OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Saturday,June 14, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 36 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Lifetime award Jaya now takes on Veteran Watson for Hollywood’s Pope John Paul II over grabs lead in Raging Bull conversion remark US Open golf Page 12 Page 6 Page 17 WIN WITH THE TIMES AFP Siege over Don’t worry, US Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. in Talhan, assures Jaitley Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe curfew you anyway. on outsourcing — Elbert Hubbard still on By Chidanand Rajghatta TIMES NEWS NETWORK By Raju William TIMES NEWS NETWORK Washington: The Indian government and businesses have It is Vat Poornima in Maha- Talhan (Punjab): In a major won a major assur- rashtra today, when women breakthrough, the Punjab ad- ance from the Bush fast for their husbands and tie turmeric to banyan trees ministration on Friday per- administration on the with coloured strings. Why suaded 112 devotees, who had issue of outsourcing. the banyan tree? In the Puranas, locked themselves inside the A senior US official Sati Savitri resurrected her husband, contentious shrine here on has said that Wash- Satyavan, under a banyan tree on Thursday and threatened ington is against any this day. self- immolation to give up attempt by state gov- their protest. Arun Jaitley ernments to legislate The devotees locked them- a ban on outsourcing NEWS DIGEST selves in to protest a Punjab on the lines of what is being considered government’s move of ap- in New Jersey and other states. Kapil’s car seized: A Gujarat CID pointing a receiver to man- The official, US Trade Representative team on Friday seized Kapil Dev’s Robert Zoellick, gave this assurance in Mercedes car from his Sunder Na- age the daily affairs of the gar residence in New Delhi. P10 shrine instead of the Damda- the course of three hours of intensive mi Taksal that had taken talks with Indian commerce minister AIIMS dismissals: AIIMS has over its management on Arun Jaitley, during which they dimissed three senior academics in- Thursday morning. discussed subjects ranging from the cluding a professor of nuclear medi- But the area was still tense movement of people to the export of cine from its services on charges of Indian mangoes to the US. gross misconduct and disobedi- and curfew was still in force ence. All the three had been alleged- in the village, which has been The duration of the talks itself was ly absenting from duty “unauthoris- rocked by violence since indicative of the wide range of bilateral edly without any sanction.” June 5 following a clash be- and multilateral topics under discus- tween the Jat Sikh and Dalit sion as the two sides try and bump up Shilpa’s father cracks up: their modest $15 billion trade to Surendra Shetty admitted having communities. greater levels. But the controversial is- links with associates of Malaysia- All the devotees, including DADDY DEAR: US president George Bush and his father, former US president Bush ride a golf cart at a club on Friday in based gangster Fazl-ur-Rehman, women, children and regular Kennebunkport. The president is spending Father’s Day weekend with his parents. sue of outsourcing was clearly on top of claimed officers interrogating him. P8 shrine staff, agreed to open the pile and Jaitley said he had ex- the gate at about 3 pm after plained that the public and political Madhumita case: Continuing his persistent mediation by opinion in India regarded the move by defiance, former UP minister Amar some US states as ‘‘completely contrary Mani Tripathi on Friday did not the police officers and to the spirit of market access and cre- turn up at the CB-CID headquarters panthic leaders including in Lucknow despite being issued a Harminder Singh Gill, Bhai Sweet lips, deadly hand ates an adverse environment when Manjit Singh and Bhai Ajaib negotiations were on in various other summons in the Madhumita Shukla By Manoj Joshi trict when they tried to enter murder case. Singh. sectors’’. TIMES NEWS NETWORK the area early in the morning. Zoellick, he said, was alert to the 8 hurt in Patna firing: Eight per- No force was used to con- vince the devotees to open * On June 11, BSF jawans I can lead talks: Musharraf brouhaha the issue had caused in India sons were injured when a group of New Delhi: There appears to killed four intruders at the the shrine, said officials. New Delhi: President Pervez Musharraf and conveyed to him that the Bush Ad- armed supporters of newly-appoint- be little let-up in either infil- border outpost Sangral in the There were reports earlier says he is ‘‘more than willing’’ to lead the ministration opposed the states’ move ed Bihar Congress chief Ram Jatan tration or violence in the Jam- Ranbirsinghpura sector at 2 Sinha opened fire to welcome him during the day that the Pakistani side in talking to PM Vajpayee. and was persuading them not to go mu and Kashmir, despite talk a.m. During the same night, on Friday. police were using coercive But he will not talk trade at the cost of ahead with it. of peace and normalisation of four intruders were shot dead measures to break the im- Kashmir and will not want Indians and In at least half a dozen states, state Mahant stable: The condition of relations. Indian officials say in Ramwali Gali in the Kala- passe. Pakistanis to play cricket since ‘‘my play- legislators are considering legislation to Mahant Ram Chandra Paramhans that the pattern of incidents roos sector. In May, the Army Surjit Kaur, who came out ers don’t want to play with India’’. He re- put a crimp on outsourcing, claiming it Das was stable on Friday. But doc- suggests that the Pakistan gov- had foiled four infiltration earlier in the day when she fuses to rule out another Kargil-like con- is taking away local jobs. Outsourcing to tors at Lucknow’s Sanjay Gandhi ernment remains involved in bids, killing about 20 militants PGI said the next 48 years would spotted reporters at the site, Musharraf flict with India. India is projected to be a $20 billion busi- the process of sending infiltra- in this area. be critical. said the police had been pres- And he does not believe the October 2002 polls in J&K ness in the next five years, mostly from tors across the border. * On June 12, the Army surising her to persuade her were free and fair.Musharraf told NDTV he felt PM Jamali the United States. Agency reports quoted US foiled an intrusion bid on the by Laxman husband to come out. ‘‘may be a better person’’ to talk to New Delhi since an at- ‘‘The essence of market access in YOU SAID IT ambassador to India Robert Line of Control (LoC) in About 10-12 Jat youths had tempt had been made post-Agra to malign him. ‘‘But if Mr services really is individuals and com- Blackwill as telling reporters Poonch sector, killing two mil- also raised slogans and said Vajpayee is willing to meet me, I would be more than will- panies — that people are entitled to the on Friday that ‘‘terrorism em- itants of the Jamait-ul- Dawa they would not tolerate the ing to meet him and lead the talks.’’ TNN most efficient service at the best rate — anating from Pakistan is not (formerly the Lashkar- e-Tai- government interference in and if these efficient services are pro- over’’, and adding that ‘‘global ba) in the early hours of the their religious affairs. vided by India and some other country, terrorism will not end until morning. sumption of border shelling nah and Uri sectors. Shelling Senior administration offi- we feel it will not be appropriate for leg- cross-border terrorism agai- ‘‘The attempts by large by Pakistani forces. Such also took place that night in cers had strongly hinted at islation to impede the market forces,’’ nst India ends permanently’’. groups to infiltrate suggests shelling is usually resorted to Rajouri area as well. the breakthrough while Jaitely told reporters after his day-long As of this week, there were that the Pakistan Army is very for providing cover to infiltrat- Statistics of persons killed briefing reporters at the cir- meetings in Washington. no signs of that happening. much in the game,’’ says a sen- ing militants. On June 5, five while crossing the LoC in cuit house in the afternoon. The Indian team also managed to red * On June 9, the Army killed ior home ministry official. Ac- persons, including a girl, were April and May point to the flag another contentious issue that has five militants in the Nangla cording to him, this is con- killed and eight injured as high levels of cross-border in- gone unattended for several years. Rain check Sahib forests in Poonch dis- firmed by the large-scale re- Pakistani troops shelled Kar- filtration by armed terrorists. 13 June, 2003 Rape by ‘cops’ in Rohini Delhi TIMES NEWS NETWORK (northwest) Sanjay Singh, however, Sorry gentlemen, because of the denied the charges made by the girl New Delhi: A 15-year-old girl was al- present economic crisis we have Kolkata and claimed that the motorcycle did legedly raped by two persons in the reduced unnecessary articles of not belong to the police. ‘‘It’s just an Rohini Japanese Park in northwest furniture! 12 June allegation. The identity of those who Mumbai Delhi on June 9.