OID‰‰†‰KOID‰‰†‰OID‰‰†‰MOID‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Monday,June 16, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 42 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International City Report Times Sport Prince William is At the mercy of Roddick beats romancing a girl Delhi’s lawless Grosjean to win in Kenya transport services Queen’s title Page 12 Page 4 Page 19 WIN WITH THE TIMES Rain check 15 June, 2003 Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. EU, US seek more for their banks Delhi You can only lead others By Priya Ranjan Dash consumption abroad and com- India’s position take or secure in the WTO nego- India has asked its trade part- where you yourself are TIMES NEWS NETWORK mercial presence; tiations. The government will ners for market access in data prepared to go. ● Remove restrictions on invest- settle only for a package that will processing of financial services. New Delhi: India’s major trade •Market access for foreign Kolkata — Lachlan Mclean ment by public sector enterpris- banks in India a political benefit the Indian economy, pro- This is perhaps the only area partners, including the US, EU es in foreign banks; tect Indian jobs and further the where India hopes to reap some and Japan, want it to throw open issue NEWS DIGEST ● Remove discrimination be- interest of Indian banks,’’ an benefit. India could be an attrac- Mumbai its banking sector and make a tween Indian and foreign banks •India will prefer protecting official said. tive location for major overseas Chennai number of concessions with re- in income-tax, solvency ratios home market rather than India too has made a number banks and financial companies Meet on women’s Bill: Hoping to gard to the way foreign banks and borrowing limits; prying open markets abroad of demands on its trade partners to outsource their data process- evolve a political consensus on the can do business in India. ● Remove requirement of lend- for securing better terms for ing. But for that their govern- • Monsoon has advanced controversial women’s reservation In the ongoing WTO negotia- •India has asked partners Bill, Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar ing for priority sectors; and its banking services in foreign ments must provide India full into more parts of Konkan tions to open up world trade in ● Remove restrictions on land ac- for market access in data markets. But India essentially market access and prescribe and Goa, Karnataka and Joshi has convened an all-party processing meeting on the issue on Monday. P7 services slated to conclude at the quisition by foreigners and ease has a defensive position in these policies which do not discrimi- Tamil Nadu end of next year, India has been the regulations on closure of of- negotiations to open up finan- nate against data processing in • It has also advanced into Poet murder: A day after UP CM requested to provide conces- ing services in India is also a po- fices and operations. cial services. India vis-a-vis the service most parts of Telengana Mayawati offered to sions in banking, including the litical issue, which could lead to Even with all kinds of exist- It would thus like to protect its availed locally. and coastal Andhra initiate a CBI inquiry following: ing restrictions, foreign banks a controversy, banking industry home market rather than ag- For a long time, India has al- into poet Madhumi- ● Allow full access to foreign have done good business in India officials here say. gressively go around prying lowed foreigners to provide • Heavy rain likely in ta Shukla’s murder if banking services to be ‘‘We will very carefully weigh Konkan and Goa, coastal her family members and have given Indian banks a open markets abroad in a busi- banking services here, but that the concessions and the interna- Karnataka and Kerala made a request for rendered through all three run for their money. Improved ness where the developed coun- has been subject to a plethora of this in writing, the modes — cross-border trade; market access for foreign bank- tional commitments we would tries have a clear advantage. restrictions. during next 48 hours mother of the victim said she was ready do so as the family was fed up with Kapil on Merc: the tardy pace of probe. P10 Troops to Iraq only after consensus at home Kidney scam kingpin: Former Sanjay Sekhri Muslim board principal of the Amritsar Govern- I have been ment Medical College, O P Mahajan, who is allegedly involved in the Rs 100-crore kidney scam, has been ar- dragged in rested and taken to Delhi. open to ideas TIMES NEWS NETWORK Potato on hold: GM potato, en- New Delhi: riched by a gene from the amaranth plant, cannot hit the market before ‘No talk on temple with seer’ Former India captain Kapil 2005. The final trials in the hills are Lucknow: Rejecting the per- Dev on Sun- on, while the last lot for the plains ception that it will stick to Changing tack day pleaded will be planted in October, and har- only a court-brokered solu- • Muslim Personal Law innocence on vested in February. P7 tion to the Ayodhya tangle, Board ready to consider his alleged the All-India Muslim Person- Karunanidhi wants probe: DMK any good proposal links with al Law Board (AIMPLB) on chief Karunanidhi has asked for a fraudster Za- Kapil Dev Sunday said it will consider Says it’s yet to receive probe into the treatment received by • heer Rana who according to Union minister Murasoli Maran at any worthwhile proposal to any proposal from the Gujarat police had gifted him the All India Institute of Medical Sci- resolve the issue. Shankaracharya of Kanchi a Mercedez Benz C 180 earlier ences in New Delhi and the Apollo ‘‘Though the matter is in Hopeful of an early this year. A distraught Kapil Hospital in Chennai. P10 the court and we have made it • court decision on the told Times News Network: “I clear that we shall abide by Lone murder case: Four police- mosque-temple tangle don’t know why I’ve been the court verdict, if a good men, including an SHO, have been dragged into this. Cricketers proposal comes to us from arrested for their alleged involve- are big stars and lots of fans any quarter, we shall consid- ment in the killing of the then J & K comes, I shall refer it to the keep rewarding us. It’s im- er it,’’ said AIMPLB president home minister Mushtaq Ahmed AIMPLB working committee possible to know about every- and noted Islamic scholar Lone and his brother. which will consider it,’’ said body’s antecedant.” Maulana Rabe Hasan Nadvi. the Maulana. Potter back to school: Harry The Maulana denied the Nadvi reacted sharply to The legendary allrounder Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has de- temple issue was discussed the statement by the Shahi contended that the “car was cided to retire from acting. He will gifted to me at a proper func- quit playing the famous role of the during his recent meeting Imam of Jama Masjid, Syed with the Shankaracharya of Ahmed Bukhari, that the tion in Mumbai.’’ school wizard, after the completion Rana was arrested a fort- of the fourth film of the series. P12 the Kanchi Peeth, Jayendra AIMPLB will not be allowed night back for defrauding in- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Opposition leader Sonia Gandhi discuss the issue of sending troops Sarswathi. ‘‘The Shankar- to bargain on the Babri Mecca shootout: Five suspected vestors through a multiply- to Iraq in New Delhi on Sunday. Both agreed that there was need to consult other political parties and evolve acharya had come to inquire Masjid issue, saying Bukhari terrorists and the same number of your-money scheme. a consensus on the issue. Reports on page 11 about my health. We did not is in the habit of making ‘‘ir- Saudi security personnel were discuss the temple issue, responsible remarks’’. Meanwhile, PTI reported killed in a raid on an apartment in though he said he had some Maulana Nadvi said he from Ahmedabad that the car Mecca. P13 proposal to resolve the dis- hoped the court decision on in question was brought back Airbus’s India plans: Airbus In- pute,’’ said Nadvi. the Ayodhya issue would to Ahmedabad by the Gujarat dustrie is planning a technology Congress 6 am shock: Man loses ‘‘I asked him to send his come soon and he believed it police, according to sources. ramp up in India with a new aircraft proposals in writing,’’ he would put an end to the dis- A CID officer said the car engineering facility and an IT centre said, adding that so far, he has pute. Answering another was valued at Rs 24 lakh but in the country. P15 MLA held not received anything from question, he said there was was given to Zaheer to be gift- car on way to ‘mandi’ the Shankaracharya. no move to disband the Babri ed to the cricketer at a con- by Laxman YOU SAID IT for murder ‘‘If any written proposal Masjid Action Committee. PTI cessional rate of Rs 18 lakh. TIMES NEWS NETWORK tween Sunday’s incident and the earlier TIMES NEWS NETWORK cases. On Friday night, three persons New Delhi: Barely two days after an in- Tirupati: The police drove off with a couple’s car after firing cident of car-jacking in south Delhi, have arrested Congress at the owner near Siri Fort. three men drove off with the Tata Indi- MLA C K Jayachandra The couple was returning home ca car of a Paschim Vihar resident in Reddy on charges of ab- along with a friend in their Hyundai northwest Delhi on Sunday.