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OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK New Delhi, Thursday, August 7, 2003 WIN WITH THE TIMES Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. One’s liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbour. — Frederick Farrar NEWS DIGEST Gay bishop: American Episcopal leaders on Tuesday took the final vote needed to confirm the openly gay Rev V Gene Robinson as bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire. They risk a possible exodus of conservatives who said their grief was too deep for words. P13 Missing pieces: When a team of trekkers of the Manali institute came across some skeletal remains and wreckage of an aircraft last week, they helped solve the mystery of an AN-12 aircraft and about 100 soldiers who had gone missing in February 1968 when they failed to return from a routine sortie. P5 War of words: There was a sharp response from India to Pakistan’s comments on Prime Minister Vajpayee’s remarks regarding a temple at Ayodhya and charges that there were terrorist camps in the country. P8 How many polls: Chief Election Commisioner J M Lyngdoh on Wednesday said simultaneous polls was anti-democratic in character and said it would lead to ‘‘cheating like hell’’. However, the EC is prepared to hold Lok Sabha polls anytime, depending on the exigency. P5 PEOPLE POWER Speak your mind—loud and free. Question of the week: What should be Delhi’s top priority to ease the traffic mess: 1. Restrict the number of cars 2. Upgrade the bus system 3. Any other ● Call today at 23492136 ( between 12 noon and 1 pm ) You can fax us on 2332 3346 / 2371 5832 e-mail: peoplepower@timesgroup.com. Your response, along with your name, will be published in SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA August 10, 2003 YOU SAID IT by Laxman www.timesofindia.com Capital 28 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Gaddafi may pay up soon for causing Lockerbie explosion Qutubuddin Ansari, face of the Gujarat riots, to leave Ahmedabad forever Man United’s Veron headed for Chelsea Page 13 Page 8 Page 20 MPs seek ban on Coke, Pepsi AP Stop serving colas in the House, Sushma says inquiry is on TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Reports about high levels of pesticides in Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other aerated drinks had their fallout in Parliament on Wednesday. While chairman of the catering committee E Ahmed ordered that these soft be banned from the Parliament canteen, other Lok Sabha members demanded that they be banned from the country. Responding to the war-cry against the multinational companies manufacturing these drinks, health minister Sushma Swaraj assured the Lok Sabha that she had already ordered a ‘‘comprehensive inquiry’’ into these reports and would inform the House about its findings at the earliest. The ban on the supply of aerated drinks in Parliament was announced by Ahmed in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour when angry members drew attention to the report brought out by the Delhibased NGO, the Centre for Science and Environment, and asked the government to act swiftly against the MNCs. Formal orders banning the supply of colas and other aerated drinks were issued by Wednesday afternoon. No aerated drinks were served at the daily BJP press briefing and it was stated that the dispensing machines and the refrigerators sup- TIMES NEWS NETWORK plied by these MNCs would also be removed from the Parliament premises. While seeking a ban on the sale of aerated drinks, the Lok Sabha members also came down heavily against the MNCs manufacturing them. When the members persisted with the demand for a ban on aerated drinks, the health minister said the reports were ‘‘serious and startling’’. She said the government would take necessary steps ‘‘keeping in mind the collective wisdom of the members’’. Pollution board kills cola fizz: P8 Kolkata cracks the first whip: P8 Crushed paper glasses of Pepsi lie on a promotional poster featuring Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor during a protest against Pepsi and Coca-Cola by BJP activists in Mumbai on Wednesday. Dubyaman: P13 CSE is not certified: Pepsi FORGET COLA, WHERE’S CLEAN WATER? Feb 4, 2003: CSE blew the cap The new norms on pesticides in bottled water A few days later BIS adopted the strict EU norms for pesticide levels Drama and opposition forced it to set up a committee to re-examine its new norms 0.0001 mg/litre: The limit July 18, 2003: Ministry of health decided to go in for stringent levels for pesticide content and the PFA was amended of individual pesticide residue 0.0005 mg/litre: The limit of total pesticide residue Analysis to be done using internationally established test methods The catch: We have to wait till January 01, 2004, for safer water. Till then swig at your own risk What about soft drinks? BIS mark is optional for soft drinks. On August 18, BIS may change its rules for soft drinks and ask manufacturers to use raw water that meets bottled water norms. New Delhi: Pepsi Foods said the incorrect CSE report findings have created unnecessary panic. ‘‘The sensational manner in which the suspect data has been put forth by CSE has created a panic. The data has been benchmarked by them against EU norms which are yet to be implemented even in Europe. These then have been presented as some kind of poison index, with highly exaggerated claims of damage, that can be caused by such trace presence,’’ a Pepsi spokesperson told this reporter. The government has laid out processes of accreditation that are carried out by the National Accreditation Board for Testing & Calibration for Laboratories to certify the capabilities of centres to carry out such tests. The CSE lab that has reported these results is not so accredited or certified, the spokesperson added. Pepsi reiterated on Tuesday that all its products meet all international standards and deliver safe quality. TNN Times graphic PAC report in a coffin, NDA govt breathes easy By Rajesh Ramachandran TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Parliament’s powerful Public Accounts Committee on Wednesday took the unprecedented step of refusing to submit a report on the ‘coffin scam’ and other improprieties in Kargil-era defence purchases, citing the defence ministry’s refusal to provide official documents as the reason. But by administering this minor rap on the defence ministry’s knuckles, it has saved the Vajpayee government from major embarrassment. For had the PAC validated in any way the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on these improprieties, or probed the ‘coffin scam’ further, it is likely to have opened up a far more damaging can of worms. As things stand, no greater dam- SC says Govt staff can’t go on strike age has been done to the ruling BJP’s image because the PAC has not indicted the government nor has it taken the issue any further. Indeed, last year, N D Tiwari, who chaired the PAC at the time, issued a similar criticism. True to form, the Congress attacked the government for not making the Central Vigilance Commissioner’s report on the defence deals available to the PAC. Party spokesman Jaipal Reddy said this was in breach of privilege of the rights of the most important Parliamentary committee. The party, however, evaded the issue of why the PAC could not come to any conclusion based on the CAG report per se. The PAC normally examines the CAG report and orally examines officials of the relevant ministry. In this case too, the committee had examined de- fence ministry officials. In one of the sittings of the committee, a member had referred to The Times of India article, ‘Kargil coffins bought at twice the US price’. The member wanted the CAG to pursue ‘‘the matter and intimate the committee about the veracity or otherwise of the cost of aluminium caskets reported in the article’’. Kargil’s ghost still haunts PAC: P8 New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday held that government employees, including doctors working in state-run hospitals and dispensaries, have no right — fundamental, legal, moral or equitable — to go on strike. Disposing of a batch of petitions challenging the ‘‘unprecedented’’ action by the Tamil Nadu government in dismissing about two lakh employees who went on strike recently, the court said: ‘‘Government employees cannot hold society to ransom by going on strike.’’ A Bench of Justices M B Shah and A R Lakshmanan, however, said that if the employees felt aggrieved by any government action, they should seek redressal from the statutory machinery. ‘‘Strike as a weapon is mostly misused which results in chaos and total maladministration,’’ the Bench said, adding: ‘‘Strike affects society as a whole and particularly when two lakh employees go on strike en masse (Tamil Nadu), the entire administration comes to a grinding halt.’’ The Bench also agreed with the contention of the state government’s counsel K K Venugopal that 90 per cent of the revenue raised through direct tax was spent on the 12 lakh government employees in the state. Thus, in a society where there is large-scale unemployment, ‘‘strikes cannot be justified on any equitable ground’’. While lauding the Jayalalithaa government for withdrawing the dismissal orders against a large number of employees except 6,072 whose cases would be resolved by a panel of three retired high court judges, the Bench hoped that the reinstated employees would ‘‘take care in future in maintaining discipline’’. The court also said though the trade unions have a guaranteed right for collective bargaining on behalf of the employees, they have no right to go on strike. While dealing with the inconvenience caused to the general public due to strike calls often given by political parties and trade unions, the apex court made it clear that ‘‘no political party or organisation can claim a right to paralyse economic and industrial activities of a state or the nation or inconvenience the citizens’’. Ragging at Hindu, police called I am not making any statements because you will in your report mention something I might have said last week contradicting what I may say now! indiatimes.com POLL What should be India’s answer to sledging in cricket? Protest Counter-sledge 41% 59% VOTE NOW: Would you still drink Coke/Pepsi after the revelation that they contain pesticides? Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 WEATHER Max. 35.5 C/Min. 26.8 C Moonset: Friday – 1:26 am Moonrise: Thursday – 2:56 pm Sunset: Thursday – 7:08 pm Sunrise: Friday – 5:46 am Mainly cloudy sky with rain/thundershowers in some areas. Maximum relative humidity on Wednesday 94% and minimum 64%. o o Book your Classifieds 24 hours service: “51-666-888” Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” The ATM of information The Largest Classifieds Site * 20 + 8 pages of Delhi Times STOCKS By Pallavi Majumdar TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: In the first serious case of ragging in Delhi University, a Hindu College fresher was stripped and ragged in the hostel by several seniors on Monday. The fresher was able to identify one of the persons who ragged him and lodged a complaint with the hostel warden. The hostel committee has suspended the senior’s hostel admission as ragging has been banned by the Supreme Court. After the fresher complained that the accused that threatened him with ‘‘physical harm’’, the warden on Wednesday approached the police for protection. For Vinayak Natarajan, a student of B Sc (Hons) Chemistry, the agony began soon after he joined the hostel on July 28. ‘‘I was ragged till the wee hours. Besides wearing formals and doing chores for seniors, I was asked to bend at 90 degrees despite a spinal injury,’’ said Natarajan, who hails from Patna. ‘‘I was told that it had been happening for years and that hostel traditions had to be honoured,’’ Natarajan added. This incident occurred despite boards that have been put up in various parts of the college saying: ‘‘This is Hindu. We do not rag’’. On Monday, however, Natarajan claimed a group of seniors accosted him in the hostel corridor and forced him to take off his shirt. ‘‘Then I was asked to take off my trousers as well and forced to run across the corridor shouting things which I am too ashamed to repeat... I was also asked to kiss a fresher like a girl would,’’ he said. Natarajan said he was being targeted by Vikrant Rohin, the brother of Bharat Rohin, who was an MA student in the same college. ‘‘Bharat had taken admission in the hostel on Monday. Vikrant was staying with him illegally,’’ said warden Anirudh Prasad. Vikrant is an ex-student of Kirori Mal. Holy Smoke! Jaipur dresses Kate TOI By Prakash Bhandari TIMES NEWS NETWORK Jaipur: Titanic star Kate Winslet, who is five months pregnant from her second marriage, will wear loose kurtas and gowns during her pregnancy. These clothes are to be stitched in Jaipur. Shiva Vyas, a music lecturer at a Jaipur-based institute who spent a month with the actress at her London home recently, is designing the clothes. Sitarist Shiva, daughter of yoga teacher Daya Vyas, is a friend of 27-yearold Kate and has given the background music for Oscar-winning director Jane Campion’s film Holy Smoke. The movie, shot in Delhi and Pushkar, has Kate in the lead role. Shiva got acquainted with Kate when she visited India after the release BSE: 3741.66 (-24.16) Dow Jones: 9036.32 (-149.72) NSE 50: 1171.05 (-13.40) Nasdaq: 1673.50 (-40.56) BULLION Kate Winslet (C), with her daughter Mia and friend Shiva Vyas, at her new home in London. of Titanic in 1998. The actress wanted to get a feel of the country before she shot for Holy Smoke. The movie is about an Australian girl, who joins a cult in India, and later falls in love with the cult leader and wishes to marry him. During her Jaipur visit, Kate took yoga lessons from Daya Vyas, who is also credited with teach- Gold 22 ct /10g: Silver /1kg: Delhi: NA Delhi: NA ing yoga to Nicole Kidman and Jane Campion. Kate’s bonds with the Vyas family were strengthened when the actress visited Pushkar for the shooting of Holy Smoke. When Kate was expecting her first child from her first husband, director Jim Threapleton, she would take guidance from Daya on aasans over the telephone. Says Shiva, ‘‘I Mumbai: Rs 4955 Mumbai: Rs 8100 Chennai: Rs 5020 Chennai: Rs 8085 was overwhelmed when I got a call from Kate, inviting me to spend the summer at her new home in London. Her bungalow has eight rooms and there are a host of maids to help her.’’ Shiva says the house is owned by her second husband Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty. Though Kate kept her marriage plans with Sam a secret for a long time, Shiva claims that the actress had confided in her about her decision. Kate has sent a handwritten written letter to Daya, describing the wonderful time she had with Shiva. In her letter, she also talks about the clothes Shiva brought for her and her daughter Mia. As for Sam, she describes him ‘‘as very handsome and a incredibly kind person’’. EXCHANGE $: Rs 46.60 £: Rs 75.30 : Rs 53.25 ¥ (100): Rs 40.05 TOID70803/CR4/01/M/1 TOID70803/CR4/01/C/1 TOID70803/CR4/01/K/1 TOID70803/CR4/01/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 2 DELHI Thursday, August 7, 2003 Man held with fake US dollars TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Police have arrested a resident of Sahibabad for allegedly possessing fake US dollars. Aftab Ahmed was sent to police custody by the court on Wednesday. So far, two notes of $100 have been recovered. ‘‘We have to question him since it is the first case of fake US dollars which has come to our notice. It is important to know whether Ahmed had circulated these notes somewhere else,’’ a police officer said. Ahmed was arrested on Tuesday when the police received a call from Ashoka Hotel. According to a hotel employee, Ahmed and two of his associates had come to the money changer bank service at the Central Bank of India on Tuesday. ‘‘Ahmed handed over two US dollar notes and asked for Indian currency,’’ Kaul told the police. A suspicious Kaul, checked the notes manually and was convinced they were fake. Metropolitan magistrate Chandrashekar remanded Ahmad to police custody for one day. The police later sent a team to Sahibabad to confirm the accused’s residential address. The Times of India, New Delhi Link to NCR on cards By Anuradha Mukherjee TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A direct Metro connection between IGI airport and Connaught Place, Ghaziabad, Dilshad Garden, Faridabad and Gurgaon. Too good to believe? Well, if the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has it’s way, all this may soon be a reality. According to DMRC managing director E Sreedharan, the company is pushing aggressively to extend Line I between Rithala and Shahdara towards Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and Line III between Dwarka and Barakhamba Road towards Dilshad Garden. ‘‘Both the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana government are keen for a Metro link,’’ said Sreedharan. He said the Noida line was being treated as a high priority line. He said DMRC has made a proposal to the civil aviation ministry for a line between Connaught Place and IGI Airport. There is an alternative proposal to link Dwarka and Vasant Kunj via IGI Airport at a latter stage. Sreedharan, however, says the latter is not financially viable. ‘‘That line will be justified 10 years later. At the moment, Ghaziabad, Faridabad and Gurgaon need the Metro much more than IGI Airport. The ridership in that area is expected to be very low — 25,000 per day, whereas that should be the average per train,’’ said Sreedharan. ‘‘A dedicated Metro link to the airport in Hong Kong may be imperative where a flight lands every 90 seconds, in Delhi that need “There is work for everyone in TV” Towards Ghaziabad Phase I Phase II Proposed Yamuna Nagar DU ISBT Preet Vihar Yamuna Depot Mayur VIhar hasn’t arisen as of now. That line can be taken up at a later stage,’’ he added. On rehabilitation of residents affected by Line III, Sreedharan said an amount of Rs 200 crore has been earmarked for compensation and rehabilitation. ‘‘We have only 25 months for completing Line III. But we are offering interim rel i e f a n d rehabilitation to affected persons. We are also liasoning with DDA to provide shops on nominal rent,’’ he said. ‘‘We will pay rent up to Rs 3,000 for those whose residential units are getting affected for three months,’’ he said. He said DMRC has also requested DDA to provide LIG and MIG flats at construction rates to such persons. Sreedharan said the affected people could not be rehabilitated in the commercial properties in the station as they did not match the commuters’ needs. ‘‘You cannot open a METRO MATRIX — NIGHAR KHAN, TV Actress Underground Mohan Nagar Vasundhara Daryaganj CP DELHI Dilshad Garden Shahdara Chandni Chowk To chat on SMS send 'cchat' <your question> to 8888 UTTAR PRADESH Towards NOIDA hardware shop there. Besides, we need outlets of a certain standard that can keep the station premises clean,’’ he added. But residents are clearly not too impressed. ‘‘They are asking us to find rented accommodation for Rs 3,000. And then we may get LIG flats for Rs 3.5 lakh, which is almost the market price. If we are paying money for what we are getting, where does the question of rehabilitation arise?’’ asked Madhu Chadha, a resident of 27, Pusa Road. According to the residents, the Rs 9,000 that DMRC was offering for three months, is too meagre an amount to hire suitable accommodation. ‘‘We have been asked to look for the accommodation ourselves. People are not ready to rent us their houses,’’ said Shagun Chadha, a resident. ‘‘Today we met DMRC director (planning & projects) C B K Rao to discuss the issue of our rehabilitation. He says we may get LIG flats in Bindapur which is a far cry from Pusa Road,’’ she added. Q. How do you feel about the competition between actress?- ro A: Lots of competition! One has to create her own style to last here. One has to be a little different to stand out from the crowd. Q. What are the requisites of entering into serials?- gudoo A: I would say firstly you have got to be very dedicated. Professionalism is what's looked for in any field, be true to your work and whatever character you play. You could also do an acting course but the brighter side is that on TV there is work for everyone. Q. Is it difficult playing a negative role in Lipstick?- gaurav_khetwni A: Presently, no it isn't but earlier it was. I have understood the character so well that nothing is difficult now. Q. How was the transition from modelling to acting?- vinu A: Acting interests me more because each day is a new day for me. Q. What are your forthcoming projects?- doll A: You'll see me next on TV Sahara on the serial Pratima. It will release in October. Q. What is the future of serials? - fem A: I think it's growing every day, this is one industry which has a bright future. Q. Your favourite soap?- sumit A: My favourite is Lipsticks for obvious reasons and then comes Astitva and to top it Friends. For complete chat log on to http://chat.indiatimes.com 2 pm: Sanjiv Gupta President, Coca-Cola India On how safe are your soft drinks 4 pm: Hrithik Roshan Actor On his home production Koi Mil Gaya... 12 noon: Asheesh Shah Astrologer On what the future holds for you • Hrithik Roshan: Hot or hoopla? Hrithik Roshan debuted with a bang, but after that it kind of Fiza-led out. Will Koi Mil Gaya revive his career? To listen, log on to http://talkradio.indiatimes.com Bomb hoax in Parliament TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A hoax call about a bomb being planted in Parliament left the police in a tizzy on Wednesday afternoon. The PCR received a call that there was a bomb in Parliament at 12 noon. The call was traced to an 11-year-old boy, Vikas, from Nehru Vihar in north Delhi. The boy re- portedly told the police that he had been influenced by movies in making the call. The boy is a student of Class VII in a government school. He is a resident of Karala Kanjhwala and had come to a relative’s place in Nehru Vihar. The police have asked MTNL to disconnect the telephone connection. K K Laskar Mayur Vihar bridge: Eight months’ wait for approval TIMES NEWS NETWORK Justice R C Lahoti releasing Shiv Khera’s new book — Living With Honour, on Wednesday. Report on Page 4 Pay up for your mosquitoes TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The municipal health department has launched a combing operation in Seelampur and adjoining areas in east Delhi to detect suspected breeding grounds of Aedes mosquito that spreads the killer dengue fever. The operation was launched after a woman suffering from dengue, reportedly a resident of Seelampur, admitted to Lok Nayak Hospital last week, fled from the ward without informing the hospital authorities. Municipal health officer, K N Tiwari, said: ‘‘The address given by the woman in Lok Nayak Hospital has turned out to be fictitious. We are trying to locate and remove the breeding ground that may have caused dengue in this case.’’ ‘‘Residents would be fined Rs 500 if Aedes larvae Deadly dengue • The number of dengue cases in the city has risen to 5 • 3 cases were reported in the last 10 days • Dengue claimed over 420 lives in Delhi in 1996 are detected in their houses,’’ he said. Tiwari warned against self-medication in the event of dengue. ‘‘Asprin should never be consumed in such a condition,’’ he warned. He added that sparselyused coolers are the most common breeding ground for the mosquito. ‘‘People don’t use coolers as much in monsoon as peak summer. Due to this reason they don’t even replace the water stored in their tanks for days,’’ he said. A major sign of Aedes mosquito’s presence are daytime bites. ‘‘Aedes aegypti prefer to bite below knees and elbows - a distinction from the malariacausing mosquito,’’ says Tiwari. Adding two teaspoons of kerosene or petrol to stagnant water is a handy way of keeping Aedes larvae under check. Tiwari claimed the municipal corporation has activated its drive against vector-borne diseases after the first pre-monsoon showers. ‘‘Precautionary measures like house-to-house inspection and making residents aware are in full swing now,’’ he said. He said over 600 volunteers from various schools would assist the civic agency in inspecting houses for presence of Aedes larvae. It is crucial to detect the suspected breeding ground at the earliest to prevent more cases in the same area, he added. TOID70803/CR1/02/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/02/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/02/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/02/Y/1 CMYK New Delhi: A bridge project linking Mayur Vihar-I and East End Apartment in east Delhi has failed to take off even after eight months it was announced. The Rs 6-crore project of the Delhi government, which could have saved motorists from driving extra kilometres and the hassle of driving through Noida, is awaiting administrative approval. The 136-metre double lane bridge over Hindon River and Ghazipur stormwater drain was proposed by Delhi urban development minister A K Walia in December 2002 and its foundation stone was scheduled to be laid on April 13. No foundation stone was laid as the project is yet to be approved by the design and expenditure estimates committees. With the state poll approaching, the chances of the project being cleared are dim. Flood control chief engineer A K Gupta said: ‘‘Even if the project getsthe necessary clearances now, it will not start before October as the soil testing, design and tendering of the project has not been done yet.’’ The Delhi government plans to construct the bridge in coordination with Uttar Pradesh irrigation department which will construct about 56 metres of the bridge from the Hindon river side. ‘‘The remaining 80 metres will be constructed by us,’’ Gupta said. Officials hinted that the government was undecided about the project. ‘‘It was first proposed as a single lane bridge, but was later changed to a double lane one. Now it has again been modified to a single lane bridge,’’ he said. The Trans-Yamuna Development Board is the funding agency for the project. But it is learnt that the agency whose annual budget is Rs 50 crore is reluctant to bear the expenditure for the double lane which is expected to cross Rs 6 crore. OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi Magic eye for safety By Surabhi Upadhyay TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The south district police has launched a pilot project in which ‘magic eyes’, and safety latches are being installed in residential buildings. ‘Cross bells’ which are meant to ring in a neighbour’s house when pressed by a resident, are also being installed. According to the police, the installation drive is currently on in SFS flats Hauz Khas, Greater Kailash, some apartments in Malviya Nagar, and DDA flats in Kalkaji. The police aims to carry out the drive in middle and upper middle class colonies and flats, as most large bungalows in south Delhi employ private agencies for security. Secure houses • Police to install safety devices in south Delhi homes • Magic eyes, safety latches, and cross bells on installation list • Started in Malviya Nagar, Hauz Khas, GK and South Ex-I • Expenditure per house estimated around 250 The cost of installing all the three items will come to Rs 250 per house and is being borne by the Delhi police as of now. An estimated 400 houses have been covered under the project so far with an expenditure of Six held for 18 robberies in city TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The south district police claimed to have solved 18 cases of robberies after the arrest of six persons on Wednesday. ‘‘We arrested them from near the Modi flyover on Mathura Road where they had assembled to carry out a dacoity. Firearms, knives and motorcycles were seized from them,’’ said Vivek Gogia, deputy commissioner of police (south). The accused were found in possession of two motorcycles, a scooter, two firearms and five live cartridges. On interrogation, one of the accused, Ashfaq Rizvi, reportedly revealed that he was an expert at snatching passports of those seeking visas in the embassy area. ‘‘Mainly those passports bearing visa for US, UK or Canada were targeted. They would hand over the stolen passports to another accused Danny, who worked as an agent. Danny would then pass them to a man called Vinod. Rizvi and his associates got Rs one lakh for each stolen passport,’’ said Gogia. Vinod would then hand over the passport to another man, Basu, in lieu of Rs 4 lakh. Both Vinod and Basu are absconding. Police said, another accused, Amir, a graduate and a computer professional, was involved in a case of extortion along with members of the Babloo Shrivastava gang. around Rs one lakh. ‘‘We are giving special attention initially to houses where senior citizens, single women or working couples reside. But our aim is to reach every single house in all residential colonies of the district,’’ a senior police officer said. Police said that while people have welcomed the move, there are some problem areas as well. Residents are open to the idea of magic eyes and safety latches, but installing cross bells is not always easy. ‘‘As far as cross bells are concerned, we have faced some resistance in a few areas, one of which is Masjid Moth. People need an open mind and realise that the move is for their own safety,’’ said one police officer. Policeman suspended TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A head constable with the Delhi Police was suspended on Wednesday after he beat up the helper of a mini bus near Rajghat. The bus had allegedly come in the way of a visiting foreign dignitary, after which the helper was confronted by the constable. Traffic was stopped to facilitate VVIP movement when the helper, Pushpinder Singh (18) asked the police to allow the bus to pass. Police said that he received injuries in his left hand and was taken to the LNJP hospital. Appu Ghar dummy run backs autopsy TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A dummy run of the ‘My Fair Lady’ swing at Appu Ghar carried out by the police has supported the autopsy report of the victim, Suresh Sehgal. The dummy, reportedly, fell off on the side rails during the third run. The swing’s latch was left open during the experiment to assess the impact of a full spin of the swing. ‘‘The dummy fell off at the same position where Sehgal had reportedly fallen,’’ said a senior police official. Police have asked Appu Ghar authorities to present licences from the police and India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO). They have also been asked to specify the maximum weight of a person to be allowed to get on the swing. While most swings in Appu Ghar have manual safety latches, only some rides like the ‘Appu Columbus’ and ‘Splash’ have hydraulic locks. ‘‘Latches are constructed according to the technical requirement of the swings. Not all rides need hydraulic latches,’’ said vice president of the company, M S Jasra. Thursday, August 7, 2003 Girl harassed by father, brother By Sachin Parashar TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Sexual harassment is no longer limited to the streets — or to offices. The Crime Against Women (CAW) cell of Delhi Police recently received a complaint from an 18-year-old girl, an east Delhi resident, of sexual harassment by her brother and father. She alleged that she and her mother were brutally beaten by the duo when they opposed plans to sell the house they were living in. ‘‘We sent a team to the girl’s Preet Vihar residence and found that she was being harassed by her father and brother to force her out of the house,’’ said joint commissioner of police (CAW) Vimla Mehra. They even made physical advances towards the girl to achieve this end. She said the family ran a business but their main source of sustenance was cash obtained by selling family property. ‘‘They had sold a property nearby and were planning to dispose this house as well,’’ she said. The girl and her mother were also subjected to regular beatings by the two, the police said. ‘‘During interrogation the accused admitted that they had sexually harassed the girl to make her shift elsewhere,’’ said Mehra. Unable to pay dowry, cop shoots himself By Lalit Kumar TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ghaziabad: A Ghaziabad police constable shot himself, reportedly, because he was unable to pay dowry for his daughter’s marriage. Police said, constable Shyam Singh of the state armed police returned from duty in Police Lines to his Govindpuram residence at about 11 pm on Tuesday. He then shot himself in the chest with a locally-made pistol. Singh’s neighbours said while his wife and son were away, his daughter, Archna, was at home at the time of the incident. She rushed to his room on hearing the gun shot but Singh was dead before he could be taken to the hospital. District police chief Chandra Prakash said: ‘‘The constable was suffering from depression as he was unable to gather funds for Archna’s marriage.’’ Singh was also upset about his son’s poor academic performance, said the police chief. TOID70803/CR1/03/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/03/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/03/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/03/Y/1 CMYK 3 OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 4 DELHI Thursday, August 7, 2003 FLIGHTS OUT OF DELHI NATIONAL Mumbai: I-A 0700, 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, 2300 Jet Air 0650, 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, 1935, 2030, 2200, Sahara 1700, 0935, 1520, 1800, 2025 KOLKATA: I-A 0700, 1600★★,1700,1945 Jet Air 0600, 1720, Sahara 0620,1915 CHENNAI: I-A 0640,0955★★★ 1645,1900 Jet Air 0645,1900 BANGALORE: I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Jet Air 0635,1715, Sahara 0725, 1745 HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 GOA: I-A 1200, Sahara 1200 KULU: Jagson 0630, 0650, 1215 ★ AHMEDABAD: I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Jet Air 0610 GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: I-A 0555★★, 1010• ★ Jet Air 1010 Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, (Airport) 25675234/875, (TeleCheckin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. INTERNATIONAL BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai Air 0010 (TG-316), A-I 0050 (IC-855) FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 0305 (LH-761) AMSTERDAM: KLM 0140 (KL-472) LONDON: British Air 0210 (BA-142) PARIS: Air France 0040 (AF-147) SINGAPORE: Sin’pore Air 2315 (SQ-407), A-I 0050 (I-855) ABUDHABI: A-I 1810 (AI-765) MOSCOW: A-I 1115 AI-515) ROME/GENEVA: A-I 0350 (AI-173) AIR INDIA AHMEDABAD: 0115 (A-I 3112) MUMBAI: 0315 (A-I 722), 0615 (A-I 142), 0700 (A-I 802) A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48 (Air.)25652050, British Air: (Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa: 23323310, Singapore Airlines 23356286, Thai Air: 3323638 Plea to reject Housing Society Act WEATHER Rainfall likely at East: Orissa, Jharkhand, Arunachal, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, WB, Sikkim and Bihar; North: Uttranchal, HP, UP, Haryana, Punjab, J&K and Rajasthan; Central: West MP, Chattisgarh and Vidarbha; Peninsula: Gujarat state, Konkan, Goa, coastal AP, Telangana, coastal Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Marathwada, Rayalaseema, TN, interior Karnataka; Islands: Andaman and Nicobar and Lakshadweep INDIA WORLD Max Min Delhi Mumbai Chennai Kolkata Bangalore Ahm’bad T’puram Bhopal B’eshwar Pune 35 30 32 35 29 28 32 31 32 27 27 25 25 27 20 31 — 24 25 21 Guwahati Dehradun H’bad Indore Jaipur Lucknow Patna Rajkot Shimla Srinagar Max Min 35 32 29 30 34 36 36 — 23 28 27 24 23 23 27 24 28 24 16 16 Max Min Amsterdam Bahrain Bangkok Beijing Chicago Geneva Hong Kong London Los Angeles Moscow 28 40 32 36 24 35 35 31 28 28 19 30 26 22 17 19 24 18 17 12 TRAIN RESERVATIONS Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on 06.08.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations. 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Rly. Area) 2,25,208. It does not necessarily mean that reservation is available on all subsequent dates. For further information regarding reservation: Ph: 131 for computerised PNR, for status enquiry contact 1330, 1335, 1345. (Information supplied by Indian Railways) Admission deadline extended: The Delhi government has postponed the last date for taking fresh admissions, in its schools, to August 14. The earlier deadline was July 31. TNN New Delhi: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party secretary Vijender Kumar Gupta has appealed to L-G for rejecting Delhi Cooperative Housing Societies Act. The bill, tabled by development minister Haroon yusuf, was passed by Delhi legislative assembly last week. He said the Act is anti-people. The residents of housing societies will have to shell out more that Rs 1 lakh, depending on the locality, to become a member. TNN Online record of births and deaths: MCD, on Wednesday, started online registration of births and deaths in three of its hospitals, Hindu Rao hospital, Swami Dayanand hospital and Kasturba hospital. Under the new system, records of births and deaths will be transmitted electronically. This is expected to reduce the time taken for these records to reach the office of the sub-registrar. The MCD plans to create a network of hospitals across the city by giving each one of them access to its system with a password. TNN DR. J. S. HASSANWALIA (1950-2003) For peace of the departed soul, Kirtan and Antim Ardas will be held on Saturday, August 9th 2003, at Gurudwara - Vasant Vihar at 3.30 p.m. Col. & Mrs I. S. Hassanwalia Satnam and Manjit Tej and Channi Timmy and Anita Malti, Shabani, Ayesha Mrs. Hardarshan Sahi Hiti & Suresh Dr. Komal Sahi The Times of India, New Delhi ‘Stop dalit eviction’ TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: National president of Lok Janshakti Party Ram Vilas Paswan, on Wednesday, called for an immediate stay on eviction of dalits and demanded protection for their temples. Addressing a rally attended by about 5,000 people at Jantar Mantar, Paswan said the government’s decision to get the memorial of Babu Jag Jivan Ram on Krishna Menon Marg vacated was the latest instance of atrocities against dalits. Paswan, who is organising a Third Front for challenging other parties in the ensuing elections in Delhi, said atrocities against dalits had increased after the NDA government came to power at the Centre. ‘‘On the one hand the BJP is supporting the construction of a temple in Ayodhya, on the other, ancient temples of Sant Guru Ravidas are being demolished in different parts of the country,’’ he alleged. He said two of these temples, one in R K Puram Sector 3 and the other in Tughlakabad, were damaged recently and the Ram Vilas Paswan authorities had failed to intervene. Paswan claimed other instances of atrocities against dalits included the killing in Jhajjar in Haryana, the incident in Talhan in Punjab and the demolition of a dalit temple near PGI Chandigarh. Accompanied by other leaders of the party, including Ramjee Lal Suman, Ramdas Athawale, Ram Chandra Paswan and Aman Kumar Nagra, Paswan also met Lok Sabha Speaker and presented a memorandum voicing their concerns. Shiv Khera now tells how to live with honour TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: You Can Win by Living With Honour. The statement made by Shiv Khera just about summed up the essence of his new book titled, well, Living With Honour. The latest offering of the internationally acclaimed and best selling author was released by Justice R C Lahoti on Wednesday afternoon. Considering the fact that You Can Win sold more than 8,00,000 copies in eight languages, publishers Macmillan India Limited had already arranged for 75,000 copies of the new book at the time of its release. The launch function was one of those rare occasions when the otherwise shy and elusive author had a one hour interaction with the media. The book, according to the author, provides solutions which are simple but not easy, to live honourably in a corrupt environment. ‘‘The book provides solutions and propels the reader into action with direction leading to his destination. Being a victor or victim is a state of mind and it helps us get out of this victim complex. We can put it into action now as it equips us to face real life situations honourably,’’ said Khera. Describing it as a self help book that will have a permanent shelf life, Khera said: ‘‘It talks about the C principle (rule) that leads to character building through value certification. From coach comes character, courage and competence leading to clarity that leads to confidence.’’ Khera further stated that honourable living is based on clarity of values which helps us make value-based decisions. ‘‘To implement these decisions you need courage,’’ added Khera. ‘‘The way values have been brought out in the book in today’s context is unique. The values are in contemporary situations while the issues are not country, culture or person specific. Some messages are perennial, as it is better to be honourable than to be honoured,’’ Khera said on his book. Travel management course New Delhi: Sri Venkateswara college is introducing a one-year post-graduate certificate course in tourism and travel management (CTTM) from the academic session 2003-2004. All graduates with 55 per cent marks in science and humanities are eligible to apply for the course. The entrance test will be conducted on August 16, 2003 at 10 am in the college premises. Last date of submission of application form is August 14, 2003. the course fee is Rs 10,000 per annuam payable in two instalments. Course commences from August 28, 2003. Final year students awaiting results can also apply. TNN One killed in accident on Akbar Road TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: An autorickshaw driver died after his vehicle was hit from behind by a Maruti Zen car on Akbar Road on Wednesday afternoon. Ramji Das Kapoor, a resident of Geeta colony, was taken to the Ram Manohar Lohia hospital where he later died. According to the police, the errant car driven by Ashok Suri, a resident of Noida, hit the autorickshaw and then rammed into another car parked in front of it. The handle of the autorickshaw reportedly pierced the victim’s stomach. The driver of the errant Zen has been arrested. A case of causing death by rash and negligent driving has been registered against him. TOID70803/CR1/04/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/04/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/04/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/04/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi CEC fears ‘cheating like hell’ New Delhi: Chief Election Commisioner J M Lyngdoh on Wednesday said simultaneous polls will lead to ‘‘cheating like hell’’ which cannot be tackled. This idea is of anti-democratic character, he said. The Election Commission (EC) is, however, prepared to hold Lok Sabha polls anytime, depending on the exigency. Dismissing Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani’s idea on synchronisation of polls as ‘‘not a happy proposal’’, he said, ‘‘There are certain states which need special attention. In terms of elec- toral records, it is very bad. Obviously, we cannot allow everybody to go to polls at the same time. It is not a good situation to have everybody going to polls at the same time. ‘‘We won’t be able to pay attention. They will cheat like hell and we won’t know what to do with that,’’ Lyngdoh said in an interview with a news agency. In any case, he said, why should any state be oriented towards Parliamentary elections? ‘‘There is nothing in democracy which says Parliament is more important than assembly. They all have same weightage. ‘‘That understanding of democracy any man in the world would be able to appreciate. You don’t have to be a politician to understand it.’’ Asked whether the EC has rejected the proposal outright and would it not formally consider the issue, he said: ‘‘There is no question of our not considering it. We have to do that.’’ ‘‘If they make constitutional changes, then we have to implement it. We are not interested in being a debating society,’’ he said. PTI Kargil’s ghost still haunts PAC and defence ministry TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The ‘‘coffin scam’’ and other financial improprieties in emergency purchases of weapons and equipment during the 1999 Kargil conflict continue to create waves. This time, Parliament’s most important financial watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), and the defence ministry have locked horns over the issue. In an unprecedented development, the PAC has expressed its ‘‘inability’’ to give its ‘‘findings’’ on the irregularities committed during Operation Vijay because of the defence ministry’s ‘‘refusal’’ to part with the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) report on the matter. Tabling of the PAC report created an uproar in both Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha on Wednesday, with BJP MPs alleging the report had been leaked even before being placed in Parliament. PAC chairman Buta Singh, in the report, said: ‘‘The committee (members) are surprised that such a vital document (the CVC report), which was essential for scrutiny of these procurements, has been withheld from them on the ground of secrecy.’’ ‘‘An anomalous situation’’ had arisen because the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on the Kargil procurements was made public but ‘‘secrecy was claimed’’ by the defence ministry under procedures and conduct of business of the House to withhold the CVC report. The CAG report looked into 123 contracts worth Rs 2,163 crore, out of the emergency weapon and equipment purchases worth Rs 2,175 crore made during the Kargil conflict. ‘‘The audit report highlighted that nearly all the supplies were either received, or contracted and received, well after cessation of hostilities and, therefore, in no way supported the operations,’’ said the PAC report. Congs opposes clubbed polls New Delhi: Congress has termed the proposal for simultaneous assembly and LS polls as ‘‘the hangover of the BJP’s fascination from its Jan Sangh days for a unitary-cum-presidential system’’. Party leader Devendra Dwivedi said this proposal ‘‘is devoid of merit.’’ TNN Holiday policy: The government told the RS that it was considering a review of the holiday policy for government employees. As of now, there was no plan to revert to a six-day week from the present five-day week. ‘‘A review of the holiday policy is being considered,’’ said MoS Harin Pathak. TNN Thursday, August 7, 2003 Manmohan flexes ‘fiscal’ muscles TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Congress on T u e s d ay charged the BJP-led Central government as being responsible for the ‘‘deteriorating’’ fisManmohan cal situation of states in the country. Initiating a short-duration discussion on the subject in the Rajya Sabha, Congress leader and former finance minister Manmohan Singh urged the Centre to come to the rescue of the states. He warned that the projected eight per cent growth would only remain a ‘‘pious dream’’ if the government failed to take a holistic and integrated approach to improve the fiscal situation. Singh said it was a good 5 Taxpayers can file e-returns: Salaried taxpayers can file their income-tax return electronically from Friday. The finance ministry announced that this is an optional scheme and offers an additional mode of filing of returns to salaried taxpayers. TNN idea to put a cap on borrowing by the states but added that this must be preceded by steps by the Centre to restore the fiscal health of the states. Singh reeled out statistics to say that combined fiscal deficit of the Centre and the states had gone up from 7.2 per cent of GDP in the eighth plan to 10.4 per cent in 200203. Likewise, the debt of the Centre and the states together, which accounted for 58 per cent of GDP in 1986, had risen to a ‘‘horrendous’’ figure of 95 per cent of GDP in 2003, including the debt of public enterprises. Asserting that the fifth pay commission recommendations, thrust upon the states, had put a heavy burden on their finances, Singh suggested that a mechanism should be evolved to ensure that future pay revisions were done in a gradually. Explosives seized Mumbai: Intensifying their drive against the storing of explosives illegally, the city police have seized a huge stock of explosives, including detonators and gelatine sticks, from Borivali in north Mumbai and Thane district and arrested one person. PTI TOID70803/CR1/05/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/05/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/05/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/05/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 6 Thursday, August 7, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi TOID70803/CR1/06/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/06/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/06/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/06/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK INDIA The Times of India, New Delhi K K Laskar Shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan with his disciple Soma Ghosh and Rajya Sabha MP T Subbarami Reddy in New Delhi on Wednesday. The musician is scheduled to perform in Parliament on Thursday. ’68 crash: After 35 years, a body By Jagdish Bhatt TIMES NEWS NETWORK Shimla: The recovery of a Sepoy’s body and the wreckage of an AN-12 aircraft from the South Dakka glacier in Himachal has shed light on the fate of about 100 soldiers who went missing while on a routine sortie to Leh on February 7, 1968. Last week, a team of trekkers of the Manali institute, on way to scale the Chandra Bhaga-13 Peak, had spotted some skeletal remains and wreckage of the aircraft. The skeletal remains had been identified as those of Beli Ram, a Sepoy, from the service book found in his coat. The Air Force and the Army have started the process for bringing down the remains of those aboard the aircraft. It will be done with help from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute and Allied Sports Institute, Manali. An IAF helicopter took off thrice from the Sarsawa air base in Saharanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday, but could not make it to Manali, having to return on all three occasions because of bad weather. The chopper was sent to have a preliminary look. Director of the Manali institute Col H S Chauhan said the Army and IAF had been in touch with him. ‘‘The actual search for the bodies will have to be done at the ground; a helicopter can land at the 16,000 ft high glacier, but it will have to keep the engine running.’’ Chauhan said it had now been confirmed there were about 100 people, including a six-member crew, on board the plane. ‘‘The team that spotted the skeletal remains also saw some cap badges of Army regiments, some personal belongings and a few bones scattered over the place, but there were no other bodies as such, except for the skeletal remains of Beli Ram,’’ he added. Thursday, August 7, 2003 From ragas to riches (hardly) New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MP T Subbarami Reddy on Wednesday donated his salary and monthly allowance for two years to shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan, whose ill health and financial plight was highlighted by the media recently. ‘‘It is a token of our love and respect for the great artiste and I urge other members of Parliament to come forward and help the artistes,’’ Reddy said presenting a draft of Rs two lakh to Khan, here. Reddy will continue to send his salary to Khan in Varanasi for the next 19 months. Describing Khan as an artiste who represented ‘‘sarva dharma sambhav, Reddy, who is also a film-maker, said the country should respect and take care of the artiste community. PTI Bradford may move WIPO New Delhi: American author Barbara Taylor Bradford, who has lost the legal battle to restrain a TV channel from telecasting a multi-part serial which, she claimed, was a plagiarised version of her novel A Woman of Substance, may now move the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) against the violation of copyright laws. TNN TOID70803/CR1/07/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/07/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/07/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/07/Y/1 CMYK 7 OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 8 INDIA Thursday, August 7, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Set your house in order first, Pak told TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: India on Wednesday took strong exception to Pakistan’s comments on Prime Minister Vajpayee’s remarks vis-a-vis Ayodhya and the allegations that there were terrorist camps in the country. External affairs ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said, ‘‘We are disappointed at the tone and substance of the comments made by the Pakistani foreign ministry on August 4. It is the responsibility of the Indian government to protect the places of worship of Muslims and not incite communal violence.’’ Sarna said the ‘‘increasingly aggressive tone’’ of the Pakistani spokesman’s statements in the recent past ‘‘suggests continuing unwillingness to acknowledge the failure of the unproductive policies that Pakistan has pursued so far’’. He said Pakistan’s record on minorities hardly entitled it to pronounce on treatment of minority issues in India. ‘‘Even Muslim minorities in Pakistan, leave alone other religious minorities, are insecure,’’ he said. Islamabad’s charge about the existence of training camps for terrorists in India, he said: ‘‘The less said about the spokesman’s egregious comments about terrorist training apparatus in India the better. At least, he deserves high marks for originality of invention.’’ Sarna urged Pakistan to shed its ‘‘negative mindset’’ and seize the new spirit infused among the people of the two countries by the initiative taken by Vajpayee. Islamabad has held that no terrorists were being trained on Pakistani soil, denying defence minister George Fernandes’ allegation that 3,000 terrorists are present in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir. Asked whether the latest war of words would impact on the technical level talks slated to be held in Islamabad later this month to discuss resumption of air links, the spokesman said: ‘‘We are following a step-by-step process. We certainly hope that those talks will take place as scheduled. We have no reason to believe they won’t.’’ Pankaj Nangia A jawan keeps vigil at India Gate on Wednesday. Security has been tightened with Independence Day approaching. Govt contradicts Army on WMD terror New Delhi: The defence ministry has ‘‘no credible or corroborated intelligence inputs’’ to ‘‘indicate that Pakistan-trained terrorists operating in Jammu and Kashmir have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)’’. Stating this in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, defence minister George Fernandes added: ‘‘The government continues to monitor all developments and remains fully committed to take all necessary steps to effectively safeguard India’s security and national interests.’’ But the ministry and the Army seem to be speaking at cross-purposes. The Army’s Northern Command headquarters in Udhampur, in an official statement recently, had obliquely indicated that terrorists in J&K could have chemical weapons. TNN Pollution board kills cola fizz in Kerala TIMES NEWS NETWORK Thiruvananthapuram: Coca-Cola took another blow on the contaminants controversy, with the Kerala Pollution Control Board on Wednesday confirming the presence of carcinogens in the sludge waste the firm was hitherto distributing, free of cost, to local farmers as fertiliser. The firm’s factory is located at Plachimeda in Palakkad district and there have been a series of complaints about the firm over-drawing ground water and then abut using contaminated ground water. The issue is currently in court. Then, around a fortnight before, a media channel said the sludge left as a byproduct of its manufacturing process was contaminated with heavy metal residues, well beyond the legal limit allowed. The PCB probed and its chairman, Paul Thachil, announced the finding on Wednesday. He said their sample test showed cadmium presence at 201.8 mg in each kg dry weight, against the limit of 50 mg. lead, though, was less than the limit alowed, 319 mg against the 500 mg limit. “Results indicate that the concentration of cadmium in the sludge is high and hence a hazardous waste. It should not be passed on to farmers as manure, nor should it be used in the company premises,” said Thachil. Industry minister P.K. Kunhalikutty, on demands to have the factory closed, said the goverment will not act in a hurry. However, in a statement the Cola major said treated bio-solids generated at their Plachimada plant had no toxic elements. “Treated bio-solids generated at our Plachimada plant in Kerala are being tested by various national and international agencies, including state government agencies. Parallel samples are being collected from both inside and outside the plant by these agencies,” the statement said. Kolkata cracks the whip first Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation health department on Wednesday seized bottles of soft drinks manufactured by Coca-Cola India and Pepsico India. The West Bengal health department has decided to collect and examine samples of Coke and Pepsi as well as other soft drinks. But it will take a while to translate this intention into action as the department lacks the required equipment, director of health service Prabhakar Chatterjee admitted. During the day, mayor-incouncil member health Pradip Ghosh led a delegation of civic health officials and raided Kwality restaurant on Park Street. TNN Coke for contract, says Aamir Khan Mumbai: ‘‘I have been drinking Coke every day. I can’t say more. My contract with them does not permit me to do so,’’ says actor Aamir Khan. Adman Prahlad Kakkar says: ‘‘I think Coke and Pepsi have struck a deal with the family planning association to produce a product that will make Indian men impotent so that the country’s population comes down.’’ TNN passes Bill Indian mother in LS to create US to serve time Bodo Council By Rakesh Bhatnagar TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: An Indian woman working with the World Bank in US has been ordered to undergo three months simple imprisonment and fined Rs 50,000 by the Supreme Court here for defying its repeated orders and violating an undertaking that she would bring her child whenever required by law in India. Settled in the US, Hannah Grace Jude has been convicted along with her 65-yearold mother, who has been asked to pay Rs 50,000 as fine for committing gross criminal contempt of court. Hannah had secured a divorce from her husband, David Jude, from a US court. However, David got their minor child’s custody from a Hyderabad family court in April 2000. Hannah had abstained from its proceedings. The couple got married in India in 1989 and settled in the US. Their relations became strained after the child’s birth. The mother secured a protective order against the husband from a Maryland court in the US on the condition that the child would not be taken out of America. New Delhi: A Bill to create an autonomous self-governing body for the Bodo tribals in Assam was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The sixth schedule to the Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2003, to create the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) within Assam with legislative, administratve and financial powers, was adopted by voice vote after a brief discussion. Replying to the debate, minister of state for home Swami Chinmayanand asserted that the Bill — based on the tripartite agreement among the Bodo Liberation Tigers, the Assam government and the Centre on February 10 this year — would provide adequate safeguards for the non-tribals in the BTC areas. ‘Face of riots’ quits Gujarat for good TIMES NEWS NETWORK Ahmedabad: He was the face of the Gujarat riots. And that, perhaps, will haunt him for the rest of his life. But for now, Naseeruddin Qutubuddin Ansari, 30, whose tear-stained face, blood-soaked clothes and folded hands pleading for his life in the face of a mob in last year’s pogrom here was splashed in newspapers and magazines all over the world, has decided to leave Gujarat for good. Ansari, a tailor by profesion, has decided to take the offer of West Bengal’s higher education minister, Mohammed Haleem. And shift to Kolkata, where the government will provide him a rented accommodation and a shop. Ansari, who is presently in Mumbai, told TNN he will be shifting his family, of his mother, wife and two children, shortly. The offer came after a report appeared in the magazine ‘Communalism Combat’ that Ansari was finding it difficult to stay in Ahmedabad because all identified him with the photograph. TOID70803/CR1/08/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/08/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/08/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/08/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰‹ CMK The Times of India, New Delhi Thursday, August 7, 2003 9 DELHI SALES: 911A/912, BLOCK-E, 9th FLOOR, INTERNATIONAL TRADE TOWER, NEW DELHI. CUSTOMER CARE:- 9628096066. For Institutional Enquiry Contact: Mr Sanjeeva Arrora: kaildelhi@vsnl.net Ph. 9811556640. WEST DELHI: Janakpuri: Balaji Electronics (Distributor), Tel: 32309699, 25381773, Royal Traders, Tel: 25554408, 25531724, 55451467. Najafgarh: R. K. Electronics, Tel: 25023981, 25013981. Vikas Puri: Super Electronics, Tel: 25997123. Jail Road: Audio Point, Tel: 28125263. Sachdeva Electronics, Tel: 28124667. 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Paresh Electronics, Tel: 2323071. Mahendra Electricals, Jacob Pura Modh, Tel: 2305108. M/s Shinu Electronics Tel: 2330675. TOID70803/LR1/09/M/1 TOID70803/LR1/09/C/1 TOID70803/LR1/09/K/1 TOID70803/LR1/09/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 10 ENTERPRISE G Thursday, August 7, 2003 MOVEMENTS Hindwan elected PSPRF chief: NTPC corporate communications chief P D Hindwan has been elected president of the Public Sector Public Relations Forum. Hindwan was elected unanimously for a period of two years (2003-05) at the annual general meeting in New Delhi. TNN S Wadhera is PFC director: Shyam Wadhera has taken over as director (projects) of Power Finance Corporation Ltd from K K Govil. Prior to this, Wadhera was executive director (commercial), NTPC. TNN NFL gets new director: R Jayamani has joined National Fertilizers Ltd as director (technical). Till recently. Jayamani was posted as executive director, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers, Trombay unit. TNN 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. email ID: enterpriseg.2002@indiatimes.com ‘Shipping is sailing smoothly’ Shatrughan Sinha is busy these days. The Union shipping minister moves from committee meetings and conferences to launch parties and port user meetings. In an interview, the minister speaks on issues concerning the industry, while remaining upbeat about the sector’s growth potential. On tonnage tax The government is considering modalities for its introduction and a committee of six members — two members each from the ministry, CBDT and Indian National Shipowners’ Association — is finalising these. It has already had three meetings. I have taken up the matter with the finance minister. Meanwhile, the industry is enjoying benefits un- der Section 33 AC, expanding the scope to stimulate our ship-owners to earmark higher funds for acquisition tonnage. To make this section more attractive, government has decided to allow deduction of funds transferred under Section 33AC while computing book profits for the purpose of Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT). On foreign registries by Indian shipping companies leading to low tonnage We do agree Indian national tonnage is low. However, this ministry has taken a number of policy initiatives in recent years. Some of these include the following: ● Import of all types of ships have been included in the OGL, subject to the guidelines issued by the shipping ministry on June 15, 2001 a n d March 5, 2002. ● Companies have been allowed to retain sale proceeds of their ships abroad and utilise them for fresh acquisition. ● Companies are now permitted to get their ships repaired in any shipyard without prior approval from the government. ● Reserve Bank of India (RBI) releases foreign exchange for ship repair/dry docking and spares for imported capital goods, without any value limit. On age restrictions and compulsory CAP ratings on tankers After the breaking-up of oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain on November 19, 2002, there has been further concern about the safety of old oil tankers. This has led to a further ban on old tankers from many European ports and it is expected the MARPOL Regulation 13G may be made more stringent. As a result, we may see many such tankers available for trading between Gulf, Africa and the Indian ports, where there is a substantial requirement for in-chartering. Minimum guidelines have to be adhered to while in-chartering foreign-flag tankers to Indian ports. They’re designed to discourage hiring of old tankers — age and quality caps. The Times of India, New Delhi BHEL sets up Kota TPS unit in record time New Delhi: Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has commissioned a 195 MW unit of Kota Thermal Power Station in a record time of 24 months and 19 days, setting a new benchmark in the execution of thermal power projects. This feat was achieved through the joint efforts of BHEL and Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (RVUNL). The commissioning of unit-6 of Kota TPS in Rajasthan has surpassed BHEL’s own record of commissioning the 210 MW unit7 at Raichur TPS in Karnataka in just under 26 months. The early commissioning resulted in a savings of nearly Rs 100 crore, RVUNL chairman R K Gupta said. TNN Japanese delegation led by Masaaki Yamada, director (press) JBIC (extreme left), at one of the Metro sites in the Capital. Japanese team lauds Metro progress New Delhi: A high-level public relations team from Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC) visited the Delhi Metro project site recently and interacted with Metro officials to discuss the PR strategy and planning adopted by the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation since its inception. The JBIC is funding 64 per cent of the project cost through soft loans. The articles published by the media on the project are being compiled into five volumes which would serve as important reference material for those undertaking case studies. The delegation visited the Kashmere Gate site and travelled on the Shahdara-Tis Hazari section of the project. TNN TOID70803/CR1/10/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/10/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/10/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/10/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † CMK The Times of India, New Delhi INDIA Thursday, August 7, 2003 Kalyan to defy Liberhan today CBI functioning freely: Atal New Delhi: Former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh will not be appearing before the Liberhan Ayodhya Commission on Thursday despite a clear order of the panel asking him to do so. Instead, according to sources, counsel of Singh and the Central government would raise queries about the July 28 order of the commission. Though the commission hadn’t received information from Singh till Wednesday, sources Kalyan Singh promise a ‘‘battle of wits’’ on Thursday about the order. ‘‘By admitting that legalism is not as important as public interest, the commission has generally admitted that legally Singh cannot be summoned,’’ said a source. TNN New Delhi: PM Vajpayee said that his government had not interfered in CBI’s working with regard to the probe in the Ayodhya case in which DPM Advani was an accused. Replying to a debate in the LS on the direction of the CBI investigation of the conspiracy angle of the case, he said the agency had the full freedom to pursue an independent course. TNN TOID70803/CR1/11/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/11/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/11/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/11/Y/1 CMYK 11 OID ‰ ‰ † CMK 12 Thursday, August 7, 2003 I N T E R N AT I O N A L The Times of India, New Delhi Hi-tech Japan: Focus and passion the keys Tokyo: Japan’s world-renowned manufacturing industry owes a lot to people who devote themselves to the point of obsession to one special area —like a scientist who counts the number of eyelashes to develop mascara for a cosmetics firm or a Sony employee who knows all about human ears. Wearing make-up is part of the daily chores for Hideki Takahashi, 36, who works at a laboratory in Yokohama, Tokyo. “What makes Mickey Mouse different from Minnie Mouse? —It’s eyelashes,” says Takahashi who joined top cosmetics maker Shiseido Co. Ltd. in 1991 and has been developing mascara for the past five years. AFP Sony’s audio engineer displays dozens of silicon-made mold of human ears for the sample to develop headphones. AROUND THE WORLD Reuters A difference of a few millimetres matters greatly to Takahashi. “I flatter myself that I’m ‘Dr Eyelashes.’” Takahashi has taken more than 10,000 pictures of 500 people’s eyes and analysed the length and number of eyelashes and how much they are curled. His team counted the number of eyelashes each of these individuals had and found the average number of eyelashes was 135 for Caucasians and 105 for east Asians. Mascara development is challenging work for Takahashi all the more because Japan’s mascara market is booming. Troubled by the weight of mascara, which makes it difficult for eyelashes to retain their curliness, Takahashi recently developed the “PN Full Lash Mascara,” made of ultra lightweight powder the particles of which are hollow. Koji Nageno, 45, accessory division manager at Sony EMCS Corp., has been developing headphones for the Sony group and is the brains behind about 400 million headphones sold over the past two decades. After getting a degree in electrical engineering, he joined Sony in April 1980, a year after Sony launched the Walkman. Nageno was assigned to the section developing headphones in line with his hopes of working in the audio business. His team has 100 siliconmade molds of human ears in addition to another 100 plaster molds and 300 samples of ear holes. Sony now sells 30 million headphones worldwide every year. The smash-hit products Nageno’s team developed include a neck-band headphone. Reuters Low-calorie watermelon By Gavin Rabinowitz Jerusalem: Israeli scientists said Tuesday they have developed a low-calorie watermelon, with all the sweetness but less sugar than common varieties. “The problem with watermelon is that one tends to eat a lot and the calories accumulate,” said Shmuel Wolf from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. The calories in a watermelon come from the sugar content. To create the diet melon, researchers isolated a variety whose sugar content is composed mostly of fructose. The researchers found natural varieties of wild melons with the high fructose percentage. “Fructose is the sweetest kind of sugar. You need less sugar to make the melon sweet, so less calories. Natural melons are very bitter, so our challenge was to make them sweet,’’ Wolf said. AP Housework keeps you fit London: Women in Britain were fitter 50 years ago because they ate better and did more housework, according to research published by Prima, a women’s magazine. Whereas a typical woman in 1953 ate 1,818 calories a day, and burned 1,512 calories, her counterpart today consumes 2,178 calories, and expends just 556 calories daily. “We found that women 50 years ago didn’t have the labor devices we have today,” Ruth Tierney, author of the article said on Tuesday. “So they used up a lot of calories just in housework, sweeping the floor, cooking the meals every night, and going to the shops most days,” she said. To compensatewomen today should walk to shops instead of going by car. AP Models demonstrate spray-on ‘AirStocking’, a waterproof cosmetic for legs in a blend of micro-fine silk particles as its base and a cosmetics foundation formula its colour, in Tokyo on Wednesday. Apes as programmers: A Web site that spoofs the computer programming industry by offering chimpanzees and baboons to work for as little as 50 cents an hour has taken its monkey business too far, according to the Iowa Primate Learning Sanctuary. The Web site touts a fictitious Des Moinesbased company called Primate Programming Inc., which it says was based on work done at the primate center showing apes can learn language and perform complex cognitive tasks. The research center officials were, however, not amused. AP Popcorn as state snack: Next time you order popcorn at the movies or throw a bag into the microwave, show a little respect. That’s not just a snack you’re getting. It’s the “official state snackfood” of Illinois, thanks to legislation signed Monday by Gov. Rod J Lo’s ‘identity’ is the love of her life Move over Ben Affleck. Fiance Jennifer Lopez’s identity is the most important thing in her life. To drive home the fact that her “humble” roots are all important to her, the singer-actress, who grew up in New York’s tough Bronx district, even highlighted them in her hit song “Jenny from the Block.” “I love the Bronx and being Puerto Rican. My identity is the love of my life and I’m very proud of that. I do miss being able to just walk to the store. But I’m following my dreams and fulfilling them now,” rate the music.com quoted J Lo as saying. ANI Mars to get closer Reuters By Deborah Zabarenko Washington: Mars is getting ready for its close-up, with the red planet coming as near to Earth this month as it has in almost 60,000 years. Its closest pass will come on August 27 at 5:51 a.m. EDT, when Mars will be less than 34.65 million miles away. The last time it came nearer was around September 12 in 57,617 B.C. when Mars came about 25,000 miles closer, at a distance of 34.62 million miles from Earth. “If Neanderthals had telescopes, they would have seen it a little bit bet- ter than we will on August 27,” said astronomer G e o f f Chester of Mars the US Naval Observatory in Washington. To backyard observers, Mars will be the brightest natural object in the sky except for the sun and the moon, Chester said. Even though it will be close, it will not look much bigger than it usually does. It will look like a brilliant pinkish object, about the same size as a middling-sized crater on the moon, Chester said. Reuters TOID70803/CR1/12/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/12/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/12/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/12/Y/1 CMYK Blagojevich. Lawmakers who backed popcorn for the honor turned their backs on Beer Nuts, Lemonhead candy and other goodies produced in Illinois. AP Fem-ale for women: British beer-makers should brew a real ale directed at women, the chairwoman of the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) said Tuesday. “Someone in the industry needs to lead the way by launching an all-new beer aimed at women — the world’s first Fem-ale. This will help dispel the myth that beer is strictly for the boys,” she said in London. Reuters Shorts for uniform: A 12year-old girl frustrated to see her police chief father arrive home bathed in sweat wrote to the interior minister of Germany’s largest state asking if daddy could wear shorts to work.Unfortunately for her, the minister wrote back saying that rules were rules. AP Vitamin C saves non-smokers By Maggie Fox Washington: Vitamin C may help prevent the damage caused by second-hand tobacco smoke, offering a way for people to protect themselves from smokers, researchers said on Tuesday. A study of 67 non-smokers exposed to environmental smoke showed those who took 500 mg of vitamin C daily had lower levels of a compound linked to the damage done by tobacco smoke. The study did not tell whether the vitamin takers were less likely to have cancer or heart disease, but Marion Dietrich of the University of California, found the results encouraging. “They show that vitamin C may protect non-smokers from the oxidative damage caused by second-hand tobacco smoke,” Dietrich said.Reuters OID ‰ ‰ † CMK I N T E R N AT I O N A L The Times of India, New Delhi BRICKBATS One wonders why the Times Of India inflicts the Dubyaman comic strip on us every day. It’s not worth publishing. —Saurabh Mukherjee Dubyaman is sure to win the ‘awfully boring comic strip contest’. — Mitali Ghosh For bouquets log on to www.timesofindia.com e-mail: dubya-man@indiatimes.com Jakarta, Bali blasts linked Jakarta: Police said Wednesday a car bomb that ripped through a Jakarta hotel contained the same cocktail of explosives as the Bali bombs and Australia warned that more terrorist attacks in Indonesia could be imminent. The parallels with last October’s attack on the island of Bali reinforced suspicions that Tuesday’s bombing of the JW Marriott Hotel, which left up to 14 dead and 150 injured, was carried out by Jemaah Islamiyah (JI). Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer said the Jakarta bombing had all the hallmarks of JI. He warned of possible new attacks by the Islamic militant group with links to Al-Qaida as early as Thursday. “We think there is a real risk that there could be further attacks,” Downer said. AFP Gaddafi may take Lockerbie blame Washington: Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi could very soon take the blame for the 1988 bombing of a US jumbo jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie and pay its 270 victims $2.7 billion, The Washington Post said Wednesday. Lawyers and diplomats hope to sign an agreement next week and deposit the money in an escrow account at Switzerland’s Bank of International Settlements, sources familiar with the two-year-long negotiations told the daily. Once the documents are signed, Libya on August 14 would notify the UN Security Council that it assumes responsibility for the deadly bombing. The United Nations, in turn, would lift its economic sanctions and Libya would begin talks with the US government that could lead to the lifting of US sanctions against the north African country. An agreement, a US official who requested anonymity said, would “pave the way for a dialogue” aimed at determining Libya’s interest in weapons of mass destruction and in supporting military regimes. “The answers to those questions will help determine how quickly the issues in our relationship will be resolved,” said the official, adding that an evaluation of Gaddafi would take time. AFP Palestinian prisoners freed Betunia, West Bank: Israel began freeing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Wednesday in what it viewed as a goodwill gesture to bolster a peace plan but Palestinians dismissed as a sham. The first freed Palestinian flashed the victory sign at relatives waiting at a checkpoint just outside the West Bank town of Betunia and smiled broadly as he stepped off an Israeli bus that brought him from prison. Others kissed the ground, before climbing on to buses that would take them home. Reuters Thursday, August 7, 2003 Rift in church over gay bishop Minneapolis: American Episcopal leaders voted to approve the election of their first openly gay bishop, risking a possible exodus of conservatives, who said their grief over the decision was ‘‘too deep for words’’. The Episcopal General Convention on Tuesday took the final vote needed to confirm the Rev V Gene Robinson as bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire. The vote had been scheduled for Monday, but was delayed after last-minute misconduct allegations emerged. Robinson was cleared just before Tuesday’s vote. Presiding bishop Frank Griswold, head of the church, said the vote places ‘‘squarely before us the question of how a community can live in the tension of disagreement’’. With his daughter, Ella, and his partner of 13 years, Mark Andrew, watching nearby, Robinson expressed 13 Court-martial: At least 45 officers involved in last month’s coup attempt in the Phillippines face court martial proceedings. AP Reverend Gene Robinson his love for the church. But Robinson acknowledged that many in the church would be upset by the decision. Griswold said the bishops voted 62-45 to confirm Robinson’s election. Immediately after the results were announced, more than a dozen conservative bishops surrounded Pittsburgh bishop Robert Duncan, who read a statement, saying he and the others felt ‘‘grief too deep for words’’.AP TOID70803/CR1/13/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/13/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/13/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/13/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † CMK Thursday, August 7, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi Question Time USA A THOUGHT FOR TODAY The issue is how brazenly somebody has taken advantage of so many loopholes our own government has left in the law. — Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief, The Indian Express FIIs yes, FDI no Foreign investment in Indian media We hate to say, ‘we told you so’, but, well, we did tell you so. For years, The Times of India warned the nation about the perils of allowing foreign direct investment (FDI) in the print media. Didn’t this contradict the support to liberalisation and globalisation extended cautiously by us and passionately by our sister publication, The Economic Times? Not at all. We recognise the importance of the market and the benefits of competition, but we also acknowledge that some spheres must be kept beyond their ambit. No one would seriously suggest that the executive, legislature, or judiciary should be remote-controlled by people who are not Indian citizens. The media not only acts as an intermediary between institutions and the individual, it also has a vital role to play in shaping public opinion. Effective control of the media is thus a serious matter, with ramifications on issues like diversity of opinion, freedom of expression, and, indeed, national sovereignty. That’s why the government had stipulated a 26 per cent equity cap when it finally opened up the print medium to foreign investment. Unfortunately, the government’s touching faith that foreign investors would abide by the letter and spirit of the law has been shown to be misplaced, especially after it emerged that a shell company with a paid-up capital of just Rs 1 lakh was controlling an influential news channel. The realisation that editorial control is being exercised through the backdoor by foreign moguls has prompted most Indian media houses — including several which had earlier supported limited infusion of FDI — to close ranks under the banner of the Indian Media Group (IMG), led by Sahara group chief Subrata Roy. Prime minister Vajpayee recently assured the IMG that the nation’s laws on foreign investment in media would be enforced in letter and spirit. However, we would respectfully submit that there are too many confusing norms for different segments, and no strict regulator to enforce them. The government should make up for past errors by now putting sensible regulations into place, including a common policy that would cap foreign investment in all media segments — including entertainment channels, news channels and the Internet — at 26 per cent. Of course, FDI would necessarily involve strategic investors, who would wish to exercise editorial control. On the other hand, foreign institutional investors (FIIs) are purely interested in investing for returns, and have no underlying political agenda. They thus represent all the benefits of foreign investment, without any of the drawbacks. That’s why, when it comes to the media, the government should say yes to FIIs, no to FDI. Pros and cons of opinion polls VIEW They’re often ‘Right’, Even when Wrong ith elections in the air, pre-poll surveys are the W flavour of the moment. Parties are once again turning to the professional pollster to assess their overall chances, gauge the public mood, and also, if possible, collect information about the prospects of individual candidates. But given the notorious inaccuracy of pre-poll surveys in this country, cynics remain unconvinced. There are two things to be said against this. The ‘record’ of Indian psephology is not as bad as many believe. Starting with the first ever countrywide survey carried out by a leading news magazine — which accurately forecast a dramatic comeback for Mrs G — the ‘successes’ of Indian psephology have been many. It’s just that the ‘failures’ have received far greater attention. Even assuming this isn’t the case, the accuracy or otherwise of prediction alone cannot be a sufficient reason for denying psephology the status of science. Contrary to stereotype, science is not about prediction. Indeed, the predictive power of science differs widely from one subject to another. As a rule, natural sciences are far more accurate in their predictions than social sciences. This is not because natural scientists are geniuses and others charlatans, but because it’s easier to predict the behaviour of an unthinking atom than a self-reflective human being. That’s why it’s not just the psephologist who often gets it wrong but also the economist, the sociologist and the historian. Besides, the Indian pollster faces enormous odds: A hugely heterogeneous electorate, lack of historical data, multiplicity of parties and difficulties ‘translating’ vote shares into seats. This is not to deny that many poll surveys in India are guilty of mistaking statistical sophistry for scientific analysis. But to suggest that the ‘objective’ ones have, even in their ‘failures’, given us valuable insights into the functioning of our democracy: From the changing caste profile of the average BJP voter to the collapse of the Congress coalition in the Hindi heartland. COUNTERVIEW It’s All a Load of Hocus-pocus ou get what you ask for. Based on an opinion poll Y conducted by the Literary Digest in the United States in 1936, it was incorrectly predicted that FDR would lose — mainly because of biases that caused wealthy people to be over-represented in the poll. Again in the 1948 elections the Republican candidate, Thomas E Dewey, was made out to be the winner by most polling agencies when, in fact, the incumbent Harry S Truman won. This time it was because of biases resulting in poorer people being underrepresented in the sampling. While it may be true that since then psephologists seem to have got at least a part of their act together by using so-called sophisticated statistics and the laws of probability, the whole process still remains an uneven endeavour at best as it utilises impulsive, capricious and inconsistent humans as its frame of reference. This, coupled with a Heisenbergian kind of indeterminacy effect — the act of observation tends to change what is being observed — means opinion pollsters could literally be shooting holes through their questionnaires and samples. The questions for instance can often be loaded and lacking in clarity or be unbalanced, dual-response queries suffering from order defects. The sampling on the other hand if it is not technically sound or supervised could contain simple randomising errors which are capable of skewing in all kinds of partialities. Today, with a slew of elections on the cards, there is likely to be a flood of opinion polls across the country, from local quickies to crosscountry catch-alls. How valid will these exercises be now that we know the factors and biases influencing their results? Especially since — as one expert in the field once put it so succinctly — it is ultimately journalists who end up writing the articles based on these findings and not the survey organisations themselves, thereby resulting in yet another possible distortion of the truth — assuming it existed at all in the first place. Managing the Aftermath of War By Gautam Adhikari Washington, DC: A murmur of disillusionment is growing gradually. It’s rising not just from pacifists and those liberals who opposed America’s current Iraq war from the start. It’s coming from liberals who supported the war’s stated purpose, as well as from some neoconservatives who are taking stock of execution and unforeseen consequences while maintaining overall approval of the war effort. George W Bush still enjoys comfortable levels of public support, as reflected in opinion polls, though a narrower majority (56 per cent) than at any point since 9/11 thinks he is doing a good job as president. However, in public policy circles — in Congress, the news media, opinion columns, journals, and think tanks — scepticism mounts steadily. Questions about the war — its rationale, its execution and its consequences — can be classified into three broad categories. The first, of course, is the obvious one, about the failure so far to find weapons of mass destruction, which had been cited by the Bush and Blair governments as the official reason for launching a pre-emptive attack since it posed an “imminent” threat to the US and Britain. If it had been so, the war would have been legitimate. The war’s supporters respond: “Yes, but the reasons for war were many. Isn’t ridding Iraq of Saddam and sons good for the Iraqi people, the Middle East and the world? Won’t the war help unleash a process of reform in the Arab world, when Iraq becomes a democracy and a model of modernity for the region?” To which the critics retort: “Maybe, depending on many imponderables, such as the depth of religious belief and influence of clerics, external economic support, and the ability of occupying powers to drive democracy into the minds of unprepared people. But these were not the stated reasons for war. The question is: Was the Iraqi threat imminent and, if it wasn’t, did Bush and Blair distort the truth? If they did, the issue is a grave one for democracy”. The second category of questions is about planning and implementation. Here, liberal supporters of the war, including many Democrats and a few moderate Republicans as well as some neoconservatives, have begun to wonder whether the Pentagon did much anticipatory planning beyond the capture of Baghdad and whether it levelled with the public on cost and manpower estimates for the occupation or the war’s long-drawn-out aftermath of nationbuilding. Doubtless, the invasion itself was conducted with amazing speed, military efficiency and a level of technological prowess that other nations cannot match. Besides, Saddam’s sons have been killed and Saddam himself may soon face the same fate. But, what lies beyond and is the US prepared for it? Take cost, for instance. Currently, the continuing conflict and occupation are costing the US about $4 billion a month. Last week, irritated senators asked Paul D Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defence, and one of the brains behind the war, how much it would all amount to over a reasonable period of time so that provision could be made in the budget, which faces a record deficit of $450 billion and climbing. He couldn’t come up with any satisfactory answer. L Paul Bremer, the US administrator in Baghdad, told a TV channel that reconstruction could cost “well above $50 billion, $60 billion, maybe $100 billion”. Furthermore, was there any serious planning for the occupation and the number of people that nation-building would require? Or was the Pentagon misled by Iraqi exiles into believing that it would be a cakewalk with garlands after the Americans took over? Was there too much haste in racing to Baghdad with relatively fewer troops in the interest of efficiency without thinking of the aftermath? Are the Shia-dominated regions of the south safe while US troops fight in the Sunni triangle north of Baghdad? Meanwhile, American soldiers are exposed to sudden, increasingly sophisticated attacks inside Iraq and a few die almost every day. The Taliban and Al-Qaida are trying to make a comeback in Afghanistan, which is another whole messy story, while US attention is diverted. A third category of questions relates to what the US should do now to rope in international support for peacekeeping and reconstruction. Hard-line conservatives oppose any UN involvement in Iraq. Others, many of whom supported the war, say this is foolish. The US needs help. Other nations can oblige — including France, Germany and Russia — provided there is a UN cover and that the US should arrange one. That’s where India crops up often in conversations these days. Some say India lost an opportunity to show the US it was a friend in need when it declined to send forces to Iraq without a UN cover. But India has not acted differently from, say, the World Bank, which too said it would need UN-sanctioned legitimacy in Iraq before engaging in lending. However, with a UN cover of some sort — there may be one worked out if Colin Powell has his way — India should perhaps seize the opportunity to project power on an international scale in a key area of the world away from its zone of direct influence. It is not just the US that needs help. Iraq needs it, badly. A significant peacekeeping intervention by India can make a huge difference for stability in a volatile region. Cities of Despair When Environmental Health Project, a health consultancy, reanalysed statistics from the national family health survey by economic quintile, it came upon startling results. The aggregated whole called urban India hid colossal disparities between the well-off and poorer sections. In fact, EHP concluded that on almost all social indices, the urban poor were worse off than their rural counterpart. Siddarth Aggrawal, country representative and urban health director of EHP, spoke to Vidya Subrahmaniam: shifted to the states because of which there has been a cut in Central outlay. But equally, there’s been a trend towards reducing subsidies and increasing privatisation. But more than 80 per cent of healthcare is already privatised. This might seem outrageous, but there’s almost no public healthcare for the urban poor, except marginally in the larger cities. Consequently, about 70 per cent of this population — based on surveys done by Oxfam in Ahmedabad and Indore — goes to private medical providers who range from doctors and compounders to quacks and How did you arrive at your conclusions? pharmacists. Private providers are cheap, As a planner or programmer, I would accessible, offer credit and are often willing never go by aggregate data. In a country of to go to the slums. I think the time has come such diversities as India, the data needs to be for a paradigm shift in the way we look at both section and region specific. Take infant healthcare. Healthcare has to be developed in mortality rate. For urban India as a whole it partnership — between government, private is 47 per thousand, for the urban poor it is 66 sector and the community. In cities where and for the urban poor in a state like Madhya government has no infrastructure, it must Pradesh, it is 99.4. Look at the enormous entrust the job of delivering healthcare to inequities that the average masks. non-profit NGOs and charitable institutions. Your other finding is that in another 15 years, The official obsession with infrastructure the urban population will outstrip the rural spending — buildings, OTs etc — is a big population. Isn’t this dramatic? folly. These invariably turn into long-term Consider these figures: The all-India liabilities. Instead the government’s appopulation is growing at 2 per cent, urban proach should be: Minimise investments in population at 2.75 per cent, large cities at fixed assets and invest in the facilities of 4 per cent and slums at 5-6 per cent. We call other players. Build a programme involving it the 2-3-4-5 phenothe non-government menon. Interestingplayers. Strengthen ly, rural population the role of parais growing at about medics as counselThe big cities will grow 1.7 per cent, though lors and as people bigger. The relatively rural birth rate is who can do referrals. smaller cities will burst. high. So what we This is where the Slums already form are looking at is future lies. 40-50 per cent of the massive migration Surely, NGOs canpopulation in the metros. not have the same into cities. And this, In the coming decade, when there is virintegrated perspecthis will be the fate of all tually no healthcare tive and powers 10 lakh-plus cities. available for these as the government? sections. In India, You talk of teaching the focus has always been on rural primary hygiene in slums. But the slums have no access care. Even the recording system in India is to water. Besides, why should the government developed around the village. There is no be allowed to get away? comparable system in the cities. Even in the There can be no getting away from the metros, slum is defined inappropriately, municipal corporation; it has to deliver basic statistics don’t get updated, and there are services. The job of the NGOs should be to vast hidden and missing pockets. There’s organise and empower the communities to no data on construction labour, brick kiln demand services. There’s no question of workers, pavement dwellers etc. If anything, letting the government get away either; it’s the urban poor are being underestimated. just that we are talking partnerships here. So are we looking at a nightmare scenario? Earlier, when the NGOs asked to be included, Yes. The big cities will grow bigger. The the government was not responsive. Today, relatively smaller cities will burst. Slums they are more ready to include us. already form 40-50 per cent of the population The cost of treatment is already prohibitive. in the bigger metros. In the coming decade, In a poor state like UP, it is said to have tripled. this will be the fate of all 10 lakh-plus cities. Ultimately it is about political vision. All this cannot but impact on the health of Given political will, costs can be met the whole urban population. Indeed, in a creatively. The thing to do is to merge and situation where the urban poor serve you, access funds that are lying untapped in there’s no way you can keep your child various departments. There’s a Rs 1,000insulated. Infection will reach you in some crore unutilised loan from the World Bank form or the other. Even immunisation can- on which we are paying interest. Another not protect your child unless there is collec- Rs 1,000 crore from HUDCO for urban tive immunisation of the entire population. sanitation. There’s also the urban national How does this square with the cutback in slum development programme. Then there health sector investment? are programmes for poverty alleviation, etc. Health used to be primarily a Central If somebody bothered to compute these activity. Over the past 20 years, the focus has funds, they are sure to be surprised. Q&A Udayshankar 14 Guru as Facilitator Shows the Path By Shammi Paranjape CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS Doublespeak Each time prime minister Vajpayee makes a controversial statement, he loses no time in back-tracking. There are two very distinct examples of this in the recent past. In the aftermath of the Godhra carnage, he shocked the nation by putting the blame squarely on the Muslims (“Who started it all?”), after which he tried to mollify the irate masses. Recently, while paying tribute to the late Paramhans at Ayodhya, he declared that Ram mandir will be built on the Ramjanambhoomi only. Such impulsiveness is unbecoming of a prime minister who represents over a billion people in the world’s largest democracy. We need to ask ourselves: Do we really deserve a prime minister who often forgets that he represents all Indians cutting across religions and regions. — Mujeeb Rahman, New Delhi Foul Play Sunil Gavaskar has initiated the debate on sledging at the right time. In fact, some Indians too have begun using it as an on-field tactic a la the Aussies. But it’s most shocking to hear that a few former Aussie players have openly come out in support of such foul tactics. What is required at this stage is that the umpires should stop pretending that there is no sledging. It’s often seen that they only From timesofindia.com Mean Machines All soldiers, including those who fly, would like to die a martyr’s death in line of duty. They would prefer to die fighting for a cause. For such committed individuals, there is no insult greater than dying in an air crash. MiGs should be used for dogfights with enemy aircraft, not for killing our own warriors. Bhagwan Chandnani, via e-mail take action when there is excessive appealing or there are protests against their decisions. The ICC should now empower the umpires to take action, so that this practice can be stamped out from the gentleman’s game. — Saurabh Sinha, Bhilai Soap Story Nalini Singh’s article ‘Bottle Blonde Bahus’ (Aug 2), where she terms American soap operas as WMDs is an unacceptable argument, almost bordering on the ridiculous. In the Indian context these western soaps are watched only by a minuscule minority mainly comprising the upwardly mobile, English-speaking, urban middle class. Among the majority, it is the ‘K’ soaps that rule the roost. Even MTV hasn’t been able to make a dent in the Gen X values, as they still swear by Indian traditions and values. The changes that we witness are at best superficial in nature. If we check the audience ratings, it is the Saas-Bahu serials that are still being watched by the whole nation with bated breath. Of late, if anything has changed on Indian television, it is the overflow of traditions, customs and piety. These are the more regressive and potent Weapons of Mental Destruction (WMD), than the American soaps to which we neither directly relate nor identify with. These are the products of the formulaic and cliched thinking of our own scriptwriters and not a part of some Hollywood soap producer’s conspiracy. Local is what sells among the audiences. Localisation cuts through the globalisation process, and nowhere is this more true than in the media sector, especially television. 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Executive Editor: Shekhar Bhatia. © All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission of the publisher is prohibited. Postal Registration No.: TN/Chief PMG/399/2002 A guru shows the path of enlightenment to seekers. Gu denotes darkness (ignorance) and ru denotes the removal of that darkness. The word guru has two other meanings. In the first one, gu signifies guna titha (one who has transcended the three gunas) and ru signifies the formless aspect (one who has grasped That). Gur means heavy or weighty, signifying the weight of the guru’s wisdom, which can benefit others. The guru is both a formal teacher and a spiritual preceptor. He is a storehouse of spiritual energy, which he can transmit to others. He helps the aspirant to polish his inner self till it reflects the light of truth. In the Shirdi Sai Satcharita a seeker asks Shirdi Baba: “Where to go?” Baba replies: “High up”. The seeker then asks: “How to go there?” Baba answers: “Take a guide, he will take you straight and make you avoid the ditches and wild beasts in the jungle”. Even avatars like Rama and Krishna subjected themselves to the tutelage of worthy gurus like Vashishta and Sandipani. The guru-shishya parampara honours the teacher as God and promotes reverence for vidya (knowledge). It inculcates humility in the student and respect and gratitude in him for the dispenser of knowledge. Other noble virtues like discipline, dedication, sense of duty, sacrifice and compassion also evolve with the guru’s help. A true guru guides you on the spiritual path to salvation. He promotes your furtherance on the Godward path. He is also the one who grants great inspiration to good works. ‘Gurur Brahma, Gurur Vishnu, Gurur Devo Maheshwara, Gurur Sakshat Parabrahma, Tasmaye Shri Guruvai Namaha’. In this sloka the guru is compared with the trinity of Gods — Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara — because a sincere guru has to take on all the three functions of the trinity — creation (of good qualities), sustenance (of higher nature) and destruction (of negative qualities). The best guru dakshina is to adhere to the guru’s words. Once, a guru sent his pupil to collect dry ‘useless’ leaves from a forest as guru dakshina. The disciple searched long and hard but was unsuccessful. Whenever he tried to gather the dry leaves he would be stopped by forest folk collecting them for fuel to heat water, humus for plants, for making patravalis (plates) or for preparing herbal medicines. He went back disappointed, without the guru dakshina. His guru said that the knowledge he had gained of how ‘nothing was useless’, was his guru dakshina, and his purpose in sending the student to the forest was to teach him that. By the gurus’ grace — guru krupa — everything auspicious is obtained. However, the path is not easy. The disciple has to offer his ego at the guru’s feet and accept his inscrutable methods of instruction. The guru’s words may not be an explicit command (Sri Ramana Maharashi hardly uttered a word to his shishyas) — it may simply involve a subtle fine-tuning to the natural requirements of a purified conscience. As Sri Sathya Sai Baba says, the ultimate goal of the guru-shishya relationship is to make the latter attain the heights of self-awareness, whereby dependence on all external forms — even that of the guru — is shed, and the Param Guru or the Self is gloriously revealed within. Guru Purnima is celebrated on a full moon night in honour of Ved Vyasa, the Loka Guru. The full moon symbolises the cool clear light of the guru’s intellect which alone can dispel ignorance. Guru Ved Vyasa arranged and classified the Vedas in their present order and made them available for the benefit of mankind. Hence he is called Ved Vyasa. THE SPEAKING TREE http://spirituality.indiatimes.com TOID70803/CR1/14/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/14/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/14/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/14/Y/1 CMYK Rain Thoughts Indra the thunder wielder slew the dragon (clouds) then disclosed the waters and cleft the channels of the mountain torrents. Rig Veda ✥ The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again. The plants suck in the earth and are with constant drinking fresh and fair. Abraham Cowley ✥ And then the monsoon came, and they couldn’t have come at a worse time, bang in the middle of the rainy season. Spike Milligan ✥ There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rains come cracking down. Don Delillo ✥ Still falls the rain — dark as the world of man, black as our loss-blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the cross. Dame Edith Sitwell ✥ Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike ✥ The world is a garden, The Lord its gardener, Cherishing all, none neglected. Adi Granth ✥ God makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5.45 OID ‰ ‰ † CMK The Times of India, New Delhi, Thursday, August 7, 2003 Rupee Value US $: 46.60 UK £: 75.30 Expansion drive Getting new life In the red Haven Burke, (extreme left), chief executive and Don Henshall, MD of Krispy Kreme UK said it would open an outlet at Harrods in October 2003 - the first of 25 stores planned for UK and Ireland Patrick Kron, chief executive of Alstom said it received a $ 3.2 billion refinancing deal in which the government of France will become the company’s top shareholder Cathay Pacific chairman James Hughes-Hallett said Sars had a devastating impact on its business in the first half of the year, resulting into a loss of $159 million Euro: 53.25 AFP S Fr: 35.70 Yen (100): 40.05 Fine, remedies for Microsoft Brussels: The European Commission said on Wednesday it intends to fine Microsoft for what it called continuing abuses of dominant market position and force it to change the way it distributes its Media Player software. In its strongest statement yet in its 4-year antitrust probe against the world’s largest software company, the EU also said it could order Microsoft to open up the code for its computer server software to outside firms. An EU spokesman said the Commission felt it had a strong case against Microsoft and the amount of the fine would be linked to the severity and duration of Microsoft’s perceived offence. “At this stage, we have so much evidence and we are in possession of such substantive a file that we believe any decision we take will withstand scrutiny of the European court,” commission spokesman Tilman Lueder said. It accused Microsoft of leveraging its dominant position in media players, the software that plays movies and video on computers, and low-end servers which manage everything from Web sites to e-mail systems. Microsoft said it has already taken steps to address the problems raised by EU. It added that this will lengthen the 3-year old anti-trust probe. In pre-market trade in New York, Microsoft shares were off 0.7 per cent at $25.47. The EU executive said it was giving Microsoft a final chance to comment before it orders it to share crucial server software codes with competitors such as Sun Microsystems Inc and Oracle Corp. Reuters NZ $: 28.15 S $: 27.20 Saudi Riyal 12.80 New Delhi: The government has failed to keep its commitment that consumers would pay just Rs 72 plus taxes to cable operators from this month, till CAS is in place. It was on this premise that the government had postponed the implementation of CAS to September in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata, after hectic lobbying by pay channel broadcasters (Star, Sony, Discovery). But, August has seen cablewallah demanding their usual fees and threatening to cut off cable to those who don’t pay up. And, they will continue to charge the same in the coming months. As a face saving measure, the government had asked all pay channels to go free-to-air from August, till CAS was implemented starting September. Pay broadcasters rejected the proposal after government postponed CAS. The postponement was done after pay broadcasters held a meeting on July 4, with media adviser to the I&B ministry and PMO’s Sudheendra Kulkarni. But the government’s commitment to consumers has been broken. While Rs 72 plus taxes continues to be the basic tier price, users have no idea how to fight the demanding cablewallah. Cablewallahs, in turn, blame broadcasters for continuing to collect their dues. They maintain that broadcasters have sent bills for pay channels for August and What to pay? • Cable guy continues to charge high monthly rental • Operators put the blame on broadcasters who have failed to go free-to-air • Consumers seek redressal from government have not made their channels free-to-air. Consumers are confused and are trying to buy time from operators by delaying payments, in the hope that government would come to their rescue. Pay broadcasters on Tuesday rejected ‘‘honeymoon offer’’, reiterating that consumers should continue to pay current subscription. This decision was tak- New Delhi: Ashok Leyland on Wednesday announced plans to invest Rs 140 crore over the next two years to develop new platforms for trucks. The firm is also planning to drive into the minibus market with a range of products slated for launch by the second half of this fiscal. Unveiling the firm’s new north India dealership, Ashok Leyland MD R Seshasayee said the firm was also revamping its debt to emerge leaner. “We are raising fresh debt to retire some old high-cost loans. This along with the buoyancy in the truck market, we expect profitability to increase this fiscal. In fact, we have al- TIMES NEWS NETWORK A Chinese construction worker on a platform hanging out of a skyscraper building site in central China’s Hubei province. Chinese work safety officials demanded urgent action after 43,286 people died in accidents this year. To improve safety, China’s State Council will dispatch inspection teams to different industries across the country. ready revised our growth targets to 15 per cent from 7 per cent earlier this year.” The company had a 54.8 per cent jump in sales to 3,461 units in July as opposed to 2,239 units sold in the same month last year. “The macro conditions would remain favourable this year and are also expected to continue to be positive next Telenet, which provides fixedline services under the brand name Touchtel, on Wednesday launched SMS on fixed line for its customers in Delhi and NCR. The service will be available to more than 1,00,000 Touchtel customers in Delhi and NCR from Thursday. The service is priced at 80 paise per SMS and the rates do not vary for an intracircle, inter-circle or international SMS. Customers can send a message to fixed line as well as WLL and GSM mobile phones. As an introductory offer, the first 100 SMS sent till August 31, 2003 will be free.PTI SBI has tied up with Mahindra & Mahindra to offer farmers loan at a concessional rate of interest of 11 per cent for purchasing tractors. SBI will become the preferred financier for M&M in Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal. Ajit Ninan Arcelor, Tisco pact for automotive steel: Arcelor the heels of acquiring Jenson & Nicolson (Nepal) and auto and industrial coating business from ICI Paints, Berger Paints is now contemplating acquiring stake in its technical collaborator Nippon Paints of Japan. The company has earmarked more than Rs 100 crore for acquisitions, Berger MD Subir Bose said. TNN unveiled HumaCare Junior, a free of cost, diabetic care kit for children. It is aimed at Type 1 diabetics and would include syringes, needles, a packet of alcohol swabs, Aastha-a diabetes care magazine, a cool pouch for storing insulin and on special recommendation by the doctor a free Glucometer to monitor the blood sugar level. TNN has granted Tata Steel a technology License for hot dip galvanised products for the automotive industry, to be produced on Tisco’s line at Jamshedpur. The agreement covers both pure zinc HDG and Galvannealed products. Under the agreement, Arcelor will grant Tisco a license for using Extragal, including the trademark. TNN INTERNATIONAL flaring and venting, from 1994 to 1998. AP rea’s militant umbrella labour group, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, were also given a say in management’s decision-making process. AFP Shell to pay $49 million settlement: Shell Oil Co Hyundai, labour unions reach accord: The labour will pay $49 million to the federal government to settle a lawsuit over the unauthorised release and burning of large amounts of natural gas from seven platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. Shell did not have permission from federal regulators to burn off the gas and did not pay required royalties on it to the government, US attorney Donald Washington said. Washington said most of the gas was disposed of, through processes known as union and management of South Korea’s Hyundai Motors have reached an agreement on higher wages and improved working conditions, ending weeks of strikes, officials said on Wednesday. The settlement, which came shortly before midnight Tuesday, includes an 8.63 per cent wage increase, the introduction of a five-day working week from September and other benefits. As part of the agreement, Hyundai Motor workers, a powerful force in South Ko- trucks. “We have earmarked an investment of Rs 140 crore for the project, which will also develop new product lines. The first product from this project should be launched in 2005.” The firm is also planning an entry into the fully-builtup business and will introduce the first model in the second half this fiscal. MTNL service for CUG group: MTNL will launch Hughes acheives CMMi Level 5: Hughes Software CUG (closed user group) service for Dolphin cellular subscribers from Thursday, aimed at SMEs, hospitals, sales teams and intercom users. With a minimum requirement of five members per group, MTNL will charge Rs 200 per month, per member and waive off activation charges. TNN Systems announced it has been assessed on the capability maturity model integration level 5, as defined by Software Engineering Institute. ‘‘With this certification HSS joins the select band of companies worldwide to achieve the highest level of process maturity in accordance with the new quality standards of SEI CMM,’’ a Hughes statement said. TNN MSN India, Hutch tie up: Eli Lilly’s diabetes care for children: Eli Lilly has Berger eyes stake in Nippon paints: Close on fiscal, but there will be some marginal corrections. These corrections have to be addressed by initiatives like fresh road projects and fleet replacements by owners,” he said. Seshasayee said in view of the tremendous growth in the market and shifting demand trend, the firm is now developing modular cabs for New Delhi: Punjab National Bank is likely to finalise its life insurance JV with USbased finance company, Principal, Vijaya Bank and Berger Paints by October 2003. After initiating internet banking on Wednesday, PNB plans to launch a debit card by the end of August 2003 to achieve higher growth rate. PNB is offering the internet banking services in 42 major cities through 208 branches, alreadynetworked under a centralised banking solution. The bank also plans to introduce electronic bill payment and SMS alert facilities. PNB CMD SS Kohli said in the insurance venture PNB will hold 37 per cent of the Rs 110 crore paid up capital, while Principal and Vijaya Bank will hold 26 per cent and 12 per cent respectively. The remaining 25 per cent is likely to be hold by Berger Paints. The bank decided to close down its mutual fund arm, PNB Mutual Fund, and transfer its corpus of Rs 126 crore to a new venture, to be promoted by the bank along with Principal of US and Vijaya Bank. While Principal will hold 65 per cent in the new AMC, PNB will have 30 per cent and Vijaya 5 per cent. In the mainline banking activities, the bank is still continuing with its plans to return equity worth Rs 132 crore to the government, to improve the value of its shares at par. With this, the government stake in the bank will come down to 60 per cent. Kohli said the bank had passed the resolution to return equity at par under the existing rules. If the rule is changed, the bank would return the equity with a premium. Elaborating on its future strategies, the PNB chief said the bank has targeted 13-14 per cent jump in its business to over Rs 1,30,000 crore in this fiscal. Bayer Q2 net profit dips 56%:German chemicals and pharmaceuticals maker Bayer said its net profit fell 56 per cent in the second quarter from the same period last year, when earnings were inflated by a one-time gain from selling a subsidiary. Net profit in the April-June period fell to $145 million from $293 million in the same quarter a year ago. The result fell short of the expectations of analysts MSN India, the online portal of Microsoft will offer its popular instant messenger - MSN Messenger and e-mail - Hotmail to all Hutch users across the country and Orange users in Mumbai, on their cellular phones. MSN Mobile Hotmail allows Hutch/Orange users to receive and send e-mails from their Hutch phones. TNN Seagate’s programme for PC users: Hard disc supplier Seagate Technology announced the ‘‘Peace of Mind’’ programme through the National Insurance Company for PC users in India. The programme will offer a comprehensive three year computer protection for a wide range of PC components, including disc drives. TNN By Rashmee Z Ahmed TIMES NEWS NETWORK London: One-hundred-and-fifty-four years ago, Paul Julius Reuter, a Germanborn immigrant to Britain, used pigeons to fly stock prices between the cities of Aachen and Brussels. Two years later, he had founded Reuters in London. Today, his successors at the 3.6-billionpound Reuters Group, one of the world’s leading news and financial information providers, are relying on speed-thinking, speed-typing and cost-effective Indians in Hyderabad and Bangalore to tell the world what to buy and sell. The move, described by some as the original pigeon-flyers pet plan, is thought to be a key part of Reuters’ so-called “business transformation” strategy. The decision to migrate East and create an allegedly “new content production facility in India to process and analyse raw financial data” is likely to save it millions of pounds. As also stave off pressure from rivals Bloomberg and Thomson. Though there are no firm figures, the India operations will help with Reuters’ plans to slash costs by 440 million pounds by 2005, Reuters’ Yasmeen Khan said. With classic understatement, she said the move was “bound to be good for local (Indian) jobs as well”. But some experts go much further. They say Reuters flight to the tropics may mark a whole new phase in India’s role as back-office to the world. By moving its huge content operation to India, Reuters may almost be demonstrating that India makes profound business sense for reasons other than low labour costs. “Our senior management is obviously 200 per cent sure about India’s infrastructure and all that. And since the new jobs deal with financial information, there is a level of skill required,” admits Khan. According to current estimates, the content operation provides data on more than 960,000 shares, bonds and other financial instruments. It maintains and updates more than 200 million data records. It dockets information on 40,000 companies. It processes financial information from 244 exchanges and updates financial data at 8,000 times per second rising to 23,000 times per second at peak times. The content operation supplies data which appears on Reuters screens used by fund and asset managers. And financial analysts believe that considering this is the backbone of the Group, rather than Reuters news services to media organisations, there has to be a lot riding on the move. Reuters’ final costcutting and retrenchment plans will be made public in six weeks’ time. nounced that Subhinder Singh Prem, will take over as managing director of Reebok India Company. Currently, the oldest surviving member of the company’s start-up team in India, he brings invaluable experience of buiding the Reebok brand in India from scratch to it’s current position of strength and leadership in the Indian market. Subhinder has held various positions in sourcing, product development, marketing and sales. He will supported by a team of functional directors — Vishnu Bhagat (CFO), Reeta Bhattacharya (HR) and Rahul Singh (apparel & exports). TNN estimated fiscal first-quarter revenues would grow as much as 4 per cent. ‘‘We are starting to see some very early signs that could be interpreted as cautiously optimistic,’’ John Chambers, Cisco’s CEO said. AP Cisco Systems’ profit rises: Cisco Systems Inc said Yesterday’s results: Is it good for India Inc if more IIT grads go to work abroad? its fiscal fourth-quarter profits grew 27 per cent, despite a decrease in revenues, as the networking equipment giant continued to control costs in the challenging economy. Executives, however, said there are some early stirrings of economic recovery and ET INSTA POLL Yes 43% No 54% Source: SBI, Mumbai Reuters shifting content business Reebok India has new MD: Reebok India has an- surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires, whose forecasts ranged from $209 million to $337 million). Bayer said a slow economy had hurt sales at key divisions such as health care, polymers and chemicals. Overall sales fell by 3.3 per cent to $8.20 billion. AP Selling rate: Currency notes TARGET INDIA D I G E S T SBI-Mahindra give cheaper loans to farmers: Touchtel launches SMS on fixed line: Bharti en at a meeting of the CAS implementation committee in Mumbai on Tuesday. This means, a GK resident in Delhi can restrict cable subscription to Rs 72 plus taxes from September, watching free-to-air channels, whereas a Pitampura or a Patparganj residents will continue to pay upwards of Rs 250 till CAS is implemented in their locality. The same holds for other metros. Assembly election in Delhi will take place in November. Candidates might be asked to explain as to why East or North Delhi consumers pay Rs 250 for cable subscription while an East of Kailash resident can restrict cable TV viewing to around Rs 100. PNB to finalise life JV by Oct E X E C U T I V E NATIONAL Thai Baht (100) 113.15 AFP Ashok Leyland to invest Rs 140 cr for new trucks TIMES NEWS NETWORK UAE Dirham 13.05 Govt fails on cable bill promise By N Vidyasagar TIMES NEWS NETWORK Microsoft V-P Michael Rawding said Windows XP Media Centre Edition pre-installed PC would be placed by 5 Japanese PC makers this autumn. A $: 31.30 Can’t say 3% • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. Today’s question: Do you support Supreme Court’s ban on strikes by government workers? To vote, log on to http://economictimes.indiatimes.com TOID70803/CR1/15/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/15/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/15/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/15/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † CMK 16 STOCKS Thursday, August 7, 2003 Sensex loses 24 points Mumbai Led by In osys Techno og es s ocks moved ur her downwards a er an a emp ed pr ce ra y around m d sess on and pushed he Sensex down by ano her 24 po n s a c ose on he BSE on Wednesday on resh se o by domes c nanc a ns u ons A er a weak s ar a 3754 65 he BSE benchmark 30 share ndex ended o move upwards r s ng o he n ra day h gh a 3798 87 bu a er ran ou o s eam as oca unds made resh sa es n b ue ch p s ocks and dropped subs an a y o a ow o 3722 08 be ore conc ud ng a 3741 66 as aga ns Tuesday s c ose o 3765 82 a ne a o 24 16 po n s or 0 64 per cen The broad based BSE 100 ndex a so dec ned by 6 74 po n s o 1907 68 rom prev ous c ose o 1914 42 Specu a ors wh ch seemed o be unw ng o make resh comm men s n a b g way were se ec ve buyers even as he pr nc pa dr v ng orce ore gn ns u on a nves ors FIIs s owed down ac v y or he pas coup e o ses s ons P KEY The BSE quo a ons o a sc p a e g ven n he s ne wh e he quo es n a cs a e hose o he NSE The quo a ons a e n he sequence o he day s open ng h gh ow and c os ng Each me a company s c os ng sha e p ce a s be ow s as o e p ce on BSE he name o he company s unde ned BSE SPEC F ED & NSE NDEX ABB 380.40, 383.60, 374, 374.40 384.90, 384.90, 373.50, 375.30 Abbott (I) 303.05, 306, 303, 303.20 ACC 194, 200.65, 190.60, 199.35 185.15, 200.70, 185.15, 197.90 Adani Export 183.40, 185.75, 183, 183.70 185, 185.50, 182.55, 183.95 Adlabs Films 55.50, 56.70, 55.10, 55.70 55.50, 57.50, 55.25, 55.60 Alstom Proj. 117, 114.10, 115.70 105.90, 116.90, 105.90, 115.10 Andhra Bank 34.50, 33.55, 34 33.90, 34.15, 33.55, 34 Apollo Hosp. 140.10, 141.80, 136.05, 136.45 133.10, 141.90, 133.10, 137 Apollo Tyres 159, 163, 157, 161.70 159, 162.85, 156.50, 161.20 Arvind Mills 43.10, 43.40, 41.90, 42.50 42.75, 43.40, 41.90, 42.35 Ashok Leylan 145.10, 147.95, 143.15, 145.10 148, 148, 143.10, 144.65 Asian Paints 403, 415, 402.70, 404 402.10, 410, 402, 403.65 Aurobindo Ph 401, 407.50, 393.50, 400.40 392, 408.50, 390, 399.55 Aventis Phar 423, 440, 422.15, 426.20 413.90, 437.85, 400.50, 424.20 Aztec Soft. 22, 23.25, 22.55 22.10, 23.45, 21.85, 22.40 Bajaj Auto 644, 650, 632.05, 642.40 640, 650.40, 632.05, 646.65 Balaji Tele. 72.50, 68.45, 69.05 70.50, 70.80, 68.55, 69 Ballarpur In 57.05, 58.40, 55.50, 55.95 56.25, 58.35, 55.50, 55.90 Bank of Baro 119.90, 123.75, 116.90, 121.05 118.90, 123.60, 117, 120.55 Bank of Ind. 46.25, 47.50, 46.20, 46.35 47.30, 47.65, 46.20, 46.35 BASF 122, 123.75, 120.50, 121.25 115.50, 123.50, 115.50, 121.35 Bata (I) 38.40, 39.80, 38.30, 38.85 38.45, 40, 38.25, 38.90 Bayer Cropsc 191, 196.40, 190.10 194, 195, 189, 190 Bh.Earth Mov 78.70, 81.85, 80.50 79, 82, 79, 80.45 Bharat Elect 351.70, 355.95, 339.55, 342.20 350, 354.75, 338, 342.35 Bharat Forge 400, 407, 393.30, 395.80 400, 405, 395.05, 397.55 Bharti TeleV 53.90, 51.10, 52 54, 54, 51.40, 51.85 BHEL 272.40, 275.45, 264.35, 266.45 268, 275.40, 264.45, 266.25 Bombay Dyein 65.45, 67.20, 63.15, 63.75 68.90, 68.90, 63.05, 63.55 BPCL 268, 272.85, 261.30, 262.25 270, 272.80, 261.90, 262.65 Britannia 552, 539, 540.60 555, 555, 538.55, 541.10 BSES 292.50, 292.95, 282.05, 283.35 285.35, 292, 282.10, 283.80 Cadila Healt 238.05, 242.95, 232.60, 239.45 236, 243, 233, 237.90 Castrol (I) 202.55, 212, 202.50, 210.85 Century Enka 92, 94.50, 91.10, 92.20 91.10, 94.40, 91.10, 92.15 Century Text 104.90, 110.35, 101.80, 104.55 105.20, 110.30, 101.65, 104.20 Chambal Fert 14.55, 14.90, 14.75 14.75, 14.90, 14.70, 14.70 Chennai Pet. 62.50, 65, 61.65, 62.40 63, 65, 61.75, 62.55 Cipla 855, 870, 820, 829.95 840, 869.70, 811.15, 830.40 CMC 443.10, 455, 441.20, 445.75 455.50, 457, 443.10, 446.95 Colgate 149.50, 152.50, 146.65, 147.15 151.40, 152, 147, 147.75 Container Co 378, 385.90, 376.75, 379.25 378, 385, 378, 380 Corpn. Bank 182.50, 185.50, 175.50, 177.45 181, 185.50, 176.05, 177.75 Crompton Gr. 76.25, 78, 75.60, 76.55 76.80, 77.90, 75.40, 76.45 Cummins (I) 76, 78.40, 75.50, 76.95 76.50, 78.40, 72.55, 76.75 D-Link (I) 75, 81.85, 74.90, 78.80 76.50, 82.15, 75, 78.90 Dabur (I) 57.40, 58.80, 57, 58.10 58.10, 59, 56.60, 58.10 Digital Glob 460, 464.90, 451.25, 458.85 456.35, 464.50, 451.90, 457.80 Dr.Reddy’s 1002.05, 1048, 1027.60 1010, 1047, 1005, 1028.60 Dredging Cor 340.10, 350, 340, 342.95 E-Serve Intl 630, 614, 614.40 625.05, 630, 611, 612.65 EIH 188, 193.50, 180.15, 193.15 184, 194.50, 184, 193 Engineers (I 287, 290, 281, 284.30 290, 290, 279.50, 281.95 Escorts 51, 52, 50.25, 50.85 51.55, 52.20, 50.10, 50.65 Essel Propac 191.40, 193, 185.50, 187.20 192.40, 192.85, 185, 186.45 Exide Inds. 89.25, 92, 89.10, 91 85, 92, 85, 91.45 Federal Bank 164.05, 168.80, 162.15, 164.05 166.85, 168.85, 163, 164.25 Finolex Cabl 109.50, 110.40, 105.80, 108.20 110, 110, 105.50, 106.65 Finolex Inds 38, 46.35, 37.70, 45.50 35.50, 46.30, 35.50, 45.40 Gail (I) 118, 120.60, 116.85, 119.10 117.75, 120.75, 116.65, 118.95 GE Shipping 58.30, 60, 57.55, 58.55 58.95, 60, 57.65, 58.35 Geometric So 334.90, 335.45, 328, 331.25 333.90, 335.50, 328.15, 331.65 German Remed 345.15, 354, 341.10, 346.95 346, 354.90, 346, 348.05 Gillette (I) 490, 469.20, 470.35 482, 488, 472.55, 474.50 GlaxoSmith.C 271, 272, 267.15, 267.95 280, 280, 260, 267.40 GlaxoSmith.P 404, 407.95, 401.65, 404.20 404.90, 411, 401.05, 404.75 GNFC 35.75, 37.20, 35.60, 36.50 35.75, 37.30, 35.45, 36.45 Grasim Inds. 556, 564, 543, 553.90 555, 564.50, 543.10, 552.10 GSFC 24.20, 24.75, 23.80, 23.90 24.90, 24.90, 23.80, 24.20 GTL 77, 79.70, 76.50, 77.15 76.85, 79.85, 76.50, 77.15 Guj.Amb.Cem. 220, 227.35, 219.20, 225.50 219.20, 227.90, 219.20, 224.80 Guj.Gas Co. 460, 450, 456.40 445, 460, 445, 456.15 Guj.Mineral 99.50, 102, 99, 100.30 99.25, 102.15, 98.70, 100.25 HCL Infosys. 153.70, 157, 152.50, 154.30 153, 155.75, 151.90, 153.65 HCL Techno. 170.45, 173.20, 168.50, 170.95 170.55, 173.40, 169.15, 170.70 HDFC 423.05, 440, 428.05 430, 441, 428.30, 431.35 HDFC Bank 277, 280.25, 269.95, 272.95 279.50, 279.95, 272.25, 276.60 Hero Honda 269, 272, 261.50, 268.30 263.05, 272, 260.20, 268.10 Hexaware Tec 144.45, 146.80, 140.10, 142 144.85, 146.85, 139.20, 141.50 Him.Fut.Comm 30.20, 31.25, 29.70, 30.60 29.90, 31.35, 29.65, 30.60 Hind Lever C 196, 198, 193.75, 194.05 197.50, 198, 193.30, 194.60 Hind.Oil Exp 33.50, 35.50, 34 34.35, 35.55, 33.65, 34.05 Hind.Zinc 48.70, 55.35, 54.60 Hindalco 862, 869, 832, 844.20 870, 870, 830, 844.85 Hinduja TMT 218, 205, 209.90 208.20, 213, 205, 209.60 HLL 161.90, 164.50, 159.65, 160.35 162, 164.60, 160, 160.55 HMT 19.50, 20, 19.25, 19.40 19.35, 20.10, 19.20, 19.35 HPCL 324, 336.85, 322, 329.25 324.90, 336.75, 322.10, 329.10 Hughes Soft. 303.10, 307.85, 296.20, 301.35 306, 308, 295.10, 301 IBP 615, 650, 637.25 628.90, 649.75, 621, 630.15 ICI (I) 130, 133, 129, 129.35 135, 140, 128, 129.05 ICICI Bank 151.80, 152.40, 146, 146.95 150, 152.90, 146.20, 147.15 IDBI 43.80, 44.80, 42.65, 43.15 43, 44.80, 42.65, 43.20 IDBI Bank 30, 31.50, 29.75, 30.80 29.90, 31.75, 29.15, 30.70 IGate Global 164.50, 168.20, 160, 164.05 163.90, 168.60, 159, 163.30 India Cement 28.50, 28.95, 27, 27.70 28.30, 28.80, 26.90, 27.65 Indian Alumi 139, 142, 140 147.50, 147.50, 138.10, 140.05 Indian Hotel 255, 272, 261.05 259, 271.90, 252, 261.55 Indian Oil C 470, 502, 465, 490.70 470, 501.90, 469, 486.45 Indian Ov.Bk 25.10, 25.45, 24.50, 24.85 25.45, 25.45, 24.55, 24.70 Indian Rayon 166.70, 174.80, 164.65, 168.20 164, 175, 163.55, 168.80 Infosys Tech 3681.25, 3688, 3485.10, 3504 3660.60, 3660.60, 3485.30, 3505.35 Infotech En. 101.50, 103.35, 100, 101.20 102, 103.60, 100.20, 101.35 Ingersoll R 249.30, 257.90, 247, 249.55 245.25, 259, 245.25, 248.65 IPCL 121.90, 124.75, 120.15, 123.35 121, 124.85, 120.55, 123.15 ITC 727.50, 740, 726.20, 729.75 735, 740.50, 727, 731.90 ITI 18.60, 19.50, 18.35, 18.85 18, 19.55, 18, 18.80 J&K Bank 213.75, 218, 210, 213.35 211.85, 217.20, 210.10, 213.15 Jaiprakash I 56.70, 62.45, 56.25, 61.55 56.85, 62.50, 56.30, 61.20 JB Chemical 223.95, 227.80, 217, 220.45 223, 227.80, 216.10, 219.90 Jindal Steel 532, 536.95, 515, 517.65 521.50, 536, 515, 519.05 Kochi Refin. 102, 107.45, 100.50, 103.80 102.35, 107.50, 100, 103.50 Kotak Mah.Bk 208.50, 210, 199.20, 201.90 204.50, 210, 198.10, 201.70 L&T 280.90, 268.65, 272.80 277, 278.50, 269.30, 272.65 LIC Hsg.Fin. 125.50, 127.35, 121.75, 122.50 124.50, 127.80, 121.30, 122.15 LML 37.70, 38.20, 37.05, 37.50 37.40, 38.30, 37, 37.45 Lupin 379.90, 390.50, 375, 384.30 381, 391.70, 377, 382.80 M&M 198, 200.90, 190.60, 193.95 195, 197.50, 191.20, 194.10 Marico Inds 173.05, 178, 176.60 175, 178.70, 174.50, 175.45 Maruti Udyog 192.90, 197.35, 189.60, 191.75 191.50, 197.50, 189.85, 191.60 Mastek 205, 209.20, 204.05, 206.70 207.90, 209, 204.40, 206.60 Max (I) 78.70, 78.75, 77.05, 78.40 77.50, 78.80, 77.05, 78.10 Mcdowell Co. 45.05, 45.50, 44.20, 44.60 44.50, 45.10, 44.15, 44.60 Merck 301, 304.20, 297.20, 297.40 307.70, 307.70, 296.40, 297.55 MIRC Electr. 439.95, 445.85, 411, 416.85 436, 444, 413, 417.80 Moser-Baer 264.95, 300, 244.95, 271.45 258, 299.85, 258, 272.80 Mphasis BFL 350, 356, 351.95 350, 355, 350, 353.55 MRF 1440.05, 1473.95, 1381, 1398.95 1440, 1469, 1370, 1398.05 MTNL 120.35, 124.90, 118.60, 120.50 120.50, 124.80, 119, 120.30 Mukta Arts 53, 54.45, 52.15, 52.55 52.25, 53.80, 52.10, 52.85 National Alu 113.55, 117.25, 110.50, 112.45 113.90, 117, 110.70, 112.25 Nestle (I) 579.30, 602.40, 577.10, 590.50 Neyveli Lign 35.60, 36.50, 34.60, 35.10 35.50, 36.50, 34.70, 35.05 Nicholas Pir 333.10, 334, 319, 324.55 337, 337, 320, 323.45 NIIT 122, 122.90, 119.15, 120.95 122.75, 123, 119.55, 121 Nirma 323, 324.60, 320 321, 326.95, 320, 321.90 Novartis (I) 247.05, 250, 246.25, 247.35 ONGC 470, 496.70, 482.15 473, 498, 471, 481.45 Oriental Bnk 158, 161.90, 153.60, 154.40 155.50, 162.05, 153.60, 154.65 P&G Hygiene 477, 488, 472.25, 487.60 Padmalaya Te 95, 96.50, 92.80, 95.15 95.70, 96.45, 94, 95.55 Pentamedia G 8.45, 8.62, 8.24, 8.49 8.35, 8.60, 8.25, 8.50 Pfizer 407.65, 415, 400, 403.50 409, 414.50, 400.10, 402.95 Philips (I) 98.05, 98.60, 95, 95.50 Pidilite Ind 275, 277, 272.05, 275.50 287.90, 287.90, 272, 275.10 Polaris Soft 111.30, 112.60, 108.15, 109.80 110.90, 112.70, 108.30, 109.50 Pun.Tractors 138.50, 141, 138.05, 138.60 139, 140.70, 138.50, 138.75 Ranbaxy Lab. 782, 799.85, 780, 792.15 782.50, 799, 778, 792.75 Raymond 127.90, 129.90, 125.10, 127.05 129.05, 129.45, 125.50, 127.15 RCF 32.10, 33.50, 32.85 32.70, 33.45, 32.50, 32.80 Rel Capital 74.70, 74.80, 72.10, 73.20 72.10, 74.80, 72.10, 73.05 Reliance Ind 345, 356.20, 343, 350.95 343.60, 356.40, 343.60, 350.60 Rolta (I) 69, 69.60, 68, 68.65 68, 69.70, 68, 68.45 SAIL 23.40, 24, 23.10, 23.55 23.45, 24, 23.10, 23.45 Satyam Comp 202, 205.75, 198.55, 201.85 202, 205.70, 198.65, 201.10 Saw Pipes 157.50, 160.85, 152, 154.50 158.80, 160.70, 152.25, 154.50 SBI 412, 419, 403.65, 407.35 410.70, 418.95, 403.55, 406.30 Shipp.Corpn. 75.25, 76.20, 72.10, N m MUTUAL FUNDS Open-ended Schemes N m NA R As on 05/08/2003 Alliance Capital Mutual Fund 95 (D) 31.85 95 (G) 57.48 Basic Inds.(D) 17.05 Basic Inds.(G) 17.05 Buy India (D) 5.86 Buy India (G) 5.86 Capital Tax Relief’96 70.07 Cash Manager (D) 10.01 Cash Manager (G) 15.12 Cash Manager Instnl (D) 10.01 Cash Manager Instnl (G) 10.17 Cash Manager Instnl. (DD) 10.00 Equity (D) 18.68 Equity (G) 33.75 Frontline Eq(D) 12.69 Frontline Eq(G) 12.69 G-Sec Long Term (D) 11.85 G-Sec Long Term (G) 17.61 G-Sec Short Term (D) 10.19 G-Sec Short Term (G) 14.10 Income (D) 11.28 Income (G) 22.11 Income 54EA (D) 11.29 Income 54EA (G) 22.10 Income 54EB (D) 11.30 Income 54EB (G) 21.97 Income Q’ly (D) 10.42 Monthly Income (G) 17.80 Monthly Income (M’ly) 10.58 Monthly Income (Q’ly) 10.64 New Millennium (D) 4.30 New Millennium (G) 4.31 Short Term (D) 10.02 Short Term (G) 10.97 Short Term Fund Instnl(D) 10.02 Short Term Fund Instnl(G) 10.10 Birla Sunlife Insurance Group Fixed Interest 11.09 Group Growth 13.77 Group Secure 13.56 Group Stable 15.02 Indiv.Pension Pol.Enrich 10.50 Indiv.Pension Pol.Growth 10.50 Indiv.Pension Pol.Nourish 10.51 Individual Builder 13.26 Individual Enhancer 14.20 Individual Protector 12.57 Benchmark Mutual Fund Liquid BeES 1000.00 Nifty BeES 121.03 Nifty Junior BeES 201.50 Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund Advantage (A) 31.08 Advantage (B) 31.08 Balance (D) 10.92 Balance (G) 10.92 Bond Index Fund (Div) 10.26 Bond Index Fund (G) 10.26 D Yield Plus(Div) 10.91 D Yield Plus(G) 13.65 Equity Plan 18.13 FMP Quarterly Group 1 (D) 11.10 FMP Quarterly Group 1 (G) 11.32 Float.Rate Long Term(D) 10.09 Float.Rate Long Term(G) 10.09 Float.Rate Short Term(D) 10.08 Float.Rate Short Term(G) 10.08 Gilt Plus-Liquid-(A)(D) 10.63 Gilt Plus-Liquid-(B)(G) 15.19 Gilt Plus-Liquid-(C-AD) 15.19 Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(A)(D) 11.58 Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(B)(G) 18.31 Gilt Plus-PF-(C-AD) 18.31 Gilt Plus-Reg.-(AD) 11.94 Gilt Plus-Reg.-(BG) 20.14 Gilt Plus-Regular-(C-AD) 20.14 INDEX (Div) 12.34 R S 32.49 58.63 17.39 17.39 5.98 5.98 70.77 10.01 15.12 10.01 10.17 10.00 19.05 34.43 12.94 12.94 11.85 17.61 10.19 14.10 11.28 22.11 11.29 22.10 11.30 21.97 10.42 17.80 10.58 10.64 4.39 4.40 10.02 10.97 10.02 10.10 31.85 57.48 17.05 17.05 5.86 5.86 70.07 10.01 15.12 10.01 10.17 10.00 18.68 33.75 12.69 12.69 11.85 17.61 10.19 14.10 11.28 22.11 11.29 22.10 11.30 21.97 10.42 17.80 10.58 10.64 4.30 4.31 10.02 10.97 10.02 10.10 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 31.39 31.39 11.03 11.03 10.26 10.26 11.13 13.92 18.13 11.10 11.32 10.09 10.09 10.08 10.08 10.63 15.19 15.19 11.58 18.31 18.31 11.94 20.14 20.14 12.34 31.08 31.08 10.92 10.92 10.26 10.26 10.91 13.65 18.13 11.10 11.32 10.09 10.09 10.08 10.08 10.63 15.19 15.19 11.58 18.31 18.31 11.94 20.14 20.14 12.34 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) Canbank Mutual Fund Canbonus Cancigo Cancigo (G) Canequity Tax Saver Canexpo Canexpo (G) Cangilt PGS (D) Cangilt PGS (G) Canglobal Canliquid (D) Canliquid (G) Canpremium Canpremium (G) Cantriple Chola Mutual Fund FMP Y’ly (D) Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly) Freedom Income (C) Freedom Income (R) Freedom Income-Inst Cum Freedom Income-Inst Reg Freedom Tech.(Cum) Freedom Tech.(Reg) Gilt Invst.(Cum) Gilt Invst.(Reg) Gilt Series (Cum) Gilt Series (Reg) Growth (Cum) Growth (Reg) Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum Liquid Instl. Div.Pay Liquid-Reg.-Inst.Plus Lq. (Cum) Lq. (Reg) Lq.Sr. Apr-06 (Reg) MI Plan-Reg.-(B) MI Plan-Reg.-(MD) MI Plan-Reg.-(QD) MI Plan-Regular-Cum. Triple Ace (B) Triple Ace (Cum) Triple Ace (Reg) Triple Ace Inst Cum Triple Ace-Inst Reg Deutsche Mutual Fund Alpha Equity Insta CP-Reg.(D) Insta CP-Weekly(D) Insta Cash Plus Insta Cash Plus-(DD) Premier Bond (Reg) Premier Bond Instt. Premier Bond-Inst(MD) Premier Bond-Inst.(QD) Premier Bond-Reg.(MD) Premier Bond-Reg>(QD) Short Maturity Fund Short Maturity MD Short Maturity Weekly (D) DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund Balanced (D) Balanced (G) Bond (D) Bond (G) Bond Fund - Instl.(D) Bond Fund Inst. Equity NA R 73.15 72.90, 76.05, 71.60, 73.20 Shyam Teleco 48.80, 49, 46.50, 47.30 48.50, 48.80, 46.50, 47.35 Siemens 368.75, 373.90, 367, 370 373.80, 375, 368, 371.35 Silverline T 6.35, 6.70, 6.56 SKF Bearing 68.50, 70, 67.70, 68.35 66, 69.90, 61, 68.30 Sonata Soft. 13, 13.14, 12.75, 12.97 13, 13, 12.70, 12.80 SPICE 37.50, 36.50, 37.25 SSI 97.50, 98, 93.85, 94.90 96.90, 97.80, 94, 94.80 STC India 96.25, 98, 96.90 97.50, 100, 97.50, 97.50 Sterl.Biotec 49.70, 47.95, 48.25 49, 49, 47.55, 48.35 Sterl.Optica 50, 52.30, 49.65, 50.60 50, 52.20, 49.50, 50.65 Sun Pharma. 438, 448, 432, 437.05 371, 449.80, 371, 438.20 Syndicate Bn 26.10, 26.25, 25.40, 25.80 25.90, 26.15, 25.40, 25.75 Syngenta (I) 125.90, 128, 125.10, 126.35 Tata Chem 82.20, 84.40, 81.05, 81.50 80.80, 84.40, 80.55, 81.60 Tata Elxsi 80.20, 82, 78.55, 79.65 65.50, 81.90, 65.50, 79.65 Tata Motors 232, 237.60, 229.05, 232.55 232.10, 237.95, 228.55, 231.65 Tata Power 156.10, 156.85, 150.35, 152.55 155, 156.75, 150.25, 152 Tata Tea 221, 227.70, 218, 221 223.90, 228, 218.10, 221.40 Tata Telcom 132.05, 137.95, 131, 135.85 132, 138, 130.65, 135.20 Thermax 244.70, 236, 238 241.15, 243.25, 236.10, 238.40 Thomas Cook 220.80, 226.55, 224.50 222.50, 229.90, 222.50, 224.65 TISCO 215, 221.70, 214.40, 217 215, 221.90, 214.05, 216.60 Titan Inds. 66.80, 64.50, 64.95 65.80, 66.70, 64.55, 65.05 TN Newsprint 57.15, 59.70, 58.05 58, 59.90, 57.20, 57.85 TN Petro 21, 20.55, 20.70 20.55, 21.15, 20.40, 20.65 Torrent Phar 272.90, 288, 267, 282.70 274.90, 288.35, 269, 282.60 Trent 205.25, 218.70, 211.85 192.50, 217.70, 192.50, 210.35 TVS Electron 71.75, 73, 70, 70.60 69.05, 73, 69.05, 70.80 TVS Motor Co 630, 640, 621, 628.70 581.80, 634.90, 581.80, 626.20 United Phosp 274, 279, 268, 271.35 275, 278, 269.40, 272.80 UTI Bank 78, 79.60, 76.70, 77.75 77.50, 79.50, 76.70, 77.65 Videocon Int 31, 31.30, 30.20, 30.65 31, 31.30, 30.20, 30.55 Vijaya Bank 26.05, 26.50, 25.55, 25.85 26.15, 26.45, 23.50, 25.75 Visual Soft 154.40, 154.75, 149.20, 152.90 154, 154.70, 150, 152.35 VSNL 116.90, 117.50, 115.30, 116.80 116.90, 117.50, 116, 116.80 Whirlpool 20.70, 21.10, 20.40, 20.50 21.50, 21.50, 20.30, 20.40 Wipro 950, 953.50, 911, 920.20 947.85, 958, 916.10, 921.75 Wockhardt 409.50, 439.30, 435.10 411, 436, 409, 432.10 Zee Telefilm 112, 116.90, 108.70, 115 110.40, 116.75, 108.80, 115.55 Zensar Tech. 78.90, 80.50, 77.50, 77.95 77.05, 81.35, 77.05, 78.20 B1 - GROUP 3 3M India 335.95, 336, 326.15, 326.25 334, 336, 327.15, 328.75 A A Sarabhai 5.74, 5.30, 5.46 Aarti Drugs 34.50, 44.90, 42.15 Aarti Inds. 98, 105, 99.55 97, 104.70, 97, 100.60 Aarvee Denim 22, 22.10, 19.95, 21.05 Aban Loyd 295, 300, 290, 299.95 299.95, 310, 289.05, 296.85 ABC Bearings 18, 18.75, 18.20 ABG Heavy In 21, 22.50, 21 Abhishek Ind 9.40, 10.31, 9.36, 10.30 9.50, 10.25, 9.40, 10.10 Adam Comsof 5.11, 5.44, 4.75, 4.82 Addi Inds. 23.50, 27.85 Advani Oerli 37, 35.55, 36.30 37, 37, 35.50, 36.35 Advik Lab. 14.70, 14.25 Aegis Logis. 12, 12.80, 12.67 11.55, 12.80, 11.55, 12.80 AFT Inds. 54.30, 55.50, 52.10, 54.45 Aftek Infosy 307, 317.50, 302.85, 308 311.45, 317, 300, 307.30 Agro Dutch I 20.90, 21.25, 20.20, 20.30 21.70, 21.90, 19.50, 20.45 Agro Tech Fd 48, 49.50, 47.50, 48.50 47, 49.50, 46.75, 48.35 Ahmed.Elect. 66, 69.70, 68.30 67.95, 69, 67.50, 67.75 Ahmednagar F 58.50, 58.70, 56.50, 58.10 58.30, 58.45, 57, 57.15 Ajanta Pharm 42.65, 43.40, 41.20, 41.90 43.20, 43.60, 41.40, 42.15 Aksh Optifib 23.50, 24.15, 22.55, 22.85 23.30, 24.45, 22, 22.70 Albert David 38.95, 39, 37.35, 37.40 Albright & W 205, 204.95 Alembic 269.65, 271, 258.10, 265.50 267, 270, 259, 263.85 Alfa Laval 382, 390, 375, 380.40 380, 385, 375.10, 377.25 Alka (I) 1.51, 1.37, 1.51 Alkyl Amines 19.75, 20.40, 19.50, 19.60 Allahabad Bk 18.50, 18.70, 18, 18.35 18.60, 18.70, 18.25, 18.40 Alok Inds. 27.10, 27.70, 26.05, 26.25 27.25, 27.70, 26.10, 26.30 Alps Inds. 26.40, 27, 26.40, 26.50 Alstom 39.50, 41, 37.80, 38.35 Amara Raja B 63.15, 64.75, 64.20 63.80, 65.40, 63.80, 64.05 Ambica Agarb 41.90, 42.50, 38.10, 42.40 Ambuja Cem.R 6.50, 7.08, 6.40, 6.75 6.40, 7.10, 6.30, 6.70 Amex Info. 19, 20.50, 19.80 Amforge Inds 52, 54.70, 53.50 Amrutanjan 89, 84 Amtek 71, 74.95, 68.60, 73.80 Amtek Auto 232, 216, 217.80 218, 226.50, 216, 217.50 Andrew Yule 14, 14.99, 13.90, 14.32 R N m S 12.34 12.05 12.05 13.98 26.83 27.10 10.69 26.99 11.23 14.07 10.74 14.01 14.01 28.73 28.73 35.98 10.23 10.45 12.34 12.29 12.29 14.26 26.83 27.10 10.69 26.99 11.45 14.35 10.74 14.01 14.01 29.30 29.30 36.70 10.23 10.45 12.34 12.05 12.05 13.98 26.83 27.10 10.69 26.99 11.23 14.07 10.74 14.01 14.01 28.73 28.73 35.98 10.23 10.45 9.15 11.00 12.44 10.90 12.81 14.77 10.19 16.69 5.77 10.05 11.14 13.69 15.52 22.59 9.32 11.00 12.44 10.98 13.05 15.04 10.19 16.69 5.88 10.05 11.14 13.93 15.79 22.99 9.15 11.00 12.44 10.90 12.81 14.77 10.19 16.69 5.77 10.05 11.14 13.69 15.52 22.59 10.21 10.51 17.80 10.11 17.83 10.11 8.42 5.45 16.39 10.21 13.37 13.37 16.07 11.31 12.42 11.00 11.37 12.40 11.36 12.17 10.01 10.01 10.01 10.01 12.18 21.91 11.03 21.96 11.04 10.21 10.51 17.80 10.11 17.83 10.11 8.59 5.56 16.39 10.21 13.63 13.63 16.39 11.54 12.42 11.00 11.37 12.40 11.36 12.17 10.01 10.01 10.01 10.01 12.18 21.91 11.03 21.96 11.04 10.01 10.51 17.80 10.11 17.83 10.11 8.42 5.45 16.39 10.21 13.23 13.23 16.07 11.31 12.42 11.00 11.37 12.40 11.36 12.17 10.01 10.01 10.01 10.01 12.18 21.91 11.03 21.96 11.04 11.88 10.14 10.13 10.31 10.29 10.54 10.58 10.40 10.41 10.36 10.38 10.38 10.20 10.23 12.05 10.14 10.13 10.31 10.29 10.54 10.58 10.40 10.41 10.36 10.38 10.38 10.20 10.23 11.88 10.14 10.13 10.31 10.29 10.49 10.58 10.40 10.41 10.31 10.32 10.38 10.20 10.23 11.55 12.91 11.04 21.97 10.24 10.59 17.74 11.55 12.91 11.04 21.97 10.24 10.59 18.09 11.38 12.72 11.04 21.97 10.24 10.59 17.74 m D Daewoo Motor 4, 3.81, 3.87 Dalmia Cemen 214, 218, 207.50, 212.65 210, 215, 207.50, 209.70 Danlaw Tech. 30.10, 31.75, 29 Datanet Sys. 5.15 Datapro Inf. 0.65, 0.68, 0.58, 0.64 DCM 17.50, 18.10, 15.98, 16.37 18.25, 18.25, 16.15, 16.30 DCM Shr.Con 90, 86, 89 86.60, 91, 86.60, 88.90 DCW 22.10, 22.80, 21.20, 21.55 25.50, 25.50, 21.60, 21.75 Deccan Cem. 42.55, 47.65, 46 Deepak Fert. 24.60, 25, 24.25, 24.50 24.30, 25.15, 24.25, 24.80 Deepak Nitr. 61, 62, 60.10, 61.85 Dena Bank 19.45, 19.90, 19.10, 19.25 19.55, 19.90, 19.10, 19.30 Denso (I) 33.50, 35.25, 33.40, 34.60 B Bajaj Auto F 61.90, 58.50, 59.25 60.90, 60.90, 58.85, 59.15 Bajaj Elec. 30.80, 34.55 Bajaj Hindus 134, 140.55, 129, 130.55 130, 141.20, 128.15, 129.95 Bajaj Tempo 251, 258, 240.05, 250.35 Bal Pharma 26.40, 27.10, 25.05, 26.05 Bal.Law.Vanl 16.10, 16.15 Balaji Dist. 7.50, 7.80, 7.30, 7.59 7, 7.70, 7, 7.65 Balkrish Ind 138.50, 139.50, 131.50, 131.55 Balmer Law.I 42.50, 43.80, 41.25, 43.05 Balmer Lawri 95, 89, 90 91.50, 92.40, 90, 90.25 Balrampur Ch 181, 171, 171.60 179, 180, 169.90, 171.35 Banco Prod. 69.10, 72, 69.65 Bank of Punj 23.40, 23.85, 22.60, 23.15 22.15, 23.80, 22.15, 23.05 Bank of Raj. 26, 26.60, 25.75, 26 26.40, 26.65, 25.80, 26 Bannari Aman 171.60, 176.40, 167, 167.30 171.10, 173, 167, 169 Bayer (I) 1300, 1350, 1334.75 Bayer ABS 94.65, 98, 95.75 96, 110, 93.65, 96.80 Bayer Diagno 225.10, 229.95, 229.75 Berger Paint 82.50, 84.40, 83 81.70, 83.90, 81.70, 82.55 BF Utilities 21, 19.75, 20 Bhagya.Metal 27.90 Bhansali Eng 56, 55.90, 58.05 Bharat Bijle 605, 633.50, 595, 633.05 Bharat Rasay 34.10 35.45, 35.45, 34.10, 34.45 Bhartiya Int 30.45, 28.65, 28.85 29.50, 29.90, 28.85, 29 Bhushan Stl. 61, 64.50, 62.10 BI 113.25 Bihar Caustc 24, 24.30, 23, 23.60 Bimetal Bear 135, 135.05, 130.10, 134.90 Binani Inds. 22.55, 24.85, 23.45 Biopac (I) 8.13, 8.14, 7.50, 7.81 Birla Corp. 37.25, 39.20, 36.50, 37.95 36.75, 39.50, 36.50, 37.65 Birla Eric. 16.85, 16.95, 16, 16.20 16.60, 16.75, 15.85, 16.10 Birla Glob.F 31.25, 32.35, 29.35, 30.25 31.40, 32.65, 29.05, 29.85 Birla Yamaha 23.55, 24.20, 22, 23.30 BITS 0.70, 0.81, 0.60, 0.68 BLB 7.10, 8.05, 7.10, 8 Blow Plast 18.50, 20.50, 17.05, 19.24 Blue Dart Ex 81.20, 83 83.50, 83.50, 82.10, 83.15 Blue Star 95.40, 96, 88, 90.15 96.50, 96.50, 90, 90.95 Blue Star In 133.30, 138, 132.90, 134.15 135, 136.40, 132.65, 133.75 BOC 36.50, 44, 42.10 44, 44.10, 41.60, 42.10 Bombay Burma 39, 40, 37, 39.95 38.50, 39, 38.50, 38.95 Bongaigaon R 49.50, 52.90, 51.80 50.40, 52.65, 50, 51.80 BPL 41.70, 37.50, 38.50 40.85, 40.95, 37.90, 38.35 BPL Engg. 6.90, 6.99, 6.20, 6.31 7, 7, 6.10, 6.15 BSEL Inform. 16, 16.05, 15.85, 16 13.60, 17.90, 13.60, 16 BSL 34.50, 34 34.15, 35.15, 34.15, 34.25 Burrough Wel 498, 499, 455, 467.70 Dewan H.Fin. 26.40, 25, 26.35 25.50, 25.95, 25, 25.55 DFM Foods 7.30, 8.15, 8.14 DGP Windsor 7.50, 7.25 7.10, 7.70, 7.10, 7.25 Dhampur Sugr 20, 20.35, 18.75, 18.85 19.80, 20.35, 18.85, 19.05 Dhanalak.Bnk 22.25, 22.40, 22 Dharamsi Mor 9.13, 9.46, 9.05, 9.07 Dhunseri Tea 22, 18.60, 18.80 Divi’s Lab 565, 567, 539, 544.10 556, 566.80, 538.25, 543.05 Dolat Inv. 4, 4.34 Dolphin Off. 14.50, 15.99, 15.72 Donear Inds. 140, 148, 140 DSJ Comm. 0.68, 0.70, 0.66, 0.69 0.70, 0.70, 0.65, 0.70 Duphar-Inter 142.70, 144.90, 140 E Eicher 45, 43.75, 44 41, 45, 41, 44.95 Eicher Motor 155, 156, 153.50, 153.65 154.10, 155.50, 152.50, 153.30 EID Parry 119.90, 135, 130.40 120.05, 134, 118.30, 130.15 EIH Asso.Hot 15, 16 Eimco Elecon 59, 56.10 55.50, 60.50, 55.50, 59.15 Elder Pharma 71.50, 71.70, 67.90, 69.45 70.50, 71.80, 68.10, 68.60 Elecon Engg. 18.10, 19, 18.05, 18.65 Elect.Kelvin 7.95, 8.50, 8.38 Electro.Cast 296, 299.50, 295, 295.10 297, 300, 293.10, 293.45 Elgi Equip 42.80, 44.25, 41.80, 42.50 42.35, 44.50, 42, 42.50 Elgitread (I 222, 222, 210.95, 210.95 Elpro Inter 22.10, 21.65, 22 Emco 43.80, 45, 42.55, 42.95 Encore Soft 14.20, 14.70, 14, 14.20 Eonour Tech. 3.47, 3.35, 3.40 Epic Enzymes 13.10, 13.50, 12.10, 12.11 Esab (I) 41.65, 43.60, 42.35 43.50, 43.50, 42.10, 42.20 ESI 32.40, 30.40, 31.60 32.45, 32.50, 30.95, 31.15 Eskay K’N’It 4.89, 5, 4.35, 4.41 Essar Oil 9.95, 10.85, 9.90, 10.30 Essar Ship. 13, 13.50, 12.92, 13.02 Essar Steel 17.80, 19.50, 17.60, 18.85 18, 19.50, 17.60, 18.75 ETC Networks 56.35, 58.35, 55, 55.55 57.10, 57.95, 54.20, 55.35 Eurotex Inds 15, 15.20, 14.55, 14.57 14.95, 15.35, 14.80, 14.85 Eveready Ind 25.05, 25.50, 24.15, 24.50 25, 25.35, 24.35, 24.80 Everest Inds 95.45, 100.90, 94, 95.10 96.50, 100.35, 93.55, 95.10 Excel Inds. 105.85, 109.90, 104.65, 107.65 102.60, 108, 102.60, 106.50 C Camlin 64.60, 72, 64.50, 70.40 Camph.& All 30.50, 30.90, 30.50 Canara Bank 103, 106, 100.25, 102.20 95, 106, 95, 102 Canfin Homes 37.85, 38.95, 37.50 37.95, 38.75, 37.15, 37.45 Caprihans(I) 24.10, 27.10 Carborundum 147.95, 148, 144.55, 144.95 144.10, 149, 144.10, 146.35 CCL Products 20.10, 19 Ceat 42.40, 42.70, 41.15, 41.50 42.20, 42.60, 40.10, 41.60 Centur. Bank 15, 17.54, 14.80, 16.54 15, 17.65, 14.80, 16.60 Cerebra Inte 5.07, 5.35, 5.19 CESC 47.30, 48.80, 45.80, 47 48.20, 48.85, 46, 46.95 CG Igarshi M 63.80, 65.85, 61, 61.55 64, 66.75, 60.10, 61.40 Chemfab Alk. 32, 29.50 Chemplast Sa 28, 27.60, 28 27.95, 27.95, 27.10, 27.10 Chettinad Ce 78.50, 81.95, 77, 79.20 Cheviot Co. 170, 181.40, 166.20, 173.65 Chola.Inv&Fi 52.50, 52.95, 50, 51.30 52.75, 53.10, 50.80, 51.05 Chowgule Stm 7.38, 7.50, 7.04, 7.18 Ciba Sp.Chem 119, 116.50, 117.20 Cinevistaas 29.15, 30, 29.10, 29.15 29.25, 30.70, 29.20, 29.40 City Union B 61.50, 62.35, 60, 60.80 60.20, 62, 60.20, 60.55 Clariant (I) 160.05, 163.95, 162.25 159.10, 163.60, 159.10, 162.70 NA R Floating Rate Fund 10.12 Floating(D) 10.03 Floating(WD) 10.01 Govt.Sec. (A-D) 11.97 Govt.Sec. (A-G) 20.31 Govt.Sec. (B-D) 10.74 Govt.Sec. (B-G) 14.21 Liquidity (D) 12.41 Liquidity (DD) 10.01 Liquidity (G) 15.00 Opportunities 11.69 Savings Plus 10.66 Savings Plus (MD) 10.29 Savings Plus (QD) 10.43 Short Term (G) 10.70 Short Term (WD) 10.04 Short Term(D) 10.20 Technology.Com 4.80 Top 100 (G) 13.25 Top 100(D) 12.38 Escorts Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 13.19 Balanced (G) 14.65 Gilt (D) 12.34 Gilt (G) 13.51 Growth (G) 14.18 Growth (D) 12.95 Income (D) 10.55 Income (G) 18.92 Income Bond (D) 10.25 Income Bond (G) 12.18 Opportunities (D) 11.24 Opportunities (G) 13.46 Tax (D) 11.75 Tax (G) 11.75 First India Mutual Fund Gilt 11.19 Growth 12.74 Income 11.20 Income Fund (D) 10.51 Liquid (D) 10.21 Liquid (G) 11.01 Short Term 10.73 Short Term (D) 10.27 Tax Gain 42.95 Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund FT Asset Allocat.Bal Gr. 11.49 FT Asset Allocat.Cons Gr. 11.37 FT Asset Allocat.Infl 11.08 FT Asset Allocat.Pure Gr. 11.85 FT Asset Allocat.Steady G 11.64 FT Balanced (G) 11.43 FT Gilt Invst (G) 13.66 FT Gilt Invst (M’ly B) 12.42 FT Gilt Invst (Q’ly) 11.47 FT Gilt Liquid (G) 11.41 FT Gilt Liquid (M’ly) 10.31 FT Index - BSE 11.06 FT Index - Nifty 11.71 FT Monthly Income (G) 14.20 FT Monthly Income (M’ly B 12.87 FT Monthly Income (M) 11.09 FT Monthly Income (Q) 11.18 FT PE Ratio 10.53 Franklin Balanced(D) 12.50 Franklin Balanced(G) 13.02 Franklin Bluechip (D) 13.65 Franklin Bluechip (G) 30.80 Franklin FMCG 12.03 Franklin Growth 7.27 Franklin Index 9.12 Franklin Index Tax 9.34 Franklin Infotech (D) 8.77 Franklin Infotech (G) 12.83 Franklin Internet Opp 5.45 Franklin Intl. 9.52 Franklin Pharma 11.54 Franklin Prima (D) 20.64 Franklin Prima (G) 45.69 Franklin Prima Plus (D) 17.48 Franklin Prima Plus (G) 32.07 Franklin T TMA (Dly) 1511.96 M Classic Diam 47.10, 47.85, 46.10, 46.25 Clutch.Auto 13.47, 13.65, 12.75, 12.81 Coates (I) 108.05, 109.50, 109.30 102.35, 110.90, 102.35, 108.10 Cochin Minrl 19, 15.50, 15.95 Color Chips 8, 8.20, 7.65 7.90, 8.10, 7.60, 7.65 Colour Chem 235, 235.05, 232, 232.45 236, 237, 231.30, 232.90 Compucom Sof 23.75, 27, 25.85 Compudyne Wi 14, 14.40, 14.30 14.15, 14.40, 14, 14.15 Computech In 6.05, 6.11, 5.95, 5.96 6.25, 6.25, 5.90, 6 Cont.Const. 14.75, 16.60, 14.20, 16.55 Control Prnt 27.60, 28.25, 27.55, 28 Core Health. 6.55, 6.65, 6.26, 6.40 6.05, 6.60, 6.05, 6.45 Corom. Fert. 70.90, 71, 69.25, 70 71, 72, 70, 70.15 Cosmo Ferr. 9.20, 8.62, 8.76 Cosmo Films 92, 93, 89, 91.35 90.20, 92, 89.50, 90.25 Creative Eye 14.30, 14.78, 14.20, 14.58 14.25, 14.80, 13.80, 14.40 Crest Comm. 34, 32.80, 33.45 34.80, 34.80, 32.80, 33.60 CRISIL 363, 360, 365 359, 369.90, 359, 367.15 Cybertech Sy 9.40, 9.78, 9.25, 9.28 9.50, 9.90, 9.35, 9.45 Ankur Drugs 20, 22.25 Ansal Prop. 15.90, 14.40, 14.77 AP Paper 93, 97, 95.40 Apcotex Lat. 31.35, 30.15 32.75, 32.75, 30.10, 30.60 Aplab 33.75, 34.30, 31.05, 32 Aptech 56.95, 58.75, 54.60, 55.55 56.90, 59.10, 55.05, 55.75 Archies 60.35, 58.30, 59 60, 60.20, 58, 58.90 Arvind Rem. 5.60, 5.90, 5.14, 5.28 5.60, 5.95, 5.15, 5.35 Asahi (I) Gl 80.40, 84, 80, 81 81, 84.50, 79.50, 81.30 Ashapura Min 90.70, 92.10, 90.50, 92.10 Ashima 19.05, 18, 18.05 20, 20, 19.20, 19.35 Ashok Ley.Fn 55, 52, 52.05 53.70, 55, 51.05, 51.80 Asian Elect. 79, 82.35, 76.75, 77.35 79, 82.45, 76.85, 77.05 Asian Hotels 95.15, 101, 99 100.95, 101, 97.05, 99.65 Assam Co. 17.10, 21.05, 20.05 Astrazen.Ph. 370, 370, 361.10, 361.10 Atcom Techno 11, 11.19, 10.73, 10.98 10.75, 11.20, 10.70, 10.95 Atlas Copco 275, 266, 269 Atlas Cycles 80, 80.05, 79 77.10, 80.75, 77.10, 79.50 Atul 49.65, 47.25, 47.30 48.50, 48.95, 47.50, 47.60 Auto Axles 156, 159.35, 148.30, 155.10 153, 155, 149, 152.80 Avanti Feeds 32, 33.50, 32.15 Avery (I) 29, 33.50, 30.85 Avon Organic 56, 58, 54, 55.50 R F FAG Bearings 81, 82, 80, 80.50 79.10, 82, 78.75, 80.90 Fairfield At 18.80, 18.05, 18.84 FCGL Inds. 4.32, 5.18, 4.87 FCI OEN Con. 124, 113.75, 115.50 113.10, 118, 113.10, 115.10 FCL Techno. 25, 21.80, 22.05 23.95, 23.95, 21.65, 21.70 FDC 48.30, 49.50, 47.20, 48.25 47, 49.50, 47, 48.10 N m NA R S 10.12 10.03 10.01 11.97 20.31 10.74 14.21 12.41 10.01 15.00 11.92 10.66 10.29 10.43 10.70 10.04 10.20 4.90 13.52 12.63 10.12 10.03 10.01 11.97 20.31 10.74 14.21 12.41 10.01 15.00 11.69 10.66 10.29 10.43 10.70 10.04 10.20 4.80 13.25 12.38 13.36 14.83 12.34 13.51 14.39 13.15 10.55 18.92 10.25 12.18 11.24 13.46 11.75 11.75 13.19 14.65 12.34 13.51 14.18 12.95 10.55 18.92 10.25 12.18 11.24 13.46 — — 11.19 12.99 11.20 10.51 10.21 11.01 10.73 10.27 43.81 11.19 12.74 11.20 10.51 10.21 11.01 10.73 10.27 42.95 11.66 11.55 11.25 12.03 11.82 11.60 13.66 12.42 11.47 11.41 10.31 11.17 11.83 14.20 12.87 11.09 11.18 10.68 12.69 13.22 13.92 31.42 12.27 7.42 9.12 9.43 8.95 13.08 5.56 9.52 11.77 21.05 46.60 17.83 32.71 1511. 11.49 11.37 11.08 11.85 11.64 11.43 13.66 12.42 11.47 11.41 10.31 11.06 11.71 14.20 12.87 11.09 11.18 10.53 12.50 13.02 13.65 30.80 12.03 7.27 9.12 9.34 8.77 12.83 5.45 9.52 11.54 20.64 45.69 17.48 32.07 M The Times of India, New Delhi Fert.&Chem-T 28.65, 28.55 29.45, 29.50, 28.25, 28.65 Finan.Techno 22.95, 24.15, 19.80, 20.65 First Leasin 22.90, 23.45, 22.60, 22.70 22.05, 23, 22.05, 22.85 Flat Product 112.95, 115, 110, 114.05 Flex Enginer 17.70, 18, 17, 17.05 17.50, 17.70, 16.95, 17.20 Flex Foods 9.50, 11.10, 11 Flex Inds. 33, 30.55, 31.40 31.20, 32.65, 30.50, 31.20 Floatglass 34.85, 35.30, 33, 34.45 34.65, 35.55, 33.35, 34.45 Forbes Gokak 78, 101.20, 94.45 Fortune Info 22.50, 22.75, 21.60, 22.10 Foseco (I) 182.05, 187.80, 183.50 193.25, 193.25, 182, 185.30 Frontier Inf 3.82, 4, 3.81, 3.99 Fulford (I) 172.70, 180.20, 175.65 Futura Poly. 8.30, 9, 8.90 G Gabriel (I) 145.70, 152, 140.35, 145.10 Galaxy Enter 32.15, 32.35, 28.30, 29.40 Gammon (I) 140.05, 136, 138.95 139.05, 144, 138, 138.15 Gandhi Sp.Tu 23.20, 24.85 Garden Silk 32.50, 33.50, 32, 33.20 32.10, 33.75, 32.10, 33.10 Garware Poly 33, 34.25, 32.55, 32.85 Garware Wall 22.10, 23, 22.90 Gati 47, 39, 42.55 Genesys Intl 39.50, 41.15, 38, 38.70 44, 44, 37.90, 39.50 Geodesic Inf 178.90, 185.95, 169.95, 170 George Willi 53.15, 51.65 51.80, 52, 51.40, 51.85 GIC Housing 20.35, 20.50, 19.55, 19.95 19.80, 20.50, 19.65, 20.05 GIVO 2.80 Glenmark Pha 312, 314.95, 301, 305.05 312, 313.95, 303, 307.25 Global Tr.Bk 23.05, 25.90, 22.85, 25.40 23, 25.95, 22.85, 25.35 GMR Techno. 18, 18.40, 17.30, 17.90 Goa Carbon 56.95, 57.45, 54, 54.60 Godavri Fert 92.85, 93, 91.10, 91.70 91, 92.50, 91, 91.45 Godfrey Phil 365, 392, 375.10 370, 390, 368.75, 381.30 Godrej Cons. 118.50, 120, 118, 119 118.50, 121.50, 118, 118.60 Godrej Inds. 33.10, 33.50, 32.65, 33.40 33, 33.70, 32.50, 33.45 Goetze (I) 42.90, 44.90, 42.50, 42.85 42, 44.10, 42, 42.45 Goldiam Int. 32, 31.75 Goldstn.Tech 20.10, 20.20, 19.55, 19.65 20.20, 20.25, 19.25, 19.80 Goldstn.Tele 8.05, 8.48, 8, 8.20 8.20, 8.55, 8.20, 8.25 Gonter Peip 7.37, 7.68, 7.26, 7.40 Goodlass Ner 260, 253.75, 254.30 256, 260, 256, 258 Goodricke 37.25, 38, 36, 36.45 Goodyear (I) 37.75, 38, 36.10, 36.65 Grabal Al.Im 25.80, 25 Graphite Ind 52, 52.40, 51, 51.65 51.55, 52.50, 51, 51.40 Grauer & Wei 34.50, 34.75, 30.10, 30.85 Gravity (I) 17, 18.05, 17.50 Greaves 22, 22.75, 21.70, 22.05 Grind Norton 137, 141.50, 132.70, 135 Gruh Finance 23.70, 24.55, 24 GTC Inds. 16.70, 17.50, 16.10, 16.42 17.85, 17.85, 16, 16.35 GTN Textiles 32.10, 32.95, 31.80 32, 32.35, 31.55, 32 Gufic Bio Sc 28.10, 28.60, 27 Guj.Alkalies 36, 36.75, 35.25, 35.75 35.50, 37, 35, 35.45 Guj.Amb.Exp. 17.30, 17.80, 17.25, 17.65 17, 18.30, 17, 17.95 Guj.Apollo E 61.50, 58, 59.05 Guj.Flouroch 78, 76.75, 79 78.50, 79, 76, 77 Guj.H.Chem 25.90, 26.45, 25.05, 25.20 25.80, 26.50, 25.15, 25.25 Guj.Ind.Pow. 27.50, 26.30, 26.85 26.60, 27.70, 26.15, 26.70 Guj.Sidh.Cem 6.75, 7.25, 6.60, 6.93 6.60, 7.25, 6.50, 6.90 Gulf Oil Cor 84, 87.50, 83.05, 83.50 H Harr.Malayal 20, 21.45, 19.50, 19.90 19.75, 21.20, 19.50, 19.75 Hathway Bhaw 14.25, 13.50, 13.63 Havell’s (I) 158.45, 155, 160.40 155, 159.30, 155, 159.30 Hawkins Cook 19, 19.85, 19.50 Hazoor Media 13.75, 13.98, 11.80, 11.90 HBL Nife Pow 45.10, 46.50, 41.50, 42.55 HEG 50.60, 51.85, 51.25 51, 51.95, 50.60, 50.90 Helios & Mat 19.25, 19.75, 18.75 Henkel Spic 20.30, 20.55, 20, 20.15 Heritage Fds 70, 71.25, 71.10 69.55, 71, 69.55, 70.95 HFCL Infotel 22.05, 22.30, 20.50, 20.80 Hi-Tech Gear 162.50, 155 159.50, 160, 152, 152.10 Hikal 296.05, 313, 290, 290.50 340, 344, 290, 292.35 Himat. Seide 142, 144.95, 142.75 141.25, 144, 141, 141.50 Hind.Constn. 80.50, 83.90, 78, 79.65 80, 83.85, 78, 79.35 Hind.Inks&Re 270, 271, 268, 268.45 270, 272, 268, 268.20 Hind.Motors 13, 14.85, 14.42 13.35, 14.80, 13.35, 14.30 Hind.Org.Chm 22.75, 23.25, 22.55, 22.70 23, 23.15, 22.50, 22.70 Hind.Power 38.95, 40, 38.25, 38.40 Hind.Sanitar 78, 74, 74.95 77, 77.65, 74, 74.65 Hind.Spg &Wg 13, 12.50 12.50, 12.50, 12.50, 12.50 Hitachi Home 22.50, 23 22.80, 23.05, 22.50, 23 Honda SIEL P 124.95, 117.10, 120 117.10, 120, 116.05, 116.10 Hotel Leela. 25.10, 27.80, 24.75, 27.60 25, 27.65, 24.60, 27.25 I-flex Solu 1111, 1164, 1102, 1150.50 1135, 1163.95, 1102, 1147.90 IFCI 8.85, 9.35, 8.68, 8.81 8.90, 9.35, 8.65, 8.80 IL&FS Invt.M 23.50, 23.75, 22.60, 23 N m S m m m m m m m m m m m m W m m m m m m M M m m m m m m w M MM M M M M M M W M W M L Lakhani (I) 77, 72.65 Lakshmi Au.C 95, 95.80, 94, 94.35 96.30, 96.50, 92.95, 93 Lakshmi Elec 64.30, 68, 64.20 Lakshmi Mach 2748, 2760.15 2705, 2705.05, 2705, 2705.05 Lanco Inds. 14.25, 15.80, 14.88 Landmarc Lei 9.75, 9.01, 9.23 LCC Infotech 3.35, 3.80, 3.35, 3.70 LG Balkrish 144, 153, 141.50, 152.85 140, 154.90, 140, 151.70 Liberty Shoe 78, 79.50, 75.65, 76.25 75, 79.40, 75, 76.95 Lloyds Steel 4.40, 4.65, 4.31, 4.49 4.45, 4.65, 4.35, 4.50 Logix Micro. 17.90, 18.20, 17, 17.20 Loy.Tex Mill 72, 73.90, 70.30, 73.40 Lumax Ind 43, 43.30, 42, 42.70 42.70, 44.30, 42.70, 43 Lyka Labs 30.90, 31.85, 30.55, 30.65 31, 33.50, 30.50, 30.75 M OCL (I) 153.30, 155.50, 147.10, 150.45 Odyssey Tech 17.35, 20.60, 16.50, 17.47 Oil Country 12.85, 14.24, 13.85 13.45, 14.30, 13, 13.75 Omax Autos. 52.10, 56.50, 53.30 54.95, 56.50, 52.80, 53.25 Ondeo Nalco 320.10, 313 Onward Techn 24.60, 25.40, 24.15, 24.30 24.70, 25.40, 24.25, 24.40 Opto Circuit 54.50, 58, 53.30, 54.20 Orbit Multi 0.43, 0.47, 0.39, 0.42 Orchid Chem 160, 164, 157.75, 161.95 161.10, 164, 157.50, 161.25 Orient Info. 34.25, 34.80, 34.30 33.60, 34.90, 33.60, 34.50 Orient Paper 27.75, 29, 27.15, 27.20 28.35, 28.55, 27.15, 27.30 Oriental Con 27.60, 27.50, 30.50 Oriental Hot 85, 84.90, 85 84.90, 85, 84.90, 85 Oswal Chem. 5.75, 5.79, 5.55, 5.68 5.85, 5.85, 5.60, 5.70 m w M M m w D Krone Comm 94.80, 96, 88, 89.80 KSB Pumps 97.10, 93.55, 93.95 96, 97, 93.45, 94 M M P m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m M m m w M m m m m m m m M m m m m & M m m m m m m m M — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Panacea Biot 37.65, 37.70, 36.50, 36.60 36.40, 38, 36.30, 36.80 Pantaloon Re 122.10, 130.90, 126.60 129.70, 131, 125.10, 126.55 Paper Prod. 128.60, 124, 125 124, 129, 122, 125.75 Paramount Co 7.98, 9.38, 7.75, 8 Parekh Plati 9, 8.84 8.60, 9.10, 8.60, 8.95 Parry Agro 86.05, 90, 87.15 Parry’s Conf 125, 125, 120.10, 120.25 Patel Engg. 168, 167 Patspin (I) 13, 12.60, 12.80 12.10, 12.95, 12.10, 12.60 PCS Inds. 24.75, 25.40, 23.95, 25.05 Pennar Alum. 4.25, 3.80, 3.85 Pentagon Glo 1.86, 2.04, 1.90 Pentasoft Te 6.50, 6.60, 6.27, 6.34 6.90, 7, 6, 6.40 Pharmacia He 102, 104.30, 100.05, 103.50 100.75, 104, 100.50, 103.65 PHIL Corpn. 7, 7.08, 6.50, 6.90 6.70, 7, 6.70, 6.80 Phillip Carb 41.90, 42.50, 41, 42 3741 66 3765 62 1 13% K M M 1171 05 J m 3832 50 1184 45 O M M M M M M M M BSE SHARE INDEX 1203 60 Maars Soft 10.05, 10.11, 9.75, 9.99 10.30, 10.30, 9.80, 10 Macmillan (I 219.60, 215, 218.45 212, 219.90, 212, 216.70 Madhav Marb. 22.10, 22.20, 21.50, 21.90 Madhucon Prj 71.65, 72, 67, 71.85 Jagatjit Ind 24, 22.10, 23 Madras Alum 120, 132.50, 118, Jagsonpal Ph 103, 105 122.90 106, 106, 100.55, 102.60 Madras Cem. 5801.45, 6190, Jai Corp 76.95, 84.85, 72.10, 76.90 6165.75 Jain Irrig. 76.35, 79, 73, 74.15 6050, 6248, 5988, 6158.10 74, 79.80, 73.05, 74.45 Madras Fert. 21, 22.30, 20.75, 21.10 Jain Studios 16.75, 15.75, 16 21.25, 22.40, 21, 21.20 15.90, 16.10, 15.05, 15.50 Mah.Scooter 92, 88.60, 89.60 Jaipan Inds. 8.15, 8.29, 8.10 90.05, 91, 90, 90.25 Jay Bh.Marut 48.50, 50, 47.60, 49.25 Mah.Seamless 158.15, 159.50, 46.70, 50.85, 46.70, 49.30 156.10, 157.60 Jayant Agro 46.50, 47.20, 45.70, 161.95, 161.95, 157, 157.15 45.75 Mahavir Spg. 85, 87, 83.70, 84.50 45.50, 48, 45, 45.90 80.55, 87.40, 80, 84.30 Jaypee Hotel 11.50, 12.50, 12.03 Mahind.Gesco 17.15, 18.40, 18.20 Jayshree Tea 43.20, 43.75, 43.50 18.55, 18.55, 17.80, 18.10 43.05, 44.50, 43.05, 43.30 Mahindra Ugi 12.10, 13, 12.30 JBF Inds. 17.50, 15.85, 16 12.25, 12.80, 12.20, 12.50 JBM Tools 50.55, 50.50, 52.95 Majestic Aut 33.15, 33.50, 31.35, 51.50, 53.75, 51, 52.85 31.40 JCT 6.70, 7, 6.50, 6.85 Malwa Cotton 33.50, 34.70, 33.05 Jenson&Nicho 6.10, 6.55, 6.35 33, 35.90, 33, 33 6.35, 6.55, 6.25, 6.45 Man Inds.(I) 69.90, 72.90, 64, 65.85 JIK Inds. 19.85, 18.15, 20.05 Mangalam Cem 12.25, 13.40, 12.51 20.95, 20.95, 19.45, 19.60 12.40, 13.20, 12.15, 12.60 Jindal Drill 152, 161, 159.20 Manglr.Chem 6, 6.40, 5.96, 5.99 Jindal Iron 115.95, 123.90, 121.10 Manugraph In 30.15, 30.50 117, 124, 116.05, 120.50 Maral Overs 17.80, 18.05, 17, 17.10 Jindal Photo 55.75, 56.75, 53.60, 17.75, 18, 17.10, 17.40 55.10 Mascon Globl 10.25, 9.45, 9.49 56.90, 56.90, 53.65, 54.80 Matrix Lab. 618, 643.15, 639.15 Jindal Poly. 133.10, 133 Matsush.Tele 7.10, 7.49, 7.05, 7.36 133.10, 139.95, 133.10, 135.95 7.10, 7.40, 7, 7.10 Jindal Strip 233.90, 240, 232.55, Matsushita L 50, 51, 50.05 235.30 Mefcom Capit 5.35, 4.56, 5.10 236, 239.70, 233, 235.20 Mega Corpn. 3.60 JJ Exporters 33.70 JK Corpn. 13.98, 14.20, 13.15, 13.35 Melstar Info 16.55, 16.60, 16 16.25, 16.65, 16, 16.10 JK Inds. 38.90, 39.50, 37, 37.35 Mercator Lin 112.95, 117.50, 103.20, JK Synthetic 5.60, 5.82, 5.40, 5.55 JL Morison 130.30, 132, 129, 130.20 108.20 Metroche.Ind 23.05, 23 JMC Projects 23.85, 22.60, 22.95 MICO 6180, 6625, 6453.70 Jog Engg. 11.60, 11.30 6495, 6611, 6320, 6387 Jubilant Org 244.10, 250.90, 249.90 Mid-Day Mul. 18.50, 18.60, 18 243.25, 253.80, 243, 248.90 18.70, 18.70, 18.20, 18.20 Jupiter BioS 91.40, 93.50, 88, 89.35 Mindteck 16, 16.45, 16.15 Jyoti Struct 45, 46.65, 43.60, 44 Mirza Tanner 37, 37.10, 36.65 45.60, 46.80, 43.40, 44.30 37.40, 37.40, 36, 36.80 MM Forgings 129.45, 122, 123.05 Mobile Tele 8.30, 9.28, 8, 8.99 Kaashyap Rad 1.55, 1.60, 1.51, 1.57 Modipon 22.45 Kabra Extr 64.10, 64.45, 63, 64.20 Monalisa Inf 0.40, 0.44, 0.39, 0.42 63.90, 65.25, 63.50, 64 Monnet Ispat 50, 52, 49, 49.40 Kajaria Cer 36.50, 36.05, 37.50 Monsanto (I) 940, 976, 921.55, 36.55, 37.90, 36.10, 37.30 925.45 Kakatiya Cem 48.05, 45, 45.55 935, 980, 925, 931.15 47.10, 48.25, 45, 45.35 Morarjee Goc 15.30, 17, 16.85 Kale Consul. 39.05, 39.65, 38.60, 15.65, 17, 15.65, 16.95 38.90 Morepen Lab 9.51, 9.69, 9.35, 9.44 41.35, 41.35, 38.55, 38.75 9.55, 9.60, 9.35, 9.45 Kalpa.Power 43.50, 41.25 Morgan Stan 10.80, 10.95, 10.65, 42.35, 42.90, 42.35, 42.50 10.89 Kalyani Brak 341, 341, 341, 341 10.80, 11, 10.70, 10.90 Kalyani Shrp 7.20, 6.96, 7.14 Motherson SS 210, 212, 193.50, Kalyani Stel 42.90, 44, 41.10, 41.95 201.35 Kanoria Chem 44 193.05, 201, 193, 199.70 39.50, 41.70, 39, 40.30 Moving Pictu 7, 6.50 Karnatak Bnk 82, 83, 80.25, 80.85 Mro-Tek 14, 14.05, 13.70, 13.79 82, 82.85, 80.50, 81.05 13.70, 14.10, 13.70, 13.90 Karur Vysya 230, 236.50, 226.60, MRPL 23.15, 24.40, 23.75 228.25 23.40, 24.50, 23.10, 23.75 233.90, 237, 227, 229.05 Mukand 24.50, 25.85, 24.50 KDL Biotech 18, 18.20, 17.35, 17.45 25, 26, 24.20, 24.40 17.95, 18.40, 17.35, 17.55 Mukand Engrs 11.26, 11.73, 9.66, KEC Inter. 23.95, 24, 22.90, 23 9.89 23.80, 24.20, 22.90, 23.10 11.50, 11.70, 10.75, 10.85 Kerala Ayurv 12.50, 13, 12.61 Munjal Auto 55.50, 55.75, 51, 52.45 Kerala Chem. 26, 27.10, 26.45 Munjal Showa 168, 165.05 Kesoram Inds 45.15, 47, 44, 45.20 168.75, 169, 164, 164.50 44.55, 46.80, 44.10, 45.35 Murd.Ceram 20.45, 20.50, 19.40, KG Denim 21.90, 23, 21.70, 22.20 19.45 Khandwala Se 11.80, 10.75 Mys.Cement 11.60, 12, 11.10, 11.27 11.25, 11.25, 10.75, 10.75 11.50, 12, 11.10, 11.25 Khoday (I) 13.75, 15.70, 14.55 Kinetic Eng. 70, 75.35, 73.65 Kinetic Moto 31, 32, 30.75, 31.80 Kirloskar Br 132.05, 133.25, 128.30, Nagar.Agrich 16.95, 16.30, 16.85 Nagar.Const. 69.90, 70, 67, 68.95 128.80 Nagar.Fertil 7.10, 7.19, 6.95, 6.99 Kirloskar Oi 175.50, 176.50, 173, 6.95, 7.20, 6.90, 7 175.80 Nahar Export 26.40, 26.85, 25.55, 175, 176.75, 174.50, 176.05 25.70 Kit-Ply Ind. 5.61, 5.69, 5.33, 5.42 25.80, 27, 25.60, 25.65 5.30, 5.70, 5.30, 5.45 Nahar Indl.E 15.20, 16, 15.70 KLG Systel 35.65, 38.50, 36.25 Nahar Intl. 8.26, 8.95, 8.80 36.15, 38.70, 35.75, 36.35 7.20, 8.95, 7.20, 8.70 Kopran 46.40, 46.85, 43.65, 45.25 Nahar Spg. 106, 97, 98.25 44.40, 47, 43.90, 45.30 99, 101.70, 97, 98.60 Kothari Prod 177.70, 175.20, 176.55 Narmada C.Pe 16.05, 16.40, 16.15 179.95, 179.95, 177.25, 178.05 16.10, 16.40, 16, 16 KPIT Cum.Inf 173.90, 175.50, Nat.Steel &A 13.42, 13.95, 13.30, 169.60, 171.35 13.52 175.95, 175.95, 169.15, 171.65 13, 13.95, 13, 13.80 KRBL 46.95, 50.50, 46.75, 48.80 Natco Pharma 89.70, 89.95, 85.10, 47.50, 49.70, 46.95, 48.50 85.45 Krebs Bioche 165, 173.80, 164.05, 85, 89.80, 84.80, 85.30 170.55 Nath Seeds 10.25, 10.60, 10.20, Krishna Life 2.22, 2.38, 2.25 10.41 10.20, 10.60, 10.10, 10.30 National Fer 59.10, 61, 58.65, 58.90 National Per 1210, 1159.05 NA R Nava Bh.Ferr 96, 97, 91.50, 91.75 94, 95.50, 91, 91.75 R S Navneet Pub. 143, 145.40, 139, 139.95 143.50, 145.50, 138, 140.35 NCL Inds. 8.70, 9.25, 8.20, 9.03 Nelco 31.45, 33.50, 33 35.25, 35.25, 31.85, 32.25 Neuland Lab. 113.25, 120, 111, 114.80 NHN Corpn. 11, 11.90 Nilkamal Pls 37.50, 39.90, 37.75 38.90, 40.50, 37.60, 38.25 Noble Explo. 7.45, 7.05, 7.10 NOCIL 10, 10.03, 9.80, 9.86 10.30, 10.30, 9.75, 9.75 Noida Toll 6.99, 7 7.05, 7.15, 7.05, 7.05 Nova Petro. 42.50 39, 39, 36.65, 36.70 Novopan Inds 35.90, 34.05, 34.85 34, 35.95, 34, 35.95 NRB Bearings 93, 92, 92.15 99, 99, 91.05, 91.20 NRC 17.25, 18.50, 16.70, 17.82 19.70, 19.70, 16.75, 17.80 Nucleus Soft 65.35, 66.85, 65.30, 65.45 61, 66.90, 61, 65.85 m m m M m m m M m m W m W NSE SHARE INDEX N I R 22.35, 23.45, 22.35, 22.75 Ind.Swift 87, 98.75, 91.15 Ind.Swift La 27.50, 28.45, 25.10, 27.30 27.40, 28.30, 26.80, 27.15 India Foils 9.55, 9.30, 9.50 9.50, 9.75, 9.25, 9.65 India Gelat. 19.20, 17.95, 18.95 India Glycol 46.80, 48.85, 45.25, 46.35 India Gypsum 36.25, 36.45, 34.50, 34.85 33, 35.95, 33, 35.80 India Nippon 298, 300, 293.55, 295.20 294.90, 298, 286.05, 293.10 India Polyfi 5.50, 5.89, 5, 5.51 Indian Card 58.20, 66, 61.55 65, 65, 61.15, 62.10 Indian Hume 1201.85, 1154.75, 1159.35 1232.60, 1232.60, 1184.25, 1184.50 Indian Resor 60, 70.80, 67.20 Indian SeamM 17.35, 17.85, 17.50 Indo Gulf Fe 67.10, 67.60, 66.80, 67 68.50, 68.50, 66.55, 66.95 Indo Mat.Car 85, 87, 83, 86.35 Indo Nationl 330.85, 335, 330.85, 334.60 Indo Rama Sy 34.40, 33, 33.90 33.50, 34.20, 33, 33.80 Indraprast.M 16, 16.30, 16.25 16.20, 16.40, 16.05, 16.25 Indus.Inv.Tr 17.25, 17 Indusind Bnk 25.40, 26.10, 24.75, 25.55 25.75, 26.30, 25, 25.65 ING Vysya Bk 461, 476, 460, 464.10 458, 475, 458, 461.75 Insilco 15.65, 16.30, 16.10 Inter.Travel 34.85, 35.30, 33.50, 34.20 IOL Broadban 11, 12.56, 10.30, 11.31 Ion Exchange 30.30, 30.50, 28.60, 28.85 IP Rings 80, 79.50, 86.35 IPCA Lab. 329.95, 335, 326, 328 327, 336, 321.50, 328.70 Isibars 7.10, 7.40, 7.02, 7.20 Ispat Inds. 11.60, 12.25, 11.50, 11.65 11.40, 12.25, 11.40, 11.75 IT & T 11.95, 11.56, 11.95 12.10, 12.20, 11.60, 11.80 ITC Hotels 69.50, 75.30, 69, 73.55 68, 75.25, 68, 73.30 IVP 26, 27.50, 26.90 27.80, 28, 26.20, 27.40 IVRCL Infras 82.75, 85.80, 82, 82.50 82.30, 86, 82, 82.90 0 63% 41, 42, 41, 41.20 Phoenix Lamp 18.80, 19, 18.50, 18.75 Pioneer Embr 31.50, 32.50, 32.40 Plastiblend 43.95, 44, 42.85, 42.95 PNB Gilts 24.20, 23.65, 23.80 23.80, 24, 23.60, 23.95 Polyplex 77, 83.20, 82.90 77.50, 84, 76, 82.35 Praj Ind. 64.95, 63 63.60, 63.70, 62.50, 62.80 Precision Wr 35.15, 35.90, 35.05, 35.50 35.90, 35.95, 35, 35.90 Premier Auto 5.51, 6 Premier Inst 280.50, 266, 268 273.50, 274, 265.50, 269.75 Premier Tyre 9, 8.50, 9.50 Prism Cement 9.50, 10.45, 9.05, 10.38 9.40, 10.50, 9.10, 10.25 Pritish Nand 29, 28 29, 29.20, 28.10, 28.55 Priyad.Cemen 16.10, 17.74, 17.21 14.55, 17.65, 14.55, 17.25 Prraneta Ind 4.08, 4.48, 4.07, 4.40 PSI Data Sys 70.50, 71, 70.35, 70.60 69.65, 71.60, 69.50, 70.90 PSL 61, 62.15, 58, 58.60 57.15, 61.95, 57.15, 58.25 Pudumjee Pul 26.95, 28, 26.05, 27 27, 27.90, 26.05, 26.30 Pun.Alkali 9, 9.50, 8.90, 9.05 Pun.Chemical 119, 127.75, 124.20 Pun.Communi. 51, 53, 50.60, 50.80 Pun.Nat.Bank 154, 156.70, 149.40, 152.75 156.50, 156.90, 149.20, 151.15 R Rain Calcing 21.90, 22, 20.90, 21.40 20.20, 22, 20.20, 21.25 Raj.Spg.&Wvg 24.50, 25.80, 25.35 24.60, 25.15, 24.60, 24.75 Rajesh Exp 100, 100.50, 99.85, 100.45 99.90, 100.25, 99.90, 100.25 Rajshree Sug 22.70, 23.80, 22.25, 22.65 19, 24, 19, 22.50 Rallis India 72.05, 73, 69.70, 70.80 70, 73.25, 67.90, 70.55 Rama Newspri 6.29, 6.45, 5.80, 6.31 5.70, 6.50, 5.40, 6.25 Ramco Inds. 233.50, 212.35, 213.40 216, 223.95, 214, 215.70 Ramco Systm 268, 280, 266, 268.30 267.05, 280, 264, 268.10 Rane Brake 180, 186, 182.10 Rane Madras 71.75, 67.25, 69.60 71, 73.50, 69, 69.90 Ravalgaon Su 2250, 2399, 2337.35 Rayban Sun O 50.80, 51, 49.50, 49.55 Reg.Ceramic 33.40, 31.10, 31.20 30.60, 32.50, 30.60, 31.20 Rel.Ind.Infr 45.60, 47, 45.95 46.55, 47, 45.25, 45.60 Relaxo Footw 23.50, 23.05, 23.50 Revathi Equ. 122.50, 124.25, 121, 122.45 Rico Auto 213.50, 224.50, 207.50, 210.05 213, 221, 200.50, 215.45 RPG Cables 12.95, 13.26, 12.51, 12.80 12.80, 13.50, 12.70, 12.80 RPG Life Sci 30.15, 30.45, 29, 29.20 32.50, 32.50, 28.05, 28.85 RPG Transmi. 9.65, 9.97, 9.31, 9.65 10.85, 10.85, 9.30, 9.45 RS Software 23.30, 23.40, 22.75 22.70, 23.40, 22.70, 23.05 Ruchi Soya 42.50, 45 44.15, 46.30, 42, 44.10 S S Kumars Nat 7, 7.30, 7 7.20, 7.30, 7.05, 7.25 S.I.Bank 52.55, 53, 51, 51.50 52.40, 53.30, 51.30, 51.60 S.I.C.Agency 12.50, 12.60, 12 12.30, 12.30, 12, 12 Sabero Org. 14, 12.50, 12.70 13.75, 13.75, 12.40, 12.95 Saint-Gobain 16.80, 16.95, 16 Sakthi Sugar 20, 21, 18.95, 19.53 20.50, 21.10, 18.90, 19.30 Salora Int. 45.40, 43.15, 43.30 45, 45.40, 44.50, 44.55 Samkrg Pist. 54.90, 51, 52.65 Samtel Color 28.50, 28.70, 27.80, 28 28.60, 28.60, 27.90, 28 Sandesh Ltd. 117.60, 117.50, 120 118, 120, 115.75, 118.15 Sangam (I) 26.40, 28.15, 26.90 26.15, 27.95, 26.15, 27.10 Sanwaria Agr 26.95, 25.10, 25.90 Saregama (I) 52.55, 53.10, 51, 51.75 54.90, 54.90, 51.20, 51.55 SAT Invest. 15, 15.07, 12.70, 12.77 Satnam Over. 48.50, 51.90, 47.25, 49.20 47.70, 50.40, 47, 49.80 Satvah.Ispat 15, 14.50, 16 Saurash.Cem. 13.70, 10.50, 12.27 Savita Chem. 98, 100.95, 96, 98.50 98, 100.85, 95, 97.65 SBI Home Fin 14.50, 14.95, 14.35, 14.60 14.10, 15, 14.10, 14.60 Schenec.Beck 73.10 Schenec.Herd 35, 35.10 Seagull Leaf 9, 9.25 Search Chem. 20, 20.90, 19.80, 20.50 19.50, 21.20, 19.50, 20.10 Selan Explor 15.01, 15.15, 15 Sesa Goa 160.40, 164, 159, 161.95 162, 164.10, 158.75, 162.35 Sesha.Paper 66.80, 67, 62.90, 63.30 68.10, 68.10, 62.60, 63.80 Sh.Cements 96.50, 102.70, 94, 97.20 96, 102.70, 93.50, 96.30 Sh.Digv.Cem. 45.05, 45.10, 37.10 Sh.Rama Mult 8.35, 8.39, 7.92, 8 8.45, 8.45, 8, 8 Shah Alloys 79.10, 71.75, 73 Shalimar Pai 42.55, 43.50, 40.35, 41.10 Shamken Mult 11.90, 13.20, 10.60, 12 10.70, 11.75, 10.05, 11.25 Shamken Spin 5.36, 5.35, 5.59 Shanti Gear 130, 134, 129.35 131, 133.75, 130, 131 Shasun Chem. 250, 260, 247.10, 256.25 246, 260.90, 246, 255.35 Shaw Wallace 50, 51.85, 49 Shirpur Gold 28, 25.70, 26.95 29.20, 29.20, 27.05, 28.15 Shiv Vani Un 18, 21.95, 20.60 Shrenuj & Co 33, 34.50, 31.55, 33 33, 36.45, 30.15, 32.60 Shriram Inv 17.70, 17.95, 17.30, 17.65 Shriram Tran 17, 17.15, 16.65, 16.90 16.75, 17.30, 16.75, 16.80 Siemens VDO 70, 71, 68.25, 69.80 Siltap Che. 69, 72, 67.40, 68.35 70, 72.50, 67.40, 68.30 Simbh.Sugar 13.10, 13.50, 12.75, 13.15 Simplex Conc 66.50, 67, 63 Sintex Inds. 53.80, 54, 50, 50.20 54.90, 54.90, 50.10, 50.10 Sirpur Paper 61.75, 62, 59.25 61.70, 62.25, 59.05, 59.45 Siyaram Silk 49.30, 50.90, 49.65 Skanska Ceme 235, 229, 230 232.15, 232.15, 229, 230 Snowcem (I) 19.75, 20.25, 19.60, 19.90 19.60, 19.95, 19.35, 19.55 Soffia Soft. 17.30, 17.50, 17.40 17.75, 18.65, 17.50, 18 Softsol (I) 13.15, 15.49, 13, 13.32 Software Tec 11.32, 11.79, 10.96, 11.16 11.35, 11.90, 10.80, 11.05 Solectron Ce 52, 52.50, 48.55, 49.75 Solvay Pharm 166.10, 167, 161.10, 165 Sona Koyo St 143.90, 146.75, 141, 145.15 Spel Semicon 3.70, 4, 3.55, 3.75 SPIC 8.10, 8.50, 8.32 9.25, 9.25, 7, 8.35 SPL 24.60 24.05, 24.05, 23.95, 24 SQL Star Int 7.80, 8.09, 7.87 SREI Int.Fin 11.50, 12.80, 12.35 11.80, 12, 11.70, 11.90 SRF 25, 25.20, 24.80, 24.95 22, 25.40, 22, 24.95 SRF Polymers 22.60, 23.60, 22.40, 22.90 SRG Infotech 0.92, 0.95, 0.86, 0.87 0.95, 1, 0.85, 0.90 Sri Adhikari 67.90, 70, 67, 67.85 69, 69.90, 66.85, 67.45 Star Paper 20.05, 20.50, 19.75, 20 20.25, 20.60, 19.50, 19.90 State Bnk Bi 1146.50, 1185, 1148.35 State Bnk My 1329.10, 1468, 1390.15 State Bnk Tr 1052.75, 1100, 1059.85 Std.Indust. 6.45, 6.85, 6.40, 6.51 6.15, 6.85, 6.15, 6.45 Sterl.Inds. 365, 400, 371.75 Sterl.Tools 64, 67, 63.85 Stl.Strips W 16.80, 16.95, 15.80, 16.50 Su-raj Diamn 15.55, 15.90, 15.50, 15.65 15.55, 15.95, 15.55, 15.60 Suashish Dia 22.75, 23, 22.80 Subex System 145.55, 153, 145, 149.95 Subhash Proj 29.50 30.90, 31, 29, 29 Subros 74, 87.10 Sulzer (I) 142, 140, 142 Sundaram Cla 335, 347.60, 327, 331.65 333, 347.95, 333, 334 Sundaram Fst 499, 519, 502 502, 515, 502, 508.55 Sunflag Iron 8.26, 8.75, 8.05, 8.23 Super Spin. 88.40, 88.80, 85 Supreme Inds 143.95, 145.95, 141, TOID70803/CR1/16/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/16/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/16/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/16/Y/1 CMYK 141.65 147.50, 147.50, 140, 141.50 Supreme Petr 16.40, 17.40, 16.25, 16.90 15.70, 17.45, 15.70, 16.90 Surana Tele 14.95, 15.45, 14.65, 14.70 15, 15.60, 14.70, 14.75 Surat Elec. 114, 108.25, 108.65 Surya Roshni 21, 23, 20.25, 21.55 21, 22.95, 20.25, 21.70 Surylak.Cott 34, 34.80, 33.25 34.10, 34.20, 33.50, 33.50 Sutlej Inds. 54.90, 55, 53 54, 57.85, 53.30, 53.90 Suven Pharma 216, 232.90, 228.95 Swaraj Engin 214.75, 205 203, 210, 203, 205.55 Swaraj Mazda 142.80, 143, 138.10 142, 142.70, 137.05, 137.05 Syncom Form. 24.50, 22.75, 24 Synergy Log 8.10, 8.81, 7.95, 8.55 T T Spiritual 190 Taj GVK Hotl 58.05, 65, 58, 61.45 61, 65, 58.50, 61.05 Tanfac Ind. 18.35, 19.20, 18.25, 19 TASC Pharma. 10.80, 12.25, 10.80, 12.25 Tata Coffee 114, 118.85 113.90, 119.40, 113.90, 118.85 Tata Finance 52.70, 54.90, 49.10, 50.60 52.10, 55, 49.10, 50.60 Tata Honeywl 262.05, 264.05, 257 262, 262, 255.10, 259.45 Tata Infomed 143, 145.40, 141, 141.65 140.50, 145.60, 140.50, 141.50 Tata Infotec 232, 243, 229, 235.45 Tata Invest. 155.70, 158, 151, 153.25 153.90, 158.90, 152.25, 153.55 Tata Metalik 58, 59.50, 57.50, 58.40 57, 59.70, 56.25, 59 Tata Sponge 59.80, 66.30, 59.05, 63.40 60.20, 66.40, 59.50, 63.10 Tata Teleser 12.31, 13.50, 13.41 12.60, 13.50, 12.20, 13.30 Tele Data In 36, 36.85, 35, 35.40 Texmaco Ltd. 66, 68, 67.20 Themis Medic 44.25, 46, 44.25 Thiru A.Sug. 30.35, 31.45, 30.70 32.15, 32.15, 30.10, 30.10 Thirumalai 67.10, 70, 67, 68.65 70.20, 70.20, 66, 68.20 Tide Water O 1110, 1115, 1100 TIL 16.50, 15.90 15.25, 16.30, 15.25, 16 Timex Watch 13.59, 14.50, 13.50, 13.54 Timken India 40.25, 40.90, 39.60, 40.05 Tinplate Co. 25.20, 25.50, 24.30, 24.65 Tips Indus. 43.55, 44, 43, 43.45 44.05, 44.50, 43.15, 43.60 TN Telecom 11.50, 11.40, 11.90 11.50, 11.85, 11.30, 11.70 Todays Writi 39, 41.40, 38.30, 40.35 38.90, 41.80, 37.15, 39.90 Torrent Guja 17.25, 18, 16.25, 17.10 Tourism Fina 11, 11.10, 10.70, 10.72 11, 11.15, 10.75, 10.75 Toyo Rolls 49.50, 51, 48.60, 50.50 Transnat.Sec 24.75 Transpek Ind 23.50, 24.50, 22.35, 22.80 Transport Co 29.50, 30.95 30.10, 31.40, 29, 31.40 TRF 39.90, 47.35, 39, 46.75 Trigyn Tech. 20.65, 21.25, 20.05, 20.45 21, 21.25, 20, 20.35 TTK Healthca 26, 30, 25.50, 26.35 TTK Prestige 10.02, 10.75, 10.17 10.10, 11, 10.10, 10.70 Tube Invest. 130, 136.25, 129, 133.45 128.50, 137, 128.50, 133.10 Tudor India 19.90, 18.80, 18.95 Tuticorin.Al 4.50, 5, 4.67 TV 18 107.40, 111.50, 106.10, 107.70 108.50, 112, 106.25, 107.55 TVS Autolec 140, 144.65, 130, 137.80 TVS Srichakr 57.35, 57.60, 56.50, 56.80 U UB Holdings 24.10, 24.40, 23.50, 24 Ucal Fuel 234.95, 236.40, 227, 230.65 230.10, 235, 228.25, 228.85 Ugar Sugar 59.90, 61.90 Ultramarine 79, 79.80, 78.05, 79.75 Unichem Lab 205.15, 210.95, 205.10, 209.65 202.05, 214, 202.05, 210.95 Uniflex Cabl 5.55, 6.09, 5.51, 5.90 Union Bank 40, 40.30, 38.15, 38.30 39.90, 40.35, 38.10, 38.35 Unitech 59.50, 54.25, 54.50 57, 57, 53.10, 53.40 United Brew. 99, 103.80, 100 United We.Bk 26.10, 26.75, 26.50 26.15, 26.65, 26.15, 26.25 Univer.Cable 13.10, 14.35, 14.15 13.85, 13.85, 13.85, 13.85 Upper Ganges 23.40, 26.85, 22.70, 25.35 23.20, 26.80, 22.60, 25.05 Usha Martin 35.25, 35.55, 32, 32.95 35.45, 35.45, 32.25, 32.85 Usha Mat.Inf 4.71, 5, 4.89 4.65, 4.80, 4.65, 4.80 Uttam Galva. 15.70, 16, 15.25, 15.30 15.80, 16.05, 15.20, 15.35 V Vaibhav Gems 27.10, 27 Vanavil Dyes 45.40, 45.50, 45.20, 45.25 Vardhman Pol 50.30, 52, 50.25, 51.60 50, 52.35, 50, 51.45 Vardhman Spg 90.50, 88.15, 88.20 86, 91.95, 86, 88.35 Varun Ship. 15.60, 15.99, 15.20, 15.54 15.80, 16, 15.15, 15.35 Vashisti Det 13.15, 13.70, 12.92, 12.94 12.90, 13.70, 12.90, 13 Venky’s (I) 55.10, 53.15, 54 54.20, 55, 53.30, 54.50 Veronica Lab 7.45, 7.75, 7.40, 7.73 Vesuvius (I) 94.95, 100, 97.45 96, 99.45, 96, 97.25 Viceroy Hot. 12.10, 11, 12 Videocon Apl 11.25, 11.50, 11.20, 11.35 11.70, 11.70, 11.20, 11.30 Videocon Fin 23.80, 22.70, 24.91 21.10, 25.75, 21.10, 25.30 Vidhi Dyestu 15.15, 14.75, 14.85 Vikrant Tyre 15.90, 17, 15.55, 15.69 Vinati Org. 20.20, 20.85, 20, 20.80 Vindhya Tele 29.50, 30.50, 28.80, 29.30 31.15, 31.15, 29, 29.45 Vintage Card 8.19, 8.70, 8.33 8.15, 8.55, 8.15, 8.30 Vinyl Chem. 10.66, 11.25, 10.65, 11.09 10.95, 11.25, 10.80, 11.20 VIP Indus. 25.20, 25.90, 24.75, 24.85 25.50, 25.85, 24.55, 24.70 Visaka Ind. 37.05, 37.90, 36, 36.30 37, 37.80, 36.05, 36.35 Visesh Info 6.20, 6.40, 6.02, 6.34 6.25, 6.45, 6.05, 6.15 Vision Organ 2, 2.05, 1.97 2, 2.05, 1.95, 1.95 VJIL Consult 8.50, 8.27 Voltas 88, 90, 86.75, 87.05 87.50, 90, 86.40, 87 VST Indus. 152.50, 157.50, 152 151, 158, 149.50, 151.10 VST Tillers 32, 34.40, 33 VXL Instrum. 30.50, 31, 29.15, 29.35 W Walchandngr 43.35, 44, 42.55 42, 43.40, 42, 43.40 Warren Tea 41.50, 47, 43.20 Wartsila (I) 113 113.50, 117.10, 113.10, 115 Wellwin Ind. 12.55, 14.60, 14.44 12.90, 14.70, 12.90, 14.40 Welspun (I) 40.55, 43 Welspun Guj. 23.70, 23.85, 21.80, 22.25 Wendt (I) 382.70, 425, 415 West Coast P 183, 185, 180.10, 183.75 180, 185, 180, 181.35 Widia (I) 114, 120, 113.55, 116 Wim Plast 44, 43, 43.15 Wimco 27.50, 28, 27.55 27.65, 28.35, 27.50, 27.55 Wockhardt Lf 28.10, 28.70, 27.60, 28 28.50, 28.75, 27.55, 28.05 Wyeth 342, 350, 330.30, 333.45 340, 350, 331.15, 333.05 Y Yokogawa Blu 66, 68.90, 64.75, 65.05 67, 68, 65.05, 66.70 Z Zandu Pharm 1791, 1850, 1849.75 1800.05, 1830, 1800, 1820 Zenith Comp. 12.20, 12.75, 12.10, 12.39 12.05, 12.75, 12.05, 12.15 Zenith Exp. 37.05, 40.25 Zenith Info. 13.45, 12.52 12.30, 13, 12.30, 12.45 ZF Steering 115.50, 121, 118.80 Zicom Electn 33, 34.50, 33.65 Zigma Soft. 3.71, 4.45, 4 Zodiac Cloth 123.05, 124, 117.55, 117.80 122, 122.35, 119.50, 119.95 Zuari Inds. 31.80, 32.85, 31.20, 31.55 31.30, 32.50, 31.20, 31.35 OID ‰ ‰ † CMK The Times of India, New Delhi, Thursday, August 7, 2003 All Black Lomu is back Recovering from a rare kidney disorder, Jonah Lomu could return for All Blacks in the World Cup this October. Lomu’s Wellington coach delayed naming his line-up for a friendly, after the giant winger declared himself available Box office raid Old Lady, Pitbull to part? Baiching Bhutia is all set for the silver screen. Both coach Bhowmick and Bhutia will play themselves in a Bengali film. “I’ve done ad films before. But feature films are a novel experience,” said the star Combative midfielder Edgar Davids could be moving on, after spending three years with Juventus, Italian football’s ‘old lady’. ‘Pitbull’ Davids would be an asset to any side, with both cash-rich Chelsea and Barcelona apparently keen to sign him Anju George leaps to silver at IAAF Grand Prix AFP CRICKET UPDATE I had never considered the possibility of my action being illegal. This is how I have bowled from the start. I even considered taking up leg-spin as I can bowl that pretty well. Backlash over McGrath tirade Sydney: Cricket Australia were deluged with 15 days of complaints from the cricket public and there was a backlash from sponsors over fast bowler Glenn McGrath’s verbal tirade in the West Indies, the sport’s leading administrator said on Wednesday. CA chief executive James Sutherland told a business lunch here that Cricket Australia was inundated with phone calls and e-mails following McGrath’s vein-popping rant at Windies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan on the Caribbean tour in May. —Muttiah Muralitharan SPORTS DIGEST AFP “I can assure you it created a stir in our office,” Sutherland told the luncheon. A contrite McGrath later apologised to Sarwan and publicly expressed regret at his behaviour but there are still significant ramifications for the sport in Australia. “The damage that that caused Australian cricket and arguably our brand could never be measured but judging by the reaction we got from the media and the public there was no doubt there was a diminution as a result of that unfortunate incident,” said Sutherland. AFP WC school cricket Kiwi opener dates Australian captain Ricky Ponting plays a stroke on his way to scoring a century during the third and final One-day international against Bangladesh in Darwin on Wednesday. Australia thrashed Bangladesh by 112 runs. Actress Sharon Stone blows kisses to the crowd before throwing out the first pitch before the Los Angeles Dodgers versus Cincinnati Reds game on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Hussain available: Nasser Hussain, who resigned as England captain after the first Test against South Africa, has told the England selectors he will be available for selection for next week’s third Test. Hussain’s availability was welcomed by the chairman of selectors, David Graveney, as there had been speculation the Essex batsman would follow pace bowler Darren Gough’s example and announce his retirement. “It’s good news for everyone,” Graveney told the website on Wednesday. Hussain, 35, surprised most observers by resigning his post after last Monday’s drawn first Test against South Africa at Edgbaston. Ralf hearing on August 19: Ralf Schumacher’s culpability for a crash in last weekend’s German Grand Prix will be decided on August 19 in a hearing before the FIA’s International Court of Appeal. The BMW-Williams driver was blamed for the crash at the start of Sunday’s German GP. Stewards ruled he will have to start 10 places down on the grid from his qualifying spot in the August 24 Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest. Schumacher appealed the decision but said he would accept any ruling by the FIA body. Heading into the first corner of the race on Sunday, Schumacher, Rubens Barrichello of Ferrari and Kimi Raikkonen of McLaren collided with all three cars too damaged to continue. AP Assam Rifles team clinch wushu title: Assam Rifles martial art team has won the National Wushu Championship claiming four gold medals, as many silver and two bronze medals. The 12th National Wushu Championship was held in Chennai from August 1 to 4. Altogether 35 teams from all over the country participated in it, according to an Assam Rifles release. PTI BETTING METER TENNIS 2003 US Open (men’s winner) R Federer 3/1 A Roddick 4/1 A Agassi 5/1 L Hewitt 6/1 JC Ferrero 16/1 M Philippoussis 16/1 (as per ladbrokes.com) LIVE ON TELEVISION DD Sports — Federation Cup semifinal (6pm): Mahindra United vs Vasco Sports Club (Salt Lake Stadium, Kolkata). Ricky makes final point Darwin: Ricky Ponting scored his fourth One-day century of a productive year as world champions Australia crushed minnows Bangladesh by 112 runs in the final One-dayer to sweep their series 3-0 at Marrara Oval here on Wednesday. Skipper Ponting’s rich scoring form continued with 101 off 118 balls including four sixes and two fours to push Australia to 254 for seven off their 50 overs after winning the toss. Bangladesh were always up against it, even with Australia going into the match without top-line paceman Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee, and were dismissed for 142 off 47.3 overs. Medium-pacer Ian Harvey claimed four for 16 off 6.3 overs, left-arm spinner Brad SCORE BOARD Australia: A Gilchrist c Sarkar b Rafique 31 M Hayden c & b Rafique 42 R Ponting c Tushar b Tapash 101 D Martyn b Kapali 1 A Symonds run out (Hossain) 0 M Bevan b Mortaza 57 I Harvey c Rafique b Mortaza 5 B Hogg not out 4 Extras: (lb 7, w 5, nb 1) 13 Total: (For 7 wkts, in 50 overs) 254 Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-112, 3-113, 4114, 5-241, 6-247, 7-254. Bowling: Mortaza 10-2-41-2, Tapash 100-63-1 (1 nb, 1 w), Mahmud 8-0-57-0, Rafique 10-0-31-2 (1 w), Kapali 10-1-431 (2 w), Hossain 2-0-12-0. Bangladesh: H Sarkar lbw b Gillespie 1 J Omar lbw b Harvey 16 H Bashar c Ponting b Bichel 2 S Hossain c & b Hogg 27 T Imran run out (Hogg) 1 M Ashraful b Harvey 4 A Kapali c & b Hogg 49 K Mahmud run out (Williams/Hogg) 5 T Baisya c Ponting b Harvey 11 M Rafique not out 8 M Mortaza b Harvey 2 Extras: (lb 11, w 5) 16 Total: (All out, in 47.3 overs) 142 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-24, 3-27, 4-30, 536, 6-102, 7-119, 8-119, 9-136. Bowling: Gillespie 10-6-16-1, Williams 10-2-32-0 (2 w), Bichel 10-1-35-1, Harvey 6.3-0-16-4, Hogg 10-0-32-2 (3 w), Symonds 1-1-0-0. New Delhi: The first ever World Cup cricket tournament for schools will be held in the Capital from December 1 to 13. This league-cum-knockout tournament, organised by Delhi Public School (DPS) Society, will last over two months and would be conducted as per international rules. The duration of the game would be 40 overs each. The under-18 cricket tournament for schools, first of its kind, would witness over 100 teams from all over the world. The tournament will be held in three phases. TNN Mumbai: The BCCI is likely to change the dates of the three-day tour opener between Board President’s XI and the visiting New Zealand cricket team to be held at Rajkot from September 26-28. The Kiwis, who are scheduled to arrive here on September 23, might have to travel all the way to Vishakhapatnam in AP to play their first practice match against India ‘A’. “It will be easy for the visitors to travel from Rajkot to Ahmedabad, the venue of the first Test match,” a BCCi official said. PTI Hogg chimed in with two for 32 off 10 overs and Jason Gillespie had a superb spell of one for 16 off 10 overs with six maidens. Ponting led by example in winning his 37th match in his 47th game as national One-day skipper. He snapped up two catches after earlier posting his 14th One-day International century. The Bangladeshis had one of their best spells in the field on tour when they claimed three Australian wickets for two at one stage. Mohammad Rafique started the ball rolling with the prized wicket of Adam Gilchrist for 31. AFP Ajit Ninan Warne will have to book his Victoria seat first Melbourne: Disgraced Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne will not be an automatic selection in the Victorian cricket team after serving his 12-month drugs ban, state coach David Hookes said on Wednesday. Warne’s ban for testing positive to banned diuretics expires on February 10, making him eligible to play for Victoria the following weekend. Victoria play a one-day match against Tasmania on February 14 and a Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania starting two days later. Further complicating where and when the champion leg-spinner makes his return is Australia’s tour of Sri Lanka in mid-February and the fact Warne’s club team St. Kilda is likely to be playing on February 14. There is also a potential third final of the triangular One-day International series against India and Zimbabwe set down for February 10. Hookes said Victoria would not automatically recall Warne for the matches against Tasmania and would want to ensure he was match-hardened after such a long inactive spell. “I would hope that Warney feels comfortable enough with the workload that he’s done that he would be ready to play,” Hookes said. AFP Mr Misdemeanour... so far Sept 1994 Indian bookmaker pays Warne (and Mark Waugh) for pitch-information and weather conditions. Duo fined by ACB. 1997 Warne storms out of a function after a journalist cracks a joke on his weight. April 1999 Seen smoking after just agreeing to a $200,000 deal for a Quit-Smoking campaign. Feb 2000 Photographed smoking by a teen-ager in New Zealand. Warne grabs the youth's bag and swears at him after boy refuses to hand over film. June 2002 Selection in doubt after Warne admits ‘dirty talk’ over the phone with a nurse while playing for Hampshire in England. Dec 2002 Dislocates bowling shoulder. Returns to action for Victoria in less than four weeks. Feb 2003 Tests positive for banned diuretic, Moduretic. Says administered by mom. Banned for one year by an ACB tribunal. Ban ends on Feb 10, 2004 ‘We don’t just sledge, we play great too’ By Nitin Naik TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: Legspinners! Synonyms scheming and philosophical pop up when you mention the tribe. Shane Warne deserves to be in the list too. His ‘understudy’ Stuart MacGill is hopeful of his name becoming synonymous with the mesmerising and complex art. The man who wrecked Bangladesh with 17 wickets at 12.88 spoke to this paper from Trentbridge. Excerpts. Steve Waugh said recently that Shane Warne will have to fight hard to get back in the side because you are bowling so well... I’m absolutely flattered as the comment comes from a champion like Steve, who I’ve admired and respected. It’s a gigantic compliment. Despite having a much better strike rate than Shane Warne you’re still labelled as his ‘understudy’. Shane will always be the greatest wrist spinners of all time. The fact that I have managed some level of success playing on the same stage with him is very fulfilling. I am an Australian Test player, not anyone’s ‘understudy’. The Aussies tour India next year. You said recently that one of your goals was to help Australia win a Test series in India? I toured India in 1998 but played only a side game in Jamshedpur. I enjoyed that experience. 2004 will be huge. I didn’t visit India in 2001 where we were close to winning. If picked I would love to bowl to Sachin and co. How do you feel as a practioner of a dying art? Yeah it’s scary. Myself, Shane and Kumble are doing a fair job at the moment. But there aren’t too many on the horizon. I don’t know the scene in other countries, but in Australia I haven’t seen any kid bowling wrist spin with any potency. An excess of one day cricket and emphasis on low economy rates is responsible for this. There’s been a lot of talk on sledging recently. Aah there it comes. (laughs). Everyone feels all that the Aussies do is sledge. But we play some decent cricket as well. Most of the in- ternational cricketers get along extremely well with each other. If sledging was so rife as it is made out to be, you wouldn’t see the camraderie that one sees today. Players are representing their countries. Is it a crime if they occassionally wear their emotions on their sleeve? I don’t think so. People going on and on about it are doing a disservice to the game. Ian Chappell commented that he would rate Mark Taylor as a better captain that Steve Waugh. Comment. When Mark Taylor retired I was extremely nervous as I had never played under anyone else. Mark was very innovative, vocal and flamboyant as a captain. Steve doesn’t say a lot. But you know how badly he wants to win. I love his intensity. TOID70803/CR1/17/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/17/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/17/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/17/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † CMK 18 Thursday, August 7, 2003 TIMES SPORT Madhu continues winning streak: In Hyderabad, Rajesh Choudhry and P Madhu of Army Yatching Node (AYN) continued their winning streak in the Standard and Radial class races on second day of the Laser National Championship being held at the Hussain Sagar lake here on Wednesday. Sailing under strong and heavy wind conditions with a speed of 12-14 knots, Madhu won both the races scheduled for the day making a clean sweep of all four races held so far in the radial class. PTI The Times of India, New Delhi CW panel completes review Pankaj Nangia TIMES NEWS NETWORK DELHI BID FOR 2010 New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games Federation evaluation commission completed its technical review of the various venues in Delhi, one of the bidding cities for the 2010 Games, here on Wednesday. The panel officials, headed by Richard McColgan, will now evaluate their findings before submitting a final report to the Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly meeting to be held in Jamaica, Kingston on Nov ember 13. The commission has already visited the Canadian city of Hamilton, the other city in the bidding fray, last month. The Chief Executive Officer of the commission, Michael Hooper said at a press conference that the panel will seek clarifications if needed before finalising the report. ‘‘We are satisfied with the responses. The five-man commission will evaluate the findings before finalising the report’’. He refused to answer the question whether Delhi will get the Games. Michael Hooper, the Commonwealth Games CEO, adresses a press conference on Wednesday. IOA’s Arjuna appeal to Govt. TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi appealed to the government to consider all candidates recommended by the Arjuna Awards committee. Kalmadi told reporters at the concluding press meet of the Commonwealth Games Federation evaluation commission that all the candidates were deserving as they have done the country proud by winning medals. ‘‘Our athletes had done well in the international arena and they had earned around 30 medals. There is nothing wrong if the government recognises their efforts’’ The IOA chief added the governement should okay the list as a ‘‘one-time exception’’. The Arjuna committee headed by legendary footballer PK Bannerjee had recommended 21 names for the Arjuna awards and nominated two for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. But Sports Minister Vikram Verma insisted that the panel should prune the list to the customary 15 and name only one for the Khel Ratna. Rangers win: Blazeflash Royal Rangers defeated Gabriel Glorious Football Club 2-0 to book a super league berth in the DSA league at the Ambedkar Stadium. Daniel Mughal scored a brace for the winners. Rangers stand at 19 points from 7 matches while Glorious have 12 points from 6 matches. In another match, Bangadarshan scraped past Delhi Veterans 2-1. TNN ‘‘We’re here to to assess the facilities and submit a report to the General Assembly’’ he said. However, he said that while some of the facilities met the international requirements they needed refurbishing, and added that some new venues may have to be built since the Games were slated to be held seven years from now. The chairman of the commission, Richard McColgan, said the panel was impressed with the co-ordination of various levels. Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi said India deserved to host the Games as ‘‘India is the leading light of the Commonwealth movement’’. Asia has hosted the Games only once — Kuala Lumpur in 1998. Regarding the inclusion of cricket as one of the disciplines Kalmadi said the issue would be taken up once India is allotted the Games. ‘‘Once the Games is allotted we’ll have to hold discussions with the ICC to get the best teams for the competition’’. INDIANS ABROAD Tania wins Kids Championship New Delhi: Golf prodigy Tanya Wadhawa, who returned a Grand Slam of wins in the Junior International Golf Circuit last year, put up yet another superb display on the World Junior Golf Circuit this year, with one win and two runner up finishes in three appearances. The 10-year old Tanya, a product of the prestigious David Ledbetter Academy, captured the US Kids World Championship at Williamsburg, Virginia. She won by five strokes over her nearest rival, Christina from Texas. In addition to her title win, she also won in the Chipping and Putting contest in her age group category. PTI Evangeline in fine form TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: Evangeline, who finished third in her last outing in Bangalore, is in fine nick. She is expected to lift the Calcutta Fillies Trial Stakes, the main event of the Kolkata races scheduled for Thursday. Selections: Camballo Handicap: 1,800m: 1.30pm: Moon Quest 1, Predecessor 2, Sugar Daddy 3. State Treasure Handicap: 1,000m: Sergeant Slipper 1, Athinai 2, On The Bit. Sunbird Cup: 1,200m: Great Ambition 1, Amaryllis 2, Arian 3. Calcutta Filies Trial Stakes: 1,400m: Evangeline 1, Imperial Pearl 2, Land of Fantasy 3. Commuter Cup: 1,200m: Allabreva 1, Arcaro 2, Immaculate 3. Bachelor’s Wedding Handicap: 1,200m: Midas Touch 1, Aiberni 2, Abridge 3. Nightjar Handicap: 1,000m: 4.55pm: Schumacher 1, Alminstar 2, Meadow Royale 3. Tulip impresses: Tulip, Sirrgaa, Elsalto and Super Max were impressive in the morning try-outs here on Wednesday. Inner-sand: 800m: Sirrgaa (Pramod) and Elsalto (R Kumar) - 49 secs: they moved nk & nk with plenty in hands. Tulip (Pawan) and Tennis Girl (Manoj) - 49 secs: former easily thrashed the latter by 8L. Super Max (Imran) - 48 secs: moved on a tight leash in the straight, note. Gold Ring (Shah) - 52 secs; pleased. Blue Black (Pawan) - 52 secs. TOID70803/CR1/18/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/18/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/18/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/18/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰ ‰ † ‹ CMK TIMES SPORT The Times of India, New Delhi 71-year-old Indian record swept away by Argentina Pune: A record set by Dhyan Chand’s legendary Indian hockey team at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games could well be dead and buried. The largest international men’s victory — a 24-1 rout of the United States — has been eclipsed twice over in the Pan American Games hockey tournament now under way in Santo Domingo. Just as 71 years ago, it’s the hosts that suffered such mortification. The aggressors, stepping into the boots of The Wizard’s band, have been Argentina. Led by the scoring feats of the dynamic Jorge Lombi, the favourites bombarded The Dominican Republic 30-0 last Saturday. Lombi scored nine goals in the massacre and the poor Dominicans were to suffer Race for qualification hots up AP By Errol D’Cruz TIMES NEWS NETWORK Thursday, August 7, 2003 New Delhi: Eyeing the magical figure of 9.5 points from a possible 13, which nearly guarantees qualification, overnight leader R B Ramesh and Sriram Jha agreed for a quick draw in the 10th round of the National B Chess Championship. The players on board two and Indian Airlines teammates S Satyapragyan and Rahul Shetty followed suit after the latter tried for about an hour to force a result. PTI US’ Daraspreet Kainth (L) challenges Chilean Matias Amoroso during the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic recently. yet again. This time at the hands of Chile who slammed 25 without reply against the hosts on Sunday. The FIH is obliged to accept the results as official as the Pan American Games will qualify the winner automatically for the Athens Olympics. In 1987, the FIH did not accept as official the largest international victory, at any level. The result: Pakistan 55 Macau 0! That happened in Karachi in 1987 at a junior tournament. The FIH’s reasons for downplaying the scoreline is still obscure. But it is believed that Macau fielded players not quite 15 years of age in an under-21 tournament. The S. Koreans who played Macau later beat them 30-0! Advani and Joshi win New Delhi: National Champion Pankaj Advani, former national champions Yasin Merchant and Devendra Joshi recorded contrasting victories to book their places in the knock-out stage of the 4th NSCI All-India Invitational Snooker Championship. While Advani and Merchant had no problems in getting the better of Mukesh Rehani (4-1) and Sourav Kothari (4-0) respectively, Joshi had to overcome a stiff challenge from Rishabh Thukral. Thukral, who had lost to Advani on Tuesday, made a promising start by winning the first frame 69-19 on Wednesday but lost the next two 74-14, 58-50 to lose the initiative. However, Joshi failed to keep the momentum going which allowed Thukral to come back and level the frame score at 3-3. In the decider, the experienced Joshi came up with a break of 62 to take the tie. He now plays Advani to decide the top player in Group A. Meanwhile, Advani beat veteran Mukesh Rehani 99-19, 7351, 34-71, 71-25, 86-17 to ensure a quarterfinal berth. Advani played well in patches and even recorded a break of 63, the highest in the championship so far, but seemed unhappy with his game. PTI ‘Kobe’s sex scandal good for NBA’ Dallas: Kobe Bryant’s sex assault scandal could be a great benefit for the National Basketball Association in the eyes of one club owner. Mark Cuban, the Dallas Mavericks owner whose outspoken comments against officiating and the league have brought more than one million dollars in fines, told the television show Access Hollywood that the case “is great for the NBA.” Bryant, an All-Star guard who has led the Los Angeles Lakers to three NBA titles, faces life imprisonment if convicted on charges that he sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman in Colorado. “From a business perspective, it’s great for the NBA,” Cuban said. “It’s reality television. People love train-wreck television and you hate to admit it, but that’s the truth. That’s the reality today.” AP TOID70803/CR1/19/M/1 TOID70803/CR1/19/C/1 TOID70803/CR1/19/K/1 TOID70803/CR1/19/Y/1 CMYK 19 OID ‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 20 TIMES SPORT Thursday, August 7, 2003 No increase in Awards, panel to meet again By Raju Bhattacharjee TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: The stalemate has been resolved. The Arjuna Awards Committee conceeded that it was unaware about the 14-plus-one winners stipulation and has agreed to prune the list later this week. “I have received a call from the sports ministry and we have been asked to meet once again,” former international footballer, P.K. Banerjee, and chairman of the Awards Committee revealed to the Times News Network on Wednesday. Banerjee said that the committee is going to meet in the Capital on August 9 or 10 to rework the list. He also informed that they have to decide on the Rajiv Khel Ratna award too. The committee had recommended 21 names for the Arjunas this year, as opposed to the stipulated 15. They had also short-listed athlete K.M. Beenamol and shooter Anjali Bhagwat for the Khel Ratna award, and had recommended to announce both names as joint winners. However, the government refused to increase the number of awards, even refusing to prune the list by itself. Vikram Verma, the Sports Minister mentioned that ARJUNA CONTROVERSY government would not shorten the list and that it should be done by the Awards committee. Banerjee admitted, while taking full resposibility for the controversy over the prestigious awards, that the committee was not fully clear about the rules and regulations. “I should confess that we were not fully aware about the rules and regulations. I discussed this issue with several bureaucrats and lawyers over the last couple of days. And it’s true that the committee is bound to work under the guidelines. “We don’t have power to increase the number. We increased the number as the committee felt that India had performed rather well at the last Asian and Commonwealth Games. So there were really more than 15 sportspersons who deserved this Award,” said Banerjee. Banerjee also hinted that now the committee has to ignore those name whose recommendations came well after May 31. “I have also spoken to lawyers over this issue and they feel we can consider those cases which reached on June 2 because May 31 was Saturday but not beyond that.” Big spending Chelsea buy Veron and Cole London: Manchester United have agreed to sell Argentine internat i o n a l Juan Sebastian Veron to Chelsea for 15 million pounds. The 28year-old Veron midfielder, who cost 28 million pounds when he joined United from Italian club Lazio in 2001, is now set to hold contract talks with the big-spending London club. In a statement to the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday, United confirmed they had accepted Chelsea’s bid “subject to contract and player medical”. Chelsea chief executive Trevor Birch told the club’s website: “They have accepted our bid of 15 million pounds. “And now providing he wishes to speak to us we can proceed with negotiating personal terms and putting him through a medical.” Chelsea will be anxious to agree personal terms with the Argentine quickly as the deadline for registering players for the Champions League third qualifying round is 11 a.m. on Thursday. United said that 2.5 million pounds of the 15 million fee was “conditional on the performance of the Chelsea team over the next four seasons”. Veron would be the sixth high-profile signing made by Chelsea since the takeover by billionaire Russian businessman Roman Abramovich last month. On Tuesday, Chelsea agreed a fee of 6.6 million pounds with West Ham United for promising young England midfielder Joe Cole. That came after they had signed up Ireland winger Damien Duff from Blackburn Rovers for 17 million pounds, West Ham defender Glen Johnson (up to 6.0 million), Cameroon midfielder Geremi (6.9 million) and England defender Wayne Bridge (7.0 million). Reuters UEFA’s nominees: Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo and Ruud van Nistelrooy were among the nominees for UEFA’s annual awards, for outstanding performances during last season’s UEFA competitions. Zidane and Juventus’ Pavel Nedved were each nominated for both the best Midfielder and Most Valuable Player awards. Agencies The Times of India, New Delhi Anju delighted with silver, not with jump By Sunil Warrier TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: India’s top long jumper, Anju Bobby George, was on the podium in only her third big event after being trained by US Olympian Mike Powell and signed by top US-based sports management firm, HIC. At the DN Galan athletic meet, part of the IAAF Super Grand Prix series, in Stockholm (Sweden) on Tuesday, Anju got the silver with 6.49 metres for which she earned 2400 euros. With the Top Guns in long jump taking a break, the event had a restricted field of six jumpers at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. Sweden’s Carolina Kluft won the gold (6.59 metres) while Concepcion Montaner of Spain took the bronze (6.48 metres). The effort is far from Anju’s best, yet praiseworthy. She had finished fourth (6.51 metres) in a topclass field at the Berlin Golden League and seventh (6.54 metres) in the Madrid Super Grand Prix. All the six participants jumped well short of their best. ‘‘I’m delighted to have won a silver,’’ said Anju from Stockholm. ‘‘But I am not very happy with the jumping. My knees were extremely stiff after the flight from Madrid. Though my running was good, I was unable to stretch and could not gain the height to make good jumps.’’ Anju, ranked No. 9 on the IAAF computer, seems to have overcome stagefright, something she was extremely wary of, having not participated in high quality events. Only one of her six jumps was in- valid. She jumped 6.42, 6.41, 6.49, 6.41 and 6.36 metres in the other five. ‘‘Yes, now I’m very confident,’’ added Anju. ‘‘I have overcome the nervousness and the fear. I find that all participants are doing well individually, but when it comes to competition there is lot of tension. I’m confident that I should be able to jump 6.80 to 6.90 metres shortly.’’ Anju, who will be participating in the World track and field championships in Saint Denis (Paris) later this month, has a personal best of 6.74 metres with 6.65 metres as her best this year. It was the second consecutive time that Anju defeated Montaner, who has a world ranking of No.7 and a year’s best of 6.69 metres. None of the competitors managed to come close to their best. Mahindras set up title clash with Md. Sporting By Nilankur Das TIMES NEWS NETWORK Kolkata: The Goan challenge in the Tata Federation Cup ended in silence of the virtually empty Salt Lake Stadium stands. But Vasco didn’t let go without a fight. And their trend of scoring in the dying moments almost remained intact but for a fully stretched Sunder Rajan under the Mahindra United bar managing to paw out a well-placed right footer from K Ajayan in the injury time. In the end, Mahindra made it to the final of the 25th edition of the Federation Cup beating Vasco 2-1 on Wednesday evening. Mahindra’s both goals came in the first session, both scored by Togo’s Raphael Patron following defensive errors. Ajayan scored the lone one for Vasco, also following a the battle won by FEDERATION CUP David Booth’s boys. faulty clearance by Arun Malhotra. Perriera, though blamed it on the After their conquest of Tollygunge lack of time his boys got to recover and East Bengal, Vasco were carded following a very tough quarterfinal to put up a fight. against favourites They did, but it was East Bengal. “The too little too late. Toboys were tired and tal lack of cohesion it took us quite among the midfieldsometime to settle ers coupled by utter down today. Mahinconfusion in the dedra took full advanfence, hardly helped tage of that. But I Vasco. am proud of my They were comboys for making it pletely outplayed by this far,” Perriera the Mumbai outfit said in the postin the first session match news conferand their two-goal ence. lead into half-time The first goal was more than half looked coming any moment right from the start. Vasco’s defenders Vinu Jose, John Dias and Sebi Dias were shaky to say the least — their clearances rebounding off their teammates and creating opportunities for Mahindra. Patron himself missed more than one such chance. The first strike came in the 17th minute when Patron thighed in a James Singh cross. The corner off the right-flank was preceded by one from the left which Vasco goalkeeper Saji Joy fisted away only to see the ball rebounding off the back of Ajayan and going out for a corner grazing the far post. The following corner produced the goal. The second strike came six minutes later. James curled in a centre from the right which Patron slotted home with a slight deflection. Raul, not Becks is real hero Tokyo: David Beckham may have proven his multi-million euro (dollar) worth by scoring his first goal for Real Madrid in an exhibition match here, but there is still room for improvement in his superstar ranking among Japanese women. The 28-year-old England captain was ranked only fourth among the all-star lineup of the Spanish champions in a popularity poll ahead of their easy 3-0 win over J-League club FC Tokyo in a pre-season exhbition match on Tuesday night. Of 100 single Japanese women interviewed at the venue, Tokyo’s National Stadium, just 15 named Beckham as the player they had come to cheer for, according to the Sankei Sports daily. The women were aged between 17 and 34. Raul got the nod from 31, Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos 23 while 16 named French playmaker Zinedine Zidane their favourite. Portuguese genius Luis Figo placed behind Beckham with nine votes. Beckham’s England colleague Steve McManaman got three votes, and Fernando Morientes one. AFP Bankrupt Tyson needs win over Don King New York: Mike Tyson could knock out more than $27 million in debt that left him in bankruptcy by winning a court decision over expromoter Don King in a $100 million lawsuit set for a September trial. The lawsuit is listed as a “litigation asset” in Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers filed here with the US Bankruptcy Court. Tyson claims King duped him into signing a deal while in prison for rape and wrongly took millions. Tyson, who rejected a $20 million settlement offer from King, detailed a lifestyle of excess that saw his $400 million in boxing income over the past 20 years spent on lavish luxuries. The 37-year-old former heavyweight champion, who once commanded 30 million dollars for pay-per-view boxing spectacles, had his debts detailed in court papers by The New York Times, which found he spent 400,000 dollars a month. “I have been in financial distress since 1998,” Tyson said in an affidavit. “Since that time, although my fight income, various asset sales and litigation recoveries have enabled me to pay a lot of my debt, I am still unable to pay my bills.” Future fight earnings and money from the sale of a mansion in Connecticut will help pay off a nine million-dollar divorce settlement to ex-wife Monica Turner, who has a lien on his Las Vegas estate. AP TOID70803/CR3/20/M/1 TOID70803/CR3/20/C/1 TOID70803/CR3/20/K/1 TOID70803/CR3/20/Y/1 CMYK
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