2nd death anniversary

of Vishnu observed

Bangalore: The second death anniversary ofmatinee idol Vishnuvardhan was observed to-day with blood donation, free food distributionand other programmes.

Vishnunvardhan’s wife Bharati and the en-tire family arrived at Abhiman Studios in the citythis morning and offered prayers to the grave.Actors Shivaram and Ramesh, who were closefriends of Vishnuvardhan, were present.

Medical education minister S ARamadass re-leased a calendar, silver coin and a watch inmemory of the actor.

Bharati said that Vishnuvardhan believed insocial service, but kept quiet about is philan-thropic activities. Though he was a big star, heled a simple life, she added.

DVS refusesto react to

BSYʼs attackBangalore: Chief minister D V SadanandaGow-da today refused to react to the outburst of hispredecessor B S Yeddyurappa against BJP statepresident K S Eshwarappa.

Gowda said that those who have made the al-legation should react to the questions relatedto the issue. “It would not look good on my partto make a statement,” he said.

“The party has dealt with such issues earli-er, and deal with the present one too. We haveconvened the core committee. It is my duty toattend it and I will be there,” he said.

Yesterday, Yeddyurappa said that Esh-warappa was responsible for his jail term andalso dehroning him from the chief minister’s po-sition. The attack has sent shivers in the BJPcamp, which is waiting for Yeddyurappa’s nextmove, which he has said would reveal on Jan-uary 15.

CNG prices to goup by `1.75/kg

in DelhiNew Delhi: The price of compressed natural gas(CNG) has been hiked by Rs 1.75 per kg in the na-tional capital with effect from midnight tonight,mainly on account of rupee depreciation againstthe U.S. dollar.

Indraprastha Gas Ltd, which sells CNG to au-tomobiles and piped cooking gas to householdsin Delhi and neighbouring towns, said thenew prices would be effective from midnighttonight.

“The revision in prices would result in in-crease of Rs. 1.75 per kg in the consumer priceof CNG in Delhi and Rs. 2.00 per kg in the con-sumer price of CNG in Noida, Greater Noida andGhaziabad,” the company said in a press state-ment here.

The new consumer price in Delhi will be Rs.33.75 per kg, while it will be Rs. 37.90 per kg inNoida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad.

This is the fifth increase in CNG rates this year.IGL had last raised CNG prices in Delhi by Rs.2 per kg to Rs. 32 per kg from October 1.

IGL Managing Director M. Ravindran said:“We have been forced to increase the retail priceof CNG due to a major increase in the input costof entire pool of natural gas being sourced byus as a result of recent appreciation of the dol-lar vis-a-vis the rupee and the increased de-pendence on imported LNG.”

The hike was necessitated because IGLbought expensive imported LNG to make up forthe stoppage of supplies from Reliance Indus-tries’ eastern offshore KG-D6 gas field becauseof a fall in output.

In addition, rupee depreciation has made theraw material —— that is, natural gas —— evencostlier. The rupee was hovering around Rs.49.50 per US dollar at the time of the last pricehike, while today, it is about Rs. 53 to a dollar.

BSY undergoescataract surgeryBangalore: Former chiefminister B S Yeddyurappa to-day underwent a cataractsurgery today.

The simple procedure atNarayanaNethralaya tookjust over half an hour. Afterthe procedure, Yeddyurappa returned to hisRace Course road residence and rested.

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Oppn wins in Jamaican elections

India bounced, bruised: OZ mediaMelbourne: India were ''bounced andbruised at the MCG'', declared a gleefulAustralian media which today hailed theircricket team for their surprise humbling ofthe famed batting line-up of the visitors in thefirst Test here.

The much vaunted Indian batting line-upcame under attack from the Australian me-dia as the visitors could post just 282 and 169in the two innings against an inexperiencedhome side bowling attack to lose the Test by122 runs.

Only Sachin Tendulkar seemed to be incontrol over the Australian fast bowlers as hetop-scored in both innings with a fluent 73and 32, the local media said.

'The Daily Telegraph' wrote that the pres-sure is now on India and their famed battingline-up would have to prove that they are notflat track bullies.

"MS Dhoni has conceded India's greatweapon is now its weakness -- a cast of bat-ting flops who must prove they are not flattrack bullies," the newspaper said.

"Former Australian skipper Mark Tayloridentified India's easy run on placid sub-con-tinent pitches as protecting ageing maestros

such as and VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid,emerging number six Virat Kohli and open-er Gautam Gambhir.

"The pressure is now on India, down 1-0having been bounced and bruised on abumper MCG strip," it added.

The local media was, however, in awe ofTendulkar, who yet again missed his 100thinternational ton.

"Australia effectively won the openingTest at the MCG when champion Indian

batsman Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed.In Don Bradman's day his dismissal influ-enced posters to proclaim: HE'S OUT," the'Daily Telegraph' declared.

"Yesterday a similar poster could havebeen dispatched, with a sub-head an-nouncing: IT'S OVER.

"The Little Master, dismissed for 73 in firstinnings, compiled an equally efficient andmasterful 32 and looked the only batsman tobe in control. He must wait for another dayto notch his 100th century, but he was giv-en a standing ovation going in and leavingMCG," it wrote.A write-up in 'Sydney Morn-ing Herald' about Tendulkar said, "OnlySachin Tendulkar looked of a mind to resistmeaningfully. He is 38, but ageless; in thismatch, even the sound of his bat on ball wasmore formidable than any other's. While hewas in, anything was possible for India, notleast THAT hundred."

Meanwhile, the local media was effusivein its praise of the national cricket team forthe surprise win over India, saying it has "re-discovered their mongrel" or fighting spiritafter this month's shock defeat to NewZealand at Hobart.

Lokpal bill will bebrought in budgetsession, says govt

New Delhi: Putting up a brave front afterit failed to muster the numbers in the Ra-jya Sabha, the United Progressive Al-liance government on Friday said theLokpal Bill will “definitely” be brought be-fore the Rajya Sabha during the budgetsession even as Congress leader DigvijaySingh defended the move saying exten-sion of the House on Thursday night wasnot possible.

“Definitely we will bring it in March inthe Budget session...we have to studythe 187 amendments brought by Opposi-tion parties as most are overlapping.Some amendments relate to only a part ofa clause and not the entire clause, somedemand removing the entire part of theBill,” Minister of State for Personnel VNarayanasamy said here.

He said after going through the amend-ments, the government will take a call onwhat to accept and what to reject and getback to the Opposition parties.

Congress general secretary DigvijaySingh tweeted this morning saying “187Amendments given till 6 pm on the day ofdebate and those too contradictory to eachother. Extension of the House was notwithin powers of RS (Rajya Sabha).”

He also said, now that government hastime, it must “try and bring about con-sensus and pass a strong implementableLokpal Bill.”

Referring to the amendments moved bykey UPA partner Trinamool Congress onthe Bill in the Rajya Sabha, Mr.Narayanasamy said its reservations are re-garding the appointment of Lokayuktasin the states and “they have no grievancesagainst Lokpal.”

But at the same time the minister saidTrinamool was part of the Cabinet decisionto clear the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill in-troduced in Lok Sabha a few days ago.

“Thy voted with us in the Lok Sabhathough they had some reservations about

the Constitutional amendment...we aretalking to them...there is still some timeand we will bring them around,” he said.

I tore the billbecause itwas bad:

RJD leaderNew Delhi: Justifying his act of tearing acopy of the Lokpal bill in the Rajya Sab-ha, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) member Ra-jniti Prasad Friday said it was a ''bad''piece of legislation and he did what wasright.

"I tore the bill as it was a bad bill andagainst parliamentarians. We were pass-ing a bill that is against us only," he tolda TV channel.

Prasad said it was a spontaneous actionand he had said earlier during his speechin the Rajya Sabha that the RJD would notlet the house pass the bill in its presentform.

"I did what was right. We were ready tosit overnight to discuss the bill but the gov-ernment decided to avoid (it)," he said.

In an action that stunned his fellowMPs and those watching the debate on tel-evision, Prasad Thursday night tore a copyof the Lokpal bill after snatching it fromMinister of State for Personnel V.Narayanasamy.

Prasad suddenly charged towards theminister's seat when he had begun speak-ing in reply to the daylong debate on theLokpal bill, ignoring the directions ofChairman Hamid Ansari to return to hisseat. As the minister looked on, the MPtore the document and flung it to theground.

Govt should have done its home work: Team Anna

New Delhi: Team Anna today attacked theGovernment for its failure to get Lokpal Billpassed by Rajya Sabha and accused it of notdoing enough home work to bring other po-litical parties on board to respect the ‘Senseof the House’ on this issue.

Key member of the team and former IPSofficer Kiran Bedi tore into the Congress, say-ing the onus was on it to get the crucial leg-islation passed in Rajya Sabha as it was theruling party.

“Onus is on the government in power andthe party in power to ensure that the Sense

of the House is honoured and respected. Theyought to have done a lot of home work afterthe Sense of the House (in August). I thinkthey let it be,” she said.

Ms. Bedi’s comments came after the RajyaSabha failed to pass the Lokpal Bill, whichwas cleared by Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

She also alleged that the Congress did nottake much effort to bring other politicalparties on board on this issue.

Ms. Bedi also lauded BJP leaders Arun Jait-ley and Ram Jethmalani and Congress MPAbhishek Manu Singhvi for their speech in

the debate in Rajya Sabha.“We also saw the worst when the party in

power realised that they were losing groundand how they actually let it go,” she said.

“We cannot trust this government. By(yesterday) evening it was very clear that gov-ernment was not ready to face vote.

The trust deficit is huge today,” she said.“We could witness enactment of breach of

trust ‘live’ But it cld (could) be so only at thecost of Anna’s health...

Embarrassment galore on several counts,”she said on Tiwtter.

Cyclone Thaneleaves 8 deadChennai: The very severe cyclonic storm,'Thane', today crossed the Tamil Nadu coast,leaving eight persons dead and causing ex-tensive damage to Cuddalore and the neigh-bouring Union Territory of Puduchery whichremained cut-off from the nearby districts ofthe state.

Five persons died in Cuddalore in inci-dents of wall collapse and electrocution, of-ficials said. A 45-year old man of Vanaram-pet village in Puducherry died in housecollapse.

Train services from southern Tamil Naduwere hit as many of them ran late or werestopped in the nearby station while flightsto international destinations by private car-riers including to Kuwait and Malaysia fromChennai were cancelled.

Puduchery District Collector S B DeepakKumar told PTI that rescue operations werein full swing in the union territory. Uproot-ed trees were being removed from the roads.

The regional weather office here said, "Thevery severe cyclonic storm 'THANE' over

southwest Bay of Bengal moved furtherwestward and crossed north Tamil Naducoast between Cuddalore and Puducherry be-tween 6.30 and 7.30 AM today."

It had now weakened into a severe cy-clonic storm and lay about 30 km west ofCuddalore and 35 km southwest of Puduch-ery, it said, adding wind speeds of upto 140kph was recorded during this period.

"Under the influence of this system, rain-fall at most places with heavy to very heavyfalls at a few places would occur over northcoastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry duringnext 12 hours and over north interior TamilNadu during next 24 hours," a weather bul-letin said.

Further, isolated heavy to very heavyrainfall would occur over south coastalAndhra Pradesh during next 12 hours andover Rayalseema, north Kerala and southKarnataka during the next 24 hours.

Cuddalore district in Tamil Nadu was themost affected, with damaged roads render-ing it difficult for rescue teams including

those from National Disaster Response Forceand Fire and Rescue Services to reach the cy-clone hit fishing hamlets.

District collector Amuthavalli said even ascommunication lines remained affected,over 5000 houses of fishermen had beendamaged.

HEAVY RAIN, GALE IN COASTAL APHyderabad: Heavy rain accompanied bystrong gale lashed south coastal Andhra andChittoor district of Rayalaseema region un-der the impact of severe cyclone Thanewhich hit the coast between Cuddalore inTamil Nadu and Puducherry Friday morning.

Parts of Nellore, Prakasam, Guntur andChittoor districts have been receiving rainsince the morning, officials said.

Two villages of Kandriga block in Chittoordistrict have been inundated.There werereports of strong gales uprooting trees in thecoastal areas. High tidal waves continued toslam the coast. Sea water entered into hous-es near Suryalanka coast in Guntur district.

Chittoor, Tirupati and other towns inChittoor district received heavy rain since ear-ly morning.

Authorities have declared a holiday for alleducational institutions.The India Meteor-ological Department (IMD) has forecast rainat most places in coastal Andhra and Ray-alaseema over the next 24 hours.

All nine coastal districts, particularlysouth coastal districts and Chittoor are onalert. Four senior IAS officials were deputedto Nellore, Prakasam, Guntur and Chittoordistricts to supervise rescue and relief op-erations.

Authorities have evacuated people fromsome coastal and low-lying villages.

Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, whois currently in New Delhi, reviewed the sit-uation with revenue minister RaghuveeraReddy and chief secretary Pankaj Dwivediover phone.

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TRAIN SCHEDULE

JOGAYYA (U/A)Shivaraj Kumar, Pooja GandhiBanashankari (Hongasandra) (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Eshwari(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) FunCinemas (10.15 am, 1.15, 4, 6.45,9.25 pm) HMT Cinemas ( 10.45 am,1.30, 4.15 pm) Kapali (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Keshava (11am, 2.15, 5.30, 8.30 pm) Lakshmi(Tavarekere) (10.15 am, 1.15 pm)Lakshmi (Gottigere) (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Lakshmi (Rammor-thinagar) (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15pm) Manasa (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) PVR Cinemas (12.10 pm)Santhosh (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Srinvasa (Gowdanapalya)(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Tirumala (10 am, 1.45, 5.30, 8.45pm) Vaishnavi (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15,9.15 pm) Veerabhadreshwara (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Venkatesh(Avalahalli) (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Venkateshwara (Konap-pana Agrahara) (11 am, 2.15, 6.15,9.15 pm)

BADHRA (U)

Prajwal Devaraj, Daisy ShahBharathi (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)Govardhan (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9pm) Krishna (KR Puram) (10.30 am,2, 8 pm) Maruthi (11.30 am, 2.30pm, 6.30 pm, 9.30 pm) Menaka(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Nalanda (11,2.30,6,9.15pm) Rajer-ajeshwari (Mallathahalli) (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30,7 .15, 9.30 pm) Sid-dheshwara (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Veeresh (10.30 am, 1.30pm) Vajreshwari (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30pm) Rajarajeshwari (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.15, 9.30 pm) PVRCinemas (1, 3.30, 6.10 pm)

PANCHAMRUTHA (U) Raghu Mukherjee, Srinagara Kit-ty, RavishankerPVR Cinemas (7.10 pm)

MR DUPLICATE (U) Prajwal Devaraj, Diganth, SheetalNartaki (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Prasanna (10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15,7.15 pm) Uma (10.15 am, 1, 4, 7pm) Vijayalakshmi (Garu-dacharpalya) (11 am, 2.30 pm)

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (A)Jason Momoa, Leo Howard‘3D’ Cinemax (10.15 am, 3.30, 7.45,10 pm) Cinepolis (10 am, 12.15,2.30, 4.45, 7, 9.15 pm) Fame (Lido)(11 am, 4.30, 7, 9.30 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (10.25 am, 3.45, 9.30pm) Fun Cinemas (5.10 pm, 9.45pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Bannerghat-ta Road) (10.30 am, 3.30, 9.30 pm)

Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (1.15 pm, 7.30, 9.45 pm) In-novative Multiplex (11.30 am, 1.30,5.45, 10 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(10.05 am, 2.20, 7.30, 9.50 pm)Inox (Malleswaram) (10.30 am, 2.45,9.50 pm) Inox (J.P.Nagar) (10.10 am,2.35, 9.45 pm) Lakshmi (Tavarekere)(10.30 am, 1.30, 5.30, 8.30 pm)Mukunda (11 am, 2, 5, 8.30 pm)PVR Cinemas (11 am, 4.20, 9.40pm) Rex (12.15 pm, 6.05 pm) Uvashi(11.30 am, 6.30 pm) Vision Cinemas(10.30 am, 4.30, 9.30 pm) ‘2D’Fame (Value Mall) (10 am, 2.45, 5,9.45 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (11.45 am, 2.15, 8 pm) HMTCinemas (9.45 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.10 am, 3.55, 9.40 pm)

THE DEVIL DOUBLE (A)Fame (Lido) (10.20 am, 3.55 pm,7.25, 9 pm) Fame (Value Mall) (10am, 2 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 7.50 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

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YEH DOORIYAN (U/A)Achint Kaur, Ayub KhanApsara (11 am, 2.30 pm) Abhinay(4.30 pm, 7.30 pm) Everest (11.15am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.30 pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (5.15pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajarajesh-wari Nagar) (1.45 pm) Vaibhavi (4.30pm, 7.30 pm)

CHITKABREY-SHADES OF GREY (A)Akshay Singh, Akshharaa GowdaCinepolis (2.40 pm, 9.20 pm) Fame(Value Mall) (9.20 pm) Inox (JP Nagar)(9.55 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (11.20am) Inox (Malleswaram) (2.05 pm,7.15 pm)

NOT A LOVE STORY (A) Ajay Gehi, Mahie Gill, DeepakDobriyal, Urmila MatondkarFame (Value Mall) (10.05 am) FunCinemas (10.45 am, 4.15 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Bannerghatta

Road) (10.15 am, 3.30, 10 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(5 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajara-jeshwari Nagar) (4.45 pm, 7.35 pm)Innovative Multiplex (10 pm) Inox(Magrath Road) (9.40 pm) PVR Cin-emas (10 am, 1.05, 4.10, 9.50 pm)Urvashi (9.30 pm) Vaibhav (6 pm,9.30 pm)

SAHI DHANDHE GALAT BANDE (U)Anupam Kher , Ashish NayyarGopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (3.30 pm)

CHATUR SINGH TWO STAR (U/A)Sanjay , Ameesha Patel, KherAbhinay (4.30 pm, 7.30 pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (12.30pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(2.45 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ra-jarajeshwari Nagar) (7 pm) PVR Cin-emas (12.05 pm, 5.35 pm) Vaibhav(6.15 pm, 9 pm)

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TELUGU

KERATAM (U/A)Siddharth Raj Kumar, AishwaryaCauvery (6.00 pm, 9.30 pm) Cinepo-lis (3.45 pm, 9.10 pm) Inox (Jayana-gar) (7.20 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.45am, 4.20 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(2.10 pm) Murali (Gokula) (6.15 pm,

9.30 pm) Pallavi (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Renukaprasanna(10.30am,1.30pm)

DAGGARAGA DURANGASumanth, Vedika, Sindhu TolaniAnjan (10.30 am, 1.30pm) Bhumika(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Rad-hakrishna (11.30 am, 2.45 pm) Renu-ka Prasanna ( 5.30, 8.30 pm) Srini-vasa (SG Palya) (11.15 am, 2.30 pm)Vinayaka (Maathahalli) (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Venkateshwara(KRPuram) (6.15 pm, 9.30 pm

MONEY MONEY MORE MONEY J D Chakravarthy, Bramanandam,Anjan (4.30, 7.30 pm) Chandrodaya(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Cinepolis (10 am, 12.20, 4.50, 7.10,9.30 pm) HMT Cinemas (4.15 pm,7.30 pm).

STAND BY (U)Adinath Kothare, Siddharth Kher

Abhinay (10.30 am, 1.30 pm) Ap-sara (5.30 pm, 8.30 pm) Fame(Lido) (1.40 pm)Fame (Value Mall)(12.15 pm, 7.15 pm) Gopalan Cin-emas (Bannerghatta Road) (2.30pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajara-jeshwari Nagar) (12.30 pm) Inno-vative Multiplex (2.30 pm) Inox(Magrath Road) (12.10 pm, 7.15

pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (11.30am, 9.35 pm) Inox (J.P.Nagar) (10.10am) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (12.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(2.45 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (7 pm) Vaibhav (11.30 am,2.30 pm)

Mock KASexams tobe held

Bangalore: The Negila Yogi So-cial Service Trust has organiseda mock Karnataka AdministrativeService exam on January 1 at 10am.

The model question papers have to be answered inwriting.

For more information, contact: Kempegowda Instituteof Management Studies and Research, BDA Complex, SrigandhadaKavalu, Outer Ring Road, Magadi road or call: 9880214083, 9739909940.

Bangalore: There will be strict enforcement ofanti-alcohol drive in the city on New Year’s Evetomorrow, the city traffic police have cautioned.

Policemen flashing alcometers will be all aroundthe city, trying to prevent accidents due to drivingunder the influence of alcohol. Though the citypolice have extended the deadline for bars andrestaurants to serve liquor and food till 1 am to-morrow, they will not be excuse anyone drivingunder influence.

In fact, the traffic police would be more alertthan normal to avoid traffic related incidents, asthe number of inebriated people on the streetswould be more tomorrow.

There will be no change in the one-way andother rules. But to avoid overspeeding, severalinterceptor vehicles will be stationed in differentparts of the city, traffic police department officialssaid.If anyone indulges in stunts, drag racingand wheelies, their driving licence would be re-jected.

Bars and restaurants have to stop serving liquorand food by 12.30 am, the city police have said.

The traffic police have made some changes inthe parking arrangements on MG Road and sur-rounding areas for the New Year’s Eve celebrationstomorrow.

Except police and other emergency vehicles,

no other vehicle is allowed to be parked from 8pm till 1 am.

The parking ban will be in force at:MG road, from Anil Kumble Circle to Mayo

HallBrigade road, from Cauvery Emporium to Opera

JunctionChurch Street junction, from Brigade Road to

Museum road junctionFrom Museum road junction to old Madras

Bank road junctionFrom Rest House road junction till Brigade

road junctionOn Kamaraj road, from Cauvery Emporium

junction to Cubbon road junctionFrom Residency cross to Symphony theatre

junctionAll shop owners on Church Street, Brigade

road, MG road, Rest House road, Residency roadand St Marks road have to remove their vehiclestomorrow by 4 pm. Pedestrians can walk onBrigade road from MG road junction to Operajunction, but cannot return th same way. Theyhave to alternatively use Residency road cross.

Those who will consume alcohol have to do soin moderation and drivers and riders should notconsume alcoholic drinks, the traffic police haverequested.

Everything was earnedlegally, says Siddaiah

Bangalore: Former BBMP com-missioner Siddiaiah, who wasraided recently for allegedlyamassing wealth disproportion-ate to known sources of income,has objected to the yardsticksapplied by the Lokayukta to as-sess his properties.

Siddaiah, in a press note, stat-ed that the combined earningsof his and his wife over the last38 years would amount to Rs 1.6crore. This also includes his son’searnings and the rent accumu-lated over the years.

The Lokayukta officials havefixed his income at Rs 55 lakhfrom various sources during hisservice. But his personal andfamily loans amounted to Rs 85lakh, they stated.

Siddaiah said that 120 acres

of land mentioned by theLokayukta is not owned by him.“We are an undivided family. 40acres of lands have been givenat various stages. The moneyhas been earned through legalmeans that includes moneypassed on by my father, moneyaccumulated after selling thehouse, loans from chit fundsand Rs 10 lakh agricultural loans.The money has been earned instages over the years,” he added.

There is no bungalow at Haro-halli on Kanakapura road asmentioned din the Lokayuktareport. A silk cocoon rearingshed has been converted to anaccommodation. For that loanhas been taken from Land Bank.The Dollars Colony has beenpurchased after taking loans

from the State Bank of Mysore.During 1983-84, a KarnatakaHousing Board site was pur-chased from the government byobtaining Rs 2.4 lakh loan. Fromthe house constructed on thesite, Rs 35 lakh rent has accu-mulated over the years.

“I or my family do not own ahouse in Jayanagar. I stayed at ahouse in the fifth block for severalyears.

“But that house belongs to former chief minister J H Patel’s sister Uma Basavaraj,”he said.

For his daughter’s wedding,he took a loan of Rs 30 lakh fromKotak Mahindra. Even the jew-ellery was purchased from theloan amount, he said in the pressstatement.

BMTC, KSRTC to run specialservices on New Yearʼs Eve

Bangalore: The BMTC will run Big-10and Metro feeder services from 10.30 pmtill 3 am to help revellers on the NewYear’s Eve.

The services will be available from MG road, Majestic and other areas to dif-ferent parts of the city. A special fare ofRs 20 has been fixed for these services.

Big 10 routes: From Manek Shaw ParadeGrounds to Kadugodi bus stand, fromMayo Hall to Sarjapur, from Brigade roadto Bannerghatta National Park,from Chin-naswamy stadium to KengeriUpanagar,from BRV Parade Grounds to JanapriyaTownship, MG road Metro station to Yela-hankaUpanagar, from BRV ParadeGrounds to R K Hegde Nagar, from MetroRail station to Bagalur and from MayoHall to KR Puram.

Meto Feeder services: Buses from theKempegowda bus stand will run to Kas-turba road, M G Road, Shivajinagar busstand, Mayo Hall, Corporatrion, from Ba-nashankarito Shivajinagar bus stand,and Nanjappa circle, from Central SilkBoard to Kalyan Nagar, Koramangalawatertank, Domlur, Trinity Circle and Kamarajaroad, from Madiwala to Old Byappana-halli, S V road, T C Palya, Mangammana-Palya, Channasandra, Kasturinagar, Metro

station and Indiranagar.From Byappanahalli to Kadugodi, C V

Raman Nagar, Kaggadasapura, Basava-pura and Marathahalli from ITI Factoryto Domlur, Ramamurthy Nagar, B Chan-nasandra, Kastuinagar, ByappanahalliMetro station, from Shivaji Nagar busstand to MCTC bus stand, KR Market andSirsi circle, a press note stated.

KSRTC to run special servicesThe KSRTC is running additional serv-

ices to clear the huge crowds on the NewYear’s Eve. The KSRTC will ply 150 intra-state and 250 out of state services. Therewill be an increase of 30 percent inservices from today till Sunday, a pressnote stated.

On January 2, 20 more buses fromother states have been commissioned.

The KSRTC is geared to handle the addi-tional rush during the New Year, regionalcontroller Ashok Kumar.

To reduce the crowd at Majestic busstand, some of the services will run fromShantinagar bus stand.

“As Metro rail works are going on atMajestic, we are running services fromdifferent parts of the city to help travellers.If there is an increase in the number oftravellers, we can handle the pressure,”said regional controller PrakashBabu.

The corporation has increased the fareson multi-axle Volvo buses plying to Ma-harashtra and Goa by 30 percent. Thetravellers can also book the tickets on-line.

For information, visit ww.ksrtc.in orsend message to 56767.

Play basedon Byrappaʼs

Mandra tobe staged

Bangalore: Kala Gangotri, a cul-tural organisation, is stagingplay Mandra, based onSaraswatiSamman winner S LByrappa. The play, which is partof Kala Gangotri’s 40th year an-niversary, will be staged at Ran-gaShankara on January 1.

At the same time, a conferenceon novel-play will be held at DrH N Kalakshetra. Music and playswill be staged at that auditoriumtoo.

Mandra play is directed by DrB A Rajaram and music has beenscored by PanditNagarajHaval-dar.

Shatavadhani R Ganesh willintroduce the characters of theplay with music and skits.

The vocals of PanditFayazKhan will be supported by musicfrom PanditsRavindraKatoti andUdayarajKarpoor. Byrappa andMarathi litterateur Anjali Joshiwill take part in the function.

For tickets, call: 9972398931.

Star gazingBangalore: The Association forScience Education has organiseda star gazing programme at Jawa-harLal Nehru Planetarium onJanuary 1. The programme hasbeen conceived with the Asso-ciation of Bangalore AmateurAstronomers. For more informa-tion, visit www. Taralaya.org orcall 22266084 or 22379725.

AwardedBangalore: H D Ramachandran,an assistant professor at Banga-lore University, recently receivedthe ShikshaRatna award, pre-sented by the New Delhi-basedInternational Friendship Society.

Cops will be out in force,no relief for drunk drivers