Hearing inSampangi

case beginsBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The trial in the case of BJP MLA YS a m p a n g i ,who has beenaccused of re-ceiving bribeat the Legisla-tors’ Home in2009, came upfor hearing be-fore theL o k a y u k t aspecial courttoday.

The defenceadvocate, rep-r e s e n t i n gS a m p a n g i ,was intendingto cross-ques-

tion the main witness and complainant in thecase, Farooq.

In the morning, special judge N K Sudheen-dra Rao began the hearing. Farooq, deposing be-fore the court, narrated how he was beingpestered by the MLA to pay bribes. He com-plained to the Lokayukta police, who caughtSampangi redhanded on the premises of Leg-islators’ Home on January 28, 2009.

Farooq gave the account that has already beenmentioned in the Lokayukta police chargesheetand stood by the version. His statement wasrecorded at the City Civil Court Complex for 40minutes.

Legal experts told Bangalore Beat that thecross-questioning is crucial and if Farooq failsto give convincing answers, the case would fallthrough.

Sensex up as marketscheer Euro

bailoutMumbai: The BSE benchmark surged more than600 points in the opening trade on global ral-ly. This rally is post the European Union mem-bers agreed in its Summit to raise the eurozonebailout fund to about Euro 1 trillion and are alsogoing to recapitalize banks. EU struck a deal withprivate lenders to accept a 50 per cent on theirGreek bonds.

Societe Generale said the the long-term ver-dict on the deal would come from the bond mar-kets, rather than the currencies space. "It is pre-mature to talk about containing the crisis whenItalian 10-year yields were still dangerously closeto the 6 per cent mark and the positive initial re-action in currencies is probably the result of verylow expectations," he added.

The 30-share BSE Sensex shot up 545 pointsto 17,833.82 and the 50-share NSE Nifty rose 164points to 5,365.25.

Hindalco shot up 10.5 per cent. Tata Steel,Sterlite, JSPL and Tata Motors gained 6-8 percent. ONGC, Infosys, ICICI Bank, L&T, TCS, AxisBank, SBI, SAIL, Dr Reddy's Labs, DLF and JPAssociates were upi between 3 per cent and 5 percent. The CNX Midcap Index rallied 130 pointsat 7,203. About eight shares gained for everyshare falling.

Apolloy Tyres and Exide moved up 4 per centeach.

IRB Infra, Lanco Infra, NHPC, Jain Irrigationand Hindustan Zinc jumped 2.5-3.5 per cent.

Rajiv killers'plea hearing

adjournedChennai: The Madras High Court today ad-journed the petition hearing of the three convictson death row in the Rajiv Gandhi assassinationcase. The next hearing will take place on No-vember 29. The convicts are seeking commu-tation of capital punishment.

The court had, on August 30, stayed foreight weeks the execution of Murugan, Santhanand Perarivalan and admitted their pleas forcommuting their death sentence to life term.

After hearing arguments by senior counselRam Jethmalani, who appeared for the threeconvicts, the court issued notices to the Centre,the state government and police.

The high court stay came as a major relief forthe three convicts as their execution was thenfixed for September 9.

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Y Sampangi

BJP state president K S Eshwarappa today flags off five raths for the yatra that will go around the city spreading the anti-corruption message of senior party leader L K Advani for the next three days before he arrives in Bangalore on

Sunday. The raths took off from in front of BJP office, Jagannath Bhavan, at Malleswaram.

The rath forceS Radhakrishna

State govt will limit Rajyotsava awards

to 50 this yearD L Harish

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The state government has tak-en a decision to limit the number of Kan-nada Rajyotsava award winners to 50,come what may.

The award selection committee, head-ed by chief minister D V SadanandaGowda, met at the Karnataka Power Cor-poration Ltd offices on Race Course roadon Wednesday to decide on the awardslist.

The first thing that the meeting did wasto put aside all the recommended entries.Even those coming from former chiefminister B S Yeddyurappa, other ministerand MLAs were straight away taken off thelist. The rest were taken up only on the ba-sis of merit.

The government has received 4,000 ap-plications for the 50 awards, sources toldBangalore Beat. The award carries Rs 1lakh cash, 20 gm gold medal and aplaque. The award winners also becomeeligible for ‘G’ category residential sites.

The lure has made the aspirants to pullall strings to get themselves selected.Some have even gone to the extent of get-ting the recommendations from as manyas 10 ministers and MLAs. But to give cred-it to the chief minister, he has chosen tonot take any of them into consideration.

To avoid lobbying and last-minute ad-ditions to the list that are being present-ed on Monday, the Kannada Rajyotsavaday, the list is likely to be announced onlylate in the evening tomorrow or on Sun-day. The winners will be intimated by thegovernment to attend the function and re-ceive the award.

Last year, the list bloated to include over180 award winners, with many being

added at the last minute. The state government has taken an im-

portant decision to stop the practice of as-pirants applying for the awards withtheir biodata and additional recommen-dations from the elected representatives,influential officers and swamijis.

Henceforth, the government will onlyconsider the shortlists from differentacademies, literary, drama, yakshaganaetc, and then draw up the final list fromthem.

Another important decision is to con-sider only those who are above 50 yearsof age, except in the sports category. Dis-trict wise representation too will be giv-en importance, sources said.

Wednesday’s meeting was attended byKannada and culture minister Govind MKarajol, energy minister Shobha Karand-laje, Kannada and culture department sec-retary Basavaraj, director Manu Baligar,among others.

BJP TO SOON ASKASHOK TO QUITParty waiting for Advaniʼs yatra to pass throughstate; Lokayukta police collect all info on lands

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The BJP may ask home andtransport minister R Ashok to resign soon af-ter senior party leader L K Advani finishes offthe state leg of his Jan Chetana Yatra in thestate on November 1, sources told BangaloreBeat.

Ashok has been accused of denotifyingtwo pieces of land at Lottegollahalli on theoutskirts of the city with the help of then chiefminister B S Yeddyurappa. The case has beenfiled by a former employee off VisvesvarayaIron and Steel Ltd, Jayakumar Hiremath, be-fore the Lokayukta court.

Lokayukta special judge N K SudheendraRao has ordered the Lokayukta police to in-vestigate the case and submit a report by No-vember 5. The judge had also asked the po-lice officials to take up the case under Sec-tion 356 which necessitates filing of an FIRbefore taking up the case.

Some within the BJP and the entire op-position were of the view that it would be em-barrassing for the government if a sitting min-

ister that too handling the home portfolio un-der which the police falls would have to ap-proach courts for anticipatory bail in the case.

The BJP and party state president K S Es-hwarappa have been defending Ashok, say-ing that the FIR did not prove his involvementin the case and they were only allegations.“The minister would fight the case legally

and come out clean,” he said today beforeunveiling raths that would go around Ban-galore before Advani’s visit to the city.

But Ashok would ultimately be asked toput in his papers, as the ruling party BJP isalready facing intense embarrassment in theface of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappaand former ministers Katta SubramanyaNaidu and Ess Enn Krishnaiah Shetty land-ing behind bars.

The decision to delay the resignation is toavoid embarrassment to Advani, who iron-ically is campaigning against corruption.Ashok’s resignation would come by earlynext week, the sources said.

The Lokayukta police, which has taken upthe investigation, collected all the documentsrelated to denotification of lands in the casefrom the Bangalore Development Authorityand revenue department. The police paid avisit on Wednesday and took the docu-ment, it is learnt. The Lokayukta policehave formed two teams to probe the case.

The thought within the BJP now is to askAshok to resign before November 5 before fur-ther embarrassment, they said.

R Ashok

Accused IAS officer in review panelBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: There have been al-legations of corruption and in-volvement in illegal mining cas-es against one of the officerswho is part of the review com-mittee formed by the state gov-ernment to go through the reporton illegal mining filed by formerLokayukta Justice SantoshHegde.

B S Ramprasad, who is theprincipal secretary in the com-merce and industries ministry, isfacing the charges on the verysame counts that he has been re-viewing.

The state government hasformed the committee under ad-ditional chief secretary K Jairaj,which is ready with the reportrunning into 315 pages. He hasmade 155 recommendationsagainst the officials, who havebeen known to be part of illegalmining.

Jairaj has made recommen-dations against 617 governmentofficials, of the 787 mentioned inthe Lokayukta report, which alsolists 20 IAS, IPS and IFS officersand a host of Karnataka Admin-

istrative Service officials.Questions are now being

raised about the advisability ofhaving one of the “guilty” offi-cers, read Ramprasad, in thecommittee.

Meanwhile, Justice MohanKumar, who was investigatingthe coal supply scandal from2002-09 submitted the report tochief minister D V SadanandaGowda today.

Three officers – GangaramBaderia, K E Shivalinga Murthyand K S Prabhakar – have raiseda banner of revolt, saying the rec-ommendations made by the re-view committee smacks of

favouritism and discrimination.Of the recommendations,

Jairaj has also advised the gov-ernment about instituting a sin-gle-window system for miningactivities as a step towards in-creasing transparency in themining operations.

Sources said there has been in-tense heart burn among the of-ficials, against whom the reviewcommittee has recommendedaction. They have pointed outthat the committee chief Jairajhimself has been facing chargesof corruption.

Specifically, they point out tothe awarding of contract in the Rs

132 crore desilting operationwhen he was Bangalore Ma-hanagara Palike commissioner.The issue had even been raisedon the floor of the assembly byCongress MLA D K Shivakumar.Dharam Singh was the chiefminister in the Congress-JD(S)coalition government then. Butonce the government fell and theJD(S) to form an alliance with theBJP, the issue was put on thebackburner, they add. The MLAhad demanded a CoD inquiryinto the misappropriation.

They say Jairaj was also ac-cused of illegalities while grant-ing coal washing contract to in-dustrialist M A M Ramaswamy.He was then the principal secre-tary to the energy department.The size of the contract to washcoal before being used at theRaichur Thermal Power Stationran into Rs 200 crore, they add.

Now, Jairaj accuses the formerLokayukta of not resorting tonorms of natural justice beforerecommending action. Even thereview committee, while prepar-ing the report, had not given achance for the officers to ex-plain themselves, they point out.

Bannurmath mustbe Lokayukta: CM

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Chief minister D V Sadanan-da Gowda is trying to bulldoze oppositionin appointing new Lokayukta and press-ing for former Kerala High Court judge SR Bannurmath for the important post.

Despite allegations of Justice Bannur-math possessing a house, constructed ona civic amenities site in Judicial Layout,the chief minister has tried to defend hisdecision. Today, he said, “We cannotkeep looking for those who don’t have anyallegations against them. There is boundto be some allegations against all.”

But leaders of opposition in the as-

sembly Siddaramaiah and legislativecouncil Motamma, who are part of thepanel to decide on the Lokayukta, haveasked the government to convene a meet-ing to decide the next corruption watch-dog. But the chief minister has shot itdown, saying there has been no prece-dent. The last time too, when Shivaraj Patilwas made the Lokayukta, the two oppo-sition leaders had recommendedSupreme Court Justice R V Ravindranfor the post. Just after a few days of as-suming office, Justice Patil, who was fac-ing allegations of owning more than oneresidential site, had to resign.

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pm) Tribhuvan (4.30 pm, 7.30 pm)

DAMADAMM (U/A)Himesh Reshammiya, Sonal Se-hgal, Purbi JoshiCinemax (7.40 pm) Cinepolis (10.05am, 9.25 pm)

SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTERJimmy Sheirgill, Mahie Gill, Ran-deep HoodaAbhiman (2, 5, 8 pm)

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HEGDE EXHORTS ALLTO DONATE EYES1Bangalore: And they lived hap-pily ever after... This familiarending does not have to be lim-ited to fairytales. You can makethis a reality in someone’s life –by donating your eyes. As partof World Eyesight Day, ApolloHospital conducted an awarenessprogramme with formerLokAyuktaJustice Santosh-Hegdeto spread the message thatone can bequeath eyes by takinga pledge, resolving to donatethem after death.

Donated human eyes help pre-serve and restore sight throughcorneal transplantation. Infantsborn with cloudy corneas gainsight from transplantation. Do-nated eyes also aid supportingvaluable research and educationpurposes.

Encouraging the noble act ofeye donation, Dr UmapathyPa-nyala, COO, Apollo Hospital,Bangalore, said, “Impairment ofvision threatens one’s ability tobe physically or financially self-sufficient. More than 90 percentof corneal transplant operationssuccessfully restore vision inpeople suffering from blindnessdue to corneal problems. This isone act which does not requireyou to think twice before com-mitting to it.”

“Anybody from the age of onecan be an eye donor. There is no

maximum age limit. Poor eye-sight and age make no difference.Those who wear spectacles, thosewho have had cataract surgery,diabetics and those who are hy-pertensive can also donate eyes.Even a person who is blind fromretinal or optic nerve diseasecan donate eyes, provided thecornea is clear. However, thosewho have died of unknown caus-es, or due to infectious rabies,syphilis, infectious hepatitis, sep-ticemia, and AIDS cannot bedonors,” said Dr ShaliniShetty,consultant ophthalmologist,Apollo Hospital Bangalore.

Justice Hegde, who pledgedto donate his eyes, called out tothe people to follow suit. “Re-member, you are helping some-one in need and this can lead toonly good! Eye donation gives agift of sight to others. There arestill many people who either donot understand the importanceof eye donation or have misun-derstandings and superstitiousbeliefs about this notable gesture.Some of the reasons for peopleshying away from taking thisstep include lack of awareness& objection from members ofthe family,” he said.

Apollo Hospitals, through thiscampaign, aspires to educateand motivate more number ofpeople to donate eyes. Participants at the World Eyesight Day organised by Apollo Hospital Bangalore.

Global award forNarayana Nethralaya

ophthalmologistBangalore: Dr Mathew KurianKummelil, ophthal-mologist (cataract andrefractive lens sur-gery), NarayanaNethralaya, has beenawarded the presti-gious ORBIS Medal atthe Congress of the Eu-ropean Society ofCataract and RefractiveSurgeons (ESCRS) inVienna, Austria recent-ly.

The Orbis medal was awardedto Dr Mathew for the best pres-entation (paper or e-poster) atthe ESCRS Congress on prevent-ing or treating avoidable blind-ness in developing countries –in line with the mission of theinternational sight-saving charityOrbis International.

The medal was presented byRobert Walters, chairman of OrbisInternational, at the ESCRS con-ference for the work titled “Telesurgical training to enhance safe-ty and effectiveness of phaco-training”. India has the largestnumber of cataract blind in the

world. Few surgeons performphacoemulsificationas most perform man-ual cataract surgery.The complication rateof phacoemulsifica-tion during supervisedtraining is reported at8 percent. Anecdotal-ly, there is a high rateof complicationsamong surgeons whohave recently complet-

ed training. “We at NarayanaNethralaya, Phacotraining andSurgical Skills Training Centre,demonstrated the feasibility ofhaving an experienced preceptorat a tertiary teaching hospital,remotely supervising phacoemul-sification in a community hos-pital using real time video stream-ing with two-way audio link. Thesurgical videos were compressedand transmitted while maintain-ing a telephone link. The chal-lenges for this innovative use oftechnology were the need to min-imize the latency in the videolink, audio-video synchronisa-tion,” he said.

IBS Alumni Federationawards prof, students

Bangalore: In its pursuit for pro-moting quality in higher educa-tion, the IBS Alumni Federation(IBSAF), gave away award of ex-cellence in teaching to Prof RHarish and the award of excel-lence in summer internship proj-ect (SIP) to students RobinJoseph and Anurga Soin.

While the award for excel-lence in teaching carries a cashprize of Rs 1 lakh and a certifi-cate, the award for excellencein SIP carries a cash prize of Rs10,000 and certificates.

Ravi Warriar, Tree House Ed-ucation & Accessories Ltd, gaveaway the awards to the threerecipients at a special event atthe IBS-Bangalore campus onKanakapura road. Anil Rego,CEO and founder, Right Hori-zons, and Siddharth Nair, CEO,Phinnacle, two alumni of IBS-Bangalore, were present.

The selection for the awardof best teacher was based on anumber of criteria, includingnumber of credit courses taught,effectiveness in the academicdelivery and minimum cut off

in students’ feedback.Prof R Harish said, “I am

deeply humbled to receive thehonour. I thank my faculty col-leagues, who have been a con-stant source of guidance and

inspiration. The students have con-

tributed immensely in honingmy skills.” Lata Chakravarthy,director, IBS-Bangalore, too waspresent.

Prof R Harish, IBS Bangalore (centre), receives the ‘IBSAFaward for excellence in teaching’ which carries a cash prize

ofRs 1 lakh from Ravi Warriar, Tree House Education & Accessories Ltd (left), at IBS Bangalore campus.Anil Rego,CEO & Founder, Right Horizons and Siddharth Nair, CEO,Pinnacle, and LataChakravarthy, director, IBS Bangalore

(right), were also present.

Infy China signs MoU with Dalian High‑Tech Zone Bangalore: Infosys Technologies (China)Co. Ltd has announced that it has signedanMoU with the Dalian High-tech Zone(DHTZ) Governmentto establish a branchcompany of Infosys Technologies (China)in DHTZ.

The branch will focus on software de-velopment and outsourcing business inthe region.Infosys Technologies (China)and DHTZ will work towards developmentand innovation intheDalianHigh-tech in-dustry. The MoUmarks a milestone in In-fosys’ cooperation efforts with a provincialgovernment in China, and will encourage

collaboration in fields such as services,project cooperation, talent training andsoftware outsourcing, a press note fromInfosys stated.

RangarajanVellamore, CEO, InfosysTechnologies (China), said, “The com-prehensive and in-depth cooperation be-tween the Dalian High-tech Zone (DHTZ)Government and Infosys will drive inno-vation and development, improving theIT services industry in Dalian. This part-nership will contribute to the overallgrowth of the company.”

The MoU also provides a framework

under which the DHTZ AdministrativeCommittee will help Infosys launch pro-grammes with local universities for train-ing and recruitment.

The new facility can currently seat 700employees and will focus on deliveringconsulting, technology and BPO servicesto clients from the US, Europe,Japan andneighbouring regions.

Infosys China was incorporated in 2004and reported revenues of $78.98 millionin fiscal year 2011. The company has in-vested in world class development centersin Shanghai PudongZhangjiang Hi-tech

Park, Hangzhou Binjiang Hi-tech Park,Beijing China Oversea Plaza, a sales officein Hong Kong and a Global EducationCenter in Jiaxing Science city. The com-pany is also developing a new campusat Zizhu Science and Technology ParkinShanghai. Infosys China currently em-ploys over 3,300 people.

Luan Qingwei, government leader ofDalian city, and other Chinesedignitaries,and ShajiFarooq, senior vice-president, Infosys Ltd.,took part at theinauguration ceremony that was held atAscendas IT Park in Dalian, China.

FKCCI: RBI rate hike worrying

Bangalore: It is rather disturbingthat the RBI continues with itsaggressive monetary stance, tocontrol Inflation, by increasingthe bank rates the 13 time sinceMarch 2010, in the mid-quarterreview on October 25.

FKCCI is surprised that theRBI is continuing with this ag-gressive policy even after thefact that not only inflation is notregulated by its policy measures,but is also adversely affectingthe industry and economicgrowth. The RBI has decided toincrease these rates despite ad-mitting that “It must be empha-sised, however, that several fac-tors – structural imbalances inagriculture, infrastructure ca-pacity bottlenecks, distorted ad-ministered prices of several keycommodities and the pace of fis-cal consolidation – combine tokeep medium-term inflation risksin the economy high. These riskscan only be mitigated by con-certed policy actions on severalfronts.”

The only saving grace is thatRBI assured that “notwithstand-ing current rates of inflation per-sisting till November (Decemberrelease), the likelihood of a rateaction in the December mid-quarter review is relatively low.”

Landmarkquiz onTuesd ay

Bangalore: The Landmark Quizhas invited entries for the contestthat will be held in the city onNovember 1.

The 8th edition of the openquiz is being presented by TATAPhoton and will be hosted byNavinJayakumar.

Anyone can form teams ofthree with no age limit and reg-ister yourself at any of the Land-mark stores at Forum Mall,Jayanagar(Phone: 42404240) orLandmark, Garuda SwagatMall,Jayanagar(Ph: 65771227).

The form can also be down-loaded from www.landmarkon-thenet.com

The quiz will have the buzzerand speed rounds. The first prizewinners will get Rs 30,000 worthof Landmark gift vouchers, sec-ond prize winners Rs15,000worth of gift vouchers and thirdprize winners Rs 9,000 worth ofvouchers. There are also specialprizes for best school team, whichwill win Rs 6,000 worth of giftvouchers.

The runners up will getRs3,000 worth of gift vouchers.The best college team will getRs6,000 worth of gift vouchers.The best corporate team too willget Rs 6,000 worth of gift vouch-ers. The team with the best namewill get Rs3,000 worth of giftvouchers.

The quiz will be held at GoodShepherded Auditorium, Muse-um Road, Opposite St. Joseph’sPU College from 2 pm.

UG valuationbegins

Bangalore: The evaluation ofBangalore University under-grad-uate courses will commence to-day.

The registrar of evaluationhas requested first, second andfifth semester B.Com., BBM, BHMand BCA lecturers to attend val-uation work without fail. In all,2.10 lakh students appeared forthe examination held this month.

The college principals havebeen told to relieve their eligiblestaff for the duties in valuationcentres. Remuneration of ex-amination evaluation duties willbe paid on the day of completionof valuation work itself in con-cerned valuation centres only.

Infantry Daycelebrated

Bangalore: Infantry Day thatwas celebrated in the city recentlypaid homage to martyrsat theWar Memorial of the ParachuteRegimental Training Centre.

Maj GenPSRavindranath, com-mandant, selection centre(south), Brig A Dutta, deputyGOC of Karnataka & Kerala sub-area, and MajGenRPRC Naidu(retd) led the gathering in payingtribute to the martyrs of the in-fantry division by laying wreathsat the memorial.

As the bugles sounded thelast post, two minutes silencewas observed.

CITYFriday, October 28, 2011 3CITY EVENTSCulturalHamsadhwani Creations: 12thAnnual Music Festival, vocalconcert by Sangeetha Kalanid-hi Dr R K Srikantan, releaseof CDs Vaggeya Vaibhava andKshetra Darshana, sung by MS Sheela, Hamsadhawni awardpresentation to musicologistDr R Satyanarayana and Mru-danga Vidwan TAS Mani, SevaSadan, Malleswaram, 5.30 pm

HS Renuka Prasad Founda-tion: ‘Kavi Samaya’-Recitationof poems by poet Dr S S Maru-laiah, JSS College Auditorium,38th Cross, Kanakapura Road,Jayanagar, 8th Block, 6 pm.

Nruthyopasana: Rangaprave-sha of Usha Harish, Depart-ment of Kannada and Culturegazetted officer S I Bhavikatti,Dr Mahesh Joshi and art criticDr Suryaprasad to attend,Ravindra Kalakshetra, JCRoad, Near Town Hall, 6 pm.

The Mythic Society: Talk on‘Indian Food System- A Com-parative Study,’ by Dr H BShivaleela, Society premises,Nrupathunga Road, 6 pm.

Chitrakala Parishat: ‘Spiritand Spirituality’ A retrospec-tive of the art by Sudha RSama, inauguration by SaraArakkal, Parishat premises,Gallery No. 4, Kumara KrupaRoad, 5.30 pm

ReligiousSharada Tutorials: Discourseon ‘Transcendental Medita-tion,’ by Rishi Seshadri, 50,Malleswaram, 6 pm.

Malleswaram Desika Sabha:Discourse on ‘Bhagavatham,’by M V Ananthapadmanab-hachar Swamy, Rama Mandi-ra, East Park Road,Malleswaram, 6.30 pm.

TheatreThe Real Inspector Hound:Friday, October 28th, 2011. 7:30p.m. to 9 p.m. Additional Tim-ings: Also at 3:30 on Oct 29and 30 Ranga Shankara, No36/1 2nd Phase, 8th Cross, JPNagar Tom Stoppard's ‘TheReal Inspector Hound’ is acomedy that twists, turns andsomersaults its way throughall the conventions of a murdermystery.

Eating OutBreakfast at Midnight @ Cub-bon Pavilion: Friday, October28th, 2011. to 2:30 a.m. CubbonPavilion, ITC Gardenia, No 1,Residency Road Indian sig-natures, breakfast classics,and desserts come together tocreate a buffet that starts whenthe clock strikes midnight.

The Grand Indian Lunch Buf-fet @ Turquoise: Friday, Oc-tober 28th, 2011. noon to 3p.m. Turquoise, No 9, 2nd &3rd Floors, 17th A Main, Ko-ramangala Experience theGrand Indian Lunch buffetconsisting of over 35 dishesevery weekday with around 5starters, 4 vegetarian gravies,2 non vegetarian gravies , 7desserts and lots more.

Mexican Fiesta: Friday, Oc-tober 28th, 2011. noon to 11:30p.m. Sports Bar and Lounge,Le Meridien, No 28, SankeyRoad, High Grounds A specialmenu, which pairs Mexicancuisine with beverages. Com-bos include Tequila with Tacosand Beer with Burittos.

Lunch Buffet @ Applewood:Friday, October 28th, 2011.12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Apple-wood, No 760, 100 Feet Road,Indiranagar A Global and In-dian lunch buffet, which in-cludes soups, starters, maincourse and desserts, priced atRs. 299 plus taxes per head.

New Vegetarian Menu at Nan-do’s: Friday, October 28th,2011. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Nando's, No 1/A, Church Street, Nan-do’s gives vegetarians a reasonto smile with a meat free menu.On it are grilled burgers andwraps, and specialities likethe Veg Espetada, Veg Platter,and Roasted Veg Meal.

Chocofest: Friday, October28th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.Baskin Robbins, No 218, NewBEL Road, Chocolate loversare treated to a host of indul-gent flavours like choco chipsmousse, chocolate ice cream,three cheers chocolate, maltedchoco fudge, world classchocolate, mint milk chocolatechips and more. There's alsoan offer where patrons cantake home a family pack onthe purchase of a party packof any of the chocolate flavors

Festive Sweets @ Caramel:Friday, October 28th, 2011. 9a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Caramel,Vivanta by Taj - Whitefield,ITPB, Near Big Bazaar, White-field Caramel welcomes thisfestive season with a choiceof hampers of chocolates andIndian sweets. Prices startfrom Rs 1250.

Dine by the Street: Friday,October 28th, 2011. 8 p.m. to11:30 p.m. Terracotta, Vivantaby Taj - Whitefield, ITPB, NearBig Bazaar, Whitefield Kebabsfrom the streets of Amritsar,Lucknow and Lahore underthe star-studded sky, pairedwith an expansive collectionof whiskeys.

Festive Hampers: Friday, Oc-tober 28th, 2011. 10 a.m. to11:30 p.m. Mynt, The Taj WestEnd, No 25, Race Course Road,High Grounds Gift hampersfor the festive season, com-posed of gourmet treats. Theycan be personalised as well.

NightlifeKroaknight with Sheridanand Carlton: Friday, October28th, 2011. 9 p.m. to 11:30p.m. Opus In The Creek, No 2Doddanekkundi IndustrialArea, Whitefield Road, Ma-hadevapura Sing along withSheridan and Carlton all night.Request for your favouritesongs and bring alive the starin you.

Karaoke Night with KJ Val:Friday, October 28th, 2011. 8p.m. to 11:30 p.m. XtremeSports Bar, 4th Floor, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar Test thosevocal chords at karaoke nightwith KJ Val.

Eve Night: Friday, October28th, 2011. 8 p.m. to 11:30p.m. Ice, Vivanta by Taj - MGRoad, No 41/3, MG Road,House and commercial tuneswith DJ Vanshi. Ladies drinkfor free till 9:30 pm.

Fantastic Friday with DJ Arin:Friday, October 28th, 2011. 8p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Lounge579, No 218 Sunshine Complex,HRBR 3rd Block , Kammana-halli Main Road, Kalyan-nagar DJ Arin spinning housethis Friday at Lounge579.

Desi Night with DJ Hussain:Friday, October 28th, 2011. 8p.m. to 11:30 p.m. i-Bar, ThePark, No 14/7, MG Road, Desitracks with DJ Hussain thisFriday at i-Bar.

ShoppingThe Great Forum ShoppingFestival: Friday, October 28th,2011. 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. TheForum Mall, No 21, HosurRoad, Koramangala A month-long shopping festival thathas great discounts and prizesworth 50 crores for shoppers.Adding to the festivities aredance troupes from all overthe country and live musicperformances.

Wrangler’s Autumn/WinterCollection: Friday, October28th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.Wrangler, No 777, 100 FeetRoad, Indiranagar Thecollection depicts the characterthat denim acquires after en-during an adrenaline fueledroad trip and shows the rela-tionship it shares with its wear-er.

Swarovski Charm Collection:Friday, October 28th, 2011. 10a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Swarovski,1st Floor, Monarch Plaza,Brigade Road, Symbolic,quirky, feminine or offbeat,the charm collection allowswearers to express their per-sonalities through miniatureworks of art.

Samriddhi Offer: Friday, Oc-tober 28th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 9p.m. Gitanjali, No 3049, 80Feet Road, Indiranagar Gitan-jali offers discounts of up to20% on its Diya range of jew-ellery.

Landmark's Biggest Ever Sale:Friday, October 28th, 2011.10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Land-mark, The Forum Mall, No 21,Hosur Road, Koramangala Dis-counts of up to 70% on books,toys, DVDs, music and moreat Landmark.

ExhibitionsFiesta of Art: Friday, October28th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Gallery Third Eye, No A-1 Ep-silon Office Block, YemalurMain Road, Yemalur An exhi-bition of paintings by AshokKumar G Hiremath and Swa-pan Sarkar.

Fluid Xpressions: Friday, Oc-tober 28th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 8p.m. Magnitude Gallery, No140/13 3rd Block, 27th Cross,13th Main, Jayanagar A set ofpaintings that showcase non-objective and non-figurativeuse of colour, shades and me-dia.

The Sartorial World @ Ap-parao: Friday, October 28th,2011. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. ApparaoGalleries, No 82 The Presiden-cy, St Marks Road, Appa-rao hosts 'The Sartorial World',a cross disciplinary art showexploring the body as a mu-seum. The ritual of adornmentis highlighted through culturalvestiges, artifacts, ancient ob-jects and modern art.

House burgled,`5 lakh jewellery stolen

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A house was burgledand valuables worth over Rs 5lakh stolen at Basaveshwarana-garlast night.

Girish L and his family hadgone on a trip to Sirsi and Mu-rudeshwar temples on October

27. When they returned last nightaround 8.30, they found the frontdoor lock broken open.

The burglars have taken away390 gm gold ornaments, worthover Rs 5 lakh and have escapedfrom the backdoor. The orna-ments had been kept inside thebureau.

PHOTO CONTEST ENDS TOMORROW

Bangalore: A photography contest, 'Frames of MyCity',has invited entries. The entries can be sent tilltomorrow.

The contest, presented by Red Frames for the lasteight weeks,has received entries from across thecountry. It has seen over 1,500 photographers takingpart.

The contest closes at noon tomorrow and an emi-nent jury will selectthe winners based on how bestthe photograph captures a city’s essence, how itshows the beauty, movement, moments that are aunique signature of each and every city.

For more details on the contest, visit www.red-frames.in/contest/ or e-mail at fomc@redframes.in

Cusscoselects TCSBaNCS for core

banking solutionBangalore: Tata ConsultancyServices (TCS), a leading IT serv-ices, consulting and businesssolutions organisation, has an-nounced that Scotwest and Cap-ital Credit Unions chose TCSBaNCS Core Banking as their ITplatform.

Cussco– the joint venture setup by both these credit unions–will deploy the common plat-form and support its IT archi-tecture in the UK to serve its ex-isting customers as well as seekgrowth avenues, as new regula-tions open more opportunitiesin community banking.

The programme will help Cuss-co move into newer geographiesand tap into opportunities thatopen up with the evolving regu-lations in the UK.

Outlining their IT strategy,Marlene Shiels, CEO of CapitalCU, said, “Our new vision is to

bring high street banking to ourcustomers in community bank-ing. To provide the needed rela-tionship-driven customer expe-rience, an agile and flexible corebanking platform is essential.”

Rod Ashley, CEO,ScotwestCredit Union, said, “To offer com-petitive and compelling productswhile retaining the ethos of acredit union is a challenge thatcan be overcome by using asmart core system like TCSBaNCS. We can now expand ourcustomer base while boostingthe overall speed and quality ofcustomer transactions.”

NGanapathySubramaniam,President, TCS Financial Solu-tions, said, “While serving theneeds of the largest banks aroundthe world, TCS BaNCS also canwrap around the needs of nichecredit unions and enable themto be agile and competitive.”

K N Putte Gowda, president of the Bangalore Advocates’ Association, submits nomination papers for the post in the citytoday. The association election is scheduled to be held on November 13.

Papers for advocatesʼ association election S Radhakrishna

BJP to roll 5 raths in citybefore Advaniʼs visit

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The state BJP unveiled fiveraths today that will go round the citywhipping up support for party seniorleader L K Advani’s Jan Chetana yatraagainst corruption.

The five raths will go round 28 as-sembly constituencies in the city forthree days before Advani arrives in thecity for a public rally on Sunday. Advaniwill address the public at National Col-lege grounds.

Briefing about Advani’s itinerary inthe state, party state president K S Esh-warappa denied that it was cowardicethat led to the BJP skipping Advani’syatra through the state. “If it was cow-ardice, we would have not announcedhis yatra to Bangalore in the first place.Now there is no question of skippingthe city. We are against corruption inevery form. It is the Congress that hasto answer questions about corruption.”

“Jan Chethana yatra is nothing but Advani’s and BJP’s initiative to cleanse the political system of corruption. Just like Gandhian Anna Hazare’s crusade against corrup-tion, this is not targeted against theCongress, but all areas. It could evenbe within the BJP,” he said.

On the action against home andtransport minister R Ashok and indus-tries minister Murugesh Nirani, whoare facing charges of land grabbing,Eshwarappa said, “Just FIRs againstthese ministers do not mean they areguilty. Only allegations have been madeagainst them. Our party is against cor-

ruption and we will take action.”He said, “The Congress has to look

at the allegations against Delhi chiefminister Sheila Dixit and Union homeminister P Chidambaram. The Congress

has to seek their resignations for theirinvolvement in Commonwealth and 2Gscams.”

Former chief minister B S Yeddyu-rappa resigned soon after allegations

against him surfaced. This proves thatthe BJP is a transparent party, he added.

On Advani’s yatra, he said it willfinish the state leg of the tour by No-vember 1. On October 31, Advani will

address the public in Mangalore andthe next day at Udupi and Kumta.

During the three days, the Bangaloreyatra will cover Anekal, BangaloreSouth, Bomanahalli, BTM Layout, Yesh-wanthpur, C V Raman Nagar, Mahade-vapura, K R Puram, Sarvajananagara,Pulikeshinagara,. Yelankaha, Bya-trayanapura, Dasrahalli, Rajarajesh-warinagara, Hebbal, Malleswaram, Ma-halakshmi Layout, Vijayanagara, Ra-jajinagar,Gandhinagar, Chamarajpet,Basavanagudi, Padmanabh Nagar,Jayanagara, Chickpet, Shantinagar,Shivajinagar, Attibele bus stand, Chan-dapura Market Road, Hebbagodu busstand, Electronic City, Konnappa Agra-hara bus stand, Begur circle, Hongasan-dra, Bommanahalli Circle, Silk Boardjunction, Madivala, Koramangala,Tavarekere, BTM Layout, SLV Circle,Vasanthapura, Uttarahalli, Kengeri shoproad, Shankarnag Circle, Robbin Talkiescorner, Valagerhalli, Mariyapalya Circle,Hoysalanagara, Lakshmipura, CMHroad, Thippasandra circle, Shaktigana-pathinagara, BEML circle, HAL circle,Marathalli circle, Ramagondhanahalli,Whitefield, ITPL, Devasandra, K.R Pu-ram, Tin Factory, ITI, Ramamurthyna-gara, Banasavadi, Ramaswamypalya,Kulappa circle, Lingarajpura, Kacha-ranahalli, Nagavara, Tannery road, Pu-likshinagara bus stand, Yelankaha innercity, Escort, Yelankha, Airport road,Kodigehalli, BML circle, Kodigehalli,BAL circle, Vidyarayanapura, Bagalkot,Dasarahalli, Jalahalli circle, Laggere,Gurguntapalya, Sunkadakatte and Na-grabhavi BDA Complex.

BJP state president K S Eshwarappa flags off five raths in the city that will rally against corruption across thecity. The raths started off from the BJP office at Malleswaram this morning. The raths will go round the city for

the next three days

IAF orchestra tomorrowBangalore: Air Force StationJalahalli is organising a live mu-sical concert at the Field MarshalManekshaw Parade Ground, MGroad tomorrow at 5.45 pm. Theconcert will be performed by theteam of musicians of Indian AirForce, the Air Warrior SymphonyOrchestra (AWSO). The entry tothe concert is free.

Air Warrior Symphony Orches-tra was formed by the IAF inJune 2002 at Air Force Station,Jalahalli, with handpicked mu-sicians from various Air Forcebands. AWSO objective is to in-teract with the masses and tocreate a feeling of patriotism andharmonythrough the sound ofmusic.

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NEWSFriday, October 28, 2011 4

K Manju gets Vikram's call sheetSandalwood’s popularity is

increasing down Southwith producer K Manju rop-

ing in various actors from dif-ferent languages. While he madea film with Mommootty titledShikari, he took the distributionrights of Vijay's latest Tamil film,which will be released this week.

Now he plans to do a filmwith Chinyaan aka Vikram for afilm which will be made in Kan-nada and Telugu.

Apparently there were discus-sions about the same when KManju met Vikram last time,which was kept a secret.

Vikram who was in the Gardencity revealed his plans, whichsurprised the crowd. K Manju is

waiting for his script writers topen down the story after which,he will finalise on the projectpost April 2012.

Expert panel meets today to discuss A‑I turnaroundNew Delhi: A group of minis-

ters (GoM), headed by financeminister Pranab Mukherjee, willmeet today to look at the turn-around plan for Air India, inparticular at an additional equityinfusion of Rs6,000 crore. Mostimportantly, the GoMwil alsodiscuss whether the airline willgo ahead with the purchase ofthe 27 Boeing 787s (the Dream-liner).

An order of 27 aircrafts worth$4 billion (Rs. 20,000 crore) was

placed in 2005. The group todaywill decide whether they will goahead with the full order, reducethe number of aircraft purchasedor defer it altogether.

In the last meeting in Sep-tember, Air India had battled infavour of these Boeing 787s say-ing they were crucial for the sur-vival of the national carrier.

The airline is in troubled wa-ters when it comes to finances.Air India's liabilities from loansand vendor payments amount

to Rs. 48,000 crore, its accumu-lated losses are at Rs. 20,000crore, the working capital loanis at Rs. 22,000 crore and it hasgot a whopping equity infusionso far amounting to Rs. 2000crore.

The Comptroller and AuditorGeneral or CAG criticised the air-line's purchase of 111 planesworth Rs50,000 crore.

And in the middle of this, AirIndia plans to use the new Boeing787s for middle-haul routes.

The manufacturer, Boeing,says the Dreamliner need 20 percent less fuel and 26 per centless mainZtenance cost.

A-I pilots threaten togo on strikeNew Delhi: The Air India pilotsunion on Friday threatened togo on strike claiming that theywere being discriminated against.

The union has as many as 400pilots from erstwhile Air-India.

The pilots have alleged thatno career progression plan is inplace, adding that their salaryhas been delayed by four months.They said that the erstwhile In-dian Airlines pilots were beinggiven priority for 787 dreamlinertraining.

A decision on the strike willbe taken by ballot.

However, some of the pilotshave already reported sick forduty in batches.

Team Anna to meet over crisis tomorrow

New Delhi: Key figures of AnnaHazare's team will meet in Ghazi-abad tomorrow sans the Gand-hian, who is on a vow of silence,to discuss the crisis facing theteam after they were enmeshedin a series of controversies.

Besides Hazare, prominentmember Justice SantoshHegdeis also not attending the CoreCommittee meeting to be heldat the office of ArvindKejriwal-headed Public Cause ResearchFoundation (PCRF) in Kaushambiin UP's Ghaziabad.

The Core Committee meetingcomes against the backdrop ofa series of allegations againstkey members like Kejriwal andKiranBedi as well as resignationof two prominent activists Ra-jinder Singh and PV Rajagopalciting the political turn taken byHazare's anti-corruption move-ment.

The meeting also comesamidst a renewed attack on Haz-are by Congress leader DigvijaySingh, who alleged that theGandhian's anti-corruption agi-tation as well as that of yogaguru Ramdev and Sri SriRav-isankar were part of an over-allplan of RSS-BJP to divert atten-tion from right-wing terror.

Team Anna has been on thebackfoot with Bedi battlingcharges of overcharging her hostsby inflating travel bills and Ke-jriwal being accused of deposit-ing donations collected for Haz-

are agitation against corruptionin PCRF as well as its anti-Con-gress campaign in Hisarbypolls.

Lawyer PrashantBhushan, an-other member, also triggered acontroversy by advocatingplebiscite in Kashmir, evokingstrong opposition from Hazareand other team members.

Hazare's decision on Thursdayto continue his 'maunvrat', whichhe started on October 16, willmean that he will not attend theCore Committee meeting whenhis team members were facingattacks and questions of probi-ty.

In a veiled attack on key TeamAnna members, Hegde said,"Anna's strength does not lies incore committee or the people'shonesty in the core committee".However, he cited a prior com-mitment in Mumbai for not at-tending the meet.

Hegde said he was also keep-ing a watch on the controversysurrounding Kejriwal and Bediand remarked: "It's a nice churn-ing and 'manthan' is going on..."

Former member RajinderSingh, meanwhile, continuedhis attack on Team Anna sayingHazare has deviated from hisobjective and his team is full of"arrogant people in which thereis no room for good human be-ings".

Describing Bedi and Kejriwalas the "most arrogant members"of Team Anna, Singh said being

former bureaucrats they are inthe habit of throwing their weightabout and imposing themselveson others.

Sources in Team Anna saidthey will discuss all issues in-volving the team, including thecontinuance of Bhushan in theteam.

Hazare had earlier said theCore Committee will decide onthe continuance of Bhushan inthe team following his advocacyof plebiscite in Kashmir. Theissue came to fore after the lawyerwas attacked by right-wing ac-tivists in his office.

Interestingly, the Core Com-mittee meeting is being held inKejriwal's office while last time,the meeting which took placedays after the attack on Bhushan,was held at his Noida residenceand was chaired by his fatherand former Law Minister ShantiBhushan.

The issue also resulted in aflip flop by Hazare who changedhis stand on Bhushan at leastthrice. Initially, he said the com-mittee will decide on Bhushan'scontinuance, only to retract infew hours blaming media.

However, he removed the blogposting supporting Bhushansoon and later gave a TV inter-view only to reiterate his aversionto Bhushan's views on Kashmir.He followed it up with a blogposting which discussed hisviews on Kashmir.

Ramesh's letter on NREGSbaseless: Maya to PM

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chiefminister Mayawatitoday wroteto Prime Minister ManmohanSingh over a letter sent by Unionrural development ministerJairam Ramesh.

Mayawati said in the letterthat the allegations made byRamesh were baseless and didnot even have specific allegationsabout the misuse of NationalRural Employment GuaranteeScheme (NREGS) funds. TheBahujanSamaj Party (BSP) chieffurther alleged that the lettersent by Ramesh was politicallymotivated. The chief minister,however, pointed that there hadbeen complaints of poor qualityof work in two districts, Gondaand Balrampur, adding that in-

vestigations had already beenordered. In the letter to theprime minister, Mayawaticlaimed action had already beentaken wherever discrepancieswere found.

She further wrote that inves-tigations had also been orderedand recoveries also made.

US can negotiate withMullah Omar: Hillary

An Aadhar card distribution programme was held at Pattabhiram Nagar ward citizens today. Jayanagar MLA B N Vijaykumar and area corporator

C K Ramamurthy were present.

Get your Aadhar card S Radhakrishna

Washington: America is willingto negotiate with Afghanistan'sTaliban leader Mullah Omar ifhe met conditions, US secretaryof state Hillary Clinton has said.

Testifying at a hearing of thehouse foreign affairs committeeyesterday, she did not dismissthe prospect when asked by Re-publican Representative SteveChabot, whether reconciliationtalks with the Taliban and otherinsurgents would include talkswith Omar.

"You don't make peace withyour friends," she said, speakingdays after concluding a week-long trip that included stops inboth Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"But there first would have tobe a demonstrated willingnesson the Taliban's part to negotiateand to meet the laid out condi-tions: Insurgents must renounceviolence, abandon Al Qaeda,and abide by the constitution of

Afghanistan, including its pro-tections for women and minori-ties," she added.

Clinton last week disclosed ameeting in the summer betweenthe United States and a repre-sentative of the Pakistan-basedHaqqani insurgent network atthe request of Pakistan's InterServices Intelligence (ISI) agency.She said such meetings are part

of a strategy in which "we wantto fight, talk and build all at thesame time." "Part of the reasonfor that is to test whether theseorganizations have any willing-ness to negotiate in good faith,"she said. Clinton said that duringher trip to Pakistan, she delivereda clear message to military andcivilians leaders that they mustact against the militant Haqqaninetwork.

"I explained that trying to dis-tinguish between so-called goodterrorists and bad terrorists isultimately self-defeating anddangerous," she said. "No onewho targets innocent civiliansof any nationality should be tol-erated or protected."

US officials have accused ISIof providing support to the AlQaeda-linked Haqqani network,which has launched attacksagainst US and NATO forces inAfghanistan.

Sachin, SRKmay attendGambhir'swedding

New Delhi: It's a big day forcricketer and India's star batsmanGautam Gambhir as he gets mar-ried today.

The southpaw is all set to tie the knot with Delhi girl Natasha Jain. Her family hosted a mehendi cere-mony in the capital on Thursdaynight.

The wedding is scheduled tobe held at a farmhouse in Gur-gaon.

Some big names expected toattend the wedding include mas-ter blaster Sachin Tendulkar andBollywood's superstar Shah RukhKhan.

WB govt plays down infant deaths

New Delhi: The West Bengalgovernment is trying to playdown the infant deaths in Kolkatasaying the children were broughtin a critical condition. 13 infantsdied in 48 hours at the BC RoyHospital for children in Kolkata.

Despite Mamata Banerjee'spromises in June, the hospital isstill begging for support.

However, West Bengal directorof medical education Sushanto-Bandopadhyay said there hasnot been a single case of negli-

gence. "The children were veryvery serious and there has notbeen a single case of any negli-gence, the blood was RH negativeand there was an infection, civilsepticemia, so it was very difficultfor them to survive," he said.

When asked about the ruralhealth infrastructure in the state,Bandopadhyay said, " We aredeveloping and hopefully withina span of six months, mortalityrate will come down further."

Explosives found onAdvani's yatra route

Madurai: Explosives have been found under abridge at Almapatti village near Tirumangalam,Madurai today on the yatra route of senior BJPleader LK Advani. Investigations are still on.

The 84-year-old BJP leader addressed a rally inMadurai today during Tamil Nadu leg of his ya-tra.

Soon after the bomb was found, the organisersof the yatra said the route would be changed toavert any untoward incident.

The discovery led to a panic-like situation for awhile.

The police found two pipe bombs under thebridge. The crude bombs were recovered and de-fused, the police said.

Referring to the ouster of B S Yeddyurappa asKarnataka chief minister, Advani said the partywas not soft on corruption.

"Everyone knows that the moment Yeddyurappawas mentioned in Lokayukta report, he was askedto resign and he did resign," said Advani.

Talking on cash-for-votes, Advani said, "It issad that whistle blowers are being punishedinstead of bribe givers".

Regarding the politics over the mercy pleas ofdeath convicts, he said, "Whether it is Rajiv killersor attackers of Parliament, whatever court decisions

are taken in such cases, they should not bemeddled with for politics. Policy on terrorismshould be consistent. There should be no clemencyon political grounds."

Talking on nuclear plant issue, Advani said,"Nuclear plants near the sea shores should be re-viewed thoroughly. The safety of the people ismost important. The commercial interest of thegovt cannot be above the safety of the people."

Bangalore Beat Bureau

H D Kote: A wild elephant that had strayedinto a village here was caught and shiftedto Bandipur National Park this morning.

The operation that involved three trainedelephants had been going on since lastevening. The forest department officialswere successful in catching the wild elephantthat had wreaked havoc in Belagana vil-lage.

The forest department officials used Marie,Arjuna and Abhimanyu, which took part inthe Mysore Dasara festivities, to capture thewild pachyderm. While the first two hadbeen in operation since yesterday morningwhen the elephant was seen, Abhimanyuwas brought in only last night.

Abhimanyu is said to be an expert insuch operations. He prodded the wild ele-phant with his tusks to put the male to sub-mission.

Dr Prayag from the Chamarajendra Zoo-logical Gardens, Mysore, shot the tranquil-ising dart to the elephant. When it wokeup, the elephant was forced into a lorryand transported to the Bandipur forest. Thewild elephant had received some injurieson its stomach and it would be treated onceit is put into a barricade, the veterinariansaid. It will take some time before the ele-phant is released back into the wild, headded.

The elephant had run rampage in thefields of Belagana village tank. In the morn-

ing, it moved to a tribal settlement of MaidanaColony before it was caught. It had destroyedcoconut and other crops.

Villagers cheered and clapped when theelephant was taken away. The difficult op-eration lasted more than 18 hours with alarge number of forest officials taking part

in it. The forest department announcedcompensation to all farmers and tribals whowere affected by the elephant attack.

There have been increasing incidents ofelephant attacks across the state. The gov-ernment has been doling out compensationand passed orders to avoid such incidents.

Lokayuktaʼsappointment

Continued from page 1Siddaramaiah and Motammahave now demanded that thepanel should go by only theunanimous decision. They alsofavour a Supreme Court judgeto a high court judge, it is said.

It is learnt that even formerKarnataka High Court chief jus-tice J S Khehar Singh had rec-ommended Justice Ravindran’sname.

But a decision is unlikely tillNovember 1. Governor H R Bhard-waj, who has to approve the ap-pointment, has gone to Delhiand is returning on that day.

Elephant caught afterdifficult op at HD Kote

Witness in Bhatt case vanishes, family files missing complaint

Ahmedabad: The family ofShrenik Shah, who is a witnessin a complaint against suspendedIPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, hasfiled a police report on Shah'sdisappearance. Shah's familyhas also demanded a probe, butinsisted that there was no threatto him or the family.

Shrenik Shah is one of thekey witnesses in the case againstsuspended IPS officer SanjeevBhatt, who has been accused offorcing a constable to sign afalse affidavit, and has gonemissing since Tuesday, policesaid on Thursday.

The witness Sharanik Shah,who lives in Chandkheda area

in Ahmedabad is missing since1200 hours on October 25 as perhis family, which initially be-lieved that he had gone to Mahu-di in Gandhinagar district forsome ritual that was to be per-formed during Diwali.

However, since Shah did notreturn till last night, a missingperson's complaint was regis-tered by his family and furtherinvestigation in the matter is on,police said.

According to the FIR of con-stable KD Pant, based on whichBhatt was arrested, Shah hadcome with Pant to Bhatt's resi-dence on the night of June 16.

Shah was also present when

Bhatt allegedly threatened Pantand made him sign affidavit thatsupported his claim that he waspresent in the meeting of Feb-ruary 27, 2002 called by ChiefMinister Narendra Modi after thepost-Godhra riots, the FIR said.

As a witness in the FIR againstBhatt, Shah's statement has beenrecorded before a judicial mag-istrate by the investigating officerin the case.

Bhatt, in his affidavit filed inthe Supreme Court, had allegedcomplicity of Modi in the post-Godhra riots, and stated thatPant who knew about the ChiefMinister's meeting was threat-ened with dire consequences.

Rs 40,000 tickets for Lady Gaga concert sold out!

New Delhi: One has to shell outRs 40,000 for a ticket to attendinternational pop star LadyGaga's performance at the F1 af-ter-party in Greater Noida Sundayand the show is a total sell out,says actor-businessman ArjunRampal, who is organising theevent.

"The maximum capacity forthe party is 1,000, and Gaga'sshow is completely sold out,"Arjun told IANS.

The F1 after-parties, to be heldas part of the Airtel Grand Prixof India, will take place at a spe-

cial, 20,000 sq ft construction atthe Jaypee Greens Golf and SpaResort in Greater Noida.

International DJ Roger Sanchezwill perform on day one Friday,Edward Maya on the second daySaturday and Tom Navy on daythree Sunday. Gaga will stagethe finale.

Gaga, known for numbers like"Poker face" and "Born this way",is already in town, and excitedabout her performance.

"I am finally here + what adream come true. Performing atFormula 1 in INDIA, and my first

day here I reached #15million-monsters," Gaga had posted onmicro-blogging site Twitter afterreaching here Thursday.

Her Indian 'monsters', as shecalls her fans, are excited too.

"I think Lady Gaga is ubercool. Look at her flamboyantstyle, carefree attitude, she is sopopular...I was so keen to watchher show, but the ticket rate isso high," said 17-year-old De-vyanshi Mehra.

Even Arjun Sinha, a 23-year-old was looking forward to Gaga'sperformance, until he found out

the ticket price."There was no way I could

have asked my parents to sponsorsuch an expensive ticket for me.But I am sure all the people whoare lucky enough to attend it,will get to enjoy a lot. She's atotal rockstar!" he said.

Asked about the reason forputting such a heavy price tagfor the party, Arjun said: "Wecouldn't have lowered the price.We have limited space...and here,we are talking about an im-mensely popular internationalcelebrity.”

L K Advani