OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK New Delhi, Friday, May 30, 2003 www.timesofindia.com Capital 32 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Blair charged with spicing up report on Iraqi weapons Mufti suggests Uri as Indo-Pak border transit point Agassi fights back to enter third round Page 14 Page 12 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES Soccer mania: A festival of colour at Old Trafford AP Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends. — Jacques Delille cut UP on menu Drastic in duty on for lunch in set-top box Delhi parties TIMES NEWS NETWORK NEWS DIGEST BJP stand: BJP national generalsecretary SS Chauhan said in Hyderabad on Thursday that the party would fight the next Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Prime Minister Vajpayee. P8 TIMES NEWS NETWORK Army operation: In the last three days, 45 militants, mostly mercenaries, have been killed and 10 captured by the Army in its continuing operation against intruders in the Hill Kaka region, near Surankote. P12 Gangsters deported: Two gangsters, Riyaz Siddiqui and Rajkumar Sharma, owing allegiance to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, were deported from Dubai on Thursday. Tripathi’s fate: The fate of the high-profile mafia don-turned-politician, Amar Mani Tripathi, will depend on the testimony of murdered poetess Madhumita Shukla’s domestic help Deshraj. P8 A shower of confetti greets AC Milan players as they hoist the trophy after winning the European Champions League final against Juventus in Manchester on Wednesday. Milan won the match 3-2 after a penalty shoot-out. Reports and more pictures on pages 21 & 24 PM hardsells Indian S&T By Manoj Joshi TIMES NEWS NETWORK YOU SAID IT by Laxman TOI Archives 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. Cong leaders divided: P7 indiatimes.com POLL Do you think a film’s title can ensure its box office success? Yes 21% No 79% VOTE NOW: Who would you choose as a full-time wicketkeeper for India? a) Deep Dasgupta b) Parthiv Patel Vote on indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 WEATHER Max temp: 41.6oC/Min: 28.5oC Sunset: Friday – 7.13 pm. Sunrise: Saturday – 5.24 am. Moonset: Friday – 6.36 pm. Moonrise: Saturday – 5.18 am. Clear sky with dust haze, thunder accompanied by squall likely in some areas. Maximum relative on Thursday humidity 26% and minimum 10%. Book your Classifieds 24 hours service: “51-666-888” Times InfoLine “51-68-68-68” The ATM of information The Largest Classifieds Site * 24 + 8 pages of Delhi Times 3 STOCKS Jerry Hall’s spirit ready to shoot By Malavika Sangghvi TIMES NEWS NETWORK 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- BSE: 3164.25 (+33.79) Dow Jones: 8793.12 (+11.77) NSE: 1002.60 (+9.80) Nasdaq: 1563.24 (+6.55) BULLION Gold 22 ct /10g: Silver /1kg: Jerry Hall 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 Delhi: Rs 5525 Delhi: Rs 7650 Mumbai: Rs 5156 Mumbai: Rs 7820 Chennai: Rs 5260 Chennai: Rs 7725 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.’’ EXCHANGE : Rs 55.95 $: Rs 47.55 £: Rs 77.90 ¥ (100): Rs 41.25 TOID300503/CR2/01/M/1 TOID300503/CR2/01/C/1 TOID300503/CR2/01/K/1 TOID300503/CR2/01/Y/1 CMYK 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. Cable TV’s new Pandora’s box: P5 OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 2 DELHI Friday, May 30, 2003 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 To chat on SMS send 'cchat' <your question> to 8888 “Speeds of GPRS & MMS on Idea are blistering fast” — HIMANSHU KAPANIA, COO Idea Cellular Ltd. Q. What is the U.S.P of Idea?- Shanu A: The unique selling proposition of Idea is its, 3g compatible congestion free network which allows subscribers far better experience than he has been used to with existing networks. Our call completion rates are highest in Delhi, our speeds of SMS, GPRS and MMS is blistering fast. Q. In spite of being, the first in launching GPRS and MMS in India why isn't the credit going to Idea?- Doll A: I don't agree. The fact that 50 per cent of the net additions in the period November to March have been gained by Idea, is the testimony to the acceptance of our superior network. We believe, we have the highest penetration of GPRS and MMS in Delhi. It is due to success of our GPRS services, we have recently launched HOT CONTEST FOR COOL DESTINATIONS: Winners of Radio Mirchi’s 9-8-3 Kismat Khol De contest, Sandeep Kumar (top) and Anubha Pathania (top left), won a weekend at Heritage Village Manesar from Select Vacations; Shailender Verma (right) won a 2N/3D holiday for a couple at The Rink Pavilion, Mussoorie; and Isha Bhalla (bottom) won a 2N/3D holiday for four at Whispering Pines, Dhan-aulti from Treks n’ Rapids. 1 pm: Archana Shukla Tarot card reader On what the cards foretel about your future For complete chat log on to http://chat.indiatimes.com an exclusive data SIM, which the customer can use on a laptop and be online while he is mobile without having to worry about his voice calls Q. In spite, of a strict price war going out in the market. Where do you foresee Idea in the next 2 years?- Vinni A: Idea is promoted by the three solid promoters namely the Tata, Birla and AT&T wireless of USA. I see idea will continue to be on the forefront of mobile telephony. Q. Would Idea subscriber be able to send MMS to Hutch customers in Bombay or Delhi?- Kirti A: We are in the course of carrying out inter operator test with all operators across India, including, Hutch, Airtel and BPL. We expect to announce interconnection for MMS service shortly. • ‘Balancing Sharmila and Tabu was fun’: Bangla film director Gautam Ghose re-lives the making of his sequel to a Satyajit Ray classic. • Everybody Says I’m Fine is based on me: Jawed Habib The lighter side of the renowned hairstylist. To listen, log on to http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Enjoy summer with sharbat ou’re burning in the hot, crazy Delhi summer. How about playing around with some cool, cool colours? The colours of sharbats, chuskis, shikanjis, lassis, shakes and jal-jeeras await you at the Sharbat Festival being organised by The Times of India and Dilli Haat. The festival of cool, cool colours is on at Dilli Haat on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Dilli Haat has been decorated with hundreds of colourful kites for the festival. We have also organised treasure hunts where you get to win prizes and arranged for live bands, dance and music performances. On top of all this, you get to savour the cool, cool colours of the Sharbat Festival. The three-day festival is part of The Times of India celebration of colour, which started in January with the launch of its all-colour Delhi edition. The Delhi edition of The Times of India offers every page in colour. It is the only newspaper in India, and perhaps the world, to have an Y all-colour edition. As part of the year-long celebration of colour, The Times of India has already brought Delhiites a razzmatazz laser and fireworks display at Connaught Place, The One Show, a music bonanza at the Garden of Five Senses, and a fashion extravaganza. We have also converted The Times of India building at Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg into a piece of art. With our cool, cool colour festival we will help Dilliwalas beat the heat at the place they love to chill-out. So be there at Dilli Haat this weekend. Topper: Akash Jain of Rajkiya Pratibha Vikas Vidyalaya, Surajmal Vihar, topped Class 10 CBSE exams in his school with 94.4 per cent. Ashish Sharma scored 100 per cent in Sanskrit. Vikas Sharma of science stream topped Class 12 with 93.4per cent. The school got cent percent result in Class 12 CBSE. 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’. TOID300503/CR1/02/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/02/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/02/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/02/Y/1 CMYK 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 Kohli congratulated everyone for school’s growth. OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK DELHI The Times of India, New Delhi 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 3 TOI 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. TOID300503/CR1/03/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/03/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/03/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/03/Y/1 CMYK 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. OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 4 DELHI Friday, May 30, 2003 FLIGHTS OUT OF DELHI NATIONAL Mumbai: I-A 0700, 0800, 0900, 1200, 1300, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2000, 2300 Jet Air 0650, 0800, 0935, 1400, 1725, 1935, 2030, 2200, Sahara 1700, 0935, 1520, 1800, 2025 KOLKATA: I-A 0700, 1600★★,1700,1945 Jet Air 0600, 1720, Sahara 0620,1915 CHENNAI: I-A 0640,0955★★★ 1645,1900 Jet Air 0645,1900 BANGALORE: I-A 0650, 1645, 1900 Jet Air 0635,1715, Sahara 0725, 1745 HY’BAD:I-A 0630, 1745 GOA: I-A 1200, Sahara 1200 KULU: Jagson 0630, 0650, 1215 ★ AHMEDABAD: I-A 0600,1700★★1845, Jet Air 0610 GUWAHATI—BAGDOGRA: I-A 0555★★, 1010• ★ Jet Air 1010 Ph: I-A:140,142. ★ Mon, Wed, Fri, ★★Tue, Thu, Sat, ★★★ Mon-Fri, Sun, Jet Air: (City) 6853700, (Airport) 25665404 Sahara: (City) 2335901-9, (Airport) 25675234/875, (TeleCheckin) 25662600. • Mon, Fri. INTERNATIONAL BANGKOK/TOKYO: Thai Air 0010 (TG-316), A-I 0050 (IC-855) FRANKFURT: Lufthansa 0305 (LH-761) AMSTERDAM: KLM 0140 (KL-472) LONDON: British Air 0210 (BA-142) PARIS: Air France 0040 (AF-147), 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 43 40 37 41 34 41 45 36 29 28 30 29 23 22 26 28 30 24 Guwahati Dehradun Hyd’bad Indore Jaipur Lucknow Patna Rajkot Shimla Srinagar Max Min 31 38 41 39 42 43 43 40 26 21 25 23 29 26 27 28 25 26 17 09 Max Min Amsterdam 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 12 16 26 12 16 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 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t Sl 31.05 — 03.06 17.06 19.06 16.06 01.07 30.06 11.06 25.06 26.06 24.06 30.05 04.06 02.06 N.A. N.A. — 31.05 — — 31.05 — — — 03.06 30.05 18.06 16.06 22.06 12.06 05.06 03.06 N.A. 24.06 12.06 19.06 25.06 27.06 04.06 30.05 18.06 17.05 01.07 11.06 11.06 02.06 07.07 30.06 16.06 25.06 22.06 27.06 11.06 — 19.06 23.06 24.06 13.06 11.06 06.06 06.07 02.07 18.06 16.06 17.06 15.06 15.06 10.06 07.06 11.06 12.06 — — 12.06 18.06 17.06 17.06 16.06 26.06 04.07 23.06 20.06 24.06 18.06 17.06 26.06 25.06 23.06 23.06 26.06 — — 19.06 27.06 16.06 09.06 10.06 24.06 — — — 09.06 16.06 — 17.06 17.06 06.07 24.06 30.06 24.06 23.06 30.06 22.06 22.06 22.06 01.07 23.06 24.06 23.06 23.06 30.06 — 11.06 11.06 — 18.06 16.06 11.06 16.06 — 10.06 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. TOID300503/CR1/04/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/04/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/04/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/04/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK DELHI 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, 5 PEOPLE TALK TOID300503/CR1/05/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/05/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/05/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/05/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 6 Friday, May 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi VEHICLES TRAVEL EDUCATION SERVICES TOID300503/LR1/06/M/1 TOID300503/LR1/06/C/1 TOID300503/LR1/06/K/1 TOID300503/LR1/06/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK INDIA 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. Friday, May 30, 2003 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. 7 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 TOID300503/CR1/07/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/07/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/07/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/07/Y/1 CMYK 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. OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 8 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 — YOUNG PIONEER 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. TOID300503/CR1/08/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/08/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/08/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/08/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰‹ CMK Friday, May 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi TOID300503/LR1/09/M/1 TOID300503/LR1/09/C/1 TOID300503/LR1/09/K/1 TOID300503/LR1/09/Y/1 CMYK 9 OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 10 ENTERPRISE G Friday, May 30, 2003 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. Address mail to: News Editor, Times House, The Times of India, 7 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110002. Fax (011) 371-5832, 332-3346. email ID: enterpriseg.2002@indiatimes.com 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. TOID300503/CR1/10/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/10/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/10/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/10/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK INDIA 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. Friday, May 30, 2003 11 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 TOID300503/CR1/11/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/11/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/11/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/11/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK 12 INDIA 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 INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE & ALLIED SCIENCES, DEFENCE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION BRIG. S. K. MAZUMDAR ROAD, DELHI-54 CORRIGENDUM Reference advertisement number davp 7160(646)2002 published in this newspaper on 12/3/03 regarding filling up the post of Sr. Technical Assistant ‘A’. The following amendment may be noted in the advertisement. “For” B) No. of Posts : Five “Read” B) No. of Posts : Five (Actual No. of posts may vary) INSERT THE FOLLOWING AT THE END NOTE 1 : Age relaxation for Physically Handicapped is as per existing rules. NOTE 2 : Last date for receipt of applications is extended to 20 days from the date of publication of this Corrigendum. NOTE 3 : Those who have already applied in response to our advertisements Dt. 12 Mar 2003 need not apply again. Their applications already received by us will be considered. davp 7160(108)2003 TOID300503/CR1/12/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/12/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/12/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/12/Y/1 CMYK 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 OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK The Times of India, New Delhi 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- INDIA Friday, May 30, 2003 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. TENDER PREQUALIFICATION NOTICE Executive Engineer, President Estate Division, CPWD, Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi invites applications for item rate tenders for the undermentioned work from approved and eligible contractors of CPWD and those of appropriate list of P&T, MES, Railways, PWD and specialised agencies. The tender shall be issued to only those agencies who have successfully completed atleast three similar works of 40% of E.C. or two similar works of 50% of E.C. or one similar works of 80% of E.C. in the last five years period ending 30.04.2003. At least one of the work should be in Central Govt./ Undertaking or for State Govt. The similar work for this will mean laying of synthetic tennis court/ synthetic track. Name of Work: Conversion of grass tennis court into synthetic tennis court in Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. Estimated Cost: Rs. 13,87,267/-. Earnest Money: Rs. 27,745/-. Completion Time: 75 days. Cost of Tender Document: Rs. 500/-. The applications for the issue of tender documents complete with registration certificate issued by the local Sales Tax Department, Sales Tax Clearance Certificates, if work contract Act is in force and attested copies of completion certificates issued by an officer not below the rank of Executive Engineer indicating details of contract, values of work done, date of start and date of completion etc. should reach the Executive Engineer, President Estate Division upto 3.00 p.m. on 4.6.2003. Please note, copy of award letters will not be accepted/ taken as a proof for meeting prequalification criteria. The agencies whose applications are approved by competent authority for issue of the tender documents shall be informed by registered post to purchase tender documents. The department reserves the right to reject any application without assigning any reason. Sd/- Executive Engineer President Estate Division C.P.W.D., New Delhi TOID300503/CR1/13/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/13/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/13/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/13/Y/1 CMYK 13 OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK 14 I N T E R N AT I O N A L Friday, May 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi 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 www.timesofindia.com e-mail: dubya-man@indiatimes.com 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 For booking details, contact: Ravi Popli or Sarbani Raha at 23302355/23302629 or email at ravi.popli@timesgroup.com/sarbani.raha@timesgroup.com TOID300503/CR1/14/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/14/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/14/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/14/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK Friday, May 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi TOID300503/LR1/15/M/1 TOID300503/LR1/15/C/1 TOID300503/LR1/15/K/1 TOID300503/LR1/15/Y/1 CMYK 15 OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK Friday, May 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi 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. VIEW 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 Letters to this column should be addressed to Letters c/o Edit page Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002. email:edit@timesgroup.com No. 128 Vol. 54. Air charge: Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai ,Cochin, Chennai & via Rs.3, Indore and via 50 paise. 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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 16 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. THE SPEAKING TREE http://spirituality.indiatimes.com TOID300503/LR1/16/M/1 TOID300503/LR1/16/C/1 TOID300503/LR1/16/K/1 TOID300503/LR1/16/Y/1 CMYK Friends and Partners These people (the Indians of Hispaniola) love their neighbours as themselves; their discourse is ever sweet and gentle, and accompanied by a smile. I swear to your majesties, there is not in the world a better nation or a better land. Christopher Columbus ✥ There is nothing in the world I wouldn’t do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn’t do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other. Bing Crosby ✥ If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair. Dr Samuel Johnson ✥ Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing. Jean de La Rochefoucauld ✥ Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship’s sake that ye do them. William Morris ✥ I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell — you see, I have friends in both places. Mark Twain ✥ In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. Alexis de Tocqueville OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK The Times of India, New Delhi, Friday, May 30, 2003 Rupee Value US $: 47.55 UK £: 77.90 Boosting ties It’s time to shop Easy-cleaning US trade representative Robert Zoellick (extreme 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 rechargable battery. It weighs 4 kg and diameter is 250 mm Euro: 55.95 S Fr: 37.80 Yen (100): 41.25 TIMES NEWS NETWORK TIMES NEWS NETWORK 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 INTERNATIONAL 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 Saudi Riyal 13.05 Losing out to competition? • 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 Ratan Tata • 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 AFP UAE Dirham 13.35 Thai Baht (100) 114.80 through ‘‘optimum utilisation of bandwidth, which 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 A $: 31.80 ET INSTA POLL Yesterday’s results: Is 75 too late for board members of companies to retire? Yes 77% No 21% Can’t say 02% • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. Today’s question: Will a lower price increase your chances of buying a set top box? To vote, log on to http://economictimes.indiatimes.com TOID300503/CR2/17/M/1 TOID300503/CR2/17/C/1 TOID300503/CR2/17/K/1 TOID300503/CR2/17/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK 18 BUSINESS TIMES Friday, May 30, 2003 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- TOID300503/CR1/18/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/18/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/18/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/18/Y/1 CMYK isterial team led by 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. OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‹ CMK Friday, May 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi TOID300503/LR1/19/M/1 TOID300503/LR1/19/C/1 TOID300503/LR1/19/K/1 TOID300503/LR1/19/Y/1 CMYK 19 OID ‰‰ ‰ † ‰ CMK 20 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 N m S NA R The Times of India, New Delhi 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 L I 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 J 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 M 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 N 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 K 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 R 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 N m NA R S R S Open-ended Schemes N m As on 28/05/2003 Alliance Mutual Fund 95 (D) 95 (G) Basic Inds.(D) Basic Inds.(G) Buy India (D) Buy India (G) Capital Tax Relief’96 Cash Manager (D) Cash Manager (G) Cash Manager Instnl (D) Cash Manager Instnl (G) Equity (D) Equity (G) Frontline Eq(D) Frontline Eq(G) G-Sec Long Term (D) G-Sec Long Term (G) G-Sec Short Term (D) G-Sec Short Term (G) Income (D) Income (G) Income 54EA (D) Income 54EA (G) Income 54EB (D) Income 54EB (G) Income Q’ly (D) Monthly Income (G) Monthly Income (M’ly) Monthly Income (Q’ly) New Millennium (D) New Millennium (G) Short Term (D) Short Term (G) Short Term Fund Instnl(D) Benchmark Mutual Fund Nifty BeES Nifty Junior BeES Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund Advantage (A) Advantage (B) Balance (D) Balance (G) Bond Index Fund (Div) Bond Index Fund (G) Bond Plus Inst.(G) Bond Plus Retail (D) Bond plus Inst.(D) Bond plus Retail (G) D Yield Plus(Div) D Yield Plus(G) Equity Plan FMP 1 Year Group 3 FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (D) FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (G) FMP Quarterly Group 1 (D) FMP Quarterly Group 1 (G) Gilt Plus-Liquid-(A)(D) Gilt Plus-Liquid-(B)(G) Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(A)(D) Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(B)(G) Gilt Plus-Reg.-(AD) Gilt Plus-Reg.-(BG) INDEX (Div) INDEX (G) NA R R S 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 — — — — 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) IT Plan A (Div Reinv) IT Plan B (G) Income Plus Inst. A(D) Income Plus Inst. B(G) Income Plus Plan A(D) Income Plus Plan B(G) MIDCAP (Div) MIDCAP (G) MIP Plan A (D) MIP Plan B (Payment/G) MIP Plan C (Payment/G) MNC Plan A (Div Payout) MNC Plan A (Div Reinv) MNC Plan B (Gr) Sweep Plan (D) Sweep Plan (G) BOB Mutual Fund Gilt (D) Gilt (G) Income (D) Income (G) Income Fund STP (D) Income Fund STP (G) Liquid (D) Liquid (G) Canbank Mutual Fund Canbonus Cancigo Cancigo (G) Canequity Tax Saver Canexpo Canexpo (G) Canganga Cangilt PGS (D) Cangilt PGS (G) Canglobal Canincome (B) Canincome (G) Canincome (I) Canliquid (D) Canliquid (G) Canpremium Canpremium (G) Cantriple Chola Mutual Fund FMP Q’ly (D) FMP Y’ly (Cum) FMP Y’ly (D) Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly) Freedom Income (C) Freedom Income (R) Freedom Income-Inst Cum Freedom Income-Inst Reg Freedom Tech.(Cum) Freedom Tech.(Reg) Gilt Invst.(Cum) Gilt Invst.(Reg) Gilt Series (Cum) Gilt Series (Reg) Growth (Cum) Growth (Reg) Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum Liquid Instl. Div.Pay Liquid-Reg.-Inst.Plus Lq. (Cum) Lq. (Reg) Lq.Sr. Apr-06 (Reg) Triple Ace (B) Triple Ace (Cum) Triple Ace (Reg) Triple Ace Inst Cum Deutsche Mutual Fund 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 — — — — M m m m m m m M m M M M M M M M m w M M m m m M M +1 07% m w — TOID300503/CR1/20/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/20/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/20/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/20/Y/1 CMYK 48.50, 49, 46.35, 47.30 Tide Water O 1042, 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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 OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK 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 T 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 INDIAN SPORT SLEEPING 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 Gaudoin during their match in Perth on Thursday. TOID300503/CR2/21/M/1 TOID300503/CR2/21/C/1 TOID300503/CR2/21/K/1 TOID300503/CR2/21/Y/1 CMYK OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK 22 Friday, May 30, 2003 TIMES SPORT INDIANS ABROAD 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 TOID300503/CR1/22/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/22/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/22/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/22/Y/1 CMYK RACES 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. OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK Friday, May 30, 2003 The Times of India, New Delhi TOID300503/LR1/23/M/1 TOID300503/LR1/23/C/1 TOID300503/LR1/23/K/1 TOID300503/LR1/23/Y/1 CMYK 23 OID ‰‰ ‰ † CMK 24 TIMES SPORT Friday, May 30, 2003 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. MOTOR SPORT F-1 Grand Prix: Free practice, Monaco: 1. Mark Webber, Jaguar, 01:16.373. 2. Jenson Button, BAR, 01:16.476. 3. David Coulthard, McLaren, 01:16.505. 4. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 01:16.578. 5. Jarno Trulli, Renault, 01:16.800. 6. Michael Schu- Tour leader Gilberto Simoni (C) rides ahead of others during the 17th stage of the Giro, Tour of Italy on Wednesday. macher, Ferrari, 01:16.915. 7. Giancarlo Fisichella, Jordan, 01:16.930. 8. Juan Pablo Montoya, Williams, 01:17.173. 9. Kimi Rdikkvnen, McLaren, 01:17.218. 10. R Barrichello, Ferrari, 01:17.372. ‘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. TOID300503/CR1/24/M/1 TOID300503/CR1/24/C/1 TOID300503/CR1/24/K/1 TOID300503/CR1/24/Y/1 CMYK HOCKEY: Three-nation tournament: Perth, Australia: Australia bt India 2-0; Scorer: T. Woodhouse 3rd and 44th minutes.