postnoon e-paper for 1st may 2013

REPORT ON P5

HYDERABAD’S FIRST COMPACT AFTERNOON NEWSPAPER

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 HYDERABAD WWW.POSTNOON.COM WEATHER: CLEAR WITH CLOUDY PERIODS. SLIGHT CHANCE OF A THUNDERSTORM; 36°C 32 PAGES `3

HEIRS TO THE

JAZZ AGE

Think jazz and John Coltrane, Miles Davis and NinaSimone leap to mind. To the uninitiated, it might seemlike the genre is stuck in its glory days of the 1920s. Aday after International Jazz Day, it's time to changethat perception. These young, dynamic musicianshave dusted off the classic notes, moulded themto their own beat, and every one of them isworth a listen.

P16&17

BIOMETRIC INFO OF 14L AADHAARAPPLICANTS

GOES MISSINGTwo lakh citizens from Hyderabad have notfound their enrolments online. This could

lead to vital data falling into criminal hands.

It’s back to modified basics incollege education,it seems. Whileengineering and medical collegesare reporting aslump, a renewedsurge for traditional collegesis being seen.What attracts themis not literature oreconomics butnew career-orient-ed courses. Wefind out more.

STUDENTS LAPUP NEW COURSES

AS CAREERSCOME FIRST

P3

city eventsWEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

2

AROUND THE CITY: YOUR GUIDE TO THE TWIN CITIES

Entertainment unlimitedNishumbita is presenting a theatreplay Homework and mime perfor-mance I.Where: Lamakaan, Banjara HillsWhen: May 1, 7.30 pm

Poetry & danceCreature of the Earth, poetry anddance performance by SpaceTheatre. Where: Lamakaan, Banjara HillsWhen: May 2, 7.30 pm

Summer campSoft skills programme for childrenbetween the age group 8 and 14. Where: Prashanthi Counselling &

HRD Center, Secretariat RoadWhen: Till May 2, 10 am to 3.30 pmContact: 93932-33232

Junior masterchefA summer camp Junior Gourmet isbeing organised.Where: The Park Hyderabad,SomajigudaWhen: Till May 3, 10 amContact: 86860-47000

Indoor gamesScrabble workshop for kids is beingheld.Where: Saptaparni (After School

Activities), Banjara HillsWhen: Till May 3, 9 am to 11 am

All About CyclingA half-day interactive workshop oncycling.Where: Alliance Francaise, Banjara

HillsWhen: May 4, 2 pm to 6 pmContact: 96034-73470

The joy of readingOxford Bookstore in association withGHAC and LICH is organising aninformative, exciting and fun-filled

workshop in social sciences andHumanities for kids.Where: Oxford Bookstore, The ParkWhen: Ongoing, Till May 12, 9:30 amto 2:00 pmContact: 92461-12461

Budding geniusesA creative writing workshop for kidsabove the age of 7.Where: Saptaparni (After School

Activities) (2.6 km), BanjaraHills

When: Ongoing, May 4, 10.30 am to12.30 pm

Summer campTailoring training camp for childrenbetween the age group of 6 and 16is being organised.Where: Shilparamam, MadhapurWhen: Till May 20, 11 am to 1 pm

and 2 pm to 4 pm

The art of writingCalligraphy workshop is on.Where: Saptaparni (After School

Activities), Banjara HillsWhen: Till May 3, 9 am to 11 amContact: 90320-10200

Feathered friendsPhotographs of birds are being

exhibited.Where: Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad,

Banjara HillsWhen: Till May 3, 9.30 am to 5.30pm

Love ClicheExhibition of art by Crimson is on.Where: Hyderabad Marriott Hotel &Convention Centre, Secunderabad.When: On till May 2, 6.30 pmContact: 93964-44424

The DeviantDigital art on canvas by AekkaYadagiri Rao.Where: ICONArt Gallery, Road no 12,

Banjara HillsWhen: On till May 3, 11.30 am to 7pmContact: www.iconart.in

Ideas galoreFailFest, an idea-sharing presentationwill be conducted.Where: Lamakaan, Banjara HillsWhen: May 3, 7.30 pm

Music festBanyan Tree's World Music Festivalwill be held. The day will featuremusicians Farah Siraj, Prasanna,Andres Rotmistrovsky, Jake Hertzogothers.Where: Taramati Baradari, GandipetWhen: May 3, 7 pmContact: 93231-19381

THEATRE

WORKSHOPS

ART

FEST

GAS BOOKING IVRS NO HP 9666023456Indane 9848824365

BSNL Complaints 198HMWS & SB Complaints 155313

POLICE CONTROL ROOMHyderabad 27852435Traffic Control Room 27852482DCP Traffic 23234065, 23243499FPollution Control Board 23887500

ELECTRICITYGeneral Complaints 155333Breakdown Section 23431178

23431179

MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

Commissioner & Spl Officer 2326226624166666R

ENC 23225267Engineering 23220418MCH Tankbund 23225397Emergency MCH Circle I&II 24525842MCH Circle III 24736912MCH Circle IV 23326975MCH Circle V 23326976MCH Circle VI MCH Complaints 1100Head Office 23225397

IVRS CUM MANUAL ENQUIRYPHONE NUMBERS(TRAIN & RESERVATION)RAILWAYSRail Nilayam 27833169, 27824216Railway Information 131Reservations 135Recorded Information 1345Enquiry (IVRS) 1331, 1332, 1333

WATER SUPPLYComplaint Cell 155313Sewerage Complaint 23307328Hyd. Water Supply 23313163

HOSPITALGeneral Hospital, Sec-bad 27505566Niloufer Hospital, Red Hills 23314095NIMS, Director, Punjagutta 23390933Osmania General Hospital 24600146Railway Hospital, Lalaguda 27001134Apollo, Jubilee Hills 23607777Care Hospital, Banjara Hills 30418888Care Hospital, Nampally 30417777Care Hospital, Musheerabad 30419000Care Hospital, Sec-bad 30416666Kamineni Hospital, LB Nagar 39879999

BLOOD BANKSBlood Bank,Narayanguda 27567892Chiranjeevi Blood Bank 23559555Blood Bank Mediton Goal 23226624Red Cross, Vidyanagar 27633087ADRM Blood Bank 27035588Mythri Charitable Trust 27550238NTR Memorial Trust 30799999Care Banjara Hills 30418296

30417445

AMBULANCESApollo 23548888, 23607777Kamineni 24022222Medwin 23202902, 23204616Smile Line Dental Hospital 23747979Red Cross 27627973Niloufer Hospital 23314095Gandhi 23320332

AIRLINES

Airport Director 27903785, 27906001For Air India Flight Information Toll free(from any network) for IC Flights

18001801407And for All Flights: 1800227722Air India has revised its flight timings.For more information call (Toll free)18001801407, 1800227722 from BSNL/MTNL 04023430334 from otherlines and mobile Website; www.airindia.in

TOURISM OFFICESAP Tourism, Hyd 23262152/53/54Sec-bad 27893100Dept of Tourism 23453110India Tourism 23261360AP Tourism information Centre (24x7) 23450444, 23455999

UK VISA OFFICEVFS India Pvt Ltd Building, 8-2-542/A,Sunil Chamber, Road No. 7

Beside Meridian School, Banjara Hills-34. Working hours are from 8 AM to1 PM And 2 PM to 3PM.

MUSEUMSSalar Jung Museum 24523211AP State Museum 232431300/7641Nizams Museum 24521029

Helpline

Readers’ viewsWe invite you to write to

us comments, suggestions,viewpoint or just about

anything [email protected]

or #1246, Level 3, Jubilee Casa,

Road No 62, Jubilee Hills,Hyderabad – 500 033

or even by way ofa call on 4067 2222

MEGA MUGSThank God It’s Friday (TGIF) announced TGI Friday’s mega

mugs offer to coincide with the start of the IPL.

BangaloreMax 37Min 24

Cloudy

ChennaiMax 37Min 30

Partly cloudy

MumbaiMax 35Min 27

Partly cloudy

New DelhiMax 36Min 24

Clear

36°CClear with cloudy

periods.

30°CClear with cloudy

periods

35°CA mix of sun and

cloud.

43°CSunny with

cloudy periods.

Weather for HyderabadEvening Overnight Morning Afternoon

WATER RUNS DRY: Amid unbearable heat, a thirsty boy tries to drink the water spilling out from a water tank.N SHIVA KUMAR

YESTERDAY’S QUESTIONWILL CHANDRABABU NAIDU MAKE A COMEBACK IN 2014?

YES (A)

NO (B)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

3news TODAY’S QUESTIONWILL COALGATE BRING THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT DOWN?A) YES B) NO

To vote visit www.postnoon.com

58%

42%

EDUCATION

With options like digital humanities and food tech, students are thinking out of the box.ALEENA [email protected]

Gone are the days whenengineering and medi -cine reigned, and adm -ission to a regular deg -

ree college meant students select-ing B.Com, economics, politicalscience or literature. With incr -easing demand for career-orient-ed courses, arts, science andcommerce colleges are openingnew avenues for students.

This year, some colleges haveintroduced courses like appliednutrition, photography, and foodtechnology. St Francis will beintroducing applied nutrition inthe science stream. “There hasbeen a lot of demand from thehospital industry for this course,so we decided to include it in ourcurriculum. Going by the univer-

sity norms, we will have 40 seatsfor this course, which will surelyhave great demand,” says UmaJoseph, associate professor andco-ordinator of Internal Qualityand Assurance Cell at St Francis.

Digital humanities is a coursethat will be introduced for artsstudents at Koti Women’s

College. It is a course that com-bines the methodologies fromtraditional humanities subjectswith the various tools providedby computing like digital pub-

lishing, data visualisation, statis-tics and data mining. “So far,computing was an option forcommerce students. But thisyear, we will be introducing it forarts students. Computing skillswill be useful in various applica-tions for students. This course

has great demand internationallyalso,” says Prof BT Sita, principalof Koti Women’s College.

There is a mad rush for masscommunication and journalismthese days. Every year there is anincrease of nearly 30 per cent inthe applications. “Because of thepopularity and eagerness of stu-dents to learn this subject, wewill be upgrading the course to afull-fledged mass communica-tion and journalism course fromthis year,” said Sita.

Professional commerce isanother sought-after subject. Inthe science stream, food technol-ogy has been attracting many.“When we started this course,there were not many students.Now there is a rush for seats,since it has a great future,” said asenior faculty at Loyola DegreeCollege.

It’s careers first as new courses rule

AROUND THECITY

Changing Trends n BSc in Applied Nutrition at

St Francis College for Women,Begumpet

n Digital Humanities at KotiWomen’s College

n Advanced Learning inPhotography at Koti Women’sCollege

n Bachelor’s in BusinessAdministration at St Mary’sCollege, Yousufguda

News WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 4

The column that teaches everyonesomething new about the way theCity functions.

1 Adoption still lags in AndhraPradesh.

In the past 13 years, there havebeen only 2,030 adoptions in theState, which accounts for less than160 children being put up foradoption in a given year. There areover 40,000 orphans living inHyderabad alone.

2 Government loses info on 14lakh Aadhaar applicants.

Personal information and biomet-ric data of over 14 lakh people inthe State has been lost. The impli-cations of this are grave, consider-ing the data could be used forcriminal purposes.

3 Herschel space telescopecloses its eyes on Universe.

After three years of observation,the telescope has run out ofcoolant, forcing it to shut down.

4 Want to go to Mars? You justhave to be curious.

Now, it’s not only astronauts whocan go to Mars, with a companyoffering space rides.

5Bored with studies? Pick aninteresting new course.

Medicine is old school; food tech-nology is all the rage now.

Losing treasureLast year we had reported how the

Hussain Sagar lake, once the prideof the Twin Cities, was being cloggedwith garbage. The apathy of the cor-poration and the government madethings worse. Though several ‘beautifi-cation’ projects had been taken up, lit-tle had changed. A year later, there stillis no difference in the plight of theonce beautiful water body.

MAY 1, 2012

LAST YEAR... HERE

14,37,900is the total number of erroneous enrolment between Phase-1 in

2011-2012 in Andhra Pradesh. This means loss of biometrics and personal

information of lakhs of citizens.

5THINGS WELEARNT TODAY

NUMEROLOGY

Special needs(kids) go for inter-

country adoptions.Nobody shows anyinterest here. We preferto keep them in an NGOwhere they are atleast taken care ofnicely.

CG Konda, ShishugruhaSee page 9

CIVIC

Md [email protected]

This year’s councillorstudy tour won’t beany different from theearlier ones, says one

of the senior corporators.Half of the TDP corpora-

tors who are interested in the‘study tour’ left for Kerala onMarch 29. The Congress corpo-rators, along with the otherhalf of the TDP, will be leavingon May 3. The MIM is as yetundecided but pressure fromcouncillors may finally prevailon the party leaders to let themgo later, sources indicated.

The study tour of theCongress will go throughAhmedabad, Jaipur, Pune andMumbai. The batch of TDPcorporators who left for Keralanumbered 22 along with theirfamily members, totallingaround 55. Accompanyingthem was MBT (Majlis BachaoTehreek) corporatorAmjadullah Khan.

VIGNETTES FROM EARLIER‘STUDY TOURS’“There were scenes of spouseshaving drinks in the hotelrooms,” recalls a corporator.“This year too I do not think it

would be different,” he adds.Recalling one of the inci-

dents, a corporator who ismortally afraid of identifyinghimself confided in Postnoon ahilarious instance of a corpora-tor, under the influence ofliquor, jumping into a swim-ming pool at midnight. The

deafening splash brought thehotel staff to the poolside andthey hauled him up andhushed up the matter. “It wasat a hill station,” he said.

During one such a toursponsored by a company (thatdoes business with theGHMC) in Delhi, the corpora-tors had sumptuous bever-ages. “In one sitting, they hadalcohol worth `15,000. Had itbeen a small hotel, it wouldhave cost less,” recalls thecouncillor raconteur.

The way they behave isanother concern. “Towels,utensils and pillows weremissing from the hotel roomsafter they left,” noted another.

Never do such study toursgo as planned. “There never isa serious effort to learn any-thing from the host city. It is apleasure trip,” he added.

Behind the trips, the travelagent is chosen by those whoare pliable, it is alleged. Theagent ploughs back a part ofthe earning to the benefactors.

Study tour begins— with familyTDP corporators will ‘study’ the CPM-ruled

Thiruvananthapuram and the Congress members will‘learn’ something from Modi’s Ahmedabad.

2 chain-snatchersarrestedThe railway police of Vikarabad

have arrested two chain-snatch-ers — R Raju, 26, and Shiv Naik, 30— and seized six tolas of stolengold jewellery from their posses-sion. The police had recentlylaunched a special drive to curbchain-snatching. Police said thedrive will continue in all the trainson a perennial basis.

June 30 deadline fortrade licence applicationThe date for applying for trade

licence and renewal has beenextended to June 30. It can beapplied online or by approaching e-Seva or Citizen Service Centres(CSC) in GHMC offices. A 25 percent penalty will be levied on andlegal proceedings initiated againstthose who failed to obtain the tradelicence from the civic authorities.

May Day celebratedacross StateWorld May Day (International

Workers Day) celebrationswere held across the State today.The workers’ union wing of all polit-ical parties organised special pro-grammes at party offices on theoccasion. The ruling Congress heldcelebrations at Gandhi Bhavan,while TDP and YSRC held celebra-tions at their respective party HQs.

Lokayukta wants reporton pregnant womanTaking suo motu cognisance of a

newspaper report about a preg-nant woman delivering on the roadhere, the AP Lokayukta has calledfor a report from the Director ofState for Medical Education. Areport in a Telugu daily had allegedthat a pregnant woman was“pushed out” of a maternity hospitalat Sultan Bazar.

CITY BRIEFS

Love junkfood? Blameyour mum!Babies of women who ate junk

food while pregnant are morelikely to be obese when theybecome adults, found anAustralian study. Also, they willbe born with an addiction tofatty foods.

The report that came in theTelegraph is based on the studypublished by the FASEB journal.

The study found babies ofmums who had junk food areless sensitive to opioids and aremore likely to overeat. Experts

explained that since the babiesresponse to opioids is impeded,the baby will eat more sugar andfat to get a “full” feeling.

“We found that the opioidsignalling pathway (the rewardpathway) in these offspring wasless sensitive than those whosemothers were eating a standarddiet,” Dr Bev Mühlhäusler, fromAdelaide University, said.

The study also said the risksmay be reduced if the baby is puton a healthy diet after weaning,cannot be completely eliminated,as the baby will be predisposedtowards overconsumption ofjunk food and obesity.

The study examined theimpact of eating foods such aspeanut butter, sugary breakfastfoods, nutella and lard. It saidthe results showed the impact ofjunk food on a baby’s rewardpathways and highlighted theneed for further research onmothers’ diets to address risingobesity rates. AGENCIES

AROUND THEWORLD

WEIGHT WATCH

AROUND THECITY

During one suchtour sponsored by acompany in Delhi,the corporators had sumptuous beverages.


UNIVERSE AADHAAR EXCLUSIVE Run out of‘juice’, Herchelshuts eyeEurope’s Herschel space obser-

vatory, the largest infraredtelescope ever launched, hasstopped working after exhaustingits supply of liquid heliumcoolant, ending over three years ofpioneering observations of theuniverse.

Instruments on The EuropeanSpace Agency’s (ESA) billion-euro flagship observatory havewarmed to levels that mean it hasclosed its eyes on the Universe.

The mission began with over2,300 litres of liquid helium,which has been slowly evaporat-ing since the final top-up the daybefore Herschel’s launch on May14, 2009, ESA said.

The liquid helium was essen-tial to cool the observatory’sinstruments to close to absolutezero, allowing Herschel to makehighly sensitive observations ofthe cold universe until now.

The confirmation that the heli-um is finally exhausted came onMonday at the beginning of thespacecraft’s daily communicationsession with its ground station inWestern Australia, with a clearrise in temperatures measured inall of Herschel’s instruments.

Herschel has made over35,000 scientific observations,amassing more than 25,000 hoursworth of science data from about600 observing programmes.

A further 2,000 hours of cali-bration observations also con-tribute to the rich dataset, which isbased at ESA’s European SpaceAstronomy Centre. AP

Biometric information from over 14 lakh people has gone missing. Thiscould lead to vital data falling into criminal hands.

RAHUL [email protected]

What can be agreater loss to acity than the lossof identities of its

citizens? While the Aadhaarcard, projected as a “smart mixof politics and economics,”promises to deliver the “oneultimate identity” to all the citi-zens of India, its progress reportin Andhra Pradesh has no reas-suring remarks.

Forget ultimate identity,there seems to be no guaranteeof our identities anymore.

On April 8, the UniqueIdentification Authority of India(UIDAI) publicly agreed thatseveral lakh Aadhaar enrol-ments and data were lost. Whatis described as a “technicalerror” is in reality the loss ofbiometrics and personal infor-mation of 14 lakh Aadhaarcard-seeking citizens of AndhraPradesh.

Over two lakh citizens inHyderabad have not foundtheir Aadhaar enrolmentsonline. Fearing public backlash,the UIDAI authorities were ableto retrieve over seven lakhenrolments through dataretrieval, but have been unableto retrieve the other half.Postnoon investigates.

CURRENT ENROLMENTSTATUSEven as the deadline forAadhaar-LPG link gets closer,there seems to be little or no co-ordination among any of thethree major players — the APcivil supplies and district collec-torate, private enrolment agen-cies and the UIDAI — in theAadhaar game.

“The selling point of thisproject was the promise oftransparency and accountabili-ty. Except for the UIDAI’s web-site, our State government’scivil supplies or district

collectorates do not seem tohave found the need to beaccountable,” says RaojiBrahmanand, RTI activist andAadhaar applicant.

The official explanation forthe data loss is that privateenrolment agencies hademployed agents who devel-oped differences over their

remuneration and left the pro-ject mid way. Some claim thatlaptops and equipment contain-ing data also went missing.

“But since high encryptionsguard the enrolment data andbiometrics, it cannot be decrypt-ed. We are trying to retrieve thedata currently,” says an officialfrom UIDAI.

According to data gatheredby Postnoon from UIDAI anddistrict collectorate authorities,the current population of the

City stands at roughly 82 lakh.Out of this, only 53,28,183 haveenrolled for Aadhaar and a littleover 30 lakh UID numbers havebeen generated.

Ask why this slow pace ofenrolments and loss of data, SVijaypal, deputy district collec-tor of Hyderabad collectoratesays, “No idea. We are only for-warding whatever enrolmentdata we receive to the State gov-ernment and UIDAI.”

The morale among officialshandling the Aadhaar project islow and it is evident why.

Here are the current statis-tics of the Aadhaar project inHyderabad:

Beware! Vital info missing

AROUND THEWORLD

Government to intensifyvaccination effortsTo create awareness about the

urgency to vaccinate every eligi-ble child and intensify efforts toimprove immunisation coverage,the Indian government haslaunched special immunisationweeks. One week each in April, June,July and August will be used to holdspecial immunisation sessions inhigh-risk areas across the country.

IED defused on Srinagarroad used by Omar Amajor tragedy was averted

Tuesday after an improvisedexplosive device (IED) was detectedand defused on the Srinagar-Muzzafarabad highway on whichChief Minister Omar Abdullah hadpassed twice during the day, policesaid. Counter-insurgency troops ofRashtriya Rifles defused the IED,averting a major tragedy in the area.

6 Maharashtra copskilled in road crashAt least six policemen were killed

and three injured when theirvehicle rammed into a tree inMaharashtra’s Amravati district earlyWednesday. The accident occurredaround 5.30am when a police vehi-cle hit a tree on the Washim-Amravati Road. Two anti-corruptionbureau inspectors and four consta-bles, including the driver, died.

95 fall ill in Tripura aftereating at wedding feastA total of 95 people were taken ill

and admitted to various hospi-tals after eating at a wedding feastin Tripura Monday night. The condi-tion of 24 people is stated to becritical, an official said. According todoctors, the illness was caused byfood poisoning. The health depart-ment has rushed two medical teamsto Melaghar in western Tripura.

Ponzi funds will be shutdown, says Mamata The West Bengal government

would shut down by Wednesdaytwo companies having four of fivesister concerns engaged in ‘Ponzi’ ormulti-level marketing schemes,Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saidTuesday and asserted that it waskeeping a watch on other similarcompanies. However, she refused toname the companies.

NATION BRIEFS

Aadhaar enrolments in Andhra Pradesh Total 5,73,64,835Men 2,98,06,768Women 2,77,12,951

Data loss:Enrolment data lost (erroneous enrolment)between Phase-1 in 2011-2012 in Andhra Pradesh

n Total erroneous enrol-ment 14,37,900

n Rectified 7,37,900

n Data Lost( Yet to re-enrol)Seven lakh (accurate fig-ure yet to be updated)

n Total erroneous enrol-ment in Hyderabad :2,04,000 ( figure yet tobe updated )

Project statisticsPopulation of Hyderabad

82 lakhTotal Aadhaar enrolmentsin Hyderabad as of April2013:Hyderabad 53,28,183n Men 28,49,512n Women 24,78,671Areas in Hyderabad withhighest enrolment data:n Tirumulgiri 87,858n Secunderabad 46740n Charminar 27,881Current daily enrolmentper day at average 31,348

AROUND THECITY

INKESHAF [email protected]

It is now learnt for surethat the Congress-ledUPA government has

decided never to give a sep-arate Telangana state. Thishas not only shocked theTJAC leaders, who had beenagitating for the creation of aT-state, but has also forcedthem to prepare themselvesto ensure the defeat ofCongress, both at the Stateand the Centre.

“Our agitation at NewDelhi has exposed theCongress. We came to knowthat it had already decidednot to give (a separate)Telangana state. Congress isunder the control of the richAndhra and Rayalaseemaleaders,” a senior leader ofTJAC said while speaking toPostnoon from New Delhi.

That the Congress isreluctant to concede the sep-

arate state is likely tobecome blessing in disguisefor the BJP-led NDA in AP.

“The BJP has promisedto give Telangana state with-in 100 days of coming topower. We do not want tosupport BJP, but as votariesof Telangana state, we have

left with no option but toensure the return of NDA atthe Centre,” he said. Over3,000 government employ-ees from Telangana, activistsand TRS, BJP and CPI lead-ers participated in the agita-tion at Jantar Mantar.

TJAC has now shiftedits focus to the ChaloAssembly programme to dis-rupt Assembly proceedingsby taking out a huge marchtowards the AP Assembly.


AROUND THECITY

Apanel has urged the UnitedStates to maintain a ban on avisa to Gujarat chief minister

Narendra Modi over the 2002 post-Godhra riots, even though he is afavourite to run for prime minister.

In a wide-ranging annual report,the US commission on internationalreligious freedom said that NarendraModi should be “inadmissible to theUnited States” due to “severe viola-

tions of religious freedom.”“There is significant evidence link-

ing him to the violence and the terribleevents that took place in Gujarat andfor this reason, a visa would not beappropriate,” Katrina Lantos Swett,chair of the Commission, told reporterson a conference call.

Mr Modi led the state in 2002 whenriots broke out that left 2,000 dead,most of them Muslims. One of his for-mer ministers was jailed for life forinstigating the killings but severalinvestigations cleared Modi of personalresponsibility.

With Gujarat’s economy booming,Modi has tried to rebrand himself as apro-business reformist and is consid-ered a frontrunner to lead the BharatiyaJanata Party (BJP) in next year’s nation-al elections.

The US state department hasrefused to let Modi visit. But it hasfaced growing calls to change its posi-tion, with three junior Republicanmembers of Congress visiting Gujaratin March and urging a visa for Modi.

The US Commission onInternational Religious Freedom,whose board is appointed by PresidentBarack Obama and congressional lead-ers of both parties, advises the govern-ment on policy, but does not havepower over visa decisions.

In its report, the commission calledfor a database of foreigners who wouldbe denied admission to the UnitedStates over religious freedom violations.

The annual report strongly criti-cised several countries over theirrecords on religious freedom, includingChina, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, SaudiArabia and Vietnam.

GODHRA RIOTS AFTERMATH POLITICS

AROUND THENATION

Retain Modiban: US panel

TJAC to dump CongLeft with little option, TJAC and TRS have decided toback the BJP-led NDA in the next General Elections.

The US commission on international religious freedom said Modi should be

‘inadmissible to the United States’.

Closed doors

In 2005, Modi was denied diplo-matic visa to the United States. In

addition to this visa denial, hisalready granted B-1/B-2 visa wasalso revoked, under a section ofthe Immigration and NationalityAct which makes any foreign gov-ernment official who was responsi-ble or “directly carried out, at anytime, particularly severe violationsof religious freedom” ineligible forthe visa.

For ten years after the Godhrariots, the United Kingdom refusedto deal with Modi, but changedthis policy in October 2012.Similarly, the European Unionended the over a decade-old boy-cott of Modi in 2012, delinking hisimage from any human rightsissues.

Source: en.wikipedia.com


FAREWELL GIFT

Chief secretary Prasanna Kumar Mohanty presents his predecessor Minnie Mathew a memento at a functionat the Secretariat on Tuesday.

PNG revivesdeath penaltyPapua New Guinea Prime

Minister Peter O'Neill hasannounced a renewed push forthe death penalty, and life sen-tences for rape, saying that 'dra-conian' penalties were needed totackle violent crime. O'Neill said

the impoverished Pacific nationwould also repeal its controver-sial Sorcery Act, meaning anyblack magic killing would betreated as murder. It follows aspate of horrific crimes againstwomen including a beheadingand the burning alive of a moth-er accused of witchcraft.

Copper-wirethieves get ashock, 1 diesMOHD [email protected]

Agang that went around steal-ing valuable copper wire

from transformers came to griefon Monday when one of its mem-bers was electrocuted and someothers sustained injuries.

The case Mominpeet policereported stated that the incidenthappened at Chemaldari villageof Ranga Reddy district. It isbelieved to have happened onMonday night. Villagers onTuesday saw a body hanging bythe transformer and blood markson the road. They informedpolice. Investigation brought outthe following scenario.

A gang of six to eight mem-bers (villagers say) used to stealcopper wire from electric trans-formers. Thefts were reportedearlier but authorities did notmake a thorough probe thoughthe villagers say they have seen a

gang of 6-8 members suspected tobe involved in the crime.

The body of a man in his‘twenties suggests that he waselectrocuted when he was tryingto slash copper wire with a gascutter. As he was dying, hisaccomplices helping him too gotthe shock but fell down andinjured. That is why bloody dragmarks of feet were noticed on theroad. Police and electricity offi-cials say the night before, twophases were off, which must havebeguiled the thieves into believ-ing that the power was off and itwas safe to operate. However,they did not know the third phasewas live.

Till Tuesday police could notestablish the identity of the dis-eased. Police inspector Vijay Lalasaid enquiries were made in localhospitals if anyone with injuriessustained from electrical equip-ment are undergoing treatment.But so far nobody could be found.

AROUND THEWORLD

AROUND THECITYTOUGH MEASURES

RANGA REDDY DIST

Indian gets three yearsfor selling bath saltsA28-year-old Indian national has

been sentenced to three years inprison by a US court for selling syn-thetic drugs known as bath salts.Phulbir Singh now faces deporta-tion after serving his sentencing."The state blamed him for sellingdrugs that killed people besideshaving no legal status in the coun-try," the a local paper reported.

US allows hunter toimport rare rhino trophyThe US is allowing a hunter to

bring a slain African blackrhinoceros back home. The animalwas listed as endangered in 1980.David K Reinke, 52, killed the rhinoin 2009. He argued that the killingwas an act of "conservation hunt-ing", as he was culling an elderlyrhino that was unable to reproducebut still crowded out fertile rivals.

US set to supply lethalarms to Syrian rebelsAmid the US ramping up its inter-

national outreach for the nextstep in its effort to get rid of theAssad regime, a media report hassaid the Obama Administration ispreparing to supply lethal weaponsto the Syrian opposition. "We'vemoved over to assistance that has adirect military purpose," a senioradministration official said.

170 flee Libyan prisonamid chaos Some 170 prisoners escaped

Tuesday from a prison in Libya'sSebha, some 800 km from Tripoli,Xinhua reported citing an official.Abobker Hamza, Sebha's localcouncil spokesman, said the escapetook place after a dispute amongthe prisoners turned into chaos. Sofar, some of the prisoners haveturned themselves in.

NASA extends Russiaspace travel dealNASA will pay an additional $424

million to extend its contractwith Russia’s federal space agency(Roscosmos) to transport US astro-nauts to and from the InternationalSpace Station (ISS), NASA saidTuesday. About the move, America’sspace chief said it underscores howdiminished funding is hamperingthe US space programme.

WORLD BRIEFS

POLITICS

PK [email protected]

The glamorous Jaya Pradawho is currently shoppingfor a party that gives her a

winnable seat is likely to land inthe Congress camp, it is learnt.

Jaya’s meeting Congressprima donna Sonia Gandhi inNew Delhi the other day isindicative of joining hands withthe Congress as she was unableto wrest an assurance from theTRS on Rajamudhry seat whichshe is keen on. Jaya is currentlyMP of Rampur, UP. It is report-ed that Sonia has almost agreedto field her from Anakapalli inVisakhapatnam against YSJagan Mohan Reddy’s closestally, Sabbam Hari. Jaya hadsought Rajamudhry seat butSonia did not have the heart todisturb incumbent Arun Kumarwho was close to the Nehru

family. The only trouble is that Hari

has strong roots in Vizag andupstaging him is a heavy job.However, Jaya Prada is said tohave expressed her readiness.

Sabbam Hari was a followerof the late Chief Minister Dr. Y SRajasekhara Reddy. After YSR’sdeath, he remained loyal toJagan. He has been expressingloyalty to Jagan and criticising

the Congress. Though still aCongressman, the party is notkeen to keep him and he is like-ly to contest as the YSRCongress candidate in the 2014elections.

Jaya Pradha was also toyingwith the idea of joining the BJPbut her supporters pointed outit was a risky affair in AndhraPradesh as the party does nothave roots. It is also rumoured

that her mentor Amar Singhhad advised her to join anational party, not a regionalone. The choice was thereforebetween the Congress and theBJP. Singh believes that theNDA will come back to powerthis time. But the Lotus is notblooming in AP is the reason fornot going in for the party.

With the election less than ayear away, politically ambitioushave already begun the scram-ble for safe seats. “Finding asafe seat is the biggest challengefor any political leader,”remarked an ex MP. The secondchallenge is to decide which isthe winning party in 2014. As ofnow, despite the blows UPAsuffered, it and the NDA havechances.

Jaya Prada to join Congress?Politicians have begun scurrying about for safe seats and safer political

platforms as the general elections are less than a year away.

AROUND THECITY

It is reported thatSonia Gandhi hasalmost agreed tofield her fromAnakapalli inVisakhapatnamagainst YS JaganMohan Reddy’sclosest ally,Sabbam Hari.

INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAYNews WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 8

SALUTING OURLABOURERS

N SHIVA KUMAR

May Day is just another public holiday for most, but it should be a daywhen we take a moment to think about the many labourers toiling around

the world, struggling to make ends meet.

SOCIETYNews WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 9

PADMINI [email protected]

Last week, a daily wagelabourer was caught sell-ing his one-month-oldson for `1.5 lakh in

Nizamabad. Neither the crueltyof the act nor the 'going rate'came as a surprise for thoseworking in the child protectionarena. Baby boys are a preciouscommodity in the AndhraPradesh adoption scene andreports of buying and selling ofchildren are more commonplacethan anyone would care toadmit.

India has the highest numberof population under 18 in theworld. It is also home to 20 mil-lion orphans in the 0-17 yearsage-group, reveal reports basedon the latest National FamilyHealth Survey. Furthermore, it isestimated that over 100,000 ofthese children are currentlybeing housed, raised and passedout of one or another type ofinstitution — an orphanage, astate-run home or hostel, a juve-nile facility — or anywhereexcept amidst the comfort of afamily and a real home.

In 2010, and the tenth year ofits operations, the CentralAdoption Resource Agency stillhad only a tragic 6,200 adop-tions to show for itself, out ofwhich nearly 600 were inter-country adoptions. The AP storyis no different.

The number of adoptions inthe State in the past 13 yearsamounts to a measly 2,030,which accounts for less than 160children being put up for adop-tion in a given year. This, in thecontext of Childline's estimate,that there are currently over40,000 orphans living inHyderabad alone.

Interestingly, this is not dueto a lack of takers. Project direc-tors and child development offi-cers say that the number ofprospective parents far outnum-ber that of the available childrentoday, some of whom have beenwaiting years to adopt.

So then why this bewilder-ing lag? Those in the child wel-fare and protection communityanswer.

The numbers arenot a lot but

things have beenpicking up for thelast few years.However they won’tget better until par-ents come forwardwith an open mind toadopt a child irre-spective of its gen-der. And they shouldalso follow the pro-cesses of the law andkeep faith even if ittakes long. We are inno rush to raise thesefigures, as it's a life inquestion, not acommodity.

Shyama Sundari,Ast. director, women

and child welfare dept

ChildWelfareof

ficials explain the c

hallenges of the adoptionprocess

inAP

PIC: SHIVA KUMAR

Finding a family for achild is one of the coretenets of child protec-tion and developmentyet the adoption system is still struggling to take off.

Barriers for babies

THE ELUSIVE MALE CHILDGender is the singular reasonthere are no matches betweenchildren available and couplesin waiting, say officials. "Typ -ically, male children are rarelysu rrendered, relinquished orab andoned. In contrast, for eve -ry other couple that did not wa -nt (their first/another) girl childen ds up an orphan. Therefore,our girl-boy ratio is highly ske -wed. There are couples that ha -ve been waiting for 5-6 years fora boy child and willing to waitfur ther but still don't even wantto consider adopting a baby gir -l,"says child protection officer,ICDS, Srinivas K and adds, "itbecame so severe, we stoppedtaking requests for boys."

AGE IS NOT JUST A NUMBERWhile children under 18 are alleligible for adoption, sishugra-has house only those below fiveyears of age, who have the mostlikelihood of being adopted.Children above six years end upin a home where they will spendthe rest of their years until theyare forced to leave at the age of18. "Kids above five years

remember everything. Theyalready are forming personali-ties and have a will of their own.Besides law provides for thechild above six years to have asay in their adoption pro cess.Prospective parents are fea rfulthat they'll come with ba ggage,or that they can't handle them orthat they will reveal th eir historyto everybody. Ei ther way, oncethey cross the th reshold, theybecome unwanted, " says sociol-ogist and CWC Ra ngareddymember K Kr ishna.

PRIVATE AGENCIES, PLEASE EXCUSE One positive explanation forthe low figure, officials say, isthat AP is perhaps the onlymajor state where there are noprivate agencies with thepower to handle adoptions.Only the 23 State-run sishugra-has hold the right, thereforelimiting the numbers but whichsocial workers say is a goodthing. "Sure, the State proce-dures are cumbersome but atleast private players with aprofit motive are not involved.Also, because there are checkand measures in place, it meansthere's less chances of adoptive

parents being unstable, neglect-ful or abusive," feels activistGeeta Ramaswamy.

BEATING THE SYSTEM

Some officials claim that theadoption numbers here are lowbecause the number of aban-doned children is lower than inother States. But social workersrefute these claims and citeanother reason. Though agen-cies are not involved, they saycases of trafficking and illegaltransactions are aplenty. Inmany instances, a child is bar-gained for and bought and soldbefore the matter reaches offi-cial networks. "A newly born ina hospital is already bookedand paid for, so that in effect theadoptive parents are recordedas biological parents, negatingthe need for any checks. It's theeasy way out for many couples,and they're completely off therecord," says Isidore Phillips,founder of NGO Divya Disha.

DEMANDS OF PROTOCOL

Not even half of registeredapplicants are qualified, sayofficials. Legally, all prospective

parents are subject to a housestudy which requires them toprove themselves to be emo-tionally, financially and sociallystable. "So many of them fur-nish false data. People who saythey have homes and jobs andsocial standing, when investi-gated have nothing. And wehave rule each one after thenext until we find a match, so ittakes time," adds Krishna.

NOT 'ADOPTABLE'A significant percentage ofabandoned children that don’taccount in the adoption math isthat of children with specialneeds/HIV infected kids whoare not considered 'adoptable,'an d generally relegated to theca re of an NGO. "Usually speci -al needs go for inter-countryad options. Nobody really sh -ows any interest here. We pre-fer to keep them in an NGO w -here they're least taken care ofni cely," says project director ofSh ishugruha, Vishakhapatnam,Chin mayee Gurram Konda.

AROUND THECITY


6 killed inMexico crashMEXICO CITY: A small planeowned by the Mexican federalprosecutor's office crashed short-ly aftertakeoff in northernMexico, killing three agents andthree crew members, the attor-ney general said.

The Beechcraft King Air 300hit the ground yesterday, 10min-utes after taking off in the state ofZacatecas at aroundnoon, andthe cause of the crash is underinvestigation, Attorney GeneralJesus Murillo Karam said in astatement.

AFP

TRAGEDY

GHOSTS OF PAST

Knox may return for Italy trialShe has been reportedly paid a $3.8 mn advance for a tell-all memoir on her Italy stint including sex, drugs and abuse in jail.

MICHAEL THURSTONAgence France-Presse

Amanda Knox mayreturn to Italy for amurder retrial, shesaid as she launched a

memoir on Tuesday about hernightmare, including frankdetails about sex, drugs and herharrowing time behind bars.

In interviews to promote thebook — which also recounts howshe considered suicide in jail --she said she hoped her slain for-mer roommate MeredithKercher’s family would read it,although she has had no contactwith them.

“It matters to me whatMeredith’s family thinks ... I real-ly hope that the Kerchers readmy book. And they don’t have tobelieve me. I have no right todemand anything of anyone. ButI hope they try,” she told USAToday.

“I want them to know, theirgrief has my every respect, hasthe respect of my family,” sheadded to ABC television, in her

first broadcast interview sinceher release two years ago.

Although most legal analystsexpect Knox to be tried again inabsentia following the decision,the former student told USAToday in an interview she was“considering” returning to Italy.

“My lawyers have said that Idon’t have to and that I don’t

need to. I’m still considering it, tobe honest,” she was quoted assaying when asked if sheplanned to return to Italy.

“It’s scary, the thought. Butit’s also important for me to say,‘This is not just happening faraway from and doesn’t matter tome.’ “So, somehow, I feel it’simportant for me to convey that.

And if my presence is what isnecessary to convey that, then I’llgo.”

Knox has launched a publici-ty blitz in the United States topromote her autobiographyWaiting to be Heard” for whichshe was reportedly paid a $3.8-million advance.

In the 480-page book, she

describes her early life in Seattleand her decision to take a yearout to live in the small Italian cityof Perugia to learn Italian lan-guage and culture.

She moved in with twoItalian girls and Kercher, whowas also a foreign student, andled an easy-going life with agroup of boys who lived down-stairs in the same house.

She also recounted the dayKercher’s body was found, howpolice rapidly became suspi-cious. In one early interrogationshe reported being slappedaround the head while being told“Stop lying!”

Knox was eventuallycharged, tried and sent to jail --where she described repeatedsexual harassment and detailedthoughts of suicide, for examplein the shower, where “steamwould fog up the guard’s view-ing window.”

“I imagined cutting both mywrists and sinking into oblivionin a calm, quiet, hot mist,” shewrites.

AFP

Case in briefn The American student and her

Italian former boyfriend RaffaeleSollecito were sentenced to 26years and 25 years in prison forthe killing of Kercher six yearsago, allegedly in a drug-fuelledsex attack.

n She was acquitted on appealand released in 2011, returningto her native Seattle. But inMarch Italian authorities over-turned that judgment, andordered the 25-year-old to standtrial again.

BIZARRE

WELLINGTON: New Zealandofficials on Wednesday releaseda list of baby names put forwardby parents that were rejectedbecause they were too bizarre oroffensive, including “Lucifer”and “Mafia No Fear”.

The list of 77 names reveals

one child was set to be called“Anal” before the Department ofInternal Affairs vetoed the pro-posal, while another narrowlyavoided being dubbed “.” or fullstop.

Other names on the listincluded “4Real”, “V8”, and

“Queen Victoria”.In some cases, parents

appeared to have lost any inspi-

ration for coming up with amoniker for their offspring,wanting to call the latest additionto the family simply “2nd”,“3rd” or “5th”.

The department’s rules for-bid any name that might imply achild holds an official title or

rank, so “King”, “Duke” and“Princess” were among thosethat had been turned down mostsince 2001. “Justice” was themost popular, having been reject-ed 62 times, although “Justus”and “Juztice” also failed to gainofficial approval. AFP

4Real? NZ lists banned baby namesAROUND THEWORLD

AROUND THEWORLD

AROUND THEWORLD

GOOD COMPANYAK Khan, vice-chair-

man and MD,APSRTC, and BL

Meena, Additional DG(Drugs) interact with stu-dents attending theSummer Camp of SarojiniCricket and FitnessAcademy. PV Sunil Kumar(IG, SPF) and KamalhasanReddy (DCP, CentralZone) were also present.Khan advised the studentsto give equal importanceto education and sports.Meena emphasised on theneed to develop sports-man spirit. Sunil Kumarexhorted the participantsto be disciplined and tostay committed. They presented trophies andmedals to outstandingperformers.


Pick at the airport, -

GET READY TO JUMP

KANCHAN [email protected]

“What are thewo rds thatcome to yourmind when I

say parkour?”“Freedom. Beauty of

moveme nt. No fear. No obsta-cles. Escape. No stress. Honour.Life,” said Yasaswy Modukuru, a22-year-old parkour artiste fromthe City.

It was a video of David Belle,founder of parkour, that inspiredYasaswy to explore his bodymovements. Four years ago, hetrained first in ground-levelmoves such as cat leaps/armjumps, precisions, long jumps,vaults, wall runs, and so on. Thenatural athlete that he is — hehas been a sprinter and a long

jumper while still memorisingthe alphabet — in two years,Yasaswy felt ready to climb a bit.Now he was training on rooftops approaching high-risemovements. That is being onyour mark on a building’s roof,jumping and landing on anotherbuilding’s roof. From a buildingto another. Spectacular, is it not?

He has trained in parks andfamous structures such asGolconda fort. You may catchhim at work in the mornings orevenings, or on an afternoon ifthe weather is pleasant. He hasfaced criticism, of course. It is anunconventional sight, you see.

“My family and friends weresupportive but when I train inparks, strangers sometimes askme not to do it. They say I amspoiling the property and chil-dren will try to copy me and hurtthemselves,” he says. Well, thereis only so much that can be doneabout it. There have been manyinjuries too. Using the wordmany, many times, he explains,“I even broke my back once. But Igo on. I love parkour. I can’t giveit up. I wait till I recover and goback to it. I don’t abuse my bodybut I never stop, and I am verycareful now.”

Moving to a philosophicalzone, I ask what parkour meansto him. “It is a way of life. Youlearn to work on fears, overcomeobstacles of everyday life, facehardships. You learn to move on,come what may. In parkour, youuse your body to clear obstaclesefficiently and safely. You caneven think parkour without actu-ally moving.”

Yasaswy performed for a fewTV channels around three yearsago. At random instances too,audiences have gathered, clap -ped, whistled, and hooted. “Along time ago, I felt good aboutit. Now I don’t bother. I don’tlook at them. If I do, I’ll fall.”

Is the beauty of movementimportant or the performancebit? “Everybody is unique. Thereis no competition. It is all aboutyour freedom, it is your ownmovement. You create it andmove the way you like,”

Yasaswy is training others atprivate gyms now, and aspires toestablish his own gym soon.Contact him at 99890 85505.

Broken bones can’tstop this young

parkour enthusiast.

Prisonersget smartcards inBihar

The Bihar governmenthas provided multi-pur-pose smart cards to

prisoners in jail so that theycan buy things from the can-teen through cashless transac-tion among other uses.

The service was launchedin Beur central jail on anexperimental basis by CMNitish Kumar last week,director-general (prisons)Anand Kishore said.

Nearly 2,100 inmates ofthe jail had been providedwith the cards, he said.

After monitoring its suc-cess in Beur, the schemewould be introduced in 55other prisons of the state inanother four or five months,Kishore said.

The card could be

recharged through paymentby relatives of the prisoner orby himself through earning aswage while working in jail.

“There is a bar on maxi-mum cash in a card. For con-victs, the upper limit of cashis `2,000 per month, while foran undertrial it is `2,500 amonth,” he said.

To avoid misuse of thecard by another prisoner,there was provision of bio-metric authentication, the DGsaid. He said the smart cardcould also be used as a healthcard with details of healthcondition and medicine takenregularly, if any, by the hold-er. It also carried details of thefamily of the card holder.

The card would also pro-vide information like courtdates and status of pendingcase in the court, he said. PTI

To avoid misuse ofthe card by anotherprisoner, there wasprovision of biomet-ric authentication,said DG (prisons)Anand Kishore.

AROUND THENATION

Resilient?Adaptable?Curious?Come to Mars

People are queuing upfor an opportunity tovisit to Mars planned by

Dutch organization MarsOne.

Although the trip andtraining sound daunting, therequirements for candidatesare wide open: If you showresilience, adaptability, andcuriosity, you might qualify.Scientific and astronaut’sskills, however, are notrequired.

However anyone whosigns up for this adventurewill have to wait a long timeas the mission is not expectedto take off before 2023. Also, itwon’t be like a resource gath-ering mission like Apollo,

instead it’ll be a one-way tick-et to red planet. The travellerswill be part of first permanentspace colony on Mars andthey need to be older than 18and more than 157cm tall.The candidates are eachrequired to send in one-minute clips on themselvesand they will be voted on viaa TV show according to theorganisers. They’re hopingthat they will be able to makeup for the cost of the mission,more than $6 billion, from theearnings of the show.

Oh and out of the hun-dreds who applied, only fourpeople will travel to Mars at atime. Then the plan is tolaunch four more settlersevery two years.

AGENCIES

SPACE TRAVEL WINDS OF CHANGE

AROUND THECITY

FREE BIRD

AROUND THEWORLD

News WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 12US

Is he still relevant? Golly!Obama appeared taken aback when asked at a White House news conferencewhether he still had the ‘juice’ to get his agenda through clogged up Congress.

STEPHEN COLLINSONAgence France-Presse

“Golly." That wasBarack Obama,fla bbergasted ata variant of a qu -

e s tion all US presidents get sooneror later: “Are you still relevant?”

Obama appeared taken abackwhen asked at a White Housenews conference whether he stillhad the “juice” to get his agendathrough clogged up Congress.

“Maybe I should just pack upand go home. Golly," said Obama,probably thinking the questionimpertinent, since he is only three

months into his second term.“As Mark Twain said, rumors

of my demise may be a little exag-gerated at this point," Obama said.

Yet Obama, even as he haswoos lawmakers with trips upCapitol Hill and intimate dinners,can barely contain his contemptfor Congress, which blocks him atevery turn and threatens hishopes for a robust second-term.

“My charm offensive hashelped me learn some interestingthings about what’s going on inCongress — it turns out, absolute-ly nothing," Obama said Saturday.

The president’s joke, at theWhite House Correspondentsdinner, betrayed frustration atbanging his head against a con-

gressional brick wall.“You seem to suggest that

somehow these folks over therehave no responsibilities and thatmy job is to somehow get them tobehave," Obama told reportersTuesday, in a snipe at lawmakers.

In March, he had told IsraeliPrime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu moments after touch-ing down in Tel Aviv: “it’s good toget away from Congress."

Obama’s cynicism is distilledfr om disappointment: he said w -hile running for re-election last ye -ar that his victory could cause theRepublican “fever” to break andca ta lyze more cooperation inCongress.

Some hope.Apart from an end-of-year deal onallowing Bush-era tax cuts on therich to expire, Republicans have

dug in their heels on multiplefronts.

Obama’s gun reform driveafter the Newtown school mas-sacre foundered mostly onRepublican opposition — thoughsome conservative Democratspeeled away.

Chances of a deficit-cutting“grand bargain” are slim and dis-cord between Obama andRepublicans triggered $87 billionin automatic spending cutsknown as the “sequester."

Obama vowed to make a newpush to close Guantanamo Bay onTuesday — but the odds thatCongress will change its mindand let him do so are extreme.

One ray of light though isObama’s top second-term priority— immigration reform which keySenate Republicans know they

must support if they are to winback Hispanic voters and have aviable path in future presidentialelections.

The legislation’s prospects inthe Republican-led House ofRepresentatives, though appearunclear.

All second term presidentsrace the clock as their influencewanes.

Former George W. Bush advi-sor Karen Hughes, who saw herboss fail in his second term toreform immigration and socialsecurity, told NBC Sunday that re-elected presidents have only ayear to pass their program.

Still, while Obama’s influencemay ebb at home — the US com-mander-in-chief is never irrelevantand second term presidents oftenlook abroad to build their legacies.

AGRA

Take a green trip beyond the Taj MahalThe city of the Taj is now

aiming to show visitorsthat there is much more to

it than the monument to love.Discovering Oriental Agra, anew tourist circuit, will show-case not just heritage monu-ments but also the city’s culture,cuisine and industry — in elec-tric rickshaws.

Described as a “journeythrough the heart of the Taj city”,the daily hour-long tour that wasformally launched Sunday hasbeen organised by members ofAgra Beat, a group seeking topromote alternative tourism.While a number of rehearsalshave been conducted, regulartours will begin in the first weekof May.

“We offer foreign visitors aride in an electric rickshaw everymorning through the city toacquaint them with the real cul-ture of Agra and its cosmopoli-tan legacy. The rickshaw takesthem through the old bazaars,traditional eating joints and

places of worship," a member ofAgra Beat said.

“Agra is a melting point ofcultures. It lives in three distinctzones: the Hindu Agra, theMuslim and the Christian," AmitSisodia, the leader of the group,told IANS.

The tour will initially be con-ducted on four electric rickshawsthat can each carry four passen-gers but more vehicles can bearranged if the demand rises.There is one guide per two rick-shaws and passengers payRs.500 per head.

Row overhonour toChina docAustralian academics are

calling for a Chinese sur-geon accused of harvestingorgans from prisoners to bestripped of a University ofSydney honorary professor-ship.

Huang Jiefu, who wastrained in Sydney and untilrecently China’s vice-ministerfor health, today overseesBeijing’s organ transplantcommittee.

The university awardedHuang an honorary professor-ship that was recently extend-ed for another three years,

sparking an outcry.Sydney professor of

medicine Maria FiataroneSingh is organising a petitionto have Huang’s honoursoverturned.

In an open letter, Singhsaid Chinese officials usedexecution by lethal injection asa way to take and preserveprisoners’ organs.

“They are basically stillpractising execution ondemand."

“The person is anaes-thetised, they don’t diestraight away, (that) gives thesurgeons time to take out asmany organs as they wouldlike to, and then the lethalinjection finalised," Singh said.

China executes about 4,000a year, human rights groupssay.

AROUND THEWORLD

ORGAN HARVEST

Tour’s highlights

Dara Shikoh’s library,Mirza Ghalib’s birth-

place, the headquarters ofthe Radhasoami faith, theancient Manka Meshwartemple, the Jama Masjid,and St Patrick’s JuniorCollege - Asia’s oldest con-vent - and the Akbar Church.

AROUND THENATION

‘Will push to close Gitmo’WASHINGTON: US PresidentBarack Obama said Tuesday themilitary jail at GuantanamoBay is damaging US interestsand vowed a renewed push toclose it, as around 100 prison-ers take part in a hunger strikethere. Condemning the prisonas a legal “no man’s land,”Obama told a White Housenews conference that it wastime Congress agreed to shutthe jail and said the militarywas trying to keep detaineesalive in the face of the hungerstrike. AFP

AROUND THEWORLD

Maybe I shouldjust pack up

and go home.Golly!

BusinessWEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

13MANUFACTURING SLUMP IN CHINAManufacturing activity in China slowed slightly in April from theprevious month, official data showed on Wednesday, in a sign offurther weakness in the world's second-biggest economy.

THUS SPAKETo accelerate economic growth and tousher in all-round development, the statewould implement a plan of ̀ 2,75,000crore during the 12th Five Year Plan.

K SANKARANARAYANANMAHARASHTRA GOVERNOR

A bond offering from Apple expectedto be priced later today will be one ofthe largest ever for a US company,according to leading financial news-papers Tuesday. Apple is selling $17billion in investment-grade bonds,which would be a record for a US cor-porate debt issue, according to theWall Street Journal, which citedinvestors familiar with the deal.The Financial Times, also citingsources close to the deal, said theoffering would be $15 billion, butmight be increased due to heavydemand. Underwriters have been ableto lower the interest rate to be paidon the bonds.

APPLE’S OFFERING

South Korea said Wednesday it wasedging towards a deal with NorthKorea to ensure the return of theremaining workers at a joint industrialzone that has become a casualty ofmilitary tensions.The last South Korean workers had allbeen due to return from the North onMonday but seven remained to settleunresolved issues such as unpaidtaxes and wages for North Koreanworkers, believed to amount to mil-lions of dollars."Differences are being narrowed evenif the pace is slower than we expect-ed," a spokesman for the South'sUnification Ministry told reporters.

FACTORY ROW

NUMEROLOGY

$36.6 mnis what Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer

hauled in after just six months at thehelm of the Internet firm.

BSE 19054.18 116.68

NSEPOUND `83.44DOLLAR `53.80

SILVER `45,200 for 1kg24CGOLD `27,200 for 10g

5930.2026.10

PRUDHVI RAJU [email protected]

Businesses do not need tobother about managingor optimising HR ser-vices anymore. With the

growth of outsourcing HR ser-vices, there is a win-win situa-tion evolving between the HRsolutions providers and busi-nesses.

“This will be a cost-effectiveand efficient way forward forbusiness. HR outsourcing andpayroll BPO is emerging andgrowing in the country like inthe West,” says RaghuramJanapareddy, centre head (oper-ations), NorthgateArinso,

Hyderabad.“Today, businesses can pick

and choose varied services inthe mode of on-premise and on-demand from the range of prod-ucts and service portfolio. Forinstance, our products likeeuHReka, ResourceLink arewell-connected to back-endoperations like SAP. The com-panies can also avail solutions,products and support from us,”he says.

“With the growth of humanresource, businesses may nothave the bandwidth or theequipment to manage these ser-vices. The processes will be out-sourced to other organisationsbased on the cost analysis,” heexplains.

“Generally, small companieshave to afford wide-ranging

human resources like adminmanager, HR manager, recruit-ment manager irrespective ofthe size of the company. Theytend to outsource these process-es to small content companies,who work on simple softwareslike MS Word and MS Excel.

“However, if businessesthink that they have to managetheir own taxation and employ-ee welfare with the growth ofhuman resources and account-ability, they can choose compa-nies like us to maintain theirentire HR operations. They alsohave an option to have theirown software or buy onpremise software, solutions andservices from us,” saysRaghuram.

“Business management soft-wares in certain segments like

materials management; pur-chase and sales do not requirefrequent updates. However,accounting and HR softwareshave to be up to date with the

taxation and other rules of eachcountry. For instance, if there isa change in the deductions to anallowance, the software has tobe immediately updated withthe change and the next pay rollhas to be generated with thenew rule. Very few companieshave that capability to constant-ly monitor and update thechanges quickly. They are otherdifficulties like financial year ofthe country may not be same asof the organisation, whichneeds to be integrated in theapplication.

“The complexity of manag-ing will further increase if thereis mistake in deductions for PFor while paying salaries late.These applications on cloud canhelp in easing the complexitythrough a solution,” he says.

VITAL SERVICES

Human resources head outWith the growth of human resources, businesses may not have theequipment to manage these services. The solution? Outsourcing.

Various HR processesn Workforce administrationn Payrolln Time and Attendancen Performance managementn Compensation & rewardn Recruitmentn Succession planning

Various HR solutionsn Cloud Transformationn Consultingn Application maintenancen Testing n Reporting and Analyticsn Custom Product developmentn Internal Productivity toolsn Project accounting and

Reportingn Mobile applicationsn IT infrastructure managementn Managing Global QMSn Implementation of business

excellence framework

HINDI-CHINI BHAI BHAI?

CommentWEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

14HIGH-FLYING THOUGHTSWhat was it that hit Obama when he was asked if he had run out of juice.Golly was his answer, a term used to describe surprise or wonder? Morethan these feelings, was he shaken a bit, to be asked this this early into hissecond term?

The ghosts of 1962 areback. With China’sPeople’s LiberationArmy entering anddigging in almost 20

km inside Indian territory, ourreaction shows that not muchhas changed despite in 50 yearsdespite our tall claims of pack-ing enough deterrent militarypunch.

If then it was a myopicJawaharlal Nehru with hisutopian ‘Hindi-Cheeni Bhai-Bhai’ trust in the aggressivelyexpanding giant neighbour,now it is another statesmanprime minister, ManmohanSingh, and his team who havebeen caught off guard by theChinese military manoeuvre.

At the time of India’s secondround of nuclear tests, the thendefence minister GeorgeFernandes had rather undiplo-matically, but candidly, said thatthe nukes were aimed at thecountry’s most dangerousenemy — China.

With the establishment tout-ing India’s nuclear arsenal andlong range missiles, the publicmay feel the country hasenough capability to stop anyChinese adventurism. However,even a quick scan of lastdecade’s news reports on mili-tary preparedness would show

that such an impression is mere-ly an illusion.

The armed forces are woe-fully short of officers and low onmorale due to unending line ofmassive corruption casesinvolving top level officers. Thearmy is under-equipped andlacks modern artillery piecesand equipment for high-altitudewarfare. If former army chiefVK Singh’s letter to the govern-ment is anything to go by, thereisn’t enough ammunition tofight a war.

The navy too doesn’t faremuch better. Half of its ageingsubmarine fleet is always underrepair and the relic of an aircraftcarrier is virtually kept afloat byfaith — on rare occasions whenit hits the blue waters between‘refurbishments, upgrades,repairs and improvements.

Though Su-30 MKIs andJaguars add some punch to theair force, lack of infrastructureand adequately protected basesnear the border reduce them todefensive roles. The Chineseside is well connected by high-quality road networks, and theirair-defence capabilities are near-ly impenetrable to the rest of thefleet.

So, with military actionguaranteed to deliver anotherround of humiliation, India is atan unenviable position where itwill have to lap up whateverbreadcrumbs the Chinese willthrow at it and walk away.

What is deplorable is thatsuccessive governments andmilitary bosses have draggedtheir feet on achieving mini-mum deterrence capability and50 years after the humiliation of1962, we are pretty much in thesame position.

The reactions of our govern-ment are palpably weak-willed,divided and confused — and itis obvious to any keen observerthat it is dealing from a positionof weakness and hoping for aface-saver rather than problem-solver.

In China, a new leadership

has taken over. They would usethis crisis to improve theirdomestic standing and to curryfavour with the military. Thisincursion tactic is also a not-so-subtle message to India that itsnewfound bonhomie withChina’s ‘hostile’ neighbourssuch as Vietnam, South Korea,Philippines and Japan, and ofcourse, the United States, willhave serious repercussions.

Tiger can take on the drag-on. However, what we havenow is a kitten, whose feedingbowl says ‘Tiger’. Tough luckboys, try better next time.

Terrific impact of female infanticide

What we suspected years ago is turning out to be true, after all. Years of female infanticide,thanks to the repugnant dowry system, is leading to a terrific shortage of girls and this is

triggering an unprecedented attacks on girls, even kids. It is a signal failure of the government ofthe day that should have spread awareness about the consequences of disturbing gender parity.It could also have gone in with a carrot and stick policy of penalising heavily those indulging ininfanticide and encouraging those withstanding the trend with incentives in jobs, housing andother facilities. The government took it as a penal crime to be dealt with by the police. It was a

grave mistake. Almost all states in India, barring Kerala, are reporting a heavy fall in femalebirths. A while ago, Reuters’ TrustLaw had reported how social workers are sounding alarm bellson this aspect. The result of shortage of girls is increased trafficking in girls, abduction, rape andeven incest. Bhagyashri Dengle, executive director of children’s charity Plan India had said we are

already seeing the terrible impacts of falling population of females.

Run out of juice?

Has Barack Obama run out of juiceto get his agenda passed through

a hostile Congress? The man who wasasked this summed up in a word:Golly. Obama said maybe he shouldpack and go home. Moments of crisisare aplenty when one is the USPresident. But it is a much sanerscene when a person unaffected byparanoia occupies the Oval Office.When that is not the case we knowhow bad it can get.

EDITORIALS

READERS’ VIEWSWe invite you to write to us comments, suggestions, viewpoint or just about anything to [email protected] or#1246, Level 3, Jubilee Casa, Road No 62, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500 033 or even by way of a call on 4067 2222. Editor: Dean Williams

Happiness is abutterfly, which

when pursued, isalways just beyondyour grasp, butwhich, if you will sitdown quietly,may alight uponyou.

Nathaniel Hawthorne American author

FUSILLADEArun Koshy Philip

SUY SEAgence France-Presse

COWERING KITTY,ROARING DRAGON

IIt has been hailed as a chanceto heal a traumatised nation,

but former foot soldiers ofthe brutal Khmer Rouge say

Cambodia's genocide trial is awaste of money that will only re-

open old wounds.The landmark case against the

most senior surviving leaders ofthe hardline communist regime,

which began in 2011, has beendescribed as one of the world's

most complex in decades and iscosting tens of millions of dollars.

The tribunal, set up in 2006after long negotiations between

Cambodia and the UnitedNations, was billed as an oppor-

tunity to find justice and reconcil-iation after one of the worst hor-

rors of the 20th century.But in former Khmer Rouge

strongholds along theCambodian-Thai border, ageing

former regime cadres wouldrather that the bloody episodes of

the late 1970s are forgotten."The wounds are almost

healed, but I think the trial is likea sharp stick piercing the old

wounds," said Nhem Preuong,who joined the Khmer Rouge as a

soldier in 1973."Everyone suffered under the

regime, but we should let hatredgo," said the 58-year-old father of

three, who is now a local coun-cilor and married to another for-

mer Khmer Rouge cadre. "Weshould bury the past."

Led by Pol Pot, who died in1998, the Khmer Rouge wiped

out up to two million people —nearly a quarter of the population

— through starvation, overworkor execution in a bid to create an

agrarian utopia.

Khmer Rougecadres havehad enough

TOO MANY COOKS DON’T ALWAYS SPOIL THE BROTH

CinemaWEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

15JAMIE FOX EYES ANNIE REMAKEThe upcoming reimagining of musical classic Annie is landing more Oscar-caliber talent as JamieFoxx reportedly nears a deal to play the Daddy Warbucks-inspired character Benjamin Stacks.Foxx would join Beasts of the Southern Wild star Quvenzhane Wallis in the remake directed byWill Gluck (Easy A) and produced by a team including Will Smith, Jay-z and Jada Pinkett-Smith.

The Item ItchWhat's with Bollywood goingoverboard with item numbers?There's a Munni, Sheila or the lat-est Babli in almost all big budgetmovies now. Recently, PriyankaChopra made headlines as she'sdoing another item numbercalled Pinky in her upcoming filmZanjeer. From Babli to Pinky, PChas made quite the jump! TheHindi film industry seems to be atan all-time low as it has to bankon these out-of-plot, unrelateditem gimmicks onscreen for suc-cess. You never know if Dhoom 3will have Bebo doing a Rinkynext!

Not so starry-eyedKaran Johar believes that the 'star'system in Bollywood is dyingslowly and steadily because ofsmall-time movies like VickyDonor and Kahaani. He says:"With films like Gangs ofWasseypur, Vicky Donor andShanghai doing well at the boxoffice, it seems that the star sys-tem in Bollywood will come to ascreeching halt. Small budgetfilms like those had a betterscreen play and profit than anyother star's film." Well, KJo, wehope you're right. We are sick ofwatching avatars of Dabaang too.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is voluntarily

going back totreatment for bipo-

lar II disorder, Ethas learned. Cece

Yorke, a rep for the actress, tells

Et, "Catherine hasproactively

checked into a health care

facility.”

It looks like thestage-to-filmtrend isn't stop-ping with lastyear's LesMisérables.MichaelFassbender is setto star in theupcoming filmadaptation ofMacbeth, accord-ing to reports.

SCREEN POOPERS

TRENDING...

THEPOWER

OF MORE

When four celebratedBollywood directors – AnuragKashyap, Zoya Akhtar, KaranJohar and Dibakar Banerjee –come together to create magic through BombayTalkies as a tribute to 100years of cinema, it is only ourduty to look at others whohave successfully tread thesame path in the past.

1. PARIS, JE T'AIME (2006)

With 22 directors shar-ing the captain's

chair on one single movie,one can only imagine thehard work and coordina-tion the project woulddemand. Creative differ-ences and agreementsapart, pinning the storiestogether would alone be a

nightmare. However,directors Gus Van Sant,brothers Ethan and JoelCoen, Christopher Doyle,Walter Salles, DanielaThomas, Tom Tykwer andGurinder Chadha of Bendit Like Beckham fame,among the 22, createdmagic with Paris je

t'aime. Given only fiveminutes each in the film,the directors successfullyweaved a single narrativeout of 20 moments. Eachtransition in the movieends with the beginningof the following storythus negating any confu-sion among viewers.

4. FOUR ROOMS (1995)

One of the oldest anthology films made in Hollywood,Four Rooms saw four directors — Allison Anders,

Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and QuentinTarantino come together to narrate one story. The story is set

in the fictional Hotel Mon Signor in LosAngeles on New Year's Eve. Tim Rothplays the hotel bellhop, the main charac-ter in the frame story, whose first nighton the job consists of four very differentencounters with various hotel guests.The four segments of the movie areHoneymoon Suite - 'The MissingIngredient', Room 404 - 'The WrongMan', Room 309 - 'The Misbehavers' andPenthouse - 'The Man From Hollywood'.

2. NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU (2009)

Inspired by Paris jet'aime, New York, I Love

You is another dreamensemble of directors.With 11 captains, includ-ing Shekhar Kapur,Natalie Portman, MiraNair, Wen Jiang and BrettRatner, behind the scenes,magic was obvious. Thenarrative revolves around10 vignettes in New YorkCity — a pickpocket, awriter, a bride-to-be, abusinessman and so on.New York, I Love You, star-ring Orlando Bloom,Natalie Portman, AndyGarcia, Irrfan Khanamong others, unfolds 10stories among the eightmillion waiting to be toldin the naked city.

3. KERALA CAFE (2009)

With 10 different directors forthe 10 segments in the movie,

Kerala Cafe is one of the landmarkmovies coming from the state.Among the talented lot, UdayAnanthan, Lal Jose, Shaji Kailas,Revathy, Anjali Menon andShyamaprasad stole the show withtheir segments. Anwar Rasheed, who directed the Bridgesegment of the movie is still associated with that short filmin Malayalam cinema. Kerala Cafe is an ode to the state andits people through the creative lens of 10 directors. The castincludes Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Dileep, Sreenivasan,Prithviraj, Thilakan, Jagathy Sreekumar, Salim Kumar,Anoop Menon, Fahad Fazil and Nithya Menon.

5. DUS KAHANIYAAN(2007)

The film comprises10 short films telling

10 different stories which are directed bysix directors, includingSanjay Gupta, ApoorvaLakhia, Rohit Roy,Jasmeet Dhodi andMeghna Gulzar. Out ofthe 10 segments,Highway On My Platestarring Jimmy Shergilland Masumeh Makhija,Pooranmasi starringAmrita Singh, ParmeetSethi and MinnishaLamba, Strangers in TheNight starringMahesh Manjrekar and

Neha Dhupia and Zahirstarring Manoj Bajpai and Diya Mirza are revelations.

[email protected] BHUSHANAnthology trivia:n Sirikkathe, a Tamil film released in 1939,

was the first anthology film in India.

n The 1961 Bengali film Teen Kanya bySatyajit Ray, based on three short stories byRabindranath Tagore, belongs to this genre.

n Chithramela, a Malayalam film directedby TS Muthaiah, and Kathasangama, aKannada film directed by PuttannaKanagal in 1975, are some of the earliestportmanteau films from India.


18MIDWEEK MADNESSDJ Sowmya and Umar will be churning out the best of hiphop and housemusic at Rain tonight. Head to the pub to let go and have a blast.spotlight

Pari Mayanka

Shubha

Divya

Manya

Roshni

Deepti

12

139

10

11

87

MEDICAL WONDERSDr C Raghu chief cardiologist at PrimeHospitals announced the successfulcompletion of congenital heart deviceclosure procedures (without surgery)on children between the age group of2 and 4 and on a 45-year-old lady.

GOLD RUSHAmtul Shafi of Shadan Institute of

Medical Sciences, Hospital & ResearchCenter (SIMS) has been awarded six

gold medals for securing highestmarks in her college.

PARTY PEOPLE

HAVE FUNGirls just want to PYTs turned up in their glamorous

best and set the dance floor on fire atKismet on Tuesday night. Spottedwere Manya, Shuba and others.

1

7 8 9 10 11 12

13

2 3 4 5 6

N SHIVA KUMAR

Sweta, Harini

Shima

Tanvi

Aditi

Mega Reddy

Bindhu, Mun mun

1

2

3

4

5

6

FEAR OF ENCEPHALITIS OUTBREAK HAUNTS BIHARWith this year's first death suspected to be caused by AcuteEncephalitis Syndrome (AES) reported in Bihar, the fear of an outbreakof the deadly mosquito-borne disease has returned to haunt the state,an official said Tuesday. IANShealth


19

Virtual TrainerThis app has over 250exercises. You can createand log your own rou-tines or choose from 120programmes, rangingfrom six to 60 minutes,

and is suitable for any fitness level. It isperfect for anyone interested in generalfitness, weight loss and muscle develop-ment. All exercises include easy-to-fol-low instructions. itunes.apple.com

Breast cancer About 48,000 women get breast cancerin Britain each year. Most (eight out of10) are over 50, but younger women,and in rare cases, men, can also getbreast cancer. It can have a number ofsymptoms but usually shows as a lumpor thickening in the breast tissue(although most breast lumps are notcancerous). If it is detected at an earlystage, it can be treated before it spreadsto nearby parts of the body. nhs.uk

You get a new ear canalevery yearThe ear canal (a tuberunning from the outerear to the middle ear)skin is constantly grow-

ing outward at a rate of 1.3 inches everyyear. You get a new ear canal every year.If it didn’t fall off, you’d have a two footstring hanging out of your ear by thetime you were 20. calmear.com

Charles Herbert BestBest was an American-Canadian medicalscientist and one of the co-discoverersof insulin. In 1923, the Nobel PrizeCommittee honoured Banting and JJRMacleod with the Nobel Prize inMedicine for the discovery of insulin,ignoring Best. Banting chose to sharehalf of the prize money with Best. Bestwas elected a honorary member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesin 1948. en.wikipedia.org

NEWS BRIEFSAPP-LY YOURSELF HOUSECALL DID YOU KNOW? PIONEERS

VITAMIN DEFICIENCY

While parents are alwaysworried about howto make their chil-dren eat their leafygreens, here’s a

compelling reason to act fast. Theycould slow down the aging pro-cess and prevent a host of serious,life threatening diseases, whichincludes osteoporosis, inhibit cardio-vascular disease, cancer and evenAlzheimer’s.

The list sounds scary enough. Thesediseases can be held at bay, foughtagainst and their progression slowedwith the presence of vitamin K in ourbodies. Vitamin K is a fat soluble vita-min that is often ignored — at leastcompared to some other essential vita-mins and minerals. There are manyforms of the vitamin K complex.Vitamin K1 is the one you get by eatingspinach and other deep green, leafyvegetables and is an important factor inblood clotting. There is a second form ofvitamin K now being closely studied byscientists, known as vitamin K2, and evi-dence shows that it might be a key infighting both cancer and Alzheimer’sdisease.

But there is no need to press the panicbutton yet. The vitamin can be producedby the body and is needed only in smallquantities. Deficiencies are rare except inthose with underlying medical condi-tions. Dr Ravi Reddy, a nutritionist inHyderabad, says, “ The cases of vitaminK deficiency in adults are quite rare.However, low levels of this vitamin canraise the risk of uncontrolled bleeding.

For newborns, a singleinjection of vitamin K isstandard in many places

abroad.”The advantages and roles

of this vitamin are many,adds Dr Reddy, “Its pri-

mary role is to helpblood clot easily,

what we alsoknow as coa -gu lation. Ithelps ke epstrong the

b o n e s

an d prevents hardening of the arteries. “Persons deficient in vitamin K may

have heavy menstrual bleeding, gumbleeding, bleeding within the digestivetract, nose bleeding, easy bruising, bloodin the urine, prolonged clotting times,hemorrhaging and anaemia. A second setof vitamin K deficiency-related symp-toms involves bone problems.

Dr Reddy advises that since vitaminK is so abundant in food sources and bac-teria in your intestine produce vitamin Kon their own, there is almost no need tosupplement this vitamin. Simply contin-ue (or start) eating more leafy greens to

bypass deficiencysymptoms.

‘clotting’ vitamin

Good natural food sources of vitamin K include:n Vegetables like spinach, asparagus, and broccolin Beans and soybeansn Eggs and meatn Strawberriesn Vitamin K is also made by the bacteria that line the

gastrointestinal tract.

FOOD SOURCES

Not just a

Vegetarianshave a lot to bethankful for; espe cially their intakeof leafy greens, whichhelps produce vitamin K,needed for the strengthening of thebones and coagulation ofblood. But that’s not allthere is to it.

FLEME [email protected]

GLENN [email protected]

SAN FRANCISCO: Fitnesswristband maker Jawboneadded muscle to its lineup of fit-ness lifestyle devices Tuesdaywith a deal to buy the companybehind armbands that measurehow many calories people areburning.

Jawbone did not disclosefinancial terms of its deal to pur-chase BodyMedia, which makesarmbands used to track perfor-mance of fat-shedding competi-tors on US reality televisionshow The Biggest Loser.

The two companies have acombined “three decades worthof deep technology and intellec-tual property” around sophisti-cated body sensors and hun-dreds of patents focused onwearable technology, accordingto Jawbone.

“There’s an enormousappetite for personal data andself-discovery among con-sumers that will only continueto grow,” said Jawbone chiefexecutive and founder Hosain

Rahman.“We look forward to push-

ing new boundaries, creatingnew markets, and showing peo-ple what’s truly possible withwearable computing.”

The San Francisco-basedcompany behind “smart” wire-less earpieces and Jamboxspeakers late last year releasedand redesigned its UP wrist-bands that combine fashionwith smartphone lifestyles tohelp people along paths toimproved fitness.

UP wristbands are priced at$129 in the United States. UPapplications tailored for Appleor Android mobile devices col-lect data from the bands to let

people more easily get picturesof activity, sleep, eating, andeven their moods on any givenday or over time.

The wristbands track users’level of activity, whether theyare exercising, pacing in anoffice, or snoozing in bed.

BodyMedia, founded in thePennsylvania city of Pittsburghabout 14 years ago, is consid-ered a pioneer in combiningsensors in wearable deviceswith machine learning.

BodyMedia armbands trackactivities of wearers, includinghow intensely they work out,and calculate how many calo-ries are burned. Sleep and eat-ing information is also gathered.

The BodyMedia platformboasts of being registered with the US Food and DrugAdministration as a provendevice for enhancing healthyweight loss.

By combining forces, “wecan make an even bigger impacton people’s health and helpthem achieve their goals,” saidBodyMedia chief executiveChristine Robins.

BodyMedia operations willremain in Pittsburgh but theemployees will become part ofthe Jawbone team, according toJawbone vice president of strat-egy Travis Bogard.

“We always talked aboutwireless headsets as wearable

computers,” Bogard said.“This is exactly the long

term vision we have had. We areexpanding what is possible withsensors and computing goingon the body.”

Jawbone announced an UPplatform that software develop-ers can build on to make appli-cations that work with the wrist-bands on iPhones, iPads, oriPod touch devices.

Applications ready at launchincluded RunKeeper andMapMyFitness for logging runsor bicycle rides, includingroutes, and synching informa-tion with UP software on Applegadgets.

AFP

BlackBerry Chief Executive OfficerThorsten Heins said the popularityof tablet computers may wane, anindication the company may shelvea follow-up to its ill-fated PlayBookdevice, which was introduced in2011. “In five years I don’t thinkthere’ll be a reason to have a tabletanymore,” Heins said in an inter-view. Heins is rethinking whether tooffer larger devices even as thecompany pushes ahead with freshsmartphones built on the newBlackBerry 10 platform to engineera sales recovery.


Researchers in Sweden havedeveloped a new technique bywhich you can charge yourdevices anywhere without elec-tricity, provided there is a watersource nearby. Just add a spoon-ful and get instant power. Handyfor anyone who spends timeaway from electricity, the light -weight PowerTrekk could powercritical devices for warfightersand aid workers deployed inremote areas of the world, FoxNews reported. Developed by ateam in Sweden's KTH RoyalInstitute of Technology and madeby MyFC, it's the world's firstwater-activated charging device,the developers claimed. It canextend battery life up to 3 watts.

DEATH KNELL FOR TABLETS?

WATER POWER

Lots of big media companieshave been investing in YouTubevideo makers. Now it looks likeone of them is going to buy one.DreamWorks Animation is closeto a deal to acquire Awesome -nessTV, a YouTube network aimedsquarely at teens and tweens,according to people familiar withthe proposed transaction.Awesomeness was created by for-mer child star Brian Robbins andis positioned as a next-generationversion of Viacom’s Nickelodeon,targeting the kids who make upthe core of YouTube’s audience.The channel has nearly 5,00,000subscribers. Last month it said ithad generated more than 80 mil-lion video views.

SLICE OF YOUTUBE PIE

Technology 20

'Smart' moveJawbone buys gadget maker

for Biggest Loser.

HEALTH WATCH

Applications tailoredfor Apple or Androiddevices collect datafrom the bands to letpeople more easily getpictures of their activ-ity, sleep and eating.

T-TOWN AT CANNES

RAM CHARAN, PRIYANKA DUTT As the date for the

66th Cannes FilmFestival inches closer,more celebrities from

India are unveiling their plansto attend the world’s most pres-tigious film festival. This year,Cannes Film Festival has decid-ed to focus on Indian cinema tocelebrate the 100th anniversaryof Indian Cinema. As a result,several Indian celebrities fromvarious regional film industries,apart from Bollywood, aregoing to attend the film festival.Steven Spielberg is thePresident of the Film Festivalthis time and he has alreadyselected Vidya Balan as one of

the jury members. Four Indianfilms including Ugly, BombayTalkies, Charulata and MonsoonShootout are going to bescreened in various categoriesat the film festival. Apart fromthis numerous short films fromIndia have been selected to bescreened out of competition.

Rajinikanth is expected toattend the film festival alongwith select members from castand crew of his upcoming filmKochadaiyaan. The film’s trailerwill be unveiled at Cannes.Apart from Rajinikanth, wehear Ram Charan is also goingto walk the Red Carpet atCannes with the lead members

of Zanjeer’s team. This is thefirst time he is visiting the filmfestival officially and he’ll berubbing shoulders with some ofthe most revered filmmakersand actors from across theworld. On the other hand,Priyanka Dutt is on cloud ninethat her short film Yaadon KiBaarat has been selected to bescreened at the film festival.The short film is reportedlyabout how a child, who’s ahuge RD Burman fan, tries topacify his parents when theyend up quarelling frequently.The film festival is going tobegin from May 15 and it willclose on May 26.

head to Cannes

EntertainmentWEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

21

DK Bose’s audio outon May 7

The audio of SundeepKishan’s upcoming film

DK Bose is going to belaunched on May 7. AnBose has directed the filmand it has been producedby Anand Ranga and SeshuReddy. Nisha Aggarwal isthe lead actress. Achu hasscored the music. SundeepKishan will be seen as apolice officer in this film.

CLA’s shooting wrappedup

The principal shooting ofChandamama Lo Amrutham

has finally come to an end.Gunnam Gangaraju has pro-duced and directed the film andit’s an adaptation of the popularTelugu sitcom Amrutham.Srinivas Avasarala, Harish,Dhanya, Inturi Vasu andShivannarayana have played thelead roles.

Sreeram Chandra’s filmnears completion

Former Indian idol SreeramChandra will soon be seen in

a romantic comedy titled PremaGeema Jantha Nai. Barbie is thelead actress and the film hasbeen directed by Subbu RV. Thefilm’s principal shooting isalmost complete, except forthree songs. The audio will belaunched in June and the filmmight be released in July.

CINE BYTES

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 22ALL ABOUT THE KHAANDAN

When Aamir madeImran cry

Actor Imran Khan was intears to see his uncle

Aamir Khan die in the finalscenes of Qayamat SeQayamat Tak. Imran playedthe role of young Raj(essayed by Aamir) in hisgrandfather's home pro-duction. Imran feels it is abig day for the family andalso it's very special andemotional as the film com-pletes 25 years. PTI

Zoya Akhtar nervousabout 'Bombay Talkies'

B ombay Talkies, a film com-prising four shorts by four

directors, is ready to hit thescreens Friday. Zoya Akhtar, whohas made on of the films, says sheis nervous. The film has beenmade to pay tribute to 100 yearsof Indian cinema. Apart fromZoya, it has contributions byAnurag Kashyap, Karan Johar andDibaker Banerjee. IANS

Ekta Kapoor gets a visitfrom the tax officials

Around 100 sleuths of theIncome Tax Department car-

ried out search operations at theoffices, residences, studios andother properties of top officials offilm production house BalajiTelefims on Monday, an officialsaid. The operations startedsimultaneously at the BalajiTelefilms offices in Andheri, stu-dios, residences of top officials inJuhu and their offices on LinkingRoad, Andheri. IANS

CINE BYTES

RACHEL O'[email protected]

“We have beenthere through-out. All the mile-

stones of cinema, there hasbeen some Kapoor or theother,” says 60-year-old RishiKapoor, who has notched upnearly 150 Hindi film creditsover a four-decade actingcareer.

It started with grandfatherPrithviraj, a silver screen pio-neer from the 1920s. Thencame his son, the legendaryRaj Kapoor, known as “theShowman” and “India'sCharlie Chaplin” for his rolesas a loveable tramp.

Raj's three sons followedhim into acting, with Rishileading the way as his genera-tion's romantic hero. NowRishi's son Ranbir, 30, is toutedas “the future ofBollywood”and his nieceKareena is a leading actress.

That's not to mention theKapoor spouses, cousins, in-laws and other relatives whohave taken a shot at moviestardom with varying degreesof success.

“The audiences havealways welcomed us and givenan opportunity and we've livedup to it,” Rishi tells AFP .

The lineage keeps produc-ing talent — Ranbir won criti-cal acclaim for his turn as thedeaf-and-mute hero of lastyear's hit Barfi — but it alsoshows the power of a surnamein an industry still mired innepotism.

As Indian cinema marks itscentenary this week, the mainrivals to the title of“Bollywood's first family” arethe Bachchans.

Veteran superstar AmitabhBachchan married actress JayaBhaduri and their son Abhishekhas followed them into themovies, albeit to much lessacclaim, and married modeland actress Aishwarya Rai.

Among other famous filmfamilies are the Dutts, the

Bhatts, the Deols, the Akhtars,the Chopras and the Johars.

“I'm a brand ambassadorof nepotism,” admitted direc-tor and producer Karan Joharat a recent conference on cine-ma in Mumbai.

“If my father was not afilm producer and he didn’thave that kind of contact withother illustrious filmmakers, Iwould probably have been afashion designer, I would havebeen in the world of advertis-ing.”

In showbiz worldwide ithelps to have connections, butIndia is especially fond of itsdynasties.

A few outsiders have man-aged to break into cinema.Johar's nepotism commentswere made at a panel titled

Gatecrashers who made the party:the Out of Towners in Bollywood,which highlighted a handfulwho have shown it is possible.

Megastar Shah RukhKhan, ranked as India's topcelebrity by Forbes, had nostarry childhood but a middle-class upbringing in Delhi.Half-British Katrina Kaif, oneof Bollywood's highest-paidactresses, was brought upabroad, not speaking Hindi,and “had an ice cube's chancein hell of making it”, accordingto an April edition of Filmfaremagazine. “I think it hasbecome a more accessiblespace in the last 15 years. Thepearly gates to the kingdomhave opened up a little bit,especially for filmmakers,”says film critic AnupamaChopra.

She adds however thatnepotism remains a “big part”of the industry: “the son of anactor invariably becomes anactor”.

Rishi insists that hardwork and talent are crucial tomake it to the top — not everyKapoor has hit the big time.But if you are one of the luckyones, he sees little sense indiverting from the familypath. “It's plain logic. Whywould I want to become arocket scientist when I'm goodas an actor?” he laughs. AFP

BOLLYWOOD DYNASTIES As Indian cinema

turns 100 yearsold, one powerful

Bollywooddynasty can trace

the roots of theirstardom almost

right back to thebirth of the

national filmindustry.

KEEP IT IN THE FAMILY

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 23

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 24

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 25STAGE IS SET

Epic to hit Indianscreens first

Hollywood film Epic, a 3Danimated adventure com-

edy, will hit Indian screens onMay 17, a week before itopens in the US.

The Fox Star Studios’ fan-tasy movie is based onWilliam Joyce’s book TheLeaf Men and the Brave GoodBugs. It has voiceovers byColin Farrell, JoshHutcherson, Amanda Seyfriedand Beyonce Knowles.

Disney takes DowntonAbbey actress as Cindrella

Disney has found someone towear the magic slipper. Lily

James (Downton Abbey) will staras Cinderella in Disney’s upcom-ing live-action interpretation ofthe classic tale. Kenneth Branaghwill direct, with Cate Blanchettplaying the evil stepmother.Emma Watson was previously intalks to star as the famousprincess, but a deal never closed.

The Bling Ring to CloseSeattle film festival

The North American premiere ofSofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring

will serve as the closing-nightattraction at the 2013 SeattleInternational Film Festival, a 25-dayevent that draws more viewers thanany other US festival. The BlingRing, which will have its world pre-miere at Cannes in the Un CertainRegard section, stars Emma Watsonand tells the story of a group of LA-area youngsters who broke into astring of celebrities’ houses.

CINE BYTES

NATALIE PORTMAN,MichaelFassbender in Macbeth

Natalie Portman andMichael

Fassbender arereportedly set to

star in a new filmadaptation of Macbeth, directed by

The Snowtown Murders helmer JustinKurzel. ScreenDaily hears ”Portmanhas long wanted to take on the role,

previously considering stage ver-sions, and that the actress was keen

to renew her collaboration withFassbender after the two recentlywrapped production on Terrence

Malick’s latest film about the Texasmusic scene.” (Until recent schedul-ing issues popped up, the two were

also set to appear in Jane’s Got aGun.) Macbeth will feature

Shakespeare’s original linguisticstylings and “a visceral approach tothe story including significant battlescenes.” Filming is set to begin later

this year.

ACROSS1 Committee head, briefly6 Electrical pioneer Nikola11 Victoria’s Secret purchase14 A detective might flash it15 Ancient Andes dwellers16 Scottish hero Roy17 Evicting, essentially19 Singleton20 Heavy weight21 Prefix for “eminent”22 Abbr. on a toothpaste box23 Chickens27 Royal bailiwick29 William Tell’s canton30 Sounds of disapproval32 Thailand, prior to 193933 A mouse moves over it34 Sings like Torme36 Birdlike39 Newspaper clipping41 Decorative sewing cases43 Pre-deal chip44 Jeter of baseball46 Fireplace item48 ___ Jones Index49 A billion years, in astronomy

(Var.)51 Combustible funeral heap52 Building wing53 Be in command of56 In a clear way58 Fix, as a boxing match59 Prior to, to a poet60 Work wk. starter, usually61 Yale grad Whitney62 Enough for everyone and then

some68 It used to be light as a feather69 Birth-related70 Blender setting

71 Metric work unit72 Looseness73 Brown ermine

DOWN1 You might have a handle on these2 “Hem” companion3 Suffix with “lemon” or “lime”4 Marvin Gaye’s “Can ___ Witness?”5 Cops’ paperwork6 Soldier material?7 Chang’s twin8 Rifleman’s aide9 Dern and Bush10 Star sapphire, e.g.11 Unbiased12 Musical form with a refrain13 At right angles to a ship’s length18 Bring on, as labor23 Deity with a bow and arrow24 Address Congress, say25 Extending over a large area26 Enunciate28 Kilauea flow31 Go on the campaign trail35 Female fortune-teller37 Coral reef38 Word with “wed” or “married”40 Wrestling competition42 Immunity providers45 Seoul residents47 Gets back50 Commonplace53 Word with “paper” or “suzette”54 Edmonton hockey player55 Greek penny, once57 Data fed to a computer63 Fond du ___, Wis.64 Big game65 Athlete who plays for pay66 Where cows graze67 “Are we there ___?”

KAKURO QUICK CROSSWORD

SUDOKU

Chai TimeWEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

26THOUGHT OF THE DAYA 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merelyuttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

SCRIBBLING PAD

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

How to play kakuroKakuro is a popular game similar to sudoku insome ways. But is also suitably different. The keyquestion: ‘How do you play kakuro?’, well hereare the rules of kakuro. The answer: The kakurogrid, unlike in sudoku, can be of any size. It hasrows and columns, and dark cells like in a cross-word. And, just like in a crossword, some of thedark cells will contain numbers. Some cells willcontain two numbers.

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

Within each collection of cells — calleda run — any of the numbers 1 to 9 may be usedbut, like sudoku, each number may only be usedonce.

Let’s have an example to explain this conceptmore clearly:

In the image above, which shows a section ofa 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 under-neath must sum to 14. Therefore 9, 4, 1 could bethe answer, or perhaps 7, 4, 3 and so on...

So, how do you work out the actual combi-nation? Well, this is done through eliminationand cross-referencing. For instance, as you workout the answers for other kakuro clues, this willnaturally limit the valid combinations, and hencethe answer for this particular run.

Note the second cell in row two — it con-tains two numbers, 30 and 11. The 30 refers tothe vertical run underneath the number 30 andthe 11 refers to the two cells to the right, hori-zontally, of the number 11.

TAROT READ

Chai Time WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 27

STAR POWER

STRIP TEASE

Vol: 2, No 285 RNI No: APENG/2011/39337 Published for the proprietors, Scribble Media and Entertainment Pvt Ltd, by V Harshavardhan Reddy, at #1246, Level 3, Jubilee Casa, Road No 62, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad – 500033and printed by him at Jagati Publications Ltd, Plot No D-75&E-52, APIE Industrial Estate, Balanagar, Ranga Reddy Dist, Hyderabad – 500037, Editor: Dean Williams – Responsible for selection of news under the PRB Act All rights reserved.

Reproduction in whole or in part without written permission of the publisher is prohibited. For feedback, please write to: feedback@postnoon. com and for subscription, please call 040-4067 2222, Fax: 040-4067 2211

Thiruvaikumar

Sumaa Tekur

thiruvaikumar@yahoo. co. in, 040-27177230 / 9177596118

tarotreadhyd@gmail. com

for 2-5-2013 As per Hindu panchang

for 2-5-2013

ARIESYou will purchase a new plot byselling the old one. Your skillswill be exposed and will earnyou a good appreciation. Son islikely to get a good careeropportunity. Benefits throughGovt. are likely. You will achievesuccess.

ARIES: Three of Wands –Inflation and high costs of living aremaking a dent on your budget.You’re not happy with theinflow/outflow ratio.

GEMINI: Nine of Pentacles– Stand up for what you believe inand people will take you more seri-ously. If you are unsure and still wanta say in everything, it won’t work.

LEO: King of Swords – Youcannot tolerate the idea of acceptingevil without protesting it. This atti-tude, however, may get you intotrouble with seniors and leaders.

LIBRA: The Emperor –Learn to express your spiritualitywithout demeaning someone else’sbeliefs. Your words may come acrossas too harsh.

TAURUS: The World –There is likely to be some delay inyour plans. So you should makemore time and leave a buffer sodelays will not affect your schedule.

CANCER: The Star – Youmay get the feeling that you are sub-ordinate to someone although youare of the same position. This couldmake you feel restless.

VIRGO: Queen of Wands –By treating something as simply asymbolic action or like a religious rit-ual, without being fully involved, youmake it more tiresome.

SCORPIO: Eight ofPentacles – You will have the free-dom to question the morality ofsomeone’s actions today. Do it in away that you do not cause hurt.

CAPRICORN: Knight ofWands – Reconcile with what youhave instead of thinking all the timeabout what all could have been.Don’t have very high expectations.

SAGITTARIUS: Four ofSwords – Your thoughts and ideas willbe starkly different from reality. Youneed to realign your expectations bygetting real.

AQUARIUS: Ten of Cups –Faith and spirituality play a veryimportant role in your life, whetheryou are willing to accept it or not.Keep an open mind.

PISCES: The HighPriestess – You play a big role insolving issues at the work place. Youwere not expected to intervene butyour presence will’ve a good effect.

TAURUSFriendship with VIP friends islikely. You will take bold deci-sions which will yield desiredresults. You will win over theenemies who will try to put inlots of roadblocks to you.Good gains likely for thosedealing in share markets.

GEMINIExpenses are likely to go upwhich will worry you. You willlook into children’s problem,get them resolved to their satis-faction and make them feelrelaxed. Wanderings are likelyto increase. Your self confi-dence will be high.

CANCERFinancial position looks satis-factory. You will never wait fora chance or opportunity butyou will create them for your-self. Employees might be upsetbecause of the heavy workload. Avoid taking importantdecision by consulting others.

LEOPlanning to purchase a land orhouse will get completedsmoothly with decent gain. Allyour long pending minordreams will get fulfilled. Oldand strained relationship willresume and they will come insearch of you.

VIRGOCourt verdict will go in yourfavor. New plans and effortswill be completed successfully.Need to reduce unwantedexpenses and discussionswhich might land you in trou-ble. Tensions because of chil-dren will be over.

LIBRAWandering and expenses arelikely due to children. With yourwise action you will be able tomarch ahead by managing veryhard tasks also. Those who arejealous of you might spreadwrong rumors about you; bealert and careful.

SCORPIOGovt. related works will getcompleted in a faster speed.You will complete the workssuccessfully by all means butnever boast yourself for theachievements. Your stock is setto pile up. Happy events to takeplace at home.

SAGITTARIUSMarriage talks will progress welland finalization is expectedsoon. You will march aheadwith a good speed towardsachieving your goals. Financialposition will be very muchcomfortable with which most ofthe debts will be cleared.

CAPRICORNBlood relatives might put youin an embarrassing situation,be careful. You will changeyour approach which will ben-efit you in a big way. Newideas will spark in your mind toincrease your income in multi-ple ways.

AQUARIUSYou will act briskly and cheer-fully to complete all the pend-ing works. You will adjust verymuch with friends and bloodrelatives. You will learn the inand out of the daily life and actaccordingly with a determina-tion.

PISCESThough inflow of money isgood, expenses will not allowyou to save for the future. Youare very much time consciousand expect others also to fallin line with you, which mightbe difficult. You will take verybold decisions.

AGNES

NON SEQUITUR

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

POOCH CAFE

BoggleBARGE CANOE KAYAK YACHT

SUDU

KO

NUM

BER

GAM

ESC

RABB

LE

PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS

Entertainment WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013 28MORE TO THE CAST

Demi Moore reuniteswith daughtersHollywood actress Demi Moore

has reportedly reunited withher daughters Rumer, Scout andTallulah Willis from ex-husbandBruce Willis. Her daughters wereupset with the actress for her par-tying ways and wished she wouldmaintain a lower profile followingher split from Ashton Kutcher andsubsequent rehab stint.

Fans of the Bridget Jones seriesshould be prepared for a verylong wait for part three. After

being confirmed in 2011, not alot has been said about the

movie. Colin Firth doesn’t make itsound like it’s going to happen

anytime soon. “Unfortunately, itmight be a bit of a long wait,”

he says.

Bridget Jones 3 mightbe bit of a wait It seems Johnny Depp and

Amber Heard are back onafter the two were spottedholding hands at a surprise

Rolling Stones concert inLos Angeles. Depp hasgone out of his way to

hang on the affections ofAmber, including having a

Rum Diary replica bar builtat his Bahamas home.

Depp and Amber Heard dating again?

CINE BYTES

Joss Whedon hasdescribed Thanos as TheAvengers’ “big finale”.The director sparked

speculation that the MadTitan — glimpsed at the endof last year’s superheromovie — may not be defeat-ed until the end of TheAvengers 3, the final chapterof Marvel’s Phase Three.

When asked why theAvengers should be worriedabout Thanos, Whedontold DesdeHollywood:“Well, Thanos is more

powerful.

He’s so powerful he’s notsomeone you just trot outand then you punch him.

“Like he did in thecomics, you want him tobe threading through theuniverse and to save thebig finale for the big finale.He is definitely a part ofwhat I’ve got going on.”

Thanos creator JimStarlin confirmed last yearthat a deal is in place for hischaracter to appear in bothGuardians of the Galaxy and

The Avengers 2.

THE AVENGERS’ Joss Whedon:

‘Thanos isbeing saved for

the big finale’

sports 29GIRO D'ITALIA PREVIEW

ALEKHINE MEMORIAL CHESS

OPERATION PUERTO


PARIS: Isle of Man sprinterMark Cavendish (in pic) is theleading name in the OmegaPharma Quick-Step team for thisyear's Giro d'Italia, which startsin Naples on Saturday.

Cavendish, 27, will not how-ever be able to count on the sup-port of the Italian sprint veteranAlessandro Petacchi, who hadbeen linked with a move to theteam by local media.

Petacchi had said after leav-ing the Lampre team last weekthat he needed a break from thesport but later admitted that hecould be tempted by the prospectof teaming up with another lead-ing sprinter, such as Cavendish.

Cavendish, who has woneight stages on the Giro since2008, will also be deprived of thesupport of the team's other starnames, including Belgium's Tom

Boonen, Germany's time-trialspecialist Tony Martin andSylvain Chavanel of France.

"The presence of a puresprinter such as Mark willchange our approach to the raceif we compare it with our lastparticipations," said OmegaPharma sporting director DavideBramati. "I think an immediateimportant moment will be thefirst stage in Naples. Everyonewants to fight for the first (lead-er's) Pink Jersey.

"Besides Mark, we go into therace with experienced guys suchas (Michal) Golas and (Jerome)Pineau who have experiencegoing for the stage victories atthe Giro," Bramati added.

Meanwhile, Yury Trofimovwill lead the Russian teamKatusha's bid for success on thefirst Grand Tour of the year.

Teams: Katusha: Maxim Belkov (RUS),Pavel Brutt (RUS), GiampaoloCaruso (ITA), Vladimir Gusev(RUS), Petr Ignatenko (RUS),

Dmitriy Kozontchuk (RUS), LucaPaolini (ITA), Yury Trofimov(RUS), Angel Vicioso (ESP)Omega Pharma: Gianluca Bram -billa (ITA), Mark Cavendish(GBR), Michal Golas (POL), IljoKeisse (BEL), Serge Pauwels(BEL), Jerome Pineau (FRA), Ge -rt Steegmans (BEL), Matteo Tren -tin (ITA), Julien Vermote (BEL)Androni: Giairo Ermeti (ITA),Fabio Felline (ITA), Mattia Gava -zzi (ITA), Tomas Gil (VEN), Fran -co Pellizotti (ITA), Jackson Rodri -guez (VEN), Diego Rosa (ITA),Miguel Angel Rubiano (COL),Emanuelle Sella (ITA)Lampre: Mattia Cattaneo (ITA),Kristjan Durasek (CRO), RobertoFerrari (ITA), Przemyslav Niem -ec (POL), Daniele Pietropolli(ITA), Filippo Pozzato (ITA),Michele Scarponi (ITA), Jose Ser -pa (COL), Simone Stortoni (ITA).

PARIS: Italian rider Michele Sc -arponi will have three specialistclimbers to help his bid to regainthe Giro d'Italia title which hewon in 2011 after Lampre an -nounced their team on Tuesday.Scarponi - who was awarded therace when Alberto Contador wasstripped of the title following hisfailed drugs test in the 2010 Tourde France - will have Poland'sPrzemyslav Niemec, compatriotSimone Stortoni and ColombianJose Serpa to help him in themountain stages of the firstmajor Tour of the year, whichgets underway in Naples onSaturday. The Italian team willalso look to Roberto Ferrari forwins in the sprint finishes whileFilippo Pozzato will be biddingto make up for a disappointingset of results in the Spring one-day classics. AFP

ST. PETERSBURG (RUSSIA):World champion Viswanathan Anandwas held to a draw by Russian PeterSvidler but rose up to the joint secondspot after the eighth and penultimateround of Alekhine Memorial Chesstournament here. On what turned outto be an off-day in office after a coupleof remarkable victories with whitepieces, Anand could do little against

Svidler who had things under controlfor the most part of the game despiteplaying black. The Russian did not lethis position slip in any way to earn aneasy draw. Maxime Vachier-Lagraevwas in for a surprise as he was takento task by Nikita Vituigov of Russiaand the Frenchman suffered his firstloss in the tournament after beingvery close to annexing the title. PTI

Anand drawswith Svidler,joint second

now

Cavendish leads OmegaPharma Giro bid

Mark Cavendish is the leading name in the Omega Pharma Quick-Stepteam for this year's Giro d'Italia, which starts in Naples, this weekend.

MADRID: Spain's state anti-doping agency said it wouldappeal a court ruling that blo -od bags confiscated from amedical doctor who was sent -enced Tuesday to a year in pri -son for performing blood tra -nsfusions on top cyclists bedestroyed.

In her ruling Judge JuliaPatricia Santamaria said Eufe -miano Fuentes offered the bl -ood doping treatments formoney, posing a "significantrisk to the health" of those re -ceiving the blood and bannedhim from practising as asports doctor for four years.

She also refused to givethe WADA or any other anti-doping authority access to the211 blood bags seized in 2006from Fuentes' apartments in

police raids as part of the so-called "Operation Puerto"investigation. Instead she or -dered the bags of blood, wh -ich could identify other spo -

rtsmen implicated in the scan-dal to be destroyed once anyappeals have been settled.

"All I can say is that I wantto continue to work on this.For me, Operation Puerto isnot over," the director ofSpain's State Anti-DopingAgency, Ana Munoz, told anews conference after thecourt issued its ruling. I amgoing to ask the judge for anyevidence of whatever nature,including the bags, so thatthese acts which she herselfconsiders to be infractions canbe judged by the competentauthorities," she added.During his trial Fuentes saidhe worked with clients fromother sports including foot-ball, tennis, athletics and box-ing but he did not name them.

Spain agency to appeal ruling

BRIEFS

Climbers toaid Scarponi

Grahesh, Sai advanceSelected second roundresults: K Ravi Kumar (3) lost toY Grahesh (4), Sai Agni Jeevitesh(3) lost to Varun Anant (4),Kuldeep Kashyap (4) bt AnandNaik (3), Rahul Srivathsav (3)lost to S Khan (4), Sai Akshay (4)bt Chandra Sekhar(3),Harshavardhan (3) lost toNaren Kumar (4), TrinavRattan(3) lost to RaghavSrivathsav (4), Dhiraj Patil (4) btSVS Rohith(3), Samal Ansuman(4) bt V Toshali (3)

Toyota boss to take wheelTOKYO: The motor-sport lov-ing president of Japanese autogiant Toyota, will get behind thewheel in the Nurburgring 24-hour endurance race inGermany later this month, acompany spokesman saidWednesday.

Akio Toyoda, the grandsonof the group's founder, will beone of a team of four driving aToyota car at the NurburgringCircuit in the village of Nurburg,south of Cologne, on May 19and 20, the spokesman said.

It will be his first participa-tion in the world-class racesince becoming the company'stop man in June 2009. He previ-ously took part in the endura -nce race in 2007 and 2009 whenhe was vice president.

"It's not merely a privateactivity," the spokesman said."This is part of the company'seffort to produce good cars byjudging the performance of ourproduction under such severeconditions." AFP

UHG Corporate T20Champions TrophyGREEN 169/4 (Kevin Konda 57*,Deepak Jonnavaram 42,Subbaraju D 2/33) bt Kony Labs158/7 (Bharadwaj V 46, AnilKareti 40, Kevin Konda 2/20)MoM: Kevin KondaDE Shaw 97/8 (Akshay Kargwal64, Aiyaz Ali 2/6) lost to TeamOxford 98/2 (Riyaz Ali 57, RaviPrasad K 28) MoM: Riyaz AliE-11 156/7 (Sameer S 45, KGovinda Raju 27, PrashanthDAR 3/23) bt Victory Hunters138 (Prashanth DAR 86, KGovinda Raju 3/14) MoM:Prashanth DARUHG 126 (Ibrahim Mohammed39, Yashwin Y 20, SusheelGadre 3/23) lost to V-Soft127/6 (Pavan Pasupuleti 44,Sandeep Chundi 40, MohitKumar 5/19) MoM: PavanPasupuleti

sports 30DEER ANTLER SPRAY DOPING

CHAMPIONS TROPHY JAMAICA INTERNATIONAL


CHARLOTTE, NORTHCAROLINA: Fiji’s VijaySingh (in pic) will not besuspended by the US PGATour for doping as a resultof using a deer antler sprayknown to contain a prohib-ited growth-enhancingsubstance.

Tour commissioner TimFinchem announced thedecision on Tuesday afterSingh had appealed a sanc-tion brought against him bythe tour after he admittedto using the deer antlerspray in a January story inSports Illustrated.

The spray containedIGF-1, a substance listed onthe World Anti-DopingAgency (WADA) and PGATour prohibitive lists andone the tour had warnedplayers against using inAugust of 2011.

While there is no bloodtest for IGF-1, PGA policyallows for a violation with-out a positive test if a play-er admits using a bannedsubstance.

But WADA hadinformed the PGA that it nolonger considered using the

deer antler spray to be pro-hibited unless it resulted ina positive test, a policy con-firmed in writing to thetour on Tuesday in a letterfrom WADA.

“In relation to yourpending IGF-1 matter, it is

the position of WADA, inapplying the ProhibitedList, that the use of ‘deerantler spray’ (which isknown to contain smallamounts of IGF-I) is notconsidered prohibited,”WADA said.

“On the other hand itshould be known that deerantler spray contains smallamounts of IGF-1 that mayaffect anti-doping tests.Players should be warnedthat in the case of a positivetest for IGF-1 or HGH, itwould be considered anAdverse AnalyticalFinding.”

That left Finchem torule that Singh, 50, shouldnot face a ban.

“Based on this newinformation, and givenWADA’s lead role in inter-preting the prohibited list,the tour deemed it only fairto no longer treat Mr.Singh’s use of deer antlerspray as a violation,”Finchem said in a state-ment.

The statement saidSingh should have contact-ed PGA anti-doping pro-gram administrators beforeusing the product to be cer-tain it did not containbanned substances. Singhhas won three major titles,including the 2000 Mastersand the 1998 and 2004 PGAChampionship. AFP

HYDERABAD: Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal wastoday conferred the 22nd Yudhvir MemorialFoundation Award for her outstanding perfor-mance in the field of sports.

The award, instituted in the memory of freedomfighter, journalist and founder of the daily HindiMilap, Yudhvir, was presented to Saina by AndhraPradesh Lokayukta Justice B Subhashan Reddy, thisevening at a function.

The Yudhvir Memorial Award was constitutedby the Yudhvir Foundation in 1991 to commemoratethe lifetime work of late Yudhvir.

The annual award consists of a citation and acash prize of Rs 50,000.

After receiving the award, Saina said it was agreat honour for her to receive the award.

“I am really honoured. The award will give meencouragement to excel in my game in future also,”she said. Saina further said she will continue to putin hard work and more efforts to bring laurels to thecountry. “I want to play more, win more and getmore medals for my country. It is your (fans) loveand prayers which is helping me to win medals,”the Olympian said adding “I will try my best to winin more tournaments in future also.” AFP

LAURELS

Yudhvir award forSaina NehwalNo PGA ban for Singh

Singh won’t be suspended for doping after using deer antler sprayknown to contain a prohibited growth-enhancing substance.

SYDNEY: George Bailey wasWednesday handed the vice-captaincy of Australia’s squadfor their defence of theChampions Trophy, whilepromising fast bowler NathanCoulter-Nile won a call-up.

The eight-nation tourna-ment starts in England nextmonth with Bailey getting thenod as Michael Clarke’s num-ber two in place of ShaneWatson. Watson is in the 15-man squad but opted to standaside as vice skipper to focuson his batting and bowling,in the same way he did withthe Test side for the upcomingAshes tour of England.

“Selectors have been

impressed with George’sleadership when he steppedin to guide the ODI team inMichael’s absence last sum-mer and leadership of the T20team over the past two sea-sons,” national selector JohnInverarity said.

“Given George’s experi-ence and credentials, he wasviewed as the ideal person forthe role.”

There were few surprisesin the squad with Inveraritypreviously announcing thatplayers chosen to representAustralia A in their Englandtour that will run at the sametime as the Champions Trop -hy would not be considered.

This ruled out BradHaddin, Steve Smith, MoisesHenriques, Usman Khawaja,James Pattinson and JacksonBird. But several of the Ashessquad are on the team, includ-ing Clarke, Watson, DavidWarner, Phil Hughes, MattWade, Mitchell Starc andJames Faulkner.

Mitchell Johnson was alsoselected and will have a pointto prove after being left out ofthe Ashes reckoning.Team: Clarke (capt), Bailey(vc), Warner, Watson, Hugh es,Adam Voges, Mitchell Marsh,Wade, Maxwell, Faul kner,Johnson, Starc, McKay,Coulter-Nile, Doherty. AFP

Bailey getsv-captainnod

KINGSTON, JAMAICA: A ham-string strain suffered during train-ing last weekend has forced UsainBolt to withdraw from Saturday’sJamaica International Invitationalmeet, the superstar sprinter’smanager said Tuesday.

Bolt, a double world-recordholder and two-time defending100- and 200-metres Olympic ch -ampion, won the 100 at the meetlast year and was to run the 200this time before what managerRicky Simms called “a mild set-

back in training.” “I am disappoi -nted to miss the Kingston meet as Ilove running in front of my homecrowd,” Bolt sa id. “I’m told it isonly a Grade 1 strain so hopefullyI will be OK soon.”

Simms said Bolt hopes torecover in time to race in theCayman Invitational on May 8 butwill make a final decision closer tothe time depending on how hefeels in training. The decision notto run was taken after talksbetween Bolt, trainers and Bolt’scoach, Glen Mills.

“The 26-year-old felt tightnessin training over the weekend andin consultation with his coachGlen Mills decided not to risk any-thing at this early stage of the sea-son,” Simms said.

Bolt will join training partnerand reigning world 100 metreschamp Yohan Blake on the sideli -nes after Blake suffered a strain inhis right hamstring two weeks agowhile running his first 100 race ofthe year at the UTech Classic. AFP

Hamstring strainforces Bolt out

SCORECARDPUNE WARRIORS V CHENNAI SUPER KINGS

Chennai Super Kings innings (20 overs maximum)

MEK Hussey b Richardson 5

WP Sahalbw b Sharma 13

SK Raina not out 63

S Badrinath c Smith b Wright 34

MS Dhoni*† not out 45

Extras (lb 2, w 2) 4

Total (3 wickets; 20 overs) 164

Bowling O M R W Econ

R Sharma 4 0 27 1 6.75

B Kumar 4 1 24 0 6.00

KW Richardson4 0 35 1 8.75

AB Dinda 4 0 41 0 10.25

AM Nayar 3 0 23 0 7.66

LJ Wright 1 0 12 1 12.00

Pune Warriors innings (target: 165 runs from 20 overs)RV Uthappa† run out (Raina) 10AJ Finch* c †Dhoni b Sharma 15TL Suman lbw b Sharma 0 Yuvraj Singh c †Dhoni b Sharma 5SPD Smith c & b Jadeja 35LJ Wright run out (Morkel) 2AM Nayar run out (Morkel/Ashwin) 2KW Richardson c Raina b Morris 26B Kumar not out 24R Sharma c Raina b Bravo 0 AB Dinda not out 2Extras (lb 1, w 4, nb 1) 6Total (9 wickets; 20 overs) 127Bowling O M R W Econ

RA Jadeja 4 0 26 1 6.50JA Morkel 3 0 20 0 6.66MM Sharma 4 0 21 3 5.25CH Morris 3 0 21 1 7.00R Ashwin 2 0 20 0 10.00DJ Bravo 4 0 18 1 4.50

Chennai Super Kings won by 37 runs


31

METRE 6S 356 36ChrisGayle(RCB) 175*HIGHEST

SCOREBESTBOWLER 5-204S 1128 52Michael

Hussey (CRK)

JamesFaulkner

(RR)

Chris Gayle(RCB)

Sunrisers Hyderabadhave played three gameson their home turf in thisseason of the IPL and

have managed to win all ofthem.

They will look to extendthis win streak when they takeon the Mumbai Indians today.

The SRH side have tenpoints from nine games and arecurrently placed at the fifthposition on the points table.

Hyderabad were earlierconsidered as the underdogs ofthe IPL-6 but they surprisedone and all when they won fiveoff the seven games theyplayed. But this equation soonchanged as they lost their pre-vious two matches.

In their last tie against theRajasthan Royals, the Sunriserswere in a pathetic position astheir score, at one point of time,read six for 29.

It was Darren Sammy whosaved the team from embar-rassment hitting 60 off 41 deliv-eries and guiding them to adecent 144. But this knockfailed to see SRH post a victoryas they lost by eight wickets.

The batting of the Sunrisersside has been a cause of con-cern since the very beginningand usually won matches

because of their bowling withthe likes of Dale Steyn andAmit Mishra in the side. But inthe recent past, even theirbowling failed to be effective.

Meanwhile, the MumbaiIndians, who have had a goodrun under Rohit Sharma,would look to continue withtheir good form.

Currently placed fourth onthe points table, the Mumbaiteam would hope to live up tothe expectations of all the fans.

They would look to beformidable on the field, just asthey are considered to be onpaper.

It will be a tight battle as theMumbai take on the Hydera -bad, the side which has anunbeaten win streak at home.

APARNA SAI

JamesFaulkner (RR),

16 wickets

It's a matter of oneover or a wicket.Myself and theentire team man-agement has a lot offaith and trust in him[Yusuf].

Gautam GambhirKKR skipper

P W L T PT NRCSK 10 8 2 0 16 +0.733

RCB 10 6 4 0 12 +0.690

RR 9 6 3 0 12 +0.577

MI 9 6 3 0 12 +0.241

SRH 9 5 4 0 10 -0.197

KXIP 9 4 5 0 8 +0.172

KKR 9 3 6 0 6 -0.016

DD 9 2 7 0 4 -0.761

PWI 10 2 8 0 4 -1.433

P-played; W-win; L-lost; T-tie;NR-net run rate; PT-points

Working hardto improvebatting: Tom

Their batsmen have failed tofire in unison this seasonand a worried Sunrisers

Hyderabad Coach Tom Moodysays his players are doing every-thing to change the sad story.

"We have not scored the runs,the way we would have liked.We are aware of that. We havebeen aware of that for a couple ofweeks. We are doing everythingwe can and our players practiceto rectify that. At the end of theday, it comes down to individualresponsibility," he said ahead ofSRH's match against MI.

Moody said every matchfrom here on would be crucial forthe team. "We are positioned atmiddle of the table. We recognizethat every game from here on isan important one," Moody said.

SRH VS MI AT 4PMON SET MAX

Chris Gayle (RCB) 484 runs

IPL 6 BATTLE OF THE TITANS

[email protected]

Delhi Daredevils wereconsidered one of thefavourites for the title

this year, having topped thetable in the last season. But itturned out to be a complete dif-ferent situation as DD managedto win only two matches fromthe nine they have played.

None of the players haverisen to the occasion wheneverthe team needed them to.

Though they look threaten-ing on paper, they have failedmiserably and another losscould possibly rule out all theirchances of making it to the play-offs.

DD are set to take on theKolkata Knight Riders today inRaipur.

The defending champions ,KKR, maybe place a rung above

the Daredevils but their storyisn’t much different from DD.

They have managed to winonly three matches from thenine they played and are strug-gling at the seventh position onthe table.

Kolkata Knight Riders willhave to post a victory today tostrengthen their chances ofmaking it to the play-offs.

With half the tournamentalready completed, every matchfrom now on, will be crucial indeciding the top four teams.And with every team eyeingone of the top four spots, itremains to be seen who today’swinner would be. AS

Both teams in tight spot

DD VS KKR AT 8PMON SET MAX

SRH look to extend streak

sportsWEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

32CHELSEA MAINTAIN FORM AS MARATHON END NEARSChelsea will be looking to keep their hopes alive of their marathon seasonending with a trophy as Rafael Benitez’s men host FC Basel in their EuropaLeague semi-final second leg clash at Stamford Bridge on Thursday. TheBlues lead 2-1 from last week’s semi-final, first leg in Switzerland.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINALS

MADRID: Jose Mourinho hashinted that he could be set for areturn to England after seeing hisReal Madrid side go out of theChampions League at the semi-final stage for the third consecu-tive season.

Real very nearly staged aremarkable late comeback toprogress to the final, but theGermans’ 4-1 victory in lastweek’s first-leg saw themsqueeze through 4-3 on aggre-gate. And afterwards Mourinhorefused to confirm that he willstill be in charge of the Spanishchampions next season.

“My future is not important,it is Real Madrid that are impor-tant,” he said.

“I know that in England I amloved. I am loved by the fans andthe media who are fair with me.They criticise me and give mecredit when I deserve it.

“I know I am loved by theclubs, especially one. In Spain itis different because people hateme, many of whom are in thisroom.

STANISLAS TOUCHOT Agence France-Presse

BARCELONA: EvenBarcelona’s most ardent fansknow that their side’s chances ofoverturning a four-goal first-legdeficit against Bayern Munichare slim, but defender GerardPique insists that the Catalansare the only side capable ofpulling off the type of comeback

needed. Only three clubs haveever managed to recover such adeficit in European competition,with the last being Barca’s bitterrivals Real Madrid, who cameback from losing 5-1 to JuppHeynckes’s BorussiaMoenchengladbach in the UEFACup in 1985-86.

However, speaking to mediaon the eve of Wednesday’sChampions League semi-final,second leg, Pique insisted that

the mere presence of LionelMessi in the Barcelona startingline-up at the Camp Nou willgive the home side the belief thatthey can still win the tie.

“I know that it is complicat-ed. But of course it can happen,”said Pique, 26. “I believe that theonly team capable of overturninga four-goal deficit against Bayernis Barcelona. The supportersmust believe too. And to haveMessi with us helps massively.”

Real win, but too late

KIERAN CANNING Agence France-Presse

MADRID: Borussia Dortmundqualified for their second everChampions League final onTuesday, beating Real Madrid4-3 on aggregate despite losingthe second leg of their semi-final 2-0 at the SantiagoBernabeu.

Needing a huge turnaroundfrom the first leg last week, Realseemed to have run out ofsteam after Gonzalo Higuain,Cristiano Ronaldo and MesutOzil had passed up earlyopportunities.

However, after RobertLewandowski had smashed theunderside of the bar and DiegoLopez prevented IlkayGundogan with an incrediblesave from close range, Madridwere given a lifeline in the 83rd

minute when substitute KarimBenzema swept home Ozil’slow cross.

And six minutes later theyhad real hope of an incrediblecomeback as captain SergioRamos rifled a shot into the roofof the net.

But Dortmund withstoodthe onslaught in an agonisingfive minutes of stoppage timeto seal their place at the final atWembley next month.

Dortmund coach JurgenKlopp said Real may have beenthe better side on the night butit meant nothing as his side hadachieved their goal of reachingthe final and he was immenselyproud of his players.

“It isn’t too hard to revealwhat I thought during thoselast 10 minutes: if God wished itthen we would qualify for thefinal,” said Klopp.

“But it has to be said that itwas a crazy match, from start tofinish.

“From the first second theReal players were doing every-thing they could to get the ref-eree on their side.”

Ramos, who wouldn’t haveplayed in the final anywaybecause he picked up a bookingmeaning he would have beensuspended, said it was a pityReal hadn’t played the sameway in the first leg.

“It is a shame,” Ramos toldTVE afterwards.

“You can lose but it is betterto do it like this. Football is likethis.

“If we had done half ofwhat we have done today inDortmund, it would have beendifferent. The fans have roaredus on and it was a shame thatwe didn’t take our chances.”

Jose hints ata return to ‘love’

Borussia Dortmund man-ager Jurgen Klopp was

furious with the perfor-mance of English refereeHoward Webb. “The gamewas crazy. From the firstseconds each player of RealMadrid did things to bringthe referee to one side sowe had to not react and becool,” Klopp said. “I thoughtRamos could do to [Robert]Lewandowski what he want-ed and so to stay cool inthese situations is great. Ithought if we stayed calmand played our football thatit was possible for us to goto the final tonight and Ithink we are the team thatdeserved to go through.”

Webb of incompetence

Despite beating Dortmund 2-0, Real Madrid were still knocked out of theChampions Leage on a 4-3 aggregate.

Barça hope belief will see them throughOnly three clubs

have ever managedto recover such a

deficit in Europeancompetition, the last

being Real Madrid in 1986.

postnoon e-paper for 1st may 2013

Documents