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TVideo games with Indian themes have become a rage nowadays. They are giving astiff competition to international superheroes. Experts feel time has come forIndian characters to emerge and makewaves. Page 5

Beyond Beat

Man who advised criminalsstabbed to death

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A man who chose to give hisadvice to a set of youngsters was stabbedto death by them in the city last night.

The victim, Paramesh Kumar (38) rana kabab centre near Meenakshi Bar on 40Cross, 22nd Main, Jayanagar 4th T Block.

The accused, Sharath alias Katu (25)and Ravi alias Sade Ravi (28) and othe2rs,

had come near Paramesh’s Kabab Cen-tre around 9 last night.

During the conversation he advisedthem that since they already had policecases booked against them they shouldreform their ways.

But the criminals took umbrage andstabbed Paramesh in the chest with a dag-ger.A severely injured Paramesh died onway to the hospital .

D L HarishBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: There will be no new chief min-ister in the state till July 31, though the BJPcentral leadership had said yesterday that thereplacement for the “outgoing” chief minerwould be announced today.

The BJP is a beehive of confusion on Day2 of the political crisis that was triggered bythe Lokayukta report on illdgal mining. Themain reason for the indecision is the numberof claimants for the top post in the state.These different groups have been holdingtheir own meetings in different parts of thecity to garner support.

As of now, there is MP D V SadanandaGowda, party national general secretaryAnanth Kumar, party state president K S Es-hwarppa, rural development and panchay-at minister Jagadish Shettar, while Yeddyu-rappa is backing the candidature of histrusted aide and energy minister ShobhaKarandlaje.

There are also indications that Yeddyu-rappa though had announced yesterdaythat he would relinquish the post on July 31once the inauspicious Ashada month getsover, he is trying to hang on to the chair. Hehas been talking to party leaders for sup-porting his claim for continuation. He hasbeen holding consultations with legal expertson the implications of his continuing in theposition with the Lokayukta indicting him inthe illegal mining scandal. Sources in the par-ty told Bangalore Beat that close to 60 MLAshave been supporting the chief minister.The wily politician that he is, Yeddyurappais also thinking of splitting the party and isstruggling hard to get the support of 79MLAs to escape the provisions of anti de-fection law. Yeddyurappa is also said tohave the support of 15 MPs.

Tourism minister G Janardhana Reddyhas conveyed to the party central leaders thatthe government may fall if Yeddyurappa is re-moved.

BJP secretary and Karnataka in-chargeDharmendra Pradhan is being flooded withrequests from all sides. Though he arrived inBangalore yesterday, he has not been able togauge the mood of the workers, nor the wayahead in choosing a replacement for Yed-dyurappa.

Amidst this state of flux, the BJP Legisla-ture Party meeting that was scheduled to beheld in Vidhana Soudha at 11 am today waspostponed till 4 pm. Ananth Kumar, formernational party president Rajnath Singh andparty national general secretary Arun Jaitleyhave arrived in the state to take the crucial de-

cision. Even if the leader is decided it wouldnot be revealed immediately. The “sealed en-velope”, the culture of Congress, would betaken to Delhi.

Yeddyurappa has been demanding the po-sition of party president, which will be quitepowerful. But the central leaders are not tookeen to accept the demand. They now wantto anoint a Lingayat leader to the chief min-ister’s position, possibly Shettar, so that hischances are stymied. If Shettar becomesthe chief minister, then the deputy chief min-ister’s position, which would be creatednow, could go to Sadanand Gowda. In thatcase, the party president could go to aVokkaliga leader. The choice has been nownarrowed down to either Gowda or Shettarfor the chief minister’s post. The deputy chiefminister’s post has been created to pacify dif-ferent sections of the party.

Hegde: Effective bodymust to control corruption

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: An effective mechanism and organ-isation should be put in place both at the Cen-tre and state to prevent corruption. Otherwise, itwill be too dangerous to control in the future, saidLokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde here thismorning.

Address media persons at the Bangalore PressClub, he said, “Today, corruption has spread its

tentacles wide and reached high places. Cor-ruption has become an epidemic. It cannot becured, but can certainly be prevented if action istaken effectively.”

The main purpose of the Lokayukta office is toserve the people and to prevent corruption, hesaid. “Corruption is not limited to the governmentsector any more. It has spread to the private sec-tor too,” he lamented.

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Apple has morecash than US govtNew York: As of today, Apple boss SteveJobs is richer than Uncle Sam. While theworld’s most powerful government has just$73.76 billion in its reserves, the world’s toptechnology company has a neat cash pile of$75.87 billion. The US Treasury DepartmentThursday warned that it has now only thismuch operating budget as Republicans andDemocrats fight over raising the nation’sdebt ceiling. The White House has warned theRepublicans that the US government won’t beable to meet its obligations. P 4

Chandolia drags Radia, corporate leaders in 2G case

New Delhi: R K Chandolia, former aideof ex-Telecom Minister A Raja, todaysought implication of corpo-rate leaders and lobbyist Ni-ira Radia in the 2G case as ac-cused, saying they had par-ticipated in the alleged“covert deal” between theTata group and Kalaignar TV.

The counsel for Chandoliatold a Special CBI Judge O PSaini that AseervathamAchary, an alleged associate of Raja, hadallegedly conspired to bring Kalaignar TVon a Tata Sky DTH bouquet by acting asa conduit between Raja and Radia.

“During the conversation when NiiraRadia referred to the deal, no where

does Achary ask her what was she talk-ing about. This shows that he (Achary)

was well aware of the dealbetween Kalaignar TV andTata being pursued by Raja.

“Going by this, Tata, Ra-dia, Achary and KalaignarTV all should be made ac-cused in the case. Tata andRadia are big people andCBI cannot touch them butwhy not Achary,” advocate

Vijay Agarwal appearing for Chandoliasaid.

Chandolia alleged they had allegedlyconspired to bring Kalaignar TV on a Tatasky bouquet.

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Terrorismchallengeto nation,says PM

New Delhi: Communalism andterrorism were “big challenges”to national integrity and neededto be fought collectively, PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh saidhere Friday.

Manmohan Singh, who wasaddressing a gathering at the Na-tional Communal HarmonyAward distribution functionhere, said “some elements insociety” were promoting com-munal disharmony that need tobe defeated.

“We have to face these chal-lenges together. We have to cre-ate awareness towards this,” theprime minister said in his ad-dress in Hindi.“Communalbrotherhood forms a large part ofour age old traditions. We haveto keep up with this legacy. Thisis our pious duty,” ManmohanSingh said at the event also at-tended by home minister P Chi-dambaram and Bharatiya Jana-ta Party (BJP) leader L K Advani.

Vice President Hamid Ansarigave away the awards for theyear 2009-10 to MohammadHanif Khan Shastri, who haswritten seven books on Hindu-Muslim unity in India.

Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde addresses the media at the Bangalore Press Club thismorning.

Gangadhar Pujar

NO GROUPISM IN BJP,SAYS ESHWARAPPABangalore: There is no confu-sion in the state BJP as all theleaders are united and commit-ted to accept the central leadersdecision on electing the newBJLP leader, said state BJP pres-ident K S Eshwarappa this morn-ing.

Reacting to the media reportsabout groupism in the party andmany being in the race for theCM’s post, Eshwarappa said“ours is a well disciplined partyand our leaders will abide by thedecision of central leaders. Wedon’t have any difference or dis-pute regarding naming of thenew CM,” he said.

“Today our national leadersAruj Jaitley and Rajnath Singhare arriving in Bangalore to par-ticipate in the legislative party

meeting scheduled to take placeat 4 pm today. By taking theopinion of all the legislators andalso after consulting B S Yed-dyurappa, a new leader will beelected.”

When asked whether he isalso in the race for the chiefmin-istership, Eshwarappa said thatis left to the decision of the par-ty. “As of now I cannot tell or

speculate. Electing the newleader is the issue in front of usand the central leadership willdecide who should lead the gov-ernment.”

Meanwhile, Bangalore NorthMP D B Chandre Gowda said al-ready the Lokayuktha reporthas been leaked even beforesubmitting to the government.Due to this it has lost its sancti-

ty and under such circumstancesthe resignation of Yeddyurappais not warranted.

Chandre Gowda held a meet-ing of state BJP MPs at Ku-marakrupa Guest House thismorning and the MPs have de-cided unanimously to back Yed-dyurappa urging him not to quitunder any circumstances.

Addressing the media afterthe meeting, Chandre Gowdasaid the Lokayuktha report hasnot mentioned involvement ofYeddyrappa in illegal mining.The high command should haveasked the opinion of legislatorsbefore taking the decision tochange Yeddyurappa.

All the 14 MPs have appealedto Yeddyurappa not to resignfrom the CM’s post.

BSY TO BE CONSULTED ON SUCCESSOR: RAJNATH

New Delhi: Senior BJP leaderRajnath Singh today said thenew state chief minister would beelected through consensus andoutgoing CM B S Yeddyurappatoo would be consulted.

“We will talk to all the seniorleaders there, including Yed-dyurappaji, and will try to selecta leader based on consensus,”Singh said before arriving inBangalore.

“He is a senior leader of thestate and will definitely partici-pate in the talks,” Singh said

about Yeddyurappa, who wasyesterday asked by central BJPleadership to put in his papersimmediately after he was indict-ed by the Lokayukta in connec-tion with illegal mining.

When asked whether the new chief minister would be alegislator or an MP, Singh said, “I can’t say anything rightnow.” Over 12 hours after the BJPdirected him to quit immediate-ly, Yeddyurappa announced thathe would resign July 31 and workfor the party. IANS

Confusion reigns in BJP as many stake claim; central leaders may stymie BSY for party chief NO NEW CM TILL 31

Energy minister Shobha Karandlaje enjoys a ride at Taj Westend, on herway to meet party leaders (top). BJP

national secretary Dharmendra Pradhan talks to media men.

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Semicon revenueto reach $15b

by 2015: Gartner

Driven by increasing con-sumption of mobilephones, computers and

LCD televisions, India’s semi-conductor revenues are expectedto reach $15 billion by 2015, re-search firm Gartner said.

Consumption is projected totouch $8.2 billion in 2011, a 15.5per cent increase from $7.1 billionin 2010, Gartner said in a state-ment.

Going forward, consumptionis projected to grow at a com-pound annual growth rate ofover 15.9 per cent to reach nearly$15 billion in 2015, it added.

“Changing demographics, in-creasing consumer affluence,economic growth and favorablegovernment policy continue todrive the electronic equipmentmanufacturing industry in In-dia,” Gartner research directorGanesh Ramamoorthy said.

Numerous global electronicequipment manufacturing com-panies have set up productionfacilities in India to take advan-tage of the growing domesticmarket and to cater to neigh-boring markets in the region, headded.

The communications electron-

ics segment, which includes mo-bile phones, wireless LAN, publicswitching and other communi-cations infrastructure equipment,is expected to account for thelargest chunk of nearly 52 percent of India’s semiconductorconsumption in 2011.

This will be followed by thedata processing electronics seg-ment comprising desktop com-puters, laptops, monitors andstorage equipment, with abouta 26 per cent share of total semi-conductor consumption.

“Given the low penetrationand the growing demand for keyelectronic equipments such asmobile phones, desktop and lap-top computers and LCD TVs, webelieve the Indian market willbe able to easily sustain highgrowth rates in the comingyears,” Ramamoorthy said.

As a result, India’s semicon-ductor consumption is expectedto grow at the fastest rate acrossthe globe through 2015, he added.

“Through 2015, nearly three-fourths of India’s semiconductorconsumption will be accountedfor by these three electronicequipment segments,” Ra-mamoorthy said. PTI

Hegde: Mining network is like mafia in Bellary

Bangalore: Lokayukta Justice SantoshHegde today said a ‘‘mafia-like’’ networkexisted in Bellary where the Reddy broth-ers, who are ministers, have influenceand illegal mining there was like a “singlewindow corruption system”.

A day after he submitted his reporton the mining scam which has led theBJP leadership to ask for chief ministerB S Yeddyurappa’’s resignation, Hegdealso said his government’s track recordtowards his reports and recommenda-tions was “very, very poor”.

“As compared to other States, theLokayukta Act is much more powerfulin Karnataka, but all this (act in Kar-nataka) is recommendatory (in nature).It (the state government) never acceptedor implemented,” Justice Hegde, a formerSupreme Court judge, said.

He said many of his suggestions madein his interim report on illegal miningsubmitted in December 2008 to “straight-en up the system” was not acted upon.

In the latest “export-centric” report,Hegde said the Lokayukta has uncovereda “mafia-like thing” network in Bellaryand adjacent districts.

“You compulsorily have to give 40-45 per cent of your produce and they(big people) will take the entire respon-sibility of transportation to whicheverdestination you choose”, he said, in anapaprent reference to Reddy brothers,and termed it as “single window cor-ruption system”. The Reddy brothers,who are mining magnates and havetremendous influence in mine-rich Bel-lary district, are among others who havebeen indicted by the Lokayukta.

He said the suffering of ordinary peoplein Bellary because of large-scale illegal

mining was “heart-rending”.Hegde said in the report, there is a

mention of certain three-four companiesopened in different countries, includingSingapore. Asked if these companies be-longed to Reddy brothers – ministersJanardhan and Karunakara – Hegdesaid: “Yes, yes”.

The Lokayukta has recommended thatthe issues of “foreign exchange evasion”mentioned in the report be referred tothe enforcement directorate for a probe.

On the extent of foreign exchangeevasion that is mentioned in the report,

he said: “We have not calculated because(the) material (exported) is under-in-voiced as also under-valued and this isvery easy to calculate because recordsshow what’s the value and what’s thequantity gone...equivalent to that, moneyhas not come back”.

On BJP central leadeship asking Yed-dyurappa to resign in the wake of hisreport indicting him, Hegde said he hasnothing to say on that.

“I am not a politician”, he saidHe said five Lokayukta officials worked

on the report for 11 months without a

holiday and sometimes sitting up as lateas 2 am.

“You can imagine if you have to scanthrough 40 lakh entries to find which isrelevant for the report.... four lakh records(examined)”, Hegde said.

Asked if his decision to send a copyto governor H R Bhardwaj was taken atthe last minute as indications given byhim earlier was that he would submitthe report only to the government, Hegdesaid: “That was because I was givingevasive answer. I did not want to disclosethat (earlier).” PTI

Oral cancer programme heldBangalore: The Narain Sewa Sansthan, in asso-ciation with the Indian Dental Association, con-ducted an interactive health awareness programmeon "oral cancer detection & tobacco control" onTuesday on the premises of Visvesvaraya Industrialand Technological Museum to educate the peopleand visitors about the adverse effects of tobaccoin various forms.

The programme was held on the occasion of46th anniversary of the Visvesvaraya Industrialand Technological Museum.

Dr Padma K Bhat, head of department publichealth dentistry and head of Narain Sewa SansthanScientific Committee, spoke on hazardous effectsof tobacco in both smokeless and smoke form.She said the country is recording maximum num-ber of oral cancer cases every year.

Dr Sachin Sinha, secretary, Narain SewaSansthan and IDA member, said 43% of cancerdeaths are due to tobacco, diet and infections.Tobacco also causes cancer at many sites, includingthroat, mouth, liver, bladder and kidneys.

A documentary film based on brushing tech-nique was shown at the auditorium. People wereadvised to use pastes containing fluoride and asoft brush.

Those from the audience were referred to NarainTobacco De-addiction Centre, approved by the

Indian Dental Association for free counselling,consultation and treatment. A display board de-scribing the ill-effects of tobacco was donated tothe museum.

Dr. Ashok Dhoble, honorary secretary-generalof the Indian Dental Association, VITM director SM Khened, VITM chief education officer S MuthuKumar, VITM education officer Gopal KrishnaPrasad, Chaitanya Dr Usha Ramagouni, Dr AmitKumar, Dr Bhumika and others were present.

Canarabank hikes

BPLR, base rate

Bangalore: Canara Bank has re-vised its base rate upward by 50basis points from 10.25 per centto 10.75 per cent with effect fromAugust 1.

The Bangalore-headquarteredbank has also revised its Bench-mark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR)upward by 50 basis points from14.50 per cent to 15 per cent, itsaid in a statement today.

Deposit rates have been re-vised upward in the range of 25basis points to 150 basis pointsfor various maturities.

The revision by Canara Bankcomes two days after the RBIhiked key short-term lendingand borrowing rates by 50 basispoints to contain inflation, whichis nearing the double-digit mark.PTI

Patient AppreciationDay held atNephroLife

Bangalore: Nephrolife Care, arenal disease management cen-tre, celebrated ‘Patient Appre-ciation Day’ recently.

The facility that offers holisticcare for kidney diseases organ-ised cultural events and a specialprize distribution ceremony forkidney patients. On the occasion,90 patients, who have showncourage and

determination in the face ofadversity, were honoured. It wasthe second year the event wasorganised.

NephroLife medical directorDr Sushma Rani said, " The Pa-tient Appreciation Day was tofacilitate those patients who haveachieved a better quality of lifeunder dialysis."

Spl KSRTCbuses toHospet

Bangalore: The Karnataka StateRoad Transport Corporation(KSRTC) has launched specialtourist buses connecting Ban-galore and Hospet, which is 350km from the city and 12 km fromHampi.

The KSRTC bus service to Hos-pet starts from Majestic bus depotat 7 am and reaches Hospet at2.15 pm.

SSLCmarkscardsdispatched

Bangalore: The education de-partment has dispatched mark-sheets of SSLC students, includ-ing those who had applied forrevaluation, to all high schoolsthrough education officers con-cerned. The students can taketheir markscards by visiting theirrespective colleges, said a pressnote from the education depart-ment.

Entries forbraveryawards

Bangalore: The child welfaredepartment has invited entriesfor bravery awards from thosein the age group of six to 18,who have shown exceptionalcourage. The application formsare available with the state childwelfare department on paymentof Rs 10. Or further information,call 080-23330846 or 22925898.

Training in baking

Bangalore: The Khadi and villageindustries commission has or-ganised a two-month trainingin bakery products for unem-ployed youth and homemakers.

The training programme willbe held between August 1 andSeptember 30. Those in the agegroup of 18 to 50 can take partin the training. Contact: Multi-Disciplinary Training Centre,Khadi and village industries com-mission, Dooravani Nagar. Call:080-25650285.

Members of the The Narain Sewa Sansthanpresent an educational board on oral cancer

detection and tobacco control to Visvesvaraya Industrial and

Technological Museum

36 autos found with faulty meters

Bangalore: Thirty-six au-torickshaws that were run-ning with faulty meterswere fined by the auto andtaxi division of the metrol-ogy department after aninspection in front of Can-tonment railway stationrecently.

The officials settled 22cases on the spot and col-lected fines of Rs 16,000from autorickshaw drivers.The department officials

checked more than 600 au-torickshaws near Cantonmentrailway station. The depart-ment is carrying out the pro-ceedings with other cases.

The department officialssaid such checks would becarried out in the future too.

Commuters who suspectthat they are travelling in au-torickshaws fitted with faultymeters can call 080- 22260554,22207750 or email:clm@kslmd.com.

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pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Rajarajesh-wari Nagar) (3.20 pm, 6.30) Inno-vative Multiplex (10 am 12.45, 10pm) Inox (Magrath) (10 am, 1.25,4.50, 9 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (10am, 12.45, 7.55, 9.35 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (12.55 pm, 5.15, 9.45pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (7.15 pm, 9.45pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am, 1, 4.10,6.30, 9.40 pm) Rex (12.30 pm)Vision Cinemas (12 pm, 2, 9.45 pm)

THE LION KING (U)Matthew Broderick, NiketaCalame, Jim Cummings“3D” Fun Cinemas (10.25 am, 5.30pm) Rex (10.40 pm)

THE SMURFS (U)Hank Azaria, Neil Patrick Harris,Jayma Mays“3D” Cinemax (2.30 pm, 7.45 pm)Fame (Lido) (10 am) Fun Cinemas(12.30 pm, 7.35 pm) Gopalan Cine-mas (Bannerghatta Road) (10 am,12, 3.45, 5, 7.45 pm) Gopalan Cine-mas (Rajarajeshwari Nagar) (2 pm,4, 6, 8 pm) Innovative Multiplex(10 am 4, 7.45 pm).

Movie ListingsKANNADA

ENGLISH

SINGHAM (U/A) Ajay Devgan, Kajal AgarwalApsara (KR Market) (11.30 am, 2.30,5.30, 8.30 pm) Cinepolis (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10.40 am, 12.45,1.20, 3.50, 6.35, 9.20, 10 pm) Everest(6.15 pm, 9.30 pm) Fame (ForumValue Mall) (10 am, 7, 6.30 pm)Fame (Lido) (12.30 am, 3, 8 pm)Fun Cinemas (12.45 pm, 6.15 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (RajarajeshwariNagarl) (10 am, 10 pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (10am)

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

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

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

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

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

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

HINDI

TAMIL

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

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

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

DEIVA THIRUMAGAL (U)

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

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

CITYFriday, July 29, 2011 3

Advertisers and hoarding management company representatives protest against “discriminative” practices of the BBMPin front of the Palike head office in the city today. They alleged that with the new restrictions on display boards by the

palike, they would go out of business and would have no means of earning their livelihoods.

Protest for hoardings

CITY EVENTSGeneralAkhila Karnataka Dalita Hin-dulida AlpasankhyataraSamiti: Seminar on ‘Casteismand Corruption’, Sri Shivaku-maraswami of SiddagangaMutt and Advocate Dorairajuto participate, Town Hall, 4pm.

The Mythic Society: Talk on‘Small Newspaper and itsWorking Experience, by Jour-nalist T P Ramesh, Nrupathun-ga Road, 6 pm.

The Institution of Engineers:Talk on ‘Anatomy of an Indus-try Rehabilitation of Sick In-dustries’, by H R Gopalakrish-na, 3, B R Ambedkar Veedhi,5.30 pm.

Rotary Bangalore Rama-murthynagar: Installation ofthe president and his team forthe year 2011-12, by Rtn BadriPrasad, CMR Health Campus,OMBR Layout, Bhuvanagiri,Banaswadi, 7 pm.

CulturalSri Gurukanaka Shirdi SaiSeva Sangha: Play ‘UrilingaPeddi’, directed by S Ra-jagopal, A V Varadachar Me-morial Hall, behind NatarajTalkies, Seshadripuram, 6 pm.

Abhinaya Taranga: Inaugu-ration of one-month trainingprogramme ‘Frame’ by cineactor Jayamala, felicitation toB Suresh, 5th Cross, A N SubbaRao Road, Hanumanthanagar,7 pm.

ICCR: Bharatnatyam recitalby Preethi Prasad at Yavanika,6.30 pm.

The Indian Institute of WorldCulture: Bharatnatyam recitalby Aparna Shastri at 6, Shri BP Wadia Road, 6 pm.

Merging Flues: Inaugurationof a collection of contemporaryAfrican art - ‘Out of Africa’ byRani Satish, former minister,Amrutakumar, NHAI ExecutiveEngineer to participate, Prati-ma Art Gallery, 104, AndrewsBldg, near Joy Alukkas, M GRoad, 7 pm.

Religious Karnataka Government Sec-retariat Club: Discourse on‘British Educational Order’ byKeshavamurthy, Club premis-es, Cubbon Park, 6 pm.

Deenabandhu Devasthanam:Discourse on ‘Kaivalya Upan-ishad’ by Brahmananda atGangamma Thimmaiah Con-vention Hall, Basaveshwarana-gar, 6.30 pm.

ExhibitionCultural Connections: Friday,July 29th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, No A-1 Epsilon Office Block, YemalurMain Road, Yemalur An exhi-bition of contemporary Indianpaintings by Parmesh D Joladand Sudeep Mukerjee, curatedby Jasmine Khanna.

Recorder of Life, Beauty andTruth: Friday, July 29th, 2011.10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tasveer, No26/1, Kasturba Cross Road,Tasveer presents an exhibitionof photographs by TS Satyan,one of India's first photojour-nalists.

Tête-à-tête @ Apparao: Friday,July 29th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 8p.m. Apparao Galleries, No 82The Presidency, St Marks Road,Apparao Galleries presents'Tête-à-tête', an exhibition ofpaintings and sculptures byeleven artists including Altaf,Anjolie Ela Menon, FN Souza,George K, K Muralidhar, Lax-ma Goud, Shipra Bhattacharyaand Sunil Padwal.

A Slice of Life @ Veda: Friday,July 29th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 6p.m. Veda Art Gallery, PalaceView Builidng, Sankey Road,Kumara Park West Veda ArtGallery presents 'A Slice ofLife', an exhibition of art workby JMS Mani, Laxman Aelay,Kishan Kappari and Muruge-san.

Group Show @ Sumukha:Friday, July 29th, 2011. 10:30a.m. to 6 p.m. GallerySumukha, No 24/10, BTS DepotRoad, Wilson Garden An ex-hibition of sculptures, etch-ings, woodcuts and photo-graphs by various artists fromdifferent parts of the country.

The Taste of a Collector: Fri-day, July 29th, 2011. 11 a.m. to7 p.m. Gallery Time & Space,No 55, Lavelle Road, An exhi-bition of artwork from the pri-vate collection of Vatsal Pod-dar, a successful businessmanand art enthusiast.

Remembering Husain: Fri-day, July 29th, 2011. 10 a.m. to7 p.m. Kynkyny Art, No 148Embassy Square, InfantryRoad, Kynkyny Art hosts aspecial exhibition of paintingspaying tribute to the legendaryMF Husain.

Group show @ Renaissance:Friday, July 29th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Renaissance Gallerie,No 13 Westminster, Cunning-ham Road, Paintings by SanjaySable, Bijoy Basak, MariyamMinha and Sangeeta.

ShoppingCrimson's Annual MonsoonSale: Friday, July 29th, 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.

Sale @ Esprit: Friday, July29th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.Esprit, No 10 Ananda Bhavan,Vittal Mallya Road, Esprit an-nounces a sale where patronscan avail discounts of up to50% on apparel and acces-sories, and a flat 25% offwatches.

Sale @ French Connection:Friday, July 29th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 9 p.m. French Connection,Adarsh Opus, Campbell Road,Austin Town Men get a flat30% off, while women are en-titled to discounts up to 50%on all merchandise at FrenchConnection’s end of seasonsale across all outlets.

Van Heusen Sale: Friday, July29th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.Van Heusen, No 194, BrigadeRoad, Discounts of up to 40%on all apparel. The sale is onacross all outlets.

Happiness Sale: Friday, July29th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.Bangalore Central, No 47/48Victoria Embassy, ResidencyRoad, Bangalore Central an-nounces the Happiness Sale,featuring apparel and acces-sories at discounts of up to 61percent. The sale is on acrossall outlets.

EducationSICHREM: South Indian cellfor human rights educationand monitoring extends freehuman rights counseling andlegal advice for victims of hu-man rights violation, call: 080-2580407273/25473922/9449816942 between 3.30pm to 5.30pm(Monday to Friday)

FoodKerala 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.

Mama Mia! Introduces theIce-cream Cakes: which aregreat for any celebration ditchthe regular creamy cake onyour next birthday for a deli-cious frozen icecream cake.Price: Rs 389 for 1 kg and Rs699 for 2 kg and Rs 59 perslice. Indiranagar Call 4114-9423, Koramangala. Tel: 93794-16398, Jyoti Niwas CollegeRoad. Koramangala Tel:40981868.

FilmsScreening of 'On the Wingsof Dreams': Friday, July 29th,2011. 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Banga-lore International Centre - ATERI Initiative, Teri Complex,2nd Stage, 4th Main, 2nd Cross,Domlur As part of theBangladeshi Film Festival, theBangalore International Centrescreens 'On the Wings ofDreams'.

TheatreMonty Python's Spamalot:Friday, July 29th, 2011. 7:15p.m. to 9:15 p.m. ChowdiahMemorial Hall, Gayathri DeviPark Extension, 2nd MainRoad, 16th Cross, Mallesh-waram A musical spoof onKing Arthur and his knightsof Camelot and their quest forthe Holy Grail.

Eating OutPower Lunch: Friday, July29th, 2011. 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.City Bar Karaoke + Grill, UBCity, No 24, Vittal Mallya Road,Now be connected even duringthe quick business lunch. Freewi-fi access while you fill upin the middle of the day.

Weekday Lunch Buffet @ManU: Friday, July 29th, 2011.noon to 3 p.m. ManchesterUnited Restaurant Bar.

Karunakara: Hegde must tender public apology

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Lokayukta JusticeSantosh Hegde has to apologisein public for carrying false in-formation about me in his secondand final report on illegal mining,said revenue minister G Karunar-ka Reddy here this morning.

Attacking Justice Hegde fornot checking his facts before ap-proving the report, KarunakaraReddy said, “I have been men-tioned in Chapter 8 of the reportas being the director of Obula-puram Mining Company. Butwhat he should have checkedwas that I resigned from the poston February 12, 2004 and nolonger hold that post.”

“Through such claims, theLokayukta has been spreadingfalsehood among the people ofthe state and country. I hold aresponsible position and I shouldhave been given a chance to ex-plain and clarify my version be-fore submitting the report,” hesaid.The report mentions that GJanardhana Reddy, G KarunakarReddy and B Sree Ramulu, weredirectors of Obulapuram MiningCompany at the time when themisconduct was committed. TheLokayukta has recommended tothe competent authority for re-moval of these ministers fromthe cabinet.

“I have a lot of respect forJustice Hegde, but I cannot un-derstand why he has given sucha report. At the time of becominga member of the Lokasabha in

2004, I had resigned from thepost, and my resignation to wasaccepted then,” he said.

“I have presented these factsbefore the governor and the Elec-tion Commission of India already.Now, I have got an appointmentwith the governor and I will ex-plain to him the facts that havebeen misrepresented in the re-

port. I have also sent documents

to support my claim to state BJPpresident K S Eshwarappa andnational party leaders L K Advani, Sushma Swaraj, Arunjaitley, Nitin Gadkari, Dharmen-dra Pradhan, RavishankarPrasad, Ananth Kumar and others,” he said.

Revenue minister G Karunakara Reddy addresses the mediain the city today. He sought a public apology from Lokayukta

Justice Santosh Hegde as saying that he held the post of director in Obulapuram Mining Company at the time of the

company allegedly involving in illegal activities.

City to host first internationalexpo on printed circuit boards

L RaghunandaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: The Indian Printed Circuit As-sociation (IPCA) is hosting its first interna-tional expo at the Karnataka Trade PromotionOrganisation at Koramangala from August3 to 5.

IPCA is the only organisation in the coun-try representing the interests of printedcircuit board (PCB) manufacturers. PCBsare the basic component of any electronicgoods and computers.

The expo would have participation fromthe country and abroad. A host of companiesfrom Germany, the US, China, Russia, Japanand South Korea are taking part.

IPCA president Mukund Shah said, “PCBindustry has grown of age in the country.This expo will be an ideal platform for mostof PCB and its component manufacturers.”

“Many units in India have grown in vol-ume and corresponding turnover. Prominentplayers, Ascent Circuits, Shogini TechnoArts and Epitome Components, are recordingturnovers that are just short of Rs 100 crore,”he said.

There are 180 PCB manufacturers in thecountry, of which 50 are leading componentmanufacturers. “We want PCB manufacturersand allied industries to make use of thisexpo and display their ware, not just for In-dian suppliers but also outside vendors,”he said.

On the purpose of the expo, Shah said,“It is to bring the focus on small and micro

industries that contribute nearly 60 percentof the total production in the country. Theexpo will also have seminars, training cours-es, business meetings and CEO conclaves.”

It will benefit designers, embedded sys-tems integrators and suppliers to PCB man-ufacturers. Other industries too could gainby keeping track of the developments inthe industry.

The organisers believe that the electronichardware industry that is growing at a rapidpace would reach $85 billion by next year.

The expo will help IPCA in passing on

the message to the industry that it shouldbe competitive globally, face competitionand to make PCBs an important part of thegrowing electronic hardware industry inIndia.

IPCA, under its designer wing ElectronicDesigners Council of India (EDCI), has or-ganised a three-day PCB designers certifi-cation designers training programme onthe side lines of the expo. With this profes-sionals already in the industry will get prac-tical knowledge and skills in the developmentand design of PCBs.

Guv must intervene,sack govt: Siddu

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Governor H R Bhard-waj should demand the resig-nation of chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa and also sack the cor-rupt BJP government, said op-position leader in the assemblySiddaramaiah here this morn-ing.

Yeddyurappa’s name has beenmentioned in the Lokayukta Jus-tice Santosh Hegde’s final reporton illegal mining.

The report has given a detailedaccount of how the chief ministerwas involved in scandals, howreceived crores of rupees as do-nation to his family trust etc, hesaid.

Yeddyurappa does not haveany moral right to continue inoffice. Also, housing minister VSomanna, tourism minister GJanardhana Reddy, revenue min-ister G Karunakara Reddy andhealth minister B Sri Ramulushould quit as they too havebeen indicted by Justice Hegde,he said.

The governor should use hisfull authority and powers to seekthe resignations of the corruptchief minister and four ministersbefore sacking the BJP govern-ment, he said.

Yeddyurappa and his four col-leagues should be booked under

the Prevention of Corruption Act.They should be treated as com-mon men as far as law is con-cerned, he demanded.

It is the Congress which foughtagainst illegal mining and the“jungle raj” in Bellary. Seniorparty leader V S Ugrappa andhis team have conducted an in-vestigation in the area and havesubmitted a report to the Kar-nataka Pradesh Congress Com-mittee, he said.

“The Lokayukta has done agood job. We welcome the fairinvestigation and the report.Whoever is involved in illegalmining should be punished un-der law,” he demanded.

If the chief ministers and hiscorrupt colleagues do not resignimmediately, the Congress wouldhold a statewide agitation instages, he said.

Let himcome with

proof:Lokayukta

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: “Let KarunakaraReddy has made the allega-tions that I have wronglymentioned his designationin the report on illegal min-ing. Let him approach mewith proper documents, thenI will consider them,” saidLokayukta Justice SantoshHegde here this morning.

Reacting to the allegationsby the revenue minister thatfacts have not been checkedbefore filing the report, Jus-tice Hegde said, “We havethoroughly checked our factsand figures before preparingthe report. If Karunkara Red-dy has any proof to the con-trary, he should it to me.”

Control corruption, says Hegde

Continued from page 1“I feel sorry that the gov-ernment has not taken ap-propriate action reportsfiled by the Lokayukta.This reveals the lethargicfunctioning of the govern-ment,” he said.

“Government servantsare rude. If anyone files acomplaint against a cor-rupt official with theLokayukta, that person iswarned and blackmailedby government officials.They will try to fix himand cause unnecessarytrouble for him. This is thereason many do not comebefore the Lokayukta tofile complaints against cor-rupt officials,” he said.

“As a Lokayukta, I havedone my job. I don’t haveany personal grudgesagainst anyone. As thehead of an institution, itwas my duty and responsibilityto serve the people fairly. I havethe satisfaction of performingmy duties as a Lokayukta. Ihelped a child get operated upon.His parents had approached mefor help. I asked the hospitals tohelp the child out, and all thehospitals in the city respondedpositively. Doctors from ManipalHospital performed the operationand saved the child. He is normalnow. It was one of the biggestdeeds during my tenure asLokayukta, and I will rememberit forever,” he said.

“Even after my retirement, Iwill be committed to the fightagainst corruption. I will not joinany political party or organisa-tion. My support will be for val-ue-based issues,” he said.

“Today’s youth should joinhands and fight corruption. Theeducated should spread aware-ness on corruption, which isagainst the society. Corruptionwill hamper the development ofthe country. The young genera-tion should have the commit-ment to serve the nation andwork towards its progress,” hesaid.

On phone tapping, he said,“Yes, my phones have beentapped from Dollars Colony,

Basavanagudi and Chamarajpet.I have earlier too said that mytelephones were tapped and Istand by it.”

On his tenure, he said, “WhenI took over as Lokayukta fromJustice Venkatachala, many hadcriticized me saying that I wouldnot be able to go in the openand head the raids. But in mytenure, we have conducted morethan 1,600 raids. This year fromJanuary till date, there have been270 raids. This is high, whenyou compare it with the 324 raidsconducted during the entire2010.”

He said, “Thousands of peopleapproached the Lokayukta of-fices and received help. Theywere satisfied with the servicesrendered and have gone backhappy.”

On the Jan Lokpal bill, hesaid, “The exclusion of PrimeMinister from the ambit of thebill is not the most important is-sue.

More than that, it would givepowers to the people and thevoter to question his elected rep-resentative. Politicians would beunder constant scrutiny and un-der pressure to perform. The billis relevant to the people of thenation.”

Co‑ops have grown: PatilBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Cooperative societieshave done great service to soci-ety, grown in strength and havebeen appreciated by the people,said cooperative movementleader and former minister rH KPatil said here this morning.

Inaugurating a two-day work-shop for the newly inducted so-cieties and those heading thesesocieties organised by the Kar-nataka Souharda Federation Co-operation Limited (KSFCL) heretoday, he said, “Credit societies

have shown good growth of late.Marketing societies have come

under them and the governmenttoo has helped them time andagain.”

“Cooperative societies havehelped the people. Some societieshad come with religious tag tothe KSFCL, but over time havegotten rid of the association andhave been working for the com-mon good,” he said.

The KSFCL is training directorsand other office-bearers of thesesocieties on various aspects ofrunning cooperative societies.

The KSFCL has been a statu-tory body with over 1700 co-op-

erative societies throughout thestate under it. Societies underKSFCL have established schools,given loans at low interest rateand covered a large section ofthe underprivileged under in-surance schemes. Of the 1,700societies, 384 have been doingextremely well and generatedmore than Rs 1 crore. Last yearalone, 329 new cooperative so-cieties were added. KSFCL pres-ident S R Satish Chandra, directorin-charge (Bangalore) S J Hegdeand director B H Krishna Reddywere present.

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NEWSFriday, July 29, 2011 4

Interests of Indian students to be protected at varsity: US

Washington: US has assuredto protect the interests of hun-dreds of Indian students at theUniversity of Northern Virginia(UNVA), which was raided byinvestigating and law enforce-ment agencies on suspectedcharges of alleged visa fraud.

In a day-long exercise, whichwas continuing late in theevening, dozens of officials, fromdifferent federal agencies includ-ing Immigration and CustomsEnforcement (ICE) and FederalBureau of Investigation (FBI),entered the Annandale campusof the university and took awaywith them a large number ofboxes full of documents andcomputer hard drives from itsadministrative division.

“Today, officials from ICE’sStudent and Exchange VisitorProgramme (SEVP) served UNVAwith a Notice of Intent to With-draw (NOIW) UNVA’s authorisa-tion to admit foreign students,”ICE spokeswoman Cori W Bassettin a statement.

Based in Annandale, Virginia,a suburb of Washington, the uni-versity is believed to have 2,400students of which 90 per centare from India, of which an over-whelming majority are said tobe from Andhra Pradesh.

The university declined tomake any comment, neither did

it communicated with its stu-dents and staff, except for postinga notice on its entrance informingthat the university is still open,but students have the choice tomove to other varsities or lookfor other options if they want.

Informed sources said UNVAwas authorised to issue I-20 formto about 50 students, but hadissued and enrolled a much larg-er number. .

However, based on the expe-rience of the Tri-valley case, andgiven that India had strongly ob-jected to the manner in whichits students were treated, US au-thorities are believed to have in-formed their Indian counterpartsthat they would be handling thepresent investigation and followup action somewhat differently.

Unlike Tri Valley University,the focus of investigations hereis not on students but on theschools itself. No arrest, detentionor electronic monitoring wouldbe done on students, officialssaid.

Further, the university wouldnot be immediately shut down.The university has been given amonths’ notice for explanation.

The present students wouldhave one of the three options:continue at the University whileit functions, seek transfer to an-other university and seek vol-

untary return to India.In another major relief, visa

status of the students would notbe terminated, they would re-main valid for their present du-ration, which would also providetime for seeking transfers whilecontinuing in a valid visa sta-tus.

In another notice, ICE has in-formed the UNVA students thatthey have two choices ? continueto attend classes and maintaintheir active status, seek transferto another SEVP-approved insti-tution.

“UNVA students must imme-diately depart the country if theyare unable to continue to attendclasses and maintain their activestatus in a manner required bythe regulation or if they are un-able or do not wish to seek trans-fer to another SEVP-certified in-stitution,” it said.

UNVA officials no longer haveaccess to SEVIS and not be ableto manage non-immigrant stu-dents records in SEVIC, the noticesaid.

“UNVA non-immigrant stu-dents should contact SEVP, asthey would their designatedschool official (DSO), to reportany changes, so their SEVISrecord and Form I-20 can be up-dated accordingly,” the noticesaid.

US authorities investigatingthe case, acknowledge lacunain their current education andvisa system which was not toearly identification of universitiesthat exceed their mandate. It isunderstood that following Trivalley and University of NorthVirginia, they are looking intoaddressing thus.

A number of students andteachers had gathered outsidethe university since morning,most of whom were not willingto speak to the media. However,Zubair Masood, a teacher at theuniversity, said that FBI and ICIofficials suddenly appeared atthe university early this morn-ing.

“They asked questions, theytook photographs. They took 30minutes and then they let us outof the building,” he said, addingthat probably they are suspectingthat there are students here whoare not registered properly.

Masood said that the univer-sity officials told them late inthe night that the university isstill open, and they still havetheir jobs.

MBA student Maria Guzman,a foreign student from Bulgaria,said that the raid is shocking forthe university students. “My classmates and me are concernedabout what is going on. We are

I only followed my masterRajaʼs orders: Chandolia

New Delhi: R K Chandolia, theformer private secretary to ARaja, today claimed innocencein the 2G case before a Delhicourt, saying that he merely fol-lowed the instructions of his"master", the former telecomminister.

Advancing his arguments op-posing framing of chargesagainst him, Chandolia said hewas only an official to assistRaja in day-to-day work.

"A Raja was the (telecom)minister and my master. I merelycarried out his instructions,"advocate Vijay Agarwal, ap-pearing for Chandolia, told spe-cial CBI judge O P Saini.

"I was his (Raja's) sophisti-cated helper. I am only an extraassisting hand to carry out in-structions of my master.

Can I question my master?

How can an assisting staff beroped in by the CBI?" he asked.

He submitted he is not a per-son associated with the DMK,Kalaignar TV or any other tele-com company.

Chandolia, who began his ar-guments today opposing fram-ing of charges against him, alsochallenged the CBI to show asingle document as evidenceon which he has put his signa-ture.

Before he began his argu-ments, the court dismissed hisplea seeking interim bail on theground that the CBI lacks propersanction to prosecute him inthe case.

Earlier, Raja and former tele-com secretary Siddhartha Be-hura had concluded their ar-guments on framing of chargesduring which they had sought

to drag Prime Minister Manmo-han Singh saying he was awareof decisions taken by Raja.

They had also sought to makethe then Finance Minister andpresent Home Minister P Chidambaram a witness in thecase saying he was privy to thedecision allowing dilution ofequities in Swan Telecom andUnitech Wireless.

They had also contended thatattorney general G E Vahanvati,who was the then Solicitor Gen-eral, had approved a press re-lease and the changes that Raja allegedly made in the first-come-first-serve policy for spec-trum allocation.

Behura had also named RBIGovernor D Subbarao accusinghim of not revising the spectrumlicence fee when he was the fi-nance secretary. PTI

Sibal: High cut‑off marks dueto demand‑supply mismatch

New Delhi: The controversial100 per cent cut-off marks thisyear for admission in certainstreams in Delhi University isdue to the demand-supply dy-namics and a solution to thislay only in expanding the edu-cational infrastructure, HRD min-ister Kapil Sibal has said.

“If the demand is much greaterthan supply, then the cut-offwill go high automatically. It’san institutional issue,” he said.

“If there is one Sri Ram Collegeof Commerce and everybodywants admission there, what so-lution can I have?” he asked.

Sibal, who had earlier termedthe high cut-off as “irrational”,said a solution to the problemlies in expanding the educationalinfrastructure across the country.“Government cannot set up allthe education institutions, uni-versities and colleges. So, theprivate sector must play an im-portant role in the years to comeand we want expansion of privatesector in education sector,” he

added.The high cut-off marks, in-

cluding 100 per cent in Sri RamCollege of Commerce, one ofDelhi University’s famous col-leges, for admission this yearhad triggered a major row lastmonth with a majority of stu-dents and parents coming outagainst such a yardstick.

Stating that fixing the cut-offat 100 per cent for non-Commercestudents is also a reflection ofthe prevailing education systembased on discipline, Sibalstressed on reforming the system.Sibal said: “We must change thisconcept of a commerce steam,an arts and a science stream,because it suggests a sciencestudent should only do scienceand not history.”

“When mind has no bound-aries, why knowledge shouldhave boundaries? Once we getrid of these boundaries and ex-pand the education sector, someof these problems will be gone,”he said.

Asked what steps the govern-ment is taking to fill OBC seatsamid reports of a large numberof them going vacant and sub-sequently transfered to generalpool, the Minister said “we havegiven a directive that none ofthe seats will go the general cat-egory”. He said the ministrywill ensure that 27 per cent OBCquota is filled up.

“We have also said if the marksare less than 10 per cent (the re-laxation limit), you go below the10 per cent.”

Elaborating on the issue, hesaid the Supreme Court orderdid not lay any rigid limit for re-laxation of percentage for OBCcategory.

“If you get 100 per cent andfor OBC category it becomes 90per cent, the guy with 89 percent cannot get in. That wouldbe a very unfair interpretationof the Supreme Court judgementbecause the Supreme Court didnot imagine this kind of sce-nario,” he said. PTI

Corporators from opposition parties protest against the ruling party, BJP, on the floor ofthe council demanding the 2011-12 budget today.

Protest at palike

For every H‑1B visa,US tech firms hire 5

workers: NasdaqWashington: Denying allega-tions of US lawmakers and cer-tain quarters here that H-1B visastake away jobs from Americans,Nasdaq’s chief has claimed thatstudies show that for every H-1B visa, technology companiesincrease employment by fiveworkers. “Let me take the jobstealing issue head-on,” NasdaqCEO Robert Griefeld told senatorsat a Congressional hearing onimmigration reform early thisweek. “Opponents of enhancedlegal immigration argue thatwhen a foreign-born, highlyskilled immigrant gets a job,American graduates are the los-ers,” he said. “But my researchand experience tell me quite adifferent story. For example, theNational Federation for AmericanPolicy says that for every H-1Bworker requested, US technologycompanies increase their overallemployment by five workers,”Griefeld said. The Nasdaq CEOargued there was a case to enacta more flexible and stable regimefor legal immigration.

“Reform must convey eco-nomic priorities about job growthand global competitiveness. In-creasing H-1B visas is simply notenough. We need to admit andkeep entrepreneurs here so thatthe creative dynamic of our econ-omy is enhanced by the verybest skills and minds,” he said.

“Whether in Silicon Valley,Austin, Chicago, or anywhereelse in the United States, I hearfrom CEOs that the H-1B visa

system is inadequate for today’shuman capital marketplace andthe backlog for green cards andwhat they mean to the qualityand the uncertainty of the livesof these foreign-born employeesis a legitimate threat to theirbusinesses,” he said.

“Many companies can, if need-ed, locate people in Canada, Eu-rope, India or any country thatwants those jobs and the benefitsthey bring,” he said. .

Puneet Arora, the vice-presi-dent of Immigration Voice, toldlawmakers that frustration withthe immigration system sentWharton graduate Kunal Bahlback home in 2007 where hewent and foundedSnapDeal.com.

This is a rapidly growing com-pany with over $20 million inannual revenue, over 400 work-ers and growing at the rate of 70workers a month. This, India’sequivalent of Groupon, has majorUS venture capitalists like VinodDham, the father of the Intelchip, investing significantly init. “Reports from India and Chinasuggest that this is not an isolatedexample. This is a growing trend.We often hear concerns that for-eign-born workers are takingjobs and stalling the economicrecovery,” Arora said.

Ronil Hira, associate professorof Public Policy, Rochester In-stitute of Technology said theH-1B and L-1 visa programmesneed immediate and substantialoverhaul.

Renovated Wankhedemay be dug up again

Mumbai: The turf at theWankhede Stadium, which un-derwent massive refurbishmentcosting Rs 300 crore before theWorld Cup, may have to be dugup again to repair dilapidateddrainage pipes, according toMumbai municipal authorities.

“In August 2010, we hadbrought to the notice of MumbaiCricket Association (MCA) aboutthe dilapidated drainage linethat is underneath the stadium.Then again in January and Aprilthis year we had written a letterto them to carry out repair workbefore the onset of monsoon,”storm water drains (swd), chiefengineer, L S Vhatkar told PTI.

“But the MCA did not repairthe drainage line under the sta-dium saying that they haveWorld Cup and IPL matches (thatfollowed the mega event) tohost,” Vhatkar said.

It may be recalled that the re-vamped Wankhede stadium,venue of the 2011 World Cup fi-nal, had come under the scannerof Mumbai Fire Brigade for notfollowing the fire safety mecha-nism. In its last letter dated April,24, 2011, the Brihanmumbai Mu-nicipal Corporation (BMC) hadsaid that during its site visit onApril 6, it had observed that thework of box drain of 1.5 m inwidth and 2 m in height in lieuof the existing drain had notbeen carried out. “You are awarethat the monsoon is approachingfast, hence it is necessary tocarry out the work of box drainat the earliest to abate flooding.While issuing part completioncertificate for SWD work youhave submitted undertaking thatyou shall complete the remainingSWD work before the onset ofmonsoon,” he said. PTI

Farmers arrested forviolating ban orders

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Mysore: Police arrested KarnatakaState Sugarcane Growers Associationpresident Kuruburu Shantha Kumarand 30 others this morning for violatingSection 144 imposed in and around thedeputy commissioner’s office.

The police arrested cane growerswho were protesting peacefully de-manding remunerative prices for theirproduce. Deputy commissioner P SVastrad had called a meeting of canegrowers yesterday in which heated ex-changes took place resulting in endingthe meeting abruptly.

Sources said the meeting witnessedangry exchange of words between theDC and farmers’ representatives.

As a result the DC imposed Section144 from today morning in order tostop cane growers from continuing theirprotest.

Farmer leader Kuruburu Shantha Kumar being arrested by police for defying prohibitory orders at Mysore this morning.

Apple hasmore cash

than USgovt today

New York: As of today, Appleboss Steve Jobs is richer thanUncle Sam.

While the world’s most pow-erful government has just $73.76billion in its reserves, the world’stop technology company has aneat cash pile of $75.87 billionThursday.

The US Treasury DepartmentThursday warned that it has nowonly this much operating budgetas Republicans and Democratsfight over raising the nation’sdebt ceiling. With only that muchreserve at its disposal, the ObamaWhite House has warned the

Republicans that the US gov-ernment won’t be able to meet

its obligations as of Aug 2.Facing a government default,

Obama can definitely turn toSteve Jobs to give him a verybrief breathing space.

The failure by the Republicansand Democrats to come to a com-promise to raise the current $14.3trillion debt ceiling by Aug 2could lead to a hike in interestrates. The already battered dollarmay also plunge further.

With its market capitalisationof $363.25 billion, Apple is thesecond largest company on theplanet after American oil giantExxon Mobil. The Cupertino-based Apple started rising sud-denly in 2007 when it enteredthe smart phone market withthe launch of its first version ofthe iPhone.

Within three years, Apple wenton to overhaul BlackBerry com-pany Research In Motion (RIM)which invented the smart phoneand dominated the market.

Lathicharge in Mysoreover water row

Ramya Y NBangalore Beat Bureau

Mysore: Police resorted to lathicharge this morning in Gandhi-nagar to control an enraged mobwho was protesting against lackof water supply.

The people protested the watersupply authority Vanivilas WaterSupply from deviating water to

an adjacent locality Eranagere.When public questioned the au-thorities, they said that local cor-porator Ravindra Nayak had in-structed them to divert water toEranagere.

An angry mob demanded anapology from the corporator.When he refused he was assault-ed.

The police arrived on the scene

and resorted to mild lathi chargeto disperse agitated mob.

Mayor Pushpalatha Chikkannaand former mayor Ayub Khanvisited the spot and promisedthat they would sort out theproblem immediately.

Meanwhile, the Mysore CityCorporation has deployedtankers to supply water to Gand-hinagar area.

2 buildingscollapse, 4 injured

Amritsar: Four persons were to-day injured when two housescollapsed due to heavy rains atKatra Ahluwalia, just a few yardsaway from the Golden Templehere, officials said.

The two houses, already indilapidated condition, collapsedthis morning due to heavy show-ers, Executive Magistrate VinaySharma said. All the injured werebrought out from the collapsedbuildings, however, a 19-year-old handicapped girl Bharti isstill trapped inside the buildingand is yet to be rescued, Sharmasaid. Efforts are on to rescue herfrom the debris, he added.

The four injured have beenadmitted to a nearby hospitalwhere their condition was statedto be stable, he said. PTI

2 Portugueseheld in Agra

Agra: Two Portuguese nationalswere arrested here for allegedlyindulging in “indecent acts”, po-lice said today.

The nationals, identified asMore Pereira and Dorio Fildelo,were arrested yesterday alongwith a local young woman fromPanchwati Colony after some residents staged a demon-stration outside the apartmentalleging that two girls were seenspending nights at the flat regularly, they said.

The foreigners and one girlwere taken into custody whilethe second woman managed toescape, they said.

US officials raid anothervarsity for fraud

Washington: Authorities in UShave raided offices of anotheruniversity on the charges offraud, this time in the suburb ofWashington, where 90 per centof the students are from India.

In a day-long exercise, dozensof officials from different federalagencies, including Immigrationand Customs Enforcement andFBI, yesterday raided offices atthe University of Northern Vir-ginia’s Annandale campus andtook away with them a largenumber of boxes full of docu-ments and computer hard drivesfrom its administrative division.

“Today, officials from ICE’sStudent and Exchange VisitorProgramme (SEVP) served UNVA

with a Notice of Intent to With-draw (NOIW) UNVA’s authori-sation to admit foreign students,”ICE spokeswoman Cori W Bassettin a statement.

Based in Annandale, Virginia,a suburb of Washington, theuniversity is believed to have2,400 students of which 90 percent are from India, of whichan overwhelming majority aresaid to be from Andhra Pradesh.

The university declined tomake any comment, neither didit communicated with its stu-dents and staff, except for post-ing a notice on its entrance in-forming that the university isstill open, but students have thechoice to move to other varsities

or look for other options if theywant.

The university temporarilycan’t accept any foreign students,reads the notice posted on thedoor of the offices.

UNVA students must leavethe country immediately if theyare unable “to continue to attendclasses and maintain their activestatus in a manner required byfederal government regulations,”the notice reads.

Earlier in January, US author-ities raided and shut down Tri-Valley University in Californiaon charges of massive immigra-tion fraud, leaving over a thou-sand Indian students’ fate hang-ing. PTI

Police resort to mild lathicharge to disperse agitating public who were protesting against diversion of water to a neighbouring locality in Gandhinagar, Mysore this morning.

Beyond BeatFriday, July 29, 2011

Foreign superheroes and characterswill have to make way as the In-dian-themed games laced withBollywood masala, Indian cricketfever and ancient mythology make

their presence felt on the social gaming sce-nario.

“Indians want Indian content”, saidRajagopal Menon, director, Games2win,whose games like The Great IndianArranged Marriage, Turbo Cricket, KissMathave found takers.

“Bold and Beautiful was great 20 yearsago when Star TV first came into India, to-day even MTV is desi”, says Menon.

“Secondly, Indians are getting richerand are willing to spend. The Law of de-mand and supply takes over from here.Cricket and Bollywood are testimony to thefact that Indian content has arrived andhow!” he said.

According to Rahul Razdan, President –Products & Operations, ibibo web, Indiansocial gaming was going the mainstreamcinema and television way, where local cre-ated media managed to make a strong state-ment.

“The Indian gaming audience is lookingfor stories and characters they identifywith and situations that are nearer home...It is local that has a bigger appeal, similarto mainstream cinema and television” hesaid.

Sony Playstation, leading console gameplayer, which has partnered with Bollywoodblockbuster franchise to create a PlaySta-tion game on the movie – RA.ONE – star-ring Shah Rukh Khan, said India-basedtheme was finding takers.

According to Atindriya Bose, countrymanager, Sony PlayStation, which hasrolled out games based on mythologicalcharacters like Hanuman, said, “It was bet-ter to have known characters, known sto-rylines instead of a new story, creating newcharacters, as the market here still has tomature. The comfort level with these char-actes and story line is higher especially infirst time gamers,” said Bose.

Sony has also tied up with known IPs likeTinkle comics for creating games withnow famous characters like Suppandi,Shikari Shambu. “There is automatic ac-ceptance”, he said.

Games like Street Cricket have also beenwidely lapped up due to its Indian flavour,Bose said.

However, Menon cautions: “Thesegamers demand quality games as theyare exposed to the best content from acrossthe world and will not settle for less.”

It is contemporary game setting andsimple but interesting game play that willwork, opines Menon.

Razdan says that social games here arelike soap operas, where the stories keepevolving on continuous basis. The gameprogresses on the basis of the reaction fromplayers.”There is an opportunity to intro-duce contextual elements and add excite-ment as the game progresses.”

He said when ibibo launched the game`Yes Minister’ which revolved around theconcept of raising one’s voice over cor-ruption and building ideal India, there were50,000 players in the first week of itslaunch.

The numbers doubled to 1,00,000 in one-and-a-half month after introduction of anAnna Hazare element to the game duringthe anti-corruption campaign. The numbersaugmented further due to the contextual rel-evance, he said.

It is not just Indian original games butalso Indianised versions of foreign gamesthat saw players getting hooked on to thegame. Farming games, which as a genre ex-ist globally, and call on players to sow crops,harvest, plough money; when given an In-dian flavour saw a better uptake.

The company, at the height of onionprices, delivered onions at the door step ofplayers who had grown and harvested thehighest number of onions. “Only a localplayer can understand the sensitivity ofonion prices,” he said.

“Locally created content is going to be theengine of growth,” says Razdan.

The next medium of distribution that willtake the local content gaming to the nextlevel is the mobile platform. Social networkis another platform that could providethat momentum. “We are adding a sociallayer to all games and our best cricket game,Ultimate Cricket is being taken to Face-book,” says Menon.

Brand building through gaming could beanother avenue that holds potential, saysBose.

“Great content is hit anywhere. If a greatdesi game is appreciated by Indians in In-dia, NRIs also like it”, says Menon, outlin-ing the growing opportunities in the mar-ket.

According to Bose, the company has alsofound overseas takers for its games thatwere popular in India but have been mod-ified to suit international audience. “Thereis a global foot print while using an Indi-an storyline”.

However, some of the games that had anout and out Indians story line like BattleRoyale and Chandragupta Warriors that fo-cused on Indian history and battles, weremore suited to the Indian gaming audience,

he said.However, Rijul R, a game developer,

said Indian-themed games should be mademore interesting to catch the attention ofplayers.

Local content games still lack the tech-nology edge and the prowess of a foreigndeveloped game. “Look at counterstrike, itis still one of the popular games even afterall these years. We need to have suchgames for the domestic players to make animpact”, he said.

The promotion and marketing compo-nent of foreign game developers was an-other factor that Indian gamers wouldhave to match.

“Today the trailer of a game developedby them is so captivating, that it is enoughto get the players hooked on and try the en-tire game”, he said.

Apart from the usual challenge of grow-ing the market, limited broadband pene-tration, technology lag and the tax struc-ture was a worrisome factor for the players.

However, despite the limitation the In-dian market was definitely an attractivemarket, opines Bose. PTI

Smokerʼs lungdamage lingers

even after quitting fags

Melbourne: Smokers, beware! Lung damage dueto puffing can last long even after you kick the butt,a new study has claimed.

Researchers at University of Sydney have foundthat smoking fundamentally alters airway tissuein people with chronic obstructive pulmonary dis-ease (COPD), and even while other aspects ofhealth improve, the lung damage lasts long aftera smoker quits.

COPD is projected to be the third-leading causeof death worldwide by 2020, and is characterisedby thickening of the airway wall. The primarycause is chronic exposure to air pollution, most of-ten cigarette smoke.

In their study, the researchers found that smok-ing lays the groundwork for airway thickening andprecipitates precancerous changes in cell prolif-eration that may be self-perpetuating long after cig-arette smoke exposure ends.

“We have demonstrated for the first time thatthe extracellular matrix (ECM) produced by fi-broblasts following stimulation with cigarettesmoke extract is functionally different than non-exposed ECM, and that the cigarette smoke itselfmay prime the airways in such a way to create anenvironment whereby airway remodelling is en-couraged,” lead researcher David Krimmer said.

The researchers examined the response of hu-man lung tissue from donors with and withoutCOPD to cigarette smoke extract (CSE). Theyfound CSE exposure led to changes in the tissueof donors with COPD over the tissue of individu-als without COPD.

Similarly, they found CSE increased levels of per-lecan – a protein associated with tumor growthand angiogenesis – in COPD lung tissue. Thesefindings demonstrate cigarette smoke has the ca-pacity to directly change the make-up of air-ways.

“This will change the way researchers thinkabout the development of fibrosis in COPD. Wehave known for a long time that development offibrosis is irreversible in people with COPD. Ourfindings suggest that cigarette smoking altersthe lung composition in such a way that fibrosisbecomes self- perpetuating,” Krimmer said.

The findings have been published in the latestedition of the ‘American Journal of Respiratory Celland Molecular Biology’. PTI

Kidney cellsmay do away

with transplantsSyndey: Around 60 million people worldwide havechronic kidney disease and many need dialysis ortransplants. But thanks to a vital breakthrough,patients’ own kidney cells collected from urine cannow be reprogrammed to make these proceduresredundant.

Such reprogramming could mean that in future,fewer kidney patients would require complicated,expensive procedures that affect their quality oflife.

There are around 88,000 patients waiting for akidney transplant in the US, for as long as threeto five years.

Sharon Ricardo from Monash University and hercolleagues took cells from an individual’s kidneyand coaxed them to become progenitor cells, al-lowing the immature cells to form any type in thekidney, the Journal of the American SocietyNephrology reports.

Specifically, they inserted several key repro-gramming genes into the renal cells that madethem capable of forming other cells, according toa Monash University statement.

In a second study, Miguel Esteban, from the Chi-nese Academy of Sciences, China and colleaguesfound that kidney cells collected from a patient’surine can also be reprogrammed in this way.

Using cells from urine allows a technology easyto implement in a clinic setting. Even better,urine cells could be frozen and later thawed be-fore they are manipulated.

Besides providing a potentially curative thera-py for patients, the breakthroughs might also helpinvestigators study the causes of kidney diseaseand screen new drugs that could be used to treatthem. IANS

BE INDIAN, PLAY INDIANVIDEO GAMES

Video games with Indian themes have become a rage nowadays. They are giving a stiff competition to international superheroes. Experts feel time has

come for Indian characters to emerge and make waves.

Smacking children onlyworsens their behaviour

London: Parents, please note – spank-ing children may backfire in the long run,says a study which has found that smack-ing reduces a kid’s emotional intelli-gence and even worsens his or her be-haviour.

Researchers have found smackingkids, instead of using non-physical pun-ishments, reduces their emotional in-telligence and “executive functioningability” which allows people to think onthe spot and modify their behaviourwhen necessary. Continued corporalpunishment could lead to poorer disci-pline among kids subjected to it, bylowering their executive functioningability, say the researchers.

While they may comply with rules in the short term to avoid getting beaten,in the long term they’ll fail to take them on board or understand the reasons

why they exist, ‘The Daily Telegraph’ reported. Lead researcher Prof VictoriaTalwar of McGill University in Montreal, said: “This study demonstrates that corporal punishment does not teachchildren how to behave or improve their learning.

“In the short term, it may not have anynegative effects, but if relied upon overtime it does not support children’s prob-lem-solving skills, or their abilities to in-hibit inappropriate behaviour or tolearn.”

For their study, the researchers mon-itored 63 kids from two private schools inWest Africa, aged five and six.

One of the schools used corporal pun-ishment for offences ranging from for-getting a pencil to disrupting classes,while the other stuck to non-physical dis-cipline for misdemeanours, such as ver-

bal warnings and time-outs.The youngsters were assigned a range

of tasks designed to test their executivefunctioning skills. Results, showed thatthe older kids at the school that avoidedcorporal punishment scored “signifi-cantly higher” in these tasks than kidswho were smacked at school.

Prof Talwar wrote in the ‘Social Development’ journal: “Children exposed to a harshly punitive environment may be at risk for behav-ioural problems related to deficits in executive-functioning.

“These results are consistent with re-search findings that punitive disciplinemay make children immediately com-pliant but may reduce the likelihoodthat they will internalise rules and stan-dards. That, in turn, may result in lowerself-control as children get older.” PTI

Generosity is natural to usWashington: While rationalists may not agree,acts of generosity come naturally to humans,claims a new research.

Commonplace acts of generosity, like tippingthe waiter, where no future return is likely, isseen as misplaced by biologists and irra-tional by economists.

However, computer simulations by scientistsat University of California Santa Barbara, sur-prisingly show that generosity emerges natu-rally from the evolution of cooperation, thejournal Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences reports.

This means that human generosity is like-ly to rest on more than social pressure or cul-tural conformity, which existing theories prop-agate.

It is instead built into human nature, ac-cording to a California statement.

“When past researchers carefully meas-ured people’s choices, they found that peopleall over the world were more generous than thereigning theories of economics and biology pre-dicted they should be,” said study author MaxM Krasnow, post-doctoral scholar at Califor-nia’s Center for Evolutionary Psychology.

NEWS & FEATURESFriday, July 29, 2011 6

Italian conductor and director of theChicago Symphony Orchestra,

Riccardo Muti, centre, poses withsingers and actors of the opera

Macbeth by Guiseppe Verdi, on his70th birthday at the Salzburg music

festival in Salzburg, Austria, yesterday.

AP-PTI

world briefs

Beast thatsucks bloodout of cattleon the prowl

London: A “supernatural, blood-suckingbeast” is out in the wild and is attackinglivestock in many countries, farmers acrossthe world claim. Disturbed farmers in Rus-sia’s third largest city of Novosibirsk inSiberia region have asked priests to blesstheir flocks because they fear the beastwas behind a series of brutal attacks, TheSun reported.

Villagers say the “El Chupacabra” beastdoes not eat the corpses of the animals itkills -- it just drinks their blood.

They say puncture marks are seen onthe necks of the dead animals - that hasled to the name “vampire dog”.

Local resident Viktor Shushpanov said:“It comes from the devil and I’ve seen it.”

“The police won’t act. They’re worriedthat if they write down ‘vampire’ or ‘chu-pacabra’ on a report they will look likecranks but we know what we’ve seen.”

“There have been dozens of corpses,”he said.

Nearby Krasnoginnoe, Tolmachevskoyeand Chick villages have also been affected.“It’s come from the devil. I’ve seen it. Mybrother, even when he lived near St Peters-burg seven years ago accidently pho-tographed a chupacabra,” said Shushpanov.

“He took the usual family picture andthen saw the demonic face through thekitchen window. Grey-red it was, such anunpleasant face, like a bat with fangs,” hesaid. “My brother showed me this photo-graph and upon the advice of his family heburned it.” The legend of the chupacabra– derived from the Spanish word for “goatsucker” – began in Puerto Rico in 1995when blood-drained goats started appearing.A newspaper reported a description of acreature standing on its hind legs up tofive feet tall with spikes down its back andhaving long, thin arms. Many people whoclaim to have seen the beast also say itlooks similar to a small bear with spines.Sightings of similar creatures have beenreported throughout the Caribbean, in LatinAmerica, Mexico and Florida.

A US teenager in Texas also claimed tohave shot and killed one such creature.

Carter Pope, 13, said he spotted the hair-less predator prowling an open field whenhe shot at it three times. “Its back legswere shrivelled up. I mean, I honestly thinkit’s a Chupacabra,” he said. IANS

Third of USplan to buy

iPhone 5London: More than a third of consumersin the US are planning to buy the iPhone 5even though no release date has yet beenfinalised, says a survey.

The Apple smartphone is slated for anearly September release in the US, and in-ternationally the following month.

Around 35 percent people plan to buythe iPhone 5 anyway, while being completelyat sea regarding its features, says the survey.Of these, 51 percent said they will buy thesmartphone within a year of its release, 30percent before the end of the year, 14percent within the first month, and sevenpercent in the first week, reports the DailyMail. The study of 2,852 US consumers wascarried out by PriceGrabber, a part of creditcheck company Experian.

Researchers found that 59 percent of re-spondents want a better battery life, and55 percent are looking for cost reduction.

Meanwhile, technology blog Boy GeniusReport has said telecommunications firmAT&T is preparing employees for the iPhone5 launch in September and has hired staffto cope with “new product launches”.

While 46 percent said 4G network com-patibility was important to them, 45 percentare hoping for a larger screen, and 42percent would like an improved camera.

When the survey subjects were askedwhich smartphone they would prefer toreceive as a gift, Apple won by a landslideagain, with 69 percent wanting the latestiPhone. IANS

Paris: The winged Archaeopteryx,long venerated as the forebear ofbirds, has been knocked off its hal-lowed perch on the tree of evolution,according to a study released today.

A new dinosaur species unearthedin northern China reveals that theiconic 150 million year old “originalbird” is probably just another dinowith feathers, of which there aremany, the researchers said.

It is hard to imagine a harder fallfrom evolutionary grace.

Since its discovery 150 years agoin Bavaria, most scientists placed Ar-chaeopteryx squarely at the root ofthe broad group of proto-birds, knownas Avialae, from which our modernfeathered friends have emerged.

The emblematic creature was alsoheld up as a case study: THE casestudy during the late 19th century,

of evolutionary transition, to wit,from dinosaur to bird.

Over the years, a few scientistshave gingerly expressed doubts, point-ing to supposedly defining bird-likecharacteristics, feathers, the wish-bone, three-fingered hands, that werealso showing up in non-avian di-nosaurs. But without hard proof thatArchaeopteryx was not really whereit belonged on the so-called phylogenetictree, the presumedprogenitor continuedto reign over its feath-ered kingdom.

Enter Xing Xu, a professor at LinyiUniversity in China’s ShandongProvince and discoverer extraordinaireof dinosaur fossils.

In the new study, published in Na-ture, Xu and colleagues describe the

attributes of a previously unknowndinosaur the fossil of which wasfound in Liaoning Province, inChina’s northeast.

About the size of a chickenand probably weighing less thana kilo (about two pounds), Xi-aotingia shared a host of key char-acteristics with Archaeopteryx butseemed, at the same time, to fall into

another group ofnon-avian dinos

called Deinony-chosauria.A standard computer

analysis confirmed asmuch, but at the same time

produced a stunning result:Archaeopteryx had been re-

classified into the same group.“In other words, Ar-

chaeopteryx was no longer a bird,” Lawrence Witmer, aprofessor at Ohio university’s Heritage College of Osteopathic

Medicine, said in a com-mentary, also in Na-

ture. AFP

Addicts cut downon junk food aftercalorie labelling

Washington: A sixth of fast foodaddicts cut down on junk foodwith higher calories after the USintroduced a calorie-labellingsystem in 2008.

Researchers from the NewYork School of Public Healthand other centres found therehas been a small but positiveimpact.

Analysis showed that 15 per-cent of customers using calorieinformation purchased fooditems with significantly lowercalories than customers who didnot see or use the calorie infor-mation.

Obesity rates in the US are atan all time high in both adultsand children and currently athird of adults and 17 percent ofchildren and teenagers are obese.

Several studies support an as-sociation between fast food con-sumption and excessive energyintake, but customers often un-derestimate the number of calo-ries in restaurant meals, the jour-nal bmj.com reports.

Surveys were carried out dur-ing lunchtime hours in spring2007 (one year before the regu-lation) and in spring 2009 (ninemonths after its implementation)at 168 randomly selected loca-tions of the top 11 fast food chainsin the city, according to a New

York School statement.Adult customers provided reg-

ister receipts and answered sur-vey questions. Data from 7,309customers in 2007 and 8,489customers in 2009 were analysed.Overall, there was no decline incalories purchased across thefull sample. However, three ma-jor chains saw significant reduc-tions.

For example, at McDonalds,average energy per purchase fellby 5.3 percent, at Au Bon Pain,it fell by 14.4 percent and at KFC,it dropped by 6.4 percent. To-gether, these three chains rep-resented 42 percent of all cus-tomers in the study.

High street chains in Englandare about to embark on a similar,though voluntary scheme, aspart of the government’s PublicHealth Responsibility Deal.

Susan Jebb from the MRC Hu-man Nutrition Research Centrein Cambridge, Britain believesthat labelling is a step forward,but changes in food supply mustfollow.

She writes: “Calorie labellingwill help consumers make aninformed choice about what theyeat, but sustained improvementsin the nation’s diet will requirea transformation of the food sup-ply too.” IANS

Coming soon: A pillto stop skin cancer?London: A pill to stopskin cancer is on theanvil, say scientists whoclaim to be developingsuch a drug which maystop people developingthe disease by repairingsunburn damage.

In its research, an in-ternational team, ledby Ohio State Univer-sity, has found out howanimals protect them-selves from the sun’sharmful rays.

And the ground-breaking discovery willnow pave the way for the creationof a drug which ends the scourgeof sunburn and protect againstone of the most deadly cancers,the ‘Daily Express’ reported.

In fact, after 10 years of re-search, the researchers havemade the breakthrough in howthe effects of too much sun can

be reversed.When humans get sunburn

the majority of our skin cells canrepair themselves but the dam-age to DNA often leads to cellsbeing killed off. Over time, theunrepaired area can develop intoskin cancer.

Experts have long known that

humans lack a key en-zyme, which is presentin insects, fish and mar-supials, that appears torepair the damage doneto DNA by exposure tosun.

Now, the team haspieced together how theenzyme, called pho-tolyase, works to repairDNA, a key findingwhich contradicts ac-cepted theories of howkey DNA moleculesbreak up during the re-pair of sunburn.

Harmful ultraviolet light caus-es molecular injury to DNA andprevents it from replicating properly. But for animals which produce photolyase, the enzymeabsorbs energy from visible lightto shoot an electron into the damaged area, say the scientists. PTI

Elephants neverforget old pals

London: Elephants are more clever than you thought– they never forget old friends, and are social networkexperts too, says a new study.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania havealso found in their study that just like humans, someelephants are social butterflies while others prefer tostick to a close-knit group of friends.

Past studies suggested that elephants usually livein small groups centred around females and theiryoung while adult males live independently.

However, the latest study found that though malesdo live apart, females and their young actually havethe sort of complex network of friends, relatives andacquaintances normally seen in humans.

Lead researcher Dr Shermin de Silva was quotedby the ‘Daily Mail’ as saying, “Elephants are able totrack one another over large distances by calling toeach other and using their sense of smell.

“So the ‘herd’ of elephants one sees at any giventime is often only a fragment of a much larger socialgroup. Our work shows that they are able recognisetheir friends and renew these bonds even after beingapart for a long time.” The study also found thatsome are more sociable than others and those whohad few friends tended to be loyal to them, whilethose with a larger circle were less so. For theirresearch, the researchers studied more than 100 femaleadult Asian elephants in the Uda Walawe NationalPark, in Sri Lanka, for 20 months. While many keptthe same friends, 16 per cent changed their “top five”associates.The study found bonds are strong in thedry season and suggested social networks help protectfood and water supplies. These are important as ele-phants eat for 16 hours every day and drink up to 50gallons of water. The creatures tended to hang aroundin larger groups when water was scarce. The bondswere strong enough to drive away unfamiliar elephantsaway from watering holes. Dr de Silva added: “Mostindividuals have a few strong ties as well as a fewconsistent ties maintained over several seasons withsome of their associates. “Individuals do not mix ran-domly within the population nor are they always withthe same companions, but rather they shuffle amongsta subset of preferred companions.”

The findings have been published in the ‘BMC Ecol-ogy’ journal. PTI

Libyan rebelsʼ military chief killed

Tripoli: Libyan rebels’ military chiefAbdel Fattah Younes was Thursdaykilled in an attack by MuammarGaddafi’s forces, Xinhua reported.

Opposition leader Moustafa Abdel-Jalil confirmed the death at a press con-ference in Benghazi, the country’s sec-ond largest city and a rebel stronghold.

Jalil, chairman of the National Tran-sitional Council (NTC), added that twoother military leaders were killed.

NTC will hold a three-day mourningfor Younes’ death. Younes, a former se-curity minister of Gaddafi’s regime, hadjoined the opposition in February.

Gaddafi regime condemnsUK for recognising rebelsLondon: The Muammar Gaddafi regime

has condemned Britain for recognisingthe rebels as Libya’s “sole governmentalauthority”, the BBC reported.

Britain was the third nation afterFrance and the US to recognise the rebelNational Transitional Council.

Khaled Kaim, deputy foreign ministerin the Gaddafi government, said inTripoli the decision was “unprecedent-ed” and “irresponsible”.

“It’s illegal, it’s irresponsible and forus it was a surprise to happen from theBritish government because, I mean, ifother countries will follow Britain, thenthe international diplomacy will bechaos,” he said.

“Of course, it both violates nationalBritish laws and international law. Specif-ically, the Vienna convention on diplo-matic relations of 1961.”

“I personally consider it a stain onthe forehead of Britain,” Kaim added.

Libya would try to reverse the decisionby taking legal action in both Britishcourts and the International Court ofJustice, he said.

Britain has also ordered the expulsionof all eight remaining Gaddafi regimediplomats in London.

The rebel council has named Mahmudal-Naku, a writer and journalist in exilefor 33 years, as the new Libyan ambas-sador to London.

British Foreign Secretary WilliamHague earlier said the rebel council hasshown its commitment to a “more openand democratic Libya... in stark contrastto Gaddafi whose brutality against theLibyan people stripped him of all legit-imacy”. IANS

Schizophrenia clue found?Washington: Scientists claim to have found theclue to the onset of schizophrenia, a major findingthat may pave the way for effective therapies forthe lifelong and chronic disease currently withouta cure. An international team, led by the Universityof New South Wales, has identified the neuralmechanism that hinders reward identificationand decision-making in people suffering fromschizophrenia, ‘Molecular Psychiatry’ journal re-ported.The scientists say that the findings could somedaypave the way for an effective drug therapy tohelp people with the disease manage their dailylives.

The study, led by Dr Thomas Weickert, in fact,found that an area deep in the brain, called theventral striatum, which usually lights up withactivity in response to rewards in healthy adults,was relatively unresponsive in people sufferingfrom schizophrenia.

Specifically, the study showed that people withschizophrenia were unable to distinguish betweenexpected and unexpected rewards, frustratingtheir efforts to deal with unpredictability in dailylife and making it difficult for them to make deci-sions in their own best interests.

Reward responses are important in many areasof learning because they help us to redirect at-tention and behaviour towards things that arebeneficial to us, Dr Weickert said.

The ventral striatum is connected to other partsof the brain that are important in decision making,planning and cognition and is, consequently, at-tracting increasing interest from researchers. . DrWeickert said healthy adults in the study had notrouble dealing with unpredictability, whereaspeople suffering from schizophrenia were notable to tell the difference between expected andunexpected rewards. “Using functional MRI imageswe could see that this region of the brain wasn’t

firing correctly. People with schizophrenia oftenhave difficultly determining what is beneficialfor them and what is not, so they have troubletaking cues from their environment and, conse-quently, can make some bad decisions. “Thiswork may help us understand the neurologicalunderpinnings of symptoms such as hallucinationsand delusions since we found a relationship be-tween brain activity in this reward region andpsychotic symptom severity.

“As the people we studied were on medicationwe found that current drug treatments for schiz-ophrenia are not helping this part of the brainfunction any better. Ultimately, we would like tosee some new medications that will improveventral striatum function,” he said. PTI

Aadultery, ormoney back!

London: Have a “successful” ex-tra-marital affair or get your mon-ey back – this is what an Aus-tralian website has promised.

Noel Biderman, founder ofthe adultery website “ashley-madison.com” says in a slogan– “Life is short. Have an affair”.

The website that was foundedin 2001 has now launched whatit calls the “ultimate money backguarantee”, the Daily Mail re-ported. The site has a worldwidemembership of over eight millionpeople who prefer cheating on

Speaking to Australia’s HeraldSun daily, Biderman said affairs,just like marriages, had to beworked on.

“If you want to find the rightlevel of success, we think thereis the commitment level youneed to make, and if it doesn’twork out for you then we’ll give

you your money back,” he said.Users need not be worried asthe site deletes communicationbetween people. The users canalso hide their true identities.

Biderman – who has beenmarried to wife Amanda for eightyears – however said he wouldbe “crushed” if he ever foundout she cheated on him. “I amfaithful. My wife has emotionaland physical needs I must meet.If I don’t, she may cheat on me.And believe me, I’d be crushedif that were to happen,” he said.

Biderman’s website has an-gered at least one family groupin Australia.

Peter Stokes of the FamilyCouncil of Victoria said: “Thesheer fact that he thinks there’sa market out there shows howdegraded we’ve become in termswhat we think relationships are.”

Hot-air balloons float in the sky at Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, onWednesday during an attempt to set a world record for collective taking-off

during the event Lorraine Mondial air ballons, an international hot-air balloon meeting.

AP-PTIRecord in the air

Congo boataccident

may havekilled 100

Kinshasa: Authorities in north-western Congo say more than100 people are feared dead aftertwo boats collided on a river.

Equateur province spokes-woman Rebecca Ebale Ngumasays at least 220 people wereaboard the boat on the TshuapaRiver when it hit another vessel.

About 105 people made it toshore but the others remainedmissing late yesterday. Congo isa vast country of jungles andhuge rivers in Central Africa withfew paved roads. Many peopleprefer to take boats and bargesnot intended for people even ifthey do not know how to swim.

The boats are often in poorrepair and filled beyond capacity,and the industry is not well-reg-ulated. AP

Syria clampsdown ahead ofFriday rallies

Damascus: Syrian forces pressedtheir clampdown on the pro-democracy movement, killingtwo protesters and arresting twoleading activists, rights groupssaid yesterday, on the eve ofmore mass rallies.

In the eastern city of Deir Ez-zor, where security forces werecarrying out operations in nearlyall neighbourhoods, two civilianswere shot dead last night, saidRami Abdel Rahman, head ofthe Syria Observatory for HumanRights.

Afterwards, some 3,000 peoplegathered in front of the houseof the new governor, Samir Oth-man al-Sheikh, to “demand an

end to the killing,” he said.Earlier, residents were out in

the streets trying to prevent se-curity forces carrying out arrests,he said.

In Qatana, 25 km south ofDamascus, security forces armedwith machine guns and otherweapons arrived in the town inpickup trucks overnight and car-ried out the arrests before search-ing for more protesters.

The sweep came as peopletook to the streets of Damascusand Qatana to protest after se-curity forces killed 11 people yes-terday in Kanaker, 50 km south-west of the capital, said humanrights activists. AFP

Ancestor of all birds knocked from its perch

US soldierheld with

ʻbombʼWashington: A US soldier hasbeen arrested after police foundfirearms and bomb-making ma-terials in his motel room.

Naser Abdo was arrested yes-terday. The 21-year-old AmericanMuslim soldier was planning toattack the army base at FortHood in Texas, it said quotingUS media reports Thursday.

Abdo had earlier refused tobe deployed in Iraq. He had beenmissing from work prior to hisarrest. He told the investigatorsthat he was at the base to “geteven”. Fort Hood was the sceneof a shooting rampage in 2009that claimed 13 lives. IANS

China braces for stormBeijing: Thousands of fishingboats have been ordered to returnto the coast as southern Chinabraces for tropical storm Nock-Ten that killed at least 31 peoplein the Philippines.

More than 26,000 fishing boatsin China’s Hainan province havealready returned to the port, Xin-hua reported yesterday.

The storm, which may

strengthen further into a ty-phoon, was expected to makelandfall in the coastal regionsof Hainan and Guangdongprovinces. Hainan provincialgovernment said it has orderedall fishing boats to return to theport. It has also ordered the au-thorities to ensure safety of allreservoirs and evacuation of peo-ple from the low-lying areas.

Similar alerts have also beenissued by Guangdong authorities.Shipping services across theQiongzhou Strait, which sepa-rates the Hainan island from theGuangdong province, will besuspended Friday, Hainan mar-itime bureau said.

Nock-Ten will be the eighthand most powerful storm to hitChina this year. IANS

LIFESTYLE 7Friday, July 29, 2011

Actress Audrina Patridgefinds it hard to put onweight and has no prob-

lem in maintaining her stunningfigure.

The “Hills” star insists shehas always been slim and shedoesn’t have to worry about pilingon unwanted pounds, contact-music.com reports.

“I don’t really have to work ot

a lot. I actually have a problemputting on weight. I’ve alwaysbeen skinny. But I do somethingactive every day. I go to the beach,run, do pilates or play volleyball,”she said.

“I do eat healthily and I stayaway from all the sugary stuff. Ilove potato chips, but I also lovefish and vegetables too,” sheadded.

Singer Joe Jonas hasfootwear addiction andadmits he already owns

far too many pair of shoes.“I love fashion. Over the past

year I’ve got heavily into it.Whether I’m going out for thenight, or during the day, I loveputting on something that popsand makes you feel comfort-able,” femalefirst.co.uk quotedJonas as saying.

“I’m a big shoe guy, too. Ihave far too many pairs. When-ever there’s a new style out,I’ll text my stylist: ‘Can we geta pair of those?’,” he added.

Actress Selma Blairhas become a first-time mum after giv-

ing birth to a baby boy.The “Hellboy” star and

her boyfriend, fashion de-signer Jason Bleick, wel-comed little Arthur SaintBleick Monday, her rep-resentative confirmed, re-ports dailystar.co.uk.

Blair and Bleick havebeen dating since lastyear.

Blair gives birth to

baby boy

ALI ZAFAR HUNTS FOR new face for music video

I would be honoured toplay Tagore: Amitabh

Actress Demi Lovato ad-mits she was a poorrole model because she

had so many personal prob-lems.

The “Skyscraper” singerused to get upset when younggirls told her she was an in-spiration to them because sheknew her true life was differ-ent, reports femalefirst.co.uk

“Kids used to tell me,‘You’re my role model.’ AndI’d want to shake them andbe like, ‘Why?’,” she said.

However, after seeking helpfor her problems, the 18-year-old believes she is now a per-son young people can lookup to.

“I finally feel like I can in-spire people. I can be proudof it,” she said.

JOE JONAS has shoe fetish

I was a poor role model: Demi Lovato

Emma Stone may joinʻThe Gangster Squadʼ

American actressEmma Stone is re-portedly in talks to

star in director RubenFleischer’s “The GangsterSquad”.

Contactmusic.com re-ports that the actress issaid to be in line for therole of bitter beauty Jeanin the crime movie, whichis set to feature actor RyanGosling.

The film which is alsoset to star Giovanni Ribisi,Anthony Mackie andMichael Pena will see Jeancaught in a love trianglewith Ryan’s character Sgt.Jerry Wooters and SeanPenn’s alter-ego MickeyCohen.

The movie, which isbased on a true story, por-trays the Los Angeles Po-lice Department’s struggleto ensure the East Coastmafia stay out of the cityin the 1940s and 1950s.

Bollywood superstar AmitabhBachachan hasn’t got anyformal invitation to play Ra-

bindranath Tagore, but says hewould love to play the Nobel laure-ate if given a chance.

“I have been reading in newspa-pers that somebody has made aformal proposal (to play Tagore). Ihave been getting some messagesfrom other people. I would be veryhonoured to portray the role. Butno formal proposal has been madetill now,” Amitabh said hereWednesday.

There have been reports in B-town that Bachchan will portrayTagore in a Bengali film called “TheSound of Silence”, based on thepoet’s life.

Big B, along with filmmakerPrakash Jha, was in the city to pro-mote their forthcoming movie“Aarakshan”, a socio-political dramawhich deals with the controversialpolicy of caste based reservationsin government jobs and educationalinstitutions.

Pakistani Singer-actor AliZafar, who featured inBollywood movie “Tere

Bin Laden”, is looking for afresh face for his new musicvideo for the album “Jhoom”.

“This is one of the biggestalbums and Ali wants to casta new face opposite him inthe video. He is on a huntboth in India and Pakistan tozero in on a girl to play thelead,” said a source.

Zafar’s third album titled“Jhoom”, released by AlifRecords, singer’s own recordlabel, is the highest sellingalbum in Pakistan and it hasbeen ranked second in pop-ularity on Indian music charts.

He will now be seen in YashRaj Films’ new film “MereBrother Ki Dulhan”, starringImran Khan and Katrina Kaif.

Patridge doesnʼt have weight issues!

Friday, July 29, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

Price expects to have12 husbands!

Motorcycle entrepreneurJesse James has beenawarded full custody

of his seven-year-old daughterSunny following a lengthycourt dispute with ex-wife Ja-nine Lundemulder.

The 42-year-old, who waspreviously married to SandraBullock, feels “vindicated” af-ter a judge in California ruledthat his former wife Lindemul-der must enter rehab if shechooses to move to Texas tobe close to her ex-husbandand daughter.

“Jesse is very pleased withthis decision. He feels that allalong, he’s been saying whatJanine needs is inpatient treat-ment, and until she faces upto her own issues and prob-lems, she’ll never be able tohave a good relationship withher daughter. He feels totallyvindicated with what the courthas decided,”contactmusic.com quotedJames’ lawyer, John Schillingas saying.

“If she decides not to moveto Texas, she gets one weekenda month basically, with noovernights, but a total of eightto 10 hours of monitored visi-tation in Texas with Sunny,”he added.

I t seems model Katie Price doesnot expect to finish her run ofhusbands at just two and expects

to have 10 more in future.The 33-year-old TV star has been

married twice - first to Peter Andre,with whom she has two children,Junior, six, and Princess Tiaamii,four, with and secondly to Alex Reid,who she divorced after a year of mar-riage in February 2011, reports fe-malefirst.co.uk.

“I will also have more kids, morehorses and probably more husbands,about 12, I expect!,” she said.

Steve Martinhas fake nails

Actor Steve Martin wearsfake nails because playingthe banjo has damaged

the orignals.Martin, 65, who plays with the

bluegrass band “Steve Martinand The Steep Canyon Rangers”,has been playing the banjo sincehe was 16.

“The last time I got false nailswas two weeks ago. My real nailsgot torn up from playing. It’s atypical thing to have false nails

in bluegrass. You go into anybeauty salon and say, ‘I needacrylic nails on the first two fin-gers please.’ And they ask ifyou’re a guitar player.

I have them re-done every twoor three weeks,”contactmusic.com quoted himas saying.

“I like to wait for them to falloff before I get fresh ones. HaveI ever been tempted to paintthem? I have not,” he added.

Jesse James gets fullcustody of daughter

“Absolutely Fabulous” star Joan-na Lumley is lending her supportto a tiger charity to protect thespecies from extinction.

Lumley, who is an avid animalrights campaigner, is joining ac-tors including Ricky Gervais, SirRoger Moore and Susan Saran-don by voicing her support forTigerTime.

“Animals share the earth withus - that is to say, they are equalpartners in the right to live onthis plane. In our anxiety to makethe world a better place for our-selves, let us be very careful thatwe don’t obliterate the needs ofother species,” dailystar.co.ukquoted the 65-year-old as say-ing.

“If the tiger disappears fromthe wild because of our behav-iour, we humans shall have lostall claims to be called civilisedand compassionate. The greatestenemy is indifference. Please joinTigerTime right now to help tosave the lives and habitat of thesemagnificent creatures. This is ex-tremely urgent. The clock is tick-ing: real time is running out,”she added.

Winehouseʼs death terrifies Brooke Mueller

Actor Charlie Sheen’s es-tranged wife BrookeMueller is determined to

beat her drug addiction becauseshe is terrified by the way singerAmy Winehouse died.

“Amy’s death rocked Brooketo her core.

Brooke didn’t know Amy, butshe relates to her addiction with

drugs. Brooke doesn’t want to die,

and she realises that if she con-tinues to use drugs, she will.

Brooke has been telling friendsthat she doesn’t want to end uplike Amy,” femalefirst.co.ukquoted a source as saying.

Muller, who is currently re-ceiving treatment at an undis-

closed rehabilitation clinic, issaid to be filled with guilt athow her addiction is impactingon the life of her sons.

“She doesn’t want them to beraised without a mother.

Brooke is wracked with guiltthat her addiction is ruling herlife and taking away from theboys,” said the source.

Swift wins UltimateChoice Award

Karisma Kapoor, who is returning tosilver screen with “Dangerous Ishq”,has told its director Vikram Bhatt

that her favourite costume designer ManishMalhotra should be on board.

The actress, who bid adieu to moviesafter marrying Delhi-based industrialistSanjay Kapur in 2003, met Bhatt last weekat her residence. During the incisive chat,Karisma discussed every aspect of hercomeback film at length. She apparentlytold the director that she would be able towork only around her baby’s daily sched-ules.

The intricate and historically-relevantcostumes of the film’s protagonist thattake her through five different eras are tobe researched by Nidhi Yasha, who de-signed the costumes for Bhatt’s “Haunt-ed”.

Karisma, who has hardly ever workedwith any other designer, gently but firmlyasked for Manish to do her clothes.

“There was no compulsion to take onManish. He is the best in the business ofclothes and it’d be a pleasure and privilegeto work with him. Nidhi Yasha would nowbe researching Karisma’s clothes. Manishwould actually be designing them,” saidBhatt.

Karisma, who entered Bollwyood in1991 with “Prem Qaidi”, featured in hitslike “Coolie No. 1”, “Hero No. 1”, “RajaHindustani”, “Dil Toh Pagal Hai” and“Zubeidaa”.

Not without Manish Malhotra,Karisma tells Vikram Bhatt

Singer Taylor Swift will behonoured with UltimateChoice Award at an up-

coming event called Teen ChoiceAwards.

Swift will be presented withthe honour in recognition ofher “extraordinary contributionsto the entertainment industry”,reports contactmusic.com.

It has been announced thatthe 21-year-old is in the runningto win six more awards: RedCarpet Hot Icon - Female, ChoiceMusic: Female Artist, ChoiceMusic: Female Country Artist,Choice Music: Love Song, forher single “Mine”, Choice Music:Break-up Song for “Back to De-cember” and Choice Music:Country Song for “Mean”.

Previous winners of the Ulti-mate Choice Award are ReeseWitherspoon and SarahMichelle Gellar and pop singerJustin Timberlake.

The winners of the 66 TeenChoice Award categories arechosen online by fans aged 13-19 years. The ceremony is sched-uled Aug 7.

Joanna Lumleyjoins save tiger

campaign