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Probe begins: Commissioner for
railway safety Bhupinder Singh on
Friday visited two hospitals in Ludhiana to meet the 14 injured Frontier
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account of the fire tragedy.
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Biggest-ever operation in J&K
Times graphic
By Rajat Pandit
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: In what may be the largest
counter-insurgency operation in the past
decade or so, security forces have killed
around 60 hard-core militants in
Surankote area over the past three
weeks. The area is close to the Line of
Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
Senior officers are tight-lipped about
details but confirm the ongoing operation in the Hill Kaka area of Surankote.
The Army ‘‘has achieved tremendous
success in killing and capturing a number of terrorists’’. It has also seized a
‘‘huge quantity’’ of rifles, mortars,
grenades, rocket-propelled grenades and
under-barrel grenade launchers, among
other ‘‘war-like stores’’, an officer said.
The Army has even used the Air
Force’s modified attack helicopters like
Mi-17s, armed with machine guns and
rocket pods, in the month-long opera-
The significance
of Control
ne
The scale of the operation, and the use of airpower.
Why Surankote?
Srinagar
Poonch
Map of J&K
Pulwama
Rajouri
Surankote
Jammu
Terrorists hunker down here in large numbers
because of easy access from PoK, coming down in
twos and threes to strike targets. Thick forests
make combing by security forces difficult.
Can it spill over?
No. The action is all on this side of the LoC. By
destroying a major terrorist centre, the operation
may actually smoothen Indo-Pak relations.
tions. For years, Pakistanis belonging to
Lashkar-e-Taiba,
Jaish-e-Mohammed
and Al Badr have operated with impunity in this forbidding region, to the west of
the Pir Panjal mountains and accessed
through Jammu and Nowshera. While
the mountains are not particularly high,
they are rugged and forested and they
slope towards the Pakistani side of the
LoC, providing relatively easy all-weather ingress to the Indian side.
Army headquarters is keeping the incident under wraps for now. The Army
does not like to publicise the use of assault helicopters in counter-insurgency
operations because it may indicate escalation in militancy and might also lead to
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copter weapons into the Valley from
across the border, sources say.
The operation began around April 2122, when 13 Pakistani militants were
killed in a hideout in the Hill Kaka area.
Since then, the operation has been further intensified. ‘‘These militants prefer
to lie low in the upper reaches in areas
like Hill Kaka. They have their bases and
communication centres, arms and ammunition dumps there. They come down
only to spread terror,’’ said an officer.
‘‘Manual combing operations in such
thickly-forested areas, with heavilyarmed militants sitting on the top, have
led to many casualties among Army
troops climbing up. Consequently, attack
helicopters have been used to soften their
hideouts, including fortified concrete defences,’’ he added.
The terrorists residing in this area provide a transit point for those moving to
other encampments in the Pir Panjal
heights and the Valley.
Delhi citizens pay
highest power tariff
By Rahul Chhabra
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Vidya Dalal, the mother of the groom was arrested on Friday. Report on page 4
New Delhi: Delhiites are paying the
maximum average cost for one unit
of power as compared to consumers
in other states.
The average cost per unit of supply in the city is Rs 4.15. In Maharashtra, it is Rs 3.15 and in Uttar
Pradesh Rs 3.48.
Experts warn the burden on consumers in the city may increase further if the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) approves a
fresh hike in electricity tariff.
The DERC is analysing the requirements of private distribution
companies on the basis of their performance in the last nine months.
Chief advisor to the National
Council for Applied Economic Research Gajender Haldia said as per a
petition filed by distribution companies in the DERC recently, a consumer may have to shell out a higher
average cost per unit of power
this year.
‘‘The private companies appear to
be charging more than Rs 4 per unit
of power,’’ he said.
Delhi power minister Ajay Maken
disagreed with Haldia’s observation.
‘‘The average unit cost in Delhi is between Rs 3 and Rs 3.50,’’ he said.
He, apparently, was unaware of a
DERC order, issued in February 2002,
Costly current
State
Average cost*
Delhi
Rs 4.15
Maharashtra Rs 3.15
Uttar Pradesh Rs 3.48
Across the border
Karachi**
Rs 16.98
Beijing
Rs 5.66
* per unit of power ; ** tariff in Indian Rs
(Figures for 2002-03)
in which the Commission held that
the average unit cost realised from
Delhi consumers was Rs 4.15.
‘‘There has been no tariff revision
after February 2002,’’ said an official
of
Delhi
government-owned
Transco. Experts say there are two
ways of compensating the private
companies for their revenue gap:
Tariff hike and increase in government support to the companies.
‘‘The burden of the revenue gap
projected by the private distribution
companies is going to fall on the consumer,’’ Haldia said. A tariff hike
hits the customer instantly, an increase in government support hits
him indirectly.
Lasik leaves girl partially blind
By Kalpana Jain
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: If you’re going in for
Lasik, make sure you’re in competent hands. A 22-year-old girl lost a
large part of her cornea in one eye
to an infection, following Lasik. A
subsequent graft has been able to
replace only 40% of her vision.
Doctors at the Rajendra Prasad
Ophthalmic Centre at AIIMS are
not too sure about the long-term
results. ‘‘There are chances of rejection in this patient as it is a
large graft,’’ says additional professor at the centre, Dr J S Titiyal.
‘‘As of now, the future of this eye
looks bleak.’’
The girl came to AIIMS in
March this year from Guwahati,
where the Lasik surgery had been
performed. Eye specialists at AIIMS found a severe fungal infection under the flap that is lifted
Visible danger
• A 22-yr-old girl lost a large part
of her cornea to the infection
• She was operated upon in
Guwahati and came to AIIMS in
March this year
• The girl had hyper thyroidism,
a condition in which Lasik is
not allowed
during surgery to slice off a part of
the cornea for vision correction.
‘‘We had to remove the entire infected area, clean it as it was full of
pus and replace it with a large
graft. She has lost around 60 per
cent of her vision,’’ Titiyal says.
Chairman, scientific committee,
Intraocular Implant and Refractive Society of India, Dr Mahipal
Sachdeva, points out that like any
other surgical procedure, Lasik
too has a risk of infection. The rate
of infection varies between one in
1,000 and one in 4,000. But, he adds,
this surgery is safe as the laser
beam itself has a sterilising effect.
The specialists at AIIMS say the
infection could be the result of the
conditions in the operating theatre, which may not have been entirely aseptic.
‘‘If she had come to us, we would
not have performed Lasik on her,’’
says professor at the R P Centre, Dr
R B Vajpayee. He emphasised the
‘‘importance of
pre-operative
screening and proper case selection for this procedure to be successful and retain its good name’’.
The safety of Lasik had snowballed into a major controversy following a series of reports in The
Times of India on its complications as it was being marketed as a
very safe procedure till then.
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New Delhi: Cellphone in hand, you
can now look for the closest cinema
hall or Chinese takeaway in the area
you are passing through.
Some Hutch cellphone subscribers got the first inkling when
on Friday they saw their screens displaying the exact area they were in.
Airtel’s post-pay subscribers may
have something smarter to show off
from Saturday — a location-based
service called ‘‘Around Me’’. The
service will enable people to look for
restaurants, pubs, cinemas, shopping discounts, banks, ATMs and so
on as they pass through an area.
It will operate through SMS — on
existing instruments — and a reply
to the request will flash directly on
the screen instead of being sent to
the inbox. ‘‘We have several categories like restaurants and hotels,
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which in turn have further sub categories. The SMS will be charged to
the consumer only after some specific request has been made from the
sub category,’’ said Rohit Bhatia,
Airtel’s head of product development.
For example, a subscriber passing
through, say, Connaught Place will
get contact numbers or location of
restaurants in the area.
He or she will have an option to
choose between North Indian,
South Indian, Chinese and fast food
outlets.
Only when one clicks on one of
these categories, will an SMS go to
the database and display the list of
available restaurants in that category with contact numbers to make
reservation.
The information will keep getting
updated as the subscriber moves to a
different area.
Says a newcomer to the city, ‘‘It’s a
Delhi: Rs 5385 Mumbai: Rs 5065 Chennai: Rs 5130
Delhi: Rs 7935 Mumbai: Rs 8075 Chennai: Rs 8010
boon to people like me who don’t
know their way around Delhi.’’
‘‘This is the first-of-its-kind service being introduced in the country
and it combines ready access to information at an affordable price, for
services that are need based as well
as emergency,’’ said Sanjay Nandrajog, Bharti’s CEO North.
There will be no extra montly
charge for the service except for
every SMS sent and all it would require is 32K sim card, used by postpay subscribers. The service will be
launched in Mumbai on Monday.
Hutch too is planning to begin
similar services. Hutch officials said
they would soon launch the services
but would not like to bind themselves to a time frame.
Globally, cellular operators are
working on providing subscribers
with a range of new services that
would enhance their revenues to
make up for falling call charges.
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Bureaucrats
defang right
to information
By Anita Katyal
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: What good is a
Freedom of Information Act
when bureaucrats who withhold information from citizens cannot be penalised?
Faced with the unwelcome
prospect of actually having
to respond to requests for information, the bureaucracy
has acted swiftly to defang
the new law.
Rules being framed will insulate erring officials from
punitive action: the cost of
violating the right to information will only be a mere
adverse entry in their confidential reports.
The personnel department, which is currently
in the process of framing
the rules for this Act, is
learnt to have made this
recommendation.
Confirming that this particular rule had been cleared,
senior officials said it is now
awaiting the final nod from
Union minister of state
Harin Pathak and Deputy
Prime Minister Advani.
Department officials say
no leniency is being shown to
bureaucrats.
‘‘This is a totally new experience for the officials... we
will see how this Act works
and if we later feel the need
for introducing stringent
punishment, we will do so,’’
said a senior official.
He, however, admitted that
it will take some time to
change the prevailing mindset of officials who are
known not to part with any
kind of information, irrespective of how trivial it
might be.
In fact, the point about introducing
penalties
for
erring officials was specifically mentioned by Congress
leader Pranab Mukherjee
when the Bill came up for
passage in the Rajya Sabha
last year.
Mukherjee had suggested
that there should be a provision for penalising officials
who do not give information,
stating that many states
already have such a clause.
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DELHI
3 Bangladeshi burglars held
New Delhi: With the arrest of three persons on Thursday, the
east district police claimed to have busted a gang of burglars,
whom the police suspect to be from Bangladesh. The three accused were arrested on Patparganj road near Mother Dairy by
Mandawli police. The gang has reportedly committed more
than 10 burglaries in northwest and east districts. The police
has recovered jewellery worth Rs five lakh. The police said the
three accused, Khoken, Gayasudin and Shahalam, are all illegal migrants residing in New Seelampur.
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Surya yoga for
boundless energy
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Sun
does not just provide
light and energy, it can
even heal the human
body and cure ailments.
Spiritual guru Surya
Swami teaches through
nine simple steps of
surya yoga how to invoke
boundless energies of
Sun by deep breathing
and surrender to nature.
The Swami says diseases in the body are a
result of chemical imbalances and bioelectrical
and biomagnetic disturbances. When energy is
allowed to penetrate the
body, it can restore these
imbalances, he says.
Even those with heart
problems can benefit
immensely as it helps improve blood circulation,
he says. ‘‘When we look at
Sun, positive energy fills
our body and removes
the negativities,’’ he says.
It invokes a high-tech
machinery within you.
The nine steps of surya
yoga teach people to puri-
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fy their body aura so that
diseases keep away. The
Swami says it’s a fact that
a person’s aura changes
if there is a disease in
any part of his body.
He says that regular
practitioners of surya
yoga have also managed
to get rid of excess fat. It
also promotes good memory and eyesight. He says
people who work on the
computer will find that
the radiations no longer
affect their sight.
In one of the yogic
procedures, Swami elaborates, a copper coin is out
in the middle of the forehead (at the place of the
bindi) as this is the point
for receiving cosmic
energy
which
will
eventually regulate the
energy flow in the body.
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Woman gangraped
in northwest Delhi
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A 28-year-old woman was gangraped on Thursday night in northwest
district. The victim is admitted to the S
anjay Gandhi hospital and is not in a
condition to give a statement.
A senior police officer said the woman’s
husband works in a factory. ‘‘After the
accused left, the woman approached
her neighbour for help.
The person immediately called the
police and informed her husband,’’ the
officer said.
He said the woman’s husband was on a
night shift and had left home late in the
evening. At 11 pm, the woman heard a
knock on the door.
On unlocking the door, three persons
barged inside. After gagging her mouth,
the three raped her.
‘‘The assailants threatened her of dire
consequences if she revealed it to
anybody,’’ the officer said.
Dirty swimming pools
cause skin infections
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Contaminated water
in swimming pools can cause
severe viral and bacterial
diseases like hepatitis, diarrhoea,
typhoid and gastroenteritis. The
chances of getting conjunctivitis,
skin infections and allergy
also increase.
As more people take to swimming to beat the heat, doctors
have started getting a flurry of
patients with ailments caused by
dirty water. ‘‘Over the past one
month, I have been getting more
patients complaining of eye and
ear infections and gastroenteritis,’’ said consultant paediatrician Dr Sanjeev Bagai.
He said the cleanliness of a
swimming pool could be judged
by how frequently the water is recycled, the filtering, chlorine content and the pre-pool discipline
that is maintained.
Doctors said viral and bacterial infections can spread if the
water is chlorinated, but dirty.
‘‘All water-borne diseases can
spread through a dirty pool,’’ said
Dr Anil Bansal, NDMC’s chief
medical officer.
Since Delhi Jal Board (DJB)
does not permit use of tap water
supply for filling pools, only
groundwater is used. That increases the need for treating the
water in pools.
‘Kitni Mirchi Hai’ takes
Delhi by storm
he Mirchi car has been zipping
T
all across Delhi over the last
week. The journey is now drawing
to a close, after a fairly punchpacked ride through some of Delhi’s
busiest markets and roads. From
Rajouri Garden and PVR Vikaspuri
to Green Park and Ansal Plaza,
thousands have signed the word
Mirchi on the white Alto, with a red
or green marker. And one lucky
person gets to drive the Mirchi
gaddi home on May 19.
Radio Mirchi’s Kitni Mirchi Hai
contest kicked off on May 8. To win
the Alto, you just have to go up to the
Mirchi gaddi and write the word
Mirchi on it. Just guess how such
Mirchis will be on the Alto by the
end of the car’s journey on May 18.
And if your estimate is closest to the
final tally, you drive home the car.
The Alto car was an instant centre of attraction at PVR Anupam, its
first halt. Over the next few days,
the bright red Mirchi antenna atop
the car and Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM
continuously streaming from the
happy ensemble, became a natural
crowd magnet.
If you still have not guessed Kitni
Mirchi Hai, the Mirchi gaddi will be
parked at the Kamla Nagar market
this morning, and Karol Bagh’s
Ajmal Khan Road in the evening.
Tomorrow, it moves to Defence
Colony market in the morning and
PVR Saket in the evening.
Speeding truck kills
policeman, injures 2
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A Delhi Police constable died
and two policemen were injured after a
truck hit the police picket at Badarpur
border in the wee hours on Friday.
Deputy commissioner of police (south)
Vivek Gogia said: ‘‘Constable Lekh Raj (48)
was posted at the Badarpur police picket
along with constable Devi Sahai and constable Rajbir. A truck that was being driven at
a high speed hit the barricade set up to
check vehicles.’’
The incident took place at about 2.30 am.
Constable Lekh Raj died on the spot, while
the other two received minor injuries. They
were later admitted in AIIMS where they
are said to be recovering.
Lekh Raj, a resident of Palwal in
Haryana, is survived by his wife and three
children. ‘‘Lekhraj had joined Delhi Police
on ex-serviceman quota,’’ said Gogia. The
police are yet to arrest the errant driver.
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Court for every district in Delhi
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hardship to the litigants,
undertrials and policemen.
Sources said each district
would have its own court
building or like Karkar-
dooma, house two district
courts in one building. Out
of the three district courts,
only Karkardooma has a
modern building.
Tis Hazari is bursting at
the seams as litigants,
lawyers and policemen pack
into nearly 300 court rooms.
Delhi high court Chief Justice B C Patel laid the foundation stone of a district
court complex in Dwarka
on Saturday.
At other sites like Narela,
Vasant Kunj, Raja Garden
and Saket, the work is to
take off. The urban development minister, A K Waliasaid: ‘‘If all goes well, the
nine district courts will be
in place by the year
2006,’’claimed Walia.
On April 17, finance minister Jaswant Singh wrote
to law minister Arun Jaitley acceding to the longpending demand. According to sources, the setting
up of FTCs would be under
the overall charge of Delhi
High Court judge Justice
Madan B Lokur, who is also
supervising computerisation in the lower courts.
From the time FTCs were
first mooted by Jaitley more
than a year ago, the idea has
been caught in a bureaucratic wrangle. After the
Eleventh Finance Commission sanctioned Rs 502.9
crore for setting up of FTCs
in states, Jaitley wrote to
then finance minister Yashwant Sinha asking for funds
for FTCs in Delhi and
Chandigarh.
Meanwhile, the justice
department of the law ministry managed to convince
the Delhi government to
earmark 20 courts which
would be run by filling up
existing vacancies in the
higher judicial cadre. The
additional courts could
have exclusively — and on
priority basis — disposed
off sessions cases pending
for more than two years involving undertrials.
Dwarka court complex
New Delhi: Justice at the
door-step may soon become
a reality with the construction of two districts courts
at Dwarka and Rohini.
The Delhi state government is planning to set up
one court for each of the
nine police districts. At
present, there are only
three district courts in Delhi which cater to cases from
all over the city. Courts at
Tis Hazari, Patiala House
and Karkardooma are overburdened causing a lot of
Estimated cost: Rs 86.22 crore
Time for completion: 2 years
Number of court rooms: 79
Judges’ chambers: 79
Lawyers’ chambers: 258
Parking: 660 cars (approx)
Funds finally found for fast-track courts
By Akshaya Mukul
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The financial
imbroglio over the setting
up of Fast Track Courts
(FTCs) in Delhi has finally
ended with the Union finance ministry agreeing to
give Rs 6.09 crore as a separate non-plan scheme, under the budget head of
home ministry.
Illegal buildings
in South Ex
must go: HC
By Sachin Parashar
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Feeling the heat
New Delhi: The Delhi high
court on Friday gave the
Municipal Corporation of
Delhi (MCD) the go-ahead
to initiate action against illegal
constructions
in
South Extension.
Chief Justice B C Patel
and Justice A K Sikri, however, provided a reprieve to
398 property owners accused of misusing residential properties for commercial purpose. They have
been asked to file an affidavit in court saying
whether they are guilty of
the offence.
The court said the decision to allow the 398 accused to file affidavits
should not prevent the
MCD from taking action
against others guilty of
misusing property and illegal constructions.
MCD standing committee
chairman Ram Babu Sharma said he needed to study
the court order before reacting to it. ‘‘We will take
the case to its logical conclusion,’’ he said.
On the court’s direction,
the MCD had prepared a list
of 398 people who were allegedly misusing residential property in the area.
The list includes some commercial property owners
who are using basements as
shops. The second floor of
these buildings have to be
residential.
• The MCD had served
notice on 176 property
owners in the colony
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No clue about
Rohini teenager
By Maneesh Pandey
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The northwest
district police has no clue of
the whereabouts of a 17-yearold girl who was allegedly
kidnapped
from
Rohini
Avantika on February 2.
The girl, Sonia Singhal,
was allegedly abducted by
her neighbour, Vicky Goyal
in February. According to the
victim’s mother, Kanta Singhal: ‘‘The police registered a
case on February 7, but has
done nothing to find her.’’
Kanta, a widow, lives with
her two sons, aged 20 and 16,
and Sonia at their Rohini
Avantika house. Sonia will
complete 18 years in July.
In her FIR, Kanta also alleged the involvement of
Vicky’s father, Madan Lal
Goyal and his associate Devankar.
‘‘Madan has filed false
complaints against us. They
have also influenced the police which is putting pressure on us to withdraw the
complaint,’’ she alleged.
The victim’s family is yet
to get any call for ransom
from the abductors. Mean-
while, the police have ruled
out the involvement of
Vicky’s father and suspects it
to be a case of elopement.
‘‘The two reportedly knew
each other well. We have
questioned both the families
and are following the case
closely,’’ said J S Deswal, assistant commissioner of police (ACP, Rohini) denying allegations of police laxity.
He added that the complainant’s charges would
only be ascertained once the
girl is found.
‘‘Only if the victim certifies that she was forcibly abducted and sexually assaulted, will charges be framed
against the accused,’’ he said.
Illicit liquor seized: The
west district police seized 95
cartons of illicit liquor in
two separate raids. In the
first case, a trap was laid
near village Mundaka and
the police recovered 50 cartons of illicit liquor in an autorickshaw.
Three persons have been
arrested. In the second incident, the police laid a trap
near Kirti Nagar and recovered 45 cartons.
• Of these 147 were
cases of misuse of residential property; rest
were unauthorised
• Residents are at loggerheads with the MCD
on the number of properties being misused
• A few buildings in the
South Extension market are also being
misused
Sixty property owners
had
approached
court
against the MCD’s decision
to initiate action against
them. The court asked all
398 to file the affidavits and
posted the matter for hearing on July 18.
Property owners have
been asked to state in the affidavits whether the buildings were built according to
the sanctioned plans.
The MCD had served notices to about 20 shopowners in South Extension -I
market.
The owner of beauty salon Tina Wigs, Surinder
Jaggi, however, said that all
the shops had the DDA’s approval. ‘‘This market is a local shopping centre and all
the floors can be used for
commercial
purposes,’’
said Jaggi.
No magistrates
to curb littering
By Pradeep Rana
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The muchawaited concept of mobile
magistrate, who would fine
those guilty of littering
public places, remains a
distant dream. The Municipal Corporation of Delhi
(MCD) had claimed earlier
that these magistrates
would start functioning
from May 1.
The corporation had taken the initiative after a Delhi high court directive last
year ordered the appointment of mobile magistrates
in the city.
The corporation was also
asked to provide all facilities to the magistrates, including vehicles, for carrying out the work in their respective zones.
Following a direction
from the court, the civic
agency had indeed started
fining shopkeepers for littering in July last year. The
target areas were Yusuf
Sarai and INA Market,
some of the most congested
and littered areas in south
Delhi.
The chairman of the
standing committee of
MCD, Ram Babu Sharma,
said: ‘‘We had forwarded
the proposal to the district
and sessions judge about
two months back. I do not
know what has become of
that. But MCD commissioner says the appointments
should be made by the first
week of June.’’
The commissioner had
successfully proposed 30
Litter laws
• Rs 50 for not keeping a garbage bin in the
house
• Rs 100 for not
removing garbage from
markets
• Rs 50 for allowing
waste water/refuse to
flow into the street
from the house
• Rs 500 if the waste
water/refuse becomes
a public nuisance
mobile magistrates before
the standing committee.
For each magistrate, the
MCD plans to hire a Maruti
van. There are 164 wards in
the city and for every two
wards, one magistrate was
proposed. MCD had decided
to appoint 30 magistrates.
In the normal court, officer of the rank of sanitary
inspector, assistant sanitary inspector or the junior
engineer is empowered to
prosecute people, but the
power of imposing fine lies
with the municipal magistrate only who sits at Tiz
Hazari courts.
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Saturday, May 17, 2003
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New Delhi: Two days after
three persons were held for
Sunita Chadha’s murder, the
police realised that they had
still not recovered the clothes
worn by the accused at the
time of the crime.
On Friday, the police
sought their remand for two
days to the recover the
clothes. Their advocate told
metropolitan magistrate Raj
Rani Mitra that the clothes
are a crucial piece of evidence and therefore they
must be recovered.
The magistrate, however,
remanded the accused to one
day’s police custody after
their advocate Sanjay Suri
opposed the request.
‘‘The police had ample
time to recover the clothes. If
they wanted the custody, the
police should have sought it
on the first day,’’ Suri said.
When the magistrate asked
the police advocate to explain
the delay in seeking custody,
he said it was important to
find out whether blood had
splashed outside Chadha’s
car and on to their clothes.
The police counsel said since
the car was with the accused
for 12 days, they may have
washed any evidence.
At this Suri said the police
was contradicting its claim
as it had earlier said that
empty shells had been found
from his client’s car. ‘‘They
also said the car was not
washed,’’ Suri said.
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Noida dowry case: Groom’s mother held
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Delhi Police and the Uttar Pradesh
Police on Friday morning
arrested Vidya Dalal, mother of Munish Dalal, in a
joint raid from Nangloi in
Delhi.
Vidya is an accused in a
dowry case filed by Nisha
Sharma to whom her son,
Munish, was engaged to be
married.
Later, a Noida court remanded her to 14 days’ judicial custody. Earlier, Munish, a computer teacher in a
government school, had
been arrested from his
Vikaspuri residence.
Like him, Vidya too has
been booked under the
Dowry Act. Nisha, a soft-
ware engineer, had alleged
that the accused had demanded Rs 12 lakh in dowry
from her father D D Sharma. The third accused in the
case, Munish’s aunt Savitri
Devi, is absconding.
Sharma had sent Munish
packing on Sunday after the
accused allegedly demanded
Rs 12 lakh and a Maruti Esteem car on the day of the
New Delhi: Jatin Pratap Singh of
Delhi Public School, Faridabad,
doesn’t like meeting his classmates
too often these days. Not that he
doesn’t get along with them. But he
is awaiting his Class 10 board results, and says meeting them tends
to induce a certain amount of anxiety about his results in him.
Jatin is a good student, but is worried that if for some reason he gets
less than 80 per cent, he may have to
lose his seat in the science stream.
‘‘Personally, it will not matter
much even if I get commerce. But
my father wants me to become an engineer. Most of my friends are also
aiming for the science stream and
whenever we get together, the talk
mostly revolves around IITs and engineering. One tends to acquire
one’s friend’s fear,’’ said Jatin.
He says there are times when depression descends. A few laps in the
swimming pool, or an especially
rough game of soccer is good
enough to lift his mood. ‘‘Music is
also a great relaxant, as is speaking
to those friends who are not particularly hung up on results,’’ he said.
Avnee Gupta of Bal Bharti School,
Pitampura, on the other hand,
makes it a point to meet friends and
teachers every week in school. ‘‘The
teachers are coming to school for extra classes and it’s a good place to
catch up with friends,’’ said Avnee.
She says she’s not particularly worried, but nevertheless, fears that she
may not do too well.
‘‘My teachers and friends are ex-
The 21-year-old’s decision to send back her groom on her wedding day has been the talk
of the town for the past few days.And Delhiites can’t seem to praise the brave act enough
Sumedha Aggarwal
Rohini resident
Saurabh Srivastava
IIT Delhi resident
Hema Chaudhry
Rohini resident
Prashant Arora
Noida resident
What she did
was unimaginable
but
amazingly
brave. She deserves every
bit of the appreciation she
is getting. Indian society
is male-dominated and her
decision was a step towards destroying that stranglehold.
What happened to her is every
girl’s nightmare, and as a woman I
sympathise with her. Somehow the
girl’s family always complies with
the demands of the boy’s family.
Parents fear that if they do not humour the boy’s family by fulfilling
all their demands, their daughter
may be ill-treated after marriage.
Nisha’s case is a wake up call for all
of us.
What Nisha
has done is
the
correct
thing to do. In
fact,
she
should have
put her foot
down much
earlier. After
all, a lot of
money has already
been
spent by her family. Nevertheless, it
was an act of courage.
In this day and age, girls should
not accept any demands for dowry. I
would not call dowry a tradition because even 40 years back it was not
in practice — at least not in the present form. Dowry is a result of ostentation. Rich people spend a lot in
weddings.
As a result people who are not so
well-off start expecting the same
kind of ostentation.
Nisha’s decision is an example
for
women
our
age.
This will encourage other
women
to
p r o t e s t
against such
excess.
With the kind
of education our parents have given
us, which is as good as any other
boy, there’s no reason why we
should
be
blackmailed to
give dowry.
Although personally I think
dowry should
not be given or taken, but the girl’s
parents often give in under pressure. This tradition is eating into
our lives.
Nisha’s
act
should give
girls
the
courage
to
tackle
such
situations in
their lives. In
this day and
age,
everybody wants to
be treated as
equal,
then
why should a person you are getting
married to pay you in cash or kind
to do it.
Girls get the same kind of education and upbringing as boys
these days, then why should the
girl’s family give something to the
boy’s?
A girl’s parents may give gifts to
their daughter, not whole portions
of the house or gifts for the boy’s
brother.
(As told to Anuradha Mukherjee)
PEOPLE
TALK
Mohammed Ilyas
READERS’ GRIEVANCES
Transfer delay
Dealing with anxiety
• Helplines receive up to 500
calls a day after results
• Many of the students who call
are severely affected by depression, anxiety or both
• Experts feel the new practice
of putting results on Internet has
helped, as it does away with the
social pressure of going to
school and facing someone who
has done better
pecting me to score above 90 per
cent, and if I don’t, it would be a
moral dampener,’’ she said. But
helpline agencies say they have already started getting panic calls.
‘‘A Class 12 girl called up after
hearing from somewhere that at
times teachers of other subjects end
up examining papers. She was very
worried. Another Class 10 boy had
called after doing badly in Maths; he
was worried that he would not find
place in science stream,’’ said Abdul
Mabood of Snehi.
Snehi runs helplines before and
after examinations. Mabood has
roped in 45 volunteers apart from
the 22 internal volunteers for counselling in the days prior to exams
and immediately after it.
Kavita Kapoor of Sumaitri concurred, ‘‘We may not be getting too
many calls these days, but as the result date draws near, students start
panicking and many even get suicidal. They can call us up and rid
themselves of anxiety,’’ said Kapoor.
When the Dalals set a condition that the wedding will
only proceed after they get
Rs 12 lakh and the car, Nisha
put her foot down and informed the police.
Munish’s family had also
allegedly beaten up Sunita’s
father.
Munish’s mother is a widow and had recently retired
as prinicpal of a school.
‘Nisha Sharma’s courage is exemplary’
Helplines brace up
as board results near
By Anuradha Mukherjee
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
wedding.
The Sharmas had already
bought two sets of refrigerators, televisions, microwave
ovens,
airconditioners,
home theatre systems and
other household appliances
for Munish and his elder
brother.
To buy these gadgets, the
Sharmas had spent about
Rs 1.5 lakh.
A girl lights a candle on the occasion of Buddha Purnima in New Delhi on Friday.
3 held for selling poisonous juice
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The police have arrested three persons for selling
contaminated juices in Prashant
Vihar area. On Thursday an 18year-old boy died after consuming
the juice, while another 22 fell ill.
Two of the accused who fell ill after consuming the juice are admitted in Ganga Ram hospital. The police, however, say they have com-
mitted an offence of culpable
homicide not amounting to murder. ‘‘Parveen was discharged from
the hospital on Friday. His partner
Ashish was arrested and charged
with the same offence,’’ deputy
commissioner of police (northwest) Sanjay Singh said.
He said the police have seized
the chemicals and drinks from the
accused’s shop and would be send-
ing them to laboratory for tests.
Preliminary reports suggest that
some chemical mixed in the drink
may have reacted and become poisonous due to the heat.
The third person who has been
arrested is Parveen’s father-in-law,
Rajinder Prasad Kaul. The police
said Kaul is a self-styled herbal expert and was using a textbook to
prepare these juices.
DDU doctor
asks for bribe,
held by CBI
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has
arrested a doctor working with
Deen Dayal Upadhyaya hospital for allegedly demanding
bribe to make deletions in the
autopsy report of a person who
died in a road accident.
The doctor, Manoj Nagpal,
who was attached to the hospital’s forensics department, allegedly demanded Rs 10,000
from a man whose cousin met
with an accident last month.
‘‘He asked for money to delete
the line that the victim was
drunk. The demand was made
when the complainant saw in
the report that his cousin was
drunk.
The
complainant
claimed that his cousin was a
teetotaller,’’ a CBI officer said.
According to the complainant, his cousin died in an
accident on April 28. He succumbed to injuries the next
day and his body was sent for
an autopsy test.
On May 6, the complainant
received a report in which it
said that his cousin had consumed alcohol. The complainant contacted Nagpal who
agreed to delete the line but for
a price.
I gave three fixed deposit
receipts bearing account
numbers 0129201312813/ 14
/15 for Rs 36,018 Rs 1,80,100
and Rs 2,27,371 respectively with a covering letter
dated April 8, 2003, in duplicate, to the dealing clerk
of State Bank of India,
Saraswati Vihar for getting them transferred from
their Tis Hazari branch.
I was asked to collect the
same after a week. When I
went to collect the FDRs on
April 22, the clerk said the
bank had not yet received
the FDRs and that I should
come back in the first week
of May.
I went to the bank again
on May 5 and got the same
response. On questioning
further, the clerk rudely
said that he was only responsible for sending the
FDRs.
Will the SBI authorities
investigate into the delay
of transfer of FDRs from
one branch to another and
fix responsibility. — J S
Das, C-11, Krist Jyoti
Apartments,
Parwana
Road, Pitampura
Concession anomaly
The railways offer 75 per
cent concession on fares to
physically
challenged
persons along with an
escort for travel in any
class.
But mentally handicapped persons are given a
similar concession for
travel only by second class,
2nd class sleeper and 1st
class.
They are not given any
concession for travel by
air-conditioned three-tier
or two-tier.
Since 1st class is not
available in long distance
express trains, mentally
challenged persons are
forced to travel by second
class sleeper to avail this
concession.
This anomaly should immediately be removed. — K
S
Sinha,
A2B/46C,
Ekta Apartments, Paschim
Vihar
Poor DTC service
I use a Delhi Transport
Corporation bus pass and
prefer travelling by DTC
buses. On May 5, I had to
reach Noida and I boarded
Outer Mudrika from Hauz
Rani at 6 pm.
I reached Sangam Vihar
(Hamdard Nagar) at 6.15
pm. For the next 45 minutes, there was not a single
DTC bus on routes 34, 525,
717 or 544.
Finally at 7 pm, I got a
DTC bus on route No 544
and reached Badarpur at
7.15 pm.
Again there was no DTC
bus for Noida on route
numbers 34, 8 or 491. At 8
pm, a DTC bus on route no
491 came along.
I reached Noida Sector
37 at 8.40 pm.
The DTC may please improve its services — P C
Sharma, House No H-135,
Sector 41 Noida, Gautam
Budh Nagar
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New Delhi: Jaspal Singh is
haunted by the horrific images he witnessed at Ladhowal after Thursday’s rail
tragedy. One of the first to
arrive, Singh was there to
identify his father-in-law’s
brother Surinder Singh’s
body.
‘‘Bodies were the only
thing one could see, charred
beyond recognition, the
smoke still rising from
them,’’ he says with a shudder.
Jaspal Singh was then
asked to identify a body reportedly
belonging
to
Surinder Singh.
‘‘Only his left foot was not
burnt. I recognised him
from his pyjama,’’ he says.
His father-in-law, Surinder’s
elder brother Daljeet is
grateful they at least got to
bring his body home.
‘‘Imagine the plight of
those families whose relatives are missing. They have
not reached Amritsar, are
not among the injured nor
have their bodies been re-
B Shahji and his relatives attend a prayer meeting for his wife Betty and sons Johnny and
Tony at the Don Bosco Polytechnic on Friday.
covered,’’ says Daljeet.
to assist us,’’ added Daljeet. says Jaspal.
Their family is full of
Daljeet and Jaspal also
Bodies which had not
praise for the local people of met B Shaji who was trying been identified yet had been
Ladhowal.
to trace his wife Betty’s stacked in a tent. ‘‘The sight
‘‘The locals had set up a body. ‘‘We sat with each oth- was horrific with 35 constalangar in the gurudwara er for nearly two hours, he bles of Punjab police there,
there, and did all they could was crying the whole time,’’ each responsible for one
body,’’ said Daljeet. Detailed
notes were being made on
each of the bodies as identification was very difficult.
Even more heart-rending
is the anguish of the relatives who seek an explanation as to what caused the
explosion. They are unwilling to accept that a stove
burst could have resulted in
such a huge conflagration.
‘‘My brother was a strong
man. He could have escaped
had the fire been due to a
small explosion,’’ said Daljeet.
The mood was sombre as
Surinder’s remains were
cremated on Thursday. His
16- year- old daughter
Simerjeet was inconsolable.
A prayer meeting was also
held at the Don Bosco Polytechnic for Betty, Johnny
and Tony. The service was
conducted by Father Jose,
Betty’s brother.
‘‘We must learn about the
miracle of life, when confronted with a tragedy of
this scale,’’ he said.
The bodies will be flown
to Kerala for the burial.
Saturday, May 17, 2003
Exporter’s house robbed
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Noida: Three armed men robbed the residence of an exporter
in Sector 30, Noida, on Wednesday and took away .32 revolver,
jewellery and items worth Rs seven lakh.
One of the robber appears to be an insider said the police.
The exporter, Antesh Bhandari, was away at work. When the
domestic help, Yogesh, answered the door bell, the robbers
barged in. Threatening Yogesh on gunpoint, they took away
his gold chain and ring.
The robbers then took the jewellery worn by the
women. ‘‘They even took away my loaded .32 Webley Scott revolver, a Sony digital camera, a laptop computer, some compact discs and Rs 12,000 in cash,’’ Bhandari said.
A ration card won’t get you a licence now
By Shubhajit Roy
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: People in Delhi are criticising a state transport department
order that has said that telephone
and electricity bills will not be considered fit as proofs of residence.
The order came into effect recently.
At present, the motor licensing department recognises only passports,
voters’ identity cards, life insurance
policy documents and pay-slips (in
case of government employees) as a
proofs of residence.
‘‘The government has removed
electricity bills, telephone bills,
house tax receipts and ration cards
from the list of acceptable documents,’’ said a transport department
official. Sources say there was considerable difference of opinion within the transport department when
the change was made.
The transport department has
been flooded with complaints from
those desiring to get a driving licence. While some accept that fake
ration cards can be made easily, telephone and electricity bills, and
house-tax receipts are authentic.
Says restaurant manager, Tapas
Kumar, who is unable to get a driving
licence, ‘‘I cannot drive a car, although I own one. My wife has to
drive me around.’’ He has a telephone in his name.
Ritu Kohli, a marketing professional for a consumer goods company, says,‘‘My job requires me to travel a lot in the city. Many people in my
office now have to use my car.’’ Kohli
also has a telephone connection in
her name.
Says voluntary organisation Chetna’s, Anil Sood,‘‘It is an ill-conceived
order. A telephone bill or a house tax
receipt is a very reliable document.
Very few people get their passports
made.’’
The transport department officials say they had effected the
change when the traffic police officials had asked them to be strict on
the issue of driving licences.
State transport minister Ajay
Maken said:‘‘The change was effected without my consent. This was
not a major policy decision, and can
be taken by the state transport
authority on its own.’’
Two alleged
gangsters
apprehended
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New Delhi: The special cell
has arrested two members of
the Bhagte gang who were
carrying a reward of Rs one
lakh on their heads. The police claimed to have recovered arms and ammunition
from Suresh Tonk and Jagbir, the two accused.
Deputy commissioner of police (special cell) Ashok
Chand said:‘‘Two
country-made pistols and
four live cartridges were
seized from the accused.’’
Chand claimed the accused
are involved in a number of
heinous offences in Delhi
and Haryana.
The police arrested the alleged gangsters from Pitampura area on Thursday. According to the police, Tonk
came in contact with Bhagte
in May 2001 while Jagbir
joined the gang in January
last year.
The two allegedly helped
Bhagte to escape from the
custody of Haryana police.
On June 15, last year, Bhagte
had come to Tis Hazari
courts. He was going back
to Haryana alongwith the
police
in
a
Haryana
Roadways bus.
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Shilpa Shetty’s
father applies for
anticipatory bail
Bamboo, lean and
mean, set for a leap
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Mumbai: Actress Shilpa Shetty’s father Surendra Shetty moved a Mumbai
sessions court on Friday for anticipatory bail in an extortion case registered
by the Surat police. Also, a team of
Surat police questioned her younger
sister, Shamita Shetty.
A metropolitan court in Surat had
also issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him in the case.
The Surat police recently named
Shetty as a co-accused in an extortion
case, in which members of the Dubaibased Fazl-ur-Rehman gang demanded
Rs 2 crore from owner of Praful sarees
Pankaj Agarwal. Of the total amount,
Shetty was to receive Rs 22 lakh.
‘‘The saree company owed this
amount to Shilpa Shetty for a modelling assignment done by her six years
ago. When they failed to pay the money,
her father sought help of Fazl-urRehman gangsters to recover the money,’’ a police officer revealed.
Agarwal lodged an extortion complaint at Umra police station in Surat
about a month ago.
The Surat police reached Mumbai on
Friday morning to arrest him. But he
was not found at his Juhu residence.
They then questioned his daughter
Shamita Shetty, who said she did not
know about his father’s whereabouts.
Incidentally, Shetty was in the sessions court at the time, applying for an
anticipatory bail.
Shetty’s plea will be heard by sessions judge P V Bavkar on Saturday.
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Villagers collecting drinking water from the dry river bed of Chipot near Baripada in Orissa on Friday.
Charnock’s Kolkata? Not really
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Kolkata: History books will have to
be altered, information of websites
changed and the very history of the
city re-written.
In a landmark judgement on Friday, the Calcutta High Court directed the state government to follow an
expert committee report which said
it was difficult to pinpoint the city’s
exact date of birth. The court did not
identify either Job Charnock nor
anyone else as its ‘‘founder’’.
Acting on a PIL filed by the Sabarna
Roy
Chowdhury
Paribar
Parishad challenging the accepted
belief that Kolkata was ‘‘founded’’
by Job Charnock and the city’s
birthday was on August 24, a division bench comprising Chief Justice
A K Mathur and Justice Jayanta Kumar Biswas passed the order after
advocate general Balai Ray submitted that the state government had accepted the expert committee report.
‘‘The state will have to make
changes in all textbooks, wherever
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there is a mention of Charnock as
the founder of Kolkata,’’ Roy said after the verdict.
The counsel for the petitioner, advocate Ajit Panja, added that the
judgement would entail ‘‘revolutionary corrections in the history of
Kolkata and change all text books
and tourism websites’’, so future
generations would read the ‘‘correct
history’’.
The expert committee, headed by
historian Nemai Sadhan Bose, was
set up by the court in 2002.
New Delhi: Bamboo has
been identified as a key jobgenerating sector by the
Planning Commission. The
Commission has just finished coordinating a report
on its technology and trade
development. But the government is depending on
existing schemes to push
bamboo to its rightful
place.
The Planning Commission’s National Mission on
Bamboo Technology and
Trade Development report
suggests an integrated action plan which seeks to
give the fast-growing bamboo a strategic role in rural
development and poverty
alleviation and even industrial development.
It outlines the tasks for
each ministry, details the
need for efficient use of
bamboo. It targets another
six million hectares under
bamboo by the end of the
11th Plan.
The report has added a
note of caution. In some areas, bamboo has begun to
show signs of flowering
which could kill the plant
over the next few years,
feed an explosion in rodent
numbers and possibly lead
to famine. Until preventive
measures are taken, between 2004 and 2007, 30,000
sq km of bamboo forest will
be hit, warns the report.
Growth potential
• Can grow in most
places other than Kashmir valley
• India has richest bamboo resources after
China
• Checks soil erosion,
conserves moisture and
repairs degraded land
• Can replace timber,
steel, plastic and cut
import bill
Twenty-six
million
tonnes have to be harvested, the harvest has to be
utilised and other steps taken for its regeneration.
Planning Commission
member D N Tewari says
2004 to 2010 will be the crucial phase.
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‘‘We have to launch the
mission with care,’’ says
Tewari. The Cabinet has to
okay a plan to have micromissions coordinated by individual ministries with
the Planning Commission
overseeing the entire effort.
‘‘We haven’t been able to
apply the technology or develop the trade,’’ says
Tewari. The unorganised
and poor value-added level
has to be transformed into
an ‘‘organised technology
and market-driven activity’’ so India can cash in on a
world bamboo economy expected to be worth Rs 91,000
crore by 2015.
India’s Rs 2,000-crore
bamboo economy could
zoom to Rs 26,000 crore by
2015 — with the initial focus being on shoots, boards,
flooring board, paper and
pulp, furniture, building
and construction.
What is needed is money,
technology and planning.
About Rs 2,600 crore is
needed in the 10th Plan but
it looks unlikely that
bamboo
schemes
will
get more than Rs 200-300
crore.
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BJP appeals to Meghalaya militants: The BJP has appealed to insurgent
outfits in Meghalaya to come for talks. ‘‘The government has expressed its willingness to talk to any militant group. Dialogues have begun with outfits like NSCN (IM).
We appeal to them to come forward,’’ BJP’s N-E incharge V Satish said. PTI
The Times of India, New Delhi
Want to go to Canada? Teach your spouse fluent English
By Priya Adhyaru
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ahmedabad: If Canada is
your dream destination, then
not only will your spouse have
to fluent in Queen’s language
but you will also have to know
the language spoken across the
channel, French.
A ‘‘prohibitive’’ check list, imposed by the Canadian government for visa applicants, has left
about 70,000 people in the state,
who had applied for visas prior
to January 2002, when the new
policy was announced, on tenterhooks.
The host of new regulations
have hit the aspirants of the
Maple country hard. From looking for relatives settled in Canada to an education in that country, from hunting for graduate
spouses to work-offer letters.
Add to this a masters degree
and the list seems insurmountable.
‘‘The aspirants feel that they
have been given a raw deal as
these new rules were not in force
when they applied,’’ says immigration from Toronto Prashant
Ajmera. In December 2001, Canada announced the change in its
old immigration policy.
While those who applied before January 1, 2002, were assessed under the old rules till as
late as March 31, 2003, there were
still a whopping 70,000 aspirants
from Gujarat who found themselves caught in the quagmire of
the new law.
These aspirants were left out
as the ‘‘Canadian missions could
not take the pressure of processing the five lakh applications
that had piled up from across the
world, by March 31’’.
A large number of aspirants
have now taken recourse to law.
They are taking help of both Indian and Canadian law firms to
file suits against the Canada’s
ministry of citizenship and immigration for ‘‘announcing
retro-active rules affecting their
chances’’.
SC: Air Force
Act can’t be
challenged
New Delhi: The Supreme
Court (SC) has ruled that the
legality of provisions of the
Air Force Act could not be
challenged on grounds of being violative of fundamental
rights of Armed personnel as
the restrictions imposed
were mandated by the constitution itself.
The ruling was given recently by a Bench comprising Justice N Santosh Hegde
and Justice B P Singh while
setting aside a 1995 order of
the Delhi High Court directing reinstatement of former
Flt Lieutenant G S Bajwa,
who was dismissed from
service in 1983 for refusing to
undergo a medical test.
The High Court had also
directed payment of 50 per
cent of back wages to Bajwa
from the date of dismissal
and the date of judgment but
made it subject to his medical fitness.
Allowing the appeal of the
Union
government,
the
Bench said court martial proceedings held against Bajwa
were in accordance with the
provisions of the Air Force
Act and rejected the allegation of the dismissed officer
that his fundamental rights
were violated during court
martial trial. PTI
Freak mishap
spurs civic
body to act
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal
Corporation
on
Wednesday asked Reliance
Infocomm to immediately
stop laying optical fibre cables in the city.
The directive follows the
death of 24-year-old Amit
Dalmiya on Monday night,
who was impaled by one such
cable on Camac Street.
Though Kolkata mayor
Subrata Mukherjee is learnt
to have shot off a letter to Reliance Infocomm, a company
official said they were yet to
receive any such notice.
The company, however, has
asked its contractors to conduct a fresh survey of its entire project in the city. The
company is also reviewing
the safety measures involved
with the project, he said.
In his letter, the mayor stated when the company had
started laying cables in 2002,
the KMC had wanted its engineers to supervise the work.
It had demanded a supervision fee and a restoration
charge from the company.
Reliance Infocomm refused to accept supervision
of the civic body. ‘‘Despite objections, they were able to
start the work after the state
government gave them a nod.
This time, we won’t let it happen,’’ said Mukherjee.
AGP planning to
form platform of
regional parties
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Guwahati: The Asom Gana
Parishad (AGP) is planning
to float an all India regional
parties’ forum to fight for
common issues like regional
disparity and under-development.
At a recent executive meeting, the party also decided to
revive the North-East Regional
Parties’
Forum
(NERPF).
During former chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s regime, the AGP was instrumental in bringing all regional parties of the northeastern states under one platform — NERPF.
The forum later became
defunct due to its inability to
arrive at consensus over key
issues.
AGP general-secretary and
former minister Chandra
Mohan Patowari, who mooted the latest idea of floating a
national forum for regional
parties, has placed the proposal before party chief
Brindabon Goswami.
Patowari said the AGP will
try to chalk out a common
minimum programme for all
regional parties.
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Govt planning
policy to meet
media needs
By Bhaskar Roy
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The government
has decided to formulate a
comprehensive
broadcast
policy in view of the massive
expansion of satellite television and private FM radio.
At a meeting convened by
the information and broadcasting ministry recently in
connection with a Parliament question, some participants wanted to know why no
such policy existed.
During the discussion, it
was pointed out that the convergence Bill itself was an
expression of the government’s intent in this regard.
The need for a broadcast policy was being felt only because the Bill had been mired
in numerous amendments
proposed by members of a
parlimentary
committee
which had examined it.
Ministry sources later confirmed that a draft of the policy was ready and views were
being sought before it was finally adopted.
One official ascribed the
absence of such a policy to
the long government monopoly over broadcasting. ‘‘So
long we have been guided by
the 1885 Telegraph Act,
where was the need for such
a policy?’’ he asked.
But the technological explosion of recent years has
necessiated such a policy. ‘‘A
policy has become urgent because we have been overtaken by technology,’’ a participant said.
The fact that in addition to
a 100-odd existing television
channels, some 10 more are
in the pipeline awaiting government clearance is a reflection of the television revolution’s magnitude. Nearly
50 per cent of these are 24hour news channels. With
fierce competition has come
a tendency to extend the frontier of news, often calling for
caution and restraint.
When the government invites bids for another 70 FM
radio stations later this year,
broadcasting in the country
will enter an exciting phase.
The meeting was charied
by I&B minister Ravi
Shankar Prasad.
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Maya gets her own back
on Mulayam’s tapes, CDs
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Newly-elected BJP Tamil Nadu unit president C P Radhakrishnan called on DMK president M
Karunanidhi on Thursday.
Cane farmers look to Kalam
New Delhi: Sugarcane farmers in Uttar Pradesh have
sought intervention of President A P J Abdul Kalam to
ensure payment of agreed
prices for them saying both
the Centre and state governments had miserably failed
to address their woes.
The farmers under the
banner of Kisan Mazdoor
Sangathan (KMS) have alleged they are not being paid
the state advisory price
(SAP) of Rs 95 per quintal in
spite of the directions given
by the Supreme Court.
‘‘We have met the President and apprised him of our
plight. We have requested
him to direct the state under
Article 142 to ensure compliance of Supreme Court order
on payment of the SAP,’’
KMS convenor V M Singh
said on Friday.
Singh said the President
assured the KMS delegation
that he would take up the issue with the government.
He said nothing stops the
state
chief
minister
Mayawati from ensuring payment of the cane price dues,
now that the apex court has
issued a notice of contempt
against the state government
and 32 sugar mills over the is-
sue.
‘‘The state government has
refused to comply with the
orders passed by the apex
court on January 31, 2001,
which gives powers to the
state to fix the agreed price,’’
he added.
Singh claimed that political parties are not interested
in resolving the issue as their
coffers are filled with funds
donated by mill owners.
He expressed displeasure
that unlike the Cauvery water issue in which the
Supreme Court issued a contempt notice, their case had
gone largely unnoticed. PTI
Lucknow: The Mayawati
government submitted a
copy of the Central Forensic
Science Laboratory (CFSL)
report, declaring that the
tape and CDs released by the
Samajwadi Party were tampered, to the Chief Judicial
Magistrate’s court on Friday.
The video tape and two
CDs, released by the SP leaders on March 3 and April 8 respectively, contained her controversial remarks on MPs
and MLAs local area development funds and Hindu
deities.
The tape and the CDs were
sent for a test after obtaining
permission from the CJM’s
court, claimed Mayawati at a
Press conference here.
‘‘The CDs and tape were
doctored, distorted and al-
tered by the Samajwadi Party leaders to malign my image and to destabilise my
government. The contents in
the CDs and tape were sensationalised to create an atmosphere of political instability
in the state,’’ she alleged.
‘‘Now that it is confirmed
that the tape and CDs were
tempered with, Mulayam
Singh Yadav, Amar Singh
and other SP leaders should
apologise and resign from
politics,’’ she said.
Claiming that she had always maintained that the
tape and CDs were tampered,
Mayawati said that her government had filed an FIR (no
171/2003/1836) in the case on
April 14.
In a report, dated May 12,
sent to SSP Lucknow Anil
Agarwal, the CFSL said:
‘‘The continuity of speech is
India hopes for early US
nod for AWACS project
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New Delhi: Indian officials are
hopeful that the US will give an early
clearance for the acquisition of desperately needed high-tech defence
systems like Airborne Warning and
Control Systems (AWACS).
The issue is likely to be taken up
when Indian and US security experts
meet in July to discuss ways to ease
US sanctions on export of dual-use
items and advanced technologies to
India.
India’s AWACS project, which has
been in the pipeline for quite some
time, envisages the integration of
the Israeli Phalcon early warning
radars and communications systems
with the Russian Ilyushin-76 heavy
transport military aircraft.
Though the technical configuration of the AWACS project was finalised earlier, Israel is reportedly
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• Project involves integration of
Israeli Phalcon radar and communication systems with Russian Ilyushin-76 aircraft
• Three Phalcon radars will cost
India about $ 1 billion
waiting for a go-ahead from the US.
The three Phalcon radars will be sold
to India for an estimated $ 1 billion if
the clearance comes through.
Also known as ‘‘eyes in the sky’’,
AWACS has been a long-pending demand of the IAF since they can detect cruise missiles, low-flying aircraft and other air intrusions much
earlier than ground-based radars.
They can also be used to position air
defence fighters during combat operations to counter hostile aircraft.
Ganja seized in
Meghalaya
Shillong: The customs officials have seized 1,369 kg of
ganja, worth Rs 27.38 lakh,
near the Indo-Bangla border
in Meghalaya early this
week. The seizure came close
on the heels of another haul
at Dimapur in February. PTI
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not observed in the recorded
speech in the video cassette
and the two CDs.’’
‘‘On the basis of the analysis of sound tract and detection of start and stop activities, it is revealed that the
recordings on the cassette
and CDs are altered. The CD
marked Exh-2 contains 15
segments of the video recording,’’ revealed the report,
prepared by Dr C P Singh,
junior scientific officer.
The highly technical report suggests that the second
CD seems heavily edited as it
contains 15 files. It further
said: ‘‘The context of speech
in the video cassette and the
first CD do not match with
the content in the second CD
and portions having similar
context in the speech are underlined in the transcription.’’
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Gangsters killed in encounter: Police claimed to have shot dead two gangsters allegedly owing allegiance to Chhota Rajan
gang in an encounter at Dahisar in Mumbai on Friday. The two were wanted for several cases of serious offences, they said. PTI
The Times of India, New Delhi
NDFB chief undergoing treatment
Guwahati: The Army and police were keeping a watch on
National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) deputy
commander-in-chief B Olongbar who is undergoing treatment at a hospital here, said Guwahati SP H Nath. NDFB
leader is yet to be arrested.PTI
Ship carrying
soda ash sinks
off Bengal coast
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata\Haldia:
Indonesian ship M V Sigitika Biru,
carrying soda ash, is sinking
in the Bay of Bengal, off
Sandheads.
The sinking may pose the
threat of major water pollution. Twenty-two crew members have been rescued and
are being brought to Haldia
in another ship.
Coast Guard commander
in Haldia A K Wadhwa said
the ship sent the first message about the crisis at 4.30
pm. Water had started seeping into the ship then.
Director marines at Haldia
port A K Bagchi left for the
spot immediately, taking a pilot vessel and a dredger along
with him.
A surveillance aircraft and
a hovercraft were pressed
into service soon after.
They located the ship with-
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in 45 minutes of the wreck.
The Air Force was also summoned as a stand by, Wadhwa
said.
The Indonesian vessel was
towed 7 km upstream the
Hooghly river and made to
‘‘sit on a sand patch’’. Meanwhile, cargo vessel M V Harsha, which was waiting at
Halida port, was sent to the
spot to rescue the crew members.
The ship was going from
Porbandar to Chittagong.
The ship, which was
loaded with 6,327 tonnes of
soda ash at Porbandar, met a
severe cyclone at the Andhra
Pradesh and Orissa coasts.
Consequently, the vessel developed a major crack.
The exact reason, however,
is not yet known.
Union shipping minister
Shatrughan Sinha reached
the spot to assess the situation.
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End terror for
permanant
peace: Advani
India not buying ADB
offer on Pak pipeline
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Mumbai: Deputy prime minister L K Advani said here on
Friday that permanent peace
could not be established between India and Pakistan unless the latter changed the
policy of cross-border terrorism.
‘‘Pakistan’s
anti-India
stance has remained unchanged since 1947. This
would not foster a lasting solution. Pakistan will have to
show that it is serious about
improving bilateral relations,’’ Advani said.
His stern remarks are considered significant against
the backdrop of the thaw in
the ties between the two
countries that began with
Prime Minister Atal Bihari
Vajpayee’s initiative.
Talking to reporters, Advani indicated that Pakistan
would have to offer more concrete evidence of its intention of reciprocating India’s
offer of peaceful co-existence.
Advani earlier felicitated
veteran
editor
Aroon
Tikekar with the ‘Narad
Award’ instituted by the
Vishwa Samvad Kendra, a
Sangh Parivar outfit.
By Sanjay Dutta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Prime Minister Vajpayee addressing the locals at Prini village in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.
Mishra briefs PM on talks with US, UK
Manali: National security
adviser Brajesh Mishra on
Friday briefed Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on
the talks he had with US
president George W Bush
and other American leaders
during his recent visit to
Washington in the backdrop
of Indo-Pak peace overtures.
During an hour-long meeting with Vajpayee, Mishra
apprised him on the talks he
had with British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s foreign pol-
CPM’s formula
for peace in J&K
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The CPM
has mooted a four-point
formula for improvement of Indo-Pak relations and lasting peace
in J&K in particular.
The formula calls for
an initiative by Pakistan to restrain militants operating from its
territory from violent
activity. It demands that
all political prisoners
be released from jail
in that country and
democratic rights be restored in Pak-occupied
Kashmir.
India, on the other
hand, should make efforts for a permanent
ceasefire apart from trying to reduce the size of
forces deployed to maintain internal security in
the state. The country
icy advisor David Manning
in London.
On his way to Washington,
Mishra had a stop-over in
London to meet US deputy
secretary of state Richard
Armitage ahead of the latter’s visit to India and Pakistan.
Mishra was unable to meet
Vajpayee on his return from
his week-long trip to UK, US
and France on Monday night
as the Prime Minister had
left for a six-day holiday.
After holding talks with
his US counterpart Condoleeza Rice in the White
House on May 8, Mishra was
ushered in to the Oval office
for a 15-minute ‘‘substantive’’
meeting with Bush, focusing
on the the fresh Indo-Pak
peace moves.
Bush praised Vajpayee’s
initiatives and noted the
deepening of friendship between India and the US.
Mishra, who had also held
talks with secretary of state
Colin Powell, renewed invitation to Bush to visit India.
Bush had told him that he
was keen to visit India but
could not say when it could
take place.
During his talks with American officials, bilateral relations as well as the Prime
Minister’s initiatives to have
friendship with Pakistan, the
steadily deepening US-India
relations and the situation in
Afghanistan came up for discussions. PTI
New Delhi: India is playing it cool to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) offer of a partnership to build
a $3.5 billion gas pipeline
from
Turkmenistan
through Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
Senior officials in the oil
and external affairs ministries dismissed a report
in Pakistani newspaper
Dawn that New Delhi had
sought a guarantee from
Turkmenistan that it would
stop gas supply to Pakistan
if Islamabad ever blocked
supplies to New Delhi.
‘‘The (ADB) offer has
come and is being examined by the oil, external affairs and other concerned
ministries. We will send the
government’s
response
through normal diplomatic
channels once the issue is
decided in totality,’’ petroleum secretary B K Chaturvedi told The Times of India
on Friday.
Thursday’s Dawn had
quoted ADB officials as say-
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ing India had warmed up to
the proposal after the recent thaw in relations between the two neighbours.
MEA officials said any
guarantee
from
Turkmenistan would not alter
New Delhi’s security concerns. ‘‘How does it help us
if gas supply to Pakistan is
cut?’’ an official asked,
pointing out that any disruption would jeopardise
investments made on the
basis of uninterrupted
availability of
certain
quantity of gas.
should also ensure fair
trial for those in jail.
Both sides, the formula says, should ease tension on the Line of Control allowing people living on the two sides of
the line to meet and interact. Cultural exchanges should also resume, it says.
The party proposes
that all political parties
active in the Valley
raise their voice for the
return of Kashmiri
Pundits.
This set of proposals
was originally floated
by the party’s J&K unit
in 2001 for a ‘‘forward
movement’’ to a return
of normalcy through
confidence
building
measures.
The party said the
need of the hour was to
sustain the momentum.
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The officials said the issue cannot be viewed in isolation. ‘‘Any decision hasx
to take into account the
country’s security concerns as well as political
and diplomatic implications,’’ the official said.
‘‘Our security concerns
remain unchanged. That is
why we are not looking at
the Iranian proposal of another gas pipeline through
Pakistan,’’ he said. ‘‘If TAP
were to happen, even the
Iran-India pipeline could
happen,’’ he added.
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Rlys wasting
funds: CAG
By Rajesh Ramachandran
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Railways
seems to be procuring engines and wagons without assessing the ground conditions under which they
should be run. While imported engines worth Rs 200
crores have been declared unsafe and withdrawn from
service, 301 wagons worth Rs
32.66 crore lie unused because they require upgraded
tracks.
The Railways bought 18
electric engines in 1988 on
World Bank assistance from
Sweden and Japan. But soon
found that trains running
with these engines interfered
with the signalling system.
The engines were then relegated to less important
branch lines of South Eastern Railway.
The Comptroller and Auditor General in its latest report on Railways has exposed
the wasteful expenditure on
the import of 18 engines that
could have cost another Rs 95
crores in unutilised spare
parts and in terms of earning capacity had they been
running efficiently.
The first periodic overhaul
of these engines was to be
done in 1998, but, ‘‘It could
not be undertaken due to
non-availability of technical
know-how, manufacturing
drawings, tools and tack-
Eastern Rly
all set to
ban smoking
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata: Spurred into action
by Thursday’s Frontier Mail
tragedy, Eastern Railway officials have strengthened the
vigil at stations and on board
trains for smokers and inflammable articles.
‘‘The Supreme Court has
forbidden smoking on railway premises and compartments. The Railways Act,
however, has not been
changed accordingly. According to Section 167 of the Act,
a passenger may smoke if
others around him have no
objection. Under the Act, the
maximum fine for smoking
is Rs 100,’’ said ER officials
here on Thursday.
The officials agreed that
tea-sellers travelling with
lighted stoves in compartments of running trains also
pose a danger. But the hawkers usually enjoy political patronage, they said. Law and
order being a state subject,
only the police can take action in this regard.
‘‘Reports from Ludhiana
say the fire could have been
caused by a carelessly
thrown cigarette.’’
les...,’’ wrote the CAG. The
engines were declared unsafe
in September 2000 and withdrawn from traffic service by
chief traffic manager, South
Eastern Railway.
All this while, spare parts
of the engines, whose drawings were not available, were
being imported at Rs 12.31
crore. Also, spare parts
worth Rs 6.12 crores were
bought from within the country, ‘‘without any clear and
definite idea about the periodic overhaul of these locos,’’
said the CAG.
Though these engines
were bought from Sweden
and Japan, when the officials
began grappling with the
maintenance
technology
they went to Australia and
later made a recommendation that officers should visit
United Kingdom, France and
Germany to identify sources
for spare parts.
In 1998, the Railways decided to introduce new wagons
that could carry more coal
and iron ore and run at a
speed of 100 km per hour.
Within months, orders were
placed and by early 2000, 301
wagons were bought by the
railways. It was realised then
that to run these wagons
even on just six routes, the
track structure and the signalling system needed to be
upgraded at a cost of Rs 924
crores.
The Times of India, New Delhi
All about compensation
‘‘No one has yet told us
about it, who do I have
to call for filling out the
form.’’
Daljeet Singh, brother of
victim Surinder Singh
‘‘The next of kin of the
deceased in each case
will have to contact the
railways. They will have
to file a claim with the
Railway Claims Tribunal.
This is a procedural
requirement.’’
D P S Sandhu, Northern
Railway chief public
relations officer
What is
ex gratia?
It is an ‘‘out of grace
or compassion’’
announced by the
government. This
amount is not
adjustable against
final compensation.
Who is entitled
to ex gratia
payment?
Any person injured or
the dependents of
those dead in a
mishap
What is the procedure for
seeking compensation in a
train accident?
What is the maximum amount payable
as compensation in case of death and
injuries under the Railways Act?
An application supported by the death
certificate, in case of death, and medical
papers, in case of injuries, along with evidence
to show that an applicant indeed travelled in
the accident-hit train, has to be filed before
the Railway Claims Tribunal
Section 3 of the Act says that for death the
compensation amount must be Rs 4 lakh. It also says
that the tribunal can pay upto Rs 2 lakh in a case of
injuries resulting in incapacity to work. The amount of
compensation payable in any other injury resulting in
pain and suffering shall be determined by the tribunal
on the basis of medical evidence and other
circumstances.
Is it time-consuming and a
costly exercise?
Not as time consuming as moving an ordinary
court. Nor it is a costly affair as the court fees
are nominal. The final order, however, depends
on availability of officers manning the tribunal
and also on the government’s will to contest the
claim made by a victim of train accident.
What are the powers of a tribunal?
The tribunal can order different amounts of
compensation for multiple injuries but such an amount
cannot exceed Rs 2 lakh. If an injured person who has
been paid compensation upto Rs 2 lakh dies, he shall
be paid Rs 2 lakh more by the railway authority.
BJP feels heat in Madhumita murder case
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The negative
impact of BSP minister
Amarmani Tripathi’s name
being linked with that of
young Lucknow-based poetess Madhumita Shukla, who
was murdered recently, is already being felt in BJP circles here. Following demands by the opposition to
drop Tripathi from the government, BJP leaders, including party president M
Venkaiah Naidu and general secretary Mukhtar Abbas
Naqvi, have been in touch
with
chief
minister
Mayawati on the subject.
BJP leaders are likely to
meet Mayawati on May 18
when they go to Lucknow
for a statewide meeting of
BJP functionaries. The trou-
bled relationship with the
BSP, and the Shukla murder
case will be the main issues.
BJP leaders have reportedly told Mayawati that
there is a need to take action
before the scandal engulfs
the state government and
provides more ammunition
to the opposition. With the
BJP in election mode for five
crucial assembly elections
— for which it is producing
a ‘‘chargesheet’’ against the
Congress governments in
MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Delhi to prove they
are ‘‘scam-tainted, corrupt
and non-performing’’ — the
last thing the party needs is
a scandal involving it.
But sources say that beyond saying she would have
the case thoroughly investi-
Drama unfolds
• BJP leaders to meet
Mayawati on May 18 to
discuss the case
• CM has been told that
action needs to be taken before the scandal
engulfs the UP govt
gated, Mayawati has refused
to oblige the BJP further.
Sources add this is because
Tripathi has been very useful to her in the past, particularly when he used his old
contacts in the Congress to
help her in splitting the party recently to strengthen the
BSP-led government.
Tripathi was earlier a
minister in the BJP-led Rajnath Singh government. He
had joined the BJP-led coalition on October 20, 1997, as
part of the 18-member
Naresh Aggarwal-led Congress breakaway group,
named Loktantrik Congress. It was widely known
then that Tripathi was a
Category A history sheeter
with 33 criminal cases pending against him.
He
was
eventually
dropped from the Rajnath
Singh government after it
was discovered he had given
shelter to the five kidnappers of a local businessman’s son. Subsequently, he
was even arrested.
Today, as the demand for
his resignation grows, the
BJP is finding it difficult to
deal with queries.
For instance, on Friday,
Naqvi who found himself at
the receiving end, spoke
only in generalities: ‘‘The
party feels that those with
criminal cases against them
should not be allowed to
hold ministerial posts. Even
Mayawati has said so.’’
But wouldn’t the continuance of Tripathi in the
government hamper investigations? No, not at all, he
said.
Dalit woman accuses Congressman of rape
By Suchandana Gupta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bhopal: A 24-year-old Dalit woman
alleged that she was raped by a Congressman known to be close to Hazarilal Raghuvanshi, the Madhya
Pradesh minister for revenue, rehabilitation and legislative affairs.
The woman claimed she was a
bonded labourer in the house of Congress MLA Dinu Malviya. Malviya
allegedly raped her on April 23, 2003
at his residence.
She claimed that she approached
the police to lodge her complaint, but
the police beat-up her husband
Criminal neglect?
• Policemen in Seoni beat up the
husband of the woman and threw
him out of the police station
• The special police station for
SC/ST atrocities in Hoshangabad
filed the FIR but didn’t give a copy
of it to the couple
Manoj Pater and threw him out of
the police station. The two then approached the special police station
for
SC/ST
atrocities,
in
Hoshangabad. An FIR was lodged but
no copy was given to the couple.
Speaking to newspersons, she recalled: ‘‘Dinu Malviya kept me and
my husband in his house for the last
six months. He gave us a room at the
back of the house. In return, we had
to work for Rs 300 per month. But he
never gave us the money.’’
On the evening of April 23, her
husband went to ask Malviya for
salary. Malviya first refused to entertain any discussion on the money.
When Manoj persisted, Malviya allegedly beat the man.
‘‘My husband ran away while
Malviya stopped me,’’ she said. ‘‘He
threatened he would kill my husband
if I shouted and raped me. He also
threatened me of dire consequences
if I ever revealed the matter.’’
The couple ran away from
Malviya’s house. ‘‘We were afraid
that Malviya, being a powerful Congressman, might get us killed,’’
Manoj said.
‘‘We went to the police. They said
we were crazy to have come with a
complaint against the minister’s representative. In Hoshangabad, the police told me to shut up.’’
The victims are now in Bhopal expecting an appointment with DGP Dinesh Jugran. Police were not available for comment.
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Joshi calls meet
on Women’s Bill
By Ambarish Mishra
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
A Tibetan performs a folk dance
during Buddha Purnima celebrations at Panthaghati monastery in
Shimla on Friday.
Envoy to China: Additional secretary, east affairs, in the ministry of
external affairs Nalin Suri, may become the new ambassador to China.
Suri will replace serving ambassador
Shiv Shankar Menon, who moves on
to Islamabad as the new Indian ambassador to Pakistan.TNN
VHP’s stand: The VHP is opposed
to holding a Indo-Pakistan summit
‘‘at this juncture’’. Speaking to reporters on Friday, international secretary of the VHP Praveen Togadia
said Pakistan was a‘‘ unreliable
country’’ and time was not ripe for
parleys.TNN
Package awaited: Five years after the second nuclear test conducted in 1998, people of Pokhran in
Rajasthan are still hoping that the
Centre would grant a special package for the area’s integrated development in recognition of its contribution to India’s nuclear capability. PTI
USAID credit guarantee: The
US agency for international development will provide a credit guarantee
of Rs 50 crore to West Bengal for efficient implementation and running of
various civic schemes in the state. PTI
Mumbai: Lok Sabha Speaker
Manohar Joshi has convened an allparty meeting on June 16 to evolve a
consensus on the Women’s Representation Bill.
‘‘I have asked all political parties
to submit their proposals on the Bill.
So far, the CPM has sent in its views.
Others, too, will follow suit. I hope
the all-party meeting will help end
the deadlock on the issue,’’ Joshi told
Times News Network on Wednesday.
‘‘If you ask me, I am of the view
that the Bill should be accepted and
passed in its present form,’’ he said.
The Bill, which sets aside 33 per
cent legislative seats for women, was
withdrawn by the Centre following
acrimonious scenes in the Lok Sabha on May 6.
Several Opposition parties — including the Samajwadi Party (SP)
and the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)
— and three key NDA allies, including the Shiv Sena, stoutly resisted
the passage of the Bill on the floor of
the House. Pushed on to the backfoot,
the Centre held the Bill in abeyance.
Joshi said opposition to the Bill
smacks of ‘‘insensitivity’’ to the larger issue of allowing women a stellar
role in mainstream politics. A slew
of alternatives, including double
membership and a corresponding increase in the Lok Sabha seats, have
been thrown up to resolve the crisis,
he said.
‘‘However, the best course, which
Shiv Sena has suggested, will be to
leave the issue of reservation to the
wisdom of political parties,’’ said
Joshi who, as chief minister of Maharashtra, had piloted a resolution
in the state legislative assembly in
1996 urging the Centre to adopt 33
• Opposition to the Bill smacks
of ‘‘insensitivity’’ to the issue of
allowing women a stellar role in
mainstream politics
• The Bill should be accepted
and passed in its present form
• Terms his one-year tenure as
satisfying
per cent reservation for women.
On the recent tour of Pakistani
parliamentarians, Joshi said he
couldn’t meet the visiting MPs as
there was no ‘‘formal and specific request’’ from them. ‘‘Actually, an official delegation from across the border will help strengthen the peace
initiative,’’ he pointed out.
On whether there was a move to
send Indian MPs to the neighbouring
country as a reciprocal gesture,
Joshi replied in the negative.
Describing his one-year tenure as
Speaker as ‘‘satisfying and rewarding’’, Joshi said the pace of legislative business had ‘‘vastly improved’’
during the last two sessions. ‘‘The
MPs seem eager to do their homework as there is a growing realisation that issues of public importance
and policy matters should be given
top priority,’’ he said.
Joshi’s stewardship evoked praise
from key parliamentarians, including former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, CPM leader Somnath
Chatterjee, Samajwadi Party chief
Mulayam Singh Yadav and Union
minister for parliamentary affairs
Sushma Swaraj, when the Lower
House recently passed a resolution
— the first of its kind — complimenting the Speaker for completing
one year in office.
A family that has
polls every 2 years
By R Edwin Sudhir
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Speaker’s word
A model at a fashion show in Mumbai on Friday.
Bangalore: A family that
plays together stays together.
But one Bangalore-based
family has taken it beyond
mere e-cards and formed an
association.
Founder-president Prof A
Thomas explains how the
Benjamin Manickam Family
Association (BMFA) evolved
from meetings at weddings
and baptisms into a formal
body: ‘‘It’s probably because
there were so many sportsmen in the family that the
idea of an association
clicked. Team spirit comes
naturally to us.’’
With 14 families and 150
members and counting, the
BMFA took shape in 2000 and
boasts among its members
Surabi (now in her seventies)
to Sophia (now a tender eight
months). They are all related
to father figure Benjamin
Manickam, (born December
2, 1886), a foreman at the Indian Institute of Science in
early 1900.
Apart from staying in
Indo-French project
in biotechnology
By Siddhartha D Kashyap
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Pune: A new collaborative
project by researchers from
the University of Pune and
their French counterparts in
the field of biotechnology
are trying to establish a link
between protein synthesis
and protein degradation.
The study will help understand the functional link between these two processes,
which in turn has the potential to rectify physiological
abnormalities besides preventing the growth of cancerous cells in the body.
While preliminary work
for the Rs 2 crore project has
been undertaken under the
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Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR), an official
involved with the project
said a final agreement will
be signed next month.
IFCPAR is a bilateral programme of scientific co-operation between the two
countries under the department of science and technology and the French ministry
of foreign affairs. It was
formed to co-ordinate and
sponsor collaborative projects, which deal with advanced fundamental and applied scientific research.
The project will enable researchers from both countries to visit each other twice
a year.
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Sibling bond
The family has elections
every two years, an annual general body meeting, a newsletter every
six months, an annual intra-family cricket match,
an outstation retreat and
charity work.
touch and fellowship during
the Christmas season, the
many teachers in the family
guide the children.
The BMFA has elections
every two years, an annual
general body meeting which
reviews its by-laws, a
newsletter every six months,
an annual intra-family cricket match, an outstation retreat at which a priest joins
them and charity work
where, perhaps, an orphanage feels the warmth of a
close-knit family. The AGM is
a not-to-be-missed event with
fun and games for the children who renew ties and realise that with so many helping hands around, no emergency is too big to handle.
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The Times of India, New Delhi
AFP
US creates
video game to
train soldiers
Los Angeles: The US Army
has found a powerful new
weapon in training soldiers
for the dirty and dangerous
business of urban warfare:
Video games.
For the past year, the Army
has been handing out free
games as part of its recruiting efforts, but in the coming
months it will also turn to a
video game to train squad
leaders in real-life combat
tactics.
‘‘If you enroll in the Army
of the future, you’ll get your
helmet, your gun and one of
these discs,’’ said Wil Stahl, a
game designer at Pandemic
Studios who led the threeyear project to develop the
game based on the Army’s requirements.
The combat simulator,
which Santa Monica, California-based Pandemic showed
off for mediapersons at the
Electronic
Entertainment
Expo in Los Angeles this
week, puts players at the
head of two light-infantry
teams locked in a running
firefight in a vaguely West
Asian city.
The ‘‘bad guys’’ pop out
from behind walls and pull
up in pickup trucks with automatic-weapons mounted
on the beds. When shot, they
fall with a burst of blood
from the head.
In developing the game
Pandemic said it was careful
to fictionalize details of the
game’s setting. Reuters
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AFP
Reuters
Zellweger in Doris Day
days: Renee Zellweger,
Actors portraying victims of a plane crash lie on the tarmac during a mock accident at
Midway Airport in Chicago on Thursday. The drill was part of a weeklong series of simulated
disasters conducted by the US department of homeland security in the Chicago area.
Miss Universe hopefuls all set
Panama City: Contestants
for the 2003 Miss Universe
contest began to arrive in
Panama on Thursday amid
heightened measures for
security and SARS prevention. The event is scheduled
for June 3.
Special police details
were assigned to the Panama City airport for the contestants’ arrival. While no
specific security threat was
reported, memories were
still fresh of the religious
violence that forced the
Miss World pageant to leave
Nigeria in November.
Following a report on the
pageant in a newspaper in
Nigeria, there were violent
riots. More than 200 people
were killed in the violence
that rocked the African nation.
Special measures were
also in place to ensure that
contestants and their retinues were free of SARS infection. ‘‘We have put in
place the necessary controls to avoid SARS,’’ said
Health Minister Fernando
Garcia.
Several of the 70 contestants had arrived by Thursday.
Those coming from regions where SARS outbreaks have been reported
were asked to provide medical certificates stating they
were in good health.
Panama has no reported
cases of SARS to date.AP
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whether this strip is comic or serious. It
lacks sense, wit or relevance to the
times. Why don’t you utilise this space
for some better purpose?
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fresh off her
stunning turn
in the musical Chicago,
swings into
action as the
second coming of Doris
Day in Down
With Love, a sex comedy
with a twist opening nationwide this weekend. ‘‘They’re
fun. Fun is good,’’ Zellweger
says about the Doris DayRock Hudson comedies that
are paid a loving homage in
the stylized period piece costarring Ewan McGregor. The
film premiered at the Tribeca
Film Festival last week. Zellweger plays Barbara Novak,
who hits the Big Apple with
her new book, Down With
Love, a pre-feminist manifesto on saying ‘‘no’’ to love
and ‘‘yes’’ to career — and
sex. She becomes the target
of crack journalist Catcher
Block (Ewan McGregor), a
ladies’ man who is determined to take her down. Reuters
Singer Bruce Sprignsteen
performs in Oviedo, Spain
on Thursday. He is currently
on a European tour.
the free show, which drew
15,000 people on May 9.
Robert De Niro and his
Tribeca Films partner, Jane
Rosenthal, founded the festival after the 9/11 attacks. AP
Madonna, husband may
be spared: A judge heard
Reeves no Indy Jones:
Maybe it’s the dark glasses.
Keanu
Reeves, who
plays the superpowered
character
Neo hiding
behind his
cool black
shades and
long trench coat in The Matrix
Reloaded, said he is certain
he can avoid being typecast
in similar superhero roles in
the future. The Matrix movies
have created a cult-like following with their story about
humans — Neo among them
— battling machines that en-
Top French model Laetitia Casta arrives for the world
premiere of Matrix Reloaded at the 56th Cannes film
festival in France on Thursday.
slaved them in a computerTribeca Film Festival can
simulated world. The Matrix
catch her in concert on MTV
in 1999 had raked in $456
and VH1. ‘‘100 Percent NYC:
million worldwide, and by
A Concert Celebrating the
Thursday Reloaded was beTribeca Film Festival’’ is
ing shown on over 8,500
scheduled to air simultanemovie screens. Reuters
ously on both cable music
channels in the US on SaturNorah Jones on MTV:
day. The show took place
Norah Jones fans who could- during the second annual fesn’t quite make it to lower
tival from May 3-11. The
Manhattan to see the Grambroadcast will include bemy-winner perform during the hind-the-scenes footage from
arguments about whether a
breach of contract lawsuit
against Madonna and her director husband Guy Ritchie
should be thrown out of court
because an opposing lawyer
missed a hearing. The lawsuit
alleges that Madonna and
Ritchie broke a contract involving their film flop Swept
Away when they didn’t compensate the person who
claims he brought them the
idea. AP
Robert Stack dies: Actor
Robert Stack, famous for his
role as the leader of The Untouchables in the series of
the same name, has died in
Los Angeles, his agent said
on Thursday. He was 84.
Stack died of a heart attack
on Wednesday, Merrit Blake
said. AFP
India pays for Vijay’s bogey Halle Berry breaks
By Chidanand Rajghatta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Washington: Mother India is having
to take the rap for golfer Vijay Singh’s
purportedly sexist stand.
Singh, a Fijian of Indian ancestry,
has overnight became the American
sporting world’s biggest boor and bogeyman because of his opposition to
female golfer Annika Sorenstam playing the men’s circuit. The result: Many
commentators are attributing the
stand to Singh’s Indian heritage.
“Singh isn’t a racist; he’s a sexist.
And he comes by it naturally. His birth
certificate might say Fiji, but Singh is
Indian by heritage. Nothing against India or Hinduism, but it’s certainly fair
to say that culture hasn’t been at the
fore when it comes to gender equity,”
Washington Times sportswriter Barker Davis wrote.
USA Today columnist Jon Saraceno
was even harsher. “What we also have
is a clash of cultures and social dog-
mas,” he began.
“Sorenstam is from
Sweden, a liberal,
open society. She’s
probably wondering
what the fuss is
about. I doubt she
possesses the same
Vijay Singh
traditional male-female notions of Singh, born in Fiji to
Indian parents.”
After his controversial interview,
Singh has clarified that he was opposed to Sorenstam playing with men
purely on sporting grounds (because
the game takes greater upper body
strength and Sorenstam would fare
poorly among men) and that his comments came out “sounding wrong.”
But most commentators have seized
on the sexism angle, in part because it
appears Singh is not very well-liked on
the golf circuit. Some writers have
said he is a brooding loner who does
not care for the media.
● For more go to www.indiatimes.com
an arm on film set
Los Angeles: Actress Halle Berry has
broken her arm on the Montreal set of
her upcoming film, Gothika, but will be
back on the job next week, a Warner
Brothers spokesman says.
The Academy Award-winning actress,
who plays a criminal psychologist in the
supernatural thriller, was injured on
Wednesday while shooting a physically
demanding scene, Warner Brothers
spokesman Joe Everett said.
Several of Berry’s co-stars, who include
Robert Downey Jr., Penelope Cruz, and
Lord of the Rings actor Bernard Hill, were
on set at the time but it was not clear who
else was in the scene with her.
‘‘It wasn’t a stunt scene, it was just one
of the physical scenes in a movie,’’
Everett said on Thursday. ‘‘Her arm didn’t
go the way it was supposed to.’’ Berry, 32,
was taken to a Montreal hospital, where
she was treated for a broken ulna — the
bone that extends from the elbow to the
wrist — and released, Everett said. Reuters
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US fears more terror attacks in S Arabia
Singapore: Terror alerts have
spread around the world with
Australia and New Zealand
warning their nationals to be on
their guard in Southeast Asia, a
region still haunted by last
year’s Bali bombings.
As Saudi, FBI and CIA agents
hunted for the masterminds of
this week’s suicide bomb attacks
in Riyadh, the US state department said on Thursday it feared
an imminent attack by Islamic
militants in another Saudi city,
Jeddah.
Lebanon said it had smashed a
plot to attack the US embassy in
Beirut, while Britain banned
flights to Kenya, where past terror attacks have killed hundreds.
Governments around the
world believe Al-Qaida, the network of Saudi-born Osama bin
Laden blamed for the September
11, 2001, attacks on the US, and
its allies are planning more assaults on Western targets.
“It could be a variety of potential targets. It could be a variety
of types of attacks,” a US official
said. The intelligence was of
“roughly” similar intensity to
that before Monday’s bombing
attacks on expatriate compounds in Riyadh that killed at
least 34 people, including seven
Americans.
The Australian foreign office
said Australians should be extremely cautious in Malaysia,
Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, East Timor and Brunei.
“We continue to receive reports
that terrorist elements in the region are planning attacks,” it
said.
US sources said on Friday a
decision to renew a travel warn-
Osama behind
Riyadh blast?
Washington:
Al-Qaida
leader Osama bin Laden is
not only alive but ordered
the recent suicide bombings in the Saudi capital
Riyadh that killed 34 people
and injured scores, NTV reported.
US intelligence officials
told the channel that bin
Laden’s fervency may have
created a split within the
top leadership of the terror
network. Agencies
ing to Americans visiting
Malaysia was not driven by any
fresh information of a terrorist
threat in the mostly Muslim
country.
The Riyadh bombings were
the first big attack on US interests since the ousting of Saddam
Hussein in Iraq, portrayed by
Washington as an integral part
of its war on terror.
The US stuck to its view that
this anti-terror war had shattered Al-Qaida’s leadership, but
Homeland Security chief Tom
Ridge said: “The potential is still
very, very real.”
Reinforcing that threat, the
state department said it feared a
repeat of Monday’s bombings in
Saudi Arabia.
“The US consulate-general in
Jeddah has received an unconfirmed report that a possible terrorist attack in the Al Hamra
district of Jeddah may occur in
the near future,” it said in a
statement.
In unusual criticism, Washington said the kingdom needed
to do more to fight terrorism. Attorney-General John Ashcroft
said the bombings showed Saudi
Arabia had a “terrorism problem”.
In Beirut, military intelligence officials said they had arrested nine people plotting an attack on the US embassy and kidnappings to force the release of
Islamic militant prisoners.
The Lebanese army said it and
Syrian military intelligence had
detained members of a cell planning “sabotage and attacks on
various targets, the most important being the embassy of a major Western state”. Military intelligence sources said the heavily fortified US embassy in
Beirut was the target. Reuters
AP
It’s lies, fries and
spies: Franco-US
spat gets ugly
By Chidanand Rajghatta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Washington: After the
spies and fries, it’s the lies.
The Franco-American
war of words has taken an
ugly turn with Paris accusing the Bush administration of deliberately
spreading falsehood and
disinformation about its
alleged complicity with
the Iraqi government of
Saddam Hussein to discredit France.
In an unprecedented
move, the French ambassador to the US has written
a letter to US administration officials and members
of the Congress detailing
what he says are false stories planted in the American media by hawkish conservatives as part of an
“ugly campaign to destroy
the image of France.”
Among the eight stories
listed along with the twopage letter is a May 6
Washington Times article
that cited unnamed “American intelligence sources”
as saying France had
helped Iraqi leaders wanted by the US escape to Europe by providing them
with French passports.
Also listed is a New York
Times report last September alleging that France
and Germany had supplied Iraq in 1998 with
high-precision switches
used in detonating nuclear
weapons and a Washington
Post story last November
quoting an “American intelligence source” saying
that France possessed prohibited strains of the human smallpox virus.
Each of the stories has
been denied or clarified by
France, but the American
media has taken little note
of it.
France’s angry outburst
this week came after
weeks of provocative US
action, including a widelyreported and ridiculed
move to rename “French
fries” as “freedom fries”
by the US Congress.
Although there have
been token attempts at a
rapprochement between
the two sides in the aftermath of the Iraq War, several US officials, including
secretary of state Colin
Powell, have said France
will have to pay for its
stand one way or another.
● For more go to
www.indiatimes.com
An Afghan refugee woman bids farewell to her brother who leaves for their
country from Lahore in neighbouring Pakistan on Friday.
Bid to revive Lanka talks
Colombo: Norway’s deputy foreign
minister Vidar Helgesen was making
a fresh bid to salvage Sri Lanka’s
peace process Friday, a day after his
boss failed to end the talks stalemate,
diplomats said.
Foreign Minister Jan Petersen left
here Friday morning, admitting he
failed to persuade the LTTE to end
their boycott of negotiations but he
left behind his deputy to continue the
work.
Diplomats said Helgesen was due
to travel to the rebel-held town of
Kilinochchi, 330 km north of here, in
a military helicopter for another
round of talks to try to jumpstart the
stalled peace process.
Both Petersen and Helgesen met
with LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran on Thursday, but there was
no breakthrough. They also failed to
persuade the Tigers to attend a key
donor conference in Japan next
month.
Norway, which is spearheading the
peace process, and Japan, Sri Lanka’s
largest aid donor, have urged the
Tigers to go to the June 9-10 aid conference in Tokyo to impress the international community of their commitment to peace. AFP
US steps up
screening of
visa seekers
Washington: The Bush administration,
concerned
about the risk of terrorists
slipping into the US, is planning a sharp increase in the
number of face-to-face interviews with visa applicants,
officials said Friday.
At present, many foreigners, particularly from countries considered unlikely
sources of terrorists, are not
subjected to interviews by US
consular officers.
A State Department official said the number of interviews has increased since the
Sept. 11 attacks but that a
more ambitious interview
process is planned.
The Wall Street Journal,
which reported the story in
its Friday editions, said state
department estimates are
that 90 percent of applicants
will be interviewed.
The new policy won’t affect citizens from 27 countries, many in Europe, who
by law don’t need visas for
tourist or business travel, or
from Canada, who don’t need
visas for most kinds of travel, the paper reported.
The change will greatly increase the workload of the
country’s 200-plus visa-issuing embassies and consulates, which processed 8.3
million visa applications and
approved 5.7 million in fiscal
2002, the newspaper said. AP
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Saturday, May 17, 2003
New technology makes fuel from waste
The thermal depolymerization process transforms carbonbased substances into usable fuels, minerals and clean
water. In just a few hours, the technology mimics natural
processes that occur in the earth
Waste
over thousands of years.
Waste is pulverized into a
slurry and water is added
The slurry is depressurized. Steam and
natural gas are collected.
Oil is heated to separate oil,
steam, and natural gases.
The slurry is
heated to between
500 and 900
degrees at
pressures up to
600 pounds per
square inch.
Reformer
reactor
segments solids
Separation
from volatile
and
chemicals.
Drawing is schematic.
What goes in . . . What comes out
100 pounds of . . .
Oil
Gas
70 pounds
Plastic bottles
Sewage
Minerals
26
Rubber waste
9
16 6
8
44
8
57
10
42 4
74
Heavy oil
Medical waste
Slaughterhouse
waste
Water
65
39 6 5
10 5
17
9
20
50
SOURCE: Changing World Technologies
AP
Kennedy, too, had
affair with intern
New York: A 60-year-old New
York woman says she was the
young White House intern reported this week to have had an
affair with President Kennedy in
the 1960s.
“From June 1962 to November
1963, I was involved in a sexual
relationship with President
Kennedy,”
Marion
“Mimi”
Fahnestock said in a statement
released by the Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, where she
works as an administrator.
“For the last 41 years, it is a
subject that I have not discussed,” she added. “In view of
the recent media coverage, I have
now discussed the relationship
with my children and my family,
and they are supportive.”
The affair came to light with
the publication this week of a
new biography of Kennedy, An
Unfinished Life, by historian
Robert Dallek, which asserted
that Kennedy, like Bill Clinton
decades later, had a fling with a
AP
Marion ‘Mimi’ Fahnestock, who
admitted to having an affair with
President Kennedy while she
worked as an intern in the White
House in 1962-63.
young intern.
Dallek’s assertion stemmed
from newly released pages from
a 1964 interview with Barbara
Gamarekian, a Kennedy press
aide, who recalled that a 19-yearold woman had “sort of a special
relationship with the president.” Reuters
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The Times of India, New Delhi
The Death of God
European countries... treat timber as a crop. We treat
timber resources as if they were a mine.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Green with Envy
The EU has an admirable track record in environmentfriendly development initiatives. For proof, see its deadserious approach to the Kyoto Protocol. See also the
enviable support enjoyed by the green parties in EU
countries. The latest green move from the EU is a Bill
sent by the European parliament to its member governments that seeks to force industry and other polluters to
pay for the mess they make: Polluters will be held “fully
liable” for any environmental damage they cause. The
polluter-pays Bill has been in the works for 20 years, the
recent oil spills off EU coastlines evidently providing
the impetus for early action. Critics will see the Bill as
needlessly pitting the environment against industry.
Yet, the Bill is in fact a reflection of the new thinking
among a growing community of citizens who are healthconscious and environment-friendly without being
anti-industry: Industry and environment are no longer
considered mutually exclusive. Far from it. Environmental
awareness is seen as an integral part of the development
process. This synergy is vital to understand and minimise
the overall cost to humanity from the often irreparable
damage done to the environment and to ourselves. How
does one calculate, for instance, the direct and indirect
risks to health in monetary terms?
To be sure, industry, in the EU but more so in the US, will
not easily accept the polluter-pays principle. Economists
have already warned that worldwide, inflationary
trends will only be aggravated by higher costs to industry,
pushing the global economy from the current recession
into a potential depression. A major criticism is that
such environment-friendly laws, by adding to cost of
production will lead to higher pricing, further dampening
demand. The other major worry is higher insurance
bills, with more corporates being forced to go in for
environmental liability protection. Moreover, the EU
regulation is likely to open new areas of dissent between
the EU and the US. Ever since the US reneged on the Kyoto
Protocol, the EU has been particularly wary of American
policy initiatives that concern the environment. The
Iraq war and EU opposition to it only deepened the EU-US
divide. The problems are enormous and enforcement
difficult. But there is no doubting the futuristic thrust
of the new Bill. The green signal will hopefully come
from every citizen who professes to be concerned with
the health of the planet.
VIEW
Say No to Dowry,
Yes to Nisha
isha Sharma as the newest youth icon? This must
N
seem like a joke, considering who middle India
votes week after week as its reigning queen: The
gold-bedecked heroine of a million saas-bahu soaps.
The UP girl, who sent her prospective groom to jail for
demanding dowry, could be the polar opposite of the
female characters who dominate the Indian celluloid
canvas: Some saccharine sweet, others wickedly
manipulative. Yet, consider the stupendous response
to Nisha’s act of defiance from the same class that laps
up the cinematic portrayals of women as unquestioning doormats or, even worse, as flaming viragos. Such
has been the rush of admiration for the girl that
one TV news channel found itself running a ticker
tape to accommodate the salutations. Nisha’s fan club
appeared to cut across class, geography and gender
barriers. Men and women, Hindus and Muslims,
young and old wrote in to express their solidarity with
the spunky Noida girl. “Historic act of courage”
enthused one woman supporter, while another hailed
her as a role model for the new generation.
The surprise element here is the male reaction.
The large number of young men who applauded her
daring and wished they could marry a girl with similar traits is evidence that there is an untapped male
constituency that is all for equal rights, but whose
voice is seldom heard in the stereotypical cacophony
that passes for popular culture. That dowry persists
despite being legally outlawed is proof of the maxim
that for an evil to exist, all that is required is that the
good do nothing. It is a sign of our social callousness
that we turn away from what we do not want to see.
However, this case demonstrates not just what a single
act of courage can accomplish but what the mass
media can do to nurture progressive social values. The
benefits of the multiplier effect of showcasing such
incidents cannot be overstated. For one, it will set a
trend among the youth: Saying no to dowry could
become a fashion statement and sensitise a society
conditioned to seeing women as commodities. If you
are against dowry, stand up and be counted as Nisha
has done. Show your solidarity and show it now.
COUNTERVIEW
A Nine-day Wonder,
Soon Forgotten
et’s not get hyper about it: One Nisha Sharma does
L
not a mass movement make. While few will deny
that she is an unusually courageous individual who
has stood up for her rights and those of her family, this
does not in itself make a one-woman crusade against
the legally proscribed dowry system which however
persists thanks to the widespread social sanction
accorded to it. Indeed, Nisha herself did not denounce
dowry as such but only contested the unreasonable
amount of the dower that was being demanded by her
in-laws to be. Her objection was quantitative, not
qualitative. The media hoopla over Nisha which has
made her into a nine-day wonder has obscured this
all-important point. Once the media finds another
individual or issue to showcase, Nisha will be
forgotten and it will be business as usual in the dowry
market. All that it might mean is that the pre-nuptial
negotiations for stridhan will be conducted with more
discretion but not necessarily less avarice. If dowry is
indeed to be eradicated, what is needed are not lone
dissenters who become newsworthy only because they
are the exceptions that prove the rule.
What is needed is a genuine groundswell of popular
opinion against the system. And there is no sign —
despite the accolades heaped on Nisha — that this is
about to happen in the near future. Indeed, it would be
instructive to find out if Nisha when she does get
married does so with or without the giving of a dowry
in one form or another. A system which has been in
practice as long as dowry has cannot be wished away
by the mere wave of a media wand. Nor, as we have
seen, will mere legislation do the trick. It can only be
done by the raising of an awareness that the give
and take of dowry as currently conducted is both
demeaning and dehumanising for both parties
concerned. It is not just that the bride is made out to
be a commodity; the groom is equally if not even
more turned into an exhibit at the human equivalent
of a livestock auction and sold to the highest bidder.
Men have created the dowry system, and men have to
be shamed into scrapping it.
And the Invention of the Human
By Jug Suraiya
Its official obit has yet to be written. But few
will deny that today in India Nehruvian
secularism is as defunct as the dodo. While
the parivar exhorts a semitised ‘Hindutva’,
the Congress retorts with an appeal to a
‘higher Hinduism’. Secularism is exposed for
what it has always been: An alien imposition
inimical to our ethos, as spiritually arid
as the cement used to build the dams and
factories which were to be the godless
temples of socialist India. Like socialism,
secularism has been shown to be an idol with
feet not of clay but of barren concrete.
Secularism is on the retreat elsewhere,
including the West, where it originated. In
the US, George Bush conducted his crusade
against Iraq in the name of a bornagain Christianity. Tony Blair justified his
participation by invoking the name of God.
Secularism seems to be out of vogue, there as
well as here. But there’s a fundamental
difference. Despite public pronouncements
and ceremonies of religious faith, the vital
organs of the body politic in the West remain
largely secular in that the law does not
discriminate on the basis of creed. In
India, a professedly secular
state is at blatant variance
with a polity bedrocked
on sectarian identity. Here,
secularism is talked about;
there, it is lived.
Secularism, as the legalistic sibling of humanism,
had a long and difficult
birth. In the
‘cradle of
western civilisation’, the
authorities forced Socrates to drink hemlock
for dishonouring the gods and ‘corrupting
the youth’.
The Romans borrowed Greek philosophy
and translated it into technology to establish
an unprecedented empire: Euclidean geometry transformed into roads; Aristotle’s
Politics into the enduring edifice of Pax
Romana. The Greek gods — whimsical,
lustful, vindictive — were adopted en masse
by the Romans, who also perpetuated
the Greek custom of slavery. The time was
ripe for many mutinies.
One such was inspired by an Essene
ascetic, who today might well have been
tagged as a Maoist and shot in an
‘encounter’. Following his execution, his
acolytes banded themselves into a cult
which soon lost all resemblance to the
teachings of its founder but — perhaps
because of this — was destined to become the
biggest MNC the world has seen.
In its early stages, however, the new
religion appealed to the dispossessed and
spread like wildfire through the catacombs
of Rome. It eventually engulfed the ruling
class, though as a later cynic remarked, the
resultant Holy Roman Empire was not holy,
or Roman, or an empire. Revelation replaced
reason; discourse yielded to dogma. Through
the Dark Ages, the light of learning gleamed
fitfully only in sequestered monasteries.
The European Renaissance erupted like a
slow-motion supernova. The exploration of
mariners and astronomers, the invention of
printing, the art of Michelangelo conspired
to make Man the centre of the universe, the
measure of all things. The stage was set for
what the Shakespearean scholar Harold
Bloom has called ‘the invention of the
human’. Lear and Hamlet are different not
only from each other but most markedly so
from Oedipus and Orestes; the playthings not
of gods but of the devices and desires of
their human individuality.
The new patent was radically ratified by
Nietzsche’s cry of exultant anguish: God is
dead. Who or what was responsible for the
theocide? The dark, satanic mills of the
industrial revolution, Darwin, Marx? They
were all, singly and collectively, in the dock.
Never mind who dunnit. With God gone,
who’s the referee? In a godless universe,
where everything is permissible, nothing is
permissible. Ivan Karamazov’s moral paralysis: In the absurdist manifesto, even suicide
is absurd. ‘Existentialism’ offered bleak solace: No exit. There is no escape from our human condition; we must make of it what we
can. A Kurosawa film captures the dilemma.
Two soldiers, a Japanese and an American,
are swept away from World War II and cast
up on a desert island. There
are no armies, no nations, no
patriotism, no higher cause.
Just two men, face to face,
who can try to kill each other. Or learn to live, each with
himself and with the other.
The unwritten fine print
of that stand-off might be a
brief for secularism. It is a
brief which has suffered
many travesties. Brutal Stalinism; the
neo-colonialism unleashed by the sole superpower after the collapse of Soviet Communism. But marooned and mutilated though it
is, given its historical context the secular remains the only hope for western liberalism.
In India, secularism lacks such a contextual mandate. Historically and philosophically,
the Indic quest has been not to invent the
human, but to dis-invent such limiting
and illusory concepts. In which case
secularism is not just irrelevant but obscurantist. So what’s the alternative? A Hindu
way of life shorn of political prickles like the
caste system and the gender-exploitative
laws of Manu? But who’s to do the shearing,
and how? If what emerges is the ideological
avatar of a sanitised, all-embracing cuddly
toy, it might look very cute. But as a national
icon, it would be about as compelling as
Bhalu the Dancing Bear.
What about Hinduism as pure philosophy?
In its loftiest manifestation, such a philosophy is a vade mecum for none but the most
indomitable of voyagers: Take the path of
renunciation to its end, and when you have
reached its end, renounce the thought that
there was anything to renounce or anyone to
renounce it. Which political pilgrim would
undertake such a journey?
So, can Hinduism be a stand-in for secularism? By all means. But the question is not
whether it can rise up to the occasion. The
question is whether it can rise down to it.
At an age when actors in India either go
into retirement or peripheral parts,
Amitabh Bachchan continues to be
Bollywood’s most toasted and sought-after
star-actor. Recently selected by Britain’s
Channel 4 as one of the top 100 actors in
the world, he spoke to Subhash K Jha on
the eve of the awards function being
organised by International Indian Film
Academy (IIFA) in Johannesburg:
The academy has been able to put across
the cause of our cinema very professionally. It isn’t just the Indian media and
spectators who come to see this annual
event. Whether it’s England, Malaysia or
Johannesburg, IIFA has made a difference to
our image abroad.
What do you feel about Aishwarya Rai being
on the Cannes jury?
It’s wonderful for her, for our cinema
and for the country. One hopes the trend
In a recent Channel 4 poll in Britain, you continues... What’s age got to do with
were chosen one of the 100 top actors of creative work? The Cannes people found
the world.
her worthy. She accepted. And we should be
You know all this is just for fun. Polling happy about it.
machines aren’t to be taken seriously.
Are you happy with your new film ‘Armaan’?
But you were the only name from India.
It’s a very gracious film, which conveys
In that case I’m happy people voted for me. very dignified feelings, and resists
But I repeat, these aren’t things to be taken exorbitant histrionics. The situations
seriously. They’re just games people play. I’m aren’t exaggerated, and we were all given
happier about the fact that Indian cinema is the opportunity to work in the realm of
acquiring a huge connectivity with the rest reality. That, and the fact that a lady —
of the world via the Internet, computers, etc. Honey Irani — directed the project made it
A whole section of the globe which had so far so exciting.
remained unresponsive to Indian cinema is
There were so many young ladies working
now clued in.
on the sets. Just watching them work in such
When a poll is conducted on the Internet, a professional atmosphere was a wonderful
one-sixth of
the
experience. Honey’s
world
population
production unit is
which is Indian, reexemplary. This is
acts. That’s how I’m
the way to make
If every sixth person in
included in such
a film.
the world is Indian,
polls. I don’t think
How do you find the
we have an attentive
this is a true reflectime and energy
audience spread across
tion of the way
to
prepare
for
the globe. And we’d
foreigners look at
such challenges at
our cinema.
better start taking
your age?
them and their tastes
So you don’t think
You have to find
in cinema, culture, art
this was a measure
the time. I’ve heard
and
food
seriously.
of our international
people wishing there
standing.
were 35 hours in a
Obviously not, since not that many day. I feel 24 hours are good enough. It’s all
foreigners see Indian films. But so what? If about time management.
every sixth person in the world is Indian, we
There’re several moments in one’s daily
have an attentive audience spread across routine, when you’re in the bath or before
the globe. And we’d better start taking them you go to bed or when you are in the car,
and their tastes in cinema, culture, art which can be fruitfully utilised. And thank
and food seriously.
God for modern means of communication
Have you never craved to be an inter- which save so much time...
national star?
If you’d asked for this interview later
Not really, no. If it happens, it happens. during the day I’d have had to squeeze it in
The only thing that attracts me is the while shooting. Instead I’m using this ‘space’
technical brilliance of western cinema. In in my schedule while travelling to the studio.
that sense I’m like any other professional. If If not this interview, I’d have probably looked
I were a doctor, wouldn’t I want to work in at my dialogues or done something else.
the best hospital?
Aren’t you doing too many films?
So purely for my professional advanceWell, as long as the films are promising,
ment, I’d like to be a part of international what’s wrong with that? The film-makers are
cinema. Beyond that I don’t crave to be inter- nice, and the remuneration helps in clearing
nationally successful... Nor do I think, as my outstanding debts. I’ll continue as long as
some say, that I am the most successful my health permits.
Indian actor abroad. One would have to
I’m not signing everything. But I hate to
conduct another poll to find that out see a young aspiring film-maker’s face fall
(chuckles).
when I say no. I’d feel terrible if I didn’t
Do you think the IIFA provides a suitable encourage young film-makers. They all come
global platform for Indian cinema?
so well-prepared and with such wonderful
Oh, yes. The entire raison d’etre for IIFA scripts that I don’t feel like saying no to them.
was to celebrate our cinema outside But how will you accommodate all this?
India. There’s a huge clientele for Indian
I will... These are not roles that require me
cinema among expatriates. Anything that to give 80-90 days. These are character roles
propagates the cause of Indian cinema that require 25 days. No more lead roles
outside is most welcome.
requiring 120 days for me.
Q&A
Udayshankar
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Big Beacon
Surya the Healer
And Energiser
By Tehmina Gae
CONVERSATIONS WITH READERS
Anti-terror Axis
II
Brajesh Mishra’s proposal for an alliance
between India, America and Israel seems
just wishful thinking to me. Why would
either country be interested in making
common cause with India? It is obvious
that in the name of fighting terrorism, the
US wants Indians as foot soldiers to
help it gain ascendancy over the
whole world.
The imperialistic designs of the world’s
only superpower are only too well known.
Israel just wants to side with India because
it sees us as a big potential market for its
anti-terrorist gizmos. In fact, increased
proximity to Israel and the US may result
in increased tension between Hindus and
Muslims in our country. No doubt tensions
between India and Pakistan need to be
resolved, but inviting third parties with
vested interests will mean sure disaster.
Instead we should have the full participation of the people in the peace process. That
is the only way to lasting peace.
— Ashok Rajwade, Mumbai
Mr Brajesh Mishra’s proposal makes sense.
Israel has recently been rocked by bomb
blasts, which have killed hundreds of
innocent civilians. American interests
worldwide are under threat from the
Al-Qaida. Kashmir has also seen massacres
of civilians by militants. All these have
been a result of Islamic fundamentalism.
The proposed alliance is necessary but not
enough. A new UN agency needs to be
established to take on terrorism wherever
it exists, and to equip itself adequately for
surveillance and combat operations. NATO
may be restructured and broad-based to
assume this role since its existence is no
longer justified after the end of the
Cold War, and there are no enemies in
Europe warranting the maintenance of
this white elephant.
— Sharad Mishra, Mumbai
From timesofindia.com
Railway Safety
I’m really shocked to know that in
India, no train compartment carries
fire-fighting equipment. Railway
minister Nitish Kumar dreams of
building fire-proof coaches, but we
know that’s just another pipe dream. If
we can’t have fire-proof coaches, why
not make arrangements to keep carbon
dioxide cylinders etc in the coaches?
Such articles can be sponsored by
corporates, if they are allowed to
advertise inside the bogeys. The kind
of horrendous accidents we have now
can be minimised by such measures.
But does our minister care?
P Rajesh, via e-mail
Historic Win
It was a historic win by the West Indies, who
rallied back in the last Test to prevent a
clean sweep by the Aussies. Set to score 418
for a win, the fortunes of both the sides
see-sawed until Banks hit the winning runs.
With this win the West Indians have erased
India’s record of chasing the highest
number of runs in a Test match and
winning. Incidentally the Indian record
was against the Windies. The ICC should
take serious note of the altercation between
Sarwan and McGrath, which speaks
volumes of the Australian way of
playing cricket.
— M W D’Sousa, Mangalore
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Suryayog is a dynamic spiritual yoga which brings us in
tune with nature and the
inner self. We are drawn
towards eternal light, from
saguna swaroop to nirguna
swaroop — from the human
to the Supreme.
Surya, the powerhouse of
our solar system is the benevolent Nishkamkarmi — the
infallible healer, the powerful
energiser,
the
supreme
teacher — who leads us
towards Ekam Sat, the only
One. Suryayog is a meaningful way of life taught by
Himalayan Masters and
practised by yogis who
survive without food and
sustenance for days. They
draw power from Surya
whose vibrant energy transforms and changes the bioelectric powers in all beings,
fusing body, prana, mind and
soul into a divine
experience of cosmic
consciousness. It is a
unique amalgamation of yoga,
nada, rishi, reiki,
and deep silence.
It is a nine-fold
path, a pure benediction
from
nature.
Preferably at dawn, the
energy of Surya
is invoked through a series of
simple yogic postures, aura
purification, deep breathing,
chanting, unlocking of energy centres and above all an
unconditional surrender to
nature, our ultimate guru.
like a child to the highest
realms of meditation, to the
Buddha mind stage where
the dualistic cosmic delusion
of maya is conquered.’’
Suryayog
practitioners
experience inner peace,
boundless joy and energy.
“Their bhogic structure is
transformed to a yogic one’’,
with little need for food and
sleep. They acquire the grace
and courage to face problems
with equanimity. Suryayog
is above all religious dogmas
and is a divine symphony of
universal harmony, peace
and brotherhood. Acharya
Jowel says: “Surya controls
the seasons and the passage
of day and night. He is the
source of all life. He casts
his rays upon all without
discrimination. He is our
protector.’’
Sun worship is not new to
India. The Gayatri Mantra is a
fervent salutation
to the sun and the
Surya Namaskar
is an ideal morning
exercise.
Acharya Satyanand, in Surya
Chikatsa,
talks
about colour therapy. He divides
the use of colours
into three groups,
each with a principal colour:
Orange, green and indigo.
Orange imparts heat and
can cure colds and phlegmatic illnesses, removing the
torpidity of the liver and
other digestive organs. Green
is cool, it helps fortify the
muscles and strengthens the
brain. It helps remove
rheumatism and related
disorders. Blue or indigo is
cool too and can eliminate
diseases caused by excessive
bile or pitta, as well as a host
of other diseases.
Says
Acharya
Jowel:
‘‘Through Suryayog, your
mind naturally begins to
concentrate, which is the aim
of all spiritual processes.
The sun’s rays collide with
our thoughts and create
silence. The mind is too
powerful to be managed by
ordinary human consciousness. The photons from the
solar system help to control
the mind.’’
THE
SPEAKING
TREE
Acharya Jowelji who practises Suryayog carries the
message
of
Mahavtaar
Babaji, the yogic-Christ who
many believe resides in the
Himalayas since thousands
of years. Jowelji believes that
to love all is an expression of
the divine One and his sacred
mission is to uplift society to
the higher realm of knowledge to help remove physical, mental and spiritual
blocks. He believes that
the constant practice of
Suryayog can cure us of
several chronic diseases like
blood pressure, heart ailments, depression and phobias. The Acharya says:
‘‘Don’t control the mind; be
friendly with it. Come back
to nature, she will lift you
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Pity the man who has
lost his path and
does not follow it
and who has lost
his heart and does not
know how to
recover it.
When people’s dogs
and chicks are lost,
they go out and look
for them, and yet
the people who have
lost their hearts
(or original nature)
do not go out and
look for them.
The principle of
self-cultivation
consists in nothing but
trying to look for the
lost heart...
Mencius
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The individual is
capable of both
great compassion
and great
indifference.
He has it within
his means to nourish
the former and
outgrow the latter.
Norman Cousins
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We do not all walk
around with our hearts
wide open all the time,
however; doing so
would leave us
overwhelmed and
in emotional danger.
If I kept my heart
open and exposed
while watching the
news every night,
I would most likely
never recover
from the rush of
helpless and
hopeless feelings
created by all the
tragic stories.
Sometimes it is
necessary to keep
your emotional
barriers up as a way
to protect yourself.
The key to learning
the lesson of
compassion is
realising that you
are in control of
the erection or
destruction of those
barriers that create
distance between you
and others.
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Ballooning debt
Touch with care
Unlimited mobility
German finance minister Hans
Eichel said the country’s federal
budget deficit is likely to exceed
30 billion euros this year, nearly
twice more than forecast, which
forced a budget revision
Soft light switches by Claes
Oldenburg sold for $360,000 at
the Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg auction house in New
York. It was part of Enron’s art
collection
Sharp’s personal mobile tool,
Zaurus SL-C760 has Intel’s
XScale CPU, 64MB of SDRAM
and a 3.7-inch VGA CG Silicon
display. It will be launched in
Japan, US and Europe
Capital flows to After a long lull, IPOs perk up
new markets on
the upswing: IIF
By Baiju Kalesh
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New York: Net private capital flow to emerging markets
including India is likely to
touch $139 billion this year
from $110 billion in 2002
which was the lowest total in
a decade.
Releasing the forecast, the
Institute of International Finance (IIF) noted that investors demand for emerging
market bonds has strengthened as shown by the sharp
narrowing of spreads, but it
cautioned that significant
uncertainties remain.
The forecast is based on a
study on emerging markets
worldwide including Asia,
Africa, West Asia, Europe
and Latin America.
Asian regions include India,
China,
Indonesia,
Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines.
IIF’s chief economist and
first deputy managing director Yusuke Horiguchi said
the forecast suggests that
Asia will account for nearly
one-half of total net private
capital flows to emerging
markets this year at about
$68 billion, which is slightly
above last year’s level.
Overall, Asia’s net capital
inflows, which showed particular resilience to market
volatility last year, are likely
to be more restrained than
previously anticipated due to
the emergence of SARS, he
added.
The IIF projected emerging market real GDP growing
by about 4 per cent this year,
after 3.5 per cent in 2002.
Asia-Pacific growth is set
to moderate to around 5.4
per cent from 6.4 per cent,
and a slight decline to 3.7 per
cent from 4 per cent is seen
for emerging Europe.
The IIF estimated that
Africa-West Asia is set to
grow at 3.5 per cent, about
the same pace as in 2002,
while Latin American real
GDP will grow by 1.5 per cent
after contracting one per
cent last year.
IIF vice-chairman William
R Rhodes said the global
economy continues to face a
broad array of difficulties,
but short duration of the
Iraq war and the subsequent
sharp oil price decline have
improved the prospects for
growth in the US in the second half of the year. PTI
Mumbai: After a lacklustre span
of six to seven years, the primary market is again becoming
active. During this time, barring
infotech firms’ IPOs in fiscal
1999-2000, no companies dared to
go in for a public float.
But the scenario changed last
year. Public issues launched in
calendar 2002 have given good returns to investors, ranging from
67 per cent (in case of I-flex) to
365 per cent (Punjab National
Bank).
Apart from Bharti Tele-ventures’ IPO, which has depreciat-
ed by 24 per cent as on May 15,
2003 to Rs 34 from an issue price
of Rs 45, all the 6 initial floats
have well rewarded their investors.
But will the appreciation in
primary market shares fuel future IPOs? With the market
awaiting public floats of Tata
Consultancy
Services
and
Bharat Petroleum Corporation,
bankers say good returns always
lead to future public floats. Other
issues lined up are Maruti
Udyog, Indraprastha Gas (Rs 150
crore) and Patni Computers.
Says S Srinivasan, vice-president of Kotak Mahindra Capital,
“The fundamental rule of an IPO
is — a good story to tell and
friendly pricing. The response is
bound to come.”
The other shares which have
appreciated till May 15, 2003 include Union Bank (by 100 per
cent to Rs 32), Allahabad Bank
(80 per cent to Rs 18), Canara
Bank (209 per cent to Rs 108) and
Divi’s Laboratories by (127 per
cent to Rs 318).
Says analyst Prithvi Haldea,
“The primary market was dead
for a long time not because of investors have vanished, but lack
of fundamental companies hitting the market.” The market is
full of investors for a fundamentally strong company with a disTOI
Morgan Stanley
to expand asset
management arm
By Vinu Lal
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Ideal employers, 2003
% of European MBA students* who would prefer to work for
McKinsey
A worker tests clinical thermometers in a factory in Ningbo, in east China’s Zhejiang
Province. The increased demand for thermometers due to SARS outbreak saved the 300worker factory from the edge of bankruptcy.
US targets Indian stainless steel
BAE System
The BCG
General Electric
Goldman Sachs
L’Oreal
Nestle
Bertelsmann
LVMH
Microsoft
Accenture
Coca-Cola
Shell
Morgan Stanley
IBM
J&J
0
5
10
15
20
* Based on survey of
768 MBA students
Source: Universum Communications
New York: Upset over India
not fulfilling its commitment
to check its surging stainless
steel exports, the US steel industry has asked the administration to take protective
measures including hike in
import duty.
‘‘It is time for action... India is wrecking havoc in the
US market,’’ said Paul Kelly,
chairman of Speciality Steel
Industry of North American
and president and CEO of
Slater Steel Inc, in a letter to
US President George W
Bush.
At present Indian stainless
steel is exempt from US steel
E X E C U T I V E
NATIONAL
Bayer plans amalgamation of BCIL with itself:
The boards of Bayer India Ltd
and Bayer Cropscience India
Ltd (BCIL) will consider a proposal for the amalgamation of
BCIL with the former on May
19. The boards would discuss
the proposal and determine
the swap ratio for the amalgamation, both entities informed
the Bombay Stock Exchange.
The scheme of arrangement
would be subject to necessary approvals under the
Companies Act, 1956, they
added. Bayer India said its
board would also consider a
proposal for sub-division of
the existing equity capital of
the company into shares of
face value of Rs 10 each as
part of the scheme.
Federal Bank net profit
rises 28%: Putting up an
impressive performance
during the fiscal ending
March 2003, the private Federal Bank’s net profit has
shown a growth of over 28
per cent and touched Rs 105
crore. The bank’s operating
profit rose by over 15 per cent
to cross the Rs 350 crore
mark for the first time, he
INTERNATIONAL
NYSE to ask public for
input on governance: The
New York Stock Exchange
has said it would ask the
public to comment on the
way it runs its business, as
concerns mount over its governance standards. In a letter
to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, NYSE
chairman Richard Grasso said
the Big Board formed a committee to “review all aspects
of the exchange’s governance
and present its findings and
recommendations for
changes to our board.” Governance has become a pressing issue for the NYSE as it
mentor Narayan Murthy’s plan to open a branch office
in China may face a roadblock due to outbreak of SARS.
“Our international expansion strategy in China may
face difficulty due to the current
outbreak of SARS,” Infosys told
the SEC.
I-flex net profit up 48%
at Rs 170.88 cr: Software
solutions provider I-flex Solutions Ltd reported on Friday a
48 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 170.88
crore for the financial year
ended March 31, 2003, compared to Rs 115.29 crore
posted in the previous fiscal.
The company’s board has recommended a 50 per cent dividend (Rs 2.5 per share), the
company said in a release.
Consolidated revenues as per
Indian GAAP increased by 45
per cent at Rs 609.85 crore as
against Rs 419.47 crore
recorded in FY-02. On a
standalone basis, it reported a
higher net profit at Rs 174.37
crore while revenues rose to
Rs 563.83 crore.
SHV allowed more time
to dilute stake: The gov-
Ajit Ninan
Novartis to consider
buyback proposal: Novartis India Ltd’s board is to consider a proposal to buy back
its shares from the open
market in the May 26 meeting. The buyback, however,
would be subject to obtaining
requisite regulatory approvals,
the company informed the
BSE.
has come under attack for
Grasso’s high pay and the
aborted nomination of Citigroup Inc chief Sanford Weill
to the NYSE board. Grasso’s
letter was sent in response to
a request issued in March by
newly installed SEC chairman
William Donaldson, who is a
former NYSE chairman.
ernment has allowed a
one-year moratorium till April
20, 2004, to Dutch major SHV
Energy for divesting 26 per
cent stake in its downstream
subsidiaries, provided the
company sticks to a timebound road map for divestment. SHV Energy India Ltd
was required to disinvest 26
per cent stake in SHV South
East Private Ltd and SHV
million) in the business year to
March 31, dwarfing the prior
year’s 3.4 billion yen loss.
The result was in line with
Furukawa’s latest forecast in
April of a 115.5 billion yen
loss. Revenues slid 7.9 per
cent from a year earlier to
710.6 billion yen.
Takeda nets record
profit: Japan’s biggest drug
Furukawa Electric posts
record loss: Furukawa
Electric Co, the world’s second-largest optic-fibre maker,
posted a record annual loss
and warned of more red ink
ahead, its business still
stinging after the telecoms
bubble burst three years ago.
Furukawa’s consolidated net
loss hit 114.0 billion yen ($979
import relief programme
which allows the government to take protective measures, including increasing
import duty and tariff rate
quota.
The Indian government
and its steel producers, the
letter added, have not lived
up to their commitments that
the surge would end beginning of January.
This commitment was
made by the Indian government representative to US
state delegate Robert Zoellick
during consulations late last
year.
Imports of stainless steel
products in January and February, 2003, were triple the
monthly average in 2001, and
about 37 per cent greater
than 2002, a year in which imports surged dramatically.
‘‘Imports of stainless steel
angles alone were up by 635
per cent over the 2001 monthly average. Ninety-nine per
cent of all stainless steel angle imports in February were
from India. Commerce department data shows requests for import licenses
from Indian producers remained at extraordinarily
high levels,’’ the letter
added.PTI
Mumbai: The top honchos at leading global
financial services firm Morgan Stanley are
working on a strategic plan to expand its asset management business in India. The
company has recently appointed a consultant for this purpose and will take a final decision on the matter soon, according to
sources.
‘‘Sometime last year they mandated a research agency to survey the strength of the
Morgan Stanley brand in India, as a prelude
to launching a full-fledged asset management business.
Now a consultant has been appointed to
evaluate the opportunity,’’ they added. Morgan Stanley’s asset management business
in India currently comprises a single fund,
the Morgan Stanley Growth Fund (MSGF),
which was launched in February 1994 as a
15-year, close-ended fund. It was the first foreign fund to set up shop here.
In April 1999, Morgan Stanley partnered
with the JM Financial Group to commence
operations in the areas of investment banking and trading in equities and fixed-income
securities.
An expansion of its tie-up with JM Financial to include asset management also
cannot be ruled out. MSGF officials could
not be reached for comment.
MSGF is a closed-ended fund that matures in 2009. Its net asset value (NAV) as on
May 15 was at Rs 11.91.
The IPO in February 1994 garnered Rs 918
crore. But the fund, which is listed on the
BSE and the NSE, as well as on the Delhi,
Kolkata, Chennai and Ahmedabad stock exchanges, has seen significant outflows
since, and the assets under management
(AUM) as on March 31, 2003, were at just Rs
645 crore.
Taking on the
spam menace
S authorities have called on organisations in 59 countries to close
loopholes in cyberspace that allow
people to hide their identities in sending
‘‘spam’’, or unsolicited e-mail.
The federal trade commission and other agencies said they were asking for the
closing of so-called ‘‘open relays’’ that allow people ‘‘to avoid detection by spam filters and law enforcers,’’ according to an
FTC statement. Open relays allow third
parties to route their e-mail through
servers of other organisations, disguising the real origin of the e-mail.
US regulators identified 1,000 potential
open relays, 90 per cent of which were in
16 countries: US, China, South Korea,
Japan, Italy, Poland, Brazil, Germany,
Taiwan, Mexico, Britain, Chile, France,
Argentina, India, Spain and Canada.
The agencies drafted a letter which was
translated into 11 languages and signed
by 14 US and international agencies, urging the organisations to close their open
relays to help reduce spam.
The announcement was made at the
same time the authorities announced 45
criminal and civil law enforcement actions against Internet ‘‘scammers and deceptive spammers’’.
‘‘Today’s Internet is not a lawless environment,’’ said Howard Beales, director
of consumer protection for the FTC. The
charges relate to auction fraud, illegal
sale of controlled substances, get-richquick scams, illegal advance-fee credit
card offers, and identity theft.
Oracle analyst is company man
now: Oracle Corp has hired as a top executive an analyst who advised investors on
the company.
The appointment comes less than a
month after Wall Street’s major brokerages agreed a record $1.4 billion settlement over allegations about conflicts of
interest between analysts and the companies they cover.
Morgan Stanley’s business software industry analyst Charles Phillips will become an executive vice president and report directly to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Oracle said. His job will focus on corporate strategy, business development
and ‘‘customer-facing activities’’.
Phillips will be one of three executives,
including Ellison, to serve in Oracle’s office of the chief executive. He will be a
member of Oracle’s executive management committee.
As an analyst with a major Wall Street
firm, Phillips advised investors on the enterprise software industry and Oracle,
one of the giants in the industry. There
have not been any allegations about conflict of interest over Phillips’ coverage of
Oracle. Agencies
U
D I G E S T
SARS may hit Infosys’ China plan: Infosys chief
said. Releasing the bank’s financial results for 2002-2003,
chairman K P Padmakumar
said while the bank’s total
income grew by 6.58 per cent
to Rs 1346 crore, increase in
total expenses was by 3.86
per cent only at Rs 994 crore.
Similarly, the bank’s cost of
deposit decreased by over
one per cent to 7.62 per cent.
counted price.
The seven issues which hit the
market in 2002 were Bharti
Televentures (Rs 830 crore), Punjab National Bank (Rs 160 crore),
I-flex Solutions (Rs 210 crore),
Union Bank (Rs 290 crore), Allahabad Bank (Rs 100 crore), Canara Bank (Rs 390 crore) and
Divi’s Laboratories (Rs 50 crore).
While in issues like Punjab
National Bank’s the IPO demand
was six times (Rs 680 crore) more
than the size, the demand for the
Union Bank issue was seven
times (Rs 1,420 crore) the issue
size. The Canara Bank’s demand
was double (680 crore) its issue
size.
TECHNOLOGY
TRACKER
An assembly line at the Dell
Computers plant in Austin,
Texas. Dell’s net profit in Q1
rose to $598 million from a
year earlier’s $457 million.
Revenue rose to $9.53 billion
from $8.07 billion.
maker, Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd, posted a ninth
straight year of record net
profits, raising its earnings by
15 per cent on upbeat sales
of key products like anti-ulcer
drug Takepron. Group net
profit for the year to March 31
rose to 271.76 billion yen
($2.33 billion), slightly above
Infrastructure by April 20 this
year but the company sought
a moratorium citing several
reasons for the delay.
Consumer electronics
production up 13%: Consumer electronics segment,
which represents the largest
sector of electronics hardware industry, has bounced
back with an estimated
growth of 13.4 per cent
touching a production level of
Rs 14,400 crore during 200203. “The sector is estimated
to have achieved a production of Rs 14,400 crore during
2002-03 as compared to Rs
12,700 crore in the year 200102, achieving a growth rate of
13.4 per cent,” according to
the annual report of DoIT.
A clarification: With regard
to the article ‘Toyota will
pump in Rs 100 cr in JV with
Kirloskar’, Toyoda Textile Machinery Pvt Ltd has clarified
that the company will not exit
the textile machinery business and is diversifying into
making auto components. Its
promoters have invested
about Rs 130 crore for setting
up an integrated aluminum
die-casting and machining facility for production of transmission components.
the firm’s estimate of 260
billion. Takeda, Japan’s
fifth-largest listed company
by market cap, said demand
for its medicines boosted
revenue by 4.1 per cent to
1.05 trillion yen.
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Saturday, May 17, 2003
Sensex up 44 points
Mumbai Led by PSU s ocks equ es ra ed smar y ex end ng
he Sensex s ga ns o our h sess on n a row on he s ock exchange
here on Fr day on heavy buy ng by specu a ors and cons s en pur
chases by domes c as we as ore gn unds Severa bank shares
excep ng ndex based ones su ered a sharp se back on pro
book ng a h gher eve s The BSE benchmark 30 share ndex
opened remarkab y up a 3019 48 and gradua y moved upwards o
he n ra day h gh a 3059 42 be ore end ng a 3056 58 as aga ns
Thursday s c ose o 3012 97 ne ng a r se o 43 61 po n s or 1 45 per
cen The broad based BSE 100 ndex a so sho up by 23 84 po n s o
1551 74 rom prev ous c ose o 1527 90 Term ng he correc on n
se ec bank s ocks o pro book ng brokers sa d nves ors were
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bu sh on bank ng sec or wh ch was neg ec ed or qu e a ong
me or he ac ha banks wou d have a pos ve mpac rom
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have urned very ac ve and were be eved o be en arg ng comm
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KEY The BSE quo a ons o a sc p a e g ven n he s ne wh e he quo es n a
cs a e hose o he NSE The quo a ons a e n he sequence o he day s open ng
h gh ow and c os ng Each me a company s c os ng sha e p ce a s be ow s as
o e p ce on BSE he name o he company s unde ned
BSE SPEC F ED
& NSE NDEX
ABB 334.25, 342, 329, 339.55
331, 341.50, 329, 339.45
Abbott (I) 264.05, 265.90, 260.50,
265.85
ACC 135, 132.70, 133.30
135, 135, 132.55, 133.35
Adani Export 155, 179.70, 177.45
162, 181.90, 158.15, 177.20
Adlabs Films 49.70, 49.80, 47.90,
48.80
47.90, 50, 47.60, 48.95
Alstom Proj. 74.40, 77.50, 73.85,
75.95
74, 77.60, 73.40, 75.90
Andhra Bank 35.80, 36, 32.35, 33.05
35.50, 35.95, 32.45, 33.05
Apollo Hosp. 110.60, 111.40, 106.90,
108.35
111.40, 111.50, 106.55, 108.25
Apollo Tyres 153.10, 157, 149,
150.55
154.40, 157.90, 145, 150.45
Arvind Mills 34.50, 36.25, 34.05,
34.85
34.75, 36.30, 34.15, 34.85
Ashok Leylan 111.50, 114.10, 108,
113.10
112, 115, 108, 112.60
Asian Paints 345, 399, 343, 369.75
342, 399.90, 342, 370.25
Aurobindo Ph 276, 284.95, 273.25,
274.55
277, 283, 272.10, 275.15
Aventis Phar 299, 301.90, 292.05,
295.50
296.50, 297.90, 293, 295.10
Aztec Soft. 15.75, 15.65, 18.45
16, 18.60, 15.55, 18.55
Bajaj Auto 465.10, 473, 462, 466.60
468.95, 472.75, 462.50, 465.75
Balaji Tele. 59.25, 60, 54, 54.75
56.90, 60.45, 53.65, 55
Ballarpur In 42.60, 45.80, 44.55
43.60, 45.80, 43.10, 44.50
Bank of Baro 112, 117, 106.05,
109.05
112.90, 117.30, 106, 108.80
Bank of Ind. 48, 48.25, 44.30, 45.45
48.40, 48.75, 44.30, 45.30
BASF 102, 106, 104.20
102.10, 105.75, 102.10, 104.10
Bata (I) 30.85, 32, 30.80, 31.25
31.20, 31.90, 30.50, 31.25
Bayer Cropsc 136, 136.30, 136.20
138, 138.15, 138, 138.05
Bh.Earth Mov 74, 77.10, 76.50
74.40, 77.25, 74.10, 76.35
Bharat Elect 265.50, 267, 260.25,
262.50
262.50, 266.85, 260.80, 262.40
Bharat Forge 303.05, 306.25,
297.05, 299.35
308, 308, 298.50, 299.80
Bharti TeleV 34.50, 35.20, 33.90,
34.10
34.65, 35.10, 33.10, 34.20
BHEL 245, 257.55, 244.05, 256
245.45, 257.50, 244.30, 256.20
Bombay Dyein 62, 64.85, 63.95
61, 65.20, 61, 63.80
BPCL 241.50, 244, 241, 241.75
241.10, 244.25, 240.55, 242.05
Britannia 549.80, 535.25, 539.90
542.25, 546.90, 535, 535.20
BSES 221, 221.90, 218.05, 218.15
221, 222.40, 217.50, 218.60
Cadila Healt 124.45, 120.05, 121
124.80, 124.80, 120.70, 121.20
Castrol (I) 195.25, 196.60, 193.50,
194.45
Century Enka 89.25, 90.95, 87.25,
87.85
91, 91, 87.50, 87.65
Century Text 63, 64.90, 62.65, 63.25
63.40, 65, 62.65, 63.25
Chambal Fert 14.80, 15.05, 14.70,
14.75
14.80, 15.05, 14.70, 14.75
Chennai Pet. 46, 46.50, 44.70, 45.45
46.50, 46.55, 44.35, 45.10
Cipla 651, 656.50, 645, 653.35
653.50, 660, 645.15, 650.85
CMC 499.40, 505, 488.70, 490.90
497, 507, 488.25, 492.15
Colgate 134.90, 135, 132.25, 132.50
134, 134.75, 132, 132.40
Container Co 280, 280.40, 270,
279.10
283, 283, 269.65, 278.70
Corpn. Bank 164.20, 167.40, 155.70,
159.85
164.70, 166.70, 155.55, 160
Crompton Gr. 63.75, 64.10, 61.60,
62.15
63.80, 64.35, 61.70, 62.15
Cummins (I) 68.40, 70.45, 64.65,
69.90
68.95, 70, 64.55, 69.50
D-Link (I) 53.20, 55.60, 51.80, 53.65
53.20, 55.25, 51.80, 53.75
Dabur (I) 39.45, 42.50, 41.15
40.10, 42.90, 39.85, 41.20
Digital Glob 537.55, 545.90, 533.60,
537.10
541.25, 545.75, 534, 537.15
Dr.Reddy’s 849.25, 857, 831, 839.75
851.10, 853.75, 832, 839.10
Dredging Cor 275, 295, 281.60
e-Serve Intl 522, 525, 517.05,
519.45
519, 530, 519, 521.25
EIH 160, 163, 158.50, 159.20
158.15, 161.50, 158.15, 159.70
Engineers (I 268.80, 268.90, 261,
261.55
265.70, 270, 261, 261.60
Escorts 43.80, 44.40, 42.75, 43.30
43.75, 44.50, 42.65, 43.25
Essel Propac 155.60, 159.70,
151.80, 156.35
156, 160, 152, 156.85
Exide Inds. 112.35, 115.90, 114.10
115.25, 117, 113, 114.85
Federal Bank 128.50, 133.50,
118.50, 122.10
129.80, 132.70, 118.40, 121.85
Finolex Cabl 81.60, 80.20, 80.60
81, 82, 80.50, 80.75
Finolex Inds 38, 38.20, 38
38, 38.25, 38, 38
Gail (I) 82.85, 86, 82.55, 85.70
82.90, 86, 82.55, 85.50
GE Shipping 44.50, 45, 44, 44.95
43.70, 45, 43.70, 44.80
Geometric So 392.10, 397.40, 389,
393.10
395, 397.40, 389.10, 393.60
German Remed 218.50, 221.80,
215.25
211, 225, 211, 221.95
Gillette (I) 333, 336.50, 332, 333
335, 337, 333, 334.90
GlaxoSmith.C 236.35, 237.50,
234.05, 235
240, 244.80, 233.20, 235.20
GlaxoSmith.P 350.10, 354, 341.15,
352.55
354.40, 355, 342.20, 351.60
GNFC 32.90, 33.85, 32.60, 32.85
32.95, 33.65, 32.50, 32.80
Grasim Inds. 353, 358, 351.25,
356.65
357.80, 358.80, 351.10, 354.35
GSFC 19.75, 20.85, 20.40
19.50, 20.90, 19.50, 20.25
GTL 66.50, 68.60, 66, 67.25
68.15, 68.70, 66.20, 67.25
Guj.Amb.Cem. 173, 177, 171.70,
176.05
172.50, 176.90, 171.50, 175.95
Guj.Gas Co. 376, 376.50, 374.40, 376
378, 378, 373.65, 375.85
Guj.Mineral 96.50, 100, 94.50, 95.25
95.20, 99.70, 94.05, 95.40
HCL Infosys. 96.95, 100.70, 95.25,
100.10
97.75, 100.45, 95.30, 99.50
HCL Techno. 142.50, 143, 140,
141.55
142.50, 143.65, 139.65, 141.50
HDFC 340, 342, 333.35, 340.75
340, 343, 333.50, 338.20
HDFC Bank 250, 252.50, 248.55,
250.25
249, 252.10, 249, 251.15
Hero Honda 220, 233.05, 229.45
219.90, 231.90, 219.90, 228.45
Hexaware Tec 108.65, 115.40,
108.40, 114.65
108.55, 116.80, 108.50, 115.30
Him.Fut.Comm 23.90, 24.70, 23.40,
24.15
24.20, 24.80, 23.35, 24.20
Hind Lever C 168, 169.90, 168.60
169.95, 170, 167.90, 168.60
Hind.Oil Exp 24.05, 25.95, 24.65
24.50, 26, 24, 24.55
Hind.Zinc 21, 22, 20.80, 21.20
Hindalco 641.05, 651.70, 646.50
640.15, 651.90, 640.15, 645.95
Hinduja TMT 204, 206.25, 197.85,
201.90
203.40, 206.80, 197.60, 200.85
HLL 146.50, 146.75, 144.20, 146.25
146.20, 146.75, 144.05, 146.25
HMT 18.30, 18.80, 17.65, 18.05
18.30, 18.70, 17.80, 18.15
HPCL 304.90, 309.70, 303, 308.70
304.50, 309.80, 302.90, 308.55
Hughes Soft. 222.90, 224.85, 218.60,
220.35
223.30, 224.80, 218.50, 220.15
IBP 235, 240, 228, 229.15
230, 246, 227.25, 228.75
ICI (I) 133.50, 137.10, 132.10,
136.90
139.50, 139.50, 132.50, 137.05
ICICI Bank 131, 136.10, 130.55,
135.35
134.90, 136.10, 130.55, 135.40
IDBI 18.60, 19.35, 18.50, 18.95
18.50, 19.30, 18.50, 18.90
IDBI Bank 25.70, 26, 24.75, 25.25
25.80, 26, 24.75, 25.30
India Cement 16, 17.15, 16.75
16.20, 17.10, 16.10, 16.75
Indian Alumi 120
119.05, 120, 119.05, 119.35
Indian Hotel 204, 205, 194.60,
197.60
201, 205, 194, 196.15
Indian Oil C 269.85, 281, 279.65
272, 280.30, 270, 279.20
Indian Ov.Bk 24.90, 25.10, 23.05,
24.30
24.60, 25.45, 23.10, 24.40
Indian Rayon 93.30, 94, 91.40, 92.05
92.90, 93.70, 92, 92.45
Infosys Tech 2925, 3005, 2900.05,
2993.15
2939.40, 3004.80, 2907.35,
2994.05
Infotech En. 105.25, 106.80, 103.70,
105.55
105, 106.90, 104, 105.90
Ingersoll R 225, 210, 219.45
225, 227, 215, 220.70
IPCL 83.50, 83.60, 82.30, 83.30
83.50, 83.50, 82.30, 83.20
ITC 675, 704.90, 698.65
674, 705, 673, 699.85
ITI 16.45, 17, 16.15, 16.90
16.25, 16.90, 16.10, 16.70
J&K Bank 191.95, 196.60, 176,
185.50
193, 197.85, 176.65, 186.20
Jaiprakash I 34.50, 35.30, 34.10,
34.95
35.40, 35.90, 34.15, 34.95
JB Chemical 179, 188, 177.50,
186.75
178.05, 188, 177, 185.70
Jindal Steel 378.05, 383, 371,
372.50
380.50, 384.75, 372.30, 373.75
Kochi Refin. 73.75, 75.20, 73.30,
74.95
74, 75, 73.20, 74.85
Kotak Mah.Bk 161, 163, 154.15,
157.05
161.25, 162.50, 154.15, 156.20
L&T 205, 209.90, 204.15, 207.55
205, 210, 205, 207.95
LIC Hsg.Fin. 86, 83.35, 83.95
86.45, 86.45, 83.50, 84.65
LML 32.90, 32.10, 32.60
32.60, 33, 32.05, 32.50
N m
MUTUAL FUNDS
Open-ended Schemes
N m
As on 15/05/2003
Alliance Mutual Fund
95 (D)
95 (G)
Basic Inds.(D)
Basic Inds.(G)
Buy India (D)
Buy India (G)
Capital Tax Relief’96
Equity (D)
Equity (G)
Frontline Eq(D)
Frontline Eq(G)
New Millennium (D)
New Millennium (G)
Benchmark Mutual Fund
Nifty BeES
Nifty Junior BeES
Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund
Advantage (A)
Advantage (B)
Balance (D)
Balance (G)
Bond plus Institutional (
Bond plus Institutional (
Bond plus Retail (D)
Bond plus Retail (G)
Cash Plus Inst.(D)
Cash Plus Institutional (
Cash Plus Retail (D)
Cash Plus Retail (G)
D Yield Plus(Div)
D Yield Plus(G)
Equity Plan
FMP 1 Year Group 3
FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (D)
FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (G)
FMP Quarterly Group 1 (D)
FMP Quarterly Group 1 (G)
Gilt Plus-Liquid-( A)(D)
Gilt Plus-Liquid-( B)(G)
Gilt Plus-PF Plan-( A)(D)
Gilt Plus-PF Plan-( B)(G)
Gilt Plus-Regular Plan-(
Gilt Plus-Regular Plan-(
INDEX (Div)
INDEX (G)
IT Plan A (Div Payout)
IT Plan A (Div Reinv)
IT Plan B (G)
Income Plus Inst. A(D)
Income Plus Inst. B(G)
Income Plus Plan A(D)
Income Plus Plan B(G)
MIDCAP (Div)
MIDCAP (G)
MIP Plan A (D)
MIP Plan B (Payment/G)
MIP Plan C (Payment/G)
MNC Plan A (Div Payout)
MNC Plan A (Div Reinv)
MNC Plan B (Gr)
Sweep Plan (D)
Sweep Plan (G)
Chola Mutual Fund
FMP Q’ly (D)
FMP Y’ly (Cum)
NA
R
R
S
26.96
48.66
13.62
13.63
4.48
4.48
56.87
14.76
26.66
10.58
10.58
3.66
3.67
27.50
49.63
13.89
13.90
4.57
4.57
57.44
15.06
27.19
10.79
10.79
3.73
3.74
26.96
48.66
13.62
13.63
4.48
4.48
56.87
14.76
26.66
10.58
10.58
3.66
3.67
96.62
150.18
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—
—
25.58
25.58
9.37
9.37
10.49
11.22
11.22
11.22
10.79
16.40
16.36
16.40
10.85
10.85
14.09
10.74
10.58
10.58
10.99
11.22
10.58
14.87
11.48
17.69
11.80
19.41
9.83
9.83
10.70
10.70
12.43
26.46
26.46
10.70
26.38
10.85
11.42
10.60
13.56
13.56
23.96
23.96
30.01
10.10
10.29
25.84
25.84
9.46
9.46
10.49
11.22
11.22
11.22
10.79
16.40
16.36
16.40
10.96
10.96
14.09
10.74
10.58
10.58
10.99
11.22
10.58
14.87
11.48
17.69
11.80
19.41
9.88
9.88
10.81
10.81
12.55
26.46
26.46
10.70
26.38
10.96
11.53
10.60
13.56
13.56
24.20
24.20
30.31
10.10
10.29
25.58
25.58
9.37
9.37
10.49
11.22
11.22
11.22
10.79
16.40
16.36
16.40
10.85
10.85
14.09
10.74
10.58
10.58
10.99
11.22
10.58
14.87
11.48
17.69
11.80
19.41
9.83
9.83
10.70
10.70
12.43
26.46
26.46
10.70
26.38
10.85
11.42
10.60
13.56
13.56
23.96
23.96
30.01
10.10
10.29
10.06
10.70
10.06
10.70
10.01
10.70
Lupin 172.50, 180, 169.50, 179.10
172, 179.95, 169.80, 178.25
M&M 118.95, 122.25, 118.25,
121.45
118, 122.50, 118, 121.50
Marico Inds 164.50, 162
163.30, 164, 161, 161.05
Mascot Systm 104, 108, 103.50,
107.10
103, 107.90, 103, 106.70
Mastek 311, 314, 307.10, 308.20
310.10, 313, 307.10, 308.40
Mastershare 10.50, 10.60, 10.45,
10.55
10.45, 10.60, 10.45, 10.55
Max (I) 75, 76, 73.30, 73.75
75.80, 76.30, 73.15, 73.65
Mcdowell Co. 42, 42.60, 41.55, 42.30
41.80, 42.70, 41.50, 42.30
Merck 239, 239.80, 236.35, 236.70
239.50, 240.90, 237, 237.70
MIRC Electr. 417, 415, 420
411.25, 428, 411.25, 423.90
Moser-Baer 293, 294.75, 287,
289.85
293.45, 295.05, 288, 289.60
Mphasis BFL 575, 585, 583.75
572, 598, 561.75, 590.30
MRF 1156, 1201, 1150, 1180.90
1204, 1204, 1180, 1190.60
MTNL 94.90, 98.90, 94.80, 96
99.75, 99.75, 94.10, 96
Mukta Arts 53.90, 54.10, 52.50,
53.75
53.25, 54.10, 52.60, 53.65
National Alu 91.95, 92, 87.35, 88.50
91.40, 91.40, 87.25, 88.70
Nestle (I) 532.05, 539.70, 530,
530.80
535, 541.50, 530.15, 531.05
Neyveli Lign 32.05, 32.95, 32.65
32.40, 33, 32.05, 32.55
Nicholas Pir 269.90, 283, 265,
279.25
265, 283.90, 265, 278.85
NIIT 131.25, 133, 129.85, 131.70
132.55, 132.90, 129.60, 131.75
Nirma 330, 318, 325
330, 330, 316.20, 325.25
Novartis (I) 243, 243.85, 236.35,
238.15
ONGC 391, 409.70, 397.95
392.90, 409, 392.90, 397.75
Oriental Bnk 131, 133.80, 116.85,
121.60
131, 133.80, 117, 121.25
P&G Hygiene 409, 411, 403.25,
408.50
Padmalaya Te 71.60, 72.35, 69.70,
70.05
72, 72.50, 70, 70.60
Pentamedia G 8.15, 9.35, 8.10, 9.20
8, 9.35, 8, 9.10
Pfizer 335, 350, 347.70
347.90, 349.60, 345, 347.10
Philips (I) 99.25, 102.90, 98.05, 100
Pidilite Ind 240, 241.50, 238.05,
241.45
241, 241.55, 239.50, 241.25
Polaris Soft 137.90, 138.25, 133.60,
135.65
137, 138.40, 133.60, 135.65
Pun.Tractors 143.05, 147, 141,
142.60
145.20, 147.75, 141.15, 142.05
Ranbaxy Lab. 640, 645.70, 633,
642.85
639.85, 645.75, 633.65, 642.80
Raymond 105.90, 108, 105, 107.70
105.25, 107.75, 105, 106.95
RCF 25.60, 26.15, 24.85, 25.15
25.60, 26.20, 24.80, 25.10
Rel Capital 57, 57.45, 55.75, 56.20
57, 57.20, 55.70, 56.20
Reliance Ind 268, 269.95, 267,
268.45
269, 269.80, 266.90, 268.65
Rolta (I) 59, 62.75, 58.65, 62.10
59, 62.90, 58.55, 61.95
SAIL 9.90, 10.10, 9.70, 9.75
9.90, 10.10, 9.65, 9.75
Satyam Comp 176.20, 179.40,
175.55, 178.15
177.40, 179.40, 175.60, 178.35
Saw Pipes 88.45, 93.65, 88.25,
92.80
88.50, 93.90, 88.50, 92.35
SBI 309, 317.80, 307.60, 316.10
308.95, 317.80, 307.65, 315
Shipp.Corpn. 70.20, 71.50, 69.50,
69.90
70.60, 71.25, 69.65, 69.95
Shyam Teleco 33, 35.25, 34.20
33.35, 35.25, 33.10, 34.45
Siemens 345, 368.30, 340.25,
364.30
342.55, 370, 342, 364.75
Silverline T 7, 6.30, 6.65
SKF Bearing 52.25, 53.40, 51.45,
52.20
52.70, 53.40, 51.50, 52.45
Sonata Soft. 12, 13.50, 11.90, 13.30
11.90, 13.45, 11.90, 13.25
SPICE 31, 30.25, 30.54
SSI 64.25, 68.50, 64.10, 67.40
64.75, 68.50, 64.05, 67.25
STC India 88, 86.55, 86.60
88, 88.95, 86.40, 86.70
Sterl.Biotec 48.75, 46.55, 47
49.20, 49.20, 46.85, 47.10
Sterl.Optica 31.30, 32, 31.10, 31.90
31, 32, 31, 31.80
Sun Pharma. 287.95, 290.25, 283,
284.40
282.15, 290, 282.15, 284.25
Syndicate Bn 26, 26.25, 24.10, 24.85
25.75, 25.90, 24.10, 24.80
Syngenta (I) 120, 120.85, 119, 120
Tata Chem 72, 72.50, 71.20, 71.75
72.50, 72.55, 71.20, 71.70
Tata Elxsi 68, 69.95, 67.95, 69.70
68, 70, 67.90, 69.45
Tata Power 128.90, 129, 125.50,
127.50
129.05, 129.05, 125.45, 127.50
Tata Tea 216, 217, 211.15, 212.45
217.80, 218, 212, 212.70
Tata Telcom 127.90, 129.95, 122.30,
123.60
130, 130.95, 122.90, 124.10
TELCO 161.10, 156.50, 157.20
NA
R
FMP Y’ly (D)
10.08
Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly)
10.32
Freedom Income (C)
17.49
Freedom Income (R)
10.13
Freedom Income-Inst Cum
17.50
Freedom Income-Inst Reg
10.13
Freedom Tech.(Cum)
7.78
Freedom Tech.(Reg)
4.93
Gilt Invst.(Cum)
15.75
Gilt Invst.(Reg)
10.36
Gilt Series (Cum)
13.24
Gilt Series (Reg)
13.24
Growth (Cum)
12.66
Growth (Reg)
10.61
Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum
12.28
Liquid Instl. Div.Pay
10.84
Lq. (Cum)
12.27
Lq. (Reg)
11.34
Lq. Sr. Apr-06 (Reg)
11.97
Triple Ace (B)
11.87
Triple Ace (Cum)
21.36
Triple Ace (Reg)
11.03
Triple Ace Inst Cum
21.37
DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
9.77
Balanced (G)
10.91
Bond (D)
11.13
Bond (G)
21.48
Bond Fund Inst.
10.33
Equity
14.33
Opportunities
8.97
Savings Plus
10.13
Technology.Com
4.13
Top 100
10.61
Escorts Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
11.58
Balanced (G)
12.84
Gilt (D)
12.03
Gilt (G)
13.15
Growth (G)
11.89
Growth (D)
10.89
Income (D)
10.62
Income (G)
18.55
Income Bond (D)
9.60
Income Bond (G)
11.36
Opportunities (D)
10.45
Opportunities (G)
12.22
Tax (D)
9.68
Tax (G)
9.68
Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund
FT Index - BSE
9.09
FT Index - Nifty
9.46
FT PE Ratio
8.61
Franklin Bluechip (D)
12.24
Franklin Bluechip (G)
24.09
Franklin FMCG
10.44
Franklin Growth
5.72
Franklin Index
7.33
Franklin Index Tax
7.50
Franklin Infotech (D)
7.62
Franklin Infotech (G)
11.14
Franklin Internet Opp
4.43
Franklin Pharma
8.56
Franklin Prima (D)
17.68
Franklin Prima (G)
34.49
Franklin Prima Plus (D)
13.42
Franklin Prima Plus (G)
24.62
Franklin Taxshield (D)
11.79
Franklin Taxshield (G)
25.08
T Floating Rate In ST (D)
10.01
T Floating Rate In ST (G)
10.91
T India Growth
13.53
T Liquid (D - D’ly)
10.00
159.90, 161.05, 156.50, 157.05
Thermax 172.80, 179.60, 171.15,
177.75
170.60, 178.85, 170, 177.45
Thomas Cook 203.95, 216.95,
200.15, 212.40
205.95, 213.90, 201, 209.95
TISCO 139.50, 141, 138.10, 138.80
139.25, 140.90, 138.15, 139
Titan Inds. 64.80, 66.50, 62, 62.65
65, 66.40, 61.90, 62.75
TN Newsprint 44.70, 46.90, 44.55,
45.20
44.45, 45.35, 44.25, 45.10
TN Petro 22.60, 22.95, 22.40, 22.65
22.50, 23, 22.25, 22.65
Torrent Phar 199.85, 193.05, 195.60
210, 210, 193.40, 195.70
Trent 157, 172, 165.50
154, 162, 154, 160.20
TVS Electron 73.50, 73.70, 69.65,
71.65
72.80, 73.50, 69.30, 71.65
TVS Motor Co 465, 471, 464, 468.80
470, 474, 463, 467
United Phosp 153.50, 165, 152.50,
163
155.70, 165.50, 152.15, 163.10
UTI Bank 46.95, 47, 45.60, 45.85
47, 47, 45.60, 45.85
Videocon Int 26.85, 26.95, 26.05,
26.50
26.60, 27, 26.05, 26.45
Vijaya Bank 20, 20.85, 19.30, 19.40
19.90, 20.85, 19.30, 19.55
Visual Soft 143, 147.50, 144.90
145.20, 147.50, 143.15, 145.40
VSNL 83.50, 84.50, 82.60, 83
84.95, 84.95, 82.55, 83.05
Whirlpool 20.50, 19.50, 19.60
19, 19.75, 19, 19.55
Wipro 910.25, 950, 907, 944.45
916, 948.95, 906.15, 941.45
Wockhardt 350, 354, 348, 350.80
349, 355, 347.50, 350.60
Zee Telefilm 75.50, 77.85, 75.10,
77.45
75.20, 78, 75.20, 77.30
Zensar Tech. 70.60, 79.30, 78.80
71, 79.60, 70.60, 78.65
B1 - GROUP
3
3M India 317.90, 302.30
304, 311, 304, 307
A
A Sarabhai 6, 6.10, 5.15, 5.25
Aarti Drugs 29, 30, 27, 29.50
Aarti Inds. 61.50, 63.50, 63
61.30, 63.35, 61.30, 63.35
Aarvee Denim 11.20, 11.90, 11.85
Aban Loyd 171.95, 172.45, 164.75,
165.75
173.90, 174.80, 165, 166.50
ABC Bearings 8.10, 7.60, 7.75
ABG Heavy In 13.10, 13.60, 12.95,
13.35
Abhishek Ind 8.50, 7.20, 7.25
7.75, 7.80, 7.25, 7.35
Adam Comsof 4.35, 4.90, 4.85
Addi Inds. 17.25, 18
Advani Oerli 40.90, 41.40, 38.10,
39.45
40, 42, 36.55, 39.05
Aegis Logis. 11.95, 9.70, 9.80
9.80, 10.20, 9.80, 9.90
AFT Inds. 62.85, 64.75, 61.05, 62.60
Aftek Infosy 223, 224.95, 219.50,
223.95
223, 225, 219.70, 223.95
Agro Dutch I 11.35, 11.55, 11, 11.35
11.30, 11.60, 11.05, 11.35
Agro Tech Fd 32.05, 33.50, 31.35,
31.75
33.20, 33.20, 32, 32
Ahmed.Elect. 52.95, 53.25, 50.60,
51.05
52.35, 53, 51.25, 51.40
Ahmednagar F 45, 42.25, 44.60
46.70, 46.90, 42.95, 43.50
Ajanta Pharm 29.50, 30.25, 27.50,
28.15
29.85, 29.85, 28.05, 28.55
Aksh Optifib 16.75, 18.20, 17.55
16.90, 18.45, 16.65, 17.90
Albert David 29, 26.75, 27
Albright & W 208
Alembic 204, 210, 202.10, 204.85
206.90, 209.80, 202.95, 205.50
Alfa Laval 270, 280, 278.80
271.50, 275, 271.50, 274.70
Alka (I) 0.25, 0.30, 0.25
Alkyl Amines 18.05, 18.35, 17.90
Allahabad Bk 18.25, 18.45, 17.10,
17.70
18.30, 18.50, 17.15, 17.65
Alok Inds. 15.60, 16.55, 14.75, 16.35
15.75, 16.60, 14.80, 16.30
Alps Inds. 21.25
19.25, 20.95, 19, 19.60
Alstom 31.50, 32.45, 30.15, 31.30
Amara Raja B 67.85, 68.50, 65,
65.65
69.85, 69.85, 65.25, 65.60
Ambica Agarb 37.80, 44.40, 36.05,
44.05
Ambuja Cem.R 3.35, 3.45, 3.40
3.40, 3.40, 3.35, 3.35
Amex Info. 13.85, 13.10, 16.05
Amforge Inds 29.35, 29.40, 27.35
Amrutanjan 68.35, 69.75, 68, 69.30
Amtek 58, 53.75, 55.15
Amtek Auto 193.45, 196.25, 192.15,
193
Andrew Yule 15.80, 16.30, 14.50,
14.75
Ankur Drugs 6.85, 7.45
Ansal Prop. 10.70, 10.80, 9.90, 10
AP Paper 48, 48.45, 46.20, 47.45
Apcotex Lat. 31.25, 30.55, 31.25
30.60, 31.55, 30.60, 31.55
Aplab 21.60
Aptech 31, 31.25, 30.05, 31.05
30, 31.25, 30, 30.95
Archies 55.50, 54.95, 58.70
54.30, 57.90, 53.30, 57.90
Arvind Rem. 3.90, 3.40, 3.45
3.90, 3.90, 3.40, 3.45
Asahi (I) Gl 46, 46.10, 44.50, 45.40
46.25, 46.25, 44.05, 44.95
Ashima 20.90, 18.90, 19.60
19, 19.85, 19, 19.30
Ashok Ley.Fn 54, 55, 51.55, 52.30
52.35, 53, 51.75, 51.90
Asian Elect. 26.50, 27.20, 26.90
26.05, 27, 26.05, 26.85
Asian Hotels 82, 83, 80.60, 81.65
84, 84, 79, 81.05
Assam Co. 14.80, 15.20, 14.10,
14.80
Astrazen.Ph. 339, 343, 342.10
Atcom Techno 10.45, 10.95, 9.40,
10.65
9.70, 10.95, 9.25, 10.80
Atlas Copco 300, 307.40, 292.50,
300
Atlas Cycles 73.50, 82.10
68, 82.25, 68, 82.25
Atul 35.50, 37.50, 35.10, 36.70
35, 37, 35, 36.55
Auto Axles 110, 108.25, 118.30
Avanti Feeds 22.80, 23.30, 23.05
Avery (I) 19.50, 21.30, 20.55
Avon Organic 33.05, 33.40, 32.65,
32.80
B
Bajaj Auto F 56.20, 53.80
57, 57.20, 53.50, 53.50
Bajaj Elec. 25.50, 27.90, 27.50
Bajaj Hindus 88, 90, 87.50, 87.55
95, 95, 87, 87.30
Bajaj Tempo 108, 110, 105.40,
108.40
Bal Pharma 20.20, 20.40, 20.05,
20.35
Bal.Law.Vanl 14.75, 15.30, 14.40,
15.15
Balaji Dist. 6.50, 7.05, 6.85
6.35, 7.05, 6.35, 6.65
R
N m
S
10.08
10.32
17.49
10.13
17.50
10.13
7.93
5.03
15.75
10.36
13.51
13.51
12.91
10.82
12.28
10.84
12.27
11.34
11.97
11.87
21.36
11.03
21.37
9.87
10.32
17.49
10.13
17.50
10.13
7.78
4.93
15.75
10.36
13.11
13.11
12.66
10.61
12.28
10.84
12.27
11.34
11.97
11.87
21.36
11.03
21.37
9.77
10.91
11.13
21.48
10.33
14.62
9.15
10.13
4.21
10.82
9.62
10.75
11.13
21.48
10.33
14.33
8.97
10.13
4.13
10.61
11.72
13.00
12.03
13.15
12.07
11.05
10.62
18.55
9.60
11.36
10.45
12.22
9.68
9.68
11.58
12.84
12.03
13.15
11.89
10.89
10.62
18.55
9.60
11.36
10.45
12.22
—
—
9.09
9.46
8.61
12.24
24.09
10.44
5.83
7.40
7.57
7.62
11.14
4.43
8.56
17.68
34.49
13.42
24.62
11.79
25.08
10.01
10.91
13.80
10.00
9.18
9.56
8.74
12.48
24.57
10.65
5.72
7.33
7.50
7.77
11.36
4.52
8.73
18.03
35.18
13.69
25.11
12.03
25.58
10.01
10.91
13.53
10.00
T Liquid (D)
T Liquid (G)
T Liquid Plus
T Liquid Plus (D)
T MMA
T ST Income (G)
T ST Income (M’ly)
T ST Income (Q’ly)
T ST Income (W’ly B)
T ST Income (W’ly)
T TMA (G)
T TMA (W’ly)
T TMA (Wkly B)
T TMA (Y’ly)
IDBI-PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
Balanced (G)
Cash M-Liq.Inst.(MD)
Cash M-Liq.Inst.(WD)
Cash M-Liq.Inst.DD
Cash M-Liq.Inst.Growth
Cash M-Mon.At Call.Ins(G)
Cash Manag.Liq.DD
Cash Mngt.-Liquid (G)
Cash Mngt.-Liquid (MD)
Cash Mngt.-Liquid (WD)
Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(D)
Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(G)
Child (CB)
Child (FG)
Equity (D)
Equity (G)
Growth (D)
Growth (G)
Index
Short Term (D)
Short Term (G)
Short Term Inst.(D)
Short Term Inst.(G)
Tax Savings
IL&FS Mutual Fund
E-Com (D)
E-Com (G)
Growth & Value (D-Y’ly)
Growth & Value (G)
Growth & Value(D-Hf Y’ly)
Index BSE Sensex
Index Nifty
Lq. A/c (D)
Lq. A/c (G)
ING Mutual Fund
Balanced Portfolio (D)
Balanced Portfolio (G)
Capital Portfolio
Gilt Portfolio
Growth Portfolio (D)
Growth Portfolio (G)
Income Portfolio (G)
Income Portfolio (I)
Income Portfolio-Inst.(D)
Income Short Term
Invst. Portfolio
Treasury Portfolio (D)
Treasury Portfolio (G)
JM Mutual Fund
Balanced (D)
Balanced (G)
Basic
Equity (D)
Equity (G)
G-Sec (D-Reg)
G-Sec (G-Reg)
G-Sec Fund - PF Plan -(G)
Balkrish Ind 60.50, 55, 57
Balmer Law.I 43.50, 44.10, 43.25,
43.50
Balmer Lawri 80.35, 82
82, 82, 80.20, 81.90
Balrampur Ch 109.50, 110, 107.25,
109.20
102, 108.50, 102, 108.30
Banco Prod. 56, 56.85, 52.70, 54
Bank of Punj 16.95, 17.30, 16.50,
16.70
17.15, 17.25, 16.40, 16.65
Bank of Raj. 18, 18.25, 17.35, 17.60
18.25, 18.25, 17.35, 17.65
Bannari Aman 115, 115.10, 112, 115
115, 117.50, 110.25, 110.75
Bayer (I) 1169.90, 1170, 1111,
1158.85
Bayer ABS 79.85, 77, 77.65
78.55, 80.15, 77.05, 77.20
Bayer Diagno 198, 199, 194, 197.90
Berger Paint 77.90, 82.90, 77, 82.65
76, 81.70, 76, 81.15
BF Utilities 8.40, 9.20, 9
Bhansali Eng 16.30
Bharat Bijle 183, 203, 198.55
Bharat Hotel 28, 28.50, 28, 28.30
Bharat Rasay 26
25.25, 25.25, 25.20, 25.20
Bhartiya Int 29.50, 27.35, 27.85
29, 29.50, 27.30, 27.55
Bhushan Stl. 31.45, 32, 29, 29.25
BI 70, 67.50
Bihar Caustc 15, 15.50, 14.80, 15.10
Bimetal Bear 128, 120
Binani Inds. 14.10, 14.75, 14.05,
14.50
Biopac (I) 6.90, 5.70, 6.35
Birla Corp. 17.80, 18, 17.35, 17.65
17.25, 18, 17.25, 17.60
Birla Eric. 12.20, 12.65, 11.85,
12.45
11.90, 12.70, 11.90, 12.40
Birla Glob.F 14.70, 14.85, 14,
14.50
14.15, 14.80, 13.50, 14.30
Birla Yamaha 15.30, 16.05,
15.25, 15.40
BITS 0.35, 0.45
BLB 4, 4.20, 4, 4.20
Blow Plast 13.25, 13.30, 12.85,
13
Blue Dart Ex 67.25, 66.10,
66.25
66, 67.50, 65.75, 66.65
Blue Star 91.30, 96, 95.05
91.10, 96, 91.10, 95.30
Blue Star In 128, 131, 125.05,
130.20
128, 130, 125.55, 129.15
BOC 28, 31, 27.50, 28.60
28.50, 29.90, 27.30, 28.75
Bombay Burma 40.25, 44.30
Bongaigaon R 24.15, 24.75,
23.65, 24.25
24.10, 24.65, 23.65, 24.25
BPL 28.65, 30.35, 28, 28.20
28.85, 30.40, 28.05, 28.45
BPL Engg. 5.70, 5.80, 5.10, 5.25
5.35, 5.65, 5.15, 5.30
BSEL Inform. 10
10.50, 10.50, 10.50, 10.50
BSL 27.90
28.40, 28.40, 28.40, 28.40
Burrough Wel 284, 285, 272, 284
Dharamsi Mor 6.45, 6.05
Divi’s Lab 325, 335, 318, 320.85
320.50, 334.70, 317, 321.65
Dolat Inv. 2.30
Dolphin Off. 11.50, 12.25, 11.70
Donear Inds. 95, 99, 90, 93.95
DSJ Comm. 0.45
0.50, 0.50, 0.45, 0.50
Duphar-Inter 116, 120, 115, 116.50
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Guj.Flouroch 70.50, 71, 70, 70.40
71.50, 72, 70.40, 71.45
Guj.H.Chem 21.25, 21.30, 20.85, 21
21.30, 21.35, 20.90, 21
Guj.Ind.Pow. 21, 21.70, 20.65, 21.05
21.10, 21.50, 20.60, 21.05
Guj.Sidh.Cem 4.45, 4.10, 4.25
4.45, 4.45, 4.10, 4.20
Gulf Oil Cor 52.50, 53, 50, 51.85
E
H
Eicher 32, 31, 32.40
31, 32.50, 31, 32.30
Eicher Motor 98, 103.75, 101.45
99, 103.90, 98, 101.10
EID Parry 92.05, 93.50, 91, 91.90
92.90, 93.25, 90.25, 91
EIH Asso.Hot 10, 11, 9.45, 10.40
Eimco Elecon 47.05, 51.25, 50.50
51, 51, 51, 51
Elder Pharma 34.60, 35.65, 34.85
35.50, 35.50, 34.30, 34.75
Elecon Engg. 11, 12.45, 10.85, 12.25
Elect.Kelvin 7.95, 8, 7.70, 7.95
Electro.Cast 282, 274.25, 276.95
285, 285, 271, 277.10
Elgi Equip 25, 23.75, 24.05
24.40, 26, 23.65, 23.90
Elgitread (I 175, 179, 177.45
175, 188, 172.15, 175.65
Elpro Inter 19.75, 20, 19.35, 19.75
Emco 34.65, 37, 34, 36.40
Encore Soft 12.50, 12.90, 11.95,
12.70
Eonour Tech. 4, 3.45, 3.60
Epic Enzymes 7.10, 7.85, 7.75
Esab (I) 39, 39.80, 38, 38.10
39.90, 39.90, 38, 38.20
ESI 19.70, 19.80, 18.05, 18.65
Harr.Malayal 13.80, 12.60, 12.95
13.75, 14.25, 12.50, 12.85
Hathway Bhaw 8.25, 8.85, 8.10, 8.80
Hatsun Agro 69, 70, 69.55
Havell’s (I) 110
110, 110, 106.20, 108.95
Hawkins Cook 20.50, 20.90, 20.55
Hazoor Media 3.50, 3.55
HBL Nife Pow 43.90, 45.40, 41,
43.50
HEG 32.55, 33.20, 32, 32.45
32.75, 33.40, 32.20, 32.40
Helios & Mat 16.70, 17, 15.75, 16.50
Henkel Spic 19.40, 18.60, 18.95
Heritage Fds 47, 53, 52.25
57.10, 60, 51.60, 57.35
Hi-Tech Gear 114, 119.45
Hikal 117, 127, 125.60
117, 126.90, 117, 125.45
Himat. Seide 124, 125.30, 120,
121.95
126.50, 126.50, 118.05, 119.25
Hind.Constn. 75.85, 87.90, 75, 82.05
75.50, 85.95, 75.10, 82
Hind.Inks&Re 254, 258.40, 234.50,
254.65
237.90, 260, 233.70, 256.65
Hind.Motors 9.85, 9.95, 9.40, 9.55
10.15, 10.15, 9.40, 9.50
Hind.Org.Chm 19.45, 19.90,
19, 19.10
19.70, 20.45, 18.95, 19.05
Hind.Power 30.55, 30.50,
30.55
Hind.Sanitar 49.10, 51.20,
50.25
49.95, 51, 49.95, 50.85
Hind.Spg &Wg 12.65, 12.40
Hitachi Home 24, 25.50,
22.60, 24
24.90, 24.90, 23, 23.85
Honda SIEL P 134.90, 134,
134.90
131, 135.50, 131, 134.65
Hotel Leela. 17.50, 17.05,
17.50
17.35, 17.55, 17.15, 17.45
Kalyani Shrp 5.75, 6
Kalyani Stel 16.65, 17.20, 15.55,
16.10
Kanoria Chem 43.85, 43.85, 42.95,
43.05
Karnatak Bnk 69.80, 72.50, 67, 69
70.35, 73, 67.30, 69.10
Karur Vysya 215.35, 216, 198,
204.35
213.85, 215.50, 197.50, 204.40
KDL Biotech 13.15, 13.05, 13.80
12.80, 13.70, 12.80, 13.60
KEC Inter. 14.60, 15.25, 14.40, 15.10
14.50, 15.25, 14.35, 14.90
Kerala Ayurv 7.50, 8.50
Kerala Chem. 19.60, 20.15, 18.60,
18.70
Kesoram Inds 30.10, 31.25, 30.65
30.80, 31.20, 30.25, 30.70
KG Denim 10.65, 9.50, 10
Khandwala Se 9.75
10, 10, 10, 10
Khoday (I) 11.50, 11.20, 12
Kinetic Eng. 59.90, 69, 68.70
Kinetic Moto 31.75, 29.25, 29.75
Kirloskar Br 102.50, 102, 105
Kirloskar Oi 75.25, 81, 75, 80.15
75, 80, 74.50, 78.90
Kit-Ply Ind. 4.20, 4.45, 4.15, 4.40
3.90, 4.55, 3.90, 4.45
KLG Systel 28.45, 25.55, 29.80
25.70, 30.15, 25.70, 30.05
Kopran 24.95, 25.30, 23.40, 24
24.40, 25.35, 23.40, 24
Kothari Prod 177, 181, 174.10,
177.95
174, 177.60, 173.10, 177.55
KPIT Cum.Inf 154.40, 158, 156.10
155, 157.80, 154, 156.60
KRBL 18.60, 19.50
18.65, 19.15, 18.65, 19.10
Krebs Bioche 106.70, 107, 104.60,
106.30
Krishna Life 1.90, 2.10, 1.95
Krone Comm 69.95, 70, 66, 69.15
KSB Pumps 78.25, 74.25, 76.25
77.50, 77.50, 73, 76.10
NSE SHARE INDEX
BSE SHARE INDEX
973 10
952 15
959 85
M
3056 58
2993 94
M
3012 97
M
M
+1 38%
M
M
+1 44%
Tata Invest. 93, 85.25, 88.60
9.25, 9.25, 8.50, 8.95
S.I.C.Agency 7.60, 7.90, 7.55, 7.60
National Fer 35, 36.50, 34.50, 35.20
83.50, 92, 80.05, 89.15
8.10, 8.10, 7.70, 7.80
National Per 670, 690, 685.30
Tata Metalik 33.25, 34.50, 32.25,
Sabero Org. 4.75, 5.15, 4.50, 5
National Ste 7, 7.60, 6.70, 7.05
33.20
5.30, 5.30, 4.70, 5
6.95, 7.65, 6.95, 7.15
32.95, 34.90, 32.50, 33.75
Saint-Gobain 13, 11.55, 12.05
Nava Bh.Ferr 46, 49.90, 49
Tata Sponge 40.95, 41, 39, 39.45
Sakthi Sugar 7, 7.35, 7.25
47.50, 50, 46.60, 49.70
40.30, 41, 38.95, 39.20
7, 7.20, 6.50, 7.05
Navneet Pub. 127, 128, 125.55,
Tata Teleser 4.75, 5.10, 5
Salora Int. 49, 50.50, 50.30
127.35
5, 5.10, 4.90, 4.95
49.10,
51,
49,
50.40
127, 127.45, 125, 127
Tata Yodogaw 38, 40, 37.05, 39.50
Samkrg Pist. 32.10, 32.45, 32.05
NCL Inds. 5.05, 5.45, 5.15
Tele Data In 24.65, 23.75, 25.95
Samtel
Color
24,
25.50,
25.10
Nelco 29.55, 30.40, 28.75, 29.15
Texmaco Ltd. 19.20, 19.70, 18.55,
24.25, 25.60, 24.25, 25
30.20, 30.25, 29, 29.45
19.50
Sandesh Ltd. 106, 111, 108.50
Neuland Lab. 47.70, 43.10, 44.50
Themis Medic 33, 35, 33.65
107.50, 110, 107.05, 107.85
Nilkamal Pls 28.80, 29, 27.50, 28.35
Thiru A.Sug. 19.50, 19.55
31, 31, 27.35, 27.95
20, 20.85, 19.70, 20.70
Sangam (I) 13.90, 13.05
Noble Explo. 5.35, 5.80, 5.70
Thirumalai 47, 50.30, 50
Sanwaria Agr 13.25, 13.50, 12.75,
NOCIL 7, 7.70, 6.85, 7.30
47, 49.85, 46.55, 49.10
13.45
7.10, 7.65, 6.80, 7.30
Saregama (I) 55, 56.50, 53.50, 54.80 Tide Water O 1080, 1055, 1060
Noida Toll 8.50, 8.50, 7.15, 7.25
TIL 11
52.70, 56.25, 52.70, 54.80
Lakhani (I) 96.25
Nova Petro. 33.05
11.75, 12, 11, 11
Satnam Over. 18.70
Lakshmi Au.C 90, 87.05
38, 38.10, 36, 37.70
Timex Watch 10.50, 9.70, 9.80
18.50, 19, 18.50, 18.85
88.45, 91.65, 87.25, 87.65
Novopan Inds 29.10, 31.25, 29.55
Timken India 32.70, 30.50, 31.60
Satvah.Ispat 5.40, 5.10, 5.30
Lakshmi Elec 34.80, 35.60, 32.30, 35
34, 34, 32.50, 32.50
Tinplate Co. 14, 12.60, 13
Saurash.Cem. 8, 8.75
Lakshmi Mach 1060, 1130, 1128
Tips Indus. 38.35, 38.50, 36.35,
NRB Bearings 73.50, 72.45
Savita Chem. 60, 64, 58.70, 60.75
1127, 1130, 1101, 1130
72.80, 72.80, 69.90, 70.50
37.95
60.90, 61, 59.15, 60.30
Lanco Inds. 11.60
NRC 10, 11.50, 9.95, 11.20
38, 38.70, 36.30, 37.80
SBI Home Fin 9.40, 9.80, 8.75, 9
Landmarc Lei 13, 14.75, 12.50
9.95, 11.30, 9.95, 11.15
TN Telecom 9.05, 9.65, 9.50
LCC Infotech 2.80, 3.25, 2.80, 3.25
9.80, 9.95, 8.90, 9.05
Nucleus Soft 68.30, 75.90, 68, 72.70
9.70, 10, 9.50, 9.60
LG Balkrish 91, 78.25, 79.95
Schenec.Beck 86.50, 85, 85.70
67, 74, 67, 73.35
Todays Writi 26.30, 23.50, 25
81.50, 81.50, 77, 77.35
24, 25.65, 23.40, 24.80
Schenec.Herd 27.65, 27.60, 29
Liberty Shoe 65.65
Torrent Guja 6.70, 7, 6.25, 6.60
29.25, 29.25, 29.25, 29.25
i-flex Solu 894, 908, 803,
60, 63, 59, 60.70
Tourism Fina 9.45, 9.50, 9, 9.15
Seagull Leaf 10.85
846.85
OCL
(I)
65.05,
68,
66.05
Lloyds Steel 2.25, 2.05, 2.10
9.50, 9.75, 9, 9.10
Search Chem. 11.65, 11.90, 11.20,
901, 909, 802.35, 845.35
Odyssey Tech 9, 10.20
2.15, 2.20, 2.05, 2.05
Transpek Ind 13, 13.25, 12.70
11.80
IFCI 4.75, 4.80, 4.50, 4.65
Oil Country 8.25, 9.70
Logix Micro. 14.70, 16.90, 15.95
Transport Co 20.25, 22
4.85, 4.85, 4.50, 4.60
11,
12.15,
10.90,
12.05
8.40, 10.05, 8.40, 10.05
Loy.Tex Mill 41.50, 42.05, 41.05,
19.90, 23, 19.90, 21
IL&FS Invt.M 22.05, 22.20
Selan Explor 9.25, 9.10, 9.45
Omax Autos. 41.10, 42.05, 38.85, 39
41.15
TRF 24.50, 26.65, 26
22.65, 22.95, 22.55, 22.95
Sesa Goa 122, 124, 113.30, 116.90
41, 41.85, 38.70, 39.05
18.90, 19.20, 18.25, 18.35
Lumax Ind 39, 41.90, 37.75, 41.25
Trigyn Tech. 13, 15.45
Ind.Swift
56,
60,
57.65
Ondeo Nalco 359
119, 123.50, 113.80, 117.55
Eskay K’N’It 2.90, 3.30
39.50, 41.15, 36, 40.85
14, 15.30, 13, 15.30
Ind.Swift La 18, 16.40, 16.65
Onward Techn 22.80, 22.35, 26.70
Sesha.Paper 42.50, 40.50, 42.35
Essar Oil 5.25, 6.30, 5.25, 6.30
Lyka Labs 28.50, 26.60, 29
TTK Healthca 14.15, 15.50
17.50, 17.50, 16.30, 16.55
23.50, 26.70, 22.30, 26.70
42.90, 43.40, 41, 42.10
Essar Ship. 6.70, 6.75, 6.30, 6.60
28, 29.05, 26.25, 28.65
TTK
Prestige 9.80, 9.75
India Foils 6.35, 6.60
Opto Circuit 34.50, 34.80, 33, 33.60
Sh.Cements 54.80, 55, 53, 54.75
Essar Steel 7.85, 8.10, 7.75, 7.80
9.75, 10, 9.35, 9.65
5.85, 6.50, 5.85, 6.45
Orbit Multi 0.90, 0.80
7.85, 8.15, 7.75, 7.80
54, 54.70, 53.55, 54.30
Tube Invest. 100, 95
India
Gelat.
13.65,
13.50
Orchid Chem 96, 91.95, 94.90
ETC Networks 49.25, 46.50, 48.40
Sh.Rama Mult 6.50, 6.75, 6.20, 6.70
98.30, 98.30, 95, 96.10
India Glycol 40.70, 41, 40.05, 40.35
Maars Soft 9, 10.70
93.45, 96, 92.50, 94.95
Eternit Ever 39.40, 38.80, 38.85
Tudor India 10.10, 10.75
6.60, 6.75, 6.20, 6.55
India Gypsum 21, 20.50
9.40, 10.65, 9.05, 10.65
Orient Info. 31.90, 31.55, 37.50
39.90, 39.90, 38.50, 38.75
Tuticorin.Al 3.65, 4, 3.95
Shah
Alloys
19,
19.70,
19.50
20.30,
20.95,
20.30,
20.35
Macmillan
(I
171.05,
175,
166.55,
31.60, 37.60, 31.60, 37.60
Eurotex Inds 11.80, 12.25, 11.75
Shalimar Pai 29.15, 30.85, 29.10, 30 TV 18 78.25, 81.50, 77.90, 80.90
India Nippon 202.10, 202, 202.15
168.35
Orient Paper 17.25, 16.10, 16.80
Camlin 53.50, 56.90, 53.10, 55.85
11.80, 12.25, 11.75, 11.75
79.90, 81.25, 78, 80.50
Shamken Mult 8.95, 9
200.50, 207, 196, 204.35
170, 174.80, 167, 168.15
16.90, 17.50, 16.50, 17.40
Camph.& All 24.05, 25, 24, 24.80
Eveready Ind 15.60, 14.60, 14.90
TVS Autolec 77.80, 79.50, 76, 78.45
8.50, 9.45, 8.50, 9
India Online 11.25, 8.75, 8.90
Madhav Marb. 17.95, 18.10, 17.40,
Oriental Con 14.50, 13.90, 14.95
Canara Bank 109.40, 113.25,
15.85, 15.85, 14.80, 14.95
TVS Srichakr 51, 51.10, 50.25, 50.45
India
Polyfi
4.10,
4.15,
3.75,
4
17.45
Shamken
Spin
5.25,
5.75,
5.35
Oriental
Hot
72
102.65, 104.80
Excel Inds. 72.10, 76, 74.55
Indian Card 44.45, 42.25, 43.40
Madras Alum 60.15, 61, 60
Shanti Gear 91, 88.05
74, 75.90, 72.30, 75.85
109.10, 113.10, 102.50, 105.30
76.50, 76.60, 74.70, 74.90
44.70, 44.70, 42.15, 43.25
Madras Cem. 3999, 4000, 3950
Oswal Chem. 4.95, 5, 4.30, 4.70
92, 92, 88.50, 89.65
Canfin Homes 33, 32.70, 33.20
Indian
Hume
646,
636.25,
641.10
4000,
4000,
3970,
3982.25
5,
5,
4.05,
4.60
UB Holdings 19.95, 21.60, 19.50,
Shasun Chem. 132, 138, 128.10,
33.50, 33.55, 32.80, 33.45
651, 670, 646, 646
Madras Fert. 9, 10.20, 10
20.50
135.80
Caprihans(I) 15.55, 16.30, 15.50,
FAG Bearings 58, 59, 57.50, 58.95
Indian Resor 44.10, 44
9.40, 10.70, 9.15, 9.75
Ucal Fuel 226, 229.75, 211.05,
132, 138.60, 125, 136.65
15.55
57.80, 59.20, 57.50, 58.75
Indian SeamM 9.90, 10.40, 10.35
Mah.Scooter 65, 62.15, 63.90
224.90
Carborundum 140, 147.95, 139.40,
Shaw Wallace 31.50, 32, 29.05,
Panacea
Biot
27.50,
29,
27.30,
28.10
Fairfield At 4.40, 4.15
Indo Gulf Fe 48, 49.50, 47, 49
63.65, 64, 63.35, 63.40
230, 231, 210, 226.25
147.15
30.50
29.10, 29.10, 27.60, 27.75
49,
49.50,
47,
49.10
Mah.Seamless
123.10,
122.05,
FCI
OEN
Con.
81.90,
86,
80.10,
81
Ugar Sugar 49.40, 45
135.05, 149, 135.05, 146.45
Shirpur Gold 30, 30.50, 30
Pantaloon Re 52, 53.70, 53.35
80, 83, 80, 80.80
Indo Mat.Car 74.05, 76, 74, 75.05
122.15
Ultramarine 68.90, 67, 69
Carrier Air. 90
31.10,
32.95,
30.50,
31.30
52.30,
54.40,
51.90,
53.90
FCL Techno. 24.50, 25, 24.50
Indo Nationl 368, 375, 365, 374.95
125.90, 126, 122.60, 122.95
Unichem Lab 173, 175.80, 169,
CCL Products 16.75, 18.95
Shiv Vani Un 10, 10.50, 9.75, 10
23, 24.75, 23, 24.55
347.75, 370, 347.75, 370
Mahavir Spg. 78, 79.50, 76.50, 77.70 Paper Prod. 112, 122, 121.70
172.80
Ceat 31.05, 32.80, 31, 32
115.90, 123.40, 115.25, 122.90
Shrenuj & Co 33.90, 34.95, 33, 34.50
FDC 29.80, 30.45, 29.40, 29.85
Indo Rama Sy 29.95, 31.55, 29.35,
79.80, 79.80, 76, 77.80
172.90, 174.50, 168, 172.05
32.05, 32.95, 31.50, 31.95
Paramount
Co
7.20,
7.55
33, 34.60, 33, 33.30
30.40, 30.40, 29, 29.50
31.20
Mahind.Gesco 14.10, 15.70, 15.10
Uniflex Cabl 5.35, 5.30
Centur. Bank 11.35, 11.80, 10.85,
Parekh Plati 9.05, 9.35, 8.75, 9.05
Shriram Inv 15.95, 15.50, 15.95
Fert.&Chem-T 26.50, 25.85, 26.50
29.75, 31.50, 29.30, 31.15
14.90, 15.70, 14.90, 15.45
Union Bank 32.25, 32.60, 30.95,
11.15
9.45,
9.45,
8.65,
8.90
26.35, 26.80, 25.95, 26.30
Indraprast.M 13, 12.40, 12.50
Mahindra Ugi 10.15, 9.70, 10
Shriram Tran 15, 15.50, 14.95, 15.45 31.75
11.40, 11.90, 10.90, 11.25
Parry Agro 62, 71, 70.75
First Leasin 19.50, 19.65, 19.35,
13, 13.20, 12.35, 12.65
10.10, 10.25, 9.75, 9.95
17.50, 17.50, 15, 15.10
32.50, 32.70, 30.90, 31.60
Cerebra Inte 5.30, 5.50, 5, 5.25
Parry’s Conf 79
19.40
Indus.Inv.Tr 17.95, 18.70, 14.35,
Majestic Aut 30.90, 31, 29, 29.60
Unitech 43.90, 42.75, 43.90
Siemens VDO 42.50, 42, 42.50
CESC 20.60, 20.70, 20.15, 20.40
80.50,
83.90,
77.10,
83.90
19.50, 19.70, 19.15, 19.50
18.30
Malwa Cotton 36.50, 33.50, 34.50
45.15, 45.15, 42.85, 43.25
Siltap
Che.
50.75,
49.40,
50.25
20.15, 20.75, 20.10, 20.25
Patel Engg. 149, 137, 143
Flat Product 39.90, 38.50, 38.95
33.90, 35, 32.60, 34.95
Indusind Bnk 19.20, 18.45, 18.65
United Brew. 92, 93.80, 91
50.90, 50.90, 49, 50.15
CG Igarshi M 40.45, 41, 40, 40.30
Patspin (I) 13.05, 13.50, 13.45
19, 19.30, 18.50, 18.65
Man Inds.(I) 29.20, 29.50, 26.40,
Flex Enginer 15.40, 14, 14.25
United We.Bk 24.80, 24.85, 23.75
Simbh.Sugar 10, 10.20
41, 41.90, 40.90, 41.50
13.45,
14,
13.20,
13.40
14.85, 14.90, 13.60, 14.25
ING Vysya Bk 277, 280, 264.05,
27.60
24.70, 24.70, 23.50, 23.95
Chemfab Alk. 20.50, 19.25, 20
Simplex Conc 27.50
PCS Inds. 21, 21.35, 20.65, 21.25
Flex Foods 6.90, 7.15, 6.85
270.10
Mangalam Cem 9.10, 9.35, 9, 9.05
Univer.Cable 6.30, 6.70
Chemplast Sa 29.50, 28.40, 29
Sintex Inds. 35.55, 39.15
Pennar Alum. 1.95, 2.15
277, 282.50, 265.35, 270.30
8.90, 9.35, 8.80, 8.90
Flex Inds. 23, 20.35, 21.35
6.35, 6.35, 6.35, 6.35
27, 29, 27, 29
37.45,
40.60,
36.95,
40.25
Pentagon Glo 1.60, 1.45, 1.70
20.10, 21.60, 20.10, 21.30
Insilco 14.75, 15.50, 14.50, 14.65
Manglr.Chem 4, 3.95, 4.50
Upper Ganges 14.75
Chettinad Ce 37.45, 38.95, 38.85
Pentasoft Te 5.95, 6.90, 5.75, 6.80
Sirpur Paper 40.80, 40.85, 37.80,
Floatglass 21.50, 21.10, 21.15
Inter.Travel 30, 30.70, 29.40, 30.25
Manugraph In 25.40, 23.05
14, 14, 13, 13.10
Cheviot Co. 55, 57.25, 51.50, 55.25
5.95,
6.90,
5.70,
6.75
39.90
21.70, 22, 21.65, 21.90
Invest.Trust 22, 22.50, 21, 21.40
Maral Overs 16.40, 16.45, 15.50,
Usha Martin 26.50, 27, 25.50, 26.70
Chola.Inv&Fi 38.40, 38, 38.40
Pharmacia He 90, 94
38.70, 40, 38.70, 39.80
Forbes Gokak 67, 68, 66.15, 66.75
Ion Exchange 27.85, 25.60, 26.60
16.10
27.40, 27.40, 25.50, 26.50
38.30, 38.50, 38, 38.40
93, 93, 91.75, 91.75
Siyaram Silk 40, 40.95, 38, 39.70
Fortune
Info
38,
40,
37,
38.55
IP
Rings
48.50,
51,
48,
50.15
15.60,
16.45,
15.60,
15.95
Usha Mat.Inf 3.50, 2.75, 3.05
Chowgule Stm 4, 4.50, 4.30
PHIL Corpn. 6.20, 5.50, 5.55
Skanska Ceme 198.25, 205.75
Foseco (I) 123, 123.80, 115.05,
IPCA Lab. 223, 246, 243.30
Mascon Globl 9.50, 9.20, 9.60
3, 3.10, 2.80, 3.10
Ciba Sp.Chem 106, 107.45, 105.10,
6.45, 6.45, 5.40, 5.45
116.15
222, 246.90, 222, 241.40
Matrix Lab. 346, 350, 344, 347.70
198.75, 203, 198.75, 199
UTI US64CI10 10.42, 10.43, 10.41,
106
Philips Glas 14.75, 13.80, 14.05
118.10, 119.95, 113.65, 116.50
Ispat Inds. 5.10, 5.15, 4.80, 4.90
Matsush.Tele 5.20, 5.45
Snowcem (I) 19.50, 21.20, 19.15,
10.42
Cinevistaas 26.20, 28.50, 28.35
Phillip Carb 25.50, 26.80, 23.25,
Frontier Inf 3.45, 4, 3.35, 3.75
5.05, 5.20, 4.80, 4.85
5.75, 5.75, 5.30, 5.50
10.45, 10.45, 10.40, 10.45
20.40
27.75, 29.40, 26.35, 28.50
23.95
Fulford (I) 90.80, 87.50, 89
IT & T 11.90, 13.65
Matsushita L 35, 36.25, 35
UTI US64I12 12.41
19.50, 21.50, 19.25, 20.50
City Union B 44.75, 44.85, 42.50,
24.50, 24.50, 23.40, 23.90
Futura Poly. 8.25, 9.30, 8.75
12, 13.90, 11.65, 13.90
Medicorp Tec 50, 50.35, 49, 49.55
12.40, 12.40, 12.40, 12.40
Soffia
Soft.
14.50,
16.70
43.40
Phoenix Lamp 14.35, 14.60, 14.05,
ITC Hotels 48.85, 49.95, 47, 47.55
51, 51, 49.25, 49.70
Uttam Galva. 8.30, 7.95, 8
15, 17.25, 14.30, 17.20
44, 44.15, 42.50, 43.40
14.10
51, 51, 47.60, 48.05
Mega Corpn. 3.70, 4.70
8.25, 8.35, 8, 8
Clariant (I) 142.05, 146, 145.90
Softsol (I) 9.05, 9, 10.25
Pioneer
Embr
32.90,
30,
30.15
IVP 22.70, 19.65, 20.75
Melstar Info 16.25, 18.10, 15.80,
145, 146.40, 142, 146.30
Gabriel (I) 102, 104, 101, 101.70
Software Tec 8.05, 10.60
Plastiblend 35, 37.95
19.50, 19.50, 19.50, 19.50
17.60
Classic Diam 39, 44.70, 44
Gammon (I) 114.90, 115.95, 114.50
9.30,
10.60,
9.30,
10.55
PNB
Gilts
22.35,
22.50,
22.05,
22.25
IVRCL Infras 55, 57.25, 53.20, 56.50
16.15, 18.10, 15.80, 17.55
Clutch.Auto 9.10, 9.20, 8.35, 8.85
112.50, 116.50, 112, 115
22.50, 22.50, 22, 22.20
Vaibhav Gems 22.75, 22.20, 22.75
Solectron Ce 29, 29.45, 29.05
54.90, 58, 53, 55.50
Mercator Lin 29, 31.90, 30.40
Coates (I) 105.25, 107.25
Garden Silk 31.50, 29.75, 29.95
Polyplex 39.50, 41.95, 39.05, 39.30
Vanavil Dyes 46, 47
Solvay Pharm 111.10, 112, 111,
Metroche.Ind 20.10, 20.50, 19.55,
108, 108.10, 108, 108
30.90, 31.70, 29.60, 29.80
39.80, 40, 39.10, 39.70
Vardhman Pol 49, 49.50, 48.10,
111.15
20.05
Cochin Minrl 16.20, 15, 15.15
Garware Poly 34.05, 37.25, 34.95
Porrits&Spen 75, 71.10, 71.50
49.10
Sona Koyo St 106.75, 112.50, 104,
MICO
4710,
4610,
4693
Color Chips 5.95, 6.15, 5.55, 6.05
Garware Wall 22.30, 23.10, 22.60
Jagatjit Ind 21.10, 20, 21
Praj Ind. 45.70, 48, 45.10, 47.80
49.80, 49.80, 48, 49.15
4702,
4702,
4671,
4673
105
6.35, 6.35, 5.55, 5.95
Gati 43.80, 41, 41.85
Jagsonpal Ph 74, 83.70
46.90, 48, 45, 47.55
Vardhman Spg 71.85, 66.10, 69.10
Mid-Day Mul. 16.60, 16.90, 16.05,
South.Herbal
6.80,
7.50,
6.20,
7
Colour Chem 237.15, 235, 235.05
Genesys Intl 35.90, 40.70, 34.70,
81.05, 83.45, 81.05, 82.40
Precision Wr 22.10, 22.50, 20.50,
71, 71.90, 66.80, 69.75
16.80
Spel
Semicon
3.25,
3,
3.20
240, 240, 234, 235.75
38.10
Jai Corp 36, 36.90, 36.85
22.35
Varun Ship. 11.15, 10.50, 10.55
16.35, 16.90, 16.15, 16.65
SPIC 7.20, 7, 8
Compucom Sof 14.40, 17
36, 38, 34.75, 38
Jain Irrig. 52.50, 48.25, 48.55
22.50, 22.90, 22.10, 22.45
10.60, 10.75, 10.55, 10.65
Mindteck
14.60,
16,
15.90
7.30,
8.05,
7.05,
8.05
Compudyne Wi 15.35, 17.50, 14.80,
Geodesic Inf 76, 77.30
52.50, 52.50, 48.50, 49.15
Premier Auto 4.90, 5.80, 5.50
Vashisti Det 11.90, 11, 11.25
Mirza Tanner 32.85, 31.85, 32.60
SQL Star Int 5.70, 6.70, 5.55, 6.30
17.10
George Willi 68.50, 69.35, 67.50
Jain Studios 16.10, 13.15, 14.40
Premier Inst 218, 210.50, 214.05
11.45, 11.90, 11, 11.20
33, 33.50, 32.25, 32.60
SREI
Int.Fin
9.45,
9.50,
9.15,
9.45
13.55, 17.10, 12.55, 16.95
69, 69.90, 67.05, 67.75
13.80, 14.25, 13, 13.95
220, 220, 212, 214.25
Venky’s (I) 53.20, 58, 57
MM Forgings 140, 126.05, 126.10
Computech In 4.85, 4.80, 5.70
SRF 26.05, 26.50, 25.40, 26
GIC Housing 12.80, 13.25, 13.05
Jaipan Inds. 10.30, 9.80, 11.10
Premier Tyre 6.25
54.90, 57.65, 53.15, 57
Mobile
Tele
6.95,
6.10,
7.20
5.10, 5.85, 4.95, 5.85
13.15, 13.40, 12.85, 12.90
Jay Bh.Marut 39.35, 41.50, 37.10,
25.25, 26.40, 25.25, 25.85
Prism Cement 4.85, 5.10, 5.05
Veronica Lab 4.70, 4.85, 4.45, 4.70
Modipon 28, 30.60, 29.70
Cont.Const. 10.50, 10.05
GIVO 2.50, 2.15, 2.55
37.50
SRF Polymers 21, 22.50, 20, 20.55
4.85, 5.15, 4.85, 5.05
Vesuvius (I) 78.50, 75, 75.05
Monalisa
Inf
0.30,
0.35,
0.25
Control Prnt 19.90, 19.95, 19.60,
Glenmark Pha 255, 257, 247.50,
38.10, 38.10, 37, 37.15
Pritish Nand 28.10, 28.50, 26.60,
78, 78, 74.45, 74.75
SRG Infotech 0.75, 0.80, 0.70, 0.75
Monnet Ispat 21.80, 20.25, 21.20
19.70
251.65
Jayant Agro 47.25
26.80
Viceroy Hot. 9.50, 8.85
0.80, 0.80, 0.70, 0.75
Monsanto (I) 509, 512.50, 507,
Core Health. 4.85, 4.35, 4.55
243, 257.80, 243, 250.95
51.10, 51.10, 48.10, 48.10
27.50, 29, 26.25, 26.60
Videocon Apl 10.15, 9.35, 9.80
Sri Adhikari 64, 65.40, 61.75, 63.50
509.80
5, 5.20, 4.40, 4.60
Global Tr.Bk 16.35, 17, 15.80, 16.35
Jaypee Hotel 9.85, 9.50, 9.85
Priyad.Cemen 9.10
10, 10.15, 9.30, 9.65
64.70, 65.60, 61.50, 63.35
511.95, 512.95, 508, 508.75
Corom. Fert. 69.70, 66.60, 67.95
16.40, 16.95, 15.75, 16.25
Jayshree Tea 37.10, 37.30
9.10, 9.10, 9, 9.10
Videocon Fin 12.25, 14.25, 12.25,
Morarjee Goc 10.50, 11, 10.15, 10.30
Star Paper 10.95, 11
67.50, 68, 66.85, 67.65
GMR Techno. 9.05, 9.25, 8.70
37.60, 38.30, 37, 37.35
PSI Data Sys 48, 56.40
14.25
10.25,
10.30,
10,
10.10
12, 12, 10.50, 11.85
Cosmo Ferr. 7.95, 7.45
Goa Carbon 39, 37.10, 37.35
JBF Inds. 10.25, 9.95, 10.75
47.15, 56.20, 47.15, 56.20
Vidhi Dyestu 16.75, 15.70, 16.50
Morepen Lab 10.75, 11.75, 10.50,
State Bnk Bi 650, 681.50, 678.75
Cosmo Films 73.10, 80.15, 73, 80
Godavri Fert 38, 43.40
JBM Tools 26.75
PSL 39.50, 39.65, 39.05, 39.25
Vikrant Tyre 11.60, 11.80, 11.30,
11.10
State Bnk My 530, 534
74.40, 79.85, 72.75, 79.75
38.40, 43.25, 38.40, 42.95
JCT 4.75, 4.90, 4.65, 4.85
11.55
36,
39.55,
36,
39.10
10.50, 11.80, 10.40, 11.10
State Bnk Tr 525, 558.60, 534.90
Creative Eye 12.75, 15.20, 12.25,
Godfrey Phil 315, 323, 306.05,
Jenson&Nicho 5.25, 5.70, 5.10, 5.60 Morgan Stan 8.85, 8.65, 8.75
Pudumjee Pul 20.30, 22.85, 22.15
Vinati Org. 14.05, 14, 14.70
Std.Indust. 6.30, 6.40, 5.90, 5.95
14.25
320.65
5.15, 5.90, 5.15, 5.55
22.85, 22.85, 21.50, 22.55
Vindhya Tele 20.90, 19.60, 20.05
8.65,
8.80,
8.65,
8.75
12.90, 15, 12.60, 14.55
5.85, 6.35, 5.85, 5.95
306, 320, 305, 315.40
JIK Inds. 18.90, 17.15, 18
Pun.Alkali 8.20, 8.40, 7.75, 7.80
19.25, 20.25, 19.25, 19.60
Motherson SS 128.55, 148.90,
Crest Comm. 28, 31.55, 30.95
Sterl.Inds.
163.60,
164.90,
161.35,
Godrej Cons. 108.50, 107, 109
19, 19.40, 17.40, 18
Vintage Card 7.05, 7.85, 7, 7.75
Pun.Chemical 91, 88.75, 90
134.20
28.70, 31.45, 28.40, 30.85
100, 110, 100, 109.30
Jindal Drill 115
161.80
7.55, 8.05, 6.85, 7.75
Pun.Communi. 43.50, 42.20, 42.85
143,
148.50,
132.20,
134.95
CRISIL 280, 281, 280
Jindal Iron 86.45, 87, 83.85, 84.30
Godrej Inds. 17.25, 17.55, 17.30
Sterl.Tools 47, 48, 46.50, 47.85
Pun.Nat.Bank 145, 149.45, 137.55,
Vinyl Chem. 7.10, 7.30, 6.65, 7.20
Mro-Tek 15.65, 16.75, 14.90, 16.30
285, 285, 277, 280
17.25, 17.50, 17.15, 17.20
86.50, 87.40, 83.85, 84.40
139.95
7.50, 7.80, 7, 7.10
Stl.Strips W 11, 9.60
15.50,
16.80,
14.90,
16.30
Cybertech Sy 7.70, 7.40, 8.90
Goetze (I) 29.90, 30, 28.10, 28.45
Jindal Photo 31.90, 32, 31, 31.95
145, 149.30, 137.60, 139.95
VIP Indus. 20.15, 19.75, 19.95
Su-raj Diamn 14.70, 14.80, 13.70,
MRPL 14.45, 16.60
7.50, 8.90, 7.50, 8.90
29.30, 30.30, 28.50, 28.60
31.35, 32.45, 31.10, 31.90
20.30, 20.50, 19.85, 20
13.95
14.90, 16.90, 14.90, 16.90
Goldiam Int. 24.75, 25.50, 24, 24.80
Jindal Poly. 105, 107, 103, 103
Visaka Ind. 26.75, 21.75, 25.60
14.50, 14.80, 13.75, 14.10
Mukand 15.35, 15.45, 14, 14.35
Goldstn.Tech 27, 25.10, 27.60
Jindal Strip 145.90, 148, 144.75,
26.20, 26.40, 25.50, 26.20
15.65, 15.65, 14.10, 14.25
Suashish Dia 19.50
Rain Calcing 13.10, 13.20, 12.90, 13
25.20,
27.75,
25,
27.75
145.05
Visesh Info 4.25
Daewoo Motor 1.40, 1.50, 1.35, 1.45
Mukand Engrs 11, 12, 11.65
Subex System 117, 120.50, 115.20,
12.95, 13.25, 12.85, 13
Goldstn.Tele 8.05, 8.95, 8.75
145, 148.80, 144.15, 144.65
4.10, 4.85, 4.10, 4.75
Dalmia Cemen 145.10, 147.05,
12, 12, 10.65, 11.40
118.10
Raj.Spg.&Wvg 23.45, 24.45, 21.60,
8.15, 8.80, 8.05, 8.65
JJ Exporters 31, 31.50, 31.15
Vision Organ 1.30, 0.95, 1.15
Munjal Auto 43, 43.45, 42.10, 42.25
145.10, 146.70
22.70
Subhash Proj 18.50, 18.50, 18.50,
Gonter Peip 4.90, 5.05, 4.65, 4.80
JK Corpn. 12.50, 11.35, 11.55
1.10, 1.15, 0.95, 1.05
Danlaw Tech. 22.50, 22.10, 24.50
Munjal Showa 172.90, 173, 166.65,
23.50, 23.60, 21.60, 22.85
18.50
Goodlass Ner 196.50, 197, 195,
JK Inds. 27.55, 28, 27.50, 27.90
VJIL Consult 6.95, 8.30, 8.15
Datanet Sys. 4.50, 4.20, 4.35
167.50
Rajesh Exp 66.80, 67.25, 66.50,
Subros 45, 45.10, 42, 43.70
196.20
JK Synthetic 3.40, 3.50, 3.25
Voltas 59.95, 60.50, 58.55, 58.95
170, 172.45, 165.90, 167.15
Datapro Inf. 0.60, 0.50, 0.55
66.85
Sulzer (I) 111, 125, 120.50
195, 199, 195, 197.75
JL Morison 75, 73, 74.50
59.30, 60.90, 58.90, 59.25
Murd.Ceram 10.10, 10.20, 10
DCM 7.30, 7.20
66.75, 66.85, 66.75, 66.85
Goodricke 29, 27.75, 28.10
JMC Projects 19, 18, 18.05
Sundaram Cla 278, 283.20, 268.50,
Vorin Lab. 51, 48.50, 49.10
Mys.Cement 6.35, 6.20, 6.45
7, 7.70, 7, 7.40
Rajshree Sug 11.05, 11.75, 10.85,
Goodyear (I) 32.85, 34.50, 32.40,
Jog Engg. 7.90
271.85
VST Indus. 102.15, 104.95, 104.90
DCM Shr.Con 74.50, 76, 69, 72.25
6.15, 6.50, 6.15, 6.40
10.90
33.20
Jubilant Org 177, 181, 178.55
103.10, 105.50, 103, 103.20
267, 281.50, 267, 270.85
70.60, 74, 70.60, 71.55
11.20, 11.50, 11, 11.25
Grabal Al.Im 15.45, 16.75, 15.25,
178, 181, 177, 177.70
VST Tillers 14.60, 14.65, 12.55, 12.75
Sundaram Fst 426, 430, 416.05,
DCW 14.50, 14.90, 13.45, 14.05
Rallis India 67.50, 68.45, 65, 66.10
16.55
Jupiter BioS 44.25, 44.90, 42.60,
VXL Instrum. 22.75, 24, 22.30, 23.70
418.80
14.50, 14.50, 13.45, 13.95
67.70, 67.70, 65.85, 66.60
Graphite Ind 34.90, 35.50, 34, 34.10
Nagar.Agrich 14.35, 14.75
43.45
405, 431, 405, 416.35
Deccan Cem. 35.75
34.05, 35.80, 34.05, 34.30
Nagar.Const. 47, 47.80, 46.60, 47.65 Rama Newspri 3.55, 3.75, 3.25, 3.45 Sunflag Iron 5.20, 5.50, 5, 5.10
Jyoti Struct 17, 17.50, 16.50, 17.05
Deepak Fert. 22.25, 22.60, 22.40
3.75, 3.80, 3.25, 3.40
Nagar.Fertil 5.85, 6, 5.50, 5.75
Grauer & Wei 18, 17.95, 19
20.45, 20.45, 16.30, 17.05
23, 23, 22.10, 22.30
Super
Spin. 76.90, 70, 70.10
Ramco Inds. 147, 147.05
Walchandngr 35, 32.20, 32.50
5.70, 6, 5.55, 5.70
Gravity (I) 7.10, 8.90, 6.90, 7.05
Deepak Nitr. 46.10, 47.50, 45.50,
Supreme Inds 101, 102.60, 101
147, 147, 146.10, 146.10
33.05, 33.70, 32, 32
Nahar Export 24, 24.50, 23.30, 23.75
Greaves 12.35, 14.85
45.75
101.25,
103, 100, 100
Ramco
Systm
388.50,
394,
386.10,
Warren Tea 40.60, 39.25, 39.50
Grind Norton 135, 119.60, 122.70
23.70, 24.40, 23.30, 23.65
Dena Bank 17, 17.50, 16.10, 16.50
Kaashyap Rad 0.65, 0.70
389.20
Wartsila (I) 115.50
Supreme Petr 10.85, 11.35, 10.25,
Gruh
Finance
19.80,
20.25
Nahar
Indl.E
14.75,
15,
14,
14.15
17.30, 17.35, 16.20, 16.55
Kabra Extr 36.95, 35
389, 394, 386, 391.15
120, 120, 114.60, 115
10.95
GTC Inds. 6.60, 7.35, 7.25
Nahar Intl. 5.20, 5.05, 5.10
Denso (I) 31.10, 31.50, 29.10, 29.95
36.80, 37.25, 36, 36.95
Rane Brake 163.90, 167.50, 154.55,
Wellwin Ind. 10.45, 10.50, 10.05,
10.60, 11.40, 10.35, 11.05
7, 7.45, 6.85, 7.25
5.05, 5.25, 4.85, 5.10
Dewan H.Fin. 17, 18.10, 18
Kajaria Cer 22, 20.90, 21.40
159.05
10.10
Surana Tele 12.50, 12.80, 12.60
GTN
Textiles
32,
30.15,
30.55
Nahar
Spg.
83.80,
87.50,
86.50
19, 19, 17.80, 18.65
21.60, 22.45, 21, 21.35
10.60, 10.60, 10.05, 10.10
Rane Engine 140.40, 150.40, 135.50,
31.90, 32.90, 30.55, 31.15
85, 86.70, 83.50, 86.15
13.30, 13.35, 12.65, 13
DFM Foods 9.75
Kakatiya Cem 25.10, 27, 26.75
137.55
Welspun (I) 24.55, 28.95, 28.85
Gufic Bio Sc 26.50, 26.45, 27
Narmada C.Pe 13.15, 13.75, 13.70
Surat Elec. 74, 76.85, 76.75
DGP Windsor 5.20, 4.80, 5.10
25.75, 27.30, 25.75, 26.90
139, 152, 133.50, 137.60
Welspun
Guj. 11.75, 12.40, 11, 11.45
26.95,
28.90,
25.50,
13.80,
13.85,
13.60,
13.75
Guj.Alkalies
Surya Roshni 13.95, 13.35
5.25, 5.40, 4.75, 5.10
Kale Consul. 28.35, 34.55
Rane Madras 62.80, 62.80, 62.80,
Wendt (I) 321, 326, 312.25, 317.50
Narmada Cem. 29, 25.05, 25.60
26.65
13.75, 13.90, 13.20, 13.35
Dhampur Sugr 11.80, 12.40, 11.55,
29, 34.40, 29, 34.40
62.80
West Coast P 118.50, 127, 124.55
Natco
27.50,
28.45,
25.65,
26.50
Pharma
38.50,
38.95,
36,
Surylak.Cott 17, 16.70
12.35
Kalpa.Power 41, 40
Ravalgaon Su 2000, 1911, 1998
117, 125, 116, 122.55
Guj.Amb.Exp. 13.80, 13, 13.50
36.30
16.50, 17.50, 16.20, 16.75
12.20, 12.40, 11.30, 12.35
40, 40, 39.05, 39.05
Rayban Sun O 53.95, 51.50, 52.10
Widia (I) 94.70, 83.75, 85.20
13.15, 13.50, 13, 13.25
34, 39.80, 34, 37.70
Dhanalak.Bnk 20, 18.25, 18.60
Sutlej Inds. 49.75, 51.80, 51.75
Kalyani Brak 265, 261, 265
Reg.Ceramic 24, 24.90
Wim Plast 35.50, 36
Guj.Apollo E 54.25, 55, 54.45
Nath Seeds 8.95, 9.10, 8.50, 8.85
50, 52.50, 49.20, 51.60
24.80, 25.15, 24.60, 24.75
Wimco 27.25, 28, 27.20, 27.50
Suven Pharma 130, 135, 132.30
Rel.Ind.Infr 39, 39.75, 38.60, 38.65
28.25, 28.25, 27.25, 27.30
Swaraj Engin 200, 202, 199, 199.10
38.65, 39.40, 38.65, 39.25
Wockhardt Lf 22.70, 23.75, 23.50
Relaxo Footw 16.50, 16.95
23.40, 23.80, 22.80, 23.50
199.55, 202, 198.50, 200.50
NA
R
N m
NA
R
N m
NA
R
Revathi Equ. 107.50, 105, 106.45
Wyeth 227.10, 229.80, 227.60
Swaraj Mazda 96, 93, 93.75
Rico Auto 156, 150.50, 151.05
226.95, 231.90, 221, 226.20
R
S
R
S
R
S
94.15, 95, 93.30, 93.90
154, 155, 150, 151.60
Syncom Form. 27.40
RPG Cables 9.40, 8.50, 8.85
Synergy
Log
6.50,
7.40
10.01
10.01
10.01
G-Sec PF
17.00
17.00
17.00
Select Mid Cap
11.77
12.01
11.77
9.30, 9.30, 8.65, 8.95
Yokogawa Blu 65.90
15.08
15.08
15.08
G-Sec Reg (GB)
10.40
10.40
10.40
Select Midcap (G)
11.77
12.01
11.77 RPG Life Sci 26.40, 26.60, 23.80,
65.90, 65.90, 65.90, 65.90
11.35
11.35
11.35
High Liq.Growth - Bonus
10.54
10.54
10.54
Tax Saver
9.26
9.26
9.26 25.05
10.00
10.00
10.00
High Lq. (D)
12.01
12.01
12.01
Tata Mutual Fund
T Spiritual 184, 184.50, 181.50,
25, 25, 24.05, 24.80
1.00
1.00
1.00
High Lq. (D-D’ly)
10.41
10.41
10.41
Liquid (App)
14.12
14.12
14.12 RPG Transmi. 6, 6.35, 5.70, 5.95
181.75
1109.97 1109.97 1109.97
High Lq. (G)
16.87
16.87
16.87
Liquid (Reg)
11.10
11.10
11.10
Taj GVK Hotl 42, 44.85, 43.05
5.85, 6.20, 5.70, 6
Zandu Pharm 1410
1022.15 1022.15 1022.15
High Lq. Inst.(G)
10.06
10.06
10.06
Short Term Bond (App)
10.65
10.65
10.65
43, 43, 41.10, 42.20
1425, 1429, 1381, 1410
1021.29 1021.29 1021.29
High Lq.Inst.(D)
10.01
10.01
10.01
Short Term Bond (Reg)
10.61
10.61
10.61 RS Software 20.55, 20.50, 23.25
Tanfac Ind. 16.25, 15.15, 15.30
20.30, 23.55, 20.10, 23.55
Zenith Comp. 8.10, 8.75, 7.80, 8.55
1044.38 1044.38 1044.38
Income (D)
10.36
10.36
10.36
Taurus Mutual Fund
Tata Coffee 78, 75, 77
8.10, 8.90, 7.80, 8.65
1091.81 1091.81 1091.81
Income (G)
24.82
24.82
24.82
Bonanza Ex.(G)
10.81
11.00
10.78 Ruchi Soya 33.55, 34
76.10, 77, 75.35, 76.95
37, 37, 32.50, 33.90
Zenith Exp. 33.25, 33.25, 33.25
1515.75 1515.75 1515.75
Income 2004-GRO
12.01
12.01
12.01
Discovery Stock
3.73
3.80
3.72
Tata Finance 18.85, 20, 19.35
Zenith Info. 9.65, 11.50, 10.90
1245.00 1245.00 1245.00
Income Bonus
11.04
11.04
11.04
Libra Bond (D)
11.13
11.13
11.10
19, 20, 19, 19.40
9.85, 11.60, 9.85, 11.40
1402.11 1402.11 1402.11
Income Serial 00 (D)
10.84
10.84
10.84
Libra Bond (G)
11.46
11.46
11.43
Tata Honeywl 252.10, 269.85, 267
ZF Steering 94.15, 94.25, 93.15
1152.21 1152.21 1152.21
Income Serial-2004(G)
10.12
10.22
10.01
Libra Gilt (D)
11.32
11.32
11.29 S Kumars Nat 5.15, 5
270, 270, 260.55, 267.15
Zicom Electn 26.25, 23.90, 24.55
Short Term
10.35
10.35
10.35
Libra Gilt (G)
11.65
11.65
11.63
5.10,
5.65,
4.90,
5.30
Tata
Infomed
84,
81,
81.75
10.48
10.68
10.48
Short Term (G)
10.79
10.79
10.79
Libra Tax Shield
8.98
8.98
8.98
Zigma Soft. 5.40, 5, 5.10
84, 84.25, 81.05, 81.60
10.38
10.58
10.38
Short Term Fund Inst.(D)
10.03
10.03
10.03
The Starshare
6.06
6.17
6.04 S.I.Bank 49, 50, 46.50, 47.95
Zodiac Cloth 86, 80
48.75, 49.65, 46.50, 47.75
Tata Infotec 142, 143.95, 139, 142.60
10.01
10.01
10.01
Short Term Fund Inst.(G)
10.10
10.10
10.10
UTI Mutual Fund
79, 81, 78.30, 78.85
10.01
10.01
10.01
Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund
Bond (G)
17.82
17.82
17.73
10.00
10.00
10.00
K-30 (D)
11.97
12.18
11.97
Bond (I)
11.09
11.09
11.03
10.01
10.01
10.01
K-30 (G)
11.97
12.18
11.97
Brand Value
7.51
7.51
7.36
10.01
10.01
10.01
K-Balance
10.64
10.82
10.64
CCP
12.86
12.86
12.34
10.00
10.00
10.00
K-MNC
8.06
8.20
8.06
CRTS
91.14
91.14
88.40
12.02
12.02
12.02
K-Tech
2.52
2.56
2.52
Equity Tax Savings
10.19
10.19
10.09
10.02
10.02
10.02
Reliance Mutual Fund
G-Sec (G)
16
10.11
10.11
10.11
Income (D-Half Y’ly)
11.09
11.09
11.09
10.00
10.00
10.00
Income (D-M’ly)
11.05
11.05
11.05
m
11.79
11.79
11.79
Income (D-Y’ly)
10.87
10.87
10.87
16.42
16.73
15.93
Income (G)
19.10
19.10
19.10
M
m
16.20
16.51
15.71
Income Growth (B)
11.25
11.25
11.25
M
w
10.21
10.40
10.21
Income Q’ly (D)
11.14
11.14
11.14
M
9.69
9.87
9.69
Medium Term Fund(D-M’ly)
10.59
10.59
10.54
M
9.94
10.13
9.94
Medium Term Fund(D-Q’ly)
10.61
10.61
10.55
M
Bei ing Ch na s ndus r a ou
year by 16 4 per cen o 1 154 b
9.97
10.16
9.97
Medium Term Fund(G)
13.45
13.45
13.38
M
M
7.42
7.49
7.42
Short Term
10.31
10.31
10.31
M
M
pu s owed down n Apr due
on yuan $139 b on he bu
10.18
10.18
10.15
Short Term Fund-(D-Re)
10.08
10.08
10.08
10.86
10.86
10.83
Sundaram Mutual Fund
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Gooch to the rescue
Borg ‘young again’
Presidential orders
Graham Gooch, who will be 50 in two
months time, was pressed into emergency
action as a substitute fielder for Essex
against Lancashire. Despite retiring 7 years
ago, the Essex coach displayed his usual
verve for the 7 overs he was on-field
Tennis great Bjorn Borg has became
a father for the second time. He
claims the birth of a son makes him
feel young again. Borg’s other son
with model Jannike Bjoerling is
already 17 years old
Soccer administrators in Brazil will be
held criminally responsible for any club
financial irregularities, under a decree issued by the President Lula da Silva. In the
same breath a law protecting the interests
of the fans has also been passed
One-day series set to begin in the Caribbean Islands
It’s a tough decision. I just
don’t want to play I set the bar
high and want to be the best.
Aussies’ victory streak in danger
AP
— Pete Sampras after pulling
out from Wimbledon
SPORTS DIGEST
AP
THE SMILING ASSASSIN: Arsenal
striker Thierry Henry poses with
the 2003 Football Writer’s Association Player of the Year Award at
the in London on Thursday.
ICPA good idea, feels
Snehasish: Snehasish Ganguly,
brother of skipper Sourav Ganguly
and a former first class cricketer, on
Thursday came out in support of the
Indian Cricket Players Association
(ICPA) saying it was a “tremendous
movement” and any criticism of the
fledgling organisation was “unjustified”. “This organisation has just
been formed. They have initiated
some bold and much-needed steps.
But already some former cricketers
are criticising it. I do not think that is
justified,” he said. PTI
Ronaldo’s “saddest day”: Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo described
Real Madrid’s defeat against Juventus
in the Champions League semifinal as
his “saddest day” so far with the
Spanish powerhouse. “It was the saddest day since I’ve been with Real
Madrid because I saw my team suffer
and I suffered because in my condition I could not help,” Ronaldo said on
Friday. “All sacrifices were worth it for
that match,” Ronaldo said in defence
of coach Vicente del Bosque. AFP
Deadline for TV rights: US television rights for the 2010 and 2012
Olympics will be decided early in
June, International Olympic Committee director general Francois Carrard
said on Friday. Four US networks,
ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, will put
forward their bids at IOC headquarters in Lausanne on June 5 and 6.
The result is expected to be announced within hours. AFP
Selection trials: The Delhi Soccer
Association will hold open trialscum-coaching camp to select the
Delhi state team for the 11th senior
women national football championship, which will be held at Chennai from June 8. TNN
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Star Sports: 1725 hrs: Formula One Qualifying: 2003. 2000 hrs: West Indies vs Australia (Ist ODI).
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Kingston (Jamaica): The West Indies are looking for the momentum
of their euphoric Antigua Test victory over Australia to carry over
into their seven-match One-day International series, starting here on
Saturday.
The cricket world was buzzing as
Brian Lara’s young team created
Test history with the highest fourth
innings of 418 for seven last Tuesday to floor the Australians, who
were shooting for an unprecedented
4-0 Caribbean series whitewash. It
was a heroic performance that may
finally have instilled the self-belief
that has been missing in West Indies cricket since the heyday of Viv
Richards and their deadly four-man
pace attack of the 1980s.
“We have now set a standard and
we kept the standard up and we
made the greatest run chase in the
history of the game and that’s
what we are going to take forward,” Lara said in the wake of the
three-wicket victory at St John’s.
Now Lara’s team face another
mountain with Ricky Ponting’s
World Cup champions putting on
the line their 17-match unbeaten
run, stretching back to last January.
Australia beat all-comers at the
World Cup in southern Africa last
February/March culminating in
their 125-run demolition of India in
the final at the Wanderers ground
in Johannesburg on March 23.
Ponting slammed an unbeaten
140 off 121 balls and shared in an
unbroken third-wicket stand of
234 with Damien Martyn (88 not
out) to fire Australia to a record
359-2 from 50 overs - Australia’s
highest total in one-day internationals and the best-ever in a World
Cup final. But the Windies may be
catching Australia at the right
time as Ponting’s men are on the
tailend of an exhausting 10-month
playing schedule, with many, particularly among the Test team,
having their thoughts on home
over the closing weeks of their
Caribbean tour.
Ponting is recovering from a
virus which forced him out of the
final Test and there are concerns
over the flagging fast bowlers, particularly the injury-prone Jason
Gillespie, Australia’s best bowler
in the Test series.
Ponting believes there is no reason his team can’t continue their
winning streak.
“We’ve got the four of five players that have come into the squad
(after the Tests) and that should be
able to help us out,” Ponting said
on Friday.
“It’s up to those guys to get the
other guys up. There is no doubt
they are going to be a little bit
tired, at the same time we are not
going to have any of those excuses
floating around the team.”
Australia want to play their
strongest team in the opening
matches at Sabina Park on Saturday and Sunday to ensure a winning start, and dictate to Lara’s
team from the outset. The West Indies beat India 4-3 on the subscontinent last November/December to
underline their One-day potential,
but their progress at the World Cup
was hampered by rain. AFP
The shotmakers
Australia One-day captain Ricky Ponting bats in the nets during a team
practice session at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, on Thursday.
West Indies (from): Chris Gayle, Devon
Smith, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara
(captain), Marlon Samuels, David
Bernard, Carlton Baugh, Omari Banks,
Ryan Hurley, Vasbert Drakes, Ricardo
Powell, Corey Collymore, Mervyn Dillon,
Jermaine Lawson.
Australia (from): Matthew Hayden,
Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting (captain),
Darren Lehmann, Jimmy Maher, Michael
Bevan, Andrew Symonds, Brad Hogg,
Andrew Bichel, Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie, Glenn McGrath.
Sri Lanka’s home record under threat
Dambulla (Sri Lanka): Sri Lanka’s five-year winning
stretch in limited-overs series at home is under threat as
the hosts braces for the second round of the tri-series
against Pakistan and New Zealand, when pace bowlers
are again expected to dominate.
Sri Lanka have won every limited-overs series they
have hosted since July 1998, but their record is in danger
as New Zealand and Pakistan appear better equipped to
exploit the fast pitches at Dambulla’s Rangiri Stadium.
“But we’re out to defend our home record, it’s a matter of great pride for us and we’re not going to give it up
without a fight,” said Sri Lankan skipper Marvan Atapattu. “We mean business, and we’re in the contest for
winning this title.”
The fresh pitches at the Rangiri Stadium, which had
hosted only one limited-overs international before this
series, have neutralised Sri Lanka’s spin bowling advanAjit Ninan
tage. With the batting lineup in a form slump, the decision to switch the second round and the final to Dambulla from Colombo due to wet conditions in the capital
could help finish Sri Lanka’s winning run at home.
“The lively wicket and the overcast weather seems to
be better suited for our rivals,” Atapattu conceded ahead
of Sunday’s crucial second-leg encounter against Pakistan. The Sri Lankans lost by 79 runs to Pakistan in the
series opener, then beat New Zealand by five wickets.
“The victory over New Zealand has put us back on
track,” Atapattu said. All teams have a win and a loss
apiece, although New Zealand lead with two bonus
points from their comprehensive win over Pakistan and
Pakistan have one bonus point from their big win over
Sri Lanka. “The series is still wide open, we just need
our middle-order batsmen to strike form,” Atapattu
said.AP
Bacher as ICC
chief: SA minister
Durban:
South African
sports minister Ngconde Balfour wants Dr. Ali Bacher to
make a bid for the presidency
of the International Cricket
Council (ICC). Balfour said
Bacher had proved himself
by staging one of the most
successful sporting events in
South Africa and he saw no
reason why Bacher shouldn’t
bid for the ICC presidency.
Bacher was hopeful to either serve the United Cricket
Board of South Africa
(UCBSA) or the ICC as an
advisor. PTI
Efforts on to bring
Beckham to India
By Nilanjan Datta
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Don’t bother if
David Beckham is going to Real
Madrid or
not
anymore.
If
everything
falls
into
place, he will be coming to
India. At least on a promotional tour. Yes, sources in
the Indian football federation confirmed that negotiations are on to bring the
biggest name in world football to the country in the
last week of June.
Beckham is to embark on
a promotional tour to South
East Asia next month. He is
likely to visit Thailand,
Vietnam, Malaysia and
Japan where he will have
stints with children in various coaching camps.
“We are desperately trying to add India to his itinerary,” a senior federation
official said. “Everything
depends on his calendar,”
he added.
Strata Sports Marketing,
the marketing agent of the
AIFF, however, sounded optimistic when contacted.
“We have already sent a
proposal to his sponsors
and are in constant touch
with them. Keep your fingers crossed,” managing
director Alamgir B. Kashmiri informed Times News
Network on phone from
London.
“He is the biggest crowdpuller in the world and his
presence would provide a
huge impetus to the game
in India. Who knows the
fear of SARS may prove
beneficial to us and David
may turn up only in India,” he joked. Kashmiri
even stated that he had
quite a few corporates
lined up to help him on
this mission.
Beckham’s sponsors remained tight-lipped on the
issue though they admitted
that “India is a huge untapped market.”
ICC releases India’s
WC prize money
New Delhi: India’s World
Cup squad can finally look
forward to lay their hands on
the prize money they earned
for their commendable run
to the final in South Africa,
but they should not straightaway expect the full amount
to come their way.
The International Cricket
Council this week released a
cheque of over $900,000 to the
Indian board for the squad,
highly placed sources in the
board said. But the ICC has released the money with the condition that 30 per cent of the
amount must be kept aside as
a cover for tax demand, if any,
from the local regulators of
the 2003 World Cup, the South
African Revenue Service.
The ICC did not hold back
the prize money in the case of
Indian cricket team, but they
did the same with the rest of
the participating nations as
well, including winners Australia. A winner in the league
stage of the World Cup re-
ceived $10,000. It jumped to
$40,000 for the winners in the
Super Six stage, $400,000 in
the semis and $2,000,000 in
the final. The runner-up’s
share was $800,000. PTI
TNN adds from Kolkata:
The BCCI is in no mood to
move Court of Arbitration for
Sport (CAS) in Lausanne to
stake claims on the $ 9 million
guarantee money for the
World Cup which the ICC is
still holding back. A senior
board official told TNN: “We’d
rather adopt a wait-and-watch
policy as approaching the
CAS costs a fortune.” The ICC
had decided to withhold the
guarantee money to allow for
any official sponsors’ demand
for compensation for allowances made for individual
sponsorship of the likes of
Tendulkar and Ganguly.
When contacted, ICC’s general manager Brendan McClements said the position regarding withholding guarantee money stays unchanged.
Vermeulen makes a mark
Hove (England): Zimbabwe opener Mark Vermeulen
took full advantage of a second-string Sussex attack to
make an unbeaten 194 here on Thursday. On the opening
day of their final match before next week’s first Test
against England at Lord’s, Zimbabwe closed on 317 for
four. Vermeulen, 24, who stands 6ft 4 inches tall, batted for
six hours with his 150 featuring 24 fours and a six to leave
the tourists firmly in charge of this four-day fixture.
It was a commanding innings by Vermeulen whose future as a professional cricketer was thrown into doubt
two months ago when a bouncer from team-mate Travis
Friend fractured his skull during net practice at the
World Cup in South Africa. “It went through the visor
and cracked my skull, there is still a loose piece of bone
floating around in there,” Vermeulen said.
Score: Zimbabwe (1st innings): 317-4 (Vermeulen 194 n.o., G Flower 64). AFP
Tale of two worlds: Where are the marketing wizards?
By Baichung Bhutia
As many of you know, I am the first Indian to play football
for a foreign club. It
may only have been a
second division club
in England but the
two years that I spent
with FC Bury were really eye-opening.
Believe me, getting
in was a huge, huge hurdle. The people there just wouldn’t believe that
we Indians could play football too. I
got strange looks wherever I went for
trials. Probably, a Brazilian too would
get the same looks if he were to turn
up in India with a cricket bat in hand!
When I joined the club in October
1999, the season had already started.
The club is based in a place which
boasts of a number of Asians, particularly from India, Pakistan and
Bangladesh. So the club management
very cleverly embarked on a huge PR
exercise: it made sure that everybody
got to know that they had signed up
an Indian. You can very easily imagine the excitement that followed.
The clubs in Europe are very particular about good publicity and
proper marketing. I guess they don’t
have a choice. It comes naturally as
football is like a proper money-making industry out there. I couldn’t
help wonder at the publicity machines of mega clubs like Manchester United and Arsenal after looking
at the way my club went about its job.
After spend- Baichung has seen Indian football and English football cal and rigorous physiing two seasons from very close quarters. He recounts his experiences cal programmes in the
in England, I
weeks preceding the
with Bury and explains what needs to be done to
have realised
season. In India, if anylift the sport in India
that
there’s
thing, we are asked to
only way to promote football in India:
run for hours in the heat. It took me a
INDIAN SPORT
emphasise on marketing, both at the
lot of time to attain the English fitnational and the club level. We need
ness level. The training facilities at
some efficient marketing people urthe Gigg Lane too were excellent. The
gently. Cricket may be India’s number
club looks after each and every playone sport but football also draws big
er. Even during the off-season. We
crowds even now. We must do somewere all given instructions to follow
thing to keep this popularity intact.
have the second largest population in certain fitness exercises prescribed
Top English clubs, for example, in- the world and also some very suc- by the team’s physio. During those
vite school children during their va- cessful business communities. So two years, even when I came to India
cations for special programmes at why haven’t we been able to tap these for breaks, I had to carry those intheir grounds. This kindles a passion resources? Football, or for that mat- struction booklets. And when I went
for football among children at a very ter any sport, can improve only if it back I invariably had to report to the
tender age. Many often grow up is well managed, well marketed and physio about my ‘activities’. I must
confess, in the end, that things are
dreaming about the game. The clubs run in a very professional way.
also spend lot of money on youth
I am positive that Indian football changing here in India too. A little
programmes. In India too, big clubs can do very well too. We just need slowly but it’s at least happening.
As told to Raju Bhattacharjee
like Mohun Bagan and East Bengal some sincere, dedicated and knowlIndia may not be a powerhouse in
should start thinking of such things. edgeable people to administer it. In
English clubs have so many success the FA, for example, there are differ- the world of football. Yet, thousands of
stories to tell because they are run ent compartments in each organisa- people stay awake every second night to
very professionally. They get money tion: they try and hire specialists for watch European club football on televifrom various sources: local business everything. Here, the same person is sion. Most of them will rattle off the
houses, multi-nationals and even tel- doing everything: right from looking lineups of Manchester United and Real
evision rights. And all this because after the day-to-day affairs of the Madrid but ask them about the Indian
of their success and their efforts to team, to running around to fetch team and they will probably get stuck.
keep their sponsors happy. Many of sponsors to even holding the media Why is Bhutia the only recognisable
them have even become PLCs, all conference at the end of the day. It soccer face in the country? Why don’t we
have more stars? How long will we lanregisterted at the stock exchange. doesn’t work like that.
Due to their excellent marketing,
I must talk about another very im- guish in 120s?
Readers are invited to write in their
their merchandise is sold all over the portant aspect that is completely negand
solutions
to
world. Even through the net.
lected in India: pre-season training. thoughts
Football is being played in our English clubs are very particular [email protected]. Or even
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Academy teams shine:
Delhi Development Authority
Academy ‘B’ and ‘C’ teams
registered convincing victories in the five-a-side Ambuja Cup football tournament.
In the first match, Humhir
Rahim csored three while
Adnaan Rahim and Killiamaan scored a brace each
as DDA ‘B’ thumped DAV
Public School 7-2. Yashpal
Malik and Himanshu reduced the margin. In another
encounter, DDA ‘C’ routed
International Society Football School 6-0. Chetan
Rawat and Divakar Kaushik
scored two goals each while
Ashish Rawat and Sarthak
Gupta netted one apiece.
Shastri ground IA:
In the Goswami Ganesh Dutt
cricket tournament, Lal Bahadur Shastri Club defeated
star studded Indian Airlines
by 5 wickets at the Harchand Singh Longowal sports
complex. Shastri’s skipper
Dalip TT scored an unbeaten
century to guide his team to
the semis.
Indian Airlines: 215 for 6 in 40 overs
(Ritender Sodhi 70, Ravneet Ricky 57,
Praven Thapar 3 for 39) Lal Bahadur
Shastri CC: 217 for 5 in 28.4 overs
(Dalip TT 102, Sumit Dogra 53).
Hari Bhoomi in
quarters: Siddharth Verma’s fine all-round display
helped Hari Bhoomi Club
beat Najafgarh Sports Club
by 60 runs in the Laxman
Dass memorial cricket tournament. Verma hit a strokeful 51 and then bagged 2 for
32 as Hari Bhoomi romped
into the quarters.
Hari Bhoomi Club: 206 for 7 in 35
overs (Jaspreet Narula 75, Siddharth
Verma 51) Najafgarh Sports: 146 in
30 overs (Dhiraj Sharma 56, Saurabh
Saxena 3 for 18, Siddharth Verma 2 for
32).
Singh sizzles: Piyush
Singh clobbered 15 boundaries in his 78 as Jaat Heroes club beat Modern
School, Vasant Vihar by one
wicket in the DDCA Under15 cricket tournament at
Modern School, Vasant Vihar
ground. Vijit Vinod (42) too
contributed with the bat.
For Modern School, Vasant
Vihar Aditya Jain (47 & 3/46),
Himang Arora (44) and Dhruv
Shorey (3/34) did well.
Modern School, Vasant Vihar 194/5
in 40 overs: (Aditya Jain 47, Himang
Arora 44, Abhimanyu Vashisth 2/37),
Jaat Heroes club 198/9 in 39.4
overs: (Piyush Singh 78, Vijit Vinod 42,
Dhruv Shorey 3/34, Aditya Jain 3/46).
Sahil, Harish excel:
All-round performances by
Sahil Arora (51 & 2/27) and
Harish Kumar (61 & 3/23)
helped Ravindra Public
School beat West Delhi
cricket academy by 80 runs
to make it to the final of the
4th Namdhari Cup cricket
tournament (senior section)
at Sainik Vihar ground.
Ravindra Public School 243/7 in 30
overs: (Sahil Arora 51, Harish Kumar
61, Akash Chauhan 54 n.o., Chamanpreet Singh 2/34), West delhi cricket
academy 163/7 in 30 overs: (Ankush
Anand 43, Harish Kumar 3/23, Sahil
Arora 2/27).
Anil shines: Ani Rana’s allround display helped Star XI
beat Jaat Heroes by 33 runs
in the 19th Laxman Dass
memorial cricket tournament. Rana scored a strokeful 72 and then bagged 5 for
22 to help his team advance
to the semis.
Star XI: 184 in 24.2 overs (Anil Rana
72, Balwinder Singh 4 for 22) Jaat
Heroes: 151 in 32.2 overs Anil Rana
5 for 22)
Forthcoming events:
The inaugural Delhi Cup
table tennis tournament will
be held at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium from May
June 28. The tournament will
be held on a league cum
knock-out basis. Entries
close with Hukum Singh at
the DTTA.
Yoga meet: The 3rd National Yoga Championship
for junior and senior boys
and girls was inaugurated on
May 16 and 17 at Talkatora
Indoor Stadium.
Venue in
Perfect shape
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Perfect Venue is
in perfect shape and going by
form is expected to lift the
Krishnaraja Wadiyar Cup,
the main event of the Bangalore races which is scheduled
for Saturday.
Selections: Welcome Plate: 1,100m:
2.30pm: Flox 1, Amonita 2, Nordic Star 3.
RACES
Sha Tin Plate: 1,200m: 3.00pm:
Prospectors Delite 1, Add Reality 2, Time
Is Money 3. Littleover Plate (div.II):
1,400m: 3.30pm: Dream Coat 1, Hunter
Jones 2, Crush 3. Mayors Cup: 1,400m:
4.00pm: Glorious Colours 1, Ramjet 2, Allies Serenade 3.
Chettinad Stud Plate: 1,400m:
4.30pm: Milan 1, Bold Bird 2, Star Alone
3. Krishnaraja Wadiyar Cup: 1,200m:
5.00pm: Perfect Venue 1, Cape Martin 2,
Al Habib 3. Royal Command Plate:
1,200m: 5.30pm: Aldora 1, Don Minstrel
2, Flower Dew 3. Littleover Plate (div.I);
1,400m: 6.00pm: Genuine Article 1, Dust
On The Bottle 2, Royal Prose 3.
CROSS COUNTRY
Ankita downs Shruti
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Sixth seed Ankita Bhambri made surprisingly short work of the challenge of the fifth placed
Shruti Dhawan as she coasted to a 6-1, 6-1 romp in their
semifinal match-up in the
$5000 ITF women’s circuit
tournament on Friday.
In the final Ankita runs
into Liza Pereira. The third
seeded Liza ended the run of
the top seeded Arachana
Vankataraman with a 6-4, 6-4
score line. It was a good day
for Liza as she later partnered Isha Lakhani to notch
a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 win in the doubles final against Iciri Rai
and Preeti Rao.
Results: Singles semis: Ankita Bhambri b Shruti Dhawan 6-1, 6-1; Liza Pereira
b Archana Vankataraman 6-4, 6-4. Doubles final: Liza Pereira/ Isha Lakhani b Iciri
Rai/ Preeti Rao 6-4, 3-6, 6-1.
Vishnu upset
Hyderabad: J Vishnuvardhan (AP) pulled off a major
upset defeating top seed Rupesh Roy of West Bengal 4-6,
6-4, 6-4 in the boys semifinals
of the junior national tennis
championship here on Friday. In the second semifinal,
third seed Aditya Madkekar
(Mah) subdued Sourab Kohli
6-4, 6-2. In the all-AP girls’
semifinals, P Meghana came
from behind to defeat K Puja
3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in a hard fought
encounter. TIn the other
semi, Punam Reddy brushed
aside S Gangothri 6-4, 6-1.
Results: Semifinals singles boys: J Vishnuvardhan (AP) beat Rupesh Roy (WB) 4-6,
6-4, 6-4; Aditya Madkekar (Mah) beat
Sourab Kohli (Mah) 6-4, 6-2. Girls: P
Meghna (AP) beat K Puja (AP) 3-6, 6-2, 64; Punam Reddy (AP) beat S Gangothri (AP)
6-4, 6-1.
The Times of India, New Delhi
WADA forms committee
to examine doping cases
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: In their effort to
control and restrict doping,
the
World
Anti-Doping
Agency (WADA) on Friday
formed a working group that
would collect information
across all sports regarding
positive doping cases since
2001 and the factors involved
in imposing sanctions in
those cases.
According to information
from WADA, the group’s primary task will be to study the
factors that constitute “exceptional circumstances” in
the cases where such circumstances were taken into account and sanctions reduced,
and to determine whether
these factors will be consid-
Europeans target rampant Chinese
Paris: The 47th table tennis
world championships begin
in Paris on Monday with the
very real prospect of a European player muscling in on
what in recent years has become nothing short of a Chinese benefit.
China have completed a
clean sweep of all seven gold
medals at the last two championships in Osaka (2001)
and Eindhoven (1999), and
anyone with an ounce of
grey matter would be foolhardy to rule out of hand a
third rout by the table tennis
super power.
The Chinese contingent,
featuring Olympic men’s and
women’s singles champions
Kong Linghui and Wang
Nan, touched down in France
Tuesday shrugging off fears
of the deadly epidemic SARS
for which they will have to
undergo daily tests.
“We haven’t had any problems regarding the SARS
virus,” said Kong, who lost to
Wang Liqin in Osaka, before
he and his teammates headed
up to Normandy for a final
secret training session.
While SARS may not be
Indians in Paris
The men’s team will be
led by Chetan Baboor
while the women’s
team will be led by
Mouma Das. The other
members are:
MEN’S
Sourav Chakraborty,
Sharad Kamal
WOMEN’S
Mantu Ghosh, Mamta
Prabhu, K Pradeepa.
preoccupying the minds of
the Chinese you can be sure
the same cannot be said
about Timo Boll.
Boll lines up at Bercy heading the world rankings, the
22-year-old German taking
over the number one spot at
the turn of the year.
And
with
Belarus
Vladimir Samsonov, the recently crowned European
champion and ranked third,
China face their stiffest test
since the heady days of two
time world champion JanOve Waldner of Sweden, or
France’s own Jean-Philippe
Gatien, who took gold in 1993.
Boll is blessed with a vicious top spin attack, a
weapon he employed to deadly effect to humble the Chinese in their own back garden last year in the World
Aloke named Bagan coach
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Kolkata: Having sacked
coach Subrata Bhattacharya
last month, Mohun Bagan
ended speculations on the
hot seats by naming a threemember coaching staff on
Friday. While former Mohun
Bagan
left-back
Aloke
Mukherjee, who had an impressive stint at the Tollygunge Agragami helm last
season, will slip into Bhattacharya’s seat, another former international and member of the Asian All-Star
squad, Atanu Bhattacharya,
is the goalkeeping coach.
Uzbek Igor Skhvirin has
been named technical director for the duration of the
National League. Ironically,
the Uzbek striker had turned
out for the green-and-maroons when the club won the
first of the two NFL title under Subrata Bhattacharya.
Friday’s decisions were
taken at a marathon meeting
of the club’s executive committee and general secretary
Anjan Mitra emerged to also
announce that discussions
were on with P.K. Banerjee to
take charge as TD for the rest
of the season. P.K., who lost
his wife recently, however, is
yet to give his nod.
Mukherjee is now in Balia,
Uttar Pradesh, as Bengal’s
coach at the national under21 championships.
Besides, Mukherjee is also
the assistant to national
coach Stephen Constantine.
He was roped in by the All India Football Federation last
season prior to the LG Cup in
Vietnam. India went on to
win the championsip.
AFP
The Chairman of the World
Anti-Doping Agency, Richard
Pound lectures during the
Sportaccord International
Sports Convention in Madrid
on Thursday.
ered under anti-doping code.
“This is in direct response
to the requests of its stakeholders,” said David Howman, WADA’s chief operating officer and the group’s
chair on Thursday. “The
structure of this working
group will allow us to study
all cases until the Olympic
Games in 2004, by which time
the code will be implemented. Once the reviews are completed, we will have a better
picture of what exceptional
circumstances
can
and
should be considered.”
The members: David Howman (group
chair), Olivier Niggli (Legal and finance director, WADA), Toni Graf-Baumann (FIFA),
Marc Aubry (IIHF), Huw Roberts (IAAF),
Gunnar Werner (FINA), Philippe Verbiest
(UCI), Terry Madden (USADA), An IOC representative and Raymond Hack (RSA).
THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE
AP
Cup.
“If I want to beat them
above all I’ve got to be at my
very best,” Boll said. “Just
like I was when I won the
World Cup in China. Since
then the Chinese have been
analysing every detail of my
game, but I too have been
studying videos of theirs.”
Three other Europeans
who figure in the world’s top
ten and have outside chances
are
Austrian
Werner
Schlager, Kalinikos Kreanga
of Greece and Croatian Zoran Priomorac.
Other more frontline pretenders to the crown are the
Chinese quartet of 1999 finalist and current world number two Ma Lin, Asian champion Wang Hao, and Lin’s
Eindhoven conquerer, Liu
Guoliang. AFP
Arbeit pleads
for forgiveness
London: Ekkart Arbeit, the
doctor credited with scripting the biggest state-sponsored doping programme in
history and currently working with British heptathlete
Denise Lewis, has pleaded for
his past to be forgotten.
Arbeit, a former head of
the East German athletics
team, has been hired by
Lewis’s coach Frank Dick to
help the reigning Olympic
champion in her throwing
events ahead of August’s
World championships in
Paris. The move has courted
controversy as both of them
have past dope records. AFP
France’s Amelie Mauresmo serves to Jennifer Capriati of
the United States during the Italian Open at Rome’s Foro
Italico on Friday. Mauresmo won 6-3, 7-6 (10).
FOOTBALL
CONCACAF Champions Cup — Semifinals: Club America 0 Toluca 4 (Agg 45). Toluca win on golden goal rule.
Copa Libertadores:
Second phase: Corinthians 1 River Plate
2 (Agg 2-4).
TENNIS
Masters Series, Hamburg — Third
round: (12) Guillermo Coria (Arg) beat
Mikhail Youzhny (Rus) 6-3, 6-3; Olivier
Rochus (Bel) beat Tim Henman (Gbr) 64, 6-3, Wayne Ferreira (Rsa) beat (11)
Gustavo Kuerten (Bra) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4;
Agustin Calleri (Arg) beat Mariano Zabaleta (Arg) 6-3, 6-0; (8) David Nalbandian (Arg) beat (9) Rainer Schuettler
(Ger) 7-6 (7-3), 6-2; Gaston Gaudio
(Arg) beat Rafael Nadal-Parera (Spa) 62, 6-2; (15) Fernando Gonzalez (Chi)
beat (1) Lleyton Hewitt (Aus) 6-1, 3-6,
6-0; Mark Philippoussis (Aus) beat (3)
Roger Federer (Swi) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
WTA Tour Telecom Italia Masters,
Rome, Italy — Third round: Conchita
Martinez (Spa) beat (7) Daniela Hantuchova (Svk) 6-3, 6-3; (13) Ai Sugiyama
(Jpn) beat (17) Patty Schnyder (Swi) 62, 6-1; (8) Anastasia Myskina (Rus) beat
Svetlana Kuznetsova (Rus) 6-4, 7-4; (5)
Jennifer Capriati (USA) beat Nadia
Petrova (Rus) 7-5, 6-3; Tina Pisnik (Slo)
beat Emilie Loit (Fra) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; (2)
Kim Clijsters (Bel) beat Cara Black (Zim)
6-0, 6-3; (4) Amelie Mauresmo (Fra)
beat (16) Anna Pistolesi (Isr) 6-0, 6-3.
Ambassadors’ Cup golf
meet: Diplomats from nine
countries will vie for top honours in the the Ambassadors’
Cup golf tournament which
gets underway at the Royal
Springs golf course in Srinagar
on Saturday.
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