooth technology. It has a products, which includes messaging, web browsing and entertain- keyboard and camera and will the all new 15-inch ment media playback in cellphones be available from October Powerbook G4
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HOT It’s official: Privatisation runs out of gas WHEELS By Sanjay Dutta the opposition. But the ruling TIMES NEWS NETWORK coalition also faces this threat Perhaps after the elections? Centre to sell residual from some of its allies like the New Delhi: Oil minister Ram AFP Naik seems to have had the last Shiv Sena and the Telugu De- laugh on Tuesday, with the sam Party which have overtly or covertly made noises shares in five firms Supreme Court vindicating his against the government’s poli- stand on privatising the oil By Baiju Kalesh companies and bringing poli- cies on a number of occa- TIMES NEWS NETWORK Damage control tics back into business. sions,’’ one senior government While industry by and large functionary said. Mumbai: The Centre em- •Centre will sell residual saw the verdict as a technical Another factor that could barked on a quick damage-con- shares in IPCL, VSNL, IBP, bump, political and policy ana- stall the entire disinvestment trol exercise soon after the CMC and Balco through lysts said it could practically process is that a natural exten- Supreme Court announced its public offers. mean the end of the road for sion of the judgment would decision to refer the disinvest- •The Centre expects Fiat’s Idea will be offered with a choice of disinvestment. At least till the mean that disinvestment in ment of HPCL and BPCL to a any company set up by the gov- parliamentary committee for around Rs 3,500 cr from 1.4-l petrol and a 1.3-l diesel. elections. the sale of these shares. Officially, the government ernment will require a legisla- approval. It has decided to sell said it will decide the future tive mandate. its residual shares in five al- Fiat set to make course of action after examin- ‘‘Nalco selloff is in trouble ready privatised companies — It has sought the consent of ing the 20-page judgment. ‘‘It is and noises are still made about IPCL, VSNL, IBP, CMC and the original buyers to go ahead a historical decision and will Balco. In an election year, no Balco — through public offers. with the public offering. The be honoured. state government will risk Sources said the govern- latter have the first right of re- India R&D hub The next Parliament session seen co-operating in privatis- ment was planning to realise fusal to the residual shares. By Byas Anand is in November-December. The ing any public sector under- close to Rs 3,500 crore from the The Centre is also planning to TIMES NEWS NETWORK government will take a view taking in its state as politically sale of these shares, riding on offer an option to the original before that on the issues once it can be projected as selling a buoyant market and strong buyers to acquire up to 5 per Frankfurt: Fiat India is steering towards the disinvestment ministry ex- the family silver,’’ the func- fundamentals. At the current cent of the residual shares a brighter future. In keeping with the amines the verdict and dis- tionary said. market capitalisation, the gov- from the open market. massive organisational revamp under- cusses these with the oil min- In the ruling coalition and ernment is expected to realise taken by Fiat Auto SpA, the Italian car istry,’’ Naik said. the BJP particularly, the ver- Rs 1,370 crore from IPCL, Rs Merchant bankers said the major has decided to make India a low- But doomsayers among poli- dict will come as a boost to the 182 crore from CMC, Rs 902 offering will be through the cost R&D hub for its global operations. cymakers said the verdict Swadeshi lobby. crore from VSNL and Rs 540 book-building route with a The Indian arm, officials said, had al- could practically mean the end Already, some of them are crore from Balco. fixed floor price. The Tata ready been commissioned to develop cars of all disinvestment. ‘‘The mo- saying that the legal opinion The government holds 33.93 group and Sterlite are expect- for its operations in China and Italy. ment the issue is in Parlia- given to the disinvestment per cent stake in IPCL, 26 per ed to convey their decision to Stating that India enjoyed the advan- the government soon. The gov- ment, it creates scope for polit- ministry was ‘‘tutored’’ by the cent each in the Tata group tage of being a low-cost manufacturing ernment believes that both ical arm-twisting, especially in reformists and there was no controlled CMC and VSNL, 26 base with a huge pool of technological tal- will be comfortable with a 51 an election year.” strong reason to sell a prof- per cent in the IOC-owned IBP, ent, a company spokesman said research OIL’S NOT WELL: An employee of an HPCL petrol station in Delhi. per cent control. ‘‘The danger is not only from itable firm like HPCL. and 49 per cent in Balco. work on an international model had al- ready begun at Fiat’s Kurla unit. “Fiat is there to stay in India and we A setback to disinvestment, says India Inc Banking on reforms? Back will take full advantage of the benefits of the market. In the new scheme of things, TIMES NEWS NETWORK able to get the political consensus in Par- to the drawing board Fiat India is fast emerging as the R&D ex- liament for the same,’’ said Subodh Bhar- Markets discount blues port hub for Fiat’s global operations,” the New Delhi: The Supreme Court’s decision gava, chairman, Wartsila. By Prabhakar Sinha dertakings) Acts 1970/1980 to official said at the ongoing Frankfurt Mo- to halt the disinvestment in HPCL and Ficci has urged the government for early TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK reduce the prescribed mini- tor Show. BPCL is a big setback to the privatisation mum equity holding of the While he refused to divulge details and completion of legislative process towards Mumbai: Dalal Street brushed aside the New Delhi: The Supreme process, according to corporate India. central government to below specifics about the model, sources in Fiat disinvestment of HPCL and BPCL. But blow from SC with aggressive buying by Court’s ruling has dealt a ‘‘The implications at the first glance many believed that it may be hard to win 51 per cent. India said though the car was being de- FIIs and support from the domestic funds, body blow to the privatisa- clearly signals a delay in the process of pri- parliamentary approval ahead of national The ruling will adversely veloped initially for the international and infotech, pharma and banking sectors. tion of the banking sector. vatisation,’’ said elections due early impact the second genera- market, it would also be rolled out in In- Reason: all the banks — SBI, Tarun Das, director next year. Sensex closed around 81 points or 2 per tion of financial sector re- dia later. A Fiat India spokesman added: Industry speak PNB, Syndicate Bank, BoB — general, CII. ‘‘Pri- ‘‘The impact is cent higher at 4,274.75 points. forms, whereby the govern- “There are around 70 engineers in this vatisation is very not positive. The Trade was choppy as HPCL and BPCL were nationalised by an Act ment was working towards new research team in India, which will important for fur- Privatisation to be delayed... plummeted after the apex court ruling. of Parliament. “ government could privatisation of banks. Many help us transform the Indian unit into an thering economic This will impact investment appeal to a bigger HPCL finally closed 11.64 per cent lower The government has al- foreign banks were keen to R&D hub for Fiat worldwide.” reforms and bench or issue an or- at Rs 344.90, after plummeting to the day’s ready taken permission from acquire PSU banks to in- Fiat is the latest international car mak- achieve higher sentiment which was dinance,’’ said Y K low of Rs 326.20. BPCL ended down 2.09 per Parliament to reduce its crease their reach in India. er to make India its R&D and production growth. This will Modi, senior vice cent at Rs 323.35. However, overall positive holdings in these banks to 51 But, with the SC ruling, sec- hub for volume cars. Prior to this, Suzuki impact investment improving president, Ficci. sentiment prevailed and PSU shares, per cent. However, now it toral reforms will take a and Hyundai had announced similar sentiment which ’’ Tarun Das, CII Assocham said which bore the brunt of the selling pres- would require further con- backseat for some time now. plans for their respective Indian opera- was improving.’’ that since the gov- sure during early session, rose on buying sent if it is to reduce its hold- In particular, in SBI — tions. While Hyundai has already shifted Das said disin- ernment has just begun with the process of in afternoon trades. “Investors feel that ings to a minority level. where Parliament has al- production for its small car to India, vestment would make PSUs viable. disinvestment these problems must be vi- privatisation is inevitable. This is only a The government has been lowed the government hold- Suzuki is using Maruti as the research ‘‘It’s just a technical blip. The govern- sualised. ‘‘The government has the duty to delay,” said broker Ramesh Damani. considering amending the ing to be brought down to 55 hub for its future small car models. ment seems committed to taking forward create consensus among political parties “We saw a lot of buying in software, and Banking Companies (Acqui- per cent level — a special act This comes on the heels of the Italian the disinvestment exercise and they will be and get such a legislation passed.’’ pharma stocks,” marketmen said. sition and Transfer of Un- will be required now. giant nullifying Fiat India’s losses.
EXECUTIVE DIGEST Eicher Tractors in MoU retain cash to fund the growth NATIONAL CII mission in Israel: with Canara Bank: Eicher in the existing operations After Israeli premier Ariel Zee gets licence for Tractors on Tuesday said it and acquisitions being Sharon’s visit to India had tied up with Canara Bank contemplated in the near DTH: Essel Group-promoted highlighted the potential future. TNN ASC Enterprises Limited (AS- for providing financing solu- of bilateral economic tions to farmers buying the CEL) said it has received li- co-operation, a CII team GMG Air of Bangladesh cence for DTH services in In- former’s tractors and other plans flights to Kolkata: led by ITC chief YC farm implement. According to dia. Company officials said Bangladesh’s private carrier Deveshwar is planning the MoU, Canara Bank will the test runs are on and DTH GMG Airlines is planning to to impress upon the become the preferred will be launched next month. commence direct flights Israelis about the financier for Eicher Tractors, Siticable, the distribution arm between Dhaka and Kolkata. gains to be made in offering enhanced features of Zee will provide infrastruc- As a first step, the airline on the area of agriculture like reduced margins and ture support for marketing Tuesday announced the ap- for both countries. attractive pricing in UP, DTH. Consumers can bypass pointment of STIC Travels as Cutting-edge Dilbert hits Haryana, West Bengal. PTI cable operators for DTH serv- its general sales agent in ice. Entry level set-top box Sterlite board puts off India. “They will start with will cost Rs 5,000 and month- copper works demerger: promoting local travel in ly subscription will range from Sterlite Industries has put off Bangladesh and will launch out at Indian techies Rs 150 and Rs 500 depend- the proposed demerger of its packages for outbound Indi- ing on the package. TNN copper business. The board ans,” STIC Travels chairman By Kankana Datta Strip of envy ability to reach the upper Metallic cutlery allowed on Tuesday approved the Subhash Goyal said. TNN economictimes.com echelons of world-class withdrawal of the plan. The companies.” inside aircraft: In a major Tata Motors rolls out New Delhi:In a new series, company had decided to de- I love it that the Till Dilbert struck, it was turnaround, the government first CityRover: Tata Mo- cartoonist Scott Adams’ on Tuesday allowed the use merge in January 2003. Ster- “ hosannahs all the way.A re- Ajit Ninan tors on Tuesday rolled out the cult strip takes a dig at IIT IITs have created of mobile phones inside the lite said its plans to raise re- searcher at UC Berkeley es- sources in the global markets first batch of CityRover cars, grads from India. Asok, the aircraft on certain conditions were banned and replaced by Lufthansa appoints new to be marketed by MG Rover panic.As usual, timates that fully 20 per were at an advanced stage.PTI brilliant Indian trainee, and also the use of metallic plastic ones. Following this director for South Asia: in the highly competitive UK cent of start-ups in Silicon turns out to be an IIT grad Adams anticipated cutlery barring knife in flight. order, the Indian carriers can Lufthansa German Airlines on GG Auto shareholders and European markets. Valley are IITian-owned. who has managed an entire Orders to this effect were now use metallic cutlery, ex- Tuesday announced the approve bonus: GG Autos V Sumantran, executive direc- Amazon.com CEO and project single-handedly public opinion passed by Civil Aviation Min- cept a knife. The order point- appointment of Werner shareholders at the annual tor, Tata Motors, handed over founder Jeff Bezos has de- ister Rajiv Pratap Rudy after ed out that the mobiles could Heesen as general manager, general meeting have ap- the first CityRover to Kevin even though no one re- about IIT grads discussions with all agencies sponded to his e-mail. ’’ scribed the Indian IITian as only be used when the aircraft India, and director, South proved the issue of bonus Howe, CEO, MG Rover, at the Amit Pande, IITian a “world treasure”. Bill concerned in the aviation was on ground. However, When Wally, the strip’s Asia, with immediate effect. shares in the ratio of 3:2, that ceremonial roll-out in Pune. Gates says the computer in- sector yesterday, official these would not be allowed to Heesen’s responsibilities in- original IT jock, asks him, is two shares for every three “The CityRover will help us dustry has benefited great- sources said. Soon after the be used when the aircraft was clude overseeing Lufthansa’s shares held, as on October open a customer segment in “Are you tired?” Asok their jobs to Indians. ly from them. A co-anchor 9/11 terrorist strike, the use of fuelling or during pre-flight sales and marketing activities 17, 2003. The firm did not opt the competitive UK market,” replies: “I am trained to Counters an IIT grad metallic cutlery inside aircraft on CBS 60 Minutes had gone activities. PTI in South Asia. TNN for dividend to enable it to Howe said. TNN only sleep during National who works in the US: ‘‘We Holidays”. have several naive and un- on to describe IIT Bombay It doesn’t end there. Asok suspecting Asoks in the thus: “Put Harvard, MIT INTERNATIONAL Levi’s cleared in inquiry pany of tax and accounting tee’s findings rebutted the nesses. San Diego-based continues demonstrating West, who are taken advan- and Princeton together,and by audit committee: fraud allegations raised in a central allegations of former Titan provides information his superiority as an IIT tage of, exploited, and used you begin to get an idea of Jeans-maker Levi Strauss & lawsuit filed by two former tax managers Richard technology services to the grad, declaring that he tries unmercifully by mediocre the status of this school in $23 mn payout to former government, specialising in Co has said its board’s audit employees. San Francisco- Schmidt and Thomas Walsh, not to frighten ordinary Caucasian engineers for India.” Vivendi boss confirmed: command, control, communi- committee cleared the com- based Levi’s said the commit- who say they were fired last people with any gratuitous their survival in this com- Why is Adams firing his A US court has ordered year for questioning the com- cations and computers, along satire bullets at this hal- Vivendi Universal to pay a $23 with intelligence, surveillance display of mental superior- petitive market.’’ pany’s accounting practices. ity. Proof ? He no longer re- India’s IITs have, of lowed tribe? Look no fur- million severance package to Schmidt and Walsh allege the and reconnaissance. Reuters heats his tea by imagining course, long been the sub- ther than the fear and ousted chief executive Jean- company formed illegal tax fire while holding the cup ject of admiration — now loathing booted up by the Marie Messier. New York’s shelters in other countries ET INSTA POLL to his forehead. bordering on envy — in cor- swell in outsourcing soft- supreme court on Monday and falsified financial state- rejected Vivendi’s attempt to Yesterday’s results: Do you use Behind this spoofy por- porate America. A Busi- ware development jobs to ments dating back to 1997. AP overturn the severance pay- instant messaging in the office trayal of the Indian techie nessWeek article on India’s India, coming on top of the ment, which was awarded to Lockheed Martin to buy for fun and not for work? in the US — the work mani- whiz kids has this to say: ongoing BPO migration. Messier by a US arbitration Titan for $1.8 bn: Lock- Yes 37% No 60% Can’t say 03% ac IITian who has inhuman “The rise of IITians, as Says IIT-ian Amit Pande: tribunal in June. Vivendi had heed Martin Corp, the No. 1 • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users abilities to slog and thus they are known, is a telling “I love it that the IITs have who chose to participate, and not necessarily of recoiled from paying Messier, US defence contractor, said the general public. outpace his American example of how global cap- created so much panic. As ousted more than a year ago on Monday it agreed to buy Today’s question: Are foreign counterparts — lies the italism works today. By ris- usual, Adams is ahead of after his attempts to turn the defence technology company cricketers better than Indians growing negativity towards ing to the top of Corporate the pack in anticipating former French water utility Titan Corp for about $1.8 bil- for promoting local brands? this breed among Ameri- America, these alumni lead media and public opinion into a global entertainment lion to expand its homeland To vote, log on to cans who feel they’re losing all other Asians in their about IIT grads. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com empire collapsed. AFP security and intelligence busi-
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596, 616.90, 558.90, 612.75 ABG Heavy In 22, 22.50, 21.50, 22.40 41.50, 43, 40.90, 42.65 Dhunseri Tea 14.10, 15.55 Greaves 23, 23.10, 22, 22.70 Oriental Bnk 167.40, 175.25, 166, Abhishek Ind 9.25, 9.64, 9, 9.37 Birla Eric. 14.40, 14.75, 14, 14.60 Divi’s Lab 819.80, 843.80, 797, Grind Norton 158, 160, 151.50, 174 9.90, 9.90, 9.10, 9.45 14.50, 15, 14.15, 14.60 825.50 158.25 168.80, 175.50, 165.55, 174.30 Adam Comsof 8.50, 9.12, 9.02 Birla Glob.F 22, 24.45, 23.45 818, 844, 790, 824.05 Gruh Finance 23, 23.25, 22.80, 23 NSE SHARE INDEX BSE SHARE INDEX Sensex gains 81 points P&G Hygiene 600, 604, 595, 596 Addi Inds. 40, 41, 40.95 22.30, 24, 22.30, 23.75 Dolphin Off. 14.60 GTC Inds. 12.85, 13.80, 13.35 Padmalaya Te 80, 83.90, 78.20, Advani Oerli 36.60, 36.40, 37.90 Birla Yamaha 20, 20.55, 20.45 Donear Inds. 165.10 13.15, 13.60, 13.15, 13.30 1475 4700 83.50 37, 38, 36.90, 37.80 Blow Plast 18.90, 19.20, 18.60, Duphar-Inter 180, 189.25 GTN Textiles 32.95, 32, 33.40 Mumbai: Stocks closed 1.93 per cent higher on Tuesday as the Sen- 79.50, 83.65, 78.05, 83.05 Advik Lab. 17.02 18.85 32.15, 33.45, 31.65, 32.85 1450 4600 Pentamedia G 9.10, 10.20, 10.06 AFT Inds. 56, 54.10, 56 Blue Dart Ex 89, 91, 90.25 E Gufic Bio Sc 31, 29, 29.85 sex recovered much of the ground lost on Monday as investors 9.80, 10.20, 9.60, 10.05 Aftek Infosy 350, 357, 344, 348.20 90.50, 92.10, 89.20, 91.20 Guj.Alkalies 45, 51.90, 44.45, 51.05 4500 Pfizer 419, 423, 408, 419.15 347.65, 356.90, 342.65, 351.80 Blue Star 105.50, 105.85, 102.55, Eicher 51.60, 40.80, 42 44.20, 51.95, 44.10, 50.90 1425 looked to technology and old-economy stocks, dealers said. The 421, 424.90, 409, 422.05 Agro Dutch I 25.05, 27.90, 23.20, 105.05 45.40, 45.40, 41, 41.45 Guj.Amb.Exp. 18.50, 19.25, 19 4400 Pidilite Ind 290.05, 294, 290, 292.65 27.20 104, 105, 101, 104.90 Eicher Motor 148.25, 152, 147.50, 18.60, 19.10, 18.60, 19.10 1400 market shrugged off the Supreme Court’s restraining order 151.35 4305.91 291, 296, 291, 293.20 24.05, 27.50, 24.05, 27.10 Blue Star In 140.50, 147.50, 147 Guj.Apollo E 57.70, 57.65, 57.70 4300 4274.75 against the government sale of stakes in HPCL and BPCL although Polaris Soft 129.90, 138, 127.50, Agro Tech Fd 46, 46.85, 44.35, 45.10 132.80, 146, 132.80, 144.10 147.10, 153, 146.05, 152.55 Guj.Flouroch 102.15, 111, 102, 1371.10 EID Parry 132, 127, 128 1375 136.75 45.50, 45.55, 44.70, 45 BOC 36.10, 37, 35.30, 36.80 109.75 1357.95 4200 the two stocks did fall sharply on the news. The BSE’s 30-share in- 130.25, 137.75, 127.50, 136.80 Ahmed.Elect. 64.40, 65.50, 63, 65.20 36.65, 37.40, 35, 36.85 132.80, 132.80, 125, 127.85 97.40, 110, 97.25, 108.70 EIH Asso.Hot 21, 19.05, 20.80 1350 dex rose 80.92 points to close at 4,274.75. Pun.Tractors 195.75, 185.05, 189.05 63.05, 65, 63.05, 64.85 Bombay Burma 40.05, 40.90, 39.60, Guj.H.Chem 20.75, 21.05, 20.50, 4100 4193.83 190, 193.40, 183.25, 189.35 Ahmednagar F 52, 50.60, 52.60 39.85 Eimco Elecon 56.45, 56.45, 47.60, 20.65 HPCL closed the day down 11.64 per cent or Rs 45.45 at 344.90, 50.10 Ranbaxy Lab. 974, 1025, 970, 51.55, 53.65, 51.55, 53.65 Bongaigaon R 69.50, 70, 63.50, 20.65, 21, 19.80, 20.90 1325 4000 1010.80 Ajanta Pharm 62.50, 65, 62, 63.80 67.80 Elder Pharma 125.10, 130.50, Guj.Ind.Pow. 28.75, 29.45, 27.90, while BPCL was down Rs 6.90 at 323.35. The market rebounded af- 123.95, 127.95 1329.25 978, 1022.40, 971, 1012.30 66, 66, 61.55, 64.15 68.50, 69.95, 63.50, 68.10 29.15 1300 3900 Raymond 138.20, 142, 136.55, Aksh Optifib 20.10, 20.75, 19.85, BPL 41.10, 41.95, 39.80, 40.85 125, 130.90, 123.50, 128.60 29.10, 29.50, 27.95, 29.15 ter the knee-jerk reaction as investors turned to other sectors. ‘‘I Elect.Kelvin 8.07, 8.70, 8.06, 8.63 139.20 20.35 42.45, 42.45, 39.70, 40.70 Guj.Sidh.Cem 7, 7.50, 6.70, 7.40 September 12 September 15 September 16 September 12 September 15 September 16 can clearly say investors have shrugged off the Supreme Court or- 135.35, 141.65, 135.35, 139.95 20.55, 21, 19.90, 20.25 Brijlax. Le. 118 Electro.Cast 282, 275, 278.85 7, 7.45, 6.80, 7.30 RCF 31.25, 32.30, 27.50, 30.50 Albert David 57.50, 58.90, 55.15, Burrough Wel 523, 532, 517, 529.20 Elgi Equip 49.60, 51.75, 49.10, 50.70 Gulf Oil Cor 110, 101, 105 der as after dumping the two oil stocks, they turned buyers in oth- 49.20, 51.55, 49.05, 50.90 31.10, 32.20, 27.45, 30.30 57.40 +2.15% CHANGE OVER PREVIOUS CLOSING +1.92% CHANGE OVER PREVIOUS CLOSING er blue chips,’’ said Anish Marfatia, assistant vice president at Asit Rel Capital 76, 77.10, 73.10, 76.45 Albright & W 203, 208 C Elgitread (I 230 H 76, 77, 73.25, 76.45 Alembic 398, 410.50, 374.50, 404.85 230, 231.50, 230, 230 C Mehta Investments. He said the initial fall in HPCL and BPCL Reliance Ind 409.95, 411.50, 395, 380.05, 412, 375.05, 404.45 Camlin 64, 61.35, 64 Elpro Inter 21, 20.25, 22 Hathway Bhaw 8.40, 7.80, 7.93 was on fears the government’s entire privatisation programme 409.55 Alfa Laval 384.95, 405, 380, 397.85 Camph.& All 27.55, 28.40 Emco 49, 54, 48, 52.50 Hatsun Agro 62 Jayshree Tea 40.40, 41.50 Novopan Inds 34.50, 37, 35 28.25, 31.95, 28.25, 31.65 406, 411.70, 393.60, 410.15 380, 400, 380, 397.75 Canara Bank 115.50, 120.55, Encore Soft 9, 8.25, 9.20 Havell’s (I) 177.35, 187.50, 177, 41, 41, 40.40, 40.75 35, 37, 34, 36.80 SRF Polymers 22.65, 23.35, 23.05 would be delayed. AFP Rolta (I) 73.50, 75.35, 72.15, 74.85 Alka (I) 0.83, 0.65, 0.67 109.50, 120.15 Eonour Tech. 3.40, 3.24, 3.30 180.60 JBM Tools 41.10, 40.45, 43.75 NRB Bearings 99, 95.10, 99 Sri Adhikari 59, 62.50, 60.90 73.40, 75.50, 72, 74.85 Alkyl Amines 19.50, 20.50, 20.10 115, 120.50, 109.10, 120.05 Esab (I) 50.95, 52.90, 48.85, 52.45 181, 186, 176.50, 180.25 42.40, 44, 42.40, 43.75 94.25, 98, 94.25, 98 58.50, 62.40, 58.50, 60 Canfin Homes 35.90, 35.40, 35.55 51.85, 53, 49.10, 52.10 Hawkins Cook 17.75, 18.45, 17.95 KEY: The BSE quotations of a scrip are given in the first line while the quotes in ital- SAIL 34, 37.45, 32.80, 37 Allahabad Bk 18, 18.20, 17.70, 18.05 JCT 6.06, 6.65, 6.46 NRC 17.40, 18.40, 16.50, 18.30 State Bnk Bi 1085, 1105, 1065, 33.70, 37.40, 32.80, 37 18.45, 18.45, 17.60, 18.05 35.95, 36, 35.25, 35.40 ESI 38.95, 37.75, 38.85 Hazoor Media 5.13 JIK Inds. 17.20, 16.25, 16.50 17.40, 18.50, 16.50, 18.10 1099.80 ics are those of the NSE.The quotations are in the sequence of the day’s opening, Satyam Comp 227, 246.85, 226.25, Alok Inds. 25.50, 26.60, 24.30, 26.20 Caprihans(I) 21, 20.25, 20.65 41, 41, 36.10, 38.35 HBL Nife Pow 36.85, 37, 36 17.90, 17.90, 16.70, 17.15 Nucleus Soft 74, 76.70, 73.20, 76.20 State Bnk My 1370, 1415, 1350, 242.10 26, 26.50, 24.20, 26.25 Carborundum 175, 183.90, 171, 181 Eskay K’N’It 3, 2.92, 3 HEG 45.50, 46.50, 44.50, 45 Jindal Drill 221.10, 235, 225.10 74, 76.20, 73.25, 75.20 1401.85 high, low, and closing. Each time a company’s closing share price falls below its “last 177.50, 184, 171.15, 182.80 Essar Oil 13.65, 16.10, 13.10, 15.80 45, 47.80, 44, 44.95 offer price” on BSE, the name of the company is underlined. 229.85, 246.90, 226.10, 243.55 Alps Inds. 25, 25.90, 23.30, 23.50 Jindal Iron 148, 144, 160.45 State Bnk Tr 1032.95, 975, 1018 Saw Pipes 188.90, 209.90, 183, 23.60, 25.95, 23.60, 23.75 CCL Products 24.30, 21.90 Essar Ship. 16.50, 16.80, 14.60, Helios & Mat 37.20, 38.50, 32.60 147.70, 160.70, 143.80, 160.70 O Std.Indust. 5.66, 6.05, 6.04 208.10 Alstom 40.60, 41.50, 40.10, 40.80 Ceat 42.60, 43.90, 42.50, 43.20 15.05 Henkel Spic 19.50, 19, 19.25 Jindal Photo 46.95, 47.20, 45.05, 5.85, 6, 5.75, 5.90 Cummins (I) 81.80, 82, 79, 81.45 150.25, 152.90, 150, 152.10 42.25, 43.50, 42, 43.25 Essar Steel 21.20, 26, 25.95 Heritage Fds 66, 64.30, 66.50 46.65 OCL (I) 195, 198.70, 185.25, 197 Sterl.Inds. 500, 537, 490.10, 534.85 BSE SPECIFIED 79.25, 82, 79.25, 81.25 ICICI Bank 181.90, 186, 179.30, 188.70, 210.45, 182.20, 207.85 Amara Raja B 66.95, 64, 65.20 Odyssey Tech 11.30, 12, 11, 11.90 SBI 420, 439.30, 413.30, 438.05 65, 66.70, 64.30, 65.10 Centur. Bank 13.40, 12.75, 12.80 21.95, 26.25, 21.35, 25.95 65, 66.95, 62.50, 65.35 44, 47.50, 44, 46.20 Sterl.Tools 56, 56.05, 55.20 & NSE INDEX D-Link (I) 92.30, 96, 89.50, 94.60 183.25 13, 13.40, 12.75, 12.85 ETC Networks 47.20, 49, 46.25, HFCL Infotel 14.55, 15.50, 14.25, Jindal Poly. 175, 183, 180.05 Oil Country 12.25, 12.45, 11.75, Su-raj Diamn 15, 15.25, 14.50, 14.90 93.90, 96, 89, 94.50 183.25, 186.40, 179.05, 183.25 418, 438.90, 413, 437.60 Ambica Agarb 39.70, 40, 39.85 12.16 Shipp.Corpn. 103, 110.90, 91.50, Ambuja Cem.R 6.60, 7.22, 6.49, 7.07 Cerebra Inte 5.15, 4.80, 5 48.75 15.20 176, 184.75, 176, 181.50 15.50, 15.50, 14.70, 14.95 ABB 462.50, 478, 462, 471.20 Dabur (I) 54.90, 58.45, 54.25, 57.65 IDBI 38.25, 38.80, 37.40, 38.50 CESC 41, 43.20, 39.50, 42.40 47.10, 49.30, 46.40, 48.80 Hi-Tech Gear 125 JJ Exporters 32, 32.25 11.80, 12.45, 11.75, 12.25 Suashish Dia 21.05, 21 55, 58.30, 54.10, 57.35 38.05, 38.80, 37.25, 38.45 108.30 6.45, 7.10, 6.40, 7 Omax Autos. 70, 71.90, 68.50, 71.10 445, 485, 445, 471.40 104, 110, 92.25, 108.20 Amex Info. 17.70, 16.50, 17.10 43, 43.40, 39.60, 42.55 Eveready Ind 21.70, 22.90, 22.50 119, 119, 118.80, 118.80 JK Corp. 12.30, 12.80, 12.06, 12.43 Subex System 203.70, 217.75, Abbott (I) 306.50, 319.90, 306, Digital Glob 507, 536, 532.60 IDBI Bank 33.05, 33.70, 31.90, 33.10 CG Igarshi M 52.50, 54, 52, 52.55 23, 23.50, 22, 22.10 Hikal 389.90, 412.20, 411.95 JK Inds. 41.70, 42.50, 40, 40.40 71, 71.70, 68.50, 70.70 201.45, 213.40 510, 537.50, 507, 533.10 33.80, 33.80, 32.35, 33.25 Shyam Teleco 56.90, 54, 54.30 Amforge Inds 60, 63.70, 63.30 Ondeo Nalco 326 315.75 55.30, 56.45, 53.40, 54.45 Amrutanjan 85.65, 87.25, 84 54.80, 54.80, 52, 52.90 Everest Inds 82, 82.45, 79.55, 82 391.95, 411.80, 390, 411.50 JK Synthetic 7.23, 7.45, 7.10, 7.44 204.50, 218, 195, 215.30 ACC 194, 200.45, 188, 199.70 Dr.Reddy’s 1141, 1164.85, 1115.60, IGate Global 200, 215.90, 197.50, Chemfab Alk. 35.50, 31, 34 75, 82.50, 75, 81.15 Himat. Seide 155.35, 159.90, 156.55 JL Morison 120, 116, 118 Onward Techn 24, 23, 23.95 Subros 100.25, 101.85, 92.65, 1141.25 213.40 Siemens 435, 440, 425.05, 438.05 Amtek 59, 61.50, 58, 60.95 23.10, 24.20, 23.10, 23.85 207.50, 207.50, 187.60, 199.60 430.05, 440, 422.55, 437.40 Amtek Auto 206.50, 245.55, 201.50, Chemplast Sa 26.85 Excel Inds. 106.20, 110.80, 106, 152.05, 160.50, 151.30, 156.55 JMC Projects 18.50, 19, 18, 18.15 100.45 Adani Export 203.50, 205.50, 200, 1136, 1160.05, 1115.10, 1138.80 200.70, 217, 197.40, 213.30 26.10, 27, 25.60, 26.25 110.15 Hind.Constn. 76, 83.50, 82.90 Jubilant Org 348, 360, 308.20, Opto Circuit 69.60, 70, 66.10, 67.80 Sulzer (I) 136, 140.05, 137.25 Dredging Cor 360, 369.90, 347, India Cement 27.70, 29, 27, 28.80 Silverline T 6.40, 6.50, 6.30, 6.43 242.15 69, 70, 68.20, 69.25 201.40 SKF Bearing 65, 65.80, 64.05, 65.55 205, 244, 200.25, 237.30 Chettinad Ce 65.05, 72 106.30, 111, 106.30, 109.85 77.65, 82.95, 77.65, 82.40 348.55 Sundaram Cla 360, 363, 353, 356.05 201.55, 204.25, 199, 201.40 356.90 27.30, 29.20, 26.55, 28.80 Cheviot Co. 130.05, 139, 130, 137 Hind.Inks&Re 259.90, 261.70, 353, 359.95, 330, 345.50 Orbit Multi 0.48, 0.40, 0.47 357.50, 365, 357, 363.40 E-Serve Intl 685.05, 730, 675.25, Indian Alumi 138, 137 64.80, 66, 64.30, 65.55 Andrew Yule 17.10, 18, 17, 17.65 F Orchid Chem 184.50, 187, 177.50, Adlabs Films 60.05, 62.90, 62.35 Sonata Soft. 12.50, 13.25, 13.06 Ankur Drugs 20.10, 19.10, 19.40 Chola.Inv&Fi 49.05, 49.40, 48.15, 255.30, 260.95 Jupiter BioS 81, 85, 80.10, 84.50 Sundaram Fst 560, 570, 550, 564 61.50, 62.95, 61, 62.20 721.45 154.80, 154.80, 136.50, 138.45 49.35 257, 262, 255, 260.90 185.10 12.50, 13.20, 12.40, 13.05 Ansal Prop. 13.05, 12.75, 12.80 FAG Bearings 82.75, 84, 82, 83.65 Jyoti Struct 50.40, 54.90, 49, 54.35 560, 570, 548.10, 568 Alstom Proj. 134, 136, 132.25, 688.55, 739, 672, 723.25 Indian Hotel 261.70, 262.95, 250, 49, 49.70, 48.10, 49.45 Hind.Motors 15.50, 15.90, 15, 15.50 51.20, 54.75, 48.60, 54.75 181, 186.45, 178, 184.70 Sunflag Iron 7.11, 7.10, 8.29 EIH 222, 222.90, 219.20, 221.15 261.20 SPICE 42, 44.65, 41.05, 42.70 AP Paper 97, 89.60, 91.90 83, 84.80, 80.60, 84.10 Orient Info. 38.35, 38.85, 37.25, 135.55 SSI 127.20, 145.90, 126.80, 144.10 Apcotex Lat. 31.85, 33 Chowgule Stm 7, 7.25, 6.82, 7.15 15.50, 15.95, 15, 15.65 Super Spin. 90, 87, 92 137, 137, 132.05, 135.20 213.50, 222, 213.50, 221.40 255, 263.80, 252.20, 261.10 Ciba Sp.Chem 112.50, 114, 111.30, Fairfield At 15.90, 15.95, 14.80, Hind.Org.Chm 20.25, 21.15, 19.10, K 38.15 126.25, 146.75, 126.15, 143.70 31.40, 33.25, 31.40, 33.25 15.60 Supreme Inds 151, 153.70, 149, 151 Andhra Bank 41, 42.35, 39.55, 42.10 Engineers (I 290.10, 292.90, 250, Indian Oil C 378, 384, 343, 381.10 113.35 19.95 37.40, 38.95, 37.40, 38.10 149.75, 153, 148.50, 151.65 273.70 389, 389, 342, 383.65 STC India 103.25, 99, 101 Aplab 27, 29.70 FCI OEN Con. 117, 113.10, 115.60 Kaashyap Rad 2.04, 2.24, 2.08 Orient Paper 24.90, 25.50, 24.50 41, 42.30, 39.15, 41.95 102.50, 105, 96.65, 100.40 Aptech 49.90, 51, 49, 50.10 Cinevistaas 36.90, 37.90, 34.05, 20.20, 21.30, 19, 20.05 Supreme Petr 16.85, 18, 16.80, 17.90 Apollo Hosp. 165, 168.50, 162.60, 290.10, 293.90, 248, 274.55 Indian Ov.Bk 26.50, 26.90, 26, 26.70 36.65 118.75, 118.75, 113.80, 116.30 Hind.Power 42.50, 42, 43.05 Kabra Extr 69.60, 68.85, 72.45 26.75, 26.80, 24.05, 24.30 Sterl.Biotec 50.85, 52.80, 48.90, 49, 50.90, 48.75, 50.15 FCL Techno. 19.10, 20.85, 19, 20.80 16.70, 18, 16.70, 17.80 166.05 Escorts 48, 48.65, 47.15, 47.90 26.40, 26.75, 25.80, 26.60 35.50, 36.50, 34.70, 36.30 Hind.Sanitar 70.25, 76 72, 73.35, 68.10, 72.20 Oriental Con 23.50, 24.50 Surana Tele 20.25, 20.30, 19.55, 49.50, 49.50, 47.25, 47.95 Indian Rayon 174, 182, 173.60, 49.75 Archies 61, 61.65, 61.25 21, 21, 18.75, 19.20 Kajaria Cer 36.50, 37.25, 35.10, Oriental Hot 84, 85 165, 168.50, 162, 166.45 51.25, 52.25, 48.50, 49.60 62, 62.50, 60.20, 61.50 City Union B 53.75, 54.75, 53, 53.40 74.10, 76, 73, 74.95 19.90 Apollo Tyres 165, 171, 163, 168.75 Essel Propac 194, 200, 192, 198.70 179.60 53.90, 54.50, 53, 53.45 FDC 61, 64.25, 60.75, 63.40 Hind.Spg &Wg 12 36.95 83, 87.95, 82.25, 87.95 Sterl.Optica 59.50, 61, 57.70, 59.90 Arvind Rem. 4.12 63.15, 64.50, 60.80, 63.30 19.75, 20.70, 19.10, 19.80 165.40, 172.90, 158, 168.80 195.50, 200, 192.95, 198.35 173, 181.95, 173, 179.40 Clariant (I) 167.05, 164.05, 164.90 Hitachi Home 22.75, 23.05, 23 36.05, 37.95, 36.05, 37.70 Surat Elec. 133, 129.10, 131.95 Exide Inds. 77, 79.40, 76, 79.15 Infosys Tech 4011, 4240, 4196.75 59, 61.10, 57.20, 60.05 4.25, 4.25, 4.25, 4.25 Fert.&Chem-T 26, 25.05, 25.80 Kakatiya Cem 42, 42.95, 40.65, P Arvind Mills 42.20, 46.70, 46 Sun Pharma. 487, 516, 507.85 Asahi (I) Gl 91.80, 87.75, 88.15 171, 171, 163, 165.20 24, 24, 22.85, 23.50 125, 133.95, 125, 133.85 46.20, 46.70, 44.10, 46.05 78.60, 79.95, 77.10, 79.60 4031.25, 4242, 4014, 4209 Classic Diam 38.60, 38.50, 40.45 26, 26, 25, 25.65 Honda SIEL P 120.50, 117, 120 42.20 475, 518, 475, 508.40 89.90, 91.65, 87.80, 88.55 Finan.Techno 13.75, 15.50, 15.25 Panacea Biot 41.45, 42.25, 40.55, Surya Roshni 16, 18.40, 15.65, 17.10 Ashok Leylan 161.40, 170.50, Federal Bank 152, 155.40, 150.60, Infotech En. 120.40, 128, 116.30, Clutch.Auto 11.80, 10.80, 11 121, 121, 117, 117.65 40.20, 43.95, 40, 42.20 15.50, 17.95, 15.25, 17.50 154.45 127.20 Syndicate Bn 24.55, 25.10, 24.10, 25 Ashapura Min 92.25 First Leasin 23, 21, 21.45 Kale Consul. 36.10, 38.50, 37.95 41.50 158.50, 167.20 24.55, 25.10, 24, 25 92, 92, 92, 92 Hotel Leela. 24.15, 25, 23.50, 24.50 40.20, 42.15, 40, 41.85 Surylak.Cott 30, 29.15 162, 171, 158.50, 166.50 153.90, 155.50, 150.25, 154.60 124.95, 128, 115.90, 126.75 21.80, 22.05, 21.20, 21.50 24.50, 25.35, 23.40, 24.55 37.50, 38.60, 37, 37.95 Syngenta (I) 129.10, 137, 133.25 Ashima 16.60, 16 Flat Product 98.15, 101.60, Pantaloon Re 158.50, 161.70, 154, 30, 30.50, 29, 29.10 Asian Paints 309, 310, 302, 307.75 Finolex Cabl 133, 135.45, 129, Ingersoll R 278.75, 280, 274.30, 277 Kalpa.Power 41, 43.50, 42.25 Sutlej Inds. 57.75, 55, 56 131.65 277.10, 280, 275.05, 277.30 Tata Chem 88.50, 90, 86.30, 88.60 14, 16.50, 14, 15.95 100.80 I 43.80, 43.80, 42.50, 42.85 156.90 301.05, 310, 301.05, 308.95 87.15, 89.45, 86.55, 88.15 Ashok Ley.Fn 54.75, 54.95, 158.05, 161, 153.85, 157.15 55, 56.50, 55, 56.50 Aurobindo Ph 549.90, 598.80, 530, 131.25, 135.50, 130.30, 132.10 IPCL 157.70, 163.40, 148, 162.75 Flex Foods 7.30, 8, 7, 7.12 Kalyani Brak 360.05, 388.05 Tata Elxsi 85.20, 86.50, 82.20, 86.05 53.65, 53.70 Flex Inds. 33, 33.40, 32.05, I-flex Solu 680, 718, 676, 716.20 Paper Prod. 148.05, 160, 148, 155 Suven Pharma 291.25, 323, 290, 589.90 Finolex Inds 54, 55, 52.15, 54.85 152.20, 163.80, 147, 162.35 351.10, 360, 351.10, 360 321.05 52.50, 55.50, 52.50, 54.70 ITC 785, 811, 777, 793.35 83.50, 86.80, 82.45, 86.40 53, 54.10, 53, 53.60 32.95 679.90, 719, 675.40, 716.50 Kalyani Stel 47, 45.25, 50.70 155, 155.75, 150.50, 155.55 550, 597.90, 530, 587.10 Tata Motors 268, 283, 264, 281.95 Asian Elect. 62, 62.05, 60.05, Paramount Co 7.40, 6.57, 6.77 Swaraj Engin 223, 234, 220.25, 224 Aventis Phar 440, 454, 447.05 Gail (I) 135, 137.70, 129.50, 134.10 789, 811.50, 780, 797.05 32.50, 33.50, 31.90, 33.05 ICICI Premie 13.31 Karnatak Bnk 77.75, 78, 76, 77.50 269.80, 282.90, 264, 281.45 62 Forbes Gokak 103.50, 99, IFCI 15.95, 16.25, 15.15, 15.20 Parekh Plati 7.75, 7.93, 7.53, 7.89 222.15, 230, 222.10, 225 441, 455, 435, 447.30 135, 137.35, 129.05, 135 ITI 19, 19.50, 18.55, 18.85 77.30, 78.30, 76, 77.50 Swaraj Mazda 170.10, 174.95, 170, GE Shipping 69, 74.25, 67, 73.05 19.50, 19.50, 18.50, 18.80 Tata Power 181, 185.40, 172.20, 60.50, 62.50, 59.75, 61.35 103.15 16.20, 16.25, 15.15, 15.25 Karur Vysya 254.25, 258.45, 252, 7.60, 7.95, 7.60, 7.80 Aztec Soft. 27.75, 29.80, 27, 29.10 183.80 Asian Hotels 100, 102, 100.50 Parry’s Conf 133, 133, 133, 133 170.05 27.30, 29.70, 26.55, 29.05 68.70, 74.25, 68, 73.05 J&K Bank 223.05, 229, 222.10, Fortune Info 18.75, 19.55, 18, IL&FS Invt.M 27.95, 26, 26.85 254.10 181.85, 185.45, 172, 183.95 100, 105, 99.10, 104.95 19.10 24.80, 26.95, 24.80, 26.10 Patel Engg. 174, 181 170, 171.75, 170, 171.55 Bajaj Auto 700, 736, 697, 719.60 Geometric So 387.95, 419, 382.20, 227.35 254, 258.50, 252, 253.50 Syncom Form. 28.90, 27.80, 28.05 410.30 222, 229.90, 222, 226.55 Tata Tea 240, 246, 232, 245.40 Assam Co. 20.50, 22.90, 21.85 Foseco (I) 180.05, 177.55, 186 Ind.Swift 83.75, 86.10, 83, 84.20 KDL Biotech 19.10, 20, 19, 19.20 Patspin (I) 12.61, 13, 12.53, 12.92 700.10, 743, 696, 719.85 238.10, 246.90, 233, 245.65 Astrazen.Ph. 691, 700 12.10, 13.10, 12.10, 12.95 Synergy Log 7.40, 7.20, 7.50 Balaji Tele. 64.70, 66.25, 63.85, 388, 418.80, 381.65, 411.90 Jaiprakash I 76.40, 81.80, 76, 80.80 180.15, 186.50, 180.15, Ind.Swift La 33.75, 35.20, 33.05, 19.50, 20.70, 18.70, 19.15 Gillette (I) 482.95, 483, 465.10, 77.45, 81.65, 77, 80.75 Tata Telcom 143.75, 142, 145 671, 710, 646, 702.30 185.50 34.25 KEC Inter. 18.60, 20.10, 19.80 PCS Inds. 22, 22.75, 22.15 65.70 141, 146, 140, 144.85 Atcom Techno 11.20, 11.70, Pennar Alum. 3.73, 3.50, 4.21 T 65.70, 66.40, 63.50, 65.85 473.65 JB Chemical 274, 284.50, 268, Frontier Inf 4.02, 4.25, 4.01, 33.50, 34.85, 33.05, 34.60 19.45, 20, 18.90, 19.90 477.25, 497.45, 468.25, 478.10 282.55 Thermax 278, 294.90, 276.55, 11, 11.49 4.20 India Glycol 55, 57.75, 57 Kerala Ayurv 10.05, 9.82, 11.75 Pentasoft Te 8, 8.43, 7.25, 7.53 T Spiritual 51.85, 45 Ballarpur In 60, 60.20, 57.90, 59.40 288.15 11.10, 11.75, 10.75, 11.45 7.50, 8.50, 7.45, 7.55 59.30, 60.50, 57.50, 59.45 GlaxoSmith.C 334.75, 338, 330, 276.20, 284.80, 265.25, 281.85 Fulford (I) 220, 238, 215.50, India Gypsum 33.50, 32, 35.10 Kerala Chem. 22.10, 23.75, 23.20 Taj GVK Hotl 64.90, 65.25, 64, 64.60 336.40 Jindal Steel 754, 824.40, 738.10, 277.40, 295, 275, 288.20 Atlas Copco 261, 248.50, 235.40 33.50, 34, 32.55, 33.05 Kesoram Inds 42.55, 44.90, 44 Pharmacia He 112, 115 64.50, 65.25, 64.50, 65 Bank of Baro 135, 141.80, 132.90, Thomas Cook 218, 225, 224.45 252.95 112.30, 114.90, 112.30, 114 140.90 336.40, 338.85, 322.05, 334.20 812.90 Futura Poly. 7, 7.24, 6.79, 6.95 India Nippon 285.15, 285 42.10, 44.70, 42.10, 44.20 Tanfac Ind. 18.90, 19.75, 19.40 GlaxoSmith.P 448, 457, 445.10, 751, 824.40, 730, 813.05 220.15, 223.95, 219.45, 223.20 Atlas Cycles 77.05, 79.90, 290, 290, 281, 283.05 KG Denim 20, 20.55, 19.70, 19.85 Phillip Carb 44.25, 48.90, 48 TASC Pharma. 30.25, 29.30, 29.60 134.85, 141.85, 132.80, 141.20 TISCO 246, 264.40, 243, 262.70 79.50 G 48.25, 48.80, 47, 48.45 Bank of Ind. 53.10, 54.40, 51.10, 452.20 Kochi Refin. 154, 156.60, 142.15, Indian Card 51.25, 52.60, 50.80, Khoday (I) 12.55, 14 29.25, 31.20, 29.05, 29.75 451, 459, 442.10, 454 153.90 248.50, 264.45, 243.05, 262.90 80.70, 80.70, 78.10, 80.20 51.50 Kinetic Eng. 72, 73.75, 73.70 Phoenix Lamp 18.75, 19.40, 18, Tata Coffee 118, 121.50, 115.50, 53.95 Titan Inds. 75.55, 76.90, 73.40, Atul 45, 46.95, 43, 45.15 Gabriel (I) 173.50, 174.25, 19.15 52.90, 54.45, 51.55, 54.05 GNFC 46, 49.35, 45, 49.05 155, 156.60, 141.60, 154.15 52, 54, 51.40, 52 Kinetic Moto 28.50, 29.50, 28.10, 121.40 74.55 45, 46.25, 44, 45.35 166.10, 170.55 Indian Hume 1311, 1308.35 Pioneer Embr 36.15, 38.50, 36, 38.45 BASF 135.90, 136.40, 130.10, 46, 49.85, 45.10, 49.10 Kotak Mah.Bk 249.95, 251.80, 242, Galaxy Enter 44.65, 44.75, 29.20 115, 121, 115, 118.85 Grasim Inds. 609.50, 622, 590, 247.95 76.65, 76.65, 73.30, 74.90 Auto Axles 171, 178, 168, 1308.90, 1349, 1308.90, 1344.50 Kirloskar Br 131.60, 138, 134 Plastiblend 43.25, 45 Tata Finance 38, 39.70, 37.50, 38.05 134.60 TN Newsprint 69.65, 73.90, 68, 177.40 40.25, 41.65 PNB Gilts 27.30, 28.95, 26.40, 28.30 133, 137.10, 130, 134.05 615.55 253, 253, 243.30, 248.30 Indian Resor 68, 73.20 Kirloskar Oi 166.50, 172, 162.50, 39.60, 39.60, 37.50, 38.10 72.70 173.30, 177, 167, 175.55 Gammon (I) 160.20, 167, Indian SeamM 11, 10.80, 12.25 26.50, 29, 26.50, 28.45 Bata (I) 44.80, 46.40, 43.40, 45.75 605, 624, 586.10, 615.20 L&T 292.20, 307.35, 286.20, 306.20 161.50 171.95 Tata Honeywl 267, 256.15, 265 GSFC 27, 27.15, 26.15, 26.90 290, 307.20, 285.20, 305.90 67.50, 74.20, 67.50, 73.20 Avanti Feeds 30.55, 30.80, Indo Gulf Fe 76.20, 79.45, 76.05, 168, 173, 163.50, 170.80 Polyplex 80, 81, 78.15, 80.05 275, 275, 255.25, 264.55 44, 46.40, 43.50, 45.85 TN Petro 19.25, 19.65, 19.55 29.30, 29.90 Coates (I) 109.50, 108.15, 112 161, 167.50, 161, 167.50 81.20, 81.70, 77, 80 Bayer Cropsc 228, 222.40, 226 26, 27.10, 26, 26.90 LIC Hsg.Fin. 130.50, 132, 125, 102.50, 112.90, 102.50, 109.50 78.85 KLG Systel 32.50, 35, 33.80 Tata Infomed 147.25, 150, 148 19.20, 19.65, 19.20, 19.55 Avery (I) 34, 35.70, 32.60, 33.20 Gandhi Sp.Tu 23.65, 21.95, 22 78, 79, 76.05, 78.65 Porrits&Spen 97, 101, 100 226, 227.80, 223.10, 223.10 GTL 77, 81.50, 75.60, 81.05 126.90 Cochin Minrl 12.30, 12.50 Garden Silk 38.50, 39.25, 38.05, 33.80, 33.80, 32.85, 33.65 147.75, 149.90, 147.75, 148.35 76.20, 81.50, 75.60, 80.80 128.50, 132.80, 125.20, 127.05 Torrent Phar 369, 383.95, 353.20, Avon Organic 43.80, 43.95, 41, 43.25 Indo Mat.Car 83 Kopran 56.40, 58.75, 54.80, 57.45 Praj Ind. 61.80, 64, 54.70, 59.80 Tata Infotec 301.70, 314.80, 291, Bh.Earth Mov 129.40, 141.10, 121, 382.50 Color Chips 7, 7.79, 7.11 38.80 63.90, 63.90, 58.50, 59.40 138.35 Guj.Amb.Cem. 217, 206, 215.45 LML 42, 42.65, 40.60, 42.25 7.35, 7.55, 7.05, 7.10 Indo Nationl 345.10, 355, 345, 56.60, 58.40, 54.60, 57.30 307.60 362, 387, 352.60, 383.20 B 38.10, 39, 37, 38.85 352.15 Precision Wr 35.65, 38.50, 37.50 124.25, 140.95, 108.40, 139 212, 216.70, 205.25, 215.60 42.50, 43, 40.70, 42.30 Colour Chem 227, 229.90, 223.20, Garware Poly 33.90, 31, 32.15 Kothari Prod 177, 190, 178 Tata Invest. 174, 179.50, 164, 177.40 Guj.Gas Co. 490, 516, 485, 505.45 Lupin 490.10, 523, 471.60, 517.25 Trent 195.50, 199, 192, 197 363.90, 364, 350.05, 356.40 178.10, 181, 175, 178.20 37.70, 41.40, 36, 40.85 179, 180, 170.25, 178.10 Bharat Elect 437, 473, 422, 466.90 198.80, 200, 193, 198.85 Bajaj Auto F 64.10, 65, 64, 64.25 225.05 Garware Wall 21.15, 20.65, 20.85 Premier Inst 272, 268 440, 472.65, 428, 468.55 489, 515.85, 485, 505.95 498, 524, 461, 515.85 65.40, 65.50, 63.25, 64.25 226.10, 229.80, 224.20, 225.40 Indo Rama Sy 56, 62.70, 62.20 KPIT Cum.Inf 192, 211.05, 189, Tata Metalik 71.90, 74.50, 70.50, TVS Motor Co 829.90, 870, 817, Gati 50.20, 42.25, 43.90 56, 62.60, 56, 61.80 265.05, 270, 265, 267.40 Bharat Forge 480, 499.85, 475, Guj.Mineral 107, 103.15, 106.05 M&M 208, 224, 206.20, 222.55 Bajaj Elec. 34.55, 34.50, 35.95 Compucom Sof 33.30, 31.10, 32.45 Genesys Intl 39.90, 38, 39.05 208.35 73.85 103.50, 106.75, 103, 106.10 209.50, 224.40, 206.55, 222.95 841.80 Indraprast.M 15.55, 15.70, 15.40, 193, 211.05, 189.20, 208 Premier Tyre 8.35, 8.31 75, 75, 70, 72.85 495.70 834, 865, 782, 839.40 Bajaj Hindus 133.75, 139, 133, Compudyne Wi 13, 13.90, 13.55 41.50, 41.50, 37.85, 39.30 Prism Cement 8.50, 9.79, 9.61 482, 499, 473.10, 495.65 HCL Infosys. 217, 227.90, 212, Marico Inds 182.05, 191 133.90 13.50, 13.90, 13.05, 13.60 15.60 KRBL 52.10, 54, 51, 53.30 Tata Sponge 71, 78.20, 68, 77.25 United Phosp 369, 376.95, 360, Geodesic Inf 175, 173.05, 182.55 15.70, 16, 15.30, 15.70 8.40, 9.80, 8.40, 9.65 Bharti TeleV 60.90, 63.15, 60.10, 220.55 189, 200.50, 186.15, 195.35 133, 136.50, 133, 135.95 Computech In 6.36, 6.55, 6.21, 6.43 George Willi 50.15, 51, 49.40, 50.15 52.05, 53.95, 51, 53.80 65.20, 78.40, 65.20, 77.55 219, 228.50, 211.10, 220.65 Maruti Udyog 210, 195.65, 207.95 371.85 Indus.Inv.Tr 15.05, 17.70, 17.25 Krebs Bioche 189, 192, 186, 191 Pritish Nand 26.95, 27.25, 26.50, Tata Teleser 11.80, 12.38, 11.51, 62.25 369, 375, 357.10, 373.25 Bajaj Tempo 320, 334.95, 312.10, 6.50, 6.65, 6.20, 6.40 54.25, 54.25, 50.30, 51.30 27.20 61.90, 63.10, 60.10, 62.60 HCL Techno. 163.50, 167.50, 151.20, 207, 210, 195.10, 208.50 319.65 Cont.Const. 11.25, 12, 11.75 Indusind Bnk 24.75, 25.90, 24, 24.90 Krishna Life 1.94, 2.18, 1.92, 2.06 12.04 UTI Bank 65.40, 68, 63.45, 66.60 GIC Housing 19.40, 20.25, 19.35, 24.90, 25, 23.90, 24.75 27, 27.40, 26.50, 26.85 BHEL 345, 364, 333, 359.95 163.10 Mastek 217, 237.40, 214.90, 235.60 Bal Pharma 32, 32.50, 31.15, 31.60 Control Prnt 28.55, 30 20.15 Krone Comm 91.50, 95.80, 94.55 11.90, 12.40, 11.55, 12.05 165, 167.75, 152, 163.35 218.80, 237.40, 214.60, 235.30 66.10, 67, 64.10, 66.20 ING Vysya Bk 460, 468, 453, 466.95 KSB Pumps 90.90, 91.80, 87.50, Prraneta Ind 3.40 Tayo Rolls 57, 56, 56.25 346, 364.50, 333.50, 360.05 Videocon Int 64.10, 65.85, 62.70, Balkrish Ind 142.50, 149.20, 138.75, Corom. Fert. 72, 73 19.30, 20.45, 19.20, 19.90 PSI Data Sys 66.10, 68.50, 67 Bombay Dyein 72, 72.65, 70.05, HDFC 477.05, 498, 491.70 Max (I) 99.90, 103, 96.60, 100.15 148.75 84, 84, 72, 73 452, 469, 452, 466.15 88.50 Tele Data In 25.85, 26.95, 25.65, 64.70 Glenmark Pha 392.10, 414.95, Innovis.E-Co 0.60, 0.58, 0.60 69.95, 69.95, 67.15, 67.65 72.25 480, 498, 475.05, 493.15 99.70, 101.70, 97.55, 100.25 Balmer Law.I 43.50, 44, 42.50, 43.05 Cosmo Ferr. 8.46, 8.50, 8.15, 8.31 386.50, 401.85 88, 88, 87.15, 87.90 26.55 HDFC Bank 275, 278.80, 271.10, Mcdowell Co. 48, 46.50, 47.25 63.50, 66, 62.55, 64.75 Insilco 14.90, 15.20, 15.05 PSL 62.60, 65.80, 61.20, 65.30 Texmaco Ltd. 83.15, 84, 83.15 70.25, 72.85, 70.05, 72.25 Vijaya Bank 25, 25.95, 24.85, 25.60 Balmer Lawri 95, 90.05, 92.25 Cosmo Films 78, 79.35, 77.10, 77.70 365, 411.45, 365, 403.35 56, 66, 56, 65.15 BPCL 335, 284.90, 323.35 277.05 47, 47.90, 46.35, 47.25 109, 109, 90, 91.55 78.50, 79, 77.05, 78.15 Inter.Travel 34, 35.50, 35 L Themis Medic 68, 69, 62.70, 64.05 25.40, 26, 24.95, 25.55 Global Tr.Bk 23.40, 24.70, 22.50, Ion Exchange 29.25, 31.70, 30.95 Pudumjee Pul 22, 23.70, 23 326, 330, 284.50, 323.20 272, 279.90, 272, 277.45 Merck 310.30, 317.40, 303.30, Balrampur Ch 157, 154, 155 Creative Eye 13.11, 13.08, 13.50 23.40 Thiru A.Sug. 27.20, 27.20, 27.20, Hero Honda 278.60, 288, 266, 316.20 Visual Soft 189.40, 209.15, 188.15, IP Rings 76.25, 78.95, 75.10, 76.20 Lakhani (I) 64.05, 70.60 22.50, 23, 22.50, 23 27.20 Britannia 545, 569, 559.60 207.80 173, 173, 152.15, 155.15 13, 13.80, 13, 13.60 23.20, 24.80, 22.50, 23.50 Lakshmi Au.C 112, 118.50, 118.40 Pun.Alkali 8.75, 9.24, 8.71, 8.97 561, 580, 550.60, 562.45 284.35 314, 315, 305.10, 313.25 Banco Prod. 67.50, 69.90, 69.55 Crest Comm. 32.05, 33, 32.90 IPCA Lab. 470, 499.95, 469, 495.70 Thirumalai 69.50, 71.50, 69.30, 189.95, 209.20, 189.95, 208 GMM Pfaudler 94, 96.35, 94.50 485, 500, 469, 496.20 116.50, 119, 113, 118.80 Pun.Chemical 193, 209.45, 207.55 BSES 342, 357.95, 332.05, 354.55 275.05, 288.50, 260, 285.30 MIRC Electr. 196.85, 190.15, 190.65 Bank of Punj 24.55, 25.75, 25.50 32, 33.80, 32, 33.05 GMR Techno. 11.95, 13.70, 11.45, 71.25 Hexaware Tec 216.90, 230.10, 212, 191.25, 195.90, 190.40, 192.50 VSNL 121.10, 124, 118.65, 121.75 Isibars 6.70, 8.17, 6.65, 8.12 Lakshmi Elec 53.90, 57, 53.30, 53.80 Pun.Communi. 54.90, 55.30, 54.10, 66, 71.70, 66, 71.35 343, 358, 330.10, 355.20 122, 124, 118.50, 120.90 25.40, 25.70, 24.70, 25.40 CRISIL 400, 410 13.35 Lakshmi Mach 3058, 2975 54.40 Cadila Healt 290.15, 314, 290, 227.10 Moser-Baer 322, 326.90, 319, Bank of Raj. 25, 25.35, 24.75, 25.15 400, 410, 400, 405.05 Ispat Inds. 11.85, 11.45, 12.90 Tide Water O 1400, 1425, 1311, Whirlpool 21.60, 22, 20.55, 21.50 Goa Carbon 48, 52, 46.20, 49.35 11.75, 12.90, 11.45, 12.85 3015, 3015, 2965, 2992.50 Pun.Nat.Bank 163, 178.50, 159, 311.55 216, 229.90, 212.10, 227.90 324.40 24.70, 25.45, 24.70, 25.10 Godavri Fert 100, 100.80, 97.60, 1410.75 Him.Fut.Comm 29.25, 29.70, 28.40, 321, 326, 317.90, 323.90 Wipro 1118, 1203.50, 1094.10, D IT & T 13.50, 13.25, 15.40 Lanco Inds. 11.90, 12.40, 11.80, 175.25 TIL 16.25, 17, 16.25, 17 296, 314, 290, 309.95 1194.20 Bannari Aman 155, 156, 155 100.25 12.34 162.80, 178.40, 159, 176 Castrol (I) 201, 203.90, 198.70, 28.95 Mphasis BFL 430, 445, 422, 441.05 155.10, 160, 155, 155 13.50, 15.90, 13.40, 15.90 Timex Watch 11.10, 11.50, 11.05, 1095, 1204.70, 1090.25, 1194.85 Daewoo Motor 4.31, 4.75, 4.30, 4.67 100, 100.90, 99.75, 100.05 ITC Hotels 74.30, 74.50, 71.80, 73.55 Landmarc Lei 9.40, 8.97, 8.98 201.15 29.45, 29.70, 28.35, 29 420, 446, 418, 443.50 Bayer (I) 1400, 1470, 1432.35 Godfrey Phil 394.75, 390, 391 R 11.17 Hind Lever C 210.30, 213.25, MRF 1487, 1522.40, 1480, 1514.35 Wockhardt 501.10, 538, 501, 526.35 Dalmia Cemen 209 73.30, 75.35, 73.25, 74.30 LG Balkrish 170 Timken India 35.55, 37, 35.50, 36.45 Century Enka 104, 117.70, 116.95 505.10, 537, 492.05, 525.90 Bayer ABS 119.50, 127.65, 116.15, 380, 394, 379.50, 391.20 170.10, 170.10, 170, 170 114, 117.95, 110, 116.90 207.15, 212.10 1490, 1522, 1490, 1516.10 120.40 191, 191, 190.25, 190.25 IVP 27.10, 27.65, 26.80 Rain Calcing 18.10, 18.55, 16.75, Tips Indus. 38.10, 38.75, 37.65, 38 Zee Telefilm 103.40, 104, 101, Danlaw Tech. 26.95, 27, 25.25 Godrej Cons. 140.15, 142.95, 130.75, 27.25, 27.25, 26.85, 26.85 Liberty Shoe 69, 63, 67 Century Text 103.90, 109, 103.25, 206.75, 212.40, 206.70, 211.20 MTNL 118.50, 118.60, 110.10, 117, 126.90, 116, 121.85 140.75 18.05 38.50, 38.50, 37.70, 38.10 Hind.Oil Exp 43.75, 44.55, 41, 44 116.90 102.20 Datanet Sys. 5.50, 6, 5.25, 5.73 IVRCL Infras 73.10, 73.95, 72, 72.40 65, 67, 65, 65.60 Todays Writi 37.30, 37.10, 39 107.65 Bayer Diagno 229.70, 229.75, 142.30, 145, 133, 143.30 Lloyds Steel 5.58, 5.35, 6.56 18.50, 18.60, 16.80, 18.05 43.20, 44.60, 40.50, 44.05 118, 118.80, 110.25, 117.10 103, 104, 100.75, 102.35 DCM Shr.Con 112, 118, 108, 115.75 74.35, 74.35, 71.80, 72.35 Raj.Spg.&Wvg 27, 27.50, 26.70, 27 37.55, 39, 37.55, 38.55 104, 109, 103.15, 108.20 Zensar Tech. 88.95, 92, 86, 90.70 225.05, 228.85 Godrej Inds. 38.05, 40.50, 39.30 5.50, 6.55, 5.40, 6.55 Chambal Fert 17, 17.35, 16.80, 17.15 Hind.Zinc 61, 64.95, 60, 64.40 Mukta Arts 60, 52.20, 54.10 Berger Paint 102.95, 104, 100.15, 114.75, 119, 106.15, 116.70 26.50, 27, 26.50, 26.65 Torrent Guja 14.80, 15.65, 15.50 88.50, 91.45, 86.50, 90.65 DCW 18.75, 19.90, 18.50, 19.75 37.60, 40.35, 37.60, 39.15 J Logix Micro. 15.75, 16, 14.90, 15 16.80, 17.45, 16.75, 17.15 Hindalco 869.50, 910, 903.40 52.55, 54.65, 52.50, 54.15 102.20 Goetze (I) 40.25, 43, 40.10, 41.85 Rajesh Exp 105.60 Tourism Fina 9.60, 9.95, 9.55, 9.70 873, 910, 867, 896.90 National Alu 107, 110.90, 98.05, 19.30, 19.60, 18.65, 19.25 Loy.Tex Mill 69.90, 65, 67 9, 10, 9, 9.75 Chennai Pet. 70, 72, 66.10, 68.50 B1 - GROUP 100.20, 103.50, 100, 101.95 42.50, 43.25, 40, 41.20 Jagatjit Ind 23.70, 24 Lumax Ind 41, 44.40, 42.65 Rajshree Sug 20.50, 21.35, 20.40, 69.10, 71.95, 66.10, 68.85 Hinduja TMT 196.80, 205, 191.05, 110.30 Bhagya.Metal 24.50 Deccan Cem. 34.10, 32.35, 32.80 21.05 Transnat.Sec 25.15 Deepak Fert. 25.60, 26.30, 25.55, Goldiam Int. 27.60, 28.20, 27.80 Jagsonpal Ph 105.30, 110, 102.25, 42, 43, 41, 41.85 Cipla 1005, 1020.50, 985.05, 204.30 107.50, 110.90, 98.30, 110.35 Bhansali Eng 86.60 Goldstn.Tech 19.35, 19.70, 18.80, 104 19.50, 21.45, 19.50, 21.10 Transpek Ind 21.50, 23.50, 23.45 195.50, 206, 190, 204.25 Nestle (I) 573, 600, 585.90 26.10 Lyka Labs 33.30, 35.50, 33, 34.30 Transport Co 39, 40.90, 38.35, 40.45 1013.05 3 Bharat Bijle 546.85, 569, 558.05 19.05 102, 107.20, 102, 106.25 34, 35.50, 33.50, 34.30 Rallis India 75.50, 82, 81.35 1005, 1022, 982, 1016.75 HLL 184, 189.70, 182.15, 187.35 Neyveli Lign 38.05, 38.90, 36.05, Bharat Rasay 31 25.50, 26.30, 25.50, 26.05 79, 82.50, 79, 81.65 40.70, 40.90, 39, 40.55 3M India 390, 396, 394.10 Deepak Nitr. 58.95, 54, 55.20 19.85, 19.85, 18.90, 19.15 Jai Corp 67, 71, 68.35 CMC 453, 465, 445, 464.45 184, 189.75, 182, 187.35 38.55 34, 34, 31.05, 32.35 Goldstn.Tele 7.50, 7.60, 7.40, 7.55 69, 71, 67.95, 69.10 M Rama Newspri 7.52, 7.60, 7.55 TRF 30.05, 40, 39 445, 468, 444, 464.60 HMT 20, 20.90, 19.05, 19.90 38.10, 39, 36.05, 38.55 390, 394.90, 385, 393.10 Bhartiya Int 28, 29, 28.50 Dena Bank 19, 19.10, 18.60, 19 7.60, 7.65, 7.55, 7.60 Trigyn Tech. 18.20, 19.30, 18.10, 18.90, 19.20, 18.60, 18.90 7.40, 7.80, 7.35, 7.50 Jain Irrig. 83.90, 85.40, 79, 84.30 Colgate 140.90, 143, 140, 142.40 20.10, 21.40, 19.60, 20.05 Nicholas Pir 386.10, 388.50, 377, A 27.80, 28.75, 27.80, 28.50 Goodlass Ner 333.05, 339.90, 84.50, 85.75, 79, 84.05 Maars Soft 11.07, 11.75, 11.02, Ramco Inds. 188, 195.10, 185, 195 18.85 143.10, 143.45, 140.15, 142.60 HPCL 397, 401.90, 326.20, 344.90 384.90 Bhushan Stl. 47.10, 44, 51.05 Denso (I) 34.55, 34.90, 34, 34.85 11.53 196, 200, 196, 200 18, 19, 18, 18.80 Dewan H.Fin. 24 332.80, 332.90 Jain Studios 14.60, 14.25, 14.50 Container Co 343, 446, 442.70 400, 402, 326.10, 345.50 384, 387.80, 377, 384 Aarti Drugs 90, 94.50, 89.05, 92.20 BI 153.50, 147.55 333, 343.80, 332.50, 339 14.55, 14.80, 14.25, 14.45 11.10, 11.60, 11.10, 11.55 Ramco Systm 250, 242, 243.35 TTK Healthca 26.10, 28.85, 28.15 431, 448, 417, 442.70 Hughes Soft. 344.60, 373.90, 343, NIIT 141.65, 148.60, 138.90, 144.10 Bihar Caustc 22.75, 23, 22.20, 22.50 23, 24.60, 23, 24 Macmillan (I 227, 241.90, 221, 241.50, 247.90, 240, 242.80 Tube Invest. 127, 130.30, 129.15 Aarti Inds. 105.30, 120, 119 DFM Foods 6.31 Goodricke 31, 32.50 Jaipan Inds. 8.05, 8.21, 7.81 Corpn. Bank 198, 207.40, 195.60, 369.80 140, 148.80, 140, 144.35 105.10, 119.75, 105.10, 118.95 Bimetal Bear 141.50, 141.10, 141.35 Goodyear (I) 32, 32.25, 31, 31.50 Jay Bh.Marut 51.70, 51.85, 48.50, 238.90 Rane Brake 190 128.50, 130, 128, 129.90 205.65 346, 374.90, 342, 370.30 Nirma 372.25, 387, 370.75, 378.15 Binani Inds. 19, 19.35, 18.50, 18.75 Dhampur Sugr 19.20, 20.50, 19.35 225, 242, 219.50, 239.30 Rane Madras 72, 72.05, 71, 71.80 TV 18 130.90, 134, 126, 131.90 Aarvee Denim 19.60, 19.95, 19 20, 20.40, 19.35, 19.60 Grabal Al.Im 20.55, 20.50 49.25 198.50, 206.90, 196.05, 205.20 IBP 805, 813.80, 702.25, 787.20 371.75, 383, 371, 378.40 Aban Loyd 358.70, 362.90, 339, Biopac (I) 5.99, 6 Graphite Ind 54.90, 51.40, 53.40 46.15, 51, 46.10, 48.20 Madhav Marb. 18.05, 18.85 Ravalgaon Su 2241, 2221 124.50, 134, 124.50, 131.75 Crompton Gr. 92, 95, 90, 94.10 830.05, 830.05, 702, 766.65 Novartis (I) 262.60, 266, 261, 264 Birla Corp. 41.25, 42.90, 40.85, Dhanalak.Bnk 20.40, 22, 19.55, Madhucon Prj 73, 75, 70.50, 70.60 Rayban Sun O 54.75, 55.30, 53.20, TVS Autolec 130, 136.90, 134.35 344.35 21.05 54.45, 54.50, 52.50, 53.70 Jayant Agro 41.60, 42, 41.65 91, 95, 88.50, 94.50 ICI (I) 150, 153, 152 ONGC 595, 617, 557.05, 612.75 359.70, 362, 341.95, 346.10 42.35 Grauer & Wei 21, 18.55, 19.55 Jaypee Hotel 9.70, 10.50, 10.20 Madras Alum 143.95, 148, 138.25, 53.90 TVS Srichakr 54.55, 55.95, 53.15 144.70 Reg.Ceramic 29, 29.50, 28.50, 29 Madras Cem. 5749, 5799, 5725, 28.75, 29.50, 28, 29.10 U 5797.55 Rel.Ind.Infr 49.15, 51.30, 48.75, UB Holdings 25, 24, 25.50 5601, 5780, 5601, 5776.85 50.95 Name NAVs Name NAVs Name NAVs Name NAVs Name NAVs Name NAVs Ucal Fuel 280, 287, 272.05, 274.85 Madras Fert. 24.10, 21.80, 23.10 49.95, 51, 48.90, 50.55 275, 287.90, 271, 275.75 MUTUAL FUNDS (Rs) (Rs) (Rs) (Rs) (Rs) (Rs) 23, 24, 21.80, 22.85 Relaxo Footw 35, 36.70, 34.70, 36 Ultramarine 87, 90.95, 89.30 Mah.Scooter 81.90, 88.50 Revathi Equ. 124.95, 125, 123, Unichem Lab 270, 272, 250, 268.15 Open-ended Schemes 89, 89, 87, 87.20 124.75 Income Plus Inst. A(D) 27.18 Short Term(D) 10.28 T TMA (G) 1542.68 IL&FS Mutual Fund K-Gilt Serial 13 (G) 17.13 Flexible Income 10.80 270, 274, 251, 270.45 Mah.Seamless 152, 165.05 Rico Auto 220.20, 236, 233 Uniflex Cabl 12.80, 13.35, 12.50, Income Plus Inst. B(G) 27.45 Technology.Com 5.28 T TMA (W’ly) 1244.40 Bond (B) 11.18 K-Gilt Serial 19 (D) 10.37 Floating Rate 10.24 153.90, 165.40, 153.80, 165.35 230, 238, 228.15, 234.65 Income Plus Plan A(D) 10.83 Top 100 (G) 14.76 T TMA (Wkly B) 1402.98 Bond (D-Q’ly) 10.80 K-Gilt Serial 19 (G) 16.39 Gilt Invst. (D) 11.11 12.97 Name NAVs Mahavir Spg. 85, 86, 83.35, 85.40 RPG Life Sci 28.25, 29.95 Union Bank 42.40, 44.75, 41.55, Income Plus Plan B(G) 27.33 Top 100(D) 13.79 T TMA (Y’ly) 1172.68 Bond (D-Y’ly) 12.17 K-Liquid (D) 10.02 Gilt Invst. (G) 19.38 86.90, 86.90, 83, 85.45 33, 33, 28.80, 29.75 MIDCAP (Div) 12.30 Escorts Mutual Fund Vista (D) 4.73 Bond (G) 16.77 K-Liquid (G) 12.38 Gilt Treasury (D) 10.63 44.45 (Rs) Mahind.Gesco 16.50, 17.05 RS Software 24.60, 25, 24, 24.95 42.20, 44.75, 41.60, 44.40 MIDCAP (G) 15.41 Balanced (D) 14.55 Vista (G) 6.38 Bond Fund-Inst.(AD) 10.11 K-Liquid Instl.-Daily Div 12.23 Gilt Treasury (G) 15.22 17.60, 17.70, 16.60, 17 24.60, 25.05, 23.75, 24.60 MIP Plan A (D) 10.92 Balanced (G) 16.17 GIC Mutual Fund Bond Short Term (D) 10.09 K-Liquid Instnl.(D) 10.02 Growth (D) 11.81 Unitech 55.25, 59.50 Mahindra Ugi 12.55, 12, 13.50 Ruchi Soya 44.10, 45.50, 45 56.60, 60.30, 56.60, 59.95 As on 15/09/2003 MIP Plan B (Payment/G) 14.36 Gilt (D) 12.44 Balanced 12.91 Bond Short Term (G) 11.33 K-Liquid Instnl.(G) 12.39 Growth (G) 26.14 12.05, 13.55, 12, 13.55 45, 45.45, 44, 44.95 Alliance Capital Mutual Fund MIP Plan C (Payment/G) 14.36 Gilt (G) 13.61 D’Mat 10.24 Bond Short Term-Inst.(D) 10.10 K-MNC 10.61 ICICI Flexible IncomePlus 10.39 United Brew. 100, 112, 107 95 (D) 34.74 Income (D) 11.01 Majestic Aut 20.50, 21.20, 19, 19.45 United We.Bk 26.50, 25.50, 26.60 MNC Plan A (Div Payout) 25.82 Growth (G) 15.57 Debt (G) 10.64 Dynamic Fund (D) 9.72 K-Tech 3.28 Malwa Cotton 31.55, 31.45 S 95 (G) 62.68 MNC Plan A (Div Reinv) 25.82 Growth (D) 14.06 Fortune 94 10.31 Dynamic Fund (G) 9.72 LIC Mutual Fund Income (G) 19.17 26.45, 26.60, 25.60, 26.30 Basic Inds.(D) 16.63 MNC Plan B (Gr) 38.56 E-Com (D) 2.98 Income Instnl.(G) 19.22 31.70, 31.80, 30.75, 31.80 Upper Ganges 21.90, 22.90, 20.55, Income (D) 10.53 G Plus II 13.20 Bond (D) 11.05 Man Inds.(I) 60.50, 65, 59.10, 64.70 S.I.Bank 55.05, 56.35, 54.55, 55.65 Basic Inds.(G) 19.19 Sweep Plan (D) 9.38 Income (G) 19.05 Gilt (G) 10.58 Floater Fund-STP (D) 10.02 Bond (G) 17.57 Income-Dividend-(Q) 11.45 55, 56.45, 54.10, 55.80 21.60 Buy India (D) 6.56 Sweep Plan (G) 10.52 Income Bond (D) 10.40 Liquid (D-Reinv) 10.00 Floater Fund-STP (G) 10.02 Children’s Fund 12.01 Income-Inst.(DQ) 11.46 Manglr.Chem 5.63, 5.37, 5.47 22, 22, 19.75, 21 Manugraph In 31.40, 32.50, 31, Sabero Org. 13.50, 14.50, 14.15 Buy India (G) 6.57 BOB Mutual Fund Income Bond (G) 12.36 Liquid (G) 10.91 Gilt Long Term (D) 11.11 Dhanasahayog A 9.36 Income-Instnl (D) 11.03 13.80, 14.50, 13.40, 13.95 Usha Martin 37.50, 40.20, 40.05 Capital Tax Relief’96 78.76 Elss 96 14.88 Opportunities (D) 11.63 HDFC Mutual Fund Gilt Long Term (G) 13.34 Dhanasahayog B 9.36 Index 11.50 32.45 37.75, 40.25, 37.55, 39.95 Maral Overs 14.50, 14, 15 Saint-Gobain 16.25, 16.45, 15.85, Cash Manager (D) 10.01 Gilt (D) 10.47 Opportunities (G) 14.08 Balanced 12.32 Gilt Short Term (D) 10.96 Dhanasahayog C 20.56 Liquid (D) 11.84 16.25 Uttam Galva. 13.15, 14.65, 13, 14.25 Cash Manager (G) 15.21 Gilt (G) 10.47 Tax (D) 13.08 Balanced Fund (G) 13.41 Gilt Short Term (G) 12.42 Dhansmriddhi 3.55 Liquid (G) 15.23 14.40, 14.95, 14.20, 14.75 13, 14.60, 13, 14.25 Mascon Globl 8.96, 9.10, 8.60, 8.90 Sakthi Sugar 25.10, 25.50, 24.20, Cash Manager Instnl (D) 10.01 Income (D) 10.89 Tax (G) 13.08 Capital Builder (D) 13.53 Growth & Value (D-Y’ly) 14.03 Equity Fund 8.57 Liquid - Daily (D) 11.85 24.65 Cash Manager Instnl (G) 10.23 Income (G) 10.89 First India Mutual Fund Capital Builder (G) 15.80 Growth & Value (G) 18.27 Govt.Sec. (D) 11.12 Liquid Instnl.Mon.(D) 11.86 Matrix Lab. 830.05, 863.85, 860.45 V Matsushita L 45.50, 46.95, 45.25, 25.10, 25.30, 23.85, 24.70 Cash Manager Instnl. (DD) 10.00 Liquid (D) 10.96 Gilt 11.31 Childrens Gift-Invst. 14.96 Growth & Value(D-Hf Y’ly) 14.48 Govt.Sec. (G) 17.12 Liquid- Inst.(MD) 11.94 Salora Int. 51, 49.50, 50.30 Equity (D) 20.89 Liquid (G) 11.08 Growth 14.45 Childrens Gift-Savings 13.94 Index BSE Sensex 11.92 Index Nifty 12.25 Liquid- Instnl. (DD) 11.85 46.25 Vaibhav Gems 26.25, 24.60, 25.40 Equity (G) 37.73 Liquid-Inst.(G) 15.25 Mega Corpn. 3.50, 3.51, 3.50 53, 53, 49.50, 50 Vanavil Dyes 42, 41.75, 42.10 Canbank Mutual Fund Income 11.34 Equity (D)(Z) 17.33 Index Nifty 11.82 Index Sensex 12.34 Samkrg Pist. 45.55, 46.80, 44, 46.50 Frontline Eq(D) 13.35 Canbonus 10.12 Income Fund (D) 10.40 Equity (G) (Z) 35.85 LISTE-Com (G) 2.98 Index Sensex Adv. 12.58 Liuid- Instnl. (D) 11.85 Megasoft 40.50 Vardhman Pol 53.50, 52, 53.15 Frontline Eq(G) 14.34 Cancigo 11.27 Liquid (D) 10.19 FRI-(L) 10.33 Liquid Account Call 10.84 Liquid (D) 10.74 Long Term 12.04 Melstar Info 17.25, 17.50, 16.55, Samtel Color 24.55, 25, 23.60, 23.95 52, 54, 52, 53.65 G-Sec Long Term (D) 12.07 Cancigo (G) 12.74 Liquid (G) 11.07 FRI-(S) 10.36 Liquid Inst. (D) 10.00 Liquid (G) 11.06 MIP - (D-M’ly) 10.76 17.40 24.50, 24.50, 23.90, 24.10 Vardhman Spg 80.35, 83.50, 80, G-Sec Long Term (G) 17.95 Canequity Tax Saver 11.86 Short Term 10.83 Floating Rate IncomeLTPDI 10.02 Liquid Inst. (G) 11.50 MIP Growth 17.30 MIP - Cum. 13.75 17.40, 17.60, 13.60, 17.35 Sandesh Ltd. 119.75, 122, 118, 82.70 G-Sec Short Term (D) 10.29 Canexpo 14.80 Short Term (D) 10.26 Floating Rate IncomeSTCDI 10.02 Lq. 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A/c (G) 11.50 MIP Yearly Income 10.85 MIP - Q’ly 10.77 Metroche.Ind 21 121, 123, 118, 120.60 Varun Ship. 14.80, 14.90, 13.70, Income (D) 11.40 Canganga 10.33 Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund Gilt Long Term (G) 14.74 ING Mutual Fund Short Term Plan (D) 10.09 Power (G) 20.86 MICO 7999, 7706, 7811.90 Sangam (I) 25.55, 26.90, 25.50, 14.50 Income (G) 22.35 Cangilt PGS (D) 10.34 FT Asset Allocat.Bal Gr. 12.09 Gilt Short Term (D) 10.25 Balanced Portfolio (D) 7.61 Short Term Plan (G) 10.20 Power (D) 14.41 7824, 7825, 7735, 7808.75 25.75 14.50, 14.85, 13.80, 14.60 Income 54EA (D) 11.41 Cangilt PGS (G) 16.93 FT Asset Allocat.Cons Gr. 11.84 Gilt Short Term (G) 11.95 Balanced Portfolio (G) 7.61 Tax 10.70 PruICICI Short-Inst.(G) 11.64 Mid-Day Mul. 21.75, 22, 21, 21.90 25.35, 26.80, 25, 25.75 Vashisti Det 12.80, 12.97, 12.65, Income 54EA (G) 22.34 Canglobal 6.35 FT Asset Allocat.Infl 11.28 Growth 12.99 Capital Portfolio 11.15 PNB Mutual Fund SPICE 42.52 21.95, 22, 21.25, 21.60 Sanwaria Agr 38.70, 35.20, 38.60 12.74 Income 54EB (D) 11.42 Canincome (B) 10.31 FT Asset Allocat.Pure Gr. 12.94 Growth Fund (Dividend) 11.51 Gilt Portfolio 11.61 Balanced Growth (I) 12.59 Short Term 11.63 Mindteck 17.90, 18.25, 17.25, 18 Saregama (I) 52, 52.50, 51.25, 51.75 12.50, 12.95, 12.50, 12.75 Income 54EB (G) 22.20 Canincome (G) 11.03 FT Asset Allocat.Steady G 12.48 High Int. Stp (D)(Z) 10.53 Growth Portfolio (D) 6.23 Debt (I) 13.16 Short Term (D) 10.60 Mirza Tanner 38.50, 37, 37.60 52, 52.25, 50.50, 51.05 Venky’s (I) 53.55, 54.15, 54.10 Income Q’ly (D) 10.53 Canincome (I) 10.26 FT Balanced (G) 12.41 High Int. Stp (G)(Z) 11.36 Growth Portfolio (G) 7.44 Principal Mutual Fund Short Term Instnl. (FD) 10.87 38.10, 38.50, 37.70, 38.25 SAT Invest. 14.90, 12.23 53.50, 54.85, 53.50, 54.75 Monthly Income (G) 18.24 Canliquid (D) 10.05 FT Gilt Invst (G) 13.94 High Int.(D-Half Y’ly)(Z) 11.32 Income Port.-Inst.(G) 16.39 Balanced (D) 13.48 Short Term Instnl. (MD) 10.84 Satnam Over. 47, 42.80, 43.90 Monthly Income (M’ly) 10.75 Short-Fortnightly(D) 10.63 MM Forgings 142, 146, 135.50, Veronica Lab 9.50, 10.20, 9.31, 10.09 Canliquid (G) 11.20 FT Gilt Invst (M’ly B) 12.63 High Int.(D-Q’ly)(Z) 11.28 Income Portfolio (G) 16.33 Balanced (G) 13.36 137.20 44.50, 45.50, 42.70, 43.20 Vesuvius (I) 113.75, 113.90, 107.50, Monthly Income (Q’ly) 10.90 Canpremium 14.94 FT Gilt Invst (Q’ly) 11.71 High Int.(D-Y’ly)(Z) 11.46 Income Portfolio (I) 10.74 Benefit Debt (QD) 10.56 Sweep 10.75 Satvah.Ispat 15.50, 16.40, 14.65, New Millennium (D) 4.61 Canpremium (G) 16.94 FT Gilt Liquid (G) 11.50 High Int.(G)(Z) 22.40 Income Portfolio-Inst.(D) 10.79 Benefit Fund Debt (AD) 11.30 Tax (D) 14.11 Modipon 29.60, 31.05 109.50 Monalisa Inf 0.35, 0.36, 0.32, 0.33 16.05 107.30, 111.95, 107.30, 109.60 New Millennium (G) 4.61 Cantriple 24.70 FT Gilt Liquid (M’ly) 10.34 Idx-Nifty(FV 10.33) 13.49 Income Portfolio-STO (D) 10.71 Benefit Fund Debt (HYD) 10.81 Tax (G) 21.37 Savita Chem. 86.95, 81.10, 82.10 Short Term (D) 10.05 Chola Mutual Fund FT Index - BSE 12.29 Idx-Sensex(FV 32.16) 42.27 Income Short Term 10.82 Benefit Fund Debt(G) 11.29 Technology 3.80 Monnet Ispat 56.60, 58.25, 55.50, 58 Viceroy Hot. 12.55, 13.85, 13.75 Monsanto (I) 985, 1043.95, 980.15, 81.15, 83.90, 81.10, 82.45 Videocon Apl 15.20, 15.70, 15.10, Short Term (G) 11.05 FMP Y’ly (D) 10.26 FT Index - Nifty 13.44 Idx-SensexPl(FV 32.16) 43.96 Invst. Portfolio 11.35 Cash M-Liq.Inst.(MD) 10.02 UTI Mutual Fund SBI Home Fin 14.60, 15.60, 15.50 Short Term Fund Instnl(D) 10.05 Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly) 10.59 FT Monthly Income (G) 14.55 Income (D) 11.03 Treas.Portfolio(Daily Div 10.76 Cash M-Liq.Inst.(WD) 10.00 Bond (G) 18.28 1041.60 15.55 995, 1030, 977.15, 1026.25 15.35, 15.45, 14.75, 15.25 15.10, 15.60, 15.05, 15.45 Short Term Fund Instnl(G) 10.02 Freedom Income (C) 17.94 FT Monthly Income (M’ly B 13.09 Income (G) 15.29 Treasury Portfolio (D) 10.77 Cash M-Liq.Inst.DD 10.00 Bond (I) 11.07 Schenec.Beck 65, 68.45, 66.35 Aviva Life Insurance Freedom Income (R) 10.12 FT Monthly Income (M) 11.27 Income Premium Plus (D) 11.07 Treasury Portfolio (G) 13.13 Cash M-Liq.Inst.Growth 10.19 Brand Value 9.64 Morepen Lab 14.20, 13.05, 13.10 Videocon Fin 24, 23.75, 23.90 14, 14.10, 13.15, 13.15 Schenec.Herd 32.15, 34.50, 34.15 24.80, 24.85, 23, 24.15 EasyLifePlus Unit Linked 14.12 Freedom Income-Inst Cum 17.97 FT Monthly Income (Q) 11.46 Income Premium Plus (G) 15.35 JM Mutual Fund Cash M-MAC.Inst.(DD) 10.00 CCP 13.35 36, 36, 35.95, 36 EasyLifePlus Unitised Pro 10.73 Freedom Income-Inst Reg 10.12 FT PE Ratio 11.80 Income-Premium (D) 11.05 Balanced (D) 10.62 Cash Manag.Liq.DD 10.00 CRTS 95.78 Morgan Stan 12.25, 12.39, 11.90, Vidhi Dyestu 15, 14.20, 14.50 Life Insurance Pension 10.73 Equity Tax Savings 13.64 12.27 Search Chem. 27.25, 27.50, 25.25, Vikrant Tyre 17.65, 18, 17.85 Freedom Tech.(Cum) 9.01 Franklin Balanced(D) 13.59 Income-Premium (G) 15.33 Balanced (G) 12.92 Cash Mngt.-Liquid (G) 12.22 27.15 Life Insurance Unit Link 14.12 Freedom Tech.(Reg) 5.84 Franklin Balanced(G) 14.14 Liquid (D) 10.06 Basic 15.60 Cash Mngt.-Liquid (MD) 10.02 G-Sec (G) 17.42 12.05, 12.45, 11.90, 12.30 Vinati Org. 15.80, 15.50, 16.75 LifeBond Unit Linked 14.12 G-Sec (I) 11.20 Motherson SS 189, 190.10, 186.55, 26.60, 27, 25, 26.95 Vindhya Tele 30, 24.55, 25.75 Gilt Invst.(Cum) 16.66 Franklin Bluechip (D) 15.19 Liquid (G) 12.30 Equity (D) 10.98 Cash Mngt.-Liquid (WD) 10.10 Selan Explor 13.50, 13.30, 14 LifeBond Unitised Profit 10.73 Gilt Invst.(Reg) 10.38 Franklin Bluechip (G) 34.27 Liquid-Premium (D) 11.95 Equity (G) 10.50 Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(D) 10.00 Grandmaster 93 12.45 187.40 25.05, 26, 24.80, 25.55 LifeSaver Unit Linked 14.12 Gilt Series (Cum) 13.43 Franklin FMCG 13.18 Liquid-Premium Plus (D) 11.95 Floater Fund - Long (D) 10.08 Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(G) 11.98 Index Select Eq. 16.01 190, 190, 181.10, 187.35 Sesa Goa 266.70, 280.80, 261, VIP Indus. 23.25, 24.30, 24 LifeSaver Unitised Profit 10.73 Gilt Series (Reg) 13.43 Franklin Growth 7.93 Liquid-Premium Plus (G) 12.32 Floater Fund - Long (G 10.08 Child (CB) 20.84 Mahila Unit Scheme 14.10 Moving Pictu 7.05, 6.67 277.45 23.90, 24.25, 23.65, 24.15 PensionPlus Unit Linked 12.09 Growth (Cum) 18.18 Franklin Index 10.24 Liquid-Premium(G) 12.32 Floater Fund-Short (D) 10.10 Child (FG) 20.57 Master Growth-1993 18.88 Mro-Tek 13.50, 14.50, 14.20 266.90, 280, 261.05, 277.90 Visaka Ind. 28.60, 33, 28.50, 32.55 PensionPlusUnitisedProfit 10.32 Growth (Reg) 12.81 Franklin Index Tax 10.48 Liquidity - Call (Dd)(Z) 10.43 Floater Fund-Short (G) 10.10 Dep.Fund-371Days(G) Jun03 10.17 Master Index 13.03 14.10, 14.50, 14, 14.15 Sesha.Paper 72, 72.80, 69, 71 32.95, 33, 32, 32.90 Birla Sunlife Insurance Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum 12.50 Franklin Infotech (D) 9.53 Liquidity - Call (G)(Z) 10.82 G-Sec (D-Reg) 10.20 Deposit 371DD Mar03 10.33 Master Value Unit 1998 22.67 MRPL 36.50, 37, 33, 35.70 71, 73, 69, 71.30 VJIL Consult 8.75, 8, 8.30 Group Fixed Interest 11.21 Liquid Instl. Div.Pay 11.08 Franklin Infotech (G) 13.93 Liquidity -IP(D)(Z) 11.42 G-Sec (G-Reg) 18.92 Deposit 371DG Mar03 10.33 Mastergain 92 13.71 36.80, 36.90, 32.65, 35.70 Sh.Cements 92.25, 94.50, 90, 93.85 Voltas 94.10, 94.30, 91.75, 93.20 Group Growth 14.65 Liquid-Reg.-Inst.Plus 11.38 Franklin Internet Opp 5.99 Liquidity -IP(G)(Z) 13.45 G-Sec PF 17.90 Deposit-54 EA 15.35 Masterplus 91 22.04 Mukand 22.20, 22, 23.90 90, 94.85, 89, 93.70 94, 95.90, 92.75, 94 Group Secure 14.03 Lq. (Cum) 12.47 Franklin Intl. 9.58 Liquidity -SP(D-W’ly)(Z) 10.63 G-Sec PF Plan-(G) 19.54 Deposit-54 EB 15.35 Mastershare 86 14.63 22.45, 24.05, 22, 24 Sh.Digv.Cem. 26.40, 26, 26.95 VST Indus. 184.25, 190, 188 Group Stable 15.66 Lq. 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Dropping his guard Running for London Colin’s woes Peeved with judges’ decision on one Track legend Sebastian Coe has Colin Montgomerie’s of his vaults during the World been made a vice chairman of poor recent run has taken Athletics Final, German pole vaulter London’s bid for the 2012 Summer its toll. The famed golfer has Tim Lobinger dropped his pants in Games. He will rally support from changed his caddie for the second time protest. The world indoor champion the British sports community and this year. He has not won a title since last may now have to drop $5,000 as fine also gain backing for the bid abroad year’s season-ending Volvo Masters
Indian women lifters do well in China
Now Bobby and I should rise to fulfil the expectations of people. ‘Believe in what you’re doing’ Kiwi spies on an K.K. Laskar —Anju Bobby George TIMES NEWS NETWORK ‘‘Anju has emerged as a role model. He added that Indian SPORTS DIGEST New Delhi: The mood was ex- women athletes have done In- ‘overt’ mission Bangladesh hold Uzbekistan: uberant. And the Amateur Ath- dia proud. ‘‘India cannot settle In a dramatic turn of events, letics Federation of India did for anything but a gold at the Wellington: Sachin Ten- match starts. Bangladesh came from behind to much to make it a memorable Olympics,’’ he said. Kalmadi dulkar and Sourav Gangu- Ross said there was noth- draw 3-3 against Uzbekistan in the occasion for Anju B. George, exhorted Anju by saying: ly obviously aren’t too con- ing covert about his trip. sixth match of the four-nation under- the Paris World Athletics ‘‘Anju you can do it.’’ cerned about video footage ‘‘They know we’re coming, 19 JRD Tata Cup International Invita- bronze winner, at a felicitation AAFI secretary Lalit of their batting techniques they’ve allocated us a wel- tion football tournament on Tuesday. function at the Nehru stadium. Bhanot stated that the ‘‘little getting into the hands of coming party and trans- Despite a good start, Bangladesh “Believe in what you are do- push’’ given by Anju at the international opposition. port. They’ve been more trailed 0-2 in the first half of match ing and victory is a sure possi- world level would ‘‘certainly New Zealand is sending than gracious,’’ Ross said and the Uzbeks drew first blood bility,” Anju, exhorted the inspire the young to follow its coach and a video ana- on Tuesday.‘‘But I do feel a through skipper Sobir Usmankhoa- gathering on Tuesday. her path. Anju has shown the lyst to Chennai this week bit like James Bond, the spy jaev’s goal in the 32nd minute. Their “I feel proud to be the first path. Young athletes will cer- to film and analyze Ten- that everybody knows.’’ margin increased after seven min- Indian to win a medal in a tainly follow it’’. dulkar’s Bombay 11 The New Zealanders did utes when striker Shakheboz Erkinov world athletics meet. I am against Ganguly’s Rest of a similar reconnoiter dur- sent a powerful header inside the net Kalmadi also presented a proud that I could represent In- leaving the Bangladesh goalkeeper cash award of Rs 5 lakhs to India lineup in a trial ing a tour match in Napier, stumped. Uzbekistan were leading dia and deliver my best,’’ said Anju and Rs 1 lakh to Bobby. match ahead of next New Zealand last year to Anju, who looked tired despite 2-0 at lemon break. PTI “Anju is more confident now. month’s Test cricket series analyze the India batsmen best efforts to hide it. I urge the people to come between the two nations. before the two-Test series. Bradman’s letters: Donations Anju, who addressed the along with us. We will take The Indian cricket New Zealand won the se- from the Australians have helped the gathering in English, dedicat- you to the podium in Athens board has reportedly ries 2-0 on difficult seam- Bradman Museum buy a collection ed the medal the ‘‘noble Indi- Olympics,” Bobby said. played the perfect host, ing pitches. Ross is expect- of letters that cricketing great Sir ans’’ adding that ‘‘Now Bobby SAI Director General stopping just short of set- ing entirely different con- Donald Bradman wrote about 70 (husband and coach) and I Shekhar Dutt, R K Mishra, years ago. Bradman wrote the letters ting up the camera equip- ditions in India. ‘‘We’re to friend Bert Kortlang, a former Vic- have to rise to fulfil the expec- joint secretary in sports min- ment for their rivals. uncertain about the exact torian domestic cricketer, while on tations of the people.’’ istry, AICC secretary Vyalar New Zealand coach Ash- nature of what we might the Ashes tour of England in 1930 — Anju thanked the Ministry Ravi, junior national coach J ley Ross will leave for Indi- face there,’’ he said. The Bradman’s first tour overseas. AP of External Affairs for the S Saini and former interna- an on Wednesday,a day be- New Zealand squad leaves timely help extended to her af- tional athlete Shiny Wilson fore the five-day Irani Cup on Sunday for India. AP ASIAN GOLF MERIT ORDER ter she was robbed off her be- attended the function. Ajit Ninan Anju to miss Asian meet: 1 Arjun Atwal (Ind) 218,243 longings while training in 2 Hang Lian-Wei (Chn) 155,569 Paris in preparation for the Anju will not participate in 3 Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 138001 Monaco Grand Prix finals. She the Asian Athletics Champi- 4 Brad Kennedy (Aus) 118865 also thanked the AAFI, the In- onship scheduled to held in 5 Chung Joon (Kor) 104,019 dian Olympic Association and Manila, Philippines from 6 Thammanoon Srirot (Tha) 94339 7 Lin Wen-Ko (Tai) 76878 ministry of sports for their September 20. Anju said that 8 Rick Gibson (Can) 75,897 help in ensuring maximum ex- she needed rest before the 9 Ted Purdy (USA) 72580 posure in her bid of winning a Afro-Asian Games to be held 10 Daniel Chopra (Swe) 69,793 medal at the Worlds. in Hyderabad next month. 12 Amandeep Johl (Ind) 64,828 Like in the reception at the However, her name along 14 Arjun Singh (Ind) 54,584 33 Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 25,284 IGI Airport on Monday as she with Bobby figures among (Earnings in dollars) arrived from Monaco, the the 45-member squad named sports ministry turned their by the AAFI on Monday. Teams: Men: Anil Kumar P., Sanjoy BETTING METER back towards the felicitation Ghosh, Manoj Lal, Satbir Singh, K.M. Binu, FORMULA ONE function too. Their lone repre- P.S. Primesh, Gulab Chand, Kuldeep Kumar, World Drivers Championship sentative was R.K. Mishra, one Aman Saini, Naunidh Singh, Gupreet Singh, M Schumacher 4/7 of the joint secretaries in the Arun D’Souza, Wayne Peppin, Maha Singh, JP Montoya 5/4 Shakti Singh, Jaiveer Singh, Anil Kumar, Kul- K Raikkonen 20/1 ministry. Sports minister winder Singh, Piyush Kumar, Sandeep (as per ladbrokes.com) Vikram Verma was away busy Sarkaria, Amit Kumar Saha, Mohd Nassir, campaigning for the elections Bhupendra Singh, P.Shankar, Vinod P.J., Anil LIVE ON TV Kumar Rohil. Women: Vinita Tripathi, S. in Madhya Pradesh. Vijay Goel, Geetha, Sagardeep Kaur, Madhuri Saxena, DD Sports: 1530 hrs: JRD Tata Cup Football: India vs minister of state for sports, Sunita, L. Aruna Devi, Manish Dey, Harwant India B. also opted to skip the function. Kaur, Neelam J. Singh, Hardeep Kaur, Ritu ESPN: 0000 hrs: UEFA Champions League. Anju and her husband Bobby George at a felicitation function at Jawaharlal Nehru Rani, G.G. Promila, Soma Biswas, Anju B Star Sports: 0000 hrs: UEFA Champions League. Of those present, the AAFI George, Kalpana Reddy, Manjeet Kaur, Piniki president Suresh Kalmadi said: Stadium in New Delhi on Tuesday. Pramnik, Mukti Saha, Bobby Aloysius. CRICKET UPDATE AFP the ACC chief-executive, Speed remains said plans were being drawn up by ACC for the staging of ICC CEO an under-17 Asia Cup tour- nament in February. TNN London: Malcolm Speed will stay on as chief execu- Reduce county tive officer of the Interna- tional Cricket Council until games: Vaughan at least July 2005, the ICC an- London: England captain nounced. Speed’s contract Michael Vaughan has called was due to end in July next for the number of county year but the ICC said he had cricket matches to be cut in accepted an offer which half in a drastic bid to boost keeps him in charge until at standards in the domestic least July 2005. ‘‘Since taking game and produce better over in July 2001, Malcolm Test players. Vaughan has has lead the ICC through a proposed to reducing the period of rapid and funda- number of first-class coun- mental change,’’ ICC presi- ties from 18 to 16 playing in dent Ehsan Mani said. two divisions of eight. Each Speed acknowledged that team will then only play much had happened during their rivals once a summer, his two years in charge. as opposed to twice as ‘‘The past two years has presently. Vaughan also seen significant change in wants four-day games to take international cricket but place at fortnightly intervals there remains considerable to allow players to recover work to be done,’’ he said. from one fixture and prepare ‘‘With the mandate that the for the next by working on Executive Board has given to their technique. AFP the ICC to lead, promote, de- velop and optimize the fi- Akram to promote nances of international cricket, it is a terrific time to cricket in America be leading the sport and I ap- Sachin Tendulkar talks with Mumbai coach Chandrakant Lahore: Pakistani cricket Pandit during a practice session in Chennai on Tuesday. preciate the confidence that great Wasim Akram said on the President and the Board from September 27 to Octo- featuring India, Pakistan Tuesday he will visit the have shown in me by agree- ber 5. This competition will and Sri Lanka, are yet to be United States next week to ing to extend my contract.’’ AP be followed by two more jun- finalised. These tourna- help spur the growth of the ior level tournaments — an ments will be organised by game there. “I am going to Academy teams’ under-19 meet in Pakistan, the ACC. Announcing this, the United States to attend a that will also include Jagmohan Dalmiya, the dinner by Detroit league on meet from Sep 27 Bangladesh, and a tourna- chairman of the Asian September 28. I feel that for- Kolkata: The national acad- ment of the ‘A’ teams in In- Cricket Foundation said mer players like me can con- emy teams from India, Pak- dia. While the under-19 con- that Videocon would spon- tribute in the promotion of istan and Sri Lanka will lock test will be held from Octo- sor “this Asian cricket pack- cricket in the USA,” said the horns in a triangular meet ber 31 to November 6, the age” over the next four former skipper who retired to be played in Sri Lanka dates for the ‘A’ teams’ meet, months. Syed Ashraful Huq, last month. AFP Yuvraj won’t mind opening in Tests Reuters TIMES NEWS NETWORK squad for the Zimbabwe series. But Mumbai: Yuvraj Singh doesn’t want to nothing after that.’’ go the Michael Bevan way. Expert at Yuvraj said his English county stint one-day cricket and ‘thanda’ at the real with Yorkshire had been disappointing thing, Test cricket. In the city to launch but a ‘‘learning experience’’. Set Max’s World Cup-related serial, ‘In- His best was a 71 against Leicester dia’s Road To The Finals’, Yuvraj, said and a five-wicket haul in a benefit he would not mind opening the innings game. ‘‘I thought I did a good job with in Test cricket. the ball.’’ Bevan, Australia’s greatest one-day Going back to the World Cup he said, exponent with 213 caps, didn’t play ‘‘The triumph over Pakistan and seeing more than 18 Tests though he was a how much joy it gave our people here more than useful cricketer. ‘‘Playing makes it something I shall never forget Tests is the only way you can become a in my life.’’ complete player,’’ said Yuvraj, who is yet Conversely, he added, ‘‘The World to play the five-day version. Cup final defeat hurt not so much after And judging from the snippets aired the game as when one saw the disap- at a press conference on Tuesday,Yuvraj Yuvraj Singh poses for a photograph pointment reflected in our people. It vibes well with presenter Mandira Bedi. with television star Mandira Bedi during made it harder to accept the loss. We Yuvraj recalled: ‘‘After the Nairobi se- the launch of a television programme on had won seven or eight matches in a ries I had had been named in the Test cricket, in Mumbai on Tuesday. row and we had a right to expect a win.’’
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22 Wednesday, September 17, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi
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The Times of India, New Delhi TIMES SPORT Wednesday,September 17, 2003 23 Richie Rich is favourite IOA delegation for Pakistan Barreto among 13 fined TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK Charmer 1, Inside Story 2, Aiberni 3. Dora- IFA ACTS TOUGH nia Handicap: 1,400m: 4.55pm: Star Se- New Delhi: A seven-member Indian Olympic Association New Delhi:Richie Rich, win- lection 1, Abridge 2, Lucifier 3. Kolkata: The Indian Foot- delegation will attend an Extraordinary Executive Council Bagan-Mohammedan Sport- ner of the Colts Trial Stakes, Maharaja’s Cup: Nine horses ball Association has decided Meeting of South Asian Sports Federation at Lahore on Sep- ing ‘Super Six’ matches, is expected to win the will vie for the Maharaja’s to get tough in the wake of tember 18. The delegation, led by IOA president Suresh hauled up six players and an Calcutta Derby Trial Stakes, Gold Cup at Mysore on Friday: indiscipline and pitch vio- Kalmadi, comprises of general secretary Randhir Singh, official from the green-and- the main event of the lence that reared their ugly Maharaja’s Gold Cup: 40 & above: vice-presidents B S Ojha and A K Mattoo, associate vice-pres- heads on the homestretch of maroon camp, four players Kolkata races scheduled for 1,600m: Double Eagle 62.5, River God 61, and a couple of officials ident Mohammad Aslam Khan, media advisor Aziz Quereshi the Super Division recently. Wednesday. Adolfito 59.5, Augill Castle 54, from the red-and-golds and and chief public relation officer Sandeep Mehta. The delega- Thirteen players and Selections: Free Lancer Handicap: Iflookscouldkill 53.5, Obligado 53.5, five players from the black- 1,200m: 1.25pm: Tequila Shot 1, Frontier Siberean 53, Concur 52.5, Highlevel 47.5. tion will travel via Wagah border on Wednesday and will be three officials, spread and-white brigade, slapping Flame 2, Splendid Quest 3. Flying Glance AC Somanna Memorial Trophy: 30-45: seen off by Punjab and Chandigarh Olympic Associations. across the ‘Big Three’ roster fines ranging from Rs 10,000 Handicap: 1,400m: She’s A Star 1, Secret 1,2090m: Hero Worship 59, Just Do It 58.5, The meeting will discuss the hosting of the much-post- and including foreign stars Desire 2, Smart Romeo 3. Jingle Handi- Heroic 57.5, Axe 56.5, Conquering Star to Rs 30,000 and bans of upto poned 9th SAF Games and to fix the dates for the Games in Jose Barreto, Marcos Par- cap: 1,100m: Blushing Queen 1,Arikara 2, 56.5, Storm The Fort 56, Swing- two matches. Mohammedan 2004. The Indian delegation will brief the members on the reira and Mike Okoro, were Alborada 3. Stoney Valley Cup: ing Conquest 56, Its So Sporting’s Dipendu Biswas 1,800m: Blue Chip 1, Alexine Wonderful 55, Special- first Afro-Asian Games to be held in Hyderabad from October punished with suspensions and Hussain Mustafi got 2, Bay Dragon 3. Calcutta ize 54.5, Supreme 24 to November 1. It will also seek Pakistan Olympic Associ- or fine and, in most cases, away with only a caution Derby Trial Stakes: Heights 54, ation’s support for New Delhi’s bid for Commonwealth both. 2,000m: Richie Rich Exalted Games 2010. though. 1, Aretino 2, Far 52.5, Line IFA’s disciplinary com- Hope 3. Star of of Con- Kalmadi told TNN that both India and Pakistan should mittee, which had scruti- The IFA said the money Italy Cup: trol ‘‘keep a window open to continue their relationship in sports nised the East Bengal-Mo- collected will be put into the 1,400m: Smart 50.5. arena despite their differences in the political level’’. hun Bagan and the Mohun Player’s Benevolent Fund.
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24 Wednesday,September 17, 2003 TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi Jyoti jumps up in ranking Rathore shoots down bronze, Olympic berth London: Jyoti Randhawa, who became the first Indian to win on the Japan Golf Tour with his two-shot victory, rises TIMES NEWS NETWORK him third behind gold medallist INDIANS ABROAD team championship with 532. style. Pratima Kumari, the to 169th in the world ranking. Tiger Woods extends his record Ellen Walter of USA (192) and The five-member Indian women’s Commonwealth Games gold run at number one to 213 consecutive weeks. Reuters New Delhi: Major Rajyavardhan Mark Russell of Australia (191), ac- team finished ahead of Asian giants medallist bagged two silvers Singh Rathore on Tuesday joined cording to information reaching Women lifters Indonesia (286), North Korea (283) and a bronze medal. PTI compatriots Anjali Vedpathak and here. and South Korea (209), Indian Abhinav Bindra in gaining the Tuesday’s performance was dou- Weightlifting Federation secretary quota place for next year’s Athens bly satisfactory for Rathore as he shine in China Balbir Singh Bhatia, who accompa- Olympics in double trap by win- edged out Ahmed Almaktoum nied the team on the tour informed. ning a bronze medal in ISSF shoht- New Delhi: Indian women lifters on (187), the UAE shooter who had de- Tuesdayreturned home reaping a Nandini Devi came up with the gun world championships in nied him the quota place at the most impressive performance for In- Nicosia, Cyprus on Tuesday. rich medal haul in the senior Asian Delhi World Cup. weightlifting championship in Chi- dia as she claimed three silver in the The Commonwealth Games Rathore’s performance has come 53kg category. na, where they finished second in medallist, who had won the bronze as a big relief for the Indian team “Nandini performed really well to the team championship. but missed the quota berth in the in Nicosia after the trap and skeet win three medals. This can help in- World Cup held at Tuglakabad shooters failed to do much with The lifters bagged eight silver and crease her world ranking to six or here in March, shot 141 in the pre- Manavjit Singh’s fourth place fin- four bronze medals at Qinhuangdao seven,” Bhatia informed. liminary round and 48 in the final ish being the only notable per- to emerge runners up with 355 Nandini lifted 87.5kg in snatch for an aggregate of 148 that placed formance. points behind China, who won the and 112.5kg in the clean and jerk Rathore is elated By Pradeep Kumar TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Major Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, who earned the quota place in double trap for the Olympic Games, is keen on raising the Indian flag at Athens. Rathore told TNN over phone from Nicosia that he will try his best to win an Olympic medal. ‘‘An Olympic medal, that’s my dream. I will do my best to earn the honour for the country.” He felt relieved on making the Olympic grade. ‘‘Of late I’ve been shooting well. I’ve been trying for this since March this year.At the Delhi World Cup, I finished third. I missed the berth narrowly at Lonato. The pressure was building as I wanted to achieve it before the last competition,’’ he said and added: ‘‘re- member there are very few quota places in double trap.’’ About Tuesday’s competition, Rathore said despite the windy conditions he was able to score 49 in the first round, 45 in the second and 47 in the third. Ahmed Almaktoum, who earned the gold in the Delhi World Cup in March, was ahead of Rathore, but the the Army Major kept his cool to outshoot the United Arab Emirates marksman to clinch the third spot. Baljit Singh Sethi, National Rifle Association of India secre- tary termed Rathore’s feat as a big achievement adding that it will inspire the shooters to earn couple of more quota places. Singh leads Tiger Silvis (Illinois): Vijay Singh of Fiji completed a six-under- Top ten par 65 Monday morning to 1 Vijay Singh win the rain-delayed John $5,702,507 Deere Classic and move to the 2 Davis Love top of the PGA Tour money $5,504,846 list. 3 Tiger Woods Singh took his earnings to $5,228,746 $5,702,507 for the season, pass- 4 Jim Furyk Singh ing Tiger Woods and Davis $4,725,978 Love as he kept alive his 5 Mike Weir $4,670,339 hopes of earning Player of 6 Kenny Perry $4,118,904 the Year honors. 7 David Toms $3,337,323 The Fijian’s four-stroke vic- 8 Ernie Els $3,137,622 tory over Chris Riley, 1999 9 Chad Campbell champion J.L. Lewis and $2,538,038 Jonathan Byrd was his third 10 Jay Haas $2,298,752 win of the year. AFP Players get money TIMES NEWS NETWORK During his daily media brief- ing, Rajinder welcomed the New Delhi: Discontent with- fact that the players were in the Indian hockey squad getting their due in terms of over pecuniary gains during money. “But they have to the recent Lucknow camp concentrate more. So far it has resulted in some more has been free for all as far as moolah coming their way.On their (players’) dealing with Tuesday, team sponsor media was concerned. Sahara announced a bonus On the eve of team’s depar- of Rs. 25,000 per month for ture, Rajinder was also criti- each player, till the next cal of some former players Olympics in 2004. who he said were “unneces- “This amount would be sarily criticising” the team over and above the sponsor- and coach. He also did not ap- ship fee that has been agreed preciate the idea of hiring a upon between Sahara and foreign coach. “What can a IHF,” said K. Jothikumaran, foreign coach do unless the secretary of the IHF. The team improves in basics. Take first cheques were handed the example of Malaysia’s over to the players at the on- German coach Paul Lissek. going camp at the National What has he been able to do in Stadium here on Tuesday. the last 4-5 years?” ‘Players need to focus Rajinder was hopeful that more’: Chief coach Rajinder the Indian team will do well Singh exhorted the players in Asia Cup but added: “I am to focus more on the game. keeping my fingers crossed.” Becks loses out to Anderson on a drink London: His fancy hairstyles and a trademark free kick may have made him a heart-throb world over with fans, especially girls, lining up in thousands to merely have a glimpse of the English soccer captain David Beckham. But the cricket fans in his own country seem to be immune from this hype as they prefer upcoming paceman James Anderson to the Real Madrid mid- fielder for a drink. Seven out of 10 English cricket fans would prefer to have a drink with Anderson than the England soccer captain, according to a survey commissioned to mark the publication of the first issue of The Wisden Crick- eter magazine. The survey also notes that despite the contrasts in profile and pay packets, 80 per cent of the respondents would prefer their daughters to marry a cricketer than a soccer player, the publishers said in a release said here.PTI
Nirmal Sharma
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