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PM hardsells Indian S&T
By Manoj Joshi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
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by Laxman
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Munich: At first sight, Prime
Minister Vajpayee seems to be
carrying coals to Newcastle. But his
offer of Indian expertise in decommissioning Germany’s nuclear
plants is common-sense, considering India’s vast civilian nuclear establishment and expanding nuclear
power industry.
Vajpayee made the offer at a meeting with German business representatives here on Thursday evening.
‘‘We have conducted advanced
research
on
decommissioning
techniques,’’ he told the bemused
German audience, making a pitch
for a share of the dismantling
market. Germany plans to dismantle 20,000 MW of nuclear power capacity by 2020.
The Prime Minister drove the
point of Indian scientific expertise
home by referring to the recent
launch of the GSLV and noting that
India has launched two German
satellites in the last four years.
The theme of an equal partnership is being stressed by business as
well as political leaders. At the meeting, Anand Mahindra, CII President
spoke about Max Mueller and the
Vedas and how India learnt manufacturing from Germany. But now
India was ready to offer IT services,
biotechnology and R&D to a country
that has the reputation of being a
scientific and technical powerhouse.
‘My retirement won’t
end peace initiative’
Munich: The Prime Minister
has clarified that his remark to
Der Spiegel about going into retirement if his peace initiative
with Pakistan failed did not
mean that India would opt out of
the process of trying to normalise ties with Pakistan.
‘‘Maine to apne liye kaha tha (I
spoke about myself)’’, Vajpayee
told reporters. The PM’s aides
insisted that there was no need
for a clarification as the meaning was quite clear. TNN
By Neelabh & Pallavi Majumdar
I am feeling tired, Sir. Could I sign
the rest of the agreements during
my next goodwill visit, please?
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday, adding further momentum to the emergence of an
anti-BJP,
anti-Mayawati
camp in Uttar Pradesh.
Later in the day, Mulayam
and a group of senior SP,
Congress and Rashtriya Lok
Dal (RLD) leaders got together at the Oberoi hotel to
break bread and hone up a
strategy for a joint campaign
against the Mayawati government in UP.
Mulayam’s lunch guests
were his SP lieutenant Amar
Singh, RLD president Ajit
Singh, Congress general secretary Ahmed Patel and his
veteran party colleague from
Rajasthan, Nawal Kishore
Sharma.
Both Ajit Singh and Amar
Singh had separately met Sonia earlier to impress upon
her the need for concerted
political action in UP.
Mulayam told reporters
that UP currently was in the
grip of a ‘‘ruthless and vindictive regime.’’ He, however,
hoped that Ajit Singh’s decision to join hands with the
Opposition could have a major impact. ‘‘Everybody is intimidated and fears victimisation,’’ he said.
The leaders discussed how
they could bring all the major Opposition groups under
one banner in UP. The impending assembly polls in
three states on UP’s borders
— Rajasthan, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh — seem to have
given the move a new urgency and impetus.
The Congress is in power
in all three states and its decision to go along with Mulayam and Ajit Singh in a
campaign against the BJPBSP alliance in UP will have
implications for its poll
prospects in these states.
This is especially so in Ra-
Power Thursday
● Mulayam
calls on Sonia
● Mulayam
lunches with
Amar Singh,
Ajit Singh, and
Cong leaders
Ahmed Patel,
Nawal Kishore
Sharma
Ajit Singh
still holds
everything
close to his
chest.. his
quitting NDA
government
catalysed the
current activity
● In Lucknow,
Kalyan Singh
claims that
close to a third of the BJP’s
MLAs want to join him
●
jasthan, where Ajit Singh
could help consolidate Jat
votes for the Congress.
Informed sources say a formal meeting of the top leaders of these parties is expected shortly.
The inclusion of Kalyan
Singh in an anti-Mayawati alliance might be logical from
Mulayam’s point of view, but
a number of Congress leaders have reservations given
the role the former BJP chief
minister played in the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
While the Congress appears happy to go along with
the current grouping, the
larger question of forming a
national alliance in the runup to the general elections
next year continues to divide
the party. Some leaders like
Arjun Singh are known to
favour a coalitional approach, while others, among them
Pranab Mukherjee, believe
Congress must go it alone.
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By Malavika Sangghvi
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Jerry Hall first came to India at 18
on a modelling assignment, and says
she bought in to the whole India
myth. ‘‘I remember lying in bed
practising this breathing meditation
technique until I was blue in the
face, and thinking I was going to
die’’ she laughs, 30 years later, in her
suite at a spa near Rishikesh.
Thirty years is a long time, and so
much has happened for this lanky
blonde since then: a career as a supermodel, marriage for 23 years and
then divorce from rock legend Mick
Jagger, four children, and a nearbrush with tragedy that has brought
her back to India, almost full circle.
‘‘My twin sister had breast cancer,’’ she says, her open and honest
face turning momentarily sad. ‘‘And
to help her through very drastic
chemo, we began to explore all the
alternative healings we could find.
Fortunately she recovered.’’ But
through their search Jerry met
Deepak Chopra, the prime exporter
of Indian spirituality.
The seed had been planted, it took
its natural course: Aryuvedic treatments (‘‘They pour oil on your forehead — better than Botox — re-
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moves all the wrinkles’’), meditations, massages, spiritual seminars,
even Rumi’s couplets. That whole
grab bag of modern day fix-it spirituality, which a particular type of individual seeks out at a particular
time of life.
Besides the glamour and the glitz,
Jerry’s life has not been easy.
Marriage to Mick, whom she
refers to affectionately as ‘‘a great
Dionysian Figure’’, and alternatively as ‘‘a naughty child’’, must have
been a full-time career.
‘‘After a while it began to hurt, to
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live with a compulsive womaniser,
someone who obviously has a big
spiritual
hole,
which
needs
filling with women, drugs whatever.
And it was not a good example
for the kids either.’’
So with dignity, a great deal of
chutzpah, and her characteristic
open spirit, she eschewed the ladieswho-lunch option, instead repositioning herself as an actress (six
plays including The Graduate soon
to open in America), spiritual seeker, and television personality. ‘‘I was
not going to live the rest of my life as
somebody’s ex,’’ she says.
Which is why she’s in India,
shooting a documentary for the
BBC on Indian spirituality and healing, and the ego-less state. It will be
aired in August.
A celebrity without ego? The
irony is not lost on Hall. But
glimpses of her trip here reveal, that
the state is not unattainable.
‘‘Last evening at the Parmath
Ashram aarti on the banks of the
Ganga, I sent my little flower-bedecked candle-boat into the river
with a prayer for my sister,’’ she
says, her eyes misting up.
‘‘At that moment, I had no
thoughts or desires for myself.’’
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New Delhi: The government
on Thursday drastically reduced the import duty on the
set-top boxes that consumers
will need to attach to their televisions in order to watch pay
channels from July 14, the
date the Conditional Access
System (CAS) gets underway.
In a notification, the finance ministry slashed basic
customs duty by 20 per cent
and entirely removed the
countervailing and special additional duties of 16 and 4 per
cent respectively.
However, the duty reduction is only until July 31.
In a sop to domestic set-top
box manufacturers, who says
they have invested crores,
imported
consignments
which arrive after that
date would attract the higher
duty level.
The move to make the box
cheaper was clearly in response to a public outcry
against an additional burden
of about Rs 4,000 to access
pay channels.
‘‘The notification issued to
reduce the import duty was in
keeping with the Prime Minister’s advice to make CAS
consumer friendly,’’ information and broadcasting minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
told reporters.
He said the measure would
result in reducing the price
of the box by 45 per cent.
Referring to the Congress
opposition
to
the
box
regime, he made an appeal
for political consensus on
the issue.
He read out from Delhi
chief minister Sheila Dikshit’s letter to him in this regard and claimed she had not
opposed CAS per se.
Pointing to her suggestion
for a more easily payable
system, Prasad said, ‘‘The
Centre has done its duty; now
let the Delhi government do
its by reducing sales tax on
the set-top box.’’
In a related development,
the parliamentary committee
on IT on Thursday conveyed
its concern over the ‘‘uncertainties’’ surrounding the
transition to the CAS era.
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The Times of India, New Delhi
Ambanis’ court appearance deferred to August 7
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on
Thursday deferred the date of appearance of the Ambani brothers before a
city court by a month in an Official Secrets Act case. Mukesh Ambani and
Anil Ambani, the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries,
respectively, had been asked by a trial
court to appear on July 7. They would
now appear before the chief metropoli-
tan magistrate on August 7.
Justice R C Chopra agreed with the
Ambani’s counsel, Kapil Sibal, that the
date for next hearing of the case had already been fixed for August 7. TNN
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treasure hunts where you get
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Topper: Akash Jain of
Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas
Vidyalaya, Surajmal Vihar,
topped Class 10 CBSE
exams in his school with
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Sanskrit. Vikas Sharma of
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The school got cent percent
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SCHOOL NEWS
Essay contest: Neha
Mehrotra, a Class 9 student
of DAV Public School,
Gurgaon brought laurels to
the school by bagging the
second prize in the state
level science essay writing
competition organised by
Haryana state council for
science and technology.
The school also bagged the
first prize in one act play
competition at the annual
competition, Expressions,
organised by Vimhans. The
topic given on-the-spot was
‘Living in a nuclear family’.
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Govt school excels:
Praveen Kumar of Govt
Boys Sr Sec School, Shakti
Nagar topped Class 10
CBSE exams in his school
with 95.2 per cent aggregate. He was followed by
Rajan Joshi with 94.8 per
cent marks. Pravesh Kumar
and Ashish Aggarwal
scored 88.8 per cent each.
Foundation day: DLDAV
Model School, Shalimar
Bagh celebrated its 22nd
foundation day on May 9.
The function began with a
havan. Principal Adarsh
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Man hit by
govt vehicle
Fire safety must: HC
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Delhi high
court has come down hard
on the lack of fire safety
regulation in the high rise
buildings dotting the city.
The court has directed the
government to install fire
safety measures in all high
rises within four weeks
from Thursday.
Chief justice B C Patel
and Justice A K Sikri said
safety measures as contemplated in the by-laws and
National Building Code of
India, 1970, must be implemented. The court passed
the order after hearing a
PIL filed by advocate B L
Wadhera on the lack of fire
safety provisions in the
buildings.
At present, less than 700
high rises in the city out of
a total of 1200 have received
NOCs from the Delhi Fire
Service. The DFS, on its
part, says that it can give
NOCs to only those buildings which approach it.
The court ruled that occupancy certificates would
not be granted to buildings
if the builders, contractors
and engineers fail to equip
it with a fire protection system. And once the system is
in place, the court said, the
authorities granting the occupation certificate must
ensure fire safety provisions are strictly enforced.
The court also asked
civic agencies not to provide essential services to
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Burning issue
Sealed in April
• Deepshikha and Pragati
Towers in Rajendra Place
• Shakuntala Apartment in
Nehru Place
• Super Bazaar in
Connaught Place
Fire figures
Highrises
in the city
Highrises
that have
NOCs from the Delhi
Fire Service
(approximate figures)
any new high rise building
which was not built in accordance with by-laws and
said that action will be taken against any builder who
provides power connection
meant for construction purpose to illegal occupants.
The court stated that the
fire officer must ensure
that builders enfore the
safety measures responsibly and that the officer can
seal any building where the
provisions are missing under the Safety Act.
The court asked the MCD
commissioner and NDMC
chairman to inform the occupants of high rises that
essential supplies like water would be disconnected
if the fire safety norms are
not
implemented
in
their buildings within four
weeks.
Electricity
companies
Court’s clampdown
• Surprise checks ordered
• Police commissioner to
clear encroachment to
facilitate easy movement of
fire engines
• No power supply to these
highrises
were directed by the court
not to supply power to any
high rise building without
the necessary paper work.
The court ordered NDMC
and MCD to file reports on
how many buildings are
erected after approval of
plan and what action is taken against occupiers of
buildings which are constructed contrary to bye
laws vis-a-vis fire safety.
The reports will have to be
filed within three months.
The court appreciated
the services rendered by
DDA counsel Gita Mittal
and NCT counsel V K Shali.
The respondents in the
case, including DDA, MCD,
NDMC and NCT, were ordered to pay Rs one lakh by
cost and asked them to deposit the amount with Delhi Legal Services Authority
within four weeks.
New Delhi: An accident, involving a vehicle of Jharkhand state government, was
reported in New Delhi district on Thursday.
According to police, law
student Nakul Mehndiratta
(21) was on his Bullet motorcycle when he was hit by a
Baleno car at about 11.30 am
on Aurbindo Chowk near
Safdarjung Tomb.
The car, belonging to
Jharkhand government’s office in Delhi, suddenly
turned right to take a U-turn
on the yellow line and banged
into Nakul’s bike.
Nakul said: ‘‘While I was
trying to make a call to the
PCR, the driver tried to escape from the spot. To stop
him from fleeing, I stood in
front of the car. But the driver took a reverse turn and
fled after hitting my knee.’’
Deputy commissioner of
police (New Delhi) Manoj
Lall said: ‘‘We have registered a case against driver
Shambhu. He is yet to be arrested.’’ In the accident,
Nakul received an injury on
his right thigh and both his
knees were hurt.
Friday, May 30, 2003
Engineering student kills self over bad performance
New Delhi: A third-year engineering student of Netaji
Subhash Institute of Technology committed suicide on
Thursday afternoon in Tilak
Nagar, west Delhi. The police
found a note from Amit
Kataria’s (20) room.
The note says he was committing suicide for not doing
well in his exams. Deputy
commissioner of
police
(west) Satish Golcha said:
‘‘Kataria was yet to get his re-
sults.’’ Kataria’s father said
his son was depressed as he
had missed one of the six papers.
At 6.30 pm on Thursday
Kataria’s mother went to call
him. Her son did not respond
No fire left in firemen
By Sachin Parashar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Under the Fire
Prevention and Fire Safety
Act, 1986, the Delhi fire
service aims at ensuring
minimum standards of fire
prevention in the city. However, the fireman, entrusted
with the responsibility of
dousing the flames, is not a
happy man. A fireman’s
day typically begins at 9.30
in the morning and ends
the same time next morning. He is supposed to be on
his toes for 24 hours.
Says Arun Kumar (name
changed), posted at the
Nehru Place fire station,
‘‘There are times when we
have to leave lunch midway
and get on the engine. Any
sound resembling the siren
is enough to make us swing
into action.’’
While the mornings are
spent listening to seniors
on the details of fire-fighting, the evenings are awaited. ‘‘That’s probably the
only time we actually enjoy
being on duty. Most of us
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DFS firemen feel there’s no incentive for them to excel.
play volley ball. Others play pulling on with the life of a
cards or just gossip, but fireman.
even then our ears are
‘‘We start work as a firetrained on the siren,’’ says man and retire as a fireKumar.
man. There is no promoLunch commences at 1 tion,’’ he grudges.
pm. ‘‘We run the kitchen on
While most resent the
our own. There is no assis- gruelling working hours,
tance from the manage- others believe that even the
ment and the food is very 24-hour shift could be tolersimple,’’ rues Kumar. ‘‘The able if they were looked afonly consolation in the ter better.
night, if you can call it so, is
‘‘We were supposed to
that we have an extra have quarters, but the prominute to respond to the posal is stuck. The high
siren,’’ he points out.
court had said even fireMost of the firemen live man should have 8-hour
in barracks and, in the ab- shifts, but nothing has
sence of any incentive, come out of that as
many just seem to be well,’’maintains Kumar.
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to her calls.
‘‘She peeped from a window and saw blood, The
mother immediately informed her husband and
called Kataria’s grandfather
and uncle,’’ Golcha said.
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0305 (LH-761)
AMSTERDAM:
KLM 0140 (KL-472)
LONDON: British Air
0210 (BA-142)
PARIS: Air France
0040 (AF-147),
A-I 0205 (AI-159)
SINGAPORE: Sin’pore
Airlines 2315 (SQ-407),
A-I 0050 (IC-855)
DAHRAIN:
A-I 0245 (AI-818)
ROME/MANCHESTER:
A-I 0300 (AI-139)
HONG KONG/SEOUL:
A-I 2340 (AI-310)
AIR INDIA
AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI:
0010 (AI 127)
MUMBAI: 2030 (AI 471)
A-I: (City)23736446 /47/48
(Air.)25652050, British Air:
(Air.) 25652908, Lufthansa:
23323310, Singapore Airlines
23356286, Thai Air: 3323638
WEATHER
Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few
places in Andaman and Nicobar islands, Arunachal
Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur,
Mizoram, Tripura, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and
Sikkim, Kerala and Lakshadweep and at isolated places in
Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh,
Jammu and Kashmir, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country.
INDIA
WORLD
Max Min
Delhi
Mumbai
Chennai
Kolkata
Bangalore
Ahm’bad
T’puram
Bhopal
B’eshwar
Pune
41
35
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37
41
34
41
45
36
29
28
30
29
23
22
26
28
30
24
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Dehradun
Hyd’bad
Indore
Jaipur
Lucknow
Patna
Rajkot
Shimla
Srinagar
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Min
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38
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43
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40
26
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25
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Bahrain
Bangkok
Beijing
Chicago
Geneva
Hong Kong
London
Los Angeles
Moscow
22
38
36
27
24
22
28
22
27
27
10
28
28
17
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26
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16
TRAIN RESERVATIONS
9arliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on
28.05.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations.
Train No. Train / Exp / Mail
NORTH
4033
Jammu Mail
4645
Shalimar Exp
2403
Jammu Exp
EAST
2302
Kolkata Rajdhani
2304
Poorva Exp
2382
Poorva Exp
2312
Kalka Mail
2392
Magadh Exp
2402
Shramjeevi Exp
2418
Prayag Raj Exp
4056
Brahmputra Mail
5622
North East Exp
2554
Vaishali Exp
2816
Puri Exp
2802
Purshottam Exp
8476
Neelanchal Exp
4230
Lucknow Mail
WEST
2904
Golden Temple Mail
2926
Paschim Exp
2952
Mumbai Rajdhani
2954
AG Kranti Rajdhani
2474
Sarvodaya Exp
1078
Jhelum Exp
2916
Ashram Exp
SOUTH
2616
G T Exp
2622
Tamil Nadu Exp
2432
Trivandrum Raj
2626
Kerala Exp
2618
Mangala Exp
2628
Karnataka Exp
2724
A P Exp
2430
Banglore Rajdhani
7022
Dakshin Express
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No. of passengers dealt on 28.05.2003 (Delhi Area): 66,102 (N. Rly. Area)
2,69,744. 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)
The Times of India, New Delhi
Digital cams for
a speedy probe
By Bhadra Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The high quality
digital cameras acquired by
the Delhi police are proving
to be a Godsend for many of
its employees. Some inspectors in north district have
been equipped with these
cameras to click photographs of the spot where
crime is committed.
The local police normally
depends on the mobile crime
team for clicking photographs at the spot. ‘‘Since a
district has only one mobile
crime team, it takes several
hours to respond to a call.
We, therefore, thought of
equipping our station house
officers with digital cameras
so that they function independently,’’ said deputy commissioner of police (north)
Sanjay Baniwal.
He added that investigations are often hampered as
photographs reach late. ‘‘The
negatives are sent to the
Forensic Sciences Laboratory (FSL) in Malviya Nagar
only after all of them are
scrutinised. This process
takes a lot of time. It can even
take months,’’ Baniwal said.
After acquiring digital
cameras, the officers have
been able to dispose cases
pertaining to missing persons and unidentified bodies.
.The files pertaining to these
cases
needed
to
be
despatched to the missing
persons squad for their dis-
R
E
M
Hi-tech help
E
• SHOs armed with
cameras no longer have
to depend on mobile
crime team for photographs of crime spot
M
B
• Police claim investigations into 233 cases of
missing persons have
benefited greatly from
these cameras
R
• The drivers are also
A
learning how to transfer
negatives to a computer
to get the photographs
N
C
tribution to all stations.
Being self-sufficient has
clearly helped expedite investigations.
Recently, the police managed to solve a Kotwali murder case within 10 days.
‘‘Since our SHO of the police station was equipped
with a camera, he took the
photograph of the victim and
sent it to the missing persons
squad. The victim was identified with the help of the
squad. After meeting his family, we got a lead and managed to conclude our probe.’’
Similarly, the Timarpur
police also solved the murder
of an unidentified person.
‘‘Since the police is unable to
receive photographs in time,
they can’t go ahead with the
investigations in a case
where the body of an unidentified person is recovered,’’
Baniwal added.
E
‘And
come
he
slow
or
come
he
fast,
Leaking pipe adds to water woes
By Saurabh Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The residents of
Kalkaji and Chittranjan Park
are a furious lot. Even as
their taps run dry all day, a
big water pipeline on Anandmayi Marg — which brings
water to their homes — burst
a few days ago resulting in
huge loss of water everyday.
And the Delhi Jal Board
(DJB) wasn’t even aware of
this leakage.
‘‘For the past 15 to 20 days,
the Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
hasn’t attended to the leakage.
“The water used to flow
right up to the base of the
Kalkaji temple,’’ said Seema
Agarwal, a resident of Kalkaji, who does not receive any
water on her third floor
home and is surviving only
on groundwater from a tubewell.
‘‘On Thursday morning, I
saw that some shopkeepers
had made arrangements to
divert the overflow to the
main drain,’’ said Anant
Ghosh, a resident of Chittranjan Park, who drove
through the Anandmayi
Marg T-junction on Thursday morning.
After being contacted by
this reporter, the DJB got the
site inspected on Thursday.
DJB member (water) G C
Nandwani said: ‘‘Since roadwidening work is in progress
there, some PWD labourers
must have damaged the joint
in the pipe.
“It will now be repaired
immediately and we will post
a man there to ensure that is
no further disruption in the
supply.’’
‘‘If the DJB plugs this leak
soon, we might just be able to
get a glass of water in our
homes from the taps,’’ Ghosh
commented.
The delay is despite the
fact that DJB officials claim
to be plugging leaks on a war
footing this summer.
Kalkaji and Chittranjan
Park are among the worst-hit
south Delhi colonies.
It
is
but
Crippling loss
Death
New Delhi:The Delhi
Jal Board has admitted
that huge amount of water is lost in transit from
pumping stations to
colonies. In information
submitted to an NGO,
Chetna, under the Right
to Information Act, it
says up to 55 per cent
water supplied from the
Deer Park station to
Vasant Kunj is lost.
DJB member (water)
G C Nandwani said
‘‘The old pipeline has
been replaced at a cost
of Rs 1.5 crore. Now instead of 1.3 mg, 1.8 mg
reach the reservoir.”
who
comes
at
last.’
- Sir
Walter
Scott
Delhi Times & Chillz-Spin continues
New Delhi: Look who is in
news? No! Its not Ash and
Vivek Oberoi but over 30
lucky winners of the Whats
on the Cards promotional
campaign by Delhi Times
and Chillz from Mother
Dairy.
The campaign, launched a
few weeks ago, has created
quite a stir in Delhi with
more and more people trying
out new flavours and winning fantastic prizes.
The weekend saw the campaign reach a fever pitch at
Priya PVR with more fun and
games. Former Femina Miss
India Manpreet Brar graced
the occasion.
The MC of the evening had
her hands full with the enthusiastic
crowd want-
TOI
Former Miss India Manpreet Brar at the promotional
campaign by Delhi Times and Chillz.
ing to perform on stage and like beating the summer
play some interactive games heat with Delhi Times &
with the pretty Brar.
Chillz.
She rightly said, nothing
Sunday turned out to be a
chilly one for shoppers at the
G K M-Block market as the
Delhi Times & Chillz fun
wagon had Indi-pop music,
interactive games and onthe-spot song and dance competitions.
Some of the lucky winners
were Shanky Sharma (C589/19, Noida), Sanya Bhandari (B-217/19, Noida), Tarun
Bhatnagar (50, Bengali Market), Rajesh Kumar (51, Bengali
Market),
Abhinav
Chauhan (A-442, Pocket-00,
Rohini), Bharat Sharma (60,
Vigyan Vihar), Pramod Kumar Sharma (15 Balbir Nagar, Shahdara), Ramesh Kumar (A-102, South Ganesh
Nagar, Patparganj), Saral
Seth (97, Hargobind Enclave)
and Nikhil Gupta (143,Kohat
Enclave, Pitampura).
2 DDA officals held for land scam
By Maneesh Pandey
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Taken for a ride
New Delhi: Five persons, including two Delhi Development Authority (DDA) officials, were arrested by the Sarojini Nagar police
for their alleged role in a scam of
allotment of plots to slum
dwellers.
The accused duped about 54
slum dwellers of over Rs 12 lakh
promising them a 25-sq-yard plot
in Madanpur Khadar Resettlement Colony. Altogether, 11 persons are believed to be involved in
the crime, but only five have been
arrested.
According to Deputy Commissioner of Police (south west) Tejinder Luthra, ‘‘The matter pertains
to relocation of slum dwellers
from Nehru Place, Raj Nagar, Kamal Cinema and Palam in 2000.
They were to be relocated to about
5,000 plots in Madanpur Khadar
area.’’
Vijay
Kumar
Bhagat of Jawahar
• Five persons, including
two DDA officials have been
arrested for their alleged
involvement in a scam of
allotment of plots to
slum dwellers.
• Altogether, 11 persons said
to be involved in the crime,
but only five have been
arrested.
• The accused promised slum
dwellers possession of
25-yard plots on payment of
Rs 25,000.
Ca mp in Safdarjung Enclave met
two local jhuggi pradhans, Ram
Lal Mahto and Devi Dayal Soni,
and conspired to cheat the slum
dwellers. Naive slum dwellers
were made to believe that their
names would be added in the new
survey and their ration cards
made. The accused also promised
them demand letters and subsequent possession of plots earmarked for the slum dwellers.
In return, every interested slum
dweller was asked to pay Rs 25,000
for a 25-yard plot. To impress upon
the prospective bidders, the accused flaunted their closeness to
three DDA surveyors, Shri Pal
Singh, S P Tyagi and K P Mallik,
and four officials incharge of allottment of such plots, B G Singh,
M C Joshi, Jai Prakash and O P
Gupta, said the police.
‘‘One of the complainant told us
Bhagat even gave Rs 5,000 as advance money to each DDA official
in an interface organised by him
in Naoroji Nagar in early 2001 between interested bidders and the
seven DDA officials and two slum
pradhans,’’ said the DCP.
Incidentally, the crime branch
had earlier enquired the case, but
passed it on to the local police
station in January 2003 as the
cheating amounted to less than
Rs 25 lakh.
Power cuts
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Power supply will be disrupted
on Friday from 10 am to 5 pm in B-block Shivalik, Janakpuri, sector-19 Dwarka, Guru
Harkishan Nagar, Maidan Garhi, Papan
Kalan and surrounding areas, Puran nagar,
Raj Nagar Part-II, Raj Nagar, Dev Kunj,
Palam and adjoining areas.
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The Times of India, New Delhi
Friday, May 30, 2003
Cable TV’s new
Pandora’s box
A fair chance for
sporting spirits
By Pallavi Majumdar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: If sports is your
forte then several colleges
may agree to open their
doors for you.
And lady luck may particularly favour those who are
good at cricket, basket ball,
badminton, lawn tennis and
athletics.
Most colleges already have
well formed teams in these
and would like to fill in the
vacancies.
The admission rules that
most colleges follow is that
the aspirant should have
played at the national, state
or zonal levels.
However, only certificates
will not suffice. Most popular
colleges have a rigorous trial
process and give preference
to sports that are listed in the
university list.
Each college has particular strengths and takes pains
to nourish those particular
teams. So, if you are a hockey
player applying in a college
which doesn’t have a hockey
team, you have no chance.
St Stephen’s admits almost
17 students through the
sports quota every year. Principal Anil Wilson said the recruitment varies from year
to year and depends on the
vacant positions in different
teams.
‘‘We took three national
level squash players last year,
so we may not need more this
year. However, we need people for our cricket team,’’ he
said.
Here too, if there are two
vacancies for a particular
sports and five to six national level players apply, then
the state and zonal players
will not be invited even for
trials, Wilson said.
Venkateswara has 36 seats
for sports and ECA and admits 18 to 20 students on the
basis of sports every year.
The sports include basket
ball, volley ball, shooting,
badminton, athletics, football,
swimming,
chess,
squash, long tennis, yoga and
golf.
However, certificate in a
particular sports is not sufficient to get you the choice of
course as well. The college
gives only 10 per cent weightage to sports. ‘‘If a student
wants B Com (H) where the
cut-off is 89 per cent, then the
person should have secured
at least 79 per cent,’’ principal A S Reddy said.
Shri Ram College of Commerce admits 20 students.
‘‘Candidates should submit a
separate form irrespective of
the application for courses.
No sports case with a performance other than first,
second or third position in
inter-zonal
tournaments
would be considered for admission,’’ an official said.
Campus meter
Extra forms
● Candidates must fill out a separate ECA/sports
application form in addition to the general form
● Most colleges demand copies of the following
documents:
List of marks on the basis of which admission is sought
Evidence of participation in ECA/sports in the last three
years of school
● Colleges like LSR also ask for a write-up by the
candidate stating how she will contribute
significantly to the extra curricular activities
of the college
● Most colleges ask students to bring
their own equipment (bat, racket, pads,
gloves, shuttle-cock, ball etc) for trials
By N Vidyasagar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
5% seats reserved for the talented
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: If you are good in music,
dance, drama, quizzing and debates,
then colleges want you. The Delhi University has reserved five per cent of all
seats for Sports and Extra Curricular
Activities (ECA).
While sports has a clear criteria like
state level or zonal level seeding or certificates, no such criteria has been laid
down for ECA.
The Delhi University information
booklet only states that five per cent of
seats have to be set aside for sports and
ECA. Individual colleges have devised
their own ways to assess this. Certain
common procedures are the filling of a
separate form for ECA, and setting up
of a committee to assess applicants.
Sri Venkateswara College, which
normally sets aside 18 seats for ECA,
asks for certificates of participation in
various events. ‘‘We are looking for
people proficient in music, dance, especially choreography, drama, painting, photography quiz, scientific model building, maths Olympiad and creative writing,’’ says principal of
Venkateswara college Dr A S Reddy. A
total of 10 per cent weightage is added
to your marks because of ECA.
Lady Sri Ram College asks for proof
of participation in extra curricular activities in the last three years of
school, along with a write up from the
student stating how she is going to contribute to the college’s extra curricular
activities.
St. Stephen’s College has no separate trials for ECA, they assess candidates while they are being interviewed
for regular admission. In Hindu college, on an average, about eight seats
are set aside for ECA in honours cours-
THE GREAT
COLLEGE RUSH
es and two in pass courses. ‘‘We ask
students to audition for us at a preliminary stage and another round of interviews is also taken,’’ says Suchitra
Gupta, a reader in history department,
and a member of the ECA committee.
According to principal of Gargi college Hema Raghavan, the college will
be setting up an eleven-member selection committee to determine ECA admissions.
‘‘Whether the student gets in
through the sports or ECA quota, a
bond has to be signed wherein the student promises to participate in competitions,’’ she says. In Venkateswara,
the fine arts committee makes a year
long time-table listing events and asks
ECA students to participate.
Cheap ways to
get to college
The Red Eye shuttle: Also
known as the U-special. Leaves at
an unearthly hour between 6.30
am and 7.00 am — hence the name
‘‘the red eye’’ special. The most efficient way of getting to DU, but
only if you fancy a long ride.
Your Own Vehicle: Nothing
better than your own set of wheels
if you can afford them. The petrol
prices being what they are, you
might have to be a bit more organised. A car pool is a cheaper bet.
Morning newspaper truck:
Not the most reliable way to get to
DU, but hey, its free and drops you
off at ISBT. Mathura Road is the
best place to catch the truck.
The Thumbs Up sign: When all
else fails, there is always your
thumb. But remember this is the
last ever option. Crime stats show
you might end up in a place far
worse than the classroom.
Shift base: The last resort in
such a situation is to move to a
place close to the university like
Outram Lines.
erators have chosen analog
service.
What’s the difference?
New Delhi: With each passing day, it becomes evident While an analog box will enthat the government is set on able a customer to pick and
a timely roll out of condi- pay for channels he would
tional access system (CAS). like to watch, the digital
The latest indication is the units will provide valuereduction in overall customs added services — pay per
duty on set-top boxes (with- view and, in the future, Interout which you cannot watch net connections. Also, an
pay channels in the post-CAS analog box cannot be upgradera) which will reduce prices ed, while the digital units can
to Rs 2,000 for an analog and be upgraded through simple
downloads.
Rs 2,750 for a digital box.
Will one box work for all
How will the consumer
get the boxes and from the TVs in my home? Unforwhom? You cannot pick up a tunately, no. One box means
box from the market like one one TV set.
For the second TV, you’ll
does for a mobile phone or a
PC. The local cableman will have to buy another one. You
provide the set-top box. And could however watch free-toair channels on
he will play the key
one TV and pay on
role in supplying
another.
the box — in other
Worryingly, the
words, the congovernment has
sumer will have no
not prescribed any
options as far as sespecific technololecting the box
gy for CAS.
goes.
While they have
There will be opprescribed open
tions, however, in
architecture setterms of financing
top box technology
the box: be it outPart Two
for DTH, they have
right purchase or
kept quiet on CAS.
monthly rentals, leading financial services firms — like Service providers mainICICI — have expressed their tained that as the CAS techinterest in funding the boxes. nologies deployed by them
Interestingly, the global are different, the boxes
trend is that consumers get will not work with other
the set-top box on rent from operators.
For example, Siticable has
the service provider. Siticable has announced that con- chosen Norwegian company
sumers will have the option Conax to deploy CAS, InCato pay a security deposit and blenet has opted for Swiss
pay a rent of Rs 1.50 per day company Nagravision, Sun
TV picked Irdeto and Hathfor usage.
What’s
technology way has signed on NDS.
In an open architecture
should I opt for? It’s not in
your hands. There are two box, the consumer will be
options: digital or analog. If able to carry the box anythere are more than one op- where in the country to get
erators in an area, con- service from any operator.
sumers will have the choice Motorala officials said interto decide on the service plat- operable boxes are not available worldwide and they are
form.
Service providers like Siti- in the process of developing
cable, Hathway and InCable one. However, Hyderabadhave decided to go the digital based Zintec Software said
way, while Catvision and they have developed an open
many independent cable op- set-top box software in India.
FM stands for favourite music
98.3 per cent Delhiites cannot do without their radio sets any longer
Aanchal Gupta
Patparganj resident
Ashwani Dhar
Patparganj resident
Rosie Kaushik
Ashram resident
Vivek Kumar
Panchkuian Road resident
FM radio has become something of a constant companion. FM usually plays in the
background while I am reading or doing something else,
unlike TV that pits a stop on
other activities. My parents
are happy because I don’t
watch TV that much now
that there’s so much choice
on radio.
It has also cut down my expenses on cassettes and CDs
as the latest hits are played
on FM. Along with the songs
that are played, the astrological predictions are something I look forward to. In the
near future I am looking forward to more variety in
terms of the music that is
played.
The best thing about FM is
that you get to hear the latest
music without having to
spend a penny. Things are
even better for those who listen only to Hindi popular
music as radio has done
away with the need to buy
such music. However, I have
a grouse.
They all are playing the
same kind of music. There’s
lot more choice even within
the Hindi popular music genres. Also, they should play
listener’s requests. Most of
the time you request Kenny
G and they play Jassi. The
concept of contests is a positive. It’s a plus for a listener if
he gets a free gift just for listening to a channel.
I have been listening to the
FM channels since they were
launched. They are a great
form of entertainment. I usua l l y
have a
v e r y
b u s y
schedule, but
once I
get back home after work, I
make it a point to listen to
FM.
Although I like a particular channel for their specific
style of presentation, I feel
the channels should play different kinds of music. I am a
Hindi popular music buff,
but a lot of other may prefer
to listen to western music or
ghazals.
I think FM music is a great
stress buster. It just keeps
your mind off your worries
and hooked on to what the RJ
may play next. If you play
your own music that element
of surprise goes. FM is a constant while I am working out
or may be dusting my room. I
think more thought should be
put into the songs that are
played instead of mindlessly
playing the latest hits. I like
listening to soft numbers —
most of the time such music is
not played. Instead, heavy
beat-based music is played
more often. May be there
could be some programmes
where they play only soft music. (As told to Anuradha
Mukherjee)
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
clothes and valuables she was
wearing were left intact.
The DCP said the deceased
worked in a card shop and
had left for her house at
around 9 pm on Wednesday.
The police received a call at
about 9.30 pm that a young
woman was lying bleeding on
Captain Gaur Marg and is
bleeding. The police reached
the spot and a local doctor
said that she was dead. The
body was taken to AIIMS,
where she was declared
brought dead.
During the investigation,
the police found that the deceased’s brother had gone to
Sapna’s workplace to pick her
up, but she had left before he
reached the card shop.
Woman murdered
in East of Kailash
New Delhi: The body of a 21year-old woman was found in
East of Kailash on Wednesday night. According to police, the woman identified as
Sapna was found with her
throat slit, on a road behind D
Block,East of Kailash.
Deputy commissioner of
police (south), Vivek Gogia,
said: ‘‘The deceased is a resident of Garhi, an urban village in the area. The left side
of her neck was slit with a
sharp edged weapon. We have
not identified the assailant as
yet.’’
The police said the body
bore no other injury marks
and robbery was apparently
not the motive. The watch,
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The Times of India, New Delhi
Vajpayee will lead us: BJP
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: The BJP on
Thursday declared that it
would fight the next Lok Sabha elections under Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s leadership and on the
plank of development.
Talking
to
reporters
amidst the ongoing two-day
national convention, BJP national general secretary
Sivaraj Singh Chauhan said
the party will go to elections
on the slogan of ‘Vajpayee ke
nam aur kam’. ‘‘Vajpayee’s
observations that he would
retire if the latest peace initiative with Pakistan fails,
was his personal opinion and
the BJP feels that he should
lead the party in the coming
elections,’’ he said.
Addressing party members, deputy PM L K Advani
said the National Democratic
Alliance was poised to get the
public mandate on the basis
of good governance and ex-
Party conclave
• Strategies for assembly
and Lok Sabha polls to
be chalked out
• Meet will focus on
expanding social base
• First-ever meeting of
presidents, secretaries
of state party units
horted the leaders to take a
pledge to strive for the success of mission 2004. There is
no alternative to the ruling
alliance as the anti-Congress
sentiments work to the advantage of the BJP and its allies, he said.
On fresh peace initiatives
with Pakistan, Advani said
India had the will and capability to defend itself even
while extending the hand of
friendship to its neighbour.
‘‘We defeated Pakistan in the
open wars in the past and we
would defeat it in the proxy
war as well,’’ he said.
In an oblique reference to
reports of US pressure being
a factor in the latest peace
moves, he said on no occasion did the government to
succumb to any outside pressure nor would it happen in
the future.
The convention is focussing on the organisational issues as well as the strategy for ensuing elections in
five states — Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi,
Chhattisgarh and Mizoram.
The coming assembly polls
will be semi-final and the final would be the next Lok
Sabha elections, Chauhan
said. The national convention is also reviewing the preparedness of the party for
the LS elections, he said.
Earlier, BJP national president M Venkaiah Naidu said
it was first of its kind as all
the state BJP presidents and
general secretaries were attending it.
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TOI
Congress divided
on coalition issue
By Rajesh Ramachandran
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
RAMPUR KA LAKSHMAN: Former filmstar and Union minister Shatrughan Sinha at the BJP’s
Samrasta Rally in Rampur on Thursday.
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New Delhi: Though prominent leaders have spoken in
favour of a coalition, the
Congress leadership is not
united on the issue. In fact,
three separate views have
emerged on the issue among
the leaders.
While the Left-leaning
leaders favour a second front
against the NDA to bring
most of the anti-BJP forces
together, there are those who
insist on separate alliances
in each state as they exist
now.
Then, there are those who
feel that an alliance should
be arrived at only after the
polls.
The leaders, who believe in
post-poll alliances, argue that
allies cannot help the Congress come to power if the
party does not win 180 seats
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in the next Lok Sabha elections on its own. The Congress won only 114 seats in
the last election.
‘‘How are we going to increase 60 seats if we strike alliances in Bihar, UP, West
Bengal and Tamil Nadu?’’
said a Congress veteran.
The Congress had won just
14 of the 201 seats in these
four states: Two each in Bihar and Tamil Nadu, seven in
UP and three in West Bengal.
Congress leaders question
the logic behind the alliances
by pointing out that none of
these allies would let the
Congress increase its tally
from 14 to 70 in these states.
These leaders feel that it
would be best for the
Congress to gain as many
seats in these states and then,
if necessary, take the support
of like-minded parties after
the polls.
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INDIA
Friday, May 30, 2003
The Times of India, New Delhi
PTI
Poet’s murder:
Statement of
9-yr-old crucial
CDFD has made an imprint
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Hyderabad: The Centre for
DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD) is one of the
youngest institutes in the country, which has pioneered DNA
fingerprinting to provide DNA
typing and analysis for crime investigating agencies from India
and abroad.
The institute founded on January 28, 1997, has also diversified into the fields of diagnosis
of genetic disorders and genetic
counselling; automated genome
analysis, which provides on demand services in the area of automated DNA sequencing and
genotyping; understanding different physiological processes
in the model bacteria, Escherichia coli; development and
application of molecular markers; genetic characterisation;
molecular mapping; introduction of baculovirus
resistance through
transgenic approach
and identification
and
characterisation of Z and W
chromosome linked
genes in silkworm.
Some of the other areas of research being carried out at the
CDFD are pathogenesis and molecular epidemiology of M tuberculosis and H pylori; molecular biology of genetic disorders;
identification of a novel anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer
drug; typing of Human Papilloma Virus in cervical cancer and
screen for cancer markers.
BesidesI diversifying into various research areas, DNA fingerprinting continues to be the prime
forte of CDFD with
the institute aiming
to establish a CDFD
Gold Standard, collaborating and assisting other state forensic science laboratories in the country,
making them technically at par
to handle routine cases on their
own.
From 79 cases in 1996, the institute now has more than a
1,000 cases to its credit. Some of
the sensational cases include —
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the Jammu and Kashmir Army
excesses case; murder case of
Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad; Jharkhand Mukti Morcha case; New
Zealand Tourist murder case;
the Salman Khan black buck
case; Navarasu murder case of
Chennai; Indian Navy commander identification case;
Mansoor Ali Khan case; Bhongir case; Sweden lady case; UK
immigration case; 72-year-old
man paternity case; Bangladesh
immigration case; Canada immigration case; Assam minister
rape case; child adoption cases
in Andhra Pradesh; Nepal murder case; Sri Lanka terrorism
cases; the recent baby-swapping
case in Hyderabad and others.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Crucial RLD meet today
Lucknow: The 14-member Rastrya
Lok Dal (RLD) will hold a crucial
meeting of its office-bearers on Friday to decide about the future course
of action.
A spokesman of the RLD Rajveer
Singh Sachachan said on Thursday
that the legislators and other officebearers are free to place their views
on political situation. Before taking a
decision, each and every legislators
views would be ascertained. TNN
Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu projected
on TDP founder N T Rama Rao’s heart on a 60-foot high cutout based on Rama Rao’s mythological film, erected in front
of the party’s three-day meet in Tirupati, on Thursday.
Lucknow: Amar Mani Tripathi, the mafiaturned-politician who has saved the
Mayawati government more than once on
the floor of the House, was on Wednesday at
the mercy of a nine-year-old boy.
The lone witness to the killing, Deshraj,
murdered poet Madhumita’s domestic help,
got his statements recorded in-camera before a court on Wednesday. The fact that
Deshraj is not linked to the minister in any
way gives his testimony more credibility.
Hence his statement remains the only
‘‘safe factor’’ for the CB-CID to base their interim report on and remain exposed to minimum risk of being accused of tampering
with the evidence. All other evidence related to the crime has come under a cloud after
allegations that they were tampered with.
In a sudden development on Wednesday,
he was rushed to the court of the additional
chief judicial magistrate R S Mirdha where
his statements were recorded in-camera. An
additional superintendent of police, who is
heading the CB-CID team, escorted Deshraj
to the court to ensure that the job was completed on Wednesday.
Deshraj had earlier said Satya Prakash
had come to visit Madhumita on the day she
was killed along with an aide. Madhumita
was found dead after they left.
Shakeel’s
man hatched
plan to kill
Lakdawala
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The plot to kill
gangster Ejaz Lakdawala in
Bangkok was hatched by
Chhota Shakeel’s alleged
aide Gurmeet Singh alias
Micky at a hotel in Andheri
(East), police sources in
Mumbai said.
Micky had taken two Shakeel men from Mumbai to
Bangkok a couple of weeks
ago to execute the killing.
The three, along with a local
Shakeel aide in Bangkok, reportedly kept tabs on Lakdawala until they zeroed in
on him in a parking lot of a
shopping mall in Bobby
market area of Bangkok on
Sunday night.
Lakdawala’s eight-yearold daughter was with him
when the shooters fired six
rounds at him from pointblank range. The firing incident was recorded in a
closed circuit television
camera in the shopping
mall. ‘‘The shooter has been
identified as Micky,’’ a senior police officer in Mumbai
said.
Lakdawala, who was
rushed to a local hospital by
employees of the shopping
mall, has been declared
brain dead. At present, he is
on life support system,
sources said. However, some
reports say he is dead and
has already been cremated
in Bangkok.
The Mumbai police have
got in touch with their counterparts in Thailand and are
seeking more details about
the murder.
Sources said Chhota Shakeel had targeted Ejaz Lakdawala since the latter was
trying to take a major chunk
of
money
generated
through extortion in Mumbai. Also, Lakdawala, when
he was in the Chhota Rajan
camp, had organised the
killing of at least four persons accused in the Mumbai
serial bomb blasts case.
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IN BRIEF
PNB profit at Rs 842 cr: S S
Kohli, CMD, Punjab National Bank,
disclosed that the bank has achieved
a net profit of Rs 842.20 crore at the
end of March 2003 as compared to
Rs 562.39 crore in the previous year,
registering a growth of 49.8 per cent.
It could achieve this profit after providing for necessary provisions of Rs
1,475.09 crore as compared to Rs
911.41 crore last year. TNN
Theatre workshop at RSP: Budding stage artistes are being trained
in various aspects of theatre at a
workshop being conducted at
Rourkela under the auspices of the
Rourkela Steel Plant . The workshop
is being held by the RSP and
Kendriya Sangeet Natak Akademi. PTI
Feedback from PSUs is invited.
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The Times of India, New Delhi
ONGC to enter petro-retailing Go for e-procurement, PSEs told
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: State-owned exploration firm Oil and Natural Gas
Corporation is set to become a
petroretailer — and an integrated oil company — in the true
sense, with the oil ministry giving it permission to set up 500
more retail outlets to cover key
southern and western states.
‘‘The move reflects oil minister Ram Naik’s vision of helping ONGC turn into a powerhouse across the hydrocarbon
chain,’’ chairman Subir Raha
told Times News Network.
The additional 500 petrol stations will cover areas adjoining
the standalone Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd
(MRPL), which ONGC recently
took over by buying out the AV
Birla stake in the venture.
The additional outlets will
help ONGC to add Karnataka,
Kerala, Goa and Pondicherry to
its marketing map. The company had earlier been granted licence to set up 100 petrol bunks
in Andhra Pradesh and 500 in
Maharashtra and Gujarat.
With the additional petrol
pumps, ONGC will start with
1,100 retail outlets, a number
considered decent enough for
petroretailing foray. This number will also ensure adequate
outlet for the production from
MRPL and justify ONGC taking
a majority stake in the refinery.
While receiving the first
crude consignment from its
share in Sudan’s Greater Nile
oilfield, Raha had last fortnight
said ONGC would begin retailing petrol and diesel by the year-
end. The first petrol pump will
be set up in Mangalore itself.
ONGC would feed the additionally sanctioned petrol stations from MRPL, whose 6 million tonne product is currently
being marketed by state- owned
IndianOil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd
and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd.
ONGC plans to increase
MRPL production to the refinery’s rated capacity of 9.69 million tonnes, the additional product being sold through ONGC’s
retail network.
With a Rs 8,000 crore cash reserve, established rivals can expect some fierce competition
from ONGC in the marketplace.
Surely, competition will only
benefit consumers.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Chief vigilance
commissioner P Shankar on
Thursday urged the chief executives of various public sector
enterprises to ensure transparency
in
procurement
process and encourage competition, saying there is no substitute to sound management.
An efficient management
should not look for alibis but
should ensure openness, transparency and follow corporate
governance practices, added the
commissioner while delivering P Shankar, chief vigilance commissioner, delivering the keynote
the keynote address to the address. Also seen are (L to R) S M Dewan, DG, Scope and
H J Dora, vigilance commissioner.
workshop on ‘How to benefit
from e-procurement’, organised Scope Convention Centre in tives in e-business, Scope chairman C P Jain said e-procureby the Standing Conference of New Delhi.
Welcoming the CVC’s support ment reduces lead time, thereby
Public Enterprises(Scope) in
collaboration with Wipro at the in helping to look for new initia- reducing inventories.
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The Times of India, New Delhi
Germany visit rebuilds ties
By Manoj Joshi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Munich: There is a touch of
rust
in
Indo-German economic ties,
and both
countries
recognise
it.
The
PM’s visit
is
being
A B Vajpayee seen as an
occasion to
kickstart the ties that
played an important role in
building up the Indian manufacturing sector.
But this time round, says
Arun Jaitley, commerce, law
and justice minister, India is
offering a partnership instead of putting forward a
begging bowl.
Briefing reporters on the
Prime Minister’s special
flight from Berlin to Munich
on Thursday, Jaitley said in
his talks with German leaders, he got the impression
that India Inc was at last
registering on the German
mind.
This, he said, was a tribute to the effort made by organisations like CII and
FICCI as well as companies
like Moser Baer who had established themselves in Germany despite hurdles.
Jaitley aid the India had
received a positive response
from their German counterparts. He said the issues of
boosting sagging German
investment in India and
smoothening the path of Indian entrepreneurs in Germany figured in the talks.
The minister said the major area of interest for India
was German investment in
renewable energy and infrastructure
projects
like
roads. But, he said ‘‘our industry was also very interested in investing in a number of areas like IT’’. In this
context, he said an IndoGerman joint commission,
that had not met for the past
three years would meet in
India, probably in October.
A major area of concern
was the fate of some 2,500 IT
professionals working in
Germany under a Green
card scheme which was due
to expire in July. The minister said the German government planned to bring a
comprehensive legislation
on emigration and had
promised to protect the in-
terest of the Indian personnel through some interim
measure.
German officials gave assurances that they would
look into the issue of German companies not accepting Indian bank guarantees.
Jaitley said the Indian
delegation also took up a
number of EU- related issues. “We want their support in a number of antidumping and anti-subsidy
measures the EU had taken
against us,’’ he said.
The most important area,
he said, was German help to
modify EU tariffs that
worked to India’s disadvantage. He said Pakistan had
obtained a preferential tariff from EU because of its
good record in checking
narcotic smuggling.
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Monsoon will arrive
few days late: Met
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The monsoon
will arrive a few days late
over Kerala, the meteorological office said on Wednesday.
Its usual date of arrival is
June 1. This time, it will be
about three to five days late.
Thereafter, its progress into
Kerala and Karnataka will
be similarly affected, says
the Indian Meteorological
Department (IMD).
IMD’s deputy director-general S K Subramanian says
they were waiting for the
normal wind and pressure
patterns to recover after a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal —
which first showed up on
May 8 and crossed the Myanmar coast on May 19 — disturbed flows. This still hasn’t
happened.
The Bay of Bengal branch
of the monsoon has shown
signs of strengthening but
there were no signs of recovery on the Arabian Sea side
till Tuesday morning.
One healthy sign, which
has stayed on since, appeared
on Tuesday afternoon. There
was a cloud build-up over the
Kerala coast and Lakshadweep. To be of use, this
should have stayed for between 12 and 24 hours and
fortunately it has done that.
PTI
DRY DAYS: One of the many vineyards hit by high temperatures and drought situation in Maharashtra’s Sangli district.
Baalu for survey
of non-wood
forest products
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: With the livelihood of 500 million people at
stake, the environment ministry is finally trying to focus
on regulating and promoting
the largely disorganised
business of so-called nonwood forest products.
This used to be called minor forest produce, till the realisation sank in that there
was nothing minor about
produce which can rake in
crores of rupees and give
people a living. These dry
terms cover everything from
tendu leaves, fruits, flowers,
honey and herbal medicines
to gum and resin.
But till today, there is no
authentic inventory on such
products and the sector is
certainly not getting the kind
of money it needs. Opening a
national workshop on such
products here on Thursday,
environment minister T R
Baalu said states must survey their resources and develop a database which can
regulate use — avoiding both
under-utilisation and overexploitation.
In all this, the Centre is trying to promote an MP model
which, over the years, has
evolved into 1,066 cooperative
societies that give four such
products — tendu leaves, sal
seeds, gum and myrobolan or
harra (the fruit of a tree used
Minor is major
• 500 million people earn
livelihood from minor
forest produce
• Sector can rake in a lot
of money but not getting
adequate funds
• Centre trying to
promote the MP
model in this sector
in medicine and the tanning
industry) — to an apex body
called the MP State Minor
Forest Produce (Trading and
Development) Cooperative
Federation for marketing.
Federation
additional
managing director Ramesh
Dave said 15 lakh families are
involved in this Rs 200-crore
business, collecting the produce, grading it and stacking
it in godowns and leaving it
to the federation to sell this
by tenders. The net income of
about Rs 50 crore — 90 per
cent of this is just from tendu
leaves — goes back to the cooperative societies. Half of it
is distributed in cash to
members, the rest goes into
the development of the forest. While the government
handles the marketing of the
four major products, the societies handle 100 other such
products locally, on a smaller
scale.
Planet M in Nagpur: Music
will never be the same again in
Nagpur. Recognizing the growing retail market in Nagpur,
Planet M will open a outlet in
Nagpur, at Achraj Towers II on
May 29. This will be the 14th
Planet M store. Planet M will
bring the widest range of
VCDs/ DVDs in Nagpur. TNN
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Friday, May 30, 2003
Savita Ambedkar dies
Mumbai: Nonagenarian Savita alias Mai Ambedkar, the wife
of Dr B R Ambedkar, passed
away here on Thursday, following a prolonged illness.
The 94-year-old died at 5.30
am at J J Hospital, hospital
sources said. PTI
The Times of India, New Delhi
100 militants killed
in 2 months: Army
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: With three tactical helipads
in place and sophisticated weapons and
equipment at its disposal, the Army is
continuing its massive operation in the
Hill Kaka region, near Surankote, in
Jammu and Kashmir, evicting intruders and killing at least 100 of them in the
last two months.
In the last three days alone, 45 militants, mostly Pakistani mercenaries,
have been killed and 10 captured, senior
defence sources said on Thursday.
A force of eight to ten battalions is
engaging the terrorists as part of ‘‘Operation Sarp Nash’’ in the PoonchNaushera sector where the required
force level is planned to be deployed permanently. In fact, Hill Kaka is becoming
the focus of the counter-insurgency operations in the region outside the Valley.
Besides, selective electrified fencing,
275 km in the first phase, is being done
on a priority basis and 4,000 Army engineers are working round the clock to extend it to 600 km by next year.
The fence is being erected about 10 to
15 km inside Indian territory, laced with
anti-infiltration devices like ground
sensors and pressure activate and infra
red sensors. This coverage is still ‘‘very
low’’, but is being speeded up.
An additional tier of defence, six to
eight km from the Line of Control
(LoC), is in place for effective interception. Each battalion is being equipped
with hand-held thermals to help in this,
almost making ‘‘a night battlefield into
a daylight firefight’’.
Seeking to clear perceptions that
Army had been lax in detecting and
dealing with insurgency along Pir Panjal Pass, top level defence sources maintain that infiltration in this region is
‘‘average’’ — there were eight incidents
last year and this year has registered
seven — but the Indian response has
been more effective.
‘‘This is not Kargil II. We want to be
understood better,’’ said a senior officer
concerned with the on-going ‘‘Operation Sarp Nash’’, referring to media
comments.
21 intruders killed, three Hizb men held
Srinagar: At least 21 militants, five of them from Pakistan, were shot dead in Jammu and Kashmir in separate
encounters on Thursday.
The security forces also arrested
three Hizbul Mujahideen militants here.
At least 15 militants were
killed on Thursday in Anantnag
district
in
south
Kashmir.
Six top Pakistani militants
were shot dead on Thursday
in the Pir Panjal ranges in
Poonch. TNN
TOI
A paramilitary trooper stands guard on the banks of the Dal Lake near a billboard depicting
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi in Srinagar on Thursday.
Sonia to take Mufti’s line
By Rajesh Ramachandran
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi is expected to give
a push to the healing touch
policy during her visit here
for the fifth Congress chief
ministers’ conference that begins on Friday.
The grand finale of the conference of 15 chief ministers
will be a public rally at Baramulla on Sunday where over
200 appointment letters will
be distributed to relatives of
those who died in insurgencyrelated violence.
According to Congress general secretary in charge of
Jammu and Kashmir Ambika
Soni, J&K chief minister
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed and
Sonia Gandhi will jointly address the public rally. Giving
government jobs to the victims of violence is a programme of the Mufti government.
Gandhi is also expected to
make a Kashmir-specific announcement in her address to
the chief ministers. She will
receive Congress delegates
from all the districts of J&K
on Sunday. She will also interact with various groups
like the house-boat owners of
Srinagar.
Tight security
for conclave
Srinagar: A high level
meeting of senior security and intelligence officials was held here on
Thursday in connection
with the fifth Congress
chief ministers’ conclave
starting in the city on
Friday. Security around
the Sher-i-Kashmir International
Convention
Complex, on the banks of
the Dal Lake, has been
tightened. TNN
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Mufti for
opening of
Uri transit
points
N e w
Delhi:
Jammu
a n d
Kashm i r
chief
minisMufti
t e r
Mufti Mohammed Sayeed favoured opening
of transit points at
Uri in Kashmir on
Thursday.
He said ‘‘softening’’
of
borders
would
negate the propoganda
being spread that the
people of the state
were
being
‘‘held
hostage’’.
Terming it as a key
to normalisation of
situation in the restive
state, the Mufti said
media in Pakistan
had given an impression that people in
Jammu and Kashmir
were being held captive by the security
forces.
‘‘Once transit points
are started, may be in
Uri, things will be
clearer
and
those
spreading the propaganda will be pushed
to the wall,’’ the Mufti
told
reporters
on
the sidelines of a Planning
Commission
meeting held here on
Thursday.
The chief minister
had earlier said that
if such a proposal
could be considered for
Rajasthan and Sindh
(in Pakistan), why
couldn’t be the same be
considered for the
state.
The
Mufti
also
termed it as one of
the confidence building measures, saying
there were several divided families in the
state which would be
allowed to meet each
other.
‘‘There is no harm
in allowing the people
of the two sides to
meet.
“After all any one
willing to cross over to
the other side would be
doing so on valid travel
documents,’’ the chief
minister said.PTI
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Jagdambika is new
UP Cong president
New Delhi:
Former UP
chief minister Jagdambika
Pal
Singh has
been
appointed the
J P Singh
new president of the Uttar Pradesh
Congress Committee in
place of Arun Kumar Singh
Munna, who had earlier resigned from the post.
‘‘Congress president Sonia Gandhi, having accept-
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Anticipatory bail for Shilpa’s mother: Sunanda Shetty and
Bhupinder Singh Sachdev, mother and secretary of film actress
Shilpa Shetty, respectively, were granted anticipatory bail till June
12 by a sessions court here. The judge granted them transit bail
on a sum of Rs 40,000 each in the extortion case. PTI
ed the resignation of Arun
Kumar Singh for the post of
UPCC, has been pleased to
appoint Jagdambika Pal
Singh, MLA, as the new
UPCC chief,’’ AICC general
secretary Oscar Fernandes
said in a statement here.
He said the appointment
will be with immediate effect. Sonia also appointed
Rita Bahuguna Joshi as the
new president of the All
India Mahila Congress
in place of Chandresh
Kumari. PTI
Postpone CAS
for now, says
Congress
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: After supporting
the government in enacting
the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Amendment 2002, the Congress party has opposed the implementation of the law and the
introduction of the Conditional Access System (CAS).
The party has asked the
government not to enforce
the CAS regime from July 15
and to postpone the introduction of set-top-boxes till various issues, including the
‘‘consumer’s freedom of
choice’’, are resolved. Congress claimed that the then
minister Sushma Swaraj had
assured the Opposition that a
set-top-box would cost less
than Rs 2,000.
‘‘It now transpires that digital set-top-boxes are likely to
cost about Rs 6,000.
Issues relating to the
sources through which the
set will be supplied, their
availability in adequate numbers, the pricing of the
channels, both ‘‘free to air’’
and ‘‘pay’’, by the cable operators have not yet been resolved.
These were the very concerns conveyed by the Congress to the minister,’’ said
Congress spokesman Reddy.
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Blair flies into row over Iraq report
AROUND THE WORLD
AFP
Reuters
By Rashmee Z Ahmed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
London: Even as Tony Blair
became on Thursday the
highest-ranking
Western
leader to visit post-war Iraq,
the victorious Anglo-American coalition was revealed to
be in chaos and deeply split
over Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Standing firmly on Gulf
soil as a liberating hero,
Blair contradicted US defence
secretary
Donald
Rumsfeld’s mind-blowing assertion that Saddam’s alleged WMD may never be
found. On Thursday, British
ministers denied all knowledge of Rumsfeld deputy
Paul Wolfowitz’s admission
that WMDs were used to justify the war for “bureaucratBritish Prime Minister Blair is greeted by an Iraqi boy in Basra on Thursday. Blair became the
ic reasons”.
The alleged WMD, docu- first Western leader to visit Iraq since the war that toppled Saddam Hussein.
mented in detail by the sec- Party revolt was hysterically
The
government
had moments of the century.”
ond of the Blair govern- rumoured to be on the cards, transformed the dossier, pub- Thanking British troops for
ment’s three dossiers on Iraq, even as the government was lished in September, to make their role in ousting Saddam,
were the legal pretext for the reportedly accused by its it “sexier”, the BBC quoted he said they had taken part
own intelligence officials of the official to say.
in “a momentous and mighty
US-led, UK-backed war.
In Basra, Blair called the act” in freeing the country
Anti-war MPs circled Blair lying and “spicing up” its
Iraq war one of the “defining from the strongman.
menacingly and a Labour dossier on Iraqi WMD.
Hamas truce next week: Abbas
Jerusalem: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas said he expected
to reach an agreement with the militant group Hamas by next week for a
complete halt to attacks on Israelis.
A ceasefire deal with Hamas would
be a major step forward on a USbacked “road map” that Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
will discuss with US President Bush
in a three-way summit in Jordan on
June 4.
“My assessment is that by next
week I will arrive at a ceasefire agree-
ment with Hamas,” Abbas told the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth in
an interview published Thursday
ahead of talks scheduled with Sharon.
“Hamas will commit to halting terrorism both within the Green Line (inside Israel) and in the territories,”
said Abbas, in comments aimed at
calming Israeli concerns that Hamas
would only agree to a partial halt on
attacks.
But a senior Hamas official, Abdel
Aziz al-Rantissi, said he was not aware
any such agreement was in the works
and repeated the group’s list of conditions for a truce that Israel has always
rejected.
“Our position so far is the same position,” Rantissi said. “If the Israelis
stop killing Palestinian civilians, free
prisoners, and end aggression, we
avoid targeting Israeli civilians.”
Hamas has spearheaded a suicide
bombing campaign that has killed
scores of Israelis since the start of the
Palestinian uprising for independence in September 2000 when peace
talks failed. Reuters
Reuters
Iranian who
sewed up eyes
can stay: UK
London: An Iranian refugee
who sewed up his eyes, ears
and mouth to protest against
possible deportation has won
the right to stay in Britain —
but plans to continue his action to highlight the plight of
others.
Abas Amini, a political
poet and communist activist
who fled Iran to Britain two
years ago, took the action
and went on hunger strike a
week ago after the Home Office said it would appeal a decision to grant him asylum.
On Thursday, a Home Office spokesman said Amini
had won his case but the
Iranian vowed to continue
his protest indefinitely.
“If anything it has saddened me because I feel
guilty about other friends
and supporters. I will continue. I do this because of what
is happening to other asylum
seekers,” he told the Independent newspaper.
Amini has said he spent
six years jailed in Iran, enduring mock executions and
other tortures, before fleeing.
He sewed his mouth, eyes
and ears shut himself using
a needle and thread.
The
Home
Office
spokesman said the decision
to allow Amini to remain was
made by an independent
commission and had nothing
to do with his protest. Reuters
Sir Edmund Hillary greets Crown Prince Paras in Kathmandu on Thursday. Nepal celebrated
the 50th anniversary of the Everest conquest by granting honorary citizenship to Hillary.
Handsome men have best sperm
London: Handsome men
produce the best quality semen and beautiful women
seem to have good voices,
according to scientists.
When researchers at the
University of Valencia in
Spain tested the quality of
male sperm and then later
asked women to rank the
attractiveness
of
the
donors it produced some
interesting results.
“They found that men
with the most attractive
faces also make the best
quality sperm,” New Scientist magazine said on
Wednesday.
In another study, researchers at the University
of Nottingham in England
compared the quality of female voices and their facial
features.
After playing recordings
of 30 young women to men,
who ranked them in order,
the researchers asked them
to look at their pictures and
choose the most striking
faces. “The men judged
women with the nicest
voices as the most attractive, on average,” the magazine added. Reuters
BRICKBATS
Linking Dubyaman with humour is just
like linking Mayawati with Mulayam,
Salman Khan with Vivek Oberoi and
George Bush with Saddam Hussein.
— Abhilasha
Thanks to Dubyamail we know Dubyaman is a ‘comic’ strip.
— Puneet
For bouquets go to
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Interestingly, the 55-page
dossier in question, had also
made a series of bare-faced
allegations that Indian companies continued illicitly to
supply Iraq with banned propellant chemicals for its ballistic missiles.
The dossier, which Blair
had then claimed contained
“unprecedented and secret”
information, warned that
Saddam had the capacity to
activate his biological and
chemical weapons in just 45
minutes.
But the whistle-blowing intelligence officer said the
headline-making claim was
“not in the original draft... it
wasn’t reliable... that was
single source and we believe
that the source was wrong.”
Armed forces minister
Adam Ingram conceded that
the 45-minute start-up time
story was based on a single
source. Officials were forced
to deny the dossier contained
anything other than information supplied by British intelligence agencies.
For more go to
www.timesofIndia.com
US: Shift in
Indo-Pak ties
encouraging
Washington: The US is ‘‘encouraged’’ by a recent shift in
ties between India and Pakistan that has seen the two
countries come closer than
ever to normalising relations, a top US official said on
Wednesday.
‘‘It’s not that there isn’t
more to be done, there is
more to be done,’’ said Condoleezza Rice, US President
Bush’s national security adviser, but, ‘‘We’re encouraged
by the recent trends in the relationship.’’
‘‘The key here is that India
and Pakistan themselves
moved the relationship forward. It’s not something that
can be moved forward by the
will of the G8,’’ Rice said.
In Isalamabad, a prominent Islamist leader said the
Pakistan army is against any
solution to the Kashmir problem because it would end its
privileges.
“Army is against solution
of the Kashmir issue and the
military elites are well aware
that once this issue is resolved it will be an end to
their
privileges,”
said
Moulana Fazalur Rehman,
secretary general of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA),
the six-party alliance of fundamentalist groups.
His remarks at a seminar
on ‘Indo-Pakistan dialogue
and future of Kashmir’, reported by the Dawn newspaper, reflected a growing
perception in Pakistan that
the army would not allow
the dialogue with India to
succeed. Agencies
Miss Canada Leanne Marie Cecile, Miss USA Susie Castillo and Miss Mexico Marisol
Gonzalez pose in swimwear in Panama City on Wednesday.
Hope’s 100: What would
Bob Hope Day be without a
joke from the
legendary
entertainer
himself? Out
of sight because of his
frail health
but far from
out of mind,
Hope turned 100 on Thursday with a new one-liner just
for the occasion. “I’m so old,
they’ve cancelled my blood
type,” Hope is said to have
remarked to his family. “Yes,
there will be a birthday cake
with 100 candles,” said Dolores, his wife of 69 years,
“with a fireman standing by
with a fire extinguisher.” Reuters
Patent for Thai King:
Thailand’s multitalented king,
who has several inventions
and musical compositions to
his credit, will receive a Thai
patent for his development of
an artificial rainmaking technique, an official said Thursday. King Bhumibol
Adulyadej will be awarded
the patent on Monday for
“super sandwich” rain maker
which involves two aircraft
seeding, or spraying chemiAFP
Bellucci’s gown stolen:
A $180,000 Cleopatra costume worn by Italian actress
Monica Bellucci was stolen
from a hotel in Cannes by a
waiter who wanted to
impress girls, police said
on Wednesday. The man
was arrested on Tuesday
after the one-of-a-kind dress,
spun from gold thread, went
missing on Sunday night
from the Martinez hotel,
where it had been on show
during the Cannes film festival. The thief rapidly confessed and told police he had
wanted the dress as a gift for
two girls he had met only
hours earlier. Reuters
cals on warm and cold
clouds at different altitudes. It
is a more effective technique
than traditional methods as it
generates rain over a wider
area and can direct rain more
precisely. AP
Marriage interrupted:
The marriage of Oscar-winning movie
stars Angelina Jolie and
Billy Bob
Thornton,
once sealed
with tattoos
and vials of
blood, is officially over, divorce papers
showed. The union that collapsed in a glare of publicity
last July was formally dissolved in a Los Angeles
court on Tuesday, but most
details of the divorce will remain confidential, court documents said. AFP
MJ enjoys Acapulco:
Seoul will be home to the
world’s tallest building
when a 580-metre high,
130-storey skyscraper is
completed in 2008.
Singer Michael Jackson is a
fan of mariachi music and
Acapulco, a Mexican newspaper reported. El Universal
quoted an unidentified fan as
saying he dressed as a waiter
and sneaked into a party
Jackson was attending while
on vacation. The fan said he
watched the singer enjoy live
mariachi music and sip a
glass of water. Jackson reportedly stayed at a house in
Las Brisas. AP
Sir Paul, 61, set for fatherhood
By Rashmee Z Ahmed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
London: Britain’s biggest
story is the
Beatle bump,
aka news that
a new little
Beatle baby is
on its way.
With headlines trumpeting, “Yesterday, changing
nappies seemed so far away”,
Sir Paul McCartney and his
blonde second wife Heather
Mills have just announced
that making babies is what
you do when you’re 64. Or
thereabouts. Sir Paul’s 61st
birthday is just weeks away.
His young wife, a former
glamour model and amputee
with a charitable interest in
Indians and other limbless
people worldwide, is 25 years
his junior.
The couple, who met four
years ago, soon after Sir
Paul’s adored first wife’s
death from cancer, announced they were “delighted with this happy news”.
The former Beatle’s brother, Mike went on TV to tell a
gob-smacked Britain “the
news... will bring a breath of
life to the McCartney family.
Us, McCartneys, are very
good at being dads”.
The result has been acres
of media pictures of the McCartney couple holding
hands right across the potential Beatle bump.
Video games improve visual skills
nd now, the news that every parent
A
dreads. Researchers are reporting
that first-person-shooter video games —
-the kind that require players to kill or
maim enemies or monsters that pop out
of nowhere —sharply improve visual
attention skills.
Experienced players of these games
are 30 percent to 50 percent better than
non-players at taking in everything that
happens around them, according to the
research, which appears in the journal
Nature.
They identify objects in their peripheral vision, perceiving numerous objects without having to count them,
switch attention rapidly and track
many items at once.
Nor are players simply faster at these
tasks, said Dr Daphne Bavelier, an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Rochester,
who led the study. First-person action
games increase the brain’s capacity to
spread attention over a wide range of
events.
Other types of action games, including those that focus on strategy or role
playing, do not produce the same effect.
While some researchers have suggested
possible links between video games and
other abilities, this study is thought to
be the first to explore their effects on visual skills.
Though the number of subjects was
small, Dr Bavelier said, the effects were
too large to be a result of chance. “We
were really surprised,” Dr Bavelier
said, adding that as little as 10 hours of
play substantially increased visual
skills among novice players. “You get
better at a lot of things, not just the
game,” she said.
But Dr Bavelier emphasised that the
improved visual attention skills did not
translate to reading, writing and mathematics. Nor is it clear that they lead to
higher IQ scores, although visual attention and reaction time are important
components of many standardised
tests.
“Please, keep doing your homework,”
said Dr Bavelier, the mother of 6-yearold twins and a 2-year-old. NYT News Service
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Asking for the Moon
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
He couldn’t understand why Americans are losing jobs.
— Tom Flanagan on son Kevin Flanagan
Merciless Market
The death of Kevin Flanagan, a Silicon Valley computer
programmer, last month has added a tragic footnote to a
by-now familiar story: The growing opposition in the US to
the outsourcing of IT-related jobs and services to countries
such as India. Flanagan shot himself to death, apparently
because he couldn’t deal with the prospect of losing his job.
Worse, before being handed the pink slip, the programmer
had to help train the Indian workers who were supposed
to take over his outsourced job. While Flanagan’s was an
extreme step, his circumstances were by no means exceptional. He was among an estimated 8,00,000 Americans who
reportedly lost their jobs to outsourcing in the last one
year alone. With several major American corporations,
including General Electric, Microsoft and Intel, looking at
outsourcing as an attractive cost-cutting option, that figure
is set to rise to over three million in the next few years.
Scores of blue chip American brick-and-mortar companies
have in the last two decades taken advantage of lower
wages in the Third World to ‘relocate’ their manufacturing
bases there. Far from making an issue of this, American
champions of a globalised free market usually cited it as
proof of the virtues of a borderless capitalist world, which
led to the most efficient use of capital and a lowering of
costs for consumers all over the world.
It is therefore doubly ironic that Flanagan’s death is
being used to add fuel to the fire of anti-outsourcing campaign, with several American states threatening legislative
measures to either ban or limit the ‘export’ of IT-related
jobs to other countries. In an e-mail exchange with this
newspaper, the father of the deceased computer programmer has blamed ‘the system’ because of which “Americans
are losing jobs”. And further that, he “understood it economically but not emotionally”. The fact is that most countries in the world, particularly protected and isolationist
economies like India, have long learnt to endure the pain of
living in a brave new world of American-led globalisation,
where uncompetitive sectors of the domestic industry have
either closed down or severely curtailed their operations in
the face of cheaper foreign imports. The challenge posed by
Indian IT industry to American jobs is in that sense the
flip side of that coin: The chickens of the globalised free
market coming home to roost in the world’s biggest
economy. If America is to remain true to its creed, it cannot
allow the death of one of its own to undo that faith.
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Big Brother’s Invading
Your Privacy
he launch of ‘location based’ mobile telephone
T
services in India will be seen by many as a
harmless innovation aimed at providing subscribers
on the move with useful information about products
they may wish to buy or consume. But set against the
backdrop of inadequate privacy protection in our
country, the onset of this — and indeed other new
communications technologies — raises concerns
about the ability of the state to intrude into the private
domain of the citizen. Cellphone service providers
have always had the ability to track the movement of
subscribers as the signals emitted by an individual
phone get passed from one transmission tower to the
next. Sophisticated computer technology allows this
information to be stored indefinitely and retrieved,
perhaps years later, to build a profile of an individual’s
movements in the city. Officially, this information is
only meant to be provided to the police and intelligence agencies. However, most law-abiding citizens
will not feel comforted by the ability of the state to
keep track of their movements. In India, there is the
additional problem of the police being used by private
parties to obtain what is otherwise confidential
personal data from mobile service providers who are
obliged by law to cooperate with the authorities.
In the US, after 9/11, the Pentagon is working on an
Orwellian project to gather as much information as it
can about every aspect of all citizens under its ‘total
information awareness’ programme. In India, the
baseline situation is much worse since there is no
legislation which deals directly with privacy protection. The problem is compounded by the Vajpayee
government’s attempts to introduce a compulsory ID
card system and build a computerised database of
citizens. Databases are most useful when welfareoriented states use them to develop and target public
services. In India, however, the government cannot be
accused of having any such motivation. Rather, the
impulse to catalogue and classify citizens is being
driven by a misplaced sense of ‘national security’, so
that ‘terrorists’, ‘infiltrators’ and other undesirables
can be weeded out. Such a process will invariably
make the state, which already enjoys so much of
power over the citizen, even more of a leviathan.
COUNTERVIEW
Greater Risk Calls For
Heightened Vigil
ig Brother is watching. Well, so what? A lawB
abiding person has nothing to fear; the only people
who should be concerned are criminals and potential
law-breakers. Every time a terrorist attack or a major
crime takes place, we rail at security lapses and
intelligence failures. But when efforts are made to put
into place measures that could prevent such incidents,
we start complaining about violation of our privacy.
Let’s face it, we can’t have our cake and eat it too. Once,
security agencies could afford the luxury of delayed
reaction time. Today, we inhabit a wired world that
never sleeps; where terrorists can communicate and
transfer funds and equipment across borders with
unprecedented ease; where technology has multiplied
the individual’s destructive capacity. September 11
and December 13 showed us exactly how vulnerable
we are. What if, in either case, the terrorists had been
equipped with nuclear bombs? We are living in
arguably the most dangerous time in humanity’s
history. Those entrusted with our safety simply cannot
afford to react to events, they have to be proactive and
nip potential disasters in the bud.
If that means some security boffin gets to keep a tab
on our whereabouts and transactions, is that such a
big deal? After all, whenever we take flights, we are
routinely subjected to extremely intimate physical
checks by complete strangers. If we can learn to live
with this violation of our private space, surely we can
get accustomed to the idea of being monitored online.
Besides, there could be unintended side-benefits.
Take the case of cellular service providers tracking
subscribers via their cellphones. As a consumer,
wouldn’t you love it if you could get customised
messages telling you, say, that there was a special
discount available at your favourite restaurant the
moment you came into its vicinity? The flip side is
that you might be flooded with junk mail. But there’s
already a global trend towards anti-spam legislation.
Before too long, you will probably get messages
only from specified people, on subjects that you choose
to be informed about. In any case, what would you
feel more threatened by: An unsolicited ad, or an
unsolicited bomb attack on you?
Back to Basics in Space
By J V Narlikar
In modern times, scientists have viewed
the moon as the first step to mount in a
campaign aimed at conquering space.
During the first flush of enthusiasm of the
sixties and the early seventies, partly fuelled
by the Cold War rivalry, both the Soviet
Union and the US organised several space
missions to the moon, including the historic
human landing on the moon in the Apollo-11
mission. However, afterwards interest in the
subject waned.
Now, the moon is enjoying a revival of
interest amongst the space agencies of
several countries. Indeed, the progress of the
new lunar pilgrims is about to begin with a
European spacecraft this year followed by a
Japanese one next year. China has its own
rather ambitious programme for space,
starting with placing an astronaut in an
earth-orbit within a year, the moon itself
being on the space-menu for around 2010.
Now the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has come out with its plan for
an expedition to the moon.
ISRO has over the last few years steadily
built up a solid reputation of capability of
all the different steps needed for a moon
mission, starting with launching payloads,
designing them, and controlling them remotely. Against
this background of technological capability, future generations would point an
accusing finger at ISRO if it
now rested on its laurels
instead of joining the above
company. So, its proposed
enterprise called Somayana,
deserves to be welcomed as
the Indian response to the
lunar challenge.
The Somayana (the word means a lunar
vehicle) will be a spaceship launched
from the earth with the intention of reaching
the neighbourhood of the moon, then
descending to a pre-specified orbit so as
to move round the moon for a couple
of years. During this period it will do
remote-sensing of the moon from a height,
ideally of 100 km.
During its two years of active life in orbit,
the Somayana will carry a terrain-mapping
camera for high resolution photography of
the lunar surface. Taking into consideration
the location of the sun which determines
the illumination of the moon, it turns out
that of one year, only around 120 days
are suitable for this kind of photography...
these are two periods of 60 days separated
by 120 days. Keeping these limitations in
mind a strategy will have to be worked out
on how and which part of the moon will
be imaged and when.
Additionally, there will be X-ray payloads
to cover the moon. There will be provision
for measuring the X-ray fluorescence from
the lunar surface over a ‘footprint’ of size
10 km. At higher energies, there will be
X-ray mapping to detect degassing faults
which may shed some light on how the
volatiles are transported on the moon. On
the vertical scale, lunar laser ranging
instrument will measure for us the ups
and downs in the lunar surface on scale of
10 metres. Likewise, one hopes that analysis
of slight changes in the orbit over the
two-year period will tell us something about
the gravity anomalies on the moon.
To operate and control the spacecraft, a
deep space network (DSN) will have to be
created in addition to what already exists.
The DSN will be a permanent asset as it
can be used for future missions as well
and also offered for use by missions of
other countries.
Launch technology capability decides the
weight of the payload. The Somayana can
weigh just over half a tonne. This limit, in
turn, decides what scientific and other
equipment can be accommodated. The
preliminary report of Somayana is based on
deliberations by scientists on these issues,
including the technological developments
needed to make the mission a success.
Thus development of lithium-ion batteries,
advanced antenna system, miniaturised
communication system, miniaturised star
sensor and bus management unit will be
prompted by this particular
enterprise. The spin-offs of
these technologies for other
‘down to earth’ purposes will
of course be there. Recall that
even the teflon (non-stick)
pans in the kitchen were spinoffs from space technologies.
The question naturally
arises as to whether we are
reinventing the wheel, as
other more advanced nations
may already have done this
work. As of now, the projected studies do
not suffer from this criticism. And since
the ‘wheel’ is often invoked by the detractors
of any new scientific enterprise, perhaps
it should be stated that even the wheel has
to be re-invented if it is needed and there
is an embargo on its export by those who
made it first.
If the project is approved, it will take
five years to complete and will carry a
price tag of around Rs 400 crore. Again,
sceptics may ask, could not this money
be diverted towards providing water to
the remote areas, to rural development in
general. Certainly there are many priority
areas where money is sorely needed, but
a lot more than the above amount could
reach them from their actual allocations
if only efficient management and plugging of
fund-leakage were possible.
But in the last analysis there is also the
intellectual challenge that comes now and
then and prompts an individual or a civilisation to rise and meet it. India has a
tradition of taking up such challenges, vide
its stake in Antarctica. You climb the
Everest because it is there. You go to the
moon because it is there.
Sleeping Duty
By Raghu Krishnan
“So what time will Sundar
return from night-shift,” I
asked my spouse while we
were rushing to work,
“Who on earth is Sundar?”,
she snapped, anxiously
looking at her watch.
I sighed and patiently
explained, “Last night, the
serial Sahana ended with
the Carnatic music maestro
JKB and his wife Bhairavi
wondering where their son
Surya had disappeared on
learning that his mother
was actually Sindu. Remember, at three in the
night, JKB rang up the
house of his son’s friend
Sundar and, when informed that Sundar was on
night-shift, left a message
that Sundar should meet
JKB as soon as he returned
from work.”
The spouse responded
with a “Right now, the only
thing on my mind is
whether I will be late
again because of your
oversleeping. What would
Balachander — the director
of Sahana, the TV serial
sequel to his hit-film SinduBhairavi — have done if he
had a character like you? At
best, he could have cast
you as a Rip Van Winkle,
not the one who got up after
years but as someone who
keeps sleeping even when
awake. The only thing
you are on time for are
the TV serials and every
cricket-match telecast.”
I tried explaining yet
again that journalists like
me were judged not by our
ETA, ETD (expected time
of arrival, departure) but
by the quality of work. “I
know”, the spouse said.
“The neighbour’s son Sonu
dropped by the other day at
your office, greeted you and
decided not to wait for you
to wake up and reply.”
I pointed out that Sonu
had got it wrong. “I was
thinking with my eyes
closed and he thought I
was asleep.” And she
responded with “Whatever
you were doing, Sonu
decided not to disturb
you once he heard you
snoring.”
I decided the time had
come for me to regularly
hand over to Sonu the
passes I got for moviepremieres I never went to
so that he could file more
balanced reports on what
I was doing on those occasions when he queued up at
my office to collect complimentaries for events sponsored by the sister publication to the one I worked for.
And I realised the
poignant significance of
the comment made decades
ago by president Kennedy
to the US Marines that
“Life is unfair.” Here I was,
working day and night, and
the only feedback courtesy
the neighbour’s son was
that I was sleeping it off.
A gross calumny if ever
there was one since I
never slept during office
hours and, on those rare
occasions when I may have
dropped off, my subconscious was still working.
CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS
The Enemy Within
Since the BJP-led coalition came to power,
the Indian left has done the greatest damage
to India’s image abroad. In conjunction with
radical groups in the US, it has launched innumerable petition drives and approached
partisan human rights groups. They have
carped about Indian minorities being in
danger and assailed the rulings of India’s
courts. And without credible evidence, they
have tried to tarnish the reputation of the
non-religious US-based charity, the India
Development and Relief Fund, by painting
it ‘saffron’, thereby damaging the mission of
helping Indians in remote parts of India.
In their anxiety to pummel India and
everything that is worthy about the country,
they gloss over the much larger problems
confronting India: terrorism, cross-border
infiltration and poverty. A detached critic
sees India’s strengths in its democratic
institutions, its strong record of conducting
From timesofindia.com
Reservations Paradox
With reference to the View and Counterview on reservations (May 27), last year
I had to travel by bus and then walk for
15 minutes to collect the entrance form of
one of the leading educational institutes
of India. But my underprivileged and
backward friend just stepped out of her
car, cellphone in hand and paid half the
amount for the form. And to top it all,
even though she scored half of what I
did, she got through and I didn’t.
Sanghamitra Dey, via e-mail
elections successfully across its multicultural length and breadth, its vibrant free
press, an independent judiciary and a stable
economy. The fact that India has achieved a
measure of coherence, stability and growth,
in spite of various challenges, is a matter
of considerable pride for all Indians.
However, because of the propaganda by
the Indian left, the US Commission on
International Religious Freedom has
clubbed India with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
and China in its assessment of citizens’
right to religious freedom. Thankfully, the
US state department decided not to
follow this ill-informed commission’s
recommendation of taking action against
India, such as imposing sanctions. However,
almost every week, some American
newspaper, magazine, or university
organisation carries a message, which
many Americans interpret to mean that
India is one of the most repressive and
undemocratic societies in the world.
The position of Indian leftists on
Hindutva is their prerogative. But their
contempt for India’s democratic process and
the undermining of India abroad should be
a concern for all Indians. These internal
divisions are monitored and exploited by
foreign governments. They weaken India’s
global image, and threaten the very institutions and people they claim to be defending.
— Mihir Meghani, via e-mail
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Back-office Blues
Today, Corporate America’s favourite
cost-cutting exercise is outsourcing services to
labour-cheap developing countries. But this
has not gone down well with local employees,
particularly when they lose their jobs to
overseas recruits. Washington Democrat
Congressman Jay Inslee is from Seattle,
home of Microsoft, Boeing and a large PIO
population. Visiting India, the member
of the Congressional Caucus on India tells
Narayani Ganesh that he sees no
contradiction in supporting both free
trade and immigration restriction:
In the first case, a neighbour is a neighbour — friendly, and part of the neighbourhood. But those who do outsourced jobs are
not in the neighbourhood; they are far
removed and ‘alien’. Also, outsourcing
involves larger numbers and they are
normally not highly skilled workers.
Outsourcing has cut costs for US companies; it
has given employment opportunities to the
outsourced countries. So would you say that it
is a win-win situation for both or will the
growing resentment in the US snowball into
a serious controversy?
I would say outsourcing benefits both
You say you are all for free trade. But you’ve countries. But let’s not forget that trade
also said that H1-B visas should only be opportunities also present trade anxieties.
given when it has been established that local Every trade proposal brings with it both
people are not available to do the same jobs. opportunity and angst. Team work is
Isn’t this a contradiction?
more productive than individual effort.
We have to make a distinction between So two countries working together can
trade policy and immigration issues. Especi- achieve more.
ally after 9/11, security concerns have beOur personal economic interest is to
come heightened in the US. Then there is the keep in close touch with India’s market. If we
local community to think of. However, I don’t believe we are going to be a technologically
think free trade and restriction on immigra- advanced society, then by necessity we
tion are incompatible. Visa policy should not have to get new markets. Trade has always
slow down economic policy. The visa process been a most troublesome and challenging
should be expedited for long time travellers, issue. The fears being expressed are sincere
especially for business travellers. Govern- and the concerns are legitimate. There is a
ments should remove trade barriers; at the need to create awareness among employees
same time it is necessary to have geographi- about all these aspects.
cal boundaries in
Kevin Flanagan, the
order to maintain
young Silicon Valley
sovereignty. We can’t
computer programhave nation states
mer who killed himdisappear.
self recently, reportWe have to make a
In a way, hasn’t the
edly blamed the
distinction between
Internet done away
‘system’ for forcing
trade policy and
with geographical
him to train his own
immigration issues.
boundaries?
The
outsourced replaceHowever, I don’t think
worldwide web is
ment. Is Kevin’s
a world without
case only the tip of
free trade and restricborders, a world
the iceberg?
tion on immigration
where there is free
It was undoubtedly
are incompatible.
exchange of ideas
a terrible human
and information.
tragedy. It is symptoI’m not an anarchist... so I’m not in favour matic of the fact that there are stresses in
of doing away with nation states. Nation trade. The discussion on the subject will
states will remain the fundamental model continue. We’ve faced this kind of anxiety
for a long time to come. An economy cannot before — Japanese cars sold in the US
exist without the rule of law; economies threatened the US auto industry. This kind
cannot progress in anarchy. Sanctity of of thing has been going on for the last
private property cannot exist without a 30 years. At the end of the day, I can say
government to protect it.
that the US will not adopt a protectionist
To come back to your first question, the US policy. These are sensitive issues; only
needs to remove sand from the gear box of dialogue and sharing of ideas can help
trade. Lots of people feel threatened by trade. remove misapprehensions.
Anxiety is created. The best thing that Bills have been introduced in four US states
governments can do is to not interfere in to ban outsourcing.
trade for that will only hamper free exchange
I wouldn’t worry about that. Most Bills
of intellectual capacity.
don’t see the light of day. Protectionism is
It is also true that compared to other a knee-jerk reaction; it cannot be practised
countries, the US has a relatively liberal in the US. You cannot expect Microsoft and
immigration policy. Since the 1800s the Boeing to sell in India and at the same time
country has been going through a process of indulge in protectionism at home. Growing
fusion — and still enjoys a fusion of incredi- markets are very important.
ble talent in a number of areas ranging from
Government legislations create artificial
sports to software to finance and medicine.
trade barriers across countries and it is
When a US immigrant works, for instance, not favourable to productivity. Less governin Silicon Valley, his neighbour does not mental interference and more team work
perceive him as a threat. Then why are will provide a favourable environment
jobs outsourced to India and other countries for growth. When countries work together,
causing resentment?
there is greater productivity.
Q&A
Udayshankar
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Voices from Within
And Joan of Arc
By Janina Gomes
Joan of Arc, the “Maid of
France”, was a poor peasant
girl from Domremy, a remote
village tucked away in the
north-east of France. Her
life and death have come
to acquire the flavour of
mythology, but her story
symbolises the spirit of true
nationalism and the power of
sheer faith and determination to remain strong in the
face of adversity.
Joan was inspired by
voices from within. Her faith
and conviction made her
strong enough to face criticism from Captain de Beaudricourt, the commander at
Vaucouleurs, to whom she
offered her services to fight
the English who had overrun
parts of the country.
Joan finally convinced the
weak and vacillating Dauphin, who was later to be
crowned King of France, to
meet her. The “cowgirl” — as
the English generals so
contemptuously
called her — won
her first victory
for the French
over the English
in Orleans. She
went on to fight
many
battles.
When she was
captured at Compiegne, it was acknowledged how
valiantly she fought “doing deeds
beyond the nature of women” as the
“chief and most valiant of
her band”.
When the Burgundians
handed her over to the English, Joan fought despair by
praying. Faith sustained her
through her trials. In Rouen
where she was the property
of the English, all through
her imprisonment, the voices
she heard from within and
her faith were sources of
comfort and she experienced
the close presence of God.
Joan was tried and persecuted by a French bishop and
scholar, Cauchon, and she
was burned at the stake in
the market square, accused
of being a witch who claimed
false visions and who ‘heard’
God’s voice. All through the
questioning she maintained
that she put her faith only
in God and that she did
nothing of herself. God did
everything for her.
Though
she
brought
honour and glory to France,
she was forgotten by her own
people for hundreds of years.
She died on May 30, 1431, a
day now observed as her
feast day. In July 1456, after
an inquiry was instituted by
the selfsame vacillating and
weak French King, a verdict
was passed which found her
completely and absolutely
innocent of everything with
which she had been charged.
In Orleans, Joan’s memory
remained alive though the
monument that commemorated her there was destroyed during the great
Revolution. Another, which
replaced it in 1803, won the
notice of Napoleon. History
books of the 16th to 18th
centuries barely mention her
name. Talk of Joan’s canonisation started only with
the beginning of the 19th
century and she was declared
a saint on May 16, 1920.
Today, Joan is revered
as a symbol of courage,
a woman who battled for her country despite heavy
odds, who was
misunderstood
and
misjudged
by history. Today
she has been declared a saint by
the church. Feast
days are a time to
recall role models
and
to
learn
and be inspired
by the saints we
commemorate.
If one has a mission,
nothing — neither poverty,
education, nor the opposition
faced from institutions and
those in power — can come in
the way of achieving one’s
mission. Joan gave to her
country the honour and
confidence that it had
lost, despairing after being
conquered by foreigners. Her
work may have been initially
undone through the betrayal
of her own people and she
was rejected by the very
church to which she owed
all her allegiance and loyalty.
From a symbol of evil and
witchcraft, of which she
was falsely accused, she
has become a symbol of all
that is good, true and noble
in human nature. She symbolises all that womanhood
can achieve in the face of
heavy odds and all that a
lone individual can do to
socially transform a country.
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Hope, and there is
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a friend, but only a
fool relies on it;
nothing is commoner
than the name,
nothing rarer than
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and lack of fellowship
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left) is meeting Brazilian
foreign minister Celso
Amorim to discuss the Free
Trade Area of the Americas
Singapore’s retailers launched
their annual six-week mega
sales and urged shoppers to
go on a huge spending spree
to turnaround the ailing
SARS-hit economy
Hitachi’s prototype
movable vacuum-cleaner
robot can work for 50
minutes with a built-in
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New Delhi: Higher sales realisation, better
product mix and improved sales on its branded steel to automotive and construction industries helped the Tata group firm Tisco
strengthen its bottomline by 427.85 per cent
in 2002-03 fiscal.
The firm closed the year with a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,021.77 crore as against Rs
193.57 crore a year earlier.
Enthused by the over four-fold jump in
profit, the board of directors recommended
an 80 per cent dividend for the year, resulting
into an outgo of Rs 335 crore, Tisco MD B
Muthuraman said.
The financial data for 2002-03 includes the
results of erstwhile Tata SSL Ltd that was
merged with Tisco.
With the demand for steel still buoyant,
Tisco was confident that its performance
would improve in the current fiscal.
The steel demand in India was expected to
grow by 5-6 per cent and prices were likely to
remain firm, Muthuraman said, adding that
the company was positioned to gain from
growth in domestic steel demand, coming
from automobile, appliances and construction sectors.
The improved financial performance led to
a rally in the Tisco scrip at the Bombay Stock
Exchange on Thursday with share price rising 4.3 per cent to Rs 152.95.
Led by Tisco, most of the old economy
heavyweights ended higher for the second
straight day as traders felt that foreign fund
inflows would pick up, according to brokers.
Tisco’s consolidated income from operations has increased to Rs 9,158.67 crore in
FY-03 as against Rs 7,427.91 crore in the
previous year.
On a standalone basis, Tisco posted a higher net profit at Rs 1,012.31 crore in 2002-03
from Rs 204.9 crore a year ago while sales
rose to 9,793.27 crore.
The company, Muthuraman said, insulated
itself from volatility through higher sales of
proprietary and top-end products, higher
share of branded products, higher proportion of contract sales and lower dependence
on exports.
For the fourth quarter ended March, net
profit and sales grew to Rs 469.08 crore (Rs
122.47 crore) and Rs 2,981.31 crore (Rs 2,150.52
crore) respectively.
The company’s exports increased by 126
per cent at Rs 1,313 crore, in which steel alone
contributed Rs 1,109 crore. The company also
reduced its debt by Rs 500 crore during the
year and in the current fiscal it is now planning to prepay Rs 300-400 crore.
Meanwhile, Tisco is inking an agreement
with Arcelor, the world’s largest steel
producer, for procuring the technological
know-how to produce coated galvanised steel
for automobiles, company vice-president
HM Nerurkar said.
New Delhi: Tata-managed
VSNL, the country’s largest
international long distance
(ILD) company, has taken a
big hit in profits and revenues within the first year of
the opening up of ILD sector,
which saw consumer tariffs
tumble by over 50 per cent.
The company that until
last year enjoyed the privilege of being a state-owned
monopoly—raking in big
profits, went through a highly controversial privatisation process, only to face big
tariff cut blows from private
start-ups
like
Bharti’s
Telesonic and Data Access.
Besides, it needed to adjust
to constantly declining settlement rates—net charges
that ILD companies pay one
another for completing cus-
tomer calls.
The result: VSNL’s annual
profits were down 45 per cent
for the financial year ending
March 31, 2003. They fell to
Rs 780 crore from Rs 1,407
crore. Revenues were down
32 per cent to Rs 4,812 crore
from Rs 7,089 crore.
During the fourth quarter
(Q4) 2002-03, profits fell 40 per
cent to Rs 191 crore from Rs
316 crore and revenues fell 42
per cent to Rs 1,038 crore
from Rs 1,776 during Q4 of
the last fiscal.
It has declared a dividend
of Rs 8.50 per share.
The behemoth said however, ‘‘VSNL has, despite competition, maintained and
grown its traffic volume and
is certain that the future
growth in volumes will offset
the short-term impact on the
industry.’’
Munich: The city of Munich
said on Wednesday it would
switch 14,000 computers from
Microsoft’s Windows operating
system to rival Linux in a deal
estimated to be worth tens of
millions of euros.
The decision is a blow to US giant Microsoft, whose chief executive Steve Ballmer had personally campaigned for Microsoft’s
counter-offer to the city, based on
Windows XP.
Microsoft has created two
funds to discount its products
against the emerging Linux software, which is eating into its
most profitable business. “This
strategic decision makes Munich less dependent on one IT
supplier and sets a trend toward
more competition,” Munich
mayor Christian Ude said.
Analysts said Munich’s decision to choose open source software, which means Linux, was a
breakthrough. “It is one of the
largest desktop migrations to
Linux ever seen,” said Gartner
Dataquest analyst Nikos Drakos.
Linux suppliers welcomed the
move by of one of Germany’s
largest cities, where many of the
country’s biggest corporations
have their headquarters.
“You can compare this to the
fall of the Berlin Wall,” said
Richard Seibt, Chief Executive
of Linux software provider Suse.
Suse is bidding for the Linux
Western Union, Australia
Post in tie-up: Western
Union, a money transfer service provider, has tied up with
Australia Post to provide facility to Indian community in
Australia to remit funds into
the country. “Indians in Australia can send funds to relatives and family members in
the country through our money transfer service. We will
use about 5,000 post offices
across India”, Western Union
director, Anil Kapur said. PTI
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Marconi cuts losses, to
cut 500 more jobs: Marconi, the British telecommunications equipment maker recently hauled back from the
brink of collapse, announced
500 more job cuts and
warned that markets for its
products remained very
tough. Marconi Corp, resurrected from the old Marconi
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• Steep competition from
Bharti Telesonic, Data Access
gave VSNL a tough time
• The behemoth had to cut
ILD tariff by over 50% which
put a pressure on bottomline
• Significant revenue gains
came from value-added
services
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• Plans to cut costs through
optimum utilisation of
bandwidth allocation
The growth during the
year came from data and other value-added services,
which contributed to 25 per
cent of the company’s revenues, up from 11 per cent
last year.
VSNL MD SK Gupta said
that the company was consolidating its presence in the
retail market and ‘‘seeking to
tap the opportunities in the
corporate market segment
for value-added service.’’
Gupta added that VSNL
was looking at cutting costs
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constitutes a sizeable share
of its operating expenses.’’
Tatas are consolidating
telecom business, which has
seen group companies making increasing investments
in the sector.
Last year Tatas bought
government stake in VSNL
and then increased it to 46
per cent, spending around
Rs 2,600 crores. Soon after
buying the stake, Tatas decided to invest Rs 1,200 crore
from VSNL reserves in Tata
Teleservices, the basic service operation with Indicom
barnd. The move was opposed by former communications minister Pramod Mahajan. After a bitter controversy, the company decided
to reduce it to Rs 636 crore
over four years.
More investment
in Maruti: Suzuki
By Byas Anand
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Suzuki Motor Corp president
Osamu Suzuki on Thursday evening hinted
at more investments in its Indian arm
Maruti Udyog in the future as part of plans
to make it the R&D and export hub.
Suzuki also hinted at greater cooperation
between SMC and Maruti at an analyst meet
in Mumbai. He had earlier stated that one
new model would be introduced in India
every year to grow its leadership position.
“When I had invested in India, lot of people had dismissed the investment. But today,
the same people and almost every global car
maker has followed me here,” sources cited
Suzuki as saying.
MUL MD Jagdish Khattar said MUL
would drive M800 car closer to 2-wheeler aspirants. “We have joined hands with SBI to
offer cheap finance, which will bring the
EMI on a Maruti 800 closer to and, in some
cases, even lower than that of a motorcycle.”
institute wants to take the designer
out of the classroom -- and into the
marketplace. The Ahmedabadbased institute said the new
incubator will allow closer
ineraction between designers
and entrepreneurs.
Ajit Ninan
Prudential Plc sets up
centre in Mumbai: UK-
hile many companies are trying
to find ways to protect bottomlines in a depressed market,
share buybacks and consequent delisting
has helped several MNCs and some domestic firms notching up better profits.
‘‘Several big names like Atlas Copco, Bayer CropScience, Cadbury, Kodak India,
Madura Coats, Nestle India, Philips India, and Wartsila India have seen their
bottomlines improve substantially following a buyback,’’ an analyst said.
While low market valuations have
made their buyback programmes a
cheaper proposition, delisting will allow
the boards of these companies greater
flexibility to spruce up managements and
take tough decisions to ride the downturn, the analyst added.
In Atlas Copco, the promoter holding
went up to 83.77 per cent from 50.99 per
cent. The company’s profit in Q4 of 2002
(September-December) was Rs 7.42 crore,
up from Rs 2.61 crore in the corresponding quarter of 2001.
In the case of Bayer CropScience, the
promoter shareholding went up to 82.30
per cent from 50.09 per cent following a
buyback. The company reported a profit
of Rs 1.56 crore in the fourth quarter, as
against a loss of Rs 6.48 crore in the corresponding period of the previous year.
‘‘Following the global takeover of Aventis
CropScience by Bayer, Bayer CropScience
was mandated by SEBI to make the
mandatory open offer. But due to drought,
its shares were down, so the true value of
the company was never really reflected.’’
Philips India increased holdings from
82.86 per cent to 93.56 per cent. For 200203, it reported a profit of Rs 84.29 crore, after losses of Rs 21.15 crore and Rs 34.15
crore in the previous two years. In the
case of Nestle and Wartsila, the promoter
holding increased to 58.71 per cent and
89.69 per cent from 51.23 per cent and 51
per cent, respectively. Their profits in the
fourth quarter of 2002-03 increased to Rs
74.70 crore and Rs 10.30 crore respectively.
W
● Rajarshi
Roy
would leverage on the
technology developed by the
UK firm, which already has
customers in global telecom
corporations. PTI
Cisco WAN network for
Federal Bank: Private
based Prudential Plc has set
up offshore services centre in
Mumbai, through its fullyowned Indian subsidiary, Prudential Process Management
Services (PPMS), with an investment of $10 million. This
offshore service centre would
start operations by the end of
next month. The centre would
be fully functional at a capacity of 850 employees by mid
2004, PPMS managing director R K Rangan said. PTI
sector Federal Bank is planning to implement a multilocational voice ready wide
area network (WAN) interconnecting its 421 branches
across the country by December. “Networking company Cisco has already networked 250 Federal Bank
branches till now. The bank
has also implemented Cisco
security for confidentiality of
data over the network,” a
Cisco release said. TNN
Aftek Infosys floats joint
venture with UK firm:
Nestle appoints Narayan
as V-P in Thailand arm:
Mumbai-based IT products
and services firm Aftek
Infosys Ltd said it has
entered into a joint venture
with UK-based IT firm in the
wireless and mobile area. “It
is a 50-50 JV with the UK
firm,” Aftek Infosys chairman
and chief executive officer
Ranjit Dhuru said. Without
naming the JV partner, Dhuru
said a formal announcement
would be made soon. Aftek
Nestle S.A. has appointed
Suresh Narayanan, who is
currently the executive vice
president (sales) at Nestle
India, as the executive vice
president (sales and
marketing) of Nestle Thailand.
Narayanan will also advise
on other markets of IndoChina region including
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and
Myanmar, a company press
release said. TNN
earlier this month, reported a
pre-tax loss of £1.3 billion
(1.86 billion euros, $2.17 billion) for the year to March
from £5.9 billion the previous
year. Annual net losses
dropped to £1.1 billion from
£6.1 billion the previous year,
the company said in a statement. But the improved bottom line masked deteriorating
sales, which fell 32 per cent
to £1.87 billion. AFP
as music for several years.
The Seattle-based Web retailer, which started a new office
products category and an apparel store in the last year,
said at its annual shareholders meeting that it would
keep expanding as it aims at
reaching profitability this year.
“We are going to launch several new categories this year,”
Amazon chief executive Jeff
Bezos said.Reuters
corporate jets. While former
Merrill analyst and managing
director Young touted Tyco’s
stock between 1999 and early
2002, the conglomerate traded inside information with
him, industry regulator NASD
said in its civil complaint.Reuters
Amazon to open more
stores, mulls music: Ama- Tadaaki Jagawa, president
Merrill analyst charged
on Tyco coverage: Securi-
zon.com Inc said on Wednesday that it planned to open
several more stores on its online shopping Web site this
year and confirmed it has
been considering online distribution of digital media such
ties regulators have said they
charged former Merrill Lynch
& Co analyst Phua Young with
issuing misleading reports on
Tyco International Ltd and accused him of improper conduct, including flying on Tyco
RPG Cables, Corning
Cable in alliance: RPG
DistnetDSL, TTSL in
Internet pact: Chennai-
Cables Ltd has entered into a
strategic agreement with
Corning Cable Systems
(CCS), US-based subsidiary
of Corning Inc to supply
structured cabling systems
products for deployment in
premise wiring applications in
India, Sri Lanka and Nepal.PTI
based broadband Internet
services provider DishnetDSL
Ltd has signed an agreement
with Tata Teleservices Ltd
(TTSL), whereby the ISP will
offer broadband Internet connectivity using the Tata group
company’s existing infrastructure. “Under the deal, we will
of Japan’s top truckmaker
Hino Motors Ltd, 50 per cent
owned by Toyota Motor, announces plans in Tokyo to
expand truck business in US
through a tie-up with a local
firm Penske Auto and Toyota.
Source: SBI, Mumbai
Easy way to
stay afloat
D I G E S T
provide broadband connectivity to all TTSL subscribers
using its existing last mile
infrastructure,” DishnetDSL
chief executive officer
V Srinivasan said. PTI
Selling rate: Currency notes
BUYBACK
TRAIL
Bill Gates gave a counter-offer with Windows XP which didn’t work.
contract together with IBM.
still at hand if the city found that
Linux is considered by many certain units could not switch
to be the only big rival to Mi- over to Linux. “Some applicacrosoft’s Windows and can al- tions do not run on Linux,” he
ready be found on 15 per cent of said. The Munich decision
all computers sold in Western comes as the German governEurope.
ment is installing Linux
A Microsoft spokesman in throughout certain ministries
Munich said his company was and public institutions. Reuters
NID launches design business
incubator: Darlie Koshy-led design
Ltd has posted a higher
consolidated net profit at
Rs 16.01 crore for the financial year March 31, 2003
compared to Rs 9.04 crore for
2001-02. The board has recommended a Rs 6 dividend
per share for the year 200203 (Rs 5 per share in 200102). Consolidated net sales
grew to Rs 397.60 crore
compared to Rs 340.56 crore
in FY-02. The net profit and
sales for the Q4 ended March
31, 2003 stood at Rs 2.07
crore (Rs 1.15 crore and Rs
94.26 crore (Rs 84.54 crore)
respectively, it added. PTI
S $: 28.25
Microsoft loses Munich to Linux
E X E C U T I V E
Colour Chem net up at
Rs 16 crore: Colour Chem
NZ $: 28.15
VSNL takes a hit, net profit down 45%
Tisco net profit
surges on better
product mix
NATIONAL
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The Times of India, New Delhi
Govt yet to take action on UTI scam
By Vinu Lal
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: Both the Union
government and the Unit
Trust of India (UTI) have
failed to take any action
against tainted UTI officials,
as well as against corporates
exposed by the Tarapore
committee way back in January 2002. This is evident from
the Action Taken Report
(ATR) tabled before Parliament on May 10 about the
JPC report regarding the
2001 stock scam.
The final JPC report had
recommended an enquiry of
the secondary market transactions done by UTI in shares
of 89 companies identified by
the Tarapore committee. It
had also recommended departmental action against
UTI officials involved in Cyberspace scam. Moreover,
Tarapore panel had exposed
the deals behind the US-64
crisis and how banks had
Action not-taken report
• Govt, UTI have failed to take
any action regarding controversial UTI investments in
several corporates
• No action against UTI and
corporate officials concerned
has been taken
UTI’s former chairman
PS Subramanium
• Regarding CSE crisis, UTI
failed to take action against
former ED BG Daga
privy information regarding
the ill-health of the scheme.
However, in terms of action taken against these findings, both the government
and UTI have failed to finalise
any
proceedings
against the accused other
than referring a few cases to
the Advisory Board on Banking, Commercial and Financial Frauds, a pre-investigative body under the finance
ministry. Some of the compa-
nies involved in these cases
include Global Tele, DSQ
Software, Essar Oil, Zee Telefilms, Essar Steel and HFCL.
UTI chairman M Damodaran
was unavailable for comment. After the Tarapore
committee report unearthed
the dubious deals between
UTI officials and leading corporates, UTI ordered an audit
of the investment decisions
taken in 19 firms. But no action has been taken against
these companies or against
the concerned UTI officials.
The UTI-1 administrator
has informed the government that with reference to
civil proceedings against exchairman PS Subramaniam
and other former UTI officials, ‘‘UTI is seeking an external legal specialist and
further action will be considered on their advice.’’
On UTI’s role in the Calcutta Stock Exchange payment crisis, the government
has directed SEBI to intervene in the matter, since UTI
has failed to initiate any action against its former ED
BG Daga, who has been indicted in the JPC report.
Sources said the regulator
is expected to summon Daga
for a hearing in this matter.
SEBI has also ordered an investigation to ascertain any
broker nexus among Stock
Holding Corporation (SHCL)
officials.
AP
India, Singapore
hold free trade talks
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
German anti-globalisation demonstrators arrive at the railway
station in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday via a special train to
protest against the G8 Summit in Evian, France. The main
demonstration will take place in Geneva on June 1.
New Delhi: India and
Singapore concluded
here on Wednesday the
first round of negotiations on an ambitious
economic cooperation
agreement
between
them which would include a free trade pact
and an investment promotion facility.
Being the first round,
the discussions were
preliminary in nature
but covered a wide
range of topics. A 30member-strong delegation led by permanent
secretary of trade and
industry of Singapore,
Heng Swee Keat, participated in these negotiations with an equally
strong Indian intermin-
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commerce secretary Dipak Chatterjee. The
first round is understood to have gone off
well and the next meeting will be held on July
1 and 2 in Singapore.
India and Singapore
have agreed to review
the existing double taxation avoidance agreement to create an effective climate for growth
of trade and investment. Preliminary discussions were also held
on the setting up of India-Singapore fund.
The discussions on
trade covered issues including customs facilitation,
anti-dumping
and safeguard measures and dispute settlement mechanism.
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STOCKS
Friday, May 30, 2003
Sensex rises 34 points
Mumbai The benchmark no ched up ye ano her 33 79 po n s o
c ose a 3164 25 on he s ock exchange here on Thursday suppor ed
arge y by a sharp ra y n o d economy heavywe gh s nc ud ng se
ec bank and PSU shares o ow ng sus a ned buy ng by ore gn
unds and re a nves ors Cyc ca shares rom ndex am y ke
RIL SBI Te co T sco HLL L&T HDFC Gras m ACC and Ba a
Au o a rac ed a r y good demand and ended w h good ga ns bro
kers sa d Bank ng segmen d sp ayed a m xed bag on a erna e
bou s o buy ng and se ng Hedge unds ooked or barga ns n se
ec banks wh e opera ors and oca unds booked pro s Pub c
sec or under ak ngs PSUs s ocks par cu ar y o & gas con n
ued o be n keen demand o ow ng purchases rom ns u ona
nves ors and opera ors
Though he BSE 30 share sens ve ndex opened ower a
3116 85 as aga ns Wednesday s c ose o 3130 46 buy ng n key coun
ers
ed
o a h gh o 3171 80 be ore conc ud ng a 3164 25 a ne
r se o 1 08 per cen 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 343, 344, 339, 340.45
337, 343, 337, 341.70
Abbott (I) 271, 273, 272.45
ACC 141, 146.75, 140.35, 146.40
141, 146.90, 140.65, 146.30
Adani Export 171.70, 167, 168.25
169, 169.95, 166.25, 167.05
Adlabs Films 47.45, 47.55, 46, 46.70
47.85, 47.90, 45.55, 46.15
Alstom Proj. 76.20, 80.50, 79.85
78.25, 80.85, 77.10, 79.60
Andhra Bank 37.25, 37.95, 35.90,
36.25
37.60, 37.95, 36.05, 36.50
Apollo Hosp. 110, 115, 108.50,
113.75
109.85, 115, 108.50, 113.65
Apollo Tyres 147, 153.95, 152.90
146, 154.25, 146, 153.15
Arvind Mills 37.45, 37.90, 37, 37.25
37.50, 37.95, 37, 37.35
Ashok Leylan 110.15, 114.40,
110.10, 111.85
111, 114, 110.10, 111.85
Asian Paints 382, 388, 374, 378.55
399, 399, 373.55, 378.80
Aurobindo Ph 291, 284.05, 285.65
294, 294, 283.60, 285.40
Aventis Phar 324, 333.90, 329.90
325, 330, 323.05, 328.50
Aztec Soft. 16.85, 16.90, 16.10,
16.20
16.80, 17.05, 16.10, 16.25
Bajaj Auto 501, 508, 497.10, 505.05
503, 509.95, 497.05, 504.05
Balaji Tele. 52.75, 52, 52.35
52.75, 52.75, 52.05, 52.25
Ballarpur In 46.80, 45.05, 46.10
46.75, 46.75, 45, 46.15
Bank of Baro 130.30, 135, 122.55,
124.10
132, 135.45, 122.80, 125.10
Bank of Ind. 56, 58.25, 55.65, 56.40
55.50, 58.30, 55.50, 56.50
BASF 109.90, 110, 107, 107.65
109.20, 109.20, 106, 107.20
Bata (I) 39.55, 40.30, 38.60, 40.15
39.20, 40.40, 38.55, 40.05
Bayer Cropsc 162, 164.30, 161,
162.45
162.15, 163, 160.55, 161.70
Bh.Earth Mov 94, 95.95, 91.55, 91.95
94.50, 95.80, 91.10, 91.95
Bharat Elect 281.40, 295, 277,
287.50
287.10, 295.20, 286.15, 288.75
Bharat Forge 315, 318.20, 309,
312.45
318, 318.30, 308.15, 310.05
Bharti TeleV 37.95, 40.15, 37.25,
38.95
38, 40.30, 38, 39.20
BHEL 263, 266.50, 256.40, 261.30
262.85, 266.10, 257, 262.40
Bombay Dyein 65, 66, 63, 63.70
66, 66.40, 63, 63.75
BPCL 252, 256.90, 248.30, 254.95
251, 256.75, 248, 254.05
Britannia 530, 535, 528, 534.25
526, 537.50, 526, 535.10
BSES 223.65, 214.10, 214.85
223, 223.40, 214.05, 214.90
Cadila Healt 120, 121.50, 119.05,
120.70
120, 120.95, 119.65, 120.25
Castrol (I) 188.75, 188.80, 186.50,
186.85
Century Enka 90.25, 90.50, 88.30,
88.60
90.40, 90.40, 88.50, 88.55
Century Text 66.20, 68, 64.80, 65.30
66.95, 68, 64.90, 65.35
Chambal Fert 15.45, 15.50, 15.10,
15.30
15.45, 15.60, 15.15, 15.40
Chennai Pet. 53.20, 56.10, 51.10,
55.15
51.85, 55.35, 51.05, 54.45
Cipla 662, 674.50, 659, 667.90
662, 674.95, 659, 668.15
CMC 438, 442, 425.10, 439.10
435, 442, 432.50, 438.45
Colgate 133, 133.45, 132.20, 133.15
133, 133.70, 132.45, 133.35
Container Co 290, 301.50, 286.80,
300.20
290, 301, 286, 300.05
Corpn. Bank 169.90, 175.90, 167.65,
168.20
172, 175.60, 167.55, 168.95
Crompton Gr. 55.35, 64.40, 63.30
63.60, 64, 62, 62.80
Cummins (I) 70, 73, 69.10, 72.35
72.40, 72.90, 69.10, 72.25
D-Link (I) 48.10, 48.65, 46.50, 46.80
47.80, 48.75, 46.60, 47
Dabur (I) 42.70, 42.75, 41, 42.10
42.40, 42.40, 40.90, 42.10
Digital Glob 511.75, 514.70, 498,
503.85
500, 515, 500, 505.85
Dr.Reddy’s 835, 871, 865.05
849, 874, 836.10, 864.20
Dredging Cor 323, 335, 331.40
E-Serve Intl 500, 480.10, 490.05
496, 501.85, 475, 490.10
EIH 160, 161, 159.10, 160.80
158.30, 161.85, 158, 158.60
Engineers (I 274, 281, 265, 270.40
271.80, 282.95, 262.10, 266.75
Escorts 47, 47.75, 46.80, 47.35
47.35, 48, 46.80, 47.35
Essel Propac 145, 160, 156.20
145, 160, 145, 155.40
Exide Inds. 126.85, 135, 128.90
140, 140, 129.10, 130.50
Federal Bank 146.90, 150.90,
142.50, 145.45
146.90, 150.85, 142.20, 145.50
Finolex Cabl 84.75, 85, 82.65, 83.80
84.50, 85.10, 82.50, 83.75
Finolex Inds 40.90, 41, 40.50, 40.60
41, 41, 40.50, 40.65
Gail (I) 93.40, 102.90, 101.90
95, 103.20, 93.65, 102.25
GE Shipping 46, 48, 47.60
46.05, 48, 45.90, 47.25
Geometric So 370, 351.50, 354.75
369, 369, 353, 355.90
German Remed 225
225, 225, 220.70, 224.65
Gillette (I) 350, 355, 347
350, 350.10, 345, 345.05
GlaxoSmith.C 232.65, 244, 232,
239.60
237.95, 248.80, 232.10, 242.45
GlaxoSmith.P 366.60, 370, 364.70,
368.25
365.55, 370.25, 365, 368.10
GNFC 34, 32.60, 33
33.30, 33.95, 32.65, 32.80
Grasim Inds. 383.50, 390.90, 386
384.05, 390.95, 384.05, 386.25
GSFC 22.85, 23, 21.75, 22.15
22.45, 22.80, 22, 22.10
GTL 69.65, 70.50, 68.60, 69.50
69.60, 70.50, 68.75, 69.55
Guj.Amb.Cem. 173, 175.25, 171.25,
172.55
174, 175.35, 171.25, 172.80
Guj.Gas Co. 417, 410, 411.65
462.35, 462.35, 406.05, 412.60
Guj.Mineral 104, 104.95, 102, 102.10
103.75, 104.80, 101.70, 102.15
HCL Infosys. 98.35, 99, 95.50, 96.55
99, 99, 96.10, 96.70
HCL Techno. 125, 126.90, 122.65,
124.25
125, 126.65, 122.75, 124
HDFC 364.25, 378, 355.30, 371.35
364.50, 380, 355.50, 373.75
HDFC Bank 243.25, 247, 242.65,
245.95
241.30, 250, 241.30, 246.95
Hero Honda 222.15, 224.50, 219.75,
221.35
223, 224.05, 219.65, 221.20
Hexaware Tec 112.50, 113, 105.60,
106.45
112, 112.10, 105.90, 107
Him.Fut.Comm 30.30, 31.20, 30.10,
30.30
30.25, 31.30, 30.05, 30.45
Hind Lever C 180.05, 182, 179.15,
181.50
181.95, 182, 179.35, 180.85
Hind.Oil Exp 23.70, 28.55
24.50, 28.50, 23.80, 28.50
Hind.Zinc 23.60, 25, 24.75
Hindalco 684, 694.90, 680.30,
687.55
682.65, 694.35, 682.65, 690.45
Hinduja TMT 183.80, 196.10, 180.50,
193.80
183.80, 196.40, 180.60, 194.20
HLL 155.10, 158, 154.50, 157.20
156, 159.55, 154.40, 157.90
HMT 21.75, 23, 21.20, 22.30
21.40, 23.20, 21.25, 22.05
HPCL 292, 293, 287, 290.90
292, 293.15, 287.50, 290.95
Hughes Soft. 203.50, 205.80, 197.60,
199.40
202.95, 205.80, 197.10, 200.65
IBP 289, 337, 331.75
290, 337.95, 290, 332.15
ICI (I) 141.25, 142.55, 138.20,
142.25
141.50, 143.25, 138.50, 140.70
ICICI Bank 138, 138.50, 134.55,
136.70
141, 141, 134.50, 136.70
IDBI 27.50, 32.70, 27.25, 32.25
27.50, 32.55, 27.50, 31.75
IDBI Bank 28.90, 29, 27.50, 27.95
28.50, 29.15, 27.45, 28
India Cement 18.80, 19.70, 18.75,
19.45
18.90, 19.75, 18.75, 19.35
Indian Alumi 120
119.90, 119.90, 119.20, 119.20
Indian Hotel 186, 183, 184.65
185.20, 185.80, 183, 184.80
Indian Oil C 330.70, 335.50, 325.05,
330.20
328, 336, 325.50, 329.45
Indian Ov.Bk 26.65, 29.25, 26.45,
27.85
26.40, 29.25, 26.40, 27.95
Indian Rayon 95.05, 95.50, 92.10,
92.95
96, 96, 92.50, 93.15
Infosys Tech 2755, 2810.90,
2718.10, 2759.35
2746.20, 2814.70, 2716.30,
2769.60
Infotech En. 94, 94.50, 92.10, 92.40
94.45, 94.50, 92.25, 92.75
Ingersoll R 238.05, 245, 243.60
238.05, 245, 238, 241.20
IPCL 92.25, 90.50, 90.80
91.60, 92.20, 90.50, 90.80
ITC 681, 695, 688
692, 695, 684.10, 688.50
ITI 20.30, 22.20, 20.25, 21.10
20.35, 22.20, 20.25, 21.15
J&K Bank 219, 224.10, 212.40,
214.10
212, 224.80, 212, 215.70
Jaiprakash I 39.05, 40.20, 39, 39.40
39.10, 40.10, 39, 39.40
JB Chemical 192.50, 197, 191,
196.15
191.05, 196.45, 190, 195.60
Jindal Steel 416, 425, 414, 422.50
415.65, 425, 415.50, 422.65
Kochi Refin. 78.35, 78.90, 77.75,
78.10
78.15, 79, 77.70, 78.20
Kotak Mah.Bk 148.50, 153.50,
146.50, 148.40
149.80, 154.90, 145, 149.85
L&T 216, 219.35, 212.50, 217.65
215, 219.90, 212.10, 218.95
LIC Hsg.Fin. 93.50, 96, 92.40, 95.55
94.10, 96, 92.50, 95.05
LML 35.05, 35.75, 34.55, 34.75
35.25, 35.65, 34.50, 34.75
Lupin 182.40, 189.80, 180.55,
186.95
182, 189.60, 180, 186.95
M&M 127.50, 131.90, 126.25,
130.90
127.20, 132.50, 126.10, 131.30
Marico Inds 162, 160.20, 161.25
164, 164, 160.15, 162.30
Mascot Systm 96.20, 96.70, 93.15,
93.85
96.20, 97, 94.15, 94.45
Mastek 265, 268.50, 260.25, 261.80
266, 268.90, 260.35, 262.10
Mastershare 10.90, 10.95, 10.85,
10.90
10.80, 10.95, 10.80, 10.90
Max (I) 91.50, 92.70, 87, 87.40
85.60, 92, 85.60, 87.70
Mcdowell Co. 46.75, 43.75, 44.45
44.20, 46, 44.20, 44.40
Merck 263, 253, 257.45
260.75, 260.85, 254, 257.50
MIRC Electr. 420, 406, 407.80
419, 424.90, 405, 406.80
Moser-Baer 302.80, 306.50, 295.05,
296.80
303, 306.80, 295, 296.35
Mphasis BFL 559, 570, 562.40
519.80, 567, 519.80, 563.45
MRF 1280, 1299, 1260.05, 1293.40
1281, 1301, 1262, 1293.20
MTNL 94.05, 94.75, 92.50, 93.50
94.50, 94.95, 93, 93.30
Mukta Arts 48.30, 50.50, 48.25,
49.20
49.95, 50, 48.65, 49.10
National Alu 92.50, 93.50, 89.40,
92.15
91, 93.50, 89, 92.35
Nestle (I) 531, 538.80, 535.60
536.50, 540, 530.25, 538.50
Neyveli Lign 34, 34.90, 32.15, 32.65
33.80, 34.75, 32.40, 32.60
Nicholas Pir 271, 276, 266.80,
271.45
274.75, 274.80, 267.10, 272.10
NIIT 121, 123, 118.20, 118.70
121.50, 122.70, 118, 118.90
Nirma 311.25, 305, 305.60
310.45, 313, 301, 305.30
Novartis (I) 235.50, 237.20, 234,
234.10
ONGC 448, 460, 437.30, 447.40
442, 459.90, 437.25, 447.55
Oriental Bnk 147.70, 154.80, 141,
142.35
147.70, 155, 141, 143.25
P&G Hygiene 430, 440, 437.30
Padmalaya Te 66.50, 66.80, 65,
65.25
66.60, 66.70, 65.10, 65.30
Pentamedia G 9.30, 8.95, 9.05
9.20, 9.30, 8.95, 9.05
Pfizer 391.05, 399, 386.55, 397.55
395, 400, 387.10, 397.10
Philips (I) 98, 97.80, 99.90
Pidilite Ind 242, 249.90, 239, 248
243, 249.95, 238, 248.10
Polaris Soft 116, 121.50, 111.75,
120.15
118, 121.95, 115.25, 120
Pun.Tractors 140, 138.60, 138.80
141.30, 141.30, 138.50, 138.70
Ranbaxy Lab. 661, 667.85, 659.55,
661.90
661.85, 666.90, 659.90, 662.75
Raymond 111.80, 109.25, 109.40
113.50, 113.50, 107.50, 110.20
RCF 29.50, 32.75, 28, 31.70
29.55, 32.85, 28.10, 31.70
Rel Capital 56.95, 57.30, 55.90,
56.70
56.95, 57.50, 55.90, 56.80
Reliance Ind 289.50, 294.85, 286.60,
294.20
289.50, 294.90, 286.50, 293.60
Rolta (I) 59.25, 59.90, 58.25, 58.65
59.40, 59.60, 58.40, 58.80
SAIL 11.70, 12.40, 11.55, 12.25
12, 12.45, 11.55, 12.25
Satyam Comp 168.50, 171.10,
164.20, 168.85
165.95, 171.75, 164.05, 169.75
Saw Pipes 109.95, 112.35, 107.50,
108.75
110, 112.25, 107.40, 109.35
SBI 348.45, 361.85, 344.10, 357.20
346.10, 361.70, 344.30, 357.95
Shipp.Corpn. 77, 77.50, 74.80, 76.10
76, 77, 74.60, 76.10
Shyam Teleco 32.80, 32.95, 31.70,
32.15
32.90, 32.90, 32.10, 32.40
Siemens 369.50, 356.50, 361.10
372, 372, 355.40, 360.95
Silverline T 6.70, 6.95, 6.35, 6.40
SKF Bearing 59.10, 59.90, 58.90,
59.10
59, 60.15, 58.50, 59.05
Sonata Soft. 12, 12.85, 11.75, 12.65
11.80, 12.90, 11.70, 12.70
SPICE 31, 31.20, 30.76, 31.10
SSI 63.90, 65, 63.60, 64.50
64.30, 65, 63.50, 64.30
STC India 97.90, 100.95, 100.10
102, 102, 99, 100.10
Sterl.Biotec 43, 43.95, 42, 42.20
43, 43.70, 41.90, 42.35
Sterl.Optica 35.70, 37, 35.15, 36.40
35.90, 37.10, 35.60, 36.40
Sun Pharma. 287, 304, 301.55
294, 306, 291, 299.55
Syndicate Bn 26.80, 29.20, 26.50,
27.60
26.65, 29.25, 26.55, 27.70
Syngenta (I) 120.25, 121, 120,
120.15
Tata Chem 72.45, 69.65, 72.20
72.95, 73, 69.60, 72.15
Tata Elxsi 68.55, 69.25, 67.05, 67.20
66.20, 69.10, 61.15, 67.15
Tata Power 133, 133.40, 128.55,
129.10
133.25, 133.40, 128.40, 129.35
Tata Tea 222, 226.40, 221.05, 225.25
221, 226, 221, 224.75
Tata Telcom 124.20, 129.05, 124,
127.80
125, 129.05, 124.50, 127.90
TELCO 167.75, 172.60, 166, 170.40
167, 172.80, 165.40, 170.85
Thermax 184.45, 190, 181.10,
186.95
184, 190.50, 181.50, 187.90
Thomas Cook 199.20, 200.75,
195.30, 195.90
199.95, 200, 195.80, 196.30
TISCO 148.90, 154.90, 145.90,
152.95
149, 154.90, 145.55, 153.15
N m
MUTUAL FUNDS
NA
R
Titan Inds. 63.70, 65.40, 63.50,
63.70
64.25, 65.65, 63.80, 64.30
TN Newsprint 48.65, 50.50, 49.75
50, 50.75, 49.15, 50
TN Petro 19.10, 20.15, 18.50, 19.75
19.05, 20.15, 18.50, 19.85
Torrent Phar 188.35, 191.20, 189.90
189.10, 190, 188.05, 188.45
Trent 154.55, 157, 153.10, 156.30
149, 157.65, 149, 156.80
TVS Electron 68.50, 68.80, 67.50,
67.55
69, 69, 67.20, 67.65
TVS Motor Co 530, 555, 537.35
530, 552, 527.05, 536.70
United Phosp 165.40, 167, 162.60,
162.90
164, 166, 162, 162.50
UTI Bank 53, 54.10, 52, 52.55
53.50, 54, 51.65, 52.45
Videocon Int 27, 27.80, 26.85, 27.55
26.90, 27.75, 26.70, 27.60
Vijaya Bank 25.50, 27, 24.95, 26
25.60, 27.05, 24.50, 26.10
Visual Soft 125, 126, 121.80, 122.65
125.40, 126.30, 121.75, 123.20
VSNL 87.25, 90.10, 86.75, 88.55
86.10, 90.70, 84.45, 89.10
Whirlpool 19.25, 18.85, 19.20
18.75, 19.20, 18.75, 18.90
Wipro 844, 847, 819.20, 823.35
845, 847, 819, 824.85
Wockhardt 359, 351, 351.65
351.10, 354.95, 351, 352.10
Zee Telefilm 81.10, 84.40, 80.45,
82.30
81, 84.50, 80.50, 82.20
Zensar Tech. 71.50, 71.75, 70, 70.30
72.50, 72.50, 70, 70.45
B1 - GROUP
3
3M India 310, 314.45, 310.20
305, 313.75, 305, 310
A
A Sarabhai 4.80, 5.10, 4.70, 4.95
Aarti Drugs 29.30, 30
Aarti Inds. 65.10, 65.50, 65
64.50, 65.65, 64.50, 65.35
Aarvee Denim 17, 17.40, 16.50,
17.05
Aban Loyd 204, 207, 201, 202.60
204.90, 206.25, 201, 202.95
ABC Bearings 8.35, 9.60, 9.45
ABG Heavy In 14.35, 14.50, 13.65,
14.05
Abhishek Ind 8.45, 8.05, 8.25
8.35, 8.65, 8, 8.25
Adam Comsof 5.50, 5.30, 5.40
Addi Inds. 26, 28.10
Advani Oerli 32.50, 34, 33.75
32.80, 34.25, 32.70, 34
Aegis Logis. 10, 10.45, 10.15
10.10, 10.15, 10.10, 10.15
AFT Inds. 66, 67.05, 66.70
Aftek Infosy 226.40, 229, 216.55,
218.55
226.50, 228, 217.20, 219.40
Agro Dutch I 15.55, 14.90, 15
15.30, 15.80, 15.05, 15.35
Agro Tech Fd 36.85, 36.90, 35.50,
35.75
36.25, 37, 36, 36.05
Ahmed.Elect. 55, 55.50, 53.30, 53.35
55.50, 55.50, 54, 54.10
Ahmednagar F 36.75, 37, 34.95,
35.75
38.40, 38.40, 36, 36.05
Ajanta Pharm 31.50, 32.10, 30.55,
32.05
31.80, 31.80, 30.85, 31.10
Aksh Optifib 17, 17.50, 16.65, 17
17.20, 17.45, 16.45, 16.85
Albert David 26, 28.60, 27.60
Albright & W 216, 218
Alembic 204.65, 217, 211.55
225, 225, 210.10, 212.85
Alfa Laval 285, 276.10
282.25, 283.90, 274, 280.20
Alka (I) 0.25
Alkyl Amines 18.10, 18.55, 18, 18.40
Allahabad Bk 18.65, 22.20, 21.25
19, 22.20, 18.75, 21.25
Alok Inds. 16, 15.35, 15.40
15.40, 15.90, 15.35, 15.40
Alps Inds. 22.75, 22.75, 18.10, 18.50
Alstom 30.25, 30.90, 29.90, 30.75
Amara Raja B 65, 67.25, 66.50
66.70, 66.75, 65.50, 65.85
Ambica Agarb 48.35, 49.85, 46.10,
46.65
Ambuja Cem.R 3.30, 3.45, 3.35
3.35, 3.40, 3.30, 3.30
Amex Info. 14.80, 16.40, 14.60,
15.25
Amforge Inds 31.30, 32.45, 30.20
Amrutanjan 71.90, 73.90, 70.75,
71.80
Amtek 57.50, 53, 53.50
Amtek Auto 194.25, 190, 191.20
Andrew Yule 15.80, 16.50, 15.35, 16
Ankur Drugs 6.50, 7
Ansal Prop. 10.95, 11, 10.60, 10.65
AP Paper 50, 48.55, 50.50
Apcotex Lat. 33.50, 33.70, 32.90
33.10, 34.40, 33, 33
Aplab 20.55, 21, 20, 20.25
Aptech 28, 24.60, 26.65
32, 32, 24.25, 25.85
Archies 56.30, 56.95, 56, 56.30
58.20, 58.20, 55.25, 56.55
Arvind Rem. 3.30, 3.85, 3.60
3.70, 3.70, 3.60, 3.65
Asahi (I) Gl 51.15, 52.45, 52
52.60, 52.60, 51.40, 52.05
Ashapura Min 95
Ashima 19.75, 16.55
16.95, 17.80, 16.60, 16.60
Ashok Ley.Fn 53.50, 55, 54.65
54, 54.70, 53.65, 53.95
Asian Elect. 38.40
38.80, 38.80, 38.80, 38.80
Asian Hotels 83.50, 83.90, 82, 83.70
90, 90, 83.30, 84.30
Assam Co. 15.90, 16.10, 14, 15
Astrazen.Ph. 350.50, 352, 350.50,
350.80
Atcom Techno 9.60, 10.75, 9.55,
10.05
9.50, 10.80, 9.50, 10.10
Atlas Copco 242.50, 244, 240.20,
243.40
Atlas Cycles 70.50, 70.70, 69, 69.30
71, 72, 69.40, 69.95
Atul 42.75, 39.50, 39.75
42, 42, 39.70, 39.90
Auto Axles 117, 124.20, 114.10,
119.40
115.10, 126, 115.10, 119.65
Avanti Feeds 22.50, 22.90, 22, 22.80
Avery (I) 21.70, 22.70, 22.40
Avon Organic 33.25, 33.80, 32.50,
33.25
B
Bajaj Auto F 55.80, 59, 57.85
57.50, 58.50, 57.50, 58.05
Bajaj Elec. 31.50, 34, 32.50
Bajaj Hindus 83, 84.80, 82.35
84, 85, 82.20, 82.20
Bajaj Tempo 122.25, 123.50, 121.50,
121.60
Bal Pharma 19, 19.30, 18.75, 18.95
Bal.Law.Vanl 15.10, 16, 15, 15.80
Balaji Dist. 6.40, 7.25, 6.25, 6.35
6.90, 6.90, 6.30, 6.35
Balkrish Ind 61.75, 63, 61.50, 62
Balmer Law.I 51.70, 52, 48.05, 50
Balmer Lawri 97.50, 93.10, 93.65
95, 95.80, 93, 93.50
Balrampur Ch 120, 121, 117, 117.95
114, 120.65, 114, 118.35
Banco Prod. 58.50, 55.60
Bank of Punj 19.50, 21.40, 19.20,
20.35
19.50, 21.45, 19.10, 20.30
Bank of Raj. 23.60, 24.85, 23.25,
24.30
23.40, 24.80, 23.20, 24.30
R
S
N m
Bannari Aman 134.25, 125, 130
128.45, 132, 126, 126
Bayer (I) 1110, 1125, 1100
Bayer ABS 88, 91, 90.70
90, 90.90, 88.05, 90.35
Bayer Diagno 200, 204.45, 195.10
Berger Paint 84.50, 82, 82.10
82.25, 84.10, 81.10, 81.60
BF Utilities 8.10, 8.25, 8.05
Bhansali Eng 15.35, 16.60, 15.50
Bharat Bijle 261, 247.65
Bharat Hotel 28.10, 28.50, 27.45,
28.50
Bharat Rasay 27, 26.35, 27.70
27.50, 27.50, 27.50, 27.50
Bhartiya Int 24.90, 25.90
26.40, 26.40, 25.75, 25.75
Bhushan Stl. 33, 35, 32.65, 33.40
BI 76.95, 70, 71
Bihar Caustc 18.60, 19.30, 17.20,
18.05
Bimetal Bear 147, 121.10, 122
Binani Inds. 15.80, 16.10, 15.20,
15.55
Biopac (I) 6.35, 6, 6.35
Birla Corp. 18.10, 18.85, 17.80,
18.10
18.05, 18.75, 17.90, 18.35
Birla Eric. 11.75, 11.85, 11.45, 11.65
11.60, 11.85, 11.25, 11.55
Birla Glob.F 16.60, 17.30, 16.65
17, 17.40, 16.65, 16.85
Birla Yamaha 15.25, 16.10, 15, 15.80
BITS 0.40, 0.45, 0.35, 0.40
BLB 4.50
4.05, 4.90, 4.05, 4.75
Blow Plast 13.05, 13.30, 13.25
Blue Dart Ex 68.50, 66.05, 66.10
66, 67.40, 66, 66.95
Blue Star 110.45, 110.50, 106.05,
108.45
109.50, 109.50, 105.05, 106.75
Blue Star In 118.50, 119.75, 117,
118.60
118.05, 119.90, 117, 118.50
BOC 32.75, 35.75, 35
33.15, 35.70, 32.80, 35.10
Bongaigaon R 31.90, 33.20, 31.25,
32.60
32.25, 33.15, 31.50, 32.60
BPL 29, 29.20, 28.50, 29.05
29.50, 29.50, 28.50, 29.05
BPL Engg. 5.20, 5.05
5.05, 5.20, 5, 5.05
BSEL Inform. 10, 10, 9.70, 9.70
BSL 29.55, 30.50, 28.20, 28.50
29.10, 29.20, 29.10, 29.15
Burrough Wel 293, 303.35, 292.60,
300
C
Camlin 58, 54.95, 56.65
Camph.& All 24.70, 25.60, 25.10
Canara Bank 122.50, 123.40,
115.05, 115.70
119.30, 122.65, 115.30, 116.75
Canfin Homes 34.35, 33.10, 33.50
34.90, 34.90, 33.30, 33.90
Caprihans(I) 16.50, 16.90, 16.25,
16.30
Carborundum 137, 141, 138
137, 139.90, 137, 138.60
Carrier Air. 94.95
CCL Products 16.75, 17.60, 17.15
Ceat 33.45, 33.60, 32.65, 32.80
33.10, 33.40, 32.70, 32.80
Centur. Bank 10.60, 10.45, 12.35
10.45, 12.45, 10.40, 12.45
Cerebra Inte 5.15, 5.50, 5.10, 5.30
CESC 20.50, 22.25, 21.15
20.30, 21.80, 20.30, 21.05
CG Igarshi M 40.35, 41, 39.30,
39.65
40, 41.75, 39.95, 39.95
Chemfab Alk. 22.75, 23, 22.75
Chemplast Sa 31, 31.40,
30.20, 31.35
30.70, 31.25, 30, 31.25
Chettinad Ce 40, 40.50, 38.65,
39.90
Cheviot Co. 55.10, 60.50, 60
Chola.Inv&Fi 42.50, 43, 42
42.10, 43.10, 41.55, 42
Chowgule Stm 5, 4.65, 5.45
Ciba Sp.Chem 107.95, 108.95,
106.25, 106.75
Cinevistaas 27, 26.05, 26.10
28, 28, 25.90, 26.50
City Union B 46, 49.70, 45.15,
47.90
45.35, 49.50, 45.35, 47.65
Clariant (I) 146.10, 145, 145.15
145.65, 146, 143, 144.25
Classic Diam 42.50, 43.20,
40.60, 41.05
Clutch.Auto 8.25, 8.35, 8.10
Coates (I) 104.25, 104.55,
104.50
107, 108, 106.75, 107.30
Cochin Minrl 11.65, 12.70, 11.60,
12.20
Color Chips 9, 9.35, 7.50, 7.55
8.65, 9.40, 7.35, 7.75
Colour Chem 240.50, 237.05, 237.75
236, 239.90, 236, 237.95
Compucom Sof 16, 16.60, 16.50
Compudyne Wi 14.45, 14.60, 14.25
14.50, 14.70, 14.10, 14.20
Computech In 5.10, 5.25, 5.05, 5.10
4.90, 5.25, 4.90, 5.15
Cont.Const. 10.40, 11, 10.90
Control Prnt 21, 21.15, 21.05
Core Health. 3.80, 5.20, 4.95
4.65, 5, 4.65, 4.85
Corom. Fert. 71.65, 75
73.80, 76, 73.50, 75
Cosmo Ferr. 8.15, 7.65, 7.95
Cosmo Films 83.60, 80.25, 81.10
84.80, 84.80, 80.50, 81.05
Creative Eye 13.90, 14, 13.50, 13.55
14.20, 14.20, 13.45, 13.60
Crest Comm. 28, 28.05, 27.75, 27.80
26.05, 28.20, 26.05, 27.70
CRISIL 282, 279.10
284.50, 285, 280.10, 281.35
Cybertech Sy 9.20, 9.95
9, 9.80, 8.70, 9.80
D
Daewoo Motor 1.45, 1.55, 1.40, 1.50
Dalmia Cemen 151, 151.75
152, 154, 151.50, 152.55
Danlaw Tech. 20.85, 20
Datapro Inf. 0.60, 0.55, 0.60
DCM 7.20, 7.15, 7.50
7, 8, 7, 7.90
DCM Shr.Con 73.50, 75, 72.15, 74
74.45, 74.45, 72.40, 73.55
DCW 15.45, 15.60, 13.60, 14.85
15.60, 15.60, 14.60, 14.85
Deccan Cem. 36, 35.05
Deepak Fert. 24.35, 24.75, 24.30,
24.35
24.50, 24.55, 24.15, 24.20
Deepak Nitr. 52.50, 54, 51.65, 52.05
Dena Bank 17.90, 20.80, 17.75,
19.90
18, 21, 17.75, 19.95
Denso (I) 29.35, 30, 28.25, 28.90
Dewan H.Fin. 17.25, 17, 17.60
17, 17.40, 17, 17.40
DFM Foods 9.05
DGP Windsor 6, 4.95
4.80, 5, 4.80, 5
Dhampur Sugr 14, 13.40, 13.65
14.25, 14.25, 13, 13.50
Dhanalak.Bnk 21.70, 22.90, 20.75,
21.90
Dharamsi Mor 6.25, 7, 6.65
Dhunseri Tea 15.30, 16.50, 15.55
Divi’s Lab 371.25, 376.70, 365.20,
369.05
370, 376.35, 365.65, 367.60
Dolat Inv. 3.25, 3.40
Dolphin Off. 13, 12, 12.50
DSJ Comm. 0.45, 0.50
0.50, 0.50, 0.45, 0.50
Duphar-Inter 120, 121.55, 121.45
E
Eicher 32.80, 34.10, 33.65
33.95, 34.80, 32, 34
NA
R
R
Eicher Motor 112.25, 119.75, 116.85
113.50, 119.95, 113.25, 116.75
EID Parry 99.60, 99.65, 95, 95.65
99, 100, 95, 95.50
EIH Asso.Hot 10, 10.10, 10
Eimco Elecon 48, 49.90
49.10, 49.10, 49, 49
Elder Pharma 35.45, 35.65, 35.20
35, 37, 35, 35.60
Elecon Engg. 11.55, 12.35, 12
Elect.Kelvin 7.70, 7.75, 7.65, 7.70
Electro.Cast 282.50, 295, 291
282, 298, 282, 294.60
Elgi Equip 27.50, 25, 25.75
25.60, 26.15, 25.30, 25.60
Elgitread (I 190, 195, 187, 193
186, 194, 184.95, 188.35
Elpro Inter 20.50, 21.50, 20.20,
20.75
Emco 34.10, 34.80, 33.50, 34
Encore Soft 12.05, 13, 12.75
Eonour Tech. 4.45, 4.65, 3.75, 3.95
Epic Enzymes 7.20, 7.95
Esab (I) 38.85, 40.80, 40.15
41.50, 41.50, 39.20, 39.60
ESI 18.10, 18.90, 18.10
18, 18.60, 18, 18.15
Eskay K’N’It 2.85, 3, 2.90
Essar Oil 6.55, 6.75, 6.25, 6.45
Essar Ship. 6.80, 6.95, 6.75, 6.85
Essar Steel 9.30, 9.75, 9.20, 9.70
9.30, 9.75, 9.20, 9.70
ETC Networks 43.95, 44.45, 43,
43.10
Eternit Ever 38.55, 39, 38.10, 38.30
36.70, 38.70, 36.70, 38.65
Eurotex Inds 11.60, 11.80, 11.40,
11.50
11.65, 11.90, 11.50, 11.50
Eveready Ind 18.30, 17.50
18.10, 18.10, 17.50, 17.60
Excel Inds. 78, 83.50, 77.55, 80.80
78.25, 84, 77.50, 81.70
F
FAG Bearings 61.15, 63, 60.30, 62.80
61, 63, 59.80, 62.50
Fairfield At 4.45, 4.40
FCGL Inds. 1.85
FCI OEN Con. 88.90, 89, 84.50
88, 88, 83.65, 86
FCL Techno. 24, 24, 20.50, 22.05
FDC 32.55, 33.25, 32.50, 32.90
32.50, 33.50, 32.50, 33.05
Fert.&Chem-T 27.70, 33.85, 32.05
30.60, 33.80, 30.60, 32.10
First Leasin 19.70, 20.25, 19.95
20, 20.45, 19.75, 19.90
Flat Product 53.80, 56.15, 53.50,
54.05
Flex Enginer 13.95, 14, 13.50
14.05, 14.50, 13.40, 13.70
Flex Foods 6.75, 6.50, 6.85
Flex Inds. 22.50, 21.50, 21.55
23, 23, 21.40, 21.55
Floatglass 23.25, 23.75, 22.75, 23.30
22.55, 23.90, 22.50, 23.35
Forbes Gokak 67.55, 69.90, 67.65
Fortune Info 33.50, 32.40, 32.45
Foseco (I) 117.65, 116.60, 117
119.90, 121.90, 117, 117.35
Frontier Inf 3.10, 3.30, 3.20
Fulford (I) 96.25, 99.50, 91.60, 93.35
Futura Poly. 8.10, 8.25, 8.05
G
Gabriel (I) 93.75, 88.10, 89.65
Galaxy Enter 18.75, 16.90, 18.50
Gammon (I) 114, 115, 113.45,
114.95
113.50, 114, 111.10, 113.85
Gandhi Sp.Tu 17.50, 17.95, 17.80
Garden Silk 28, 29, 26.95, 27.50
28, 28.55, 27.65, 28.05
Garware Poly 33.95, 35.85, 32.30,
34.80
Garware Wall 25, 26, 24.50, 25.35
Gati 47, 42.50, 43.05
Genesys Intl 33, 33.65, 31.50, 32.10
32.10, 32.85, 31.50, 32.55
Geodesic Inf 84.15, 79.25, 79.60
George Willi 74.75, 72.05
74, 74, 72, 72.25
GIC Housing 13.45, 14.50, 13.40,
14.10
13.30, 14.70, 13.15, 14.35
GIVO 2.25, 3
Glenmark Pha 251, 253.45
250, 252.10, 250, 251
Global Tr.Bk 18.90, 21.60, 18.30,
20.70
18.50, 21.60, 18.30, 20.70
GMM Pfaudler 92.60, 89
GMR Techno. 8.90, 9, 8.90
Goa Carbon 36.95, 37, 35.25, 36.95
Godavri Fert 39.60, 40.50, 40.45
39.70, 40.50, 38.20, 40.10
Godfrey Phil 320, 330, 319, 319.20
325, 330, 319, 323.35
Godrej Cons. 112, 109.05, 109.75
101.25, 110.05, 101.25, 109.45
Godrej Inds. 24.25, 26.60, 24.85
24.50, 26.60, 24, 25.15
Goetze (I) 31, 31.90, 30, 31.50
30.70, 31.85, 30.30, 31.25
Goldiam Int. 24.95, 25, 24.75
Goldstn.Tech 23.35, 24.30, 23.45
23.80, 24.20, 23.20, 23.35
Goldstn.Tele 8.05, 7.80
8, 8.20, 7.75, 7.85
Gonter Peip 5.05, 4.75, 4.85
Goodlass Ner 202, 195.35
202, 202.10, 197.10, 199.45
Goodricke 28.65, 29, 28.80
Goodyear (I) 34.20, 37.90, 33.90,
36.15
Grabal Al.Im 15.25, 15.30, 13.05,
13.15
Graphite Ind 35, 35.50, 34.70, 35.05
35, 35.50, 34.40, 35.40
Grauer & Wei 21.50, 22.65, 21.05,
22.45
Gravity (I) 7.55, 8.10
Greaves 16, 17.50, 14.75
Grind Norton 116.50, 120
Gruh Finance 21.80, 22.25, 21.50,
22.05
GTC Inds. 6.25, 7.50, 7.30
7.20, 7.40, 7.05, 7.35
GTN Textiles 30.80, 31.50, 31
31, 32, 31, 31.25
Gufic Bio Sc 27, 28, 26.90, 27.20
Guj.Alkalies 27.70, 28.25, 27.10,
28.20
31.95, 31.95, 27.45, 28.20
Guj.Amb.Exp. 13.15, 14, 13.95
13.50, 14.25, 13.45, 13.90
Guj.Apollo E 56.75, 56.50, 56.55
Guj.Flouroch 71.30, 71, 72.50
74.20, 74.20, 70.20, 72.50
Guj.H.Chem 22.25, 22.50, 22
22.40, 22.50, 21.95, 22.05
Guj.Ind.Pow. 21.75, 21, 21.15
21.75, 21.85, 21.05, 21.25
Guj.Sidh.Cem 4.15, 4.05
4.15, 4.15, 4, 4.05
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Gulf Oil Cor 51.30, 53.70, 53.60
Karur Vysya 200.05, 207.75, 199,
200.25
202.85, 207.90, 198.50, 199.90
KDL Biotech 14, 13.90
13.75, 14.35, 13.75, 14.10
KEC Inter. 16.40, 16.65, 15.05, 15.65
16.30, 16.80, 15.15, 15.60
Kerala Ayurv 9, 8.15, 8.50
Kerala Chem. 17.70, 18.30, 17.70
Kesoram Inds 32.40, 32.75, 31.45,
32.45
33.25, 34, 29.30, 32.50
KG Denim 12.45, 11, 11.85
Khandwala Se 10.90
Khoday (I) 12.90, 13.65, 12.25, 13.15
Kinetic Eng. 79, 69.40, 71.10
Kinetic Moto 29.50, 27.60, 28.35
Kirloskar Br 111, 111.95, 110
Kirloskar Oi 87, 82
84.50, 85.10, 81, 82
Kit-Ply Ind. 4.70, 4.95, 4.40, 4.50
4.35, 5.30, 4.35, 4.50
KLG Systel 27.80, 26.80, 26.90
28.20, 28.20, 27, 27.10
Kopran 25, 25.50, 24.75, 25
25.60, 25.60, 24.90, 25.10
Kothari Prod 174, 179
175, 180, 174.30, 178.85
KPIT Cum.Inf 135, 143, 134, 135.70
142.90, 142.90, 120.05, 136.20
KRBL 19.80, 19.80, 18.05, 19
Krebs Bioche 118.40, 119.40, 114,
115.90
Krishna Life 1.50, 1.75, 1.60
Krone Comm 66, 69.50, 69.20
KSB Pumps 87, 89.40, 86, 86.75
85.50, 89.75, 85.50, 86.65
H
Harr.Malayal 12.95, 13.25, 13
12.95, 13.15, 12.70, 12.80
Hathway Bhaw 7.55, 6.70, 8.50
Hatsun Agro 69.50, 69
Havell’s (I) 110, 105.05, 110
113, 113, 105.05, 107
Hawkins Cook 20.50, 21.90, 21.35
Hazoor Media 3.80, 4.20, 4
HBL Nife Pow 44, 41.50, 42.30
HEG 34.10, 35, 34.95
35.80, 36, 34.55, 35.25
Helios & Mat 15, 16.25, 15.65
Henkel Spic 18.75, 19.35, 18.05,
18.30
Heritage Fds 64, 53.25, 59.90
60.20, 63.20, 57.60, 61.05
Hi-Tech Gear 114, 115.05, 113,
114.80
Hikal 133.85, 138, 137.55
135, 138, 134.55, 136.80
Himat. Seide 122.80, 123, 122.90
121.05, 125, 121.05, 124.80
Hind.Constn. 76.50, 87.50, 76.35,
80.45
75.65, 87.50, 75.65, 80.50
Hind.Inks&Re 245, 232, 232.15
243, 243, 232, 233.50
Hind.Motors 10.05, 10.40, 9.80,
10.20
9.65, 10.40, 9.65, 10.20
Hind.Org.Chm 19.80, 21.50, 21
19.60, 21.50, 19.60, 21.10
Hind.Power 30.55, 31.50, 31.40
Hind.Sanitar 52, 52.75, 52
51.50, 54.80, 51.50, 54.75
Hind.Spg &Wg 12, 11.90
Hitachi Home 23, 23.50, 23.25
23.30, 23.70, 23.15, 23.15
Honda SIEL P 141.05, 141, 142
141.05, 144.70, 141, 141.05
Hotel Leela. 18.40, 18.60, 18, 18.05
19, 19, 18, 18.10
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I-flex Solu 852, 859, 833, 840.30
850, 856, 835.25, 843.35
ICICI Premie 12.40, 12.70
IFCI 5.55, 6.60
5.55, 6.55, 5.50, 6.55
IL&FS Invt.M 22.95, 23.25
23.50, 23.50, 23, 23.50
Ind.Swift 74, 65.50, 66.85
Ind.Swift La 23.45, 21.40, 21.50
22.30, 23.20, 21.35, 21.55
India Foils 6.90, 6.20
6.50, 6.80, 6.05, 6.30
India Gelat. 12, 11.80, 12.85
India Glycol 44.50, 45, 43.50, 43.85
India Gypsum 21.50, 22.30, 21.25,
22
22.25, 22.45, 22, 22.45
India Nippon 225, 231.20, 225
225, 228, 225, 225.40
India Online 7.75, 8.80, 7.70, 7.95
India Polyfi 4, 4.10, 3.90, 4
Indian Card 47, 48.50, 48
47.40, 48, 47, 48
Indian Hume 709.90, 720, 705, 711
665, 720, 665, 720
Indian SeamM 10.35, 10.20, 10.75
Indo Gulf Fe 55, 56, 55.45
55.75, 55.80, 54.75, 55.40
Indo Mat.Car 81.25, 80.80, 80.95
Indo Nationl 365.30, 365
350, 350, 350, 350
Indraprast.M 13.85, 13.65, 14
13.75, 14.20, 13.60, 14.05
Indus.Inv.Tr 18.35
Indusind Bnk 20.75, 23.35,
20.70, 22.05
21, 23.45, 20.65, 22.20
ING Vysya Bk 297, 313, 304.65
299.80, 313, 299.80, 305.25
Insilco 14.65, 13.90, 14.45
Inter.Travel 32.45, 34.90, 33.35
Invest.Trust 22, 24, 23.50
Ion Exchange 32.50, 34.95,
31.35, 34.30
IP Rings 50.85, 53, 49.80, 49.95
IPCA Lab. 266, 274, 262, 270.05
264, 275, 261, 269.35
Ispat Inds. 5.10, 5.35, 5.05, 5.25
5.10, 5.35, 5.05, 5.30
IT & T 14.40, 13.50, 13.70
14.40, 14.50, 13.75, 13.90
ITC Hotels 48.10, 48.75, 47.15,
48.15
47.15, 49.50, 47.15, 47.85
IVP 19.90, 20.15, 19.65, 19.90
19.55, 20.40, 19.55, 20
IVRCL Infras 52.25, 53, 50.50,
51.45
52.95, 53, 50.50, 51.10
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Jagatjit Ind 20.90, 22.35, 21.70
Jagsonpal Ph 93
99, 99, 91, 91.35
Jai Corp 38.70, 38.55, 39.70
Jain Irrig. 58.15, 62, 58, 61.55
58.30, 62.50, 58.15, 61.20
Jain Studios 13.40, 13.50, 12.90
12.85, 13.35, 12.80, 12.90
Jaipan Inds. 15.40, 15.45, 14.70,
14.85
Jay Bh.Marut 36.50, 33
33.40, 34.50, 33.40, 33.70
Jayant Agro 52, 51.05, 51.50
48.10, 50, 48.10, 50
Jaypee Hotel 9.90, 10, 9.25, 9.60
Jayshree Tea 39.90, 40.50, 39.40,
40.30
39.70, 41, 39.70, 40.45
JBF Inds. 11.50, 11.90, 11.25, 11.55
JBM Tools 31.20, 33
34.70, 34.80, 31.75, 31.90
JCT 4.85, 5.15, 5
Jenson&Nicho 5.30, 5.25, 5.40
5.75, 5.75, 5.20, 5.20
JIK Inds. 15, 13.90, 14.05
15.35, 15.35, 14.05, 14.40
Jindal Drill 115, 125.90
Jindal Iron 101.80, 104.70, 99.70,
100.85
102.30, 104.80, 99.75, 101.25
Jindal Photo 39.90, 41.45, 39.35,
40.25
38.40, 41.05, 38.40, 40.05
Jindal Poly. 100.25
108, 108, 101.75, 103
Jindal Strip 171.85, 174.50, 170,
171.85
172.70, 174.70, 170.50, 172.10
JJ Exporters 32, 32.50
JK Corpn. 10.50, 11.25, 10.90
JK Inds. 29.40, 32.85, 30.95
JK Synthetic 2.90, 3.10, 2.95
JL Morison 80.95, 84.50, 80, 81.40
JMC Projects 18.70, 17.50
Jog Engg. 7.05, 7.10, 6.85
Jubilant Org 183.75, 187, 178.35,
183.75
180, 187.90, 179.20, 183.35
Jupiter BioS 45.75, 46, 43.25, 43.90
Jyoti Struct 17.20, 17.40, 17.35
17.90, 17.90, 17.25, 17.50
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Maars Soft 9.30, 9.70, 9.45
9.40, 9.70, 9.25, 9.50
Macmillan (I 161.30, 163.30
164.85, 164.85, 161, 162.20
Madhav Marb. 17.25, 17.65
Madhucon Prj 35.95
Madras Alum 69.45, 69.50, 66, 67.35
Madras Cem. 4450, 4600, 4578.75
4400, 4635, 4400, 4576.70
Madras Fert. 16.80, 16.15, 17.85
17, 18, 16.25, 18
Mah.Scooter 72, 72.90, 70.25
71, 72, 70.60, 70.70
Mah.Seamless 125.50, 130, 128.65
125, 129.75, 124.20, 127.80
Mahavir Spg. 80, 91.50, 79, 88.75
80.50, 89.90, 78.50, 87.25
Mahind.Gesco 14.05, 15, 14.25
13.05, 14.90, 13.05, 14.75
Mahindra Ugi 10.60, 11.30, 10.50,
11.20
10.50, 11.35, 10.50, 11.10
Majestic Aut 29.95, 28.70, 29
Malwa Cotton 39.10, 38.75, 41.50
41, 41.70, 40.10, 41.15
Man Inds.(I) 32.50, 33.50, 31.50,
32.45
Mangalam Cem 9.05, 8.65, 9.50
8.90, 9.90, 8.85, 9.05
Manglr.Chem 6.70, 6.30, 6.80
Manugraph In 24.25, 25.50, 24.50
Maral Overs 16, 15.65
15.95, 15.95, 15.50, 15.60
Mascon Globl 8.70, 8.85, 8.50, 8.70
Matrix Lab. 425, 417, 426.45
Matsush.Tele 5.55, 5.50
5.90, 6.20, 5.70, 5.75
Matsushita L 41.75, 43.80, 41.15,
42.70
Medicorp Tec 64, 67.25, 63.10, 64.10
65.10, 66.85, 63.50, 65.55
Mega Corpn. 3.70, 4.75, 4.15
Melstar Info 14.70, 15, 14.60, 14.75
15, 15, 14.55, 14.70
Mercator Lin 29.25, 29.35, 28.15
Metroche.Ind 20.65, 22.80, 21.50
MICO 4830, 4850, 4661, 4666
4750, 4774, 4600, 4617.05
Mid-Day Mul. 15.50, 15.65, 15.55
16.10, 16.10, 15.45, 15.55
Mindteck 14.25, 15.10
Mirza Tanner 31.50, 32.50, 31.25,
31.70
31.85, 32.25, 31.85, 32.05
MM Forgings 120, 114.25, 117.50
Mobile Tele 8.85, 9.60, 8.25, 9.10
Modipon 26.15, 26.90
Monalisa Inf 0.30, 0.25
Monnet Ispat 22.80, 23.50, 22.50,
23.15
Monsanto (I) 550, 509, 511.10
517, 524.90, 507, 514.55
Morarjee Goc 10.55, 10.60, 10.30
10.50, 10.50, 10.50, 10.50
Morepen Lab 10.75, 11.05, 10.25,
10.95
10.70, 11, 10.50, 10.90
Morgan Stan 8.70, 8.65, 8.70
8.75, 8.75, 8.65, 8.70
Motherson SS 142, 153, 140, 147.25
141.95, 149.90, 139.10, 146.65
Mro-Tek 14.20, 14.40, 14, 14.15
14.50, 14.70, 13.90, 14.25
MRPL 17.45, 18.10, 17.20, 17.65
17.25, 18.20, 17.10, 17.85
Mukand 16.50, 17.45, 15.90, 17.30
16, 17.90, 16, 17.35
Mukand Engrs 11.20, 11.65, 11.15,
11.40
11.40, 11.60, 10.90, 11.20
Munjal Auto 42.60, 42.95, 41.65,
42.40
Munjal Showa 147.10, 145.40, 147
147.15, 148.85, 145.50, 146.45
Mys.Cement 6.30, 6.95, 6.75
6.60, 6.90, 6.45, 6.85
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Nagar.Agrich 16.55
Nagar.Const. 49, 49.70, 48, 48.45
Nagar.Fertil 6.40, 6.90, 6.35, 6.75
6.40, 6.80, 6.35, 6.70
Nahar Export 24, 24.50, 23.15, 23.75
24, 24, 23.15, 23.75
Nahar Indl.E 16.25, 14.20, 14.95
Nahar Intl. 6.60, 6.95, 6.25, 6.55
6.90, 7.10, 6.60, 6.75
Nahar Spg. 85.30, 83, 83.90
84, 85.80, 82.80, 84.20
Narmada C.Pe 14.15, 14.70, 14.30
14.05, 14.40, 14.05, 14.30
Narmada Cem. 23.90, 30.50
Natco Pharma 42.50, 41.05, 41.45
44, 44, 41.05, 41.25
Nath Seeds 8.80, 9.10, 8.85
9.45, 9.45, 8.75, 8.80
National Fer 38.60, 40.70, 38.50,
39.05
National Per 715, 675.75, 696.35
National Ste 7.30, 7.85, 7.25, 7.70
7.50, 7.80, 7.30, 7.65
Nava Bh.Ferr 54.25, 53.55
53, 54.85, 50.50, 54
Navneet Pub. 131.20, 132.50,
130.05, 130.75
132.80, 132.80, 130.55, 131.35
NCL Inds. 5.30, 5.05, 5.30
Nelco 31.50, 33.40, 31.20, 32.45
31.50, 33.50, 31, 32.45
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Kaashyap Rad 0.70, 0.80, 0.75
Kabra Extr 36, 36.40, 34.65
37, 37, 36.25, 36.80
Kajaria Cer 24.85, 25.25, 19.85,
24.60
24.10, 25.50, 24.10, 24.85
Kakatiya Cem 27.95, 27.05, 27.40
27.20, 28, 27.20, 27.50
Kale Consul. 33, 33.40, 32.10, 32.30
33.25, 33.50, 32.05, 32.25
Kalpa.Power 36.10, 36.50, 35.25, 36
36, 39.75, 36, 36.35
Kalyani Brak 301.10, 315
Kalyani Shrp 6, 5.65, 6
Kalyani Stel 17.75, 18.75, 17.55,
18.50
Kanoria Chem 40
42, 42, 40.75, 40.75
Karnatak Bnk 89.50, 93.45, 88.60,
89.75
89.90, 93.45, 88.90, 90.05
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Lakhani (I) 92
Lakshmi Au.C 100, 102.70, 97.05,
97.85
101, 103, 99, 99.15
Lakshmi Elec 40, 42.10, 42
Lakshmi Mach 1460, 1533.90, 1502
1560, 1560, 1480, 1485.60
Lanco Inds. 12, 10.70, 10.90
Landmarc Lei 14, 15.75, 15.10
LCC Infotech 3.20, 3.45, 3, 3.20
LG Balkrish 93, 96, 94
94, 97.50, 92.70, 93.40
Liberty Shoe 60.50, 61, 60.50
59.30, 60, 59.30, 59.90
Lloyds Steel 2.35, 2.65, 2.55
2.50, 2.65, 2.45, 2.60
Logix Micro. 13.90, 12.65, 13.45
Loy.Tex Mill 45.50, 48, 47.55
Lumax Ind 36.90, 37.80, 36, 36.80
37.40, 38, 36.25, 37.90
Lyka Labs 32.10, 32.25, 29.60, 30
31, 31.70, 29.50, 29.70
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FMP 1 Year Group 3
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Gilt Plus-Liquid-(A)(D)
Gilt Plus-Liquid-(B)(G)
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27.94
50.41
14.72
14.72
4.61
4.62
59.87
10.01
14.97
10.01
10.06
15.46
27.93
10.97
10.98
11.63
17.28
10.29
13.98
11.11
21.77
11.11
21.76
11.13
21.63
10.77
17.40
10.57
10.73
3.56
3.57
10.08
10.86
10.08
28.50
51.42
15.01
15.01
4.70
4.71
60.47
10.01
14.97
10.01
10.06
15.77
28.49
11.19
11.20
11.63
17.28
10.29
13.98
11.11
21.77
11.11
21.76
11.13
21.63
10.77
17.40
10.57
10.73
3.63
3.64
10.08
10.86
10.08
27.94
50.41
14.72
14.72
4.61
4.62
59.87
10.01
14.97
10.01
10.06
15.46
27.93
10.97
10.98
11.63
17.28
10.29
13.98
11.11
21.77
11.11
21.76
11.13
21.63
10.77
17.40
10.57
10.73
3.56
3.57
10.08
10.86
10.08
99.96
163.42
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26.91
26.91
9.80
9.80
10.12
10.12
11.27
11.26
10.53
11.26
11.52
11.52
15.02
10.79
10.61
10.61
11.01
11.23
10.66
14.99
11.64
17.94
11.98
19.71
10.17
10.17
27.18
27.18
9.90
9.90
10.12
10.12
11.27
11.26
10.53
11.26
11.64
11.64
15.02
10.79
10.61
10.61
11.01
11.23
10.66
14.99
11.64
17.94
11.98
19.71
10.22
10.22
26.91
26.91
9.80
9.80
10.12
10.12
11.27
11.26
10.53
11.26
11.52
11.52
15.02
10.79
10.61
10.61
11.01
11.23
10.66
14.99
11.64
17.94
11.98
19.71
10.17
10.17
IT Plan A (Div Payout)
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Canbank Mutual Fund
Canbonus
Cancigo
Cancigo (G)
Canequity Tax Saver
Canexpo
Canexpo (G)
Canganga
Cangilt PGS (D)
Cangilt PGS (G)
Canglobal
Canincome (B)
Canincome (G)
Canincome (I)
Canliquid (D)
Canliquid (G)
Canpremium
Canpremium (G)
Cantriple
Chola Mutual Fund
FMP Q’ly (D)
FMP Y’ly (Cum)
FMP Y’ly (D)
Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly)
Freedom Income (C)
Freedom Income (R)
Freedom Income-Inst Cum
Freedom Income-Inst Reg
Freedom Tech.(Cum)
Freedom Tech.(Reg)
Gilt Invst.(Cum)
Gilt Invst.(Reg)
Gilt Series (Cum)
Gilt Series (Reg)
Growth (Cum)
Growth (Reg)
Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum
Liquid Instl. Div.Pay
Liquid-Reg.-Inst.Plus
Lq. (Cum)
Lq. (Reg)
Lq.Sr. Apr-06 (Reg)
Triple Ace (B)
Triple Ace (Cum)
Triple Ace (Reg)
Triple Ace Inst Cum
Deutsche Mutual Fund
385DAYS - 260303
10.27
10.27
11.94
26.72
26.72
10.80
26.63
11.19
11.79
10.72
13.72
13.72
24.49
24.49
30.68
10.13
10.33
10.37
10.37
12.06
26.72
26.72
10.80
26.63
11.30
11.91
10.72
13.72
13.72
24.73
24.73
30.99
10.13
10.33
10.27
10.27
11.94
26.72
26.72
10.80
26.63
11.19
11.79
10.72
13.72
13.72
24.49
24.49
30.68
10.13
10.33
10.28
10.28
10.76
10.76
10.37
10.34
10.79
10.91
10.28
10.28
10.76
10.76
10.37
10.34
10.79
10.91
10.23
10.23
10.71
10.71
10.37
10.34
10.79
10.91
7.78
10.63
12.02
10.11
12.15
12.15
8.08
10.32
16.35
4.67
10.26
10.77
10.23
10.05
11.02
12.61
14.30
20.09
7.92
10.63
12.02
10.19
12.37
12.37
8.22
10.32
16.35
4.76
10.26
10.77
10.23
10.05
11.02
12.83
14.55
20.44
7.78
10.63
12.02
10.11
12.15
12.15
8.08
10.32
16.35
4.67
10.26
10.77
10.23
10.05
11.02
12.61
14.30
20.09
10.15
10.82
10.10
10.38
17.58
10.11
17.59
10.12
7.41
4.80
16.01
10.54
13.26
13.26
12.93
10.83
12.30
10.86
11.35
12.29
11.34
12.04
12.00
21.59
11.14
21.60
10.15
10.82
10.10
10.38
17.58
10.11
17.59
10.12
7.56
4.90
16.01
10.54
13.53
13.53
13.19
11.05
12.30
10.86
11.35
12.29
11.34
12.04
12.00
21.59
11.14
21.60
10.10
10.82
9.90
10.38
17.58
10.11
17.59
10.12
7.41
4.80
16.01
10.54
13.13
13.13
12.93
10.83
12.30
10.86
11.35
12.29
11.34
12.04
12.00
21.59
11.14
21.60
10.13
10.13
10.08
Alpha Equity
9.86
Insta CP-Reg.(D)
10.16
Insta CP-Weekly(D)
10.13
Insta Cash Plus
10.20
Premier Bond (Reg)
10.35
Premier Bond Instt.
10.38
Short Maturity Fund
10.26
Short Maturity MD
10.21
Short Maturity Weekly (D)
10.21
DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
10.18
Balanced (G)
11.37
Bond (D)
11.22
Bond (G)
21.65
Bond Fund Inst.
10.42
Equity
14.99
Floating Rate Fund
10.02
Govt.Sec. (A-D)
11.73
Govt.Sec. (A-G)
19.90
Govt.Sec. (B-D)
10.62
Govt.Sec. (B-G)
14.05
Liquidity (D)
12.41
Liquidity (DD)
10.00
Liquidity (G)
14.85
Opportunities
9.42
Savings Plus
10.23
Short Term (G)
10.58
Short Term (WD)
10.03
Short Term(D)
10.25
Technology.Com
3.97
Top 100
11.10
Escorts Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
11.69
Balanced (G)
12.96
Gilt (D)
12.14
Gilt (G)
13.27
Growth (G)
12.20
Growth (D)
11.17
Income (D)
10.58
Income (G)
18.64
Income Bond (D)
9.72
Income Bond (G)
11.55
Opportunities (D)
10.61
Opportunities (G)
12.41
Tax (D)
9.87
Tax (G)
9.87
First India Mutual Fund
Gilt
10.51
Gilt Fund - (D)
11.01
Growth
10.75
Income
11.01
Income Fund (D)
10.34
Liquid (D)
10.19
Liquid (G)
10.89
Short Term
10.57
Short Term (D)
10.21
Tax Gain
36.65
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
FT Asset Allocat.Bal Gr.
10.33
FT Asset Allocat.Cons Gr.
10.53
FT Asset Allocat.Infl
10.66
FT Asset Allocat.Pure Gr.
10.05
FT Asset Allocat.Steady G
10.22
FT Balanced (G)
9.76
FT Gilt Invst (G)
13.35
FT Gilt Invst (M’ly B)
12.40
FT Gilt Invst (Q’ly)
11.51
FT Gilt Liquid (G)
11.29
FT Gilt Liquid (M’ly)
10.35
FT Index - BSE
9.48
FT Index - Nifty
9.77
FT Monthly Income (G)
13.54
FT Monthly Income (M’ly B
12.48
FT Monthly Income (M)
10.79
10.01
10.16
10.13
10.20
10.35
10.38
10.26
10.21
10.21
9.86
10.16
10.13
10.20
10.30
10.38
10.26
10.21
10.21
10.18
11.37
11.22
21.65
10.42
15.29
10.02
11.73
19.90
10.62
14.05
12.41
10.00
14.85
9.61
10.23
10.58
10.03
10.25
4.05
11.32
10.03
11.20
11.22
21.65
10.42
14.99
10.02
11.73
19.90
10.62
14.05
12.41
10.00
14.85
9.42
10.23
10.58
10.03
10.25
3.97
11.10
11.83
13.13
12.14
13.27
12.38
11.33
10.58
18.64
9.72
11.55
10.61
12.41
9.87
9.87
11.69
12.96
12.14
13.27
12.20
11.17
10.58
18.64
9.72
11.55
10.61
12.41
—
—
10.51
11.01
10.97
11.01
10.34
10.19
10.89
10.57
10.21
37.38
10.51
11.01
10.75
11.01
10.34
10.19
10.89
10.57
10.21
36.65
10.33
10.53
10.66
10.05
10.22
9.76
13.35
12.40
11.51
11.29
10.35
9.48
9.77
13.54
12.48
10.79
10.48
10.69
10.82
10.21
10.37
9.96
13.35
12.40
11.51
11.29
10.35
9.57
9.86
13.54
12.48
10.79
FT Monthly Income (Q)
FT PE Ratio
Franklin Balanced(D)
Franklin Balanced(G)
Franklin Bluechip (D)
Franklin Bluechip (G)
Franklin FMCG
Franklin Growth
Franklin Index
Franklin Index Tax
Franklin Infotech (D)
Franklin Infotech (G)
Franklin Internet Opp
Franklin Pharma
Franklin Prima (D)
Franklin Prima (G)
Franklin Prima Plus (D)
Franklin Prima Plus (G)
Franklin T TMA (Dly)
Franklin Taxshield (D)
Franklin Taxshield (G)
T Children’s Asset
T Floating Rate In LT (D)
T Floating Rate In LT (G)
T Floating Rate In ST (D)
T Floating Rate In ST (G)
T G Sec (D)
T G Sec (G)
T G Sec Tr (D)
T G Sec Tr (G)
T IBA (D)
T IBA (G)
T IBA (H-Y’ly)
T IBA (Instl Plan)
T IBA (M’ ly)
T IBA (M’ly B)
T IBA (Q’y)
T Income (D)
T Income (G)
T India Growth
T Liquid (D - D’ly)
T Liquid (D)
T Liquid (G)
T Liquid Plus
T Liquid Plus (D)
T MMA
T Monthly Income (G)
T Monthly Income (H-Y’ly)
T Monthly Income (M’ly)
T Monthly Income (Q’ly)
T Pension Plan (D)
T Pension Plan (G)
T ST Income (G)
T ST Income (M’ly)
T ST Income (Q’ly)
T ST Income (W’ly B)
T ST Income (W’ly)
T TMA (G)
T TMA (W’ly)
T TMA (Wkly B)
T TMA (Y’ly)
GIC Mutual Fund
Balanced
D’Mat
Debt (G)
Fortune 94
G Plus II
Gilt (G)
Liquid (D-Reinv)
Liquid (G)
HDFC Mutual Fund
Balanced
Childrens Gift-Invst.
Childrens Gift-Savings
10.90
8.87
10.81
11.26
12.78
25.14
10.86
5.91
7.57
7.75
7.21
10.54
4.39
8.95
18.79
36.66
13.91
25.51
1511.96
12.25
26.05
18.38
10.22
10.97
10.01
10.94
11.81
20.83
10.60
11.50
11.21
22.14
14.93
11.16
15.04
19.82
14.92
11.36
22.48
14.16
10.00
10.00
15.11
11.37
10.00
1.00
13.72
10.62
10.32
10.35
11.96
20.74
1114.38
1026.20
1025.34
1046.43
1090.75
1518.71
1244.85
1402.04
1154.46
10.90
8.87
10.97
11.43
12.78
25.14
10.86
6.03
7.65
7.83
7.21
10.54
4.39
8.95
18.79
36.66
13.91
25.51
1511.96
12.25
26.05
18.38
10.22
10.97
10.01
10.94
11.81
20.83
10.60
11.50
11.21
22.14
14.93
11.16
15.04
19.82
14.92
11.36
22.48
14.44
10.00
10.00
15.11
11.37
10.00
1.00
13.72
10.62
10.32
10.35
11.96
20.74
1114.38
1026.20
1025.34
1046.43
1090.75
1518.71
1244.85
1402.04
1154.46
10.90
9.00
10.81
11.26
13.04
25.64
11.08
5.91
7.57
7.75
7.35
10.75
4.48
9.13
19.17
37.39
14.19
26.02
1511.96
12.50
26.57
18.38
10.17
10.91
10.01
10.94
11.75
20.73
10.60
11.50
11.21
22.14
14.93
11.16
15.04
19.82
14.92
11.30
22.37
14.16
10.00
10.00
15.11
11.37
10.00
1.00
13.66
10.57
10.27
10.30
12.14
21.05
1114.38
1026.20
1025.34
1046.43
1090.75
1518.71
1244.85
1402.04
1154.46
10.70
7.96
10.53
7.56
10.12
10.47
10.01
10.80
10.91
8.12
10.53
7.71
10.32
10.47
10.01
10.80
10.59
7.96
10.53
7.56
10.02
10.47
10.01
10.80
10.92
12.37
13.13
11.09
12.49
13.26
10.92
12.37
13.13
FRI-(L)
FRI-(S)
Gilt Long Term (D)
Gilt Long Term (G)
Gilt Short Term (D)
Gilt Short Term (G)
Growth
Idx-Nifty(FV 10.33)
Idx-Sensex(FV
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
10.19
10.20
10.73
14.20
10.25
11.76
9.44
9.98
10.19
10.20
10.73
14.20
10.25
11.76
9.62
9.98
10.19
10.20
10.73
14.20
10.25
11.76
9.44
9.88
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
m
NSE SHARE INDEX
BSE SHARE INDEX
1002 60
3164 25
974 70
3081 94
990 80
3130 46
M
M
M
M
+1 19%
Neuland Lab. 53, 50
Nilkamal Pls 27.60, 28.90, 27.50,
27.95
28.20, 29.35, 27.70, 28.10
Noble Explo. 6, 5.75
NOCIL 6.95, 7.10, 6.90, 7
6.95, 7.10, 6.90, 6.95
Noida Toll 6.10, 7
7.75, 7.80, 7.75, 7.80
Nova Petro. 36.05
41.80, 41.80, 38, 38.45
Novopan Inds 30.50, 30.65
32.50, 32.50, 32.50, 32.50
NRB Bearings 70.50, 70.55, 70.50
71, 71.10, 70.50, 70.50
NRC 12.10, 12.50, 11.60, 12
11.25, 13.40, 11.25, 12
Nucleus Soft 69.95, 64.05, 66.80
65, 68.30, 65, 67.05
O
OCL (I) 97
Odyssey Tech 11.45, 9.80, 9.90
Oil Country 9.45, 9.85, 9.40, 9.50
9.20, 10, 9.20, 9.60
Omax Autos. 39.85, 39.95, 38.90,
39.20
39.15, 40, 38.90, 39.10
Ondeo Nalco 355, 357.75, 353
Onward Techn 23.50, 23.75, 23,
23.10
24.65, 24.65, 23.15, 23.40
Opto Circuit 39.80, 40, 36.75, 37.15
Orbit Multi 0.55, 0.50
Orchid Chem 106, 107.25, 103,
104.35
106, 107.50, 103, 104.40
Orient Info. 34.20, 34.35, 32.75,
33.10
34.45, 34.45, 33, 33.15
Orient Paper 20, 19
19.85, 19.90, 18.75, 19
Oriental Con 17.30, 18.50, 16.65, 18
Oriental Hot 85.40, 73.25, 74.50
76, 76, 70, 73.40
Oswal Chem. 4.25, 4.75, 4, 4.45
4.95, 4.95, 4.15, 4.45
P
Panacea Biot 25.10, 26, 25.75
25.95, 26, 25.20, 25.30
Pantaloon Re 51, 48.50, 49.65
51.50, 52.90, 49.55, 49.90
Paper Prod. 128
128.30, 129, 127.25, 128.25
Paramount Co 7.65, 7.90, 7.60
Parekh Plati 8.50, 8.80, 8.15
8.40, 8.50, 8.25, 8.30
Parry Agro 71.50
Parry’s Conf 99.80, 98.50
99, 102.90, 96, 98
Patel Engg. 148, 149.90
Patspin (I) 12.50, 12.80, 12.30, 12.35
10, 12.75, 10, 12.40
PCS Inds. 23.25, 23.80, 22.30, 22.40
Pennar Alum. 2.70, 2.95, 2.60, 2.85
Pentagon Glo 1.35, 1.50, 1.30, 1.45
Pentasoft Te 6.15, 6.35, 6.15
6.30, 6.35, 6.10, 6.20
Pharmacia He 95.20, 98.75, 97.15
94.05, 97.45, 94, 97.25
PHIL Corpn. 5.90
5.80, 5.85, 5.60, 5.65
Phillip Carb 24.25, 24.50, 23.55,
23.95
24.20, 25.20, 23.50, 23.60
Phoenix Lamp 15, 16, 14.90, 15.45
Pioneer Embr 29, 29.60, 28.60, 29.20
Plastiblend 36.60, 37.50, 36.75
PNB Gilts 23.95, 24.40, 23.50, 23.65
23.75, 24.25, 23.65, 23.95
Polyplex 46.10, 47, 45.55, 46.40
47, 49.50, 46.50, 46.60
Porrits&Spen 73
Praj Ind. 62.70, 64.75, 59, 61.20
62.70, 64.75, 60.60, 61.60
Precision Wr 23.20, 22.90
23, 23.75, 22.95, 23
Premier Auto 5.10, 5.75, 5.65
Premier Inst 233.50, 237, 228.30,
235.65
235, 238.70, 231, 233.10
Prism Cement 5.30, 5.10, 5.20
5.20, 5.25, 5.10, 5.20
Pritish Nand 26.95, 29.50, 29.05
26.10, 29.25, 26.10, 29
Priyad.Cemen 11, 12.80, 11.95
13.20, 13.20, 11.55, 12
Prraneta Ind 5.50
PSI Data Sys 59, 60.45, 59
59.50, 60.95, 58.40, 58.60
PSL 39.05, 39.60, 39
35.30, 40, 35.30, 39.15
Pudumjee Pul 23.80, 23, 23.05
25, 25, 22.35, 22.40
Pun.Alkali 8.15, 8.35, 7.75, 7.80
Pun.Chemical 100, 91.50, 94
Pun.Communi. 41.05, 41.70, 41.20
Pun.Nat.Bank 183, 194, 178.60,
187.65
188, 193.80, 178.10, 189.95
R
Rain Calcing 15.70, 16, 14.95, 15.25
15.60, 15.65, 14.75, 14.90
Raj.Spg.&Wvg 23.65, 24, 22.70,
23.20
24.05, 24.05, 22.60, 23.05
Rajesh Exp 70.10, 69.70, 70.45
70.90, 70.90, 68.60, 70.25
Rajshree Sug 11.25, 11, 11.15
11.15, 11.25, 11.10, 11.15
Rallis India 68.55, 69.45, 68.50,
69.20
69.25, 69.50, 68.25, 69.15
Rama Newspri 3.60, 3.65, 3.30, 3.35
3.55, 3.65, 3.30, 3.35
Ramco Inds. 144.50, 146.10
147, 149.50, 143, 147
Ramco Systm 463.05, 476, 455,
457.90
462, 476.80, 455.25, 460.75
Rane Brake 169, 179, 167.90, 174.20
Rane Engine 144, 144.75, 141.05,
144.15
144.80, 144.80, 140, 141.85
Rane Madras 73.95, 74.90, 70
75.85, 75.85, 70, 70.05
Ravalgaon Su 2176, 2145
Rayban Sun O 50, 50.35, 49.10,
49.45
Reg.Ceramic 25, 25.75, 25.50
25.30, 25.50, 25, 25.30
Rel.Ind.Infr 35, 34.80, 35.65
35.10, 35.50, 35.05, 35.45
Relaxo Footw 15.40
Revathi Equ. 128.55, 131.95, 129.35
Rico Auto 164, 158
160.10, 160.10, 156.75, 160
RPG Cables 9.90, 10, 9.45, 9.70
10, 10.10, 9.55, 9.80
RPG Life Sci 24.15, 24.50, 23.80,
23.85
24, 24.65, 24, 24
RPG Transmi. 6.60, 6.20, 6.80
6.50, 6.50, 6.20, 6.50
RS Software 21, 21.70, 20.75, 20.95
21.50, 21.80, 20.75, 20.85
Ruchi Soya 33.20, 34.70, 33.75
34, 34.50, 33.50, 34
S
S Kumars Nat 5.25, 5, 5.25
6.25, 6.25, 4.75, 5.15
S.I.Bank 56, 58.25, 55.50, 55.85
55.20, 58.50, 55.20, 55.75
S.I.C.Agency 8.15, 7.60, 8.10
8.30, 8.30, 7.85, 8.20
Sabero Org. 5.40, 5.70, 5.10, 5.40
5.35, 5.50, 5.05, 5.20
Saint-Gobain 12.50, 11.50, 11.85
Sakthi Sugar 8.45, 8, 8.30
8.50, 8.50, 7.90, 8.25
Salora Int. 53, 48.50, 49.65
49.50, 53.10, 49, 49.50
Samkrg Pist. 31, 31.25, 30.35
Samtel Color 26.75, 27.50, 26, 26.90
26.10, 27.50, 26, 26.95
Sandesh Ltd. 111.20, 114.90
112.60, 114.75, 112.50, 113.35
Sangam (I) 17.65, 16, 16.80
17.80, 17.80, 16.75, 16.80
Sanwaria Agr 12.30, 12.55, 11.45
Saregama (I) 49.60, 50.35, 48.70,
50.05
49, 50.50, 48.25, 49.95
SAT Invest. 10
Satnam Over. 18.60, 19.60, 19.50
18.60, 20.70, 18.50, 19.05
Satvah.Ispat 6, 7
Saurash.Cem. 9.50, 9.35, 9.80
Savita Chem. 62, 63, 62.20
63.30, 63.30, 61.15, 61.60
SBI Home Fin 9.50, 11.30
9.40, 11.35, 9.40, 11.35
Schenec.Beck 82.50, 82, 83.50
Schenec.Herd 27.90, 27.85, 28.60
28.15, 28.15, 28.15, 28.15
Seagull Leaf 10.70, 11.70
Search Chem. 10.90, 10.55, 10.75
10.60, 10.75, 10.60, 10.75
Selan Explor 10, 10.05, 9.90
Sesa Goa 137, 141, 135.10, 137.90
139, 141, 136, 136.60
Sesha.Paper 43.55, 45.50, 45
45.90, 46, 44.50, 45.35
Sh.Cements 62.50, 64, 63.55
61.50, 64.50, 61.50, 63.45
Sh.Digv.Cem. 17.90, 15
Sh.Rama Mult 8.20, 8.90, 7.80, 8.40
8.40, 8.90, 8, 8.50
Shah Alloys 21.05, 23.05, 22.90
Shalimar Pai 31, 28.50, 30.25
Shamken Mult 9
8.85, 8.85, 8.85, 8.85
Shamken Spin 5.85, 5.95, 5.75, 5.80
Shanti Gear 104.90, 105, 100.50
108, 108, 102.65, 103.45
Shasun Chem. 150.35, 151, 146.80,
147.05
136, 150.65, 136, 146.95
Shaw Wallace 36, 33.50
Shirpur Gold 31.50, 31
30.60, 30.60, 30.10, 30.50
Shiv Vani Un 12, 11.65, 13.20
Shrenuj & Co 34.90, 35, 33
33.25, 33.30, 33.20, 33.20
Shriram Inv 15.75, 16.10, 15.65,
16.05
Shriram Tran 14.70, 15.20, 15.10
16, 16, 14.55, 14.80
Siemens VDO 54.90, 50.60, 53.65
Siltap Che. 52, 54.70, 54.40
54.25, 54.70, 52.50, 54.25
Simbh.Sugar 9, 10
Simplex Conc 29.75, 29.25
Sintex Inds. 45.25, 46.40, 44.50, 45
44.95, 45.50, 43, 43
Sirpur Paper 45.05, 49.90, 45, 48
45, 49, 44.25, 48.45
Siyaram Silk 39.30, 39.90, 39.05,
39.60
Skanska Ceme 238, 226
228.05, 228.05, 228, 228
Snowcem (I) 18.60, 18.75, 18.20
18.55, 18.60, 18.20, 18.30
Soffia Soft. 14.10, 14.35, 14, 14.10
14.75, 14.90, 13.60, 13.75
Softsol (I) 9.30, 8.85, 8.90
Software Tec 9.35, 9.20
8.60, 9.60, 8.55, 9.60
Solectron Ce 36.70, 38.25, 36.55,
37.50
Solvay Pharm 139.65, 141.90,
135.20, 140
Sona Koyo St 109.60, 110, 105.60,
106.50
South.Herbal 4.15, 4, 4.80
Spel Semicon 2.70, 2.80, 2.40, 2.50
SPIC 7.50, 7.90, 7.30, 7.80
7.40, 8, 7.35, 7.70
SPL 22.65, 22.85, 22.35, 22.45
24.90, 24.90, 23.50, 23.70
SQL Star Int 5.60, 5.85
SREI Int.Fin 8, 9.40
9.55, 9.60, 9.50, 9.50
SRF 25.55, 26.50, 25.50, 26.45
26, 26.50, 25.55, 26.35
SRF Polymers 22, 22.50, 22.30
SRG Infotech 0.80, 0.75
0.80, 0.80, 0.75, 0.75
Sri Adhikari 60.75, 61.50, 60.20,
60.50
61, 61.70, 60.50, 60.60
Star Paper 11.50, 11, 11.20
11, 11.50, 11, 11.25
State Bnk Bi 799.45, 780, 813.50
State Bnk My 694, 670, 698.50
State Bnk Tr 631.25
Std.Indust. 5.40, 5.70, 5.30, 5.40
5.90, 5.90, 5.40, 5.40
Sterl.Inds. 164.10, 166, 165.60
Sterl.Tools 48.90, 46.20, 46.65
Stl.Strips W 13.95, 14.50, 13, 14.35
Su-raj Diamn 14.90, 15, 13.80
14.55, 14.65, 13.95, 14
Suashish Dia 19.50, 20.15
Subex System 114.50, 114.90, 111,
112.25
Subhash Proj 17.75
Subros 49, 54, 48.50, 53.60
Sulzer (I) 118.50, 121, 118, 120.35
Sundaram Cla 297.05, 303.50, 295,
297.05
297, 310, 294, 300.15
Sundaram Fst 460, 440, 450.65
440, 455.95, 440, 452.20
Sunflag Iron 5.30, 5.70, 5.45
Super Spin. 82, 88.75, 81, 88.70
Supreme Inds 105.60, 109.80,
108.80
104.60, 110, 104.60, 109.55
Supreme Petr 11, 11.20, 10.85
11, 11.30, 10.75, 10.85
Surana Tele 12.80, 12.70
12, 13.50, 12, 13.50
Surat Elec. 82.40, 85, 84.30
Surya Roshni 13.80, 14.15, 13.70, 14
14, 14.25, 13.80, 14.05
Surylak.Cott 20.10, 19.05
20.85, 20.85, 18.50, 19.30
Sutlej Inds. 48.50, 48.60, 48.25,
48.35
48.50, 49, 48.50, 48.50
Suven Pharma 160, 161.15, 157.50,
160.65
Swaraj Engin 193.20, 192.05, 195
195, 198.20, 193.10, 193.50
Swaraj Mazda 95.10, 96, 95
96, 96.70, 95, 95.45
Syncom Form. 21.65, 22.80, 21
Synergy Log 6.55, 6.60, 6.30, 6.45
T
T Spiritual 183, 184, 179, 182
Taj GVK Hotl 42, 40.10, 41
41, 41, 40.20, 41
Tanfac Ind. 16.35, 16.05
TASC Pharma. 11.65, 11.70, 11.65,
11.70
Tata Coffee 82, 82.70, 80.50, 81.25
79.90, 83, 79.90, 81.55
Tata Finance 20.50, 24.50, 23.30
20.70, 24.55, 20.10, 23.30
Tata Honeywl 259.95, 264.95,
256.50, 257
279, 279, 255.25, 257.85
Tata Infomed 81.45, 82.50, 80.55,
82.10
80, 81.75, 80, 81.25
Tata Infotec 123, 125, 122, 122.95
Tata Invest. 89.50, 90, 88.65, 89.10
88.20, 90, 88.10, 89.65
Tata Metalik 34, 34.75, 34.65
34, 35, 33.80, 34.45
Tata Sponge 44, 46.85, 46
45, 46.50, 44.15, 46
Tata Teleser 5.75, 5.90, 5.60, 5.75
5.70, 5.85, 5.55, 5.75
Tata Yodogaw 45.50, 46.50, 44.50,
45.80
Tele Data In 27.50, 28.10, 26, 26.55
Texmaco Ltd. 23.30, 26.25, 24.50
Themis Medic 39.50, 39.75, 37.10,
39.15
Thiru A.Sug. 20.30, 20.30, 20.30,
20.30
Thirumalai 48, 48.10, 47
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Tide Water O 1042, 1125, 1025,
1084.15
TIL 12.35, 12.90, 10.75, 11.90
Timex Watch 10.15, 11.50, 10.05,
10.75
Timken India 29.25, 31.90, 31.65
Tinplate Co. 15.25, 15.65, 15, 15.60
Tips Indus. 34.80, 35, 34, 34.25
34.75, 35.15, 34.10, 34.40
TN Telecom 9.55, 10.85, 10.75
10.50, 11, 10.40, 10.55
Todays Writi 21.05, 21.85, 21.60
21.40, 21.90, 21.15, 21.50
Torrent Guja 8.10, 8.15, 7.55, 8.05
Tourism Fina 9.55, 11.20, 10.95
9.40, 11.15, 9.40, 10.95
Transnat.Sec 30.90, 32.10, 30.90
Transpek Ind 13.40, 14, 13.25, 13.50
Transport Co 22.90, 23, 22.90, 23
TRF 27, 27.45, 26.75, 26.95
Trigyn Tech. 14.25, 14.35, 13.60,
13.75
14.20, 14.40, 13.55, 13.70
TTK Healthca 16, 16.10
TTK Prestige 8.75, 9.85, 8.55, 8.80
8.85, 9.90, 8.65, 8.95
Tube Invest. 100, 103, 99, 101.65
97.85, 100, 97.85, 100
Tudor India 11.10, 11.35, 10.20,
10.65
Tuticorin.Al 3.75, 3.95, 3.90
TV 18 82.50, 84.20, 81, 83.60
83, 83.70, 80, 81.60
TVS Autolec 84, 85, 82, 83
TVS Srichakr 50.10, 48.10, 49.50
U
UB Holdings 19.25, 19.95, 19.60
Ucal Fuel 235.50, 241.90, 235.30,
235.85
238, 240.95, 235, 235.55
Ugar Sugar 48.50
Ultramarine 64, 65
Unichem Lab 179.15, 180, 178,
178.40
176.55, 181.50, 176.55, 178.40
Uniflex Cabl 5, 4.80, 5.15
Union Bank 37.80, 39.50, 37.50,
38.40
37.80, 39.50, 37.45, 38.45
Unitech 43, 44
43.50, 43.55, 43.50, 43.55
United Brew. 95, 96.25, 96.15
United We.Bk 26.70, 28.95, 26.25,
27.50
26.30, 29, 26, 27.50
Univer.Cable 7.30, 8.50, 7.90
7.95, 8.25, 7.55, 8.20
Upper Ganges 15.10, 14.70, 15.05
15, 15.50, 14.65, 14.65
Usha Martin 28, 28.50, 27.50
28.20, 28.30, 27.75, 27.95
Usha Mat.Inf 3.45, 3.90, 3.85
3.75, 3.85, 3.60, 3.70
UTI US64CI10 10.52, 10.50, 10.51
10.55, 10.55, 10.45, 10.45
UTI US64I12 12.41
12.50, 12.50, 12.35, 12.40
Uttam Galva. 8.60, 9.25, 9.05
8.65, 9.30, 8.55, 9.10
V
Vaibhav Gems 22.90, 23.05, 22.10,
22.85
Vanavil Dyes 48, 48.50, 48
Vardhman Pol 47.25, 49, 48.05
47.35, 49.90, 47.35, 48.30
Vardhman Spg 72.90, 68.50, 69
68.50, 71.25, 68.50, 68.90
Varun Ship. 12, 12.15, 11.55, 11.60
12.10, 12.35, 11.50, 11.65
Vashisti Det 11.85, 11.90, 11.65,
11.85
11.80, 11.90, 11.60, 11.80
Venky’s (I) 54.50, 55.30, 54, 55.05
53.80, 55.50, 53.80, 55.20
Veronica Lab 5.40, 5.75, 5.10, 5.25
Vesuvius (I) 78.85, 80, 76.35, 79.05
75.15, 79.50, 74.20, 78.70
Viceroy Hot. 8.95
Videocon Apl 10.45, 10.85, 10.10,
10.75
10.70, 10.90, 10.40, 10.80
Videocon Fin 14.90, 15.25, 15
15.45, 15.45, 14.50, 14.50
Vidhi Dyestu 17, 17.20, 16.50
Vikrant Tyre 12.40, 13.15, 12.25,
12.60
Vinati Org. 14.20, 14.50, 14.05, 14.30
Vindhya Tele 19, 19.85, 19.65
19.05, 19.65, 19, 19.55
Vintage Card 6.75, 7.50, 6.55, 6.65
6.75, 6.80, 6.55, 6.65
Vinyl Chem. 7.75, 8, 7.85
7.75, 8.10, 7.60, 7.75
VIP Indus. 20.05, 20.75, 20.65
23, 23, 19.95, 20.60
Visaka Ind. 28, 28.50, 27.85, 28.05
30.50, 30.50, 27.60, 27.95
Visesh Info 4.50, 4.75, 4.50
4.20, 4.65, 4.20, 4.50
Vision Organ 1.15, 1.10, 1.15
1.10, 1.10, 1.05, 1.10
VJIL Consult 6.55, 7.15, 6.65
Voltas 59.55, 60.95, 59, 59.10
59.60, 60.85, 59, 59.25
Vorin Lab. 65.90, 66.50, 62.80, 65.70
VST Indus. 104, 104, 101.55, 103.05
VST Tillers 13.20, 13.15
VXL Instrum. 21.80, 22.05, 21.10
W
Walchandngr 32.05, 33.35, 30.25,
33.35
Warren Tea 43.05, 43.50, 42.80,
42.95
Wartsila (I) 117, 116.95
114, 114.50, 113.85, 114.50
Wellwin Ind. 12.95, 13.30, 12.60,
12.75
12.90, 13.15, 12.55, 12.70
Welspun (I) 30, 32.60, 27.25, 27.75
Welspun Guj. 10.60, 10.90, 10.40,
10.55
Wendt (I) 307, 315, 313
West Coast P 136, 130, 132.30
134, 134, 132, 133.10
Widia (I) 83.95, 88, 85.90
Wim Plast 33.10, 33.05, 35
Wimco 26.50, 26.95, 26.25, 26.45
26.90, 26.90, 26.30, 26.45
Wockhardt Lf 23.70, 23.95, 23.10,
23.20
23.75, 24, 23, 23.15
Wyeth 244, 255, 251.20
250, 250, 233, 249.45
Y
Yokogawa Blu 65.60, 66.10, 66.05
66, 66.20, 65.20, 65.20
Z
Zandu Pharm 1550, 1500, 1508
1495, 1495, 1481.05, 1481.05
Zenith Comp. 7.80, 7.85, 7.55, 7.60
6.85, 7.90, 6.85, 7.65
Zenith Exp. 29
30, 30, 28.50, 28.50
Zenith Info. 10, 10.20, 10.10
11.15, 11.15, 9.75, 10
ZF Steering 90, 88.45, 91
Zicom Electn 24.75, 25, 23.75, 24.05
Zigma Soft. 3.80, 4.10, 4
Zodiac Cloth 86.90, 87.75, 82.25,
86.95
85, 87.50, 84, 85.65
Zuari Inds. 24, 24.25, 23.75
23.70, 24.20, 23.55, 23.85
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The Times of India, New Delhi, Friday, May 30, 2003
Beckham’s appeal
Pondering retirement
Tyson mouths off
Beckham’s laying it down plain to
the fans: either they behave or
England suffers. Worried about
disruptive fan antics attracting
penalties, he’ll make a televised appeal urging them to shun rowdyism
The French bring out that retiring
feeling in Yevgeny Kafelnikov. A Davis
Cup triumph against them last year had
the Russian singing retirement blues.
And now a 2nd round loss at Roland
Garros has wrung out the same tune
Mike Tyson hasn’t lost his penchant
for saying the outrageous. He again
denied raping Desiree Washington
in 1991 but added that the burden
of being labelled a convicted rapist
makes him want to do it now
Third minute goal stuns Indian hockey team
Hewitt survives, Dokic crashes AC too cool for
It is the sixth time I’ve
played in a European Cup
final but it feels like it
is the first
— AC Milan captain Maldini
SPORTS DIGEST
AFP
Finnish McLaren-Mercedes driver
Kimi Raikkonen taken in the
paddocks of the Monaco racetrack on Wednesday, four days
before the Monaco Formula 1 GP.
Lee injured: Australian fast bowler
Brett Lee was hit in the back of the
neck with a ball during a training session and suffered a mild concussion,
team officials said. Batsman Jimmy
Maher was having a practice hit, and
a stray stroke sent the ball flying toward the New South Wales pacer.
Lee was stretching when he was hit,
team officials said. AP
NZ’s Pak tour: New Zealand
Cricket (NZC) has agreed to play five
One-day games in Pakistan in November as compensation for last
year’s tour which was cut short by a
bomb blast, the Pakistan Cricket
Board (PCB) said on Thursday. AFP
Wrestling team: The Wrestling
Federation of India (WFI) announced
the Indian teams for the 16th Asian
Wrestling Championships to be held
at New Delhi from June 5 to 8. Competitions will be held in seven weight
categories each for Greeco Roman
and free style in both men’s and
women’s sections.
Team: Women: Kamini Yadav-48 kg, Renu-51 kg,
Manju Shekhawat-55 kg, Alka Tomar-59 kg, Gitika Jhakhar-63 kg, Kiran Sihag-67 kg and Gursharan Preet Kaur-72 kg. Men: Greco Roman:
Mukesh Khatri-55 kg, Ravinder-60 kg, Gurbinder66 kg, Sanjay-74 kg, Satydev Malik-84 kg, Satish
Kumar-96 kg and Varinder-120 kg. Free Style: Kripa Shankar-55 kg, Sushil Kumar-60 kg, Pawan
Kumar-66 kg, Sujit Mann-74 kg, Anuj Chaudhary84 kg, Palwinder Singh Cheema-120 kg. PTI
Ankita wins: Ankita Bhambri and
Isha Lakhani wiped off set up a title
clash in the $5000 ITF Masters
women’s tennis tournament. Ankita
smashed top seed Liza Pereira 6-2,
6-0 while second seed Isha prevailed
over Shruti Dhawan 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 in
the singles semifinals. Ankita broke
Liza in the very first game and never
looked back from there. TNN
Aussie women qualify: The Australian women’s hockey team qualified for next year’s Athens Olympics
with a 2-0 win over New Zealand.
The victory follows a 2-0 win by Australia in Melbourne last Sunday in the
first match of the three-match Oceania qualifying series. A third match
will be played in Whangarei, New
Zealand on Sunday. Peta Gallagher,
in the 17th minute, and captain Katrina Powell, in the 55th.AP
BETTING METER
BASKETBALL
NBA Championship
San Antonio at Dallas, Game 6
San Antonio 4/6
Dallas 11/10
(as per ladbrokes.com).
LIVE ON TV
ESPN: 1900 hrs: West Indies vs Australia (6th ODI).
Ten Sports: 1430 hrs: French Open tennis (Day 5).
Paris: World No. 1 Lleyton
Hewitt survived a 3 1/2h o u r marathon
against
Russia’s
Nikolay
D a v y denko on
Thursday,
winning 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5)
to reach the third round of
the French Open.
Among the women,
ninth-seeded Lindsay Davenport overcame three consecutive set points and beat
Iroda Tulyaganova 7-5, 6-1,
while second-seeded Kim
Clijsters raced past Marlene Weingartner 6-2, 6-2.
Davenport, seeded sixth, is
playing in her first tournament since being married
April 25 in Hawaii.
However, No. 10 Jelena
Dokic was upset by Slovenia’s Tina Pisnik 4-6, 6-3, 62. No. 24 Conchita Martinez, playing in her 16th
French Open, reached the
third round for the 15th
time by beating Emmanuelle Gagliardi 7-5, 6-2.
Hewitt failed to convert
two match points on serve
in the fourth set before
winning it in a tiebreaker.
Davydenko committed 112
unforced errors to 72 for
Hewitt, who was also on
the court for more than
three hours in the opening
round.
In other second-round
action, Frenchman Nicolas
Coutelot delighted home
fans at Roland Garros by
upsetting 2002 Wimbledon
runner-up David Nalbandian of Argentina 6-3, 6-3, 4-6,
2-6, 6-1. Coutelot, a qualifier, hadn’t won a tour-level
match all year until this
week.
‘‘Today is the best memory of my life,’’ he said. A
frustrated
Nalbandian,
who was seeded eighth,
Reuters
serving Croat Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-4. The
match
was
concluded
Thursday after being suspended the previous night
at the start of the fourth set
because of darkness.
Davenport, a three-time
Grand Slam champion,
missed Roland Garros the
past two years because of
knee injuries and lost in
the opening round in 2000.
But she said she’s more
comfortable on clay now.
‘‘All around I’m a little
bit more athletic,’’ Davenport said. ‘‘As far as being a
true clay-court mover,
there’s no way I’m ever going to be able to do it.’’
Her next opponent will
be No. 25-seeded Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy,
who beat Gala Leon Garcia
6-3, 6-4. AP
Results
Lleyton Hewitt reacts during his match against Russia’s Nicolay Davydenko in the second round of the French Open in Paris on Thursday. Hewitt won 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6.
smashed his racket several tantrums.
up, advanced when Nicolas
times en route to the defeat.
Three-time
champion Massu retired trailing 6-2,
He had a long, heated dis- Gustavo Kuerten, seeded 3-0. The Chilean came into
cussion afterward with 15th, routed Morocco’s the match with a sprained
Coutelot, who was unhap- Hicham Arazi 6-1, 6-0, 6-1. left ankle.
py Nalbandian didn’t re- No. 3 Juan Carlos Ferrero
On remote court 17, No.
ceive a warning for his of Spain, the 2002 runner- 24 James Blake lost to big-
Men’s singles (2nd round): Gustavo Kuerten (Brax15) bt Hicham Arazi
(Mar) 6-1 6-0 6-1, Nicolas Coutelot
(Fra) bt David Nalbandian (Argx8) 63 6-3 4-6 2-6 6-1, Lleyton Hewitt
(Ausx1) bt Nikolay Davydenko (Rus)
6-3 4-6 6-3 7-6 (5), Juan Carlos
Ferrero (Spax3) bt Nicolas Massu
(Chi) 6-2 3-0, Arnaud Clement
(Frax32) bt Lars Burgsmuller (Ger)
6-3 6-3 6-3, Ivan Ljubicic (Cro) bt
James Blake (USx24) 6-3 4-6 7-6
(2) 6-4, Victor Hanescu (Rom) bt
Sargis Sargsian (Arm) 6-3 7-5 3-6
6-2, Fernando Gonzalez (Chix19) bt
Albert Portas (Spa) 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-2,
Jarkko Nieminen (Finx30) bt Julien
Varlet (Fra) 1-6 1-6 7-6 (7/4) 6-2 64, Sjeng Schalken (Nedx12) bt Fabrice Santoro (Fra) 6-1 6-3 6-4.
Women’s singles (2nd round):
Paola Suarez (Argx30) bt Corina
Morariu (USa) 6-1 6-1, Lindsay
Davenport (USx6) bt Iroda
Tulyaganova (Uzb) 7-5 6-1, Nathalie
Dechy (Frax25) bt Gala Leon Garcia
(Spa) 6-3 6-4, Nadia Petrova (Rus)
bt Silvija Talaja (Cro) 6-1 6-1, Magdalena Maleeva (Bulx15) bt Evgenia
Koulikovskaya (Rus) 6-3 6-2, Kim
Clijsters (Belx2) bt Marlene Weingartner (Ger) 6-2 6-2, Marissa Irvin
(US) bt Katarina Srebotnik (Slo) 6-4
7-5, Conchita Martinez (Spax24) bt
Emmanuelle Gagliardi (Swi) 7-5 62, Tina Pisnik (Slo) bt Jelena Dokic
(Semx10) 4-6 6-3 6-2.
The record suggests that Indians
tend to be good in socalled passive sports
like billiards, snooker and chess but falter in sports which
require
physical
strength and energy.
In fact we have produced world champions in the first
category but no great number of
world class performers (and certainly no world champions) in the
latter.
But to conclude that we do not
have what it takes to succeed in the
second category is somewhat unfair. One has only to consider the
deeds of great track stars like
Milkha Singh and P T Usha,
weightlifters Kurnam Malleswari
and Kunjarani Devi and the mesmeric hockey players of the past to
realise that in our vast country we
have potential that traverses a wide
spectrum. The tragedy is that the
system is incapable of marshalling
our resources to produce world
beaters. Certainly it is not for want
Manchester: As so many
had predicted there were no
goals but nobody could accuse AC Milan and Juventus
of failing to serve up a drama
worthy of a Champions
League final at Old Trafford
on Wednesday.
After 120 minutes of play, it
fell to Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko to convert
Milan’s fifth and final penalty to ensure a 3-2 win for Milan and crown them the
champions of Europe for the
sixth time in their history.
Shevchenko’s coolly executed spot-kick also ensured
that man-of-the-match Paolo
Maldini was able to emulate
his father by captaining the
club to glory in club football’s
biggest tournament, 40 years
after Cesare Maldini lifted
the trophy at Wembley.
Juventus will rue the three
poorly taken penalties which
Milan’s Brazilian goalkeeper
Dida was able to save, handing Shevchenko his chance to
inflict yet another heartbreaking final defeat.
The Turin giants winners
themselves on penalties in
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
1996, lost both the 1997 and
1998 finals, and have now fallen at the final hurdle five
times in all, matching Benfica’s unhappy record.
But they could have few
complaints after being dominated by a Milan side that
took full advantage of the absence of their rivals’ most
important creative force,
Pavel Nedved, through suspension.
Milan midfielder Clarence
Seedorf broke down in tears
after becoming the first player to win the Champions
League with three different
clubs. “Incredible, I am so
happy, I am really so happy,”
said the Dutchman.
He added: “I think Milan
deserved to win, during the
whole championship they
did a great job. We were the
better team.”
Juventus coach Marcello
Lippi cursed his side’s luck
after an injury to Igor Tudor
forced him to reshape his
back four, adding to Nedved’s
suspension. AFP
Ajit Ninan
wants a
India A coaching jobs are being Ganguly
full time ’keeper
doled out with political motives
he BCCI recently announced
the India A team to tour England. The fact that the A
team is touring a lot more these
days is extremely commendable
and every cricketer will speak in
one voice about the importance of
these A tours to get the valuable
experience in foreign conditions.
What is not commendable, in fact
one that defies norm or logic, is
the way the coaches for these tours
are appointed.
In the last three years or so the
A Team has had five coaches —
Sandeep Patil, K. Srikkant, Yashpal Sharma, Robin Singh, Ashok
Malhotra and now Patil again. The
importance of the A team cannot
be overemphasised more than to
say that it is even more important
than the national team. It is the
feeder system and what will constitute the bench strength in the
near future.
It is obvious that the BCCI doesn’t quite see it that way otherwise
why would they be changing the
coaches as they change managers
for all the tours. It’s common
knowledge that these assignments
as administrative managers are
used as a political tool in the hands
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Appointments in the BCCI
are used more as a political
tool than driven by
rationale, feels former India
player Arun Lal. He says
that the appointment of
Sandeep Patil as India A
coach has raised more questions than answers
of the man in power. The managers are appointed with no previous experience nor any knowledge
of the game worth speaking of, nor
even a rapport with the players.
Successful teams like Australia
treat even the administrative manager’s job extremely seriously and
have a very professional approach.
Our contrasting approach tells a
story and while this has become
the norm in India it has also
gained a reluctant acceptability as
a necessary evil of our system.
This political tool has been perfected to an art form and the success achieved is now prompting
them to do the same thing with the
appointment of coaches of the A
team. This by no means is a reflection on the abilities of the great
names referred to but it does put
into question the motives behind
these successive appointments. Is
it a message being sent to the
cricketers to stay on the straight
and narrow so as to remain eligible for these appointments? Numerous other questions are also
straining at the leashes.
One glaring example is of a
coach who was not appointed the
state Ranji Trophy coach at the
start of the season but was, six
months later, made India A coach.
On return from that tour, ostensibly because he had excelled himself, was named the senior team’s
coach for the tour of Bangladesh.
Now, a month later, he is dumped.
The secretary of the BCCI said
that the current appointee, they
felt, would do a better job. This,
even though the man in question
had expressed his willingness and
availability to the BCCI prior to
the tour of Bangladesh.
The lack of transparency is
what raises questions in the minds
of the people. While the intentions
maybe noble, why leave the press
speculating till the day of the appointment?
Kolkata: Indian skipper Sourav
Ganguly said the team management and selectors were looking
for a full time wicketkeeper to take
the pressure off Rahul Dravid, but
the possible replacement must
prove his potential and match the
vice-captain’s performance behind
the stumps.
“Dravid was always a part-time
option... Selectors are giving opportunity to others, but the wicketkeeper must stand up and perform
as Dravid has done,” Ganguly said.
The selectors are trying to find
out a suitable replacement for
Dravid, but “there is no hurry” as
the next season begins only in October,” he said. On talented teenager Parthiv Patel, the skipper said:
“The selectors have given him a
chance to prove his worth in the
coming England tour by India A.”
But, Patel “has to prove his batting
potential” to earn a place in the
senior national side, he said.
Patel was included in the 16member India-A squad last week
by the national selectors for the
England tour beginning on June
22. Asked to comment on veteran
speedstar Javagal Srinath’s retirement plan, Ganguly said he was yet
to get any official intimation from
the Karnataka speedstar. PTI
We’re consumed by the need to get ‘roti, kapda aur makaan’
By Michael Farreira
Turin’s Old Lady
Michael Farreira is known for his outspokenness. He refused the Padma Shree
in 1981 citing discrimination: “My achievements in billiards are in no way lesser than
Sunil Gavaskar’s in cricket. If he is given the Padma Bhushan, then I also deserve the
same.” In the same vein the champ takes a hard look at the Indian sporting scenario
which he believes is ruled by ‘passive sports’
of the requisite raw material.
So why is it that we have not produced, say a marathon or 10,000 meter Olympic champion like
Ethiopia, which is one of the poorest nations in the world?
Success in the physically demanding sports depends on several
factors including physique, proper
nutrition, training and exposure to
top-level competition. It also demands total dedication from a
young age.
Let’s face it, our countrymen by
and large are consumed by the
need to get roti, kapda and makaan
and often exhaust themselves in
the business of trying to earn a decent living. Forget about kapda and
makaan, millions of our people are
not sure of getting regular drinking water. In such a scenario, sport
has to take a back seat.
Assuming that we manage to
spot potential, the next question
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GIANT
that arises is whether parents are
willing to risk their child’s future
by opting for sport over studies. Except for cricket, there is hardly any
sport from which a sportsperson
can earn a good living. The result is
that parents would like their children to concentrate on studies so as
to ensure a secure future. Straightaway, we are four wickets down
even before a ball is bowled (to take
a cricket metaphor which people
will readily understand!). In the
countries that capture all the gold
medals in Olympics and other
world championships, there are no
such constraints.
Next is the matter of the typical
Indian attitude towards physically
demanding sports. I feel we prefer
to watch rather than take part. We
love tamashas and look forward to
hours of sitting around doing nothing and thereby forgetting the
stress and strain of daily living.
Apart from the desire of emulating
and perhaps beating the ruling
race, this is one of the reasons why
Test cricket was so popular right
from the 1930s.
To be fair to ourselves, however,
it has to be conceded that our climate (both the heat and the monsoon) makes it virtually impossible
to take part in vigorous outdoor
sports through out the year.
Excelling in sports requires vast
infrastructure, a well-structured
system and dedicated personnel.
That in turn, translates into a lot of
money being earmarked exclusively for sports. We just do not have or
are not prepared to put in the mon-
India lose, face
Pak for last slot
Perth: India’s “experimental hockey” failed to tame
Australia who registered a
fluent 2-0 victory in a league
match here on Thursday to
ensure a place in the final of
the three-nation invitational
hockey tournament.
The Indians, who conceded
a goal in the third minute
when striker Tristram Woodhouse scored for the Aussies,
never recovered from the
shock. Another 44th minute
goal by Woodhouse completed the tally for the Aussies
who won their second
consecutive match in the
tournament.
However, India still have a
chances to gain a berth in the
final if they beat Pakistan.
Australia ‘A’ scored a 5-3 victory over Pakistan on Thursday but since the second
string Australian team is not
eligible to play in the final,
Pakistan too have a chance.
Pakistan need to beat India
by a comprehensive margin
to make to the final.
In India’s match, the
Aussies were lucky to score
the first goal when the 28year-old
Woodhouse
slammed home on a rebound
from
Devesh
Chauhan.
Though the Indians disputed
the goal claiming that the
ball went over the backline
before Wooodhouse’s rebound shot was taken, the
referee awarded it in favour
of the Australians.PTI
AP
ey. If there is money, then it finds
its way into one sport alone —
cricket. This is the bane of our
sporting life.
The answer? Well, it requires a
massive effort on the part of all
concerned — the government, the
corporate sector, both public and
private, the universities and the
schools. An imaginative system
has to be put into place, it has to be
properly funded and it has to be
manned by the right people. Until
this is done — and it will take a
quarter of a century to see the results — we will continue to prosper
mainly in the passive sports.
As told to Indraneel Das
Billiards has had 14 world title
rounds. Michael Farreira has won
four of these. His sobriquet King
Farreira alludes to his monolithic
presence in the sport. He lit the torch
that was carried on by Geet Sethi
and Co. But are we Indians only
good at these ‘passive sports’? Why
can’t we excel at other physically demanding sports?
Readers can send their views
on timessport@indiatimes.com or
fax at 23323346, 23324173.
India’s Jugraj Singh (R) dribbles past Australian captain Paul
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Sania loses in
third round
New Delhi: Sania Mirza
made her exit from the Grade
1 junior event in Belgium
with a third round loss on
Wednesday.
Sania lost to Poland’s Marta Domachowska 2-6, 3-6 at
the Astrid Bowl, according to
information reaching here
on Thursday. Sania will now
move to Paris to play in the
French Open junior championships beginning on Monday. Somdev Dev Verman,
Karan Rastogi and Sanaa
Bhambri are the other Indians who will be playing at the
clay court Grand Slam. PTI
Rich haul for
disabled kids
Jodhpur: A 10-member Indian team of disabled children
won sixteen gold medals in
the disability sports mini
games held at Buckhinghamshire, England, recently.
The star of the Indian team
was Chanchal Prajapat who
won three gold medals.
The 10-member team also
won gold in 4x60 relay, mixed
relay, beam bending and
throw ball events. PTI
The Times of India, New Delhi
IWF cracks the whip on dopers
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Indian
Weightlifting Federation has
slapped a two-year ban on
Shailaja Pujari, who tested
positive for nandrolone during the junior nationals in
Chennai last January.
The
Commonwealth
Games gold medallist escaped a life ban as she was
‘‘given the benefit of doubt as
there may be some errors in
the testing procedures’’ in an
earlier positive test during a
trial camp way back in August 2001.
‘‘Two of her three samples
were found positive. The one
negative sample earned her a
benefit of doubt,’’ Balbir
Singh Bhatia, IWF secretary,
said after an executive committee meeting here on
Thursday. The rules of the
game’s world governing body
demands a two-year ban for a
first case of doping and a lifeban for a second offence.
Thirty-four lifters, who
tested positive at the Hyderabad National Games, Lucknow senior nationals and
Chennai junior nationals
were punished with bans of
upto two years.
Three lifters, who tested
positive for anabolic steroids
at the Hyderabad Games,
were banned for two years
while four others got sixmonth bans for stimulants.
Twenty-three lifters tested
positive at the Chennai meet
while four were found positive at the Lucknow nationals. The four positive cases in
senior nationals are: Gurpreet Singh (steroid), Arun
Bharadwaj (stimulant), J Humasal (steroid) and Poiren
Ganbi Chanu (steroid).
Gurpreet Singh, who tested
positive twice in year, could
Ankita devours Liza
New Delhi: Ankita Bhambri and Isha
Lakhani set up a title clash in the $5000
ITF Masters women’s tennis tournament. Ankita smashed top seed Liza
Pereira 6-2, 6-0 while second seed Isha
prevailed over Shruti Dhawan 3-6, 6-3, 62 in the singles semifinals at the DLTA
courts. In the other semifinal, Shruti
was up one set but could not hold on to
the advantage. Isha played with more
determination to clinch the tie.TNN
ON THE DOPE TRAIL
get a longer ban after a review, according to Bhatia.The
federation imposed a twoyear ban and a fine of Rs 5000
on steroid offenders and six
months ban and a fine of Rs
1000 on stimulant offenders.
Action against coaches:
Unlike other federations, the
weightlifting federation was
also considering punitive action against coaches whose
wards have tested positive, as
per Bhatia.
The IWF also decided to
send a list of the defaulters to
the Director General Sports
Authority of India along with
the details of their training.
‘‘We too this decision because
most of the tainted lifters
trained at various SAI camps
under SAI-employed coaches,’’ said Bhatia.
Following is the list of lifters punished
for doping offence: National games,
CROSS COUNTRY
Junior U-19 National Football League at
Nehru Stadium here on Thursday. With
this win, Mahindras finished second
with 7 points behind Dempo (10) to fill
the last semifinal slot after JCT, East
Bengal and Dempo made the grade earlier. After the rest day on Friday, Mahindras will meet JCT in the first semifinal
to be played on May 31 while East Bengal
and Dempo will clash in the other semifinal to be played on the same day. PTI
Mahindras in semis SCR defeat CR 32-31
Margao: Mumbai outfit Mahindras
edged past Salgaocar 2-1 to finish second
and qualify for the semifinals of the 2nd
Coimbatore: In a closely contested
match, South Central Railway (SCR) defeated Central Railway (CR) by one
point, 32-31, in the All India Basketball
2002: 1. Venkateswara Rao (AP, anabolic
steroid) 2. Parmanand (Delhi, anabolic
steroid) 3. Sima Golui (Jharkhand, stimulant)
4. Anitha Kumari (Jharkhand, stimulant) 5.
Tejinder Singh (Punjab, stimulant) 6. Gurpreet Singh (Chandigarh, stimulant) 7. Ranjit Singh (Chandigarh, stimulant).
Senior nationals, Lucknow: 1. Gurpreet
Singh (Chd, anabolic steroid) 2. Arun Bhardwaj (Delhi, stimulant) 3. P G Chanu (UP, anabolic steroid) 4. G Munivel (Punjab, anabolic
steroid).
Junior nationals, Chennai: 1. Shubangi
Kharonde (Maha, anabolic steroid) 2. V Prabhu (TN, stimulant) 3. Devender Singh (Pun,
anabolic steroid) 4. Satish Kumar (TN, anabolic steroid) 5. Deepak Gowtam (Delhi, anabolic steroid) 6. N Rajakiran Reddy (TN, anabolic steroid) 7. Thoinu Devi (UP, anabolic
steroid) 8. M Rita Devi (Manipur, anabolic
steroid) 9. Padmini Bara (Orissa, anabolic
steroid) 10. Rakesh Yadav (Maharashtra, anabolic steroid); 11. Simaranjeet Singh (Punjab, anabolic steroid) 12. Jatinder (MP, anabolic steroid) 13. Jagadsen (TN, anabolic
steroid) 14. Laljit Singh (Punjab, stimulant)
15. Lad Singh (Punjab, anabolic steroid) 16.
Gurdeep Singh (Punjab, anabolic steroid) 17.
Rakesh Kumar (Punjab, anabolic steroid) 18.
M Elumalai (Tamil Nadu, anabolic steroid)
19. T Prasanna (TN, anabolic steroid) 20.
Renu Mohanty (Orissa, anabolic steroid) 21.
P Shailaja (AP, anabolic steroid) 22. S Sudhakar (Pondicherry, anabolic steroid) 23. M
N P Birla (Manipur, anabolic steroid).
Tournament the CRI Pumps Trophy for
women, being played here. In another
match, KSEB, Thiruvananthapuram
beat local Nirmalax BBC 64-58, trailing
22-31 at half time. Renuka Devi basketed 40 pts for the losers. In a one sided
match in the morning, Central Railway
thrashed rising star 63-33, with Sini
pocketing 15 pts and Jijy John 14 for the
winners (half-time 26-20). PTI
Mizoram finish 3rd
Guwahati: Mizoram secured the third
position defeating Meghalaya 8-1 in the
Dr T Ao-Doner Football Tournament at
the Nehru Stadium. Former East Bengal striker Lalvulluaia gave a splendid
performance netting six of the eight
goals for Mizoram. PTI
Spinners to reflect
on the dying art
Kolkata: A galaxy of spin bowling stalwarts are trooping
into the city to take part in the BCCI-organised brainstorming session on Friday to find ways of bringing back the country’s past glory in the art.
The 12-member panel, comprising leading spinners both
from the past and present, would deliberate on drawing up a
detailed course of action to harness fresh talent in the country. The likes of R G (Bapu) Nadkarni, known for his immaculate line and length, would rub shoulders with the legendary spin greats of the 1960s and ‘70s — Bishen Singh Bedi,
EAS Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar and S Venkatraghavan —
during the discussions.
The BCCI felt that spin bowling has become a decaying art
in India in recent times, and, with the exception of offie
Harbhajan Singh and leg spinner Anil Kumble, the performance of other slow bowlers have not been upto the mark.
The panel: Bapu Nadkarni, BS Bedi, EAS Prasanna, BS Chandrasekhar, S Venkatraghavan,
VV Kumar, Rajinder Goel, Padmakar Shivalkar, Shivlal Yadav, L Sivaramakrishnan, Harbhajan
Singh and Utpal Chatterjee. PTI
CAPITAL SPORT
ESIC prevail: Employees
State Insurance Corporation
(ESIC) of India scored a
comfortable 3-1 win over
Oriental bank of Commerce
in the DSA Institutional
league at the Ambedkar Stadium. Down by an early Sanjeev Sharma goal, ESIC restored parity through Sekhar
Khanna. Thereafter, Jaman
Singh and Shyam Thapa settled the issue for ESIC. In
another encounter, Bank of
India defeated Bharat Sanchar Limited 2-0. Gopal
Tamali and Shambhu Singh
scored for the winners.
Friday’s matches: Customs & Central
Excise vs IGPCL (4.30pm); Delhi Audit
vs Punjab National Bank (5.15pm).
Amit hits ton: Amit Sharma slammed an unbeaten
106 as ONGC defeated Air
Sahara by 29 runs to enter
the semifinal in the 27th Lala
Raghubir Singh cricket tournament at the Modern
School ground on Thursday.
Amit Unyal took 4 for 43
runs.
Railway beat Rajdhani:
Railway defeated Rajdhani
Club by 23 runs to make it to
the quarterfinals of the Lala
Hari Ram Aggarwal Memorial cricket tournament.
Railway: 173 in 29.5 overs (Anil Kumar
35, Ajay Sharma (jr) 31, Abbas Raza 30,
Ravi Yadav 3/16, Sanjay Verma 2/26,
Joginder Singh 2/45) bt Rajdhani
Sports Club: 150 in 28.4 overs (Amandeep Singh 38, Sanjay Verma 20, Gaurav Malhotra 19, Harvinder Singh 3/26,
Anil Kumar 2/25).
Cambridge win: Cambridge Foudation (rajouri
Garden) beat Janak Puri
Club by one run in a match
of Summer League Cricket
Tournament.
KN Colts: 227/6 in 30 overs (Joel
Trinidad 88, Hitanshu Bharadwaj 58,
Neeraj Sehgal 51, Kuldeep Singh 26 no,
Devi Kumar 2/31 bt Pepsi XI: 157 all
out in 27.5 overs (Devi Kumar 44,
Satyajeet 40, Siddhartha Jain 3/8, Abhishek Mishra 3/19, Neeraj Sehgal
3/22).
Results of other matches: ONGC 286
for 5 in 40 overs (Amit Sharma 106 not
out, Manoj Mudgal 52, Sunil Joshi 30)
beat Air Sahara 257 in 37.5 overs
(Deepak Bhatnagar 88, Suresh Tanwar
46, Vikas Chandan 37, Ajit Chandela 35,
Amit Unyal 4/43).
DDCA hot weather cricket tournament: Super Star: 130 in 36.3 overs
(Manas Malhotra 31, Piyush Sharma 30;
Ankur Kakkar 4/19, Ashwini Katyal
3/26) lost to Delhi Blues: 131 for no loss
in 28.3 overs (Mridul Gupta 72 not out,
Ankit Kaystha 50 not out).
Indian Airlines: 215 for 7 in 40 overs
(Rajat Bhatia 66, Reetinder Sodhi 51,
Manish Sharma 48; Ashish Malhotra
2/28) beat Lion Kanishka: 169 in 38.4
overs (Aman Jeet Singh 25, Rajinder
Madan 33 not out; Sandeep Kumar
4/33).
Rohtak Road Gymkhana: 281 for 4 in 35
overs (Raja Gurmeet Singh 137, Gagan
Malik 88) beat DTC: 164 for 9 in 35
overs (Kulvinder 87; Vivek Khurana
3/28).
DDCA U-15 cricket tournament: Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan: 138 in 43.1 overs
(Eeshau Mehta 21, yashvalkya 49; Hariom Chaudhary 5/23) lost to Chand
Khanna Club: 140 for 2 in 17 overs
(Tarun Astha 100, Md Azhar 23).
1st Madhav Rao Scindia cricket tournament: AIIMS Club: 230 for 9 in 30
overs (Ravindra Rawat 67, Rajiv Uniyal
40, Vijay Arya 40; Pradeep 3/35) beat
Sun Rising Club: 181 in 25.4 overs (Ravi
Kumar 88; Rajiv Uniyal 6/26)
Laxman Dass memorial cricket tournament: Sonnet Club: 201 in 39.3
overs (Suhail Sharma 51; Prashant Gupta 3/23) beat IAF: 141 in 32.4 overs
(Harish Bhaskar 34; Deepak 3/34).
Little Masters cricket:R. P. Academy
203 for 5 in 30 overs (Mukul Dagar 118,
Viabhav Rawal 44) Gyan Bharti South
Delhi Centre 138 in 29 overs (Trigun
Das 37, Harjinder Singh 3 for 29).
Cambridge Foundation: 186 in 27.1
overs (Gaurav Mathur 44, Ayush Gulati
35, Saurabh Sehgal 24, Deepak Kumar
3/34) bt Janak Puri Club: 185 in 30
overs (Pratik 69, Raj Kumar 30, Nitin
21, Nikhilesh 2/40, Ayush Gulati 2/19)
4th Peacock U-13 cricket: RP Cricket
Academy 190 for 4 in 30 overs (Manik
Tandon 58, Mukul Dagar 42, Rahul
Baloni 31, Sahil 3 for 31) beat Chetan
Sharma Academy 100 in 29.4 overs
(Shitij 35, Puneet Waliya 5 for 11) by 90
runs.
KN Colts triumph: KN
Colts beta Pepsi XI by 70
runs in All-India Pepsi Cup
cricket tournament.
Don Bosco Academy 140 for 8 in 30
overs (Savinay 41, Prateek 41, Arpree
4/41) beat Frank Anthony 110 for 9 in
30 overs (Ankit 41, Prateek 3 for 31) by
30 runs.
Bangalore handicaps
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New delhi: Following are the
handicaps for the Bangalore
races scheduled for Sunday:
Abdul Wajid Memorial Plate: 20-35:
1,600m: Royal Heights 60, Red Chief 59,
Smart Supreme 57, Noble Fantasy 55, Believer 54.5, Global Princess 54.5, Alannah
54, Mystic Heights 53, Anapolis 52.5,
Smashes 51.5, Alexine 49.5. Sir M
Vishveswvaraya Memorial Cup: 20-35:
1,400m: Royal Carnival 62, Aerographer
60.5, Genuine Article 60.5, Brora 59.5, Miami Vice 59, Dizzy Lizzy 59, So Supreme
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59, Bernstein 58.5, The Complete Man
58.5. Red Mamma 58.5, Falconet 58, Crystal Beauty 57, Hello Baby 56.5, Anchor 56,
Limitations 55.5, Special Request 55, Baira
52.5, Airworthy 51, Red Zeppelin 50, Indigenous 49.5, Little Geny 47.5. Baraloy
Plate: 1-25: 1,400m: National Tiger 62,
Sundial 60, Alexine 59.5, Chant Royal 59.5,
Baroness Orczy 58.5, Don Minstrel 57, Advertorial 56.5, Alakazam 55, Arctic Desert
55, Water Brook 55, Amber Prince 54.5,
Brilliant Diamond 54, More Music 54, Bonlay 53.5, Starry 53, Aldora 52.
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THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE
G R A F F I T I
AFP
Reuters
Anna wins one battle:
Don’t bite the hand:
Even though she’s absent from
the French Open Russian starlet Anna Kournikova has managed to put one over on one of
her young rivals. German daily
Bild asked its readers which
they preferred - adorable Anna
or her compatriot Maria Sharapova, a 16-year-old pin-up in
the making. Kournikova just
won out with 51.5 percent of
respondents - running into the
tens of thousands - picking
her. Kournikova is also ahead
in the rankings - 78th to 138th
for Sharapova.
Ashley Harkleroad knows not
to bite the hand that feeds
her. After seeing off ninth seed
Daniela Hantuchova she ran
to embrace a woman sitting
courtside in her
entourage.Asked who it was
the US teen explained it was
her agent.”Obviously that’s a
very good person to run to,”
she laughed.
Play it cool, Serena:
Serena Williams is playing it
cool these days, unburdened
following four straight Grand
Slam wins by questions as to
whether she will make the
grade.The defending women’s
champion admits to being a
perfectionist - but is less tense
than she used to be on court.
“I don’t show my emotions as
much anymore as I used to. I
try not to wear them on my
sleeve.” Naturally, the keen
student of fashion prefers to
wear her own designs.
The Times of India, New Delhi
All orangy for Amelie:
Andy Roddick, the US sixth
seed who failed to live up to
his reputation with his firstround French Open loss to Armenian Sargis Sargsian, had
the consolation of being
awarded the ‘lemon prize’ for
his ‘strong character.’ The
prize used to be handed to the
player having the worst relations with the media - with
Chilean Marcelo Rios a serial
winner on that score. The orange prize, for the player enjoying the most cordial relations with reporters, went to
home favourite Amelie Mauresmo. Spain’s Rafael Nadal,
ON THE BALL: Belgium's Justine Henin-Hardenne gets ready to hit the ball during her second absent from Paris was
round match against Croatia’s Jelena Kostanic on Wednesday. Henin won 6-2, 6-2.
deemed revelation of the year.
CRICKET
Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy, UK:
Kent: 194 (47.4 overs). Gloucestershire:
195-5 (45.4 overs). Gloucestershire won
by five wickets.
Worcestershire: 244-8 (50 overs). Yorkshire: 177 (41.1 overs). Worcestershire
won by 67 runs.
Glamorgan: 248-9 (50 overs). Derbyshire: 251-3 (41.1 overs). Derbyshire
won by seven wickets.
Lancashire: 229-9 (50 overs). Durham:
86-9 (26.3 overs). Lancashire won by
143 runs.
Middlesex: 258-8 (50 overs). Sussex:
241-8 (50 overs). Middlesex won by 17
runs.
Essex: 256-5 (50 overs). Warwickshire:
257-7 (49.1 overs). Warwickshire won
by 3 wickets
Leicestershire: 258-9 (50 overs). Nottinghamshire: 159 (40.2 overs). Leicestershire won by 99 runs.
Surrey: 281-6 (50 overs). Somerset:
275-9 (50 overs). Surrey won by six
runs.
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‘This is a very special moment’
Manchester: At the age of 34, Paolo
Maldini knows
there will not be
too many more
nights like this.
“It is the sixth
time I’ve played
in a European
Cup final but it
feels like it is the
first,”
Maldini
said after captaining his beloved
AC Milan to their sixth European
Champions Cup triumph. “This is a
very special moment in my life.”
It might have taken a penalty
shoot-out to secure victory over Juventus, but Milan’s greater attacking
endeavour in the 120 minutes that
preceded the final made them deserved winners.
None more so than Maldini, whose
customary excellence at the heart of
Milan’s defence was rewarded with
the man of the match award. More
significantly for the player, it also
helped secure the chance to emulate
Shot by shot
•David Trezeguet (Juventus) — saved by Dida
•Serginho (AC Milan) — scored
•Alessandro Birindelli (Juventus) — scored
•C Seedorf (AC Milan) — saved by Buffon
•Marcelo Zalayeta (Juventus) — saved by Dida
•Kakha Kaladze (AC Milan) — saved by Buffon
•Paolo Montero (Juventus) — saved by Dida
•Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan) — scored
•Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus) — scored
•Andriy Shevchenko (AC Milan) — scored
•Final score: AC Milan 3 Juventus 2.
The elite list
Results of the previous finals:
1992-93: Marseille (Fra) 1 AC Milan (Ita) 0
1993-94: AC Milan (Ita) 4 Barcelona (Esp) 0
1994-95: Ajax (Ned) 1 AC Milan (Ita) 0
1995-96: Juventus (Ita) 1 Ajax (Ned) 1
Juventus won 4-2 on penalties
1996-97: Borrusia Dortmund (Ger) 3 Juventus
(Ita) 1
1997-98: Real Madrid (Esp) 1 Juventus (Ita) 0
1998-99: Manchester United (Eng) 2 Bayern
Munich (Ger) 1
1999-2000: Real Madrid (Esp) 3 Valencia (Esp) 0
2000-01: Bayern Munich (Ger) 1 Valencia (Esp) 1
Bayern won 5-4 on penalties
2001-02: Real Madrid (Esp) 2 Bayer Leverkusen
(Ger) 1.
his father Cesare, who captained Milan to victory in 1963.
“After 40 years, it is an extraordinary destiny but in Milan these
things happy. It is just too beautiful.
I am so proud and it is a great honour for the name of Maldini to be
linked to Milan.”
Maldini was still a teenager when
he first established himself as a regular in the great Milan teams of the
late 80’s and early 90’s, picking up
winner’s medals in 1989, 1990 and
1994. It was as a left back that he first
made his name and where he has
won most of his 126 caps for Italy.
Police praise well behaved Italian
fans: Manchester police on Thursday
praised the thousands of Italian fans
who traveled to the Champions Cup final as ‘‘extremely well behaved’’.
Around 50,000 Italian fans had
made the trip to Manchester onWednesday.
‘‘Yesterday’s match
passed without incident and no arrests were made,’’ said Chief Superintendent Alan Hutchings of Greater
Manchester Police. AFP
Reuters
YEAHHH...: AC Milan’s Ukrainian striker Andriy Shevchenko exults after scoring the decisive
penalty in the Champions League final on Wednesday.
Juve still the best: Lippi
Manchester: Juventus coach Marcello Lippi believes his side are still the
best team in Italy — despite their
Champions League final defeat at the
hands of old rivals AC Milan.
Lippi was left visibly distraught after seeing his side succumb to defeat
in the final of Europe’s biggest tournament for the third time.
“Everything that could go wrong did
go wrong,” said Lippi, who was forced
to do without his playmaker Pavel
Nedved because of suspension and
then lost centre-back Igor Tudor
through injury early in the match,
forcing a reshuffle of the back four.
“The whole evening was just terribly bad. This is the third final we’ve
lost and we worked so hard to get here.
We had chances to win the match at
the end but we just didn’t have enough
fuel in the tank.”
His opposite number Carlo Ancelotti, who was sacked by Juventus in 2001
to make way for Lippi’s second spell at
the club, had no doubt that his side deserved their victory.
“We started well and we were dominating,” Ancelotti, who joins an exclu-
sive club of men who have won the trophy as both a player and a coach, said
after the match.
“In the second half it was a bit more
balanced and towards the end we were
in trouble because of the injuries we
had. But Juve did not have the energy
to impose themselves and it went to
the shootout.”
Lippi revealed that when it came to
the climax, many of his players had
been unwilling to take penalties but he
refused to condemn them for their lack
of nerve. “It is just a question of your
feeling at the time. If a player does not
want to take one it is useless pushing
him to do it.”
Lippi went on to insist that Juventus,
who he has guided to back-to-back Italian league titles, were still a better side
than Milan. “Milan are a marvellous
side but you cannot say they are
stronger than Juventus. Over the last
two years in the Italian championship
I think we have taken 27 points more
than them. Overall Juventus are still
strong but I don’t deny that in the
Champions League Milan have done a
marvellous job.” AFP
Reuters
VINI VICI VIDI: Jubilant AC Milan’s fans celebrate at the end of the Champions
League final.
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