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No kitchen
cabinet, I’m
the boss,
says Sonia
By Rajesh Ramachandran
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Shimla: ‘‘I am my own master!’’ The message came clear
and loud from Congress president Sonia Gandhi in her inaugural address at the party’s ‘vichar manthan shivir’
here on Monday morning.
She appeared to be replying
to media allegations of ‘coteries’ and ‘kitchen cabinets’
influencing her decisions.
Asserting her position as
undisputed leader, Gandhi
pointed to the party’s spectacular growth in the last five
years. She reminded all her
important leaders that when
she became party president,
the Congress was in power
only in five states and now it
is ruling in 15.
As if to drive home the
point, party spokesman
Jaipal Reddy announced later in the day that Sonia
Gandhi would be projected
‘‘by name’’ as the Congress’
prime ministerial candidate
in the next general election.
While admitting that the
past five years have been a
tremendous learning experience and that she was still
learning, Gandhi made it
very clear that this does not
mean she cannot take her
own decisions. ‘‘I meet a very
large number of people every
day, both from within the party and outside. There is never
any shortage of advice on
any subject. I listen to all of
them. We may not always
agree but I do seek a consensus. Ultimately, the decision
is mine.’’
Gandhi cited an example
to prove the point: the decision to hand over the reins of
power in Jammu and Kashmir to Mufti Mohammed Sayeed of the People’s Democratic Party. ‘‘It was not easy, for
example, to decide what we
did finally when the government was being formed in
J&K eight months back,’’
she said. ‘‘But getting inspiration from what Rajivji himself had done in Punjab and
Assam in 1985 and in Mizoram in 1986, I took the decision in the larger interest of
our country.’’
This revelation of her personal working style came as a
surprise in a meeting where
the party was supposed to be
discussing major political issues and formulating its policies on them. And at the outset, she had told her party
leaders, ‘‘We are here to deliberate on ideas, not to discuss individuals.’’
While discussing how she
takes decisions under the
section ‘Towards a new political culture’, Gandhi also
talked about strengthening
the party’s moral fibre.
She said more needs to be
done for transparency in party financing and admitted
that the party has not fully
implemented the decision to
reserve 30 per cent of all organizational posts for women
and 20 per cent for Dalits,
tribals, OBCs and minorities.
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New Delhi: Suzuki Motor Corp
chairman O Suzuki on Monday revamped the board of directors of its
Indian arm, Maruti Udyog Ltd, reinducting his old associate and former Maruti managing director R C
Bhargava as a part-time director.
The revamp, which follows the
successful initial public offering to
offload government’s 27.5 per cent
holding in Maruti, also included induction of AV Birla group chairman
Kumaramangalam Birla as an independent director on the car-maker’s
board. In all, three independent
directors and one part-time director
were appointed.
With this revamp, Maruti’s scrip
is now ready for a debut on the
bourses on July 9. ‘‘All the new members are eminent people in their respective fields and will contribute to
enhance the quality of corporate
governance at Maruti Udyog,’’ a
company statement said.
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New
Delhi: A young
woman’s body was found in a
Mumbai/Ahmedabad: Zahira Sheikh, one of
suitcase in a hotel at Nabi
the main complainants in the Best Bakery case
Karim in the Paharganj area
who turned hostile in court leading to the acin central Delhi on Monday
quittal of all the 21 accused, has demanded a remorning.
trial. The diminutive girl emerged in Mumbai
According to the police,
after weeks of absence from Gujarat and told
the 22-year old victim had
reporters on Monday that the retrial should be
checked into the hotel on
held outside her home state.
July 4 along with a man who
‘‘Whatever I said in court was false. I was
had identified himself as her
compelled to lie under pressure,’’ the 19-yearhusband.
old told a packed room at the Mumbai Press
The man, registered as MaClub. Zahira’s statement coincides with the Nahendra Maurya in the hotel’s
tional Human Rights Commission’s visit to
logbook, is absconding. PoVadodara to examine the papers in the case.
lice are yet to ascertain the
The Best Bakery carnage, in which 14 percouple’s identity.
sons – including Zahira’s father and seven othThe police suspect Maurya
er relatives – were brutally massacred over a
murdered the woman on the
period of 12 hours on March 1, 2002, was one of
night of July 4 and left the
the most gruesome incidents marking the posthotel early next morning.
Godhra mayhem.
The gagged body showed
Zahira was accompanied by Javed Anand
strangulation marks. There
and Teesta Setalvad of the voluntary organisawere also some injury marks
tion, Citizens for Justice and Peace. Among the
on her head.
others who addressed the media were film perAccording to the police,
sonality Javed Akhtar, ad guru Alyque
Maurya booked the room on
Padamsee, architect I M Kadri and human
the morning of July 4 claimrights activist Mihir Desai.
ing to be a resident of Ajmer
Zahira alleged that she was being threatened
in Rajasthan.
by the local BJP MLA Madhu Shrivastava,
‘‘The woman reached the
Vadodara councillor Chandrakant Shrivastava
hotel in the evening. She was
alias Bhattu, and another witness Lal
dressed in a saree and was
Mohammed who said that they would ‘‘kill
wearing a mangalsutra,’’ a
her family’’. All of them have, however, denied
hotel employee said.
the allegation.
Additional deputy comEarlier on Monday, Zahira told TNN in
missioner of police (central)
Ahmedabad over the phone that she had left
Rajesh Khurana said, ‘‘The
for Basti in Uttar Pradesh after the court
victim identified herself as
hearing to stay with her maternal uncle. She
Kavita. They had lunch tosaid she had come back to ‘‘clear my name from
gether and were last seen on
allegations that I had taken money to turn hosthe evening of July 4.’’
tile in the court’’.
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FEARLESS IN MUMBAI: Nineteen-year-old Zahira Sheikh, one of the witnesses who turned
mained closed for the next
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two days.
a special court had acquitted 21 accused for lack of evidence.
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The manager got suspicious and asked a waiter to
call the guests.
When the waiter opened
the door with a duplicate key,
he noticed a suitcase.
‘‘Since the room was clean,
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
the Rs 64-crore bribery case was the investigating agency before filWith Monday’s pronouncement, the waiter did not go inside.
registered in 1990.
ing of the chargesheet.
the three Hinduja brothers, who He came back to me and said
New Delhi: The Supreme Court
The high court had quashed the
Allowing the appeals of the CBI were represented by Ram Jeth- that there was a large suiton Monday cleared all legal hur- chargesheet against the three and also the CVC, the Bench malani, will face trial before the case lying in the room,’’ mandles in the framing of charges brothers on the ground that the termed as ‘‘quite confusing and special judge.
ager Santosh Dubey said.
against the three Hinduja brothers CBI had not secured sanction of self-contradictory’’
‘‘The waiter noticed blood
the
high
‘‘The learned special judge
by setting aside the Delhi High the Central Vigilance Commission court judgment.
shall proceed with the trial of dripping out of the suitcase
Court’s June 10, 2002, judgment (CVC) before filing it.
The Europe-based Hinduja the case. While framing of the while carrying it inside the
which
had
quashed
the
On Monday, a Supreme Court brothers — Srichand, Gopichand charge, he (judge) shall carefully elevator. We immediately inchargesheet in the Bofors case.
Bench of Justices S Rajendra and Prakashchand — had moved scrutinise the material on record formed the police,’’ said the
The advanced Swedish Bofors Babu and G P Mathur held that no the high court after the special and other circumstances of the manager.
guns were purchased by India ‘‘concurrence or approval’’ of the judge framed charges against case in accordance with the law,’’
Nabi Karim hotels: Portals
of death: P3
for Rs 1,437.72 crore in 1986 while CVC was required to be taken by them in April 2002.
the Bench added.
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The other independent directors
are Amal Ganguli, former chairman
of Price Waterhouse Coopers, India,
and Pallavi Shroff, senior partner,
Amarchand and Mangaldas and
Suresh A Shroff and Co.
Shroff has also been a close confidante of Suzuki, having represented
his firm during the bitter battle
with the Indian government in 1998.
The battle, which had started with
the government electing RSSLN
Bhaskarudu as the managing director, was finally resolved out of court
with the government agreeing to inDelhi: Rs 5265 Mumbai: Rs 4927
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clude Jagdish Khattar as the joint
managing director of Maruti.
These appointments were approved by the company’s board at a
meeting attended by Suzuki. The
Board accepted the resignation of H
Nagao and M Atsumi as directors.
Suzuki was in town for the board
meeting and also met with disinvestment minister Arun Shourie.
‘‘I have come here to greet the
minister (Shourie) about the IPO
successfully done,’’ Suzuki said after the meeting.
He declined to comment on the
strategy to be adopted by the parent
company for Maruti in the future.
The board revamp marks the return of Suzuki’s old favourite Bhargava for a second innings in the carmaking business.
Bhargava, who was recently exonerated of an alleged corruption
charge by the CBI special court, was
instrumental in the substantial
progress that Suzuki has made in India with Maruti.
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Constables held for negligence
By Lalit Kumar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ghaziabad: Two constables
have been suspended and arrested after a murder undertrial escaped from their custody on Monday. The accused,
Jalaluddin, allegedly fed them
‘lassi’ laced with a sedative.
According
to
police
sources, the armed police
constables had brought the
accused to the local courts.
After the hearing, Jalaluddin
persuaded the policemen to
have some ‘lassi’ with him at
Shivam restaurant, at the Raj
Nagar District Centre.
At the restaurant, the constables, both named Krishna-
pal, fell asleep after consuming the ‘lassi’. Meanwhile, the
accused, whose handcuffs
were removed, managed to
escape. As the policemen
tried to trace him, another
undertrial escaped from the
judicial lockup at the district
courts. But, he was nabbed after a hot chase.
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The proposed logos for Pushpanjali Enclave
Now MCD logos for
2,750 colonies in city
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The city’s urban landscape may soon
turn ‘designer’. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi
(MCD) has commissioned
logos for two south Delhi
colonies — Gulmohar Park
and Pushpanjali Enclave —
as prototypes.
MCD
commissioner
Rakesh Mehta said all the
2,750 colonies in the city
would get an exclusive design based on their respective characteristics.
‘‘The National Institute
of Design (NID) is also
designing prototypes of
three different sign boards
that will be installed
in the colonies with their
respective logos. At the
entrance of the colony
will be a board welcoming
people to the place,’’
he said.
The ‘‘street boards’’ will
display the number of
houses in the locality. The
‘‘institutional boards’’ will
indicate the location of the
commercial complexes and
list the names of offices or
shops they house. The entry and exit points of the
colonies will have maps of
the area.
While designs for the two
colonies are ready, the MCD
has set up a ‘‘graphics design forum’’ that has experts from the NID and the
school of Planning and Architecture.
‘‘We will invite bids from
corporate houses to sponsor these sign boards as
each colony would require
an investment of up to Rs 4
lakh on the entire project.
The companies will get the
logos and signboards designed and then get them
approved by the forum,’’
said Mehta.
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DILLI
Upbeat over the project,
he dismissed the possibility
of the scheme fizzling out
for lack of sponsors.
This problem is faced by
the ‘‘build, operate and
transfer (BOT)’’ garbage
dumps and toilets built in
‘‘unattractive’’
places.
‘‘Only places with heavy
traffic or large pedestrian
movement attract advertisers,’’ he added.
Mehta expressed his
‘‘hope’’ that the advertising
revenue of the MCD —
which at present, is just
Rs 5 crore annually — will
rise by about Rs 250 crore
because of the sponsored
logo-embossed signboards.
Of the 2,750 colonies,
only 700 are regularised
while the rest are either
unauthorised or unauthorised regularised.
Will the places that don’t
find sponsors get the
boards too? ‘‘The MCD will
fund the project in any such
place,’’ Mehta said.
A brainchild of the MCD
commissioner, the project,
he says, will ‘‘enhance urban form and urban property values.’’
Mehta says he got the
idea when he visited Rohini
six months ago and saw
some beautiful signboards
lying unfinished due to lack
of funds.
However, the project will
be implemented in an ‘aesthetic’ way.
‘‘Some areas — like those
having hospitals — will not
have any names of advertisers. Commercial places,
on the other, hand, will
give free advertising rights
to the sponsors. These
boards will be put up in
such a way that they do not
become a traffic hazard,’’
he said.
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Trader
robbed: In
a daylight
robbery,
three persons barged
into a businessman’s
house in
Chandni
Chowk area
at 2.15 pm,
and decamped with Rs
4,000 and
jewellery in
the house.
TNN
Sweet shops inspected
New Delhi: Sweet shops in Bengali Market
which were served a notice from the NDMC
on Friday for maintaining unhygienic
premises were inspected by NDMC officials
on Monday.
NDMC has extended the improvement of
services in the sweet shops by a week and
given them a month’s time to implement the
changes recommended by them. TNN
Parsi fest
opens today
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Unesco’s
general conference at its
31st session in 2001
adopted the ‘Celebration
of the 3,000th anniversary of Zoroastrian Culture in the year 2003’.
The move to celebrate
the anniversary worldwide through the aegis
of Unesco was first initiated by Tajikistan and
Uzbekistan.
Delhiites will have the
unique opportunity to
participate in this celebration through an exhibition
at the Tea
Lounge of the Ashok
Hotel from July 8-10.
The fair, inaugurated by
Unesco director-general
K Matsuura, will display modules on intercultural studies, religion and priesthood,
performing arts, arts
and crafts, ecology and
conservation and contributions by members
of the community to life
in India, dating back to
Mughal times.
There will also be a
festival of Parsi food
specialities at the hotel’s
coffee shop from July 810 between 6 pm - 10 pm.
The hotel is also offering a special discount at
its restaurants.
Plan for slums
New Delhi: The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has
finalised plans for the in-situ
regularisation of slum clusters following urban development patterns in Mumbai.
Under this plan slum
dwellers will be rehabilitated
at the place where they are
presently located. Flats will
be constructed and allotted at
subsidised rates.
The money spent on constructing these flats would be
recovered by constructing
commercial complexes on
the land reclaimed after rehabilitation. A team comprising senior officers from engineering, planning and land
management departments of
the DDA and HUDCO surveyed 14 slum clusters for the
pilot project. TNN
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Nabi Karim hotels: Portals of death
TOI
The hotel where a woman’s decomposed body was
discovered packed in a suitcase on Monday.
By Sachin Parashar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The body of a
girl, who was allegedly
killed by her ‘‘husband’’,
was found in a Nabi Karim
hotel on Monday. The area
has a number of hotels, often described as dens of
vices.
Many in the area admit
that prostitution, gambling
and alcoholism is thriving
in these hotels, further giving way to more serious
crime.
Several suicides have also
been reported from Paharganj and Nabi Karim hotels
in the past one year. There
are other hotel owners, however, for whom the end
seems to justify the means.
‘‘It’s just another way of
keeping ahead of the competition. There are hundreds of hotels here that
have an occupancy rate lower than 50 per cent most of
the time. How will they survive if they don’t provide incentives to customers?’’ said
Gurinder Singh, a manager
with one of the hotels. He
claimed that most single visitors asked for paid sex.
Singh admitted that many
times young couples hired
rooms for a very short duration.
‘‘They ask for rooms for a
day or even a couple of
NDMC inspects structure
at Amrita Shergill Marg
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A day after this
paper carried a report on
foundation being laid for a
big building on 22 Amrita
Shergill Marg in the Lutyens’
Bungalow Zone (LBZ), the
NDMC got the site inspected
on Monday.
‘‘There is not even an
inch’s deviation from the
sanctioned plan for the upcoming residential building
here. The height and covered
area of the new structure
will be exactly same as the
one that was demolished. We
will not allow any irregularity,’’ a NDMC officer said.
LBZ rules stipulate that
height and covered area of
any new structure here
should have the same parameters as the one demolished.
Asked why such a huge foundation was being laid for a
low height structure, he said:
‘‘There is no restriction on
the depth of the foundation
which can be laid. The
builder, wants to be ready to
add more floors in future.’’
Among the concerned residents of this Marg are eminent conservationist Patwant Singh and the Danish
ambassador to India. Amrita
Shergill Marg is one of the
few areas that have retained
Shady deals
Nabi Karim — 145 hotels — 1 murder, 2 suicides ★
Pahar Ganj — 205 hotels — 3 suicides ★
The main attractions:
• Cheap accommodation: The hotels in these areas
cater to even the most scant budgets. Tourists can get
rooms priced between Rs 250 and Rs 2,500
• Easy accessibility: Since these areas are located near
the railway station, most criminals find it easy to flee the
city and avoid arrest.
• Complete anonymity: As the name of the game is
making a quick buck, these hotels are not particular
about the identity of their clients and will rent out rooms
to just about anyone.
( ★ Figures for past one year)
hours. The managers oblige
them without even a cursory question,’’ he said.
This despite the fact that
all hotels in the area have
been instructed by the police to ask visitors for identification proofs.
Even senior police officers admit that many owners of these hotels are into
crime. ‘‘Recently, some high
profile businessman were
arrested for gambling in a
five-star hotel with Rs 70
lakh at stake. One of the
people arrested was the
owner of a hotel in Paharganj,’’ said a senior police
officer.
The fact that many of
these hotels are being run
on contract by people other
than those on whose names
the properties are registered has added to the menace. ‘‘The man who only
runs the hotel and is not its
owner will never be bothered about its reputation.
Almost everything is on offer in these hotels as it spells
easy money. But this doesn’t
mean that all the owners are
above the board. Many of
them are actively involved
in ‘entertaining’ their customers,’’ said Varun Mandal, a manager with Shivdas
International hotel.
“The anonymity factor
lures not just potential murderers but also those who
are comtemplating suicide
to these places,” said a
police officer.
Five held for Driver held for car theft
running
betting racket
3
New Delhi: Two persons, including a driver, have been arrested for stealing the car of Anoop Kumar Srivastava, joint
secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs. The car was reportedly
stolen from his residence in Chanakyapuri. The car was later recovered. The police arrested his driver, Pramod Kumar,
who broke down and confessed to stealing the car. TNN
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: With the arrest
of five men from Punjabi
Bagh on Monday morning,
the crime branch of Delhi Police claimed to have busted
an inter-state betting racket.
The police also recovered Rs
82,000 from their possession.
According to the police,
the accused — Arvinder Pal
Singh, Balwant, Rakesh Kumar, Khayal Singh and his
son Kuldip Singh — were allegedly running a betting
racket from 23/1, Punjabi
Bagh Extension.
Deputy commissioner of
police (crime), Dependra
Pathak, said: ‘‘We received
information about the racket
and sent a decoy customer.’’
The accused allegedly had
links in north and west India.
They reportedly told the
police that they were involved in betting for the last
20 years and that their chief,
Inayat Langra of Daryaganj
was a well known betting
racketeer. After his death, the
accused continued to work
for his son, Hazi.
The police also claimed
that the accused have been
operating on behalf of another betting racketeer, O P
Sobti, and now his son, Babu
Sobti. The Sobtis allegedly
ran the racket in Delhi,
Faridabad, Gurgaon and
Ghaziabad.
their original character.
LBZ was declared one of
the ‘‘100 most endangered
sites’’ in 2001 by New Yorkbased World Monument
Fund, an NGO working to
preserve architectural heritage. Most of the bungalows
in LBZ were built by the
British between 1911 — when
the Capital was shifted from
Kolkata to Delhi — and 1931
— when New Delhi was inaugurated. This zone gave New
Delhi its unique character.
But over the years, many
bungalows have been demolished to make way for hotels,
office blocks and all types of
centres.
Man kills family, commits suicide
Faridabad: A three-wheeler driver administered poison to his
wife and two children before consuming the same himself at
Kalvaka village in Palwal on Sunday. The victims, Karamveer,
his wife, Ramesh Devi, and son Sanjeev died before they could
be given medical help. His daughter, Sonu, however, is battling
for life in a Palwal nursing home. TNN
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and Meghayala, Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram-Tripura,
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Max Min
Delhi
Mumbai
Chennai
Kolkata
Bangalore
Ahm’bad
T’puram
Bhopal
B’eshwar
Pune
36
27
35
33
27
35
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33
32
NA
26
24
28
27
20
26
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24
26
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Dehradun
Hyderabad
Indore
Jaipur
Lucknow
Patna
Rajkot
Shimla
Srinagar
33
30
37
29
35
38
36
33
21
31
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24
23
23
27
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27
24
16
18
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Bahrain
Bangkok
Beijing
Chicago
Geneva
Hong Kong
London
Los Angeles
Moscow
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42
33
37
34
18
32
21
31
27
12
32
27
18
22
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27
11
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Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on
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4645
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—
2403
Jammu Exp
12.07
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2302
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2304
Poorva Exp
10.07
2382
Poorva Exp
08.07
2312
Kalka Mail
N.A.
2392
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05.09
2402
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—
2418
Prayag Raj Exp
10.07
4056
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5622
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—
2554
Vaishali Exp
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2816
Puri Exp
—
2802
Purshottam Exp
—
8476
Neelanchal Exp
—
4230
Lucknow Mail
10.07
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Golden Temple Mail 09.07
2926
Paschim Exp
09.07
2952
Mumbai Rajdhani 10.07
2954
AG Kranti Rajdhani 09.07
2474
Sarvodaya Exp
—
1078
Jhelum Exp
—
2916
Ashram Exp
10.07
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G T Exp
08.07
2622
Tamil Nadu Exp
10.07
2432
Trivandrum Raj
08.07
2626
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2618
Mangala Exp
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2628
Karnataka Exp
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2724
A P Exp
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2430
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MCD to digitise its
birth, death records
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:The Delhi Municipal Corporation is going
to digitise all its birth and
death records from the year
1869.
According to Dr R C Patnaik, director, vital statistics,
the MCD has been recording
births and deaths in the city
that year onwards. ‘‘By scanning and digitising these
records we are hoping to create an easily accessible and
dependable database,’’ he
said.
Mayor Ashok Kumar Jain
also dedicated a Citizen Ser-
vice Bureau(CSB) set-up at
Town Hall to the residents of
the Walled City area.
The CSB will provide
civic services such as computerised registration of
births and deaths, extension
of trade licenses and booking
of MCD run Community
Halls.
The CSB in Town Hall is
the tenth one to be opened.
‘‘This will be a single kiosk
service where verification of
records will be through digital records and immediately
the certificates will be handed over,’’ said Patnaik.
6 held in fake degree scam
Those who went to reserve their seats on the Delhi-Lahore bus on Monday had to return
disappointed. The bookings were deferred to Tuesday afternoon.
‘India visit worth every rupee’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Pakistani business delegates may have
spent more money and time,
than was necessary to reach
Delhi, but they insist it was
worth every rupee and hour.
The delegates spent Rs
35,000 on a return ticket to
reach here via Dubai — as
direct flights between the
two nations are yet to resume — which is more than
double what the fares
should really be.
‘‘I am excited to be here,’’
said Aftab Vohra, a Pakistani businessman with interest in chemicals. He has
high hopes regarding current diplomatic talks between the two countries.
Vohra said that Indian government should open border
gates in Rajasthan to enable
smooth business flow. ‘‘The
gates at Wagah are too
small.’’
While Vohra was busy
with business, his wife was
in Karol Bagh, shopping for
artificial jewellery. He plans
to buy Indian shawls as gifts
for his friends in Pakistan.
New Delhi: The police have arrested six
persons, including a policeman and his dismissed colleague, for allegedly running a
fake certificate racket.
All the accused are from well-to-do backgrounds. While the kingpin of the racket,
Gaurav, is a doctor’s son and owns a cyber
cafe, his associate, Rajesh Chauhan, is the
son of a Delhi University lecturer.
Chauhan is an interior designer and also
takes tuition classes.
Jai Bhagwan (41) is a dismissed assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Delhi Police,
while Suresh Kumar (30) is still serving as
an ASI. Bhagwan also ran a tuition centre
in Mangolpuri. Mukesh Kumar (40), a
property dealer, ran an inter-state coaching institute.
The two promised their students admission to any government or public school in
Delhi. The sixth accused, Suleman Khan
(23), earned his livelihood by helping Gaurav, said the police.
Deputy commissioner of police (special
cell) Ashok Chand said: ‘‘The accused
charged between Rs 2,000 to Rs 10,000 from
their customers. The amount was decided
on the basis of the certificate’s importance.’’
The police allegedly sent a decoy customer to meet Chauhan for a fake MCom
degree of DU. The cost of the certificate
was fixed at Rs 2,000. The accused was to
meet the decoy on July 4 at 6.30 pm in Kirti Nagar. A trap was laid and Chauhan was
apprehended while receiving the money.
Chauhan disclosed his links with the
other accused during his interrogation,
claimed the police. But any statement
made in front of the police will not be admissible as evidence in court.
From poor student to
notorious criminal
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Gaurav was too scared to inform his father that he had failed in his finalexams. In order to mislead his parents,
Gaurav prepared a fake certificate and
marksheet.
Apparently, the documents were so convincing that even his physician father
couldn’t tell. Gaurav thought producing
fake certificates could be a viable option for
earning a livelihood. Seven years on, Gaurav runs Delhi’s biggest of fake certificate
racket.
‘‘Since he could not run the business of
manufacturing fake certificates openly, he
decided to start a cyber cafe,’’ said an officer. But it wasn’t smooth sailing. In 1998, the
Maurice Nagar police arrested him. But on
being released, he once again resumed the
business. Two years later, he was arrested
again for the same offence.
In the past three years, Gaurav has manufactured over 2,500 fake certificates. ‘‘He
has definitely graduated from a small-time
operator to a big one,’’ the officer added.
When the special team raided Gaurav’s
premises, it reportedly detected a large
number of fake certificates.
IP university revamps
its fee structure
By Pallavi Majumdar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A new fee structure awaits students who take
admission to different colleges
affiliated to Guru Gobind
Singh Indraprastha University.
Instead of having separate fee
tiers for ‘free’ and ‘payment
seat’ students, there
will one standard fee
across the board.
There are no NRI
seats either. The management will, however,
be allowed
to fill
five
p e r
cent
of the seats.
The changes come in
the wake of the recent
Supreme Court judgment on minority institutions which also stated that no one should
pay for another’s education. Following the order, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) issued interim guidelines and
asked state governments to fix the uppermost ceiling of fees that
self-financing privately
managed institutions
c o u l d
charge.
IP university
has 60 affiliated
institu-
tions, of which 10 are engineering colleges offering more
than 1,200 seats.
Meanwhile, the new fee
structure will more than double the amount that a ‘free seat’
student paid. For instance, a
‘free seat’ student of engineering, architecture, law, mass
communication, BCA and B Ed
paid a flat Rs 23,000. A ‘payment seat’ student, on the contrary, paid anything between
Rs 50,000 to Rs 66,000, depending on the course.
The new
fee ranges
from
Rs
30,000 for
BCA,
B
Ed, BBA,
LLB to Rs 45,000 for B Tech/ M
Tech, B Arch. MBA, MCA will
cost Rs 50,000.
AICTE sources said most
state governments have employed a simple formula to get
maximum fee ceiling.
Meanwhile, there are two
important implications of the
new admission rules that have
come into effect this year. All
the admissions, including
those in the management quota, will have to be made
through the common entrance
test (CET) AND the number of
seats reserved for SC/ST will
almost double. ‘‘Eighty-five per
cent seats will be reserved for
Delhi students, while 10 per
cent will be for outside students. Five per cent seats will
be filled up by the management,’’ university spokesperson Shevanti Sanyal said.
THE GREAT
COLLEGE RUSH
Results declared
New Delhi: The result of the following annual/supplementary examinations, 2003
have been declared: B Sc (Hons) Bio-chemistry Part I, II, III; B Sc (Hons) Anthropolgy/Chemistry/Botany Part I, II, III; B Sc
(Hons) Geology Part III; M Sc Physics II &
IV semester; M Sc Geology Part I; MA Geography Part I & II; MA Philosophy Part I
& II; MA Linguistics Part I & II, MA English Part II (regular) north and south;
Bachelor of Mass Media and Communication II, IV & VI semester; BA (Hons) Economics/Business Economics Part I, II, III;
Bachelor of Information Technology Part
IV (VIII semester).TNN
‘No photo
ID-cards
for voters’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A large
number of people
from south Delhi
and New Delhi areas
have not got their
election photo identity Delhi’s chief
electoral
officer
(CEO) said recently.
CEO Arun Goyal
said only 59 per cent
residents of New
Delhi and 65 per cent
of south Delhi have
not got their photo
identity cards made.
Till now, about 57
lakh photo identity
cards have been issued.
‘‘About 20 lakh
cards were prepared
during last year’s
campaign but still a
large number of voters are without their
identity cards,’’ Goyal said.
The drive will continue for the next
two months.
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Godhra accused
Best gets worse: Tale of terror, lies, injustice is denied bail
Gujarat govt
NHRC team meets Gujarat
5
PTI
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chief justice, steps up heat
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Ahemdabad: Two senior officials of the Delhi-based
National Human Rights
Commission arrived here on
Monday with a specific brief
from NHRC chairman Justice A S Anand to study legal
documents in the shocking
Best Bakery acquittal of
June 27.
The officials, Ajit Bharihoake and Sudhir Chaudhary, accompanied by P G J
Nampoothiri, the special
rapporteur for the NHRC in
Gujarat, called on the acting
Chief Justice of Gujarat
High Court J N Bhatt and
spent about 15 minutes with
him.
The visit comes in the
wake of NHRC chairman
describing the acquittal as
‘‘a miscarriage of justice’’,
raising the hackles of a
section of Gujarat lawyers
who want Anand, a former
Supreme
Court
chief
justice, to be hauled up for
contempt of court.
The NHRC team’s visit
has raised temperatures in
Vadodara where witnesses,
who had earlier turned
hostile in the case, are
now saying they had done
so
under
‘‘extreme
pressure’’.
But it is not known
whether the NHRC team
would also meet witnesses
in the case who are singing a
different tune after the
judgement.
After spending the day in
Ahmedabad, where they
met some human rights
groups, the team was to
meet some senior government officials in Gandhinagar, but failed to turn up in
the state capital.
Senior officials of the
home and law departments
said they had no knowledge
about the NHRC’s visit.
K Kumarswamy, inspector general of police, who is
handling
atrocities
on
scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, was said to be
coordinating the visit.
The officials will leave for
Vadodara on Tuesday to examine all documents pertaining to the Best Bakery
case and the judgement
awarded by a fast track
court of additional sessions The NHRC members arrived in Ahmedabad on Monday to examine the documents related
judge H U Mahida in which to the Best Bakery case.
all the 21 accused in the case
were acquitted.
One team members said
on condition of anonymity:
‘‘We are just chalking out
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
The Shrivastavas ques- had saved her life on the
the agenda for our visit to
tion her honesty. Says BJP fateful day and look how she
Vadodara.’’
Vadodara: The cousins, MLA Madhu Shrivastava. “I has paid me back. This has
The team , which was at Madhu Shrivastava and
the Circuit House annexe, Chandrakant Shrivastava, don’t even know her. How taught me never to help the
avoided the media through- have a lot of explaining to do can anyone trust a girl who needy again. I had taken
changes her statement regu- care of her and provided her
out the day and there was no
following Zahira Sheikh’s al- larly? She might have with all the basic amenities.
briefing about their exact
legations on these two city changed her statement after She has gone mad and seems
schedule.
Twelve people had per- politicians using threats to taking money from some- to have been influenced by
ished and two are still make her retract her earlier one. This is a ploy by the somebody.”
Zahira also vented her ire
missing after the Best testimony in the Best Bak- Congress to defame the
BJP government. She is a against the Anjuman-e-ImBakery was torched by a ery massacre case.
They succeeded, she says, mad girl and can say any- dad-e-Bahami Relief Comrioting mob on March 1,
mittee, one of the most ac2002, during violence follow- into frightening her and the thing.”
Congress
councillor, tive Muslim organisations,
ing the train carnage at result was the collpase of
Godhra on February 27 that the prosecution’s case and Chandrakant Shrivastava, for not supporting her duryear.
gives a similar argument. “I ing the course of the trial.
acquittal for all 21 accused.
Backlash begins against Zahira
DRDO: Trishul is
alive and kicking
By Anantha Krishnan M
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bangalore: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Monday brushed aside reports
that the short-range surfaceto-air missile (SAM) Trishul
programme has been downgraded and shelved.
A top DRDO official, who
spoke to The Times of India
from Delhi over phone, said
that the Trishul missile, a vital component of India’s Integrated guided missile development programme, has
not been abandoned.
“We were looking into
some areas of concern to ensure that the performance is
consistent so that we don’t
lose the confidence of our
customers. For the time being it is not user-driven, but
R&D driven. That doesn’t
mean the entire project is put
on the back-burner,” the official said.
The DRDO is expected to
come out with an official
statement on the status of
the Trishul programme in
the next few days. “We will
make our stand clear soon.
We deny these reports that
put the morale of our scientists down. A surface-to-air
missile is always a complicated project and there will be
some setbacks on the road to
development.
You
don’t
dump a car, if there is any engine problem,” he said.
Justifying the decision to
allow the Navy to buy Israelimade Barak missiles, the official said: “We didn’t want
the Navy to wait for our missile because of the delay.
However, we have promised
the Navy to deliver Trishul
for evaluation after nullifying the snags in command
guidance.”
Trishul is a highly agile,
all-weather missile with
quick reaction. It can be
launched from a tank,
wheeled-vehicle or a ship and
can hit an incoming low-level
missile or aircraft.
IAF team
for UN duty
in Congo
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: While the final decision to send
troops to Iraq as part of
the ‘‘stabilisation force’’
is yet to be taken, an IAF
contingent with nine attack and multi-utility
helicopters is all set to
leave for Congo to take
part in the UN peacekeeping operations.
Defence ministry officials say the 250-strong
IAF contingent, along
with the nine Mi-17 and
Mi-25 helicopter gunships and 100 infantry
soldiers, will be flagged
off by IAF chief Air
Chief Marshal S Krishnaswamy on July 11.
The Indian contingent
will be based at Goma.
Around 35 Indian military observers have
been part of the UN Mission in Congo since November 1999.
Rajya Sabha MP T Subbirami Reddy being given ‘The man of the year award’ in San Jose,
California, last week.
Flying coffins?
MiG-23 even
more ‘lethal’
Mig crashes
Mig-21
Mig-23
Mig-25
Mig-27
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
2003-04
12
7
11
2
2
4
1
2
—
1
—
—
3
—
2
—
—
1
1
—
Total
32
9
1
5
2
Till now
By Rajat Pandit
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mig-29
New Delhi: Unbelievable as
it may sound, the Indian Air
Force has something that can
beat the record of ‘‘flying
coffins’’ MiG-21s — the MiG23s.
More difficult to fly than
the MiG-21s, their accident
rate per 10,000 hours of
flying is the highest in the
IAF fleet.
The ageing swing-wing
MiG-23s were to be phased
out by the mid-1990s but due
to delay in induction of new
fighters, the IAF has been
compelled to continue flying
these jets.
The
IAF
has
three
squadrons of the MiG-23BN
ground
attack
fighters
and one squadron of the
MiG-23MF
air
defence
fighters.
The MiG-23BN crash near
Ludhiana on Monday led to
no loss of life but another
MiG-23 crash near the same
Halwara base in April killed
four persons.
Of the Monday crash, the
Indian Air Force said: ‘‘It was
a planned ejection by the pilot after a technical snag in a
designated safe area.’’
Defence minister George
Fernandes
and
Indian
Air Force chief Air Chief
Marshal S Krishnaswamy
may defend the air-worthiness of the MiG fighters but
the fact remains that they
continue to crash with
alarming regularity.
There have been 305 ‘‘Category-I accidents’’ (where the
aircraft is totally damaged)
in the IAF since 1990-1991,
with 145 pilots losing their
lives.
Many civilians have also
been killed on the ground
during such crashes, with as
many as 23 dying in 20022003.
‘‘The MiG-21s make more
news since they constitute
over 40 per cent of the IAF
fighter fleet. They account
for the bulk of flying sorties
and consequently, more accidents,’’ said an officer.
If all the MiG variants are
taken into account, then they
constitute over 75 per cent of
the IAF fleet.
Several factors contribute
to the Indian Air Force’s high
accident rate. One, ageing
aircraft of the 1960s and
1970s vintage with design
limitations difficult to overcome.
Two, direct exposure of
inexperienced pilots to highly-unforgiving
supersonic
aircraft like the MiG-21s
without transitional training
on the desperately-needed
advanced
jet
trainers
(AJTs).
Three, absence of new-generation flight simulators to
train rookie pilots on how to
handle emergencies.
Four, poor maintenance
and inadequate quality control on spares and rotables.
to be arranged for the traders
on the move. Setting up medical facilities is also of prime
importance
as
staying
overnight at a height of
12,000 feet can lead to health
complications.
Officials foresee yet another problem: The road from
Gangtok to Nathula passes
through a number of army
units.
Allowing
traffic
through them can pose a security problem. Some of
these establishments may
have to be shifted, they say.
A brigadier, however, discounted the apprehensions.
“Even if traffic and people
come up in large numbers,
they can’t enter the battalion
areas.”
The infrastructure problems don’t worry the local
people. They hope trade activities will change their life
for the better. Bimla at
Tsongo pointed out that trading would mean more jobs for
locals as porters and hotel
owners.
Right now, civilians are residing in the Nathula and
Tsongo areas under temporary permits, police official
Lakpa Singh Lepcha said.
in no hurry
to appeal
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Gandhinagar: The Gujarat
government is in no hurry
to decide on whether to appeal against the Best Bakery
massacre judgement, acquitting all those charged. It has
still not held any official
meeting on the issue, even as
an NHRC team has come visiting the state.
Minister of state for home
Amit Shah said here on
Monday his department is
yet to get a certified copy of
the fast-track court judgement. He added: “We have
three months to decide either way. I cannot say
whether we will appeal or
not. We will first study the
judgement, point by point,
clause by clause. The assistant
public
prosecutor
would have to guide us.”
Recalling that in many
earlier riot cases, too, the accused were not punished,
Shah said, “It is desirable
that justice is done to the
riot victims. In future, if the
riot victims, whether of
Naroda Patia, Sardarpura or
Gulbarg Society demand so,
all protection will be provided to ensure whatever they
say whatever they wish to in
court without fear.”
However, the minister
added, “But they must first
approach us so that we
know that they are facing
a threat.”
Ahmedabad: The special
Prevention of Terrorism Act
(Pota) court on Monday rejected the bail application of
Maulvi Hussain Umarji, the
alleged mastermind of the
Godhra carnage.
Rejecting his bail plea, special Pota judge Sonia Gokani
said the ‘‘incident is a serious one and has wide repercussions across the state’’.
Gokani, who had reserved
the ruling last week due to
some technical problems in
her office computer, said in
view of the gravity of the
matter and the fact that nearly 50 other accused were absconding, the cleric could not
be granted bail.
The hearing on the petition had been completed on
June 30. ‘‘Bail cannot be
granted to petitioner at present as many of the accused
Vigilance fails
to turn up at
Badal’s house
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Chandigarh: Former Punjab chief minister Parkash
Singh Badal’s official residence here was the venue of
a high drama on Monday as
the Vigilance Bureau team
didn’t turn up as anticipated.
According to the staff at
Badal’s residence in Sector 2,
it was conveyed to them that
the VB would raid the house
around 11.30 am. It led to
frantic activities as nearly 60
Akali Dal activists arrived
soon, pitched a tent and made
arrangements for “langar”.
Harbans Singh, an attendant at the residence, said a
VB representative made a
round in the morning to ensure that the raiding party
got the keys of the house in
the absence of Badal. While
the VB did not keep its time,
anxious workers kept their
eyes glued to the main gate
expecting the sleuths to drop
in any moment.
Difficult road ahead for Sino-Indian trade
By Nirmalya Banerjee
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Nathula: Major improvements in infrastructure will
be necessary before Sino-Indian border trade can flourish.
First, the road from Gangtok to Nathula, a distance of
52 km, needs to be upgraded.
At present, the road is maintained by the Border Roads
Organisation and caters primarily to the Army.
It barely allows two vehicles to pass. The last stretch,
from Sherathang to Nathula
— a distance of about 10 kms,
allows one-way traffic, controlled by the military police.
When trade takes off, managing traffic will be a major
headache. There are a few
sinking zones and landslide
prone areas along the road.
At certain stretches, a slight
error can throw a car tumbling down a few hundred
feet. In monsoon, when the
road is slippery and a thick
fog often reduces visibility to
near zero, driving along the
road can be a hair-raising experience.
The fact that within a distance of 50 kms one climbs
9,000 feet gives an idea of the
gradient of the road. For the
last half a kilometre towards
the border, there is no road at
all. According to intelligence
reports, the condition of
road is no better on the other
side of the border.
There are other infrastructure aspects which need
upgradation. Parking places
for vehicles have to be
arranged, customs and immigration offices need to be
built, warehouses for goods
and cold storages for perishable items are required. Accommodation facilities have
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So far, some 75 accused
have been arrested and
slapped with charges under
Pota. Nearly 53 accused are
still absconding, while some
have been granted bail.
The Gujarat HC had on
July 4 granted bail to four coaccused in the Godhra carnage case, including former
Godhra municipality chief
Mohammed Hussain Kalota.
Earlier, the Pota court had
also ‘‘discharged’’ another
accused Sayed Abdul Sattar
Kala after the investigating
agency failed to collect any
evidence of his involvement
in the carnage in which 58
people were charred.
A mob had set ablaze the S6 coach of Sabarmati Express near Godhra railway
station on February 27, 2002,
sparking widespread riots.
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Militants storm Army SP MLA shot at, aide killed
camp in Kashmir
TIMES NEWS NETWORK & PTI
Srinagar/Jammu: In two separate
incidents, militants attacked an
Army camp in north Kashmir with
automatic weapons and two former
ultras were gunned down in south
Kashmir in the past 24 hours.
Sources said the army camp at
Kaloosa Bandipora in Baramulla
district was attacked on Sunday
night and the exchange of fire continued for about half an hour.
While there were no reports of casuality, the militants escaped under
the cover of darkness, sources said.
Later, villagers alleged that the security forces blasted a nearby house
and a bandsaw machine. But officials say two IEDs, planted by the
militants in the house and in the
bandsaw, went off while they were
being defused by security forces.
In Rajouri district Pakistani militants in army fatigue shot dead five
Hindus, including two women, and
injured another in two border villages on Monday.
An unspecified number of militants sneaked into Indian territory
on Monday morning and opened fire
on civilians at Dhaneka and Langar
villages killing five of them on the
spot, DIG of police, Rajouri-Poonch
range, S M Sahai, said.
Meanwhile, two militants of the
Lashker-e-Toiba and another belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen were arrested by security forces in separate
operations in the Kashmir Valley on
Monday, a police spokeman said.
Two LeT militants were arrested
by the security forces from Hamza
colony in Buchpora locality of Srinagar, he said two hand grenades, 68
rounds, an improvised explosive device circuit, a detonator, ten metres
of cordex wire and a battery were recovered from them.
Etawah: Samajwadi Party MLA Kamlesh Pathak was shot
at and seriously wounded while one of his associates was
killed in an attack by armed assailants on Monday, police
sources said.
All the five assailants have been arrested, they said. The
legislator from Derapur in Kanpur Dehat district had gone
to his brother-in-law’s place in Bhind district to settle a land
dispute. Pathak was taken to Gwalior for treatment. PTI
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi addresses the three-day Vichar Manthan Shivir in Shimla on Monday.
Sonia’s vichar: BJP a failure
By Rajesh Ramachandran
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Shimla: The cold climes of this
hill station seem to have steeled
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s resolve to take the battle into
the enemy camp.
Picking on the Sangh Parivar’s
favourite issue of national security, Sonia unequivocally pronounced that the BJP was ‘‘using
terrorism as a pretext to polarise
our society’’ because terrorist attacks have never been so brazen
and extensive as they are now.
National security is the prime
issue among the ‘‘seven failures’’
of the BJP-led government identified by Sonia in her inaugural
address to the party’s three-day
‘Vichar Manthan Shivir’ that began here on Monday. This appears to be an attempt to counter
the BJP’s claims of being the sole
votary of ‘‘nationalism’’.
Referring to the CBI’s charges
against L K Advani for his role in
the demolition of the Babri
Masjid, Sonia said he was ‘‘the
only home minister charge-sheeted while in office’’. She also said
Advani had not kept his promise
of publishing a white paper on
ISI activities.
Former
foreign
minister
Jaswant Singh escorting terrorists to Kandahar, the Kargil intelligence failure, hundreds of terrorists occupying territory in
Surankote near Jammu, the nonspending of Rs 24,000 crore for defence modernisation, diverting
the Rs 4,200 crore Kargil surcharge, the Tehelka expose and
the coffin scam would all soon become Congress’ campaign slogans, she said.
Gandhi referred to the talk
about early general elections and
promised to announce on
Wednesday a margdarshan, or
plan of action, for the party in
the upcoming state and Lok Sabha elections. A ‘‘unique party’’
taking on a government that has
‘‘failed’’ is how Sonia presented
the new campaign theme.
National security, communal
discord, economic policies, suicide by farmers, foreign policy,
mobilisation of troops and scams
would thus become the party’s
campaign issues in the next general elections.
Sonia did not refer to the failure of the Kanchi Sankaracharya’s attempts to build a
Ram temple at Ayodhya through
an out-of-court deal. But she
named the VHP and the RSS as
having sought to ‘‘grievously
damage the secular fabric of our
society’’.
Sonia also made her party’s
stand on Iraq clear. ‘‘Indian
troops must not be deployed’’ in
Iraq, she firmly declared.
Maya-jaal? Lord Ram
back in UP textbooks
By Ambikanand Sahay
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati is reported to have ordered the revocation of an earlier decision of her government’s Basic Education Council, authorising removal
of chapters on Ram, Krishna, Shivaji,
Savarkar and some other religious
and historical personalities from junior school textbooks. Now fresh textbooks will be published after reincorporating the deleted chapters.
Mayawati’s action comes in the
wake of angry protests by BJP leaders, led by Vinay Katiyar in particular. ‘‘It’s incomprehensible, intolerable,’’ Katiyar told reporters.
The chief minister’s corrective
measure may pacify angry protesters
within the BJP camp for the time being, but questions still remain.
How could such a major decision be
taken by the basic education council
in a state where the BJP is part of the
government? Had the council authorities taken even the verbal approval of
Deft move
• The move had drawn angry
protests from state BJP leaders
• Chapters on B R Ambedkar had
been added in the new textbooks
• Maya says she was not aware of
the changes
• An inquiry has been initiated
the superiors while recommending
the changes? Or else, were they
just trying to be more loyal to the
queen?
Mayawati has clarified that neither
she nor the state’s basic education
minister knew about the publication
of the controversial books.
What had perhaps added poignancy
to the anger of the BJP hardliners
was that new chapters on B R Ambedkar and Jyotiba Phule were added on
even as the names of Ram, Krishna
and Shivaji were deleted. The chief
minister has now ordered an inquiry
into the matter.
Dropsy may
have crossed
MP’s borders
By Suchandana Gupta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Gwalior: The ongoing dropsy panic in Madhya Pradesh
may have affected other
states also. The region under
the grip of alleged dropsy
cases is the largest producer
of mustard oil in India.
Buyers of mustard oil
made here are Bengal, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
MP has closed down shops
of all manufacturers and retailers selling loose mustard
oil in the northern regions of
the state after 272 alleged cases of dropsy were reported in
10 days from the districts of
Shivpuri and Sheopur.
But the fear now is that the
adultarated oil may have
reached those states which
buy oil regularly from MP.
The state administration,
however, denies such a
possibility.
SC wants action against
Mumbai sex test clinic
By Rakesh Bhatnagar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on
Monday asked the Maharashtra
government to take ‘‘appropriate
action’’ within three weeks against
the Malpani Infertility Clinic of
Mumbai which is involved in
banned sex determination techniques and has a website propagating them.
While hearing a petition, filed by
an NGO called ‘‘CEHAT’’ working
against increasing female foeticide
and sex determination testa, counsel Sanjay Parikh showed a copy of
a print out downloaded from the
Mumbai’s clinic website.
Taking note of the printout,
which also offers advice and assistance on ‘‘how to select the sex determination of your baby’’, a
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Bench of Justices M B Shah and A
R Lakshmanan directed the state
government to invoke the legislation which carries at least three
years’ imprisonment and a fine of
Rs 10,000 for propagating sex determination.
The Maharashtra government
had earlier told the court that the
Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition
of Sex Determination) Act, 1994,
which was recently amended by
the Central government, was strictly implemented in the state.
But Parikh said the state government had not taken any action
against the Mumbai clinic. Parikh
also said that except Gujarat and
Goa, no other state has so far set up
state advisory boards for implementing the Act.
TN recruiting
temporary staff
Chennai: A day after the
arrest and dismissal of thousands of government employees under the Esma Act, the
Tamil Nadu government started recruiting temporary staff
on Monday.
Meanwhile, the state government’s plea against a singlejudge order, directing the state
police to release all the arrested
employees is yet to be heard by
the Madras High Court.
Interviews for recruitment
was on official sources said,
adding that the appointment
for those, who attended the interviews are likely to be handed
over on Monday itself. PTI
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IN BRIEF
NTPC ink pact with IIE: NTPC
and Energy Group, Institute of International Education have entered into
an agreement in training and development area of power distribution.
The agreement was signed by K K
Sinha of NTPC and Romir Chatterjee, programme director, IIE. TNN
NIC signs MoU with Uco Bank:
The National Insurance Corporation
signed an MoU with Kolkata-based
Uco Bank to provide value added
services to captive customers. As
per the terms of the agreement, Uco
Bank will sell NIC’s general insurance
policies from its branches. TNN
IFCI to help Jharkhand: The Industrial Finance Corporation of India
has extended its cooperation to
Jharkhand government for developing the state as a major industrial
zone.The state industry department
was also planning to appoint IFCI as
the agency to monitor Rs 270 cr expansion of the ACC. PTI
Feedback from PSUs is invited.
Address mail to: News Editor, Times House,
The Times of India, 7 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg,
New Delhi 110002. Fax (011) 371-5832, 332-3346.
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HPCL seeks role in IOC venture
By Sanjay Dutta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation
Ltd (HPCL), slated for disinvestment, has approached sister PSU
IndianOil Corporation and private sector ports infrastructure
major Adani Group for joining
their venture for a Rs 300 crore
crude import terminal at
Mundra port in Gujarat.
At a meeting in Delhi
recently, HPCL officials told Indian Oil Corporationand the
Adani Group that they want to
share the import terminal for
bringing in crude for their proposed refinery at Bhatinda in
Punjab.
The completion of the refinery, estimated to cost Rs 9,000
crore, is proving to be a loadstone for HPCL’s evaluation.
IOC has entered into a 30-year
tieup with the Adani Group for
building a single buoy mooring
that can unload crude from VLCCs (very large crude carriers),
which are more economical than
smaller tankers.
Indian Oil Corporation
director (pipelines) A M Uplenchwar confirmed the move
but declined to disclose further
details.
Informed sources said Indian
Oil Corporation could save substantial money if HPCL shares
the terminal’s surplus capacity.
Indian Oil Corporation plans
to pump up to 8 million tonnes of
crude per year to meet extra
demand arising from Panipat refinery expansion.
This will leave about 10-12 million tonne capacity which can be
used by HPCL.
The sources said the Adani
Group has also offered to lower
the charges to be paid by Indian
Oil Corporation if HPCL comes
in as another partner.
At present, ndian Oil Corporation is to pay the Adani Group
Rs 35 crore each year for using
the terminal. Besides this fixed
cost, IndianOil will also pay a
throughput charge.
With IndianOil planning to import about 8 million tonnes of
crude a year through this port,
the throughput charge is estimated at Rs 42 crore.
The deal also envisages construction of storage facilities by
IndianOil in tandem to the port.
For this, IndianOil has acquired
about 150 acres of land from the
Mundra Group company, Gujarat Adani Port Ltd, for Rs 35
crore, the sources said.
Though the construction work
is scheduled to be completed by
September 2004, sources close to
the deal said Indian Oil Corporation is expected to start importing oil earlier than that.
BHEL develops
process to check
plant erosion
New Delhi: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has developed a high velocity oxy fuel
(HVOF) thermal spray process for
preventing silt erosion in components of hydro turbines in hydro
electric power stations.
Components of power stations
in the Himalayan region are
prone to erosion due to the presence of silt in the rivers. During
field trials, HVOF coatings were
applied to turbine needles at
Shanan project and to guide
vanes, top cover and lower ring at
Bairasiul project. It was found
that the coated components
showed negligible erosion.
At present, 33 hydro power stations are affected by severe silt
erosion. Estimates show erosion
costs the power stations Rs 500 cr
annually. With another 21 power
projects on the anvil, the magnitude of losses will mount. TNN
PNB,Vijaya Bank tieup on insurance
New Delhi: Punjab National Bank (PNB), Principal Financial Services Inc, USA and Vijaya Bank signed an MoU to join
hands in life insurance, pensions and asset management
business in India. The proposed venture will provide Indian
mutual find, insurance and pension markets, innovative
products through the network of branches of the PNB and
the Vijaya Bank. Picture shows Rex Auyeng, vice-president
(Asia), Principal Financial Services Inc, USA, T S
Narayanasami, ED, PNB and P A Sethi, ED, Vijaya Bank exchanging documents as S S Kohli, CMD, PNB and M S Kapur,
CMD, Vijaya Bank look on. TNN
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Utkal lesson:
Stop cheating,
will block road
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Bhubaneswar: Tradition isn’t what is
used to be in this university.
Second year law students from colleges affiliated to Utkal University on
Monday boycotted their examination
and blocked national highway number
five here for nearly three hours as they
were not allowed to carry books inside
the examination hall to copy as has
been the practice for several decades.
Acting on directives from the Orissa
High Court as well as the Committee
for Smooth Management and Re-organisation of Law Colleges to stop malpractices during law examinations, the
university authorities deployed teachers to screen the students in the presence of the police.
The students were not allowed to carry any material with them into the hall
which could aid unfair means, thus
sparking off protests in 11 of the 14 law
colleges where examinations were
scheduled. The students called off
their protests after being assured their
grievances would be looked into.
Although no untoward incident was
reported, a platoon of police personnel
rushed to the spot. Students of D S Law
College, Kendrapada, and the Law College, Cuttack, also resorted to road
blockades.
Students demanded that examinations be conducted in the usual manner
and malpractice be allowed. They argued that classes were not taken in the
colleges, which did not have adequate
infrastructure, and they were not told
beforehand that unfair means will not
be tolerated. The inter law examination, which was boycotted, would be
held again after all other examinations
were over, varsity authorities said.
Meanwhile, examinations conducted
at M S Law College in Cuttack, would
be held valid, examinations held at
Capital Law, Bhubaneswar, and G M
Law College, Puri would be declared invalid because of malpractice charges.
Students of Utkal University Law
College, G N M Law College and J R
Law College staged a road blockade on
NH-five in front of the Utkal University campus, disrupting vehicular traffic
from 7 am to 10 am.
‘‘Law should be accorded similar status as other professional courses. Unless that is done there is no point talking of quality law education and fair
practices,’’ said B K Nayak, general secretary, UULC Students’ Union.
President of G N M Law College, S B
Sarangi said: ‘‘The students should
have been told from the beginning of
the session that fair practices will be
adopted. Malpractices have been going
on for years.
Enough is enough: Seer
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai/Lucknow: A day after
the All India Muslim Personal Law
Board (AIMPLB) rejected the
Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra
Saraswathi’s proposal on Ayodhya,
the seer on Monday vowed that he
would not make any more efforts to
solve the issue.
‘‘There would be no more efforts
on my part. But our doors are open.
If they want, they (Muslim organisations) can come and meet me,
talk to me,’’ the Kanchi seer told reporters at Kanchipuram.
He reiterated that Muslims
should rethink their position, and
with ‘‘broadmindedness and magnanimity’’, come forward to donate
the land and promote communal
harmony. ‘‘A house of Allah should
be a holy, religious place and not a
monument for a king,’’ he remarked.
On its part, the AIMPLB said
from now on, it will not entertain
any proposal from individuals, but
is open for talks if initiated directly by the Union government. ‘‘We
would have gone further to discuss
the legal points for reaching a settlement on the undisputed land,
had it not been for the Kanchi seer
backtracking by asking us to surrender all the three sites (Mathura,
Kashi and Ayodhya),’’ said Qasim
Rasool Ilyas, convenor of the
Board’s 11-member committee on
Babri Masjid.
But Ilyas added that the Board is
open for yet another round of dialogue if the Centre offers a formula for amicable and peaceful settlement of the issue.
The AIMPLB has also drafted a
letter addressed to the seer, elaborating the reasons and circumstances which led to rejection of
his proposals dated June 16 and
July 1, Ilyas said.
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Girls at an RSS training camp in Jammu.
Queue up, bus
to Lahore may
be overbooked
Hardliners
hijacking
the issue?
By Ambikanand Sahay
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: With the Sangh Parivar and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB)
toughening their postures, it is
clear that hardliners are on the
rise within both warring groups.
What is clear is that from now on,
it is the hardliners, and not the
moderates, who will set the political agenda on behalf of their organisations.
The AIMPLB’s rejection of the
RSS appeal was on the expected
lines. It had to happen. But why
did the RSS take a U-turn in
Kanyakumari in the first place
and ask the Muslims to step aside
to allow the construction of a
temple at the disputed site, and
hand over the mosques at Mathura and Kashi?
Firstly, the RSS did not want
the accusation that it had conveniently forgotten Ram for the
sake of power.
Also, the Sangh Parivar realised the BJP was losing ground
almost everywhere in general
and the Ganga belt in particular.
Finally, came the realisation that
something needed to be done fast
to stem the rot.
Whipping up the Ram temple
movement has been a tried and
tested formula for them. And that
is precisely why it took such a
confrontationist line.
Assam banks on boats and elephants
Ajit Ninan
By Daulat Rahman
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Guwahati: The Pragjyotish Gaonlia Bank (PGB),
the first rural bank of
North-East, does cash
transactions on boats for
six months in a year as
flood submerges some
of its remote branches in
Assam.
PGB chairman Bhaba
Kanta Borah told TNN on
Saturday that the bank, in
order to meet its objective
of developing the rural
economy,
has
opened
branches in areas where
boats and elephants are the
sole means of transporta-
tion. ‘‘Boats are used to carry bank staff and customers. Cash transaction,
especially the deposit part,
is done on boats to minimise inconvenience to
customers,’’ he said.
The PGB branches at
Luitpoong in Sonitpur district and two others in
Goalpara district are worst
hit by the floods.
There are branches in
Lower and Central Assam
which have been totally cut
off from the rest of the
state. Kurua branch of
PGB in Lower Assam is inaccessible as floodwater
has washed away the connecting bridge.
Borah said that militancy was less of a problem
than inaccessibility. The
PGB chairman congratulated bank staff for doing
an excellent job against all
odds.
The bank has achieved a
total deposit of Rs 764.53
crore and total outstanding
advances of Rs 320.02 crore
shared by 11,26,817 depositors and 1,69,725 beneficiaries.
The present network of
the bank includes the head
office in Nalbari, three
area offices at Dhubri,
Kokrajhar and Tezpur and
164 branches spread over
10 districts of Assam.
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TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Malerkotla
(Ludhiana):
Bookings for the much-inthe-news bus service to Lahore was to begin on Monday
morning and and going by
the response at Malerkotla,
the town with the highest
population of Muslims in
Punjab, the bus will sure be
overcrowded.
Bookings could not be
made on Monday as the MEA
deferred it to Tuesday.
Of the eight lakh population here, 80 per cent are
Muslims, with many having
family members settled in
Pakistan. The Times of India
reporter spoke to some of
those hoping to get on the bus
when it resumes its first journey, scheduled for Friday.
Harshad Dalli, a senior political leader, and resident of
Talaab Bazaar, said his two
sisters were married in Lahore. ‘‘When my mother expired last year, my sisters
could not come to Malerkotla
because of the closed borders,’’ he said.
Applauding the government’s move to reopen these,
he said the recent MPs’ delegation which went to Pakistan had people there literal-
ly crying for permission to
come over and meet their relatives across the border.
Mohammad Zaffar Malik,
38, of Sarhindi Gate, who
says he has a booking for the
Friday bus trip to Lahore,
has his parents and all his
sisters and cousins settled
there; only a brother and he
are here. The two of them, he
says, have led depressed
lives, not knowing when it
would be possible to meet
everyone again.
The resumption of the bus
service was a heartening
news, he said, adding: ‘‘Inshallah umeed hain train ka
silsila bhi sarkaar shuru kar
degi (I hope a train service
will also begin soon).’’
Aslamad Ali, 50, a shopkeeper at Jamalpura, was
troubled over the differences
between the two countries.
His nephew recently got married in Pakistan and they
couldn’t attend the marriage
function. ‘‘I heard it was a
great wedding and was sad
we couldn’t attend it,’’ he
said. His daughter, Atia, 21,
will be luckier.
‘‘I am getting married soon
and I am thrilled to find they
all can be here... we will sing,
dance, and enjoy ourselves
together,’’ said she.
Pak envoy to present
credentials on July 10
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The acceptance of the credentials of Pakistan’s high commissioner-designate Aziz Ahmed Khan,
who arrived here a week ago, will take place sooner than
expected. Khan, who called on foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal on Monday, will present his credentials to President A P J Abdul Kalam on July 10.
It was earlier expected that Khan would get the opportunity to present his credentials — which authorises
him to represent the Pakistan government — only
around the time when Indian high commissioner-designate Shiv Shankar Menon could do the same in
Islamabad.
But Khan, a career diplomat who last served as Pakistan foreign office spokesperson, will now present his
credentials on Thursday, along with ambassadors from
Croatia and Eritrea, said an external affairs ministry
official.
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McCartney borrowed ‘Yesterday’
NYT
USIC experts say Sir Paul McCartney subconsciously borrowed the melody of his classic ballad Yesterday from a Nat King
Cole record. The origins of Yesterday
(Saturday), which has been recorded
by more than 2,000 artists and played
on the radio more than 6m times, has
always been a mystery — not least to
McCartney himself.
He woke up in his flat in London in
May 1965 with the song in his head. He
realised that he might have borrowed
the arrangement from another song
and asked friends if they could suggest any similar tunes. They convinced him it was his and that it had
come to him in a dream.
Now musicologists have identified
echoes of Answer Me, the 1953 UK hit
for both Frankie Laine and David
Whitfield, which was later covered by
Cole. They say the melodies, the rhythmic phrasing, the musical cadences
and even the words strongly resemble
each other.
The experts believe that McCartney,
aged 11, heard Cole’s version and retained it in his subconscious until he
came to write the music for Yesterday
11 years later. The lyrics were written
later on a drive from Lisbon to the Algarve with his then girlfriend, Jane
Asher, the actress.
They include: Yesterday (Saturday),
all my troubles seemed so far away, now
it looks as though they’re here to stay.
Answer Me has the lines: Yesterday I
M
Sir Paul McCartney
believed that love was here to stay, won’t
you tell me where I’ve gone astray.
The similarity was spotted by
Spencer Leigh, a pop historian who
has interviewed McCartney on a programme. Leigh explored the links between the songs for a book about the
Beatles called The Walrus was Ringo.
He said: “McCartney was working
with this medley in his head which he
realised was a cracking tune. He was
playing it to people saying, ‘Don’t you
recognise this?’
“I wonder what might have happened if somebody had said, ‘Isn’t it
like Answer Me?’ He might have forgotten Yesterday and we would have
lost one of the world’s great songs.”
Leigh’s co-author, Alan Clayson,
who has written separate biographies
of the Beatles, said: “It is not plagiarism. He was worried that he had subconsciously lifted it.” Dominic Pedler,
who deconstructs songs to show how
musicians came to write them, supports the Answer Me theory in his
forthcoming book, The Songwriting
Secrets of the Beatles. “There are some
uncanny similarities: The overlap of
lyrics, the multiple rhyming emphasis
on words ending with ‘ay’, the similar
scan of the songs,” he said.
“McCartney didn’t hijack the song,
but he must have been inspired by it.”
None of the other Beatles played
during the song and would leave McCartney to perform it alone on stage.
Released as a single in America it immediately went to No 1.
Hunter Davies, the Beatles’ official
biographer, said: “Paul will remember
Answer Me. It was a popular ballad before rock’n’roll came along. I have never thought it was similar to Yesterday
(Saturday), but I can vaguely see it
now.”
However, Geoff Baker, McCartney’s
spokesman, said: “To me the two songs
are about as similar as Get Back and
God Save the Queen.” Sunday Times, London
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Gene leading
to heart
defects found
Washington: A medical
team headed by non-resident
Indian Deepak Srivastava
has pinned down a gene that
can cause congenital cardiac
defects, a finding that could
increase the chances of saving children born with a condition involving holes in the
chambers of their heart.
The study by University of
Texas (UT) Southwestern
Medical Center for which
Srivastava, a pediatrician at
the Centre, was senior author, is published in the online edition of Nature.
Children with defects in
the gene, known as Gata-4,
are born with holes connecting the chambers of their
hearts.
The gene finding, the researchers told the Wall Street
Journal, is already being
used to screen parents who
might be carriers, and could
eventually lead to a simple
treatment for expectant
mothers.
Known as ‘Septal Defects’,
the holes can typically be
patched up with surgery. PTI
1,000 dinosaur
fossils discovered
Beijing: Chinese scientists
on Monday announced the
discovery of over 1,000 dinosaur fossils in the country’s “dinosaur cemetery” in
Sichuan province.
The fossils were found in
the Dashanpu area using advanced geophysical prospecting techniques, Xinhua news
agency reported from the
provincial capital, Chengdu.
However, scientists are
still working on the cause for
the uncommon density of dinosaur bodies in such a limited area.
The dinosaurs might have
died in Dashanpu or been
pushed there by flood, Peng
said.
Meanwhile, the area has
yielded many other vertebrate fossils including turtles, crocodiles, fishes and
reptiles similar to mammals.
Judging by the fossils already unearthed, Dashanpu
still stores various kinds of
vertebrates
besides
dinosaurs and palaeontologists
are planning a thorough-going study of the cemetery,
Peng said. PTI
AROUND THE WORLD
AFP
Sticking your own price:
A shopper in southern
France literally named his
own price when he visited
several supermarkets near
here. According to police, the
22-year-old suspect fabricated barcode labels on his
home computer, and by using them to replace the originals was able to acquire
goods for a fraction of their
real prices. Police said a
store clerk spotted him as he
was affixing the home-made
labels on boxes containing
garage-door motors, costing
2,000 euros (US$1,740)
apiece. The young man,
whose identity was not given,
allegedly had re-priced the
motors at 160 euros. According to the police, the suspect
used the Internet to re-sell
the goods he had obtained.
AFP
‘T3’ makes millions: After a 12-year absence, the
nearly unstoppable cyborg
from the future returned in
Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” which stalked an estimated $44 million during
the three-day Fourth of July
holiday weekend. It has
amassed $72.5 million since
its release Tuesday evening.
The Arnold Schwarzenegger
starrer, from Intermedia and
C2 Pictures, proved to be the
fourth-biggest opening
weekend of all time for the
holiday frame. The Jonathan
Mostow-directed film easily
topped the charts as the
largest debut for an R-rated
film during the holiday, beating its predecessor, “T2:
Judgment Day”. It also was a
personal best for
Schwarzenegger. Reuters
Ritu Beri makes a comeback in Paris with a show of her
Autumn-Winter 2003-2004 collection on Sunday.
ers.” According to The Couri- was “High Noon” for Clinton
and “Spartacus” for JFK, reer-Mail, the wife of England
ports New York Post. The
football captain David Beckfirst film Carter watched as a
ham, whose only acting asPresident was “All the Presisignment till now was in the
dent’s Men,” which interest
1997 British film “Spice
ingly detailed the downfall of
World,” will visit the States
again later this year to finalise his predecessor Richard
things. She also plans to take Nixon. Apparently Carter
watched a total of 580 films
up acting lessons. ANI
Posh lands film role:
in the White House, more
She tried everything possible
Prezes favourite films: A than any other President,
to woo the Americans, but to
former projectionist at the
said Fischer. ANI
no avail. But, her recent visit
White House has revealed
across the Atlantic to raise
the favourite films of various
Blood record: An Ausher profile has finally paid-off
US Presidents. While speaktralian man who received a
for Posh Spice Victoria Beck- ing to the British news chanlife-saving blood transfusion
ham has bagged her first
nel Sky News, Paul Fischer
as a teenager 51 years ago
Hollywood film role. The 29said that war movies like
has set the Guinness world
year-old former Spice Girl is
“Black Hawk Down” and
record for the most blood doset to star in an upcoming re- “Saving Private Ryan” find
nated by one person, the
make of Mel Brooks’ classic
favour with Bush, the current
Red Cross said on Monday.
1968 comedy “The Producoccupant of Oval Office. It
James harrison has donated
around 480 litres of blood in
more than 804 visits to the
blood bank, the Red Cross
said. That is the equivalent of
Now it is the turn of prostitutes to have rubbed the Yanks
about 1,200 cans of coke. “I
the wrong way. The American embassy in Wellington is
was inspired to become a
angry about a job insert wherein the Auckland-based
donor after I received a life‘White House’ massage parlour is seeking prostitutes, a
saving blood transfusion at
report in the Sunday Star Times said. The ad, emblathe age of 15,” said Harrison,
zoned with a logo almost identical to the US presidential
who lives in New South
seal, is titled, “Prostitutes required at Monica’s”. “We are
Wales state. “I decided then
sending a letter to the advertiser that expresses our
to give back to those undisappointment and displeasure about their choice of
named heros who helped
symbolism,” a US embassy spokeswoman said. ANI
save my life.” AFP
‘White House’ seeking hookers
Consult workers before layoffs
London: Companies which fail to consult their employees
over major changes including layoffs could face fines up to
75,000 pounds, the government said Monday.
‘‘I want these changes to lead to a ‘no surprises’ culture at
work where employers and employees discuss common
ground and find solutions to mutual problems,’’ said Trade
Secretary Patricia Hewitt.
‘‘I want to see an end to the climate where people only hear
about job losses from the media over their breakfasts.’’ She
said the proposed legislation was based on a European Union
directive and drafted in consultation with the Trades Union
Congress, representing British unions, and the Confederation of British Industry, representing employers. AP
Infant flat
skulls can
be avoided
Chicago: Pediatricians told
parents Monday to shift infants’ heads each night to avoid
flattened skulls when they
sleep on their back, the recommended position to avoid crib
death.
The American Academy of
Pediatrics issued a statement
saying there had been an increase of reports of children
with flattened heads, probably
due to advice pediatricians
have been giving for several
years to put children to sleep
on their back.
The head condition is
basically preventable and
treatable, the group said,
and can be addressed by placing infants on their stomach
while they are awake or
by shifting their head nightly
to the right or left side when
they are put to sleep on their
back.
The group also recommended changing the baby’s orientation in the crib, and turning
the crib itself, so that the baby’s
attention is not always focused
in the same direction.
The doctors also said infants
should spend only minimal
time in car seats since that
position places the head the
same way that sleeping on the
back does. Reuters
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Voice likely to
be Saddam’s,
admits CIA
Washington: The recording
of Saddam Hussein aired
Friday is probably authentic,
CIA officials said. But the
poor quality of the recording
prevents absolute certainty.
‘‘The CIA’s assessment, after a technical analysis of the
tape, is that it’s most likely
his
voice,’’
said
CIA
spokesman Bill Harlow on
Monday. ‘‘The exact date of
the recording cannot be determined.’’
Intelligence officials said
the recording is filled with
background noise that prevents their technical analysts from being more certain.
The speaker claims the
recording was made on June
14. It was aired on the Arab
al-Jazeera television network
Friday. Intelligence officials
said there were no references
in the message that absolutely ruled out the possibility
that it was prerecorded before June 14.
Still, the CIA’s determination that the tape was probably authentic would further
buttress most intelligence
analysts’ belief that Saddam
survived the war, including
at least two attempts aimed
at killing him.
In the recording, the
speaker purporting to be Saddam said he is still in Iraq
and directing attacks on
American forces there. He
called on Iraqis to resist the
US-led occupation. US forces
in Iraq have been targeted
daily by ambushes, and dozens have died since the war’s
major fighting ended. AP
MPs up the ante against Blair
By Rashmee Z Ahmed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
London: In a belated but potentially worrying echo of
post-war anxieties around
the globe, senior British parliamentarians have raised
doubts about the AngloAmerican military coalition’s fundamental pretext
for Gulf War II, i.e. the dramatic claim Saddam Hussein
was an immediate threat to
the world.
The MPs have said Tony
Blair’s constant refrain
about Saddam’s weapons of
mass destruction (WMD) appeared to have been based on
a single, uncorroborated
source.
Monday’s doubts were
raised even as the main opposition Conservative Party issued new posters portraying
Blair as the Pinocchio of politics, the compulsive liar.
Blair’s dramatic claims
Saddam could launch WMD
within 45 minutes “did not
warrant the prominence given to it”, they said.
Tony Blair
But, softening the blow to
Blair’s government, the MPs
allowed that it was “too soon
to tell” if claims about
WMDs existence would eventually prove correct.
The British parliamentary
report, uniquely praised by
former US first lady Hillary
Clinton in London on Monday, comes as sceptics around
the world question the AngloAmerican basis for war because WMD have neither
been used nor found in Iraq
so far.
At least one senior British
MP, a former Conservative
minister said the parliamentary scrutiny was important
because Gulf War II was the
first time Britain had ever
gone to war solely on the basis of intelligence information released by the government.
But the MPs witheringly
said the UK appeared to have
been too heavily reliant on
US technical intelligence and
evidence from Iraqi defectors
and exiles with their own
agendas.
The MPs potentially damaging indictment is a rap on
Blair’s knuckles nearly three
months after Saddam’s towering statue was symbolically toppled in Baghdad’s Firdous Square.
Posing the crucial question reverberating around
the world, the MPs asked
Blair’s government to reaffirm whether or not it still believes its 45-minute claim.
But offering a minor victory to Blair’s administration,
the MPs cleared his chief
spin doctor of the charge of
“sexing up” the governments
first Iraq dossier.
The dossier was issued to
high American praise in September to make the AngloAmerican case for war. But,
the BBC had recently reported anonymous intelligence
sources as saying the dossier
had been “sexed up” by
Blair’s spinmaster.
The cautious indictment
was issued as a report early
on Monday by a parliamentary committee investigating
the UK government’s handling of sensitive intelligence material in the run-up
to Gulf War II.
Early on Monday, Hillary
Clinton, promoting her new
book in London, praised
Britain’s
parliamentary
scrutiny of the controversial
case for war.
She said it was difficult to
see a parallel inquiry being
conducted in the US.
AFP
Baghdad: Iraq’s cascade of
violence claimed more American lives, with a bomb attack
on a military convoy killing
one US soldier Monday and
gunmen slaying another in
an ambush on a patrol in the
capital.
Three American soldiers
have been killed in attacks in
Baghdad in a 24-hour period.
Four other US soldiers were
wounded in a grenade attack
on their convoy in the restive
town of Ramadi west of
Baghdad.
Early Monday, insurgents
threw a homemade bomb at a
US convoy in northern Baghdad, killing a soldier, said
Sgt. Patrick Compton, a
spokesman for the military.
The night before, two gunmen ambushed a platoon in
the Adhamiyah neighborhood of northern Baghdad,
and in the firefight that followed an American was
killed, a military statement
said.
‘‘Soldiers pursued the attackers and during an ensuing firefight, the soldier was
killed. One gunman was
killed and the other wounded,’’ the statement said. AP
Ass good as it gets in Mexico election
Reuters
A resident of San Salvador Atenco village in Mexico votes for a donkey nicknamed
‘Underpant’, seen behind him wearing a sombrero, mocking the authorities who closed
polling stations during legislative elections on Sunday.
Liberian leader
Taylor to resign
By Somini Sengupta
Three more US
soldiers killed
in Baghdad
A bull pushes people into the water during the traditional bulls celebration in Denia Alicante, Spain, on Sunday.
Monrovia, Liberia: Charles
Taylor, the guerrilla leader
who became president and
was then indicted as a war
criminal, announced Sunday
that he would leave his country and accept refuge in nearby Nigeria.
Taylor did not say when he
would go, but he dangled his
earlier promise to step aside
once an international force
arrived in this country to
monitor a cease-fire deal between his forces and the
rebels who have sought to
topple him. Taylor has in recent days warned of potential bedlam if his sudden departure leaves a power vacuum.
Standing at a lectern be-
Twins surgery: Complications on Day II
Singapore: Doctors have
encountered complications
during the most critical
stage of a highly risky operation to separate the conjoined heads of Iranian
twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani, hospital authorities
said late on Monday.
Raffles
Hospital
spokesman Prem Kumar
Nair said surgeons had discovered the sisters’ brains
were more closely linked
than previously thought,
meaning there will be
lengthy delays in operation.
He said the twins’ blood
pressure was also proving
unstable, and the medical
team had to rectify this
problem before progressing
any further. ‘‘Because they
have been fused together for
the past 29 years, their
brains are very adherent to
each other,’’ Nair told a
press conference at 11:00 pm
(1500 GMT), 37 hours after
the operation began.
‘‘The section to separate
them is thus taking a long
time because the neurosurgeons have to cut through
the tissue very carefully, literally millimetre by millimetre.’’
Nair had said earlier that
the stage to separate the sisters’ brains was expected to
be completed by that
evening, but the timeline
had now been pushed back.
‘‘The process of dissecting the brains will take well
into the night or Tuesday
morning until such time the
surgeons can adequately
support the brains and ensure the blood circulation is
stable,’’ he said.
The hospital announced
other, less important complications, earlier Monday
with doctors encountering
unexpected complexities in
removing a strip of bone
connecting the women’s
skulls on Sunday. ‘‘The procedure was longer than orig-
inally expected because the
bones were thick and compact, especially in areas
where the two skull bones
fused,’’ the hospital said.
The operation was initially expected to last 48 hours,
however the complications
mean the surgery will definitely enter a third day, and
possibly last even longer.
Nair did not say the delays were a setback for the
twins, insisting the team of
24 doctors and about 100
medical staff, led by Singapore neurosurgeon Keith
Goh, knew there would be
unforeseen problems.
‘‘The risk is still pretty
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much the same as what we
have always stated,’’ Nair
said, adding the length of
time the twins were expected to be under general
anaesthetic was still within
‘‘tolerable’’ limits.
But he was less upbeat
than at his morning press
conference, when he declared the surgeons were
‘‘cautiously optimistic’’ the
operation will be a success.
In more positive news,
Nair said on Monday
evening the medical team
had earlier in the day created a bypass vein to allow
blood to be drained from
both brains. AFP
17 Indians
arrested for
prostitution
fore his own portrait at the
V.I.P. lounge of the airport on
the outskirts of this ruined
capital, Taylor let the man he
called his “big brother,” President Olusegun Obasanjo of
Nigeria, do most of the talking. Obasanjo arrived Sunday afternoon in his presidential jet, met with his besieged Liberian counterpart
for roughly 90 minutes and
declared that Taylor had accepted his offer of “a safe
haven in Nigeria.”
He did not explain whether
his offer included immunity
from prosecution for war
crimes.
Taylor has been accused of
crimes against humanity
and of providing support for
a war in neighboring Sierra
Leone. NYT New Service
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian
police detained 17 women of
Indian nationality at a budget hotel on suspicion of prostitution, a report said Monday.
Ten men, including seven
Indian nationals, were also
detained during a three-hour
anti-vice swoop late Sunday,
Kuala Lumpur deputy crime
investigation
department
chief Syed Ismail Syed Azizan was quoted as saying by
the Bernama news agency.
The women, aged between
25 and 38, and the seven men
— all Indian nationals —
were detained for violating
their social visit passes while
the three locals were detained for abetting them, he
said. Prostitution is illegal in
Malaysia. PTI
Beijing: The leaders of China and South Korea on Monday pledged to push harder to
restart dialogue on North Korea’s nuclear program, but
China’s president also said
the North needed to be reassured that it wouldn’t come
under attack.
Comments by Chinese
President Hu Jintao and
South Korean President Roh
Moo-hyun came at the start
of a visit aimed at strengthening ties between the two
countries and charting a resolution of tensions over
North Korea’s suspected efforts to develop nuclear
weapons.
“President Hu Jintao and I
agreed to make efforts for the
early resumption of direct
talks among concerned parties in the North Korean nuclear issue,” Roh said at a
news conference following
closed-door meetings.
Hu said the sides agreed on
the importance of maintaining “peace and stability on
the Korean peninsula and ...
to peacefully resolve the situation on the Korean peninsula.” Hu also gave a nod to
North Korea’s repeated calls
for a guarantee from the US
that it won’t be attacked. AP
China, S Korea for
N Korea nuke talks
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Kashi, Mathura and Ayodhya — all three belong to
Hindus... these places have to be given to Hindus.
— Kanchi Shankaracharya
Unsagely Counsel
Kanchi seer’s Ayodhya proposal
fails the fairness test
In the event, the Kanchi Shankaracharya’s ‘compromise’
formula on Ayodhya turned out to be something of a
misnomer. Rather than upholding the spirit of genuine
“give and take”, it placed the burden of resolving Ayodhya
squarely on the shoulders of the Muslim community. In
asking the Muslim Personal Law Board to give a unilateral
‘‘no-objection’’ on the construction of temple at the
“undisputed” land in Ayodhya, without so much as a word
on the location of the mosque, the sage’s proposal came
perilously close to replicating the parivar’s line on the
issue. In his response to the clarifications sought by the
board on the original proposal, he even advised the
Muslims to “mentally prepare” to give away Kashi and
Mathura. This was a far cry from earlier reports that the
Acharya had extended a number of concessions and guarantees to the Muslims, including on the rebuilding of the
mosque, in return for an out-of-court solution on Ayodhya.
Given the terms of the entirely one-sided offer, it was
inevitable that the board would reject the formula outright.
These columns had earlier supported the Acharya’s
initiative in the hope that the changed political mood in the
country, following Atalji’s fresh offer of talks with
Pakistan, had opened a new window of opportunity on
Ayodhya. And if the goodwill associated with the
Shankaracharya’s high spiritual office could help broker
an honourable negotiated settlement, then so much the
better than a bitter and protracted legal battle. Such
optimism has, in hindsight, proved hugely misplaced. It is
fair to assume that the high-voltage run-up to the board’s
meeting on Sunday, with the VHP and the RSS training
their fire on the Kanchi seer and openly questioning his
locus standi, forced the Acharya to reconsider his earlier
line of thinking. Whatever the reasons, the eventual fiasco
does little credit either to the reputation of the Kanchi seer
for fairness or to the authority of the prime minister, who
was widely seen to have blessed his attempt. As for the
parivar’s reaction that the board’s rejection was an “insult”
to the seer, it is the proverbial case of the devil quoting the
scriptures. From the time the Shankaracharya conveyed
his proposal to the board in writing, the parivar,
particularly the VHP, spared no opportunity to target him
for his involvement, often in a language that bordered
on the abusive. Given its long history of interested
doublespeak, however, that should come as no surprise.
Jayalalithaa bans strike by
government employees
VIEW
Let’s Follow the Path
Shown by Tamil Nadu
he Tamil Nadu government has issued an
T
ordinance declaring the strike by government
employees illegal, and followed this up by dismissing
100,000 of them and arresting a few thousand others.
What triggered the strike is a decision by the state
government to raise full-pension entitlement from
30 to 33 years of service. This is besides a cut ordered
in entitlements of encashment of leave. The strike
and its consequences raise a fundamental question:
Should government servants be allowed to go on
strike? Government servants are a privileged lot, with
security of service, assured promotions, pensionary
benefits, medical care etc. Therefore, it could be
argued that like the armed forces, who by law are
prohibited from unionising, government servants
should also be stopped by law from resorting to strikes.
Just as the armed forces are needed to safeguard the
external security of the nation, government servants
too are needed to maintain essential services vital to
life and liberty of the citizenry. Disruption of basic
services affects the lives of common citizens. Unlike in
the industrial sector where there is competition in
production of goods and there can be imports in case
of disruption of supplies, the services rendered by
government employees are monopolistic and cannot
be substituted. Once government staff are required by
law not to go on strike, a prospective applicant will
know that he has to accept the benefits of the service
with its obligations as happens in the case of armed
forces. While there is a strong case for such legislation
it should be accompanied by a dispute settlement
mechanism in which grievances of the staff will be
attended to and redressed promptly. Such legislation is
called for in this country since there is a tendency
towards politicisation of government employees in order to make them an instrument of vote-bank politics.
COUNTERVIEW
Measure Strike Against
Economic Insecurity
A
ny strike that involves essential services
does cause hardship to ordinary citizens. But how
often do we think of the compulsions of those who
resort to this form of protest? Consider the stereotype:
Pampered sarkari staff, for whom a strike is only
another means of extracting yet higher wages
and concessions. This picture is a throwback to the
socialist ’60s when trade unions reigned supreme and
the public sector occupied commanding heights.
Today, thanks to the surge of capitalism, sarkar has
beaten a retreat from most sectors, leaving the oncepowerful naukarshahi fearful and insecure. What,
after all, is at issue in the Tamil Nadu strike? Not an
imperious demand for an unreasonable wage-hike, but
a helpless plea by government employees against cuts
in pension — what till now was their only old-age
fallback. For this entirely legitimate claim, they have
been put in prison and dismissed from service.
It is important to view this strike in the overall
context of the new globalised economy with its stress
on structural adjustments, retrenchment and shrinking workers’ rights. On the one hand, the old job
security has given way to a new emphasis on performance; on the other, interest rate cuts and slashed subsidies have made life harder and uncertain. How do
you plan for a future where your hard-earned savings
fetch you virtually no returns? The spectre of reduced
pensions adds acutely to this sense of vulnerability. By
banning strikes we are doubly punishing employees
for a crisis in which they are more victims than villains. What’s more, the problem is global. In May this
year, French transport workers struck work to force
the government to readdress its plans to reform the retirement system and curtail pension. Scores of French
cities were hobbled by the strike which affected all
essential services — from railways to airlines to postoffices. Only a few months earlier, public sector workers in Israel had gone on an indefinite strike to protest
the government’s austerity plans. Desperate as the situation was, neither government thought of banning
the strike. Because, in a democracy, the right to protest
is not just a safety valve, it’s a fundamental right.
Getting the Monkeys Off Our Back
By Manoj Joshi
Others have one, but India has two monkeys
on its back — China and Pakistan. What’s
more, both help each other in doing what
monkeys do when they are on someone’s
back — scratch, bite, distract in every
possible way and at all times.
As you can imagine, getting a monkey off
your back is not easy. The Pakistani one that
has been around since 1947, triggered wars
in 1965 and 1971 and in 1999 in Kargil. It
currently underwrites a terrorist jehad
whose sole target is India. The Chinese
monkey came later, in great part because it
was provoked by mishandled policies of an
earlier era. But it has been no less troublesome. A war in 1962, a threat of one in 1965,
and since then it has provided nuclear
and missile assistance to Pakistan, whose
sole target is India. Over the years, our
adversarial relationship with our two large
neighbours has diminished India in its own
eyes and in those of the world.
There is one old-timer who has made it his
mission to get the monkeys off the country’s
back. This is prime minister Atal Behari
Vajpayee, who admittedly played some
role in getting them there in
the first place. But that is
why there is a chance that he
could succeed through a
policy of hard-headed give
and take. He is not without his critics, but they
have few viable alternatives in dealing with two
nuclear armed mischiefmakers sitting on our head.
Of the two, Pakistan is the
tougher nut. It is not just a
matter of Kashmir. Even
friends of Pakistan, Inder
Gujral or Kuldip Nayyar, will tell you that
there is an element of the irrational in the
manner in which some Pakistanis think
of India. We have our share of mindless
Pakistan-haters, but they are different from
those in Pakistan where the centre of gravity of political authority is heavily skewed
towards the Pakistan army. It is the core of
this institution that bitterly hates India and
has been exerting its best efforts to harm it.
Mr Vajpayee’s initial effort was to get the
more dangerous monkey off India’s back.
The Lahore agreements and Agra summits
were part of this, but so far to little avail.
The case of China is more complex, as is
the architecture of the Vajpayee plan. Its
first stages are evident. The old Jana Sanghi
has acknowledged that Tibet Autonomous
Region is a part of the People’s Republic of
China. But in return he has the Chinese
recognising the accession of Sikkim to
India, and in a sense that India’s boundaries
are at the far edge of the Himalayas, not
at the foothills.
What now? Obviously an agreement to
resolve the border problem. The two Asian
giants also share the world’s longest
disputed border — 4,056 km by Indian
reckoning and 3,500 by others. When the two
republics were established neither side fully
controlled their frontier. The Chinese less
so, because they re-established their hold on
Tibet only in 1950.
That was the year when India published a
White Paper on States whose attached map
showed the Ladakh frontier as “border
undefined” and Arunachal Pradesh’s (then
North-East Frontier Agency’s) border with
Tibet as “border undemarcated”. Logically
such a situation implied that India would sit
down with China to define and demarcate
the border. What actually happened was a
black comedy. In 1954, without as much as a
by-your-leave of the neighbour, the Union
cabinet drew a hard line in the maps and
decreed that Aksai Chin and Arunachal
Pradesh were Indian.
No one told the Chinese that this was in
exchange for India’s explicit recognition that
Tibet was an autonomous region of China
and its withdrawal of a range of consular
concessions it had in Tibet, including
residencies and armed contingents. So the
Chinese played it cool, they did not raise the
issue of the disputed frontier, celebrated the
spirit of Panch Sheel and bided their time.
In 1962, they struck, humiliating the Indian army and
shocking the nation. They
followed this up with an
overture to Islamabad and
forged a relationship that
India still rues.
Having failed to budge the
Pakistanis, Mr Vajpayee has
moved decisively to get the
Chinese monkey off India’s
back. Getting rid of one
simian could induce the
other to jump off as well. No
amount of US embargoes deterred it from sending missiles and nuclear
components to Pakistan in the 1980s and
1990, so it is unlikely it will desist out of the
goodness of its heart or through any military
threat. But it could do so if it were evident
that there was more to gain from the Indian
connection than the Pakistani one.
There are important reasons to believe
that China may be at a point where it could
be seeing the advantages of such a link. Like
other countries, China realises that India
has something on offer that could further
boost the booming Chinese economy — its IT
products and skills. In its headlong economic growth China can afford few distractions, even while it requires all the help it
can — whether through the skills of Indian
MNC managers, solutions provided by
Indian IT firms, or Indian markets for its
burgeoning manufacturing sector.
China also requires an environment of
peace and tranquillity on its borders. From
Beijing’s point of view the policy of containing India is now yielding diminishing
returns and could actually end up throwing
up a negative trend if India and US become
closer military allies. Then there could be an
Indian monkey sitting on its back.
India Cannes Roar
Indian advertising struck it rich at Cannes
this year, winning six awards in all, including three Gold Lions. McCann Erickson’s
national creative director Prasoon Joshi,
whose ‘Thanda matlab Coca-Cola’ campaign
bagged a Gold Lion, spoke to Anshuman
Dash about what the awards could mean
for the ad industry in India:
market, but by that logic Chinese advertising
should have won big time too. Let’s face it,
at the end of the day, talent cannot be ignored
— whatever its origin.
One ad in your Coke campaign shows Aamir
Khan rounding up on the attendant at a soft
drink counter. Critics have argued that it
legitimises rudeness to someone lower than
you in the socio-economic hierarchy.
Years 2002 and 2003 have seen Indian
Come on, credit the audience with some
advertising bag many prestigious awards intelligence. I’m sure they understand that
abroad, including your Gold Lion at Cannes. it’s just a harmless attempt to put across a
After waiting in the wings for years, how have message in a humorous fashion. It should be
we suddenly struck gold?
taken in that spirit. And if I’m not wrong,
It’s not as if Indian ads had never won at there has been no negative feedback on this
Cannes before. Just a few years back, an ad particular film.
created by SSC&B for Hexit won here. I think There are Indians like Rajat Gupta and Indra
the recent wins are getting publicity because Nooyi, who head international corporations.
we’ve now struck Gold for two years in a row, Why hasn’t an Indian ever headed an ad
which is unprecedented. Moreover, this time agency globally? Is there some kind of glass
round, the media has created a lot of hype ceiling in place?
about it... This sudden deluge of awards can
There are many Indians who are doing
be attributed to the fact that we’ve increas- very well on the international advertising
ingly started creating ads which are not scene. They include the legendary Indra
only simple but no longer just Indian; they Sinha and the ace ad film-maker Tarsem
transcend the cultural barrier. The western Singh. I am sure we will have more
jury has also done its bit by trying to under- such success stories in the not-too-distant
stand the cultural flavour and idiom of India. future. There is no glass ceiling as such.
The West is largely homogeneous, unlike It’s just a matter of time, given the kind
India which has a plethora of cultures of talent India has.
and languages. What is required for an Why can’t Indian ad agencies have
ad to click in the
foreign clients? We
complex cultural conhave the advantage
text of India?
of knowing English,
At the heart of
of being cost-effective
good creative work
and of having excepMany Indians are
lies a certain idea. A
tional creative talent.
doing very well on
good idea does not
Can creative outthe international
belong to any lansourcing ever become
advertising scene...
guage, because it
a reality?
There is no glass ceiling
is understood by
It’s an interesting
as such. It’s just a
all. Let’s not forget
point. Every now
matter of time before
that Satyajit Ray
and then we have
an Indian heads a
and Akira Kurosava
been invited to work
global ad agency.
used their own culin different countural codes and yet
tries. For instance, I
struck the right chord with international am currently involved in developing a camaudiences. Ironically, while ad makers in the paign for the Australian market. Having said
West have the advantage of operating in a that, I would like to emphasise that creating
homogeneous environment, this sameness ads is a complex collaborative process where
can end up being very boring, repetitive and clarity emerges with constant interaction,
familiar. India’s multicultural fabric gives us which is not always possible to substitute.
a tremendous advantage. For instance, the For some brands, it may be possible to
award-winning Peugot ad used Indian crack an idea, long distance, particularly
flavour to its advantage. The ad film was in the West because of our familiarity
done by some foreign agency, but it cleverly with Western books, films, culture, etc. But
added the novelty of ‘Indian-ness’ to the suppose it’s a culturally distinct market
otherwise cliched automobile advertising. like China or Thailand. So, in certain areas
We must understand that Indian advertising creative outsourcing can be explored. But
has a lot to offer but it needs to be packaged we should also keep in mind that creativity
in a manner, which can be understood by all. is not a labour-intensive process.
In the 1990s, when cosmetics majors were Many award-winning copywriters from India
targeting India in a big way, there was a have moved abroad to work with foreign
spurt in the number of Indians winning agencies. Do you have any such plans?
Advertising happened to me by accident. I
international beauty pageants. Something
similar is happening in advertising now. Are never plan the things in my life. All I can say
is today I am very much here and enjoying
there any vested interests?
I think this is too simplistic. It undermines my work. Tomorrow is another day.
the hard work and effort we’ve put into Finally, advertising has been described as
improving the quality of our work. Of “finding very large solutions to very small
course, there is always a commercial angle to problems”. Any comments?
any marketing venture and there is no
I would say it’s the opposite. We give 30-sec
denying that India is seen as a growing haiku solutions for epic marketing problems.
Q&A
Udayshankar
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Krishna and Kaliya:
Good fights Evil
By Amishi Dhanuka
CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS
Sonu’s Saviours
I read about the brilliant student and
budding engineer, Sonu Swaika, in your
newspaper. It was indeed disturbing to hear
about her situation. For one Sonu in the
limelight, there may be thousands of
others who are equally in need of funds
to continue their education. The overwhelming response to your call shows that
our national character is still intact. The
Times Group is really doing appreciable
work. Aren’t such stories much better
to read than the sex and sleaze, which
sometimes pervades your newspaper?
— Girish Gupta, via e-mail
II
I want to convey my appreciation and
heartfelt thanks to your newspaper for
helping make someone’s future. If not for
your report, Sonu would be still searching
for the elusive funds to study engineering.
Coming from such a humble background,
Sonu’s performance shows her fierce desire
to rise in life. This strong will power will
surely stand her in good stead in the future.
I would like to wish her all the very best.
— Tripta Roy, Kanpur
III
Your newspaper deserves unbridled praise
for bringing to limelight the hapless
condition of Sonu Swaika, the ISC topper.
It was her single-minded determination that
ultimately saw her through her trials and
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Star-crossed
I am distressed to note that the Indian
railways have resorted to stars and
planets, to hide their incompetence. If a
havan is to be conducted to manage the
so-called bad phase, then let all the highly
paid engineers and managers be sacked,
and priests and sants be employed. Till
now the politicians had been misusing
religion, but now even the railways have
jumped into the bandwagon. If they are
at all serious about this, it should be
mentioned in no uncertain terms that
havan cannot save this country.
Debabrata Sen, via e-mail
tribulations. Although the people of the
country came forward to help her, there
was, as usual, nothing from the government.
— Arunesh Dubey, via e-mail
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I am glad that people came forward to
finance Sonu Swaika’s study at BITS. In the
last few years, we have seen policy-makers
and planners argue for a steep increase in
the fees for higher education. They have
made repeated promises that poor and
deserving students will not be deprived of
higher education because of scholarships.
But this has turned out to be an empty
promise, because the number of scholarships has not been hiked. As a result, poor
students do not even seek admission in
professional institutions. But for philanthropy, a bright student like Sonu Swaika
would not have been able to enter the gates
of BITS or any other professional institute.
Given the increases in fees, we need a
generous scholarship scheme that guarantees opportunities for higher education to
the meritorious students from economically
weaker sections. It is distressing that an
institution like BITS could not promise to
take care of Sonu’s studies.
— Jandhyala Tilak, New Delhi
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“Times Impact” in today’s world; a world
full of deceit, selfish motives and quick
money syndrome. The fact that so many
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matter of hours from the time it appeared
in the press has moved society in general
and the BITS family in particular. As a
faculty at BITS, Pilani, I would like to add
that money has never been and can never
be a limiting factor to a brilliant student
who continues to be meritorious during
his/her study here.
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It is a universal law: If we
have ego, we will suffer. If we
are arrogant, again, we will
suffer till we are forced
to surrender. The subduing
of Kaliya the serpent by
Krishna illustrates this.
The tenth canto of the
Srimad Bhagvatam recounts
the Kaliya daman lila
performed
by
Krishna.
Kaliya was a venomous
serpent that lived in the
Yamuna river. One summer
Krishna’s cowherd friends
fainted and died when
they drank water from
the Yamuna. Kaliya had
contaminated the river so
much that vapour from the
river was lethal enough to
kill birds flying across.
When Krishna saw his
transcendental companions
die, he jumped into the river
and agitated the water
like a large thunderous
elephant. Kaliya was filled
with amrsyamanah (intolerance
and rage) at the
presence of the
trespasser.
He
took Krishna captive in his coils
and raised his 101
heads. Krishna
allowed him to do
so for a while as
he stayed still.
Everyone standing on the banks
of the river was
very afraid and anxious
except Balaram who was
quietly smiling in full knowledge of Krishna’s potential.
As Krishna observed his
mother Yashoda faint on
the banks, he quickly began
to expand his form to
proportions beyond Kaliya’s
control. Kaliya lost his grip
on Krishna and the Lord,
standing on Kaliya’s head,
began to dance. With every
rise and fall of his rhythmic
steps, the serpent became
more and more bewildered
and overpowered. Weakened
and powerless, Kaliya was
now at Krishna’s mercy. It
was the prayer of Kaliya’s
pious wives, the nagapatnis,
that saved him from annihilation. As a helpless and
battered Kaliya began to
chant prayers to Krishna, he
promised to surrender at
the Lord’s feet. Krishna
granted the transformed
Kaliya forgiveness.
Kaliya symbolises many
aspects of Kaliyug. Kaliya
is black, the colour symbolising demoniac characteristics
very similar to the inherent
nature of contemporary man
who is devious, proud,
arrogant and envious. Kaliya
imagines himself to be
invincible, like many of us
do today as we glow in the
deceptive light of our false
ego. Kaliya is also materially
attached. He thinks he is
the king of the Yamuna lake.
We think we are masters
of the universe.
Kaliya’s body is slimy
and slippery, very like his
personality. An opportunist,
he tries every trick to bite
Krishna. Kaliya is a control
freak. He is ignorant and
tamasic to the core. He has a
terrible temper and spews
venom incessantly. Kaliya
had so many heads that it is
impossible for him to have
any clarity of thought —
they are symbols
of confusion.
If the above
characteristics
sound too farfetched to be a
part of our ethos,
think again. Each
one of us has
these negativities
whether we accept them or not.
To rise above
them, to become
pure, you need to
surrender unto the creator
like Kaliya did. Because real
peace and happiness can be
experienced only when one
is pure, not when one is
contaminated. And we have
contaminated our existence
by constantly drinking the
poison of materialistic existence. And that poison kills
our propensity to be happy.
Every time we speak an
unnecessary word, or do
something to take us towards
more materialism, we are
actually behaving like a
serpent spewing venom. Our
ego and pride are stumbling blocks on our path
to spiritual progress. Subduing our innate sense of
arrogance by unconditionally surrendering to the
creator is the only way to
experience bliss.
The story of Krishna and
Kaliya the Snake is the
story of how, ultimately, good
triumphs over evil.
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Free & Happy
Knowing the world
to consist of consciousness, the mind of the
wise man is rapt in
the thought of his
universality and roams
free, seeing the cosmos
as space in his own
consciousness.
Yoga Vasishta,
Sage Vasishta’s precepts
to Sri Rama
✥
Even as Brahma can
change his form and
move at will, so
amongst all beings can
he change his form and
move at will who is a
Comprehensor thereof.
Sankhayana Aranyaka
✥
I live as I please,
I wander where I like;
I go in and out each day
according to my
pleasure; I move
where my inclination
leads me;
I assume all the forms
which it pleases me to
assume; I hold in my
right hand the Lapis
stone; I wear in my
right ear the Flower of
Ankham for ornament;
I am flourishing, I am
prosperous; I am a
perennial youth in the
garden of immortality.
Egyptian Tradition
✥
I am a happy man,
indeed. I visit the Pure
Land as often as I like;
I’m there and I’m back,
I’m there and I’m back.
Saichi
✥
Can earthly things
seem important to him
who is acquainted with
the whole of eternity
and the magnitude
of the universe?
Cicero
✥
They change their
clime, not their frame
of mind, who rush
across the sea. We work
hard at doing nothing;
we look for happiness
in boats and carriage
rides. What you are
looking for is here,
is at Ulubrae, if only
peace of mind doesn’t
desert you.
Horace
OID ‰ ‰ † CMK
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Govt considering
regulator for
broadcasters
New Delhi: In the eye of a storm over CAS,
the government is said to be contemplating a
regulatory authority for broadcasters even
as information and broadcasting minister
Ravi Shankar Prasad met Prime Minister
Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Monday and apprised him on the latest plans for the CAS
roll-out.
Though the I&B ministry has not firmed
up its views on the matter, it is examining the
need to put in place a regulator without waiting for the Convergence Bill, which has a provision for it, sources said.
With CAS snowballing into a controversy,
the ministry may also make changes in the
draft of the proposal for such a regulator
which is to address issues related to competition and content on radio and television —
areas under which the broadcasters will be
covered. The monsoon session of Parliament
being too short, a Bill was likely only in the
winter session, the sources added.
The government will also take a view on
whether there should be one regulator now,
which will be merged with the one under the
Convergence Bill or there was a need for
more than one regulator. Meanwhile, Prasad
is understood to have apprised PM on the
new CAS formula, under which all consumers will pay only Rs 72 plus taxes for all
channels from August 1.
With stakeholders speaking in different
voices on the agreement reached at Friday’s
meeting at PMO, the government is determined to take ‘‘all necessary measures’’ including amending the law or notification to
bring around the broadcasters, who say that
Rs 72 ‘‘honeymoon time’’ was only for one
month for each zone. PTI
Intra-circle merger
in telecom likely
Let’s cruise
Heritage value
Technology pact
Volkswagen Japan head
Tsutomu Umeno with SUV
Touareg model, equipped
with 310-HP 4.2-litre
engine (speed 270km/hour).
Price: $53,750
An imperial twelve-panel
soapstone-inlaid and zitan
hardwood 9.8 ft high screen
of China’s Kangxi period
(1662-1722) was sold to a HK
shopping mall at $3,024,308
Sharp executive Yoshiki Sano
(left) and Akikazu Okano of
Texas Instruments inked a deal
to produce a reference
design of mega-pixel CCD
camera mobile phone handset
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BoI hikes interest on
FCNR deposits: Bank of
India has decided to hike the
interest rates on foreign
currency non-resident (FCNR)
deposits denominated in US
dollar, sterling pound and
euro from July 9, 2003. FCNR
deposits denominated in US$
with one year to less than two
year maturity would attract a
rate of 0.94 per cent as
against 0.80 per cent earlier,
BoI said in a release. The US$
deposits with two years to
less than three year tenure
would carry 1.22 per cent
interest rate (one per cent
earlier), the release added. PTI
Crisil sees limited effect
of foreclosure laws: The
new legal provisions regarding foreclosure enunciated in
the Securitisation Act will
have a “limited impact” on
existing non-performing loans
in the Indian banking system
and the actual recoveries will
be in the region of 12 per
cent, according to Crisil. PTI
Union threatens strike
against ICICI Bank: A
leading bank union has
charged the ICICI Bank man-
INTERNATIONAL
Alcan launches hostile
$4b Pechiney bid: Canada’s Alcan Inc on Monday
launched a hostile 3.4 billion
euro ($3.9 billion) cash-andstock bid for French rival
Pechiney, in a deal that would
create the world’s largest
aluminium group by revenues.
Alcan said it would offer 123
euros in cash and three new
Alcan shares for five Pechiney
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New Delhi: A 100-memberstrong Pakistani business
delegation, the largest ever,
is in town engaging its Indian counterpart in trade
talks. Yet, the normalisation of business relations
between the two estranged
South Asian neighbours appears a long way off.
The Indo-Pak business
talks on Monday made
some progress. A four-point
plan for normalisation of
trade relations was under
preparation and businessmen on both sides were hoping that ‘‘something positive would come out’’ on
easing trade logistics. Also,
indications of PM Vajpayee
giving time to the Pakistani
business delegation on
Tuesday were seen as a
‘‘positive development’’.
Given the distrust and political differences among
the two neighbours, the
four-point plan focuses on
solving some practical difficulties facing trade flows
between the two countries.
First, given Pakistan’s sensitivity to granting outright
the MF) status to India,
there could be a gradual approach to Pakistan opening
up trade.
India allows all items to
be imported from Pakistan
on terms not worse than
those it applies to imports
from any other country. But
Pakistan, despite its WTO
obligation, has kept imports from India limited to
only 600 items, mostly
chemicals, minerals and
raw materials.
‘‘We are not insisting on
Pakistan granting India
MFN outright. Pakistan
should keep expanding the
list of items allowed to be
imported so as to reach all
the 2,500 tradable items in
the next few years,’’ an Indian business leader said.
The second element of
the trade normalisation
plan is to ease visa rules to
enable businessmen to travel to each other’s country.
It is proposed that the two
governments may consider
giving multiple entry-point
visas, without the requirement of police reporting, to
business travellers on the
basis of the recommendations from FICCI on the In-
on for new v-p to head the unit
Chevrolet Spark
• Hopes to sell 10,000-12,000 units of
Optra this year
• Also increasing India outsourcing
GM launches
Chevy Optra
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Pakistani delegates are all ears as Yashwant Sinha speaks at the Indo-Pak trade meet.
Sinha suggested to form a South Asian union for promoting economic and political
cooperation in the region.
dian side and FPCCI on the
Pakistani side.
Third, it is proposed to
open movement of goods by
road through the Wagah
border by setting up two
godowns, one each by India
and Pakistan, on the ‘‘noman’s land’’, where containerised and other cargo
into contracts worth $15 million by
mid-morning.
These included deals with other
banks and companies in the public
and private sector. Deutsche said it
struck a six month dollar-rupee option transaction with Reliance Industries.
IDBI Bank did 10 deals with different companies without identifying
them. It had also entered into a
three-month euro-rupee deal which
had a put and call option.
A currency option grants the buyer the right, though not the obligation, to buy or sell a pre-specified
amount of a currency at a pre-set exchange rate. It protects the buyer
from any untoward rise or fall in the
currency.
RBI allows banks to sell European
style options and option structures
to clients. European options are
those which are exercised only on
the maturity date. Reuters
moved by trucks can be
stored. This cargo can then
be moved further to Pakistan and India after a
‘‘cooling-off ’’ period of
three days.
Lastly, it is also proposed
to simplify and standardise
the documentation required for shipment of
which is part of its IT upgradation drive at an investment
of Rs 280 crore. While Infosys
will provide total banking solutions, Wipro would supply
hardware and equipment to
OBC. The centralised banking
solutions will be implemented
at 25 branches across the
country by March 2004, to be
followed by 200 more branches annually, the bank said. PTI
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Wal-Mart (US)
GM (US)
● Exxon Mobile (US)
● Royal Dutch/Shell
(Netherlands/UK )
Aviva Life plans more
unit-linked products: Avi-
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Ford Motor (US)
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DaimlerChrysler (Germany)
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GE (US)
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Mitsubishi (Japan)
agement with harassing its
workers for participating in
May 21 industrial strike and
threatened to go on strike
besides picketing in front of
ICICI banks. The All India
Bank Employees Association
(AIBEA), in a statement, also
alleged that the ICICI Bank
management was trying to
force VRS on “militant” em-
Ajit Ninan
ployees of the erstwhile Bank
of Madura which had merged
with ICICI Bank in 2000. PTI
Oriental Bank to invest
Rs 280 cr in IT: Oriental
Bank of Commerce has tied
up with Infosys and Wipro for
centralised banking solution
to provide customers with
“anywhere anytime” services,
shares, valuing the French
company at 41 euros per
share — a 20.5 per cent
premium to its closing share
price on Friday. If successful,
it would create a group with
annual pro forma revenues of
$24 billion. Reuters
va Life Insurance plans to
launch more unit-linked products after the returns in this
fund went up by 23 per cent
in the last few months that
witnessed surge in prices of
government papers and the
Sensex. Aviva Life’s chief executive officer Stuart Purdy
said the insurer has so far
launched a wholelife, endowment, single premium bond
and pension plan policies.
While the with-profit fund has
provided an assured return of
5.0 per cent, the unit-linked
fund has appreciated by
22-23 per cent. The unitlinked scheme has investment
of about 55 per cent in debt
instruments and 45 per cent
in approved securities and
equities. PTI
A girl stands behind
her stall of CDs
at a main market in
downtown Vientiane
on Sunday. The audio
and video CDs, all
pirated copies, are
smuggled into the
country mainly
from Thailand, China
and Vietnam.
ICI says no plans to sell
National Starch: Britain’s
Imperial Chemicals Industries
said on Monday it had no
plans to sell its National
Starch unit and its overall
position on asset disposals
remained unchanged.
German consumer goods
group Henkel KGaA wants to
buy National Starch for up to
2.6 billion euros ($2.97 billion), a magazine report said
New Delhi: CSC India, the Indian
subsidiary of the $11.4 billion IT
services major Computer Services
Corporation (CSC) is eyeing its
fourth centre in India in the later
part of this year.
The company is also planning to
ramp up its total workforce, which
touched the 1,000 mark last Friday, to
around 1,600 people by the end of the
financial year 2003-04.
The company will increase its
BPO workforce from 90 to around
500 people by year-end. CSC India
has two software centres in Noida,
with around 600 people (90 in BPO)
and another in Indore with 400.
Arun Maheshwari, chief executive and MD, CSC India, indicated
that the fourth centre would be located in south India, either Chennai
or Hyderabad. He said that the total
investment could range between $12$15 million.
‘‘We are excited by the growth
prospect after entering the group of
D I G E S T
The top 10
at the weekend. “We have no
plans to sell National Starch,”
an ICI spokesman said,
adding that the company’s
stance on asset sales
remained unchanged. Reuters
DaimlerChrysler sales
fall in Jan-June: GermanUS automaker Daimler-
Total revamp
• To reintroduce Daewoo Matiz as
By Gaurav Bhagowati
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
led by MS Ramachandran is
the only Indian firm in the
Fortune 500 list of global
majors. Ranked at No.
191, IOC is ahead of
Petronas (204) and LG
International (205).
Source: SBI, Mumbai
• Marketing division revamped, search
goods between Mumbai and
Karachi ports.
FICCI
president
AC
Muthiah says, the two-way
trade can go up to $6-8 billion a year from a meagre $
200 million in direct official
trade and another $ 1.5-2 billion through third countries last year.
Foreign currency options CSC India plans new unit
trade kicks off smoothly
The great Indian hope: IOC
Selling rate: Currency notes
AUTO
SCANNER
Mohammed Ilyas
By Priya Ranjan Dash
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
E X E C U T I V E
NATIONAL
NZ $: 28.90
Eager Pak Inc wants more trade
Mumbai: Dollar-rupee options got
off to a smooth start on Monday after RBI allowed use of these derivatives to hedge exchange-rate risks.
Among the early ones to strike
deals were Standard Chartered
Bank, HSBC, ABN AMRO, State
Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Citibank,
Deutsche Bank, Credit Lyonnais,
IDBI and IDBI Bank. Standard Chartered Bank did a transaction for $30
million with petrochemicals and refiner Reliance Industries for a tenor
of six months. It also transacted
deals with six other companies and a
$5 million deal with SBI in a sixmonth contract.
While HSBC struck a put and a
call option with Reliance at different
strike rates for $5 million and has a
tenor of six months, ABN AMRO
said it did six deals with different
companies, all with a put and call option at different strike prices.
ICICI Bank said it had entered
New Delhi: Government is considering
allowing intra-circle mergers and acquisitions in the telecom sector, subject
to the presence of a minimum of three
service operators in a particular circle.
‘‘The case for intra-circle merger and
acquisitions is being looked in to and efforts will be made to see that there are
no monopolies while these telecom companies remain financially intact,’’ Communications minister Arun Shourie
said at a consultative meeting.
Shourie said that one of the ways
could be that there were minimum three
operators in a circle and nobody had
more than 30 per cent of the spectrum.
He said that efforts would be made for a
unified license regime over a period of
time without actually hurting the existing licensees. PTI
A $: 33.00
Chrysler said on Monday that
unit sales in the first half of
the year at its Mercedes car
group unit fell to 609,100 from
621,400 for the same period
in 2002. Mercedes-Benz sales
fell to 548,500 units from
559,000, a drop of around
two per cent, while the number of smart cars sold fell to
Hitachi Data Systems
targets 45% growth:
Counting on banks’ ATM network expansion and e-governance projects, storage
solutions provider Hitachi
Data Systems is eying a
revenue growth of 45 per cent
in the current fiscal. ‘‘We are
looking for a revenue growth
of 45 per cent in 2003-04 and
we are banking on the mushrooming growth of ATMs by
banks, e-governance projects
and telecom,’’ V Vivekanand,
business development manager, HDS India, said. The
company is expecting the
large enterprise segment to
contribute 50 per cent of its
revenue, while 30 per cent of
it is anticipated from
global solutions and services
and 20 per cent from
SMEs, he said. PTI
SB&T, Gerald Ratner in
jewellery JV: Indian jewellery manufacturer and exporter SB&T International and
global jewellery retailer Gerald
Ratner have formed a new
company, SB&T International
(UK), to distribute the former’s
products in Britain. SB&T International would invest
around one million sterling
pounds in the joint venture
firm. PTI
60,600 from 62,400, it said.
DaimlerChrysler chief
Juergen Hubbert said the
group was satisfied with
Mercedes sales given the
difficult economic climate
and the global decline in the
automobile sector. AFP
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a middle-rung IT services company.
We expect to become a major player
in the industry offering low-cost,
quality services to our clients in the
next couple of years,’’ Maheshwari
said.
He pointed out that CSC India’s focus had branched out to new verticals like banking and healthcare,
from a single focus on insurance.
Maheshwari said there was growth
potential in verticals like chemicals,
banking, healthcare, financial services, enterprise solutions (SAP),
BPO and global infrastructure services (GIS).
With India fast becoming the outsourcing hub of the world, CSC India is betting big on BPO. Going forward, says Maheshwari, the company will play a significant role in
niche high-margin areas like consulting and systems integration, besides bagging major commitments
in BFSI.
In 2002-03 financial year, the company had total revenues of $22 million, he said, adding that that figure
could touch $40 million in 2003-04.
New Delhi: In a bid to steer in volumes
and grow its sales five-fold over the next
three years, General Motors India on
Monday unveiled a luxury sedan Chevrolet Optra at a price of Rs 7.89 lakh. The
firm also announced a two-year service
holiday for Optra customers, which
means the buyer would not have to pay a
single paisa on service, including consumables and labour, for two years.
The drive follows a revamp of GM India’s marketing division. Under the rejig,
company’s v-p (marketing) Vinay Dixit
has been shifted to its Halol plant as vicepresident (new product development),
while Sanjeev Garg (previously GM sales)
has been appointed the new director
(marketing). The firm, sources said, is
hunting for a new vice-president to head
its marketing division in India.
Optra, the first Daewoo model to be
launched in India after GM took charge of
the firm, is expected to drive in the crucial volumes for the company. It is also
firming up plans to introduce the popular
Daewoo Matiz in India, branded as
Chevrolet Spark. GM, the sources added,
is in talks to lease out Daewoo’s now defunct Surajpur unit to produce the Spark.
Though company officials refused to comment, sources said the reworked Matiz is
slated to hit the streets by this year-end.
With Optra’s launch, the firm has discontinued production of the top-end Astra Club that was priced at close to Rs 10
lakh. The other models of Astra have also
been put under restricted production and
are now built only on order basis, Garg
said. While the base model of the 1,800cc
Optra has been priced at Rs 7.89 lakh, the
premium LS variant will sport a tag of Rs
8.49 lakh and the luxury LT version
comes at Rs 9.69 lakh.
GM expects to sell 10,000-12,000 units of
Optra this year. Optra will compete
against vehicles like Skoda Octavia.
GM is also increasing its outsourcing
activities in India. GM Asia pacific general director (sales and service) Terence
B Johnson said the car maker has shifted
its entire back-office work for the region
on service warranty claims to India.
The lure of data: Is it
becoming addictive?
By Matt Richtel
his is Charles Lax’s
brain on speed. Lax, a
44-year-old venture
capitalist, is sitting in a
conference for telecommunications executives at a
hotel near Los Angeles, but
he is not all here. Out of one
ear, he listens to a live presentation about cable TV
technology; simultaneously, he surfs the Net on a laptop with a wireless connection, while occasionally
checking his mobile device
part phone and part Internet gadget for e-mail.
Lax flew from Boston and
paid $2,000 to attend the
conference, called Vortex.
But he cannot unwire himself long enough to give the
presenters his complete focus. If he did, he would face
a fate worse than lack of
productivity: he would become bored.
The ubiquity of technology in the lives of executives, other business people
and consumers has created
a subculture of the ‘‘Always
On’’ and a brewing tension
between productivity and
freneticism. For all the efficiency gains that it seemingly provides, the constant
stream of data can interrupt not just dinner and
family time, but also meetings and creative time, and
it can be tough to turn off.
Some people who are persistently wired say it is not
uncommon for them to be
sitting in a meeting and using a hand-held device to
exchange instantmessages
surreptitiously with someone in the same meeting.
Others may be sitting at a
T
Ajit Ninan
desk and engaging in conversation on two phones,
one at each year.
These speed demons say
they will fall behind if they
disconnect, but they also
acknowledge feeling something much more powerful:
They are drawn to the constant stimulation provided
by incoming data.
Call it OCD — online
compulsive disorder.
‘‘It’s magnetic,’’ said Edward M Hallowell, a psychiatry instructor at Harvard.
‘‘It’s like a tar baby: The
more you touch it, the more
you have to.’’
Dr Hallowell and John
Ratey, an associate professor at Harvard and a psychiatrist with an expertise
in attention deficit disorder, are among a growing
number of physicians and
sociologists who are assessing how technology affects
attention span, creativity
and focus. Though many
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people regard multitasking
as a social annoyance, these
two are asking whether it is
counterproductive,
and
even addicting.
According to research by
David E Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, multitaskers actually hinder
their productivity by trying
to accomplish two things at
once. Meyer has found that
people who switch back and
forth between two tasks
may spend 50 per cent more
time on those tasks than if
they work on them separately, completing one before starting the other.
He says little research
has been done into why
some people are compulsively drawn to multitasking. But he theorises that
the allure has several layers. Multitasking offers a
guise of productivity, a
‘‘macho’’ show of accomplishment. NYT News Service
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BSE SPEC F ED
& NSE NDEX
B 383, 388, 375, 384.25
383, 387.90, 379, 382.55
Abbott (I) 303, 309.90, 300, 306.85
ACC 170.40, 170.95, 167, 169.85
164.50, 171, 164.50, 169.90
Adani Export 200.50, 204, 202.45
203.95, 205, 200.10, 202.70
Adlabs Films 59, 60.75, 58.65, 59.20
60, 61, 58.50, 58.90
Alstom Proj. 130, 133, 124, 125.70
131.80, 131.80, 122.55, 125.40
Andhra Bank 32.85, 34.30, 32.55,
33.50
32.25, 34.25, 32.25, 33.45
Apollo Hosp. 141, 147, 145.95
147, 147.80, 143.05, 145.70
Apollo Tyres 185, 190.25, 183.20,
184.25
187, 190.30, 182.90, 184.05
Arvind Mills 45.20, 47.50, 44.25,
46.15
45.25, 47.40, 44.10, 46.15
Ashok Leylan 132.50, 136, 131,
133.60
134.90, 135.35, 130.80, 133.40
Asian Paints 397, 405.90, 395,
400.55
400, 403, 396.25, 400.10
Aurobindo Ph 419.40, 449, 416.25,
442.45
415.65, 450, 415, 444.30
Aventis Phar 377, 382.50, 373.25,
380.40
373, 382, 373, 380.80
Aztec Soft. 17.65, 18.25, 17.60,
17.85
17.80, 18.25, 17.60, 17.95
Bajaj Auto 560, 579.70, 576.50
573, 579.80, 571.50, 576.10
Balaji Tele. 69, 69.55, 66.10, 66.95
69.20, 69.70, 67, 67.20
Ballarpur In 52.50, 53.50, 52.05,
52.75
52.90, 53.40, 52, 52.75
Bank of Baro 129.50, 136.80, 129,
134.80
130, 136.90, 129, 134.40
Bank of Ind. 49.70, 51, 48.90, 50.40
49.80, 51, 48.80, 50.40
BASF 125.10, 122, 122.60
124.75, 125.80, 122.55, 123.35
Bata (I) 44.75, 45.25, 43.70, 43.80
44.80, 45.10, 43.50, 43.90
Bayer Cropsc 187.90, 190, 185.25,
189.30
183, 190, 183, 189.85
Bh.Earth Mov 93.50, 94.30, 90.80,
91.20
93.20, 94.15, 91, 91.35
Bharat Elect 358, 362, 351.50,
353.05
356, 362, 352, 353.65
Bharat Forge 362, 364.45, 355.55,
356.15
361, 366, 356.10, 357.15
Bharti TeleV 38.35, 36.50, 37.05
37.50, 38.25, 36.75, 37
BHEL 283, 286.95, 277.60, 280.40
284, 284.50, 277.50, 280.90
Bombay Dyein 76.25, 73.10, 74.40
74.90, 75.60, 72.70, 74.45
BPCL 310.10, 293.55, 294.80
306.80, 306.80, 294.15, 295.50
Britannia 536, 542, 533, 535
540, 544, 531.55, 536.20
BSES 283.90, 295.45, 279.50,
290.20
284, 295.75, 279, 290.70
Cadila Healt 195, 197.75, 188,
190.15
193, 198, 190.05, 191.35
Castrol (I) 210.70, 212.55, 206.10,
207.25
Century Enka 107.70, 101.90, 102.10
108.40, 108.40, 101, 102.55
Century Text 81.25, 85.35, 80.35,
83.45
81.10, 85.40, 80.30, 83.70
Chambal Fert 17.50, 17.70, 17.25,
17.60
17.50, 17.60, 17.20, 17.55
Chennai Pet. 61.40, 63.30, 60.30,
60.70
61.50, 63.35, 60.50, 61.05
Cipla 810, 831.10, 815.45
815, 831, 810.20, 817.10
CMC 431.05, 436, 428, 432.20
433.90, 435, 428, 430.30
Colgate 139.90, 140, 138.40, 138.70
138.40, 139.75, 138.40, 138.70
Container Co 364, 375.05, 356,
357.95
364.90, 375.30, 355.05, 360
Corpn. Bank 170, 175.50, 173.50
172.80, 175.80, 170, 174.35
Crompton Gr. 80, 82.70, 77.75, 78.20
84, 84.40, 77.70, 78.30
Cummins (I) 69.40, 70, 68.15, 69.05
68.80, 69.55, 68, 68.40
D-Link (I) 56, 54.50, 54.55
55.50, 56, 54.60, 54.85
Dabur (I) 54.70, 55.60, 54, 54.15
54.35, 54.90, 54, 54.15
Digital Glob 420.50, 424.70, 416.50,
419.15
423.80, 424.75, 416, 419.15
Dr.Reddy’s 1152, 1180, 1108,
1129.35
1166, 1183.50, 1108, 1129.50
Dredging Cor 330, 369, 328, 361.80
E-Serve Intl 527, 559.75, 550
542.50, 560, 537.05, 551.45
EIH 180.20, 184.90, 182.25
181.75, 184.90, 180, 182.55
Engineers (I 315, 334.70, 329.85
317, 335, 316, 330.25
Escorts 55.20, 55.80, 54, 54.20
54.70, 55.50, 53.85, 54.45
Essel Propac 186, 187, 179.50,
180.15
186.70, 189, 178.50, 180.35
Exide Inds. 85, 86.50, 83, 83.80
83.55, 85.70, 83, 84.35
Federal Bank 151.65, 152.65,
147.65, 149.55
151, 152.70, 147.10, 149.85
Finolex Cabl 115.50, 117.80, 111,
112.15
114.50, 118, 112, 112.80
Finolex Inds 44.30, 44.50, 42.50,
42.75
43, 45, 43, 43
Gail (I) 110.90, 113.45, 110, 111.75
110, 113.40, 110, 111.95
GE Shipping 55.25, 55.90, 54.45,
54.65
52, 56, 52, 54.75
Geometric So 369, 370, 362.50,
366.75
371.30, 371.30, 362.20, 367
German Remed 282, 302, 289.15
290, 303.05, 288, 296.20
Gillette (I) 381, 384, 377, 382
378, 385, 371.60, 379.30
GlaxoSmith.C 266.55, 271, 266.50,
268.50
263.65, 271.45, 263.65, 268.15
GlaxoSmith.P 379, 383.50, 375,
377.50
379.80, 383, 375.25, 377.30
GNFC 38, 38.80, 37.45, 37.90
36, 38.65, 36, 37.85
Grasim Inds. 500, 505, 499.25,
500.45
498, 509.80, 498, 500.35
GSFC 27.80, 30.20, 27.65, 28.95
28.70, 30.15, 27.15, 28.85
GTL 70.30, 70.50, 68.50, 68.80
70.35, 70.35, 68.75, 69.05
Guj.Amb.Cem. 203.70, 204.75,
201.10, 201.80
203.05, 205.70, 201.50, 202.40
Guj.Gas Co. 459.95, 452, 455
456, 456.90, 452.10, 454.60
Guj.Mineral 123.50, 125, 122.35,
123.15
122.30, 125.50, 122.15, 123.10
HCL Infosys. 138.95, 139.80, 135,
135.25
140.50, 140.50, 134.30, 135.65
HCL Techno. 141.25, 147.90, 146.40
149.90, 149.90, 144.05, 146.30
HDFC 411.95, 419, 404, 414.75
409, 418.80, 403, 415.25
HDFC Bank 276.25, 286.80, 270.50,
277.70
270.25, 286.45, 270.25, 277.75
Hero Honda 259.50, 260, 255.15,
255.95
257.50, 262, 255.75, 256.25
Hexaware Tec 124.95, 136.15,
120.40, 121.30
122.90, 123.50, 120.20, 121.60
Him.Fut.Comm 31.75, 32.20, 30.70,
31
31.80, 32.25, 30.75, 30.95
Hind Lever C 186, 189, 184.70,
185.10
190.50, 190.50, 185, 185.70
Hind.Oil Exp 38.45, 41.50, 38, 39.75
38, 41.55, 38, 39.95
Hind.Zinc 32.15, 35.50, 31.50, 34.80
Hindalco 728.85, 760.15, 721,
744.95
725, 760, 715, 745.40
Hinduja TMT 258.90, 260, 249.50,
251.45
256.95, 256.95, 249.10, 251.70
HLL 172.50, 172.95, 167.30, 167.95
173.25, 173.25, 167.50, 168.30
HMT 22.75, 26.10, 21.85, 24.80
22.10, 25.75, 22.05, 24.90
HPCL 360.90, 364.40, 356.15,
357.80
361.30, 365, 356.25, 358.25
Hughes Soft. 220.85, 223.15, 218.30,
220.25
221.50, 223.50, 218.25, 220.70
IBP 614, 615, 588.15, 590.25
615, 617.50, 588.15, 593.80
ICI (I) 151.25, 156.75, 151.05, 154.95
169, 169, 150.20, 154.95
ICICI Bank 151, 152.40, 148.50,
150.25
150.10, 152.50, 148, 150.10
IDBI 36.85, 38.70, 36.10, 36.30
39, 39, 36.05, 36.25
IDBI Bank 27.40, 28.25, 27.25, 28
27.20, 28.30, 27.20, 27.95
India Cement 23.90, 23, 23.05
23.55, 23.70, 23, 23.10
Indian Alumi 132.60, 134, 130, 131
128.60, 132, 128.60, 131.20
Indian Hotel 258, 270, 269.35
269, 270, 266, 268.95
Indian Oil C 410, 424.10, 408.50,
421.85
409.70, 423.40, 408.60, 421.10
Indian Ov.Bk 23.90, 24, 23.55, 23.75
23.80, 23.95, 23.50, 23.80
Indian Rayon 153, 154.40, 146.05,
147.40
154, 154.40, 146, 147.05
Infosys Tech 3100, 3119, 3024,
3091.65
3090.50, 3119, 3025, 3095.20
Infotech En. 107.25, 108, 105.70,
107.55
107.45, 108, 105.60, 107.25
Ingersoll R 250, 266.50, 262.35
260, 268, 256.05, 259.80
IPCL 117.40, 118.40, 114.95, 115.35
116.50, 117.90, 115.05, 115.55
ITC 771, 777, 762, 765.20
777, 777.95, 761.55, 765.90
ITI 22.40, 25.25, 21.90, 24.70
22.40, 25.20, 21.75, 24.80
J&K Bank 225.50, 242.60, 222.05,
239.60
229, 242.40, 221.80, 239.45
Jaiprakash I 51, 53, 50.80, 52
51.45, 52.80, 50.95, 51.90
JB Chemical 225.15, 229.90, 224.05,
224.70
225, 230, 224, 224.80
Jindal Steel 516, 525, 515, 522.50
513, 525.90, 513, 522.50
Kochi Refin. 74.45, 76.35, 74.10,
75.30
74, 76.50, 73, 75.40
Kotak Mah.Bk 170, 171, 166.05,
167.95
168, 171.75, 166, 169
L&T 256.70, 257, 251.55, 254.35
256, 257.60, 251.20, 254.85
LIC Hsg.Fin. 128.50, 136.20, 135.35
127.05, 135.90, 127.05, 134.50
LML 46.10, 46.65, 45.20, 45.50
45.55, 46.65, 45, 45.40
Lupin 305, 309, 293.10, 295.15
306, 310, 292, 295.40
M&M 167, 168, 161, 163.80
167, 167, 161.50, 164.10
Marico Inds 175.55, 179, 178
176.05, 179.60, 176.05, 177.80
Mascot Systm 115.80, 117.40,
114.75, 116
117, 117.25, 114.60, 116.20
Mastek 284, 286.70, 279.65, 283.15
285.75, 286.50, 279.50, 282.90
Mastershare 11.80, 11.90, 11.82
11.80, 11.90, 11.75, 11.85
Max (I) 80.95, 83, 79.65, 80.25
81.95, 84, 78.05, 80.35
Mcdowell Co. 52.50, 54.50, 53.20
52.70, 54.50, 52.15, 53.30
Merck 294, 300, 290, 290.50
300, 300.80, 290.30, 291.55
MIRC Electr. 390.15, 394.90, 388.05,
390.70
394, 398, 390, 391.20
Moser-Baer 352, 364.70, 351,
354.20
350, 364.90, 349, 355.25
Mphasis BFL 330, 339, 324.90,
330.10
328, 337, 324.50, 329.85
MRF 1425, 1490, 1440.90
1454, 1475, 1435, 1447.90
MTNL 116, 117.70, 114, 115.70
116.50, 117.85, 113.55, 115.85
Mukta Arts 55.95, 57.75, 54.50,
56.50
55.40, 57.90, 54.30, 56.95
National Alu 114, 118.20, 112.55,
117
112.65, 118.25, 112.60, 117.10
Nestle (I) 556.90, 550, 552.45
550, 556.90, 550, 552.30
Neyveli Lign 44.90, 45.30, 43.25,
43.40
44, 45.45, 43.30, 43.50
Nicholas Pir 361.10, 362, 345,
349.35
363, 366.50, 343.10, 347.55
NIIT 144.45, 145.80, 142.90, 144.80
144, 146, 142.75, 144.75
Nirma 328, 342, 326, 340.15
328.50, 344, 326, 340.20
Novartis (I) 253.80, 259, 252, 255.70
ONGC 497.90, 501.90, 491.40,
492.85
495, 501.90, 491.15, 493.65
Oriental Bnk 162, 169.80, 160, 168
162, 170.90, 160.60, 167.70
P&G Hygiene 441.15, 455, 412.75,
450.05
Padmalaya Te 90.70, 98.95, 88.80,
92.55
90.50, 99, 89, 93.20
Pentamedia G 13.25, 13.64, 12.96,
13.11
13.50, 13.65, 13, 13.10
Pfizer 402, 428.90, 400.25, 411
405, 427, 401.50, 412.75
Philips (I) 100.50, 101.05, 98.10,
99.50
Pidilite Ind 267.55, 275, 264, 270.20
266, 273.20, 266, 271.70
Polaris Soft 108.80, 109, 107.20,
108.35
109, 109.15, 107.15, 108.40
Pun.Tractors 175.85, 177, 170.50,
170.75
175.80, 177.90, 170, 170.90
Ranbaxy Lab. 834, 841.30, 827.30,
830.05
831, 841, 826.50, 830.35
Raymond 134, 137, 129.25, 130.15
136.10, 136.10, 130.05, 130.70
RCF 42, 42.80, 41.30, 41.90
42.30, 42.80, 41.30, 41.95
Rel Capital 74.90, 75.30, 72.10,
72.20
74, 75.50, 72, 72.30
Reliance Ind 337.90, 340, 327.50,
328.15
334, 337.50, 327.60, 328.75
Rolta (I) 69.75, 69.80, 68.15, 68.65
69.85, 69.85, 68.40, 68.75
SAIL 18.90, 19.45, 18.75, 19.30
19.45, 19.45, 18.70, 19.25
Satyam Comp 186.70, 188.40,
183.55, 187.15
187.80, 188, 183.50, 187.05
Saw Pipes 160, 166.50, 158, 163.85
158.85, 166.70, 157.85, 164.10
SBI 390, 391.75, 386.15, 387.85
390, 391.60, 387.10, 388.25
Shipp.Corpn. 73.50, 73.75, 71.65,
73.10
73, 74.20, 71.40, 73.10
Shyam Teleco 48.40, 51.20, 46.20,
50
46.05, 51.30, 46.05, 49.95
Siemens 385, 385.95, 377, 378.30
383.50, 386.95, 378, 381.35
Silverline T 8.85, 8.25, 8.49
SKF Bearing 73.60, 75, 72.75, 73.70
73.50, 75.50, 73, 73.55
Sonata Soft. 13.90, 13.01, 13.13
13.50, 13.50, 12.95, 13.15
SPICE 35.80, 35.95, 34.75, 35
SSI 104.95, 108, 103, 106.25
104.40, 107.50, 103, 106.25
STC India 122, 117.25, 118.70
123.45, 123.45, 118.10, 119.30
Sterl.Biotec 45.50, 46.30, 44.20,
44.50
46.25, 46.40, 44, 44.55
Sterl.Optica 54, 51.30, 51.65
52, 53.90, 51, 51.70
Sun Pharma. 368, 373.85, 365,
370.40
363, 374.65, 362.50, 370.20
Syndicate Bn 26, 27, 25.95, 26.45
27.95, 27.95, 26, 26.50
Syngenta (I) 125.05, 119.10, 119.90
Tata Chem 78.95, 79.60, 77.75,
78.05
87, 87, 77.75, 78.05
Tata Elxsi 82.95, 86.40, 82, 85.60
82.90, 98.30, 81.55, 85.40
Tata Power 159, 159.40, 151.80,
152.85
158.40, 159, 151.60, 152.80
Tata Tea 226.50, 227, 222, 224.10
226, 227, 221.50, 224.15
Tata Telcom 123.35, 124.50, 121,
121.25
124, 134, 120.60, 121.45
TELCO 206, 212.60, 211.70
206.20, 212.60, 206, 211.55
Thermax 271, 273.40, 263.10,
265.30
271.90, 273, 265, 266.50
Thomas Cook 235.50, 228.50,
230.60
238, 238, 226, 229.80
TISCO 172, 177.50, 171.50, 175.50
173, 177.60, 171.30, 175.45
Titan Inds. 72.45, 74.20, 72, 72.90
72.25, 74.45, 72.25, 73.25
TN Newsprint 60, 54.35, 56.40
47.60, 57.90, 47.60, 56
TN Petro 21.60, 21.70, 21.05, 21.50
20.55, 21.65, 20.55, 21.55
Torrent Phar 268, 274, 255.05,
259.65
264.70, 272.35, 255.75, 258.25
Trent 191.25, 201, 196.80
195, 200, 192, 197.15
N m
MUTUAL FUNDS
Open-ended Schemes
N m
NA
R
As on 04/07/2003
Alliance Capital Mutual Fund
95 (D)
30.97
95 (G)
55.89
Basic Inds.(D)
16.48
Basic Inds.(G)
16.48
Capital Tax Relief’96
68.09
Cash Manager (D)
10.00
Cash Manager (G)
15.05
Cash Manager Instnl (D)
10.00
Cash Manager Instnl (G)
10.12
Equity (D)
17.83
Equity (G)
32.20
G-Sec Short Term (D)
10.14
G-Sec Short Term (G)
14.03
Income (D)
11.16
Income (G)
21.88
Income 54EA (D)
11.17
Income 54EA (G)
21.87
Income 54EB (D)
11.18
Income 54EB (G)
21.73
Income Q’ly (D)
10.31
Monthly Income (G)
17.67
Monthly Income (M’ly)
10.57
Monthly Income (Q’ly)
10.56
New Millennium (D)
3.96
New Millennium (G)
3.96
Short Term (D)
10.01
Short Term (G)
10.91
Short Term Fund Instnl(D)
10.01
Short Term Fund Instnl(G)
10.04
Benchmark Mutual Fund
Nifty BeES
115.83
Nifty Junior BeES
188.14
Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund
Advantage (A)
30.68
Advantage (B)
30.68
Balance (D)
10.82
Balance (G)
10.82
Bond Index Fund (Div)
10.16
Bond Index Fund (G)
10.16
Bond Plus Inst.(G)
11.33
Bond Plus Retail (D)
11.19
Bond plus Inst.(D)
10.45
Bond plus Retail (G)
11.32
Cash Plus Inst.(G)
16.53
Cash Plus Inst.(MDP)
10.01
Cash Plus Retail (D)
16.35
Cash Plus Retail (G)
16.52
Cash Plus-Inst.(D)
10.79
D Yield Plus(Div)
11.57
D Yield Plus(G)
13.00
Equity Plan
18.07
FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (D)
10.70
FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (G)
10.70
FMP Quarterly Group 1 (D)
11.06
FMP Quarterly Group 1 (G)
11.28
Float.Rate Long Term(D)
10.04
Float.Rate Long Term(G)
10.04
Float.Rate Short Term(D)
10.04
R
S
31.59
57.01
16.81
16.81
68.77
10.00
15.05
10.00
10.12
18.19
32.84
10.14
14.03
11.16
21.88
11.17
21.87
11.18
21.73
10.31
17.67
10.57
10.56
4.04
4.04
10.01
10.91
10.01
10.04
30.97
55.89
16.48
16.48
68.09
10.00
15.05
10.00
10.12
17.83
32.20
10.14
14.03
11.16
21.88
11.17
21.87
11.18
21.73
10.31
17.67
10.57
10.56
3.96
3.96
10.01
10.91
10.01
10.04
—
—
—
—
30.99
30.99
10.93
10.93
10.16
10.16
11.33
11.19
10.45
11.32
16.53
10.01
16.35
16.52
10.79
11.69
13.13
18.07
10.70
10.70
11.06
11.28
10.04
10.04
10.04
30.68
30.68
10.82
10.82
10.16
10.16
11.33
11.19
10.45
11.32
16.53
10.01
16.35
16.52
10.79
11.57
13.00
18.07
10.70
10.70
11.06
11.28
10.04
10.04
10.04
Float.Rate Short Term(G)
Gilt Plus-Liquid-(A)(D)
Gilt Plus-Liquid-(B)(G)
Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(A)(D)
Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(B)(G)
Gilt Plus-Reg.-(AD)
Gilt Plus-Reg.-(BG)
INDEX (Div)
INDEX (G)
IT Plan A (Div Payout)
IT Plan A (Div Reinv)
IT Plan B (G)
Income Plus Inst. A(D)
Income Plus Inst. B(G)
Income Plus Plan A(D)
Income Plus Plan B(G)
MIDCAP (Div)
MIDCAP (G)
MIP Plan A (D)
MIP Plan B (Payment/G)
MIP Plan C (Payment/G)
MNC Plan A (Div Payout)
MNC Plan A (Div Reinv)
MNC Plan B (Gr)
Sweep Plan (D)
Sweep Plan (G)
BOB Mutual Fund
Elss 96
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 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)
NA
R
TVS Electron 72, 74, 71.25, 71.70
71.30, 72.80, 71.30, 71.85
TVS Motor Co 585, 590, 585
615, 615, 580, 580.75
United Phosp 259.50, 275.70,
257.85, 266.15
260.40, 275.40, 257.15, 267.25
UTI Bank 54.25, 64.30, 64.15
61, 65, 54.60, 64.30
Videocon Int 34.10, 34.90, 33.60,
34.05
34.70, 34.90, 33.60, 34.05
Vijaya Bank 20.95, 22, 20.65, 21.35
20.50, 21.95, 20.50, 21.35
Visual Soft 139.10, 132.25, 133.75
134.95, 136, 132.15, 133.90
VSNL 128, 130, 126.10, 127.95
127.45, 127.90, 126, 127.30
Whirlpool 23.50, 22.80, 23
23.60, 23.60, 22.85, 23
Wipro 904, 923, 894, 919.10
904.10, 921.95, 892.35, 917.35
Wockhardt 378.25, 391.50, 378,
383.95
383, 388.40, 376.15, 383.70
Zee Telefilm 97, 97.50, 94.35, 95.30
95.25, 98, 94.90, 95.35
Zensar Tech. 79.10, 80, 78, 78.40
79.70, 80, 77.70, 78.40
B1 - GROUP
3
3M India 349, 358.90
347.05, 360, 347.05, 353
A
A Sarabhai 8.15, 8.50, 7.85, 7.99
Aarti Drugs 45.90, 46.50, 43.80,
44.70
Aarti Inds. 97.45, 99, 95, 97.05
97, 98.95, 95, 97.25
Aarvee Denim 23.40, 23.20, 24.95
Aban Loyd 298.40, 295, 306.40
306.90, 307.05, 293.60, 307.05
ABC Bearings 16.60, 17.68, 14.17,
17.67
ABG Heavy In 19.95, 18.45, 18.75
Abhishek Ind 14, 13, 13.39
13.40, 13.95, 13.10, 13.45
Adam Comsof 5.60, 6.20
Addi Inds. 25.50
Advani Oerli 39.05, 45, 38.05, 43.35
40, 45.50, 39.80, 43
Advik Lab. 17.10, 16.70
Aegis Logis. 11.50, 13.10, 12.67
12.20, 13, 11.60, 12.70
AFT Inds. 55, 56.65, 53.60, 55.40
Aftek Infosy 286.50, 289.25, 285,
285.40
287, 289, 281.10, 285.15
Agro Dutch I 16, 15.05, 15.65
15.60, 15.70, 15.15, 15.25
Agro Tech Fd 48.30, 50, 48, 48.35
49.10, 49.10, 48, 48.50
Ahmed.Elect. 69.40, 72.50, 70.80
69.95, 72.80, 69.95, 70.55
Ahmednagar F 37.50, 38, 36.70
37.55, 37.55, 36.50, 36.60
Ajanta Pharm 43.50, 50.45, 42.55,
46.90
44.90, 51, 44, 46.85
Aksh Optifib 27.95, 28.35, 27.60,
27.90
27.60, 28.55, 27.60, 27.80
Albert David 42.50, 43.30, 39.55,
40.30
Albright & W 192.75, 205, 193.50
Alembic 304.50, 329, 304.25, 320.15
308, 329.90, 303, 320.80
Alfa Laval 315, 310, 311.10
305, 319.40, 305, 315
Alka (I) 0.46, 0.40
Alkyl Amines 25.75, 26, 25, 25.55
Allahabad Bk 18, 18.15, 17.65, 17.85
18, 18.20, 17.60, 17.90
Alok Inds. 30, 31.75, 27.25, 29.75
28.55, 31.75, 27.30, 29.80
Alps Inds. 24, 25.75, 25.50
24.45, 24.95, 23.50, 24.65
Alstom 32.05, 32.85, 31.50, 32.15
Amara Raja B 74, 74.90, 73.05,
73.35
73.50, 74.70, 73.20, 73.45
Ambica Agarb 45, 46.50, 41.75,
44.10
Ambuja Cem.R 5.15, 5.60, 5.05, 5.24
4.50, 5.50, 4.50, 5.20
Amex Info. 19.35, 18.05, 18.40
Amforge Inds 40.75, 39.05, 40.75
Amrutanjan 96, 97, 90, 93.10
Amtek 59.30, 61.90, 60.90
Amtek Auto 190.75, 195, 190, 191.05
Andrew Yule 18.30, 20.90
Ankur Drugs 12.90, 12, 12.37
Ansal Prop. 14, 14.70, 13.70, 13.91
AP Paper 68.05, 74.95, 72.75
Apcotex Lat. 31.75, 32, 31.35, 31.45
31.30, 32, 31.30, 31.55
Aplab 33.50, 33.80, 30.60, 32.90
Aptech 54.95, 56.50, 52.50, 53.70
53.70, 55.75, 52.30, 53.40
Archies 66, 63.55, 64.55
63.50, 64.65, 63.20, 64
Arvind Rem. 7.95, 7.40, 7.41
7.65, 7.70, 7.20, 7.30
Asahi (I) Gl 61.10, 64, 60.50, 61.90
60.90, 63.90, 60.30, 61.95
Ashapura Min 92, 88.10
93, 93, 88.35, 90.75
Ashima 24.75, 23.05, 23.30
22.25, 24.45, 22.10, 23.40
Ashok Ley.Fn 61, 63.50, 63
63.35, 64, 61.05, 63
Asian Elect. 72, 72.50, 70.50, 71.20
67.25, 73, 67.10, 71.45
Asian Hotels 101, 101.85, 100.25,
101.30
102, 103.40, 99, 100.05
Assam Co. 18.55, 19.50, 18.80
Astrazen.Ph. 375, 395, 386
382.10, 382.10, 382, 382
Atcom Techno 12.90, 13.15, 12.25,
12.85
13, 13, 12.70, 12.95
Atlas Copco 279.50, 284, 274.05,
278.80
Atlas Cycles 74.50, 78, 77.45
75.90, 77.50, 74.25, 77.30
Atul 57, 54.50, 55.90
57, 57, 54.50, 56
Auto Axles 133, 144.90, 132.50,
142.50
135.90, 145, 133, 142.25
Avanti Feeds 23.75, 23.30, 25.25
Avery (I) 25.25, 26.25, 25, 26.10
Avon Organic 36.35, 40, 36, 39.60
B
Bajaj Auto F 64, 61, 63.75
67.95, 67.95, 61.15, 63.80
Bajaj Elec. 31, 33, 30.55, 32.70
Bajaj Hindus 110, 109.90, 115.50
108, 115.50, 105, 115.40
Bajaj Tempo 163, 157.65, 159.45
Bal Pharma 28.95, 27.60, 28.10
Bal.Law.Vanl 17.90, 18.35, 17.60,
18.25
Balaji Dist. 8.90, 9, 8.51, 8.66
8.80, 9, 8.55, 8.75
Balkrish Ind 124, 137, 135.85
Balmer Law.I 46.10, 47, 45.50, 45.70
Balmer Lawri 93.15, 96.95, 92, 94.40
94, 96.50, 91.50, 95.25
Balrampur Ch 142.70, 160.90, 142,
155.35
146, 160.70, 141.90, 157.10
Banco Prod. 77.50, 78.15, 76.35,
76.40
Bank of Punj 18.80, 19.25, 18.40, 19
18.60, 19.30, 18.10, 19
Bank of Raj. 24.40, 24.80, 23.90,
24.35
24.35, 24.75, 23.95, 24.35
Bannari Aman 137.90, 133.05,
147.40
136.50, 147.30, 135.25, 147.30
Bayer (I) 1225, 1340, 1220, 1280.50
Bayer ABS 121.50, 121.75, 117,
117.60
122, 122.35, 118, 118.55
Bayer Diagno 225, 227.90, 220.60,
224.85
Berger Paint 90, 94, 93.35
92, 94.40, 91.55, 92.90
BF Utilities 9, 9.50, 9.02
Bhagya.Metal 28.65, 29.15
28.90, 28.90, 28.90, 28.90
Bhansali Eng 35.95, 36.60
Bharat Bijle 373, 390, 372, 385
R
N m
S
10.04
10.55
15.06
11.43
18.08
11.78
19.87
11.79
11.79
11.46
11.46
13.31
26.59
26.86
10.60
26.76
11.57
13.31
10.74
13.92
13.92
26.61
26.61
33.33
10.18
10.38
10.04
10.55
15.06
11.43
18.08
11.78
19.87
11.85
11.85
11.57
11.57
13.44
26.59
26.86
10.60
26.76
11.69
13.44
10.74
13.92
13.92
26.88
26.88
33.66
10.18
10.38
10.04
10.55
15.06
11.43
18.08
11.78
19.87
11.79
11.79
11.46
11.46
13.31
26.59
26.86
10.60
26.76
11.57
13.31
10.74
13.92
13.92
26.61
26.61
33.33
10.18
10.38
12.63
10.32
10.32
10.79
10.79
10.43
10.39
10.85
10.97
12.95
10.32
10.32
10.79
10.79
10.43
10.39
10.85
10.97
12.63
10.27
10.27
10.73
10.73
10.43
10.39
10.85
10.97
8.79
10.80
12.21
11.03
14.08
14.08
9.15
10.40
16.46
5.11
10.33
10.84
10.30
10.05
11.08
13.32
15.10
22.18
8.95
10.80
12.21
11.11
14.34
14.34
9.31
10.40
16.46
5.20
10.33
10.84
10.30
10.05
11.08
13.55
15.36
22.57
8.79
10.80
12.21
11.03
14.08
14.08
9.15
10.40
16.46
5.11
10.33
10.84
10.30
10.05
11.08
13.32
15.10
22.18
10.87
10.16
10.44
17.68
10.11
17.70
10.11
7.90
5.11
16.16
10.07
10.87
10.16
10.44
17.68
10.11
17.70
10.11
8.06
5.21
16.16
10.07
10.87
9.96
10.44
17.68
10.11
17.70
10.11
7.90
5.11
16.16
10.07
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First India Mutual Fund
Bharat Rasay 38, 39, 38.95
37.25, 39, 37.20, 38
Bhartiya Int 29.55, 30.80, 30.20
31, 31, 30, 30.15
Bhushan Stl. 45.50, 46.95, 45, 46.40
BI 82.30, 79.75
Bihar Caustc 25.25, 26.80, 24.50,
26.30
Bimetal Bear 136, 147
Binani Inds. 18.05, 18.25, 17.80,
18.10
Biopac (I) 7.80, 8.13, 8
Birla Corp. 34.80, 36.75, 32.10,
34.55
34.10, 36.90, 32.15, 34.70
Birla Eric. 16.30, 17.40, 16.20, 16.80
16.50, 17.55, 16.25, 16.95
Birla Glob.F 19.25, 20, 19, 19.75
21, 21, 19.60, 19.85
Birla Yamaha 20.05, 20.25, 19.50,
19.90
BITS 0.96, 0.70, 0.78
BLB 9, 10.50, 10.40
10.50, 10.50, 9.25, 9.90
Blow Plast 13.85, 14.48, 14.04
Blue Dart Ex 81.50, 83.75, 81.10,
82.75
78.50, 84.05, 78.50, 82.35
Blue Star 117.70, 117.75, 109,
110.80
117, 117, 108, 110.35
Blue Star In 130.10, 134.95, 129.20,
130.15
137, 137, 128.50, 130.10
BOC 44.60, 47.30, 43.50, 46.35
44.70, 47.50, 43.50, 46.25
Bombay Burma 40, 41.85, 40
39.20, 39.20, 39.20, 39.20
Bongaigaon R 48.30, 48.90, 46.10,
46.40
47.55, 49.30, 46.15, 46.55
BPL 35.60, 38.25, 35.20, 37.45
35.40, 38.35, 35.25, 37.40
BPL Engg. 6.15, 7.50, 6.12, 7.23
6.35, 7.55, 6.35, 7.35
Brijlax. Le. 108.20, 106.80, 108.75
BSEL Inform. 12.80
12.40, 12.50, 12.40, 12.50
BSL 39.10, 40, 39.95
Burrough Wel 430, 465, 420, 461.50
C
Camlin 73, 69.50, 82.50
Camph.& All 31, 31.30, 30.75, 31
Canara Bank 104.90, 106.50,
102.15, 102.70
102.80, 104.25, 102.05, 102.70
Canfin Homes 39, 43.25
38.45, 43.50, 38.45, 43.50
Caprihans(I) 21, 21.75, 20, 20.80
Carborundum 181.30, 181.40,
179.20, 179.90
181, 183.90, 178, 179.20
CCL Products 17.50, 20.95, 20.10
Ceat 44.90, 45.95, 44, 45.25
44.90, 46, 44.10, 45.40
Centur. Bank 12.30, 12.90, 12.16,
12.34
12.15, 12.80, 12.15, 12.35
Cerebra Inte 5.65, 5.27, 5.33
CESC 44.25, 40.50, 40.70
45, 45, 40.60, 40.90
CG Igarshi M 64, 64.50, 61, 61.15
63, 64.20, 60, 61
Chemfab Alk. 34, 35.75, 35
Chemplast Sa 33, 32.25, 32.60
33.50, 34.25, 32.65, 32.70
Chettinad Ce 57.60, 59.80, 53, 58.90
Cheviot Co. 122.20, 118.50, 119.70
Chola.Inv&Fi 46.15, 47.50
47, 47.90, 46.40, 47.60
Chowgule Stm 8, 8.39, 7.44, 7.73
Ciba Sp.Chem 130.50, 133.50, 130
Cinevistaas 32.50, 34.80, 34.65
33, 34.90, 32.85, 34.40
City Union B 47.75, 52, 47, 50.20
47.10, 51.20, 46.65, 49.80
Clariant (I) 166, 168, 160.50, 163.25
165.50, 169.70, 162.60, 163.85
Classic Diam 45, 53.30, 53.10
Clutch.Auto 11.95, 12.70, 11.25,
12.34
Coates (I) 108.10, 110.70, 108.05,
110.65
115, 115, 108.10, 109.25
Cochin Minrl 14.50, 16.90, 14.25,
15.89
Color Chips 9.40, 10.39, 9.05, 9.88
10.90, 10.90, 9.20, 9.95
Colour Chem 237.05, 240, 239
237.35, 240.95, 237.35, 239.50
Compucom Sof 19.75, 20.15, 20
Compudyne Wi 17, 15.70, 16.30
16.25, 16.95, 15.50, 16.45
Computech In 6.10, 6.50, 6.38
7, 7, 6.15, 6.45
Cont.Const. 11.01, 11.45, 11.40
Control Prnt 20.10, 20.55, 20.05,
20.20
Core Health. 8.30, 8.50, 7.72, 7.99
8.50, 8.65, 7.80, 8.10
Corom. Fert. 73.95, 76.80, 76.30
74, 79.20, 73, 75.30
Cosmo Ferr. 9.25, 10, 9.01, 9.90
Cosmo Films 104.85, 102.25, 110.65
101.80, 110.80, 101.50, 110.80
Creative Eye 18.20, 18.60, 17.40,
18.41
18, 18.75, 17.30, 18.25
Crest Comm. 35, 33.80, 40.60
34.75, 40.75, 34.20, 40.75
CRISIL 352, 341.05, 345.70
347.80, 359.95, 342, 350.70
Cybertech Sy 9.99, 10.43, 9.80,
10.11
9.40, 10.30, 9.40, 10.10
D
Daewoo Motor 4.25, 4.39, 4.01, 4.09
Dalmia Cemen 181, 192, 180, 191.95
176.65, 190, 176.65, 190
Danlaw Tech. 32.15, 32, 33
Datapro Inf. 0.70, 0.62
DCM 10.15, 9.70, 9.75
9.75, 10.25, 9.70, 9.80
DCM Shr.Con 94, 98.75, 93.10, 94.85
92.30, 98, 92.30, 94.65
DCW 21.20, 22.40, 21.05, 22.05
21, 22.45, 20.80, 22.10
Deccan Cem. 36.25, 39.70, 36.15,
36.75
Deepak Fert. 24.30, 25.45, 24.70
25.30, 25.30, 24.35, 24.60
Deepak Nitr. 63.30, 68, 63.25, 67.35
Dena Bank 19.50, 19, 19.05
19.60, 19.60, 19, 19.05
Denso (I) 35.85, 36.50, 35, 35.60
Dewan H.Fin. 34.35, 34.85, 32.25,
33.20
34.90, 35.50, 32, 33.40
DFM Foods 9.98, 8.50, 9.01
DGP Windsor 7, 7.05, 6.51, 7.01
6.80, 7, 6.50, 6.85
Dhampur Sugr 19.10, 18.60, 22.25
19, 22.30, 18.65, 22.30
Dhanalak.Bnk 19.50, 19.95, 18, 19
Dharamsi Mor 8.26, 8.94, 8.55
Dhunseri Tea 17.75, 18.60, 17.15,
17.50
Divi’s Lab 570.85, 576.50, 550,
554.30
577.80, 577.80, 548.40, 554.45
Dolat Inv. 5.20, 5.60, 5.55
Dolphin Off. 16.50, 18.40, 16.25,
17.90
Donear Inds. 128.70, 119, 120
DSJ Comm. 0.82, 0.86, 0.80, 0.85
0.80, 0.90, 0.80, 0.90
Duphar-Inter 146.95, 149.90, 131.10,
147.50
E
Eicher 45, 47.50, 42, 43.25
43.50, 44.40, 43.25, 43.40
Eicher Motor 155, 158, 152, 156.30
154, 158, 152.20, 155.40
EID Parry 132.50, 141, 131, 136.95
132, 141.40, 130.95, 137.75
EIH Asso.Hot 14.50, 15.50, 14.40,
15.48
Eimco Elecon 55, 60.25
55, 60, 55, 58
Elder Pharma 63, 74.50, 71.20
63.25, 74.05, 63.25, 70.75
Elecon Engg. 15, 15.59, 14.51, 15
Elect.Kelvin 9.20, 9.42, 8.62, 8.68
Electro.Cast 350, 339.95, 340.20
350, 351.95, 335.25, 341
Elgi Equip 31, 33.25, 30.20, 33
30.75, 33.50, 30.25, 33
NA
R
R
Elgitread (I 195.05, 195
191, 200, 191, 199.35
Elpro Inter 23.75, 28.40, 23.60, 26.05
Emco 45, 45.20, 44, 44.10
Encore Soft 17, 17.97, 16.25, 17.96
Eonour Tech. 4.82, 4.05, 4.12
Epic Enzymes 12.75, 13.50, 12.93
Esab (I) 43.75, 51.70, 48.90
44, 52, 43.75, 49.15
ESI 28.85, 30.30, 29.40
30.10, 31.75, 29.05, 29.70
Eskay K’N’It 5.40, 4.50, 4.97
Essar Oil 11.80, 11.85, 10.85, 11.40
Essar Ship. 15.50, 14.25, 14.46
Essar Steel 17.50, 18.50, 16.60,
18.25
17.40, 18.50, 16.55, 18.20
ETC Networks 57, 59.90, 56.95,
58.50
Eternit Ever 65, 69, 64.55, 68.95
59, 69, 59, 68.15
Eurotex Inds 14.75, 16, 15.22
15.20, 15.75, 15, 15.20
Eveready Ind 23.80, 25.70, 23.50,
24.55
24.20, 25, 24.15, 24.80
Excel Inds. 124.65, 126.80, 119,
119.85
125, 125, 118, 120.20
F
G
Gabriel (I) 115.75, 129, 122.35
Galaxy Enter 19.60, 20.90
Gammon (I) 131, 134.85
128, 136.95, 128, 136.95
Gandhi Sp.Tu 26, 28.40, 25, 25.10
Garden Silk 36, 36.20, 34.80, 35.55
35.90, 36.25, 34.80, 35.40
Garware Poly 33.40, 36.70, 35.90
Garware Wall 26.20, 27.40, 25.75,
26.90
Gati 49.80, 45.10, 45.60
Genesys Intl 37.50, 39.10, 38.35
38.85, 38.85, 37.40, 38
Geodesic Inf 182, 187.85, 185.10
George Willi 56.50, 57.65, 56.10,
56.70
55.75, 57.90, 55.75, 56.60
GIC Housing 22, 23.50, 20.15, 23.05
21.45, 23.90, 20.60, 23.30
GIVO 4.90, 3.90, 4.08
Glenmark Pha 319, 311, 314.25
320.45, 322, 312, 314.75
Global Tr.Bk 18.50, 20.90, 18.40,
20.10
18.50, 21, 18.30, 20.15
GMM Pfaudler 99, 101
GMR Techno. 10, 12.86
Goa Carbon 75, 70.15, 70.90
Godavri Fert 93.10, 87.50, 88.35
89.50, 92.95, 87.50, 88.65
Godfrey Phil 361.25, 365.25, 361.10
368.90, 368.90, 360, 360.10
Godrej Cons. 119.30, 120, 116.25,
118.35
121, 121, 119, 119.40
Godrej Inds. 32.90, 33.80, 32.15,
32.50
32, 32.85, 31.80, 32.35
Goetze (I) 41.70, 42.60, 39.70, 41.30
40.40, 42.40, 39.60, 40.55
Goldiam Int. 33, 34.85, 34.10
Goldstn.Tech 23.95, 22.80, 23
23.80, 23.90, 22.85, 22.95
Goldstn.Tele 10.15, 10.43, 10.10,
10.21
10.65, 10.65, 10.05, 10.25
Gonter Peip 7.19, 7.40, 6.62, 7.24
Goodlass Ner 240, 244.95, 235.05,
240.25
237.50, 241.90, 236, 240
Goodricke 37, 35.25, 35.75
Goodyear (I) 42.60, 45.90, 41.75,
44.50
Grabal Al.Im 27.90, 25.30, 29.90
Graphite Ind 51.40, 54, 51.05, 51.25
52.50, 54.20, 51.10, 51.65
Grauer & Wei 29.45, 29.95, 27, 27.90
Gravity (I) 23, 22.40, 23.12
Greaves 26.45, 29.10, 25.30, 28.80
Grind Norton 150.95, 176, 168.65
Gruh Finance 25.20, 25.25, 24.05,
24.90
GTC Inds. 17.25, 18.20, 17, 17.75
17.50, 18.45, 17.30, 17.55
GTN Textiles 35.25, 38, 37
35.85, 38.50, 35.50, 37.90
Gufic Bio Sc 32.90, 33.45, 31, 31.35
Guj.Alkalies 37.05, 38, 36.55, 37.40
37, 37.95, 36.50, 37.30
Guj.Amb.Exp. 17, 14.80, 15
15.45, 15.45, 14.75, 15
Guj.Apollo E 62.05, 65
Guj.Flouroch 78, 82, 80.95
79.15, 82, 79, 80.40
Guj.H.Chem 21.75, 22.70, 21.70,
22.55
21.85, 22.70, 21.85, 22.50
Guj.Ind.Pow. 28.70, 27.50, 28.05
28.70, 28.70, 27.60, 28.25
Guj.Sidh.Cem 6.45, 6.50, 6.20, 6.32
6.35, 6.50, 6.25, 6.35
Gulf Oil Cor 80, 81, 76.10, 76.75
H
Harr.Malayal 15.75, 16.80, 16.55
16, 16.80, 15, 16.75
Hathway Bhaw 13.10, 11.69, 11.72
Havell’s (I) 116.95, 114
114.70, 116, 114.70, 115.05
Hawkins Cook 20.05, 20.90, 19.35,
20.10
Hazoor Media 6.75, 6.48, 6.50
HBL Nife Pow 42.10, 44.65, 42.10
HEG 54.90, 58.50, 54, 55.35
54, 58.50, 53, 55.50
Helios & Mat 16.70, 17.50
Henkel Spic 23.10, 23.30, 22.15,
22.35
Heritage Fds 60, 60.40, 58.75, 59.60
N m
NA
R
13.32
13.32
15.03
10.58
12.37
10.94
11.36
12.35
11.35
12.11
13.58
13.58
15.33
10.79
12.37
10.94
11.36
12.35
11.35
12.11
13.18
13.18
15.03
10.58
12.37
10.94
11.36
12.35
11.35
12.11
10.19
11.18
10.14
10.13
10.26
10.42
10.46
10.33
10.29
10.30
10.26
10.31
10.18
10.20
10.19
11.35
10.14
10.13
10.26
10.42
10.46
10.33
10.29
10.30
10.26
10.31
10.18
10.20
10.14
11.18
10.14
10.13
10.26
10.37
10.46
10.33
10.29
10.25
10.21
10.31
10.18
10.20
11.18
12.49
11.27
21.76
10.48
16.77
10.07
10.07
10.00
11.82
20.05
10.66
14.10
12.40
10.01
14.93
11.09
10.45
10.23
10.23
10.63
10.01
10.31
4.38
11.70
11.18
12.49
11.27
21.76
10.48
17.11
10.07
10.07
10.00
11.82
20.05
10.66
14.10
12.40
10.01
14.93
11.31
10.45
10.23
10.23
10.63
10.01
10.31
4.47
11.93
11.01
12.30
11.27
21.76
10.48
16.77
10.07
10.07
10.00
11.82
20.05
10.66
14.10
12.40
10.01
14.93
11.09
10.45
10.23
10.23
10.63
10.01
10.31
4.38
11.70
12.71
14.11
12.30
13.45
13.72
12.53
10.57
18.78
10.38
12.34
11.13
13.18
11.27
11.27
12.87
14.28
12.30
13.45
13.93
12.72
10.57
18.78
10.38
12.34
11.13
13.18
11.27
11.27
12.71
14.11
12.30
13.45
13.72
12.53
10.57
18.78
10.38
12.34
11.13
13.18
—
—
Gilt
11.07
Gilt Fund - (D)
10.56
Growth
12.03
Income
11.07
Income Fund (D)
10.39
Liquid (D)
10.21
Liquid (G)
10.95
Short Term
10.64
Short Term (D)
10.23
Tax Gain
40.55
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
FT Asset Allocat.Bal Gr.
11.18
FT Asset Allocat.Cons Gr.
11.10
FT Asset Allocat.Infl
10.94
FT Asset Allocat.Pure Gr.
11.43
FT Asset Allocat.Steady G
11.31
FT Balanced (G)
10.84
FT Gilt Invst (G)
13.50
FT Gilt Invst (M’ly B)
12.35
FT Gilt Invst (Q’ly)
11.34
FT Gilt Liquid (G)
11.33
FT Gilt Liquid (M’ly)
10.29
FT Index - BSE
10.84
FT Index - Nifty
11.28
FT Monthly Income (G)
13.92
FT Monthly Income (M’ly B
12.70
FT Monthly Income (M)
10.95
FT Monthly Income (Q)
10.96
FT PE Ratio
10.15
Franklin Balanced(D)
11.91
Franklin Balanced(G)
12.41
Franklin Bluechip (D)
14.52
Franklin Bluechip (G)
28.56
Franklin FMCG
11.93
Franklin Growth
6.74
Franklin Index
8.75
Franklin Index Tax
8.95
Franklin Infotech (D)
7.79
Franklin Infotech (G)
11.39
Franklin Internet Opp
4.83
Franklin Intl.
9.79
Franklin Pharma
11.01
Franklin Prima (D)
19.65
Franklin Prima (G)
43.49
Franklin Prima Plus (D)
16.14
Franklin Prima Plus (G)
29.61
Franklin T TMA (Dly)
1511.96
Franklin Taxshield (D)
14.15
Franklin Taxshield (G)
30.11
Maxima (D)
11.23
Maxima (G)
17.89
SIP 04-Apr-04
10.40
59.50, 60, 58.85, 59.85
Hi-Tech Gear 130.10, 137
134.50, 138, 134, 134.05
Hikal 229, 224, 241.75
231.70, 241.30, 222, 241.30
Himat. Seide 142, 140, 143
143, 143, 140, 142.30
Hind.Constn. 89.90, 93.85, 88.35,
92.30
89.95, 93.50, 88.10, 92.25
Hind.Inks&Re 234.40, 256, 226.80,
253
251, 256.85, 249.10, 252.30
Hind.Motors 15.19, 16.40, 14.90,
15.91
15.10, 16.45, 14.85, 15.85
Hind.Org.Chm 24.60, 24.50, 28.55
24.80, 28.45, 24.30, 28.45
Hind.Power 33.50, 32, 37.90
Hind.Sanitar 79.50, 81.50, 79, 81
78, 80.85, 78, 80.85
Hitachi Home 24, 23.05, 23.75
24.65, 24.65, 23.75, 23.85
Honda SIEL P 149, 143.55
139.10, 145, 139.10, 143.05
Hotel Leela. 23, 26, 22.90, 25.85
23.20, 26, 23, 25.75
I
I-flex Solu 1020, 1029.50, 1005,
1023.80
1015, 1025, 1005.50, 1021
ICICI Premie 13.15, 12.71
IFCI 9.79, 10.40, 9.55, 9.96
9.75, 10.40, 9.50, 9.90
IL&FS Invt.M 23.50, 24.10, 23.20,
23.25
24, 24.30, 23, 23.35
Ind.Swift 75.95, 78.50, 74.70, 76.55
Ind.Swift La 28.80, 28.85, 26.65,
26.85
28.10, 28.50, 26.50, 26.70
India Foils 9.60, 10.05, 9, 10
9.50, 10.50, 9.25, 10.05
India Gelat. 17.55, 21.05, 21
India Glycol 52.45, 51, 51.45
India Gypsum 26, 26.90, 24.65, 25
25.50, 25.50, 24.60, 24.80
India Nippon 246, 248.95
260, 260, 246, 253.90
India Online 5.36, 6.45, 6.40
India Polyfi 6.55, 7.20, 6.50, 7.17
Indian Card 53.30, 53.50, 53.35
53.15, 54.35, 53.10, 54
Indian Hume 990, 995.50, 930.05,
980
985, 985, 940, 963
Indian SeamM 18, 19.95, 16.90, 18
Indo Gulf Fe 71.85, 72.90, 70.50,
71.65
70, 72, 70, 71.15
Indo Mat.Car 84, 88.95
Indo Nationl 331.80, 331.80, 331.80,
331.80
Indo Rama Sy 40, 40.90, 38.50,
38.80
40.05, 40.90, 38.20, 38.80
Indraprast.M 16.25, 16.50, 15.75,
15.89
16.25, 16.50, 15.90, 16.05
Indus.Inv.Tr 19.15
Indusind Bnk 21.30, 21.65, 21.05,
21.15
20.10, 21.60, 19.05, 21.10
ING Vysya Bk 304, 309, 301.50,
305.60
302, 309.50, 300, 305.95
Innovis.E-Co 0.40, 0.42
Insilco 17.25, 17.45, 16.85, 17.20
Inter.Travel 37.50, 44.80, 37.10,
42.90
Invest.Trust 18.55, 18, 18.10
Ion Exchange 33.60, 37.60, 33.55,
36.60
IP Rings 60, 68.30,
58.25, 66.70
IPCA Lab. 363, 364,
353, 355.25
350, 364, 350,
356.90
Isibars 2.23
Ispat Inds. 12.50, 14.68,
12.48, 14.44
13.20, 14.70, 11.55,
14.40
IT & T 12.60, 12.50,
12.80
12.80, 12.95, 12.60,
12.70
ITC Hotels 59, 62.50,
58.50, 61
58.50, 62.80, 58.15,
61.10
IVP 32.10, 33.15
31.70, 32.85, 31.60,
32.85
IVRCL Infras 77, 80.05,
75.10, 76.65
77, 80.95, 75.20,
77.75
FAG Bearings 70.20, 71, 69, 69.95
70, 71.40, 70, 70.10
Fairfield At 6.35, 6.91
FCGL Inds. 2.80, 3.01, 3
FCI OEN Con. 104, 114.55
104.65, 114.60, 104.35, 114.60
FCL Techno. 27.95, 29.15, 27.15,
28.90
FDC 44, 44.45, 43.15, 44.10
45.30, 45.30, 43.10, 44.05
Fert.&Chem-T 33.15, 33.90, 33.25
33.75, 33.95, 32.65, 33.35
First Leasin 20.50, 20.80, 20.30,
20.70
20.50, 20.60, 20.20, 20.60
Flat Product 100.50, 101.50, 95,
95.70
Flex Enginer 17.80, 18.95, 18.80
18.40, 19, 18.20, 18.95
Flex Foods 8, 7.85
Flex Inds. 25, 29.80, 29.05
26.80, 29.70, 26.80, 29.05
Floatglass 26.50, 28.80, 27.55
27, 28, 27, 27.55
Forbes Gokak 71, 77.70, 75.15
Fortune Info 32.80, 31.20, 31.75
Foseco (I) 144, 147.90, 141, 146.80
147, 148.50, 146, 148.25
Frontier Inf 4.05, 4.24, 3.85, 4.10
Fulford (I) 135, 139, 135.35
Futura Poly. 10.65, 11.25, 9.55, 11
S
J
Jagatjit Ind 27, 28.30
Jagsonpal Ph 122, 117, 120.35
114.55, 125.95, 114.55, 118
Jai Corp 55.75, 49.70, 49.85
Jain Irrig. 78.75, 78.10, 83.25
79, 83.30, 78, 83.30
Jain Studios 17.50, 18.50, 18
18, 18.40, 17.50, 18.20
Jaipan Inds. 10.50, 11.10, 9.80,
10.99
Jay Bh.Marut 42.90, 45.50, 44
43.10, 45.90, 43.05, 44.50
Jayant Agro 52, 47.60, 50
51.45, 51.45, 48.50, 50.35
Jaypee Hotel 14.05, 11.95, 13.54
Jayshree Tea 44, 45.85, 43.30
39.60, 44, 39.60, 43.70
JBF Inds. 15.44, 16.55
JBM Tools 46.70
46.75, 46.85, 46.75, 46.85
JCT 8.20, 8.31, 7.49, 8.25
Jenson&Nicho 8.65, 8.90, 8, 8.43
8.50, 9.35, 8, 8.50
JIK Inds. 26.30, 24.05, 24.95
25, 25, 25, 25
Jindal Drill 135, 129.25, 129.45
Jindal Iron 125.50, 125.70, 118.55,
120.25
124.50, 125.65, 118.15, 119.95
Jindal Photo 45.25, 46.50, 44, 45.05
40, 46.30, 40, 45.15
Jindal Poly. 121, 121.30
116, 124.55, 116, 124.55
Jindal Strip 220.10, 228.50, 219,
221.50
210, 229, 210, 222.10
JJ Exporters 38.05, 40.70, 40.55
JK Corpn. 13.55, 14.45, 13.25, 14.09
JK Inds. 37.55, 36.50, 37.05
JK Synthetic 6.50, 6.87, 5.50, 5.74
JL Morison 108, 113.50, 107, 108.20
JMC Projects 24, 24.50, 23.05, 23.70
Jog Engg. 10.50, 11, 9.70, 10.77
Jubilant Org 290, 292.90, 285,
285.95
289.70, 289.80, 285, 286.20
Jupiter BioS 87.60, 93, 85.65, 86.45
Jyoti Struct 36.90, 37.75, 36.05,
36.45
35, 37.50, 35, 36.55
K
Kaashyap Rad 1.87, 1.89, 1.52, 1.75
Kabra Extr 46.05, 49.35, 45.75,
49.30
46, 49.30, 45, 48.50
Kajaria Cer 32.90, 34.50, 32.50,
34.40
32.30, 34.60, 32.05, 34.45
Kakatiya Cem 37.20, 38, 36.60,
37.95
35.50, 38.30, 35.50, 37.20
Kale Consul. 38.80, 40.50, 36.60,
39.25
37, 40.40, 36.55, 39.20
Kalpa.Power 45.50, 46.80, 44, 44.25
45.75, 46.50, 45, 45.15
Kalyani Brak 320, 311
321, 321, 321, 321
Kalyani Shrp 6.75, 7.40
Kalyani Stel 29.60, 33.45, 29.30,
33.15
Kanoria Chem 45, 47.40, 46.95
44.10, 47.80, 44.10, 47.80
Karnatak Bnk 73.20, 82, 72.90, 79.55
73.10, 82.50, 73.10, 79.65
Karur Vysya 200, 207.80, 199.50,
205.50
R
N m
11.07
10.56
12.03
11.07
10.39
10.21
10.95
10.64
10.23
40.55
11.34
11.27
11.10
11.60
11.48
11.00
13.50
12.35
11.34
11.33
10.29
10.95
11.39
13.92
12.70
10.95
10.96
10.30
12.09
12.60
14.81
29.13
12.17
6.87
8.75
9.04
7.95
11.62
4.93
9.79
11.23
20.04
44.36
16.46
30.20
1511.96
14.43
30.71
11.23
17.89
10
11.18
11.10
10.94
11.43
11.31
10.84
13.50
12.35
11.34
11.33
10.29
10.84
11.28
13.92
12.70
10.95
10.96
10.15
11.91
12.41
14.52
28.56
11.93
6.74
8.75
8.95
7.79
11.39
4.83
9.79
11.01
19.65
43.49
16.14
29.61
1511.96
14.15
30.11
11.23
17.89
L
Lakhani (I) 81.95, 85, 81.15, 83.25
Lakshmi Au.C 95, 99.95, 97.80
96.55, 100, 96.55, 98.45
Lakshmi Elec 47.50, 47.05, 48
Lakshmi Mach 2267.60
2257.95, 2257.95, 2257.95,
2257.95
Lanco Inds. 16.14, 16.34, 14.75,
16.06
Landmarc Lei 14.40, 12.50
LCC Infotech 4.40, 4.70, 4.40, 4.60
LG Balkrish 125, 115.10
124, 124, 115, 115.50
Liberty Shoe 67.50, 67.90
66, 69.20, 65.90, 66.90
Lloyds Steel 4.90, 5.04, 4.70, 4.96
5.05, 5.15, 4.70, 5
Logix Micro. 15.80, 14.55, 15
Loy.Tex Mill 75, 78, 75
Lumax Ind 43.10, 45, 42.75, 44.65
44, 45.50, 42.80, 45
Lyka Labs 34.50, 36, 34.25, 34.45
35.70, 35.70, 34.20, 34.40
M
Maars Soft 10.75, 10.40, 10.44
10.90, 10.95, 10.40, 10.45
Macmillan (I 203, 207, 196.05,
201.65
203, 207, 197, 201.90
Madhav Marb. 17.90, 18.10, 17.35,
17.80
Madhucon Prj 70, 66, 68.25
Madras Alum 94.90, 94.05, 101.35
Madras Cem. 5675, 5515.05
5600, 5600, 5350, 5511.95
Madras Fert. 22, 20.80, 21
21.45, 21.45, 20.75, 20.90
Mah.Scooter 110, 112.60, 110.65
111.60, 112.50, 108, 110.70
Mah.Seamless 175.50, 176.25, 167,
173.10
175, 176, 165.55, 174
Mahavir Spg. 90, 93.50, 89, 90.20
91.65, 93, 90.10, 90.85
Mahind.Gesco 16.05, 19, 17.80
18.95, 18.95, 17.30, 17.95
Mahindra Ugi 13.85, 13.30, 13.69
13.50, 14.20, 13.35, 13.70
Majestic Aut 40.75, 37.70, 38
Malwa Cotton 41.50, 38, 38.50
39.10, 39.50, 37.70, 38
Man Inds.(I) 60.90, 68.70, 57.10,
66.95
Mangalam Cem 12.35, 13.05, 12.06,
12.51
12.45, 12.95, 12, 12.55
Manglr.Chem 7.48, 6.91, 6.97
Manugraph In 29.95, 30, 28.80,
29.95
Maral Overs 21.50, 22, 21, 21.70
20.50, 22.25, 20.50, 21.80
Mascon Globl 11.30, 12.09, 12.05
Matrix Lab. 575, 595, 565, 569.15
Matsush.Tele 8.45, 8.85, 7.60, 8.60
7.75, 8.70, 7.75, 8.50
Matsushita L 49.95, 52.45, 49, 51.20
Mefcom Capit 9.40, 8
Mega Corpn. 3.50, 3.61
Melstar Info 15.25, 16.50, 15.95
16.10, 16.35, 15.80, 16
Mercator Lin 41.60, 45, 41.50, 43.70
Metroche.Ind 23.60, 24, 23.20
MICO 5701, 5820, 5700, 5819.90
5650, 5848, 5650, 5802.90
Mid-Day Mul. 20.35, 22.80, 19.90,
22.45
20, 23, 19.90, 22.45
Mindteck 17.15, 17.70, 17.40
Mirza Tanner 40, 37.95, 38.30
37.85, 38.75, 37.85, 38.25
MM Forgings 123.85, 122.60, 125
Mobile Tele 7.10, 7.50, 6.90, 7.35
Modipon 23.15, 23.20, 21.85, 23.15
Monalisa Inf 0.28, 0.26, 0.27
Monnet Ispat 40.40, 42.05, 38.50,
39.20
Monsanto (I) 660, 689, 651.10,
682.85
676.95, 688, 650, 683.55
Morarjee Goc 21.25, 19.80, 21
20, 21.25, 19.55, 20.95
Morepen Lab 14.40, 13.92, 13.98
14.10, 14.30, 13.90, 14
Morgan Stan 10.05, 10.09, 9.95,
10.03
10, 10.10, 9.95, 10
Motherson SS 170, 174.50, 171
178.75, 178.75, 169, 171
Moving Pictu 7.15, 7, 7.15
Mro-Tek 16.40, 15.55, 15.76
16.20, 16.20, 15.60, 15.70
MRPL 24.75, 23.75, 23.90
24, 24.75, 23.80, 24
Mukand 29.50, 29.65, 27, 28.25
27.60, 28.90, 26.50, 28.10
Mukand Engrs 12, 13.40, 13.25
12.85, 13.25, 12.85, 13.10
Munjal Auto 55.25, 58, 53.50, 56.65
Munjal Showa 161, 168.80, 160,
168.60
162.25, 170, 162.10, 168.85
Murd.Ceram 16.55, 18.48
Mys.Cement 9.80, 10.40, 9.50, 10.25
9.45, 10.25, 9.40, 10.15
N
Nagar.Agrich 16.05, 16.90, 15.60,
16.20
Nagar.Const. 78.35, 78.90, 72, 74.15
Nagar.Fertil 7.94, 8.09, 7.83, 7.93
8.10, 8.10, 7.85, 7.90
Nahar Export 27.40, 26.05, 26.35
26.45, 27.05, 26.30, 26.55
Nahar Indl.E 17.65, 19, 18.70
Nahar Intl. 8.60, 9, 8.50, 8.74
9, 9, 8.20, 8.80
Nahar Spg. 99, 104, 100.85
100.25, 103.40, 98.60, 100.35
Narmada C.Pe 15.35, 16, 15, 15.85
16.15, 16.20, 15.50, 15.85
Natco Pharma 77, 81, 76, 77.50
73.60, 79, 73.60, 75.85
Nath Seeds 12.25, 12.50, 12, 12.13
12.50, 12.80, 12, 12.05
National Fer 63.50, 67.25, 61.70,
65.30
National Per 1060, 1099, 1020.10,
1094.75
National Ste 11.25, 11.90, 10.80,
10.99
11.70, 11.70, 10.85, 11.05
Nava Bh.Ferr 94.20, 94.90, 86, 89.65
92.05, 95, 87.20, 90.75
Navneet Pub. 152.30, 158, 151,
154.05
NA
R
S
11.07
10.56
12.27
11.07
10.39
10.21
10.95
10.64
10.23
41.36
195.10, 206.90, 195.10, 205.60
KDL Biotech 22.40, 23.10, 21.10,
21.85
21.30, 22.75, 21.25, 21.75
KEC Inter. 23.75, 27.15, 23.60, 26.30
24, 27, 23.50, 26.30
Kerala Ayurv 13, 14.10, 12.70, 14
Kerala Chem. 26.95, 25.40, 26.25
Kesoram Inds 41.50, 41.80, 40,
40.45
41.35, 41.60, 40.20, 40.95
KG Denim 25.25, 28, 27.15
Khandwala Se 13.85, 11.39, 12.95
11, 11.20, 10.80, 11.20
Khoday (I) 15.35, 14.75, 15.05
Kinetic Eng. 90.95, 91, 87.10, 88.30
Kinetic Moto 33.60, 36, 35.40
Kirloskar Br 123, 130, 129.95
Kirloskar Oi 135, 124.50, 125.25
129, 131, 124, 125.60
Kit-Ply Ind. 6.20, 6.30, 6.05, 6.12
6.20, 6.25, 6, 6.05
KLG Systel 32.40, 32.70, 31.10,
31.95
34, 34, 31.75, 31.90
Kopran 52.40, 52.80, 50, 50.60
51.55, 52.95, 50.10, 50.75
Kothari Prod 180.10, 180.40, 177,
179.25
179.90, 182.85, 175, 177
KPIT Cum.Inf 158.95, 162.50,
156.50, 161.15
157.95, 162.75, 156, 161.55
KRBL 22.90, 25.05, 25
22.90, 25.45, 22.30, 24.85
Krebs Bioche 152.25, 154.80, 148,
149.05
Krishna Life 3.39, 3.40, 3, 3.22
Krone Comm 76, 79, 74, 76.15
KSB Pumps 110, 113.85, 107.25,
111.25
107.50, 114, 107.50, 111.45
R
S
M
M
NSE SHARE INDEX
1144 65
+0 18%
153, 156.85, 151, 153.80
NCL Inds. 7.40, 7.50, 6.75, 7.20
Nelco 35.50, 37.85, 34.35, 37.15
35.35, 38, 34.60, 37.40
Neuland Lab. 117.45, 110.30, 117.45
NHN Corpn. 16.74
Nilkamal Pls 37.25, 37.50, 36.50, 37
37, 37.50, 36.30, 36.90
Noble Explo. 6.50, 7.43
NOCIL 12.30, 12.74, 11.68, 11.75
12.80, 12.90, 11.75, 11.80
Noida Toll 7, 7.50, 6.40, 7.14
7.50, 8, 7.30, 7.80
Nova Petro. 36.50, 36.25
40, 40, 36.80, 38
Novopan Inds 34.15, 33
33, 33, 33, 33
NRB Bearings 94, 102.35, 93.10,
101.55
92, 101.95, 91.25, 100.15
NRC 16.10, 19, 15, 18.98
15.75, 19.10, 15.10, 19
Nucleus Soft 84, 81, 81.90
78.25, 82, 78.25, 80
O
OCL (I) 110, 113, 108, 110
Odyssey Tech 10.14, 10.20, 9.60,
9.65
Oil Country 13.88, 13.95, 13.51,
13.55
13.95, 13.95, 13.35, 13.65
Omax Autos. 48.50, 50, 47, 47.25
48, 50, 46.90, 47.60
Ondeo Nalco 340, 335
Onward Techn 24.40, 25.55, 25.20
25.15, 25.50, 24.85, 25.10
Opto Circuit 44.40, 42.20, 43.75
Orbit Multi 0.74, 0.62, 0.74
Orchid Chem 175, 177.40, 171.05,
171.45
174.70, 177.95, 171, 172.15
Orient Info. 34.75, 35.70, 34.50,
34.75
35, 35.60, 34.60, 34.70
Orient Paper 27.10, 28.05, 27, 27.90
27.55, 28.15, 27.05, 27.90
Oriental Con 33, 36, 34.50
Oriental Hot 80, 82
86.95, 86.95, 78.25, 79.25
Oswal Chem. 7, 7.01, 6.65, 6.91
7.40, 7.40, 6.50, 6.90
P
Panacea Biot 35, 41, 39.70
41.90, 42.40, 38, 39.70
Pantaloon Re 103, 119.10, 100,
117.15
100.50, 119.60, 99.30, 116.55
Paper Prod. 135, 141, 139.25
139.95, 143, 137.35, 141.85
Paramount Co 9, 9.95, 8.70, 9.41
Parekh Plati 10.88, 11.85, 10.70,
11.02
10.40, 11.90, 10.40, 11
Parry Agro 87.15
Parry’s Conf 125, 127
123.50, 126.85, 121.40, 121.40
Patspin (I) 14, 14.50, 13.82, 14.41
13, 14.50, 13, 14.45
PCS Inds. 25.70, 24, 25.35
Pennar Alum. 4.24, 4.45, 3.92, 4.35
Pentagon Glo 1.94, 2.13, 1.85, 2
Pentasoft Te 8.40, 8.75, 8.10, 8.14
8.70, 8.70, 8, 8.15
Pharmacia He 122, 122.50, 118.45,
119.05
122, 122, 119.05, 121.60
PHIL Corpn. 7.95, 8.47, 7.67, 7.75
8.35, 8.40, 7.60, 7.85
Phillip Carb 36, 41.95, 39.60
38.50, 42, 38, 40.95
Phoenix Lamp 15.40, 16.55, 15,
15.90
Pioneer Embr 33, 36, 35.05
Plastiblend 45, 46.90, 44.65, 46.20
PNB Gilts 24.75, 26, 24.65, 25.90
26, 26, 24.60, 25.70
Polyplex 68.75, 74.15, 66.90, 70.70
67.25, 74.50, 66.50, 71
Porrits&Spen 96.30, 92, 104.80
Praj Ind. 76.50, 72.60, 73.45
77.40, 77.40, 73.10, 73.60
Precision Wr 41.20, 40.10, 41.25
40.55, 41.40, 40, 41.40
Premier Auto 7.10, 7.18, 6.60, 6.75
Premier Inst 262.60, 266, 261.60,
263
263, 269.50, 261.10, 265
Premier Tyre 11, 10.30
Prism Cement 6.90, 7.10, 7.05
7.10, 7.25, 6.85, 7.05
Pritish Nand 35.50, 35.60, 32.75,
33.10
35.70, 35.70, 32.50, 32.95
Priyad.Cemen 12.24, 13, 12.55
12.50, 13.05, 12.50, 13
PSI Data Sys 71.20, 72, 70.05, 70.55
70, 73, 70, 71.20
PSL 62.50, 70.95, 62, 68.85
60.50, 70.80, 60.50, 68.70
Pudumjee Pul 26.50, 27.60, 27.45
26.65, 27.20, 26.60, 26.95
Pun.Alkali 11, 11.24, 10.65, 10.93
Pun.Chemical 117, 121.90, 110.60,
118.70
Pun.Communi. 59.35, 61, 53.30,
54.45
Pun.Nat.Bank 162.90, 164, 158.30,
159.75
162.05, 163.85, 158.15, 159.90
R
Rain Calcing 20, 21.40, 19.85, 21
20.10, 21.40, 20, 20.90
Raj.Spg.&Wvg 29.35, 30.50, 29, 30
29, 30.50, 29, 30
Rajesh Exp 82.50, 83, 82, 82.65
82, 82.40, 81.40, 81.95
Rajshree Sug 18.50, 22.30, 18.30,
21.35
18.10, 21.90, 18.10, 21.20
Rallis India 78, 72, 72.20
74, 74.90, 71.65, 72.65
Rama Newspri 5.80, 6.10, 5.75, 5.90
6, 6.15, 5.80, 5.90
Ramco Inds. 175, 180, 168.05,
179.70
170, 182, 170, 180.70
Ramco Systm 320, 347, 316.10,
330.55
316, 348.70, 316, 332.55
Rane Brake 199, 209, 196.10, 201.45
Rane Madras 90.90, 97.55, 87, 90.10
90, 94.95, 85.50, 92
Ravalgaon Su 2000, 2495, 2429.80
Rayban Sun O 58.20, 58.40, 56.50,
56.65
Reg.Ceramic 30.40, 33.75, 33.45
31.30, 33.75, 31.05, 32.95
Rel.Ind.Infr 49.50, 50.50, 48.40,
48.80
50.95, 51.10, 48.50, 48.75
Relaxo Footw 19.50, 17.80, 17.85
Revathi Equ. 130, 134, 127.50,
132.95
Rico Auto 166.50, 190, 165, 182
155, 193, 155, 179.20
RPG Cables 13.80, 14, 13.30, 13.92
14, 14, 13.30, 13.75
RPG Life Sci 37.75, 31.80, 32.45
35.75, 37, 32.55, 33
RPG Transmi. 8.51, 9.60, 9.12
8.10, 9.65, 8.05, 9.45
RS Software 23.45, 22.60, 22.70
22.70, 23.25, 22.40, 23
Ruchi Soya 38.25, 38.90, 38.05,
38.30
39.30, 39.50, 38.35, 38.90
0 27%
10.02
10.70, 10.70, 9.35, 9.75
Saint-Gobain 14.95, 15.90, 14.75,
15.56
Sakthi Sugar 10.75, 10.10, 12.30
10.20, 12.25, 10, 12.25
Salora Int. 48.50, 50, 48.30, 49.95
49.20, 50.50, 48.55, 50.20
Samkrg Pist. 40.05, 41, 39.60, 39.80
Samtel Color 32, 32.55, 31.60, 31.70
31, 33.30, 31, 31.95
Sandesh Ltd. 128, 129, 122, 122.70
127, 128, 122.30, 123.90
Sangam (I) 29.50, 31, 28.75, 30.65
30.30, 30.80, 28.75, 30.40
Sanwaria Agr 20.70, 20.90, 20.70
Saregama (I) 59, 60.80, 58.10, 59.40
53.10, 61, 53.10, 59.25
SAT Invest. 14.75, 14, 14.10
Satnam Over. 26.90, 22.35, 23.95
22.50, 23.50, 22.50, 23.30
Satvah.Ispat 12.84, 12, 12.41
Saurash.Cem. 11.80, 14.36, 11.22,
14
Savita Chem. 75.70, 85, 75.50, 84.20
74.60, 86, 74.60, 84.25
SBI Home Fin 15.60, 16.85, 15, 15.75
15.50, 16.90, 15.15, 16.10
Schenec.Beck 83, 86, 85.10
Schenec.Herd 40.50, 41.65, 40.55
40.20, 41, 40.20, 40.65
Seagull Leaf 9.51
Search Chem. 18.70, 20.05, 18.55,
19.15
18.50, 20.25, 18.50, 19
Selan Explor 16.70, 14.80, 15.30
Sesa Goa 186.10, 198.50, 183,
191.25
184.40, 198.25, 182.60, 191.10
Sesha.Paper 55.50, 53
53.25, 55.30, 52.95, 53.40
Sh.Cements 80.30, 81.45, 80.15,
80.50
82.25, 83.50, 80.15, 80.55
Sh.Digv.Cem. 30, 29.25, 30
Sh.Rama Mult 7.91, 9.39, 9.08
8.50, 9.35, 8.10, 9.10
Shah Alloys 47, 45.80, 48.10
Shalimar Pai 32.85, 32.75, 33.50
Shamken Mult 11.50, 11.85, 10.50,
11.40
11.25, 11.60, 11, 11.05
Shamken Spin 6.40, 7, 6.30, 6.68
Shanti Gear 117.90, 122
120, 123.55, 119.50, 122.25
Shasun Chem. 233, 238.50, 227,
232.85
228, 236.40, 227.50, 232.60
Shaw Wallace 44.80, 45.90, 44,
44.05
Shirpur Gold 30, 33.50, 30.20
33.40, 33.45, 30, 30.55
Shiv Vani Un 22.95, 23, 22.10, 22.95
Shrenuj & Co 37, 38, 36.95, 37.40
37.50, 38.90, 37.25, 37.25
Shriram Inv 17.50, 17, 17.20
Shriram Tran 16.60, 17.35, 16.50,
16.65
16.85, 16.90, 16.50, 16.70
Siemens VDO 59.35, 62.25, 57, 60.70
Siltap Che. 65.50, 63.50, 64.40
65, 66, 63.50, 64.20
Simbh.Sugar 11, 10.91, 12.80
Simplex Conc 41.50, 40.65, 42.70
Sintex Inds. 50, 52.60
47.10, 54, 47.10, 53.45
Sirpur Paper 61, 62.35, 60.05, 62
61.50, 63, 60.55, 62.50
Siyaram Silk 55, 48.55, 50.90
Skanska Ceme 251, 250, 260
260, 260.05, 260, 260
Snowcem (I) 22.95, 24.90, 22.35,
22.50
23.45, 25.80, 22.30, 22.50
Soffia Soft. 17.20, 17.25, 17, 17.05
17.10, 17.90, 17, 17.40
Softsol (I) 14.50, 12.50, 13.24
Software Tec 12
11.85, 13, 11.85, 12.40
Solectron Ce 43.10, 39.50, 40.10
Solvay Pharm 157, 160, 153.10,
155.50
Sona Koyo St 135, 147.65, 134.10,
145.20
Spel Semicon 3.89, 4.48, 3.58, 4.16
SPIC 10.60, 9.60, 9.95
9.90, 10.75, 9.70, 9.95
SPL 25.95, 26.85, 25.60, 26.25
24.70, 27, 24.70, 26.50
SQL Star Int 9.20, 9.79, 9, 9.55
SREI Int.Fin 12, 11.31, 11.50
11.40, 11.45, 10.95, 11.40
SRF 29.95, 28.90, 29
25, 29.80, 25, 28.90
SRF Polymers 23.15, 24.70, 24.55
SRG Infotech 0.96, 0.98, 0.93, 0.94
0.90, 1, 0.90, 0.90
Sri Adhikari 81.50, 82.50, 78.50,
79.75
81.50, 82, 78.25, 79.85
Star Paper 18.05, 18.25, 17.50,
17.68
17.75, 18.20, 17.55, 17.70
State Bnk Bi 1002.55
State Bnk My 946.30
State Bnk Tr 863.55
Std.Indust. 8, 8.03, 7.50, 7.63
7.90, 8, 7.50, 7.70
Sterl.Inds. 316, 332, 327.05
Sterl.Tools 53.60, 59.50, 53.50, 56.65
Stl.Strips W 14, 15, 14
Su-raj Diamn 18, 18.15, 17.15, 17.55
17.65, 18.30, 17.20, 17.50
Suashish Dia 22, 23.50, 23.30
Subex System 132, 132.15, 126.25,
129.90
Subhash Proj 29, 30.95
27.95, 30, 26, 29.95
Subros 63, 67.50, 62.25, 64.55
Sulzer (I) 165, 160, 163.55
Sundaram Cla 310.05, 321.95,
315.05
318, 322, 316.50, 320.10
Sundaram Fst 502.10, 508.75,
497.50, 499.95
500, 510, 499, 499.85
Sunflag Iron 8.15, 8.35, 7.80, 8.21
Super Spin. 90, 91.90, 85.55, 86.55
Supreme Inds 129, 134, 131.95
130, 135, 129, 132
Supreme Petr 18.29, 17.35, 17.60
17, 18.50, 17, 17.75
Surana Tele 17, 16.70, 17.50
16.60, 17.95, 16.55, 17.40
Surat Elec. 124, 117.10, 120.30
Surya Roshni 17.10, 17.35, 16.60,
16.95
17.15, 17.20, 16.50, 16.80
Surylak.Cott 31.50, 31.10, 31.50
34.50, 34.50, 31.70, 31.95
Sutlej Inds. 55.30, 58.50
58, 58, 55.60, 57.50
Suven Pharma 183.80, 190, 181.25,
182.75
Swaraj Engin 222.50, 232, 229
230, 233, 227, 230.85
Swaraj Mazda 130, 130.25, 128.55,
130
130.05, 131, 129, 130.35
Syncom Form. 28, 28.25, 28.10
Synergy Log 8, 8.23, 7.35
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Walchandngr 38, 42, 41.70
40.25, 42, 40, 41.85
Warren Tea 45.50, 46, 44.10, 45.75
Wartsila (I) 118, 120.95, 120.90
115.60, 121, 115.60, 119.05
Wellwin Ind. 13.75, 15.49, 13.55,
14.93
13.45, 15.50, 13.45, 14.75
Welspun (I) 35.30, 39.30, 38.45
Welspun Guj. 21.75, 24.40, 23.80
Wendt (I) 399, 414, 392.10, 396.60
West Coast P 175.75, 170.10, 171.45
173.90, 175.50, 170.10, 171.05
Widia (I) 86.60, 94, 86, 91
Wim Plast 39.30, 40
Wimco 31.40, 31.60, 31.15, 31.50
31.40, 31.90, 31.10, 31.20
Wockhardt Lf 28.95, 31, 28.15, 29.75
29, 30.90, 28.30, 29.80
Wyeth 279, 307, 297.35
280, 306.75, 277.35, 294.60
Zandu Pharm 1814, 1851
1945, 1945, 1709, 1852.05
Zenith Comp. 9.30, 9.60, 9.21, 9.55
9.50, 9.65, 9.40, 9.45
Zenith Exp. 36.90
44, 44.10, 44, 44.10
Zenith Info. 12.95, 13.46, 12.80,
13.15
11.50, 13.40, 11.50, 13.05
ZF Steering 106, 115.40, 113.50
Zicom Electn 34, 36.50, 33.60, 35.65
Zigma Soft. 3.71, 4
Zodiac Cloth 97.30, 104, 96.70, 100
103.45, 103.45, 97, 99.50
Zuari Inds. 31.75, 34.45, 31.10, 33.20
32, 34.50, 31.25, 33.40
M
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Vaibhav Gems 23.70, 25.40, 25.30
Vanavil Dyes 47.55, 50, 47.50, 49
Vardhman Pol 51.60, 52.60, 50.80,
51.55
50.75, 53, 50.75, 51.10
Vardhman Spg 82.75, 85.75, 82.95
84, 84.85, 82.50, 82.85
Varun Ship. 13.10, 14.24, 13.86
13.20, 14.25, 13.15, 13.95
Vashisti Det 14.90, 13.60, 14.20
14, 14.75, 13.80, 14.20
Venky’s (I) 54, 56.95, 56.60
56.20, 56.80, 55.50, 56.25
Veronica Lab 8.64, 8.77, 8.02, 8.58
Vesuvius (I) 99, 101, 98.55, 100.45
100.05, 102.30, 98.75, 100.50
Viceroy Hot. 12, 11.25, 11.99
Videocon Apl 13, 13.50, 12.75, 13.37
12.80, 13.35, 12.60, 13.05
Videocon Fin 16.60, 17.25, 17
16.40, 17.40, 16.40, 16.70
Vidhi Dyestu 16.90, 16.05, 16.10
Vikrant Tyre 16.10, 17, 15.85, 16.50
Vinati Org. 17.50, 18.30, 17.30, 17.40
Vindhya Tele 34.45, 29, 29.50
29.85, 30.40, 29.45, 29.90
Vintage Card 9.12, 9.70, 9.50
9.10, 9.80, 9.05, 9.55
Vinyl Chem. 10.65, 11.15, 10.91
11, 11.15, 10.80, 11
VIP Indus. 22.65, 23.50, 22.50, 23.35
23.20, 23.40, 22.65, 23.20
Visaka Ind. 31.60, 32.75, 32.30
32.85, 32.85, 31, 31.90
Visesh Info 5.50, 6, 5.60
5.65, 6, 5.50, 5.85
Vision Organ 2.25, 2.50, 2.22, 2.47
2.15, 2.55, 2.15, 2.45
VJIL Consult 7.05, 7.70, 7, 7.68
Voltas 81.50, 82.25, 79.55, 80.40
81.50, 83.75, 80, 80.50
VST Indus. 143.90, 140, 147
142, 147.55, 140.25, 147.55
VST Tillers 27.50, 29.45, 27, 29.15
VXL Instrum. 27.80, 27.90, 26.25,
27.20
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UB Holdings 29.20, 29.60, 27.50,
29.50
Ucal Fuel 239, 242, 235, 239.70
239.95, 242, 235.30, 240.25
Ugar Sugar 51, 55
Ultramarine 76.50, 73.80, 74.85
Unichem Lab 227, 218, 219.40
217.10, 222.95, 216.75, 218.20
Uniflex Cabl 7.02, 7.50, 7, 7.11
Union Bank 35.70, 36.30, 35.05,
35.70
35.65, 36.40, 35, 35.80
Unitech 54.90, 56.90
54.40, 57.70, 54.40, 57.70
United Brew. 106, 112, 108.35
United We.Bk 29.50, 31, 28.90, 30.10
29.60, 31.25, 28.80, 30
Univer.Cable 15.50, 16.05, 15.10,
16.03
15, 16.20, 14.75, 16
Upper Ganges 18.20, 21.35, 20.70
17.80, 21.60, 17.80, 20.45
Usha Martin 39.90, 40.35, 38.40, 39
40.55, 40.55, 38.35, 39.05
Usha Mat.Inf 6, 6.49, 5.82, 5.96
6, 6.15, 5.85, 6
Uttam Galva. 13.55, 14.90, 14.59
14.25, 15.10, 13.80, 14.65
T Spiritual 179.85, 179.50, 180.75
Taj GVK Hotl 55.65, 53, 55
55.70, 55.70, 53.20, 54.80
Tanfac Ind. 20, 20.25, 19.35, 19.75
TASC Pharma. 17, 17.50, 16
Tata Coffee 92.20, 93, 88.60, 92
95, 95, 88.65, 90.65
Tata Finance 24.45, 24.50, 23.20,
23.30
24.70, 24.70, 23.30, 23.45
Tata Honeywl 267.10, 283.60, 280.10
278.85, 280, 270, 279.25
Tata Infomed 93.50, 93, 110.30
92.70, 110.25, 92.70, 110.25
Tata Infotec 171.70, 178, 169, 175.45
Tata Invest. 116.95, 119.25, 116,
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116, 118.80, 116, 118
Tata Metalik 55.95, 56, 53, 54.15
54.70, 55.20, 51.75, 52.60
Tata Sponge 57.10, 59, 57.95
55.55, 59.60, 55.55, 57.95
Tata Teleser 9.70, 10.13, 9.25, 10.05
9.70, 10.10, 9.20, 10
Tata Yodogaw 50, 50.10, 48, 49.45
Tele Data In 33.50, 34.90, 33.15,
33.95
Texmaco Ltd. 47.50, 52.50, 46.50, 52
Themis Medic 44.50, 47.50, 47.05
Thiru A.Sug. 30.55, 29.50, 30.55
30, 31.65, 27.35, 31.50
Thirumalai 80.50, 83, 77.90, 80.50
81, 83, 78.50, 80.25
Tide Water O 1259, 1170
TIL 14.75, 15.20, 15
14.30, 15, 14.30, 14.85
Timex Watch 14.65, 13.65, 13.93
Timken India 38.40, 40.20, 38.25,
39.05
Tinplate Co. 24, 20.55, 23.05
Tips Indus. 41.55, 43.65, 41.30,
42.85
41.50, 43.90, 41.30, 42.80
TN Telecom 12.20, 14.99, 14.10
12.90, 14.35, 12.90, 14.10
Todays Writi 20, 19.30, 19.70
19.95, 20, 19.15, 19.35
Torrent Guja 11.05, 11.70, 10.60,
10.72
Tourism Fina 11.30, 11.89, 11.55
11.15, 11.90, 11.15, 11.70
Transnat.Sec 29.80
Transpek Ind 16.70, 17.35, 17
Transport Co 25.50, 26.50, 25.65
25.75, 27, 25.35, 26.05
TRF 42.05, 44, 40.75, 43.15
Trigyn Tech. 18.40, 19, 17.70, 17.85
18.05, 18.50, 17.60, 17.80
TTK Healthca 28.40, 30.50, 28.30,
28.85
TTK Prestige 10.45, 10.80, 10.23,
10.74
10.70, 11, 10.50, 10.85
Tube Invest. 140, 148.10, 147.65
146.90, 150, 141, 149.50
Tudor India 19.80, 19.70, 19.80
Tuticorin.Al 6.80, 6, 6.34
TV 18 99.80, 101.80, 98, 98.90
97.10, 101.75, 97.10, 99.30
TVS Autolec 103.25, 112.40, 111.90
TVS Srichakr 56.50, 62, 56.25, 60.80
Yokogawa Blu 63, 63.45, 63, 63.45
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M
M
M
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3612 53
3622 34
1138 45
S Kumars Nat 7.41, 8.20, 7.97
7.70, 8.10, 7.50, 7.85
S.I.Bank 52.50, 55.15, 51.75, 54.50
52.45, 55.30, 51.50, 54.75
S.I.C.Agency 13.50, 13.54
13.50, 13.50, 13.50, 13.50
Sabero Org. 10.50, 10.70, 9.61,
M
3639 89
1140 55
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The Times of India, New Delhi, Tuesday, July 8, 2003
Saadi’s 90-sec blitz
Saadi Kadhafi, son of Libyan leader
Mouammar Gadhaffi, made an impressive start for Perugia, scoring twice.
Kadhafi junior began the second-half
of the friendly against Virtus Bassano
and scored within 90 secs
Scud power
Lee goes to Spain
Come September, it’ll be a hard ask
for the Aussies in the Davis Cup semis
against the Swiss. Roger Federer will
be the man to beat. But with Philippoussis back Aussie skipper John
Fitzgerald feels they are still favourites
South Korean World Cup star Lee
Chun-Soo joined Real Sociedad
on a three-year contract. His
deal includes a $3.5 million
transfer fee and annual
salary of around $500,000
NBA star Kobe Bryant accused of sexual assualt
You shouldn’t let age stop
you from doing what you
want to do.
— Martina Navratilova
Harbhajan escapes surgery
By Dinesh Chopra
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
SPORTS DIGEST
AFP
New Delhi: India’s star off-spinner Harbhajan
Singh will be returning home without undergoing a surgery on his injured finger.
An Indian cricket board official confirmed to
Times News Network that Harbhajan, who had
gone to Australia to mend the mindle finger of
his bowling hand, will now ‘‘undergo the surgery only if pain recurs.’’ Harbhajan is still in
Melbourne. He is expected to come back in a
day or two.
The off-spinner had pulled out of his county
commitment at virtually the last moment when
his injured finger swelled up and started hurting. Initial medical tests in Australia suggested
that surgery was imperative. Harbhajan was
planning to go to the US for the surgery but
changed his mind on Rahul Dravid and Aussie
leg-spinner Shane Warne’s advice. The board
cleared his trip and also sent a Mumbai based
doctor along with him.
The operation was supposed to have been
conducted earlier last week. He even signed the
consent form which is the final formality before undergoing any surgery. But Harbhajan
and the doctor changed their minds when preliminary physiotherapy started showing results.
“The rehabilitation programme is going on
well,’’ the source informed. “The doctor made
Harbhajan bowl at the ‘nets’ over the weekend
just to see the extent of his discomfiture. He
bowled for more than 50 minutes each day
without any problem. That prompted them to
Martina Navratilova, joined Billie Jean King as the only
player to win 20 Wimbledon titles on Sunday, after winning the mixed doubles with Leander Paes.
Annika Sorestam of Sweden reacts to missing a par putt on the
18th hole that would have forced a
playoff at the US Women’s Open in
Oregon on Sunday.
India beat Czech Republic:
Continuing their superb performance, India on Monday thrashed the
Czech Republic 3-0 to top Pool B
and qualify for the next round in the
8th U-19 World volleyball championships being played at Suphanbari
in Thailand. With blockers Dinesh
Kumar and Rathish Nair excelling at
the net, India raced to a 25-20, 2517, 25-16 in just 65 minutes to
record their third straight victory in
the four-team pool, according to Volleyball Federation of India release on
Monday. India had beaten Poland
and defending champions Brazil in
earlier pool matches. AFP
Corporate soccer: Baichung
Bhutia launched the Kingfisher 5-aside corporate football tournament in
the Capital on Monday. The championship will kick off in Kolkata on July
24 before moving to Delhi, Mumbai,
Hyderabad and Bangalore. The tournament will follow a two-tier format
where the winners from each region
will meet in the final leg in Bangalore
on September 14. The final will be
telecast live on Ten Sports. TNN
Jain appointed co-ordinator:
Ravi Jain, Director, Delhi and District
Cricket Association
(DDCA), has been
appointed co-ordinator for the proposed academy in
Delhi under the
aegis of National
Cricket Academy.
Jain will interact with
the government agencies — both
state and central — and the media
too on the aforesaid project. TNN
Former Indian athlete Antony
dead: Former Indian athlete A
Antony died here on Monday at the
railway hospital after a brief illness
due to kidney problems. 42-year-old
Antony is survived by his wife
Oympian Rosa Kutty and a daughter.
Antony, who lived in Bangalore, was
shifted to Chennai for treatment
three weeks ago. PTI
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hold back the surgery for some time. He and Dr
Sudhir Warrier are expected to return in a day
or two.”
Harbhajan, the only Indian to take a Test hattrick, has been in Melbourne since Saturday to
seek advice from Aussie hand and lower limb
surgeon Dr Gregory Hoy. Dr Hoy had earlier
treated Warne and Austrlian tennis player
Patrick Rafter.
The board source informed that Harbhajan
was particularly worried that he may not be
able to bowl his away-going delivery. “But on
Sunday he bowled a long spell trying only his
variations. Harbhajan was quite satisfied and
then on Monday morning Dr. Hoy examined
him. He was given an all clear after that,” the
official said.
Kolkata: The national cricket camp is still a month away
but Sourav Ganguly is already planning for it. Times
News Network cornered the
India captain as he turns 31
today. Excerpts from the exclusive interview:
Last month, you completed seven years in international cricket. How have
things changed for you:
from the comeback boy in
1996 to one of the elder
statesman of cricket?
It happened slowly, year by
year. The first goal was to establish myself in the team.
Then holding on to it.
The captaincy came in between in 2000... in Indian
cricket, they start expecting
success instantly and hence,
the pressure kept mounting.
I had one poor year in 2001
but apart from that, I have
had six good years. Gradually, one gets used to it.
Today, everybody lauds
your aggressive instincts
as captain. Even Steve
Girls’ singles: Kirsten
Flipkens (Bel)
talent for it and I am making the most of it,”
Martina said. “But it’s always nice to win. I
guess it shows that you shouldn’t let age stop
you from doing what you want to do.”
Paes said what he had after the pair won the
Australian Open: “2002 was a terrible year for
me. Then I started playing with Martina and
rediscovered my passion for the game. Being
on Centre Court at Wimbledon alongside one
of the legends of our sport was a dream come
true.” “Paes calls the shots on court. He is the
boss,” Martina said. “Sometimes I tell him
where to serve, but mostly we go with what he
says.” “She has great instinct for the game,”
Paes said. “That is the way I play my tennis
too. I encourage her to follow her instinct.”
Martina dedicated the victory to her actress friend Katherine Hepburn, who passed
away during Wimbledon. “This one’s for
Bristol: South Africa captain Graeme Smith is backing
former skipper Shaun Pollock to come good in the remainder of the triangular One-day series.
South Africa will face England in the final at Lord’s
on Saturday after the hosts’ six wicket win over Zimbabwe at Bristol on Sunday ended the challenge of
Heath Streak’s men.
But before then South Africa still have two matches against England in a day/night fixture at Edgbaston on
Tuesday and against Zimbabwe at The Rose Bowl on
Thursday. Pace bowler Pollock, 29, has been supremely
economical with his 38 series overs costing just a touch
above three apiece on average.
But has only taken two wickets even though he has often strangled opponents’ innings at birth.
Smith, who became captain after Pollock was sacked
following hosts South Africa’s first round World Cup
exit, said of his predecessor: “Pollock’s really bowling
well. He’s leading from the front, getting a bit of pace
and movement. “He’d like a few wickets but I really
think it will turn for him if he keeps doing the simple
things well as he is at the moment.”
Pollock knows Edgbaston from his time at Warwick-
shire but the ground is infamous in South Africa as the
place where four years ago the team exited the World
Cup after a dramatic semi-final tie with eventual champions Australia.
Pollock is one of four survivors still in South Africa’s
One-day side - opening batsman Herschelle Gibbs, allrounder Jacques Kallis and wicketkeeper Mark Boucher are the others - ahead of what will be the Proteas’ first
game at Edgbaston since that dramatic match four
years ago.
But whatever happens on Tuesday, South Africa must
still play Zimbabwe and fast bowler Streak, whose team
were bowled out for just 92 by England on Sunday, said
the final could go either way.
“South Africa have come good but England beat them
in their first game (by six wickets at The Oval on June
28). But (fast bowler) James Anderson is a great find for
them and with Darren Gough back, Andrew Flintoff
keeping it tight and Richard Johnson making it move
off the pitch, they’ve got a good attack.
England coach Duncan Fletcher insisted that his
team, featuring several new faces after their first round
World Cup exit, would not be easing up. AFP
praiseworthy... take someone
like seamer Ashish Nehra
for example.
He has improved by leaps
and bounds over the last seven or eight months.
By 2007 World Cup, you,
Sachin and Rahul will be
in your mid-30s. Do you
think your best chance to
win the Cup has come and
gone?
Not at all. A batsman’s
peak comes in between 32
and 35 years. If we stay fit
and continue performing
well, we can lend valuable
experience to the likes of Sehwag, Kaif and Yuvraj who
will also mature as players.
What’s goal you have set
for yourself as captain for
the ensuing season?
The first task at hand will
be to get fit. Last year, we had
trained our sights on the
World Cup. Obviously, we are
dejected that we didn’t win
but we have at least laid the
foundation for a very good
team.
The way our fast bowlers
are shaping, we can now take
20 wickets in a Test match. I
can now even look forward to
winning a Test series abroad
- something we haven’t managed for a while.
How much of a ‘grudge
factor’ will be at work
when we take on the Kiwis
in Tests here and the
Aussies in the tri-series ?
There are no scores to settle, really. We didn’t play well
in New Zealand... we kept on
losing tosses and things simply didn’t go our way.
However, at the World Cup
we proved that if the wickets
are fair, we get good results.
The Kiwis may be hurting after being thrown out of the
tournament by us. However,
I am really looking forward
to the tour to Australia.
What is the status on Srinath’s retirement?
I haven’t spoken to him after the World Cup. It would
be nice to have him around
in Australia.
★ Sourav Ganguly turns 31
today. We inadvertently published his age as 30 in Monday’s edition. We regret the
error.
Girls doubles: Sania Mirza (Ind) and
Alisa Kleybanova (Russ)
Heath blames dicey
pitch for early exit
Kate,” the left-hander said. “Kate Hepburn
was the first woman to take control of her career. Being a woman did not stop her from doing what she wanted. Living in the 1930s or
40s did not stop her from doing anything.”
In her prime, the reasons for playing were
selfish, Navratilova said. “It was about me, me
and me,” she said. “I was doing it for myself,
and maybe the people around me. Then when
I came back the response from the media, my
contemporaries, who are now playing the 45and over events, the current players on the
tour and from the fans has been amazing. Kids
who were probably born after I retired come
up to me and say hello. Teenagers say: ‘Martina, you rock!’ Middle-aged housewives have
been telling me that I have been an inspiration. It’s crazy that because I hit a ball well I
can get people to do more with their lives.”
Smith puts his faith in Pollock
It’s been kind of a
roller-coaster for the Indian team, ending with the
World Cup. Are you happy
with the results so far?
Oh yes. It’s been fantastic
but we will have to be consistent. Getting to the World
Cup final was extremely satisfying, especially in the way
we dominated the tournament.
It’s been the result of extremely hard work put in by
myself, John (Wright), Andrew (Leipus) and Adrian
(Le Roux). The performance
of all the youngsters is
Ladies Singles: Serena
Williams (USA)
Boy’s doubles: Florin Mergea (Rom)
and Chris Guccione (Aus)
Paes calls the shots on court: Martina
Waugh - not known to be
your best friend - has also
said that you have turned
the team around...
(Smiles) No, no... actually
Steve is a good friend. I have
enormous respect for him as
a cricketer and I value his
comments. Some of the recent criticism about him has
been really harsh, but he
keeps coming back.
Since the NatWest Trophy antics, you seem to
have become a more relaxed captain. Does it have
anything to do with your
improving success rate?
You can say that. It takes
time to settle down as captain and in the Indian context, you hardly have any
scope for that.
I had to build a team, often
by persisting with youngsters in the face of strong but
often justified criticism. But
they slowly started delivering. We are a strong team
now where anybody in the
XI, especially seniors like
Sachin and Rahul or Sehwag, Yuvraj and Kaif keep
winning games for the team.
Women: Kim Clijsters (Bel) and Ai
Sugiyama (Jap)
Boy’s singles: Florin
Mergea (Rom)
I am looking forward to Australia, says Ganguly
By Gautam Bhattacharyya
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Men’s singles: Roger
Federer (Switzerland)
Doubles: Men: Todd Woodbridge
(Aus) and Jonas Bjorkman (Swe)
Slams and nine mixed doubles
Grand Slam singles record: First Wimbledon in 1978,
Holds record for women’s singles titles with nine. Also won
French Open twice, Australian Open three times and US
Open four times.
Grand Slam mixed doubles record: Four Wimbledon
mixed titles — 1985 with Paul McNamee, 1993 with Mark
Woodforde, 1995 with Jonathan Stark, 2003 with Paes. Two
US titles — 1985 Heinz Gunthardt, 1987 Emilio Sanchez.
Two French Open — 1974 Ivan Molina, 1985 — Gunthardt,
Australian Open — 2003 with Paes.
By claiming her 58th Grand Slam title on Sunday, Martina also broke own record of becoming the oldest champion
at one of the top four Majors. At 46 years and 261 days, she
broke the record set with the Australian Open title with Paes
in January 2003.
London: After winning the Wimbledon
mixed doubles title with Leander Paes on
Sunday, Martina Navratilova revealed two of
her principles in life. The team that goes to
the bathroom together stays together, and
never let age determine what you want to do.
Navratilova offered a mix of humour and
inspiration in the interview room (she and
Paes took toilet breaks at the same time during their semifinal and final). She was in a
good mood. The 46-year-old had equalled Billie Jean Kings record of 20 titles at Wimbledon and had become the oldest winner of an
event at the All-England Club. “At this stage,
tennis to me is not just about winning. I play
because I want to enjoy it, God has given me a
Mixed: Martina Navratilova (US)
and Leander Paes (Ind)
Martina: Wimbledon’s
high priestess
● Born: October 18, 1956 in Prague
● Age: 46 ● Height 1.73 ● Plays: Left-handed
● First Grand Slam played: 1973 ● Turned
professional: 1975 ● Singles titles: 167; 18 Grand
Slams; Doubles titles: 169 ● 31 women’s Grand
By Akshay Sawai
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Class of 2003
Bristol (England): Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak was
unhappy with the Nevil Road
pitch after his side suffered a
six wicket triangular series
one-day international defeat
against England on Sunday.
Zimbabwe were bowled
out for 92 - their lowest oneday
international
total
against England - and even
though fast bowler Streak’s
four-wicket burst reduced
the hosts to 25 for four they
still got home with more than
32 overs to spare thanks to
Andrew Flintoff ’s unbeaten
47. “It was not a good one-day
wicket,” said Streak after a
defeat which meant his side
had no chance of making it
through to Saturday’s final at
Lord’s, now between England
and South Africa.
“There was too much emphasis on the toss,” added
Streak whose team were sent
into bat by England skipper
Michael Vaughan. “There
was a lot of moisture out
there and early movement.
“It was tough even for
their players who are used to
swing and seam bowling. We
don’t have a lot of experience
to call on.” But Streak insisted he was planning to carry
on as an international cricketer, despite the worsening
political and economic situation in famine-affected Zimbabwe. AFP
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AFP
Graeme has
right attitude
Birmingham:
South
Africa coach Eric Simons
said here on Monday that
captain Graeme Smith’s increased composure had
been a big factor in his
side’s march to the triangular series final. Smith, at 22
South Africa’s youngest
captain ever, was involved
in an on-field confrontation
with former skipper Shaun
Pollock just before the
World Cup.
Batting for Western
Province in a World Cup
warm-up match against
South Africa, Smith was
given out only for the lefthander to tell the umpires
he was not out as the Proteas had ignored fielding restrictions, making the delivery a no-ball. An on-field
row with Pollock ensued before Smith finally accepted
the decision.
But Simons said of
Smith: “He took big strides
in Bangladesh. The things
he’s doing in the field, the
way he’s digested information, he’s remained a lot
calmer,” AFP
Lanka offers
sun and sand
Colombo: The Sri Lanka
cricket board on Monday
released a revised itinerary
for England’s cricket tour,
saying it has relocated
matches to exotic venues
across the tropical island to
allow cricketers and travelling fans to enjoy the sun,
the beaches and the sites.
“The idea behind relocating the venues is to make
the tour more enjoyable not
only to the cricketers, but
also the British fans,”
cricket board president
Thilanga
Sumathipala
WILL IT RAIN BUDDY?: Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry
(facing) about to catch England’s Richard Johnson as he
nearly collides with Dion Ebrahim at Bristol on Sunday.
said. The initial itinerary
would have confined the
England
cricketers
to
Colombo for three Tests
and three limited-overs internationals. A tour opener
will be held Nov. 15 on the Birmingham (England):
outskirts of the capital but England coach Duncan
Test
matches
were Fletcher remains unconswitched to Kandy and vinced whether veteran
bowler
Darren
Galle and a limited-overs swing
international will be staged Gough will be fit in time for
at Dambulla. The itinerary the five-Test series against
was changed after Sumath- South Africa starting later
ipala was elected as presi- this month. Gough bowled
superbly and took 4-26 to
dent of the board.
bowl out Zimbabwe for 92
England’s revised itinerary: Nov 13: Arrival from Bangladesh; Nov 15: vs. Sri and help England secure a
Lanka ‘A’, Moratuwa; Nov 18: First limit- place in the tri-series final
ed-overs international, Dambulla; Nov 21: with a six-wicket win at
Second limted-overs international (d/n),
Colombo; Nov 23: Third limited-overs in- Nevil Road on Sunday.
ternational (d/n), Colombo; Nov 26-28: vs.
The 32-year-old Gough
Sri Lanka ‘A’, Colombo; Dec 2-6: First was recalled to the England
Test, Galle; Dec 10-14: Second Test,
Kandy; Dec 18-22: Third Test, Colombo; team after a knee injury
Dec 23: Departure for England.
and four surgeries. Agencies
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Tale of two proud dads
Lee more determined A dream come true
than ever, feels Vece for the Mirza family
By Saumyajit Basu
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
By Solomon S Kumar & Samuel Vasanth Kumar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata: Dr Vece Paes was under the impression that Leander had already lost the mixed
doubles at Wimbledon a few steps before the final. He was at Kuala Lumpur, attending an
AFC meeting, when he received an SMS that
his son and Martina Navratilova had made it to
the title-clash.
“Frankly, I was misinformed. I was so busy
in Kuala Lumpur that I was out of touch. I
knew that Paes and Rikl lost in the men’s doubles, but I couldn’t see the final last night,” said
the sports medicine consultant of the All India
Football Federation from Goa, when contacted
by The Times of India on Monday afternoon.
So when did he come to know that his son
has actually won the mixed doubles title. “He
called me up at 4 am today to break the news,”
he said. About the achievement, the senior
Paes said, “It’s immensely gratifying as Leander has fought very hard over the years by
keeping himself fit in spite of the travelling he
has to undertake. More importantly, he has not
lost focus and it seems he is growing more determined with age. I’m really a proud father
today.”
Hyderabad: Dreams do come true but when
they do words fail to express those feelings of
intense joy. This was exactly what Imran Mirza
was going through as he heard of his daughter’s — Sania Mirza — triumph at the mother
of all Grand Slams — Wimbledon. Sania and
Alisa Kleybanaova of Russia defeated Katerina Bohmova (Cze) and Michaela Krajicek
(Ned) 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the girls doubles final.
“Well, what can I say. I am obviously thrilled.
There are no words to describe the feelings of
ecstasy. It is almost a dream come true nay it is
a dream come true,” a proud Imran told TNN.
“I spoke to her before the match and she was
confident of pulling off a win,” he added. “Sania
and Alisa lost to the same pair in the French
Open semifinals. It was sweet revenge for them at
Wimbledon,” he remarked. “Among all of us, my
little sister (Anam) made the most sacrifice.
Whatever I become it will be because of her and
my parents,” Sania said. Sania’s mother —
Naseema — who accompanies her had to many a
time leave her younger daughter, seven years old,
at home. “It is tough but we had to make this sacrifice for Sania’s career,” she remarked.
Indian men finish on top, eves 2nd
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C’WEALTH WRESTLING
New Delhi: A dominating performance
saw
Indian
wrestlers bag the men’s team
championship in the Commonwealth Wrestling Championships in London (Canada)
on Sunday. The women also
fared well to finish runners-up.
According to information
received here, it was a clean
sweep for the Indian men as
they bagged gold in all the seven weight categories apart
from taking four silver medals.
The squad got a bonus when
Sujit Mann was adjudged the
best wrestler of the meet. In
the 55kg, Yogeshwar Dutt beat
compatriot Kripa Shankar for
the gold while in the 60kg category, Sushil Kumar pipped Kishan Kumar. Shokinder Tomar
beat Pawan Kumar in the 66kg
and Anuj Kumar got the better
of Amandeep in 84kg final to
clinch the gold. Sujit Mann
(74kg), Bhagat Singh (96kg)
and Palwinder Singh Cheema
(120kg) were the other gold
winners.
In the women’s 63kg, Geetika Jakhar beat Tara Hedic of
Canada to clinch the gold
medal. Kamini Yadav (48),
Alka Tomar (55kg), Manju
(59), Kiran Sihag (67) and
Gursharanpreet Kaur (72)
bagged silver while Neha
Rathi (51) and Sumel (48) settled for bronze.
The Indian squad will now
participate in the Canada Cup,
in Guelph, to be held on July
11 and 12.
“The success here has set
the tone for the Olympic qualifying tournaments. Our
wrestlers got some good competition here. There morale is
high and they are looking forward to do well in the World
Championships to be held in
New York in September,”
Bhupinder Singh, Indian manager, said on phone from
London.
AP
Acceptances for
Mysore races
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Following are the
acceptances for the Mysore
races scheduled to be held on
Wednesday:
Hiriyur Plate: 0-15: 1,400m: 2.30pm: Surf Rider 60, Brave Deed 59, National Crown 59, Gordon’s Pet 56.5, Jaihindh 56, Solar Spirit 55, Radcliff 54, Suhasini 54, Vinu’s Gold 52.5, Daiimio
49.5, Vereva 47. Kapila Plate (div.II): 10-25:
1,200m: Abyssinian Cat 60.5, Cape Merino
56.5, Princely Living 54.5, Wool U Gooli 54, Bacardi Star 53.5, Brave Russian 53.5, Go Fort It 53,
Wordly Pick 53, Aethion 51.5. Renowned Plate:
10-25: 1,400m: Xorra 62, Soldier of Fortune
61.5, Lion of Judah 60, Laplander 59.5, Silvanus
59.5, Black Flower 58.5, Anzac 57.5, Smokester
55, Shoorveer 55, Lali 54, National Star 53, Emmenbrucke 50. RWITC Ltd Trophy: 3 Y-O Only:
1,100m: Full Moon 55, Jackie Brown 53.5, Rich
With Strength 51, Assortment 51, Land Feeder
51, Fortunate Knight 51, Noble Bee 49.5, Star of
Bengal 49.5, Best Beauty 49.5, Qutab Baby
49.5, Smart Show 49.5, Winning Style 49.5.
Bannur Plate: 30 & above: 1,200m: Pride Estates 64, Stingaroo 60, King’s Star 58.5, Frontier
Hero 55.5, Anacita 55.5, Step In Time 53, Three
Coins 52.5, Blushing Memories 48.5, Royal
Salute 48.5. Kapila Plate (div.I): 10-25:
1,200m: Tina’s Tune 62, Erudition 61.5, Tabreez
60.5, Sharpman 59, Decision Maker 58,
Niveditha 58, Palo Alto 57.5, Choice of Sun 56.5.
Kodlipet Plate: 20-35: 1,400m: 5.30pm: Ascot
Leader 60.5, Regal Rock 60, Plumage 60,
Salvia 59.5.
CAPITAL SPORT
Gyan Bharathi cricket:
Sonnet Club and Sumit Dogra
Cricket Academy match ended
in a draw of the 2nd Gyan
Bharati under-13 two-day cricket tournament at Venkateshwara College grounds. Sonnet
Club qualified for the finals on
the basis of lost wickets.
Sumit Dogra Cricket Academy (1st inns
161/8 in 76.3 overs): (Himanshu Rawat
47, Gaurav Dahiya 3/43), Sonnet Club
(1st inns 61/3 in 13 overs):
Uniyal shines: A fine unbeaten 64 by man-of-the match Rajeev Uniyal and deadly bowling
(3/42) by Vijay Arya helped All
India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) beat Cotton Harbour by four wickets to lift the
1st Madhav Rao Scindia memorial cricket title at Andrews
Ganj ground.
Cotton Harbour 194 in 29.4 overs:
(Joginder Singh 54, Naresh Kumar 42, Vijay Arya 3/42, Ramesh Chand 3/49), AIIMS 197/6 in 28.2 overs: (Rajiv Uniyal 64,
Ravinder Rawat 40, K.S. Rana 3/51).
Bhatnagar memorial TT:
The 31st Smt. Chandravati
Bhatnagar Memorial Open
Table Tennis tournament for the
juniors will be conducted at
Talkatora Indoor Stadium from
July 19 to 24. In addition to the
routine events, boys under-19
singles has also been introduced. Entries close on July 12
with Hukum Singh.
FITNESS FREAK: Bayern Munich goalkeeper Oliver Kahn (R) and
reserve goalkeeper Jan Schloesser stretch at a training
session in Leipzig, Germany on Monday.
Team needs to be
motivated: Kaushik
By Vineeta Pandey
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: One month is not
enough to prepare a team
that has plenty of newcomers
and a few failures behind
them. But Maharaj Kishan
Kaushik took up the daunting assignment of coaching
the team which left for Russia
for a four-match test series.
‘‘When I took over as
coach, the fitness level of the
players was shockingly low,”
said Kaushik on Monday. “It
was quite an effort to bring
about changes relating to fitness, technique and tactics,”
said the man who guided the
men’s team to the 1998 Asiad
gold. “The team needs more
time. They are lacking in so
many things.’’ Kaushik, however, was hopeful that the
girls would learn from the
upcoming tour.
Kaushik was also worried
about the fact that players
waited for the ball instead of
going to get it. Kaushik, however, was optimistic. ‘‘These
girls can do really well if
they are motivated enough.’’
The current squad has six
newcomers as most of the experienced players opted out
due to various reasons. Star
forward Mamta Kharab and
midfielder Sumari Tete have
had knee surgery while veterans
like
Tingoleama
Chanu, Sita Gossain and Pritam Rani Siwach have cried
off due to personal reasons.
There will, however, be
Surajlata Devi (captain),
goalkeeper Helen Mary, Jyoti
Jullu, Sumanbala, Kantiba,
Masira Surin, Sangai Chanu
and Dhyan Chand’s granddaughter Neha Singh who
should shoulder the responsibilty well. Kaushik is banking heavily on these old
guards.
“This is just a preparatory
tournament. The main aim is
to qualify for the Olympics,”
Kaushik said. For the Indians, who have not played any
international tournament after the Busan Asiad, the season is going to be very hectic
with the Asia Cup, AfroAsian Games, Olympic qualifiers and probably a four-nation tournament coming up.
Armstrong survives terrible crash
Meaux (France): A little
stirred but not shaken, Lance
Armstrong emerged from the
wreckage of a crash at the
Tour de France, his hopes of a
record-tying fifth win still intact. The 31-year-old Texan is
eighth in the overall standings, with 19 stages left to
make his mark. With a crucial
team time-trial looming and
the mountain stages he loves
and others so loathe lying in
wait, Armstrong remains in
good shape.
‘‘We’ll just try to avoid any
problems, control the race from
the back seat and wait for the
team time trials,’’ Armstrong
said ahead of Sunday’s 168kilometre (104-mile) first stage
from Montgeron to Meaux.
Those plans could well have
crumbled when around 35 riders fell near the finish line —
Armstrong among them. However, he emerged from the pileup relatively unscathed to finish the stage in 107th spot.
Italy’s Alessandro Petacchi,
who was just ahead of the
chasing pack when the crash
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minutes and 33 seconds.
Despite his minor cuts and
bruises, Armstrong is already
thinking ahead to Wednesday’s
time trial — a 69 kilometre
(42.1-mile) sprint from Joinville
to Saint-Dizier — where teams
dash off at five minute intervals from each other.
‘‘It’s a critical day. That day
already starts to shape the
race,’’ Armstrong said. Last
year, his team finished in second place, 16 seconds behind
the winning Once team. AFP
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Tiger wins 38th No stadium, no problem
Lemont: Even Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan and Arnold
Palmer couldn’t match this. Tiger Woods cruised to victory
on Sunday in the 100th Western Open, his 38th career win
on PGA Tour and fourth of the season. It marks his fifth
straight year with at least four victories, a feat no one else
has managed. And this is a guy who some say is in a slump?
Hogan, Palmer, Tom Watson and Lloyd Mangrum had
four straight years with four or more victories. The victory also made Woods the fifth three-time winner at the
Western, the oldest stop on the PGA Tour. Hogan, Nicklaus and Palmer each won the Western twice.
The gaudy numbers don’t stop there. Woods shot a 69
on Sunday, giving him 21-under 267 for the tournament.
That matches the tournament record set in 2001 by Scott
Hoch. Woods led the entire tournament, the first wire-towire winner at the Western since Nick Price in 1993. It’s
the fifth wire-to-wire victory in Woods’ career.
He finished five strokes ahead of Rich Beem, the 13th
time he’s won by four strokes or better. But give Beem
credit, he at least added a small diversion to the inevitable. The winner of last year’s PGA Championship
opened the back nine with three birdies and an eagle to
pull within five shots of Woods. Beem couldn’t take advantage of his last par-5, though, ending whatever slim
chances he might have had of catching Woods.AP
By B Shrikant
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The king of fruits can be held
partly responsible if the Indian cagers struggle to come to terms with the conditions at
the Talkatora indoor stadium during the
Middle Asia Zone ABC qualifiers this week.
Believe it or not, the Indian team could
not practise because of a mango festival at
the venue. The festival concluded on Sunday and the venue was handed over to the
Basketball Federation of India only after
that. Preparations for the big event, including cleaning the hall, therefore started only
on Monday morning. The six-team qualifiers for the 22nd Asian Basketball Confederations (ABC) championships for men will
begin on Wednesday at the Talkatora Hall.
“We would have liked a couple of practise
sessions at the stadium before the event. I
have been told that we might get one session
on Tuesday evening but I am not very optimistic,’’ Indian coach K K Chonsoria told
TNN on Monday. Chonsoria was, however,
confident that acclimatisation may not be a
big problem for the Indian team as it had its
first training session at the Indira Gandhi indoor stadium on Monday. “We had a monthlong camp at Hyderabad too and the team is
in good shape. I am confident we will clinch
one of the two berths for the finals to be held
in China next month,” the coach said.
“We knew that the hall was not available
before July 8. So just have to work overtime
to get it ready for the event. Our people
have already started work on it,” a senior
BFI official said. Hari Singh, who is in
charge in the absence of stadium manager
R K Sharma, said that the hall was booked
from Tuesday only and that there were no
requests to get it early. Bangladesh is the
only team that has already arrived. Sri
Lanka and Nepal are reaching the Capital
on Tuesday while Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan are expected on Wednesday morning.
Annika misses playoff
North Plains: A shocking collapse by Annika Sorenstam
gave way to the first three-way
playoff in 16 years at the U.S.
Women’s Open. Angela Stanford holed a 20-foot birdie putt
on the 18th hole, Kelly Robbins
birdied two of the last three
holes and Hilary Lunke had to
settle for par in a dramatic
ending to a championship that
now goes one more day.
They finished at 1-under 283
and will return for 18 more
holes. Sorenstam won’t be
joining them. The best player
in women’s golf was poised to
win after a perfect drive on
the par-5 18th hole, leaving her
236 yards away and making
birdie seem like a done deal.
Instead, she hit into the trees,
into a bunker and finished
with a bogey. Sorenstam
learned all about pressure two
months ago at Colonial as the
first woman in 58 years to play
on the PGA Tour. It didn’t pay
off. She walked off the green
stunned, yielding the stage to
three players who will square
off for the most prestigious
prize in women’s golf. It will
be the first playoff in the U.S.
Open since Se Ri Pak won at
Blackwolf Run in 1998, and
the first involving three
women since Laura Davies defeated Ayako Okamoto and
JoAnne Carner in 1987.AP
Group A: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh. Group B: Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal. Fixtures: July 9: India vs Bangladesh, Uzbekistan vs
Nepal; July 10: Bangladesh vs Lanka, Nepal vs Kyrgyzstan, Lanka
vs India, Kyrgyzstan vs Uzbekistan; July 11: 1A vs 2B, 1B vs 2A; July
12: Loser 1A-2B vs Loser 1B-2A, Winner 1A-2B vs Winner 1B-2A.
AFP
Phillip Price
hits jackpot
Tiger Woods exults after making a birdie putt during the
final round of the Western Open in Lemont, Illinois, on
Sunday. Woods won the 38th title of his career.
Dublin: Phillip Price of
Wales picked up the biggest
pay cheque of his career in
winning the European Open
at the K Club in county Kildare on Sunday. One of the
unheralded stars of Europe’s
victorious Ryder Cup team
last year shot a final round 70
to beat Scotland’s Alastair
Forsyth and Mark McNulty of
Zimbabwe by one shot.
But Price was made to work
for his near half-a-million
euro cheque, by far and away
his biggest payday since he
turned professional in 1989.
He was three ahead with five
to play but then produced two
bogeys to leave him approaching the final hole tied on 15 under and facing a playoff, but a
birdie at the last clinched him
victory. His 70 left him with a
16 under par total of 272.
Last year at The Belfry
when ranked a lowly 115th he
famously defeated world number two Phil Mickelson on the
final day to secure Europe’s
victory over the United States.
He lined up at the K Club
having watched his ranking
slump further to 157th but immediately set about improving his fortunes by shooting a
then course record 66 on
Thursday. That was followed
by a 69 and a 67 but he almost
unravelled all his good work
with bogeys Sunday at the
14th and 17th while up ahead
Forsyth and McNulty, at 49 attempting to become the oldest
winner in tour history,
birdied the last. AFP
Aussie stars on the move
London: Harry Kewell was set to
join Liverpool and fellow Aussie
Brett Emerton was poised to move
to English Premiership side Blackburn, it was reported on Monday.
Newspaper reports said Liverpool had agreed a six million pound
(10 million dollar) deal with Leeds
for Kewell who would sign on Tuesday while Blackburn manager
Graeme Souness was said to have
swooped for Emerton who plays for
Dutch side Feyenoord.
Souness has reportedly beaten
Newcastle, Tottenham and Aston
Villa for Emerton who plays on the
right side of midfield but who can
also operate as a right-back. The 24year-old, who has one year left of a
four-year contract with Feyenoord,
was said to have cost 2.75 million
pounds (4.5 million dollars).
“I’ve been interested in Brett
since I saw him do well against Scotland a couple of years ago and I’ve
been watching regularly and was
aware of the number of clubs who
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like him,” Souness told Daily Mail.
Souness swooped for Emerton as
soon as he completed the sale of
England midfielder David Dunn to
Birmingham City for five million
pounds ($8.3 million).
Kewell has been linked with Arsenal, Manchester United and Spanish side Barcelona but he was reported to have been impressed by
the Anfield set-up when he visited
Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier
last week.
Vieira’s deal not done yet: French
midfielder Patrick Vieira said Monday he has yet to sign a new threeyear deal with Arsenal. Reports in
Sunday newspapers said the 27year-old Gunners’ skipper had
signed but Vieira told
the English Premiership club’s website
he has yet to put pen
to paper. Agencies
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Shiv, Keshav to play
New Delhi: The Jaypee Open
amateur golf championship,
the first event of the Indian Golf
Union’s amateur calendar, will
tee off at the Jaypee Greens
Golf Resort in Greater Noida on
Tuesday. The qualifying round
was played out on Monday and
a field of 90 will vie for top honours. Among those taking part
are like Asiad gold winner Shiv
Kapur, top ranked amateur Keshav Mishra besides high ranking amateurs like Jasjeet Singh,
Simarjeet Singh, Manav Das
and Vikrant Chopra. TNN
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Federer’s girl: Roger Federer’s girlfriend Miroslava
Vavrinec, member of the
Swiss Fed Cup team, was
choked up on Centre Court
talking about the victory. ‘‘It’s
a wonderful moment, unbelievable,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s hard
to even talk. We were shaking. It was a dream coming
true for Roger and the most
fantastic moment in my life —
ever. It was really, really nice
and I’m so happy for Roger.’’
‘‘He wasn’t nervous last night,
not at all. Until this morning
he was pretty calm, then one
hour before the match he began to feel it a little bit. We
just had a quiet dinner at
home last night and prepared
as usual - a little massage,
stretching, and that was it.’’
Double sundae: Kim Clijsters and Ai Sugiyama
picked up the women’s doubles title defeating Paola
Suarez and Virginia Ruano
Pascual 6-4, 6-4. The pair
won the French Open title
last month, also beating
Suarez and Ruano Pascual in
the championship match. It
was a sweet victory for the
Belgian-Japanese duo on
Centre Court. They lost the
Wimbledon doubles final two
years ago, and Sugiyama lost
the Wimbledon doubles final
in 2000 when she was playing with Julie Halard-Decugis.
Clijsters and Sugiyama have
now won four of five matches
against Suarez of Argentina
and Ruano Pascual of Spain.
The loss was the second
straight in the Wimbledon
doubles final for the Argentine-Spanish pair.
Olympic on grass:
Olympic tennis on grass? It
‘Bhowmick’s the best’
By Nilanjan Datta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
The new Wimbledon champion, Roger Federer poses with the trophy along with his girlfriend Mirka Vavrinec at Wimbledon on Monday.
could happen. International
are to be built. That’s 15
was 470,802, an increase of
Olympic Committee Presimiles (25 km) through some
1,288 over 2002. ...British
dent Jacques Rogge
of the world’s most congestbookmakers Ladbrokes has
watched the men’s final from
ed streets. Second, the All
Federer at 5-2 to win the title
the Royal Box on Sunday and England Club is private and
again next year. Andy Rodsaid Wimbledon would add
closed to the public.
dick is 4-1 and Lleyton He‘‘prestige to the Games’’ if it
witt 6-1. They also have sevTears of joy: Roger Feder- en-time champion Pete
became an Olympic venue.
er’s coach Peter Lundgren
London is bidding for the
Sampras at 16-1. ... Federer
2012 Olympics and is among summed up the new Wimble- and Mark Philippoussis had
don champion, who broke
the early favorites with New
some support in the Royal
down crying during the CenYork and Paris. London bid
Box. Australian High Comtre Court trophy presentation. missioner Michael L’Esorganizers have suggested
‘‘He’s a very emotional perWimbledon might be the site
trange and speaker of the
son, and that’s nice for peofor tennis. ‘‘It is a temple of
Australian Parliament Neil
ple to see,’’ Lundgren said.
sport,’’ Rogge said. Despite
Andrew were in the box, as
Rogge’s optimism, there may ‘‘These guys are human.’’
were Swiss Ambassador
be problems. Wimbledon is
Bruno Spinner and Swiss
Wanna
bet:
The total Wimacross town from east LonSports Minister Samuel
bledon attendance for 2003
don, where the main venues
Schmid.
NBA star Bryant accused of sexual assault
Denver: Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe
Bryant has surrendered to police in Colorado after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at a mountain resort, authorities said on Sunday.
Bryant, 24, was released after turning
himself in and posting a $25,000 bond on
Friday, a statement issued by the Eagle
County Sheriff ’s office said.
The woman who accused Bryant of
sexual misconduct went to deputies last
on Tuesday and told them that the alleged incident had occurred in the
mountain town of Edwards the previous
night. “Upon review of interviews and
physical evidence, investigators met
with the District Attorney’s office and
concluded they had enough evidence to
charge Kobe Bryant with felony sexual
assault,” the police statement said.
Prosecutors have not filed charges in
the case and could not be reached for
comment on Sunday.
A judge has ordered
the case sealed.
Bryant, who was
the NBA’s secondleading scorer last
season, had been staying at a spa in Edwards with five bodyguards while receiving treatment for an
Kobe Bryant
injured shoulder, Los
Angeles television station KTLA reported. The station reported that the woman
who accused Bryant of the sexual misconduct was a 19-year-old employee of
the lodge near the ski resort of Vail
where he had been staying.
The accusations stunned Laker fans
and the team.
“These allegations are completely out
of character of the Kobe Bryant we
know,” Lakers general manager Mitch
Kupchak said in a statement. “For the
seven years he’s been with us, he has
been one of the finest young men we’ve
known and a wonderful asset to both
our team and our community.”
“However, since this is a legal matter
being handled by the authorities in Colorado, we must refrain from further
comment at this time.”
Paired with All-Star center Shaquille
O’Neal, Bryant led the Lakers to three
consecutive NBA championships between 2000 and 2002.
The team, which faltered last season
and was knocked out of the playoffs by
the eventual NBA-champion San Antonio Spurs, is in the process of rebuilding around its two best players.
Bryant, famed as a tough competitor,
has been a favourite with corporate
America. Reuters
New Delhi: Baichung Bhutia is fitter than
last season. Fresh from his derby success
where he scored two superb goals in East Bengal’s 3-0 win over arch-rivals Mohun Bagan in
Kolkata on Saturday, the
‘Sikkemese Sniper’ was
in the Capital to launch
Kingfisher’s five-a-side
corporate football tournament. He spoke to
Times News Network on
his current stint with East Bengal and the
club’s chances in the forthcoming LG
ASEAN Championships.
What difference has the South
African technical director Kevin Jackson made to the side?
A marked difference. The entire bunch is
in good condition and can run for ninety
minutes at the same pace. Hiring a physical
trainer has been a novel move. And it’s
high time the AIFF hires a trainer for the
national team. Then the coach (Stephen
Constantine) can devote more time on planning the game.
What has been coach Subhash
Bhowmick’s role in East Bengal?
He is the best Indian coach I have played
under. He can think of different strategies for
different games. And he is the mind behind
Jackson’s arrival. Even the present club management is the best I have seen in the country.
Unlike other teams, they don’t have vested interests. They look after the team really well.
Like, the whole team was put up in a Kolkata
five-star hotel for over a month to felicitate
smooth practice in the nearby Salt Lake stadium. It’s payback time now.
How do you rate your chances in the
ASEAN Cup?
Last year, we (India) won the LG Cup in
Vietnam. This time too, we are not going
there to merely take part. We have excellent
bench strength and are co-ordinating well.
The confidence is high. We are going to win
the championship.
Do you support players of Indian origin donning national colours?
Why not? It’s done all over the world. But
they should be good enough to impress the
coach.
How did you feel after scoring two
against your former team Mohun
Bagan?
It was great to see around one lakh twenty thousand fans back at the Salt Lake Stadium. Nowhere in the world, one sees so
many spectators. And I would be lying if I
said I didn’t like them chanting my name.
I’m looking at international
glory: East Bengal coach
By Raju Bhattacharjee
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: East Bengal coach Subhas
Bhowmick is looking for a final berth at the
1st ASEAN Club Championship. The team is
leaving on Tuesday for Jakarta, where the
12-team tournament will be staged between
July 13-26. Is Bhowmick aiming a bit too
high? We need to wait and watch. But it’s
also true that in the last two decades no Indian side has looked as confident and focused before an international engagement
as East Bengal have .
“Indian clubs can’t think beyond Durand
Cup, Federation Cup etc. But this time club
officials were quite serious about this overseas assignment.” said Bhowmick. East
Bengal club has brought Kevin Jackson, a
physical trainer from South Africa and
have also kept the players together in a five
star hotel for last one month. “The seriousness of the management has obviously left
an impression on the players,” felt
Bhowmick.
“I made it very clear at the beginning of
the season that I wouldn’t mind if we failed
to win the local league or other knock-out
tournaments. East Bengal has won all these
titles on numerous occasion. I wanted the
team to focus on international meets.”he
said.
12 top teams of South East Asia will participate in the inaugural ASEAN meet. The
club championship is offering US$110,000 in
prize money. The winner will take home
US$50,000 while the second, third and fourth
Bhowmick
placed teams will pocket
US$30,000, US$20,000 and
US$10,000 respectively.
The National Fooball
League champions of India has been specially invited in this tournament
in which hosts Indonesia
are fielding two teams Petrokimia Putra and
Persita Tangerang.
East Bengal Club have been drawn in
Group D along with AFC Champions League
finalists BEC-Tero Sasana from Thailand
and the Philippines’ Air Force FC. East Bengal will meet Tero Sasana on July 14, while
they face Air Force FC on July 16.
Bhowmick, however, said he was not totally
satisfied with the preparations. “The local
league hampered our preparation a lot. We
have played 5 matches so far in the Kolkata
league which has spoiled almost 15 days of
our preparations,” Bhowmick rued.
He, though, felt that the presence of
Jackson has made the side fitter than ever.
He said a lot of credit for his side’s 3-0 win
over Mohun Bagan in the league game on
Saturday should go to Jackson.
Squad: Sangram Mukherjee, Sandip Nandy, Deepak Mondal, Suley Musah, M Suresh, Mahesh Gawli, Douglas da Dilva, Surkumar
Singh, Malswam Tulunga, Subhas Chakraborty, Chandan Das, Debjit Ghosh, Sasthi Duley, Dipankar Roy, Alvito D’Cunha, Mike Okoro, Bijen Singh, Baichung Bhutia.
Groupings: Group A: Petrokimia Putra (Indonesia), Finance &
Revenue (Myanmar), Smart United (Cambodia). Group B: Singapore Armed Forces FC (Singapore), Perak FC (Malaysia), DPMM
(Brunei Darussalam). Group C: Persita (Indonesia), H.A. Gialia
(Vietnam), MTTPC (Laos). Group D: BEC-Tero Sasana (Thailand),
East Bengal, Air Force FC (the Philippines).
Ferrari has to
get act together,
warns Schumi
Magny-Cours
(France):
Michael Schumacher has
warned that
Ferrari will
face one of
their toughest ever battles if they
are to hang
onto
their
world championship crown.
After Ralf Schumacher
and Juan Pablo Montoya
secured a second successive
one-two to win the French GP
on Sunday, the five-time
champion said that the setback here, and last week’s
Williams’ win at the Nurburgring, had shown that Ferrari
now face genuine challengers.
“We need to be concerned
about Williams,” said Schumacher who finished 19.5secs
behind his brother while
teammate Rubens Barrichello was back in seventh spot
after a spin on the first lap
had plunged him into last
place.
“We know what they do
and we must get our act together,” said Schumacher.
“Looking at the weekend
here, what we achieved was
as well as we could have
done.
“But we have to improve
the situation and we have a
big test coming up. We will
all have to try very hard.”AFP
Williams are in
front, says Todd
Magny-Cours
(France):
Ferrari boss Jean Todt admitted on Monday that rivals
Williams have gained the upper hand in the chase for the
world championship.
After watching Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya run away with the
French Grand Prix here on
Sunday for a second successive one-two finish this season, the sporting director of
the Italian giants said his
drivers and engineers will
now endure a whole week of
testing at three different sites
as they seek to regain the advantage.
“Undoubtedly, the balance
of power in the last four
races between ourselves and
the BMW, Williams, Michelin
package has shifted in their
favour,” said Todt. AFP
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Soccer brings Iraq,
Kuwait together
Cairo: A goal from Brazilian
striker Alessandro three minutes from time allowed AlKuwait to draw 2-2 with Baghdad
Police (Al-Shurtah) Sunday in
the first game between teams
from the two countries since Iraq
invaded Kuwait in 1990.
The incident-free game on the
opening day of the 10-team Arab
Club Championship, was dubbed
the “love and peace match” but
attracted only a small crowd. AlKuwait took the lead in the 13th
minute through another Brazilian, Somalia, but the Iraqis hit
back through Mazen Abdul Sattar in the 18th minute. AFP

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