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MAJOR FIRE GUTS ELECTRONICS STOREA major fire broke out in an electronics shop in Uppal early on Thursday.

The store, owned by Manjeet Singh, was gutted and appliances including LCD TVs, refrigerators and computers worth crores of rupees were lost in the fire, said

Uppal police inspector K Laxmikanth Reddy.

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The Avengers, the most hotly-antici-pated film of the year opens in cine-mas across the country tomorrow,but here in the City it has met itsmatch. The NTR-starrer Dhammu isall set to dominate the box office thisweekend. Talk about superheroes!

REPORT ON PG 16, 17 & 25

Big Cinemas, Ameerpet: 30581470; Cinemax, Banjara Hills: 44565555; Cine Planet , Kompally: 61606060; INOX, Banjara Hills: 44767777;Prasads, Tank Bund Rd: 23448888; PVR, Punjagutta: 8800900009; Talkie Town, Miyapur: 40214175; Tivoli, Secunderabad: 27844973CINEMAS

Chirag Ali Lane, AbidsWhen: Ongoing,

7.30pm onwardsContact: (040) 6712 2000

Live musicCatch Hyderabad’s own bandWitness Wide perform live atInorbit Mall.The band membersconsists of musicians like; JasperPaul, Jacinth Paul, Simeon Josephand Dan Symonds.Where: Inorbit Mall,

MadhapurWhen: April 27, 7.30pm onwards

IPL specialTruffles Cafe is offering a great wayto catch the live telecast of IPL 5.It’s the perfect combination of greatfood and a great game!

DramaybaazDramaybaaz — a theatre fest forsolo performances is being held onApril 28 and 29. Dramaybaaz pro-vides an opportunity for those whodo not belong to any theatre groupto perform. Where: Lamakaan,

Banjara Hills,Rd No 1

When: April 28 and 29, 7.30pm onwards

Contact: 96427 31329

Street and styleA street food special called KhaoGalli—Street food night will be heldApril 25 onwards at KebabPavillion, Ella Suites. Head to EllaHotel for great experience.Where: Ella Hotel, GachibowliWhen: OngoingContact: (040) 6628 8488

Lepakshi MelaAP Handicrafts DevelopmentCorporation is hosting a LepakshiCotton Mela. 25 weavers andmanufacturers will be participatingin the event which will feature avariety of handloom materials suchas Bengali Cotton, Chanderi etc.Where: Lepakshi Emporium,

Gunfoundry When: Ongoing,

10 am onwards

Dance with meLove to dance? A contemporarydance workshop by French dancer,Solenn will be held on April 22, 28and 29 .Where: Alliance Francaise,

MarredpallyWhen: April 22, 28, 29Contact: (040) 2770 0734

Painting exhibitionA painting exhibition titled Twinkleis being held at Inspire Art Gallery.The exhibition features artwork byR Usha Vinod and B Usha Kumar. Where: Inspire Art Gallery,

HydergudaWhen: Ongoing,

11am onwardsContact: (040) 3062 8447

Shifting terrainAn abstract painting exhibition byPandurang Deoghare, is being heldat Iconart Gallery. The exhibition ison till May 5.Where: Iconart Gallery,

Banjara Hills, Rd No12When: Ongoing,

11.30 am onwardsContact: 9849968797

Awadhi food festivalGet a taste of Awadhi food at theAwadhi food festival. The food fes-tival called Shaam-E-Awadhi.Where: Mercure Hotel,

Where: Truffles Cafe,Jubilee Hills, Rd No 36

When: Ongoing, 8am onwards

Contact: (040) 2355 0105

Anniversary saleIf diamonds are a girls best friend,then Orra is the best place for themto hang out. Orra presents it’sanniversary sale with upto 25% dis-counton diamond lewellery andupto 50% off on gold jewellery.Where: All Orra storesWhen: April 6- May6

Cricket frenzyMocha and Mocha Express is host-ing IPL specials with live screeningof the match and various pizzaspaying ode to the IPL teams and

LONG TRAIN RUNNING their spirits.Where: Mocha — Banjara Hills

Mocha Express — InorbitMall

When: Ongoing, 4pm onwards

Contact: (040) 23350144

Spice festLove all thing spicy? Head to anyMc Donald outlet for the excitingspice fest.The fest is on fromApril1-June 1 and offers a variety ofMc Donalds products with a spicytwist.Where: Mc Donalds outletsWhen: Ongoing

Go SplashSplash lounge is the perfectleisure destination for you tounwind. There is also great music,martinis and aperitifs in theevening.Where: The Westin, Mindspace,

MadhapurWhen: Monday - Friday,

5pm - 10.30pmWeekends,8am - 10.30pm

Contact: (040) 6767 6828

African barbeque festBarbeque Nation offers a chance toexperience Africa in Hyderabad.Where: Barbeque Nation,

Banjara Hills,Rd No1

When: OngoingContact: (040) 6456 6693

Angkor WatA painting exhibition based on theAngkor Wat in Columbia is beingpresented by Kalakrithi Art Galleryand ITC Kakatiya.Where: Hyder Mahal,

ITC Kakatiya,Begumpet

When: Ongoing, 11am-7pmContact: (040) 2340 0132

Show and tellBooks n more presents Showand Tell, an activity to promotegood expression and communica-tion for 3-8 year olds. Theactivity aims to improve your child’sability to communicate well inEnglish.Where: Books n more,

Sivaramkrishna Colony, Marredpally

When: Ongoing,5pm to 6pm

Contact: 98859 56728

Yoga CampThe first part of a series of sevendays yoga camp will be held byYoga Healing Foundation.Where: Bhujana Vijaya Ground,

KukatpallyWhen: April 29 onwards,

5.15 am onwardsContact: 92905 45433

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‘TV causing spurt in crime’

Major fire breaks outin electronics shop

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Amajor fire broke out in anelectronics shop in Uppal

early on Thursday morning. Thestore owned by Manjeet Singhwas gutted and appliances worthcrores of rupees like LCD TVs,refrigerators, computers etc werelost in the fire, said Uppal policeinspector K Laxmikanth Reddy.

Santosh electronics, which islocated behind Rajyalaxmi the-atre, had been set up seven yearsago. On Wednesday, Manjeet and

his employees shut the shop asusual and headed home.However, around 4am onThursday, passers-by noticedsmoke billowing out of the shopand informed the police. The firebrigade rushed to the spot andthe fire was brought under con-trol by fifteen firefighting teamsafter nearly three hours.

“As per our investigations, itappears like the fire broke outdue to a short circuit. Most of theappliances have been gutted. Wehave booked a case,” saidLaxmikanth. They are also inves-tigating what the exact cause wasand if it was accidental or therewas any foul play involved.

Mohd Subhanmohd.s@postnoon.com

In a shocking incident, a 15-year-old girl was kidnappedand raped by one Ravi,under the Bowenpally

police station limits four daysago. According to reports, thegirl belonged to the SC commu-nity and was a resident ofBapujinagar. The incident took

place when she had gone to anearby grocery store.

According to the victim’smother’s complaint, her daugh-ter was returning home on April22 at 7pm from the nearbykirana shop when the 22-year-old Ravi, a resident of Mudfort,kidnapped her and later rapedher. He dropped her back ataround 1am. The Bowenpallypolice booked a case of kidnap-ping and rape against Raviunder the IPC and sections ofthe SC/ST act. They began

investigations and two specialteams were formed in the super-vision of ACP Begumpet ITVSSurayanarayana.

While speaking to Postnoon,Suryanarayana said, “These daysthe youth are heavily influencedby television and this is leadingto spurt in rape cases, especiallyin areas like Secunderabad,Karkhana, Trimulgherry, Begu -m pet, Bowenpally. They arepicking up tips on how to kidnapand rape girls from these shows.”

In a separate incident a classII student was raped by a youthlast week at Chinna Kameela.The 9-year-old girl had gone torun an errand, when the youthraped her. When she wenthome, her mother noticed thatshe was crying and bleeding.Suspecting that she had beenraped, she lodged a complaint.

“The influence of these tele-vision shows on the youth isobvious from the spurt incrimes. Parents should monitortheir children’s TV viewing andavoid shows that have obsceneor vulgar content. These showsare one of the reasons whyyoungsters get involved in crim-inal activities. They harm thevictim and also ruin their ownlives,” said Suryanarayana.

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The City traffic policedepartment dashed theGHMC’s hopes, whichchalked out grand plans

to construct an innovative onekm long Cement Concrete (CC)road on one of the busieststretches — Lakdikapul-ACGuards route. Responding to aletter written by the GHMC tomake alternative arrangementsfor diverting traffic on the busyroad, the traffic wing officialsrejected the civic body’s requestby citing the non availability ofalternative routes to divert traf-fic on the route, which formspart of National Highway (NH-9)and connects various importantplaces of the City like Ameerpet,Kukatpally, Mehdipatnam,Tolichowki, Gachibowli and theInternational airport.

“We have declined therequest of the corporation as wedid not have any alternativeroutes to regulate traffic on theLakdikapul-AC Guards route. Itis impossible for us to makealternative arrangements on thisroad,” additional commissioner

of police (Traffic) CV Anand toldPostnoon.

On the other hand, the trafficwing showed an alternative roadwhich falls between SultanBazaar to Kacheguda PoliceStation for the civic body toundertake its ambitious project.“This particular route has manyalternative roads which can beused for traffic diversion. We

have asked the GHMC officialsto go ahead with their project onthis road with our support. Theofficials have also agreed tothis,” Anand said.

GHMC engineer in chief R Dhan Singh also confirmed thenews and said that they are plan-ning to undertake the novel CCRoad project very soon. “Thetraffic wing told us that they can-

not divert traffic on theLakdikapul-AC Guards road dueto lack of alternative routes.They also came forward to pro-vide their help on Sultan Bazaar-Kacheguda route. We arepreparing an action plan toundertake the project,” he said.

It may be emphasised herethat the civic body came up withthe idea of constructing CCroads with a view to increasetheir life span and avoid regularmaintenance works, which is thecase when it comes to conven-tional roads.

The officials studied the sys-tem of similar roads beingimplemented in cities likeBangalore and selected cementproducer Ultra Tech for this pro-ject. The company agreed tobuild a 1 km stretch on a pilotbasis. These roads will have spe-cial ducts for the convenience ofvarious service providers likeelectricity department privatecable operators to install cablewires. This will prevent frequentroad cutting.

The proposed road will havea life span of nearly 25-30 yearsand will be easy to maintaineven during the monsoons. This1 km CC road will cost around `6crore for the corporation foreach kilometer.

Rahul Ramakrishnarahul.r@postnoon.com

In a bid to regularise layouts ofengineering colleges in and

around the City, the HyderabadMetropolitan DevelopmentAuthority (HMDA) launched aspecial drive to collect LayoutRegularisation (LRS) fee fromthese institutes. It may beemphasised here that this movecomes in the wake of an exten-sion by the State government toprovide an opportunity for thosewho did not pay their dues.

HMDA incharge commis-sioner MT Krishna Babu also helda meeting with officials recentlyand directed them to focus oncollecting dues from the engi-neering colleges managements.Interestingly, the scheme hasrecieved a tepid response frommanagements of engineeringand other educational institutions.

Of the 180 colleges within andoutside the City limits, only ameagre 40 have applied forLayout Regularisation Scheme(LRS). Officials at the HMDA havedecided to pursue college man-agements regarding this issue.

Syed Jhiauddin, chief plan-ning officer of the HMDA said,“Only 40 colleges have appliedfor LRS so far. The last date forthis April 30, and colleges that failto make the payment by then willbe levied a fine of 20 per cent. Weplan to persuade college man-agements to apply for LRS.”

Earlier, in a meeting with col-lege managements convened byKrishna Babu, representativesfrom over 60 colleges explainedtheir woes. According to them,the buildings had been con-structed after prior permissionwas issued to them by the respec-tive local bodies. However, adelay in issuing permissions fromthe HMDA authorities due toindifferent officials, much of thework has been stalled.

A revenue of about `10 croreis slated to be generated from thisscheme.

The minister for AgricultureKanna Laxminarayana onWednesday informed that

the State government will bringto the notice of the ElectionCommission of India (ECI)aboutthe on-going ‘Prajapatham’ ai -med at supply of drinking waterto the people in summer.

Speaking to the media at theSecretariat, Laxmi narayana saidthat a meeting held by the ChiefMinister has reviewed the ongo-ing Praj ap a tham, and discussedthe measure to be taken for

drinking water supply. Stepswould be taken up to supplydrinking water to the people inremote areas also. In view of theelection code, the governmentwas in a dilemma whether tocontinue Prajapatham. Statingthat the supply of drinking waterwas a routine practice, he statedthat government would bring itto the notice of ECI as drinkingwater supply was a major sub-ject of Prajapatham.

He informed that WorldAgriculture Congress, whichwould be conducted once intwo years, is going to be organ-ised in the State in November

2013. Nearly 500 delegates com-prising of NGOs, agriculturalscientists and agricultural offi-cers would participate in thecong ress.

The World AgricultureCongr es s would discuss anddeliberate the areas of prof-itable agriculture with lowinvestment, high production ofcrop in small fields, modernmethods of farm i ng and watermanagement systems.

In addition to this, Biodive -rsity Conference would be con-ducted in the City in October2012 in which delegates from190countries will participate.

AMENITIES

POLITICS

CC road to be ‘relocated’

Prajapatham: State seeks EC reply

LRS to bringin `10 crore for HMDA

Chief secretary Pankaj Dwivedi con-ducted the Special Task Force (STF)

meeting on Wednesday and reviewedthe progress of the Hyderabad MetroRail project. Some of the highlights ofthe meeting were• Formation of a fast track approval commit-

tee consisting of top police officials foraccording stretch-wise permissions formetro rail works on the roads and forcoordinated traffic management.

• A sub-committee consisting of top bureau-crats and police officials to identify andcoordinate removal of bottlenecks throughjoint inspections of critical road stretches.

• GHMC to expedite acquisition of 570properties in the next four months to pro-vide a minimum 18 mtrs right of way in allthe three metro rail corridors.

• GHMC to speed up formation of alternateroads and remove bottlenecks to reducetraffic congestion.

• Water Board to shift obstructing water andsewer lines with metro rail funds in tan-dem with metro rail pier foundation works.

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The leader of theTelangana employeesJoint ActionCommittee Swamy

Goud said that the employeeswill meet in two days andchalk out the future course ofaction against the government.

Talking to Postnoon Goudsaid that the government haspromised something but hadimplemented something dif-ferent, which was not in favourof the employees. He explainedthat the government had con-verted earned leave in lieu ofthe strike period. No extrafavour or consideration wasextended to the employees.

The government allegedlyshowed indifference whilegranting special leave to theTelangana employees. “TheChief Minister and the minis-ters in the guise of the cabinetsub-committee hadannounced that they wouldmeet certain demands. But

when it came to implementingthem, they did so as per theirwhims and fancies citing courtdirections,” he said. Hecharged that the court wasused to suppress the demandsof the employees.

He threatened that thistime the agitation will be heldin such a fashion that theCentre and State will have tobend to their demands anddeclare a separate Telanganastate. “It is unfortunate that theCentre and State is coming onestep forward and going back 10steps when it comes to declar-ing a separate state. This timethe employees will go all outthis time to achieveTelangana,” he said.

Meanwhile, the T employ-ees are also unhappy that thegovernment was not keepingits word. Narendar one of theleaders of the employees uniontold Postnoon, that the talksbetween the employees unionwere inconclusive and a lot ofthings have to be sorted out.

“The employees haveasked for a 5 day-week as itwould help them to relaxbefore the next week,” he said.

But the cabinet sub-com-mittee did not agree to thisdemand. A lot of amenitiesand infrastructure was lackinghe said. “Even the assurancesmade to the Telanganaemployees union were not ful-filled. A lot of issues like hous-ing and health insurance areyet to be addressed by the gov-ernment,” he said.

When it comes to the unityamong the employees fromTelangana and Andhra, there isno difference, he said. Theemployees are one in the sec-retariat and they will not goback in achieving their rights,he stated.

The minister for FinanceAnam Ram Narayan Reddysaid that some of the issueshad been solved and someother issues are under consid-eration. “Employees welfarewill always come first. Thatwas the reason the strike peri-od was earlier considered asspecial leave,” he explained.The cabinet sub committeewas apprised of the matter andafter a meeting with the ChiefMinister a solution will bearrived at, he stated.

T staff to agitate again?

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Chief Minister KiranKumar Reddy isplanning interna-

tional events one after theother but there is no clarityas to who would take careof their financing for theseevents where presidents and prime min-isters are expected to participate.

In 2012, the City will host UnitedNations Convention on BiologicalDiversity (CBD) from October 8-19. So farthere has been no clarity, from the Centrenor the State, on the event’s funding. TheGHMC also clarified that they would notbe able to finance the programme.

Even as the uncertainty over CBDfunding continues, the CM hasannounced that the City would hostWorld Agriculture Congress in November2013. It is for the first time that WAC isgoing to held in India. This announce-ment was in response to a proposal fromJames. B Bolger, former New Zealand PMand chairman of World AgriculturalForum.

Kenneth M Baker, chairman of WAFand Evie, WAF’s board member, who arecurrently in Hyderabad had discussionswith the principal secretary (agriculture)and other officials regarding selection oftheme, dates, venue. They had a meeting

with the CM too. IT sectorwould be the focus pointand main theme would be‘Lab to land’.

The broad theme forthe WAC-2013 is‘Reshaping Agriculture forthe benefit of small andmarginal farmers’. About500 to 600 high-profiledelegates including gov-ernment leaders, adminis-trators, eminent academi-

cians, CEOs, farmers, functionaries ofdevelopment organisation are expectedto attend.

The primary objective of WAC is todiscuss with all key stakeholders such asfarmers’ organisations, industry, govern-ment leaders and scientists on how toreshape and re-position small farm-hold-er in order to make farming economicallyviable and improve farmers’ income inthe era of WTO regime. The Congress isalso expected to provide a policy direc-tion to the developing countries on howto reshape agricultural policy in order tomake farming viable and attractive pro-fession, based on sharing of inter-countryexperiences.

The CM said that Prime Minister orPresident of India could be invited toinaugurate the conference. It is alsoexpected that WAC will bring agricultureand farmers’ issues into main focal pointonce again to alert the governments totake right measures for making farmingviable through reshaping agriculture.

AP to host agriculture meettoo, but where’s the money?

TELANGANA

EVENTS

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ICONIC CITYNTR gardens

Hyderabad as a Cityhas a lot to offer interms of heritage

and sights. We takea look at the various

places that makethis City so special

Hyderabad boastsof a large numberof gardens spread

well over the City andthe area arou nd HussainSagar has some spectac-ular gardens.

Families have alwayslooked forward to visitsthese gardens for pic-nics. Parks are also pop-ular among young cou-ples to spend some timetogether. The NTRGardens near Prasads isone such place.

Hundreds ofHyderabadis come toNTR Gardens everydayto have a peaceful timewith the bountiful flora

present in the garden.The sweeping acres ofperfectly landscapedlawns and water foun-tains are a pleasure towatch.

There is joy train ridewhich is an enjoyableoption for kids andadults alike. There is alsoa canteen which has aninteresting seatingarrangement which rep-resents a car with a tablein it. This gives people afeeling of dining in a car.

The gardens havea memorial dedicatedto the erstwhile CMand cinema legend NTRama Rao.

Aishwarya Yerra

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Hyderabad has manyaspects that representan amalgamation ofthe north and the

south. Literally, north meetssouth here and the one main rea-son is that there is no languagebarrier, say the people from Biharwho have been staying in the Citysince many years.

There are around four to fivelakh people from Bihar residingin the Twin Cities. Most of themlive in Mangalhat, Dhoolpet,Gangabowli, Jeedimetla, Balan -ag ar, Alwal, Gowliguda and alsoin pockets of Old City.

“Hyderabad is home for usbut our roots are still in Bihar. Wekeep visiting our home townwhich is near Patna at least oncea year. Though we stay inHyderabad, we very much followthe culture of Bihar. Be it the

chhath Puja or typical Bihari Holiwe celebrate it the way it is cele-brated in Bihar”, said ThakurJagdev Singh, a resident of WestMarredpally.

“My grandsons are more flu-ent in Telugu and Deccan Hindias compared to the Bihari lan-guages as they occasionally visitBihar. Language needs practice.However, they understand thelanguage well,” he adds.

The people from the commu-nity religiously follow all their cus-toms and traditions. Dussera, Na -ga Panchami, Navaratri, Holi, Di -wali, Teej, Makar Sankranti, Ma ha-Shivaratri, Sarhul, Soharai, Karmafestivals are some of their majorfestivals celebrated in Hyde rabad.Chhath Puja is the major attrac-tion among their festivals. Everyyear the puja is observed in Hu -ssain Sagar lake and Alwal Pond.

The members from the com-munity actively take part in char-ity and donations too. They alsoparticipate in several religiousactivities like donating statues ofdeities to temples and other

donations. They also play animportant ro le in organising dis-aster relief in form of funds, sup-plies etc. All this is done througha common platform or associa-tion called the Bih ar Associationof Hyderabad (BAH).

The association is registeredby the Andhra Pradesh govern -m ent. There are more than 5,000me mbers in the association. Themembers actively plan meetingsand programmes for the upcom-ing festivals wherein peoplefrom the community can inter-act and get to know each otherunder one roof.

They have annual meetingswherein they invite dignitariesand distinguished people fromBihar. The other functions of thisassociation is to share knowl-edge, information and newswhich helps male the membersof the community aware andalso provide a common platformfor networking and extending ahelping hand as and when it isneeded.

Old timers from the City say

many people from Bihar migrat-ed to Hyderabad in search oflivelihood and earnings.

“Earlier the employmentopportunities in Bihar were lessas compared to other states inIndia. However it’s not same nowas there are lot of opportunitiesin Bihar now, but we don't wantto go back as Hyderabad is homefor us now. We have settled hereand are not interested to relo-cate” said, Mahendra Pratap, aresident of Mangalhat and mem-ber of BAH .

ProfessionYoungsters from the communityare in big posts here. Many ofthem are work with the Munic ipalCorporation, Collectors Office andTourism Department, banks, andin the corp orate sector.

However, not all are affluent.The less educated lot from thecommunity opt to work as con-struction labourers in the City.Others are into real estate, gold-smiths or wholesale dealers of imi-tation jewellery and clothing.

City’s home, but roots in BiharMany Biharis had migrated for better opportunities to the City they now call home

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Minister for educationParthasarathy said that

he would consider the requestof parents and also studentsthat the supplementary examcould be considered as aninstant exam.

Parents and students whomet the minister after staginga dharna told him that themarking of supplementary inmemos will make them ineli-gible for the jobs. Talking toPostnoon, the minister saidthat his son had also passedthe exam last year, so he wasaware of the plight of the stu-dents and parents.

The minister assuredthem that the he would alsolook into the matter and seethat there would be no prob-lem for the students whenbeing considered for theEamcet. He did not agree thatthe questions were out of thesyllabus. He showed them theanswers in the text book andalso the question paper.

He has called for a meet-ing to sort out the problems ofstudents who would beattending the exams. He saidthat if there was no objection,the exams can be convertedinto instant exam. AGENCY

The minister for cooper ationKasu Krishna Reddy on

Wednesday informed thatelec tions to cooperative soci-eties might be conducted inthe month of August.

Speaking to the media inthe Secretariat here, the minis-ter stated that the by-electionsto 18 Assembly constituenciesin June may cause delay inconduct of elections to coop-erative societies.

He also informed that thecabinet sub-committee setupfor revival and strengtheningof cooperative societies wouldsubmit its report shortly.

The minister also felt thatthere would be a keen fightbetween the parties in the by-elections to Prathipadu andMacherla constituencies inGuntur district. Stating thatthere was a strong coordina-tion between the leaders andworkers, he pointed out thatsome people were trying tocreate a misconception thatthere was lack of coordinationbetween the leaders in theCongress. AGENCY

COMMUNITY

‘Will considerrequest onexams’

KK Reddyhints at Augustco-op elections

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The mid-summer driz-zle and hailstormsmay have droppedtemperatures and

made the heat manageable,but the crops in the Statehave been badly damaged.Though this isn’t unusual,denizens are afraid thismight spell an increase in theprice of fruits and vegetables.

Unseasonal heavy rainslashed the State on severaloccasions this summer, andin turn damaged thousandsof hectares of crop. What isworse is that the due to lateflowering, the harvest hasn’tbeen much either this year.The worst affected district isKarimnagar with 4,146hectares affected with under40 per cent damage and 1,028hectares of crop damagedover 50 per cent.

Through 18 districts, thedamage has been a massive8,214 hectares with less than50 per cent damage and12,218.69 hectares with over50 per cent damage.

“With the prices of veg-etables already soaring, thedamage will only force thevendors to up their priceseven more to meet with thelosses. The consumers willhave to pay a heavy price,”said P Parvathi, a housewifefrom Punjagutta.

“The price of the vegeta-bles will not increase andwon’t fluctuate either. It willbe stable unless the export offruits and vegetables toKarnataka, Mumbai or Delhiincreases. As compared tolast year around the same

time, the incoming fruits areless this season,” consoledYoginder, assistant director(disaster management),department of horticulture.

However, since this is theseason of the king of fruits—mango, the damage has beenas high as 20 per cent. Eventhe mango vendors are con-cerned about incurring loss-

es due to the unseasonalrainfall in addition to the GO288 passed on March 19, stat-ing that the mangoes ripenedwith calcium carbide arebanned and only thoseripened naturally or withethylene should be sold.Obviously, being moreexpensive, the farmershaven’t welcomed this move.

“We are already incurringlosses due to the mid-sum-mer rains, and adding to thenew rule of ripening man-goes, it is hard for most of usto sustain. The governmentdoesn’t bail us out financiallyand neither does it lend us ahelping hand. I have lost outon at least `2 lakhs worth ofmangoes till now due to thehailstorms,” saidBaalachamdram, a mangovendor at the Mango Melabeing held in NampallyExhibition Grounds.

Maalavya, a fruit vendorin Shantinagar, said that hehas had to incur about`30,000 worth of loses due tothe rains. “I have leased outabout 1,500 mango trees inKarimnagar and about 600 ofthem have been spoilt. I havetaken a personal loan andwith the stress of payingback, I don’t know what to do.I am praying that the raindon’t lash the State for anoth-er month or two,” he said.

Again, Karimnagarmango crops have been theworst hit with 4,081.4hectares with under 50 percent damage and 990hectares with damage of over50 per cent. But the highestdamage for mango cropsover 50 per cent wasWarrangal with 4,752.24hectares.

Not surprisingly, thedepartment of horticulturehas done little to help thefarmers. Only the crops dam-aged above 50 per cent havebeen given a prescribedamount as compensation.“We have a plan fordroughts, but with the rains,we can’t do anything. Weonly advice farmers to selltheir crops immediately asany further delay will makethem unusable,” he said.

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In a bid to curb the growingcrime rate in the city, theCyberabad police force has

come up with an innovative com-munity policing formula aptlytitled, “Seeti bajao, Chor bhagao.”As a part of the awareness cam-paign due to be taken up by May,the police department has shoul-dered the responsibility of spread-ing awareness about crime in theCity as well as suitable measures toavoid it.

D Tirumala Rao, commissionerof cyberabad division said, “ Mostof the cases that we have dealt withpoint towards a lack of promptaction. For instance, a recent rob-bery case where a woman's pleasfor help fell on deaf ears paved an

easy exit for the robbers. Incidentslike these show that the public ingeneral is slow in its reaction time.We are asking the people to bealert and responsibly help oneanother in such situations. Thiswill also aid and ease the policeinvestigation.”

“We believe that the crime ratein the City will be drasticallyreduced if the public were to bealert and spontaneous when deal-ing with situations involving anycrime, robbery, assault, fraudulentactivities etc. So we have decidedto rake up an awareness amongthe citizens through suggestionsand remedies, to be alert at alltimes and be proactive in their roletowards eliminating crime in the

City, ” he said.Last year’s crime statistics

showed a considerable decline incrime rate in the City but officialsat the Cyberabad police divisionare on their toes. Owing to therapid mushrooming of housingcolonies in and aroundCyberabad, a steep growth andinflux in the city population, polic-ing has become a difficult job.

A close co-ordination betweenthe cops and the citizens is themotto of the campaign, to collec-tively reduce the crime rate in theCity.

While the civil society may wel-come this move, what remains tobe seen if these initiatives are aseffective as promised.

‘Seeti bajao, chor bhagao,’ say City cops

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POLICE

Horticulture crops damaged due to hail-storms/ heavy wind gales/ unseasonalrains during March and April, 2012District Crop Area damaged

(in hectares)upto 19-04-2012 Above Below 50% 50%

Karimnagar Mango 4,081.40 990Vegetables 61 38Watermelon 4 0.00KRKM Total 4,146.40 1,028

Mahboobnagar Mango 20 1,739Vegetables 0.00 21.40MBNR Total 20 2033.07

Rangareddy Vegetables 55 136.40Fruits(Banana) 0.00 27.20RR Total 314 184.6

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 8Campaigns, hard news and spirit of Twin CitiesHyper Local

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Located in the heart of theCity, Moazam Jahi marketis one of the oldest mar-kets in the City.

Established during the times ofthe Nizams, this market namedafter the last Nizam’s son hasstood tall for about 70 years now.

The market is not onlyfamous for fruits but also for icecream. The ice cream parlourcalled ‘Famous Ice Cream’ hasbeen around for a couple ofdecades now and sells a variety

of hand-made fruit ice creams atastonishingly cheap rates. Theday here starts off at about 9am.

During the day, it’s a fairlybusy area. Merchants come tosell their products which mostlyconsists of raw food material.The area faces heavy traffic in theevenings.

One thing that stands out inMoazam Jahi market is the beau-tiful architecture. Unlike othermarkets in the City, this placepromises a very good experiencewhile shopping as it is very neatand gives you the feel of theolden days. Evenings offer a

pleasant sight as the entire placelights up and is flooded withfamilies who are out to have agood time.

During the month ofRamzan, the market lights uplike a newlywed bride. It is deco-rated, and full of people who arethere to buy fruits to break theirfast. The traders here make max-imum profit during that month.

All in all, this market standsas a symbol of the rich architec-ture and heritage of the time ofthe Nizams, and is a must visitspot for anyone who is inHyderabad.

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Nokia chairman Jorma Ollilaindicated in an interview onWednesday that his companywas no longer the world’sbiggest mobile phone makerafter 14 years at the top.“Nokia was number one for14 years and still has thechance to be so again,” Ollilatold commercial broadcasterMTV3. The former Nokiachief executive will be leav-ing his position as chairmanof the board next week.

US drug maker WatsonPharmaceuticals saidWednesday it will buyIceland-based Actavis for$5.62 billion, creating theworld’s third-largest genericdrugs company. Watson,maker of a generic versionof Lipitor, Pfizer’s block-buster anti-cholesterol drug,said the acquisition of theprivately held Actavis wouldgreatly expand its globalfootprint. The Actavis merg-er was expected to generaterevenue of about $8 billionthis year, according toWatson. They said thatActavis, as a stand-alonecompany, was positioned forstrong growth, with a com-mercial presence in morethan 40 countries.

What was eBay Inc’sgrowth rate in thelast fiscal? What isthe average growth

rate of the company sinceinception?eBay Inc has recorded a revenuegrowth of 27 per cent to $11.7billion as compared to 2010. Thecompany’s Marketplaces busi-ness also delivered strong fourthquarter performance.Marketplaces revenue for thequarter was up 16 per cent yearover year.

What are the current challengesfaced by the eCommerce indus-try in the country and also byeBay India in particular?India has diverse regions; inter-net and modern retail are stilldeepening their reach to Tier 2and 3 cities and rural areas.Some challenges are lack ofawareness leading to low trustlevels. Owing to the vast geography of India, it is sometimes challenging to reachremote areas faster. RisingIndian consumption demand,increasing broadband penetration, lower device costs,increased awareness andconfidence in online shopping

continue to be the key drivers ofthe industry.

What are you doing to overcomethese challenges?We have introduced twopioneering services — PaisaPayand eBay Guarantee. PaisaPayallows consumers to pay conveniently through creditcard, debit card, net banking orEMI. The payment is released tothe seller only once the buyer

confirms receipt of the item.eBay Guarantee offers all buyersa replacement or refund on alltransactions in case they are not100 per cent satisfied with the

product. The eBay Guarantee isaimed at instilling consumerconfidence in online shoppingpromising a completely secureand satisfaction-guaranteed

experience of getting the prod-uct they selected and paid for.There were reports that womenare increasingly buying products from eBay. Can youplease expand on this?Thirty per cent of our consumersare women and shop across allcategories available on eBay. Thelifestyle category is the mostpopular for women with:n A piece of jewellery selling

every 4 minutesn A health or beauty product

sells every 4 minutesn A piece of apparel selling

every 5 minutesn A watch selling every 7 min-

utesn A piece of home décor selling

every 8 minutesOur women shoppers are

primarily between the age of 18and 40. They are home-makers,professionals, entrepreneurs andworking women. Women tend tobe social with their shoppinghabits whether it be sharingdetails of a product they arelooking for and seekingrecommendations or sharingwhat they bought and makingrecommendations. Their circle ofinfluence is larger and they shopmore frequently.

Where do you want to take eBayIndia in the next two years?The Indian eCommerce industryis pegged to grow at over 70 percent and we are growing at twicethis rate. We plan to furtheraccelerate this growth byenhancing our services throughconstant innovation. We plan tofocus not only on our buyers butalso our sellers who have beenvital partners to our success.

‘E-retail set for growth’Abhimanyu Lal, head of category management, eBay India talks about current eCommerce

trends and the firm’s business, in an interview with Prudhvi Raju K.

WASHINGTON: The Federal Reservesaid on Wednesday it sees US growthpicking up and unemployment fallingby the end of the year, as it stuck fast toexisting stimulus policies despite someshort-term economic headwinds.

Stating “it’s still a little too prema-ture to declare victory,” Fed chairmanBen Bernanke gave a slightly moreupbeat view of the economy andrebuffed demands for more stimulusspending. After a two-day meeting, Fedpolicymakers said they expected to keepinterest rates near zero until late 2014,as Bernanke described further spendingnow to boost the economy as “reckless.”

Bernanke offered stronger-than-expected 2012 growth and jobs projec-

tions as exhibit A in his defense. The bank predicted unemployment

will fall to between 7.8 and 8.0 per centby the end of the year. Unemploymentstands at 8.2 per cent today, the lowestrate in three years, but nearly 13 millionAmerican workers are still unemployed,leading some to call for more measuresto juice the economy.

The Fed also predicted that growthwill reach between 2.4 per cent and 2.9per cent by year’s end. Against this back-drop, the Fed kept in place its policy ofswapping short-term bonds for thosewith longer-term maturities — a movethat should put downward pressure onreal interest rates and stimulate invest-ment. AFP

Fed optimistic on growth

OPPORTUNITIES AND PROMISES

Women are becomingincreasingly active in shop-ping online and this will

lead to a change in the productofferings of eCommerce players,which means lifestyle products willtake lead.

Tier 2 and Tier 3 Cities are nowfirmly on the eCommerce map andthe key driver is access to productsnot available in their city or town.With further increase in internetpenetration, they will become largeeCommerce hubs.

As an estimated 100 millionIndians spend their time online con-suming content, communicatingand even indulging in commerce,brands are setting up online storefronts to cater to this demand.From a dedicated storefront oneCommerce websites, to specialpromotions and standaloneeCommerce enabled websites,brands are going to come online ina big way and invest in servicingthis distributed but significant customer base.

Another, big impetus toeCommerce in India is mobile com-merce. Presently Mobile AssistedCommerce has picked up signifi-cantly in India and is expected togrow in the country. MobileAssisted Commerce enables con-sumers to check prices online usingmobile applications and makingpurchases after comparing prices.

“The Indian seller is veryentrepreneurial and does not justtrade with consumers across thecountry as well as exports a varietyof hand crafted goods global buyersacross the world. The number ofentrepreneurs having the internetas their key driver will grow withgrowing awareness of the multipleuses of the virtual medium. Wedefinitely see retail exports as agrowing trend,”Lal said.

Global food prices up,poor at risk: World Bank WASHINGTON: Global food prices again rose inthe first quarter on the back of higher oil prices,putting millions of people at risk of not havingenough to eat, the World Bank said on Wednesday.The 8 per cent increase from December 2011 toMarch 2012 was due to “higher oil prices, adverseweather conditions, and Asia’s strong demand forfood imports,” the World Bank said.

The bank’s Global Food Price Index was “only 1per cent below a year ago and 6 per cent below theFebruary 2011 peak,” it said. “After four months ofconsecutive price declines, food prices are on the riseagain, threatening the food security of millions ofpeople,” said Otaviano Canuto, the bank’s vice presi-dent (poverty reduction and economic management.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201210India unveiled India‑View

From the service road abovethe Lower Subansiri Dam, inNortheast India, the river

below looks deep and still, a darkforest green.

On the bank opposite, amammoth conveyor carries siltand gravel from a quarry half amile away. Upstream along theSubansiri River, brilliant redcranes tower over the 380-footwall of concrete and steel — near-ly completed — which unlessconstruction can be halted willsoon submerge some 8,500 acresof land.

When it’s finished, the 2,000megawatt (MW) Lower Subansiriproject, being built by govern-ment-owned NHPC Ltd near thetown of North Lakhimpur on theborder of Assam and ArunachalPradesh, will be one of India’s

largest hydroelectric powerplants. Including the LowerSubansiri, 150 dams — many ofthem massive projects of morethan 1,000MW of capacity — areplanned for the Dibang, Siang,Siyom, and Lohit rivers.

For local residents and envi-ronmental activists, the LowerSubansiri is the first beachhead inthe struggle against breakneck-pace development, which oppo-nents say has been undertakenwithout full or sincere considera-tion of its consequences, andcould wipe out thousands of acresof breathtaking forest, dozens offascinating tribal cultures andsome of the world’s best white-water for adventure tourism.

Power hunger runs deepYes, India needs electricity. The

country is the world’s fourth-largest electricity consumer, afterthe US, China and Russia. Lastyear, peak power de ma nd topped122,000MW, re sult ing in a shortfallof some 12,000MW, or nearly 10per cent, according to the CentralElectricity Authority. Overalldemand for energy over the yearbreached 860,000 gigawatt hours,resulting in a gap of 73,000GWh, or8.5 per cent.

And the situation promises toget worse, as the Ministry of Powerprojects a 56 per cent increase inannual demand to 1.4 millionGWh by the end of the next five-

year planning period in March2017 — requiring the addition ofanother 100,000 megawatts ofgeneration capacity.

Some 300 million people in vil-lages across the country still haveno access to electricity at all.Factories are often forced to gener-ate their own power. Residents ofthe country’s showpiece

metropolitan cities endure fre-quent ‘power cuts’. During thelong, hot summer, excess demandforces electricity providers toresort to rolling blackouts, some-times for six hours or longer.

In places like Roing — a smalloutpost in Arunachal’s DibangRiver Basin with the frontier char-acter of a logging town — matters

are even more uncertain. On arecent visit, spring rains knockedout transmission lines runningfrom Assam, and at least one hotelwas left without electricity fornearly a week and forced, like mil-lions of businesses across thecountry, to run a diesel-poweredgenerator from sundown to lightsout around 9pm. GLOBALPOST

The nearly 150 dams planned for the sparsely populated Arunachal Pradesh would together fill India’s current energy gap. But they will also devastate dozens of indigenous tribal people, wipe out thousands ofacres of forest and do away with some of the world’s best white-water. Jason Overdorf delves far and deep

Madhulika Sonkar

NEW DELHI: It is early morning,and inside a single-storey build-ing’s basement, a man picks upone of four ringing telephones. Heasks the caller in a deep baritone,“But what went wrong?” and steersthe person towards an hour-longconversation.

It was a depressed caller, hesays later. The man, who uses thepseudonym Zaki Shah, is from thehush-hush world of ‘talk therapy’where people feeling depressed orsuicidal find refuge in the voices ofcounsellors sitting far away andworking at odd hours.

The time this IANS correspon-dent spent at the headquarters ofthis 24-hour 14-state helpline, runby St Stephen’s Hospital andEmmanuel Hospital Association,revealed a world of despair andrescue where identities are with-held as new hopes are born.

The helpline, started lastOctober, has seen an increase inthe density of calls from Delhi,Punjab, Haryana and UttarPradesh and even the northeast.More youths from small townsshare their woes on the phone. “Intowns, visiting a psychiatrist is nota viable option due to stigma andavailability. So they find refuge inhelplines,” says Shah.

The busiest months areFebruary and March when calls aday go up to 100. The reasons:exams and stressed students andparents, say the counsellors.

According to a 2009 NationalCrime Records Bureau report, 15people committed suicide in thecountry every hour. The WHOsays depression, one of the causesof suicide, will be the second-most prevalent medical conditionin the world by 2020.

The helpline has nine coun-sellors working in three shifts,

and all they have are computersand telephones. Available on1860-266-2345, the helpline hasreceived around 2,000 calls so far.

“To maintain confidentiality,we cannot reveal our or thecaller’s identity to any other per-son. In telephonic counselling, itis plain talk therapy working,” acounsellor who uses thepseudonym Vidhi Sharma said.

“I am not even supposed totell you my name. It is just thecaller who should know aboutme,” she added.

“On telephone, we have tocatch the callers’ non-verbal cuesalso. Unlike face-to-face coun-selling, we cannot analyse thebody language. Only tones andwords are available to us,” saysSharma. The counsellors, mostlywith a master’s degree in psychol-ogy, come trained for the job.

Sharma talks about the“invisible equation” created by

these helplines. Over -coming the fear of beingjudged is the biggest advan-tage to the distressed seekinghelp, she says.

The team of counsellors hasmastered the art of pulling backdepressed callers into life.However, the task is tough whenthey have to deal with violentcallers or elderly who have losthope. “It is a challenge to calmdown violent callers who firstneed medical help. Our first pri-ority is to buy time from peoplewho are on the verge of com-mitting suicide,” says Shah,who is a theatre artiste whennot counselling.

“After a detailed analysis ofthe caller, we assess if the personneeds to be referred to a psychia-trist. Certain calls can leave usemotionally drained too,” he says,adding that the callers just wantto be heard.

Development through destruction

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Talk therapy for India’s depressed

Some states and the number ofmajor dams/ reservoirs in themTamil Nadu 66Andhra Pradesh 37Karnataka 33Kerala 24Maharashtra 23Uttar Pradesh 13Rajasthan 12West Bengal 1

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201211India unveiled India‑ViewNATION AT A GLANCENo change in visa policyon Narendra Modi: USWASHINGTON: The US has said thereis no change in its visa policy with regard toGujarat CM Narendra Modi. “Our positionon the visa issue hasn’t changed at all,”State Department spokesperson VictoriaNuland told reporters on Wednesday. Nulandwas responding to questions by Congress -man Joe Walsh to the Secretary of State,Hillary Clinton, that the US reverse its 2005decision not to issue US visa to Modi.

Basu meets PM to clarify his commentsNEW DELHI: Amid controversy over hisremarks on economic reforms, economicadviser Kaushik Basu today met PM Man -mohan Singh. Basu is believed to have givenclarification about his comments on eco-nomic reforms, which had generated a bigdebate on the issue. During his visit to theUS last week, Basu had said that major eco-nomic reforms would hit a roadblock.

6 of marriage partykilled in road mishapMUZAFFARPUR: A speeding truck ranover 11 members of a marriage party takinga stroll on the road in Kanhara village in thedistrict, killing six persons. Five of the seri-ously injured were rushed to ShrikrishnaMedical College Hospital in Muzaffarpur,police said. The incident took place on theDarbhanga-Muzaffarpur road yesterday. Thedriver escaped after the incident.

Karuna backs Eelam;seeks revival of TESOCHENNAI: Backing a separate Eelam(homeland) for Sri Lankan Tamils, DMK pres-ident M Karunanidhi has sought revival ofthe Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation(TESO). Addressing a public meeting at Kola -thur, the constituency of his son and partytreasurer MK Stalin last night, he called for ademocratic struggle to achieve this purpose.

NCP chief Sha rad Pawar (C) with PASangma (L) and Tariq Anwar at theparty’s working committee meetingin New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI

People on Wednesday crowdaround the captured tiger, whichhad entered human habitat inLucknow. PTI

Dennis S Jesudasan

SRIHARIKOTA (AP): Achieving yetanother milestone in its space pro-gramme, India today successfullylaunched its first indigenous all-weath-er radar imaging satellite RISAT-1 thatwill boost its remote sensing capabili-ties and facilitate agriculture and disas-ter management.

The perfect launch of the satellitecatapulted India into a select band ofcountries having indigenous radarimaging technology.

“Only the US, Canada, Japan andthe European consortium have thetechnology so far,” PS Veeraraghavan,Director, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre,Thiruvananthapuram said.

Hailing the launch, Prime MinisterManmohan Singh said it was an impor-tant milestone in India’s space pro-gramme and congratulated the ISROscientists for displaying mastery of thecomplex launch vehicle technology.

In a textbook launch, the 1,858kgspacecraft, the country’s firstmicrowave remote sensing satellite,was injected into precise orbit by PolarSatellite Launch Vehicle PSLV C-19about 19 minutes after a perfect lift off at 5.47am at the end of the 71-hour countdown from SatishDhawan Space Centre here, around

90km from Chennai.PSLV, the workhorse launch vehicle

of Indian Space Research Organisation,achieved its 20th consecutive success-ful flight when it launched RISAT-1, theheaviest satellite ever lifted by it, in amission described as a “grand success”by the space agency chief KRadhakrishanan.

RISAT-1, culmination of nearly 10years of effort by SRO, has the capabilityto take images of Earth during day andnight, as well as in cloudy conditions.

Till now, India depended on imagesfrom a Canadian satellite as existingdomestic remote sensing spacecraftcannot take pictures of Earth duringcloud cover.

“The satellite can give valuable datalike soil moisture, glacier positions andother details,” the ISRO chairman said.

The satellite has been successfullydeployed at an altitude of 480km,Radhakrishnan said, adding it would beraised to its desired altitude of 536km ofPolar Sunsynchronous Orbit in the nextthree days.

The four stages of heavy-duty PSLV-XL variant, used for the third time, per-formed without any glitch and scien-tists at the mission control centre brokeinto cheer when the rocket injected thesatellite into orbit, marking the firstlaunch this year for ISRO. PTI

NEW DELHI: Dearth of retiredHigh Court Chief Justices hasprompted the National HumanRights Commission (NHRC) tothink about relaxing norms forappointment of chairpersons inits state bodies by amending theexisting Act.

The NHRC is also mulling thepossibility of having a singlehuman rights body for the north-eastern states where the problemof getting a retired High CourtChief Justice is more.

NHRC Chairperson JusticeKG Balakrishnan said some of thesmaller states like in the north-east have a problem with regardto appointing chairpersons as

there are no available retiredChief Justices.

“For these seven north-eaststates, there is only one HighCourt. So there are no enoughretired Chief Justices. So thereshould be some relaxation and theAct could be suitably amended.

“Overall, in north-easternstates, there may be one SHRC tocater to all these seven states.Some such amendments couldbe made,” Balakrishnan told PTIin an interview. The Commissionhas already called for suggestionfrom the existing SHRCs regard-ing the amendment of ‘TheProtection of Human Rights Act’of 1993. PTI

India joins elite club with all-weather eye in space

NHRC for change to Act

NEW DELHI: Opposition BJPand AIADMK today stalled pro-ceedings in the Rajya Sabha inthe wake of claims made by for-mer Swedish police chief in thealleged payoffs involved in theBofors gun deal, forcing adjourn-ment of the House for 15 min-utes.As soon as the House met for theday, BJP and AIADMK memberswere on their feet alleging thatthe then Prime Minister Rajiv

Gandhi had protected Italianbusinessman OttavioQuattrocchi, who is alleged tohave received payoff in the case.Chairman Hamid Ansari said theQuestion Hour will not be sus-pended and asked members toresume their places.“Please allow Question Hour toproceed... The Question Hourcannot be suspended,” he saidand took up the first listed ques-tion of the day.

RS adjourned over Bofors B H U B A N E S W A R :Maoists today (Thursday)released Odisha legislatorJhina Hikaka in the state’sKoraput district after hold-ing him captive for morethan a month.

Reporters and photogra-phers surrounded a relievedand healthy looking Hikakaas he came with a group ofvillagers to a mango gardenat Balipeta, over 500km from

here, at about 10.30am.Emotions ran high when

the 37-year-old Biju JanataDal (BJD) legislator, wearinga green kurta, hugged hiswife Kaushalya and secondsafter both broke down intears.

“We’re glad that he issafe and unharmed,” partycolleague Baijayant Pandatold reporters.

The leftwing extremists,who kidnapped Hikaka fromLaxmipur in Koraput March24, had on Wednesdayannounced that a ‘praja’,people’s, court decided torelease him after he apolo-gised to the rebels and thelocal villagers.

A Maoist leader callingherself ‘Aruna’, in an audiomessage aired by a localtelevision channel here, hadsaid the decision to releasehim was taken after hepromised to resign from theassembly and the primarymembership of the rulingBJD.

IANS

Naxals free Odishalegislator Hikaka

TORONTO: In January, as theTV cameras rolled, TorontoMayor Rob Ford stepped on anindustrial scale and tipped theneedle to an eye-popping 330pounds.

Even he seemed takenaback. “It’s the heaviest I’veever been,” he said. “I’ve gotyoung children — this is nothealthy. You’re running the city,and you can’t be doing all thisat 330 pounds.”

Thus began a very publicbattle to lose weight. Fordlaunched his “cut the waistchallenge,” a public hea lthcampaign that invites resi-dents of Canada’s biggest cityto slim down. For his part, hevowed to lose 50 pounds by mi -d-June and to track his successwith weekly, public weigh-ins.

It started off great. In thefirst week, the 5-foot-10-inchFord lost 10 pounds. He tookup jogging and weight liftingand cut back on sweets.

“It’s pretty hard,” he said athis second weigh-in, noting theexcruciating temptation everytime he spots an ice-creamshop while driving.

Ford is Toronto’s populist,Tea Party-type mayor. He waselected in November 2010 onpromises to axe the city’s $9.2billion operating budget. Ithasn’t gone well. Once chargedin Florida with drunk drivingand possession of marijuana,he has struggled with anger

management issues in office,admitting to swearing at a 911operator, and accused of flash-ing the middle finger to awoman while driving.

As his political troubles gr -ew, so did his struggle to losewe i ght. After managing to lose22 pounds, he gained four, andcanceled two weigh-ins at thela st minute, without explana-tion.

Then, last week, in whatappeared to be a moment ofweakness, Ford was caught oncell-phone video by a womanlaughing at the sight of himentering a Kentucky FriedChicken outlet. “He’s sup-posed to be losing weight,” thewoman is heard saying as shefilms the mayor.

“The guy’s trying his hard-est — well, maybe not hishardest, but he’s trying,” Ford’sbrother, Doug, a city councilor,also trying to lose weight, saidof the video. GLOBALPOST

Battling the KFC bulge

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201212Around the World Beyond Borders

LAS VEGAS: It’s Sunday lunc -htime in Las Vegas and Justin lo -oks like he wants to curl up anddie. He has a monster hangoverafter drinking for two days solid.But help, he hopes, is at hand.

The 38-year-old from Seattleis among the first customers try-ing out a new service, “Hang overHeaven”, which promises to“cure” his throbbing head, sw eatypallor and general feeling ofdeath, all within 45 minutes.

Justin was speaking on boardthe shiny blue-and-white“Hangover Heaven” bus, parkedoutside the Mandalay Bay casinoon the southern end of the infa-mous Vegas Strip.

From the outside it looks likeany other tour bus. Inside, thevehicle is rigged out not unlike anambulance: IV tubes, pulsome-ters, attentive nurses, and, if it allgets too much, soothing, dark-ened bunks.

The new service, which lau -nched on August 14, is the br a -inchild of doctor Jason Burke.

The trained anesthesiologist— who still works in hospitalslocally in his “day job” — came upwith the idea while working withpatients in recovery rooms, afterqualifying in 2001.

“Watching patients in thepost-anesthesia care unit, Inoticed they had a lot of the samesymptoms that people with ahangover have: the nausea, theheadache, aches and pains, dis-oriented feeling.

“And I thought maybe thesemedications that I’m using totreat them in the recovery roomcould work for a hangover,” he

said.Happily for him, he lives in

the Nevada gambling capital —internationally renowned as acenter for heavy partying andintoxication of all kinds, and, ofcourse, the setting for the first ofthe blockbuster “Hangover”movies. What’s more, “when peo-ple come to Vegas and drink,they’re much more prone to get ahangover because of the timespan over which they drink, it’smuch longer and they get moredehydrated because they’re inthe desert. “So it’s the perfect set-up for hangovers,” he said.

The service offers to “cure”shell-shocked morning-after rev-ellers of their hangover using acombination of anti-nausea andrehydrating drugs, as well as vita-mins and other medicines.

The bus promises an “ultra-

smooth ride” to spare queasystomachs, a mid-section withfour bunks, a rear lounge, a bath-room and a “private interviewroom for people who have sensi-tive medical issues they wish todiscuss.”

Debbie Lund, one of his nurs-es — she is a trained emergencymedical technician (EMT) — saidthe first weekend went well, withover 25 customers in Vegas.

All of this care does not comecheap: there are two basic pack-ages, “Redemption” and“Salvation”, offered at the intro-ductory prices of $90 and $150respectively.

Both provide drugs by IV, butthe premium option includesintravenous hydration, anti-nau-sea and anti-inflammatory medi-cations, as well as vitamin sup-plements. AFP

Bali’s Willy WonkaSpice-heavy Indonesia to get chocolate factoryBALI: Indonesia’s tropical cli-mate might not be the obviouschoice for chocolate producers —not to mention the fact that thecountry’s 240 million citizenshave traditionally favouredrobust spices and raw chili overdelicate sweets.

But it’s here amid the palmtrees of this famed resort islandthat Benjamin Ripple, FrederickSchilling and their Big Tree Farmscompany have opened up achocolate factory that even WillyWonka might envy.

It’s notable for several rea-sons. First, because it’s housedinside the world’s largest com-mercial bamboo structure. Nextbecause it’s producing “raw”chocolate, which carries majorhealth benefits and is beloved byfitness gurus.

“It can also make you high,”

Ripple says as a disclaimer beforeleading guests on a recent tastetest.

What stands out to competi-tors and consumer analysts, how-ever, is that Big Tree Farms is tar-geting Indonesians. “We wouldlove to find our primary marketin Indonesia,” says Ripple.

Indonesians are starting torefine their taste for qualitysweets, he continues. And thatmeans huge potential in a coun-try with a rapidly growing econo-my and a consumer base not farbehind Asia’s biggest markets.

Last year chocolate sales inIndonesia jumped 25 per cent, to$1.1 billion, roughly on par withChina but above India’s $744 mil-lion in sales, according to marketresearch firm Mintel.

Sales are expected to furtherincrease to $1.2 billion thisyear as Indonesia continues tosee growth averaging more than6 per cent and as air-condi-tioned malls flourish, notedMarcia Mogelonsky, a marketanalyst specializing in confec-tionery at Mintel.

For now, the majority of salesin Indonesia come from domes-tic companies, such as Ceres andMonggo, a local chocolate makerbased in Central Java. But com-

petition could be heating up,with a host of international con-sumer goods companies scram-bling to target a substantial andgrowing middle class.

Ripple says Big Tree Farms isstill formulating its marketingstrategy for the country. While theraw angle will likely sell well inthe United States, the trend ofraw foods and “super foods” — orfoods, like blueberries and kale,that are naturally calorie sparseand nutrient dense has not yetarrived in Indonesia, he says.

The chocolate trend, howev-er, is settling in.

In Menteng, a posh Jakartaneighbourhood where formerPresident Suharto once lived,glass plates of perfectly arrangedpralines sparkle under lights atDapur Cokelat, which meansChocolate Kitchen in Indonesian.

After school, children pour in toshare slices of fudgy cake andwash them down with coldchocolate drinks. The shop hasbeen running since 2001, butchanging tastes and fatterincomes have sparked a jump incustomers.

Between 2010 and 2011, thenumber of visitors increased by35 per cent, says Adithya Pratama,the marketing manager at DapurCokelat, a family business startedby his parents in 2001. “Years agochocolate was seen as a luxuriousproduct, something you couldonly get in a hotel,” says Pratama.But increasing use of local cacaoand a wider range of manufactur-ers has made it more affordable.

Dapur Cokelat now has 11stores in three cities. Pratama,who studied to be a pastry chef inSydney, helps create productsthat will appeal to the tastes ofIndonesia’s middle class.

In addition to standardchocolate cakes and pralines, theshop now sells Ting-Tings, whichare ginger candies coated inchocolate, and takes specialitycake orders — a recent one wasmade to look like a cone of yellowrice traditionally served duringbirthday celebrations.

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Hangover service, sir!

Dr Jason Burke poses in his Hangover Heaven bus as it cruisesdown the Las Vegas Strip. AFP/ JOHN GURZINSKI

In Vegas, a new cure for monster hangovers

Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201213Around the World Beyond Borders

GLOBE AT A GLANCEAussie, S African deadin Indonesia plane crash0JAKARTA: A South African pilot andhis Australian passenger were killed whentheir Susi Air plane crashed in easternIndonesia, officials said on Thursday, in theairline’s third fatal accident in a year. Theywere the only people on board the PilatusPC-6 aircraft, which was carrying theAustralian photographer on a charteredflight, the airline’s operations directorChristian Strombeck told AFP.

Fallen Chinese leaderspied on others: reportBEIJING: Disgraced Chinese leader BoXilai ran an extensive wire-tapping systemthat spied on top officials including thepresident and contributed to his downfall,the NY Times said. Bo tapped the phonesof nearly all high-ranking leaders who vis-ited Chongqing, keen to stay apprised ofwhat they were saying about him as heangled for the top leadership it said.

NRI named Unescogoodwill ambassadorUNITED NATIONS: Indian-originentrepreneur and educator Sunny Varkey,founder and chairman of Dubai-basedGEMS Education, one of the largest privateschool operators in the world, has beennamed as a goodwill ambassador by theUnited Nations’ educational and culturalagency in recognition of his contribution inthe field of education.

Obama sets electionrallies for early May

People take part in a cyclingprotest in favour of cycle paths inCaracas on Wednesday.

AFP /JUAN BARRETO

Protesters opposed to Arizona’sImmigration Law SB 1070 rally forimmigrant rights on Wednesday inPhoenix. AFP

WASHINGTON: US President BarackObama will hold the first proper politicalrallies of his reelection bid in early May. Hewill hold two full-scale political events inthe crucial battleground states of Ohio andVirginia. The announcement came a dayafter Romney finally locked in his partynomination.

CAIRO: Egypt’s electoralcommission on Wednesdaywent back on a decision tobar ousted leader HosniMubarak’s last PrimeMinister from running in theMay 23 presidential election.

The election panel onTuesday had barred him fromrunning to comply with a billadopted by the Islamist-dominated parliament earli-er this month banning thecandidacies of all seniorMubarak-era officials.

Shafiq, a general and for-mer civil aviation minister,had been named premier inthe final days of Mubarak’sthree-decade rule last year ashe battled an 18-day popularuprising.

According to a BBC repo -rt, the front-runners amongthose left in the race are con-sidered to be former ForeignMinister Amr Moussa, theindependent moderateIslamist Abdel Moneim AboulFotouh and MohammedMursi, the chairman of theMuslim Brotherhood’sFreedom and Justice Party(FJP).

Pakistan’s prime ministerwas on Thursday con-victed of contempt ofcourt by the country’s

highest court but given only atoken sentence in a case thatcould still see him thrown outof office. Gilani had faced amaximum sentence of sixmonths in prison, but the courtordered him to be “impris-oned” until the hearingadjourned and he emergedshortly afterwards smiling andwaving to supporters.

The question now iswhether he will be disqualifiedfrom office, which would addto political instability in acountry already troubled by Al-Qaeda and Taliban violence.

Under Pakistan’s constitu-tion anyone convicted ofdefaming or ridiculing the judi-ciary is barred from being anMP, but legal experts say theprocess to disqualify Gilanicould be a lengthy one, involv-ing the parliamentary speakerand the Election Commission.

“For reasons to be recordedlater Prime Minister and chiefexecutive Yousuf Raza Gilani isfound guilty and convicted forcontempt of court,” JusticeNasir ul Mulk, the head of theseven-judge Supreme Courtbench, said.

Mulk said the convictionwas “likely to entail seriousconsequences” for Gilani, andthis was taken in mitigationwith regards to his sentence.

The case has been highlypolitically charged, with mem-bers of the government accus-ing judges of over-steppingtheir reach and of trying tobring down the prime minister

and president, a year before theadministration would becomethe first in Pakistan to com-plete an elected term.

Earlier, Gilani drove in asmall motorcade to the Supre -me Court complex, where me -mbers of his council of minis-ters were waiting for him.

The premier then walkedtowards the building flankedby his son Abdul Qadeer Gilaniand interior minister RehmanMalik as his supporters show-ered rose petals on him.

He stopped at the door ofthe building and waved to hissupporters before going inside.The proceedings in the packedcourtroom began at around9.30am.

After the judges entered theroom, Gilani walked and stoodat the rostrum with law minis-ter Farooq Naek and his lawyer

Aitzaz Ahsan. The governmentput in place strict securityarrangements for Gilani’s thirdappearance in the SupremeCourt in the contempt case.

Helicopters mounted aerialsurveillance were also put inplace while over 2,000 securitypersonnel were deployed in the“Red Zone” where the apex co -urt and parliament is located.

The Supreme Court hasbeen pushing the governmentto reopen cases of money laun-dering against PresidentZardari in Switzerland sinceDecember 2009, when it struckdown a graft amnesty (NationalReconciliation Ordinance)issued by former military rulerPervez Musharraf.

The government hasrefused to act, saying thePresident enjoys immunity inPakistan and abroad.

File photo of former EgyptPM Ahmad Shafiq. AFP

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani (R) waves uponhis arrival at the Supreme Court building in Islamabad.

Scientists crack quantum codeMELBOURNE: Australian scientists alongwith other international team claim to havedesigned a tiny crystal, made of just 300 at -oms, capable to run a quantum computerso powerful that it would take a computer ofthe size of the known universe to match it.

According to ABC report, the details ofthe ion crystal which has been designed byAustralia, South Africa and US, have beenpublished in the journal Nature today.

“We’ve surpassed the computationalpotential of this system relative to classicalcomputers by something like 10 to the[power of] 80, which is 80 orders of magni-tude, a really enormous number,” theUniversity of Sydney’s Michael Biercuk said.

Quantum computing is a kind of infor-mation science that is based on the notionthat if one performs computations in a fun-damentally different way than the way yourclassical desktop computer works, there’s a

huge potential to solve a variety of prob-lems that are very, very hard or near impos-sible for standard computers, he said.

Biercuk added, “If you wanted to thinkhow big a classical computer would needto be in order to solve this problem of

roughly 300 interacting quantum particles,it turns out that computer would need tobe the size of the known universe - which isclearly something that’s not possible toachieve”.

He said that the central element issomething like a millimetre in diameter,300 atoms that are suspended in space.“But of course everything depends on ahuge amount of technical infrastructurearound it. So there are vacuum chambersand pumps and lasers, and all of that takesup something like a room.

“The quantum computer will move to astage where it is so far out in front and per-forming such complex tasks it will be diffi-cult to check if it is working accurately.“They’re not easily checked by a classicalcomputer which opens a whole variety ofproblems,” Biercuk said.

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Convicted Gilani getsonly token sentence

Hosini’s mencreep back asban reversed

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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201214Fair, free and forthrightComment

When I was growing up, I alwaysimagined being a doctorwould be this fast-paced worldwhere every patient thatwalked in would have a life-

threatening disorder and you had 30 secondsto save their life. I also believed that every doc-tor knew everything about medicine there wasto know (this might have been true in 1895)and that they always had the answer ready togo before you can even finish the question.

It’s 2012 and I am here to tell you that allwhat I thought it was, it is not. Furthermore, ifyou run into a doctor that thinks he knows itall, RUN! But not knowing everything doesnot deter friends, family and Facebook friendsfrom contacting you whenever they feel likewith a medical inquiry. I know I took theHypocratic Oath where I promised to helpmankind but nowhere in the oath does it say Ihave to answer a call at 4am to your questionregarding anal leakage.

For all the weird and insanely ridiculousmedical questions I’ve been consulted on,there is one thing that stays constant, the“uhmmm” phone call. Let me break it downfor you. It’s 5pm and I’m sitting at home tryingto figure out what I want to eat and fightingoff sleep when the phone rings. “Hello” I say,because I’ve found out that answering thephone with, “This is pimp daddy RajinderPatel Hotel Motel, how may I help you?” oftentimes ends up with the other party hangingup. On the other end, there is a happy voice ofa friend of mine who happens to be a girl.“Hey how are you?” she asks. “Hungry” I say;you will learn very quickly I am almost alwayshungry and the only time I’m not hungry iswhen I’m full. So she makes small chit-chatand we talk for a little. And like an algorithm,her voice gets soft and she says “uhmmm canI ask you a medical question… uhmmm it’skinda personal” — TRANSLATON “hey docsomething is wrong with my vagina/uterusand I don’t know what to do”.

Trying to make it easier for her, I bring it upand say “Is it a gynaecological question?” To

which she says yes and that is followed by thesecond “uhmmm”. “Uhmmm I don’t knowhow to say it?” So let me break down the sec-ond “uhmmm” for you. Either something isbleeding that shouldn’t be bleeding, some-thing that should be bleeding isn’t bleeding,something that shouldn’t be growing in you isgrowing in you (this might get your parentsupset), it burns when you pee or somethingfunny is there (and when I say funny I don’tmean someone drew a clown down there).

When the second “uhmmm” is addressed,then comes the third “uhmmm”, “uhmmm”what do you think I should do, to which mystandard response is always, “Please bring mesome food so we can talk about it”…I’m kid-ding, I’ll gladly go pick up the food from you.For the most part I have an idea how toaddress the situation, but when I am unsureyou get the fourth “uhmmm”, “uhmmm thatsounds bad I think you need to go see the doc-tor right away. Hey, on your way to the hospitalcan you drop off some food for me, thanks!”

On a final note, if you happen to find your-self at 4am with a bad case (‘cause as far as Iknow there is no such thing as a ‘good case’) ofanal leakage and you are wondering,“Uhmmm, what the hell should I do?” Bestthing to do, call a plumber to fix the leak, oth-erwise you are going to find yourself in frontof a doctor that’s saying, “Really, you inter-rupted me eating for this?”

The travails of a dutiful doctor

But... SeriouslyAjay Hotchandani

Jail Raja foreverCome clean, seriously? I mean, give me abreak man. You don’t deserve it. A manwho sucks on to people’s money like a

leech doesn’t deserveto be emancipated.He should be kept inprison forever. Rajabeing arrested is thefirst step that CBItook against corrup-tion. It was the begin-ning for a revolution

that will not end in the near future. Itwould be a disgrace to our system if suchcriminals are left free in the society.

Madhusudan THimayatnagar

Furthering technologyThe Knowledge Central on the March oftechnology was very apt. Like it truly statedthat most of the gadgets that we use nowwill not be available to our kids. I myselfremember so many things, like the gramo-phone, the radio, the early television setsand the games we used to play. Even as Iwrite someone somewhere is producing anew gadget somewhere. For example, intwo years’ time how many products onlythe Apple stable has produced; this is proofenough that man hungers to be better andfaster every day.

Sheena MajumdarMangalhat

Congratulations folksFirst of all, I would like to congratulate youon the marvelous product that you arebringing out each week. I especially likethe weekend editions because of the look

and layout. Anotherthing I would like tocompliment you on isthat I have noticedon a daily basis, lead-ing news dailies havereported somethingwhile you have some-thing different. This is

a very disturbing find because as readers Idon’t know who to trust. Mostly, yournews has been correct, so please keep upthe good work and make news reading agenuine experience for us.

Kaushal ChatterjeeMusheerabad

Improve working areaWon’t we ever learn? The poor quality ofevaluation that our noble teachers end updoing is not surprising, now that we knowthe conditions that they are expected towork from. It is a matter of commonsensethat the efficiency of a person drops whenthe work environment is not conducive towork in. Basic comforts have to be ensuredby the education department to teacherscorrecting exam papers of our children. Innot doing so, we are putting in jeopardycareers and lives of these students.

Tajuddin AhmedRamnagar

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PAKISTAN SUPREME COURT VERDICT IS Asymbolic snub for Gilani

Pakistan’s PM lost his legal battle but managed to walk away with his dignity andpost intact. The judges sentenced him to detention till the rising of the court but

left immediately after the pronouncement of the verdict — sparing him fromactually serving the ‘sentence’. The verdict came after a prolonged legal battle follow-

ing his refusal to revive graft charges against President Asif Ali Zardari. Though he mayhave suffered a loss of face in the course of trial, Gilani has come out stronger as he

refused to be cowed by the judiciary at a time when the all-powerful army hasexpressed its unhappiness with his government’s policies. However, he has miles to go

before the writ of Islamabad is enforced. The military operates under nominal civiliancontrol; militant organisations like JuD openly rebuke government requests to keep a

low-profile; corruption is rampant; and power shortages have crippled the country.Gilani may have got away with a mere scratch, but he has a war waiting for him.

WHY WE LOVE...Rupert Murdoch

As Rupert Murdoch took thestand at the Levenson inquiry inLondon yesterday, there was a

glimpse of the man that once heldthe British political world by the shortand curlies, in his pomp. Murdoch theElder was never cowed as the interro-gation began, but there was a senseof Canute about his answers. His wasa quest for ultimate power, and whocan blame him, is that not what mostof us yearn for?

I KNOW I TOOK THE HYPOCRATIC OATHWHERE I PROMISED TO HELP MANKINDBUT NOWHERE IN THE OATH DOES IT SAYI HAVE TO ANSWER A CALL AT 4AM TOYOUR QUESTION REGARDING ANALLEAKAGE.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201215Telly Tales Small screen, big idea

BUNIYAAD

Padmini Cpadmini.c@postnoon.com

On paper, NYC 22 seemedlike a show with infinitepotential. With screen-writer Richard Price,

(best known for Clockers and TheWanderers), Robert De Niro asexecutive producer and crediblytalented cast including namessuch as Adam Goldberg & LeeleeSobieski, there isn't much morethan you can ask for. Save for a lit-tle originality, perhaps.

Set in (22nd precinct of)

Harlem, NYC 22 follows six brandnew recruits in the local policeforce as they learn to fight streetcrime. And, surprise, surprise...each of them has a side story. Solet's see. There's Sanchez (JudyMarte), the latino from a brokenfamily out to prove a point; RayHarper the recovering alcoholic(Adam Goldberg); Jennifer Perry, aformer marine from the WhiteHouse colour guard (LeeleeSobieski); Jayson Toney anAfrican-American ex NBA star(Harold Moore); the racially pro-filed Afghan (Tom Reed) and of

course Kenny Mc Laren (StarkSands) who hails from a line ofNYPD men.

If they weren't so contrivedand blatantly obvious about theimposed diversity, it'd would havebeen full marks on inclusiveness.

Now to the show. Eachepisode starts off with a staffdetail by the training officerDaniel “Yoda” Dean (TerryKinney) who by the by is the onlycharacter that's not just a collec-tion of tics and feels credible. Therookies are then briefed on theorder of the day which could be

anything from a criminal on therun to a bomb threat, a gang bustor a similar variant. And, so ouryoung rookies are out patrollingthe streets, defusing crises —everything from domestic squab-bles, gang wars, burglaries tounclogging toilets. All with differ-ent degrees of success.

With prime-time shows likeCSI showing their age, it is under-standable that networks wouldlook for suitable replacements inthe crime show genre. But withNYC 22, they played safe, a littletoo safe maybe. Even with a tal-

ented cast ringing in decent per-formances and well-scripted dia-logues (for the most part), it's letdown by its plot. Or the lack of it.

To be sure, NYC 22 is not abad show. Just one, whose overfamiliarity and predictability issomething we'll all seen before.Unless it gets its act together pret-ty quickly over the coming sea-son, all chances are, it will get lostamongst the thousands of showson TV without a trace.

Episodes of NYC 22 are available online.

Where are they now?

Then: Alok Nath plays the role of Master Haveliram, ateacher whose friendship with his student Lajjo translatesinto a happy marriage. And after manyyears their family is forced to relocatebecause of communal riots. Now: Alok Nath has till date hasacted in many mainstream films play-ing the supporting role of a humbleand soft spoken father or uncle.Atpresent he is playing Dr Mathur in atelevision serial Kuch toh logkahenge.

Alok Nath : Master Haveliram

Then: Kanwaljit Singh plays the role of Satbir in Buniyaad who isthe illegitimate child of Vrushbhaan. Now: After Buniyaad, he started acting in both Hindi andPunjabi films and still happens to have a lot of work in his hands.He is often seen playing the role of a father. His latest was SabkiLadli Bebo, where he played the role of a dad. He also played acharacter Dilip Dixit in Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011).

Then: Dalip Tahil plays the role ofKulbhushan, the eldest son of MasterHaveliram.

Now: After Buniyaad,he started playing vari-ous supporting roles inmainstream Hindimovies. He also playeda role in the 2011blockbuster Ra.One. In2012, he was seen inZindagi Tere Naam.

Dalip Tahil: Kulbhushan

Ahead of its timeBuniyaad, aired in 1986,

was one of the most grip-ping television serials of

the time. The plot was based onthe life of men and women whostruggled to live and love attimes when contempt and con-flict was at its peak. The televi-sion show was one of the first ofits kind and got a groundbreak-ing response from the audience.After Hum Log it was one of thelongest running serials onIndian television.The serial wasdirected by Ramesh Sippy andwritten by Manohar ShyamJoshi.

Kanwaljit Singh: SatbirThen: Lajjo ji, the simple wife of Master Haveliram, was his stu-dent. This character is rememberedbecause she was one woman who stoodup for what she believed. Now: After Buniyaad she acted in the TVserial Inspector KC. After Inspector KC,she stopped working as an actress andmoved to Gurgaon near Delhi.

Anita Kanwar: Lajjo ji

The Robert DeNiro producedNYC 22 wouldhave made for aninteresting watchif it was not somuch like thecountless cop dramas that havepreceded it

CRIMINALLY FORMULAIC

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201218Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

Stay calm forbetter babyhealth and skin

Dr Divya T Sudarshan

I am 4 months pregnant and havedull looking skin. But everybodyalways talks about the famous preg-nancy glow. How come I don’t seemto experience it?

Do you know which is the largestorgan affected by pregnancy? It’s notyour uterus, but your skin! Thechanges as pregnancy progresseswill show on the skin too; some goodand others not so good.

One reason for the glow is thatyour blood circulation increases byabout 50 per cent in the 5th month.This makes the heart pump harderresulting in a flush. Also you gainweight and this contributes as well.The “shine” is thanks to the hor-mones oestrogen, progesteroneincrease as pregnancy progresses.These increase oil production whichgives you a shiny face (this can laterbecome pregnancy acne in 30 percent of women).

The reason you don’t feel asbright maybe are the other effects ofhormones. Oestrogen effects createthe spidery blue network of veins onyour chest (to nourish your growingbreasts), hence, the mottled blueskin. Oestrogen, along with proges-terone and MSH, can cause skin dis-colourations like the darkening ofthe nipples. The skin on your fore-head, nose and cheeks may start tolook particularly tanned, creatingthe chloasma, or “mask of pregnan-cy.” It’s a sign that your skin may bemore sensitive than usual to sun-light, so take extra care. Stayinghydrated and moisturised helps asalso staying away from the sun,being calm and relaxed automatical-ly make your body unwind. Thisreduces stress on organs and resultsin better skin and baby health.

So the pregnancy glow that wespeak of is transient. It’s like a glow-ing bride, it depends on how happyshe is and how good the make up is.Sometimes you have to take whatpeople say with a pinch of salt!

(The writer is a gynaecologistand obstetrician practising at Happy

Women Clinic. You can write in toher at

happywomenclinic@gmail.com)

KEEP GINGIVITIS AT BAYDentists the world over have stressed on the importance ofgood oral hygiene. Improper oral hygiene can result in gingivitis

Since childhood our fami-ly, friends and friendlyneighbourhood dentisthas stressed on the

importance of maintaininggood oral hygiene. If you aresuffering from bleeding gums itcould be a sign of gingivitis.“Gingivitis is a combination oftwo word gingiva and itis.Gingiva stands for gums whileitis refers to any kind of inflam-mation. So any kind of inflam-mation of the gums is knownas gingivitis,” says Dr Tanuja,dental surgeon. “Nearly 99 percent of Indians suffer fromchronic generalised gingivitis.This occurs when plaque getsdeposited to form tartar whichis a hard yellow covering overthe gums or the teeth. It mayoccur in the lower teeth or sur-face of the mouth and also theupper teeth,” adds Dr Tanuja.

Plaque is formed when foodgets stuck between the teethand is not removed. Foodwhich is stuck for a long timemay cause an infection thatresults in a localised form ofgingivitis. This plaque forma-tion results in an infection.

While oral hygiene is themost commonest cause. Theircould be many more causes.According Dr Salahuddin, adentist; the other causes of gin-givitis could be hormonalimbalance, drug related gingivi-tis, hypertension related gin-givitis and diabetes related gin-givitis. The drugs taken for lep-rosy and hypertension may alsocause gingivitis as they mayaffect the saliva production orthe blood flow in the mouthwhich ultimately results in gin-givitis. Gingivitis can happen atany age although the causesmay vary depending on the age.

SymptomsAccording to Dr Salahuddin, “Aperson suffering from gingivitismay experience a tingling sen-sation from deep inside thegums, bleeding or an increasedbleeding in the gums. Peoplesuffering from gingivitis mayalso find even simple daily foodvery spicy and find it difficultto eat.” He adds that bleedingof the gums is a commonsymptom most people maynotice. This is especiallynoticeable in the mornings.

TreatmentThe first and most importantaspect while treating gingivitisis to identify the cause. Whengingivitis occurs in people whoare below the age of 25-30 it isa generic form of gingivitis, DrSalahuddin mentions that ifsomeone is above the age of 35or 40 factors such as dietariescould be responsible.“Gingivitis in a mild form usu-

ally reduces after teeth arecleaned by the dentist.Gingivitis caused due to theformation of plaque can rangefrom mild to severe. On theother hand gingivitis caused todue leprosy drugs can besevere, thus may not recedewith the help of cleaning. Insuch a case a surgery calledgingivactomy has to be per-formed,” says Dr Tanuja.

Another method is calledroot planning. Explains DrSalahuddin, “In severe casesroot planning may be done inwhich scaling is done for acrossed tooth area. For otherforms of gingivitis such as thatcaused by dietaries, the patientis first advised to get theirdietaries under control thenonly any other kind of treat-ment can be undertaken.” DrTanuja adds that the treatmentand recovery from gingivitis

varies from case to case. In cer-tain cases even laser treatmentcan be done.

PreventionAs they say, it is important toprevent any kind of ailment.“In order to prevent gingivitis isimportant that one keeps theteeth healthy, massage yourgums and visit your dentist atleast once a year,”says DrTanuja. “It is important tobrush immediately after havingspicy food, even if it is with justwater. Another effective way tomaintain oral hygiene is to gar-gle with warm salt water beforegoing to bed. Use lukewarmwater while brushing teeth as itcan penetrate deep into the tis-sues,” suggests Dr Salahuddin.

It is also advised to avoidusing toothpicks to removefood as it may cause an injuryin the gums.

90-99% OF THE INDIANPOPULATION TENDS TOSUFFER FROM GENERALISEDGINGIVITIS KNOWN ASCHRONIC GENERALISEDGINGIVITIS THAT OCCURSWHEN PLAQUE GETSDEPOSITED NEAR THE ROOTOF THE TOOTH

Anishaa Kumaranishaa.k@postnoon.com

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201219Holistic view of mind, body and soulH‑Factor

WASHINGTON: Lack of support following trau-matic events such as bereavement, abuse and sexu-al assault could trigger eating disorders.

Even changing school or moving home canprove too much for some young people and lead toconditions such as anorexia or bulimia, accordingto researchers from University of Minnesota.

They spoke to a group aged between 17 to 64years receiving treatment for eating disorders for anaverage of 20 years, the Journal of Clinical Nursingreported.

“The aim of our study was to find out if therewas any link between transitional events in familylife and the onset of eating disorders,” said Jerica MBerge, assistant professor of family medicine andcommunity health Minnesota, who led the study.

“Eating disorders are an important publichealth issue and knowing what causes them canhelp us to develop more effective treatment andsupport,” added Berge, according to a universitystatement.

Some spoke about the problems they hadadapted to the more independent world of juniorhigh school and others talked about leaving hometo go to college and how they missed friends andfamily.

Starting college was very hard for one woman.“Nobody knew who I was ... I was incredibly lonelywith no support and I just stopped eating.” Anotherstruggled to cope without regular support. “Youdon’t receive the daily love that you are used togrowing up, you are left to provide that for yourselfand I just wasn’t able to do it.”

Breaking up with a partner affected some par-ticipants and others talked about their parentssplitting up and moving on. When her father gota new girlfriend when she was seven, onewoman lost the close relationship they hadenjoyed.

“Overnight she became the most impor-tant thing in his life... his girlfriend would bereally mean to me and my dad wouldn'tdefend me.”

The death of a family member or closefriend often proved traumatic, with peoplesaying that they didn’t not know how to dealwith their grief and that they received littlesupport.

One woman’s sister died when she wasfive, but no-one talked about this “majorevent” in her life. “I started to eat to compen-sate for feelings of anxiety.” Another lost hermother to an eating disorder when she was11. She found herself living in a single-parenthousehold where she was given “so muchfreedom with not much emotional sup-port... I lost control.”

IANS

Traumatic events cantrigger disorders

WASHINGTON: Emotionalupheaval is more likely toimpose a heavier burden onwomen’s hearts than men's,says a study.

These findings show thatcoronary (heart related) bloodflow actually increases in menduring mental stress, butremains unchanged inwomen, explaining why theycould be more susceptible toadverse cardiac events.

Charity L Sauder, Alison EThompson, Terrell Myers andChester A Ray, from Penn StateCollege of Medicine, investi-gated the effects of mentalstress on blood flow throughthe heart, said a universitystatement.

They recruited a group ofhealthy adults, both men andwomen. Each volunteer hadhis or her heart rate and bloodpressure measured at rest, aswell as coronary vascular con-ductance, a doppler ultra-sound measure of blood flowthrough the heart.

These volunteers thenunderwent the same testswhile participating in threeminutes of mental arithmetic,in which the researchers had them sequentially subtract 7 starting with a random number.

To increase the stress load,researchers badgered the vol-

unteers during the task, urgingthem to hurry up or tellingthem they were wrong evenwhen they gave the correctnumber. At the end of the task,they underwent the samethree heart function testsagain.

Results showed that at rest,men and women showed littledifferences between the threetests. During the mental arith-metic task, all the volunteersshowed an increase in heartrate and blood pressure,regardless of sex.

However, while the menshowed an increase in coro-nary vascular conductanceunder stress, the womenshowed no change.

This differing characteris-tic could potentially predis-pose women to heart prob-lems while under stress, saidstudy leader Chester Ray.

“Stress reduction is impor-tant for anyone, regardless ofgender,” he explained, “butthis study shines a light onhow stress differently affectsthe hearts of women, poten-tially putting them at greaterrisk of a coronary event,”added Ray.

These findings were pre-sented at ExperimentalBiology 2012, at the San DiegoConvention Centre.

IANS

Stress could tellharder onwomen’s hearts

Kate Beckinsale saysher father’s death droveher to anorexia whenshe was in her teens

James Ferreira

James Ferreira takes greatpride in using khaadi,

other desi fabrics andembroidery. However hisoutlook is more global ,the cuts and stitches andthe fabrics he choosesfor women can be usedfor non-traditionalevents as well. Herethe natural colour suithas a goldendetailed slip tomake it moreglamorous thanthe usual whitekurta.

Because you are what you wearF‑FolioSurabhi Chauhan feedback@postnoon.com

Rahul Reddy

Rahul Reddy’s Spring Summer2012 collection was titled

‘school – o – metry’ and perhapsexplains why the designer show-cased an entire collection of uni-form white colour. The col-lection reflected theschool girl look butin a rebellious man-ner. Simple shirtdresses weredeconstructed ingeometric patternsto seem unusualand new.

Namrata Joshipura

Namrata’s sensibility transcendswell onto a white garment effort-

lessly. This look is easy to wear, sim-ple and yet stylish. Something everywoman wouldn’t mind wearing justlike it is or over a pair of trousers.The same white colour embroideryon the shirt dress makes it a mod-ern classic piece to add tothe wardrobe.

Atsu

Atsu’s spring-summer

2012 collectionhad a crème

colour dress withaccents of yellow

embroidery on the skirtand black ribbon trim togive a cleaner silhouetteto the garment. Made inpeplum, the skirt gave a

peek-a-boo illusion with asee-through pencil skirt lay-ered with a short gathered

top in the same colour.

Shades One colour that universally makes anappearance during the spring-summer sea-son is white. It is often considered a wisechoice to wear while in prolonged sunlight.We look at 12 designers who included thiscolour in their collection this season

ArchanaKochhar

Jersey material dress-es with splashes of

bright colours and theuse of bold costume

jewellery like abrooch. Archana used

white mixed withcolours like lime green

to make the overallcolour theme fresh

and summery.

Anita Dongre

Seems like the instructions given to mod-els before walking for Anita Dongre’s

summer show was to smile and have fun.Shinny, happy models walked on the run-

way wearing floating summer dresses.These dresses are great to wear to

the beach or to the city pairedwith heels or flat sandals.

Bhairavi Jaikishen

Usually when designers usecelebrities to walk for

their show, the garment is a safeoption which the celebrity would not

hesitate to wear. The designer alsopicks a safe option which they feel

will connect with the larger audi-ence more quickly. Same was

the case with designerBhairavi as she chose a

white net sari withelaborate floralembroidery for

newcomer AmyJackson.

The writeris a fashion blogger (www.lovestruck-cow.blogspot.com) who attempts tobridge the gap between creator and

consumer. As a fashion writer, she hopesto promote Indian fashion amongIndians and on a global level too.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 20&21

Pero by Aneeth Arora

Pero is the queen of layering and the matchmaker of different prints and fabrics when putting a looktogether. Aneeth displayed a couple of looks which could be worn as shown on the runway in the

same colour tone running from top to bottom, or separately with an existing wardrobe.

Morphe by AmitAggarwal

Amit Aggarwal is a youngdesigner who is not

afraid to push boundarieswhile exploring silhouettesand fabric choices. The cur-

rent collection had a verymemorable sleeveless

white dress which wasstitched by using many fab-

ric panels. This dress is notfor the faint hearted andwill definitely hold a spe-

cial place in anyone’swardrobe because of its

unique style.

of white

Rohit Bal

It would be a shame to not mention couturierRohit Bal in an article about white colour fash-ion. The designer amongst other things is recog-nised for making beautiful angrakha suits in

ivory, white and crème tones. His favourite flow-er is the lotus and the same simplicity is reflect-ed in his collections which are works of art andgive a sense of calmness with the correctchoice of fabrics and colours.

UrvashiKaur

Urvashi’s summercollection primar-

ily had white colourdresses with an added

hue of neon, orange,pink etc. The design-

er’s style is reflective ofthe traditional Indiansilhouette like the saribut toned down to be

worn with ease by mak-ing it into dresses that

could easily be slipped intoduring the hot summer

weather.

Nikasha

Nikasha’s collectionhad plenty of

option in white chiffon.Dhoti pants, angrakha

styled tops, scarves, par-allel pants epitomisedthe ideal urban Indianwoman’s desires. Thiscollection though lay-ered and not fitted to

the bodice, will notseem heavy as the fab-

rics are light and tai-lored in an intelligent

manner by thedesigner.

Himanshu & Charu

Ashutosh Abhijit, Neha, Sumeet & Karthik

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Diners feasted on good food and soaked in some elegant ambience at the Food n i restaurants

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THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201225The glamour behind the glitzMagic Screen

Marvelous returnto the box officeAfter achieving success with Captain

America, Iron Man, Marvel fires their bigguns with The Avengers

Has Marvel’s new helpingof power-packed action,The Avengers, quenched

the thirst of hordes of super-hero hungry fans? Yes. Thistime fans have got more actionto look forward to, with TheIncredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo)also jumping into the fray andSamuel L Jackson (Nick Fury)and Scarlett Johansson (BlackWidow) getting bigger roles.Director Joss Whedon does hisbest as he manages a wholecelebrity circus and gives eachof the superheroes their due.

The latest attempt dealswith the villain Loki braggingto Nick Fury about getting holdof a weapon that possessunlimited sustainable energy.Brought on board by theS.H.I.E.L.D, the bunch ofsuperheroes begin to get readyfor the showdown with Lokiand his outer space army.While they are doing this theyalso have personal scores tosettle with each other. So, weget to see some more wall-breaking, earth-shattering, fistfights between Thor and Hulkand the constant bickeringbetween the irreverent Iron

Man and the patriotic old-school Captain America. Allsuperheroes are at some pointor the other are engaged infighting some evil or the other.

As far as performance goes,Robert Downey Jr is back inform after the mediocre perfor-mance in Iron Man 2, BlackWidow too gets to kick somebutt apart from looking oh-so-sexy in that suit. The welcomeappearance of Jeremy Renner(Hawkeye) saves the moviefrom going into a rut andmeanwhile it is Hulk who pro-vides more of the biff-bam-boom drama.

Whedon and his men havemanaged to put in all the cor-rect ingredients so that theresulting dish, however famil-iar, is irresistibly tasty again.The special-effects work isspectacular, especially duringthe two set-piece battlesequences. Finally, a quickcoda reveals, to well-versedfans at least, who the newadversary in the next install-ment will be, underlining areality as absolute as the turn-ing of Earth— Marvel movieswill go on and on.

Movie: The AvengersMovie: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett

Johansson, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth,Jeremy Renner, Samuel L Jackson

Director: Joss Whedon

NTR’s starpowerpwns The AvengersThe Avengers might be the event of the year for millions of moviebuffs across the world, but in Andhra Pradesh it’s the NTR-starrerDhammu which is going to dominate the box office this weekend.

We find out more on this clash of the titansHemanth Kumarhemanth.k@postnoon.com

NTR starrer Dhammuand The Avengers, twoof the most awaitedfilms of the year, are set

to clash at the box office thisweekend. One film has a gamutof superheroes and mind-blow-ing action sequences and theother is a one-man army whosesheer presence and raw energy isenough to catch the audience’sattention. Traditionally,Hollywood films have neverposed a serious threat to big bud-get Telugu films; however, whatseems to have disappointed a lotof English movie buffs is the lownumber of shows allotted to TheAvengers. For instance, PrasadsMultiplex has only four shows ofThe Avengers and not even one ofthem is in IMAX, whereasDhammu has been allowed 19shows in five screens and anadditional five shows in IMAX. InCinemax, The Avengers got four

shows and other multiplexes inthe city such as PVR, INOX andBIG Cinemas had not opened thebookings for The Avengers tillyesterday.

In Hyderabad alone,Dhammu is releasing in about 69theatres apart from the multi-plexes and it’s all set to take arecord opening thanks to thepre-release hype and NTR’s starpower. When we asked few peo-ple which of the two films arethey planning to watch,Dhammu was clearly thefavourite for most, although asubstantial number of peoplealso chose The Avengers. SharatChandra, a CA Student at SreeMedha says, “I would definitelywatch Dhammu. I’m a huge fanof NTR , so there’s no doubt that Iwould watch anything else.” Infact, several people on Twitterand Facebook even mentionedthat they were disappointed thatDhammu couldn’t get moreshows because The Avengers andTezz were also slated for release.

On the other hand, a lot of peo-ple were surprised that TheAvengers hasn’t got more shows.“At the end of Iron Man 2, TonyStark opens a document calledAvengers Reunion. Since thenI’ve been waiting for Avengers,more than any other film. It’sdefinitely more realistic whencompared to Dhammu. Itinvolves both technology and tal-ent.” says Akshay Neelakantam, astudent of SVIT.

Another engineering student,Prashanth Vajjhala says, “ I’llwatch Avengers before becauseit’s a hollywood flick and that toowith a good star cast. And Telugumovies are all almost the same.Plus Dhammu’s trailer shows thatthe movie has too much violence.There’s not much creativity inthese movies.”

For most theatre owners it’s amatter of demand and supply.There’s definitely a lot of buzzsurrounding The Avengers, but itcertainly is no match to NTR’sstar power this weekend.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201226Chai Time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KAKUROACROSS1 Tear forcefully4 Having a heater9 ‘All in the Family’

spin-off14 112.5 degrees away

from S15 Bread or cabbage16 ___ up (confessed)17 Fun standard20 Like an off-pitch piano21 What salmon seek to do22 Theater ticket holders'

entitlements23 Grasp, as a punch line24 Original donor27 Pharmaceutical giant

Lilly28 James Brown had it30 Diving bird31 Match audio and video33 Bethlehem sellout34 Go unsteadily35 Heartfelt donation, eg38 Classic Spacek thriller41 Charged particle42 ‘Tat-tat’ preceder46 Place of sports action47 Attempt to persuade48 Bathtub accessory49 Market section50 Zoo resident51 Animated classic of

194253 Declares to be true55 Red gemstones57 Common Valentine's

Day present60 Open to view61 Type of 50-Across62 Wisconsin's ___ Claire63 Strolls through a stream64 Brief and to the point65 Regret

DOWN1 Picture puzzles2 Foolishly3 Be relevant (to)

4 Periods of prayer?5 Thespian's task6 Type of ring that goes

with bell-bottoms7 Keebler cookie maker8 Fair one in fairy tales9 ‘___ Lisa’

10 More inept11 Continuing12 ‘The Partridge Family’

actress Susan13 Rollins and Harris18 Nine-to-five drudgery19 Choose23 Sound in many a

Western flick25 ‘Fish’ star Vigoda26 Debussy's ‘La ___’28 Building location29 Lennon's wife30 White House URL suffix

32 Lion or tiger, eg34 Ready to serve36 Org in ‘Burn After

Reading’37 Timber unit38 Scoundrel39 ‘What ___ you afraid

of?’40 At ease43 Current

indicator44 Dramatic

scene45 Being

disputed47 Final result50 Curved line51 Place for

stagnantwater

52 The Santa

___ winds54 Tadpole cousins55 Surgery leftover56 Operatic Lily57 Archer's need58 Eggs for Lucullus59 It's of miner concern?

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THOUGHT OFTHE DAY

Take a shot at the brain game while sipping your cuppa

QUICK CROSSWORD

PREVIOUS PUZZLE ANSWER

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ARIESCertain fortunes which you thought youwill not get, will come to you and sur‑prise you; just catch hold of them andenjoy life. You will put more effortstowards improving your knowledge.

CANCER

LIBRASuddenly your work load and tensionswill reduce and you feel totally relaxed.Businessmen who had discussions of aforeign contact will get it. Those tryingfor new job are advised to go slow.

CAPRICORNYou will purchase a vehicle of your ownchoice. Be careful while driving as thereare chances of minor trouble. Childrenwill see good things happen in the ir life.Happy events to take place at home.

TAURUSYou will attract everyone by your sweettalk, itʼs an art for you. However, it isalways better to have a thumb ruleabout where, how and what to talk; sothat your image will not get spoiled.

LEOTry to keep a co‑operative atmosphereat home always. You must not becomea reason for the troubles at home. Evenif you know the person who is responsi‑ble for such an act, tell them politely.

SCORPIOAll mental worries you had, will disap‑pear. Some will romance and enjoy themoments very much. Their responsibili‑ty and dressing sense will improve. So ‑me have bright chances to buy a house.

AQUARIUSDon't worry about troubles faced by yo ‑ur children; soon there will be a soluti ‑ons. Your worries about parents andkids are unwarranted. Just ke ep cooland discharge your responsibilities.

GEMININever loose your self‑confidence leveland if it seems reducing, pat yourself onthe back and say none is better thanyou. You are imagining that others arenot respecting you; it is a wrong worry.

VIRGOYour efforts to reduce expenses payrich dividends and you have startedsaving too. What a good achievement.Next one you have to do is to throwout your anger completely.

SAGITTARIUSAll the troubles and worries that existedsince long, will be over now. You willfeel cheerful, eat and sleep well after along time. Spouse will take an impor‑tant decision, which will benefit you.

PISCESNever plan something which is not yourstyle and get in to trouble. Go in yourown style and get things done, thoughyou might face a little delay. Your bolddecision will yield you a good result.

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Seven of Wands – Of ‑fice politics may be atits peak. To get ahead,you may have to but‑ter up your boss. The ‑se are only optionslife brings before us.The choice is yours.

The Star – There ma ‑y be some confusionabout the purpose ofyour job and the thi ‑ngs you do. Take tim ‑e out and cle ar yourhead. No poi nt work‑ing with confusion.

Knight of Cups – Ma ‑terial objects are notgiving you the happi‑ness you expe cted.Youʼre feeling emptyfrom within and arehoping to fill that upwith shopping, eating.

CANCER LEO VIRGO

Knight of Swords –There is increased in ‑teraction with me m ‑bers of the opposi tesex. You begin to un ‑derstand them be tterand therefore al tersome stereotypes.

Nine of Wands – Le a ‑rn to balance the va r ‑ious aspects of life a n ‑d avoid tilting tow a r ‑ds only one school ofthought/ one way ofliving. Open your mi n ‑d to new possibilities.

Five of Cups – Perso ‑nal gratification hasbeen the main core ofyour beliefs. You doeverything for yourown satisfaction. Whyshould it bother youwhat others think?

LIBRA SCORPIO SAGITTARIUS

Knight of Pentacles –Youʼre ready to go tothe next stage of life.Give up the mundaneand daily and thinkof enhancing the qu ‑a lity of life by doingthings differently.

Four of Cups – Under ‑stand your potentialfully before you launcha project. Know yourstrengths and limita‑tions. This knowledgecan be turned intoyour biggest strength.

Six of Cups – Exer ci ‑se is a must. You ne ‑ed to give your bodyas much exercise asyour mind. Your bo ‑dy needs to keep upto maintain balance.Try a combination.

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BOISE AUSTIN BOSTON TOPEKA TRENTON

All worries and mental tensions will dis‑appear. Never fight with blood relatives.Try to correct children by telling themwith love; you never know how muchfear they have for you in their hearts.

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012Your tomorrow today̶Star Power and Tarot

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Queen of Wands –Yo ur siblings or closerelatives may needyour help with some‑thing. Donʼt ignorethem. It will determi ‑ne how your relation‑ship will go in future.

Page of Pentacles –You may be gettingmixed up in your he ‑ad about a number ofthings. Learn to di scr ‑iminate between thesoul and mind/ body.Listen to the gut feel.

Two of Cups – Whatʼson your pla te? If the ‑re arenʼt enough veg‑etables, itʼs possiblethat yo uʼre headed tohealth problems. Thefirst step to avoid thatis to eat right.

ARIES TAURUS GEMINI

STAR POWER FOR 27-4-2012

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Filmmaker-actor Rajat Kapoor, who had towait for two years to release his filmFatso, says it’s frustrating when your

movie fails to reach the audiences.“The film has been ready for two years.Our job is to make a film and deliver it.

After that the producers and the market-ing team take the call. They wait for the

right time; they wait for the rightmoment when they feel it will work. I

don’t really understand,” Rajat said.“It is very frustrating that some-thing that you have made is not

reaching the audiences and you aredying for it to come out. But it is not in

your hands and you accept it andmove on,” he added. Fatso is coming

out May 4 it stars Ranvir Shorey, GulPanag, Purab Kohli and Vinay

Pathak. IANS

It’s frustrating when your film doesn’treach audiences: Rajat Kapoor

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201228The glamour behind the glitzMagic ScreenB-TOWN TWEETIES

@udaychopra Did u know that wine bottlescan actually talk. It’s true, onlything is that the wine insidethe bottle needs to be inside ufirst :-P

@rampalarjun Good morning off to shoot lastday of this scheduel for AajabGazab Love, its been a funcameo. Ty the whole team.

@RGVzoomin Sarkar 3 is being planned...Amitji nd Abhishek wil featurein it bt contrary 2 reprtsAishwarya won’t be... script isstill under progress.

@NeilNMukesh Was tired after a swim but gotback and recorded music forthree hrs. Wrote for an otherand now MOVIE time :D

@SrBachchan T 724 — When praise,acknowledgment and senti-ment come from quarters hith-erto unknown and unexpected... a certain sadness descends !Odd !!

@kjohar25 Last week of possibly thetoughest outdoor shoot of mycareer... complete credit to theentire team and first timeactors for their hard work.

@shahidkapoor 4 injuries while training thisweek lil finger ankle wrist nbak... But no excuses... Learnto dance in the rain...

@AnupamPkher “The first step towards gettingsomewhere is to decide thatyou are not going to staywhere you are.” :)

Filmmaker Vikram Bhatt,43, says he has developeda ‘school boy crush’ on

Karisma Kapoor, the leadinglady of his film DangerousIshq. “Saw the first half ofDangerous Ishq last night andhave a confession to make...think I have a school boycrush on Karisma Kapoor,”tweeted Bhatt.

Karisma is making acomeback to showbiz afterfive years with the movie,which also features RajnieshDuggal. IANS

Vikram Bhatt’snewfoundcrush!

Emraan is USP of Jannat 2: Esha GuptaModel-turned-actress Esha Gupta,

who is set to make her Bollywooddebut with Jannat 2, says her co-star

Emraan Hashmi is one of the main attrac-tions of the film.

“It’s a Bhatt camp (Mukesh and MaheshBhatt) film. You know, the film is going to beamazing because of the music. Thanks toPritam (Chakraborty), we have got amazingmusic already and the star already, youknow, Emraan Hashmi! What else do youthink is the USP of the film,” the 26-year-oldsaid here.

Jannat 2 is a sequel to the 2008-filmJannat and is set to hit theatres on May 4.

According to earlier reports, actressJacqueline Fernandez was supposed to playthe role, which ultimately went to Esha. Butthe debutante says she is lucky to havebagged the film, directed by KunalDeshmukh. IANS

AjinkyaRahane (RR)332 runs

MorneMorkel (DD)16 wickets

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201229

Fantastic game, mirrorimage to the one inMumbai. I think wehad enough, anythingcan happen in T20,and anything did. Thepenultimate over real-ly turned the tide

David HusseyKXIP (stand-in) Captain

METRE 6S 307 19ChrisGayle(RCB) 103*HIGHEST

SCOREBESTBOWLER 5-164S751 44Ajinkya

Rahane(RR)

RavindraJadeja(CSK)

Ajinkya Rahane(RR), Kevin

Pietersen (RCB)

It is after six matchesthat Deccan Chargershave finally got some-thing to cheer about.

The Bulls at last have gaineda point in their favour whentheir match against theKolkata Knight Riders onTuesday was abandonedwithout a ball being bowled,due to torrential downpour.

Having begun the tour-nament on a dismal note,the Chargers are yet to findtheir footing. Although hav-ing put a decent show yet awin always seemed to beevading them. But for theirfirst clash which they lost by74 runs, the Bulls have per-formed fine.

While the batting hashardly disappointed, it is thelack-luster bowling and thesloppy fielding of theChargers that has let theteam down on more occa-

sions than one. While cap-tain Kumar Sangakkara,Shikhar Dhawan and JPDuminy have risen to theoccasion most of the time,Dale Steyn has been theonly bowler to have donewell most of the time.

Today the Bulls take onPune Warriors India on thelatter's home turf. PWI havehad a decent running thisseason having won four oftheir eight matches.

Although hammered byDelhi Daredevils in theirprevious tie, yet the Warriorscan surely bounce back.

Skipper Sourav Ganguly,can cause trouble with hisall-round skills while JesseRyder, with his batting skills,can prove to be very danger-ous.

It remains to be seen ifPune Warriors too manageto secure a win over theChargers like many otherteams have done this seasonor will the Chargers changefortunes in their favour andwin their first match in thisIPL season.

P W L N/T PT NRRDD 7 5 2 0 10 0.857 KKR 8 4 3 1 9 0.432 CSK 8 4 3 1 9 0.033RCB 8 4 3 1 9 -0.192RR 8 4 4 0 8 0.190PW 8 4 4 0 8 0.046 MI 7 4 3 0 8 -0.073KXIP 8 3 5 0 6 -0.436DC 6 0 5 1 1 -1.032P-played; W-win; L-lost; N/T-noresult/tie;NRR-net run rate; PT-points

Tendulkarall praise foryoungstersSachin Tendulkar acknowledged

the brilliant batting effort bythe young batsmen of MumbaiIndians as they recorded a stun-ning four-wicket win over Kings XIPunjab in an IPL match onWednesday. Tendulkar, who skip-pered the IPL side in the previousfour seasons, praised the trio ofRohit Sharma, Ambati Rayuduand Robin Peterson for not throw-ing in the towel under pressure.

He though felt, he along withJames Franklin could have donebetter while opening the batting.

"(The boys were) fabulous. Wesort of made the foundation. Butideally we should have more runson the board in the first six overs,”he said. PTI

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SCORECARDKINGS XI PUNJAB VS MUMBAI INDIANS

The match between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore wasabandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain.

Mumbai Indians won by 4 wickets

Kings XI Punjab inningsN Saini† c Patel b McKay 17Mandeep Singh c Karthik b Singh 22SE Marsh c Harbhajan b Franklin 17DJ Hussey not out 68DA Miller not out 34Extras (w 9, nb 1) 10 Total (3 wkts; 20 overs; 96 mins) 168Bowling O M R W EconRJ Peterson 1 0 3 0 3.00RP Singh 4 0 27 1 6.75CJ McKay 4 0 36 1 9.00MM Patel 4 1 41 0 10.25Harbhajan Singh 3 0 29 0 9.66 KA Pollard 3 0 27 0 9.00 JEC Franklin 1 0 5 1 5.00

Mumbai Indians innings(target: 169 runs from 20 overs)

JEC Franklin c Saini b Azhar Mahmood 22Tendulkar c Saini b Azhar Mahmood 34RG Sharma c Azhar Mahmood b Awana 50Karthik c Azhar Mahmood b Chawla 3Pollard c Mandeep Singh b Awana 3AT Rayudu not out 34Harbhajan c Marsh b Awana 0RJ Peterson not out 16Extras (lb 4, w 4, nb 1) 9Total (6 wkts; 19.5 overs; 104 mins) 171Bowling O M R W EconP Kumar 4 0 25 0 6.25 BA Bhatt 4 0 34 0 8.50 P Awana 4 0 39 3 9.75 PP Chawla 4 0 46 1 11.50Azhar Mahmood 3.5 0 23 2 6.00

A cheerleader covers her head as rain forced the matchbetween Royal Challenger Bangalore and Chennai Super Kingsto be abondaned on Thursday. AFP/MANJUNATH KIRAN

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LONDON: A British judgejailed two men on Tuesdayfor a scheme to defraud theOlympic Delivery Authority(ODA) of £2.3 million ($3.7million, 2.8 million euros).

Abayomi Olowo, 48,was jailed for four and ahalf years after being foundguilty of four charges ofmoney laundering andAyodele Odukoya, 42, wasjailed for three years andnine months after he wasconvicted on three counts.

The pair sent a lettersent to the ODA falsely

claiming to be fromSkanska, a contracting firmcarrying out work on theOlympic Park in eastLondon, Southwark CrownCourt heard.

The letter said the com-pany’s bank details hadchanged, and in May 2010the autho-rity paid £2.3million into a bank accountwhich was held by a thirdman, Ansu-mara Kamara.It later managed to recover£2.14 million and contact-ed the police.

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2 jailed for fraud plotNAIROBI: World marathon recordholder Patrick Makau and formerLondon and Boston championsEmmanuel Mutai and Geoffrey Mutaiwere left out of the Kenya squadnamed on Wednesday for this sum-mer’s London Olympics.

The Kenyan selectors said theywere forced to name the team earlierthan expected to end all the specula-tion regarding which of the athletes inthe shortlisted Olympic squadannounced in January could makethe team. Athletics Kenya chairmanIsaiah Kiplagat said Makau, whodropped out at halfway of the London

marathon last Sunday and the twoMutais would only be considered asreserves if any of the selected athletesdrop out due to injury. The men’ssquad includes Wilson Kipsang who isalso the second fastest runner in

world and Abel Kirui, who finishedsixth in the London marathon onSunday. There were no surprises inthe women’s squad headed by two-time London marathon winner MaryKeitany, alongside Edna Kiplagat andPriscah Jeptoo, who finished in thatorder during the women’s race in theBritish capital last Sunday.

The squad is:Men: Wilson Kipsang, Abel Kirui,

Moses MosopWomen: Mary Keitany, Edna

Kiplagat, PriscahJeptoo. AIK/PI

l Letter from London

Michael Goldfarb

LONDON: UK — Excited aboutthe Olympics this summer? Formost of my life I have looked for-ward to Leap Years primarilybecause Leap Years are Olympicyears. But this year is different —because for the first time theOlympics are being held in thecity where I live. Not just that,they are being held in the bor-ough of the city where I live. Moreprecisely it is 2.87 miles from myfront door to the Olympic Park.The closer the Games come intime and space the more I amdreading them.

In this respect I am like mostLondoners. Last week we passed asignificant milestone: 100 daysuntil the opening ceremonies onJuly 27. The breeze created by thecollective shrug of this city’s resi-dents could probably be felt inParis — the city we beat out towin the honor of hosting theGames. The Olympic organizershave a major branding problemin their host city. Indifference andmild dread are not the soil inwhich to grow excitement.

For me, the highlight of thepre-Games build-up came whenwe got a piece of junk mail from alocal real-estate agent saying wecould get between £4,000 to£6,000 ($6,400 to $10,000) to rentout our two-bedroom flat for theduration of the games. That wasback in the autumn. My neigh-bors decided to do it, and antici-pating the windfall, took their kidson the holiday of a lifetime forthree mid-winter weeks in Goa.They are still waiting for the real-estate agent to actually findsomeone to rent their place, andthe interest is piling up on thecredit card they used to pay for

their trip to India.Anecdotes like this add to the

generally negative sentimentwhen London 2012 becomes thetopic of conversation around din-ner tables and in pubs. The BBChas tried to analyze it and hascome up with ten pretty good rea-sons why some people are dread-ing the Olympics.

I agree with some of them:transport chaos, for example.London can barely cope with get-ting its regular population ofcommuters and residents aroundtown but, the Guardian reportsthat the city’s transport authori-ties are trying to reduce normaltraffic by 50 or 60 percent at keyLondon Underground stationsduring the 17 days the Olympicsis on.

On the busiest days in theschedule there could be up to 3

million extra users of public trans-port. The one major new bit oftransport infrastructure is theJavelin train, which will run fromKing’s Cross/St. Pancras Station tothe Olympic Park in Stratford, adistance of 7 densely packed

urban miles in 7 minutes. Cool,right? 25,000 people an hour willbe shifted back and forth this way.Cooler, right?

But King’s Cross/St. Pancras isthe busiest station in London.Imagine an extra 25,000 people anhour trying to get through TimesSquare or Penn Station in NewYork — makes you feel a littleclaustrophobic, right?

But aside from logistics thereare deep cultural reasons why theimpending Games has not reallygot Londoners jumping up anddown. Mockery is an English trait.It is in Londoners’ blood to mockthis sort of gigantic feel-goodevent. Indeed, the BBC has beenrunning a mockumentary come-dy called “2012” for two yearsnow. It is a close to the bonesatire, starring Hugh Bonnevilleaka Lord Grantham on

Downtown Abbey, about thebureaucrats trying to deliver thegames on time. It’s about as farfrom propaganda as you can get,yet at the same time its mockingtone is a reasonable way of build-ing interest in the event.

Second, crass commercialismis a part of life in this consumer-driven society, but there are areasthat are considered off-limits: themonarchy for example. TheOlympics in the eyes of manyshould be less obviously commer-cial but the only way Londoncould afford to stage the gameswas to rope in money. Peoplegoing to Olympic events will getoff trains and buses in Stratford,an impoverished neighborhood inthe eastern part of the city. Theywill then have to walk through abrand-new Westfield’s shoppingcenter — 1.88 million square feetof retail opportunities — beforegetting to the Olympic Park.

Londoners love to shop — butthere is a time and a place foreverything. Plus the relentlesscorporate branding goes againstthe cultural grain. British under-statement is a less important partof cultural life here than it oncewas, but it still exists.

There is one other culturalreason we Londoners are shrug-ging. London is where we live, butit is also a state of mind. Thethings that make it a great worldcity — a place of dreams for peo-ple from every corner of the globe— often have little to do with us.

London is the world capital offinance, but most of us don’t workin the financial industry. Theveneer of wealth generated byfinance is visible, but not tangibleto most of us. We live in the the-ater capital of the world (sorry,New Yorkers, it’s true).

Olympics? What a yawn!

THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE PRE-GAMES BUILD-UP CAMEWHEN WE GOT A PIECE OFJUNK MAIL FROM A LOCALREAL-ESTATE AGENT SAYINGWE COULD GET BETWEEN£4,000 TO £6,000($6,400 TO $10,000) TORENT OUT OUR FLAT FOR THEDURATION OF THE GAMES

Makau left out of Games team

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201231The games people playPlaying Field

All the five topboards ended with-out decisive results,making no change

in the five players leaderboard at the end of the fifthround of the NMDC AllIndia Fide rated chess tour-nament, organised by CyberChess Academy at SuchithraAcademy, here today. On thetop board, IM and top seedDebashis Das of Orissamade a formal 17 movedraw with Rahul Sangma ofRailways. Second seeded KPriyadharshan of TamilNadu accepted the queen’sgambit by the local hopeCRG Krishna and the latterhad an extra pawn in theend game. But oppositecolour bishop ending forcedthem to settle for a draw,

after 59 moves. IM V Koshy of ONGC

tried in vain to secure a winwith his connected pawnsin a rook and pawn ending

of English opening. Hisopponent N Krishna Teja ofAP defended correctly to gethalf a point in 49 moves.

ROSEAU: Half-centuries fromEd Cowan and Ricky Ponting leftAustralia in control at the end ofthe third day of the third and finalTest against the West Indies hereat Windsor Park on Wednesday.

Australia finished the day on200 for six in their second inningsand with a healthy lead of 310runs in a match that they onlyneed to draw to take the serieshaving won the opening Test.

Cowan believes that Australiashould go on to wrap it up in style.

“I think we’re in control, defi-nitely. I think 300 already is a bigscore.

“Fifty on a wicket like that canbe as good as a hundred. Sure theruns don’t show on the scorebookbut over 300 to chase is a helluvalot of runs.”

West Indies had looked tohave got back into the match hav-ing added some important runsin the morning session beforebeing bowled out for 218 andthen took two quick wickets withDavid Warner going just beforelunch and the dangerous ShaneWatson just after the resumption.

The hosts total owed much asever to a typically stubborninnings of 68 by veteranShivnarine Chanderpaul.

West Indies had been 165 foreight overnight with Chanderpauland Ravi Rampaul having alreadyput on 45 for the ninth wicket.

They took their partnership to66 before Nathan Lyon brokethrough. Rampaul came downthe wicket but got a thick outsideedge and the ball flew up toWarner at point. The visitors tookthe new ball after 83.1 overs andin the end it was Chanderpaulthat fell.

Mitchell Starc was bringingthe ball back in off the seam andone finally got past the obstinateWest Indian’s bat and trappedhim lbw. Chanderpaul’s 68 makeshim the highest scorer in a lowscoring series with 277 runs at anaverage of 92.33. It left Australia toface a tricky five overs beforelunch and the West Indies got thebreakthrough that they wouldhave wanted. Warner had alreadystruck Rampaul for two bound-aries. However, in the last overbefore the interval he droveloosely at a Kemar Roach deliveryand edged to the only fielder inthe slip cordon, Chanderpaul.

Ponter, Cowanput Oz incontrol

ResultsName team Name teamDebashis Das ORI drew with Sangma Rahul RlyKrishna C R G AP drew with Priyadharshan K TNKonguvel Ponnuswamy ONGC drew with Ravi Teja S APSrikanth K SSCB drew with Aravindh Chithambaram Vr ONGCKoshy Varugeese ONGC drew with Krishna Teja N APSrija Seshadri TN beat Praveen Prasad P APK Praneeth Surya AP beat Karthik V APAbhilash Reddy M L AP drew with Harsha Bharathakoti APChakravarthi Reddy M AP lost to Deepthamsh Reddy M APTrailokya Nanda ASM beat Aryan BIHSai Akshay Y AP lost to Cholleti Sahajasri APSaranya J ONGC drew with Prabhat Koutha APM Tulasi Ram Kumar AP lost to Dave Kantilal RAJRoshan Rangarajan MAH beat Srikar Yerrabati APJ Akshith Kumar AP lost to Chakravarthi Y V K APAnudeep V AP lost to Purushothaman T APDhar Rajib ASM beat Rohith Svs APJayesh M TN beat Karthik J C APMohammad Mudassir AP lost to Dhanunjaya Rao L SSCB

WORLD SPORTJeremy Lin tests his knee

Jeremy Lin tested his surgi-cally repaired left knee

with shooting and conditioning drills onWednesday, but it remained unclear if theKnicks sensation would return if New York godeep in the NBA playoffs. “I asked him yes-terday how he felt after getting out runninga little bit,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said.“He said he felt pretty good. But we’ve gotto put him through drills where he’s cuttingand things of that nature.”

Basketball

World Peace: I am innocentLos Angeles Lakers for-

ward Metta World Peace,suspended seven NBA games for a violentelbow to the head of James Harden, saidWednesday he didn’t mean to hit theThunder player. In a podcast available oniTunes, the player who legally changed hisname from Ron Artest last year indicatedhe didn’t expect a seven-game ban. “I alsodidn’t expect James Harden to be rightbehind me and I hit him with the elbow.”

NBA

“He was trying tobreak my back,break my neck. Howlong was I sup-posed to put upwith that?

Chad Dawson, aboutBernard Hopkins

when they met in anearlier their bout

VOJUT=is the score by which Bulls Chicago, already

assured of the top seed in the NBA’sEastern Conference playoffs, beat Indiana.

In New York, the Knicks held off LosAngeles Clippers 99-93, denying them a

chance to claim home court advantage overMemphis in the first round of the playoffs.

Leaderboardremains crowded

THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 201232The games people playPlaying Field

MADRID: Manuel Neuer wasthe hero for Bayern Munich onWednesday as his side wentthrough to the Champions Leaguefinal after beating Real Madrid 3-1on penalties in the SantiagoBernabeu.

They will face Chelsea in theirown Allianz Arena in Munich onMay 19th after losing their returnleg 2-1 after extra-time, to sendthe tie into penalties with theGermans having won by the samescore in the first game.

The keeper stopped Madrid’stwo initial spot-kicks fromCristiano Ronaldo and Kaka, andSergio Ramos blazed one over thebar before Bastian Schweinsteigerheld his nerve to put the four-times European Championsthrough to the final.

They last appeared in a finaltwo years ago losing 2-0 on thissame stage to Jose Mourinho’sInter Milan.

Earlier Ronaldo had scoredtwice for Real before ArjenRobben grabbed one back in afrantic first half-hour to level thetie. As the players gradually tiredpenalties loomed ever larger foronly the third time in a semi-finalin the Champions League era.

Bayern coach Jupp Heynckeswas delighted on the final whistle.

“We played a great gameagainst an extraordinary oppo-nent who went 2-0 ahead tonightbut we have managed to get a goalback, our goalkeeper has been

great at the end and we’ve had abit of luck.

“I told them before we mayhave to play for 120 minutes but Idid not expect the penalties. Myplayers are tired, the tension washigh, but we’ve achieved our mainobjective of the season, it wasalmost an obsession for us to playthe final in our stadium,” he said.

Counterpart Mourinho wasphilosophical about the defeat.

“You have to be level-headedabout it when you win and lose,football is like that.

“My team had a huge game inour league (against Barcelona) atthe weekend while they were ableto rest players and it was notice-able towards the end.

“At 2-1 any mistake would

have lost the game but I’m proudof my players and we have to bestrong. If we win our league it’s abig step forward for us and weneed six points for that,” he said.

The game started at a furiouspace and German internationalSami Khedira had the first chanceof the game on three minutes forReal forcing a save from Neuer inthe Bayern goal.

Two minutes later and Madridwere ahead thanks to Ronaldofrom the penalty spot after AngelDi Maria’s shot had fortuitouslyhit the outstretched arm of DavidAlaba. Alaba was booked for thatand will miss the final - laterbookings for Luiz Gustavo andHolger Badstuber means they willalso miss the big game.

Real pay penalty asBayern enter final

Bayern Munich’s midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger (centre) celebrates after scoring the winningpenalty during the penalty shoot out at the end of the UEFA Champions League second leg semi-finalfootball match against Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid. AFP/CHRISTOF STACHE

José Mourinho says he willbe supporting his “Chelseaheroes” against Bayern

Munich in the ChampionsLeague final after he wasdenied a reunion with his for-mer club by a dramatic penaltyshootout defeat in the semi-final second leg, reports theGuardian. The Real Madridmanager also rounded on crit-ics of Chelsea’s tactics, tellingthem: you know nothing.

“John [Terry] is missing butChelsea are there [in the final]and that is the most importantthing,” he said. “I just hope it isa good final and of course Iwant the Blues to win, eventhough I have a lot of respectfor the reds. I have a blue rib,still. Inter and Chelsea mean alot to me.”

“They know nothing aboutcharacter and personality.

They know nothing about theeffort or what it is to resistphysically, emotionally andtechnically, with 10 men. Theyknow nothing about organisa-tion.”

Mourinho backs old love

Manuel Neuer