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‘Science fiction’ for Gujarat studentsBy Robin David
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ahmedabad: ‘‘In astrology, the unitto measure the distance between twostars is called light-year.’’
Food is essential for us because ‘‘ithelps in wear and tear of the parts ofthe body’’!
These are just two gems from theinexhaustible mine of factual errorsin the Gujarat State Textbook Boardscience textbooks prescribed for thestudents of Standard V, VI and VII.
The science book prescribed forClass V tells a student that wheneverthe moon is overhead, it is midnight.Anyone with basic knowledge of as-tronomy would tell you that themoon is overhead at midnight onlyon full moon nights. On new moondays, it is overhead at noon!
The section on biology for stu-dents of Standard VII has this to say.‘‘Since snakes live in burrows, they
do not have limbs.’’ Going by thismaxim, rabbits and moles shouldnot have legs either, as they are bur-rowing animals!
The books are so replete with er-rors that if students take them as
Bibles for scientific knowledge, theywould commit blasphemy every timethey leaf through it!
Dr B R Sitaram, formerly withPhysical Research Laboratory, citesanother example.‘‘The Standard VIIscience textbook has one section on‘air pollution due to breathing by an-imals and human beings’. How arewe expected to reduce it? Should weall stop breathing?’’ he asks.
Sitaram has started a firm, ZealEducational Services, which hasdocumented many of these errors.
Gujarat State Textbook Boardchairman R C Raval says he can’tcomment on the errors as he is mere-ly an administrative head.
Norms for PSU bids: The govern-ment came up with new guidelinesfor bidding by employees in the PSUsector. It will now be mandatory for15 per cent or 200 of the PSU’s em-ployees to participate in the bid.
Govt angry at SJM remarks:The BJP leadershipis upset at the waySJM leader Dat-topant Thengdimade a personal at-tack on the PrimeMinister and tele-com minister ArunShourie while flag-
ging off an anti-WTO yatra. P7
Growing menace: Polio eradica-tion seems a distant dream with 66cases already being reported fromeight states. Last year, the govern-ment was close to eradicating polio,with only 29 cases reported in thesame time period. But outbreaks inUP and West Bengal sent the num-bers soaring. P10
BSNL business: BSNL said it ex-pects a 25 per cent rise in businesswhich will compensate for any lossof revenue from cheaper fixed-linetariffs to be in place from May 1. Un-changed rentals and call durationmay have an impact of Rs 400 to Rs500 crore but will be compensatedby the rise in traffic. P11
Sena eager to return to roots:The Shiv Sena seems eager to re-turn to its Shivaji Park roots, withparty strategists putting final touch-es to its ‘‘Mumbai Plan’’ in a bid torevamp the city of its birth. P11
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10 Iraqis die in Mosul firingMosul/Nasiriyah: At least 10 peoplewere killed and more than 100 wounded as the US troops fired on aprotesting crowd in Mosul, northernIraq, on Tuesday.
Eyewitnesses said the crowd was an-gered by a speech by the new US-backed governor. But the chargeswere denied by a US militaryspokesman in the city, who said thetroops had first come under fire fromat least two gunmen and fired back,without aiming at the crowd.
The incident overshadowed the US-brokered talks aimed at sketchingout the country’s future leadership in Nasiriyah, a Shiite Muslim bastion, where the main Shi’ite opposition boycotted the meet and20,000 people took out an anti-USprotest march.
The religious and political leaders,who met at a makeshift US air base be-side the ancient Mesopotamian city ofUr in southern Iraq, agreed to conveneagain in 10 days.
The shooting in Mosul broke out asthe newly-appointed governor of thecity was making a speech from thebuilding housing his offices which lis-teners deemed was too pro-US, wit-nesses said.
‘‘There were protesters outside, 100to 150, there was fire, we returnedfire,’’ a US military spokesman said. The initial shots came from a roof opposite the building, about 75metres away.
‘‘We didn’t fire at the crowd, but atthe top of the building,’’ the
spokesman added. ‘‘There were atleast two gunmen, I don’t know if theywere killed... The firing was not inten-sive but sporadic, and lasted up to twominutes,’’ the spokesman said.
But witnesses charged that UStroops fired into the crowd after it be-came increasingly hostile towards thenew governor, Mashaan al-Juburi.
‘‘They (the soldiers) climbed on top of the building and first fired at a building near the crowd, with the
glass falling on the civilians. Peoplestarted to throw stones, then theAmericans fired at them,’’ said AyadHassun, (37).
‘‘Dozens of people fell,’’ he said, hisown shirt stained with blood. Agencies
Truckers’ stir:Delhi holds the priceline
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New Delhi: Delhi was the only unaffect-ed metro, as prices of essential items, es-pecially vegetables, went spiralling outof control in various parts of the coun-try on the second day of the truckers’strike on Tuesday.
Vegetable prices in the Chennaiwholesale market shot up to almost dou-ble their normal levels.
People in Mumbai had a reason tosmile as the transporters exempted es-sential commodities like vegetables, oil,wheat, sugar, kerosene and milk fromtheir strike.
However, prices of most goods are al-ready well above their normal levels inthe western metro as the strike has beenon for much longer here.
In Surat, the per quintal price of pota-to increased to Rs 550 from Rs 350.
The strike has hit Rajasthan, TamilNadu, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka.
The All India Motor Transport Con-gress says 27 lakh commercial vehiclesare off the roads, and the strike couldcost businesses Rs 20,000 crore a day.Truckers are expected to lose Rs 1500crore daily.
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Shias demonstrate against a meeting in Nasiriyah on Tuesday to rebuild war-torn Iraq saying their leaders were not invited.
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NEW, IMPROVED HUMAYUN’S TOMB: Delhi’s famous landmarkopened after a Rs 3 crore makeover which revived its water systemand its gardens. Report on page 2
SARS kills nine more in a day in Hong Kong Hong Kong/Beijing: The life-and-deathstruggle against SARS hit Hong Kong witha record nine fatalities in one day, but hos-pital officials said Tuesday they had savedthe baby of a dying 34-year-old pregnantwoman.
The Chinese capital of Beijing at lastwoke up to a virus creeping into its hin-terland. But the World Health Organiza-tion (WHO) complained its team is beingdenied access to Beijing military hospitalswhere unconfirmed reports have said alarge number of SARS patients are beingtreated.
In Hong Kong, the youngest of the vic-tims was a 32-year-old woman. “I thinkduring the last couple of days, our con-cerns remain the number of deaths and ofthe people who died... some of them wererather young,” Hospital Authority actingChief Executive Ko Wing-man said.
Ko said the treatment used in HongKong now — a mix of anti-viral drugs andsteroids — had seen good response in 80-90percent of patients.
Of the 42 newly infected patients, 11were health-care workers. The latest fig-ures bring the Hong Kong death toll to 56and the number of cases to 1,232.
After months of hiding their SARS out-break, China’s leaders started a highlypublicised battle to halt its spread. Pre-mier Wen Jiabao called on “the whole na-tion” to “work closely together to win thefierce battle” against SARS, and ordered acampaign to scrub down planes, trainsand office blocks to kill the virus. Agencies
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Target Syria? • US threatens to
impose sanctions against Syria
• It is up to Syria to prove it is no “rogue nation” saysBritish foreign minister Jack Straw
Baghdad berserk• Rare books, includ-
ing one of the oldest versions of the Quran, lost as National Library and Islamic Library burnt
• Army raids Palestine Hotel
Shi’ite protests• Top Shi’ite cleric,
Ayatollah Ali Sistani, speaks up after 12 days in hiding
• Iraq’s leading Shi’ite opposition group boycotted Nasiriyah meeting
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Comment: It is flashpoints like thiswhich can ignite the bushfire of publicopinion — in Iraq and beyond — andmake people feel that far from beingliberators, the Americans are foreignoppressors far worse than Saddam.
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Restored Humayun’s Tomb unveiledTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: As twilight descended overthe city on Tuesday, it saw the dawn of abygone era at Humayun’s Tomb as theAga Khan unveiled the restored gar-dens of the monument with water flow-ing in its many fountains. Visitors weretaken back in time to the 1560s, whenthe mausoleum was completed.
The restoration project, for which theAga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC)had given US $6,50,000, tried to erase thecolonial character the tomb’s Moghulgardens had ‘‘wrongly’’ acquired overthe past decades.
‘‘The water channels were relaid toexacting standards. Over 2,500 trees andplants were introduced in accordance
with the original landscaping. Wellswere re-excavated and incorporatedinto a rain water harvesting and irriga-tion system,’’ said the Aga Khan, who isthe spiritual leader of the Shia ImamiIsmaili Muslims.
Greenery wasn’t the only thing that was restored here. The walkways,
edging stones, water channels andsandstone benches were also given theoriginal look.
The garden restoration project,undertaken by the AKTC in associationwith the Archeological Survey ofIndia, was conceived in 1997 to com-memorate the 50th anniversary ofIndia’s independence.
Visitors were clearly in awe of thetomb’s newly restored glory. ‘‘I am feel-ing the ambience of the place as itwould have been centuries ago,’’ saidnoted sarod player Ustad Amjad AliKhan. Other noted guests includedUnion culture minister Jagmohan,deputy-chairperson Rajya Sabha NajmaHeptullah and Urban designer K TRavindran.
Truck rams car,5 killed, 3 hurt
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Noida: Five people werekilled and three otherswere seriously injuredwhen their Maruti car wasrammed by a speedingtruck in Noida on Tuesday.
The truck diver, howev-er, managed to escape thespot. A case of causingdeath due to rash drivinghas been registeredagainst him, said thepolice.
All victims were resi-dents of Delhi and agedbetween 18 and 25 years,said the police.
They were reportedlygoing to Dadri, in Noida, todistribute invitation cardsfor a wedding that is totake place on Wednesday.
According to the police,the collision took placenear Badalpur police post, on National High-way 1, in Gautam BudhNagar district.
The police said 21-year-old Arvind Singh, son ofDhiraj Singh of Chilla in Delhi, was driving towards Dadri.
Seven other people, in-cluding the groom, weretravelling with Singh.
The car had been parkedwhen the speeding truckrammed into it.
The collision was so se-vere that the ‘‘front of thecar was completely flat-tened and two persons flewthrough the windshield,’’said Dadri police stationchief Ajay Kumar.
The victims were imme-diately pulled out of themangled car and rushed to Ghaziabad district hos-pital. Arvind (25), Vinod(19), Sarjit (25), Ravi (18)and Manoj (18) were declared dead.
Pavan, Vijendra andSunil were shifted to dif-ferent hospitals in criticalconditions.
Ex-BSP councillor shoots travel agentTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ghaziabad: A former Bahu-jan Samaj Party (BSP)coun-cillor and two of his associ-ates allegedly shot a ShastriNagar travel agent at about 9am on Tuesday.
The victim named BSPleader, Shekhar Singh, in adying statement made beforea local magistrate. Singh’swife, Shashi Bala, is now
councillor from Ward 29, aseat held by him earlier.
Police said Shekhar sus-pected the travel agent, Son-vir of Teotia Travel Agencyin Shastri Nagar’s ‘M’ block,of being in league with hispolitical opponents. ShekharSingh has a record of a dozencases of murder, looting andother crimes filed againsthim in the Kavi Nagar police
station. In his dying state-ment, Sonvir said he was sit-ting in his office when Singhdrove up to the agency in aMaruti car.
He and two others steppedinto the agency and, withoutprovocation, fired at himwith pistols.
Kavi Nagar police stationchief, Anil Samania, said‘‘Sonvir had 6 bullet injuries
in his abdomen, chin, shoul-der and arms. Four spent anda live cartridge, of two differ-ent calibres, were recoveredfrom the spot.’’
The shooting sent peoplein the market scurrying forcover. Sonvir was taken tothe hospital by his brother,Manvir, who claimed he sawthe shooting. Singh and hisassociates are absconding.
• Four-km-long channels repaired
• 3.5-km pathway edging reset
• 30-acre garden regrassed
• Huge rain water harvesting system installed
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CP buildingevacuated afterbomb scare,nothing found
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A hoax bombthreat kept police officials ontheir toes at BarakhambaRoad on Tuesday morning.For two hours, the bombsquad conducted a check atVijaya building whereReliance Infocom hasits office. Some nationalbanks are also located in thebuilding.
Deputy commissioner ofpolice (New Delhi) ManojLall said:‘‘We received a callfrom an official working inone of the offices there. Thecaller said that a letter wasfound in the building at 10:45am.’’
The hand-written letterstated that a bomb would ex-plode in the building between11 am to 2 pm.
The disaster mangementteam, bomb disposal squadand the dog squad reachedthe spot immediately.
The building was evacuat-ed folllowing which a thor-ough check was carried out.After two hours ofintensive checking, the po-lice declared the call to be ahoax.
Investigations are under-way to find out who couldhave made the call and at-tempts will be made to arrestthe culprit.
40 ill after consumingleftover biryani
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: About 40 peoplefell ill after consuming left-overs from a wedding partythat was reportedly distrib-uted in their locality on Tues-day. All the affected peopleare residents of ViklangBasti near Jawaharlal NehruStadium. According to thepolice, the leftovers fromMonday night were distrib-
uted among the residents at10 am on Tuesday.
‘‘They all consumed thebiryani that was distributed.The police got the first call at4 pm,’’ said a police official.
The 40 affected people wererushed to the All India Insti-tute of Medical Sciences inPCR vans and CATS ambu-lances. All have been dis-charged after medical treat-ment.
Processions:Three proces-sions will betaken out in
the city on ac-count of Hanu-man Jayanti onWednesday.• The first pro-
cession will start at2 pm from Hanuman tem-ple, Baba Kharak SinghMarg. Motorists are ad-vised to avoid ConnaughtPlace area, Madras Hotel,Panchkuian Road, GoleMarket, Bhagat SinghMarket, Kali Mandir andBaba Kharak Singh Marg.• The second processionwill begin from HanumanMandir, Esplanade Road,at 4 pm. It will passthrough Dariba Kalan,Chandni Chowk, NaiSarak, Barshabulla,Chawri Bazar, ChowkHauz Qazi, Ajmeri Gate,Shardhanand Bazar,Chowk Naya Bazar, KhariBaoli and Fatehpuri. • Another processionwould start from HaveliHaider Quli at 6 pm andend at Hanuman temple,Vishram Ghat. Motoristsare advised to avoidChandni Chowk, KatraBaryan, Naya Bans, KhariBaoli, Fatehpuri, GhantaGhar, Dariba Kalan,Mandir Shivala Apa GangaDhar, Red Fort, LothianRoad and Hanuman temple near Nigam BodhGhat.
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SPREADING THE GOOD WORD: Devotees participate in traditional tableaux every year on theoccasion of Mahavir Jayanti.
Mahavir Jayanti celebratedTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Jain com-munity celebrated the2,600th birth anniversary ofthe 24th Tirthankar Bhag-wan Mahavir in Delhi onTuesday. Religious proces-sions and congregationsacross the city marked theMahavir Jayanti.
Jain Sabha-Delhi tookout a traditional processionin the city. The procession
started from Model Bastiand ended at ParadeGround where Acharya SriVidyanandji delivered asermon in the morning.
The procession then con-verged into a dharma sab-ha in the afternoon wherereligious discourses andcultural programmes wereheld. The sabha was attend-ed by Congress leadersJagdish Tytler and Oscar
Fernandes.On the Tirthankar’s
birthday, the idol of Bhag-wan Mahavir is given a cer-emonial bath called the ab-hishek.
A religious ceremonywas also held at AhimsaSthal in Mehrauli. Jaintemples in the city weredecorated with flags on theoccasion. Devoteesthronged these temples.
Jilted woman commits suicideTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A 21-year-oldpharmacy student, who wasallegedly jilted by her lover,committed suicide on Mon-day. She left a suicide note,saying that she was havingan affair with her tutor, whohad refused to marry her.
After recovering the letter,the police arrested the tutor,Amit, and have charged himwith rape and abetment tosuicide.
Deputy commissioner ofpolice (east) Nuzhat Hassansaid: ‘‘Although the womanhas admitted to a relation-ship with the accused, it isclear from the letter that
Amit had influenced her tohave a relationship with him.He was apparently giving herbirth-control pills.’’
According to the police,Amit met the woman abouttwo years ago and he was giv-ing her Chemistry lessons.They were neighbours in theKrishna Nagar area of eastDelhi. ‘‘Amit lives alone inDelhi and makes a living giv-ing tuitions. The womanlived with her parents. Herfather is a government em-ployee,’’ a police officer said.
The woman developed aliking for Amit during her tu-ition classes. ‘‘Amit took ad-vantage of the situation andinfluenced her into having
an affair with him,’’ the offi-cer added.
The woman apparentlyagreed to the relationship af-ter Amit promised to marryher. Hassan said:‘‘The letterclearly states the woman’swish. She wanted to marryAmit and, therefore, agreedto the relationship.’’
But when she broached thetopic of marriage, the ac-cused allegedly refused tospeak about it. Her letter in-dicated that he was persuad-ing her to have a relationshipwith his friend. As a resultthe woman became de-pressed.
At 10 pm on Monday, thewoman consumed sulphose
tablets before sleeping. Herparents, however, got wor-ried when she started vomit-ing.
‘‘When the woman’s elderbrother rushed to her rescue,she told him everything thathad happened,’’ Hassan said.The woman was taken to aprivate hospital where shewas declared dead on arrival.
Although the police wasinformed immediately, theyarrested the accused onTuesday morning after re-covering the hand-writtensuicide note. The woman’sparents say that she was anextremely bright student andhad stood first in her Class 11examinations.
Snatching purse for girlfriendTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A 19-year-old boywho snatched a purse in theVasant Kunj area on Mondaynight was apprehended by apasserby, although the policecontrol room van took 25minutes to reach the spot andarrest him.
Rohit Sood, who stoppedthe boy from escaping withthe purse said: ‘‘The trafficpolice reached since theywere present near the spot.But the police control roomvan did not turn up.’’
Deputy commissioner ofpolice (south-west) TajinderLuthra said: ‘‘The local po-lice reached the spot as soon as we got a report from the control room. Theboy has been taken into cus-tody.’’
The boy’s interrogationhas revealed that he belongsto an affluent family.
His father runs a electron-
ic goods showroom in Delhiand they stay in Mehrauli,’’Luthra said.
According to the police,the boy got his hair coloured
at a salon in Vasant Kunjarea. ‘‘He had spent Rs 250 toget his hair coloured. Hewanted to earn back the mon-ey he had spent,’’ a police of-ficer said.
When the accused reachedRing Road, he saw a womanwalking alone.
‘‘She is a second year stu-dent of Venkateswara collegeand was on her way home,’’ apolice officer said.
‘‘The road was secludedand the boys were drivingvery slowly. As they reachedthe girl, they snatched herpurse and sped away,’’ Soodsaid.
Sood followed the scooterand managed to hit it frombehind before they reachedthe crossing.
Sood got out of his car andmanaged to nab the boy be-fore he escaped.
The boy’s friend, however,managed to flee.
Father, sonkilled in row
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A sub-inspectorwith the State Transport Au-thority and his son werestabbed to death by the neigh-bours during an argument.Four persons were also in-jured during the altercation.
The police said the vic-tims, Dhanpal Sagar (54) andRajender (33), often hadfights with their neighboursVijay Pal and his sons. Paland his son Kailash havebeen admitted to St Stephenshospital and are in stablecondition.
The deceased’s sons,Surender and Ravinder, areadmitted to Guru Tegh Ba-hadur hospital. The policehave registered cases againstboth the parties.
•The boy is a dropoutfrom a boarding schoolin Mussorie.
•He was involved in amolestation case twoyears ago. The policehad arrested him but theboy was later releasedon bail
•The accused was going to meet his girl-friend at Rajouri Garden
•He had wanted themoney to treat her
•Sood claims his carswerved and hit the divider as he attemptedto stop the boys
Troubled teen
Bus crushes manNew Delhi: An unidentifiedman, about 40 years old, wascrushed to death by a UPRoadways bus in the NehruPlace area on Tuesdayevening. He was on his two-wheeler when he was hit bythe bus. TNN
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Train No. Train / Exp / Mail 1 ac 2 ac Ac 3t SlNORTH4033 Jammu Mail 19.04 22.04 27.04 21.044645 Shalimar Exp — 22.05 21.05 21.042403 Jammu Exp 19.04 28.04 28.04 06.05EAST2302 Kolkata Rajdhani 16.04 16.04 23.04 —2304 Poorva Exp 16.04 23.04 23.04 21.052382 Poorva Exp 18.04 22.04 25.04 23.052312 Kalka Mail N.A. 17.04 14.05 24.052392 Magadh Exp N.A. 24.04 22.04 23.042402 Shramjeevi Exp — 16.04 21.04 24.042418 Prayag Raj Exp 17.04 18.04 16.04 21.044056 Brahmputra Mail — N.A. 04.06 21.055622 North East Exp — 20.05 30.05 21.052554 Vaishali Exp 17.04 03.05 22.05 02.062816 Puri Exp — 17.04 23.04 24.042802 Purshottam Exp — 03.05 23.05 29.048476 Neelanchal Exp — 27.04 27.04 22.044230 Lucknow Mail 19.04 22.04 22.04 29.04WEST2904 Golden Temple Mail 17.04 17.04 09.06 11.062926 Paschim Exp 19.04 01.05 11.06 11.062952 Mumbai Rajdhani 24.04 23.04 28.04 —2954 AG Kranti Rajdhani 18.04 16.04 23.04 —2474 Sarvodaya Exp — 01.05 29.04 17.041078 Jhelum Exp — 02.06 09.06 26.052916 Ashram Exp 16.04 23.04 16.04 17.04SOUTH2616 G T Exp 16.04 16.04 03.06 21.042622 Tamil Nadu Exp 18.04 16.04 08.06 21.042432 Trivandrum Raj 20.04 N.A. N.A. —2626 Kerala Exp — 10.06 09.06 28.052618 Mangala Exp — 09.06 07.06 23.052628 Karnataka Exp — 23.04 28.04 16.042724 A P Exp 16.04 06.05 23.05 22.042430 Banglore Rajdhani 21.04 09.06 03.06 —7022 Dakshin Express — 22.04 — 16.04
Max MinDelhi 39 23 Mumbai 32 26 Chennai 35 26 Kolkata 37 25 Bangalore 36 22 Ahm’bad 38 25 T’puram 35 25 Bhopal 41 24 B’eshwar 38 24 Pune 39 20
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Amsterdam 20 09 Bahrain 28 24 Bangkok 39 27 Beijing 26 08 Chicago 19 01 Geneva 17 04 Hong Kong 27 21 London 18 11 Los Angeles 21 15 Moscow 11 02
READER’S GRIEVANCES
Housing messGangotri, a 10-storey build-ing constructed by theGhaziabad DevelopmentAuthority is in a patheticcondition. None of the liftsare working, there is nowater supply, and garbageand filth lie strewn insideand outside the building.There are no lights in thecorridors, making the pas-sages dark even during theday.
Naturally, under thesecircumstances, most of theapartments are vacant. In-truders, who are neitherallottees nor tenants, haveoccupied some of the flats.To make matters worse,the GDA is now asking thefew allottees who hadmade the mistake of occu-pying these apartments, topay up arrears for utilitieslike lifts and generator,from the date of purchaseof the flats. All such facili-ties had been out of orderfor a long time now. GDAshould investigate the is-sue and provide facilitiesimmediately. Also, itshould levy these chargesonly for the services actu-ally provided and the dura-tion for which they wereworking. — A K Gupta, 29-D, Vijay Mandal Enclave,Hauz Khas
Encroachment Encroachment on publicland, especially on pave-ments and roads, is in-creasing. Pedestrians can-not walk on pavementsalong road number 30 andon Ch Balbir Singh Marg
as they have been en-croached upon byshopowners. From floriststo barbers, several peopleare running their businesson these pavements. Thepolice say they are helplesssince the Municipal Corpo-ration of Delhi had giventhe vendors tehbazarirights. Under the tehbazarisystem, only a small areais allotted to a vendor onthe stipulation that no per-manent structure will bebuilt there. These regula-tions are flouted in fullview of the authorities.Unless pavements are va-cated for the pedestrians,they will have no choicebut to walk on the road atthe risk of being run over.Also, these shops causetraffic snarls. We requestauthorities concerned tocheck the menace immedi-ately to take prompt actionto stop proliferation ofshops on pavements. — S PKanjlia, general secretary,Federation of Paschim Vi-har Welfare Associations
Stray dogsOn behalf of the residentsof Block No 147-150, PushpVihar Sector 4, I would liketo draw attention of the au-thorities to the increasingnumber of stray dogs inour blocks. These dogshave bitten many people,including children. Thenumber of dogs has in-creased in the last coupleof months. Authoritiesconcerned may please takenecessary steps to stop themenace. — V N Rajan, 147H Pushp Vihar, Sector 4.
Readers should send their contributions addressed to Readers’ Grievancesc/o Metro Editor, The Times of India, 7, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi-110002.
Prices stable onday two of strike
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The truckers’strike has resulted in panicsupplying of vegetables byfarmers, who made a beelinefor markets in their loadedtractors, trolleys, tempos andtrucks on Tuesday.
‘‘Onion supplies were fourtimes higher than normal.Potato supplies from Hald-wani and adjoining areas inUP were also up 50 percent.The supply of tomatoes fromHimachal Pradesh too has in-creased,’’ said Delhi food andsupplies minister HaroonYusuf.
Banana prices slippedfrom Rs 9.50 a dozen to Rs 7.50on Tuesday as truckers fromother states did not arrive atthe Banana Yard in AzadpurMandi — Asia’s biggestwholesale vegetable and fruitmarket. ‘‘The price may re-duce further, as the fruitsstart to ripen,’’ the ministersaid.The supply of bananasto the city remains unaffect-ed as they are shipped to thecity on trains from the south.Delhi serves as a lifting pointfor truckers from the neigh-bouring states.
There were reports of
some vegetable and fruit ven-dors misleading customerssaying wholesale prices haveshot up at the mandi after thetruckers’ strike.
According to the controlroom set up by the Agricul-tural Produce MarketingCommittee, more than 700trucks arrived from outside,as against the normal turnout of 600. Nearly 1100 tem-pos arrived as against theusual 900 per day.
Meanwhile the secretary-general of All India MotorTransport Congress J M Sak-sena said the strike had beensuccessful and complete es-pecially after truckers fromMaharashtra joined thestrike. ‘‘There has been no di-alogue with the governmentso far,’’he said.
Haryana repairing Yamuna canal By Saurabh Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Haryana has fi-nally begun repairing thewestern Yamuna canal aftera delay of two-and-halfyears. Being in a dilapidatedstate it was just bringing 25million gallons a day (MGD),instead of the required 40MGD to the Nangloi plantfrom the Bhakra storage. Theshortfall was constantly lead-ing to crisis situations in en-tire southwest Delhi —which houses densely popu-lated colonies likeJanakpuri, Vikaspuri andDwarka.
‘‘Haryana has begun workon the Delhi section of thecanal and will repair it in anyear. We paid them Rs 10crore to start the work,’’ saidDelhi Jal Board (DJB) chief PK Tripathi.
However there’s bad newstoo. ‘‘For the next three tofour days, the supply throughthis canal will be be furtheraffected and several south-west Delhi colonies will haveeven less supply,’’ said Tri-pathi. On Sunday just 19MGD flowed from the canal,which is down by six MGD.The supply may continue toget affected as the work takes
place from time to time inHaryana. This will lead toeven drier taps in the south-west. The area also doesn’thave adequate sweet ground-water left.
Tripathi, however, termedthis problem as ‘‘essential tohave more water in the fu-ture’’.
The DJB, he had earliersaid, was trying to ensurethat Haryana repair thecanal in time to supply the re-quired 40 MGD this summer.But that didn’t happen andentire south and southwestDelhi continue to face severewater crisis.
This year, Haryana re-
leased water which was pol-luted to this extent that sev-eral times it could not betreated. This aggravated thecrisis. The Central PollutionControl Board had to ask theHaryana government to en-sure that its industries didn’trelease their untreated efflu-ents into the canal.
City may getlight showers
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Delhiites whohave suffered sleepless, hotnights for the last few daysmay finally get a break. Thecity may receive its secondbout of April showers overthe next two days, the DelhiMeteorological Departmenthas said.
‘‘We are expecting cloudyskies and light rain onWednesday. The temperaturemay be around 39 degree Cel-sius or less,’’ a Met officialsaid.
‘‘The western disturbancehas approached the Jammuand Kashmir area,’’ saidNorthern HemisphereAnalysis Centre directorOnkari Prasad.
‘‘In summer, this distur-bance moves northwards, af-fecting the Delhi region farless than it does during win-ter months,’’ he said.
But the heat will be rightback in two days, if Tues-day’s 39.1 degrees Celsius isanything to go by. Tempera-tures soared to about five de-grees above normal lastweek.
Low voltage, power cuts:A bitter taste of summer
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Despite tallclaims by private power dis-tribution companies aboutimprovement in the supplynetwork this summer, sever-al colonies continued to reelunder power cuts since Mon-day.
In Gandhi Nagar area ad-joining West Seelampur, resi-dents remained without elec-tricity for over 15 hours.‘‘Our power supply was cutat about 11 pm on Mondayand it has not been restoredyet,’’ complained M CPandey, a resident of Sub-hash Mohalla, lane number7, at 3 pm on Tuesday.
‘‘We cannot even seek helpfrom our neighbours as thebatteries of their invertercould not be charged due tothe long power cut,’’ he said.
In J-block, Jangpura Ex-tension, the voltage dips solow in the evening that fansand coolers don’t work totheir full capacity. ‘‘I havestopped sleeping indoors. I
prefer sleeping in the openon my terrace,’’ said SubodhSinha, a J-block resident.
A similar problem is beingfaced by residents of AkashBharti Apartments in Pat-
parganj. ‘‘The air-condition-er stops working after 9 pmdue to low voltage. Also, wehave been experiencing fre-quent power cuts, lastingupto 30 minutes, almosteveryday,’’ said N Srinivas.
Nandita Guha, a residentof K-block in ChittaranjanPark, claimed she had start-ed dinning early due to regu-
lar power cuts. ‘‘The powersupply goes on the blinkabout 10 pm daily. It is betterto have dinner while the cool-er is still working,’’ she said.
Guha said they are nowplanning invest in an invert-er so they can face power cutswith lesser discomfort.
Residents of EngineersApartment in Pitampuracomplained of regular powercuts. ‘‘Power cuts lastingupto two hours have beencontinuing for the last twodays,’’ said Ramesh Sikka.
K S Khurana of MD-51claimed his colony was beingdeliberately targeted by Tatapower company. ‘‘Let there beuniformity in power cuts.Why should I suffer five hourpower cuts daily,’’ he said.
Residents of Gemini Parkcolony on Najafgarh MainRoad went to sleep at 1 am onTuesday. ‘‘I got late for officeas I could not sleep properlylast night. There was a black-out at 11 pm and power wasrestored only at 1 in themorning,’’ said Debyandu.
Protect yourself from heat strokeTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The summermay have just begun but theafternoons have alreadyturned scorching. Doctorswarn that anyone who staysoutdoors for prolonged dura-tions needs to be cautious ofheat strokes.
A heat stroke occurs whenwater in the body dries updue to excessive heat, leadingto failure of body’s coolingmechanism.
‘‘The body cools itself nat-urally by sweating. Whenthis stops, the body tempera-ture shoots up and a personcan collapse,’’ said Dr NareshChawla, a private practition-er in Pitampura.
Children, elderly, diabet-ics, and heart patients aremore susceptible to heatstrokes, say the doctors.
Besides a stroke, heat canalso cause exhaustion andcramps.
‘‘Heat exhaustion occurs
when the system overworksin cooling the body. This candehydrate a person as thebody sweats excessively.
Similarly, heat crampshappen when the body losesessential salts such as sodi-um, potassium and calcium,’’
Dr Nitin Garg, a generalphysician in Mayur Viharadded.
Government hospitalshave not yet started getting asteady flow of patients withdehydration.
‘‘We receive almost threeto four cases of heat exhaus-tion everyday in the OPDduring May and June andone heat stroke patient everytwo to three days,’’ said chiefmedical officer (medicine)with AIIMS Dr Gaurav Ag-garwal.
‘‘But we have started get-ting patients who get dehy-drated due to the heat,’’ saida resident doctor in RamManohar Lohia hospital.
Seminar: Senior teachersof Rukmini Devi PublicSchool, Pitampura, attend-ed a two-day seminar or-gansied by CES, CERT, forpost-graduate economicsteachers on the theme ‘TheMicro-macro Aspects ofEconomy and Education:An Appreciation on March25 and 26’. Experts includ-ing Dr M S Bawa, MeenuGoswami, Prof Rudra Dutt,Dr Kalyanjit Roychoudharyand Dr Ashok Seth spokeon the topic.
Road safety: Delhi PolicePublic School hosted thelaunch of a road safety pro-gramme, a joint effort byMcDonald’s India and DelhiTraffic Police, on April 8.The programme aims toconduct interactive work-shops on road safetyacross 100 schools in Delhi.The chief guest MaxwellPereira, joint commissionerof police traffic stressed onthe need to teach parentsand children basic safetyrules. The guest of honourVikram Bakshi, managingdirector McDonald’s reiter-ated the need to learn safe-ty rules. School principalRuchi Seth spoke on safety
and security of a child wasa school’s biggest priority.The children staged a skiton the need to spreadknowledge abour road safe-ty and McDonald’s made anaudio-visual presentationthrough their mascotRonald.
Yoga and spiritualism:New State Academy, Pitam-pura was showered with thespiritual blessings of SantRaj Kumar Bhai Asa RamBapu Ashram, Delhi. Ninespiritual speakers preachedto the students of class 6 to12 and made them realisethe essence of yoga andspiritualism.
Orientation: RukminiDevi Public School, Pitam-pura organised an orienta-tion programme for Classes9 to 12. School manager KC Garg urged the studentsto make optimum use of theinfrastructural facilitiesavailable. School principalAnita Garg motivated thestudents to put in their bestfor the new academic ses-sion. The school counsellorlaid emphasis on overallpersonality developmentwith focus on communica-tion skills and positive atti-tude. Students raised theirqueries and extended theirsuggestions and were pro-vided with immediate solu-tions.
SCHOOLNEWS
•Truckers strike startedon Monday
•Prices of almost all es-sential commodities, in-cluding fruits and veg-etables, remained stableon day-two of the nationwide strike.
Factfile
•Drink lots of fluids through the day.
•Wear full sleeved clothes when stepping out in the sun.
•Avoid dark coloured clothes as they absorb more heat
•Cover your head. Wrap a damp towel around your head.
•If your eye balls turn yellow or skin becomes dull andwrinkled, the body does not have enough fluid.
•In the event of a muscle cramp, don’t move.
Sun screen
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Every river needs an infusion of fresh water to keep it healthy. Delhi’s water resources are solimited that it cannot even meet the people’s demand, leave alone Yamuna’s.
AIIMS suspends criticallaboratory test at night
By Pallavi MajumdarTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The emer-gency laboratory of the AllIndia Institute of MedicalSciences (AIIMS) has sus-pended the arterial bloodgas (ABG) test at night.This test, not being con-ducted for three monthsnow, is essential for criti-cal patients in deciding theline of treatment.
The department of labo-ratory medicine cites‘‘dearth of funds to buyreagents’’ as the main rea-son for suspending thetest. ‘‘Though we informedthe administration well inadvance, we did not get thefunds,’’ a circular issued bythe department on March22 to heads of departmentssaid.
As a result, doctors arefinding themselves handi-capped while diagnosingand treating patients. ‘‘Attimes it is difficult to diag-nose whether the patient issuffering because of mal-functioning lungs or kid-neys. ABG helped find thatout,’’ a doctor said on con-
dition of anonymity.Getting the test done
from outside is not an op-tion since it has to be car-ried out within 10 minutesof extracting the bloodfrom the body.
‘‘This test is essential forcritically ill patients suchas those suffering fromchronic renal failure,’’ saidconsultant paediatricianwith Batra hospital Dr San-jiv Bagai.
The AIIMS’ laboratorymedicine departmentcaters to two million pa-
tients every year. It gets anannual grant of about Rs90 lakh which is dividedacross the heads of clinicalbiochemistry, hematologyand microbiology. ‘‘The to-tal cost of reagents aloneamounts to Rs 60 lakh,’’head of laboratory medi-cine Dr M Irshad said.
He said while AIIMS’was under pressure tostart new tests, they foundit difficult to sustain eventhe blood chemistry testprofile due to the limitedbudget.
AIIMS director Dr P KDave said laboratory medi-
cine was given preferencewhen it came to allocationof funds.
‘‘A committee has beenset up to find out the re-quirements for investiga-tions and sanction fund ac-cordingly,’’ he said.
An ABG test costs aboutRs 300 in the market. Irshadsaid the ABG test was ex-pensive as reagents worthRs five lakh were requiredto conduct 20 ABG tests aday for a year. ‘‘The mainte-nance costs are also high-er,’’ he added.
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•ABG test is required forpatients with breathingdifficulty, severe pneu-monia, effusion (fluid inthe lungs), cardiac trou-ble and pre/post cardiacsurgery.
•It can be a life-savingtest in case of poisoning,hyperammonimia (ex-cess ammonia levels inblood) and haemoglobindisorders.
Patients in lurch
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Couple dupe 6,000 people, amass Rs 7 crTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The crimebranch arrested a couple forallegedly cheating 6,000 peo-ple and amassing Rs sevencrore on the pretext of get-ting them a job in a computerfirm.
While the accused, ManojSharma, was arrested fromDelhi, his wife Priyanka
along with two others hasbeen apprehended inDehradun.
The police also arrestedfrom Dehradun Manoj’sbrother Anil Sharma andtheir relative Pankaj.
Deputy commissioner ofpolice (EOW) Dinesh Bhatsaid: ‘‘Manoj and his wifefloated a computer firm inJanakpuri office and invited
applications for jobs. Theypromised a salary of Rs 5,000to every employee.’’
But before getting jobs, thecandidates had to becomemembers for which they hadto give a fee of Rs 11,000. Af-ter collecting Rs seven crore,the accused disappeared.Few days back, the police ar-rested Manoj’s father-in-law.
On Monday they took
Priyanka, Anil and Pankajinto custody. Following theirinterrogation the policelearnt that Manoj was livingat a hotel in Paharganj undera different name.
The crime branch arrestedManoj on Tuesday. ‘‘We aretrying to find out where hasall the money been spentsince the amount involvedruns into crores,’’ said Bhat.
Cableman blocks news channelsBy N Vidyasagar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: NDTV’s newnews channels cannot beviewed in large parts of thecity as large cable networksHathway and Siticable arenot carrying the channels.TV Today’s Headlines To-day and Sahara Samacharare also facing distributionproblems in the city.
The impact was most vis-ible in east and west Delhi,strongholds of networkslike Hathway, Win and Siti-cable. The situation wassomewhat better in southDelhi, the preserve of inde-pendent cable operators.
‘‘There is no responsefrom my cable operator,who just noted my com-plaint. I will think twice be-fore paying my nextmonth’s cable bill,’’ said aPocket B Mayur Vihar,Phase II resident.
According to the distribu-tion head of One Alliance,NDTV is facing problems
only here and the distribu-tion was smooth in othercities. ‘‘We are facing someproblems in Delhi and hopeto find a solution soon,’’said Shantonu Aditya, pres-ident of One Alliance.
TV Today officials admit-ted that Aaj Tak did not gopay earlier this month be-cause of distribtuion has-sles.
For the time being, theyhave retained both theirchannels in free-to-airmode. Sahara officials saidthey are trying to overcomedistribution constraints.
What are the issues? For
one, the cable networks aredemanding a fee to route thenew channel to cablehomes. ‘‘We have not paidany carriage fee to opera-tors. We won’t pay any car-riage fee,’’ says Aditya.
When contacted, Hath-way and Siticable officialssaid that fees were not an is-sue, infrastructure is. ‘‘Wehave to knock off channelsto add new ones,’’ said a Sit-icabel joint venture partner.
The other issue is theclash of interest with broad-casters owning stakes in ca-ble distribution companies.Star Network, which oper-
ates Star News, has a 26 percent stake in Hathway. And,Zee News, part of Zee Tele-films, owns Siticable net-work.
Where does this leave theconsumer? Well, it appearsthe views of the cable TVcustomers are respectedonly in areas where there iscompetition between rivalcable networks. TV viewershave no say in localities mo-nopolised by one serviceprovider.
For example, there is nocompetition in areas likeMayur Vihar and Patpar-ganj. Interestingly, inde-pendent cable operatorshave accommodated thechannel despite resistancefrom established cable net-works.
‘‘I have been bombardedwith phone calls. Customerservice is vital in this pro-fession and we decided toaccommodate the new chan-nels,’’ said Vikky Choud-hary, an independent cableoperator in south Delhi.
Anti-piracy agent demandedRs 3 lakh for exemption, held
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: An authorisedrepresentative of Motion Pic-ture Association in India,who helped the Delhi Policeconduct raids at shops sell-ing pirated video compactdisc, was arrested on Tues-day for extortion.
The accused, Anil Malho-tra, was arrested by theGwalior police from hishouse in Prashant Vihar. Thepolice were accompanied bythe complainant, Jai Ram,who accused Malhotra of al-
legedly demanding Rs threelakh for not getting his li-brary raided.
Jai Ram said: ‘‘I receivedthe extortion call on April 10.I got the number tracked andfound that the call had beenmade by Malhotra from a Re-liance mobile phone. I imme-diately got a complaintlodged.’’
The instrument whichMalhotra allegedly used tocall Jai Ram has been recov-ered from him.
Malhotra apparently hasbeen threatening video li-
brary owners in Delhi too. Heheads the Malhotra Copy-right Protection Agencywhich has the exclusiverights from Motion PictureAssociation to take actionagainst those indulging inpiracy.
Vikas Pahwa, advocate forLamhe video library claimedthat his client Arun KumarGupta too had been harassedby Malhotra. Pahwa alleged:‘‘There are nine cases of ex-tortion are against Malhotra.The Delhi Police had, howev-er, failed to arrest him.’’
Early monsoonforecast, thanksto new modelNew Delhi: For the firsttime, the Indian Meteorologi-cal Department (IMD) willannounce the long-rangeforecast of the southwestmonsoon, 40 days ahead ofthe usual date.
IMD director-general R RKelkar will announce theforecast on Wednesday, over amonth ahead of the normaldate of May 25, officialsources said.
IMD says this was madepossible by use of new mod-els for forecasting. Kelkarmay give details of the newmodels on Wednesday. PTI
• NDTV, TV Today and Sahara news channels cannot be viewed in mostparts of the city.• Most affected are east andwest Delhi, strongholds ofHathway, WIN and Siticable.
• Cable networks are demanding a fee to route the new channel to cable homes
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30 families displaced: Severalthatched houses were on Mondaynight set on fire at Basantapur, nearPuri, displacing 30 families, follow-ing a long-standing feud betweensupporters of ruling the BJD and theBJP, said official sources. Propertyworth over Rs 5 lakh was destroyed.
Sops for Bollywood: In its effortsto woo film-makers from Bollywoodto shoot in the Valley and boosttourism, the Jammu and Kashmirgovernment has offered incentives,including a security cover of Rs 1crore. PTI
Victorian era coins: Over 300 sil-ver coins, believed to be of the Victo-rian era, were found from the court-yard of a house in Mahal in easternNagpur on Monday, the police said.The coins were sealed in an earthenpot with inscriptions — Queen Victo-ria 1862.PTI
Protest over water scarcity:Irate Mumbai residents on Tuesdayresorted to a road-blockade on thebusy Western Express highway toprotest drinking water shortage.Nearly 600 residents of Devipada inBorivali, north Mumbai, flocked tothe highway in the morning, affectingthe movement of vehicles, the policesaid. PTI
Anti-collision device: The anti-collision device, developed indige-nously by the Railways as part ofsafety improvement measures,would be implemented in a phasedmanner across the country at an es-timated cost of Rs 1,600 crore, min-ister of state for Railways B Datta-treya said on Tuesday. PTI
Storm in Guwahati: High veloci-ty winds accompanied by rainslashed Guwahati and its adjoining ar-eas early Tuesday morning, blowingaway tin roofs, uprooting trees andelectric poles and affecting RongaliBihu (harvest festival) celebrations. PTI
Uplinking study centres: TheRehabilitation Council of India (RCI)has tied up with the Indira GandhiNational Open University (IGNOU) touplink its study centres via satellite.As a result, students living in far-flung areas will not only be able totake up RCI approved courses butwill also have inter-active sessionswith resource persons and academi-cians belogning to the disability sector.PTI
Jain priests pour water on a statueof Lord Mahavira on the occasionof his 2602nd birth anniversary inBhopal on Tuesday.
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Naxalism spreading itsclout in more areas
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: More areas are coming un-der the influence of leftist extremism.This, despite government claims that in-creasing numbers of Marxist- Leninistmilitants have either been arrested orhave surrendered. Union home secre-tary N Gopalaswamy told this to the par-liamentary standing committee of thehome ministry, whose report was tabledin Parliament recently.
‘‘The entire left-wing movement (is)spread over 53 districts in 9 states. Apartfrom the traditional strongholds of themovement, its newly acquired areas ofinfluence were Chhattisgarh, the west-
ern districts of West Bengal, parts ofnorth Bihar, eastern UP and eastern aswell as southern Jharkhand,’’ the homesecretary said.
He said that ‘‘for the first time, Jhark-hand emerged as the worst affected, interms of quantum of violence, overtak-ing AP.
While the AP naxalite violence waslower, primarily on account of extendedperiods of the unilateral ceasefire andover seven months’ strategic restraint ofthe Communist Party Marxist Leninist-Peoples War (CPML- PW), the outfitmade substantial gains by way of large-scale extortions and substantial recruit-ment of armed cadres’’.
SJM leader’s comments on PM, Shourie anger GovtTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The BJP leader-ship is upset at the waySwadeshi Jagran Manchleader Dattopant Thengdimade a personal attack onthe Prime Minister and tele-com minister Arun Shouriewhile flagging off an anti-WTO yatra on Monday.
Sources said the Vajpayeegovernment was annoyed onthree counts: One, it felt apersonal attack — particular-ly the comparison with MirJafar and Jaichand — wasunacceptable especially asgovernment policy emerges
from collective decision-mak-ing; two, since the SJM lead-ership is part of the RSSParivar to which most BJPleaders in government be-long, the former has access toall ministers and could haveconveyed its views directlyrather than going public; fi-nally, the SJM, while criticalof government policy, ap-pears to have no alternativeprogramme to offer.
They felt the outburst wasall the more unfortunate aslast month’s RSS pratinidhisabha had stressed the needfor greater coordination
among various RSS affiliatesand the importance of notairing differences publicly.
The RSS, on its part, is nottaking sides yet. Spokesper-son Ram Madhav said theRSS would ‘‘ascertain thecontext in which the attacks
were made’’ before conclud-ing whether they were ‘‘per-sonal’’ or a general commenton ‘‘a section of the bureau-cracy, which believed in awestern model of develop-ment’’ with which the RSS‘‘is in fundamental disagree-
ment’’.He said the RSS organisa-
tions reserved the right to airtheir opinions in public:‘‘The BJP criticised theKelkar report, which wasproduced by its own govern-ment. If the BJP can take aview independent of the gov-ernment, every other RSSoutfit has that right,’’ hestressed.
On Monday, while flaggingoff a yatra intended to pres-sure the government to takea pro-farmer/pro-workerstand at the next WTO sum-mit in Mexico in September,
the SJM had lashed out at thePM and Shourie. Recallingthe PM’s response to criti-cism of the government’slabour reforms by theSJM/BMS — that no mai kalal could dictate terms to thegovernment — Thengdimade an oblique reference toJaichand and Mir Jafar sell-ing the country. The SJMleader had also criticised abook by Shourie on Ambed-kar, saying though he mayhave quoted him correctly, hehad quoted him out of con-text and thus written an ill-informed book.
•The government felt the comparison with Mir Jafar andJaichand was unacceptable
•The SJM could have conveyed its views directly ratherthan going public
•A recent meet had stressed the need for coordinationamong various Parivar outfits
Centre’s stand
Mayawaticomes underfire from bothBJP and OppnLucknow: UP chief ministerMayawati on Tuesday cameunder fire from the BJP andthe Opposition for filing ofcases against SamajwadiParty chief Mulayam SinghYadav and indulging in poli-tics of vendetta.
State BJP president VinayKatiyar, a known detractor ofMayawati, said the decisionto slap cases on Mulayam didnot augur well for the state.
He added, ‘‘Despite politi-cal differences, leaders havebeen avoiding negative criti-cism for the sake of the state.The trend has changed now.’’
‘‘It is difficult for me to de-cide whom I should sidewith. My only fear is that thisnew trend should not affectdevelopment of the state,’’Katiyar said.
BJP spokesperson H NDixit said, ‘‘UP may go theTamil Nadu way wherevendetta has become order ofthe political setup.’’
‘‘A new regime orders in-quiry into the deeds of theprevious government withthe new chief minister look-ing for every opportunity tosend his predecessor to jail,’’he said.
Senior state BJP leaderKalraj Mishra said the coali-tion government should notindulge in ‘‘politics ofvendetta’’. Samajwadi Partystate president Ram SaranDas said, ‘‘Mayawati shouldnot forget that when someother party will come to pow-er, similar things can happento her.’’
‘‘If an inquiry is orderedinto allotment of govern-ment land, she may find her-self behind bars. Even CAGhas indicted her in Ambed-kar Memorial Park case,’’Das said. The Congress,which has also been taken inby the sweep of Mayawati’scounter-offensive against SPfollowing the video tapes con-troversy, feared that chiefminister’s action mightthreaten the politicalsystem. PTI
Dead man walking in UPBy Akshaya Mukul
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: It happens onlyin UP. A man the police saidthey had killed in an en-counter has subsequentlybeen jailed!
The police in Sonebhadradistrict arrested SureshGond on March 14. Nothingunusua, except that the samepolice force had declared inan FIR that they had shothim dead in an encounter onApril 21, 2002.
The FIR and chargesheetprovide a blow-by-blow ac-count of how Suresh andthree other alleged members
of the Maoist CommunistCentre (MCC) were killed bythe police who had laid siegeto a secret meeting of thebanned group. The FIR saysthat these Naxals were ‘‘de-
livering instigating speech-es’’, talking of ‘‘waging anarmed struggle’’ and ‘‘rais-ing pro-Stalin and Lenin slo-gans’’. The MCC has been de-clared a terrorist organisa-tion under Pota.
After the ‘‘encounter’’, thedistrict police informedSuresh’s parents about theirson’s death. Though the au-thorities managed to get hismother’s signature to com-plete the legal formalities,she refused to accept that herson had been killed. The po-lice put pressure on her toconduct Suresh’s post-crema-tion rites, or else prove thathe was still alive. To empha-
sise they meant business, thepolice in January declaredSuresh an absconder.
In February, Suresh, whohad been working all thewhile as a contract labourerin neighbouring Chhattis-garh, returned home to findan arrest warrant waiting forhim.
His parents approachedthe NHRC, which issued no-tice to the police, but to noavail. Suresh was arrested onMarch 14. During the remandperiod, he was taken to a re-mote place after which thepolice alleged he was in-volved in the Khoradih armsloot case of 2001.
•A man was allegedlykilled in an encounterlast year
•Police put pressure onhis parents to conducthis ‘last rites’
•After he resurfaced thisyear, he is charged withlooting arms and jailed
Close encounters
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Priyanka Gandhi consoles a villager in Gazanpur on Tuesday. A major fire gutted around 200 houses of the villageon Saturday.
Now, Priyanka’s visit to Amethi village jolts officials into actionAmethi On a day’s visit to her moth-er and AICC president Sonia Gand-hi’s Lok Sabha constituency, Priyan-ka Vadhra Gandhi on Tuesday as-serted that the party’s defeat in a re-cent assembly bypoll here was achallenge the Congress will squareup to.
Asked by reporters about the de-feat of the Congress candidate in therecent byelection at Gauriganj,Priyanka said it was not a matter ofconcern and was rather a challengewhich will be met.’’
On Tuesday, she distributed reliefmaterials to 177 families at Gajanpurvillage where several houses weregutted in a devastating fire on Fri-day last. She also assured them offurther help. After Priyanka’s visit,a host of state government officials
landed at the village to make an on-the-spot assessment of the loss suf-ferred by the affected families in thefire.
‘‘I have no such intention at pres-ent,’’ was her cryptical reply when
asked about the possibility of herentry in active politics. She was vis-iting the constituency for the firsttime after her trip seven months agojolted chief minister Mayawati intoaction. In September last year,Priyanka had taken up cudgels for aDalit whose house was allegedly de-molished by members of the uppercaste.
This had stirred a political contro-versy as she walked into a police sta-tion to get an FIR registered on be-half of the Dalit prompting officialsto attend to his problems. Mayawatiresponded to this initiative with arally in the Congress citadel. Priyan-ka said since Amethi was her moth-er’s constituency it was her respon-sibility to redress the complaints ofthe people.PTI
•In September last year, Priyanka had taken up cudgelsfor a Dalit whose house was demolished
•She walked into a police station to get an FIR registeredon behalf of the Dalit
•Mayawati responded to thisinitiative with a rally in the Congress citadel.
Dalit politics
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Truckers are adamantTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: With the all-India truckers strike nowinto its second day, thecountry’s premier truckingunion, the All India MotorTransport Congress issticking to its demands.
‘‘We are sick of assur-ances from officials,’’ saysJatinder Mohan Saxena,secretary-general of theAIMTC. ‘‘The governmentdoesn’t move at all exceptwhen we do something likethis. We’ve again and againcalled off agitations on as-surances and then nothinghappens.’’
Ashoke Joshi, secretaryin the ministry of roadtransport and highways(MORTH), says all AIMTCdemands are being ad-dressed, except one whichis ‘‘non-negotiable,’’ — a de-mand to cancel all toll pay-ments on the huge nationalhighway development proj-
ect. ‘‘They have to get backwith something now,’’stresses Joshi.
‘‘All they do is write let-ters to states and other min-istries and call it action,’’retorts Saxena.
Among the AIMTC’s ma-jor demands are:
● Ending volatility indiesel prices; AIMTC saysthey change every fort-night, mostly upwards.MORTH says the petroleumministry is agreeable tomaking quarterly changesand these are linked toworld prices; the next revi-sion is scheduled any mo-ment and will be down-wards;
● Amending the CarriersAct of 1865; The draft of theupdated law has been sentto the law ministry for ex-amination, says MORTH.They’ve been promisingthis for more than threeyears, says AIMTC;
● Ensuring states en-force the law on overload-ing. MORTH notes it has al-ready told the guilty statesto end the practice of regu-larising overloads for a feeor face an end to financingfrom the Central RoadFund. Paper notings, no ac-tion, says AIMTC;
● Ensuring insurancecompanies obey the ruleson truck financing
There have been prob-lems. MORTH says the In-surance Regulatory and De-velopment Authority hasalready instructed the lag-gard firms and invitedAIMTC for complaincefeedback;
● Tackling a high courtorder for trucks to switch toCNG fuel;
AIMTC says this technol-ogy exists nowhere in theworld. MORTH notes thiscan be addressed, but notby an immediate order.
PTI
Truckers make the most of their strike in Ahmedabad on Monday.
Policewomanparadednaked in J&K
By M Saleem Pandit TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Srinagar: The Jammuand Kashmir police onMonday stripped one oftheir own female col-leagues and paraded herafter she was allegedlycaught with some per-sons in a house in KralKhud area.
No police officer waswilling to comment onthe incident, except thatan inquiry has been or-dered.
‘‘The district policechief will inquire intothe incident and we willtake strict actionagainst the guilty,’’ asenior officer said.
According to the po-lice, the woman cop wascaught at Barbarshahwith some young boysand thereafter was ar-rested.
What price the Metro coaches?By Rajesh Ramachandran
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: The Delhi MetroRail Corporation (DMRC)has imported coaches fromSouth Korea at five times thecost of indigenous ones,claims the Integral CoachFactory (ICF), the country’sbiggest suburban coach man-ufacturer.
ICF general manager M VRamani made a comparisonbetween the coaches his fac-tory is rolling out for the Hy-derabad Multi Model Trans-port System (MMTS) and theDMRC’s imported ones.While the DMRC paid Rs 33crore for a six-car rake, theICF has produced a similarquality product for Rs 5.75crore. Asked why the ICF didnot bid for the DMRC’s globaltender, Ramani said the fac-tory was not given clearanceby the government to do so.
ICF is a production unit ofthe railway ministry, withthe entire output cateringonly to the Railways. Now,
the ICF has obtained a biggerorder than the DMRC re-quirement, from the WorldBank-aided Mumbai RailVikas Company for 700 rakes.A rake is a train-length of
coaches.The ICF’s coaches for Hy-
derbad, with interiors madeto order, are markedly differ-ent from the normal coachesused in Mumbai or elsewherefor suburban transport.Though in the DMRC’s multi-crore deal, the ICF and RailCoach Factory, Kapurthala,
lost out on technological col-laboration even for spareparts, a public sector compa-ny under the defence min-istry, Bharat Earth MoversLtd, has tied up with the
South Korean coach manu-facturers.
Ramani pointed out thatthe government now buys1,650 coaches every year andif it were to import these, therailways would be able to buyjust 450, because foreigncoaches cost five to seventimes more than Indian ones.
The interiors in the trainsabroad are designed for ahigher class of passengersthan what our passengerscan afford, he said. While therail manufacturers’ conglom-eration in Europe and megacompanies in the US spendbetween 2.5 per cent to fiveper cent of their totalturnover on research and de-velopment, India can only af-ford to seek technological col-laboration with firmsabroad. The latest tie-up iswith LHB Germany, whosestructural design would beused to build coaches in RCFand ICF.
With the Railway Boardpresenting a reform agendato the World Bank, produc-tion units like the ICF aresoon to be made into publicsector companies, with a pos-sibility of privatisationlooming in the background.Corporatisation would notmake any difference to ICFso long as the Railwayscoaching requirements aremet by these PSUs.
PTI
Himachal Day being celebrated in Shimla on Tuesday.
PM to launchmajor projectsin J&K
By Bisheshwar Mishra TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Prime MinisterVajpayee, who is beginning atwo-day visit to Jammu andKashmir on April 18, willlaunch several developmentprogrammes as part of hispeace initiative in the state.
Vajpayee is expected to ad-dress a public meeting at Ha-zoori Bagh. The last PM toaddress a gathering therewas Rajiv Gandhi in 1986.‘‘This time, an even biggergathering of people is expect-ed as the state government ismobilising people in a mas-sive way,’ a senior state gov-ernment official told TheTimes of India on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister willnot be chairing the unifiedcommand meeting as was re-ported earlier. But he willlaunch several developmentprojects, including laying thefoundation for the Rs 45-crore expansion and upgra-dation of Srinagar airportproject.
Vajpayee would also be ad-dressing a convocation func-tion at Kashmir University.In his various addresses, heis likely to further define hispeace initiative.
Vajpayee will launch theRs 54,000 crore project aimedat connecting the North-South corridor with a 4-lanesuper national highway, link-ing Kashmir to Kanyaku-mari in Tamil Nadu.
He would also be inaugu-rating the construction ofthe Rs 168-crore Srinagar by-pass, which is expected tobring down considerably Sri-nagar’s traffic load.
The biggest initiative in re-cent years will be the launch-ing of the railway projectscosting Rs 5,960 crore, whichwill connect Jammu andBaramullah and bring thestate into the mainline of therailway system.
•DMRC paid 33 cr for six-car rake from South Korea
•Integral Coach Factorycoaches cost Rs 5.75 cr
•Foreign coaches costfive to seven times morethan Indian ones
•ICF not given clearanceby Govt to bid for DMRC’sglobal bid
Hot wheels
UNEP worry over uraniumBy Chandrika Mago
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The UN Envi-ronment Programme(UNEP) wants a scientific as-sessment of sites targetedwith depleted uranium (DU)munitions in Iraq as soon asconditions permit.
DU, considered ideal foruse in armour penetrators,has been used by the US inboth Gulf wars.
UNEP’s latest report onBosnia and Herzegovina con-firms possible risks involved.
It confirmed that DU fromweapons used in the mid-1990s in that region had con-
taminated local supplies ofdrinking water at one site,and could still be found indust particles. The levelswere low, it said, neverthe-less recommending precau-tions and constant monitor-ing of water.
This report cited four find-ings. One, ground contami-nation occurs at DU penetra-tor impact points at low lev-els, and is localised to areastypically limited within oneor two metres.
Two, DU penetratorsburied near the ground sur-face have corroded, losing afourth of their mass over sev-en years. These will corrode
completely within threedecades of impact.
Three, UNEP recorded thefirst instance of DU contami-nation of groundwater. It rec-ommends this water not beused and water samplingcontinue for several years.
Four, DU contamination ofthe air was found at two dif-ferent sites, including insidetwo buildings.
This was due to the re-sus-pension of DU particles frompenetrators or contamina-tion points due to wind or hu-man actions. Some of thesebuildings were still in use, soUNEP recommended decont-amination.
Indo-US navy wargames planned
By Rajat PanditTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Top-notch In-dian and American specialforces will train theirlethal MP-5 sub-machineguns and crossbows withcyanide-tipped arrows ateach other soon. They willmatch their ‘‘unconven-tional’’ and ‘‘clandestine’’warfare skills in a joint ex-ercise to be held in India.
Defence sources say anexercise between US NavySeals and Indian Navy Ma-rine Commando Force(Marcos) is now at an ad-vanced stage of planning.‘‘The Americans are keenit takes place on the westcoast. So, Goa and Manga-lore are being consideredfor the exercise, which isslated for October-Novem-ber after the Iraq situationstabilises,’’ said a source.
In an another first, Indiaand US will hold a joint aircombat exercise withfrontline fighter jets also.
The Seals specialise incounter-terrorism opera-tions, hydrographic recon-naissance, underwaterdemolitions in ‘‘blue andbrown water environ-ments’’.
‘‘The Marcos are no less.They are proficient deep-sea divers and para-chutists,’’ said a senior of-ficer. Modelled on theSeals, Marcos was raisedto fulfil India’s need for anelite force for special mar-itime operations. It hasseen action in OperationPawan in Sri Lanka andOperation Cactus in Mal-dives in 1987-1988. TheMarcos play an importantrole in counter-insurgencyoperations in J&K.
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Eradicating polio anuphill task in India
By Kalpana JainTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Polio eradica-tion seems a distant dreamwith 66 cases already beingreported from eight statesso far.
Last year, the govern-ment believed it was closeto eradicating polio, withonly 29 cases reported inthe same time period.However, a major outbreakin Uttar Pradesh and an-other in West Bengal sentthe numbers soaring by2002-end.
Apart from these twostates, the other affectedstates this year are Mad-hya Pradesh, Rajasthan,Haryana, Bihar, Gujaratand Delhi.
While UP and West Ben-gal continue to be badly af-fected — 20 children ineach state being crippled bypolio — even states like Gu-jarat and Madhya Pradeshare showing fresh polio cas-es.
The pulse polio pro-gramme, initiated in 1995,and viewed as one of thebiggest and most successful
public health programmesin the country, had aimed ateradicating the polio virusfrom India by 2000. All oth-er countries in the worldexcept India, Nigeria andPakistan have eradicatedpolio. Even neighbouringBangladesh and Nepal arenow polio-free.
The spread of the poliovirus in India is of concernnot just to the Indian gov-ernment, but also to inter-national agencies workingtowards the eradication ofthe disease. Recently, an In-dian polio virus strain wasfound in Lebanon. Health
officials say polio eradica-tion in India cannot beachieved before 2005.
One reason for the rapidresurgence of the virus insome states is the poor par-ticipation in the round-the-year immunisation pro-grammes. While stateshave scaled up efforts onmass immunisation onpulse polio immunisationdays, routine immunisa-tion still remains low onpriority.
So in UP, where only 50per cent children are takenfor immunisation at birthfor polio, or Bihar only 20.8per cent children are takenfor round-the-year immuni-sation, a large pool of un-protected children remainssusceptible to the virus.Last year, 1,241 children inUP alone were crippled bypolio.
‘‘Routine immunisationmakes a lot of impact. Thevirus keeps circulating be-cause a number of childrenare not protected at birth,’’says Union family welfaresecretary JVR PrasadaRao.
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Bangalore’sgarbage turnsinto organicmanure
By Bhumika KTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bangalore: Over 12,000trucks of Bangalore’sgarbage find their way toHassan, Chikmagalur, Dodd-aballapur and Kerala annual-ly. Not in the form of stinkingdump, but as sweet-smellingorganic manure on whichcash crops like coffee andgrapes thrive.
Dr Vaman Acharya trans-forms the putrefied and rot-ting vegetable peels and foodwastes from Bangalore’shomes and carcass leftoversfrom butcheries into organicmanure.
Situated on the outskirts ofthe city, his obscure metalhangar that came into exis-tence in 1995 and was once asix-acre banana plantation,now houses much of thecity’s reject.
‘‘I felt that this was one na-tional resource being burnedwastefully on roads. Every-one only wants to get rid ofit,’’ Dr Vaman, a former as-sistant surgeon with the Ma-harashtra government toldTNN. But he’s a modest man.‘‘What I’m dealing with is notmore than five per cent ofBangalore’s garbage. Thecity produces over 3,000tonne per day.’’
‘‘The garbage given by theBCC is first heaped in a yardand sprayed with bacterialcultures to aid composting.Every 7 to 8 days we turn theheaps over to oxygenate it.The garbage composts attemperatures up to 70 de-grees and the size of theheaps reduce,’’ explains DrVaman.
While the organic mattergets composted, it is the plas-tic covers, bottles, rags, glassand large wood pieces that re-main and need to be sieved.The fine organic matter islater mixed with neem cakesor fungal cultures based onhis clients’ specifications.
But plastic remnants areproving to be a greater prob-lem. ‘‘BCC initially agreed todispose off the plastic, butdoes not have landfills forthem. I tried melting it intoplastic cubes used in makingpipes, but the process is noteconomical,’’ he says.
AFP
Spiritual leader of Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, the Aga Khan, with Congress president SoniaGandhi at the latter’s residence in New Delhi on Tuesday. Khan, who is on a six-day visit toIndia, will also visit the Taj Mahal.
• UP, West Bengalworst-affected
•All countries except India, Pakistan andNigeria are polio-free
•Eradication not before2005, say officials
• Poor response in im-munisation programmesa major problem
Growing menace
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Shiv Sena looksback, and intoMumbai again
By Ambarish MishraTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: The Shiv Senaseems eager to return toits Shivaji Park roots. Par-ty strategists are puttingfinal touches to its ‘‘Mum-bai Plan’’ in a bid to re-vamp the city of its birth.
To start with, a group ofparty activists will be as-signed the task of stoppingillegal hutments in thecity, it is learnt.
‘‘Bhoomi-Putra’, theSena’s USP in the 1970s,would again be the party’scatch-phrase, said sources.Plans are afoot to rope incorporate giants, NGOsand prominent citizens todemand an effective checkon the growing influx intoMumbai.
At the same time, theSena hopes not to raise thehackles of the non-Marathi speaking citizen-ry, which has made Mum-bai its home for decades.
At a recent functionSena leader Raj Thackeraysaid, ‘‘Mumbai has beengroaning under ever-swelling population. Theurban infrastructure is ina state of near-collapse.’’
He said Kolis — one ofcity’s oldest tenants — hadbeen elbowed out of thefish market by emigrantsfrom Bihar and UP. ‘‘Mum-bai’s Marathi profile is be-ing disfigured. However,the Marathi ‘manoos’ is toblame. He dislikes talkingin Marathi. The Maha-rashtrians are more inter-ested in ‘Saas-bahu’ TVsoaps, while Marathi the-atre is languishing,’’ said
Raj.The Sena leader claimed
that emigrants from UP,Bihar and Bangladesh oc-cupied the pavements inprime areas of the city,without paying any tax. ‘‘ASena-type stir will have tobe started to save Mum-bai,’’ he said.
‘‘Political parties shouldclose ranks and evolve acommon agenda to give anew lease of life to Mum-bai. The Sena wouldn’tmind joining hands withother parties in this mat-ter,’’ said Raj.
Sena’s working presi-dent Uddhav Thackeraywill shortly meet represen-tatives from trade andbusiness at the IndianMerchants Chambers tosolicit their support.
Uddhav has asked its lo-cal wings to rope inschools, sports clubs andsenior citizens in the driveto keep the city clean.
The Sena corporatorshave been asked to stopproliferation of illegal hut-ments in their wards. TheSena-BJP combine rulesthe Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation.
BSNL sees 25 pcjump in newtariff business
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New Delhi: State-ownedtelecom service providerBSNL on Tuesday said itexpects a 25 per cent rise inbusiness which will com-pensate for any loss of rev-enue from cheaper fixed-line tariffs to be in placefrom May 1.
‘‘We expect traffic to in-crease by up to 25 per centin some sectors. This willcompensate for any impactfrom the new tariffs,’’chairman Prithipal Singhsaid.
BSNL finance director SD Singh said unchangedrentals and call durationmay have an impact of Rs400 to Rs 500 crore but willbe compensated by the risein traffic.
Singh said the corpora-tion had no objections toimplementing intercon-nect usage charges fromMay 1.
He said there would beno discrimination andeven calls made fromBSNL fixed-line phones to
BSNL cellphones wouldcarry the same charge asapplicable to other opera-tors.
On the loss accruing tothe corporation with theimplementation of the tar-iff package from May 1,Singh said earlier BSNLwas not paying anything tocell operators.
‘‘Now we will have topay for IUC charge, an ad-ditional burden,’’ he said.
He said customerswould not have to pay anyadditional amount on ac-count of IUC charges.
‘‘IUC would start fromMay 1. But for customersthere would not be addi-tional charges over andabove those specified inthe packages,’’ he said.
He said that BSNL’s ma-jor thrust would be on val-ue-added and wirelessservices. ‘‘In March, wehave given 6.7 lakh cellularphones and this has helpedus to reach the second po-sition as cellular opera-tor,’’ he said.
Green revolutionmakes way for drip
By Mahendra VedTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kuppam (AndhraPradesh): Andhra Pradesh,left at the receiving end ofthe contentious war betweenits neighbours Karnatakaand Tamil Nadu over Cau-very waters, is striving tospread a ‘‘drip revolution’’ inthis rocky region locatednear the trijunction of thethree states.
In Kuppam, which is alsothe assembly constituency ofchief minister ChandrababuNaidu, the ‘‘revolution is be-ing carried out with helpfrom a US-Israeli multina-tional. The project forms hisprincipal political trajectoryof not only making his con-stituents better off, but alsoexporting it to other districtsof the state, besides Gujaratand Maharashtra.
Unlike other star con-stituencies, not a single pho-tograph of the leader or evena Telugu Desam Party (TDP)flag flutters in and aroundKuppam, a town of 318,000population. That may be be-cause assembly polls are agood 18 months away.
But that cannot minimisethe work being done. Aftereight years’ effort covering3,800 acres, the take-off wasreached six months ago.
A 1,000 acres are beingadded each month and thetarget here is 20,000 acres.What is called ‘‘Bangaloreclimate’’ helps Kuppam’sfarmers, although there iswater shortage and checkdams need to be constructedto conserve water. The statewould have six lakh acres un-der drip eventually, saysNaidu, pointing out that Chi-
na has two crore acres underwater management.
‘‘Water is making enemiesof friends and neighbours,’’he says, without directly re-ferring to Cauvery or otherriver water disputes. Thecountry, he predicts, willhave ‘‘more and more watershortages in future. The onlyway is water management.’’
The best part of Naidu’sself-confessed ‘‘market-driv-en success story’’ is that theentire produce is exported tothe US, Canada, Europe andWest Asia. Besides the pota-toes, tomatoes and chillies,Kuppam produces gherkin,paprika and baby corn.
Three Israeli experts havebeen brought here by BHCAgro(India), backed by itsCEO Billy Rao, who in turnhas Naidu’s backing. LikeNaidu, Rao too does not be-lieve in being modest aboutthe need for political back-ing. Naidu faced tough oppo-sition, and legislature wit-nessed a walk-out.
Rao claims his effort hashalted the migration fromKuppam and got the farmersto raise three crops a year.
Mulund blast caseaccused arrestedMumbai: In a major break-through, crime branchsleuths on Tuesday arrestedAatib Nasir Mullah, an ac-cused in the Mulund bombblast case.
Mullah, a resident ofPadgha village in BhiwandiTaluka of neighbouringThane district, was arrestednear the Bandra-Kurla com-plex, joint commissioner ofpolice (crime), SatyapalSingh said.
‘‘The police are interrogat-ing him to get more detailsregarding the exact nature ofhis involvement,’’ he said.
Mullah is the second per-son to be arrested in the caseafter prime accused SaquibNachan, surrendered beforethe city police on April 10.
Nachan has been detained
under the Prevention of Ter-rorism Act (Pota). He is fac-ing charges of conspiracy forengineering the blast in a lo-cal train at Mulund railwaystation on March 13, killing11 people.
Nachan’s father had filed apetition in the Mumbai HighCourt, alleging that the po-lice wanted to kill his son inan encounter. The high courtjudges had, however, askedNachan to surrender imme-diately.
The crime branch officials,meanwhile, interrogatedfour youths from Bhiwandion Monday over their role inthe Mulund blast, policesources said adding, four tofive persons could be arrest-ed in the connection with theblast. PTI
Film producerssing a differenttune now
By Kaajal WalliaTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: For five months,film-maker Suniel Dar-shan waited for musiccompanies to offer a ‘rea-sonable’ price for therights of his film Andaaz.Ultimately, the frustratedproducer floated his ownmusic outfit, Shree Krish-na Music, a month ago.
‘‘I have spent a lot ofmoney on my film’s musicwhich has been composedby the music director-duoNadeem-Shravan,’’ saidDarshan. ‘‘Why should Isuccumb to pressure frommusic companies and sellit for a lesser price?’’
Dissatisfied with theprice that music compa-nies are offering — rang-ing from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 2crore for even A-gradeprojects — several filmproducers have eitherstarted their own music la-bels or are in the process ofdoing so.
Producer Vashu Bhag-nani floated his music la-bel, Puja Music, a fewmonths ago, while otherproducers like N SPashricha are mullingover the idea.
According to film tradeanalyst Amod Mehra,‘‘Music companies havebecome less aggressiveabout acquiring musicrights of new films afterthey incurred heavy lossesin the projects they hadfunded earlier.’’
This is evident from thesteep 75 per cent fall inprice of music rights overthe last three years. SanjayLeela Bhansali’s Devdasfetched a mind-bogglingRs 12 crore for musicrights in 2001.
A year earlier, SubhashGhai sold his filmYaadein’s music rights forRs 9 crore.
A sluggish market, au-dio piracy, FM radio andMP3 technology throughwhich music can be down-
loaded from the Internethad also adversely hit Indi-an music industry, said ob-servers.
The Hindi film musicmarket had been badly hitin particular, with salesdropping by almost 20 percent in the last two years,said Mahmood Curamallyof music store RhythmHouse.
That was because thesales of a film’s music wasinter-dependent on its per-formance at the box-office,said Ramesh Taurani ofmusic company Tips.
‘‘With the film industryhaving no genuine hitsduring the last one year,music sales have also gonedown considerably.’’
So, while 2000’s super hitKaho Na Pyar Hai soldclose to one crore copies, acomparatively less suc-cessful film like Saathiyasold only around two mil-lion copies.
According to Taurani,music companies are exer-cising extreme cautionwhile acquiring musicrights since they haveburnt their fingers severaltimes, even on premiumfilm projects.
‘‘Music companies havecollectively lost around Rs200-250 crore in the filmmusic segment in the lastthree years,’’ he said,adding that, producerswere welcome to join themusic business since thiswould make them aware ofthe ground reality.
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•Sena looks to checkthe growing influx ofpeople into Mumbai
•Locals being el-bowed out by peoplefrom UP, Bihar, saysRaj Thackeray
•Sena-type stir need-ed to save Mumbai,he says
Clean-up act
•Nearly 1,000 acres be-ing put under drip irriga-tion a month
•Most of the produce —gherkin, paprika andbaby corn — is export-ed, making Kuppamprosper
•Farmers raise two tothree crops a year andthe profit-per-acre of Rs40,000 per crop has shotup three times
Reaping success
•Music companieshad incurred hugelosses in previous projects
•They are now lessaggressive about ac-quiring music rights
•Many producers have floated theirown music labels
Money games
Bandh evokes mixed responseTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Jaipur: The VHP-led Ra-jasthan bandh to protest thearrest of its internationalgeneralsecretary Praveen To-gadia evoked a mixed re-sponse on Tuesday.
Togadia had been arrestedon Sunday night when he de-fied a ban and distributed tr-ishuls at a ceremony inAjmer.
Nearly 1,000 VHP and Ba-jrang Dal activists were de-tained as a precautionarymeasure.
The response tothe bandhwas poor in Jaipur. Shops inthe walled city markets andthe outskirts remained openand business was normal.
Public transport, includ-ing mini-buses and statetransport buses operatednormally.
Shops in Chaura Rasta, Ba-pur Bazar, Chandpol andTripolia in the Pink City
were open.At some places, BJP ac-
tivists requested the shop-keepers to close their shops.
Most offices and schoolswere closed as Tuesday was agovernment holiday.
However, the MahavirJayanti procession was takenout in different parts of thecity without any untowardincident.
In Ajmer, it was completeand all the shops in the citywere closed.
But essential services werenot affected. Most of theshops in the areas dominatedby members of the minoritycommunity near the holyshrine of Khwaja MoinuddinChisti were open.
In some parts of the state,the VHP and the BajrangDal activists held demonstra-tions, but the situation wasunder control.
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Kiwi co-star for Ash:New Zealander Martin Hen-
derson willbe the malelead oppo-site Aish-warya Rai ina Bollywoodversion ofPride andPrejudice to
be made by Bend It LikeBeckham director GurinderChadha. Henderson has ap-peared in films like the hit TheRing and director John Woo’sWindtalkers as well as Aus-tralian TV soaps includingHome and Away. TheGuardian newspaper report-ed that Chadha planned toturn the classic Jane Austennovel into a “white-hot Bolly-wood musical version”. IANS
Yoko remix in Top Ten:Yoko Ono may not fit thestereotype of a typical dancemusic artist, but she likes thefact that anything goes whenit comes to dance music.Seventy-year-old Ono’s song,Walking On Thin Ice, from theDouble Fantasy album, hasbeen remixed and the singleis in the top ten of the dancemusic charts. Ono says whenshe heard the remixes, shewas so touched she cried. Itwas the song she and JohnLennon had been working on the night thathe was shot in New York City in 1980. AP
Crowe’s wedding deal: The bells tolledfor Russel Crowe as he married Danielle
Spencer last week. It seemsthe rugged actor has insistedon a pre-nuptial agreement incase things go horriblywrong, reports People. Thearrangement took a fewmonths “ironing out” beforethe wedding took place.Should their marriage fail af-
ter three years, Danielle will be allowed to in-herit 10 million pounds. For any offspringsfrom the marriage, there will be a two-million-pound trust fund. The actor has protected hisbeloved 800-acre ranch in New South Waleswhere the couple married, but has agreedthat Danielle would get the five-and-a-halfmillion pound apartment in Sydney if theworst happens. ANI
Monroe’s jewellery stolen: Two piecesof jewellery that once belonged to Hollywoodlegend Marilyn Monroe have been stolen froman exhibition, police said Tuesday. A dia-mond-encrusted gold ring with an M motifand a gold bangle, together worth $64,000,were stolen from central London’s CountyHall Gallery, which is hosting the exhibitionMarilyn Monroe: Life of a Legend. One manwas arrested in connection with the theftsand was being held by police. AP
Knight Rider coming to big screen:The 1980s television series Knight Rider andits crime-busting, talking car are revving upfor the big screen. The drama starred DavidHasselhoff as Michael Rider, owner of thehigh-tech Pontiac Trans Am known as K.I.T.T.The film is planned as an action comedy, Dai-ly Variety reported Monday. This time, Hassel-hoff will serve as executive producer for theRevolution Studios project, the trade papersaid. Glen A Larson, who created the TVshow, is among the producers. AP
Maguire nominated for MTV awards:Tobey Maguire and Viggo Mortensen were
nominated for best male per-formance, and the moviesthey star in — Spider-Manand The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers — each re-ceived a leading five nomina-tions for this year’s MTVMovie Awards. Spider-Manand The Two Towers were
among the nominees for best movie, alongwith 8 Mile, Barbershop and The Ring.Kirsten Dunst, who played Maguire’s on-screen love interest in Spider-Man, is up forbest female performance, and the two wererecognised in the best kiss category. WillemDafoe, who plays the superhero’s nemesis,the Green Goblin, is up for best villain. TheTwo Towers also was nominated for best on-screen team and best action sequence. AP
Actor Brad Pitt and his wife, actress Jennifer Aniston, attend the Project ALS “Friends Finding a Cure” gala inBeverly Hills on Monday. ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) is a fatal neuromuscular disease.
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An Israeli soldier arrests a Palestinian during an armyoperation in Nablus on Tuesday. An Israeli army shootoutin the West Bank city cost the lives of a Palestinian militantchief and an Israeli army officer.
Russian cracks unique math riddleBy Sara Robinson
ARussian mathematician isreporting that he has provedthe Poincare Conjecture, one
of the most famous unsolved prob-lems in mathematics.
The mathematician, Dr GrigoriPerelman of the Steklov Institute ofMathematics of the Russian Acade-my of Sciences in St Petersburg, isdescribing his work in a series ofpapers, not yet completed.
It will be months before the proofcan be thoroughly checked. But iftrue, it will verify a statement about
three-dimensional objects that hashaunted mathematicians for nearlya century, and its consequences willreverberate through geometry andphysics.
Formulated by the French mathe-matician Henri Poincare in 1904,the Poincare Conjecture is a centralquestion in topology, the study ofthe geometrical properties of ob-jects that do not change when theobject is stretched, twisted orshrunk. The hollow shell of the sur-face of the earth is what topologistswould call a two-dimensionalsphere. It has the property that
every lasso of string encircling itcan be pulled tight to one spot.
On the surface of a doughnut, bycontrast, a lasso passing throughthe hole in the centre cannot beshrunk to a point without cuttingthrough the surface.
Since the 19th century, mathe-maticians have known that thesphere is the only bounded two-di-mensional space with this property,but what about higher dimensions?
The Poincare Conjecture makes acorresponding statement about thethree-dimensional sphere, a conceptthat is a stretch for the nonmathe-
matician to visualise. It says, essen-tially, that the three-dimensionalsphere is the only bounded three-di-mensional space with no holes.
If his proof is accepted for publi-cation in a refereed research jour-nal and survives two years ofscrutiny, Dr Perelman could be eli-gible for a $1 million prize spon-sored by the Clay Mathematics In-stitute in Cambridge, Massachu-setts, for solving what the instituteidentifies as one of the sevenmost important unsolved mathe-matics problems of the millennium.NYT News Service
LTTE protests USrole in peace bidWashington: The US onMonday took its biggest stepyet into the Sri Lankan peacedrive, but its decision tobar Tamil Tiger rebels froma major donor seminarinjected new tensions intoa vicious separatistconflict.
The rebels were furious,threatening to boycott a big-ger international donor con-ference for Sri Lanka inTokyo in June, accusing theUS of insincerity towards thegroup’s fragile ceasefire withthe Colombo government.
Deputy Secretary of StateRichard Armitage, hostingthe talks including a seniorSri Lankan minister, envoysof 30 nations plus world aidand financial institutions,held out hope however thatthe LTTE could soon enter
the fold.“It appears the Tigers are
unhappy at their exclusiontoday,” Armitage said, butnoted that since the Tigershave been on the US list offoreign terrorist organisa-tion since 1997, their leaderswere barred by law from ac-quiring visas to enter theUnited States.
The Tigers said they wouldreview a decision to partici-pate in the Tokyo conferencein protest at its exclusionfrom the Washington meet-ing.
“The authentic representa-tives of the Tamil peopleshould have been invited tothis major international con-ference to articulate the in-terests and aspirations ofour people,” they said in astatement. AFP
Lewinsky tohost datingshow on TVNew York: The world’s mostfamous intern, MonicaLewinsky, returns to thespotlight next week. Hand-bag maker and gossip-col-umn fodder Lewinsky has anew gig: host of a datinggame on Fox called Mr. Per-sonality.
“I’ve come to realisethat I’ve already had my ownreality show,” Lewinskytold Newsweek for a story inthis week’s editions, outMonday.
Mr Personality, which de-buts April 21, will feature astockbroker named Hayleyand 20 masked men vying forher affection. Hayley mustchoose a man based on his in-ner beauty.
In addition to hosting theshow, Lewinsky offers datingadvice in her role as Hayley’sconfidante.
The woman who has plead-ed for privacy in the past toldNewsweek she realises she isa public figure.
“I walk down the streetand people recognise me,”said Lewinsky whose affairwith Bill Clinton caused theimpeachment of the formerUS president.
“That happened before Idecided to do this show, and itwill happen after.” Agencies
Drinking mom and child’srisks: Mothers who drink al-cohol while pregnant may tripletheir child’s risk of developing adrinking problem as a youngadult, researchers said. Theyfound that 14 percent of theyoungsters who were prenatal-ly exposed by their mothers toone or more episodes of drinkshad alcohol problems, com-pared to 4.5 percent who werenot as heavily exposed. Reuters
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Baghdad: US forces on Tuesdaytried to hamper the media fromcovering a third day of anti-American protests by Iraqis out-side a hotel housing a US opera-tions base.
Some 200-300 Iraqis gatheredoutside the Palestine Hotel to ex-press their rage at what theysaid was the US failure to re-store order after the fall of Sad-dam Hussein’s regime.
For the first time, visibly-an-gered US military officialssought to distance the mediafrom the protest, moving re-porters and cameras about 30meters (yards) from the barbed-wired entrance to the hotel.
‘‘We want you to pull back tothe back of the hotel becausethey (the Iraqis) are only per-forming because the media arehere,’’ said a marine colonel,who wore the name Zarcone, butwould not give his first name ortitle.
The crowd later moved to the
nearby square where a statue ofSaddam was toppled lastWednesday, signalling the end ofthe regime.
As three of the marines’ ar-mored amphibious vehiclespassed by, the Iraqis chanted:‘‘No, no, USA’’.
Tensions have been rising infront of the hotel, where Iraqishave flocked to protest a lack ofpolice protection, water, electric-ity and other basic services, andalso to seek jobs in the post-Sad-dam administration.
As the Iraqi protest grewmore vocal outside the hotel, amarine corporal held an im-promptu briefing for a few re-porters on progress in bringingIraq back to normal.Corporal John Hoellwarth saidthe US forces planned to boostjoint police patrols, bring morehospitals back into service andhave power restored to parts ofBaghdad within 72 hours.AFP
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Protesting Iraqis jostle with US soldiers on Tuesday outside the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, where US marines have set up an operationsbase. Iraqis have flocked there to protest lack of police protection, water, electricity and other basic services and to seek jobs.
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Cool off onSyria, worldtells Bush
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Washington: Washington’s new-found Syria-fixation amid its mili-tary swagger in Iraq is drawingsharp criticism both in the US andabroad.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annantook the unusual step on Mondaynight of issuing a statementthrough his spokesman asking theUS to cool off on Syria.
While Britain and Spain said thesituation could be defused peaceful-ly, France and Turkey said they hadseen no evidence to back up Wash-ington’s allegations.
But Israel’s Prime Minister ArielSharon denounced Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad as a dangerousleader and said Syria harbouredmembers of the Iraqi regime.
The flurry of reactions followedan extraordinary day of chargesagainst Syria from several US ad-ministration officials from Presi-dent Bush down accusing it of giv-ing shelter to fugitives of the Sad-dam regime, harbouring terrorists,and manufacturing chem-bioweapons.
National security adviser Con-doleezza Rice said Syria’s supportfor terrorism and ‘‘harbouring theremnants of the Iraqi regime’’ wereunacceptable. Secretary of StateColin Powell said Iraqis who haveknowledge of weapons of mass de-struction and Iraqi political leaders‘‘are the kinds of individuals whoshould not be allowed to find safehaven in Syria.’’
No evidence was presented toback any of the charges, even as Syr-ia vehemently denied them andasked for proof. Syrian diplomats inWashington and New York contend-ed the Bush administration is pur-suing a militaristic agenda in the re-gion and said the US campaigncould extend through Syria toLebanon, Palestine, to even alliessuch as Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
White House spokesman AriFleischer rejected Syria’s denials,calling it a rogue nation and sayingit is ‘‘well corroborated’’ that Iraq’sneighbour has a chemical weaponsprogram. The Bush administra-tion’s effort to turn the guns on Syr-ia drew rebuke from even known UShawks such as Lawrence Eagleburg-er, a secretary of state in Bush Sradministration, who said Bush Jr“would last in office for about 15minutes” if he extended the war.
Military hampers coverage of Baghdad protests
Syrians wonder whatlies beneath US threats
By Neil MacFarquhar
Damascus: Last week, Syria’s mainscientific research institute staged itsfirst air-raid drill in recent memory.
Damascus residents, who just daysago were either bemoaning the humil-iation of Baghdad’s rapid collapse orwhispering about the chances of it pro-voking change athome, now wonderaloud if the UnitedStates Army plans tomarch on their city.
The Syrian foreignminister, Farouk Al-Sharaa, in his solenews conference sincethe war began, ex-pressed bewildermentthis weekend overwhat, exactly, Wash-ington wanted from itsbarrage of threatsagainst his country.
These are unsettled days in Damas-cus, a city that has long prided itself asthe capital not just of Syria, but of allthings Arab. The government of theyoung president, Bashar al-Assad,gained widespread popular support forits heated oratory against the UnitedStates over the war against Iraq. In-deed, hundreds of Syrian and otherArab volunteers rushed to fight inIraq’s defense.
But now Syria finds itself caught be-tween burnishing its pan-Arab creden-tials by criticizing America and facinga new, painful fact: The United States is
now on Syria’s doorstep, across theborder in Iraq, and the American ad-ministration has already shown it isready to flex its muscles again.
Some reflective souls still museabout the chances of change in Iraqrattling the Ba’ath Party’s iron griphere, but the debate on possible Amer-
ican military actiongarners more atten-tion.
‘‘Some might believethat Rambo can movein many directions atonce, but this is incor-rect,’’ Imad FawziShueibi, a DamascusUniversity professorand analyst, said on tel-evision last week.‘‘Damascus has grownaccustomed to politicalpressure’’.
Such confidence be-gan to fray under the daily threatsfrom Washington, however.
The warnings issued by PresidentBush himself, Defense Secretary Don-ald H Rumsfeld and other senior advis-ers, mostly seem to reflect Americanconcerns that the Iraqi leadershipmight escape to Syria.
But for good measure, the Bush ad-ministration is warning Damascus, interms once reserved for Baghdad,against providing a place wheregroups the United States accuses ofterrorism might find weapons of massdestruction.NYT News Service
Libraries go up in smokeBy Charles J Hanley
Baghdad: Looters and ar-sonists ransacked and gut-ted Iraq’s National Library,leaving a smouldering shellTuesday of precious booksturned to ash and a nation’scultural legacy gone up insmoke.
They also looted andburned Iraq’s principal Is-lamic library nearby, hometo priceless old Qurans andreligious manuscripts.‘‘Our national heritage islost,’’ an angry high schoolteacher, Haithem Aziz, saidas he stood outside the Na-tional Library’s blackenedhulk.
‘‘The modern Mongols,the new Mongols did that.The Americans did that.Their agents did that,’’ hesaid as an explosionboomed in the distance, oneof the many blasts that re-sound through Baghdaddaily as the war windsdown.
Aziz was referring to the13th-century Mongol sack-ing of Baghdad, and to ru-mours on the lips of almostall Baghdadis that the loot-ing that has torn this cityapart for more than a week
is led by US-inspiredKuwaitis or other non-Iraqis bent on stripping thecity of everything of value.
But outside the gutted Is-lamic library, on thegrounds of the ReligiousAffairs Ministry, the lonelooter scampering awaywas undeniably Iraqi, agrizzled man named Mo-hamed Salman.
‘‘It was left there, so whyleave it?’’ he asked a re-porter as he clung to athick, red-covered book, acatalogue of the library’sreligious collection.
The scene inside was to-tal devastation. Not a recog-nisable book or manuscriptcould be seen among thedark ash.
The wrecking of the li-braries, which apparentlyoccurred Monday, camethree days after lootersemptied Baghdad’s Iraq Na-tional Museum of extraor-dinary treasures of ancientBabylonian, Sumerian andAssyrian cultures, collec-tions chronicling this re-gion’s role as the ‘‘cradle ofcivilisation’’ millennia ago.
Together, this pillaging ofrepositories of Iraqi cul-ture deals a terrible blow tothe national identity, in asociety that prides itself onits universities, its litera-ture and its educated elite.
‘‘I can’t express the sor-row I feel. This is not realliberation,’’ said an artisthappened upon in a wing ofthe National Library thathad been looted but notburned. This thin, bearded,41-year-old man, who wouldnot give his name, was por-ing through old boundnewspapers and tearing outpages whose artistic draw-ings appealed to him. AP
CNN’s silenceon brutalitydraws flak A RECENT acknowledgmentby Eason Jordan, CNN’schief news executive, that hewithheld some accounts ofSaddam Hussein’s brutalityfor years to protect the livesof Iraqi sources has come infor some withering criticism.
Several journalism profes-sors and commentators saidJordan had compromisedCNN’s journalistic mission,so the cable network couldcontinue to report from Iraq.In an article in The New YorkTimes on Friday, Jordan re-vealed his knowledge of theIraqi regime’s use of tortureand murder, informationthat he said he could not di-vulge until the fall of Sad-dam. On Monday, Jordan saidthe issue was not about ac-cess, but about life and death.
‘‘Do you report things thatget people killed? The answeris no’’.
According to the article,Hussein’s secret police sub-jected an Iraqi CNN camera-man to weeks of elec-troshock torture in the mid-1990’s as they tried to elicitconfirmation that Jordanwas an operative of the CIA.NYT News service
• Syria says US chargesare aimed at influencingArab national stances.
• Blames Israel for insti-gating the US.
• The Zionist lobbywithin the US adminis-tration is planning fullcontrol of West Asia,says Syrian cabinet.
Damascus denial
• Despite the pleas ofthe average Iraqi, twomain libraries of Bagh-dad were reduced toashes on Tuesday.
• One of the targets, theIslamic library, had oneof the oldest survivingcopies of Quran
• Last week, lootersstole priceless archeo-logical treasures inBaghdad’s National Mu-seum
Heritage in danger
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Victory Iraq WillCurb Terrorism
US Invasion Will Fuel Jehad
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Syria is indeed a rogue nation.— Ari Fleischer, White House spokesperson By Gajendra Haldea
The government is to be congratulated forgetting the Electricity Bill passed in the LokSabha. However, the fine print offers causefor concern, especially if the goal of makingpower supply available to the common manat reasonable prices is to be achieved.
The Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabhain August 2001 and was referred to the standing committee on energy. The commit-tee’s 45 members, representing all the majorpolitical parties, presented their report inDecember 2002. Unfortunately, most of thecommittee’s critical recommendations werenot accepted by the government.
The committee proclaimed open access asthe ‘‘panacea for ushering in power sector reforms, especially for private sector partici-pation’’. It unambiguously stated, ‘‘It is imperative that transmission and distribu-tion are unshackled from restrictive use’’,and recommended that they should ‘‘be subjected to non-discriminatory open accesswithin a mandated time-frame’’.
The rationale for telecom and power reforms has arisen from introduction ofcompetition and choice. Presently, the state-owned electricity boards are monopolies and all producers of power must sell to theseboards alone. Introduction ofopen access will allow produ-cers to sell directly to bulk consumers and distributioncompanies by wheeling powerthrough the existing trans-mission lines on paymentof regulated charges. Thiswill increase supply, improveefficiency and cut tariffs.
Yet, the Bill leaves the intro-duction of open access entirelyto state regulatory commis-sions. They will declare within one year as towhen and how they propose to introduceopen access in their respective states.This amounts to excessive and unguided delegation. The commissions could well bepersuaded by incumbent players to postponeopen access for several years. For example,the Delhi state government believes thatopen access may take 10 years to arrive.
Freedom of trade and business is a funda-mental right under the Constitution and allowing the commissions to deny open ac-cess for several years will abrogate this right,perpetuate private monopolies and harmconsumers. Delay in introducing open accessmeans delaying competition and private investment. Shortages will continue and con-sumers will have to rely on the public sector,which does not have the resources for meet-ing the entire demand. This seems a surerecipe for power shortages and high tariffs.
The regulatory commissions are anotherarea of concern. At present, nine laws provide for independent regulatory com-missions — the Electricity Regulatory Com-missions Act, 1998 (Central Act) and eightstate reform Acts. The Electricity Bill contains many significant departures from
the existing laws and the standing com-mittee’s recommendations.
All commissions will now be placed underthe administrative control and supervisionof a retired judge, to be appointed by the Centre as chairperson of the appellate tribu-nal. The states have opposed this provisionand the standing committee recommendedits deletion. Yet it remains in the Bill.
The committee recommended that thesecommissions be made answerable to the Parliament/state assemblies. This is emi-nently justified as the commissions performlicensing and regulatory functions that affect every walk of life. The recommenda-tion has been rejected.
All the nine existing laws require the expenses of these commissions to be met outof the respective consolidated funds. This ensures transparency, accountability andthrift. Even the Supreme Court and highcourts meet their expenses from the consoli-dated funds. Despite strong representationsfrom several states as well as the recommen-dation of the standing committee, the Billproposes an independent fund for each commission. This may encourage profligacy,misuse of funds and lack of accountability,leading to loss of public confidence in
these commissions.Under the nine existing
laws, members of the commis-sions can be removed only bythe president or the respectivegovernors, upon enquiry bythe Supreme Court or highcourt, as the case may be. TheBill provides for their removalby the minister/chief ministerupon enquiry by a retiredjudge, acting as chairperson ofthe appellate tribunal. The
standing committee’s recommendation toretain existing provisions has been rejected.
Contrary to the provisions contained inthe nine existing laws, members of thesecommissions will become eligible for re-employment by the same government, there-by infringing on their impartiality. Hereagain, the recommendations of the standingcommittee have been overlooked.
These measures will tend to make the regulatory commissions less independentand more pliable. Appointments to thesecommissions in the past are already a matterof public criticism. Such commissions mayfail to guard public interest and end up serving vested interests.
With postponement of open access coupledwith pliable regulatory commissions, thefate of power reforms may hang in the balance. Worse, the Bill proposes to super-sede all state reform Acts, despite strongprotests. In any case, rejection of the recommendations of an all-party standingcommittee does not stand to reason. It is still not too late to make amends.
(The author is chief advisor, NCAER, andauthor of the draft Electricity Bill. The viewsexpressed here are personal.)
Empower ConsumersPlug Loopholes in the Electricity Bill
Weapons of DisruptionOn the weekend, a crucial disclosure came from Hans Blix,UN’s chief weapons inspector and head of the team thatwent into Iraq to find and destroy its weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Mr Blix’s discomfort with the Anglo-American line on Iraq has been apparent for a while, andnow he has come out in the open to accuse the US and UKof having made up their minds in advance to attack Iraq.He also said neither country was really interested in finding WMD. Mr Blix’s words confirm what has long beensuspected: That the WMD served as a pretext for the war.The Bush-Blair team couldn’t wait for the UN inspectionteam to find the weapons, not because the latter posed ahuge and immediate danger to the world, but because theweapons might not have been found. Indeed, the offensiveweapons have not shown up anywhere in Iraq. Was the attack on Iraq, then, deliberately mounted on a false premise? The world at large would be justified in reachingthat conclusion, whether or not the US now finds WMD inIraq. For logic dictates that in its dying moments a regimewould use whatever weapon it possessed to protect itself.
Unfortunately, the story looks set to go into its second act,with Syria playing villain. Barely had Baghdad fallen,when president Bush and others started issuing not-so-veiled threats to Syria against harbouring members ofSaddam Hussein’s Ba’ath party. There were also dark hintsabout Saddam having moved his WMD into Syria. There islittle Syria can do about this charge, given the way the USwent about establishing WMD in Iraq. That Syria’s govern-ment is run by a branch of the Ba’ath party further complicates matters for the country. Understandably, thecurrent crackdown on the Ba’ath movement has createdfears in Syria’s ruling circles. Yet, in strictly legal terms,Syria has done no wrong. Mere membership of the Ba’athparty, a legitimate political entity with an ideology centredaround secular Arab nationalism, cannot be held to be acrime. As for providing sanctuary to Iraqi officials, underthe convention on the status of refugees, Syria is bound toaccept those fleeing from persecution. If the standards nowbeing applied to Syria were extended further eastward,India could find itself on a sticky wicket. India possessesWMD and it has been included by the CIA among those whohelped Libya build its ballistic missile programme.
The scion of one of India’s foremost politicalfamilies, Jyotiraditya Scindia is also part of a new generation of forward-looking, articulate young politicians. Ina conversation with Ruchika Mehta,Nilanjana Bhaduri Jha and Vikas Singh,he discusses life as a Gen X legislator and the changing face of Indian politics:
Do you agree that there is a diminishing ofinterest in the political process among well-educated, upwardly mobile youngsters?
We live in the world’s largest democracy.It’s an opportunity that not every global citi-zen has at his disposal. And therefore, it is upto individuals to come into the public fora.Youth have been at the forefront of monu-mental change in every part of the world. Ibelieve that in our country too, more andmore will enter public service.Sociologists talk about a secession of the successful from the state.
If you look at the make-up of Parliamenttoday, we have people from all walks of life,from diverse backgrounds, who have made abig difference. I firmly believe that at the endof the day, democracy is the most robust system to ensure that the choice of the peo-ple is articulated. Yes, today, there is a feelingthat not enough of the youth are participa-ting in the political process. But every coun-try goes through achurning. At the endof that, somethingdoes come out of it.I am very confidentthe youth will parti-cipate in the eco-nomic and politicaltransformation ofthis country.How is the new breedof young politiciansgoing to make a difference to the political scenario?
There is a lot of talent in Parliament, andwe, the youth, have a lot to learn from ourelders and seniors. At the end of the day, it isa subjective, not an objective analysis. If youhave your heart and mind in the right place,and you want to bring about a change, thechange will definitely come about.There is talk that you might be made the head of the Youth Congress?
That’s a decision for the high command to take. I primarily have two responsibilities— service to the people of my constituency,Guna, and to perform for the Congress in Parliament.You had a good career going as an invest-ment banker. How has life changed after joining politics?
Life has changed drastically. I have an 18-hour day involving many responsibilities,but it is extremely fulfilling. Along the way,if I have made a difference in even one person’s life through any of my projects, itis very satisfactory.Has the Scindia name and the royal back-ground given you an advantage over otherbudding politicians?
It will be wrong to say that the name and
the background does not help. But at the end of the day, it is your performance, yourcredibility and your connection with the people that matter. I have been actively working in the areas of education, electri-city, irrigation, etc in my constituency. Letthe people decide for themselves.Your party, the Congress, seems to be sufferingfrom a complete sterility of ideas. Where’s thenew vision for the 21st century, and what rolewill members of the new generation like youplay in shaping it?
As far as the latter part of your question isconcerned, that’s a decision for the partyhigh command to take. But I would say thereis certainly a vision for good governance,which Mrs Gandhi has spoken about manytimes. A vision for making sure that Indiaemerges as a resurgent economic and political power in the 21st century. That takesinto account all the failings of the presentgovernment in the last four to five years.But more importantly — because I believein constructive criticism — it includes the Congress party’s agenda for promoting genuine development.Even though the Congress was the architect ofliberalisation, why doesn’t any party leadersay it was a good thing?
I always say it was a good thing. The reforms heralded a new era for this country.
Between 1991 and1994, the agricultu-ral growth ratetouched a peak of16 per cent. Indus-trial growth touched12 per cent. We keepharking about howthe voices of othercountries are heardin the global village.India’s voice will beheard too, the day it becomes an eco-nomic superpower.
Unfortunately, in the last five years, this government has not paid any attention toeconomic issues at all.Why doesn’t the Congress use this as a campaign issue? Why is it always reduced toreacting to the BJP’s electoral agenda?
I don’t think that is the case. Mrs Gandhi’sspeeches in the last eight to 12 months haveconsistently focused on economic reforms,empowerment of the poor and downtrodden,good governance, and retaining the secularfabric of the country. These are the directiveprinciples of the Congress, the fundamentalson which we hope to build a 21st century India. This is the vision we would like toshare with the country.Can the Congress successfully triumph over the anti-incumbency factor for the second time in the forthcoming MadhyaPradesh elections?
Of course. The decision of the electorateis final and the Congress is certainly goingto be victorious, since we have a verywell defined agenda of good governance,secularism and a vision for the 21st century.
(For full interview on Indiatimes Talk Radio, log on to www.timesofindia.com)
Gen X Jyoti
I always say liberali-sation was a goodthing... We keep harkingabout how other coun-tries are heard in theglobal village. India’svoice will be heard too,the day it becomes aneconomic superpower.
Q&A
Lost Peace‘Mayhem’ is the word which best describesthe complete collapse of law and order inIraq. Humanitarian assistance has not beenmade available to the war ravaged. Duringthe Kosovo crisis, NATO had arranged a law and order regulatory mechanism and well-stocked mobile units of humanitariansupplies. The US-led coalition in Iraq shouldhave made similar arrangements beforerushing to attack the country. Though theymight have won the war, they have most certainly lost the peace.— V B N Ram, New Delhi
Irrelevant UNIn ‘The UN is Dead; Long Live the UN’(Times Samvad, Apr 12), Vikas Singh hassaid that the UN is no longer relevant in apost-Iraq war world. In 1945, when the UNwas devised to replace the League of
Nations, the colonial powers of the timemanaged to wrest positions of power. In thepast 60 years, every time these so-called superpowers exerted control over other nations, economically or politically, westarted a debate about the relevance of theUN. We must understand that the funda-mental basis of the UN is laid in inequality.The solution lies in its dissolution.— Shamim Alam Khan, via e-mail
Culturally AmericanOn a visit to India from the US, I loved theindependent stance taken by The Times ofIndia in its editorials against Americanhegemony. However, elsewhere in the newspaper, there is open pandering toAmerican culture. With reference to the editorial ‘Unfair and Unlovely’ (Apr 11), Iagree that it is difficult to set standards forthe offensive portrayal of women. But itdoesn’t help to simply blame those who aretrying to resist western-style capitalism. Forstarters, how about TOI taking some socialresponsibility and double-checking what isprinted in its own pages? Why must there besemi-clad foreign women in an Indian news-paper? Why must TOI carry snapshots offoreign entertainers on its front page?— Shah Khatri, Arizona, USA
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Living Nightmare‘The war is over’ proclaim headlines.For the hapless victims in Iraq, thenightmare has just begun. What hope do the injured children lying inhospitals with inadequate facilities totreat them have? And reconstruction ofwhat? Thousands of children lost theirparents, hundreds have lost their limbs.Can these be restored, Uncle Sam?
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Universal Harmony
Peace can only comefrom reverence for alllife... Religions mustgraduate to spiritua-
lity to bring about universal harmony.A P J Abdul Kalam,President of India,
inaugurating a world conference onuniversal harmony
✥Reverence to all life
begins with reverenceto oneself...we need tofirst stop violating our
bodies by stuffing itwith junk food and violating our minds
by harbouring desiresand cravings.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
✥A scientist who
explores space and beyond, searching thecosmos for truth, must
also learn to lookwithin for universal
harmony.R A Mashelkar,Director, CSIR
✥Krishna is the seed ofall life, we must raise
our consciousness andbecome aware of him
in all people and ineverything we do.
Gopalkrishna Maharaj, ISKCON
✥Each man is a micro-cosm of the universe.Your body is made of
all the elements ofthe world. Nature
supplied all the ingredients that make
your body, whichmeans that the
universe made you by donating itself.
If nature demandedthat you refund
everything that natureloaned you, would
there be anything leftof you? You can feel
that the universe gave you birth and
made you, so nature isyour first parent.
Do you feel good thatyou are a microcosm
of the universe?Sun Myung Moon
Ud
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anka
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The Times of India, New Delhi14 Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Speaking FreeBy Sandy Sundaram
Father was posted in the‘true’ Telugu districts; itwas but natural that we sib-lings spoke purest Telugu.Grandma, being a trueTamilian, made sure wealso spoke Tamil and tutorsgave us the basics ofEnglish. Mother, being avery wise lady, engaged aHindi tutor. To complicatematters, father went to Calicut and Mangalore,making us reasonably pro-ficient in Kannada andMalayalam. This multi-lingual upbringing can be aboon and a curse.
Curse in that: occasional-ly, amnesia would set inand one stuttered andfailed to communicate; atothers the words had anentirely different syntax —for example ‘Welcome’ inTelugu, if used in thenorth, would be a disaster;same goes for ‘‘Do youknow’’ from Tamil; or thetime when daughter Meera,at a lunch in Madras, said
‘‘Nahi’’ and the doting hostess doled out an extrahelping of ghee.
Boon in the fact that onewas able to be understoodeverywhere except the eastern states. My cursewas deepened by having totake French as second language when I migratedfrom school to MadrasChristian College. The lastwas a blessing since, in mytenure in Indo-China and avisit to France was thatmuch more enjoyable.
The other great problemis that of porting a thoughtfrom one language to ano-ther particularly when onethinks in Tamil or what-ever and rules of the portedsentence will not fit proper-ly. Let me take a fewhowlers from Tamil: ‘‘Likeusing a langot on an elephant’’ sounds so pedes-trian and meaningless unlike the original; ‘‘Willthe langot stand the ****’’ is almost crude; ‘‘The bad prodancer blames the bend in
the road’’ (though this isequally forceful in Hindisubstituting the stage forstreet corner).
Speaking habits also tendto transfer along with achange to the new lingo.Kyon ki or yennna get ref-lected as ‘like’ when trans-lated to English. M, N andso on get a Y added on forthe person from the southas much as Z gets a jeesound for some. Equally the‘Eas’ part of some wordsget a ‘ya’ as ‘Meayure’ to anorth Indian tongue.
Then there is the gram-matical peculiarities ofgender that needs an articleby itself. There is also theabsence of ka, kha, ga, ghain Tamil that can producemoments of amusementlike appellation of Becker.For that the lack of the liquid zha in the north Indian languages.
Let me end by sayingWanakkam, but said at aparty may trigger a few eyebrows.
Within the realms of the ‘sacred’ itself, the idea ofthe guru and the natureof the relationship with thestudent vary. For an aspirant,it can range from total sur-render of one’s self for life-times of teachings, to a week-end’s course in a techniquepromising anything from a regression to past lives to avision of God. The guru mayfeel deeply connected to theaspirant as if over severallifetimes and assume the responsibility for his spiri-tual evolution, to the extentof taking on additional karma; for others the rela-tionship could become amere commercial contract.
In Buddhism, the strivingis to awaken insight withinoneself, through one’s own efforts. A guru is thensomeone who embodies apossibility, our own poten-tial. He offers theinspiration one can realisticallyaspire to and intime lifts the veilsof ignorance overone’s true enlight-ened nature. Theguru teaches anddemonstrates thepath. The onus remains on us tomake the effort,with the guru’shelp, to acquire the skilfulmeans to make the journey.
If there is a commonstrand from the teachings ofmasters, it is in the need forright effort and the strivingto become a happier, morecomplete human being,possible primarily throughrigorous sadhana, the bed-rock of which is the practiceof altruism and the cultiva-tion of compassion. Thesehelp accumulate good karmathat through the principle ofcausality ultimately ripen toeradicate our delusions andconsequently, our suffering.
In human form, the gururemains inherently and potentially fallible. Our owncommon sense and judgmentneeds to circumscribe theteaching. We can respect andlearn from many teachersand traditions. Even so, weusually develop an instinc-tual affinity and relationshipwith a single teacher, oftendescribed as the ‘root guru’.With him we transcend the mere imparting of
knowledge into a more subtletransmission of energies, ofmotivations and insights, aconnectedness that seems toextend into the ineffable.
To many, it seems to hap-pen in a rush of overwhelm-ing emotion, a spontaneousflash of knowing and feelingconnected. To others, it is agradual process where theteacher and the aspirant test each other. The teacherevaluates the student’s quali-ties and resolve, the studentwaits to develop emotionalempathy and confidence before he can totally surren-der to the guru.This idea ofthe guru is closer to the theistic traditions, indicativeof someone who has directcommunication with God,and is perceived as being ableto change the course ofpeople’s lives. I have knownfar too many stories of
‘miracles’ by menand women ofGod from peoplewhose intelli-gence and credi-bility I respect tocompletely rejectthese. I have hadmy own momentsof amazing seren-dipity, coinciden-ces if you like,which have seem-ed to defy empiri-
cal logic to merely dismissthem as such, because I can-not explain them, yet. Evenas I might extol the need for reason and logic to be at theforefront of a spiritual questand the relationship witha guru, I know that the trulydecisive commitments inone’s life are rarely arrivedat through the power of logic.
While the basis of the relationship to the guru mustbe founded in mindfulnessand reason, as the journey together traverses the subtle,transcending the intellec-tually apparent, when our resolve is truly challengedand seems to require an actof faith, we are vulnerable to‘copping out’ with the mis-guided assumption that it isthe guru, not we, who has feetof clay. The quest is not a pas-sive indoctrination; its reali-sations endure when it is anactive, intelligent engagingof the heart and the mind.
(Excerpted from ‘The Mindof the Guru’)
Getting Inspired BySpiritual Masters
By Rajiv Mehrotra
http://spirituality.indiatimes.com
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P olitics may be the root cause of terrorism, but finance and sanctuary provided by other nations
are the fertilisers. Genuine democracy may provide along-term solution to the grievances that incite terrorism. But that will take a long, long time. To beginwith, it is vital that terrorist activity be curtailed. Thatis where the US invasion of Iraq could make a positivecontribution. Not because Iraq was itself a major exporter of terrorism, but because America has sentout a clear, unambiguous signal that it is fully prepared to act, unilaterally if need be, against thosewho sponsor terrorism. Syria has already been put on notice by the Bush administration. But themessage, ‘clean up your act or face the consequences’,is also aimed at Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia and other countries suspected of providing sanctuary to terrorists. The fact is, terrorists can’t thrive in a vacuum. They need their patron-states — rogueregimes that provide training camps, arms and ammunition, much-needed money, and safe hide-outs.Such aid and comfort acts as the oxygen which fuelsthe terrorist fire. If this is cut off, terrorists will find itincreasingly hard to function. Few governments willwant to confront the sole superpower. If they are toldto go easy on helping terrorists, the chances are they will comply, at least to some extent.
It should be noted that fears of an upsurge in terrorist strikes on the West if Iraq were invaded have so far been belied. Also, whenever the US leans on General Musharraf, cross-border terrorism in India does decline. Yes, the US may not have been able to capture Osama. But Al-Qaida has been unable to mount any significant operation in recenttimes, because its top leadership is perpetually on the run and does not have the luxury of time to plan a major strike. India can justifiably complainabout US double standards when it comes to Pakistan’ssupport of jehadi elements. But that’s only becauseAmerica is focused on West Asia right now. Even-tually though, Washington will have to turn its attention to Islamabad. The day it does may well markthe beginning of a process that will finally bring lasting peace to the subcontinent.
T errorism is created not because people provide it with funds or safe sanctuary but because
there exists a real or imagined political grievance.Terrorists for the most part are not mercenaries — although those in power like to describe them as such — but motivated, misguided young people. In themind of the terrorist, his cause cannot be addressedpeacefully because there is an absence of a legitimatepolitical process that would allow him to do so. To that extent, there is an intimate connection betweenthe growth of terrorism on the one hand and the lack of democratic space on the other. From Kashmir to Kurdistan, from Chechnya to West Asia, that’s the one constant feature that has invariably given rise to terrorism.
For nearly 30 years after Independence, Kashmirhad its share of problems but it didn’t suffer from anyterrorist activity. Then came a series of state electionswhich were deliberately rigged by the wise men inNew Delhi. And thus began a spiral of terrorist violence, that was, in time, aided and abetted by ourfriendly western neighbour. The only way we canjudge America’s war in terms of its impact on terrorism is to ask ourselves one simple question:Will this war lead to the establishment of a real political process in that part of the world? The answeris no. America’s war might be about any number ofother ‘noble’ ends — freeing the people from tyranny,giving them Coke and burgers, and so on — but restoring to Iraqis the right to choose their own destiny is not among them. What Washington reallywants is a client regime that will do its bidding.Not for nothing did Washington ‘parachute’ AhmedChalabi — a discredited Iraqi exile with a shady financial past — into the country even before it wonthe actual war on the ground. No wonder too thatmany Iraqis, having ‘celebrated’ their freedom, are already beginning to have second thoughts abouttheir American ‘liberators’. The disorder on thestreets of Baghdad might be quelled sooner ratherthan later, but America’s cynical occupation of Arabland will provoke more unrest and lead to greater political instability and violence.
CMYK
Nine Indian Cosin Forbes’ listNine Indian firms, including Indian
Oil, HLL, Infosys, Reliance andWipro have figured in the Forbes’
latest global list of finest large corpora-tions. Interestingly, some of the biggernames like Exxon, Ford, General Electricand Charles Schwab have failed to makeit to the list because of weak results.
The A-List of Best Big companies wasprepared by not merely measuring stockprices or profits, but, rather, the ability ofa company to expand its sales and in-come, earning good profit that rewardshareholders over a long period of time.“Some of them (bigger MNCs), notablythe big European telecom firms, cameclose, while others, in particular the au-tomakers, were far out of the running,”Forbes said. Well, being big is not neces-sarily being the best.
The nine Indian firms that appeared onthe A-list were: Indian Oil, Bharat Petro-leum, SBI, Reliance Industries, Hindus-tan Petroleum, ONGC, Hindustan Lever,Wipro and Infosys Technologies. WhileIOC topped the list of Indian firms withhighest sales of $23,288 million, ONGCwas the numero uno Indian company interms of market capitalisation.
In terms of overall market capitalisa-tion, IOC was ranked 133, while Reliancefollowed at 199 and HLL at 211. BPCL wasranked lowest among the Indian firms at381. IOC was ranked 56th in the global listin terms of annual sales.
By sales, the Top 10 global firms were:Wal-Mart, TotalFinaElf, NTT, Siemens,Allianz, Carrefour, Home Depot, Peugeot,AIG and Unilever. By market capitalisa-tion, Microsoft topped the list with$278,664 million, followed by Wal-mart,Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, AIG andVodafone.
According to Forbes, in order to be eli-gible for consideration, a company musthave had annual sales of at least $5 billionin its latest reported financial year or amarket value of $5 billion or more in mid-March. Of the 60,000 corporations aroundthe world with common stock, about 1,100met one of those criteria. TNN
CORPORATEPERFORMANCE
The Times of India, New Delhi, Wednesday, April 16, 2003
Banking on 3GHutchison Australia CEO Kevin Russellhopes the A$ 3-billion 3G technology,which allows users access to videocalls from their mobile phones as well as other benefits, will give it aheadstart over local rivals
Evolutional EvioTomy’s electronic violin “Evio” is astring-less instrument which can betuned with a built-in optical sensor.With the motion of the bow, themelody is played from a cartridgebox. Price: $58 with eight melodies
Coin dispensersKores (India) plans to install 150coin dispensing machines at toprailway stations, malls & centresof pilgrimage within a year, saidGSS Dutt, CEO (business andcomputer systems)
AFP
Students watch a video showing a DNA reconstruction at “BIO 2003” in Bangalore. Thebiotechnology sector will be an important catalyst in India’s mission to achieve an annual 8per cent GDP growth, Planning Commission member NK Singh said.
Norms for staffbidding in PSUsannounced
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Government onTuesday came up with guide-lines for employees biddingin strategic sale of public sec-tor undertakings. The Cabi-net Committee on Disinvest-ment allowed fresh bids forShipping Corporation of In-dia after removing the FDIcap and took off Air Indiaand Indian Airlines off thedisinvestment list.
According to the guide-lines for employees bid, itwould be mandatory that atleast 15 per cent or 200 of thetotal employees in a PSU,whichever is lower, shouldparticipate in the bid. Em-ployees bid would be exempt-ed from any minimumturnover requirement butwill be needed to qualify interms of the prescribed net-worth. They would also be re-quired to follow the proce-dures for participationwhich includes filing the ex-pression of interest alongwith all details, furnishing ofbank guarantee and others.
Disinvestment ministerArun Shourie said, ‘‘To avoidproxy bid, guidelines made itclear that employees can ei-ther bid directly and inde-pendently. For meeting the fi-nancial requirement like networth they can form a con-sortium or bid through a joinventure or a special purpose
vehicle alongwith a bank,venture capitalist or a finan-cial institution. But theywould not be allowed to formconsortium with other com-panies.’’ If the bidding entityis a consortium, employeesmust have a controlling stakeand be in control of the bid-ding entity. Also employees ofthe joint venture must con-tribute 10 per cent of the fi-nancial bid.
In SCI, CCD decided to per-mit FDI without any ceilingin line with policy in ship-ping sector. According toShourie, now foreign compa-nies can bid for 51 per cent.‘‘The entire process from ex-pression of interest onwardswould begin afresh.’’
Going against the decisionof core group of secretarieson disinvestment that 64.5per cent of Rashtriya Chemi-cals and Fertilisers be disin-vested, CCD approved only 51per cent divestment now.CCD approved a formula forsale of ITDC hotels built onland given by the state gov-ernment. As per the newnorm, 75 per cent of bid pricewould be treated as value ofland and 25 per cent would bethe worth of building and thebusiness. J&K government’srequest to convert ITDCproperty in Jammu intoMLA hostel was turneddown. It would be sold now.
IDBI moves to sell Dabhol plantTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: A battle is brewing be-tween IDBI-led domestic lendersand international ones for con-trol and sale of Dabhol Power Co.
The latest salvo in the battlehas been fired by the domesticlenders, having finally appointedinternational investment bankerNM Rotschild to sell the assets ofthe erstwhile Enron-promotedpower company. The mandateletter was issued to the merchantbanker last week.
The appointment of a bankerto sell DPC’s assets is believed tobe an attempt by IDBI and othercreditors to pre-empt any at-tempt by GE and Bechtel to buyout Enron’s 65 per cent stake inDPC from overseas lenders led
by Overseas Private InvestmentCorporation (OPIC). This wouldenable the two minority share-holders to control and run thepower plant. GE and Bechtel arethe engineering and procure-ment contractors as well as theoperations and maintenanceconsultants for the project.
GE and Bechtel have alreadyentered into a MoU with OPIC ofthe US to acquire 65 per cent ofDPC’s equity held by the latterfor $ 20 million (Rs 96 crore).OPIC, which invested Rs 672crore, holds shares of Enron inDPC after the US company wasdeclared bankrupt.
The simultaneous initiation ofmoves by the domestic and for-eign lenders of DPC has a com-mon goal—to retrieve the money
invested in the power project,which has been shut down sinceMay 29, 2001, after MSEB refusedto buy power from the unit.
Earlier, five companies—theTatas, BSES, British Gas, Shelland Reliance—had evinced inter-est in acquiring the project.
MSEB holds 15 per cent in theproject while GE and Bechteleach have 10 per cent each (withan investment of $ 100 millioneach). DPC owes close to $ 72.64million to the two US companies.
GE and Bechtel have also ap-prised the lenders that an addi-tional investment of $ 350 mil-lion would be needed to restartphase-I of the project and com-plete phase-II and the LNG ter-minal, for which they havesought an extension of the
Union government guarantee ofRs 1,242 crore covering phase- I.
At the lenders’ meeting in Sin-gapore last week, foreign lendersopposed the government nomi-nee’s suggestion of settling theequity value of the project beforetackling the loan repayments ofthe secured lenders.
In any project, secured lendershave the first right over its as-sets, as was witnessed in the saleof Daewoo’s assets recently.
Domestic lenders believe thatthe government’s suggestion ofsettling the equity investment ofBechtel and GE will jeopardisetheir loans and guaranteesworth Rs 6,204. The main domes-tic lenders to the project areIDBI, ICICI and SBI.
IT scrips manage to recoverTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: After last two days hammering in the stockmarkets, new economy stocks posted some recovery onTuesday. However, old economy stocks, which wereholding ground last week, fell. And, BSE Sensex closedalmost at the same level of previous closing at 2,997.
However, analysts feel that this gain of tech-stocksmight be shortlived. The final scenario would emergeonly after the announcement of results of Wipro, HCLTechnologies and Satyam Computers. Infosys, whichfell by Rs 1,540 (37 per cent) to Rs 2617.50 in two daystrading recovered some of its lost ground and its stockprice moved up by Rs 245. Brokers said some bottom-buying were happening at IT counters as many of thesestocks have fallen to a very attractive level for buying.However, almost all the old economy stocks declined.
All eyes on Wipro results nowBy Srikala BhashyamTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bangalore: An employee atWipro says the mood in theorganisation is tense: “It islike an India-Pakistan match.All eyes are on us.” That pret-ty much sums it up. Wipro isdue to announce its Q4 re-sults on Thursday, and onthat could depend the direc-tion technology stocks willtake in the months to come.
Following Infosys’ “cau-tious” forecast for the cur-rent year, tech stocks havelost several thousand crores
on the bourses. The worryingnews is that the worst seemsto be far from over. More ITcompanies are expected toannounce their results in thecoming weeks and any fur-ther word on a gloomy futurecould dampen spirits evenmore.
The Wipro scrip has al-ready slipped substantiallysince last Thursday. Theshare price has moved downto the Rs 900 level, and notmany are betting on the com-pany to paint a rosy picturefor the future.
On the other hand, hope
for the stock market seems tocome from i-flex Solutions,which has focussed on prod-ucts. The scrip managed tostay out of the tech meltdownand did reasonably wellwhen the carnage was onduring the last two tradingsessions. But even this hon-eymoon may not last long.When i-flex employees be-come eligible to encash theirstock options a few monthslater, the supply of stockwould increase and investorsmay not be willing to chasethe scrip like they have donetill now.
Govt to examinePetronet project cost
By Sanjay DuttaTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Oil minister Ram Naik hasasked petroleum secretary BK Chaturvedito examine the inflation of the project costby promoters of Petronet LNG, making thecountry’s first LNG project struggle to findbuyers for its gas.
‘‘I have asked the petroleum secretary toreview the pricing of imported gas byPetronet,’’ Naik said. ‘‘Imported gas must beaffordable and comparable to domestic nat-ural gas,’’ he said. Naik’s move comes in thewake of IOC and Bharat Petroleum, two ofthe four promoters of Petronet, chargingpartner GAIL with inflating its infrastruc-ture cost by up to Rs 800 crore.
At a $16-24 price band agreed with RasGas, the cost of imported LNG worked outto $4-5.30 per million BTU against $3.5-4 fordomestic natural gas. This has kept buyersaway from Petronet, even as the first con-signment of LNG is scheduled to arrive inDecember 2004. Petronet has signed a stifftake-or-pay deal with Ras Gas.
Petronet is setting up a Rs 2,500 crore fa-cility at Dahej in Gujarat to import and re-gassify 5 mmtpa (million metric tonnes perannum) LNG from Quatar’s RasGas.
Panel for IT hardwarepolicy: Regretting absenceof a comprehensive nationalpolicy for IT hardware manu-facturing industry, a Parlia-mentary panel has recom-mended urgent finalisation ofsuch a policy in order to fullyexploit its vast potential. TheParliamentary Standing Com-mittee in its report on ‘de-mand for grants’ expressedsurprise that there was nocomprehensive national poli-cy for hardware manufactur-ing industry “although itsurgent need had been felt”.
AB Electrolux gets Govtnod: AB Electrolux has se-cured government nod to buyout the other shareholders ofits Indian subsidiary, Elec-trolux Kelvinator and turn thecompany into a wholly-ownedsubsidiary. FIPB approved aproposal for considerationand approval of the financeministry subject to acquisitionof shares, in accordance withregulations. AB Electrolux has75.96 per cent stake in EKLwhile Indian promoters have9.99 per cent. The remaining14.05 per cent stake is withthe public and FIs.
Cisco registers 70%growth in certifications:Cisco Systems has registeredover 70 per cent growth in its networking certificationsin India. Over 16,000 studentsand professionals were certified in 2002. It takes the total number of Cisco certified networking profes-sionals to over 21,000 in the country.
Tata Power bags Rs 49crore deal: Power utilityTata Power Company haswon a contract worth Rs 49crore from state-run PowerGrid Corporation of India,BSE said on Tuesday. The order is for the supply andconstruction of a 400 KVtransmission line in Maharashtra and will be completed in 18 months.
TCS to expand trainingcollege in Kerala: TataConsultancy Services is set toexpand its existing trainingcollege located at Techno-park, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala, and make it the com-pany’s global hub for training.In line with its expansionplans, TCS has acquired 12acres of land at the informa-tion technology park, in addi-tion to its existing 2.15 acresof land at Technopark.
Cholamandalam entersinto JV with Mitsui:Cholamandalam General Insurance Company on Tues-day entered into a joint venture with Mitsui SumitomoInsurance Company (MSICL)of Japan. With MSICL takingup a 26 per cent stake of thecompany, the company hasbeen renamed Cholaman-dalam MS General InsuranceCompany.
Private insurers deniedsubsidy: The governmenthas thumbed down requestsof private insurers for grantinginterest subsidy on pensionschemes, as it has promisedto Life Insurance Corporationfor its proposed ‘varistha pen-sion bima yojana’ assuring a9 per cent return. “Only LIC
will be getting the interestsubsidy for the pensionscheme for senior citizens.The subsidy would be givenannually,” a finance ministryofficial said.Triggering pen-sion reforms in the country, fi-nance minister Jaswant Singhannounced budgetary sup-port to the insurance monolithto bridge the gap between 9per cent assured return andlIC’s actual return on invest-ment for its proposed pensionscheme. The ‘varistha bimapension yojana’ scheme LICproposes to offer Rs 2500-2,000 monthly pension forcitizens above 55 years.
Tuticorin port eyes 7lakh tonne of export: Tuti-corin Port handled export of6.56 lakh tonnes wheat duringthe financial year 2002-03 ascompared to 2.84 lakh tonnesduring 2001-02. The port wasextending all facilities toachieve a target of 7 lakhtonnes during the currentfinancial year, NK Raghupat-ny, chairman, Tutocirn PortTrust, told reporters on Tues-day. On October 22, 2002,15,000 tonnes of wheat wasloaded in the vessel MV Al-leaourios, which is the highestquantity of wheat loaded in asingle day.
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China goes strong in FDI:Despite the global uncertain-ties, China attracted $13.09billion FDI in the first quarterof 2003, the ministry of com-merce has announced. De-spite dramatic cuts in the to-tal amount of global cross-border investment, foreigncapital inflow in China startedto rise rapidly since last year.China surpassed the United
States as the world’s largestforeign investment receiverlast year, with an inflow of$52.7 billion. China’s lowmanufacturing cost is an at-traction for foreign investors.
American Air on brink ofbankruptcy: American Air-lines tottered on the brink ofbankruptcy on Tuesday asworkers cast final votes on aplan to cut annual costs by $1.8 billion. The chances ofworkers’ accepting or reject-ing the cost cuts, which havebeen tentatively agreed withunions, were evenly balanced,according to S&P. The airlinehas said that if the workers re-ject the cost cuts, it will beforced to file for bankruptcy.
GM, Suzuki to sellChevrolet parts in Japan:General Motors and Suzukisaid they have agreed to im-port and sell Chevrolet partsin Japan to increase sales ofthe US company’s world-fa-mous car. Chevrolet productsmade for new models fromnext year will be shipped toJapan and sold by Suzukidealers, which already sell theChevrolet Cruze and Trailblaz-er. The two firms will also pro-vide spare parts for Chevroletmodels already sold in Japan.
AOL Time Warner faceslawsuit: The University ofCalifornia and another institu-tional investor have filed suitagainst media giant AOL Time
Warner for allegedly usingfraudulent transactions toboost the value of its shareprice, court sources said. TheUniversity of California wasalleged to have lost $450 mil-lion while an investment fundrun by Amalgamated Bankput its losses at $55.9 million.
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ABB 310.50, 316, 310, 313.55305, 317.20, 305, 312.40
Abbott (I) 271.30, 264, 265ACC 140, 141, 134.65, 135.10
140.80, 140.85, 134.70, 135.55 Adani Export 120.15, 124.90, 121.70
121.90, 123.35, 121.90, 122.35 Adlabs Films 38.25, 42.70, 38, 41.85
41.50, 42.75, 41.25, 41.70 Alstom Proj. 57, 58.25, 55.95, 58.05
56.30, 58.50, 55.60, 58 Andhra Bank 31.35, 32.25, 30.60,30.95
31.90, 32, 30.50, 30.95 Apollo Hosp. 99, 96, 97.10
98, 98, 96.50, 97.25 Apollo Tyres 123, 120.35, 122.40
122.10, 123.35, 120, 121.85 Arvind Mills 22.35, 24, 21.90, 23.90
22.50, 24.10, 21.90, 23.80 Ashok Leylan 99.80, 100.45, 99,99.85
100.25, 101.95, 98.80, 99.80 Asian Paints 328, 320, 323
328, 328, 324, 325.25 Aurobindo Ph 222, 218, 218.55
221, 221.95, 219, 219.10 Aventis Phar 250.10, 254
252.50, 254.25, 251.20, 252.70 Aztec Soft. 15.25, 15.65, 14.90,15.15
15.95, 16, 14.80, 15 Bajaj Auto 493, 505, 498
501, 506, 493.15, 497.70 Balaji Tele. 61.05, 63.50, 59.50,59.75
62, 63, 59.90, 60.15 Ballarpur In 38.45, 38.85, 37.70, 38
38.30, 38.60, 37.80, 37.95 Bank of Baro 94, 94.55, 86.75, 89.85
93.90, 95.95, 86.50, 90.30 Bank of Ind. 40.55, 40.70, 38.40,40.55
40.40, 40.90, 38.40, 40.60 BASF 93.10, 94.45, 94.25
95, 95.25, 93.05, 94.70 Bata (I) 28.40, 28.50, 27.80, 28
28.65, 28.65, 27.55, 28.20 Bayer Cropsc 134.05, 134.45,131.30, 131.80
134.05, 135, 132.85, 133.15 Bh.Earth Mov 68.25, 71.50, 67.90,69.75
68.90, 71.50, 68.10, 70 Bharat Elect 209.85, 223.50, 206.75,220
212.50, 223.40, 206.15, 219.80 Bharat Forge 257.05, 253.25, 254.95
258.50, 258.50, 254, 255.45 Bharti TeleV 34.45, 31.90, 32.40
33.75, 33.75, 31.20, 32.40 BHEL 231.50, 225.75, 228.85
230, 231.70, 225.50, 228.30 Bombay Dyein 45.25, 45.50, 45.15,45.25
46.35, 46.35, 45.05, 45.40 BPCL 225, 229.85, 222, 228.50
227, 229.95, 222.50, 228.50 Britannia 521.10, 524, 521.15
529.95, 531, 520.80, 524.35 BSES 224.45, 225, 220.60, 221.85
225.20, 227, 223.55, 224.60 Cadila Healt 123, 123.95, 121.60,123
121.80, 125.50, 121.65, 124 Castrol (I) 196.90, 202.85, 194, 199
192.50, 203, 192.50, 198.20 Century Enka 80, 80.95, 77.35, 77.70
83, 83, 77.60, 78 Century Text 46, 48, 45.30, 47.75
46.50, 47.90, 45.40, 47.70 Chambal Fert 14.90, 14.95, 14.75,14.85
14.85, 14.95, 14.80, 14.85 Chennai Pet. 30.85, 31.25, 31.05
31.25, 31.30, 30.90, 31.20 Cipla 740, 745.85, 735, 738.80
741, 747.45, 736.20, 739.55 CMC 492.40, 500.90, 470.50, 485.65
499, 503, 480, 484.90 Colgate 124, 125, 122.55, 124.75
125.80, 125.80, 123.10, 125.05 Container Co 235, 230, 232
231, 233, 230, 230.65 Corpn. Bank 148.70, 142.95, 145.45
149.40, 149.50, 142.50, 145 Crompton Gr. 60.80, 60.90, 58.35,59.35
60.90, 61, 58, 59.35 Cummins (I) 53.75, 54, 53.05, 53.10
54.90, 54.90, 53, 53.15 D-Link (I) 45.90, 46.60, 45.65, 45.80
46.30, 47.70, 45.70, 45.85 Dabur (I) 39.50, 40, 39.35, 39.85
40.40, 40.50, 39.50, 39.95 Digital Glob 511, 538.95, 535.10
510.85, 540, 510.85, 535.80 Dr.Reddy’s 871, 933, 870, 912.10
899, 932, 869, 910.50 Dredging Cor 234.15, 242, 234, 240e-Serve Intl 455, 435.10, 441.40
440, 447.85, 433, 435.10 EIH 162, 163.10, 163.05
164.50, 165.95, 163, 164.55 Engineers (I 248, 255, 244, 245.05
252, 265, 243.60, 245.55 Escorts 36.75, 37.05, 36.55, 36.85
38.70, 38.70, 36.70, 36.90 Essel Propac 134.60, 136, 133,135.30
135, 137, 133.05, 135.50 Exide Inds. 75.20, 80.75, 78Federal Bank 100, 100.80, 96.40, 97
99, 100.80, 96.40, 97.20 Finolex Cabl 85, 87.75, 84.50, 85.10
86.90, 86.90, 83.80, 84.05 Finolex Inds 34.60, 35.85, 33.10,35.50
34.25, 35.70, 34.25, 35.50 Gail (I) 76, 74.95, 75.35
76, 76, 74.80, 75.05
GE Shipping 40, 41.45, 39.40, 4139.65, 41.35, 39.35, 40.95
Geometric So 442, 448, 411.05,416.90
445, 449.90, 406.10, 419.10 German Remed 203.20, 208, 207.85
205.55, 209.90, 205.50, 207.65 Gillette (I) 298.95, 299, 294
300, 308, 291.10, 303.25 GlaxoSmith.C 237, 224.60, 233.90
240, 245.95, 235, 236.25 GlaxoSmith.P 315.25, 309.10, 310
319.80, 319.80, 309.95, 312.05 GNFC 28.75, 29.25, 28.50, 29.20
29, 29.25, 28.50, 29.10 Grasim Inds. 337.20, 340, 334, 337
336, 340, 334, 336.70 GSFC 17, 16.55, 16.65
16.30, 16.90, 16.30, 16.75 GTL 59.40, 62.75, 59.25, 60.20
59, 63.90, 59, 60.25 Guj.Amb.Cem. 164.40, 166.90,164.25, 165.15
166, 168.40, 164.15, 165.60 Guj.Gas Co. 399, 387.20, 387.65
395.05, 395.05, 391, 392.40 Guj.Mineral 80.10, 82, 80.05, 81.85
81, 82.25, 79, 81.10 HCL Infosys. 81, 82.45, 82
81.05, 83.90, 81.05, 82 HCL Techno. 148.20, 153.50, 146.80,148.85
150.15, 154, 146.80, 149.15 HDFC 340.30, 340.95, 334, 340
347.75, 347.75, 333.25, 340.10 HDFC Bank 241.80, 242, 237.05,240.90
245, 245, 238.10, 241.05 Hero Honda 204.90, 207.50, 194.40,195.50
207, 208, 194.75, 195.75 Hexaware Tec 105.60, 107, 102.10,104.05
104.40, 107.20, 102.15, 104.15 Him.Fut.Comm 19.50, 20.70, 20.35
19.95, 20.55, 19.70, 20.40 Hind Lever C 162, 161
161, 161.95, 160.05, 161.45 Hind.Oil Exp 17.70, 17, 17.05
17, 17.50, 16.90, 17.10 Hind.Zinc 15, 15.95, 15.55Hindalco 581, 585, 575.25, 579.80
572, 596, 572, 579.75 Hinduja TMT 159, 174.30, 156,172.45
156, 174.80, 156, 171.05 HLL 143, 143.95, 138.50, 141.50
143.70, 144, 138.60, 141.40 HMT 15.50, 15.05, 15.30
15.70, 15.75, 15, 15.10 HPCL 291, 301.90, 285, 300.45
291, 301.50, 275.60, 300.05 Hughes Soft. 194.90, 209, 159.40,186.85
190, 208.65, 183.65, 188.95 IBP 202.50, 211, 205.25
200.10, 216, 200.10, 205.70 ICI (I) 114.10, 114.05, 118
108, 118, 108, 117.40 ICICI Bank 130, 134.75, 124.55, 134
130, 134.75, 124.55, 133.95 IDBI 17.95, 18, 17.55, 17.65
17.60, 17.95, 17.60, 17.65 IDBI Bank 23, 23.15, 22.75, 22.95
22.65, 23.50, 22.50, 22.90 India Cement 13.90, 14, 13.80, 13.95
14, 14.05, 13.80, 14 Indian Alumi 120Indian Hotel 182, 188.65, 176, 186
185, 189.50, 184, 185.50 Indian Oil C 236.10, 240, 236, 238
240, 240, 236, 238 Indian Ov.Bk 20.50, 20.60, 19.75, 20
19.50, 20.50, 19.40, 20 Indian Rayon 77.25, 78, 77.85
79, 79, 77, 78.30 Infosys Tech 2725, 2913.75, 2862.50
2750, 2913.70, 2750, 2859.70 Infotech En. 97, 100.90, 96.50, 97.75
97, 100.40, 96.55, 97.60 Ingersoll R 201, 201.90, 201
200.10, 202.50, 199, 201 IPCL 88.85, 89.30, 85.50, 86.50
89.90, 89.90, 85.60, 86.70 ITC 679, 683.90, 669, 671.85
675, 685, 670.50, 674.25 ITI 16.95, 16.25, 16.30
16.80, 16.80, 16.05, 16.30 J&K Bank 126.10, 130, 124.50,129.65
127.50, 130, 123.10, 129.55 Jaiprakash I 29, 29.50, 27.80, 29.30
29.90, 29.90, 29.05, 29.20 JB Chemical 154.70, 153, 153.90
153, 155, 152.10, 154.85 Jindal Steel 356, 358.80, 345,346.75
362.05, 363, 345.05, 347.45 Kochi Refin. 43, 44, 43.95
43, 44, 42.50, 43.70 Kotak Mah.Bk 157, 158, 144.55,148.55
146, 151.90, 144.60, 148.25 L&T 187.55, 188.50, 185.55, 187.30
189, 194.65, 185.40, 187.20 LIC Hsg.Fin. 72, 72.40, 70.45, 71.40
71.10, 72, 70.10, 71.25 LML 26.70, 27.95, 26.60, 27.65
26.40, 27.75, 26.40, 27.40 Lupin 154.70, 157.40, 148.30,156.35
156, 157.50, 148.20, 155.75 M&M 108.20, 104, 105.95
106.20, 107.50, 103.75, 106 Marico Inds 156, 156.05, 155.75,156
155, 158, 155, 156 Mascot Systm 96, 99, 94.80, 97
97.90, 98.95, 93, 95.90 Mastek 310, 322, 306.10, 315.85
310, 324.70, 305.40, 315.70 Mastershare 10.20, 10.35, 10.15,10.30
10.20, 10.35, 10.20, 10.25 Max (I) 68.30, 69.90, 67.65, 68.40
70.30, 70.40, 68.75, 69.75 Mcdowell Co. 35.75, 36.50, 35.40,35.50
36, 36.85, 35.50, 35.65 Merck 234.95
232, 233.95, 230, 230.30 MIRC Electr. 361, 368, 360, 366.75
360.50, 365, 360, 364.90 Moser-Baer 254.70, 255.50, 243.10,245.95
255, 256, 242.25, 245.55 Mphasis BFL 605, 619.45, 583,589.70
606, 624.70, 581.10, 588.20 MRF 912.95, 975, 903.50, 969.55
908.90, 969, 892, 961 MTNL 95.25, 98, 92.50, 94.90
96, 97.45, 92.40, 95.05 Mukta Arts 45, 45.55, 44, 44.10
46.50, 46.80, 43.50, 44.05 National Alu 85.70, 83.50, 85.05
84.50, 85.90, 83.35, 85 Nestle (I) 542.50, 545.50, 538.55,544.90
547.70, 550, 542.55, 548.85 Neyveli Lign 30.90, 29.50, 29.65
30.50, 31, 29.45, 29.60 Nicholas Pir 210, 213.90, 213.30
210.50, 212.15, 210.15, 211.35 NIIT 104.40, 107.80, 98, 101.15
105.70, 108.80, 98.30, 100.95 Nirma 230, 253, 229.95, 250
229.95, 249.80, 228, 249.45 Novartis (I) 227.10, 233.95, 233
235, 236.55, 226.50, 234.95 ONGC 358.10, 354.80, 356.05
359.30, 359.30, 355, 355.85 Oriental Bnk 80.50, 82.60, 78.20,81.20
82.20, 82.70, 78, 81.20 P&G Hygiene 369, 374.50, 368,373.35Padmalaya Te 61.50, 62.30, 58.25,59.35
61, 62.75, 58, 59.10 Pentamedia G 8.75, 9.20, 8.70, 9
8.70, 9.20, 8.70, 9 Pfizer 312, 319.15, 314.70
321, 321, 312.55, 314.40 Philips (I) 92.60, 95, 92.55, 94.95Pidilite Ind 225, 224.25, 228
225.05, 245, 225, 226.95 Polaris Soft 127, 131.70, 122.35,124.50
130, 131.90, 122, 124.95 Pun.Tractors 124.95, 126, 122.50,123.35
129.90, 129.90, 123.10, 123.75 Ranbaxy Lab. 683, 684.75, 658.25,675.40
678, 681, 657, 672.10 Raymond 88.65, 90.75, 88, 89.35
92, 92, 89.50, 89.90 RCF 17.90, 19, 17.25, 18
18, 18.80, 17.25, 18.15 Rel Capital 52.05, 52.45, 50.55,51.50
52.25, 52.50, 50.65, 51.45 Reliance Ind 291.50, 294.90, 274.25,283.50
293, 293.20, 274.15, 282.30 Rolta (I) 59, 60.80, 58.50, 59.25
58.25, 60.60, 58.25, 59.30 SAIL 9.50, 8.95, 9.05
9.40, 9.40, 8.95, 9.05 Satyam Comp 147, 155, 152.25
145.50, 156, 145.50, 151.65 Saw Pipes 74.85, 75.90, 70.60,73.05
74.80, 75.90, 70.10, 72.75 SBI 290.90, 294, 279.50, 283.20
289.90, 292, 279.50, 283.05 Shipp.Corpn. 61.40, 62.40, 58.50,59.05
61.90, 64.90, 58.60, 59.15 Shyam Teleco 36.40, 37, 35, 35.35
35.50, 37.30, 35.25, 35.50 Siemens 290.55, 291.10, 286.10,287.50
297, 297, 286.15, 288.95 Silverline T 6.25, 6.60, 6, 6.15SKF Bearing 43.10, 43.85, 43, 43.15
43, 43.85, 43, 43.20 Sonata Soft. 13.50, 13.55, 13, 13.45
13.05, 13.70, 13, 13.35 SPICE 30.70, 31.09, 30.60, 31SSI 63.80, 64, 60.10, 62
65.40, 70, 60.20, 61.95 STC India 89.25, 93.90, 89.60
93.50, 95.45, 90.55, 91.05 Sterl.Biotec 40.50, 41, 39.90, 40.55
40.90, 41.35, 39.05, 40.55 Sterl.Optica 32.50, 33.65, 31.65,31.95
32.20, 33.70, 31.65, 32 Sun Pharma. 288, 297.90, 291.25
296.20, 299.80, 292.10, 292.75 Syndicate Bn 22.45, 22.85, 21.40,22.30
22.45, 22.90, 21.30, 22.20 Syngenta (I) 119.90, 120, 119.25,119.30Tata Chem 68, 68.30, 67.15, 67.50
67.50, 68.45, 67.15, 67.60 Tata Elxsi 69.95, 70.80, 68.65, 69.30
69.70, 70.90, 68.60, 69.40 Tata Power 119.50, 120, 117.40,118.65
119, 119.75, 117.20, 118.50 Tata Tea 193, 204, 191.80, 201.45
190, 204.40, 190, 200.80 Tata Telcom 96.80, 98.90, 95.55,96.25
96, 99, 95.50, 96.35 TELCO 161.05, 154.50, 155.95
160, 160.90, 154.50, 155.95 Thermax 140.90, 141.50, 139, 141
142.05, 142.40, 141, 141.70 Thomas Cook 200, 200.35, 196,199.85
208.45, 208.45, 197, 197.45 TISCO 135.10, 128.80, 131.10
137, 137, 128.80, 131.20 Titan Inds. 54.10, 55.50, 53.50,54.35
55, 55.70, 53.75, 54.80 TN Newsprint 41.70, 40.80, 40.85
40.65, 42, 40.65, 41.10 TN Petro 20.30, 20.65
20.60, 20.75, 20.20, 20.60 Torrent Phar 165, 169, 167
172, 172, 168.05, 169.50 Trent 148, 151, 147.35
152.90, 152.90, 147.05, 147.45 TVS Electron 59, 60, 58.50, 58.80
60, 60.50, 58.25, 58.65 TVS Motor Co 382.25, 392, 381.35,387.10
395.10, 395.10, 382.05, 387.60 United Phosp 126, 127.20, 123.50,125.35
126, 128, 123, 125.25 UTI Bank 41.80, 44, 41.35, 43.45
47, 47, 41.60, 42.80 Videocon Int 23.30, 23.40, 22.50,22.75
23, 23.35, 22.50, 22.70 Vijaya Bank 17, 16.35, 16.60
17, 17, 16.05, 16.60 Visual Soft 139.50, 141.95, 132.10,134.95
139.50, 142, 131.55, 135.35 VSNL 74.50, 72.50, 73.65
73.10, 74, 73.05, 73.45 Whirlpool 19.75, 16.25, 16.35
16.60, 17.25, 16.40, 16.45 Wipro 950, 1028, 941.35, 981.50
925, 1098, 925, 980.85 Wockhardt 375, 380, 372.90, 377.45
385, 387.95, 373, 377.65 Zee Telefilm 66.10, 71.35, 69.65
66.80, 72, 66.80, 69.55 Zensar Tech. 71, 73.25, 70, 70.20
71, 72.70, 69.50, 70.15
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33M India 250.30, 260, 250.25,259.75
250.70, 260, 250.50, 254.15
AA Sarabhai 3.35, 3.45, 3.25, 3.35Aarti Drugs 26.25, 27Aarti Inds. 62, 60
60, 60, 60, 60 Aarvee Denim 8Aban Loyd 143, 147.85, 145.30
139.55, 148.90, 139.55, 145.35 ABG Heavy In 10.45, 10.25Abhishek Ind 6.25, 6.45, 6.25
6.35, 6.35, 6.35, 6.35 Adam Comsof 4.20, 3.85, 3.90Advani Oerli 31.75, 33.40, 31.50,32.95 Aegis Logis. 6.90, 8.80, 7.50
7.60, 7.60, 7.60, 7.60 AFT Inds. 56.30, 58.35, 55.05, 57.75Aftek Infosy 171.70, 184.50, 179.75
176.05, 200, 175.90, 180.85 Agro Dutch I 9.95, 10, 9.60
9.95, 10.20, 9.55, 9.65 Agro Tech Fd 26.75, 27, 26.50, 26.75
27.05, 27.05, 26.25, 26.45 Ahmed.Elect. 47.95
45, 48, 45, 48 Ahmednagar F 17, 18, 17
16.20, 17.50, 16.20, 17.45 Ajanta Pharm 25, 28.90, 28.15
28.35, 30, 27.75, 28.25 Aksh Optifib 14.75, 14.95, 14, 14.90
15.25, 15.25, 14.90, 15.05 Albert David 24, 25, 24.75Albright & W 183Alembic 155.50, 158, 153, 157.80
156.25, 160, 153.10, 158.55 Alfa Laval 230, 215.50, 230
228, 233.95, 228, 228.10 Alkyl Amines 17.95, 19, 18.60Allahabad Bk 15.40, 15.50, 14.80,15.05
15.30, 15.35, 14.80, 15.05 Alok Inds. 11, 10.70, 10.75
10.80, 10.90, 10.70, 10.80 Alstom 25.10, 25.85, 24.25, 24.75Amara Raja B 52.10, 54, 53
52.85, 53.90, 52.60, 52.85 Ambica Agarb 42.95, 38, 38.70Ambuja Cem.R 3, 3.10, 3.05
2.95, 3.10, 2.95, 3.05 Amex Info. 13.30, 14, 12.70, 13.10Amforge Inds 17.80, 18.40, 17.50,17.55Amtek 45.80, 41, 41.80Amtek Auto 191.85, 193.90, 190.70,193Andrew Yule 15, 15.40, 14.85, 15.20Ankur Drugs 5.90Ansal Prop. 10.50, 11.30, 10.95AP Paper 40, 39.80Apcotex Lat. 25.10, 26.25, 24.50,25.95
26, 26, 24.80, 24.80 Aplab 19, 17.25, 17.50Aptech 33.40, 31.35, 31.60
32.40, 32.40, 31.50, 31.65 Archies 53, 55, 51.65, 51.85
52, 54.65, 50.80, 53 Arvind Rem. 3.85, 3.95, 3.35, 3.40
3.70, 4.10, 3.35, 3.40 Asahi (I) Gl 40.50, 41.50, 40, 41.45
40.75, 41.50, 40, 41.20 Ashapura Min 91
91, 91, 91, 91 Ashima 16.55, 12.75
12.50, 12.60, 12.50, 12.60 Ashok Ley.Fn 48.50, 49
49.80, 49.80, 48.50, 49.15 Asian Elect. 21.65, 21.45
21, 21, 20.80, 20.80 Asian Hotels 76.30, 78.75, 76.25,76.50
77.45, 79.50, 77.45, 78.80 Assam Co. 10.90, 10.75Astrazen.Ph. 341Atcom Techno 10.90, 9.85, 10.05
10.30, 10.40, 9.85, 9.95 Atlas Copco 266, 267, 264Atlas Cycles 65
65.25, 65.25, 65.25, 65.25 Atul 31, 29.50, 29.55
31, 31, 31, 31 Auto Axles 80.10, 79Avanti Feeds 22.50, 22.05Avery (I) 17, 16.75Avon Organic 31, 31.20, 30.20, 30.90
BBajaj Auto F 47.75, 48, 47.30, 47.85
47.65, 48.95, 47.60, 48.70 Bajaj Elec. 22Bajaj Hindus 68.50, 69.50
69.25, 70, 69.25, 70 Bajaj Tempo 98.50, 98, 100Bal Pharma 17.50, 18.10Bal.Law.Vanl 11.10, 11.50Balaji Dist. 5.35, 5.75, 5, 5.60
5.40, 5.85, 5.05, 5.55 Balkrish Ind 38.20, 48.95, 47.80Balmer Law.I 48.50, 51, 49.25Balmer Lawri 81, 80.05, 80.50
83, 83, 80.40, 80.60 Balrampur Ch 108
108, 109.45, 108, 108.05 Banco Prod. 45.70, 45.50, 46Bank of Punj 16.25, 15.80, 16.05
16.10, 16.35, 15.50, 15.95 Bank of Raj. 16.25, 15.80, 15.95
16.10, 16.25, 15.75, 15.95 Bannari Aman 95
89.30, 99, 89.25, 99 Bayer (I) 820.05, 820, 850Bayer ABS 68, 66.30, 67.60
70.50, 70.50, 67, 67.65 Berger Paint 70, 69.55
70.70, 71, 70.25, 70.35 BF Utilities 7.55, 7.60Bharat Hotel 27.15, 27.15, 27.15,27.15
Bhartiya Int 21.25, 21.45, 21, 21.35 Bhushan Stl. 29.50, 29.90, 27.50,27.75BI 64.50Bihar Caustc 11.70, 12.55, 11.45,12.40Binani Inds. 12.95, 13.80, 12.55,12.80Biopac (I) 4.80, 4.70Birla Corp. 13.85
13.10, 14, 13.10, 13.65 Birla Eric. 10.35, 9.80
10.20, 10.20, 9.70, 9.85 Birla Glob.F 11.80, 11.65
11.25, 11.65, 11.25, 11.50 Birla Yamaha 13.50, 13.35, 13.50BITS 0.75, 0.80, 0.75BLB 2.70, 2.65, 2.75
4.20, 4.20, 4.20, 4.20 Blow Plast 10.25, 10.35, 10.20Blue Dart Ex 53.25
54, 54, 53, 53.70 Blue Star 88, 89.60, 89.45
82.80, 88.70, 82.80, 88.55 Blue Star In 120, 115.85, 117.15
120.50, 121, 116.40, 118.80 BOC 28.70, 23.60, 24.20
24.25, 24.50, 23.60, 24.20 Bombay Burma 38Bongaigaon R 17.20, 17.45, 16.60,17.20
17, 17.50, 16.75, 17.25 BPL 27.25, 27.30, 25.80, 27.05
27.45, 28.35, 26.35, 26.55 BPL Engg. 4.20, 4.25, 4.15, 4.20
4.25, 4.25, 4.25, 4.25 Brijlax. Le. 104.05, 103.95, 104.10BSEL Inform. 10.30BSL 22.25
23.95, 24, 22.60, 22.60 Burrough Wel 235, 237, 225, 232
CCamlin 48, 49, 47.75, 48.50Camph.& All 21.75, 22.30Canara Bank 87, 89.90, 83.30, 87
89, 89.30, 83.40, 86.80 Canfin Homes 29.50
28.60, 29.95, 28.60, 29.45 Caprihans(I) 12.50, 12.10, 12.90Carborundum 111
114.80, 115, 111, 111.80 Carrier Air. 87.95, 86.10, 87.05CCL Products 18.30, 18.70, 17.55,17.90Ceat 26.50, 27, 26.10, 26.90
28, 28, 26.10, 26.80 Centur. Bank 9.15, 9.50, 9.05, 9.15
9.25, 9.60, 9, 9.20 Cerebra Inte 5.15, 5CESC 16.10, 16.75, 16.45
16.30, 16.40, 15.95, 16.25 CG Igarshi M 35.50, 36.90, 35.50,36.90 Chemfab Alk. 18.75Chemplast Sa 27, 28, 27.30
27.50, 28, 27.25, 27.30 Cheviot Co. 46, 47.50, 47Chola.Inv&Fi 38.75, 39.90, 38.55,39.65
39, 39.50, 38.50, 39.35 Chowgule Stm 3.25, 3.60Ciba Sp.Chem 102, 104Cinevistaas 21.10, 22.85, 22.80
23.90, 23.90, 21.75, 22.70 City Union B 39.15, 39.50, 39, 39.40
39.75, 40.10, 39.05, 39.50 Clariant (I) 127
127.15, 129.10, 126.30, 129.10 Classic Diam 36.05, 36.90, 36, 36.40Clutch.Auto 5Coates (I) 106.10, 114, 112.50
107, 114, 107, 112.25 Cochin Minrl 11, 10.90, 10.95Color Chips 5.70, 5.75, 5.40, 5.50
5.50, 5.85, 5.35, 5.50 Colour Chem 224.95, 225, 223.20,223.65
222, 225.20, 221.30, 224.60 Compucom Sof 15.25, 18.70Compudyne Wi 14.15, 14.30,13.80, 14
14, 14.50, 13.90, 14.05 Computech In 5, 4.85, 4.90
5.25, 5.25, 4.90, 4.95 Cont.Const. 7.60, 8.50, 7.50,8.15Control Prnt 20, 21.95, 20.25Core Health. 3.30, 4, 3.85
4.05, 4.05, 3.60, 3.60 Corom. Fert. 67.45, 67.50
65.70, 65.70, 65.70, 65.70 Cosmo Ferr. 8.05, 8.15Cosmo Films 65, 65.50, 61.50,64.55
63.70, 64.80, 61.10, 64.15 Creative Eye 9.45, 10.30
9.65, 10.75, 9.55, 10.05 Crest Comm. 25, 25.35, 24.40,24.55
24.65, 25.25, 24.20, 24.50 CRISIL 252.05, 254.30, 250,254.30 Cybertech Sy 8, 7.30, 7.85
9, 9, 7.55, 7.95
DDaewoo Motor 1.45, 1.50, 1.45Dalmia Cemen 140.10
139.05, 145, 139.05, 145 Danlaw Tech. 23.35, 17.80, 19.85Datapro Inf. 0.65, 0.50, 0.55DCM 6.05, 6.10
6.15, 6.20, 6.15, 6.20 DCM Shr.Con 57, 58.40
56, 57.75, 56, 57.75 DCW 10.10, 9.55, 10.20
10.05, 10.25, 9.80, 9.90 Deepak Fert. 19.50, 19.20, 19.35
19.05, 19.70, 18.20, 19.30 Deepak Nitr. 40, 39Dena Bank 14.50, 14.80, 13.50,14.05
14.30, 14.50, 13.55, 14.20 Denso (I) 23, 22.60, 22.75Dewan H.Fin. 18.10Dhampur Sugr 9.85, 9.85, 9.70, 9.85 Dhanalak.Bnk 18.25, 18.30, 18,18.20Divi’s Lab 254.60, 269, 253.50,256.35
254, 275, 252.55, 256.15 Dolat Inv. 2.15Dolphin Off. 12.40Donear Inds. 84DSJ Comm. 0.40
0.45, 0.45, 0.40, 0.45 Duphar-Inter 112, 115.05, 112.10
EEicher 21.30, 27.70
26.40, 27.15, 26.40, 26.75 Eicher Motor 80, 77.30, 79.95
80, 80, 77, 78.25 EID Parry 84.40, 84.40, 80, 81.50 EIH Asso.Hot 9.50, 9.15, 9.80Eimco Elecon 45, 45, 44.90, 44.90 Elder Pharma 29.15, 30.15, 29.25
29.95, 29.95, 29.30, 29.30 Elect.Kelvin 7.60, 7.55, 7.65Electro.Cast 226, 224, 231.50
225, 232, 223.50, 229.85 Elgi Equip 18.90, 19, 18.65, 18.95
18.15, 18.95, 18.10, 18.65 Elgitread (I 163, 148.50, 158Emco 27.50, 27.55, 27.10, 27.20Encore Soft 9Eonour Tech. 4.75, 3.70, 3.75Epic Enzymes 5.60Esab (I) 31.50, 31.95, 31.90
33.25, 33.25, 31.05, 31.90 ESI 13.75, 13.75, 13.75, 13.75 Eskay K’N’It 2.40, 2.35, 2.90Essar Oil 4.50, 4.65, 4.30, 4.50 Essar Ship. 5.80, 5.35, 5.70
Essar Steel 7.25, 7.40, 7.057.20, 7.50, 7, 7.05
ETC Networks 40.10, 42, 40, 40.50Eternit Ever 29.25, 29.30
28, 28.85, 28, 28.85 Eveready Ind 12, 12.50
11.80, 12.60, 10.55, 12.10 Excel Inds. 69.75, 67.60, 67.70
68, 68.95, 66.75, 67.40
FFAG Bearings 53.25, 53.50
52.10, 54.95, 52.10, 53.30 FCI OEN Con. 76.20, 76.20, 76.20,76.20 FDC 28, 27.50, 27.55
28.25, 28.40, 27.90, 27.90 Fert.&Chem-T 27.80, 27.80, 24,24.55 Finan.Techno 13.30, 12.80, 12.95First Leasin 17.80, 17.90, 17.80
17.90, 17.90, 17.75, 17.80 Flat Product 32.55, 33.45, 33.15Flex Enginer 9.40, 8.45
7, 7.95, 7, 7.95 Flex Foods 5.20, 5.70Flex Inds. 17.75, 17.80, 17.35
17.80, 18.50, 17.30, 17.35 Floatglass 19.25, 20, 19.10, 19.95
19.05, 20, 19.05, 19.75 Forbes Gokak 56.50, 56.45, 58.60Fortune Info 44.75, 45, 43.40, 43.75Foseco (I) 131.40, 135, 133.05
135, 135, 133, 134 Frontier Inf 3.60, 3.90, 3.30, 3.70Fulford (I) 63, 66.50, 62, 65.85Futura Poly. 5.60, 5.90
GGabriel (I) 71.35, 72.05, 72Galaxy Enter 15.75, 18, 17.95Gammon (I) 113.60, 117
115.55, 117.95, 115.55, 116.85 Garden Silk 27, 24.45, 24.75
27, 27, 24.35, 24.45 Garware Poly 26.75, 29.50, 28.75Garware Wall 20, 20.50Gati 34.95, 30.50Genesys Intl 39.90, 36.25, 36.90
37, 37, 37, 37 Geodesic Inf 79, 73.80George Willi 62.60, 64.25, 63.95
63.50, 65, 63.50, 64.85 GIC Housing 11.60
11.75, 11.90, 11.50, 11.90 Glenmark Pha 209, 208.95, 210
211, 211, 207.20, 209 Global Tr.Bk 14.75, 14.40, 14.55
14.85, 14.90, 14.35, 14.60 GMR Techno. 9Goa Carbon 35, 33, 34.55Godavri Fert 32.75, 32.10
32.10, 33, 32, 32.70 Godfrey Phil 300, 300, 300, 300 Godrej Cons. 109, 110.35, 110.05
103.10, 110, 103.10, 109.20 Godrej Inds. 15.50, 14.25, 14.50
15, 15, 13.25, 13.90 Goetze (I) 20.30, 20.30, 19.75, 20 Goldiam Int. 25, 23.50, 23.95Goldstn.Tech 27.50, 28.40, 26.50,27.05
26.85, 28.40, 26.80, 27.20 Goldstn.Tele 8.70, 8.35, 8.75
8.90, 8.90, 8.40, 8.65 Gonter Peip 3.55, 3.90, 3.50Goodlass Ner 160, 160, 160, 160 Goodricke 23.80, 24Goodyear (I) 24.55, 24.50, 25.20Grabal Al.Im 13.90, 10.55, 12.75Graphite Ind 29.50, 29.70, 29.25,29.55
29.15, 29.95, 29.15, 29.85 Grauer & Wei 16.55, 16.60Gravity (I) 5.60, 5.70Greaves 11.15, 11.45, 11.20Grind Norton 103, 105.30, 104.85
Gruh Finance 17.25, 17.35, 16.50,16.55GTC Inds. 5.40, 6.20, 5.30
5.85, 5.95, 5, 5.15 GTN Textiles 25.50, 24.50, 24.90
24.50, 24.85, 24.40, 24.50 Gufic Bio Sc 26.50, 26.75, 25.45,25.60Guj.Alkalies 20.05, 20.70, 18.60,18.65
20.50, 20.55, 18.50, 18.65 Guj.Amb.Exp. 9.95, 10.60, 9.80,10.35
10.20, 10.50, 9.85, 10.50 Guj.Apollo E 52.50, 52.90, 52.70Guj.H.Chem 19.60, 19.90, 19.80
19.50, 19.95, 19.50, 19.80 Guj.Ind.Pow. 17.50, 17.55, 17.15,17.45
17.75, 17.75, 17.10, 17.35 Guj.Sidh.Cem 3.10, 3.25, 3.15
3.05, 3.25, 3.05, 3.20 Gulf Oil Cor 45, 41.40
HHarr.Malayal 9, 9.65, 8.20, 9.45
9.05, 9.40, 7.60, 9.30 Hathway Bhaw 6.65Hatsun Agro 66.25Havell’s (I) 115, 120, 114.05, 119.85
119.45, 119.45, 119.45, 119.45 Hazoor Media 5.75, 6HBL Nife Pow 40.10, 43.50, 40,42.25HEG 26.40, 26.30, 26.90
27, 27.15, 26.75, 26.80 Helios & Mat 14.10, 14.95, 14.85Henkel Spic 18.25, 18.35, 17.80,18.20Heritage Fds 44.30, 45.10, 44.10,44.75 Hikal 100, 101.50, 100, 101.40 Himat. Seide 101, 102, 100.30,100.40 Hind.Constn. 68.90, 69, 66.85, 67.40
68, 69.50, 66.65, 67 Hind.Inks&Re 276, 285, 263, 268
275, 275, 265.50, 270.30 Hind.Motors 8, 7.85, 7.95
7.95, 8, 7.85, 7.90 Hind.Org.Chm 16, 16.40, 15.70,15.80
16.95, 16.95, 15.65, 15.75 Hind.Power 28.50Hind.Sanitar 38
39, 40, 39, 40 Hitachi Home 22.40, 23, 22.55
22.50, 23, 22.30, 23 Honda SIEL P 121, 120
125, 125, 124.95, 125
Hotel Leela. 14.15, 14.45, 14.2514, 14.30, 14, 14.15
Ii-flex Solu 873, 881.85, 845.10,853.30
865, 887, 840, 854.70 IFCI 4.50, 4.35
4.40, 4.45, 4.35, 4.35 IL&FS Invt.M 16.20, 17.80, 16.20,17.25 Ind.Swift 48.75, 45.40, 45.95Ind.Swift La 17, 15.05, 15.15
16, 16, 15, 15.20 India Foils 5, 5.70, 4.55, 5.15 India Glycol 38.50, 39, 38.15, 38.35India Nippon 177, 180, 175, 176.35
177, 178.90, 175, 176.30 India Online 3.95, 4.80, 3.35, 4.65India Polyfi 2.85Indian Card 38.20, 38.20, 38.20,38.20 Indian Hume 585, 595, 573, 580
610, 610, 608, 608 Indo Gulf Fe 34.05, 36.50, 34, 36
36, 36, 34.50, 36 Indo Nationl 349.45, 349.45, 340,341.85 Indo Rama Sy 30.45, 30.50, 26.55,27.80
29.80, 29.80, 26.75, 27.70 Indraprast.M 11.70, 11.85, 11.60
11.60, 11.80, 11.45, 11.60 Indusind Bnk 18.50, 18, 18.25
18.40, 18.50, 18.05, 18.35 ING Vysya Bk 244
242.70, 249.30, 242.70, 247.25 Insilco 13.50, 13.30, 13.40Ion Exchange 20.25, 20.75, 20.25IP Rings 31.05, 35.35, 35.10IPCA Lab. 179.80, 174, 176.20
174, 177.45, 174, 176.30 Ispat Inds. 4.80, 4.65, 4.70
4.80, 4.90, 4.65, 4.65 IT & T 12.20, 13.60, 12.70
13, 13.50, 12.50, 12.55 ITC Hotels 43.60, 47
46.40, 47.50, 45.90, 46.40 IVRCL Infras 44, 46, 43, 43.95
45, 45.50, 42.70, 43.60
JJagatjit Ind 20.35Jai Corp 29.05, 29, 33.50Jain Irrig. 38.25, 38.60, 38.55
39, 40, 38, 38.15 Jain Studios 12.85
12.40, 13.25, 12.40, 12.60 Jaipan Inds. 10.05, 9.75, 9.95Jay Bh.Marut 25, 28.40, 27.50
27.90, 27.95, 27.90, 27.90 Jayant Agro 47, 47.50
49, 49.95, 48, 48 Jaypee Hotel 9.50Jayshree Tea 30.10, 30, 30.25
32.95, 33, 31, 31 JBF Inds. 9.55, 10.45, 9.10, 9.85JCT 3.40, 3.65Jenson&Nicho 4.40, 4.70
4.75, 4.80, 4.45, 4.80 JIK Inds. 23.45, 24.50, 22, 22.40
23.40, 23.40, 22.15, 22.75 Jindal Iron 90, 80.65, 81.90
87.90, 87.90, 80.25, 81.75 Jindal Photo 23.40, 23.75, 23.65
23.40, 24, 23.30, 23.80 Jindal Poly. 108.55, 108.55, 104.50,107.90 Jindal Strip 161, 164, 153.50, 156.55
161, 164.50, 153.50, 156.30 JK Corpn. 10.50JK Inds. 23.50, 23.85, 23.35JK Synthetic 2.90, 2.75, 2.90JL Morison 68.30, 75, 71.70JMC Projects 16, 16.65Jog Engg. 7Jubilant Org 145
145.25, 145.25, 145.25,145.25 Jupiter BioS 36.10, 37.25, 36,36.95
KKaashyap Rad 1.05, 1.15,0.95, 1Kabra Extr 32.50, 32.50,32.50, 32.50 Kajaria Cer 19.70, 19.80,19.75
19.60, 20.70, 19.60, 20 Kakatiya Cem 23.35, 23.40
24, 24, 24, 24 Kale Consul. 26.15, 27, 25.50,26.25
26.90, 27.10, 25.75, 26.40 Kalpa.Power 34.25, 34.30
34, 34, 34, 34 Kalyani Brak 215Kalyani Shrp 4.15Kalyani Stel 13.25, 12.25,12.50Karnatak Bnk 57.05, 57.45,55.95, 56.60
56.65, 58, 55.70, 56.40 Karur Vysya 180, 178.25, 179
179.50, 182.95, 177, 179.10 KDL Biotech 11.25, 12
11.30, 12, 11.30, 12 KEC Inter. 11.10, 11.60, 11.50
11, 11.65, 11, 11.45 Kerala Ayurv 7.40Kerala Chem. 14.65, 14.60Kesoram Inds 27.25, 27.35, 27.15,27.30
27, 27.55, 27, 27.45 Khandwala Se 6.75, 6.75, 6.75, 6.75 Khoday (I) 9.50, 9.40Kinetic Eng. 67, 63.90, 65.60Kinetic Moto 26.75, 27.50, 26.75Kirloskar Br 100.10, 101.05Kirloskar Oi 61.20, 64.75, 60, 64.20
62, 65, 62, 64.55 Kit-Ply Ind. 3.10, 3.15
3, 3.50, 3, 3.20 KLG Systel 24.20, 26.75, 24.15,26.25
27.90, 27.90, 25.25, 26.20 Kopran 21.40, 22.35, 22.20
22.20, 22.25, 21.60, 22.05 Kothari Prod 167
167.50, 167.50, 167.50, 167.50 KPIT Cum.Inf 143.80, 150.10,142.10, 148.35
144, 150.70, 142.20, 147.65 Krebs Bioche 95, 99.80, 93, 94.40Krishna Life 1.35, 1.60Krone Comm 57, 57.80, 50.10, 52.10KSB Pumps 60, 60.90, 60
59.50, 61.80, 59.50, 60.85
LLakhani (I) 95, 88, 95Lakshmi Au.C 64, 64, 62, 63.50 Lakshmi Elec 28.75, 30.60, 28.20,28.35Lakshmi Mach 975, 980
989.90, 990, 989.90, 990 Lanco Inds. 8.85Landmarc Lei 10LCC Infotech 2.80, 3.10, 2.80, 2.95 Liberty Shoe 51.30, 52.50, 51.30,52.25 Lloyds Steel 1.95, 1.90
1.90, 2, 1.90, 1.90 Logix Micro. 13.90, 12.50, 13Lumax Ind 29.70
26.05, 27.45, 25.85, 26.50 Lyka Labs 23.50, 24, 22.35, 23.55
24.95, 24.95, 22.80, 23.40
MMaars Soft 9.40, 9.70, 9.25, 9.55
9.55, 9.75, 9.15, 9.40 Macmillan (I 129.15, 137, 127.50,
130131.05, 131.05, 129, 129.45
Madhav Marb. 13.50, 13.60Madras Alum 49.95, 50Madras Cem. 3200, 3500, 3498.75
3353, 3360, 3350, 3360 Madras Fert. 8.50
8.50, 8.50, 8.20, 8.30 Mah.Scooter 62.50
64.50, 64.50, 64.50, 64.50 Mah.Seamless 136, 140, 139.95
137.05, 139, 137.05, 138.35 Mahavir Spg. 63, 66, 65
63.50, 66.70, 63.50, 64.65 Mahind.Gesco 12.05, 12.95, 12.70
12.50, 12.70, 12.50, 12.70 Mahindra Ugi 8.15, 8.20, 8.10, 8.15
8.30, 8.30, 8.15, 8.20 Majestic Aut 29.50, 29.65, 27.35,28.25Malwa Cotton 22.75
22.80, 23.50, 22.80, 23.25 Man Inds.(I) 19.50, 20, 19.70Mangalam Cem 8.90, 9, 8.35, 8.70 Manglr.Chem 3.60, 3.65, 3.55Maral Overs 13.25, 13.50, 13.25,13.50 Mascon Globl 9.40, 10.20, 10Matrix Lab. 280, 273, 277.60Matsush.Tele 3.80, 4.10
4.40, 4.45, 4.40, 4.40 Matsushita L 31.70Medicorp Tec 37.25, 37.50
37.30, 38.80, 37.10, 37.45 Mega Corpn. 4.90, 5.40, 4.70, 4.75Melstar Info 15.10, 15.25, 14.30,14.80
14.55, 15.40, 14.50, 14.85 Mercator Lin 23.50, 24.60, 23.45,24.25Metroche.Ind 15.35, 17.30MICO 3740, 3675.10, 3752
3670, 3790, 3660, 3725 Mid-Day Mul. 13.05, 13.60, 13,13.10
13.10, 13.50, 13, 13.05 Mindteck 14.80, 15.90, 13.60Mirza Tanner 34, 32, 32.35
32.50, 33, 32.50, 32.80 MM Forgings 83, 82Mobile Tele 4, 4.10, 3.80Modipon 14.40Monalisa Inf 0.45, 0.50Monnet Ispat 17.25, 17.90, 16.50,16.65Monsanto (I) 492, 495, 482.30
485, 490, 480, 489 Morarjee Goc 6.50, 6.50, 6, 6.50 Morepen Lab 14.60, 15, 14.80
14.75, 15.05, 14.65, 14.80 Morgan Stan 8.40, 8.45, 8.40
8.45, 8.55, 8.40, 8.45 Motherson SS 70, 70.10
72, 74.70, 71.90, 72.60 Mro-Tek 12.90, 13.10, 12.70, 12.90
13, 13.20, 12.80, 12.85 MRPL 8.65, 9.30, 9.20
8.80, 9.25, 8.60, 9.10 Mukand 10.80, 11.85, 11.60
11.10, 12, 11.05, 11.80 Mukand Engrs 9.10, 9.30, 9.10
9.65, 9.65, 9.65, 9.65 Munjal Auto 30.40, 30.50, 29.10,29.60Munjal Showa 130
128.50, 129.90, 128, 128 Mys.Cement 6, 6.45, 6.30
6.10, 6.30, 6.05, 6.25
NNagar.Agrich 13, 14.15, 14.10Nagar.Const. 39.30, 41Nagar.Fertil 4.30, 4.35, 4.25, 4.30
4.30, 4.40, 4.25, 4.35 Nahar Export 18.20, 18.50
18.35, 18.55, 18.35, 18.50 Nahar Indl.E 11.20, 12.10, 11, 12Nahar Intl. 4.50, 5.05, 4.45, 4.70 Nahar Spg. 64.50, 66, 64, 65.25
66.50, 66.50, 64.50, 65.60 Narmada C.Pe 12.60, 12.50, 12.95
12.70, 12.70, 12.70, 12.70 Narmada Cem. 25, 24.70, 26Natco Pharma 26.75
28.40, 29, 28, 28.70 Nath Seeds 6, 6.15, 5.70, 5.80
5.90, 6.10, 5.65, 5.75 National Fer 31.55, 31.05National Ste 6.55, 6.15, 6.50
6.35, 6.40, 6.25, 6.25 Nava Bh.Ferr 38.55
39.75, 39.75, 39.75, 39.75 Navneet Pub. 109.50, 115.40, 113.10
109, 115.45, 109, 115.05 NCL Inds. 4.55, 4.60, 4.10Nelco 25.65, 26.10, 25.50, 26
25.70, 26, 25.25, 25.75 Neuland Lab. 43.50, 40Nilkamal Pls 24.35, 24.35, 23.30,23.30 Noble Explo. 5.10, 5.55NOCIL 5.25, 5.30, 5.15, 5.25
5.25, 5.30, 5.20, 5.25 Noida Toll 5.90, 5.90, 5.90, 5.90 Nova Petro. 40, 42.50
46, 46, 43, 43 Novopan Inds 32.50, 32.50, 32.50,32.50 NRB Bearings 68, 69, 65.30, 67.10
65.50, 68.90, 65, 68 NRC 6, 6.50Nucleus Soft 67, 71.45, 65.40, 70
67.65, 69.95, 67.50, 69.75
OOdyssey Tech 8.70, 9.50Oil Country 7.05, 7.45
7.10, 7.10, 7.05, 7.10 Omax Autos. 30, 30.25, 29.75, 30.20
30.40, 30.50, 30, 30.05 Ondeo Nalco 388.90, 393.25, 373,381Onward Techn 22.75, 23, 22.30,22.70
22.75, 23.40, 21.80, 22.70 Opto Circuit 33, 32, 32.35Orchid Chem 68.50, 68.75, 67.65,68.20
69, 69.10, 68, 68.40 Orient Info. 32.80, 33.70, 32.25,32.75
33.80, 33.80, 32.30, 32.65 Orient Paper 14.65, 15, 14.60
13, 16.90, 13, 16 Oriental Con 14Oriental Hot 71.55, 71.50, 71.55
71, 77.80, 71, 73.50 Oswal Chem. 3.70, 3.65
4.10, 4.10, 3.20, 3.70 OTIS Elevato 320, 320, 320, 320
PPanacea Biot 26.25
26.45, 26.45, 25.75, 25.75 Pantaloon Re 45.85
43.55, 45.60, 43.55, 44.25 Paper Prod. 112, 114.50, 112, 114.50 Paramount Co 5.90Parekh Plati 6.90, 6.75, 6.80
6.65, 7.35, 6.65, 7 Parry’s Conf 75.40, 76, 67.55, 74.85 Patspin (I) 9.50
9.95, 9.95, 9.95, 9.95 PCS Inds. 16, 16.45, 15.70, 15.90Pennar Alum. 1.95, 2, 1.80, 1.90Pentagon Glo 1.90, 1.60, 1.65Pentasoft Te 6, 6.25, 5.90, 6
6.05, 6.25, 5.80, 6.05 PHIL Corpn. 4
4, 4.75, 4, 4.10 Philips Glas 12.30Phillip Carb 16.10, 16.90, 16, 16.05
17, 17.60, 17, 17.25 Phoenix Lamp 10.25, 10.35, 10Pioneer Embr 20.95
Plastiblend 35PNB Gilts 22.25, 23.25
22.80, 23, 22.70, 22.70 Polyplex 36.80, 37, 36.05
36.55, 37.10, 36.40, 36.95 Porrits&Spen 64.50, 65Praj Ind. 43, 40, 40.50
39, 41.90, 39, 40.90 Precision Wr 19.25, 19.25, 19.25,19.25 Premier Auto 5.10, 5.40, 4.95, 5.05Premier Inst 149.90, 150, 148, 150 Premier Tyre 4.55, 4.50Prism Cement 4.20, 4.30, 4.25
4.50, 4.50, 4.15, 4.15 Pritish Nand 18.10, 18.15, 17.65,17.95
18, 18.30, 17.55, 17.70 Priyad.Cemen 8.05, 8.10
8.10, 8.15, 8.10, 8.15 Prraneta Ind 9.75PSI Data Sys 47, 46.45, 46.70
43.05, 48.95, 43.05, 46.70 PSL 43.60, 42.50, 43.15
42.10, 43.50, 42.10, 43 Pudumjee Pul 19.40
16.40, 16.40, 16.35, 16.35 Pun.Alkali 9.90, 9.95, 9.15, 9.20Pun.Chemical 75.45, 76Pun.Communi. 39.90, 40, 38.10,38.35Pun.Nat.Bank 105.95, 107.40, 97.20,104.25
105.90, 106.40, 97, 104.55
RRain Calcing 8.10, 8.20
8.20, 8.30, 8.10, 8.25 Raj.Spg.&Wvg 16.70, 17, 16.10,16.70 Rajesh Exp 60
62.50, 62.50, 60, 60 Rajshree Sug 9.70, 9.70, 9.60, 9.65 Rallis India 57.50, 56.85, 57.45
58, 58.50, 56.25, 56.70 Rama Newspri 2.60, 2.65, 2.50, 2.60
2.70, 2.85, 2.55, 2.65 Ramco Inds. 135, 141, 134, 141 Ramco Systm 427, 430.50, 401,406.25
425, 433.70, 401, 408.20 Rane Brake 122.10, 116, 122Rane Engine 83.90, 80
84.30, 84.30, 82, 82 Rane Madras 35.50, 35.50, 33.10,33.10 Ravalgaon Su 1831.85, 1703Rayban Sun O 47, 47.45, 47.30Reg.Ceramic 21, 20.80
21, 21.35, 20.65, 20.65 Rel.Ind.Infr 36, 37
37, 37.60, 36.65, 37.45 Relaxo Footw 17.35Revathi Equ. 125, 111, 115.05Rico Auto 97.35, 102.10
107.25, 107.25, 107.25, 107.25 RPG Cables 6.90, 6.50, 6.60
7, 8, 6.50, 6.75 RPG Life Sci 27.90, 26.35
25.30, 27.20, 25.30, 26.50 RPG Transmi. 4.30, 4.30, 4.30, 4.30 RS Software 24.40, 24.45, 21.30,22.55
23.95, 24, 20.55, 20.95 Ruchi Soya 32.50, 32.50, 32, 32
SS Kumars Nat 3.15, 3.30S.I.Bank 39.60, 40, 39, 39.85
40.50, 40.50, 39, 39.60 S.I.C.Agency 6.35
7, 7, 5.80, 6.05 Sabero Org. 3.50, 4.30
4.40, 4.40, 3.95, 4 Saint-Gobain 8.60, 8Sakthi Sugar 5.60
5.25, 5.70, 5, 5.50 Salora Int. 38, 38.55, 37.80, 37.90
38, 38.75, 37, 37.75 Samkrg Pist. 28.50, 26.85, 27Samtel Color 20.40, 21, 20.50
21.25, 21.25, 20.40, 20.65 Sangam (I) 12.30, 12.50, 12.40
12.10, 12.10, 12.10, 12.10 Sanwaria Agr 13, 13.65, 12.75, 13.50Saregama (I) 44.95, 43.50, 44.20
47.50, 47.50, 44.05, 44.70 Satnam Over. 18.25, 20.90
18.50, 18.50, 18.50, 18.50 Satvah.Ispat 4.90, 5.10Savita Chem. 50.60, 53, 50.20, 52.75
52, 53.60, 51.40, 53.15 SBI Home Fin 7.45, 7.50
6.85, 7.40, 6.85, 7.10 Search Chem. 9.10, 9.70, 9.30
10.25, 10.25, 9.25, 9.30 Selan Explor 8.50Sesa Goa 78, 74, 74.75
75, 77.90, 74, 74.40 Sesha.Paper 31.50, 33.30Sh.Cements 46.80, 48.50
46.30, 48, 46.30, 47.35 Sh.Digv.Cem. 10Sh.Rama Mult 6.55, 6.35, 6.55
6.25, 6.60, 6.25, 6.50 Shah Alloys 18.15, 19.25, 19Shalimar Pai 24.65, 24.75Shamken Spin 4.60Shanti Gear 81.50
78, 78, 78, 78 Shasun Chem. 90, 90.90, 90
90, 95, 89.50, 90 Shiv Vani Un 9.65, 9.60, 9.65Shrenuj & Co 28.55, 28
26.50, 27.25, 26.50, 27.25 Shriram Inv 15, 15.05
Shriram Tran 14, 14.1514.40, 14.45, 14, 14.15
Silicon Vall 60.90, 60.25, 60.85Siltap Che. 39.45, 39.75
40, 40, 39.25, 39.95 Simbh.Sugar 7.50Sintex Inds. 31, 32, 31Sirpur Paper 34.90, 35
35.25, 35.25, 35.10, 35.10 Siyaram Silk 34.50, 36.45Skanska Ceme 177, 198
186, 186, 185, 185 Snowcem (I) 18.10, 18
18.35, 18.35, 17.75, 18 Soffia Soft. 14.15, 14.15, 13.50,13.55 Software Tec 11
11, 11, 11, 11 Solectron Ce 18.10, 18.40, 18, 18.05Solvay Pharm 116Sona Koyo St 75.50, 76, 72South.Herbal 5.45, 5.40Spel Semicon 2.45, 3, 2.70SPIC 4.60, 5, 4.90
4.95, 5, 4.75, 5 SPL 21.30, 24.65, 21.30, 24.65 SQL Star Int 4.95, 4.80, 5.45SREI Int.Fin 8.20, 8.20, 8.20, 8.20 SRF 22, 21.45, 21.70
21.80, 21.90, 21.60, 21.85 SRF Polymers 18, 23.50, 21.65SRG Infotech 0.65
0.65, 0.75, 0.65, 0.70 Sri Adhikari 48.55, 50.45, 49.85
49.75, 51.95, 49.20, 50.15 State Bnk Bi 580, 594.80, 594.70State Bnk My 460State Bnk Tr 463.95, 470, 460,464.05Std.Indust. 4.30, 4.80, 4.45
4.70, 4.70, 4.35, 4.40 Sterl.Inds. 156, 159.95, 155.30,158.50Stl.Strips W 9.50Su-raj Diamn 11.45, 11.50
11.65, 11.75, 11.50, 11.55 Subex System 93.65, 95.75, 91.05,95.10Subros 29.95, 28.50, 29.30Sun Earth Ce 2.10, 2.30, 2.05Sundaram Cla 188, 187.55
188, 192.25, 187.55, 191 Sundaram Fst 395, 350
341, 352, 341, 349.55 Sunflag Iron 4.35, 4.10, 4.30Supreme Inds 82, 81.05, 81.60
80, 80, 80, 80 Supreme Petr 7.95, 8, 7.70
7.90, 7.90, 7.80, 7.85 Surana Tele 12.50
13.90, 13.90, 13, 13 Surat Elec. 68Surya Roshni 11.55
11.75, 12, 11.75, 12 Surylak.Cott 13Sutlej Inds. 40, 40.95
42, 42, 40.30, 41 Suven Pharma 117, 122, 118.60Swaraj Engin 181, 178
177, 179.90, 177, 179.90 Swaraj Mazda 78.50, 80
77, 80.80, 77, 80 Synergy Log 6.80, 6.50, 6.60
TT Spiritual 181.50, 184.50, 181Taj GVK Hotl 39.90, 40
38, 38, 38, 38 Tata Coffee 66.50
69.80, 71, 67.85, 70.10 Tata Finance 14.95, 15.30, 14.90,15.05
15, 15.45, 15, 15.15 Tata Honeywl 241, 254.95, 240,243.90
245, 245, 240, 240.15 Tata Infomed 70, 68.50, 69
68.60, 69.80, 68.40, 69 Tata Infotec 155, 157.45, 149.10,150.70Tata Invest. 78, 76, 77.25
78, 78, 76.30, 76.30 Tata Metalik 28.90, 29, 28.80, 28.90
30.80, 30.80, 28.50, 28.90 Tata Sponge 33, 32.55, 32.95
33.40, 33.40, 32.60, 32.65 Tata Teleser 5.10, 4.75, 4.90
5, 5, 4.70, 4.90 Tata Yodogaw 33.05, 32.80, 33.20Tele Data In 14.10, 13, 13.15Themis Medic 28.45, 28, 28.20Thiru A.Sug. 18, 18, 16.60, 16.60 Thirumalai 39.05, 39, 40.95
40.70, 41.70, 40.70, 41.70 Tide Water O 1225, 1260, 1215,1248.65Timex Watch 9.20, 8.80, 8.85Timken India 26.55, 27, 26, 26.25Tinplate Co. 13.25, 12.80Tips Indus. 32.80, 33.30, 32.50,32.65
32.90, 36, 32.10, 32.55 TN Telecom 8.75
10, 10, 8.90, 9 Todays Writi 15.40, 17.60, 16.80
15, 17, 14.50, 16.65 Torrent Guja 6, 6.40, 6Tourism Fina 8
7.70, 8, 7.65, 8 Transnat.Sec 33.80Transpek Ind 8.55, 8.50Transport Co 19, 19, 19, 19 TRF 24.05, 24.40, 24.25Trigyn Tech. 14.85, 13.85, 14.10
14.30, 14.70, 13.80, 14.10 Triveni Engg 33, 32.70, 33
33.40, 33.50, 32.50, 32.50 TTK Healthca 14.95, 12.80, 14.25TTK Prestige 8
8, 8.20, 7.90, 8.20 Tube Invest. 88.10, 90, 88, 88.50 Tudor India 8.05, 7.55, 8Tuticorin.Al 3.35, 3.85, 3.55TV 18 56.30, 57.95, 56.15, 56.20
57.40, 58.90, 56.15, 56.35 TVS Autolec 48.50, 49.80TVS Srichakr 45, 47.50, 45.15
UUB Holdings 18.05, 17.95Ucal Fuel 153, 150.20, 151.30
157.25, 157.25, 150, 150.75 Ultramarine 57.90, 58.25Unichem Lab 148.10, 151, 150.85
150, 150.75, 148, 149.65 Uniflex Cabl 6.50, 6.40Union Bank 27.40, 27.75, 26.75, 27
27.50, 27.70, 26.75, 27.05 United Brew. 77.30, 82.85, 78United We.Bk 21.50, 22, 21.05, 21.10
21.80, 21.80, 20.95, 21.10 Univer.Cable 6.25
6.50, 6.50, 6.45, 6.45 Upper Ganges 9.10
11, 11, 11, 11 Usha Beltron 24.55, 24.60, 24.55
24.65, 25, 24.05, 24.90 Usha Mat.Inf 2, 2.05
2.05, 2.05, 2.05, 2.05 Uttam Galva. 7, 6.90, 7.05
7.05, 7.20, 6.85, 7
VVaibhav Gems 18.80Vanavil Dyes 41.50, 43.30, 41.40,43.15Vardhman Pol 42.80, 42
42.25, 46.50, 42.25, 42.90 Vardhman Spg 52.50, 55, 54.15
52.90, 55.25, 52.90, 54.95 Varun Ship. 9.20, 9.80, 9.50
9.35, 9.45, 9.20, 9.35 Vashisti Det 10.20, 10.25, 10.10
10.50, 10.50, 10.10, 10.10 Venky’s (I) 44.25, 47.90, 47.60
46.65, 47.50, 46.50, 46.70 Veronica Lab 6.15, 6.20, 5.70, 5.80Vesuvius (I) 63, 62.70, 63
63, 63.90, 62.25, 63.60 Viceroy Hot. 9.15Videocon Apl 7.40, 7.90, 7.85
7.80, 7.95, 7.75, 7.85 Vidhi Dyestu 15.25, 16.25, 15, 15.25Vikrant Tyre 10.60, 10.65, 9.10, 9.25Vinati Org. 13.50, 13.95, 13.50Vindhya Tele 17.55
16.80, 18, 16.80, 18 Vintage Card 5.55, 5.50
5.90, 6.10, 4.85, 5.50 Vinyl Chem. 5.30, 5.55
5.25, 5.45, 5.10, 5.45 VIP Indus. 17.25, 17
17.90, 17.90, 17.05, 17.15 Visaka Ind. 21.90, 22
21.65, 22.50, 21.65, 22.05 Visesh Info 4.30
4.55, 4.80, 4.50, 4.80 Vision Organ 0.95, 1, 0.95
0.85, 1, 0.85, 0.95 VJIL Consult 5.30, 6.30, 6.25Voltas 51, 51.85, 50, 51.55
51.15, 51.95, 49.25, 51.40 Vorin Lab. 38, 38.40, 38.25VST Indus. 95.05
114, 114, 94.75, 100.40 VXL Instrum. 21.40, 21.35, 21.40
WWalchandngr 29.50
29.75, 29.90, 29.75, 29.90 Warren Tea 38.20, 38Wartsila (I) 112, 116.75, 112.15Wellwin Ind. 10.50, 10.70, 10.05,10.20
10.70, 10.70, 10.10, 10.20 Welspun (I) 22.55, 26.80Welspun Guj. 6.80, 8.25West Coast P 94.75, 96.75, 93, 95.05 Widia (I) 67.95, 67.90, 67.95Wim Plast 30.50Wimco 25.50, 25.35, 25.80
25.80, 26.10, 25.65, 25.80 Wockhardt Lf 22, 22.50, 22.25
22.55, 22.60, 22.05, 22.10 Wyeth 192, 209, 190, 191
190, 199.45, 190, 193.05
YYokogawa Blu 65.45, 65.50, 65.45
65.45, 65.50, 65.45, 65.45
ZZandu Pharm 1350, 1345
1380, 1380, 1380, 1380 Zenith Comp. 7.75, 7.50, 7.70
7.70, 7.70, 7.25, 7.60 Zenith Exp. 18.65Zenith Info. 9.80, 9.75, 9.90
9.80, 10.50, 9.80, 10.35 ZF Steering 76, 77Zicom Electn 26.50, 26.15, 26.20Zigma Soft. 9.90, 10.40, 9.60Zodiac Cloth 70
70.90, 70.90, 67, 68.25 Zuari Inds. 19.60
19.30, 19.65, 19.30, 19.55
As on 11/04/2003Alliance Mutual Fund 95 (D) 25.66 26.17 25.6695 (G) 46.31 47.24 46.31Basic Inds.(D) 12.21 12.45 12.21Basic Inds.(G) 12.22 12.46 12.22Buy India (D) 4.24 4.32 4.24Buy India (G) 4.24 4.32 4.24Capital Tax Relief’96 52.72 53.25 52.72Equity (D) 13.64 13.91 13.64Equity (G) 24.65 25.14 24.65Frontline Eq(D) 10.10 10.30 10.10Frontline Eq(G) 10.10 10.30 10.10G-Sec Long Term (D) 11.43 11.43 11.43G-Sec Long Term (G) 16.99 16.99 16.99G-Sec Short Term (D) 10.18 10.18 10.18G-Sec Short Term (G) 13.82 13.82 13.82Income (D) 10.94 10.94 10.94Income (G) 21.43 21.43 21.43Income 54EA (D) 10.94 10.94 10.94Income 54EA (G) 21.43 21.43 21.43Income 54EB (D) 10.96 10.96 10.96Income 54EB (G) 21.29 21.29 21.29Income Q’ly (D) 10.60 10.60 10.60Monthly Income (G) 16.68 16.68 16.68Monthly Income (M’ly) 10.21 10.21 10.21Monthly Income (Q’ly) 10.29 10.29 10.29New Millennium (D) 3.41 3.48 3.41New Millennium (G) 3.42 3.49 3.42Benchmark Mutual Fund Nifty BeES 95.64 — —Nifty Junior BeES 131.64 — —Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund Advantage (A) 23.46 23.69 23.46Advantage (B) 23.46 23.69 23.46Balanced (D) 8.90 8.99 8.90Balanced (G) 8.90 8.99 8.90Bond Plus (D) 10.48 10.48 10.48Bond Plus (G) 11.14 11.14 11.14Cash Plus (G) 16.32 16.32 16.32Cash Plus (Reinv) 10.80 10.80 10.80Dividend Yield Plus(D) 10.06 10.06 10.06Dividend Yield Plus(G) 10.06 10.06 10.06Equity 12.50 12.50 12.50FMP 1Yr 5A(D) 10.52 10.52 10.52FMP 1Yr 5A(G) 10.52 10.52 10.52FMP Long Term - A (D) 11.06 11.06 11.06FMP Long Term - A (G) 11.06 11.06 11.06FMP Long Term - E (G) 10.88 10.88 10.88FMP Q’ly Group 1 (D) 10.95 10.95 10.95FMP Q’ly Group 1 (G) 11.17 11.17 11.17FMP Y Group 1(G) 10.64 10.64 10.64Gilt Plus Invst.(A-D) 11.38 11.38 11.38Gilt Plus Invst.(B-G) 17.54 17.54 17.54Gilt Plus Long (A-D) 11.72 11.72 11.72Gilt Plus Long (B-G) 19.28 19.28 19.28Gilt Plus Lq.(A-D) 10.49 10.49 10.49Gilt Plus Lq.(B-G) 14.75 14.75 14.75IT A (D-Payout) 10.06 10.16 10.06IT A (D-Reinv) 10.06 10.16 10.06IT B (G) 11.71 11.83 11.71Income Plus (A-D) 10.61 10.61 10.61Income Plus (B-G) 26.16 26.16 26.16Income Plus Instnl B(G) 26.23 26.23 26.23Income Plus Instnl. A(D) 26.23 26.23 26.23Index Fund (D) 9.77 9.82 9.77Index Fund(G) 9.77 9.82 9.77MIP A (D) 10.53 10.53 10.53MIP B (G-Payout) 13.39 13.39 13.39MIP C (G-Payout) 13.39 13.39 13.39MNC A (D-Payout) 21.74 21.96 21.74MNC A (D-Reinv) 21.74 21.96 21.74MNC B (G) 27.23 27.50 27.23Midcap (D) 9.55 9.65 9.55Midcap (G) 10.05 10.15 10.05
Sweep Plan (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01Sweep Plan (G) 10.19 10.19 10.19Chola Mutual Fund FMP Q’ly (D) 10.02 10.02 9.97FMP Y’ly (Cum) 10.63 10.63 10.63FMP Y’ly (D) 10.02 10.02 9.82Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly) 10.98 10.98 10.98Freedom Income (C) 17.36 17.36 17.36Freedom Income (R) 10.13 10.13 10.13Freedom Income-Inst Cum 17.36 17.36 17.36Freedom Tech.(Cum) 7.38 7.52 7.38Freedom Tech.(Reg) 4.68 4.77 4.68Gilt Invst.(Cum) 15.71 15.71 15.71Gilt Invst.(Reg) 10.34 10.34 10.34Gilt Series (Cum) 13.15 13.41 13.02Gilt Series (Reg) 13.15 13.41 13.02Growth (Cum) 12.28 12.53 12.28Growth (Reg) 10.29 10.50 10.29Liq.-Cumulative-Inst Cum 12.21 12.21 12.21Liquid Instl. Cum 10.09 10.09 10.09Liquid Instl. Div.Pay 10.77 10.77 10.77Lq. (Cum) 12.21 12.21 12.21Lq. (Reg) 11.32 11.32 11.32Lq. Sr. Apr-06 (Reg) 11.84 11.84 11.84Triple Ace (B) 11.82 11.82 11.82Triple Ace (Cum) 21.27 21.27 21.27Triple Ace (Reg) 11.38 11.38 11.38DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 9.28 9.28 9.14Balanced (G) 10.37 10.37 10.21Bond (D) 11.80 11.80 11.80Bond (G) 21.34 21.34 21.34Bond Fund Inst. 10.26 10.26 10.26Equity 13.35 13.62 13.35Opportunities 8.41 8.58 8.41Savings Plus 10.06 10.06 10.06Technology.Com 3.87 3.95 3.87Top 100 9.96 10.16 9.96Escorts Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 11.15 11.29 11.15Balanced (G) 12.37 12.52 12.37Gilt (D) 11.84 11.84 11.84Gilt (G) 12.95 12.95 12.95Growth (G) 11.72 11.90 11.72Growth (D) 10.73 10.89 10.73Income (D) 10.51 10.51 10.51Income (G) 18.24 18.24 18.24Income Bond (D) 9.46 9.46 9.46Income Bond (G) 11.20 11.20 11.20Opportunities (D) 10.34 10.34 10.34Opportunities (G) 11.93 11.93 11.93Tax (D) 9.55 9.55 —Tax (G) 9.55 9.55 —Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund FT Index - BSE 9.06 9.06 9.15FT Index - Nifty 9.38 9.38 9.47FT PE Ratio 8.55 8.55 8.72Franklin Bluechip (D) 11.71 11.71 11.94Franklin Bluechip (G) 23.04 23.04 23.50Franklin FMCG 9.98 9.98 10.18Franklin Growth 5.43 5.54 5.43Franklin Index 7.27 7.34 7.27Franklin Index Tax 7.44 7.51 7.44Franklin Infotech (D) 7.16 7.16 7.30Franklin Infotech (G) 10.47 10.47 10.68Franklin Internet Opp 4.11 4.11 4.19Franklin Pharma 8.34 8.34 8.51Franklin Prima (D) 15.18 15.18 15.48Franklin Prima (G) 29.61 29.61 30.20Franklin Prima Plus (D) 12.63 12.63 12.88Franklin Prima Plus (G) 23.17 23.17 23.63Franklin Taxshield (D) 11.27 11.27 11.50Franklin Taxshield (G) 23.98 23.98 24.46T Floating Rate In ST (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01T Floating Rate In ST (G) 10.85 10.85 10.85T India Growth 12.73 12.98 12.73T Liquid (D - D’ly) 10.00 10.00 10.00T Liquid (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01T Liquid (G) 15.01 15.01 15.01T Liquid Plus 11.30 11.30 11.30T Liquid Plus (D) 10.00 10.00 10.00T ST Income (G) 1101.50 1101.50 1101.50
T ST Income (M’ly) 1020.32 1020.32 1020.32T ST Income (Q’ly) 1013.49 1013.49 1013.49T ST Income (W’ly B) 1041.60 1041.60 1041.60T ST Income (W’ly) 1093.91 1093.91 1093.91T TMA (G) 1508.11 1508.11 1508.11T TMA (W’ly) 1245.37 1245.37 1245.37T TMA (Wkly B) 1402.02 1402.02 1402.02T TMA (Y’ly) 1146.40 1146.40 1146.40IDBI-PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 10.23 10.42 10.23Balanced (G) 10.13 10.32 10.13Cash Mngt.-Liquid (G) 11.96 11.96 11.96Cash Mngt.-Liquid (WD) 10.10 10.10 10.10Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(D) 10.00 10.00 10.00Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(G) 11.74 11.74 11.74Child (CB) 16.29 16.60 15.80Child (FG) 16.08 16.39 15.60Equity (D) 9.80 9.99 9.80Equity (G) 9.29 9.47 9.29Growth (D) 9.75 9.94 9.75Growth (G) 9.80 9.99 9.80Index 7.36 7.44 7.36PRIN.Cash Manag.Liq.(M) 10.00 10.00 10.00Short Term (D) 10.16 10.16 10.14Short Term (G) 10.78 10.78 10.75Tax Savings 13.83 14.11 13.83IL&FS Mutual Fund Bond (B) 10.68 10.68 10.68Bond (D-Q’ly) 10.99 10.99 10.99Bond (D-Y’ly) 11.62 11.62 11.62Bond (G) 16.02 16.02 16.02Bond Short Term (D) 10.28 10.28 10.28Bond Short Term (G) 10.97 10.97 10.97Bond Short Term-Inst.(D) 10.28 10.28 10.28Bond Short Term-Instnl.G 10.97 10.97 10.97Bond-Institutional (G) 16.03 16.03 16.03E-Com (D) 2.34 2.39 2.34E-Com (G) 2.34 2.39 2.34Gilt Long Term (D) 11.54 11.54 11.54Gilt Long Term (G) 12.58 12.58 12.58Gilt Short Term (D) 11.16 11.16 11.16Gilt Short Term (G) 11.76 11.76 11.76Growth & Value (D-Y’ly) 10.44 10.65 10.44Growth & Value (G) 11.68 11.91 11.68Growth & Value(D-Hf Y’ly) 9.25 9.44 9.25Index BSE Sensex 8.44 8.52 8.44Index Nifty 8.32 8.40 8.32Liquid Account Call 10.65 10.65 10.65Lq. A/c (D) 10.00 10.00 10.00Lq. A/c (G) 11.24 11.24 11.24ING Mutual Fund Balanced Portfolio (D) 6.15 6.24 6.15Balanced Portfolio (G) 6.15 6.24 6.15Capital Portfolio 10.89 10.89 10.89Gilt Portfolio 10.50 10.50 10.50Growth Portfolio (D) 4.87 4.97 4.87Growth Portfolio (G) 5.83 5.95 5.83Income Portfolio (G) 15.68 15.68 15.68Income Portfolio (I) 10.31 10.31 10.31Income Portfolio-Inst.(D) 10.32 10.32 10.32Income Short Term 10.46 10.46 10.46Invst. Portfolio 8.30 8.47 8.30Treasury Portfolio (D) 10.75 10.75 10.75Treasury Portfolio (G) 12.83 12.83 12.83JM Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 9.16 9.30 9.16Balanced (G) 15.99 16.23 15.99Basic 11.86 12.04 11.86Equity (D) 7.72 7.84 7.72Equity (G) 7.28 7.39 7.28G-Sec (D-Reg) 10.53 10.53 10.53G-Sec (G-Reg) 17.99 17.99 17.99G-Sec Fund - PF Plan -(G) 18.46 18.46 18.46G-Sec PF 16.91 16.91 16.91G-Sec Reg (GB) 10.58 10.58 10.58High Liq.Growth - Bonus 10.49 10.49 10.49High Lq. (D) 12.02 12.02 12.02High Lq. (D-D’ly) 10.41 10.41 10.41High Lq. (G) 16.78 16.78 16.78High Lq. Inst.(G) 10.01 10.01 10.01High Lq.Inst.(D) 10.01 10.01 10.01
Income (D) 10.51 10.51 10.51Income (G) 24.64 24.64 24.64Income Bonus 11.18 11.18 11.18Income Serial 00 (D) 10.76 10.76 10.76Income Serial 04 (D) 10.88 10.88 10.88Income Serial-2004(G) 10.04 10.04 10.04Short Term 10.34 10.34 10.34Short Term (G) 10.71 10.71 10.71Short Term Fund Inst.(D) 10.02 10.02 10.02Short Term Fund Inst.(G) 10.02 10.02 10.02Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund K-30 (D) 11.70 11.91 11.70K-30 (G) 11.70 11.90 11.70K-Balance 10.24 10.42 10.24K-MNC 7.26 7.38 7.26K-Tech 2.40 2.44 2.40PNB Mutual Fund Balanced Growth (G) 12.55 12.55 12.36Balanced Growth (I) 9.83 9.83 9.68Debt (G) 18.43 18.43 18.34Debt (I) 12.59 12.59 12.52Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 8.84 9.04 8.84Balanced (G) 9.57 9.79 9.57Child Care Gift 11.03 11.30 10.75Dynamic Plan 10.59 10.83 10.59FMCG (D) 6.82 6.97 6.82FMCG (G) 7.43 7.60 7.43FMP - Y’ly Sr.5 (G) 10.87 10.87 10.65Growth (D) 9.05 9.25 9.05Growth (G) 18.62 19.04 18.62Income Instnl.(G) 18.32 18.32 18.32Index 8.10 8.10 8.10Liquid (D) 11.84 11.84 11.84Liquid (G) 14.90 14.90 14.90Liquid - Daily (D) 11.85 11.85 11.85Liquid Instnl.Mon.(D) 11.89 11.89 11.89Liquid- Instnl. (DD) 11.85 11.85 11.85Liuid- Instnl. (D) 11.85 11.85 11.85Power 13.47 13.77 13.47Power (D) 14.90 14.90 14.90SPICE 30.01 30.01 30.01Short Term 11.29 11.29 11.29Short Term (D) 10.58 10.58 10.58Short Term Instnl. (FD) 10.82 10.82 10.82Short Term Instnl. (MD) 10.82 10.82 10.82Tax (D) 8.65 8.84 8.65Tax (G) 11.86 12.13 11.86Technology 2.47 2.53 2.47Sundaram Mutual Fund Balanced (App) 10.37 10.53 10.37Balanced (D) 10.37 10.53 10.37Bond Saver (App) 20.07 20.07 20.07Bond Saver (B) 10.50 10.50 10.50Bond Saver (D) 10.83 10.83 10.83Gilt (App) 11.81 11.81 11.81Gilt (D) 10.18 10.18 10.18Growth 10.48 10.69 10.48Growth (G) 12.48 12.73 12.48Income Plus - App 10.83 10.83 10.83Income Plus - Div 10.59 10.59 10.59Money (App) 12.68 12.68 12.68Money (D) 10.03 10.03 10.03Select Debt 3Yr AP (App) 10.32 10.32 10.32Select Debt 3Yr AP (HYD) 10.32 10.32 10.32Select Debt 3Yr AP (QD) 10.19 10.19 10.19Select Debt 3Yr AP (YD) 10.32 10.32 10.32Select Debt 5Yr AP (App) 10.09 10.09 10.09Select Debt 5Yr AP (HYD) 10.09 10.09 10.09Select Debt 5Yr AP (QD) 10.07 10.07 10.07Select Debt 5Yr AP (YD) 10.09 10.09 10.09Select Debt DAP (App) 11.08 11.08 11.08Select Debt DAP (HYD) 11.08 11.08 11.08Select Debt DAP (QD) 10.77 10.77 10.77Select Debt DAP (YD) 11.08 11.08 11.08Select Debt LTAP (App) 10.32 10.32 10.32Select Debt LTAP (HYD) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt LTAP (QD) 10.11 10.11 10.11Select Debt LTAP (YD) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt STAP (App) 10.49 10.49 10.49Select Debt STAP (HYD) 10.49 10.49 10.49
Select Debt STAP (QD) 10.28 10.28 10.28Select Debt STAP (YD) 10.49 10.49 10.49Select Focus 11.32 11.55 11.32Select Focus (G) 11.32 11.55 11.32Select Mid Cap 10.05 10.25 10.05Select Midcap (G) 10.05 10.25 10.05Tax Saver 8.77 8.77 8.77Taurus Mutual Fund Bonanza Ex.(G) 9.73 9.90 9.70Discovery Stock 3.55 3.61 3.54Libra Bond (D) 11.05 11.05 11.02Libra Bond (G) 11.38 11.38 11.35Libra Gilt (D) 11.23 11.23 11.21Libra Gilt (G) 11.57 11.57 11.54Libra Tax Shield 8.19 8.19 8.19The Starshare 5.65 5.75 5.64UTI Mutual Fund Bond (G) 17.67 17.67 17.58Bond (I) 10.99 10.99 10.94Brand Value 7.30 7.30 7.15CCP 12.63 12.63 12.12CRTS 89.46 89.46 86.77Equity Tax Savings 9.90 9.90 9.80G-Sec (G) 16.45 16.45 16.45G-Sec (I) 10.98 10.98 10.98Grandmaster 93 8.51 8.51 8.34Index Select Eq. 12.27 12.52 12.27Mahila Unit Scheme 12.20 12.20 11.84Master Growth-1993 13.40 13.40 13.13Master Index 9.21 9.21 9.16Mastergain 92 9.05 9.05 8.87Masterplus 91 15.48 15.48 15.17Money Market (G) 17.01 17.01 17.01Money Market (In) 16.90 16.90 16.90Nifty Index 5.82 5.82 5.79PEF 11.68 11.91 11.68Petro 12.67 12.67 12.42Pharma & Healthcare 9.50 9.50 9.31RBP 1994 17.95 18.30 17.05Regular Income 10.20 10.20 10.15Regular Income Scheme (G) 10.40 10.40 10.34Service 12.47 12.47 12.22Software 5.83 5.83 5.71UGS 10000 9.85 10.05 9.85ULIP 12.42 12.42 12.24US 2002 5.68 5.68 5.59US 95 (G) 18.43 18.43 18.06US 95 (I) 11.64 11.64 11.41Variable Invt.(ILS) 9.48 9.60 9.48Zurich India Mutual Fund Capital Builder (D) 8.75 8.93 8.75Capital Builder (G) 10.22 10.42 10.22Equity (D) 12.81 13.07 12.81Equity (G) 23.44 23.91 23.44High Int. (D-Half Y’ly) 11.73 11.73 11.73High Int. (D-Q’ly) 11.47 11.47 11.47High Int. (D-Y’ly) 12.10 12.10 12.10High Int. (G) 21.45 21.45 21.45High Int. Stp (D) 10.47 10.47 10.47High Int. Stp (G) 11.03 11.03 11.03Liquidity - Call (Dd) 10.43 10.43 10.43Liquidity - Call (G) 10.64 10.64 10.64Liquidity - IP(D) 11.43 11.43 11.43Liquidity - IP(G) 13.18 13.18 13.18Liquidity - SP(D-W’ly) 10.64 10.64 10.64Liquidity - SP(G) 12.56 12.56 12.56Liquidity - Sp(D-D’ly) 10.64 10.64 10.64Prudence (D) 14.59 14.88 14.59Prudence (G) 25.12 25.62 25.12Sovereign Gilt - IP(D) 11.19 11.19 11.19Sovereign Gilt - IP(G) 14.41 14.41 14.41Sovereign Gilt - PP(D) 11.31 11.31 11.31Sovereign Gilt - PP(G) 15.90 15.90 15.90Sovereign Gilt - SP(D) 10.96 10.96 10.96Sovereign Gilt - SP(G) 12.47 12.47 12.47Tax Saver (D) 15.52 15.83 15.52Tax Saver (G) 19.55 19.94 19.55Top 200 (D) 11.72 11.95 11.72Top 200 (G) 17.20 17.54 17.20International Funds (Last Traded) Franklin Intl. 9.96 9.96 9.91
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Sensex falls marginallyMumbai: Riding piggyback on a sharp rally in front-line NewEconomy counters, the Sensex attempted a remarkable recovery atearly stages only to end flat on Tuesday. Led by Infosys Technolo-gies, which was at the receiving end during last week after it an-nounced poor outlook for fiscal 2003-04, Satyam Computers, ZeeTelefilms and some of the second-line stocks bounced back with avengeance on fairly heavy buying at the prevailing lower levels.However, higher levels attracted profit-selling and a few of them re-acted downwards at close. Reflecting sharp advances in heavy-weights like Infosys, Satyam and a few others, the BSE benchmark30-share Sensex opened remarkably up at 3010.96 and even rose tothe intra-day high of 3018.66. Later, it fell back due to selling by do-mestic funds in Old Economy shares like RIL, SBI, TISCO, Telco,HPCL, Hero Honda, ITC and ACC to end hardly unchanged at2997.38 against last Friday’s close of 2997.87, a modest fall of 0.49points. The broad-based BSE-100 index, however, rose by 4.73 pointsto 1487.11 from its previous close of 1482.38. PTI
KEY: The BSE quotations of a scrip are given in the first line while the quotes in ital-ics are those of the NSE.The quotations are in the sequence of the day’s opening,high, low, and closing. Each time a company’s closing share price falls below its “lastoffer price” on BSE, the name of the company is underlined.
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Hindustan Motors movescourt over Hyundai ad
By Byas AnandTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Hindustan Motorshas moved the Kolkata HighCourt against Hyundai MotorIndia Ltd, charging the SouthKorean car maker’s subsidiaryof passing “disparaging” com-ments against MitsubishiLancer.
The CK Birla flagship firm,which also produces the mid-sized Ambassador, alleged thatHyundai, in an advertisementfor Accent CRDi, called theLancer a slow, noisy, moody andstupid diesel car.
“The fact that the model inthe advertisement was refer-ring to Lancer was evident fromthe window, door frames, sidepanel, front grille, headlights
and tail lights of her stalled carshown in the ad,” HM said in itspetition and sough an ad-inter-im injunction restrainingHyundai from airing these ads.
HM also stated that passingsuch comments is a calculatedmove to depreciate Lancer’squality and value, as also weanaway potential customers.
Admitting a prima facie case,Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghoshpassed an ad-interim order ofinjunction and directedHyundai officials to appear incourt for an explanation.
“It appears from the adver-tisements that Hyundai, withan intention to puff their Ac-cent CRDi car are trying to de-grade the Lancer, since it is acompetitor.”
Intl Tractors pulls outof PTL disinvestment
By Byas AnandTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The stalled disin-vestment of the Rs 1,000-crorePunjab Tractors Ltd (PTL) re-ceived another blow with one ofthe interested players—the In-ternational Tractors (ITL) andRenault combine—deciding topull out of the race.
While ITL chairman LD Mit-tal admitted that the companyhas decided against bidding forPunjab State Industrial Devel-opment Corporation’s (PSIDC)23.49 per cent stake in PTL, herefused to say whyit had put offthe decision after it had sub-mitted an expression of interest(EoI) along with Renault.“There are a whole lot of issuesinvolved. I would only say weare not interested in the compa-ny any longer,” Mittal added.
The disinvestment process
has been delayed for some timenow with bidders jittery over is-sues of management controland financial health of PTL.The central issue, according toindustry sources, is whetherthe buyer of PSIDC’s stakewould automatically get man-agement control.
UTI and LIC together holdaround 27 per cent stake in PTL.Since there’s no clarity on the fi-nancial institutions’ stand, bid-ders are unclear whether man-agement control would betransferred to the buyer ofPSIDC’s stake in the firm, thesources added.
Twelve bidders, includingM&M, Escorts and New Hol-land, had filed EoIs for acquir-ing stake in PTL. Foreign in-vestors Warburg Pincus, JPMorgan and CommonwealthDevelopment Corporation hadalso joined the fray.
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New Delhi: While the cricket carnival in Sharjahcontinues, the Indian no-show has taken the fizzout of it. With Indians and Pakistanis accountingfor a large share of the local population, Indo-Pakclashed were the USP of Sharjah cricket. Howev-er, with the Indian government clamping down onoff-shore venues in the wake of the fixing scandalin 2000, Sharjah, which has by far hosted moreODIs (198) than any other centre in the world, lostout on the glamorous and money-spinning sub-continental rivalry.
However, Cricketers Benefit Fund Series(CBFS), which runs cricket in Sharjah, has notthrown in the towel — it still holds events on a reg-ular basis. It has also kept up efforts to bring backthe Indian team to Sharjah. AbdulrahmanBukhatir, CBFS’ chairman and the man whobrought cricket to the region, met external affairsminister Yashwant Sinha and other ministrymandarins to put forward his case last February.‘‘There response was positive and I’m optimistic,’’Bukhatir told Times News Network in Sharjahduring last week’s four-nation event.
Defending Sharjah as a genuine and trouble-free location, Bukhatir said, ‘‘how can you call it anon-regular place when we’ve been staging eventsregularly for more than 20 years. We’ve survived,even without India, while places like Toronto andSingapore haven’t.’’
Bukhatir said it was hard for him to understandwhy Sharjah was black-listed. ‘‘None of the ter-rorists in the list Indian government gave to Pak-istan are here. As far as security goes, it’s alwaysvery high on our priority. Lakhs of Indians are liv-ing here without any hassle. Why can’t we providesecurity to a few cricketers?’’ Bukhatir asked.
What about allegations of Sharjah being the heartof betting and match-fixing? ‘‘Every panwallahplays Matka in Mumbai. Can you do anything aboutit? About fixing, the ICC has already given us a cleanchit.’’ Bukhatir said he had hoped India would atleast come to Tangiers (Morocco), CBFS’ recently-floated venue. ‘‘But even that didn’t happen.’’
Bukhatir suggested that Sharjah had to pay forbecoming a high-profile venue — film stars andother celebrities from Indian and Pakistan wereregular attractions during matches. ‘‘Besides,we’re caught in the internal wranglings of the In-
dian cricket board as also the TV war,’’ he said,adding, ‘‘it’s so ironic because it was people likeMr Chidambaram, Mr Wankhede and Mr Salve(all former BCCI presidents) who helped Sharjahfind its feet in the beginning.’’
Admitting that CBFS has suffered heavily dueto India’s refusal to play, Bukhatir expressed opti-mism that India would play at Sharjah soon. ‘‘Maybe next year,’’ he said. ‘‘Most of the Indian cricketboard members are in favour of your team playinghere. Only the government has to make up itsmind.’’ Bukhatir added: ‘‘We won’t even have Pak-istan for the same event if India so desires.’’
Talking about cricket development in the Unit-ed Arab Emirates, Bukhatir informed that twonew stadiums were coming up. ‘‘The facility atDubai should be ready in a month. We’re alsostarting work shortly on a stadium in Abu Dhabi.’’Bukhatir hoped UAE would then be able to hosttournaments like the ICC Champions Trophy.
Bukhatir supported the Indian players on thecontracts tangle. ‘‘ICC gave commitments withoutconsulting the players. I believe the ICC is tryingto sort out the matter within the fraternity and notthrough arbitration.’’
CBFS optimistic about getting India back
Tame draw: South Africa A andAustralia A played out a draw onTuesday on the final day of theirthree-day cricket match at AdelaideOval. The South Africans finishedwith 78 for three in their second in-nings in a brief attempt at a toughvictory target before the captainsagreed to call off the match early.The visitors needed 173 from 22overs to win. Australia A: 263 and 296. South Africa A: 387and 78 for 3 (M Van Wyke 43). AFP
Pakistan to play: A day afterwithdrawing from the Asia Cup, Pak-istan announced on Tuesday it willcompete in a three-nation cricket se-ries against New Zealand and SriLanka in Sri Lanka next month. Pak-istan Cricket Board spokesmanSamiul Hassan confirmed the partici-pation in the limited-overs tourna-ment which starts on May 10.
Fixture: May 10: Pakistan v Sri Lanka; May 11:Pakistan v New Zealand; May 13: Sri Lanka vNew Zealand; May 17: Pakistan v Sri Lanka; May18: Sri Lanka v New Zealand; May 19: Pakistan vNew Zealand; May 23: Final. AFP
Carlos suspended: World soc-cer’s governing body on Tuesday up-held its decision to provisionally sus-pend Roberto Carlos from playing forBrazil. FIFA rejected an appeal fromthe Real Madrid striker against lastweek’s ruling suspending him fromall competitive and friendly matcheswith the Brazilian national team,which followed the player’s dismissalfor hitting a referee. “Having viewedthe recording of the match FIFA is ofthe opinion that there is sufficient ev-idence to support the provisionalsuspension,’’ a statement said. AFP
Rayudu to lead: Stylish Hyder-abad batsman Ambavati Rayudu willlead the India Under-19 team toKathmandu for a six-day tour wherethey will play three one-dayers — onApril 27th , 28th and 30th, accordingto the information received here onTuesday. UP player Suresh Raina willbe Rayudu’s deputy.The squad: Y Ganeshwar Rao, (Andh), ManvinderBisla (Har), A T Rayudu (capt., Hyd), Suresh Raina(v.capt., UP), Kuldeep Rawat (Del), Irfan Pathan(Bar), Udit Patel (Kar), Sumit Biswal (Ori), SouravSarkar (Kol), D Kartik (TN), Rakesh Solanki (UP),Shivakanth Shukla (UP), Tahir Abbas (UP) and Ab-hishek Sharma (Del). Manager: M S Jaggi. TNN
France’s Eric Cantona (L) andEngland’s Alan Shearer hold aloftthe English Premier League trophyin London on Monday. Shearerwas named the domestic player ofthe decade while Cantona, aformer United player, was namedthe overseas player of the decadein a poll which covered over 184countries.
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It’s going to be sore fora week. But I have to be able
to do justice to my position inthe side.
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India’s youngest player, 18-year-old Parthiv Patel, practises for the one-dayer against Bangladesh in Dhaka on Tuesday.
Indian think-tank opts to experimentSehwag to lead asDada takes a breakDhaka: With Sourav Gangu-ly deciding to rest his injuredback, Virender Sehwagwould be looking to make hisfirst outing as captain of In-dia memorable by winningthe TVS Cup triangular se-ries match againstBangladesh here onWednesday.
G a n g u l ycould afford totake the breakas his teamconsolidatedits position fora place in thefinal with re-sounding vic-tories in thefirst twomatches, buthe cautionedthe dashingopener to batsensibly in agame in whichIndia will be fielding severalnewcomers.
Sehwag has often beenguilty of throwing away hiswicket after getting the startsand that has peeved Gangulywho made his displeasureknown in public during thelast match against SouthAfrica at the non-strikers end.
Sehwag played a rash shotto be out for 37 to receive theflak from his captain. ‘‘It wasa poor shot at that stage. He iscapable of doing much better.He is not utilising his poten-tial to the full,’’ Ganguly said.
The Indians will also haveto do without the services ofpaceman Zaheer Khan whosuffered a hamstring injuryin the match against SouthAfrica and the indicationsare that he will also miss theside’s final league match onFriday. However, the left-armpacer will be back in action ifIndia qualify for the final.
The 21-year-old Mumbaipaceman Avishkar Salvi,who made an impressive de-but against Bangladesh inthe opening match, will come
back into the team after miss-ing the second game againstSouth Africa to share thenew ball with Ajit Agarkar.
The stocky middle orderbatsman Abhijit Kale will getthe opportunity to make it tothe team in place of Gangulyand the team managementwas also toying with the idea
of giving all-rounder San-jay Bangar achance.
Bangar hasbeen in thesquad sincethe World Cupbut did not getto play a sin-gle match inthe megaevent and wasalso left out inthe first twomatches ofthe ongoing
series.Ganguly had indicated that
he is keen to give all the play-ers a look-in in this series andthe match against hostsBangladesh provides the op-portunity for experiments. PTI
Management scripts new role for Parthiv Dhaka: Absence of some key play-ers and a struggling opponenthave prompted the Indian teammanagement to toy with the ideaof promoting young Parthiv Patelto open the innings in the TVS Cuptri-series One-day internationalmatch against Bangladesh here onWednesday.
With captain Sourav Gangulydeciding to rest his injured back inthe match, the team managementis keen to try out Patel as an open-er along with Gautam Gambhir,sources close to the team dis-closed.
Promotion for Patel would meanstand-in skipper Virender Sehwag
will come one-down in the battingorder. Though Patel was in theteam for the World Cup, he had notmuch to do since vice-captainRahul Dravid was donning the ad-ditional role of wicketkeeping inthe mega e vent in South Africa.
But with Dravid out of the tour-nament here due to injury, the 18-year old will now get the opportu-nity to showcase his batting talentas an opener.
Patel, the lone wicketkeeper inthe 15-member squad, was quiteimpressive behind the stumps inthe first two matches of the series.He scored four runs in India’sopener and did not get a chance to
bat in India’s second match.But the Gujarat youngster is
perceived as a gutsy cricketer whohas a lot of batting talent andcould be successful as an openerwhich would give the team the op-tion of going in with five regularbowlers.
The strong Indian batting lineup has not given Patel the chanceto settle down as he comes in at atime, if at all required, when quickruns are needed.
Patel has played just three One-dayers with an average of 8.50 andhas effected five dismissals behindthe stumps. There is also a strongpossibility that all-rounder Sanjay
Bangar, another World Cupperwho did not play a single match,will be included in the team inplace of Ganguly though middleorder batsman Abhijit Kale couldalso be considered.
Captain Ganguly has advocatedthe need to find good “back-upplayers” considering the amountof cricket being played these daysand said the only way to test thesefringe players was to give them theopportunity. Ganguly has a lot offaith in these newcomers who hebelieves “have the potential to suc-ceed at the highest level” and iskeen to give them as much oppor-tunity as possible. PTI
Wounded Waugh wants no Test restSydney: Aus-tralian skipperSteve Waugh sayshe intends to playin the secondcricket Testagainst the WestIndies starting inPort of Spain onSaturday despite a gashed handwhich required six stitches, it wasreported here on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old campaigner splitthe webbing between his index andmiddle fingers as he attempted tostop a hot cover drive from West In-dies opener Devon Smith in theopening Test in Guyana. “It is sore.There are six stitches in it,” Waughsaid following Australia’s nine-wick-et win in the first Test.
“It is going to be sore for a week.You still have to be able to hold a batproperly and I have to be able to dojustice to my position in the side.”
Waugh’s toughness is legendary incricket. A shattered nose didn’t keephim out of a Test in Sri Lanka almostfour years ago after a mid-field colli-sion with Gillespie and he onlymissed one Test in England despitetearing a hole in his calf muscle. AFP
WI to bank on BanksGeorgetown (Guyana): Off-spin-ner Omari Banks became the firstplayer from the tiny Leeward Islandof Anguilla to be selected to the sen-ior West Indies cricket team on Mon-day. The 20-year-old Banks and
Ramnaresh Sarwan of Guyana areincluded in a 15-man squad to faceAustralia in the second Test, whichstarts in Trinidad on Saturday.Squad: Brian Lara (captain), Ramnaresh Sarwan, WavellHinds, Devon Smith, Daren Ganga, Shivnarine Chander-paul, Marlon Samuels, Ridley Jacobs, Carlton Baugh,David Bernard, Omari Banks, Vasbert Drakes, Mervyn Dil-lon, Pedro Collins, Jermaine Lawson. Coach: Gus Logie.Manager: Ricky Skerritt. AP
Teams (from): India: VirenderSehwag (capt), Gautam Gamb-hir, Mohammad Kaif, YuvrajSingh, Dinesh Mongia, ParthivPatel, Ajit Agarkar, Abhijit Kale,Harbhajan Singh, AvishakarSalvi, Amit Mishra, SarandeepSingh, Sanjay Bangar.Bangladesh: Khaled Mahmud(capt), Md Ashraful, JavedOmar, Habibul Bashar, SanwarHossain, Alok Kapali, AkramKhan, Khaled Mashud, MdRafique, Tapash Baisya, TarekAziz Khan, Mehraab Hossain,Tushar Imran, Manjurul Islam.Umpires: Billy Bowden (NewZealand) and Mahbub Rahman(Bangladesh).Third umpire: Akhraruddin(Bangladesh).Match referee: Clive Lloyd(West Indies).
TEAMS
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Hewitt to sue ATPIt was an interview that didn’t takeplace but it sure created a ruckus. Lastyear ATP fined Lleyton Hewitt $19,800for missing a TV interview. Hewitt saidhe was game for the talk and has inturn sued ATP for its bungling
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Alec wants out
Parthiv Patel likely to open innings against Bangladesh
Smart Alec! Yeah, when you are 40and have played 126 Test matches,your grey cells serve even better. Aweary Alec Stewart is smartly tryingto prolong his Test career by optingout of the more taxing ODIs
India falter, makeit easy for China
By B. ShrikantTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Jodhpur: Losing points to alower rated team never helps,especially in the penultimateround of a tournament. TheIndian men’s managed justthat in the 8th round of theAsian Teams Chess Champi-onships on Tuesday andmade China’s path to the titleclear.
All three Indian teams fal-tered at the crucial juncture.India ‘A’ lost to fourth seededKazakhstan 1.5-2.5 on the topboard and though India ‘B’and ‘C’ won their respectivematches against lowly oppo-nents, they lost crucialpoints in the bargain. Sasiki-ran drew with Darmen Sad-vakasav as did P Harikrishnaand Abhijit Kunte against Pe-ter Kostenko and BakhtiyarAskarov respectively. ButSurya SekharGanguly lostfrom a good po-sition in the middle-game tohigher-rated Pavel Kostur onthe second board, thus leav-ing the team in dire straits.
The defeat for India ‘A’meant they lost theirovernight one point lead toChina, who rode on a 3.5-0.5verdict against defendingchampions Uzbekistan totake a one point lead goinginto Wednesday’s finalround. China now has 21points with India ‘A’ and In-dia ‘C’, who could manageonly a 3-1 victory against low-ly Kyrgyzstan, following sec-ond at 20 points each.
The one point leeway Chi-na has gained will prove cru-cial in the final analysis asthe Indian teams will notonly have to gain maximumpoints from the final roundbut will also have to hopethat at least two Chineseplayers lose their games. Butwith the top seeds playingagainst Malaysia (16 pts) on
the morrow, that seems a vir-tual impossibility. India ‘A’face a sticky customer inTurkmenistan, who madeChina sweat on the openingday, while India ‘C’ meet Iran.
In the women’s section, de-fending champions Chinaare virtually assured of re-taining their title as they gointo their final clash againstTurkmenistan with a 1.5points lead over India ‘A’. OnTuesday, the top seedsblanked Bangladesh 3-0 tomove to 18.5 points.
India ‘A’ moved to secondplace at 17 with a similar ver-dict against Sri Lanka,though WGM S Vijayalaksh-mi made things difficult forherself with some passivemoves before recovering todefeat Vineetha G V Wi-jesuriya.
India ‘C’ did them good byholding Vietnam to a 1.5-1.5
draw but In-dia ‘B’ missed
a chance of overtaking thirdplaced Vietnam (19 points) asthey could manage only a 2-1victory against Kyrgyzstan.Tania Sachdev’s loss to JanylTilenbaeva left them with15.5 points. However, therewas some consolation forteam leader S Meenakshi,who completed her secondWGM norm.
Results (round 8): Men: India ‘A’ lost toKazakhstan 1.5-2.5; Uzbekistan lost to Chi-na 0.5-3.5; Kyrgyzstan lost to India ‘C’ 1-3;India ‘B’ bt Sri Lanka 2.5-1.5; Malaysia btIran 2.5-1.5; Macau lost to Turkmenistan 0-4; Vietnam bye.
Women: China bt Bangladesh 3-0; India‘C’ drew with Vietnam 1.5-1.5; Sri Lankalost to India ‘A’ 0-3; Kyrgyzstan lost to India‘B’ 1-2; Malaysia lost to Kazakhstan 0-3;Turkmenistan drew with Iran 1.5-1.5.
Standings (after 8th round): Men: 1.China 21 pts; 2-3. India ‘A’ and India ‘C’ 20pts each; 4. Kazakhstan 19.5 pts; 5. India ‘B’19 pts; 6. Turkmenistan 18.5 pts; 7. Vietnam18 pts; 8. Iran 16.5 pts; 9-10. Malaysia andUzbekistan 16 pts each; 11. Kyrgyzstan 11pts; 12. Sri Lanka 8.5 pts; 13. Macau 4 pts.
Women: 1. China 18.5 pts; 2. India ‘A’ 17pts; 3. Vietnam 16 pts; 4. India ‘B’ 15.5 pts;5-6. India ‘C’ and Kazakhstan 14.5 pts; 7.Iran 12 pts; 8. Kyrgyzstan 9 pts; 9.Bangladesh 8.5 pts; 10. Turkmenistan 8 pts;11. Malaysia 7 pts; 12. Sri Lanka 3.5 pts.
ASIAN CHESS
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Pak form poolto identifynew talentIslamabad: The PakistanCricket Board on Tuesday in-vited 76 young cricketers for atwo-day camp at Lahore thatwill act as selection trials forsetting up a 60-player nationalpool. Those invited includedsome of the members of Pak-istan’s squads at the WorldCup and Sharjah Cup four-na-tion tournament last week.
The short-listed playerswill be divided into five teamswhich will play from April 18to 24 at Lahore, a PCB pressrelease said. The idea for thisexercise is to identify youngtalents and expose them be-fore the newly-appointed se-lection committee. “It wouldalso help them in selectingPakistan teams for forthcom-ing assignments,” a PCBspokesman said.
Pakistan will tour Sri Lan-ka and England in the nexttwo months and are alsoscheduled to hostBangladesh and South Africabetween August and Novem-ber. “Some slots are availablein the Pakistan team. Be-sides, we want to have, atleast, two to three back upplayers for every place,” chiefselector Aamir Sohail said.PTI
Zimbabwe squadHarare: Zimbabwe revealeda weakened squad on Tues-day for their ten-week tour ofEngland beginning on May 3.The question of whether theteam could provide a seriouschallenge for England andSouth Africa was raised asthe squad prepare to leave onApril 30.Test squad: Heath Streak (capt), TatendaTaibu (vice-captain, Grant Flower, DionEbrahim, Mark Vermeulen, Barney Rogers,Sean Ervine, Andy Blignaut, Mluleki Nkala,Stuart Carlisle, Ray Price, Travis Friend,Vusimuzi Sibanda, Douglas Hondo, DouglasMarillier. Additional players for one-day-ers: Gary Brent, Waddington Mwayenga,Stuart Matsikenyere, Charles Coventry,Richard Sims. AFP
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New Delhi: Haider Ali Khan-saddled Posen (BajrangSingh astride) registered anemphatic victory in the DelhiRace Club Managing Com-mittee Juvenile SprintersCup at the Delhi races heldhere on Tuesday. The winneris jointly owned by Begum
Fatima Hussain, Ajay Prasadand Gurpal Singh.Results: Johnie Walker Plate (div.I): Maru1, Black N Blue 2, Summer Sun 3. JohnieWalker Plate (div.II): Lingo’s Jewel 1, Boyand Gran Geste 2. Ashav Plate: Rectitude 1,Winning Melody 2, Astounding Wish 3. DRCManaging Committee Jevenile SprntersCup: Posen 1, Taurian 2, Sabakh 3. AzaadPlate: Magic Lights 1, Delightful Mood 2,Pyara Sathi 3. U Dear Plate: Bahurja 1, Kan-ishka 2, Respectful 3.
Sunday’s handicaps: Fol-lowing are the handicaps forthe Mumbai races:
Byculla Club Trophy: Cl I: 2,800m: SelfStyled 64, Royal Amaretto 56, Bookies Del-hit 52, Avnatage 48.5, Premier Collection46.5, Singita 44.5. Kailashpat SinghaniaTrophy: Cl II: 1,200m: Maratha Princess 59,High Handed 55.5, Frantic 55, Royal Secret55, Blushing Minstrel 54.5, Over The Ocean53.5, Snow Star 53.5, Crown Affair 52.5,Gold Berg 52, Ciraja 51, Line of Control 49,Royal Standard 47.5. Surrealisme Plate: ClIV: 1,200m: Soviet Fire 60, Bound By Hon-our 59, Dillinger 57, Eastern Command 56.5,Montana 56, Fire Dancer 55.5, HandsomeLad 55.5, Sharpman 54.5, Star Destiny 54,Rainbow Warrior 53.5, Royal Charmer 53.5,Attia In Sunlight 53, Swift And Silent 52.5,Cyvana 51, Thundering Brave 49.
Posen races to an easy victoryBagan sack coachKolkata: Mohun Bagan onTuesday terminated the serv-ices of controversial coachSubrata Bhattacharjee, ac-cusing him of engaging in ac-tivities detrimental to the in-terest of soccer. Club generalsecretary Anjan Mitra al-leged that Bhattacharjee hadinstigated some players notto wear the Bagan jersey. PTI
Bangladesh putup a much,much improvedp e r fo r m a n c e,but this was stillnot good enoughto beat South
Africa. Without a win undertheir belt, and not lookinggood to make that break-through in this tournament,the home side are virtuallyout of the finals unless SouthAfrica commit harakiri.
For Graeme Smith, thiswin would have restoredsome sense and balance inthis campaign after theshocking display against In-dia the other day. On surfacesthat have a little more pace,South Africa would obvious-ly do better. But these guysare still far removed from theteams which representedthe country four or fiveyears ago.
South Africa lack the
spark, the discipline andfierce determination to wintoday. Without Jonty Rhodes,the fielding appears decentbut not great, and without Al-lan Donald the attack lacksthe bite. Fielding and pacebowling were two main areasof strength for South Africa.So their current struggle isunderstandable.
Moreoever, this side looksto be made up of individuals.In the past, the South
Africans played as a team,whatever their personal dif-ferences, and unless GraemeSmith can stamp his authori-ty, the problem can get worse.On a given day, they might yetbeat India, but that will needindividual brilliance fromsomeone like HerschelleGibbs. There is a sense of in-security in the players whichI have not seen since ShaunPollock had taken over fromHansie Cronje.TCM
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THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE
BASKETBALLNational Basketball Association: Mil-waukee 107 Indiana 98, Minnesota 119Chicago 95, Portland 101 LA Lakers 99,Boston 94 Miami 86, New Orleans 94Philadelphia 89, Detroit 110 Memphis107 (OT), Phoenix 92 San Antonio 85
TENNISATP Masters Series, Monte Carlo,Monaco: 1st rd: Arnaud Clement (Fra)beat (14) Fernando Gonzalez (Chi) 6-4 6-3, Feliciano Lopez (Spa) beat (12) AlexCorretja (Spa) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3, Ivan Ljubi-cic (Cro) beat Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) 6-3 7-6 (10-8), David Nalbandian (Arg)beat Richard Gasquet (Fra) 6-4 6-0, Fil-ippo Volandri (Ita) beat Radek Stepanek(Cze) 6-4 6-3, (13) Gaston Gaudio (Arg)beat David Ferrer (Spa) 7-5 6-2, AlbertPortas (Spa) beat (9) Andy Roddick (USA)7-6 (7-5) 6-3, Felix Mantilla (Spa) beatSargis Sargsian (Arm) 6-0 7-5, (1) JuanCarlos Ferrero (Spa) beat Wayne Arthurs(Aus) 6-4 6-1, Rainer Schuettler (Ger)beat Fabrice Santoro (Fra) 6-1 6-2, Vin-cent Spadea (USA) beat Mikhail Youzhny(Rus) 6-1 6-2, Luis Horna (Per) beatPaul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) 6-4 6-4, Alber-to Martin (Spa) beat Olivier Rochus (Bel)6-3 3-6 6-2, (10) Gustavo Kuerten (Bra)beat Mardy Fish (USA) 3-6 6-1 6-0, Mag-nus Norman (Swe) beat Nicolas Lapent-
ti (Ecu) 6-3 6-3, Fernando Vicente (Spa)beat Nicolas Escude (Fra) 6-4 6-3WTA Tour Brudapest Grand Prix, Bu-dapest, Hungary1st rd: Libuse Prusova(Cze) beat Silvija Talaja (Cro) 3-6 6-4 6-3, (6) Klara Koukalova (Cze) beat ZsofiaGubacsi (Hun) 6-2 6-2, (8) Antonella Ser-ra-Zanetti (Ita) beat Rossana Neffa-DeLos Rios (Par) 7-6 (9-7) 7-6 (9-7), MariaAntonia Sanchez-Lorenzo (Spa) beatConchita Martinez-Granados (Spa) 6-7(4-7) 7-5 6-3WTA Tour Bausch & Lomb Champi-onships, Amelia Island, Florida, USA1st rd:Akiko Morigami (Jpn) beat Evie Do-minikovic (Aus) 6-2 6-2, Vera Zvonareva(Rus) beat Laura Granville (USA) 6-7 (3-7)6-3 6-1, Nicole Pratt (Aus) beat Bea Bielek(USA) 2-6 7-5 6-0, Anca Barna (Ger) beatIroda Tulyaganova (Uzb) 6-0 7-5,TathianaGarbin (Ita) beat Shenay Perry (USA) 4-67-5 6-2, Jill Craybas (USA) beat MilagrosSequera (Ven) 3-6 6-2 6-2, Julia Vaku-lenko (Ukr) beat Amy Frazier (USA) 6-2 6-4, Maria Vento-Kabchi (Ven) beat MarionBartoli (Fra) 7-5 6-0, Elena Likhovtseva(Rus) beat Stephanie Foretz (Fra) 6-1 6-2,Els Callens (Bel) beat Cara Black (Zim) 6-7 (10-12) 7-6 (7-5) 6-2, Marie-GaianeMikaelian (Swi) beat Daja Bedanova (Cze)6-3 6-4, Dally Randriantefy (Mad) beatSarah Taylor (USA) 6-4 6-4.
ALL-ROUND VIEWRavi Shastri
German Rainer Schuettler celebrates after beating France’sFabrice Santoro in a Monte Carlo Masters Series match.
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Improved show by BangladeshLuthra confirmed: Dispelling any confusion,the National Cricket Acad-emy on Tuesday confirmedthe appointment of formerDelhi Ranji player SureshLuthra as the North ZoneNational Cricket Academycoach for K Bhaskar Pillay.Pillay, a former Delhi star,had expressed his unavail-ability for the said job.
Delhi boys for NCA: Three Delhi junior playershave been selected for var-ious categories at the Na-tional Cricket Academy.Kartik Tihara (Under-15),Puneet Bisht (Under-17)and Ankur Garg (U-17) willall be heading for the Ban-galore-based academy. ndia Om Nath SoodMemorial crickettournament.
Following are the scores from theDDCA League: L.B. Shastri 239/6 in40 overs: Sumit Rana 85, SandeepYadav 64, Sachin Jain 2/36, DelhiBlues 158 in 31.2 overs: Mridul Gup-ta 53, Ashwani Katyal 56).
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