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OID‰‰‰†‰KOID‰‰‰†‰OID‰‰‰†‰MOID‰‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Wednesday,April 30, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 44 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Exhibition takes a Diplomats cold to Kiwis thwart look at the private Modi’s lunch with Lanka’s bid for life of Elizabeth I industrialists Test victory Page 14 Page 11 Page 21 IN ITH HE IMES W W T T Neeraj Paul What’s new from May 1 18 more New INA Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. pilots are Diplomacy is the art of 1 2 letting someone have your way. Existing suspended Dhaula Kuan — Daniele Vare 3 TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEWS DIGEST New Delhi: The Air-India IIT South Ex. management on Tuesday TOI readership: According to the Gate toughened its stand against Indian Readership Survey-2002, The the striking Indian Pilots Times of India retained the lead slot Fact file Guild (IPG). Eighteen more among English publications with 61 Size: Spread over 2 km includes two pilots were suspended on the lakh readers. Hindustan Times was flyovers, an underpass, 8 slip roads. grounds that they had re- in sixth position with 25 lakh Cost: Rs 68 crore. fused to fly to SARS-affected readers. P9 regions. Utility: Free flow of 13,000 cars / hour. With this, the airline has Prithvi test-fired: A modified version of surface-to-surface ballis- Speciality: First flyover with lawns. now suspended 45 of its 200 tic missile Prithvi was on Tuesday THE AIIMS FLYOVER: Smoother, quicker, pollution-free traffic over it will guarantee fewer Delhiites admitted to the hospitals under it. Construction Time: December 1999 to striking pilots. It also de- test-fired from the Interim Test This is the country’s first landscaped flyover and was an engineering challenge. Report on page 5 May 2003. recognised the IPG, saying it Range at Chandipur-on-Sea, near would not hold any further Balasore. talks with the union. Negoti- ations between the two war- I-T returns deadline: The exten- ring parties and regional sion of the last date for filing returns RBI slashes Ansals get a labour commissioner V Shi- to September 30, 2003, is not rele- va Kumar have failed. vant to individual income-tax payers. IPG is still considering le- It applies to persons, who are re- sponsible for deducting tax at bank rate to Ball still in Pak court breather in gal action against the sus- source and for filing of annual tax re- pensions terming them arbi- turns in respect of such tax deduc- trary.Taking no chances, A-I tion made in 2002-03. six per cent New Delhi sticks to its end-terror-first stand Uphaar case has gone ahead and filed US troops kill 13 Iraqis: US sol- By Siddharth Varadarajan TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK Acting tough diers opened fire on Iraqis at a TIMES NEWS NETWORK In Pakistan, anxiety and hope night-time demonstration, killing 13 New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of New Delhi: Sushil and Gopal and injuring 75 people, in Fallujah, New Delhi: A day after the Pak PM Jamali Foreign ministry official sounds India on Tuesday cut the bank Ansal, facing charges of crimi- • A-I refuses to talk to 50 km west of Baghdad. P15 Prime Ministers of India and says he’s hopeful note of caution rate — the key interest rate at nal negligence leading to the striking union Pakistan ‘‘agreed to consider’’ Airport construction: The Union which it lends to banks — from “We believe right-thinking people in death of 59 people in the Uphaar five areas for progress in bilat- “It was very • Flights from Chennai Cabinet cleared private participation 6.25 per cent to 6 per cent. This is case, got a breather on Tuesday. eral relations, officials here the Indian government will seize the suspended till May 4 in the construction of world class the lowest level of interest rates encouraging. I’m A Delhi court rejected the vic- airports in the country. This would said ‘‘the ball is clearly in Is- very hopeful... opportunity to break the ice.” in 32 years. Interest rates have lamabad’s court’’ and that no tims’ plea to cancel their bail • Labour commissioner cover all activities, except security dropped by five percentage for allegedly tampering with and air traffic control. P17 fresh conciliatory gesture was (but peace) is not Phone conversation could only be to review case points in the last five years. immediately likely on New like a button groundbreaking if “New Delhi’s evidence. RBI credit policy: The RBI’s cred- The RBI sent out a strong sig- Additional sessions judge • Pilots Guild plans Delhi’s part. which you turn on insistence on preconditions for starting legal action it policy has offered major sops to nal that interest rates will stay Denying that the exchange of Mamta Sehgal dismissed the ap- borrowers by keeping key interest steady for some time, and hinted high commissioners was immi- and it will start a dialogue did not extinguish the plication filed by the Associa- rates below inflation. But it has of- that they could even go up to nent, a senior official said it working.” ray of hope.” tion of Victims of Uphaar Fire fered nothing to savers. P17 bring inflation under control. Tragedy (AVUT),seeking cancel- caveats in the High Courts of was for Pakistan to act on In- Delhi and Mumbai. TN humble Delhi: L Balaji took While the Central Bank feels dia’s concerns. lation of the bail allowed to the five wickets as Tamil Nadu moved in inflation will be in the range of 5 ‘‘Our position remains of the two high commissioners. Vajpayee and Jamali were: eco- brothers and former Delhi fire ‘‘We will no longer treat to the final of the Ranji Trophy with a to 5.50 per cent during 2003-04, it firm,’’ said a senior official. ‘‘At The key remains ‘‘Pakistan’s nomic cooperation, cultural ex- officer H S Panwar. The court them as the sole representa- convincing 132-run win against Del- did add a note of caution. ‘‘Con- this stage, it is even more im- use of armed irregulars’’ in changes, people-to-people con- said the trial was at its last stage tive body of pilots for collec- hi at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in siderable uncertainties still re- portant for Pakistan to take pursuit of its objectives in tact, the resumption of flights and the court could not enter- tive bargaining,’’ an A-I New Delhi on Tuesday. P21 main on the inflation front,’’ it firm steps towards ending Kashmir, an official said. The and sporting links. tain the plea at this stage. spokesperson said. But the said in a statement. With inter- cross-border terrorism. ’’ PM had ‘‘opened a window of Official sources said when The AVUT had pleaded that A-I spokesperson said the YOU SAID IT by Laxman est rates stable until October There is, nevertheless, a pos- opportunity’’ in Srinagar and the Pakistani Prime Minister the accused had tampered with matter might now go before 2003, when the RBI will review sibility that the grant of visas Pakistan must now come good. mentioned sports, Vajpayee the evidence contained in court the chief labour commis- its policy for the credit season, for Track-II exchanges could be Sources said Pakistani PM replied that it would be odd to records while on bail. sioner in Delhi, S K banks are unlikely to reduce quietly liberalised as a follow- Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali’s play cricket when terrorists While some of the records had Mukhopadhyay. their deposit rates. Consumers up to Monday’s telephone con- proposal for a meeting with Va- were killing people. In this con- gone missing, certain others Meanwhile, labour minis- should continue to get 3.5 per versation. Pakistan agreeing to jpayee was put in general text Jamali said Pakistan con- were defaced, it had alleged, ter Sahib Singh Verma said cent from savings accounts. resume overflights — India terms — ‘‘Ham bhi mil sakte demned terrorism in all forms. adding this evidence would have he expected the pilots to Have interest rates bottomed said it was willing to do so last hain, jahan aap chahein’’ (We Comment: Before buying a proved the role of the brothers withdraw their strike un- out? RBI governor Bimal Jalan year — would take relations on can also meet, wherever you Lahore bus pass for Atalji, in the tragedy. conditionally. With the hinted that there’s limited po- to a higher plane, as would the like), he said — but that it was Delhi would do better to follow Among the documents that al- standoff continuing, A-I has tential for further reduction. less likely possibility of it premature to think in terms of protocol and install our high legedly went missing were some cancelled all its flights out of The bank projected a GDP granting India the ‘most a summit at this stage. commissioner-in-waiting in cheques signed by the Ansals Chennai till May 4. growth of 6 per cent in 2003-04, favoured nation’ trading status. Vajpayee told BJP MPs on Islamabad. and the Delhi fire service files. Comment: It’s high time the assuming a satisfactory Either way, the resumption of Tuesday that he had not accept- Sacred Space: ‘Friends and Foes’ The allegations prompted the government not only talked monsoon. bus and train links would prob- ed any invite to visit Pakistan. on Edit Page court to order a judicial inquiry but also acted tough with er- Detailed reports on page 17 ably come last, after the return The five areas identified by Dubyaman on Page 14 into the matter, the result of rant pilots.