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GOVT BUYS GANDHI’S ARCHIVEIndia has purchased a rich archive compris-

ing thousands of letters and documentsrelated to Mahatma Gandhi, including those

on his controversial relationship witharchitect Hermann Kallenbach. Sotheby'ssaid the deal was concluded in a 'private

transaction'. It did not disclose theamount paid.

DESI TASTE FAVOURSVIDESHI BRANDSIndia’s youth go for foreignbrands, because they don’ttrust IMFL any longer.

KATIE’S NEXT MOVIEROLE: SINGLE MUMHolmes will begin productionnext week for her projectMolly, a film she co-wrote andis co-producing, about the lifeof a single mum. Sounds familiar?

A MATTER OF PRIDEGoogle has recently launched an ambitious campaign titledLegalise Love, one that is aimed to pressure countries where ithas offices to give gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendermore rights and recognition. While Legalise Love gatherssteam, we look at the beginnings of the gay rights movementand its progress.

The apex body of pan-India developers and builderssays pollution emanating from construction sites is not its concern.

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SRINIVAS SETTYDOGS MAY PROTECTBABIES FROM SOMEINFECTIONSBabies in homes with cats ordogs were about 30 per centless likely to have respiratoryinfectious symptoms like cou -gh, wheezing, rhinitis (stuffyor runny nose) and fever andabout half as likely toget ear infections. P19

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Being eunuchBeing Eunuch, a play highlightingthe plight and problems of eunuchsin the country will be presented byNishumbita on July 13. Where: Ravindra Bharathi,

SaifabadWhen: July 13,

7pm onwardsContact: (040) 2323 1245

Rain fiestaAll seasons, Banjara Hills is offeringa monsoon special. Sample a varietyof sizzlers and get exciting offerssuch as order 3 and pay for one.Where: All Seasons,

Banjara Hills, Rd No 3

When: Ongoing,7pm onwards

Contact: (040) 2355 3029

Art-de-konjA painting exhibition depictingartist Aiyudha Pooja Kapur’s passionfor horses is on display at Muse ArtGallery till July 20.Where: Muse Art Gallery,

Tank Bund

Street food festivalHead to Taj Deccan for a streetfood festival being held at Syn—Asian Bar and Grill. The festival thatis on till July 10 features food fromdifferent South-East Asian coun-tries.Where: Taj Deccan,

Banjara HillsRd No 1

When: OngoingContact: 92950 06969

Art worksA painting exhibition featuring thenew works of artistes Laxma Goud,Vaikuntam Thota and RameshGorjala is being held.Where: Gallery Space,

Banjara HillsWhen: Ongoing,

11am onwardsContact: (040) 6554 1836

Living with the mastersA painting exhibition of paintingsby artistes such as AkbarPadamsee, Bikash Bhattacharjee,Ganesh Pyne, JagdishSwaminathan, K G Subramanyan,Krishen Khanna, Ram Kumar, S HRaza, Tyeb Mehta is being held.Where: Kalakriti Art Gallery,

Banjara HillsWhen: July 18 onwards,

11am onwardsContact: (040) 6656 4466

Art affairAn exhibition featuring artistes suchas Thota Vaikuntam, RajeshwarRao, Anjani Reddy, D. Shanti, PJStalin will be held on July 20.Where: Taj Krishna,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 1

When: July 21,6pm onwards

Contact: (040) 6666 2323

Book readingA book reading session by AuthorLeni Varkey on her latest bookKuttan's Dilemma is being held atTreasure House.Where: Treasure House,

Jubilee Hills,Rd No 36

When: July 10, 4pm onwards

Contact: (040) 2355 0118

A double lifeQadir Ali Baig Theatre Foundationpresents A Double Life: An Eveningwith Alyque. Catch Mohammad AliBaig in conversation with AlyquePadamsee.Where: HICC,

Hitech CityWhen: July 15,

7pm onwardsContact: (040) 6616 3000

When: Ongoing,11am onwards

Contact: (040) 2752 2999

Cloth paper scissorsAn exhibition featuring mixedmedia paintings and sculptures isbeing held till July 12.Where: Inconart,

Banjara Hills,Rd No10

When: Ongoing, 11.30am onwards

Contact: 98499 68797

Just the beatHead to Cuba Libre for Nothingbut the beat with DJ Siddie Boy.Where: Cuba Libre,

Banjara HillsWhen: July 10,

12pm onwardsContact: (040) 6776 7144

Musical eveningBoondhon ka Paigam, a monsoon musical yearly event will be held on July 12. Themusical event being held at HICC

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will feature Kavita Seth andJaswinder Singh.Where: Hyderabad Marriott and

convention centre,Tank Bund

When: July 12,7pm onwards

Contact: (040) 2752 2999

Park dramaA Hindi play dealing with threemen trying to find peace of mindin a park is being presented bySifar. The play is written by ManavKaul and directed by Feroz.Where: Lamakaan,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 1

When: July 10, 5pm onwards

Contact: 96427 31329

Paratha festivalHaldi at Novotel Airport is hostinga parantha festival.Where: Novotel Airport,

ShamshabadWhen: Ongoing,

6.30pm onwardsContact: (040) 6625 0000

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An exhibit as a part of Cloth Paper Scissors being held at Iconart Gallery. SRINIVAS SETTY

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Man’s suicide blamedon co-workers

Ayoung man, working in a private agen-cy at Masabtank, committed suicide by

jumping before a speeding train onMonday after leaving a suicide note stat-ing that he was taking his own life due topainful harassment from his co-workers.Riyaz Shareef, 35, hails form Mahbubnagarand was found dead on the rail tracks atLingampally station. Co-workers are beinginterrogated, police said.

Daggers found in autorikshaw

Police were in for a surprise when theyfound a few brand-new daggers from

the spot where an autorikshaw had over-turned at Borabanda on Monday, injuringseven, including two kids. The vehiclehad taken in seven against the rule ofthree and was coming from Erragada toBorabanda when the driver lost controland overturned. As the police reachedthe spot they found the driver abscond-ing and a few daggers strewn around. Acase has been registered against thedriver, who hails from RR district.

School burgled, rice,gas cylinder stolen

Burglars, for a change, zeroed in on aschool in NGO’s colony in

Vanasthalipuram and decamped withhuge quantity of rice, dal and gas cylin-ders on Monday night. The lock of thestore room was broken open. The clean-ing staff in the morning discovered theburglary. No clue of the burglars hasbeen received yet.

Drunk attemptsmolestation, held

Ayouth, M Hari Kiran of Gandhinagarin Secunderabad, was arrested by the

Musheerabad police on Monday. A knifefound in his possession was seized. Theman was held after he tried to attackand molest a woman who objected tohis obscene remarks. He also stabbed herhusband when he intervened. Kiran wascreating a ruckus on Sunday night whenthe incident occurred.

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The Metropolitan Sessions Judge atNampally criminal courts has can-celled the bail granted to a pahel-wan of Old City, Hamza Bin Omer

aka Zafar Pahelwan, in a murder case of arowdy-sheeter that took place in a gym afew months ago.

The judge directed the pahelwan to surrender to the Chanchalguda jail author-ities forthwith. Citing health reasons, ZafarPahelwan has sought two days to surrender.

The judge has, in his order, directed theaccused to sign the attendance register atKanchanbagh police station on alternateday. The sources said that Pahelwan wasirregular in reporting to the police station.“We have approached the Sessions courtand sought the cancellation of bail as heflouted the conditions imposed by thecourt” assistant commissioner of policeSantoshnagar S Sai Krishna said.

On March 19, history-sheeter, Ahmed

Ali Khan aka Ilyas, was hacked to deathwhile working out at a gym in Santoshnagararea within the Kanchanbagh Police stationlimits. The police, in March, arrested mainaccused Zafar Pahelwan on charges that heallegedly masterminded the killing with thehelp of his family and other followers.

There are 14 accused in the case, ofwhich seven have been arrested, namelyMohammed Bin Abdullah alias ChotaMohammed, Rashed Bin Abdullah, WadoodBin Abdullah, Mohammed Sabir Ali andMohammed Imranuddin. Two moreaccused are still absconding. However, theKanchanbagh police are yet to file thecharge sheet in the case as the FSL reportsare awaited.

Pahelwan’s bail cancelledZafar Pahelwan, who was arrested in a murder case of a history-sheeter at a gym, hadflouted bail conditions, claim cops. The accused has sought two days’ time to surrender

OF THE FOURTEEN ACCUSED IN THECASE, SEVEN HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.TWO MORE ARE STILL ABSCONDING.THE POLICE ARE YET TO FILE THECHARGE SHEET IN THE CASE AS THEFSL REPORTS ARE AWAITED.

Case registered againstminister Saraiah’s son

Mother-killer sonin judicial custodyThe man who was arrest-

ed along with two otherslast week for the rape

and murder of his mother hasbeen sent to a 14-day judicialremand.

E Laxmamma, a widow,was raped and murderedallegedly by her son E Srinivasand his two hired men —Bassappa and Ramesh — forher refusal to give him her 2-acre ancestral land. Villagers,shocked by the cruelty of theson, have demanded capitalpunishment for the trio.

Acase was registered against ministerBasavaraju Saraiah’s son Sriman, for

allegedly abusing a police officer on duty.Saraiah had participated in some officialprogrammes along with the municipaladministration minister Mahidhar Reddyon Sunday. Some TRS activists tried toobstruct the ministers.

Sriman then went to the Mattevadapolice station and created a scene there,blaming the police for remaining mutespectators when TRS men obstructed theministers. He also reportedly abused theSI, Ramesh, personally. The SI who was

injured in the incident has complained tothe SP about the behaviour of the minis-ter’s son. DSP Lavanyahas said that theMattevada police have registered casesunder sections 355, 448 and 294 B of theIndian Penal Code, after the SP gave clear-ance for the action. The SI claimed thatthe minister’s son was in a drunken statewhen he abused him.

The minister, however, denied thecharges and alleged that his son wasdeliberately being framed. He said hewould apologize if the allegation againsthis son was proved. kpp

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When we talk aboutpollution the firstthing that comes toour mind is vehi-

cles letting out plumes ofsmoke. But many of us are notaware that the rising construc-tion activity and commercialestablishments contribute in noless measure to pollution levels.

Shockingly, Hyderabad isthe only City where there is noproper check on pollution lev-els, not to speak of unbridlednoise and air pollution kickedup by thousands of buildingsites spread across the City.Callous handling of buildingmaterials and lack of safetymeasures has been killing peo-

ple but the GHMC turns ablind eye!

Who to blame? Ask aroundand you draw a blank. TheConfederation of Real EstateDevelopers Association of India(CREDAI), Hyderabad, tooshrug off. “We are not con-cerned about the pollution lev-els, it’s the work of AndhraPradesh Pollution ControlBoard to check the pollutionlevels and take action. We don’thave special rules and regula-tions regarding this. The realestate industry does notincrease air, water, noise or landpollution,” said S Ram Reddy,CEO, CREDAI Hyderabad.

All construction sites gener-ate high levels of dust and noiseand they care not for the neigh-bours. Often work goes on tilllate night and disturbs the resi-dents in the locality. Despite thelaw that construction is not

allowed at night, there is noauthority for citizens to turn to.

Experts from the medicalfield say that air pollution canresult in serious health prob-

lems like loss of appetite, lungsand heart ailments and sleepingdisorders. “In the recent yearsthere has been a rise in thenumber of patients comingwith respiratory problems andthe major culprit is the increas-ing pollution. Problems includepulmonary stress, asthma,bronchitis and even cancer. Onan average one in eight sufferfrom such problems”, said DrHameer Singh, pulmonologist.

Shockingly, officials fromthe Andhra Pradesh PollutionControl Board say, “We don’thave a separate check for pollu-tion at a construction site orsmoke being emitted from vehi-cles used there. We have a com-mon check for air pollution lev-els. But yes the pollution levelsare always high near the con-struction sites,” said KVRamani, senior environmentalengineer, AP Pollution Board.

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POLLUTION

We don’t have a sep-arate check for pollution at a con-struction site orsmoke being emittedfrom vehicles usedthere, but yes pollu-tion is high.

KV Ramani, AP Pollution Board

The apex body of pan-India developers and builders says pol-lution emanating from construc-tion sites is not its concern

Steep hike inrailwayparking feeSudeshna Kokasudeshna.k@postnoon.com

Railway works on its ownrules. Much etiquette isnot applicable, rue com-muters. They point out

that the hike in platform ticketsand parking lot were effectedwithout informing the public.

Even now, there is no noticeto inform the public that thehourly rent for car parking hasbeen raised to `30 from `20. Nordid the railway think it fit to ann -ounce the rise in platform ticketprices from `3 to `5.

“I decided to see off mycousins at the Secunderabad sta-tion at the last moment. I forgotto carry my purse but had `20 onme which was enough to buy fiveplatform tickets. But after wewent there I was informed that it’s`5 per ticket. The rise is not theissue but failure to inform thepublic is,” says Raj M, a market-ing professional.

Satender Kumar, station mas-ter says, “The hike was put intoeffect with the annual budget. Wehave implemented it since thelast two months. We have planswith the money generated. Soonwe will make new changes in thestation.” Another rail commuterasks, “When the train runs late byhours, who pays for the parking ?Should not the railway bear theextra expense?"

“It’s not the rise alone thatbites us,” Adithya T, a studentsays. “With the hike they hardlymake the situation better. Parkingis so congested that it is a risk tak-ing one’s vehicle in and taking itout is tougher,” he points out.

Vicky, manager of the park-ing, says the contracted amountwas higher this time. He had nochoice but to hike the price. Ascompared to last year this yearthe auction bid was thrice theprice. “We took on lease the landfor a higher price se we had toraise the rent. We need to recoverthe money we have invested, youknow,” he said.

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TDP Krishna district presidentDevineni Uma Maheswara Rao hasalleged that the Gudivada MLA

Kodali Venkateswara Rao (Nani) was soldout for `30 crore offered by the YSRCongress and left the party that gave hima ticket and helped him become an MLAtwice.

Talking on Monday, Uma and other

leaders of the party from Krishna districthave alleged that Nani has betrayed theparty within a week of his meeting theparty chief N Chandrababu Naidu. Theyalso said that while the TDP has givenhim a respectable position he has puthimself on sale.

They said betrayers like Nani havebeen trying to destroy the party and inthe process they themselves weredestroyed. They said the Krishna districtparty was unanimously condemning theaction of Nani. They have also asked theelection commission to impose a ban offive years on Nani and others who defectto other parties from contesting in elec-tions.

They have warned Nani that peoplewould teach a lesson to people like him.They said Chandrababu Naidu has giventicket to him denying it even to RaviShobhanadriswara Rao because hebelieved his words that he was a greatfollower of NT Rama Rao. They said Nanishould explain to the people how manycrores of package he got himself sold outto the YSR Congress. NSS

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The government orderissued by the State gov-ernment to provide legalaid to four ministers of

the State cabinet seems to havelanded the Congress party introuble. The vexed GO categori-cally stated that the governmentwould provide financial help tofour ministers — Sabita IndiraReddy, J Geeta Reddy, KannaLakshminarayana, PonnalaLakshmaiah and DharmanaPrasada Rao — to avail legal help,leaving behind former exciseminister Mopidevi VenkataRamana Rao, who is now lodgedin Chanchalguda jail.

While some harsh critics ofCM N Kirankumar Reddy like for-mer minister P Shanker Raotermed it tantamount to encour-

aging corruption, oppositionparty leaders have said that theState has made Mopidevi ascapegoat in the whole issue.

In fact, PCC president BotsaSatyanarayana openly expressedhis displeasure over Mopidevibeing ignored by the CM to availlegal help from the State. He saidthat he would write a letter in hispersonal capacity to the CM andrequest him to extend the sameprivilege to Mopidevi also.

“This is not right. Mopidevishould also get legal support. Iwill write a letter to the CM

requesting him to extend supportto Mopidevi,” he said.

Mopidevi, also expressed hisunhappiness over being ignored.He expressed his displeasure tohis friend and minister for socialwelfare P Satyanarayana whenthe latter met him in jail onMonday. Mopidevi reportedlyasked the minister to convey hisfeelings to the CM for extensionof legal help to him as well.

Many BC organisations havealleged that the CM’s act of ignor-ing BC minister Mopidevi showsthat he hates the backward classcommunity. “This is a clear caseof feudalistic attitude of the CM.He wants to show that upperclass always rule. I think this isthe right time for BC to launchmassive fight for their rights,” BCleader in Telangana and presi-dent of Telangana Jyothiba BCwelfare association RSatyanarayana Rao said. He saidthat they would hold a brain-storming session.

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It’s not only you — the citi-zens — who get a shockfrom various government

agencies. The mayor MohdMajid Hussain recently got ashock when he was handed anover 70-page default list ofproperty tax payers who owedthe corporation `840 crore!

What surprised him wasnot the list, but it containedinformation on how the gov-ernmental agencies owed thecorporation `300 crore, andmore, many bigwigs have shuttheir eyes at the dues. Butsoon, he was advised by theofficials who take it all in theirstride, to calm down. They toldhim half of the 12 lakh proper-ty owners don’t pay!

The mayor immediatelysprang to action. He told offi-cials to get ready for a specialdrive to wrest as much money

from private property ownersas possible. This year theGHMC needs more money inview of the beautification ithas to do to welcome theworld meet on biodiversity inOctober. “I told the officials toget at the private propertyowners first,” the mayor said.The list runs into thousands orelse the corporation wouldhave published it, officialsclarified. But the mayor is infavour of publishing thenames to shame them.

Meanwhile. the corpora-tion has undertaken a proper-ty reassessment to updateproperty tax. The prevailingtax rate is laughable. Some bighouse owners pay `160. “Whata sham!” said an official.

Half don’t pay, the otherhalf pay peanuts!

Nani was sold out for `30crore: TDP leaders

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THE TDP LEADERS HAVE ALLEGEDTHAT NANI BETRAYED THE PARTY.THEY ALSO SAID THAT WHILE THETDP HAS GIVEN HIM ARESPECTABLE POSITION HE HAS PUTHIMSELF ON SALE.

CM earns moredetractors with GO

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With the onset of the monsoon season, a peacock spreads its majestic plumes to woo its mate atthe City Zoo M ANIL KUMAR

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Indian middle-class, especial-ly the young and the middle-aged, are increasingly givingIMFL a miss and are going for

branded foreign spirits instead.Citing India as one the most sig-nificant growth drivers, variousmultinational liquor companiesare poised to invest hugely inmarketing, brand innovations,expand to new markets withinIndia and are managing theirportfolio as per the local needs.

Currently, the revenue fromthe alcoholic beverage market isestimated at `52,000 crore and islikely to reach about `2 lakh croreduring the course of the nextthree years, said the studyreleased by ASSOCHAM, a pre-mier trade body.

Data suggests that a majorityof the educated young in Indiaare becoming devotees of bac-chus — but of foreign bacchus —not the Indian variety. The studysays the sales of imported spiritsincluding the duty-free traveltrade in India is likely to cross the5 million cases mark and reachabout 550 lakh litres by 2015.

Growing at a compoundedannual growth rate (CAGR) ofabout 25 per cent, the importedspirits market in India is current-ly estimated at about 280 lakhlitres and about 3.1 million cases,according to a study, ‘India’semerging imported spirits mar-

ket’, says the Chamber study.The overall liquor consump-

tion in India is growing at about30 per cent CAGR and is likely toreach about 20,000 million litresin the next three years from cur-rent level of about 7,000 millionlitres.

“Growth of imported spirits inIndia is largely driven by thespurt in tendency amid young

Indian professionals andentrepreneurs to migrate fromlocal brands to internationalbrands,” said DS Rawat, secretarygeneral of ASSOCHAM whilereleasing the findings.

“With more number ofIndians travelling abroad forstudying and other professionalreasons, their fondness forimported liquor is also rising

which is certainly leading togrowth in the business as theyacquire taste for imported liquorand can afford to buy the expen-sive spirits from duty-free shopsabroad,” said Rawat.

“Besides, growth in the sectorhas also been fueled by risingincome levels, increasing youngpopulation, growing number ofworking women, increasing

media penetration and expand-ing exposure to western lifestyleamid people in the upper-middleincome group in India for whomserving expensive liquor reflectstheir lifestyle and status symbol.”

Wine consumption is achiev-ing the gender parity. India’s wineconsumption is likely to reacharound 14.7 million litres by theend of 2012 from around 4.6 mil-lion litres in 2008 registering agrowth of 35 per cent during thecourse of past four years. The per-cent of female wine connoisseursis growing by 10 per cent.

The vodka market alone inIndia is growing at about 25 percent annually and is likely toreach 10.2 million cases by theend of 2012 as vodka is emergingas a starting drink for the youth atmetros and tier II centres.

India’s youth go for foreign brands, because they don’t trust Indian-made foreign liquor any longer

Desi taste favours videshi brands

The Haj Committee of India(HCI) has accorded anopportunity to provisional-

ly selected Haj pilgrims and thoseselected under surrenderedquota, who have not remitted theadvance Haj amount of `51,000,in the stipulated time to enablethem to undergo Haj journey, bymaking payment of this amount

till July 16, 2012.The chairman of the AP State

Haj Committee Janab SyedKhaleeluddin Ahmed, in a pressrelease, said that June 11 was thelast date for the provisionallyselected Haj pilgrims and June 30for the pilgrims whose seats wereconfirmed against surrenderedseats, for remitting the stipulatedamount of `51,000.

Such pilgrims may remit theamount in the State Bank of Indiathrough core banking system onor before July 16 to avoid cancel-lation, he said and added that thelast date for remitting theamount of the second and finalinstallment as per the categoryadopted is July 31.

The chairman further saidthat if the pilgrims fail to remitthe payment by that date the HCIwill cancel their seats, which maybe allotted to the waiting list pil-grims in serial order. NSS

Growth of importedspirits is largely drivenby the spurt in tendency amid youngprofessionals andentrepreneurs tomigrate from local tointernational brands.

DS Rawat, secretary general, ASSOCHAM

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Bonalu fest losing its sheen?Anubha K Singhanubha.k@postnoon.com

Frequent troubles inthe Old City seem tohave taken its toll onthe Bonalu celebra-

tions here. In the recentyears, the participation ofpeople from other commu-nities seems to havereduced drastically.

“Blame it on the com-munal riots or the differ-ences created by some self-ish politicos in the area, butin recent years, the numberof Muslim devotees inBonalu celebrations hasreduced,” said MaheshGoud, chairman of theMahankali Temple.

Hanumanth Rao, a resi-dent of Shalibanda who hasbeen watching Bonalu cele-brations since childhood,says, “The festival is cen-turies old and even theNizams offered prayershere. Muslims from the areaused to participate with thesame fervour every year. Iremember that one year, aMuslim was the potharaju.That is why the Old CityBonalu is known for its com-munity spirit.”

He added, “However,with changing times and the

worsening situation in thearea, things have changednow. The spirit of unity hasnow reduced drastically andnot even a handful ofMuslims participate in thefestival now. Many keeptheir distance in order tomaintain peace in the area.”

Old-timers from the areareminisce about how thefestival was celebrated bypeople from all communi-ties. “Akkanna MadannaMahankali temple in the Old

City was known for HinduMuslim unity through itsexistence. Bonalu is not apanchang-based festival; it’sa community festival wherepeople from all communi-ties worship Goddess Kali tokeep diseases and badthings away. The festival iscelebrated to maintainpeace and happiness in thecity. The celebrations at the400-year-old temple arepopular because this is theonly temple where people

from both the communitiescan join in,” said YounusKhan, a shopkeeper fromLaad Bazaar.

After the Bonalu festivi-ties at Golconda Fort andSecunderabad, it was timefor the Old City residents tocelebrate. The 11-day festi-val kicked off in the Old Cityon Sunday. The traditionalcelebrations started earlieron June 21 at Golconda Fort.There are three main tem-ples in the Old City where

the festival will be celebrat-ed; Akkanna Madanna tem-ple, Muthyalu temple inShah Ali Banda andMahankali temple at LalDarwaza.

The festival kicked offwith a mahabhishekam,kalasa sthapana and dwa-jarohanam. The other ritu-als that will be performedinclude Mathaji bhajan,Shakam bari alankara puja,Laksha kumkumarchana,Laksha pushparchana,Chandi homam, andThottela Uregimpu. Themain event will be celebrat-ed on July 15 and concludewith Pothraju Swagatham,Rangam and MahankaliJathara on July 16.

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Water wars as pre-dicted in novelsand films are not

fictitious. Go to Karkhana inSecunderabad, one of theoldest settlements inHyderabad. This season,three deaths in the areahave been attributed towater woes.

Coming under theSecunderabad CantonmentBoard (SCB), this localityhas just faced one of theworst water situations in theCity’s recent history. Theabject failure of the SCB toprovide water to the resi-dents is legendary. Here, youwill still see hand pumpsmarked 1852, which, to theircredit, worked for well overa century. But the new onesinstalled a few years agohave already conked off!

Water tankers and watertaps are the only means ofgetting water. But tankerswere hard to find this year.The desperate residentsresorted to installing illegalhand pumps and diggingborewells, which, moreoften than not, just throw up

only mud. “The entire laneof Karkhana Bazar buzzeswith women holding con-tainers on the day water isreleased or whenever atanker arrives,” says MohdNusrat, a resident.

When a tanker comes orwhen the SCB releases

water, the whole populaceof Karkhana assembles atthe supply points. Oftenquarrels break out; recently,a man died after a fight overthe water queue. In anotherinstance, two men died ofelectric shock when theywere trying to make electricconnections for the motorswithout permission andprecautions.

Residents are demand-ing immediate attention ofthe SCB before the situationgets any worse. Most of theborewells installed few yearsago remain non-functional.In addition, only a few watertaps work in the entire local-ity of hundreds of house-holds. Karkhana is sur-rounded by newer localitieswith gated communities,which have better access towater than the historic‘Untonka Karkhana’ (CamelCamp).

“We need at least twomore hand pumps and fourtap connections urgently,”

stressed A Ahmed, a socialworker from the area.According to him, one of thehand pumps needs repair or replacement. Besidesthis, setting up public watertaps at several places wouldhelp. Several representa-tions were made to the localleaders, including the MLA,but nothing has been done,

says Ahmed. When the issue was

brought to the notice of SCBCEO Bala Krishna, he wasnot surprised. “There is awater problem everywherein the City. Let me know theexact location, I shall try tosort out the issue with offi-cials from WaterworksDepartments”, said the CEO.

Participation of other communities in the celebrations seems to have reduced over the years

Bonalu is not apanchang-basedfestival; it’s a com-munity festivalwhere people fromall communitiesworship GoddessKali to keep diseases away.

Younus Khan, LaadBazaar shopkeeper

Karkhana: Where water war is not rare

The Bar Councilof India passeda resolution

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the government.

“I will focus onrural develop-ment, conserva-tion of water, andmy most visiblegoal is to do some-thing in the field ofnutrition for chil-dren and pregnantmothers in India,because thatwould change themental and physi-cal health of ourpopulation in theyears to come,”

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Tata Group

India could become a fiscalsurplus nation if the govern-ment manages to bring backat least 10 per cent of theestimated `45 lakh croreblack money stashed abroad,industry body Ficci said .Indian economy, currentlygrappling with slowdown, islikely to post a fiscal deficitof `5.13 lakh crore or 5.1 percent of the GDP in the cur-rent financial year.

Intel on Monday announcedthat it will pump billions ofdollars into Dutch firm ASMLHolding during the next fiveyears to speed up advancesin tools for making comput-er chips. Intel would spendabout $4.1 billion investingin research and buying anequity stake to speed devel-opment of technology forchips made on 450-millime-ter diameter wafers. In thefirst phase, Intel will commitabout $680 million for R&Dof manufacturing equipmentand buying a 10 percentstake in the firm for about$2.1 billion.

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Large corporations areobsessed with leadershipbecause they know valueof it. They put their lead-

ers through constant leadershipdevelopment programmes,meetings to build leadership.

Unfortunately, the smallbusinesses do not talk aboutleadership because they are car-ried away with everyday activi-ties and operations all the time.It is important for them tounderstand and devote time onbuild leadership to take theirbusinesses bigger. Small busi-ness should put aside a part oftheir budget for mentors, con-sultants and trainers.

However, currently they arelooking these things once theycome across some serious prob-lem. They should consider it aspart of their operation costs.They should have great men-tors, board of advisors aroundthem for a better growth, saidKane Minkus, co-founder of theIndustry Rockstar System, USAand a multimillion dollarentrepreneur, who was in theCity with Jeff Slayter to give hisinspirational talk on“Transformational Leadership &Inspirational Entrepreneurship”.

The key thing that smallcompanies should primarilyfocus is on sales and marketingbut should also seriously look atleadership once they reach sizeof $1 million.

Leadership must becomekey conversation during thephase of $1-5 million size.These are very specific inflec-tion points where the businesshas to move from sales and mar-keting focus to leadership focus.The focus has to move structural

and scalability building after $5million, he said.

Talking about how leader-ship can affect a company, Kanesaid, entrepreneurship is allabout leadership and business-es rise and fall because of it.Every company is a direct reflec-tion of the CEO which meansthe leader’s beliefs, mindset,capabilities, identity, behaviourand the environment in whichhe exist will be directly reflectedin the business.

Large corporations mayhave group of leaders at variouslevels where as small organisa-tions may have one leader orfounder. If a person at any posi-tion is not confident about hisleadership capabilities thatdepartment will suffer in thecompany.

Leadership is amorphousand is very concrete. If thingsare not working, it is the fault of

leadership. Teams, products andemployees don’t fail but leadersdo. The level of accountabilitythe leader is willing to take isdirectly proportion to how suc-cessful the business will be.

Leadership resides in fiveareas such as vision, communi-cation, accountability, power toinfluence and building sustain-ability in the company. Manydoubt whether leadership canbe cultivated. Yes, it can. It isabsolutely necessary to takethings out of way which areblocking to become a leader. It isimportant people should con-nect to their own natural charis-ma. The world is accepting lead-ers as they are and the authen-ticity sells.

The business world is notexpecting one to become aGandhi but to be oneself and getin touch with natural leader-ship, he added.

Quality at the helmdecisive for growth

China’s trade surplus up 43%BEIJING: China’s trade sur-plus rose 42.9 per cent year-on-year in June as demandfrom emerging markets offsetstagnation in the eurozoneand Japan, the governmentsaid Tuesday.

Exports for June were$180.21 billion, up 11.3 percent year-on-year, whileimports rose 6.3 per cent toreach $148.48 billion, theGeneral Administration of

Customs said.This brought the surplus

for June to $31.73 billion, up42.9 per cent from the samemonth in 2011, the adminis-tration said in a statement.

Customs spokesmanZheng Yuesheng said Chinawould be able to achieve itsgoal of 10-percent growth inboth imports and exports thisyear if the financial crisis inEurope did not worsen. AFP

China is No. 2 on Fortune 500WASHINGTON: Two yearsafter eclipsing Japan as theworld’s second-largest econo-my, China on Monday stole thenumber-two spot on theFortune 500 list of the biggestglobal companies from itsAsian rival. In its annual rank-ings, Fortune magazine saidthat China overtook Japan,landing 73 companies on thelist compared with Japan’s 68companies.

Royal Dutch Shell retookthe top spot, knocking off Wal-Mart from a two-year reignwith 2011 revenues of $484.5billion. The remaining mem-bers of the top 10 are, indescending order: ExxonMobil;Wal-Mart Stores; Britain’s BP;Chinese companies SinopecGroup, China NationalPetroleum and State Grid;Chevron; ConocoPhillips andJapan’s Toyota Motor. AFP

Eurozone offersSpain 30 bn for bank bailout BRUSSELS: Eurozone financeministers agreed Tuesday to offerSpain 30 billion euros this monthto help its distressed banks asthey raced to stay ahead of mar-ket scepticism.

After nine hours of talks,Jean-Claude Juncker, theLuxembourg premier who alsoheads the Eurogroup , said amemorandum of understandingfor Spain would be formallysigned “in the second half ofJuly,” with 30 billion euros ($37billion) available by the end ofthe month. Juncker, who hasbeen in the job since 2005, wasreappointed by the 17 ministersduring talks Monday whichended well after midnight.

Spain, under increasing pres-sure as sceptial markets pushedits borrowing costs dangerouslyhigh again, had called for up to100 billion euros in direct aid ata June 28-29 “breakthrough” EUsummit. Ministers also agreed toextend a deadline for Spain tocut its public deficit to the EU 3per cent limit by one year to2014 because of the difficult eco-nomic conditions Spain faces.

However, Juncker stressedthat Madrid must implementmeasures needed to bring itspublic finances into line with EUnorms.

Germany’s Klaus Regling,head of the eurozone’s

temporary EFSF bailoutfund, has been named torun its permanent succes-sor, the European StabilityMechanism, the 17-nationgroup said Tuesday. Reglingwill head the ESM as it pre-pares to take on a key rolein solving the eurozonedebt crisis, offering directaid to member states.

Regling to headESM bailout fund

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201210India unveiled India‑View

Tourists enjoy bubble ball rides at Khajjiar which is also known as Mini Switzerland, 25 km away from Dalhousie on Sunday. PTI

ON A ROLL

Beginning Monday, asYadav junior proceeds ona four-day family vaca-tion at Melbourne, visit-

ing the Healesville Sanctuary andsmelling the roses at the WerribeeMansion, aides believe that hewould also be doing some stock-taking of his three-month tenurein the state.

In the state capital, politicalcircles are rife with discussionsthat how Yadav — hailed as therising crown prince of UP politicsnot so long ago — was fast slip-ping in public ratings and losingfavour with his party cadres.

This is after two major flip-flops — closure of all shoppingmalls by 7pm and the decision toallow legislatures buy cars worth`20 lakh from their Local AreaDevelopment (LAD) funds.

Senior BJP leader KalrajMishra, while refraining from apersonal attack on the 39-year-old CM, says the “rating of the SPgovernment is on a downslide”.

Vijay Bahadur Pathak, spoke -sman of the state BJP unit, wasmore vocal in his criticism ofYadav. Calling him a “roll back”CM, Pathak says Akhilesh Yadavhas “earned a sorry reputation forhimself”.

Even party insiders feel that aspiralling crime rate, pathetic lawand order and overzealous partycadres ready to claim the pie fortheir loyalty has sullied both —the image of the CM and the SP.

Rajendra Chaudhary, a closeaide of the chief minister and

party spokesman, however, saidthat in the first three months thedirection of the government hasbeen set.

“In the first three months,development schemes have beenrolled out and no corruption hastaken place in the state,”Chaudhary said.

SP chief Mulayam SinghYadav also defended his chiefminister son’s tenure and saidthat three months are too early todraw conclusions. He also refutedcharges that the government wasgoing soft on former chief minis-ter and BSP chief Mayawati.

During the Budget Session,the CM on the floor of theAssembly refused probes into thesale of 21 sugar mills by her atthrowaway prices and on hersplurging public money on herMall Avenue house.

“Try to understand that cor-ruption will not be tolerated bythe SP government. Probes areon... By acting in haste, we do notwant to send a wrong messagethat the government is involvedin vendetta,” Mulayam added.

Party insiders agree thatbesides the grim power scenario inthe state, the law and order is both-

ering the state government too. While the monsoon, an office

bearer of the SP says, mightlessen worries of the state gov-ernment on power front, the“public mood on law and order”was “more troubling.”

DGP Ambreesh Chandra Sha -rma admited that there is anurgent need to tie up “some loseends” on the crime scene. How -ever, he is thankful to his politicalbosses for “minimal interference”in transfers and postings of offi-cials in field.

In view of the sensitive rela-tionship with the SP, Congress

leaders are so far tight-lipped onthe CM’s performance, especiallyin the run-up to the crucial July19 presidential polls, but admit inprivate that the government had“fallen from grace sooner thanwhat they had expected”.

Founder of the City Monte -ssori School Jagdish Gandhi, whois believed to have close linkswith the CM, is however full ofpraise for him. “Rather than call-ing it the end of honeymoon, Ithink he has just started,” he says.

“He is accessible, he loveskids, is serious about educationand appears to be making sincereefforts to bring back the state tonormalcy,” he said.

Industrialist Kiron Chopra,who has had few interactionswith the chief minister, agreed. “Itis a little too early to come to con-clusions, I am sure he is makingefforts to create an industry-friendly and pro-investmentenvironment in the state,” thebusinessman said.

Politically, however, theseefforts do not seem to be payingdividends to the ruling party.

In the three months since theSP came to power, the party haslost the by-election in Maant(Mathura) where the CM person-ally canvassed for votes and theBJP made huge gains in therecent municipal corporationand urban local body polls.

The bureaucracy too feelsthat while Akhilesh Yadav has“matured fast”, he remains raw inhis three months of rule. IANS

NEW DELHI: Over two yearsafter the Right of Children to Freeand Compulsory Education Act(RTE) was notified by the centralgovernment, more than 95 percent of schools in the country donot comply with its guidelines, astudy by an NGO has found.

Data compiled by RTE Forumwith inputs from its membersfrom across the country points outthat only one out of 10 schools in2010-11 had drinking water facili-ties, while two out of every fiveschools lacked a functional toilet.

The report also shows lack oftraining facilities for teachers,adversely affecting the quality ofprimary education in India.

Nearly 36 percent of all sanc-tioned posts of teachers in thecountry are lying vacant. The datashows that the national average forpupil to teacher ratio is worryinglyhigh at 1:80, against the prescribedratio of 1:30 for primary and 1:35for upper primary level. IANS

95 per centschools don’tcomply with RTEguidelines: Study

Expectations weigh on Junior

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201211India unveiled India‑ViewNATION AT A GLANCEGowda camp fires salvo at BJP leadershipBANGALORE: In a last minute hitch,the ruling BJP Legislature party meeting toelect Jagadish Shettar as its leader wasdelayed this morning with outgoing ChiefMinister DV Sadananda Gowda’s campinsisting on their demands being met.Ministers and MLAs loyal to Gowda arebelieved to be pushing for making him theparty’s state unit president, and KSEshwarappa deputy chief minister.

Sangma in Mumbai;meets BJP legislatorsMUMBAI: Presidential hopeful PASangma, who is in the city as part of hiscampaign, today met BJP legislators. Sangma was also felicitated by Leader ofOpposition in Maharashtra Assembly,Eknath Khadse at the latter’s official resi-dence in South Mumbai. He is expected toaddress a meeting of BJP legislators laterin the day.

Formation of proposedTiger Reserve justifiedCHENNAI: DMK’s elected representa-tives will meet next week for a consulta-tion on the July 19 presidential poll, partychief M Karunanidhi said today. DMK has23 MLAs in the AIADMK-dominated TamilNadu Assembly. It has 18 MPs in LokSabha and seven in Rajya Sabha. DMK,which was among the first UPA constituents to back Pranab Mukherjee.

Four members of marriage party killed

Bangladesh’s Chief of the NavalStaff Vice Admiral Zahir UddinAhmed presents a momento todefence minister AK Anthony. PTI

A man who was arrested forcarrying a gun in his vehicle parkedoutside the ‘janata darbar’ of BiharCM in Patna on Monday. PTI

KRISHNAGAR (WB): Four membersof a marriage party were killed and sixothers injured when their jeep collidedwith a truck on NH 34 in Nadia districtearly today. The accident occurred at about1.30 am when the jeep was coming fromDebagram to Badkulla after attending amarriage ceremony.

AMRITSAR: A womanallegedly hacked to death heradopted seven-year-olddaughter after her husbandattempted to rape the child.

The woman, Sakshi,attempted suicide last nightby cutting her veins afterkilling the child with a sharpedged iron weapon, police

said today.As the couple did not have

a child, Sakshi’s husbandRamesh had adopted thedaughter of his brother.

Around two days ago,Ramesh had allegedlyattempted to rape the childand the matter was subse-quently reported to police by

Sakshi.After the arrest of

Ramesh, Sakhsi was scoldedby her in-laws for reportingthe matter to police andbringing bad name for thefamily.

On her way to the hospi-tal, Sakshi told police that shewas being harassed by her in-

laws for taking the matter topolice. They were mountingpressure on Sakshi to with-draw the complaint when shetook the extreme step.

She has been bookedunder Section 302 of IPC(murder) and 309 of IPC(attempt to commit suicide).

PTI

Mother kills girl after husband rape bid

MUMBAI: After Time magazine called PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh an “underachiever”,Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray Tuesday termedhim “politically impotent” and called for anationwide revolution.

Thackeray said people had been wonderingwhat underachiever actually means. “In our(Thackeri bhasha) language, it implies thecountry’s prime minister is ‘politically impo-tent’,” he said in an editorial in the party’smouthpiece Saamna.

Thackeray, however, clarified that any opin-ion by Time magazine does not mean a personbecomes big or small, since even that maga-zine is compelled to carry on its “business”.

Some time ago, the same magazine hadportrayed Gujarat Chief Minister NarendraModi as the “most hated” Indian politician.“But he was hated only by the anti-Hindutvaforces,” Thackeray claimed.

Referring to the Time article on ManmohanSingh, he said: “Until now, the domestic mediawas rapping on his head, now even the interna-tional media is kicking him.”

In these difficult times, Thackeray contend-ed that it was high time the prime minister andCongress chief Sonia Gandhi handed over thecountry to a person with a fighting spirit — “aninspiring person who can fight the corruption,

the economic woes, the terrorism, and otherforces inimical to the country’s interests”.

For this, Thackeray said, only the ShivSena’s “Shivrai” was capable of giving the rightdirection to the country.

“Is Maharashtra ready for it, especiallysince it is also being taken to the dumps by aManmohan Singh ‘copy’ (referring to, but with-out naming Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan).There is a need for a revolution fromMaharashtra to Delhi,” he declared, soundingthe bugle for the next assembly elections in thestate due in 2014. IANS

Thackeray terms PM‘politically impotent’

SC upholdsAnandMohan’s liferNEW DELHI: The SupremeCourt today upheld the convic-tion and life imprisonment of ex-MP Anand Mohan Singh in the1994 murder case of GopalganjDistrict Magistrate G Krishnaiah.

A bench headed by Justice AKPatnaik dismissed the plea ofSingh, a gangster-turned-politi-cian from Bihar, who hadapproached the apex courtagainst his conviction and lifeimprisonment in the murdercase.

Singh, who was the leader ofthe then Bihar People’s Party(BPP), was accused of inciting amob accompanying the cortegeof a BPP leader to lynchKrishnaiah on December 5, 1994.The BPP is now defunct. The offi-cer was pulled out of a car, beatenup mercilessly and then shotdead.

Singh was awarded deathsentence by Additional Districtand Sessions Judge R S Rai had onOctober 3, 2007. However, thePatna High Court in its December2008 verdict had commutedSingh’s death penalty to life sentence. PTI

CHENNAI: India has purchased arich archive comprising of thousandsof letters and documents related toMahatma Gandhi, including those onhis controversial relationship witharchitect Hermann Kallenbach.

Auctioneer Sotheby’s said the dealwas concluded in a ‘private transac-tion’. However, it did not disclose theamount paid.

“Sotheby’s is pleased to announcethat the Gandhi-Kallenbach archive,which had been scheduled for auc-tion in Sotheby’s English Literature,History, Children’s Books andIllustrations Auction on July 10, 2012,has been sold in a private transactionto the Indian Government,” a state-ment by the auctioneer said yester-day.

The archive was to be auctionedtoday, but after a contract was signedbetween the auctioneer and India’sMinistry of Culture on Friday, theauction was cancelled.

The archive, which is likely to be arich resource for researchers and his-torians, was recently examined by ateam of experts from the Ministry ofCulture, who reportedly described itas “very well preserved and of ines-timable value”.

The archive includes several let-ters that throw fresh light on the con-troversial relationship betweenGandhi and Kallenbach, one of theforemost associates and friends ofGandhi during his time in SouthAfrica. The auctioneer’s CatalogueNote on the archive said that it “isrichly informative of the important(and occasionally misunderstood)friendship between the two men, andis a key biographical source forGandhi”. The archive includes“poignant letters” by the deeply trou-bled Harilal, Gandhi’s first son, andreveals Kallenbach’s deep friendshipin particular with Gandhi’s sonsManilal and Ramdas. PTI

India buys Gandhi-Kallenbach archives

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan’s new ChiefElection CommissionerFakhruddin G Ebrahim wasborn in India’s Gujaratstate where he attendedlectures given by MahatmaGandhi. He continues to be inspired

by his teachings of non-violence and peace, amedia report said.Ebrahim, born Feb 12,1928 in Ahmedabad inGujarat, was Mondayappointed as the CEC fol-lowing a parliamentaryconsensus. IANS

Pak poll panel chief is a fan

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201212Around the World Beyond Borders

DILI, EAST TIMOR, ANDJAKARTA, INDONESIA: Notuntil she was at the deathbed of theman presumed to be her father didAlexhia Cordova da Silva’s life startto make sense.

Raised by an elite political familyin Jakarta, da Silva had enduredyears of hushed rumours about herdark, Melanesian features at socialevents. On the street, “slumdog” and“monkey” were regular taunts.

And then in his last breaths, herfather revealed the secret: She wasEast Timorese, snatched away fromher mother and father when she wasonly 24 days old.

From 1975 to 1999, Indonesiafought a brutal war to suppress EastTimor’s independence movementand control the former Portuguesecolony. A reported 183,000 diedfrom fighting, starvation and dis-ease during the war and humanrights abuses were widespread.

But this had little relevance to daSilva until her family bombshell hit.And at 19, she reacted as any angryand emboldened teenager might.She ran away from home, left herlaw degree and Islam in the dust andmade contact with the EastTimorese Prime Minister XananaGusmão via Facebook. He becamepersonally involved in locating herfamily. “It was like an electric shock,”says da Silva of first meeting hermother. “She told me she alwaysknew I would come home.”

With family connections in thebanned independence groupFretilin, da Silva’s illiterate parentssay they feared for their lives if theydidn’t sign a document handing overcustody of their daughter.

“They were under pressure,” shetells me in a café near her Jakartauniversity, “My mother said to me, ‘Iknew you’re were going to be asmart girl so I wanted you to have agood future, that’s why I gave you tosomeone rich.’ And OK, I can acceptthat.”

Educated abroad and blessedwith political connections that,somewhat ironically, led her back toher East Timorese family — da Silvais one of the lucky ones.

Some 4,000 children were trans-ferred from East Timor during the24-year occupation. Many of theIndonesian soldiers, civil servantsand religious organizations thattook in the children were motivatedby altruism, genuinely wanting tohelp. But some were treated as pseu-do-slaves, raised by soldiers whohad murdered their parents. Otherswere confronted with the unfamil-iarity of strict Islamic boardingschools. Many of the children sent toIslamic boarding schools inIndonesia were very young and frompoor and remote parts of the coun-try. In many cases, their parentswere coerced into handing themover on the promise they wouldreceive a good education.

Sjamsul Bahari's mother permit-ted him to be sent to an Islamicboarding school in Bandung, WestJava, in 1998. Nine years old at thetime, Bahari was able to remember

his mother and send her annual let-ters, but many others were tooyoung.

“Lots of the children were only 2or 3 years old, so they found it diffi-cult to tell who they were,” heexplains during a tense interviewoverseen by two East TimoreseIslamic leaders at Dili’s An NurMosque.

Getting an Islamic organizationto acknowledge that children werecontentiously removed from theirparents, forced to convert to Islam,and then shipped off to Indonesia isan undeniably fraught exercise. Theissue is even more sensitive becauseEast Timor is predominatelyCatholic.

But Bahari admits that inIndonesia, many of the EastTimorese were stressed and unhap-py. In the mid-1990s, he wrote to theorganization that had sent them, theNasrullah Islamic WelfareFoundation (Yakin) in Dili, for help.They never replied. No one helpedand no one was ever responsible forthe ones that ran away.

“That is the tragedy of it. In a lotof cases [the children] just disap-peared and nobody knows wherethey are,” writes Helene Van Klinkenin her recently published book,"Making Them Indonesian: ChildTransfers out of East Timor," whichoffers the first comprehensiveaccount of East Timor’s so-called"stolen children."

A secret military document sug-gested that soldiers should help pro-mote the transfer of children inorder to spread Islam in East Timorand that such “suggestions” weredifficult for parents to deny. DrKlinken also notes that the transferswere “conducted in a low-key,almost secretive manner” andalmost certainly would have raisedeyebrows if the children transferredwere from wealthy and influentialfamilies.

Aussie Caseywills crocodileto his children!When Australian farmer John Casey "kicks the

bucket" — or dies, rather — he will be leav-ing a strange and treasured inheritance for

his three adult children — his 10-foot crocodile,Charlene.

Casey, a sugar cane grower from Mackay in thetropical northern state of Queensland, has told theMurdoch media that:

"I am 50 and Charlie turns 50 next year so she willoutlive me. It got me thinking about what to do withher because she is not just some piece of furniture orantique vase. You can't just pop her on the mantel-piece and give her a good dusting every six months orso."

Charlene — or Charlie as the saltwater croc isknown to the family — has been with Casey for thepast 48 years, having been brought home by hisfather, Alf, after "her mother had been shot by ahunter."

The family almost had to give up the animal in1986 when she "accidentally" bit off Alf's hand afterhe returned from a fishing trip.

Then in November 2010, according to theQueensland Times, Casey was informed byQueensland's Department of Environment andResource Management (DERM) that the conditionsfor owning a crocodile had changed.

After his father had died, Casey had wanted tohave Charlene's permit transferred to his name but itwould cost him $10,000 in legal fees.

He would also be required to put up a secondfence around the enclosure Charlene lives in on thefamily's at their O'Connell River property, at a cost of$5,000.

"In the end DERM and I came to an agreement,"Casey told the Queensland Times.

"A local crocodile handler [Peter Basso] came for-ward and said he would also help me out with somemore formal training," he added.

Charlie, whom Casey refers to as his "little sister,"having grown up with her, has often accompanied thefamily on holiday.

Casey told the Murdoch press that the ongoingchallenges of keeping Charlene and his advancingage had forced him to think about the croc's future,and so write her into his will.

"It was fairly upsetting that I might have had toget rid of her," he said.

"She's a good pet, easier to keep then a dog or cat.She is quiet and doesn't bark at anyone. I try to haveas much contact with her as I can... She is a familyheirloom."

East Timor’s

STOLEN CHILDREN

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201213Around the World Beyond Borders

GLOBE AT A GLANCEDaughter of SKoreandictator to run for PrezSEOUL: Park Geun-Hye, the daughter ofa former South Korean dictator, Tuesdayformally announced her bid to become thecountry’s first woman president andvowed to work for a fairer economy.Park is widely expected to secure the rul-ing conservative New Frontier Party’s nom-ination at its primary next month. She isalso considered the front-runner in theDecember 19 election.

Compensation soughtfor forced abortionBEIJING: The husband of a Chinesewoman whose forced abortion triggeredoutrage has headed to Beijing and isworking with lawyers to seek compensa-tion, a human rights activist said. Chineseauthorities last month forced Feng Jianmei,seven months pregnant, to undergo anabortion after she failed to pay a heftyfine.

Al-Qaeda leaderreleased from jailNOUAKCHOTT (MAURITANIA):The family of Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, whowas a senior adviser to al-Qaeda, confirmed that he was released fromprison over the weekend. Sidi Ould Walidsaid his brother was released afterrenouncing his ties to the terror networkand condemning the September 11attacks.

Iraq frees Saddam’sinterior minister

A mysterious young woman at theside of North Korea’s Kim Jong Unhas set off speculation that shecould be his sister or wife.

Vladimir Putin has listed India andChina among his foreign policypriorities and vowed to deepenties with the two nations.

BAGHDAD: Authorities have releasedthe country’s former interior ministerMohmoud Dhiyab al-Ahmed from prison,according to an official with Ministry ofJustice. “We have released MohmoudDhiyab al-Ahmed, who served as interiorminister for the former regime, after heserved his seven-year sentence,”he said.

LOS ANGELES: Tom Cruiseand Katie Holmes have reached a“private” settlement less thantwo weeks after she announcedtheir bombshell divorce — andvowed Monday to honor eachother’s beliefs over their daugh-ter.

The Hollywood pair issued ajoint statement pledging to act inthe “best interests” of six-year-old Suri, and to take account oftheir “respective beliefs” in herupbringing — an apparent refer-ence to Scientology.

The announcement heads offwhat some had expected couldbe acrimonious haggling over thedivorce, amid reports Holmeswas concerned about the role ofthe Church of Scientology intheir daughter’s life.

“The case has been settledand the agreement has beensigned. We are thrilled for Katieand her family and are excited towatch as she embarks on the nextchapter of her life,” her lawyerJonathan Wolfe said.

AFP

ISLAMABAD: TheAssociation of South East AsiaNations (Asean) is to seekChina's agreement on rulesgoverning maritime issues,after it adopted key elementsof a code of conduct, officialssay.

The pact agreed onMonday will address the reso-lution of disputes in the con-tested South China Sea,reported the BBC.

China and several coun-tries in the 10-nation bloc layclaim to disputed waters inthe South China Sea.

Tension in the area is topof the agenda for a regionalforum this week.

Foreign ministers of the

group are meeting in theCambodian capital before thearrival of their regional coun-terparts from 16 countries,including China.

US Secretary of StateHilary Clinton will also jointhe meeting in Phnom Penhlater in the week.

Mrs Clinton, who will beleading a trade delegation,has called for ''progress'' onthe code.

Asean officials will meetwith Chinese officials to dis-cuss and seek agreement onthe code, said a senior official

at the Cambodian foreignministry.

Speaking at the opening ofthe meeting on Monday,Cambodian Prime MinisterHun Sen said the code of con-duct was a priority at themeeting.

China's Foreign Ministrysaid on Monday that it waswilling to discuss the code ofconduct. "When conditionsare ripe China would like todiscuss with Asean countriesthe formulation of the COC[code of conduct],"spokesman Liu Weimin said.

QUSAYR: Syria’s armypounded besieged rebel-heldareas of Homs today, moni-tors said, as troops alsoshocked Qusayr residentswith a morning bombard-ment and 38 people werekilled across the country.

The Britain-based SyrianObservatory for HumanRights said those killed were21 civilians, 13 regime troopsand four rebels.

Qusayr in the centralprovince of Homs near theLebanese border, poundedcontinuously for threemonths in a bid by regimeforces to wipe out the revoltthere, suffered renewedshelling early on Monday.“When they attack in themorning their objective is tocause as many casualties aspossible, because they knowthat’s when people are on thestreets,” an activist who iden-tified himself as Hussein toldAFP, adding that the army’sgoal was to “terrorise the

town.” “The result is that people

hate the regime more,because that’s when the chil-dren are playing on the streetsand the elderly are having teaat the doors of their homes,”he said.

An AFP correspondentsaw several members of onefamily being treated forwounds, including a 13-year-old boy, after a shell exploded10 metres (yards) away from

them. The boy’s T-shirt wassoaked in blood as his headbled from a deep cut.

Elsewhere, regime forcespressed their campaignagainst the Khaldiyeh, Juratal-Shiah and the Old Cityneighbourhoods of the cen-tral city of Homs, said theObservatory. “Most residentshave fled the Old City neigh-bourhood, and we only get afew hours of electricity a day,”an activist said.

Tomkat agree on split terms

38 killed in Syria asarmy besieges Homs

‘Gabo illnessreportswrong’BOGOTA: The head of afoundation created byColombian Nobel literaturelaureate Gabriel GarciaMarquez on Monday refutedclaims from the author’sbrother that he is sufferingfrom dementia.

“I will not argue or com-ment on interpretations ofGabo’s private affairs andhealth, but I assert there is nomedical diagnosis of seniledementia,” the director of theNew Journalism Foundation,Jaime Abello, wrote on Twitter.

“Please, enough messagesof solidarity: Gabo is notinsane. He’s just an elderlyperson who has lost a bit ofmemory. I still have the plea-sure of being his friend,” headded. The author’s brotherJaime Garcia Marquez toldMexican newspaper ElUniversal in an interview pub-lished online last week thatthe 1982 Nobel winner is suf-fering from “senile dementia.”

RIO DE JANEIRO: A homelesscouple turned over to police abag containing about 20,000 reais($10,000) that they found aban-doned on a street in Brazil’slargest city, authorities said.

The couple, who have beenliving together for about fourmonths under a bridge in easternSao Paulo and support them-selves by selling recyclable trash,approached a security guard inthe early hours Sunday and askedhim to call the police to reportthe find. The couple said they sawthe bag with the money lyingnear a bus stop on a main thor-oughfare in the eastern part ofthe city.

Homeless coupleturn over $10Kfound on street

Asean seeks China’s OK SOUTH CHINA SEA CODE

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ROME WAS NOT BUILT IN A DAYSo give Singh some time

Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has ridiculed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh describing himas politically impotent. His jibe is based upon the Time magazine calling the PM an under-achiever. Their report says that Singh is not doing enough to reverse India’s slowing down

economy. “Voters too are losing confidence, as rising inflation and a litany of scandals chip awayat the government’s credibility,” the magazine says apart from listing a huge fiscal deficit and a

falling rupee as signs of Singh’s incompetency. Well, as the head of coalition government there’s noneed to say that Singh has limitations — having to deal with a coalition partner like Trinamul

Congress, Mamata Banerjee, is more than enough. Bal Thackery may rave and rant as he pleases,for his interests never crossed the borders of Maharashtra and he is known for punching under thebelt. As for Time calling Singh names, it may as well remember that their President Barack Obama

had called up Singh a week before the G-20 summit to confer on economic issues — mind you,Barry knows the people he mingles with. So give Singh some time to set things right.

IS IT ANOTHER OF Gabo’s miracles?

This is certainly a miracle,or is it another hoax?While Jaime Garcia

Marquez claims that his broth-er suffers from senile demen-tia, the director of the NewJournalism Foundation, creat-ed by Gabo himself refutesthis. As ardent followers of theliterary genius we cannot butbe happy with this develop-ment. Viva Gabo!

In 1977, the distinguished physicist LeonLederman and his colleagues at the FermiNational Accelerator Laboratory in the USbelieved that they were on the verge of

discovering a new elementary particle. An ele-mentary particle is a fundamental buildingblock of the universe and Lederman and histeam predicted that this sub-atomic particlewould have a mass of about 6.0 GeV or GigaElectron Volts, the units of mass used in parti-cle physics. They even decided to call it theUpsilon Particle, after the Greek LetterUpsilon (Υ) – but realisation came that thiswas a wrong call, and the non-existing parti-cle was promptly renamed ‘Oops-Leon!’

Leon Lederman is a Nobel Laureate andan important participant in the global race todiscover elementary particles: It was a racethat began after Sir J.J. Thomson discoveredthe electron in 1897, thus showing that JohnDalton’s 1803 theory that the atom was thebasic unit of matter was wrong. Since thenthere have been a string of discoveries of sub-atomic particles, some composite and someelementary. Many of these were first predict-ed by theory and when the evidence was pro-duced, the validity of the theory was con-firmed.

Based on the work of thousands of theo-retical and experimental scientists, modernscience has developed an idea of the universe:the universe is made up of 4% atoms and 20%dark matter & 76% dark energy that we cannotobserve. There are four fundamental forces inthe universe: the weak nuclear force, thestrong nuclear force, electromagnetism andgravity. The universe started with a big bangsome 14 billion years ago when all theseforces were unleashed. The universe contin-ues to expand.

The observable universe is made of 18fundamental particles: 6 kinds of quarks, 6kinds of leptons and 6 kinds of force carriers.These 18 different particles fit into two cate-gories: bosons, named after SatyendranathBose, which have a full integer spin and trans-mit force (photons and gluons) and fermions,

named after Enrico Fermi, which have aninteger spin and make up matter (electrons,protons and quarks).

This standard model explains many phe-nomena but there are many riddles too. Howare the four fundamental forces to be broughttogether in one single theory which canexplain everything? What is dark matterexactly? What happened at the time of the bigbang? When the big bang happened why didsome of the particles acquire mass while oth-ers did not?

In there were nothing that enabled mass,all the elementary particles would keep trav-elling at the speed of light and would notcome together and there would be no atoms,elements, planets or solar systems. In 1964,François Englert and Robert Brout fromBelgium and Peter Higgs from Scotland pro-posed that a boson which endowed mass toother particles would be the answer. Thisboson soon came to be called the Higgs bosonand is the most fundamental particle thatcould explain the universe to us.

At least six Nobel Prizes have been award-ed for work related to the Higgs boson so far,but Peter Higgs and his fellow theorists didnot themselves get it! That is set to changenow that the Higgs Boson has been detectedafter two years of observation as protons col-lided 40 million times a second for two yearsin the giant 27 km-long Large Hadron Collider

at the Centre Européen de Recherce Nucléaire(CERN) in Geneva. In an astonishing achieve-ment, scientists at CERN recreated the earlyconditions of the big bang and have 99.9%certainty that the particle exists!

Nearly twenty years ago, when the HiggsBoson was still an elusive particle, LeonLederman wrote that it was “so central to thestate of physics today, so crucial to our finalunderstanding of the structure of matter, yetso elusive.” He even called it the ‘God-damned particle’ because it was not to befound! Disastrously, he then had his second‘Oops-Leon!’ moment when he allowed hispublisher to call it the God Particle in the titlefor his 1993 best seller on the global search forthe boson.

Leon Lederman is himself an atheist andhe regrets the term, and Peter Higgs who is anatheist too, has expressed his displeasure, butthe damage has been done! The God particleis today the most popular name for the Higgsboson. If anything, the discovery of the Higgsboson and the confirmation of the StandardModel of the Universe make God even moreunnecessary to explain the universe. In theuniverse are inscribed laws by which the bigbang was initiated and the functioning of theuniverse sustained. Since we have the Higgsboson we do not need God anymore! If everthere was a Godless or an atheist particle, it isthe Higgs boson!

It’s the Atheist Particle, actually

Human AngleBabu Gogineni

What’s up withthe nice, greenAlberta?Sandro Contentafeedback@postnoon.com

Three oil spills in a monthisn’t the track recordAlberta wanted while ped-

dling a major tar sands pipelineto Americans.

The spills have the provin-cial government and the oilindustry scrambling to controlthe damage to both the environ-ment and their credibility.

As many as 400,000 gallonsof oil have leaked in three sepa-rate incidents from the end ofMay to the end of June. Theworst has been a pipeline rup-ture near Sundre in centralAlberta in mid-June, when some132,000 gallons spilled into theRed Deer River and tainted areservoir that provides drinkingwater to thousands of people.

The spills come as theAlberta and federal govern-ments are lobbying for USapproval of the KeystoneXLpipeline, which would transportup to 900,000 more barrels ofAlberta’s tar sands oil a day toUS refineries in the Gulf ofMexico.

Both governments are alsopushing to build the NorthernGateway pipeline. That wouldbring tar sands oil to a proposedsupertanker port on the Pacificcoast of British Columbia, andfrom there to markets in Asiaand the United States. Thepipeline would be built byEnbridge, which owns a pump-ing station where one of theAlberta spills occurred.

The proposed pipelinesalready face determined opposi-tion from environmentalists onboth sides of the border. Theydenounce Alberta’s massive tarsands development — bitumencollected from open pit minesthat destroy huge tracts offorests, produce millions of gal-lons of toxic sludge and increasegreenhouse gas emissions — as“dirty oil.” The Alberta spillsgive opponents further ammu-nition to describe pipelines asunsafe, and government over-sight as lax. “When it comes topipelines the question is not ifthey will spill but when they willspill and create the next ecologi-cal disaster,” argues MikeHudema, of GreenpeaceCanada. GLOBAL POST

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201215At the workplaceReal assets

We have seen companiesallocating huge bud-gets to external com-

munication and devising strate-gies for strengthening customerrelations. However, successfulcompanies are the ones whichconsistently work towardsimplementing the best prac-tices in employee relations.

Internal public relations is aspecial PR discipline whichconcentrates on enhancingcompanies’ relationships withthe employees by facilitatinggood communication amongthe management and theemployees, boosting theirmorale and giving them theright information at the righttime. People in organisationscommunicate, irrespective oftheir designations and the morewe keep them engaged, the bet-ter it is for the success of theorganisation. An engagedemployee is one who isenthusiastic about work, andthus will act in a way that fur-thers their organisation’s interests.

And why is it important tofocus on internal PR? Becauseemployees are the main brandambassadors of your organisa-tion and it is important to keep them abreast with compa-ny’s objective and the vision.There are several ways to keep employees engaged withthe organisation/brand. Tobegin with, communicatethrough emails and forums.Being transparent also earns alot of respect from employees.

Employee newsletter is alsoan effective method of motivat-ing and engaging employees.Featuring employee columns,highlights of the organisation,employee achievements, etcworks very well as an internalPR tool. With the advent ofsocial media, tools likeFacebook, Twitter, Linkedin andYouTube are popular employeeengagement mediums. Thesechannels allow for innovativeways of communicating withemployees, more so becauseeach one of us are hooked on tothese mediums.

Events aimed at involvingemployees helps in keepingthem motivated. Especially ifevents are organised with asocial objective, CSR as theysay. These initiatives not onlymotivate employees, but alsoprovide them a deeper meaningto life. As it is rightly said that ahappy employee means ahappy customer. So charitybegins at home for sure!Practice effective internal PRand see effective external PRresults.

Rolling StonesIndira Atluri & Padmini Cfeedback@postnoon.com

Mrinal Gupta has justfinished five yearsin her job. While allher colleagues

clamour for a treat, she’s secret-ly miserable. At 25, this is herfirst and only job, havingjumped into it straight after col-lege. As a Business Partner whoalso handles HR and communi-cations portfolios, she carvedherself a niche in the MNC sheworks in. And, takes home a paycheque that’s best in the mar-ket. But her coveted profile isalso her curse. No other compa-ny in the city or anywhere,offers her this choice of respon-sibilities. Quite simply, her “loy-alty” is really, her fear to leave. “Idon’t think I’ll ever find any-thing like this anywhere. Sowhether there’s growth or not,whether I like it or not, I have nochoice,” she rues.

Mrinal is not alone.Contrary to popular assump-tions, many youngsters aredefying the job-hopping routeand are staying put at a place,focussing their energies insteadon climbing up the ladder.

Vishal Sonar has been aSenior Analyst with Deloitte,Hyderabad for over three yearsnow. Resisting lucrative offers,he has opted to carve a niche forhimself in his present companyand hopes to become a manag-er in the next few years. He says,“More and more people are nowstaying back at their current

jobs because they have realisedthat companies too reward loy-alty. For me, it’s about securityand good work culture. That is agreat combination for thosewho seek long-term innings inthe corporate world. There isnothing better than the feelingof working with a ‘secure’organisation.”

Industry experts usuallyobserve that there is a high

attrition rate among recentgraduates and entry-levelemployees, who change jobs asquickly as they change theirclothes. But even that too isslowly changing.

Sober Emanuel, a

Transaction Risk Investigator isan example. Having been withAmazon for two years now, heintends to stay put for a while.Not one to be distracted bysuperficial gratifications, hebelieves that a good work atmo-sphere takes precedence over abetter salary. Emmanuel says,“Good colleagues and a goodboss are a great reason why I amin the company. Perhaps I couldearn better if I go to anotherorganisation, but I choose to behere as the environment is per-fect for me to be my best. Thereis no way I am going to testunknown waters just to earnbetter, and realise I have takenthe wrong decision.”

Vijay Ramanan, who hasjust moved from a start up to acity-based MNC, says thatthere’s always the two kinds ofpeople, “the rolling stones” and“the growing roots.” While headmits growing roots is the cur-rent trend, he is also quick topoint out that longevity shouldnot be confused with loyalty. “Let’s be honest, it’s not for thelove of any company that westay. At the end of the day, eachof us has our own agenda. Andthe current market is not thebest time to make jumps. Sothat explains the status quo.But that said, there’s anincreased awareness amongyoungsters, that if you want toget to the top of the game, youhave to know your field well andthat takes time. Staying andmoving, it’s all a matter of strat-egy,” he concludes.

Great boss, perks and benefits, jobsatisfaction or simply security,

whatever their reasons might be,today’s professionals choose

stability over quick bucks

PR TALK Madhu Joshifeedback@postnoon.com

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201218Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

Riya was walking downthe road when shesuddenly lost her bal-ance and fell down.

This wasn’t the first timewhen this had happened. As achild, the doctor hadinformed her that hers was acase of flat feet. But luckily itwasn’t a serious case thatrequired surgery.

Problems such as flat feet,knock knees, Pigeon toes andbow legs though in most casesdoes not have a major impacton a person’s active life, manytimes it may cause excessivepain and may require surgery.

Flat feetFlat feet is a condition inwhich the arch of the foot col-lapses. Dr H Kalyan Kumar,consultant, department oforthopaedics, ManipalHospital explains, “The nor-mal foot has supporting arch-es on the medial and lateralside. This can be seen with thehuman footprint in which themedial side of the foot doesnot touch the ground. Thiscondition is common amongwomen as well as childrenand neonates.”

Dr N Somasekhar Reddy,consultant orthopaedic sur-geon, Apollo Hospital adds,“Flat feet is a problem thatexists in 1:3 children. It maybe on either foot. This implies

that it is not necessary thatthe problem should exist inboth feet. There is usually adegree of variation when itcomes to flat feet; even if it isslightly collapsed or com-pletely collapsed, both areconsidered as cases of flatfoot.”

Dr Somasekhar says, “Anormal variation need notinterfere in the person’s abili-

ty to walk or play sports. Onlya small percentage of thoseaffected by flat feet may bedue to some pathological reason. These reasons couldinclude neurological prob-lems, problems since birth,bone deformation and mus-cular dystrophy. Bone defor-mities refer to conditionssuch as those in which theone or two bones may getfused thereby making it difficult for them to moveindependently.”

Dr Somasekhar adds thatwomen may also develop flatfeet at the age of 40 or 50. Thearches may collapse due toobesity. If the obesity is notcontrolled it may be painful.

These patients are advisedminor shoe modifications or exercise.

TreatmentDr Somasekhar says, “In regu-lar cases we usually reassureparents that it isn’t much of aproblem. Sometimes minorshoe modifications areadvised. For certain casessurgery is advised. Surgerycan be done either before thechild attains puberty ( 9-12years of age) or when thechild starts to develop adultsize bones( age 16 years andabove).”

Talking about treatmentDr Kalyan says that when itcomes to adults, arthrodesis(a procedure to fuse thejoints) is advised while forchildren medial arch supportsystems are advised.

Knock knees, bow legsDr Kalyan explains, “clinicallytermed as Genu Valgum,knock knees occurs due tooutward bending of the tibiabone resulting in both kneejoints coming together. Thisusually occurs due to a vita-min D deficiency resulting inrickets. Bow legs on the otherhand is clinically termed asGenu Varum. Here the legs arebowed at the knee joint.”According to Dr Somasekhar,“Cases of knock knees andbow legs are rarely seen. Theyused to exist 30-40 years agowhen malnutrition used to becommon. If it occurs now, weneed to look at other reasons.

If for example a 13-year-old isdiagnosed with knock kneesand a kidney problem is theissue, that can be treated butthe bent in the knees cannot.In such a case we will requireto realign the bones with thehelp of a surgery.”

Talking about the condi-tions Dr Kalyan explains thatknock knees is commonamong adolescents and chil-dren. Bow legs on the otherhand are common inosteoarthritis of the kneejoint and effects elderly withjoint pains. The treatment forbow legs could be either hightibial osteotomy or joint replacement.

Pigeon toesPigeon toes is a condition inwhich the toes point inwardswhen a person walks.

Dr Somasekhar says,“When we are in the womb weall have pigeon toes. Theyusually become normal by thetime the child reaches twoyears of age. The problemoccurs only when the childstarts to walk. By the time thechild reaches the age of 8-9, ifit is still prominent it maycause the child to trip or havedifficulty in walking.”“Rheumatoid arthritis caus-ing tethering and contractureof tendons is a commoncause,” mentions Dr Kalyan.Complete recovery from surg-eries usually takes aroundthree months. but again treat-ment is usually not requiredunless it is interfering in thepersons day-to-day activities.

PROBLEMS SUCH AS FLATFEET, KNOCK KNEES,PIGEON TOES AND BOWLEGS IN MOST CASES DONOT HAVE A MAJORIMPACT ON THE PERSON’SLIFE BUT MAY CAUSE PAINAND INCONEVENIENCE

From your clothes to the way you walk,everything comes together to createyour appearance. But unsteady gaitand problems such as flat feet, knockknees, bow legs and pigeon toes canalso cause many long-term inconveniences

World’s firstanti-obesityshotpromising

WASHINGTON: The world’s firstanti-obesity vaccine has shownpromising results in boostingweight loss, according to a study.

Keith Haffer from BraaschBiotech LLC, south Dakota, whodeveloped the vaccines in two ver-sions JH17 and JH18, derived from apeptide hormone somatostatin,tested them in two groups of dietinduced obese male mice, and com-pared with a group of mice thatreceived saline injections.

Somatostatin inhibits the actionof growth hormone (GH) andinsulin like growth factor (IGF1),both of which increase metabolismand result in weight loss.

Obesity and obesity related dis-ease is a growing health issueworldwide. Mice in all groups hadbeen fed a high fat diet for eightweeks prior to the study and contin-ued to eat the same food for theduration of the six week study. Thevaccinations were administeredtwice at the start of the study fol-lowed by a booster vaccination onday 22, the Journal of AnimalScience and Biotechnology reported.

Four days after the first injectionof modified somatostatin, the vacci-nated mice had a 10 per cent dropin body weight (not seen in themice receiving saline shots), said auniversity statement.

Later, results showed that bothvaccines induced antibodies tosomatostatin and significantlyreduced body weight, sustaining thelower body weight, without affect-ing normal levels of the growth hor-mone IGF1, or insulin levels.

“This study demonstrates thepossibility of treating obesity withvaccination,” Keith explained.“Treatment of human obesity with vaccination would providephysicians with a drug and surgical free option against theweight epidemic.”

Braasch Biotech LLC is a pri-vately held company that special-izes in the development of bio phar-maceutical vaccine products for thehuman and veterinary health caremarkets. Specifically, Braasch hasdeveloped the world first anti-obesi-ty vaccine.

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Anishaa Kumaranishaa.k@postnoon.com

Feet firmly onthe ground

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201219Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

Colitis is an ongoing digestivedisease. The main symptom of

the disease is swelling of the colon.Other symptoms include: highamounts of pain, tenderness in theabdomen, depression, large amountof weight loss, fatigue, and other,more severe symptoms. Colitis istreated through the use of antibiotics if it is found early, orsurgery if it is caught too late. Colitis can have many differentcauses, including; infections, including those caused by a virus,parasite, and food poisoning due to bacteria, inflammatory dis-orders (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease), lack of bloodflow (ischemic colitis) and past radiation to the large bowel.

HOUSECALL

Who doesn’t like a pair of gor-geous pins? Toned and shapely

legs is everyone’s dream especially ifyou want to flaunt them. The Daily LegWorkout app is a great 5 to 10 minutedaily leg routine that steps youthrough ten of the best lower bodyexercises. This workout is developedand demonstrated by a certified per-sonal trainer, and spending just min-utes a day can strengthen and toneyour legs. The routine’s simple interface, complete with videoand timer, allows you to easily follow along and understandeach exercise.

APP-LY YOURSELF

The lining of the stomach is a rather unique feature. Thestomach is essentially an enlarged area of intestines turned

into a bag. The stomach lining is responsible for secreting sub-stances used in digestion, and for protecting the rest of thebody from the highly acidic environment of the stomach. Somepeople are surprised to learn that the lining of the stomach isactually highly wrinkled in a series of structures known as rugalfolds. As the stomach fills, these folds flatten out, allowing thestomach to expand. Rugal folds allow the stomach to be flexi-ble while keeping it strong so that it will not rupture, althoughif someone eats enough food, it is in fact possible to cause thestomach to break. The stomach lining is replaced every three tofour days. If you didn’t, the strong acids your stomach uses todigest food would also digest your stomach.

DID YOU KNOW?Colitis Daily Leg Workouts Free Your stomach lining is wrinkled

Dogs may protect babiesfrom some infectionsWASHINGTON: Babies whospend time around pet dogshave fewer ear infections andrespiratory ailments than thosewhose homes are animal-free,said a study released on Monday.

The study, published in theUS journal Pediatrics, did notsay why but suggested thatbeing around a dog that spendsat least part of its day outdoorsmay boost a child’s immune sys-tem in the first year of life.

Cats, too, seemed to conveysome protection to babies,though the effect observed wasweaker than with dogs.

The research was based on

397 children in Finland whoseparents made diary entries eachweek recording the state of theirchild’s health during the infant’sfirst year, from nine weeks to 52weeks of age.

Overall, babies in homeswith cats or dogs were about 30per cent less likely to have respi-ratory infectious symptoms —which included cough, wheez-ing, rhinitis (stuffy or runnynose) and fever — and abouthalf as likely to get ear infec-tions. “If children had dog or catcontacts at home, they were sig-nificantly healthier during thestudy period,” said the study led

by experts at Kuopio UniversityHospital in Finland.

The most protective associa-tion was seen in children whohad a dog inside at home for upto six hours a day, compared tochildren who did not have anydogs or who had dogs that werealways outside.

“We offer preliminary evi-dence that dog ownership maybe protective against respiratorytract infections during the firstyear of life,” said the study.

“We speculate that animalcontacts could help to mature

the immunologic system, lead-ing to more composed immuno-logic response and shorter dura-tion of infections.”

The improvement was sig-nificant, even after researchersruled out other factors thatcould boost infection risk, suchas not having been breastfed,attending daycare, being raisedby smokers or parents with asth-ma, or having older siblings inthe household.

In addition to having less fre-quent ear infections and respira-tory infections, babies near dogs

tended to need fewer courses ofantibiotics compared to thosewho were reared in pet-freehouseholds, it said.

Previous research has shownconflicting results, with somestudies finding no benefit foryoung children being aroundfurry pets and others findingthat animal contact appears tooffer some protection. The studyauthors said their research dif-fers from previous analysesbecause it focuses solely on thefirst postnatal year and does notinclude older children. AFP

BABIES IN HOMES WITHCATS OR DOGS WERE ABOUT30 PER CENT LESS LIKELYTO HAVE RESPIRATORYINFECTIOUS SYMPTOMS LIKECOUGH, WHEEZING, RHINITIS(STUFFY OR RUNNY NOSE)AND FEVER AND ABOUTHALF AS LIKELY TO GETEAR INFECTIONS.

WASHINGTON: Bugs caus-ing serious urinary tractinfections stay ahead of theimmune system by filchingcopper to prevent the metalfrom being used againstthem, says a study.

Copper has been knownas a potent weapon againstinfection for centuries.Blocking this thievery with adrug may significantlyimprove patients’ chances ofwarding off infections,according to WashingtonUniversity School ofMedicine researchers.

“While some patients areable to clear these infectionswithout issue, in others theinfection persists or recursdespite antibiotic therapy,”says senior study author JeffHenderson, assistant profes-sor of medicine and ofmolecular microbiology atWashington.

“In some cases, the infec-tion spreads to the kidney orthe blood and becomes lifethreatening. We’ve beeninvestigating what’s differentabout the bacteria that causethese more trouble someinfections,” Henderson said.

Scientists have known foryears that E. coli makes amolecule called yersini-abactin that takes iron fromhost cells. The bacteria need the iron to grow andreproduce.

Researchers placedyersiniabactin in urine sam-ples from healthy patients.They found the moleculebound iron as expected butalso picked up copper. Next,they conducted the sameanalysis in samples from uri-nary tract infections, treatedat the University ofWashington in Seattle.

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TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201220Spotlight

Asaduddin Owaisi, NajafAhmed and Mohd Shafiuddin

Sana Siddiqui

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Towards a bright future

A joyous feastThe wedding reception of Najaf Ahmed and Sana Siddiqui washeld at Le Palais, Secunderabad on Monday. Seen at the eventwere Asaduddin Owaisi and Mayor Majid Hussain among others.

The Pratibha group of companies celebrated their fifth anniversaryat the Sri Sathya Sai Nigamagamam, Srinagar Colony on Monday.The chief guest at the event was minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah.

More than just danceN SHIVA KUMAR

The students of Noopura Kuchipudi Academy performed at theacademy’s annual celebration at Ravindra Bharathi on Monday.

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Parvathi Reddy,executive direc-tor, NAR Infra,inaugurated apainting exhibi-tion by Pradeepand Sushma atBeyond Coffee,on Monday. Theexhibition hasbeen titledCulture WithinNature.

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I’ll always beloyal to TDPNTR has reiterated once

again that he’ll alwaysremain loyal to Telugu

Desam Party (TDP).His statement comes close on the

heels of his long time friend andformer TDP MLA Kodali Nani’sdecision to join YS Jagan’s YSR

Congress party. Couple of daysago, TDP suspended Kodali Nani

and all eyes were on NTR to makea statement regarding thesedevelopments. “I am not the

script writer or director forKodali Nani’s political moves. I

am with Telugu Desam Party andwill continue with the party that

was established by my grandfather,”NTR said in a press conference, clari-

fying his stance on the issue. The actorflew to Italy last night to join the cast

and crew of his upcoming filmBaadshah. Sreenu Vaitla is already in

Italy and we hear that the film’s principal shooting will begin as soon

as NTR joins the team. Kajal is playingthe lead role. Thaman is scoring

the music and Ganesh Babu is producing it.

T-TOWN TWEETIES

@actor_NikhilJust met The LegendRamanaidu sir... He looks for-ever jolly and youthful... Heblessed me 4 my new movie...Thank u Naidu sir...

@tashu_02Humble request— plz read allearlier tweets before askingsmthin dat I already men-tioned..Ask abt smthin I dintmention, instead wat uskipped!

@me_sushanthOk so federer is world no.1...Now that order is restored, I’mback to normal life and moreimportantly, back to work!Lots to do...

@taapseeJust can’t stop admiring@iHrithik whenever I c jodhaAkbar. How can a man possiblyb so perfect looking! Wonderhow will I react wen I c him.

@ssrajamouliRajani sir’s comment to @kic-chasudeep With his trademarkguffaw.. “I thought I was thebest villain to date. But youbeat me to it”.

@prakashraajCGRB...worked with pawan onpuri s sets after Badri. It wassheer magic. Get ready for asensational film to hit theTelugu screen from Puri.

@richyrichaHomemade chocolate shops inevery nook and corner inOoty! Along w special Nilgiriteas and essential oils 4health :)

@RanaDaggubatiRain, Green, Smoke, Fire,Guns, Leeches, Bugs, WildAnimal noises, Vijayan, Nayan,Krish and I all this on Day 1.Madness to the fullest!!

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012 21The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

In a dramatic turn of events, AlluArjun’s Julaayi has been post-poned. The film starring AlluArjun and Ileana was all set to hit

the screens on July 13. TrivikramSrinivas had directed the film and NRadhakrishna produced it. “The offi-cial date of release hasn’t been con-firmed yet. The makers are planning torelease the film’s Telugu andMalayalam version in a big way inAndhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Chennaiand Kerala. Moreover, Ramzan seasonis just around the corner. After delib-

erating on all these factors, the pro-ducer will make an announcementsoon,” a source informs us. DSP hascomposed the music. Meanwhile, S SRajamouli’s Eega is doing roaring busi-ness in Andhra Pradesh and TamilNadu. Surprisingly, the opening boxoffice figures are on par with numberswhich are usually associated with a bighero’s release. Sai Korrapati andSuresh Babu haven’t officiallyannounced anything but if the buzz isanything to go by, Eega is poised to beone of the biggest hits of the year.

Ranaheads toKeralafor KVJRana Daggubati flew to

Palakkad, Kerala to shootfor his upcoming film

Krishnam Vande Jagadgurum.For the past few weeks he hadbeen shooting continuously forthe film in Hyderabad and wehear that some action sequencesare going to be shot in Palakkad.After attending the FilmfareAwards in Chennai, along withTrisha, Rana headed to Palakkadto join his film’s crew. “A bigHello from the “Dhoni forest” ina Palakaad!! Super locations andgetting some superb stuff togeth-er!! #KVJ. Rain, Green, Smoke,Fire, Guns, Leeches, Bugs, WildAnimal noises, Vijayan, Nayan,Krish and I all this on Day 1.Madness to the fullest!! (sic),” heposted on Twitter. Nayanthara isplaying the lead role in the film.Krish is directing it and Y RajeevReddy and Saibabu Jagarlamudiare jointly producing the film.Mani Sharma is composing themusic.

Julaayi’s release datepostponed to August?

B-TOWN TWEETIES

@SrBachchanT 799 - Brand Name Blog is‘Bachchan Bol’... nothing to dowith the film with Abhishek.‘Bol’ is Bachchan on line...Cool eh!

@GulPanagTonight we’re hosted by theFauj. Looking forward to agood night’s sleep. It’s been along tumultuous day. #roadtrip

@priyankachopraSitting by the pool before studio n thinking what kind ofsong to make today... it usedto fascinate me when dad wudtalk about how musics made

@deespeakFederer’s grit, resilience, hisSTAMINA (which in my opinionis his weapon of mass destruc-tion!) is what FAITH is about.Faith is not blind.

@RahulBose1Off to conduct a 2day actingworkshop and rugby clinic atSahyadri School near Pune. Ifyou can’t get a double role onscreen...

@iamsrkNow that finally Higgs Bosonhas been found, let’s turn ourattention back to the mostimportant human quest! Thecure for the common cold...

@bipsluvurselfSo I missed Avengers, GOWand The Amazing Spiderman!Need to see these films!

@shreyaghoshalWell its being 3 amazing yrshere on twitter for me... Thelove that u have shown allthis while is incredible. I loveyou so much. Thank u: D

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 2012 22The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Rating a movie or predicting

its fate at the box office isnot easy for trade pundits,

says Bollywood megastarAmitabh Bachchan, who admires

the work put in by trade magazines.Talking about the importance of

such magazines in the industry, thesuperstar said: “Today, this is yet

another example of how importantnews about trade is for us, produc-ers and people in general. I know it

is a very difficult task to be able togive opinion and ratings...to say

what is going to work and what isnot going to.”

The actor was speaking at thelaunch of new trade magazine —

Blockbuster — by producer TPAgarwal. Big B unveiled its first

edition on Sunday.“Whatever you write in these

magazines is going to influence thethinking of billions of people acrossthe world. Therefore, I really admirepeople who go through the process

of wanting to initiate something likethis because I know how difficult a

task it is. My very best wishes for themagazine,” said Big B.

Sanjay Dutt, Jaya Prada andPrachi Desai among others were

present at the event. IANS

Rating filmstough: Big B

Editor-turn-director ShirishKunder, who is now work-ing on post-production of

Joker, says he plans to shootSalman Khan-starrer Kick fromNovember.

The filmmaker said, “Myfilm ‘Kick’ will go on the floorsfrom November. We have notdecided the exact dates yet...italso depends on Salman’sdates.”

As far as the leading lady isconcerned, “It is not yetfinalised. It will take some time,”he added.

Kunder had teamed up withSalman and Akshay Kumar inhis directorial debut Jaan-E-Man. Released in 2006, it alsofeatured Preity Zinta, butdespite big names it didn’t clickat the box office.

Right now Kunder’s focus ison Joker, which has Akshay andSonakshi Sinha in the lead roles.

“Currently, I am completelyinvolved with my project Joker.It is in the post-productionstage and I am busy with Joker,”he said. IANS

Kunder plansto shoot KickfromNovemberHe is in his 40s and will

be seen in romantic-comedy Cocktail soon.

Actor Saif Ali Khan says thathe hopes do a romcom evenwhen he is ten years older.Saif has tasted boxoffice success andaudience appreci-ation wheneverhe did a rom-com: Kal Ho NaHo (2003), HumTum (2004),Salaam Namaste(2005), Love Aaj Kal(2009). “I hope I can doromantic films at the age of50. There is no age forromance. If the story is niceand the character suits youthen why not do it. It is notlike you can do only actionfilms at a certain age. As longas you look good doing thepart, there should not be anyproblem,” Saif said in aninterview. In Cocktail, heplays a flirt, opposite DianaPenty and DeepikaPadukone. PTI

I hope I can doromantic filmseven at 50: Saif

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201223Magic Screen

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TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201225The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

This is some serious method acting. We’reassuming life is pretty hectic for KatieHolmes right now, but the actress is con-

tinuing to take on different movie roles to kickher career into full throttle. Even if the partplays a little close to home. According to Peoplemagazine, Holmes will begin production nextweek for her latest project Molly, a film shecowrote and is coproducing, about the life of asingle mum and her daughter. Sound familiar?Yeah, kinda makes us wonder just how longthis Tom Cruise divorce drama has been brew-ing, but anyway... Filming will be in New YorkCity, close to Katie’s new digs, and isscheduled to last until August.

Katie’s nextmovie role:

Single Mum

My new albumwill lack maturity

Lady GaGa has hinted atthe tone of her nextalbum, saying it will

“lack maturity.” The Marry theNight singer is currently on her

Born This Way ball tour, andgave the brief titbit while per-

forming in Perth on Sunday.During an interlude, GaGa

addressed the crowd: “Let’s justsay I feel, I feel that when I

wrote Born This Way, I demon-strated a sense of maturity.“And I feel that, on the next

album, there’s a lack of maturi-ty, it’s a tremendous lack of

maturity or sense of responsi-bility.” The 26-year-old per-

former then launched into hercontroversial new song Princess

Die. Last month, GaGaannounced that she will revealmore details on her upcoming

album in September.

i~Çó=d~d~

Disney has passed the $1 bil-lion (£645.5 million) markthis year in the American

movie box office. The studio’s sum-mer releases have lent to stellarearnings, with films such as Bravedrawing in millions of dollars.Marvel’s The Avengers earned itsparent company over $600 million(£387.3 million), becoming thethird highest-selling movie of all

time. This is Disney’s seventh yearin a row breaking the $1 billionbenchmark. Other blockbustersexpected to bring in big money forthe company later this year includeTim Burton’s upcoming animatedfeature Frankenweenie, starringWinona Ryder and CatherineO’Hara. Another animated film,Wreck-It Ralph, is due for release inNovember this year.

Disney passes $1bn markin 2012 US box office

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201226Chai Time

How to play KakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku in some ways. But is alsosuitably different. The key question: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well hereare the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakuro grid, unlike in sudoku,can be of any size. It has rows and columns, and dark cells like in acrossword. And, just like in a crossword, some of the dark cells will con-tain numbers. Some cells will contain two numbers.

However, in a crossword the numbers reference clues. In a kakuro,the numbers are all you get! They denote the total of the digits in therow or column referenced by the number.

Within each collection of cells — called a run — any of the numbers1 to 9 may be used but, like sudoku, each number may only be used once.

Let’s have an example to explain this concept more clearly:In the image above, which shows a section of a kakuro puzzle, you

will see the numbers ‘26’ and ‘14’ in the top row. Look at the 14. Thismeans that the total of the three cells underneath must sum to 14.Therefore 9, 4, 1 could be the answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

So, how do you work out the actual combination? Well, this is donethrough elimination and cross-referencing. For instance, as you work outthe answers for other kakuro clues, this will naturally limit the valid com-binations, and hence the answer for this particular run.

Note the second cell in row two — it contains two numbers, 30 and11. The 30 refers to the vertical run underneath the number 30 and the11 refers to the two cells to the right, horizontally, of the number 11.

KAKUROACROSS1 Deep sleep state4 Court awards11 ‘Boom-bah’ lead-in14 ‘What ___ supposed to

think?’15 Steep part of a glacier16 Explosive trio of letters17 Ultimate moment of

truth19 Santa ___ winds20 Extremely light wood21 ‘The drink of the gods’23 Ahead of schedule25 Accountant, briefly28 Bus driver's circuit29 Alternative to JVC or

Panasonic, once30 Adult elvers32 Bee ___ (‘Stayin' Alive’

group)33 To feel sorrow37 Give someone a shake,

say39 Pressure time for many

salespeople43 ‘Violet’ or ‘sound’

introduction44 Slithering squeezer46 Campus marchers

(Abbr)49 Drinks daintily51 ‘ ___ I saw Elba’52 April Fools' Day sign54 Tire inflation meas55 ‘Custer's Last ___’57 Straight shooting, so to

speak59 ‘Billboard’ feature61 Type or kind62 Period immediately

before Easter67 ‘The Sum of ___ Fears’68 ‘M*A*S*H’ corporal69 Is for a few?70 Strong sodium solution71 Words before ‘wear’ or

‘serve’72 Provide staff for

DOWN1 The Brits in colonial India2 Aussie bird that can't fly3 Cerebrum's neighbour

4 How haunted houses arelit

5 Prized blackjack cards6 Dennis of the comics, for

one7 Away from the bow8 ___ about (roam)9 Dash and splash10 More crafty11 Pigeon's park perch12 Evident since birth13 Fixed gazes18 Word with ‘Friday’ or

‘pal’22 Compelling, as an

argument23 Work measurement unit24 Farmland unit26 ‘Could be’27 Lotion ingredient31 Drainage pump34 Brought forth35 TV control (Abbr)

36 Baby newts38 Chop suey sauce40 Business undertaking41 '80s TV adventure series42 Unicorn feature, eg45 William in ‘Body Heat’46 Kind of equality47 Aloud48 Bell sound50 Catania

locale53 Profoundly

deep sleep55 Big name in

electronicproducts

56 Creditreporting conow knownas Experian

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Steele’ character Laura63 ___ of Tranquility64 A famous Caesar65 Important time in history66 ‘One Flew Over the

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ARIESYou might come to know about yourson or daughter's love affair. Avoidanger and analyse the pros and consto take a suitable decision. Take careof your health; do not get emotional.

CANCER

LIBRAYour charisma will increase. Chancesof buying more movable and immov‑able assets. Your self‑confidence andskills will help you in achieving goals.You will undertake a journey.

CAPRICORNRegarding matters related to foreigntrip, don't act in a hurry. Speed alonedoes not work as matters are relatedwith govt office. Family members willsupport you; do not hurt anybody.

TAURUSYou will reap benefits for good thingsdone in the past. Family will be inhappy atmosphere and prosper steadi‑ly. Financial situation will look upgradually. Tensions will disappear.

LEORomance matter will gain importancebut be careful about future conseque ‑nces and take appropriate decision.Encourage children and support themwell to achieve their goals.

SCORPIOHealth problem likely. Take care with‑out negligence. Couple are advised notto magnify minor issues and get intomisunderstandings. Some get a goodopportunity to go abroad.

AQUARIUSRegarding efforts to go for a new job;postpone this for sometime as time isnot favourable. You will become moreactive and complete all work wellwithin the scheduled time.

GEMINIGood news on the cards. Artists willget good opportunities and earn nameand fame with improvement in finan‑cial situation. Blood relatives will ben‑efit. Employees might get upset.

VIRGOBusinessmen will prosper well. Be flex‑ible and adjust with blood relatives. Becareful while expressing opinions andnever hurt anyone. Avoid unwantedarguments. Couple advised to adjust.

SAGITTARIUSBe prepared to go abroad as opportu‑nity is expected any moment. Employ ‑ees will be relaxed as problems atworkplace will disappear. Friends andwell‑wishers will extend support.

PISCESApplied loan will get sanctioned. Un ‑expected fortune likely. Things willwork out fast and successful beyondexpectation will surprise you. Post poneplans to buy a vehicle for a while.

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Nine of Pentacles –You want to be leftalone. You need yourown space and timeand will do anythingto get that – even berude to people closeto you.

Seven of Wands –You are tired of thepolitics in your officeand want to take abreak. This is likebeing on a treadmilland able to get outonly when you leave.

Page of Swords –Your brain is onoverdrive. You havesome excellent ideasand want to sharethese with the boss‑es. They may notake you seriously.

CANCER LEO VIRGO

Nine of Cups – Thisis an amazing card ofluck and intuition. Ittells that you are onthe right track, andknowingly or unkno ‑w ingly will end updoing the right thing.

Five of Swords –Some miscommuni‑cation is likely. Youmay have to dealwith coworkers whodonʼt buy in com‑pletely to your wayof doing things.

Ten of Swords – Youare entering a periodof turmoil and uncer ‑tain ty. The one thingthat will help youthrough this periodis positive thinking.Believe in yourself.

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS

Three of Pentacles –You have been work‑ing very hard, andthis is about to payoff. A contact with afamous person willearn you a fantasticjob, your dream job!

The Lovers – Try notto be too selfish inyour attitude whiledealing with peoplein office and home.You want to be lovedand appreciated. Youmust also give love.

The Hierophant –Use prayer and med‑itation to calm youdown. You have beendesperate about get‑ting something for awhile now. You willget that in time.

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Children will make you proud andhappy. Happy events taking place athome will bring cheer to the family.Held‑up good events will resume andtake place without any further hurdles.

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Four of Pentacles – Ifyou havenʼt work edon filing your taxesyet, you should start.Itʼs not difficult. Itjust takes time com‑mitment. The sooneryou do it, the better.

Eight of Wands – Fo ‑reign travel is in theoffing. You may beapprehensive abouttravelling alone. Butyou will actuallyenjoy the experience.Do stop worrying.

Ten of Pentacles –Yo ur emotions arenot in control. Youmay feel very strong‑ly about somethingjust because you feela certain way and notbecause it affects you.

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Arelay baton is carrie-d by each runner an-d must be passed wi-

thin a 20 m changeover bo-x which extends 10 m oneither side of each 100 mmark. Another line is mark-ed 10 m further back, mar-king the earliest point atwhich the outgoing runner

may begin. Transferring ofthe baton in this race is ty-pically blind. The outgoingrunner reaches a straightarm backwards when theyenter the changeover box,or when the incoming run-ner makes a verbal signal.The outgoing runner doesnot look backwards, and it

is the responsibility of theincoming runner to thrustthe baton into the outstre-tched hand, and not let gountil the outgoing runnertakes hold of it. Runnerson the first and third legstypically run on the insideof the lane with the batonin their right hand, while

runners on the second andfourth take the baton intheir left. Polished handov-ers can compensate for alack of basic speed to som-e extent, and disqualifica-tion for dropping the ba-ton or failing to transfer itwithin the box is common,even at the highest level.

4X100MRELAY,4X400MRELAY: Each ofthe four athletes

in the team must run with abaton in his hand, passing iton to the next athlete in theteam until the final athletecrosses the finishing line. Eachathlete runs one 100m leg ofthe track. The changeover isthe crucial point in the Relayrace. In case of the 4x400mrelay, the distance run by eachathlete is 400m. The key is forboth athletes to be running atspeed while passing the batonwithin the defined zone.

Competition formatThe format is same for boththe events, the only thingthat varies is the distancecovered by each athletes in

the respective events. Whilethe each athlete covers 400meters in the 4x400m relay,In the 4x100m relay, everyathlete has to cover a dis-

tance of 100 meters. Both thecompetitions start withheats. The number of heatspresent as well as the num-ber of teams which progressto the next round dependson the number of teamscompeting. In each heat thebest-placed teams gothrough, as well as a setnumber of the fastest losingteams across all the heats.The following rounds run onthe same format, until eightteams qualify for the final.The draw to determinewhich heat teams run in isdecided by their initial seed-ings (based on previous per-formance) for the firstround, and then their perfor-mances after that. Thisensures that the highestseeded teams are not drawnin the same heat.

Keys to successA good start for the first ath-lete is vital. The winningteams also pass the baton inthe most efficient manner –with both athletes maintain-ing as near to top speed aspossible. An athlete whostarts running too early riskshaving to slow down again orrun out of the changeoverzone, and an athlete wholeaves it too late losesmomentum

Breaking the rulesAlthough it is not againstthe rules to drop the baton,crucial time is lost picking itup, and if in doing so oneteam obstructs anotherteam, they are disqualified.The baton must also bepassed within the designat-ed zone.

Anchor: The last runner ina relay race.Breakline: Anarc across the track denot-ing the point where runnersmay leave their original laneand use any part of thetrack, which is normally theinside lane. Crouch start: The crouchedposition all sprinters mustassume before starting arace.Changeover: The passingof the baton from one run-ner to the next.

THE LINGO

BATON ROUGE

Evelyn Ashford (born April 15, 1957) is a1984 Olympic champion in the 100 m aswell as 4x100m relay. She has run underthe 11 second barrier over 30 times and

was the first to run under 11 seconds in anOlympic Games. She has four Olympic gold

medals (one 100m and three 4x100m relay)and one Olympic silver medal (100m) to her

credit.

Michael Johnson (born September 13,1967) won four Olympic gold medals and eig-ht world championship gold medals. Johnsoncurrently holds the world and Olympic recordsin the 400 m and 4 x 400 meters relay. He for-merly held the world and Olympic reco-rd inthe 200 m, and the world record in the indoor400 m. His 200 m time of 19.32 at the 1996Games stood as the record for over 12 years.

LEGENDS OF THE SPORTDID YOU KNOW...?n The IAAF announced on 12 August

2008 that they had rescinded the worldrecord of 2:54.20 set by the USA4x400m team (Jerome Young, AntonioPettigrew, Tyree Washington, MichaelJohnson) on 22 July 1998 afterPettigrew admitted to using humangrowth hormone and EPO between1997 and 2003.

n The women’s 4x100m world recordstands at 41.37 seconds, set by EastGermany in 1985.

n In the women’s 4x100m event, theUnited States was considered by manyto be the strongest team after years ofEast German domination, but failed tomake it to the finals in the 2008Olympic Summer Games when theydropped the baton during the transferfrom Torri Edwards to Lauryn Williamsduring the semifinals.

THE ROLE OF THE BATON

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August 11 Women’s 4x400m RelayMen’s 4 x 400m Relay

USA 7 9 7RUSSIA 6 5 7JAMAICA 6 3 2The medals are for all the ath-letic events at the 2008 Games

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Radwanska tocarry Poland’s flagat the Olympics

WARSAW: DefeatedWimbledon finalist andworld number twoAgnieszka Radwanska,one of Poland’s highest-

profile sports stars, is to carry hercountry’s flag at the opening cere-mony of the London Olympics.

The Polish Olympic Committeemade the announcement onMonday, two days after the 23-year-old — a Wimbledon junior champi-on in 2005 — lost 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 tofive-time title winner SerenaWilliams.

Radwanska, the first PolishGrand Slam finalist for 73 years, isone of seven Poles competing in theOlympic tennis tournament.

Both she and her 21-year-old sis-ter Urszula, who ranks 54th in theworld, will compete in the singles.

They will also be linking up forthe doubles tournament, withKlaudia Jans-Ignacik and AlicjaRosolska forming the second Polishwomen’s pair. World number 68Lukasz Kubot will compete in themen’s singles. Madrid Open doubleswinners Mariusz Fyrstenberg andMarcin Matkowski — will representPoland in their favored discipline.

Solo onlywarned aftertesting positive

COLORADO: HopeSolo, the startinggoalkeeper for thedefending championUnited States

women’s Olympic footballsquad, has been given only awarning after a positive dopingtest.

The US Anti-Doping Agency(USADA) announced the viola-tion and punishment onMonday, 16 days before theAmericans are set to open theirOlympic campaign againstFrance in Glasgow, Scotland.

LONDON:World 400metres cham-pion DaiGreene will

captain Great Britain’s ath-letics team at the 2012London Olympics which isto be held this month, it wasannounced on Monday.

The 26-year-old is one ofBritain’s best hopes for win-ning the track gold as helooks to complete a cleansweep of major titles byadding an Olympic gold tohis world titles, Europeanand Commonwealth hon-ours.

The Welshman said: “It isan incredible privilege to beasked to captain the Britishathletics team at any time,but to be given the honourat a home Olympic Games isjust incredible.”

Greene’s appointmentwill also go some way toensuring there is no repeatof the ‘Plastic Brits’ contro-versy which overshadowedBritain’s involvement at theWorld IndoorChampionships in Marchwhen United States-bornTiffany Porter was named asthe captain of the team.

The indoor 60 metreshurdler — who won the sil-ver medal in the indoor final— was asked by a reporter torecite the first verse of ‘GodSave the Queen’, the Britishnational anthem, butdeclined.

She insisted she didknow the words but did notwant to sing in public.

Porter is one of a handfulof athletes dubbed ‘Plastic

Brits’ because they switchedallegiance to representBritain.

Another is Havana-borntriple jumper YamileAldama, who had been spo-ken of as a possible London2012 team captain

The 39-year-old, worldindoor champion, competedfor Cuba at the 2000Olympics and for Sudan fouryears later.

But she is married to aScot and has lived in Britainfor over a decade. Aldamagained British citizenship in2010.

Greene previously cap-tained the team last year atthe European TeamChampionships in Swedenand UK Athletics head coachCharles van Commeneesaid: “Dai was a stand out

candidate for the LondonOlympic Games 2012 cap-taincy.

“He is a very professionalathlete who is both liked andrespected by the rest of theteam,” van Commenee, him-

self a Dutchman went on toadded.

“He knows what it takesto win at the highest leveland that is a valuable experi-ence to share with theteam.”

Greene made a slow startto the season, following aknee operation.

However, he produced apersonal best of 47.84 sec-onds,just 0.02secs outsideKriss Akabusi’s 20-year-oldBritish record, to finish sec-ond to this season’s worldnumber one Javier Culson atthe Diamond League meet-ing on Friday which washeld in Paris.

And the way Greeneclosed on the Puerto Ricanin the final stages, indicatedhe could be quicker still atthe Olympics. AFP

Lithuania loses berth over dopingVILNIUS:Lithuania haslost its slot inthe LondonOlympics weig-

htlifting competitions afteran athlete from the Balticstate failed an anti-dopingtest, the team coach said onMonday.

“Certainly we won’t beparticipating at the Games.The reason is doping,” Bro-nislovas Vysniauskas, whois also vice-president of theLithuanian weightliftingfederation, told AFP.

He said that one teammember had tested positivefor a banned substance in

the wake of April’s Europe-an championships in Turk-ey, but refused to disclosethe name or any other det-ails, saying the investiga-tion was still underway.

Lithuania was strippedof its berth on July 2, anoth-er federation official said. Ithad only qualified for oneslot in London.

Among the country’sbiggest names are AurimasDidzbalis and the coach’sson Ramunas Vysniauskas,35. Didzbalis won silver atthe European championsh-ips in the 94kg categorywhile Ramunas finished11th in 105 kg category. AFP

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He manoeuvres theball perfectly withhis cue to see itland in the expect-ed pocket. He does

it with superb poise and hisfocus never shifts from the tableat any point in the game. Whilethe spectators watch with battedbreath, Lucky Vatnani maintainshis calm and gently shifts thegame in his favour.

The 26-year-old Snookerplayer is currently ranked num-ber 3 in the country. With hispresent form it seems highlylikely that he would make hisway into the squad which willrepresent the country at theWorld Cup in November inEgypt.

Winner of numerous titles,Lucky’s first tryst with the sportcame at the age of 13. “I used toaccompany my elder brother toa pool parlour in Banjara Hills.That was how I actually gotinvolved with this game,” Lucky

told this newspaper. He soon developed an inter-

est in the game and followed hispassion. Recognising his talents,the Karvy Group came forwardto sponsor him. They have beensponsoring him since five yearsand this, Lucky feels has helpedin giving shape to his dreams.

An alumnus from theSheffield Hallam in the UnitedKingdom, Lucky did exception-ally well at the University level.“I played at an inter-universitylevel when I was pursuing MBAin UK. It involved many collegesfrom all across Europe. I wonthat tournament and it was a bigboost for me,” he said. He givescredit to Peter Ebdon, a formerworld champion, who support-ed him during his days in UK.

The newly wed groom whotied the knot on June 20 thisyear, is very extremely sureabout his goals. Unlike manysportsmens who pursue a jobalongside their sporting career,Lucky chooses to stick by hisgame and make that his career.“I am happy playing Snookerand that is what I shall do. I do

not have any other job and thisis my career,” says the Liverpoolfan who turned a pro last year.

When asked about what hethought about India’s chanceswere at the upcoming WorldCup, the young cueist soundedpositive. “All the participants arementally very strong. Whoever isselected, will surely put theirbest foot forward and we hopeto do extremely well at the tour-nament,” he added.

“The growth of the game hasincreased over the past fewyears. Many youngsters are tak-ing up the game and with thebacking that is present, peoplecan even purse it as a career,”said the Ronnie O Sullivan fanon the state of the sport in thecountry. “If the number of tour-naments held are a little more,then there would be morematch practice and this wouldimprove our chances of doingeven better at the internationallevel.”

Not only does he have aninterest in the games, he enjoyslearning new things. One of hislatest interest is dancing. “I

learnt dancing for my wed-ding which was in

Shimla and Ienjoyed it

throughly,” heconcludes

with asmile.

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Himangshu bt Manan Chandra

3-2Neena bt Chithra

2-1Arantxa Sanchis

bt Keerath Bhandal

2-0Shahbaaz Adil Khan

bt Himangshu

3-2

Choosing the right frame

MANCHESTER: Manchester City managerRoberto Mancini has agreed terms on a newdeal that will keep the Italian at Eastlands foranother five years, the English Premier Leaguechampions said Monday.

"Manchester City Football Club today arepleased to announce that a new contract hasbeen agreed with manager Roberto Mancini,"said a club statement.

"The deal, which runs until the summer of2017, follows the club's most successful sea-son in more than four decades, which con-cluded in the most dramatic of circumstancesin the team's thrilling 3-2 win over QueensPark Rangers in May this year."

That victory, on the final day of the season,saw City crowned champions of England forthe first time in 44 years as they pipped localrivals and defending title-holders ManchesterUnited to the Premier League trophy on goaldifference.

Former Inter Milan boss Mancini replacedMark Hughes, now in charge of top-flightrivals Queens Park Rangers, when theWelshman was sacked in December 2009.

In his first full season with City, Manciniended the club's 35-year wait for major silver-ware by guiding the team to the FA Cup andalso secured Champions League football witha third-place finish in the Premier League.

"I am delighted to be able to give all of myefforts to Manchester City for a further fiveyears," Mancini told City's official website onMonday. "The opportunity which exists tobuild on our recent success is enormous," headded. AFP

Manciniextends Man

City stay

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STANFORD: SerenaWilliams, who seized her14th Grand Slam singlestitle at Wimbledon onSaturday, was preparing fora change of scene this weekwith her hard-court WTAtitle defence at Stanford.

Organisers said top-seeded Williams wouldlaunch her Stanford cam-paign on Wednesday, givingher a bit of time to catch herbreath after defeatingPoland's Agnieszka Rad -wan ska in the women's sin-gles final on the grass courtsof the All England Club.

Williams, who alsoteamed with sister Venus towin the Wimbledonwomen's doubles title, suf-fered through two foot surg-eries and blood clots on herlungs in 2010-2011 beforereturning to tennis just overa year ago.

And she seemed eager toride the momentum of herWimbledon triumph at thefamed Californian universi-ty.

"Just let me do a little bitat a time," she said. "I havenever felt better."

Williams, who has afirst-round bye as one of thetop four seeds, will faceeither US wild card NicoleGibbs or Thai qualifier

Noppawan Lertcheewakarnin her second-round open-er.

The 30-year-oldAmerican, who has risen tonumber four in the worldrankings, was booked forher first practice sessionearly Tuesday as she makes

a brief switch from grass tohard courts.

Later this month she willreturn to London where the2012 Olympic tennis com-petition will be held atWimbledon starting on July28 — one day after theGames' opening ceremony.

Sandwiched this seasonbetween Wimbledon andthe Summer Games,Stanford has suffered a rashof withdrawals.

France's Marion Bartoli,the 2009 winner, is the sec-ond seed, followed bySlovakia's DominikaCibulkova and SerbianJelena Jankovic.

Williams beat Bartoli 7-5, 6-1 in last year's Stanfordfinal.

Wimbledon semi-final-ist Angelique Kerber pulledout with a lower back com-plaint and fellow GermanSabine Lisicki — aWimbledon quarter-finalist,withdrew citing an abdomi-nal strain.

China's Peng Shuai,Romanian MonicaNiculescu, Wimbledonsemi-finalist Tamira Paszekand Americans ChristinaMcHale and VarvaraLepchenko also pulled outciting injuries or illness. AFP

The games people play

One in four Brits watched men's final

LONDON: More than a quarter of the British population tunedin to watch home favourite Andy Murray in the Wimbledon men'sfinal, figures released Monday showed.

Murray's failed bid Sunday to become the first BritishWimbledon men's singles champion since 1936 drew the highestdomestic television audience for a Wimbledon final since at least1990, the BBC said.

The British Broadcasting Corporation said viewing figures forthe nailbiting match peaked at 16.9 million.

The Office for National Statistics' latest population estimate,for mid-2010, gives a figure of 62.262 million, meaning thataround 27 percent of the British population tuned in to watch thematch.

Murray, the first British Wimbledon men's finalist since 1938,was beaten 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 by Swiss great Roger Federer, whowon his seventh Wimbledon crown and returned to the top of theworld rankings.

Non-stop Serena set to go at Stanford

TUESDAY, JULY 10, 201232The games people playPlaying FieldLONDON: McLaren are relyingon major upgrades scheduled forthe German Grand Prix toreignite their world title chancesafter failing to match the pace ofrival teams at Sunday’s BritishGrand Prix.

McLaren duo Lewis Hamiltonand Jenson Button could onlymanage eighth and tenth respec-tively at Silverstone and were along way off matching the laptimes set by frontrunners RedBull and Ferrari.

McLaren boss MartinWhitmarsh admitted it was nowleft to the team to react positivelyand pinned the team’s hopes ona significant upgrade packagescheduled for Hockenheim intwo weeks time to get them backon track.

“We weren’t quick enough,period,” said Whitmarsh.

“It is always disappointing ifyou are not competitive and cer-tainly at the end of the race wewere not, and through no fault ofthe drivers - both of them did agood job.

“We’ve got a decent, bigger,more visible upgrade package forGermany and we’ve got to deliverthat and make that stick. It’s thesame old game, we have got todevelop the car, and we have gotto make sure we use the tyresbetter.”

Whitmarsh added that he washappier with the team’s improved

consistency and pit stops, whichhave blighted their race chanceson several occasions this season,but underlined that ultimatelytheir car was just not fastenough.

“The average of all three pitstops was sub three seconds,which is something we havebeen working on,” he said.

“But fundamentally, good pitstops, a good couple of drivers,solid drives, bad qualifying, butno events upon which we couldcapitalise. Just not quick enoughis the school report.”

The 54-year-old also playeddown rumours that 2008 cham-pion Hamilton, whose contract isup for renewal at the end of theseason, had been affected by theteam’s slump in form and wasconsidering a move to a rivalteam.

Whitmarsh suggested that the27-year-old, now fourth in thetitle-race and 37 points behindchampionship leader FernandoAlonso of Ferrari, would be ableto overlook the team’s currentslump.

“I think he is smarter thanthat” said Whitmarsh, “and heknows that racing is highs andlows. This hasn’t been one of thehighs this weekend, four weeksago it was a different situation,two weeks’ time it could be a dif-ferent situation again. He knowsthat, I know that.” AFP

LONDON: South Africawicket-keeper MarkBoucher’s hopes of featuringin the upcoming Test seriesagainst England were put onhold after he suffered apotentially career-ending eyeinjury on Monday.

The 35-year-old, who hadhinted this could be his finalcampaign before retirement,was hit in the face when a bailricocheted off the stumpsafter Gemaal Hussain wasbowled by Imran Tahir duringthe first day of the Proteas’tour opener against Englishcounty Somerset at Taunton.

Boucher, as would beexpected for leg-spinnerTahir, was standing up to thestumps, but he was wearing acap rather than a helmet.

After treatment on thefield, Boucher was helped offwith blood coming from hisleft eye and taken to hospital

His place behind thestumps was filled by AB deVilliers, who has kept wicketin international matches forSouth Africa.

Were Boucher to featurein all three Test this series, hewould reach the coveted 150-mark but at the close of playSouth Africa team managerDr Mohammad Moosajeesaid that was unlikely.

“I don’t think he will be

ready for the first Test (at TheOval starting on July 19), if theseries, but I would like to waitfor the information thesurgery gives us.”

Moosajee, explaining the

extent of the damage done toBoucher, added: “It is a signif-icant injury.

“Mark sustained a directblow to the left eye, whichresulted in a laceration to the

white part.“It is what we call an eye-

ball rupture.“The ophthalmic surgeon

had a look at him at theAccident and Emergency Unitand decided that he neededto undergo exploratorysurgery to identify the extentof the damage.

“He will need a generalanaesthetic so there has to bea six-hour gap since he lastate a meal. That means theoperation will be performedat around 7pm (1800GMT).

“After the operation wewill talk to the surgeon again.With eye injuries one cannotmake predictions.

“From a medical point ofview a lot depends on whetherthere is damage to the retina,which allows us to see andfocus. We won’t know aboutthat until after the surgery.

“The surgeons will be ableto give us a better indicationof the damage after the oper-ation. Then it will take 48 to72 hours for the swelling tostart going down,” Moosajeeadded.

Boucher has been a main-stay of the South Africa sidefor 15 years, appearing in 147Tests and becoming the firstwicket-keeper to take 500catches in Test cricket; he hasalso scored five hundreds. AFP

Armstronglawsuit againstUSADA rejected

McLaren hope toupgrade show

AUSTIN: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuitfiled Monday by Lance Armstrong against theUS Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) but saidthe seven-time Tour de France winner canrefile it within 20 days.

US District Judge Sam Sparks criticizedArmstrong’s lawyers for the 80-page filing intossing it out, saying it smacked of a publicrelations move rather than a challenge to thebody that imposes doping sanctions on USathletes. But Sparks also said that he was notruling on the merits of the lawsuit and thatthe US legend could present it again. AFP

Hurt Boucher’s tour in limbo