Bangalore Beat 15.10.2011

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in AndhraBangalore Beat Bureau

Hyderabad: Pro-Telangana agitators started athree-day rail roko agitation today, forcing therailway department to cancel 124 trains passingthrough the volatile state that has been wit-nessing a series of protests over the last month.

The call for the agitation has been given bythe Telangana Joint Action Committee.

Over 100 agitators, led by Telangana RashtriyaSamiti president K Chandrashekar Rao, hisdaughter Kavitha and son K Tarak Rama Rao,were arrested today for disturbing peace.

Rama Rao talking to reporters after the arrestsaid, “The pro-Telanagana agitation will not stopwith our arrests. There has been a huge supportand we will not stop till a separate Telanganastate is declared.”

In what could cause embarrassment to thecentral government, Andhra Congress leaderstoo joined the rail roko agitation. Though therehas been a warning from the Congress high com-mand, MPs, MLAs and other Congress leadersfrom the region have been protesting. Lastmonth, most of the Congress legislators from theTelangana region had submitted their resig-nation to put pressure on the central governmentto declare a separate state.

Today, CPM cadres joined the agitation.The Railways has stopped all services pass-

ing through the state, fearing damage to thetrains. It has made alternative arrangements fortrains to reach other destinations.

Majority of the trains from the South going upNorth have to pass through the sprawling state.Many trains coming to Karnataka from differ-ent parts of the country too pass through theneighbouring state.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Kiran KumarReddy met Union ministers last week to discussthe Telangana issue. All-India Congress Com-mittee general secretary in charge of AndhraPradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad has indicated thatthe Centre would need some more time to de-cide on the issue.

Last year, home minister P Chidambaram hadstated that the Union government is favourablyconsidering carving out Telangana state out ofthe present Andhra Pradesh. Since then, the ag-itation has only reached new heights.

Boy mistakeskerosene forbewerage,drinks, dies

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A boy, who drank kerosene think-ing it to be soft drink yesterday, died at a privatehospital in Jagjivan Ram Nagar today.

Since yesterday morning, one-and-a-half-year-old Shabbir had been pestering his moth-er Shamima for a soft drink. She kept convinc-ing him that they could go out once his fatherAbdul Kareem came home in the evening.

Around 2.30 pm, when Shamima was busy inthe kitchen, Shabbir slipped out and got holdof a soft drink bottle, in which PDS kerosene waskept. Since the kerosene was blue, the childmight have thought it to be a soft drink anddrank it, the mother said.

The child had consumed around 100-150 mlof kerosene and started crying with pain.Shamima rushed to the child’s rescue and re-alised that her son had consumed kerosene asthe bottle was lying next to the boy.

She immediately rushed Shabbir to a privatehospital nearby. The doctors administeredstomach wash and kept the child under obser-vation. But he died this morning.

The family stays at Arafat Nagar adjacent toJagjivan Ram Nagar.

Accident in Gulrbarga kills 8


Gulbarga: Eight persons, who were returningfrom a funeral, died and six others were injuredwhen a lorry hit their vehicle on the outskirtsof Jewargi last night. The accident occurred onNational Highway 218 when the van they weretravelling in was parked on the road side for achange of punctured tyre. The lorry hit the vanfrom behind killing the eight on the spot. Thelorry driver and cleaner abandoned their vehi-cle and ran away from the spot immediately af-ter the accident. Full report on page 4

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Forum: Krishna claimed adopteddaughterʼs wedding for bail

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Former KPSC chairman H N Kr-ishna, who was denied bail yesterday in acase related to irregularities during histenure as public service commission chief,is in more trouble.

K S Shivaram, president, Karnataka Back-ward Classes Awareness Forum, has allegedthat Vishala is not the adopted daughter ofKrishna as per records. Krishna had obtainedconditional bail claiming that he had to at-tend Vishala’s wedding on Oct 10.

Krishna was arrested on October 7 and theeighth additional chief metropolitan mag-istrate granted him bail till October 12 on thecondition that he has to appear before thecourt once the wedding was over.

Shivaram alleges that the records sub-mitted to schools and colleges by Vishala donot show Krishna as her father. Instead, inthe columns for the parents, she has men-tioned Puttaswamy of Hassan as her father.Hassan is also the native of Krishna.

Krishna, while he was a member and lat-er chairman of the KPSC, had appointedVishala as a D group employee at the com-mission on a contract basis. Sources said

Vishala is in fact thedaughter of watchmanat the KPSC, Put-taswamy, who re-quested Krishna to givethe girl a job.

Shivaram said Kr-ishna obtained bail byproviding wrong in-formation to the court.

Senior assistantpublic prosecutorArundhati Kulkarni tooargued against giving

Krishna conditional bail. Shivaram said that even when Krishna was

made the KPSC member and chairman, hedid not declare his relationship with Visha-la. As per the norm, KPSC officials have toprovide the names of their successors, thefamily and assets at the time of appointment.

Shivaram also said that as per the HinduAdoption Act, a grownup cannot be adopt-ed, neither has Krishna approached anyagencies for adoption of Vishala.

Shivaram says Krishna also has two oth-er daughters who are settled in the US.

The Criminal Investigation Departmentsleuths arrested Krishna on October 7 morn-

ing for alleged irregularities in the selectionprocess undertaken by the KPSC in 1998,1999, and 2004.

The CID police filed a complaint againstKrishna and three Karnataka AdministrationService (KAS) officers, Asha Pervin, Y GArchana, and Salma Firdose, at the VidhanaSoudha police station following a high courtdirection on August 11.The police registered a case against Krishnaand three officers under the provisions of sec-tions 417 (punishment for cheating), 465(punishment for forgery), 466 (forgery ofrecord of court or of public register), 467(forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery forpurpose of cheating), and 506 (punishmentfor criminal intimidation).

Krishna approached the Karnataka HighCourt for anticipatory bail, but it was rejected.When his advocate requested for bail as hisadopted daughter’s marriage is scheduled forOctober 10, he was granted only condition-al bail. The Karnataka High Court on Sep-tember 19 rejected Krishna’s anticipatory bailplea. Passing the order, Justice H Billappa re-ferred the case to the CID inquiry, which re-vealed alleged racial discrimination, fabri-cation of documents, fraud and criminal in-timidation.

H N Krishna

ARREST FOR BSYLokayukta court orders judicial custody for Krishnaiah Shetty, bail for 13


Bangalore: Former chief ministerB S Yeddyurappa suffered a majorsetback today when the Lokayukaspecial court issued a non-bailablearrest warrant in land illegal landdenotificaiton caes.

The Lokayukta special court,which had called all the accused inPCR 2 and 3 cases for orders today,rejected Yeddyurappa’s bail pleaand issued the arrest warrant. Spe-cial judge N S Sudheendra Rao alsosent former minister and MalurMLA Ess Enn Krishnaiah Shetty tojudicial custody till October 22.

On hearing the orders, Shetty,who suffers from high blood pres-sure, collapsed on the Civil CourtComplex premises. After first-aid, hewas rushed in an ambulance toParappana Agrahara hospital.

Yeddyurappa had to be issued anarrest warrant as he had absentedhimself from the court, citing severeback pain. His advocate Ravi BNaik told the court that the BJPstrongman was not in a position tomove around or even stand as hehas been suffering from intense

back pain. He submitted a medicalcertificate that advised a five-daybed rest to the former chief minis-ter.

But the special judge rejected

the exemption application and said,“Today is the day for orders. It doesnot matter whether Yeddyurappa ispresent or not” and served the arrestwarrant.

Yeddyurappa’s sons – ShimogaMP B Y Raghavendra and B Y Vi-jayendra – his son-in-law Sohan Ku-mar, sister Akka Mahadevi, Chick-pet MLA Hemachandra Sagar andthe other seven accused were grant-ed bail with strict and costly con-ditions. Each of the 13 accused whohave been granted bail have to pro-vide Rs 10 lakh bond and personalsurety before getting themselvesreleased.

Yeddyurappa’s relatives havebeen asked to submit the entire fi-nancial transaction of the family-runDavalagiri Property Developers overthe last three years to the court in aweek. The judge ordered that bailwould be cancelled if the records arenot submitted.

The Lokayukta special court washearing a case filed by advocate Sir-ajin Basha, who had obtained –per-mission from governor H R Bhard-waj to prosecute then chief minis-ter Yeddyurappa. The cases re-lates to alleged illegal land denoti-fication of 2.5 acres at Arakere, 1.7acres at Devarachikkanahalli and 4acres at Geddalahalli in K R Puram.Basha had alleged that Yeddyu-

rappa and Krishnaiah Shetty hadgiven away lands to benami hold-ers. Renowned advocate C H Hanu-mantharaya argued for Basha.

The PCR 3 case relates to denoti-fication of 2.5 acres of land at Agarain Bangalore south, allotting of aresidential site to Sohan Kumarand issuing of mining leases in 100acres to Praveen Chand and issuingof mining leases to extract man-ganese ore from 330 acre of land atMachenahalli near Shimoga.

Yeddyurappa’s advocate RaviNaik said, “We will approach theKarnataka High Court to appealagainst the order of the specialcourt. We will raise lack of paritywhile submitting our case. Whilesome of the accused have beengranted bail, it has been denied toYeddyurappa. This is probably thefirst time that bail has been deniedin a private complaint case.”

Now, the Lokayukta deputy su-perintendent of police PrasannaRaju has been asked to execute thearrest orders against Yeddyurappa.At the time of going to the press, thejudge had signed the orders.

The police have seven days to ar-

rest Yeddyurappa. But it has to beseen whether the order would be ex-ecuted today or they would take allof seven days to arrest him.

Yeddyurappa kept track of theproceedings sitting at his Race-course road residence. Soon afterthe news broke, a stream of politi-cians made a beeline for his house.

Yeddyurappa was not at his res-idence when Lokayukta DySPs Ab-dul Wahab and Prasanna Rajucame calling. The two officers wentto Yeddyurappa’s residence around3 pm, but could not trace him. It wassaid that just 20 minutes earlier, theformer chief minister had left in hiscar. But no one was sure where hehad gone. The assumption was thatsince he was complaining of backpain, he might have got himself ad-mitted at a hospital.

Racecourse residence, teh ,armed with the arrest warrant

The other accused in the twocases are: Mahabaleshwara, SathyaKumar, Anil Kumar, Shantha Ku-mar, Mohan Raj, Manjunath, Is-mail Sharif, Kamalamma, Prakash,Ramesh, Shanta Devi, Shanta Bai,Shilpa and Upendra.

CM callsemergency

meetingB a n ga l o r e :Chief ministerD V Sadanan-da Gowdacalled ane m e r g e n c ymeeting of toppolice officialsat his officialresidence Kr-ishna soon after news of Yeddyu-rappa’s imminent arrest broke out to-day.

The chief minister cancelled hisvisit to Mumbai and called the meet-ing to discuss the law and order sit-uation in the wake of his immediatepredecessor.

City police commissioner Jyoth-iprakash Mirji, intelligence wingchief Gopal Hosur, additional com-missioner of police (law and order)K Sunil Kumar, law and parliamen-tary affairs minister Suresh Kumar,home minister R Ashok and othertop state administration officialstook part in the meeting.

HDK: Feel sadat BSYʼs fate


Bangalore: It is not time to rejoiceor be happy about the arrest of B S Yeddyurappa, said his political arch rival and state JD(S) president H D Ku-maraswamy said today after itcame to be known that the formerchief minister would be takeninto custody.

“The Congress has to beblamed for all the ills in thestate. The happiness of Congressleaders in seeing the arrest of Yed-dyurappa, I am sure, would beshort lived. It is wrong on theirpart to be happy about the wholesituation,” he said.

Kumaraswamy, who was instrumental in unearthing some of the scandals involvingYeddyurappa, said, “We have been political rivals. But thatis only on the public platform. I

personally feel sad that he is be-ing arrested.”

All the state Congress leaders,who had gathered at Shimoga forthe party’s meet the voter pro-gramme, were seen shakinghands and patting each other’sbacks when they came to knowthat Yeddyurappa was arrested.Kumaraswamy was referring totheir reaction at the Shimogafunction.

Congress state president GParameshwara said, “It provesthat no one is above the law of theland. Justice has prevailed. Yed-dyurappa has to be arrested im-mediately and sent to jail. It isnow well known that money hasbeen transferred into the ac-counts of former chief minister’ssons after contracts were grant-ed in the Upper Bhadra projects.Also, Yeddyurappa has illegallydenotified lands.”

ʻNo proof of his guiltʼBangalore Beat Bureau

Mangalore: “The arrest warrant is nota proof of former chief minister B SYeddyurappa’s guilt. It is just aprocess of justice. The case is still go-ing on and we are sure that he willprove his innocence and emerge

without any problem,” said BJP statepresident K S Eshwarappa, who washere today, said.

“What can I say? The court has is-sued the warrant. There is nothingmore to it. These are mere allegationsand the court will come to the rightconclusion,” he said.

BSYʼs lawyer: Willapproach HC

Bangalore: Ravi B Naik, whohas been arguing for formerchief minister Yeddyurappa inillegal land denotificationcases, today said that he willapproach the Karnataka HighCourt for exemption for the ar-rest of Yeddyurappa.

“Once we get the order, wewill go to the higher court. Itis unprecedented that a per-son has been denied bail in aprivate complaint case. It hasnot happened anywhere, be it

Pakistan or Bangladesh.We’re seeking exemption forYeddyurappa on the groundsof lack of parity as other ac-cused in the cases have beengranted bail,” he said.

Teh Lokayukta specialcourt had ordered the arrest ofYeddyurappa and judicialcustody for Malur MLA andformer minister KrishnaiahShetty in illegal land denoti-fication case.

Continued on page 4

Hegde refuses to comment

Mangalore: Former Lokayukta Justice SantoshHegde refused to comment on the arrest of formerchief minister B S Yeddyurappa in illegal land de-notification cases this morning.

Emerging out a function here, he was told by waiting media men that the Lokayukta special court had issued an arrest warrant against Yeddyurappa.

Justice Hegde, who merely smiled, said, “Yed-dyurappa was not present at the court that is the rea-son the judge has issued an arrest warrant. He willhave to court arrest now.”

Justice Hegde brought a report on illegal miningactivities during the tenure of Yeddyurappa as chiefminister. The report, which indicted the BJP strong-man, led to Yeddyurappa quitting his post.

SadanandaGowda

The City Civil Court complex in Bangalore saw heavy police bandobast as high-profile illegal land denotification cases werebeing heard by the Lokayukta special court in Bangalore today.

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Jnanpith award winner Chandrashekar Kambar and his family members planted a sampling in front of their house after felicitation by Nekarara Shikshanika and Samskru-

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BU V‑C wants NRN tobe UVCE board chief

Bangalore: Bangalore University vice-chancellor N Prabhu Dev has written anopen letter to Infosys founder N RNarayana Murthy asking him to be chair-man of the board of University Vishwesh-waraiah College of Engineering.

Here is the letter written by Dev toMurthy:

Narayana Murthy, founder of IndianIT major Infosys said that the quality ofstudents entering IIT is declining. Murthywas speaking at a PAN IIT gathering inNew York. Apart from the top 20% ofstudents who crack the tough IIT entranceexamination and can "stand among thebest anywhere in the world", quality ofthe remaining 80 percent of studentsleave much to be desired," Murthy said,receiving a thundering applause fromhis audience.

Murthy said a blueprint needs to beprepared to ensure that IITs should “tran-scend from being just teaching institutionsto reasonably good research institutes"at par with Harvard and MIT in the next10-20years.

Respected Shri Narayana Murthy,It is great to see that a statesman like

you call a spade a spade when you saidabout the quality in our most venerableinstitutions like the IITs have declined.It has stirred a lot of emotions, self-re-flections and also a sense of déjà vu. Youhave been candid. People expect thatwhat you say is what you mean.

It is fortunate that you have chosen tocomment on the status of the technicaleducation at our most respected IITs.When you comment, surely there will besome remedy that you are thinking about.I am certain that you have a plan ofaction to bring IITs on the global plat-form.

University Visvesvaraya EngineeringCollege is the constituent engineeringcollege of Bangalore University and hasreasonably good infrastructure and haspresently 24 PG departments. The collegewas established in 1917 by Sir M Visves-varaya and UVCE ranks 24th in India.

The infrastructure in some departmentsneeds to be upgraded to meet today’sneeds. It needs a visionary like you. TheRoorkee experiment of making it an IIThas proved to be a good one and got wellintegrated into the IIT system. Similarly,the UVCE fits the bill completely. Withyour undivided attention, UVCE, will bebetter than the IITs and perhaps becomea benchmark in global technical educationquality.

I request you and invite you to be thechairman of the Board of Governors ofVisvesvaraya College of Engineering, Ban-

galore University and guide and transformit into a technological institute of excel-lence for the centenary year of the col-lege-2017, and hence this open letter.

Presently, the Vice-Chancellor of Ban-galore University is the Chairman of theBoard of Governors. I would voluntarilyrelinquish the post in your favour for theoverall development of the Visvesvarayaengineering college (UVCE).

Our dream is that the university shouldplay a definitive role in the 21st century.Our mission is to provide good qualitytrained human resources who are sociallysensitive, have inquisitive minds and per-sistence to change their own and organ-isation’s lives and contribute to makeIndia a knowledge super power and theworld a better place to live.

Excellence in teaching will continueto be our motto and hence the faculty

should excel in teaching and in at leastone or more other areas like research,consulting, development, publication etc.

I believe you have a very special roleto play in promoting entrepreneurshipin technology and management.

A major problem that we face in ouruniversity and in majority of the univer-sities in India is in the quality of highereducation that the institutions impart.The issue of quality is not being addressed.The syllabi are not industry friendly. Theissue of reforms needs a visionary.

If we teach today as we taught yesterdaywe rob our children of their tomorrow!

Given the current scenario, I request/invite you to help UVCE develop conceptssuch as text-free education, tech-savvyclassrooms, ensured internships and vo-cational courses that aim to making ed-ucation more fruitful on the motto of“select the best, reward the best, retainthe best”, according to which the facultybe encouraged to indulge in fruitful re-search in collaboration with students.UVCE should be able to contribute sig-nificantly to the global competitivenessof key sectors of the Indian economy andindustry. The students should be enabledto focus on applied research and educationin IT in selected domain areas.

“The path to our destiny begins withthe steps we take today."

Finally we at UVCE expect from yousir to be a role model for students andhelp teach them the importance of pro-fessionalism. Our objective should be torebuild the college into an institute ofTechnological excellence.

Signed by Dr N Prabhu Dev, BangaloreUniversity vice-chancellor

Bangalore boy winsTata essay contest


Bangalore: Twinkle T Titus fromKendriya Vidyalaya, MEG & Cen-tre, Bangalore, has come on topfrom among 10 lakh other con-testants in the the Tata BuildingIndia - School Essay Competition2009-10 in English at the juniorlevel.

Shimana Mariam of St. Agnes'sGirls High School, Mangalore,has been adjudged the secondrunner-up in the prestigious es-say competition.

The 2009-10 edition of thecompetition saw participationfrom over two million studentsfrom 3,500 schools across nearly

100 cities and was conducted insix languages. The English roundof the competition had close to10 lakh students from 1500 Eng-lish medium schools across 36major cities whereas the Hindiround covered 18 cities acrossNorth & Central India and at-tracted close to 4 lakh entriesfrom 600 Hindi medium schools.Further, the competition was runin Bengali, Gujarati, Tamil andMarathi languages in those lan-guage medium schools in 12-14cities each in the respective stateswhere the language is widelyspoken.

The theme for this competitionwas ‘Future India’. The winning

essays featured impactful,thought provoking and radicalideas where in the thoughts clear-ly indicate the vision and focusof young minds of today’s gen-eration.

Tata group felicitated nationalwinners this week, at a ceremonyin New Delhi. Delhi Metro RailCorporation (DMRC) managingdirector E Sreedharan awardedthe young achievers with theprestigious trophy and laptopcomputers.

Earlier, the winners and therunners-up got an opportunityto visit the Rashtrapati Bhavanand also had a tour of the DelhiMetro.

N R Narayana Murthy N Prabhu Dev

Assocham: Poultryindustry to cross

`1.32 lakh cr by ʼ15Bangalore: With domestic de-mand for broiler meat and eggsin an overdrive, the Indian poul-try industry is likely to cross Rs1.32 lakh crore mark by 2015,apex industry body Assochamhas said.

Growing at about 20 percentannually the domestic poultrymarket is currently estimated atabout Rs 49,000 crore, highlightsa study on ‘Trends In DomesticPoultry Segment’ undertaken byThe Associated Chambers ofCommerce and Industry of India(Assocham).

“Driven by rising purchasingpower, changing food habits,contract poultry farming andrapid urbanisation are certainkey reasons for this constant up-swing in this niche poultry sec-tor,” said Assocham secretary-general D S Rawat, releasing thestudy.

“But sporadic bird flu out-breaks in different parts of thecountry along with lack of storageand processing facilities and ris-ing prices of feed stocks includ-ing, soymeal and maize, haveseverely hit poultry exports,”Rawat said.

Maize accounts for over halfof total production cost of poultryfeed and the poultry sector con-sumes over 50 percent of totalmaize production in the coun-try.

Broiler meat and table eggsaccount for most of the domesticpoultry market as India is thethird largest egg producer and

fourth largest broiler meat pro-ducer in the world. Besides, theIndian poultry sector has shiftedfrom a live-bird market to achilled/frozen-product market.

Nearly three million tonnesof broiler meat and about 2.86million tonnes of eggs are pro-duced annually in India, saidthe Assocham study.

Southern India accounts formajority of total poultry produc-tion and consumption in thecountry. Andhra Pradesh, Kar-nataka, Kerela, Tamil Nadu andMaharashtra in the west andHaryana, Punjab in north arekey regions in this aspect.

Significant breakthrough in poultry science and technologytogether with breeding of genetically superior birds capable of high production, manufacturing of high-tech poultry equipment are key rea-sons for growth in egg, meatproduction.

There are a plethora of op-portunities for foreign direct in-vestment (FDI) in the poultrysector in areas like breeding,medication, feedstock, verticalintegration and processing butlack of infrastructure like powerand transportation are majorturn off in this aspect, pointsout the Assocham study.

Nearly two crore farmers (in-cluding agrarian farmers) areemployed in poultry industry.Currently, there are about 1,000hatcheries operating across In-dia.

Nokia announcesmillionaire

leagueBangalore: Nokia honoured 11Indian developers whose appli-cations have crossed the mile-stone of one million downloadsworldwide on the Nokia Store.Titled ‘Nokia MillionairesLeague’, these 11 developers areamong just 200 Nokia developersacross the world to have accom-plished this feat.

Nokia also launched an ex-clusive set of applications spe-cially developed by the NokiaMillionaires. The applications,themed across diverse genres,will be available for consumersby October-end on the NokiaStore across Nokia devices.

Nokia earlier this year intro-duced operator billing. This en-sures that application purchasesincrease by 13%, benefiting thedevelopers. Additionally, creditcard payment option is now avail-able in India besides 170 othermarkets globally.

The apps are based on Java,Symbian S40 and S60, and Qt.created across genres games,food and beverages, puzzle andstrategy and education and en-tertainment, the applicationshave been developed based onthe developers’ understandingof the needs and expectationsof app consumers in the country.

Jasmeet Gandhi, head of serv-ices marketing, Nokia India, said,“The mobile application industryis easily the fastest growing inthe world and we have seen someof the talented developers comingfrom India. We are delightedwith the applications developedhere in India and will continueto support and invest in the de-veloper community.”

Nokia is renaming Ovi Storeto Nokia Store. It is now availablein more than 190 countries withnine million downloads per dayglobally and eight million down-loads a week in India. With morethan 50,000 apps available onthe Nokia Store, it represents aneight-fold growth in one year.India is among the top threemarkets for application down-load from the Nokia Store with80% of Nokia Store traffic con-verting into download and 85%of the signed-in users being re-peat visitors, it is easily one ofthe most promising stores fordevelopers and consumers. Thestore has more than 4,00,000new developers joining ForumNokia in the past 12 months andover 2,00,000 Forum Nokia de-velopers in India.

FKCCI welcomesstaggering

holidaysBangalore: The FKCCI has wel-comed the government’s decisionfor staggered holidays to Indus-tries due to the worsening powercrisis in the state.

Federation of KarnatakaChambers of Commerce and In-dustry president J R Bangerastated that almost after a decade,the staggered holiday is beingimplemented to ensure uninter-rupted power supply. This ap-proach instils discipline in thesystem and helps reduce trip-ping due to excessive drawalsduring peak hours.

“There are over 4.1 lakh in-dustries in the state. With powershortage, the industry will sufferproduction loss of more than Rs10 crore per day. Though we haveagreed to the solution it is onlyon the condition that they willgive us quality power throughthe rest of the week, and to revertto normal practice when oncethe situation improves,” he said.

Diabetesawareness camp

Bangalore: The Kesar ChandPoonam Chand Seth CharitableTrust attached to ChakreshwariWomen’s Organisation in asso-ciation with Bangalore DiabeticCentre has organised a free dia-betes awareness camp tomorrow.The camp will be held from 11am till 6 pm at the women’s or-ganisation premises onAnebande road, Jayanagar thirdblock. Contact S D PremakumariThimmappa (9739987729) andAsha D Prabhu (80955 88466)for more details.

PARAMATHMA (U) Puneeth, Aindrita Ray, DeepaSannidhi, Ramya Barna Cauvery (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30pm) Ganesh (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Goverdhan (11.30 am,2.30, 6, 9 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (10am, 12.50, 3.40, 6.30, 9.20 pm)Lakshmi (BTM Layout) (10 am, 1, 5,8 pm) Lakshmi (Tavarekere) (10 am,1.30, 5, 8.30 pm) Manasa (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Navrang(10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15, 7.15, 10 pm)Srinivasa (Gowdanapalya) (11 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Siddheshwwara(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Uma (1 pm, 4, 7 pm) Vajreshwari(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Vi-jayalakshmi (Garudacharpalya) (11am, 2.30 pm) Veeresh (10.30am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Venkatesh-wara (Avalahalli) (11.30 am, 2.30,6, 9 pm)

SAARATHEE (U/A)Darshan, Deepa, RangayanaRaghuAdarsha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Balaji (Tavarekere) (10 am, 1,5, 8 pm) Mohan (11.30 am, 2.30,6.15, 9.15 pm) Nalanda (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.40 pm) Nartaki (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Prasanna

(10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15 7.15 pm) SriLakshmi (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm) Ullas (11.30 am, 2.45, 5.45,8.45 pm) Veerabhadreshwara (10.45am, 1.45, 4.45, 7.45 pm)

LOKAVE HELIDA MAATHIDU (U/A)Ravi Teja, AnithaKailash (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Ranganath (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Vishal (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

MARYADE RAMANNA (U/A)Komal Kumar, NishaAnupama (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Siddalingeshwara (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Uma (10.15am ) Vaibav (11 am, 2.30 pm)

KALLA MALLA SULLA (U)Ravichandran, Ramesh Aravind,Vijay RaghavendraBharathi (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)Gopal (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (3.40 pm)Krishna Triveni (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm)

LIFEU ISHTENE (U/A)Diganth, Samyuktha BelawadiGopalan (10.05 am, 3.45 pm)

THREE MUSKETEERS (U/A)Logan Lerman, Matthew Macfadyen, Ray StevensonInox (Jayanagar) (10.30 am, 3, 5.15,9.45 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10am, 2.40, 5, 9.45 pm) Rex (1.15,5.30, 9.45 pm) Tribhuvan (10.15 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Veeresh (10.20am, 1.20, 4.20, 7.20, 10 pm )

SUPER 8 (U/A)Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka,Kyle ChandlerInox (Jayanagar) (12.45 pm, 3 pm)

Inox (Magrath Road) (10 am, 2.45,9.50 pm)

REAL STEEL (U/A)Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly,Dakota GoyoInox (Magrath Road) (12.15 pm, 7.15pm) Vinayaka (DG Halli) (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (U/A)Rowan Atkinson, Rosamund PikeInox (Magrath Road) (12.20 pm,4.55 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

ENGLISH

MY FRIEND PINTO (U/A) Prateik Babbar, Kalki Koechlin,Manisha Koirala, NaseruddinShah, Divya Dutta Inox (Magrath Road) (10 am, 2.55,5.05, 10 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (9.30pm) Rex (11.15 am, 3.50 , 7.45 pm)

MOD (U)Rannvijay Singh, Ayesha Takia Azmi,Raghuveer Yadav, Tanvi AzmiInox (Magrath Road) (4.50 pm)

MUJHSE FRAAANDSHIP KAROGESaqib Saleem, Saba Azad, NishantDahiya, Tara D'SouzaInox (Jayanagar) (4.05 pm) Inox (Ma-grath Road) (10 am, 2.40, 7.10, 9.30pm)

RASCALS (U/A)Ajay Devgn, Sanjay Dutt, KangnaRanautAbhinay (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Anand (3.30 pm, 7, 10 pm)Apsara (10.45 am, 1.45 pm) Everest(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)

Fame (Lido) (10.50 am, 1.30, 4.10,6.50, 9.30 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.20 am) Inox (Magrath Road)(10.05 am, 7.15 pm) Navrang (10pm) Pushpanjali (Sultanpalya) (11am, 2.15, 6, 9.15 pm) Rex (1.30 pm,9.55 pm) Veeresh (10 pm) VisionCinemas (10 am, 12.15, 2.45, 5, 7.30,9.45 pm)

FORCE (U/A)Genelia D’Souza, John AbrahamBhumika (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (7.15 pm)Narendra (KG Halli) (11.30 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) PVR Cinemas (10.10am, 1.15, 9.20 pm)

SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER (A) Jimmy Sheirgill, Mahie GillVaibhav (11 am, 2 pm) Vinayaka (DJHalli) (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm)

MAUSAM (U/A) Shahid Kapur, Sonam Kapoor,Anupam KherLaxmi (5 pm, 8 pm)

HINDI

TELUGU

OOSARAVELLI (U/A) Tamanaah, Shaam, PrakashEshwari (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (12.55 pm) Ka-pali (10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15, 7.15 pm)

Krishna (Bommanahalli) (11.15 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Pushpanjali(BN Pura) (6 pm, 9.30 pm) Rad-hakrishna (11.15 am) Rajarajeshwari(Mallathahalli) (1.30 pm, 4.30, 7.15,9.30 pm) Rex (10.30 am, 3.55, 6.55pm) Tirumala (10 am, 1.45, 5.30,8.45 pm) Urvashi (10.45 am, 2.30,6, 9.30 pm) Sangeet (11.30 am,2.45, 6.15, 9.30 pm) Vaibhav (SanjayNagar) (10.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm)Vaishnavi (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15,9.15 pm)

MADATHA KAAJA (U/A)Allari Naresh, Sneha UllalPrakash (10 am, 2.30, 6,30, 9.30pm)

DOOKUDU (U/A) Mahesh Babu, SamanthaInox (Jayanagar) (6.15 pm) Mukunda(11 am, 2, 5.30, 8.30 pm) Murali(Gokula) (11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Pallavi(10 am, 1.15, 4.30, 7.45 pm) Rad-hakrishna (11.15 am, 2.30, 6,9.30 pm) Renukaprasanna (10.30am, 1.30, 5.30, 8.30 pm) Venkatesh-wara (KR Puram) (6 pm, 9.30 pm)

AZAAN (A)Sachiin Joshi, Dalip Tahil

Inox (Magrath Road) (9.45 pm)

S Radhakrishna

CITYFriday, October 14, 2011 3CITY EVENTSGeneralThe Mythic Society: Talk onagriculture movement in thecountry by dr t vijaypoonachcha, Dean, social sci-ence department, hampi Kan-nada University Society per-mises, Nupathunga Road,6pm.

Sri Kalabhyrava Kalanike-thana: Kempegowda Jayan-thotsava Minister Bachegow-da, MLA Krishnappa, Sir Ku-mar Chandrashekarnath swa-mi of vishwa vokkaligara ma-hasamsthana muut tp partic-ipate, Town Hall, J C Road,5.30pm.

CulturalDaffodils Toastmaster: Talkon how to set amazing goals,Rotarty Club, Malleswaram,6pm.

Rohini Creations: Release ofseven books author by M NKrishna murthy, ShasakaraBhavana, 5pm.

Eating Out

Breakfast at Midnight @ Cub-bon Pavilion: 15th, 2011. to2:30 a.m. Cubbon Pavilion,ITC Gardenia, No 1, ResidencyRoad Indian signatures, break-fast classics, and desserts cometogether to create a buffet thatstarts when the clock strikesmidnight.

Mexican Fiesta: 15th, 2011.noon to 11:30 p.m. Sports Barand Lounge, Le Meridien, No28, Sankey Road, HighGrounds A special menu,which pairs Mexican cuisinewith beverages. Combos in-clude Tequila with Tacos andBeer with Burittos.

Lunch Buffet @ Applewood:15th, 2011. 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.Applewood, No 760, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar A Globaland Indian lunch buffet, whichincludes soups, starters, maincourse and desserts, priced atRs. 299 plus taxes per head.

New Italian Menu @ Mocha:15th, 2011. 11:30 a.m. to 11:30p.m. Mocha, Lavelle Road,Mocha has introduced a newItalian menu, which pays hom-age to the vibrant flavours andhearty dishes of the country.On offer are dishes like Br-uschette Di Pomodoro e Basil-ico, Peperoncino Della CucinaMessicana, Risotto alla Mi-lanese and Fettucine con Pollo.

New Vegetarian Menu at Nan-do’s: 15th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 11p.m. Nando's , No 1/A, ChurchStreet, Nando’s gives vegetar-ians a reason to smile with ameat free menu. On it aregrilled burgers and wraps, andspecialities like the Veg Es-petada, Veg Platter, and Roast-ed Veg Meal.

Chocofest: 15th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 11 p.m. Baskin Robbins,No 218, New BEL Road, Choco-late lovers are treated to a hostof indulgent flavours like chocochips mousse, chocolate icecream, three cheers chocolate,malted choco fudge, worldclass chocolate, mint milkchocolate chips and more.There's also an offer wherepatrons can take home a familypack on the purchase of aparty pack of any of the choco-late flavors

Festive Sweets @ Caramel:15th, 2011. 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.Caramel, Vivanta by Taj -Whitefield, ITPB, Near BigBazaar, Whitefield Caramelwelcomes this festive seasonwith a choice of hampers ofchocolates and Indian sweets.Prices start from Rs 1250.

Shopping Calvin Klein Fall 2011: 15th,2011. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. CalvinKlein Jeans, The Forum ValueMall, No 62, Whitefield MainRoad, Whitefield CK One Jean-swear presents a new rangesuited for the urban explorer,while the men's range hasbold prints and neon colours,across all its outlets.

The Great Forum ShoppingFestival: 15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to11 p.m. The Forum Mall, No21, Hosur Road, , KoramangalaA month-long shopping festi-val that has great discountsand prizes worth 50 crores forshoppers. Adding to the fes-tivities are dance troupes fromall over the country and livemusic performances.

Wrangler’s Autumn WinterCollection: 15th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 9 p.m. Wrangler, No 777,

100 Feet Road, IndiranagarThe collection depicts the char-acter that denim acquires afterenduring an adrenaline fueledroad trip and shows the rela-tionship it shares with its wear-er.

Swarovski Charm Collection:15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 11:30p.m. Swarovski, 1st Floor,Monarch Plaza, Brigade Road,Symbolic, quirky, feminine oroffbeat, the charm collectionallows wearers to express theirpersonalities through minia-ture works of art.

Samriddhi Offer : 15th, 2011.11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Gitanjali, No3049, 80 Feet Road, Indirana-gar Gitanjali offers discountsof up to 20% on its Diya rangeof jewellery.

The Swadeshi Store's AnnualSale: 15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to6:30 p.m. The Swadeshi Store,No 31 Towards Dairy Circle,Hosur Main Road, Krishnana-gar Indutrial Layout Up to 50%off on the entire range of hand-crafted cotton home furnish-ings and accessories.

Exhibitions Nirantara @ Galleryske: 15th,2011. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.Galleryske, No 2, Berlie Street,Langford Town Galleryskepresents 'Nirantara' by Srini-vasa Prasad. The artist em-ploys materials that highlightthe organic growth cycle oflife, death and continuation.

Painting Exhibition: 15th,2011. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. KynkynyArt, No 148 Embassy Square,Infantry Road, Kynkyny Artpresents an exhibition of paint-ings by Yuvan Bothi Sathuvarand Dhrubajyothi Baral.

Next In Line: 15th, 2011. 11a.m. to 7 p.m. Gallery BlueSpade, The Chancery, 10/6Lavelle Road, This exhibitionfeatures work by 13 womenartists such as Sonia Jose, Dim-ple B Shah, Pooja Iranna, Proy-anka Govil, Ritu Kamath, Shiv-ani Aggarwal and others.

Fiesta of Art: 15th, 2011. 10a.m. to 6 p.m. Gallery ThirdEye, No A-1 Epsilon OfficeBlock, Yemalur Main Road,Yemalur An exhibition ofpaintings by Ashok Kumar GHiremath and Swapan Sarkar.

Nightlife

Kroaknight with Sheridanand Carlton: 15th, 2011. 9 p.m.to 11:30 p.m. Opus In TheCreek, No 2 DoddanekkundiIndustrial Area, WhitefieldRoad, Mahadevapura Singalong with Sheridan and Carl-ton all night. Request for yourfavourite songs and bring alivethe star in you.

Karaoke Night with KJ Val:15th, 2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.Xtreme Sports Bar, 4th Floor,100 Feet Road, IndiranagarTest those vocal chords atkaraoke night with KJ Val.

Fantastic Friday with DJ Arin:15th, 2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.Lounge 579, No 218 SunshineComplex, HRBR 3rd Block ,Kammanahalli Main Road,Kalyannagar DJ Arin spinninghouse this Friday atLounge579.

Desi Night with DJ Hussain:15th, 2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.i-Bar, The Park, No 14/7, MGRoad, Desi tracks with DJ Hus-sain this Friday at i-Bar.

CIBER TO SET UP SEZDELIVERY CENTRE


Bangalore: Ciber Inc, a US-basedIT company, is setting up a spe-cial economic zone (SEZ) deliverycentre in the city with a seatingcapacity of 750.

Ciber, operating in the countrysince 2005, has 1,300 employeesat its two facilities in Bangaloreand Chennai.

“Since we started operationsin the country, we have grownexponentially, adding both em-ployees and key skillsets. We arestrategically expanding our fa-cility here, particularly Banga-lore, as the talent pool is largehere. We will also continue toramp up operations at the Chen-nai centre,” said Dave Peter-schmidt, CEO and one of the di-rectors, Ciber Inc.

The company that has interestsin electronics, automotive,healthcare, telecom, transporta-tion retail, manufacturing, financial services, communica-tions, energy and utilities indus-tries, wants to work in areas of electronics and healthcare,he said. On the global economicdownturn, he said, “We are in aflat spot, whether it is India, the

US, Europe or rest of the world.IT companies will never be in aposition to feel the loss or down-turn. This is because we all focuson price arbitrage and labourarbitrage, something that puts

us on a safe bet. This is the po-sition as of now, but I cannotpredict the future.”

“World over, 30 percent of ITbusiness is going to IT outsourc-ing platforms. This will only in-

crease to 70 percent by 2020.More than challenges, there areopportunities. With this growth,we will also be able to offerenough employment opportu-nities,” he said.

Dave Peterschmidt, CEO, member of board of directors, Ciber Inc. (right) and ClaudePumilia, CFO, announce the opening of CIber SEZ global delivery center in Bangalore.

Footpaths along Metro to bebeautified ahe ad of opening

Aknisree KarthikBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “All roads and foot-paths along the Metro Rail routewill be beautified before its in-auguration on October 20. Allthe footpaths from the mainMetro station on MG road toByyappanahalli will be madeaesthetic,” said deputy mayorHarish. Ahead of Metro inau-guration, the Bruhat BangaloreMahanagara Palike is trying tomake the event a grand one.

The main function will be or-ganised by the Bangalore MetroRail Corporation (BMRCL) withsupport from the BBMP.

In preparation for the grandevent, BBMP authorities hadbanned placement of any cut-outs or banners along the route.The BBMP had made it very clear

that all illegal hoardings andbanners would be remoed andanyone wanting to put up suchdisplay items should get permis-sion from the palike office.

But the roads under the NetroRail route are in a bad shape asthey were dug up for the Metroworkd.

Questioned about this, thedeputy mayor said, “Metro offi-cials have filled 90% of the pot-holes and have repaired theroads. We will inspect all thedevelopment works this weekendalong with the mayor and thecommissioner.”

The main function will takeplace at Manekshaw ParadeGrounds on MG Road and authorities are already levellingthe ground by removing stones from it and doing a gen-eral clean-up.

Preparations going on for the inauguration of commercialoperatios of Metro Rail, at Manekshaw Parade Grounds.

The inauguration has been scheduled for October 20.

Woman cuts, burns self, blameskin, lands them in jail, then dies

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A woman, who had claimedthat elders at her village panchayat hadset her ablaze and cut her throat, diedhere yesterday.

But while recording her statementbefore the police Asha (22), a residentof Noothimadu village of Pavagadataluk of Tumkur district, confessed thatshe had burnt herself and made a gashon her throat to threaten the panchayatelders who were asking her to abort achild out of wedlock.

Asha was shifted to Victoria Hospitalover a fortnight ago after she was foundwith severe burns and an injury to herthroat near her village.

In her statement, Asha told the policethat she got married to Nagaraj, heraunt’s son, three years ago. She con-fessed that she forced her parents toget her married to polio-affected Nagarajto protect the property going out of thefamily.

But even after a year of marriage,they did not have children. When theyconsulted the doctors at Tumkur, theytold the couple that since Nagaraj’spolio had reduced the sperm count,the couple would not be able to conceive.They suggested that they go for artificialinsemination and at a bigger facility.

Being on the border of AndhraPradesh and Karnataka border, she vis-ited Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh fortreatment. But she found out that thetreatment costs Rs 2 lakh and they didnot have enough money. As she madefrequent visits, she befriended a hospitalstaffer, who assured her of the treatmentat a cheaper rate. Her friendship turned

intimate and she conceived after a re-lationship with the hospital employee.

When her in-laws found out, theyforced her to abort the child and senther back to her parents’ house. The in-cident turned the relationship betweenthe two families sour. Even after shereturned to her village, she continuedhaving a relationship with the hospitalemployee and conceived again.

Her brother-in-law Hanumantharaya,who is married to her elder sister Kr-ishnaveni and staying at a nearby village

Cherlapalli, told Asha to abort the childagain. But she refused. Her pregnancywas kept under wraps as her youngersister Lavanya’s marriage had beenfixed to Mallesh from Cheemasandra.

The marriage got over and the familyagain started pressuring Asha again toabort the child. The fight became publicand her new brother-in-law Malleshtoo came to know about it. The twobrothers-in-law arrived at Noothimaduover a fortnight ago and tried to convinceAsha. When she fought over the issue

and the two realised it was beyondthem to have a say, took her beforepanchayat elders, who too asked herto get rid of the child. The panchayatand public humiliation infuriated Asha.She threatened village elders and herbrothers-in-law that she would complainto the police that she was harassed andwould make them cool their heels injail.

She rushed to her house, cut herselfin the throat, doused herself in keroseneand rushed back to the village centre

where the panchayat was still beingheld. She lit a match and threatened toburn herself. But the drama turned tooreal. The matchstick accidentally fellon her saree and flames shot throughher body. Village women rushed to herhelp and put off the fire.

The police, who had got wind of thetrouble, arrived at the village. By then,all the men at Noothimadu had runaway, fearing arrest.

The police shifted her to Tumkurgovernment hospital and from there toVictoria Hospital. As Asha had fallenout of favour with her family, the policehad to care for her for few days, beforeher mother Ravanamma came in.

Asha had given a statement to thedoctors at the time of admission thather relatives and elders from the pan-chayat had tried to kill her. After Ra-vanamma came in, she convinced Ashato tell the truth and record a statementbefore the police.

After Asha died in the early morning,Ravanamma did not even have enoughmoney to shift her body back to the vil-lage. She had gone back to her villageto arrange for money, but no one waswilling to extend any loan, it is learnt.

Asha’s father Govindappa is abscond-ing, fearing arrest. The two brothers-in-law have been arrested on chargesof harassment and murder, and are putbehind bars.

Legal experts told Bangalore Beatthat it would be a while before the twobrothers-in-law could get out of jail asthe offences are nonbailable. Thoughshe has changed her version in thestatement made to the police, it wouldbe considered only at the time of trialin courts. And that will take some time.

Asha being treated after she was brought to Victoria Hospital in Bangalore on September 27. Asha died yesterday morning.

Expo to promotebusiness women


Bangalore: An exhibition ofwomen entrepreneurs, organisedby the Federation of KarnatakaChambers of Commerce and In-dustry (FKCCI) along with theKarnataka State Women’s De-velopment Corporation (KSWDC),was inaugurated by FKCCI pres-ident J R Bangera yesterday. Theexhibition will end today.Bangera said, “FKCCI has beentrying to promote women entre-preneurs not just from cities, butalso rural areas. We have formed35 sub-committees to promotewomen entrepreneurs.” The FKC-

CI and KSWDC have decided toorganise such exhibitions onFKCCI premises every week orat least once a month. It is agood promotional activity forwomen entrepreneurs to displayand sell their ware.

The exhibition has 40 womenentrepreneurs who have comefrom different parts of the state.The products on offer includedpaintings, embroidery, condi-tioners and others. FKCCI work-ing women committee chairper-son Lakshmi Kamath and FKCCIvice-president Shiva Shanumu-gan were present on the occasion.

Indian Air Force bikeexpedition flagged offBangalore: As part of the 79thAir Force Day celebrations, amotor cycle expedition from Ban-galore to Kanyakumari and backorganised was flagged off fromMekhri Circle by air vice marshalM K Malik, senior officer-in-charge administration, yester-day.

The expedition has been or-ganised by the HeadquartersTraining Command.

The expedition is led by oneofficer with 19 airmen drawnfrom various units under training

command. The team will travelthrough Salem, Madurai,Tirunelveli up to Kanyakumariand back in eight days, coveringa distance of approximately 1,500km. The aim is to increase aware-ness about IAF among studentsof various educational institu-tions and to motivate them toconsider a career in IAF, apartfrom inculcating team spiritamong the adventurers. It willalso provide IAF a platform toenhance the image of Indian AirForce.

Air vice-marshal M K Malik, SOA Training Command, flags off a motor cycle expedition from Training Command.The expedition will reach Kanyakumari and back traversing

over 1,500 km.

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NEWSSaturday, October 15, 2011 4

Hamilton ends Red Bull streak, grabs poleYeongam: Lewis Hamilton will startthe Korean Grand Prix from pole po-sition after a brilliant qualifying per-formance Saturday to end the domi-nation of Sebastian Vettel and hisRed Bull team.

Hamilton, who was quickestthroughout the hour, clocked a fastestlap of one minute and 35.820 secondsin his McLaren on his second flyingrun around the Korean InternationalCircuit to leave double world cham-pion Vettel chasing a time he couldnot match.

The Englishman ended up fastestby two-tenths of a second to claimhis first pole for more than a year,the 19th of his career, and answer hiscritics after a troubled run of incon-sistent results and five races withouta podium finish.

Vettel, 24, who had reeled off fivepoles in a row - and 12 in all thisseason - ended up second on thegrid. It was the first time this season

that a Red Bull driver had not takenpole.

Hamilton, the 2008 champion,looked to be back to his flamboyantbest in the car, but his set jaw and si-lence as he completed his lap andclimbed out spoke of a grim determi-nation to finish the job in Sunday's55-lap race.

In a post-qualifying photo sessionalongside Vettel, Hamilton stared intothe middle distance and barely spoke.Afterwards, in the mandatory inter-views, he was asked how he felt.

"I'm happy, I'm very happy," hesaid in a downbeat voice. "I'm veryproud of what the team has beenable to achieve over the last few races,but tomorrow is the day that reallycounts."

The 26-year-old's team chief MartinWhitmarsh echoed his views.

"We're here to win races, but poleposition feels good if you haven't hadit for a long time," Whitmarsh said.

"I'm sure this will cheer Lewis up,not as much as a race win would,but to be on pole, any driver wantsthat. Regarding the race, it's a littlebit of an unknown how the tyres willsurvive tomorrow."

Vettel, who sealed his second worldchampionship in Japan last weekend,said he was happy to have preservedhis tyres for the race.

"I think McLaren were very, verycompetitive yesterday. They were afair chunk ahead of everybody, in-cluding us, but once again we pushedthem very hard in qualifying and gotclose, closer than we expected," hesaid.

"Also, we saved all our prime tyresso I think we are in a good position.Tyre wear will be crucial."

Hamilton's McLaren teammate andcompatriot Jenson Button, the 2009champion, was third fastest aheadof Australian Mark Webber in the sec-ond Red Bull and the two Ferraris of

Brazilian Felipe Massa and two-timechampion Spaniard Fernando Alon-so.

"It's not perfect, but Lewis has beenpretty great all weekend, tough tohold on to," Button said.

"I'm reasonably happy, but I reallyhaven't got a clue what's going tohappen in the race regarding tyredegradation on high fuel, so we'llsee." Germany's Nico Rosberg wasseventh for Mercedes, ahead of Russ-ian Vitaly Petrov of Renault and thetwo Force India cars driven by Britishrookie Paul Di Resta and GermanAdrian Sutil.

On a welcome dry day after a down-pour on Friday, the opening sectionof the session saw plenty of early ac-tion, dominated again by McLarenwith Hamilton outpacing Buttonahead of Petrov's Renault and Alonso.Vettel was down in 11th as Red Bullrestricted tyre use to one flying lap.

The session saw the usual strugglers

and claimed an early scalp with theexit of Brazilian veteran Rubens Bar-richello of Williams, trumped in thefinal seconds by his teammateVenezuelan Pastor Maldonado, whosurvived.

Out with Barrichello went the Lotuspair Finn Heikki Kovalainen and Ital-ian Jarno Trulli, followed by the twoVirgins of German Timo Glock andBelgian Jerome d'Ambrosio.

Seven time champion MichaelSchumacher, 42, was eliminated inthe second round of qualifying as theForce India cars of Paul di Resta andAdrian Sutil pushed their way intothe top 10 shootout, and the Germanlegend will start the race from 12th.As the final session unfolded, it wasHamilton who shone first as hisMcLaren danced, fizzed and twitchedto an early fastest time of 1:36.130. Itwas the benchmark and in successionButton, Webber and Vettel tried tobeat it, but failed.

Bangaloretechie setsher ex‑BF

ablazePune: A Bangalore-based soft-ware engineer allegedly set herformer boyfriend and his fianceeon fire in their sleep on Thursday.The Maharashtra police has sentteams to Delhi and Bangalore toarrest Anushree Kundra oncharges of attempt to murder.

The victims Nimesh and Juhisurvived the attack with Juhihaving 98 per cent burns.

The incident occurred onThursday morning whenAnushree went to Nimesh'shouse in Pune. The two were al-legedly involved in a live-in re-lationship 3 years ago.

Juhi told the police thatAnushree was upset after herparents opposed her plans tomarry Nimesh. Nimesh's engage-ment to Juhi is said to have an-gered Anushree further.

Mamataaddresses

rally inNaxal town

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Min-ister Mamata Banerjee is ad-dressing a public rally in Jhar-gram. This is her second visit tothe the Naxal-affected area aftershe became the Chief Ministerand the first after the Maoistoffer for truce.

On October 4, Maoists hadlaid out their preconditions fora ceasefire in Junglemahal inWest Bengal.

In a press release, they saidthat if the government agrees"in letter and spirit" to stop jointforce operations in Junglemahal,the Naxals will also cease theuse of arms for a month.

Ahead of her colossal victoryin the West Bengal elections inMay this year, Ms Banerjee hadpromised that central and stategovernment security forceswould be withdrawn from thethree districts which make upJunglemahal - West Midnapore,Bankura and Purulia. In July thisyear, she visited the region andpromised development, whileurging Naxals to abandon vio-lence and fight for the countryinstead.

But lately, with the Maoiststargeting her own party, MsBanerjee has been indicatingthat her patience is running out.Last month, she claimed thatMaoists were trying to kill her. Itwas denied by the insurgents inan open letter.

ʻWomen must fight to prevent

harassmentʼBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Always complainingabout sexual harassment is notthe solution for women’s prob-lems, said eminent educationistGeetha Ramanathan, while at-tending a seminar on Preventionof Sexual Harassment at WorkPlaces, here today.

The seminar was organisedby the National Commission for Women along with CanaraBank.

Dr Geetha Ramanathan said,“Sexual harassment at workplaces is not new. But the moot

question is how they face it andfight to prevent it.”

“Women should behave im-peccably at work places and theirattitude should be appropriate.Only then can they prevent ha-rassment targeted against them,”she said.

Canara Bank chairman andmanaging director S Raman said,“Empowerment of women is cru-cial for social empowerment.Women should be treated equallyas they are now breaking manybarriers and are turning profes-sionals in fields that were hithertonot thought of.”

Gulbarga accident kills 8, injures 6Bangalore Beat Bureau

Gulbarga: Eight persons, whowere returning from a funeral,died and six others were injuredwhen a lorry hit their vehicle onthe outskirts of Jewargi last night.

The accident occurred on Na-tional Highway 218 when thevan they were travelling in wasparked on the road side for achange of punctured tyre. The

lorry hit the van from behindkilling the eight on the spot. Thelorry driver and cleaner aban-doned their vehicle and ran awayfrom the spot immediately afterthe accident.

Of the six injured, three are said to be in critical condi-tion.

All the victims are from a singlefamily, and were returning afterattending a funeral at Yadgir

when the accident occurred. They were all residents of

Bidanoor village in Afzalpurtaluk.

The deceased have been iden-tified as Subhadramma (65),Hanumantha Myakeri (50),Marevva Shailappa Halli (65),Sharanammma B Myakeri (45),Sharanappa (42), Hanumantha(50), Ratnabhai Hireoor (40) andSabavva alias Mahadevi (60).

Annathreatens

vow of silence

New Delhi: Anti-corruption cru-sader Anna Hazare on Saturdaythreatened that he would take avow of silence as part of his cam-paign for the Jan Lokpal Bill.

While Hazare said that hewould be skipping the anti-Con-gress campaign across UttarPradesh, his tirade against theparty did not seem to be over.

The veteran social activist saidthat appeals did not seem towork with the Congress.

It was announced earlier onSaturday by key Team Annamember Arvind Kejriwal thatHazare would not campaignagainst the Congress in the UPpoll.

He said, "Anna wants to giveUPA time till the winter session."

The announcement cameamidst allegations by Congressleader Digvijaya Singh that Haz-are was turning anti-Congress.

Later, responding to Kejriwal'sstatement, Digvijaya said, "IfAnna protests in UP then we(Congress leaders) too will sitwith him and protest."

Marutiworkerscontinueprotest

New Delhi: The strike by Marutiworkers at its Manesar plant en-tered its 9th day on Saturday.The workers have now agreedto abide by the Punjab andHaryana High Court order toprotest at least 100 metres outsidethe factory walls.

The company on Friday alsosuspended production at its Gur-gaon plant for 48 hours.

The labour agitation intensi-fied on Friday as workers earlier,defied the Punjab and HaryanaHigh Court order by protestingwithin 100 metres of the plant.

The Punjab and Haryana HighCourt had asked the workers tokeep their protest 100 metresaway from the plant.

Police sources had said work-ers who have been protestinginside will have to vacate thepremises. The police were tryingto cripple the agitation by pre-venting the supply of food andwater to protesters.

The Employees union isadamant and said that the strikewill continue even if police resortto action.

Will go toHC: Lawyer

Continued from page 1Naik alleged that political rivals,within and outside the BJP, havebeen funding private com-plainants Sirajin Basha and K NNagaraj to pursue the cases.

He said, “Look at the financialcondition of the two advocateswho have filed the cases againstYeddyurappa. It is quite evidentthat Yeddyurappa’s political ri-vals have been funding them.How is it possible for the twolawyers to hire top-notch advo-cates from the Supreme Court?”

6 die in accidentKarwar: Six persons died and16 were injured when their busfell into a gorge at Kodlagaddeat Ankola taluk this morning.

The bus driver lost control asthe condition of the road wasbad due to continuous rains overthe last few weeks. The KSRTCbus that was heading to Ankolarolled over several times andwas completely damaged due tothe accident.

All the injured were shifted tothe Ankola Government Hospi-tal.

Rag‑picker sustainsburns, dies


Bangalore: A rag-picker, whohad suffered burns in a mysteri-ous fire last week, died todayafter rejecting treatment.

Subbamma and three otherrag-pickers, who normallyworked at a dump yard behindManish Industries at By-atarayanapura, had suffered se-vere burns when paper and othermaterial they had used to sleephad caught fire on October 4evening. At that time, the policecould not ascertain whether itwas a case of arson or accidentalfire.

Subbamma, Ananthalakshmi,Bhagyalakshmi and Chandrakalawere sleeping on a bed madeout of garbage around 4 in theevening when they suffered

burns. When they started cryingwith pain, passersby rushed totheir rescue and shifted them toVictoria Hospital.

All of them were admitted,while the three others were dis-charged on October 6 after treat-ment as they had suffered lesserburns.

Since Subbamma had sus-tained higher percentage of burnsshe was still being treated at thehospital.

But on October 9, she refusedtreatment and got herself dis-charged against medical advice.She went back to her house atSapthagiri slum in Sreenagar.The doctors had given her med-icines and ointments she had toapply over her wounds. But sheneglected the prescription anddied this morning.

UPA, BJP govts lack direction: Ex‑CJI


Bangalore: Whoever andwhichever party comes to power,it lacks direction. They don’thave visionary policies to takethe country forward, said to To-day whoever comes to hold pow-er are completely directless andthey don’t have policy to takecountry in right direction, saidM N Venkatachaliaha, formerChief Justice of India.

Speaking at an one-day inter-active session on “The Way For-

ward, the Administration thathas got into Quagmire”, organ-ised by the Janata Dal (U), hesaid, “The Congress-led UPA gov-ernment has got itself in variousscams. The government has lostfocus on welfare and develop-ment of the country. Not justUPA at the Centre, even the BJPat the state, is to be blamed forthe sorry state of the people,”he said.

“The sufferers are the commonpeople. Every time, Gandhianslike Anna Hazare and social ac-

tivists have to remind the gov-ernments and the people. TheBJP government in the state toohas lost its direction. Does ithave any welfare policy for thepeople?” he asked.

S Hari Krishna Singh, formerminister and Planning Commis-sion member of Bihar govern-ment, JD(U) president Nadagou-da, former chief conservator offorests Parameshappa, JD(U)general secretary G K C Reddy,former MLA Dharamappa andothers were present.

Power cuts all over,thanks to AP strike

Mumbai: Hospitals and indus-tries are dealing with severe prob-lems due to the power crisis trig-gered by the coal shortage. Farm-ers, too, have been grapplingwith power cuts during the cru-cial rabbi crop season.

With days to go before Diwali,Maharashtra has been grapplingwith 4 to 7 hours of power cutsevery day. All equipment at thethane hospitals are now func-tioning on the generator andUPS which the doctor himselfsays is a potentially risky situa-tion.

The Telengana heat is beingfelt across the country. With45000 coal miners of AndhraPradesh on a strike, several statesare facing a huge power crunchdue to coal shortage.

West Bengal, Delhi, Andhra,and Maharashtra are particularlyhit with 29 coal plants runningon precariously low coal suppliesand an overall power shortageof 8000 MW.

In Maharashtra, the urban ar-eas are facing power cuts for 4-7hours while people in rural areashave to live without electricity

for 16 hours.In West Bengal's capital

Kolkata, power cuts can be ashigh as five hours.

"Power cuts are very haz-ardous. Customers have to waitfor long hours; I have generators,but it won't run my air condi-tioner," said a shopkeeper inKolkata. Minister for Power SushilKumar Shinde, meanwhile, pro-vides some hope that the thingswill get better saying that Diwaliwill be celebrated with light andthe situation will improve in afew days.

But for now, five plants of theNational Thermal Power Corpo-ration (NTPC) have coal for justa couple of days. To tide overthe immediate crisis the Cabinethas allowed NTPC and otherfirms to import coal.

While many states are facinga severe power crisis, Gujaratseems to be comfortable. Thestate has sold 13 million units ofelectricity to the national gridfor supply to other states andhas enough stock to sustain it atleast for the month if the presentpower crisis continues.

M N Venkatachaliaha, former Chief Justice of India speaks at an one-day interactive sessionon “The Way Forward, the Administration that has got into Quagmire”, organised by the

Janata Dal (U), at Gandhi Bhavan in Bangalore today.

How Kerala templetreasure is recorded

Thiruvananthapuram: Theprocess of scientific documentationof the treasure at Kerala's Sree Pad-manabhaswamy Temple will beginon November 9. This was decidedtoday at a meeting of the expertpanel appointed by the SupremeCourt.

The documentation will involvedigital archiving of temple antiques,preparing a computerised data baseand recording 3-D images of thetreasure, reportedly worth 100,000crores.

While Kerala State Electronic Cor-poration will implement the docu-mentation process, ISRO's VikramSarabhai Space Centre will providethe technical expertise.

The state government will bearthe cost of the documentationprocess. The Supreme Court hadordered a detailed scientific docu-mentation of the temple treasureafter a local activist in Thiruvanan-thapuram accused the trust whichgoverns the temple of mismanage-ment. The temple trust controlledby the erstwhile Travancore royalfamily.

"We have decided to start thedocumentation process on Novem-ber 9. The preparedness for thiswill be assessed at another meetingon November 4. We are hopefulthat documentation will start onNovember 9 itself," said CV Anand-abose, the chairman of the SupremeCourt-appointed expert panel.

Five of the six underground vaultsat the 16th-century temple have sofar been explored. They have de-livered unimaginable treasure, muchof it allegedly donated by devoteesled by the royal family of Travan-core.

The Supreme Court has ruledthat the ornaments, cash and golddiscovered at the temple need tobe digitally archived before the lastsecret chamber is forced open. VaultB has not been touched so far. Localsuperstition warns of bad luck if itis entered. The Supreme Court hassaid that while it will be mindful oftradition and the sentiments ofdevotees, it will decide when thevault should be opened at its owndiscretion and not in consultationwith priests.

Rupert Murdoch heckled atCalifornia education forum

San Francisco: Protesters from the OccupyWall Street movement heckled News Corp.CEO Rupert Murdoch during a speech atan education forum Friday, accusing themedia mogul of trying to profit from publiceducation.

Activists repeatedly interrupted Murdochas he gave a keynote speech at a downtownSan Francisco hotel about how technologycould help transform the nation's publiceducation system.

"Equality in education, not privatiza-tion!" one woman shouted as securityguards escorted her out of the ballroomof the Palace Hotel, which hosted the Na-tional Summit on Education Reform.

"Corporations own all the media in theworld. Why should they not own all theeducation as well?" activist Joe Hill yelledsarcastically. Hill, who was dressed as the"Count" character from the TV show"Sesame Street," also was pushed out ofthe meeting room.

Murdoch appeared unfazed."It's OK, a little controversy makes every-

thing more interesting," he said to audienceapplause before continuing his half-hourspeech.

About half a dozen hecklers were es-corted out of the hotel after they disruptedMurdoch's speech but said they were notarrested. They joined about two dozenprotesters holding signs and chanting"Occupy Wall Street! Occupy SesameStreet!" outside the conference.

Speaking outside, Hill accused Murdochand other corporate leaders of trying to"use the economic crisis to further privatizeeducation and divert more public fundsinto private corporate interests."

Murdoch appeared as part of a two-day education forum sponsored by theFoundation for Excellence in Education,a group chaired by former Florida Gov.Jeb Bush. The organization champions

school vouchers, charter schools, per-formance pay for teachers and digitallearning.

"We need to tear down an educationsystem designed for the 19th century andreplace it with one suited for the 21st,"Murdoch said during his morning ad-dress.

"You don't get change by plugging incomputers at schools designed for the in-dustrial age," Murdoch said. "You get itby developing technology that rewritesthe rules of the game by centering learningaround the learner."

Last year, News Corp. acquired WirelessGeneration, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based com-pany that provides software and servicesto K-12 schools. In August, New York'scomptroller rejected a $27 million contractwith the educational technology companybecause of the phone-hacking scandal in-volving News Corp.'s British newspapers.

On Thursday afternoon, more than 100protesters, mostly San Francisco teachers,picketed outside the hotel, protesting Mur-doch's presence at the education confer-ence.

Advaniyatra hit by

'cash forcoverage'

New Delhi: The BJP has tried tobribe the press for favourablecoverage of LK Advani's anti-corruption Jan Chetna yatra. En-velopes containing currencynotes of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 de-nomination were handed out tojournalists at a press conferencein Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh BJP ChiefPrabhat Jha has suspended SatnaBJP media in charge, ShyamGupta. He had organised the me-dia interaction in Satna onWednesday giving Advani Yatraschedule, where cash was al-legedly distributed to journalists.Advani had said on Saturdaythat Prabhat Jha will look intothe matter and strict action willbe taken.

BJP leader LK Advani's 38-daylong Jan Chetna Yatra that beganon Tuesday will cover 12,000 kmand 100 districts across the coun-try.

The yatra that began from Bi-har will conclude in Delhi onNovember 20 in the form of amassive rally.

Equality in education, not privatization.

Corporations own all themedia in the world. Why

should they not own all theeducation as well? an

activist yelled

S Radhakrishna

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