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Jumbo fun: ElephantsARRIVE IN MYSORE

The arrival of elephants at Mysore marks thebeginning of the nine-day Dasara festivitiesthat end with the grand procession. The ele-phants that have been brought from Dubareelephant camp were welcomed into theMysore Palace today. These mammoths willstay in the palace for the next two months,says Y N Ramya... Page5

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For good puja

People throng markets to buy flowers, fruits and other materials for the Vara Mahalakshmi puja tomorrow.

Reddy brosmeet HDK,

Deve GowdaD L Harish

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Reddy broth-ers met JD(S) supremo H DDeve Gowda and JD(S) statepresident H D Kumarswamy inNew Delhi over the last week,highly placed sources in theBJP told Bangalore Beat.

The meeting is to put pres-sure on the party high com-mand to include at least threeministers from their group of 9-10 MLAs in the SadanandaGowda cabinet. They havealso threatened some of theparty national leaders thatthey would quit the party andtake away their entire group tothe Janata Dal if their demandsare not met.

Former tourism minister JJanardhana Reddy and for-mer revenue minister JKarunkara Reddy have arguedthat if the high command isthinking of leaving them outbecause of their indictmentin the Lokayukta report on il-legal mining, then housingminister V Somanna tooshould be out of the cabinet.The Lokayukta has mentionedSomanna and his son as beinginvolved in illegal mining in ar-eas surrounding Tumkur.

The sources said the Reddybrothers using their develop-ing proximity with the JD(S) asa major bargaining pawn togarner three ministries, match-ing their earlier strength inthe cabinet.

Janardhana Reddy

Deve Gowda

DVS TO EXPANDCABINET TODAY6 likely to be inducted into ministry, swearing in at 6 pm

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Chief minister D VSadananda Gowda is going for sec-ond round of cabinet expansion to-day. He is likely to induct six minis-ters from all factions of the party to-day. The swearing in ceremony hasbeen scheduled for 6 pm at Raj Bha-van.

Gowda can only hope that thisshould contain raging fires of dis-content within the party. As an in-surance he has kept seven moreberths vacant that would be filled ata later stage depending on the con-dition of different factions and theirdemand in the coming days.

With today’s exercise, the numberof ministers in the cabinet would goup from the present 21 to 27 from thepermissible 34 ministers Gowdacould have.

Sadananda Gowda till last nightwas thinking of taking up secondround of expansion only at a laterstage. But the pressure was too highon him to change his position. Thenew chief minister, who had re-turned from New Delhi only yester-day, had to rush back to the nation-al capital early in the morning to hold

consultations with the national lead-ers about the need for cabinet ex-pansion immediately. He and BJPstate president K S Eshwarappa left

by 6.30 am flight and landed at par-ty former national president RajnathSingh’s house where the list was fi-nalised.

They also met party national pres-ident Nitin Gadkari, national gener-al secretary Arun Jaitley and oppo-sition leader in the Lok Sabha Sush-ma Swaraj to discuss the list drawnup. From there, Gowda called up for-mer chief minister B S Yeddyurappaand briefed him about the list.

The probables in the list are: Bal-achandra Jarkiholi and Anand As-notikar from the former rebel group,Somashekar Reddy from the Ja-nardhana Reddy camp, VarthurPrakash from the Shettar group andC P Yogeshwar and Raju Gowdafrom the side of Yeddyurappa.

Even rural development and pan-chayat raj minister Jagadish Shettarfaced intense pressure from his groupon the cabinet expansion. They eventhreatened him that they would putin their resignation if the exercise isnot taken up immediately.

Former tourism minister Janard-hana Reddy and former revenueminister Karunakrara Reddy too ap-plied pressure on the party highcommand to include their grouprepresentatives in the cabinet. As apressure tactic they met JD(S) supre-mo H D Deve Gowda and his son Ku-maraswamy.

Cameron convenes House,toughens stand on rioters

London: An uneasy calm prevailedover Britain’s cities today after fourdays of rioting and looting, with se-curity being beefed up and a sternwarning from Prime Minister DavidCameron that law and order will be re-stored at any cost.

Cameron has convened a specialsession of parliament to discuss theworst riots in England in decadeseven as tensions remained high in theviolence-hit areas but no major inci-dents were reported.

Cameron, who vowed to “fightback” to crush the unrest, is expectedto outline further measures to deal withrecent disorder.

Preliminary estimate of the extent ofloss was nearly 200 million pounds,British media reported. Under the lit-tle known 1886 Riot Damages Act in-surance companies, individuals andbusinesses can reclaim their lossesfrom local police authorities.

Police have arrested more than1,000 people and charged nearly 300in connection with violence in Londonand other parts.

Cameron, who cut short his holiday

in Tuscany to tackle the biggest chal-lenge confronting his 15-month oldcoalition government, said contin-gency plans have been put in place formaking available water canons atshort notice. Police has already beenauthorised to use plastic bullets for thefirst time against rioters.

Parliament has been convened foran emergency debate on the riots thathave engulfed London and laterspread across Britain.

It is the second time in less than a

month that MPs have been recalled foran emergency session – the first wasfor the phone-hacking scandal at theNews of the World newspaper.

Meanwhile, cities across Britain re-mained largely quiet last night after thePrime Minister vowed to deploy whathe called the toughest measures pos-sible to stamp out the violence. Asurge in police numbers helped tocalm streets.

Courts in London, Manchester andBirmingham worked throughout thenight to deal with hundreds of peoplearrested.

The first two criminals convicted forthe looting and violence sweepingEngland were jailed yesterday.

A huge police operation and heavyrain in some areas appear to have pre-vented a fifth night of disorder.

Up to 250 officers are sent fromScotland to help colleagues in theMidlands and North of England dealwith rioting and disorder.

Rampaging youths with their facecovered to avoid identification wereseen carrying electronic items, clothesand other luxury goods from stores.

BSYʼs plea hearing put off to Aug 16

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Former chief minis-ter B S Yeddyurappa’s writ peti-tion before the Karnataka HighCourt asking it to scrap governorH R Bhardwaj’s permission forhis prosecution has been postedto August 16.

Yeddyurappa has stated thatgovernor’s order is unconstitu-tional and one-sided. He hasalso alleged that it was a ploy bythe governor to pull down a dem-ocratically elected government inthe state. The governor gave per-

mission to advocates SirajinBasha and K N Balaraj to file cas-es of corruption against Yed-dyurappa. The former CM hasclaimed that the cases filed by thetwo advocates are far from thetruth. “I have not committed anymistake in denotifying the lands.Nothing has been done illegally,and all the transactions are as perrule,” he has stated.

Today, Sirajin Basha filed anobjection petition to Yeddyu-rappa’s plea. He filed the plea be-fore the division bench, whichposted the case for August 16.

David Cameron

B S Yeddyurappa

Peace inParliament

after days ofdisruption

New Delhi: Peace finally re-turned to parliament Thursday af-ter days of disruption by opposi-tion MPs on various issues.

Both houses were able to con-duct their respective questionhours without any disturbance.Important papers related to thefunctioning of various govern-ment departments and ministrieswere also laid on the table.

The monsoon session of par-liament had started on a stormynote on Aug 1 with oppositionmembers cornering the govern-ment on issues like alleged ir-regularities in the conduct of theCommonwealth Games, risingprices and police crackdown onBJP activists in the capital.

In the first 10 days of the ses-sion, that ends Sept 8, questionhours in both houses had beendisrupted almost every day. Thenumber of questions answeredorally as against the number thatwere listed to be answered tillWednesday were 14 as against160 in the Lok Sabha and 18 asagainst 160 in the Rajya Sabha.

Property worth`2.39 cr recovered

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The South East divi-sion police have cracked 172 cas-es and arrested 171 persons. Prop-erties worth over Rs 2.39 crorehave been recovered in thesecases

The police put on display theproperties recovered, at the Madi-

wala police grounds today. The police have recovered

gold jewellery and silver orna-ments, vehicles and other valu-ables from the accused.

City police commissionerJyothi Prakash Mirji and addi-tional commissioner of police TSunil Kumar inspected the stolengoods.

HC seeks Kattaʼsmedical report

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Karnataka HighCourt today asked jail authoritiesto send a report on the healthcondition of former IT-BT minis-ter Katta Subamanya Naidu, whohas sought bail citing his healthworries.

Katta Subramanya Naidu hassought bail,saying that he is a di-abetic and needed constant med-ical attention, which is not avail-able in the jail. The former min-

ister has saidthat he shouldbe granted bailas he has notskipped anycase hearingsand wouldcontinue to doso even in thefuture.

The hearinghas been posted to tomorrowand jail authorities have to sub-mit the report tomorrow.

Food inflationat 4.5‑monthhigh of 9.90%

New Delhi: Food inflation surged to a four- and-half month high of 9.90 per cent during the weekended July 30 on the back of costlier onions,fruits, vegetables and protein-based items.

Food inflation, as measured by WholesalePrice Index (WPI), stood at 8.04 per cent in theprevious week. The rate of price rise in fooditems was recorded at 16.45 per cent in the lastweek of July, 2010.

As per data released by the government to-day, prices of onions went up by 36.62 per centyear-on-year, while fruits became 16.49 percent more expensive.

During the week under review, vegetablesoverall became dearer by 14.61 per cent andprices of eggs, meat and fish were up by 13.44per cent on an annual basis.

In addition, cereal prices went up by 6.22 percent, potatoes by 10.85 per cent and milk by10.38 per cent.

However, pulses became cheaper by almost6 per cent on an annual basis.

The latest numbers are likely to put furtherpressure on the government and the ReserveBank, who have been battling the high rate ofprice rise over a period of of one-and-a-halfyears.

This is the highest rate of price rise in fooditems since the week ended March 12, when foodinflation stood at 10.05 per cent.

Overall, primary articles recorded inflation of12.22 per cent for the week ended July 30, up from10.99 per cent in the previous week. Primary ar-ticles have a share of over 20 per cent in the WPI.

However, inflation in non-food articles,which include fibres, oil seeds and minerals, fellto 15.05 per cent from 15.60 per cent in the pre-vious week. .Meanwhile, fuel and power infla-tion stood at 12.19 per cent for the week endedJuly 30, marginally up from 12.12 per cent in theweek ended July 23.

Food inflation was in double digits for mostof 2010, but had started to moderate sinceMarch this year.

It fell to a 20-month low of 7.33 per cent in mid-July, but the rate of price rise of food items hasbeen on the rise ever since.

Headline inflation stood at 9.44 per cent inJune. The RBI has already hiked interest rates11 times since March, 2010, to tame demand andcurb inflation.

In its Economic Outlook for 2011-12 releasedearlier this month, the Prime Minister’s Eco-nomic Advisory Council projected headlineinflation to remain high at around 9 per cent tillOctober. The rate of price rise will ease from No-vember, declining to around 6.5 per cent byMarch 2012, it said.

The report also said that while pressurefrom food inflation has fallen in recent months,the rate of price rice still remains quite high, withthe possibility of a further surge in comingmonths.

Earlier this week, the government informedthe Parliament that demand-supply mismatcheswere responsible for the current inflationary sit-uation in the country. PTI

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Policy on gaming,animation soon

The state would soon intro-duce a policy with a focuson the growing animation

and gaming industry, a top gov-ernment official has said.

"The country's first policy onanimation and gaming will comeout soon...," state principal sec-retary to information technologydepartment M N Vidyashankartold reporters here.

He said the policy will be in-troduced considering hugegrowth opportunities of the an-imation and gaming industry.

The policy is currently beingdrafted by the Association ofBangalore Animation Industry,he said, the animation industryconstitutes 30 per cent Informa-tion Technology and 70 percentcreativity. "We (state government)will be the first to introduce apolicy in the country on the an-imation and gaming," he said.

He said details about the policywould be discussed during thefourth edition of "Bangalore

IT.biz" slated to be held in Ban-galore in October. The discus-sions on the policy would betaken to the Union IT andTelecommunication Ministry tobe tabled in the Parliament.

Talking about the event hesaid this year they were expectingparticipation from 25 states acrossIndia focused on the theme "In-dia Innovates".

He said the three-day eventwould comprise multi-track con-ferences, an international exhi-bition, a CEO conclave, IT quizfor students and others.

Software Technology Parks ofIndia (Bangalore and Chennai)director J Parthasarathy said lasttime the number of small andmedium enterprise companiesparticipating from Tamil Naduwas 35 units. "This year, we ex-pect it to take about 70 SMEcompanies.. the objective is togive them a platform to interactwith the government, corporatesduring the meet..", he said.

MR.DUPLICATE (U)Prajwal, Diganth, SheetalBharathi (11, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm) Go-vardhan Theatre (11.30 am, 2.30,6, 9 pm) Krishna (KR Puram) (10.30am, 2, 8 pm) Nartaki (10.30 am,1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Prasanna (10.15am, 1.15, 4.15, 7.15 pm) Siddhesh-wara (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm) Uma (10.15 am, 1, 4, 7 pm)Veerabhadreshwara (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30pm) Vijayalakshmi (Garu-dacharpalya) (11 am, 2.30 pm) Va-jreshwari (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30pm) Vaishnavi (11.30 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm)

DUDDE DODDAPPA (U)Jaggesh, Lahari, Mohan ShankarAdarsh (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Ashoka (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30pm) Menaka (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Manasa (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Prakash (10am, 2.30, 6,30, 9.30 pm) Rajara-jeshwari (Mallathalli) (10 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Ullas (11.30 am,2.45, 5.45, 8.45 pm) Veeresh (10.30am, 1.30 pm) Venkatesh (Avalahalli)(11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)

YOGARAJ ...BUT (U)Naveen Krishna, NeetuKamakya (10.45 am, 1.45, 5.45, 8.45pm) Triveni (4.30, 7.30 pm)

KRISHNAN MARRIAGE STORY (U)Ajay Rao, Nidhi Subbaiah,Balaji (Tavarekre) (11 am, 2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Inox (Jaynagar) (1.45 pm)Inox (Malleswaram) (12.55 pm, 6.30pm) Krishna (KR Puram) (10.30 am)Manasa (10.30 am) Maruthi (11.30am, 2.30 pm, 6.30 pm, 9.30 pm)Nandini (11 am, 2, 5, 8 pm) PVRCinemas (12 pm, 4.40 pm) Sagar(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

VINAYAKA GELEYARA BALAGA (U)Vijay Raghavendra, Naveen Kr-ishna, Meghana Gaonkar Anupama (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm)

KIRATAKA (U/A) Yash, Oviya Helen, T S Nagab-haranaKapali (10.30 , 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

JOHNNY MERA NAAM PREETHIMERA KAAM (U)Duniya Vijay, RamyaSiddhalingeshwara (11 am, 2.30,6, 9.15 pm)

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES Tom Felton, James Franco, Freida Cinemax (12 pm, 7 pm) Eshwari(10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)Fame (10 am) Fun Cinemas (10 am,12.15, 4.30, 7, 10 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta) (10.45 am, 1, 3.45, 7.45,

10 pm) Gopaln Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (10.45 am, 1, 7, 9.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagar) (10.30 am, 1.10, 6, 8.10, 10pm) HMT Cinemas (Jalahalli) (10.45am, 1.30, 4.15 pm) Innovative Mul-tiplex (11.10 am, 5.30 pm) Rex (10.30am, 12.35, 5.15, 9.50 pm)

COWBOYS & ALIENS (U)Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford,Olivia WildCinemax (4.45, 7.15, 9.45 pm)Cinepolis (10 am, 12.20, 2.40, 5,7.20, 9.40 pm) Gopalan (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 12.10, 4.45,10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (10 am, 10 pm) Gopalan Cin-emas (Rajarajeshwari Nagar) (3.50pm, 5.30, 7.40 pm) Innovative Mul-tiplex (10 am 12.45, 10 pm) Inox(Magrath) (6.50 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(12.55 pm, 5.15, 9.45 pm) Inox (JPNagar) (2.45 pm, 7.15 pm) Navrang(8 pm, 10 pm) PVR Cinemas (10am, 1, 4.10, 6.30, 9.40 pm) VisionCinemas (12 pm, 9.55 pm)

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THE WARNING (A) Atul Kulkarni, Anupam KherApsara (KR Market) (5.30 pm, 8.30pm) Cinemax (2.15 pm) Gopalan(Bannerghatta Road) (1.15 pm)

I AM KALAM (U)Harsh Mayar, Hussan Saad, Gul-shan GroverCinemax (10 am, 9 pm) Fame (Fo-rum Value Mall) (1 pm, 5.20 pm)Fame (Lido) (1.05 pm, 5.05 pm)Inox (Magrath Road) (10 am, 2.05,6.15 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10.15am) Inox (JP Nagar) (10.20 am) PVRCinemas (10.50 am, 1.50, 7.05, 7.45pm)

SINGHAM (U/A)Ajay Devgn, Kajal AgarwalApsara (KR Market) (11.30 am, 2.30pm) Cinemax (2.45 pm, 9.45 pm)Cinepolis (Bannerghatta Road) (10am, 12.45, 3.30, 4.30, 6.15, 7.15,9.40 pm) Everest (11.30 am, 1.30,6.15, 9.30 pm) Fame (Forum ValueMall) (12.45 pm, 2.50, 9.20 pm)Fame (Lido) (12.55 pm, 3.35, 9.20pm) Fun Cinemas (10.15 am, 9.30pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajarajesh-wari Nagar) (10 am, 9.50 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (BannerghattaRoad) (3 pm) Innovative (11 pm,7.30 pm) Inox (Jaynagar) (11 am,

5.10 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (11 am,9.05 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (1pm, 9.15 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(3.40 pm, 9.15 pm) Kailash (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Lakshmi(10.15 am, 1.15, 5.15, 8.15 pm) Man-asa (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am, 12.40,3.45, 6.15, 9.10 pm) Radhakrishna(11.30 am, 2.45, 6.30, 9.30 pm)Rex (7.15 pm)Srinagraja (11 am, 2,5, 8 pm) Sri Srinivasa (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm)

ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA(U/A)Katrina, Farhan , Hrithik , AbhayDeol and Kalki KoechlinCinemax (12.30 pm, 3.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Cinepolis (10 am, 12 ,1.30, 3.50, 6.45, 9, 10 pm) Fame(Forum Value Mall) (12 pm, 2.50,5.40, 8.30 pm) Fame (Lido) (10.15am, 3.10, 6.10, 9.10 pm) Fun Cine-mas (10.30 am, 1.30, 3.30, 6.30,9.15 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 6.30, 10pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajarajesh-wari Nagar) (3.45 pm, 6.25, 9.45pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (3.15 pm, 6.15, 9.15 pm)HMT Cinemas (7.15 pm) Innovative Multiplex (11 am, 1.45, 4.30, 7.15,10 pm).

HINDI

TAMILCHAPPA KURISH (U/A)Fahad Fazil, Roma, VineethSreenivasanHMT Cinemas (Jalahalli) (9.45 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (4.20 pm)

MANUSHYA MRUGAM (U) Kiran, OviyaSangeet (11.30 am, 2.45, 9.30 pm)SALT N PEPPER (U) Lal, Asif Ali, Swetha MenonGopalan Cinmeas (BannerghattaRoad) (7.45 pm) Innovative Multiplex(10 pm)PVR Cinemas (9.45 pm) Sangeet(6.55 pm)

CHALA MUSSADDI OFFICE OFFICE (U)Pankaj Kapoor, Deven Bhojani

Cinemax (12 pm, 7 pm) Fun Cine-mas (1.15 pm) Fame (Forum ValueMall) (12 pm)Fame (Lido) () 10 am, 9.44 pm)Gopalan (Bannerghatta Road)(11.15 am) Innovative Multiplex

(11.15 am, 5.30 pm) Inox (Jayana-gar) (9.55 pm) Inox (JP Nagar)(10.20 am, 4.05, 9.55 pm)Inox (Malleswaram) (10.20 am,4.05 pm) Inox (Magrath Road)(11.50 am, 4 pm)

Jnana fellowshiplist announced

Bangalore: The list of eligiblecandidates who had applied forJnana Fellowship 2011 will beannounced on Karnataka JnanaAayoga website www.jnanaayo-ga.in tomorrow. Eligible candi-dates will not be communicatedindividually through letters. Allcandidates have to produce theiroriginal documents for verifica-tion along with two sets of pho-tocopies, with attestation, for

the use of the office of the Kar-nataka Jnana Aayoga. The veri-fication process is scheduled forAugust 21 at 9 am at GovernmentRC College of Commerce andManagement, Basaveshwara Cir-cle, Palace Road, Bangalore. Can-didates clearing the verificationprocess would be administereda personality test on the sameday. Candidates are requestedto visit the website for details.

Presidency B‑schoollaunches journal

Bangalore: Presidency BusinessSchool has launched PresidencyJournal of Management Thought& Research (PJMTR).

PJMTR is a biannual journalwhich invites research papers,substantial abstracts of disser-tations, major project reports,analytical book reviews, casestudies and concept papers re-lating to the field of managementfrom across the world.

Presidency Group of Institu-tions Nissar Ahmed said, “Weintend to encourage and publishoriginal research studies as wellas thoughts that stimulate orig-inal research in management.Our aim is to provide researchand information, support to cor-porate companies, policy makers,management students and aca-demicians so as to help themkeep abreast of new develop-ments and perspectives in thefield of management.”

This issue of the journal consists of ethnographic study of low-income consumer

behavior, emerging paradigmsin marketing, a study on the FM radio market in Chennai,factors influencing consumeradoption of internet banking in India, study which exploresthe linkage between personaldisposable income and import

expenditure, analysis of a watersupply service in Tezpur in Assam, study on the working of self-help groups (SHGs) in Davanagere and its impact on women’s empowerment,study of indian telecom serviceIndustry and others.

Presidency Group of Institutions Nissar Ahmed launchesPresidency Journal of Management Thought & Research .

Antrixmoves SC

againstDevas

New Delhi: Antrix Corporation,the commercial arm of ISRO, hasapproached the Supreme Courtchallenging the arbitration pro-ceedings initiated against it inLondon by Devas Multimedia,whose controversial 1,000 croredeal for scarce S-band spectrumwith it was annulled.

Antrix has filed a petition ob-jecting to the invocation of arbi-tration proceedings by Devas atthe International Court of Arbi-tration in London.

It sought that any arbitrationproceedings between themshould take place within theboundaries of India.

Antrix is contending that asper their agreement and tenderconditions, the place of arbitra-tion was Bangalore and has re-quested the apex court to inter-pret the arbitration agreementof the deal. The petitioner hasrequested the apex court to de-cide the place and other formal-ities on the arbitration.

Antrix had entered into anagreement with Devas for leasingof S-band capacity on two satel-lites – GSAT 6 and 6A to belaunched by ISRO.

Under the terms of the agree-ment, Devas was to use theleased capacity for 12 years tooffer multimedia services throughits specialised systems to mobileterminals across India.

After a controversy broke outon the agreement, the CabinetCommittee on Security hadscrapped the deal in Februaryciting strategic reasons. PTI

Workshopon capacity

building tomorrow

Bangalore: Confederation of In-dian Industry, in association withProject Management Institute(PMI), is organising a workshopon "Capacity Building on ProjectManagement" on tomorrow.

Project management is likejuggling three balls simultane-ously as it involves maintainingthe fine balance between deliv-ering on time, within budgetwhile ensuring quality. Many atime, due to lack of proper syn-chronisation between these fac-tors a project may face a roadblock. Thus it is very importantto bridge the gap between thesefactors and also have a profes-sional approach in managingthe project.

Project management requirespreparation, design, develop-ment & testing training, businessreadiness, support and benefitsrealisation, project close etc. Itis imperative to learn, understandand use the basic language ofproject management for a suc-cessful and smooth implemen-tation. Also it’s necessary to un-derstand the value of team workin project management, clarityin the objective, selecting a prop-er schedule and budget, clearunderstanding of the client de-liverables is absolutely necessary,a statement said.

FreedomCamp at

NephroLifeBangalore: NephroLife, a lead-ing kidney care hospital, is or-ganising Freedom Camp, whichoffers free lab tests and free fol-low-up specialist consultationsfor those suspected with renalfailure, on August 15 and 16.

“The key to better manage-ment of kidney disease is earlydetection. Some people mightbe in advanced stages of kidneyfailure and may not even knowit. A simple test like this willhelp save lives!” says NephroLifemedical director Dr Sushma Rani.

NephroLife MD Shriram Vi-jayakumar adds, “This is a fol-low-up to last year's FreedomCamp where over 400 peopleparticipated and those suspectedwith renal failure were givenspecialist consultations withnephrologists. This year, we aimto reach out to a 1,000 people.”

The camp will be held atNephroLife, Shantinagar and Ex-cel Care Hospital, Banashankarifrom 9am to 5pm. For details,

Hiring activities declinein July, says Naukri.comAmid uncertain global economic conditions

and spiralling inflation, hiring activitiesdeclined last month, with ITeS sector wit-

nessing significant drop in recruitment levels,says job portal Naukri.com.

Indicating labour market sluggishness,Naukri.com’s job index slumped as much as sixper cent in July as compared to the previousmonth.

The monthly index reflects overall job demand.According to Naukri.com, indices for ITeS, con-

struction and IT sectors declined 24 per cent, 14per cent and 11 per cent, respectively, in July.

“Concerns of a global economic crunch andrising inflationary pressures are acting as a cautionsign for India Inc. Therefore recruiters of somesectors are on a wait and watch mode.”

“This does not mean that companies havefrozen hiring, but they are certainly not goingoverboard,” Info Edge India’s managing directorand CEO Hitesh Oberoi said in a statement.

Naukri.com is part of Info Edge.In July, hiring activities picked up in banking,

auto and pharma sectors.Among the key industry sectors, hiring activity

has been upbeat for the telecom sector where theindex moved up by eight per cent in July 2011over June 2011. In terms of cities, Delhi, Mumbaiand Kolkata maintained steady hiring levels lastmonth. During the same period, Bangalore, Chen-nai and Hyderabad saw recruitment level fallingin the range of 9 to 19 per cent. PTI

Eco‑friendlyMRTS must forcity: AssochamBangalore: Apex industry cham-ber Assocham has urged thestate government to undertakean environment-friendly MassRapid Transit System (MRTS) inand around the city and put itsRs 12,000-crore metro rail projecton a fast track.

“Since the rapidly-growingBangalore city lacks a crediblepublic transport system, Metrowill be a cheap and feasible so-lution to check transportationwoes,” Assocham Southern Re-gional Chapter chairpersonRavindra Sana Reddy said in astatement here.

The MRTS would help reducethe extent of pressure on existingsub-urban transport systems.Frequent traffic snarls due tonarrow and choked road networkis proving to be a growth bottle-neck adding to increased costsof goods and services, he said.

Assocham said infrastructurein the city would be inadequateto bear the projected populationof over one crore by 2030 ascompared to 80 lakh at present.

“As the number of cities withover 10 lakh people are expectedto increase from 48 to 68 lakhin the next two decades, a na-

tionwide network of mass trans-port system is imperative to averturban vehicular traffic,” chambersecretary general D S Rawat said.

“Traffic de-congestion by en-couraging commuters to shuntheir vehicles and use publictransport is the primary aim ofMRTS,” he added.

According to an Assochamstudy, implementation of metronetwork in Delhi has resultedin benefits like reduction in airpollution, travel time, road ac-cidents, traffic congestion andfuel consumption. PTI

CITYThursday, August 11, 2011 3CITY EVENTSGeneralNational Institute of Ad-vanced Studies: Lecture on‘Nailing a Crisis Lacking aName: Politics of Knowledgeand Policy in the Global Eco-nomic Crisis’ by Prof G Bal-achandran, JRD Tata Audito-rium, NIAS, IISc Campus, 6pm.

Bangalore International Cen-tre: Talk on ‘Seeking Peaceand Dignity The KarunashrayaExperience,” by Kishore S Rao,BIC Auditorium, TERI Com-plex, 4th Main, 2nd Cross,Domlur Stage II, 6.30 pm.

CulturalAcademy of Music: Stagingof the play - ‘Naa NinaadareNi Naanena,’ directed bySurendranath, Chowdiah Me-morial Hall, G D Park Exten-sion, Vyalikaval, 6.30 pm.

Prayogaranga Theatre Trust:Staging of the play ‘Manteswa-mi Katha Prasanga’ directedby Suresh Anagalli, RavindraKalakshetra, 6.30 pm.

K S Mudappa Smaraka Trust:Staging of the show - ‘Hee-gadre Hege’ by T Sunan-damma, Hampinagar CentralLibrary, 6.30 pm.

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan:Light music by Ashok, IndianInstitute of World Culture, No6, B P Wadia Road, 6 pm.

ReligiousRaghavendra Seva Samithi:Dasara Padagalu by C KPawandeep and party, 6thCross, Sudhindra Nagar,Malleswaram, 6.30 pm.

ExhibitionsA Slice of Life @ Veda: Thurs-day, August 11th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 6 p.m. Veda Art Gallery,Palace View Builidng, SankeyRoad, Kumara Park West VedaArt Gallery presents 'A Sliceof Life', an exhibition of artwork by JMS Mani, LaxmanAelay, Kishan Kappari and Mu-rugesan.

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

Colours & Hues: Thursday,August 11th, 2011. 10 a.m. to6 p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, NoA-1 Epsilon Office Block,Yemalur Main Road, YemalurA group show by artists Kan-thraj N, Rima Ray & RakeshMandal.

Synesthesia: Thursday, August11th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.Galleryske, No 2, Berlie Street,Langford Town A group showfeaturing works by AndreaAnastasio, Luigi Anastasio andAvinash Veeraraghavan. Theworks are displayed in thehouse-like space of the gallery,so that they are approachedwithout demarcations and dis-tinctions thus making the view-er experience the works in onecontinuous alternation of me-dia from video and painting,to photography and sculpture.

Solo show @ Apparao: Thurs-day, August 11th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Apparao Galleries,No 82 The Presidency, St MarksRoad, Apparao Galleries pres-ents an exhibition of paintingsby T. Vaikuntam.

Newstalgia: Thursday, August11th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Indian Cartoon Gallery, Mid-ford House, Midford Garden,MG Road, An exhibition dis-playing cartoons by noted car-toonist and media personRasheed Kappan. The cartoonsprovide a visual, tongue-in-cheek flashback of dramatichappenings across the globeover the last three years.

Group Show @ Renaissance:Thursday, August 11th, 2011.11 a.m. to 7 p.m. RenaissanceGallerie, No 13 Westminster,Cunningham Road, Paintingsby Chandrama Nath, SandyaShetty, Tahseen Banu, and Su-jith Ittan on display at Ren-aissance.

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

Rio by Titan Eye+: Thursday,August 11th, 2011. 10 a.m. to11:30 a.m. Titan Eye+, SafinaPlaza, Infantry Road, A trendy,fashionable collection for theyoung and young at heart.

The frames are available in ahost of bright colours.

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

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

TheatreDhaam Dhoom Suntaragaali:Thursday, August 11th, 2011.7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. RangaShankara, No 36/1 2nd Phase,8th Cross, JP Nagar A Kannadaplay based on Shakespeare'sThe Tempest, adapted for chil-dren.

Eating Out Power Lunch: Thursday, Au-gust 11th, 2011. 1 p.m. to 4p.m. City Bar Karaoke + Grill,UB City, No 24, Vittal MallyaRoad, Now be connected evenduring the quick businesslunch. Free wi-fi access whileyou fill up in the middle ofthe day. Delectable starterswith a variety of veg/ non vegmain course options alongwith draught beer.

Weekday Lunch Buffet @ManU: Thursday, August 11th,2011. noon to 3 p.m. Man-chester United Restaurant Bar,The Manchester United Restau-rant and Bar launches a week-day lunch buffet priced at Rs350 plus taxes right fromstarters to desserts.

'The Kari Culture' at Blue Gin-ger: Thursday, August 11th,2011. 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.Blue Ginger, The Taj West End,23 Race Cource Road , BlueGinger creates an interestingway to learn about Vietnameseingredients and how to createsome of the popular culinaryinnovations. 'The Kari Kulture'is for all the ladies who wantto learn the finer aspects ofVietnamese cuisine, super-vised by Chef Rishi. This isfollowed by a meal at therestaurant, where the gueststaste what they cook.

Clay Pot Festival at MandarinTrail: Thursday, August 11th,2011. 12:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.Mandarin Trail, Mantri Square,No 1, Sampige Road, Mallesh-waram A special menu put to-gether by an expert chef fo-cuses on delicacies that arecooked in unglazed clay pots,using techniques that wereemployed in olden-day China.

Asparagus Festival at Graze:Thursday, August 11th, 2011.12:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Graze,Vivanta by Taj - MG Road, No41/3, MG Road, An eclecticmenu of asparagus-tingeddishes like Scallops with whiteasparagus butter glaze andfoam, Gnocchi with asparagusand leeks, and Halibut withSerrano ham, white asparagusand froth.

The Grand Indian Lunch Buf-fet @ Turquoise: Thursday,August 11th, 2011. noon to 3p.m. Turquoise, No 9, 2nd &3rd Floors, 17th A Main, Kora-mangala Experience the GrandIndian Lunch buffet consistingof over 35 dishes every week-day with around 5 starters, 4vegetarian gravies, 2 non veg-etarian gravies , 7 desserts andlots more.

NightlifeJolly Good Bollywood: Thurs-day, August 11th, 2011. 8 p.m.Opus In The Creek, No 2 Dod-danekkundi Industrial Area,Whitefield Road, Mahadeva-pura Bollywood music comesback with the age old game ofAntakshari. A musical quizwhere the answers to the ques-tions are all Bollywood songs.

Booze and Brains with MarkRego: Thursday, August 11th,2011. 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.Opus, Chakravarty Layout, 1stCross, Palace Cross Road,Sankey Road A quiz and adance party all rolled into one.A mentally stimulating expe-rience coupled with a wholelot of fun and music.

Rooftop Madness at XtremeSports Bar: 11th, 2011. 8 p.m.Xtreme Sports Bar, 4th Floor,100 Feet Road, Indiranagar DJRohit takes you on a journeythrough hip hop mythologyfrom old school to new school.

Retro Thursdays @ City Bar:11th, 2011. 7 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.City Bar Karaoke + Grill, UBCity, No 24, Vittal Mallya Road,City Bar hosts Retro Thursdays,featuring original videos ofyesteryears topped off with DJPraful's twist to the music.

Matrix Partners invests Rs 45 cr in Cloud Nine

Bangalore: Matrix Partners India has an-nounced that it has invested Rs 45 crore, asthe sole investor in the first institutionalround of funding, for Kids Clinic India PvtLtd, a leading provider of maternity and in-fant care under the brand “Cloudnine”.

Cloudnine has delivered more than 6,500babies in the city since its inception in 2007.Apart from maternal care, Cloudnine alsooffers for gynecology and neonatal careservices.

“India has lagged behind global standardsin quality maternal and infant care. To ad-dress this gap, we introduced the conceptof “celebrating” motherhood, while main-taining high standards of health outcomes,through our “Cloudnine” and “Sure Fertility”brands. This capital infusion provides KidsClinic Bangalore Pvt Ltd the growth capitalfor expansion. We believe Matrix is the rightpartner for us during this critical growthphase given their strong understanding ofthe healthcare services sector,” said Dr RKishore Kumar, managing director and co–

founder, Kids Clinic India. "Specialty health-care services constitute an important focusarea for Matrix. We believe Cloudnine andSure Fertility can capture a large share ofthe growing demand for quality maternityand infant care in India” said Avnish Bajaj,

co–founder & managing director, MatrixIndia. Immediate expansion plans includeincreasing its footprint in the city with newfacilities in Jayanagar, Malleswaram andOld Airport Road. Cloudnine and Sure Fer-tility will soon be launched in other metros.

Avnish Bajaj, managing director and co-founder, Matrix Partners India, announces company’s investment of Rs 45 crore in Kids Clinic India Pvt Ltd.

Dr R Kishore Kumar, managing director and co-founder, CloudNine, Kids ClinicBangalore Pvt Ltd, looks on.

As the Independence Day is approaching, different sizes of the National Flag are on sale. Here a hawker tries to sell ahuge Tricolour at the Cubbon Park.

Patriotic fervour Microland gets $55mdeal from UK firm

Bangalore: Microland Ltd re-newed a multi-year deal valuedat $55 million (Rs 249 crore)with British service firm SercoPlc for providing remote IT in-frastructure management serv-ices, the IT firm said yesterday.

“Serco renewed the contractunder which we have been re-motely managing its IT infra-structure since 2005.

The new deal envisages spe-cial support to its range of de-vices through an expandedteam at Birmingham in Britainand Bangalore,” Microlandchairman Pradeep Kar in astatement here.

In light of the strategic deal,the company plans to providean integrated onshore-offshoresolution to global customersin the growing IT infrastructuremanagement service space.

“The new agreement buildson our six-year partnership withMicroland, which provides uswith a cost-effective solution

for specialist IT infrastructureservices to support our servicedelivery,” Serco director MarchO’Connor said in the statement.Microland’s onshore-offshoresolution will also enable Sercoto ensure its customers effi-ciencies they need in the longterm. After pioneering network-ing in the country in 1989, the22-year-old Microland transi-tioned into a leading providerof internet-based services, float-ing subsidiaries such as Plan-etasia.com, Indya.com, IT-Space.com and Net BrahmaTechnologies.

Technology revolution in thetelecom infrastructure madethe company embark on pro-viding remote IT infrastructuremanagement services to globalcustomers in North America,Europe, Middle East and Asia and help enterprises trans-form their IT operations reducing the total cost of ownership. IANS

GMR Infra reportsRs 66.69 cr loss in Q1Bangalore: GMR Infrastructurereported a consolidated net lossof Rs 66.69 crore for the quarterended June 30, mainly due tolower revenues from Delhi Air-port, high interest costs and in-creased tax payout.

The company had reported anet profit of Rs 28.44 crore duringthe corresponding period of thelast fiscal, GMR Group CEO Sub-barao Amarthaluru told reportershere. He said the net sales ofthe company during the quarterunder review increased by 51.34per cent at Rs 1,863.57 crore.

Higher costs associated withrunning T3 at Delhi airport hashit GMR, as it continues to ne-gotiate with Airport EconomicRegulatory Authority (AERA) tobe allowed to raise fees on vari-ous services for passengers andairlines, he said.

“The company incurred a lossof Rs 192 crore because of thehigher costs at Delhi airport. Thetariff fixation process is on. Oncenew tariffs are in place, the air-port division will become prof-itable,” Amarthaluru said.

Also, the transition phase ofIstanbul airport has affected prof-it levels of the company. “It willtake 6 to 8 quarters to becomeprofitable,” Amarthaluru said.

The closure of its London of-fice, which cost the company Rs24 crore, was another reason forsubdued profit levels.

On company’s profitability inthe future, he said the company’shighways segment was expectedto break even by the year end.“Energy is already a profit-mak-ing vertical and Male and Hy-derabad airports are performingwell,” he added. PTI

TAKE CARE OF NATURE THIS GANESHA FEST

Bid bye to painted Ganesha, use clay idols instead: GreensAknisree Karthik

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Do you really knowthe meaning of the line“Chikkereli yeddha, doddakerelibiddha” in the Ganesha Bandachant that rents the air duringthe Ganesha Chaturthi celebra-tions?

Our forefathers had framedthis line loaded with meaning.In those days, all villages hadits own lakes and water bodies.It was the duty of villagers toclean up these tanks when theydry up, but most neglected that.So the concept of Ganesha festi-val was introduced where all vil-lagers sacredly collected the clayfrom the water bodies and sculpt-ed Ganesha idols.

After the idol was worshipped,it was dissolved in the waterbodies of other nearby villages,which ensured that mineral re-sources in the form of Ganeshaidols were equally distributedamong all the villages withoutcausing any damage to the na-ture. That is how the festival be-came an integral part of our cul-ture. It was Balagangadhar Tilak,who in order to unite youths ofMaharashtra against the Britishgovernment, brought Ganeshafestival to the streets. The festivalwas used as a medium to com-municate with the freedom fight-ers. It formed a major force in

the freedom movement. But what is happening now?“The whole concept of Gane-

sha festival has been misusedand is just a business now,”opined speakers, who spoke ata seminar on ‘Eco-friendly andpollution-free Ganesha festival’,organised by the Karnataka StatePollution Control Board (KSPCB),here yesterday. “Three festivals– Ganesh Chathurthi, Durga Poo-

ja and Deepavali – pose a seriousthreat to nature. Only few sec-tions of the people are aware ofpossible dangers. All these fes-tivals have become a business.As long as it is a business, youcannot impose a ban on it. Amonitoring mechanism is neededalong with a combined approach.Laws must be framed and mustbe brought into governance. Col-lege and school students should

be involved in awareness pro-grammes” said filmmaker andeco-activist Suresh Heblikar.

“Six types of plastics are usedto erect pandals for the festival.Plastic is hazardous and can re-sult in damage to thyroid andpituitary glands. Also, nowadays,the idols are painted in eye-catching paints, which containmercury, lead, nickel, chromiumand other harmful chemicals.

Once dissolved in water, theycan lead to vision and hearingimpairment, low sperm count,decreased longevity, and bringdown vitamin D levels,” saidveteran journalist Nagesh Hegde.

The seminar saw people fromall walks of life giving sugges-tions to the KSPCB. They re-quested the board to join handswith Bruhath Bangalore Mahana-gara Palike, Lake Development

Authority and NGOs to tame themenace.“Ganesha Chaturthi iscelebrated by majority in thecountry. In the state, of the sixcrore people, about 4.8 crorecelebrate the festival. On an av-erage, one idol is needed forfour members that makes it 1.2crore Ganesha idols weighing 2kg. To paint each idol, about120-200 gm of paint is required,of which minimum of 8-10 gmcontains lead. One will be as-tonished with the amount oflead being released into our wa-ter bodies,” said Dr ThuppilVenkatesh, principal investiga-tor, National Referral Centre forLead Poisoning in India.

“We may not drink the waterin which the idols are immersed,but cattle do. We in turn becomea victim by either consuming itsflesh or milk. Creating pollutionshould be considered a crimeand prevented with a lot ofawareness,” added Dr Thuppil.

KSPCB chairman A SSadashivaiah said, “I will takeup the suggestions made hereand will have a discussion withBBMP and LDA officials. KSPCBhas already drawn up guidelinesfor idol immersion on its website.A law too will be framed alongwith a monitoring mechanism”.

The members requested peo-ple to use eco-friendly Ganeshaswithout paint and urged idolmakers to use ntural colours.

Clay Ganesha idols without paint prevent release of harmful chemicals into water bodies.

Reddy brothers insist on 3ministries for their group

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Mining lords andformer ministers Reddy brothersare not the ones who will fadeinto the sunset quietly. They arenow camping in New Delhi, de-manding that at least three min-istries be given to their camp of9-10 MLAs.

Reddys have also demandedthat V Somanna, whose nametoo finds a mention in theLokayukta report on illegal min-ing, be asked to step down. Chiefminister D V Sadananda Gowdaand the party central leadershipis of the opinion that Reddybrothers and their close aide B

Sriramulu should not be includedin the ministry as they have beenindicted by the mining report.The Reddy brothers are now de-manding that the same yardstickbe applied to Somanna too.

In a setback and an indicationof reducing influence of Reddybrothers over the party high com-mand, their mentor and Loksab-ha opposition leader SushmaSwaraj has refused to be part ofthe Varamahalakshmi puja to-morrow, which she had been re-ligiously attending for the last10 years.

She has, in fact, been invitedby BJP national general secretaryAnanth Kumar. Sources withinthe party said it is most likely

that Sushma will be in the citytomorrow to take part in the pujaat the residence of Ananth Ku-mar, who has also invited 25other personalities, political andotherwise for the puja.

Invitations have gone from hiswife Tejaswini, who has calledSusha requesting her to be partof the celebrations.

But at the same time, the Red-dy brothers too have plannedbigger Vara Mahalakshmi cele-brations at Bellary.

As has been the ritual everyyear, this year too they have or-ganised a mass marriage func-tion, for which BJP national pres-ident Nitin Gadkari and othernational leaders.

On the mining report, the Red-dy brothers have told the centralleaders that it has discriminatedagainst them. They have said amajor mining company in Bellaryarea has been deliberately leftout of the report. “That compa-ny’s illegal mining activities runinto thousands of crores,” theyhave alleged.

They have said that thoughformer Lokayukta Justice SantoshHegde made serious allegationsagainst them and their compa-nies, they were never given achance to explain their side ofthe story. Neither did they getsummons to appear before theLokayukta, they have told thehigh command.

S Radhakrishna

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I havenʼt seen ball seamaround so much: FletcherBirmingham: India coach Dun-can Fletcher says the reason histeam’s famed batting line-up’sflop-show in the ongoing seriesagainst England is the uncom-mon assistance to seam andswing afforded by the wicketshere.

“I haven’t seen so often whenthe ball has seamed and swungaround the whole day. Only to-day, after the first session itswung less and less and did flat-ten out. It’s pretty difficult forbatters to adapt,” said Fletcherafter Indians, put into bat, wereall out for 224 on the openingday of the third Test yesterday.

India have so far batted fivetimes in the series and not onceposted a score of 300 or in excessand Fletcher conceded that itmade things difficult for hisbowlers. “The ball has swungaround so much in a row, it’spretty difficult for batters toadapt. We haven’t been able togive scores to the bowlers,” hesaid. India had lost opener Viren-der Sehwag for a golden duckbut Gautam Gambhir and RahulDravid stitched together a finestand of 51 for the second wicketbefore both were dismissed andFletcher feels those two wicketsin the first session made all thedifference.

“Toss was very important. Wewere looking alright before lunchwhen we suddenly lost two quickwickets. It got us on to the back-foot. If we were one wicket downat lunch, it would have been adifferent story,” he said. “It goteasier. First session before lunchwas critical. It didn’t swing asmuch later in the day.” As con-ditions eased, England made themost of it reaching 84 for noloss at stumps. “In these situa-tions when you score 224, yougot to get early wickets on. Youtry to attack and when you attackthere are bound to be some loseballs,” Fletcher said.“It was crit-ical we get a wicket or two byclose,” he said.

Fletcher praised the Englandbowlers and said the seamingconditions helped the hosts.

“They have bowled well as aunit and have a good backup.They are an effective unit. Theyhunt in pack well, there is a lotof intensity about them. It’s beenmade easier for them by the con-ditions; the seam and swing suitsthem well. “I have been for only

two months in India still assess-ing the characters of the indi-vidual, trying to assess youngguys if they can handle Testcricket. “Of course the best wayto test them is to give them op-portunity. We gave a few oppor-tunity in the West Indies. Attimes they performed very well.You need to give them opportu-nities when you can but the ex-perienced cricketers still haveso much to give.” Fletcher con-ceded that his team was tiredbut said they still are motivatedto do well in Tests.

“Sometimes you feel (they aretired). But they still put in somegood performance in practice.Even when you give them optionto practice, they still turn up.They are still keyed up and wantto do well in Test cricket,” hesaid. Fletcher said his side is notyet out of the game and one bigscore can turn things for them.”

Hazare team satisfiedwith police venue for fastNew Delhi: The Anna Hazare Team today ex-pressed satisfaction over the venue offered tothem by police for holding the indefinite fastagainst Lokpal Bill even as they denied anygoing back on their stand on the legislation.The Core Committee of the Hazare team methere this morning. The meeting was attendedby Hazare and others including, activist ArvindKejriwal.

"We are satisfied with the venue provided byDelhi Police. It is at a good location. Core com-mittee is chalking out the plan on how to goabout the fast," he told reporters.

Delhi police last night offered Jai PrakashNarain Park adjacent to Firoz Shah Kotla Groundas the venue for his protest against the LokpalBill subject to permission from the land owningagency. Kejriwal said there was no going backon the demands raised by them. "We are notready to compromise with anyone till our de-mands are met. The deadlock continues. We areopen for any dialogue but there is no invitationfrom the government yet," he said. His commentscame when asked about activist Swami Agnivesh'scomments that the Hazare team was "very veryflexible" on issues like inclusion of prime ministeror higher judiciary under ambit of the ombuds-man but the sticking point is bringing lower bu-reaucracy in it. PTI

Skipper M S Dhoni leaves the field after losing his wicket to England’s Stuart Broad, on the first day of the Third Test Matchat the Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Birmingham, England, yesterday.

We hunt in a pack: BresnanBirmingham: England pacerTim Bresnan said the wicketat Edgbaston didn’t help muchbut his team still managed todismiss India for a modest 224in the ongoing third Test dueto the “hunt in the pack men-tality” of its bowlers.

“There was not a lot in thewicket, it did flatten out, wewere expecting it to be a littlebit quicker and seam more.

It was not like Trent bridgeand we needed to build pres-sure,” said Bresnan after theopening day’s play yesterday.

“It felt nice as wickets wereshared around a bit. We defi-nitely now have hunt in thepack mentality. We do enjoy

each other’s success and it’sgreat for team spirit.

“They are some very goodplayers, their stats and aver-ages prove it. It’s rather wehave our plans and we are de-livering it. It’s working, howwell we are bowling as a unitbut they are still quality play-ers,” added Bresnan, whosefour wickets included the onesof Gautam Gambhir, RahulDravid and VVS Laxman.

Indians made 224 from 62-odd overs, having recoveredfrom 111 for seven due to acounterattacking knock of 77by Indian skipper MahendraSingh Dhoni and his 84-runeighth wicket stand with

Praveen Kumar (26).“It would have been naive

on our part to believe they arenot going to have any part-nership. It’s a massive clichebut it’s true that if someonehad given us 224 (India’s score)at the start of the day, wewould have accepted it,” hesaid.

Bresnan said the ongoingriots have not affected thehosts and it would be “niceto win and give some goodnews to England.”

“We are concentrating whatwe have to do. There is no outside distraction. Wehave a job to do as anyone else.” PTI

Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare with Kiran Bedi.

Vigilantes clash with police in London

London: Vigilante groups set upto fight back rioters in Londonhave clashed with police as theytried to mobilise their own forcesto deal with the situation.

They defied police orders andvented their anger against officersWednesday night, The Telegraphreported today.

Riot police were hit with “mis-siles”, including bottles, as over1,000 officers battled with dozensof middle-aged men on thestreets in Eltham, southeast Lon-don.

Vigilante groups were set upacross the country to fight backrioters hell-bent on destroyingor damaging their homes andbusinesses, The Mirror newspa-per said.

Defiant locals, many of themcarrying makeshift weapons, pa-trolled the streets as looting andviolence scarred the streets ofBritain’s cities, it said.

As the country saw a fourthnight of violence and looting,Prime Minister David Cameronsaid the “fightback” is underway.

He added that every actionwould be taken to restore order,with contingency plans for watercannon to be made available at24 hours’ notice, BBC reported.

On Tuesday night, the unrestspread to cities like Manchester,Salford, Liverpool, Nottinghamand Birmingham.

Three men protecting propertydied when they were hit by acar in Birmingham. Offering hiscondolences to their families,Cameron described the deathsas “truly dreadful”.

Meanwhile, rioters in Man-chester and Salford have beenwarned that they would be evict-ed from their council homes ifthey were identified on CCTVfootage.

Both city councils issued warn-ings that if any of their tenantsor their children were found in-volved in violence or looting theywould be “thrown out”.

Prime Minister Cameron is fac-ing growing cabinet pressure torethink the coalition’s policingbudget cuts in the wake of thedeaths of three Birmingham men.As the Police Federation warnedof a “catastrophe” if similar riotserupted after the cuts were in-troduced.

A senior government sourcesaid the Home Office would beadvised to take a fresh look atits plans to cut two billion poundsfrom police funding over thenext few years.

“The optics have changed,”the source told the Guardiannewspaper.

Cameron said the cuts wouldnot lead to a “reduction in visiblepolicing”. IANS

People throng markets across Bangalore for the last-minute purchases for Vara Mahalakshmi festival that is being celebrated tomorrow.

Photos: Gangadhar Pujar / S Radhakrishna

MYSORE ALL SETFOR DASARA

A warm welcome was given to Dasara elephants at Raja Marthanda Mahadwara in front ofMysore Palace this morning. Mysore DC P S Vastrad, police commissioner Sunil Agarwal,mayor Pushpalata Chikkanna, ZP president Sunitha Veerappa Gowda, DFO Manoj Kumar

and MLC G Madhusudhan were present and greeted the elephants.

S Radhakrishna

FESTIVE RUSH INFULL SWING AT MARKET

Pendingpreview,

Punjab bans'Aarakshan'

Chandigarh: The Punjab gov-ernment today banned screeningof the controversial Hindi film"Aarakshan", which deals withthe sensitive issue of reservation,pending its preview by a high-level committee.

A state government spoke-sman said here that the screeningof the film, starring AmitabhBachchan, Saif Ali Khan andDeepika Padukone, has beenbanned in the entire state. "ThePunjab government has imposedthe ban on screening of movie'Aakarshan' in the state of Punjabtill the screening committee con-stituted by the state previews themovie and submits its report,"he said. "The Punjab governmenttook this decision after receivingintelligence reports that the moviehas certain scenes and dialoguesthat may inflame passions ofsome communities .”

Beyond BeatThursday, August 11, 2011

Bangalore Beat Bureau

It is the season of festivals. Sitting righton top of the list is Mysore Dasara. TheDasara, that is thronged by lakhs ofpeople from different parts of thecountry and abroad, has kickstarted

officially with the elephants moving intoMysore.

The first batch of elephants has beenmoved from Dubare elephant camp deepinside Nagarahole forest to Mysore. Theyare the star attraction of the nine-day fes-tivities, which culminate with the famousJumboo Sawari. This year, the Dasarawould be celebrated from September 26 toOctober 6.

The first contingent of jumbos startedalong with their mahouts and kavadis onMonday from Veeranahosalli in Nagara-hole. The pachyderms were moved intrucks that moved ever so carefully ferry-ing the gentle giants. All along the route,the elephants were greeted with aaratis andflowers.

In the end, Balarama, Arjuna, Abhi-manyu, Mary, Sarala and Ganga had apleasant journey. They were taken to theforest department premises where theywere kept till they were brought to theMysore Palace today. They were accordeda grand welcome at the Jaya MarthandaGate near Amba Vilasa Palace.

This year, three new elephants – Gopi(29), Cauvery(33) and Ganga(14) – wouldjoin the procession. They will spend thenext few days with Jamboo Sawari veteransSarala, Kanthi and Kokilla to get themselvesacclimatised with the conditions.

Of them, the broad backed and majesticBalarama who stands at 8.85 feet tall willcarry the precious golden howdah. Abhi-manyu will pull the carriage with traditionalmusicians. Arjuna is the guiding elephantwith colourful umbrella on top. Gajendrawill be Maharaja’s lead elephant, whileMary and Sarala are kumkis accompany-ing Balarama.

Over the next two months, the jumboswill undergo rigorous training in palacegrounds in preparations for the Dasara.Every day, the elephants are given break-fast at 6.30 am and then taken for a walkon the procession route to familiarise themwith the route.

A huge pond has been constructed insidethe palace to give bath to the elephants. Notjust the animals, even their caregivers aretaken care of during the festivities. They aregiven accommodation and their childrenare taught in special schools set up only fortwo months.

Half of your intelligencecomes from your parents

London: No doubt, your upbringing and educa-tion contribute to your brain power, but a newstudy says that half of one’s intelligence comesfrom parents.

Researchers have found that up to half of a per-son’s intelligence (or lack of it) is inherited, afterthey examined the blood of more than 3,500people from England and Scotland for half-a-million genetic markers – tiny changes in DNA.

Analysis of these results and those of intelligencetests completed by the study’s participants re-vealed 40 per cent of the differences in “crys-tallised-type intelligence” – ability to acquireknowledge and skills over years – were in genes.

So-called fluid-type intelligence, the ability toreason and think abstractly under pressure, wasgoverned by genetics to an even greater extent.Some 51 per cent of one’s ability to “think outsidethe box” is down to DNA, the ‘Molecular Psychi-atry’ journal reported.

The research, made possible by a new type ofgenetic analysis pioneered by Peter Visscher of theQueensland Institute of Medical Research in Aus-tralia, points to numerous genes being involved.

Lead researcher Ian Deary at University of Ed-inburgh was quoted by the ‘Daily Mail’ as saying,“Individual differences in intelligence are strong-ly associated with many important life outcomes,including educational and occupational attain-ments, income, health and lifespan.”

However, he added that the study’s results “un-equivocally confirm a substantial proportion of in-dividual differences in human intelligence is dueto genetic variation”.

The researchers now hope to unlock the secretsof those whose brains age well, with a view to help-ing others stay sharp as they get older. “If we canfind specific genetic contributions to people’s ex-perience of cognitive ageing, this can suggest themechanisms by which people differ.” PTI

In fact, work,alcohol linked

Washington: Workaholics, please note – puttingin 50 hours or more a week in office can increaseyour risk of alcohol problems by up to threetimes, says a study.

Researchers at the University of Otago used datafrom the Christchurch Health and DevelopmentStudy, which has followed more than 1000 peo-ple born in Christchurch in 1977 through to age 30,and analysed them before coming to the conclu-sion.

Lead author Dr Sheree Gibb said that the studyaimed to examine whether working hours were re-lated to alcohol problems in early adulthood.

Data from more than 1000 participants at ages25 and 30 showed a significant association betweenlonger working hours and alcohol-related prob-lems. Longer working hours were associated withhigher levels of alcohol problems including fre-quent alcohol use and alcohol abuse or depend-ence.

People who worked 50 hours or longer on av-erage a week were 1.8 to 3.3 times more likely tohave alcohol-related problems than those whowere not working, and about 1.2 to 1.5 timesmore likely to have alcohol-related problemsthan those who worked between 30 and 49 hoursper week.

The higher risk of alcohol abuse for those whoworked longer hours was evident in both men andwomen.

Dr Gibb said that this finding may suggest a needfor consideration of policies and programmes tar-geted at individuals who work long hours, with theaim of reducing rates of alcohol-related problemsamongst this group.

The findings are to be published in an upcom-ing edition of the ‘Addiction’ journal. PTI

JUMBO FUN: ELEPHANTS ARRIVE IN MYSORE

The arrival of elephants at Mysore marks the beginning of the nine‑day Dasara festivities that end with the grand procession. The elephants that have been

brought from Dubare elephant camp were welcomed into the Mysore Palace today.These mammoths will stay in the palace for the next two months, says Y N Ramya

Lorries carrying Dasara elephants take a break on their way to Mysore. The elephants were shifted from Dubare elephant camp to Mysore for the world famous Dasara festivities.

The Mysore Dasara elephants being given a warm send off from Veeranahosalli at Nagarahole.

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Cast member Leslie Jordan arrives atthe premiere of The Help in BeverlyHills, California. The Help opened in

theaters yesterday.

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world briefs

Belarus deniessupplying

weapons toPak terrorists

Minsk: Belarus has rubbished the reportssuggesting it illegally sold weapons to ter-rorist groups in Pakistan, Xinhua reportedtoday.

According to Belarus foreign ministryspokesman Andrei Savinykh, newly pub-lished internet reports accusing Belarus ofillegally selling weapons to terrorists inPakistan are “complete disinformation.”

“Thus, it is another provocation of our‘enemies’, which is not the first this year.And it’ll face the same unseemly fate,”Savinykh told local media.

Savinykh said the fulfillment of interna-tional obligations of Belarus “is well knownto all governments, even those that arecritical to our country.”

“If there was the slightest reason, we’dhave long been filed a complaint at the of-ficial level. This is not happening, becauseBelarus strictly abides by all rules of inter-national law,” said the official.

Anonymous hacker group released doc-uments, under which a large-scale schemeof arms from Belarus to the Arab worldleads to two Pakistan-based terrorist groups– Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Taiba.

According to the report, Belarusian com-pany Beltechexport supplies weapons toterrorists in Syria and Kurdistan, while pay-ments are handled through Lebanon’sFransabank, which has a subsidiary in Be-larus, and Iran’s Tejarat bank.

US seeks transparency

on Chinaʼs firstaircraft carrier

Washington: The US is worried by the lackof transparency about China’s first aircraftcarrier, which made its maiden voyage yes-terday, the US state department stated.

“We want to see more transparency. Wewould welcome any kind of explanationthat China would like to give for needingthis kind of equipment,” said US state de-partment spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

“This is part of our larger concern thatChina is not as transparent as other coun-tries. It’s not as transparent as the UnitedStates about its military acquisitions, aboutits military budget,” she added. “And thiscauses concern.”

China bought the Admiral Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier, originally built in theSoviet Union and named Varyag, fromUkraine for $20 million in 1998. Beforebeing sold, the ship was disarmed and itsengines were removed.

The 1,000-feet vessel is designed to carry26 planes and 24 helicopters and beequipped with Soviet-designed AK-630 andCADS-N-1 Kashtan close-in weapon systems,P-700 Granit anti-ship cruise missiles, Torshort-range surface-to-air missile systemsand UDAV-1 anti-submarine systems.

World Bankgrants $247m

to EgyptCairo: The World Bank’s Institutional De-velopment Fund has attributed $247 millionsupport to Egypt, Xinhua reported today.

The IDF will grant the fund worth $247.51 million to offer institutional supportto Egypt’s Ministry of International Coop-eration for cooperation with internationalorganisations, MENA news agency stated.

It will also help boost the capabilities ofthe ministry in following up and supervisingthe implementation of projects financedby Egypt’s development partners, it added.

The IDF, a World Bank grant facilitylaunched in 1992, was designed to financequick, action-oriented, innovative capaci-ty-building activities. IANS

Court refusesto free ex‑PM

Kiev: A higher court in Ukraine’s capitalhas refused to annul a decision to takecountry’s former prime minister Yulia Ty-moshenko into custody.

Tymoshenko, 50, is on trial for allegedabuse of office in striking gas deals withRussia in 2009.

Last Friday, she was detained on theprosecutors’ request.

She says the charges against her are po-litically motivated. IANS

London: Scientists claim some Euro-pean mice have developed resistanceto the strongest poisons, raising con-cerns that this could herald the spreadof new generations of rodents resistantto chemical pest control.

An international team, led by RiceUniversity in the US, says that Germanand Spanish mice have rapidly evolvedthe trait by breeding with an Algerianspecies from which they have beenseparate for over a million years.

The researchers say this type ofgene transfer between different speciesis highly unusual and normally foundin plants and bacteria, the ‘BBC’ re-ported. Prof Michael Kohn, who ledthe team, said: “Our study is so specialbecause it involves hybridisation be-tween two species of mouse that are1.5 to three million years removedfrom each other.

“Most of the offspring do not re-

produce, they are sterile – but thereis a small window, which remainsopen for genes to be moved from onespecies to the other, and that’s througha few fertile females, so there is achance to leak genes from one speciesto another.”

Thanks to these few fertile females,the vast majority of mice in Spain anda growing number in Germany haveacquired resistance over a very shortperiod of time, though the team isn’texactly sure when first genetic ex-changes took place.

And while they may not look anydifferent to regular household mice,in their genetic code they now havethe ability to survive the strongestchemicals in the pest control armoury.

“There are a lot of genetic barriersbetween these species of mice, to seethem hybridise and transfer geneticmaterial is quite spectacular to befrank,” said Prof Kohn.

Prof Kohn believes that his researchis an example of what scientists callhorizontal gene transfer, a processnormally seen in bacteria and plantsbut rarely in animals.

“There have been some accusationsthat we had oversimplified things bysaying this is horizontal gene transfer– I believe that it is, but it is morespecial than that, because it has toovercome this hurdle of hybrid sterilityin the first generation of offspring atthe very least,” he said. PTI

Soy doesnʼt ease symptoms of menopause

London: Contrary to general per-ception, a new study claims thatsoy does nothing to relieve thesymptoms of menopause inwomen.

In their study, involving nearly250 US women going through“the change”, researchers at Mi-ami University have found thatsoy tablets did not abate hotflushes or bone density loss.

The tablets were no betterthan placebo over the two-year-long investigation, according tofindings published in the‘Archives of Internal Medicine’.

The researchers say their worksuggests soy is not a candidate,although they stress that theyonly looked at soy isoflavonetablets rather than other dietarysources of soy.

In fact, they recruited 248menopausal women to take partin their study and randomly al-located them to one of two groups– soy or placebo. The soy groupreceived 200 mg of soy isoflavonetablets daily for two years, whilethe women in the placebo groupwere given dummy pills.

During the follow-up, no sig-nificant differences were foundbetween the two groups regard-ing changes in bone loss – acommon side effect of themenopause.

Menopausal symptoms suchas sleep disturbances affectedboth groups to similar degrees,although the soy group did ap-pear to experience more hotflushes than the placebo group.

Lead researcher Dr SilvinaLevis said: “My advice would bethat women should reconsidertaking these products formenopausal symptoms. Wefound soy isoflavone tablets didnot provide any benefit. We didnot look at soy foods but I suspectthese too would probably not behelpful.”

Dr Malcolm Whitehead, amenopause expert at King’s Col-lege Hospital in London, wasquoted by the ‘BBC’ as saying,“I’m not at all surprised by thefindings. In my clinical experi-ence, women say this doesn’twork for them.” PTI

Bakerʼs yeast protectsagainst fatal diseases

Washington: Simple baker’syeast can keep at bay fatal fungalinfection like aspergillosis whichcan cause kidney and liver fail-ure, says a new study.

Aspergillosis is the leadingfungal killer that attacks thelungs and can migrate to thebrain.

Mice injected thrice with deadbaker’s yeast one week apart,were able to survive high dosesof Aspergillus – the fungus thatcauses aspergillosis.

They also showed a reducedinfection load in their organs,the Journal of Medical Microbi-ology reports.

David A Stevens, of Santa ClaraValley Medical Centre, in whoselab the studies were conducted,said: “The simple preparation...also protect(s) against infectiondue to three other fungi thatcause human diseases - Candida,Cryptococcus and Coccidioides,”Stevens added.

“Research to date, includingour study, supports the devel-opment of a yeast vaccine againstall pathogenic fungi that infect

humans,” said Stevens. The finding opens the way to

developing a human vaccine thatprotects immunodeficiencyagainst a range of fungal infec-

tions. Immunodeficiency implies a

defective immune responsewhich renders people less ca-pable of battling infections. IANS

Scientists predicteruption of

undersea volcano Washington: US scientists said they have for the firsttime successfully predicted the eruption of one of theworld’s most active undersea volcanoes off the coastof the western state of Oregon.

Scientists from Oregon and New York have beenmonitoring Axial Seamount, 400 kilometres out tosea, since it last erupted in 1998, and predicted itwould again before 2014.

On an expedition to the area on July 29, researchersusing a remotely operated robot discovered a lavaflow that was not there the year before, and begannoticing that the entire area looked unfamiliar.

“When we first arrived on the seafloor, we thoughtwe were in the wrong place, because it looked socompletely different,” said Bill Chadwick, an OregonState University geologist who co-authored a 2006study that forecast another eruption by 2014.

“We couldn’t find our markers or monitoring in-struments or other distinctive features on the bottom.”

The team was using bottom pressure sensors, thesame tools used to monitor the sea floor for potentialtsunamis after an earthquake. A couple of their record-ing instruments soon turned up, and scientists deter-mined that the eruption happened on April 6.

The team was excited at the discovery, but cautionedthat most volcanoes remain highly volatile.

“Forecasting the eruption of most land volcanoesis normally very difficult at best, and the behavior ofmost is complex and variable,” said Scott Nooner, ageophysicist at Columbia University’s Lamont-DohertyEarth Observatory.

“We now have evidence that Axial Seamount behavesin a more predictable way than many other volcanoes.”

Researchers were watching the level of the volcaniccrater, or caldera, rise after its last eruption at a rateof about 15 centimetres per year as it inflated with ac-cumulating magma, and predicted it would eruptagain when it reached its 1998 level.

“The acid test in science – whether or not you un-derstand a process in nature - is to try to predict whatwill happen based on your observations,” Chadwicksaid. “Now we can build on that knowledge and lookto apply it to other undersea volcanoes -- and perhapseven volcanoes on land.” AFP

US deficit hits$1.1 trillion

Washington: The US budget deficithas hit a staggering $1.1 trillion puttingthe federal government on track tofinish the 2011 fiscal year with thesecond-largest gap between its in-coming and outgoing cash.

In July alone, the government spent$129.38 billion more than it took in,down from $165 billion a year earlier,the treasury department said yester-day. All but $8 billion of that $36 bil-lion difference came from one-timetransactions made in 2010.

In fiscal 2010, the deficit for thefirst 10 months of the year was $1.169trillion.

The Obama administration hasforecast that the deficit for the fiscalyear, which ends Sep 30, would total$1.65 trillion. But unless spending issignificantly higher or revenues are sig-nificantly lower in August and Septem-ber, the total for the year will likely be

below that level, Politico news site fo-cusing on Presidential and Congressionalpolitics noted.

The Congressional Budget Office,meanwhile, has projected that thedeficit will hit $1.4 trillion this year.

Before 2009, the deficit had neversurpassed $1 trillion during a singleyear, Politico said. This year’s deficitis on track to surpass last year’s$1.29 trillion but bring in just belowthe $1.41 trillion budget deficit thefederal government amassed in 2009.

Ahead of that, the record high fordeficit spending came in 2008, Pres-ident George W. Bush’s final full yearin office, when it totalled $454.8 bil-lion, Politico said.

The last budget surplus came in2001, when federal revenues were$127 trillion greater than spending,it said. At that time – before theBush administration launched wars

in Iraq and Afghanistan – surpluseswere expected to hit $5.6 trillion in thecoming decade. IANS

Apple of eveyoneʼs eye now No. 1 firmNew York: From a start-uplaunched with borrowed moneyto becoming the world’s mostvaluable company, Apple hascome a long way.

The Cupertino-based technol-ogy giant Wednesday surpassedthe global leader Exxon MobileCorp. to take this title. Exxonhas held the top spot since 2005.

At the close of markets yes-terday, Apple had market capi-talisation of $337 billion aheadof Exxon’s $337 billion. Startedin 1976 with borrowed moneyfrom an Intel executive by SteveJobs and Steve Wozniak, Apple’ssteep rise to the top began withthe return of Jobs to the Cuper-tino-based company in 1997.

Jobs borrowed $150 millionfrom Bill Gates to turn aroundthe loss-making Apple with aseries of overhauls.

And the path-breaking change

came in October 2001 when Ap-ple unveiled the iPod. This smart-looking, easy-to-use MP3 playerwent on to become the best-sell-ing device.

But it was the unveiling ofthe iTunes store – the onlinerecord collection – in 2003 thatcreated tremors in the technologyworld and set Apple on its jour-ney to the world’s most covetedcompany.

The iTunes store revolu-tionised the way people listento music. Today, iTunes is theworld’s biggest music storewhich also sells TV shows andmovies from its digital shelves.Music companies, which wereinitially apprehensive, have alsomade fortunes thanks to theiTunes store.

The innovation-driven Appleunleashed another revolution in2007 by unveiling the iPhone –

a device laden with apps. Thesleek iPhone virtually weanedusers from desktops and laptops

with its surfeit of apps – fromon-screen games to locaters foryour neighbourhood shops to

what not.Today, Apple app store boasts

500,000 apps, while rival Black-Berry App World has not eventouched the 40,000-mark. Over15 billion apps have been down-loaded from Apple app store sofar.

Interestingly, the companywhich was not in the smartphone business just five yearsago, has dethroned BlackBerryand Nokia from the top perch.

The launch of the iPad in Aprillast year made Apple the unri-valled leader of the mobile space.Apple has sold more than 25million iPads so far.

If it keeps improving theiPhone and the iPad and launch-ing new products, and if its prod-ucts don’t start cannibalisingeach other, Apple could becomethe first trillion-dollar companyin the world. IANS

There weremistakes:Assad toUN team

United Nations: Syrian PresidentBashar al-Assad has acknowl-edged to a visiting delegation ofenvoys from India, Brazil andSouth Africa that “some mistakeshad been made” by his securityforces in tackling the unrest inthe country.

He assured the IBSA delega-tion that he is committed to thereform process.

The IBSA delegation compris-ing Additional Secretary for International Organisations at the Indian Foreign Ministry Dilip Sinha, DeputyMinister of International Rela-tions and Cooperation of SouthAfrica Ebrahim Ebrahim andBrazil’s under secretary for Mid-dle East affairs Paulo Cordeirowent to Damascus to discuss thecurrent situation in Syria andthe way forward.

President Assad “acknowl-edged that some mistakes hadbeen made by the security forcesin the initial stages of the unrestand that efforts were underwayto prevent their recurrence,” ac-cording to a statement releasedby India’s UN mission.

Syrian minister of foreign af-fairs Walid Al-Moualem also in-formed the delegation that “freeand fair elections to the Parlia-ment will be held in Syria beforeend 2011” reiterating that Syriawill be a “free, pluralistic andmulti-party democracy beforethe end of the year.”

The Syrian president “reas-sured the delegation of his com-mitment to the reform process,aimed at ushering in multi-partydemocracy, including throughrevision of the constitution,” thestatement said. IANS

Syria burns as forces kill 17 in Homs

Damascus: Syrian security forcesshot dead 17 people in the protesthub of Homs yesterday, whilewithdrawing from the city ofHama, as Washington turned upthe heat on embattled PresidentBashar al-Assad.

Yesterday, a defiant Assad hadpledged to pursue a relentlessbattle against “terrorist groups,”seemingly oblivious to the mount-ing international pressure againsthis regime.

Security forces “fired indis-criminately on residents of theBaba Amro neighbourhood,killing 11 people,” one activisttold AFP in Nicosia by telephonefrom the central city. The tollwas later raised to 17, with atleast another 20 wounded.

“Some bodies are lying in thesun and people cannot removethem because of the shooting,”one activist said.

Meanwhile, an AFP correspon-dent on a government-sponsored

tour said dozens of military ve-hicles crammed with soldiersstreamed out of Hama to whichresidents were trickling back.

“The army units have goneback to their barracks after hav-ing accomplished their mission,and residents, happy to be ridof the armed gangs who tried tosow discord among the popula-tion, have returned home,” ahigh-ranking officer said.

That was confirmed by TurkishPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Er-dogan who sent his ambassadorto Hama to witness the pullout.

“Our ambassador went toHama and said that the tanks,security forces had started toleave Hama. This is highly im-portant to show that our initia-tives had positive results,” Er-dogan said in Ankara.

Meanwhile, a military sourcesaid troops were also pulling outof one town in the province ofIdlib bordering Turkey. IANS

European mice can resist poison

UK courts sit overnight to try riotersLondon: As courts in London, Man-chester and Birmingham work through-out the night to deal with hundreds ofpeople arrested, the first two criminalsconvicted for the looting and violencesweeping England were jailed today.

No one has been granted bail so far,reflecting Prime Minister DavidCameron’s commitment to bring thefull force of law on rioters who haveblighted his government’s image insideand outside Britain.

The Greater Manchester Police (GMP)said two men were yesterday imprisonedfor public order offences. “Two people

already jailed for their part in last night’sdisorder – swift justice. Two men sen-tenced to 10 weeks and 16 weeks. Extracourts sitting tonight to deal with pris-oners. GMP will update with all thesentences as soon as they are given,”the police said. In London, four magis-trates’ courts were sitting to processhundreds of people charged in connec-tion with the riots in the capital. Somearrested teenagers broke down in courtwhen they were confronted with evi-dence of their illegal activities. Reflectingthe seriousness with which these of-fences were being treated, a large num-

ber of such cases were being committedto the Crown Court.

While the magistrates can impose ajail term of only six months, a sentenceby the Crown Court could be up to 10years. In a tough message, AssistantChief Constable Garry Shewan of Man-chester police said, “My message is ex-tremely simple: hundreds and hundredsof people – we have your image, wehave your face, we have your acts ofwanton criminality on film. We are com-ing for you from today, and no matterhow long it takes, we will arrest thosepeople responsible.” PTI

In this image made from amateur video released by DPNshows Syrian tanks on the street in Deir el-Zour, Syria, onTuesday. Syrian troops seized control of the eastern flash-

point city of Deir el-Zour yesterday.

LIFESTYLE 7Thursday, August 11, 2011

Music mogul Simon Cow-ell is facing legal actionover allegations that he

caused “mental anguish” to apair of contestants who tried forthe US version of music realityshow “The X Factor”.

Hyman Marks, 86, and his sonStephen, 54, are suing Cowellover claims that their auditionwas ruined because they wereleft exhausted after filming a be-hind-the-scenes segment multi-ple times. According to the suit,the father-son duo were repeat-

edly made to walk from a carinto the Bank United Center inMiami, Florida as cameramenshot them from different angles.

When they finally stepped infront of the judging panel, bothwere too tired to impress, reportscontactmusic.com.

Their lawsuit, obtained bythewrap.com states, “As a resultof this grueling and discrimina-tory physical and mental exer-tion, the judges and the audiencenever got to see the real Hy Marksand Stephen Marks that day.”

Pop star Lady Gaga hasrevealed that she is anemotionally weak per-

son.“I learned that to be a great

artist, you must be emotionallyvery thin. Your tears and angerand your happiness must bejust under the surface of yourfirst layer of skin,” contactmu-sic.com quoted her as saying.

“I like to say ‘emotionallythin’ because it’s much moredramatic. Vulnerable to me im-plies only tears,” she said.

George Clooney says helikes to be surroundedby strong women –

and values honesty and hu-mour in friends.

The 50-year-old, who re-cently split from girlfriendElisabetta Canalis after beingtogether for two years, is nowrumoured to be dating formerwrestler Stacy Keibler, reportscontactmusic.com.

“I’ve always had reallygreat friends on both sidesof the aisle, so to speak. Igrew up with strong women,my mom is strong and so ismy sister and so was my aunt,Rosemary Clooney,” saidClooney.

“I’ve always been comfort-able around women. I havesome truly great womenfriends and the friendship isnon-romantic,” he added.

The actor also values hon-esty and humour in hisfriends, and loves the wayhis loved ones keep himgrounded.

“I look for a sense of hu-mour and fun, an interest inother people and, most im-portant of all, honesty. I don’tsurround myself with peoplewho are on my payroll andhave to agree with every wordI say,” he said.

Clooney likes strong women

Holmes dresses upaccording to city

Lohan wants to party withHilton sisters

Iʼm emotionally thin: Lady Gaga Preityʼs chat show

ʻUp Close & Personal with PZ!ʼ

Madonnaʼs attention terrifies Antonio Banderas

Hollywood actor Anto-nio Banderas was ter-rified after knowing that

pop singer Madonna likes himas he believes that she is too“powerful” to have an affair.

The “Material Girl” famouslyflaunted her crush on Banderasin her outrageous documentary “InBed With Madonna” released 1991. Thedocumentary saw her flirting with a shyBanderas at a party in Spain.

However, the actor admits he gets nervousin Madonna’s presence because he couldn’tspeak English.

“I couldn’t speak English at the time.She said a lot of things at the table whenwe were having dinner – I couldn’t under-stand s**t. I was just flipping out that I wassitting down close to Madonna. She wasvery famous already, and we were just localpeople,” contactmusic.com quoted the 50-year-old as saying.

“It was kind of flattering when somebodysaid, ‘She likes you, a lot.’ I said, ‘Oh,really? I’ve no idea what I should do aboutthis. I mean, I’m married (to first wife, AnaLeza).’ So, nothing happened. I was afraidof it at the time, because she was a verypowerful woman. I didn’t want to be Madon-na’s boy. For good or for bad, I just wantedto have my own career,” he added.

L indsay Lohan wants togo and party in Europewith Paris and Nicky

Hilton.The troubled actress has

been ordered to do communityservice as part of her probationfrom her no contest plea tomisdemeanour theft earlier thisyear but instead of completingit she wants to socialise, reportsfemalefirst.co.uk.

“Lindsay wants to go to Eu-rope and spend time with Parisand Nicky. Lindsay’s advisorsare telling her it’s just not agood idea for her to go. ButLindsay doesn’t have any travelrestrictions on her, she cantravel internationally,” said asource.

Actress Katie Holmes likes herstyle to reflect the city she is in.

“I like to dress according to the placesI travel to. So if I’m in New York, I’llwear a little more black. In Europe Itry to be extra dressed up and in LAI’m probably my most laid back,” con-tactmusic.com quoted the 32-year-oldas saying.

The “Kennedys” star, who has a five-year-old daughter Suri with husbandTom Cruise, insists she isn’t alwaysglamorous and prefers to be “comfort-able” in her everyday life.

“When I’m taking Suri to school orif I’m doing chores, I like to wear sweats.I’ve always been the same – comfortcomes first and I’m often found kickingaround in my boots,” Holmes said.

Cowell sued by ʻX Factorʼ contestants

Bollywood actress PreityZinta, who turned to theTwitterati for advice on

the title of her new chat show,has finally zeroed in on “UpClose & Personal with PZ” forit.

“‘UP CLOSE & PERSONALwith PZ!’ That’s da name ofda show guys. It will air onUTV STARS! Am so excited cuzits with all my friends! Ting(sic),” Preity posted on herTwitter page.

The actress, who was lastseen as the host of reality show“Guinness World Records - AbIndia Todega”, is excited aboutthe chat show, and her regulartweets are enough proof of it.

She has already shot withAkshay Kumar and FarhanAkhtar. The show is expectedto go on air August 27.

Thursday, August 11, 2011 8LIFESTYLEPhotos: Gangadhar Pujar

FASHION TOUR COMES TO CITY

Avon Fashion Tour 2011 that is touringfive cities in the country came to thecity.

It is part of the company’s drive to promote‘Indian Diva’ collection. Well-known modelsTamara Ross, Angela Johnson, ShonaliRozario, Alicia Raut, Carol Gracias, CandicePinto and others walked the ramp show-casing the collection!