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Chamundi commandos,Force atop hill

Chamundi commandos is a specially trainedforce drawn from different departments ofMysore police. They are being stationed atall crowded places where there could be apossible attack, says Karthik H S Page 5

Beyond Beat

BMTC MD K R Srinivas, transport department principal secretary M K Shankarlinge Gowda, additionalchief secretary to the state government K Jairaj and Heather Allen, manager UIT, at one-day workshop on

sustainable development and public transport today

Gangadhar Pujar

Mumbai blasts:ATS to grill IMmembers in

state jailsMumbai: The Maharashtra ATS is likely toquestion alleged Indian Mujahideen (IM)members lodged in Karnataka and Gujarat jailsin connection with Wednesday’s serial blastsin the city.

The ATS has also sought assistance fromKolkata Police asking them to verify if any sus-pects had travelled to Mumbai from that cityand subsequently went underground after theblasts, as part of its probe into the triple bomb-ings, that left 19 people dead and injured over130.

“A police team from Karnataka has come toMumbai to help us. An ATS team from Ma-harashtra will also go to Karnataka andAhmedabad to question the IM memberslodged in the jails there,” said a police official.

The ATS is likely to grill an alleged IM mem-ber Danish Riyaz in Ahmedabad who had beenarrested there in connection with 2008 serialblasts in Gujarat.

In Karnataka, police will also questionthose who are believed to have an associationwith family members of Riyaz and IqbalBhatkal, the founder members of Indian Mu-jahideen. PTI

Ilyas Kashmirialive: Report

Islamabad: Al-Qaida-linked militant com-mander IlyasKashmiri, whowas reported tohave been killedin a US drone at-tack in Pakistan'stribal belt lastmonth, is stillalive, accordingto a media reporttoday. Kashmiri,

the chief of the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami is stillalive and active in the border areas of Pakistanand Afghanistan, Dawn News channel quot-ed its sources as saying. Security officials ofthe US and Pakistan have failed to confirm thedeath of Kashmiri, the sources said.

FULL REPORT ON PAGE 6

Obama invitesDalai to

White HouseWashington: President Barack Obama will to-day meet the Dalai Lama, defying Chinesepressure to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader.

“This meeting underscores the President’sstrong support for the preservation of Tibet’sunique religious, cultural and linguistic iden-tity and the protection of human rights for Ti-betans,” a White House statement said.

Obama last met the Dalai Lama, the NobelPeace laureate, in February 2010.

FULL REPORT ON PAGE 4

BSY PROPOSES TODISSOLVE HOUSE

Alternatively proposes Shobhaʼs name for CMʼs post;others oppose, but say Ashok could be candidate

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Hubli: Chief minister B S Yeddyu-rappa proposed either dissolution ofthe assembly or handing over ofpower to his trusted aide ShobhaKarandlaje during a high-level meet-ing on the sidelines of the BJP exec-utive meeting that concluded here today. The controversial andpotentially explosive proposals raisedthe hackles of other leaders at themeeting.

A the meeting, attended by someprominent leaders of the BJP andRSS, the chief minister said he want-

ed to dissolve the assembly as hefaced a lot of obstruction to functionproperly as too many people weremaking allegations of corruptionagainst him. The best solution avail-able to stop the allegations would beto dissolve the assembly and go be-fore the people for a verdict.

But the proposal was opposed bythe others, who said if he had to letgo of the power, he might as wellhand it over to frontline leaders of theparty, which would allow the BJP toenjoy the fruits of power for the re-maining two years of the term, par-ty sources said.

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BSYʼs petitionis to avoid timein jail: Ugrappa

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Chief minister B SYeddyurappa is scared that hemay land in jail for his illegalland dealings and that is the rea-son he has filed a petitionagainst governor H R Bhard-

waj, alleged senior Congressleader V S Ugrappa here thismorning. After inaugurating thepeople outreach programme ofthe party – Congress Nadige, Ja-nara Balige – at Chamrajpet, hesaid, “The petition shows his ar-rogance. Continued on page 3

Senior Congress leader Kagodu Thimmappa addressespartymen as V S Ugrappa (to his right) listens to himduring the party’s Congress Nadige, Janara Balige, at

Chamrajpet this morning.Elephant tramples Mandya farmer to death

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Mandya: A farmer was trampled todeath by a wild elephant at Man-chanahalli in Malavalli taluk ofMandya district last night.

Sanne Gowda (53) was guardinghis crops in his field when the ele-

phants attacked him lastnight, his relatives said.

Forests minister C H Vi-jayashankar announced acompensation of Rs 5 lakhto the family of the de-ceased. A part of the amounthas been released immedi-

ately, while the rest would begiven in a week, he added.

“Forest department of-ficials have reached thespot and are conductinginvestigations. I have

asked them to strict meas-ures to avoid such human-

animal conflicts. We are taking allprecautionary measures to avoidsuch attacks. We will take steps with-in two to three days,” he said.

The elephant has come to the vil-lage in search of food and attackedthe farmer who happened to pass itspath, said forest officials.

Death toll in Mumbai

terror blastsrises to 19

Mumbai: A man seriously in-jured in the serial blasts in the cityhas died, taking the death toll inWednesday’s terror strike to 19.

Babulal Das, 42, died at theSaisee Hospital yesterday, officialsources said today.

Twenty people, who were se-riously injured in the bombings,are being treated at various hos-pitals in the city, they said.

The triple blasts at ZaveriBazar, Opera House and Dadarhad left more than 130 people in-jured. PTI

2 die incar‑lorry

collision inDharwad

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Dharwad: Two persons died onthe spot and three others werecritically injured when a lorry hittheir car here this morning.

The deceased have been iden-tified as Mahantesh andSangamesh. They were headingfrom Gadag to Dharwad, whilethe lorry was heading from Dhar-wad when they collided head-onnear Bhadrapura in Navalgundtaluk of the district.

The two deceased were in thefront seat, while the three otherswere in the back. All the injuredhave been shifted to the Naval-gund government hospital.

DRUNK RIDER ATTACKS,

INJURES S‑I

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The temerity ofdrunkards! An inebriated manattacked a traffic police sub-inspector at Kalasipalya on theintervening night of Thursdayand Friday and badly injuredthe police officer who was car-rying out his duties.

Traffic police sub-inspectorRasooli was waiting to catchdrunk vehicle riders on NR Roadat Kalasipalya when he flaggeddown a scooter ridden by twopersons. When he tried to checkwhether the riders were drunk,they resisted.

Rasooli put his foot downand told the riders that theyhave to be examined as theylooked and behaved drunk.That is when the attack came

unexpectedly. Babu (26), whowas riding the scooter, removedhis footwear and started slap-ping the sub-inspector Rasooli,who was caught unawares.

By the time a constable whowas accompanying him on thenight duty came to rescue hisboss, Rasooli had been injured.He had a gash on his left cheekand was bleeding. In the melee,the pillion rider of the scooterscooted and the constable couldnot catch up with him as Rasooliwas being attacked.

The constable immediatelyflashed the message over hiswalkie-talkie and Kalasipalyapolice arrested the assaulter.He was taken to the VictoriaHospital, where the doctorsconfirmed that Babu was drunk.

Rasooli was given a minortreatment and sent back.

Twenty-six-year-old Babu (left), who assaulted traffic police sub-inspector Rasooli (right) at Kalasipalya

on Thursday night.

Common mobilitycard for KSRTC soon

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The state government is thinking of extend-ing the common mobility card that can be used in tandemwith the Metro Rail services and BMTC to KSRTC too, saidtransport department principal secretary M K Shankar-linge Gowda here this morning.

The service is already available with BMTC, where thesame card can be used in BMTC as well as Namma Metrotrains, avoiding the hassle of buying separate passes or tick-ets every time you board different modes of transport.

Gowda was speaking at a one-day workshop on sus-tainable development and public transport today.

The common mobility card would allow a passenger, saytravelling from Mysore regularly, could get into a KSRTCbus, then travel in a BMTC bus and hop onto a Metro trainall using a single card.

KSRTC would introduce 2,000 buses and 500 each wouldbe given to Mysore, Hubli, Gulbarga and Dharwad divisions.As of now, the state transport department has 22,500 bus-es. Of them, 6,000 travel in urban areas, he said. Buses us-ing hybrid fuels would be introduced in all KSRTC busesto reduce levels of pollution.

The public transport in Bangalore is one of the leadingtransport systems in the world and he comes. This is well

acknowledged, said Heather Allen, senior manager (UITI),International Association of Public Transport – Brazil.

The high performance of Volvo buses has made it sus-tainable to introduce these high-end systems, said addi-tional chief secretary to the Karnataka government K Jairaj.The services provided by KSRTC and BMTC are excellent.We are next only to Delhi in public transport system andwe will become No. 1 soon, he added.

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The newly elected office-bearers of Federation of KarnatakaChamber of Commerce met governor H R Bharadwaj. FKCCIpresident J R Bangera shared his vision for the year with thegovernor. Bhardwaj suggested to the FKCCI to organise a na-tional seminar on alternate dispute resolution (ADR) in the

city which was agreed to.

FKCCI men meet guv

Intel chips to power serversfor cloud computing

Bangalore: World’s largest chip maker IntelCorporation has developed microprocessorsto power modular and scalable servers forcloud computing – that enables use of multiple servers as a single platform – by data centres and infrastructure manage-ment service providers, a senior official saidyesterday.

“As part of our second generation multi-core Xeon processors, we have designedand developed chips that can be used forservers by cloud computing providers andbuilders to offer high performance andenergy efficient solutions to end-customerswith security, scalable storage capacity,”Intel marketing programme manager NickKnupffer told reporters here.

As the next wave of technology revolution,cloud computing enables use of multipleservers as a single platform through a digital

network (website) under secured environ-ment with access to a range of applicationsand tools for reducing the cost of IT opera-tions.

“Our Xeon processor-based servers canbe deployed by data centres and enterprisesoffering infrastructure management servicesto end-customers across verticals, especiallysmall and medium businesses (SMBs) whichcannot afford to invest in capital intensiveIT infrastructure and hire personnel to runit,” Intel South Asia director R Ravichandransaid.

According to global market research andanalysis firm IDC (International Data Cor-poration), an estimated 2.5 billion peoplewith over 15 billion devices will access theinternet by 2015. The same year, the internettraffic is expected to reach a zettabyte orone million, million billion bytes.

“Under our multi-year vision for cloudcomputing (Cloud 2015), cloud data centreswill be seamlessly and securely connectedand fully automated. The centres will alsoprovide secure access and optimal experienceacross a range of devices from smartphonesto powerful notebooks,” Knupffer pointedout.

With about 70 percent of chief informationofficers (CIOs) concerned about cloud se-curity, Intel is working on providing trustedexecution technology (TXT) to enhance se-curity at the processor level by ensuring aserver is not tampered with at the hypervisorlevel.

The $44-billion Intel acquired global se-curity solutions provider McAfee in August2010 for $7.7 billion to enhance security ofits processors by embedding the features inthe chips. IANS

GMR secures funding forits Sʼpore power project

Singapore: GMR InfrastructureLtd’s Singapore-based energysubsidiary said it has securedfunds for its 800 mw power proj-ect from a consortium of sixbanks.

“The financing structures areunprecedented in terms of com-plexity and tenor and will set anew benchmark for the powersector,” said G M Rao, groupchairman of GMR Infrastructure.

The company said six inter-national banks acted as man-dated lead arrangers to the trans-action, including Axis Bank Ltd,CIMB Bank Berhad, KfW IPEX-Bank Gmbh, National AustraliaBank Limited, Standard Char-tered Bank and WestLB AG.

“The financing package com-prises (Singapore dollars) $670million of a term loan facility

and a USD (American dollars)$270 million credit and workingcapital facility with a tenor of 17years,” said the company.

The global infrastructure majoris constructing independent pow-er project (IPP) in Jurong Island,Singapore at a cost of over $1billion (Singapore Dollars)

“It (project) is one of the singlelargest investments made by anIndian company in Singapore,”the statement said adding thatthe ground breaking ceremonywas conducted on June 5.

The power facilities will featureglobal electronics major Siemens’latest F-class gas turbines whichwill be fuelled by re-gasifiedLNG. “F-class gas turbines willbe designed and constructed bya Siemens/Samsung Consor-tium,” the statement added. IANS

KRISHNA N MARRIAGE STORY (U)Ganesh, Yami Gautham Balaji (Tavarekre) (11 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm) Ganesh (11 am, 2, 6, 9 pm)Inox (Jayanagar) (4 pm) Inox (JP Na-gar) (12.50 pm, 6.30 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10.15 am, 3.55, 6.40,9.25 pm) Krishna (KR Puram) (11am, 2, 6, 9 pm) Manasa (2.30, 6.30,9.30 pm) Maruthi (11.30 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) Nandini (11 am, 2,5, 8 pm) Sagar (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm) Siddheshwara (11.30am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Srinvasa(Gowdanapalya) (11.30 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm) Ullas (10.45 am,1.45, 5.45, 8.45 pm) Vijayalakshmi(Garudacharpalya) (11 am, 2.30 pm)Veeresh (10.15 am,1.15 pm) Vajresh-wari (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)

VINAYAKA GELEYARA BALAGA Vijay Raghavendra, Naveen Krishna, Meghana GaonkarAnupama (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Kamakya (10.45 am, 1.45,5.45, 8.45 pm)

POLICE STORY 3 (U/A)Sudeep Bhumika (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Gopal (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Nalanda (11 am, 2, 5.30,8.30 pm) Siddheshwara (11.30 am,2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Srilakshmi

(Rammorthinagar) (11.30 am, 2.30,6.30, 9.30 pm)

SHRIMATHI (A)Upendra, Priyanka UpendraAdarsh (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9 pm)Bharathi (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)Eshwari (11.00 am) Inox (Malles-waram) (12.30 pm) Manasa (11.30am) Mohan (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15pm) Nartaki (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Prasanna (10.15 am, 1.15,4.15, 7.15 pm) Uma (10.15 am, 1, 4,7 pm) Veerabhadreshwara (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Vaibhav(11.30 am)

CHENNAMMA IPS ½ AyeshaMenaka (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Siddhalingeshwara (11 am,2.30, 6, 9.15 pm)

KIRATAKA (U/A) ½ Yash, Oviya Helen, T S NagabharanaGoverdhan (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Kapali (10.30 am, 1.30,4.30, 7.30 pm)

DHAN DHANA DHAN (U) ½ Prem Kumar, Sharmila MandreBanashankari (Hongasandra) (11am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Gurusid-heshwara (11 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm).

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLYHALLOWS (U/A)Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson,Rupert Grint“3D” Gopalan Cinemas (Bannerghat-ta Road) (10 am, 5, 7.30, 10 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(10 am, 5.30, 7.50, 10 pm) InnovativeMultiplex (12.15 pm, 2.30, 7.30, 10pm) Mukunda (5.30 pm, 8.30 pm)

Navrang (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Lakshmi (Tavarekere) (10.15am, 1.15, 5.15, 8.15 pm) Rex (12 pm,5.05, 7.30 pm) Tribhuvan (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Urvashi(11 am, 3, 6 pm)

LARRY CROWNE (U/A) Tom Hanks, Julia RobertFame Lido (12.35 pm, 7.35 pm) PVRCinemas (10 am, 2.40, 7.20, 10 pm)

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THEMOON (U/A) ½Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley“3D” Cinemax (2.15 pm, 7.15, 10pm) Fame Lido (10.15 am, 3.25,6.20, 9.15 pm) Fun Cinemas (12.45pm, 3.50, 6.55, 10 pm pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (10am, 4.30, 7.15, 10 pm) Gopalan Cin-emas (Mysore Road) (11 am, 1.45,9.30 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (4.30pm) Laxmi (Tavarkere) (11 am, 1.45,5, 8.30 pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am,1, 6, 9 pm) Rex (12.25 pm, 3.10 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

ENGLISH

MURDER 2 (A) ½Emraan Hashmi, Jacqueline Fer-nandezApsara (11.30 am, 2.15, 5.30, 8.30pm) Abhinay (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Abhiman (Goripalya) (11am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Anand(3.30 pm, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Fame Fo-rum Value Mall (10.30 am, 2.50, 4,7, 9.30 pm) Fame Lido (10 am, 2.35,5, 9.35 pm) Fame (Shankarnag) (2pm) Fun Cinemas (10.10 am, 4.30,7.30 pm) HMT Cinemas (Jalahalli)(10.45 am, 9.45 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.30 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am,7.30 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10am, 4.55, 9.40 pm) Inox (Mallesw-aram) (10 am, 2.55, 9.35 pm) Man-asa (2.30 am, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Rad-hakrishna (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.15,9.30 pm)

CHILLAR PARTY (U) Irrfan Khan, Divvji Handa,Vedant DesaiCinemax (1.15 pm, 6.15 pm) Cinepo-lis (12.45 pm) Fun Cinemas (12.30pm) Fame Forum Value Mall (10.10am) Fame Lido (10.45 am, 6.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (BannerghattaRoad) (10 am, 2, 7.10 pm) GopalanCinemas (Mysore Road) (10, 2.25,6 pm) Innovative Multiplex (10.15am, 12.30, 7.45 pm) Inox (Magrath

Road) (1.10 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(10.25 am) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 2, 7.10 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(10, 2.25, 6 pm) PVR Cinemas (12.30pm, 7.30 pm) Vision Cinemas (12.30pm, 5 pm)

BBUDDAH HOGA TERA BAAP (U/A)Big B, Prakash Raj, Hema Malini Aruna (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm) In-novative Multiplex (5.45 pm) PVRCinemas (10.10 am, 5.10 pm) Shob-ha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

DELHI BELLY (A) Imran Khan, Shehnaz Cauvery (11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Cine-max (10.15 am, 12.30, 3, 7, 10 pm)Cinepolis (10 am, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8 pm)Eshwari (11.15 am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.15pm) Fame Forum Value Mall (10am, 1, 3.40, 4.50, 7.55, 10 pm) FameLido (10 am, 12.50, 5, 10 pm) Inno-vative Multiplex (10.30 am, 1.15,5.40, 10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 12.45, 2.35,10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (5.30 pm, 7.50 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (12.25 pm, 5.20, 10 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am, 12.25, 2.30,10 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10.15am, 12.30, 2.45, 7.30, 10 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10 am, 12.55, 5.25,7.30, 10 pm).

HINDI

MALAYALAMSALT N PEPPER (U) Lal, Asif Ali, Swetha MenonGopalan Cinmeas (BannerghattaRoad) (5 pm) HMT Cinemas (9.45pm) Innovative Multiplex (10 pm)PVR Cinemas (9.30 pm) Sangeet(11.30 am, 2.45, 9.30 pm).RATHI NIRVEDAM (U/A) ½Shweta Menon, Sreejith VijayGalaxy Paradise (Hongasandra) (11am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm

ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (U/A)Katrina, Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin

Cauvery (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15pm) Cinepolis (10 am, 12.15, 1.50,3.55, 6.45, 10 pm) Everest (10.30am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.30 pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (10am, 1, 2.45, 6.45 pm) HMT Cine-mas (1.30 pm, 7.15 pm) InnovativeMultiplex (11 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.15,

10 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (10 am,12.25, 3.20, 6.15, 9 pm) Inox (JPNagar) (10 am, 12, 3, 4.35, 6, 9pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10 am,11, 12, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10 am, 12, 1, 3,4, 6, 7, 9 pm) Rex (2.25 pm, 9.50pm) Urvashi (9.30 pm).

L RaghunandaBangalore Beat

Graphic cartooning has come of age,and an expatriate Indian is tryingto prove how far it can be taken by

letting go of his imagination. His show ison at the Indian Cartoon Gallery till July29.

Melvin Mathew tells Bangalore Beatthat he was interested in graphic cartoonsfrom an early age.

Though there was pressure on him topursue vocational courses from his parents,he did what he liked ... getting seriouslyon to fine and commercial art.

After completing his bachelor of finearts (BFA) in Dubai, Melvin joined the ad-vertising field. To complement good ad-vertisement copies and for good branding,advertising agencies don’t have any choiceother than graphic cartoons, he said.

“The search for better opportunitieslanded me in San Francisco, US. I cameacross various graphic designers, graphiccartoonist and illustrators. Their worksencouraged me to get into master fine artsat the San Francisco Academy of Art,” hesaid.

Working with various animation studiosin San Francisco, Melvin continued to ex-plore different styles. “Cartoons should

bring out the lighter side of people fromdifferent walks of life. They should be funand make one smile.”

On his inspiration, Melvin said he drawsit from things “around us, living creaturesand different aspects of life”.

He said, “Cartoons are abstract formsof art. Cartoon characters like Griffin,Gringo, Dodo, Carooy and Birdies areknown to everyone because of the detailthat has gone into them.”

On the digital cartoon industry inthe country, he said, “It is pickingup now in India. But in Europeand US, the industry is com-pletely commercialised.Graphic cartoonists arein huge demand,” hesaid.

Digital media, publishing and print-ing industries are us-ing it under differentcontexts. The indus-try’s horizonsare expanding.

M e l v i n’ scartoon are

on display atCartoon Gallery, Midford House, Midford Garden, Near Big Kids Kemp, Off MG Road,till July 29.

Artist puts his soul into graphic toons

Smartphone gamingtournament begins

Bangalore: Nokia has extendedthe Nokia X7 Full Throttle Tour-nament to Bangalore and invitedgaming fanatics in the city toface off with model DiandraSoares on Need For Speed (ShiftHD), one of the most popularmobile games today, with thenew Nokia X7.

The tournament is being heldtill August 7 across eight cities.The tournament comprises twophases: an on-ground leg andonline activity onfacebook.com/nokiaindia. Inter-ested can take part in the tour-nament by visiting a Nokia outletor by registering. The top 10 par-ticipants, with the highest onlineand onground scores, will winan all expenses paid trip to theF1 Grand Prix in Singapore onSeptember 25 this year.

The Nokia X7 is one of thefirst Nokia smartphones to in-clude Symbian Anna, the latestupdate of the Symbian software,fresh icons and usability en-hancements, like improved textinput, a faster browser, refreshedOvi Maps and higher security.

The device has a large 4-inchAMOLED display, capacitivetouch screen, making it perfect

for entertainment content, mo-bile gaming and internet brows-ing. The Nokia X7 comes withan 8 megapixel camera for cap-turing pictures and HD-quality

video. Nokia X7 is available at an

MRP of Rs 22,829. Consumerscan also purchase the phone un-der an easy payment scheme.

Three women scientists involved in satellite project

Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh):Three women space scientistsare playing an important role inthe successful functioning of lat-est communication satelliteGSAT-12, launched yesterday fromthe space port here.

T K Anuradha, the first womanever to be the satellite projectdirector at the country’s space

agency, specialises in satellitecheckout systems — electronicchecking of satellite’s perform-ance in space, an ISRO officialtold IANS.

Anuradha, in her 50s, hasbeen with the Indian Space Re-search Organisation for threedecades now, the official said.She heads the GSAT-12 project

at the ISRO Space Centre at Ban-galore.

The other two women are Pro-modha Hegde, mission directorGSAT-12, and Anuradha, opera-tions director for GSAT-12 at Mas-ter Control Facility in Hassan inKarnataka, K. Radhakrishnan,ISRO chairman, told reportershere.IANS

ISRO to testindigenouscryogenic

state in JuneSriharikota (AP): ISRO will flighttest its indigenously developedcryogenic engine onboard a Geo-Synchronous Satellite LaunchVehicle by mid-2012.

“Our target is to launch theGSLV (D5) by June 2012 with in-digenously developed cryogenicengine. Currently, a series ofground testing are on,” IndianSpace Research Organisationchairman K Radhakrishnan toldreporters here.

Speaking after the successfullaunch of GSAT-12 onboard home-grown PSLV-C17 from here, hesaid the GSLV rocket would beused to launch communicationsatellite GSAT-14.

“We’ve had two failures GSLV-F06 and GSLV-D3. We have iden-tified the reasons and correctiveactions are being taken,” he said.

GSLV-F06 was used to launchcommunications satellite GSAT-5P in December 2010 while GSLV-D3 to launch GSAT-4 in April2010, but both missions failedfollowing some problems in thecomplex cryogenic stage.

On the progress of Chan-drayaan-II mission, ISRO SpaceCommission member and direc-tor T K Alex said it was expectedin the beginning of 2014. “It isin progress. This time we are ex-amining the lander, rover andthe orbitor. The designing stagehas been completed. The proto-type of the rover is being made.”

T S Sridhar, regional Manager (south), Nokia India, andmodel Diandra Soares announce the launch of Nokia X7 Full

Throttle Tournament on Need For Speed in the city.

CITYSaturday, July 16, 2011 3CITY EVENTSGeneralIndian Institute of ScienceAlumni Association: Lectureon “Incredible Nano: Hype orReality” by Prof Ajay KumarSood of IISc, Faculty Hall, IISc,4 pm.

K S Institute of Technologyand K S School of Engineeringand Management: Valedictoryof national workshop on‘Emerging Trends in e-esourceManagement and MandatoryLiberty Standards’, Institutepremises, 15, Mallasandra, OffKanakapura Road, 3 pm.

The Bangalore Science Fo-rum: Talk on 50 years of Hu-man Space Flight by S K ShivaKumar of ISRO, H N Multime-dia Hall, Basavanagudi, 6 pm.

Daffodils Toastmasters: Talkon “Speak with Confidence”,5th Floor, Conference Room,JP Balimo Restaurant aboveFood World, Sampige Road, 6pm.

CulturalSri Charan Souharda Coop-erative Bank Limited: Musicprogramme by MD Pallavi,Vasavi Samudaya Bhavan,Vani Vilas Road, 6 pm.

Upasana: Manayengalada Ka-vitha Gayana by Malini Ke-shavaprasad, 368, NithyaSambhrama, 3rd Cross, 1st BMain Road, Near ICICI BankATM, Girinagar 1st Stage, 6pm.

Srishti Ventures: Play “Bad-uku Jataka Bandi”, directedby Krishnamurthi Kavathar,Seva Sadan, 14th Cross,Malleswaram, 7.30 pm.

Basaveshwaranagar BramanaSabha: Vocal by Vinay Sharvaand party, Sri Vani Vidyak-endra Auditorium, 3rd Stage,Basveshwaranagar, 6 pm.

Department of Kannada andCulture: Maneyangalada Math-ukathe by Giraddi Govindara-ju, Nayana, J C Road, 4 pm.

K V Subbanna Aptha Samo-oha and Kannada Vartha Ila-ka: Screening of Kannada film‘Udbava’, directed by KodluRamkrishna, 151, 7th Cross,Teachers Coolony, 1st Stage,Teachers Colony, near Daya-nanda Sagr College, Opp Va-sudha Bhavan, KumaraswamyLayout, 6 pm.

Aatmalaya: Bharatanatya ran-gapravesha of RakshanyaSekar, ADA Rangamandira JCRoad, 6 pm.

Suchitra Film Society: Literarybook reading session by Vaa-sudendra, 36, 9th Main Road,BSK 2nd Stage, 5.30 pm.

Religious Sri Shankara Jayanthi Man-dala: Discourse on SadhanaPatha by Nagesh, Sri ShankaraKrupa 45, Sri Shankara KrupaRoad, 16th Cross, Jayanagar,3rd Block, 6.30 pm.

Sri Sathya Sai Seva Samithi:Bhajans by T V Hariharangroup, 36, 21st Main, 8th Cross,J P Nagar 2nd Phase, 5.15 pm.

Sri Mahayagakshetra Sri Gay-athri Devasthana Trust: Gay-athri Brahma Rathotsava, 10am; Sahasra Kalashabhishekaand Gayathri Brahmarathot-sava, Temple premises, Yesh-wanthpur Circle, 6 pm.

ExhibitionsCultural Connections: Satur-day, July 16th, 2011. 10 a.m. to6 p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, NoA-1 Epsilon Office Block,Yemalur Main Road, YemalurAn exhibition of contemporaryIndian paintings by ParmeshD Jolad and Sudeep Mukerjee,curated by Jasmine Khanna.

Recorder of Life, Beauty andTruth: Saturday, July 16th,2011. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tasveer,No 26/1, Kasturba Cross Road,Tasveer presents an exhibitionof photographs by TS Satyan,one of India's first photojour-nalists.

Tête-à-tête @ Apparao: Sat-urday, July 16th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 8 p.m. Apparao Galleries,No 82 The Presidency, St MarksRoad, Apparao Galleries pres-ents 'Tête-à-tête', an exhibitionof paintings and sculpturesby eleven artists includingAltaf, Anjolie Ela Menon, FNSouza, George K, K Muralidhar,Laxma Goud, Shipra Bhat-tacharya and Sunil Padwal.

Cartoon Exhibition: Saturday,July 16th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8p.m. Indian Cartoon Gallery,Midford House, Midford Gar-den, MG Road, An exhibitionof cartoon illustrations byAmerican cartoonist MelvinMathew.

March Of The Elephants @Eka: Saturday, July 16th, 2011.10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eka, No 19,St Johns Road, Eka showcases

elephant forms, ranging fromthe classic and ornate to themodern and abstract.

Contemporary Masters: Sat-urday, July 16th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Galerie De'Arts, Bar-ton Centre, 11th Floor, MGRoad, An exhibition of paint-ings and sculptures by leadingartists like Apukuttan Achary,Alphonso Doss, P.Gopinath,JMS Mani and Yusuf Arakkal.

Food

Kerala Food Festival: Bon-South presents its first Keralafood festival, Kerala cuisinehas a lot of varieties from dif-ferent regions of the State.From the Moplah and the Syr-ian Christian specialities tothe vegetarian delicacies ofNamboodiri cuisine. Each ofthese regional varieties has adistinctive taste and flavour.The cuisine is a delight forfood lovers, for both vegetari-ans and non vegetarians. Avail-able both at lunch and dinner,the Buffet is priced at Rs. 350plus taxes. BonSouth, No 1Sampige road, Mantri Square,3rd Floor next to Oval bar. call: 080 22667377 & for Homedelivery 080 22667378.

ShoppingCrimson's Annual MonsoonSale: Saturday, July 16th, 2011.11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Crimson ArtGallery, The Hatworks Boule-vards, No 32, CunninghamRoad, Vasanthnagar Paintingsat discount rates, along withan additional offer where pa-trons get 50% off every secondpurchase.

Lifestyle presents Watch Fest:Saturday, July 16th, 2011. 10a.m. to 9 p.m. Lifestyle, AdarshOpus, Campbell Road,Austin Town Offers and dis-counts on a wide range ofwatches.

The Big Wrangler Sale: Sat-urday, July 16th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 9 p.m. Wrangler, No 777,100 Feet Road, IndiranagarWrangler kickstarts its end ofseason sale, with discounts ofup to 50%.

Pepe Sale: Saturday, July 16th,2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pepe,No 2, Brigade Road, Discountsof up to 60% on all merchan-dise.

Sale @ Esprit: Saturday, July16th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.Esprit, No 10 Ananda Bhavan,Vittal Mallya Road, E s p r i tannounces a sale where pa-trons can avail discounts ofup to 50% on apparel and ac-cessories, and a flat 25% offwatches.

Lee Sale: Saturday, July 16th,2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Lee,Royal Meenakshi Mall, NoE1/16, Syndicate Bank Colony,1st Cross, Bennerghatta RoadLee merchandise at discountsof up to 50%.

3 for 2 offer: Saturday, July16th, 2011. 10:30 a.m. to 9p.m. Landmark, The ForumMall, No 21, Hosur Road, Ko-ramangala Landmark presentsthe 3 for 2 offer, where readerscan choose from a collectionof over 200 best sellers andnew releases and get threebooks with the offer stickerfor the price for two.

Sale @ French Connection:Saturday, July 16th, 2011. 10a.m. to 9 p.m. French Con-nection, Adarsh Opus, Camp-bell Road, Austin Town Menget a flat 30% off, while womenare entitled to discounts up to50% on all merchandise atFrench Connection’s end ofseason sale across all outlets.

Van Heusen Sale: Saturday,July 16th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9p.m. Van Heusen, No 194,Brigade Road, Discounts of upto 40% on all apparel. Thesale is on across all outlets.

Special EventsStorytelling Sessions @ Ran-ga Shankara: Saturday, July16th, 2011. 5:30 p.m. to 8:30p.m. Ranga Shankara, No 36/12nd Phase, 8th Cross, JP NagarVayu Naidu from UK, Padma-vati Rao from India and StefoNantsou from Australia tellstories that capture the imag-ination of children in thesespecial sessions.

ComedyKarthik Iyer Live @ Opus:Saturday, July 16th, 2011. 9p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Opus,Chakravarty Layout, 1st Cross,Palace Cross Road, SankeyRoad An evening of stand upcomedy with Karthik Iyer.

A book, Hamsanada, was released at the Indian Institute of World Culture in the city this morning. Mysore Akashvanidirector Vijaya Haran, thinker Ramachandra Sharma and actor Jayalakshmi Patel released the book.

Book launched

MONSANTO HOLDINGSECRET TESTS: GREEN PEACE

L RaghunandaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Mosanto, a USbiotechnology company, is innews again as it sets out to con-duct field trials in northern partsof the state.

Karnataka is just one part ofthe plan as the controversialcompany that promotes geneti-cally modified crops is planningto conduct such trials across thecountry.

Opponents of GM crop, ma-jority of whom are environmen-talists, allege that the companyhas not violated the rules set bythe Genetically Engineered Ap-praisal Committee (GEAC).

Greenpeace and KarnatakaRajya Raitha Sangha activistshave now come together to op-pose the permission granted tothe company to conduct fieldtrials.

They have asked chief ministerB S Yeddyurappa and agricultureminister A Ravindra to have arelook at the issue.

Greenpeace campaigner Shiv-ani Shah told Bangalore Beat:“What so far reported and knownis that Mosanto is conductingtrials in Banehatt village of Sinda-

gi taluk in Bijapur district. But what has not been re-

vealed is that the company isplanning similar tests other partsof the state and country too.

They will cover Dharwad andKunigal in Karnataka, Coimbat-ore in Tamil Nadu, Karimnagarin Andhra Pradesh and Varanasiin Uttar Pradesh, where maizeand corn crops would be tested.At Davanagere they will test rice,while at Kottayam in Kerala andDapahar in Maharashtra it wouldbe rubber.”

She said, “Though some moreareas have been lined up, we

are yet to get information. Lastyear, the company went aboutconducting trials, and no oneknew about it. Some werebrought to the public notice,while others were not. This isbecause of farmers’ ignorance.The company is taking advantageof farmers to test their harmfulGM crops.”

She said, “Greenpeace is to-tally against it. We are clear aboutprotecting the interest of farmersand agricultural lands. Any cul-tivable method and practice thatgo within the ambit of sustain-able agricultural practices fol-

lowed in the country for centuriesis OK. We are opposed to any-thing that goes against these ex-isting practices.”

She said, “We have been cre-ating awareness among farmersat various levels. We are tellingthem that they could be dupedby the GM crops and the com-panies promoting them.”

The GEAC has been at the cen-tre of the storm being whippedup by environmentalists and pro-farmer groups.

Senior and well-known sci-entist P M Bhargava, who wasone of the invitees to the GEACduring it various meetings, said,“GEAC stand on Bijapur fieldtrial was that since it was a statesubject, the state governmentand relevant department shouldtake a decision on that.

The GEAC and Union ministryof environment and agricultureare looking at what would bethe stand of the state agricultureministry.”

He said, “As a scientist havingstudied GM crops, my view isthat GM crops may be pest re-sistant, may grow quickly, butthey will not supplement the nu-trient quotient required for hu-man beings.”

S Radhakrishna

BSYʼs petition isto avoid time in

jail: UgrappaContinued from page 1

Why is he filing the petition now?It has been more than sevenmonths since the governor gavepermission on January 21 to twoadvocates Sirajin Basha and KN Balaraj to go ahead with theprosecution proceed-ings. The two advo-cates filed their peti-tion before theLokayukta court. Yed-dyurappa’s son-in-lawSohan Kumar ap-proached the Karnata-ka High Court andbrought a stay againstthe proceedings.

“Now that the judgment inthe case is nearing, Yeddyurappahas chosen to file a petition ashe is scared that the verdictwould go against him and hewould land in jail.”

He said, “Time has come forYeddyurappa to vacate his seat.As he is threatened, he is plan-

ning to dissolve the assembly,but is not willing to hand overthe chief minister’s post to anyother leader in his party. Thisreveals his hunger for power.”

“The chief minister has beentalking of development of the

state. But the truth is:Only the developmentof his family has oc-curred over the lastthree years in thestate,” he alleged.

The people of thestate are aware of thescandals involving thechief minister andthey would teach him

a proper lesson during the as-sembly elections, he said.

The chief minister and someof his cabinet colleagues are in-volved in several scams and theyhave looted the wealth of thestate. “How can we expect thedevelopment from such abunch?” he asked.

CM will dissolve assemblyafter budget: Congress

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “The chief minister is thinkingof dissolving the assembly after the budgetnext year,” said another senior Congressleader Kagodu Thimmappa.

Taking part in the people outreach pro-gramme of the party – Congress Nadige,Janara Balige – at Chamrajpet in the city,he said it is a conspiracy hatched by theBJP and RSS leaders to dissolve the assemblyand go for elections. “The Congress isalways ready to face the polls. We are con-fident that we would win the elections andcome to power. The people are fed up withthe governance of the BJP. The governmenthas failed to serve the people in all aspects,”he said. On the Bhagwad Gita controversy,where the government is planning to maketeaching of the religious text mandatory atall government primary schools, he said,“Vishveshwara Hegde Kageri (primary andsecondary education minister) is saffronisingschools and education. This is con-demnable.”

“Mr Kageri may not know that it is againstthe Constitution to teach religious texts inschools and colleges. The minister shouldtake back the circular sent to all schools

on teaching Gita. If he doesn’t then theCongress will take up an intense agitation.This is an unmasked attempt at saffronisa-tion of education and we will not allow it,”he said.

“Such moves hurt the religious feelingand beliefs of the students. Education

should promote secular ideals and not com-munal bent of mind,” he added.

Mahalakshmi Layout MLA N L NarendraBabu and other Congress leaders were pres-ent at the campaign, that is being held across the 224 assembly constituenciesin the state.

Senior Congress leaders Mahalakshmi Layout MLA N L Narendra Babu, KagodThimmappa and V S Ugrappa take out a rally as part of the campaign, Congress

Nadige, Janara Balige, at Chamrajpet, in Bangalore today.

S Radhakrishna

2 robbed of their cars

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: In a series of car-jacking incidents, two personswere relieved of their cars in thecity last night.

In the first instance a driver,who was coming back after drop-ping some people, was robbedof his car and other valuables atJakkur last night.

Shashikumar had droppedthree persons at Whitefield andwas returning when he wasflagged down by three personsnear the Jakkur crematoriumaround 12.15 am.

They threatened him withknives, took his mobile phone,pushed him out of his Tata Indica

car (bearing the registration num-ber KA-02, 5692) and escaped.They slashed him in the leg andhands with the knife before es-caping, the police said.

The total value of the goodsstolen has been put at Rs 1.5lakh.

In the other incident threepersons jumped into the car ofKiran (30) who had slowed downnear a road hump on third crossof Ganapati Pura near BDA Lay-out towards Whitefield.

The three perpetrators threat-ened him and decamped withtwo mobile phones, his Qualiscar (KA-04, A-7481).

The total value of the stolengoods has been put at Rs 3 lakh.

Woman crushedto death in

Malleswaram

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A worker who backedan earth moving machinecrushed a woman to death nearNavarang theatre junction atMalleswaram last night.

The woman is unidentified.The driver confessed to the policethat the woman was crushed ashe backed the heavy vehiclewithout seeing her.

Chain snatchedA woman who was walking

to her yoga class was relieved ofher gold chain at Arakere in MicoLayout this morning.

The incident occurred around5.45 am and Nadanayakammahad just stepped out of the housewhen the perpetrator came frombehind, snatched her 80 gmchain worth over Rs 1.4 lakh andescaped.

Industrialisation cause of climate change: Heblikar

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Rapid industrialsi-ation and advancement of tech-nology has been the main causeof climate change, said renownedenvironmentalist and film-makerSuresh Heblikar while addressinga one-day state-level seminar on“Climate change – challengesof climate change: Negotiationsin the contemporary world-is-sues, concerns and trends” herethis morning. The seminar washeld at St Joseph’s School andwas organised by the politicalscience department of the col-lege.

Heblikar said, “We are fightingamong ourselves about the causeof global warming. But the scaleof industrialisation is to beblamed. In the name of devel-opment and ideal economic sys-

tem, environmental system isbeing destroyed. Human greeddoes not have any limit. Indus-trial activity, rise in populationand extracting natural resourcesmeans that by the turn of thiscentury, probably, we will not

have much of the resourceswhich we would need verymuch.” On a paper presentedby a group of scientists from theMassachusetts Institute of Tech-nology in 1972, he said the paperpointed out that “there is a need

to limit the use of natural re-sources, also the use of resources,be it coal or fossil fuel, becausethe very use of resources beyondthe limit means human racewould be in peril”. Seminar dealtwith human development andclimate change, climate changeand media with focus on smallisland states, global warmingand politics of emission reduc-tion, the Kyoto Protocol and ma-jor developing countries and en-vironmentalism in China.

Prof Ramesh of the NationalLaw School of India University,political science department professor (Banglaroe University)M J Vinod, St Joseph’s Evening College PrincipalGracelet Stanley, political sciencedepartment head Dr Jeevan Ku-mar and researcher Ullas Kumarwere present.

Environmentalist and film-maker Suresh Heblikar (extremeleft) addresses a gathering on climate change at St Joseph’s

School in the city today.

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ATS QUESTIONS OWNER OF BIKEFOUND AT ZAVERI BAZAR BLAST SITE

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Anti-Terror-ism Squad (ATS) has questioned theowner of a bike, which was found veryclose to the blast site in Zaveri Bazarhere, to put together the sequence ofevents on July 13.

The maroon colour Honda Activa bear-ing number MH-01-AS 718 was one ofthe bikes which was very close to theblast site and was partially destroyed inthe bombings.

The bike belongs to one Ashok Jain

who lives in Nagpada area.Ashok's nephew Aniket Jain, whose

father has a gold shop in Zaveri Bazar,said his uncle had parked the bike closeto the blast site at around 3 pm onWednesday while the blasts occurred ataround 6:55 pm.

"ATS had called Ashok to its office atNagpada yesterday with all the paperspertaining to the bike," said Aniket.

The insurance of the bike had expiredtwo months ago.

"We did not even realise that the in-surance has expired," he said.

The front portion of the bike was com-pletely destroyed in the blasts and thevehicle is presently in the custody ofthe police.

Police suspect that the blasts weretriggered with the use of a IED kept inan abandoned umbrella, on one of thebikes there. The triple bombings hadclaimed 19 lives and left over 130 peoplein the city injured. PTI

Obama invites Dalai Lama to WHWashington: President BarackObama will today meet the DalaiLama, defying Chinese pressureto shun the Tibetan spiritualleader.

“This meeting underscoresthe President’s strong supportfor the preservation of Tibet’sunique religious, cultural andlinguistic identity and the pro-tection of human rights for Ti-betans,” a White House state-ment said.

Obama last met the DalaiLama, the Nobel Peace laureate,in February 2010.

Yesterday’s meeting is sched-uled to be held at the Map Roomof the White House and not hisOval office where he welcomesheads of state. The meeting isclosed for the press.

“The President will highlighthis enduring support for dialoguebetween the Dalai Lama’s rep-

resentatives and the Chinesegovernment to resolve differ-ences,” the statement said.

Meanwhile, Chinese ForeignMinistry spokesman Hong Leisaid in a statement that Chinaopposes any foreign official meet-ing with the Dalai Lama andasked the US to withdraw its in-vitation to avoid interfering inChina’s internal affairs.

The Dalai Lama, who is livingin exile since 1959, says he ispeacefully seeking rights for Ti-betans and accepts Chinese rule.But China insists that he is a“splittist” bent on dividing thecountry.

“The meeting is an opportu-nity to deepen the relationshipbetween the American and Ti-betan peoples and for the Presi-dent to reaffirm US,” said MaryBeth, president of the Interna-tional Campaign for Tibet. .

“Support for Tibetan issues,including the Dalai Lama’s effortsto re-engage the Chinese gov-ernment in meaningful dialogueon genuine autonomy for Ti-betans within the People’s Re-public of China,” Beth said.

The White House announce-ment comes just two days beforethe Dalai Lama concludes his10-day visit to Washington,where he has been presidingover a major Buddhist teaching,the Kalachakra.

During his time in Washing-ton, the Dalai Lama met withSpeaker of the House JohnBoehner, Democratic LeaderPelosi, the senate foreign rela-tions committee chairman, JohnKerry, as well as other officialsand dignitaries. PTI

Basavaraju A H, who swept the polls in the recently held by-election to the BanashankariTemple Ward, assumed office by taking oath in the presence of BBMP mayor

Sharadamma yesterday.

Takes charge

Law and parliamentary affairs minister greets students a Carmel Girls’ High School atBasaveshwaranagar during the school’s sports arena inauguration today.

Arena inauguratedS Radhakrishna

BSY proposes to dissolve House Continued from page 1

Yeddyurappa said that he couldhand over the power only to en-ergy minister Shobha Karandlaje.But the other senior leaders saidthat when there were many fistline leaders of the party ready,it would not be good for theparty morale to hand it over to asecond rung leader like Karand-laje.

The leaders then called upBJP national general secretary

H N Ananth Kumar, who haschosen to stay away from theexecutive committee meeting.Kumar said that the Lingayatcommunity has got enough rep-resentation and if the powertransfer has to happen, it shouldbe to a Vokkaliga communityleader from the old Mysore area.The obvious choice then washome and transport minister RAshok.

The name of rural develop-

ment and panchayat raj ministerJagadish Shettar too came up,but was not considered seriouslyas he too belongs to the Lingayatcommunity.

Yeddyurappa has been think-ing of dissolving the assemblyin anticipation of the verdict inthe objection filed by his son-in-law Sohan Kumar against theproceedings of the Lokayuktaspecial court, which has beenlooking at alleged illegal land

deal cases against the chief min-ister and his family.

The chief minister said ma-jority of the members in the min-istry were with him and theywould not mind if the assemblywas dissolved. In the 27-memberministry, 10 are from the Vokkali-ga community and many others,including V S Acharya, Vishvesh-wara Hegde Kageri, Suresh Ku-mar and Karandlaje, too wouldsupport his decision.

I feel assured inteam now: Laxman

Somerset (Taunton): He hasbeen a long-time middle-ordermainstay of India’s batting line-up but veteran VVS Laxman sayshe started feeling assured in theteam only in the last four yearsduring which he was given the“freedom” to play his naturalgame.

Laxman still remembers theyears when he wasn’t made tofeel an automatic choice in In-dia’s playing XI even after hehad crafted the legend of 281against the Australians at EdenGardens in the waning winterof 2001.

“In the last four years, firstAnil (Kumble) bhai and thenMahendra Singh (Dhoni), as wellas coach Gary (Kirsten), havegiven me an assurance in theteam, the freedom to play mynatural game, and I’ve able totranslate that freedom into per-formance,” reflects Laxman.

“During my first four years,between 1996-2000, while open-ing the innings and trying to domy best for the team, wheneverI failed in two innings, peopleused to brand me as a non-reg-ular opener and I used to getdropped very frequently,” he re-called. Gearing up for the Testseries against England that startsat Lord’s from July 21, Laxmansaid he desires to strike his firstcentury against the hosts in awining cause. “I haven’t madea century in England yet; northe team has won at Lord’s whileI have been around,” states Lax-man. Laxman views his careerin two halves – one before andone after 2007 when he felt com-pletely assured in the team.

Since July 2007, after theWorld Cup in the Caribbean,Laxman has played 43 Tests andscored 3268 runs at an averageof 57.33. That he played his first80 Tests for 4878 runs and anaverage of only 42.42 tells a sto-ry.

The years 1996-2000 whichhe mentions, saw him play 16

Tests and score 626 runs at anaverage of 24.07.

Between a particular stretchof 2004-2007, he could get only1596 runs from 31 Tests at 37.11.

This was a period when hecarried the hurt of being mar-ginalised in one-day cricket andthat whenever the team decidedto play with five bowlers, theonly batsman to be shown thedoor was him. “Those first fouryears made me very tough. I re-alised that the only thing youshould be concentrating on arethings which are under yourcontrol.

“What people say, doesn’t af-

fect or bother me. I work hardand want to be true to myself inpreparing for each match. Iknow, if I do so, results will fol-low,” he said.

“Cricket being a sport, some-times results happen and some-times they don’t. Rather thanbeing result-oriented, it’s betterto concentrate on the process,”he added.

“I approach each and everyinnings with a positive attitudeand the same mindset...I am en-joying my last four years in theIndian dressing room; each oth-er’s company, it’s fabulous andthere are results to show.” PTI

Barack Obama Dalai Lama

Actress Ragini dwivedi inagurates the badminton touranment orgnaised by the PressClub of Bangalore at the Karnataka Goverment Secretrait Club hall this morning.

Inaugurating tourneyGangadhar Pujar

Jaya skipsfunction at HCafter protestby lawyers

Chennai: Tamil Nadu chief min-ister J Jayalalithaa skipped afunction at Madras High Courttoday, apparently to avoid em-barrassment to the judiciary fol-lowing protest by a section ofadvocates over her sharing daiswith judges.

She was to attend, along withSupreme Court and High Courtjudges, a foundation stone layingceremony for construction of Al-ternative Disputes ResolutionCentre at the High Court campushere.

Supreme Court judges AltamasKabir and P Sathasivam, ChiefJustice of Madras High Court MY Eqbal and state Informationand Law Minister G Sen-thamizhan attended the func-tion.

Yesterday, some advocates hadstated that it was not proper forthe Chief Minister to share daiswith judges in the wake of a spe-cial court in Bangalore summon-ing her before it on July 27 inconnection with a dispropor-tionate assets case against her.

The court had on Thursdayasked Jayalalithaa and three oth-ers to be present before it forrecording their statements undersection 313 of CrPC (power toexamine the accused) in con-nection with the case.

The case was transferred froma Chennai court to Bangalore bythe Supreme Court in November2003 during the previous regimeof Jayalalithaa. PTI

Indiaʼs economic rise huge opportunity for Pak: US

Washington: India’s rise offers a hugeopportunity for Pakistan which is facingmajor economic challenges, a top US of-ficial has said, advocating that Islamabadshould consider improving its trade tieswith its neighbour.

“India’s economic rise presents a hugeopportunity for Pakistan, a bilateral break-through could provide a catalyst for widerregional economic integration in Southand Central Asia,” Robert Hormats, UnderSecretary for Economic, Energy and Agri-cultural Affairs, said.

Hormats said the pace of economic in-tegration in the Asia Pacific region as awhole over the last two decades has beenunprecedented and should serve as anexample for other regions.

“It should, and I believe it can, be repli-cated in South Asia as well. Hundreds ofmillions of people would benefit fromsuch increased collaboration,” he said.

Hormats, who is part of the high-powerUS delegation for next week’s India-USStrategic Dialogue in New Delhi, said thetwo countries already work together in awide range of areas resulting in enhancedtrade and investment and mutual job cre-ation. Trade between the US and Indiahas doubled twice in the past ten years.It continues to grow and drive their eco-nomic partnership.

In 2010, the two-way trade was up al-most 30 per cent from the year before.

“In Delhi and Chennai (the two citiesto be visited by the US delegation) wewill consider ways to further expand thesenumbers,” Hormats said.

Indian foreign direct investment in theUnited States was USD 5.5 billion at theend of 2009, growing at approximately35 per cent between 2005 and 2009, mak-ing India the seventh largest growingsource of FDI in the United States.

“We welcome such investment, we wel-come more and more of it, and we willalso discuss this while we are in India,”Hormats said.

However, he said, it is unfortunate thatsome economic barriers continue to makeit hard for US exports to gain access tocertain portions of India’s markets, espe-cially in agricultural goods.

“Restrictions in retail, insurance, de-fence and other key areas continue tolimit the expansion of American firmsand US and Indian firm partnerships inIndia. We would like to see more of thosepartnerships. We will also discuss thesetopics during our trip,” he said.

“We must encourage and recognise thebenefits of market openings that willallow trade and investment between ourtwo countries to grow and to thrive to themutual benefit of both,” Hormats said.PTI

2 militants, 4Myanmarese held

Imphal: Two militants and fourMyanmarese nationals have beenarrested by security personneland police commandos in sepa-rate incidents in Manipur, officialsources said today.

Sources said a cadre of bannedPeople’s Liberation Army (PLA)identified as M Ibomcha (22) wasarrested along with a 9 mm pistolwith magazine and some roundsof ammunition during a searchoperation at Serou Lamkhai ininterior Thoubal district by acombined team of police com-mandos and 27th Assam Riflesbattalion personnel yesterday.

In another incident, comman-dos attached to Imphal West dis-trict police station during a searchoperation arrested an insurgentof United National LiberationFront (UNLF) identified as Ton

Meitei (22) from Naoremthongarea near here last evening,sources said.

In yet another incident, AssamRifles personnel arrested fourMyanmarese nationals whilechecking passenger buses at Sitajunction area in Manipur’s inte-rior Chandel district borderingwith Myanmar yesterday, sourcessaid.

The four foreigners were iden-tified as Md Sohiab (24), MdYunus (24), Md Fauque (25) andAbdul Wahab (25), sources saidadding that they were fromKotaw, Membu, Suigong andTatan area in upper Myanmar.

The four were arrested for nothaving valid travel documents,sources said adding that theywere handed over to nearbyTengnoupal police station. PTI

India achieves 241 MT foodgrain: PM New Delhi: Prime Minister Man-mohan Singh today said thecountry has achieved a recordfoodgrain production of 241 mil-lion tonnes (MT) in 2010-11 cropyear but stressed on ushering ina second Green Revolution tomeet the mounting future do-mestic foodgrain demands.

“Production of major cropshas been at record levels in theyear just over. An estimated totalproduction of 241 million tonnesin 2010-11 was achieved becauseof record production of wheat,maize and pulses.

Oilseed production also set anew record,” the PM said, while

delivering speech at an ICARfunction here.

The estimated 241 MT food-grain production is higher by 5MT as announced by the Agri-culture Ministry in its third esti-mate. It is also higher by 23 MTas compared to previous cropyear 2009-10.

Crop year runs from July toJune. He said the record food-grain production has beenachieved because of hard workof the farmers and scientists.

But, Singh emphasised thatthe country needs a second greenrevolution to further accelerateagri growth and achieve self-

sufficiency in food.He said the total demand for

foodgrains of the country is pro-jected to touch 281 MT by 2020-21. “Meeting this demand willnecessitate a growth rate of near-ly 2 per cent per annum in food-grain production,” the PM said.

Stating that the country wasspending about 0.6 per cent ofits agriculture GDP on agricul-tural research and developmentat present, he said this needs tobe enhanced by 2-3 times by2020. “India needs a secondgreen revolution that is broad-based, inclusive and sustain-able,” Singh said.

Referring to mounting futuredomestic foodgrain demands,Singh exhorted the scientists togear up for the task.

“The enormity of the taskahead is indicated by the factthat during the 10 year period1997-98 to 2006-07, our foodgrainproduction grew at an averageannual rate of only 1 per cent,”he said. “Although foodgrainproduction has since regainedthe requisite momentum and theagriculture sector as a whole isset to grow at 3 per cent per an-num during the 11th plan, wecan not be complacent,” the PMadded.

“We must note that this is lessthan the targeted 4 per cent anda consequence in recent yearshas been unacceptable levels offoodprice inflation,” he pointedout.

Emphasising on the second‘Green Revolution’, Singh saidthat the second green revolutionmust explicitly embrace drylandfarming. Speaking on manage-ment of water in view of im-pending scarcity of water in the21st century, the PM said “ourirrigation efficiency is estimatedto be around 30 per cent, whichneeds to be raised to at least 50per cent”.

Infy announces exec councilBangalore: Software major In-fosys Technologies today an-nounced composition of newexecutive council (EC), a highlevel body that frames its busi-ness strategy.

The EC will include the exec-utive board, current EC mem-bers, heads of key business unitsand strategic business enablerunits.

The members of the EC are: SGopalakrishnan – chief execu-tive officer and managing direc-tor, S D Shibulal – chief operat-ing officer, Srinath Batni – di-rector and head – delivery ex-cellence, V Balakrishnan – chieffinancial officer, Ashok Vemuri

– senior vice president and head- banking and capital marketsand strategic global sourcing. BG Srinivas – senior vice presidentand head- manufacturing, prod-uct engineering, product lifecycleand engineering solutions, Chan-drashekar Kakal – senior vice-president – enterprise solutions,U B Pravin Rao – senior vicepresident – retail, CPG & logis-tics, Prasad Thrikutam – Head,energy, utilities, communica-tions & services, Infosys LimitedGlobal Head, systems integra-tion, Infosys. Steve Pratt – chiefexecutive officer and managingdirector, Infosys Consulting, Ra-madas Kamath U – senior vice

president, administration, com-mercial facilities, infrastructure,Nandita Gurjar – senior vicepresident and group head, hu-man resources and Basab Prad-han – global head of sales, arethe other members of the EC,Infosys said in a release here.

Gopalakrishnan said, “It givesme great pleasure to announcethe new executive council of In-fosys. The new EC is a group ofhighly competent professionalswho would closely work withthe Board in formulating busi-ness strategy and framing poli-cies for the organization. This isone of the most significant an-nouncements.”

Beyond BeatSaturday, July 16, 2011

Bangalore Beat Bureau

They are the force on the hill. A spe-cially trained contingent of com-mandos has been stationed ontop of Chamundi Hills to avoid anyuntoward incident following the

Mumbai serial blasts on Wednesday.Since Fridays in this Hindu month of

Ashada are considered auspicious, therewas a huge crowd on top of the hills inMysore yesterday. But the unusual, thoughcomforting, was the sight of these smart-ly turned up commandos, who kept an eyeover every movement in and around theChamundeshwari temple.

They are a special force, which hasbeen drawn from different wings of the po-lice. Called Chamundi Commandos, theyhave been trained at the Mysore CityArmed Reserve Campus on the foothills ofChamundi. The force is 150-strong and 60of them have been stationed on top of thehill, to guard the temple and the people.

The force has been well trained to pre-vent and tackle any naxal or terror-relatedincidents. These commandos are all youngwith good physique. They have beentrained to handle the most sophisticatedarms and ammunition.

The force is the brainchild of deputy com-missioner of police S Parashivamurthy, whowanted Mysore to gear up its securityarrangements for any contingency and beready 365 days.

Parashivamurthy personally selectedthese 150 policemen for the commandoforce from different police departments, andalso and trained them. They exercise andtrain daily either rat the police grounds ornear the Nandi statue on the ChamundiHills.

The Chamundi Commandos say they ex-ercise hard as it keeps them fresh and ingood health to tackle any emergency.

Inspector general of police and Mysorecommissioner Sunil Agarwal and DCPBasavaraj Malagatti have extended supportto the commando force.

ASI Subbanna, who is part of the com-mandos, says, “Our force can handle anysituation as we have been trained well. Thecommando force is available in any part ofthe state and is ready to work for 24 hoursat a stretch.

After Bangalore, Mysore is the fastestgrowing city in the state. The Culture Cityis a seeing a boom in real estate, IT and ITeScompanies. It is also known as city ofpalaces, heritage city etc. The city is famousfor its jumbo savari that happens on the lastday of the Dasara every year. Jumbo savariis the main attraction for tens of thousandstourists, both foreign and domestic, who ar-rive here.

Why goodposture

makes youtougher

Washington: Mothers have for ages been tellingtheir children to stop slouching. It turns out thatthey are right – poor posture not only makes a badimpression, but can actually make you physical-ly weaker.

A study by Scott Wiltermuth, assistant profes-sor, University of Southern California and Vanes-sa K Bohns, post-doctoral fellow, University ofToronto, says adopting dominant versus sub-missive postures actually decreases your sensitivityto pain.

The study found that by simply adopting moredominant poses, people feel more powerful, in con-trol and able to tolerate more distress, reports theJournal of Experimental Social Psychology.

A powerful posture may also lead to elevatedtestosterone, linked with increased pain tolerance,and decreased cortisol, which may make an ex-perience less stressful, according to a Southern Cal-ifornia statement.

Those who used the most dominant posture inthe study were able to comfortably handle morepain than those assigned a more neutral or sub-missive stance.

Wiltermuth and Bohns also expanded on pre-vious research that shows the posture of a personwith whom you interact will affect your pose andbehaviour.

In this case, Wiltermuth and Bohns found thatthose adopting submissive pose in response totheir partner’s dominant pose showed a lowerthreshold for pain.

While most people will crawl up into a ball whenthey are in pain, Bohn’s and Wiltermuth’s researchsuggests that one should do the opposite.

In fact, their research suggests that curling upinto a ball may make an experience more painfulbecause it will make you feel like you have no con-trol over your circumstances, which may in turnintensify your anticipation of the pain.

Instead, try sitting or standing up straight, push-ing your chest out and expanding your body. Thesebehaviours can help create a sense of power andcontrol that may in turn make an experience moretolerable. IANS

AI to boost airplane

safety levelsSydney: Researchers are developing a systembased on artificial intelligence (AI) to pinpoint in-ternal flaws in aircraft quickly and accurately thatare missed otherwise.

Aircraft made mostly from composite materialsare already on the drawing boards of major aero-nautical manufacturers, which seek lighter planesable to carry more passengers, cargo and fuel.

While these ultralight materials are available,their widespread use is problematic becausescanning them for potential flaws is expensive andmore time-consuming than similar processesused for checking and certifying metals.

Swinburne University of Technology researchersare tackling this challenge by developing an au-tomated approach, based on AI technology thatgreatly speeds up analysis and accuracy than a hu-man technician can ever achieve.

“There is a lot of pressure on the technicianswho analyse the scans of composite materials forcertification,” said Mark Hodge, CEO of the DefenceMaterials Technology Centre, based at Swin-burne’s Hawthorn campus, according to a Swim-burne statement.

“Getting it wrong could cost lives and a lot ofmoney. The risk of those consequences meansthere is a tendency for the technician to be con-servative and not certify parts that have any po-tentially threatening flaw,” he said. IANS

CHAMUNDI COMMANDOS,FORCE ATOP HILL

Chamundi commandos is a specially trained force drawn from different departmentsof Mysore police. They are being stationed at all crowded places where there could

be a possible attack, says Karthik H SG S Ravishankar

Google changing the way brain remembers info

Boston: Internet search engines like Googleare changing the way our brains remember in-formation, according to a new study that saysreadily available information online makespeople easily forget facts since computers be-come their “external memory”.

Researchers from Harvard University and Columbia University said Google and databases such as Amazon.com,IMDb.com serve as an external “memory,where information is stored collectively outside ourselves”.

People are more likely to remember thingsthey think they will not be able to find onlineand will have a harder time recalling infor-mation which they know they can easily ac-cess online, the study added.

“Since the advent of search engines, we arere-organising the way we remember things,”Columbia University psychologist Betsy Spar-

row said.Our brains rely on the Internet for memo-

ry in much the same way they rely on thememory of a friend, family member or co-worker.

The research also found that people re-membered where they stored their informa-tion or where to look for information on theinternet better than they remembered the in-formation itself.

In the pa-per titled“Google Ef-fects on Mem-ory: Conse-quences ofHaving Infor-mation at OurFingertips,”researchers

conducted four experiments. They gave stu-dents 40 statements, asking them to type theinformation on a computer.

Those who were told the informationwould be saved had a much harder time re-membering the statements later than thosewho were told it would be erased.

Similarly, Columbia students were askeda series of questions and allowed to take notes.

The students who were told the information

would be saved in one of six computer fold-ers had a harder time remembering the in-formation later than those who were told itwould be erased.

About 60 Harvard students were asked totype trivia, such as “An ostrich’s eye is biggerthan its brain,” into computers, and were toldeither the information would be saved orerased.

People who believed the data would besaved were less likely to remember, accord-ing to the study published online by the jour-nal Science.

In the last experiment, Columbia under-graduates were told the same informationwould be saved in files with names such as‘facts’, ‘data’ and ‘names’.

The students remembered the file namesbetter than the information itself, the studysaid. PTI

Scenes on Chamundi Hills at Mysore where a large number of devotees arrived for Ashada Friday yesterday for special puja.

Exercisequells panic

disordersWashington: Vigorous exercisemight be an ideal way of quellingsudden panic attacks.

People who experienced nau-sea, racing heart, dizziness andstomach aches that follow pan-ic attacks, handled it better if theywere into high levels of physicalactivity, according to researchers.

“Anxiety sensitivity is an es-tablished risk factor for the de-velopment of panic and relateddisorders,” said Japser Smits,psychologist at the SouthernMethodist University, Dallas, wholed the study.

“This study suggests that this risk factor may be less influ-ential among persons who rou-tinely engage in high levels ofphysical activity,” added Smits,reports the journal Psychoso-matic Medicine.

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Gossip Girl on Manhattans Upper EastSide in New York. Hurley will play a

media mogul named Diana Payne in amulti-episode arc.

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world briefs

29‑yr‑old becomes UKʼs

youngestgrand‑dad

London: A 29-year-old man has becomethe youngest grandfather in Britain afterhis 14-year-old daughter gave birth, a mediareport said.

Shem Davies – of Bridgend, Wales – wasalso 14 when he became a father for thefirst time, The Sun reported.

His schoolgirl daughter Tia now has hada girl before her 15th birthday, it said.

Davies – who split with Tia’s motherKelly three months after she was born –said he was “absolutely delighted” at thenews.

Davies was “shocked” when his daughtertold him she was pregnant by her 15-year-old boyfriend.

He also has a nine-month-old son withnew girlfriend Robyn Thomas.

“One minute Tia’s a baby, the next she’spregnant. I could have yelled at her, butwhat’s the point? I know how hard it’sgoing to be for them because I was in theirshoes at the same age. I didn’t handle itvery well when I became a dad at 14. Iwasn’t able to cope with it and I ran away,”he said. Tia’s mother Kelly said: “My worstnightmare has always been that Tia wouldrepeat my mistake and get pregnant young.I always lectured her about contraception.”

Wall Street up on strongcorp earningsNew York: US stocks ended higher yesterdayas better-than-expected earnings fromGoogle and Citigroup offset concerns overUS debt situations, Xinhua reported.

The rating agency Standard & Poor'swarned late Thursday to downgrade UStriple-A credit ratings if the policy makersfailed to reach a deal to raise the govern-ment's debt ceiling, which exerted down-ward pressures on the market.

Yesterday’s data came in mixed, providinglittle boost to the market. The labour de-partment said yesterday that the CPI (con-sumer price index) fell 0.2 percent becauseof a decline in gas prices.

A separate report showed US consumersentiment slipped in July to its lowest levelsince March 2009.

However, traders were still encouragedby better-than-expected corporate earn-ings.

Citigroup reported that its net incomerose 24 percent in the second quarter to$3.3 billion, or 1.09 cents per share, on rev-enues of $20.6 billion, beating Wall Streetforecast.

Google surged about 13 percent after thesearch giant beat the most bullish forecastslate Thursday, making driving the tech-heavy Nasdaq prominently higher in threemajor indexes.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained42.61 points, or 0.34 percent, to 12,479.73.The Standard & Poor' s 500 was up 7.27points, or 0.56 percent, to 1,316.14. The Nas-daq Composite Index rose 27.13 points, or0.98 percent, to 2,789.80. IANS

Swarm of beeskills dog

London: A puppy, attacked by a swarm ofbees from a neighbourhood hive in Britain,died after they stung her over 100 times.

Keeley Connolly’s 15-month-old Germanshepherd Sara was playing in the gardenwhen she was set upon by bees from neigh-bour Susan Mowforth’s hive, Daily Mail re-ported Friday.

An ex-stockbroker Connolly found thedistressed animal at her door and let herinto the house. Within no time, her livingroom was filled with bees.

She tried to drive Sara to the vet, but feltforced to stop after her car was filled withthe angry swarm.

The dog was given ice blankets and keptunder 24-hour care, but was put down aftera plasma transfusion resulted in internalbleeding.

Connolly, who lives with husband Grantand their six-year-old daughter Sam in An-dover, Hampshire, said she wanted bee-keepers to be more careful about wherethey put their hives.

She said: “The vet said they had neverseen a dog stung so many times. The vet-erinary staff were distressed because of theamount of pain Sara had been in.”IANS

Human gelatin could spice up candiesHong Kong: Gelatin derived from hu-man beings could now spice updesserts and candies, replacing thoseof animal origin.

Derived from the bones and skinof cows and pigs, gelatin is neithersafe nor healthy as it can trigger in-fections, besides provoking a negativeimmune response in some people.

Jin Chun Chen, associate professorin microbiology, Tsinghua University,Hong Kong, and colleagues are seekingalternatives for potential use in cap-sules and other medicinal applications.

Animal-based gelatin has otherdrawbacks, with variability from batchto batch, for instance, creating diffi-

culties for manufacturers, the Journalof Agriculture and Food Chemistryreports.

Accordingly, scientists developedand demonstrated a method wherehuman gelatin genes are inserted intoa strain of yeast which can producegelatin with controllable features, ac-cording to a Tsinghua statement.

The researchers are still testing thehuman-yeast gelatin to see how wellit compares to other gelatins in termsof its viscosity and other attributes.

Chen and colleagues suggest thattheir method could be scaled up toproduce large amounts of gelatin forcommercial use. IANS

Dream colourlinked to your

TV colour!London: It’s a finding whichmay not come as a surprise foryour grandfather – people grownup watching black and whiteTV are likely see colourlessdreams, scientists say.

The Japanese study, whichinterviewed more than 1,300 peo-ple twice over a 16-year periodfrom 1993 to 2009 about thebrightness of their dreams, foundthat only one in five people intheir 60s recalled having bright,vivid dreams.

In contrast, 80 per cent ofthose surveyed under the age of30 confirmed they had dreamsrich in colour, the Daily Mail re-ported.

The report titled ‘Life SpanDifferences in Colour Dreaming’explained: “When we inquiredamong college students whetherthey dreamt in colour, most an-swered that their dreams wereas fully in colour as is wakinglife.

“Inquiries among older per-

sons, however, produced thesame result as the early research-- dreams were predominantlyin black and white.”

The findings, published bythe American Psychological As-sociation, could be partly linkedto younger generations and theirexperience of watching colourTV since childhood, the re-searchers said.

“Colour TV may play an im-portant role in that, people inJapan younger than 20 in 1993and 36 at 2009 have watchedcolour TV since birth,” they said.

However, they argued the ex-plosion in popularity of colourTVs could not solely explain thephenomenon.

“If the incidence of colour indreams were affected only bymedia exposure, it would abrupt-ly, instead of gradually, decreasebecause the most representativecoloured media – colour TV –became prevalent very quicklyin Japan,” they added. PTI

Positive outlook helpsteens tackle anxiety

London: Training teens to de-velop a positive outlook mighthelp them tackle anxiety effec-tively as adults, according to anew research.

“For example, I might waveat someone I recently met onthe other side of the street,” saysexperimental psychologist Jen-nifer Lau from Oxford University,who led the study.

“If they don’t wave back, Imight think they didn’t rememberme - or alternatively, I mightthink they’re snubbing me. Peo-ple with anxiety are more likelyto assume the latter interpreta-tion,” Lau said.

“These negative thoughts arebelieved to drive and maintaintheir feelings of low mood andanxiety,” said Lau, reports thejournal Child Psychiatry and Hu-man Development.

“If you can change that nega-tive style of thinking, perhapsyou can change mood of anxiousteenagers,” says Lau, accordingto an Oxford statement.

“Of course, it’s normal forteenagers to be worried aboutexams, friends, social accept-

ance, and about the future gen-erally,” says Lau. “In some ex-treme cases, kids avoid going toschool because they are anxious.This is not just being a little bitworried,” she says.

Thirty-six healthy teenagersfrom schools in Oxfordshire andBuckinghamshire took part inthe study, and were randomly

allocated to receive training toboost positive or negative read-ings of scenarios.

Those who received positivetraining tended to endorse pos-itive readings of the ambiguousscenarios, while those who re-ceived the negative training weremore likely to view the scenariosmore negatively. IANS

E.coli bugs flashlike Christmas lights

Washington: Escherichia coli, or the E.coli bacteriumthat lives in the human gut, is an electric creaturewhich creates its own energy and blinks like lights,scientists have discovered.

Researchers at Harvard University devised a wayto watch the cells blink on as they spike and thenblink off, a phenomenon they believe could helpexplain how some bacteria resist antibiotics.

While it was already known that the large populationsof these cells, on average, tended to maintain anegative charge within their membranes, scientistscouldn’t tell what the individual cells were up to.

Now, by altering a light-capturing protein found inmarine microorganisms and inserting it into the E.coli,the researchers could able for the first time to seesingle cells change their electrical state, LiveSciencereported.

Like other living things, the bugs are capable ofcreating a difference in electric potential or voltageby pumping charged ions, like sodium and potassium,through their cellular membranes (the outer coveringof the cell).

A similar process allows our nerves to send messageswithin our bodies inthe form of electricalspikes, the team re-ported in the journalScience.

The difference be-tween the electricalcharge within thecell’s membrane andthe outside environ-ment plays an im-portant role in thecell’s ability to createenergy-storage mol-ecules, driving themotion of its tail, orflagellum, and transporting other molecules throughthe cellular membrane, study researcher Adam Cohensaid.

Originally, the researchers were looking for a wayto visualise electrical changes in mammalian cells.They altered the light-capturing protein so it wouldemit light as the electrical difference changed outsidethe membrane versus inside the membrane.

“Then one day, (researcher Joel) Kralj was lookingat the E.coli in the microscope. He said, ‘Holy cow,they are blinking.’ And that was not something weexpected to find at all,” Cohen said.

In fact, the video the researchers captured showedindividual cells lighting up for between one and 40seconds before darkening again. The dark phase,which could last for minutes at a time, is associatedwith a more negative charge within the cell, Cohensaid.

Preliminary research indicates that the blinkingmay happen as the cell pumps out potential contam-inants. This pumping action is a common mechanismof antibiotic resistance, since some bacterial cells willpump out the antibiotics meant to kill them.

So this technique could provide a new way to studyantibiotic resistance, Cohen said.

The team also found that the blinking could be al-tered: For instance, the cells blinked faster when ex-posed to an acidic environment and slowed down ina more basic environment, stopping altogether whenconditions went too far in either direction. PTI

Ilyas Kashmiri isalive: Pak paper

Islamabad: Mohammad IlyasKashmiri, the al-Qaida command-er who was believed to have beenkilled last month in a US droneattack in Pakistan, is alive, a me-dia report said Saturday.

Kashmiri is still active in theborder areas of Pakistan andAfghanistan, Dawn said on itswebsite quoting unnamedsources.

Media reports had earlier saidthat Kashmiri was killed in a USdrone attack in Pakistan’s SouthWaziristan tribal region.

The US and the Pakistani gov-ernment however could not con-firm his death.

Anti-terrorism experts describe

Kashmiri as one of Al Qaeda’smain commanders.

He was held responsible for anumber of attacks in Pakistan,including the May 22 attack ona navy airbase in Karachi andthe 2009 attack on the armyheadquarters in Rawalpindi.

The US believe that Kashmiri,who is also a member of the ter-ror group Harkat-ul Jihad al Is-lami (HuJI), was behind theMarch 2006 suicide bombing ofthe US consulate in Karachi thatkilled four people and wounded48 others.

The US state department des-ignated him as a “global terror-ist”. IANS

Men who flirt at work tendto be unsatisfied: Study

London: Taking it as a compli-ment when he flirts with you atoffice? Don’t get smitten by suchmen as they might be doing sojust to to relieve boredom, a newstudy has found.

Researchers at the Universityof Surrey who asked more thantwo hundred men and womenbetween the ages of 21 and 68about whether they flirt at workfound that many men who doso are likely to less satisfied withtheir job and are bored.

The participants – lawyers,stockbrokers, charity workersand civil servants – were alsoasked questions about their per-sonalities, how satisfied theywere in their jobs and how hardthey worked.

The results revealed a cleardifference between the sexes.Women who flirted were just ashappy in their jobs as those whokept relationships on a strictlybusiness basis.

However, male flirts tendedto be less satisfied with their lot,the Daily Mail reported.

Researcher Chadi Moussa said:“Previous research has shownthat people flirt for various rea-

sons, which include increasingtheir self-esteem, fun and ro-mance.

“If men are feeling unsatisfiedin their roles, then they may re-sort to flirting to keep them en-tertained and this would partiallyexplain the negative relation-ship.

“While flirting can have ben-efits, excessive flirting at workmay be a sign that you?re un-satisfied with your job or simplybored.”

But the researchers, who pre-sented their results at a BritishPsychological Society conferenceon the psychology of women,said their findings didn’t suggestflirting made employees moresatisfied or helped them to per-

form better.A 2007 study had suggested

that most working women wouldrather have a male boss -- andthey are quite prepared to flirttheir way to the top.

The survey also found thatwomen see other females as themain competition in the work-place. As a result three out offive would rather work directlyfor a man than a woman whilea further 86 per cent would hap-pily flirt with a male colleagueif it meant they got their ownway.

But Moussa said: “Our findingscontradict popular notions thatflirting at work can make em-ployees mores satisfied or per-form better.” PTI

Court nameds girl ofa separated couple

London: An Australian court’sintervention was required in acase in which parents of a two-year-old girl separated beforeher birth and could never agreeover naming her after she wasborn.

The two-year-old girl was yetto have her birth registered, witheach parent calling her by a dif-ferent name.

The Family Court of Australiadecided the first name the motherchose should be used and or-dered that the girl be registeredby it. She had already beenknown by her father’s surname,the Daily Mail reported.

Justice Colin Forrest was askedto rule on a name.

The court heard the mother,who picked the girl’s name be-cause of its meaning and theway the toddler looked whenshe was born.

The father claimed the name

the mother picked was blasphe-mous in his Islamic faith.

Justice Forrest said an Islamiccleric gave evidence of the namebeing offensive to Islam.

But he observed that the childwas generally known to theworld by the name the motherchose and that was also whythe name should be registered.

Colin and Chris Weir, from Largs in Ayrshire, kiss, during a press conference,in Falkirk, Scotland, after they scooped £161 million ($260 million) in Tues-

day’s EuroMillions draw. Europe’s biggest lottery winners have been unveiled by Camelot. The couple banked the entire jackpot after several

rollovers – a total of £161,653,000.

AP-PTILolling in millions

Iraq bombs kill 8, injure

dozens Baghdad: Violence in Baghdadand southern Iraq killed eightIraqis, including six Shiite Mus-lim pilgrims, and an Americansoldier yesterday, security offi-cials said. The six killed on theoutskirts of the holy shrine cityof Karbala, 100 kilometres (70miles) south of the capital, weremaking their way there as partof commemorations for the birthof a revered Shiite Muslim figure.“A car bomb killed three peopleand wounded 20 people insidea bus station north of the city ofKarbala,” said General Othmanal-Ghanimi, a security official incharge of security in the region.

Nazeer al-Rubayee of Karbala’sAl-Hussein Hospital confirmedthe toll, saying that the woundedincluded women.

The blast occurred at around4 pm. At around 9:30 pm east of

the city, another car bomb killedthree worshippers and woundedmore than 25, Karbala healthdepartment spokesman JamalMehdi said. Thousands of pil-grims are headed to Karbala tomark Shahbaniyah, the birthdayof a revered Shiite Muslim figure,which falls on either Saturdayor Sunday, with the dates dif-fering depending on interpreta-tions of the lunar calendar.

In the Dora district of southernBaghdad, one person was killedand three wounded by an im-provised bomb, an interior min-istry official said.

Meanwhile, in another partof the same district, an explosionin the early hours of Friday killedone person in a house wherepolice later found several im-provised bombs and guns fittedwith silencers. AFP

Amnesty:25 killed in

Nigerianarmy raid

Lagos: At least 25 people werekilled during a Nigerian militaryraid after a bomb blast blamedon Islamists, a statement fromAmnesty International said.

The statement referred to anincident last weekend in thenortheastern city of Maiduguri,which has seen a wave of attacksattributed to an Islamist sectknown as Boko Haram andwhere hundreds of troops havebeen deployed.

“In Kaleri Ngomari Custain,in Maiduguri, on Saturday 9 Julyat least 25 people were killedand at least 45 wounded, includ-ing women and children, whenthe Joint Military Task Force cor-doned off a bomb site and wentfrom house to house, shootingand arresting people living inthe area,” it said. “Many menand boys have been reportedmissing. According to eyewit-nesses, the security forces burntdown several houses, forcingtheir occupants to flee.”

The military had reported 11dead in the wake of the incident,saying all were members of BokoHaram. Residents alleged soldiersshot civilians and burnt downhouses, but the military deniedtargeting innocent.

There has been extreme ten-sion in Maiduguri, hit by almostdaily attacks in recent weeks.Soldiers were accused of againshooting civilians on Friday fol-lowing a bomb blast that wound-ed eight policemen, which themilitary denied. AFP

Putinʼs spyposters surface

Moscow: Posters depicting Russ-ian Prime Minister Vladimir Putinas a secret agent have been putup at many public places inMoscow, officials said.

Authorities vowed yesterdayto “find and punish” the “hooligans” who put up the posters.

The posters that appeared ear-lier this week announce a non-existent movie starring the formerKGB officer and ex-President.

They feature Putin in a blacksuit with a pistol in his hand.The caption says “VV will coverup for you”.

Putin’s patronymic name isVladimirovich. IANS

China floods affectover 1.5m people

Beijing: Floods and landslidestriggered by torrential rains insouth China have affected 1.57million people, officials said yes-terday.

The National Commission forDisaster Reduction said heavyrains since Monday in Jiangsu,

Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guang-dong, Sichuan and Yunnanprovinces and the autonomousregion of Tibet have left six peo-ple dead, Xinhua reported.

The disasters also resulted inan economic loss of 350 millionyuan (about $54 million), it said.

Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri

LIFESTYLE 7Saturday, July 16, 2011

“Harry Potter” actorDaniel Radcliffe sayshe wants to get tat-

toos. “I definitely do want to getsome tattoos, something thatwould have been ill-advised dur-ing ‘Potter’,” contactmusic.comquoted him as saying.

The 21-year-old, who starredin a stage production of ‘Equus’in which he had to strip naked,

admits he doesn’t mind baringall for a role.

“It’s like, ‘Put it away, Dan!’ Ireally don’t mind anymore. Iperformed ‘Equus’ well over 300times. I still had the fear everynight though, absolutely. I hateall these actors who say it’s lib-erating. That’s rubbish, you liars,it’s not liberating — it’s terrify-ing!”

Bollywood actor-produc-er Arbaaz Khan hasrubbished reports that

his brother Sohail will be thepart of “Dabangg” sequel.

“‘Dabangg’ sequel startsmid next year and doesn’thave my brother Sohail actingin it like some newspapersreported,” Arbaaz posted onmicro-blogging site Twitter.

According to some reports,Sohail had expressed his de-sire to be part of the movieand since then, his name hadbeen considered for the se-quel.

However, Arbaaz, who hasbeen on a high ever since“Dabangg” -- his debut pro-duction -- turned out to be ablockbuster, will now takethe reins as the director forthe sequel of the masala ac-tion movie.

“Dabangg”, directed by Ab-hinav Singh Kashyap, wasset in the dusty, rugged, ruralmilieu of Uttar Pradesh inwhich Salman played a cor-rupt cop called ChulbulPandey.

They might have split butbaseball player MattKemp says he is still good

friends with singer Rihanna.“She’s a good friend of mine.

We’re good. We’ve all got busylives and we’re working on ourcareers and concentrating onour careers. Like I said, I wishher all the best of luck and shewishes me all the best of luck,”usmagazine.com quoted Kempas saying.

Kemp admitted dating some-one in the public eye broughton “a lot of attention” but rightnow he’s single, “just chillin’[and] focusing on baseball”.

Both Rihanna and Kemp dat-ed for sometime and split inDecember last year.

Rihanna and ex Kempare still friends

LOWE TO POSE NUDEfor Playboy magazine

Kristen Stewart involved in minor accident

Actress Olivia Wilde says shecredits her marriage split formaking her a “better actress”

because the emotional turmoil hasmade her more compassionate.

“It makes you a more empatheticperson, and I think it’s made me abetter actress. Weakness is some-thing we don’t like to admit wehave. We hold it against people,until we experience it, and thenwe feel more compassion for it,”contactmusic.com quoted her assaying.

“David Shore, who created (TVdrama) ‘House’, said, ‘You shouldget divorced every year; your act-ing’s never been better’,” she said.

The 27-year-old filed for divorcefrom filmmaker husband Tao Rus-poli early this year. The couple hadbeen together since she was 18,eloping just six months after theymet.

Tao, the son of Italian aristocratPrince Alessandro Ruspoli, andOlivia married in an abandonedschool bus in rural Virginia withjust two witnesses to the ceremo-ny.

Sohail not in ʻDabanggʼ sequel: Arbaaz

Marriage split has mademe better actress: Olivia Wilde

Mary, Ashley to designluxury handbag range

Twin sisters Mary-Kate andAshley Olsen will launchtheir new range of luxury

handbags.The collection, which will be

launched under their fashionlabel ‘The Row’, will consist ofnine designs including a day tote,backpack, doctor bag and a shoul-der bag made from python andalligator.

The bags will go on sale in Au-gust in Barney’s department storein New York, reportsfemalefirst.co.uk. The girls, whohave high hopes for themselves,recently dressed up US First ladyMichelle Obama.

“Twilight” actressKristen Stewartwas involved in a

minor accident after a fellowwoman motorist hit her MiniCooper from behind whiledriving in Los Angeles.

However, the 21-year-oldstar managed to resolve themishap with a smile fromboth parties, reporstaceshowbiz.com.

Meanwhile, Stewart is en-joying a little break beforeshe begins filming “SnowWhite and the Huntsman”.

Model Daisy Lowewill pose nude forthe September is-

sue of Playboy magazine.Lowe will strip off in an

eight-page spread of men’smagazine, which is set tobe release on August 12,reports femalefirst.co.uk.

The 22-year-old, who iscurrently dating actor MattSmith, will travel to editorHugh Hefner’s famous Play-boy Mansion for the photoshoot.

The beautiful brunette,previously posed toplessfor the Pirelli Calendar, lastyear, and admitted that shefound the sexy shoot lib-erating.

“It was quite freeing, be-ing able to be naked for aweek.”

Radcliffe wants to get tattooed

Saturday, July 16, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

Bollywood actors KatrinaKaif and Imran Khan,who will perform live

along with Pakistani pop starand actor Ali Zafar to promote“Mere Brother Ki Dulhan”, areset to burn up a lot of energyat rehearsals.

Zafar, who is a seasonedstage performer, said: “Yes,that’s the plan. I have beentold Katrina and Imran will bejoining me on stage. Agreed,they aren’t musicians. But we’reall performers and part of oneproject. We start as soon as Ireturn to India.”

He has been asked by pro-ducers Yashraj Films to helpKatrina and Imran acclimatizethemselves to live performanc-es.

“Maybe my USP is livesinging. But they will take tothe stage quickly. I know we’llhave fun,” said Zafar.

Zafar, recently voted thehottest male actor of 2011 in asurvey, will soon be in Indiato star in another film.

“Before I do David Dhawan’s“Chashme Buddoor”, I’vesigned another film in Mumbai.As for being voted the hotteststar, I’m grateful to all my fanswho have voted for me.”

ʻMere Brother...ʼ actors setto rehearse for live gigs

I HAVE NO DESIREto look younger: Cattrall

Actress Kim Cattrall, 54, says she wouldrather appear “healthy” and of herown age as she has no desire to look

younger.“I had a great time in my youth and still

feel very youthful, but I have no desire tolook as though I’m 20. I want to look healthy,but I want to look closer to my age,” contact-music.com quoted Cattrall as saying.

The actress, best known for playing Saman-tha Jones in “Sex and the City”, also admitsthat she “doesn’t believe” in cosmetic sur-gery.

“I don’t believe in cosmetic surgery, well,not yet. I’d be too frightened. There are somany examples of things that have gone hor-ribly wrong. I live in New York in an areawhere it is all around me,” she said.

Weenita

Runa & Priya

Nalini & Carol

Archana

Lalit Sanghvi

Sheela & Ananhta

Mohan & Latha

Lian, Thany & Sinte

Nihal & Gyahna

Photos: Gangadhar Puajr

CELEBS LET THEIRHAIR DOWN

It was a party that let city’s crème de la crème let their hair down. Quite lit-erally! Bounce Style Lounge, in collaboration with Schwarzkopf Professional,celebrated six years of fashioning ‘head-turners’. The city’s celebs turned

up in droves for the fashion show and party. The guests with their favouritepoison in hand grooved to the music dished out by DJ Manny. The eveningof great hair, music, fashion and grandeur also featured a fashion show,choreographed by Rahul Shetty and hair by Bounce Artistic Team.