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Hedgewar’s biography: The I&Bministry’s Publications Division haspublished a biography of theRashtriya Swayamsewak Sanghfounder, KB Hedgewar, and has described him as a great nationalistand reformer. Two months ago, Hindutva icon V D Savarkar’s portraitwas unveiled in Parliament. P5

No consensus yet: A special all-party meeting, convened by LokSabha Speaker Manohar Joshi, onMonday failed to reach a consensuson the wording of a joint resolutionflaying the US-led war on Iraq.

SARS infection: WHO expertssaid on Monday that transmission ofthe killer flu, Severe Acute Respira-tory Syndrome (SARS), was not re-stricted to close contact with infect-ed persons. P5

Touts for every reasonIn a city of 14 million people, onein every five citizens needs to vis-

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US troops in the heart of BaghdadBy Chidanand Rajghatta

& Agencies

Washington/Baghdad: Ameri-can forces on Monday stormedSaddam Hussein’s main presiden-tial palace in the heart of Bagh-dad, amid bloody firefights to fur-ther demonstrate the inroadsthey have made into the capital.The Iraqi regime, however, heldbriefings a few blocks away to in-sist they controlled the city. TheUS said they had found a storagesite for chemical weapons also.

US biological and chemicalweapons experts believe they mayhave found an Iraqi storage sitefor chemical weapons south ofHindiyah. Meanwhile, the palaceraid, which reportedly saw Amer-ican soldiers carrying away sou-venirs, appeared to presage a civ-il war with scattered Iraqi fight-ers harassing US forces.

In one of the more bloody inci-dents, the Iraqis fired rockets atthe 2nd brigade Tactical Opera-tions Centre (TOC), killing four,including two soldiers and twojournalists. More US marines andsoldiers were killed in other fire-fights around the city. Hundredsof Iraqis are dying, but there is noofficial count from either side.

The day also saw the bizarrespectacle of Iraqi informationminister Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahhaf telling reporters in apress conference outside thePalestine Hotel, the main hang-out of foreign journalists, that‘‘there is no presence of theAmerican columns in the city ofBaghdad, none at all’’.

While he was saying that, USofficials claimed they flew in thefirst American aircraft, a C-130into the recently renamed Bagh-

dad International Airport.Confident the war was over and

only battles remained, US Presi-dent George W Bush flew out ofWashington on Monday morningto Belfast for a summit meetingwith British Prime Minister TonyBlair in which they are expectedto thrash out differences on re-constructing post-war Iraq.

Blair wants deeper UN involve-ment in post-war Iraq than Bushand his Pentagon team, who seeka transitional governing authori-ty consisting of Iraqi exiles andpeople living in the country now.

The US led coalition, under the

overall control of retired US LtGen Jay Garner — who will re-port to Centcom chief TommyFranks — will probably run thecountry for more than six monthsuntil a new Iraqi government isin place, deputy defence secretaryPaul Wolfowitz said.

Extraa suings for MandiraSikh bouncer over pet dogs’ names

By Maneesh PandeyTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Life’s a bitch for Mandi-ra Bedi. Jasvinder Singh Sital hasfiled a complaint against her and herhusband Raj Kaushal for giving oneof her dogs a Sikh name, Sardar Rug-inder Singh Bedi.

The couple’s otherdog is named BusterUpadhyay Kaushal,but there are no re-ports of Brahminbouncers at the TVstar of the World Cup.

‘‘Not many in ourcommunity areamused. She has hurtour sentiments. Theother dog has beennamed after a Brah-min. It is offensive.No one should be al-lowed to name theirdog or any other petwith a Sikh name,’’said Sital, secretary-general, RiotsRelief and Rehabilitation Society.

The complainant said that the issue is being discussed among the Sikh community and it may

soon snowball into a politico-reli-gious row.

The Akali Dal leaders and mem-bers of Delhi Gurdwara PrabandhakCommittee (DGPC) are likely to raisetheir voice against the issue.

‘‘How did this couple (Mandiraand Raj) name their pets like this?

The Sikh communitywill not tolerate thenaming of any petdog as ‘Sardar’and then again ‘Rug-inder Singh Bedi’?’’Sital said.

‘‘For us Sikhs, theBedi clan is still asso-ciated with the kin ofGuru Nanak, our firstGuru. And Sikhs inPunjab and elsewherestill pay great respectand hold the Bedis inhigh esteem. Associ-ating such a reveredclan as the Bedis with

a pet will not be tolerated.’’The police has filed a complaint

and enquiring into matter. DCP(west), Dependra Pathak, said: ‘‘Thepolice is yet to register the case.”

ASI to openBhojshala for Hindus

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The Archaeo-logical Survey of India onMonday agreed to open thedisputed Bhojshala-KamalMaula mosque in Bhopal toHindus.

This move has put the ballin MP chief minister Digvi-jay Singh’s court. He had ear-lier challenged the Centre toissue an order on opening thecomplex.

The order, faxed to thestate home secretary by ASID-G Gauri Chatterjee, reiter-ated Union culture ministerJagmohan’s decision to allowHindu devotees to enter withflowers and rice.

According to the order,which comes into immediateeffect, Muslims shall be al-lowed access to the premisesfor Friday prayers between 1and 3 pm. Hindus shall bepermitted to hold traditionalceremonies on Basant Pan-chami day every year, andalso have access to the com-plex every Tuesday from sun-rise to sunset.

SARS masks Delhi airportBy Byas Anand

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Indianhealth authorities havefinally woken up. As thedeath toll from SARS ris-es, authorities have final-ly issued safety masks toall customs and immi-gration authorities inDelhi and major interna-tional airports.

‘‘We have made itmandatory for customsand immigration offi-cials to wear safetymasks. We have alsostocked additional masksat the airport, which willbe provided to any other official whowants to wear them,’’ airport healthofficer Sujit Kumar Singh told TheTimes of India.

Civil aviation officials refuse to ac-knowledge any health risk for air-line crews visiting the affected coun-tries. The cabin crew and pilots withthe two national carriers — IndianAirlines (IA) and Air-India (A-I) —

are still being allowed a night halt inHong Kong and Singapore, two ofthe worst affected places. ‘‘The crewis staying back in Hong Kong butthat’s no problem. The hotels aresafe....,’’ says an A-I spokesperson.

Back home, the authorities claimto have deployed additional doctorsat the airport. ‘‘We have also identi-fied an isolation area at the air-

port...and special ambulances arealso stationed,’’ Singh added.

But foreign nationals arriving atthe Indira Gandhi International Air-port say otherwise.

‘‘The screening is just minimal.There are just people standing therewatching you,’’ says a passengerwho reached Delhi on a SingaporeAirlines flight.

Byas Anand

●● Intensive bombingcontinues acrossBaghdad

●● At least 4 US soldiers killed asIraqi forces fightback, 2 journalistsalso killed

●● US brings in 65tanks and 40Bradley fightingvehicles

●● Iraqis block manyTigris bridges, defend key ministries

●● Two US Marines arekilled in fighting tosecure two bridges

●● AC-130 aircraftlanded at Bagh-dad’s internationalairport, the firstknown US aircraftto arrive in the capital

●● Despite UK claimsof control overBasra, Iraqi resist-ance continues

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An Iraqi woman and children are caught in crossfire while taking cover in a ditch during street fighting in northern Baghad, Iraq Sunday.

Mandira, her husband andtheir two pet dogs.

• The global death tollhit 100 on Monday withnearly 2,800 cases reported so far.• SINGAPORE: Twomore died on Monday.• CHINA: Two moredead, 21 new cases. • HONG KONG: Onemore dead, 41 newcases.• NEW DELHI: WHOdirector-general flaysChina for failing to report initial cases.

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VIRUS FEARS: Foreign nationals travelling into India havestarted wearing face masks.

Comment: With Baghdad beingstormed by the invaders and thenotorious ‘Chemical Ali’ report-edly killed, and yet no sign of theIraqis using their alleged WMDs,Saddam’s forces must be the mostself-denying possessors of suchweapons in the world.

Marines shed their chemsuitsNear Baghdad: US Marinesdriving on Baghdad joyouslyshed their chemical protectionsuits for the first time on Monday after being told thethreat of a chemical or biologi-cal attack was no longer consid-ered serious.

“It’s great to have them off,” Lt Col Fred Padilla, com-mander of the 1st marines bat-talion, said after his troops

stripped down to lighter cam-ouflage garb.

US military said an order al-lowing removal of the suits,which troops said felt likeheavy raincoats and thick rub-ber boots under a hot sun, hadcome down for the 1st MarineDivision. “They made an as-sessment and they determinedthere was not a serious threatright now,” Padilla said. AFP

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Social equity prevails over loveBy Asis Nandy

While the idea of so-cial equality hasbecome acceptable

in our society, the practiceof social equality has re-mained elusive. On the onehand, young boys and girlsare meeting each other incontexts that are new and inthese contexts some degreeof social equity prevails.But in some of the more im-portant sectors of life thathave long-term implica-tions, such as marriage,such equity is not accepted.

Actually, this is true notonly of India but of theglobal, modern middle-class

culture all over the world. Ayoung girl who falls in lovewith the family chauffeur isusually not seen as a ro-mantic idealist, but as a par-ticularly stupid and imprac-tical brat not only in conser-vative circles in India butalso in modern families allover the world.

Children of the Kennedysand the Rockefellers do notmarry commoners, eventhough they are free to mar-ry anyone. They are encour-aged to choose their lifepartners very carefully.

Though the idea of anarranged marriage is seenas a characteristic of tradi-

tional societies, it is a fea-ture of every modern socie-ty. Ninety per cent of themodern marriages that looklike love marriages are infact arranged marriages.

Only they are notarranged by parents but bythe boys and girls them-selves. They may be techni-cally free to choose theirpartners, but they keep inmind criteria such as social,cultural and economic sta-tus and often even careerprospects when falling inlove. They are even morechoosy than their parents.

When a young personflouts these norms and falls

in love outside the narrowboundaries of his or herclass, modern parents areas outraged as the tradition-al ones. Indeed, if it is anewly rich, successful mod-ern family, the restrictionson marrying outside one’sown kind can be more se-vere. Even thinking of sucha marriage looks like notmerely the disparagementof one’s caste and religionbut also of one’s parents’life-long struggle to climbthe social ladder.

To many such parentssuch transgression lookslike a particularly vulgarform of treachery.

By Elizabeth Ninan

We have always been consciousabout our daughters’ safety.That is one of the reasons we

have never kept male servants in thehome. That is how I grew up. I have asister also.

I am involved in everything thatthey do. I enjoy being a part of theirfashions and the various trends theyparticipate in. But we are very strictwhen it comes to the clothes theywear. They can sometimes chooseclothes that can create the wrong im-pression. We have told them not to in-dulge in one-upmanship with their

South-Delhi friends, but adopt a moreconservative view.

When they go out, we always like toknow where they are going and whothey are going out with. They havenever come home late at night. Even if

they are go-ing out dur-ing the dayfrom col-lege, theymake it a

point to inform me. I know who theirfriends are and have met all of them. Ieven speak to their friends over thephone when they call.

We also like to keep an eye on the

kind of movies they watch. They arenot allowed to watch late-night movieswhen the matter is almost semi-pornon many channels.

We are also very particular aboutthe kind of language they use. Whentwo sisters fight it can get a little out ofhand. My husband has intervened andtold the girls to tone down their lan-guage as it is not acceptable in decentfamilies. Their security is uppermostin our mind. I even learned to driveand we asked our driver to leave oncethe girls started growing up.

We are very proud to have daugh-ters, but their well being is always acause of constant concern.’’

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Temples wear a new look during Navratri in the city.

A celebration of ShaktiTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Devoted to Goddess Shakti or the cosmic energy,Navaratri is one of the India’s most important festivals.Durin the nine-day celebrations, Goddesses Durga, Lakshmiand Saraswati are worshipped as three different manifesta-tions of the Mother Goddess.

This year, the Navratri began on April 2 and will concludeon April 11. As compared to the festivities and fanfare duringthe winter Navratri, summer Navratri is a private family af-fair. Pujas or jagrans are held and temples lit through thenight. Community lunches or Bhandaras are also organised.

Many devotees fast through the Navratris or eat vegetari-an food without onion and garlic. Instead of the regular salt,sendha namak or Lahori namak is used for cooking and peo-ple eat Rotis made of kuttu flour. Potato, makhane and sabu-dana or Sago is also consumed, besides fruits. Many eaterieshave stopped serving non-vegetarian food and offer a specialvegetarian fare for those fasting during the period.

For instance, Nathu Sweets is offering a special vegetarianthali with special preparations for those fasting during theNavratris. At Kalevas in Gole Market too, special pakodasmade of kuttu atta, potatoes, cottage cheese and Sago areserved. Several fast food outlets such as Nirula’s are also of-fering a vegetarian fare for the period.

To mark the trend, the sale of flowers and fruits has goneup considerably. Even the potatoes cost more!

The Navratri fasting concludes on the eighth day or theAshtami, that falls on Wednesday, after a special puja.

A MOTHERSPEAKS

Consult panel ontax, MCD told

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The Delhi Leg-islative Assembly introducedan amendment in the newproperty tax proposals, mak-ing it compulsory for the mu-nicipal corporation to con-sult a special house commit-tee before finalising propertytax rates for a colony.

The amendment was intro-duced on the last day of thebudget session on Monday.The property tax Bill was lat-er passed by the Assembly.The Bill evoked a mixed reac-tion as many ruling partymembers joined Oppositionin criticising the proposals.

Delhi chief ministerSheila Dikshit said the Billwas ‘‘progressive’’ and wouldrationalise the property taxstructure.

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Sales tax deficitmay hit projects

By Radhika D SrivastavaTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Due to the fail-ure of Delhi state govern-ment’s sales tax departmentto meet its target in 2002-2003,many upcoming projectsmay be affected in the com-ing months.

The department that pro-vides the city with about 70per cent of its revenue, hasrecorded a deficit of Rs 450crore in 2002-2003. Thisdeficit is the highest in thepast seven years.

At present, about 15 fly-overs are under constructionand the state government hasdrawn up elaborate plans toimprove school buildings,build roads, increase the fleetof Delhi Transport Corpora-tion buses and give scholar-ships to needy students andpension to widows.

An official said: ‘‘Thedeficit is substantial and mayimpair some of the planneddevelopment projects.’’

But Delhi finance ministerMahinder Singh Saathi dis-agreed. ‘‘Our schemes will

not suffer in any way. We maybe short on funds but we willnot cut down on our expendi-ture for people-orientedmeasures,’’ he said.

Asked how his govern-ment would offset the salestax deficit, Saathi said: ‘‘Wemay borrow from the smallsavings scheme and then re-turn the loan to the Centralgovernment with an interestof 11 percent. To make up forthe deficit, we will borrowmore than what is usual.’’

As compared to 2001-2002,the department managed toup their collection by Rs 100crore. The sales tax collec-tion in 2002-2003 was Rs 3,800crore. This year, the amounthas gone up to Rs 3,900 crore.

Delhi’s tax growth rate of2.5 per cent is far below thatof most neighbouring statesincluding Bihar, Rajasthan,Haryana and Punjab.

Till March 31, 2003 Delhi’ssales tax collection hadtouched Rs 3,870 crore. Thetarget for 2002-2003 was ini-tially fixed at Rs 4,300 crore.It was later revised to Rs3,950 crore.

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Another manrobbed inmoving bus

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New Delhi: In the secondbus robbery in the past fourdays, three persons stabbed aman and robbed him off Rs51,000 in west Delhi on Mon-day. The victim, M Krishnan,sustained injuries on histhighs and had to be hospi-talised, the police said.

Krishnan works as acashier in a Janakpuri-basedprivate company. On Mondaymorning he went to with-draw money from a bank inTagore Market, Kirti Nagar.

‘‘When he left the bank, hehad a feeling that three per-sons were following him on amotorcycle. He, therefore,hurriedly walked towards anearby bus stop,’’ Deputycommissioner of police(west) Dependra Pathak said.

Immediately after reach-ing the bus-stop, Krishnanboarded bus number 817.‘‘Two of the assailants fol-lowed him inside the bus.They took a knife and in-jured him,’’ Pathak said.

The previous case was re-ported in New Delhi areawhere two persons wererobbed in a moving bus. As-sailants had hijacked the buswhile committing the rob-bery.

Tainted DDAmen suspended

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New Delhi: Two Delhi Devel-opment Authority (DDA) offi-cials who were named by CBIin recent corruption caseswere suspended on Monday.Commissioner (planning) Vi-jay Risbud and director(lands) Jagdish Chanderwere placed under suspen-sion pending inquiry into thecorruption charges.

The CBI had recovered Rs4 lakh from the Risbud’s resi-dence and Chander is ac-cused of sharing with formerDDA V-C Subhash Sharma abribe of Rs 2.5 lakh whichwas received from a privateschool.

The Risbud and Chanderwere among the four DDA of-ficials named in a corruptioncase registered by the CBI onMarch 26.

While Sharma and com-missioner (land disposal)Anand M Sharan were ar-rested by CBI, the two taintedofficials continued to attendoffice for 10 days despite be-ing named in the FIR.

CBI sources said a closewatch was maintained onwhat the two tainted officialswere doing in their last 10days in office preceding theirsuspension.

Get anything done, for a priceBy Rahul Chhabra

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: DDAgate hasexposed the tout culturethat dominates day-to-dayfunctioning in a city of 14million people where one inevery five citizens needs tovisit a government office atleast once a month.

As the DDA scandal getsmurkier by the day, what isbecoming clear is that toutsoperating in the city’s civicbodies wield more powerthan the officials them-selves. The touts are om-nipresent in government de-partments and are ever will-ing to plead an aggrievedperson’s case before an in-fluential official. But theirservices come at a price.

There are four majortypes of touts operating inthe city.

Master of all trades:DDA V-C Subhash Sharma’s

confidant, Dharam BirKhattar, was a perfect exam-ple of this class of touts.Khattar enjoyed the reputa-tion of being aone-stop organis-er for all kinds ofwork in govern-ment depart-ments, speciallythe MCD, DDA and NDMC.

A high-flying tout likeKhattar thrives on his linkswith top bureaucrats. Heuses one bureaucrat to ap-proach senior officials inother departments fromwhom he wants to seekfavours. He maintain a stockof wine, women and wealthto lure corrupt officials.

You will find him: In lob-bies of fancy hotels and so-cial gatherings attended bybureaucrats and politiciansfor networking.

His monthly take-home: Inexcess of Rs one crore.

The conduit: This toutcollects bribes on behalf ofa senior official. He could bea personal secretary, a loyal

subordinate of atop official or anold classmate. Theconduit operateslike the executingauthority on any

dubious deal. He collects apre-determined amount ofslush money on behalf ofthe boss and delivers the rel-evant official papers to thebribe payer. Ashok Kapoor, asuspended DDA official whoworked as personal secre-tary to VC-DDA, and was ar-rested by CBI for his in-volvement in DDAgate is anexample of this type of tout.

You will find him: In aparking lot, at a pan shop ora photo-copy shop near acivic agency’s office.

His monthly take-home:Between Rs one lakh to Rs

two lakh.The leader: He repre-

sents a caucus of builders orcontractors which needs tointeract with a governmentdepartment regularly. Hecan also be a politician. Hefixes the bribe rate, in co-or-dination with a corrupt offi-cial, and then collects themoney from group membersand delivers it to the corruptofficial. Most contractorsand bulk suppliers in MCDand other government de-partments rely on the leaderto keep the occupant of apowerful seat happy.

A former MCD engineer,whose house was raided bythe CBI after his retirement,used the services of suchtouts for releasing paymentsfor projects to contractors.Builders of illegal build-ings, especially in theWalled City, also use thesame technique to appease

corrupt MCD officials.You will find him: Hang-

ing around the office of acivic agency.

His monthly take-home: Rs40 lakh and more.

The social worker: He isa small-time operator andoften works under the guiseof a shady social organisa-tion. He keeps movingaround in the field and col-lects information about in-dividual violating one lawor the other. He either triesto extort money directly orlodges an official complaintwith a government depart-ment. He takes help of cor-rupt officials to extort mon-ey from his target. Thebooty is divided betweenhim and the corrupt official.

You will find him: In yourcolony.

His monthly take-home: Rs5,000 to Rs 20,000.

DELHI’SDALALS

Day one at school is great, no kiddingBy Snigdha Sen

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The day began early to-day. Parents have taken the day off,aunts and uncles keep phoning, andthe house is topsy-turvy. Excitementruns high as the daughter is readied.It’s a big day for her. Have youchecked the cameras?

Is your daughter getting married?No, it’s her first day at school. Thishas been school-opening week.

Nisha’s grandmother has moved toDelhi from their hometown in Bihar.With both parents working, thethree-year-old needs someone to ac-company her to school every day.‘‘Ofcourse, Nisha feels something reallyimportant is happening,’’ says moth-er Aditi Kumar, a resident of Patpar-jang in east Delhi. ‘‘Everyone’s fuss-ing over her.’’

On her way to school, Nisha is tak-en to the local Shiva temple. You can’tembark on such an important jour-ney without His blessings, can you?

On reaching their school in Noida,

the Kumars find they aren’t the onlycouple all worked up about theirchild’s first day in school.

‘‘The campus was full of parents,many clicking photographs,’’ recallsAditi. ‘‘Some even carried handy-cams and shot their children walkingup to their classes.’’

‘‘In fact, I was more excited thanmy four-year-old daughter,’’ saysDeepika Gupta, a resident of Sid-dharth Enclave in south Delhi.

‘‘I was busy buying her new bag,water bottle, pencil box, crayons forweeks.’’ Deepika’s daughter,Muskaan, who stepped into DelhiPublic School, East of Kailash, onMonday, was more than eager for theexperience.

‘‘Several children were upset andcrying, but Muskaan wanted herteacher to give her work right away,’’says a proud Deepika.

Equally relaxed was four-year-oldRiya on her first day at ModernSchool. ‘‘Her only disappointmentwas that she could not travel on a

bus,’’ says Nandita Bhuyan, Riya’smother. ‘‘She had great hopes thatshe’d now ‘graduate’ from a car, inwhich she travelled to play school, toa big bus.’’

Nandita works with a buyingagency, so, like Nisha, her grand-mother will take over the monitoringof the great school expedition.

But the Sehgals of Rohini are notso lucky. They had to depend on theirolder son, all of eight years, to escortthe young one to Ramjas PublicSchool, Anand Parbat, on the firstday. ‘‘Rituraj offered to take fullguardianship of Tusshar,’’ saysRamesh Sehgal.

‘‘Although we let him take the re-sponsibility, my mind was with bothmy children.’’ Luckily for the Se-hgals, Tusshar was just as excited tojoin his brother to school. ‘‘All heasked for was bread pakora forlunch,’’ Sehgal said.

Traffic caution: Motorists will face bottlenecks on cityroads on Tuesday as Bhartiya Udhyog Vyapar Mandal willorganise a peace march from Ram Lila Grounds to Jantar

Mantar via Ranjit Singh flyover and Tol-stoy Marg to protest against implemen-tation of VAT system. About 25,000 pro-testers are expected to participate. Mo-torists are advised to avoid movementon the roads leading to Ram LilaGround and Jantar Mantar.

Motorists should also avoid J L NehruMarg, Asaf Ali Road, Ranjit Singh Marg, DDU Marg,Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, Indraprastha Marg and Rajghat-Ring Road.

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Children pose for the camera on theirfirst day at school.

Warrant issuedagainst KhattarNew Delhi: The specialcourt has issued a non-bailable warrant (NBW)against alleged conduitDharambir Khattar —wanted in three cases re-lated to Delhi Develop-ment Authority scam.

Khattar has been un-traceable ever since theCentral Bureau of Inves-tigation raided hispremises in Jangpura.Additional SessionsJudge Prem Kumar alsoordered the CBI to replyto the notice by April 20.

The CBI has arrestedformer vice-chairman ofDDA Subhash Sharma,former commissioner(land disposal) AnandMohan Sharan and for-mer clerk of NDMC VedPrakash Kaushik. DLFofficer Ajay Khanna,who had allegedly givenmoney to Sharan, hasbeen arrested. AshokKapoor, personal secre-tary to Sharma, has alsobeen held.TNN

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Police showed samplewire in Shivani trial

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New Delhi: Giving a twist tothe Shivani Bhatnagar mur-der case, the police told thecourt on Monday that thewire they had produced be-fore the judge was a samplepiece and not the one withwhich the journalist waskilled.

The police’s statementcame when the advocates forthe accused had finishedtheir arguments with regardto the length of the wire.While the police claimed thatthe 49 centimetre wire wasenough to strangle a person,the defence had challenged it.

Even the judge had tied thewire around his neck tocheck if it was enough to killa person.

The advocates cross-ques-tioned Dr R K Sharma whosupported the police on thewire theory.

But the police moved anapplication in the court on

Monday and asked the courtto allow them to produce another wire which was 126centimetre long. Accordingto the application, the wirewhich was submitted earlierwas just a sample piece.

The application was op-posed by defence advocates.They claimed that the policewas trying to mislead thecourt and plant evidence ontheir clients. According tothem, sample pieces are tak-en only in narcotics or excisecases.

‘‘The police had recoveredthe wire, which they claimedwas used to kill the victim,from the murder spot. Howcan they send a sample to theCFSL laboratory and leavethe original behind,’’ an ad-vocate said.

The court has fixed April30 for the next date of hear-ing. The judge asked the de-fence advocates to file theirreplies to the police request.

2 dead in fire mishapsTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Two personswere killed and 2,000 otherswere rendered homeless in amajor fire which guttedabout 500 slum dwellings be-hind Rajghat on Monday. Thefire broke out at about 2.55am.

In another incident, a firerazed a godown in Lal Katraarea near Lahori Gate at 2.15am on Monday. The fire soon spread to other build-

ings and the building nextdoor caved in.

According to the fire offi-cials, 13 fire tenders werepressed into service to con-trol the fire.

‘‘The fire tenders took timeto reach the spot due to ob-structions on the road such as encroachments andnarrow congested streets,’’said an official. No casualtywas, however, reported inthis fire.

Ashok Kumar Jainis new MayorNew Delhi: Municipal coun-cillor from Hauz Khas,Ashok Kumar Jain, waselected the new mayor onMonday. Jain had filed hisnomination papers last week.

The Congress candidatefor post of deputy mayorVaryam Kaur was also elect-ed with a thumping majority.Kaur is a councillor fromRaghubarpura in trans-Ya-muna. TNN

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Scams galore but lotteries flourish in North-eastBy Rajesh Ramachandran

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New Delhi: Why do mostlotteries, even the hi-techones, operate out of thenorth-eastern states? TheManipur lottery offers ananswer: The plan expendi-ture of this state from 1995-2000 was Rs 952 crore, butthe unpaid dues from paperlottery distributors were Rs1,662 crore for 1994-2000.

After a review by thestate’s accountant-general,the government banned pa-per lottery last year, but on-line lottery came in and isgenerating more controver-sy.

A highly-placed source inImphal said: ‘‘People allover India bought north-eastern states’ lotteries be-cause they felt secure withthe imprint and logo of the

state government. But thecriminal justice system hasbroken down here with azero per cent conviction.Things that could not bedone elsewhere can be donehere and hence so many lot-teries operate out of stateslike Manipur.’’

According to the Accoun-tant-General’s report, onedistributor sold tickets ofdiscontinued lotteries andpublished fictitious resultsin a Chennai daily, pocket-ing Rs 1.35 crore. Anotherdistributor sold ticketsworth Rs 1.98 crore of a lot-tery whose draws were nev-er held.

In one case, the distribu-tor retained the prize moneyof Rs 3.4 crore. Some dis-tributors even retained theprize money by altering thenumber of prize-winning

tickets while publishing theresults.

During 1994-2000, Ma-nipur conducted a whop-ping 1,56,728 draws with aturnover of Rs 53,039 crore.But government revenuewas only Rs 86.33 crore, just16 paise per 100 rupees. Andwhen the distributors wonprizes, the government didnot deduct income tax of Rs31.77 crore. In the case of on-line lottery, three govern-

ments pushed the deal. Thegovernor cancelled it. TheUnion home ministry raisedobjections and allegations ofmulti-crore bribes wereraised.

Just before the ManipurState Congress Party gov-ernment fell, it signed anMoU with a Delhi-basedfirm to authorise online lot-tery on behalf of the gov-ernment. The next SamataParty government lasted

barely three months, butsigned the contract.

When President’s rulewas enforced on June 2,2001, the deal came in forscrutiny: No tender wasfloated and the govern-ment’s share of revenue wasa pittance compared to thelotteries of other north-east-ern states.

Meanwhile, 34 MLAs in aHouse of 60 had complainedto Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani against the hugebribes having been paid.The governor cancelled thecontract and ordered aprobe against officials con-cerned. Elections were held.

Meanwhile, the Delhi-based promoters of the on-line lottery moved theGuwahati High Court . Butthe new government ‘‘rene-gotiated’’ the deal.

•Manipur banned paper lottery last year

•Online lottery came in and is generating more controversy

•The criminal justice system has broken down

•Things that cannot be done elsewhere can be donehere

Money game

India relativelylucky on SARS

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New Delhi: World Health Or-ganisation experts said onMonday that not all trans-mission of the killer flu, Se-vere Acute Respiratory Syn-drome (SARS), had beenthrough close contact withinfected persons.

Even a door knob couldhave passed on the infection,they said. ‘‘WHO recom-mends that people should fre-quently wash their hands,just in case there are othermodes of transmission,’’ di-rector, communicable dis-eases, WHO south-east Asiaregion Kumara Rai toldnewsmen.

Initial evidence suggestedthat only those who came inclose contact with SARS,such as family members ofthe patients or health careworkers, were at risk. How-ever, the view changed whenpeople in a Hong Kong hotel,who had no close contactwith those infected, fell sick.

WHO director-general GroHarlem Brundtland said In-dia had been ‘‘seeminglylucky’’ as no SARS case hadbeen reported. ‘‘We do notknow that there has been acase in India. But if it does,India could check it with helpfrom WHO,’’ Brundtland saidat a News conference on theoccasion of the World HealthDay.

Once again WHO expertsurged people to postponenon-essential travel toHong Kong and Guangdongprovince in China, fromwhere the SARS epidemicseems to have originated.The WHO says it first hitthe place in November lastyear.

Answering questionsabout whether there was adelay in picking up the firstsigns of the epidemic in Chi-na, Brundtland said if WHOcould have entered earlier, itcould have intervened effec-tively. However, she said, nowthe collaboration with Chinawas relatively good.

The experts said there wasstill no known cure for thevirus as its identity was notknown.

New films tohit the TV onlyafter 9 months

By Kaajal WalliaTIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mumbai: On Saturday, thefilm producers’ and distribu-tors’ bodies arrived at a mu-tual decision to release thecable and satellite rights’ ofnew films nine months aftertheir release.

The producers had beenstalling the release of newfilms during a month-longimpasse with distributorsover the release of cable andsatellite rights.

The industry, which hasn’tseen a major release sinceFebruary, can now look for-ward to four major releasesin April and May to salvageits sagging fortunes.

‘‘With the onset of digitalformat, producers will startreleasing 300 to 500 moreprints than before. The dis-tributors will hence be ableto recover their money thatmuch faster,’’ explained vet-eran producer Pahlaj Niha-lani.

The nine-month hold-upperiod would be sufficient forboth parties to recover theirinvestments, he added.

The release of the SunnyDeol-starrer The Hero — theLove Story of a Spy on Fridaymay finally end the year-longdrought of hits.

Observers say the industrywould have lost over Rs 200crore had there been no re-leases in the next twomonths.

Even upgraded MiG-21s may be unsafeBy Rajat Pandit

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New Delhi: First, it wasageing fighters that werefalling from the skies. Now,IAF pilots are learning thateven newly-upgraded fight-ers might not be safe.

The aircraft whichcrashed near Ambala onMonday was part of the firstsquadron of upgraded MiG-21 Bis fighters, also calledMiG-21-93 or ‘‘Bisons’’,which became operationallast year. And, within a fewmonths, two of these fresh-ly-inducted fighters havecrashed.

Sources say the firstcrash, which took place lastSeptember, was due to faultyfuel pipelines and pumps.This might be the case withMonday’s crash as the pilotreported ‘‘engine fire’’ im-mediately after take-off.

The series upgrade of 125of these MiG-21 Bis fightersis to be completed at the Hin-dustan Aeronautics Limited(HAL) plant in Nasik by2005. This project, like allother IAF modernisationprogrammes, is runningyears behind schedule, con-sidering that more than Rs2,500 crore was sanctionedfor it in 1995.

‘‘The ‘Bisons’ will serve inthe IAF till at least 2015. Up-graded planes are a compro-mise decision in absence of

new inductions. Accidentswill keep on taking placesince we are forced to fly air-craft of old vintage, even ifthey get mid-life upgrades,’’said an officer.

‘‘Look at the more ad-vanced fighters in our fleet.There has been no Mirage-2000 accident in the last 10years. Similarly, no Sukhoi

has crashed since inductionin 1997.’’

In addition to ‘‘technicaldefects’’, IAF pilots areforced directly to fly ex-tremely-demanding fighterswithout transitional train-ing in the absence of AJTs(advanced jet trainers) andother synthetic aids like ad-vanced flight simulators and

computer-based trainingsystems. Available traineraircraft like Kiran, HPT-32and Iskra are also defective.

It’s no wonder IAF hassuffered over 350 aircraft ac-cidents since 1990, withmore than 130 pilots losingtheir lives. A majority ofthem have involved the MiGseries.

It is virtually impossibleto replace the MiG-21s sincethey constitute more than 40per cent of the IAF combatfleet, with close to 20squadrons. While an up-graded MiG-21 Bis comescheap at around Rs 20 crore,the price of a new fightercould range from Rs 75 croreto Rs 150 crore.

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A Mig-21 crashed into a residential area in Ambala on Monday, injuring five persons, while the pilot escaped unhurt. Thisis the second such crash in four days.

Yet anotherMiG crash

By Bindu SinghTIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ambala: An Indian AirForce MiG-21 crashed into aresidential colony in Am-bala city on Monday, seri-ously injuring six persons.The pilot bailed out to safety,and two children playingnearby had a providentialescape.

The aircraft caught fire af-ter the crash, damagingaround a dozen two-wheel-ers and some houses.

According to sources, theaircraft, on a routine sortie,crashed right after take-offfrom the nearby airbase.

An IAF officer, on condi-tion of anonymity, said tech-nical snag could be thecause of the accident. Theblack box of the aircraft hasbeen recovered.

This is the fourth crash inAmbala in the last one year.On May 9 last year, a Jaguarcrashed on the runway. Thesecond mishap occurred onSeptember 9, when a MiG-21crashed in Chodmastpur.The third took place on No-vember 5. A Jaguar crashedinto a residential colony inBabyal village near Ambalacantonment, killing 12.

Govt, Oppnslug it out onIraq resolution

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New Delhi: The day-long im-passe in Parliament over theOpposition demand for a res-olution condemning the US-led war on Iraq remained un-resolved till Monday eveningwith a consensus eluding thewording of the resolution.

Both Houses of Parliamentcould not transact any busi-ness as most political leaderswere involved in hectic be-hind-the-scenes activity tohammer out a unanimousresolution.

A special all-party meet-ing, convened by Lok SabhaSpeaker Manohar Joshi, end-ed inconclusively as the Op-position insisted that the res-olution contain an unequivo-cal condemnation of the USaction. The government, onthe other hand, suggestedthat the Hindi text of the res-olution could use the termninda. Problems arose in theEnglish text as the govern-ment wanted to replace theexpression ‘‘condemn’’ with‘‘deplore’’ .

As most Opposition par-ties, led by the Left Front, theSamajwadi Party and theRashtriya Janata Dal (RJD),stuck to its guns, the issuewill now be thrashed out atanother meeting before thestart of the session on Tues-day morning. Failure couldwell lead to another round ofadjournments in Parliament.

External affairs minsiterYashwant Sinha, who waspresent at the meeting, islearnt to have pointed outthat while political partieswere free to use the strongestpossible language in theirspeeches, ‘‘the language ofdiplomacy was different’’. Healso stated that no other Par-liament in the world had, sofar, passed a resolution con-demning the US, and citedold precedents where IndiraGandhi had not favoured theadoption of such a strong res-olution when Russia enteredAfghanistan.

The meeting was convenedby the Speaker after agitatedOpposition members in bothHouses pressed for a jointresolution on the Iraq war.

Notice to Govton gas tragedy

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New Delhi: The SupremeCourt on Monday issued anotice to the Union govern-ment on a petition seekingdisbursement of about Rs13.6 billion meant for victimsof the Bhopal gas tragedy.

A Bench of Justices Shiv-araj V Patil and Arijit Pasay-at asked the Centre to re-spond to the public interestpetition by one Abdul SamadKhan and 35 other victims ofthe disaster.

In the intervening night ofDecember 2-3, 1984, 40 tonnesof methyl isocyanate andother lethal gases leaked outof Bhopal’s Union Carbideplant. About 4,000 personswere killed immdediately.The figure has swelled to16,000 over the years andthousands continue tosuffer from the effects of thedisaster.

Hedgewar is nowa ‘social reformer’

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New Delhi: K B Hedgewar,the founder of the RashtriyaSwayamsewak Sangh, hasbeen given an honourableplace in the official history ofIndia.

The I&B ministry’s Publi-cations Division has just pub-lished a biography of him,describing him as a great na-tionalist and social reformer.

This comes barely twomonths after Hindutva iconV D Savarkar’s portrait wasunveiled in a controversialceremony in Parliament.

The principal speakers —including the Prime Minis-ter, Deputy Prime MinisterLK Advani and RSS supremoK Sudershan — at the bookrelease function on Monday,stressed the importance ofhonouring all those whomthey considered to have con-tributed to the making ofmodern India.

Minister of state for I&BRavi Shankar Prasad saidthe Publications Divisionhad commissioned biogra-phies of leaders of varyingideologies — those in thepipeline include Annadurai,Ram Manohar Lohia, Morar-ji Desai, Chowdhury CharanSingh, Veer Savarkar, BhagatSingh, Shyama PrasadMukherjee, Sheikh Abdul-lah, and even EMS Nam-boodripad.

In his speech, the PM saidit was a pity that more infor-

mation on Hedgewar hadbeen made available by hiscritics rather than his follow-ers, and Rakesh Sinha’s biog-raphy, he hoped, would fillthe gap.

Saying he was proud to bea swayamsewak, he said heobjected to the description ofthe RSS as a fascist organisa-tion. Interestingly, heclaimed that there were nodifferences between the RSSand Gandhi and that therehad been a deliberate effortby some to create a gap be-tween the two.

Advani pointed out thatone of his first acts as homeminister was to fly to Keralato attend EMS’ funeral. Hesaid people owing allegianceto different ideologies hadcontributed to bringing free-dom to India and all of themshould be given their rightfulplace in history.

He also referred to theSavarkar controversy andcriticised the opposition forboycotting the unveiling ofhis portrait.

Sudershan stressed thatwhen Hedgewar died, thegeneral feeling was that thesoul of the RSS had died andthe organisation would with-er away.

But today, decades later,the third generation of RSSleaders was being groomed,he said, and the outfit’s mem-bers were to be found in allwalks of life.

e-counselling for studentsTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: A spot of counselling and fewerheartbreaks await aspirants of engineering,technology, pharmacy and architecture edu-cation across the country. An interactivewebsite is being created to keep them in-formed and offer them choices.

In line with the Indian Institutes of Tech-nology (IITs), the process of admission in-volving 327,000 students — twice the numberthan in 2002 — would be completed by the sec-ond week of July in time for the commence-ment of the academic year the next week, thegovernment announced on Monday.

A Central Counselling Board (CCB) set upto help the examinees who appear for the All

India Engineering Entrance Examination(AIEEE) has finalised what is billed as ‘‘ahighly interactive and transparent system’’that would offer multiple choices to candi-dates in consultation with their parents andguides.

Sources in the HRD ministry claim that inthis first-ever effort, time is spent on eachcandidate to help arrive at a final choice. Thisis conducted at several of the National Insti-tutes of Technology (NITs) and Deemed Uni-versities.

The National Informatics Centre haslaunched http://www.ccb.nic.in in associa-tion with the Motilal Nehru National Insti-tute of Technology, Allahabad, and will alsodevelop counselling software.

When Alexander the Great died in SarberiaBy Robin Roy

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Kolkata: Students from ru-ral government schools inWest Bengal are toppingMadhyamik (middle school)exams, a matter of pride forthe state administration. Butthe average primary levelstudent’s standard is shock-ing.

The Times of India pres-ents a few cases:

As far as English is con-cerned, for many the pluralof wife is husband, and someeven say the opposite of tall

is khato, (which in Banglameans short)!

Replying to a query on howAlexander the Great died, aClass VIII student schoolfrom a school in Dhamua inDiamond Harbour wrote:Alexander died in Sarberia(a place near Joynagar)!

Asked to describe a picnicparty, a Class VI studentwrote about dogs: ‘‘Dog fourlegs. Dog tail. Dog bark. Doglive in family. Dog love peo-ple.’’ Nobody knows whathappened to the picnic party.

‘‘There is no point making

fun of these students. Theteacher-student ratio accord-ing to the rule is 1:80 respec-tively,’’ said ChandicharanPramanik, member of theSecondary Teachers & Em-ployees Association. But inreality, in each class, ateacher has to tackle at least100 students, if not more.

‘‘When the attendance isfull, students have to sit onthe verandah outside theclassroom. Moreover, theclassrooms do not have ceil-ing fans or even proper venti-lation or windows. We can

hardly reach out to our stu-dents in this way,’’ a teacherin Dakshin Barasat said.

Finally, the mother of allanswers: What led to WorldWar I? A Class VIII studentwrote: One day RammohunRoy picked up a quarrel withVidyasagar after he foundthe latter was teaching awidow.

Roy wanted to marry thewidow, but Vidyasagar washell-bent on educating her.Thus WWI broke out. Ourquestion: Was the widowCleopatra by any chance?

Hoshi Jal

Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones struts his stuff at the Brabourne stadium in Mumbai on the last leg of the legendaryrock group’s ‘Licks India Tour 2003’ on Monday night.

Sir Licks, Lucky Lips and the Mick of Time

Rail safety: Ministerpasses buck to states

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New Delhi: In the foreword to the White Paper on ‘‘Safety onIndian Railways’’ presented by railway minister Nitish Ku-mar to Parliament on Monday, there is no reference to the lat-est tragedy that killed 120 Rajdhani Express passengers nearRafiganj in September last year.

‘‘... even one fatal accident of the dimensions of that ofKadalundi or Khanna or Gaisal erodes the confidence of thetravelling public and railwaymen as well,’’ wrote Kumar. TheRailways had washed its hands off the Rafiganj tragedy, at-tributing it to sabotage. It said security of track against sab-otage is the state government’s responsibility. In fact, threemajor accidents, in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and AndhraPradesh in the recent past were blamed on sabotage.

Yet, the White Paper adds nothing further on track securi-ty other than passing the buck to the state government.‘‘State governments have to play a more positive role inguarding railway track bridges and nabbing those who com-mit sabotage.’’ One of the most high profile exercises in safe-ty audit by the Railways was to set up a Railway Safety Re-view Committee in 1998 that had actually recommended theSpecial Railway Safety Fund of RS 17,000. Though the rail-ways has begun spending the money, most of the specific rec-ommendations of the committee are yet to be implemented.

•Contact with infectedpersons need not be theonly reason for transmis-sion of the virus

•Even a door knob canpass on the infection

•Frequently washinghands is one possibleprecaution

•Postponing non-essen-tial travel to Hong Kongand Guangdongprovince in China

Avoiding infection

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The Times of India, New Delhi10 Tuesday, April 8, 2003 I N T E R N AT I O N A L

McCartney loses voice: Sir Paul McCartney,Britain’s best-known living pop star, lost his voice

Sunday and had to suspend hisfirst tour of his native land in 10years. “I woke up this morning withvirtually no voice,” ex-Beatle Mc-Cartney said. The superstar singer-composer went hoarse after hisopening night Saturday before anaudience in Sheffield and had todisappoint fans looking forward to

a second, Sunday-night appearance in the northernEnglish city. “I’ve been doing all that I can to try andget my voice back and I tried singing a couple ofnumbers at a sound check this afternoon,” McCart-ney said in a statement. AFP

Posh sings to her son: Former Spice Girl Victo-ria ‘Posh’ Beckham has recorded a song, a come-back single, expressing her emotions for her seven-month-old son. The song Open Your Eyes describeshow a baby sees the world for the first time throughinnocent eyes — and Posh feels it perfectly sumsup how she feels about her son Romeo. Accordingto a report in The Sun, Posh is confident that a new

image, coupled with a more upbeat compilation ofdance tracks, could give her the chart hit she sodesperately craves. ANI

Fatherhood tips from Brosnan: Fatherhood isfinally being taken very seriously. A new magazinecalled Dad gives ‘dad’s to be’ tips by proud fatherslike David Beckham and Pierce Brosnan on how tomake the bond stronger with their child. Brosnan,the James Bond actor, tells men to sing to babies inthe womb. ANI

Farrell fires a hit: Irish actor Colin Farrell, one ofthe hottest new stars in Hollywood, dialled his thirdconsecutive No. 1 movie at the North Americanbox office on Sunday as the thriller Phone Booth fi-nally reached theatres almost five months behindschedule. Phone Booth rang up $15 million in ticketsales in its first three days since opening on April 4.Farrell plays a New York publicist who picks up aringing telephone in a phone booth only to learnthat he is in the sights of a sniper. The movie, whichcost a modest $13 million, was pulled from its orig-inal Nov. 15 berth because real-life snipers wereterrorising the Washington area at the time. Reuters

Canadian singer Avril Lavigne with the Junoawards she won in Ottawa on Sunday.

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Hurley agreesto marry NayarLondon: It took British ac-tress Elizabeth Hurley justfour months to say “yes” toher boyfriend Arun Nayar’smarriage proposal.

Nayar reportedly poppedup the question recentlywhile the couple were on aholiday in Mumbai, wherethe 36-year-old Hurley methis parents.

“Arun waited until theywere in his home country topropose. He wanted her tomeet his family first so thathe could be sure,” a friend ofHurley told the Daily Tele-graph. However, the couplewill not get engaged until Na-yar divorces his Italian wife,Valentina Pedroni. ANI

Gladiator wedshis damselNana Glen (Australia):Gladiator star RussellCrowe married girlfriendDanielle Spencer in a lav-ish sunset ceremony in thefamily chapel at his coun-try ranch Monday, his 39thbirthday.

Spencer, in a gown cus-tom-made for her by Ital-ian fashion supremo Gior-gio Armani, was whiskedto the ceremony in a mo-torcade of two black Mer-cedes, a black pickup truckand two police cars, led bythree burly motorcyclists

in their wedding best.A police escort and a pa-

trolling helicopter taskedwith shooing away un-wanted media joined acontingent of private secu-rity guards hired by Croweto keep the marriage pri-vate. But well-wishers stillgathered at the gates.

Crowe and Spencer, 32,were married by the for-mer Bishop of nearbyGrafton, Phillip Huggins,inside a round chapel builton the New Zealand-bornsuperstar’s property. Agencies

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The Times of India, New Delhi Tuesday, April 8, 2003 11GULF WAR II

Who will fill the post-Saddam vaccum?By Manoj Joshi

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New Delhi: With the Iraqiprize almost in its hands, theAnglo-American coalition isworking overtime to see justhow it can create a ‘‘legiti-mate’’ successor governmentin Iraq from an act that mostof the world, and Iraqisthemselves, consider illegiti-mate.

Indeed, the unexpected op-position that they facedacross Iraq and the heavycivilian toll indicates thatIraqis will continue to resent,rather than welcome, contin-ued US military presence.

The Americans will mili-tarily control the country, butthey are unlikely to be ac-cepted by the average Iraqi as

they were by the Japanese orGermans after World War II.

Iraq has a history of na-tionalism and Saddam’s de-parture represents the fail-ure of its Ba’athist phase.But the war may take it to an-other stage which draws sus-tenance from its Ba’ath past,the current war and continu-ing resentment against theUS fuelled by the Palestinianconflict. This dilemma hasled to a division of opinionon the best way to administerthe country.

The British favour a strongrole for the UN. The US is di-vided between the Pentagonwanting a military govern-ment and the State Depart-ment wanting it to be run un-der a civilian facade. Havingpaid the physical price in

conquering Iraq, the US doesnot want to share the spoilswith those who opposed itsaction.

American officials do notmind specialized UN agen-cies like the UNICEF, WHOor the World Food Pro-gramme, but they are unitedin their desire to keep coun-tries like France, Germanyand Russia out of any politi-cal and economic decision-making process.

The one thing that an alienmilitary government will dois to unite Iraqis and imbuethem with a nationalist fer-vour that will make thingsdifficult for the US. Post-warIraqi resistance could rangefrom civil disobedience andstrikes to car bombings, sui-cide attacks and assassina-

tions. The American re-sponse could well be to get aproto-Saddam to controlthings by dictatorial meth-ods, or to declare victory,pack their bags and leave.

So daunting is the task ofreconstructing Iraq’s econo-my and polity, that the USmay not have any choice butto seek UN help. The ragtagbunch of Iraqi opposition fig-ures who have lived abroadtill now, are unlikely to com-mand much respect. In fact,they will be seen for whatthey are, puppets in thehands of the Americans. Thepost-Saddam vacuum willhave to be filled, but it is like-ly to be done slowly by a newgeneration of leaders whocould well emerge from a civ-il movement against US rule.

Chemical Ali: Manfor hatchet jobsDubai: Ali Hasan al-Majid, who Britishofficials believe may have died in an airstrike, was the most notorious of Sad-dam Hussein’s close aides, earning thenickname ‘‘Chemical Ali’’ for orderingthe gas attack that killed thousands ofKurdish villagers in 1988.

A cousin of Saddam’s who also hailedfrom the northern cityof Tikrit, Majid wasconsidered the presi-dent’s right-hand manwhose services wereregularly called upon tobreak the back of anyuprising against hisregime.

When it became clearthe US would launch awar to topple Saddam,Majid was appointedgovernor of southernIraq. His task was to or-ganize the defense ofthe region, and to en-sure that the mass up-rising urged by thecoalition did not materi-alize.

US said Majid’s Basravilla was hit in an airstrike on Saturday.British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoonsaid Monday there were ‘‘strong indica-tions’’ that Majid was killed, althoughthere was no confirmation.

Chemical Ali had been called to thesouth before, in March 1991, to play akey role in suppressing a Shiite Muslimuprising that erupted after then USpresident George Bush exhorted Iraqis

to rid themselves of Saddam in thewake of the first Gulf war.

After the August 1990 invasion ofKuwait, Majid was named governor ofthe occupied emirate. He quickly wipedout pockets of resistance, and after theGulf war resumed his normal job asIraq’s minister for local affairs.

But Majid won his no-toriety in the north ofIraq. In March 1987, theruling Baath party puthim in charge of stateagencies in the Kurdisharea, including the po-lice, army and militia.

As the eight-year warwith Iran drew to aclose, Iraq became en-raged that fighters fromthe Patriotic Union ofKurdistan with backingfrom Teheran had takenover Halabja town.

The Iraqi army start-ed by bombing the areawith artillery and fight-er planes. Kurdish guer-rillas retreated to thesurrounding hills, leav-ing behind women andchildren.

In the afternoon of March 16, Iraqijets swooped over Halabja and for fivehours sprayed the city with a deadlycocktail of mustard gas and the nerveagents Tabun, Sarin and VX. Dozens ofKurds lay lifeless in front of theirhomes many with blood pouring out oftheir noses as they tried in vain to fleethe attacks. AP

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Sarin storage sitefound, claims USUS biological and chemicalweapons experts believe they mayhave found an Iraqi storage site forchemical weapons south of Cen-tral Iraqi town of Hindiyah, a USofficer said on Monday. A militarysource who declined to be identi-fied said there were unconfirmedreports there could be sarin at thesite. In a seperate discovery, USforces reportedly found a weaponscache of around 20 medium-rangemissiles equipped with chemicalweapons. The rockets, BM-21 mis-siles, were equipped with sarinand mustard gas.

Saddam on TV againIraqi television showed footage onMonday of President Saddam Hus-sein meeting with top aides. Thepresident, wearing military fa-tigues, was shown sitting in aroom with windows and with wallmaps behind him. Also seen pres-ent at the meeting were hisyounger son Qusay. Elder sonUday was not shown in the film.

Journalists kidnappedTwo Polish reporters were abduct-ed by armed men at a checkpointsome 130 km south of Baghdad onMonday. Marcin Firlej, 27, a re-porter for the private TVN24 newschannel, and 31-year-old JacekKaczmarek, with Polish state ra-dio, had set off from Nasiriyah.They were stopped by armedIraqis at a checkpoint near Hillah.

WAR DIARYSaddam’s palaces stun US troopsBaghdad: Under the dust,the imitation FrenchBaroque furniture waspainted gold. The manyswimming pools and foun-tains were bone dry. Almostevery room had several tele-visions. And the views ofthe Tigris? Spectacular.

After bombing SaddamHussein’s New PresidentialPalace on Monday, the USArmy swept in and took in-ventory. Soldiers searchedthe vast complex by the riv-er and marveled at whatthey saw.

While the Pentagon saidUS forces were not occupy-ing the capital, the Armysettled in, at least temporar-ily, at the bombed-out palacewith a mobile commandpost and a collection pointfor Iraqis taken prisoner inBaghdad fighting.

Saddam built dozens ofpalaces around the countryduring his rule, symboliz-ing his power. UN inspec-tors suspected some palaceswere used to concealbanned weapons, thoughnone were ever found insearches.

The ‘‘new’’ palace wasbuilt recently near Sad-dam’s Baath Party head-quarters. Now half-de-stroyed, the main buildingwas sand-colored brick,topped with a blue-and-goldceramic tile dome. The firstfloor and basement wereflooded but intact, the thirdand fourth floors gone alongwith a rooftop swimmingpool.

Soldiers searched the re-maining rooms, apparentlyonce used as living and en-tertaining quarters, not foradministration. They rifledthrough documents in themany offices, finding ornateboxes of stationery and aportable stereo.AP

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Iraqi soldiers flee Saddam’s palace in Baghdad after US troops seized it Monday morning.

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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Any attempts to draw parallels between the Iraqand Kashmir situations are wrong.

— US state department

By Vikas Singh

As the ‘coalition of the willing’ swung intoaction, so did virus writers. E-mails begandoing the rounds, ostensibly containingattachments ranging from secret spy pic-tures to Dubya screensavers. Actually, theycontained a new worm, `Ganda’. Simultane-ously, there were rumours about an online at-tack on a US defence department server. TheUS army confirmed the incident, but said ithad not resulted in any significant damage.

Even so, these events stoked already ram-pant fears about cyber insecurity. US home-land security secretary Tom Ridge aggravat-ed matters by saying his department would‘‘monitor the Internet for signs of a potentialterrorist attack, cyber terrorism, hacking,and state-sponsored information warfare.’’

Since they’ve endured 9/11 and theanthrax scare, and since there’s a highprobability of intensification of terroristactivity following the attack on Iraq,Americans can be forgiven a certain degreeof paranoia. But is cyber terrorism reallyas big a menace as is being made out?

Yes, says Congressman Lamar Smithof Texas. He believes that unless the US‘‘secures its cyber infrastructure, a few key-strokes and a Net connectionis all one needs to disable theeconomy and endanger lives...A mouse can be just as dan-gerous as a bullet or a bomb.”

No, insists CNET News.comcolumnist Declan McCullagh.‘‘Last I checked, it was physi-cal terrorists who bombed theMarine barracks in Lebanon,who attacked the USS Cole,who took out the OklahomaCity federal building, and whosuicide-bombed the WorldTrade Center and the Pentagon. Wily-fingered hackers had nothing to do with it,’’he sniffed in a recent column.

McCullagh insists he’s never heard of adeath that could be attributed to cyberterrorism and that not being able to checkyour e-mail for a day may be an annoyance,but it’s hardly terrorism. Sure, the Internethas frequently suffered slowdowns — evenshut-downs in some parts of the world — butit always bounces back within a day or two.

Even so, the prospect of a ‘digitalPearl Harbour’ has the US establishmentconcerned. So worried, in fact, that the USNaval War College actually collaborated withGartner Research to simulate a cyber attackon America’s infrastructure. Their findings:It would take a group of hackers consider-able resources (including $200 million),extensive inside information, and five yearsof preparation to mount a significant attack.Even that would, at worst, inflict localiseddamage to physical infrastructure systems,but would not result in loss of life.

It might not be a bad idea to conduct asimilar exercise in India. Certainly, thereshouldn’t be any shortage of human expert-ise to simulate a cyber attack. Till then, let’s

reserve our comments about the threat toIndia, and look at the situation in general.

Cyber attacks essentially take two forms:One against data, the other on control sys-tems. The vast majority of cyber attacks, likecredit-card number theft, vandalisation ofwebsites and denial-of-service assaults comein the first category. They can disrupt busi-ness and cause great inconvenience, not tomention considerable embarrassment. Butultimately, they are not a life-and-death issue.

‘Hacktivism’ has become a common phe-nomenon on the Net, frequently taking onjingoistic overtones, as in the case of lastyear’s tit for tat attacks by Indian andPakistani surfers, and the recent hacking ofthe Al Jazeera site. But while it’s relativelyeasy to deface the home page of, say a nuclearenergy research centre, don’t believe thealarmists who fear that hackers couldtrigger off a nuclear explosion.

The real threat comes from control-systemattacks, which try to disable or take overoperations run by networks of computer-controlled devices. In a recent article, RobertLemos of CNET News.com cited the case ofa hacker named Vitek Boden, who wassentenced to two years in prison in Novem-ber 2001, for releasing up to one million litres

of sewage into the waterwaysof Maroochydore in Queens-land, Australia. But as Lemoshimself pointed out, theincident claimed no lives andcost just $13,000 to clean up.Besides, Boden had servedas a consultant to the waterproject, so he knew muchmore about the systems thanthe average hacker. Lemosadded that although it is pos-sible for electronic intrusionsto damage infrastructure,

taking control of the systems from the out-side is extremely difficult and must over-come non-computerised back-up measures.

Does that mean there’s nothing to fear incyberspace? Even the most rosy-eyed opti-mist wouldn’t say that. There’s the issue ofsensitive information. Every networkedcomputer is vulnerable to infiltration.Contrary to popular belief, even hard drivesaren’t safe from cyber snooping. In thisregard at least, it makes sense to be paranoid.

Besides, the Net is a handy means of com-munication for terrorists. Richard Clarke,Bush’s former advisor for cyber security,once rather flippantly observed, ‘‘Osama binLaden is not going to come for you on theInternet.’’ True. But terrorists can — and do— use the Net to pass around encrypted mes-sages and stay in touch anytime, anyplace.

Ironically, the Net may be used as a weaponagainst the very values — freedom, toler-ance, respect for individuality — which it isbased upon. Still, since it is a useful tool forthe terrorist, disrupting the Net makes asmuch sense for him as destroying factorieswhich make AK-47s, which would renderhim weaponless. In the Net’s very anarchymay lie its salvation.

A Virtual Non-starterCyber Terrorism May Not Be For Real

Defence & OffenceExternal affairs minister Yashwant Sinha has been athis diplomatic and pragmatic best in dealing with theUS attack on Iraq. He has desisted from condemning theassault saying such language would serve no purpose.Yet, the same pragmatism mysteriously vanishes whenit comes to justifying pre-emptive action againstPakistan. Indeed, Mr Sinha’s case is that India hasgreater reason to strike at Pakistan than the US hadagainst Iraq. Predictably, Washington has hit back,squashing the suggestion that Kashmir can be equatedwith Iraq. Mr Sinha should have anticipated the snub.After all, the US has never shied away from applyingdifferent standards to itself and the rest of the world. Asif on a cue, Pakistan has swiftly pointed out that Indiais not United States, nor the power equation betweenNew Delhi and Islamabad comparable to that betweenWashington and Baghdad. Mr Sinha will do wellalso to notice the public outrage that has followedGulf War II. So it is best that he doesn’t expect theworld to applaud any pre-emptive action by India.In fact, it is puzzling that Mr Sinha has chosen thisinappropriate moment to cite the US example as ajustification for similar action by India.

Successive Indian army chiefs have pointed out thatthe margin of Indian conventional superiority overPakistan is not adequate to generate decisive results incase of military action. The most that can be expectedare limited territorial gains across the Line of Control,as enunciated by the advocates of limited war. However,India, as a status-quo country, has a vital stake inmaintaining the inviolability of the LoC. Our restraintin not crossing this line during the Kargil war earnedus a lot of goodwill in the international community. Thesanctity of the LoC has been repeatedly emphasised bythe US and other nations. The long months of militarymobilisation, confrontation and subsequent stand downthat happened last year illustrate the limits of coercivediplomacy. It doesn’t take much for Pakistan to resort tonuclear sabre-rattling, which in turn will generateinternational concern. Given these considerations,any military option must necessarily be one of lastresort, not meant to be exercised either in defence ordiplomatically. By asserting its right of pre-emption,which in any case is not a viable proposition, NewDelhi will only weaken its case vis-a-vis Pakistan. Theexternal affairs minister should practise even in respectof Pakistan what he preaches in our relationship withpowers like the US — restraint in language.

Fresh GuardCricket is perhaps India’s greatest unifier, so it’s fittingthat the national team has increasingly come to reflectthe country’s demographic reality. Like India itself, thecricket team is an entity with a glorious tradition andrich heritage, but whose population is increasinglyyoung and assertive. These go-getters carry no baggagefrom the past; instead they are eager to make their markon the international scene. Sourav Ganguly, RahulDravid and Sachin Tendulkar, all around 30, havealready become the team’s senior statesmen. VirenderSehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammed Kaif, Zaheer Khan,Ashish Nehra and Harbhajan Singh — who were in thejunior ranks not so long ago — have become integralmembers of the Indian squad. Now, some moreyoungsters have a chance to prove their worth. India’steam for the forthcoming triangular one-day series atDhaka has four new faces, with fans particularly eagerto see batsman Gautam Gambhir and pacer AvishkarSalvi in action. Blooding them, as well as Amit Mishraand Abhijit Kale, would help India’s endeavour tobuild formidable bench strength.

There have been many instances in the past ofyoungsters taken on tours ending up as mere tourists.Subsequently, they were discarded without being givena chance to showcase their skills. One sincerelyhopes that will not be the fate of any of the latest bunchof newcomers. If need be, India could borrow aleaf from the highly successful Australian book andfollow a ‘rotation’ policy, to give every member of the15-man squad at least one game. The Indian think-tankhas a golden opportunity to experiment, since playersand fans alike are still recovering from the World Cuphangover, and are unlikely to get too worked upabout the result of the Dhaka tournament. Especiallysince five members of India’s World Cup squad choseto sit this one out. Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravidand Ashish Nehra can safely be expected to resumenational duty once they return to full fitness. However,the future of the other two drop-outs, JavagalSrinath and Anil Kumble, looks a lot more uncertain.Though both look good to play at least Tests for acouple of seasons more, they are said to be ponderingtheir next course of action. Perhaps they shouldreflect on the truism, ‘the old order changeth’ — withthe rider that if it changes with undue haste, it wouldno longer remain an order.

Sermons for SaleJesus Christ was relying on divine inspiration whenhe delivered his celebrated ‘Sermon on the Mount’which included lines like “Blessed are the peacemakers:for they shall be called the children of God”. Allof which the likes of compassionate conservativeslike George W Bush and his coalition partner TonyBlair have apparently forgotten while showering Cruisemissiles on Baghdad. Christ also said, “Blessed are thepoor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven...Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth”.That kind of divine inspiration seems in short supplyin today’s Britain going by reports that a websitehas just been launched to provide vicars with aselection of ready-to-use sermons. The site has beenlaunched by Bob Austin, a preacher in the Churchof England. The site terms itself as “a fast-responseservice designed to help busy Christian ministersand teachers with sound, ready-made sermons”. Andso what if Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “I like thesilent church before the service begins, betterthan any preaching”. Or if the banished duke inShakespeare’s As You Like It found “tongues in trees,books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, andgood in everything” in the forest of Arden. PreacherAustin supplies a wide range of sermons with eachbeing priced at $12.50 and guaranteed to last for10 to 12 minutes. Some may cavil about those whoknow the price of everything but the value of nothing.However, Austin says: Preachers are getting busierand busier these days and sermons tend to go downto the bottom of the pile. You come to the end ofthe week and you think “Good heavens! I’ve got asermon to preach on Sunday’’. The Venezuelanwriter Thomas Russell Ybarra may have anticipatedthis when he wrote, “A Christian is a man who feelsrepentance on a Sunday for what he did on Saturdayand is going to do on Monday”.

Nobel prize winning chemist SherwoodRowland was the first to warn us ofthe ozone-depleting potential of chlorofluoro-carbons (CFCs). His seminal contributionhelped shape, in 1987, the UN- sponsoredMontreal Protocol which first soughtinternational intervention to control damageto global environment. However, littlehas been done by governments to realise,he tells Narayani Ganesh, the goal ofcleaner air in the world:

Is public concern about environmentalpollution a recent phenomenon?

Yes, it’s fair to say that sustained andwidespread concern about the environmentand the damage it is suffering, started veryrecently — all told, some 30 years ago.But is the threat of pollution, in your view,exaggerated or is it real?

Some amount of pollution obviouslyexisted earlier, too. But we were simply notaware of it. Earlier, people could not measurepollution — so whenever it was not visible,they thought it had gone away. Today,pollution indices have become an integralpart of news. Some newspapers even publishthem on their front pages. A newspaperin Los Angeles, for instance, regularlypublishes a UV index, measuring theintensity of ultraviolet radiation everyday.Do you think there is a need to create greaterpublic awareness?

Thanks to satellitetechnology, we’re be-coming more awareof the weather. Weare able to measureand compute chan-ges and analysewhat they mean tous with the help ofsensitive and sophis-ticated instruments.First, carbon dioxide(CO2) was identifiedas the main cause ofthe greenhouse effect. Then, my team and Irealised that other gases like CFCs, methaneand nitrous oxides were also in a wayresponsible for widening the ozone hole. Sowe called the greenhouse effect the ‘trace gaseffect’, its major component still being CO2.How far do polluting smoke/gases travel?Do they cause the brown haze that appearsperiodically over oceans?

It’s amazing, the way air-borne pollutantsget dispersed. Aircraft experiments explo-ring the existence of increasing ozone levelsover the tropical South Atlantic Ocean in1982 showed that the ozone content in theatmosphere was indeed increasing — on apar with levels over Delhi or Calcutta. It wascoming from bio-mass burning in Brazil. Youcould tell burning was going on and the windwas blowing the smoke over the ocean.

Even before that 25 years ago some USscientists set up stations one hundred feethigh in Hawaii, collecting samples ofwhat the wind brought — these particleswere later identified as coming from theGobi desert in Mongolia.

In 1966, our aircraft was flying between

Fiji and Tahiti when it flew into an ozoneplume (area with high ozone concentration).The plume had travelled across India to thePacific region, all the way from burningagricultural waste in South Africa. There’s alot of bio-mass burning in the tropics.

The Indian Ocean haze was primarilyfrom India — 1990 satellite measurementsshowed high ozone levels, between 29 and 50degrees north all around the world, and partof it was downwind.What would you say urgently needs to be doneto minimise environmental pollution?

I would like energy conservation tobecome a reality. That involves doing ecolo-gi-cally favourable things like reducing car-bon dependency. There are several non-CO2energy options available like wind, solar,nuclear and hydro power. These technologiesare still developing; so their potential is notbeing harnessed fully. What’s more, thesetechnologies, in the initial stages, are quiteexpensive. But the poor too need energy. Sowe’ve got to look for non-carbon sources evenif it takes us a few decades to find them.

Some time ago, when the UK closed coalmines in Wales, under the Kyoto Protocol, itearned credit points. The real reason for theclosure was that the mines were no longereconomical to run. Similarly, non-competi-tive plants in former East Germany wereclosed — not out of respect for the Protocol

but because theyhad ceased to beeconomically viable.But it did helpGermany earn cre-dits. The fact is the1997 Kyoto Protocolhas attempted toset benchmarks butgovernments havedone very little toimplement them onthe ground.How about pri-vate initiatives from

businesses?Du Pont says it has cut down greenhouse

gases (GHG) — but they’ve actually done itfor profit. The company found out that itwas more profitable to cut down on GHGs.Anyway, at least it set the process inmotion, whatever the motive.What has been the single most significantachievement in dealing with atmosphericpollution in the West?

Following the ban on CFCs in industrialcountries, there’s hardly been any freshrelease of CFCs into the atmosphere now.However, it will take several decades — 50 to100 years — for the existing molecules tocompletely disappear. Until then, we’ll haveto live with the ozone hole, maybe till the endof this century.

An economic view cannot restrict itself toprojecting plans up to 2004 — you have totake a long range view, at least up to 2044.Inaction now will create more problems.For instance, rising sea levels could wellthreaten South Florida and not just tinyislands in the Pacific or low-lying countrieslike Bangladesh.

Protocol Politics

The fact is the 1997Kyoto Protocol hasattempted to set anumber of benchmarksbut governmentsaround the worldhave done very littleto implement themon the ground.

Q&A

Inhumanity of WarIn attacking Iraq on flimsy, unprovengrounds, the US has affirmed that it embo-dies the baser aspects of humanity. It took asimilar position when it used atomic bombsagainst the civilian population in Japan du-ring the World War II. The US has termedIraqi suicidal attacks on its forces as ‘terror-ist actions’. How can it be terrorism whenit is directed, not at defenceless civilians butat armed combatants in a declared war? It isthe US aggression against Iraq that is ter-rorism. By unleashing its superior armadaagainst an outclassed foe, the US is terroris-ing the Iraqi populace. Just as the earlyEuropean settlers in America saw nothingwrong in taking on with guns nativeAmericans armed with bows and arrows(and usurping their land in the process),

so too now the US sees nothing amiss in itsshameless rape of Iraq. It sure is a worldleader, in depravity and immorality.— Kishore Kumar, Faridabad

IIWhy is the media not condemning SaddamHussein for pushing the innocent people ofIraq into an avoidable war? All Saddam hadto do was to declare his chemical andbiological weapons. But his stubbornnessled to war. Why is he running to save hislife now? It is a shame that the people ofIraq are giving their lives to protect adictator. It is time Saddam surrendered tothe allied forces so that this war could end.— Sudesh K Jain, Roorkee

Years of MisruleIn ‘Catch Me if You Can’ (Apr 4), VidyaSubrahmaniam says that under DigvijaySingh, Madhya Pradesh has ‘‘gained a highprofile’’. This is meaningless for the com-mon citizen who does not have power fordays on end despite a sharp hike in powertariffs. Most of Bhopal gets water only forhalf an hour every day, its roads are badlymaintained and the entire infrastructure isin a mess. It is shameful that a governmentthat has ruled for ten years is unable toensure even the basic needs of its citizens.— Anuj Kulshrestha, via e-mail

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Conflict Resolution

The four standardmethods for dealing

with conflictsituations are:Conciliation,

placating with gifts,sowing dissensionand use of force.

It is easier to employa method earlier in

the order than a laterone; placating with

gifts is twice as hardas conciliation;

sowing dissensionthree times as hard

and use of forcefour times.Kautilya,

The Arthashastra✥

Beginning with peace,extending up to war:

Thus, the Self-Existentenunciated

the guidelines ofpolity for princes;

of thesewar most reprehensi-ble is best excluded.

The darknessthat breeds in afoeman’s heart

is only through conci-liation destroyed;

not by the lustre-raysof a priceless gem,

not by the sun’s heat,not by the

fire’s flames.Vishnu Sharma,

The Panchatantra,‘Estrangement of

Friends’✥

Those who assist aleader by means of theTao do not use arms to

coerce the world, forthese things tend toreverse — bramblesgrow where an armyhas been, bad yearsfollow a great war.

Weapons are inauspi-cious instruments,

not the tools of the en-lightened. When thereis no choice but to usethem, it is best to becalm and free fromgreed, and not cele-brate victory. Those

who celebrate victoryare bloodthirsty, and

the bloodthirstycannot have their

way with the world.Sun Tzu,

The Art of War

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Kittoo Mama’s WayOur existence can be broadlydivided into three categories— thinking, feeling andbeing conscious. The com-mon link between all three isour attention. When we res-pond to something, physicalor mental, consciously orunconsciously, we take ourattention to the related partof the body. When we think,our attention is in the brainand when we carry outhabitual activities, it isprobably in the spinal cord.

Our attention can eitherremain at one place in thecase of continuous concen-tration, or it can quicklymove between various placeswithin our body. Our nervoussystem is so efficient andthe movement of attentioncan be so quick that onewould almost perceive it tobe existing at two or moreplaces at the same time.Longer attention in oneparticular part of the bodyhelps build upstress in that part.

Breathing is car-ried out almostautomati-cally andis closely linked,through our atten-tion, with thinkingand feeling. If wecontinuously con-centrate on breath-ing, we find thatwe actually cannotthink or feel, weremain conscious only ofbreathing and of the factthat we are concentrating.When under great intellec-tual or emotional pressure,we habitually respond byfocusing attention to therelated part of the body,although that results onlyin loss of energy.

When one is mentallyfatigued, the attention staysin the brain for so long thatcontrols of even routinetasks shift towards the brain.This causes the muscles ofthe shoulder and the neck tobecome tense and they beginto ache. This is why mentalstress results in physicalmalfunction. It also leads to ashifting away of attentionfrom breathing, which mightbecome irregular.

Sudarshan kriya norma-lises breathing by concen-trating on it systematically.Firstly, closing the eyes shutsoff external stimuli so thatone concentrates on oneself.Expression of gratitude with

a namaskara helps in leavingaside any arrogance orstubbornness that mightcause imbalance. It alsoprepares us for change.

Sitting in vajrasanastraightens the spinal cordand makes the movement ofattention between the brainand spinal cord hindrance-free. It also helps in breath-ing freely. The three posi-tions for pranayama, whichincrementally take our armsfrom down to up, physicallyengage muscles in theneck and shoulders therebyrelieving pressure built up inthem due to stress. The ujjayibreathing concentrates at-tention in the spinal cord,which controls breathing innormal circumstances.

In bhastrika, breathing outforcefully, the respiratorytract gets purified andexpands. Long utterancesof ‘om’, which takes ourattention from the bottom of

the spinal cord upto the neck andthen forward tothe topmost partof the brain whilebreathing out, har-monise the centralnervous systemand our breathing.

In the threefinal stages ofthe kriya, rhyth-mic inhalationsand exhalations of

long, medium and shortdurations shift emphasisfrom inhaling in the longduration to equal in themedium and exhaling in theshort duration. Our attentionshifts from the lungs to therespiratory tract and finallyto the top of the nose. Whenwe rest after the kriya, wetake our attention to all partsof the body and becomeconscious of the balance inour attention and the har-mony in our vital systems.It conserves energy, which isotherwise wasted in stress,and makes it available forother purposes.

It takes only about 30 to 45minutes to do the shortsudarshan kriya. It can bepractised at any time duringthe day, except when the sto-mach is full. Spending sometime doing the kriya awayfrom one’s busy schedule is agreat stress-reliever. Coupledwith light physical exercise,its benefits are immense.

Balance Body & MindWith Sudarshan Kriya

By Vishram Patil

http://spirituality.indiatimes.com

THESPEAKING

TREE

By J Krishnamurty

Why am I thinking ofKittoo mama now? Here Iam in this hotel in Bangkoktowelling down after a niceshower and reading the no-tice near the shower askingme to help the environment(and the hotel, I suspect)by not putting my towelto wash everyday. Kittoomama would have likedthis, I thought. He hadanticipated the findings ofRio and Johannesburg,which, during my youth,had been names of places,not the sites of internation-al conferences to save ourprecious environment.

Kittoo mama was appa-rently some sort of uncleof my father, the exact rela-tionship lost in the spaghet-ti junction of cross-cousinmarriages. When did I firsthear of Kittoo mama? Imust have been aroundeight at the time. I remem-ber that one day I waswearing a starched white

cotton shirt that had justcome back from the dhobi.The dhobi had obviouslyliked the buttons more thanthe shirt and had decided toreturn only the latter. As Ientered the room my par-ents scolded me: ‘‘Why haveyou come dressed likeKittoo mama?’’ I just couldnot understand what it wasthat was annoying them.Did they dislike the shirt?No. It was the lack of but-tons that had provoked thecomparison. From that mo-ment, Kittoo mama, sightunseen, became my hero.

I made it my business tolearn all I could about him.He apparently wore a southIndian double dhoti orveshti most of the time. Hewould wear it in the usualway for a couple of days,then he would turn it insideout and wear it again for acouple of days more. Soonhe learned that there weremany more possibilities.The double-layered dhotihad four sides and it could

be worn top side up or topside down. He realised thathe could wear the samedhoti for a week.

One day, Kittoo mamadiscovered that the buttonson his kurta were disap-pearing after each wash.After some reflection hecame to the conclusion thatbuttons were not reallynecessary. From that mo-ment he stopped replacingbuttons and went aboutexposing his chest.

These conservationmeasures made him veryunpopular with his rela-tives. The very idea ofwearing the same clothesfor even a second daywas anathema to them.Poor Kittoo mama, he wasa thinker far ahead ofhis times.

I have not been ableto discover how Kittoomama’s tale ended. Maybehe caught a chill and hisrelatives left him to die. Ormaybe his dhobi killed him.

I shall never know.

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Yahoo! takes on GoogleSan Francisco: Yahoo! Inc. is rolling outa souped-up search engine on Monday ina bid to supplant its business partner,Google, as the most popular place to findthings on the Internet.

With the revisions, Yahoo believes itssearch engine will provide more usefulinformation than Google’s and be simplerto use. The rebuilt version will combineGoogle’s index with Yahoo’s customisedservices spanning sports, driving direc-tions and weather reports.

‘‘We think this is going to change thegame a bit,’’ said Jeff Weiner, Yahoo’ssenior vice president of search and mar-ketplace. ‘‘This is the first of many stepstoward reinforcing our leadership in themarketplace.’’

Google declined to comment on Yahoo’snew search engine.

Battle lines clearly are being drawn be-tween the companies, said Danny Sulli-van, editor of the industry newsletterSearch Engine Watch.

‘‘They are going to be duking it out,’’Sullivan predicted. ‘‘Clearly, Yahoo wouldlike to keep more people from going overto Google to search and maybe even bringback some of the people that have previ-ously left.’’

Toppling Google won’t be easy. In justfive years, Google has become synony-mous with online searching.

Yahoo played a vital role in Google’srise. After encouraging Google to createits search engine, Yahoo raised the start-up’s profile nearly three years ago by li-censing Google’s software to run thesearches on its popular online portal.

According to the industry newsletter,Google handles an average of 112 millionsearches a day and Yahoo handles about42 million. Most of Yahoo’s results aregenerated by Google’s software.

With its success, Google has introducedother services, such as news and shop-ping pages, that traverse Yahoo’s turf.

To lessen its dependence on Google, Ya-hoo last month bought search engine spe-cialist Inktomi for $279.5 million. Yahooplans to incorporate Inktomi’s tools in toits search engine by year’s end.

Success also has thrust privately-heldGoogle into the cross-hairs of MicrosoftCorp., which last week said it would im-prove its online search prowess.

Mobile operators forge alliance:Five mobile telecommunications opera-tors from the Asia-Pacific region an-nounced an alliance to improve the levelof data services for their subscribers.

‘‘This is to be achieved by ensuringcontent sharing, inter-operability and co-operation on new platforms and devices,’’the Asia Mobility Initiative (AMI) mem-bers said in a joint statement. Agencies

TECHNOLOGYUPDATE

The Times of India, New Delhi, Tuesday, April 8, 2003

Sony’s new offeringSony’s top-end personal digital assistant (PDA) has Intel’s 200MHzPXA250 processor, a 2.11-megapixelCCD, and a 5mm/F2.8 lens for itsbuilt-in camera unit. Price: $680, including a built-in IC card reader

Eyeing investmentPrime Minister of Vietnam Phan VanKhai (right), in a week-long visit toJapan, has met his Japanese coun-terpart Junichiro Koizumi (extremeright). Van Khai’s aim is to woo moreJapanese investment to Vietnam

Easy to identifyFujitsu’s new identification sensor reads out venous patterns off a palm to match upthe pre-registered personal datato identify the person. Fujitsuhopes to launch it this year

Selling rate: Currency notesSource: SBI, MumbaiRupee Value US $: 47.90 UK £: 74.75 Euro: 51.10 S Fr: 35.30 Yen (100): 40.90 A $: 29.50 NZ $: 26.50 S $: 27.65 Saudi Riyal 13.15 UAE Dirham 13.45 Thai Baht(100) 113.55

Singapore,India to boostcooperation

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: India and Singapore have decid-ed to focus on tourism, infrastructure and ITto boost economic and bilateral cooperationduring the ongoing official visit of SingaporePrime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Tong willmeet the Indian Prime Minister AB Vajpayeeand address industry leaders on Tuesdayhere. A Joint Study Group of senior govern-ment officials from both the countries havefound business synergies in tourism, IT-en-abled services, e-commerce, health, biotech-nology, education, intellectual property, fi-nance and infrastructure.

The report will be submitted to the visitingpremier on Tuesday. The level of investmentbetween India and Singapore are expected toscale $150 million in infrastructure.

And, India and the Singapore TourismBoard are looking forward to jointly promotetourism and market programmes as well asexchange information between varioustourism agencies. The Singapore TourismBoard, which has an office in Mumbai, willset up another office in Chennai in the nextcouple of months.

Both countries have also agreed to exploreopportunities in developing India’s infra-structure. Singapore-based companies (likeAscendas, which has developed the Banga-lore International Tech Park; and PSA,which operates the Tuticorin port in TamilNadu) have evinced interest to participate inthe management of privatised Indian air-ports, township planning, hospital develop-ment and SEZs. Singapore has also posi-tioned itself as a disaster recovery and busi-ness continuity hub for Indian IT companies.The two countries have found opportunitiesin developing IT products.

Stocks gain with end to war in sightTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:Business sentimentsand global stocks took a leap onMonday with US-led forces encir-cling Baghdad, signalling an end tothe Iraq war soon.

At home, the 30-share BSE Sen-sex gained 47.40 points to close at3,215 — scaling the psychologicalbarrier of 3200. A senior brokerssaid FIIs have also turned positive.During the last week, their net buy-ing position was at Rs 215 crore. Asenior broker Sanjay Kaul said thatmarket was bullish and was likelyto gain further ground.

However, institutional investorsare concerned about the global re-covery. A senior fund manager saidthat the tension between the US andEU would prove counterproductive

if it was not sorted out soon.All the European markets opened

on a strong note and improved fur-ther. The index for German mar-kets, DAX was quoting up by 5.41per cent, French market CAC by4.61 per cent and UK market FTSEby 3.24 per cent.

In the US, NASDAQ opened up by2.5 per cent (35 points) and Dow

Jones Industrial Average improvedby 2.2 per cent (170 points) duringinitial trading. Investors hoped anend to the Iraq war soon. Tokyostocks closed sharply higher. TheNikkei index ended up 2.18 per cent.

The oil prices crashed to below$28 per barrel. A foreign fund man-ager in Mumbai said that all otherindicators were strong and marketwas likely to move further up.

Dollar strengthened against allother currencies. It surged morethan one per cent against the euroand hit a three-month high againstthe Swiss Franc. Against rupee, dol-lar strengthened a bit from Rs 47.37to Rs 47.40. This, fund managersfelt, would help Indian companiesin exports.

Gold prices tumbled further in

Europe, shedding its safe haven pre-mium on hopes for a quick end tothe war. “I can’t think of any reasonto buy gold. Everything’s over,” saidGordon Cheung, director of pre-cious metals trading at Mitsui Bus-san in Hong Kong. Spot gold wastrading at $319.90/320.65 an ounce,falling by over $5 from New York’sclose on Friday at $325.35/326.05.

Buoyant stock markets, furtherdeclines in oil prices and a firmerUS dollar also combined to pushgold lower, analysts said.

And, back home, gold demandhas risen in the past few days andits buying is likely to intensify thisweek with a fall in prices, traderssaid. Spot gold was trading at afour-month low of $320/320.75 anounce.

Indian IT workersfiasco: Malaysiato penalise copsKuala Lumpur: Malaysian police will pe-nalise six officers believed to be responsiblefor the alleged mistreatment and wrongfularrest of Indian migrant workers, the coun-try’s national police chief said on Monday.

India lodged a diplomatic protest with theMalaysian government after police de-tained 165 Indian workers during a raid onsuspected illegal immigrants at a KualaLumpur apartment building on March 9.

The Indians, including many communi-cations technology professionals, claimedpolice detained them for at least 10 hours,roughed up some of them and defaced theirimmigration visas. Indian diplomatic offi-cials were initially barred from meeting theworkers, who mostly possessed valid immi-gration documents.

On Monday, Inspector-General of PoliceNorian Mai said disciplinary action wouldbe taken against six officers after investiga-tions showed they had been ‘‘involved inshortcomings and mistakes that occurredduring the operation.’’ He declined to speci-fy what action would be taken or what mis-takes the officers made.

Mai’s statement comes in the wake of re-ports by several Indian newspapers lastmonth that the Indian government wasplanning a series of retaliatory measures ifMalaysia failed to take strong actionagainst police officials who allegedly ha-rassed the Indian workers.

Malaysia’s acting prime minister Abdul-lah Ahmad Badawi subsequently saidMalaysia would apologise to India, stress-ing that bilateral relations were ‘‘more im-portant than pride’’.AP

AFP

Researchers conduct tests at Ranbaxy Laboratories in Mumbai on Monday. The tests are part of a preparatory plan to combat any possible outbreak of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome disease.

Enron lenders movecourt: Domestic lenders toEnron Corp’s $2.9 billion Indi-an power plant have asked alocal court to allow them torestart the stalled project sothey can recover part of theirloans, officials said on Mon-day. Their plan is to get India’slargest power firm to restartthe plant, which has been idlesince June 2001, and gener-ate revenue that can be usedto pay off some of the debt,they said.RBI says WMA limit for’03-04 unchanged: TheRBI said on Monday that theways and means advanceslimit for the year to March2004 was unchanged at Rs10,000 crore for the first halfof the year and Rs 6,000crore for the second half. TheRBI said in the statement thatwhen the central govern-ment’s borrowings reached75 per cent of its limit, thecentral bank may trigger fresh issuance of bonds in the market. The WMA drawalswill be at the bank rate, currently at 6.25 per cent,while an overdraft will attractanother two per cent.

Indo Rama takes 24%stake in StarPet: IndoRama Synthetices has taken24 per cent stake in StarPetInc, formed with Thailandbased Pegasus Global. TheJV, which has taken over abottle-grade pet resin manu-facturing facility with a capac-ity of 70,000 tonne, expectsan annual turnover of Rs 340crore in 2003-04.

Clariant arm makes openoffer for Colour Chem: Aunit of Swiss speciality chem-icals firm, Clariant Internation-al, has made an open offer tobuy a 20 per cent stake in In-dia’s Colour Chem Ltd at Rs318 a share, the BombayStock Exchange said onMonday. It holds a 50.1 percent stake in the Indian com-pany, a release said.

Stracon bags MTNLorder for customer care:Stracon, a marketer of sportsevents telecast rights in India,said on Monday that it hasbagged a order from MTNL tooffer customer care servicesfor its Dolphin cellular sub-scribers in Delhi and this willnow complement Stracon’slong-standing relationship inproviding call centre servicesto MTNL.

Indal’s aluminium outputup 15.4% in ’02-03Metalproduction at India’s fourth-largest aluminium maker, Indal, rose 15.4 per cent inthe year ended on March 31,the company said on Monday.Indal produced 51,231 tonnesof aluminium during 2002/03,compared with 44,378 tonnesin the previous year. The company, an arm of India’slargest aluminium maker Hin-dalco Industries Ltd, pro-duced 5,893 tonnes of themetal in March, up 55 percent from a year earlier.

BEML sees sales up 5per cent: Bharat EarthMovers Ltd’s (BEML) salesrose 17.6 per cent in the pastyear to March 2003, and setitself a target to grow five percent this year. It had achieved

a record revenue of Rs 1,675crore in the past year, up from14.24 billion a year earlier.The company has set itself asales target of Rs 1,760 crorefor this year, including Rs 100crore in exports. Company of-ficials had said last year thatthey expected modest growthover the next five years.

Union Bank of India tonetwork 100 branches:State-run Union Bank of Indiasaid on Monday it planned toelectronically connect 100 ofits branches in major cities byDecember as part of a com-puterisation drive to boostprofitability. M. Venugopalan,ED of Union Bank of India,said the bank was also aimingto increase the number ofATMs to 250 from 105.

Stock funds fall in Marchon war worries: Returnsfrom Indian equity fundstuned negative in March withaverage net asset values(NAVs) falling 2.5 per cent to9.5 per cent as war worries hitmarkets, analysts said. Justone of 169 schemes, DundeeBalanced Fund, followed byfund tracking firm Value Re-search, ended in positive ter-ritory, posting a gain of 0.39per cent.

E X E C U T I V E D I G E S T

NATIONAL

Matsushita pushed intoloss by share rout: Mat-sushita Electric Industria Co,maker of Panasonic brandelectronics, said on Monday itwill post a second net loss ina row for the year ended onMarch 31 after a stock marketrout eroded the value of itsshareholdings. But Matsushi-ta, the world’s second-largestconsumer electronics maker,

said its revenues and operat-ing profit were still on track tohit targets, lifted by cost cut-ting and healthy sales of newproducts, and cash flowwould not be affected. It alsosaid it would stick to its planfor a year-end dividend pay-out of 6.25 yen per share.

Turkey’s Beko drops planto buy Grundig: Turkish ap-pliance exporter Beko said onMonday it had dropped plansto buy a majority stake inGerman consumer electronicsgroup Grundig. On March 4,Beko, part of the Koc Groupof companies, said it hadsigned a letter of intent tocarry out due diligence workon Grundig. Beko had hoped

the purhase of Grundig wouldexpand Koc Group’s pres-ence in the European cons-mer appliance market afterthe purchase of several small-er European firms. It was notimmediately clear why Bekohad dropped its plans to buyGrundig.

Swatch eyes buyback,but won’t go private:Swatch Group chief financialofficer Edga Geiser said onMonday a share buyback wasa priority at the world’sbiggest watch roup but saidchairman and founderNicholas Hayek would nottake the group private. Chiefexecutive Nick Hayek — sonof Nicolas — said in a news-

paper interview over theweekend he would like totake the company private, re-flecting his frustration withSwatch’s share price. Swatchrported better-than-expected2002 results last month but itsshares have tended to be hurtby sector weakness.

INTERNATIONAL

Today’s question: Can cellularservices companies financiallysurvive all the price-cutting?

• The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose to participate, and not necessarily of

the general public.

Yesterday’s results: Is the government backtracking on

VAT for political reasons?

Yes 85% No 11%

ET INSTA POLL

Microsoft on a roll: Bill Gates does it again.Microsoft will release a new version of its software,allowing workers to collaborate on projects andshare information online. As part of the push topromote MS Office, a team has been trying toenable users to work on the samedocuments, exchangeinfo better and co-ordinate activities.

Ajit Ninan

A cartoon figure showingthe logo of Taiwan’sChunghwa Telecom in Taipei.The government, whichholds 81.5 per cent stake, isto sell 5.2 per cent stake inthe company this month.

HCLT gets $160m order from BTTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: HCL Technologieshas won $ 160 million contractfrom British Telecom for operat-ing its contact centre in India tohandle BT’s business telemarket-ing, billing and conferencing.

The contract is spread over fiveyears and will employ 1,000 peopleby 2003 end at the NGCC (next gen-eration contact centre) set up inNoida, which may eventually em-

ploy 1,000 people. HCLT officialssaid at a press conference on Mon-day that NGCC would be managedby BT officials.

HCLT chairman Shiv Nadarsaid the contract was ‘‘the nextlogical step’’ for the company afterits acquisition of BT’s contact cen-tre in Belfast in December 2001.

Nadar said the BPO (businessprocess outsourcing) contract wasthe biggest won by an India com-

pany. Besides covering a range ofservices for BT, it would also lever-age HCLT’s expertise in softwaredevelopment, he added.

The contract comes at a timewhen there have been protests inUS and Europe against BPO orITES (IT enabled services, alsocalled BPO) jobs moving to Indiaand a string of actions against In-dian IT professionals US, UK andMalaysia.

Cellular,WLL-M rowNew Delhi: Telecom dispute tribunalTDSAT is expected to direct DoT to passon certain documents to cellular opera-tors in the ongoing case against mobilewireless in local loop (WLL-M).

The government is willing to sharewith cellular operators some documentsbut not certain internal notings on offi-cial files, although it is willing to showthem to TDSAT. Once TDSAT passes theorder, the government would have the op-tion to move the Supreme Court.

Some industry officials said the gov-ernment’s position against sharing thedocuments would raise doubts about itsbeing open and transparent. Citing cer-tain Supreme Court rulings, the govern-ment maintained in its affidavit on Mon-day that making documents publicwould hamper free decision makingprocesses.TNN

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•Markets going up, hoping theIraq war will end soon

•NASDAQ, Dow Jones openhigher, BSE Sensex, Europeanstocks move up

•Gold and oil prices down

Bouncing back

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S T O C K S The Times of India, New Delhi14 Tuesday, April 8, 2003

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232, 233.75, 229.60, 231.25 Bombay Dyein 45.75, 46.70, 45.60,46.40

45, 46.70, 45, 46.50 BPCL 235.40, 236.45, 233.10,233.95

233, 236.55, 233, 234.10 Britannia 519, 525, 501.35, 512.35

508, 524.95, 503, 519.35 BSES 221.55, 222, 216, 220.55

217, 221.20, 216.20, 220.65 Cadila Healt 123.20, 125.50, 125.25

125.50, 125.85, 123.35, 125.40 Castrol (I) 190.25, 192, 189.70,190.45

190.50, 191.20, 189.40, 190.50 Century Enka 88, 88.80, 87.30, 88.50

87.25, 88.50, 87, 88.45 Century Text 47.70, 48.80, 47.50,48.55

47.85, 48.75, 47.35, 48.50 Chambal Fert 14.25, 14.55, 14.45

14.50, 14.55, 14.30, 14.45 Chennai Pet. 30.25, 31.70, 29.65,31.05

30, 31.95, 30, 31.15 Cipla 726, 736, 725, 732.75

729, 737, 721, 731.75 CMC 512, 529.90, 525.05

522, 527, 514.15, 523.15 Colgate 122, 123.20, 121, 122.80

121.10, 123.50, 121.05, 122.80 Container Co 228, 232, 230.60

227.05, 232, 227, 229.70 Corpn. Bank 145, 150.95, 146.45

145.50, 151, 145.50, 146.35 Crompton Gr. 55.60, 59, 58.35

55.90, 59, 55.90, 58.65 Cummins (I) 54.40, 55, 53.60, 54.10

55.10, 55.10, 54, 54.45 D-Link (I) 50.25, 51.50, 49.90, 51.05

53, 53, 49.10, 51.30 Dabur (I) 38.65, 39.90, 39.65

39.45, 39.85, 38.85, 39.60 Digital Glob 603, 623.25, 616.35

608, 623.70, 604.75, 617 Dr.Reddy’s 925, 930, 921.10, 922.55

916.25, 930, 916.25, 922.90 Dredging Cor 241, 244.20, 235.05e-Serve Intl 490, 493, 460, 469.85

468, 477, 458, 472.15 EIH 164.75, 161.55, 161.85

160, 163.50, 155.50, 162.45 Engineers (I 259, 264, 260.55

257.05, 264.40, 257.05, 260 Escorts 37.85, 39.25, 37, 37.95

38.50, 38.50, 37, 38 Essel Propac 143, 148.45, 146.65

145.30, 148.80, 144.90, 146.80 Exide Inds. 78.55, 79.80, 78.75

80, 81, 78.55, 79 Federal Bank 104.35, 109, 104.05,105.20

104.60, 109.25, 104.05, 105.45 Finolex Cabl 89.90, 83.85, 84.60

83, 85, 83, 84.25 Finolex Inds 33.55, 34.25, 34.05

34.05, 34.25, 33.55, 34.10 Gail (I) 78.70, 77.40, 77.95

78.65, 78.75, 77.35, 77.85 GE Shipping 38.70, 39.15, 38.50, 39

38.90, 39.10, 38.60, 38.95 Geometric So 483.50, 505.75,499.75

485.40, 505.40, 485, 500.15 German Remed 213

208.55, 211.50, 208.55, 211.30 Gillette (I) 288, 299.85, 282.35,284.85

283, 292.50, 283, 284.40 GlaxoSmith.C 221.05, 224.75, 224

224.90, 225, 222, 223.95 GlaxoSmith.P 308.75, 311.70,306.10, 310.70

309, 311.25, 305, 310.10 GNFC 29.25, 29.70, 29.10, 29.45

29.60, 29.65, 29.10, 29.45 Grasim Inds. 337.10, 344.50, 337,338.70

330.15, 345.50, 326, 339.65 GSFC 17.55, 18.40, 17.50, 18.15

17.60, 18.35, 17.55, 18.20 GTL 66, 70.20, 62.90, 67.80

64.90, 70.15, 62.65, 68.20 Guj.Amb.Cem. 165, 167.40, 164.70,166.70

164.30, 167.40, 164.30, 167.10 Guj.Gas Co. 400, 402, 399

400.10, 402, 398, 398.50 Guj.Mineral 82.15, 84.80, 82.10,83.50

82.25, 83.90, 81.50, 82.10 HCL Infosys. 84, 84.80, 82.75, 84.40

82.15, 85, 82.10, 84.20 HCL Techno. 164.55, 175.50, 174.55

169, 175.25, 164.80, 174.25 HDFC 341, 337, 338.90

345, 349, 336.05, 338.85 HDFC Bank 243, 249.40, 245.20

241, 249.75, 241, 246 Hero Honda 193.50, 198.70, 195

195.45, 198.70, 194.10, 195.05 Hexaware Tec 115, 123.45, 122.25

115.85, 123.85, 115.35, 122.50 Him.Fut.Comm 15.45, 15.40, 17.85

15.50, 17.90, 15.25, 17.90 Hind Lever C 167.50, 169.50, 165,

168.65163.60, 169.10, 163.60, 168.15

Hind.Oil Exp 17.30, 18, 17.7017.50, 18, 17.30, 17.70

Hind.Zinc 15.80, 16, 15.60, 15.80Hindalco 558.85, 562.75, 554.10,561.30

551.05, 563, 551.05, 561.25 Hinduja TMT 174.90, 182.65, 174,179.60

174.10, 182.75, 173.85, 179.55 HLL 152, 153.15, 150.25, 152.75

151.95, 153.40, 150.10, 152.50 HMT 16.40, 16.60, 16.05, 16.55

16.50, 16.70, 16.20, 16.55 HPCL 305, 310, 303, 307.20

304.35, 309.70, 303.50, 307.60 Hughes Soft. 205, 217.40, 202.25,215.20

205.95, 216.50, 202.05, 214.60 IBP 211.50, 213, 210, 210.80

210, 213.70, 207.50, 210.90 ICI (I) 113, 117, 116.15

112.50, 117.50, 112, 117.10 ICICI Bank 138.50, 139.50, 138.10,138.95

138, 139.55, 138, 138.90 IDBI 17.85, 18.15, 17.80, 17.95

18.15, 18.20, 17.65, 18 IDBI Bank 22.60, 23.75, 23.45

22.45, 23.90, 22.45, 23.50 India Cement 14.25, 14.60, 14, 14.45

13.70, 14.65, 13.70, 14.40 Indian Alumi 120

119, 120, 119, 119.80 Indian Hotel 188, 186, 186.50

186.10, 188.25, 186, 187.05 Indian Oil C 241, 241.10, 240, 240.05

240, 241.80, 238, 240.90 Indian Ov.Bk 18.30, 19.50, 19.40

18.50, 19.55, 18.50, 19.35 Indian Rayon 79.85, 82, 79.45, 80.60

79.50, 82.45, 79.10, 80.65 Infosys Tech 4295, 4398.90,4282.90, 4382

4301, 4400, 4283.55, 4382.90 Infotech En. 109, 118, 115.25

111, 118.45, 108.95, 115.95 Ingersoll R 203.90, 209, 201.65,207.60

195.20, 207, 195.20, 205.95 IPCL 87.70, 88.60, 86.40, 86.60

87.50, 89.30, 86.50, 86.90 ITC 641.50, 666.50, 640, 653.40

642, 666.90, 640, 657.65 ITI 16.05, 17.40, 17

16.45, 17.25, 16.10, 16.90 J&K Bank 129.95, 131.25, 125.55,126.15

131, 131.50, 125, 125.90 Jaiprakash I 29.65, 30.45

30, 30.50, 29.70, 30.40 JB Chemical 163.05, 166.90, 162,163.65

164, 167, 162, 163.30 Jindal Steel 360.50, 368.80, 358.05,365.50

356, 368, 355.75, 365.95 Kochi Refin. 42.80, 45.05, 44.75

43, 45, 42.70, 44.60 Kotak Mah.Bk 161.50, 162.50,158.60, 160.05

164.45, 164.45, 158, 159.95 L&T 188, 189.65, 187.50, 188.55

188, 189.50, 187.45, 188.70 LIC Hsg.Fin. 70.90, 71.45, 70, 70.75

70, 71.15, 70, 70.65 LML 30.80, 31.50, 29.05, 29.20

32, 32, 29.15, 29.40 Lupin 141.70, 147, 143.40

142.10, 147.40, 142.10, 143.80 M&M 106, 110, 108.70

107.25, 109.80, 106.60, 108.75 Marico Inds 159.80, 162, 158.55,161.30

160, 163, 156, 161.05 Mascot Systm 108.90, 112.50,108.50, 110.60

108.75, 112.30, 108, 110.95 Mastek 557, 582.25, 556, 568.40

560, 582.90, 560, 569.45 Mastershare 10.55, 10.70

10.50, 10.70, 10.50, 10.65 Max (I) 71.10, 73.60, 72.25

71.80, 73.90, 71.80, 72.15

Mcdowell Co. 35.90, 36.95, 35.60,36.85

35.80, 37.30, 35.65, 36.95 Merck 244.80, 234.40, 239.80

239.80, 239.80, 236.80, 237 MIRC Electr. 355, 356, 350, 354

351, 355, 348.50, 349.30 Moser-Baer 247.05, 267, 265.10

249, 265, 247, 263.40 Mphasis BFL 644.70, 647.05, 632,640.90

641, 648, 625.05, 639.80 MRF 898, 898, 885, 891.05 MTNL 102, 103, 98.70, 99.40

101, 102.25, 98.25, 99.45 Mukta Arts 47.40, 48.90, 46.50,48.55

49, 49.10, 46.60, 48.60 National Alu 85.30, 85.80, 83.70,85.15

84.70, 85.85, 83.80, 85.10 Nestle (I) 527, 532.95, 525.15,529.65

530, 530, 525, 528 Neyveli Lign 28.45, 28.80, 28, 28.65

28.30, 28.75, 27.90, 28.65 Nicholas Pir 210, 217, 210.95

213, 215.95, 210, 212.35 NIIT 108.60, 117.40, 116.80

109.40, 117.50, 109.25, 116.65 Nirma 227.05, 231.90, 229.35

231.15, 231.95, 229.05, 230.15 Novartis (I) 220, 224.75, 220.80

219, 224.75, 219, 220.85 ONGC 363.90, 367.45, 359, 365.95

361.70, 367.40, 359.50, 365.15 Oriental Bnk 79, 83, 78.75, 79.95

82.85, 83.25, 78.70, 80 P&G Hygiene 385, 392, 352, 389.95Padmalaya Te 61.50, 64.10, 63

62.95, 63.85, 60.60, 63.20 Pentamedia G 10.20, 10.40, 9.50, 10

10.25, 10.40, 9.35, 9.95 Pfizer 324, 325.05, 318.25, 319.50

325.50, 327, 318, 319.70 Philips (I) 93.20Pidilite Ind 220, 225, 218.80, 224.95

219, 227.50, 218.55, 222.75 Polaris Soft 133, 139.70, 131.50,138.05

133.25, 139.70, 131.35, 138.25 Pun.Tractors 123.50, 126.80, 125.15

121, 126.45, 120, 125.10 Ranbaxy Lab. 646.30, 651, 639,650.15

642.10, 651, 639, 649.95 Raymond 91, 94, 93.45

91, 93, 90.95, 92.65 RCF 15.10, 15.25, 14.70, 15.10

15.80, 15.80, 14.50, 15.10 Rel Capital 53.50, 54.75, 53.25,54.15

53.85, 54.65, 53.50, 54.15 Reliance Ind 295, 301.80, 300.10

295.25, 302, 295, 300.15 Rolta (I) 64, 68.55, 63.45, 66.60

64, 68.70, 63.40, 66.80 SAIL 9.75, 10.05, 10

9.60, 10.10, 9.60, 10.05 Satyam Comp 187, 195.45, 186.55,193.95

188, 195.45, 186.55, 194.30 Saw Pipes 75.25, 80, 75.10, 79.30

76, 80, 75.15, 79.50 SBI 285.75, 289, 284, 286.90

284.50, 289, 284.05, 287.10 Shipp.Corpn. 58, 59.30, 58.55

58.30, 59.40, 58.30, 58.55 Shyam Teleco 34, 37.90, 37.45

35.10, 37.95, 34.35, 37.55 Siemens 295, 298.95, 294, 295.40

284.60, 297.95, 284, 295 Silverline T 8.50, 8.75, 7.15, 7.25SKF Bearing 43.65, 45.80, 41, 44.70

43.95, 46, 43, 44.85 Sonata Soft. 14.50, 14.85, 14.10,14.70

14.80, 14.80, 14.15, 14.70 SPICE 31.50, 31.79, 31.73SSI 66.45, 71.50, 65.50, 69.15

70, 71.20, 65.90, 69.60 STC India 91, 97.50, 90.05, 95.90

92.25, 97.20, 91.05, 96.55 Sterl.Biotec 39, 41.45, 38.35, 41.20

39.75, 41.50, 38.20, 41.25 Sterl.Optica 36.50, 38.45, 35.60,37.30

37, 38.55, 35.55, 37.30 Sun Pharma. 276.50, 281, 279.70

281, 282, 276.05, 280.20 Syndicate Bn 19.55, 20.90, 20.55

19.50, 20.90, 19.50, 20.50 Syngenta (I) 123, 123.25, 122,122.50Tata Chem 69.35, 72.25, 69.85

69, 72.40, 69, 69.85 Tata Elxsi 73.95, 76.45, 73.40, 75.60

75, 76.20, 73.40, 75.70 Tata Power 115.90, 120.50, 118.80

120, 120.85, 118.15, 119.25 Tata Tea 192.45, 195.80, 191.50,193.95

193, 195, 191.15, 194.15 Tata Telcom 89.10, 96, 94.40

88, 95.55, 88, 94.45 TELCO 166, 169.15, 167.40

165.15, 169, 165.15, 167.25 Thermax 142.20, 142.10, 145

143, 145.50, 142.15, 144.45 Thomas Cook 205.50, 207.95, 201,202.80

208.50, 208.50, 200.10, 201.30 TISCO 141, 145.90, 144.65

141, 146, 140.75, 144.65 Titan Inds. 57.60, 54.10, 55.90

54, 56.50, 53.45, 55.60 TN Newsprint 40, 42.50, 39.95,41.70

40, 42.30, 39.50, 41.60 TN Petro 20, 20.45, 20.30

20.10, 20.40, 20.10, 20.35 Torrent Phar 175, 177, 172.50

174.80, 180, 172.50, 173.70 Trent 154, 156, 154.70

154, 156.95, 154, 154.75 TVS Electron 63.45, 65.25, 62, 64

66.90, 66.90, 61.75, 63.95

TVS Motor Co 419.95, 423.75, 410420, 424, 407.85, 414.20

United Phosp 141.75, 144.25, 139,141.90

139.50, 144, 138, 141.65 UTI Bank 41, 42.20, 41.60

40.90, 42.20, 40.65, 41.30 Videocon Int 23.95, 23.70, 24.70

23.80, 24.80, 23.70, 24.70 Vijaya Bank 16.95, 17.85, 16.90,17.70

17.45, 17.90, 16.95, 17.70 Visual Soft 159, 166.30, 157.85,163.15

160.05, 166.20, 157.80, 163.45 VSNL 78.90, 77.30, 78.05

78, 78.90, 77, 78.10 Whirlpool 16.25, 18.50, 17.95

17, 18.10, 17, 17.85 Wipro 1299, 1305.50, 1274, 1292.95

1292.30, 1306, 1273.50, 1293.60 Wockhardt 367, 392.90, 384.15

380, 389.80, 372.55, 383.55 Zee Telefilm 72.15, 75.70, 72, 73.90

72.90, 75.75, 72.30, 74.05 Zensar Tech. 75.95, 79.40, 75.10,78.35

76, 79.35, 75.45, 78.25

B1 - GROUP

33M India 253.10, 259

257, 261.95, 252, 254

AA Sarabhai 3.80, 4, 3.80Aarti Drugs 26.75Aarti Inds. 60, 61.50, 59.45, 59.45 Aban Loyd 135, 143

134.50, 144.30, 133.25, 144.30 ABC Bearings 6.80, 6ABG Heavy In 11.65, 10.50, 10.85Abhishek Ind 6.65, 6.70, 6.40, 6.50

6.30, 7, 6.25, 6.55 Adam Comsof 4.75, 5.35, 5.25Addi Inds. 19.50, 18.50Advani Oerli 32, 33.50, 31.60, 32.75

31.05, 33.85, 31, 32.85 Advik Lab. 28.35Aegis Logis. 7.95, 8

8.10, 8.50, 8.05, 8.40 AFT Inds. 57.25, 58.80, 57, 57.80Aftek Infosy 171.20, 202.90, 171,199.50

170.50, 203, 170.50, 199.30 Agro Dutch I 10, 10.75

10.40, 10.70, 9.60, 10.55 Agro Tech Fd 28, 27.05, 27.20

27.25, 27.80, 26.95, 27.45 Ahmed.Elect. 45.50, 49.40, 48.30

49.45, 49.50, 48.25, 48.70 Ahmednagar F 18.95

16.95, 16.95, 16.25, 16.90 Ajanta Pharm 24.50, 27.75, 26.95

26, 26.90, 25.50, 26.10 Aksh Optifib 16.85, 17.20, 16.40,16.55

16.40, 17.35, 16.05, 16.35 Albert David 23.50, 23.15, 23.60Alembic 152, 167, 160.10

152, 169, 152, 159.90 Alfa Laval 240, 239.90, 239.95

240, 243, 239.45, 239.80 Alkyl Amines 19.20, 20.75, 18.60,18.80Allahabad Bk 15.10, 15.75, 15.40

15.50, 15.70, 15.10,15.40 Alok Inds. 11.20, 11.25,10.70, 10.90

11, 11, 10.80, 10.95 Alstom 25, 26.25, 25.80Amara Raja B 54.50,54.75, 53.25, 54.70

53.90, 54.90, 53.50,54.65 Ambica Agarb 48.20,38.10, 42.15Ambuja Cem.R 3.10,3.15, 3, 3.05

3, 3.10, 3, 3.10 Amex Info. 15.45,16.60, 14.95, 15.85Amforge Inds 18, 17.75,18.35Amrutanjan 66.40,67.45, 66, 66.30Amtek 44.85, 45, 43.35,44.90Amtek Auto 192.45,194.90, 191.60, 194.45Andrew Yule 12.05,13.70Ankur Drugs 5.30, 6.45,6.05Ansal Prop. 10.50, 12, 11.85AP Paper 43, 39.55Apcotex Lat. 26.90

26.25, 26.65, 25.10, 26.65 Aplab 19Aptech 33.80, 34.40, 33.10, 33.65

33.80, 33.90, 33, 33.50 Archies 56.75, 56

55, 58.40, 55, 55.85 Arvind Rem. 4.35, 4.80, 4.25, 4.65

4.30, 4.90, 4.10, 4.65 Asahi (I) Gl 38.40, 39.95, 39.50

39.40, 40, 38, 39.40 Ashima 15.85, 12.75, 13.70

12.15, 12.70, 12.15, 12.70 Ashok Ley.Fn 49.80, 48.05, 48.50

48, 49, 47.85, 49 Asian Elect. 20.70, 21.20, 21.10

20.75, 21.25, 20.55, 20.85 Asian Hotels 75, 75.25, 73.30, 74.25

73.50, 75, 73, 73.10 Assam Co. 11.90, 10.50, 11Astrazen.Ph. 359

345, 345, 345, 345 Atcom Techno 12.05, 13.50, 12,12.95

11.80, 13.50, 11.80, 13.05 Atlas Copco 267, 277, 266.40,276.80

Atlas Cycles 68.95, 69, 66.80, 66.80 Atul 30.05, 32.25

29.25, 32.75, 29.25, 32.20 Auto Axles 81, 82, 78.55, 78.80Avanti Feeds 21.75, 21.60, 22.40Avery (I) 18, 18.10, 18.05Avon Organic 31.20, 32.50, 31.95

BBajaj Auto F 48.90, 48.30, 48.50

49, 50, 48.40, 48.50 Bajaj Elec. 24, 24.90Bajaj Hindus 66, 68

71, 71, 71, 71 Bajaj Tempo 94, 96Bal Pharma 18, 18.05Bal.Law.Vanl 11, 11.05Balaji Dist. 5.40, 5.90, 5.25, 5.80

5.30, 5.85, 5.10, 5.85 Balkrish Ind 48, 46.50, 47Balmer Law.I 49, 51.50, 49.95Balmer Lawri 83, 84.85, 82.25, 84.65

83, 83.60, 82.05, 82.75 Balrampur Ch 109, 112, 107.25,108.35

110, 111, 109, 109.05 Banco Prod. 45, 44.15, 46Bank of Punj 15.80, 16.10, 15.65,15.90

15.70, 16.10, 15.65, 15.90 Bank of Raj. 16.35, 15.85, 15.90

16.05, 16.35, 15.85, 15.95 Bannari Aman 101

101, 101, 101, 101 Bayer (I) 950, 920, 949.95Bayer ABS 64, 67.20, 66

64, 66.60, 64, 65.05 Bayer Diagno 223.75, 214Berger Paint 74.90, 70

71, 71, 69.90, 70 BF Utilities 7.40, 8.10, 7.60Bhansali Eng 6.35Bharat Bijle 155Bharat Hotel 26.30, 27.30, 26.30,27.30 Bhartiya Int 21.90, 22.95, 21.60,22.70

21.50, 22.95, 21.45, 22.70 Bhushan Stl. 30, 31.85, 29.75, 30.85BI 68.50, 64.35Bihar Caustc 11.25, 11.50, 11.15,11.25Bimetal Bear 105.50, 103, 105.50Binani Inds. 13.25, 14.20, 13, 14.15Birla Corp. 13.60, 14

13.65, 14.10, 13.65, 13.95 Birla Eric. 9.50, 10.25, 10.05

10.45, 10.45, 9.80, 10.20 Birla Glob.F 11.55, 12, 11.85

11.60, 11.85, 11.50, 11.50 Birla Yamaha 14, 14.55, 13.75, 14.45BITS 0.50BLB 3.65, 3.65, 3.65, 3.65 Blow Plast 9.50, 10.75, 10.55Blue Dart Ex 54.75, 55, 53.95, 54.50

54.70, 54.95, 53.70, 54.65 Blue Star 88, 89.25, 85.50, 88

87, 89.90, 87, 87.55 Blue Star In 116, 124, 122.80

115.50, 124.40, 115, 121.80 BOC 23.50, 24.45, 24.30

23.30, 24.30, 23.20, 24.25 Bombay Burma 37.30Bongaigaon R 17.55, 18, 17.30,17.75

17.50, 18, 17.35, 17.70 BPL 28.10, 29.65, 27.90, 27.95

27.10, 29.65, 26.10, 28.15

BPL Engg. 4.05, 4.30, 4.203.90, 4.20, 3.80, 4.15

Brijlax. Le. 107.90BSEL Inform. 12.55, 12.65, 11, 11.35

10.30, 10.30, 10.30, 10.30 BSL 23.25, 21.55, 23.20Burrough Wel 236, 238.95, 231.60,237.20

CCamlin 50, 52.65, 52.25Camph.& All 22.50, 23.15Canara Bank 80.90, 83.15, 78.15,82.15

80.40, 82.85, 78.10, 82 Canfin Homes 29, 29.25, 29

29.50, 30, 29.10, 29.25 Caprihans(I) 12, 12.65, 12.30Carborundum 108

108.85, 110.50, 108, 110 CCL Products 18.15, 18.90, 17.80,18.20Ceat 27, 27.50, 27.40

26.80, 27.50, 26.80, 27.30 Centur. Bank 9.80, 10.10, 9.70, 9.95

9.55, 10.05, 9.50, 9.95 Cerebra Inte 5.95, 6.25, 5.70, 6.15CESC 16.75, 17.75, 17.15

17.30, 17.30, 16.55, 17.15 CG Igarshi M 35.30, 37, 36.55

42, 42, 36.10, 36.25 Chemfab Alk. 20.80Chemplast Sa 27.10, 27.05, 27.95

27.50, 27.50, 26.70, 27.15 Chettinad Ce 39.50, 40.75, 39, 40.40Cheviot Co. 45.20, 45, 47Chola.Inv&Fi 38.40, 38.80, 37.90,38.55

38.60, 39, 38.30, 38.55 Chowgule Stm 3.50, 3.85, 3.80Ciba Sp.Chem 103, 103.55, 103.25Cinevistaas 23.50, 25.15, 24.85

23.25, 25.05, 23.20, 25.05 City Union B 39.75, 40.75, 39.55,39.95

40.60, 40.60, 39.30, 39.65 Clariant (I) 131, 148.80, 128, 128.50

133.90, 139.80, 128, 129.50 Classic Diam 36.45, 36.50, 35.30, 36Clutch.Auto 4.85, 4.90, 4.50, 4.85Coates (I) 110, 110, 110, 110 Cochin Minrl 10.80, 11.75, 11.50Color Chips 5.80, 6.20, 5.50, 5.55

5.45, 6.20, 5.45, 5.50 Colour Chem 200.25, 233.95, 200,219.25

209.70, 233.90, 203.50, 220 Compucom Sof 19, 17.90, 18Compudyne Wi 15.85, 16.50, 15.50,15.95

15.50, 16.50, 15.15, 16 Computech In 5.40, 5.60, 5.45

5.60, 5.70, 5.20, 5.60 Cont.Const. 8.90, 7.50, 8.90Control Prnt 19.25, 22.20, 22.10Core Health. 4.25, 3.70, 4

4.25, 4.25, 3.70, 3.95 Corom. Fert. 65.75, 65.80, 65.20,65.20 Cosmo Ferr. 7.85, 8.40, 7.80, 8Cosmo Films 64, 66.40, 59.25, 63.10

62.50, 66.20, 59.25, 63.35 Creative Eye 10.80, 11.45, 10.45, 11

10.80, 11.20, 10.55, 10.95 Crest Comm. 28, 28.30, 27, 27.70

27, 28.40, 26.75, 27.75 CRISIL 255

253.30, 258, 253.30, 258 Cybertech Sy 8.90, 9.60, 8.50, 9.35

9, 9.70, 8.40, 9.30

DDaewoo Motor 1.60, 1.65, 1.40, 1.45Dalmia Cemen 134Danlaw Tech. 21.50, 26.15, 24.50Datanet Sys. 4Datapro Inf. 0.70, 0.60, 0.70DCM 6.05, 6.20

6.50, 6.50, 6.50, 6.50 DCM Shr.Con 55, 57

55, 57.50, 55, 56.30 DCW 10.25, 11, 10.05, 10.65

10.90, 10.90, 10.20, 10.50 Deccan Cem. 34.50, 33.70Deepak Fert. 19.20, 19.50, 19.10,19.20

18.80, 19.50, 18.80, 19.25 Deepak Nitr. 39.25, 40.50, 39.60Dena Bank 14.50, 15.50, 14.85

14.75, 15.20, 14.50, 14.75 Denso (I) 23.55, 24.50, 23.95Dewan H.Fin. 16, 16.20DGP Windsor 3.50, 3.75

4, 4, 3.40, 3.70 Dhampur Sugr 9.60, 10, 9.60, 10 Dhanalak.Bnk 18.80, 19.40, 18.50,18.75Dharamsi Mor 5.10, 5, 6Dhunseri Tea 11.20, 13, 11.15, 12.80Divi’s Lab 234, 239.80, 233, 237

235, 239.25, 234.35, 236.20 DSJ Comm. 0.50

0.50, 0.55, 0.40, 0.50 Duphar-Inter 118.05, 117.25

EEicher 27.45, 28.95, 27.25

27, 27.45, 27, 27.40 Eicher Motor 78.50, 81.60, 81.30

79, 81.80, 79, 81.05 EID Parry 75.05, 79.50, 79

79.50, 79.95, 77.35, 79.45 EIH Asso.Hot 10, 9.50Elder Pharma 29.85, 30.90, 29.75,30.85

28.55, 30.75, 28.55, 30.50 Elecon Engg. 7.50, 9.40Elect.Kelvin 8.35, 8.40, 8.20, 8.35Electro.Cast 224.75, 227.90, 226.65

224.95, 227.75, 222, 227 Elgi Equip 18, 18.50, 17.75, 18.05

17.85, 18.50, 17.70, 18 Elgitread (I 152.25, 169.90, 152.25,162.20 Emco 28.55, 29.20, 28.95Encore Soft 10, 9.75, 10Eonour Tech. 5.45, 5.65, 4.35, 4.40Epic Enzymes 6.75, 5.85, 5.90Esab (I) 33.25, 33.75, 32.50, 32.95

32.60, 33.90, 32.40, 33.30 ESI 16

15.45, 16, 14.35, 14.35 Eskay K’N’It 3.20, 2.65, 3.10Essar Oil 4, 4.20, 4, 4.15 Essar Ship. 5.20, 5.85, 5.15, 5.50Essar Steel 7.80, 8.05, 7.60, 7.90

7.70, 8.05, 7.50, 7.95 ETC Networks 45, 47.65, 44.80,46.65Eternit Ever 28.35, 28.85, 28.25,28.50

28.30, 29.25, 28.30, 28.75 Eurotex Inds 9.05, 9.10, 9.05

9, 9.45, 8.75, 9.05 Eveready Ind 11.90, 12, 11.65, 11.95

11.50, 12.30, 11.50, 11.95 Excel Inds. 67, 71.75, 71

68, 72, 67.30, 71.25

FFAG Bearings 52.40, 54.85, 53.85

52, 54.45, 52, 54 Fairfield At 1.95FCGL Inds. 2, 1.75FCI OEN Con. 78, 82, 79.10

78.95, 78.95, 78.55, 78.55 FCL Techno. 19.55, 19.50FDC 28.35, 28.75, 28.20

27.95, 28.45, 27.70, 28.10 Fert.&Chem-T 25.50, 26, 25.90

25.50, 26.45, 25.20, 25.70 Finan.Techno 15.50, 16.25, 15, 16.15First Leasin 17.50, 17.45, 17.55

17.40, 17.80, 17.40, 17.70 Flat Product 32.50, 34.85, 34.20Flex Enginer 8.50, 8

10, 10, 8.60, 8.85 Flex Foods 6, 5.55, 6Flex Inds. 18.15, 18.40, 17.45, 17.75

17.45, 17.90, 17.25, 17.65 Floatglass 19.20, 19.55, 18.50, 18.75

18.75, 19.60, 18.75, 19.35 Forbes Gokak 58.15, 63, 58, 61Fortune Info 44.50, 47.90, 43.80,47.20Foseco (I) 131.05, 134.95, 133.60

130, 134.90, 130, 132.95 Frontier Inf 4.20, 4.50, 4.40Fulford (I) 61.90, 62, 57.60, 57.70Futura Poly. 6, 6.70, 6.65

GGabriel (I) 74, 70.70, 71.45Galaxy Enter 17.75, 17.85, 17Gammon (I) 110, 118, 117.70

111, 117.80, 110, 116.95 Garden Silk 26.75, 24.20, 26.30

25.45, 26.60, 25, 26.25 Garware Poly 28.50, 31.40, 30.25Garware Wall 20.30, 20.90, 20.80Gati 33.40, 31.05, 31.50Genesys Intl 42.40, 44.50, 41.30,43.10

44, 44.90, 41.80, 42.30 Geodesic Inf 82.50, 82.70George Willi 66.45, 67.80, 67.75

66, 68.70, 65.25, 67.30 GIC Housing 12, 12.55, 12.45

12, 12.35, 12, 12.10 Glenmark Pha 217.75, 222.05

222.45, 222.90, 219, 222.25 Global Tr.Bk 15.45, 16.30, 14.60,15.25

15.50, 16.10, 15.05, 15.25 GMR Techno. 9, 9.60, 8.95, 9.55Goa Carbon 33.95, 31.05, 31.50Godavri Fert 33.30, 34.65, 33.80

34, 35, 34, 34.55 Godfrey Phil 308.95, 308.80

300, 308.85, 300, 308.85 Godrej Cons. 112, 108.50, 110.30

107, 110.50, 107, 110.10 Godrej Inds. 14.45, 15.50, 15.25

15.20, 15.20, 14.50, 15 Goetze (I) 19.30, 21.25, 20.70

19.70, 21.30, 19.70, 20.95 Goldiam Int. 25.15, 25.90, 25.40Goldstn.Tech 32.55, 33.10, 31.50,32.15

32.70, 34.80, 31.50, 32.10 Goldstn.Tele 10.70, 10.15, 10.45

10.20, 10.70, 9.90, 10.30 Gonter Peip 4.15, 4.20, 4, 4.05Goodlass Ner 159.70, 158, 159.50

156.75, 160, 156.75, 159.15 Goodricke 24, 25, 24.50Goodyear (I) 24.50, 25.90, 25.10Grabal Al.Im 12.80, 11.30, 12.70Graphite Ind 29.10, 30

28.80, 30.35, 28.75, 30.15 Gravity (I) 5.95, 5.60, 6.35Greaves 11.40, 11.55, 11.40Grind Norton 101, 102, 99.80, 100.30Gruh Finance 17, 16.30GTC Inds. 5.30, 5.40

5.20, 6.20, 5.20, 5.45 GTN Textiles 22.80, 22.70, 24.05

24.80, 24.80, 23.75, 24.15 Gufic Bio Sc 26.80, 27.10, 26.30,26.40Guj.Alkalies 19.80, 22, 19.55, 20.35

20.10, 21.80, 20.10, 20.40 Guj.Amb.Exp. 9.55, 9.90, 9.55

9.80, 9.90, 9.55, 9.90 Guj.Flouroch 65.55, 67, 65.10, 65.75 Guj.H.Chem 19.70, 19.75, 19.10,19.20

19.25, 19.60, 19.15, 19.30 Guj.Ind.Pow. 16.60, 17.95, 17.75

17.40, 17.90, 17.20, 17.80 Guj.Sidh.Cem 3.20, 3.40, 3.30

3.40, 3.45, 3.25, 3.35 Gulf Oil Cor 44.40, 44.50, 43.15,43.85

HHarr.Malayal 9.60, 11, 10.40

8.45, 10.35, 8.45, 10.25 Hathway Bhaw 6.95, 6.70, 7Hatsun Agro 69.75Havell’s (I) 117.50

116, 117.90, 112, 114.35 Hawkins Cook 20Hazoor Media 5.80, 5.40, 5.75HBL Nife Pow 41, 38.50, 40.15HEG 28, 27.60, 27.65

28, 28, 27.60, 27.75 Henkel Spic 19, 19.40, 18.75, 19.30Heritage Fds 42.60, 42.55, 43.50

44, 44.90, 43.05, 43.80 Hi-Tech Gear 85Hikal 101, 103

107, 107, 104.50, 104.50 Himat. Seide 101, 100

99.50, 102, 99.50, 102 Hind.Constn. 62.25, 66.65, 66.40

62, 66.90, 61.95, 66.45 Hind.Inks&Re 254, 269.95, 263.55

255, 267.90, 255, 261.65 Hind.Motors 8.25, 8.50, 8.20, 8.40

8.25, 8.50, 8.10, 8.40 Hind.Org.Chm 16, 16.15, 15.50,15.95

16, 16.10, 15.45, 15.80 Hind.Power 31.45, 31.60, 30.05,31.45Hind.Sanitar 39.60, 39.60, 39, 39 Hitachi Home 20.75, 21.20, 21.15

20.95, 21.90, 20.95, 21.70 Honda SIEL P 125

126, 129.50, 126, 127

Hotel Leela. 15, 14.40, 14.6014.35, 14.90, 14.35, 14.50

Ii-flex Solu 924.85, 941, 916, 923.50

929.70, 941.70, 917, 926.65 IFCI 4.25, 4.55, 4.45

4.60, 4.60, 4.25, 4.45 Ind.Swift 50.90, 52, 48.75, 49.50Ind.Swift La 15.05, 16.35, 15.80

15, 15.95, 15, 15.55 India Foils 5, 6, 5, 5 India Gelat. 9.25India Glycol 39, 40, 38.75, 39.45India Gypsum 17, 18.70, 17.30

17.20, 19.20, 17.20, 17.45 India Nippon 179.90

178, 184, 178, 180.05 India Online 4.05, 4.75, 3.85, 4.30India Polyfi 3.05Indian Card 39.10, 39, 40Indian SeamM 8.90, 9.25Indo Gulf Fe 36.30, 37.30, 35.90,36.75

36.85, 37.40, 36, 36.45 Indo Nationl 335, 335, 335, 335 Indo Rama Sy 29.80, 31, 30.60

29.90, 31.10, 29.70, 30.80 Indraprast.M 12, 12.05, 11.90

12.05, 12.35, 11.95, 12 Indus.Inv.Tr 16.95Indusind Bnk 17.35, 18.15, 17.20,18.05

17.15, 18.15, 17.10, 17.95 ING Vysya Bk 251, 253.50, 250.50,251

247.25, 254.40, 247.25, 250.65 Insilco 13.10, 14.50, 13.05, 13.90Inter.Travel 26.15, 26.10, 27.50Invest.Trust 12.10, 12, 12.80Ion Exchange 22, 21, 21.25IP Rings 38.75, 34.75IPCA Lab. 175.25, 181, 180.20

174.50, 182, 174.50, 180.35 Ispat Inds. 5.25, 5.35, 5.10, 5.15

5.25, 5.40, 5.05, 5.15 IT & T 16.75, 17, 16.30, 16.45

16.70, 17, 16.10, 16.45 ITC Hotels 48, 49.20

50.80, 50.80, 46.05, 48.25 IVP 19

18.60, 19.70, 18.60, 19.15 IVRCL Infras 38, 43.90, 42.35

38.30, 41, 38.30, 40.60

JJagatjit Ind 20, 21.95Jai Corp 34, 32.80, 33Jain Irrig. 40, 40.10

40.25, 42.50, 40.25, 42.50 Jain Studios 14.25, 15, 14.20, 14.75

14, 15, 14, 14.95 Jaipan Inds. 10.40, 9.90, 10.05Jay Bh.Marut 28.50, 26.30

27, 27, 25.25, 26.10 Jayant Agro 46, 44, 47.50

48.10, 48.10, 46.50, 48 Jaypee Hotel 10, 9.90Jayshree Tea 31, 31.25

30, 32, 30, 30.25 JBF Inds. 11.85, 10.30, 11.45JCT 3.50, 3.65, 3.60Jenson&Nicho 4.30, 5

4.90, 5.05, 4.60, 4.70 JIK Inds. 25.20, 27.85, 24, 25.75

25.70, 25.70, 24.05, 24.05 Jindal Drill 137Jindal Iron 89.30, 89.70, 86.25, 86.60

89, 89.60, 86.25, 86.80 Jindal Photo 25.35, 25.50, 24.40,25.40

24.75, 25.50, 23.70, 25.35 Jindal Poly. 105

106, 106, 105.05, 105.05 Jindal Strip 157.80, 162, 157.05,157.95

157, 163, 156, 157.95 JK Corpn. 10.50, 10.55JK Inds. 23.25, 24.40, 23.10, 23.90JK Synthetic 2.60, 2.65, 2.60JL Morison 74, 72.05, 72.25JMC Projects 16.50, 16.90, 16.35,16.75Jog Engg. 6.75, 6.85Jubilant Org 150, 159.90, 150

151.75, 152, 145.50, 148.40 Jupiter BioS 37.60, 39.25, 37.45,38.95Jyoti Struct 13.50, 13.60, 13.25

13.45, 13.50, 13.25, 13.50

KKaashyap Rad 1.20, 1.25, 1.05, 1.15Kabra Extr 30.65, 33.40, 31.35Kajaria Cer 19, 20.75, 20.35

19, 20.85, 19, 20.25 Kakatiya Cem 23

23.75, 24, 23.75, 23.85 Kale Consul. 30.90, 31, 29, 30.60

29.70, 30.90, 29, 30.65 Kalpa.Power 34, 34.90

33.50, 34.50, 33.50, 34.50 Kalyani Shrp 4.25, 4.15Kalyani Stel 12.70, 13.85, 12.50,13.65Kanoria Chem 44.90Karnatak Bnk 61.90, 63.70, 61, 61.25

61.90, 63.65, 61.10, 61.50 Karur Vysya 182, 184, 181.05, 182.85

179, 184, 179, 182.90 KDL Biotech 11.90, 12.80, 12

11.90, 12.30, 11.80, 11.80 KEC Inter. 11, 12.10, 11.75

11.50, 12.20, 11.15, 12.10 Kerala Ayurv 7, 7.65, 7.40Kerala Chem. 15.80, 15Kesoram Inds 28.20, 27.30, 27.55

27.50, 27.95, 27.30, 27.75 KG Denim 7.90, 7, 7.25Khandwala Se 5.75

6, 6.15, 6, 6.10 Khoday (I) 12.45, 10.55Kinetic Eng. 68.55, 68.50Kinetic Moto 27.50, 28.60, 27.75Kirloskar Br 92.50, 99.30, 96.05Kirloskar Oi 60, 57.05, 59

60, 64.45, 57, 61.25 Kit-Ply Ind. 3.40, 3.65, 3.25, 3.55

3.30, 3.70, 3.20, 3.55 KLG Systel 28, 30.80, 29.70

26.80, 30.50, 26.80, 29.85 Kopran 23.45, 24.50, 23.30, 23.75

22.50, 24.65, 22.50, 23.80 Kothari Prod 172.50

169.95, 170, 169, 170 KPIT Cum.Inf 161, 171.70, 159.80,168.25

161, 171.70, 161, 168.65 Krebs Bioche 95.25, 97, 95, 95.50Krishna Life 1.60, 1.50, 1.55Krone Comm 51, 54, 52.85KSB Pumps 61.50, 62.50, 61.35

63, 63.40, 61, 62.55

LLakhani (I) 90, 96, 89, 90Lakshmi Au.C 64

65.85, 65.90, 64.60, 64.90 Lakshmi Elec 30, 31Lakshmi Mach 900.10, 952, 950

960, 1003, 960, 1003 Lanco Inds. 8.55, 9, 8.80Landmarc Lei 13.75, 13.70LCC Infotech 3.40, 3.50, 3, 3.45 LG Balkrish 73, 75.40, 70, 74.10 Liberty Shoe 52.05, 53.50, 52.05,53.50 Lloyds Steel 2.10, 2, 2.05

2.05, 2.10, 2, 2.05 Logix Micro. 12.45, 14.80, 14.65Lumax Ind 26, 26.50, 25.75

25.15, 26.90, 25.15, 26.90 Lyka Labs 22.25, 24.70, 24.25

23, 24.40, 23, 24.20

MMaars Soft 10.65, 11.50, 10.55,11.25

10.95, 11.50, 10.55, 11.20 Macmillan (I 135.50, 140.70, 135,139.55

135, 140.50, 134.50, 139.35 Madhav Marb. 13.20, 13.80, 13.70Madras Alum 50.50, 49.25, 50.50Madras Cem. 3470, 3450, 3470

3774, 3774, 3375, 3375 Madras Fert. 9.10, 8, 8.10

8, 8.60, 8, 8.30 Madura Coats 39.50, 40.35, 39.50,39.80 Mah.Scooter 64.10, 63.55, 63.75

62.25, 64.65, 62.25, 64.65 Mah.Seamless 145, 142

142, 144, 142, 143.30 Mahavir Spg. 63, 64

64, 64.80, 63, 64.05 Mahind.Gesco 11.85, 11.80, 12.95

12.25, 13.80, 12.25, 13.65 Mahindra Ugi 8.50, 9, 8.55

8.60, 8.95, 8.60, 8.75 Majestic Aut 28.60, 29.75, 27Malwa Cotton 23.50, 23.85, 22.55

22.65, 23.95, 22.65, 23.25 Man Inds.(I) 19, 19.85, 19.70Mangalam Cem 7.50, 7.75

7.80, 8, 7.75, 7.90 Manglr.Chem 3.50, 3.80, 3.70Maral Overs 13.50

13.30, 13.75, 13.30, 13.55 Mascon Globl 9.20Matrix Lab. 293.75, 297.50, 290,293.30Matsush.Tele 4.45, 4, 4.45Matsushita L 31.70, 32.50, 31, 32.05Medicorp Tec 40.50, 40, 41.80

40.90, 42.75, 39, 42.35 Mega Corpn. 4.65, 5.80, 4.60, 5.70Melstar Info 19.75, 20, 18.65, 18.85

20.05, 20.05, 18.65, 18.85 Mercator Lin 23, 22.70, 23.15Metroche.Ind 19.40MICO 3700, 3780

3700, 3760, 3700, 3758.35 Mid-Day Mul. 14, 14.40, 13.90, 14.05

13.05, 14.50, 13.05, 14.15 Mindteck 17.05, 17.20, 17, 17.10Mirza Tanner 29, 29.40

29, 29.65, 29, 29.35 MM Forgings 85.05Mobile Tele 3.65, 4.20, 4.15

Modipon 14.25Monalisa Inf 0.60, 0.50Monnet Ispat 17.50, 18.25, 17.25, 18Monsanto (I) 480, 501.50, 500

488, 500, 480, 496.90 Morarjee Goc 6.50

6.60, 6.60, 6.55, 6.55 Morepen Lab 16.30, 15.80, 16

16.15, 16.20, 15.35, 15.95 Morgan Stan 8.55, 8.85, 8.75

8.50, 8.80, 8.50, 8.80 Motherson SS 62.50, 60.20

60.60, 63.75, 60.60, 63.75 Mro-Tek 14.25, 14.75, 14.45

14.85, 14.85, 14.10, 14.55 MRPL 9.40, 8.65, 8.85

8.55, 8.90, 8.55, 8.80 Mukand 11.35, 12.60, 12.15

11.75, 12.50, 11.75, 12.20 Mukand Engrs 9.10, 9.75, 9.35

9.65, 9.65, 9, 9.10 Munjal Auto 32.90, 31.95, 32.10Munjal Showa 128.80, 127

137.40, 137.40, 126.50, 129.05 Murd.Ceram 8.50Mys.Cement 6.25

6.50, 6.50, 6.10, 6.35

NNagar.Const. 38.40, 37.50, 38.70Nagar.Fertil 5.10, 4.55, 4.65

4.50, 4.75, 4.40, 4.70 Nahar Export 19, 18.45

18.50, 18.75, 18.45, 18.70 Nahar Indl.E 11.60, 11.40, 12Nahar Intl. 3.70, 5

4.95, 5.30, 4.95, 5.30 Nahar Spg. 66.75, 68.85, 66.10,67.65

66.50, 69, 65.60, 67.95 Narmada C.Pe 12.10, 12.30, 12.15

12.50, 12.50, 12.15, 12.25 Narmada Cem. 21.30, 30.40Natco Pharma 30.25, 30.80, 30,30.50

30.05, 31.05, 30, 30.50 Nath Seeds 6.75, 6.95, 6.50, 6.75

6.70, 7, 6.55, 6.80 National Fer 34.90, 31, 33.50National Ste 6.50, 6.70, 6.40, 6.65

6.35, 6.65, 6.35, 6.60 Nava Bh.Ferr 40.35, 40.50, 40, 40.25 Navneet Pub. 117.50, 115, 117.90

116.50, 119.50, 116, 118.25 NCL Inds. 4.35, 4.40, 4.10Nelco 27.50, 28.25, 27.20, 28

27.25, 28.30, 27.25, 28.15 Neuland Lab. 38, 38.95, 37.10Nilkamal Pls 23.90, 24.85, 24.80

26, 26, 23.15, 24.20 Noble Explo. 6.15NOCIL 5.45, 5.75, 5.65

5.50, 5.75, 5.40, 5.65 Nova Petro. 48, 48, 40.60, 42.40 Novopan Inds 26, 26.65

32.50, 32.50, 32.50, 32.50 NRB Bearings 58.90

62, 65, 62, 63 NRC 6.50, 7

7.10, 7.10, 6.50, 6.90 Nucleus Soft 77, 79, 78.35

76, 79, 75.10, 78.70

OOCL (I) 76.50, 76, 76.90Odyssey Tech 8.25, 9.25, 9.15Oil Country 6.65, 7, 6.95

6.75, 7.20, 6.75, 7 Omax Autos. 29.80, 30.40, 29.30,30.10

29, 30.50, 29, 30.15 Ondeo Nalco 315.05, 316Onward Techn 26.50, 27.35, 25.85,26.25

25.50, 27.45, 25.50, 26.45 Optel Teleco 4.05, 5Opto Circuit 33.50, 31.50, 32.15Orchid Chem 67, 69.90, 65.50, 69.50

65, 69.55, 65, 69.30 Orient Info. 36.50, 38.90, 35.65,37.75

36.85, 38.90, 35.75, 37.85 Orient Paper 15.55, 15.80

15.20, 16.15, 15.20, 15.85 Oriental Hot 72, 75.50, 71, 73.75 Oswal Chem. 4, 3.85

4.70, 4.70, 3.80, 4 OTIS Elevato 324.50, 324.50, 324.50,324.50

PPanacea Biot 27.50, 26.50, 27.20

27.05, 27.05, 26.45, 26.70 Pantaloon Re 46.10, 47.10, 46.85

45.05, 47, 45, 46.60 Paper Prod. 117.50, 120.45

120, 120.50, 118.75, 120 Paramount Co 6.80, 6.90Parekh Plati 7.50, 7.65, 7.25, 7.55

7.45, 7.65, 7.40, 7.55 Parry Agro 65.05Parry’s Conf 68, 68, 68, 68 Patspin (I) 10.10, 9.60, 9.95

9.60, 9.95, 9.55, 9.95 PCS Inds. 17, 17.55Pennar Alum. 2.05, 2.35, 2.15Pentagon Glo 2, 1.60, 1.85Pentasoft Te 7, 7.45, 6.75, 7.05

6.90, 7.30, 6.70, 7.10 Pharmacia He 95, 93.60

95, 96, 90.55, 95.15 PHIL Corpn. 4.35, 4.70, 4.30, 4.55

4.30, 5.10, 4.30, 4.55 Phillip Carb 15.95, 17.50, 15.35

16, 16.65, 16, 16.25 Phoenix Lamp 10.80, 11.20, 10.60,10.75Pioneer Embr 22, 21.95, 22Plastiblend 34.25, 34.50, 33.50, 34PNB Gilts 22.85, 23.45, 22.80, 23.15

22.85, 23.20, 22.60, 23 Polyplex 36, 39, 37.35

36, 38.35, 36, 37.35 Porrits&Spen 62, 60, 62Praj Ind. 41.60, 43.25, 41.55, 43.20

40.50, 43.70, 40.50, 43.30 Precision Wr 19.15

19.40, 19.45, 19.25, 19.40 Premier Auto 2.70, 2.75, 2.30, 2.65Premier Inst 151.50, 154

146, 154.60, 146, 154.35 Prism Cement 4.20, 4.45, 4.30

4.15, 4.50, 4.15, 4.40 Pritish Nand 19.50, 20, 18.85, 19.50

20, 20.10, 18.90, 19.40 Priyad.Cemen 8.40

7.90, 8.50, 7.85, 7.95 Prraneta Ind 12.45PSI Data Sys 50, 55, 54.90

50.10, 54.90, 48.20, 53.70 PSL 35.10, 43.25

43.50, 43.50, 42.75, 43.10 Pun.Alkali 9.80, 10.05, 9.60, 9.75Pun.Chemical 82.80, 83.95, 80.40,80.90Pun.Communi. 43.50, 43.95, 42.15,42.30Pun.Nat.Bank 105.95, 110.95, 110.10

112, 112, 107.15, 109.85

RRain Calcing 8.90, 8.45, 8.55

8.35, 8.70, 8.25, 8.60 Raj.Spg.&Wvg 16, 17.10

16.15, 16.80, 16.10, 16.50 Rajesh Exp 56

57.30, 57.30, 57.30, 57.30 Rajshree Sug 9.65, 10.75, 10.30

9.80, 10.15, 9.70, 10 Rallis India 58.50, 58.55, 57.85, 58

58.50, 58.50, 57.85, 58.35 Rama Newspri 2.90, 2.65, 2.80

2.85, 2.90, 2.60, 2.80 Ramco Inds. 138, 144.90

148.20, 148.50, 143.10, 148.50 Ramco Systm 500, 519.85, 506.05

498, 519, 498, 506.65 Rane Brake 120, 125.80Rane Engine 84

82.50, 84.50, 82.50, 84.15 Rane Madras 32, 32.50, 32, 32.40 Ravalgaon Su 1740, 1800Rayban Sun O 48.75, 50.20, 47.70,48.20Reg.Ceramic 18.75, 18.25

19.50, 20, 19.50, 19.80 Rel.Ind.Infr 36.25, 36.90, 36.30

36.25, 36.95, 36.25, 36.55 Revathi Equ. 103, 107.70, 102.50,104.40Rico Auto 100, 104.40, 102.75

94.45, 103.70, 94.45, 101.20 RPG Cables 6.40, 6.25, 6.75

6.15, 6.95, 6.10, 6.90 RPG Life Sci 25, 26.20

25.75, 26.35, 25.05, 26.25 RPG Transmi. 4.10, 4.65, 4, 4.60

4.30, 4.95, 4.30, 4.75 RS Software 24.90, 25.45, 24.20,24.70

24.50, 25.70, 23.65, 25 Ruchi Soya 31.30, 31.85, 31, 31.65

33, 33, 31.25, 32.30

SS Kumars Nat 3.40, 3.90

3.50, 3.90, 3.35, 3.35 S.I.Bank 40.50, 41.55, 40, 40.70

40.45, 41.90, 40, 40.30 S.I.C.Agency 6.25, 6.90, 6.05, 6.25 Sabero Org. 4.10, 4, 4.50

4.05, 4.45, 4, 4.20 Saint-Gobain 8.50, 9.35, 9.25Sakthi Sugar 5.15, 5.50

5.45, 5.95, 5.45, 5.95 Salora Int. 39, 41.40, 38.75, 41

40.65, 41.35, 38.50, 40.80 Samkrg Pist. 30.25, 29.05Samtel Color 20, 20.80, 19.80, 20.05

19.70, 20.90, 19.70, 20.35 Sandesh Ltd. 100.95, 101.05, 99.45

101, 101, 99.50, 101 Sangam (I) 11.40, 10.70Sanwaria Agr 14.30, 13.50, 13.70Saregama (I) 47.20, 49.90, 45.55,49.20

48, 49.20, 47.15, 48.35 SAT Invest. 18, 18.05Satnam Over. 17.30, 19.20

18.50, 18.60, 18.50, 18.50

Satvah.Ispat 5.55, 5.90Savita Chem. 51, 53.50

51.50, 52.85, 51.50, 52.30 SBI Home Fin 7.50, 7.10

7.45, 7.70, 7, 7.40 Schenec.Beck 46.50Schenec.Herd 22.05Search Chem. 9.50, 10

9, 10, 9, 10 Selan Explor 8.15, 8.10, 8.15Sesa Goa 65.10, 70.60, 65, 70.20

66, 70.85, 66, 70.05 Sesha.Paper 31.25

31, 32, 31, 31.45 Sh.Cements 47, 49, 48.50

47.60, 48.60, 47.60, 48.55 Sh.Digv.Cem. 8.15, 9.50, 9.40Sh.Rama Mult 6, 6.80

5.90, 6.80, 5.90, 6.80 Shah Alloys 20, 20.80, 20.05Shalimar Pai 25.25, 25.65Shamken Mult 7.25, 7.25, 7, 7 Shamken Spin 4.30, 4.15Shanti Gear 78.80, 80, 78, 78 Shasun Chem. 89, 89.90, 87.50, 89

88, 89.90, 87, 88.70 Shaw Wallace 28, 28.75, 28.10Shirpur Gold 40, 42, 40, 42 Shiv Vani Un 9.75, 9.60, 9.70Shrenuj & Co 29.80, 29, 29.45

29.75, 29.75, 28.55, 29.10 Shriram Inv 15.05, 15.20, 14.80, 15Shriram Tran 14.10, 14.50, 14, 14.45

14.30, 14.95, 14, 14.50 Siemens VDO 39, 39.85Silicon Vall 58.85, 60.65, 58.45,58.55Siltap Che. 41.90, 42.10, 41.10,41.60

40.90, 42.55, 40.90, 41.95 Simbh.Sugar 9Simplex Conc 39.50, 31.90, 32Sintex Inds. 32, 32.50, 31.50, 32

31.50, 31.50, 31.50, 31.50 Sirpur Paper 32.90, 33.50

32.40, 33.50, 32.20, 33.50 Siyaram Silk 35, 34.50Skanska Ceme 196

195.95, 196, 195.95, 196 Snowcem (I) 19.40, 20, 18.75, 19.75

18.75, 19.80, 18.50, 19.45 Soffia Soft. 15.95, 17.25, 15.25,16.50

15.80, 17.10, 14.60, 16.85 Softsol (I) 9.05, 9.50, 9, 9.35Software Tec 12.25, 11.35

11, 12, 11, 11.75 Solectron Ce 20.05, 20Sona Koyo St 65, 66, 63.25, 63.80South.Herbal 5.45, 5.60, 5.15, 5.20Spel Semicon 2.40, 2.95SPIC 5.10, 5.40, 5.15

5.30, 5.45, 5.10, 5.20 SPL 21.25, 21.25, 21.25, 21.25 SQL Star Int 5.75, 6.20, 5.50, 5.70SREI Int.Fin 8.30, 8.80, 8.25, 8.70 SRF 21.70, 23, 21.60, 22.90

21.50, 23, 21.50, 22.90 SRF Polymers 20SRG Infotech 0.80, 0.75, 0.80

0.80, 0.90, 0.75, 0.85 Sri Adhikari 53.50, 54.90, 52.05,53.80

56, 56.40, 52.40, 53.65 Star Paper 10.90, 8.55, 9.70State Bnk Bi 565, 570, 560, 563State Bnk My 465, 450State Bnk Tr 460, 470, 462Std.Indust. 4.35, 5.05, 4.95

4.65, 5.10, 4.35, 4.95 Sterl.Inds. 160.75, 163.95, 162.30Sterl.Tools 36.80, 36.10Stl.Strips W 9.10, 9.50Su-raj Diamn 12.25, 12.55, 11.65, 12

11.65, 12.35, 11.30, 12 Suashish Dia 18.55, 19.95, 19.55Subex System 95.20, 100.90, 98.65Subros 28.10, 28Sulzer (I) 102.50, 102.30, 102.75Sun Earth Ce 2.30, 2.75, 2.70Sundaram Cla 191.85, 205, 199.60

185.15, 203, 185.15, 198.55 Sundaram Fst 338, 346.95, 343

340, 342, 335, 338.15 Sunflag Iron 4.50, 4.80, 4.45, 4.70Super Spin. 56.10, 58.60, 56.10Supreme Inds 79.10, 84.25

82, 83.50, 81.25, 82.95 Supreme Petr 7.95, 8.05, 7.85, 7.90

7.85, 8.25, 7.85, 8.05 Surana Tele 13, 13.50, 13.30

13.70, 13.70, 13.50, 13.50 Surat Elec. 70.60, 71, 70.05Surya Roshni 11.90, 12.50

11.90, 12.70, 11.90, 12.60 Sutlej Inds. 41.45, 42, 40.50, 41.90

42, 42, 42, 42 Suven Pharma 121, 119, 121Swaraj Engin 179.50, 179.65,177.90, 179.60 Swaraj Mazda 62.50, 81.90, 80

72.55, 82, 72.55, 80.65 Synergy Log 7.50, 7.70, 7.15, 7.55

TT Spiritual 181.50, 182.50, 182Taj GVK Hotl 39.25

36.60, 37.60, 36.60, 37.40 Tanfac Ind. 12.40, 12.85, 12.75TASC Pharma. 8.80Tata Coffee 69.75, 69.75, 69.50,69.60 Tata Finance 15.75, 16.40, 15.70,16.35

15.85, 16.40, 15.50, 16.25 Tata Honeywl 250, 253.50, 235,252.90

252, 258, 245, 250 Tata Infomed 85.05, 72.25, 72.35

72, 73.80, 72, 72.70 Tata Infotec 171.90, 177.65, 170,176.60Tata Invest. 78, 79, 77.10, 78.90

76.90, 78.55, 76.90, 78.15 Tata Metalik 28.75, 28.70, 29.45

28.95, 29.60, 28.50, 29.45 Tata Sponge 33.50, 35.45

34.45, 35.40, 34.45, 35.25 Tata Teleser 5.25, 5.10, 5.15

5.15, 5.30, 5.10, 5.15 Tata Yodogaw 32.30, 34, 33.90Tele Data In 14.90, 15.25, 14.65,14.80Themis Medic 29.50Thiru A.Sug. 19

17.50, 18.85, 17.50, 18.85 Thirumalai 43.90, 42.55, 43.70

41, 43.50, 41, 43.40 Tide Water O 1057, 1150.15TIL 11, 11, 11, 11 Timex Watch 9.45, 8.75, 9.20Timken India 27, 27.95, 26.55, 27Tinplate Co. 12.50, 12.70, 12.25,12.45Tips Indus. 35, 36.50, 34.10, 35.95

39, 39, 31, 35.95 TN Telecom 9, 8.80, 10

10.10, 10.45, 9.40, 9.90 Todays Writi 13.10, 13.25, 12.80

13, 13, 12.40, 12.40 Torrent Guja 6, 6.50, 5.95, 6.40Tourism Fina 8.30, 8.35, 8.15

8.70, 8.70, 8, 8.15 Transnat.Sec 30.65, 30.60, 30.70Transpek Ind 10, 10.50Transport Co 17.75, 17.75, 17.75,17.75 TRF 21.95, 23.50, 23.40Trigyn Tech. 15.65, 16.85, 15.10,16.45

15.30, 16.90, 15.05, 16.60 Triveni Engg 30.95, 33

30.20, 32.30, 30.20, 32.30 TTK Healthca 13.55, 14.45TTK Prestige 7.65, 8.15, 7.50, 7.70 Tube Invest. 86.75, 90, 86.75, 89.80 Tudor India 9.60, 8, 8.10Tuticorin.Al 3, 2.70, 2.75TV 18 61, 62.25, 60.20, 61.55

61, 62.50, 59.95, 61.55 TVS Autolec 44, 45TVS Srichakr 46.50, 45.65, 46.30

UUB Holdings 17, 19.50, 19.45Ucal Fuel 154.75, 161, 158.70

153, 159, 151, 158 Ugar Sugar 41.25Ultramarine 58.80Unichem Lab 150.05, 155.50, 150,154.75

148.85, 156.25, 147.50, 155.20 Uniflex Cabl 6.65Union Bank 28.10, 28.65, 27.50,28.05

28, 28.70, 27.50, 28.05 Unitech 40.25, 40

42, 43.50, 41.75, 43 United Brew. 76, 92, 85United We.Bk 22.50, 18, 21.55

22, 22.50, 21.50, 21.55 Univer.Cable 7, 6.05, 6.10

5.55, 6.50, 5.55, 6.50 Upper Ganges 11.75, 11.80, 10.10,10.80 Usha Beltron 25.60, 26.50

28, 28, 26, 26.05 Usha Mat.Inf 2.10, 2.30, 2.25

2.15, 2.15, 2.05, 2.05 Uttam Galva. 7.30, 7.20, 7.70

8.25, 8.25, 7.15, 7.55

VVaibhav Gems 19.90, 19.80Vanavil Dyes 35.25, 38.40, 37Vardhman Pol 42, 42.95, 41.70,42.70

42.50, 43.30, 42.05, 42.65 Vardhman Spg 51.50, 51

50.30, 51.80, 50.30, 50.75 Varun Ship. 9.35, 9.55, 9.30, 9.50

9.60, 9.60, 9.40, 9.50 Vashisti Det 11.20, 10.55, 10.80

10.55, 10.95, 10.50, 10.85 Venky’s (I) 51.05, 51.60

52.85, 52.90, 52, 52 Veronica Lab 4.85, 4.65, 5.20Vesuvius (I) 67, 65, 66.30

65, 66.70, 64.60, 65.95 Videocon Apl 8, 8.35, 8.10

8.40, 8.40, 8.05, 8.20

As on 04/04/2003Alliance Mutual Fund 95 (D) 26.48 27.01 26.4895 (G) 47.79 48.75 47.79Basic Inds.(D) 12.39 12.64 12.39Basic Inds.(G) 12.39 12.64 12.39Buy India (D) 4.27 4.36 4.27Buy India (G) 4.28 4.37 4.28Capital Tax Relief’96 55.28 55.83 55.28Cash Manager (G) 14.85 14.85 14.85Equity (D) 14.24 14.52 14.24Equity (G) 25.73 26.24 25.73Frontline Eq(D) 10.38 10.59 10.38Frontline Eq(G) 10.39 10.60 10.39G-Sec Long Term (D) 11.33 11.33 11.33G-Sec Long Term (G) 16.84 16.84 16.84G-Sec Short Term (D) 10.15 10.15 10.15G-Sec Short Term (G) 13.78 13.78 13.78Income (D) 10.87 10.87 10.87Income (G) 21.30 21.30 21.30Income 54EA (D) 10.87 10.87 10.87Income 54EA (G) 21.29 21.29 21.29Income 54EB (D) 10.89 10.89 10.89Income 54EB (G) 21.16 21.16 21.16Income Q’ly (D) 10.53 10.53 10.53Monthly Income (G) 16.78 16.78 16.78Monthly Income (M’ly) 10.27 10.27 10.27Monthly Income (Q’ly) 10.35 10.35 10.35New Millennium (D) 3.85 3.93 3.85New Millennium (G) 3.85 3.93 3.85Short Term (D) 10.06 10.06 10.06Short Term (G) 10.71 10.71 10.71Benchmark Mutual Fund Nifty BeES 102.39 — —Nifty Junior BeES 134.24 — —Birla Sunlife Mutual Fund Advantage (A) 23.79 24.03 23.79Advantage (B) 23.79 24.03 23.79Balanced (D) 8.99 9.08 8.99Balanced (G) 8.99 9.08 8.99Bond Plus (D) 10.46 10.46 10.46Bond Plus (G) 11.12 11.12 11.12Cash Plus (G) 16.30 16.30 16.30Cash Plus (Reinv) 10.79 10.79 10.79Dividend Yield Plus(D) 10.11 10.11 10.11Dividend Yield Plus(G) 10.11 10.11 10.11Equity 12.66 12.66 12.66FMP 1Yr 5A(D) 10.50 10.50 10.50FMP 1Yr 5A(G) 10.50 10.50 10.50FMP Long Term - A (D) 11.05 11.05 11.05FMP Long Term - A (G) 11.05 11.05 11.05FMP Long Term - E (G) 10.87 10.87 10.87FMP Q’ly Group 1 (D) 10.94 10.94 10.94FMP Q’ly Group 1 (G) 11.16 11.16 11.16FMP Y Group 1(G) 10.63 10.63 10.63Gilt Plus Invst.(A-D) 11.28 11.28 11.28Gilt Plus Invst.(B-G) 17.38 17.38 17.38Gilt Plus Long (A-D) 11.61 11.61 11.61Gilt Plus Long (B-G) 19.11 19.11 19.11Gilt Plus Lq.(A-D) 10.46 10.46 10.46Gilt Plus Lq.(B-G) 14.71 14.71 14.71IT A (D-Payout) 10.93 11.04 10.93IT A (D-Reinv) 10.93 11.04 10.93IT B (G) 12.72 12.85 12.72Income Plus (A-D) 10.54 10.54 10.54Income Plus (B-G) 25.99 25.99 25.99Income Plus Instnl B(G) 26.06 26.06 26.06Income Plus Instnl. A(D) 26.06 26.06 26.06Index Fund (D) 10.44 10.49 10.44Index Fund(G) 10.44 10.49 10.44MIP A (D) 10.51 10.51 10.51MIP B (G-Payout) 13.37 13.37 13.37MIP C (G-Payout) 13.37 13.37 13.37MNC A (D-Payout) 21.98 22.20 21.98MNC A (D-Reinv) 21.98 22.20 21.98MNC B (G) 27.53 27.81 27.53Midcap (D) 9.71 9.81 9.71Midcap (G) 10.26 10.36 10.26Sweep Plan (G) 10.18 10.18 10.18Chola Mutual Fund FMP Q’ly (D) 10.01 10.01 9.96FMP Y’ly (Cum) 10.62 10.62 10.62FMP Y’ly (D) 10.01 10.01 9.81Fr.In.-STF (HY’ly) 10.94 10.94 10.94Freedom Income (C) 17.30 17.30 17.30Freedom Income (R) 10.09 10.09 10.09Freedom Tech.(Cum) 8.31 8.48 8.31Freedom Tech.(Reg) 5.27 5.38 5.27Gilt Invst.(Cum) 15.61 15.61 15.61Gilt Invst.(Reg) 10.27 10.27 10.27Gilt Series (Cum) 13.13 13.40 13.00Gilt Series (Reg) 13.13 13.40 13.00Growth (Cum) 12.50 12.75 12.50Growth (Reg) 10.47 10.68 10.47Liquid Instl. Cum 10.08 10.08 10.08Liquid Instl. Div.Pay 10.67 10.67 10.67Lq. (Cum) 12.20 12.20 12.20Lq. (Reg) 11.31 11.31 11.31Lq. Sr. Apr-06 (Reg) 11.79 11.79 11.79Deutsche Mutual Fund Alpha Equity 9.59 9.73 9.59Insta Cash Plus 10.12 10.12 10.12Premier Bond (Reg) 9.97 9.97 9.92Premier Bond Instt. 9.98 9.98 9.98Short Maturity Fund 10.09 10.09 10.09DSP Merrill Lynch Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 9.24 9.24 9.10Balanced (G) 10.32 10.32 10.17Bond (D) 11.74 11.74 11.74Bond (G) 21.22 21.22 21.22Bond Fund Inst. 10.20 10.20 10.20Equity 13.50 13.77 13.50Govt.Sec. (A-D) 12.71 12.71 12.70Govt.Sec. (A-G) 19.48 19.48 19.46Govt.Sec. (B-D) 10.84 10.84 10.84

Govt.Sec. (B-G) 13.86 13.86 13.86Liquidity (D) 12.40 12.40 12.40Liquidity (G) 14.73 14.73 14.73Opportunities 8.54 8.71 8.54Savings Plus 10.03 10.03 10.03Short Term 10.44 10.44 10.44Technology.Com 4.34 4.43 4.34Top 100 9.92 10.12 9.92Escorts Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 11.76 11.91 11.76Balanced (G) 13.00 13.16 13.00Gilt (D) 11.76 11.76 11.76Gilt (G) 12.85 12.85 12.85Growth (G) 12.23 12.41 12.23Growth (D) 11.19 11.36 11.19Income (D) 10.47 10.47 10.47Income (G) 18.16 18.16 18.16Income Bond (D) 9.50 9.50 9.50Income Bond (G) 11.24 11.24 11.24Opportunities (D) 10.56 10.56 10.56Opportunities (G) 12.18 12.18 12.18Tax (D) 9.97 9.97 —Tax (G) 9.97 9.97 —First India Mutual Fund Gilt 10.79 10.79 10.79Growth 10.22 10.42 10.22Income 10.74 10.74 10.74Income Fund (D) 10.29 10.29 10.29Liquid (D) 10.31 10.31 10.31Liquid (G) 10.80 10.80 10.80Short Term 10.39 10.39 10.39Short Term (D) 10.18 10.18 10.18Tax Gain 35.15 35.85 35.15Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund Franklin Balanced(D) 10.12 10.27 10.12Franklin Balanced(G) 10.54 10.70 10.54Franklin Growth 5.50 5.61 5.50Franklin Index 7.77 7.85 7.77Franklin Index Tax 7.94 8.02 7.94T Floating Rate In LT (D) 10.12 10.12 10.07T Floating Rate In LT (G) 10.85 10.85 10.80T Floating Rate In ST (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01T Floating Rate In ST (G) 10.84 10.84 10.84T G Sec (D) 11.46 11.46 11.41T G Sec (G) 20.23 20.23 20.12T G Sec Tr (D) 10.47 10.47 10.47T G Sec Tr (G) 11.36 11.36 11.36T Income (D) 11.11 11.11 11.05T Income (G) 21.99 21.99 21.88T India Growth 12.83 13.09 12.83T Liquid (D - D’ly) 10.00 10.00 10.00T Liquid (D) 10.01 10.01 10.01T Liquid (G) 15.00 15.00 15.00T Liquid Plus 11.29 11.29 11.29T Liquid Plus (D) 10.00 10.00 10.00T Monthly Income (G) 13.38 13.38 13.32T Monthly Income (H-Y’ly) 10.36 10.36 10.31T Monthly Income (M’ly) 10.28 10.28 10.23T Monthly Income (Q’ly) 10.21 10.21 10.16GIC Mutual Fund Balanced 10.30 10.51 10.20D’Mat 7.68 7.83 7.68Debt (G) 10.45 10.45 10.45Fortune 94 6.83 6.97 6.83G Plus II 10.14 10.34 10.04Gilt (G) 10.36 10.36 10.36Liquid (G) 10.74 10.74 10.74HSBC Mutual Fund Cash Fund 10.19 10.19 10.19Cash Fund -(D) 10.19 10.19 10.19Equity 10.55 10.76 10.55Equity - (D) 10.55 10.76 10.55Income-Invest. 10.37 10.37 10.37Income-Invest. (D) 10.37 10.37 10.37Income-Short 10.20 10.20 10.20Income-Short Term (D) 10.12 10.12 10.12Inst. Income Invst. (D) 10.38 10.38 10.38Inst. Income-Invst. 10.38 10.38 10.38Inst. Income-STP 10.21 10.21 10.21Inst.Income Short Term(D) 10.21 10.21 10.21ICICI Prudential Life Insurance L.Link Balancer 12.07 — —L.Link Maximiser(G) 11.22 — —L.Link Pension Balancer 11.14 — —L.Link Pension Max.(G) 10.96 — —L.Link Pension Protec.(I) 11.35 — —L.Link Protector (I) 12.68 — —L.Time Balancer 12.07 — —L.Time Maximiser (G) 11.22 — —L.Time Pension Balancer 11.14 — —L.Time Pension Max.(G) 10.96 — —L.Time Pension Prot.(I) 11.35 — —L.Time Protector (I) 12.68 — —IDBI-PRINCIPAL Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 10.22 10.41 10.22Balanced (G) 10.12 10.31 10.12Benefit Debt (QD) 10.30 10.30 10.15Benefit Fund Debt (AD) 10.76 10.76 10.60Benefit Fund Debt (HYD) 10.30 10.30 10.15Benefit Fund Debt(G) 10.75 10.75 10.59Cash Mngt.-Liquid (G) 11.94 11.94 11.94Cash Mngt.-Liquid (WD) 10.10 10.10 10.10Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(D) 10.00 10.00 10.00Cash Mngt.-MoneyAtCall(G) 11.73 11.73 11.73Child (CB) 16.69 17.01 16.19Child (FG) 16.46 16.77 15.97Deposit-54 EA 15.07 15.07 15.07Deposit-54 EB 15.07 15.07 15.07Equity (D) 9.91 10.10 9.91Equity (G) 9.40 9.58 9.40Govt.Sec.-Invst. 11.24 11.24 11.24Govt.Sec.-Invst.(D) 11.22 11.22 11.22Govt.Sec.-Invst.(G) 13.28 13.28 13.28Govt.Sec.-Savings 11.85 11.85 11.85Govt.Sec.-Savings 10.36 10.36 10.36Growth (D) 9.99 10.18 9.99Growth (G) 10.04 10.23 10.04Income (D-Half Y’ly) 10.76 10.76 10.70Income (D-Q’ly) 10.72 10.72 10.67Income (G) 14.32 14.32 14.25Index 7.88 7.96 7.88M’ly Income(G) 11.20 11.20 11.15

M’ly Income(MD) 10.42 10.42 10.37M’ly Income(QD) 10.42 10.42 10.37PRIN. Deposit 371DD Mar03 10.02 10.42 9.83PRIN. Deposit 371DG Mar03 10.02 10.42 9.83Short Term (D) 10.14 10.14 10.12Short Term (G) 10.76 10.76 10.73Tax Savings 14.29 14.58 14.29IL&FS Mutual Fund Bond (B) 10.61 10.61 10.61Bond (D-Q’ly) 10.92 10.92 10.92Bond (D-Y’ly) 11.55 11.55 11.55Bond (G) 15.92 15.92 15.92Bond Short Term (D) 10.26 10.26 10.26Bond Short Term (G) 10.95 10.95 10.95Bond Short Term-Instnl.G 10.95 10.95 10.95Bond-Institutional (G) 15.92 15.92 15.92E-Com (D) 2.65 2.70 2.65E-Com (G) 2.65 2.70 2.65Gilt Long Term (D) 11.44 11.44 11.44Gilt Long Term (G) 12.47 12.47 12.47Gilt Short Term (D) 11.08 11.08 11.08Gilt Short Term (G) 11.68 11.68 11.68Growth & Value (D-Y’ly) 10.54 10.75 10.54Growth & Value (G) 11.78 12.02 11.78Growth & Value(D-Hf Y’ly) 9.33 9.52 9.33Index BSE Sensex 8.90 8.99 8.90Index Nifty 8.88 8.97 8.88Liquid Account Call 10.64 10.64 10.64Lq. A/c (D) 10.20 10.20 10.20Lq. A/c (G) 11.23 11.23 11.23ING Mutual Fund Balanced Portfolio (D) 6.47 6.57 6.47Balanced Portfolio (G) 6.47 6.57 6.47Capital Portfolio 10.88 10.88 10.88Gilt Portfolio 10.50 10.50 10.50Growth Portfolio (D) 5.77 5.89 5.77Growth Portfolio (G) 6.90 7.04 6.90Income Portfolio (G) 15.60 15.60 15.60Income Portfolio (I) 10.26 10.26 10.26Income Portfolio-Inst.(D) 10.26 10.26 10.26Income Short Term 10.44 10.44 10.44Invst. Portfolio 8.75 8.93 8.75Treasury Portfolio (D) 10.75 10.75 10.75Treasury Portfolio (G) 12.82 12.82 12.82JM Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 9.29 9.43 9.29Balanced (G) 16.21 16.45 16.21Basic 11.85 12.03 11.85Equity (D) 7.92 8.04 7.92Equity (G) 7.47 7.58 7.47G-Sec (D-Reg) 10.45 10.45 10.45G-Sec (G-Reg) 17.84 17.84 17.84G-Sec Fund - PF Plan -(G) 18.30 18.30 18.30G-Sec PF 16.77 16.77 16.77G-Sec Reg (GB) 10.49 10.49 10.49High Liq.Growth - Bonus 10.48 10.48 10.48High Lq. (D) 12.01 12.01 12.01High Lq. (D-D’ly) 10.41 10.41 10.41High Lq. (G) 16.77 16.77 16.77Income (D) 10.45 10.45 10.45Income (G) 24.49 24.49 24.49Income Bonus 11.11 11.11 11.11Income Serial 00 (D) 10.74 10.74 10.74Income Serial 04 (D) 10.87 10.87 10.87Income Serial-2004(G) 10.03 10.03 10.03Short Term 10.32 10.32 10.32Short Term (G) 10.69 10.69 10.69LIC Mutual Fund Bond (D) 11.14 11.14 11.14Bond (G) 16.78 16.78 16.78Children’s Fund 11.44 11.44 11.44Dhanaraksha 89 11.01 11.12 10.68Dhanasahayog A 8.22 8.31 8.06Dhanasahayog B 8.22 8.31 8.06Dhanasahayog C 18.07 18.25 17.71Dhansmriddhi 2.30 2.32 2.30Equity Fund 5.94 5.94 5.94Govt.Sec. (D) 11.30 11.30 11.30Govt.Sec. (G) 16.11 16.11 16.11Index Nifty 9.53 9.62 9.53Index Sensex 9.55 9.64 9.55Index Sensex Adv. 9.53 9.63 9.53Liquid (D) 10.58 10.58 10.58Liquid (G) 10.74 10.74 10.74Tax 7.36 7.51 7.36Prudential ICICI Mutual Fund Balanced (D) 8.94 9.14 8.94Balanced (G) 9.67 9.89 9.67Child Care Gift 11.08 11.35 10.80Child Care Study 11.59 11.76 11.30Dynamic Plan 10.75 10.99 10.75FMCG (D) 6.79 6.94 6.79FMCG (G) 7.40 7.57 7.40FMP - D-Y’ly 10.85 10.85 10.64FMP - Half Y’ly 11.92 11.92 11.80FMP - Half Y’ly (D) 10.89 10.89 10.78FMP - Half Y’ly Sr.2D 10.60 10.60 10.49FMP - Half Y’ly Sr.2G 11.44 11.44 11.32FMP - Q’ly (D) 10.68 10.68 10.62FMP - Q’ly (G) 11.92 11.92 11.86FMP - Q’ly Sr.2 11.76 11.76 11.70FMP - Q’ly Sr.2 (D) 10.61 10.61 10.56FMP - Q’ly Sr.3 (D) 10.52 10.52 10.47FMP - Q’ly Sr.3 (G) 11.74 11.74 11.68FMP - Y’ly 11.99 11.99 11.75FMP - Y’ly Sr.2 11.79 11.79 11.55FMP - Y’ly Sr.2 (D) 10.70 10.70 10.49FMP - Y’ly Sr.3 11.51 11.51 11.28FMP - Y’ly Sr.4 11.17 11.17 10.95FMP - Y’ly Sr.5 (G) 10.86 10.86 10.65FMP - Y’ly VI (G) 10.66 10.66 10.45FMP Q’ly Instnl (D) 10.68 10.68 10.62FMP Y’ly Ser.12 Intnl.(G) 10.03 10.03 9.83FMP Y’ly Ser.12(G) 10.03 10.03 9.83FMP Y’ly Sr. 7(G) 10.32 10.32 10.11Flexible Income 10.97 10.97 10.97Floating Rate 10.01 10.01 10.01Gilt Invst. (D) 11.86 11.86 11.86Gilt Invst. (G) 18.38 18.38 18.38Gilt Treasury (D) 10.84 10.84 10.84Gilt Treasury (G) 14.53 14.53 14.53Growth (D) 9.22 9.43 9.22

Growth (G) 18.98 19.41 18.98Income (D) 11.14 11.14 11.14Income (G) 18.23 18.23 18.23Income Instnl.(G) 18.24 18.24 18.24Income-Instnl (D) 11.14 11.14 11.14Index 8.67 8.67 8.67Liquid (D) 11.83 11.83 11.83Liquid (G) 14.88 14.88 14.88Liquid - Daily (D) 11.85 11.85 11.85Liquid Instnl.Mon.(D) 11.88 11.88 11.88Liquid- Instnl. (DD) 11.85 11.85 11.85Liuid- Instnl. (D) 11.84 11.84 11.84Long Term 11.49 11.49 11.49MIP - (D-M’ly) 10.33 10.33 10.33MIP - Cum. 12.82 12.82 12.82MIP - Half Y’ly 10.38 10.38 10.38MIP - Q’ly 10.42 10.42 10.42Power 13.57 13.88 13.57Power (D) 14.89 14.89 14.89SPICE 31.70 31.70 31.70Short Term 11.27 11.27 11.27Short Term (D) 10.55 10.55 10.55Short Term Instnl. (FD) 10.79 10.79 10.79Short Term Instnl. (MD) 10.79 10.79 10.79Sweep 10.56 10.56 10.56Tax (D) 8.82 9.02 8.82Tax (G) 12.09 12.36 12.09Technology 2.81 2.87 2.81Reliance Mutual Fund Growth (D) 20.37 20.78 20.37Growth (G) 29.92 30.52 29.92Income (D-Half Y’ly) 10.94 10.94 10.94Income (D-M’ly) 10.97 10.97 10.97Income (D-Y’ly) 10.73 10.73 10.73Income (G) 18.84 18.84 18.84Income Growth (B) 11.09 11.09 11.09Income Q’ly (D) 10.99 10.99 10.99Liquid - Cash (G) 10.74 10.74 10.74Liquid - Treasury (GG) 14.68 14.68 14.68Liquid Super Cash(G) 10.35 10.35 10.35Liquid Tresury (GB) 10.48 10.48 10.48Lq. Treasury W’ly 10.36 10.36 10.36Medium Term Fund(D-M’ly) 10.54 10.54 10.49Medium Term Fund(D-Q’ly) 10.48 10.48 10.43Medium Term Fund(G) 13.29 13.29 13.22Short Term 10.19 10.19 10.19Short Term Fund-(D-Re) 10.11 10.11 10.11Vision 27.50 28.05 27.50Vision (D) 24.49 24.98 24.49SBI Mutual Fund MSFU Contra 10.39 10.57 10.39MSFU FMCG 5.49 5.59 5.49MSFU IT 5.43 5.53 5.43MSFU Pharma 8.19 8.33 8.19Magnum Equity 7.98 8.12 7.98Magnum Gilt LT(D) 10.33 10.33 10.33Magnum Gilt LT(G) 14.68 14.68 14.68Magnum Gilt ST(D) 10.13 10.13 10.13Magnum Gilt ST(G) 12.52 12.52 12.52Magnum Global 6.90 7.02 6.76Magnum IC (Cash) 13.57 13.57 13.57Magnum IC (D) 10.51 10.51 10.51Magnum Index 9.27 9.36 9.27Magnum Insta Cash S.Term 10.35 10.35 10.35Magnum Tax Gain 11.26 11.46 11.26Sundaram Mutual Fund Balanced (App) 10.39 10.55 10.39Balanced (D) 10.39 10.55 10.39Bond Saver (App) 19.91 19.91 19.91Bond Saver (B) 10.48 10.48 10.48Bond Saver (D) 10.75 10.75 10.75Gilt (App) 11.75 11.75 11.75Gilt (D) 10.24 10.24 10.24Growth 10.48 10.69 10.48Growth (G) 12.48 12.73 12.48Income Plus - App 10.79 10.79 10.79Income Plus - Div 10.56 10.56 10.56Money (App) 12.67 12.67 12.67Money (D) 10.19 10.19 10.19Select Debt 3Yr AP (App) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt 3Yr AP (HYD) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt 3Yr AP (QD) 10.18 10.18 10.18Select Debt 3Yr AP (YD) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt 5Yr AP (App) 10.09 10.09 10.09Select Debt 5Yr AP (HYD) 10.09 10.09 10.09Select Debt 5Yr AP (QD) 10.07 10.07 10.07Select Debt 5Yr AP (YD) 10.09 10.09 10.09Select Debt DAP (App) 11.01 11.01 11.01Select Debt DAP (HYD) 11.00 11.00 11.00Select Debt DAP (QD) 10.70 10.70 10.70Select Debt DAP (YD) 11.00 11.00 11.00Select Debt LTAP (App) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt LTAP (HYD) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt LTAP (QD) 10.11 10.11 10.11Select Debt LTAP (YD) 10.31 10.31 10.31Select Debt STAP (App) 10.47 10.47 10.47Select Debt STAP (HYD) 10.47 10.47 10.47Select Debt STAP (QD) 10.26 10.26 10.26Select Debt STAP (YD) 10.47 10.47 10.47Select Focus 11.25 11.48 11.25Select Focus (G) 11.25 11.48 11.25Select Mid Cap 10.21 10.41 10.21Select Midcap (G) 10.21 10.41 10.21Tax Saver 8.73 8.73 8.73Sun F&C Mutual Fund Balanced (G) 6.77 6.87 6.77Bond (G) 18.62 18.62 18.62Bond (I) 10.92 10.92 10.92Emerging Tech.(G) 2.97 3.03 2.97FIS-Intl. Plan 10.32 10.32 10.32FIS-Long Term 11.27 11.27 11.27FIS-Medium Term 10.75 10.75 10.75FIS-Short Term 10.60 10.60 10.60FMS (M’ly)-MFMP1(D) 10.04 — 9.96FMS (M’ly)-MFMP1(G) 10.85 — 10.76FMS (M’ly)-MFMP2 10.56 10.56 10.48FMS (Q’ly)-QFMP1(D) 10.06 — 9.96FMS (Q’ly)-QFMP1(G) 10.68 — 10.58FMS (Q’ly)-QFMP2 10.61 — 10.50FMS (Y’ly)-FYMP4 10.62 — 10.31FMS (Y’ly)-YFMP2 10.89 — 10.56FMS (Y’ly)-YFMP3 10.68 — 10.36

FMS (Y’ly)-YFMP5 10.34 — 10.03FMS (Y’ly)YFMP1(G) 10.93 — 10.61M’ly Income (D-M’ly) 10.18 10.18 10.18M’ly Income (D-Q’ly) 10.11 10.11 10.11M’ly Income (G) 12.86 12.86 12.86MVB (D) 10.72 10.72 10.72MVB (G) 17.19 17.19 17.19MVL (D’ly Dp) 10.00 10.00 10.00MVL (Dp) 10.85 10.85 10.85MVL (Np) 14.08 14.08 14.08Personal Tax Saver 42.94 42.94 42.94Resurgent (I) Equity 12.94 13.20 12.94Value (D) 8.39 8.56 8.39Value (G) 16.51 16.84 16.51Tata Mutual Fund Balanced 13.64 13.88 13.64Equity Opp.(Appreciation) 7.88 8.02 7.88Equity Opp.(Regular) 8.82 8.98 8.82Fixed Horizon Annual 1 (R 10.01 10.01 9.71Fixed Horizon Annual 1 Re 10.04 10.04 9.74Gilt Sec. (App) 19.85 19.85 19.85Gilt Sec. (Reg) 12.61 12.61 12.61Gilt Short Muturity (A) 10.00 10.00 10.00Horizon Qtrly (I) App. 10.13 10.13 10.03Income (App) 19.97 19.97 19.88Income (D-App) 11.54 11.54 11.48Income (H-Y’ly Reg) 10.43 10.43 10.38Income (Q’ly-Reg) 10.57 10.57 10.52Income Plus Fund-A(Bonus) 10.32 10.32 10.22Income Plus Fund-A(G) 10.31 10.31 10.21Income Plus Fund-B(Bonus) 10.33 10.33 10.33Income Plus Fund-B(G) 10.32 10.32 10.32Index Fund - Sensex 9.65 9.74 9.65Index Fund - Sensex 9.64 9.64 9.64Index Fund-Nifty A 9.63 9.73 9.63Index Fund-Nifty B 9.62 9.62 9.62Life Science & Tech. 8.27 8.42 8.27Liquid (App) 14.04 14.04 14.04Liquid (Reg) 11.10 11.10 11.10Liquid High Invest (A) 10.06 10.06 10.06M’ly Income 10.73 10.73 10.68Pure Equity 9.27 9.43 9.27Select Sector 7.52 7.65 7.52Short Term Bond (App) 10.56 10.56 10.56Short Term Bond (Reg) 10.54 10.54 10.54Tax Savfund 10.61 10.80 10.61Young Citizen’s 10.51 10.67 10.20Taurus Mutual Fund Bonanza Ex.(G) 10.16 10.34 10.13Discovery Stock 3.56 3.62 3.55Libra Bond (D) 11.04 11.04 11.01Libra Bond (G) 11.36 11.36 11.33Libra Gilt (D) 11.22 11.22 11.19Libra Gilt (G) 11.55 11.55 11.52Libra Tax Shield 8.11 8.11 8.11The Starshare 5.66 5.76 5.65UTI Mutual Fund Bond (G) 17.60 17.60 17.52Bond (I) 10.95 10.95 10.90Brand Value 7.65 7.65 7.50CCP 12.74 12.74 12.23CRTS 91.82 91.82 89.07Equity Tax Savings 10.47 10.47 10.37G-Sec (G) 16.30 16.30 16.30G-Sec (I) 10.88 10.88 10.88Grandmaster 93 8.94 8.94 8.76Index Select Eq. 12.95 13.21 12.95Mahila Unit Scheme 12.26 12.26 11.89Master Growth-1993 13.72 13.72 13.45Master Index 9.73 9.73 9.68Mastergain 92 9.43 9.43 9.24Masterplus 91 16.09 16.09 15.77Money Market (G) 16.99 16.99 16.99Money Market (In) 16.89 16.89 16.89Nifty Index 6.23 6.23 6.20PEF 12.23 12.47 12.23Petro 12.64 12.64 12.39Pharma & Healthcare 9.43 9.43 9.24RBP 1994 17.96 18.32 17.06Regular Income 10.22 10.22 10.17Regular Income Scheme (G) 10.42 10.42 10.37Service 13.50 13.50 13.23Software 7.21 7.21 7.07UGS 10000 9.82 10.02 9.82ULIP 12.47 12.47 12.29US 2002 5.76 5.76 5.67US 64 5.87 — 5.75US 95 (G) 18.79 18.79 18.41US 95 (I) 11.87 11.87 11.63Variable Invt.(ILS) 9.89 10.01 9.89Zurich India Mutual Fund Capital Builder (D) 8.94 9.12 8.94Capital Builder (G) 10.44 10.65 10.44Equity (D) 12.75 13.01 12.75Equity (G) 23.32 23.79 23.32High Int. (D-Half Y’ly) 11.67 11.67 11.67High Int. (D-Q’ly) 11.41 11.41 11.41High Int. (D-Y’ly) 12.04 12.04 12.04High Int. (G) 21.33 21.33 21.33High Int. Stp (D) 10.45 10.45 10.45High Int. Stp (G) 11.01 11.01 11.01Liquidity - Call (Dd) 10.43 10.43 10.43Liquidity - Call (G) 10.63 10.63 10.63Liquidity - IP(D) 11.42 11.42 11.42Liquidity - IP(G) 13.17 13.17 13.17Liquidity - SP(D-W’ly) 10.64 10.64 10.64Liquidity - SP(G) 12.54 12.54 12.54Liquidity - Sp(D-D’ly) 10.64 10.64 10.64Prudence (D) 14.40 14.69 14.40Prudence (G) 24.78 25.28 24.78Sovereign Gilt - IP(D) 11.14 11.14 11.14Sovereign Gilt - IP(G) 14.34 14.34 14.34Sovereign Gilt - PP(D) 11.22 11.22 11.22Sovereign Gilt - PP(G) 15.78 15.78 15.78Sovereign Gilt - SP(D) 10.95 10.95 10.95Sovereign Gilt - SP(G) 12.46 12.46 12.46Tax Saver (D) 15.51 15.82 15.51Tax Saver (G) 19.53 19.92 19.53Top 200 (D) 11.81 12.05 11.81Top 200 (G) 17.32 17.67 17.32International Funds (Last Traded) Franklin Intl. 9.94 9.94 9.89

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Sensex up 48 pointsMumbai: The 30-issue benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Ex-change closed up 47.54 points or 1.5 per cent at 3,215.24 points, itsbest close since March 5. The marker has climbed 5.5 per cent in thepast five trading days but is still down 4.8 per cent in 2003.

There were about four gainers for every falling issue in heavytrade of 90.5 million shares compared with Friday’s 71 million.

The broader National exchange index rose 1.43 per cent to1,031.50 points.

Software bellwether Infosys Technologies, which releases quar-terly earnings on Thursday, gained 1.91 per cent to Rs 4,382. Otherblue-chips also rose. ITC Ltd gained 2.44 per cent to Rs 653.40 on talkit has raised prices of two cigarette brands by about four-to-six percent. Company officials were not available for a comment.

Reliance Industries rose 2.32 per cent to Rs 300.10 on persistenttalk its gas discovery at a field off the eastern coast last year ishigher than initial estimates. The three stocks contribute about athird of the BSE index. Agencies

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Sri Lanka:S Jayasuriay b Streak 0A Gunawardene c Ebrahim b Blignaut 24M Atapattu c Taibu b Ervine 29K Sangakarra c Flower b Price 25H Tillekaratne c Blignaut b Streak 31K Lokuarachchi c Ebrahim b Hondo 28K Dharmasena c Streak b Rennie 16P Jayawardene c Taibu b Blignaut 4B Fernando not out 14

M Muralitharan c Taibu b Blignaut 0P Nissanka lbw b Streak 11Extras: (b-1, w-8, nb-1, lb-1) 11Total: (All out, in 49.1 overs) 193Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-51, 3-58, 4-106,5-129, 6-158, 7-163, 8-168, 9-168.Bowling: Streak 7.1-1-36-3, Blignaut 10-0-33-3, Hondo 10-0-43-1, Ervine 8-1-20-1, Price 10-0-43-1, Rennie 4-0-17-1.(scorecard incomplete).

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Probables for Ranji semis an-nounced: Wicket-keeper batsmanVijay Dahiya will lead Delhi againstTamil Nadu in the Ranji Trophy semi-finals against Tamil Nadu to beplayed at the Ferozeshah Kotlagrounds here on April 25. A list of 24probables was announced on Mon-day who will report to chief coachBishan Singh Bedi on Wednesday forthe preparation camp.Probables: Vijay Dahiya (captain), Akash Chopra,Gautam Gambhir, Varun Kumar, Salil Oberoi, MithunManhas, Siddharth Verma, Sarandeep Singh, Ab-hishek Verma, Sarandeep Singh, Abhishek Sharma,Rahul Sanghvi, Sanjay Gill, Amit Bhandari, KuldeepRawat, Arun Singh, Pradeep Chawla, Premvir Nagar,M. Diwan, Raju Sharma, Vivek Khurana, RajeevRathore, N.S. Negi, Sohail Rauf, Harender Chaud-hary, Sonu Vaid. TNN

Thailand beat Taipei: Visakhap-atnam: Booming jump serves andpower-packed smashes welcomedspectators in a Group A match be-tween Thailand and Chinese Taipei inthe 4th Asian youth boys volleyballchampionship in Visakhapatanam onMonday. In a see-saw game, wherefortunes fluctuated quite frequently,the Thais outfought the Taipei boys33-31, 25-20, 15-25, 25-17. Results: Group A: Thailand bt Chinese Taipei 33-31, 25-20, 15-25, 25-17. Group B: North Korea btAustralia 21-25, 25-21, 19-25, 25-21, 15-9; Iran btSouth Korea 25-20, 25-17, 25-16.Tuesday’s matches: Group A: India vs ChineseTaipei. Group B: China vs North Korea; South Koreavs Australia. TNN

Kato still critical: Japanese riderDaijiro Kato’s condition continued tobe critical on Monday, a day after hesustained serious head, neck andchest injuries in a crash during mo-torcycle Grand Prix of Japan, raceofficials said in Tokyo. AP

Iran barred: Iran, a heavyweight ofworld wrestling, has been barredfrom hosting international events un-til 2006 after spectator trouble duringthe 2002 freestyle championships inTehran, the official IRNA newsagency said on Monday.

Carlos banned for one match:World soccer’s governing body FIFAbanned Brazilian star Roberto Carloson Monday for one internationalmatch for pushing a referee duringhis country’s game against Portugallast week. ‘‘Any attack on a referee isto be regarded as a serious matter,’’FIFA said in a statement. AP

Annika Sorenstam of Sweden cele-brates with the trophy after win-ning the final round of the LPGAOffice Depot Championship inTarzana, California, on Sunday.

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Juan Carlos Ferrero 5/1Andre Agassi 6/1Carlos Moya 6/1

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Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam (C) talks to the cricketers at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Monday. The Indian team that finishedrunners-up in the recent World Cup in South Africa was felicitated by the President.

Double delight forOram and VettoriCastries (St. Lucia): JacobOram and Daniel Vettori ofNew Zealand won the inau-gural World Double Wicket fi-nal by crushing Sri Lanka by70 runs at Beausejour Crick-et Grounds on Sunday.

Oram, a 24-year-old all-rounder still new to interna-tional cricket, cracked 14 six-es in his l06, the only centuryof the tournament. He re-ceived the player of the se-ries trophy, named after WestIndian great Sir GarfieldSobers, who presented it.

Oram had shown his abili-ty with scores of 66, 52, 48and 33 in addition to takingsix wickets.

In Sunday’s 12-over-a-sidefinal, he and Vettori made149, and dismissed Sri Lankafor 70. The New Zealandersshared a winning prize of$65,000, while losing finalistsAravinda da Silva and Ma-hela Jayawardene split$30,000. Sri Lanka upset theWest Indies in the semifinals,and New Zealand thrashedEngland. Pakistan withdrewfrom the semifinals afterShahid Afridi injured his legin the win against the WestIndies.Results: Semifinals (10-overs-a-side): SriLanka 71, def. West Indies 68, by three runs;New Zealand 93, def. England 40, by 53 runs.Final (12-overs-a-side): New Zealand 149,def. Sri Lanka 70, by 79 runs. AFP

Zimbabwe goingsteady vs LankaSharjah: Zimbabwe were go-ing steady at 108 for three in27 overs chasing Sri Lanka’s193 all out in the Cherry Blos-som four-nations tourna-ment here on Monday. GrantFlower was leading the chasewith a progressing 27 withwicket-keeper batsmanTatenda Taibu scratchingaround for one.

With Andy Blignaut, DeonEbrahim, Heath Streak, SeanErvine to follow Zimbabwe’sjob should be easy. Only ifthey see off Muthiah Mu-ralitharan’s five overs.Things could have been easi-er had Douglas Marillier (32)and Gavin Rennie were notdismissed.

Earlier, a disciplined bowl-ing performance led by skip-per Heath Streak allowedZimbabwe to bundle out SriLanka for 193.

Streak made the break-through in the first over it-self, claiming his oppositenumber Sanath Jayasuriyawithout a single run on the

board after the latter hadwon the toss and elected tobat.

Though Lanka recoveredsomewhat from the poorstart with Aviska Gunawar-dene and Marvan Atapatturaising 51 runs for the secondwicket.

Their departure withinminutes of each otherpushed the Lankans backagain and they were neverable to recover from the set-back. Agencies

Indian cricket wins againBy Bobilli Vijay KumarTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: For a moment, itlooked as if they had won theWorld Cup. The Indian stars woreproud and triumphant smiles asthey marched into the lawns of theRashtrapati Bhavan here on Mon-day; hundreds of guests, includingsmartly dressed ladies and exuber-ant children, had already taken po-sitions to glorify them.

The happy picture was given itsfinal touches when the ceremonialbugle was sounded to announcethe arrival of President APJ Ab-dul Kalam.

One had to wait for some more

time for the best shot of the daythough: All the players sitting in acircle and listening to the Presi-dent with smile on the faces andadmiration in their eyes.

The felicitation ceremonyreached its climax when PrimeMinister Atal Behari Vajpayee anddeputy prime minister L.K. Ad-vani too arrived to greet the play-ers. Cricket had won again. Onlythe glittering Cup was missing.

As evening settled on the care-fully manicured lawns, two luxurybuses glided in. Even as eyebrowsshot up and a few wondered if thesecond bus carried the 1983 WorldCup team or the victorious Aus-

tralian team, the mystery slowlyresolved itself.

Sourav Ganguly led his team outof the first one while board chiefJagmohan Dalmiya led his out ofthe second: players in one bus andboard officials in the second. It wasall very appropriate. Both setslooked equally smart.

There were other stars too: Bis-han Singh Bedi, Tiger Pataudi,Madan Lal et al could be seen tow-ering over the Delhi & DistrictCricket Association (DDCA) offi-cials.

The guests waited patiently justto catch a close-up of their heroes;it was only when the dividing rope

was pulled down that the madnessbegan. But Sachin Tendulkar,Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumblesimply smiled and signed the auto-graph books thrust into theirfaces.

The younger stars, led by YuvrajSingh and Mohammed Kaif, toolooked comfortable and happy inthe adulation.

For Virender Sehwag, though, itwas literally so near yet so far. Tillthe afternoon, it looked like thenew blaster would be the India cap-tain, at least for the interlude; byevening, however, Dalmiya hadconvinced Ganguly to stay in theboat.

It’s a learning curvefor me: Malhotra

By Pradeep Vijayakar & Sanjib Kumar Das

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Mumbai & Kolkata: For-mer India player and selectorAshok Malhotra has been ap-pointed India’s interim coachfor the forthcoming tri-seriesin Bangladesh.

While coach John Wrightis all set to join the team inDhaka for the second match,against South Africa onApril 13, Malhotra will be incharge initially and playdeputy to the former NewZealand cricketer for the restof the tournament. Indiaopen their campaign againsthosts Bangladesh on April 11.

According to the BCCIsources, the board did notwant to consider others forthe interim coach’s job —more so after Malhotra’sstint with India A. Somequarters had expectedSandeep Patil to get the in-terim job as Kapil Dev hadrecommended his name. Stillothers had suggested former

India players DilipVengsarkar and MohinderAmarnath. The name of DavWhatmore had also beenmentioned for the India Ateam, now that he is free ofhis contractual obligationswith Sri Lanka. Robin Singh,meanwhile, is expected tocontinue as coach of the In-dia under-19 team after agood job in England last year.These appointments will befinalised at the next workingcommittee meeting.

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Phew!Nothing can beat the feeling of this win when-ever it comes. And the signs are good forGlenn McGrath whose wife Jane is fighting acancer battle. Docs are positive on recoverywith radiation therapy as hubby dear McGrathmay join the team in the West Indies

Time, Larsson‘‘This is it, I’m done.’’ These, general-ly, are the words that bring along fullstops. Another one was markedagainst Magnus Larsson’s tennis career. The Swede played his last onSaturday in a 5-0 loss to Australia

Mr Toothpick has arrived If Muralitharan couldn’t get him, a tooth-pick did. Yousuf Youhanna stuck it out wellagainst the Sri Lankans but injured hisgums with a toothpick the same night. Hisroomie and Younis Khan has picked thename “Mr Toothpick” on him since

Karun Chandhok is the first Indian to lead Formula 3

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Zimbabwe wicketkeeper Tatenda Taibu (R) misses a ballplayed by Sri Lankan batsman Hashan Tillekratne (L) duringthe fifth One-dayer in Sharjah on Monday. Sri Lanka made 193.

Emergency meetings calledBy B Shrikant

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New Delhi: As the dopingscandal from the HyderabadNational Games gets biggerand bigger by the day, varioussports federations of thecountry seem to be callingemergency meetings to figure

a way out.It is also re-

liably learntthat the Indi-an OlympicAssociationofficials arealso engagedin one-to-onediscussionswith the fed-eration boss-es to min-imise thedamage. It is

ironic that the HyderabadGames were once hailed asthe cleanest of them all; butas Times News Network wentafter the dope trail, it is be-coming more and more obvi-ous that everything is not asclean.

IOA secretary generalRandhir Singh has already

called for a press conferenceon Tuesday where he mightofficially bring the scandalinto the open.

It is learnt that SwimmingFederation of India secretaryVirendra Nanavati is alreadyon his way to the Capital fromAhmedabad for a meetingwith IOA officials. It is, how-ever, not yet clear if there areany swimmers in the list ofathletes who have tested posi-tive. Rowing Federation of In-dia secretary C P Singhdeo isalso coming here from Secun-derabad, apparently for anemergency meeting of thefederation officials. They areobviously worried as this isthe first time that a rower hasbeen caught in the doping net.

Similarly, officials of otherfederations, includingweightlifting, boxing and cy-cling bosses, are expected tomeet in the next few weeks tothrash out the issue. “I amthinking of calling membersof affiliated units to put upthe cases before them and wewill decide on the punish-ment to be given to thosefound guilty,” Balbir Singh

Bhatia, member of the ad-hoccommittee governingweightlifting in the countrytold Times News Network.

TNN has also learnt thatpressure was brought on thead-hoc committee membersasking them to hush up thecases, especially the one relat-ing to a Delhi lifter who hastested positive for a steroid.

Their refusal has apparentlyleft some of the officials dis-gruntled. Some of them haveeven come together in revoltagainst Balbir Singh, who isalso secretary of the Delhi unit.

Some officials are alsoblaming the huge cash incen-tives being doled out by boththe state and union govern-ments as the reason forsportspersons being luredinto the drug net. “Obviously,the incentives are quite be-witching and some competi-tors could turn to unfairmeans in order to get the re-wards despite the efforts toeducate them about thehealth hazards caused bysome drugs. We need to have afull-fledged debate on suchschemes,” one officials said.

Sample taking not foolproofBy Indraneel Das

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: As the Hyderabad NationalGames doping scandal hots up, some fed-erations are already complaining aboutfaulty sample-taking methods and areeven questioning some of the procedures.

Indian cycling association secretary GSGrewal has vowed to take stringent actionagainst whoever is found guilty for dop-ing. “But our hands are tied by themethod used by the Indian Olympic Asso-ciation’s medical commission at theGames,” the 69-year-old secretary fromPatiala said.

Nijappa, a multiple medalist fromAndhra Pradesh who won a bronze, a sil-ver and a gold, is the only one who hastested positive. But funnily, only for hisbronze effort. “The sample collected whenhe won the gold did not reveal anything,how can that be possible?” questions Gre-wal. “It is clear that there was somethingwrong with the sampling and collectionprocess.”

“Nijappa had come and given his expla-nation and we are looking at it,” Grewalsaid. “But his cough syrup excuse is toocommon to be accepted since he has notfurnished authentic medical proof alongwith his explanation.”

It is reliably learnt that the samplinginspector did not even check the licence ofthe cyclist while collecting the samples.“Anybody can change the chest number

and give his samples,” said a source.Moreover, Nijappa, who competed at thenational cycling tournament in Kuruk-shetra later did not win a single medal.“How can a cyclist who won three medalsat the National Games fail to win a singlemedal at the Nationals that were held justtwo months later,’’ asks the official. Tech-nically though, Nijappa can be penalisedonly for his bronze medal effort.

According to the ad-hoccommittee overseeing theworking of the weightlift-ing federation, ‘two’weightlifters, includingone from Delhi, have test-ed positive. “But the exactnumber will be knownwithin a couple of days,”confirmed Balbir Bhatia,the secretary of the adhoccommittee.

“My information is anumber of these positiveresults are for stimulants,which are not performance-enhancing ina sport like weightlifting. Also, most ofthem are off-the-counter medicines forailments like common cold, cough andslight fever.” Rowing federation presidentKP Singh Deo lamented that a rower hasfigured in this infamous list for the firsttime in the history of the sport. “He’ll beseverely punished so that this thing getsnipped at the bud,” he said.

New Zealand watching SARSprogress before Lanka tourAuckland: New Zealand’s national cricket team are moni-toring the deadly pneumonia outbreak in Asia before decid-ing whether to tour Sri Lanka later this month, team captainStephen Fleming said on Monday.

The squad is scheduled to fly to Sri Lanka via Singapore inless than a fortnight for the start of their tour but have someconcerns about the rapidly spreading Severe Acute Respira-tory Syndrome (SARS), which has killed nearly 100 people.

“We’re going to have to watch it,” Fleming said. “If it pro-gresses as expected we might have a problem getting there.When you take into account insurance complications and thealready tight security measures ... it’s definitely something towatch.” New Zealand Cricket (NZC) spokesman Simon Wil-son said his organisation was unlikely to make a decision un-til much closer to the departure date, with Sri Lanka’s long-running civil conflict also a factor.

“NZC is watching developments, talking to the various au-thorities, and assessing the entire picture in terms of secu-rity and safety, as it does with all overseas tours.”AFP

A tentative break-upof athletes who testedpositive is — one from

cycling, one from rowing ‘so far’, threefrom boxing, six or

seven from athletics,two or three from

weightlifting and afew from swimming

and basketball

The dope trail

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CAPITAL SPORT

Delhi wrestling: Vikas,Kamal, Satbir and Adityawon their bouts in the DelhiAmatuer wrestling champi-onship for men organised byBorder Security Force.Results: Greco Roman: 42kg: Vikas btVijay 3-1, Kamal bt Manish 4-2; 46kg:Satbir bt Vinod 2-1, Aditya bt Inderjit 5-3; 50kg: Praveen bt Vijender 3-1, Jiten-der bt Vinay 5-2, Praveen bt Ravinder2-1; 54kg: Rajbir bt Suraj 4-2, Vikrambt Abhijeet 3-1, 58kg: Jagat bt Mukesh3-2; 63kg: Rajpal bt Ajay 4-3; 69kg:Sonu bt Sikandar 3-2, Kuldeep btNaveen 4-2, 76kg: Ravinder bt Amit 3-1, Satish bt Sarup Singh 4-2, 60kg:Sandeep bt Anil Kumar 2-1, 66kg:Ramesh bt Dinesh 4-3, Jagbir bt Sunil5-4; Junior: 84kg: Satish bt Anil 3-1,96kg: Joginder bt Rupender 3-2; Freestyle: (junior) 74kg: Neeraj bt Ramesh4-3, Jai Prakash bt Jagbir 3-1; 84kg:Dharmender Rathi bt Parvez 2-1,Satyadev bt Harjinder 4-3, Satyadev btAnil 3-2.

Title for Sonnet: SonnetClub defeated LB ShastriClub by six wickets to winthe All-India LG DevenderSingh Memorial CricketTournament.Results: LB Shastri: 166/8 in 45 overs(Rajan Gupta 45, Sumit Dogra 41, Hi-manshu mehta 30, Chetanya Nanda3/29) lost to Sonnet Club: 170/4 in 42.2overs (Mayan Sidana 89 no, ShikharDhawan 35, Praveen Thapar 3/39).

GMCA win: GMCA beatDPS Ghaziabad by 20 runs

in the All-India GMCA U-14cricket tournament. AnuragTyagi of GMCA was declaredman of the match for his all-round performance.Results: GMCA: 148/8 in 40 overs(Anurag tyagi 46, Tarun Chauahn 34,Jasmeet Singh 3/23, Gahal Gaddi 2/22)beat DPS: 120 in 23.4 overs (AmideepSingh 28, Arpit Chawla 31, Anurag Tyagi3/34, Siddhant Kaushik 3/7, TarunChauhan 3/37).

HP triumph: Hewlett-Packard beat LG Electronicsby 85 runs to win the title inthe BrandMEN-11 crickettournament.Scores: Hewlett-Packard 204 for 7wkts in 30 overs (Vivek Dwivedi 53,Sanjeev Sharma 34, Satish Menon 30,Sanjeev 2 for 20, Sandeep 2 for 7) beatLG Electronics 119 in 26 overs (AnilBhatia 37, Ajay Sharma 2 for 27).

Results of other events: Kolakatatour match:Sambaran CricketAcademy 274 for 9 in 40 overs (Hi-rak Sen Gupta 63, Aritek Basu 37,Saiket Paul 47, Naman Khanna 3for 46) lost to Gyan Bharti SouthDelhi Academy 278 for 8 in 39.3overs (Ankur Julka 59 not out,Aftab Lal 49, Manv Sharma 48) by2 wikcets.

Rajdhani Cup Cricket Tourna-ment: G.M. Academy 153 for 8 in35 overs (Praveen Tehlan 42,Vikrant Yadav 32 not out, Binny Ku-mar 3 for 27, Sushil Kwatra 3 for25) lost to MCC 154 for 4 in 30overs (Raghubeer Singh 52 notout, Binny Kumar 49, Sandeep Ku-mar 3 for 6).

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Raikkonen is last man standingSao Paulo (Brazil): KimiRaikkonen of Finland wonthe Brazilian Grand Prix onMonday after the rain-drenched race was stoppedwith a red flag following a se-ries of spin-outs and crashes.

The race was stopped dur-ing the 55th lap, when ItalianGiancarlo Fisichella was infirst place. But race officialsdeclared that the race wasover at the end of the 54thlap, when Raikkonen was infront. Raikkonen finishedwith a time of 1 hour, 29 min-utes, 53.179 seconds. Fisichel-la’s time was 1:29:54.010.

Third place went to Spain’sFernando Alonso at1:29:59.874. David Coulthard,a Briton, was fourth in1:30:00.570 and Germany’sHeinz-Harald Frentzen wasfifth in 1:30:02.571.

The race was stoppedshortly after Alonso went outof control and crashed in de-bris that littered the track af-ter Mark Webber crashed ashort time earlier. Alonsowas taken away in a stretch-er. Webber appeared un-harmed and said he wasn’tsure why he spun off thetrack, crashed into a fenceand left debris all over thetrack. “I lost all grip. I don’tknow why,” he said. “Theremay have been something onthe track, I don’t know.”

Alonso was not presentduring the winning presenta-tion. The Spanish driver wasbeing treated by doctors andwas “out of danger”, but de-tails of his condition werenot immediately available,race spokesman Marcio Fon-

seca said. Earlier in the race,a wet corner of the 4.309-kilo-metre Interlagos track endedthe aspirations of five-timeFormula One championMichael Schumacher, JuanPablo Montoya and AntonioPizzonia. Two other driversalso lost control in spin-outsat the corner and were forcedto quit the race. No one washurt. Pole position holderRubens Barrichello wasforced out of the race be-cause of engine trouble.

The Brazilian hometownfavourite drove his Ferrarioff the track during the 47thlap after taking the lead inthe 44th lap.“I don’t know what happenedto the car,” he said. “The carcame out of the lake cornerand it cut out, completely. I’mnot sure yet what happened.Up to that moment it was allgoing fine.”Schumi upbeat: Worldchampion Michael Schu-macher believes Sunday’schaotic Brazilian Grand Prixwhich saw Ferrari finish outof the points for the first timesince Nurburgring in 1999will mark the end of a disas-trous start to the 2003 season.

He remained typically up-beat. “I was aquaplaning andin that situation you are justa passenger in the car,” hesaid. “But the gap to thechampionship leader is notso big, given that there arestill 13 races, so there is noneed to be concerned it.”

And he was confident ofturning the corner in thenext race, the San MarinoGrand Prix on April 20. Agencies

Reuters

Ferrari Formula One driver Michael Schumacher of Germany jumps over a guardrail to leavethe track after he spun out on the rain-soaked Interlagos racetrack in Sao Paulo on Sunday.The Brazil Grand Prix was delayed by rain for 15 minutes and plagued by accidents.

Karun has a dream startTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Chennai lad Karun Chandhokscored the first Formula 3 win of his careerat the opening round of the British Formula3 championship, (Scholarship class) at Don-ington Park in UK on Sunday. The win wasfollowed up by second place in Race 2, whichnow makes him the first Indian to lead a For-mula 3 championship.

The 19-year-old’s weekenddidn’t get off to the best start when he missedthe majority of the test session due to aclutch problem which resulted in him andthe team resorting to guesswork for his qual-ifying set-up. Qualifying started off on a pos-itive note when Chandhok came in third forrace 1. In the second qualifying, he struggledwith an imbalance in the car and ended infifth position on the grid for race 2.

Karun’s start for Race 1 was stunning and

he gained four places into the first corner, in-cluding making his way past 3 Champi-onship class cars. On lap 3, race leaderErnesto Viso made a mistake and spun off,which pushed Chandhok into the lead of therace. From there on he drove consistently tofinish the race ahead of a significant numberof Championship class cars.

In race 2, the Madras-borndriver lost ground whenavoiding Christian England

who stalled on the start line but was soonmoving up the order, passing Justin Sher-wood on lap 1 and then Ivor McCullough onlap 3. A lap later, Ernesto Viso made anothererror, which resulted in the T-Sport duo ofSteven Kane and Chandhok moving up tofirst and second position.

Results: Race 1: 1. Karun Chandhok 22:10.325; 2. ChristianEngland + 1.9s; 3. Steven Kane + 9.7s. Race 2: 1. Steven Kane22:05.60; 2. Karun Chandhok + 9.5s; 3. Ivor McCullough + 10s.

Golden Bellon a song

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Golden Bell,who is tracking well, is ex-pected to score in the Jawa-har Lal Nehru MemorialCup, the main event of theDelhi races scheduled forTuesday.Selections: Chacha Nehru Plate: 1,200m:3.00pm: Wild Flame 1, River Fantasy 2, Lin-go’s Jewel 3. First Prime Minister Plate(div.I): 1,200m: Sushmita 1, King of Mohra2, Quick Step 3. First Prime Minister Plate(div.II): 1,200m: Antelope 1, Supermax 2,Anjolie 3. Jawahar Lal Nehru MemorialCup: 1,200m: Golden Bell 1, Browning 2,Forest Fragrance 3. Red Rose In CoatPlate: 1,000m: Dancing Belle 1, Continna-tion 2, Poleden Light 3. Baal Diwas Plate:1,000m: Bahuratna 1, Misty Maid 2,Jayashree 3.

Friday’s handicaps: Fol-lowing are the handicaps forthe Mumbai races scheduledfor Friday:

Tosca Trophy: Cl III; 1,600m: Thunder-lite 60, Wild Storm 58.5, Rainy Stream 56.5,Star Dusk 56.5, Gesundheit 55, Noble Ap-peal 55, Star of Nature 55, Danger Zone 54,Music Prospector 54, Chirayu 53.5, DancingEve 53.5, Captive Heart 53.5, Great Alliance53, Pure Cream 52.5, Enerziger 52, WhiteWhisper 51, Sonic Symphony 50. CornishFlame Plate: Cl IV: 1,100m: Stay With Me59.5, Habit 57.5, Forever Sunshine 56, Elu-sive Charm 55.5, Forest Angel 55.5, Key-tothevaults 55.5, Magnificence 55, Mon-tekin 55, Monte Carlo Magic 53.5, RosehillGardens 53.5, Mein Kampf 53, Super Cop53, Rich Treat 52.5, Race The Moon 51.5,Bahudhana 50, Living Logic 48.5.

AITA’s academy finallygets a ‘soft’ opening

By Sukhwant BasraTIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: The much toutedAITA National Tennis Acad-emy (NTA) will finally takeoff on April 16. The Gurgaon-based facility has been de-layed by a full year and isnow opting for a ‘soft’ open-ing. For starters AITA’s beenunable to get the promisedforeign coach, there’s nophysical trainer and thenames of the children are asyet ‘secret’ while the synthet-ic courts and the gymnasiumare still under construction.

Pegged as the premier ten-nis training centre for India,the NTA is AITA secretaryAnil Khanna’s dream projectand the cornerstone of hispromise to churn out tophundred-level ATP and WTAplayers. The delay in thecompletion of the project andAITA’s inability to find thepromised top-notch coacheshas many wondering aboutits commitment to the proj-ect. Anil Khanna brushes

aside all posers regarding theshortfalls, “This will be thefinest academy in Asia. Yes,the project has got delayedand I am not going to giveany specific commitment asto when it will be completed.”

R Karthikeyan and SunilYajaman will be the coachesin charge of the day-to-dayrunning of the facility. Whileboth are ITF level II certifiedit remains to be seen whetherthe chosen youngsters willleave more acclaimed train-ers and flock to their stan-dard. As of now the promiseof being AITA’s blue-eyedand not the quality of train-ing may be the prime motiva-tion for those who do enrol.

In a curious developmentAITA is not even announcingthe names of the proposedtrainees. “CII is still workingout the details of the prom-ised sponsorships for thesechildren and we have left theannouncement of the namesto their discretion,” saysAITA development officerSunil Yajaman.

Shiv sounds a warning

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi: Defending cham-pion Shiv Prakash issued anearly warning with a finewin in the Pro-Am of the AllIndia SRF Matchplay GolfChampionship the Delhi GolfClub on Monday. The Kanpurpro and his team tallied 207nett points, with a fine per-formance of five-time nation-al champion Ashok Maliktallying 62 nett Peoria pointsand Shiv Prakash himself

played to one-over 73. Theother team members wereUsha Chatrath and B.S.CHandramanhi.

Pappan and team finishedrunners-up at 209 pointswhile Mukesh Kumar andhis team finished third with211. Amritinder Singh’s 6 un-der 66 got the ‘best individualpro score’ prize. Pappan’steam comprised of RajeshJindal, Raghav Wahi whileMukesh’s team included Ra-jiv Puri, Shiv Nath andPrakash Bhandari.

SRF MATCHPLAY

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Storm threatens Masters

Augusta: At least a score ofthe world’s top golfers sawtheir chances of winning the2003 Masters washed awayhere on Monday morning -four days before they even hada chance to strike a ball inanger. Players arriving fortheir practice round weregreeted by a furious thunder-storm that had officials quick-ly closing the course and keep-ing fans off the grounds be-cause of the danger of beingstruck by lightning.

By the time the storm hadpassed, the first fairway had a

series of rivers pouring backdown towards the first tee.

With more heavy stormsforecast, the game’s shorterhitters are facing a night-mare of simply trying tomake the cut for the weekend.David Love, one of the toursbigger hitters admitted thatthe bad weather spelled badnews for many of the players- drastically reducing thenumber of players who canwin come Sunday.

Two-time Masters winnerJose Maria Olazabal, formerBritish Open champion Justin

Leonard and Nick Faldo arejust three players who have allbut been taken out of the bat-tle because of the weather. Butif the weather was bad newsfor some, it was the best possi-ble news for Tiger Woods as heattempts to become the firstplayer in history to win threestraight Masters.

Since the world No. 1 col-lected his first green jacketsix years ago, the powers thatbe at Augusta National havemade changes to 10 holes andstretched the course a fur-ther 350 yards longer. AFP

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Two time Masters champion Bernhard Langer of Germany warms up for the 2003 Masters atthe Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta on Sunday.

Myskina wins Sarasota Open: Second seed AnastasiaMyskina of Russia captured her second title of the year on Sun-day at the $140,000 Sarasota Open claycourt event. Myskinarolled to a 6-4, 6-1 win over Australian qualifier Alicia Molik in thechampionship match. Agencies

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THE SPORTING WORLD AT A GLANCE TENNIS

WTA Sarasota Clay Court Classic, Flori-da: Final: 2-Anastasia Myskina (Rus) beatAlicia Molik (Aus) 6-4 6-1.DAVIS CUP: Asia-Oceania zone: Group I -2nd rd: India 4 New Zealand 1, Uzbekistan1 Thailand 4.Two winning teams in play-off along witheight losing teams in World Group 1st roundon September 19-21.Group I - play-offs: Japan 5 Pakistan 0, In-donesia 3 South Korea 2.Two losing teams in relegation play-off onSeptember 19-21.Group II - 2nd rd: Hong Kong bt Lebanon bywalkover, China 2 Taiwan 3.Two winning teams meet on July 11-13 todecide who advances to Group I.Group II - play-off:Tajikistan 0 Iran 5, Philip-pines 3 Kazakhstan 2.

Losing teams relegated to Group III in 2004.FOOTBALL

English Premiership result: Everton 2(Rooney 18, Unsworth 65-pen) Newcastle1 (Robert 40). Spanish Primera Liga: Ath-letic Bilbao 1 Atletico Madrid 0; CD Alaves0 Mallorca 0; D Coruna 2 Real Sociedad 1;Osasuna 0 Malaga 1; Racing Santander 1Sevilla 0; Valladolid 0 Recreativo Huelva 1.Italian Serie A: Brescia 3 Atalanta 0; Chie-vo 3 Udinese 0; Inter Milan 3 Roma 3; Lazio3 Como 0; Perugia 1 Bologna 1; Piacenza 3Modena 3; Reggina 1 Empoli 0.

FORMULA ONEBrazilian Grand Prix, Sao Paulo: 1 KimiRaikkonen (Fin) McLaren-Mercedes1hr:29mins53.179secs; 2 GiancarloFisichella (Ita) Jordan-Ford at 0.831secs; 3Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault at 6.695; 4David Coulthard (Gbr) McLaren-Mercedes

at 7.391; 5 Heinz-Harald Frentzen (Ger)Sauber at 9.392; 6 Jacques Villeneuve(Can) BAR-Honda at 17.910; 7 Mark Web-ber (Aus) Jaguar Racing at 20.070; 8 JarnoTrulli (Ita) Renault at 23.569; 9 Ralf Schu-macher (Ger) Williams-BMW at 33.556; 10Cristiano da Matta (Bra) Toyota Racing at 1 lap.Not Classified (Did not finish): Rubens Bar-richello (Bra) Ferrari (46 laps completed);Jenson Button (Gbr) BAR-Honda (32 laps);Jos Verstappen (Hol) Minardi (30 laps);Michael Schumacher (Ger) Ferrari (26 laps);Juan Pablo Montoya (Col) Williams-BMW(24 laps); Antonio Pizzonia (Bra) JaguarRacing (24 laps); Olivier Panis (Fra) ToyotaRacing (17 laps); Ralph Firman (Gbr) Jor-dan-Ford (17 laps); Justin Wilson (Gbr) Mi-nardi (15 laps); Nick Heidfeld (Ger) Sauber(8 laps).

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Stable finances: FIFA’sfinances are better than initialforecasts predicted, SeppBlatter, president of worldfootball’s governing body,said on Sunday. “The resultsare looking good, a lot betterthan the Euro 330 milliondebt that’s been forecast,”Blatter maintained. His com-ments come two days beforeFIFA releases its financial re-sults for last year. Blatter,relected for a second term aspresident in 2002, also said inthe interview that thechances of him standing fora third time hinged on theoutcome of a revision of theFIFA rules currently beingcarried out.

False starts: The Interna-tional Association of AthleticsFederations (IAAF) an-nounced Sunday it wasclamping down on athletesstaging protests against be-ing disqualified under its newfalse start rule. The stricternew rules stipulate that onlyone false start is allowed perrace subsequent to whichany runner committing a sec-ond false start is disqualifiedeven if it is his first offence.That caused confusion andan embarrassing delay at therecent World Indoors Cham-pionships in Birminghamwhen British sprinter AllynCondon refused to leave thetrack after being disqualifiedfor a first offence. Condoneventually competed in the200m final “under protest”despite being officially dis-qualified although he was notamong the top three finishers.

A warning: US speedskaterNancy Swider-Peltz has beengiven a warning by the UnitedStates Anti-Doping Agency af-ter she tested positive for abanned substance. The 16-year-old American, who fin-ished fourth at the US JuniorLong Track Championships,tested positive for pseu-doephedrine on January 19.Pseudoephedrine is common-ly found in over-the-countercold and allergy medication

and is banned from use bypotential Olympians. Theagency handed Swider-Peltzthe minimum sanction be-cause it was her first offence.

Sorenstam ‘worn out’:Golfer Annika Sorenstam ad-mitted she’s tired. A toughcourse with tricky greens,some kinks in her game, andhigh expectations took a tollon Sorenstam during the Of-fice Depot Championship.The LPGA Tour’s dominantplayer still was able to take afour-shot victory on Sunday.‘‘I feel it in my head. I’ve triedso hard to figure out myswing and everything. I amworn out mentally,’’ she said.Sorenstam, a five-time LPGAplayer of the year and a win-ner 11 times in 2002, hasbeen the center of a whirlwind

of attention since accepting asponsor’s exemption to playagainst the men in the Colo-nial next month in Fort Worth,Texas. She will become thefirst woman in 58 years tocompete on the PGA Tour.

Shake-up in Soccer Aus-tralia: A government-backed review called on thecrisis-prone Soccer Australiaboard to stand down and rec-ommended an interim boardbe put in place. The CrawfordReport, which investigatedthe administration of Aus-tralian football, called for radi-cal changes to the troubledsport. The review also calledfor an independent commis-sion to run the financially-strapped national soccerleague and a massive shake-up of voting rights.

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Spain's Alex Corretja picks up a small lizard that crawledonto the court during his Davis Cup tennis match againstMario Ancic of Craoatia in Valencia on Sunday.

Morientes stands tall among starsParis: The Kings of Euro-pean football Real Madridcame dangerously close tolosing some domestic credi-bility on Saturday when low-ly city rivals Rayo Vallecanotook them to within five min-utes of an historic derby win.

In the end it was home boyFernando Morientes whogifted Real a face-saving 3-1victory, celebrating his 27thbirthday with late goals.

Barcelona meanwhile suf-fered their first defeat sinceRadomir Antic took over ascoach two months ago at Vil-larreal, who notched up theirfirst ever home victory overthe Catalans thanks to twopenalties courtesy of JorgeLopez on 58 minutes andJavier Calleja’s spot kick fiveminutes from time.

After 28 matches played byall teams, Real hold a six-point cushion over DeportivoLa Coruna who beat third-placed Real Sociedad 2-1.

The fight for the league ti-tle in similarly poised in Italywith Juventus (60) holding afive-point lead over chasingInter Milan with AC Milan inthird on 52 points.

Inter lost the chance toclose the gap on the reigningchampions on Sunday whenthey were held to a 3-3 drawaway to AS Roma, with two ofRoma’s goals — one a Juven-tus own goal, coming in thefinal seven minutes.

Juventus had strength-ened their grip beating localrivals Torino 2-0 in a bad-tempered derby clash at theDelle Alpi Stadium.

Milan, meanwhile, lost 1-0away to Parma, who boostedtheir hopes of qualifying fornext season’s ChampionsLeague thanks to Adriano’slate winner, his 13th goal ofthe season. Parma are nowfifth after Lazio brushed offstrugglers Como 3-0. AFP

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AS Roma's Antonio Cassano (2nd right) celebrates with his team mates Francesco Totti (right), Emerson (left) and Candelaafter scoring against Inter Milan during their Serie A soccer match at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium in Milan on Sunday.

Final before the final; Real challenge for UnitedParis: After allowing them-selves the occasional slip-upin the group stages theChampions League phoneywar is over as the continent’seight survivors strut onto thequarterfinal stage.

Manchester United andReal Madrid lost five matchesbetween them en route butnow all engines must be fine-tuned as every mistake fromhere on in should prove fatal.Tuesday’s match between thetwo biggest club sides in theworld could fill the SantiagoBernabeu stadium ten timesover as the Spaniards, thereigning champions, lay

their title on the line.United may only be going

for their third title after 1968and 1999 to a staggering ninefor Real, but their Europeanform this season has beenmarkedly superior to that oftheir rivals. Since an initialhiccup sawthem losetheir opening match to Hun-gary’s Zalaegerszegi in thethird qualifying round firstleg, Sir Alex Ferguson’s sidehave romped through bothgroup phases save for aca-demic losses in Haifa andBasle.

Real, in contrast, won only

two of their initial six groupencounters and thereafterjust squeezed out Germany’sDortmund to leave AC Milanas group winners.

The Milanese have, alongwith neighbours Inter Milanand Juventus, sparked an

Italian revivaland in Tuesday’s

other match AC Milan willtravel to an Ajax side whohave come this far despiteonly three wins in 12 match-es. AC Milan went Dutchthemselves in their 1989-90heyday when Marco Van Bas-ten, Ruud Gullit and FrankRijkaard held sway.

The Italians’ last EuropeanCup success came with a 1994thrashing of Barcelona,whose former defenderRonald Koeman is now theman in the Ajax hotseat look-ing to bring back the glorydays of the early 1970s.

Wednesday’s ties pit Interagainst Valencia and Juven-tus against Barcelona, bothencounters which give theItalians a chance to show theSpanish contingent they areback in business after sever-al poor League harvests.Fixtures: (All 1845 GMT): Tuesday: RealMadrid vs Manchester United; Ajax vs ACMilan. Wednesday: Inter Milan vs Valencia;Juventus vs Barcelona. AFP

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