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New Delhi, Saturday, June 7, 2003
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BJP elders blame it on the young
By Smita Gupta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The BJP’s ‘‘first
generation’’ leaders are now engaged in formulating a patch-up
formula to ensure the party is
not ‘‘destroyed’’ by Generation
Next’s young men ‘‘in a hurry’’.
On Friday, these ‘‘first generation’’ leaders were at work to restore the image of a harmonious
relationship between Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
and Deputy Prime Minister L K
Advani, as well as to distance the
latter from party president
Venkaiah Naidu’s ‘‘twin leader’’
statement. The object was to
neutralise the impression of a
divided party or worse, a rebel-
lion against Vajpayee.
A contemporary of the party’s
two top leaders said: ‘‘Can Vajpayee be reduced to a Vikas Purush when Advani is being referred to as Lauh Purush? If an
appellation had to be coined for
Vajpayee, it should have been
something like Shikhar Purush,
especially since the PM is at the
zenith of his power now.’’
HRD minister Murli Manohar
Joshi told a TV channel that the
description Vikas Purush had
not been coined at any of the
party’s decision-making bodies.
He indicated that Naidu had
done it without consulting anyone else.
Even as the Vikas Purush title
was being rubbished by the
The silence is broken
L K Advani
‘‘There is
absolutely
nothing in it.
There is no
controversy.
I don’t want
to make any
comment.’’
M M Joshi
idated that image by fighting terrorism. And Vajpayee with his
five years of good record at governance has been aptly described as Vikas Purush.’’
Meanwhile, the ‘‘first genera-
BJP’s leaders, RSS spokesperson
Ram Madhav — believed to be
close to Naidu — said it was an
apt description. ‘‘Ever since the
Rath Yatra, Advani has been the
Lauh Purush and he has consol-
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In a move to chalk out
the Opposition’s strategy to topple the
Mayawati-led government in UP, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
held a meeting with
Rashtriya Kranti Party president
Kalyan Singh in Lucknow. P7
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Kutch earthquake film: The
makers of a film on the Kutch earthquake of January 2001 are crying
foul over the Central Board of Film
Certification’s decision to deny permission to show the documentary
since it depicts communalisation. P6
MiG-21 not to be grounded: Defence minister George Fernandes on
Friday categorically denied the possibility of grounding MiG-21 in spite
of the outcry against them. He asserted the MiG-21 was the ‘‘mainstay of Indian air defence’’. P10
by Laxman
True to the met department predictions dust shrouded the city on Friday, but temperatures continued to soar.
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RISING TEMPERATURE
FOREST FIRES
COMING UP
• Churu in west Rajasthan
• 6 dead in forest fires in the
• Higher humidity and storm
recorded 49oC
Garhwal region of Uttaranchal forecast for Delhi
• In Orissa, Bolangir district • More than 3000 hectares of • Monsoon is expected to hit
recorded 50oC on Thursday
Kerala on June 8 or 10
forest lands were burning
Heat wave loses some steam...
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States to tame
broadcasters
Govt to push CASe on June 10
Mulayam meets Kalyan Singh:
YOU SAID IT
‘‘Vajpayee is not only
our vikas purush, he
represents the sum
total personality of
the BJP. To limit him
to a small segment of
political development
was never discussed.’’
tion’’ leaders are stressing that
even if Naidu said what he did to
‘‘please’’ Advani, it was not at
the latter’s instance. Advani’s
well-wishers, sources said, had
asked him to distance himself
from Naidu’s statement and to
break his silence on the subject.
He had not uttered a word on it
since the PM’s return from his
foreign tour.
Advani said neither Vajpayee’s leadership nor his position
of supremacy was in question.
He termed the whole affair as a
media-created controversy. Sources said Advani was upset that
Naidu’s statement had made it
appear as though there was a rift
between him and the PM.
RSS against quota for Muslims: P8
New Delhi: The weather gods
seem to be relenting. The met office said on Friday that conditions
are now favourable for the monsoon to hit Kerala in the next two
or three days.
The monsoon has already
stepped into the North-East and
pre-monsoon showers have begun
in Kerala and other parts of the
peninsula.
The good news is that the heat
wave has begun to relax its grip
and will make its exit in a day or
two.
But no immediate relief from
the heat is expected in north-west
India including the capital, where
hot and dry north-westerly winds
blowing in from Rajasthan are still
holding sway.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) deputy director-general S K Subramanian said this year
the pre-monsoon showers are on a
Countdown
New Delhi: The Centre has
decided to convene a meeting
of representatives of the
states concerned to discuss
measures for a smooth transition to the CAS era.
The meeting will take place a
few days after the Govt interacts with broadcasters on
June 10.
The four state governments
of
Maharashtra,
Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
and Delhi will be represented
by their top officials dealing
with information and culture.
At its June 10 meeting, the
ministry
is
likely
to
stress
the need for the
prior disclosure of the number of pay channels and
their rates.
‘‘The broadcasters cannot
hold back information and
this is what we are going to
tell them,’’ an official said,
hinting at the possible government line at the meeting.
However, confronted with
the government’s determination, many broadcasters have
offered 70 channels — in
• Maharashtra, Tamil
Nadu, West Bengal and
Delhi representatives to
discuss measures
• To stress the need for
the prior disclosure of
the number of pay
channels and their rates
• Broadcasters are
offering 70 channels in
the free-to-air bouquet
for Rs 72 plus taxes.
some cases even more — in
the free-to-air bouquet for Rs
72 plus taxes. ‘‘The broadcasters will have to explore
newer avenues to stay in
business,’’ remarked Ashok
Mansukhani, who represented a multi-system operator
(MSO) at a meeting with
the ministry.
Mansukhani also said that
CAS will bring in transparency and efficiency in the
cable industry.
Ministry sources indicate
that in the meetings with the
broadcasters and states, the
effort will be at evolving a
consensus on major issues.
... but Delhi still hot and humid
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The hopes of a midsummer respite for the city,
raised by Thursday’s showers,
have fizzled out.
Friday’s maximum temperature was 43.1 degrees Celsius,
higher than Thursday’s maximum of 42.5 degrees. However,
the weather remained humid,
raising apprehensions of a more
oppressive spell of heat and
hopes of a few more showers.
‘‘subdued scale’’.
Overall, the Arabian Sea branch
of the monsoon current is ‘‘still
sluggish’’ but the parameters are
now looking good for it to come in
soon over Kerala.
In met office language, there is
an off-shore trough off the Kerala
and Karnataka coast, indicative of
According to a weather official, 2.6 mm rainfall has been
recorded in Delhi since Thursday evening. However the rainfall was area specific.
The met department had predicted duststorms and thunderstorms for the city on Friday too.
But director Omkari Prasad said
that the temperature and humidity are going to rise further. But,
the monsoon isn’t expected till
the first week of next month.
something happening. The seasonal trough from north-west India to
north Bay of Bengal is ‘‘getting organised’’. The third positive factor,
said Subramanian, is that the hot
north-westerly wind patterns are
giving way to the south-westerly
winds. Bottom line: The monsoon
is coming.
Digvijay’s swipe at PM angers BJP
By Suchandana Gupta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bhopal: The BJP is getting ready
for war after the Madhya Pradesh
Congress allegedly picked on Prime
Minister Vajpayee again.
There was much controversy over
the state Congress’ slogans on the
Prime Minister being a ‘beef-eater’
earlier this year. Now his bachelor
status is being blamed for the severe
drought in the country.
BJP leader Uma Bharti alleged
here on Thursday that MP chief
minister Digvijay Singh had been
addressing election meetings saying
that, ‘not just Prime Minister Vajpayee but President A P J Abdul
Kalam’s bachelor status is making
the country dry, arid and infertile.’
So if the people of Madhya
Pradesh vote for Uma Bharti who
is unmarried, the monsoons will
not arrive and it will prove to
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The accusation
• The President and the PM’s
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drought
• If the unmarried Uma Bharti
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monsoon will not arrive
The retort
• Rajasthan is suffering severe
drought although CM Ashok
Gehlot is married
be fatal for agriculture.
‘‘On Wednesday Digvijay Singh
held three public meetings in
Jhabua, Petlawar and Thanda and
while addressing each of these gatherings he said that the country is being ruled by a bachelor President
and an unmarried Prime Minister.
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This according to Hindu shastra is
very inauspicious and that’s the reason there is widespread drought,’’
Uma Bharti said.
An angry national general secretary Pramod Mahajan said in
Bhopal on Friday: ‘‘Digvijay Singh’s
statement is beneath contempt. It
doesn’t deserve a reply.’’
Addressing a public meeting in
Gadarwara, Narsinghpur district
Uma Bharti said: ‘‘If the President
and Prime Minister’s bachelor status is responsible for the drought,
how is it happening in Congress
ruled states where the chief ministers are married men with children
and grandchildren? The 100-years
drought is in Rajasthan, a Congress
ruled state, when chief minister
Ashok Gehlot has children. So is he
married or not?’’
Digvijay Singh, who was away in
Indore, could not be contacted for
his comments.
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Bhindranwale
gets martyr
status from
Akal Takht
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Amritsar: Finally, 19 years
after Operation Bluestar an
Akal Takht jathedar has declared Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, the 14th chief of
Damdami Taksal who was in
the forefront of the Khalistan
movement, a martyr.
Akal Takht jathedar Joginder Singh Vedanti made this
declaration at a function
jointly organised by the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the
Dal Khalsa and other Sikh organisations at the Diwan
Hall of Gurdwara Manji
Sahib in the SGPC complex,
on the occasion of Ghallughara Divas on Friday.
Vedanti said that all the
myths surrounding the status of Bhindranwale had
now been cleared by the
panth. ‘‘There should be no
more controversy, especially
with regard to Bhindranwale’s son Ishar Singh receiving a siropa,’’ he said.
Condemning
Operation
Bluestar, Vedanti alleged that
the Central government had
‘‘killed’’ those who could not
tolerate the disrespect shown
towards Golden Temple and
other gurdwaras. ‘‘The demolition of Akal Takht by the
Indian Army was a condemnable act, which would
always remain a black chapter of Indian history,’’ he
added.
Earlier, SGPC president
Kirpal Singh Badungar presented ‘siropas’ to Ishar
Singh and Manjit Singh,
brother of slain All India
Sikh Students’ Federation
president Amrik Singh, after
the ‘bhog’ of ‘akhand path’.
Besides Khalistan ideologues Jagjit Singh Chauhan
and Wassan Singh Zaffarwal,
acting jathedar of Takht
Kesgarh Sahib Giani Tarlochan Singh, jathedar of
Takht Damdama Sahib Giani
Balwant Singh Nandgarh,
AISSF president Harminder
Singh Gili, deputy chief of
Akhand Kirtani Jatha Bhai
Baldev Singh and former
SGPC general secretary Kiranjot Kaur attended the
function.
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DELHI
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Loadshedding
schedule for
Ghaziabad
colonies
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ghaziabad:
The
Uttar
Pradesh Power Corporation
Ltd has announced a sixhour loadshedding schedule
for different areas in the city.
Kaushambi, Vaishali, Indirapuram, Vasundhra, Chandra Nagar, Surya Nagar and
other colonies, fed by the 33
KV Kaushambi substation,
will experience power cuts
from 2 am to 4 am; 11 am to 1
pm and 5 pm to 7 pm.
Areas fed by the Meerut
Road sub-station will go without power from 4 am to 7 am
and 4 pm to 7 pm.
Areas fed by the Bulandshahr Road sub-station, including the old city areas,
will have power cuts from 1
am to 4 am and 11 am to 2 pm.
The 33 KV Raj Nagar substation, which supplies to
colonies like Raj Nagar, Kavi
Nagar, Shastri Nagar and
Govindpuram will face loadshedding from 12.30 am to
2.30 am, 9 am to 11 am and 4
pm to 6 pm.
However, although these
orders became effective from
Tuesday last, power consumers in a number of areas
have been complaining of
power cuts that last mor than
6 hours, or the UPPCL not
sticking to the rostering
schedule.
City power distribution
chief P K Goel, said, ‘‘It is not
that we make unannounced
variations in the roster. This
impression goes around because supply is sometimes
interrupted due to sudden
local breakdowns.
Nothing fishy about this cure
R Burman
By Nistula Hebbar and
Anuradha Mukherjee
Times News Network
New Delhi: A trainful of
asthma patients, all bound
for Hyderabad, gathered at
the Nizamuddin Railway
station on Thursday night.
The purpose of their journey was to take the famous
‘‘fish medicine’’ on June 8,
in Hyderabad.
The fish medicine can be
administered only on one
day in the year under the
Punardamu Karti nakshatra. ‘‘The medicine, which
tastes of hing and haldi, is
put in a three-and-a- half
inch long fish and forced
down your throat,’’ said
Sarita Sharma. This is
Sharma’s third journey for
the medicine which requires three visits. Sharma
has been suffering from
Asthma since 1995.
Scores of hospital visits
later, an acquaintance had
told her about the special
medicine. ‘‘I used to get five
to six attacks in a week.
TRAIN TO HOPE: The ‘Asthma Mail,’ specially laid to handle
the rush to Hyderabad for the mysterious ‘fish therapy’
practitioners left New Delhi on Thursday.
Though I was suspicious, I
went anyway,’’ she said.
“These days, two attacks
in a year is as bad as it
gets,’’ said Sharma. And it’s
not as if it’s only the educated or the informed who
are benefitting from the
system. A group of 15 from
Banwalike village in Punjab was also on its way to
get the fish cure.
‘‘I took my mother to Hyderabad. Today she is almost normal,’’ said truck
driver Ram Kishen.
Part of the entourage
was Muni Ram, a self-professed sanyasin. A pure vegetarian, he has, nevertheless, consumed the fish
medicine. ‘‘The scriptures
say in vipatti (danger) you
can resort to any measure
to get out of trouble,’’ he
reasoned.
And he was not the only
one quoting the scriptures.
Sharma, a brahmin and
pure
vegetarian
says:
‘‘The shastras approve of
this. The life of a small
creature is expendable for
saving the life of a bigger
being,’’ she said.
But what about scientific
thought? ‘‘You have to have
faith for the medicine to
work. They recommend a
special diet. We are not
superstitious people, but I
believe the family has
some
divine
power,’’
Sharma said.
This year 1,100 passenger
took the Asthma Special,
while an estimated 5 lakh
people are expected to
reach
Hyderabad.
For
first-timers, however, the
trip was not free from worries. As the train prepared
to chug off, Mohit Saluja
had only one worry — how
will a live fish feel inside
his gullet?
City still grapples with water crisis
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Several parts of the city
continued to reel under severe water
shortage on Friday, a day after angry
residents of the worst-hit areas had
taken to the streets in protest. While
some people in Chittranjan Park said
they had not received any water in
days, Greater Kailash-I residents said
they were getting very low pressure
supply for hardly an hour.
Mansi Agarwal of Kalkaji said their
house gets water only from tankers.
Vikas Pahwa of R-block, GK-I, said the
supply was very erratic and one never
knew when the taps might spring to life
for a few minutes. On its part, the Delhi
Jal Board (DJB) says the situation in
south and east Delhi will really improve from next year when the 140 million gallons a day (MGD) Sonia Vihar
treatment plant becomes operational.
So this summer will be all about fire
fighting. For instance, in Sadiq Nagar
and Greater Kailash, the faulty
cables had been rectified and DJB chief
P K Tripathi said current crisis there
would be over by Saturday.
‘‘We are also reboring old tubewells.
The number of tankers has been increased from 900 to 1,000 and 200 new
drivers have been hired to run them
constantly,’’ said DJB member (water)
G C Nandwani.
Moreover, the government recently
imposed Essential Services Maintenance Act for ensuring that the water
supply here is not disrupted. So even if
private water tanker owners go on
strike, the DJB will be empowered to
take over their vehicles and run them.
The field staff of the board says that
breaking of water pipelines by different agencies during digging disrupts
supply. ‘‘We have started filing FIRs
against such agencies to stop disruption due to this reason,’’ said Tripathi.
to 27. The course was inaugurated by S C Jain, deputy
commissioner (KVS). Priya
Thakur, education officer,
KVS also graced the occasion. R K Singh principal
and course director welcomed the chief guest.
School students presented
a cultural show on this
occasion.
SCHOOL NEWS
Teachers’ training:
Kendriya Vidyalaya, Tagore
Garden teed off its 21 days
in-service course for primary teachers from May 7
Silver jubilee: Ryan International School, Mayur
Vihar-III was a part of FRAGRANCE an inter school
competition to mark the silver jubilee celebrations at
Vivekanand School, Anand
Vihar. Mansi Bahuguna and
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Israeli govt
buys prime
property on
Aurangzeb Rd
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Israeli government on Thursday informed the Supreme Court
that it had deposited the full
amount of Rs 25 crore as
consideration for buying
the Skipper Builder’s property on Aurangzeb Road in
Delhi.
The Israel government,
through its embassy in
India, said the balance
amount of Rs 18.50 crore had
been deposited with the
Supreme Court registry.
It had earlier deposited
Rs 6.51 crore.
A vacation Bench of Justices N Santosh Hegde and
Shivaraj V Patil asked its registry to put the money received from the state of Israel in a fixed deposit with a
nationalised bank. It will
hear the matter relating to
defrauding the allottees by
the builder when the court
re-opens in July after the
vacation.
The apex court had directed the sale of 3, Aurangzeb
Road, belonging to the
Skipper Construction Company to recover the money
due to the allottees of the
company’s other projects.
The money had been defrauded by the company
owned by Tejwant Singh.
The lone bid for the house,
amounting to Rs 25.01 crore,
was made by the Israel
government.
It was allowed to buy the
property for this amount as
no other bids were received
even after the lapse of
sufficient time.
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“The creative struggle is far from over”
— SHUBHA MUDGAL, Singer
Q. What is the contrast between your
initial struggle with
the present?- rhea
A: Life is a little
easier now, but the
struggle to improve continues,
and new and different challenges
and struggles present themselves
now. So, it has been wonderful to
get lots of opportunities but at
the same time, the creative
struggle is certainly far from over.
Q. What is the inspiration behind
Maine Dekha Ek Sapna?- shiva
A: The idea of the song came
from an NGO called Amitasha
that works with underprivileged
girl children, and when I heard
the song that Prasoon Joshi
wrote for them, I was sure that I
wanted to be a part of the project.
Q. What is the future of Indian
music in the era of remixes?- ko
A: If you are talking of pop music
in India, I think a major change is
required both in the quality of
music being recorded & promoted. There is a tendency to present only one kind of music, upbeat music meant for dance, but
in the process, originality, quality,
and variety is being ignored.
Q. After so many years of Ali
More Angana, do you think the
classical community has reconciled to your innovation?- music
A: Ali More Angana really has
nothing to do with my classical
music. When I present classical
music, raag yaman, bahar or any
other, there is no trace of the person who sang Ab Ke Sawan. But
when I sing pop music, there is
certainly every trace of a person
who has been studying classical
music.
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in face painting competition. Bharti Khanna and
Resham Sikka secured
second position in the news
reading competition.
Investiture: R S J Modern School held its investiture ceremony for the
prefectorial board on May
7. School chairperson
Anuradha Singh was the
chief guest. The guest of
honour was Rita, K Premchand, member board of
trustees. The pledge of
honour was conducted by
school headmistress
Manju Rajput.
Win at Ansal Shopping Carnival
TOI
nsal Plaza Shopping
Carnival brings to its
shoppers a bagful
of surprises and loads of
shopping. Presented by
Delhi Times and American
Express, this shopping
carnival is a big hit.
Ansal Plaza brings to its
shoppers a chance to win
free gift vouchers on being
spotted
with
shopping
bags of any of the participating outlet.
Over 30 premier outlets
and food joints are participating in this carnival and
they bring you a fortune for
just Rs 500.
Kids are having their
share of fun too at free creative art workshops in the
evenings everyday. Further,
shoppers are enjoying free
mehndi and free tattoos,
while children have fun
with inflatable cartoon
characters.
The carnival has been organised by Confluence and
is co-sponsored by Aviva,
Coca Cola, LML Freedom,
Reliance and Select Holidays. Radio Mirchi is the official radio partner for the
event and the names of the
daily winners are announced every hour.
There are shop and win
schemes running in all the
participating outlets and
A
Ansal Plaza wore a festive look as shoppers thronged the Ansal Shopping Carnival. A host
of surprises, including free holidays, await the shoppers.
customers may shop a fortune for just Rs 500. On
every purchase of Rs 500 the
shopper gets a coupon with
which one can win prizes
over Rs 25 lakh and holiday
packages from Select Holidays, mobikes from LML
and a chance to win many
more prizes and the mega
prize — a flat by the Ansal
Group.
The more you buy, the
more coupons you get.
American Express card
members are entitled to two
coupons for a purchase of
just Rs 500 that doubles the
chance to win the exciting
prizes. There are also holiday packages to Heritage
Village Manesar every day
from Select Holidays as
prizes on buying Coke.
There are also special prizes
every hour for visiting the
Amex counters at the venue.
HC tells Centre to resolve eviction tussle
New Delhi: The Delhi high
court has asked the Centre to
approach the Lok Sabha
Speaker and Rajya Sabha
vice-chairman to resolve the
dispute over a government
order asking the Congress to
evict three of its official
premises in Delhi.
‘‘In case the aforesaid functionaries are able to give
their advice and the matter is
resolved, that will put an end
to the dispute,’’ justice A K
Sikri said.
The judge said if the
Speaker and vice chairman
‘‘still refuse to give any advice, the matter may be
brought to the notice of the
court and in that eventuality,
it will proceed with the
matter on merits.’’
The directorate of estates
in April 2000 had communicated to the party to evict the
three premises — 24 Akbar
road, 5 Raisina road and
C-II/109 Chanakyapuri —
stating that as per the policy
decision, political parties
recognised by the election
commission would be allowed to retain only one
hou-sing unit from the
general pool in Delhi for official use.
The directorate had allowed Congress to retain 24
Akbar road subject to the
undertaking that it would
vacate the same within three
years during which it would
obtain a plot in an institutional area.
The order had also cancelled all other premises in
the occupation of the party
with immediate effect.
The Congress party had approached the high court after
its petition challenging the
eviction orders were dismissed by the additional sessions judge.
While asking the Centre to
approach the Speaker and
vice chairman on the issue,
the judge said he was refraining from expressing any
opinion on the merits of the
respective contentions of
the party.
‘‘This restraint is exercised
at this stage as any observations on merits may not
prejudice the case of either
party,’’ the court said adding
that in such matters the
Supreme Court had desired
that the Lok Sabha Speaker
and Rajya Sabha vice chair-
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for advice.
Stating that government
had sought the advice of the
Speaker who refused to
act in the matter, the court
observed
that
different
person is holding the the
office of the Lok Sabha
Speaker at the moment and
further the vice chairman
of Rajya Sabha was not
approached.
Instead, the government
had written to the Rajya
Sabha chairman who also
refused to give any advice,
the court said adding that
‘‘keeping in view these aspects, it would be appropriate
if one more attempt is
made by approaching the
aforesaid authorities for
their advice.’’PTI
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Metro police register first case
A chartered accountant with Rs 45,000 in fake currency is held at a station
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Delhi Metro
Rail Police (DMRP) registered its first FIR after they
arrested a Chartered Accountant carrying fake currency worth Rs 45,000.
Piyush Rastogi (34) was apprehended at the checking
point on Thursday, the metro
police said.
DCP (crime and railways),
Dependra Pathak, said: ‘‘Rastogi is a resident of a Patparganj society. At about 3.45 pm
on Thursday, the police team
was on normal frisking duty
at Welcome metro station
Power of force
• The force was set up to
maintain law and order
aboard the Metro rail
• The 200-strong force has
been deployed in six stations
• It’s led by DCP (crime and
railways)
where Rastogi came to board
the train.’’
The police got suspicious
when Rastogi tried to dodge
the checking. He was nabbed
when he tried to flee. A
search revealed he was car-
rying Rs 45,000 fake currency
in the denomination of Rs
100.
The accused told the police
he was a chartered accountant and had his office at
Pataudi House, Daryaganj.
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He confessed the currency
was produced with a computer and scanner installed at
his house. ‘‘He was on way to
Kashmere Gate to deliver the
fake currency at one-third
price,’’ the DCP said.
The police later searched
his house where it, further,
seized counterfeits worth Rs
15,000 in the denomination of
Rs 100. They also seized the
computer, scanner and other
equipments used in producing the fake currency.
Although the accused
claimed this was first criminal act, the police is ascertaining his antecedents.
Two women hang
themselves in
south Delhi
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Two held for forging
drafts worth Rs 45 cr
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Two persons
were arrested for allegedly
forging bank drafts worth Rs
45 crore. The drafts were of
Housing Development and
Finance Corporation (HDFC)
Bank. The police also found a
forged letter declaring the
drafts to be original.
The accused, Chandan
Anurag (41), is a film producer and also runs a computer
institute. He has a film production company under the
name of ‘Maa Shakti Pictures’.
Co-accused,
Shabir
Ahmed, posed as an IAS officer and helped Anurag strike
a deal with Bank of Rajasthan. ‘‘The bank officials
believed Ahmed and Anurag
also had six accounts with
the bank,’’ said deputy com-
missioner of police (special
cell) Ashok Chand.
Anurag convinced bank officials he would deposit Rs 20
crore with them in lieu of 2.5
crore worth pay orders to invest in his business.
On Thursday morning,
Anurag and Ahmed met the
bank officials in the lobby of
Janpath Hotel. They showed
them HDFC’s forged authority letter and gave them two
bank drafts worth Rs eight
crore. In return, the bank
handed him eight ‘‘genuine
pay orders’’ of Rs 2.5 crore.
On a tip-off, a team led by
inspector R S Bhasin apprehended Anurag and seized
pay orders of Rs 10 lakh.
Ahmed was arrested later.
The police seized forged
bank drafts worth Rs 37
crore from him.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Delhi chief
minister Sheila Dikshit
dedicated the 330 MW gasbased Pragati Power plant
to the public on Friday.
Describing it as the first
step towards making the
city self-sufficient in power
generation, the chief minister said that the new power plant will alter the power
situation in the city.
‘‘Against the total peak
demand of 3,170 MW, the
power available to the city
is
3,500
MW,’’
she
said.‘‘therefore the power
cuts that are sporadically
happening in certain pockets are due to local faults in
the distribution system and
not due to paucity of power,
which is available in abundance,’’ she added.
The chief minister said
that when her government The 330 MW power plant, which cost Rs 1,070 crore and is
took over in 1998, the peak environment friendly, will run on natural gas.
demand was about 1,900
MW, which has now grown bution companies are con- states but it would not comscious of the short-comings promise on the demands.
to close to 3,200 MW.
‘‘The distribution infra- in the distribution system
She said that the governstructure was not even fully and the problems caused by ment was planning to set up
capable of handling 1900 them. ‘‘All necessary im- many
more
gas-based
MW, leave apart the un- provement and rectifica- plants in the city. ‘‘Hydel
precedented loads that it is tion measures are being and thermal power plants
shouldering today,’’ she taken,’’ she said.
in Himachal Pradesh and
said.
The CM said that the gov- Chhatisgarh respectively
Dikshit said the govern- ernment was selling extra are also being planned,’’
ment as well as the distri- power to the neighbouring she said.
New Delhi: Two women
committed suicide in south
Delhi on Thursday night.
In one case, Neelam (26) of
Devli village hung herself
from the ceiling fan.
The police said, about a
month back she had been
married to Dalip (42), an electrician. On Thursday night,
when he returned home, he
found her hanging.
In another case, Babita
was found hanging from the
ceiling fan in her house in
Mehrauli area. The police
said a quarrel took place
between Babita and her
husband,
Pankaj,
on
Thursday night.
No power in power firm for 5 hours
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: An office complex of the Delhi state government-owned generation
company (Genco) near Rajghat power plant faced a
five-hour long power cut on
Friday throwing work out
of order. Residents of several other colonies complained of frequent cuts
since Thursday.
The office went without
power around noon due to a
fault in a cable fault in the
distribution system near
Daryaganj. ‘‘The restoration of a supply took a little
long as the BSES officials
refused to attend to the
problem due to confusion
over jurisdiction. They
wanted us to rectify the
fault on our own but we insisted the area fell under
their area,’’ said a Genco official.
Power cuts in south Del-
hi continued since Thursday with residents complaining of several rounds
of power cuts ranging from
half an hour to one hour.
Naraina,
Kalkaji,
Panchsheel Park, South Extension, Defence Colony,
Gulmohar Park, Gautam
Nagar, parts of Green Park,
Krishna Nagar, Chandni
Chowk, Patel Nagar, Mayur
Vihar, Vijay Mohalla and
Bajrang Mohalla.
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9arliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on
06.06.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations.
MUMBAI:
0520 (AI 136), 2145
(AI 309), 2205 (AI 311),
2330 (AI 112)
Train No. Train / Exp / Mail
NORTH
4033
Jammu Mail
4645
Shalimar Exp
2403
Jammu Exp
EAST
2302
Kolkata Rajdhani
2304
Poorva Exp
2382
Poorva Exp
2312
Kalka Mail
2392
Magadh Exp
2402
Shramjeevi Exp
2418
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4056
Brahmputra Mail
5622
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2554
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2816
Puri Exp
2802
Purshottam Exp
8476
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4230
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Golden Temple Mail
2926
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2952
Mumbai Rajdhani
2954
AG Kranti Rajdhani
2474
Sarvodaya Exp
1078
Jhelum Exp
2916
Ashram Exp
SOUTH
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G T Exp
2622
Tamil Nadu Exp
2432
Trivandrum Raj
2626
Kerala Exp
2618
Mangala Exp
2628
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2724
A P Exp
2430
Banglore Rajdhani
7022
Dakshin Express
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(Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa:
23323310, Singapore Airlines
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Shatabdi express: The Delhi-Lucknow Shatabdi Express between New Delhi Railway station and Lucknow will continue to
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Why the application forms went missing?
TOI
By Nistula Hebbar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Richa Jalota, a
student of New Era School,
had no problem getting hold
of centralised forms, she
faced a different problem altogether. When she went to
her local post office in
Janakpuri, she was forced
to buy the information
handbook on Delhi University (DU), also stocked
there. ‘‘I was told that I had
to buy the handbook for Rs
10, it is useless for me because I already have the DU
handbook. The entire set of
25 forms plus the handbook
cost me Rs 35,’’ she added.
She is not alone. Mohita
Sharma of St Mark’s
School, Janakpuri, also
faced the same problem. Not
just that, she got stuck with
handbooks she did not need. Parents help students with filling the admission forms at a college on Friday.
‘‘I was first given the sci- ECA form, no handbook cials concerned in the which does not accept cenence handbook. I said that I told me that,’’ she said.
postal department, they tralised forms. I have 24
wanted the Arts one, but I
Hema Raghavan admits have assured me that this spare forms with no idea
was told that it could not be
provision will be re- what to do with it,’’ she says.
exchanged,’’ she says.
moved,’’ she said.
Neha’s father bought the
She had to buy another
Neha Gupta, a stu- forms from her school,
set, for the Arts handbook.
dent of Bharatiya thinking DU would be too
‘‘Even then I had to trudge
Vidya Bhavan cannot crowded. ‘‘We were told that
to individual colleges for
understand why peo- regardless of how many
specific information. I that the compulsion to buy ple cannot find enough forms they actually needed
wanted to know what cer- the handbook is worrying. forms.‘‘I am applying only they had to buy it in sets of
tificates to attach to the ‘‘I have spoken to the offi- in two colleges, one of 25,’’ said Neha’s mother.
THE GREAT
COLLEGE RUSH
Panic as dates clash
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A clash in the
timing of entrance examinations for English and Economics in two different colleges has created trouble for
some students. The economics entrance test to be conducted by Ramjas college on
June 27 between 1 to 2 pm is
overlapping with the English
entrance of Daulat Ram college, being conducted from
12.30 to 1.30 pm.
The English entrance is
conducted by around 12 colleges and the schedule is coordinated by the university’s
English department to prevent overlaps. However, Ramjas is the only college which
conducts an economics test
in North campus.
‘‘We are in a dilemma. My
daughter wants to take both
the tests, but this will be possible only if one of the colleges shifts the timing an
hour,’’ Pramod Kumar Gupta, a parent said.
Ramjas principal Rajinder
Prasad said he was not aware
of the problem. ‘‘The college
will give it a serious thought
and try to make an adjust-
Farmhouses depleting groundwater
By Saurabh Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The massive exploitation of
groundwater by farmhouse owners is leading to a sharp fall in the water table in areas
where the farms are located. According to
the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB),
the water table is falling by up to two metres
in such places every year.
‘‘In Chattarpur, for instance, the water
table is 45 metres below ground level.
There’s hardly a 15-metre-deep layer of
fresh water left in these places,’’ said CGWB
chairman S S Chauhan.
Most of the farmhouses are in areas like
Bijwasan, Mehrauli, Chattarpur, and Rajokri in south and southwest Delhi, where
hardly any sweet groundwater is left. The
board estimates that if the exploitation goes
on at this pace, the entire area will run out
of sweet water in less than a decade. ‘‘We are
headed towards desertification,’’ warned urban designer K T Ravindran.
Each farmhouse is reported to have several tubewells that keep the sprawling lawns
lush green. Groundwater meets all their requirements as the Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
does not supply any water to areas on the
city periphery like Chattarpur, said DJB
member (water) G C Nandwani.
DJB chief P K Tripathi said: ‘‘Because of
the over-exploitation by farmhouses, the wa-
Farming trouble
• Most farmhouses depend only on
groundwater
• The over-exploitation
as left to severely depleted aquifers
• The sweet water left in farm areas will
last for less then a decade
• Leads to problems in nearby areas also
as the water table falls
• DJB tubewells keep running dry,
disrupting the supply
ter table in Vasant Kunj, which is near the
farm area, keeps on falling. So our tubewells
keep running dry and we have to drill deeper. The same thing happens in other south
Delhi colonies. There is a disruption in the
supply.’’
The CGWB is now planning to undertake
a survey of the farmhouses. ‘‘Depending on
the findings of the survey, we will decide the
future course of action,’’ said Chauhan. But
given the CGWB’s track record of acting on
its announcements, experts want some concrete steps to be taken immediately.
Ravindran said: ‘‘Watering lawns should
be immediately banned in farmhouses.
Treated waste water that is rich in nutrients
can be used for this purpose. Groundwater
College: To strive,
to seek, to find
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Entering
college is a rite of passage. At one level, it is
liberation from the
structured — even uniformed — life of school.
At another, it is the
first step into individual
responsibilty as an
adult. We approach it
with excitement, awe
and trepidation. But
here is a view of a student who had just entered Stanford’s sunny
portals: ‘‘One of the
greatest things about going to school (college) in
paradise is that you can
study while working on
a wicked tan.’’
ment,’’ he said. Economics
test incharge Deb Kusum Das
said he had received calls regarding this problem on Friday. ‘‘The matter will be put
in front of the admission
committee,’’ he added.
REMEMBRANCE
should be used only for meeting the basic necessities of life by those living in farmhouses,’’ he said.
S Mukherjee of JNU’s School of Environmental Sciences said rainwater harvesting
was the only way to improve the groundwater situation.
Tripathi said as long as groundwater was
available free of charge, its exploitation is
difficult to stop till it dries up. ‘‘The DJB Bill
on groundwater that has been cleared by the
Centre should be passed as it gives us the
power to check exploitation of groundwater
and levies a charge on it.’’
Because of the over-exploitation by the
farmhouses, the DJB chief added that even
harvesting the rain was not showing any difference. ‘‘In several nearby places, people
have installed rainwater harvesting systems. But all the water that is harvested, is
pumped out out of all proportions and the
water table does not improve’’ he said.
The massive exploitation of groundwater
over the years has led to a sharp drop in both
the quantity and quality of the sub-soil reserve in the city. In a vicious circle, as the
water table drops, the concentration of dangerous pollutants like nitrates, fluorides,
pesticides, heavy metals and
salinity keeps getting concentrated in the remaining water.
OBCs to get financial aid
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Delhi state government has decided to form a
separate body which will provide financial assistance to minorities and other backward classes (OBCs).
The decision was taken at a meeting between chief
minister, Sheila Dikshit, social welfare minister Raj
Kumar Chauhan and concerned government officials on Friday.
‘‘The fund distribution agency will be on the lines
of the existing finance corporation for scheduled
caste and scheduled tribes,’’ Chauhan said.
The government had included minorities and other backward classes in the ambit of the finance corporation in January this year.
Officials felt that the commission’s scope had become too vast as there were four beneficiary groups,
including handicapped persons, OBCs, SC and ST
and minorities.
‘‘We have decided to create this new body as the existing body was burdened with too many applications. We want to accommodate all genuine requests
for financial assistance from needy people,’’ the minister said.
With the new body, people from minority communities and other backward classes can avail financial
assistance, between Rs 50,000 and Rs 5 lakh.
The procedures for availing funds will be the same
as the one which is existing. ‘‘Applications are invited from needy people, and as we get the proposals for
self-employment, they are thoroughly scrutinised,’’
he said.
The proposal’s financial viability is assessed by
the Commission’s officers, who are usually people
with expertise on auditing of projects. ‘‘They evaluate the project submitted by the needy
and we grant the approval, so that the
self
employment
projects can take off,’’
the minister said.
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Neeraj Paul
RWAs seek more
money from Govt
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
The LIG flat where a gas cylinder exploded on Friday and injured five people.
Seven hurt in cylinder blast
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Seven persons,
including a woman, sustained burn injuries when
an LPG cylinder exploded
in a Jhilmil Colony flat in
east Delhi on Friday morning.
The police said the blast
took place at about 9.30 am.
Deputy commissioner of
police (east) Nuzhat Hassan
said: ‘‘Yogesh Mehra (40)
and his wife Ashu Mehra
(32) sustained over 40 per
cent burns. Ashu was making tea when the cylinder
caught fire.’’ Five neighbours, who rushed to the
rescue of the couple, also
sustained burn injuries.
The couple moved to Safdarjung Hospital.
The other injured include Mridul (17), Varun
(16), Rajkumar, Mohan Puri
and Murli Kishore.
The condition of Murali
is still critical, the officer
said.
New Delhi: The Bhagidari
state council on Friday submitted a proposal with
the Delhi state government
demanding financial aid
and the discretion to utilise
funds for developmental
projects.
According to a government official, details of the
proposal will be thrashed out
by month-end and a comprehensive policy finalised.
Till now, the government
has given grants only on specific projects of rainwater
harvesting and solid waste
management.
If a policy is made, the
1,500 residents’ associations
will have the power to decide
on the allocation of funds internally.
‘‘This will streamline the
process and cut down the bureaucratic procedure,’’ Dr M
K Mohanty, state council
member and Rohini resident
Local police sabotage rape probe
By Bhadra Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Ambedkar
Nagar police have been accused of violating directions
from police headquarters on
how to handle rape cases. As
per the guidelines, a rape
case has to be investigated
by a woman officer.
Metropolitan magistrate S
S Rathi took a strong exception in a case where a male
sub-inspector from the police station is investigating a
rape case.
The magistrate also held
that the police were trying to
tamper with the probe.
The magistrate also said
Directions
• There is no confusion about the identity of the accused. The victim has named him and given his background in the FIR, says the judge
• The commissioner of police has given strict directions
to take the help of rape crisis intervention centre to deal
with rape cases
• According to the guidelines, only women police officers should probe rape cases
the police’s move to get the
accused identified by the victim was unfair.
Rathi said:‘‘There is no
confusion about the accused’s identity. The victim
has named him and given
his background in the FIR.’’
Rajpath exchange trips
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Erratic power
supply led to the failure of
Rajpath telephone exchange
twice on Friday leading to
disruption of telephone service in Sena Bhavan and
North Block.
The exchange failed first at
1 pm and then at 1.45 pm. The
system was restored by making alternate arrangement of
power supply by laying long
He observed that since there
was no justification in getting the accused identified
again, this was an attempt
by the investigating officer
to sabotage the case.
He said the police were attempting to coerce the vic-
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Cyber data
• Bhagidari will soon be
online
• Member RWAs are
planning to set up a
website that will provide
data on their projects
• The website that is
supposed to be functional by month- end.
• It will also boost communication between the
associations
said.
The proposal suggests a
three-tier
democratically
elected structure that will
whet each project.
Residents will be part of a
RWA and 10-15 RWAs or market traders associations will
form a federation that will in
turn choose a limited number of representatives to
form a district council.
tim to not identify the accused during the test identification parade.
The magistrate also pointed towards the lackadaisical
attitude of the investigating
officer who has failed to
probe the case scientifically.
Rathi said the officer failed
to obtain semen sample of
the accused and his clothes.
Rathi claimed:‘‘There are
strong objections to the conduct of the officers who have
failed to follow their senior
officers but have tried to
scuttle the cause of justice.’’
The victim said she was
allegedly raped by her husband’s friend. The accused,
Raju, was arrested later.
power leads, a Mahanagar
Telephone Nigam Limited
official said.
RTV crushes man: Alauddin, a resident of Lal Quan,
was hit by a speeding RTV at
Mehrauli-Badarpur
Road
while crossing the road on
Thursday night.
The victim was taken to
AIIMS where he succumbed
to his injuries. The driver is
yet to be arrested.
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Nature’s fury turns fiery: Forest fire rages as you read
Reuters
Cong: Power
struggle is
on in BJP
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
A forest fire rages in Uttaranchal on Thursday. Six people died in the blaze so far.
14 children succumb to mystery disease
Kolkata: Another child died of a mysterious disease on Friday in Murshidabad district of West Bengal. The disease has so far claimed 14 lives.
However, unofficial estimates put the
toll at over 30. Murshidabad district
magistrate said with the fresh death at
the Jangipur Sadar hospital 14 children
had so far died of the disease characterised by high fever and profuse saliva
secretion.
The exact number of children dying
of the disease was difficult to pinpoint
as most of the cases had occurred in re-
mote villages of the Lalbag sub-division
of the district.
Two teams — one of epidemiological
experts and another from the National
Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases — rushed to the villages on Friday
to collect blood and saliva samples. PTI
New Delhi: The Congress on
Thursday took potshots at
the confusion over the leadership in the BJP by calling it
an ‘‘unmistakable’’ power
struggle between Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
and Deputy Prime Minister L
K Advani.
Party spokesperson Anand
Sharma told reporters that
BJP chief M Venkaiah
Naidu, by making ‘‘confusing
and conflicting’’ statements,
had triggered off this debate.
Sharma said this proved that
there was a definite power
struggle between Vajpayee
and Advani.
Sharma said these statements were yet another ‘‘act
of the extension’’ of the ongoing multiple-speak. However, the final picture is not
yet clear since Vajpayee
could issue another statement contradicting himself,
he claimed. In this regard, he
gave the example of Vajpayee’s varying statements on
Kashmir, Pakistan and even
his own retirement.
According to Sharma, irrespective of who leads the
BJP, the Congress would
fight and defeat BJP. Both Vajpayee and Advani are responsible for non-governance, he said.
The Times of India, New Delhi
One more murder
rocks Chhattisgarh
No FIR against Jogi in Jaggi case: Police
TIMES NEWS NETWORK & PTI
Raipur: A day after Nationalist Congress Party Chhattisgarh treasurer Ram
Avatar Jaggi’s murder, two
unidentified men shot dead
a local Congress leader,
Trilok Agrawal, in Mahasamund district, official
sources said on Friday.
Agrawal, who was a
prominent rice mill owner
and a close relative of general administration and
health minister K K Gupta,
was killed by two intruders
at his Saraipalli residence,
according to preliminary
reports.
Agrawal reached home
from Raipur around 1 am,
when his family members
told him that there could be
intruders in the backyard
of the house. When Agarwal opened the door, two men
shot at him twice from
close range and fled the
scene. The bullets hit him
in the stomach.
Agrawal was immediately rushed to the Raipur
Medical College Hospital,
but was declared brought
Ajit Jogi
dead. No arrests have been
made so far.
On Friday, Ram Avatar
Jaggi’s murder case took an
U-turn. Inspector general of
police Ram Niwas told The
Times of India that there
was no FIR against chief
minister Ajit Jogi and his
son Amit. On Thursday,
NCP state unit chief V C
Shukla and his supporters
lodged an FIR at the Maudhapara police station, naming the Jogis as co-conspirators in the murder.
The police declared this
FIR as null and void. In
turn, town inspector V K
Pandey filed an FIR against
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Shukla and hundreds of
supporters, alleging that
they had forced him to register the FIR against Jogi
and his son.
An FIR lodged by Jaggi’s
son Satish has also been
quashed.
Pandey claimed that
Shukla had snatched his
mobile, wireless set and
phone and didn’t allow him
to talk to his seniors. Cases
of dacoity and causing obstruction to a government
servant in discharging his
official duties have been
registered against the NCP
leaders.
The police said two other
FIRs against unknown persons are operational in the
Jaggi case. The IGP reported progress in the investigations.
When asked about Shukla’s remarks that the police
was framing a scrap dealer
of the town in the case,
Ram Niwas said, ‘‘We are
investigating the case, not
Mr Shukla.’’
Jaggi’s murder, he said,
was not a political murder.
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Saturday, June 7, 2003
PTI
Censor board objects to
film on Kutch quake
Bharat Desai
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ahmedabad: The makers
of a film on the Kutch
earthquake of January
2001 are crying foul over the
Central Board of Film Certification’s decision to deny
permission to show the 45minute documentary since
it ‘‘depicts communalisation and discrimination in
society’’.
Defying the embargo, the
film will be screened before
reporters at the Press Club
in Mumbai on Saturday
where a demand will be
made for removal of the
board’s chairman, Arvind
Trivedi, a former BJP MP
from Gujarat, who played
the role of Ravan in the
popular television serial
Ramayan.
The film-makers have
also decided to approach
the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal against
the censor board’s decision.
Vision Graphers, the
Mumbai-based company
which made the film,
Chords On The Richter
Scale, over 18 months, was
communicated the board’s
decision on Thursday, in response to its April 21 application for certification.
The decision, signed by
the board’s regional officer,
V K Singla, says: ‘‘The film
depicts criminalisation and
discrimination in society. It
contains
disbalanced
speeches, commentary, visuals which give different
tone (sic) to achieve its objective. By giving religious
and communal colour, it
may add more problems for
those who are living in
peace and harmony....’’
Says the film’s co-producer Ramesh Pimple: ‘‘It is
based entirely on ground
realities and the narrative
is interspersed with interviews.’’
Medha Patkar ends fast:
BJP’s election in-charge in Madhya Pradesh Uma Bharti
stands on a chair to match her height with the newly-inducted Union minister Prahlad Patel during a photo session in
Bhopal on Friday.
Ajit urges farmers
to defeat BJP, allies
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Meerut: Former Union agriculture minister Ajit Singh
expressed his annoyance
over his ouster from the Central cabinet and exhorted
farmers of western UP to
frustate all attempts by the
BJP and its allies to return to
power in the Centre after
next year’s Lok Sabha polls.
Addressing his first farmers’ rally on Friday in his
Parliamentary constituency
after his dismissal from the
Cabinet, Singh said the BJP’s
days in most big states were
numbered.
Narmada Bachao Andolan
leader Medha Patkar on Friday
ended her seven-day indefinite
fast demanding rehabilitation
of tribals affected by the Sardar
Sarovar Project, after the Maharashtra government accepted all their demands. PTI
He clarified that factionalism within the central unit of
the party on the leadership
issue, attempt to revive the
Ayodhya to derive mileage
and fear of trying to repeat
Modi’s experiment in states
like UP may contribute to the
party’s setback in the polls.
‘‘Voters are aware of their
tricks to garner support and
they are no longer going to be
befooled,’’ he said.
The RLD chief made it
clear that the senior party
leaders in the state, with the
help of the Samajwad Party,
Congress and RKP were trying to oust the government.
Topple Maya
mission is on
Mulayam meets Kalyan
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Lucknow: In an apparent move to chalk out
the Opposition strategy
to topple the Mayawatiled government in Uttar
Pradesh,
Samajwadi
Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav held
a closed-door meeting
here with Rashtriya
Kranti Party president
Kalyan Singh on Thursday night.
‘‘We held detailed discussions on Thursday
night about the Opposition’s plan to topple the
corrupt Mayawati government. We will meet
again on Sunday to give
a final shape to the
plan,’’ Kalyan Singh
said.
Singh
said
that
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD)
leader Ajit Singh and
Congress leader Jagdambika Pal were likely
to attend the proposed
meeting.
The Mayawati-led government is ‘‘already
running on life support
system and its days are
numbered’’, he said,
adding that after the
withdrawal of support
of the 14-member RLD,
the government had
been reduced to a minority.
With the 14-member
RLD withdrawing support and Congress, with
16 members supporting
the Opposition move,
the Mayawati govern-
ment has been reduced
to a minority, Singh said.
Moreover, he said,
there are over two dozen
BJP legislators, who are
‘‘ready to cross the
floor’’.
‘‘They are in touch
with me and will act at
the right moment,’’ he
said.
Meanwhile, with the
BJP dissidents being assured of ministerial
berths, following the return of chief minister
Mayawati from her sojourn abroad, the focus
has once again shifted
on the Independents,
whose support is proving crucial for both the
ruling coalition and the
Opposition combine.
With the opposition
strength going up to
around 214, the RKP
president said chief
minister
Mayawati
should either step down
or convene a session of
the House to prove her
majority.
Singh also hoped that
governor Vishnu Kant
Shatri and Speaker K N
Tripathi would hold the
dignity of their office
and not fail in discharging their constitutional
responsibilities and obligations.
The RKP president
said inner discontent in
the BJP was on the rise
and the number of the
dissidents had increased
to over 30.
SP is trying to buy
MLAs, says Katiyar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Lucknow: Launching
the second leg of his jan
jagran
yatra
from
Kushinagar in eastern
UP, BJP state president
Vinay Katiyar charged
the Samajwadi Party
leaders with using money-bags to buy ruling alliance MLAs to pull
down the BJP-BSP coalition government.
Katiyar began the second leg of his yatra after
offering prayers to Lord
Buddha. Addressing the
gathering, there was a
conspiracy to throw the
state back into political
turmoil. He charged the
SP with being behind
this move to destabilise
the Mayawati govern-
ment.
‘‘The SP is making
frantic attempts to bring
down the government.
Several crores have been
offered to woo MLAs for
forging defections. But
they could not succeed
in their attempts. The
government is firmly in
the saddle and would
thwart the Opposition’s
bid to destabilise the
government,’’ he said.
Speaking on the occasion, BJP leader Lalji
Tandon too claimed that
there was no threat to
the government from
the opposition unity.
‘‘They have been involved in such activities
from the day this government came to the
power,’’ Tandon said.
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Nitish admits need to
improve rail safety
Purnia: Railway minister
Nitish Kumar on Friday
conceded the urgent need
for improving the overall
railway safety system in order to restore passengers’
confidence.
The minister said in all,
14,000 km of railway tracks,
which had become wornout,
outdated and therefore accident-prone, needed to be
changed urgently. So far
5,000 km of such tracks had
been changed.
The railways proposed to
complete the process by the
financial year 2006-07, he
maintained. Kumar, wo accompanied the PM to Nirmali for the inauguration of
a rail bridge, shared the
anxiety of the people over
the spurt in derailment. TNN
RSS opposes
reservation
for Muslims
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The RSS has
reservations about BJP
president
Venkaiah
Naidu’s advocacy of reservation for Muslims, an announcement he had made
at the recent BJP rally in
Rampur.
RSS spokesperson Ram
Madhav said on Friday that
the economically and socially backward Muslims
are already included in the
list of OBCs. Further, he
stressed that after long debtaes in the Constituent Assembly, it was decided that
only SCs and STs should be
granted reservation. He underlined the fact that it was
felt at the time that it was
the separate Muslim electorates created by the
British in India that had led
to Partition.
Madhav said that there
was need for a national debate on the subject before
rushing into more reservations.
The Times of India, New Delhi
PTI
Neighbours
cannot be
changed: PM
By Sachchidanand Jha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Nirmali/Supaul (Bihar):
The Prime Minister on
Friday said India had no
choice but to be on friendly terms with Pakistan.
‘‘You cannot change your
neighbours,’’ he remarked
on the occasion of laying
the foundation stone for
the Rs 323 crore Koshi
Mega Rail Bridge.
While admitting that
there had been a decline in
cross-border
terrorism,
the Prime Minister put a
rider on further Indo-Pak
interaction.
‘‘Dialogue
with Pakistan cannot be
initiated until murder of
innocent people by terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir is stopped completely,’’
he said.
The occasion was momentous for the people of
Mithilanchal. Not only did
Vajpayee lay the foundation stone for the Koshi
Mega Rail Bridge which
had been washed away
about 70 years ago, he said
he would initiate measures to include Maithili in
the 8th Schedule of the
Constitution. The demand
for including Maithili in
the 8th schedule has been
on for over 40 years in the
region.
Vajpayee said Mithilanchal was virtually cut into
two parts when the bridge
on the Kosi was washed
away. He hoped the bridge
would reunite Mithilanchal and bring progress
and prosperity to the region.
The bridge made by the
British over Kosi river had
been washed away in 1934.
This meant trains had to
terminate at Nirmali and
people had to take a 290 km
road to reach the other
side of Supaul district.
Vajpayee arrived here at
around 4 pm from Purnea
airforce base, an hour behind the scheduled time.
He was accompanied by
several Union ministers
including George Fernades, Nitish Kumar,
Sharad Yadav. Bihar chief
minister Rabri Devi was
also present on the occasion and addressed the
meeting.
As Sipaul was inaccessible by road, the railways
had to run a special train
to carry its officials and reporters to the spot.
This is the first time a
Prime Minister has addressed a meeting in this
remote corner of Bihar.
Son of slain Jarnail Singh Bhinderawala, Ishar Singh (centre), at the Akal Takhat after he was
honoured with a ‘shiropa’ by the Shiromani Gurudwara Prabhandhak Committee on Friday.
Naidu swears by Vajpayee
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata/Guwahati: BJP’s
national president Venkaiah
Naidu on Friday made it
clear that Prime Minister
Atal Behari Vajpayee was the
number one man, both in the
BJP and in the NDA government and Deputy Prime minister L K Advani was his
number two.
On two different occasions
during the day, the BJP president denied there was any
difference within the party
over leadership, and laid the
entire blame for the ‘‘confusion’’ at the door of the media.
‘‘Sab theek hai bhayya
(Everything is all right). We
are enjoying the fun. There
was confusion in the minds
of a section of the media,’’ he
said.
The BJP would fight the
next elections with Prime
Minister Vajpayee as the
leader, Naidu asserted in reply to questions at the
Kolkata airport where he
touched down briefly on his
way to Guwahati from Delhi.
‘‘Vajpayeeji ka naam aur
Vajpayeeji ka kaam (the
name and performance of
Vajpayee),’’ he replied, when
asked how the BJP planned
to fight the next election.
‘‘Advani is number two in
party
and
government.
Everybody knows that he is
the deputy prime minister,’’
he quipped. ‘‘There is no confusion about the leadership
of Vajpayee. He is our Prime
Minister and evberyone is
supporting him.’’
PTI
Finalists of the Miss North India pageant pose for a photo session in Lucknow on Friday.
Maharashtra
Bar Council
denies ‘listing’
By Swati Deshpande
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The Bar Council of Maharashtra and Goa has denied that it gave its
parent body a list of high court judges
whose relatives practise in the same
court.
The Bar Council of India recently released a list of several high court judges
whose relatives were said to be practising
in the same court. The list included the
names of five Bombay High Court
judges. The State Bar Council on Friday
shot off an angry letter to the Bar Council of India seeking an explanation and
the source of its information.
The central council had asked the
Chief Justice of India to transfer these
judges, failing which it threatened to take
action against their relatives. Bar council rules prevent judges’ relatives from
practising in the same court.
‘‘I was surprised to see the list issued
by the Bar Council of India, especially
since we had not passed information
about any judge to it,’’ said Rajiv Patil,
the vice-chairperson of the State Bar
Council. He added that the central council should not have released the list without consulting the state body.
The details on the list are incorrect,
Patil said. For example, despite the list
stating so, Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud’s wife does not practise in the high
court. In addition, Justice HL Gokhale’s
son does not appear before his father.
Justice Ajit Shah of the Bombay High
Court, whose nephew was mentioned as
practising in the same court, said, ‘‘The
person named in the list is a very distant
relative. He does not practise in the
courts I am presiding over.’’
Justice Shah’s daughter is also a
lawyer, but she doesn’t practise in the
high court. His wife, Swati, who got her
licence to practice two years before he
was appointed a judge in 1992, now works
with a voluntary organisation.
A high court judge observed that many
judges in Mumbai did not take up matters involving relatives or lawyers who
once worked under them.
Patil of the State Bar Council said that
he had raised the matter with the vicechairperson of the central council but
had not received a satisfactory reply. He
was now waiting for a written response
from the apex body before chalking out
the course of action.
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Another firm eyes
Bt cotton market
By Chandrika Mago
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
A 36-feet stone statue of ‘Pancha
Mukha Anjaneyar’, stated to be the
tallest in the country, is to be installed in Pondicherry shortly.
More than 30 sculptors worked on
it for nearly two years.
New SSB chief: Director-general
of civil defence B L Vohra has been
asked to hold additional charge of
the Special Service Bureau (SSB)
following the retirement of SSB D-G,
V K Malik. SSB personnel are deployed along the Indo-Nepal border.
The force was recently asked to man
the Indo-Bhutan border also. TNN
Four militants held: Security
forces have arrested four activists of
militant outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
in Poonch district of Jammu and
Kashmir, police sources said on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, troops raided a hideout and arrested the four
from Surankote forest belt of the
district on Thursday night. PTI
New Delhi: Transgenic cotton is trying
to spread its wings — legally and illegally. A second firm has knocked on the
doors of the government, hoping for a
toehold in the Bt cotton market even as
the authorities struggle to put systems
in place to evaluate such crops.
And, Mahyco Monsanto, the only company legally entitled to sell seeds of
three Bt cotton hybrids in south and
central India, has formally complained
to the Union government about illegal
seed production in Gujarat. It has given
names of some farmers, villages and
companies reportedly marketing transgenic seed. It has even sent across seed
packets to the government as proof. J K
Seeds, another company hoping to enter
this market, is also learnt to have complained verbally.
Both are making the same point: They
are taking the legal route of trials and
approvals and would like the government to act against those who are not.
The Centre is yet to decide what to do.
So, when the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), an interministerial body of officials and experts, meets on June 13, it will have before it three issues on genetically-modified crops: A report on possible monitoring mechanisms for seed production,
distribution, quality control and performance; illegal production of GM
seed; and an application from a second
firm, Rasi Seeds, for Bt cotton hybrids
meant for south and central India.
Illegal production essentially makes a
mockery of any attempt to regulate this
new — some say dangerous — technology. In the case of cotton, a bacterial gene
is introduced to make cotton resistant to
the deadly bollworm pest and reduce
pesticide use.
Some suggestions on monitoring from
a committee chaired by agriculture ministry joint secretary A Bahuguna:
• On seed production, the company
should tell states about locations, area
and estimated quantity; quantity should
be verified at the processing plant by
seed inspectors.
• To ensure quality control, the company must give states details of seed dealers and advance notice of delivery to enable random checks before the seed is
distributed. Random checks should be
on 0.1 per cent of the total seed.
• If these checks don’t find the transgenic gene, the consignment should be
impounded. If seed has already been
distributed, farmers may approach consumer courts for compensation.
• The Central Institute of Cotton Research (CICR) has sampling kits to test
for the transgenic gene; it has trained
some state officials and offered to train
more. It may also be notified as the referral lab to test for the transgenic gene.
• States should set up monitoring committees at the state and district levels. Bt
cotton fields should also be classified according to type of area — irrigated,
rain-fed, drought-prone. Bt cotton’s performance should be compared to its nonBt cotton counterpart in what is termed
the refuge area.
‘Confused desi’ scores again
By Ruchika Mehta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Enter the age of the
Gwen Stefani-bindi, Starbuck’s chai,
Ganesha handbags, Krishna t-shirts
and Bend It Like Beckham. India is
hot and happening. While the West
is raving about India, yet another
American desi, Tanuja Desai Hidier,
rides the wave with her bestseller
debut book Born Confused making it
to the Larry King ‘Pick of the Week’.
Born Confused was published to
critical acclaim in the United States
and received rave reviews from the
international press.
The book gets its title from the
phrase American Born Confused
Desi (ABCD), a slang for Indian
Americans.
Hidier was born and raised in
Massachusetts and is currently a vocalist for a British melodic rock
band.
So how was Born Confused born?
‘‘The Indian-American coming-ofage story was one I would have liked
to have had on hand while growing
up. So, I knew that one day I wanted
to get a desi heroine on the book
shelves,’’ said Hidier from her home
in Notting Hill.
Hidier felt she was pressured to
write the book a few years ago, when
being Indian was ‘‘hot’’. This
stressed her out, because she felt she
was not Indian enough. ‘‘It was only
when I accepted the complexity of a
viable culture that exists in the
spaces between things, that I could
really get Born Confused out,’’ she
added.
Set in the context of a largely burgeoning South Asian club scene,
Born Confused is essentially a story
about an ABCD female protagonist,
Dimple Lala, her camera and the
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Andhra fishing for asthma cure
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
R Burman
Hyderabad: The fisheries
department has cast its nets
to ensure adequate supply
of murrel fish in the city on
June 8 and 9 to meet the demand from asthma patients
expected to converge in Hyderabad for the Bathini
brothers’ fish medicine.
Due to the drought conditions in the state the fish
breeding facilities have
been affected. Faced with a
shortage of the fish in the
state, the fisheries department here has stretched its
search for murrel to West
Bengal, Karnataka and
Maharashtra.
Not having succeeded in
getting the fish from West
Bengal and Karnataka, offiTRAIN TO HOPE: Asthma sufferers off to Hyderabad for the mysterious ‘fish medicine.’
cials are hoping adequate
supplies will arrive by Sat- ever, the supplies here could also called for tenders from lected from select breeding
urday from Nanded.
not meet the demand for private parties to supply the pools in Nalgonda, MahbubOfficials also tried to get fish for the Bathini broth- murrel, but has received no nagar, Khammam, Karimfish from Kolkata and ers’ asthma medicine.
response.
nagar, Adilabad, NizamRaichur in Karnataka, howThe fisheries department
Murrel has also been col- abad and Medak.
Goa to turn India’s Cannes
New Delhi: If France can
have its Cannes, why
should India lag behind?
So, the government has decided to make Goa a permanent venue for the annual film festival from
next year.
The idea of a permanent
venue for the annual International Film Festival of
India (IFFI) has been a
subject of discussion in
the film industry, the Goa
government and the Centre ever since the authorities had to postpone the
festival a few years ago.
Karnataka,
the
state
where it was to be held,
backed out at the last moment.
Official representatives
from Goa visited Cannes
during the annual film festival this summer. TNN
complication of her relationships
because of conflicting cultures. ‘‘I
see a lot of myself in Dimple, when I
first went to Brown University at the
age of 20. Not Indian enough to be
Indian and not American enough to
be American,’’ Hidier said.
This theme of first and second
generation India, and of finding
their place in America, figures
prominently in much of Hidier’s
other works as well.
On why she chose Indian diaspora
as her favourite subject Hidier said,
‘‘There just seems to be this sudden
explosion of the second generation
American going out there, and ‘doing it’. Now South Asian culture in
America is going into its third generation.’’
What’s next? ‘‘A soundtrack of
original songs based on Born Confused. At some point I want to make
Dimple Lala’s story in to a movie.’’
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The Times of India, New Delhi
AFP
Freedom storm brews in PoK
By Bisheshwar Mishra
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The peace
process initiated by India
has given a fresh momentum to the movement of the
people in PoK to free themselves from the yoke of Pakistan’s military dictatorship, intelligence sources
here indicated.
They said this movement
is being spearheaded jointly
by the All-Parties National
Alliance (APNA), the GilgitBaltistan National Alliance
(GBNA) and other political
groups. These organisations have also raised their
voice against cross-border
terrorism being aided and
abetted by the military
regime in Pakistan.
APNA, GBNA, the Jammu and Kashmir National
Awami Party (JKNAP) and
several Kashmir-based political organisations have
welcomed the latest IndoPak peace initiative of
Prime Minister Vajpayee
and hoped that it would lead
to the resolution of the
Kashmir issue.
At the same time, the
Kashmiri leaders have demanded that ‘‘the core party
in the dispute, the people of
Jammu
and
Kashmir,
should have full representation in the process through
genuine representatives’’.
APNA had organised a
‘‘black day’’ on April 28 for
it was on this day they said
that ‘Karachi Agreement’
was signed between Pakistan and that of the socalled ‘‘Azad’’ Jammu and
Kashmir (AJK) government
in 1949. Following this
agreement, Gilgit-Baltistan,
the so-called Northern Areas, which are geographically and historically part of
Jammu and Kashmir, were
given to Pakistan by the
puppet rulers of AJK.
The sources said that the
participation of the general
public in various civilian
protest programmes has increased since then. Early
this month, the JKNAP had
organised an international
convention which was at-
tended by APNA leaders
from PoK.
‘‘Speakers at the convention expressed their dissatisfaction with the political,
economic,
constitutional
and legal system introduced
by Pakistan in the PoK and
the Northern Areas,’’ the intelligence sources added.
The sources quoted the
speakers at the convention
as saying that there was no
‘‘sign of democracy, no economic and social justice, no
constitution and no rule of
law whatsoever throughout
Pakistan and in its extensions, wherever they are, be
it ‘Azad Kashmir’ or the
Northern Areas. Everything is subservient to the
needs of the armed forces,
especially a tiny minority
in the forces. This minority
in the armed forces is a law
unto itself.’’
Sources say the speakers
demanded that Pakistan’s
armed forces be brought under a democratically-elected
defence minister like other
democratic countries.
‘OIC resolution on
J&K irrelevant’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: India on Friday
termed as ‘‘irrelevant’’ the
resolution on Jammu and
Kashmir adopted by the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC), saying, ‘‘No
importance should be attached to this annual charade by Pakistan.’’
Referring to the proceedings of the OIC foreign ministers’ meeting in Teheran,
an external affairs ministry
spokesman said, ‘‘We have
said on earlier occasions
also that the OIC has no locus standi in matters concerning India’s internal affairs. We, therefore, reject
all such irrelevant resolutions and statements.’’
The resolution, as has
been the case year after
year, accuses Indian security forces of committing
atrocities on civilians in
J&K.
Dawood’s kin in politics?: Police have got reports that Iqbal
Hassan Kaskar, younger brother of underworld don Dawood
Ibrahim and incarcerated accused in a case of alleged extortion,
was desperately trying to become the member of a political party.
‘‘We have come across such information and are analysing it. We
shall certainly pre-empt such move and foil Iqbal’s attempts to enter the political arena,’’ a police officer said here on Friday. PTI
A fisherman awaits a catch on a platform in Bhopal on Friday.
Fernandes: MiG 21
will not be grounded
By Bhuvaneshwar Prasad
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Purnia: Defence minister
George Fernandes on Friday categorically denied
the possibility of grounding MiG 21 in spite of the
outcry against them.
Fernandes, who is accompanying the Prime
Minister to Purnia asserted that the MiG 21 was the
‘‘mainstay of Indian air
defence’’. ‘‘Its worthiness
and efficacy had been
proven over the years,’’ he
said.
Taking to reporters at
the Purnia circuit house,
he said that contrary to
public perception and
what was being published
in newspapers, the useful-
ness of
M i G s
h a d
been est a b lished
m o r e
n o w
t h a n
when it
was inFernandes
t r o duced 20 years ago.
When questioned about
Pakistan asking why India
was not doing anything to
thwart cross-border terrorism on its side, he
ridiculed Pakistan’s insinuation and asserted that it
was the outcome of sustained campaign on India’s part. He said more
and more terrorists were
being felled and that level
of cross-border terrorism
had come down lately.
Asked about his volteface vis-a-vis China whom
he once said was India’s
number
one
enemy,
George Fernandes said
though India and China
became free at around the
same time, China was two
and a half times more
prosperous and was likely
to become number one
power by 2020 and as such
it would never be advisable to ignore this giant
economic power.
He said the Prime Minister’s five-day tour of China would only further
strengthen our age-old ties
with the country.
India signs a Sukhoi deal
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: With India
planning to begin indigenous production of the
Sukhoi-30MKIs
within
two years, Hindustan
Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)
has signed a $ 300-million
deal
with
Russian
company Stankoimport
for
the
supply
of
equipment to produce
the
fourth-generation
fighters at its Nasik
plant.
Defence ministry officials say the Indo-Russian
collaboration will be for
the licensed production of
140 SU-30MKIs at Nasik,
along with ‘‘additional engines and sets of aggregates to cater to the lifetime exploitation of the
aircrafts’’.
As part of the overall $
3.5-billion contract signed
in December 2000, the IAF
had already inducted a
squadron of these multirole air dominance fighters to the Pune airbase
last year.
In all, 32 SU-30MKIs
manufactured in Russia
will join the IAF in a
phased manner by next
year. The 18 SU-30s, already in the IAF since
1997, will also be eventually upgraded to SU-30MKIs
(‘I’ stands for India).
The twin-seater SU30MKIs, which are capable
of
undertaking
both
strike and air defence
missions, will form a crucial part of the IAF’s warwaging potential for over
a decade since the
indigenous Light Combat
Aircraft
(LCA)
programme continues to be
dogged by time-overruns.
Doon murders: A security
guard, his son and daughter-inlaw were gunned down by two of
the girl’s close relatives and their
friends on Friday morning in
Mussoorie. One of the assailants
is in police custody with firearms,
while the others are yet to be arrested. The girl’s father has also
been taken into custody for interrogation. DIG Anil Raturi said the
By Srikala Bhashyam
main motive appears to be girl’s
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marriage which was against her
fathers wishes as the boy was
Bangalore: Investment and money
from a lower caste. TNN
have been the fancy of bigger cities
like Mumbai and Delhi. But Bangalore seems to have changed the equation.
Today, Bangalore is ‘‘a city of
crorepatis’’ with as many as 500 to 600
of them.
No, we are not talking about paper
crorepatis — those who have their
money largely in stock options. We
are talking about individuals who are
sitting with hard, investible cash of
Rs one crore and above.
And the list goes far beyond the IT
barons Azim Premji and Narayana
Murthy - who have already made it to
the international rich list — and
those in the tech sector. These are
people who can be found across industry segments and live across the
city — from Chickpet to Jayanagar to
Koramangala.
T Srikanth Bhagavat, managing director of Hexagon Capital Advisors,
a company engaged in portfolio management, says: ‘‘It is not just the tech
guys who have a crore in their kitty
because of e-sops (employee stock options).
‘‘There are small businessmen like
traders and cloth merchants, and professionals in the non-tech sector too.’’
Bhagavat says his company’s research indicates there are, at least,
500 people in Bangalore with investible cash of Rs one crore or more.
What’s more, Bangalore is seen to
have the potential to expand this list
of crorepatis rapidly, as nearly 1,000
to 1,200 individuals are understood to
be sitting with a surplus cash Rs 50
lakh-75 lakh. ‘‘These guys have the
potential to increase it to a crore in
the next one to two years,’’ says Krishna Mohan, vice-president of
Sprism Securities, another company
looking at portfolio management.
Bangalore has
around 500
crorepatis
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The Times of India, New Delhi
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Jinnah’s house all set for a revamp
Mansion may get a cultural centre, a library and an exhibition hall
By Vaishnavi C Sekhar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: Mohammed Ali
Jinnah’s house in Malabar
Hill, lying empty for over
two decades, may finally
come to life again.
The Indian Council for
Cultural Relations (ICCR),
which took over the house
in 1997, has decided to convert the mansion into a cultural centre, complete with
a library and an exhibition
hall.
It may also include a performance areas and a small
permanent exhibit on Jinnah, said ICCR regional director Terence D’Souza.
D’Souza said the plans
were still at a preliminary
stage. He said the Central
Public Works Department
had been asked to prepare a
proposal and a feasibility report in this regard. The government of India will fund
the project, he added.
The decision comes after
years of controversy. Pakistan has repeatedly asked
pushed its case to occupy
the mansion to house their
consul general — most recently when Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf
visited India in 2001.
Sources reveal that even
Jawaharlal Nehru wanted
this. In 1955, after it was declared evacuee property and
taken over by the Rehabilitation Ministry, he had suggested that it should be neither sold nor auctioned but
gifted to the Pakistan gov-
‘River-linking
won’t harm
environment’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Environmental
and sociological concerns
will be kept in mind while
formulating the terms of reference for the project reports
on the river-linking plan.
This was stated by Radha
Singh, director-general of
the National Water Development Agency (NWDA).
The task force on the riverlinking plan, headed by former Union minister Suresh
Prabhu, has been busy over
the last few months doing
spadework for the mega-project. However, experts and environmentalists have been
voicing concern about the
ecological impact of the plan
as also the large number of
people who will be displaced.
The NWDA is the agency
entrusted with the task of
preparing both, the pre-feasibility and feasibility reports
for each of the 30 links that
have been proposed under
the river-linking plan. So far,
it has completed pre-feasibility studies for all, and feasibility studies for eight of the
links.
Denying charges that the
project is being rushed
through, Singh said there is
no reason for such apprehensions. As for fears that the
project will have huge environmental and sociological
impact with large-scale displacement, Singh said, ‘‘An
Promises
• NWDA will make feasibility reports for 30 links
• Environmental impact
assessment will be done
for each link
• Those displaced will be
rehabilitated
environmental impact assessment will be done for
each of the links.’’
Singh also promised that
apart from the environment
and forest ministry’s clearance norms, concerns expressed by other quarters
will also be addressed. It will
also be ensured that those
who will be displaced by the
project are given their due
and rehabilitated before
work begins.
The environment ministry
has already made available a
list of areas where studies
for ecological impact will
have to be done.
Singh also maintained that
in the case of several of the
proposed links, the riverlinking proposal will only be
trying to give a push to projects that have been in the
pipeline for many years, even
decades.
‘‘These dams have been on
the anvil for years....So what
is wrong if we string them together for the river-linking
project?’’ she asked.
ernment, to be used as a memorial.
However, subsequent governments did not favour
this. One reason being its
proximity to the chief minister’s bungalow — directly
opposite Mt Pleasant Road.
Security concerns are definitely worrying officials
but D’Souza they will hold
parleys with the state government officials to work
out the arrangements.
It was built in 1939 and designed by Claude Batley. Jinnah was involved in the
finest details of its construction, from the Italian
marble tiles to the walnut
woodwork.
It was in this house, now
hidden by overgrown grass
and padlocked gates, that
Police get
nothing
from Shetty
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Surat: Actress Shilpa
Shetty’s father Surendra Shetty, who was later joined by his wife
Sunanda, was interrogated by the city police
at Umra police station
on Friday. However, the
interrogators following
the case were left exasperated.
Senior police officials
are planning to summon
him for another round
of grilling in a few days.
Sources say Shetty
was not co-operating on
matters relating to his
alleged contact with the
gangsters. Shetty was
interrogated by the investigating official B V
Ramani.
Additional comissioner of police Ashish Bhatia said Shetty was not
forthcoming on matters
pertaining to the underworld connection. ‘‘It is
possible that he will be
summoned again,’’ Bhatia said.
As per the Gujarat
High Court order on
Tuesday,
Surendra
made himself available
for interrogation by the
police officials who are
investigating the allegation that Shetty hired
gangsters to recover
payment of an ad film
for Prafful in which
Shilpa had been featured.
the famous talks between
Jinnah and Mahatma Gandhi in September 1944 were
conducted.
Till around 1983, it housed
the British deputy high
commissioner, after which
it passed into the hands of
the Central Public Works
Department, who wanted to
build high-rises there.
Naturally, heritage activists are dismayed that the
same organisation is in
charge of the project. ‘‘The
department is known for its
ham-handedness,’’ says Intach
convenor
Tasleen
Mehta.
However, D’Souza says
that the department will
consult the heritage committee and ensure that regulations are followed.
On the whole, heritage activists are cautiously enthusiastic. ‘‘As long as they
don’t compromise on the external or internal architecture, it’s a good idea,’’ says
Mehta.
Agrees Neera Adarkar, architect and member of the
Pak-India People’s Forum,
‘‘Giving it for official use
would have made it inaccessible to people.’’
Adarkar suggests that a
part of the centre be given
for Pakistan culture studies.
‘‘There is a dearth of material on Pakistan, all we get
to hear is about military
equipment and politics, but
this is an opportunity to
showcase their music, art
and culture.’’
Ran from home,
waited at tables,
topped boards
By Ramu Bhagwat
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Nagpur: It was a day of
many pleasant surprises for
the parents of
Prasad
Akkanouri. On Thursday, not
only did their two-year-old
search for their son who ran
away from home end, they
also learnt that Prasad
topped the state education
board’s Higher Secondary
Certificate (HSC) examination in the arts stream. He
had been working here as a
waiter all the while.
Prasad says the desire to
‘‘achieve something in life’’
made him run away from
home. He’s from Bothi village, Chakur taluka, of
Osmanabad district, hundreds of miles from here.
Poverty wasn’t the reason:
His father has a substantial
agricultural holding and his
brother has a grocery store;
Another has a job in Latur
city.
After passing his class X
exam with 68 per cent marks,
he was made to, against his
wishes, enroll in an electrician’s training course. He
knew he was capable of more
and so, he says, he walked out
of a factory job and took a
train to Mumbai. Only to find
himself ill at ease in that metropolis. A day later, he took
the train to Nagpur.
For two days he starved
at the railway platform,
having spent all his money.
Then he steadied himself
and took a waiter’s job. And
put aside money to re-enroll himself. He joined the
local R S Mundle Daharampeth Arts and Commerce
College.
For over two years, all
ties with family were
frozen, as Prasad singlemindedly focussed on his
studies, renting a small
place which he had to
share with others. The
outcome: 86.5 per cent
marks. When news
spread, he revealed
his story. And his
family, who had almost given him
up for dead,
heard of it
through media reports.
And next in
the line of
Prasad’s
c h a l lenges is
the IAS
examin a tion.
New states free
to recruit as
they wish: SC
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New Delhi: The newly created states can make their own
recommendations for state
Public Service Commission
appointments and are not
bound by what their parent
states had decided earlier.
The Supreme Court said
keeping in view the Constitutional provisions, particularly section 78(4) of the State
Reorganisation Act, the recommendations of the UP
Public Service Commission
to give appointments to candidates selected by it are not
binding on the state of Uttaranchal.
A Bench of Justices Shivaraj V Patil and Arijit Pasayat set aside an Uttaranchal
HC directive to the new state
to give effect to the UPPSC’s
recommendations and appoint the selected candidates.
But the court placed a
rider on the implementation of its ruling
considering the
plight of the
selected
candi-
dates. It said this judgment
would not come in the way of
UP if it wanted to consider
the claims of the selected
candidates.
It also said that if the selected candidates applied for
posts before the Uttaranchal
Public Service Commission
or the UPPSC in the next
three years, the upper age
limit could be relaxed suitably to allow them to appear
for the test.
The UPPSC had selected
junior engineers for the hill
cadre on January 4, 2000, and
sent its recommendations to
the UP government on October 30, 2000, 10 days before
the new state of Uttaranchal
was created.
But the Uttaranchal government had refused to appoint any of the candidates
selected for the hill cadre by
the UPPSC saying the report
of the UPPSC was never
placed before its legislative
assembly,
which
was
mandatory under the Constitution.
Allowing the Uttaranchal
government’s appeal challenging the high court order,
the Bench rejected the
court’s finding that the reasoning given by the Uttaranchal government
was invalid.
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China gets
more kits to
fight SARS
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The defence
ministry on Friday gifted an additional consignment of 249 cartons
of SARS preventive kits,
worth Rs 1 crore, to the
Chinese embassy here.
Defence ministry officials say each box contains
double-layered
nasal masks, paracetamol, celin, azithromycin
and other ‘‘preventive
medicines to arrest the
spread of SARS’’.
The cartons have
been supplied by the Defence Research and Development Organisation
(DRDO) and the Armed
Forces Medical Services.
Defence
minister
George Fernandes had
earlier gifted 17 such
cases to the Chinese ambassador, Hua Jun Duo,
on returning from his
‘‘successful’’ visit to
China a month ago.
Strongly debunking
his image as a ‘‘Chinabaiter’’, Fernandes says
the theme throughout
his visit was that
‘‘all problems have a
solution’’, even the complicated border dispute
to delineate the 4,057km-long Line of Actual
Control.
Cop dismissed for
custodial deaths
M Saleem Pandit
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Explosives
seized
in J&K:
The BSF on
Friday morning seized
about 25 kg of
RDX before it
could reach Hizbul
Mujahideen militants. The RDX together with a timer, five
detonators and Cordex
wire was recovered. TNN
Tourists flock to Kashmir: With the improvement of
the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, a large number of domestic
tourists have flocked to the Valley to
escape the scorching heat of the
plains.TNN
Srinagar: The state government has dismissed a deputy
superintendent of police allegedly responsible, in 1999,
for the deaths of three people
in custody.
The officer, Abdul Rashid
Khan, has been absconding
for more than three years, to
evade a court summons.
In addition, the government confirmed in the state
assembly on Friday, that investigations have been ordered against 53 personnel of
the police’s erstwhile Special
Operations
Group,
on
charges of human rights violation.
The three men had been
arrested by Khan, then the
DSP at Hazratbal here, while
they were returning from a
marriage party.
Their bodies were recovered from different places.
A case was registered by
the police against the DSP
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and the chief judicial magistrate issued a summons in
November 1999.
Khan has been missing
since then.
A formal dismissal order
has been issued by the state’s
director-general of police, on
a charge of ‘absconding and
continued unauthorised absence from duty with effect
from November 27, 1999,’ said
an official spokesman on Friday.
Earlier, the police authorities had cancelled the allotment of official accommodation to Khan.
The statement on probes
against 53 Special Operations Group personnel was
made by minister Abdul Rahman Veeri in response to a
question raised on the
subject.
He said that the government has received around 49
complaints on atrocities allegedly committed by the
personnel in question.
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Earth older than we thought
Washington: The Earth became a major planetary body
much earlier than previously
believed, just 10 million
years after the birth of the
sun, researchers say.
Experts now believe that
the inner solar system planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth
and Mars — actually began
forming within 10,000 years
after the nuclear fires of the
sun were ignited about 4.5
billion years ago, says Stein
B Jacobsen, author of an
analysis appearing Friday in
the journal Science.
Early in its life, the sun
was surrounded by clouds of
dust and gas. This material
slowly clumped together into
larger and larger pieces.
Eventually, enough was concentrated in four bodies to
form the inner solar system
planets.
Within 10 million years,
the Earth had reached about
64 percent of its present size
and was the dominant planetary body within 93 million
miles of the sun. Mercury
and Venus orbit closer to the
sun and Mars is farther out.
The final major event in
the formation of the Earth,
says Jacobsen, was probably
the collision with a Marssized planetary body. This
huge smashup added many
millions of tons of material
to the Earth. Some material
also went into orbit of the
Earth and evolved into the
moon.
This massive collision, the
final major event in the
Earth’s formation, is thought
to have happened about 30
million years after the sun
was born.
An earlier analysis of
some chemical isotopes in
the Earth’s crust had concluded that the planet formed
about 50 million years after
the sun. But Jacobsen said a
reinterpretation of the data,
along with new measurements of chemicals in some
types of meteorites, supports
the conclusion that Earth’s
basic formation came much
earlier. AP
Reuters
Supercomputer
for weather work
New York: America’s most
powerful supercomputer for
weather forecasting goes online Friday, IBM said, a machine that may eventually rival the Japanese Earth Simulator as the world’s fastest supercomputer.
The new computer, with a
theoretical peak computing
power of 7.3 trillion operations a second, is expected to
be enhanced over the next
few years, and it may reach
speeds up to 100 trillion operations a second by 2009.
The government will use
the new computer to improve
the accuracy of weather forecasts, particularly to help
predict the path of hurricanes three to five days in advance, provid ing additional
time to prepare for the
storms.
The National Weather Service plans to spend more
than $200 million on the IBM
system. NYT News Service
Iglesias denies
marrying
Kournikova
Mexico City: Pop star Enrique Iglesias denied he and
tennis star Anna Kournikova
had tied the knot, and the
Spanish singer said he might
marry later in life but for
now was “just practicing,”
Reforma reported.
“I am not planning on getting married yet. I think I
will when I am 35 or 40, but I
could not say that I will for
certain,” Iglesias, 28, told the
Mexican daily from Miami.
“It is hard to trust people
because there are more barriers between you and other
people, you are more guarded, a bit more careful about
your life,” he added.
Some British press reports
had indicated Iglesias had secretly wed Kournikova after
a lengthy courtship.
Asked about children, Iglesias — a Madrid-born, Miami-bred son of Spanish
crooner Julio Iglesias — said
“I am still a kid, and I am still
too young to have a kid. I am
not talking about age, but
about mindset; I am not
ready yet. I am too immature
to have them.”
He quipped: “I am just
practicing.” AFP
Why boys are
bigger at birth
Harvard University Law School graduates mock the reputation of their profession by waving
inflatable sharks after receiving their degrees at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday.
BRICKBATS
Since you won’t stop this strip, I’ve
stopped reading TOI.
— Manu
Where are all the nit-wits who can’t
start their days without Dubyaman?
Why aren’t they writing any more? To
me, the fan mail was the only funny
thing about this strip. Have TOI got
them off its payroll?
— Shernaz Lala, Bangalore
For bouquets go to
www.timesofindia.com
e-mail: dubya-man@indiatimes.com
Get your own stamp: Soon you can have
your photo on stamps, at least in Finland.
London: Swedish and American researchers have solved
the puzzle of why baby boys
are so much bigger at birth
than girls —their mothers
eat more during pregnancy.
Women carrying male embryos consume about 10 percent more calories, eight percent more protein and have a
higher intake of carbohydrates and animal and
vegetable fats, according
to research published on
Friday.
“It is widely accepted that
on average newborn boys are
heavier than newborn girls.
The findings give us a better
understanding of why that is
the case,” said Rulla Tamimi,
an epidemiologist at the
Harvard School of Public
Health. Reuters
The Times of India, New Delhi
AROUND THE WORLD
AP
No, minister: British
Deputy Prime Minister John
Prescott has unwittingly
stolen the headlines after he
appeared to make a crude
gesture at journalists as he
arrived for a crucial cabinet
meeting. Prescott, who once
punched a protester while on
an election campaign, was
pictured raising his hand behind his back to give a ‘‘Vsign’’ — a two-fingered insulting gesture — as he arrived for a vital meeting to
discuss whether the country
should join the European single currency. ‘‘Yob’’ declared
the Daily Mirror above a photograph of Prescott outside
prime minister Tony Blair’s
Downing Street office, while
the Sun’s verdict was ‘‘The
same two you, Prescott’’. AFP
Arnie as governor? Actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger, long
mentioned as a potential Republican candidate for governor, told Esquire magazine
for its July issue: ‘‘Yes, I
would love to be governor of
California. If the state needs
me, and if there’s no one I
think is better, then I will run.’’
With Democratic Gov. Gray
Davis facing a recall campaign that could result in a
special gubernatorial election
as early as fall, Arnie’s political ambitions could be expedited. AP
Jagger’s lament: Mick
Jagger, staring 60 in the face,
lamented the lack of
women’s lingerie thrown on
stage at a Rolling Stones
concert in Germany — but
said a few pairs of men’s underpants were hurled from
the crowd. Jagger, 59, said
on Thursday there seemed to
be fewer women in the
crowd at the start of the European leg of the Rolling
Stones ‘‘40 Licks’’ tour in
Munich’s Olympia Hall on
Wednesday. ‘‘It was all men,’’
Jagger said at a news con-
In the hunt for the assassins of Serbian prime minister
Zoran Djindjic, police have arrested popular folk singer
Svetlana Raznatovic. She was taken into custody after
police raided the home of her husband, late underworld
boss Zeljko Raznatovic Arkan, and confiscated contraband weapons.
ference, noting a lamentable
absence of the lingerie that is
normally thrown at the band
from the audience. ‘‘I don’t
know what that says,’’ Jagger said, laughing. ‘‘They left
all the girls at home or whatever, I don’t know. Usually we
get a few bits of underwear
on the stage. Last night there
were a few Y-fronts.’’ Reuters
Sputnik sale goes high
and crashes: An online
auction to sell a ‘‘genuine’’
Madonna’s tryst with Viagra
Washington: Madonna’s company Maverick Films wishes to make a film based
on a true story of locals in the small
town of Ringaskiddy, County Cork,
made famous by Pfizer, the company
that makes Viagra. Provisionally entitled
Something In The Air, the film will be
about locals going sex mad after breathing in fumes from the factory. According
to PeopleNews, Madge plans to set the film in the US
rather than Ireland. A rival company plans a similar film
and are scouting for locations in the Emerald Isle. ANI
model of the Sputnik satellite
that launched the Space Age
went sky high before crashing down to Earth when the
bidding was determined to
be a hoax, officials say. Bidding started at $25,000 and
soon resembled a shower of
ever bigger meteorites of
money. Reuters
Washington seeks
100,000 new residents:
Not satisfied with one of the
hottest real-estate markets in
the country over the past few
years, Washington, DC officials have launched a promotional campaign to help lure
100,000 new residents. The
effort builds on a dramatic
turnaround in the city’s liveability after decades of urban
decline and population flight
to the suburbs. ‘‘We’re looking for the people who think
it’s neat when the motorcade
goes by, that there’s neon
bouncing off the sides of the
buildings at 10 o’clock at
night,’’ a spokesman for the
deputy mayor said. Reuters
Computer worm
Seattle: A variant of the
“Bugbear” worm, which
spread around the Internet
last October, has started to
infect users around the
world, putting them at risk of
losing confidential information.
The Bugbear variant is
better at using addresses in a
user’s e-mail programme,
sending itself to those addresses using the infected
user’s identity. Reuters
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Hamas calls
off truce talks
to end attacks
on Israel
Gaza: The militant Islamic
group Hamas said on Friday
it was breaking off talks with
Palestinian Prime Minister
Mahmoud Abbas on ending
its attacks on Israelis in a
strong challenge to peace
pledges he made at a US-led
summit.
The announcement set
Palestinian hardliners and
Abbas’s new reformist government on a collision
course likely to stoke fears of
civil war.
“We have stopped the dialogue with the Palestinian
Authority,” Hamas founder
and spiritual leader Sheikh
Ahmed Yassin said. “This is
our choice and we have no alternative. (Armed) resistance will continue.”
Reinforcing
Yassin’s
words, thousands of Hamas
supporters staged rallies
across the Gaza Strip on Friday vowing to continue attacks, including suicide
bombings, against Israelis.
Yassin said Abbas made
unacceptable commitments
at the landmark summit in
Aqaba, Jordan, on Wednesday with US President Bush
and Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon in which they
affirmed initial steps in a
“road map” for peace.
Abbas, also known as Abu
Mazen, called for demilitarisation of a 32-month-old
Palestinian uprising for independence, effectively advocating an end to an armed
struggle for a state.
The road map calls for a
halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence and reciprocal confidence-building steps, including a freeze of Jewish settlement expansion on occupied
Arab land, leading to establishment of a Palestinian
state in 2005.
Yassin said Hamas was
ending dialogue since Abbas
ignored at the summit key issues like the right of return
of Palestinian refugees to
what is now Israel and the future of Jerusalem.
Commenting
on
the
Hamas move, Palestinian
cabinet minister Ziad Abu
Amr signalled Abbas would
do his utmost to steer clear of
armed conflict with the
group. Reuters
I N T E R N AT I O N A L
Saturday, June 7, 2003
UN nuclear experts return to Iraq
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AFP
Reuters
Baghdad: United Nations
nuclear experts were returning to Iraq on Friday for the
first time since the US-led invasion to check on looting at
a research facility that may
have caused radioactive contamination.
Seven experts from the International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) were due to
fly into a US military base
from Kuwait at the start of a
limited mission under tight
US restrictions.
A US military spokesman
said the media would have no
access to the team’s activities. Such was the secrecy
that there was no word that
the experts had actually landed. The IAEA team plans to
begin work on Saturday at
one part of the sprawling
Tuwaitha compound, Iraq’s
main nuclear facility, about
20 km southeast of Baghdad.
“We have been disturbed
about reports of looting and
that these barrels that con-
Air Force One, carrying US president Bush, flies over Baghdad on Thursday as he returns to
Washington from Qatar. At least four FA-18 fighter jets accompanied Air Force One in Iraqi
airspace as Bush took a first-hand-look at the Iraqi capital at about 31,000 feet altitude.
tained natural and low-en“We are going there to find account for every gram of
riched uranium have been out what’s missing to see if it,” she told the BBC from Vilooted,” said IAEA spokes- we can repackage and secure enna.
woman Melissa Fleming.
the material so that we can
A US official has said the
AFP
British school students enjoy their lollipops in front of the British Museum in London on
Friday. A red bow have been displayed on the front entrance of the museum to mark its 250th
anniversary to be celebrated on Saturday. Founded by an Act of parliament, it was the first
national public museum in the world.
IAEA mission, lasting a couple of weeks, will be under
constant US military escort.
The team’s task will be to ascertain how much nuclear
material was looted from a
three-building storage site at
Tuwaitha before troops secured parts of the complex
on April 7.
It is barred from the main
Tuwaitha complex and will
have no access to six other
nuclear sites that may have
been looted.
The US wants to draw a
clear line between the team’s
mission and pre-war inspections carried out under UN
Security Council resolutions
on disarmament.
Chief UN inspector Hans
Blix said on Friday banned
arms might eventually be
found. If not, the question
arose as to why the Iraqis had
failed to prove their innocence by cooperating fully
with the inspectors, which
might have averted war. Reuters
Don’t boycott meet,
US cautions LTTE
Colombo: The US on Friday
warned Tamil Tiger rebels
not to boycott a crucial international donor conference
aimed at reconstructing warravaged Sri Lanka, saying it
would send a ‘‘wrong signal’’
to the international community.
The conference — which
opens Monday in Tokyo with
representatives from more
than 30 countries and 20 financial institutions — could
help the government and the
rebels solidify their 16-month
peace process by helping to
rebuild the worst-hit areas of
the country.
But the Tigers have said
they would not participate in
the conference unless the
government agrees to set up
an interim administration in
the Tamil-majority northeast
to give the rebels authority to
dispense the aid money.
‘‘Its (Tamil Tigers) absence
from these important proceedings will represent a lost
opportunity for the people of
Sri Lanka, particularly those
in the north and east, whom
the Tigers claim to represent,’’ Frederick Schieck,
deputy administrator of the
US Agency for International
Development, told reporters.
LTTE’s absence would
send the ‘‘wrong signal to
those within the international community who gather to
pledge their support to a
united Sri Lanka,’’ he said. AP
A Jamaat-i-Islami activist puts black paint on a billboard
in a drive against obscenity in Multan on Friday.
Acid attacks haunt
survivors in Pak
Ahmedpur Sharqia: Shaheena moans in pain as the
fierce summer heat sears
her skin. She can no
longer see and her once
pretty face is horrifically
disfigured.
The 15-year-old is one of
the hundreds of Pakistani
women who fall victim
each year to acid attacks
perpetrated by jealous
husbands or rejected suitors or as plain acts of revenge. For many victims,
death would be less painful
than living with pain and
the humiliation of disfigurement.
Shaheena’s nightmare
began when the husband
of
her
elder
sister,
Sakeena, threw acid over
them after a row in November. Sakeena suffered
70 percent burns but her
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face was largely spared.
The pain of their injuries is bad enough, but
the sisters have worse worries. Sakeena’s husband is
in prison awaiting trial,
but they still have to live in
his house.
Rights activists say acid
attacks are among the
worst of the huge numbers
of crimes against women
in Pakistan, where the human rights commission estimates a woman is raped
every two hours.
The rights commission
says, as well as huge numbers of rapes, hundreds of
women fall victim every
year to “honour killings”
in which close male relatives kill a woman to
avenge perceived shame
she has brought to the
family. Reuters
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The Times of India, New Delhi
From Pokhran to Evian
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Most prime ministers would not be interesting
unless they had been prime ministers and
some are not interesting even then.
— A J P Taylor
Khukri Rum
No apparent end to Nepal’s
political crisis
The situation in Nepal is getting more and more rum.
It is anybody’s guess whether the new prime minister,
Surya Bahadur Thapa — the 13th since 1990 — will have a
better run of luck than his predecessors. When king
Gyanendra removed Lokendra Bahadur Chand, there was
speculation that the palace had bowed to pressure from
the mainstream political parties. King Gyanendra’s
usurpation of executive authority through his ‘royal coup’
on October 4 last year had led to widespread political
unrest and agitation. In the eight months since then,
the palace had achieved a measure of truce with the
Maoists and brought the rebels to the negotiating table.
Even so, the king continued to face opposition for excluding
the mainstream parties from the political process. When
he jettisoned Mr Chand and asked the agitating parties
to name their consensus candidate for prime ministerial
office, it was interpreted as a conciliatory move on the
king’s part; a move aimed at giving the parties a bigger role
in administration. In the event, the choice of Mr Thapa,
four-time prime minister and widely-experienced in
the panchayat system, has only added a new dimension
to the spiralling of crisis.
The perception of Mr Thapa as being close to New Delhi,
read with the fact that he was in India on a PR mission
in April, has led to allegations in Kathmandu of
“meddling” by ‘Big Brother’. Whatever the truth about
India’s role in Nepal, what is relevant for now is the mess
in that country. The king, his men and the popular political
forces have simply failed to get their act together. The
political parties and the Maoist rebels, who point a
finger at New Delhi, forget that this amounts to admitting
that they are helpless in Nepal, indeed that their
country can easily be swayed by external influence.
Such accusations bring little credit to forces that overthrew
the autocratic panchayat regime to usher in multiparty
democracy. The political parties and the king must
speedily resolve the many-sided conflict. If they don’t,
the forces shaping a new world order elsewhere — from
Palestine to Kashmir — will take charge of Nepal too. That
‘foreign hand’ will not be that of New Delhi.
The south’s development fuels
speculation about secession
VIEW
The South has Long
Bypassed the North
orget the growing north-south divide, the south
F
has already seceded from the Indian state — if not
physically, then certainly in terms of social attitudes
and identification. The south is far and away the
better performer in the social indices — it is streets
ahead in literacy, infant survival, gender sensitivity
and all other health indicators. Indeed, if the south
were assessed as an independent country, its nearest
comparison would be, not the BIMARU states, but the
countries in South East Asia. In the last decade, the
south has also stolen a decisive march over the north
in purchasing power capacity. Which explains why the
retail power balance has shifted in favour of the south:
Delhiites might swoon over the shopping malls and
cineplexes that are suddenly dazzling them, but people
in the south have long been matter-of-fact about
these facilities. The self-service foodstore chains
that dot the nooks and crannies of the southern cities
are still to show up even in the Capital. No doubt
because in the feudal-influenced north, self-service
remains a demeaning chore.
Pubs, discos and bowling alleys that are a way of life
in Bangalore, and increasingly in Chennai, continue
to be a rarity in the north, again largely because of the
stigma attached to such places. One of the commonest
sights in Bangalore and Chennai is of traditionallyattired women casually dispensing alcohol at liquor
outlets — something unimaginable even in the north’s
most happening place, Gurgaon. The higher visibility
of southern women — be it in running computer
schools or driving autorickshaws — is another sign of
social progress where the north has much catching up
to do. The socio-cultural identification in the south is
more and more with South East Asia. And for obvious
reasons: One, the complete growing away of the south
in terms of interests: Such hot Delhi subjects as
Kashmir and mandir are irrelevant in the Deccan.
And two, the north is no longer the magnet that
attracted the southern job-seekers: Today the lot heads
directly for Singapore and the US, bypassing Delhi.
COUNTERVIEW
Market Forces will
Keep India United
n the 1950s, the Dravidian case for secession rested
Iindustrial
on neglect: The big dams, steel mills and heavy
plants were all located in the north.
Today, with the south growing thrice as rapidly as the
Hindi heartland, there is renewed speculation over
a parting of ways between the Deccan and the
north. This fear is unfounded. The global trend is
towards barrier-less markets. The southern states
are unlikely to sacrifice the advantage of seeing India
as one large market. Even in the European Union,
not all states are equally well developed. Yet, they
have come together to form a common market for
mutual benefit. There are wide regional disparities in
all continental-sized countries, from China, Russia
and the US to Canada, Australia and Brazil. There
have been separatist demands as in Quebec, west
Australia and the southern states of America. But all
that preceded global marketisation.
Regional disparities in a large country generate
their own integrating dynamics. With its lower
birth rate, the south will soon be short of unskilled
labour, leading to migration from the north to
the south. Industrial houses in the south could
well outsource some of their requirements to the
north, taking advantage of the latter’s lower wages.
Similarly, the skills generated in the south will
be in demand all over the country. The only possible
southern grievance can be that the south has to
pay higher taxes to subsidise the stagnant north.
But that could be regarded as an investment in a
potential market. However slowly, the heartland
states have eventually to emerge from their backwardness. And with that their consumption demands
will rise and they will develop into viable markets.
The south and the north already share civilisational
and cultural bonds. Market forces will further
strengthen the unity and integrity of India, which,
as a model of multilingual and multicultural union,
far predates the European Union.
Former Pariah Joins the High Table
By Manoj Joshi
Domestic troubles and party-poopers
notwithstanding, it has been a heady five
years for prime minister Vajpayee’s foreign
policy. India has gone from being an international pariah after the Pokhran test, to the
high table at the St Petersburg summit last
week. Just how much things have changed
was brought home when president Putin
ensured that the Indian prime minister was
seated next to president Bush at the Winter
Palace banquet. Five years ago, the last thing
a Russian president would have done was to
have facilitated Indo-US relations.
A great deal of this has to do with
Vajpayee, the man. His political astuteness
and deft style are well known in India. But
even abroad, he has emerged as a respected
figure. Mr Bush, with the courteous Texan
style, addresses the older Vajpayee with an
occasional “sir” thrown in. Tony Blair has a
relationship of easy familiarity with the
prime minister, as indeed do Vladimir Putin
and Jacques Chirac. This is not just about
image, but a reaction to Mr Vajpayee’s record
in dealing with events that impinged on
them — India’s nuclearisation, Kashmir,
Pakistan and Iraq.
St Petersburg and Evian
have confirmed that India is
at the threshold of great
power status. A combination
of economic strength and
democratic polity, with a dash
of military strength are the
currency of power today.
India has all three in some
measure but it was only the
deft diplomacy of a seasoned
leader that helped India to
check out the high table.
To have a permanent seat there, more is
needed — sustained growth in all three
areas, plus that adroit management. One or
the other element alone will not do. Japan
and Germany are economic giants but don’t
as yet have a permanent seat in the UN
Security Council. Russia has military power
and some democracy, but it is in the G-8 more
as a matter of courtesy laced with as yet
unfulfilled expectation. India’s rival China
is ahead on economic growth and military
power, but the unresolved issue of democracy hangs over its head.
After some impressive growth and a
spectacular debut as an IT power, India’s
economy is stalling. Competitive populism
has blocked efforts to open the economy and
overhaul the rusted bureaucracy.
Mr Vajpayee’s bold decision to go for the
nuclear test was followed by dramatic
post-Kargil reforms in the management of
the defence system. But implementation has
stalled and things are back to the bad
old days. India confronts several security
challenges, but the Indian military uniform
must be cut to the cloth available. The
country is currently spending Rs 70,000 crore
per annum on a security establishment that
can neither deter terrorist attacks, such as
the one on Parliament in December 2001,
nor punish its sponsors thereafter.
The lack of deep restructuring has made
the Indian armed forces more impressive on
paper than they are in real life. Things
can only be changed by active political intervention. Integration of the three services,
as is the case in the US, China and Israel, is
the answer. This will reduce expensive
command organisations roughly by a third
and optimise the firepower available at any
war front at any given time.
By far the biggest problems lie with
India’s democracy itself. It has achieved an
incredible amount in the last 50 years, but
has now become dysfunctional. Mindless
populism, whose worst example was the
5th Pay Commission recommendations, has
robbed the states of any worthwhile revenue
for development. So governance has been
replaced by a spoils system which serves the
narrow interests of politicians.
Competitive votebank politics is tearing
the nation’s social and political fabric apart.
The Congress, the BJP and a host of smaller
parties have used religion and caste differences to advance their cause. The Congress’
responsibility for the rise of extremism in
Punjab and Kashmir is well
known. But the party is now
being outdone in irresponsible politics by the BJP
whose aggressive advocacy of
Hindutva poses a much bigger
threat to the country’s political fabric than the Islamic fundamentalism or pseudo-secularism it purports to oppose.
The biggest hurdle to
India making it to the most
exclusive club is the Pakistani
monkey sitting on its back.
Prime minister Vajpayee’s greatest exertions
have come in trying to make peace with
Pakistan. His high standing with leaders
abroad comes in some measure due to their
perception that he is a principled statesman
deeply committed to making peace with
India’s troublesome neighbour. His popularity within the country also stems from this as
well as the knowledge that he pointedly kept
aloof from the divisive mandir campaign in
the 1980s and last year, when the Gujarat
massacres heightened tensions across the
land, he made it a point to go public with his
unhappiness with the Modi style of politics.
One of the fundamental attributes of a
modern great power is a perception that
the government treats all citizens equally,
politically and creates equal economic
opportunity. The laws of the land are implemented impartially not just for citizens, but
foreigners as well, since this encourages a
good business climate.
Mr Vajpayee today straddles the Indian
political stage as perhaps the only personality who has the political savvy and determination to move along the broad agenda
needed to transform India. No doubt if
there was no Vajpayee, it would have been
necessary to invent one.
Peak of Telephony
By Mukund B Kunte
China is to open a mobile
phone station at the Everest
base camp. Quite a revolution since the first conquest
of Everest in 1953. This
summer marks the 50th
anniversary of that climb.
Peter, the 47-year-old son of
Sir Edmund Hillary, plans
to meet Jamling, son of
Tenzing Norgay, at the base
camp from where Peter will
climb the southern face
route from Nepal taken by
his father. Tashi Norgay, the
legendary mountaineer’s
grandson is climbing with
a Swiss expedition by a
different route but the two
plan to meet on the summit.
That takes me back
50 years when the highest
peak was conquered by
Tenzing
Norgay
and
Edmund Hillary. Unlike
today’s instant worldwide
communication on cellphones, in 1953 word got
around
rather
slowly.
The mountaineers were on
the top of the world on
May 29 but the news first
had to reach the base
camp and then through a
complex network on the
ground it could be flashed
only on June 1. It is said
that the timing of the news
flash was manipulated so as
to make it appear to be a
present for the new queen
of England.
We in fact got to hear
of it most dramatically
when newspaper vendors,
announcing the sensational
headlines, brought the
morning editions around
2 a.m. It was the coronation
day of Elizabeth II, and we,
a dozen midshipmen from
the aircraft carrier HMS
Indomitable, had made
our way to London from
Portsmouth the previous
day and parked ourselves
overnight on a pavement
in Pall Mall for a ringside
view of the coronation
procession starting from
Buckingham Palace. The
pomp and circumstance of
the days of the Empire
hadn’t
been
forgotten
and the pageantry was
beautiful.
When I won a cadetship
at the Britannia Royal
Naval College in 1951, little
did I imagine that I was on
an unforgettable journey.
The 17-day voyage in the
P & O liner SS Ranchi took
us through the Suez Canal
past the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps. Old
travellers will remember
how at Port Said they
used to be besieged by an
armada of boats carrying
merchandise ranging from
camel saddles to toothpaste,
even aphrodisiacs, at prices
which they expected to be
halved after hard bargaining and still be profitable.
And, what of the proficient
magician who surprised
the audiences into believing that they carried
day-old chicks inside their
shirts, eggs inside their
ears and women’s undergarments in their pockets.
CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS
Policing Iraq
With reference to the news report by Manoj
Joshi, ‘India is still non-aligned, says PM’
(Jun 3), the prime minister has said that
clarifications are being sought from the
US on the issue of sending Indian troops
to Iraq. The reality is that, the US wants
Indian troops to do the messy job of policing
a key sector of the Iraqi border with Iran,
in order to halt the movement of Iraqis
and Iranians, particularly Shias and Kurds,
across the border. This would inevitably
lead to Indian troops clashing with Iranian
forces and alienating the people of Iran
and Iraq with whom India has had friendly
relations. It would be utter folly for Indian
From timesofindia.com
Undo Partition
The construction of a temple at Ayodhya
has needlessly been made a major issue.
What we need is not a ‘temple for Ram’,
but a ‘kingdom of Ram’, characterised by
welfare and wisdom of people. And Kashmir should not be the core issue while
reopening dialogue with Pakistan. If both
the sides are serious about resolving the
Kashmir problem, the core issue should
be the re-unification of Bangladesh,
India and Pakistan. By suggesting this,
A B Vajpayee would become one of the
greatest leaders of all time. By accepting
it, General Musharraf would become the
greatest general ever as he would attach
nations like India and Bangladesh to
Pakistan, without shedding even a single
drop of blood. As a result, Ayodhya and
Kashmir would become baseless issues.
Sebastian Thomas, via e-mail
troops to get bogged down in the US-created
Gulf quagmire, especially at a time when
the Bush administration has failed to
stabilise the situation in Iraq.
— Jawid Laiq, New Delhi
Shani Temple
This refers to the Speaking Tree article,
‘Shanidev is Partly Shiva’s Avatar’ (May 31).
It mentions that the only Shani temple
is at Kokilavan. There is another ancient
Shani temple at Shani Signapur in
Maharashtra, on the highway from
Ahmednagar to Aurangabad.
— Anant Sarma, New Delhi
Peace Road Map
The hopes raised by this week’s West Asia
summit is justified by a decade of failed
initiatives and 32 months of prolonged
violence. The first optimistic signs were
observed as Israeli prime minister Ariel
Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart,
Mohmoud Abbas, shook hands in the
company of president Bush in the
Jordanian resort of Aquaba. But things
may take a rough turn from here, as there
are many contentious issues the peace road
map has not touched. What happens in the
next few months depends on Mr Bush’s commitment. While he is willing and able, he
must lay the groundwork for a lasting peace.
— Mark Rebello, Bangalore
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Proof of Faith
What if the excavations in Ayodhya find
nothing to show that there was once a
Ram temple there? “No matter,” says the
67-year-old Sri Jayendra Saraswati, 69th
pontiff of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham,
because “faith does not look for proof.” In the
Capital to participate in functions organised
by devotees to celebrate the 50th year of
his tenure as the Kanchi Shankaracharya,
the seer spoke to Narayani Ganesh:
ago. They believe he died, they believe he was
resurrected, they celebrate Easter — all on
the basis of faith. Can anyone prove all this?
Similarly, faith of any other kind — whether
in Ram or any other bhagwan or spiritual
head — cannot be explained.
Similarly, many believe that Mahavtar
Baba is alive and has been living in the
Himalayas for the last 2,000 years. Hindu
literature speaks of the seven ‘immortals’,
including Ashwattama, Bali, Vyasa, HanuHave you really distanced yourself from man, Kripachariar and Parasuraman. It’s all
the Ayodhya issue, as media reports seem a matter of faith.
to suggest?
You stayed at Mahavtar Baba’s ashram
Yes and no. I’d like to distance myself from at Ranchi recently. Tamil superstar and
the politicisation of the Ayodhya issue. By spiritual seeker Rajnikanth travelled with
making my position on this clear, at least I’ve you and met with you there. Why?
been saved from having to field questions on
This is not the first time I’ve stayed in the
the politics of the mandir-masjid imbroglio. Yogoda ashram — I go wherever there are
The press hounds me no longer. I can breathe good people. As for Rajnikanth, he tells me
free. But I have continued with my efforts at that he likes to learn from different gurus —
a different level; I keep in touch with Muslim be it Ramakrishna, Yogananda, Mahavtar
and other local leaders... Genuine well-wish- Baba, Sachidananda or the Shankaracharya.
ers do not like politicising of such issues.
He likes to think of himself as the bee
What kind of work are you doing in Ayodhya? (seeker) that gathers honey (wisdom) from
We run the Ayodhya Nagara Development various flowers. In fact, we will be travelling
Trust, which was started a year ago. We have together to Badrinath and Kedarnath...
taken on lease a place from the erstwhile Here’s a non-Ayodhya question: The Pope,
royals of Ayodhya. Here, we are imparting while addressing bishops from India, recently
vocational training to hundreds of students said that regardless of anti-conversion
so that they can get gainful employment. Bills in some states, they should carry on with
Forty per cent of
their work. What is
those
undergoing
your reaction?
training are MusForced
converlims, the rest are
sions have to be
Forced conversions
Hindus. Ensuring a
banned. I would like
have to be banned.
job is one of the
to interpret the
I would like to interpret
ways of ensuring
Pope’s words this
the Pope’s words
peace and progress.
way: Regardless of
this way: Regardless
I am not affiliated
what people say,
of what people say,
to
any
political
carry on with your
carry on with your
party. On Sunday
service to humanity
service to humanity
(June 8) at the Siri
through good work.
through good work.
Fort auditorium (in
See, we are only
Delhi), both prime
against forcible conminister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Congress versions or converting people by bribing
party leader Sonia Gandhi will take turns to them with money or other things. A converspeak at the Peetarohana Swarna Jayanti tee has to get registered. If there is evidence
celebrations, marking the 50th year of my of coercion, then the law will take its course.
tenure as Kanchi Shankaracharya. While What do you have to say about the
former president R Venkataraman will recent resurgence of the practice of dowry
deliver the welcome address, Sheila Dikshit, among Hindus?
chief minister of Delhi, will also speak on
Nowhere in Hinduism is giving or taking
the occasion, besides Murli Manohar Joshi, of dowry encouraged or extolled. MahaP C Alexander and others.
periyaval (the 68th pontiff, Sri ChandraSo you see, people of different back- sekherendra Saraswati) always refused to
grounds, faiths and political leanings have bless anyone who took dowry. In fact, he had
been participating in the various events or issued strict instructions that his name
functions organised either by the Kamakshi should not be printed alongside anyone else’s
temple, Delhi, or my devotees elsewhere. who was known to have taken dowry — in
Of course, for every celebrity, there are invitation cards, etc We tell people: Please
hundreds of other lesser-known well- say ‘no’ to dowry. Kanniga Daanam means
wishers who meet me every day. So I like to that you are giving away your precious
stay away from politics. Why do you and daughter, to another family. That’s it. No
your other journalist friends ask me only demands should be made for she then
about Ayodhya?
becomes part of the new family.
What’ll happen if excavations fail to find What is the difference between Hindutva
any proof that there was a Ram temple in and Hinduism?
Ayodhya earlier?
This is like making a distinction between
These are diversionary tactics. I don’t insaan and insaniyat. All those for whom
think faith should look for proof. Christians, India is home, are part of Hindutva —
for instance, believe in Christ. They believe whether Hindu, Christian or Muslim. It is
that Jesus was born some 2,000-odd years our entire culture and way of life.
Q&A
Udayshankar
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Bouquet of Thoughts
For Weekend Cheer
By Deepak Hiranandani
A flower, a thing of beauty,
brings joy — but not forever.
Soon, it withers and dies. Its
transience helps us to understand the value we attach
to flowers. Their ephemeral
qualities, their fragility and
vulnerability, make flowers
precious. Flowers are transient like life itself.
In all creation, change
is eternal. This and their
sensory qualities, particularly colour and scent, have
made flowers popular as a
universally loved symbol
of greeting and felicitation.
Whether traditionally worn
in the hair of women, in the
cap of a Himachali farmer
or in the buttonhole of a
gentleman’s tuxedo, flowers
are the ultimate in personal adornment, their freshness, unsullied purity and
natural perfection enhance
the celebratory spirit of
the wearer.
Flowers have inspired
creative people:
poets,
lyricists,
writers and artists,
designers
and craftspersons.
A great deal of applied decoration
is derived from
flowers, on a vast
range of objects
from
handkerchiefs to furniture
to architecture.
The magnificent
Bahai temple in
Delhi is in the form of an
enormous flower, a lotus
in bloom, frozen in time.
Flowers and expressions
derived from them are a
part of everyday life, as
in ‘the flower of the
collection’, ‘blooming beauty’, ‘budding genius’ and
‘flower children’.
We impute human characteristics to flowers: Shy and
retiring wallflowers, vain
narcissism, brazen sunflowers, cheerful daisies. Flowers
are brave, thrusting themselves out into the world
and blooming valiantly in
environments we may consider harsh and inhospitable.
Flowers are used extensively
in the rituals of organised
religion. Like great works
of art, flowers, too, go
beyond merely pleasing
and delighting. Bewitching,
flowers help strengthen our
perceived link with that
great entity. Flowers are
therapeutic and are used
in the healing process.
In his book Dhanavantari
(named after the mythical
physician of the Hindu gods)
based on ancient concepts
of good health, Harish
Johari recommends looking
at flowers first thing in
the morning. Interestingly,
looking at white flowers is
supposed to be particularly
beneficial.
More recently, in 8 Weeks
to Optimum Health, Andrew
Weil, a medical doctor in
America, recommends buying flowers for the home,
together with dietary modifications, taking supplements,
exercising, purifying air and
water, avoiding radiation
exposure, observing the
breath, taking steam baths
and observing a ‘news fast’.
Contemplating
the
tiny
flower of a roadside weed can
transport you to a world of
imagination and philosophical thought. A poet saw the
world in a grain
of sand; surely a
flower could lead
to
comparable
experiences?
Traditionally,
flowers and flames are popular
subjects for yogic
contemplation.
Meditating
on
a flower could
possibly
lead
to a spiritual
experience.
One of the most profound
thoughts about the holistic
nature of
all creation
contains mention of a flower.
The quotation about it being
impossible to pluck the
petals of a flower without
affecting a star, far away in
outer space. The statement
is rich with potential for
interpretation applicable to
everyday life: for example,
every little act of kindness or
truth which one can choose
to perform is an act of some
significance. Every drop of
water or tiny bit of fuel
saved; every bit of pollution
prevented;
every
truth
uttered, even if uncomfortable; every action of cruelty
abstained from or prevented
— despite the loud, rough
cries of “What difference
does it make?’’ made by some
people every bit does indeed
make a difference.
Why not go contemplate
a flower today?
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Walking & Well-being
There is no happiness
for the man who does
not travel. Living in the
society of men, the best
man becomes a sinner.
For Indra is the friend
of the traveller.
Therefore wander.
Aitareya Brahmana
✥
You cannot travel
the path before you
have become the Path
itself... Walk on!
Gautama Buddha
✥
The Wayless Way,
where the Sons of God
lose themselves and,
at the same time,
find themselves.
Meister Eckhart
✥
The aim of a dervish
is to become a ‘dead
man walking’: one
whose body stays alive
on earth yet whose soul
is already in Heaven.
Towards the end of his
journey, the dervish
becomes the Way not
the wayfarer, that is,
a place over which
something is passing,
not a traveller
following his own
free will.
Kashf-al-Mahjub
✥
Our nature lies in
movement; complete
calm is death.
Pascal
✥
If they heed not
thy call,
Walk alone, walk alone.
Rabindranath Tagore
✥
Above all, do not lose
your desire to walk:
every day I walk
myself into a state of
well-being and walk
away from every
illness; I have walked
myself into my best
thoughts... Thus if
one just keeps on
walking, everything
will be all right.
Kierkegaard
✥
It is good to collect
things, but it is better
to go on walks.
Anatole France
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The Times of India, New Delhi, Saturday, June 7, 2003
Rupee Value
US $: 47.35
UK £: 78.85
A historic call
Shaping up
Better growth
British Royal Mail train will stop
transporting post by rail to cut
costs. The postal group said mail
trains will be cancelled from July
and stopped later, with post being
distributed by road and air
NYSE chairman and CEO
Richard Grasso said the
exchange unveiled a set of
corporate governance reforms
aimed at strengthening the
NYSE’s own governance
Pakistan’s Finance Minister
Shaukat Aziz said economic
growth in Pakistan for 11
months exceeded the
government’s full-year
target by 0.6 per cent
Euro: 56.20
S Fr: 37.55
Yen (100): 41.45
A $: 32.65
NZ $: 28.35
S $: 28.35
Saudi Riyal 13.00
UAE Dirham 13.30
Thai Baht (100) 115.55
Sensex set to rise with good monsoon
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The stock market has entered into a bull
phase. The 30-share sensitive
index of the Bombay Stock
Exchange (BSE) scaled the
3300 mark on Friday, after a
gap of 15 weeks, to close at
3303 — netting a gain of 41
points. Since May 2003, the
Sensex has moved up by 336
points.
The big push has come
from the growing interest of
the foreign funds. In the last
five trading sessions, their
net purchase of the domestic
stocks amounted to over Rs
600 crore while in May, 2003,
it was around Rs 1,220 crore.
Larry Ellison
Fund managers feel the
current bullish trend will
continue, at least, for some
more time. Head of a foreign
fund said the market should
cross 3,500 mark in the next
two months. ‘‘If monsoon is
good and well spread, the
market may cross 4000 mark
by September 2003.’’
Improvement in the market sentiment is also due to
the government’s announcement to launch the disinvestment process again. This
gives a message that reforms
will not slow down due to
forthcoming elections. ‘‘This
is a good sign for the economy,’’ a fund manager said.
On Friday, share prices of
BSE Sensex since Jan’03
3500
3390
3303
3223
3085
2997
3000
3013
2500
Jan 1
Feb 14
Mar 17
most of the heavyweights
like Infosys, Colgate Palmolive, Reliance, ITC, Bajaj
Apr 15 May 15
Auto and State Bank of India
moved up substantially on
the sustained buying from
AFP
Oracle offers to
buy PeopleSoft
GM’s Optra to
take Octavia and
Corolla head on
By Derek Caney
New York: Oracle on Friday offered to
buy rival PeopleSoft for $5.1 billion, a
move that would bolster its flagging position in business software programs.
It said it would go directly to shareholders with a cash offer of $16 a share, a
6 per cent premium over PeopleSoft’s
closing price of $15.11 in Nasdaq trading.
‘‘The acquisition of PeopleSoft will
make Oracle an even more profitable and
competitive company,’’ Oracle chairman
Larry Ellison said. ‘‘We won’t be actively
selling PeopleSoft products, we will provide enhanced support for all products.’’
Oracle said it expects to begin the offer
on Monday. Credit Suisse First Boston
has provided bridge financing and is advising Oracle on the transaction. PeopleSoft shares rose 22 per cent to $18.40 in
pre-market trading. The deal would
strengthen Oracle’s position to take on
market leader SAP AG.
‘‘The only way that Oracle’s going to be
a player in applications is to buy someone,’’ said Bruce Richardson, an analyst
with AMR Research. Agencies
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
It’s okay to make mistakes but it’s not okay not to try, US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan tells
students at a school in Washington. He said until 14, he was seen as a potential baseball professional but at
16 he was playing clarinet at $6 a day. ‘‘Money was money back then, it really bought something.’’
Companies will now be able to sell telecom licences
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The government
has allowed phone companies to the sell telecom licences to facilitate consolidation in the industry. Until
now phone companies could
be bought or sold, that too
through a long winding and
complex process, but the licences could not be trans-
ferred to the buyers.
Also it was difficult for
companies to pick and
choose individual telecom
circles from a seller because
all the ‘‘licence agreements’’
were in one name. Now, if a
cellular or a basic phone
company has licences in
more than one telecom circles, it can ‘‘transfer or assign’’ individual licences.
The companies would still
require government’s prior
written approval to transfer
the licence.
The approval would be allowed only after a range of financial and network roll-out
obligations under various
agreements have been met.
The government however
has not allowed companies to
buy
licences/companies
E X E C U T I V E
NATIONAL
Timex India MD is now
director South Pacific:
Timex Watches Ltd’s managing director Kapil Kapoor is
being relocated to the Timex
International headquarters in
the US with effect from August 2003. He will now have
an expanded role as regional
director (South Pacific and In-
INTERNATIONAL
Martha Stewart fights
back with campaign:
Home decorating celebrity
Martha Stewart took her case
to the court of public opinion
on Thursday, professing her
innocence in a newspaper
advertisement and a new
Web site, a day after she was
charged with securities fraud
and lying to authorities. With
the unusual move, Stewart
sought to reassure investors
in her media and design company, Martha Stewart Living
Omnimedia and its customers
and clients, legal analysts
said. The campaign could
also soften potential jurors in
her case, they added. Reuters
within the same telecom circle to avoid ‘monopolistic’ situation. The move comes
within weeks of Hutch’s decision to buy Escotel’s licence in Punjab, which the
latter won in 2001 bidding but
did not have the funds to set
up the project.
Besides, Hutch is in the
process of merging three
telecom businesses of Essar
with its existing business.
Cellular industry, which
has been growing rapidly
and has seen mergers and
buyouts in the past few years,
gave a lukewarm response to
the development.
Airtel and Hutch were expecting that the government
would allow companies to
buy licences within the same
telecom circle.
D I G E S T
Bata initiates image makeover drive: Bata chief AL
Mudaliar has launched an image
revamp drive to cope with rising
competition. The shoe major
is repositioning its image
from a manufacturing to
a marketing company.
Brand managers are
working towards this
corporate brand building
exercise with focus on
services and products.
SIA cuts fares by up to
75% to boost traffic: Singapore Airlines on Friday announced a special summer
campaign with promotional
fares that are up to half that of
its market fares. The campaign is part of attempts to
restore travel confidence that
had hit a low since SARS
struck the nation. Besides,
the airline is also offering upto
50 per cent off on its promotional rates to Singapore for
the first 15,000 bookings to
Singapore, where travellers
would effectively pay just 25
per cent of the market fares.
The package includes two
nights stay in leading hotels
and free sight-seeing benefits. Visitor numbers to Singapore had declined by up to 67
per cent in April compared to
a year ago due to SARS. TNN
June 6
the foreign as well as the domestic funds.
Foreign fund managers
said the timely arrival of
Monsoon would improve the
growth of the country and
the purchasing power of the
people in the rural India.
This would help corporates
in the fast moving consumer
goods and automobile sectors to improve their sales.
The share price of Colgate
Palmolive gained 10 per cent
to close at Rs 147.75.
Following the trend of the
US stock markets which improved on Thursday, the IT
and media stocks here also
spurted. Infosys gained Rs 96
to close at Rs 2953.
UK-based fund to invest
in BPL: The UK-based fund
Celestial Overseas Ventures
Ltd has decided to pick up 5
per cent stake in India’s consumer electronic major BPL
Ltd. Celestial has sought the
FIPB nod to go ahead with
the purchase. One of BPL’s
Indian stakeholders — Merino
Finance Pvt Ltd, which holds
slightly over 11 per cent stake
in BPL will sell 5 per cent of
its holding to Celestial at a
price of Rs 42 per share. The
UK firm will shell out Rs 5.81
crore for the stake. The
boards of Merino and BPL
have already approved the
share transfer. TNN
03 were moved up and closer
to a more realistic five per
cent, the country’s GDP
growth would be close to six
per cent. PTI
Rahul Bajaj appointed
chairman of IIT, Mumbai:
Rahul Bajaj, CMD of Bajaj
Auto Ltd, has been appointed
as chairman of the board of
directors of the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
The appointment is for a
period of three years since
May 12 and Bajaj took over
from Prof M G K Menon who
was the chairman of IIT
Mumbai since 1997, an IIT
release said. PTI
GDP to grow by 5.9-6.3%,
says ICRA: Credit rating
ABN Amro Bank eyes
acquisitions in India:
agency ICRA has pegged
India’s economic growth rate
at 5.9-6.3 per cent with agriculture poised to grow by
4.9-6.7 per cent while industry and services slated to post
over 6.0 per cent during
2003-04. ICRA’s GDP forecast is higher than 6.0 per
cent made by Reserve Bank
and Asian Development Bank
for this fiscal, apart from
IMF’s projection of 5.1 per
cent for 2003. ICRA said in its
report Money & Finance, that
if growth estimates for 2002-
Dutch banking major ABN
Amro has said it was looking
at all possible options including acquiring a private bank
and setting up a subsidiary to
increase its presence in India.
ABN Amro Bank NV senior
executive vice president Jan
Peter Schmittmann, said the
bank, having assets of over
598 billion euro worldwide,
would like to have 51 per cent
stake and management control if it goes for acquisition.
“We have shortlisted at least
six banks,” he said. PTI
NYSE overhauls rules,
will report Grasso pay:
Ex-Xerox execs to pay
$22m to settle probe: Six
Ford Motor Co unveils
new logo: Ford Motor Co,
The New York Stock Exchange, under pressure to improve the way it runs its business, has said it would disclose the compensation of
top executives as part of a
plan to overhaul corporate
governance at the world’s
premier exchange. The NYSE
— which has proposed tough
rules for its listed companies
but has been slow to fall into
line itself — said the compensation disclosure would be in
its annual report and include
the package of chief Richard
Grasso. Other measures would prohibit exchange executives from serving on other
public company boards. Reuters
former executives of Xerox
Corp, including two chief executives, agreed to pay a total
of $22 million to settle
charges that they manipulated earnings in order to boost
the company’s share price,
federal regulators said on
Thursday. In a civil suit filed in
New York, the Securities and
Exchange Commission accused the six of participating
in a scheme from 1997 to
2000 that misled investors
about Xerox’s earnings to polish the company’s reputation
and boost its stock price. The
steepest penalties will be paid
by former CEOs Paul Allaire
and Richard Thoman. Reuters
in a nod to the past on its
centennial, unveiled a
modernised version of its
signature blue oval logo
on the face of its world
headquarters. AP
Ajit Ninan
dia). “I will oversee the operations in markets like Philippines, Thailand, Australia and
new Zealand in addition to
running the India operations,”
Kapoor said. TNN
Matsushita explores CTV
exports: Matsushita Television & Audio Ltd is exploring
the possibility of exporting
30,000 colour television sets
to West Asia and other
overseas markets from its
Noida plant. The first test
consignment has already
been dispatched and based
on that “firm” orders are
expected, the company
informed the Bombay Stock
Exchange. A decision on
export would be taken at
forthcoming board meeting
of the company to be held
next month, it added. PTI
President of the European
Central Bank Wim Duisenberg announced in Frankfurt
on Thursday that the ECB
has cut interest rates by an
emphatic half percentage
point in an effort to shove
the continent’s stagnant
economy toward growth.
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Halol: Auto major General Motors India is
all set to make its debut in the top-end of the
‘C’ segment car market with its yet-to-belaunched offering Chevrolet Optra.
GM India rolled out its first indigenously
manufactured Chevrolet model — the Optra
— on Friday.
Though company officials declined to divulge any details about the latest offering
from the GM stables, market sources said
the Optra is expected to be pitted against the
Skoda Octavia and the Toyota Corolla.
GM is also considering the possibility of
reintroducing the Matiz from the Daewoo
stables under the Chevrolet brand in the Indian market in a bid to rev up volumes.
“The Matiz is under consideration for
launch in India in addition to other alternatives for a bigger presence in the small car
segment as it is a central part of the car
market. We want to be actively present in
the small car market,” Terence Johnson,
ED, GM Asia Pacific, said.
He hinted at leveraging on R&D facilities
of Daewoo in Korea for new launches under
the Chevrolet brand name. This confirmation comes amid speculation that the company was planning to tag Daewoo models
like Nubira and Matiz as Chevrolet brands.
GM acquired Daewoo in September 2001
by picking up 67 per cent stake for $400 million but left out most of Daewoo’s 12 overseas plants, including the Indian plant.
GM has so far invested Rs 925 crore in its
Indian operations, based at Halol near Vadodara in Gujarat, and plans to up it to Rs 1,380
crore by March 2004, Aditya Vij, president
and MD, GMIL said. GM’s investment is
expected to reach Rs 1,600 crore in 2 years.
Selling rate: Currency notes
Source: SBI, Mumbai
BATTLE OF
TECHNOLOGY
Linux a growing
threat: Ballmer
icrosoft chief executive Steve
Ballmer warned his staff in an email that cheap Linux-based
software is a growing threat to the software giant.
But he vowed to meet the challenge.
‘‘Over the long term, I’m optimistic
about our growth opportunities. But we
face significant challenges in the near
and mid term,’’ he said in the e-mail, a
copy of which was obtained by AFP.
‘‘Non-commercial software products in
general and Linux in particular, present a
competitive challenge for us and for our
entire industry, and they require our concentrated focus and attention,’’ he said.
Linux, a freely available operating system used mostly by businesses, had
grown as a rival since IBM Corp. decided
two years ago to spend a billion dollars to
offer it to customers as an alternative.
‘‘IBM’s endorsement of Linux has
added credibility and an illusion of support and accountability,’’ Ballmer said.
As businesses fretted about lean budgets and about Microsoft’s attention to customers, non-commercial software such as
Linux was seen as an ‘‘interesting’’ alternative, he said.
Many customers were looking at Linux
because it would let them move to an Intel microchip-based computer while using existing UNIX software skills and applications, he said. Linux is an offshoot of
UNIX.
Linux’s weakness, however, was the
lack of a central body investing in its development in areas such as engineering,
manageability, compatibility and security, Ballmer said.
The major new Windows operating system release — Longhorn — would put Microsoft back in front, Ballmer said. But
the software titan would not rush to get
Longhorn out to customers until it got the
program right, he said.
‘‘One of our board members asked me
recently: ‘Is Longhorn a bet-the-company
product?’ I said that would be a pretty
good way to put it.’’ Longhorn was potentially a bigger breakthrough than the
first Windows, eventually incorporating
almost all Microsoft products, he said.
‘‘People have asked me if competing
with Linux is so important, can the company wait as long as it will take to get
Longhorn done?’’ Ballmer said. ‘‘My answer is twofold. First, the Windows Server 2003 generation of products offers
stronger performance and value than
Linux in most IT scenarios. Second, we
will do the work and take the time required to get it right, because it truly is
the next quantum leap in computing,
which will put us years ahead of any other product on the market.’’ AFP
M
Call centres find ways to
tackle high attrition rate
By Gaurav Bhagowati
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The call centre
industry is grappling to cope
with growing attrition. And,
to tackle this, the industry
needs to define a long-term
career goal for employees, besides addressing issues like
fatigue and incentives, feel
industry watchers.
Research on motivation
factors for retaining staff has
revealed that call centre
agents value good communication from their managers,
while pay-packet and incentives are other main issues.
Says RP Toppo, v-p, Global
Vantedge: Monotony of the
work and other stress factors
cannot be ignored. ‘‘We have
comprehensive incentive systems based on key performance-based metrics. Top performers could end up doubling their salaries based on
performance.’’
And, employees of call centres spread across the country list clear objectives and
performance-based pay as
the best incentive for keeping
loyalty to their employers.
Agents
are
demanding
greater management recognition and more structured
performance metrics, says
an industry analyst.
Adds, Deepak Dhawan, v-p,
EXL Services: As long as
BPO remains just a job and
not a career option, migration of talent to other sectors
will
continue.”Gradually,
we’ve tried to provide better
learning
opportunities,
training, besides providing
an international work environment.”
According to a study by
NFO India and Bangalorebased HR firm PeopleEquity
Consulting, agents feel that
How to retain them?
compensation packets are
not good enough. As most
candidates for the job of
agent are graduates and overqualified as well.
Toppo points out that employers are increasingly resorting to internal sourcing
to meet staff requirement for
agents. ‘‘We have been rolling
out internal job postings.
This has craeted growth opportunity for agents who are
becoming team leaders or
moved to other processes
like, quality control.
Adds Dhawan: ‘‘We’re increasingly hiring people
from within. Agents on the
floor have been transferred
or promoted. Floor experience is the key and internal
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sourcing is a good way to fulfill that requirement.
Says Rahul Verma, manager at a call centre: ‘‘In a little
over two years I’ve been promoted.’’ He adds that the incentive package could include
performance-based
bonuses, gifts, a holiday
package and training stints
abroad and posting to other
processes and promotions.
Overall, the measures taken by call centres have been
met with some success in
checking attrition. However,
with a high growth rate of
the industry, employers need
to spruce up their human
resource
management
constantly to keep attrition
under control.
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Saturday, June 7, 2003
The Times of India, New Delhi
Doubts over Chrysler’s turnaround plan
By Danny Hakim and
Micheline Maynard
Detroit: Little more than two
years ago, DaimlerChrysler dispatched a talented Mercedes-Benz
executive, Dieter Zetsche, to turn
around its ailing Chrysler unit.
Zetsche pledged to reduce costs,
and started by eliminating 26,000
jobs. Now, in a shaky market glutted with every kind of car and
truck, and after Chrysler projected
a $1.2 billion loss for the second
quarter, some analysts say the
turnaround might need its own
turnaround plan.
‘‘Do they have the time to step
back and rethink it?’’ asked
Maryann Keller, a veteran auto analyst. You just have to assume that
the Japanese are going to continue
to create cars faster. They’re now
in every segment, and they can
build them cheaper than we can.’’
The idea behind Daimler-Benz’s
1998 acquisition of Chrysler was
that Daimler could function as a
rich uncle and help Chrysler avoid
the Big Three bloodletting.
By sharing parts and costs with
Chrysler, Daimler could have a
lean, mean mass-market foothold
in the world’s biggest auto market.
Since the beginning of 1999,
Testing times
• Chrysler’s has projected a
$1.2 billion loss for Q2
• Analysts say the turnaround
plan might need a revamp
• A shaky market glutted with
every kind of vehicle may not
have helped its cause
however, stock in the combined
DaimlerChrysler has lost more
than two-thirds of its value.
Zetsche’s plan to make the deal
work is beginning to be tested as
ICRA pegs GDP
growth at 6.3%
New Delhi: Credit rating agency ICRA on
Friday pegged India’s economic growth rate
at 5.9-6.3 per cent with agriculture poised to
grow by 4.9-6.7 per cent while industry and
services slated to post over 6.0 per cent during 2003-04.
ICRA’s GDP forecast is higher than 6.0 per
cent made by Reserve Bank and Asian Development Bank for this fiscal, apart from IMF’s
projection of 5.1 per cent for 2003.
“It is our assessment that provided the
south west monsoon does not turn out to be a
failure as that of last year, growth in 2003-04
is poised to show distinct improvement .... We
expect that growth of GDP should range
somewhere between 5.9 and 6.3 per cent,”
ICRA said in its report “money & finance”.
It said if growth estimates for 2002-03 were
moved up and closer to a more realistic five
per cent, the country’s GDP growth would be
close to six per cent. “If no revision whatsoever is made to the advance estimate for 200203, then growth would be around 6.3 per
cent,” the report said.
In sectoral terms, ICRA said agriculture
growth could range between 4.9 and 6.7 per
cent this fiscal compared to the estimated
negative growth of 3.1 per cent in 2002-03.
Industry is slated to grow by 5.4 per cent
this fiscal as against 6.1 per cent in 2002-03. PTI
products developed under his
watch begin to hit the market a
tough test in a market that seems
to be losing strength every month.
The new Chryslers share parts
with Mercedes and have a European flavor.
The current showpiece is the
Chrysler Pacifica, a kind of plump
station wagon known as a
crossover vehicle, which went on
sale in April. Chrysler executives
said that it would create its own
market niche. Analysts have said
that it is overpriced for a Chrysler,
starting in the low $30,000 range.
‘‘It’s like they’re selling cars by
the pound,’’ said Gerald Meyers, a
professor, who once ran American
Motors, now part of Chrysler.
‘‘The heavier it is, the more money
they can get. That’s not the way it
works, fellas.’’
Wall Street hasn’t lost faith in
Zetsche, but analysts are generally
pessimistic about the Big Three’s
prospects as sales sputter while incentives soar. Chrysler has increased its incentives through
gritted teeth, but it appeared prepared to make them even more
generous after its marketing chief,
James C Schroer, abruptly resigned last week. NYT News Service
US unemployment
rate on a 9-yr high
Washington: The unemployment
rate in the US climbed to 6.1 per cent
in May, the highest level in nine
years, as businesses cut 17,000 jobs
in a weak economy struggling toward recovery.
The rate was up one-tenth of a
percentage point from April, peaking at a level not seen since the US
came out from the last recession, the
labour department reported Friday.
July 1994 was the last time the jobless rate was at 6.1. It was higher
only in April 1994, at 6.4 per cent.
One reason for last month’s increase was that more people resumed their job searches, but failed
to find work. Nearly 9 million people
were unemployed in May.
Payrolls fell by 17,000 in May following a revision in April, in which
no jobs were lost. Those revisions
are made annually, and the results
showed that job losses were not
nearly as steep as previously reported. The government also changed
how it calculates payrolls data and
expanded job categories.
The report was slightly better
than what analysts had predicted
job losses of about 30,000. Industries
driving the job losses last month
were manufacturing, transportation
and government. However, some sectors did gain jobs in May. Employment rose in construction and in
service jobs, including education
and health services.
Another positive sign in the report was the hiring increase of
58,000 at temporary employment
firms. Economists closely watch
that industry because it can signal if
companies may begin to hire permanent, full-time workers.
But even if the economy improves
later this year, as economists hope,
the jobless rate still is expected to
climb to as high as 6.5 per cent.
Federal Reserve chairman Alan
Greenspan has called recent reports
on the nation’s employment situation weak. The sluggish job market
so far hasn’t caused consumers to
shut their pocketbooks and wallets.
They are the main force keeping the
economy going, but they are being
more selective. AP
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STOCKS
Saturday, June 7, 2003
Sensex rises 41 points
Mumbai Led by a sus a ned ra y n he op heavywe gh coun
ers he Sensex ex ended s ga ns o h rd s ra gh sess on and
ended above 3300 eve on he s ock exchange here on Fr day on
resh buy ng by opera ors as we as con nued ow o ore gn n
ves men s In osys Techno og es T sco Zee Te e ms ITC SBI
MTNL RIL and HLL ha have h gh we gh age n he Sensex
surged up o a s rong n sh bu a ed o ma n a n he day s h gher
eve s due o se ng repor ed y by he Un Trus o Ind a UTI
wh ch booked pro s n se ec b ue ch ps The BSE benchmark 30
share ndex opened modera e y h gher a 3270 06 and gradua y
moved upwards o he n ra day h gh a 3313 54 be ore end ng a
3303 24 as aga ns Thursday s c ose o 3262 20 a ne ga n o 41 04
po n s or 1 26 per cen The broad based BSE 100 ndex advanced
ur her by 11 02 po n s o 1691 76 rom prev ous c ose o 1680 74
The marke cou d w hs and he res s ance n he orm
se ng pressure by he UTI because o con nuous ne nves men s
by ore gn unds brokers sa d P
KEY The BSE quo a ons o a sc p a e g ven n he s ne wh e he quo es n a
cs a e hose o he NSE The quo a ons a e n he sequence o he day s open ng
h gh ow and c os ng Each me a company s c os ng sha e p ce a s be ow s as
o e p ce on BSE he name o he company s unde ned
BSE SPEC F ED
& NSE NDEX
ABB 350, 353, 344, 347.40
349.95, 353.80, 342.10, 345.40
Abbott (I) 266.60, 267.90, 265.20,
265.75
ACC 146.70, 149, 146.55, 148.05
146, 149.20, 146, 148.15
Adani Export 172.90, 183.40, 177.05
175, 182, 173.10, 177.55
Adlabs Films 52, 55.90, 51.25, 54.55
51.05, 54.95, 51.05, 54.05
Alstom Proj. 75, 76.50, 73.50, 73.70
70.05, 77, 70.05, 74.40
Andhra Bank 34.40, 32.15, 32.65
34, 34, 32.15, 32.75
Apollo Hosp. 117.85, 117.95, 115.35,
115.85
117.90, 118.35, 115.10, 116
Apollo Tyres 158.90, 164.85, 158.50,
163.65
158.70, 165.45, 158.60, 163.40
Arvind Mills 37.55, 37.70, 36.75,
36.85
37.75, 37.90, 36.80, 36.90
Ashok Leylan 118, 118.30, 114.50,
115.50
118, 118.40, 114.20, 115.85
Asian Paints 383.10, 385, 380,
381.55
382, 385.85, 380.15, 383.15
Aurobindo Ph 362, 336, 339.90
358.60, 358.60, 336.50, 339.95
Aventis Phar 327.45, 317.80, 322
318, 323.85, 318, 321.70
Aztec Soft. 19, 19.15, 18.40, 18.75
18.85, 19.25, 18.50, 18.75
Bajaj Auto 502.05, 508.80, 507.35
503, 509, 501.15, 507.95
Balaji Tele. 52.80, 58.50, 52.25, 58
52.85, 58.40, 52.25, 57.70
Ballarpur In 50, 48, 49.35
49.40, 49.80, 48, 49.35
Bank of Baro 108.50, 109.20,
105.35, 106.30
108, 109.20, 105.10, 106.40
Bank of Ind. 50.60, 51.75, 49.65, 50
50, 51.75, 49.75, 50.10
BASF 109.60, 110.50, 108.30,
109.55
110.75, 110.90, 108.25, 108.80
Bata (I) 37.90, 38.50, 37, 37.05
38.40, 38.40, 37, 37.15
Bayer Cropsc 161, 162.95, 158.05,
160
156, 160.95, 156, 160.90
Bh.Earth Mov 85.95, 87.20, 83, 84.05
85, 87.45, 83, 84.20
Bharat Elect 285, 285.35, 279,
280.15
282.90, 285.80, 279.80, 281.05
Bharat Forge 311, 308.80, 310.55
311, 312, 310, 310.80
Bharti TeleV 41.50, 42, 40.30, 40.70
41.25, 41.90, 40.35, 40.90
BHEL 250.35, 252.50, 247.05, 248
250, 252.45, 247.05, 248.15
Bombay Dyein 63.70, 64, 62.15,
62.50
59, 63.90, 59, 62.55
BPCL 266, 267.50, 262.70, 264.90
265.90, 267.40, 262.50, 264.80
Britannia 535, 532.50, 533.30
538.50, 538.50, 530, 534.65
BSES 220, 223.90, 217.75, 219.40
217.60, 223.85, 217.55, 220.40
Cadila Healt 126.50, 127.55, 125.10,
125.55
126.25, 128, 124.75, 126
Castrol (I) 192.25, 197.45, 189.50,
194
Century Enka 93.75, 91.70, 92.30
92.40, 93.20, 91.85, 92.15
Century Text 69.20, 69.70, 66.90,
67.25
69.95, 69.95, 66.75, 67.15
Chambal Fert 15.30, 15.75, 15.20,
15.40
15.35, 15.55, 15.25, 15.35
Chennai Pet. 54.25, 51.70, 52.20
54.35, 54.35, 52, 52.20
Cipla 726, 731, 716.10, 718.40
725.15, 730, 717, 720.20
CMC 473, 476.75, 467.45, 474.65
470, 477, 470, 474.50
Colgate 135, 153.80, 147.75
136, 154, 136, 147.90
Container Co 314, 303, 304.70
312.20, 314.85, 304.50, 305.95
Corpn. Bank 160.50, 165.25, 159.10,
163.10
161.70, 165.25, 159.50, 163.35
Crompton Gr. 63.05, 65.90, 62.60,
63.90
62.65, 65.70, 62.50, 63.95
Cummins (I) 70.55, 72.50, 69.25,
69.55
70.10, 72.50, 69.20, 69.65
D-Link (I) 50.50, 49.15, 49.50
50, 50.15, 49.25, 49.60
Dabur (I) 45.20, 45.65, 44.05, 44.30
45, 45.70, 44.20, 44.40
Digital Glob 526, 535, 496.20, 500.10
530, 534.80, 496.65, 500.50
Dr.Reddy’s 964.80, 979, 948.10,
971.30
964.80, 978.85, 953, 970.65
Dredging Cor 321.95, 325, 314,
315.35
E-Serve Intl 500, 507, 503.15
503.90, 507.40, 500, 505.10
EIH 165.50, 170, 169.05
167, 168.90, 165.35, 166.20
Engineers (I 290.30, 293.45, 283,
285.85
294.90, 294.90, 283, 285.90
Escorts 49.50, 50.20, 48.10, 48.40
49.75, 50, 48.15, 48.55
Essel Propac 169, 170.95, 166.50,
167.45
169.90, 169.90, 167.10, 168.05
Exide Inds. 130, 124.50, 124.80
127, 128, 123.55, 124.45
Federal Bank 152.25, 157.40,
151.60, 154.70
152, 157.80, 151.25, 154.95
Finolex Cabl 96.80, 97.60, 93.50,
95.25
96.45, 98, 93.50, 95.20
Finolex Inds 40, 40.15, 39.75, 40.10
40.50, 40.50, 39.85, 40.05
Gail (I) 104.65, 106.20, 103.10,
104.55
103.95, 106, 103.20, 104.70
GE Shipping 47.30, 46.05, 46.40
46.50, 47.25, 46.05, 46.40
Geometric So 365, 375.55, 372.70
373.75, 375.05, 365.05, 372.55
German Remed 226, 222, 226
221, 227.75, 221, 226.65
Gillette (I) 359.80, 360, 345.05, 352
334, 354.40, 334, 351.15
GlaxoSmith.C 242.05, 252.50,
251.85
238.45, 254, 238.40, 252.85
GlaxoSmith.P 366.40, 361.15, 364
364.50, 366, 360.30, 364.25
GNFC 33.20, 34.75, 32.80, 34
32.50, 34.90, 32.50, 34
Grasim Inds. 388.55, 389.60, 386.60,
388.25
386.10, 391.75, 386.05, 389.20
GSFC 22.50, 23.60, 22, 23.40
22.60, 23.60, 22.05, 23.35
GTL 73, 74, 72.05, 73.35
73.10, 73.90, 72.10, 73.35
Guj.Amb.Cem. 182.60, 186.75,
182.50, 184.80
182, 186.50, 182, 184.95
Guj.Gas Co. 411, 422, 417.05
405.55, 434.95, 381.40, 417.90
Guj.Mineral 102, 104.70, 102.55
106.40, 106.40, 102.70, 103.25
HCL Infosys. 125.10, 135, 124.30,
134.05
124, 134.80, 124, 133.10
HCL Techno. 144.80, 147.80, 143,
144.80
143, 147.65, 142, 144.90
HDFC 368.85, 371.90, 366, 366.50
366.05, 371.45, 365.25, 367.35
HDFC Bank 252.50, 263, 252, 259.15
252.80, 264.50, 252, 259.40
Hero Honda 233.50, 235.40, 230.10,
233.80
236.90, 236.90, 230, 233.90
Hexaware Tec 111.30, 113.25,
108.20, 110.35
110.80, 113.40, 108.05, 110.95
Him.Fut.Comm 32.10, 33.20, 31.40,
32.75
32.15, 33.25, 31, 32.80
Hind Lever C 176, 182.90, 180
180, 181, 179.50, 179.75
Hind.Oil Exp 29.90, 30, 28.05, 28.50
29.60, 29.85, 28.10, 28.60
Hind.Zinc 25.25, 24.30, 24.90
Hindalco 684, 673, 680.55
673, 682.80, 672.05, 681.65
Hinduja TMT 218.70, 228.90, 215.70,
224.95
216.85, 228, 215.60, 224.05
HLL 162, 163, 159.60, 161.80
160.95, 163, 159.50, 162.30
HMT 21.40, 22.15, 21.25, 21.30
21.35, 22.40, 21.10, 21.20
HPCL 315.40, 317.90, 311.80,
314.55
315.35, 317.80, 311.50, 314.50
Hughes Soft. 217.10, 226, 214.40,
224
218.50, 224.90, 214.55, 223.30
IBP 453, 480.95, 448.20, 476.45
447.80, 482.50, 447.80, 476.15
ICI (I) 135.05, 137.50, 135, 135.70
139, 139, 135, 135.75
ICICI Bank 143, 141, 141.45
141, 142.90, 141, 141.75
IDBI 34, 34.80, 32.40, 34.20
34.70, 34.75, 32.40, 34.15
IDBI Bank 27.20, 27.50, 26.65, 27
27.40, 27.50, 26.60, 26.95
India Cement 23, 23.90, 22.50, 23.35
23.90, 23.90, 22.60, 23.40
Indian Alumi 120
118.80, 119.90, 118.80, 119.50
Indian Hotel 206.50, 196.50, 197.45
202, 203, 196.30, 197.50
Indian Oil C 380, 405, 379.80, 384.40
380, 405, 380, 384.35
Indian Ov.Bk 26.45, 26.75, 25.85,
26.10
25.90, 26.75, 25.85, 26.15
Indian Rayon 100, 101.75, 98.05,
98.65
100.95, 101.50, 98.05, 98.50
Infosys Tech 2856.50, 2984.90, 2953
2882, 2984.95, 2879.95, 2948.95
Infotech En. 96.10, 104, 95.90,
103.30
98, 104, 95.80, 103.25
Ingersoll R 232.80, 238.90, 232.05,
237.45
231.25, 238, 231.25, 237.35
IPCL 105.50, 101.20, 102.05
103.75, 103.90, 101.40, 102.15
ITC 695, 710, 692.10, 705.80
695, 709.80, 692.10, 706.25
ITI 20.80, 21.45, 20.45, 20.90
20.90, 21.45, 20.35, 20.85
J&K Bank 206.80, 208.40, 202,
205.30
203.40, 210, 201.50, 204.50
Jaiprakash I 42.50, 40.80, 41.25
41.55, 41.75, 40.80, 41.30
JB Chemical 200, 195.25, 196.35
201.90, 201.90, 194.45, 196.75
Jindal Steel 460, 474, 448, 455.55
454, 469, 448, 452.50
Kochi Refin. 84, 84.55, 83.10, 83.30
84, 84.40, 83, 83.25
Kotak Mah.Bk 156.60, 158.50, 152,
153.80
155.05, 158.50, 151.50, 153.40
L&T 217.30, 218.50, 215.15, 216.10
217.90, 218.85, 215.50, 217.05
LIC Hsg.Fin. 104.95, 112.90, 108.90
110.15, 115.90, 107.10, 108.60
LML 36, 36.80, 36.15
34.90, 36.90, 34.90, 36.40
Lupin 205, 215, 201.70, 214.15
202, 215, 201.25, 213.40
M&M 131, 131.85, 128.20, 128.85
131, 131.45, 128.10, 129.25
Marico Inds 164, 165, 163.30, 164
168, 168, 163.50, 164.25
Mascot Systm 100, 102, 98.25,
99.10
99, 102.20, 98.20, 99.45
Mastek 270.40, 273, 263.70, 268.70
269.30, 273, 263.45, 268.60
Mastershare 11.12, 11.29, 11.10,
11.23
11.15, 11.30, 11.10, 11.20
Max (I) 83.05, 83.70, 79.60, 80.05
83, 84.25, 79.65, 80.10
Mcdowell Co. 45.45, 44.15, 44.30
45.30, 45.30, 44.25, 44.45
Merck 265, 266, 262.65, 264.35
260.60, 267.50, 260.55, 265.05
MIRC Electr. 422.95, 430.05, 418.05,
419.70
429, 433, 415, 418.20
Moser-Baer 293, 297.80, 288,
288.70
292, 298, 285, 289.80
Mphasis BFL 605, 606, 595, 595.25
581.10, 610, 581.10, 597.30
MRF 1200, 1210, 1145, 1159.75
1160.35, 1205, 1150, 1169.45
MTNL 100.65, 104, 99.60, 103.25
100.50, 103.90, 99.60, 103.10
Mukta Arts 56.95, 59.20, 55.60,
58.05
55.50, 58.90, 55.50, 58.05
National Alu 99, 99.75, 96.80, 97.10
99, 99.70, 97, 97.45
Nestle (I) 537, 531, 533.85
535, 536.70, 532, 535.75
Neyveli Lign 35, 37, 34.60, 35.20
35.90, 36.95, 34.60, 35.35
Nicholas Pir 275, 277.45, 271,
273.85
277, 278, 271.50, 273.90
NIIT 135.70, 139.40, 135, 138.40
135.25, 139.30, 135.20, 138.40
Nirma 299, 297.10, 298
297, 300, 296.10, 299
Novartis (I) 231.80, 231.85, 228,
229.75
ONGC 490, 493.90, 482.50, 484.25
487, 494, 482.05, 485.15
Oriental Bnk 132, 138, 126.95,
135.15
129.80, 138.75, 126.70, 134.65
P&G Hygiene 425, 440, 435
Padmalaya Te 70.20, 74.80, 73.85
70.25, 74.90, 70.25, 73.60
Pentamedia G 11.90, 12.14, 11.50,
11.96
11.95, 12.10, 11.50, 11.95
Pfizer 393.50, 395.50, 385, 386.20
392, 397.80, 384.50, 386.30
Philips (I) 105, 102.20
Pidilite Ind 252, 262.50, 261
252, 263, 251, 259.90
Polaris Soft 107, 108.95, 106.75,
107.60
108, 109, 106.75, 107.65
Pun.Tractors 150.15, 153.75, 149.35,
150.40
150.90, 153.50, 149.50, 150.40
Ranbaxy Lab. 682, 700, 680, 686.60
680.50, 700, 680, 687.10
Raymond 112, 109.65, 110.40
110, 112, 110, 111.05
RCF 30.50, 33.10, 31.80
31.20, 33.20, 30.55, 31.85
Rel Capital 60, 57.60, 58.25
59, 59.40, 57.60, 58.25
Reliance Ind 315, 316.90, 310.65,
313.20
315, 316.85, 310.70, 313.50
Rolta (I) 62, 68, 61.25, 67.15
62.50, 68.25, 61.30, 66.55
SAIL 12.36, 12.63, 12.35, 12.44
12.40, 12.60, 12.35, 12.45
Satyam Comp 180, 182.20, 177.50,
180.35
181.70, 182.30, 177.50, 180.45
Saw Pipes 117, 122.10, 115.50, 119
118, 122, 115.50, 118.80
SBI 350, 368, 365.90
365, 367.80, 354.15, 365.45
Shipp.Corpn. 79.60, 79.70, 78, 78.30
79.50, 79.50, 78, 78.30
Shyam Teleco 35.70, 35.80, 34.40,
35.20
35.30, 35.80, 34.40, 35.20
Siemens 356, 358, 350, 351
348, 359.85, 348, 350.20
Silverline T 8.63, 8.80, 8.38, 8.75
SKF Bearing 58, 61.90, 57.85, 61.20
58, 62, 58, 61.05
Sonata Soft. 13.80, 13.88, 13.35,
13.63
13.70, 13.90, 13.40, 13.65
SPICE 31.53, 31.50, 32
SSI 72.40, 84.40, 71, 82.65
71.55, 84.70, 71.10, 82.75
STC India 108.20, 103
116.50, 116.50, 102.65, 103.60
Sterl.Biotec 40, 45.40, 45.20
44.25, 45.35, 43.75, 45.05
Sterl.Optica 43.90, 41.80, 42.85
43.80, 43.80, 41.75, 43
Sun Pharma. 339, 333.55, 337.40
334, 338.65, 332.10, 337.25
Syndicate Bn 25.55, 26.20, 25.05,
25.20
25.50, 26.20, 25.05, 25.20
Syngenta (I) 114.40, 115.20, 114.30,
114.75
Tata Chem 68.20, 68.55, 67.55,
68.20
68, 68.50, 67.60, 68.20
Tata Elxsi 69.80, 73, 72.30
70.80, 73, 69.80, 71.90
Tata Power 131.90, 134, 130.50,
131.70
132.50, 134, 130.25, 131.95
Tata Tea 225.75, 230.50, 225.25,
226.25
226, 230, 225.10, 226.35
Tata Telcom 114.50, 118.90, 114,
116
114.75, 119.85, 114, 116.40
TELCO 182.85, 183.40, 178.30,
181.15
183.90, 183.90, 178, 181.35
Thermax 219, 226.95, 215, 224.40
217.80, 222.50, 215.15, 221.25
Thomas Cook 204.85, 198, 198.75
200.05, 202.80, 198, 198.65
TISCO 160, 162.75, 159.65, 161.85
160.75, 163, 160.60, 162.20
Titan Inds. 64.65, 66, 64, 64.30
64.85, 65.95, 64.10, 64.35
TN Newsprint 53.45, 55, 52.40,
53.05
53.50, 54.90, 52.25, 53.15
TN Petro 19.65, 19.80, 19.30, 19.35
19.80, 19.90, 19.40, 19.45
Torrent Phar 201, 202, 190.50,
190.80
201, 203, 190.20, 190.95
Trent 191.50, 182.85, 183.90
179, 191.95, 179, 183.45
TVS Electron 71.75, 72.40, 70, 71.75
66, 72.50, 66, 71.20
TVS Motor Co 506.70, 515.95,
513.15
509, 516.90, 509, 516.15
United Phosp 161.90, 163.50,
160.35, 161.15
160.80, 164, 160.20, 161.85
UTI Bank 50.25, 50.90, 49.75, 50.65
50.95, 50.95, 49.65, 50.65
Videocon Int 31.40, 32.85, 30.60,
32.10
30.75, 33, 30.55, 32.25
Vijaya Bank 22.55, 23, 22.05, 22.35
22.60, 23.15, 22, 22.20
Visual Soft 135, 140.40, 134.10,
139.50
135, 140.30, 134, 139.25
VSNL 100, 102, 99, 101.35
101, 101.80, 99.50, 101.10
Whirlpool 20.90, 21.40, 20.60, 21.35
20.90, 21.40, 20.60, 21.30
Wipro 850, 879.80, 871.60
873.15, 875, 851.50, 870.80
Wockhardt 375, 376.65, 370
373, 375, 370.50, 372.10
Zee Telefilm 87.15, 93.80, 92.75
87, 93.75, 87, 92.60
Zensar Tech. 83.85, 84.90, 82.10,
83.15
82, 85, 81.85, 83.55
B1 - GROUP
3
3M India 307.05, 310, 304.40
310, 310, 301.05, 303.05
A
A Sarabhai 5.30, 5, 5.15
Aarti Drugs 28.85, 30.75, 30.50
Aarti Inds. 65, 65.50, 64.10, 64.65
67, 67, 64.85, 65.50
Aarvee Denim 15.90, 14.80, 14.85
Aban Loyd 195, 201, 193.20, 197.20
194, 201, 192.30, 197.60
ABC Bearings 11, 12.20, 10.28,
12.18
ABG Heavy In 14.99, 14.10
Abhishek Ind 9.20, 9.90, 8.80, 9.58
9.60, 9.60, 8.85, 9.30
Adam Comsof 5, 4.85, 5.25
Addi Inds. 30, 29
Advani Oerli 33.65, 33.85, 33.40,
33.70
34, 34, 33.50, 33.95
Aegis Logis. 9.50, 10.75, 10.50
11.50, 11.50, 10.20, 10.85
AFT Inds. 61, 62, 60.40, 60.85
Aftek Infosy 240, 253.85, 248.90
242, 249.80, 240.20, 248.50
Agro Dutch I 14.80, 14.65, 15.25
15, 15.45, 14.80, 15.30
Agro Tech Fd 36.40, 35.10, 35.50
35.25, 36.55, 35.05, 35.05
Ahmed.Elect. 60, 63.85, 59.80, 63.70
60.65, 64, 60.05, 63.60
Ahmednagar F 36, 33.75, 35.40
36, 36, 34.10, 34.35
Ajanta Pharm 29.60, 31.50, 29.50,
30.90
31, 31.35, 30.50, 31.10
Aksh Optifib 19, 19.30, 18.60, 18.90
19, 19.50, 18.50, 18.85
Albert David 28.60, 29, 28, 28.75
Albright & W 212, 212.25
Alembic 216, 219.25, 214, 218.25
214.80, 219, 213.10, 216.75
Alfa Laval 300, 301
298.35, 305, 298.30, 304.95
Alka (I) 0.25
Alkyl Amines 17.50, 17.65, 17.05,
17.15
Allahabad Bk 19, 19.30, 18.70, 18.90
18.50, 19.25, 18.50, 18.85
Alok Inds. 15.60, 16.45, 15.40, 16.15
15.50, 16.50, 15.40, 16.10
Alps Inds. 19, 20.50, 19, 19.60
Alstom 33.05, 34.25, 33, 33.25
Amara Raja B 69.75, 72, 70.90
69, 72.30, 69, 71.20
Ambica Agarb 46, 49.50, 45.10
Ambuja Cem.R 3.81, 4.02, 3.74, 3.93
4, 4, 3.75, 3.95
Amex Info. 14.50, 15, 14.25, 14.28
Amforge Inds 32, 30.45, 31
Amrutanjan 61, 73.95, 73.90
Amtek 53.65, 55.50, 54.90
Amtek Auto 192.10, 195.80, 191.70,
193.15
Andrew Yule 17.60, 17.95, 17.05,
17.10
Ankur Drugs 7, 6.90
Ansal Prop. 11.15, 11.20, 10.15,
10.52
AP Paper 52.35, 54.70, 51.30, 54.35
Apcotex Lat. 35, 34.05, 35.40
34.90, 35.40, 34.80, 35.30
Aplab 22.50, 24, 21.55, 23.75
Aptech 27.70, 29.85, 27.10, 29.35
27.70, 29.50, 26.55, 29
Archies 59.40, 60.25, 59, 59.25
60.75, 60.75, 59, 59.60
Arvind Rem. 5, 4.30, 4.70
4.80, 4.90, 4.50, 4.55
Asahi (I) Gl 52.20, 53.35, 51.80, 52
51, 53.95, 51, 52
Ashapura Min 91.15, 94, 91.25
Ashima 16, 16.90
17.45, 17.45, 15.80, 15.80
Ashok Ley.Fn 54.10, 55, 54.05, 54.50
54.50, 54.95, 53.90, 54.85
Asian Elect. 50.95, 51, 46.55, 48.15
51, 51.65, 46.80, 49.40
Asian Hotels 85.30, 83, 84.75
90.50, 90.50, 80.15, 84
Assam Co. 12.20, 15
Astrazen.Ph. 360, 365, 347, 347.60
359.15, 363, 359, 360
Atcom Techno 10.50, 11.65, 11.51
10.80, 11.70, 10.80, 11.50
Atlas Copco 250.50, 255, 254.85
Atlas Cycles 72, 72.10
72, 73.75, 71.75, 72.55
Atul 41.70, 40.50, 40.75
40.80, 41, 40.25, 40.40
Auto Axles 118.20, 120, 116.05,
116.90
119, 119.50, 116.25, 118.35
Avanti Feeds 22.10, 23, 22.75
Avery (I) 23.45, 24.50, 24.20
Avon Organic 40, 40.80, 37, 37.90
Chettinad Ce 44, 37.50, 38.10
Cheviot Co. 62, 70, 66.65
Chola.Inv&Fi 43.50, 43.70, 42.80,
43.05
43, 43.75, 42.60, 43.10
Chowgule Stm 5.15, 5.90, 5.81
Ciba Sp.Chem 108.55, 107.10,
108.40
Cinevistaas 26.75, 30.10, 29.70
29.70, 29.95, 27, 29.95
City Union B 46, 47.90, 46.05
46.30, 47, 45.90, 46.05
Clariant (I) 148, 144, 146.10
135.05, 148.50, 135.05, 146.60
Classic Diam 40, 41, 39.55, 40.95
Clutch.Auto 9.65, 9.75, 9.05, 9.17
Coates (I) 106.10, 106
108, 109, 105.30, 108.55
Cochin Minrl 14.70, 14.85, 14.35,
14.80
Color Chips 7.88, 8.40, 7.75, 8.20
7.80, 8.35, 7.70, 8.20
Colour Chem 240, 237.10, 237.55
236.55, 238.95, 236, 237.40
Compucom Sof 18.90, 17.30, 18.50
Compudyne Wi 18.40, 18.70, 17.21,
18.06
18.45, 18.90, 17.20, 18.10
Computech In 5.60, 5.79, 5.67
5.75, 5.80, 5.55, 5.65
Cont.Const. 10.05, 11, 10.81
Control Prnt 20.10
Core Health. 6.01, 7, 6.50
6, 6.90, 5.70, 6.55
Corom. Fert. 72, 75, 69.10, 69.25
73.50, 74.75, 68.80, 69.70
Cosmo Ferr. 8.74, 8.80, 8.30, 8.40
Cosmo Films 81, 82, 80.75, 81.30
82.45, 82.50, 80.50, 81.10
Creative Eye 14.50, 16.60, 15.98
14.90, 16.70, 14.40, 16.10
Crest Comm. 31.60, 33.80, 30.75,
32.65
31.60, 33.75, 29, 32.95
CRISIL 314, 315, 305
312, 315, 305.10, 308
Cybertech Sy 10.05, 10.19, 9.80,
9.94
10.15, 10.30, 9.55, 10
B
D
Bajaj Auto F 58, 59.70, 50, 59.50
57.95, 60, 57.95, 59.15
Bajaj Elec. 30.05, 30, 30.90
Bajaj Hindus 86.05, 94.20, 93
93.95, 95, 93.15, 93.15
Bajaj Tempo 115, 125, 122.85
Bal Pharma 19.50, 20.35, 19.95
Bal.Law.Vanl 16.70, 16.80,
16.50
Balaji Dist. 6.60, 7.50, 7.21
6.50, 7.55, 6.40, 7.30
Balkrish Ind 71.50, 74, 71.10,
72.70
Balmer Law.I 53, 50
Balmer Lawri 92.55, 94
92.60, 94.95, 92.60, 93.70
Balrampur Ch 138.50, 144.40,
138, 143.35
132, 144.25, 132, 143.90
Banco Prod. 75, 65.10, 66.45
Bank of Punj 18.20, 18.40,
17.90, 18.15
18.15, 18.50, 17.85, 18.20
Bank of Raj. 22.70, 22.80,
22.10, 22.30
22.85, 22.85, 22.15, 22.25
Bannari Aman 126, 122.40,
124.35
129.60, 129.60, 121.35,
122.95
Bayer (I) 1070, 1075, 1050
Bayer ABS 93, 93.70, 90.60,
92.15
93.05, 94, 90.05, 92
Bayer Diagno 193.95, 189, 190
Berger Paint 84.50, 82, 82.90
84.65, 84.70, 82.30, 83
BF Utilities 9, 10.57
Bhansali Eng 17, 16.80, 17.90
Bharat Bijle 287.75, 300, 286.30
Bharat Hotel 28, 29.45, 28, 29.45
Bharat Rasay 26.25, 26.25, 26.25,
26.25
Bhartiya Int 27.40, 26.40
26.40, 27, 26.30, 26.90
Bhushan Stl. 33.50, 36.80, 35.25
BI 66.15, 60, 65.75
Bihar Caustc 17.50, 17.90, 17.70
Bimetal Bear 120, 124.50
Binani Inds. 20.80, 20.90, 19.50,
20.25
Biopac (I) 7.01, 7
Birla Corp. 19.75, 19.15, 19.35
19.80, 19.80, 19.25, 19.55
Birla Eric. 14.75, 14.06, 14.36
14.65, 14.65, 13.80, 14.30
Birla Glob.F 16.20, 16.80, 16.45
16.40, 16.80, 16.30, 16.55
Birla Yamaha 18, 17.35, 17.75
BITS 0.57, 0.60, 0.42, 0.53
BLB 4.80, 4.90
4.35, 4.35, 4.15, 4.25
Blow Plast 13, 13.69, 12.66, 13.45
Blue Dart Ex 67.50, 67.80, 65.50,
66.50
66.95, 67.70, 65, 66.80
Blue Star 104.90, 104.15, 106.20
105, 107.65, 105, 106.95
Blue Star In 123.50, 125.95, 121.25,
122.05
128, 129, 122.75, 123.25
BOC 36, 36.40, 34.20, 36
35.90, 36.25, 34.20, 35.95
Bombay Burma 38.05, 38.50, 38.15
36.50, 36.50, 36.50, 36.50
Bongaigaon R 34.35, 34.90, 33.50,
33.60
34, 34.80, 33.50, 33.70
BPL 33, 35.50, 32.80, 33.90
33.45, 35.50, 32.85, 33.90
BPL Engg. 6.35, 6.40, 5.65, 6.07
6.10, 6.60, 6, 6.30
BSEL Inform. 9.45, 10
10.85, 13, 10.80, 13
BSL 27.50, 27.55
27.15, 28, 27.15, 28
Burrough Wel 293, 291, 292.15
Daewoo Motor 2, 1.74, 1.84
Dalmia Cemen 160, 160.50
164.20, 165, 160, 164.95
Danlaw Tech. 20.40, 20.25, 23
Datapro Inf. 0.59, 0.60, 0.56, 0.57
DCM 10.10, 10.80, 10.30
10, 10.75, 9.70, 10.35
DCM Shr.Con 80, 75.55, 76.10
76.30, 78.95, 75.25, 76.95
DCW 15.55, 15.80, 15, 15.31
15.10, 15.60, 15, 15.20
Deccan Cem. 35.10, 35
Deepak Fert. 24, 24.65, 23.35, 23.90
23.60, 24.15, 23.60, 23.85
Deepak Nitr. 58, 50.40, 52.80
Dena Bank 19, 18, 18.55
19, 19.10, 18.35, 18.55
Denso (I) 29.25, 29.45, 27.20, 27.85
Dewan H.Fin. 19.25, 20, 19, 19.55
19, 20.30, 18.75, 19.60
DFM Foods 8.51, 10, 8.50, 9.99
DGP Windsor 4.75, 5.40, 5.20
4.80, 5.45, 4.80, 5.45
Dhampur Sugr 16.35, 18.20, 16.20,
17.13
16.10, 18.15, 16, 17.30
Dhanalak.Bnk 20, 19.60, 19.65
Dharamsi Mor 6.15, 6.99, 6.75
Dhunseri Tea 16.45, 15.65, 16.35
Divi’s Lab 393, 395.95, 387.60,
391.65
400, 400, 386.55, 392.25
Dolphin Off. 12.36, 12.50
Donear Inds. 106, 107.80, 102.50,
104.70
DSJ Comm. 0.55, 0.72
0.60, 0.75, 0.60, 0.75
Duphar-Inter 120
E
Eicher 32.25, 35.50, 34.05
32.50, 34.50, 32.50, 33.75
Eicher Motor 117, 117.75, 114.25,
117.10
117.50, 118, 114.50, 117.25
EID Parry 111, 111.50, 105.25,
108.20
109.80, 111, 105.10, 108
EIH Asso.Hot 13.25, 14, 13.30
Eimco Elecon 51.65, 52, 50.30
53, 54, 51, 51.05
Elder Pharma 39.50, 44.60
39, 44.10, 39, 44.10
Elecon Engg. 12, 12.05, 11.43, 11.50
Elect.Kelvin 8, 8.15, 8.09
Electro.Cast 300, 300.25, 293
305.80, 305.80, 292, 294.60
Elgi Equip 25.60, 26.25, 25.55, 26
25.05, 26.25, 25.05, 26.05
Elgitread (I 182.25, 181.05, 183
187, 188, 180.05, 181.05
Elpro Inter 22, 24, 23.30
Emco 35.25, 38, 35, 37.30
Encore Soft 12.80, 13.25, 13
Eonour Tech. 3.88, 3.25, 3.43
Epic Enzymes 8, 8.10, 7.55, 7.86
Esab (I) 40, 40.15, 38.50, 38.65
39.50, 40, 38.50, 39.10
ESI 20.50, 22
21, 21.75, 20.85, 20.85
Eskay K’N’It 3.05, 3.25, 2.92, 3.20
Essar Oil 6.70, 6.95, 6.50, 6.50
Essar Ship. 7.70, 7.73, 7.10, 7.17
Essar Steel 10.10, 10.30, 10.03,
10.06
10.15, 10.30, 10.05, 10.10
ETC Networks 45.70, 48.25, 44.75,
47.45
Eternit Ever 43, 44, 42.05, 42.10
44, 44.90, 42, 42.75
Eurotex Inds 12.60, 13.50, 13.01
12.50, 13.75, 12.50, 13.15
Eveready Ind 19.40, 20.25, 18.90,
19.80
C
Camlin 69.60, 71, 68.50, 69.30
Camph.& All 24.25, 26.50, 25.65
Canara Bank 106, 102, 103.65
103, 105.65, 102.30, 103.70
Canfin Homes 37.50, 38.50, 37.30,
37.45
37.50, 37.90, 37.20, 37.75
Caprihans(I) 17, 17.20, 16.55, 16.65
Carborundum 134.60, 135, 133.50,
133.80
136, 136, 134, 134.45
Carrier Air. 92.95, 94.85, 94
CCL Products 18.05, 16.20, 18.10
Ceat 36.10, 37, 35.80, 36.60
37, 37, 35.60, 36.45
Centur. Bank 12.75, 12.27, 12.63
12.85, 13, 12.35, 12.55
Cerebra Inte 5.50, 5.70, 5.65
CESC 28.40, 28.80, 27.95, 28.50
28, 28.80, 27.65, 28.35
CG Igarshi M 40.50, 41, 40.25
40.30, 41.50, 40.30, 41
Chemfab Alk. 21.50, 23
Chemplast Sa 32, 32.25, 32
32.20, 32.50, 31.50, 32
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19, 20.50, 18.90, 19.70
Excel Inds. 79.90, 81.65, 79, 79.50
80, 82, 79.50, 79.95
51.75, 52, 50, 51.15
Hind.Spg &Wg 12.70, 11.25
Hitachi Home 23, 23.05
23.80, 23.80, 23, 23.20
Honda SIEL P 136, 136.55, 136,
136.50
Hotel Leela. 20.05, 20.70, 20, 20.30
20.25, 20.70, 20.10, 20.60
F
FAG Bearings 62, 62.50, 61, 62.20
61, 62.90, 59.25, 61.90
Fairfield At 4, 3.80
FCGL Inds. 2.30, 2.55, 2.20, 2.40
FCI OEN Con. 94, 98.80, 93.35, 95.15
94, 97.45, 93.25, 96.90
FCL Techno. 23.05, 24.45, 23, 23.10
FDC 32, 32.80, 31.85, 31.95
32.35, 32.65, 31.75, 32.15
Fert.&Chem-T 31.55, 30.80
31.90, 32.40, 30.90, 31.20
First Leasin 20.20, 20.60, 20, 20.10
20.30, 20.65, 20.20, 20.20
Flat Product 58.40, 68, 66.30
Flex Enginer 14.60
13.50, 13.60, 13.45, 13.50
Flex Foods 7.09, 7.35, 7.25
Flex Inds. 22.25, 23.15, 22.05, 23.05
23.50, 23.50, 20.55, 23.05
Floatglass 24, 24.20, 22.75, 23.40
23.70, 24.25, 22.20, 23.90
Forbes Gokak 69.10, 68.20, 69
Fortune Info 35.80, 38.80, 35.50,
37.60
Foseco (I) 124, 124.55, 123.45,
124.35
122, 124.85, 122, 124.80
Frontier Inf 3.91, 3.70, 3.95
Fulford (I) 100.05, 102, 100, 101.05
Futura Poly. 8, 9.54, 9.52
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1046 40
I
I-flex Solu 878, 880.90, 860, 864.20
874, 883, 861, 867.55
ICICI Premie 12, 12.60, 12.50
IFCI 8.45, 8.48, 7.80, 7.92
8.60, 8.60, 7.80, 7.95
IL&FS Invt.M 22.75, 23, 22.20, 22.25
22.10, 23.50, 22, 22.50
Ind.Swift 70, 66, 66.50
Ind.Swift La 22.60, 21.50, 21.80
23, 23, 21.50, 21.75
India Foils 7.75, 8, 7.70, 7.95
7.30, 8, 7.30, 7.90
India Gelat. 13.60, 13.50
India Glycol 50, 56.50, 55.10
India Gypsum 21, 21.85, 20.15,
21.70
20.80, 21.35, 20.80, 21
India Nippon 218
214.20, 215, 210.50, 211.70
India Online 7.95, 7.35, 7.50
India Polyfi 4.10, 4.40, 4
Indian Card 50.05, 51.15, 49.50,
50.05
49.15, 51.30, 49.15, 50.95
Indian Hume 700, 720, 712
Indian Resor 45.05, 53.90, 49
Indian SeamM 11.95, 11.55, 12.45
Indo Gulf Fe 59.80, 60.85, 59.10,
59.45
62, 62, 59.10, 59.50
Indo Mat.Car 72.55, 74, 73.50
Indo Nationl 360.05, 380, 355,
364.90
342.35, 342.35, 342.35, 342.35
Indraprast.M 14.25, 13.43, 13.67
13.55, 13.75, 13.50, 13.55
Indus.Inv.Tr 16.55, 18, 16.55
Indusind Bnk 20.50, 20.60, 19.65,
19.70
20.40, 20.45, 19.65, 19.85
ING Vysya Bk 273, 302, 295.65
300, 302, 258, 295.15
Innovis.E-Co 0.45, 0.38
Insilco 15.50, 14.15, 15.07
Inter.Travel 33.05, 33.50, 32.75,
33.10
Invest.Trust 21, 19
Ion Exchange 37.25, 38.50, 36.10,
37.50
IP Rings 48.50, 47, 47.10
IPCA Lab. 277.50, 265, 267.05
273.55, 276.95, 265.05, 267.20
Ispat Inds. 5.50, 5.80, 5.70
5.70, 5.80, 5.60, 5.70
IT & T 15.60, 14
14.25, 14.85, 14.10, 14.15
ITC Hotels 53.75, 51.55, 52.65
56, 56, 50.50, 50.95
IVP 23.60, 25, 24.45
25.75, 25.75, 24, 24.15
IVRCL Infras 56.50, 54.05, 55.80
56.50, 56.95, 54, 54.90
G
Gabriel (I) 90.10, 88, 89.20
Galaxy Enter 21
Gammon (I) 124, 125, 121.50,
121.70
125, 125, 121.65, 122.80
Gandhi Sp.Tu 21.40, 21.45, 19.95
Garden Silk 33, 33.50, 31.95, 32.75
32.50, 33.50, 31.80, 32.70
Garware Poly 38.30, 38.35, 36.80, 37
Garware Wall 23.90, 24, 23.15, 23.50
Gati 46, 37.85, 44.65
Genesys Intl 34.75, 37.40, 33.80,
36.80
35, 37.40, 34.20, 37.20
Geodesic Inf 103.05
George Willi 52.95, 52.15, 52.50
52.50, 52.95, 51.90, 52.10
GIC Housing 16, 15.25
16.10, 16.15, 15.30, 15.40
GIVO 2.55, 3.60
Glenmark Pha 255.95, 264.90,
252, 261.75
254.85, 265.80, 251.15,
259.95
Global Tr.Bk 19.30, 19.90,
19.05, 19.10
19.85, 20, 19.05, 19.15
GMM Pfaudler 90.75
GMR Techno. 9, 9.36, 9.15
Goa Carbon 42, 45.35, 42.90
Godavri Fert 36.05, 39.95,
38.50
39.80, 40.05, 39, 39.20
Godfrey Phil 320, 316.50
320.10, 323, 318, 323
Godrej Cons. 114.25, 120,
118.95
110.15, 120.50, 110.15,
120.05
Godrej Inds. 26.60, 27.60,
26.40, 27.30
26.55, 27.50, 26.30, 27.25
Goetze (I) 33, 34.15, 32.90, 33
32.75, 38.50, 32.75, 33.10
Goldiam Int. 25, 25.75, 25.50
Goldstn.Tech 24.10, 25, 24,
24.75
24.85, 24.85, 24.10, 24.60
Goldstn.Tele 8.50, 8.21, 8.30
8.15, 8.45, 8.15, 8.25
Gonter Peip 4.90, 4.99, 4.60, 4.80
Goodlass Ner 199.75, 201, 200
202.20, 202.20, 199.50, 200.30
Goodricke 28.30, 28.70, 28, 28.50
Goodyear (I) 37, 39.40, 36, 36.25
Grabal Al.Im 16.75, 19.02, 17.21
Graphite Ind 36, 37.50, 37
36.85, 37.50, 36.60, 37.10
Grauer & Wei 21.65, 19.70, 20.10
Gravity (I) 7.50, 7.90, 7.10
Greaves 17, 19.85, 16.75, 19.45
Grind Norton 115, 130, 125.50
Gruh Finance 22.35, 22.80, 22, 22.15
GTC Inds. 8.20, 8.70, 6.70, 8.64
8.70, 8.70, 6.15, 8.30
GTN Textiles 33.90, 34.20, 33.10,
33.40
31, 34.45, 31, 33.45
Gufic Bio Sc 25, 26.10, 25.60
Guj.Alkalies 28, 28.45, 28.15
27.20, 28.55, 27.20, 28.10
Guj.Amb.Exp. 14.30, 14.65, 14.15,
14.53
14.30, 14.70, 14.30, 14.45
Guj.Apollo E 58, 60, 57.65, 59.95
Guj.Flouroch 73.20, 73.35, 71.10,
73.15
72.05, 74.45, 71.10, 73.35
Guj.H.Chem 21.35, 21.45, 21.20,
21.35
21.40, 21.50, 21.25, 21.35
Guj.Ind.Pow. 22.50, 23.70, 22.90
23.30, 23.65, 22.70, 22.80
Guj.Sidh.Cem 4.50, 4.35, 5.28
4.50, 5.30, 4.40, 5.30
Gulf Oil Cor 67.30, 55.80, 57.30
J
Jagatjit Ind 24.80, 24.90, 21.75
Jagsonpal Ph 93.90, 94, 90, 90
Jai Corp 42, 42.30, 40, 40.50
Jain Irrig. 59.45, 61, 57, 58
61.50, 61.50, 57.30, 58.30
Jain Studios 17.30, 18.25, 16.15,
17.52
17.65, 18.40, 16.60, 17.65
Jaipan Inds. 15.10, 14.22, 16.22
Jay Bh.Marut 33.15, 33.10, 34.70
35.50, 35.90, 34, 35
Jayant Agro 51, 53, 50.60, 51.70
49, 52, 49, 51.65
Jaypee Hotel 9.55, 9.89, 9.88
Jayshree Tea 39
39.85, 39.85, 39.25, 39.30
JBF Inds. 11.25, 11.99, 11.80
JBM Tools 33, 32, 32.15
33.65, 33.65, 32.05, 33.20
JCT 6, 6.54, 6.38
Jenson&Nicho 5.80, 6.45, 5.10, 6.25
5.55, 6.50, 5.50, 6.40
JIK Inds. 15.70, 14.75, 15
15.90, 15.90, 14.10, 15
Jindal Drill 123.05, 123, 134
Jindal Iron 104.50, 106.90, 102.50,
104.25
105.40, 106.90, 102.50, 104.25
Jindal Photo 38.65, 42.80, 41.50
38.30, 42.50, 38.30, 41.65
Jindal Poly. 100, 100.25
107.40, 107.40, 103.50, 104.95
Jindal Strip 188, 194.40, 187.90,
189.40
189.90, 194.40, 188.50, 190
JK Corpn. 11.40, 12.60, 12.40
JK Inds. 32, 34, 31.50, 33
JK Synthetic 3.10, 3, 3.72
JL Morison 80, 92.45, 82.65
JMC Projects 22.30, 21, 21.20
Jog Engg. 8.25, 8.30, 7.52, 7.53
Jubilant Org 218.50, 235, 225.05
226.75, 235.50, 222, 225.80
Jupiter BioS 55.55, 56.30, 52.85,
53.10
Jyoti Struct 29.50, 31.40, 26.65,
30.20
30.40, 31.70, 26.80, 30.65
K
H
Kaashyap Rad 0.97, 0.99, 0.86, 0.89
Kabra Extr 36, 36.75, 36, 36.30
Kajaria Cer 26.30, 28, 27.50
26.50, 28, 26.50, 27.45
Kakatiya Cem 27.65, 28.50
27.15, 28.70, 26.75, 28.45
Kale Consul. 34.85, 35.35, 33.40,
34.95
34.70, 35.30, 33.80, 35.05
Kalpa.Power 42.50, 43.40, 41.85,
42.05
44.75, 45, 42, 43.45
Kalyani Brak 300.50, 300
Kalyani Shrp 6.55, 7, 6.55
Kalyani Stel 18.90, 18, 18.20
Kanoria Chem 40.40
35.30, 35.35, 35.30, 35.35
Karnatak Bnk 79, 80, 76.50, 76.75
80.70, 80.95, 77, 77.25
Karur Vysya 189.20, 192.80, 188.75,
191.40
191.50, 192.80, 188.50, 190.95
KDL Biotech 14.25, 14.90, 14.60
13.85, 14.95, 13.70, 14.40
KEC Inter. 21.15, 22.40, 20.40, 20.90
21.10, 22.50, 20.30, 21
Kerala Ayurv 8.45, 8.85, 8.35, 8.40
Kerala Chem. 19.95, 18.35, 18.40
Kesoram Inds 33.25, 32.30, 32.90
32.80, 33.20, 32.40, 32.95
KG Denim 12.55, 12.80, 12.25, 12.42
Khandwala Se 10.75
10.25, 10.25, 10.25, 10.25
Khoday (I) 13, 12.78, 13.46
Kinetic Eng. 71.95, 74.70, 70.50, 72
Kinetic Moto 29.35, 29.80, 29.15,
29.40
Kirloskar Br 111.05, 106
Kirloskar Oi 81, 77.50
Harr.Malayal 12.82, 14.80, 13.95
13, 14.35, 13, 13.85
Hathway Bhaw 11.95, 12.50, 10.75,
12.47
Hatsun Agro 68.50, 70, 68.45, 68.85
Havell’s (I) 114.70, 114.75, 114.70
111, 112.90, 110.50, 112.90
Hawkins Cook 20, 22
Hazoor Media 5.15, 5.26, 5.25
HBL Nife Pow 40.55, 41, 36.50,
39.75
HEG 34.50, 35, 34.30, 34.50
35.80, 35.80, 34.60, 34.70
Helios & Mat 15.80, 17.45, 15.50
Henkel Spic 20, 21.25, 20.30
Heritage Fds 55.95, 57.90, 55.20,
57.10
54.60, 58.25, 54.60, 57.55
Hi-Tech Gear 123.95, 119, 119.35
127.35, 127.35, 120, 120.05
Hikal 174.40, 179, 167.25, 175.30
173, 179, 167.25, 176.05
Himat. Seide 138, 135.60, 136.30
138, 138, 135, 135.25
Hind.Constn. 80.35, 82, 80, 80.65
82, 82, 79.55, 80.10
Hind.Inks&Re 228.40, 228.70,
223.45, 224.85
227, 228.95, 223.65, 224.85
Hind.Motors 12.10, 12.44, 11.86,
11.96
12, 12.45, 11.85, 11.95
Hind.Org.Chm 24.10, 24.80, 23.60,
23.85
24.90, 25.25, 23.75, 23.95
Hind.Power 30.40, 30.70, 30.35,
30.55
Hind.Sanitar 52, 49.40, 49.55
N m
Open-ended Schemes
N m
NA
R
As on 05/06/2003
Alliance Capital Mutual Fund
95 (D)
28.49
95 (G)
51.40
Basic Inds.(D)
14.87
Basic Inds.(G)
14.87
Buy India (D)
4.94
Buy India (G)
4.95
Capital Tax Relief’96
61.22
Cash Manager (D)
10.00
Cash Manager (G)
14.98
Cash Manager Instnl (D)
10.00
Cash Manager Instnl (G)
10.08
Equity (D)
15.97
Equity (G)
28.85
Frontline Eq(D)
11.31
Frontline Eq(G)
11.31
G-Sec Long Term (D)
11.64
G-Sec Long Term (G)
17.30
G-Sec Short Term (D)
10.30
G-Sec Short Term (G)
13.99
Income (D)
11.12
Income (G)
21.79
Income 54EA (D)
11.13
Income 54EA (G)
21.79
Income 54EB (D)
11.14
Income 54EB (G)
21.65
Income Q’ly (D)
10.78
Monthly Income (G)
17.40
Monthly Income (M’ly)
10.49
Monthly Income (Q’ly)
10.73
New Millennium (D)
3.72
New Millennium (G)
3.72
Short Term (D)
10.02
Short Term (G)
10.87
Short Term Fund Instnl(D)
10.02
Benchmark Mutual Fund
Nifty BeES
104.44
Nifty Junior BeES
164.69
Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund
Advantage (A)
27.25
Advantage (B)
27.25
Balance (D)
9.88
Balance (G)
9.88
Bond Index Fund (Div)
10.13
Bond Index Fund (G)
10.13
Bond Plus Inst.(G)
11.28
Bond Plus Retail (D)
11.19
Bond plus Inst.(D)
10.45
Bond plus Retail (G)
11.28
Cash Plus Inst.(G)
16.45
Cash Plus Retail (D)
16.35
Cash Plus Retail (G)
16.45
Cash Plus-Inst.(D)
10.79
D Yield Plus(Div)
10.99
D Yield Plus(G)
11.76
Equity Plan
15.37
FMP 1 Year Group 3
10.82
FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (D)
10.62
FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (G)
10.62
FMP Quarterly Group 1 (D)
11.02
FMP Quarterly Group 1 (G)
11.24
Gilt Plus-Liquid-(A)(D)
10.67
Gilt Plus-Liquid-(B)(G)
15.01
Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(A)(D)
11.66
Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(B)(G)
17.96
Gilt Plus-Reg.-(AD)
12.00
Gilt Plus-Reg.-(BG)
19.74
INDEX (Div)
10.62
INDEX (G)
10.62
IT Plan A (Div Payout)
10.61
IT Plan A (Div Reinv)
10.61
IT Plan B (G)
12.34
Income Plus Inst. A(D)
26.75
Income Plus Inst. B(G)
26.75
Income Plus Plan A(D)
10.81
Income Plus Plan B(G)
26.66
MIDCAP (Div)
11.44
MIDCAP (G)
12.04
MIP Plan A (D)
10.66
MIP Plan B (Payment/G)
13.74
MIP Plan C (Payment/G)
13.74
MNC Plan A (Div Payout)
24.55
MNC Plan A (Div Reinv)
24.55
MNC Plan B (Gr)
30.74
Sweep Plan (D)
10.14
Sweep Plan (G)
10.34
R
S
29.06
52.43
15.17
15.17
5.04
5.05
61.83
10.00
14.98
10.00
10.08
16.29
29.43
11.54
11.54
11.64
17.30
10.30
13.99
11.12
21.79
11.13
21.79
11.14
21.65
10.78
17.40
10.49
10.73
3.79
3.79
10.02
10.87
10.02
28.49
51.40
14.87
14.87
4.94
4.95
61.22
10.00
14.98
10.00
10.08
15.97
28.85
11.31
11.31
11.64
17.30
10.30
13.99
11.12
21.79
11.13
21.79
11.14
21.65
10.78
17.40
10.49
10.73
3.72
3.72
10.02
10.87
10.02
—
—
—
—
27.52
27.52
9.98
9.98
10.13
10.13
11.28
11.19
10.45
11.28
16.45
16.35
16.45
10.79
11.10
11.88
15.37
10.82
10.62
10.62
11.02
11.24
10.67
15.01
11.66
17.96
12.00
19.74
10.68
10.68
10.72
10.72
12.46
26.75
26.75
10.81
26.66
11.55
12.16
10.66
13.74
13.74
24.80
24.80
31.05
10.14
10.34
27.25
27.25
9.88
9.88
10.13
10.13
11.28
11.19
10.45
11.28
16.45
16.35
16.45
10.79
10.99
11.76
15.37
10.82
10.62
10.62
11.02
11.24
10.67
15.01
11.66
17.96
12.00
19.74
10.62
10.62
10.61
10.61
12.34
26.75
26.75
10.81
26.66
11.44
12.04
10.66
13.74
13.74
24.55
24.55
30.74
10.14
10.34
BOB Mutual Fund
Gilt (D)
Gilt (G)
Income (D)
Income (G)
Income Fund STP (D)
Income Fund STP (G)
Liquid (D)
Liquid (G)
Canbank Mutual Fund
Canbonus
Cancigo
Cancigo (G)
Canequity Tax Saver
Canexpo
Canexpo (G)
Canganga
Cangilt PGS (D)
Cangilt PGS (G)
Canglobal
Canincome (B)
Canincome (G)
Canincome (I)
Canliquid (D)
Canliquid (G)
Canpremium
Canpremium (G)
Cantriple
Chola Mutual Fund
FMP Q’ly (D)
FMP Y’ly (Cum)
FMP Y’ly (D)
Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly)
Freedom Income (C)
Freedom Income (R)
Freedom Income-Inst Cum
Freedom Income-Inst Reg
Freedom Tech.(Cum)
Freedom Tech.(Reg)
Gilt Invst.(Cum)
Gilt Invst.(Reg)
Gilt Series (Cum)
Gilt Series (Reg)
Growth (Cum)
Growth (Reg)
Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum
Liquid Instl. Div.Pay
Liquid-Reg.-Inst.Plus
Lq. (Cum)
Lq. (Reg)
Lq.Sr. Apr-06 (Reg)
Triple Ace (B)
Triple Ace (Cum)
Triple Ace (Reg)
Triple Ace Inst Cum
Deutsche Mutual Fund
Alpha Equity
Insta CP-Reg.(D)
Insta CP-Weekly(D)
Insta Cash Plus
Premier Bond (Reg)
Premier Bond Instt.
Premier Bond-Inst(MD)
Premier Bond-Reg.(MD)
Short Maturity Fund
Short Maturity MD
Short Maturity Weekly (D)
DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
Balanced (G)
Bond (D)
Bond (G)
Bond Fund Inst.
Equity
Floating Rate Fund
Floating(D)
Floating(WD)
Govt.Sec. (A-D)
Govt.Sec. (A-G)
Govt.Sec. (B-D)
Govt.Sec. (B-G)
Liquidity (D)
Liquidity (DD)
Liquidity (G)
Opportunities
Savings Plus
Short Term (G)
Short Term (WD)
Short Term(D)
Technology.Com
Top 100
Escorts Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
Balanced (G)
NA
R
R
S
10.29
10.29
10.77
10.77
10.39
10.35
10.80
10.92
10.29
10.29
10.77
10.77
10.39
10.35
10.80
10.92
10.24
10.24
10.71
10.71
10.39
10.35
10.80
10.92
7.88
10.62
12.00
10.03
12.51
12.51
8.25
10.33
16.37
4.77
10.27
10.78
10.25
10.05
11.03
12.55
14.22
20.40
8.03
10.62
12.00
10.11
12.74
12.74
8.39
10.33
16.37
4.86
10.27
10.78
10.25
10.05
11.03
12.77
14.47
20.76
7.88
10.62
12.00
10.03
12.51
12.51
8.25
10.33
16.37
4.77
10.27
10.78
10.25
10.05
11.03
12.55
14.22
20.40
10.16
10.83
10.12
10.39
17.61
10.13
17.62
10.14
7.63
4.95
16.05
10.56
13.27
13.27
13.45
11.27
12.31
10.88
11.36
12.31
11.35
12.05
12.01
21.61
11.16
21.62
10.16
10.83
10.12
10.39
17.61
10.13
17.62
10.14
7.78
5.05
16.05
10.56
13.54
13.54
13.72
11.50
12.31
10.88
11.36
12.31
11.35
12.05
12.01
21.61
11.16
21.62
10.11
10.83
9.92
10.39
17.61
10.13
17.62
10.14
7.63
4.95
16.05
10.56
13.14
13.14
13.45
11.27
12.31
10.88
11.36
12.31
11.35
12.05
12.01
21.61
11.16
21.62
10.02
10.13
10.12
10.21
10.38
10.40
10.34
10.32
10.27
10.18
10.20
10.17
10.13
10.12
10.21
10.38
10.40
10.34
10.32
10.27
10.18
10.20
10.02
10.13
10.12
10.21
10.33
10.40
10.34
10.27
10.27
10.18
10.20
10.41
11.63
11.23
21.68
10.43
15.36
10.03
10.03
10.02
11.74
19.92
10.62
14.05
12.41
10.00
14.86
9.65
10.28
10.59
10.02
10.26
4.13
11.37
10.41
11.63
11.23
21.68
10.43
15.67
10.03
10.03
10.02
11.74
19.92
10.62
14.05
12.41
10.00
14.86
9.84
10.28
10.59
10.02
10.26
4.21
11.60
10.25
11.46
11.23
21.68
10.43
15.36
10.03
10.03
10.02
11.74
19.92
10.62
14.05
12.41
10.00
14.86
9.65
10.28
10.59
10.02
10.26
4.13
11.37
11.95
13.25
12.10
13.42
11.95
13.25
N m
NA
R
Gilt (D)
12.20
Gilt (G)
13.34
Growth (G)
12.51
Growth (D)
11.46
Income (D)
10.59
Income (G)
18.66
Income Bond (D)
9.76
Income Bond (G)
11.60
Opportunities (D)
10.77
Opportunities (G)
12.59
Tax (D)
10.25
Tax (G)
10.25
First India Mutual Fund
Gilt
10.52
Gilt Fund - (D)
11.02
Growth
10.81
Income
11.02
Income Fund (D)
10.35
Liquid (D)
10.20
Liquid (G)
10.90
Short Term
10.59
Short Term (D)
10.22
Tax Gain
36.69
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
FT Asset Allocat.Bal Gr.
10.54
FT Asset Allocat.Cons Gr.
10.67
FT Asset Allocat.Infl
10.71
FT Asset Allocat.Pure Gr.
10.42
FT Asset Allocat.Steady G
10.51
FT Balanced (G)
10.04
FT Gilt Invst (G)
13.38
FT Gilt Invst (M’ly B)
12.34
FT Gilt Invst (Q’ly)
11.55
FT Gilt Liquid (G)
11.30
FT Gilt Liquid (M’ly)
10.31
FT Index - BSE
9.87
FT Index - Nifty
10.19
FT Monthly Income (G)
13.68
FT Monthly Income (M’ly B
12.56
FT Monthly Income (M)
10.84
FT Monthly Income (Q)
11.02
FT PE Ratio
9.21
Franklin Balanced(D)
11.07
Franklin Balanced(G)
11.52
Franklin Bluechip (D)
13.19
Franklin Bluechip (G)
25.95
Franklin FMCG
11.08
Franklin Growth
6.08
Franklin Index
7.91
Franklin Index Tax
8.09
Franklin Infotech (D)
7.51
Franklin Infotech (G)
10.97
Franklin Internet Opp
4.61
Franklin Pharma
9.42
Franklin Prima (D)
19.20
Franklin Prima (G)
37.47
Franklin Prima Plus (D)
14.42
Franklin Prima Plus (G)
26.45
Franklin T TMA (Dly)
1511.96
Franklin Taxshield (D)
12.74
Franklin Taxshield (G)
27.11
T Children’s Asset
18.40
T Floating Rate In LT (D)
10.23
T Floating Rate In LT (G)
10.98
T Floating Rate In ST (D)
10.01
T Floating Rate In ST (G)
10.95
T G Sec (D)
11.83
T G Sec (G)
20.87
T G Sec Tr (D)
10.62
T G Sec Tr (G)
11.51
T IBA (D)
11.22
T IBA (G)
22.17
T IBA (H-Y’ly)
14.95
T IBA (Instl Plan)
11.18
T IBA (M’ ly)
14.96
T IBA (M’ly B)
19.76
T IBA (Q’y)
14.94
T Income (D)
11.37
T Income (G)
22.51
T India Growth
14.62
T Liquid (D - D’ly)
10.00
T Liquid (D)
10.01
T Liquid (G)
15.13
T Liquid Plus
11.38
T Liquid Plus (D)
10.00
T MMA
1.00
T Monthly Income (G)
13.81
T Monthly Income (H-Y’ly)
10.69
T Monthly Income (M’ly)
10.33
T Monthly Income (Q’ly)
10.36
T Pension Plan (D)
12.16
T Pension Plan (G)
21.07
T ST Income (G)
1116.34
T ST Income (M’ly)
1023.01
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13.34
12.70
11.63
10.59
18.66
9.76
11.60
10.77
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12.20
13.34
12.51
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10.59
10.22
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10.81
11.02
10.35
10.20
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10.59
10.22
36.69
10.54
10.67
10.71
10.42
10.51
10.04
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12.34
11.55
11.30
10.31
9.87
10.19
13.68
12.56
10.84
11.02
9.21
11.24
11.69
13.19
25.95
11.08
6.20
7.98
8.17
7.51
10.97
4.61
9.42
19.20
37.47
14.42
26.45
1511.96
12.74
27.11
18.40
10.23
10.98
10.01
10.95
11.83
20.87
10.62
11.51
11.22
22.17
14.95
11.18
14.96
19.76
14.94
11.37
22.51
14.91
10.00
10.01
15.13
11.38
10.00
1.00
13.81
10.69
10.33
10.36
12.16
21.07
1116.34
1023.01
10.70
10.83
10.87
10.57
10.66
10.24
13.38
12.34
11.55
11.30
10.31
9.97
10.29
13.68
12.56
10.84
11.02
9.35
11.07
11.52
13.45
26.47
11.30
6.08
7.91
8.09
7.66
11.19
4.70
9.61
19.58
38.22
14.71
26.98
1511.96
12.99
27.65
18.40
10.18
10.93
10.01
10.95
11.77
20.76
10.62
11.51
11.22
22.17
14.95
11.18
14.96
19.76
14.94
11.32
22.40
14.62
10.00
10.01
15.13
11.38
10.00
1.00
13.74
10.63
10.28
10.31
12.34
21.39
1116.34
1023.01
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T ST Income (W’ly B)
T ST Income (W’ly)
T TMA (G)
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1047.23
1091.55
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80, 81.50, 77.35, 77.75
Kit-Ply Ind. 5.10, 5.76, 5, 5.45
5.05, 5.80, 5, 5.40
KLG Systel 29, 30, 28.55, 29.55
28.50, 29.60, 28.35, 29.40
Kopran 29.25, 29.30, 28.50, 29.05
29.70, 29.70, 28.50, 28.95
Kothari Prod 180, 182.50, 178.55,
179.50
181.90, 181.90, 180.50, 180.50
KPIT Cum.Inf 140.90, 143, 138.75,
141.25
141, 143, 138.50, 141.10
KRBL 21, 21.85
19.30, 19.30, 19.30, 19.30
Krebs Bioche 117, 124.75, 116,
121.25
Krishna Life 1.80, 1.90, 1.83
Krone Comm 72, 73, 68.60, 72
KSB Pumps 84.20, 85, 83, 84
85.75, 85.75, 82.20, 83.70
L
Lakhani (I) 97, 100
Lakshmi Au.C 97, 94, 95.20
92.25, 96, 92.25, 94.80
Lakshmi Elec 45, 47, 43.75, 44.35
Lakshmi Mach 1741, 1741.10
1722.40, 1722.40, 1722.40,
1722.40
Lanco Inds. 11, 11.20, 10.90, 11.10
Landmarc Lei 20.50, 20.70, 20
LCC Infotech 4.05, 4.80, 4.05, 4.80
LG Balkrish 95
91.35, 92.20, 91.35, 92.15
Liberty Shoe 60, 60.50
60, 61, 60, 60.55
Lloyds Steel 3.50, 3.99, 3.49, 3.91
3.45, 4, 3.45, 3.95
Logix Micro. 14.90, 12.40, 12.96
Loy.Tex Mill 49.05, 52.60, 49, 52.55
Lumax Ind 36.75, 37.50, 37
36.50, 37.90, 36.50, 37.35
Lyka Labs 33, 35.20, 32.25, 33.30
33, 34.50, 32.25, 33.70
M
Maars Soft 10.68, 11, 10.45, 10.85
9.80, 11.10, 9.80, 10.90
Macmillan (I 168, 170.50, 165,
169.45
168, 171, 164.50, 168.80
Madhav Marb. 17.25, 16.65
Madras Alum 68, 69.05, 67.35, 68.90
Madras Cem. 4602, 4510, 4554.20
4650, 4700, 4469, 4632.50
Madras Fert. 17.15, 18.20, 17.45
17.40, 18.40, 17.15, 17.25
Mah.Scooter 70.10, 71.05, 71
70.10, 71, 70.10, 70.35
Mah.Seamless 142.95, 137.25,
138.30
142, 142.95, 138, 138.65
Mahavir Spg. 82, 79.90, 80.45
82.50, 83.85, 79, 79.95
Mahind.Gesco 14.41, 15.50, 14.40,
15.49
14.50, 15.60, 14.50, 15.25
Mahindra Ugi 10.60, 11, 10.89
10.55, 11, 10.55, 10.80
Majestic Aut 29, 26.60, 27.05
Malwa Cotton 36, 38.50
38.95, 39, 37.30, 37.70
Man Inds.(I) 35, 35.25, 33.60, 34.80
Mangalam Cem 9.30, 11, 10.61
9.65, 11.05, 9.65, 10.75
Manglr.Chem 6, 6.26, 5.96, 6.17
Manugraph In 25.90, 25.95, 25,
25.25
Maral Overs 15.75, 15.60, 15.95
16.10, 16.10, 15.75, 15.85
Mascon Globl 10.40, 10.20, 10.55
Matrix Lab. 467, 489.75, 465, 474.10
Matsush.Tele 9, 8.15, 8.38
8.95, 9, 8, 8.35
Matsushita L 40, 41.95, 40.60
Medicorp Tec 63, 70, 67.95
67, 70.40, 66, 67.35
Mega Corpn. 3.75, 4.60
Melstar Info 14.10, 15.25, 15.01
15, 15.25, 14.75, 15.10
Mercator Lin 27.25, 27.80, 26, 27.30
Metroche.Ind 23, 22.15
MICO 4625, 4700.10, 4624, 4679.15
4650, 4750, 4625, 4625
Mid-Day Mul. 17.60, 18.80, 17.15,
18.55
18.25, 18.90, 17.75, 18.70
Mindteck 17.25, 17.30, 16.60
Mirza Tanner 33, 33.30, 32.80, 32.85
32.65, 33.30, 32.60, 33
MM Forgings 112.10, 115.50
Mobile Tele 8.25, 8.50, 8, 8.02
Modipon 25.55
Monalisa Inf 0.27, 0.25, 0.29
Monnet Ispat 23.50, 23.60, 23, 23.05
Monsanto (I) 519.90, 528.90, 527.25
512.35, 529, 512.35, 526.95
Morarjee Goc 12, 11.90, 12.61
12.10, 14.30, 12.10, 14.30
Morepen Lab 16.25, 16.61, 15.80,
15.93
16.25, 16.70, 15.75, 15.90
Morgan Stan 9.15, 9.24, 9.01, 9.14
9, 9.50, 9, 9.15
Motherson SS 143.05, 145.50, 143,
143.45
141.20, 146, 141.20, 144.95
Moving Pictu 5
Mro-Tek 14.40, 15.30, 14.30, 15.12
14.10, 15.10, 14.10, 14.95
MRPL 20.20, 20.25, 19.15, 19.45
20.05, 20.25, 19.05, 19.40
Mukand 17.10, 17.50, 17, 17.20
16.85, 17.40, 16.85, 17.25
Mukand Engrs 12, 11.35, 11.81
11.80, 11.85, 11.25, 11.65
Munjal Auto 45, 47.50, 47.25
Munjal Showa 143.90, 145, 142.15,
144
142, 145.40, 142, 143.65
Murd.Ceram 11.75, 11.95
Mys.Cement 7.45, 8.35, 7.95
7.30, 8.25, 7.25, 7.90
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Nagar.Const. 71.70, 73, 64, 68.80
Nagar.Fertil 6.60, 6.78, 6.45, 6.49
6.60, 6.75, 6.35, 6.45
Nahar Export 23.30, 23.75, 23.05,
23.10
23.20, 23.50, 23.05, 23.10
Nahar Indl.E 14.10, 15, 14.70
Nahar Intl. 6, 6.78, 6.21
6.20, 6.20, 6.10, 6.15
Nahar Spg. 82.55, 82.85, 81.30,
81.70
82.05, 83.50, 81.15, 81.25
Narmada C.Pe 14, 14.20, 13.90,
14.10
13.95, 14.25, 13.75, 14.10
Narmada Cem. 29.50, 30.50, 28, 29
Natco Pharma 52.65, 52, 58.70
53, 58.50, 51.50, 58.50
Nath Seeds 10.20, 11.30, 9.75, 10.71
10, 11.35, 9.80, 10.70
National Fer 39, 40.35, 39.50
National Per 699, 700, 686.05, 690
National Ste 7.75, 7.90, 7.50, 7.56
7.90, 7.90, 7.60, 7.65
Nava Bh.Ferr 70.25, 63, 64.30
66.50, 68.50, 62, 63
Navneet Pub. 130.50, 131.50, 130
131, 132.40, 130, 131.60
NCL Inds. 5.25, 5.65, 5.49
Nelco 32.25, 33.65, 31.75, 31.95
32.90, 33.60, 31.80, 32.05
Neuland Lab. 52.50, 52.90, 51, 52.15
Nilkamal Pls 28.80, 30.75, 30.30
33, 33, 29.50, 30.35
Noble Explo. 5.65, 6.50, 6.16
NOCIL 8.47, 7.55, 7.79
8.15, 8.35, 7.50, 7.85
Noida Toll 8, 8.01
8.15, 8.15, 7.90, 7.90
Nova Petro. 35.05
41, 41, 37, 37
Novopan Inds 27.75, 32.85, 31.95
32.50, 32.50, 32.50, 32.50
NRB Bearings 71.55, 74, 73.30
71, 74.25, 71, 73.20
NRC 11.50, 11.75, 11.40, 11.50
11.35, 11.65, 11.25, 11.50
Nucleus Soft 71.95, 72, 69.50, 71.35
65, 71.50, 65, 71.35
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OCL (I) 86, 90, 85, 86.50
Odyssey Tech 11.05, 10.20, 10.40
Oil Country 10.15, 10.45, 9.91, 10.36
10.20, 10.45, 9.80, 10.30
Omax Autos. 37.75, 38.80, 36.60,
37.05
38.65, 38.75, 37.05, 37.45
Onward Techn 25, 26.30, 25.90
25.70, 26.25, 24.65, 25.70
Opto Circuit 39, 39.90, 37.30, 37.75
Orbit Multi 0.35
Orchid Chem 116.50, 118.50, 114.50,
115.55
119.50, 119.65, 115, 115.80
Orient Info. 35.60, 36.90, 34.75,
36.15
35.70, 36.70, 34.85, 36.15
Orient Paper 20, 21, 19, 20.40
19.05, 21.40, 19.05, 20.40
Oriental Con 19.75, 20.50
Oriental Hot 74.95, 78, 75.50
73.10, 78, 73.10, 76
Oswal Chem. 5.05, 5.20, 4.95
5.60, 5.60, 4.95, 5
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Panacea Biot 31.50, 30, 31.50
30.65, 31.80, 30.60, 30.85
Pantaloon Re 66, 68, 61.15, 61.85
62, 68.90, 61.25, 61.90
Paper Prod. 126, 127.50, 127
127, 128.05, 126, 126.90
Paramount Co 8.45, 8.50, 8.25
Parekh Plati 9, 10.74
8.90, 10.60, 8.90, 10.60
Parry Agro 75, 72
Parry’s Conf 94, 95
95.40, 97, 93.05, 93.05
Patel Engg. 154, 158, 152.30, 155.95
Patspin (I) 13.20, 13.60, 13.01, 13.35
13.85, 13.85, 12.50, 13.40
PCS Inds. 22.50, 23.50, 23.25
3303 24
+1 25%
Pennar Alum. 2.90, 2.70, 2.79
Pentagon Glo 1.58, 1.59, 1.46, 1.51
Pentasoft Te 7.50, 7.53, 7.21, 7.30
7.35, 7.50, 7.20, 7.35
Pharmacia He 95.10, 99, 95.05,
98.40
99.75, 99.75, 96, 96.05
PHIL Corpn. 6.92, 6.35, 6.60
7.10, 7.10, 6.35, 6.75
Phillip Carb 29.60, 30, 27.20, 28.40
29, 29.80, 28.10, 28.50
Phoenix Lamp 14.45, 14.50, 13.85,
13.99
Pioneer Embr 28.75, 28.60, 30.20
Plastiblend 36.75, 37.65, 37.15
PNB Gilts 22.50, 23.50, 22.75
23.55, 23.60, 22.75, 22.85
Polyplex 48, 51.25, 47.65, 50.90
48.65, 50.80, 48.50, 50
Porrits&Spen 76, 76.95, 74.50, 76
Praj Ind. 69, 70.70, 67.20, 69.60
63, 71.40, 63, 68.70
Precision Wr 22.75, 23.80, 23.60
23, 24, 23, 23.80
Premier Auto 6.95, 7.50, 7.39
Premier Inst 231.40, 227, 231
230.05, 234, 230, 233.30
Prism Cement 5.50, 6.32, 6.04
5.60, 6.35, 5.55, 6.05
Pritish Nand 28.75, 30.40, 28.15, 30
28.20, 30.35, 28.05, 29.95
Priyad.Cemen 11, 11.95, 10.80,
11.60
11.10, 11.75, 11, 11.60
PSI Data Sys 62, 63, 59.30, 60.60
61, 62, 60.10, 61.05
PSL 56.95, 57.45, 53.50, 55.35
56.20, 56.20, 52.25, 55.90
Pudumjee Pul 24.70, 25, 24.10, 24.15
24.40, 24.50, 24.40, 24.40
Pun.Alkali 8, 8.44, 8.21
Pun.Chemical 97, 93.50, 94.35
Pun.Communi. 42.25, 44.75, 42.10,
43.40
Pun.Nat.Bank 154.80, 155.60,
147.70, 152.70
162, 162, 147.35, 151.15
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Rain Calcing 18.49, 18.50, 17.65,
18.03
18, 18.50, 17.75, 18
Raj.Spg.&Wvg 21.10, 23, 21.05,
22.95
21.70, 23, 21.70, 23
Rajesh Exp 74, 74.50, 70.30
73.70, 74.20, 70.10, 70.10
Rajshree Sug 12.50, 15.75
13, 15.85, 13, 15.85
Rallis India 69.50, 71, 68, 70.25
72, 72, 68, 71.05
Rama Newspri 4.95, 4.94, 5.65
5, 5.70, 4.90, 5.70
Ramco Inds. 145, 149.90, 145,
149.90
Ramco Systm 391.70, 418, 405.40
394.45, 418.70, 393, 405.25
Rane Brake 165.20, 167.10, 165.20
Rane Engine 139.90, 140, 134.95,
135
134, 142, 133.15, 134.90
Rane Madras 68, 72.45
70, 72, 69, 71.15
Ravalgaon Su 2195, 2344
Rayban Sun O 54.85, 55, 54, 54.20
Reg.Ceramic 24.50, 24.75
24.25, 25, 24.25, 24.85
Rel.Ind.Infr 36.20, 36.85, 36.80
36.20, 36.80, 36.10, 36.65
Relaxo Footw 16.40
Revathi Equ. 130.10, 131.60, 126,
127.20
Rico Auto 151.05, 154, 151, 153
152.70, 153.90, 151.75, 151.75
RPG Cables 11.89, 12.01, 11.25,
11.77
9.50, 12.15, 9.50, 11.50
RPG Life Sci 25.20, 25.35, 24.60,
25.30
24.60, 25.40, 24.55, 25.15
RPG Transmi. 8.10, 9, 8.80
8, 8.85, 8, 8.55
RS Software 23, 23.80, 22.45, 23.45
23, 23.70, 22.50, 23.40
Ruchi Soya 35.90, 36, 34.55
38.65, 38.65, 35, 35.55
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S Kumars Nat 5.85, 4.85, 5.48
5.90, 5.90, 5.15, 5.30
S.I.Bank 49.80, 47.30, 48.05
49.50, 49.95, 47.50, 48
S.I.C.Agency 8.05, 8.50, 7.75, 8
7.70, 8.95, 7.70, 8.30
Sabero Org. 5.06, 5.70, 5.67
6.25, 6.25, 5.55, 5.60
Saint-Gobain 12.50, 11.50, 11.82
Sakthi Sugar 9.20, 10.50, 9, 10.48
8.90, 10.40, 8.75, 10.35
Salora Int. 50.60, 51.70, 50.10, 50.50
51, 52.50, 50.35, 50.85
Samkrg Pist. 30, 31.75, 30.70
Samtel Color 30.15, 30.90, 29.50,
29.70
31, 31, 29.35, 29.65
Sandesh Ltd. 106.10, 108.90, 108
107.10, 109, 106.10, 107.05
Sangam (I) 16.50, 17.15, 16, 16.50
17, 17, 16.10, 16.90
Sanwaria Agr 14.99
Saregama (I) 54.95, 58, 54.50, 57.40
54, 59.70, 53.50, 57.45
SAT Invest. 8.25, 8.15, 8.40
Satnam Over. 19.25, 19.50, 19.35
19, 19.35, 19, 19.30
Satvah.Ispat 7.50, 7.90, 6.40, 6.98
Saurash.Cem. 10.90, 11.35, 10.85,
11.11
Savita Chem. 68, 73.25, 67.05, 68.80
66.30, 71.80, 66.30, 68.65
SBI Home Fin 13.35, 13.38, 12.86,
13.30
13, 13.50, 12.85, 13.30
Schenec.Beck 81.50, 84
Schenec.Herd 34.75, 36.25, 34.10
35.10, 36.25, 35, 35
Search Chem. 10.51, 11.18, 10.40,
10.50
10.80, 10.80, 10.45, 10.60
Selan Explor 9.81, 9.99, 9.76, 9.79
Sesa Goa 141, 143.50, 134, 136.70
141.80, 143.85, 135, 136.45
Sesha.Paper 44, 46
44.85, 46.75, 44.85, 46.05
Sh.Cements 64.50, 67, 63, 66.10
63.30, 67.80, 62.70, 66.55
Sh.Digv.Cem. 17.15, 16.70, 17.05
Sh.Rama Mult 8.25, 8.47, 8.29
8.25, 8.50, 8.25, 8.35
Shah Alloys 23, 23.20, 22.50, 22.55
Shalimar Pai 30.50, 32, 31.95
Shamken Mult 9.45, 10.50, 9.25,
9.74
9.45, 9.75, 9.15, 9.50
Shamken Spin 6.45, 6
Shanti Gear 96, 97, 96
98.50, 98.75, 96.25, 96.95
Shasun Chem. 160.10, 174, 170.65
161.90, 175.50, 161.90, 171.05
Shaw Wallace 33, 34.70, 34.30
Shirpur Gold 29.50
30.60, 30.60, 29.80, 30.25
Shiv Vani Un 13.60, 13.90, 13.50,
13.84
Shrenuj & Co 32.40, 32.75
32.10, 33.80, 32.10, 33.50
Shriram Inv 15.50, 16, 15.40, 15.90
Shriram Tran 15.50, 15.70, 15.60
15.50, 15.70, 15.50, 15.60
Siemens VDO 51, 49, 50.45
Siltap Che. 56.25, 56.35, 55.25,
55.90
55.75, 56.20, 55.55, 55.90
Simbh.Sugar 9.51, 12.05
Simplex Conc 28.75, 29.85
Sintex Inds. 45.20, 46, 44, 44.80
44.40, 45.85, 44.40, 45.75
Sirpur Paper 47, 46.50, 46.60
47, 47.50, 46.25, 46.60
Siyaram Silk 40.50, 41, 40, 40.95
Skanska Ceme 235, 237.95, 232.25
235, 236, 228.65, 228.65
Snowcem (I) 20.30, 21, 20.20, 20.55
20.75, 20.75, 20.25, 20.60
Soffia Soft. 15.49, 14.90, 15.70
15, 15.85, 15, 15.55
Softsol (I) 9.20
Software Tec 10.95, 10, 12.84
10.30, 13, 10.25, 12.85
Solectron Ce 33, 32.25, 32.50
Solvay Pharm 139, 140, 135, 137.10
Sona Koyo St 100.75, 105, 100.15,
103.50
Spel Semicon 3.60, 3.01, 3.45
SPIC 7.98, 8.10, 7.85, 7.91
8, 8.15, 7.85, 7.95
SPL 20.20, 21.50, 20.10, 21.30
21.90, 21.90, 20.90, 21
SQL Star Int 6.56, 7.18, 6.83
SREI Int.Fin 9.07, 9.26
9.25, 9.60, 9.25, 9.60
SRF 25.25, 25.65, 25.55
25.95, 25.95, 25.35, 25.45
SRF Polymers 20.05, 24.50
SRG Infotech 0.90, 0.91, 0.85, 0.90
0.90, 0.95, 0.85, 0.90
Sri Adhikari 75.85, 83.75, 75, 81.45
75.70, 84, 74.70, 81.60
Star Paper 11.50
12, 12, 11.35, 11.55
State Bnk Bi 772, 775, 762.50,
772.85
State Bnk My 776.50, 771.95, 785
State Bnk Tr 686.90, 693, 668.25,
690.30
Std.Indust. 5.60, 6.58, 6.39
5.45, 6.55, 5.45, 6.45
Sterl.Inds. 175, 178, 172.80, 176.30
Sterl.Tools 47.25, 47.80, 46.10, 46.30
Stl.Strips W 14.50, 13.56, 14
Su-raj Diamn 14.17, 15.60, 15.35
14.65, 15.70, 14.30, 15.40
Suashish Dia 20, 21.25, 20.10
Subex System 128, 131.40, 122,
129.40
Subhash Proj 25.10, 24, 25.05
23.25, 25.50, 23.25, 24.95
Subros 52.50, 58, 57.20
Sulzer (I) 144.90, 138.50, 138.60
Sundaram Cla 279.95, 285, 282.05
279.60, 288.90, 279.25, 286.15
Sundaram Fst 448.90, 478, 474.05
TOID70603/CR1/18/M/1
TOID70603/CR1/18/C/1
TOID70603/CR1/18/K/1
TOID70603/CR1/18/Y/1
CMYK
444, 464, 444, 462.05
Sunflag Iron 5.69, 5.17, 5.55
Super Spin. 88, 89, 87.75, 88.15
Supreme Inds 112, 114, 110, 112.85
113, 113, 110.60, 112.75
Supreme Petr 11.08, 12.75, 11.06,
12.04
11.20, 12.95, 11.20, 12.05
Surana Tele 14.50, 14, 14.20
14.45, 14.50, 14, 14.35
Surat Elec. 90, 92, 89.10, 90.80
Surya Roshni 14.51, 14.75, 14.40,
14.60
15.05, 15.05, 14.30, 14.60
Surylak.Cott 20.75
21.05, 22.50, 20.50, 21.85
Sutlej Inds. 49.95, 51.20, 50.10
49.50, 49.85, 49.50, 49.85
Suven Pharma 162, 168.25, 161,
167.25
Swaraj Engin 209, 205.15, 206.15
208.80, 210, 204.50, 205.95
Swaraj Mazda 93.05, 96, 95.25
93, 96, 93, 95.50
Syncom Form. 23.20, 23.50
Synergy Log 7, 7.18, 6.92, 7.02
T
T Spiritual 183.10, 181.50, 183.50
Taj GVK Hotl 40.30, 41.05, 40.80
40.50, 41.90, 40.50, 41
Tanfac Ind. 17.95, 17.35, 17.85
TASC Pharma. 19, 19.40, 16, 18.95
20.25, 20.25, 20.25, 20.25
Tata Coffee 90.05, 93.50, 89.15,
90.15
92.75, 92.75, 89.25, 90.40
Tata Finance 24.15, 22.10, 22.45
22.80, 23.45, 22, 22.25
Tata Honeywl 275, 267
270, 271, 265, 267.60
Tata Infomed 84.90, 88.65, 83.35,
84.70
82.55, 85.50, 82.55, 85.05
Tata Infotec 132.80, 137.50, 132.35,
136.20
Tata Invest. 91.75, 93, 91.60, 92.35
91.15, 92.50, 91.15, 91.75
Tata Metalik 34.35, 35.20, 34.30,
34.45
34.85, 35.60, 34.50, 34.80
Tata Sponge 45.75, 46.55, 45.60,
45.95
46, 46.80, 45.50, 45.95
Tata Teleser 6, 6.25, 6.17
6.25, 6.40, 6.10, 6.15
Tata Yodogaw 45.50, 46.50, 44.05,
46.10
Tele Data In 28, 28.50, 26.50, 27.90
Texmaco Ltd. 27, 28.50, 27.90
Themis Medic 38, 36.35, 37.95
Thiru A.Sug. 27.50, 32.90, 32
23.50, 33, 23.50, 32.70
Thirumalai 53, 54.50, 52.05, 53.50
52, 54.65, 52, 53.90
Tide Water O 1047, 1090, 1045, 1050
TIL 11.15, 11.12, 11.80
Timex Watch 12, 12.40, 11.55, 11.79
Timken India 32, 33.50, 31.50, 32.45
Tinplate Co. 15.50, 15.75, 15.25,
15.70
Tips Indus. 37.65, 42.50, 37.50, 41
37.50, 42.80, 37.25, 41
TN Telecom 11.20, 11.90, 11.85
12.05, 12.25, 11.70, 12
Todays Writi 22.25, 23, 20.85, 22.30
22.50, 22.50, 21.05, 21.25
Torrent Guja 7.61, 9, 8.86
Tourism Fina 12.30, 13.60, 12.10,
12.84
11.90, 13.55, 11.90, 12.75
Transnat.Sec 30.25
Transpek Ind 14.99, 14, 14.08
Transport Co 20, 22, 21.80
21.80, 22.50, 21.80, 22.50
TRF 26.40, 25.10, 26.30
Trigyn Tech. 15.88, 17.40, 15.25,
16.92
15.75, 17.50, 15.30, 16.85
TTK Healthca 16.30, 17.50, 16.65
TTK Prestige 10.50, 10.20, 11.55
10.20, 11.50, 10.20, 11.25
Tube Invest. 126.75, 122, 122.30
132.90, 132.90, 122, 122.90
Tudor India 11.25, 11.30, 10.90,
10.95
Tuticorin.Al 3.75, 3.45, 3.95
TV 18 82.80, 85.90, 79, 84.75
83, 85, 78.85, 84.10
TVS Autolec 76, 75.10, 79
TVS Srichakr 50, 52, 51.10
U
UB Holdings 21.05, 22.50, 18, 21.20
Ucal Fuel 242.80, 248.95, 240.05,
246.40
244.70, 249, 240.05, 247.30
Ugar Sugar 53.10
Ultramarine 74.50, 75, 71, 71.45
Unichem Lab 185.50, 187.40,
185.10, 185.75
185, 188, 184.20, 185.55
Uniflex Cabl 5.16, 5.15
Union Bank 37.40, 37.50, 36.05,
37.15
36.95, 37.50, 36.10, 37.10
Unitech 42.70, 43
42.50, 44.60, 42.50, 43.90
United Brew. 90.05, 95, 89, 94.30
United We.Bk 25.05, 25.70, 24.60,
24.80
25.15, 25.50, 24.25, 24.95
Univer.Cable 8.45, 7.87, 8.29
8.50, 8.55, 8.10, 8.30
Upper Ganges 15.65, 18.95, 18.15
16.90, 20, 16.90, 18.05
Usha Martin 28, 31.70, 31.10
28.50, 31.40, 28.50, 31.15
Usha Mat.Inf 5, 4.15, 4.20
4.40, 4.40, 4.25, 4.30
Uttam Galva. 9.40, 9.70, 9.52
9.60, 9.80, 9.40, 9.50
V
Vaibhav Gems 22.30, 23.25, 22.25,
22.95
Vanavil Dyes 48.60, 48.90, 48.50
Vardhman Pol 47.75, 48.45, 47.10,
47.55
49.90, 49.90, 47, 47.50
Vardhman Spg 68, 70.70, 69.45
68.15, 71, 68.10, 69.15
Varun Ship. 12.35, 12.05, 12.19
12.15, 12.35, 12.05, 12.15
Vashisti Det 11.95, 12.68, 12.32
12, 12.70, 12, 12.30
Venky’s (I) 53, 53.05, 52.50, 53
53.60, 54, 53.20, 53.35
Veronica Lab 5.98, 5.99, 5.58, 5.90
Vesuvius (I) 80.50, 78.85, 79
81, 81, 78.40, 78.70
Viceroy Hot. 9.64, 10.34, 9.60
Videocon Apl 12.15, 12.49, 11.50,
12.06
12.10, 12.60, 11.45, 12.05
Videocon Fin 17.10, 16.20, 17.20
15.60, 17, 15.55, 16.95
Vidhi Dyestu 17.10, 16.65, 17
Vikrant Tyre 13.75, 13, 13.35
Vinati Org. 18, 16.50, 16.68
Vindhya Tele 25, 23.75, 24.60
24.70, 25.10, 24.25, 24.45
Vintage Card 9, 10, 9.94
10, 10.30, 9.50, 10
Vinyl Chem. 7.80, 9, 8.72
7.70, 9.10, 7.70, 8.75
VIP Indus. 20.30, 20.75, 20.25, 20.70
20.80, 20.80, 20.35, 20.60
Visaka Ind. 28, 28.95, 27.85, 28.75
27.75, 29.20, 27.75, 29.10
Visesh Info 6.50, 5.50, 5.60
6.25, 6.25, 5.45, 5.55
Vision Organ 1.50, 1.63, 1.62
1.45, 1.70, 1.40, 1.70
VJIL Consult 6.50, 7.80, 7.79
Voltas 57.55, 60.50, 59.45
58.05, 60.80, 58.05, 59.10
Vorin Lab. 64.50, 70, 67.75
VST Indus. 101.25, 106.50, 103
105, 105, 101, 103
VST Tillers 14.50, 14.78, 14.77
VXL Instrum. 23.50, 24.85, 24.75
W
Walchandngr 33.05, 36.50, 35.45
34.85, 36.20, 34.85, 35.65
Warren Tea 41.90, 40.05, 41.10
Wartsila (I) 114.30, 114.25
114, 115, 112.40, 113.20
Wellwin Ind. 16, 14.60, 14.65
15.25, 15.50, 14.60, 14.70
Welspun (I) 29.90, 31, 30.55
Welspun Guj. 11.45, 11.50, 11.01,
11.22
Wendt (I) 325, 330, 326.55
West Coast P 141.70, 144, 139.30,
140.50
140, 142, 139.50, 139.50
Widia (I) 82.40, 83, 81.60, 82.60
Wim Plast 35.80, 34.55, 34.85
Wimco 27.25, 28.30, 27.80
28, 28.50, 27.50, 27.75
Wockhardt Lf 25.60, 26, 24.50, 24.70
25.25, 25.90, 24.75, 24.95
Wyeth 254.50, 256.40, 253.50, 255
250.15, 254.90, 250.15, 254.10
Y
Yokogawa Blu 66.10
66.10, 66.25, 66.05, 66.10
Z
Zandu Pharm 1495, 1496, 1495
1481, 1484, 1480, 1484
Zenith Comp. 8.42, 9, 8.98
8.60, 9.10, 8.30, 8.95
Zenith Exp. 27.70, 27.55, 28.95
29, 29, 29, 29
Zenith Info. 10.75, 11.40, 11.16
11, 11.50, 10.80, 11.20
ZF Steering 95, 92.10, 94
Zicom Electn 30.35, 30.65, 28.60,
29.10
Zigma Soft. 3.84, 3.91, 3.60, 3.80
Zodiac Cloth 86.90, 87.50, 86.90
83, 88.45, 83, 86.75
Zuari Inds. 24.90, 27.70, 26.75
25.45, 27.90, 25, 26.65
OID ‰ ‰ † ‹ CMK
The Times of India, New Delhi, Saturday, June 7, 2003
An indecent proposal
Not for sale?
Javed’s worth Rs 10m
For Annika Sorenstam, it’s turning out to be
a bad dream. Just when she was settling
down in her own circuit, a journeyman has
challenged her to a million dollar playoff
over 18 holes. John Riegger is confident
even though he wallows in the 120s
After the Beckham sale fiasco, Man
United’s buying spree is running into
trouble. They are ready to pay US$
14.7 million for Ronaldinho but PSG is
not biting. They want the Brazilian star
to complete his contract till 2006
Javed Miandad has finally done it.
Signed a contract, that is, with the
Pakistan Cricket Board to coach the
national team. And he will get a cool
Rs (Pak) 10 million a year, including a
monthly salary of US$ 8,000
Aussie players’ body suggests international One-day crcket league
Cricket authorities have
identified that cricket is
potentially damaged by the
over-scheduling.
— ACA chief executive
Tim May
Verkerk takes on Ferrero India seek to
AP
SPORTS DIGEST
Reuters
Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand hits
a tee shot at the 11th hole on the
first day of the British Masters at
Forest of Arden, Warwickshire, on
Thursday.
Sachin returns: Sachin Tendulkar
on Friday returned home after a successful operation on his left hand
ring finger at a hospital in Baltimore
in the US. A tired looking Tendulkar
arrived alongwith wife Anjali, daughter Sara and son Arjun. Family
sources said he was fine and would
now work on rehabilitation under Dr
Anant Joshi.
INRC round at Nahsik: A total of
14 cars will begin the MRF-Taj Challenge, the second leg of the MAI’s
INRC, will be held over the next two
days at Nashik. The 352-km long rally has six tramac special stages
comprising 112kms. TNN
Shivnath Singh dead: Asian
Games gold medal winner and Arjuna awardee long distance runner
Shivnath Singh died at his Adityapur
residence in Jharkhand on Friday after a prolonged illness. The 57-yearold athlete was suffering from
Hepatitis B. PTI
Paris: Big-serving Dutchman
Martin Verkerk roared into the
French Open men’s singles final
on Friday, beating Argentine seventh seed Guillermo Coria 7-6
(7/4), 6-4, 7-6 (7/0) in 2hr 40min.
The 24-year-old Verkerk, the
first ever Dutchman to make the final, will now meet either Spain’s
defending champion Albert Costa
or last year’s finalist Juan Carlos
Ferrero in Sunday’s final.
Only one Dutchman has even
won a Grand Slam title. Richard
Krajicek, like Verkerk a huge server, landed the 1996 Wimbledon
crown. Verkerk, a late developer
who won his first title at Milan in
February, is only the third Dutchman to reach a Grand Slam final
with Tom Okker having been 1968
US Open runner-up.
His $468,000 pay cheque for
reaching the final doubles his entire previous career earnings.
Juan Carlos Ferrero, the third
seed, defeated defending champion
Albert Costa, seeded ninth, 6-3, 7-6
(7/5), 6-4 in 2hr 44min to reach his
second straight French Open
men's singles final. The 23-year-old
Ferrero avenged last year's trophy
loss to fellow Spaniard Costa and
next runs into Verkerk. Agencies
Sydney: Having put themselves in a comfortable position for a place in the final, a
confident India would be
keen to maintain their dominance over arch-rivals Pakistan in their last second-leg
league match three-nation invitational hockey tournament here on Saturday.
The Indians need only a
draw to cruise into the final
for the second time in the
competition and the pressure
will be squarely on Pakistan
in what promises to be a classic duel of skill and nerves.
The Pakistanis, handicapped by the absence of
three senior players, have
been struggling to make a
mark in the four-team tournament but will be determined to avenge the first-leg
defeat at the hands of their
traditional rivals.
The team, which went
without a win in the first leg,
broke the sequence with a
solitary goal victory against
Australia A but the 3-4 loss
Paris: Sania Mirza and
Saana Bhambri lost in the
semifinals of girls doubles in
the French Open Tennis
tournament on Friday. The
Indian pair lost in straight
sets 0-6, 2-6 to Katerina
Bohmova of the Czech Republic and Michaela Krajicek of Holland. Agencies
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s former
captain
Arjuna
Ranatunga suffered a humiliating defeat on Friday
when he was crushed in
elections for the top post in
the nation’s cricket administration.
Ranatunga, 39, managed
to get just seven votes in
the battle for the presidency of the Board of Control
for Cricket in Sri Lanka.
Thilanga Sumathipala, 39,
a former head of the BCCSL and leading Colombo
businessman, won 121
votes out of a possible 144
and had his nominees
elected uncontested for all
other posts in the BCCSL.
Ranatunga, a member of
the Sri Lankan parliament
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The Netherlands' Martin Verkerk is overcome with emotion after defeating Argentina's Guillermo Coria in
their semifinal match of the French Open in Paris on Friday. Verkerk won 7-6, 6-4, 7-6.
Johnson bags six
to rip Zimbabwe
Chester-le-Street: Richard
Johnson took six wickets on
his England Test debut as
Zimbabwe collapsed on the
second day of the second and
final Test at the Riverside
here on Friday. Somerset
seamer Johnson finished
with six for 33 in 12 overs as
Zimbabwe were bowled out
for a paltry 94 in reply to England’s
416.
Vice-captain
Tatenda Taibu top scored
with 31 in an innings featuring four noughts and where
only Raymond Price (17) and
Andy Blignaut (13) also made
it into double figures.
England captain Nasser
Hussain enforced the followon and at stumps Zimbabwe
were 41 for one, still needing
281 to make their opponents
bat again and prevent their
second innings defeat, Dion
Ebrahim was 22 not out and
Stuart Carlisle 19 not out.
Johnson, 28, first selected
by England for the 1995 tour
of South Africa before a back
injury meant he never boarded the plane, took two wickets in two balls in his first
over. He had opener Mark
Vermeulen - who later com-
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pleted a pair - lbw for nought
off his third ball.
Earlier, England resuming
from their overnight score of
298 for five were all out for
416. Alec Stewart added just
one run to his overnight 67
while Anthony McGrath
made 81.
England, 1st innings: (Overnight 298-5) A
Stewart lbw b Streak 68; A McGrath c Taibu
b Blignaut 81; A Giles c Ervine b Streak 50; R
Johnson c Streak b Blignaut 24; S Harmison
c Vermeulen b Streak 11; J Anderson not out
12; Extras: (b-1, lb-5, w-7, nb-25) 38; Total:
(all out in 127.1 overs) 416. Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-109, 3-146, 4-152, 5-156, 6305, 7-324, 8-356, 9-390, 10-416. Bowling: Streak 34.1-11-64-4 (3nb, 1w), Blignaut
23-4-95-2 (11nb), Hondo 22-1-98-3 (10nb,
2w), Ervine 3-0-17-0, Price 40-9-105-1,
Friend 4-0-26-0 (1nb), Flower 1-0-5-0.
Zimbabwe, 1st Innings: D Ebrahim lbw b
Anderson 6; M Vermeulen lbw b Johnson 0;
S Carlisle lbw b Johnson 0; G Flower c
Trescothick b Anderson 8; T Taibu lbw b
Johnson 31; S Ervine c Stewart b Johnson 0;
T Friend lbw b Johnson 0; H Streak lbw b
Johnson 4; A Blignaut c Anderson b Harmison 13. R Price lbw b Harmison 17; D Hondo
not out 5; Extras: (b-5, lb-3, nb-2) 10; Total
(all out in 32.1 overs) 94. Fall of wickets:
1-3, 2-3, 3-11, 4-18, 5-23, 6-31, 7-35, 8-48,
9-79. Bowling: Anderson 10-2-30-2 (1nb),
Johnson 12-4-33-6, Harmison 9.1-3-22-2
(1nb), Giles 1-0-1-0.
Zimbabwe, 2nd innings (following-on): D
Ebrahim batting 22; M Vermeulen c McGrath
b Anderson 0; S Carlisle not out 19; Total (For
1 wkt, 15 overs) 41. Fall of wicket: 1-5.
Bowling: Anderson 4-0-18-1; Johnson 5-41-0; Harmison 4-0-11-0; Giles 2-0-11-0. AFP
AP
England's Richard Johnson celebrates his dismissal of
Zimbabwe's Stuart Carlisle during the second day of their
second Test at Chester-le-Street on Friday.
HOCKEY
against Australia on Thursday have left them with no
option but to get the better of
the Indians to keep their
hopes of making it to the final alive. Though the Indians
appear quite confident of
beating the Pakistanis, coach
Rajinder Singh has warned
his boys not to get too complacent as their rivals were
quite capable of turning the
table on any fancied team.
“We will have to play really
well to beat a vastly improved Pakistani side, who
have played superbly in their
last two matches. They are
limping back to their usual
form and we will go all out to
beat them tomorrow,” Rajinder Singh said.
“A match between the two
sides is always special for not
only the players but also people worldwide. Saturday’s
match will be fiercer than
what Perth saw last week,”
Rajinder Singh said. PTI
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dominate Pak
Mumbai: The captains and coaches
of the country’s first-class teams
were in favour of the new two-tier
system for Ranji Trophy but didn’t
like the new Duleep Trophy format
when they were asked for their
views at a one-day conclave of the
cricket board here on Friday.
The meeting was chaired by Sunil
Gavaskar and attended by at least a
dozen internationals, either coaches or captains — Bishen Singh Bedi,
Lalchand
Rajput,
Venkatesh
Prasad, Arshad Ayub, Paras Mhambrey, Venkatpathy Raju, Amay
Khurasiya, Reetinder Singh Sodhi,
Vijay Dahiya, Ajay Ratra and
Bhupinder Singh Sr.
At the conclusion of the meeting,
BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya said
‘‘candid opinions were expressed.
All liked the new Ranji system
which makes for a level playing
field. For Duleep Trophy they wanted to go back to the zonal system. We
can make it more exciting by adding
a sixth team, maybe one from
abroad. There would be two groups
and a final.’’
Another suggestion liked by the
BCCI was that the domestic One-day
tournaments should be played under lights and with coloured clothing and white ball. Dalmiya said the
Challenger series could see these
things happening. It was put on hold
last season because of the World
Cup and India A tour. Dalmiya said
board’s attempts to imbibe fitness
culture among the first-class sides
had met with success. He said the
feedback was good from the pitches
made at ten centres in consultations
with New Zealand curators.
Sydney: The establishment of an
international
One-day
cricket
league was proposed here on Thursday by an Australian players’ body
as a key part of a plan to save the
sport from overkill.
The Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) blueprint outlined by
ACA chief executive Tim May also
envisages countries being restricted
to 30 One-day internationals a year.
The plan was aimed at ensuring
players were not burned out by too
much One-day cricket, said May, a
former Australian off-spin bowler.
May unveiled the plan after Australian One-day captain Ricky
Ponting — who led his country to a
World Cup triumph in South Africa
earlier this year — pleaded with
Australian cricket chiefs to reduce
players’ on-field burdens.
Arriving home from the West In-
dies tour, Ponting said too much
cricket, leading to premature
burnout, was his team’s biggest fear.
And recently, outgoing International Cricket Council (ICC) president Malcolm Gray raised concerns
about one-sided matches.
May, writing on his organisation’s
website, said the game had been
damaged by a glut of lopsided Oneday matches across the globe — as
well as the sheer number of games,
seemingly haphazard in their organisation. “Cricket authorities
have identified that ... cricket is potentially damaged by the over-scheduling of uneven matches, yet they
continue to put more of it,” he said.
May said One-day matches were
cricket’s saviour in terms of revenue, but the ICC risked damaging
its “blue-chip” product by putting
on too much cricket. AFP
Pay and shoot: It’s time for a new culture
By Moraad Ali Khan
The clay target shooters
(trap, double
trap
and
skeet) in India have always been a
for midable
lot. The good
old days saw a
legendary shooter like Karni
Singh, who won a silver at
the World Championship
and was rewarded with an
Arjuna Award; then we saw
the emergence of Randhir
Singh, who is perhaps the
epitome of how a natural talent can succeed at the highest level.
But then came the period
from 1983 to 1993 when it
looked like the sport had
gone to sleep. It finally woke
up when the Indian trap
team (Mansher Singh, Kumar Maan Singh and myself)
landed in Manila, Philippines for the Asian Clay
Championship. The second
phase of the golden decade
for Indian clay target shooting began when Mansher
shot an individual medal.
Since then, we Indians
Infrastructure is one of the key components in the making of a
champion. Moraad sees it as one of the main problems in the
country, especially in shooting
have won medals at almost
all the levels, except the
Olympics. Even there we
should an improvement by
bettering our own scores
at previous Olympics. Over
the last 12 months, in fact,
we have won 17 medals
in clay target shooting.
There were medals at the
Commonwealth Games, the
Asian Games, the Asian
Championships and the
World Cups too.
Having said all this, let us
now look at the problems facing our shooters.
There are exactly seven
clay target ranges in this
country which boasts of over
a billion people. Out of these
only one functions on a regular basis: the Dr KSS Ranges
in Delhi. The other ranges in
Hyderabad,
Chennai,
Chandigarh, Meerut, Bikaner and Bangalore are not
functional. All of them were
built with lakhs and crores
of rupees for some Games or
Championships. But they
INDIAN SPORT
SLEEPING
GIANT
are hardly being used now.
In fact, at most of these
ranges, you won’t get stock of
cartridges or clays. The endresult is very simple: It won’t
work. It’s just like starting a
car after a few years. Well,
you will have to call a mechanic first, service it,
change some parts, spend
some money and only then it
might start. This is what is
needed at these ranges. Let’s
just use them properly and
we will soon see more talent
emerging in the sport. This
is very important as we have
time and again proved that
India is a very strong contender in this event.
Why not use all these
ranges on a pay and play basis? It will surely popularize
the sport and even expand
its base.
I happen to shoot for India
for over a decade and have
shot at ranges all over the
world. In each and every
range, beieve me, there are
provisions to pay and practice. One goes to the range,
picks up a gun, buys cartridges and practice tokens
and shoots. Here at home,
it is an ordeal organising a
practice session: one even
has to carry our own clays.
Is all this meant to build the
organizing ability of a
shooter or is to build a strong
shooter?
I happened to be in Dubai
recently to take part in an invitation tournament. It was
a pleasure shooting in the
desert. The background was
full of green grass, unlike
the yellow dried grounds of
our ranges. The ranges were
ready by the time we reached
for an early morning practice session, which was as
early as 6:00 am. The rest
area for the shooters too was
comfortable with provisions
for proper meals and snacks.
This kind of facility is available at the ranges all over the
world. Even in countries,
where gun laws are much
tougher than our country,
the ranges function as a
regular sports stadium,
where an athlete can come
and practice.
Let us change the nature
of these shooting ranges and
go in for shooting club culture where one could practice and train. We could
charge for cartridges and
practice sessions, but let us
not restrict the usage of the
ranges for want of administrative will. The ultimate loser in this procedural network is India.
As told to Pradeep Kumar
Moraad Ali Khan Khan is
one of India’s leading trap
shooters. Besides talent, excelling in modern day sport
also requires high quality infrastructure. In India, talent
seldom has any support on
this front.
Readers can write their views
to timessport@indiatimes.
com or fax at 23323346,
23324173.
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Sumathipala
Ranatunga
after retiring from international cricket, described
his dismal performance as
an “eye opener”.
He had won over 100,000
votes in the national elections in December 2001,
but managed to get only
seven in the elections. He
rejected an offer by
Sumathipala to work together saying that he did
not want to work with people who were allegedly
corrupt. PTI
Dyson named
Lankan coach
Colombo: Sri Lanka said on
Friday that it would appoint
former Australian Test player John Dyson as the island’s
national cricket coach to replace sacked Dav Whatmore.
The newly elected Board of
Control for Cricket in Sri
Lanka (BCCSL) said it was
about to sign a memorandum
of
understanding
with
Dyson to coach the national
team from August.
“By July 6, we will have
him here meeting with you,”
BCCSL’s new president Thilanga Sumathipala told reporters here a few hours after defeating former World
Cup winning skipper Arjuna
Ranatunga to take the top administration job.
Dyson coached New South
Wales after retiring from
Test cricket.
Whatmore was sacked in
March afer Sri Lanka bowed
out of the semi-finals of the
World Cup. AFP
‘Karachi is
safe for SA’
Karachi: Pakistan’s port
city of Karachi, last year hit
by terror attacks, will stage a
One-day international and a
Test match when South
Africa’s cricket team tours
the country in September, officials said on Thursday.
“South Africa agreed to
playing in Karachi straight
away and we see no problems
in staging international
matches in the city,” Pakistan Cricket Board chief executive Ramiz Raja said.
South Africa will play
three Tests and as many Oneday games on their tour to
Pakistan from September 22
to October 28.
Two bomb blasts in the
commercial hub of Pakistan,
one outside a five star hotel
where the New Zealand
cricket team was staying,
and the other outside the US
consulate saw 26 people
killed in May and June last
year. AFP
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CAPITAL SPORT
Zakir Hussain win: Zakir Hussain College, All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Reserve Bank of
India rcorded victories over
their respective rivals at the
Delhi Soccer Association
annual institutional soccer
league here. In senior division Group A Zakir Hussain
beat Employees State Insurance Corporation by a
Davesh Kaushik goal. In A
division Group B AIIMS
beat a resilient Customs
and Central Excise 3-2,
while in a Group A match
RBI trounced BSNL 5-0.
Hot weather cricket:
Bright Club ran over PUSA
Youngsters by four wickets
in a DDCA hot weather
cricket tournament here.
Nishant Sharma scored an
unbeaten 109 for the victors. In another match Delhi
Police beat Hind CC by
seven wickets.
PUSA youngsters: 233 all out in
39.3 overs (Sunit Sharma 58, Vinay
Kumar 56; Vineet Sharma 4/35),
Bright Club: 234 for 6 in 38.1 overs
(Nishant Sharma 109 n.o, Nischal
Gaur 31; Lalit Anand 3/43)
Hind CC: 115 all out in 33.5 overs
(Puran Singh 38; Sanjay Verma 4/7),
Delhi Police: 121 for 3 in 14.3 overs
(Naveen Upadhyay 31)
RP Academy in final:
RP Cricket Academy made
it to final beating Chetan
Sharma Academy by eight
wickets in the semifinal of
Peacock under-13 league
cricket tournament.
Chetan Sharma Academy: 95 all out
in 28.1 overs (Kapil 40; Harjinder
3/21), RP Academy: 96 for 2 in 10.2
overs (Mukul Dagar 55, Vaibhav Rawal 30 n.o.)
Laxman Das cricket:
Sonnet Club annexed the
Laxman Dass memorial
cricket tournament beating
Food Corporation of India
by 34 runs. Mayank Sidana
shone with the bat scoring
a fine ton for the winners.
Sonnet Club: 261 for 4 in 40 overs
(Mayank Sidana 106 n.o, Dhruv Mohan 78, Saket Bhatia 50), FCI: 227 all
out (Paras Dogra 64, Pankaj Thakur
42; Naresh Jain 3/33, Chetan Nanda
3/30)
The Times of India, New Delhi
Gurbinder, Geetika in hunt for gold
K.K. Laskar
By Vineeta Pandey
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Indian
wrestlers came back to their
winning ways on the second
day as most of them won
their bouts to the delight of
the home crowd and kept the
local hopes alive in the senior
Asian wrestling championships.
Seasoned Gurbinder Singh
(55kg, Greco-Roman) and
woman grappler Geetika
Jhakhar (63kg, freestyle)
have assured India of at least
a medal each by making it to
the final of their respective
weight categories.
Super heavyweight in
freestyle, Palwinder Singh
Cheema, India’s best bet for a
gold medal, expectedly won
both of his Friday’s bouts
and now needs to win against
a Bangladeshi opponent to
reach the final. In his first
bout of the day, Cheema
came back strongly against
Mongolian Gankhuyag Dorjpalam from 1-3 points deficit
to pull level 3-3 and then went
on to win 5-3. The Commonwealth Games champion,
Cheema later pinned down
Huang Cheun Sheng in less
then a minute to maintain
course.
In freestyle, India also can
pin hopes on Sushil Kumar, Sushil Kumar tries to pin down Jung Hung Ho of Korea in the 60 kg freestyle bout in the
Sujit Mann and Jagdish senior Asian wrestling championship at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Friday.
Baracudda ready for the show
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Baracudda is expected to lift the Jerry Can
Salver, the main event of the
Bangalore races scheduled
for Saturday.
Selections: Guindy Plate: 1,400m:
2.30pm: Auchterarder 1, Acquire 2, Appolo Reef 3. Buck Passer Plate:
1,100m: Great Prospector 1, Imperial
Fire 2, Sedgemere 3. Star Supreme
Plate: 1,400m: Etiquette 1, Driven 2,
RACES
Right Status 3. Jerry Can Salver:
1,400m: Baracudda 1, Actuary 2, Star
Patriarch 3. Sardar Khan Memorial
Plate (div.I): 1,200m: Allespagne 1,
Slanka 2, Amicable 3. Smart Chieftan
Plate: 2,000m: Dark Knight 1, Queen
And Country 2, Hoorpari 3.Flirting Vision Plate: 1,400m: Highlevel 1, Ithica
2, Silver Victress 3. Sardar Khan
Memorial Plate (div.II): 1,200m: Fly
For Fame 1, Banzai 2, Snow Deer 3.
Kalliraman who need to win
a bout each to make it to the
semifinals.
National champion in Greco-Roman, Virender Singh
upset a much superior rival
in the 120kg class and is also
in contention for a medal.
Women grapplers Gursharanpreet Kaur (72kg) and
Kamini Yadav (48kg) will figure in the bronze medal bouts
in their respective sections.
Meanwhile, the participants got some respite from
the heat in the Indira Gandhi
Stadium as SAI officials
managed to start one unit of
the air-conditioner.
Results (all Indians): Men, Greco-Roman: 60kg: Ravinder Singh bt Tengizbaev
Nurbakyi (Kaz) 4-0, Hudoy ber Dievasliddin
(Uzb) bt Ravinder Singh 9-1; 66kg: (3rd rd)
Gurbinder Singh w/o YS Abdul (Syr); 74kg:
Man Ba Xuan bt Sanjay Kumar 4-1; 84kg:
(3rd rd) Marshein S. Ahmed (Irn) bt Satyadev
Malik 8-0; 96kg: Yasuke Morikaku (Jpn) bt
Satish Kumar 3-0; 120kg: Park Wol (Kor) bt
Virender Singh 3-0, Virender Singh bt Djuraev Dilshod (Uzb) 5-1; Freestyle: 60kg:
Sushil Kumar bt Jung Hung Ho 7-6; 66kg:
Pawan Kumar bt Marebn Kool Mani (Syr) 31; 74kg: Sujit Mann bt Pham Thanh Quyet
(Viet) by fall; 84kg: Anuj Kumar bt Takjao
Isokawa 5-1; 96kg: Koo Hak Ja (Kor) bt
Jagdish Kalliraman 6-3, Jagdish Kalliraman
bt Brahm Dev Yadav (Nep) by fall; 120kg:
Palwinder Singh Cheema bt Gankhuyag
Dorjpalam (Mong) 5-3, Palwinder Cheema
bt Huang Chun Sheng (Tpe) by fall; Women:
51kg: Nimako Hattor (Jap) bt Renu Bala by
fall; Emkmjargal bt Renu Bala 13-3; 59kg:
Alka Tomar bt Rena Iwamo (Jap) 11-0,
Myagmar Suren Tumen (Mgl) bt Alka Tomar
7-0; 72kg: Kang Min Jeong (Kor) bt Gursharanpreet Kaur 3-2, Svetlana Yazoshevich bt
Gursharanpreet by fall.
Abhinn, Meenakshi dominate
By Darryl Crasto
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: It may sound strange, but it happens quite often. The final of a major event,
contested by, generally, the best players in the
fray, turns out to be a damp squib.
And that’s precisely what the title round in
both, the men’s and women’s singles, of the
NSCI all-India major badminton tournament
turned out be. For, Petroleum Sports Control
Board’s Abhinn Shyam Gupta and B.R.
Meenakshi encountered the minimum of resistance from Anup Sridhar (Kar) and Shruti Kurien (PSCB) enroute to the top prize of
Rs 50,000 and Rs. 35,000 respectively.
The men’s final, in particular, was expected to provide exciting stuff. Not so much because of Abhinn’s superb performance thus
far but more because his opponent, Sridhar,
had two major scalps under his belt on way to
the title round. However, that never really
happened. And that was only because Abhinn was his usual consistent self while Sridhar was unaccountably and hopelessly erratic. The bursts of brilliance were fewer and
further between when compared to the nu-
CROSS COUNTRY
merous errors the lanky Karnataka player
committed.
Results (all finals): Men’s singles: Abhinn Shyam Gupta (PSCB)
bt Anup Sridhar (Kar) 15-7, 17-16. Women’s singles: B.R. Meenakshi
(PSCB) bt Shruti Kurien (PSCB) 9-11, 11-6, 11-6. Women’s doubles:
Jwala Gutta/Shruti Kurien (PSCB) bt Aparna Popat (PSCB)/Oli Deka
(Assam) 15-8, 15-9.
Gajjar,Amritraj ousted
Mumbai: The Indian challenge in the men’s
singles ended with the ouster of second seed
Prakash Amritraj and unseeded Rohan Gajjar from the semifinals of the MSLTA-ITF
Satellite tennis circuit here on Friday.
Prakash was ousted by English qualfier
Daniel Kiernan 6-2 7-6 (7/4) in one hour and 50
minutes. Gajjar fought well in the first set but
lost the second easily to unseeded Prima Simpatiaji of Indonesia. Simpatiaji won 7-6 (7/4) 61 in one hour and forty minutes.
Results (all semifinals): Singles: Prima Simpatiaji (Ina) bt Rohan Gajjar (Ind) 7-6 (7-4) 6-1, Daniel Kiernan (GBR) bt Prakash Amritraj (Ind) 6-2 7-6 (7-4). Doubles: Manoj Mahadevan/Rishi Sridhar
(Ind) bt Saurabh Kohli/ Rohan Gajjar (Ind) 6-4 0-6 6-4, Daniel Kiernan (GBR)/Ajay Ramaswamy (Ind) bt Hendri-Susilo Pramono/Febi
Widhiyanto (Ina) 6-4 6-3. PTI
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Saturday, June 7, 2003
Vogts, Voller set for bitter showdown
AFP
Paris: Scotland coach Berti Vogts
comes face-to-face with his own countrymen on Saturday aiming to deliver a hammer blow to Germany’s
Euro 2004 dream. Vogts, who has
presided over just three wins in fourteen matches since taking over the
national side, must get the better of
Rudi Voller’s World Cup finalists at
Hampden in their Group 5 qualifier
to keep their campaign on track.
However, in the weekend’s most
highly-charged clash of the 19-game
programme, the 56-year-old won’t expect any favours from a German side
he used to coach until 1998. Michael
Ballack has already warned that some
players have “scores to settle” dating
from their time under Vogts at Bayer
Leverkusen. Ballack, now with Bayern Munich, has claimed that “working with Vogts was difficult from the
start. “I don’t have to keep secret that
some Leverkusen players had a problem with him. Some players want to
show him something — me too.”
ONE, TWO, THREE...: Portuguese players led by Luis Figo (2nd from right) train
prior to their friendly against Paraguay in Lisbon on Thursday.
In Group 10, the Republic of Ireland face Albania in Dublin with
Sunderland winger Kevin Kilbane insisting he can help rekindle a campaign that has seen Brian Kerr’s men
taking just four points from four
matches. They are already four
points behind leaders Switzerland
who face second-placed Russia on
Saturday in Basel.
In Group 2, the race for the sole automatic qualifying place is developing
into an all-Scandinavian battle with
Norway out on top with 10 points and
Denmark, the 1992 champions, in second spot on seven points. Both of
them will clash in Copenhagen.
The Netherlands, winners in 1988,
can take top spot in Group 3 if they
beat Belarus in Minsk where they
lost 1-0 eight years ago. The Dutch are
second in the table behind the Czech
Republic who don’t play again until
Wednesday against Moldova where
they will be expected to welcome
back playmaker Pavel Nedved. AFP
SAI to appoint more
foreign coaches
By Indraneel Das
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: With an eye on next year’s
Athens Olympics, the Sports Authority of
India has acquired the services of 10 foreign coaches till date and plans to rope in
16 more. Out of the 10 employed by SAI, six
are already training the national campers
at various SAI centres in the country, according to a senior SAI official.
“Olympics is our priority, but some of
them (foreign coaches) are here as part of
our Long Term Development Plan (LTDP),
which has been initiated in association
with the federations recently,” explained
Shekhar Dutt, Director General of SAI on
Thursday. “The coaches will be here for at
least six months and will impart training
to national campers for all international
meets,” he added.
Altogether SAI has received recommen-
The coaches story
Archery: Chei Woong Lim (Korea; From January 1 for
six months), rowing: Nicole Vulpe (Romania; One
year starting from May 10), squash: S Subramaniam
(Malaysia; Nov 1 for one year), wrestling: Andzrej
Malina (Poland; May 23 for six months), chess: Evgeny Vladimirov (Kazakhstan May 1-June 15), volleyball: Hristo Betkov (Bulgaria; from March 1 for six
months) .
Waiting in the wings: Athletcis: Seven (including
three recovery experts), canoeing-kayaking: 1
dations for 26 coaches as part of the preparations for the Olympics and LTDP from
some of the federations. “We are waiting
for clearance from sports ministry for the
remaining 16 coaches,” Dutt added.
The six coaches engaged are in archery,
rowing, squash, wrestling, chess and volleyball. Of the other four, one for yachting
and the other three for chess, were here on
a short-term plan.
A SAI official claimed that though the
ministry had approved one more
wrestling coach, he’s yet to give his consent. “The coach (Vladimirov of Poland)
has not responded as yet; we are waiting
for that,” he said.
Surprisingly no athletics coaches have
been recruited so far. According to a SAI
official the recommendation had already
been sent to the sports ministry. “We are
waiting for approval,” he said. The Amateur Athletics Federation of India has requested for seven foreign hands including
three recovery experts, he said.
Real pip United
as richest club
London: Real Madrid have replaced Manchester United as the world’s richest club,
says a survey of club finances carried out
by World Soccer magazine.
Madrid, with an annual income of
$300.5 million have a greater revenue than
any United according to the figures for
2001-02 when they won the Champions
League, and could easily afford to buy
David Beckham from their rivals.
Manchester United are second on the
list with an income of $247.2 million. Newly-crowned European champions AC Milan come in fifth.
Only one other Spanish club, Barcelona,
features in the top 20, which is made up of
eight clubs from England, five from Italy,
three from Germany and two from Scotland and Spain. The research demanded
the clubs to disclose financial information
before reaching the conclusion.
Top 20 richest clubs: 1. Real Madrid; 2. Manchester United; 3.
3. Juventus; 4. Bayern Munich; 5. AC Milan; 6. Chelsea; 7.
Barcelona; 8. AS Roma; 9. Liverpool; 10. Arsenal; 11. Inter Milan; 12. Leeds United; 13. Lazio; 14. Borussia Dortmund; 15.
THE S[PORTING WORLD
AT A GLANCE
CRICKET
English County Championship — Division one: Sussex
311 all out in 95.1 overs (R Martin-Jenkins 67, C Adams
62; A Sheriyar 4 for 49) vs Kent 188 for 5 (A Symonds 54).
Lancashire 503 for 6 decl (M Chilton 108, S Law 82, C
Hooper 74, A Flintoff n.o. 71, I Sutcliffe 55, M Loye 54) vs
Leicestershire 117 for 4.
Middlesex 363 all out in 121.1 overs (B Hutton 107, E
Joyce 69, Abdul Razzaq 54, P Weekes n.o. 51; J.Dakin 5
for 86) vs Essex 95 for 8 (S Cook 3 for 7).
Warwickshire 351 all out in 87.3 overs (J Trott 63, M Wagh
58, C Obuya 55; G Smith 4- for 60) vs Nottinghamshire
389 for 3 (K Pietersen n.o. 140, G Welton 99, U Afzaal 72,
C Cairns n.o. 52).
GOLF
PGA Tour FBR Capital Open, Maryland (Par 71) — 66
Robert Gamez; 67 Rich Beem, Notah Begay III; 68 Niclas
Fasth, Tom Gillis, Glen Hnatiuk, Paul Lawrie, Rory Sabbatini, Patrick Sheehan, Hal Sutton; 69 Steven Alker, Jay Don
Blake, Alexander Cejka, Joe Durant, Joel Edwards, Charles
Howell III, John Huston, Troy Matteson, Darron Stiles, Hidemichi Tanaka, Esteban Toledo, Garrett Willis; 70 Briny
Baird, Danny Ellis, Harrison Frazar, Fred Funk, Jason Gore,
Mike Grob, Padraig Harrington, Richard S. Johnson, Cliff
Kresge, Bernhard Langer, Davis Love III, Andrew Magee,
Deane Pappas, Craig Parry, Kirk Triplett.
LPGA Tour McDonald’s Championship, Delaware:
67 Hee-Won Han; 68 Wendy Ward, Joanne Mills; 69 Grace
Park, Rachel Teske; 70 Young Kim, Annika Sorenstam,
Suzann Pettersen, Jane Crafter; 71 Marcy Hart, Sally Little, Tracy Hanson, Beth Daniel, Natalie Gulbis, Juli Inkster,
Dorothy Delasin; 72 Hilary Lunke, Leslie Spalding, Catriona Matthew, Jackie Gallagher-Smith, Michelle McGann,
Lorie Kane, Kate Golden, Angela Stanford, Akiko Fukushima, Jeong Jang, Mi-Hyun Kim, Karrie Webb, Wendy
Doolan, Se Ri Pak, Lorena Ochoa, Kim Saiki.
SQUASH
Women’s Hurghada International, Egypt —
1st round: 7-Natalie Grinham (Aus) bt Fiona Geaves (Eng)
7-9, 9-4, 9-6, 9-1; 4-Rachael Grinham (Aus) bt Shelley
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Justine’s a late riser:
Justine Henin-Hardenne was
wide awake in beating Serena
Williams to reach the women’s
final - but she admits to being
a late riser compared with
husband Pierre-Yves. “PierreYves always gets up before
me,” explains the diminutive
star, who turned 20 last Sunday. “On my birthday he forgot to wish me many happy
returns for a few minutes!
That made me a bit nervous...” The nerves had gone
by the time she came out to
see off Serena.
No full Slam dozen for
Americans: Justine HeninHardenne’s win over Serena
Williams put an end to a series of 11 straight Grand Slam
finals with at least one American woman involved. The last
all non-American women’s final was at Roland Garros
three years ago when Frenchwoman Mary Pierce defeated
Spaniard Conchita Martinez.
‘It’s all in the head’:
French Open semi-final
Guillermo Coria, who was hit
with a doping suspension between August 2001 and February 2002 for taking a
banned stimulant in a food
supplement, warned other
players that taking vitamins
could ruin their careers. “It
was the saddest moment of
my life which allowed me to
find out where I was,” recalled
the Argentine. “I was naive
and took vitamins which were
given to me. I really went
though a difficult period, I was
totally innocent, and can only
say to all players to pay attention to the vitament supplements they give you, there are
a lot of contiminated vitamin
and it doesn’t make any different to take them, it’s just
physchological. “Even now
when I’m sick I don’t take
anyting at all. When I had terrible cramps in the quarters I
prefer to lose through tiredness than take something.”
Beautiful present: American legend proved that he was
willing to give more than the
shirt off his back following his
quarterfinal loss to Argentine
Guillermo Coria, who heroworshipped the eight-time
Slam winner as a child. “It was
the happiest day of my life, a
magical moment,” said Coria.
“He gave me his racquet. I
asked for his jersey and he
asked if I would not prefer the
racquet. It’s really the most
beautiful present in my life.”
SILENT SERENADE: World No 1 Serena Williams hangs her
head in anguish after losing to Justine Henin-Hardenne of
Belgium on Thursday.
Cops crackdown
on ticket touts
Paris: A massive police
crackdown against ticket
touts at the French Open has
led to hundreds of arrests
since the tournament began
eleven days ago, organisers
said on Thursday.
Police in Paris’ chic 16th
district which borders the
Roland Garros complex have
arrested between 25 and 30
touts daily with estimates
that some 200 will have received verbal warnings by
the time the tournament
ends on Sunday.
“We have to congratulate
the police,” said tournament
deputy director Frederic
Longuepee, pointing out that
the French tennis federation
(FFT) have also been active
in curbing the lucrative resale of tickets.
‘‘The new management
put in place by the FFT has
taken the problem by the
scruff of the neck.”
The black market generates an estimated 17 million
Euros ($20.2 millions) during
a two-week tournament
whose overall revenue is
101.2 million Euros ($120 million).AFP
The Times of India, New Delhi
Smart Alec flirts with records
Chester-le-Street (England):
A proud Alec Stewart was
handed an incentive to continue Test cricket after he moved
into second place in England’s
list of Test run scorers on the
first day of the second Test
against Zimbabwe at the
Riverside on Thursday.
Stewart’s 68 took him past
fellow former England captain David Gower’s tally of
8,231 runs and into eighth
place overall in the all-time
list of Test run scorers.
It also helped England re-
cover from 156 for five to their
stumps total 298 for five and
after close of play Stewart
said: “It’s something to go past
the likes of David Gower and
Geoff Boycott. It gives you another reason to carry on.”
Aged 40, veteran wicketkeeper batsman Stewart’s
continued inclusion in the
Test team has provoked
much media debate in England. Some pundits have said
the selectors should drop the
Surrey stalwart in favour of
younger rivals such as Es-
All-time list of leading Test scorers
Runs
player
country
matches
innings
average highest 100s 50s
11,174
10,265
10,122
8,900
8,832
8,811
8,540
8,281
8,231
8,114
Allan Border
Stephen Waugh
Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
Javed Miandad
Sachin Tendulkar
Vivian Richards
Alec Stewart
David Gower
Geoffrey Boycott
(AUS)
(AUS)
(IND)
(ENG)
(PAK)
(IND)
(WIS)
(ENG)
(ENG)
(ENG)
156
160
125
118
124
105
121
128
117
108
265
249
214
215
189
169
182
227
204
193
50.56
49.83
51.12
42.58
52.57
57.58
50.23
40.39
44.25
47.72
Key: Stewart’s figures include the first innings of the second Test against Zimbabwe
French Open finalists at a glance
KIM CLIJSTERS
(Seed: 2); Belgium - 19:
Best performance at French
Open - runner-up 2001
orld No 2 Kim Clijsters
comes from the
Dutch-speaking Flanders
region. Has been closing in
steadily on the all-powerful
Williams sisters and tipped
as favourite to lift Belgium’s
first Grand Slam title after
winning season-ending
championship title and then
holding two match points
before losing the Australian
Open semi-final to Serena
Williams in January. Lost
the final here two years ago
to Jennifer Capriati going
12-10 in the longest final
set at a French Open final having beaten HeninHardenne in the semis - but
won third title this year on
clay at the Italian Open
which pushed her season
earnings past the million
dollar mark. Daughter of
former Belgian soccer international Leo, with mother
Elke a former top Belgian
gymnast. Younger sister
Elke plays on the WTA tour.
Girlfriend of Lleyton Hewitt.
Sometimes superstitious
and likes to eat the same
thing every day before a
major final. Second Slam
after 2001 French Open.
W
sex’s James Foster or Nottinghamshire’s Chris Read.
But Stewart, extending his
England Test appearance
record to 128 matches in this
game, said: “A lot’s been written and said about my position but all I’ve ever done is
make myself available.”
His 8,281 runs is still well
behind Graham Gooch’s England record of 8,900.
However, with five home
Tests against South Africa still
to come Stewart could surpass
West Indies’ Viv Richards. AFP
JUSTINE HENIN-HARDENNE
(Seed: 4); Belgium - 21:
Best performance at French
Open - semi- finalist 2001
rom the French-speaking Walloon region. Beat
world number one Serena
Williams to take the
Charleston title last month,
and again to reach the final
here and overcame the
world number two Clijsters
to win the German Open title earlier this month.
She was 1997 French
Open junior champion and
youngest ever Belgian national champion at age 15.
Reached 2001 Wimbledon
final lost in three sets to
Venus Williams. Steadily
improving, winning three of
her nine titles this season,
becoming only the fourth
woman in tennis history to
win the clay court titles in
Charleston and Berlin successively, which augurs
well for her chances of her
first Grand Slam title at the
French Open. Baseliner
who prefers clay courts.
Married Pierre-Yves
Hardenne last November.
Superstition of not walking
on the tennis court lines
between points -- she
makes sure she doesn’t.
Second Grand Slam final
after 2001 Wimbledon.
F
‘I am performing two
jobs — coach and dad’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The main action was on the court. The main attraction was off it.
As players contested the quarterfinals of the MSLTAITF Men’s Satellite tennis tournament here on Thursday,
much of the attention was on Vijay Amritraj, who was at
the venue to watch son Prakash play Vinod Sridhar.
Prakash won in straight sets, after which a relaxed Vijay
spoke to the media on various subjects. Excerpts.
On guiding Prakash: He absorbs everything I tell
him. He is like a sponge. He has the desire to become a
successful tennis player, which is the important thing.
Sure, I get nervous watching him. But the advantage is I
know what he is thinking when he is on court. There are
two jobs that I have to perform here: coach and Dad. I have
even coached him on the phone, which is stupid. But an
important part of coaching is to understand your pupil,
even when you are not with him.
On similarities between him and his son on court:
Tennis is no longer the same game. What is common between us is that we like to go up to the net. He also has the
same desire to win as I did.
On the confusion over Prakash’s nationality: It’s
American, since he was born and brought up in the US.
The ITF, however, allows a player to represent another
country. He applied for the same some time ago and on
April 1 this year, he became eligible to play for India.
On drugs in tennis: Hardly any. On a scale of one-toten, I would put it at 0.1. Tennis is played round the year,
whereas most of the important events in track and field
(in which doping is rampant) are quadrennial.
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