Quick death best option By Akshaya Mukul TIMES NEWS NETWORK New Delhi: A few months ago, when the Law Commission sought public opinion on the mode of death sentence, the last suggestion it expected was ‘‘public execution’’. But a sec- tion of respondents — all ordi- nary citizens — feels there is nothing wrong in adopting this method. Then there are a few who in- voked the Ashokan edict to ar- gue that the state cannot kill an individual with vengeance, only to be rebutted by others that this is not Ashoka’s time, so ethics be damned. Families of victims have ar- gued that not only should there be a death sentence, it should be quick. While the NHRC and the CBI are yet to respond, the armed forces’ view on court martial is being kept under wraps. ‘‘We would reveal it at a seminar on August 9,’’ says N M Ghatate, commission mem- ber and the brain behind the consultation paper. But sources say the armed forces have suggested a change in the present method of execution. Though the commission is overwhelmingly in favour of capital punishment and had strictly asked respondents not to dwell on the efficacy of exe- cution, well-known votary of human rights, Justice V R Kr- ishna Iyer, argued that there should be no death sentence. ‘‘His views on the subject is well-known and we respect it, but the questionnaire did not ask if capital punishment is needed or not,’’ says Ghatate. CMYK Govt shuts door on Amnesty chief By Baiju Kalesh TIMES NEWS NETWORK Mumbai: In an unprecedented move, the government of India has denied an entry visa to Irene Khan Zubeida, the secretary- general of the UK-based human rights group Amnesty International. The Bangladesh-born Zubeida, who took charge in 2001, had planned her first visit to the sub- continent from July 9 this year. Sources said Zubeida’s visa application had been rejected by the Indian high commissioner’s office in London without mentioning a specific reason. 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In its February report, the international body had criticised the role of the govern- ment in the Gujarat riots. It said, ‘‘the constitutional rights and in particular the right to redress con- tinued to be violated in the state.’’ ‘‘At the time of the violence in Gu- jarat, India had dismissed interna- tional expressions of concern as ‘in- terference’, arguing that India’s criminal justice system and other institutions, including the National Human Rights Commission, would be able adequately to address the sit- uation in Gujarat. Those statements today appear hollow,’’ Amnesty had said in its latest report in July. Star News gets extension: Still unhappy with the Star group’s re- sponse, the government, after with- holding a decision on Wednesday, granted a ‘‘temporary extension’’ of two weeks on Thursday to uplink from India for its news channel. 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Quick death best optionBy Akshaya Mukul
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A few months ago,when the Law Commissionsought public opinion on themode of death sentence, thelast suggestion it expected was‘‘public execution’’. But a sec-tion of respondents — all ordi-nary citizens — feels there isnothing wrong in adopting thismethod.
Then there are a few who in-voked the Ashokan edict to ar-gue that the state cannot kill anindividual with vengeance,only to be rebutted by othersthat this is not Ashoka’s time,so ethics be damned.
Families of victims have ar-gued that not only should therebe a death sentence, it should
be quick. While the NHRC andthe CBI are yet to respond, thearmed forces’ view on courtmartial is being kept under
wraps. ‘‘We would reveal it at aseminar on August 9,’’ says NM Ghatate, commission mem-ber and the brain behind theconsultation paper. Butsources say the armed forceshave suggested a change in thepresent method of execution.
Though the commission isoverwhelmingly in favour ofcapital punishment and hadstrictly asked respondents notto dwell on the efficacy of exe-cution, well-known votary ofhuman rights, Justice V R Kr-ishna Iyer, argued that thereshould be no death sentence.‘‘His views on the subject iswell-known and we respect it,but the questionnaire did notask if capital punishment isneeded or not,’’ says Ghatate.
CMYK
Govt shuts door on Amnesty chiefBy Baiju Kalesh
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: In an unprecedentedmove, the government of India hasdenied an entry visa to Irene KhanZubeida, the secretary- general ofthe UK-based human rights groupAmnesty International.
The Bangladesh-born Zubeida,who took charge in 2001, hadplanned her first visit to the sub-continent from July 9 this year.
Sources said Zubeida’s visa application had been rejected by theIndian high commissioner’s officein London without mentioning aspecific reason. The refusal of a visato the chief of the human rightsbody comes close on the heels of theorganisation mobilising its mem-bers from around the world to callon the government to carry out a re-trial of the Best Bakery case andcommence other trials in riot cases
in Gujarat last year.Amnesty International has been
critical of the Indian government’srecord on human rights violations,the denial of justice to women withreference to the Gujarat riots as wellas the rehabilitation of tribals af-fected by the Narmada dam.
Officials at Amnesty’s Delhi officeconfirmed that a visa had been de-nied to their secretary-general, who
was supposed to be on an official vis-it to its India office. ‘‘We are notmaking a public statement regard-ing this development,’’ a senior offi-cial of the organisation said.
Vijay Nagaraj, India co-ordinatorof Amnesty India, refused to com-ment on the issue. In its Februaryreport, the international body hadcriticised the role of the govern-ment in the Gujarat riots. It said,‘‘the constitutional rights and inparticular the right to redress con-tinued to be violated in the state.’’
‘‘At the time of the violence in Gu-jarat, India had dismissed interna-tional expressions of concern as ‘in-terference’, arguing that India’scriminal justice system and otherinstitutions, including the NationalHuman Rights Commission, wouldbe able adequately to address the sit-uation in Gujarat. Those statementstoday appear hollow,’’ Amnesty hadsaid in its latest report in July.
Star News gets extension: Stillunhappy with the Star group’s re-sponse, the government, after with-holding a decision on Wednesday,granted a ‘‘temporary extension’’ oftwo weeks on Thursday to uplinkfrom India for its news channel. P15
Regulating media: Struggling toclear the CAS mess, the governmentis contemplating constituting a regulatory authority to tackle various problems related to the entire media. P9
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By S BalakrishnanTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai: Humayun Kaskar, under-world don Dawood Ibrahim’s youngestbrother, has smuggled himself into In-dia. Kaskar, who has been in the coun-try for the past few weeks, recentlymet select associates of the mafialeader in Mumbai.
One person who met him here toldTNN: ‘‘Humayun is planning to sur-render to the police shortly. He isworking out the details. He is notwanted in the Mumbai serial bombblasts case. He may be arrested forsome minor offences and he will beout on bail soon after.’’
Currently, Kaskar is moving aboutincognito. The route selected by himto enter the country is still a secret. Itis suspected that he may have flownfrom Karachi to Kathmandu and thentaken the land route from Nepal to In-dia. Humayun is the second memberof the Dawood family to return to In-dia. Dawood has five brothers.
On February 19, 2003, his brotherIqbal returned to Mumbai from Dubai and was placed under arrestwhen he landed at Sahar air terminal.In fact, he was escorted by a team of Indian police personnel from Dubai to Mumbai.
A senior police official said: ‘‘TheKaskar brothers are returninng to In-dia one by one since they have hugeproperties and investments worthhundreds of crores here. Pakistandoes not hold any charm for them.’’
Badal’s CP office raidedTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A Punjab state vigilance team on Thursdayraided the office of former Punjab chief minister andAkali Dal leader Parkash Singh Badal at BarakhambaRoad in Connaught Place. The team first procuredsearch warrants from a city court.
A 12-member team swooped on the office located inthe New Delhi house at around 4.30 pm and searched theoffice situated on the fifth floor. The search continuedfor almost an hour, police sources said.
A few Akali Dal activists were present at the officewhen the raiding team from Punjab reached the office.
Reuters
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Japan’s Ambassador to New Zealand Masaki Saito (left) during a ceremonial welcoming challengefrom a Maori warrior as he presented his credentials at New Zealand’s Government House onThursday. Ceremonial challenges are accorded to distinguished visitors to determine if visitorscome in peace with the ceremony described as both frightening and mesmerising.
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The invitation to join the Os-cars of branding comes after amarathon search by Super-brand India for the unques-tionable leaders among 700brands in the country. Only afew brands made it. The TimesGroup has wrested not one, nottwo, but three of these covetedslots: The Economic Times andFemina, apart from The Times
of India. Others in the final listare Airtel, NIIT, Hero Hondaand Raymonds.
A top-notch and unbiasedjury had a clear mandate:Brands that offer the con-sumers significant emotionaland physical advantages overits competitors, which con-sciously or sub-consciouslycustomers want, recognise andrepeatedly reach out for.
For the last decade, Super-brands Organisation has beenthe cartographer of the topbrands in 17 countries. This isits first annual ranking for In-dia. The bottomline: Yournewspaper of choice is part ofan exclusive Hall of Fame —from Adidas to Oxfam to Yel-low Pages — that define theTimes we live in.
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George maycome in fromTehelka cold
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: There werestrong indications on Thurs-day that a short-duration dis-cussion on the Tehelka issuein the Rajya Sabha next weekmay end the two-year Opposi-tion boycott of defence min-ister George Fernandes.
Sources in the offices ofRajya Sabha chairman Bha-iron Singh Shekhawat andLok Sabha Speaker ManoharJoshi said the discussion inthe upper House could be fol-lowed by one in the lowerHouse. But parliamentary af-fairs minister SushmaSwaraj said that the govern-ment would not agree to adiscussion in the Lok Sabha.
The thaw has come aboutas a result of efforts made byboth Shekhawat and Joshi,sources said. Moreover, boththe ruling coalition and theCongress have realised thatthe continued boycott wasproving counter-productivefor both sides.
On the government side,the Prime Minister is be-lieved to have hinted at the is-sue during a dinner hostedby Shekhawat for Rajya Sab-ha MPs recently.
As far as the Congress wasconcerned, party sourcessaid, the parliamentary boycott had outlived its pur-pose and there were mattersof national security on
which the Opposition wantedanswers. But the answerswere not forthcoming due tothe boycott.
A discussion on the Tehel-ka issue is, therefore, beingperceived as a face-saver forboth. Earlier, the NDA heldthe view that a discussionwould be prejudicial to theinvestigation into the Tehel-ka sting operation. The Con-gress, meanwhile, demandedthat the discussion should beheld under rules that en-tailed voting.
Now both sides appear tohave compromised on the is-sue to end the impasse. Whilethe ruling coalition has giveninto the Opposition’s demandfor a discussion in Parlia-ment, the Opposition appearsto have agreed not to pressfor a discussion that does notentail voting.
Sources said in all proba-bility now, a short-durationdiscussion under Rule 176,stemming from a motion sub-mitted by Congress MPSuresh Pachauri, would betaken up in RS on Monday.
A hint that a solution wason the cards came on Thurs-day in the Lok Sabha whenthe Speaker responded to in-censed ruling party MPs ob-jecting to an Oppositionwalkout when Fernandesrose to reply to a question onthe spate of MiG crashes.
India’s medical treatfor Pak children
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: India on Thursday took itspeace initiative with Pakistan to a newhumanitarian plane with the announce-ment of early visas for Pakistani childrenseeking medical aid and to fully fund thetravel, stay and medical treatment of 20such children.
The unprecedented gesture, consider-ing public sentiments generated by the re-covery of Noor Fatima who underwent asuccessful heart surgery in Bangalore,was conveyed to new high commissionerAziz Ahmed Khan who made a ‘‘cour-tesy’’ call on external affairs ministerYashwant Sinha.
Sinha said details would be worked outthrough the Indian High Commission inIslamabad, said the external affairs min-istry spokesman.
At the same time, Sinha conveyed to Khan that Pakistan must cooperatewith India in dealing with the problem of terrorism .
Around the worldFiring squad
Hanging
Stoning
Injection
Beheading
Electrocution
Lethal Gas
73 countries
05 countries
03 countries
01 country
01 country
58 countries
06 countries
DawoodIbrahim: Controlsan interational drugand extortion racketfetching him morethan a Rs 1,000crore annually
Anees Ibrahim: Assists his brother.He was arrested in Bahrain on January19, 1996. Before India could seek forhis extradition, Dawood cooked up afalse case in Dubai and got his brothertransferred to the Dubai police. He latermanaged his release.Noora: Does not have the acumenlike Anees. But he is believed to be han-dling the film financing of the gangIqbal and Mustaqeem: Accusedof having co-conspirated with Dawoodin some crimes.Humayun: The low profile youngestmember of the clan who hardly has anycriminal record.
The D Company clan
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Enrichment programme:Delhi Public School, Rohini,under the aegis of EMCDPSS hosted an enrich-ment programme for theteachers of DPS Numali-garh to apprise them withschool management andlearning systems. The cere-monial lamp was lit by thechief guest Admiral M MChopra member DPS Soci-ety. This was followed by awelcome song by theteachers of DPS Rohini.School principal Rita Sen inher welcome address ex-pressed the need for shar-ing academic experiencesand transporting new ideasto the class. A J Siromani,principal DPS Numaligarhalso addressed the teach-ers. An Odissi dance recitalwas presented by teacherNibedita Mohanpatra.
Big question: Fr AgnelSchool participated in Thebig question telecast onDoordarshan’s Metro chan-nel and anchored by notedjournalist Karan Thapar. Theprogramme was telecast onJuly 11. The panelists wereSalman Khurshid, RajivPrasad Rudy and Subhashi-ni Ali. Questions related tothe Ayodhya issue, bestbakery case etc were raisedduring the show.
Teachers’ training: UshaRam, principal, LaxmanPublic School organised anin-service training pro-gramme for teachers of theschool by Dr Atul Nishchol,CEO of Score More. Thesession focussed on how toget over the fright for num-bers in a play way method.
Another session on stressmanagement talked on hazards of stress and howto overcome the stressthrough yoga.
Workshop: St Francis DeSales organised two work-shops for teachers on June30. The first workshop wasconducted by Prof MurmurMukhopadhaya of NIEPA onEnhancing self-Effective-ness. The other workshopwas conducted by AlokChopra on Harmony in Relationship.
Result: Ashish Arora ofLancers Convent toppedscience stream in theschool in CBSE with 86.4per cent marks. Ajay Guptaof commerce and Aish-warya of humanities groupbagged overall first positionwith 88.8 per cent marks. Inthe secondary school ex-amination, Shipra Singhalbagged the overall first position in the school with91.2 per cent.
Indo-Pak talks: Air ForceGolden Jubilee Institute,Subroto Park participated inKaran Thapar’s show, Thebig question, on July 4. The theme for this specialedition was Indo-Pak rela-tions. The panelists com-prised of eminent politicianslike Dr Farooq Abdullah, I K Gujral and K NatwarSingh. The students of AirForce school have been invited to this show for thesecond time.
Fun day: The primary wingof the Adarsh School, KirtiNagar celebrated fun day.The students in casualsparticipated in several activities like talent shows,clay modelling, antakshari,indoor games, word formation etc.
Teacher awarded: AnjaliAggarwal, principal, St Marks Sr Sec School,Meera Bagh has been declared as the outstan-ding teacher by the publish-ing house Macmillan India Ltd.
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A: Yeah, a lot of people especiallythe new ones. People can seethat they can do anything to getinto modelling and people exploitthem. It's sad but it's true.Q. What are the latest assignments?- puneeeeA: Obviously Lakme India FashionWeek. I don't shoot very much. Ihave moved to Delhi and got en-gaged. He is an Aussie guy, workswith IMG as the head of sales,and his name is Jamie Stewart.Q. Your role model in life?- princeA: I don't have a role model. Dif-ferent people inspire you in life.
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Illegal crematorium ruffles feathersBy Bhadra Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A contempt applica-tion has been moved in the Delhihigh court against deputy commis-sioner of police (south-west) forpermitting the construction of an‘‘illegal crematorium,’’ in violationof Supreme Court guidelines in theridge near Inderpuri.
A contempt notice has also beenissued to the chief secretary of
Delhi whois also thechairper-son of theridge man-a g e m e n t
committee. DDA’s horticulture officials also face contempt ofcourt.
Metropolitan magistrate KaminiLau sent a reference to initiate contempt proceedings after in-specting the spot in the ridge area personally.
The inspection was conducted af-ter the magistrate received a com-plaint about illegal activities inside
the ridge area. Officials of theDDA, MCD and local police werepresent with the magistrate duringthe inspection on April 30, 2003.
The crematorium is apparentlyused by the locals living in villagesaround the ridge. When the magis-
trate asked the local police aboutthe presence of the crematorium,they claimed ignorance withoutconsidering that the structurecould lead to a law and order prob-lem. On enquiry from the MCDofficials, it was revealed that there
was no proper register being main-tained at the spot. Which meansthere is no record of who is beingcremated at the crematorium. ‘‘Theexistence of this crematorium atthe spot also violates the provi-sions of the local municipal laws,’’the magistrate has observed in theinquiry report.
During the inspection, dumpingof construction material was alsofound. Large chunks of rubble wasfound accumulated to as high as 60feet, and the blame was put on theDDA saying the spot was main-tained by the authority. Even theDDA horticulture department de-fended themselves and blamed thelocal police for not taking action.
Senior advocate, M C Mehta, onwhose petition the Supreme Courthad banned construction inside theridge area said:‘‘The DDA is awareof all the encroachments takingplace in protected area. But theyhave failed to take action.’’
Mehta said in this case the localpolice had also brushed away theirhands from taking action againstan illegal activity.
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This crematorium in the Ridge forest near Inderpuri is illegal. No oneknows how long it has been operating. The case is now in the high court.
Robbers heldTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The south districtpolice arrested two persons ac-cused of being involved in arobbery case on June 6 in theQutub Institutional Area.
According to the police, a re-porter of an English daily wasrobbed off her handbag con-taining cash, cell phone andother documents.
The police said that the ac-cused, Anand Singh andNaveen, come from decentfamily backgrounds and their fathers are government employees.
Heart patient found dead:A heart patient was founddead in his Shahdara home onThursday. The police said 36-year-old Naveen Jain usedto take injections to sleep.‘‘His wife and three daughterswere in Meerut and when his mother called him up on his mobile and landline, there was no response. Hewas later found dead,” the police said. TNN
Submerged zooneeds drainage
By Saurabh SinhaTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The Central ZooAuthority (CZA) has askedthe Delhi zoo to stop work onnew enclosures and focus oninfrastructure alone.
The decision was taken inview of the intense waterlog-ging in the zoo. A CZA teamhad inspected the zoo onWednesday afterreports of water-logging appearedon these pages.
‘‘Choked drains,poor sewerage andwater logging areplaguing the place. The in-spection committee hasasked to zoo to defer makingnew animal enclosures be-fore these problems aresolved,’’ said CZA member-secretary P R Sinha.
‘‘The zoo authorities needto prioritise the waterloggingproblem,’’ said Sinha.
Under the zoo’s masterplan, new enclosures forchimpanzees, white tigersand elephants have alreadybeen constructed and manymore are in the pipeline.
Agreeing with Sinha, Del-
hi Zoo director B S Bonalsaid the problem had beenendemic in the place since itsinception in 1957. ‘‘A largenumber of civic agencies arelooking after the zoo and theyhave all been asked to expe-dite the process of openingchoked drains that lead to theYamuna,’’ said Bonal.
In a bid to prevent out-break of any water-borne
disease, the zoohas convertedmost of the wetmoats into dryones. The rhinoenclosure was
fitted with electric fences to stop the animals from entering the moat with stagnant water.
‘‘The drainage pattern hasbeen severely impeded by theadjoining railway line andthe high levels of roads (in-cluding the Ring Road)around the zoo. Since the zoois a low-lying area, there isno continuous flow of waterout of the place,’’ a zoo offi-cial said. Because of this,sewage from wet moats doesnot get discharged into theYamuna.
Cell to probe crime against womenBy Maneesh PandeyTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The crimeagainst women (CAW) cell ofDelhi police will start inves-tigating cases of women complainants.
Joint commissioner of po-lice (CAW), Vimla Mehra,said: ‘‘We will register thecase and start investigationson our own, unlike in thepast where the cases were re-ferred to the district police.’’
Over 9,000 cases of crimesagainst women are regis-tered in Delhi every year.Most of these cases are ofmatrimonial dispute anddowry harassment. Over2,000 cases have been report-ed this year, pertaining tomatrimonial dispute, includ-ing those related to extra-marital affair and bigamy.
‘‘We will initially take upabout 50 such cases for inves-tigation and soon hope to in-
vestigate about 400 casesevery year,’’ the officer said.
The step follows the consti-tution of a five-member committee by police commis-sioner R S Gupta to stream-line the investigation of cas-es of crimes against womenand to dispose them in atime-bound manner.
The panel recommendedthat CAW be entrusted thetask to investigate cases ofcrimes against women as aspecialised unit to minimiseallegations of manipulationand mishandling by the
district police.A senior officer said:
‘‘There are allegations aboutdifference in opinion be-tween the CAW cell inNanakpura and the reportsof the districts investigatingthe case. The inquiry officerin CAW has a perceptionwhich often differs from thesubjective perception of thedistrict’s investigating team.’’
It is also alleged that inves-tigating officers are often in-fluenced to manipulate dowrycases, leading to false impli-cations of innocent persons.
There is a need to inte-grate the two and arrive at acommon conclusion in thematter of investigation sothat the innocent do not getpenalised. Gupta said the ap-pointment of a deputy com-missioner of police and anadditional DCP holding afull-fledged charge in CAWand proposed induction ofmore police personnel aresteps in this direction.
Mehra added: ‘‘We justneed a bigger infrastructureto interrogate the accused.And if needed, detain the ac-cused for a night before pro-ducing them in the court.’’
Mehra said more and more women are coming forredressal and the CAW hasnoticed an increase of 10 percent in registration ofcases. ‘‘Still, there is a largenumber, do not dare to lodgethe complaint, fearing a lossof shelter.’’
• There has been an increase in cases of crime againstwomen from over 7,200 cases in 2001 to 8,344 in 2002
• 6,582 cases have been registered till July 15 this yearand most of the victims are between 25 and 35 years
• Cases of cruelty by in-laws have increased from 855 in1997 to about 1,200 in 2002
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2 murders in one nightTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A 25-year-oldman was found dead in hisJanta flats’ residence atSarita Vihar, in south Delhi,on Thursday. The police saidthat a woman’s undergar-ments and slippers werefound near the body. The vic-tim, Ishwar, lived alone.
The police broke open thedoor and found the bodywith a woman’s ‘dupatta’tied around its neck. Appar-ently, the man had beenstrangulated.
The police said he was lastseen at 10:30 pm on Tuesday.‘‘He was probably murderedsome time on Tuesday night.
He belonged to MadhyaPradesh,’’ said deputy com-missioner of police (south)Vivek Gogia.
According to the police,the man, working as a lowerlevel executive with a pri-vate firm in Okhla, wasprobably murdered by some-one known to him. ‘‘Therewas no forced entry into theflat,’’ said Gogia.
In another incident, a 35-year-old woman, Geeta, wasfound murdered at her sec-tor five residence in Rohini,in northwest Delhi. Thewoman was allegedly stran-gled using the wire of a mo-bile phone charger. The po-
lice said that the woman hadbeen living in a rented flatfor the last one month andclaimed that there was noinformation about the an-tecedents of the victim. Thepolice were informed by theneighbours after a foul smellwas emanating from the flat.The door of the flat waslocked from outside.
A 38-year-old woman wasstabbed to death at herSaraswati Vihar residencein the same district on Tues-day. The woman was alleged-ly killed after she offered re-sistence. The victim’s be-longings were, however,found intact.
Armed robbery: Four personsarmed with a locally-made gunsand a knife entered a Shakarpurhome at 3 am on Thursday andfled with some cash and jew-ellery. According to the police,Pooran Singh, a 40-year-old resi-dent of School Block, wasrobbed of Rs 7,500, a gold chainand some other jewellery. No onewas arrested. TNN
Big brother’s watching copsBy Bhadra Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Delhi Police re-cently purchased 42 closecircuit televisions (CCTV)for various police stationsin the city. The move is in re-sponse to the positive re-ports from districts wherethe CCTVs have alreadybeen installed to enable sen-ior officers to keep a tab ontheir juniors’ behaviour.
In the wake of serious al-legations of third degreetorture of the accused, Del-hi Police had initiated theRs 2.99 crore project tosmoothen police-public re-lationship. The departmenthas already spent Rs 1.20crore.
A senior police officer inwhose district a CCTV wasrecently installed said: ‘‘Af-ter these cameras startedoperating, the functioningof police stations has im-proved. Subordinates aremore careful as they areaware that a senior officeris monitoring them.’’
The pilot project to haveCCTVs in police stations
started with the west andNew Delhi districts twoyears ago. In 2001, all the 13police stations of the westdistrict and three of New
Delhi district wereequipped with this technol-ogy.
Additional commissionerof police (general adminis-
tration) M A Sayed said:‘‘The CCTVs were success-ful in transforming the atti-tude of policemen. The de-partment, therefore, decid-ed to invest in the moderni-sation of the force.’’
Each CCTV unit consistsof four cameras and a mon-itor. While the station houseofficer (SHO) constantly ob-serves the movements ofhis juniors, the camerashave been installed at othervital spots. It includes thepolice station entrance, theduty officer’s desk and thelock-ups.
‘‘The camera which mon-itors the lock-ups has beenvery useful. It has ensuredthat the policeman whoguards the lock-ups is atten-tive and does not misuse hispower,’’ a deputy commis-sioner of police said.
So far only three districts,northwest, central andnortheast, do not haveCCTVs in police stations.The respective deputy com-missioners of police have,given their proposals andare hoping that permissionwill be granted soon.
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Tiny televisions connected to closed circuit cameras won’tbe an uncommon sight in police stations very soon.
AFP
These pachyderms, have been provided with reflectors to avoid traffic accidents in the city atnight, caused by hampered visibility.
We can’t tamemonkeys,says MCD
By Himanshi DhawanTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The MunicipalCorporation of Delhi(MCD) has thrown up itshands when it comes tocapturing monkeys, leav-ing Delhi government’sministry of environment,forest and wildlife high anddry.
In a letter to the environ-ment secretary NainiJayaseelan last week, MCDcommissioner RakeshMehta said that since mon-keys were ‘protected’ aswild animals under theWildlife Act, MCD was un-able to capture them.
According to a senior of-ficial, MCD has just onecontractor to catch mon-keys.
Delhi’s chief wildlifewarden A K Sinha said thatwith growing urbanisationmonkeys have been ‘do-mesticated’. ‘‘People feedthese animals and eventake care of them. MCDcannot shirk responsibility.In most states the civicagency is responsible forcapturing the animals. Wehave given MCD powers todo the same in Delhi,’’ hesaid. Sinha also added thatif New Delhi MunicipalCouncil (NDMC) was ful-filling its responsibilitythere was no reason whyMCD couldn’t.
According to experts thesolution to this ‘feral’ prob-lem is coordination be-tween the agencies. ‘‘Onecannot pass the buck. Offi-cials from Delhi, Haryanaand Uttar Pradesh have tocoordinate and prioritiseareas,’’ Bahar Dutt fromthe Wildlife Trust of Indiasaid. Environment minis-ter Deep Chand Bandhusaid, ‘‘I will have to look into the matter.”
Licences of 12 fake doctors revokedBy Bhadra Sinha
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The MedicalCouncil of India (MCI) hasdetected about 50 cases in thelast one year where aspiringdoctors applied for enrol-ment with forged certificates.
In 35 cases, the candidatesapplied to the MCI with fakemedical diploma certificatepurported to be procuredfrom former Soviet Union.
These cases are now beinginvestigated by the districtinvestigating unit (DIU) of
Delhi Police. Deputy commis-sioner of police (central)Arvind Deep said: ‘‘The MCI
has given temporary enrol-ment to these persons. Wehave traced 12 and revokedtheir licences.’’
Deep said the others, withaddresses outside Delhi, hadbeen issued summons andtheir responses are awaited.
Assistant commissioner ofpolice (DIU) Varsha Sharmaclaimed there were two typesof forged certificates whichhad been deposited with theMCI.
While in 35 cases, the ac-cused have given fake med-ical diploma certificates
from former Soviet Unionstate universities like that ofKiev and Minsk, in 15 casesthe accused have procuredfake Class XII marksheets tobypass the minimum 50 percent requirement stipulatedby MCI.
Investigations on the for-eign diploma certificates re-vealed that the accused hadenrolled themselves in thesix-year-old medical courses,but failed to complete them.
When the time period wasexceeded, they procured fakecertificates from touts.
Decision on twins deferredTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Prints of tinyfingers of the Siamesetwins, recovering at the AllIndia Institute of MedicalSciences, were collected onThursday even as a decisionon handing them over to aNGO was deferred.
The finger prints of theconjoined ba-bies have beencollected forproper identifi-cation of boththe twins.
The 40-day-old twins arereported to be stable andgrowing normally. ‘‘Theyare being fed every twohours,’’ said Dr D K Guptaof the department of paedi-atric surgery.
The twins, at present, are
crying and sleeping togeth-er. But the common life pat-tern may not last forever.
AIIMS officials said fourDelhi-based non-govern-ment organisations (NGOs)have shown interest inadopting them. With an Am-ritsar-based NGO also incontention, the AIIMS au-
thorities haveadopted a cau-tious approachon selecting oneagency out ofthe five, for look-ing after the con-
joined babies, who wereborn on June 14 at SuchetaKriplani Hospital.
A five-member commit-tee formed to shortlist aNGO for the twins met onThursday but failed toreach a consensus. ‘‘Our
main concern is to select anagency which is not lookingto commercially exploit thetwins for getting aid,’’ said acommittee member.
Sources said a final deci-sion is likely to be taken inanother four days.
Doctors have ruled outthe possibility of separa-tion of the twins, joined atthe lower abdomen. ‘‘We areconducting tests to knowthe details of their internalorgans,’’ said an official.
The twins have just twolegs and each leg gets nerv-ous signal from two brains.
‘‘Even if all the organs,including the legs, are givento one baby it will not beable to walk,’’ said Gupta.But the twins co-existencemay not be without compli-cations.
•50 applicants submit-ted forged certificates
•35 submitted fake cer-tificates from the formerSoviet Union
•15 submitted fakeClass XII certificates
•MCI stipulates 50%marks in Class XII
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Garbage from 400houses will not goto landfill sites
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The New Delhi Municipal Council(NDMC) started door-to-door garbage collectionservice in about 400 C-II flats on Pandara Road,Shahjahan Road and Humayun Road on Wednes-day. This garbage will be segregated into bio-degradable and non-degradable parts. While the‘green’ garbage will be put in compost pits formaking manure, the other will be sold to scrapdealers.
NDMC spokesperson Madan Thapliyal said:‘‘Nothing will be sent to the landfill sites, whichare now bursting at the seams. Moreover, it willhelp in keeping the area really clean.’’
With the help of the local welfare associations,the residents of these places will be taught aboutsegregating garbage that would be put in separatebins on rickshaws.
The rickshaw puller and a collector — who willcome dressed in a proper uniform — will come tocollect the garbage between 7.30 am to 12.30 pm.
‘‘At present, the domestic helps of these housesthrow the garbage into the garbage dump from adistance. So it spills on the road and attracts straycattle and dogs,’’ said Thapliyal. With this ‘clean’move, the NDMC hopes to stem the problem ofstray cattle.
More to the south than sambarBy Diya Koshy
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Mudalla sambar, apparamanee (First I’ll eat my sambar, then I’ll dealwith you).
This line from a sketch on a music chan-nel perhaps best explains what most peo-ple associate south Indian food with. Notmany are aware that south Indian cuisinestretches beyond the idli and dosai.
From the spicy cuisine of the Chettiarsto the seafood specialities of the Muslimsand Syrian Christians of Kerala, therange on offer is vast. And a number ofsouth Indian restaurants have come up inthe city that cater to the palate of everydiscerning ‘madrasi’.
For those who prefer to tread the beatentrack, restaurants like Sagar, Madras Cafeand Karnataka remain popular.
A new entrant into this field is Sara-vana Bhavan, Chennai’s largest restau-rant chain. It has just set up digs in Con-naught Place and, judging by the crowdsthat flock there, is set to give others a runfor their money. The restaurant has doneso well that 10 more branches are set toopen over the next two years. The menu atthese restaurants include the standardvadai, idli, dosai with the accompanyingsambar and chutneys. These restaurantsalso offer the sappad (south Indian thaali)in it’s Tamilian Brahmin form.
Following the principles of Ayurveda,the meal begins with a small sweet oreneippu. The meal itself is eaten in threecourses — first rice with sambar, followedby rice with rasam and finally a mix ofrice and the other vegetable accompani-
ments. The meal is topped off with thepalpayasam (a kheer).
For non-vegetarians, too, the choice isvast. Restaurantslike Coconut Groveand Keralyam servea range of both veg-etarian and non-vegetarian food
from Kerala.Delhiites can sample the kothu paratha
(Malabar Paratha), appam (a pancake likepreparation of fermented rice flour) andthe iddiyapam (string-hoppers made from
rice flour). These can be had with mottaroast (egg masala), kozhi varutha masala(roast chicken in a pepper-based masala)or the ishtew (a vegetable/chicken stewwith a coconut milk base). Seafood is alsovery popular. Dishes include the meenmolee (a fish curry mildly spiced in a co-conut milk base) or its more fiery cousin,the meen veyichadu (fish in a tamarindand red chilli base).
But wherever you go on your culinaryexcursion, there is nothing like a steam-ing cup of south Indian filter coffee toround off your meal.
K K Laskar
Saravana Bhavan is where many Delhiites go for that authentic south Indian flavour.
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One-and-a-half-year-old Tanu was rescued from her kidnappers on Thursday. The abductors demanded Rs 4 lakh for her release.
Lack of oxygen kills manBy Rahul Chhabra
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: A tuberculosis patientdied due to an alleged snag in thecentral oxygen unit at the RajanBabu TB hospital in KingswayCamp.
Mohd Yamin (25), a resident ofGhonda in east Delhi who was ad-mitted to the hospitalon Friday, was on fulldoze oxygen and waswearing a mask whenthe supply from the unitdeteriorated, leading tohis collapse, doctors said.
Just before his death, Yasminbanged his hand on the bed due touneasiness but failed to communi-cate his problem.
‘‘When we failed to figure outthe problem, he started pointingtowards the rubber pipe providingoxygen,’’ Mohd Yonus, his atten-dant, said.
‘‘I kept crying for help forover an hour but therewas no body to help us,’’ he com-plained.
Till Monday, oxygen supplyfrom the central oxygen unit couldnot be normalised. Oxygen cylin-
ders were being used where everthe patients could not get pipedsupply.
The 28-bedded hospital haspiped oxygen supply from the cen-tral unit in two blocks.
Municipal health officer, K N Ti-wari, ordered an inquiry into theallegations but said there was a
slim possibility of asnag in the oxygen unit.
‘‘At times, the pa-tients reach our hospi-tal in serious condi-tions and fail to recover
despite our best efforts. In thiscase also the patient was serious.We will have to find out if he dieddue to shortage of oxygen or someother complication,’’ hesaid.
Yonus said Yamin was notthe only patient in hisblock who suffered due tothe disruption in oxygensupply.
‘‘Five out of the 17 otherpatients in the block werealso on oxygen supply andalmost all of them were indistress due to the snag,’’he said.
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Earliest date on which berth / seats were available at 2000 hrs. on24.07.2003 in important trains leaving various Delhi stations.
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Andheria Mor: Painful route By Urvashi Gulia
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New Delhi: Delhi is a cityof bad roads and worse traf-fic snarls. If in doubt, askpeople who travel throughAndheria Mor on theMehrauli-Gurgaon road.
‘‘The route is terrible.The traffic is too heavy andone barely gets to see trafficpolicemen on the stretch be-tween Andheria Mor andGurgaon,’’ said RakeshPrasad, a resident of VasantKunj who works in Gur-gaon.
Traffic from south andcentral Delhi headed to-wards Gurgaon and fromGurgaon to Delhi take thisstretch.
The traffic is heteroge-neous, with both slow mov-ing and fast moving meansof transport includingtrucks and buses.
‘‘The only policemen Iever see are the ones at theDelhi-Haryana border. The
call centre taxis add to themad rush. They are alwaysdriven rashly. People simplystart taking u-turns if they
see that the traffic is veryheavy and this causes moreproblems. It takes over 20minutes to get past Andhe-
ria Mor itself,’’ he said.‘‘Yes, the taxi drivers are
rash. Even though we keeptelling them to slow downthey don’t listen.’’ saidVarun Goswami, a call cen-tre executive.
The area around Andhe-ria Mor is also undergoingextensive digging.
The rains have made theloose soil soft and vehicleskeep getting stuck in themud. Marriages in the farmhouses along the stretch,add to the chaos.
According to deputy com-missioner of (traffic) south-ern range, A K Ojha, ‘‘traf-fic policemen are present onthe route to manage vehicu-lar movement. The problemwith the area is the heavytraffic volume, especiallyduring peak hours. Theroad has been damaged inplaces due to the rain. Wehave informed the civicagencies about it.’’
Asked about the chaoticsituation at Andheria Mor,he said, ‘‘our emphasis is toensure that there are no bot-tlenecks near major junc-tions. Five traffic policemenhave been deputed to regu-late traffic there.’’
Work togetherto prevent waterlogging
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New Delhi: In a high-levelmeeting held by mayorAshok Jain, officials fromthe DJB, railways, PWD andthe DDA were asked to co-or-dinate efforts so that thelarge scale water loggingseen so far, would not be re-peated.
According to Jain, MCD isnot the only agency responsi-ble for the maintenance ofdrains in the city.
The new helpline numbersfor Karol Bagh are : 25751293,25751296. Town Hall helplinesare : 23962700. 23912700.
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Four held with contrabandTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Four persons were arrestedin two separate cases by the Delhi Policenarcotics branch, who claimed to haveseized more than 17 kg opium fromthem.
The accused are residents of UttarPradesh and Haryana who would smug-gle the contraband into Delhi and sell itin small quantities.
‘‘We arrested two of the accused fromSeelampuri in northeast Delhi. Theywere carrying 10 kg of opium. While oneof the accused is a resident of Aligarh,the other accused was based at Etah inUttar Pradesh,’’ said deputy commis-sioner of police (narcotics and crimeprevention) D L Kashyap.
According to the police, the accusedwould buy opium from licensed farmersof UP and sell it in Delhi at more thanfive times the price. Production of opi-um is not banned in UP.
In another case, two more personswere arrested by the police for sellingthe contraband. One of the accused is amember of a panchayat in Haryana. Sev-en kg opium was reportedly found intheir possession.
Both the accused are residents of Pa-nipat in Haryana. Police said that effortsare underway to find out who was sup-plying opium to them and to trace theirassociates in the city.
Delhi, of late, has seen an increase inopium trade due to the large profit mar-gins.
City hotbed ofopium trade
By Sachin ParasharTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: The recentseizure of more than 17 kgopium has added anotherdigit to the total number ofconfiscations, of the contra-band, reported this year fromthe city. The police are con-vinced that opium is beingsmuggled into the city fromthe neighbouring states likeRajasthan, Uttar Pradeshand Madhya Pradesh —where cultivation of theproduct is allowed.
Astronomical profit mar-gins in the trade have en-sured that Delhi is nevershort on supply of brownsugar and heroin. Both, pro-duced from opium, are a pop-ular in the city’s party circle.‘‘One can acquire one kg opi-um from UP or Rajasthan forRs 5,000 and sell it in Delhifor Rs 30,000. It is then usedfor manufacturing brownsugar, white heroin and co-caine in the city,’’ said deputycommissioner of police (nar-cotics and crime prevention)D L Kashyap.
And why not? One kg ofopium at Rs 30,000 yields 150gm of white heroin whichcosts about Rs 50,000 in Delhi.That way, about seven kg opi-um worth a little over twolakh, is enough to produceone kg heroin which costs Rs3.5 lakh. A profit of almost Rs1.5 lakh. ‘‘And if sold in smallquantities, one kg heroin canfetch much more,’’ con-
firmed Kashyap, who admit-ted that Delhi is finding moreand more takers for opiumbecause of the profits.
‘‘People of the Sansi tribe,earlier involved in pettycrimes and illicit liquortrade, have now taken to themanufacture of heroin andother opium products in a bigway,’’ admitted a senior po-lice officer.
He further stated that Del-hi’s ‘‘backward elite’’, withtoo much money but a pooreducational background, arefast becoming the fountain-head of the trade in the city.
The supply of opium fromPakistan and Afghanistanhas dried up in the last fewyears. Smaller towns in Indialike Barabanki, Badayun andBareilly have stepped in meetthe demand.
•Almost 25 kg heroinwas seized two monthsago from an Ayurvedicdoctor in northeast Delhi
•He got the opium fromUP for manufacturingheroin
•10 kg opium wasseized from the Darya-ganj about a week ago
•White heroin andbrown sugar, products ofOpium, are in great demand
Drugged facts
Trouble spot•10 traffic policemen are on duty on the Mehrauli-Gur-gaon road which is nearly 6 kilometre long
•Of these, five are on duty at Andheria Mor to regulatetraffic
•Two traffic policemen stay on duty at night, post peakhour rush
•Civic agencies have been informed about the rain induced damage on the road.
•An expressway, similar to the Noida toll road is beingconstructed to connect Dhaula Kuan to NH-8. No suchplans for MG Road as of now
GURGAONTO DELHI
Rain-washed Delhi: Not a pleasant sight
Near Nizamuddin flyover Khan market Under Pragati Maidan rail bridge
Special session for Delhi assemblyNew Delhi: The Delhi cabinet decided on Thursday to hold atwo-day special session of the Delhi Legislative Assembly totable and discuss the much-delayed Delhi Cooperative Soci-ety Bill 2003. The session will be held on Monday and Tues-day. The bill has been termed as progressive and member ori-ented. It is expected to be cleared by the Delhi Assembly onTuesday after which it will go to the President for his ap-proval before it is notified. The process is likely to take overa month. TNN
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ON THE HOUSE
Hindi, with a vengeanceCONGRESS MP Mani Shankar Aiyar, a former for-eign service official and one who had a succesfultenure as joint secretary of the external publicitydivision, usually speaks in English in the Lok Sab-ha. On Thursday, he switched to Hindi — perhapsbecause the subject under discussion concernedthe dehat — panchayati raj institutions. And likeany new convert, he spoke the rashtrabhasha witha vengeance. Apparently, he had come well-pre-pared: He had the correct Hinid word jotted downfor every technical term he needed. While sug-gesting the rural development ministry do activi-ty mapping for tracing the progress of the pan-chayat bodies, he looked for the exact Hindi expression. A thorough search of his notes, the triumphant minister came out with kriyakalapmanchitra.
Running scared or thorough?THURSDAY’S list of business in both Houses hadUnion defence minister George Fernandes downfor a statement on the terrorist attack on the Armycamp in Akhnoor in Jammu and Kashmir earlierthis week. But the statement has been posptponedtill next Tuesday. While Parliamentary affairsminister Sushma Swaraj said that it had been post-poned till after the Opposition lifts its boycott,higly-placed sources said Fernandes wanted to addsome more information to his statement.
A MiG mistakeNATIONAL Conference MP Omar Abdullah al-most stumped defence minister George Fernandeson Thursday when, after showering praise on himfor visiting Siachen several times, going down in asubmarine, asked him why he chose the accident-free Sukhoi to travel in, rather than the MiG. That,he said, would have been a confidence-buildingmeasure. Not one to be caught offguard, Fernandessaid he had planned to take a ride on a MiG, that ithad only been postponed!
— By Smita Gupta and Bhaskar Roy
British AJT dealalmost final,says Fernandes
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New Delhi: Defence ministerGeorge Fernandes told the LokSabha on Thursday that Indiahad almost finalised a deal to ac-quire the British Advanced JetTrainer (AJT) for the IAF.
‘‘A proposal to acquire AJTs isbefore the Cabinet Secretariat.We have finalised the last actionon the part of the ministry toprocure AJTs. Now all that re-mains is a small clarification wehave sought from the British gov-ernment. If the clarification ar-rives today, we will take action to-morrow,’’ he said.
Fernandes was responding to asupplementary put by NationalConference MP Omar Abdullahon a question on the spate of re-cent MiG crashes.
Omar wanted to know howlong the government would taketo acquire the AJTs.
Official Chinesesite says Sikkimnot part of India
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New Delhi: The official website ofChina’s ministry of foreign affairsstates that ‘‘the Chinese Governmentdoes not recognise India’s illegal an-nexation of Sikkim’’, the Rajya Sabhawas told on Thursday. A day afterPrime Minister Vajpayee said in Par-liament that the Sikkim issue wouldnot be allowed to stand in the normali-sation of Sino-Indian ties, the govern-ment said that China had yet to for-mally recognise Sikkim as an integralpart of India.
However, following the ‘understand-ings’ reached during Vajpayee’s visitto China last month, ‘‘the process hasbeen started by which Sikkim willcease to be an issue in India-China re-lations’’, minister of state for externalaffairs Vinod Khanna said in responseto an unstarred question.
On a day when the governmentfaced at least ten China-related ques-tions in the Rajya Sabha, it said thatthere was ‘‘no change’’ in India’s standon ‘‘The Declaration on Principles forRelations and Comprehensive Cooper-ation’’ signed by the two PMs on June23, 2003. It is stated that ‘‘the Indianside recognises that the Tibet Au-tonomous Region is part of the territo-ry of the Peoples’ Republic of China,’’said Khanna.
There were questions about resump-tion of border trade via Nathu La andthe Kailash Manasarovar pilgrimage.
No US base in India: GovtNew Delhi: The government on Thursday ruled out anymove to allow the US to set up a permanent military basein India. Minister of state for external affairs VinodKhanna said in the Rajya Sabha that recently there hadbeen “speculative and misleading” commentaries on a re-port prepared by a private agency for the US departmentfor defence. “These do not represent the official positionof the US government”, Khanna said.
The minister said if there was an explicit UN mandate,India would consider the deployment of troops in Iraq.PTI
New solution toAyodhya mess?
By Mohua ChatterjeeTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Deputy Prime Minister L K Advanihas suggested a new set of proposals to resolvea new exchange formula between Hindus andMuslims to resolve the Ayodhya dispute. Theproposed formula: the Muslims should gift thedisputed land for building a temple there, andin exchange they should be allowed to build amosque close by — whether it will be within thePanchkosi area is not yet clear. The proposalalso entails that the government provides landfor building a Jama Masjid in Lucknow. AndKashi and Mathura will be dropped both fromthe government and the BJP’s agenda.
These moves are part of a fresh round of ne-gotiations between the Vajpayee governmentand Muslim leaders to solve the Ayodhya tan-gle. The key players in this round are Advaniand Islamic scholar Maulana WahiduddinKhan. While Advani is the PM’s emissary forthis round of informal talks, Khan is a memberof a government-initiated, Foundation of Com-munal Harmony.
The brief is to arrive at a new formula for anout-of-court settlement of the issue. Khan, whohas also met Vajpayee on the issue, is talking tomembers of the Muslim personal law board onthe new formula. Advani is also in touch withthem and has had meetings with board presi-dent Maulana Rabbey Nadwi.
‘‘If the BJP assures that no other mosque inthe country will be touched, Muslims will agreeto give up their claim on the disputed site. TheMuslims are sceptical because the BJP walkedout of the House when PM Narasimha Raobrought about the Places of Worship Act in 1991(the government is bound to maintain statusquo on all mosques since 1947, except BabriMasjid),’’ says Khan.
Advani, too, is hopeful that a solution willemerge. Sources say Advani has told Muslimleaders there is no point in talking about theirgiving or not giving a no-objection-certificate tobuild a temple on the undisputed site since thisright rests with the court.
Cong arsenal:Tehelka, Taj,trains, Bakery
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New Delhi: Rail safety, de-fence preparedness, Tehelka,Best Bakery and the DDA,UTI and Taj Mahal corridorscams have been listed as is-sues to be taken up in thecurrent Monsoon Session bythe Congress.
At the Congress parlia-mentary party meeting onThursday, party president So-nia Gandhi identified certainissues over which she want-ed answers from the govern-ment. Sonia also indicatedCongress’ willingness to de-bate the Tehelka issue.
‘‘The Tehelka matter con-tinues to hang fire with no re-sponsible reaction from thegovernment. We are in-formed that 14 defence dealsare being investigated by theJustice Phukan Commission.There are reports that in or-der to derail these investiga-tions, determined efforts arebeing made to establish thatthe Tehelka tapes were doc-tored,’’ said Sonia.
On a day the Congress par-ty moved a privilege motionagainst law minister ArunJaitley for ‘‘misleading’’ Par-liament on the CBI droppingthe conspiracy chargeagainst Deputy Prime Minis-ter L K Advani, Sonia also attacked the government for raking up the Ayodhya issue.
‘‘The Ayodhya issue isonce again dominating — ormore accurately is beingmade to dominate — theheadlines. Is it any surprise,given that five important
state assembly elections aredue in four months?’’ sheasked.
Sonia said the matter wasin the court and ‘‘we mustawait the judicial verdict’’.While clarifying that her par-ty was not against a negotiat-ed settlement, she said such asettlement must get ‘‘legalsanction and sanctity’’.
Sonia made a special refer-ence to the way the prosecu-tion conducted itself in theBest Bakery case of Gujaratriots.
She wanted the PM, who isGujarat chief ministerNarendra Modi’s leader, toensure that Gujarat followsaccepted democratic norms.The party also categoricallyopposed the enforcement of auniform civil code.
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LONE RANGER: Defence minister George Fernandes arrives at Parliament on Thursday.
Talk Tehelka, get Georgeback, Congress tells govt
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New Delhi: The Congress onThursday said it would dis-continue its boycott of de-fence minister George Fer-nandes if the governmentwas willing to debate theTehelka issue.
The Opposition, led by theCongress, has been boy-cotting Fernandes ever sincehe was reinducted into the Union cabinet in Novem-ber 2001 without being exonerated by the Tehelkacommission.
The Congress had declaredthat it would not recognisethe minister, and hence,would not put questions tohim or listen to him.
Now, the Congress is readyfor a debate so that ‘‘the issueis talked out’’ of Parliament
even if the party gains little after long months ofboycott.
In fact, in the last Parlia-ment session, the party hadtaken disciplinary actionagainst one of its memberswho had participated in aLok Sabha debate on MiGcrashes. Now, the party hastaken a U-turn and under-lined that the ‘‘essence is thatthe House should have a de-bate on tehelka’’.
Asked whether the partyinitiated the boycott just for aparliamentary debate or onthe principle that Fernandesshould not be reinducted intothe cabinet until the commission gave its report,party spokesman Jaipal Red-dy said: ‘‘Every political is-sue has a life span. We haveexhausted it and now we
have to look for parliamen-tary devices.’’
The Congress has not con-sulted other Opposition par-ties and it remains to be seen whether Fernandes’ re-gional rival, Laloo Prasad Ya-dav’s RJD and the Left par-ties, would agree to a ‘‘youagree to a debate, we’ll lift theboycott’’ formula.
The Congress had actuallyderailed the earlierVenkataswami commissionof inquiry into the tehelkaexpose by accusing Justice KVenkataswami of acceptinganother office of profit whileconducting the tehelkaprobe.
Justice Venkataswami hadconsistently opposed formerSamata Party chief Jaya Jait-ly’s plea of forensic examina-tion of the tehelka tapes.
Jaitley facesOpp wrathNew Delhi: The Opposi-tion in the Lok Sabhasought to keep alive theAyodhya issue onThursday by tabling no-tices of privilege mo-tion against law minis-ter Arun Jaitley for‘‘misleading’’ the Houseon the ‘‘dilution’’ ofcharges against DeputyPrime Minister L K Ad-vani, HRD ministerMurli Manohar Joshiand seven others in theBabri masjid demolitioncase. PTI
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Pipeline job for EIL: EIL hasbagged the Inter Refineries PipelineProject for Takreer company of AbuDhabi, UAE, for providing front-endengineering design (FEED) services.It is a major breakthrough for EIL’soffice at Abu Dhabi set up to servethe Middle East market. TNN
World Energy Congress: The In-dian member committee of the WorldEnergy Council has submitted its bidto host the World Energy Congress(WEC) in India in the year 2010.WEC, a UN-accredited NGO in theenergy sector holds the global con-gress every three years. TNN
Safety awards for NTPC: Tenpower stations of NTPC have beenpresented the Greentech SafetyAwards for promoting safety meas-ures during the year 2002-03. Someof these includec Korba, Anta, Farid-abad, Auraiya, Dadri, Simhadri andKahalgaon power stations. TNN
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BHEL commissions its firstoverseas independent project
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New Delhi: Engineering ma-jor Bharat Heavy ElectricalsLtd (BHEL) has achieved amajor landmark in the over-seas private power plant mar-ket segment with the suc-cessful synchronization of a57 MW steam turbine genera-tor at Kelanitissa combinedcycle power project in SriLanka.
This is BHEL’s first everexport order for an independ-ent power plant (IPP). TheKelanitissa project is a 168MW combined cycle powerproject.
BHEL’s scope of work cov-ered design, manufactureand supply of a 123 MW gasturbine and 57 MW steamturbine with matching gen-erators along with auxil-
iaries and spares for the gas-based project.
While the turbine and gen-erator sets were manufac-tured by BHEL’s Hyderabadplant, the controls and in-strumentation were suppliedby its electronic division,Bangalore.
The supervisory serviceswere provided by the compa-ny’s power sector-western re-gion.
The engineering majornow expects to grab moresuch opportunities in theemerging IPP business insveral countries.
A view of the steam turbine at the Kelanitissa power plant.
IOC, ONGC to set up trading desksNew Delhi: As part of its efforts tomake Indian firms globally competi-tive, the government has allowed re-finer Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)and exploration firm Oil and Natur-al Gas Corporation (ONGC) to set upoil trading and risk managementdesks.
‘‘IOC and ONGC have been per-mitted to set up specialised tradingdesks to further optimise oil pro-curement by tapping market oppor-tunities and enhancing use of riskmanagement tools to mitigate pricerisks arising from volatile interna-tional oil prices,’’ governmentsources said.
ONGC plans to set up a tradingdesk in New Delhi for optimisingprocurement of crude oil for its sub-sidiary Mangalore Refinery andPetrochemicals Ltd (MRPL), market-ing crude oil received from invest-ments in oil fields abroad and ex-porting products.
IOC, India’s largest petroleum re-finer, wants to scrap its current sys-tem of importing crude oil through
tenders and adopt modern practices.The two companies are likely to
appoint consultants for setting upthe trading and risk managing desksshortly, sources said.
In a related development, the gov-ernment has allowed ONGC to pro-cure crude oil for its subsidiaryMRPL directly.
‘‘With this, ONGC would importall crude including the term con-tract with Iran, for MRPL,’’ theysaid.
Sources said IOC was studying areport of KPMG, the consultant itappointed, to suggest options for set-ting up oil trading desk in India. IOCalso plans to operate in the Singa-pore over-the-counter market forrisk management.
The company, which buys almosthalf of its 32 million tonnes of crudeoil imports from the spot market,had been talking to British Petrole-um for a year on cooperating incrude imports and risk manage-ment. Last year, it abandoned talksand decided to go it alone.
IOC chose India over London as itprovided the advantage of operatingin both the Asian and the Europeantime zone. A trading desk in Indiawould be able to capture the Singa-pore market when it opens in themorning and the American marketwhen it closes.
ONGC wants to optimise export ofsurplus products like jet fuel, gas oiland fuel oil from MRPL as also itsown production of value added prod-ucts like LPG, kerosene and naph-tha, which till now are being donethrough tenders that give little mar-gins, sources said.
Besides managing risk and hedg-ing volatalities in the internationaloil market, the desk would also helpthe firm locate buyers for 3 milliontonnes per annum crude oil it wouldreceive from a Sudan oil field.
ONGC is bringing 1.3 milliontonnes of Sudan crude for process-ing at MRPL this year and has hiredTrafigura of London to trade its re-maining share in the Greater NileOil Project in Sudan. PTI
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SC gives hope toaspiring doctorsNew Delhi: The SupremeCourt Thursday gave a majorrelief to a large number ofstudents aspiring to becomedoctors but who had losthope because of the freeze oncounselling due to the Maha-rashtra government’s orderwithdrawing its seats fromthe all-India quota.
The court opened up 15 percent pool seats for MBBS andBDS courses in all govern-ment colleges for the currentacademic year.
A Constitution Benchheaded by Chief Justice V NKhare said the Maharashtraorder, unilaterally withdraw-ing its seats from the all-In-dia quota pool, appeared tobe arbitrary. It directed theauthorities to completethe counselling process foradmissions into the poolseats. TNN
Death penalty New Delhi: In a casebased entirely on cir-cumstantial evidence,the Supreme Court hasupheld the death penaltyawarded to a person whokilled his friend, his wifeand their three-year-oldchild. TNN
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MoS, External Affairs, Vinod Khanna at the launch of theSOS Anmol Bandhyan Campaign organised by the SOS Children’s Village of India, in New Delhi on Thursday.
Media regulatorgovt’s new plan
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New Delhi: Struggling to clearthe CAS mess, the government onThursday contemplated constitu-tion of a regulatory authority totackle various problems related tothe entire media.
Minister for information andbroadcasting Ravi ShankarPrasad is understood to be seizedof the proposal that envisages set-ting up of a statutory body.
No decision has, however, beentaken and the proposal is still un-der examination, a senior official,speaking on condition ofanonymity, said.
The body would look into theethical, legal, security and finan-cial aspects of the media’s func-tioning in the wake of liberalisa-
tion. The likely list of issues thatthe body would need to handlemay include obscene advertising,surrogate advertising and adher-ence to the broadcasting code bythe broadcasters, the official said.
A body constituted with repre-sentatives of the industry alonewould not suffice. The need for thebody arises essentially out of thenew ground situation whereinmuch of the media — print, tele-vision, radio and internet — is inprivate hands, the official said.
The government is not awaitingpassing of the convergence legis-lation that is stuck with Parlia-ment’s standing committee withmore than 50 amendments to betackled. Hence, the need to consti-tute a body that would regulatethe working of the media.
India vies for Iraqicrude and oilfield
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New Delhi: India is negotiating with the newadministration a term contract for importingIraqi crude oil and discussing the future of ex-ploration deals awarded by the overthrownSaddam regime, a top oil ministry official said.
IndianOil Corporation is negotiating withIraq’s State Oil Marketing Organisation(SOMO) for a term contract to import BasraLight crude and ONGC Videsh is holding talksto secure the contract for the Block 8 oilfield,petroleum secretary B K Chaturvedi said,adding, he saw a deal in the near future.
India is seeking at least three million tonnesof Iraqi crude annually on government-to-gov-ernment term contract.
SOMO had earlier this week said it was ne-gotiating term contracts with refiners for theAugust-December period, offering a price on apar with Oman/Dubai quotes for oil suppliedfrom the Persian Gulf export terminal at MinaAl Bakr to South East Asian countries.
Iraqi Basra light crude is preferred by Indianrefineries as it proves cheaper than their main-stay imports of Saudi Arabia’s Arab Light andMedium Sour grade Oman. Basra light is nor-mally priced below both.
Govt readiesYamuna plan,gives thrustto education
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New Delhi: The secondphase of the Yamuna ActionPlan to clean up the most-pol-luted 22-km stretch of the riv-er running through Haryana,Uttar Pradesh and Delhi isamong a slew of pro-grammes which received theapproval of the Cabinet Com-mittee on Economic Affairs(CCEA) on Thursday.
The politically-sensitive is-sue of minimum supportprice (MSP) for paddy grow-ers, proposed to be retainedat the same level as last year,however, remained unre-solved.
Asked if the CCEA dis-cussed the MSP issue at itsmeeting on Thursday, an offi-cial spokesperson said: ‘‘Ihave no idea.’’
The CCEA, however, ap-proved a number of socialsector schemes with outlaysrunning into several thou-sand crores of rupees.
To provide a thrust to ele-mentary education of girls inblocks specified as ‘‘educa-tionally backward’’, theCCEA approved a pro-gramme at a total cost of Rs1,065 crore to be implementedduring the 10th Plan. Theprogramme will be under theuniversal education pro-gramme approved by the gov-ernment in November 2000which aims at bringing allchildren in the age group of6-14 in school.
The scheme approved onThursday will supplementthat effort in giving girls’ ele-mentary education in back-ward blocks a further boost.
In another major step, theCCEA merged two existingforest protection schemes tolaunch the Integrated ForestProtection Scheme duringthe 10th Plan.
The objective is to protectthe country’s forests fromforest fires, illicit felling oftrees, encroachment anddegradation. With the imple-mentation of this scheme, anannual loss of Rs 500 crore inforest fires and Rs 100 crorein illicit felling of treeswould be saved. The schemewill also help protect India’sbiodiversity.
TN staff tojoin dutyfrom today
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New Delhi: Nearly 1.76lakh Tamil Nadu gov-ernment employees,who were dismissed forresorting to strike, willresume work on Fridaybut around 2,200 othersagainst whom criminalcases were registeredfor allegedly indulgingin violence would stay athome.
Tamil Nadu’s counselK K Venugopal onThursday informed theSupreme Court that thestate had agreed to com-ply with its suggestionto take back the strikingemployees on the condi-tion that they would notstrike in future.
A Bench of JusticesM B Shah and A R Lak-shmanan, which hadearlier castigated theemployees for goingon strike, said the em-ployees will be reinstat-ed subject to theirgiving ‘‘unconditionalapologies’’ as well as anundertaking not to go onstrike in future.
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Better test fordiabetes now
By Kalpana JainTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Diagnosis of dia-betes may no longer be limitedto blood sugar testing.
Researchers at the IndianInstitute of Technology, NewDelhi, have identified a testbased on a product that getsformed in blood due to highlevels of glucose. The testcould give an indication of thesugar levels for about fourmonths.
‘‘A simple laboratory testthat we are currently trying todevelop would be only one-tenth of the present cost,’’says professor of biomedicalengineering at IIT, SnehAnand.
‘‘This could well provide analternative method for moni-toring blood sugar in peopleaffected by diabetes, both indeveloped and developingcountries,’’ says Anoop Misra,professor of medicine at theAll India Institute of MedicalSciences, who is also collabo-rating on this study.
Misra is currently visitingfaculty to department ofendocrinology at the
University of Texas.‘‘This estimation will give
an idea of three to fourmonths’ average level of bloodglucose, precluding manyblood glucose tests,’’ explainssenior scientific officer at IIT,Nivedita Karmakar.
This should help control thecomplications of diabetes,says Misra. One of the meth-ods currently available givesan indication only of about 15days of blood sugar.
Home blood sugar monitor-ing is the commonest methodused so far.
Described in the interna-tional journal, Diabetes, thetest is being seen as a break-through in the management ofdiabetes. The test is based onidentifying an end product ofchemical reactions that takeplace in the blood as a result ofexcess sugar. The product,known as HbAGE, is found inthe haemoglobin of diabetics.
The research has been sup-ported by the Defence Re-search and Development Or-ganisation (DRDO) as well asthe Council of Scientific andIndustrial Research (CSIR).
Pandya caseAhmedabad: Four more peo-ple, including an imam, havebeen arrested in AndhraPradesh by a special Gujaratpolice team for their alleged in-volvement in former Gujarat home minister HarenPandya’s killing on March 26.
Syed Akbar, an imam in Jag-ityal town in Andhra Pradesh,was arrested on Wednesday.Two others were arrested fromSaidabad and Mallepally. TNN
NPCC wants its pound of fleshLucknow: The National Projects Construction Corporation(NPCC) has joined issue with the UP government. The state gov-ernment, through an order dated June 19, stopped work on theTaj Heritage Project and the release of funds against the work al-ready done. The Central government enterprise filed a writ be-fore the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court seeking thequashing of the order and the release of payments for the workdone by it on the project. The writ, which has been admitted bythe court, is listed for hearing in August third week. TNN
Catfish rising ata lake inBangaloreBy Paawana PoonachaTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Bangalore: It’s a dis-aster waiting to hap-pen. Scores ofAfrican Catfish,which has a tendencyto devour all lifeforms in water, havebeen found in Bellan-dur lake.
The catastrophe islikely to be irrevoca-ble as the 950-acrelake is linked to vari-ous lakes and riversup to the Bay ofBengal.
African Catfish be-ing predacious, has atendency to devourthe entire flora andfauna of any freshwater lake. The Bel-landur lake is linkedto Varthur, southernPinakini in Karnata-ka as well as manylakes and tributariesin Tamil Nadu.
Simply, the entireaquatic stretch couldwell be declared de-void of life form in notime.
Despite a country-wide ban on the cul-ture of African Cat-fish, fishermen netthem for its meat. Of-ficials feel that thefish may have en-tered the lake froman overflowing tankmeant for fish cul-ture.
Let loose in thewild, the fish areturning out to be pro-lific breeders, thriv-ing on dead and de-caying matter at Bel-landur lake, whichcarries the dubiousdistinction of beingthe worst pollutedlake in the city.
‘‘The fish can becultured even withminimum water asthey are air- breath-ing creatures,’’ saysan official at the Fish-eries Research Sta-tion, Hesarghatta.
For the fishermen,culturing this varietymakes good businesssense.
Mayawati passes the buck
The controversy over the TajHeritage Corridor project, firstreported by the Sunday Timesof India, on June 15, has putthe Uttar Pradesh governmentin a tight spot. On Wednesdaythis newspaper reported thatthe project had the approval ofchief minister Mayawati. Reproduced above is a facsimile of page 107 of thefile. The encircled portionshows Mayawati’s approval.The CM’s principal secretary, P L Punia, signed it on her behalf as is the procedure.
On Wednesday evening, senior bureaucrats andsources close to the chief minister went out of their wayto pass the blame. Claimingthat the original papers did notprovide for any construction
activity, they accused the thenprincipal secretary (environ-ment), Ravindra Kumar Shar-ma, of inserting the line “tatkalkarya praarambh karwane”(start work immediately). Shar-ma has since been suspended.
They claimed Sharma com-mitted a “breach of trust byforging the minutes of the Mis-sion Management Board”. “Nobody has the time to read the entire minutes all overagain,” said a source close tothe Chief Minister.
Asked if the government in-tended to file a criminal caseagainst Sharma, the officialssaid it was not needed at thisjuncture as since a CBI inquirywas already on. Sharma couldnot be reached for his comments.
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Heads may rollafter probe intoTanda attack
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Defence min-ister George Fernandesmay have declared therewas no security lapse lead-ing to the fidayeen attackon the Tanda Army campnear Akhnoor, but heads ofcertain local formationcommanders are likely toroll after the ongoing in-quiry into the incident iscompleted.
The main question inthe inquiry into Tuesday’sattack is that how and whydid the third terrorist re-main undetected for morethan six hours inside thecamp after the morning fi-dayeen attack.
The third militant wasthe one who blew himselfup near the group of sen-ior officers, killing Brig VK Govil and injuring sevenothers, including North-ern Army commander Lt-General Hari Prasad andNagrota-based 16 Corpscommander Lt-Gen T P SBrar.
‘‘It was major securitylapse...the inquiry is on tofind out how the ‘all-clear’signal was given before the
area was completely sani-tised. The driver of the ve-hicle which was used bythe terrorists is also beinginterrogated,’’ said asource.
‘‘Army chief General NC Vij has also ordered acomprehensive review ofthe standard operatingprocedures regardingmovement of senior offi-cers in J&K, in addition torestricting them from trav-elling together,’’ he added.
Meanwhile, in the after-math of the successive fi-dayeen attacks on the Sun-jivan and Tanda camps inthe Jammu region, theArmy is launching majoroperations to ‘‘flush out’’militants from the Rajouri,Udhampur, Akhnoor andJammu sections.
The plan to initiate newoperations to flush out ter-rorists from their hideoutswas finalised at a high-level meeting chairedby Gen Vij in the wakeof intelligence reports thatinfiltration from acrossthe border had increasedin recent days and morefidayeen attacks were inthe offing.
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The Pakistani delegation led by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader Maulana Fazlur Rahman cross-es over to Pakistan from the Wagah checkpost on Thursday after a 13-day goodwill tour.
Fazlur returns with hopeBy Yudhvir Rana
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Amritsar: Chief of JamiatUlema-e-Islam (JUI)Maulana Fazlur Rehmanfrom Pakistan is upbeatabout the prospect of peacein the region. Calling his In-dia visit a ‘‘success and a stepforward for bringing peace inthe region through dia-logue’’, Rehman, an advocateof ‘‘ulema diplomacy’’stressed the point that ‘‘cler-ics could play an importantrole where politicians havefailed’’.
Fazlur Rehman is a realistand believes that the ongoing
peace process should not bederailed by an obsessionwith ‘‘contentious issues’’.Although he evaded a clearanswer as to how the Kash-mir problem could be re-solved, he repeated his faithin the journey: ‘‘Let us do ourjob. I know my destinationand what I am doing for it.’’
Emhasising the point thatfor the peace process to besuccessful, people in bothcountries have to be mentallyprepared for it, Rehmanadded: ‘‘We will create a sim-ilar atmosphere of peace andfriendship in Pakistan as wehave done here and pres-
surise both governments tohold bilateral talks.’’
Speaking to Times NewsNetwork before crossing theWagah land border to Pak-istan, Rehman condemnedthe two terror attacks inJammu and Kashmir, killingabout 14 persons including asenior army officer duringhis visit.
However, Rehman declinedto term the assassins as ‘‘ter-rorists’’. ‘‘Such acts shouldend immediately and effortsto sink the differences be-tween the two countriesshould be strengthened,’’Rehman added.
Army gearingup for more ‘fidayeens’
TIMES NEWS NETWORK & PTI
Srinagar: Apprehending anincrease in suicide attacks bymilitants in Jammu andKashmir, the Army is gear-ing up to minimise casualtiesin such strikes.
‘‘You cannot stop a fiday-een who wants to die. We can,of course, take measures tominimise the damage totroops and civilians duringsuch attacks... and stringentsecurity measures have beentaken,’’ chief of Army’snorthern command Lt GenHari Prasad, who was amongthose injured in Tuesday’s at-tack on the Akhnoor armycamp, told reporters onWednesday.
About infiltration fromacross the border, he said itcontinues although the num-ber has come down drastical-ly. He said around 3,000 in-surgents, mostly foreigners,are operating in the state.And are under ‘‘tremendouspressure’’ from securityforces. The result of this frus-tration may well be more fi-dayeen attacks.
“Militants are launchingsuicide attacks to lift themorale of their cadres whichhas been weakened by con-tinuing army operation,” hesaid. He pointed to the sur-render, earlier this month, of27 insurgents in one lot, asone reason for the insur-gents’ increasing frustration.
Lethal Injection: Least painfulmethod of execution. Lethal injection is achieved by the intravenous delivery of a deadlyquantity of three different drugs.
Electrocution: Electrodes are attached to the inmate’s head andthe current is applied in varyingamounts for two to three minutes.Large amounts of energy is passed through to burn the internal organs.
Gas Chamber: The prisoner is restrained in a chair inside an air-tight chamber. The executionerallows hydrochloric acid to flow inand then adds a few more lethalgases that bring in slow death.
Hanging: The prisoner is weighedprior to the execution. A specificamount of force is applied to theneck in relation to the weight anddislocation of the third or fourthcervical vertebrae causes death.
Firing Squad: Involves a team ofshooters, some of whom use realbullets while others use blanks.The team aims for the trunk of the body.
Facts & Figures112 countrieshave banned it inlaw or practiceout of which:
76 countries andhave abolished it
15 have abolishedit for all but exceptional cases
21 haven’t carriedout any executionsfor past 10 years
Dead man walking, towards...
Figures include onlycases known toAmnesty International;the true figures aremuch higher
Source: www. web.amnesty.org; Times Graphic
1,526 people were executed in 31 countries.
3,248 people were sentenced to death in 67 countries
During 2002
Resumption of trainservice to Pak: Pakistanon Thursday formally pro-posed to India to resumethe ‘‘Samjhauta Express’’train service as a furtherstep to normalise therelations between thetwo countries. ‘‘The railwayauthorities of the twocountries should meet atthe earliest to finalise thearrangements for quick re-sumption of the train servicebetween Lahore and NewDelhi,’’ foreign officespokesman said here. TNN
By Richard InghamParis: A vast reservoir ofcarbon is stashed beneaththe Earth’s crust and couldbe released by a major vol-canic eruption, unleashing amass extinction of a kindthat last occurred 200 millionyears ago, German scientistssay. Researchers have knownfor years that carbon is
stored in the Earth’s mantle,a layer of plasticky rock thatlies beneath the planet’s frag-ile crust. Exactly how muchis down there is unknown.Most estimates, drawn fromanalyses of gases emergingfrom the mantle, say thestore is many times morethan all the carbon in theEarth’s atmosphere, soil andsea combined.
The worry is that if just apart of this gigantic reser-
voir is quickly released ascarbon dioxide, that couldcreate a runaway greenhouseeffect. The CO2-soaked at-mosphere would store upheat from the Sun, shrivel-ling plant life and destroyingspecies along the food chain.
“The (mantle) reservoir isjust gigantic compared withanything that we have on theEarth’s surface,” says ProfHans Keppler of Universityof Tuebingen. Reuters
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Ecofriendly cows: TheAustralian government wasurged on Thursday not to in-troduce a “fart tax” on cattlebut rather to assess the ani-mals’ diet to find ways to re-duce the amount of methanegas they pass. Gas emis-sions from cows and sheepare blamed for huge quanti-ties of methane gas enteringthe atmosphere each day. AP
Monroe’s fidelity: Come-dian Jerry Lewis claims that
Marilyn Monroe could havenever fooled around with thelate president John FKennedy or Frank Sinatra,because she was too busyspending time with him. Ac-cording to The New YorkPost, Bill O’Reilly taped aprogramme for Fox NewsChannel asking Lewis aboutMonroe’s sexual history.“Half of it is bull!” Lewiscried. “(Monroe) was a won-derful girl. I am so sick and
tired of hearing about peopleblackening the names ofJack Kennedy and Bobby.”Lewis denied she ever sleptwith the brothers, exploding:“I know because she was in-volved with me! OK?!’’ ANI
McCartney joins PETA:People for the EthicalTreatment of Animalsenlisted the help of PaulMcCartney in its campaignagainst Kentucky FriedChicken. An open letterfrom McCartney to David No-vak, CEO, KFC’s Louisville-based parent company, Yum!Brands Inc., will appear in afull-page advertisement inThursday’s edition of TheCourier-Journal. McCartney,who is a vegetarian for ethi-cal reasons, insists in the adthat Novak should improvethe treatment of 750 millionchickens raised annually in‘‘factory farms’’ and killed in‘‘frightening ways’’ for KFCrestaurants, according toPETA. AP
Australian rugby union players Lote Tuqiri (C) and George Smith (R) prepare to paintmodel Tracey Bil (L) as another model waits at a function in Sydney on Thursday.
AROUND THE WORLDReuters
According to scientists, extraterrestrials, would lookmore like the steely Terminator than thecuddly ET. According to The Australian,science historian Steve Dick views intel-ligent aliens as having long dispensedwith weak flesh-and-blood bodies infavour of steel-hard sinews and siliconbrains. Agreeing with him, Seth Shostak,an astronomer with a Californian insti-tute, speculates that machine life would
have a utilitarian appearance because “they don’t haveto appeal to mates”. ANI
Aliens likely to resemble Arnie
‘Busy’ Nicole ditches directorLos Angeles: Oscar-winning Australian actress Nicole Kid-man has pulled out of her starring role in Danish directorLars von Trier’s film “Manderlay” because of schedulingconflicts, industry reports said Wednesday.
The film, due to be completed by July next year, is the sec-ond in von Trier’s “USA” trilogy of movies that kicked offwith “Dogville,” which starred Kidman and debuted at theCannes film festival earlier this year.
Kidman had said she would follow up her gruelling“Dogville” role of Grace in the sequels, but the actress’increasingly busy schedule scuppered her plans, DailyVariety said. AFP
Bubble for a homeBy Sarah Lyall
Rossway, England: Itlooked like the midsectionof a giant centipede, or adiscreet little spaceship, orpossibly the natural habitatof Tinky Winky and hisTeletubby pals.
The futuristic bubble-shaped house, designed by
Roger Dean, the multitask-ing painter, graphic design-er and architect, is current-ly a one-of-a-kind nonwork-ing prototype.
Although Dean’s housesare meant to be built intothe landscape, this one sitson a raised platform so thatit can easily be transported
to housing and environ-mental exhibitions.
The front “hall” was acurvilinear pod connectedby a small spiral of stairs tothe equally curved bed-room. The windows werelarge and ovalate, suggest-ing bigger versions of port-holes. The focal point wasthe bed, enormous andoval, taking up the bulk ofthe bedroom floor space.Everything was gentlycurved, without right an-gles. It is meant to appeal tochildren and to adults’childlike need for safetyand security.
It has its genesis in workDean did 40 years ago,while a student at the RoyalCollege of Art in London.
Back then, he explained,“I asked a bunch of kids,‘What don’t you like aboutwhere you sleep?’ and theysaid, ‘I don’t like full-lengthcurtains, hidden spaces un-der the beds, clothes hang-ing on the back of doorsthat look like somethingelse in the dark.’
Dean’s main goal of ahouse, in his view, is “toprovide a space of securi-ty.” “An old lady once sawmy house and told me,‘This feels great; this feelslike home.’ That meant agreat deal to me, becauseclearly it didn’t look likehome at all, but it felt likehome.” NYT News Service
Carbon raises fear of extinction
Jagger’s birthdayPrague: Mick Jagger’s 60thbirthday is turning into a topsecret affair, with event man-agers here vying for the roleof host — despite not evenknowing on when it will beheld. Michael Philip Jaggerwas born in Dartford, UK onJuly 26, 1943, but the man re-sponsible for the Stones’ con-cert here is silent about a pos-sible party on Saturday. Reuters
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Exterior, above, and bedroom, below, of a working prototype of Roger Dean’s ‘Home for Living.’
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Women drawn bybeauty, not brains Sydney: When its comes toseeking a life partner womentend to opt for beauty ratherthan brains. A new studyconducted by the Universityof Bristol revealed that a ba-sic need to ensure the sur-vival of the family line moti-vates females to select a matewho is appealing to others.
Moreover, they also feelthat their own sons will behandsome if their husbandsare good-looking. Good lookscan even outweigh the short-term benefit of an intelligentcompanion, or one who helpswith rearing the children.
The findings, published inthe Proceedings of the RoyalSociety journal, state that therationale behind this desire
is the belief that attractivemale offspring are more like-ly to find a mate and havechildren of their own.
‘‘A female is following thebest strategy if her behav-iour maximises the expectedattractiveness of the malethat she chooses.”
But those who spend toomuch time singling out thebest mate can run into trou-ble. “A choosy female mighttake longer to find a mate andhence leave fewer survivingoffspring, either because sheis in poorer condition at re-production or because youngproduced late have lower sur-vival prospects,” head re-searcher Professor John Mc-Namara says. ANI
Mix of repellantand sunscreen spells dangerWashington: Using a combi-nation of sunscreen and mos-quito repellant may exposechildren to skin allergy, hy-pertension, headaches oreven fits.
According to Dr. XiaochenGu of the University of Man-itoba in Canada, “there is in-creased absorption throughthe skin and that can do moreharm than good,” if thesetwo products are used simul-taneously.
“Children have a largebody surface area and tenderskin makes them more proneto cross-skin absorption.” Gusaid. ANI
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SON OF THE SOIL: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen campaigns in rice fields in Takeo province on Wednesday in the run-up to a general election on July 27.
NY councillor shot by rivalNew York: A New York citycouncil member was shotdead on Wednesday in themain chamber of the CityHall by a political rival, whowas then killed by a police of-ficer.
The council was preparingto sit in a formal sessionwhen shooting erupted in thechamber balcony around 2:00pm (11.30 pm IST), sendingcouncil members diving forcover, said eyewitnesses.
The victim was councilmember James Davis, 41,who was in the balcony alongwith the gunman, who waslater identified as OthnielAskew, 31.
Mayor Michael Bloom-
berg, who was in the buildingwhen the shooting tookplace, said Askew was knownto have filed papers to runagainst Davis in an upcom-ing electoral primary in the
district of Brooklyn.‘‘It is particularly tragic
because one of the peopleshot was an elected official,’’Bloomberg told reporters.
Security video tapesshowed Askew and Davistalking and entering theheavily-guarded building to-gether.
Elected officials are not re-quired to pass through themetal detectors installed atthe City Hall entrances and,as Davis’ guest, Askew wasalso able to circumvent thesecurity measures.
Councilman Charles Bear-an said Askew had fired mul-tiple shots at Davis with ahandgun. AFP
Saddam group vowsrevenge for deathsDubai: A group loyal to de-posed Iraqi leader SaddamHussein vowed in a video-tape broadcast on an Arabtelevision network onThursday to avenge thekilling of his sons by UStroops, even as the US mili-tary released photos of thetwo dead men.
“We pledge to you Iraqipeople that we will contin-ue in the jihad (holy strug-gle) against the infidels.The killing of Uday andQusay will be avenged,”said a masked man claim-ing to be from Saddam Fe-dayeen on the tape carriedby Al Arabiya.
The tape showed a groupof masked men holding au-tomatic rifles in a roomwith walls covered by pho-tos of Saddam and his sons.
“The killing of Uday andQusay will not decrease theattacks against the Ameri-
cans but rather increasethem,” the speaker said.The group also threatenedto kill Iraqis who “collabo-rate” with the US forces.
Uday led the Saddam Fe-dayeen militia, remnants ofwhich some US officials sayare behind attacks thatkilled 44 US troops sincePresident Bush declared
combat over on May 1.The US military released
graphic photographs show-ing the faces of SaddamHussein’s feared sons Udayand Qusay. The photos, twoof each brother, showed themen with thick beards andseverely bruised faces.
The release of the photo-graphs was a move by themilitary to convince skepti-cal Iraqis that the brotherswere dead. Many Iraqis, es-pecially Saddam support-ers, believed the Americanmilitary concocted the sto-ry of the brothers’ killingto demoralise opponents ofthe US occupation.
The brothers were be-trayed by an Iraqi, report-edly a cousin who ownedthe villa where they werehiding, after the US offered$15 million for informationleading to the capture ordeath of either. Agencies
Volvo Prize for GadgilTwo South Asian pioneers who have brought about a
radical change in how Third World nations protectthe environment have been awarded this year’s VolvoEnvironment Prize.
Madhav Gadgil, one of the world’s foremost ecologicalexperts and best known for creating India’s first bios-phere in the endangered Western Ghats, andBangladesh’s Mohammad Yunus, who through his revo-lutionary concept of microcredit empowered poor mil-lions worldwide, were conferred the prestigious awardestablished by the Swedish automaker.
The prize, established in 1989, is to be presented by theEU commissioner for the environment, Margot Wall-strvm, in a ceremony in Brussels Oct. 29.
The two winners will equally share the prize moneyof 1.5 million Swedish kroner, or about $95,000 each.
The prize jury included Gita Sen, a professor at the In-dian Institute of Management in Bangalore and a visit-ing professor at the Center for Population and Develop-ment Studies and Harvard University. India-West
75 Pakistaniimmigrantsdeportedfrom USIslamabad: After spendingup to five months in US jailsfor violating US immigra-tion rules, 75 Pakistaniswere repatriated Thursdayby a chartered flight by USimmigration and naturali-sation services (INS), an of-ficial release said.
Out of the 75, only sevenare linked to the national se-curity entry-exit registra-tion system (NSEERS)process. The remaining 61deportees had been servedwith orders to leave theUnited States in the 1990sbut had not complied andhad remained in the US ille-gally.
All the deportees have ex-hausted all legal remedies.The Pakistan embassy is-sued travel documents toonly those who had clearlyexpressed their desire to re-turn.
Most of the deportees onaverage have spent 4-5months in prisons, which isthe shortest period for anyprisoners from South Asiaarrested on immigration vi-olation.
The Pakistan embassyhas been constantly intouch with US authorities toensure the welfare of the de-portees. An official of theembassy of Pakistan andtwo doctors accompaniedthem.
The returning Pakistanishad been provided with fi-nancial assistance by theembassy in Washington tocover their expenses on arrival and to pay fortheir travel to their home-towns. Authorities in Pak-istan have also agreed topay $100 to every Pakistanirepatriated from the UnitedStates as travelling al-lowance. PTI
N Korea to declarenuclear statusMoscow: North Korea wouldformally declare itself a nu-clear power on September 9,ignoring the stand-off withthe US over Pyongyang’s sus-pected weapons programme,Russia’s RIA Novosti report-ed quoting sources at the In-ternational Atomic EnergyAgency Thursday. PTI
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IT DIDN’T HAPPEN IN INDIA: Aposter of slain councilmanJames Davis who was shotby his political rival OthnielAskew on Wednesday.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
The need for a uniform civil code has always beenmisunderstood. It does not mean imposition of
Hindu code on minorities but only incorporationof some of the good qualities of it.
— Vijay Kumar Malhotra, BJP MP
By M Hasan Jowher
About 14 months ago, over 2,000 innocentMuslims were killed, some 700 childrenorphaned and women disrobed in Gandhi’sGujarat. Nearly a lakh dwellings andcommercial establishments were destroyed.Ridiculous compensation and virtualnon-prosecution added insult to injury. Farfrom feeling remorse, those responsible wererewarded with political power by anotherwise discerning Gujarati Hindu society.
Like others, I was outraged. But probingdeeper, I felt compelled to devote myself topromote inter-faith harmony and Muslimempowerment. There is undoubtedly somedeep-seated prejudice against Muslimswhose plight is sadly manifest globally fromPalestine to Iraq. Muslims should askthemselves how, from being heirs to a proudheritage, they find themselves in such apitiable situation today?
The noted scholar Nejatullah Siddiqui liststhree issues that confront Muslim societyworldwide, viz, security threat, illiteracyand poverty. Mahathir Mohammed hasrepeatedly held Muslim obscurantismresponsible for halting Muslim progress.
Muslims lag behind others in severalcrucial areas of contemporarylife. For instance, proportion-ate to their population, howmany Muslims have wonNobel prizes? Where are theworld’s best universities,hospitals, parks, libraries andlaboratories? And whichMuslim countries are amongthe world’s most functionaldemocracies, have an inde-pendent press and judiciary,empower their women andencourage independent professional andworkers’ associations?
The Arab Human Development Reportauthored by distinguished Arab Muslimsand sponsored by the UNDP makes fordismal reading: It estimates Arab Muslimilliterates at 65 million, of whom 70 per centare women; PC and Internet usage is lessthan one per cent and R&D investmentis minimal. The combined Arab GDP of$531 billion barely matches that of a singleEuropean country, Spain. The Arab worldranks pretty low in its indices of civilliberties and religious freedoms.
Yet, from the 7th century through wellinto the 12th century, Muslims producedworld-class minds in several fields of know-ledge. Facilitators of the European renais-sance, Muslims enriched the world withsignificant advances in mathematics, medi-cine, astronomy, philosophy, geometry andchemistry. India is dotted with their cre-ations: The Taj Mahal, Gol Gumbuz, Charmi-nar, Lal Qila. Their contributions, fromadministration, urban planning, architec-ture and civic amenities to literature, dress,music, food and manners, have indeliblyinfluenced Indian lifestyles. But are today’sMuslims deserving heirs to this rich legacy?
Does the community’s backwardness then
give the VHP, Israeli aggressors, GeorgeBush and Tony Blair the licence to murderMuslims? Most certainly not. Criminalviolators of human rights must be dealt withas such. However, external oppression onlyrepresents one part of the Muslim condition,the external factor. Muslims must ask whythey are targeted worldwide with impunity.The sad answer is their dispensability. Injuryto them does not impact on others.
In the half century since IndependenceIndian Muslims have not given themselvesa single national newspaper, a TV channel, alarge commercial bank or a major university.Ahmedabad’s one million Muslims have onlyone girls’ college and none at all for boys. Ofabout 250 IAS and 150 IPS officers in Gujarat,there are just eight Muslims. Gujarat has noMuslim minister. The Muslim presence inParliament has shrunk considerably. Exceptin some pockets of South India, it is rare tofind multi-disciplinary hospitals, workingmen’s/women’s hostels, decent gardens andrecreation parks, wide, clean roads, first-rateschools and libraries in Muslim localities.
Thanks to Hindutva, now even therich Muslim must live in an undevelopedmohalla. The poor Muslim must queue up in
charitable hospitals, schoolsand welfare centres run byso-called kafirs. As a banker, Ihave known Muslim borrow-ers raising expensive creditprivately from mahajans whouse this collateral to obtaincheaper credit from commer-cial banks. Claimants to thelegacy of the Rahmatul LilAlameen (blessing for theworld) are not now evenRahmatul Lil Muslimeen. Pro-
fessor Zoya Hassan of JNU, Delhi, recentlycommissioned an ORG-Marg survey thatprofiled Muslim women’s literacy at 40 percent, falling to 15 per cent in the north withbarely 3.5 per cent managing to reach college.
On an average, Muslim girls are marriedwhen they are 15. An NCAER surveyestimates the pre- and post-natal expenses ofMuslim women among the lowest in India.The future Muslim is destined to be born ofan illiterate and impoverished mother. Theseare painful indicators of the coming ofthe new Dalits of India. Most Muslims, asindividuals, treat their ailments, studymedicine and engineering, and migrateto the West, vie for best paying jobs anddealerships irrespective of whether theybe Muslim or kafir-managed? While theprivileged cultivate their paradise on earth,the poor have to do with sermons onpuritanical religiosity and promises of eter-nal paradise as if misery on earth is theroute to heavenly bliss. Collective myopia,mass hypocrisy and insensitivity to suffer-ing are thus legitimised. To become produc-tive, Muslims must instead focus on Huqooq-al-Ibad (duty to fellow-humans and Muslimempowerment). This should merit temporal,secular practice, keeping religion in the per-sonal domain. Otherwise, little will change.
A Lost HeritageMuslims Must Shed Collective Myopia
Code of ConflictThe Supreme Court makes a case for uniform civil code
The debate on whether India needs a uniform civil code isboth complex and highly politicised. This is ironic giventhat almost all mainstream political parties in this countryare agreed on the desirability of having such a law. In thesecolumns, we too have consistently argued in favour ofevolving a civil legislation that would supersede the diversepersonal laws which currently govern different religiouscommunities in such matters as marriage, inheritance andsuccession. The dispute arises from the conflicting groundson which the case for a uniform code is sought to be made.The devil, in other words, lies in the detail. On Wednesday,the Supreme Court of the country, not for the first time,added its own weighty voice to the cause by callingfor an early enactment of a common law. DescribingSection 118 of the Indian Succession Act, which concernsan inheritance provision under the Christian personallaw, as unconstitutional, Chief Justice V N Khare ex-pressed regret about the non-implementation of Article 44of the Constitution which calls upon the Indian state to“ensure for its citizens a uniform civil code”.
If this was unexceptionable, what followed was less so.“A common civil code”, Justice Khare reasoned, “will helpthe cause of national integration by removing the contra-dictions based on ideologies”. The idea that a plurality ofpersonal laws stand in the way of national integration is ofcourse not a new one. On the right, it has been the favouritetheme song of the parivar. The apex court has itselfalluded to this link no less than three times since the ShahBano case of 1985. But for all that, the idea remains bothunconvincing and deeply problematic. The reason whydifferent communities in India, particularly minorities,don’t equally identify with the idea of India is not becausethey follow different laws but because the Indian state hasnot done enough to ‘include’ them in the political and eco-nomic mainstream. Indeed, as the recent Best Bakery casein Gujarat demonstrated only too well, they are increas-ingly being denied even basic citizenship rights. Let’s notetoo that the more compelling visions of Indian nationhoodare not those that are threatened by plurality, but those thatcelebrate it. The case for a common code is best made not inthe name of high nationalism but in the name of equalityand gender justice. We need to move beyond personal lawsbecause they are highly discriminatory in nature, particu-larly when it comes to according women equal rights. Andthat’s true not just of the Muslim or Christian personal lawbut also Nehru’s ‘reformist’ Hindu Code Bill of 1956.
Oxfam, an international humanitarian aidorganisation, has been in news for causinga “Big Noise” against what it calls therigged rules of world trade. As the September10-14 Cancun meeting of the trade ministersfrom over 140 WTO member countries drawscloser, Oxfam has intensified its campaignfor a global trade system that is fair tothe poor countries. Stewart Wallis,Oxfam’s international division director,talks to Priya Ranjan Dash:
Why is a humanitarian and development aidorganisation like Oxfam engaged in globaltrade issues?
Trade has an amazing potential of liftingpeople out of poverty. Trade affects poorpeople, either positively or negatively. IfAfrica, East Asia, South Asia and LatinAmerica were to increase their share ofworld exports by one per cent each, theresulting gains in income could lift 128million people out of poverty. But at themoment, the global trade rules are riggedagainst the poor. That’s why we arecampaigning for making trade fair.Are you for or against globalisation?
We are in the middle. It’s a difficultplace to be in. So let me explain: Wewant global traderules. The rules areat present rigged,but it would beworse to have norules at all. Therich countries wouldthen pick off thepoor countries in abigger way thanthey are doing now.So, it is not globali-sation per se thatwe are against. Weare opposed to thepresent rigged rules.How would you like globalisation tobe managed?
We would like things to be turned ontheir head. The rich countries at present arekeeping their markets closed to developingcountry products even as they are dumpingsubsidised products on the poor countries’markets. We would like it to be the otherway round — the markets of rich countriesshould be open for goods from developingcountries whereas the poor countriesshould be able to protect sectors that areimportant in terms of food security andsmall farmers. We would also like to seesome democracy in terms of world gover-nance. The world is very inter-connected.And, as a global community, we sink orswim together. So we need to find effectiveways of managing the world system in amore democratic and fair way.How is Oxfam influencing rich countries tobe fair to the poor?
We are doing a lot of research andpreparing policy papers. We are lobbyinggovernment officials and ministers andbacking that up by campaigning and gettinga huge body of support for our message. We
already have about two million people,who have signed up for what we call the‘‘Big Noise’’, which is a way to join upour trade campaign online. We will havethree million people before the Cancunmeeting of WTO.
We also have people like Desmond Tutu,Mary Robinson and other world leaders onour side. We are trying to influence theagenda by a set of well-researched papers ontopics such as what happens to poor peopleas a result of subsidies and dumping by therich countries. We give the facts. We arguethe economics. We lobby in the media. Wehave had meetings with the heads of state ofmost of the European countries and theAmerican trade negotiator. We have lobbiedwith British MPs as well.What is your success rate?
We have managed to turn this into a move-ment over the last one-and-a-half years, par-ticularly regarding intellectual propertyrights on the question of low cost medicinesfor countries facing public health crisis. Wehave been very influential on that. Also, webelieve we have made some progress on theissue of investment agreement. Three-fourmonths ago, the British government was say-ing that it is absolutely crucial to get a WTO
mandate to negoti-ate a multilateral in-vestment agreementin Cancun. Now,they are saying itwould be a goodthing to have.
Similarly, theAmerican trade rep-resentative Robert BZoellick is now im-plying that the USwould not push theinvestment agree-ment that strongly.So, our work on
investment is having some impact. Butwe still have a long way to go. Also, onagriculture, we have got our issues on theagenda. The British government is nowopposing subsidies given to agriculture inEurope. Other European countries such asFrance and Germany are however muchless supportive. We have had meetingswith leaders such as the French presidentJacques Chirac, and we have pushed ourissues strongly.Do you subscribe to the view that the cheaplabour of developing countries is actuallybeing exploited by MNCs?
Yes, we are concerned over that. We areraising our voice against exploitation ofcheap labour. We would like to see higherlabour standards in poor countries.What are your expectations from Cancun?
We do not expect much. The existing tradesystem is indefensible. Current trade prac-tices generate extremes of prosperity andpoverty. We would like to see countries likeIndia leading the discussion for changing theexisting rigged rules. We fervently hope thedeveloping countries would stick together tosecure a fairer trading system for the world.
Trade Fair
The world is veryinter-connected. And,as a global community,we sink or swimtogether. So we needto find effective waysof managing the worldsystem in a moredemocratic and fair way.
Q&A
Crash CourseI was shocked to notice that you devotedonly two lines to describe the latest MiG-21crash in your newspaper. It’s true that MiGcrashes have become a matter of routine inour country. The safety of our soldiers isbeing bartered and encashed by ourpoliticians and bureaucrats for their ownbenefits. But the common man still has a lotof faith in the Fourth Estate. The injusticeof continuing with this killer machineneeds to be highlighted time and again.— Parvathy S Unni, Mumbai
Indo-Pak TalksThe resumption of bus services betweenLahore and Delhi has opened a new chapterin India-Pakistan relations. The deluge ofgood wishes for little Noor indicates that thecommon man in both countries wants peaceacross the border. Now, it is for the powersthat be to resume peace talks and bilateraltrade. If both countries shed their differ-ences, India and Pakistan can be a force toreckon with in world trade. The crores ofrupees being spent on defence requirementsby both countries can be put to better use.— Bharath B N, Bangalore
Lying LowIn your news item ‘WMD: Democrats stepup attacks on Bush’ (Jul 17) you havefailed to quote Ted Kennedy (one of thesenior-most Democrats in Congress)appropriately on the point. What he saidon CNN/BBC on July 16 was that theBush administration’s justification forinvading Iraq was based on ‘‘exaggeratedintelligence, hyped intelligence, falseintelligence’’. That is good enough reasonfor the world to now almost officiallycall president Bush a liar.— C A L Mulangunnathukavu, Mumbai
Natural JusticeThere’s an ironic twist in the matter of Sad-dam Hussein trying to acquire uranium, asthe Americans accuse him of having done.Nigeria, the supposed supplier, is not too farfrom Gabon. It is known that uranium fromCentral African sources such as Gabon, isoften found depleted, of the 235 isotope,most useful for making fission bombs.There is evidence of geological episodesduring which the groundwater level rose inuranium ore concentrations. The waterslowed down natural neutrons enough tocause the selective fission of 235-U nuclei,concentrating 238-U in the ore. Had Saddamgot his supplies from such sources he wouldhave had, one imagines, his hands onlyon uranium useless for WMDs.— S N Balasubrahmanyam, Bangalore
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Thus Spake Sri Aurobindo
The surrender mustbe complete.
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Nothing must bereserved, no desire,
no demand, no opinion,no idea that this mustbe, that cannot be, thatthis should be and that
should not be — allmust be given.
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The heart must bepurified of all desire, theintellect of all self-will...
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...every duality must berenounced, the whole
world seen and unseenmust be recognised as
one supreme expressionof concealed Wisdom,
Power and Bliss...✥
...and the entire beinggiven up, as an engine ispassive in the hands of
the driver, for the divineLove, Might and perfect
Intelligence to do itswork and fulfil its
divine Lila.✥
If this attitude ofperfect self-surrender
can be even imperfectlyestablished, all necessity
of yogic kriyainevitably ceases.
For then, God himself inus becomes the sadhaka
and the siddha...✥
...and his divine powerworks in us, not by ourartificial processes, butby a working of Nature
which is perfectlyinformed, all-searchingand infallibly efficient.
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...this is illimitable inpotency because itis God’s capacity.
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It is only limited by hiswill which knows whatis best for the world andfor each one of us in theworld and apart from it.
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Put yourself withall your heart and all
your strength intoGod’s hands.
Ud
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The Times of India, New Delhi14 Friday, July 25, 2003
The Proud UrchinBy Raj Chatterjee
I first set eyes on the littlechap about six months ago.There was this urchinperched on a branch of theneem tree that had itsroots on our side of thecompound wall. Strictlyspeaking, he wasn’t tres-passing on our property.The branch on which hewas perched juts out ontothe road. Every now andagain the telephonewallascome and lop it off but inthe monsoon it asserts itsfreedom of growth.
I called out to the lad andasked him what he thoughthe was doing up my tree.
‘‘Nothing Sahib,’’ heyelled back, nimbly slither-ing down the tree andlanding on the road.
‘‘What do you mean,nothing,’’ I asked. ‘‘Wereyou trying to get intomy house?’’
‘‘Oh no, Sahib,’’ he said,
looking scared. ‘‘I was onlytaking some daatun. Theyare for my father, but youcan have them if you like.’’He held out half a dozentwigs in his grubby hands.
I ignored the offeringbut continued with myinterrogation. The boy hada pleasant face, puckish.‘‘What does your fatherdo?’’ I asked.
‘‘He’s a mochi,’’ said he.‘‘He sits next to the bus-stopon Mall Road. He’s verygood at his work. If youhave an old pair of shoes tobe repaired give them to meand I’ll see that he chargesyou very little.’’
I was greatly amused.Obviously, the boy thoughthe owed me a favour forletting him take a fewneem twigs.
‘‘I’ll see if I have anyshoes to be repaired,’’ Isaid. ‘‘Why don’t you takesome more daatun? You’llsee a lot of people on the
road at this time in themorning using them. Youcould sell some.’’
‘‘Oh no, Sahib,’’ he said.‘‘I couldn’t do that. It wouldbe like begging and noone in our family hasever begged. We’d ratherstarve.’’ Then, with a waveof his hand, he was off.
A few weeks later, as Ipassed him on the road Istopped my car and askedhim to get in. His face lit up.He told me that he had oftenridden in a bus but neverin a car. When we stoppedat a crossing he staredopen-mouthed at the high-rise buildings. Seeing a taxipass by he said, ‘‘That’swhat I’d like to do when Igrow up. Will you help meto get a licence?’’
‘‘I’ll try,’’ I said, ‘‘ifI’m alive.’’
‘‘Of course you willbe, Sahib,’’ he said. ‘‘Mygrandfather is nearly 90.You look only 80.’’
We are the most complexand wonderful of God’s crea-tions. The human nervoussystem allows us to experi-ence the richness of life.Our perceptions createreality. We become whatwe think. But the rightenvironment is required tocreate the right perceptions.Hence bringing up achild is an art. It requiresknowledge and forbearance,love and compassion. Merelythinking of it as a responsi-bility is insufficient.
Lack of knowledge aboutchild development causesmisery and conflict in usbringing pain to ourselvesand others. Hence there isa need to understand andlearn the art of parenting tohave peace and harmony.
Every human being isborn with a special purposethat is to be fulfilled. Herlife here on the planet isto discover, understand,learn and fulfil her destiny.So it becomesinevitable thatparents need tohelp the child toaccomplish this.To deny or curbthis instinct inthe child in fulfill-ing her life’s mis-sion would meangoing against thevery principle ofevolution, the ess-ence of creation.
The Golden Age Founda-tion believes that there arethree forces that determineyour child’s destiny: You,your child and the Divine. Achild’s upbringing beginsright from conception. Thedesire with which a childis conceived is the first keyfactor involved in shapingher destiny. The mentalstate of the mother and thefather during pregnancy isthe second factor. The childis born with a similar state ofmind. The growing child inthe womb is very perceptiveand sensitive to the environ-ment all around. The storyof Abhimanyu respondingfrom Subhadra’s womb orBhakt Prahalad’s listeningto Narada from the wombare interesting pointers.
Our ancestors had fullknowledge of child develop-ment. This is one reasonwhy a pregnant woman wasencouraged to live in anashram until she delivered
the baby. An ashram is aplace of no “shram” (free ofstress). She should neverbe subjected to extremeemotions because everyemotion is carried forward tothe child. The experiencesof the mother — what shesees, hears, reads and feelsdirectly — shapes the futureof the child. A mother-to-beneeds to be in the right kindof environment.
The whole process of birthand the very birth process isa traumatic experience forthe new-born, though thereare some who would perceiveit as liberation. The firstexperience matters a lot —the reception of the childinto this world, whetherit was a welcoming oneor one of rejection. Thefirst comments from peoplearound and the first sensoryexperience also count. Inancient India the birth ofa child was celebrated, creat-ing a joyous mood in the
house and village.This helped thechild form apositive vision oflife. Tradition ismostly based onscience — thescience of body,mind and spirit.Thanks to mod-ern science, weare re-discoveringour roots and re-establishing our
dying values.Age one to six years is
a crucial stage in childdevelopment. The blueprintfor your child’s life is deve-loped during these years.From every experience thechild comes to quick conclu-sions — whether positiveor negative. These child-hood decisions are storedin the sub-conscious mindand are reflected in every-day experiences. Patternsare formed — patterns ofsuccess, failure, rejectionand insecurity which controlour life.
Sri Kalki, founder of theGolden Age Foundation, saysbetween 0-6 years the childshould be treated as aking; from 7-14 as a princeand 14 onwards as a friend.If every parent under-stands and learns the artof parenting, it would enableus to create happy andsuccessful individuals.
Child Development &Art of Parenting
By Sri Akshaymati
http://spirituality.indiatimes.com
THESPEAKING
TREE
The success of the operation on the little Pakistanigirl, Noor, by Indian surgeons has set off a round of
self-congratulatory praise for our ‘world class’ healthsystem. A bizarre case is being made for some kind ofmedical tourism: Petro-rich sheikhs come here fortreatment, even people from the West come here, weexult. True, the quality of medical treatment offeredin this country is superb and the rates extremelycompetitive. But that is mostly at the elite level. Privatehospitals may offer excellent facilities, and attractforeigners in large numbers. But that’s hardly any rea-son for the government to gloat. Public health, whichought to be a top priority, is in terminal decline. Forproof just a look at some of the figures from UNDP’slatest human development report. India spends aridiculous 0.9 per cent of GDP on public health, only 56per cent children are immunised against measles, 199per lakh population has already contracted tuberculo-sis and a staggering 3.8 million people are HIV positive.
Yet, our focus appears to be on improving facilitiesfor high-spending foreigners. Because successivegovernments have stubbornly refused to invest morein public health, today we have acquired the dubiousdistinction of being the unhealthiest people in theworld. Worse, the government has been liberallygranting permission for private medical facilities tocome up, often extending subsidies to them. This hascreated a situation where the well-to-do have access toexpensive but quality care, while the poor do not haveeven rudimentary facilities. Millions of Indians aredeprived of basic health facilities even as the govern-ment strives to create a favourable impression abroad.Even the argument that medical tourism brings inforeign exchange is fallacious as the amounts whichcome in are negligible. Should the governmentcontinue this lopsided approach, ignoring thealarming symptoms in the public health sector, soonnothing will be left of the latter.
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COUNTERVIEW
Hi-tech Elite CareAt the Cost of Poor
Don’t Penalise Top-notch Health Facilities
Following Baby Noor, foreigners flockto India for medical care
India has always been a country of extremes. We havethe super rich and the abysmally poor; the IT-savvy
and the illiterate. So it is hardly surprising that richpatients from round the world flock to India in searchof super-speciality medical services. True, the poorin India continue to grapple with a disgraceful andoften inaccessible public healthcare system. But it isirrational to argue that therefore top-end medical careshould be discouraged and instead, more attentionpaid to improve the quality of health services to thenon-privileged sectors. The two are not mutuallyexclusive. First, super-speciality doctors and researchanalysts are not required to man primary health cen-tres or to even create public awareness. This job can bedone by semi-skilled workers, barefoot doctors and ba-sic degree-holders. Initiating vaccination programmesand making available basic healthcare in metrosand far-flung areas requires subsidised equipment andmedicines, besides supervision and accountability. Butnone of this can happen without political will.
The sad truth is that government medical workersare assured neither a regular income nor personalsafety. In fact, the government should get inspired bythe performance of the private medical sector whichhas worked hard to acquire a global profile. So muchso, today India has become the obvious choice for thosewho want prompt, affordable and quality medicalattention. Decrying the efforts and achievements ofprivate medical practitioners because the governmenthasn’t got its act together on the health front for overfive decades is more likely a diversionary tactic than agenuine attempt to correct the imbalance. The poorvs rich argument is an archaic one — it is similar to thetraditional criticism of space research at the expenseof basic services. Why should billions of dollarsbe spent on space exploration while millions arestarving, goes the argument. But without R&D, thepolio and smallpox vaccines would never havebeen discovered — nor would we have the power ofknowledge for prevention and cure.
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Battle over TVgrowth in USThe House of Representatives over-
whelmingly passed legislation onThursday to block a new rule sup-
ported by the Bush administration thatwould permit the nation’s largest televi-sion networks to grow bigger by owningmore stations. The vote, which was 400 to21, sets the stage for a rare confrontationbetween the Republican-controlled Con-gress and the White House, because thereis strong support in the Senate for similarmeasures, which seek to roll back lastmonth’s decision by the FCC to raise thelimit on the number of television stationsa network can own.
The FCC has ruled that a single compa-ny can own television stations reaching45 per cent of the nation’s households, butthe House measure would return theownership cap to 35 per cent.
Only a few weeks ago, support for theFCC’s move by House Republican leadershad been expected to counter the Senateuprising. But many House members fromboth parties have evidently taken note ofthe vocal resistance to the FCC action bymany members of the public and a broadspectrum of conservative and liberal lob-bying groups. Today’s House rebuke ofthe FCC was embedded in a spending bill.The White House sought to play down thelopsided size of the vote. Claire Buchan, aWhite House spokeswoman, said thatpresidential advisers had recommendedapproval of the legislation so that it couldproceed to a House-Senate conferencecommittee where the network ownershipprovision might be stripped out.
If, as is becoming more likely, the pro-vision survives in final legislation, Presi-dent Bush will face a difficult politicalpredicament. He could carry out his vetothreat and alienate some of his tradition-al constituents.
Network executives and top aides toMichael K Powell, the FCC chairman,predicted that the effort to overturn therules would die in the House because itsleadership had supported them. The vote,a clear repudiation of Powell, suggestedthat he miscalculated the widespread op-position to the new rules.
After the vote, Stephen Friedman, thePresident’s top economic adviser, dis-missed the assertion by the legislation’sbackers that further media consolidationwould reduce the diversity of voices onthe airwaves. He said if all four networksreached 45 per cent of the nation’s homes,that would demonstrate that there is com-petition in the media market. The con-cern over the growth of media conglom-erates transcends traditional party linesin part because of the personal experi-ences of many politicians. NYT News Service
MEDIAMOVEMENTS
Star News gets 2weeks’ extension
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Still unhappy with responsefrom the Star group, the government, afterwithholding a decision on Wednesday, grant-ed a ‘‘temporary extension’’ of two weeks onThursday to uplink from India for its newschannel.
The information and broadcasting min-istry’s decision was taken as it needed ‘‘sometime’’ to consider the replies given by thesatellite channel to a number of clarifica-tions sought by the government, ministrysources said. An inter-ministerial group to gointo the issue of giving uplink facilities toStar News will meet on Saturday to discussthe issue, the sources said. Star News hadbeen operating for the past four weeks on ex-tended permission. This is the first time ithas been granted permission for two weeks.
Though the temporary permission expiredWednesday midnight, the news channel con-tinued to be on the air because of an order ofthe Bombay High Court which had stayedVSNL from discontinuing the channel’spoint-to-point uplink facility.
Ministry officials met Star’s CEO, RavinaRaj Kohli, and Delhi representative, KaushalDalal, to get clarifications to the ‘‘volumi-nous’’ response the group has already made.
However, the channel has been asked toclarify issues like its ownership, the incorpo-ration details of its associated companieslike Touch Telecontent and Rent Works, theshareholding pattern and the flow of funds.
These are among the companies that have‘‘cropped up from nowhere’’, an official said.
Among the questions is: Why was it neces-sary to float a new firm and what are the fi-nancial dealings of this firm; how long thefunding has taken place and the type of in-come the new firm had. The government hasmore questions and besides the I&B ministry,DCA is also looking into Star’s financial af-fairs, the official said.
Sensex gains on all-round supportTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: An all-roundrally in almost all the sec-tors lifted the Sensex up by2.5 per cent (over 90 points)to close at 3,668 points onThursday. All the sectoralindices, including BSE Teck(technology, entertainmentand knowledge stocks) im-proved by 2.1 per cent.
Heavyweights like Hin-dustan Lever and Relianceindustries contributed ma-jorly to the rise in the Sen-sex. Hindustan Lever, thenation’s biggest consumergoods maker, climbed 4.6
per cent to Rs 166.3, whileReliance, the No 1 petro-chemicals maker and aleading refiner, jumped 4.6per cent to Rs 345.05 rupees.Reliance scrip has touchedits 52 week high. As thesetwo stocks account forabout 29 per cent of the Sen-sex, they together con-tributed to substantial gainin the index on Thursday.
Increased interest fromthe foreign funds has alsocontributed to Thursday’srally. FIIs which were sell-ing during the end of thelast week, has made astrong comeback. FIIs were
selling their debt’s holdingand buying equity. In July2003 so far, they are net sell-er of Rs 462 crore of thedebts instrument. While on
the equity side, they are netbuyers of Rs 1,864 crore.
FIs are very bullish onthe Indian equities.Strongcorporate results have fur-ther boosted the growth. In-vestors are expectinggrowth led by good earn-ings. Maruti’s and Tata Mo-tors’ good results have jus-tified the bull run as theirgood performance indicat-ed that the economy was onthe revival path.
Satyam Computer’s re-sult has also indicated thatsoftware companies wouldimprove their performanc-es. It has raised its full-year
revenue growth estimate indollar terms to 18 to 20 percent from 15 to 17 percent.Its shares ended up 6.4 percent at Rs 187.10, adding toWednesday’s nearly sevenper cent rise.
SBI, rallied 2.1 per cent toRs 406.30 after it reported a20 per cent rise in first-quarter earnings to Rs 9.14billion. ACC climbed 3.7 percent to Rs 171.70 after its netprofit in April-June quarter,more than doubled to Rs44.11 crore from last year.This indicated a stronggrowth in the constructionindustry.
•SBI, Reliance, ACC,Ranbaxy, HLL postgains to rally Sensex
•Good corporate earnings will further lureforeign investors, analysts say
•Satyam results alsocontributed to growth
Bouncing back
AP
BROTHERS IN ARMS: Striking Hyundai Motor workers in Seoul are demanding higher wages and a five-day working week.
EXL to set upfourth centre,invest $7m
By Gaurav BhagowatiTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: BPO firm EXL Service Inc hasdecided to expand its India operations bysetting up its fourth facility in the country.The new centre, with an investment ofaround $7 million (around Rs 34 crore), willbe located in Pune and spread over an areaof around 95,000 square feet.
EXL CFO Rohit Kapoor said the firstphase of expansion will be completed byJanuary 2004 and the second phase by May2004. The new centre will be equipped toprovide both back office and contact centreservices, catering to growth requirementsof EXL, arising from both recently acquiredbusiness as well as clients in the pipeline.
The expansion comes at a time when thefirm tries to meet increased customer re-quirements. EXL recently bagged 3 newBPO contracts from large UK and US-basedcompanies.
It plans to increase its headcount by morethan 1,500 agents. The firm is also planningto tap the talent pool of smaller towns byopening five recruitment centres —Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, Chandigarhand Lucknow — in the next couple ofmonths. The rationale behind this, Kapoorsaid, was the firm’s strategy to look beyondthe NCR region and the metros to meet itshuman resource requirements.
The firm currently has over 2,000 em-ployees and has 1,500 agent seats on a pershift basis, spread across three centres inNoida. The facility will have a capacity of1,025 production seats per shift and will takethe firm’s total operating capacity in thecountry to 7,575 seats on a three-shift basis.
Bajaj goes for an image makeoverBy Byas Anand
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Bajaj Auto Ltd (BAL)is turning a new leaf. Close on theheels of planning to set up manu-facturing facilities abroad, BajajAuto is now contemplating re-vamping its corporate image andlogo.
Sources said the new logo is be-ing designed to reflect the compa-ny’s progress as also the new di-
rections it intends to take in the fu-ture. Bajaj Auto vice-president (fi-nance) Sanjiv Bajaj, when contact-ed, said the matter was under in-ternal discussion. “Nothing hasbeen finalised, hence to mentionanything is premature.”
Meanwhile, the sources said thedecision for a corporate imagechangeover is also intended to re-flect the company’s shift in favourof motorcycles from a predomi-
nantly scooter manufacturingcompany. “The new logo wouldsoon be reflected on all touch-points, including office stationery,dealerships and the vehicles.”
As part of its growth plans, Ba-jaj is also exploring the possibilityof setting up a joint venture mar-keting company with technologypartner Kawasaki Heavy Indus-tries for exporting Kawasaki-Bajajmotorcycles.
Satyam Q1 net up 12%at Rs 121 cr: Satyam Com-puter Services on Thursdayreported a 12 per cent rise innet profit for the first quarter,2003-04(year-on-year). Its netprofit stood at Rs 121.49 crorefor the quarter ended June 30,2003 as compared to Rs108.44 crore a year earlier asoverseas clients boosted out-sourcing orders to cut costs.Its total income also increasedto Rs 570.34 crore from Rs471.48 crore a year ago.It also announced plans to in-vest $20 million in Nipuna Ser-vices Ltd, Satyam’s BPO sub-sidiary. The company expectsincome from software servic-es to range between Rs 563-568 crore in the current quar-ter while EPS is expected tobe between Rs 3.81 and Rs3.86. For the full fiscal, it ex-pects income to grow ataround 18-20% in dollarterms to around Rs 2,320crore. But the EPS is expect-ed to be between Rs 15.65and Rs 16.00, indicating thatmargins are under pressure.The results drove Satyam’sscrip 5.2 per cent higher to Rs185 on opening. TNN
Nicholas Piramal Q1 netdips: Nicholas Piramal IndiaLtd’s net profit for the firstquarter this fiscal dipped 19per cent to Rs 25.21 crorefrom Rs 31.15 crore in thesame period a year ago. Itstotal income increased to Rs269.91 crore this year.TNN
ACC net at Rs 44 crore: A revival in construction and
housing activity coupled withstringent measures to controlcosts helped cement majorACC Ltd post a 122 per centgrowth in net profit for the firstquarter ended June 30, 2003to Rs 44.14 crore. TNN
Electrolux-Kelvinator revamps Indian unit:Electrolux Kelvinator Ltd hasre-organised its operations in
India and appointed an A-Team to strengthen the com-pany’s thrust in the country.The team, headed by manag-ing director and CEO RajeevKarwal would include PaulGelardi, the new CFO, RajeshPuri, the new VP (sales andmarketing) and ChristopheLepeltier, the new integralsupply chain head and the HRhead Shantanu Banerjee. TNN
RBI asks SBI to reworkscheme for RIB holders:Reserve Bank has askedState Bank of India to reworkits special NRI deposit scheme, which was slated tobe offered as an option to investors of Resurgent IndiaBonds to park their proceeds.SBI was expecting regulator’snod for its special schemelast week but sources saidthe country’s largest bankwas asked to modify it afterRBI capped the interest rate on non-resident (external)rupee deposits of 1-3 years at 2.5 per cent above London inter-bank offeredrate (Libor). PTI
Staffware launches Indiaoperations: Global busi-ness process management(BPM) solutions providerStaffware Plc launched its
Indian operations on Thurs-day and received a BPM con-tract from HDFC Bank Ltd.Staffware country manager(India) Paul Maguire said, thecompany, which opened itsIndian office in Mumbai, isalso planning to open officesin other cities, beginning withDelhi and Kolkata PTI
HPCL to set up 3 moreLPG bottling plants: Hin-dustan Petroleum Corpora-tion Ltd is to set up three LPGbottling plants in Indore,Mumbai and Delhi at a cost ofRs 20 crore, Rs 25 crore andRs 10 crore respectively evenas it plans to introduce five-kg LPG cylinders in urban areas. These projects will befunded through internal ac-cruals, general manager andhead of LPG (strategic busi-ness unit) S V Sahni said. PTI
PNB Gilts reports net profit of Rs 48.44 cr: PNBGilts has turned around post-ing a net profit of Rs 48.44crore during the quarter end-ing June 2003 as comparedto the corresponding periodlast fiscal when it suffered aloss of Rs 9.78 crore. Its totalincome has also increased toRs 96.50 crore during thesame period. PTI
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Sony profits plunge 98%in June quarter: Strugglingconsumer electronics giantSony on Thursday said its net profit in the June quarterplunged 98 per cent from last year to 1.1 billion yen ($9.3 million) due to restruc-turing costs. The Japanese company’s pre-tax profit tumbled 69.3 per cent to 35.8 billion yen over the
period, while sales fell 6.9 percent to 1.6 trillion yen. In a bidto turn around its fortunes,Sony Corp announced in Aprilit would spend one trillion yen on a major corporateoverhaul in the next threeyears. Chairman and chief executive Nobuyuki Idei said in a statement, the numbers were far better thanin the three months to Marchwhen Sony suffered a deep loss. AFP
Shell shies from buybackas profit soars: RoyalDutch/Shell Group, theworld’s second-largest oilfirm, reported a consensus-beating 51 per cent rise insecond-quarter profits onThursday but said it would
not buyback more shares thisyear. Although the rise in prof-its came in above marketforecasts, Shell shares edgedup only 0.25 per cent amidsome disappointment on thebuyback front. Shell is thefirst of the world’s top threeoil companies to publish sec-ond-quarter results. Shell’snet profit for the second quarter, adjusted to reflect thecurrent cost of supply, surgedto $3.34 billion, helped byhigher margins. Reuters
Siemens net profit falls13% in third quarter: German electronics giantSiemens has said its net profitfell sharply in the third quarterof its business year, but oper-ations had dipped less and
most key divisions wereimproving. Siemens said ina statement that net profitamounted to 632 million euros ($727 million) in the period from April to June, adecline of 12.8 per cent fromthe year-earlier figure. AFP
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Good performanceMorris Chang, chairman ofmicrochip maker Taiwan Semiconductor ManufacturingCompany said its net profit
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Facing rough weatherMitsubishi Motors CFO Keiichiro Hashimotosaid the auto maker slashed itshalf-year and full-year earningsoutlook, battered by special losscharges at its North Americanunit and weak sales in US
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New Delhi: The Penguin Group onThursday announced that David Davi-dar, CEO and publisher of Penguin In-dia, is to be transferred to PenguinCanada as publisher from January One,2004. He will, however, continue as a di-rector of the business and editing a se-lect list of authors.
Davidar, 44, was one of the foundingmembers of Penguin India in 1985.“Publishing has been my first love and Isee a huge progression in this shift. I amlooking forward to this role with Pen-guin Canada and gaining a new per-spective on international publishing,”he said.
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ABB 374, 378.50, 367, 368374, 380, 368, 369.55
Abbott (I) 282, 280, 280.30ACC 165, 172.50, 171.70
170, 172.20, 166.55, 171.30 Adani Export 183, 186, 182.50,184.20
183, 186.90, 182.50, 183.50 Adlabs Films 54, 54.90, 54.30
55, 55.20, 54, 54.40 Alstom Proj. 106, 111.45, 107.95
107.05, 111.50, 106.05, 108.05 Andhra Bank 35.65, 35.85, 34.90,35.15
35.45, 35.80, 34.90, 35.25 Apollo Hosp. 143.80, 145, 141.65,142.60
144.70, 144.70, 141.80, 142.90 Apollo Tyres 174.90, 177, 173,174.95
175.75, 177.35, 173.25, 175 Arvind Mills 41.90, 44.45, 41.60,44.15
41.85, 44.40, 41.70, 44.05 Ashok Leylan 117, 119.55, 116,117.55
116.75, 119.80, 116, 117.20 Asian Paints 390, 394.90, 387.65,393.35
393.50, 395, 385.50, 394.05 Aurobindo Ph 399, 400.10, 393,398.25
399.80, 405, 394.10, 397.45 Aventis Phar 360, 361.90, 357.10,360.05
364, 364, 358, 358.90 Aztec Soft. 20.25, 20.40, 19.50,20.15
19.75, 20.50, 19.55, 20.25 Bajaj Auto 558, 561.90, 553.25,558.40
559.95, 563.50, 553.05, 555.75 Balaji Tele. 71.25, 72.40, 68.25,69.95
70.40, 72.40, 68.65, 69.95 Ballarpur In 48.45, 48.70, 48, 48.50
54, 54, 48, 48.45 Bank of Baro 129.80, 125.50, 127.55
129.50, 129.50, 126, 127.75 Bank of Ind. 50, 48.80, 49.35
49.55, 49.90, 49, 49.45 BASF 127, 131, 130.15
127.75, 130.50, 126.60, 130.05 Bata (I) 40.85, 39.50, 39.95
40, 40.40, 39.15, 40 Bayer Cropsc 192.15, 196.40,191.60, 194.45
191.50, 194.75, 190, 192.40 Bh.Earth Mov 82.70, 83.45, 81.65,83.05
82.40, 83.40, 81.45, 82.85 Bharat Elect 320.20, 343.80, 314,341.40
321.50, 343.90, 311, 341.70 Bharat Forge 382.20, 392, 379,388.85
383, 390, 380, 386.85 Bharti TeleV 43, 47.75, 42.60, 47.15
43, 47.80, 42.25, 47.15 BHEL 257, 265, 253.30, 263.45
258, 264.80, 253.05, 263.25 Bombay Dyein 65, 66.30, 64, 65
62.15, 66.50, 62.15, 65.25 BPCL 260.15, 266.35, 259, 264.85
260, 265.95, 259.50, 264.65 Britannia 531.05, 532.15
539.70, 539.70, 533, 535.05 BSES 272, 285, 271, 277.90
274.95, 279, 271.05, 277.60 Cadila Healt 194.50, 196.75, 189.55,191.30
194.80, 197, 189.50, 191.55 Castrol (I) 203, 199.80, 201.95Century Enka 89.10, 91.90, 87.50,91.15
88.20, 92, 88, 90.75 Century Text 75, 78.50, 74.60, 78.20
75.90, 78.45, 74.50, 77.60 Chambal Fert 17.20, 17.30, 17.15,17.20
17.20, 17.30, 17.15, 17.20 Chennai Pet. 55, 56, 54.60, 55
55, 56, 54.50, 55 Cipla 768, 779.45, 758, 774.85
769.80, 778, 763, 773.55 CMC 442.50, 446, 439, 440.70
442, 447, 436, 437.75 Colgate 144.15, 149.40, 143.85,148.30
145.40, 149.95, 143.80, 148.35 Container Co 353.75, 356.35, 349,354.80
350, 355.05, 348.80, 354.95 Corpn. Bank 173, 177.90, 170.50,174.50
174.35, 177.95, 171.35, 174.35 Crompton Gr. 75, 75.50, 73.15, 73.70
75, 75.60, 72.60, 73.75 Cummins (I) 66, 66.30, 65, 66.05
66.10, 66.65, 65.10, 66.25 D-Link (I) 54.50, 55.75, 54, 54.25
55, 55, 54.50, 54.55 Dabur (I) 52.10, 54.75, 53.40
53.40, 54.90, 52.25, 53.30 Digital Glob 500, 448.15, 456.55
464.80, 465.40, 448, 455.15 Dr.Reddy’s 1111.10, 1150, 1110.15,1140
1110, 1149.90, 1110, 1136.80 Dredging Cor 347, 350, 343.10,348.60E-Serve Intl 627.70, 634, 610,618.05
629, 636, 610, 619.70 EIH 178.80, 178.65, 181.40
183.50, 183.50, 179, 179.80 Engineers (I 283, 277.25, 280.35
282.05, 282.90, 277.40, 281.25 Escorts 51.40, 53.60, 53.30
52.30, 53.75, 51.85, 53.25 Essel Propac 173.90, 186, 182
173.90, 186.80, 173.90, 182.70 Exide Inds. 89.75, 90.90, 90.50
90.35, 91, 89.20, 90.25 Federal Bank 155.80, 157.80, 155,157.10
156.20, 158, 154.75, 157.30 Finolex Cabl 105, 105.90, 103.55,
104.75107, 107, 102.50, 104.50
Finolex Inds 41, 41.70, 39.50, 39.9539.25, 41.25, 39.25, 39.80
Gail (I) 110.55, 112.40, 108.15,111.70
110.50, 112.30, 108.10, 111.55 GE Shipping 49.95, 56.50, 49.50,56.05
50, 56.50, 49.40, 55.95 Geometric So 325, 332.80, 322.70,328.50
330, 338, 322.50, 329.60 German Remed 280, 285
284.95, 288.60, 278.50, 285.15 Gillette (I) 366.50, 370, 364.20,368.50
366, 370, 361.80, 368.80 GlaxoSmith.C 260, 263
267, 267, 260, 264 GlaxoSmith.P 369, 372, 363.25,369.90
368.60, 371.90, 363, 369.20 GNFC 35.95, 36.30, 35.65, 35.75
36.35, 36.40, 35.60, 35.95 Grasim Inds. 480, 489.75, 478,484.10
480, 489.70, 476, 486 GSFC 23.05, 23.90, 23.70
23.55, 23.80, 22.80, 23.60 GTL 66, 67.85, 65.15, 67.25
65.75, 67.70, 65.25, 67.30 Guj.Amb.Cem. 207.50, 203.25,205.70
204.50, 206.45, 203.05, 205.40 Guj.Gas Co. 428.95, 441.55, 423.55,429.45
429, 438, 422, 433.85 Guj.Mineral 102.55, 101.10, 101.70
102.30, 103.35, 101.10, 101.65 HCL Infosys. 153, 163, 152, 161.25
153.95, 162, 152.20, 160.30 HCL Techno. 162, 167.30, 157.65,165
162, 167.40, 159.55, 164.90 HDFC 405.05, 420, 395.15, 411.30
406.95, 416.95, 395.35, 408.35 HDFC Bank 258.75, 261, 257, 258.85
258.90, 260.75, 256.50, 258.50 Hero Honda 235.55, 239.90, 235.20,237.80
237, 240, 235.40, 237.60 Hexaware Tec 134, 135.90, 132.10,134.35
133.55, 135.65, 132.05, 133.85 Him.Fut.Comm 29.10, 29.65, 29,29.10
29.35, 29.65, 28.90, 29.10 Hind Lever C 181, 182.80, 179,180.65
179.10, 182, 179, 180.15 Hind.Oil Exp 37.55, 39, 37, 37.40
37.90, 38.80, 37, 37.55 Hind.Zinc 43.80, 46, 42.75, 45.05Hindalco 774, 774.95, 761, 770.85
777, 778.85, 760, 770.85 Hinduja TMT 219.80, 222.70, 216,219.85
221.90, 223, 216.10, 220.30 HLL 159, 169.95, 155.75, 166.30
159.80, 166.90, 155.75, 164.20 HMT 19.20, 19.85, 19.50
19.40, 19.85, 19.40, 19.50 HPCL 328.90, 334.80, 319.35, 328
330, 331.30, 319.65, 326.65 Hughes Soft. 286, 299.80, 284.50,297.05
284.55, 298.50, 284.10, 294 IBP 504.40, 519.95, 496.25, 509.55
519, 519.90, 497, 501.85 ICI (I) 125.50, 128.70, 125.10,126.70
150.80, 150.80, 125, 126.25 ICICI Bank 151, 157, 150.55, 155.70
151, 155.90, 150.55, 154.75 IDBI 41.30, 43.40, 40.50, 42.20
41.10, 43.50, 41, 42.20 IDBI Bank 32.20, 31.35, 31.75
32, 32.20, 31.25, 31.55 IGate Global 115.70, 119.50, 114.50,115.45
116.85, 119.75, 114.25, 116 India Cement 23.10, 23.45, 22.75,23.30
23, 23.45, 22.75, 23.25 Indian Alumi 120.40, 122, 121.25
119.75, 120.95, 118.75, 119.10 Indian Hotel 248.25, 255, 247.70,248
256, 260, 247.10, 248.65 Indian Oil C 462, 472.05, 394.35,397.90
399.50, 399.50, 395.05, 397.95 Indian Ov.Bk 26.45, 25.65, 26
26.25, 26.40, 25.60, 25.95 Indian Rayon 146, 151.70, 145,150.10
146.60, 152, 145.50, 150.25 Infosys Tech 3451.55, 3485, 3390,3468.60
3460, 3489.80, 3388.65, 3460.75 Infotech En. 102, 97.10, 98.55
99, 102.50, 97.10, 98.45 Ingersoll R 241, 235.75, 237.15
239, 243, 236, 236.25 IPCL 113, 116.10, 111.80, 114.75
113, 116.20, 111.75, 114.60 ITC 727, 749.90, 722.90, 746.25
726, 749.50, 723, 743.20 ITI 19, 19.25, 18.85, 19.20
19, 19.20, 18.85, 19.10 J&K Bank 223.90, 226.30, 222,225.35
222, 226.90, 222, 224.90 Jaiprakash I 45.90, 47.55, 45.65,47.40
46.40, 47.60, 45.60, 47.35 JB Chemical 205.65, 209.40, 202,207.25
205, 209, 202, 207.90 Jindal Steel 505, 490, 494.95
507, 507, 491.65, 494.75 Kochi Refin. 76.60, 76.80, 74.10,74.80
75.25, 76.45, 74.05, 74.70 Kotak Mah.Bk 181, 183.50, 183.10
181, 184.45, 181, 182.80 L&T 262.60, 268.60, 260, 267.20
262, 268.50, 261.05, 266.60 LIC Hsg.Fin. 141, 143.50, 140,141.90
140.90, 143.60, 140, 141.95 LML 43.70, 44.90, 43, 44.50
43.25, 44.75, 43.10, 44.45 Lupin 350.50, 363.40, 343, 358.55
400, 400, 343, 357.45 M&M 166.25, 172.40, 164.30,170.85
167.50, 171.75, 164.15, 170.25 Marico Inds 175.10, 176, 174.20,175
176, 176, 174.50, 175.65 Maruti Udyog 174.50, 176.75,172.65, 174.05
175.90, 177, 172.85, 174.10 Mastek 199, 201.90, 197, 199.40
201.10, 201.30, 197.10, 199.30 Mastershare 12.28, 12.55, 12.47
12.30, 12.50, 12.25, 12.40 Max (I) 73.95, 74.45, 73, 73.90
74, 74.50, 73.50, 73.85 Mcdowell Co. 47.45, 48.25, 46.70,47.85
47.25, 48.20, 46.65, 47.80 Merck 302, 286, 290.15
298.95, 300, 287, 291.60 MIRC Electr. 394.50, 389
389, 391.05, 388, 388.55 Moser-Baer 354, 355.25, 350.10,352.70
350, 359, 346, 352.40 Mphasis BFL 335, 326.05, 329.90
333, 333, 326.20, 329.55 MRF 1410, 1385, 1406.75
1395, 1410, 1390, 1405.25 MTNL 106, 107.30, 103.70, 106.45
104.60, 107.05, 103.65, 106.60 Mukta Arts 51.90, 52.70, 52.15
51.35, 52.70, 51.35, 52.25 National Alu 102.60, 104, 101.10,103.40
105.90, 105.90, 102.25, 103.35 Nestle (I) 549.45, 554.90, 543.05,549.05
546, 549.80, 543.25, 547.30 Neyveli Lign 36.25, 36.60, 34.30,34.70
35.20, 36.65, 34.30, 34.90 Nicholas Pir 330, 335, 315, 316.65
329.95, 334.90, 313, 317.35 NIIT 130, 131.45, 127.50, 129.85
129.55, 131, 127.55, 129.80 Nirma 322, 320.05, 321.60
323.50, 323.50, 320.05, 320.80 Novartis (I) 240, 241.60, 231.10,234.35ONGC 465, 472.90, 459.25, 461.75
460, 474, 459, 461.60 Oriental Bnk 171.80, 167.80, 168.80
171.70, 171.90, 167.50, 169.10 P&G Hygiene 485, 437, 451.05Padmalaya Te 92.95, 93.50, 91,91.70
93, 93.55, 91.50, 92.10 Pentamedia G 10.54, 10.70, 10.26,10.39
10.50, 10.70, 10.25, 10.35 Pfizer 412.05, 418, 405.70, 406.50
416, 416, 405.25, 407.10 Philips (I) 100, 98.30, 98.75Pidilite Ind 261, 265, 264.85
263, 267, 263, 265.80 Polaris Soft 100.40, 101.80, 99.85,101.10
100.80, 101.95, 100, 101.05 Pun.Tractors 160.80, 164.50, 163.35
161, 164, 161, 163.50 Ranbaxy Lab. 799, 819, 782, 811.35
804, 819.80, 780, 809.80 Raymond 123.40, 124.50, 121.50,123.90
122, 125, 121.50, 124.20 RCF 33.80, 33.90, 32.90, 33.60
33.70, 33.75, 32.80, 33.60 Rel Capital 69, 71.35, 67.90, 70.80
68.45, 71.40, 68, 70.55 Reliance Ind 331, 348, 329.30,345.05
331.10, 346, 329.10, 341.80 Rolta (I) 66.50, 67.25, 66.10, 66.85
66.90, 67.20, 66.15, 66.85 SAIL 19.40, 19.70, 19.15, 19.60
19.30, 19.70, 19.10, 19.50 Satyam Comp 180.10, 188.30,176.70, 187.10
184.90, 188.40, 179.30, 186.50 Saw Pipes 146.70, 155.50, 144.15,154.75
148, 155, 144.25, 154.25 SBI 401.50, 408, 398.15, 406.30
401.45, 408.70, 398, 405.25 Shipp.Corpn. 64.75, 67.40, 64.40,67.20
64.50, 67.40, 64.15, 67.10 Shyam Teleco 47.90, 45.35, 45.90
46, 46.70, 45.25, 45.70 Siemens 354.90, 358, 350.60,353.30
352.50, 359.90, 352.50, 353.70 Silverline T 7.75, 7.92, 7.58, 7.68SKF Bearing 71.35, 72.50, 70.05,70.95
70.95, 72.45, 70.25, 71.05 Sonata Soft. 12.80, 12.97, 12.52,12.76
12.70, 12.90, 12.50, 12.75 SPICE 35, 36.50, 36.33SSI 101.80, 102.80, 99.70, 101.30
102, 102.85, 100.10, 101.50 STC India 105, 103.10, 104.80
105.60, 105.60, 103.35, 103.80 Sterl.Biotec 48.20, 49.80, 47, 48
48, 49.95, 46.90, 48 Sterl.Optica 50.80, 51, 49.60, 50.10
51.35, 51.35, 49.60, 50 Sun Pharma. 353.25, 357.95, 356
355, 357.95, 354, 356.20 Syndicate Bn 26.65, 26.95, 26.15,26.65
26.90, 26.90, 26.30, 26.65 Syngenta (I) 122, 118.10, 118.95Tata Chem 74, 76.35, 73.75, 76.05
74.90, 76.30, 74, 76 Tata Elxsi 78.30, 78.65, 76.50, 77.05
78, 78.50, 76.60, 77.15 Tata Power 141, 146, 140.70, 144.90
142, 146.50, 140.50, 144.65 Tata Tea 199.50, 204.70, 199, 203.55
201, 204.25, 198, 203.55 Tata Telcom 116.90, 119, 115.75,118.35
116.35, 118, 116.30, 117.55 TELCO 214.50, 215, 210.05, 213.55
215, 215.75, 210.25, 213.10 Thermax 231.90, 237.95, 228,236.20
231.75, 239.50, 227, 234.60 Thomas Cook 224.95, 226.50, 222,225.75
224.85, 225, 221.50, 223.65 TISCO 188.25, 191.80, 187.40,190.95
192, 192, 187.10, 190.65 Titan Inds. 65, 63.25, 63.50
64.20, 64.90, 63.35, 63.75 TN Newsprint 54, 55.40, 55
53, 55.45, 53, 54.85 TN Petro 19.20, 19.25, 19.05, 19.15
19.30, 19.30, 19, 19.10 Torrent Phar 233.90, 217.05, 228.45
225, 229.90, 219, 228.05 Trent 186.95, 190, 186.50, 189.70
188, 190, 185.50, 189.65 TVS Electron 76.50, 76.75, 74.80,75.30
77, 77, 74.20, 75 TVS Motor Co 541, 549, 541.60
540, 544.40, 539.05, 540.45 United Phosp 254.70, 272.50, 252,269.75
253.45, 271.50, 251.50, 268.85 UTI Bank 74.80, 75, 72.55, 73.10
74.45, 75, 73.05, 73.40 Videocon Int 31.15, 31.50, 30.75,31.15
31.50, 31.50, 30.85, 31.10 Vijaya Bank 29.20, 29.40, 28.25,28.55
29, 29.40, 28.30, 28.50 Visual Soft 153.15, 156, 149, 150.80
152.75, 155.40, 148.65, 150.90 VSNL 120.10, 125, 117.50, 121.85
120.70, 121.75, 117.55, 120.45 Whirlpool 19.60, 19.75, 19.25, 19.40
19, 19.75, 19, 19.45 Wipro 924.80, 929.50, 910, 918.65
924.80, 929.70, 910.15, 917.10 Wockhardt 376.05, 378.90, 376,377.60
378.70, 379, 373.25, 376.60 Zee Telefilm 120.25, 123.75, 116.40,117
120.30, 123.50, 116.25, 117.30 Zensar Tech. 77.70, 77.85, 76.20,77.05
78.50, 78.50, 76.15, 77.20
B1 - GROUP
33M India 330, 328, 329
333, 336, 330.50, 336
AA Sarabhai 5.75, 6, 5.70, 5.77Aarti Drugs 37.75, 39Aarti Inds. 82.05, 85.75
84.05, 87, 84, 86.45 Aarvee Denim 27, 27.50, 26.50,26.80Aban Loyd 304, 317.70
307, 317.30, 301, 317.30 ABC Bearings 21, 19.50, 19.58ABG Heavy In 16.95, 17, 16.10, 16.30Abhishek Ind 9.60, 9.30, 9.59
9.60, 9.70, 9.20, 9.55 Adam Comsof 5.90, 5.52Addi Inds. 20.50, 20, 21.40Advani Oerli 36, 35, 35.30
36, 36.20, 35, 35.65 Advik Lab. 15.60, 15, 15.50Aegis Logis. 11.30, 11.75
11.30, 11.70, 11.30, 11.65 AFT Inds. 52.55Aftek Infosy 276, 279.80, 274.10,277.75
277, 279.70, 274, 277.70 Agro Dutch I 19.20, 19.60, 18.70,18.90
19.85, 19.90, 18.60, 18.85 Agro Tech Fd 45.10, 46.50, 45.25
46, 46, 45.20, 45.20 Ahmed.Elect. 66, 66.95, 65, 65.90
67, 67, 65, 66.15 Ahmednagar F 54.95, 56, 53.90,55.40
55, 56.50, 54.35, 55.35 Ajanta Pharm 38, 41.50, 35.50, 40.90
38.70, 41.85, 35.15, 40.65 Aksh Optifib 23, 22, 22.75
22.70, 23.40, 21.95, 22.55 Albert David 33.65, 35Albright & W 193, 198Alembic 274, 277.80, 260, 263.10
265, 278, 259.35, 262.05 Alfa Laval 326
324.50, 330, 324.50, 328.65 Alka (I) 0.64, 0.66, 0.59, 0.64Alkyl Amines 21.20, 23Allahabad Bk 18.80, 18.85, 18.10,18.35
18.50, 18.55, 18.05, 18.30 Alok Inds. 25.25, 27.80, 25.05, 27.60
25.20, 27.75, 25.10, 27.05 Alps Inds. 24.60
23.40, 24.50, 22.95, 23.20 Alstom 30.70, 32, 30.20, 31.85Amara Raja B 64, 65.55, 63.20,65.45
64.30, 65.65, 63.30, 65.20 Ambica Agarb 40, 40.50, 39, 39.95Ambuja Cem.R 4.31, 4.52, 4.47
4.30, 4.50, 4.30, 4.45 Amex Info. 18.50, 18.80, 18, 18.40Amforge Inds 46.90, 47.45, 43.30,46.95Amrutanjan 77.05, 84.75, 83.25Amtek 60.60, 61.50, 60.50Amtek Auto 212, 194, 194.35
198, 199, 194.50, 196.35 Andrew Yule 15.75, 15.40, 15.50Ankur Drugs 17.80, 17.88, 16.55,17.08Ansal Prop. 15.95, 14.82, 14.91AP Paper 95.25, 96, 92.05, 93.25Apcotex Lat. 31.50, 29.60, 30.25
29.55, 31, 29.55, 29.80 Aplab 28, 28.30, 27.10, 27.60Aptech 58.50, 60.05, 56.05, 56.95
59.70, 60.45, 56, 56.95 Archies 57, 59.35, 58.50
58.60, 59.90, 58.05, 58.30 Arvind Rem. 5, 5.50, 4.51, 4.66
5, 5.30, 4.45, 4.65 Asahi (I) Gl 68, 68.95, 65.15, 67.05
66, 68, 65.20, 66.90 Ashapura Min 87, 85
86, 87, 86, 87 Ashima 20.50, 19.10, 20
19.90, 19.90, 19.25, 19.70 Ashok Ley.Fn 51, 51.20, 49.20, 49.45
51.75, 51.75, 48.55, 48.75 Asian Elect. 68.25, 73.55
67.75, 73.40, 67.75, 73.40 Asian Hotels 100, 103.25, 99.95,103.05
98.25, 101, 98.25, 100.10 Assam Co. 16.25, 16.50, 15.80,16.15Astrazen.Ph. 360, 371.70
365, 365.05, 358.35, 358.85 Atcom Techno 10.60, 11, 10.95
10.85, 10.90, 10.65, 10.80 Atlas Copco 264.25, 262.05Atlas Cycles 72.60, 72.55, 73.50
73, 73.35, 72.20, 73.20 Atul 52.75, 50, 50.40
51.60, 51.75, 50.55, 51 Auto Axles 127.80, 129.80, 125.80,128
131.40, 131.50, 125, 127.15 Avanti Feeds 23.30, 23.90Avery (I) 27.40, 26.50, 28.60Avon Organic 54.70, 58.75, 52.50,57.80
BBajaj Auto F 52.25, 52.85, 52, 52.05
46.50, 52.05, 46.50, 51.80 Bajaj Elec. 29.80, 28, 29Bajaj Hindus 115.05, 119, 115,115.75
113.55, 120, 113.55, 116 Bajaj Tempo 171, 172.50, 169,169.95Bal Pharma 25.35, 25.50, 24.90,25.45Bal.Law.Vanl 15, 14.80, 16.25Balaji Dist. 7.20, 7.01, 7.43
7.25, 7.45, 7.10, 7.40
Balkrish Ind 152, 142.10, 149.60Balmer Law.I 42, 40.25, 41.90Balmer Lawri 85.10, 84.80
85.10, 86, 85, 85.15 Balrampur Ch 153, 155.80, 155
158, 158, 145, 156.05 Banco Prod. 71.15, 67, 67.75Bank of Punj 22.40, 22.65, 22.05,22.50
22.70, 22.70, 22.15, 22.45 Bank of Raj. 28, 28.30, 26.40, 26.70
28.30, 28.30, 26.40, 26.60 Bannari Aman 141, 140.10
142, 145, 142, 142.50 Bayer (I) 1275, 1298, 1276.15Bayer ABS 96.85, 97.80, 94.20,96.85
95.25, 98, 94.95, 96.70 Bayer Diagno 219, 206.25, 210Berger Paint 81.50, 82.35
81.95, 82.50, 81.55, 82.10 BF Utilities 16.99, 16, 16.65Bhagya.Metal 33.05, 30Bhansali Eng 38, 36.25, 39.05Bharat Bijle 489.50, 490, 476, 477Bharat Rasay 36, 37.85, 35, 37.45
34.30, 34.30, 34.25, 34.30 Bhartiya Int 27.50, 28.50, 27.15,28.40
27.90, 28.40, 27.90, 28.05 Bhushan Stl. 67, 67.80, 65, 65.90BI 87.05Bihar Caustc 24, 22.95, 23Bimetal Bear 130.50, 124, 130.50Binani Inds. 22.55, 23.25, 22.20,22.80Biopac (I) 6, 6.90, 6.84Birla Corp. 31.90, 31, 31.20
31.70, 31.70, 30.90, 31.05 Birla Eric. 13.65, 14.10, 13.50, 13.95
13.70, 14.15, 13.65, 13.90 Birla Glob.F 18.40, 17.75, 17.85
18.10, 18.10, 18, 18.10 Birla Yamaha 17, 16.85, 17BITS 0.64, 0.60BLB 6.75, 6.75, 6.55, 6.55 Blow Plast 13.20, 13.40Blue Dart Ex 83.15, 81, 82.40
71.95, 83.50, 71.95, 82.75 Blue Star 95, 92, 92.50
92.55, 95, 92.55, 93.70 Blue Star In 124.60, 128.25, 128
126, 128, 125.50, 127.25 BOC 40.95, 41, 40, 40.80
40.85, 41.15, 40, 40.65 Bombay Burma 38.30, 38
38.05, 38.05, 38.05, 38.05 Bongaigaon R 39.25, 41.75, 38.80,39
39.45, 41.75, 39, 39.20 BPL 45, 45.70, 43, 43.50
46.40, 46.40, 43.10, 43.45 BPL Engg. 6.50, 6.35, 6.36
7.35, 7.35, 6.30, 6.45 Brijlax. Le. 110.40, 110.85BSEL Inform. 14.60, 14.50,14.56
14.25, 14.45, 14.25, 14.35 BSL 34.80
35, 35.75, 34.60, 35.75 Burrough Wel 410.55, 418
CCamlin 62, 65, 64.30Camph.& All 29.40, 29.95,28.70, 29.50Canara Bank 104.35, 105.05,103.20, 103.95
104, 104.90, 103.10, 103.95 Canfin Homes 43.50, 42.60,42.90
43, 43.25, 42.05, 42.55 Caprihans(I) 21.80, 21.85,19.75, 20.25Carborundum 154, 150
152.05, 154.20, 149.25,150.65 CCL Products 19, 19.10Ceat 43, 43.75, 41.05, 41.60
42, 43, 41.10, 41.65 Centur. Bank 13.65, 13.69,13.35, 13.50
13.75, 13.75, 13.35, 13.55 Cerebra Inte 5.65, 5.40, 5.72CESC 38.50, 39.35, 37.50, 37.95
38.60, 38.90, 37.50, 38.10 CG Igarshi M 51.75, 53, 51.60, 52.70
51, 54, 51, 52.75 Chemfab Alk. 28.10, 29.20, 29.15Chemplast Sa 30.50, 31.50, 31.45
31.10, 32.20, 30.60, 30.80 Chettinad Ce 62.35, 65.50, 65.25Cheviot Co. 108.50, 112, 107, 109.85Chola.Inv&Fi 44, 44.10, 44
44.05, 44.30, 43.85, 44.10 Chowgule Stm 6.50, 6.99, 6.42, 6.98Ciba Sp.Chem 110, 116.50, 113Cinevistaas 29.10, 29.65, 28.55,28.60
28.75, 30.25, 28.65, 29.20 City Union B 50.50, 51, 50.10, 50.30
50.50, 50.90, 49.85, 50.20 Clariant (I) 158, 161.40, 160.10
159, 161, 159, 160.20 Classic Diam 44, 44.95, 43.60, 44Clutch.Auto 14.87, 15, 14.50, 14.78Coates (I) 106, 106.80, 106.40
106, 108.25, 105.40, 106.40 Cochin Minrl 14.50, 15.25, 15.18Color Chips 8.45, 7.55, 7.90
7.75, 8, 7.65, 8 Colour Chem 245.50, 248.95,245.20, 245.55
242.10, 250, 242.10, 246.85 Compucom Sof 19.50, 20Compudyne Wi 14.60, 14.85, 14.20,14.25
15, 15.05, 14.20, 14.50 Computech In 6, 5.73, 5.90
5.95, 6, 5.75, 5.75 Cont.Const. 12.05, 11.85, 12Control Prnt 22Core Health. 6.18, 6.50, 6.05, 6.28
6, 6.40, 6, 6.35 Corom. Fert. 70.25, 67
67, 68.25, 66.30, 67.10 Cosmo Ferr. 8, 8.10Cosmo Films 96.50, 98.50, 96, 96.55
96.65, 98.70, 95.70, 96.80 Creative Eye 15, 14.70, 14.74
15, 15.35, 14.75, 14.90 Crest Comm. 34, 34.35, 33.40, 33.70
33.75, 34.05, 33.40, 33.95 CRISIL 360, 349.10, 350.05
360, 361, 351, 351 Cybertech Sy 10.40, 10.11
10.10, 10.45, 10.10, 10.30
DDaewoo Motor 4, 3.60, 3.79Dalmia Cemen 168, 165.80, 166
168.10, 169.50, 165.20, 168.55 Datanet Sys. 5.90, 4.80, 4.89Datapro Inf. 0.65, 0.68, 0.59, 0.61DCM 10.65, 11.25, 10.80
10.35, 11, 10.35, 11 DCM Shr.Con 86.50, 87.45, 85
83.55, 87.50, 83.55, 85.40 DCW 18.95, 20, 19.85
19, 20.20, 18.80, 19.95 Deccan Cem. 39.90, 39.35, 39.95Deepak Fert. 23.65, 22.90, 23.15
22.90, 23.30, 22.80, 23.10 Deepak Nitr. 61, 62, 61.45Dena Bank 19, 18.60, 18.85
18.60, 19, 18.60, 18.80 Denso (I) 33, 33.75, 32.70, 33.25Dewan H.Fin. 26.50, 26.80, 25.75
29, 29, 23.50, 25.60 DGP Windsor 6, 6.40, 6.13
6.35, 6.45, 6.05, 6.20 Dhampur Sugr 17.95, 18.25, 17.65,17.90
17.35, 18.95, 17.35, 17.95 Dhanalak.Bnk 21.10, 21.70, 20.70,20.90Dharamsi Mor 9.50, 9.79, 9.15, 9.35Dhunseri Tea 16.25, 16.65, 16.55Divi’s Lab 513, 533, 511.50, 524.60
511.65, 532.80, 511, 526.30 Dolphin Off. 14.40, 14Donear Inds. 122.50, 127.50DSJ Comm. 0.77, 0.68, 0.70
0.75, 0.75, 0.70, 0.70 Duphar-Inter 120.25, 130.10, 130
EEicher 46.30, 48, 46.25, 47.70
46.50, 48, 46.50, 47.70 Eicher Motor 155, 163, 161.90
152, 163.50, 152, 162.10 EID Parry 112, 112.95, 110.10, 111
110, 113, 109, 110.25 EIH Asso.Hot 14.65, 15.22, 15.20Eimco Elecon 57.75, 57.80
53.85, 59.30, 53.80, 58 Elder Pharma 55.25, 59.45, 55, 59.15
55.40, 59.90, 54.55, 58.95 Elecon Engg. 18.80, 20.10, 18.57,19.90Elect.Kelvin 7.99, 8, 7.80, 7.86Electro.Cast 300, 303, 297, 302.10
297.25, 304.70, 296, 301.90 Elgi Equip 35, 37.95, 36.70
35.50, 37.90, 35.15, 36.45 Elgitread (I 200, 198
203.90, 204.30, 197.40, 200.35 Elpro Inter 23.75, 23.95, 23.35,23.85Emco 49.45, 49.50, 47.50, 47.95Encore Soft 15.89, 16, 15.26, 15.94Eonour Tech. 3.68, 3.69, 3.51, 3.55Epic Enzymes 10.06, 10.90Esab (I) 40.65, 41.50, 40.50, 40.70
41.95, 41.95, 40.55, 40.90 ESI 26, 26.50, 26.40
27, 27.30, 25.60, 25.60 Eskay K’N’It 4.01, 4.25, 4.24Essar Oil 11.45, 11.45, 10.85, 11 Essar Ship. 13.75, 14.30, 13.38,14.13Essar Steel 18, 17.40, 17.70
17.70, 17.90, 17.40, 17.70 ETC Networks 60.45, 65, 59.10,63.40
59.50, 65.25, 59.40, 64.10 Eternit Ever 63, 67, 66.05
59.05, 67, 59.05, 66 Eurotex Inds 13.39, 12.80, 12.90
15.25, 15.25, 12.95, 13 Eveready Ind 20, 20.95
20.25, 21.50, 20.25, 20.90 Excel Inds. 110, 113.50, 105, 112
104.40, 113.85, 104.40, 112.20
FFAG Bearings 73, 73.25, 72, 72.60
74.25, 74.40, 73, 73.25 Fairfield At 16, 16.94, 14.92, 15.38FCGL Inds. 5.05, 6.27, 5.01, 6.05FCI OEN Con. 110, 114, 113.05
110, 112, 108, 111.80 FCL Techno. 23.50, 27.65, 23, 24.45
24, 24, 22, 23 FDC 40.80, 39.25, 40.20
42, 42, 39, 40 Fert.&Chem-T 28, 27.50, 27.60
27.40, 28.35, 27.40, 27.95
First Leasin 19.50, 20.70, 19, 20.2020.20, 20.60, 20.20, 20.35
Flat Product 91.70, 88, 89.15Flex Enginer 14.30, 16.50, 16
16.10, 16.40, 15.70, 15.95 Flex Foods 8.39, 8.05, 8.22Flex Inds. 26.05, 26.20, 25.60, 25.90
26.25, 26.40, 25.65, 25.85 Floatglass 28.75, 29.35, 28.50, 28.55
28.50, 29.65, 28.25, 28.45 Forbes Gokak 69.15, 69, 70.50Fortune Info 25.75, 26.75, 25.05,25.70Foseco (I) 160, 169.60, 151.80,153.70
157.15, 157.15, 152, 153.70 Frontier Inf 4.05, 3.95Fulford (I) 148.75, 159.90, 156.80Futura Poly. 8.91, 9, 8.80, 8.95
GGabriel (I) 124.70, 126.90, 120,123.10Galaxy Enter 25.40, 27.30, 26.95Gammon (I) 137, 129, 130.10
130.05, 132.80, 129.05, 131.75 Gandhi Sp.Tu 26.45, 26.80, 25, 25.40Garden Silk 31, 29.70, 30.50
30, 31, 29.50, 30.40 Garware Poly 37, 37.25, 36.25, 36.55Garware Wall 25.75, 26.25, 25.50,26.10Gati 46, 39.80, 40.25Genesys Intl 38, 38.50, 37.40, 38.05
38.45, 38.45, 37.60, 37.90 Geodesic Inf 165, 155, 156.10George Willi 46.10, 50.50, 50.25
51, 51, 50.20, 50.65 GIC Housing 22.50, 22.80, 22, 22.05
22.75, 22.95, 21.75, 22.05 GIVO 3.01, 3.44, 3.25Glenmark Pha 296.90, 297, 286,286.10
287, 291, 284.10, 287 Global Tr.Bk 21.75, 21, 21.25
21.75, 21.75, 21.05, 21.25 GMM Pfaudler 98.35, 98.25GMR Techno. 14.75, 14.95, 14.10,14.18Goa Carbon 58, 60, 57.50, 59.15Godavri Fert 91.70, 93.35, 91.65,93.05
91.75, 93.10, 91.75, 92.95 Godfrey Phil 361.15, 362.55
361.50, 371, 361.50, 370.50 Godrej Cons. 125, 126.95, 123,123.55
125, 126.75, 123.70, 124.25 Godrej Inds. 30.50, 30.55, 30.15
30.75, 31, 30.25, 30.35 Goetze (I) 37.10, 37.45, 36, 37.25
37, 37.60, 36.45, 37 Goldiam Int. 30.55, 29.95, 30.20Goldstn.Tech 19.40, 19.85, 19.10,19.55
20.20, 20.20, 19, 19.40 Goldstn.Tele 8.30, 8.64, 8.18, 8.47
8.35, 8.50, 8.20, 8.40 Gonter Peip 6.50, 6.70, 6.35, 6.54Goodlass Ner 257.95, 254.10, 255
258, 259, 254.10, 255.50 Goodricke 25.40, 29.55, 28.90Goodyear (I) 40, 39.20, 39.40Grabal Al.Im 25.50, 24, 25Graphite Ind 50, 50.55, 49.35, 50.40
50, 50.95, 49.85, 50.55 Grauer & Wei 28, 29.40, 29Gravity (I) 14.90, 16.40, 13.75, 16.29Greaves 23, 24.50, 22.75, 24.25Grind Norton 143, 139.40, 140Gruh Finance 23.70, 23.90, 23.30,23.75GTC Inds. 14.75, 15.60, 15.30
14.90, 15.65, 14.90, 15.15 GTN Textiles 28.45, 28.65, 28.10,28.50
28, 28.60, 28, 28.55 Gufic Bio Sc 28.50, 28.80, 27.25,28.20Guj.Alkalies 36, 36.40, 35.50, 35.85
36.30, 36.40, 35.35, 35.75 Guj.Amb.Exp. 17.10, 17.50, 17, 17.25
17.25, 17.70, 17.15, 17.25 Guj.Apollo E 57.05, 57
Guj.Flouroch 75.95, 76, 74.30, 75.0584.90, 84.90, 74.25, 75
Guj.H.Chem 22.65, 22.85, 22.8022.75, 22.85, 22.60, 22.75
Guj.Ind.Pow. 24.30, 24.35, 23.40,23.70
24.20, 24.80, 23.30, 23.75 Guj.Sidh.Cem 5.60, 5.90, 5.88
5.55, 5.95, 5.55, 5.85 Gulf Oil Cor 73.75, 75, 73.50, 73.70
HHarr.Malayal 14.55, 14.15, 14.30
14.50, 14.70, 14.25, 14.30 Hathway Bhaw 17.98, 18.10, 16.90,16.91Havell’s (I) 143.70, 137, 144.10
134, 146, 134, 143.15 Hawkins Cook 19.30, 20.05, 19.80Hazoor Media 12.99, 9.70, 9.73HBL Nife Pow 44.50, 48.40, 48.25HEG 56.80, 57.40, 53.10, 53.85
56.90, 57.35, 53.70, 54.05 Helios & Mat 16.75, 16.85, 16.80Henkel Spic 20.15, 20.50, 20.10,20.30Heritage Fds 60.75, 63, 62.95
61, 64, 61, 63.05 Hi-Tech Gear 133.80, 131.25
136, 136, 127.10, 127.45 Hikal 266.90, 271, 263.15, 267
265, 272, 263, 270.45 Himat. Seide 135, 133.90, 134
135.20, 135.20, 133, 133.95 Hind.Constn. 76.95, 78, 75, 76.30
76.75, 77.45, 75.75, 76.50 Hind.Inks&Re 282.90, 285, 275.15,284.60
277.65, 286, 277, 283.20 Hind.Motors 13.45, 12.99, 13.37
13.20, 13.45, 12.95, 13.30 Hind.Org.Chm 22.50, 23.55, 23.35
22.60, 23.50, 22.60, 23.25 Hind.Power 36.40, 37Hind.Sanitar 70.25, 72
70.50, 73.05, 70, 72.85 Hind.Spg &Wg 11.15, 10.96, 11.39Hitachi Home 22.50
22.50, 22.70, 22.50, 22.70 Honda SIEL P 133.95, 129.55, 129.95
134.90, 134.95, 128.10, 128.10 Hotel Leela. 26, 26.60, 25.90, 26.05
26.60, 26.60, 25.60, 26.05
II-flex Solu 1273.65, 1299, 1258,1291.70
1270, 1299, 1257.25, 1290.80 IFCI 9, 9.23, 8.67, 9.03
8.80, 9.25, 8.65, 9.05 IL&FS Invt.M 19.95, 20
20, 20.55, 20, 20.10 Ind.Swift 71, 64, 64.95
Ind.Swift La 23, 23.65, 22.40,23
23.05, 23.30, 22.95, 23.10 India Foils 8.95, 9.09, 9.02
9, 9.20, 9, 9 India Gelat. 18.25, 17.95, 18.70India Glycol 46.80, 45.60,46.30India Gypsum 23.50, 22.60
23.95, 24, 23.95, 24 India Nippon 274.75, 248.10,248.30
243, 255, 242, 251.10 India Polyfi 5.99, 5.46, 5.78Indian Card 48.50, 49.40,48.30, 48.95
49.25, 49.50, 48, 48.45 Indian Hume 910, 922
905.10, 950, 905, 945.30 Indian Resor 53, 51.25, 53.50Indian SeamM 20.70, 21,19.50, 20.25Indo Gulf Fe 67.45, 68, 67.05,67.50
71.25, 71.25, 67, 67.45 Indo Mat.Car 81.55, 82.50, 81,81.50Indo Nationl 333, 333, 333, 333
Indo Rama Sy 34.20, 34.75, 34,34.55
34.65, 34.75, 34, 34.50 Indraprast.M 15.60, 15.95, 15.48,15.89
15.45, 16.25, 15.45, 16 Indusind Bnk 23.40, 24.15, 23, 23.50
23.65, 24.15, 23, 23.60 ING Vysya Bk 344, 385, 340, 376.25
342, 389.90, 340.30, 376.35 Innovis.E-Co 0.60Insilco 14.70, 15.45, 15.25Inter.Travel 36.15, 35, 35.05Invest.Trust 17.85, 17.55IOL Broadban 7.35, 7.75, 7.16, 7.37Ion Exchange 29.15, 30, 28.50, 29.35IP Rings 78, 72, 72.20IPCA Lab. 317.95, 330, 312, 327.50
315, 330.90, 308, 327.40 Isibars 7.20, 6.50, 6.73Ispat Inds. 11.50, 11.82, 11.39,11.70
11.75, 11.80, 11.35, 11.65 IT & T 11.65, 11.95, 11.50, 11.85
11.55, 12.65, 11.55, 11.90 ITC Hotels 62, 62.80, 61.50, 62
60.50, 63, 60.50, 61.90 IVP 33.80, 34.40, 32.75, 33.05
32, 34, 32, 32.60 IVRCL Infras 77.20, 84, 76.75, 81.70
78, 83.40, 77.50, 81.45
JJagatjit Ind 21.10, 24.95Jagsonpal Ph 98
96.80, 99, 95, 97.95 Jai Corp 57, 60, 57.75Jain Irrig. 79.80, 77.60, 86.45
80, 85.95, 79, 85.95 Jain Studios 15.85, 15.80, 16.50
16.10, 16.50, 16, 16.10 Jaipan Inds. 8.25, 7.81, 8.05Jay Bh.Marut 47.50, 48, 47, 47.90
47, 48, 46.60, 47.25 Jayant Agro 50, 47.50, 48
48.30, 50.35, 48.15, 48.15 Jaypee Hotel 11.25, 11.65, 11.10,11.38Jayshree Tea 41.10, 41
41, 41.50, 41, 41 JBF Inds. 15, 15.45, 14.75, 15.24JBM Tools 56.50, 58.50, 56.10
58, 58.10, 55.90, 56.35 JCT 6.62, 7.25, 6.55, 7.10Jenson&Nicho 6.75, 6.80, 6.50, 6.60
6.85, 6.90, 6.55, 6.70 JIK Inds. 20.25, 20.45, 18.55, 19
22.70, 22.75, 20.80, 20.80 Jindal Drill 117, 119.20Jindal Iron 117, 117.30, 105.20,108.40
116.90, 117, 104.60, 108.40 Jindal Photo 38.95, 37.50, 38.05
38.25, 38.75, 37.75, 38.20 Jindal Poly. 133.50, 134, 130.55,133.95
135, 135.05, 134.10, 135 Jindal Strip 230, 235.50, 228.10,233.05
232.90, 235.10, 228, 232.60 JJ Exporters 34JK Corpn. 12.70, 13, 12.56, 12.91JK Inds. 32, 32.70, 30.90, 31.05JK Synthetic 5, 5.75, 5.70JL Morison 117, 120, 116.90, 119JMC Projects 28, 25.05, 25.60Jog Engg. 10.20, 10.70, 10.40Jubilant Org 269.50, 273.95, 265.15,266.70
265, 273, 264.70, 269.50 Jupiter BioS 89.50, 99.75, 88.50,97.90Jyoti Struct 40.10, 38, 39.05
39.25, 39.55, 38.70, 39
KKaashyap Rad 1.29, 1.34, 1.20, 1.31Kabra Extr 57.50, 58, 53.75, 56.50
53.05, 58, 53.05, 56.45 Kajaria Cer 33.65, 34, 33.60, 33.85
34, 35, 33.80, 34.10 Kakatiya Cem 33, 33.25, 33.20
33.50, 33.90, 33.20, 33.70
Kale Consul. 38.50, 39, 37.75, 38.3039.85, 39.85, 38, 38.05
Kalpa.Power 41.50, 41.55, 41, 41.10 Kalyani Brak 324
323.95, 323.95, 323.95, 323.95 Kalyani Shrp 6.75, 7.09, 6.70, 6.90Kalyani Stel 44.70, 48, 44.15, 46.20Karnatak Bnk 74.75, 75.40, 74, 74.15
75.50, 75.50, 73.30, 74.30 Karur Vysya 211, 219.20, 209.25,217.90
209, 219.90, 208.90, 217.55 KDL Biotech 17.15, 17.95, 17.85
17.55, 17.90, 17.30, 17.60 KEC Inter. 21.40, 21.85, 21, 21.60
21.95, 22, 21.10, 21.75 Kerala Ayurv 13.05, 13.50, 13, 13.40Kerala Chem. 32, 31.50, 33.30Kesoram Inds 35, 36.90, 36.70
41, 41, 35.55, 36.95 KG Denim 20.25, 22.20, 22Khoday (I) 14.75, 15Kinetic Eng. 77, 79.25, 78.75Kinetic Moto 30.45, 29.50, 30.50Kirloskar Br 128, 129, 128.85Kirloskar Oi 165.70, 166, 160.50,164.70
166.90, 167.80, 160, 164.45 Kit-Ply Ind. 5.10, 5.27, 5.02, 5.25
5.30, 5.30, 5.05, 5.15 KLG Systel 30.05, 29.50, 30
30.50, 30.85, 29.60, 30 Kopran 44.50, 44.90, 43.50, 44.40
44.10, 45, 43.70, 44.20 Kothari Prod 180, 180.25, 180,180.25 KPIT Cum.Inf 170.90, 173.50, 169,171.80
170.75, 173.45, 168.65, 171.50 KRBL 47, 47.95, 46.60, 46.90
46, 47.95, 46, 47.30 Krebs Bioche 133.05, 143, 141.90Krishna Life 2.05, 2.50, 2.34Krone Comm 68, 68.50, 67.55, 68KSB Pumps 105, 103, 103.75
104.05, 105.70, 103.70, 104
LLakhani (I) 78, 83.95, 75.20, 75.50Lakshmi Au.C 90, 88, 89.95
91, 93.80, 89, 90.40 Lakshmi Elec 67.60, 70, 67.50, 69Lakshmi Mach 2492.60, 2594.30,2492.60
2460, 2545.95, 2448, 2474.65 Lanco Inds. 14.40, 13.75, 13.90Landmarc Lei 9.80, 8.20, 9.07LCC Infotech 3.90, 4.10, 3.90, 4 LG Balkrish 115, 118, 110.10, 116.20
114.90, 116, 111.50, 115.25 Liberty Shoe 66.75, 66.05, 67
68.90, 68.90, 66.50, 68 Lloyds Steel 4.50, 4.64, 4.35, 4.52
4.70, 4.70, 4.30, 4.50 Logix Micro. 16.70, 14.90, 15.05Loy.Tex Mill 68.95, 67, 69Lumax Ind 40.10, 39.90, 40
40.10, 41.55, 40.10, 40.45 Lyka Labs 28.25, 29, 28.60
28, 29.50, 27.80, 28.90
MMaars Soft 10.76, 10.80, 10.41,10.60
11, 11, 10.40, 10.60 Macmillan (I 196.70, 203, 195.85,202
201.20, 201.20, 195.60, 199.85 Madhav Marb. 19.45, 18.85, 19.20Madhucon Prj 56.25, 56, 57Madras Alum 120, 114.20, 117Madras Cem. 5415, 5515, 5475
5500, 5509, 5441.20, 5486.85 Madras Fert. 19.80, 20, 18.75, 18.95
19.55, 19.90, 18.70, 18.90 Mah.Scooter 99.20, 95.50
96.75, 102.10, 95, 95.55 Mah.Seamless 160.25, 159, 159.90
162, 163, 158.65, 159.90 Mahavir Spg. 84, 95, 79.80, 80.50
83.70, 84.90, 79.80, 80.50 Mahind.Gesco 16.20, 16.15, 16.70
16.25, 16.70, 16.20, 16.30 Mahindra Ugi 12.50, 12.90, 12.67
12.70, 12.95, 12.50, 12.65 Majestic Aut 34, 34.20, 32.50, 33.55Malwa Cotton 32.25, 32.90, 32.60
34.70, 34.70, 31.90, 32.40 Man Inds.(I) 60, 62, 59.10, 61Mangalam Cem 11.11, 10.45, 10.66
11, 11.35, 10.45, 10.50 Manglr.Chem 5.61, 5.85, 5.06, 5.21Manugraph In 30.50, 28.75Maral Overs 17.75, 18.25, 17.95
17.55, 18.45, 17.10, 18.15 Mascon Globl 9.85, 10.30, 9.98Matrix Lab. 492, 482.10, 511.95Matsush.Tele 7, 6.63, 6.89
7.10, 7.10, 6.60, 6.70 Matsushita L 48, 48.50, 46.75, 48.05Mefcom Capit 7.45, 5.61Mega Corpn. 4.44, 3.38Melstar Info 15.90, 16.15, 15.70, 16
17.40, 17.40, 15.80, 16 Mercator Lin 74.85, 77, 72.20, 75.40Metroche.Ind 23.65, 23.45, 23.65MICO 5555, 5640, 5600
5600, 5605, 5600, 5600 Mid-Day Mul. 18.45, 17.80
17.75, 18.10, 17.75, 18.10 Mindteck 15.95, 15.40, 16.80Mirza Tanner 35.15, 35.80, 35, 35.55
37.40, 37.40, 35.25, 35.60 MM Forgings 123, 121, 122Mobile Tele 6.15, 7.20, 6.10, 6.88Modipon 20, 19.55Monalisa Inf 0.43, 0.49, 0.38, 0.43Monnet Ispat 44.90, 45.50, 43.50,43.70Monsanto (I) 789, 810, 781, 794.50
794.80, 804.95, 780.25, 795.65 Morarjee Goc 15.30, 15, 15.60
15.50, 16.25, 15.50, 16.05 Morepen Lab 10.41, 10.55, 10.34,10.36
10.40, 10.55, 10.30, 10.35 Morgan Stan 10.40, 10.60, 10.35,10.53
10.45, 10.65, 10.35, 10.50 Motherson SS 161.90, 170, 160.10,165
160, 167, 160, 162.90 Mro-Tek 14.03, 13.75, 13.83
14, 14, 13.70, 13.80 MRPL 20, 21.60, 19.85, 21.40
20.20, 21.60, 19.80, 21.15 Mukand 25.50, 27, 25.35, 26.70
26.50, 27, 25.60, 26.50 Mukand Engrs 11, 11.79
11.90, 12, 11.45, 11.75 Munjal Auto 53.60, 52, 53.25Munjal Showa 150, 153.50, 151.10
153.10, 154.75, 151.05, 152.50 Murd.Ceram 21.20, 21.30, 20.40,20.80Mys.Cement 8.50, 8.55, 8, 8.13
8.40, 8.40, 8, 8
NNagar.Agrich 16.10, 17.70, 17.55Nagar.Const. 66.15, 67.50, 66, 66.75Nagar.Fertil 6.88, 6.90, 6.65, 6.85
6.80, 6.95, 6.65, 6.85 Nahar Export 23.60, 23.80, 23.20,23.50
23.35, 23.65, 23.10, 23.50 Nahar Indl.E 15.50, 14.90, 15.70Nahar Intl. 7.75, 8.10, 7.55, 8.03
8, 8.25, 7.50, 7.80 Nahar Spg. 92.50, 94, 91, 93.25
91.80, 94, 91.50, 93.15 Narmada C.Pe 16.15, 15.50, 15.55
16.10, 16.10, 15.30, 15.60 Natco Pharma 64, 68.25
65.80, 68.75, 65.80, 68.75 Nath Seeds 10.75, 11.10, 10.95
10.85, 11.05, 10.65, 10.75 National Fer 55, 58, 54.95, 57.10National Per 976.50National Ste 13.38, 12.83, 13.10
13, 13.30, 12.80, 13.05 Nava Bh.Ferr 102.95, 105.75,100.30, 103.40
102.45, 105.80, 100.15, 104.80
Navneet Pub. 135, 137.50, 134.30,135.85
135, 137.80, 133.50, 134.90 NCL Inds. 6, 6.25, 5.80, 6.23Nelco 29.35, 29.70, 29.05, 29.55
29.70, 30.40, 29.20, 29.70 Neuland Lab. 105.40, 104.10, 115.30NHN Corpn. 11.66, 12.85Nilkamal Pls 33.50, 32.80
32.20, 33.50, 32.20, 33 Noble Explo. 6.50, 6.86NOCIL 10.20, 10.41, 9.98, 10.03
10.25, 10.40, 10, 10.15 Noida Toll 6.55, 6.85, 6.75
6.80, 6.95, 6.80, 6.95 Nova Petro. 36, 36.95
38, 38, 36.90, 36.90 Novopan Inds 33.05
33, 33.15, 33, 33.15 NRB Bearings 95, 92
92.10, 93, 91.10, 92.75 NRC 14.50, 15.10, 14.75
15, 15, 14.60, 14.70 Nucleus Soft 72.50, 73.60, 71.65,72.95
75.75, 75.80, 71.50, 72.50
OOCL (I) 118, 108, 110.30Odyssey Tech 10.65, 10.93, 10.36,10.79Oil Country 13, 12.11, 12.48
12.55, 12.80, 12.15, 12.35 Omax Autos. 42.10, 46, 45.45
44.15, 48, 44, 45.80 Onward Techn 24.45, 23.90
24.50, 24.50, 23.50, 23.90 Opto Circuit 49.50, 53.30, 47.75,51.50Orbit Multi 0.64, 0.77, 0.64Orchid Chem 146.90, 155, 146,153.80
149, 155.90, 145.55, 153.70 Orient Info. 34.50, 33.25, 33.55
34.40, 34.45, 33.60, 33.85 Orient Paper 24.80, 24.90, 24.50,24.75
24.60, 24.75, 24.55, 24.75 Oriental Con 28, 28.05, 28Oriental Hot 82.25, 83, 80, 82.95
79, 83.90, 79, 81.90 Oswal Chem. 5.15, 5.30, 5.11, 5.20
5, 5.40, 5, 5.15
PPanacea Biot 37.90, 38.90, 36.60,38.45
37.55, 38.50, 36, 37.95 Pantaloon Re 105, 95, 115.75
110.90, 116.20, 101.70, 116.20 Paper Prod. 130, 129.15
129.95, 132, 129.95, 130.55 Paramount Co 8, 8.60Parekh Plati 8.65, 9, 8.55, 8.87
8.70, 8.90, 8.25, 8.85 Parry’s Conf 120
120, 122, 118, 121.75 Patel Engg. 168Patspin (I) 12.45, 12.12, 12.88
11.70, 13.25, 11.70, 12.50 PCS Inds. 24.10, 24.45, 23.80, 24Pennar Alum. 3, 3.45, 3.38Pentagon Glo 1.93, 2.20, 1.85, 1.99Pentasoft Te 7.07, 7.22, 7, 7.09
7.15, 7.25, 7.05, 7.10 Pharmacia He 96.15, 97, 94.60,94.80
95.50, 97, 93, 94.95 PHIL Corpn. 7.59, 6.30, 6.91
7.20, 7.20, 6.40, 6.80 Phillip Carb 36.50, 39.80, 37.90
39, 39, 38.10, 38.20 Phoenix Lamp 19.20, 21.35, 18.75,20.10Pioneer Embr 32, 32.50, 31.25Plastiblend 45.60, 44.50, 45.50PNB Gilts 24, 24.90, 23.40, 23.65
24.30, 24.50, 23.25, 23.75 Polyplex 79.50, 80, 78.50, 79.60
79.50, 80.05, 78.10, 79.55 Porrits&Spen 103, 101.20, 102Praj Ind. 62.85, 63.40
62.60, 64.45, 62.60, 63.10 Precision Wr 35, 35.25, 34.40, 34.95
35.30, 35.30, 34.10, 34.25 Premier Auto 5.60, 6.20, 6.10Premier Inst 250, 256.95, 256.60
249, 253, 246, 253 Prism Cement 6.80, 6.85, 6.65, 6.79
6.65, 6.80, 6.65, 6.75 Pritish Nand 29.70, 30, 29.15
29.90, 30, 29.15, 29.15 Priyad.Cemen 11.85, 12.98, 11.80,12.55
11.85, 12.50, 11.85, 12.35 Prraneta Ind 5.01, 5, 5.50PSI Data Sys 73.70, 71.60
72.35, 73.75, 71.60, 71.75 PSL 65, 68.75, 64, 67.75
61, 68.50, 61, 68 Pudumjee Pul 23, 23.35, 22.80, 23.05
23.60, 23.60, 23.05, 23.10 Pun.Alkali 9.05, 9.39, 9, 9.38Pun.Chemical 108, 111.90, 107, 110Pun.Communi. 52.20, 58.70, 51.20,57.95Pun.Nat.Bank 169, 172, 166.50,168.30
170.25, 171.90, 166.25, 168
RRain Calcing 18.80, 19.60, 18.65,18.90
17.70, 19.25, 16.30, 18.95 Raj.Spg.&Wvg 24.90, 24, 24.70
24.35, 24.50, 24, 24.25 Rajesh Exp 102.60, 98.50, 101.90
99.40, 101.75, 98.10, 101.75 Rajshree Sug 18.90, 19.25, 18.60,18.95
18.90, 19.20, 18.60, 18.75 Rallis India 79, 80.40, 76.70, 77.70
79.60, 80.45, 77.10, 77.60 Rama Newspri 4.85, 5.23, 5.05
4.95, 5.25, 4.95, 5.05 Ramco Inds. 175, 181.70, 164,171.25
170, 175, 167.50, 172.45 Ramco Systm 260, 261.25, 247,249.80
256.10, 261.75, 247, 249.60 Rane Brake 190, 187.50Rane Madras 73.10, 62, 62.55
67.50, 67.50, 60.80, 61.65 Ravalgaon Su 2256, 2100, 2107.15Rayban Sun O 54.50, 53.30, 54.30Reg.Ceramic 31.65, 30.50
31.15, 31.25, 30.10, 30.60 Rel.Ind.Infr 49, 49.85, 43.80, 45.35
43.75, 45, 43.75, 44.70 Relaxo Footw 19, 18.55Revathi Equ. 126.50, 124, 125.95Rico Auto 187, 188, 183
189, 189, 185.50, 186.30 RPG Cables 11.50, 11.90, 11.71
12.10, 12.10, 11.25, 11.80 RPG Life Sci 26.60, 27.70, 27.65
26.40, 27.55, 26.40, 27.45 RPG Transmi. 7.75, 7.90, 7.40, 7.52
7.10, 7.65, 7.10, 7.25 RS Software 23, 23.45, 23.35
23.65, 23.65, 23.05, 23.35 Ruchi Soya 38.50, 42.50
48, 48, 41.10, 41.30
SS Kumars Nat 5.40, 7, 6
6.20, 6.50, 5.75, 6.50 S.I.Bank 50.95, 51, 50.10, 50.65
51, 51.25, 50.15, 50.85 S.I.C.Agency 14.25, 14.60, 13.35,13.99
14, 14.10, 13.50, 13.75 Sabero Org. 8.80, 9.17, 8.75, 9
8.85, 9.15, 8.85, 9 Saint-Gobain 16.20, 17, 16.05, 16.25Sakthi Sugar 12, 11.60
12.50, 12.50, 11.30, 12 Salora Int. 46, 45.50
46, 46.20, 45.25, 45.30 Samkrg Pist. 50.05, 52.15, 52Samtel Color 28.30, 28.85
28.70, 29.05, 28.40, 28.75 Sandesh Ltd. 113.50, 112, 113.40
113, 113, 110, 110.50 Sangam (I) 26.50, 27.05, 26.30, 27
28.60, 28.60, 26.90, 26.95 Sanwaria Agr 22.10, 22.45, 22Saregama (I) 54.05, 54.50, 53.70,54.30
53.85, 54.50, 53.60, 54.05 SAT Invest. 11.80, 12, 10.86, 11.16Satnam Over. 48.85, 50.40, 47.60,49.70
48.20, 49.10, 47.25, 48.80 Satvah.Ispat 14, 14.40, 13.25, 13.56Saurash.Cem. 10.75, 11.50, 10.75Savita Chem. 84.10, 91, 88.75
89.80, 91, 88.25, 90.15 SBI Home Fin 15.55, 14.70, 14.95
14.80, 15.15, 14.50, 14.65 Schenec.Beck 73.80, 75, 74.90Schenec.Herd 36.20, 34.55Search Chem. 19.50, 21.10, 19.15,20.70
19.70, 21.10, 19.50, 20.65 Selan Explor 15, 14.85, 14.95Sesa Goa 164.80, 165.55, 158,161.95
164.50, 165.70, 157.55, 160.90 Sesha.Paper 51.90, 50.20
50.80, 51, 50, 50.15 Sh.Cements 84, 85, 81.65
82.95, 84.85, 81.25, 82.25 Sh.Digv.Cem. 29, 30.90Sh.Rama Mult 8.25, 8.70, 8.53
8.60, 8.80, 8.40, 8.45 Shah Alloys 60, 61.40, 58.65, 60.75Shalimar Pai 33.25, 34.25, 33, 34.05Shamken Mult 9.80
8.70, 9.75, 8.70, 9.25 Shamken Spin 5.16, 5.10, 5.22Shanti Gear 105, 110.90, 103, 103.40 Shasun Chem. 196.25, 201.45,194.20, 199.80
199, 202.70, 194, 199.75 Shaw Wallace 49, 50, 48.75, 49.50Shirpur Gold 27, 27.05, 26.50, 27
27, 28.45, 26.55, 28.20 Shiv Vani Un 18, 18.75, 17.80, 18Shrenuj & Co 34.60, 35.50
35, 36.90, 35, 35.75 Shriram Inv 16.70, 16.75, 16.70Shriram Tran 15.50, 15.65, 15.40,15.45
15.60, 15.60, 15.10, 15.35 Siemens VDO 75.75, 80.90, 69.50,69.55Siltap Che. 59.45, 61.20, 59, 60.20
59.50, 60.95, 59.50, 60.90 Simbh.Sugar 10.36, 10.50Simplex Conc 51.90, 55, 50.55, 54.35Sintex Inds. 57.50, 57.75, 56.50,56.80
56, 58, 55.70, 57.80 Sirpur Paper 53, 52.15, 52.35
52, 52.50, 51.30, 52.50 Siyaram Silk 56.75, 57.75, 52.05,53.10Skanska Ceme 236, 244, 236, 243.70 Snowcem (I) 19, 19.35, 18.75, 19.05
19.25, 19.45, 19, 19.25 Soffia Soft. 16.25, 18, 17.50
17.40, 18.30, 17.20, 17.40 Softsol (I) 12, 12.75, 12.02Software Tec 10.68, 11, 10.86
11.50, 11.50, 10.75, 10.95 Solectron Ce 64, 65, 59.75, 62.20Solvay Pharm 152, 140, 148Sona Koyo St 135, 136.90, 134,134.30Spel Semicon 3.74, 4.24, 4.06SPIC 7.90, 7.95, 7.66, 7.67
7.75, 7.85, 7.50, 7.75 SPL 24.70, 24.50, 24.60
24.35, 24.50, 23.45, 24.25 SQL Star Int 8.50, 8.65, 8, 8.40SREI Int.Fin 11.25, 10.60
10.30, 11, 10.30, 11 SRF 28.20, 28.30, 27.95, 28
28, 28.45, 28, 28.20 SRF Polymers 23.25, 24.75SRG Infotech 0.93, 0.95, 0.91
0.90, 1, 0.90, 0.95 Sri Adhikari 70.85, 71, 68.50, 68.85
70, 70.50, 68.15, 68.70 Star Paper 16.25, 16.40, 15.85, 15.90
15.85, 16.35, 15.85, 16.10 State Bnk Bi 940, 955, 939.95, 949State Bnk My 1025, 1045, 1040.75State Bnk Tr 880, 845.20, 871.35Std.Indust. 5.40, 5.45, 5.30, 5.43
5.30, 5.55, 5.30, 5.45 Sterl.Inds. 295, 305.80, 299.20Sterl.Tools 59.65, 60, 58.10, 58.35Stl.Strips W 14.50, 14.75, 13.66,14.50Su-raj Diamn 15.20, 15.50, 14.35,15.10
14.30, 15.65, 14.25, 15.25 Suashish Dia 22, 22.05Subex System 133, 135, 128.10,130.20Subhash Proj 29.95, 30.90, 30
28, 29, 28, 29 Subros 60, 58.25, 59.20Sulzer (I) 142, 146.95Sundaram Cla 339, 341, 330, 335.35
340, 340.05, 333.05, 335.50 Sundaram Fst 490, 495.05, 493.60
495.95, 495.95, 490.35, 491.50 Sunflag Iron 7.90, 8.38, 7.77, 8.21Super Spin. 82, 83, 82Supreme Inds 120, 123, 122.85
121, 123.35, 121, 123.05 Supreme Petr 15.25, 15.60, 14.60,15.03
15.15, 15.70, 14.75, 15 Surana Tele 14.05, 14.10
16.90, 16.90, 14.20, 14.65 Surat Elec. 112, 119.50, 113.70Surya Roshni 15.75, 17, 16.85
17, 17, 16.70, 16.75 Surylak.Cott 27.05
27.70, 29.90, 27.70, 29.25 Sutlej Inds. 53, 52.50, 53
53.50, 53.60, 53.50, 53.55 Suven Pharma 160, 165, 159.60,163.50Swaraj Engin 205.10, 205.30, 205.25
207.50, 210, 207.50, 209.10 Swaraj Mazda 130.25, 131.75, 130,130.45
131, 132.50, 131, 131.15 Syncom Form. 23.45, 23.50Synergy Log 7.17, 6.75, 6.90
TT Spiritual 188.85, 189.50, 188.70,189.25Taj GVK Hotl 52.50, 54, 53.30
52.50, 54, 52.50, 53.75 Tanfac Ind. 17.50, 17.75, 16.90TASC Pharma. 14
10.80, 10.80, 10.80, 10.80 Tata Coffee 92, 94, 91.25, 92.90
91.30, 92.80, 91.30, 92.20 Tata Finance 25.25, 25.45, 24.80,25.25
25, 25.40, 24.55, 25.10 Tata Honeywl 259.90, 245.55, 251.75
248, 249.05, 245, 248.75 Tata Infomed 163.75, 164, 156.25,159.30
162, 164, 157, 159.30 Tata Infotec 188.35, 191, 185, 186.50Tata Invest. 125, 127.20, 126.85
125, 126.95, 125, 126 Tata Metalik 58.50, 59.70, 57.30,58.10
59, 59.50, 57.35, 58 Tata Sponge 57.30, 57.50, 55.25,56.40
56.40, 57.50, 55.50, 56.40 Tata Teleser 8.40, 8.64, 8.37, 8.57
8.40, 8.60, 8.35, 8.50
Tata Yodogaw 44.50, 48.50, 47.35Tele Data In 33.35, 34, 33, 33.75Texmaco Ltd. 66.90, 68, 65.05, 67.45Themis Medic 42.70, 40.30Thiru A.Sug. 27, 25.40
24.75, 24.80, 24.55, 24.75 Thirumalai 65.05, 66.75, 63, 66.40
65.05, 66.30, 65, 65.80 Tide Water O 1169.95, 1100, 1106.50TIL 15.85, 14.90, 14.99
14.95, 14.95, 14.55, 14.80 Timex Watch 12.49, 11.35, 12.01Timken India 39, 38.10, 38.85Tinplate Co. 21.10, 22.35, 21, 21.55Tips Indus. 36.70, 37.75, 36.50,36.60
38, 38, 36.35, 36.55 TN Telecom 11.70, 11.22, 11.35
11.40, 11.90, 11.25, 11.30 Todays Writi 24.10, 27.40, 24, 26.25
26.40, 26.40, 23.80, 24.80 Torrent Guja 14.77, 15.40, 14.31,15.01Tourism Fina 10.55, 10.61, 10.40,10.43
11.35, 11.35, 10.45, 10.50 Transnat.Sec 25.05Transpek Ind 24.25, 24.45, 23.50,23.75Transport Co 25, 25.50, 25.10
25, 26.85, 25, 26.85 TRF 36, 38, 36.35Trigyn Tech. 19.40, 19.50, 18.70,19.05
19.70, 19.70, 18.75, 19.05 TTK Healthca 26.15, 25, 25.05TTK Prestige 10.16, 11.90, 10, 10.49
10.20, 10.45, 9.85, 10.05 Tube Invest. 110, 115
110, 115.15, 110, 114.85 Tudor India 18.35, 18.80, 18, 18.10Tuticorin.Al 4.95, 4.60, 4.62TV 18 92.70, 90.60, 90.90
92, 92.50, 90.70, 91.10 TVS Autolec 118, 124.90TVS Srichakr 54.80, 53.35, 54.15
UUB Holdings 25.10, 26.40, 26.20Ucal Fuel 230, 231.90, 223.25, 231
220.05, 233.40, 220.05, 232.55 Ugar Sugar 53.90, 53.85Ultramarine 71, 73.40, 73Unichem Lab 200, 204.80, 204.15
200, 206.50, 199.70, 204.80 Uniflex Cabl 5.89, 5.30, 5.40Union Bank 39.10, 40.35, 38.50,39.30
39.25, 40.40, 38.60, 39.45 Unitech 56.95, 54.50, 55.35
53.30, 55.55, 53.30, 54.10 United Brew. 96.70, 99.75, 95, 96United We.Bk 28.15, 29.50, 28.10, 29
28.60, 29.50, 28.60, 29 Univer.Cable 14.20, 13.01, 13.72
13.40, 13.75, 13.10, 13.35 Upper Ganges 19, 18.50, 19
18.50, 19, 18.50, 19 Usha Martin 34.40, 35.40, 33.85,34.95
34.45, 35.25, 33.80, 34.85 Usha Mat.Inf 4.77, 4.90, 4.65, 4.71
5.05, 5.20, 4.65, 4.70 Uttam Galva. 16.45, 17.25, 16.11,17.14
16.70, 17.25, 16.05, 17.10
VVaibhav Gems 24.50, 23.35Vanavil Dyes 44.65, 45.85, 45.50Vardhman Pol 48.05, 49, 48, 48.50
46.25, 50.50, 46, 48.35 Vardhman Spg 74.80, 75, 69.10,72.30
72, 73.50, 69, 72.20 Varun Ship. 13.30, 13.70, 13.05,13.58
13.35, 13.75, 13.05, 13.60 Vashisti Det 12.70, 11.95, 12.30
12, 12.25, 11.95, 12.20 Venky’s (I) 56.50, 51.75, 53.80
52.15, 54.65, 52.15, 53.55 Veronica Lab 7.95, 7.69, 7.93Vesuvius (I) 94.70, 92, 92.85
92.50, 94.40, 92.20, 94.05 Viceroy Hot. 11, 10.50Videocon Apl 11, 11.73, 11.68
12, 12, 11.40, 11.55 Videocon Fin 14.60, 14.85, 14.05,14.75
14.45, 14.95, 14, 14 Vidhi Dyestu 14, 15.40, 13.85, 14.30Vikrant Tyre 14.70, 14.75, 13.55, 14Vinati Org. 16.35Vindhya Tele 22.90, 27, 22.85, 26
23.25, 26.65, 23.20, 25.60 Vintage Card 8.01, 7.90
8, 8, 7.90, 8 Vinyl Chem. 10.95, 11.10, 10.76,10.80
10.95, 11.20, 10.70, 10.95 VIP Indus. 22, 21.30, 21.70
21.50, 21.80, 21.25, 21.60 Visaka Ind. 29.45, 28.25, 28.30
29, 29.15, 28.30, 28.55 Visesh Info 5.17, 5.58, 5.10, 5.12
5.25, 5.50, 5.05, 5.25 Vision Organ 2, 2.07, 2.04
2.05, 2.10, 2, 2.05 VJIL Consult 7.53, 9.25, 8.94Voltas 77, 80, 79.80
78.75, 80, 77.40, 79.65 VST Indus. 147, 138.10, 139
140, 142, 140, 140.45 VST Tillers 38.25, 41.75, 40.90VXL Instrum. 28.90, 27.55, 27.85
WWalchandngr 41.85, 38.30, 39.50
37.75, 41.50, 37.75, 40.80 Warren Tea 40.40, 42, 41.50Wartsila (I) 118, 119, 116, 118.50
110.25, 119.50, 110.25, 119.50 Wellwin Ind. 13.24, 13.49, 13.03,13.42
13.05, 13.55, 13, 13.50 Welspun (I) 44, 44.05, 42.25Welspun Guj. 22.10, 22.20, 21.20,21.90Wendt (I) 378, 380, 370, 370.25West Coast P 157, 162, 155.40,158.20
158.90, 162, 158, 160 Widia (I) 88, 89, 85.50, 86Wim Plast 41.95, 41.45, 42Wimco 28.55, 31.95, 29.90
29.20, 31.50, 29.05, 30 Wockhardt Lf 24.70, 25.30, 24.60,25.05
25, 25.25, 24.55, 25 Wyeth 279, 286, 280.20
284.90, 295, 280, 281.35
YYokogawa Blu 64.25, 66.10
64.50, 67.40, 64.05, 65.90
ZZandu Pharm 1685, 1775, 1680,1710
1700, 1799, 1690, 1774.50 Zenith Comp. 10.95, 12.13, 11.70
10, 11.95, 10, 11.55 Zenith Exp. 41
38.55, 38.55, 38.55, 38.55 Zenith Info. 11.80, 13.20, 11.60,12.50
12.05, 13.40, 11.45, 12.65 ZF Steering 114.95, 110.25Zicom Electn 31.55, 33.50, 31.15,32.85Zigma Soft. 4, 3.75, 3.95Zodiac Cloth 100, 96.50, 103.85
98, 104.55, 98, 102.80 Zuari Inds. 29, 29.50, 28.55, 28.80
28.80, 29.50, 28.30, 28.65
As on 23/07/2003
Alliance Capital Mutual Fund 95 (D) 30.66 31.27 30.6695 (G) 55.33 56.44 55.33Basic Inds.(D) 16.41 16.74 16.41Basic Inds.(G) 16.42 16.75 16.42Buy India (D) 5.52 5.63 5.52Buy India (G) 5.53 5.64 5.53Capital Tax Relief’96 67.40 68.07 67.40Cash Manager (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01Cash Manager (G) 15.09 15.09 15.09Cash Manager Instnl (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01Cash Manager Instnl (G) 10.15 10.15 10.15Equity (D) 17.58 17.93 17.58Equity (G) 31.76 32.40 31.76Frontline Eq(D) 12.21 12.45 12.21Frontline Eq(G) 12.22 12.46 12.22G-Sec Long Term (D) 11.76 11.76 11.76G-Sec Long Term (G) 17.47 17.47 17.47G-Sec Short Term (D) 10.17 10.17 10.17G-Sec Short Term (G) 14.07 14.07 14.07Income (D) 11.20 11.20 11.20Income (G) 21.96 21.96 21.96Income 54EA (D) 11.21 11.21 11.21Income 54EA (G) 21.95 21.95 21.95Income 54EB (D) 11.22 11.22 11.22Income 54EB (G) 21.81 21.81 21.81Income Q’ly (D) 10.35 10.35 10.35Monthly Income (G) 17.64 17.64 17.64Monthly Income (M’ly) 10.56 10.56 10.56Monthly Income (Q’ly) 10.54 10.54 10.54New Millennium (D) 3.97 4.05 3.97New Millennium (G) 3.98 4.06 3.98Short Term (D) 10.04 10.04 10.04Short Term (G) 10.95 10.95 10.95Short Term Fund Instnl(D) 10.04 10.04 10.04Short Term Fund Instnl(G) 10.08 10.08 10.08Birla Sunlife Insurance Group Fixed Interest 11.03 — —Group Growth 13.46 — —Group Secure 13.30 — —Group Stable 14.66 — —Indiv.Pension Pol.Enrich 10.42 — —Indiv.Pension Pol.Growth 10.43 — —Indiv.Pension Pol.Nourish 10.43 — —Individual Builder 13.04 — —Individual Enhancer 13.90 — —Individual Protector 12.42 — —Benchmark Mutual Fund Liquid BeES 1000.00 — —Nifty BeES 114.33 — —Nifty Junior BeES 190.96 — —Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund Advantage (A) 30.02 30.32 30.02Advantage (B) 30.02 30.32 30.02Balance (D) 10.46 10.56 10.46Balance (G) 10.46 10.56 10.46Bond Index Fund (Div) 10.20 10.20 10.20Bond Index Fund (G) 10.20 10.20 10.20Bond Plus Inst.(G) 11.36 11.36 11.36Bond Plus Retail (D) 11.22 11.22 11.22Bond plus Inst.(D) 10.49 10.49 10.49
Bond plus Retail (G) 11.36 11.36 11.36Cash Plus Inst.(G) 16.57 16.57 16.57Cash Plus Inst.(MDP) 10.04 10.04 10.04Cash Plus Retail (D) 16.35 16.35 16.35Cash Plus Retail (G) 16.56 16.56 16.56Cash Plus-Inst.(D) 10.79 10.79 10.79D Yield Plus(Div) 11.42 11.65 11.42D Yield Plus(G) 12.84 13.10 12.84Equity Plan 17.65 17.65 17.65FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (D) 10.73 10.73 10.73FMP 1 Year Group 5 A (G) 10.73 10.73 10.73FMP Quarterly Group 1 (D) 11.08 11.08 11.08FMP Quarterly Group 1 (G) 11.30 11.30 11.30Float.Rate Long Term(D) 10.07 10.07 10.07Float.Rate Long Term(G) 10.07 10.07 10.07Float.Rate Short Term(D) 10.07 10.07 10.07Float.Rate Short Term(G) 10.07 10.07 10.07Gilt Plus-Liquid-(A)(D) 10.60 10.60 10.60Gilt Plus-Liquid-(B)(G) 15.14 15.14 15.14Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(A)(D) 11.48 11.48 11.48Gilt Plus-PF Plan-(B)(G) 18.15 18.15 18.15Gilt Plus-Reg.-(AD) 11.82 11.82 11.82Gilt Plus-Reg.-(BG) 19.95 19.95 19.95INDEX (Div) 11.64 11.64 11.64INDEX (G) 11.64 11.64 11.64IT Plan A (Div Payout) 11.76 12.00 11.76IT Plan A (Div Reinv) 11.76 12.00 11.76IT Plan B (G) 13.64 13.91 13.64Income Plus Inst. A(D) 26.68 26.68 26.68Income Plus Inst. B(G) 26.95 26.95 26.95Income Plus Plan A(D) 10.63 10.63 10.63Income Plus Plan B(G) 26.84 26.84 26.84MIDCAP (Div) 10.95 11.17 10.95MIDCAP (G) 13.72 13.99 13.72MIP Plan A (D) 10.72 10.72 10.72MIP Plan B (Payment/G) 13.90 13.90 13.90MIP Plan C (Payment/G) 13.90 13.90 13.90MNC Plan A (Div Payout) 27.16 27.70 27.16MNC Plan A (Div Reinv) 27.16 27.70 27.16MNC Plan B (Gr) 34.02 34.70 34.02Sweep Plan (D) 10.21 10.21 10.21Sweep Plan (G) 10.42 10.42 10.42BOB Mutual Fund Elss 96 12.55 12.86 12.55Gilt (D) 10.36 10.36 10.30Gilt (G) 10.35 10.35 10.30Income (D) 10.81 10.81 10.76Income (G) 10.81 10.81 10.76Income Fund STP (D) 10.46 10.46 10.46Income Fund STP (G) 10.42 10.42 10.42Liquid (D) 10.88 10.88 10.88Liquid (G) 11.00 11.00 11.00Canbank Mutual Fund Canbonus 8.62 8.78 8.62Cancigo 10.86 10.86 10.86Cancigo (G) 12.27 12.27 12.27Canequity Tax Saver 10.99 11.07 10.99Canexpo 13.74 13.99 13.74Canexpo (G) 13.74 13.99 13.74Canganga 8.79 8.94 8.79Cangilt PGS (D) 10.10 10.10 10.10Cangilt PGS (G) 16.54 16.54 16.54Canglobal 5.28 5.38 5.28Canincome (B) 10.37 10.37 10.37Canincome (G) 10.88 10.88 10.88Canincome (I) 10.34 10.34 10.34Canliquid (D) 10.05 10.05 10.05Canliquid (G) 11.11 11.11 11.11Canpremium 13.05 13.28 13.05Canpremium (G) 14.79 15.05 14.79
Cantriple 21.77 22.15 21.77Chola Mutual Fund FMP Y’ly (D) 10.19 10.19 9.99Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly) 10.48 10.48 10.48Freedom Income (C) 17.75 17.75 17.75Freedom Income (R) 10.15 10.15 10.15Freedom Income-Inst Cum 17.78 17.78 17.78Freedom Income-Inst Reg 10.15 10.15 10.15Freedom Tech.(Cum) 8.23 8.39 8.23Freedom Tech.(Reg) 5.33 5.44 5.33Gilt Invst.(Cum) 16.24 16.24 16.24Gilt Invst.(Reg) 10.12 10.12 10.12Gilt Series (Cum) 13.35 13.61 13.21Gilt Series (Reg) 13.35 13.61 13.21Growth (Cum) 14.75 15.05 14.75Growth (Reg) 10.38 10.59 10.38Liq.-Cum.-Inst Cum 12.40 12.40 12.40Liquid Instl. Div.Pay 10.98 10.98 10.98Liquid-Reg.-Inst.Plus 11.36 11.36 11.36Lq. (Cum) 12.39 12.39 12.39Lq. (Reg) 11.35 11.35 11.35Lq.Sr. Apr-06 (Reg) 12.15 12.15 12.15Triple Ace (B) 12.09 12.09 12.09Triple Ace (Cum) 21.76 21.76 21.76Triple Ace (Reg) 10.95 10.95 10.95Triple Ace Inst Cum 21.80 21.80 21.80Triple Ace-Inst Reg 10.96 10.96 10.96Deutsche Mutual Fund 385DAYS - 260303 10.23 10.23 10.17Alpha Equity 11.11 11.28 11.11Insta CP-Reg.(D) 10.16 10.16 10.16Insta CP-Weekly(D) 10.13 10.13 10.13Insta Cash Plus 10.29 10.29 10.29Premier Bond (Reg) 10.47 10.47 10.42Premier Bond Instt. 10.51 10.51 10.51Premier Bond-Inst(MD) 10.39 10.39 10.39Premier Bond-Inst.(QD) 10.34 10.34 10.34Premier Bond-Reg.(MD) 10.35 10.35 10.30Premier Bond-Reg>(QD) 10.31 10.31 10.26Short Maturity Fund 10.35 10.35 10.35Short Maturity MD 10.22 10.22 10.22Short Maturity Weekly (D) 10.22 10.22 10.22DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 11.10 11.10 10.93Balanced (G) 12.40 12.40 12.21Bond (D) 10.97 10.97 10.97Bond (G) 21.83 21.83 21.83Bond Fund - Instl.(D) 10.18 10.18 10.18Bond Fund Inst. 10.52 10.52 10.52Equity 16.78 17.12 16.78Floating Rate Fund 10.10 10.10 10.10Floating(D) 10.01 10.01 10.01Floating(WD) 10.01 10.01 10.01Govt.Sec. (A-D) 11.86 11.86 11.86Govt.Sec. (A-G) 20.13 20.13 20.13Govt.Sec. (B-D) 10.72 10.72 10.72Govt.Sec. (B-G) 14.17 14.17 14.17Liquidity (D) 12.41 12.41 12.41Liquidity (DD) 10.01 10.01 10.01Liquidity (G) 14.97 14.97 14.97Opportunities 11.01 11.23 11.01Savings Plus 10.51 10.51 10.51Savings Plus (MD) 10.28 10.28 10.28Savings Plus (QD) 10.28 10.28 10.28Short Term (G) 10.67 10.67 10.67Short Term (WD) 10.02 10.02 10.02Short Term(D) 10.17 10.17 10.17Technology.Com 4.55 4.64 4.55Top 100 (G) 12.62 12.87 12.62Top 100(D) 11.79 12.03 11.79
Escorts Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 12.72 12.87 12.72Balanced (G) 14.12 14.29 14.12Gilt (D) 12.30 12.30 12.30Gilt (G) 13.45 13.45 13.45Growth (G) 13.66 13.87 13.66Growth (D) 12.48 12.67 12.48Income (D) 10.51 10.51 10.51Income (G) 18.84 18.84 18.84Income Bond (D) 10.18 10.18 10.18Income Bond (G) 12.10 12.10 12.10Opportunities (D) 11.00 11.00 11.00Opportunities (G) 13.18 13.18 13.18Tax (D) 11.11 11.11 —Tax (G) 11.11 11.11 —First India Mutual Fund Gilt 11.09 11.09 11.09Gilt Fund - (D) 10.58 10.58 10.58Growth 11.80 12.04 11.80Income 11.09 11.09 11.09Income Fund (D) 10.41 10.41 10.41Liquid (D) 10.19 10.19 10.19Liquid (G) 10.98 10.98 10.98Short Term 10.68 10.68 10.68Short Term (D) 10.22 10.22 10.22Tax Gain 40.01 40.81 40.01UTI Mutual Fund Bond (G) 18.04 18.04 17.95Bond (I) 10.93 10.93 10.88Brand Value 8.41 8.41 8.24CCP 13.79 13.79 13.24CRTS 93.24 93.24 90.44Equity Tax Savings 11.71 11.71 11.59G-Sec (G) 17.02 17.02 17.02G-Sec (I) 10.94 10.94 10.94Grandmaster 93 10.76 10.76 10.54Index Select Eq. 15.06 15.36 15.06LIQUID CASH PLAN (G) 10.04 10.04 10.04LIQUID CASH PLAN (I) 10.02 10.02 10.02Mahila Unit Scheme 13.27 13.27 12.87Master Growth-1993 15.62 15.62 15.31Master Index 11.08 11.08 11.02Master Value Unit 1998 20.15 20.15 19.75Mastergain 92 11.42 11.42 11.19Masterplus 91 18.32 18.32 17.95Money Market (G) 17.25 17.25 17.25Money Market (In) 17.07 17.07 17.07Nifty Index 6.94 6.94 6.91PEF 14.28 14.57 14.28Petro 15.19 15.19 14.89Pharma & Healthcare 11.79 11.79 11.55RBP 1994 19.37 19.76 18.40Regular Income 10.28 10.28 10.23Regular Income Scheme (G) 10.68 10.68 10.62SHORT TERM PLAN (G) 10.05 10.05 10.03SHORT TERM PLAN (I) 10.05 10.05 10.03SUNDER 112.17 112.17 112.17Service 16.01 16.01 15.69Software 6.75 6.75 6.62UGS 10000 11.47 11.70 11.47ULIP 12.53 12.53 12.34US 2002 6.24 6.24 6.15US 95 (G) 21.71 21.71 21.28US 95 (I) 13.73 13.73 13.46Variable Invt.(ILS) 10.85 10.99 10.85Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund FT Asset Allocat.Bal Gr. 11.16 11.33 11.16FT Asset Allocat.Cons Gr. 11.12 11.28 11.12FT Asset Allocat.Infl 10.96 11.12 10.96FT Asset Allocat.Pure Gr. 11.29 11.46 11.29
FT Asset Allocat.Steady G 11.23 11.40 11.23FT Balanced (G) 10.74 10.90 10.74FT Gilt Invst (G) 13.54 13.54 13.54FT Gilt Invst (M’ly B) 12.38 12.38 12.38FT Gilt Invst (Q’ly) 11.37 11.37 11.37FT Gilt Liquid (G) 11.38 11.38 11.38FT Gilt Liquid (M’ly) 10.33 10.33 10.33FT Index - BSE 10.63 10.74 10.63FT Index - Nifty 11.15 11.26 11.15FT Monthly Income (G) 13.97 13.97 13.97FT Monthly Income (M’ly B 12.74 12.74 12.74FT Monthly Income (M) 10.99 10.99 10.99FT Monthly Income (Q) 11.00 11.00 11.00FT PE Ratio 10.03 10.18 10.03Franklin Balanced(D) 11.83 12.01 11.83Franklin Balanced(G) 12.33 12.51 12.33Franklin Bluechip (D) 14.61 14.91 14.61Franklin Bluechip (G) 28.75 29.32 28.75Franklin FMCG 11.64 11.87 11.64Franklin Growth 6.74 6.87 6.74Franklin Index 8.64 8.64 8.64Franklin Index Tax 8.84 8.92 8.84Franklin Infotech (D) 8.16 8.32 8.16Franklin Infotech (G) 11.93 12.17 11.93Franklin Internet Opp 5.00 5.10 5.00Franklin Intl. 9.67 9.67 9.67Franklin Pharma 10.64 10.85 10.64Franklin Prima (D) 19.41 19.80 19.41Franklin Prima (G) 42.97 43.83 42.97Franklin Prima Plus (D) 16.20 16.52 16.20Franklin Prima Plus (G) 29.71 30.30 29.71Franklin T TMA (Dly) 1511.96 1511.96 1511.96Franklin Taxshield (D) 14.22 14.51 14.22Franklin Taxshield (G) 30.26 30.87 30.26IBA (Instl Plan)-(Qtrly) 10.68 10.68 10.68Maxima (D) 11.25 11.25 11.25Maxima (G) 17.93 17.93 17.93SIP 04-Apr-04 10.41 10.41 10.41SIP 25-Apr-05 10.20 10.20 10.20T Children’s Asset 18.52 18.52 18.52T Floating Rate In LT (D) 10.22 10.22 10.22T Floating Rate In LT (G) 11.06 11.06 11.06T Floating Rate In ST (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01T Floating Rate In ST (G) 11.03 11.03 11.03T G Sec (D) 11.70 11.70 11.70T G Sec (G) 21.09 21.09 21.09T G Sec Tr (D) 10.57 10.57 10.57T G Sec Tr (G) 11.62 11.62 11.62T IBA (D) 11.30 11.30 11.30T IBA (G) 22.33 22.33 22.33T IBA (H-Y’ly) 15.05 15.05 15.05T IBA (Instl Plan) 11.28 11.28 11.28T IBA (M’ ly) 14.98 14.98 14.98T IBA (M’ly B) 19.81 19.81 19.81T IBA (Q’y) 14.80 14.80 14.80T Income (D) 11.26 11.26 11.26T Income (G) 22.68 22.68 22.68T India Growth 16.28 16.61 16.28T Liquid (D - D’ly) 10.00 10.00 10.00T Liquid (D) 10.00 10.00 10.00T Liquid (G) 15.23 15.23 15.23T Liquid Plus 11.45 11.45 11.45T Liquid Plus (D) 10.00 10.00 10.00T MMA 1.00 1.00 1.00T Monthly Income (G) 14.12 14.12 14.12T Monthly Income (H-Y’ly) 10.93 10.93 10.93T Monthly Income (M’ly) 10.35 10.35 10.35T Monthly Income (Q’ly) 10.27 10.27 10.27T Pension Plan (D) 12.78 12.97 12.78T Pension Plan (G) 22.15 22.48 22.15
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Sensex soars 90 pointsMumbai: A late heavy bout of all-round buying helped the Sensexto zoom up by a whopping 90.18 points to close at 3668.07 on Bom-bay Stock Exchange on Thursday.
Foreign institutional investors, who had sloweddown their activity for the past couple of weeks, reportedly turnedaggressive buyers in select old-economy blue-chips.Better-than-ex-pected Q1 results announced by Satyam Computer, SBI, ACC, Ran-baxy and few other scrips also aided the uptrend. Satyam Comput-er’s net profit rose by nearly 12 per cent in the first quarter endedJune 30, 2003, while SBI’s jumped by around 20 per cent, ACC’s by122 per cent and Ranbaxy’s by 42 per cent.The top heavyweightsRIL and HLL were particularly in keen demand and finished withsharp gains.Spurt in the Sensex could be gauged by a rise in 25 outof 30 index-based shares including ACC, BHEL, Dr Reddy, Cipla,Grasim, HCL Techno, HDFC, ICICI Bank, ITC, L&T, Infosys Tech,Satyam Computer, SBI and Tisco. Positive advices from Wall Streetwhere the Dow Jones industrial average and the Nasdaq compos-ite index moved up by 35.79 points and 13.05 points respectively onWednesday also generated heavy buying.PTI
KEY: The BSE quotations of a scrip are given in the first line while the quotes in ital-ics are those of the NSE.The quotations are in the sequence of the day’s opening,high, low, and closing. Each time a company’s closing share price falls below its “lastoffer price” on BSE, the name of the company is underlined.
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201 countries at Athens: Arecord 201 countries will compete inthe 2004 Athens Olympics — twomore than that at the 2000 SydneyGames, organisers have said. Newly-recognised Olympic countries EastTimor, granted independence fromIndonesia in 2002, and Kiribati, ascattered central Pacific atoll nation,make their Games debut.Afghanistan, suspended in 1999 forthe Taliban ban on women, return forthe first time since the 1996 AtlantaGames after the InternationalOlympic Committee lifted the ban inJune. AFP
Badminton nationals: The seniorNational badminton championshipswill be held in Bangalore. The lasttime it was held in Karnataka was in1962. According to the Calendar ofEvents of Badminton Association ofIndia, the Nationals would be heldfrom December 29 to January 5. PTI
Nagpur to host National B: Topplayers including newly crowned GMSandipan Chanda, GM elect G BPrakash, GM norm holder D V Prasadand WGM S Vijaylakshmi would par-ticipate in 41st Hindustan PetroleumNational ‘B’ Chess Championshipstarting at Nagpur this month end.Over 250 chess players from allaround the country including as many as 200 FIDE rated playerswould be seen in action in the July 30 to August 9 tournament, theorganisers said. PTI
Diego puts Brazil in final: Brazileliminated the defending championUnited States from the CONCACAFGold Cup, overcoming a late deficit to beat the Americans 2-1 lastnight on Diego’s penalty kick in the 10th minute of overtime to reachthe final. Reuters
Liverpool skipper Sami Hyypia liftsthe trophy after his team’s victoryagainst Thailand in Bangkok onThursday. Liverpool won 3-1 intheir first match of a whirlwindAsian tour.
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We have mutually agreed that Sehwag’s
contract is terminated and this will enable us to
seek a substitute — Leicestershire coach
Phil Whitticase
Veeru is a free bird againLondon: Virender Sehwagwas on Thursday released byhis county Leicestershiremid-way through his con-tract and is returning homefor rest and treatment on hisback injury.
Sehwag’s contract, report-edly worth 80,000 pounds,was terminated by mutualagreement after doctors ad-vised at least six week’s restfor the opener, a statementissued by the club said.
“We have mutually agreedthat his contract is terminat-ed and this will enable us toseek a substitute overseasplayer for the remainder ofthe season,” Leicestershirecoach Phil Whitticase saidin the statement. “We arevery grateful to Virender forthe consideration he hasshown to the club and arenaturally disappointed thathe will not be available to usfor the rest of the season.”
Sehwag, who played sixchampionship games in hisdebut county season scoringtwo centuries and totalling478 runs at an average of47.8, said he hoped to returnto Leicestershire in future.
“I am disappointed that Iwill not be able to see out mycontract with Leicester-shire. I would like to expressthanks to my teammates,supporters and club officialsfor making my short stay atLeicestershire a memorableand enjoyable one.
“I will take back fondmemories of my time hereand I wish the team the bestof luck. I hope Leicester-shire will give me the oppor-tunity to play for them atsome stage in the future.”
EB hold nerveto reach final
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New Delhi: Ten-men EastBengal pipped Indonesia’schampion club, PetrokimiaPutra, via tie-breaker (8-7)to reach the final of the LGASEAN Club Cup champi-onship in Jakarta onThursday, as per informa-tion reaching here. Theteams were deadlocked 1-1despite the extra-time.
This is the first time anIndian club had made it tothe final of an internation-al club tournament. Theprevious best showing byan Indian club was in 1985when Mohammedan Sport-ing reached the semifinalsof the Nehru Cup wherethey lost to Denmark’s Lyn-gby Club.
The Indian championsplay AFC ChampionsLeague finalist Bec TeroSasana, Thailand in the fi-nal on Saturday (6pm —IST). Bec Tero defeated
Malaysian champions Per-ak FC 3-1 in scond semifinal.
East Bengal, however,suffered a double blow inthe semis when defencestalwarts Brazilian Dou-glas da Silva and MaheshGawli were ruled out of thefinal. While Douglas re-ceived his second yellowcard, Gawli was flashed thered card in the 77th minute.
Custodian Sandip Nandydid the star turn for EastBengal, blocking TwiDjoko’s weak shot in thesudden death to seal thematch. For East Bengal,Baichung Bhutia, BijenSingh, Suleh Musah, Chan-dan Das, Surkumar Singh,Douglas and M. Sureshwere on target whileteenager Tulunga shotover the bar.
East Bengal: Sandip Nandy, DipakMondal, M. Suresh, Mahesh Gawli,Surkumar Singh, Douglas da Silva, SulehMusah, Shasthi Duley (Chandan Das),Alvito D’Cunha (Bijen Singh), Mike Okoro(M Tulunga), Baichung Bhutia.
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East Bengal’s S Malsawmtulunga dribbles pastPetrokimia Putra’s Heri Purnomo in the Asean Club Cupsemifinal in Jakarta on Thursday.
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Whaley’s pinnacleShe may not be in the same league asAnnika Sorenstam but Suzy Whaley is allset to enjoy the attention as she tees off ina men’s event, the Greater Hartford Open.
Whaley says, ‘‘this is the pinnacle ofanything I’ve ever done,”
Ranieri, the dodgerClaudio Ranieri won’t let the catout of the bag. The Chelsea coachwas cagey when asked if he waschasing Veron and Vieri. All hesays is, ‘‘it’s good for everybody tohave speculations every day,”
Evander Holyfield doesn’t want to retiretill he reclaims the IBF, WBC and WBAbelts. That in mind, he will be looking tobeat James Toney whom he meets laterthis year as it will pave the way for a shotat the world heavyweight title
Holyfield aims high
Arjun Singh takes sole lead in Kashmir Open golf
ICC says ratings are objective and fair
Birmingham: SouthAfrica captain GraemeSmith and HerschelleGibbs both scored theirmaiden Test hundredsagainst England as theProteas moved into a com-manding position on thefirst day of the first Test atEdgbaston on Thursday.
At tea, South Africawere 265 without loss, withleft-hander Smith 107 notout off 167 balls, with 17fours while Gibbs was on143 not out, made from 184balls with one six and 24fours. The WesternProvince duo’s stand was anew first wicket record forSouth Africa against Eng-land, surpassing the 260set by Bruce Mitchell andJack Siedle at Cape Townin 1930-31.
But Gibbs was droppedon 94 and 125, England fail-ing to take preciouschances as the openingpair backed up Smith’s de-cision to bat first on aplacid pitch.
Smith’s innings, histhird Test century, meanthe had scored a Test hun-dred against England at
his first attempt whileGibbs’s hundred was hisninth at this level.
South Africa started thesecond session well-placedat 100 without loss, bothSmith and Gibbs 47 notout. Gibbs was first to his
fifty, cutting AndrewFlintoff for four and bring-ing up his half-century in96 balls including nineboundaries. And whenpaceman Flintoff gaveGibbs width he steered asquare drive behind point
for another four.South Africa (1st innings): G Smithbatting 107, H Gibbs batting 143). Ex-tras: (b-4, lb-8, nb-3) 15. Total (for noloss in 58 overs at Tea): 265.Bowling: Anderson 10-1-62-0;Gough 10-4-34-0; Flintoff 14-4-52-0;Harmison 12-1-48-0; Giles 10-1-42-0; Butcher 2-0-15-0.
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England skipper Nasser Hussain lies on the ground after fielding the ball during thefirst day’s play the Edgbaston Test against South Africa on Thursday.
Smith, Gibbs overpower England
Johannesburg: All rounderJacques Kallis is expected torejoin his South Africa teammates on their tour of Eng-land following the death ofhis father on Wednesday.
Kallis missed the first Testwhich starts at Edgbaston onThursday after returninghome immediately after aOne-day triangular seriesearlier this month to be withhis father Henry, who wassuffering from lung cancer.
“This is a terribly sad anddifficult time for bothJacques and Janine, who
have suffered along withtheir father for some time,”United Cricket Board chiefexecutive officer Gerald Ma-jola said in a statement.“Jacques has always namedhis dad as his biggest influ-ence and mentor and Henrygave his everything to sup-port both his children. Ourthoughts are with them,” hesaid. No date has been set forKallis’s return. The secondTest at Lord’s starts nextweek, with the third of thefive-game series starting onAugust 14 at Trent Bridge. AFP
Bridgetown (Barbados):West Indies cricket captainsBrian Lara and RamnareshSarwan will play in a celebri-ty benefit in New York toraise money for a former Bar-bados player, organisers saidon Wednesday. The pair,along with fast bowler CoreyCollymore, will play the Au-gust 23 match in Brooklyn aspart of a year of activities toraise funds for former spinbowler Lawrence Maxwell,who the Barbados Cricket As-
sociation says contributed tothe region’s game though hewas never selected for theWest Indies team.
Along with the West Indiesstar trio, the celebrity matchwill feature West Indies leg-ends Sir Garfield Sobers, SirEverton Weekes, GordonGreenidge, Desmond Haynes,and Joel Garner, the organis-ers said. Other benefit match-es are scheduled to take placein Miami and California inOctober. AP
CRICKET UPDATE
Row of thesynthetic green
By Amit KarmarkarTIMES NEWS NETWORK
Pune: Clean Mumbai,green Mumbai. That wasa government sloganduring a cleanlinessdrive in Mumbai someyears ago. But it was thegreen-painted outfield ofthe Wankhede Stadiumthat has made the chiefof the former BCCIgrounds and pitches com-mittee, G. Kasturi Ran-gan, red-faced. Kasturihas recently resignedfrom the committee.
Due to paucity of prop-er grass during the India-West Indies Test last Oc-tober (Sachin Ten-dulkar’s 101st and CarlHoopers 100th), the au-thorities had to do a face-saving act. Hence theypainted the outfield.
When board chief Jag-mohan Dalmiya soughtan explanation, accord-ing to MCA secretaryRatnakar Shetty, Kasturiwrote the quality of redearth was unsatisfactory.
‘Big test for Bangla batsmen’Cairns (Australia): Bangladesh face a huge challenge in thesecond Test against Australia starting here on Friday, Aus-tralian skipper Steve Waugh warned on Thursday. “I’m notgoing to predict carnage, but it’ll be a very good test for theBangladesh batsmen,” Waugh said. “There’s certainly a bitof moisture in the pitch and it’ll favour the quick bowlers.”
Bangladesh coach Dav Whatmore, who understands Aus-tralian conditions after playing in this country and battingin seven Tests for Australia, agreed. “You don’t have to beEinstein to work out batting has been the biggest problemfacing the side,” he said. Bangladesh have lost 19 of their first20 Tests. Last week they crashed for totals of 97 and 178 inDarwin, being crushed by an innings and 132 runs. AFP
Ajit Ninan
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New Delhi: Hitting back at wide-spraed criticism in India of it’s one-day ranking system, the Interna-tional Cricket Council (ICC) claimedthe official ODI rating system pro-vided an objective, fair and fact-based analysis of the performancesof all teams. In a release from Lon-don on Thursday, ICC said India de-served its present lowly ranking.
The ICC’s system took a lot of flakafter India, who reached the final ofthe 2003 World Cup, dropped fromfifth to eighth in the latest rankings.Indian captain Sourav Ganguly hadcalled it a logic-defying logic.
The ICC release quoted its chiefexecutive Malcolm Speed as saying,‘‘the official ratings assessed ateam’s performance over a period oftwo years and not two months. Suc-cess in a single tournament wouldnot wipe out poor performances out-side that event.’’ The release said In-dia’s poor rating reflected the factthat while it enjoyed some success inkey tournaments, it had performedquite poorly at other times againstteams that were ranked below it inthe table.
ICC added the updated ratingstable showed England, India, NewZealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and
West Indies were evenly matchedand with only three points separat-ing these teams, the table reflectedjust how close these sides are to eachother. The release also said that In-dia’s multiple losses against sidesthat were at the time ranked below itdamaged its rating.
ICC also quoted David Kendix,who devised the ratings, as saying‘‘India’s success at the World Cupdoes not alter history.” He adds:‘‘Given its inconsistent performanc-es against teams that were rated be-low it in the table, it should be of nosurprise that India has been unableto improve its rating.’’
India lose in Milk CupNew Delhi: Ten-men Indiawent down 1-2 to Argen-tinean giants River Plate inthe U-18 Milk Cup at North-ern Ireland on Wednesdaynight. The Indian colts, whoearlier narrowly missed aplace in the last eight of thepremier category of the tour-nament, had to settle for anouting against the Argentineside in the quarterfinal ofthe secondary B T Trophy.
After a barren first half,Vi-mal Perrier put India into thelead. Plate pulled two back af-ter custodian Subhashis wasshown the red card.
ARE OUR BOYS STRUGGLING?The general buzz on the county circuit is that India’s stars haven’t been doing well enough.A look at how they have fared against the best from beyond England’s shores
Virender Sehwag (Leicestershire): Likes doodh, loves milkingthe bowlers but was sorted out on the countycircuit. In Twenty20 got 26 runs in six games. Inseven national league one-day games scored233 runs at 33.28. Only saving grace was 478runs in six Frizzell Cup (4-day) matches, withtwo hundreds.
Mohammed Kaif (Derbyshire): Besides his BMW convertible,there isn’t much to write home about. In 10Frizzell Cup matches, scored 213 runs with 87as the highest. The one-day average of 22.66doesn’t look very good either. Five Twenty20slam-bangs gave 75 runs, but 53 were raisedin just one knock.
Yuvraj Singh (Yorkshire): The glam-boy couldn’t work hismagic much except for the slam-bang-thankyou-ma’am Twenty20 cricket. In all 154 runswere scored at an average of 30.8. Otherwise,there was a lull as 111 runs in five Frizell Cupmatches suggest. The one-dayers too werequite sober, with 118 runs in four outings.
Jonty Rhodes (Gloucestershire): Rhodes were on fire in theFrizzell Cup, literally. The former South Africancricketer came out blazing in the longer version,scoring 787 runs in 17 innings. The average of60.53 looks nice and pink too for the old pro.Two hundreds and 5 fifties show what he couldhave done in Tests too.
Craig Spearman (Gloucestershire): The Kiwi has been gettinghis fodder in the One-dayers, even topping inthe national championship. More than the 453runs in seven games at 64.7 per match, it wasthe rate at which he collected them that setshim apart: 111.57 runs per hundred balls. Acouple of tons and a 50 nicely rounded it off.
Bradley Hodge (Leicestershire): The Aussie made Twenty20cricket his own. Don’t believe? Take this. TheVictorian blasted 301 runs in six games at anaverage of 50.16. Sehwag’s teammate had hismore illustrious partner’s slam-bang skillsrubbed on him. Otherwise, how do you get astrike rate of 138.07.
Kallis expected to rejoin team
Lara to play in charity match
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Delhi enter semis: Delhi advanced to thezonal semifinal of the XXXVI sub-junior MirIqbal Trophy. In a Group II match, Delhi rout-ed Chandigarh by half a dozen goals. Kabui,who had scored a hat-trick against Haryanain Delhi’s last match, netted three goals whileRajiv Kumar netted a brace. Anubhav Jhascored the other to complete the rout. Delhitake on Uttar Pradesh in the semifinal onSunday.
Kalyan’s brace: Indian Airforce (Palam)trounced State bank of India 6-0 in the DSAannual SAL invitational A division league tour-nament at the Ambedkar Stadium. StrikerKalyan Pal and K. Arun scored a brace eachwhile T Agnihotri and R. Adhikari scored oneapiece. In another match, Ashoka FootballClub scraped past Navjyoti Nepal 1-0.
Chandravati memorial: Vatsal Makhija ofDelhi Public School,Mathura Road baggedthe third prize in the blos-som (under-5) category ofChandravati BhatnagarMemorial open table ten-nis tournament at Talka-tora indoor stadium onThursday. First prize wentto Muskaan Gupta ofManav Sthali school.
City in semis: City Club moved into thesemifinal of the Delhi state inter-club carromchampionship. In the quarterfinal on Thurs-day, City downed Sunshine Club 2-1. State athletics: The Delhi State AthleticAssociation will organise the 63rd annual ath-letics championship between August 7 and 9for boys and girls at the Jawaharlal NehruStadium in four categories: U-20, U-18, U-16,U-14. Last date of entries is August 4.
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Magesh, Pratibha maintain lead: In Negombo,Sri Lanka, IM P Magesh Chandran and Y Prathibamaintained their lead with contrasting wins in the26th Asian Junior Chess Championships. Magesh ac-
counted for an over-ambitious Deepan Chakkravarthyin an absorbing contest and maintained the sole leadhe took yesterday after beating G Rohit. With 6.5points in his kitty, Magesh will need to keep his
nerves in the last three rounds.Half a point adrift ofthe leader are Abhijit Gupta, Prathmesh Mokal and SPoobesh Anand and it now looks a near certainty thatIndian contingent is going to rule the roost here. PTI
Clubs vs academies:DDCA set for battle
By C. Shekhar LuthraTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: It’s election time again at the Del-hi and District Cricket Association. And thistime, the ruling group, led by Ashok Sharma(Mama), is facing a tough fight from the groupled by friend-turned-foe Vinod Tihara for theten seats in the Sports Committee.
Ashok Sharma’s team had, incidentally,swept all the seats while Tihara was the high-est vote-getter in the last elections.
“This Sports Committee has been in powerfor the last nine years and it’s been a big fail-ure. I’ve seen it from close quarters and Ithink it’s time for it to go,’’ says Tihara. Heclaims that the two Sharmas (Ashok and MK)should be held responsible for all the wrong-doings over the last few years. “They ensuredthat no other Committee member was givenany power,” he adds.
The fate of the 20 contenders (see box) willbe decided by 111 club secretaries (the 112thclub, Delhi Vidyut Board, is not allowed tovote this time). Interestingly, many membersown two or three clubs that give them theright to cast up to 30 votes at a time.
“I had suggested to the Committee a fewyears ago to adopt a one-man-one-vote pat-tern. But for obvious reasons they don’t evenwant to initiate a debate on this. We would liketo end these unfair practices,” pledges Tihara,the secretary of the LB Shastri Cricket Club.
His rival, Ashok Sharma (Mama), however,denies these allegations and blames DDCA’sExecutive Committee for the prevailing prob-lems. “The Sports Committee is supposed todo everything related to cricket in Delhi. Butunfortunately, the Executive Committee’s bigbosses (read vice-presidents and secretary)overrule us on a regular basis. How can webring about any change in this situation,’’asks Sharma.
“We live for cricket but they live on cricket.This fight is basically between people who runclubs and those who run academies. Previ-ously, they were making just money; now theywant to get into the administration too topush their wards,” says Sharma.
Prominent candidates contesting the elec-tions from the Tihara group are former Testcricketer Gursharan Singh, Ranji starsSandeep Joshi and Vijay Bahadur Mishrawhile the Ashok Sharma group boasts of AjitSingh and Ranji umpire Anil Choudhary.Both groups sound confident of their chancesbut last-minute cross voting could well decidethe final fate of many on Friday.
Stock Exchange probe: Brit-ian’s financial watchdog hasopened an investigation intoChelsea share holdings.AFP
War Zoneready for meet
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New Delhi: War Zone, who isworking well, is expected to winthe Pimpernal Trophy (div.I),the main event of the Puneraces scheduled for Friday.Selections: New Hanovar Plate: 1,400m:1.45pm: Black Mamba 1, Secret Miracle 2, AlGibran 3. War Cry Plate: 1,200m: Shining Star 1,Happy Times 2, Bird of Paradise 3. PimpernalTrophy Plate (div.II): 1,000m: Armies of Light 1,Tralee 2, Asian Express 3. Pimpernal TrophyPlate (div.I): 1,000m: War Zone 1, My Way 2,Star Decoration 3. Balam Trophy: 1,600m: Free-dom’s Choice 1, Supreme Chancellor 2, Rigged 3.Monica Plate: 1,200m: Sheer Silver 1, StarCarvel 2, Tarragona 3. Denier Plate: 1,200m:4.45pm: Zante 1, Zestful 2, Danger In Sight 3.Races cancelled: The stew-ards of the Delhi Race Clubhave decided to cancel the firstand second race days sched-uled for July 29 and August 4,due to rain which had causedthe track conditions unfit forexcersising the horses (who areyet to attain their fitness).
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DDCA sports committee contenders
Tihara group Ashok groupGursharan Singh
Ex-Test player,NZNCA & GyanBharthi acade-my coachVinod TiharaSecretary LBShastri CC and
organiser of Parle-G schoolcricket tournamentAjit Chaudhary Secretary Madras CC and a former Vizzy and DU playerSandeep Joshi Secretary Delhi Blues CC andformer Ranji Trophy playerVijay Bahadur Mishra Secretary SBI CC and formerRanji Trophy playerVinod Sharma Secretary Super Star CC andorganiser of Lala Ram CharanAggarwal cricket tournamentSurya Prakash Sharma Secretary Gemini Sports CCand organiser U-19 Moonwayscricket tournament.Satish Malhotra (Tony) Secretary Gemini Sports CCand founder MCD cricketNaresh Sharma Secretary Young Cricketers and organiser TYCA leagueAshok KatyalSecretary and organiser GGDutt cricket tournament
Ashok Sharma Secretary RaviBros and asso-ciated withDDCA for 25years (from1995 asmember)
Ajit Singh Madhok Secretary TN Colts and associ-ated with DDCA for 30 yearsAnil Kumar ChoudharySecretary Darling CC and Ranji Trophy umpireBrij Mohan Gulati Secretary Delhi Police and as-sociated with DDCA for 10 yrsM K Sharma Secretary Inborn Cricketersand convenor of DDCA leaguePraveen Jain Secretary Pahari Dhiraj and a businessmanP K Soni Secretary LIC and a formerVizzy Trophy playerPradeep Aggarwal Secretary Kranti Star (forwhich Sehwag played)P S ChauhanSecretary Pusa Youngsters andpresident of the Delhi DisabledCricket CommitteeRamesh SachdevaSecretary Friends CC andsports secy of public sector
Man U plans:ManchesterUnited managerAlex Fergusonsays that he willbe returning tothe transfer mar-ket to strengthenhis squad, frus-trated after hismajor targetRonaldinhosnubbed him.Reuters
Bhambri cruises: Delhi’s Yuki Bhambri main-tained his winning form to remain the lone un-seeded player amongst the quarterfinalists in theunder-14 boys section of the AITA Nutrine NaturaNational Championship tennis series here onThursday. Bhambri, who also won his first roundmatch as the top seed in under-12 category,scored over wild card, V Sudarshan (TN) 7-6(7/4), 6-2 and will take on third seeded H P Praj-nesh of Tamil Nadu in the quarters. PTI
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Agassi is on top, Sampras is outNew York: Defending US Open championPete Sampras officially withdrew from thisyear’s tournament and Andre Agassi, whohe beat in last year’s final, will be the topseed. Sampras was automatically includedon the initial entry list last week based onhis No. 26 ranking. He has not played a pro-fessional tournament since winning hisfifth US Open, and record 14th Grand Slamsingles title, last year.
He is the first US Open men’s singleschampion not to defend his title since 1970winner Ken Rosewall. Sampras told NTVlast weekend that “there’s a good chance”he will officially retire soon.
Agassi, a two-time U.S. Open champion,is currently the world’s top-ranked player.The 33-year-old Agassi, this year’s Aus-tralian Open champion, is the oldest player
to be ranked No. 1 by the ATP. Agassi haswon eight Grand Slam titles.
French Open champion Juan Carlos Fer-rero of Spain was seeded second with Wim-bledon champion Roger Federer of Switzer-land third. Carlos Moya of Spain, the 1998French Open champion, is the No. 4 seedwith Lleyton Hewitt of Australia, the 2001U.S. Open and 2002 Wimbledon champion,seeded fifth.
Andy Roddick is the next highest-rankedAmerican at No. 6. Roddick, 20, reached hisfirst Grand Slam semifinal this year at theAustralian Open and then also made it tothe Wimbledon semifinals. The Open willfeature 99 of the top 100 men’s players. Thechampion will receive $1 million. AP
Ferrero has it toughKitzbuehel (Austria): Juan Carlos Ferrero of Spain openedhis Generali Open campaign with a win, ousting countrymanFernando Verdasco 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) in the 925,000 (US$1 million)event on Wednesday. In a battle of serves, the top-seeded Fer-rero proved the more experienced and determined player.
Ferrero, runner-up in Kitzbuehel last year, will take over thelead in the ATP Champions Race if he reaches the quarterfi-nals. Verdasco was 0-3 on clay this year before defeating Anthony Dupuis to qualify for the match against world No. 2 Ferrero. The 19-year-old Spaniard, who reached the third roundat the Nasdaq-100 Open in Key Biscayne, Florida,earlier this year, capitalised on his crashing serve to also keepthe second set close. AP
Rusedski oustedIndianapolis: Defendingchampion Greg Rusedski wasousted in the second round ofthe RCA Championshipswithout losing his serve once.Unseeded Australian ScottDraper defeated 10th-seededRusedski 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (4) in amatch delayed about 20 min-utes by rain in the second set
Wednesday. It was the firstvictory for Draper in ninematches with Rusedski.
Rusedski was playing onlyhis 12th match of the year af-ter missing the final twomonths of last season follow-ing surgery on his left foot. Hewas playing his first matchsince Wimbledon. AP
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Amy Frazier of the US returns against Daniela Hantuchovaof Slovakia at Stanford University on Wednesday.
Capriati strugglesStanford: Jennifer Capriati struggled to a 6-2, 4-6, 6-1 victory over Marion Bartoli in a sec-ond-round match at the Bank of West Classicon Wednesday.
In a tournament suddenly devoid of bignames — Serena Williams, Lindsay Daven-port, Monica Seles and Anna Kournikovawithdrew due to injuries — the third-seededCapriati is now a big draw. Her doubles matchwith partner Daniela Hantuchova was thefeatured contest on Tuesday.
‘‘I’m here working on my game and playingtennis,’’ Capriati said Wednesday after herlatest victory. ‘‘You never know. Today I had atough match. I have to get back to the mental-ity that I should be winning matches and Ican still be number one.’’
The tournament lost its No. 4 seed Wednes-day when unseeded Amy Frazier beat Hantu-chova 6-2, 6-4. AFP
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A woman looks at a poster of soccer stars from RealMadrid in Beijing on Wednesday. Real Madrid will takethe pitch against Chinese professionals early next monthin Beijing.
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Serena the actor: Two-time Wimbledon championSerena Williams will play areformed gang member onparole in an October 1episode of the Showtimeseries ‘Street Time’. “As afan of ‘Street Time’, I toldmyself that if given the op-portunity, I’d love to be onthe show,” Williams said. “Iam taking this role very seri-ously, because I want to ex-cel and because I have re-spect for the series.”Williams had the role creat-ed for her.
Woman on top: The Ital-ian Perugia soccer teamchief says he’s looking toadd a new and unheraldedplayer to his lineup: awoman. Team President Lu-ciano Gaucci is known forattention-grabbing gambits— earlier this year he signedLibyan leader MoammarGadhafi’s son Saadi to theSerie A team. He insistedthat his latest wasn’t a pub-licity stunt. ‘‘Whoever thinksthat this is just provocativeis wrong,’’ he said.
Brothel bother: SevenNordic and Baltic ministersexpressed ‘‘abhorrence’’Wednesday over Greekplans to increase the num-ber of brothel permits inAthens for the 2004 OlympicGames. “This will lead tomore women being exploit-ed and abused,” they wrotein a joint letter. Athens cityofficials, however, deniedany plans to increase thenumber of brothels.
Jockey-act: Hall of Famejockey Gary Stevens is bal-ancing horses and Holly-wood since making his act-ing debut in the movie‘‘Seabiscuit.’’ Playing jockeyGeorge Woolf wasn’t muchof a stretch for Stevens, whohas ridden three KentuckyDerby winners. It openedthe door for other acting of-fers. His looks landed himon People magazine’s list ofthe 50 most beautiful. Heappears shirtless in the Au-gust issue of Vanity Fair.
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Jyoti Randhawa drives the ball at the Royal Spring golf course during the Kashmir Opengolf championships in Srinagar.
Arjun marches aheadTIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi: Those who haveseen the golfing prowess ofArjun Singh known he isnever to be taken lightly. TheDelhi golfer, who played acool first round to share thelead on Wednesday, was ingreat form on Thursday as heopened up a three-stroke leadin the Rs 18 lakh KashmirOpen.
Midway through the sea-son-opener of the Hero Hon-da Indian Golf Tour, the 34-year-old golfer dominated thepar-72 Royal Springs GolfCourse for a round of four-under 68 which gave him atwo-day tally of nine-under135, three better than the sec-ond placed Jyoti Randhawa,Pappan and Mukesh Kumar.Uttam Singh Mundy was insole possession of the fifthplace at 5-under 139.
However, the day’s bestcard was played by Chandi-garh pro Harmeet Kahlon,runner-up last year, who shota six-under 66. Defendingchamp Digvijay Singh wasstill in the hunt after his sec-ond successive round of 2-un-der 70. Both Digvijay andKahlon were tied for thesixth place at 4-under 140.The cut was applied at 8-over152 and 52 pros and five ama-teurs moved ahead. The bignames to miss were RohtasSingh, Ajay Gupta and Zai
Kipgen. While none of thelocal pros made the cut,there was immense joy forGhulam Hasan Pandowwho became the first play-er in the 2003-04 season ofthe Hero Honda IndianGolf Tour to make a hole-in-one. Pandow achievedthis rare feat on the pic-turesque fifth hole with a5-iron shot off the tee.
Arjun had a patchy starton Thursday and has hisfirst bogey of the event onthe 11th. However, Arjun
retrieved the situationbrilliantly by notching upfive birdies to ensure heremained clear of thefield. Randhawa, jointleader at the start of theday, and Mukesh managedto play steadily to remainin the hunt.Leading scores (after 36 holes): 135Arjun Singh (67,68); 138 Mukesh Kumar(69,69), Pappan (68,70), Jyoti Rand-hawa (67,71); 139 Uttam S Mundy(69,70); 140 Harmeet Kahlon (74,66),Digvijay Singh (70,70); 141 Rahil Gang-jee (73,68), Rahul Ganapathy (71,70);Feroz Ali (70.71); 142 Shamim Khan(71,71), Ranjit Singh (68,74).
Hackett in control, Thorpe under threatBarcelona: Distance kingGrant Hackett remained oncourse to claim Australianteammate Ian Thorpe’s 800mfreestyle title at the WorldSwimming Championshipshere on Thursday.
Hackett is gunning for hisfirst individual gold of thechampionships and is confi-dent he can claim the title
here on Friday night afterbeing pushed into the run-ners-up spot last time byThorpe, who is not compet-ing in the event here.
Thorpe struggled in hisnew event, the 200m individ-ual medley, where hescraped into the semi-finalswith the 14th fastest time,behind leader and world
record holder MichaelPhelps of the United States.Phelps led the way in 1:59.71with Thorpe clocking2:02.54, way outside his Com-monwealth record of 2:00.11.Thorpe, who has alreadywon three gold medals here,was fourth fastest in hisheat, after falling behind onthe breast-stroke leg, and un-
able to make ground overthe final freestyle.
The 20-year-old’s dreammatching his six goldmedals of the last world’snow seems slim, but he has achance to win his first everworld 100m freestyle titlewhen he comes up againstPieter van den Hoogenbandof the Netherlands. AFP
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