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Education

Act on Syria After Full Proof

Parental shouting could harm

children

GOD MAN OR CON MAN?GOD MAN OR CON MAN?

Voice SIlenced

in Afghanistan Land Acquisition Bill

Quote Fire

The Badminton Association of In-

dia’s disciplinary committee will

investigate doubles shuttler Jwala

Gutta’s conduct during the Indian

Badminton League (IBL) when

her side, the Krrish Delhi Smash-

ers, threatened to abandon a tie in

Bangalore Aug 25. The Delhi team,

led by icon player Jwala, threatened

to forfeit the tie against the Banga

1. How to multiply by 11?

We all know the trick when multi-

plying by ten - add 0 to the end of

the number, but did you know there

is an equally easy trick for multiply-

ing a two digit number by 11? It is

as follows

Take the original number and imag-

ine a space between the two digits

(in this example we will use 32:

Now add the two numbers together

and put them in the middle:

In an implied rejection of US po-

sition on Syria, India says action

on the West Asian country must

not only be taken after conclusive

proof from neutral inspectors on the

use of chemicals weapons by the

Bashar al-Assad regime, but should

also be under the auspices of the

United Nations.

Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, who

is in judicial custody on charges

of sexually assaulting a girl, was

kept “alone in his cell” and was

provided a bed and a mattress, of-

cials said. Asaram, 72, was arrested from his ashram in Indore, Madhya

Pradesh, and presented Monday in

the court of District and Sessions

Judge (Rural) of Jodhpur Manoj

Vyas, who sent him to 14 days’ ju-

dicial custody.

A prison ofcial said Asaram was

being treated as a normal prisoner.

“He is being given only those fa-

cilities which a usual undertrial

prisoner avails,” the ofcial said.

Asaram, lodged in Barrack No.1

of the prison, was Monday allowed

food from outside.

“He had dinner at the jail super-

intendent’s ofce yesterday (Mon-

day). However, from now on, he will

be given food at the prison mess. Hehas been provided a bed, a mattress

and other such things. Medical at-

tention will be given as he is 72

years old,” said the ofcial.

Asaram will be allowed to perform

religious prayers with other prison-

ers.

Middle-class parents with a habit of

shouting at their teenage children

could be actually increasing their

kids’ risk of depression and trou-

bled behaviour, says a US study.

Published in the journal Child De-

velopment, the study stated even if

parents enjoyed a close relationship

with their son and daughter, harshverbal discipline was found to have

Rural Development Minister

Jairam

Ramesh:

Compensation is not only for land

owners and farmers but also for

those whose livelihood will be

affected.

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Writer Sushmita Banerjee killed by

Taliban

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2CHANDIGARH

SUNDAY 08 September, 2013COVER STORYBail plea rejected,

Asaram to remain in jailAsaram Bapu kept alone in cell

Asaram: A guru of controversies

Needless security to Asaram,

observes SC

Jaipur

A Rajasthan court in Jodhpur city

Wednesday rejected the bail plea of

controversial spiritual guru Asaram

Bapu who was arrested for sexually

assaulting a 16-year-old girl, lawyers

said.

Asaram, 72, is currently lodged in

Jodhpur Central Jail after a court

Monday sent him to 14-day judicial

custody.

District and Sessions Judge (Ru-

ral) of Jodhpur Manoj Vyas rejected

Asaram’s bail plea after the prosecu-

tion opposed his application.Public prosecutor Anand Purohit told

reporters here: “We raised issues re-

garding threat to police ofcials con-

nected with investigations and also

that two of his close aides...are still

missing, so he (Asaram) should not be

given bail, as he can inuence them.”

“It seems we have been successful in

satisfying the court that the incident

falls under the non-bailable (offence)

category so he should not be given

bail,” he added.

Asaram’s lawyer Jagmal Singh

Chaudhary said the rejection of bail

plea would be challenged in the Raja-

sthan High Court.

“We will approach the high court in

a day or two after going through the

order,” he said.

Asaram, who was arrested from his

ashram in Indore in Madhya Pradesh

last week, sought bail claiming that

police erred in booking him under

rape charge, which is non-bailable.

The spiritual guru was sent to judicialcustody after questioning at a guest

house of the Rajasthan Armed Con-

stabulary.

The 16-year-old girl alleged that the

sexual assault took place Aug 15 at

Asaram’s ashram outside Jodhpur city

and the complaint was led by her

Aug 20. The spiritual guru has denied

the charge. Police, however, claimed

they had a water-tight case against

him.

Jodhpur

Spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, who

is in judicial custody on charges of

sexually assaulting a girl, was kept

“alone in his cell” and was provided

a bed and a mattress, ofcials said.

Asaram, 72, was arrested from his

ashram in Indore, Madhya Pradesh,

and presented Monday in the court of

District and Sessions Judge (Rural)

of Jodhpur Manoj Vyas, who sent

him to 14 days’ judicial custody.

A prison ofcial said Asaram was

being treated as a normal prisoner.

“He is being given only those facili-

ties which a usual undertrial prisoner

avails,” the ofcial said.

Asaram, lodged in Barrack No.1

of the prison, was Monday allowed

food from outside.

“He had dinner at the jail superin-

tendent’s ofce yesterday (Monday).

However, from now on, he will be

given food at the prison mess. He has

been provided a bed, a mattress and

other such things. Medical attention

will be given as he is 72 years old,”

said the ofcial.

Asaram will be allowed to perform

religious prayers with other prison-

New Delhi

Asaram Bapu, arrested by Rajasthan

Police on charges of sexual assault,

is not new to controversies. The

spiritual guru, who started preach-

ing in Gujarat in the late 1960s andtoday owns 200 ashrams across the

country, has earlier been involved in

criminal cases.

Asaram, 72, is in police custody in

Jodhpur over allegations of sexual

assault levelled against him by a mi-

nor girl.

His brush with trouble rst started in

2008 after the deaths of two 10-year-

old cousins, Abhishek and Dipesh

Vaghela, at his Motera ashram in Gu-

jarat. A charge sheet has been led

against him in the case.

Since 2008 he has remained in news

for all the wrong reasons, be it crimi-

nal cases led against him, encroach-

ment by his ashrams or his remarks

on the Delhi gang rape.According to a website titled “Sant

Shri Asharamji Ashram ofcial web-

site”, the spiritual guru was born as

Asumal on April 14, 1941 and he mi-

grated with his family from Sindh in

Pakistan to Mani Nagar near Ahmed-

abad in Gujarat during the partition

of the country in 1947.

The fourth child of Thaumal and

Mehgiba Sirumalani, Asaram is

known to have been inclined to full

his quest on the existence of life and

the mystery behind it, after his fa-

ther’s demise, the website said.

Seeing his inclination away from

worldly affairs, Asaram was forcibly

married to Lakshmi Devi, though he

had tried to run away eight days be-fore his marriage, it said.

He left his family in 1968 and went

to Uttar Pradesh’s Vrindavan, the

land of Lord Krishna.

After staying in the ashram for 70

days and meditating in the caves of

Mount Abu in Rajasthan, he returned

to Ahmedabad and started preaching.

He also built an ashram on the banks

of the Sabarmati, the website said.

He has a son Narayan Prem Sai who

is also a spiritual leader.

The 2008 death of two boys at his

Motera ashram in Gujarat raised a

stink. The decomposed bodies of the

boys were found on a dried-up river

New Delhi

The Supreme Court Tuesday criti-

cised the government for unneces-

sarily providing heavy security to

spiritual guru Asaram Bapu, ac-

cused of sexually assaulting a mi-

nor girl.

“We are seeing on TV hordes of

security around one accused,” the

bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and

Justice V. Gopala Gowda observed.

“Everybody says these are aber-

rations but they have become the

rule,” said Justice Singhvi.

Dwelling on the path that modern-

day godmen take to reach the top,

the court said, “These people start

as drug peddlers, initially acquire

wealth, join politics and religion,

grab more property and become

more powerful.”

If they are tantriks, they hypnotise

people, the court said, adding that

“law journals are replete with in-

stances of such people committing

heinous crimes”.

The court’s observation came in

the course of the hearing of a Pub-

lic Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking

withdrawal of security cover to un-

deserving people who use it a status

symbol.

Asaram Bapu was Monday sent to

14 days’ judicial custody in Rajas-

than.

bed near the ashram, police said.

In September 2012, the Gujarat

Criminal Investigation Department

led a chargesheet against seven

ofce-bearers at Asaram’s ashram

in connection with the mysterious

death of the two boys.

In December 2009, a former ashram

trustee, Raju Chandak, registered a

complaint with the police alleging

that Asaram and two other people

tried to kill him in Ahmedabad.The following year in March, the

Gujarat government authorities re-

claimed 67,099 square metres of

land which was allegedly encroached

upon by Asaram’s ashram in Ahmed-

abad. In August 2012, Bapu is

known to have survived a helicopter

crash at Godhra, when he was on his

way to deliver a lecture in a college.

However, the most controversial of

his statements was the one related to

the Delhi gang rape.

Asaram Bapu said the victim of the

Dec 16, 2012 gang rape in Delhi was

also to be blamed for the incident and

that she should have begged the cul-

prits to stop by calling them brother.

He later claimed that his statement

was misread.

In February, a 24-year-old man, Ra-

hul Pachouri, died under mysterious

circumstances in Asaram Bapu’s Ja-

balpur ashram. Pachouri’s father al-

leged that his son was poisoned.

Though surrounded by controversy,

the spiritual leader enjoys the sup-

port of a large number of people who

have been relentlessly protesting hisarrest in the recent sexual assault

case led against him Aug 20.

According to the allegations of the

girl, who studied at Asaram’s ashram

in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara

and stayed in a girls’ hostel there, the

guru sexually assaulted her on the

pretext of exorcism.

According to Jodhpur Police Com-

missioner Biju George Joseph,

Asaram has claimed innocence in

the case registered under various

sections of the Protection of Children

from Sexual Offences Act and the In-

dian Penal Code.

ers.

“He has been lodged in Barrack

No.1 of the prison and is alone in the

cell as we want to regularly see him,”

the ofcial said.

A medical examination was conduct-

ed on him in the jail.

Asaram Bapu was Monday quizzed

at a guest house of the Rajasthan

Armed Constabulary in connection

with the sexual assault case.

A 16-year-old girl has alleged

that she was sexually assaulted by

Asaram Bapu on Aug 15 at Asaram’s

ashram outside Jodhpur city.

The spiritual guru has denied the

charge. Police, however, said they

have a water-tight case against him.

8/22/2019 E Paper 8 Sept 2013


CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September 2013 3DEFENCE

Act on Syria only after full proof: IndiaChina hasn’t occupied Indianland afresh: Antony

Countdown begins for Zubin

Mehta’s Srinagar concert Saturday

After 45 years, armyman crematedin Haryana village

St. Petersburg

In an implied rejection of US posi-tion on Syria, India says action on

the West Asian country must not

only be taken after conclusive proof

from neutral inspectors on the use of

chemicals weapons by the Bashar

al-Assad regime, but should also be

under the auspices of the United Na-

tions.

At a dinner late Wednesday hosted

for G20 leaders by Russian President

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Man-

mohan Singh in his speech also said

action against Syrian if approved at

the UN should also not be aimed at

a regime change, but to neutralise

chemical weapons.

The remarks came after a detailed

presentation to the forum by United

Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the situation on the ground

in the war-torn country. He said the

report of inspectors appointed by

him to scientically look into the

use of such weapons by Syria was

expected soon and that it will be pre-

sented before the Security Council

and the General Assembly for the ac-

tion required.

The UN chief also said more than

100,000 people have died in the

West Asian country, some 4.25 mil-

lion have been displaced within and

at least another two million are now

refugees.

Brieng journalists on New Delhi’s

position on Syria, as articulated by

the prime minister at the G20 dinner,

Planning Commission Deputy Chair -

man Montek Singh Ahluwalia said

India was totally opposed to the use

of chemicals weapons and any stock

pile must be destroyed.

But he equally made it clear that itwas not in favour of unilateral action

-- something the US has been threat-

ening, much against the opposite

views of several countries, notably

Russia and China.

“The prime minister said we need to

be certain about the facts, keeping in

mind past experience we need to be

certain it has happened, even if the

probability indicates it has happened.

So we need to see what the UN in-

spectors come up with,” Ahluwalia

said.

“The prime minister said whatever

action is taken must be within the UN

auspices and not outside of it. He also

said armed action must not be made

for regime change.”In fact UN secre-tary-general has already warned that

any unilateral military strike against

Syria without the world body’s sanc-

tion would be illegal.Ahead of the

G20 Summit he had said that use

of force is lawful only when in ex-

ercise of self-defence in accordance

with Article 51 of the United Nations

Charter or when the Security Council

approves such action.A team under a

Swedish scientist appointed by him

have already collected bio-medical

and environmental samples from

sites in Syria where chemical weap-

ons were allegedly used Aug 21 and

these have been dispatched to four

unnamed laboratories in Europe for

examination.

when an Indian Air Force AN-12 air-

craft crashed on the 17,400-feet high

Dhakka Glacier in the Chandrabhaga

ranges of Lahaul and Spiti district

Feb 7, 1968.

Despite three search missions till

2009, only four bodies could be re-

covered.

An identity disk, an insurance policy

and a letter from his family retrieved

from Jagmal Singh’s pocket helped

identify him, an army statement said.

The ill-fated aircraft had taken off

from Chandigarh for Leh.

Halfway, Flt.Lt. H.K. Singh decided

to pilot the plane back due to the

inclement weather over Jammu and

Kashmir. The last radio contact was

near the Rohtang Pass and thereafter

the aircraft disappeared.

The disappearance remained a mys-

tery until 2003 when an expedition

team accidentally discovered the

debris at the Dhakka Glacier. The

Rewari

Over 45 years after he died in an air

crash in Himachal Pradesh, armyman

Jagmal Singh was cremated with full

military honours in his village Meer-

pur of Rewari district Wednesday.

Jagmal Singh, a havaldar with the

Corps of Electrical and Mechanical

Engineers (EME), perished in the

snowy heights of Dakka Glacier in

the Chandrabhaga ranges of Lahaul

and Spiti region in Himachal Pradesh

in 1968.

His mortal remains, recovered Aug

22, were own to Chandiman-

dir Cantonment, near Chandigarh,

aboard an Indian Air Force (IAF) he-

licopter Tuesday.

Hundreds of villagers turned out

for the last journey as his body was

brought to his house and taken in a

procession to the cremation ground.

Amid the beating of drums, slogans

rent the air. People threw colour in

the air to celebrate the recovery of

the body.

Singh was 28 years old when he

died. His son, Ramchander, 52, lit

the pyre.

An army rescue expedition recov-ered the mortal remains last week.

However, the body could not be

transported back from the Dhakka

Glacier earlier due to inclement

weather.

“True to its commitment of recover-

ing the mortal remains and giving the

long lost soldier a betting farewell,

the Indian Army ensured the mor-

tal remains reached Manali by road

from where tghe body was trans-

ported by an Indian Air Force heli-

copter,” a defence spokesman said in

Chandigarh, 300 km from here.

A total of 98 army personnel and

four crew members were killed

Indian Army Aug 16 this year em-

barked on another expedition to try

and locate the mortal remains of its

fallen comrades as also to recover

the ight data recorder (black box).

The expedition of the Dogra Scouts

of the Western Command comprised

the nest mountaineers of the coun-

try, including an Everester.

“The glacier where the operations

are underway lies at an altitude of

approximately 17,000-18,000 feet,

is avalanche-prone and dotted with

innumerable crevices. The site itself

is at an 80 degree gradient from the

base camp,” the statement said.

The high-velocity winds and sub-

zero temperatures restrict the search

window to about 15-20 days a year

and that too only for a few hours

during the day. The team braving

all odds and in the face of extremely

hostile weather conditions continued

its mission till Aug 30, it added.

New Delhi

China has not occupied Indian terri-

tory afresh or stopped Indian troops

from accessing any part of Indian

land, Defence Minister A.K. Antony

asserted Friday.

“I would like to state categorically

that Shyam Saran has not stated in

(his) report that China has occupied

or has denied access to India to any

part of Indian territory,” Antony told

the Lok Sabha.

A former foreign secretary, Saran, who

heads the National Security Advisory

Board, visited Ladakh last month and

submitted a report to the Prime Minis-

ter’s Ofce and the defence ministry.

A section of the media quoted the re-

port as saying that China had taken

over a large chunk of Indian territory

in the Ladakh region and was prevent-

ing the Indian Army from accessing it.

Reading out a prepared statement,

Antony said, “There is no question of

India ceding to China any part of In-

dian territory. “The government keeps

a constant watch on all developments

having a bearing on India’s security

and takes all measures to safeguard it.

“I would further like to assure the

house that the government would con-

tinue to strengthen our capabilities in

Srinagar/New Delhi

As India-born world renowned con-ductor Zubin Mehta said Friday

“Kashmir chose me”, the authorities

in Srinagar were working at break-

neck speed to make the Bavarian

State Orchestra’s concert on Satur -

day a grand success.

Mehta is scheduled to conduct a

90-minute concert in 17th century

Shalimar Mughal Garden on the

banks of the Dal Lake.

The orchestra is one of the oldest

in Germany and its origins can be

traced to 1523.

Hoping to spread the message of love

and peace through music, Mehta told

reporters in New Delhi after receiv-

ing the Tagore Award for Cultural

Harmony: “I didn’t choose Kashmir,it chose me.

“I hope to have the blessings of the

people as music is the only language

I know and hope to spread the mes-

sage of peace with this performance.”

Conferring the award on Mehta,

President Pranab Mukherjee said he

has brought a mission of optimism

to mankind. “We are recognising his

untiring efforts, over the decades, to

convert music into an instrument of

peace and harmony. He has made it

his mission to bring hope and rea-

son wherever there is conict and

discord,” the president said. “His

music has the power to transcend

border areas to protect our national

interest,” said Antony. Both houses of

parliament Friday saw noisy protests

by opposition members demanding

a statement from Antony over media

reports claiming that Chinese troops

have intruded into Indian territory.

According to the minister, Saran’s re-

port was primarily focused on border

infrastructure and also dealt with sev-

eral aspects relating to the region. “In

this context, issues such as availability

of modern machinery for construction

and maintenance of roads, upgrada-

tion of roads, tunneling, and alternate

alignments, among others have also

been discussed,” said Antony. He said

the report also deals with the require-

ment of air facilities in the region

and issues related to land acquisition.

Other matters such as employment

opportunities to local youth, tourism,

mobile and internet connectivity, law

and order, and better equipment and

facilities for the Indo-Tibetan Border

Police have been covered, he said. In-

dia and China fought a border war in

1962, and both countries accuse one

another of occupying territory. A se-

ries of border talks have not helped

overcome border differences.

boundaries. He has earned for him-self a unique position in the musical

narrative of the world,” he added.

The award comprises Rs.1 crore, a

citation in a scroll, a plaque as well

as an exquisite traditional handicraft

or handloom item. The rst Tagore

Award was conferred on Indian sitar

maestro in Ravi Shankar in 2012,

nine months before his death.

Speaking at the ceremony, Mehta

said that one should never underesti-

mate the power of inner peace.

“It was in 1994 that I had played in

Sarajevo during the Bosnia war. Dur -

ing those two hours there was peace.

This doesn’t mean that we brought

peace, but the soldiers engulfed in

the war felt that inner peace,” he said.“Never underestimate the power of

inner peace that comes with music,”

he added.

Mehta’s “Ehsaas-e-Kashmir “(The

feel of Kashmir)” concert has been

facing opposition from separatist

politicians. Jammu and Kashmir Po-

lice Thursday arrested two guerrillas

from Chanapora locality in Srinagar

following guerrilla threats to the con-

cert. Police sources told that one of

the guerrillas had come to Chana-

pora area from north Kashmir’s So-

pore town, while the other belonged

to the area from where the duo were

arrested.

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CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September, 20134 LIFESTYLE

Back to couture, Niki Mahajan explores Lucknowi craft

Parents’ shouting could be damaging for kids

Sleep deep to boost brain function

Timeless Jewels 2013ready to sparkle

Gurgaon

It has taken eight-and-a-half years

for veteran designer Niki Mahajan to

return to couture - and she is mak-

ing sure she does it with the grandeur

that it deserves. She is working with

almost 100 craftspersons from Luc-

know to create a bespoke line that

will be an ode to “seless” women.

A walk into the designer’s factory in

the Gurgaon business hub bordering

Delhi reveals the painstaking efforts

of the workers. Some were busy with

embroidery on colourful fabrics,

while others were concentrating on

embellishing them.“I always try to give employment to

my craftspeople with my clothes and

this is what I am doing this time as

well,” Mahajan told.

Work was on in full swing to make

the Sep 14 show a memorable affair.

The new couture line nds inspi-

ration in Begum Hazrat Mahal of

Awadh (1820-79). Age-old embroi-

deries and fabrics like badla work,

block printing and mukaish form the

essence of every design.

Mahajan is known for keeping her

ensembles authentic and she has

worked with artisans from Rajast-

han, Karnataka, Gujarat and Bengal

over two decades of her association

with the fashion industry.“It’s fantastic to work with such tal-

London

Middle-class parents with a habit

of shouting at their teenage chil-

dren could be actually increasing

their kids’ risk of depression and

troubled behaviour, says a US

study.

Published in the journal Child De-

velopment, the study stated even if

parents enjoyed a close relation-

ship with their son and daughter,

harsh verbal discipline was found

to have a dramatic impact on emo-

tional development of the teenag-ers, Daily Mail reported Wednes-

day. It says this form of discipline

can vary from yelling and shout-

ing at a child, to swearing and us-

ing words to humiliate them.

Scientists, examining 976 two-

parent families in the US, the ma-

jority of which were middle-class,

found that many shifted from

physical to verbal discipline as

their children entered adolescence.

It was also discovered that more

severe forms of harsh verbal dis-

cipline were commonplace, and

directed at teens in nearly half of

the households.

The researchers found if parents

use such punishment when their

child is 13, the teenager was more

likely to have behavioural or emo-

tional problems later.

These youngsters tended to suf-

fer more depressive symptoms

between ages 13 and 14 than chil-

dren who were not disciplined

in this manner, while they were

New Delhi

Timeless Jewels 2013 is set to bring

traditional kundan and polki jewel-

lery crafts from Rajasthan, and dia-

monds from Mumbai and Surat un-

der one roof here.

The three-day exhibition, starting

here Friday, will also showcase brid-

al jewellery. “Jewellery is not only

about owning a piece you can afford,

it is all about emotions - your values,

your perception and your feelings

also more likely to have conduct

problems such as misbehaving at

school, lying, stealing, or ghting.

“This is one of the rst studies to

indicate that parents’ harsh ver-

bal discipline is damaging to the

developing adolescent,: said lead

researcher Ming-Te Wang, as-

sistant professor of psychology

in education at the University of

Pittsburgh.

that eventually get passed on from

generations to generations,” Tarun

Sarda, CEO, Timeless Jewels, said in

a statement. The 10th edition of the

exhibition presents an array of pre-

cious and semi-precious pieces from

jewellery houses like Shri Ram Hari

Ram (UC) by Shrihari Diagems,

Sanzany by Rachna Motani, The

Cappuccino Collection, Bikaneri

Jewels and Ishaan Gems.

ented people, who have so much to

share,” she said.

The new line has a differentiating

factor from Mahajan’s previous col-lections - her signature prints will be

missing! “I have been working a lot

with block printing; that’s something

I reinvented. I am using a lot of old

fabrics that I’ve used in my previous

shows. But this show comes with a

lot of embroidery and no print at all,

something that I have never done be-

fore,” she added.

She has delved deeper into bringing

“rich textiles” to the ramp and she

says she has used “almost 200 differ-

ent types of embroidery techniques

for the show”.

“It’s not like one collection - it is

ve different collections together.

Not only have we used old types of

embroidery, we have also reinventedthem to make them more modern,”

she explained.

Mahajan launched her label in 1988.

Since then, she has developed a

niche for her label worldwide owing

to her unique sense of style. For thelast six years, she’s been a director of

the Fashion Design Council of India

(FDCI), the country’s apex fashion

body. Fashion week after fashion

week, Mahajan has showcased her

western creations. Why did she keepaway from couture for so long?

“When I started some 25 years back,

I used to do bridal wear and, along

the way, I was experimenting with

craft too. Also, I started taking my

craft to the international market;

so that’s how I turned away from

couture and started working with a

whole lot of international buyers.

“They do not buy Indian wear and

so, that’s how the transition hap-

pened. We got so busy with the inter-

national market and the label caught

up so well that I didn’t get the time

to do bridal and couture wear,” she

said. With her new set of couture

wear, Mahajan pays an “ode to all

the women” with an inspiration likethe “stunningly beautiful” Begum

Hazrat Mahal.

“A stunningly beautiful woman, Be-

gum Hazrat used her courage and

leadership qualities to rebel against

the East India Company during the

1857 upsurge. Despite that, nobody

recognises her. “This is my ode to

women who selessly do everything

and still get no recognition. They are

nameless and faceless,” said Maha-

jan. As a female designer, she is her-

self a power to reckon with in the In-

dian fashion scene - she retails from

over 100 stores globally, and her

creations nd rack space in popular

foreign stores like Anthropologie, Is-

etan, Bloomingdales, Harvey Nich-ols, United Arrows and Fred Segal.

Washington

Did you know that while you sleep,

there are genes in the brain that are

actually turned on? Scientists now

say that these genes are vital for the

repair and growth of brain cells.

Scientists in the US have now es-

tablished that adequate sleep boosts

the production of specic brain cells,

called oligodendrocytes, that produce

the protective layer around the organ.

Oligodendrocytes make myelin (the

protective layer) in the healthy brain

and in response to injury. Much like

the insulation around an electrical

wire, myelin allows electrical im-

pulses to move rapidly from one cell

to the next. According to an animal

study published in the Sep 4 issue of

The Journal of Neuroscience, these

ndings could one day lead scientists

to new insights about the role sleep

plays in brain repair and growth, re-

ports.

Scientists have known for years that

many genes are turned on during

sleep and off during periods of wake-

fulness. In the current study, Chiara

Cirelli, MD, PhD, and colleagues at

the University of Wisconsin, Madi-

son, measured gene activity in oligo-

dendrocytes from mice that slept or

were forced to stay awake.

The group found that genes promot-

ing myelin formation were turned on

during sleep. In contrast, the genes

implicated in cell death and cellular

stress response were turned on when

the animals stayed awake.

“These ndings hint at how sleep or

lack of sleep might repair or damage

the brain,” said Mehdi Tafti, PhD,

who studies sleep at the University

of Lausanne in Switzerland. Tafti,

however, was not involved in the

study reported in the Sep 4 issue of

the Journal of Neuroscience.

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CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September, 2013 5REGIONShe gets brickbats for givingbouquets

Chandigarh’s most-guarded complex feelsinsecure

Ominous signs of revival of Sikh militancy:Indian security agencies on alert

Shimla

She is getting brickbats from the

opposition, but gives bouquets to

party bosses. Ever since her hus-

band returned to power in Him-

achal Pradesh, she has been playing

more than just a second ddle and

has been proactive in New Delhi in

seeking more infrastructure projects

for the state. Her being a member

of parliament has only helped her in

achieving her goals. And if the party

insiders are to be believed, Pratbiha

Singh, the wife of septuagenarian

Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh,

is all set to step into her husband’s

shoes when the time comes.

Political observers say that since

winning the Mandi parliamentary

bypoll June 30 with a record mar-

gin, Pratibha Singh has been lob-

bying hard with New Delhi to get

liberal funding for central-aided

projects, particularly dealing with

infrastructure and connectivity,

sanctioned for the state.

She called on Prime Minister Man-

mohan Singh twice and sought cen-

tral assistance of Rs.1,000 crorefor repairing the damage caused

by heavy rain in Kinnaur district

June 16-17. But the main opposi-

tion Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

is taking potshots at her for going

security provided to central govern-

ment establishments and buildings

in Chandigarh. It said the CISF’soutstanding bill can be adjusted

against this amount. The Haryana

government has however objected

to the hefty bill. Haryana’s Addi-

tional Chief Secretary (Home) Samir

Mathur, in a communication to the

CISF director general, asked the

force to reconcile its accounts and

the outstanding amount demanded

from Haryana.

“The CISF is a central armed po-

lice force and clearly differentiated

from private security agencies. In

this case, it is providing safety and

protection to the functioning of

democratically elected governments

under the Constitution,” Mathur said

in his communication.“The Punjab

Chandigarh

On the ground, it is the most securely

guarded place here. Several levels

of heavily armed troopers ring it at

all the time. But a sense of “insecu-rity” now prevails in the Punjab and

Haryana Secretariat complex after a

central security agency threatened

to withdraw if its outstanding of a

whopping Rs.45 crore is not cleared

by the state governments.

The Secretariat complex in Chan-

digarh’s Sector 1 is guarded by the

Central Industrial Security Force

(CISF). Chandigarh, a 114 square-

km union territory, has been the joint

capital of Punjab and Haryana since

1966. The seat of power of the Pun-

jab and Haryana governments, the

Secretariat complex was designed by

Chandigarh’s founder-architect Le

Corbusier in the 1950s.

The then Punjab chief minister BeantSingh, who was credited for wiping

out terrorism from the state with

supercop K.P.S. Gill in the early

1990s, was assassinated in the Sec-

retariat complex by a human bomb

Aug 31, 1995.“The Rs.45 crore bill

raised by the CISF includes service

tax and advance security deposit for

three months. The state governments

should bear the cost of having such

a high level of security,” a CISF of-

cer told here. The CISF communi-

cation said Haryana owed it Rs.23

crore while Punjab’s outstanding

was Rs.22 crore.

The Punjab government has claimed

that the central government owes it

nearly Rs.15 crore for Punjab Police

New Delhi/Chandigarh

Ten hardcore Sikh militants holed up

in Pakistan for many years are under

pressure from its intelligence agen-

cies to revive Sikh militancy in In-

dia, Indian intelligence sources aver.

“Pakistan is so desperate to reacti-

vate the militant leaders that it has

told them to either create turmoil in

India -- or quit Pakistani territory for

good,” said a senior security ofcial

who spoke only if he was not iden-

tied. Security ofcials say the list

of 10 names have been shared with

several police forces, including those

in Delhi and Punjab, where a bloody

decade-long separatist campaign was

nally put down by 1993.“These ter -

rorists are on our radar,” Punjab’s

Additional Director General of Po-

lice Hardeep Dhillon told on tele-

phone from Chandigarh. Prominent

among those living in Pakistan are

Babbar Khalsa International’s Wad-

hawa Singh and his aides Ratandeep

Singh and Mehal Singh. Others in-

clude Jagtar Singh Tara of Khalistan

Tiger Force, Ranjit Singh Meeta of

Khalistan Zindabad Force, Gajinder

Singh of Dal Khalsa, Paramjeet

Singh Panjawar of Khalistan Com-

mando Force, Lakhweer Singh Rode

of International Sikh Youth Fed-

eration, Harminder Singh Mintu of

Khalistan Liberation Force and Har-

meet Singh of Komagata Maru Dal.

Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence

(ISI) has for decades controlled both

Sikh and Kashmiri separatists, pro-

viding them weapons, training,cash

as well as sanctuary, say Indian se-

curity agencies. Once the Khalistan

movement was put down, some of

the surviving militants escaped to

Pakistan. This has been corroborated

by Lashkar-e-Taiba member Abdul

Karim Tunda, who is now in Delhi

Police custody, intelligence sources

told. Tunda has also told Indian in-

terrogators that the Pakistani intelli-

gence has provided shelter to small

and big terrorist groups to execute

bombings in India.

Delhi’s Special Commissioner of

Police S.N. Srivastava told IANS:

“Wadhawa Singh, Ratandeep Singh

and Mehal Singh are the most want-

ed Sikh extremists.” Tunda con-fessed that he had been assigned by

Ratandeep Singh to carry out bomb

attacks in India. Tunda also said that

the Babbar Khalsa International had

demanded explosives before the

Commonwealth Games in Delhi in

2010 -- and he sent the consignment.

Intelligence sources say that the Sikh

militants in Pakistan are in touch

with “extremist minded” pro-Kha-

listan expatriates based in the West,

particularly in Canada. The pro-Kh-

alistan expatriates are known to fund

the extremists -- also with the mis-

sion of reviving militancy in Punjab.

overboard to please the top bosses

in the Congress.

“The people of rain-ravaged Kinn-

aur are still crying for nancial and

material aid, but their MP is busyin pleasing the central government

ministers by presenting them with

bouquets,” state BJP chief Satpal

Satti said in a statement.

“Despite presenting so many bou-

quets, the central assistance till date

is almost zero,” he added.

Besides meeting the prime minis-

ter, the newly elected MP called on

over 10 union ministers, including

Anand Sharma for a central in-

dustrial package till 2020, K. Chi-

ranjeevi to develop tourism infra-

structure, Mallikarjun Kharge for

expanding the railway network and

Sushilkumar Shinde for deputing

a central team to tour rain-ravaged

areas.“The chief minister is liter-ally grooming his wife to get a feel

of the state’s affairs. She is in fact

the de facto chief minister,” said a

senior minister who didn’t wish to

be identied. He told that a battery

of senior government ofcials has

been attached to Pratibha Singh to

brief her on a day-to-day basis on

the state’s nancial and infrastruc-

tural issues.

“She is pushing hard for speedy im-

plementation of central projects that

have been caught in unnecessary

logjams due to the stubborn attitude

of the previous BJP government,”

an ofcial said.

Congress leaders said two-time

MP Pratibha Singh had been mar-ginalised in the state politics since

2009 when her husband got elected

from the Mandi Lok Sabha. She

represented that seat from 2004 to

2009.

The Congress had denied a ticket to

her from Kasumpti in the December

assembly elections. That was the

second time she had been denied a

ticket.

In 2009, she failed to get a party

ticket for the assembly by-election

in Rohru, the seat vacated by her

husband after he shifted to New

Delhi by winning the Lok Sabha

election.“Since Virbhadra Singh’s

only son Vikramaditya is yet to en-

ter politics and his critics have beensaying that he has lost his edge, he

wants to keep his wife in the fore-

front till his son is mature enough

to enter the political arena,” said a

close condant of the chief minister.

and Haryana Secretariat is the seat

of governance of the states of Punjab

and Haryana from where the consti-tutional functions are discharged. It

is difcult to conceive that service

tax has been sought to be levied for

security... when the states are paying

deployment charges,” he said.

“We have cleared outstanding bills

till May 2013. There is no more out-

standing and we have communicated

this to the CISF. There will be no

compromise with the Secretariat se-

curity,” Mathur said.

The Haryana government has stated

that under the Punjab Reorganisation

Act, 1966, assets and liabilities were

divided in the 60:40 ratio between

Punjab and Haryana and the pay-

ment for CISF security should also

be done accordingly.

Kashmir gears up for its biggestextravaganzaSrinagar

It is being termed the mother of all

cultural events ever held in Kash-

mir and, given the ofcial and pub-

lic focus the concert here Saturday

by the Bavarian State Orchestra

under maestro Zubin Mehta is get-

ting here, it could well be one.

Chartered aircraft, BMW cars brought in just to ferry VVIPs,

Rs.3.6 crore spent on renovating

the Shalimar Garden venue of the

concert, the German ambassa-

dor almost camping in Srinagar,

hundreds of security personnel

detailed for security and the state

administration attending to every

detail of the 90-minute concert

are some of the elements that even

common Kashmiris have not failed

to notice.

Security check-points have been

set up on the Boulevard Road and

the Foreshore Road that lead to the

concert venue.

Vehicles are being checked and

occupants frisked as part of the se-

curity drill, which is likely to get

more stringent.

The concert would be telecast

live in 104 countries; never before

has any cultural or sports event in

Kashmir has attracted so much at-tention.

Corporate honchos, ambassadors

of European countries in India, lm

stars, bureaucrats and police and

military ofcers are included in the

list of invitees --1,500 people, 700

of them from outside Jammu and

Kashmir. Private houses behind the

Shalimar Garden were included in

the elaborate security drill connect-

ed with the concert and comman-

dos would be stationed in them to

secure the venue, a security ofcer

here said. Scores of CCTV cameras

have been installed in and around

the concert venue.

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CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September, 20136 OPINION

EDITORIAL DESKManu Sharma

No Fuel After 8

Student Union Elections

Economic downturn is making

government run circles chasing its

own tail. In a move harking back tohalcyon days of Soviet Union and

socialism in India, the government

is mulling to close down Petrol

Pumps after 8 PM, daily, in a des-

perate bid to starve a fuel hungry

nation. The effort is to somehow

reduce the fuel consumption of the

nation in order to cut down on Cur-

rent Account Decit and subsidy

bill of the government due to oil

imports.

Campuses across the country are

abuzz with budding leaders going

about their shenanigans. The din of

the student electioneering is notice-ably of higher decibel than was the

case in earlier times. A scene that

was once preserve of only a minor-

ity of young ones has become much

more widely contested. There are

two factors to which this widening is

being ascribed to apart from upcom-

ing Lok Sabha Elections. The rst

being the start of a recession in the

economy. Research indicates that

boom years in the Economy tend to

suck the smarter and clever crowd

If the US is so convinced that the

Bashar al Assad regime used chemi-

cal weapons on the opposition in

Syria, why is it not sharing the evi-

dence with the UN, Vladimir Putin,

anybody? Putin says he will support

military action against the regime

if he sees clinching evidence that

Assad used chemical weapons. But

Barack Obama will not oblige.

It is possible Obama is blufng. But

there is a bluff and there is a bluff.

Diwali is round the corner and there

will be that audacious gambler who

will keep tossing chips onto the table

even if he, or she, has only one ace

in his hand. But the gambler will

make nonsense of the game if, on a

weak hand, he keeps moving until

the bank breaks and the Casino shuts

down.

At this stage, the gambling metaphor

fails. Now another game begins, the

game of Mind over Matter. It does

not matter what evidence Washing-

ton has. Whatever the evidence, the

entire American establishment is un-

der great pressure to nd an excuse,

to act militarily in Syria. What could

this urgency be?

Completely out of character with the

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which

glides through diplomatic corridors

with so much stealth, the frenetic

diplomatic style of the Intelligence

Chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan,

has been something of a vigorous

Tandav. He has been darting around

from capital to capital like a globule

of sodium on water. Sources suggest

he has been imploring Washing-

ton to give him a month to alter the

situation on the ground inside Syria,

after which Moscow can be brought

into play towards some settlement.

He turned up in Moscow, held Pu-

tin’s hand and said he would sign

lucrative arms deals, give him all

he wanted in oil, gas, pipelines, new

hydro carbon discoveries, pricing,

the works. And, the piece de resis-

tance, Saudis would keep Chechen

extremists on a tight leash so that the

Sochi Olympic Games can be held

peacefully. “We control the Chechen

extremists.”All this, and more would be deliv-

ered unto Moscow if only Moscow

cooperated on Syria and supported

Gen. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Egypt.

And, Bandar added, all that he was

laying out on the table had Ameri-

ca’s blessing.

The distillate from Bandar’s exer -

tions in Moscow are: help us in Da-

mascus and Cairo and we shall give

you the keys to paradise.

A revealing moment at the heated

hearing in the Republican controlled

House of Representatives Tuesday

was when Secretary of State John

Kerry turned to the bench behind

him and pointed to “Robert Stephen

Ford, our ambassador in Syria”.In form and feature, face and limb

One Ford was like the other

For folks went taking him for him

And each for one another.

I rubbed my eyes with disbelief. I

could swear on oath that exactly a

month ago I had seen John Kerry ap-

point the very same Robert Stephen

Ford as the ambassador to Cairo to

replace ambassador Anne Patterson

who had been too closely identied

with Mohamed Morsi and the Mus-

lim Brotherhood.

What is happening is this. For the

Alif Laila world of West Asia,

Americans have identied a hand-

ful of Foreign Service ofcers who

are a cross between Arabists and theSpecial Services, a poor man’s T.E.

Lawrence.When Morsi was dramati-

cally ousted from Cairo, Ford it was

who surfaced as ambassador for

the crisis. But as soon as Damascus

needed urgent attention, he reverted

to Damascus.

There he was, right behind Kerry

at the Congressional hearing.At the

hearing, quite inadvertently, Kerry

gave the game away. He blurted out

another name: Gen. Salim Idris, who

defected from the Syrian army last

year and is now Chief of Staff of

the Supreme Military Council of the

Free Syrian Army.

He told NBC News Aug 29 that

the US Intelligence knows of his“sources” in Assad’s inner circle.

He has links with units working on

chemical weapons. Idris and other

army defectors are therefore the ral-

lying points for Western help which

includes military attack so that they

can expand their inuence on the

ground to be credible negotiators at

Geneva II. Alternatively, they must

excavate deep into the Baathist

structure and split it. All of this is

easier said than done.

Again, that overwhelming question.

Why did Obama not act when the

chemical weapons Red Line was

crossed earlier? Kerry explained to

the Congressmen, because the Presi-

dent had not changed his policy then.That precisely is the point. Why has

Obama changed his policy now?

What is the urgency?

The urgency arouse the day the Sau-

dis rushed in with $ 12 billion as a

gift for Gen. Sisi for having toppled

the Muslim Brotherhood and a Sau-

di-Qatar split became imminent.

The Brothers are a Sunni version of

the Ayatullahs in Tehran, both ideo-

logically opposed to monarchies, a

nightmare for the Saudis, jointly or

separately. Qatar, Hamas, Turkey

were a strong coalition of the Broth-

ers focused on Syria and are now in

disarray. As it is Kerry was embar-

rassed at the hearing to list the “34

countries and groups” supportingUS military action. Where has it

ed, the Atlantic Alliance? “I shall

give you a written list” said Kerry,

sheepishly.

A very real, regional coalition for

change in Syria is about to splinter

because of differences over Egypt.

A joint military action would be the

glue to keep this coalition together.

That is why Bandar is counting his

worry beads. Obama, Hamlet like, is

holding aloft a scroll of the Valliant

34, like Yorick’s skull: “To be or not

to be……”

Saeed Naqvi

The move is fraught with danger of

cooling off the economy when we

desperately need a growth boost. Asignal of policy failure is the resid-

ual purchasing power in the hands

of the consumer despite many fold

hikes in the fuel prices. In lay man’s

language the government is unable

to feed the demand of the consum-

ers and hence is choosing to ration

the fuel instead of nding more to

help our growth champions.

The Economic woes of India are

largely driven by supply side con-

towards sunrise economy whereas in

recessionary times frustrated youth

take to streets and politics. The other

reason is that success of mass move-ments of the year 2011 have instilled

a new social awakening and pride

amongst youth. Having tasted the

bitter sweet palette of street politics

the youth wants to graduate to a new

high. Parties of all hues are treating

this as an opportunity and want to at-

tract as many youth leaders to their

fold as possible. India demographic

bulge comprises of 65% youth under

the age of 30 and thus going into fu-

ture an incremental number of voters

straints accentuated by a dithering

government and paralysed parlia-

ment. Despite years of head startavailable and a vibrant discourse

around the energy policy, an Econo-

mist Prime Minister failed to see the

nation through in turbulent times. It

takes a lot to build a dynamic work-

force that is energy hungry and

which delivers output based on the

energy inputs. Hack and clear tac-

tics won’t deliver the necessary out-

comes nor will they augur well for

long terms goals.

The political fallout from the

food security legislation may well

prove to be nearly as dramatic asIndira Gandhi’s bank nationalisa-

tion ploy of 1970 and the “garibi

hatao” (banish poverty) campaign

of the following year.

In all these cases, the ostensible

reason for the measures - food for

the poor, the use of banks for pub-

lic welfare and the articulation of

an objective - is suspected to be a

moralistic cover for the purpose of

winning votes.

Even then, since politics is as

much about gestures as about

achievements, few will deny the

political signicance of the food

and land acquisition laws. Argu-

ably, the latest initiatives may

not be as successful as the earlier ones since the voters have become

more perceptive - and cynical. At

the same time, the cards played by

Sonia Gandhi cannot but invest

the Congress with greater con-

dence to face the electorate if only

because of the effectiveness of the

slogan that no one will now go to

bed hungry and that the old, colo-

nial land acquisition law has been

scrapped.

In addition, if Finance Minister P.

Chidambaram’s 10-point plan to

resuscitate the economy achieves

a measure of success, then the cu-

rious combination of left-of-centre

populism and right-of-centre eco-

nomic policies will be a formida- ble one.

It is another matter that by the time

the effect of the food legislation is

felt across the country, the general

election will be very near.

Similarly, no one knows how s-

cally disastrous will be the gar-

gantuan task of feeding nearly 800

million people with subsidized

supplies.

If the economy sinks under the

burden of new subsidies - or the

country has to import foodgrain -

then it will not take time for the

political expectations aroused by

the initiative to evaporate.

Evidently, the food security law

is a high-risk gamble which can backre badly on the Congress,

and particularly on its sponsor,

Sonia Gandhi.

The prospects for the party will

be worse if the industry gives a

thumbs-down signal to the new

policy on land because of the fear

that it will inordinately delay the

process of acquisition.

At the moment, however, Sonia

Gandhi’s “socialism” has enabled

her to score several political points

via these boom-or-bust ventures.

For a start, she has re-established

her total control over the party

in contrast to the period in 2008

when Manmohan Singh had his

way on the nuclear deal despiteher reluctance.

At that time, the high growth rates

had also boosted the prime minis-

ter’s position.

Now, however, it is just the op-

posite. As the rupee depreciates

and the economy totters, the prime

minister’s image has been at its

darkest. In fact, as Sonia Gandhi

delivered one of her rare speeches

in the Lok Sabha on the food bill,Manmohan Singh seemed almost

like a forlorn gure. But he partly

resurrected his plummeting stock

later in the week with a combative

speech that held out hope for the

economy and blasted the opposi-

ton Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

for blocking reforms by not allow-

ing parliament to function repeat-

edly.

A part of his loneliness all this

while might have been because

he was known to be unenthusias-

tic about the proigate move al-

though he reportedly told a cabinet

meeting that there was no option

but to “bite the bullet”. However,

it is worth noting that the eyes of the country are now on Chidam-

baram as he makes a last-ditch at-

tempt to revive the economy, and

not on Manmohan Singh.

But it isn’t only the prime minis-

ter who is down and out. The BJP,

too, has had to look on with dis-

may as its main political adversary

pushed through the legislation

on food which can be a game-

changer, as the Congress believes.

Yet, the BJP had no option but to

keep silent as loud “ayes” from

the Congress benches ensured the

bill’s passage.

Like the BJP, Narendra Modi,

too, has taken a glancing blow

since the party ignored its poster boy’s appeal to engage in delay-

ing tactics by calling for a meeting

of chief ministers to discuss the

measure, especially its supposedly

anti-federal aspects since the new

law empowers the centre to direct

the states on its implementation.

Unlike Modi, the BJP understood

that such libustering will allow

its critics to accuse it of being un-

sympathetic to the plight of the

poor. On the land acquisition bill,

too, it wasn’t possible for the BJP

to be too critical when the alterna-

tive would have been to persist

with the 1894 law. Since socialism

- fake or not - has a halo of its own,

it is difcult to negate its appeal. No one knows this better than the

Congress with its long experience

in pragmatism laced with cyni-

cism. As long as Manmohanics

kept the 250 million middle class

happy because of the high “Sikh

rate of growth”, as Congress MP

Mani Shankar Aiyar once said, the

party went along with neo-liberal

policies. But once the economy

began to descend towards the old,

Hindu rate of growth, it is back to

socialism again.

In giving precedence to politics

over economics, the Congress has

chosen to live in the present with

little thought for the future.

The party is apparently not both-ered overmuch if the economy

sinks under the weight of food

subsidies and domestic industrial-

ists invest abroad because of the

difculty of buying land in India.

By the time bad economics takes

its political toll, the party hopes to

be in power.

Amulya Ganguli

will be comprised of the young. This

interest in politics should however

be insulated from evils plaguing the

world of electoral politics. Namely black money and muscle power.

Campus elections are turning violent

with alarming regularity and witness

to large scale funding by leading po-

litical parties. Lyngdoh Committee

recommendations should be strictly

enforced and incidents of pressur-

ization of administrative machinery

to commit electoral fraud should be

minimized. Let the nursery of Indian

politics breed fragrant and benign

owers and not thorny weeds.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Letters may be emailed to the [email protected]

,with full postal address and the full name or the name

with initials.

Food security: Sonia’sboom-or-bust gamble

US attack to preserve Mideast coalition

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CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September, 2013 7SCIENCE AND TECH

Samsung rolls out watchlike

wearable device

Indian ‘military’ satelliteput into earth’s orbit

Microsoft builds portal forIndian developers

Frogs that hear withtheir mouths

Moonlandingmission to

use ‘secretweapons’

Seoul

Samsung Electronics has rolled out a

rst-generation watch-like wearabledevice that allows users to call and

send messages hands-free. A user

leaving a grocery store with both

hands full would still be able to make

a call without touching the screen.

The Galaxy Gear was launched at the

Berlin trade show Thursday,

reported.

The Galaxy Gear smart watch, which

will be on display at the IFA con-

sumer electronics fair in Berlin for

six days till Sep 11, will be worn on

the wrist to serve as a companion de-

vice to Samsung’s newest version of

phablet Galaxy Note 3, the company

said in a statement.

The voice-controlled smart watch

will allow users to track hands-freecall and messages.

Samsung said a user leaving the

grocery store whose hands are full

with shopping bags, could still make

Bangalore

India’s rst ‘military’ satellite was

Wednesday put into the geosyn-

chronous orbit, about 36,000 km

above the earth, ve days after it was

launched Aug 30 onboard an Euro-

pean rocket from Kourou in French

Guiana off the Pacic coast.“The ad-

vanced multi-band communicationsatellite GSAT-7 has been placed

in the geosynchronous orbit at an

altitude of about 36,000km above

earth’s surface after three orbit-

raising manoeuvres from our master

control facility at Hassan in Karna-

taka,” the state-run Indian Space Re-

search Organisation (ISRO) said in a

statement here.

Hassan is about 180 km from Ban-

galore. The 2.5-tonne spacecraft’s

antennae, including the ultra high

frequency Helix antenna were de-

ployed before it was stabilised on its

three-axis in the orbit.

“The satellite will reach its assigned

a call by speaking into the Galaxy

Gear without touching the screen.The Galaxy Gear with a 1.63-inch

Super AMOLED display has a 1.9

megapixel built-in camera that al-

lows users to shoot videos and take

pictures with the slightest gesture

and transmit them via Bluetooth to

other mobile devices such as the Gal-

axy Note 3.

The latest version of phablet, or a

hybrid of smartphone and tablet PC,

has enhanced hardware features.

The screen size of the Galaxy Note

3 rose from its predecessor’s 5.3

inches to 5.7 inches, but it became

slimmer and lighter with 8.3mm in

thickness and 168 grams in weight.

The device is powered by both

Quad-Core processor running at 2.3GHz and Octa-Core processor at 1.9

GHz. It has dual cameras with a 13

megapixel rear camera and a 2 mega-

pixel front one.

orbital slot of 74 degree east longi-

tude in the geostationary orbit within

the next 10 days and its transponders

in UHF, S, C and Ku bands will be

switched September 14,” the state-

ment said.

The four transponders, which re-

ceive and transmit signals at highfrequency, will improve the maritime

communications among the Indian

Navy’s warships.

A 108 ampere-hour Lithium-ion

battery enables the Rs.185-crore

satellite to function even during the

eclipse period. According to defence

experts, the satellite will enable the

navy to acquire blue water capabili-

ties and need not depend on foreign

satellites like Inmarsat, which pro-

vide communication services to its

ships. The cost of the launch onboard

the Ariane-5 heavy rocket of the Eu-

ropean Space Agency (ESA) Ariane-

space was Rs.440 crore.

frogs were able to hear sound.

Various mechanisms have been pro-

posed -- an extra-tympanic pathwaythrough the lungs, muscles which in

frogs connect the pectoral girdle to

the region of the inner ear, or bone

conduction.

As these animals are tiny, just one cm

long, the researchers used X-ray im-

ages of the soft tissue and the bony parts with micrometric resolution to

determine which body parts contrib-

ute to sound propagation.

They found that neither the pulmo-

nary system nor the muscles of these

frogs “contribute signicantly” to

the transmission of sound to the in-

ner ears.

Numerical simulations helped in-

vestigate the third hypothesis, that

the sound was received through the

frogs’ heads.These simulations conrmed that the

mouth acts as a resonator, or ampli-

er, for the frequencies emitted by this

species.Synchrotron X-ray imaging

on different species showed that the

transmission of the sound from the

oral cavity to the inner ear has been

optimised by two evolutionary adap-

tations -- a reduced thickness of the

tissue between the mouth and the

inner ear and a smaller number of

tissue layers between the mouth andthe inner ear.“The combination of a

mouth cavity and bone conduction

allows Gardiner’s frogs to perceive

sound effectively without use of a

tympanic middle ear,” Boistel said.

As Gardiner’s frogs have been livingisolated in the rainforest of the Sey-

chelles for 47 million to 65 million

years, since these islands split away

from the main continent, the ndings

indicated that “their auditory systemmust be a survivor of life forms on

the ancient supercontinent Gondwa-

na”, the expert said.

Beijing

Multiple “secret weapons” will be used

on China’s Chang’e-3 lunar probe,

scheduled for launch at the end of this

year for a moon landing mission, a key

scientist has said.

The mission will see a Chinese orbiter

soft-land on a celestial body for the rst

time, Global Times reported.

In addition to several cameras,Chang’e-3 will carry a near-ultraviolet

astronomical telescope to observe stars,

the galaxy and the universe from the

moon, said Ouyang Ziyuan, a senior

advisor to China’s lunar programme.

The telescope will observe the universe“farther and clearer” and will possibly

bring new discoveries since there will

be no disturbance from the aerosphere,

ionosphere and magnetosphere on the

moon, said Ouyang. He told an event

here that the lander would also carry anextreme ultraviolet camera, which will

be used on the moon for the rst time

to monitor the transformation of the

earth’s plasmasphere and the planet’s

environmental change. The Chang’e-3

moon rover will roam the moon’s sur-

face to patrol and explore the satellite.

Radar will be attached to the bottom of

the rover to explore 100 to 200 meters

beneath the moon’s surface. Chang’e-3

has ofcially entered its launch stage,

following research and manufactur-

ing periods. It will be launched fromthe Xichang Satellite Launch Centre

in southwest China. The Chang’e-3

mission is the second phase of China’s

lunar programme, which includes orbit-

ing, landing and returning to Earth. It

follows the successes of the Chang’e-2

missions, which include plotting a high-

resolution, full-coverage lunar map.

Washington

Scientists have solved the mystery

of why one of the world’s smallest

frogs -- Gardiner’s Seychelles frog-- can hear without an ear.The frogs

from the Seychelles islands in the

Indian Ocean, which are just one cm

long, can hear sounds because they

use their mouth cavity and tissue to

transmit sound to their inner ears,

cited researchers as saying in the US journal Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences.

Most frogs do not possess an outer

ear like humans, but a middle ear

with an eardrum located directly on

the surface of the head.

Incoming sound waves make the ear-

drum vibrate, and the eardrum deliv-

ers these vibrations using ossicles to

the inner ear where hair cells trans-

late them into electric signals sent to

the brain.

Scientists previously thought that itwas impossible to detect sound in the

brain without a middle ear because

99.9 percent of a sound wave reach-

ing an animal is reected at the sur-

face of its skin.

“However, we know of a frog spe-

cies that croaks like other frogs but

do not have tympanic middle ears to

listen to each other. This seems to be

a contradiction,” said lead author Re-

naud Boistel from the University of Poitiers in France.

To establish whether Gardiner’s

frogs actually use sound to communi-

cate with each other, the researchers

set up loudspeakers in their natural

habitat and broadcast pre-recordedfrog songs.

This caused male frogs present in

the rainforest to answer, proving

that they were able to hear the sound

from the loudspeakers, the research-

ers said.The experts then identied the mech-

anism by which these seemingly deaf

Bangalore

Global software major Microsoft has

built a dedicated portal fo r its Indiandevelopers with a community-based

platform to network and engage, its

Indian subsidiary said Thursday.

“The collaborative portal will also of-

fer expert guidance to developers and

remotely solve their queries, empow-

ering themto be efcient as they go

from idea to app (application),” the

company said in a statement here.

With 1.6 million developers in India,

which is its second largest commu-

nity after the US, the company has

designed the portal to offer a rich set

of functionality to help them leverage

collective computing power.

“As a powerful tool, the portal (de-

veloper.microsoft.com) allows our

developers in India to connect withtheir peers the world over. Our ex-

perts are a lso a c lick away for them,”

Microsoft Corporation (India) Ltd

strategic audience marketing director

Pratima Amonkar said in the state-

ment.

The new portal will enable develop-

ers to post their app ideas in an area

called ‘Perspective’.

“Community blogs and social feeds

in the ‘connect’ area allow developers

to share stories, seek advice and con-

nect with our experts at Redmond and

other ofces worldwide,” Amonkar

said. As a single point of entry for all

developers, the portal enables nding

right information from different loca-

tions, which may be difcult to access

otherwise.

“The developer network will provide

opportunity for the community to en-

gage with the company and each oth-

er,” Amonkar noted. Microsoft is the

only company that allows developers

to leverage their skills and reuse code

to build apps, the statement said.

The company’ agship product Win-

dows is also the only platform that

offers consistency through a com-

mon core across device and service to

shape the apps ecosystem and provid-

ing developers the prospect to maxi-

mise their revenues.

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Rajya Sabha adjourned

over Vanzara letter

Why is PM not being questioned in

coal block allocation?: BJP

I would have done better than

Modi post-Godhra: Parrikar

Rajya Sabha passes land acquisition bill

New Delhi

The Rajya Sabha was Thursday ad-

journed for 15 minutes after JD-U

and SP members vociferously raised

the issue of jailed Gujarat police of-

cial D.G. Vanzara’s letter against Gu-

jarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

As soon as the house met at 11 a.m.,

Janata Dal-United (JD-U) and Sama-

jwadi Party (SP) members raised the

issue.

Unable to take up the scheduled busi-

ness in the face of opposition pro-

tests, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman

Panaji

Goa’s Chief Minister Manohar Par-

rikar said Wednesday that he would

have ensured a better job than Gujarat

Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the

post-Godhra riot phase in 2002.

Parikar said this in an interview to

New York Times’ India blog ‘India

Ink’ which was uploaded Wednesday.

Speaking about the riots of 2002,

Parrikar said: “It should not have

happened. The administration should

have clamped down on any violence.

(If I were in his place) I would have

ensured (that) but Modi was new to

the job as chief minister.”

Parrikar, considered close to Modi,

also conceded that the Gujarat vio-

lence was a blot on Modi’s career but

said the Gujarat chief minister was

not “personally a part of it”.

“If he is guilty by connivance he

should be punished, but investiga-

tions have given him a clean chit.

People who oppose him do so be-

cause they fear him,” Parrikar said.

He said the riots were a product of

administrative failure and that every-

thing need not be blamed

on Modi alone.

“What happened then was

unfortunate, but that doesnot require his apology. It

requires his correction and

he has done that.

“There were many reasons

why people lost control in

2002 after the bodies (of

Hindu pilgrims from an

earlier attack) were shown

on TV.

“It should not have hap-

pened, the administra-

tion should have clamped

down on any violence,”

Parrikar said.

The prelude to the inter-

view refers to Parrikar “an

affable face of the Hindu

right and says that the Indi-an Institute of Technology

(IIT) alumnus “impressed

middle class Indians by

taking economy class

ights, by hailing a taxi himself at the

airport, and with clean governance in

his state, when political excess and

corruption are commonplace”.

To a question whether he considers

himself a potential candidate for the

post of prime minister, Parrikar is

quoted as saying: “No, not at all, I am

not a candidate.”

Parrikar also said that at a time when

Manmohan Singh was seen as a lame

duck prime minister and the central

government was in a “perpetual state

of suspension”, Modi had emerged asa hope amongst the youth.

“In these circumstances, particularly

young people see an alternative mod-

el in Modi, and if they want him as

prime minister they will have to elect

his local representative.

“Also, a substantial number of busi-

nessmen are likely to back the BJP

this time, and they will also go for

Modi.

“I believe a national mood is forming

to put the BJP in power and Modi as

prime minister,” he said.

New Delhi

In a second major political victory

for the UPA government, the Rajya

Sabha Wednesday passed the semi-

nal land bill that aims to provide fair

compensation to those whose land is

taken away, brings transparency tothe process of acquisition of land to

set up factories or buildings and as-

sures generous compensation and re-

habilitation of those affected by land

takeover.

The Right to Fair Compensation and

Transparency in Land Acquisition,

Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill,

2012, was passed by 131 votes in fa-

vour with 10 against it after an over

seven hour debate.

However, since four new government

amendments were approved by the

house, the bill will again go back to

the lower house for its consideration.

The bill was earlier passed by the

Lok Sabha Aug 29.

The government’s four amendmentsrelated to irrigated land on the sug-

gestions of the BJP.

The passage of this bill comes close

on the heels of the food bill that en-

shrines food rights and promises ac-

cess to subsidised food to almost 800

millions Indians.

Both these legislations have been

dubbed “populist” by economists but

the Congress, especially its leader,

Sonia Gandhi, have made the twin

bills their showpiece instruments to

improve the lives of India’s poor and

hope to leverage on them to return to

power in the general elections slated

for next year.

Industry is unhappy with the bill as

it makes acquisition of land to set upindustries innitely more difcult as

large tracts of land have fragmented

ownership but the ruling Congress

- as well as other parties - want to

show that their heart is with farm-

ers and tribals as no party want to be

seen as anti-poor ahead of a general

election.

“Compensation is not only for land

owners and farmers but also for those

whose livelihood will be affected,”

Rural Development Minister Jairam

Ramesh said.

He said urgency clause will operate

only in case of national calamity and

security and private companies can-

not invoke it.

The bill aims to replace a law enacted

by the British in 1894.

The Congress termed the Rajya

Sabha’s approval a historic step.

“There was national consensus onit. It reects the vision of the UPA

government and the Congress,”

Congress general secretary Janardan

Dwivedi said.

Most parties supported the bill but

said fertile land should not be ac-

quired for industrial development.

Instead, barren land should be used

for the purpose, they said.

Bharatiya Janata Party member Vi-

nay Katiyar, who initiated the debate,

said acquired land, if not used for

more than ve years, should go back

to farmers and not to land banks and

suggested fast track courts for speedy

disposal of disputes related to land

acquisition.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party

member Ram Gopal Yadav accused

the UPA of rushing through the bill

with an eye on upcoming elections.

The Trinamool Congress and the

Communist Party of India-Marxists

also opposed the bill.

“This bill is not good for farmers, not

good for industry and not good for

the country,” Trinamool leader Derek

O’Brien said.

CPI-M leader P. Rajeev called the

bill a “political gimmick” and an

“eyewash” ahead of the 2014 general

elections.

“This is not an election bill but a nec-

essary bill,” said Ramesh.

Parties like the CPI-M, Communist

Party of India, Trinamool, Janata

Dal-United (JD-U), Biju Janata Dal,

Rashtriya Janata Dal, SP and Bahu-

jan Samaj Party also said that theconsent of the farmer was key in any

land acquisition and suggested that

fair compensation should be paid to

him.

A key feature of the bill is that the

consent of 80 percent of land own-

ers concerned is needed for acquir-

ing land for private projects and of

70 percent landowners for public-

private projects.

The compensation has also been sig-

nicantly increased under the new

law. It suggests compensation for

the owners of the acquired land to be

four times the market value in case of

rural areas and twice in case of urban

areas.

The bill also denes “public pur -

pose” to include: mining, infrastruc-

ture, defence, manufacturing zones,

roads, railways, highways, and ports

built by government and public sec-

tor enterprises, land for project-af-

fected people, planned development

and improvement of village or urban

sites and residential purposes for the

poor and landless and government-

administered schemes or institutions,

among others.

Introduced in 2011, the bill was scru-

tinised by parliamentary panel that

submitted its report in May 2012.

P.J. Kurien announced that the house

be adjourned for 15 minutes.

Indian Police Services (IPS) ofcer

D.G. Vanzara, charged and incarcer-

ated in three staged gun battle cases,

tendered his resignation Tuesday ac-

cusing the Gujarat chief minister of

betraying him.

Vanzara wrote a stinging letter accus-

ing Modi and former Gujarat home

minister Amit Shah of approving the

killings of alleged terrorists in staged

gun battles.

New Delhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Wednesday accused the government

of trying to sabotage coal block al-

location investigation and asked

why was Prime Minister Manmo-

han Singh not being questioned. The

party also asked the government to

register an FIR (First Information

Report) with police on “stolen/miss-

ing” les. In a joint statement, Sush-

ma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, leaders

of opposition in the Lok Sabha and

the Rajya Sabha, respectively, said

the coal allocation scam was becom-

ing “murkier and murkier”. They said

the prime minister, in charge of coal

portfolio between 2006 and 2009, in

his statement in parliament Tuesday

was not even willing to acknowledge

the reality of missing les. The BJP

leaders said, “The failure of honour-

able prime minister to acknowledge

the factum of missing les... the de-

ance of the authority of the Supreme

Court by the government, the pre-

sentation of half-baked facts by the

coal minister, all point to the fact the

government does not want the truth

to come out.” The statement said a

news report appearing in a newspa-

per Wednesday said Senior Superin-

tendent of Police K.R. Chaurasia, on

perusal of the material collected dur-

ing investigation, desired that Man-

mohan Singh, in charge of the coal

ministry between 2006 and 2009,

required to be questioned. The BJP

leaders said the suggestion of the of-

cial has so far not found favour with

the higher-ups in the Central Bureau

of Investigation (CBI). They said the

ofcial’s suggestion was critical to

the investigation and a substantially

large number of documents connect-

ed with “the coal block allocation

scam” have disappeared. Jaitley and

Swaraj said: “We are constrained to

demand the government conrm or deny the fact that the investigating

ofcer has required the examination

of the prime minister on basis of the

material before him so that no fur-

ther tampering and doctoring of the

investigation takes place.” “The ma-

terial on basis of which he requires

the examination of the prime minis-

ter should also be publicly disclosed.

The reasons on basis of which the

prime minister’s examination i s not

being permitted should also be made

public.” They said the government

must register an FIR on the missing

documents and explain reasons why

it has not been done so far. The lead-

ers alleged the les “were made to

disappear”. “The oral examination is

not being permitted. It seems that the

effort of the UPA (United Progressive

Alliance) government is to sabotage

the investigation and render it inef-

fective,” the two BJP leaders said in

the statement. “The screening com-

mittee acted as per the dictates of the

powers that be. The prime minister

acting as the coal minister and the

Prime Minister’s Ofce approved the

list of favourites arbitrarily chosen,”

the statement said. It said parliament

was initially misled so as to create an

impression that only pre-2004 lesare missing. “It now transpires that

a large number of les which pertain

to allocation between 2006 and 2009

are also missing. The disappearance

of the les, the doctoring of the status

report at the behest of a minister and

ofcials of the PMO (Prime Minis-

ter’s Ofce) have been the hurdles

which the government has tried to

create in the honest conduct of inves-

tigation,” the statement said. The BJP

leaders said Coal Minister Sriprakash

Jaiswal had made two statements be-

fore parliament which fall short of

making a complete and honest dis-

closure.

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CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September, 2013 9POLITICS

Trinamool leader

Derek O’Brien:

This bill is not good for

farmers, not good for in-

dustry and not good for

the country.

Rural Development

Minister Jairam

Ramesh:

Compensation is not

only for land owners

and farmers but also for

those whose livelihood

will be affected.

Congress General

Secretary Janardan

Dwivedi:

There was national con-

sensus on it. It reects

the vision of the UPA

government and the

Congress.

CPI-M leader P. Rajeev:

Called the bill a “political

gimmick” and an “eye-

wash” ahead of the 2014

general elections.

Bharatiya Janata

Party Member Vinay

Katiyar: Acquired land,

if not used for more

than fve years, should

go back to farmers and

not to land banks

Mayawati, Former

Uttar Pradesh Chief

Minister: The most af-

fected by land takeover

were small farmers and

tribals and the govern-

ment should do some-

thing to rehabilitate and

resettle them.

QUOTE FIRE

New Delhi

The Delhi High Court Wednes-

day stayed till Sep 19 a trial

court order seeking registration

of an FIR against Chief Minister

Sheila Dikshit for allegedly mis-

using funds in an advertisement

campaign before the 2008 as-

sembly polls. Justice Sunil Gaur,in an interim order, granted relief

to Delhi CM Dikshit by staying

the trial court order of Aug 31.

Deferring the matter to Sep 19,

the court said: “Till then, status

quo as of today in respect of

FIR (First Information Report)

in question be maintained.” The

court had, Tuesday, reserved

order in the matter and issued

notice to Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP) leader Vijender Gupta and

the Delhi Police chief. The Del-hi government moved the court

against the trial court’s Aug 31

order directing police to register

an FIR against Dikshit on the

complaint of Gupta and Right to

Information activist Vivek Garg,

alleging that Dikshit misused

Rs.22.56 crore of government

funds for an advertisement cam-

paign ahead of the 2008 assem-

bly polls. Additional Solicitor

General (ASG) Sidharth Luthra,

appearing for the state govern-ment, had said that Gupta, while

ling the complaint against Dik -

shit and seeking registration of

the FIR, relied upon a Lokayukta

report. The ASG said there was

no material other than that report

with the complainant in this mat-

ter. Luthra said the complaint

was “motivated and frivolous”.

Gupta’s senior advocate Sanjay

Jain argued that the complaint

was initially led before the

Delhi Lokayukta, who indictedDikshit for allegedly misusing

government funds for an adver-

tisement campaign with a “po-

litical purpose”.

HC stays registration of FIR against Sheila Dikshit

POLITICAL CAMP NEWS

CAMP UPA

New Delhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

Wednesday accused the govern-

ment of trying to sabotage coal

block allocation investigation

and asked why was Prime Min-

ister Manmohan Singh not being

questioned. The party also asked

the government to register an

FIR (First Information Report)

with police on “stolen/missing”les. In a joint statement, Sushma

Swaraj and Arun Jaitley, leaders

of opposition in the Lok Sabha

and the Rajya Sabha, respective-

ly, said the coal allocation scam

was becoming “murkier and

murkier”. They said the prime

minister, in charge of coal port-

folio between 2006 and 2009, in

his statement in parliament Tues-

day was not even willing to ac-

knowledge the reality of missing

les. The BJP leaders said, “Thefailure of honourable prime min-

ister to acknowledge the factum

of missing les... the deance

of the authority of the Supreme

Court by the government, the

presentation of half-baked facts

by the coal minister, all point to

the fact the government does not

want the truth to come out.” The

statement said a news report ap-

pearing in a newspaper Wednes-

day said Senior Superintendent

of Police K.R. Chaurasia, on perusal of the material collected

during investigation, desired that

Manmohan Singh, in charge of

the coal ministry between 2006

and 2009, required to be ques-

tioned. The BJP leaders said the

suggestion of the ofcial has so

far not found favour with the

higher-ups in the Central Bureau

of Investigation (CBI). They

said the ofcial’s suggestion was

critical to the investigation and

a substantially large number of documents connected with “the

coal block allocation scam” have

disappeared.

Why is PM not being questioned in coal block allocation?:BJP

CAMP NDA

New Delhi

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)

and Samajwadi Party Wednes-

day accused the UPA of rushing

through the land acquisition bill

with an eye on upcoming elec-

tions. But BSP leader Mayawati

said in the Rajya Sabha that her

party nevertheless supported the

bill which seeks to provide more

compensation to farmers whose

land is taken over for infrastruc-

ture development. She said sug-

gestions made by her party earlier

for amending the Land Acquisi-

tion Act of 1894 were ignored.

“Now with elections nearing, the

bill is being rushed through with-

out much thought.”

Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal

Yadav too accused the Congress-

led United Progressive Alliance

of bringing the bill in a hurry with

an eye on coming elections.

He admitted that the bill had

“good points” but insisted it

had negatives too. According to

Yadav, the percentage of farm

land in India was shrinking due

to land acquisition. He said the

government, instead of acquir-

ing agricultural land, should

earmark infertile fallow land for

infrastructure projects or increase

land for agriculture by treating

infertile land. Mayawati, a for-

mer Uttar Pradesh chief minister,

said the most affected by land

takeover were small farmers and

tribals and the government should

do something to rehabilitate and

resettle them.She said farmers

get upset to see their acquired

land lying unused for years and

then nally being given to some

builder or for some commercial

purpose. “The most affected are

small farmers and adivasis when

their source of livelihood (land)

has been snatched and they are

forced to live in cities, or become

Maoists, commit suicide or take

to wrong ways...

Land bill linked to elections: BSP, SP

New Delhi

Political parties Wednesday

slammed Prime Minister Manmohan

Singh’s statement on the missing

coal block allocation les and asked

how investigations would proceed

in the absence of documentary evi-

dence. Raising the issue in the Rajya

Sabha after repeated adjournments,

leader of opposition Arun Jaitley of

the Bharatiya Janata Party said the

prime minister in his statement had

made it appear that the issue of miss-

ing les was hypothetical. Jaitley

said a newspaper had reported an

ofcial investigating the coal block

allocations had sought oral examina-

tion of the prime minister as he was

in charge of the coal ministry from

2006 to 2009 but the Central Bureau

of Investigation decided against it.

He said les contain documen-

tary evidence about the decisions.

“Somebody has to respond how the

investigation is going to proceed ...

documents are missing and oral evi-

dence will not be allowed,” he said.

Communist Party of India-Marxist

leader Sitaram Yechury criticised the

prime minister for his remarks that

it would be premature to say some

papers were missing. “Either the

les are there or not. It is a matter

of reality, not views,” Yechury said.

He wondered why the government

had not lodged a rst information re-

port in relation to the missing les.

Yechury said the Comptroller and

Auditor General (CAG) had exam-

ined the coal block allocation les

and the government could procure

these from the agency if they had

kept a record. Naresh Agrawal of the

Samajwadi Party said Coal Minis-

ter Sriprakash Jaiswal should have

taken moral responsibility for the

missing les and resigned.V. Mai-

treyan of the All India Anna Dravida

Munnetra Kazhagam said the prime

minister should accept that les were

missing.

Opposition questions government on coal-block probe

Samajwadi Party’s

Ram Gopal Yadav:

The percentage of

farm land in India was

shrinking due to land

acquisition

IANS

Land Acquisition Bill

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Kerala readies for a‘pricey’ OnamThiruvananthapuram

If there is one event that unites ev-

ery Kerala household in a festivity itis the Onam harvest festival and if

there’s any dampener, it’s the sky-

rocketing prices of essential items.

This time, the Onam festival week

begins Saturday with the traditional

‘Atham festival’ followed by First

Onam on September 15, Thiru Onam

the next day and ends two days later

on September 18. Irrespective of

caste or creed, each and every Keral-

ite, irrespective of where one is, cel-

ebrates Onam with real vigour. This

time around, it could be particularly

difcult even as the Kerala govern-

ment has been making market inter-

ventions to ensure state organisations

ensure adequate supply of vegetables

and other food items. “We have al-ready sanctioned funds to the state

agencies which do the procurement

and we have given them whatever

they have asked for. Thirteen items,

including pulses, basic food items

and vegetables will be under the con-

trolled price mechanism and hence,

we are certain that people need not to

worry about prices,” Chief Minister

Oommen Chandy said. The Onam

sadhya (lunch) has to be served on

a banana leaf and in some places it’s

eaten squatting on the oor, like in

the olden days. “Every item is very

expensive compared to last year’s

Onam. The government appears to

be saying every now and then for

the past one week that prices will be controlled, but every day when

I go to shop, it’s only shooting up,”

lamented Remani Nair, a retired

schoolteacher here. A comparison

with the previous year’s prices is

revealing. The Price of red rice last

year was Rs.28 a kg and is Rs.38

now, onions have shot up from Rs.16to Rs.52, coconut oil has risen from

Rs.67 to Rs.86, bananas from Rs.32

to Rs.54, tapioca from Rs.13 to

Rs.24, shallots from Rs.35 to Rs.64

and ash gourd from Rs. 17 to Rs.25.

In the past, a 26-dish lunch was

common in many households and

it included chips, pappads, various

vegetables, a fair number of pickles

both sweet and sour, the traditional

aviyal, sambar and dal, served along

with a small quantity of ghee, rasam,

two different kinds of butter milk

and a chutney prepared from grated

coconut - not to mention a series of

mouth-watering payasams eaten ei-

ther straight or mixed with a small

ripe plantain. “Oh, this time with

prices shooting up like a rocket, the

26-dish lunch would be a luxury for

many. We are a family from which

there is not a single person who is

working abroad. Anyway, we are ex-

pecting that the government will en-

sure uninterrupted supplies through

their outlets,” said Jasmine Thomas

a housewife in Kottayam working

hard to see everything is in order on a

shoestring budget. But in Thiruvalla,

about 120 km from the state capital,

things appear a bit different as this is

from where there are a good number

of Keralites who are working abroad.

“Honestly, in money terms, even

though there is certainly an all-round

price rise, we are yet to feel the pinch

because the money that my husband

remits from the UAE as compared

to the last Onam, is higher in rupee

terms and am yet to feel pinch in the

price rise,” said homemaker Mary

Stephen.

CAG slams procurementof branded drugs

Parliamentpasses bill tonegate SCorder on jailed

lawmakers

New Delhi

The Comptroller and Auditor Gen-

eral of India (CAG) has criticized the

Central Government Health Scheme(CGHS) for buying high-priced

branded drugs instead of the generic

variety.

An amount of Rs 11.81 crore could

have been saved if generic drugs had

been procured, said a report which

was tabled in parliament Friday.

The CAG in its report also points to

the delay in procurement of drugs

New Delhi

With the Lok Sabha’s nod, parlia-

ment Friday passed the Representa-

tion of People (Amendment) Bill,

2013, which will negate a Supreme

Court order banning politicians in

jail and under police custody from

contesting polls.

The Rajya Sabha passed the bill

Aug 28. At the start of the session,

all parties were united in demanding

that the government bring a bill to

negate the apex court order.

The parties had apprehensions that

false cases could be lodged by their

rivals on the eve of any polls to get a

candidate disqualied from contest-ing in keeping with the apex court

order.

The bill negates the July 10 apex

court order which held that since

those in jail cannot vote as per the

electoral act, they cannot qualify for

contesting elections to parliament or

state assemblies. Law Minister Kapil

Sibal moved the bill.

“Sometimes we make mistakes and

sometimes the courts can make a

mistake.

In this case, they made a mistake and

today we are correcting it,” he told

the house. Sibal earlier said there

was a general “negative perception”

in the country that all politicians are

criminals. Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) member Kirti Azad and Ba-

hujan Samaj Party (BSP) member

Dara Singh Chauhan said at times

politicians are jailed for taking part

in agitations on social issues and this

should not be equated with arrest in

criminal cases.

ranging from two to six months after

asking a consulting rm for procur -

ing drugs required by CGHS centres.

The CAG audit has also revealed

losses to the tune of Rs 5.06 crore

in tuberculosis division of the health

ministry.“Branded drugs continue

to be preferred over generic drugs

despite adverse remarks of the par-

liamentary committee. This caused

signicant nancial burden on the

exchequer,” said the report.

NDA ahead of UPA, Modi topchoice as PM: Survey

Karnataka to consult state CJ on prosecutorchange

New Delhi

The BJP-led NDA has a clear edge

over the UPA in terms of support

base if Lok Sabha polls were held

now and Prime Minister ManmohanSingh’s performance is rated below

that of his government, says a opin-

ion survey released Friday.

According to the latest survey con-

ducted by ABP News-Nieslen, Gu-

jarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi

is leading the race for the post of

prime minister.

“If the Lok Sabha elections were to

be held now, 40 percent respondents

intend to vote for NDA (National

Democratic Alliance) and only 27

percent would vote for UPA (United

Progressive Alliance),” said a re-

lease.

These release said that survey data

could be a major setback for Man-

mohan Singh as his performance has been rated “below average.” It said

people in north zone have rated his

performance even poorer.

“Prime minister’s performance is

rated below UPA-II government’s

performance,” it said.

It said the Bharatiya Janata Party

(BJP) emerges as a clear winner

across all zones (more so in north

and west zones) and gender. Major

support is seen gained from younger

lot (18-30 years). Congress, howev-

er, is neck and neck with BJP in the

southern zone.

The survey said more than 60 per-

cent have rated Modi’s performance

“as good/very good”. Modi is chief

of BJP’s campaign committee for the

Lok Sabha elections and seen to be

its prime ministerial candidate.“Narendra Modi is leading the race

(47 percent) for prime minister fol-

lowed by Rahul Gandhi and Manmo-

han Singh. Modi is popular among

voters from north, younger genera-

tion and afuent sections,” it said.

“Across all zones except South,

Narendra Modi emerges as the clear

choice of the people for the position

of Prime Minister of India. In south

zone, it is neck and neck between

Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi,”

it said.

It said majority of the respondents

all across feel that Modi should be

BJP’s prime ministerial candidate for

the 2014 Lok Sabha elections

“In a scenario, where it a competi-tion between Priyanka Gandhi and

Modi, BJP seems to be gaining more

than Congress, even greater that it

would have gained had it been some

other candidate from Congress,” the

survey said.

The survey said 40 percent of those

surveyed feel Manmohan Singh was

responsible for poor economic situa-

tion of the country, but in the south,

45 percent feel that it is Finance

Minister - P. Chidambram who is re-

sponsible.

The release said that a major fraction

(42 percent) of people in north zone

were unhappy with the performance

Don’t sell warships to SriLanka, says KarunanidhiChennai

India’s decision to build and supply

two warships to Sri Lanka has proved

that the central government helpsonly the neighbouring government

and not Indian shermen or Tamils in

the island nation, DMK president M.

Karunanidhi said Friday.

Referring to a news report that In-

dia will supply two warships to Sri

Lanka, Karunanidhi said here Friday:

“The news report proves the charge

levied by some that the Indian gov-

ernment helps only Sri Lanka and is

not concerned about Indian sher -

men or the Lankan Tamils.”

He said Sri Lanka will attack Indian

shermen using the very same ships

and urged the central government toscrap the idea of helping that country.

Karunanidhi said the DMK party did

not believe the charge that Indian

government helped Sri Lanka during

the internal war in 2009.

In 2009, the DMK was part of the

Congress-led United Progressive Al-

liance (UPA) government.

Karunanidhi also urged the central

government to take steps to release

107 Indian shermen lodged in Sri

Lankan jails.

of UPA-II.

The release said that at an overall

level, people were in support of food

security bill with 48 percent feelingthat it is a step in the right direction.

The survey said that people feel that

both Congress and BJP “were equal-

ly responsible for communalization

of politics”.

New Delhi

Karnataka Friday told the Supreme

Court that it would withdraw its Aug

26 notication removing Special

Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh,

appearing in the trial of Tamil Nadu

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the

disproportionate assets case, and

consult the state chief justice on thechange.

The government would be with-

drawing its notication so that it

could once again embark on the ex-

ercise of removing Bhavani Singh

in consultation with the chief justice

of the Karnataka High Court.

Before issuing Aug 26 notication,

the state government had not con-

sulted the chief justice as was di-

rected by the apex court.

Attorney General G.E. Vahanvati

told a bench of Justice B.S.Chauhan

and Justice S.A. Bobde that Karna-

taka government would withdraw

its notication and then place the

entire record leading to the removal

of Bhavani Singh before the chief

justice for his opinion.

In case, the chief justice gives his

nod to the government decision to

remove Bhavani Singh, then the

state government would place be-

fore him a list of senior lawyers sothat one of whom could be picked

up to be the special public prosecu-

tor.

In the course of the hearing, Justice

Chauhan said that they would keep

the matter pending and in the mean-

while, the state government should

withdraw the order removing Bha-

vani Singh.

Meanwhile, senior counsel Mukul

Rohtagi appearing for Jayalalithaa

told the court that all this was “polit-

ical” and his client was “suffering”.

“They (government) are playing

these games to buy the time,” he

said. Jayalalithaa, Sasikala, Ila-

Can’t force media to namesource: I&B ministryLucknowThe union information and broad-

casting ministry Wednesday said that

it cannot force print and electronic

media to take specic names of other

news sources like newspapers and

news channels if they refer to their

reports.

The I&B ministry made these obser-

vations while deciding on a represen-

tation made by social activist Nutan

Thakur, in pursuance of an order of

the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad

High Court.

The ministry said that the chairman

of the Press Council of India is of the

view that as per Section 7 of the Press

and Registration of Books Act, 1867,

the editor is the sole authority to de-cide the contents.

Hence, the ministry said, it does not

deem it t to lay down rules, making

it mandatory to state the names of

other newspapers while referring to

reports, and the decision in the matter

would be left to the editor.

As for the need to keep a record of

newspapers for a denite period,

the ministry said that under Section

25(1) of the proposed Press and Reg-

istration of Books and Publications

Bill, there is a provision to deliver a

copy of the newspaper as and when

demanded by the Press Registrar

General.

Thakur had led a petition before

the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad

High Court April 23, 2013, following

which the court directed the union

government to decide on the repre-

sentations.

“Nothing, however, happened withinthe stipulated time of four months,

after which I led a contempt of court

petition,” the petitioner told IANS

and added that the I&B ministry re-

sponded thereafter.

varasi and V.N. Sudhakaran had

moved the apex court challenging

the removal of Bhavani Singh. They

had contended he was taken off the

case when he was in the third day of

his nal arguments which had seen

the examination of 99 defence wit-

nesses in a span of ve months fromFebruary to July 2013.

The court was told that the petition-

er had already responded to about

2000 queries by the prosecution.

Jayalalithaa in her petition has al-

leged that the abrupt change was

been done by the ruling Congress

party in the State at the behest of her

political rival, DMK, in Tamil Nadu.

She is facing trial in a case that re-

lates to the period when she was

chief minister in 1991 to 1996. The

trial in the case was shifted outside

Chennai by the apex court in 2003

to ensure free and fair trial.

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San Lorenzo del Escorial, Alcalá deHenares and Aranjuez have a lot incommon: They are Unesco Heritageenclaves and are also denominated“Legacy Cities” of Spanish capitalMadrid. The Royal Palace of SanLorenzo del Escorial became a Unes-co Heritage site in 1984. The Basili-ca, Felipe II’s rooms, its library withmore than 6.000 manuscripts and theFriars’ Garden are testimony to this.But these are only a few architectural

attractions of this beautiful town,framed by Abantos Hill and HerreriaMount, where every year a huge per-egrination takes place. At the centreof the town, San Lorenzo del Esco-rial delights the visitor with severaledications designed by Juan Villan-ueva (18th century exponent of neo-classical architecture), and its cob- bled streets, really impressive due totheir verticality. Several restaurantsoffer dishes such as roasted lamb or afamous stew - Madrid “cocido” - thatis served in the El Charoles outlet.Alcaláde HenaresAlcaláde Henares, declared a WorldHeritage site in 1998, is the rst

university city in the world planned

specically for this purpose.It is here that one can visit the birth-

place of noted Spanish author Miguelde Cervantes, now converted into amuseum. The city also hosts the Ma-gistral Cathedral, one of two such inthe world, along with the St. Peter’sin Louvaine. This means that all of its canons had to be the magister of the university. Late Gothic in style,nished with a Herrera which domi-nates the belfry, is the main architec-tural characteristic of this imposing building which stands out in the city.A must-visit is also the Archiepisco-

pal Palace, residence of the archbish-ops of Toledo. Moorish, Renacentist,and Baroque styles coexist in this

building. The well-known Hospede-ria del Estudiante (Student’s Inn)mixes tourism and gastronomy, of-fering pure Castillian cooking withdishes like migas ilustradas (fried breadcrumbs), sopa boba (a kind of soup), salads, roasts and stews.Aranjuez: Royalty and strawberriesAranjuez had to wait until 2001 to be declared a World Heritage City.Its environment and architecturalwealth are testimony to the perfectcoexistence between art and nature.The Royal Palace and its gardensconstitute the most popular monu-ment of this town. Located betweenthe Tajo and Jarama rivers, this Her -

rera style building’s main facade hasthe statues of the three kings whohelped in its construction: Felipe II,Fernando VI and Carlos III. Its white

and red facade and the rococo balus-trade staircase are its other importantcharacteristics. The palace gardensare a huge open space with canalsand several fountains. At lunch time,garden products and, especially, thefamous Aranjuez strawberries, arethe stars of the local gastronomy.

But this is not all the area aroundMadrid has to offer to visitors. Manyother towns and cities host beautiful buildings, which make this provincea unique mix of culture and art.A good example is Chinchon’s PlazaMayor. Dating to the Middle Ages,this follows the round structure of many Castilian squares, guarded byan awesome lintel gallery and itswooden balconies. No less impres-sive are the castles in Manzanares elReal and Buitrago de Lozoya. Therst one, from the 15th century, has

its base on an ancient Moorish cha- pel, with a Gothic gallery on therst oor, one of the most beautiful

of its kind. Buitrago de Lozoya, on

the other hand, was built a century before, and so has a more impreg-nated Moorish pattern, whose maincharacteristic is its ne masonry. The

town is also known for its PicassoMuseum, which houses 50 works the

famous Spanish painter gave to Eu-genio Arias, his barber.How to get there:There are no direct ights from India

to Spain. Take a ight to a European

hub like Frankfurt or London andthence a ight to Madrid.

From Madrid to:

San Lorenzo de El EscorialBy car: The A6 highway will takeyou there in less than an hour; an-other option is following the M550.

By train: Line C8a of Madrid Shortdistance train.By bus: Lines 661 and 664 that startin Moncloa bus stationEateries: La Buganvilla, La FondaGenara, Alaska.Look out for:Violet caramels, Bizcochelas (Cake

made with chocolate and candiedegg yolk).Alcalá de HenaresBy car: Through highways A2 (Exit28) and R2 (Exit 28), 30 minutesfrom Madrid.By train: Lines C2 and C7.By bus: Line 223, starting at Avenidade America bus station and stoppingalso at Madrid’s Barajas airport.Eateries: Restaurante El Gato de TresPatas, Restaurante Sexto Sentido andRestaurante Patrimonio.Look out for: Costrada (cake withcream, toasted almonds and me-ringue), Alcalá (sweet bagels lled

with cream), Garrapinada (almondscovered in caramel from Clarisas’

convent)Aranjuez By car: On A4 or R4 (Exit47), a 45-minute drive By train: Line

C3 of the short distance service. By bus: Lines 419 and 423 leaving fromMadrid Estacion Sur (Mendez Ál-varo) Eateries: Restaurante Vivaldi,

Restaurante Carême, RestauranteCasa Pablo Look out for: Aranjuezasparagus (really tender and eas-ily recognizable by its bright greencolour) and Aranjuez strawberries(sweet and big, they are the best inthe region).

Chennai

Indian food served in ve star and

ne dining restaurants is getting

modern in line with the times with-out compromising on its taste or composition compared to the prac-tices eight to ten years ago, a senior chef here says. “The gravies arenow smooth and food is light on thestomach. People want avour but not

oil-rich, heavily spiced food. Thereis also more attention being paid onthe dish presentation, which was notso earlier,” Hushmoin K Patel, ex-ecutive chef at The Raintree Hotels,

Anna Salai told. He added Indiandishes are no longer ‘coarse’, as heoffered the tasty lemongrass rasam,a new addition in the revamped menucard of the hotel’s South Indian cui-sine restaurant Madras. Seemingly asimple dish - made with a mixture of tamarind water, steamed lentils, to-matoes, chilli and pepper powders,coriander and curry leaves, gettingthe rasam right in South India is theone test that everybody -from thenewly -wed girls to wedding caterersand hotel chefs - in Tamil Nadu haveto pass to be accepted as one havingculinary skills. While it is termedas soup, normally at South Indianhomes rasam rice (steamed ricemixed with rasam) guring in the

middle, occupies an important partin the three course meal of sambar rice, rasam rice and curd rice. Nor-mally at homes the coriander rootsare cut and thrown out. The roots can be used after cleaning in the mak-ing of making rasam or other items.The avour from the coriander root

is far greater than its leaves,” Patelsaid. Speaking of the new menu cardhe said that nearly 50 percent of the

dishes listed in it are different under various cuisines. “While includingthe new dishes we do look at compe-tition menu card so that ours shouldstand out differently. However somedishes are common and cannot beomitted. An item is taken out basedon customer feedback and its sales performance,” Patel said. Accordingto him the new dishes are rst tested

for their taste amongst the staff, thenincluded in the buffet and then theynd their place in the restaurant.

“Once a dish goes out of the menucard it is not brought back without aninnovation,” Patel remarked.By this time the vegetarian starters

from `Mami’s Special Plate’ com- prising of masala kuzhi paniyaramand banana dosa started arrivingon the table. It was interesting tonote that Patel and junior sous chef J.Prabhakaran, both young bache-lors, entered the profession by choiceand not through default.“I liked cooking at home and wantedto become a chef. My father agreedwith me but asked me to work for three months in a hotel kitchen sothat I know what it actually means being a chef,” recalled Patel. Onthe other hand Prabhakaran hailingfrom the small temple town Kachi- puram, wanted to go abroad and sawthe kitchen route as the easiest oneafter his education. “I did not havethe money to join a private cateringtechnology institute immediately af-ter my plus two course. In order toenter the government catering insti-tute here I had to improve upon my plus two marks by giving the examsall over again. Finally I entered mydream college,” Prabhakaran told.

El Escorial,

Alcalá and Aranjuez:a walk through Madrid’s heritage

Indian food getting modern,less oily, better presentation

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Veena had to lose 9 kgs for ‘Supermodel’ Mumbai

Actress Veena Malik says she had to let go of some of her favourite food

items to cut down almost 9 kgs to t into her role in the upcoming lm

“Supermodel”.“I had to work hard to t into the character. When my pro -

ducer and director Navin Batra came to sign me, they said that ‘Veena-ji, you

need to cut down your weight to 47 kgs’. I was 56 kgs at that time. So to be

a supermodel, I had to let go of food,” Veena said here at the music

launch of the lm.“Then of course, to get into the character’s

emotional ups and downs while acting... that was there.

I wanted to make it look very real on screen,”

she added.“Supermodel” also stars Ash-

mit Patel and hits theatres Sep 27

Big B to introduce Akshay Kumar in ‘Boss’

Mumbai

Bollywood ‘khiladi’ Akshay Ku-

mar’s character in his forthcoming

lm “Boss” will be introduced by

megastar Amitabh Bachchan. For

Akshay, it is an “honour”.

“It’s an honour and a privilege to have

a legend like Amitabh Bachchan in-

troduce my character in ‘Boss’. I’ve

been his biggest fan since childhood

and have even had the pleasure of

working with him. He is an institu-

tion by himself,” Akshay said in a

statement. Akshay and Amitabh have

earlier worked together in movies

like “Khakee” and “Waqt: The Race

Against Time”.

In “Boss”, Akshay’s character has

a huge build-up before he makes an

entry on screen and the makers al-

ways believed that no one other than

the 70-year-old could do justice to

the introduction of such a strong and

larger-than-life character.

Also, when the script was sent to Big

B, he loved the idea and immediately

agreed to be a part of the movie.

“I’ve known Big B for years now be-

cause of my journalism background.

But more importantly, I’ve grown

up on his lms. Probably the reason

why I am in movies today is because

of him. When I called him and re-

quested him to be a part of ‘Boss’, he

agreed,” producer Ashwin Varde said

in a statement.

“It’s like a dream come true - to have

a legend like him giving an introduc-

tion to the lm,” he added.

The megastar was given a script

of the scenes well in advance. De-

spite his busy schedule, he made it

a point to complete the dubbing at

the earliest. He also improvised on

the lines much to the delight of the

lm’s makers. Directed by Anthony

D’Souza, “Boss” also stars Mithun

Chakraborty, Shiv Pandit, Aditi Rao

Hydari, Danny Denzongpa, Ronit

Roy and Johnny Lever. Co-produced

by Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, Cape

Of Good Films and Ashwin Varde

Productions, “Boss” will release in

October.

More nervous about album than

wedding: John Legend

Los Angeles

Singer-actor John Legend, who is

ready to marry his long-time girl-

friend, model Chrissy Teigen, isn’t

nervous about his wedding. In fact,

he is feeling “good” about, and says

he is more tense about his music al-

bum. The “Ordinary people” singer

will exchange vows with the Sports

Illustrated model later this month.

He insists he is cool about the big

day, but admits that the reactions to

his new album “Love in the Future”,

which releases this week, is giving

him butteries in the stomach.

New York

Supermodel Kate Upton will receive

the ‘Model of the Year 2013’ award

at the 10th Annual Style Awards here

Wednesday.

The event, which kicks off the New

York Fashion Week, will celebrate

the two-time Sports Illustrated mod-

el, reports.

Since her rst big break on the Sports

Illustrated Swimsuit cover in 2011,

the 21-year-old has never looked

back.

She even made a transition from be-

ing a bikini model to a high-fashion

star by gracing the covers of both -

the US and the Brazilian Vogue this

year.

“People keep asking me if I am ner -

vous about getting married, but I am

a little more nervous about my album

coming out. But yeah, I guess you’re

supposed to get nervous before you

get married, but I feel good,” Legend

as saying.Legend and Teigen, 27,

will marry near Lake Como in Italy.

The model, who got engaged to Leg-

end in 2011 after four years of dating,

will wear a custom-made Vera Wang

wedding dress. The couple has hired

a wedding planner to get every detail

right for their D-day.

Good boy Hitenwants to play

grey characters

New Delhi

TV actor Hiten Tejwani, who is gen-

erally seen as the good son or husband in family drama shows, says he

would love to essay a negative char-

acter on screen.“I guess I was lucky

to get family dramas. I have always

been shown as the good boy on TV,

but given a chance I would love to

play a grey character,” Hiten told. He

made his TV debut with “Ghar Ek

Mandir” (2000) and later appeared

in daily soaps like “Kabhii Sautan

Kabhii Sahelii”, “Kaahin Kissii Roz”

and “Kutumb”. He is best remem-

bered for playing Karan Virani on the

popular TV show “Kyunki Saas Bhi

Kabhi Bahu Thi”. Currently Hiten is

part of shows like “Pavitra Rishta”,

where he plays Manav Deshmukh,

and “Savdhaan India”. He decidedto take up the latter as host, since he

gets to connect with the audience. “I

don’t play a character in the show.

Here, Hiten is talking to the audi-

ence. In one way, I’ll be able to cre -

ate awareness among the masses. The

show helps me connect with the audi-

ence directly,” he said. When asked

if he is choosy about his projects,

he said: “I never did that earlier, but

now I have started to pick and choose

things. I have to do good work and

I am very selective about it.” The

actor loves to watch comedy shows

like “Friends” and “Mr. Bean”, but

said that he hasn’t thought of playing

comic roles.

Kate Upton named ‘Model of the Year’

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Here we are giving your child an opportunity to enjoy our

funny tongue twisters for kids

and have fun trying to say some

of the most difcult sentences .

To get the full effect of a tongue

twister you should try to repeat

it several times, as quickly as

possible, without stumbling.

• OnceafellowmetafellowIn

aeldofbeans.Saidafellow

toa fellow,“If afellowasks

a fellow, Can a fellow tell a

fellowWhatafellowmeans?”

• Ninenicenightnursesnursing

nicely.Aeaandayinaue

Saidthe y“Oh what should

wedo”Saidtheea”Letusy

Saidthey”Letusee”

Sotheyewthroughaawin

theue.

• OXYMORON

MEANING:thecombinationoftwo

contradictorywords

EXAMPLE:

Thephrase‘mournfuloptimist’isa

goodexampleofanoxymoron.

• PLATONIC

MEANING: related to or being

spirituallyoridealisticallyinvolved

inarelationshipinsteadofromanti-

callyorphysically

EXAMPLE:

Theyshareaplatonicfriendshipnot

aromanticone.

• SARCASTIC

MEANING:expressiveofderision

or ridicule, generally harsh, ironic

andtaunting

EXAMPLE:

Iambetteroffwithoutyoursarcas-

ticcomments.

Put your puzzle solving skills

to the test with our sport word

scramble. Look carefully at

the jumbled words and try

unscrambling as many of thewords related to the Weather

OCLDU

OHT

RTSOM

USNNY

EFNI

YLDUCO

GasestoGoAirisallaroundus.Theairon

earthismadeofdifferent

gases—webreathethem

everyday.Thegasesintheairmove

aswind.Strongwindscantakeakite

highintotheskyormoveasailboat

throughthewater.Whenairorany

gaspushesagainstsomethingelse,a

forceorpressureiscreated.

Tofeelgaspressure,tryblowing

intoanemptyplasticbottle.What

happens?Theharderyoublowinto

thebottle,themoregaspressure

youcreate.Youfeelthispressurein

howtheair“pushesback”and

keepsyoufromaddingmore.

Stretchaballoonoverthemouthof

theplasticbottletosealit.Squeeze

thebottleandseewhathappensto

theballoon.Theharderyoupush

onthesidesofthebottle,thelarger

theballoonbecomes.Theballoon

inatesbecauseyouincreasedthe

gaspressureinthebottleasyou

pressedonitssides.Asyoupress

thesidesofthebottle,youare

pushingthegasesinthebottleinto

theballoonwherethegaspressure

isless.Whenyouletgoofthe

bottle,thereislesspressureonthe

bottle,andtheairmovesbackinto

thebottle.

Inthe“Avogadro’sAirRockets”

activity,airinthebottleisforced

intoastrawwhenyousqueezethe

bottle’ssides.Airpressureis

created,whichpushestherocket

outofthebottle.Thisissimilartoa

rocketthatislaunchedintospace.

Fuelisburnedtomakegases.The

gasesbuildupinasmallareanear

thebaseoftherocketincreasing

thegaspressureinside.Asthe

gasesescapetotheoutsideofthe

rocketwherethegaspressureis

lower,theypushtherocketalong.

Sometoysneedgaspressureto

makethemwork.TomakeaSuper

Soakerwork,youpumponeof

itschambersfullofair.Themore

youpumpit,thegreatertheair

pressurebecomes.Whenyoupull

theSuperSoaker’striggerwithyour

nger,thegaspressurepushesthe

wateroutofthenozzle,drenching

thepeoplearoundyou.

Gaspressureiswhatmakessome

toyrocketsandSuperSoakers

dowhatthey’resupposedtodo.

Canyouthinkofothertoysor

objectsthatneedgaspressureto

makethemgo?

Recycling centers process

the

materials you

p l a c e

i n

your

r e c y-

c l i n g

bin and

turnthem

back into

products we

canuseagain.

Each kind of

materialrequires

adifferentprocess.

Forexample,a

recyclingcentermaystart by melting plas-

tic jugs after cleaning

them, byshredding alu- mi-

num cans,crushing glass bot-

tles, or adding water to old

newspaper until it turns into

a pulpysoup. Soto make re-

cycling more efcient, Milli’s

hometown provides containers

so she can separate her recy-

clablesrightathome.

Does yours?Ifnot,yourtown’s

websitemay liststoresor col-

lectioncentersthatacceptrecy-

clables.

Lookatthebottomofaplastic

bottle. Do you see a little num-

ber inside a triangle of arrows?

Thatisthe plasticresinidenti-

cation code. Thereare seven

differentcodesandeachstands

foradifferenttypeofplastic.A

growing number of communi-

tiesarecollectingallplasticsto

recycle,butmoststilllimitthe

types—usuallythosewitha#1

or#2code.Milkjugs,drink

bottles,containersforshampoo

orlaundrydetergent,andvari-

ousfoodjarsareexamplesofcom -

monlyrecyclableplastics.Whenthe

resinidenticationcodeis

hardtond,Millifollows

a simple rule called

“check the neck”. If the

lidscrewsonthe

top, and the neck issmaller than orthe

sa me s iz e a s the

base, then the

plastic container

s hou ld g o in

the recycling

bin. Re-

c y c l i n g

p l a n t s

separate

p l a s -

t i c s

b y

resin

identification

codesbeforecleaning

and processing them into

new,

recycledplasticmaterials.

MilliRecycles&YouCan,Too!

Metals are

separatedbytype,suchasiron/steel,

aluminum, copper, lead, and zinc.

They are separated because each

kindofmetalisusedtomakediffer -

entproducts,andtheymeltat

verydifferent

temperatures.

Iron/steel and aluminum are

the most recycledmetals be-

cause theyarewidelyusedto

makefoodcanslikethosefor

vegetablesandsomedrinks.

Digging the ore out of the

groundandmakingbrandnew

cansandproductscostsmuch

more than it does to recycle

whatwehavenow.

Paper that will be recycled

is split

into fve main groups:

•ofcewhitepaper

•newspaper •cardboard

•mixedorcoloredpaper

•computerprintoutpaper

These vetypes ofpaper are

broken

down separately by mixing

themwithwaterandchemicals

toturnthemintoamushymix-

ture called pulp.The pulp is

usedtomakenewspapers,new

boxes,and newwriti ngpaper.

Sometimesthepaperandbox -

esyourecyclemay

evenbemadeintoeggcartonsand

owerpots!

Create a creeping critter with this

simple paper folding craft.

What you’ll need:

• Constructionpaper

•Scissors

•Tape

•Markers

How to make it:

1. Cuttwoverylongstripsofpaper

approximately3/4inchwideand3

feetlong.Tapethetwostripsinto

theshapeofanL.

2.Foldonestripovertheotherun-

tilyou havea springy caterpillar

body.

3.Decoratethefaceandtailwith

markers,anddon’tforgetasetof

paperantennae.

ACTIVITY Paper Caterpillar

A n s w e r s t o W o r d S c r a m b l e :

C L O U D , H O T , S T O R M , S U N N Y , F I N E ,

C L O U D Y

ColorMe....

Success is a

ladder that cannot beclimbed

with your hands in

your pocket MarkCaine

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W E E K L Y H O R O S C O P E

You will start doinginitial paper work for some creative and am-

bitious project that isvery dear to your heart.You will receive whole-hearted support fromclose friend and rela-

tives. You will nd yourself at your best in public relations and will beable to muster enough support for your work even from nancial institutions.

You need to concen-trate on routine work activities. The presentenvironment at your work place may not

be conducive and youcould feel frustrated attimes. Do not harbour

thoughts of changing your job or work for this could result in a setback. Busi-ness people will do better and will beable to successfully conclude their cur-rent assignment.

A sudden travel planmay take you to-wards south or south-east. Some of youmay travel overseasof a special assign-ment. Some of youmay travel abroad to

scan opportunitiesfor job or business. It will be a fruit-ful journey. Some of you will start anew work or open a branch ofce inanother city.

In business you will beable to carry out your activities without anyhitch. Do not waste your time in recoveries butrather follow up withvigour your new projectthat needs all your atten-

tion and efforts. At your work placecarry out your assignment with all thespeed sincerity and attention as thereare some elements that are waiting for a lapse on your part.

You will get involvedin some social or cul-tural work or com-munity developmentschemes. It seemsyour close friends or associate will urgeyou to participate

more in such social activities that will benet you in the long run. Someonemay now try to create a rift between you

and your beloved by speaking lies andspreading unpleasant rumours.

This is a fortunate period for taking upsome of the pendingand unnished work,which has been put off for some reason. This

will help you to takeup work on your new

venture on which you have set your heart and have already sounded afew friends. If you are fancy-free aromantic interlude is indicated.

Married women lookingfor buying a new housewill receive an enticingoffer that suits their re-quirement perfectly. Youwill have the resourcesto purchase this propertyand will soon move your

residence. Those of youwho are keen to bring about a major change in their career will be deter-mined to go ahead with their plans atany cost.

Your business plans

hit a snag stalling most

proceedings. Do not

worry for the delays, as

these may eventually

prove to your advan-

tage. In fact, if you can

withdraw some of your

money from incomplete or loss making

ventures you should get the amount and

call it quits.

ARIESMar 21-Apr 19

LEOJul 23 - Aug. 22

VIRGOAug. 23 - Sep 22

TAURUSApr 20 - May 20

You will succeedin every endeavour and achieve excel-lent results in your work and career. Animprovement in -nancial position spursyou on to take risks in

new ventures that prove immensely protable. Businesspersons will signnew deals that will assure them of long-term benets.

It is a favourable week

for the employed in that

they will be given an

important task to han-

dle. All facilities will be

made available to you

for this project. Those in

the eld of mass com-

munication and media may become the

recipients of award. Business people will

get news of a large contract from the gov-

ernment or state agency.

The current period isextremely benecialone and monetary re-turns from your invest-ments will be substan-tial. If you do not needcash this week youshould wait for a while

longer to make further prot in your in-vestments. Security at work will give thecondence that you need to explore newareas and move from one success to an-other.

This is the time to

renew your contacts

or devote attention to

public relations. It is

quite likely that some

domestic issues and

responsibilities act as

a constraint in your

working. Do not waste any time on such

affairs because by doing this you could

be ruining your chances of success in

your work.

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SCORPIOOct 23 - Nov 21

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CAPRICORNDec 22 - Jan 19

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New Delhi

They chose themes as varied as eth-

nic fusion, yin and yang, psyche-delic, and feel neon, created chic

clothes, presented them on the ramp

and wowed everyone, including ace

designer Rohit Bal.

They are not the professionals, but

teenage schoolchildren who dressed

in neon coloured clothes and lace

dresses, created by their fellow

schoolmates, hit the ramp Saturday

at the Modern School, Barakhamba

Road, as part of second edition of the

fashion event - Bon Vivant.

In addition to their academics, stu-

dents explore and participate in the

fashion technology as part of their

extra-curricular activity to bolster

their curriculum vitae. The show

witnessed students of Classes 11

and 12 following fashion trends,

putting together different fabrics

like georgette, chiffon, and creat-

ing garments. Hema Bajaj, head of

fashion technology department - J‘

Adore, certainly felt proud of her

students,who managed to put up the

show in just one month.

“The girls (models) we se-

lected were from ninth class

onwards. Proper audition was

done,” she said. “The whole

show was sponsored by par-

ents of participants. Models

were chosen on the basis of

how they walk and whether

they will be able to carry off a

suit or a dress,” added Bajaj.

It was a well organised event

and a special credit goes to Shatak-

shi Sinha, a Class 10 student, who

helped in promoting the show.

“Handling media for the fashion

show event was rst time and wel-coming experience. Such hands-on

assignments convert our academic

knowledge to practical use,” said

Sinha.The themes chosen by design-

ers included shine through the light

and black beauty, among others.

Seventeen-year-old designer Mal-

lika Arora, who chose the theme

ethnic fusion, walked the ramp as a

model and designer.“For boys, I’ve

designed kurtas and balloon pants.

They are basically Indo-western

clothes. For girls, there are lehengas,

saris and Indo-western gowns,” said

Mallika, who aunted self-designed

lehenga. She shopped for materi-

als at places like Chandni Chowk,

Janakpuri, Saket and Noida. “I made

sketches rst. I found a tailor and ex-

plained the designs. He stitched them

and I got the ttings done,” added the

teenager who is hoping to make it

big as a fashion designer.

If the clothes in neon colours or

black-and-white or metallic left

many spellbound, the makeup was

worth appreciating.

“I wore Tanya Maheshwari’s and

Vaibhav Mehra’s creation.

The theme is yin and yang, so the

makeup has been done accordingly,”

said Kanupria Seth, dressed in gure

hugging black and white short dress.

“The focus was on eyes. It’s smokey

with black and white eye makeup.

The lips are nude.

The idea of nude makeup has been

taken from fashion designer Rohit

Bal,” she added.

With sky-high heels, the models got

the catwalk perfect, thanks to their

choreographers Jaspreet Singh Walia

and Reba Browne.

IANS

Fashion show with a ‘Modern’ twist

8/22/2019 E Paper 8 Sept 2013


CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September,201318 INTERNATIONAL

Plane returns to Japanairport after engine trouble

Pakistan will improve anti-terror laws,says Sharif

Toyota recalls 2,500Lexus cars in Australia

25 killed in

Iraq violence

The world set a red line forSyria strike: Obama

Tokyo

A Japan Airlines ight made an

emergency landing Thursday morn-

ing at the Fukuoka airport after the

pilots reported engine trouble, a me-

dia report said.

The emergency landing took place

around 9.20 a.m. after the ight crew

reported that one of the engines on

Baghdad

Twenty-ve people were killedand 17 wounded in separate

bombing and shooting incidents

in central and northern Iraq, po-

lice said Wednesday.

A clash erupted when gunmen at-tacked a checkpoint manned by

ghters of a government-backed

Sahwa paramilitary group in Dij-la town, 140 km north of the Iraqi

capital Baghdad, killing a Sahwa

ghter and wounding two others,Xinhua reported citing a police

source.

One of the attackers was alsokilled and another wounded in

the clash, the source said.In another incident, gunmen deto-

nated bomb in a house of a po-

liceman in Mkeshiefa area, some130 km north of Baghdad, killing

a child and wounding his mother,

the source added.The policeman was not at home

when the attack occurred, said a

police source who did not wish to be named.

Earlier in the day, police said thatat least 22 people were killed and

13 wounded in bombings and

shootings across Iraq, including10 from two families at a house

south of Baghdad.

Iraq is witnessing its worst erup-

tion of violence in recent years,

which raises fears that the coun-

try is sliding back to full-blowncivil conict that peaked in 2006

and 2007, when monthly death

toll sometimes exceeded 3,000.

Sydney

About 2,500 Toyota Lexus ve-

hicles are being recalled across

Australia due to glitches that could

cause the cars to stop mid-journey,

media reports said Thursday.

The Japanese automaker is recall-

ing about 370,000 vehicles world-

wide, reported.

In Australia, about 1,750 RX400Hs

built between 2006 and 2008 are

being recalled amid concerns that

its hybrid system may overheat

while driving, resulting in dam-

ages that may cause the vehicle to

stop.Also, 750 Lexus IS350s built be-

tween April 2010 and July 2011

are involved in the recall due

to concerns that bolts pinning a

valve-control system inside the en-

gine could come loose.

No accidents or injuries have been

reported as a result of the prob-

lems. Affected owners are being

contacted and repairs will be done

free of charge.

the UN process” but “are we going

to try to nd a reason not to act?

And if that’s the case, then I think

the (world) community should admit

it?” “We agree that the international

community cannot be silent,” Obama

said, adding that a team of UN inves-

tigators has done “heroic work”.

However, the UN team’s mandate

was only to determine if chemi-

cal weapons had been used, Obama

said, repeating that US intelligence

has conrmed that beyond any

reasonable doubt, and has further

conrmed that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime “was the source”.

Obama spoke as the Senate Foreign

Relations Committee prepared to

consider a resolution that would give

the president authority to carry out a

strike against Syria, for a period of

60 days, with one 30-day extension.

It also makes clear there would be no

US boots on the ground. Democratic

and Republican lawmakers Tuesday

agreed on the wording of a revised

resolution after posing tough ques-

tions to Secretary of State John Ker -

ry, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel

and General Martin Dempsey, the

chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

But the new resolution ran into op-

position from the 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain,

an outspoken advocate of action

against Syria who wants more than

cruise missile strikes and other lim-

ited action. Asked if he supported

the resolution crafted by Democratic

panel chairman Bob Menendez and

Republican Bob Corker, McCain

said, “In its current form, I do not.”

He earlier this week threatened

to vote against the original White

House draft resolution unless Obama

promised greater support to Syria’s

rebels. McCain then expressed sup-

port after meeting Obama at the

White House.

the Boeing 777 aircraft to Tokyo-

Haneda airport had a problem after

taking off, reported citing Kyodo

news agency.

The plane, carrying 252 passengers

and crew members, had departed

around 8.30 a.m.. No one was in-

jured.

IslamabadPakistan Prime Minister Nawaz

Sharif Wednesday said anti-terror -

ism laws will be amended to ef -

fectively deal with the scourge of

terrorism.

Legal experts say the current anti-

terror laws have some lacunae and

suspects are acquitted in view of

weak cases. They are suggesting

amendments to make the laws more

effective to deal with terrorism.

Sharif hinted at amendments to

laws during his second day of visit

to the violence-hit port city of Ka-

rachi where he is seeking support

from political parties and business

community for a targeted operation

against the miscreants, Xinhua re-

ported.

The Human Rights Commission of

Pakistan said nearly 1,800 people

were killed in targeted attacks in

Karachi in the rst six months of

this year.

Sharif said the political parties have

supported the suggestion to launch

a “targeted campaign” against mis-

creants to be led by paramilitary

forces. However, he ruled out mili-

tary operations in the city.

“My government is alive to the

situation in the city and all possible

steps will be taken for maintenance

of law and order,” he asserted.

The prime minister presided over

a high-level meeting of senior se-

curity ofcials and discussed ad-

ministrative aws in the city and

a possible mechanism for starting

targeted operations. He directed the

intelligence agencies to maintain

strong coordination with the police.

He said all the proposals would be

carefully examined to check the sit-

uation in the economic hub of the

country.

“I cannot remain oblivious to Ka-

rachi’s situation and no-go areas

will be eliminated at all costs,” the

prime minister said.

“operation against criminal ele-

ments will be ensured and direc-

tions of the supreme court regard-

ing Karachi will be implemented in

letter and spirit,” he added.

Eight killed in Vietnam foods

Hanoi

Floods and landslides have killed at

least eight people in Vietnam, of-

cials said Thursday.

The Central Committee for Flood

and Storm Control said one person

died in Ha Giang province, three in

Lai Chau and four in Lao Cai,

reported.

At least 14 people were injured and

10 others are still missing.

Heavy rains also caused severe dam-

age to houses and crops.

Washington

After winning crucial bipartisan sup-

port from key congressional leaders,

President Barack Obama took his

case for a punitive military strike

on Syria abroad, saying the world

set a red line against using chemical

weapons. “I didn’t set a red line. The

world set a red line,” he said in Stock -

holm Wednesday, asserting that the

red line he outlined last year regard-

ing Syria’s use of chemical weapons

came from international treaties and

past congressional action, according

to CNN. Obama, who is on his way

to St. Petersburg, Russia, to attenda G-20 Summit, said the global red

line came when governments rep-

resenting 98 percent of the world’s

population “passed a treaty forbid-

ding (chemical weapons) use, even

when countries are engaged in war.”

“My credibility is not on the line --

the international community’s credi-

bility is on the line,” he said at a joint

news conference with Swedish Prime

Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who op-

poses military intervention without

UN approval. UN Secretary-General

Ban Ki-moon too has warned that

any military strike against Syria

without the world body’s sanction

would be illegal. The use of force is

lawful only when in exercise of self-defence in accordance with Article

51 of the United Nations Charter

and/or when the Security Council ap-

proves such action, he told reporters

Tuesday before leaving for St. Pe-

tersburg. Calling on Security Coun-

cil members to unite and develop an

appropriate response should allega-

tions regarding the use of chemical

weapons prove true, Ban also asked

them to “consider the impact of any

punitive measure on efforts to pre-

vent further bloodshed and facilitate

a political resolution of the conict”.

Asking the global community to act

Wednesday, Obama said: “I respect

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CHANDIGARHSUNDAY 08 September, 201320 BUSINESS

Sensex closes 290 points higher;

bank, capital goods stocks gain

Mumbai

A benchmark index of the Indian

equities market Friday gained 290

points to end at 19,270 - its highest

level in nearly a month.

The gains come a day after the mar-

ket rallied by 412 points after the

new Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Governor Raghuram Rajan unveiled

a slew of measures, which raised

overseas borrowing limits for banks.

Healthy buying took place in bank-

ing, capital goods, oil and gas, public

sector undertakings (PSUs), health-

care and metal stocks. However,

selling pressure was observed in

consumer durables, auto, realty andinformation technology (IT) sectors.

The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex)

of the S&P Bombay Stock Exchange

(BSE), which opened at 19,072.02

points, closed at 19,270.06 points, up

290.30 points or 1.53 percent from

the previous day’s close at 18,979.76

points.

The Sensex touched a high of

19,293.96 points and a low of

18,929.38 points during the day.

The wider 50-scrip S&P CNX Nif-

ty of the National Stock Exchange

(NSE) made gains in Friday’s trade

session. It gained 87.45 points or

1.56 percent at 5,680.40 points.

“Intentions and initiatives of the new

RBI Governor helped in changingthe sentiments on the currency and

equity markets. Banking stocks and

other rate sensitive stocks were the

major gainers,” said Dipen Shah of

Kotak Securities.

“The recent appreciation in the ru-

pee has improved market sentiments.

There are expectations of additional

dollar ows into the country, which

has created optimism on the rupee.

Equity markets have reacted on cues

from the currency markets.”

Good buying was observed in bank-

ing index (bankex), capital goods,

oil and gas, public sector undertak-

ings (PSUs), healthcare and metal

sectors, while selling pressure was

observed in consumer durables, auto,

realty and information technology

(IT) sectors.

The S&P BSE bankex gained 318.45

points, capital goods index ended

Friday’s trade up 200.42 points, oil

and gas index increased by 184.33

points, PSU index index was higher

by 111.81 points and healthcare in-

dex rose 98.21 points.

However, consumer durables index

was down 38.22 points, followed by

automobile index which was 2.23 points lower, realty index was 2.11

points down and IT index fell by

0.94 points.

Most of the 30 sensitive index were

gainers in the day’s trade. These in-

clude ICICI Bank, up 7.37 percent

at Rs.959; ONGC, up 7.17 percent

at Rs.289.15; Bharti Airtel, up 5.47

percent at Rs.313.55; Cipla, up 4.49

percent at Rs.437.60; and Larsen and

Toubro (L&T), up 3.58 percent at

Rs.753.65.

The main losers were: Tata Power,

down 2.61 percent at Rs.70.90;

Coal India, down 2.12 percent at

Rs.277.45; Sesa Goa, down 1.90 per-

cent at Rs.175.45; Hindustan Unile-

ver, down 1.62 percent at Rs.617.20;and Hero MotoCorp, down 0.76 per-

cent at Rs.1,928.95.

Among the Asian markets, Japan’s

Nikkei closed 1.45 percent down,

while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng

closed the day’s trade 0.10 percent

higher. China’s Shanghai Composite

Index was higher by 0.83 percent.

In Europe, London’s FTSE 100 was

trading 0.06 percent down, while

Germany’s DAX Index was lower

0.07 percent. The French CAC 40

Index was 0.09 percent down.

Shillong

Non-Congress parties in Meghalaya

Thursday demanded the Inner Line

Permit (ILP) system be implementedin Meghalaya to check the inux of

illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

Indians should have ILP if they wish

to enter Arunachal Pradesh, Naga-

land and Mizoram. State govern-

ments issue ILP under the Bengal

Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.

The United Democratic Party (UDP),

the Hill State People’s Democratic

Party (HSPDP), the National Peo-

ple’s Party, the Khun Hynniewtrep

National Awakening Movement and

the Garo National Council made the

demand during the all-party meet

convened by Chief Minister Mukul

Sangma.

However, Sangma rejected the politi-

cal parties’ plea, saying the govern-ment “does not suffer from bank-

ruptcy of new ideas and would not

like to piggy-ride on an outdated and

colonial act to ght inux”.

Instead, the chief minister promised

the political parties that his govern-

ment would implement strong ten-

ancy law and other mechanisms to

curb the unabated, burgeoning inux

problem.

“Since Meghalaya is protected un-

der the Sixth Schedule to the Con-

stitution,” Sangma made a mention

“about the need to strengthen the

Meghalaya Land Transfer (Regula-

tion) Act, 1971, and to crack the whip

on benami transactions”.

However, HSPDP legislator ArdentBasaiawmoit countered the chief

minister by saying the existing laws

and mechanisms only cater to those

who are already residing within the

state. “These laws have failed and

will continue to fail. What is required

is detecting illegal migrants from the

entrance and this can be done through

ILP,” Basaiawmoit added.

UDP legislator Paul Lyngdoh said

the party was disappointed with the

outcome of the meeting and would

sit and discuss its future course of

action. “The UDP is disappointed

with the outcome of the meeting as

the government is not in favour of implementing ILP. We would now sit

and decided on the future course of

action,” Lyngdoh said.

On the other hand, the road blockade

from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. is entering its

second night and there have been

stray incidents of violence and arrests

from different parts of the state.

The road blockade was called by

10 pressure groups that include the

powerful Khasi Students’ Union, the

Federation of Khasi, Jaintia and Garo

People and the Hynniewtrep National

Youth Front to mount pressure on the

government to implement the ILP.

“The implementation of ILP wouldhelp protect the tribal population

from being ‘annihilated’ in their own

land,” Joe Marwein, spokesperson of

the agitating organisations, said.

Microsoft builds portal

for Indian developers

India may curb

oil consumption,

fears Syria

violence could

escalate

Bangalore

Global software major Microsoft

has built a dedicated portal for its

Indian developers with a commu-nity-based platform to network and

engage, its Indian subsidiary said

Thursday.

“The collaborative portal will also

offer expert guidance to developers

and remotely solve their queries,

empowering themto be efcient as

they go from idea to app (applica-

tion),” the company said in a state-

ment here.

With 1.6 million developers in

India, which is its second largest

community after the US, the com-

pany has designed the portal to

offer a rich set of functionality to

help them leverage collective com-

puting power.

“As a powerful tool, the portal

(developer.microsoft.com) allowsour developers in India to connect

with their peers the world over. Our

experts are also a click away for

them,” Microsoft Corporation (In-

dia) Ltd strategic audience market-

ing director Pratima Amonkar said

in the statement.

The new portal will enable devel-

opers to post their app ideas in an

area called ‘Perspective’.

“Community blogs and social

feeds in the ‘connect’ area allow

developers to share stories, seek

advice and connect with our ex-

perts at Redmond and other ofces

worldwide,” Amonkar said.

New Delhi

India fears that the escalation of

violence in Syria may spill over to

West Asia, External Affairs Minis-

ter Salman Khurshid said Friday,

and that the government may an-

nounce steps later this month to curb

fuel consumption. He said relations

among world leaders have become

heated over possible US military

sttrike against President Bashar al

Assad’s regime. The US and Russia

have been unable to agree on a way

forward. President Barack Obama

said he had “hit a wall” with his Rus-

sian counterpart Valdimir Putin, who

has warned the use of force without

UN approval would be “aggression”

and a violation of international law.

Reports from St Petersburg said

the Obama-Putin divide over Syria

dominated the G20 summit’s frst

day, despite the group’s primary fo-

cus of the world economy. “The di-

visions are too great,” British Prime

Minister David Cameron said Friday.

Khurshid said India is against a re-

gime change in Syria, but stressed

that the use of chemical weapons

must be prevented. International

markets have been on a tizzy over

the prospects of a Western attack on

Syria and Brent has been climbing

steadily as investors are worried that

supply disruptions could persist in

the Middle East, after US lawmakers

supported a military strike on Syria.

Meghalaya parties want Inner Line

Permit to curb infux

Government received Rs.30,000

crore investment proposals in ITNew Delhi

The government has received in-

vestment proposals worth Rs.30,000

crore for the electronics and IT indus-

try in the last six months besides 15

proposals to set up electronics clus-

ters.

“The government has already re-

ceived 15 proposals to set up elec-

tronics clusters, out of which six have

been approved and some of these

have already started setting up these

clusters,” Ajay Kumar, joint secre-

tary, Department of Electronics and

Information Technology (DeitY) said

at the electronica India 2013 and pro-

ductronica India 2013. “In last six

months, the government has received

investment proposals for around

Rs.30,000 crore for the industry,“ he

further stressed. In the new Electron-

ics Policy 2013, the government said

that as an incentive to set up electron-

ics manufacturing clusters, develop-

ment of infrastructure and common

facilities for electronics industry, it

would bear 50 percent of project cost

subject to a ceiling of Rs.50 crore for

every 100 acres.

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Super Eagles tie up withGoogle

IOA must adhere to IOC

guidelines: Sports minister

Lagos

The Nigeria Football Association

(NFA) has partnered with popular

search engine, Google for online ac-

tivities for the senior national team,

the Super Eagles.

The project was already making im-

pact, the football body said in a state-

ment Thursday, reports Xinhua. The

Super Eagles are now active on the

social media and have ofcial pres-

ence on Google and YouTube.

The project would serve as publicity

platform for the team’s international

players, the NFA said.

“Launching of a landing page on

Google+, which is also connected

to YouTube Channel, will in the me-

dium and long term serve as a prin-

cipal publicity platform for our inter-

national players,” an NFA statement

said.

“The platform is really meant for

our players in the Super Eagles and

other national teams to follow their

supporters on their feelings and

comments, It will also help with the

media campaign at major champion-

ships,” the statement added.

IOC ban detrimental for Indiansports: Malhotra

Cuba volleyball aims to regain regionaldominance

US Open: Wawrinka knocks outdefending champion Murray

New Delhi

Vijay Kumar Malhotra, the presi-

dent of the recognised Indian Olym-

pic Association (IOA), Thursdayregretted International Olympic

Committee’s decision aggainst re-

voking its suspension of India but

promised his best efforts ensure

the country’s return to the Olympic

movement.

“The continuance of the ban is de-

nitely detrimental to Indian sports

and prestige. I am quite unhappy

that India is out of the Olympic

movement at the moment,” said

Malhotra in a statement.

The veteran sports administrator re-

quested all the stake holders in the

suspended IOA to stand united and

nd out a way to lift the ban.

“We have to follow the IOC char-

ter. The only thing is they can havemore clarications here and there.

Denitely, I am also of the opinion

that people facing criminal and cor-

ruption charges shouldn’t contest

the election. But we need see to

what stage it can be made appli-

cable.

“The government has also taken its

view on it and gone to the Supreme

Court. So we will like to study all

Havana

Cuba’s national volleyball team islooking to regain its dominance in

an upcoming regional tournament,

and advance to the world champi-

onships later this year as the region-

al leader.

Before taking part in November’s

World Grand Champions Cup, or-

ganised by the International Vol-

leyball Federation (FIVB), the team

will have to beat regional rivals in

the North American, Central Ameri-

can and Caribbean Volleyball Con-

federation (Norceca) Championship

to be held Sep 22-28 in Langley,

Canada, reports.

That shouldn’t be difcult for Cuba,

which won the last two Norceca

tournaments, and a total of 15 cham- pionships in the confederation’s 22-

year history. In the Norceca tourna-

ment, Cuba will compete in Group

B, along with Puerto Rico and the

Bahamas. Group A includes the

United States, Dominican Republic

and Saint Lucia, and Group C con-

tains Mexico, Guatemala and host

these things and then convey our

acceptance to the IOC clause,” Mal-

hotra added. Malhotra said had no

clue of what transpired in the IOA’sSpecial General Meeting held here

Aug 25 since he had boycotted it.

“I didn’t attend the meeting because

I as a president didn’t call it. So,

what transpired there I didn’t have

rst-hand knowledge. But now I

will have to discuss it with all those

people. “I have talked to IOA mem-

bers (after the meeting) and they

said that IOC members were con-

Canada. The best two teams of each

group will advance to the seminalround, and the third-place teams of

each group will play each other.

In the Norceca championship, held

in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Cuba

defeated then Olympic champion

the United States by three sets to

two. The winner of Norceca heads

to the FIVB World Grand Champi-

New York

Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka has

knocked out Britain’s defending

champion Andy Murray in straight

sets to enter the men’s singles semi-

nals at the US Open here at Flush-

ing Meadows.

The ninth seed Wawrinka demol-

ished the No. 3 seed 6-4, 6-3, 6-2,

in two and quarter hours to enter his

rst Grand Slam seminal.

Wawrinka now awaits the winner

of the other quarternal between

top seed Serb Novak Djokovic and

Russian Mikhail Youzhny.

Second seed Rafael Nadal will

clash with Frenchman Richard Gas-

quet in the dother seminal.

In windy Arthur Ashe Stadium,

Wawrinka had a stranglehold over

ons Cup, to be played Nov 19-24

in Japan by the ve regional champions from Africa, Europe, Asia,

South America and North America

(Norceca). But Cuba is heading into

this year’s contest after its worst

performance in the history of the

World League, winning only one

match out of 10, in the preliminary

round.

the match right from the start and

Murray was swept off, hardly look-

ing like staging a comeback. He lost

the second set hitting a double fault

and he was just going through the

motions in the third set.

New Delhi

Sports Minister Jitendra Singh Thurs-

day asserted that Indian Olympic As-

sociation (IOA) should toe the line

of International Olympic Committee

(IOC) which bars chargesheeted of-

cials to continue in and run for ofce.

Jitendra Singh’s comments came after

the IOC rejected the request of the

suspended IOA to allow tainted of-

cials to run the national body. “There

are certains clauses with which IOC

has a problem. The main issue is of

ethics and good governance. So, I

hope better sense prevails and the IOA

incorporates the changes which the

IOC has suggested,” Jitendrra Singh

told a TV channel. “I don’t think

there should be a problem in incorpo-

rating these changes as it is a part of

the Olympic Charter. It is nothing new

that the IOC is saying.” He lamented

at the sad state of affairs in IOA. “It

is sad that the IOA did not modify

their constitution as per the Olympic

Charter. “I would like to request the

IOA to consider the modications in

their constitution, keeping in mind

the interest of the sports persons and

not some individuals’ interests. It is

unfortunate that some vested interests

took precedence over nation and the

athletes,” he added. The IOC execu-

tive board met Wednesday in Buenos

Aires and decided that the ban on IOA

will continue if the apex body for

sports in India doesn’t change its con-

stitution to keep out charge-sheeted

individuals. Since the suspension of

the Indian Olympic Association (IOA)

in December 2012, the IOC has been

working towards nding a solution to

improve good governance within the

IOA. The IOC also provided the IOA

with a roadmap and sent observers to

the IOA’s General Assembly (GA)

that took place here Aug 25. The IOA,

during its Special General Meeting

here, refused to incorporate the con-

tentious IOC-proposed clause that

would have barred charge-sheeted in-

dividuals from holding any post and

suggested an alternative that would

affect only convicted ofcials

vinced and the ban will be lifted. It

appeared that they were convinced

that India has done whatever they

were needed to do. But IOC shouldhave clearly told at the time when

the clause was being discussed that

if you don’t agree to this clause, we

will not lift the ban,” he said.

Malhotra also said that the IOC

clause, that keeps out chargsheeted

ofcials, should be applicable to all

member countries. “If it is for all

countries, naturally, we will have to

follow it,” he said.

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Try stylish hairdosduring festive time

New Delhi

Grab attention during festive cel-

ebrations by trying easy-to-do yet

chic hairdos like messy chignon,

plaits and the vintage look.

Follow the steps suggested by Najeeb

Ur Rehman of Schwarzkopf Profes-

sional India, to get the styles right:

- Plaits: Start by using a smoothen-

ing shampoo, and then prepare hair

with a attening spray and blow dry

smooth to ensure hair is tangle-free.

Leave a few strands of hair at the

front then part the hair on one side

and make two plaits from either side

of the parting. Take each plait to-

wards the back of the head until they

meet near the nape area. Then tie the

ends into a messy bun. Use a hair-

spray to complete the look.

- Messy chignon: Tie a ponytail and

backcomb it loosely. Then use pins

to x the lengths of the ponytail back

into the base to create the hairdo.

- Vintage updo: Wash the hair,

and then apply volume cream and

scrunch dry. While scrunching, keep

your head upside down to make it

look voluminous. Once hair dries up,

backcomb the roots and twist hair at

the back and pin into a messy French

plait. Next, wrap a rolled up scarf be-

hind the ears, over the crown and tie

off to one side - leaving your fringe

out. To nish, use hair spray

Get fresh-faced look right

Los Angeles

The natural look never goes out of

style, but to aunt that fresh-faced

look, make sure to use the right prod-

ucts like tinted moisturiser, powder

blush and more.

Makeup artist Kat Connelly gives

tips on how to nail the look, reports

eonline.com.

- Apply a tinted moisturiser. Use a

sponge to blend the lightweight base

on the face, which gives a more natu-

ral look than a traditional foundation.

- Add powder blush to cheeks, and

then swipe on a pink blush to the

apples of the cheeks to enhance the

skin radiance.

- Use gold gel eyeliner pencil along

the eyelid. The hue gives you a soft

pop of colour without being too dra-

matic.

- Apply mascara by brushing it close

to the lash line.

- Finish with a light layer of lip balm.

Use a brush to apply lip balm and

blend soft rose tint from the centre

outward.

Moisturise

well

beforemakeup in

winter New Delhi

In the autumn-winter season, it is

vital to work on skincare before

applying makeup, and an expert

advises to be careful while using

foundation.

Bollywood makeup expert Puja

Taluja says cleansing, toning and

moisturising is imperative to en-

sure a well moisturised skin.

“While doing makeup in cold anddry months, it’s essential to make

sure that the face is well moistur-

ised. Before applying makeup,

start with cleansing, toning and

moisturising to ensure that the

skin is soft and smooth and there

is no dryness on the face,” Taluja

said in a statement.

She advises that women must use

face primer post their skincare

ritual, and then work their way on

the makeup base.

“In autumn-winter, use a base

with higher coverage to give a

awless look. A base with a high-

er coverage is thicker in texture,

but can be used in winters because

of the climate. But in the processof getting good coverage, don’t

make it cakey,” said the expert.

“Use a dewy foundation to give

a lovely sheen on the face,” she

added.

Taluja says bright colours are in

vogue.

“Purple and violet hues, pink and

red can be used. Dark smokey

eyes look great for winters. A well

defned winged eye liner is also

very hot this season,” she said.

European light

therapy facialsnow in IndiaNew Delhi

Move over fruit facials and chocolate

packs as there’s a new therapy on

the block - European Light Therapy

(ELT) facials, which promise to reju-

venate the skin by using light. ELT

facials involve a new technology,

where light energy is applied to the

skin to provide therapeutic benets,

accelerating the repair of damaged

skin cells, as well as stimulating the

production of collagen.

“ELT facials is the latest in facials

and we are proud to be the rst to

offer it in India. Light Therapy is

proven to address various concernssuch as ageing, pigmentation, and

acne and is sure to give a guaranteed

glow,” Rahul Bhalchandra, CEO and

director, YLG Salon, the brand that

has introduced the concept in India,

said in a statement. The treatment

begins with the application of a deep

cleanser followed by the “skin scrub-

ber light probe”. The blue light of the

probe helps in ghting acne-causing

bacteria, and it also helps in removal

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