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New CJ takes over

New chief justice of Karnataka high court, Justice Vikramjit Sen (left), takes over charge from outgoingchief justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, who is now appointed to the Supreme Court of India. The ceremony

took place on the high court premises this morning. (See page 4)

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BangaloreBeat

10 die astractor

rolls intoShira lake

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Tumkur: Ten persons died and over 15 per-sons were injured when a tractor rolled into atank at Ramalingappa village of Shira taluk thismorning.

The tractor, which was carrying more 32persons, lost control after a tyre burst anddived into the tank, eyewitnesses said.

All the deceased were from Janehara villagenear Chikkanayakanahalli and were returningfrom a temple nearby when the accident oc-curred. They had gone for the temple festival yes-terday.

Local residents and the police rushed to therescue of the victims and pulled out some ofthem. The police suspected that there could bemore people caught under the tractor.

All the injured have been shifted to a gov-ernment hospital.

3 die as lorrytopples in

MahadevpuraBangalore: Concrete lorry overturns in Ma-hadevpura in front of the BBMP office. Threepeople are believed to be stuck under the lor-ry, either trapped by the concrete or by the col-lapsed lorry itself. the lorry was delivering ma-terial to a building under construction. The iden-tity of the individuals is unknown at the time ofgoing to press, rescue attempts were in progress.

Industrialgrowth falls

to 3.3% in JulyNew Delhi: Industrial growth fell to a meagre3.3 percent in July this year on account of poorperformance mainly by capital goods, manu-facturing and mining sectors, reflecting slug-gishness in the economy.

Growth in the factory output, as measured interms of the Index of Industrial Production (LIP),had stood at 9.9 percent in July last year.

During the April-July period of this fiscal, IIPgrowth stood at 5.8 percent, as against 9.7 per-cent in the corresponding four-month period lastyear.

Sensex tanks300 points

Mumbai: The benchmark Sensex of BombayStock Exchange fell by over 300 points in ear-ly trade on Monday on continued selling byfunds and retail investors on fears of weak in-dustrial production data for July to be releasedlater in the day. Page 4

GOVT ʻMOVESʼ ON LOKAYUKTA REPORTChief secy meets dept heads asks them to be ready with confidential reports

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Chief secretary S V Ran-ganath today met principal secre-taries and additional secretaries ofdifferent departments to discussaction that needs to be taken againstgovernment officials, named guiltyby the Lokayukta in his report on il-legal mining.

More than one and a half monthshave elapsed since the report wassubmitted on July 27.

The report named 787 govern-ment officials as being in cahoots

with illegal mining barons. Considering the severity of the

charges made against the officials,the chief secretary had ordered ad-ditional chief secretary K Jairaj to gothrough the recommendations andto hold an inquiry on the extent ofinvolvement by government ser-vants.

The chief secretary has nowasked all department heads to beready with the confidential servicereport (CSR) of those named in theLokayukta report.

The CSR is a file that contains de-tails of an individual government of-

ficer from the day he joins the serv-ice. The file contains the perform-ance of the officer, his behavior, in-quiries, if any, promotions and allthe other crucial details.

Today, additional secretaries andprincipal secretaries of departmentsof finance, home, mines and geol-ogy, transport, commercial tax,principal secretary, fisheries andports, forest and revenue.

They were briefed about the al-legations made in the Loakyukta re-port and action that needs to be tak-en against them.

The officers have 90 days to act

from the day of the submission ofthe Lokayukta report. With one anda half months already elapsed, thegovernment roughly has another 45days to show some action being tak-en against the guilty officers andpoliticians.

The meeting also discussedshow-cause notices to be servedagainst the guilty officials.

Though the process has begun itmight take quite a while, before suchnotices are served against all theguilty officials.

The Lokayukta too is gearing upto take action against the guilty of-

ficials. The corruption watchdog, which

has been taken over by Justice Shiv-araj S Patil, can act against officialsup to the level of additional chiefsecretaries.

At the time of submitting the re-port, outgoing Lokayukta JusticeSantosh Hegde made a strategicmove by submitting the report togovernor H R Bhardwaj, who canask the Lokayukta now to actagainst guilty officials.

The governor, too, has been in-dependently trying to act against thegovernment and guilty government

officials in the illegal mining cases.Today’s meeting was called after

instructions from chief minister D VSadananda Gowda to prove thatthere is some action from the gov-ernment’s side on the Lokayukta re-port.

Former chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa lost his seat and is now at-tending the Lokayukta special courtafter the Lokayukta report square-ly blamed him.

One not to be bogged down bysuch setbacks, Yeddyurappa hashoisted his own man, Gowda, to thechief minister’s post.

Nikita in hospitalwith high fever

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Actress NikithaThukral, banned by the Kar-nataka Film Producers’ Associa-tion for three years yesterday,today got herself admitted to aprivate hospital in Mumbai.

Her family sources said she hasbeen suffering from high feverand had to be admitted to thehospital.

Nikitha has been linked withjailed actor Darshan Thugood-eep, who is being treated forasthma-related problems at theRajiv Gandhi Chest Diseases Hos-pital in the city after his arrest onFriday. The actress has, however,denied any relationship with theactor. She has been furious withthe association order. She askedwhy she had to be penalized forthe trouble within the family ofDarshan.

Darshan has been facing com-plaints of assaulting his wife and

causing grievous injuries. TheFIR also mentions a section un-der the arms act, as he allegedlythreatened his wife Vijayalak-shmi with a gun.

At the time of going to press,the bail hearing of Darshan wasstill going on.

This morning, Vijayalakshmivisited the public prosecutor andexpressed her willingness to ar-rive at a compromise with herhusband. She wanted the chargesagainst Darshan dropped.

TRIAL COURTTO DECIDE

MODIʼS FATENew Delhi: In a relief to Gujaratchief minister Narendra Modi, theSupreme Court today refused topass any order on his alleged in-action to contain the 2002 Gujaratriots after the Godhra carnageand referred the matter to themagistrate concerned in Ahmed-abad for a decision.

A three-judge bench headedby Justice D K Jain directed theSIT, which is probing the riotcases, to submit its final reportbefore the magistrate who wasasked to decide whether to pro-ceed against Modi and 63 others,which includes senior govern-ment officials.

The bench made it clear thatthere was no need for it to furthermonitor the riot cases.

The bench also comprisingjustices P Sathasivam and AftabAlam said in case the magistratedecides to drop proceedingsagainst Modi and others, he hasto hear the plea of slain MPEhsan Jafri’s widow Zakia Jafri,who had filed a complaintagainst the Gujarat chief minis-ter.The court passed the order ona petition by Zakia Jafri allegingthat Modi and 62 top govern-ment officials deliberately re-fused to take action to contain thestate-wide riots, triggered by theFebruary 27, 2002 Godhra traincarnage.

Jafri, who lost her husbandEhsan Jafri, a former Congress MPin Gulberg Housing Society mas-sacre during riots, had told theapex court that a proper probeshould be carried out by the SIT,headed by former CBI chief R KRaghavan, into her allegations ofinaction and various acts of omis-

sion and commission by Modiand others after the riots.

The apex court had earlierhanded over the task of probingthe case to SIT which submittedits report in the court.

After the SIT filed its probe re-port in a sealed cover, the courthad also asked senior advocateRaju Ramachandran, who is as-sisting it as amicus curie, toanalyse the SIT probe findingsand file a confidential report onit.Ramachandran subsequentlyhad submitted his report to thecourt, which passed the order af-ter going through the reports bySIT and Ramachandran and re-ferred the case back to the con-cerned Ahmedabad magistrate todecide the further course of ac-tion in the case.

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Narendra Modi

Iʼm daily wagelabourer: CM

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “Yes, I am a daily wage labourer.And a daily wage labourer of 6.5 crore people of thestate,” said chief minister D V Sadananda Gowdahere this morning.

Reacting to yesterday’s statement of JD(S) statepresident H D Kumar-aswamy, he said, “I con-gratulate Kumaraswamy for calling me a daily wagelabourer. I will prove my worth through my work.I am answerable only to the people and no oneelse.”

He was talking to reporters after meeting formerchief minister B S Yeddyurappa at the latter’s Dol-lar’s Colony residence.

Yeddyurappa was instrumental in gettingGowda the chief minister’s gaddi in the BJP internalelections held just over a month ago. The associ-

ation has been drawing the criticism of all politi-cal parties, which allege that Gowda is a puppetin the hands of Yeddyurappa.

Yesterday, Kumaraswamy said, “SadanandaGowda is living on borrowed time.

He has been appointed like a daily wage labour-er by someone else.”

Gowda, reacting to a statement by Union homeminister P Chidambaram that the law and ordersituation in the state is not up to the mark, said,“I am really happy with it. I don’t see any problem.The state has been enjoying communal harmonyand there has been no major issues concerning theadministration.

“The law and order governance has not gonedown as claimed by the central government. It iswrong on the part of the central government to passsuch comments.”

Jaya mustappear before

court: SC New Delhi: Tamil Nadu chiefminister J Jayalalitha was todayasked by the Supreme Court toappear personally on October20 before a Karnataka trial court,adjudicating a disproportionateassets case against her.

A bench of justices DalveerBhandari and Deepak Verma,however, left it to the trial courtjudge to decide her plea for beingexamined at a separate building,other than the regular court, inview of security considerations.

The apex court said the pre-siding judge shall ensure that sheis examined in a proper envi-ronment.

The order was passed afterJayalalitha, in response to the ear-lier directions that she must ap-pear today, agreed.

Over 50,000 gather for Cong publicmeet as ʻJanara Baligeʼ drive ends

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Kudalasangama (Bagalkot dist):Over 50,000 people gathered for theconcluding ceremony of the Con-gress party’s people outreach pro-gramme, here today.

The leaders, who had gathered atthe venue, criticized the state BJP gov-ernment for its shoddy developmentwork and for harbouring “corrupt el-ements”.

All-India Congress Committee gen-

eral secretary, Karnataka in-charge,Madhusudan Mistry, Union labourminister Mallikarjuna M Kharge,AICC secretary Sanjuay Nirupam,state Congress president G Parameshwara, opposition leader in the assembly Siddaramaiah, opposition leader in the council Motamma, minister of state for railways K H Muniyappa, H M Revanna, B L Shankar, former council chairman Veeranna Mathikatti and others took part in the

massive function that saw the end of“Congress Nadige, Janara Balige”programme launched by the oppo-sition party to educate the massesabout the shortcomings of the gov-ernment led by the BJP.

Referring to the illegal mining is-sue, the leaders said the Congresswould take action against thosefound guilty within its party, but thegovernment too should act againstthose named in the report submittedby the former Lokayukta Justice San-

tosh Hegde. Both former chief ministers B S

Yeddyurappa and H D Kumaraswamyhave to face courts for their involve-ment in illegal mining cases, theysaid.

They ridiculed chief minister D VSadananda Gowda being a puppet inthe hands of Yeddyurappa.

The leaders were scheduled toreach Koppal by 4 pm and launch theelection campaign for the con-stituency that is facing by-polls.

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E‑auction of iron orestarts from Sept 14

New Delhi: The electronic auction of ironore stocks in the state, as directed by theSupreme Court, will begin from September14 and iron and steel producers havebeen invited to register for it, officialssaid.

“The first auction will be conductedon September 14,” said an official of theMSTC, which has been entrusted withthe responsibility of conducting e-auctionsby the apex court.

An official of the Karnataka’s minesand geology department also confirmedthe development, adding that “iron andsteel units have been invited to registerfor the e-auction on September 14”.

The official further said, “Initially, auc-tions will be 12,000 tonnes per week (fordifferent grades of iron ore), while thetarget is to increase it to about 40,000tonnes a day”.

This will gradually be raised to theSupreme Court directed levels of 1.5 milliontonnes a month, the state governmentofficial added.

When asked about the next round ofauctions, after September 14, the officialsaid, “It will depend upon the situation.It can be once in a week or thrice in amonth”.

Talking about the price of the iron ore,the state government official said that itwill be based on prices prevailing in themarkets of China/Japan sans export dutyand transportation costs to the ports.

The domestic taxes will, however, beapplicable, the official added.

The auctions are expected to providea temporary relief to the iron and steelindustry in the state, which has beenreeling under severe shortage of iron orefollowing a mining ban imposed by theapex court in Bellary, Tumkur and Chi-tradurga districts earlier.

The apex court, while banning themining due to large scale environmentaldegradation of area, had permitted toauction 1.5 million tonnes (MT) iron oreper month through e-auction route fromthe stock of 25.88 MT, lying at the minesin the state.

Besides this, a 3-member monitoringcommittee, headed by additional principalchief conservator of forest Deepak Sharma,was constituted to deal with sale andtransportation of the existing stock ofiron ore and maintain account of thesales proceeds.

Moreover, MSTC Ltd, a mini-ratna PSUspecialised in e-commerce, was entrustedto do the auctions.

According to industry sources, themonitoring committee is currently con-centrating on stocks in mines of Bellary,which are estimated at 14 MT. .

Auctions for stocks from mines of Chi-tradurga and Tumkur are likely to beginafter two months, industry sources added.

Besides Bellary, the mines in Chitradur-ga has around 7 MT of iron ore stocks,while Tumkur has a stock of 4 MT, theapex court appointed Central EmpoweredCommittee (CEC) had said in its report.

According to the Bangalore Chamber

of Industry and Commerce (BSIC), dailydemand of iron ore in the state is around1,04,000 tonnes.

Of this, about 26,000-27,000 tonnes ofsupplies for the raw material is metthrough NMDC – the only company per-mitted by the apex court to do mining inthe state.

Due to paucity of iron ore, many spongeiron plants have shut their operations,while leading steel and iron producerslike JSW Steel, MSPL, BMM Ispat, Sathava-hana Ispat, among others, have resortedto operating at reduced capacities.

Karnataka produces 16 MT of iron andsteel in a year, which is a little less than25 per cent of the country’s total produc-tion.

The state also produces more than afifth of India’s total iron ore production,which is around 220 MT annually. Ofthis, about 80 per cent comes from Bel-lary-Hospet region at about 40 million

tonnes per annum, Tumkur and Chi-tradurga districts meet rest of the re-quirements. PTI

NGOs to launch campaignagainst illegal miningBangalore: The National Committee forProtection of Natural Resources and Dhar-wad-based NGOs Jana Sangrama Parishadwill launch a state-wide campaign fromSeptember 15, demanding that the stategovernment implement the secondLokayukta report in illegal mining in Kar-nataka in toto.

“The 15-day campaign which will firstcommence in taluks will focus on imple-mentation of the second report on illegalmining submitted by former LokayuktaSantosh Hegde in letter and spirit by thestate government,” NCPNR convenor SR Hiremath told reporters today.

The court-monitored CBI enquiry intoillegal mining in the state will be theother focal point of the campaign, hesaid.

“It is a Jana Jagriti Jatha (People’sAwareness Campaign) against illegal min-ing on the lines of the one undertakenby anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare againstcorruption”, said Raghavendra Kushtagiof JNP.

The Jatha will commence in Raichur,Gadag, Dharwad, Haveri, Chitradurga,Tumkur, Mysore, Davanagere, Bellaryand Koppala taluks where JNP has astrong base, he said.

On Central Empowered Committee’sreport on illegal mining, he said P VJayakrishnan, CEC Chairman has directedDeputy Commissioners of three miningdistricts of Bellary, Tumkur and Chi-tradurga to take stringent action againstmining firms which violated the KarnatakaLand Revenue Act 1964 by dumping min-eral waste on “Gomala lands”.

“The firms hae been directed to getthis mining waste cleared at their ex-pense”, he said, adding they are in regularcontact with DCs to ensure implementa-tion of this direction. PTI

Wipro atSydney

RunningFestival

New Delhi: Wipro Technologies,the IT arm of Wipro Ltd, has saidit has partnered with BlackmoresSydney Running Festival as theofficial technology partner.

The Blackmores Sydney run-ning festival will leverage Wipro’sconsulting and technology ex-pertise as part of the event, Wiprosaid in a statement.

In addition, Wipro Technolo-gies will also present ‘The WiproTeam Challenge’, a new additionto the Festival testing not justone’s endurance but also teamspirit, it added.

Blackmores Sydney RunningFestival is Australia’s most spec-tacular running festival takingparticipants over the iconic Syd-ney Harbour Bridge and finishingat the Sydney Opera House.

The event delivers over AUD12 million to local businessesand brings over 5,500 people toSydney from inter-state and over-seas. The event will help raisemore than AUD 2.5 million forcharities in 2011.

“Wipro recently celebrated adecade of operations and stellargrowth in the ANZ region. Weremain deeply committed to theregion and will continue to en-gage with the local communityhere. The event also echoesWipro’s ethos of giving back tothe community where we dobusiness,” Wipro chief marketingofficer (it business) Rajan Kohlisaid.

Wipro Technologies estab-lished a presence in the Australiaand New Zealand region in 2001.

It has since built strategic,long term partnerships with mar-quee companies in the regionand has over 2,200 employeesworking for this region, from de-livery centres in Sydney, Mel-bourne and Adelaide, as well asfrom India. PTI

Health campheld for

govt schoolstudents

Bangalore: Narain SewaSansthan participated in the gen-eral health check up , oral &dental screening camp organisedby the Youth For Seva at theGovernment Primary and HigherSecondary School at Sanegora-banahalli at the third stage, thirdblock, Basaveshwaranagar.

Around 500 students werechecked, and 178 had dental-re-lated problems. Most of the stu-dents had severe pain and dentalcaries because of their lifestyle,lack of awareness in brushingtechniques and deficient intakeof balanced diet.

Doctors from the sansthan ed-ucated students about the im-portance of fluoride pastes andimportance of vitamins in day-to-day Life.

Dr Jyotasana Reddy, Dr Sudha,Dr Renu Kumari, Dr Vimochana,Anand and Padmashree diag-nostics actively participated inthis programme.

Intelligenttransport

apps needed:IISc prof

In view of the chaotic trafficon Indian roads, the Intelli-gent Transportation System

(ITS) can find widespread ap-plication for enhancing roadsafety, experts said.

A national conference on In-telligent Transportation Systemwas held in Mumbai recently.

Some of the areas where ITScan find application in India arevehicle control- electronic sta-bility control (ESC), lane depar-ture warning system and lanekeeping system.

Other road safety systems in-clude fatigue/drowsiness warn-ing system, speed governor, col-lision avoidance system, intelli-gent speed adaptation, eventdata recorder and vision en-hancement (during night, fog),Prof Ashish Verma of IISc said.

Road accidents account forthousands of deaths in the coun-try every year. The planning com-mission, in 2002, had estimatedthe social cost of road injuriesat 3 per cent of the GDP, he said.

Thrissur Govt Engg Collegewins city leg of Nobel quiz

Bangalore: The Government Col-lege of Engineering, Thrissur,won the Bangalore leg of thequalifying round of The SwedenIndia Nobel Memorial Quiz at RV College of Engineering.

The team of three, comprisingAshok S Menon, Bharath RaviKumar and Abhijeet Balakrish-nan, won the round where 167teams participated. The inter-collegiate quiz competition is or-ganised every year as part of the“Sweden–India Nobel MemorialWeek”, which celebrates the spirit

of the Swedish innovator, entre-preneur and philanthropist Al-fred Nobel.

Bangalore round winners willrepresent the city at the final atIIT, New Delhi on October 15.

Apart from Bangalore, the re-gional qualifiers will also be heldin Chennai, Pune, Mumbai andNew Delhi during this monthand October. National winnerswill get an all-expense trip toSweden, where they will get tovisit headquarters of partnercompanies, universities and the

Nobel Museum.Peoples Education Society In-

stitute of Technology (PESIT)won the second place in the Ban-galore round, while the Karnata-ka Lingayat Education Societycollege bagged the third place.

Shrikanta Srinivasan, directorof human resources, Cognizant,took part which saw keenquizzers from across reputed col-leges and technical institutes ofthe garden city. Adittya NathMubayi hosted the quiz that wasopen to all college teams.

Ashok S Menon, Bharath Ravikumar and Abhijeet Balakrishnan of the Government Collegeof Engineering, Thrissur, won the Bangalore leg of the qualifying round of the Sweden India

Nobel Memorial Quiz at R V College of Engineering.

Bangalorean pedalsto meet Anna

Ralegan Siddhi: Making his wayacross the borders of Karnatakaon a makeshift welded cycle cart,35-year-old M Mahesh arrivedhere yesterday, braving badweather, to pay his tribute toanti-graft crusader Anna Haz-are.

The curious crowd, gatheredat Padmavati ‘Bhakta Nivas’where Hazare is put up, staredat the man who looked weatherbeaten but high in spirits as heentered the compound on hiscycle cart which displayed theposter of Anna Hazare with aline “I salute Anna”.

“Justice Santosh Hegde (a keymember of Anna team ) flaggedme off from Bangalore on August17 appreciating the one-man mis-sion to Ralegan to spread themessage of Hazare”, Mahesh told

PTI in his broken Hindi.What prompted him to un-

dertake this long arduous journeyin his personal capacity withoutoutside financial support?

With a clenched fist, Maheshsaid “Ghussa (anger) against cor-rupt ministers and“Abhiman”(pride) of Anna’s self-less crusade”.

On his way from Bangalore toRalegan, Mahesh addressedgroups of people who came tosee his queer looking vehicle,urging them to join Anna’s move-ment.

But, sitting atop his cycle cart,the tired man presented a sadspectacle as he waited endlesslyto meet his hero, urging the vol-unteers to send a word to Hazareand clear the heavy security cor-don. PTI

Team Lease, IIJT offer jobs to over 500

Bangalore: Team Lease Servicesand Indian Institute of Job Train-ing (IIJT) organised a job fair foryouth in Jayanagar on Saturday.

The job fair drew around 500candidates and around 127 can-didates were shortlisted. Leachihired 20, 24/7 appointed two,Ing Vysya Bank 12, Linkin Con-sulting 41, Reliance Retail 10

and Call ready 42.Candidates were taken

through assessment and employ-ability evaluation conducted byTeamLease and IIJT counsellors.Based on assessment tests re-sults, IIJT counsellors suggestedrequirements of necessary vo-cational skills training to thecandidates.

Valuablesworth

over Rs 25Kburgled Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A house was brokeninto and valuables worth overRs 25,000 were stolen at HBRLayout last night.

The burglary has occurred atthe residence of P Venugopal,

w h oa l o n gwith hisfamily,h a dgone outaround9 am onS a t u r -day.

When they returned at 6 thismorning, they found the frontdoor broken open, and TV, DVDplayer, handicam and a still cam-era being stolen from inside thehouse.

The incident occurred at thehouse situated on 2nd cross, 4thblock, first stage of HBR Layout.

Pillion rider diesRPC Layout: A pillion rider diedafter an autorickshaw hit themotorcycle he was riding on nearthe RPC Layout junction in thecity last night.

Kumar (19), a resident of Chol-aru Palya, was returning homealong with his friend Manjunathafter taking part in Ganesha fes-tival celebrations.

An unidentified three-wheelerhit them from behind on the fifthmain road of RPC road junction.

CITYMonday, September 12, 2011 3CITY EVENTSGeneralBangalore Association forScience Education (BASE):Inauguration of the ‘Moon-AScientific Story’ by GovernorHans Raj Bhardwaj, Prof U RRao, Chairman of BangaloreAssociation for Scientific Ed-ucation and Chairman of PRLCouncil, to preside, JawaharlalNehru Planetarium, Sri TChowdiah Road, High Grou-nds, 5 pm.

The Bangalore Social Sci-ences Forum: The HaneefJavid Endowment Lecture byDr K S Sameera Simha, formerprofessor and joint secretaryof BHS Higher Education so-ciety, on ‘Intellectual Devel-opment and System of Edu-cation’, Dr H N MultimediaHall, National Degree College,Basavanagudi, 6 pm.

Rotary Club of Bangalore:Talk by Dr Sita Bhateja on‘How to be a Philatelist’, Ro-tary House of Friendship, No2, Lavelle Road, 7.15 pm.

Children’s Movement forCivic Landmark: Interactivediscussion with Prakash Iyer,Managing Director, KimberlyClark Lever on the book ‘TheHabit of Winning’, Landmark,Forum Mall, Kormangala, 7pm.

ReligiousChinmaya Mission: Talk onBhagavad Gita chapter 5 bySwamy Krutat Mananda,Vasavi Convention Centre,Vani Vilas Road, Basavanagu-di, 6.30 pm.

Chinmaya Mission: Jnana Ya-jna recitals in English, Shiva-paradha Kshamapana Sto-tram, by Brni Vasumana Chai-tanya, Chinmaya Mission,No.23/1, 5th Main, 9th Cross,Malleswaram, 6.30 pm.

TheatreRobi's Garden: Monday, Sep-tember 12th, 2011. 3 p.m. to4:30 p.m. Gurunanak Bhavan,No 6, Miller Tank Road, Vas-anthnagar Robi's Garden isan original script developedwithin Bangalore Little The-atre, in partnership with theAssociation for the MentallyChallenged, to celebrate Ra-bindranath Tagore's work forand with children. The mate-rial for the theatrical produc-tion is drawn from Tagore'swriting. These include verse,short stories, plays and sketch-es, fantasies, autobiographicalwriting, and the letters to hisgranddaughter and other chil-dren.

Eating OutPower Lunch: Monday, Sep-tember 12th, 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: Monday, September12th, 2011. noon to 3 p.m.Manchester United RestaurantBar, The Manchester UnitedRestaurant and Bar launchesa weekday lunch buffet pricedat Rs 350 plus taxes right fromstarters to desserts.

Tapas at Caperberry: Monday,September 12th, 2011. 12:30p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Caperberry,No 48/1 Ground Floor, The Es-tate, Dickenson Road, Caper-berry is hosting a special pro-motion that revolves aroundtapas, to offer regulars some-thing new and popularise thisintegral aspect of Spanishculture in the city. On offerare tapas like Cherry toma-toes, blue cheese and mixedherb tartlets, Chicken croque-tas, and Crabmeat, avocadoand coriander stuffed minibrioche.

Mexican Festival at HardRock Café: Monday, Septem-ber 12th, 2011. 12:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Hard Rock Cafe, No 40, St Marks Road, HardRock Café's special Mexicanmenu features dishes like the Legendary Beef & SmokyBean Burger, Grilled BahamaMama Chicken Tender Burritoserved with spicy fries, Albe-querque Cottage Cheese andVegetable Burrito, Spicy Amer-ican corn and Danish Moz-zarella Samoset and dessertssuch as the Black & White.Also on offer is a wide range of special cocktails, flair bartending and Latin dancers.

Chocoholic Festival at CityBar: Monday, September 12th,2011. 12:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.City Bar Karaoke + Grill, UBCity, No 24, Vittal MallyaRoad, Featured on the menuare sweet treats like pastries,tarts, flavoured chocolates,and pudding.

The Ceviche Trail: Monday,

September 12th, 2011. noonto 3:30 p.m. Mynt, The TajWest End, No 25, Race CourseRoad, High Grounds A foodfestival straight from theheartland of the Incan empire,especially Peru. The menufeatures dishes like ChileanSea Bass with Lemon Oil,Ecuadorian Shrimp, GingeredToro Tuna with Soy andSesame, and Bay Scallop Ce-viche with Blackened Tomato.

NightlifeThai & Mongolian Night:Monday, September 12th, 2011.8 p.m. Fusion Lounge, 185,Deena Building, BrigadeRoad, DJs Paresh and Karthikplay a set of Thai and Mon-golian tunes to kickstart theweek.

Lounge Night: Monday, Sep-tember 12th, 2011. 8 p.m. Ice,Vivanta by Taj - MG Road, No41/3, MG Road, DJ Vanshi setsthe mood for the night withlounge music.

Monday Blues with DJNayan: Monday, September12th, 2011. 8 p.m. to 10:30p.m. Indi, Garuda Mall, , Ma-grath Road, Ashoknagar DJNayan spinning commercialand Bollywood this Mon @Indi.

House Night with DJ Sid:Monday, September 12th, 2011.8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Hypnos,Gem Plaza, Infantry Road, DJSid spinning House and HipHop at Hypnos this Monday.

Chillout Session with DJCheek-O Dread: Monday, Sep-tember 12th, 2011. 7 p.m. to11:30 p.m. Xtreme Sports Bar,No 30, HRBR Layout, 2ndBlock, 4th Main, KalyannagarDJ Cheek-O Dread spins housethis Monday.

Retro Night with DJ Deepak:Monday, September 12th, 2011.8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. TheBeach, No 1211, 100 Feet Road,Indiranagar DJ Deepak spinsgolden oldies at The Beachtonight.

ShoppingFall Winter 2011 Collection:Monday, September 12th, 2011.11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Esprit, No10 Ananda Bhavan, VittalMallya Road, Stripes, florals,wool, tweed, retro and preppycome together in Esprit’s newFall Winter 2011 Collection.

OWW Sale: Monday, Septem-ber 12th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8p.m. One Wit Wonders, No32 ACR Towers, ResidencyRoad, Flat 50% off on selectedproducts at One Wit Wonders.

Lustrous Moon Collection:Monday, September 12th, 2011.10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Collage, No21/1, Wood Street, AshoknagarThe Lustrous Moon Collectionby Bharathi Raviprakash payshomage to the glow of themoon. The collection includesgold jewellery with pearls incolours of golden, black andchocolate, and diamonds aswell.

Modern Heritage Collection:Monday, September 12th, 2011.10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Pepe,No 2, Brigade Road, Pepe in-troduces the Modern HeritageCollection for women, thatdraws its inspiration from thedesigns of the 90s. The col-lection includes masculineelements and relies on shadesof red, black, navy blue andsoft nude.

ExhibitionsShowers Of Tranquility: Mon-day, September 12th, 2011. 10a.m. to 6 p.m. Gallerie ThirdEye, No A-1 Epsilon OfficeBlock, Yemalur Main Road,Yemalur A rare collection ofpaintings for the monsoonseason, by HS Manjunath andRanjan Paul.

Walls Between People: Mon-day, September 12th, 2011. 9a.m. to 7 p.m. Alliance Fran-caise de Bangalore, No 108,Off Queens Road, ThimmaiahRoad During a two-year jour-ney around the world thatled them from Tijuana toBelfast and from Jerusalemto Seoul and Laayoune,Alexandra Novosseloff andFrank Neisse met people liv-ing close to the walls in theseparts of the world to betterunderstand their lives. Theauthors came back from thesetravels with stories, full ofanecdotes and observations.They also brought back pho-tographs that show the realityof those walls, those that arestill active today, as we cele-brate the 20th anniversary of the fall of theBerlin wall. This photographicreportage concerns six different walls and situations.

Solo Show @ Renaissance:Monday, September 12th, 2011.11 a.m. to 7 p.m. RenaissanceGallerie, No 13 Westminster,Cunningham Road, An exhibition of paintings.

NO SC ORDER ON MODI IN RIOTS CASE

Continued from page 1Ramachandran’s report filed in a sealed coverhad analysed the SIT probe findings and evidenceadduced by it in the case.

Ramachandran, assisting the bench in nineriot cases, had submitted his report on the directionof the apex court which had on May 5 sought an“independent overview” of the evidence recordedby the Special Investigation Team (SIT).

The court had asked Ramachandran to analysethe SIT probe findings, take comments and state-ments of the witnesses and, if needed, interactwith them for an “objective” assessment of theevidence.

The bench had on July 28 said it would passthe order on the basis of the report submitted bythe amicus.

The court had also turned down the plea of thestate government seeking a copy of the reportand said it would be given only at the appropriatestage. PTI

Dr P S Jayaramu, chairman, dept of political science, Bangalore University, Justice N Santosh Hegde, former Lokayuktha and Alhaj Maqbool Ahmed Saheb,

president CMA, inaugurate a one-day seminar on “future of democracy in India” at Abbas Khan college for women.

State‑level seminar

Red Cross Society to offertraining in first aid to all

L RaghunandaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Indian Red CrossSociety, Bangalore chapter, istaking up an extensive pro-gramme to teach techniques offirst-aid to representatives ofcompanies, volunteers and com-mon public in the city.

The IRCS has taken majorstrides in the collection of bloodand has surpassed its previousyear’s numbers of blood campsheld in the city.

On the programmes beforethe society in the coming year,IRCS secretary K R Dharmappasaid, “IRCS will hold trainingprogrammes for drivers and con-ductors in KSRTC and BMTC.We have already talked and dis-

cussed about the training pro-gramme with respective MDs ofKSRTC and BMTC

“We don’t want to limit thetraining programme to only somesectors and government. Any-

body who is willing to conductsuch a programme, we are readyto hold it for them, be it schools,private companies etc. There isa minimal fee that IRCS collectsfrom the companies that are con-

ducting the programme,” hesaid.

IRCS, which is in the forefrontof training the common publicabout first-aid and other para-medical streams, is holding sucha massive training programmefor the first time. The trainingprogramme would help individ-uals save a life in cases of naturaland other disasters, calamitiesand other accidents. With properfirst-aid given before the arrivalof professional help could savemany lives, Dharmappa said.

The larger number of peopletrained, larger the number oflives saved.

“That is the reason, the RedCross Society has taken up thetraining programme on a biggerscale,” he added.

After repairs, Madiwalaunderpass to reopen today

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Commuters had to battlehuge traffic jams in and around Madiwalathis morning after the underpass con-necting the city to Hosur road was closedfor some repair work.

Traffic jams stretched up to the DairyCircle. The road, mainly used by techiesand other workers, witnessed bumper-to-bumper traffic. Traffic police had atough time controlling the vehicularmovement.

The underpass was closed on Saturdayas the metal junction which covered thedrain which received all the rain wasdamaged.

Traffic jams and resulting problemsto the commuters could have been avoid-ed if the BBMP had foreseen the problemand taken up the repairs earlier. Theproblem has now got bigger as the metalrods covering the drains are damagedalong with the concrete around it. Theheavy flow of traffic through the mainjunction has damaged the rods, authoritiestold Bangalore Beat.

The underpass cut down commutingtime and distance by a large amount.Earlier all the vehicles moving towardsHosur Road had to go via St John’s Hos-pital, Water Tank and take a right U-turn at Krupanidhi College and passthrough the Madiwala market to reachHosur Road. Today, too, the traffic policewere diverting the traffic through theright turn at the Water Tank signal forvehicles coming from the centre of thecity.

The BBMP has corrected the problemnow and the road is expected to open bythis evening. Madiwala traffic inspectorLakshminarayan told Bangalore Beat:“We closed the underpass on Saturdayand had diverted all the traffic. But wehad allowed two-wheelers above the un-

der pass via Ayyappa temple. The problem was due to the metal

angle which got damaged due to contin-uous flow of vehicles.

BBMP thought of just welding themetal angle, but that was not enough asthe metal angle had got dented and dam-

aged the concrete too. BBMP has set up the metal angle on

fresh concrete and most of the work isover.

Only the concrete had been left forcuring. Once that is over we will allowthe passage of vehicles as earlier.”

S Radhakrishna

JD(S) state president H D Kumaraswamy hands over keys to autorickshaws to 25 unemployed persons from Hegganahalli at the JD(S) office this morning. Hegganahalli

corporator B M Govinde Gowda arranged for Rs 20,000 seed money and Rs 1.2 lakh required to buy the three-wheelers.

Helping unemployed Gangadhar Puajr Over 800 take part inRural dist Dasara meet

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A three-day Banga-lore Rural district Dasara sportsmeet was inaugurated at theKanteerava stadium today.

More than 800 students,women and men are taking partin the sports meet. The winnerswould go on to compete in thestate-level Dasara sports meetat Mysore. Sportspersons arecompeting for the honours in 14disciplines.

Inaugurating the meet, labourminister Bachche Gowda said,“It is not winning that matters,but the participating. It is important for one to play sports in their lives. Education,which gives mental strength to children, should be balancedwith right physical activities.Sports inculcates team spirit and discipline.”

Taking the example of shot-putter from the state Vikas Gow-da, who won bronze at the re-cently held World Athletics Meet,he said, “Those who are takingpart in this meet should take in-

spiration from Vikas Gowda andgo on to achieve such heights.The state government is com-mitted to encouraging sports inthe state. We have supportedVikas Gowda with more than Rs50 lakh.”

He said, “I too was a volleyballplayer and played at the Dasarameet at Mysore. This meet is apart of the nada habba being

celebrated by the state govern-ment.”

Participants from Devanahalli,Nelamangala and Hoskote aretaking part in the sports meet.Kabaddi, volleyball and discussthrow are some of the 14 eventsbeing held at the event. The win-ners will go on to take part inthe state and national level sportsmeets.

Over 800 students, women and men are taking part in athree-day Bangalore Rural district Dasara sports at Kanteer-

ava Satadium that was inaugurated today.

Gangadhar Pujar

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NEWSMonday, September 12, 2011 4

Mysore district-level athletic meet for pre-university students being inaugurated atMysore today. Karnataka PU board member, Mysore region, Prof M Chandra Kumar and

others take part.

Athletic meetG S Ravishankar

We saw the ugly side of cricket: DhoniLondon: Frustrated after rain interrup-tions forced a tie in the fourth ODIagainst England, Indian captain Ma-hendra Singh Dhoni said the “ugly sideof cricket” came to fore in the match asthe side which had the upperhand “did-n’t want to play.”Sunday’s tie gave England the five-match series after the first game waswashed out and the hosts won the nexttwo.India had set England a formidable tar-get of 281 in Sunday’s match beforerain interruptions forced a tie with thehosts at the Duckworth-Lewis par scoreof 270 for eight.“We just saw the ugly side of cricket.Whichever team has the upper hand,doesn’t want to play. Whichever teamis not on winning side, will stick aroundand even play football. That’s whatpeople do and that’s what both sidesdid,” Dhoni said after the match.There were as many as three interrup-tions – first when England were upand second when the Indians wereahead on the Duckworth-Lewis rule.The intervening showers did cease 10minutes after the proceedings wereended but the rules didn’t permit thegame to be played under lights.“If you have a day game, you need dif-ferent guidelines and principles to fol-low. If you put it under lights, it doesn’tlook nice,” he said.Dhoni said some of the Indian playerswere confused about the result.“Some of the guys were confused. Somethought we had won it. Most of usthought it was a passing shower andwe would be able to get back on thefield,” said Dhoni.“Once inside the dressing room, wesaw the final sheet of paper. After look-ing at it, it was apparent it was a tieand none of the side had won thegame,” he added.Expressing his frustration with the in-terruptions, which robbed his side of awin in the series, Dhoni said, “This isnot the first time. We were close towinning the first game also. But as I

said, you can’t control the weather.”Dhoni’s batting was quite refreshingas was the knock of Suresh Raina who

top-scored with 84 runs.“We got off to a good start. Openersdid well. When I came in, we wanted

to make sure we play a number ofovers.“We didn’t have a target in mind. We

wanted to try and rotate the strike. Notto play shots which were risky and getcloser to the 40-over mark. In the last10 overs, we were able to get 110 runswhich really made a difference.”For the second game running, Indiadid well in batting powerplay. In thelast game at the Oval, they made 51runs from five overs and here at theLord’s, they plundered 58.“It has been good in the last two games.It’s important not to look for 60 runs infive overs. You look at 40 runs as abenchmark. If you have explosive pow-er, the last three overs can really makea difference. You can even get 50 runs.But it’s important not to aim too high,”Dhoni said. There was a feeling that with so muchon his plate, Dhoni was better off ingiving the keeping responsibility toParthiv Patel.“I am not a very good fielder. I lovefielding on the boundary. But you can’tlead the side from there. So that option(of letting Patel keep) is not there rightnow.”Dhoni said it would be India’s aim towin the final game at Cardiff on Fri-day.“Every game is important. Every gameis an international game. It’s importantto get the most out of it. It wouldn’t bebad to get a victory finally in the wholeof series.”England will visit India next monthand after the encouraging show by afew youngsters, speculation is rife aboutthe seniors retaining their spots.“Quite a few players would be fit bythen. We then may not have a verygood fielding side. But then groundsin India are small and there is not muchopportunity for batters to take singlesor twos.“You have to see which all players areavailable. It becomes difficult whensenior players are available. It’s toughfor the youngsters but (this tour) hasbeen a good grooming period for them.When the time comes, they could bearound for 5-10 years.” PTI

It was a fair result: Cook

London: India might be feelinghard-done by the weather godsbut England skipper AlastairCook said the tie forced by raininterruptions in the fourth ODIhere was a fair result.

Cook was a relieved man afterthe tie allowed his side to clinchthe five-match series by takingan unassailable 2-0 lead hereyesterday.

England were 270 for eightwhen the third and final rain in-tervention forced the match toend in a tie under the Duck-worth-Lewis rule.

“It’s human. When you’reahead of the game and get to gooff, you’re obviously going to behappier than the other team.

It was quite clear when wecame off the first time we wantedto go back because we were be-hind,” Cook told reporters in thepost-match press conference.

“When we came off secondtime, when we were ahead, ifwe are all being honest we wouldhave quite liked it to have rainedfor another hour and we wouldn’thave had the last few overs,” hesaid.

“We ended up having to batfor the weather and with Duck-worth-Lewis ball by ball, it wasan extremely tough situation forboth the sides. I think it probablywas a fair result,” he added.

Cook lauded Ravi Bopara forhis 96-run knock that held theEngland innings.

“The way Ravi (Bopara), TimBresnan and Graeme Swann heldtheir nerves and got us almostover the line, and to win the se-ries because of it, makes us de-lighted.”

Bopara, who was caught on

the edge of the midwicket fenceby Ravindra Jadeja, though wasdisappointed with the result.

“It’s extremely disappointingthat we didn’t end up winning. Inever quite knew when to ac-celerate with the weather andbig black clouds lurking roundthe back there,” he said.

“But after Swanny got out, Iwasn’t thinking of just knockingit about – in case we left toomuch or ourselves – so I tookon the shot, and it didn’t comeoff.

“The fielder looked very casualat one stage and I thought ‘wellit’s gone over him then’. But hejust back-tracked and when itwas about 15 yards away fromhim, I knew he’s going to get ahand to this, so let’s hope heputs it down,” he added.

The batsman was more dis-appointed that he couldn’t winthe game for England than miss-ing out on his maiden ODI cen-tury.

“I’m just down that I didn’tfinish the game. I want to wingames for England, not tie gamesfor England.”

Stuart Broad was injured whilebowling the final over and it waslater learnt that he had strainedthe upper tricep of his bowlingarm. But the bowler was paddedup to bat if required.

“We don’t know how bad isthe injury. He will go for a scantonight or tomorrow and we’llsee how it settles down over thenext 24-48 hours.

“He was padded up, ready togo. I’m not sure how effectivehe would have been but with afew pain-killers he might havebeen alright.” PTI

Clinton: Fight against terroris a long‑term struggle

New York: The US and othernations of the world face a long-term struggle against the “mur-derous ideology” of terrorismthat has claimed innocent livesfrom London to Mumbai, andhave to ensure that terrorists aremade “irrelevant”, Secretary ofState Hillary Clinton said here.

Addressing a gathering at a‘Voices of September 11th’ event,Clinton said even though the UShas “thankfully” not witnessedanother terror attack following9/11, terrorists continue to takelives in countries across theworld.

“Even though the UnitedStates, thankfully, has not ex-perienced another attack since9/11, London has, Madrid has,Mumbai has, Islamabad has,Jakarta, Bali ? other places con-tinue to be attacked.

“We do have to recognise that

we are engaged in a long-termstruggle to face down and defeatthe murderous ideology that con-tinues to incite violence aroundthe world,” she said.

Clinton said America’s fightagainst terrorism did not endwith Osama bin Laden’s deathand the country will not restuntil all those who were part ofplanning and facilitating the at-tacks are “similarly brought tojustice”.

“I can tell you it was a partic-ular satisfaction for me, as a for-mer senator of New York, to bein the team in the Obama Ad-ministration that made sure binLaden was brought to justice”.

The US will use every tool inits arsenal, including never giv-ing up its right to use militaryforce, to capture and kill terroristsand disrupt cells and conspira-cies, she said.

“We do not just want to cap-ture and kill terrorist leaders.We want to make them irrele-vant. We want to prevent themfrom attracting new recruits. Wewant to end the attraction theyhave for young people,” sheadded.

US diplomats are out in thefield and in cyberspace exposingal-Qaeda’s hypocrisy and bru-tality and the enormous toll ithas inflicted on Muslims, Clintonsaid. These violent extremistsare not representing any religion,but are representing “evil andnihilism,” and they need to bestopped by all people, she said.

The state department is work-ing with a coalition of other na-tions to choke off the illicit fi-nancing networks that pay forterrorist training camps, propa-ganda and operations.

The US is helping build ca-

pacities of other nations to dealwith terrorist threats, besidestraining thousands of police andanti-terrorism officials across theglobe.

“We are creating new forumsfor nations to deepen our coun-terterrorism cooperation”.

Progress has been made butthe terror threats in New Yorkand Washington in the run upto the 9/11 anniversary are “onemore reminder that we still facedanger and we have to stay vig-ilant”.

“We have to keep our eye onwhat we are fighting against,but we also have to rememberwhat we are fighting for”.

Clinton had earlier in the dayvisited the 9/11 Memorial at theWorld Trade Centre site, termingit a place that helps people toreflect, remember and be closeto their loved ones. PTI

England’s Graeme Swann is run out by Munaf Patel during their one-day international cricket match at theLord’s in London yesterday.

Free laptops to be distributed in TN from this weekChennai: The ambitious free lap-top scheme of the Tamil Nadugovernment, in which 68 lakhlaptops are to be distributed togovernment-aided higher sec-ondary school and college stu-dents, is all set to get rolling thisweek.

Under the scheme, a pollpromise of Tamil Nadu ChiefMinister J Jayalalithaa that will

be launched on September 15,the government will distribute9.12 lakh laptops this year andthe balance in the next fouryears. Jayalalithaa had, in herelection manifesto, said that ifher party comes into power, itwould distribute free laptops togovernment schools and collegesfrom Sept 15, coincinding withformer chief minister C N An-

nadurai’s birth anniversary.The scheme, the first-of-its-

kind in the country, would beissued to students of govern-ment-aided higher secondaryschools, arts and science colleges,engineering colleges and poly-technic colleges.

While the whole project willentail a cost of Rs 10,200 crore,the government has allocated

Rs 912 crore for the distributionof the 9.12 lakh laptops in thefirst year, a senior governmentofficial said. For distribution, thegovernment has assigned Elec-tronic Corporation of Tamil Nadu(ELCOT) as the nodal agency,considering its rich experienceand performance on large-scaleprocurement.

For procurement of laptops,

ELCOT recently issued a globaltender for the 9.12 lakh laptopsto be supplied in the first phasein this financial year.

IT majors Hewlett-Packard andAcer have already supplied 4,000and 2,000 laptops respectivelyfor the Sept 15 launch, the officialsaid. For the remaining nine lakhlaptops, the bidding process isstill on, he added. PTI

Industrial growth fallsto meagre 3.3% in JulyNew Delhi: Industrial growth fell to a meagre3.3 percent in July this year on account ofpoor performance mainly by capital goods,manufacturing and mining sectors, reflectingsluggishness in the economy.

Growth in the factory output, as measuredin terms of the Index of Industrial Production(LIP), had stood at 9.9 percent in July lastyear.

During the April-July period of this fiscal,IIP growth stood at 5.8 percent, as against9.7 percent in the corresponding four-monthperiod last year.

Output of the manufacturing sector, whichconstitutes over 75 percent of the index,grew by only 2.3 percent in July comparedto 10.8 percent expansion in the same monthlast year, according the official data releasedtoday.

Production of capital goods declined by15.2 percent in July, in comparison to agrowth of 40.3 percent in the same monthof 2010.

The growth in mining production was2.8 percent in the month, down from 8.7percent in the same month last year.

Production of intermediate goods fell by1.1 percent during the month under reviewagainst a growth of 8.5 percent in July 2010.Consumer durables grew by 8.6 percent inJuly as compared to a growth of 14.8 percentin the corresponding month of last year.However, electricity production improvedwitnessing a growth of 13.1 percent in Julythis year as against a growth of 3.7 percentin July, 2010.

Non-durable consumer goods (FMCG)production also grew by 4.1 percent in July,compared to a decline of 0.9 percent in thesame month last year.

Meanwhile, the industrial growth numberfor June this year has been maintained atthe provisional figure of 8.8 percent. How-ever, the IIP numbers for April has been re-vised downward to 5.3 percent as per thefinal revision from the previous estimate of5.7 percent.

The fall the industrial production numbers,as shown by the latest data, suggest con-tinuation of the sluggishness in the economy,experts said.

The IIP had expanded by 5.9 percent inMay but there was brief revival in June withindustrial production growing by 8.8 per-cent.

India’s economy grew by 7.7 percent inthe April-June period, the slowest in sixquarters.

India Inc had attributed the slowdownto rising interest rates which have led to anincrease in the cost of borrowings, thus hin-dering fresh investments.

The Reserve Bank has hiked interest rates11 times since March 2010 to tame inflation.Headline inflation has been above the 9percent mark since December last year.

Mysore University celebrates freshersʼ dayMysore: Mysore university atManasgangotri conducted theirfreshers day program today. Thechief guests for the function wereProfessor S N Hegde, former vicechancellor of Mysore university;Professor V G Talwar, vice chan-cellor of Mysore university; Pro-fessor Lakappa Gowda, formervice chancellor of Hampi uni-versity.

Professor Hegde spoke on theoccasion, saying “Today, out ofevery hundred youth only 13-14% of them are opting for uni-versity courses. By the year 2030,this ratio should come up to 30%or at the very least 25%. Theplan for the year 2012 is that theuniversity is getting a grant of46 crore rupees. This will allowthe university to progress inmany ways. The education sys-tem in the country is vast withmore than 350 universities and

50,000 colleges, the problem isthat even though there are a lotof jobs, people are not ready totake up these jobs.

1.6 million jobs are being cre-ated in the year 2011.

They are mainly focused inthe areas of healthcare, con-struction, hospitality, education,media, vocational training etc.But people are thinking only ofIT jobs. The problem is that grad-uates do not have employmentability.

Their lack of skills is like hav-ing a license without a gun. Asof now the post graduate pro-gram is of 2 years length but infuture this may become 3 years.Indian universities should followthe format of universities of othercountries where everything isnot learnt from the lecturers. Inthese countries, the teaching isless but the experience of the

students is vast. In future, this university

should become more innovative.Last year at the Global Invest-ment Meet, the discussion wasabout 12 mega industries whichare coming up. These will createlarge number of jobs. A personwho has life skills can surviveanywhere.

The main skills that are re-quired are problem solving, lead-ership abilities, teamwork, com-munication skills and a mindsetfor learning and creativity.

All youth must possess thethree Es- Education, Employmentability and Employment. Stu-dents must not worry about thecourse they have opted for.

The main thing to rememberis confidence plus competenceequals performance. Youth mustkeep this in mind and hope forthe best.”

13th Karnataka Battalion, NCC Mysore Colonel R K Pant, group commander, NCC, MysoreLt Col U R S  Bisht, admin officer Lt Col Ajaya Mangotra, training officer, NCC GP, HQ

Mysore give start to a tree planting programme at Mysore today.

Tree planting programmeG S Ravishankar

Sensextanks

300 ptsMumbai: The benchmark Sensexof Bombay Stock Exchange fellby over 300 points in early tradeon Monday on continued sellingby funds and retail investors onfears of weak industrial produc-tion data for July to be releasedlater in the day.

Weak trend in the overseasmarkets on deepening debt crisisin the eurozone, was anotherdampening factor.

The 30-share index, whichhad lost 298.57 points in the pre-vious session, fell further by287.27 points, or 1.70 per cent, to16,579.70 in the first few minutesof trade

IT, banking, metal and autostocks led the fall.

At 11 am, the index was tradinglower by 302.62 points at 16,564.35points, with all sectoral indices,barring FMCG, in the negativezone.

The wide-based National StockExchange Nifty index alsoplunged by 88.65 points, or 1.75per cent, to trade below 5,000points level, at 4,970.80.

Brokers attributed the wide-spread losses in stocks to majorsell-off by funds ahead of therelease of index of industrialproduction (IIP) data for themonth of July later Monday,which is expected to be disap-pointing.

In addition, fears of anotherhike in the interest rate by theReserve Bank of India and aweakening trend on the Asianbourses in line with weekendlosses on the US and Europeanmarkets on deepening debt crisisin the eurozone, also dampenedthe trading sentiments here, theysaid.

In the Asian region, Japan’sNikkei index was trading 2 percent lower, while Hong Kong’sHang Seng Index tumbled 3.27per cent in early trade today. TheUS Dow Jones Industrial Averageclosed 2.69 per cent lower onFriday last. PTI

Toll in TNpolice firingup to seven

Paramakudi (TN): With twomore persons succumbing to in-juries at a hospital, the deathtoll in the police firing on a stone-pelting mob of Dalits, who in-dulged in violence following de-tention of their leader John Pan-dian, has risen to seven, policesaid today. Two persons identi-fied as Teerpukani and Vel-laichamy succumbed to injurieslate last night.

Beyond BeatMonday, September 12, 2011

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Better technologies are emerging that canprotect intellectual property and preventcounterfeiting and piracy, says DaveLow, head of the Intellectual Property Or-ganisation Hub, UK.

His views are supported by Praful Naik, chief sci-entific officer, Bilcare Ltd, Jim Simmons, seniormanager for brand protection, Qualcomm, andToby Simon, president and CEO, Synergia Foun-dation.

“Whatever may be the product, owners nowwant to protect them and earn revenues. In the UK,stringent laws protected intellectual property(IP). But they were not applicable to software, serv-ices and products. The Digital Economy Act (DEA)of 2010 was a defining act that changed it all. It de-fined software, services and products by protect-ing brands. The owners feel justified now,” saysLow.

Owners of these industries, who were scaredabout protection to their products, now feel jus-tified. Now the most advanced anti-counterfeitinglabelling, tracking and tracing technologies are inplace,” he says.

Praful Naik says, “Counterfeiters could beahead in duplicating products and hitting the mar-kets earlier to grab the markets by fooling cus-tomers. They could even be tampering with theoriginal technology to claim it as their own. Stillit helps all if we can trace who is doing it and howthey are engaged in counterfeiting activities.Though original owners could be at a loss, the bestoption also seems to be to surpass the counter-feiters without giving them a hint.”

He says, “Our solutions can be used to protectmost products with unique codes. Once a copyrightviolation is detected, a change in production linecan be opted for. A good number of revelationshave been made and solutions suggested to ourclients.”

Jim Simmons says, “According to our study con-ducted in 2009-2010, most copyright violations oc-cur in China, Brazil, India, Malaysia, Paraguay andVietnam. The reasons are well known; the skilledlabour is cheap and unemployment levels are high.The best way to prevent these violations is to optfor advanced technologies. At Qualcomm, wehave a separate counterfeiting prevention technicalteam.”

Toby Simon said, “The technology we have istrack and trace one. It is applicable for any prod-uct. Most of the companies which have opted forthe technology are from the pharmaceutical in-dustry.”

“The technology works like this: The softwaregenerates a random number that is stuck orprinted on the drug packing cover. The productnumber is then updated at our main server. Whena consumer buys this product, he can check its au-thenticity by typing down the number on the pack-et to the server. The reply would contain all detailsconcerning the product. This will help not just theowner, but also the manufacturer.”

Gene behindlong‑term back

pain ʻdiscoveredʼLondon: British scientists have discovered a“rogue gene” which they claim is responsible forlong-term back pain, a key breakthrough that maysoon pave the way for new and effective treatmentfor the condition.

A team at Cambridge University has identifiedthe gene, called HCN2, which it says will open upthe possibility of new drugs to block the proteinproduced by the gene, the ‘Daily Express’ report-ed.

For their study, the scientists removed theHCN2 gene from pain-sensitive nerves in mice. Bymeasuring speed that the mice withdrew from dif-ferent types of painful stimuli, they concluded thatdeleting the HCN2 gene abolished pain.

However, they found that deleting HCN2 did notaffect normal acute pain – which occurs suddenly,for example when biting one’s tongue – a factorthey said was important since this type of pain actsas a useful warning signal to the body.

Chronic pain comes in two main varieties andis an enormous health burden worldwide. In-flammatory pain occurs when a persistent injury,such as a burn, results in very sensitive nerve end-ings and increased pain. Neuropathic pain occurswhen nerves are damaged, causing ongoing pain.This type of chronic pain is often lifelong, say thescientists.

Lead author Professor Peter McNaughton said:“Individuals suffering from neuropathic pain of-ten have little or no respite because of the lack ofeffective medications. Our research lays thegroundwork for development of new drugs to treatchronic pain by blocking HCN2.

“Many genes play a critical role in pain sensa-tion, but in most cases interfering with them sim-ply abolishes all pain, or even all sensation.What is exciting about the work on the HCN2 geneis that removing it eliminates neuropathic painwithout affecting normal acute pain.

“This finding could be very valuable clinicallybecause normal pain sensation is essential foravoiding accidental damage,” he said.

The findings have been published in the ‘Sci-ence’ journal. PTI

Soon, Twitterfans can

tweet in HindiNew York: There is a good news for Twitter fansin India as popular micro-blogging site is all setto launch services in Hindi in the coming weeks.

Twitter, which came into existence five yearsago, now boasts of 100 million active users world-wide.

“After launching Hindi, Filipino, Malay and Sim-plified and Traditional Chinese in the comingweeks, Twitter will support 17 different lan-guages,” according to a company blog.

Both Twitter and social networking site Face-book have huge following in India. Among others,Facebook already offers its services in Hindi andfive other Indian languages – Tamil, Malayalam,Punjabi, Telugu and Bengali.

Going by estimates, Twitter has around 200 mil-lion registered users.

“For many, getting the most out of Twitter isn’tonly about tweeting: 40 per cent of our active userssimply sign in to listen to what’s happening in theirworld... Our 100 million active users range frompassionate early adopters to recent converts,” theblog dated September 8 said.

The micro-blogging site allows users to send messages, with a maximum of 140 characters.

Global leaders, film personalities, journalistsand sports people, including Indian cricketers, areamong the diverse Twitter users.

According to Twitter, 35 global heads of statesuch as Australia’s Julia Gillard and Argentina’sCristina Fernandez de Kirchner, use the site.

“More than 40 per cent of the top global religiousleaders are on Twitter, including @DalaiLama andthe Pope...,” the blog noted.

It said reporters share stories and photo from thefront lines on Twitter.

“Ordinary citizens break news and give us a viewwe might otherwise miss, like the now-famousSpace Shuttle image that was re-tweeted over 2,300times, and the first photo of the US Airwaysplane that landed in the Hudson River in 2009,”the blog said. PTI

TECH TO PROTECT IP, PREVENT PIRACY

Those who are at the vanguard fighting piracy say advanced technologies now available make it difficult to make counterfeit products. Any product company can make use of these technologies to protect their intellectual

property, says L Raghunanda

Beat EconomyContact

Sri Krishna: 98869 81559

Tele: 080-26609524/14ad.bangalorebeat@gmail.com

Computers will be 1000 times fasterLondon: Get ready for the next-generation com-puters and smartphones that are up to 1,000 timesfaster than the systems you use today.

Computer maker IBM is developing “sky-scraper” computers using huge sandwiches of sil-icon chips by sticking layer after layer of chips cov-ered with tiny components together.

The process, for which IBM has roped in gluemaker 3M, will make PCs and smartphones up to1,000 times faster than the existing ones and areexpected to be available in market as early as 2013.

3M currently makes heat resistant glues, ad-hesives used in the aerospace industry and stickytapes, but the hi-tech glues created for IBM couldactually be the key step towards making the nextevolutionary leap in computing, the Daily Mail re-ported.

The attempts at piling chips vertically – knownas 3D packaging – has so far been suffering fromoverheating. But, the new glues could potential-ly conduct heat through a stack of densely-packed chips and away from logic circuits thatcould be burnt out by the heat.

The research aims to create “stacks” of up to 100layers of silicon, the report said.

Mike Bowman, marketing manager for 3M, said:“This material fits underneath computer chipswhen they’re attached to printed circuit boards -- the unique part of what we’re doing is that ourglue conducts heat out to the edge of the sand-

wich.“Our glue will spread heat more evenly through

the chip. With conventional chips, with just one

or two layers, but once you’re stacking chips, theproblem can become very severe.”

According to the researchers, a ball of advancedadhesive is placed between layers of chips, al-lowing up to 100 chips to be stacked without over-heating.

“Today’s chips including those containing 3Dtransistors are in fact 2D chips that are still veryflat structures,” Bernie Meyerson, a vice presidentof IBM Research, said in a statement.

So far, most increases in computing power havebeen driven by scientific breakthroughs that al-low chip makers to etch ever-smaller circuits ontoever-smaller chip wafers. The new ‘3D’ approachcould accelerate gadgets such as tablet comput-ers to unheard-of new speeds.

“Our scientists are aiming to develop materi-als that will allow us to package tremendousamounts of computing power into a new form fac-tor – a silicon skyscraper,” said Meyerson.

“We believe we can advance this, and create anew class of semiconductors – faster, with low-er power usage, ideal for tablets and smart-phones.”

Other 3M glues are used in hi-tech industriessuch as solar power, as well as in markedly low-er-tech environments such as carpentry. Both com-panies did not speculate on a release date for thenew technology, but insiders said such versionscould be on the market as early as 2013. PTI

Helicopter parentsmake kids obese

London: “Helicopter parents”who hover over their children’severy move leave them at risk ofobesity by preventing healthyplay, a new study has claimed.

The North Carolina State Uni-versity study, which looked atfamilies in parks, found thatfussy parents who show toomuch concern while their chil-dren are playing actually causethem to be less active.

“Helicopter parents” often in-terrupted their children’s spon-taneous play, making them moresedentary, the researchers found.

Lead researcher Dr Jason Bo-carro said: “It’s a catch-22 for to-day’s parents, unfortunately.Many parents are worried aboutthe safety of their children, sothey tend to hover. The worry ishovering is keeping kids fromrunning around and playing withtheir friends and neighbours,and instead maybe sitting infront of the computer or televi-sion,” Dr Bocarro said.

The researchers studied 20parks in the US and classified ifchildren were “sedentary, mod-erately active or vigorously active”while playing.

The study, to be published inthe American Journal for Pre-ventive Medicine, found kidswith hovering parents were oftenstopped from engaging in vigor-ous activity. Based on the find-ings, the researchers hope toprovide guidance to designers ofpublic parks – like providingseat where parents can sit andwatch their children play.

Dr Bocarro said: “We chose tostudy parks because they havebeen identified by studies as crit-ical spaces within communitiesto help children stay active.

“They are free and accessibleand provide an opportunity to en-gage under-served and lower-income populations, whom datahave shown have a higher likeli-hood of being classified as inac-tive and obese,” he said. PTI

Chemical essential for life in meteoritesLondon: Scientists have found a key chemical essentialfor life from meteorite fragments, a discovery they saystrengthens the theory that life on Earth has come fromouter space.

Researchers from the University of Leeds havefound meteorite fragments contain a precursor to a keychemical that allows biological cells to capture ener-gy from their surroundings.

They believe that debris from meteorites that hit theEarth billions of years ago may have combined withslightly acidic water on the planet to produce earlyforms of the compound.

This would then have allowed the first forms of cel-lular life to form and to use energy from their sur-roundings, the Daily Telegraph reported.

Astrobiologist Dr Terry Kee, who led the research,said: “There is strong scientific evidence that chemi-cals essential to life have been found in interstellar ma-terial such as meteorites,”

“Meteorites are fragments of some of the oldest ma-terials in our solar system, and their composition can

hold clues as to the appearance and environment ofour own planet and what lived on it billions of yearsago.”

According to the researchers, the high reactivity ofpyrophosphate suggests that it fostered early chemi-cal reactions in the acidic, warm pools that sur-

rounded volcanoes.“The application of acidic water and heat to the me-

teorites mimics the conditions of ancient planetearth’s surface,” said Dr Kee.

“If corroded by acid rain, the chemical pyrophos-phate would be released from the meteorite into theearth itself.

This may suggest the origins of chemical cycles andcell formation on the early earth.”

However, the researchers distanced themselvesfrom NASA scientist Richard Hoover, who claimed tohave discovered extraterrestrial microfossils in a col-lection of meteorites three times in the last 14 years.

Dr Kee said: “We’re not attempting to prove the ex-istence of extraterrestrial life forms as such; we are con-centrating upon the origins of earth’s chemicalprocesses, and why they evolved into life forms as theydid. “We believe that life did not evolve independently.There is a very good chance that extraterrestrial ma-terials provided the building blocks of life on earth.”PTI

London: Soon-to-be mothers pleasenote: You can cut the chances of yourbaby developing food allergies by eat-ing a diet rich in oily fish and nuts,scientists say.

Researchers from France’s NationalAgricultural Research Institute (INRA)discovered that omega-3 fatty acids –found in fish like salmon, mackereland tuna, as well as walnuts, pumpkinseeds and linseeds – prompt the gutto develop in a way that boosts theimmune system.

The researchers found that whenmothers-to-be ate a diet high in a par-ticular group of polyunsaturated fattyacids (PUFAs), the gut walls of theiroffspring were more permeable.

This allowed more broken downfood substances and germs to passinto the bloodstream, triggering thebaby’s immune system to produceantibodies, the Daily Telegraph re-ported.

Dr Gaelle Boudry, from the INRA,explained: “Our study identifies thata certain group of polyunsaturatedfatty acids causes a change in how a

baby’s gut develops, which in turnmight change how the gut immunesystem develops.

“The end result is that the baby’simmune system may develop and ma-

ture faster – leading to better immunefunction and less likelihood of suf-fering allergies.”

According to the researchers, foodallergy is a growing problem now,with the number of related hospitaladmissions in Britain rising six-foldsince 1990.

A recent study from the Isle ofWight found that one in 20 childrendid have an allergy. It also found evi-dence that the real incidence wasgrowing.

Allergy experts do not really knowwhat is behind the rise. One theory isthe “hygiene hypothesis” – that ashomes have become cleaner, chil-dren’s immune systems now haveless chance to develop fully.

More and more attention is alsobeing paid to the role of early exposureto foods, both in the first years of lifeand in the womb.

Dr Boudry said: “There is intenseresearch interest in maternal diet dur-ing pregnancy. In the Western diet,the group of polyunsaturated fattyacids that we have shown to help gut

function are actually disappearing –our dietary intake of fish and nut oilsis being replaced by corn oils whichcontain a different kind of fatty acid.”

Their research, published in TheJournal of Physiology, added to evi-dence that consuming such fatty acidsin pregnancy was beneficial for babies,she claimed.

“Other studies have found that adiet containing fish or walnut oil dur-ing pregnancy may make your babysmarter – our research adds to this,suggesting such supplements also ac-celerate the development of a healthyimmune system to ward off food al-lergies.”

She emphasised that their studywas in pigs, but the research groupbelieve the animal’s intestine is an“excellent model of the human gut”.

In the study, pregnant and lactatingsows were given a dietary supple-mentation of linseed oil. The perme-ability of their offsprings’ intestinalwalls was than compared with thatof piglets from sows not given thesupplement. PTI

NEWS & FEATURESMonday, September 12, 2011 6

A girl attends an Orthodox service at StCatherine in remembrance of the

ictims of the September 11, 2001 terrorattacks, Moscow, yesterday. Sundaymarked the tenth anniversary of the

attacks of September 11, 2001.

AP-PTI

world briefs

British policerescue slaves

from travellersʼ site

London: British police raided a travellers’site to rescue 24 men they said had beenheld as slaves and forced to live in squalor,some for up to 15 years.

More than 200 officers from BedfordshirePolice entered the Green Acres caravan sitein Leighton Buzzard, northwest of Londonyesterday, and arrested four men and onewoman, all residents on the site, on suspi-cion of slavery offences.

Police said the freed men were mostlyEnglish, with some of eastern Europeanorigin. Detectives said they were all vul-nerable – either homeless or alcoholics –and had been recruited by “gangmasters”offering money, the BBC reported.

Bedfordshire Police force had conducteda long-running investigation into suggestionsthat the men were being held against theirwill in poor conditions and forced to workfor no pay.

“The men we found at the site were in apoor state of physical health and the con-ditions they were living in were shockinglyfilthy and cramped,” said Detective ChiefInspector Sean O’Neil, from the Bedfordshireand Hertfordshire major crime unit.

“We believe that some of them had beenliving and working there in a state of virtualslavery, some for just a few weeks andothers for up to 15 years.”

He added: “They’re recruited and told ifyou come here we’ll pay you – 80 ( 125, 95euros) a day, we’ll look after you give youboard and lodgings.

“But when they get here, their hair iscut off them, they’re kept in in some cases(in) horseboxes, dog kennels and old cara-vans, made to work for no money, givenvery, very small amounts of food.

“That’s the worst case. Some are treateda little bit better, but they were told theycould not leave and if they did they wouldbe beaten up and attacked.

“But in fact some people did leave andtold us what was going on and when welooked back since 2008 we were aware of28 people who had made similar accusa-tions.”

The rescued men have been taken to amedical centre.

“Some of these people have come offcovered in excrement and dirty clothingbecause that was all they were allowed tolive in,” O’Neil told BBC television.

“After being cared for, given food andfresh clothing, we hope to then interviewthem. That in itself will take a long timebecause these people are institutionalised.

“One person we know has been here 15years – so to him this is normal life.” AFP

Man arrested in LA after false

bomb alertLos Angeles: A man has been arrested inLos Angeles for making terror threats andtriggering a false bomb alert aboard a bus,officials said as the United States com-memorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

Eugenio Parades boarded a city bus lateon Saturday, holding a bag with “wires ex-posed that looked like (an explosive) device,”said Los Angeles County Sheriff’s DeputyTony Moore yesterday.

The 62-year-old “was making threats to-ward the driver,” he added without providingfurther details.

According to a bus passenger, green andgray wires were protruding from the bag,to which an object resembling a countdowndevice was attached.

The bus was evacuated and it took au-thorities four hours to determine that thebag was harmless.

Paredes was arrested at the site on sus-picion of making a terrorist threat and pos-sessing a hoax device, Sheriff’s DeputyGuillermina Saldana said.

Meanwhile, officials shut down part of aterminal and the main access road at theKansas City, Missouri airport yesterday afterscreeners spotted a suspicious item in acarry-on bag. The bag’s owner was “unco-operative,” prompting officials to detainhim and call in the bomb squad, airportspokesman Joe McBride told AFP.

“The devices have been checked out andthere’s no explosives, so at this point we’reawaiting the all-clear,” McBride said.

In several ceremonies held under tightsecurity, the United States was commemo-rating the 10th anniversary of the September11 attacks as officials warned of a new ter-rorism threat. Washington’s Dulles Airportwas partially evacuated for four hours onthe eve of the anniversary on Saturday aftera suspicious object was found. AP

Exercise helpsstem cells to

become bonesWashington: Here’s yet anotherreason why should should ex-ercise regularly – working outtriggers influential stem cells tobecome bone, instead of fat, saysa new study.

Researchers at McMaster Uni-versity, who carried out thestudy, has claimed that this alsohelps in improving the overallhealth of a person by boostingthe body’s capacity to makeblood.

The body’s mesenchymal stemcells are most likely to becomefat or bone, depending on whichpath they follow.

Using treadmill-conditionedmice, the researchers haveshown that aerobic exercise trig-gers those cells to become bonemore often than fat. The miceran less than an hour, threetimes a week, enough time tohave a significant impact ontheir blood production.

In sedentary mice, the samestem cells were more likely tobecome fat, impairing blood pro-duction in the marrow cavitiesof bones. “The interesting thingwas that a modest exercise pro-gram was able to significantlyincrease blood cells in the mar-row and in circulation. Whatwe’re suggesting is that exerciseis a potent stimulus – enough

of a stimulus to actually triggera switch in the mesenchymalstem cells,” the researchers said.

The composition of cells inthe bone marrow cavity has animportant influence on the pro-ductivity of blood stem cells.

In ideal conditions, blood stemcells create healthy blood thatboosts the immune system, per-mits the efficient uptake of oxy-gen, and improves the ability toclot wounds.

Bone cells improve the climatefor blood stem cells to makeblood. But when fat cells startto fill the bone marrow cavity,blood stem cells become lessproductive and conditions suchas anemia can result.

The findings, published in the‘Journal of the Federation ofAmerican Societies for Experi-mental Biology’, add to the grow-ing list of established benefitsof exercise, and suggest novelnon-medicinal treatments forblood-related disorders may bein the future, say the researchers.

“Some of the impact of exer-cise is comparable to what wesee with pharmaceutical inter-vention. Exercise has the abilityto impact stem cell biology. It has the ability to influencehow they differentiate,” theysaid. PTI

Magnets can help extract truth: ScientistsLondon: Scientists have foundthat magnetic interference withthe brain makes it impossible tolie, a discovery they say couldbe the most effective way to ex-tract information from crime sus-pects unwilling to tell the truth.

Estonian researchers foundthat stimulating part of the frontbrain with magnets alters thesimplicity of lying.

The team found that whenmagnets were applied to eitherthe right or left side of the dor-solateral prefrontal cortex, founddirectly behind the forehead, itmakes a person to lie or tell thetruth, depending on which sidewas stimulated.

However, magnetic interfer-ence directed at another part ofthe brain, the parietal lobe, wasfound to have no impact on thepeople’s decision-making, theresearchers said.

“Spontaneous choice to liemore or less can be influencedby brain stimulation,” study re-searchers Inga Karton and TalisBachmann were quoted as sayingby the Daily Mail.

For their study, published inthe journal Behavioural BrainResearch, the researchers re-cruited a small group of 16 vol-

unteers who were given coloureddisks.

Then, half of them were givenmagnetic stimulation on the rightside of their prefrontal cortex,half on the left.

They then had two options:to lie about what colour theirdisks were, or tell the truth.

Results showed that the vol-unteers who had their left DPCstimulated lied more often, whilethe ones with the right DPC stim-ulated were more likely to tellthe truth.

The experiment was repeatedwhile a different brain region --the parietal lobe --was stimulatedand it produced no effect, theresearchers said.

Last year, scientists at theMassachusetts Institute of Tech-nology had found that magnetscan also be used to disrupt thebrain’s “moral compass”.

Obama: US will neverwage war against IslamWashington: Ten years after the USlaunched war against terrorism, in par-ticular those of al Qaeda and the Taliban,President Barack Obama has said Amer-ica was not and never would be at warwith Islam or any other religion.

“These past 10 years underscore thebonds between all Americans. We havenot succumbed to suspicion and mis-trust. After 9/11, President (George)Bush made clear what we reaffirm today:the United States will never wage waragainst Islam or any religion. Immigrantscome here from all parts of the globe,”Obama said.

“In the biggest cities and the smallesttowns, in our schools and workplaces,you still see people of every conceivablerace, religion and ethnicity – all of thempledging allegiance to one flag; all ofthem reaching for the same Americandream – e pluribus unum, out of many,we are one,” Obama said.

Obama said these 10 years haveshown that Americans hold fast to theirfreedoms. “Yes, we are more vigilantagainst those who threaten us, andthere are inconveniences that comewith our common defense,” he said.

“Debates – about war and peace;about security and civil liberties – haveoften been fierce. But it is precisely therigor of these debates, and our abilityto resolve them in a way that honorsour values, that is a measure of ourstrength,” Obama said in his speech atthe Kennedy Center here, capping hisday-long 9/11 memorial events that tookhim to the Ground Zero in New York,Shanksvile in Pennsylvania and thePentagon.

“Meanwhile, our open markets stillprovide innovators with the chance tocreate, our citizens are still free to speak

their minds, and our souls are still en-riched in our churches and temples,our synagogues and mosques,” the USPresident said, adding that these past10 years tell a story of resilience.

“The Pentagon is repaired, and filledwith patriots working in common pur-pose. Shanksville is the scene of friend-ships forged between residents of thattown, and families who lost loved onesthere,” he said.

“New York remains a vibrant capitalof the arts and industry, fashion andcommerce. Where the World Trade Cen-ter once stood, the sun glistens off anew tower that reaches toward the sky.

“Our people still work in skyscrapers.Our stadiums are filled with fans, andour parks full of children playing ball.

Our airports hum with travel, andour buses and subways take millions

where they need to go.“Families sit down to Sunday dinner,

and students prepare for school. Thisland pulses with the optimism of thosewho set out for distant shores, and thecourage of those who died for humanfreedom,” Obama said.

He said when decades from now,Americans will visit the memorials tothose who were lost on 9/11, they willrun their fingers over the places wherethe names of those we loved are carvedinto marble and stone, and wonder atthe lives they led. “Standing before thewhite headstones in Arlington, and inpeaceful cemeteries and small-townsquares in every corner of our country,they will pay respects to those lost inAfghanistan and Iraq. They will see thenames of the fallen on bridges and stat-ues; at gardens and schools,” he said.

Agree or not, managershave bigger brains

Washington: Staffersagree or not, managersdo have bigger brains,says a new study.

An international teamhas carried out the studyand found that manag-ing other people at worktriggers structuralchanges in the brain,protecting its memoryand learning centre wellinto old age.

Researchers, led bythe University of NewSouth Wales, have, infact, for the first time,identified a clear linkbetween managerial experiencethroughout a person’s workinglife and the integrity and largersize of one’s hippocampus – thebrain’s area responsible for learn-ing and memory – at 80.

“We found a clear relationshipbetween the number of employ-

ees a person may have super-vised or been responsible forand the size of the hippocam-pus,” said Dr Michael Valen-zuela, who led the team.

“This could be linked to theunique mental demands of man-aging people, which requires

continuous problem solv-ing, short term memoryand a lot of emotionalintelligence, such as theability to put yourself inanother person’s shoes.Over time this couldtranslate into the struc-tural brain changes weobserved,” he added.

Using MRI imagery ina cohort of 75-92 year-olds, the researchersfound larger hippocam-pal volumes in those withmanagerial experiencecompared to those with-out, even after account-

ing for any of a number of alter-native explanations.

While many male participantsfollowed traditional managementcareer paths, the effect was alsoseen in women who had takenon managerial roles in nursingor teaching, for example. PTI

Manʼs earliest ancestor found?

London: Palaeontologists have unearthed the remainsof a primitive ape-like creature which they believecould be the man’s earliest ancestor that lived almosttwo million years ago.

The hominin, named Australopithecus sediba, wasdiscovered in a cave in South Africa and has beendubbed the “missing link” between apes and hu-mans.

Now new details about its brain, pelvis, hands andfeet made it clear that our ancient relative displayedboth primitive characteristics as well as more modern,human-like traits, the Daily Mail reported.

Because of these features, scientists suspect thehominin is the best candidate for an ancestor to theHomo genus, the researchers said.

“The many advanced features found in the brainand body, along with the earlier date, make it possiblythe best candidate ancestor for our genus -- the genusHomo -- more so than previous discoveries, such asHomo habilis (the earliest known human),” said DrLee Berger, of Witwatersrand University in Johannes-burg, who led the project.

According to five new papers published in thejournal Science, Au. sediba, walked on two legs andhad hips similar to modern humans, but still hadsome primitive fea-tures, such as longerarms and a smallerbrain.

It had the mostcomplete hands everdescribed in an earlyhominin, one of themore completepelvises ever discov-ered and brand newpieces of the footand ankle.

The age of these fossils has been calculated toabout 1.977 million years which pre-dates the earliestappearances of Homo-specific traits in the fossilrecord. Until now, fossils dated to 1.9 million yearsago – and mostly attributed to Homo habilis andHomo rudolfensis – have been considered ancestralto Homo erectus, the earliest undisputed human an-cestor. Au. sediba hit headlines last year after a scien-tist’s nine-year-old son found the partial skeleton of a60-pound 10 to 13-year-old male during a dig at a siteknown as Malapa.

Further exploration led to the discovery of the re-mains for an adult female in her late 20s or early 30sweighing around 73 pounds.

Both the female and the young male were identifiedas being members of the new Australopithecus species,with sediba meaning “wellspring”.

Since then, fossils of at least 25 animals, includingsabre-toothed cats, a wildcat, a brown hyena, a wilddog and a horse, were also found in the cave, whichresearchers believe acted like a “death trap” for indi-viduals seeking water.

The now fossilised woman and boy appear to have“taken a significant fall” before plunging, or beinglater washed by rainwater, around 164 feet. Theirbodies were then buried by a roof cave-in. PTI

240 killed asferry sinks in Tanzania

Stone Town (Tanzania): Morethan 240 people were killed whena crowded ferry sank off Tanza-nia’s coast and some 600 havebeen rescued, officials said yes-terday, figures that indicate theboat was filled beyond capaci-ty.

Assistant police commissionerMussa Ali Mussa, the head ofpolice in Zanzibar, said yesterdaythat at least 240 people diedwhen the ferry sank early onSaturday. His comments werebroadcast by state-owned chan-nel TBC.

Relatives had claimed 192 bod-ies and 28 more were awaitingidentification today, said Mo-hammed Aboud Mohammed,the minister for state in the vicepresident’s office on the islandof Zanzibar. He said around 600people had been rescued so farand that the government wasstill looking for the vessel’s cap-tain.

“The government is holdingthe chief engineer for questioningin order to gather details,” said

Mohammed. “The captain of theferry is still missing and the gov-ernment doesn’t know preciselythe owner of the ferry.”

Survivors said the MV SpiceIslanders, which sank near thetourist destination of Zanzibar,was well beyond its official ca-pacity of 600 passengers. Manyresidents angrily asked why theboat had been allowed to leaveport so overloaded.

The bodies were taken to asports field, where imams saidprayers and the bodies werewashed and wrapped in whiteaccording to Islamic custom. Thegovernment is paying for all fu-neral costs, Mohammed said.

Weeping families walkedamong them looking for theirloved ones, falling into each oth-ers’ arms if they recognised arelative or neighbour. Most ofthe corpses were wrapped incloth with a photo of the faceplaced on the front. Some of theship’s passengers were mutilatedwhen cargo fell on top of themwhen the boat began to list. AP

Intel probesmessages on

FacebookWashington: The Secret Serviceis investigating three threateningmessages that were posted onthe White House’s Facebookpage.

The messages included a pic-ture of Osama bin Laden. Onesaid, “We’ll come back 11/9/2011to kill u all.” Another showed

small plane icons and said, “To-day we’ll come 11/9/2011.”

Secret Service spokesman EdDonovan says the agency hasreferred the messages to its In-ternet threat desk. Donovan saysthe Secret Service has a processin place to handle the wide spec-trum of Internet threats, socialmedia posts and tweets broughtto the attention of officials.

The White House referred allquestions to the Secret Service.The messages were first reportedby WNBC in New York. AP

Motherʼs diet influences babyʼs allergy risk

Syrian activistʼs killing flayedWashington: The United Stateshas strongly condemned thekilling of Syrian human rightsactivist Ghiyath Mattar while inthe custody of security forces.

Ghiyath, along with leadingactivist Yahya Sharbaji and anumber of other human rightsactivists committed to non-vio-

lent resistance, was detained onSeptember 6.

“Ghiyath Mattar’s courage inthe face of the Asad regime’s re-pression is well known in hishome of Daraya and across Syria.His brave commitment to con-fronting the regime’s despicableviolence with peaceful protest

serves as an example for the Syr-ian people and for all those whosuffer under the yoke of oppres-sion,” state department spok -esperson Victoria Nuland said.

US stands with the Syrian peo-ple in their resistance againsttyranny, the State Departmentsaid. PTI

New Libya govtwithin 10 days

Tripoli: A new transitional gov-ernment will be formed in Libyawithin 10 days, the deputy chiefof the National TransitionalCouncil told reporters.

“A new government will beformed within one week to tendays,” said Mahmud Jibril yes-terday, who serves as the “primeminister” of the NTC, the politicalwing of the rebellion that over-threw strongman MuammarGaddafi. “This new governmentwill include representatives fromdifferent regions in Libya,” Jibrilsaid.

Rebel forces are still “in theprocess of liberating Libya, andrevolutionary combatant are stillon the fronts,” Jibril added, re-ferring in particular to Bani Walidand Sirte, where regime loyalistsare still holding out.

He said that another govern-ment will be formed once “Libya

is liberated.”Jibril also hailed the “liberation

of Tripoli without bloodshed”last month.

“We were expecting a blood-bath, but this was prevented bythe maturity of the revolution-aries who were able to securethe capital,” he said. AFP

Mahmud Jibril

A US army flight medic Sgt. Daniel Chavez, left, and Sfc David Bibb holdup the American flag on top of a helicopter to commemorate the tenth

anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan yesterday.

AP-PTI

LIFESTYLE 7Monday, September 12, 2011

David Beckham cuts hisown hair. The soccer acehas sported a number of

daring hairstyles during his ca-reer, including a Mohawk, anda shaved head, but insists hedoesn’t spend a great deal ofmoney on his hairstyles, andalways makes a spur of themoment decision on whetherchange his locks.

He told GQ magazine: “Peopletry to read too much into it.Over the years they’ve said I’vespent £2,000 on a hairstyle,

which I’ve never done. Either afriend has cut it or I do it myself.“Sometimes, I wake up and I’mbored of it, I want to shave itoff. It literally is a spur of themoment decision. And I don’tthink of anything apart fromwhether I am happy with it.”

The 36-year-old hunk — whois married to fashion designerVictoria Beckham, with whomhe has four children — is cur-rently happy with a quiffed hair-style, and although he couldchange it any moment, he said.

Demi Moore tweetsʻtopless photoʼp of herself

Guitars, clothing and lyrics fromGeorge Harrison’s collectionare to be exhibited in Los An-

geles to coincide with the release ofMartin Scorsese’s new film aboutthe late Beatle.

The Grammy Museum in Los An-geles will mount a major exhibitionon the life and music of Harrisonnext month, titled George Harrison:Living in the Material World – whichis also the name of Scorsese’s film.

The museum is working closelywith Harrison’s widow, Olivia Har-rison and his son Dhani, in puttingtogether what is being described asthe first major look at Harrison, ac-cording to the Los Angeles Times.

The exhibition, which opens on11 October, features memorabiliafrom Harrison’s years with the Bea-tles, his solo career and the time hespent as a member of supergroupthe Traveling Wilburys.

The show will also feature never-before-seen photographs taken byHarrison.

S imon Cowell’s girlfriendMezhgan Hussainy`sfamily wants him to con-

vert to Islam before their mar-riage, says a report.

The “American Idol” judgehad proposed to Hussainy lastweek.

“They`re very westernised,but no one in their family hasever married a non-Muslim –and they`re not willing fortheir youngest daughter to be-come the first,”digitalspy.co.uk quoted asource as saying about Hus-sainy`s parents Mary andSayed.

Reportedly, Hussainy`s sis-ter-in-law Erlene Garcia wasalso asked to convert beforemarrying her brother Wahid.

According to Hussainy`sfriend, “Mezhgan is very re-luctant about asking Simonto convert…and she knowshow controversial it will be.”

“Simon might be a big dealin the UK, but there are otherpeople in the Afghan commu-nity in Los Angeles who herparents will be more afraid ofoffending. It would bringshame on their family andcommunity if Simon did notrespect their beliefs,” the friendadded.

MADONNA REFUSES TO LOOK BACK

Brad Pitt believes that themovie business is aboutto change and that the

age of film making dominatedby big studios is over.

Speaking to holly-woodreporter.com at the Toron-to Film Festival the HollywoodA-lister said “Now as we seethe digital camera on the riseand people being able to makefilms on their own in a rene-gade style, we will see moretalent that may not have got achance before.” He also com-mented on how he feels thatthe current studio system needsto be constantly evolving andtrying to improve “Becausewe’ve been doing somethingthe same way, for so long, doesthat mean it’s alright for today.We can’t stop questioning thecontext of how decisions aremade at the time.” The Mr &Mrs. Smith star was speakingahead of the release of his newmovie Moneyball which is thestory of Billy Beane, a baseballcoach that brings success tothe Oakland Athletics’ on alow budget using a systembased on statistics.

HARRISON Memorabiliato go on show

DAVID BECKHAM CUTS OWN HAIR

The 53-year-old singer will celebrate 30years in the music industry in 2012 andwhile she has led an interesting, and

sometimes controversial, life she refuses toregret anything she’s done as she’s onlyfocused on the future.

She said: “I don’t think much about thepast, to tell you the truth. I’m too busy lookingforward.”

Madonna - who is currently promoted newmovie ‘W.E.’, which she directed – also sayspeople should stop worrying about havingthe perfect life and be content with whatthey’ve got.

The mother-of-four told the Daily Recordnewspaper: “Stop striving for perfection

because there is no such thing. We haveto look beneath the surface and I think

that we can’t take it personally and lit-erally. We can’t judge a book by its

cover, you have to read the book.“How do you expect to know aperson? You can’t expect to

know who they are by readingan article in a magazine

about them. We live in asociety that is obsessedwith celebrities and it’s

pretty easy to get famousvery quickly now. I so I

think there is an obsessionwith celebrity and people

mistake getting to photographsomebody in their backyard,

playing on the swings with theirchildren, as actually some kind of in-

timacy. But it’s an illusion.”

Demi Moore has taken tofavourite celebrity con-troversy-raising portal

Twitter to cause a storm all ofher own. AceShowbiz reportsthat the 48 year old actressposted a “topless photo” ofherself via Twitpic that senther almost 4 million followerscrazy.

Moore has posed nude ear-lier. In 1991, she bared all forVanity Fair when fully preg-nant. The picture she postedlate on Thursday night is onlyof her naked back taken infront of a bathroom mirror.

Accompanying the photowith the caption“remember...you’ve got yourown back,” Moore, whose Twit-ter handle is @mrskutcher, re-ceived a huge response. Shereplied to one of her fans, Thisis “to remember to be yourown best friend to find light &protection from within your-self.” She also agreed with an-other who claimed “if you don’twatch your own back, whywould you expect anyone elseto do it for you?”.

Of late Moore has been film-ing ‘LOL,’ alongside MileyCyrus.

Brad Pitt Believes themovie system is changing

KEVINSpacey Has To

Like Queen

Kevin Spacey says he has to like Britain’sQueen Elizabeth because she made himan honorary Commander of the Order

of the British Empire.Kevin Spacey says he has to like Britain’s

Queen Elizabeth because she gave him anhonour.

The American actor – who is currentlyserving a 10-year stint as artistic directorof London’s Old Vic Theatre – wasmade an honorary Commander of theOrder of the British Empire for his serv-ices to drama by the monarch’s eldestson Prince Charles last year, and heloves the royal family as a result. Askedif he is a fan of the British royal family,Kevin told BANG Showbiz: “Are you kiddingme? The queen made me a CBE last year, I’vegot to be a huge fan of her. How could I be anythingelse?”

Kevin is a charity ambassador for The Prince’s Trustof which Charles is president and was thrilled to beasked to take part in the new American Express BeInspired campaign which will give 50p to the charityevery time someone shares their inspirations via twitteror Facebook. He said: “I have long been a supporter ofThe Prince’s Trust and so when American Express askedme to launch ‘Amex Be Inspired’ and help young peoplebuild their confidence and fulfil their potential, I wasdelighted to get involved.”

Will Cowell Convert to Islam to Marry Mezhgan?

JESSICA: I FEEL MENLOOKING A 85 TIMEARE UNDRESSING

Jamie Foxx will take partin the upcoming MichaelJackson tribute concert,

TMZ.com said.The 43-year-old actor and

singer will appear live inWales where the Octobershow is due to take place.Foxx joins other stars suchas Christina Aguleria, Cee-Lo and Motown legendSmokey Robinson. Alsobooked to perform in thetribute show is R&B super-star Beyonce, although re-cently announcing that sheis pregnant, at the 2011 MTVVMA awards, it has notstopped her from contribut-ing. Beyonce will performsomething special, accord-ing to a source speaking toTMZ.com. The audience canexpect "a unique, never be-fore seen performance". Thismonth also sees Dr ConradMurray go on trial for themanslaughter of the Thrillerstar following his surprisedeath in 2009.

Jamie Foxx to take partin MJ tribute concert

Monday, September 12, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

Russell Crowe signson for Les Miserables

Russell Crowe is to joinHugh Jackman in themovie adaptation of

hit musical Les Miserables.Crowe has been in talks

to play Inspector Javert inthe project for months, andnow sources tell trade paperVariety he has signed onfor the role.

The King's Speech's TomHooper will direct the film,which has a release dateof 12 December, 2012.

Although not known forhis musical skills, Crowedid front rock band ThirtyOdd Foot of Grunts.

Reports suggest Jackmanis trying to persuade AnneHathaway to sign on to playprostitute Fantine in themovie musical.

My Father is a Liar:LINDSAY LOHAN

P eter Andre doesn't want to haveany more children. The 38-year-old pop star believes his two

kids, Junior, six, and Princess Tiaamii,four, with his ex-wife Katie Price, areenough for him and thinks it will beunlikely that he will have a baby inthe future.

Peter – who has also acted as astepfather to Katie's nine-year-oldson Harvey from a previous relation-ship – said: "Part of me craves to getmarried again. But having kids? I'mnot so sure. I wanted so many when Ihad the first two but now I don'tknow. I originally wanted six! I'm oneof six and my dad is one of 12!"

Even if Peter – who is currentlysingle – meets the right woman hestill doesn't think he would changehis mind and have another child

He added: "I just think I'm donenow. I don't know - if I meet the rightgirl I could possibly want to do it allover again. But I would really have tobe in love and want to get married."

Even though Peter and Katie – whois now dating Argentinean model Le-andro Penna – are divorced he stillconsiders Harvey his son.

He said: "I know Harvey is myadopted son, but he is in my heart."

Meena

Dame Judi Dench was prom-ised she would be "thesexiest woman on set" if

she signed up to Jane Eyre.The actress plays Mrs. Fairfax

in the new adaptation of the clas-sic Charlotte Bronte novel, anddirector Cary Fukunaga – whoalso cast Mia Wasikowska andMichael Fassbender in the movie– admits he only got her to signup after flattering her in a per-sonal note he sent.

He said: "I knew Judy's agentfrom a trip that I had done toSarajevo and she told me thatJoe Wright had convinced her tobe in 'Pride and Prejudice' bysending her a personal note andthat she appreciates humour.

"So I sent her a little note andI promised her that she'd be thesexiest woman on set if she didthe film. It was done in a funnyway and wasn't cheesy at all."

Despite working on the ro-mantic classic, Cary admits hisnext project 'Spaceless' will seehis focus shift to a more unhappysubject. He told The Guardian'sFilm360 magazine: "Whilst myfirst two films have been aboutcompanionship, I think the nextlevel is what happens what you'vefound it.

"What would have happenedto Romeo and Juliet if they hadn'tkilled themselves? They wouldprobably have found out theydidn't get on so well."

Anne Hathaway ac-cepted her role in'One Day', knowing

fans of the book could bedisappointed with her per-formance.

The Oscar-nominated ac-tress – who stars along JimSturgess in the highly-an-ticipated movie adaptationof David Nicholl's romanticnovel – was surprised whenshe learned how highly re-garded her character Emmais and understood noteveryone was going to likeher performance.

She told Bang Showbiz:"Well I didn't realise howdeeply loved the characterwas when I signed on toplay Emma. I wish I didn'treally know! It became evenlarger when people keptasking me, 'So you're play-ing Emma? Will you be do-ing this with the character?Will you be doing that?'I'm like, 'Oh my gosh, peo-ple know every word of thisbook!'

"I quickly realised I wasgoing to disappoint a lot ofpeople. People have theirown idea about who thesecharacters are and how theyact and how they sound."

However, the brunettebeauty did struggle to dealwith the criticism andweight of expectation.

She added: "I'm a booklover. I feel possessive ofmy beloved stories as well,but I am also a movie lover.I know that there are thingsyou can do on screen thatyou can't do with a book.Often times, a book will bewonderful in a differentway.

Anne felt pressureon ʻOne Dayʼ set

JUDI DENCHgiven sexy Promise

A ctress Drew Barrymore, who isknown to previously indulge in’successful phone sex’, now hates

phone sex and prefers face-to-face inter-action with her lovers.

The “Charlie’s Angels” star, 35, previ-ously dated drummer Fabrizio Morettiand was married to actor Tom Green, butmore recently she has been in an on-offrelationship with Justin Long, reports dai-lystar.co.uk.

“Oh, I have had successful phone sex– it can work. I think it is weird – it issuper weird,” said Barrymore.

“I totally tried it, though, with a littlesuccess at one point in my life, but it wasjust a thing you try, like wearing orangefor a while. I don’t think it’s something Icould live my life with,” she added.

DREW BARRYMORE HATES PHONE SEX

Peter Andredoesn't want

more kids

Actress Lindsay Lo-han has called her father a

liar for telling the press she contactedhim during his recent stint in hospital.According to the Imdb.com reports Lindsay,

who earlier accused her father of worseningher problems by going public with his views,

was said to have been back in touch with her dadafter he was admitted to hospital earlier this monthwith a heart complaint.

He said that his daughter had sent him a textmessage to enquire about his health, but she’s

adamant his claims are not true.In a post on her Twitter account, shewrites, “My father is a liar… is all

false!”

J essica Simpson feels menimagine undressing her afterex-boyfriend John Mayer

compared her to “sexual na-palm” in an interview.

She revealed that she felt un-comfortable when she is in pub-lic.

“I`ll walk into a restaurantand I feel like men are lookingat me. I feel like they’re undress-ing me,” the New York DailyNews quoted her as saying on‘The View’.

Simpson refused to forgivehim and dismissed Mayer’s apol-ogy by saying “He`ll never have

this napalm again!”