Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The southern statesregional conference on 12th Fiv-er Year Plan was opened here to-day morning. The meeting willdeliberate upon preparing ap-proach paper for the 12th plan.

Speaking on the occasion,

minister for higher education,statistics and planning Dr V SAcharya said the discussion toprepare consultation will takeplace in four phases. In the firstround each state will preesentits approach to 12th plan, in thesecond round states will havediscussions with its panchayat

and other local bodies, in thethird round discussion will takepalce with representatives ofdifferent segments of the soci-ety and in the fourth roundrepresentatives of chambers ofcommerce and industry will beinvited to elicit their views.

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Entrepreneur of the year P8

Spurnedgirl kills self

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A girl, who was rejected by herboyfriend, committed suicide at Vijayanagarlast night.

The deceased, Shobha (19), was in love fora long time and wanted to marry herboyfriend. Last evening, the boy asked her tocome near a park to talk about the issue. Butshe could not trace him as his phone wasswitched off. A dejected Shobha drank poi-son inside the park and committed suicide,the police said.

SR MINISTERSREADY TO QUIT,work for party

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Many senior ministers have of-fered to resign from their posts and work forthe party, chif minister B S Yeddyurappa toldBJP chief spokesman Ravishankar Prasad,who was in town yesterday.

“All the senior leaders and ministers in theparty know that the party is more importantthan the posts I the government. Power goesand power comes, but the party is perma-nent,” the chief minister is supposed to havesaid. Full report on page 3

TAKING GAMING TO NEXT LEVEL

A team from Bangalore is running for the tophonours at the international gaming contestin Scotland. The winner will get the BAFTA‘Ones to Watch’ videogaming award, says LRaghunanda Page 5

Beyond Beat

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: IT bellwether Infos-ys Technologies has launched apolice complaint against a con-man who had been claiming tobe representative of the compa-ny and was sending fake ap-pointment letters to job seekers.

The conman, identified asAnkit Mittal in the Infosys com-plaint, has sent emails to aspi-rants, saying he had picked uptheir re-sumes froma well-known jobsite and thatthey hadbeen short-listed for ajob interviewon May 29 atthe Infosyscorporate of-fice in Pune.The receiverswere askedto pay Rs10,700 as ani n i t i a lamount infavour of an accounting officer in-charge, whose name details wereto be provided by Ankit. Theemails have gone from nore-ply@emactro.com.

The fake appointment processletters have gone with forged In-fosys letterhead and as an at-tachment in emails.

The company was informedabout the fraudulent activities bymany aspirants, who brought itto the notice of the company.The company has clarified thatthere is no human resource de-

partment staff with the nameAnkit who has been authorized toissue appointment process let-ters.

The email id, noreply@emac-tro.com, is not an official ID of In-fosys. All the employees withthe IT company are given anemail id ending with the domainname @infosys.com, the com-pany says in its complaint. Allthose people who are known tohave received emails from Ankithave been intimated by the com-

pany that itis a fraudand theyshould notact upon it,states thecomplaintwith the cy-ber crimepolice sta-tion in thecity. Thecomplaint,dated May25, has beenlaunched byI S Krishna-murthy forInfosys.

The company says it has re-ceived information from sevenpersons who have received theemail from Ankit.

The company states that Ankitand his accomplices were fraud-ulently misrepresenting and mis-using Infosys’ goodwill and rep-utation to achieve their evil de-signs.

These acts amount to offencespunishable under the Indian Pe-nal Code, the IT Act and otherprovisions of law, the complaintstates.

Conman takesInfyʼs name,

tries to swindlejob seekers

Haridwar: Doctors have suggested im-mediate hospitalisation of yoga guruRamdev whose indefinite fast againstcorruption and black money enteredseventh day today as his health pa-rameters continued to remain “wor-risome”.

“His blood pressure is 104/70which is low and pulse rate is 58 perminute which is also low. If his pulserate and BP continue to go down, itmay put some pressure on his heart.We found that his health is goingdown. It is worrisome,” chief medicalofficer Yogesh Chandra Sharma saidafter conducting medical examina-tion of Ramdev whose fast enteredseventh day today.

The CMO said there are 183 peoplein Patanjali ashram who are sitting onfast with the 46-year-old yoga guru.

“We have recommended him im-mediate hospitalisation. He should beadmitted on priority basis. I have sentmy report to the District Magistrateand response is awaited,” Sharmasaid.

The CMO said he found thatRamdev was suffering from dehy-dration and that he has been advisedto break his fast which has been re-jected by the yoga exponent.

“There is not much improvementin his health after he started takinglemonade. We have advised him totake glucose which he has denied...He needs to be medically examinedand taken to hospital. (His associate)Balakrishna’s health is satisfacto-ry,” Sharma said. PTI

BABA MAY BE SHIFTEDTO HOSPITAL

RANA ACQUITTEDOF 26/11 ATTACKSBut found guilty of helping LeT

Chicago: Pakistani-CanadianTahawwur Rana was today ac-quitted by a US court on chargesof plotting the Mumbai attacks,but was found guilty of sup-porting Pakistan-based terrorgroup LeT and planning a strikein Denmark.

A 12-member jury here ruledthat 50-year-old Rana was notguilty of conspiracy to providematerial support to the Mumbaiterror attacks in which 166 peo-ple were killed, and which car-ried a maximum sentence of

life imprisonment.Announcing the verdict at

the end of two days of delibera-tions, US district Judge Harry DLeinenweber said Rana wasguilty of providing material sup-port to Lashkar-e-Taiba and plot-ting to bomb a Danish newspa-per which had published car-toons of the Prophet Mo-hammed.

Rana faces a maximum sen-tence of 30 years in prison on thetwo counts combined and re-mains in federal custody without

bond, a US Justice Departmentstatement said.

No sentencing date was set.“A federal court jury has con-

victed defendant Rana on onecount of conspiracy to providematerial support to the Den-mark terrorism plot and onecount of providing material sup-port to LeT, and not guilty of con-spiracy to provide material sup-port to the Mumbai terrorist at-tacks,” said justice departmentspokesman Randall Samborn.

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ʻShivaʼ in 102

Actor Upendra claps for movie Shiva, whichcasts superstar Shivarajkumar, at Dodda

Ganesha temple in Basavanagudi thismorning. (More photos on page 3)

Accusedgets ganja

in jail,caughtBangalore Beat Bureau

Mysore: A criminal, who wasattending court proceedings in-side central jail premises, wascaught receiving a packet of mar-ijuana on the court premiseshere this morning.

Saddam (28) was in the pres-ence of JMFC judge this morning.Judge S T Patil passed the matterover and asked the accused to beon the court premises.

Gulzar, an associate of Sad-dam, approached the latter andpassed on a packet, which wasnoticed by the judge.

The judge immediately or-dered frisking of the two andthe police found five packets ofganja with Gulzar and one withSaddam.

The judge handed over Gulzarto town police on the court prem-ises.

Officialstold to takemeasures:

CM BSYBangalore: Forest departmentofficials have been asked to takemeasures to prevent elephantattacks on human habitats, saidchief minister B S Yeddyurappareferring to straying of two wildpachyderms into Mysore onWednesday.

He said elephants had strayedas there is no food for these wildanimals in the forest.

The government will take steps to get them sufficient fodder within the forest limits, headded.

The chief minister said he hasconstituted a high-level commit-tee to look into the issue. “I haveasked officials to visit Bandipurand surrounding areas and ad-dress the issues.”

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia shakes hands with Karnataka chief minister B S Yaddyurappa and Andhra Pradesh CM Kiran Kumar Reddyat the regional level consultation on 12th Five Year Plan at a private hotel in the city this

morning. Aadhar chief Nandan Nilekani looks on.

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Bulldozers confident ofwinning semis tomorrow

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “Winning the final of Celebrity CricketLeague match is our aim. The semi-final which is beingplayed tomorrow against Telugu Warriors at Vizag isone of the important matches for us,” said KarnatakaBulldozers captain Sudheep.

After winning two matches on the trot against MumbaiHeroes in Bangalore and Chennai Rhinos at Chennai,a confident Sudheep said, “We have been practisinghard. Our players have been batting and fielding welland we seem to have luck on our side. Now we are con-fident of winning the next two matches to lift the cup.

“The people of Karnataka and our fans have encour-aged us a lot in the stadiums. We thank them a lot. It isthe combined effort of the team and the coach that ledus to victory in Chennai. We have been practicing forthe last one-and-a-half months. We have had rigorousfitness training and daily practice sessions.”

The team has become serious after the matchesstarted. “I had a hint that we could win as the teammaintained discipline and commitment to the game.We were very focused. Even though we are all filmstars, I urged my players to approach the game likecricketers. You should realise that the Mumbai teamwas not weak, but we were better,” he said.

“For the semi-final tomorrow, I appeal to our fans tocontinue supporting us like how they did in the previoustwo matches,” he said.

Stars Diganth, Chiranjeevi Sarja, Tharun Chandra,Tarun Sudhi, Dharma Keerthiraj and others were pres-ent.

They thanked owner of the Karnataka Bulldozersteam owner and Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprisechairman and managing director Ashok Kheny andalso film star Shivrajkumar and producer RocklineVenkatesh.

Income ceiling for poorstudents to be enhancedBangalore: The state governmenthas decided to enhance the incomeceiling for poor students to enablethem avail benefits under variousschemes, including scholarshipand admission to hostels.

The existing Rs 11,000 incomelimit would be raised to Rs 40,000for students in rural areas and Rs50,000 in urban areas, social wel-fare minister A Naryanaswamytold reporters here.

The minister said he had de-tected several lapses during hisvisit to 18 districts where he re-viewed progress of implementationof programmes for SCs and STs,drawn up by the social welfare

department.At least 10 per cent of the 5,000-

odd gram panchayats had failedto utilise funds earmarked for SCand ST welfare and had not evenbothered to draw up an actionplan for the purpose,Narayanaswamy said.

In town municipalities and citymunicipal councils, spending hasnot crossed 25-30 per cent of totalallocation, he said.

In various areas where houseshad been built for Dalits, officialshad not distributed land rightrecords to them, he said.

Narayanasamy said the directorfor civil rights has been asked toconduct a study and submit a re-port to enable the governmenttake action against those officialsfound guilty.

A meeting of deputy commis-sioners, CEOs of zilla panchayatswould be convened on June 20 todiscuss these issues, he said. PTI

Band toperform

live atLandmarkBangalore: Landmark & EMIwill host the live performanceof the band Menwhopause atLandmark, Forum, Koraman-gala on tomorrow at 6.30 pm.This performance is part oftheir tour to promote their lat-est album Easy.

The band comprises ofSarabjit Singh on vocals andharmonica, IP Singh onacoustic guitar and a varietyof instruments,Anup Kutty onelectric guitar, acoustic guitar,harmonica and vocals, Ran-deep Singh on bass, djembeand vocals, last but not theleast Paul Schneiter on drums.

Having set a benchmark forthe independent music scenein India after a nine-year-longmusical career spanning con-tinents, Menwhopause havereleased their second conceptalbum – Easy - on EMI Music,Virgin Records. Easy has beenNo.1 on music stores salescharts in Mumbai and Delhiin March.

Judgesʼ exam

results outBangalore: The result of thewritten examination held on September 25 for the posts of district judges by direct recruitment, has beenpublished in the official web-site of the Karnataka HighCourt on June 8. The candidates who appearedfor the said examination mayknow their results by visitingat www.karnatakajudiciary.kar.nic.in.

Applications invited for Balasevika

training courseBangalore: The KarnatakaState Council for Child Welfareis conducting a certified 10 -month Balasevika trainingcourse for young women whoare interested in working withwomen, children and com-munity.

The medium of instructionis Kannada and age limit is18-35 years. Candidates whohave either passed or failedSSLC examination are eligibleto apply. Stipends will be givento the deserving rural candi-dates.

Hostel facility is availableat subsidised rates.

The next course will com-mence on July 1 and offerslimited seats.

For applications contact the Karnataka State Council for Child Welfare Bal-asevika Training Institute No.135, 3rd Cross, NandidurgaRoad, Jayamahal extension,Bangalore, or call: 080-23330846, 22925898.

State honoursnew IAS recruits

Bangalore: The state governmenthonoured successful candidatesof the latest civil services exam-inations with an aim to inspirethe aspiring lot to get into theIAS in bigger numbers.

Officials said the number ofsuch successful candidates wason the lower side in the past,but this year it was a decent 39,mostly from Bangalore. The listincluded candidates from otherstates who chose Bangalore astheir examination centre.

As many as 27 of them werepresent as they were honouredby chief minister B S Yeddyu-rappa in the presence of their

parents and his cabinet col-leagues at Vidhan Soudha.

It’s for the first time that thegovernment has organised sucha felicitation function for newIAS recruits.

“The aim is to inspire othersto get into civil services in largenumbers in Karnataka in thecoming years,” Yeddyurappasaid. Chief secretary S V Ran-ganath told the new recruits todischarge their duties with sincerityand sympathy, strive for excellenceand stressed the importance ofteam work, continuous learning,trust in people and getting alongwell with them. PTI

MHSEnergy inks deal withb+w Electronic Systems

Bangalore: To tap the growingtelecom infrastructure industry,MHS Energy – a subsidiary ofclothing, infrastructure and en-ergy company Tenstar InfratechLtd inked a deal with Germany-based b+w Electronic Systemsto set up Rs 150 crore facility inIndia, a top official said.

As per the agreement, MHSEnergy would set up solar- pow-ered telecom towers for mobilecompanies, MHS Energy Man-aging Director Sajjan M Sharmasaid in Chennai.

"We are happy to have a JointVenture with b+w ElectronicsSystems. As per the agreementthey will provide technology andR&D support and we will providethe local expertise," he told re-porters, after exchanging docu-ments with top executives ofb+w Electronic Systems.

Stating that their solar-pow-ered system would help telecomoperators reduce usage of dieseland operational expenses by 70per cent, he said the companywas scouting for locations to set

up its first manufacturing unitto produce these systems.

"We are looking for locationsacross the country. Preferably,it will be on the Tamil Nadu-Andhra Pradesh border. We re-quire six acres (for the plant). Itwill have a capacity of 6,000units a year, for which we willbe investing Rs 150 crore," hesaid.

He said the company has seta target of retailing 6,000 unitsof solar powered systems in thefirst year. PTI

Allah ke Bandey singer Kailash Kher is performing atChowdaiah Memorial Hall at 6.30 pm today. Kailash Kher

has successfully enthralled the audiences with his eclecticmix of genres which are often influenced by Indian folk

music and sufi.

Kailash nite tonightGangadhar Pujar

Infy BPO collaborates with IIMBBangalore: Infosys BPO has announcedthat it has jointly developed a highly cus-tomised case study with the Indian Instituteof Management Bangalore (IIM-B).

Developed by Infosys and Professors Janat Shah and L S Murty of IIMB, andslated to be used by business schools aspart of management curriculum, the keyobjective is to impart industry specific knowledge to management students while

integrating practical experience and expertisewith theoretical concepts.

From this year, it will be included inthe IIM-B operations strategy course forsecond-year management students.

The study, the first on the BPO industry to be published and taught inIndia, and perhaps, global businessschools, is now being piloted in an IIM-B executive development pro-

gramme."We are delighted to be an integral

part of this unique initiative in collabo-ration with IIMB, a highly prestigiousbusiness school. This is a first-of-its-kindprogram, wherein a case study has beendeveloped based on the BPO industryand has been adopted as part of the cur-riculum," Infosys BPO MD & CEO Swami-nathan D said.

Sri Sri tomeet Baba

Bangalore: Art of Living founderSri Sri Ravishankar is meetingBaba Ramdev at Hardwar andurging him to end the fast as hiscondition has been deteriorating.Baba Ramdev’s fast to force thegovernment’s hand to bring backblack money from abroadreached the seventh day today.Yesterday, Ramdev agreed toconsume honey with lime waterafter Hardwar district magistrateconvinced him.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is goingto Hardwar to spread the ashesof his father Acharya Sri Rat-nanandaji, who passed away onWednesday.

NAMITHA I LOVE YOU (A) Namitha, Jayanthi Bhumika (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Gurusiddheshwara (Thippasan-dra (11 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Siddheshwara (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Veerabahdreshwara (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

JOHNY MERA NAAM PREETHI MERAKAAM (U)Duniya Vijay, RamyaBalaji (Tavarekre) (11 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Cinemax (Belandur Junc-tion) (1 pm, 4, 7 pm) Ganesh (11am, 2, 6, 9 pm) Gopalan Cinemas(Bannerghatta Road) (10.10 am,2.35 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (2.35 pm, 7.30, 10 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (12.55 pm) Inox (JP Na-gar) (12.05 pm, 3.55 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.20 am, 1, 6.35,9.20 pm) Krishna (Bommanahalli)(11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm) Krishna(KR Puram) (11 am, 2, 6, 9 pm)Maruthi (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm) Nalanda (11 am, 2, 5.30, 8.30pm) Nandini (11 am, 2, 5, 8 pm)PVR Cinemas (10.15 am, 1, 3.45,6.30 pm) Rajarajeshwari (11 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Siddhalingesh-wara (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm) Srin-viasa (Gowdanapalya) (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Triveni(10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Vi-

jayalakshmi (Garudacharpalya) (11am, 2.30 pm) Veeresh (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

RAAJADAANI (A)Yash, Sathya, Raviteja, Sandeep,Umasri Anupama (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Gopal (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Gopalan Cinemas(Mysore Road) (11.50 am) Kamakya(10.45 am, 1.45, 5.45, 8.45 pm) Mo-han (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)Navrang (10.30 am, 10 pm) Parimala(11 am, 2, 5.45, 8.45 pm) Vijay (10.45am, 1.45, 5.45,8.45 pm)

DUSHTA (U/A)Pankaj, Surabhi, Shivaraj, KSRavikumarKapali (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Ullas (10.45 am, 1.45, 5.45,8.45 pm) Uma (10 am, 1, 4, 7 pm)

KOOL (U) Ganesh, Aamna ShariffNartaki (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm)

HUDUGRU (U)

Puneet Rajkumar, YogiAdarsh (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm)Banashankari (Hongasandra) (11am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm).

X-MEN FIRST CLASS (U/A)James McAvoy, Michael Fassben-der, Bill Milner.Cinemax (Belandur Junction) (10am, 12.30, 3, 7.30, 10 pm) FameForum Value Mall (11 am, 1.40, 4.20,7, 9.40 pm) Fame Lido (6.55 pm,9.35 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (11.40 am, 2, 5.40,7.20, 10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas

(Mysore Road) (12.15 pm, 5.15, 9.45pm) Innovative Multiplex (11.30 am,1.45, 5.45, 10 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(11.45 am, 2.10, 7.10, 9.40 pm) Inox(JP Nagar (10.25 am, 5.05, 9.35 pm)Inox (Magrath Road) (10.50 am, 1,4.20, 6.55, 9.30 pm) Inox (Mallesw-aram) (10 am, 1, 2.25, 4.50, 7.15,9.40 pm) Fun Cinemas (10.15 am,1.30, 6.45, 9.40 pm) HMT Cinemas(Jalahalli) (10.45, 4.15, 9.45 pm)Lakshmi (Tavarekere) (10 am, 1, 5pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am, 12.05,2.40, 4.45, 7.20, 9.20 pm)Rex (12 pm, 5 pm) Urvashi (11.30am, 2.30) Vaibhav (6.30 pm, 9.30pm) Vision Cinemas (10, 5, 7.30pm) Vinayaka (DJ Halli) (11 am, 2.30,6, 9.15 pm)

WEST IS WEST (A)Om Puri, Robert Pugh, Jimi MistryCinemax (Belandur Junction) (12.15pm, 10 pm) Fame Forum Value Mall(10.55 am, 1, 5.10, 9.40 pm) FunCinemas (4.30 pm) Gopalan Cine-mas (Bannerghatta Road) (12.35pm, 8 pm) Inox (JP Nagar).

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LOVE EXPRESS (U/A)Sahil Mehta, Vikas Katyal Cinemax (Belandur Junction) (10am, 8 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(12.30 pm, 5 pm)

READY (U/A) Salman Khan, Asin, Arya Babbar,Paresh Rawal Abhinay (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30 pm,7.30 pm) Apsara (10.45 am, 1.45pm) Anand (3.30 pm, 6.30, 9.30pm) Cinemax (Belandur Junction)(12 pm, 3.15, 9.30 pm) Cauvery(11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm) Everest(11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Fame Forum Value Mall (10.25 am,1.40, 3.50, 6.45, 9.15 pm) FameLido (2.35, 3.40, 8.30, 9.20 pm)Fame Shankarnag (4.35, 9.50 pm)Fun Cinemas (10.30 am, 1.15, 7,9.25 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta road) (12.20 pm, 3, 10

pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (11 am, 1.50, 7.15 pm) HMTCinemas (Jalahalli) (1.30, 7.15 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (10.20 am, 1.05,3.50, 6.35, 9.20 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.10 am, 3.35, 9.15 pm) Inox (Ma-grath Road) (10.15 am, 3.40, 6.30,9.20 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10.30am, 3.50, 6.25, 9.15 pm) Lakshmi(Tavarekere) (10 am, 1, 5 pm) PVRCinemas (10.10 am, 3.40, 9.10 pm)Rex (2.20, 7.20, 9.55 pm) Urvashi(6 pm, 9.30 pm)

PYAAR KA PUNCHNAMA (U/A)Kartikeya Tiwari, Rayo BhakhirtaGopalan Cinemas (BannerghattaRoad) (9.50 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(1.25 pm) PVR Cinemas (10.10 pm)

STANLEY KA DABBA (U)Divya Dutta, Divya JagdalInox (JP Nagar) (10.45 am) 8.30 pm).

HINDI

TAMIL

ARANYA KAANDAM (A)Jackie Shroff, RavikrishnaAmruth (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Ajantha (10.30 am,1.30 pm)Cinemax (Belandur Junction) (6.30 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (6.45pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (4.55 pm) Inox (Malle-swaram) (5.05 pm) Ke-shava (6 pm, 9.15 pm) Lavanya

(4.30 pm, 7.30 pm) Madheshwara(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Poornima (4.30 am, 7.30 pm) Push-panjali (BNPura) (11.30 am, 2.30pm) PVR Cinemas (12.50 pm, 7.35pm)

MAAVEERAN (A)Ram Charan Tej, Kajal Agarwaland Srihari Krishna (11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Ma-heshwari (10.15 am) SriBalaji (Van-narpet) (11 am, 2.30 pm)

ETHAN (U) Vimal, SanushaAruna (10.15 am, 1.15, 4.15, 7.15pm) Keshava (11 am, 2.30 pm) Kr-ishna (11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Mahesh-wari (10.15 am) Pushpanjali (BNPura) (6.30 pm, 9.30 pm) SriBalaji(Vannarpet) (11 am, 2.30 pm) Vaib-havi (11.15 am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm)

KANDAEN (U)Santhanu, Rashmi Gautham, Santhanam Sribalaji (Vannarpet)(6, 9 pm)

SHAITAN (A)Kalki Koechlin, Arshad Warsi

Cinemax (Belandur Junction)(10.15 am, 2.45, 5.30, 9.45 pm)Fame Forum Value Mall (11.15am, 1.15, 4.20, 6.40, 9.25 pm)Fun Cinemas (10.40 am, 4.10, 10pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 5 pm)

Gopalan Cinemas (10 am, 2.45,10 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.45 am,1.20, 6.45, 9.30 pm) Inox (MagrathRoad) (10 am, 2.35, 7.10, 9.40pm) Inox (Malles-waram) (10 am,2.35, 7.35, 9.35 pm) PVR Cinemas(12.15 pm, 5, 9.30 pm)

CITYFriday, June 10, 2011 3

Kannada superstar Shivrajkumar, scion of

Mysore royal familySrikantadatta

Narasimharaja Wadiyar,actor Upendra and

director Om Prakash poseat Dodda Ganesha temple

in Basavanagudi thismorning. The event was

organised before themuhurat of

Shivrajkumar’s movie‘Shiva’. (left)

Actors Puneeth Rajkumar,Upendra and

Raghavendra Rajkumar atthe temple. (down left)

Superstar Shivrajkumaroffers puja with his wife

Geetha at the temple.

Movie time S Radha Krishna

CITY EVENTSGeneralIndian Union Muslim Lea-gue: Inauguration of electioncampaign office, ZN FunctionHall, 1st Main, JHBCS Layout,Kadirenahalli Cross, near Ku-maraswamy Layout, RingRoad, opp Eidgah Gate, 3 pm.

CulturalGayana Samaj: Vocal by Sri-ranjani Santana Gopalan, KR Road, 6 pm.

Dept of Kannada and Culture:Presentation of Venkatappaaward to V G Andani andChandranath Acharya by Min-ister Govind M Karjol, Nayana,J C Road, 11 am. Exhibition ofB L Chauhan’s artworks andpaintings Chitrakala Parishat,Kumara Krupa Road, 5 pm.

Rangashankara: Play ‘Dhar-ma Sthamba,’ directed byArchana Shyam, J P Nagar, 7pm.

Indian Cultural AcademyTrust: Programme in memoryof R Venkateshmurthy, key-board player, singer B K Sum-itra, music director B V Srini-vas to participate, Nayana, JC Road, 6 pm.

Rangabharana Kala Kendra:Play ‘Baadige Bicycle,’ directedby V Ramarao Putani, Chan-drapriya Rangamandira, 5,7th Main Road, 3rd Cross, KEBLayout, Sanjayanagar, 6 pm.

K V Subbanna Aptha Samo-oha and Department of In-formation: Inauguration ofGirish Kasaravalli’s film festi-val, by Muddu Mohan, Direc-tor Information Department,screening of film Ghatashrad-da, K V Subbanna Ranga-mandira, 151, 7th Cross, Teach-ers Colony, 1st Stage, nearDayananda Sagar College, oppVasudhya Bhavan,6 pm.

Organisers: Exhibition bySurekha focusing on the urbanrural margins Jakkur Lake,Bar-1, 69/3, Mission Road, 10am.

ReligiousSri Sankara Jayanthi Mandali:Discourse on ‘Geetha Kagga,’by Chandrashekar, Sri SankaraKrupa Road, 16th Cross,Jayanagar, 6.30 pm.

Sri Madananda TheerthaPravachana Samithi: Dis-course on ‘Varaha Purana,’by Ramavittalacharya, SriRaghavendra Swami Mutt, 6thCross, Amarjyothinagar, 7 pm.

Sri Ramakrishna Seva Trust:Discourse on ‘Bhagawad Gee-ta’ by Abhaya Chaitanya, SriPrasanna Ganapathi Temple,behind Maruthi 2nd Cross,Widia Layout, Vijayanagar,6.30pm.

Sri Srivasa DevasthanadaSeva Samithi: Annual BrahmaRathotsava, Mari Tirupathi,Mahalakshmipuram, 6.30 pm.

Sri Rama Mandiram Associ-ation: Discourse on ‘Bhaga-vatha,’ by Bannanje Govin-dacharya, Sri Rama Temple,Model House Block, Basa-vanagudi, 6.30 pm.

BookBook launch of ‘The LotusQueen’: By Rikin Khamar onSaturday 6pm Bangalore, June11, 2011, June 11, 2011 at Re-liance TimeOut, CunninghamRoad, 080-41286025. A his-torical fiction, The LotusQueen is set against the dra-matic landscape of one of Ra-jasthan’s most famous fortsin the 14th century.

ExhibitionsBreakdown of Shorter Con-cerns: Friday, June 10th, 2011.10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Galleryske,No 2, Berlie Street, LangfordTown In her solo 'Breakdownof Shorter Concerns', MariamSuhail puts forward her cur-rent preoccupation with draw-ing and the repercussions ofthis preoccupation in othermedia.

Photographs by HomaiVyarawalla: Friday, June 10th,2011. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. NationalGallery of Modern Art, No 49Manikyavelu Mansion, PalaceRoad, The National Gallery ofModern art is hosting an ex-hibition of iconic photographstaken by Homai Vyarawalla,India's first woman photojour-nalist, who started workingin the 1930s and was instru-mental in tracing the lives andwork of political leadersthrough her lens.

Contemporary Collections @Gallerie Third Eye: Friday,June 10th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, No A-1 Epsilon Office Block, YemalurMain Road, Yemalur An exhi-bition of contemporary Indianpaintings by Ram Onkar, Arpi-ta Kar, Bhaskar Chowdhuryand Mini Arora, curated by

Jasmine Khanna.

Negotiated Positions @Gallery Blue Spade: Friday,June 10th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 7p.m. Gallery Blue Spade, TheChancery, 10/6 Lavelle Road,An exhibition of contemporaryart by Babu Eshwar Prasad,V G Venugopal, Sunoj D,Suchender P, Gurusidappa GE, Murali Cheeroth, ChandraBhattacharjee, Prasanta Sahu,Farhad Hussain and RajibaLochan Pani.

The Timeless Essence of In-digenous People @ KCP: Fri-day, June 10th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 7 p.m. Karnataka ChitrakalaParishad, Art Complex, Ku-mara Krupa Road, HighGrounds KCP is hosting anexhibition of photographs byVivek Dhage, titled 'The Time-less Essence of IndigenousPeople'. It's a realisation ofDhage's extensive travels, andresearch on the tribals of Kar-nataka.

Holy Cow! @ Galerie De'Arts:Friday, June 10th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Galerie De'Arts, Bar-ton Centre, 11th Floor, MGRoad, P.Gnana, well knownfor creating and sculpting con-ceptual installations, is ex-hibiting his series titled 'HolyCow!', portraying the sacredcow through his aestheticviewpoint.

50.25.10 @ Taj West End: Fri-day, June 10th, 2011. 11:30 a.m.to 8:30 p.m. The Taj WestEnd, No 23, Race Course Road,High Grounds An exhibitionof fifty works by twenty fiveartists from ten different statesin the country.

Group Show @ Sumukha:Friday, June 10th, 2011. 10:30a.m. to 6 p.m. Gallery Sum-ukha, No 24/10, BTS DepotRoad, Wilson Garden An ex-hibition of sculptures, paint-ings and photographs by tentalented artists.

Expression @ Renaissance:Friday, June 10th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Renaissance Gallerie,No 13 Westminster, Cunning-ham Road, A group art show,titled 'Expression' at Renais-sance Gallerie.

The Visual Narratives @ Ho-bitute: Friday, June 10th, 2011.10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Hobi-tude Art Foundation, No 109ADA Rangamandira Building,2nd Floor, JC Road, An exhi-bition of paintings by artistsShalini Nehru and RunaBiswas.

ShoppingEarring Collection from Bra-cialeto: Friday, June 10th, 2011.10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Collage,No 21/1, Wood Street, Ashok-nagar Bracialeto presents anew collection of brightlycoloured earrings.

New Formal Wear Collection:Friday, June 10th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 9 p.m. John Players Store,No 48, Commercial Street,Shirts and trousers in cottonand linen, in both regular andslim fits. Available across allJohn Players outlets.

Eri The Peace Silk: A Trav-eller’s Collection: Friday, June10th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.Deepika Govind, No 21/11 1stFloor, Craig Park Layout, MGRoad, A selection of Eri silkstoles and shawls by DeepikaGovind, imbued with naturaldyes.

Spring Summer 2011 Collec-tion @ Westside: Friday, June10th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.Westside, No 77, CommercialStreet, Floral prints, earthytones, and Moroccan-inspiredfashion in the new collectionat Westside.

Accessories @ Esprit: Friday,June 10th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9p.m. Esprit, No 10 AnandaBhavan, Vittal Mallya Road,A wide range of belts, hand-bags and scarves with a boldand edgy vibe.

Rosato charms @ Giantii: Fri-day, June 10th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 9 p.m. Giantii, The LeelaGalleria, The Leela Palace,Old Airport Road, KodihalliItalian charms from Rosato atGiantii, available in two col-lections, Flower and Sahara.

New Collection @ Collage:Friday, June 10th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 7:30 p.m. Collage, No 21/1,Wood Street, Ashoknagar Col-lage unveils a new range ofkurtis and dresses from lead-ing designers including Kr-ishna Mehta, Manish Arora,Payal Pratap and many more.

MusicKaliash Kher Live: Friday,June 10th, 2011. 6:30 p.m. to10 p.m. Chowdiah MemorialHall, Gayathri Devi Park Ex-tension, 2nd Main Road, 16thCross, Malleshwaram Sufi andBollywood singer Kailash Kherfor Fever Unplugged live inBangalore. Lined up for theevening are his biggest hits.

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Rana, who was a co-accusedin the Mumbai attacks withDavid Headley, was stunned tohear the verdict. His lawyerssaid they would appeal againstthe verdict as there was an “er-ror” in the trial.

Rana’s attorney Patrick Ble-gan said he would file post-trial motions that there was notenough evidence to convict himand that there was an error inthe trial.

“Each of the count, for whichRana has been convicted, car-ries a maximum imprisonmentof 15 years. Because the juryfound no death resulting forthe final count 12 (providingmaterial support to LeT) thereis no maximum of life sentence.Maximum is 15 (years) for eachcount,” Blegan said.

He said the government em-phasised on the secretly tapedcar conversation between Ranaand Headley, the star witnessduring the trial. He said thereis a huge contradiction in theverdict as LeT is primarily in-volved in Mumbai and not inDenmark.

“But the Government’s evi-dence was that at least Lashkarwas also involved in Denmarkplot for a short period of time.Sound that the jury agreed tothat,” he said.

“Obviously we are extremelydisappointed. We believe inRana. We believe he was notguilty. The jury came to anotherdecision. We respect their de-cision, but we think they got itwrong,” Blegan said.

The verdict came nearly threeweeks of trial of Rana at theChicago court.

“One of the big issues couldbe whether these (sentences)could be run consecutively. Thatis something that could be partof the motion,” said CharlesSwift, Rana’s other attorney.

“We will argue that (to runthe two sentences consecutive-ly) because they involve exactsame conduct but it will be upto the judge,” he said.

Prosecutors alleged Rana, amilitary doctor-turned-businessman, was aware of the

Mumbai attacks and was incontact with the terror groupsand their leaders in Pakistan.

Rana’s attorney, on the otherhand, pleaded not guilty andsaid that Pakistani-AmericanHeadley, an all time liar, hadfooled him. The judge orderedthe defence to file post-trial mo-tions by August 15.

Headley had entered into aplea bargain with US authoritiesto testify against other suspectsin order to avoid the deathpenalty and being extraditedto India, Pakistan and Den-mark.

Blegan said, “We do notknow what the jury was think-ing.” He said the jury decidedthat there was no death involveddue to Rana providing materialsupport to LeT.

“This is a split verdict. Mum-bai part of the verdict is verysignificant as jury did not findhim guilty in the terrorists at-tacks,” he said.

Those present in the courtroom were US attorney PatrickFitzgerald and assistant attor-ney Daniel Collins and VickyPeters, defence attorney Blegen,Rana’s wife Samraz Rana theirtwo daughters and mother ofSamraz. Blegan and Rana fam-ily members looked tense andcrestfallen.

“The message should be clearto all those who help terrorists? we will bring to justice allthose who seek to facilitate vi-olence,” said Fitzgerald, US At-torney for the Northern Districtof Illinois.

Fitzgerald, however said, “Weare disappointed in the notguilty verdict on the Mumbaiattacks.”

“I do not know, the govern-ment had the burden of proof,”he said when asked what wentwrong on the 26/11 charges thatkilled 166 people, including sixAmericans.

“We put our evidence for-ward and the jury found thatwe did not meet the burden (ofproof) there. But they did findwe made our burden provingmaterial support to Lashkarand they found that we metour burden with regard to attackon Denmark,” he added. PTI

RANA ACQUITTED

IN 26/11ATTACKS CASEBanglaore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh behaves like a CEOof a company working at the be-hest of owners Gandhi family,alleged BJP national general sec-retary and party chief spokesmanRavishankar Prasad.

The UPA-2 which met 20 daysago after completing two yearsin office, declared that strongaction would be taken againstcorruption. There could be noth-ing more ironical than this as itis a hollow declaration, he said.

The UPA government hasfailed in taking action againstthis conspiracy of silence whichwas evident when the countrywas being looted in the 2G spec-trum, CommonWealth Games,Adarsh Housing Society andblack money kept in Swiss banks.

Because of the pressure fromthe BJP and vigilant media andstrict monitoring by the Supreme

Court, the Manmohan Singh hastaken action. The governmentcannot claim any credit for itsanti-corruption measures. In-stead of taking action, he hadgiven a certificate of innocenceto some of them. In October 2010,the Prime Minister had said thentelecommunications minister ARaja was innocent. It is evidentthat the Prime Minister haspresided over a most corruptgovernment since Independence.It lack transparency, there is cor-ruption at high level, there areno checks and balances andthere is a virtual collapse of thesystem where scandals are be-coming the order of the day, healleged.

On the raid against BabaRamdev and Ramlila Maidan inNew Delhi, he said, “By resortingto mindless lathicharge and tear-gass shelling against people whowere sleeping in a closed enclo-sure, the police and the admin-

istration tried to cause the max-imum damage. It is the most un-democratic repression and wasresorted to only because peacefuldemonstrators were seekingstrong action to bring back blackmoney and the corrupt.

“The Prime Minister says therewas no alternative but to takeaction. This is the most shameful

manner in which such atrocityhas been justified, while SoniaGandhi and Rahul Gandhi havemaintained conspicuous si-lence,” he said.

“A lot of skeletons will tumbleout of their own closet If thegovernment agrees to get blackmoney back into the country.That is the reason the govern-ment is hesitating,” he alleged.

The BJP government thorough-ly condemns the undemocraticand authoritarian behaviour ofthe government. We will continueto expose corruption within thegovernment, which has lost allmoral authority to govern thiscountry. The BJP will take up amass awakening programme, in-cluding nation-wide protests andpublic meetings from June 24 to26. It is senior BJP leader L KAdvani who has raised the issueof bringing black money backinto the country in 2009 itself,he said.

PM IS CEO, GANDHISowners: Ravishankar Prasad

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The government willset up special centres to procurepaddy from the farmers at a spe-cial price in the next three tofour days across the state, saidchief minister B S Yeddyurappahere this morning. “The stategovernment will give Rs 100 overRs 80 fixed by the Centre perquintal of paddy,” he said.

As of now, the minimum sup-port price for paddy is Rs 1,200and with the latest decision, it

would increase to Rs 1,380. Paddyfarmers, who had been hit by asudden price slump, had beendemanding Rs 1,500 to Rs 1,600.The price of paddy which hadbeen hovering around Rs 1,500had fallen to Rs 800 and has re-covered to around Rs 1,200 now.

The state government wouldcontinue to pressure the centralgovernment to increase the min-imum support price for paddyfurther, the chief minister said.The special procurement centreswould come up in Bangalore,

Tumkur, Davanagere and Raichurin the first phase and more townswould be covered in the comingdays, he added. Paddy farmershad recently marched from Da-vanagere to Bangalore demand-ing better prices for their crop.The chief minister, who had metthem, had assured them of action.

The chief minister said he, thechief secretary and principal sec-retary to the agricultural depart-ment had written separate lettersto the central government puttingforth the farmers’ demand.

Special centres to procurepaddy to be set up: CM

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Many senior minis-ters have offered to resign fromtheir posts and work for theparty, chif minister B S Yeddyu-rappa told BJP chief spokesmanRavishankar Prasad, who wasin town yesterday.

“All the senior leaders andministers in the party know thatthe party is more important thanthe posts I the government. Pow-er goes and power comes, butthe party is permanent,” thechief minister is supposed tohave said.

BJP sources told BangaloreBeat that the central leadershipof the party, especially L K Ad-vani, had sent Prasad to Banga-lore as it got a hint that Yeddyu-rappa was planning to inducthis clique into the cabinet, keep-ing others out. Prasad told Yed-dyurappa firmly that no decisionshould be taken without the con-sent of the party high command,which was accepted by the chiefminister. Prasad said the partycentral core committee woulddiscuss the issues concerningthe state, before they could be

implemented, the sources said. Yeddyurappa told Prasad that

he has adequate numbers in theministry and any exercise atreshuffle would lead to a lot ofheartburn among the aspirants.Nevertheless, aspirants havebeen making a beeline to theresidences of chief minister andstate party president, seekingthemselves ministerial berths.

Prasad met senior party leader,including party state presidentK S Eshwarappa at at BaburaoDeshpande Bhavan inMalleswaram. And the venue

was a scene of hectic activitythroughout the day yesterday.

The chief minister told Prasadthat he has got the vote-on-account for the entire budgetaryprovisions and would work to-wards implementing all the pop-ular programmes announced inthe budget, the sources said.“Advani’s statement that he wasnot happy with the performanceof the BJP government in thestate has affected the image ofthe government, and we wouldwork towards changing that per-ception. The government has

only two more years remainingand all efforts will be made toimplement people-friendly pro-grammes,” the chief minister issupposed to have said.

The chief minister assuredPrasad that he was capable ofwinning at least 160 seats it theassembly elections and he shouldbe given a free rein to continuewith his programmes, the sourcesadded. The party would go to-wards the village now and hearout all the problems being facedat the grassroots level and try tosolve them, he told Prasad.

Sr ministers ready toquit, work for party: CM

Guv is activemember of

Cong: PrasadBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: H RBhardwaj is not a gov-ernor, but an activemember of the Con-gress. That is the rea-son he tried to pulldown the democrati-cally elected govern-ment in the statetwice, alleged BJP chiefspokesman and national generalsecretary Ravishankar Prasad.

“The governor has colludedwith opposition parties and senta report to the Centre recom-mending President’s rule in thestate, even though chief ministerB S Yeddyurappa offered to provethe majority of the governmenton the floor of the House. The 11BJP MLAs were made to rebelagainst the party following aconspiracy hatched by opposi-tion parties. Now they have re-alized that these machinationswill not work,” he said.

Allegations against Yeddyu-rappa is a political conspiracybeing hatched by the oppositionparties, who have not been able

to tolerate the successof the BJP govern-ment. They want tograb power throughunethical means, healleged.

There is no reportby the Lokayukta orany constitutional au-thority that hascharged the chief min-

ister with involvement in scan-dals or alleges nepotism. “Thenhow can opposition parties allegethat he is a corrupt chief minis-ter?” he asked.

Yeddyurappa has taken allsteps to stop illegal mining inthe state and has stopped issuingpermits to mining companies. Itwas the previous H D Ku-maraswamy government whichrecommended issuing of licencesto 47 mining companies, while22 were given permission, hesaid. “The BJP government willtake action against illegal miningonce the Lokayukta submits hisreport and the Central Empow-ered Committee presents its rec-ommendations to the SupremeCourt,” he said.

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NEWSFriday, June 10, 2011 4

10 Chhattisgarh copskilled in Maoist attackRaipur: In yet another attack,10 policemen were killed andfour sustained injuries in a pow-erful landmine blast triggeredby Maoists in Chhattisgarh’srestive Bastar region, police saidtoday.

The blast took place in a forest-ed area around midnight Thurs-day near Katekalyan in Dante-wada district, over 400 km southof Raipur.

It was the second Maoist attackin the state within a day afterthe rebels gunned down five po-licemen in Bastar’s Narayanpurdistrict Thursday morning.

“It was a massive blast.Maoists, mainly women insur-gents, blew up an anti-landminevehicle around midnight whenpolicemen were moving in twovehicles on a search operation,”additional director general ofpolice Ram Niwas said.

The anti-landmine vehicle wastossed up in the air by the blastbefore it landed in pieces, hesaid.

The deceased included sevenspecial police officers (SPOs) andthree state police personnel. Fourpolicemen were battling for lifeat a government hospital in Jag-dalpur town, headquarters ofBastar region.

Policemen who rushed to thesite early hours Friday said theblast had created a crater at aculvert where the anti-landminevehicle was hit.

“The blast gave a thunderoussound. They (Maoists) openedfiring after the blast and probablylooted weapons of the jawans,”Lachhu, an injured constable,told a local news channel.

Congress, the main oppositionparty in Chhattisgarh, launcheda scathing attack on the rulingBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gov-ernment for “continuous killingof policemen and intelligencebreakdown of police depart-ment”.

“BJP government has lost con-trol in the vast interiors of atleast 10 of the state’s 18 districts,”Congress state general secretaryRamesh Varlyani said in a state-ment.

Bastar region is made up offive districts – Narayanpur,Kanker, Bastar, Bijapur and Dan-tewada. IANS

VERDICT IN RANA CASE NOT A SETBACK: INDIA

New Delhi: The government to-day said the verdict in theTahawwur Rana case in a UScourt, holding the Pakistani-Canadian not guilty for the Mum-bai attacks, is not a setback asIndia does not rely overtly onprosecution of terror suspects inother countries.

“I do not see it as a setback asour case (India) is still under in-vestigation,” secretary, internalsecurity in the ministry of homeaffairs, U K Bansal, said here.Bansal said, “Prosecution in In-dia against Rana and his co-ac-cused David Headley dependson our own investigations whichare being done by Indian inves-tigating agencies.

“In our handling of terrorismin India, we do not rely overtlyon prosecution in other countries.We have to rely on our ownstrength,” he said.

Bansal said the governmentwill go to the court against the26/11 accused with its own in-vestigation.

“The issue is still under in-vestigation. When the probe isover, we will produce the evi-dence in the court,” he said.

Bansal said whenever any

probe agency pursues a case incourt it always hope that it willsucceed.

Rana was acquitted by a Chica-go court on charges of plottingthe Mumbai attacks but wasfound guilty of supporting Pak-istan-based terror group LeT andplanning a strike in Denmark.

The National InvestigationAgency is likely to file a chargesheet against Headley and Ranain the 26/11 case and the probeis currently going on.

The Bombay High Court had inFebruary this year upheld the trialcourt verdict sentencing Pakistaniterrorist Ajmal Kasab to death forthe 26/11 attacks. PTI

In this file photo, policemeninspect a site of landmine

triggered by Maoists in Dantewada

Error in trial; we will appealagainst verdict: Attorneys

Chicago: Attorneys of Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur HussainRana, who was convicted todayby a US court for providing ma-terial support to LeT and helpinga terror plot in Denmark, saidthey would appeal against theverdict as there was an error inthe trial.

Rana’s attorney Patrick Blegan said he would file post-trial motions that there was notenough evidence to convict himand that there was an error inthe trial.

The jury of a Chicago courtfound Rana, 50, guilty of pro-viding material support to Pak-istan-based LeT and helping aterror plot in Denmark. He, how-ever, was acquitted by the courton charges of abetting Mumbaiterror attacks.

“Each of the count, for whichRana has been convicted, carriesa maximum imprisonment of 15years. Because the jury found

no death resulting for the finalcount 12 (providing material sup-port to LeT) there is no maximumof life sentence. Maximum is 15(years) for each count,” Blegansaid.

He said the government em-phasised on the secretly tapedcar conversation between Ranaand David Coleman Headley, aco-accused in the Mumbai attackcase.

Blegan said there is a hugecontradiction in the verdict asLeT is primarily involved in Mum-bai and not in Denmark.

“But the government’s evi-dence was that at least Lashkarwas also involved in Denmarkplot for a short period of time.Sound that the jury agreed tothat,” he said.

“Obviously we are extremelydisappointed. We believe in MrRana. We believe he was notguilty. The jury came to anotherdecision. We respect their deci-

sion, but we think they got itwrong,” Blegan said.

“One of the big issues couldbe weather these (sentences)could be run consecutively. Thatis something that could be partof the motion,” said CharlesSwift, Rana’s other attorney.

“We will argue that (to runthe two sentences consecutively)because they involve exact sameconduct but it will be up to thejudge,” he said.

Blegan said count 12 relatedto Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) couldhave involved Mumbai, jury de-cided that it didn’t.

“It is our view that it did notbecause no death resulted fromthis conduct of providing mate-rial support to LeT,” he said.

Blegan said “yes” when askedif he is going to appeals first.

“We have 60 days to file posttrial motions. Those are the mo-tions attacking the verdict,” hesaid.

Varna Shilpa awards presentedBangalore: Dr V.G Andani won the 2009 VarnaShilpa Venkatappa Award and for the year2010 the same has been given to K.ChandranathAcharya. The awards were presented by Kan-nada and culture minister Govinda Karajolaat a glittering function held this morning here.

Prof Veerana Gurappa Andani is a masterin fine arts, who not only helped foster finearts in the state, but also instrumental in de-veloping and teaching many artists. He wasalso instrumental in setting up an art gallerywhich champions the cause of artists.

Chandranath Acharya is known for paintingof diasporic art and perhaps he is the first todevelop this type of art which is wide appreci-ated among artists. People present on the oc-casion were Nadoji Dr M Kandarao, presidentKannada Lalitha Kala Academy, Yusuf Arakkalnoted artist and Chickpet MLA HemachandraSagar. Karajola said, “The Kannada and cul-ture department has always given encour-agement to artist of various hues. Karnatakais next only to Madhya Pradesh to institutethis award he said.

Kannada and culture minister Govinda Karajola presents Varna Shilpa Venkatappa Award to Dr V G Andani for 2009 and K Chandranath Acharya for

2010. Artist Yusuf Arakkal and others look on

Cong: Prasadnot aware of

ground realities Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: BJP chief spokesmanRavishankar Prasad’s statementsdefending chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa shows his ignoranceabout the ground political real-ities of the state, said Congressstate president G Parameshwara.

He told Bangalore Beat thatas a BJP man, Prasad had to de-fend Yeddyurappa. “When themedia, opposition parties andeven courts have exposed Yed-dyurappa’s involvement inscams, how can he say that thechief minister is not chargedwith corruption and nepotism?.

The land denotification andother scams clearly showfavouritism and nepotism of Yed-dyurappa and his family,” hesaid.

“Even the tallest leader of theBJP, L K Advani, has said he isnot happy with the state BJP

government. Then is Advani, aseasoned politician, telling a lie?Even the chief minister has ac-cepted it, and has said he wouldwork on improving the image ofthe government in the comingdays,” he said.

“Lokayukta has chastised thegovernment a several times. Aman of great repute Justice San-tosh Hegde has been made amember of the Jan Lokpal billdrafting committee. Then is hetelling a lie?” he asked.

“Many times, Justice Hegdehas brought up the issue of illegalmining, but the government hasrefused to act. If they had anyconcern they should have acted,”he said.

“Even the Karnataka HighCourt has charged the govern-ment in many cases. Is the highcourt too not to be believed, ac-cording to Prasad?” he asked.

IIP registersgrowth of 6.3% in April

New Delhi: Industrial productionregistered a growth of 6.3 percent in April as per the new seriesthat was released today with abase year of 2004-05, but the slow-down of the economy was clear asfactory output nosedived to just 4.4per cent as per the old series.

The poor performance of themanufacturing and mining sectorspulled down the overall growth ofindustry as per the old series witha base year of 1993-94 from 16.6per cent in April last year.

Meanwhile, factory output inMarch was revised upward to 7.8per cent from the provisional esti-mate of 7.3 per cent released lastmonth. As per the old series, growthin manufacturing, which constitutesabout 80 per cent of the indexweight, nosedived to 4.4 per centin April from a high of 18 percent in the same month last year.

Meet on 12th Plan

begins in cityContinued from page 1

He said the consultation anddiscussions will take place fortwo to three days.

Chief Minister B S Yedyurappa,home and transport ministerR.Ashok were present on the oc-casion. Chairman of UIDAI Nan-dan Nilekani, Deuty chairmanof the Planning CommissionMontek Singh Ahuliwala, Dr Kas-turirangan member, planningcommission represented the cen-tral government. Andhra Pradeshwas represented by its chief min-ister Kiran Kumar Reddy, financeminister R. Ramnarayana Reddyand principal secretary stateplanning board R Vijay Kumar.Tamil Nadu was represented byprincipal secretary planning RChandra Mohan.

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Beyond BeatFriday, June 10, 2011

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Ateam from the city is going to takepart in “Dare to be Digital”, theworld’s leading computervideogames design competitionrun by the University of Abertay

Dundee in Scotland.Fun Box team is led by Kashyap Singha

Phukan and has Arup Jyoti Das, GovardhanGosavi and Zico Mahilary as members.

They are all friends and are studying in the final year of BA animation and game development at Image College of Arts, Animation and Technology (ICAT) at Bhuvanahalli in the city. Theirlucky break came after they submittedtheir entry – “Ant – The Lost Memories” –to the contest.

The organisers from Scotland, after re-viewing the game, held an interviewthrough videoconferencing with all fourmembers of the team before allowing theirentry. What clinched the deal was theteam’s plan for a future game.

Study Overseas, an overseas educationconsultant from the city, is helping out FunBox. The consultant held the Indian leg ofthe contest.

Faculty member and Study Overseas of-ficer M Rajiv has this to say, “The Univer-sity of Abertay Dundee in Scotland has beenconducting this event annually for thepast six years. This is the first time that anIndian team has got selected. Fun Box hasbeen working hard to take part in thecompetition and they must receive all ac-colades.”

He says, “Hundreds of teams applied forthe contest. Of them, four teams from thecountry were shortlisted, but only FunBox made it.”

Kashyap Singha Phukan, leader of FunBox, says, “It is exciting, we will give ourbest, luck was on our side and we got se-lected. The competition at Scotland will betough. Let us see whether we will make itto the last round of the competition, knownas Dare ProtoPlay , after which top threeteam will make it to the BAFTA ‘Ones toWatch’ award.

On the format of the game, Rajiv said 15teams from China, India, Ireland, Sweden,Scotland, Wales and the USA will vie for thetop honours. The total prize money is2,500 pounds (approx Rs 1.85 lakh), whichwill be distributed among the first threeteams.

The boys left for the contest on Monday.They will be in Scotland for ten weeks tocomplete their design and development ofthe ambitious PC game for children. Theywill be assisted by a Scottish representativefrom the organiser’s side to assist them intheir travel and to get them acquainted withthe new place.

During the stay, the team will receiveguidance from leading videogaming in-dustry companies, like Codemasters, Out-play Entertainment, Rockstar North, Ruf-fian Games and Sony.

After working on the game for ten weeks,the team has to show its fully functionalprototypes for assessment by industryjudges at Dare Protoplay, which will be heldat Dundee Scotland from August 12 to 14.The user public will vote the winner fromamong the contestants.

The selected teams will secure a berth forBAFTA ‘Ones to Watch’ awards, undervideo gaming section.

Your friendlist cannotbe morethan 150

London: You may boast of having an impressivelist of friends on social networking sites likeFacebook and Orkut, but a new study suggests thatyour brain can’t handle more than 150 friends.

Researchers, led by Prof Robin Dunbar of at Ox-ford University, have carried out the study and con-cluded human beings cannot develop close bondswith more than 150 people, the ‘Daily Mail’ re-ported.

Indeed, so intense has been Prof Dunbar’s re-search of the magic number that it has earned hima measure of fame.

It is now referred to as “Dunbar’s Number”, aterm ironically coined on Facebook among fans ofhis work.

“There was a discussion by people saying, ‘I’vegot too many friends -- I don’t know who half thesepeople are’.

Somebody apparently said, ‘Look, there’s thisguy in England who says you can’t have more than150’,” Prof Dunbar said.

He has researched societies and businessesaround the world and has found that 150 is the op-timum group for social cohesion and interaction.

From African and Native American tribes to suc-cessful companies, a typical community is about150 people.

The reason 150 is the optimal number for a com-munity comes from our primate ancestors, ac-cording to Prof Dunbar.

Dunbar’s Number, of course, does face certainmodern day complications.

He said: “You grow up somewhere, you go toschool on the other side of the country, you get ajob, you go to Europe for a bit – it’s much harderfor us to keep those relationships working andgood when they’re that distributed.”

As for the workplace, the study has shown thatin companies smaller than 500 people “there’s avery strong tendency for colleagues also to be yourfriends”. PTI

New male infertility test

may ʻbring hopeto millionsʼ

London: A groundbreaking new test for male in-fertility, which will save time, money and heartachefor couples around the world, has been developedby Northern Ireland’s Queen’s University Belfast.

The medical breakthrough, known as theSpermComet, has resulted from more than adecade’s research by Professor Sheena Lewis, wholeads the Reproductive Medicine research groupat Queen’s.

The SpermComet provides unique informationthat no other test offers.

By measuring damaged DNA in individualsperm, it can predict the success of infertility treat-ments and fast-track couples to the treatment mostlikely to succeed, leading to significantly re-duced waiting times and improved chances of con-ception.

Lewis said according to a Belfast statement:“One in six couples has difficulty in having a fam-ily. In 40 percent of cases, the problems are relatedto the man. Until now, there have been few ac-curate ways of measuring a man’s fertility.”

“Traditionally, the diagnosis of male infertili-ty has relied on semen analysis. This provides thebasic information on which fertility specialistsbase their initial diagnosis.”

“However, its clinical value in predicting malefertility or success with infertility treatment is lim-ited, particularly if the semen analysis results arenormal,” he added.

“The SpermComet test is so called because itlooks just like a comet in the sky. The head of the‘Comet’ is undamaged DNA and the tail is dam-aged DNA.

“Good quality sperm DNA is closely associat-ed with getting pregnant and having a healthybaby, and the SpermComet Test is the most sen-sitive test available for sperm DNA testing,” con-cluded Lewis.

Lewis, in partnership with Queen’s venturespinout company, QUBIS, has now set up a newcompany to market the test, which is already avail-able through a number of fertility clinics inBritain. IANS

A team from Bangalore is running for the top honours at the international gaming contest in Scotland. The winner will get the BAFTA ʻOnes to Watchʼ

videogaming award, says L Raghunanda

Scientists manage to ʻtrapʼ anti‑matterLondon: In a technical feat, physicistshave trapped and stored “antihydro-gen atoms” for a record 16 minutes,which they claim may pave the wayfor deeper insights into the mysteriesof anti-matter.

Particles and anti-particles anni-hilate each other in a small flash of en-ergy when they collide. At the momentof Big Bang, nearly 14 billion yearsago, matter and anti-matter arethought to have existed in equalquantities.

If that balance had persisted, theobservable Universe we inhabit wouldnever have come into being. And, forunknown reasons nature seemed tohave a slight preference for matter,and today anti-matter is rare. Thisasymmetry remains one of the great-est riddles in particle physics.

But ongoing low-energy experi-ments with hydrogen atoms could bea key step toward solving it, say thescientists.

“We can keep the antihydrogenatoms trapped for 1,000 seconds.This is long enough to begin to studythem – even with the small numberthat we can catch so far,” said JeffreyHangst, spokesman for the ALPHAteam conducting tests at the EuropeanOrganisation for Nuclear Researchin Geneva. In the study, published inthe ‘Nature Physics’, the physicists re-

port trapping some 300 antiatoms.They used CERN’s high-energy ac-

celerator to create antihydrogen atomsand chilled them to near-zero tem-peratures.

The aim is to use laser and mi-crowave spectroscopy to comparethe immobilised particles to their hy-drogen counterparts.

The same team succeeded last yearin trapping dozens of anti-matteratoms and holding them in place fora fraction of a second, a world first atthe time. But that was not long enough

for the excitable particles to settle intothe stable “ground” state needed forprecise measurements.

The new benchmark extended thisstorage time 5,000 fold, making it pos-sible to carry out crucial experiments,‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported.

The physicists will now look for “vi-olations” or discrepancies in some-thing called the charge-parity-time re-versal (CPT) symmetry. Measurementsof trapped antihydrogen are due to getunderway shortly, and could yield re-sults before the end of the year. PTI

Giving in totemptation

may be goodLondon: Can’t resist your temp-tation for that last piece of cakeor chocolate? Well, it’s good foryou and may keep you happy, sayscientists.

A study of British womenfound that those who gave in totemptation on a regular basiswere much happier than thosewho restrained themselves.

The researchers said self-reg-ulation makes people more in-clined to feel dissatisfied – prov-ing the old adage that a little ofwhat you fancy really does do yougood, the Daily Mail reported.

Those who took part in the sur-vey for a food company saidshopping over the budget, sweettreats and browsing the internetat work as their pick-me-ups.

Neuroscientist Dr Jack Lewis,who led the study, said: “There isa body of evidence suggestingthat resisting temptation actual-ly makes us angry.”

“Most things are fine in mod-eration, and giving in to our rel-atively innocent urges – particu-larly when times are tough – is agreat way to reward ourselves.”

The survey of 2,000 women byOnePoll for ‘Gu Puds’ found thatalmost 90% gave in to urges atleast some of the time, while al-most 60% did so once a day. Ofthose who indulged daily, aroundtwo thirds reported feeling guiltyfor hours afterwards. PTI

Good mannersare at the heartof good health

London: People with good man-ners, whether at office or home,are more than twice likely tohave a good health, a study hasfound.

Those who are tidy and or-ganised are found to have betterpersonal hygiene than morechaotic people, the Daily Ex-press reported.

The study said well-manneredpeople tend to maintain betterhygiene and take better care oftheir well-being and health. As aresult, they suffer less from coldsand cases of diarrhoea and aretwo-and-a-half times more like-ly to be in good health thanthose with poor manners.

Elderly people look after theirhealth more than the young peo-ple and also have better manners,states the study conducted byDettol and the London School ofHygiene and Tropical Medicine.

John Oxford, chairman of theHygiene Council and professor ofvirology at Barts and the LondonSchool of Medicine and Den-tistry, said: “Everyone canchange their behaviour and helpto break the chain of infection.Good manners are also at theheart of it – being aware and

thinking how our behaviour af-fects us and those around us.”

“We’re not powerless againstinfectious disease – everyonecan contribute through simplehygiene measures such as wash-ing our hands.”

It also states the homemakershave the highest levels of per-sonal and household hygiene,while office workers and stu-dents have the worst. Womenalso tend to be more hygienicthan men. IANS

TAKING GAMING TO NEXT LEVEL

Fun Box team, led by Kashyap Singha Phukan and with members Arup Jyoti Das, Govardhan Gosavi and Zico Mahilary as members, is heading to Scotland totake part in the Dare to be Digital, the world’s leading computer videogames design competition run by the University of Abertay Dundee.

The line drawings of the main character of Fun Box’s game, Ant – The Lost Memories.The contest in progress at Scotland.

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A policeman helps Larry, the DowningStreet cat, into Number 10 Downing

Street, the residence of British PrimeMinister David Cameron yesterday.

The four-year-old tabby, called Larry,was at London’s Battersea Dogs andCats Home before moving into thePrime Minister’s home in London.

AP-PTI

world briefs

Chinaʼs secondmoon orbiter

takes offBeijing: China’s second moon orbiter,Chang’e-2, Thursday set off on a journeyinto outer space that will take it about 1.5million km away from the Earth, Chinesescientists said.

The craft left its moon orbit at 5.10 pm(China time) and will take about 85 days toreach outer space, Xinhua quoted the stateadministration of science, technology andindustry for national defence (SASTIND)as stating.

The orbiter had completed all its taskswithin its designed life span of six monthsby April 1. Scientists then decided it wouldcarry out additional exploratory tasks as itstill had fuel in reserve.

According to the SASTIND, travellinginto outer space from the moon’s orbit isthe most important task among five addi-tional ones.

“It’s the first time in the world for a satel-lite to be set off from the moon in remoteouter space,” said Zhou Jianliang, a deputychief engineer at the Beijing AerospaceControl Centre (BACC).

The exploration of outer space posesgreat challenges to the country’s technologyin areas like telecommunications, datatransaction and orbit design, scientistssaid.

Scientists hope the satellite can continueoperations until the end of next year.

China launched its first lunar orbiter,Chang’e-1, in October 2007. IANS

Little boy savesfatherʼs life

after bull attackLondon: A 10-year-old boy in Wales savedhis father from being gored to death by abull by heroically jumping onto a nearbytractor and chasing the furious beast away.

Tom Phillips watched in horror as a bullcharged at his father Andrew – throwinghim in the air like a rag doll on the familyfarm in Abergavenny, Daily Mail reportedyesterday.

The huge 2,000 pound (900 kg) beastthen stood over the unconscious farmer,snorting and mauling his limp body withits hooves.

Terrified Tom climbed onto the tractorfor safety, but he was faced with a dilemma.His father Andrew, 46, had forbidden himto drive the tractor and he’s not a boy tobreak the rules.

But Tom’s instincts took over and heturned the key to drive slowly towards hisdad lying under the bull. He carefully aimedfor the animal worried he might crush hisunconscious father under the tractor’s giantwheels.

He managed to move the bull away fromhis father and ran back to the farmhousecalling his mother Amanda.

Amanda dialled for help and finally aRoyal Air Force rescue helicopter flew tothe field to take barely alive Andrew tohospital.

He suffered 10 broken ribs and severeinternal injuries from where the chargingbull hit him.

But Andrew survived and was allowedhome yesterday two weeks after being hitby the bull.

Mother Amanda said: “Andrew only sur-vived because of Tom’s amazing reactionsto what must have been horrific for a 10-year-old boy to witness.”

“He’s my little hero and I can’t tell youhow proud I am of him.” IANS

Man gifts wife 100,000pound toilet

London: A man in Britain has purchased a100,000 pounds (about $165,000) beach-side toilet for his beloved wife as a presenton their wedding anniversary.

When builder Nick Willan spotted theproperty at the auction, he decided to turnit into a perfect 30th anniversary presentfor his wife Sue, the Daily Mail reportedThursday.

The 53-year-old Nick intends to turn thetwo-storey Victorian toilet into a perfectroom with a view looking out onto the gor-geous Norfolk coast.

Dad-of-three Nick said it was worthpaying the price to own something a littleout of the ordinary. IANS

Apple a day keeps your body tonedLondon: An apple a day keepsthe doctor away, so goes the oldsaying. Now, researchers claimto have found out the exact rea-son – the fruit helps keep one’sbody toned and slender by boost-ing muscles and fighting theflab.

A new study by the Universityof Iowa has found that ursolicacid – a substance found in thepeel – has natural body buildingqualities and could help peoplekeep a toned, slender body. And,it could even help with diabetes.

In experiments, the re-searchers discovered that itboosts muscle growth by up to15 per cent and reduces bodyfat by more than a half. It alsohas health giving properties –reducing blood sugar levels, cho-

lesterol and harmful fat-ty acids, ‘The Daily Tele-graph’ reported.

Lead researcherChristopher Adams saidthe substance could beespecially useful in theelderly who naturallylose body muscle,known as atrophy.

He said: “The old say-ing goes that ‘an applea day keeps the doctoraway’. Muscle atrophycauses big problems.

It’s also very common– it affects most peopleat some point in theirlives, during illness orageing. But, there’s nom e d i c i n e for it.

“We studied muscle gene activityin people with atrophy and used thatinformation to find chemicals thatmight block atrophy.

One of those chemicals was espe-cially interesting. It’s called ursolicacid and it’s particularly concentratedin apple peels.”

The study, published in the ‘CellMetabolism’ journal, showed that ur-solic acid reduced muscle wasting inmice. The researchers believe the sub-stance works by reprogramming genesthat cause muscle wasting and fatbuild up.

“Interestingly, although ursolic acidincreased muscle weight in mice, itdid not increase total body weight,and further investigation showed thatmice fed ursolic acid had less bodyfat than mice that were not fed thecompound,” he said. IANS

New technique to detect onset of blindness!

Washington: Scientists have de-veloped a new technique whichthey claim will help detecthealthy people at risk of devel-oping age-related macular de-generation (AMD), one of theleading causes of blindnessworldwide.

Using standard clinical tech-niques, the detection of AMDhas previously not been possiblein the disease’s early stages. Doc-tors tend to diagnose AMD oncesmall changes become visible atthe back of a patient’s eye. How-ever, degeneration begins manyyears before these clinical signsappear.

Now, a team at QueenslandUniversity of Technology, led byeye specialist Dr Beatrix Feigl,has come up with the “dim lightvision” test which it says is verysensitive to early changes in aperson’s vision.

“We can detect subclinical vi-sual impairment in healthy par-ticipants genetically at risk forAMD. In the future we hope thistest might be utilised by oph-

thalmologists and optometriststo identify patients with a highgenetic risk of developing AMDbut without any clinical signs ofdisease.

“This would enable specialiststo advise patients on lifestylechanges which may delay diseaseonset and reduce its severity,”she said.

Dr Feigl said that genetic pre-disposition accounted for aroundhalf the cases of AMD. However,lifestyle risk factors for AMD,which could be controlled by apatient, included poor diet, lackof exercise and smoking.

“We know that lifestylechanges can decrease a person’schance of getting worse formsof the disease,” she said.

The next phase of the team’sresearch will be a longitudinalstudy, following up with peoplewho took part in this study andwho were shown to have earlychanges to their vision. “We willfollow them up and see if theirvision deteriorates over time,”she said. PTI

Your name holds alot for you: ScientistsWashington: What’s in a name?Well, it can tell a lot about youand could even influence whatothers think about you.

A new study of the meaningsencoded in people’s names foundthat people judge how smart aperson is based solely on name.

“The name you give your kidis sort of a proxy for a wholebunch of things in our culture,”study researcher John Waggonerof Bloomberg University of Penn-sylvania was quoted as sayingby ‘LiveScience’.

Names have been linked tomany life choices, including whatkind of work people do and howthey donate to charity.

Past studies have shown thatwhat people name their childrenvaries by their socioeconomicstatus and education level.

Waggoner and his colleagueswondered if people’s names af-fect what others expect of them.

They recruited a group of 89

undergraduate students, abouthalf of whom were prospectiveteachers, and asked them toguess on a scale of 1 to 10 (notvery successful to very successful)how they thought a student witha certain name would performacademically.

The participants tended tojudge those with names thathave been correlated with lowermaternal education and socioe-conomic status as low educa-tional achievers, compared withthe possessors of higher-status

names.“What future teachers expect

is that ‘Cody’ will do a lot worsein school, relatively, than ‘Ben-jamin and Samuel’,” Waggonersaid. “The more things you havegoing for you, the better peopleexpect you to do.”

The lowest-ranked names were‘Travis’, with an average of 5.55on the scale, and Amber, with a5.74. The highest rankers were‘Katherine’ with a 7.42 and‘Samuel’ with a 7.20.

The two-point gap betweenthe highest and lowest rankednames equates to a 20 per centdifference in perceived academicsuccess, the researchers said.

But the researchers said theirwork is still lacking on how thiscorrelates to actual academicsuccess, though other studieshave associated low maternaleducation and socioeconomicstatus with lower educationalsuccess. PTI

Eating at wrongtime? Your

fertility may be hitWashington: Dieticians often advise against late-night dinner as it may lead to weight gain. Now, anew study, led by an Indian-origin scientist, has foundthat wrong time eating may also cause reduced fertility,at least in the case of fruit flies.

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine atthe University of Pennsylvania found that feedingfruit flies at the wrong time led to a defect in their re-productive ability.

The finding, published in the journal Cell Metabolism,however, may not hold true for humans and any po-tential link between diet and reproduction needsfurther research, Amita Sehgal, a neuroscience professorwho led the research, said.

“I would not say eating at the wrong time of theday makes people less fertile, though that is the im-plication,” said Sehgal.

“I would say that eating at the wrong time of theday has deleterious consequences for physiology.”

Many aspects of animal biology cycle over thecourse of a day. Sleep and wakefulness, activity andrest, body temperature, and more, all fluctuate in apattern called a circadian rhythm. Disruption of theserhythms has been shown to negatively affect physiol-ogy.

Shift workers, for instance, often suffer from psy-chological and metabolic issues that colleagues onnormal hours do not, the researchers said.

In 2008, Sehgal’s team discovered that the fruit flyequivalent of the liver, called the fat body, has its ownclock, which controls eating and food storage.

In the current study, they wanted to know whatwould happen if the fat body clock became desyn-chronized from the master clock in the brain.

First, she and her team found out which fly genesare controlled specifically by the fat body clock. Usinggene chip microarrays, they identified 81 genes relatedto lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, the immunesystem, and reproduction that fit those criteria.

Next, they tried to decouple the fat body and centralclocks by keeping the flies in constant darkness (toeliminate effects of light on these clocks) and feedingthem at times when they don’t normally eat.

They found the two clocks could be desynchronised:disrupting the creatures’ feeding cycles altered thecycling of genes controlled by the fat-body clock, butnot those regulated by the central clock itself itself.

Finally, the researchers addressed the functionalconsequences of this desynchronization, by countingthe number of eggs the flies laid under different con-ditions. Flies fed at the “right” time of the day depositedabout 8 eggs per day, compared to about 5 when theyfed at the “wrong” time. The next task, they said, is tofinding the molecular mechanism that controls thisphenomenon. And more importantly, to find whetherthis effect is restricted to fruit flies or it also occurs inhigher organisms, including humans. PTI

IAEA reports Syria to UN over N‑allegationsVienna: The UN atomic watchdog votedtoday to report Syria to the United Na-tions Security Council over allegationsit built an undeclared nuclear reactorthat was then destroyed by Israelibombs, diplomats said.

At a closed-door meeting of the 35-member board of governors of the In-ternational Atomic Energy Agency, 17countries voted in favour of a corre-sponding resolution by the United Statesand six against, diplomats attendingthe meeting said.

Azerbaijan, China, Ecuador, Pakistan,Russia and Venezuela all voted “no”.

There were 11 abstentions, includingArgentina, Brazil, Chile, India, SouthAfrica and Peru, and one country –Mongolia – was absent from the vote,the diplomats said.

The IAEA will not officially publishthe outcome of the vote given the con-fidential nature of the deliberations.

Washington and its Western allieshad asked the IAEA’s governing bodyto find Syria in “non-compliance” withits international obligations and reportit to the Security Council in New York.

The last time the IAEA did so was inthe case of Iran in February 2006.

Washington alleges that Syria wasbuilding an undeclared nuclear reactorat a remote desert site called Dair Alzourwith North Korea’s help until the sitewas bombed by Israeli planes in Sep-tember 2007.

The IAEA began investigating the al-legations in June 2008, but Syria hasrefused to cooperate all along and, withthe exception of a one-off visit, has notallowed UN inspectors to Dair Alzour or related sites to verify the US claims. AFP

ʻJupiter robbed Mars of massto build its asteroid beltʼ

London: Gas giant Jupiter mayhave robbed the mass of itsneighbouring planet Mars andbuilt the strange icy rocky aster-oid belt billions of years agowhen the solar system was form-ing, a new study has suggested.

The unexpectedly smaller sizeof Mars and the strange asteroidbelt located between the orbitsof the red planet and its neigh-bour Jupiter have long puzzledscientists. Now, an internationalteam of scientists claimed tohave found an explanation bycarrying out computer simula-tions of the early solar system.

Their research showed thatsome 4.6 billion years ago whenthe solar system was forming,Jupiter went wandering in to-wards the Sun, on the way drag-ging comets from beyond theasteroid belt as it moved inwardstowards Mars. It then moved outagain to gravitate towards an-other gas giant, Saturn, as itformed, this time dragging dryrocks from inside the belt as itmoved back outwards again.

All this material would other-wise have coalesced with Mars,giving it water in abundance andthe mass to retain it with itsgravitational pull. Instead it end-ed up as the small, dry and prob-ably dead planet as seen today,the Daily Mail reported.

The team, led by Dr KevinWalsh of the Southwest ResearchInstitute in San Antonio, foundhow an infant Jupiter may havemigrated to within 1.5 astronom-ical units (AU — the distancefrom the Sun to the Earth) of theSun, stripping a lot of materialfrom the region and essentiallystarving Mars of materials.

“If Jupiter had moved inwardsfrom its birthplace down to 1.5AU from the Sun, and thenturned around when Saturnformed as other models suggest,eventually migrating outwardstowards its current location, itwould have truncated the dis-tribution of solids in the innersolar system at about 1 AU andexplained the small mass ofMars,” said Dr Walsh.

He said: “The problem waswhether the inward and outward

migration of Jupiter through the2 to 4 AU region could be com-patible with the existence of theasteroid belt today, in this sameregion. So, we started to do ahuge number of simulations.

“The result was fantastic. Oursimulations not only showedthat the migration of Jupiter wasconsistent with the existence ofthe asteroid belt, but also ex-plained properties of the beltnever understood before.”

The asteroid belt is populatedwith two very different types ofrubble, very dry bodies as wellas water-rich orbs.

Water is too volatile to havebeen present at Earth’s formationand must have been subsequent-ly delivered from outer, colderparts of the Solar System, saidthe researchers who believe thatwater was probably delivered byplanetoids and comets thrownout of the asteroid belt by Jupiter.

Dr Walsh and his team, whodetailed their findings in thejournal Nature, found that thepassage of Jupiter depleted andthen re-populated the asteroidbelt region with inner-belt bodiesoriginating between 1 and 3 AUas well as outer-belt bodies orig-inating between and beyond thegiant planets, producing the sig-nificant compositional differ-ences existing today. PTI

Microsoft loses Word

patent battleToronto: Software giant Microsoftfinally lost its battle over Wordpatent with Toronto’s i4i Inc.yesterday.

Rejecting Microsoft’s appeal,the US Supreme Court upheldthe 2009 lower court orderagainst Microsoft to pay $290million in damages to the Torontofirm for infringing its patent.

The Canadian company hadtaken the software giant to courtin the US in 2007 over violationsof its patent in Word applicationsand won the case and got $290million in damages in December2009.

In its lawsuit, i4i had claimedthat the world’s biggest softwarecompany infringed on a patentgranted to it in 1998.

The patent pertained to i4i’stechnology that can open docu-ments using the XML computerprogramming language and ma-nipulate complex data in elec-tronic documents.

The technology allows usersto sort out and manage tons ofinformation by turning complexdocuments into more accessibledatabases.

The Toronto company claimedthat Microsoft violated its patentwhen it created Word 2003 and

Word 2007 software.Later in 2009, the US court of

appeals upheld the lower courtorder banning Microsoft fromselling its patent-infringing Wordprocessing software from January2010.

Though Microsoft compliedwith the court order by stoppingselling versions of Word withthe disputed technology fromthat date, it challenged the verdictin the US supreme court in Au-gust last year, arguing that thecurrent system is disproportion-ately loaded in favor of patentholders.

i4i chairman Loudon Owencalled Thursday’s court decision“extremely gratifying’’ for hissmall firm.

“It has also become one ofthe most important business-law cases decided by theSupreme Court in decades,’’ hetold the local media. IANS

Moscow will use ʻpractical measuresʼ

on Libya crisisMoscow: Russia is ready to em-ploy practical measures to helpresolve the political conflict inLibya, foreign ministryspokesman Alexander Lukashe-vich said yesterday.

Moscow “has repeatedly un-derlined its readiness to use prac-tical measures for cooperationin the political process; for whichcontacts were sent not long agoby foreign minister Sergei Lavrov,and special representatives ofthe president on the issue of co-operation in North Africa,” Luka-shevich said.

The statement comes as NATOstepped up its air strikes againstgovernment targets in the Libyancapital Tripoli. At least 14 rebelswere killed as they tried to fightback troops loyal to embattledleader Muammar Gaddafi in Mis-rata. The president’s special en-voy Mikhail Margelov arrived inLibya Tuesday where he heldtalks with leaders of Libya’s rebelNational Transitional Council.

Russia agreed to be an inter-mediary between the two sidesin Libya, although there wereno concrete results of the medi-ation attempt.

“One such trip is not likely toresolve such a major and com-

plex problem like the Libyanconflict,” a foreign ministry of-ficial said.

“Russia has always proceededfrom the position that the conflictshould be resolved by political-diplomatic means without theuse of external influence and ofcourse the use of force,” he said.

“We have continually calledon, and still call on, all sides inthe conflict to comply with (UN)resolutions 1970 and 1973,” headded.

UN Security Council Resolu-tion 1970, passed in February,imposed sanctions on Gaddafiand his family, while Resolution1973 authorized a no-fly zoneover Libya and the use of “allnecessary measures” to protectcivilians. IANS

8 soldierskilled inPakistan

Islamabad: Eight soldiers werekilled in an attack by Talibanfighters on a security check postin Pakistan’s tribal belt while sixothers were killed in two bombattacks in the country’s restivenorthwest yesterday.

Over 100 militants, armed withrockets and heavy weapons, at-tacked the check post in thevolatile South Waziristan regionearly this morning.

Twelve militants were alsokilled in an exchange of fire.

In a separate incident, fourpersons were killed and threeothers injured when militantstargeted members of an anti-Tal-iban militia travelling in a vehiclewith a roadside bomb in Mataniarea on the outskirts of Peshawarcity, police said.

Two persons were killed andthree more injured in a secondroadside bombing that targeteda vehicle carrying food to a para-military camp in Upper Dir dis-trict, police said.

Upper Dir witnessed severalmajor militant attacks last week.

The bomb attack in Mattaniwas the second one in five days.A bomb planted in a passengervan on June 5 killed seven per-sons. The Taliban have repeatedlyattacked members of a pro-gov-ernment militia in Mattani area,where residents have supportedaction against militants. PTI

US counterterror chief quitsWashington: Mike Leiter, the head ofthe US National Counterterrorism Centre,is quiting after close to five years at thepost, the White House said yesterday.

The White House did not give a reasonfor Leiter’s departure, but PresidentBarack Obama praised him as “a trustedadvisor” who provided “in-depth un-derstanding of terrorist activities thataffect our nation’s security”, Xinhuareported.

Leiter became the head of the NationalCounterterrorism Centre in 2007 underformer president George W. Bush.

He was asked by Obama to stay in2009, but was later criticized for failingto identify the threat by a known ex-tremist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab,who on Christmas Day 2009 succeededin boarding a Delta airplane rigged withexplosives.

The device failed to detonate over

Detroit, Michigan.Obama said that in his several years

at the counterterrorism centre, Leiterled the agency “during challenging anddemanding times”.

The president added that he is confi-dent that the nation is now in a “signif-icantly stronger position to confront theterrorist threats we face”.

There’s no word on who will replaceLeiter. IANS

Muammar Gaddafi

Bill Gates

LIFESTYLE 7Friday, June 10, 2011

Getting three popular actors to singin one song is no joke - but composertrio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (SEL) man-

aged to convince Hrithik Roshan, FarhanAkhtar and Abhay Deol to do it for thecatchy number “Senorita”, and how!

Of the three actors, who feature togetherin Zoya Akhtar’s “Zindagi Naa Milegi Do-bara”, Abhay had traces of nervousness,according to Shankar, who is gearing upto host a music workshop June 25, the lastday of the International Indian Film Acad-emy (IIFA) weekend in Toronto, along withEhsaan and Loy.

“It was great fun recording the song.Farhan has sung previously in ‘Rock On!!’and Hrithik is a fantastic singer. Abhaywas no problem at all. Granted that he hasnever sung before and he was a bit nervous,but we created a comfortable environmentfor him and let him do his thing,” Shankarsaid on behalf of the trio.

The song has a Spanish influence, and

is quite catchy. From what comes throughthe trailers of the film, the picturisation isalso quite colourful and fun. The film is re-leasing July 15.

“All the three actors have really done anamazing job and the song has turned outgreat,” Shankar added.

Apart from looking forward to the officialmusic launch of the movie and getting thelisteners’ response for it, the trio is hopingto take Bollywood music across the shoresto North America through their workshopat IIFA, an annual event organised by Wiz-craft International Entertainment.

“We want to communicate to the studentsand the audience at large about the entireprocess of music creation in Bollywood asthe process is quite different from that inthe west,” said the singer-composer, popularfor songs like “Breathless” and “Jhoombarabar jhoom”.

The workshop, to be held at the FairmontRoyal York Hotel June 25 morning,

will open with a brief history of Hindi film music and will be followed by a discussion on the integral role it plays in Bollywood films. It will be an interactivesession, which will also see the hit trio useinputs and recommendations from the au-dience to compose a song during the courseof the day.

Shankar feels IIFA is a great platform forpromoting Bollywood globally.

“It’s great to see Indian cinema go globalon so many different levels and be appre-ciated. We do look forward to the weekendcelebrating with our fraternity and meetingall our fans. The IIFA weekend (June 23-25)is always packed with fun,” he said.

While the trio has been nominated forthe best music direction for the song “Saj-daa” from “My Name Is Khan”, Shankar iscompeting for the best playback male singeraward for his rendition of “Uff teri adaa”from “Karthik Calling Karthik”. They hopethey can take home the awards.

IʼM NOT GOING TO GETmarried again: Jane FondaVeteran actress Jane Fonda,

who is dating Americanmusic producer Richard

Perry, denies engagement ru-mours and says she has no plansto get married again.

Jane said that she is extremelythrilled with her relationship,but she has no plans to gethooked.

“I’m not going to get marriedagain,” the 73-year-old told OprahWinfrey on her chat show.

The last time when Oprah in-terviewed the actress about 10years ago, few weeks after Jane

split from her third husband TedTurner, she was living in herdaughter Vanessa’s Atlantahome.

“I needed to be there. It waslike I was giving birth to my sec-ond adulthood in the home ofmy firstborn. It was very, verymoving,” Jane, who also has ason, Troy O’Donovan Garity, toldOprah.

She also shared her experienceof going under the knife in Feb-ruary 2010, saying she feels greatdoing it: “Now, I look more likehow I feel. I’m glad I did it.”

Actress Eva Longoria haslearnt sign language tocommunicate with her

deaf fans.“I’ve had a lot of deaf people

who have bought my book andI’ve been able to talk to themabout what my favourite recipeis and what to cook,” contact-music.com quoted Longorio assaying

The 36-year-old recentlylaunched her own cook bookEva’s Kitchen.

Longoria, is also prepared tocontribute in various charitiesto help people with disabilitiesand from deprived social groups.

“I always think it’s importantto bring awareness to minorityor a minority population andwhether you’re Latino or blackor a woman or deaf, it still fallsinto that category of needingsupport from people who aren’tnormally around this type ofpopulation. I come from a di-verse background of people withspecial needs, because of mysister, so I’m happy to bring myvoice to this cause,” she said.

Actress Angelina Jolie will reportedlyreprise her role as Evelyn Salt forthe sequel of “Salt” after Sony

Pictures commissioned writer Kurt Wim-mer to press ahead with a screenplay.

According to deadline.com, Jolie hasalways been open about wanting to doa sequel of the movie because she thinksthere is more to discover from her char-acter.

“I’d love to do a sequel. You neverknow if you’re going to get the chance,if audiences are going to love it. But par-ticularly with this character, I think thereis so much yet to explore in her life withher – with her family, with coming toterms with who she is in the end, becauseof the way it’s set up, she could be any-body,” contactmusic.com quoted Jolieas saying.

“She could be in any country, shecould speak any language, and so wehave a lot of opportunities. As an actress,and somebody who loves to travel, itwould be nice to be able to explore theworld with her,” she added.

The 2010 release “Salt”, directed byPhillip Noyce, was about a CIA agent –played by Angelina Jolie – who goes onthe run after a defector accuses her ofbeing a Russian spy.

EVA LONGORIAlearns sign language

JOLIE TO RETURNfor ʻSaltʼ sequel?

Actor James Franco hasreportedly teamed upwith drag artist Kalup

Linzy to launch a music ca-reer. Contactmusic.com re-ports that the “127 Hours”star will create new duoKalup-Franco. They will re-lease their first EP, “Turn ItUp”, next month.

Franco and Linzy will re-lease videos featuring celebri-ty guests accompanying themin all their songs.

FRANCO TEAMSup with drag artist

I want to go back toschool: Nikki Reed

Actress Nikki Reed isplanning to returnto school after tying

the knot with “AmericanIdol” contestant Paul Mc-donald..

“I really want to dosome theater and go backto school. I want to goback for back for businessand marketing. I have abusiness-oriented mindand my brother is takinga marketing class rightnow and I think it’s some-thing I really want to do,”dailystar.co.uk quotedReed as saying.

The couple went publicwith its engagement onthe red carpet at the MTVMovie Awards, June 5, andnow they are makingplans to tie the knot verysoon.

ABHAY WAS NERVOUS about singing: Shankar

PANETTIERE ROMANCING Scotty McKnight?

American actress Hayden Panet-tiere is reportedly dating Na-tional Football League (NFL)

player Scotty McKnight.Panettiere was reportedly linked

to McKnigh’s teammate Mark Sanchezlast week, after they were seen eatingburgers together, but it has now beenrevealed she is romancing McKnight,a source told US Weekly magazine.

Discussing her relationship withMark, the 21-year-old actress earlierthis month said: “I swear I’m notdating him at all. Honestly. I’m ahuge Jets fan and became very goodfriends with him and his buddies.There’s genuinely, absolutely nothinggoing on. I’ve always been that girlwho has a lot of dude friends. I’minto sports so we have a lot in com-mon, but no, definitely 100 percentnot dating.”

Friday, June 10, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

Socialite Kim Kardashianhas been named as theEntrepreneur of the Year

at Glamour Women of the Yearawards held at London’s Berke-ley Square Gardens.

Kardashian ,who recentlygot engaged to basketball starboyfriend Kris Humphries, wasjoined by an array of stars, atthe event held last night, in-cluding ‘Tamara Drewe’ actressGemma Arterton who baggedthe Film Actress of the Yearprize

Victoria Beckham wasawarded accessory designer ofthe year, while singer Adelewas given the Britain’s soloartist of the year award.

British designer Sarah Bur-ton, who created the lace wed-ding dress for the Duchess ofCambridge, was named De-signer of the Year.

Hosted by British televisionactor James Corden, the eventalso saw the likes of “Twilight”actress Kristen Stewart,Britain’s girl band The Satur-days and Fleetwood Mac singerStevie Nicks, who also receivedOutstanding ContributionAward by Rod Stewart.

Director Indra Kumar used to order asmuch as 25 kg of jalebis (Indiansweet) daily for the entire unit to

feast on. In fact, on the last day of the song’s

shoot, all the unit members including cho-reographer Ganesh Acharya and diet con-scious Mallika had a party of sorts with hotjalebis. “The item song was shot at MehboobStudio, and the mood was so festive and

celebratory that we decided to have sweetseveryday in honour of the song! We orderedaround 25 kilos of sweets for the entire unitand since sweets are always associated withcelebrations, the entire mood of the crewused to be very upbeat,” said Kumar.

Mallika is already being talked about forher sizzling dance in the song “Shalu kethumke” from the yet to be released “BinBulaye Baraati”, but Kumar says “Jalebi

bai” is a step ahead. “The song promos willbe up by this weekend, and we are sure itwill be a huge talking point! Mallika hasoutdone herself as Jalebi bai,” he added.

“Double Dhamaal”, a co-production byReliance Pictures and Maruti International,will release June 24. The world premiere ofthe movie will take place on the same dateat the International Indian Film Academy(IIFA) weekend, to be held in Toronto.

Jalebi treat for ʻJalebi baiʼ shoot

Rebecca & Shifa Suviti, Sanjana & Nidhi

Anannya , Teesha & Akanksha

Jasmi , Aiban & RajvirKalyani , Shreya & Sharvari

D J Flower

KIM NAMEDentrepreneur of the year

The crew of “DoubleDhamaal” had quite atreat on the sets andnot just with actress

Mallika Sherawatgrooving sensuously

to the song “Jalebibai”, but also with piping hot jalebis.

Guests grooveto Nadiaʼs tunesCity’s music buffs turned up recently to hear Grammy award nominee Nadia Ali

at City Bar in UB City. The live-in concert kept the guests grooving. Thoughthere was a disappointing note over the short concert, the guests nonetheless

enjoyed themselves