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DIVINEQUEST

By Sri Sri Ravishankar

There is an element of Guru in every human being. Consciously or unconsciouslyyou are a Guru to somebody. Page 2

CITY TEAM HEADSTO KIDSʼ OLYMPICS

The under-15 football team, picked from variousschools in the city, is heading to Scotland for the International Children’s Games, endorsed by the International Olympic Committee. The team wouldnot have travelled if not for the sponsorship of UB Group chairman Dr Vijay Mallya, says L Raghunanda page5

Beyond Beat

Hearing inSarabjit caseput off in PakLahore: A hearing on a petition challenginga possible presidential pardon for SarabjitSingh, an Indian national on death row fol-lowing his conviction for alleged involve-ment in bomb attacks in Pakistan in 1990, hasbeen adjourned till September 20 by a courthere.

A deputy attorney general (DAG) appearedbefore a bench of the Lahore High Court yes-terday and sought time to file a reply to the pe-tition on behalf of the government.

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Life hit in Valley due to

Hurriyat strikeSrinagar: Normal life in Kashmir Valley wasdisrupted today due to a strike call given byhardline Hurriyat Conference Chairman SyedAli Shah Geelani to protest against the cus-todial death of a youth in Sopore town.

Schools, shops, business establishments,private offices and banks remained closed inmost parts of the Valley due to the strike, of-ficials said.

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Govt to decideon Salwa

Judum orderNew Delhi: The Centre will in the next fewdays decide if it will seek a review of the recentSupreme Court ruling on disbanding SalwaJudum and disarming tribals deployed asSpecial Police Officers in operations againstMaoists, home minister P Chidambaram saidtoday. FULL REPORT ON PAGE 4

PROSECUTE BSY: GUV TO LOKAYUKTA

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: In fresh trouble for B S Yeddyurappa,governor H R Bhardwaj today gave sanction toLokayukta police to initiate criminal proceedingsagainst him over the report on illegal mining.

Bhardwaj accepted the findings and recom-mendation of the Lokayukta in Chapter 22 of thereport for initiating criminal proceedings againstYeddyurappa, a Raj Bhavan communique said.

The governor's sanction came a week after theLokayukta sent a copy of the report to Bhardwaj.

It said the Governor, the competent authorityunder the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, took the de-cision after having carefully examined the report,along with relevant annexures, with reference toprovisions of the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1994and Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

He also noted that Lokayukta may take furthernecessary action through Lokayukta police.

"The decision of the Competent Authority hasbeen forwarded to the Registrar, KarnatakaLokayukta for placing it before Lokayukta ofKarnataka", the communique said.

Bhardwaj, who read out the oath to newLokayukta Shivaraj Patil today at Raj Bhavan, said,“I have thoroughly studied the report filed by theLokayukta on illegal mining. Only after that haveI recommended action against Yeddyurappa.”

“I have asked the Lokayukta police to investi-gate the incidents and submit a report. I don’t need to give any special permission for the prosecution of Yeddyurappa as he has already resigned from the chief minister’s post and is only a caretaker now. He is a mere MLA at pres-ent,” he said.

NO CM YETFISTICUFFS, VERBAL DUELS MARK BJLP MEET; SECRET BALLOT TO CHOOSE

EITHER SHETTAR, SADANANDA GOWDA; LEADER MAY BE CHOSEN IN DELHI

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Chintamani: Thirty persons were arrestedfor their alleged involvement in the grue-some lynching of 10 persons at Barlahalliand Yerrakote villages of Chintamani taluklast evening.

They were picked up after questioning bythe police, who started rounding up the sus-pects since last night. There is an atmos-phere of fear in these villages and many sus-pects have fled to avoid arrests.

Of the 10 dead, three have been identifiedas Ramesh, Chinnu and Gangadhar from

Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. Thepolice found Rs 4 lakh on them. One oth-er man, who was injured in the incident, isin a critical condition at NIMHANS in Ban-galore.

Hundreds of villagers attacked the vic-tims, thinking they were robbers who wereon the prowl. Earlier, some criminals whohad come in an SUV had tried to rob awoman and tied her to a pole.

They had fled after the woman wasfound to have no valuables on her. But thepolice have not been able to establishwhether those attacked were the same

persons involved in the crime against thewoman. The villagers, who hunted for thecriminals, tracked down an SUV and an au-torickshaw moving around suspiciously andattacked them.

They were tied to poles and thrashed se-verely by the villagers. Nine of them died onthe spot, while the other breathed his lastat NIMHANS.

The police were thinking of clamping banorders under section 144 on the two villages.Central DIG Malini Krishnamurthy andother district administration officials visit-ed the spot today.

30 arrested for Chintamani massacre

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “I am sad that I havebeen made a scapegoat andasked to vacate my seat,” saidcaretaker chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa here this morning.

“But I am handing over thecharge to the new man happily.I have done good work in thethree years and two months of mytenure as chief minister,” he said.

On his plans after vacatingthe chair, he said, “I will starttouring the state from tomorrow.I will strive hard to build theparty from the grassroots level.Our aim is to get 150 seats in thenext assembly elections.”

The BJP now enjoys the sup-port of 120 MLAs, some of whomhave been poached from otherparties through its Operation Lo-tus. The BJP though was in mi-nority after the 2008 assembly

elections managed to garner thesupport with the help of six in-dependents to cross the half-way mark in a house of 225 mem-bers.

BSY: I WASSCAPEGOAT

Outgoing chief minister B S Yeddyurappa greets outgoing Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde at Raj Bhavan today. The two met at theswearing in ceremony of new Lokayukta Justice Shivaraj Patil. Former Lokayukta Justice N Venakatachala and former higher education

minister V S Acharya look on.

Gangadhar Pujar

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Fisticuffs, verbal duels, hecticactivity and intense confusion marked theBharatiya Janata Legsilature Party meetingtoday. As there was no consensus on thesuccessor to outgoing chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa, party central observers decidedto go for a secret ballot to know the mindsof the legislators.

The ballot paper contained only twonames: MP Sadananda Gowda and formerrural development and panchayat raj min-ister Jagadish Shettar. So it is now certainthat the next chief minister would be oneof the two.

But the ballot voting too did not go onsmoothly because of the intense fights. Par-ty sources told Bangalore Beat that the chiefminister would now be decided by theparty high command in New Delhi. Thoughthe chief minister could be one of the twoleaders, there is also a possibility of a thirdman emerging.

While Yeddyurappa wanted headcount,state BJP president K S Eshwarappa repre-senting the other faction sought a secret bal-lot. The party has been divided into two ma-

jor factions, one led by Yeddyurappa andthe other by all the other leaders of someweight within the party.

The two central observers, former partynational president Rajnath Singh and par-

ty national general secretary Arun Jaitley,had a tough time in getting the legislatorsto arrive at a consensus candidate. When itfailed, they went for secret ballot.

Yeddyurappa faction continued to sup-

port the candidature of Sadananda Gowda,while the rival group, which is being led byEshwarappa, former home and transportminister R Ashok and party national gen-eral secretary Ananth Kumar, wanted Shet-

tar.Before the secret ballot, all MLCs and MPs

were asked to leave the meeting venue to al-low the MLAs to cast their votes.

Anticipating the secret ballot, ballot pa-pers and box had been brought from the BJPhead office in Malleswaram to the meetingvenue. The Yeddyurappa faction claimedthe support of 71 MLAs, while the Shettarsupporters claimed 70-odd MLAs withthem, which is impossible as the party hasonly 119 legislators in the assembly.

Earlier, 68 MLAs from the Yeddyurappafaction, left from a private hotel on Resi-dency road to the meeting venue. They leftin two Volvo buses, while two buses also leftfrom another hotel near the BangaloreGolf Course. Yeddyurappa’s son and Shi-moga MP B Y Raghavendra, and his closeaide Shobha Karandlaje left by cars.

Ananth Kumar did not attend the meet-ing, saying that he did not get the invitation.

Former law and parliamentary affairsminister Suresh Kumar came alone to thevenue by 10.30 am. He told the media per-sons that he did not identify with any fac-tion and was there at the venue on the in-vitation of the party.

19 Indians indictedin massive US fraud

New York: A federal grand juryin the US has indicted 26 people,including 19 Indians, for theirparticipation in a multi-milliondollar health care fraud and drugdistribution scheme to facilitatethe submission of false claims toMedicaid and private insurers.

The indictment returned by afederal grand jury in Detroit charged 26 individuals, including doctors and psycholo-gists, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announcedtoday.

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Gangadhar Pujar

Outgoing chief minister B S Yeddyurappa arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party Legislature Party meeting today.

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Council chairman D H Shankara Murthy felicitates John Garmo, founder president of Character Solution International, USA, for his leadership in imparting character buildingtrainig to over a million people across the world. Charter Solutions India director David

Dass and former chairman of the council David Simeon look on.

Honouring his service

MASTER IS THE SOLUTIONAs the ancient proverb goes, Guru

bina gati nahin. There is noprogress without a Guru. Guru

is not a person; Guru is knowledge.Guru represents enormity. The Englishword guide comes from the Sanskritword Guru.

You need a guide for everything,for learning the guitar, music, or anyother discipline. Guru is one whoguides you into wisdom, knowledgeand kindles the life force in you.

There is an element of Guru in everyhuman being.

Consciously or unconsciously youare a Guru to somebody. Wheneveryou have done something for someonewithout expecting anything in return,given advice, guided people, giventhem love and care, you have played

the role of a Guru. This Guru tattva is to be revered

and believed in. There are so many people around

you and you are stuck in everybody’smoods, emotions and blame. But whena Guru is there this will not matter toyou. Even if it does, it will not last formore than a few minutes. It is likewhen you have a raincoat, you canprotect yourself from the rain.

When one moves in this principleof Guru tattva, all the boundaries dropand starts feeling one with everyonearound, and with the whole universe.

When that wisdom dawns, miserydisappears and there is no place forself-blame.

If there is self-blame, it means thatyou have not come to the Guru yet.

Coming to the Guru means havingthe faith that Guru is with us all thetime. It means that whatever we wantwill be done and we will be shownthe way.

The best way to ensure peace inyour life is to stay close to the Guruthrough sadhana, satsang, reflectionand devotion.

This will ensure that spiritualitystrengthens in you. However, evenwhen you cannot be physically closeto your Master, you can be close inmind and spirit.

When there is too much confusion,then find solace in surrender. Surrenderto your Guru or the Divine. See theMaster beyond his physical form andpersonality.

There is no difference between the

Divine, the Self and the Guru. TheGuru is a reflection of your own truenature and a guide leading you backto your Self.

Through your own diligence, faithand commitment, you can clearly seethat whatever be the circumstances,the moment you consider the Guru asyour Guru, it becomes possible to ac-quire all the His qualities.

Once the Master becomes the solu-tion, you are never defeated in life.The devotion for the Guru is enough.The Master is here for you and is withyou through the good and bad times.You are not alone.

So find a Guru and live naturallyand rejoice in love and joy.This is a weekly column that appears

every Wednesday

DIVINEQUEST

By Sri Sri Ravishankar

Top 200 IT cos log revenuesof $84 billion in FY 2011

New Delhi: Top 200 IT compa-nies in the country like TCS, In-fosys, HP and Cognizant loggeda combined revenue of USD 84billion (Rs 3,84,250 crore) inFY’11, growing at 25 per centover the last year, a study said.

According to a study by Cy-bermedia, this is the highest rateof growth in last four years andsurpasses the 24 per cent growthwitnessed in FY’08, the year be-fore the slowdown. The revenuesof these companies in FY’10 andFY’09 stood at Rs 3,07,126 croreand Rs 2,89,093 crore, respec-tively. The top 10 companies interms of revenue were Tata Con-sultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro,HP India, Cognizant, IBM India,HCL Technologies, HCL Infos-ystems, Ingram Micro India andRedington India.

“The combined revenue of the

Top 20 IT companies was USD54 billion (Rs 2,47,808 crore) inFY’11, which is also higher by 25per cent,” the study said.

This is significantly higherthan the eight per cent growthrecorded- in FY’10 with revenuesof Rs 1,98,017 crore. “The fastergrowth of India focused IT companies shows that the high growth potential of Indianmarket is being tapped. Increas-ingly, we expect India to becomea bigger player in the global ITscenario as a market, a technol-ogy creator and a hotbed of in-novation?all rolled into one,”CyberMedia publisher PradeepGupta said.

The top 200 IT companies inIndia included 129 Indian com-panies and 71 foreign companieswho are active players in the In-dian market. PTI

NCMSLpartners

with CorpBank

Bangalore: Corporation Bankhas entered into a partnershipwith National Collateral Man-agement Services Limited (NCM-SL), a major agri-infrastructureplayer, for collateral managementand warehousing services.

The objective of these serviceswould be to assist industry,traders and farmers in financingtheir working capital require-ments at all stages of the agri-cultural supply chain, rangingfrom pre-harvesting to the mar-keting and export stages, a jointstatement said Corporation Bankgeneral manager B N Shenoysaid: “This tie-up with NCMSLwill provide a great fillip to ware-house receipt financing and willhelp the farmers avoid sellingtheir produce at give-away pricesby enabling them to hold on and

wait for better prices.”The partnership would also

enable Corporation Bank to mit-igate the credit risk on its com-modity finance product offerings,the statement said. NCMSL MDand CEO Sanjay Kaul said thetie-up would prove especiallybeneficial in view of the largebranch network of the bankacross the country. NCMSL hasplans to build its own warehous-es at 40 locations across 12 statesand this partnership would fa-cilitate secured post-harvest lend-ing on a large-scale to farmers,processors and other agri-busi-ness clients, he said. CorporationBank is a shareholder in NCMSLand has plans to cater to thelong-term funding requirementsof NCMSL in order to add towarehousing capacity across thecountry, the statement said. NCM-SL is a national-level institutionpromoted by IFFCO, Rabo Bank,IFC, Canara Bank, CorporationBank, Punjab National Bank,HDFC Bank, Karur Vysya Bank,YES BANK, NCDEX, ACE, Genevaand HAFED to provide risk man-agement solutions on commodi-ties and inventories. PTI

BMTC invitesposters for

Bus Day driveBangalore: The BMTC has in-vited entries for a poster designcompetition for its Bus Day.

The selected design will wina cash prize of Rs 15,000, stateda press release from BangaloreMetropolitan Transport Corpo-ration. The poster would be usedfor the green campaign by BMTCwhich promotes commuting bybus on the fourth of every month.The entries can be sent to theoffice of chief traffic manager(opn), BMTC, central offices,Shanthinagar complex, KH Road,Bangalore-27 or through e-mailaddress ctmobmtc@gmail.com

BMTC said the campaign haspaid off through increased com-muters shifting from personal

vehicles to public transport. Butwith a better campaign, the par-ticipation could be increased,the BMTC press release stated.

Upgradationof Mirage over

next 10 yrs

New Delhi: The upgrade of the51 Mirage 2000 aircraft in theIndian Air Force (IAF) fleet willbe completed within the next 10years, the Lok Sabha was in-formed.

"The upgrade is expected tobe completed within a periodten years from the date of signingthe contract," defence ministerA K Antony said in a written re-sponse. Indian and French com-panies Dassault Aviation andThales had signed a deal worthRs 10,947 crore to upgrade theIAF fleet of Mirage 2000 aircraft,which will help in extending thelife of the war planes by anotherover two decades. As per theproposal, the first two aircraft

would be sent to France for up-grade by the two companies andthe rest would be done by theHindustan Aeronautics Limitedat its facilities in Bangalore.

The upgrade will enhance theavionics as well as the weaponsdelivery capability of the aircraft,

India had inducted the fleetof Mirages in the mid-80s andonly three aircraft of it have beenlost to accidents in the last overtwo and a half decades.

The proposal to upgrade theaircraft was hanging fire for quitesome time as India was engagedin long negotiations with theFrench companies on several is-sues including the cost of theupgrades. PTI

BEML launches products inThailand, appoints distributor

Bangalore: BEML Limited haslaunched its products in Thailandby appointing Paragon Machin-ery Ltd as its distributor.

Paragon would market BEMLproducts such as dump trucks,excavators, loaders, motorgraders and dozers in Thailandand neighbouring countries like

Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia,Bangalore-headquartered BEMLsaid in a statement.

BEML CMD, V R S Natarajanhanded over 21 numbers of 100-tonne dump trucks to EGAT (Elec-tricity Generating Authority ofThailand), a lignite and powerproducing company, at a cere-

mony in Bangkok yesterday.These 21 dump trucks entail

10 years maintenance contract,making the total contract worthRs 120 crore. EGAT would deploythese trucks in their lignite mineswhose output is used for its cap-tive power generation plant, thestatement added. PTI

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ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (U/A)Katrina Kaif, Farhan Akhtar,Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol andKalki Koechlin Abhinav (10 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Cauvery (6 pm, 9.30 pm) Cine-max (10 am, 1, 3.30, 4.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Cinepolis (10 am, 12 ,1.30, 3.50, 6.45, 9, 10 pm) Everest(11.30 am, 2.30pm) Fame (Lido) (10am, 12, 1.05, 4.50, 8.05, 9.05 pm)Fame (Forum Value Mall) (10 am,12, 2.20, 6.10, 8, 9.10 pm) Fun Cin-emas (10 am, 1, 4, 7, 9.50 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (1.05 pm, 6.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (BannerghattaRoad) (10 am, 7, 10 pm) GopalanCinemas (Rajarajeshwari Nagar)(10.15 am, 6.25, 9.15 pm) Gopalan

Cinemas (Mysore Road) (10 am, 4,9.15 pm)

MURDER 2 (A) Emraan Hashmi, JacquelineFernandezFame Forum Value Mall (10.30 am,2.50, 4, 7, 9.30 pm) Fame Lido (10am, 2.35, 5, 9.35 pm) Fame(Shankarnag) (2 pm) Inox (MagrathRoad) (10 am, 4.55, 9.40 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10 am, 2.55, 9.35pm) Rajarajeshwari (Mallathali)(9.30 pm) Veeresh (10 pm) Vaibhav(2.30 pm, 6.30, 9.30 pm)

CHILLAR PARTY (U) Irrfan Khan, Divvji Handa,Vedant DesaiCinemax (1.15 pm, 6.15 pm) Cinepo-lis (12.45 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(1.10 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10.25am) PVR Cinemas (12.30 pm, 7.30pm)

BBUDDAH HOGA TERA BAAP (U/A) Big B, Prakash Raj, Hema MaliniAruna (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm)Shobha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm)

DELHI BELLY (A)Cinemax (10.15 am, 12.30, 3, 7, 10pm) Cinepolis (10 am, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8pm)

HINDI

TAMIL

BODINAYAKANUR GANESHANHarikumar, Arundhathi, ArunaAruna (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm)Amruth (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Ajantha (10.30 am, 1.30 pm)Balaji (Vannarpet) (10.30 am, 1.45,5.15, 8.15 pm) Maheshwari (10.15

am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Madhesh-wara (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Pushpanjali (BNPura) (6.15 pm,9.30 pm) Vinayaka (11.15 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm)

ANAAGAREEGAM (A)Vibu, Prajwal, VagithaGalaxy Paradise (10.45 am, 2.45,5.45, 8.45 pm) Parimala (10.45 am,2.45, 5.45, 8.45 pm)

DEIVA THIRUMAGAL (U)

Vikram, AnushkaFun Cinemas (4.30 pm) Inox (Jayana-gar) (6.10 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (3.30pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (3.45 pm)Inox (Malleswaram) (3 pm, 5.55pm).

GANDHI TO HITLER (U/A)Neha Dhupia, Raghubir Yadav, Aman Verma, Avijit DuttInox (JP Nagar) (10 am, 10 pm)

CITYWednesday, August 3, 2011 3

Jetking offers DIY tablet PCBangalore: Jetking Infotrain Ltdhas entered the tablet PC market with the launch of its‘JetTab’.

Jetking is offering JetTab as ado-it-yourself (DIY) tablet PCwith a 12-day course. The stu-dents are given two-hour lecturesover a period of 12 days to fullyconstruct this tablet.

Based on Android operatingsystem, JetTab has all essentialfeatures, says a press releasefrom the company.

There is also ready to use mod-el.

“The objective of entering withthe DIY version is to make peoplenot just use but learn abouteverything that goes into themaking of the tablet.

This enables people under-stand each feature and makeoptimum use of it with anadded skill of addressing trou-ble shooting themselves,” saidSuresh Bharwani, MD, Jetking.JetTab is priced at Rs 12,999.JetTab has:1. Downloadable Application:Facebook, Google Talk, Twit-ter and access to Android Ap-

plication platform.2. Useful for handling basictasks, like checking email ormanaging schedules3. Front Camera with 0.3Megapixel.4. upports a graphic user in-terface (GUI) loaded with An-droid operating system.5. 7-inch TFT resistance screendesign with a touch-screenpanel6. Standard Application:alarm clock, calculator, photobrowser and audio/video en-tertainment.

ESHWARAPPA: BJP CHOSE MONEYBAGS, INDULGED IN CASTE POLITICSʻBut it will change; we will work for welfare of party, not hanker for powerʼ

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: BJP state president K S Es-hwarappa today accepted that the partyduring the last assembly electionschose candidates with money powerand forgot the party ideals. “But wewill change that and give promi-nence to those party func-tionaries who will uphold theprinciples that the BJP hasstood for and go to the nextassembly elections posi-tively,” he added.

He said, “Yes, we alsoindulged in caste poli-tics. But all that willchange. We want tobuild the party andnot hanker forpower.”

The BJP isknown as a dis-ciplined party.“People vote justby knowing thatthere is a candi-date from the party.That was not the casejust few years ago. Things have changed.

But that should not make our partyworkers to relax and take iteasy. They should strivehard to take the messageof the party to the villagelevel and win over the

electorate,” hesaid.

“There is hard-ly another one andhalf years left for

the next assembly

elections. We want to work on oursupport base and increase the

probability of winning theelection. The focus willbe on choosing candi-dates who will genuinelywork to promote theprinciples of the party,”he said.

On whether therecould be a ballot to choose

the next chief minister, who

will succeed outgoing chief minister BS Yeddyurappa who resigned on Sundayfor his indictment in the Lokayuktareport on illegal mining, he said, “Therecould be. Why not? Ours is a democraticparty. Be it the selection of leaders fortaluk panchayat, zilla panchayat orthe chief minister’s post, the party ho-nours collective choice.”

He denied that there the party hasbeen divided into factions.

“The media makes too much out ofdiscussions held by different leaderstogether. I am holding discussions withparty national general secretary AnanthKumar and Jagadish Shettar (formerrural development and panchayat rajminister) and others. I also spoke toYeddyurappa. But does that mean wetwo have formed a faction? It is neces-sary for leaders to discuss among eachother for the welfare of the party andthe state. The process is only to choosea leader who is acceptable to all andwho will take the party in the right di-rection.”

He said, “Now everyone is sayingthat Sadananda Gowda, Shettar andeven I are in the race for the chief min-ister’s post. We don’t know. It all de-

pends on what the workers want. Therecould even be a fourth candidate whocould emerge.”

He said, “Everyone made a hue andcry over the absence of Ananth Kumarat the Hubli executive committee meet-ing. But it was a non-issue. That ishow the party democracy works. Hedid it for the good of the party.”

Criticising the Congress for its highcommand culture and lack of democ-racy in that party, he said, “Even animportant position like the party pres-ident is chosen by the high commandin the Congress. That is what happenedin the case of Parameshwara (the stateCongress president). There is no op-portunity for discussion within thatparty. But we don’t want have such asystem where the decision of the partycentral leadership is forced on theworkers. It is purely a democratic systemwithin the BJP.”

On his journey since 2008, whenthe BJP won the state election, till now,he said, “I am grateful that I have beena worker of this party. I am blessed tobe the party president. I want to make full use of the opportunity provided to me.”

I will be CM,says Shettar

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Man in the spot-light Jagadish Shettar todaysaid he is the right candi-date for the chief minister’spost that has been vacatedby B S Yeddyurappa.

He said, “I have the back-ing of the high commandand I am sure that partyworkers too will supportmy candidature.”

He was critical of the BJPgovernment till now andsaid, “There have beensome problems with thegovernance of the state. Iwill set them all right.”

On Yeddyruapa pushingfor the candidature of MPSadananda Gowda for thechief minister’s post, hesaid, “Yeddyurappa is asenior leader and I don’twant to comment on it. Hehas worked for the successof the party during histenure.”

He denied that there are fac-tions within the party. “Therewill also be no confusion inchoosing the legislature partyleader who would don the mantleof the chief minister. It will bethrough consensus. I don’t think

we have to resort to voting either.”Asked whether there would betrouble with the choice of theleader, he said, “All workerswould abide by the decision ofthe party central observers, whoare already here.”

Elephants go onrampage in Mandya

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Mandya: Five elephants strayedinto Dabbahalli village in Mandyadistrict and destroyed cropsworth over Rs 2 lakh this morn-ing.

The elephants have come tothe village in Malvalli taluk insearch of food. Villagers com-plained in the morning that theforest department officials were

yet to arrive though a complainthad been filed.

In another incident, a womanwas injured in an elephant attackat Shuntikoppa of Madikeri talukthis morning. The woman wastravelling in an autorickshawwhen the elephant attacked thethree-wheeler. The vehicle wascompletely damaged. Thewoman was later shifted to agovernment hospital.

JSW STEEL CUTS VIJAYANAGAR PRODUCTION BY UP TO 40%

JSW Steel has said it has cut its productionsfrom its Vijayanagar plant in Bellary dis-trict by 35-40 per cent due to paucity

of iron ore, a key steel making raw materi-al.

“We have reduced our steel productionfrom Vijayanagar by about 35-40 per centas we don’t have much iron ore inventoryleft,” Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel’s Joint man-aging director MVS Seshagiri Rao told PTI.

Asked whether the plant was moving to-wards shutdown, Rao said, “The companyhas hardly two-three days of iron ore left,”but he refused to elaborate.

Last Friday, the Supreme Court orderedsuspension of all iron ore mining operationsin the Bellary region on environmentaldegradation in the area.

JSW Steel has 10.3 million tonnes per an-

num steel-making capacity at Vijayanagarin Bellary and it sources about 50 per centof its iron ore requirements from Bellary,while another 30 per cent is met from Chi-tradurga district of the state.

Meanwhile, Karnataka Iron and SteelManufacturers’ Association gave a repre-sentation to Union steel minister Beni PrasadVerma stating that the suspension of themining operation at Bellary would lead toclosure of operations of the steel and alliedsectors in the region as they have no ironore left.

Moreover, in a separate statement, Ban-galore Chambers of Commerce and Industrysaid the suspension on iron ore miningcould adversely impact the country’s GrossDomestic Product by 0.5 per cent amountingto $8.5 billion.

“Karnataka-based iron and steel compa-nies are approaching a critical stage ofclosure of their manufacturing activities inthe next 2-3 days following the SupremeCourt pronouncement last Friday haltingiron ore mining activities in the Bellary re-gion,” it added.

Karnataka produces 16 million tonnesiron and steel in a year, which is a little lessthan 25 per cent of the country’s total pro-duction. The state also produces more thana fifth of India’s total iron ore production,which is around 220 million tonnes annually.Of this, about 80 per cent comes from Bel-lary-Hospet region.

Half of this production from Bellary-Hospet region is consumed within the state,including steel plants of JSW Steel, KalyaniSteel and Mukund Steel. PTI

CITY EVENTSGeneralThe Bangalore Science Fo-rum: Talk on ‘Fuels for AircraftUse,’ by B S Veda Prakash,scientist DRDO, H N Multime-dia Conference Hall, 6 pm.

CulturalKanaka Loka ShikshakanaTrust: Kanaka Cultural Utsav,vocal by Puttur NarasimhaNaik, Siddaramaiah, OppnLeader, former minister K HVishwanath participates,Ravindra Kalakshetra, J CRoad, 4.30 pm.

Department of Kannada andCulture: Bharatanatyam byYellappa Kormar, Nayana, J CRod, 6.30 pm.

Ponnaiah Lalithakala Acad-emy: Bharatanatyam by Pad-mini Ravi, Padmini RaoParamparaa Art and CulturalResource Development Centre,no 8, 3rd Main, 8th Cross,Chennamanakere AcchukattuLayout, BSK III Stage, III Phase,6.30 pm.

Natya Saraswathi ShanthalaKannada Kala Sangha: Stag-ing of play ‘Gante Govindara-ja,’ Seva Sadana, 14th Cross,Malleswaram, 5.30 pm.

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan: Dis-course on ‘Manku ThimmanaKagga: Jeevana Moulyagalu’by Lakshminarayana Bhatta,ESV Hall, Bharatiya Vidya Bha-van, Race Course Road, 6 pm.

ReligiousBasavakendra Sri Thip-pashetty Mutt: Distributionof milk to children and patientson the occasion of Nagarpan-chami, MLA Seetharam, SriShivamurthy Murugha Shara-naru participate, K C GeneralHospital, Malleswaram, 5 pm.

Sri Shankara Jayanthi Man-dali: Discourse on ‘Pan-chadashee,’ by Shivarama Ag-nihotri, Sri Shankara Krupa,Shankara Krupa Road, 16thcross, III Block, Jayanagar, 6.30pm.

Exhibitions Recorder of Life, Beauty andTruth: Wednesday, August 3rd,2011. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tasveer,No 26/1, Kasturba Cross Road,Tasveer presents an exhibitionof photographs by TS Satyan,one of India's first photojour-nalists.

A Slice of Life @ Veda:Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011.11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Veda ArtGallery, Palace View Builidng,Sankey Road, Kumara ParkWest Veda Art Gallery presents'A Slice of Life', an exhibitionof art work by JMS Mani, Lax-man Aelay, Kishan Kappariand Murugesan.

The Taste of a Collector:Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011.11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Gallery Time& Space, No 55, Lavelle Road,An exhibition of artwork fromthe private collection of VatsalPoddar, a successful business-man and art enthusiast.

Remembering Husain: Wedn-esday, August 3rd, 2011. 10a.m. to 7 p.m. Kynkyny Art,No 148 Embassy Square, In-fantry Road, Kynkyny Art hostsa special exhibition of paint-ings paying tribute to the leg-endary MF Husain.

Creative Perspectives: Wedne-sday, August 3rd, 2011. noonto 11:30 p.m. Caperberry, No48/1 Ground Floor, The Estate,Dickenson Road, Artwork byGopal Dey, Shan Re, KishoreChand, Ashok Kumar G, Hire-math, Parmesh D Jolad, Ran-jan Paul, Ram Onkar, MiniArora and more.

Colours & Hues: Wednesday,August 3rd, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, No A-1 Epsilon Office Block, YemalurMain Road, Yemalur A groupshow by artists Kanthraj N,Rima Ray & Rakesh Mandal.

Divinity @ Eka: Wednesday,August 3rd, 2011. 10 a.m. to 8p.m. Eka, No 19, St Johns Road,Divinity features an extensivecollection of brass idols ofLord Krishna, Ganesha, Shiva,Nataraja, Lakshmi, Saraswati,Hanumaan, Buddha and manymore. Complimenting the idolsare pooja thalis, bells, lamps,spoons, aartis, conches, urlis,chowkis, nandis, deepalaksh-mis and other pooja acces-sories.

Synesthesia: August 3rd, 11a.m. to 8 p.m. Galleryske, No2, Berlie Street, Langford TownA group show featuring worksby Andrea Anastasio, LuigiAnastasio and Avinash Veer-araghavan. The works are dis-played in the house-like spaceof the gallery, so that they areapproached without demar-cations and distinctions thusmaking the viewer experiencethe works in one continuousalternation of media fromvideo and painting, to pho-

tography and sculpture.

Shopping Happiness Sale: Wednesday,August 3rd, 2011. 11 a.m. to9:30 p.m. Bangalore Central,No 47/48 Victoria Embassy,Residency Road, BangaloreCentral announces the Hap-piness Sale, featuring appareland accessories at discountsof up to 61 percent. The saleis on across all outlets.

Rio by Titan Eye+: Wednes-day, August 3rd, 2011. 10 a.m.to 11:30 a.m. Titan Eye+, SafinaPlaza, Infantry Road, A trendy,fashionable collection for theyoung and young at heart.The frames are available in ahost of bright colours.

Collage Annual Sale: Wednes-day, August 3rd, 2011. 10 a.m.to 7:30 p.m. Collage, No 21/1,Wood Street, Ashoknagar Dis-counts of up to 70% on de-signer wear by Manish Arora,Poonam Bhagat, Ekru andmore.

Half Price Sale: Wednesday,August 3rd, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8p.m. Show Off, RoyalMeenakshi Mall, No E1/16,Syndicate Bank Colony, 1stCross, Bennerghatta Road Dis-counts of up to 50% on cloth-ing and accessories.

Monsoon Baubles: Wednes-day, August 3rd, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Ffolio, No 5 EmbassyChambers, Vittal Mallya Road,Bracialeto celebrates the mon-soons by unveiling a new col-lection of costume jewellerythat incorporates variousshades of the colour of theseason, blue.

Dance Mathana: Wednesday, August3rd, 2011. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.Shambhavi Dance Theatre, No200/7, Shambhavi Street, SunCity Road, Kengeri SatelliteTown Vyjayanthi and Prateek-sha Kashi present 'Mathana',a confluence of drama anddance, based on the story ofKunti and Draupadi.

Theatre Heegadre Hege? @ RangaShankara: Wednesday, August3rd, 2011. 7:30 p.m. to 9:30p.m. Ranga Shankara, No 36/12nd Phase, 8th Cross, JP NagarThe play, a comedy, followsthe humorous lives of an eld-erly couple.

Eating Out Power Lunch: Wednesday, Au-gust 3rd, 2011. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.City Bar Karaoke + Grill, UBCity, No 24, Vittal Mallya Road,Now be connected even duringthe quick business lunch. Freewi-fi access while you fill upin the middle of the day. De-lectable starters with a varietyof veg/ non veg main courseoptions along with draughtbeer.

Seafood: Wednesdays at TheCubbon Pavilion Wednesday,August 3rd, 2011. 7 p.m. to11:30 p.m. Cubbon Pavilion,ITC Gardenia, No 1, ResidencyRoad The chefs unveil an in-teractive theatre showcasinga bountiful supply of exoticseafood on the grill, and onthe crepiere (crepe station)with exotic seafood fillings.They toss up refreshing Salads,roll Sushi, and serve crispyTempura, Paella, Risotto, andlots more every Wednesdaynight.

Weekday Lunch Buffet @ManU: Wednesday, August3rd, 2011. noon to 3 p.m. Man-chester United Restaurant Bar,The Manchester United Restau-rant and Bar launches a week-day lunch buffet priced at Rs350 plus taxes right fromstarters to desserts.

'The Kari Culture' at Blue Gin-ger: Wednesday, August 3rd,2011. 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Blue Ginger, The Taj West End,23 Race Cource Road , BlueGinger creates an interestingway to learn about Vietnameseingredients and how to createsome of the popular culinaryinnovations. 'The Kari Kulture'is for all the ladies who wantto learn the finer aspects ofVietnamese cuisine, super-vised by Chef Rishi. This isfollowed by a meal at therestaurant, where the gueststaste what they cook.

Drizzle Dazzle: Wednesday,August 3rd, 2011. 8 p.m. to11:30 p.m. Aqua, The Park, No14/7, MG Road, A festival ofsizzlers, spanning severalcuisines.

Clay Pot Festival at MandarinTrail: Today 3rd, 12:30 p.m. to11:30 p.m. Mandarin Trail,Mantri Square, No 1, SampigeRoad, A special menu put to-gether by an expert chef fo-cuses on delicacies that arecooked in unglazed clay pots,using techniques that wereemployed in olden-day.

THE DAY OF HIGH DRAMA

Former rural development and panchayat raj minister Ja-gadish Shettar, who is one of the claimants for the chief

minister’s post, proceeds to the BJLP meeting venue alongwith his supporters.

Supporters of outgoing chief minister B S Yeddyurappa getdown from the bus at Capitol Hotel today.

BJP wokers gather in huge numbers to witness the election of new chief minister.

The political drama led to a huge trafficjam in and around Capitol Hotel today.

BJP state president K S Eshwarappa arrives at Capitol hotelfor the BJP Legislature Party meeting today.

S Radhakrishna

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BCCI refuses to react to criticism about schedule

Mumbai: The BCCI today refusedto react to widespread criticismabout the lack of preparation bythe Indian team in the run-upto the Test series against Englandwhich it is trailing 0-2 right now.

“I don’t react to media criti-cisms. I don’t want to react toanything,” BCCI chief ShashankManohar said from Nagpur.

India, fighting to retain theworld number one ranking, havebeen thrashed by huge marginsin the first two Tests by hostsEngland and are in clear dangerof losing the four-match series.

England need to win the rub-ber by a two-match margin toovertake India and shoot to thetop of the official ICC Test rank-ings.

Among the strong critics wasDhoni’s predecessor Sourav Gan-guly, who blamed the absenceof enough warm-up games forthe team’s predicament.

“I am a firm believer that everytime you tour, you need at leasttwo warm-up games and theyabsolutely could have played anextra game,” said the Bengalstalwart, who retired from inter-national cricket a few years ago.India captain Dhoni, under fireafter having lost the first matchat Lord’s – the 100th encounterbetween the two rivals – by 196runs and the next at TrentBridge by 319 runs, concededyesterday that the preparationsfor the series had not been ide-al.

“It’s a mental thing as well,because for some of us it’s beena seven-match Test series withhardly a gap.

The preparation needs to beslightly different which is whywe are saying the next ten daysare important for us ? not onlyphysically but mentally as well,”the Ranchi-born wicket keeper

batsman said in England yes-terday, the scheduled fifth day

of the second Test. India had one extra day’s

rest after being beaten withinfour days in Nottingham. Theyhad arrived in England straightafter completing a three-Testseries in the West Indies thatDhoni took part in.

The Indians went into thehigh-profile Test rubber after alone three-day warm-up gameagainst Somerset that Dhoniskipped totally while iconicbatsman Sachin Tendulkar andpace spearhead Zaheer Khanbatted and bowled only in thefirst innings.

Khan, who missed the entireCaribbean visit due to an ankleinjury, later pulled up with ahamstring strain after bowlingonly 13 full overs in the Lord’sTest, which reduced India to athree-man attack in the match.

Dhoni has been shoddy withhis glove work and out of touch

with the bat while championbatsman Tendulkar showedsigns of slowly getting into thegroove during his well-craftedhalf century in the second in-nings of the Nottingham matchbut is still waiting for his 100thinternational hundred. Khanmissed the second Test.

Off spinner Harbhajan Singh,who completed 400 Test wicketsat Lord’s after giving away over200 runs and was a virtual pas-senger with the ball in the TrentBridge tie, also complained ofan abdominal strain during theEngland second innings.

The Indians now have a two-day tour game in Northamptonbefore the do-or-die third Testof the rubber scheduled in Edg-baston, Birmingham, from Au-gust 10.

The fourth and last Test is tobe played at The Oval from August 18. PTI

Members of JD(U) protest against illegal mining of sand, stone and iron ore in the state, in front of Town Hall today.They demanded that investigation into mining scandals should be handed over to the CBI.

Protest against mining scams galoreS Radhakrishna

19 Indians indicted in massive healthcare fraud in US

New York: A federal grand juryin the US has indicted 26 people,including 19 Indians, for theirparticipation in a multi-milliondollar health care fraud and drugdistribution scheme to facilitatethe submission of false claimsto Medicaid and private insur-ers.

The indictment returned by afederal grand jury in Detroitcharged 26 individuals, includingdoctors and psychologists, UnitedStates Attorney Barbara Mc-Quade announced today.

An Indian-origin pharmacistis accused of being at the centerof the conspiracy. The 34-countindictment alleges that 49-yearold pharmacist Babubhai Patel,the beneficial owner and con-troller of some 26 pharmacies,concealed his ownership andcontrol over many of the PatelPharmacies through the use of

straw owners.The indictment alleges that

Patel would offer and pay kick-backs, bribes and other induce-ments to physicians, in order toinduce those physicians to writeprescriptions for patients withMedicare, Medicaid, and privateinsurance, and to direct thatthose prescriptions be presentedto one of the Patel Pharmaciesfor billing.

“Today’s arrests and the al-legations in the indictment bringto light one of the largest diver-sion conspiracies ever uncoveredin the state of Michigan. Theseindividuals abused their posi-tions of trust and endangeredthe lives of countless people byillegally distributing more thansix million doses of opiatepainkillers and depressantsthroughout southeast Michiganand beyond,” special agent in

charge of drug enforcement ad-ministration’s Detroit field divi-sion Robert Corso said.

The indictment further allegesthe individuals conspired to dis-tribute controlled substances atthe Patel pharmacies, in orderto facilitate the submission offalse and fraudulent claims toMedicare, Medicaid and privateinsurers.

Patel and his associates paidphysicians and podiatrists as-sociated with the scheme, kick-backs and other inducementsin exchange for the medical pro-fessionals writing prescriptionsfor controlled substances fortheir patients, and directingthose patients to fill the pre-scriptions at a Patel Pharmacy.

Patel Pharmacies billed theMedicare programme not lessthan $37.7 million for medica-tions purportedly provided to

Medicare beneficiaries since Jan-uary 2006 and not less than$20.8 million for medicationspurportedly provided to Medi-caid beneficiaries over the courseof the scheme.

In addition to Patel, thosenamed in the 34-count indict-ment are physician Paul Petre,pharmacists Dineshkmar Patel,Anish Bhavsar, Ashwini Sharma,Pinakeen Patel, Kartik Shah, Vi-ral Thaker, Hiren Patel,Miteshkumar Patel, Lokeh Tayal,Narendera Cheraku and ChetanGujarathi.

Arpitkumar Patel, SumanrayRaval, Harpreet Sachdeva,Ramesh Patel, Rana Naeem,physician Mustak Vaid, psychol-ogist and patient recruiterSanyani Edwards and businessassociate Komal Acharya havealso been named in the indict-ment. PTI

Pak court adjourns hearing on Sarabjit‑linked plea

Lahore: A hearing on a petitionchallenging a possible presiden-tial pardon for Sarabjit Singh,an Indian national on death rowfollowing his conviction for al-leged involvement in bomb at-tacks in Pakistan in 1990, hasbeen adjourned till September20 by a court here.

A deputy attorney general(DAG) appeared before a benchof the Lahore High Court yester-day and sought time to file areply to the petition on behalfof the government.

Referring to another petitionfiled by Sarabjit’s counsel to be-come party to the case, the DAGsaid he had not been provided acopy of this petition so far.

At this juncture, Chief JusticeIjaz Chaudhry asked Sarabjit’scounsel Awais Sheikh to give acopy of his petition to the lawofficer so that he could file areply on behalf of the govern-ment. Lawyer Rana IlamuddinGhazi had filed the petition chal-lenging a possible presidentialpardon for Sarabjit.

He said the Indian nationalhad been given the death sen-tence by the trial court. The HighCourt and the apex court hadrejected his appeals against hisconviction, Ghazi said.

Even Sarabjit’s mercy petitionhad been dismissed by formerPresident Pervez Musharraf, headded.

Ghazi said Dalbir Kaur, thesister of Sarabjit, recently visitedPakistan and appealed to Presi-dent Asif Ali Zardari to commuteher brother’s death sentence tolife imprisonment and releasehim from jail.

Sarabjit has been on deathrow since he was convicted foralleged involvement in four bombblasts in 1990 that killed 14 peo-ple. His family insists he waswrongly convicted for the bomb-ings.

Though Sarabjit was set to behanged in 2008, Pakistani au-thorities put off his executionindefinitely after Prime MinisterYousuf Raza Gilani intervenedin the matter. PTI

PM assuresLS on salaries

to AI staffNew Delhi: The government to-day came under pressure frommembers in the Lok Sabha overnon-payment of salaries to AirIndia employees, with PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh as-suring the House that ways andmeans would be found to paywages soon.

“Whatever be the final out-come of the Group of Ministers,I can assure the House that thegovernment will find ways andmeans and ensure that wagesand salaries are paid,” the PrimeMinister said while interveningduring the question hour. It isan open secret that Air India isin “serious difficulty” and thegovernment has constituted aGoM to look into the steps to betaken for financial restructuringof the ailing airline and bring itback to normal, he said.

He said the salaries for Juneand July and productivity-linkedincentive for employees wouldbe paid soon. PTI

Karnataka State Open University vice-chancellor K Rangappa inaugurates a one-dayseminar on ille-effects of narcotic drugs in Mysore today.

Beware of drugs! G S Ravishankar

Shashank Manohar

Sensex tanks over 223 pts inopening trade on global cuesMumbai: The Bombay Stock Ex-change benchmark Sensex plum-meted by over 223 points in open-ing trade today to trade belowthe 18,000-mark on continuedselling by foreign funds and retailinvestors, spooked by the con-tinued uncertainty in global mar-kets.

The 30-share barometer, whichlost 204.44 points in yesterday’strade, slid further by 223.32points, or 1.23 per cent, to belowthe 18,000-level at 17,886.57 in

the first few minutes of trade to-day. Similarly, the wide-basedNational Stock Exchange Niftyindex moved down by 70.70points, or 1.29 per cent, to5,385.85. Stocks of realty, capitalgoods, auto, finance and IT com-panies remained under pressure,dragging down the Sensex.

Market experts said the bearishtrading sentiment at home mir-rored the weak trend on otherAsian bourses in early trade to-day, following overnight losses

in the US market as fears aboutthe health of the global economywere renewed by poor economicdata that overshadowed a con-gressional deal to raise America’sdebt ceiling to avoid a first-everdefault. In the Asian region,Hong Kong’s Hang Seng indexfell by 1.97 per cent and Japan’sNikkei by 2.21 per cent this morn-ing. In the US, the Dow JonesIndustrial Average ended 2.19per cent lower in the previoussession. PTI

First full TNbudget tomorrowChennai: The first full-fledgedbudget of the Tamil Nadu gov-ernment for 2011-12 will be pre-sented tomorrow by finance min-ister O Panneerselvam, markingthe start of a long and possiblystormy session which could seearch rivals AIADMK and DMKlock horns on issues like UniformSystem of School Education(Samacheer Kalvi) and “vendettapolitics.”

The budget comes after gov-

ernment’s recent move to revisetax rates to mop up revenue,even as chief minister Jayalalithaahad been accusing the previousDMK government of landing thestate in a “debt trap,” a chargestrongly denied by DMK.

The first budget of the AIADMK government is expected to spell out steps tospur revenue generation evenas the state is grappling withpower cuts.

Life hit in Valleydue to Hurriyat strike

Srinagar: Normal life in KashmirValley was disrupted today dueto a strike call given by hardlineHurriyat Conference ChairmanSyed Ali Shah Geelani to protestagainst the custodial death of ayouth in Sopore town.

Schools, shops, business es-tablishments, private offices andbanks remained closed in mostparts of the Valley due to thestrike, officials said.

Sopore and other adjoiningareas observed a complete shut-down as roads wore a desertedlook in the apple town, 55 kmfrom here.

Public transport services werealso crippled across Kashmir.

However, mini-buses could beseen plying on some routes inthe outskirts of the summer cap-ital, they said.

Attendance in government of-fices also remained thin due tonon-availability of transport fa-cilities, they added.

Geelani had called for a shut-down to protest against the deathof Nazim Rashid alias Anjum inpolice custody at Sopore on July31.

Government has suspendedthree policemen, attached aDeputy SP and transferred theSP Sopore as part of investiga-tions into the death of the 28-year-old youth. PTI

Former mayor Nataraj swings a bat at the inauguration of Youth Power, a sports organisation, at JP Nagar this morning.

Swinging it S Radhakrishna

SeniorAIADMK

man foundmurdered

Rameswaram (TN): A seniorAIADMK functionary was foundmurdered near a cell phone tow-er at nearby Kumbaram, leading to tension in some partsof Ramanathapuram district to-day.

Sadhveeka Seelan (40) wasreturning home last night withRs 65,000 in cash after closing his petrol pump at Raghunathapuram when hewas murdered by some unidentified men, police said.

Seelan was the son of lateSelliah Servai, who was a stateGeneral Council member.

The motive for the murder isnot yet clear, police said, addinga team had been formed to nabthe culprits. PTI

Govt to decide on reviewof Salwa Judum order

New Delhi: The Centre will inthe next few days decide if itwill seek a review of the recentSupreme Court ruling on dis-banding Salwa Judum and dis-arming tribals deployed as Spe-cial Police Officers in operationsagainst Maoists, Home MinisterP Chidambaram said today.

Replying to supplementariesduring Question Hour in RajyaSabha, Chidambaram said hisministry, in consultation withthe Law Ministry, is examiningdirections to the central govern-ment in the apex court rulingon Salwa Judum.

He said the “very elaborate”

Supreme Court ruling gave di-rections on where SPOs can beengaged and where they cannot.The court also gave directionsto Chhattisgarh government aswell as the Centre.

“This judgment has far reach-ing implications. We have to ap-proach this matter with due cau-tion and care,” he said. Asked ifcentral government has decidedto seek a review of the decision,he said, “We will take a decision(on it) in the next few days.”

The Chhattisgarh governmenthas promulgated an ordinanceto absorb the SPOs posted inMaoist areas into the regular po-

lice force. The Chhattisgarh Aux-iliary Armed Police Force Ordi-nance, 2011 “is within the leg-islative powers of the State ofChhattisgarh,” the Minister said.

The ordinance dealt with onepart of the judgment and thelarger issue raised was underconsideration of the Home Min-istry. “A direction has also beengiven by the Supreme Court tothe central government to ceaseand desist, forthwith, from usingany of its funds in supporting,directly or indirectly, the recruit-ment of SPOs by the state gov-ernments for operations againstthe naxalites,” he said. PTI

Teacher turns barberto punish students

Palakkad (Kerala): In a bizarreincident,a teacher allegedly cutthe hair of over 90 boy studentsto maintain the school code atKendriya Vidyalaya at nearbyKanjikode.

Though the incident has comeunder severe criticism from par-ents and locals, he may escapedisciplinary action with parentsand students not insisting on itafter he apologised.

The punishment was metedout to students who did not croptheir hair properly despite re-peated warnings. The incidenton Monday just after the morningassembly session came to lightyesterday after locals took it upwith school authorities.

It is alleged that the teacher,Pradeep Raveendran, went on acutting spree on boys that lastedover three periods without theknowledge of either the principalor his colleagues.

He chose students who hadnot cut their hair, lined them upbehind the assembly hall beforesetting out on his `disciplinarymission’ with a pair of scissorsbrought from his home, sourcessaid.

Obviously not adept at theprofession, he ended his workleaving them a sorry look withtheir hair cut haphazardly.

Angry parents lodged a com-plaint against the teacher withschool authorities,after which

local people also intervened inthe issue. The principal laterconvened a meeting of parentsduring which the teacher ten-dered an unconditional apology.School authorities have informedthe Kendriya Vidyalaya Sang-hathan Chennai centre of theincident and sought an expla-nation from the teacher con-cerned.

However, School principal SNalayini told PTI that most ofthe ‘affected’ students and theirparents had given in writing thatthey were not insisting on actionagainst the teacher and askedthe authorities not to relax anyschool code in the light of the‘sorry’ incident. PTI

Karnataka State Pollution Control Board chairman Sadashivaiah and member-secretary A S Puttabuddi launch a study on “Distribution of Resources in Bangalore” at the KSPCB

headquarters in the city today. A one-day seminar too was held on the occasion.

Use of resources in BangaloreGangadhar Pujar

Beyond BeatWednesday, August 3, 2011

Bangalore Beat Bureau

They are the pride of Bangalore.School boys selected from variousschools in the city are taking partin the Children’s Olympics beingheld in Scotland this year.

Why only football and not other sports?“We could have fielded boys and girls inother sports. But lack of sponsors made usstick only to football. In future, with anysponsors coming forward we will fieldboys and girls in other sports as well,” saidElvis Joseph, director, Bangalore Schools

Sports Foundation, who is working to-wards promoting youth sports in the city.

“With the exception of UB Group chair-man Vijay Mallya none came forward. Wehad no other option but to go with only thefootball team,” he said.

Joseph said, “Dr Mallya has alwaysbeen interested in promoting sports. Heowns Force 1 the Formula 1 team from In-dia. He supports various sporting activitiesworldwide. To promote motoring sportsand to promote India at the internationallevel, he has started the Force India F1 TeamAcademy. It launched the first compre-hensive initiative, the ‘Hunt for 1 from a Bil-lion’, to identify and groom future racingstars from the country. Now, he has sup-ported our team.”

The boys have been selected fromVidyaniketan School, National PublicSchools and Baldwin’s High School. Theunder-15 team is going to take part in the45th International Children’s Games, en-dorsed by the International Olympic Com-mittee. It will see the participation of over1,500 children from 80 countries at La-narkshire from August 3 to 8. Boys and girlsin the age group of 12 to 15 are participat-ing in the event.

Tennis, basketball, swimming, golf, vol-leyball and judo are some of the otherevents at the games.

The team from the city includes: AdityaShankar, Chirag Madhukar, HemanthJanakiraman, Rishab Agarwal, SidharthBalaji, Sutejas Chari, Shiv Moola, Vipin

Kannur, H R Uttam Kumar, Shobik Pandey,Faiz Ahmed, Mohan Kumar and JosephSelvi. Last year, the games were held inBahrain, Manama and in Athens, Greece in2009.

Brief history of gamesThe first International Children's Games

(ICG) were held in Celje, Slovenia in 1968

at the height of the Cold War and more than40 years later, the vision of the foundingmembers for the event has firmly been es-tablished. The games were the brainchildof physical education teacher ProfessorMetod Klemenc, a Yugoslavian who hadsuffered enormously as a youngster duringthe Second World War. He did not want fu-ture generations to endure the suffering and

started the games.It was his vision to create an event fos-

tering a better understanding among chil-dren of different cultural backgrounds,as well as promoting peace and harmonyworldwide which led to the inauguralGames being held in Slovenia, then part ofYugoslavia, in 1968.

The ICG is now governed by an executive

committee and general assembly recog-nised by the International Olympics Com-mittee.

The games have attracted over 35,200participants, representing 332 cities from 74 countries over four continents and arenow believed to be the largest gathering of young people taking part in sports in theworld.

People mirror mannerisms of those they like

Washington: Two people who like each other willoften unwittingly mirror each other’s mannerisms,leaning forward in close synchrony, for instance,that strengthens their bond, says a new research.

In popular culture, mirroring is frequentlyused as a strategy, for flirting or having a successfuldate, for closing a sale or facing a job interview.

But new research suggests that sometimes thesmarter thing to do is to refrain from mirroring, thejournal Psychological Science reports.

Piotr Winkielman and Liam Kavanagh, psy-chologists at the University of California, SanDiego, noted that in real-life situations others ob-serve mirroring between two people, according toa California statement.

“Mimicry is a crucial part of social intelli-gence,” said Winkielman, professor of psycholo-gy. “But it is not enough to simply know how tomimic.”

“It’s also important to know when and what notto. The success of mirroring depends on mirror-ing the right people at the right time for the rightreasons. Sometimes the socially intelligent thingto do is not to imitate.”

Study participants were asked to watch sever-al staged and videotaped interviews, which hadboth cordial and unfriendly interviewers. Inter-viewees who mimicked the unfriendly interlocu-tor were judged to be less competent than thosewho didn’t.

In a second experiment, participants were ex-posed to the same videos but with the interview-er obscured. In other words, they couldn’t see anyevidence of mimicry, and the results supported theresearchers’ hypothesis.

It is not merely interacting with negativelyperceived people that has a social cost; you paya price for aligning with them through body lan-guage. IANS

Grapes may help prevent early ageing

London: If you wish to avoid looking older thanyour age, try relishing grapes. A new study hasfound this fruit could protect against skin cancerand prevent premature ageing.

The study has shown that compounds found inthe fruit protect cells from the ultraviolet radiationemitted by the sun — the leading environmentalcause of skin cancer, Daily Mail reported.

Ultra violet (UV) rays increase the levels of re-active oxygen species — harmful molecules whichdamage the cells — in the skin.

Scientists from the University of Barcelonaand the Spanish National Research Council haveshown that substances called flavonoids ex-tracted from grapes can prevent these from form-ing in cells exposed to UV rays. “These encour-aging results should be taken into consideration...to develop new photo-protection skin products,”says Marta Cascante, a biochemist at the Univer-sity of Barcelona and director of the project.

Cascante, whose report was published in theJournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry,added: “This study supports the idea of using theseproducts to protect the skin from cell damage anddeath caused by solar radiation.” IANS

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Why packing on pounds is riskier for Indians

Toronto: Packing on pounds is riskier forIndians and other South Asians thanwhite people, says a study.

While white Caucasian people storetheir extra body fat in their waistlines, In-dians and other South Asians carry thisextra fat into their internal organs like liv-er and abdomen affecting their normalfunctioning.

It is this disruption of normal organfunctions among Indians and SouthAsians that triggers diabetes and heartproblems, says the study conducted bya young Indo-Canadian researcher.

Sonia Anand, who is professor ofmedicine and epidemiology at McMasterUniversity, says that the prevalence of di-abetes and coronary diseases amongSouth Asians is due to their body adding“the organ-hugging fat” that leads tothese diseases.

“South Asians have less space to storefat below the skin than white Cau-casians. Their excess fat, therefore, over-flows to ectopic compartments, in the ab-domen and liver where it may affect func-tion,” says Anand.

She says this visceral fat is associatedwith metabolic problems such as ele-vated glucose and abnormal lipids whichlead to coronary artery disease.

Her study support previous researchwhich shows that, even with the samebody mass index (BMI) as Caucasians,

people from the Indian subcontinenthave more risk factors for cardiovascu-lar disease, including type 2 diabetes, low‘good’ cholesterol, and more abdominalobesity.

Arya Sharma, director of the Canadi-an Obesity Network and a co-author ofthe study, added, “This study helps ex-plain why South Asians experience

weight-related health problems at low-er BMI levels than Caucasians. For the cli-nician, this also means that individualsof South Asian heritage need to bescreened for the presence of heart diseaseand diabetes at lower BMIs.”

The study by Anand and Sharma appears in the medical journal PLoS ONE. IANS

Now, a robot that can walk on water

Washington: Scientists claim to have developed an aquatic robot which can walk on water.

An international team says that the micro-robot mimics the amazing water-walking abil-ities of water strider – the long-legged insectthat scoots across the surface of ponds, lakesand other waterways.

The bionic microrobot incorporates im-provements over previous devices of this kindthat position it as a prime candidate for mili-tary spy missions, water pollution monitoring,and other applications, say the scientists.

“Walking on the water surface is a dream ofhumans, but it is exactly the way of life forsome aquatic insects,” said team leader Qin-min Pan.

The robot can walk on water because of itshighly water-repellent (superhydrophobic)legs, says the team.

The scientists describe progress on a new ro-bot, with a body about the size of a quarter; 10water-repellent, wire legs; and two movable,oar-like legs – propelled by two miniature mo-tors.

“Because the weight of the microrobot isequal to that of about 390 water striders, onemight expect that it will sink quickly whenplaced on the water surface,” say the scientists.

However, it stands effortlessly on water surfaces and also walks and turns freely, according to the findings which are published in the ‘Applied Materials & Inter-faces’ journal. PTI

The under‑15 football team, picked from various schools in the city, is heading toScotland for the International Childrenʼs Games, endorsed by the International

Olympic Committee. The team would not have travelled if not for the sponsorship ofUB Group chairman Dr Vijay Mallya, says L Raghunanda

The Under-15 football team from the city that is taking part in the International Children’s Games at Lanarkshire in Scotland from August 3-8.

Active lifestyle can help improve decision‑makingWashington: A more active lifestyle seems tobe the best way to help us improve our decision-making based on what we hear, says a study.

Ray Hull, audiologist at Wichita State Uni-versity in the US, describes auditory processingas the ability to make decisions about what wehear and the ability to comprehend what is be-ing said to us.

Even moderate cardiovascular exercise inyour late 80s or early 90s can improve the abil-ity to process what you hear and help speed upthe decision-making process, adds Hull, pro-fessor in communication sciences and disordersat Wichita State, who led the study.

Somehow activities appear to turn back ourbiological clock and help us process informa-

tion better, reports the American Journal of Au-diology.

“One of the reasons the processing of whatpeople hear tends to decline with advancing ageis that they become less and less active as theyget older,” says Hull, according to a Wichitastatement.

Adult children often wonder: “Why can’t dadseem to understand what we’re saying to himor make decisions about what we tell himanymore?”

Hull, who led the study, said the answer tothat question may not be that dad is hard ofhearing, but it may be his inability to compre-hend or process what he hears, which may bedue to lethargic lifestyle.

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Actress Sissy Spacek poses for photographers after receiving a

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world briefs

Ban Ki‑Moon to travel to

quake‑hit JapanUnited Nations: UN Secretary-General BanKi-moon will depart Aug 6 on a trip toquake-affected areas of Japan, and later toSouth Korea, his spokesman Martin Nesirkyhas said.

“While in Japan, he will visit Fukushimato see first-hand the devastation caused bythe March earthquake and tsunami in thecity of Soma,” Xinhua quoted as saying ata daily briefing.

“He will visit an evacuation centre andspeak with students at a high school inFukushima city,” he said.

Ban will later travel to Tokyo, where hewill meet Prime Minister Naoto Kan andForeign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto.

“During his visit, the secretary-generalhopes to express his admiration to the gov-ernment and to the people of Japan as theywork towards recovery from the recenttriple catastrophe,” Nesirky said.

After his stay in Japan, Ban will travel tohis native South Korea, “where he willlaunch the Global Model United NationsConference in Incheon,” the spokesmansaid.

“He will meet with President Lee Myung-bak and Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan,the speaker of the National Assembly, andthe National Assembly’s Millennium De-velopment Goals (MDG) Working Group,as well as with members of the GlobalCompact Korea network,” Nesirky added.

Ban will return to the UN headquartersin New York Aug 14.

Bomb sent inpackage to

Bosnian courtBelgrade: A hand grenade was detected ina package sent through regular mail to theCourt of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo,a media report said.

The grenade was discovered when thepackage was passed through the court’sscanner. It was addressed to the “Presidentof the Court”, Xinhua reported citing Bosn-ian news agency Fena.

Sarajevo police officials conducting aforensic analysis said the package originatedfrom the central Bosnian town of Zepceand finger prints on the package had beenidentified. They did not release further de-tails.

London courtbars teenagerfrom using net

London: A teenager in Britian has beenprohibited from using internet after beingaccused of hacking into the websites ofnational law enforcement agency and anational health trust.

Jake Davis of the remote north of Scotlandappeared at London’s City of Westminstermagistrate’s court Monday for hacking intothe websites of the Serious Organised CrimeAgency and a national health trust, theDaily Express reported.

Though district judge Howard Riddlegranted him bail, Davis was told that hecould neither access internet through acomputer or a mobile phone nor could heask someone else to do it on his behalf.

He has also been asked to live with hismother at her home in Spalding town ofLincolnshire county, wear an electronic tagand stay indoors between 10 p.m. and 7a.m. Davis, 18, was arrested at his home inthe Shetland islands by police probing in-cidents, including attacks on Sony and me-dia mogul Rupert Murdoch’s empire. IANS

Pak dronestrike kills 4

Islamabad: At least four people were killedin a drone strike Tuesday night in Pakistan’snorthwest tribal area bordering Afghanistan,Xinhua reported.

The strike took place at about 9 pm whenthe drones fired two missiles at vehiclessuspected to be carrying militants in Mi-ranshah town of North Waziristan.

Another media report said four missileswere fired at three vehicles and one housein Quttub Khel, a village about four kmfrom Miranshah. IANS

London: Replacing petrol and dieselwith plant-based biofuels may becrucial in curbing climate changebut the manufacture of such fuelscould leave hazardous chemicals,new research says.

The study can predict the level oftoxicity of biofuels on the basis ofcomputer analysis, says chemistSolvejg Jorgensen from the Universityof Copenhagen, Denmark.

Jorgensen’s calculations also showthat biofuels produced by the wrongsynthesis path will decompose tocompounds such as health hazardoussmog, carcinogenic particles and

toxic formaldehyde. The research promises cheaper,

faster and above all safer develop-ment of alternatives to fossil fuels,the Journal of Physical Chemistry Areports.

Previously an assessment of theenvironmental impact of a givenmethod of production could not becarried out until the fuel had actuallybeen made, according to a Copen-hagen statement.

“There are an almost infinite num-ber of different ways to get to thesefuels. We can show the least haz-ardous avenues to follow and we can

do that with a series of calculationsthat take only days,” explains Jor-gensen.

Chemically biofuels are composedof extremely large molecules. As theydegrade during combustion and laterin the air, they peel of several differentcompounds.

But Jorgensen was astonished tolearn there is a huge difference intoxicity depending on how the molecules assemble during produc-tion. She was also buoyed up by thefact that she could calculate speedilyand precisely the degradation mech-anisms for a biofuel molecule. IANS

Artificial hearttransplant

surgery in UKLondon: Surgeons claim to havecarried out a ground-breakingartificial heart transplant oper-ation on a 40-year-old man whowas suffering from end-stagefailure of both chambers of hisheart.

During a six-hour successfuloperation, surgeons at PapworthHospital in the UK replacedMatthew Green's damaged heartwith a device that they say willserve the role of both ventriclesand heart valves, 'The Daily Tele-graph' reported.

The device provides a bloodflow of up to 9.5 litres, eliminat-ing the symptoms and effects ofsevere heart failure.

The artificial heart will bepowered by a "freedom portabledriver", worn like a backpackor shoulder bag. A team, led bySteven Tsui, carried out the sur-gery on Green whoc sufferedfrom arrhythmogenic right ven-tricular cardiomyopathia, a heartmuscle disease which results inarrhythmia, heart failure, andsudden death.

"Matthew's condition was de-

teriorating rapidly and we dis-cussed with him the possibilityof receiving this device, becausewithout it he may not have sur-vived the wait until a suitabledonor heart could be found forhim.

"The operation went extremelywell and Matthew has made anexcellent recovery. I expect himto go home very soon, beingable to do a lot more than beforethe operation with a vastly im-proved quality of life, until wecan find a suitable donor heartfor him to have a heart trans-plant," Dr Tsui said.

A jubilant Green added: "Twoyears ago I was cycling ninemiles to work and nine milesback every day but by the time Iwas admitted to hospital I wasstruggling to walk even a fewyards. "I am really excited aboutgoing home and just being able to do the everyday thingsthat I haven't been able to dofor such a long time such asplaying in the garden with myson and cooking a meal for myfamily." PTI

Physics may explaincrop‑circles mystery

Washington: Crop circles whichappear on farmers’ fields, withtheir gigantic yet intricate pat-terns, have intrigued scientistsand UFO buffs for decades, butwith none emerging any wiser.

However, Richard Taylor, di-rector of the Materials ScienceInstitute at the University of Ore-gon, takes a serious, hard lookat a topic that critics might claimis beyond scientific understand-ing.

Taylor says physics could holdthe answer, with crop-circleartists possibly using the GlobalPositioning System (GPS) as wellas lasers and microwaves to cre-ate their patterns, dispensingwith the rope, planks of woodand bar stools, the journalPhysics World reports.

Microwaves, Taylor suggests,could be used to make cropstalks fall over and cool in ahorizontal position a techniquethat could explain the speedand efficiency of the artists andthe incredible detail that somecrop circles exhibit, accordingto an Oregon statement.

Indeed, one research teamclaims to be able to reproduce

the intricate damage inflictedon crops using a handheld mag-netron, readily available frommicrowave ovens, and a 12Vbattery.

As Taylor writes, the “crop-circle artists are not going togive up their secrets easily. This

summer, unknown artists willventure into the countrysideclose to your homes and carryout their craft, safe in the knowl-edge that they are continuingthe legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in his-tory”. IANS

Bacteria can purify

toxic waterMelbourne: Researchers claim to have shown for thefirst time that naturally occurring bacteria can helppurify toxic water.

A team at the University of New South Wales hasshown it can safely destroy industrial toxins in ground-water arising from PVC plastic production by injectingnaturally occurring bacteria into a contaminatedaquifer in Sydney.

The trial has confirmed the bacteria’s natural abilityto degrade and clean up chlorinated solvents thatleaked many years ago from a former chemical plantinto the Botany Sands Aquifer, creating large plumesof contaminated groundwater.

“With present technology, it was expected that itmight take decades or perhaps centuries before thesetoxic solvents are removed from the aquifer,” ProfMike Manefield, who led the team, said.

He added: “The energy demands and hence the fi-nancial burden of operating the contaminant con-tainment system over this period of time is significant,but with our cultures in the ground we have the po-tential to greatly reduce the cleanup time and thecost and environmental footprint of containment.

“Our tests showed that these bacteria effectivelybreathe these pollutants the way we breathe oxygen.It’s a big step forward. These cultures represent agreener and cheaper tool we can use to clean upsome of our contaminated sites. They have not previ-ously been available in Australia.”

The researchers collected bacteria occurring naturallyin the Botany aquifer and isolated three bacterialcommunities that live off the breakdown of pollutants,including the first one known to degrade chloroform– a possible carcinogen that has been banned formany years in consumer products.

It’s found that bacteria had not degraded more ofthe pollutants on their own as they couldn’t build upand sustain large populations in the aquifer due to alack of food.

Further studies in which large volumes of thebacteria were grown in beer kegs showed that they thrived on a variety of diets, including ethanol,glucose and emulsified vegetable oils, say the researchers. PTI

Mubarak to stand trial for corruption, murder

Cairo: Ousted Egyptian President HosniMubarak is set to stand trial today oncharges of corruption and ordering thekilling of pro-democracy protesters dur-ing a massive uprising that toppled hisregime in February.

Egyptian authorities have said the83-year-old former strongman is healthyenough to travel to Cairo, where securityhas been beefed up in wake of themuch-awaited trial.

The trial will include Mubarak’s sons,Alaa and Gamal, former Interior MinisterHabib al-Adly and six of his assistants.

“Mubarak can travel to stand trial inCairo and the Cabinet would coordinatewith the Health and Interior ministriesto transport him,” Egyptian Health Min-ister Amr Helmy was quoted as sayingby ‘Al-Masry Al-Youm’ newspaper.

The Health Ministry will ensure thata medical team and healthcare are pro-vided for Mubarak during the trip, butthe Interior Ministry is responsible for

other necessary procedures, Helmy said.Mubarak, who ruled with an iron fist

for nearly three decades, is under arrestin a hospital in the Red Sea resort townof Sharm el-Sheikh since April, wherehe receives treatment for a heart con-dition. Helmy said Mubarak’s healthcondition had changed little recentlyand he suffers from depression andmaintains a low appetite.

According to news reports, more than1,000 security personnel will be deployedaround the Cairo Police Academy, wherethe trial is set to take place, and effortshave been made to ensure spectatorsin the court don’t get close enough tothe defendants’ case to avoid any agi-tation.

Besides the killing of protesters duringthe nationwide revolt in February,Mubarak has been charged with involvement in corruption and abuseof power. If found guilty of the murdercharge, he could be executed.

The trial will be televised live on state TV. PTI

Motorcycle helmets couldmake you hard of hearing

London: Motorcycle helmetsmay be protecting bikers’ brainsbut they could also be leavingthem vulnerable to hearing loss.

Kennedy O Adetifa, M Carley,N Holt and I Walker, researchersin mechanical engineering, man-agement and psychology fromthe universities of Bath and BathSpa, Britain, mapped the airflowand noise patterns to find outwhy.

The distinctive roar of aHarley’s engine is loud, but stud-ies have revealed the biggestsource of noise for motorcyclistsis actually generated by airwhooshing over the riders’ hel-mets.

Even at legal speeds, thesound can exceed safe levels.Now, they have identified a key

source of the rushing din, theJournal of the Acoustical Societyof America reports.

Researchers placed motorcyclehelmets atop mannequin heads,

mounted them in a wind tunnel,and turned on the fans, accord-ing to a Bath statement.

By placing microphones atdifferent locations around thehelmet and at the mannequin’sear, they found that an area un-derneath the helmet and nearthe chin bar is a significantsource of the noise that reachesriders’ sensitive eardrums.

The team also investigatedhow helmet angle and windspeed affected the loudness. Fu-ture tests will move beyond thewind tunnel to real-life riderson the open road.

The findings may one day beused to design quieter helmets,saving riders’ ears for the en-joyment of hard biker rock, theresearchers said. IANS

Clinton meets Syrianactivists in WashingtonWashington: US secretary ofstate Hillary Clinton met a fewUS-based Syrian activists inWashington as the Americangovernment mulls more sanc-tions against the Syrian govern-ment.

During the meeting, Clintonexpressed “her sympathy for thevictims of the Assad regime’sabuses,” Xinhua quoted state department spokesmanMark Toner as saying at a press briefing.

He said Clinton also expressedher “admiration for the courageof the brave Syrian people whocontinue to defy the govern-ment’s brutality in order to ex-press their universal rights”.

Toner added Clinton expressedconfidence in “the Syrian peo-ple’s ability to chart a new coursefor Syria”.

He said the US plans to “moveforward with additional sanc-tions under existing authorities”and it is “exploring the scope”of the these sanctions.

“Our goal here is to isolateAssad, both politically and denyit revenue,” Toner said.

Syria has been in unrest sinceMarch when anti-governmentprotests broke out.

The US has been building up pressure on Syria in recent months, during which it also slapped sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,his inner circle and assets controlled by the Syrian govern-ment.

US President Barack Obamahas vowed America will continueto increase pressure on Syria toisolate Assad and his govern-ment. IANS

Brazil airforce planecrash kills 5

Rio de Janeiro: A Brazilian AirForce plane crashed in the coun-try’s southern region, killing atleast five people on board, Xin-hua reported.

The plane – a C-98A GrandCaravan model carrying eightpeople – crashed onto a ravineand exploded in Santa Catarinastate. Five corpses have beenfound, but there is no informa-tion on the whereabouts of theother three occupants of the air-craft. The plane had taken offfrom Canoas in Rio Grande doSul state, and was headed forRio de Janeiro.

Witnesses said the crash oc-curred when there was a strongwind blowing in the region.

An air force helicopter wassent to search for the missingpeople, but had to return due tothe wind. This was the fifth ac-cident involving Brazilian airforce planes in 2011. IANS

Buildingcrashes inPak blast

Islamabad: At least three peoplewere buried under the debris ofa building that collapsed afterbeing hit by an explosion lateTuesday night in Pakistan’s Gu-jranwala city, Xinhua reported.

Rescue officials said the blastcould have been triggered by agas pipeline leakage. The realcause of the explosion was yetto be found.

The blast took place at about11.15 p.m. near a bank on SailkotRoad in Gujranwala, about 70km north of Lahore. IANS

NoTW formermanaging editorarrested, releasedLondon: Former managing edi-tor of the News of the World,Stuart Kuttner, was today ap-prehended and later released onbail, marking the 11th arrest inthe phone-hacking scandal atthe now-defunct tabloid.

Kuttner, 70, apparently didnot know he was going to betaken into custody when he ar-rived, by appointment, with hissolicitor at a police station inLondon at 11 am to answer ques-tions regarding the scandal.

As per normal practice, Scot-land Yard has not released thename of the arrested person, butaccording to Sky News and TheGuardian, he is Kuttner, whowas a leading figure in the Newsof the World until 2009.

He was bailed this eveninguntil later this month.

Kuttner was arrested on sus-picion of conspiring to interceptcommunications, contrary toSection 1 (1) Criminal Law Act1977, and on suspicion of cor-ruption allegations contrary toSection 1 of the Prevention ofCorruption Act 1906.

Rebekah Brooks, ex-editor ofthe News of the World, was alsoarrested under the same charges.

Kuttner resigned as the man-aging editor in 2009 after playinga leading role in the tabloid’s‘Sarah’s Law’ campaign, whichsought to change the law, soparents can be told when regis-tered sex offenders move intotheir area.

Police from both OperationWeeting, the Metropolitan policeinvestigation into phone hacking,and Elveden, the investigationinto allegations of inappropriate

payments to police, were report-ed to have been involved in thearrest.

The development is the latestin a scandal that has alreadycaused the closure of the 168-year-old newspaper and the res-ignation of two top police officers,as well as 10 arrests.

Others arrested and bailed in-cluded ex-NoTW editor AndyCoulson, ex-NoTW assistant ed-itor Ian Edmondson, ex-NoTWchief reporter Neville Thurlbeck,senior ex-NoTW journalist JamesWeatherup, freelance journalistTerenia Taras, an unnamed 63-year-old man, and ex-NoTW royaleditor Clive Goodman. PTI

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Obama signs debt celing billWashington: US PresidentBarack Obama yesterdaysigned into law a bill thatraises the nation’s borrow-ing limit and avoids a pos-sible debt default after itwas passed by the Senateto avert a major economiccrisis at the last moment.

This gave the US Treas-ury Department an imme-diate authority to borrow$400 billion. The govern-ment had hit its debt limit of $14.3trillion on May 16 and has since beenoperating through spending and ac-counting adjustments.

“The President has signed the bill

and turned it into law,”White House Press SecretaryJay Carney told reporters,when his aide slipped hima note in this regard, in themiddle of his daily newsconference.

The signing of bill camewithin hours of the Senatepassing the austerity planthat seeks to reduce thedeficit by $2.4 trillion.

The Senate voted 74 to26 in favour of the bill after it waspassed by the US House of Representa-tives following weeks of political wran-gling between the Democrats and theRepublicans.

Obama, just before signing the bill,in a speech said, “It was a long andcontentious debate, and I want to thankthe American people for keeping upthe pressure on their elected officialsto put politics aside and work togetherfor the good of the country.”

“This compromise guarantees morethan $2 trillion in deficit reduction. It’san important first step to ensuring that,as a nation, it should live within itsmeans.” he said.

He added: “Yet it also allows us tokeep making key investments in thingslike education and research that leadto new jobs, and assures that we’re notcutting too abruptly while the economy’sstill fragile.” PTI

Comediangets 6 weeksNew York: A comedian, heldfor throwing a foam pie atmedia mogul Rupert Mur-doch during a parliamentaryselect committee hearing inthe phone-hacking scandal,has been jailed for six weeks.

The 80-year-old Murdochwas testifying before Parlia-ment when Jonathan May-Bowles provided the im-promptu facial — and took ashot in return from Murdoch’swife, Wendi, New York DailyNews reported.

District Judge DaphneWickham said, “You attendedwith one objective in mind, which was to disrupt proceedings. Your be-haviour merits a custodialsentence.” IANS

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LIFESTYLE 7Wednesday, August 3, 2011

I f a source is to believed,singer Amy Winehouse gotengaged to Reg Traviss weeks

before her death.Film director Traviss, 35, gave

Winehouse a diamond ring, andshe agreed to marry him, reportsthesun.co.uk.

“Reg asked Amy, and ofcourse she said ‘Yes’. She lovedhim. She wanted nothing morethan to be his wife and to starta family with him. She wantedto get rid of her demons so bad-

ly,” said the source.“They openly said they want-

ed to spend the rest of their livestogether. They both thought theabsolute world of each other.”

Traviss gave her the ring dur-ing an emotional talk abouttheir future.

The couple had been togetherfor two years, and planned tomarry next year.

Winehouse was found deadin her North London home July23. She was 27.

Actress Sadie Frost has desfribedher ex-husband Jude Law is“love of my life” and says she

is happy they enjoy a “very healthy”relationship.

The “Beyond the Rave” actress,who has three children with the Jude,also said that she will always havefeelings for him, even though theydivorced almost eight years ago.

“Right from the beginning, I lovedhim. He is the most amazing manand the love of my life,” contactmu-sic.com quoted the 46-year-old assaying.

“And he is a wonderful father. Irespect him hugely and we have arelationship that is very healthy. Icouldn’t wish for anything more. Weare on really good terms,” she added.

After setting the “BiggBoss” house in India onfire, “Baywatch” beauty

Pamela Anderson has now de-cided to feature on the Britishversion of the reality show “BigBrother”.

The 44-year-old is on thebrink of signing up for theshow, which will go on airChannel 5 this month, reportsdailystar.co.uk. “I am very ex-cited. I will just be myself andhave fun with the contestantsin the house,” she said.

Anderson has an edge overher rivals as she has alreadybeen on the show.

In 2008 she joined the Aus-tralian “Big Brother”. Last yearshe spent three days on India’s“Bigg Boss”.

Now, ʻBig Brotherʼ for Pamela

Lara in the family way,Abhishek wishes her

Carreyʼs paintingto be in new film

With films trying to be more realistic, the depiction ofaffection is also getting bolder, says actress Mahie Gill,who has done intimate scenes in her debut movie “Dev D”and also in her forthcoming “Not A Love Story” but findsthem difficult and awkward.

“I feel awkward doing these scenes and it’s not veryeasy because the entire crew is there. But I feel that it’s likeany other emotion and one has to depict it. The kind ofcinema I am doing is realistic and so this is also a part ofit,” Mahie said in an interview. Asked what goes on in hermind while doing intimate scenes, she said: “The onlything in your mind is that you have to deliver your best. Itshouldn’t look artificial at all.”

After making an impressive start with Anurag Kashyap’s“Dev D” in 2009, Mahie did the offbeat “Gulal” and alsohad a small part in last year’s super hit cop drama “Dabangg”.Next in line is the controversial “Not A Love Story”, inspiredby the murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover, who waskilled by ex-naval officer Jerome Mathew for allegedlyhaving a relationship with his fiancee Maria Susairaj. Inthe film, the 27-year-old had to do love-making sceneswith Deepak Dobriyal. She says director Ram Gopal Varmasent her a “sorry” message for making her do the shotmore than once. “I trust my director completely and Iknew that he will not make it look vulgar. So I wasokay with it. The only thing was that we didthese scenes on the first day of the shoot... Iwas taken aback because I wasn’t mentally pre-pared,” she said. “I have known Deepak forsome time, but I was meeting him after long; soit was a little weird initially,” added the actresswho will also seen in “Saheb, Biwi Aur Gang-ster”.

She said post-”Dev D” most of the roles thatwere offered to her had bedroom scenes andthat’s why she declined them. “After ‘Dev D’,the thing was that most people, who came tome, would not tell me the story, they would justsay that the film has two kissing scenes andthree bedroom scenes, but no story. So I did notdo those films. I won’t do such scenes till thetime I feel it is required,” she specified.

Jude Law loveof my life:

Sadie Frost

I feel awkward doing intimate scenes: Mahie Gill

Helen Mirren tops best body poll

Actress Dame Helen Mir-ren has topped the bestbody in showbiz poll.

The 66-year-old star hastopped the poll voted for bymembers of British gym chainLA Fitness. Mirren beat thelikes of supermodel ElleMacpherson, Jennifer Lopezand Kelly Brook.

Brook and Lopez came thirdand fourth respectively, whileBritish singer Cheryl Cole land-ed at the fifth spot, reportscontactmusic.com.

David Beckham topped themen’s poll, while Daniel Craigcame second. Johnny Deppcame third and Brad Pitt andAustralian singer Peter Andrerounded off the top five.

Actor Jim Carrey, who loves to paintin his free time, is working on a 16feet tall and 12 feet wide canvas and

says one of his art work will be seen in hisnew film “Mr. Popper’s Penguins”.

“I paint a lot and this is a huge passionfor me. So when I’m not acting, I wake upevery morning, have my coffee and I pickup a paint brush. I have a studio in New

York,” okmagazine.com quoted him assaying.

“I have a painting I’m doing. I can’t waitto get back because I have around fivemore days work on it.

It’s 16ft tall and 12ft wide and it’s a blacklight painting. It’s viewable in the daylight,but when you turn the black lights on, itlights up and people come out of the dark,”

he added.A black light painting is a different di-

mension of art with black light and fluo-rescent materials.

The 49-year-old star says one of his artwork can be seen in his new film “Mr.Popper’s Penguins”.

“One of my paintings is in the movie,”he said.

After Aishwarya Rai, it’s Lara Duttawho is in the family way and Ab-hishek Bachchan has wished her,

saying “welcome on board”.“Thank you so much for all ur wishes

and prayers. It’s an awesome time in liferight now and Mahesh and I r both veryexcited abt the baby!,” Lara, who tiedthe knot with ace tennis player MaheshBhupati in February this year, posted onher Twitter page.

In return, Abhishek congratulated herand posted: “Paaji! CONGRATULA-TIONS!!!!!! welcome on board.”

The 33-year-old actress tweeted backsaying, “Thank you so much ab! You’llbe sorted by the time our turn comes,will call for tips!!”

Earlier in June, Aishwarya and Ab-hishek confirmed they are expecting theirfirst baby.

Lara is fondly known as “Lara paaji”in Bollywood and Abhishek and Larahave worked together in two movies –“Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost” and “JhoomBarabar Jhoom”.

Was Winehouse engaged before death?

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

CAPTIVATINGCREATIONS BY

TOP DESIGNERSFive designers displayed their creations on the third day of

Bangalore Fashion Week.

The show opened with the collection of Deepti Reddy andNeha Poddar. Prashant and Sudha presented their combo col-lection. They were followed by Babitha Malkani, Ramesh Demblaand Archana Kochhar. Beautiful models sashayed down theramp captivating the audience.

Photos: Gangadhar Pujar