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OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Saturday,April 12, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 42 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Hello! You had no Mallya’s art of living in Yuvraj cracks his right to take those politics: Dump JD(U), maiden one-day wedding photos revive Janata Party hundred Page 12 Page 7 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES AP Swati Target Tikrit Summer Established 1838 • Town of 260,000 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. owes its wealth and prominence to What difference does it make scores 41 favourite son Saddam to the dead, the orphans, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the on debut holy name of liberty ? TIMES NEWS NETWORK — Mahatma Gandhi New Delhi: The onset of forty- something temperature here on Fri- NEWS DIGEST • Site of largest day provides an unsettling intima- tion of the nasty summer that lies AJT proposal cleared: Defence Presidential palace compound and ahead. minister George Fernandes said in This day,last year,it didn’t get hot- Barmer on Friday that the ministry Republican Guard ter than 35 degrees centigrade but has cleared the long-pending propo- sal to procure Advanced Jet Trainers US PLAN already the mercury has touched 41. (AJTs) for the Indian Airforce. P6 For the next six months, then, there’ll be no looking back. Homes PM in Sikkim: Prime Minister AB fortunate enough to have fans and Vajpayee, who arrived electricity need not switch them off in Gangtok on a three- till October. day visit on Friday, said Dohuk Words like sun and heat, which in he would look into the Anglo-Saxon cultures are laden with problems being faced Air attack Mosul 3 the promise of gaiety and abandon, by Sikkim, which joined the Indian Union, 27 tend to conjure up for Indians the years after Independence. P8 Special Kirkuk prospect of (loadshedding-induced) 1 darkness at noon, droopiness and Meet on PDS: Prime Minister Vaj- forces guard unbounded thirst. payee has called an all-party meet- Tikrit The Beatles may have serenaded ing later this month to tackle prob- exit the coming of the sun and lems that plague the country’s public points Mendelssohn the midsummer night distribution system (PDS). P6 101 Airborne but in India, there is little that is ro- Gujarat on CNG mode: Taking 2 4th infantry mantic about the grishma ritu. Sum- the cue from Delhi’s clean-up act, 3rd divison Baghdad mer here tests the patience — and Gujarat plans to set up a chain of Iraqi college student Sama Samira tells an American soldier in Baghdad that US troops have hurt Iraq by invading it. the patriotism — of the wilting 246 CNG filling stations along the masses, who must toil on regardless highways between Hazira and of the sun’s fury. Mehsana by the end of next year.P7 ● No law or services as cities fall ● Saddam’s half-brother dead ● Fidayeen fears persist The one compensation nature of- Kailash Joshi left out: BJP’s fers for the relentless punishment Madhya Pradesh unit state presi- that is an Indian summer are man- dent, Kailash Joshi, has not been in- goes, which boldly ripen under cluded in the 12-member election the strongest rays of sunshine. management committee for that And then, of course, there’s the jas- state. P11 mine flower, whose delicate fra- No food, no water, no ruler grance emerges only in the heat and Ambedkar museum: The Luc- know Bench of the Allahabad High humidity of summer,rendering sen- Court has declined to interfere with Baghdad: Iraq’s capital is no across Baghdad. Shopkeepers course, we miss Saddam Hus- have fled the hospital, and Shi- ing up for seven nights without suous even the most ordinary Uttar Pradesh government’s deci- man’s land now, ruled by none. opened fire on looters for the sein now,’’ said Kazem al-Far- ite fighters from Najaf have set lights or electricity to protect head of hair. sion to build an Ambedkar museum This is a city running low on first time on Friday.At least 25 tisi, 52, who owns electronics up camp there. his home from looters. ‘‘We on the land earlier allotted for the food, water and with no elec- people were injured in the ram- and clothing stores in the al- The city’s two most presti- don’t care about the govern- April simmers construction of the Indira Gandhi tricity.But, most of all, it is law pages. Arabi area. ‘‘Under him this gious hotels, the Rashid and ment buildings, but we are Pratisthan. P8 and order that is in short Merchant Mohammed al- would never have happened.’’ the Mansur, were both in afraid for our homes, for our families,’’ said Boutros. Combating polio: ‘Polio fatigue’ supply. Shamai fired his pistol in the Even hospitals were not flames on Friday.Looters were Maximum temperature US forces — guarding among vaccinators and people’s ap- In a related development, air as he saw a band of looters spared. ‘‘The situation is chaot- seen climbing over the railings o against the kind of suicide Between 34-38 C athy could be a major factor for the Saddam Hussein’s half-brother, nearing his garment store. ‘‘We ic and catastrophic,’’ Interna- of the Rashid and hauling out o recurrence of the disease in UP. P8 Barzan al-Takriti, died Friday want law and order and we tional Red Cross medical coor- furniture, carpets and televi- bombing that injured four • April 29, 1941 45.6 C o morning in a US bombing of want the Americans to protect dinator Peter Tarabula said at sions. The power failure left Marines on Thursday — are • April 11, 2003 41.0 C Dry Saurashtra: The water crisis keeping roads closed and in most parts of Saurashtra is so his farm in Ramadi, west of our stores,’’ said Shamai. Al-Kindi hospital, one of the the city’s people in the dark Baghdad, a family friend said. The chaos has left some long- biggest city medical centres, about news of the war. Arkan shooting at vehicles that ig- acute that the state government may nore warning shots. run water trains to ease the short- Barzan had been placed under ing for the days of Saddam. ‘‘Of which was looted. All staff Daoud Boutros spoke of stay- Minimum temperature A CNN report said Marines age, which is likely to get worse in house arrest by Saddam on Between 18-23oC peak summer. P11 March 5. stopped a man dressed in The Pentagon civilian clothes carrying a o Families stayed off Bagh- How Bush FROM WAR TO PEACE • April 2,1965 10.7 C Cannibal traits: A genetic study has planned an suspicious black briefcase dad’s streets on Friday,leaving made by a team of researchers in will run Iraq UN Security Only UNSC Germany has which was going to be used as London points to a long history of them to roaming bands of boys ‘interim 1 2 3 a bomb. Agencies cannibalism. P12 and men who terrorised neigh- authority’ with retired US general Council can decide shot down a bourhoods with automatic Jay Garner as viceroy and Ameri- unlikely to grant how Iraqi oil is sold US proposal to Powell in South Asia soon: Page 8 Rainfall YOU SAID IT by Laxman weapons. cans heading all 23 ministries. legitimacy to US and how revenues involve NATO in See Edit: Ends & Beginnings Average rainfall is 11.5 mm Plumes of smoke from ran- Loyal Iraqis will work as ‘advisers’ rule over Iraq are spent peacekeeping role See also Samvad: UN is dead; In ’83, city recorded 183.5 mm sacked buildings could be seen long live the UN 2 SARS super-spreaders at large Hong Kong Singapore Meanwhile... Health officials announced that a Singapore’s largest hospital traced A top Russian medical expert did man infected with a new respiratory Friday the origin of a batch of in- not rule out Friday that the SARS disease had flown from Hong Kong fections to a Chinese man in his 60s virus could be a biological weapon to Munich, Barcelona, Frankfurt, whose multiple ailments masked developed by China. According to London, Munich again, Frankfurt the illness while he unwittingly Prof Sergei Kolesnikov, member of again and then back to Hong Kong passed it on to 19 people. Russian Medical Sciences Academy, before entering a hospital. Singapore General Hospital, SARS virus is a hybrid of two virus- ...On the left is a senior IAS officer. The Hong Kong Department of where 19 people, including staff, pa- es, which can only be produced in Next is an IGP. Then a bank Health appealed for passengers and tients and visitors, have caught laboratory conditions. manager. Next to him is an... air crews from all seven flights to SARS in a week, fears the virus Kolesnikov told a conference in consult medical professionals. A could have spread to other wards. the Siberian city of Irkutsk that the indiatimes.com POLL health department spokeswoman Nine people have died of 133 con- severe toxic nature and the speed said it was not yet known whether firmed cases — a rate of 6.7 percent, with which SARS is spreading also Yesterday’s results: Did you expect the man, who is 48, had infected above the global average of about allows to draw inference that it is a Baghdad to fall so soon? anyone else on the flights with four percent. It has the world’s man-made biological weapon. fourth-highest number of cases.

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