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Former Bengal CMS S Ray is deadSiddhartha Shankar Ray, Bengalsformer chief minister who played apivotal role in crushing the Naxaliteuprising of the 1970s with an iron fistand Indira Gandhis most trustedlieutenant during Emergency, died athis south Kolkata residence onSaturday after a protracted illness.Ray, 90, is survived by wife Maya. P 9

Cameron unveils entrepreneurvisa: British PM David Cameronindicated a new entrepreneur visaand lesser curbs on inter-companytransfers to offset the ceiling his homeministrys proposes to impose onmigrants from non-European Unioncountries from April 2011. PTI

Mild tremor in Kerala: A mild tremormeasuring 2.9 on the Richter scalewas felt in Moolamattam andUpputhara in Idukki district of Keralaon Saturday. The tremor was felt in theradius of 6.4 kms around Kulamavu,the epicentre of the tremor,authorities at the Idukki dam said.Locals said they heard a loud soundfollowed by tremor at around 6 am. PTI

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Jal set to hit AP coasttoday, 70K evacuated

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Hyderabad: The state government beganevacuating people from low-lying areasand setting up relief camps in the coastaldistricts on Saturday as severe cyclonicstorm Jal lay 700 km southeast of Nelloreand threatened to cause extensive damageafter landfall between Puducherry andNellore late on Sunday evening.

Over 70,000 people were evacuated fromlow-lying areas on Saturday and provid-ed shelter in relief camps.The severe cy-clonic storm will affect about 8 lakh peo-ple in the districts of Nellore, Guntur,Prakasam, Krishna and Chittoor,revenueminister Dharmana Prasada Rao told themedia on Saturday evening and added thatschools in these districts have been shutdown until further notice.

In Guntur,the district administrationhas declared five mandals Bapatla, Pait-talavanipalem, Karlapalem, Nizampatnamand Repalle as highly sensitive whileall the 10 mandals in Prakasam districtwere declared as highly vulnerable to the

cyclone before and after the landfall. Asimilar alert is on in the other three dis-tricts.

Having already intensified into a cy-clonic storm, Jal is expected to triggerheavy to very heavy rainfall over southcoastal AP over the next 24 hours andwhich is likely to spread to the Ray-alaseema region too in the next 48 hours.The revenue minister said Chittoor is like-

ly to experience about 25 cms of rain dueto cyclone Jal. What is worrying the stategovernment is the possible damage tothatched and other temporary structuresas well as power and communication lines.Cyclone Jal has already triggered gale windspeeds of 60-70 kmph by Saturday eveningwhich could increase to anywhere between120-140 kmph at the time of landfall.

Battalions of National Disaster Re-

sponse Force have been stationed atArakkonam in Tamilnadu and would be ina position to rush to Nellore district for res-cue operations. The army and air forceteams have also been kept on stand-by, of-ficials said. Meanwhile, one of the 8 fish-ermen who ventured into the sea waswashed away after their boat overturnedin the rough waters off the Kakinada coaston Saturday evening.

LOOMING THREAT: Unusually high waveslash the coast as cyclone Jal gathersmomentum, in Chennai on Saturday

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Mumbai: At about 11.30 am on Saturday,the most recognised aircraft in the world,Air Force One,which was car-rying US President Barack Oba-ma and his wife, First LadyMichelle Obama,crossed over

from Karachi air traffic controlarea and entered Indian air-

space over the Rann of Kutch.A little over an an hour lat-

er, at 12.48 pm, the blue-and-white Boeing 747-200 B made asurprise touchdown at theMumbai airport by opting forrunway 14. This made it,perhaps,the first-ever VVIP aircraft to have ever landed onthe lesser-used, smaller runway, which isinfamously shunned by some internation-al airlines.Air Force One had been expectedto land on the main runway 27. Air ForceOne then taxied to Apron Lima,where Ma-

rine One, the US Presidents helicopter andits decoy, along with three other US marinechoppers,were parked.At a distance awaywere CISF sniffer dogs, the Bomb Dispos-

al Squad Unit,fire and res-cue tenders, US secretservice agents with darkglasses and walkie-talkies,

and a crowd of khakhi-clad CISF personnel and

policemen.The aircraft door

opened at 12.54 pm, butthen several minutes ofwait followed as the stepladder took a bit of time to

be aligned with the aircraft. Finally, at 1.02pm, the President and his wife MichelleObamain a grey dress walked out hold-ing hands. They were received by Maha-rashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan,Union minister of state for corporate af-fairs Salman Khurshid and others.

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Mumbai: At his first official en-gagement on Indian soil, PresidentBarack Obama on Saturday told agathering at Mumbais Taj MahalPalace Hotel,which bore the brunt of26/11 terror, that the United Statesand India were bonded not just byshared ideals but also commonwounds of terrorism.

By striking the places where ourcountries and people come together,those who perpetrated these horrificattacks hoped to drive us apart, hesaid at an event soaked with symbol-ism. But just as Indian citizens losttheir lives on 9/11, American citizenslost their lives here on 26/11 alongwith the citizens of many nations.

Obama talked about how the In-dian and American people had prayedtogether at candlelight vigils and howboth governments were now workingcloser than ever,sharing intelligence,preventing more attacks, and de-manding that the perpetrators bebrought to justice.

But the US president made no men-tion of Pakistan,although the US hasnow firmly come around to the Indi-an position that most global terrorstrikes were being launched from Pak-istani soil.

Obama addressed a mixed audi-ence that included Taj bosses RatanTata, Raymond Bixon and KrishnaKumar,Union minorities affairs min-

ister Salman Khurshid, chief secre-tary J P Dange, mayor Shraddha Jad-hav, US Ambassador Timothy Romer,Indian Ambassador to the US MeeraShankar, US counsel general PaulFolmsbee and survivors of the terrorattack after a private meeting with 12Taj staffers who survived and formergeneral manager Karambir Kang who

lost his wife and two sons at the ho-tel. Obama began his speech with why

Mumbai was chosen to start hislongest official foreign jaunt.

Theres been a great deal of com-mentary on our decision to begin ourvisit here in this dynamic city,at thishistoric hotel. To those who haveasked whether this is intended to senda message, my answer is simply, ab-solutely, he said.

Mumbai is a symbol of the in-credible energy and optimism thatdefines India in the 21st century, hesaid, standing against a scenic back-drop of the Gateway of India at theChambers terrace.

Dual use: Woos hosts withtech, voters with 50K jobs

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Mumbai: In the spirit of give andtake, US President Barack Obama onSaturday signalled the easing of ex-port controls on dual use technologyeven as he announced signing of dealsworth $10 billion with US companies,something he said would create 50,000jobs back home.

Hammered by plummeting ap-proval rating and the loss of the Houseof Representatives to the Republicans,and under pressure to offer his Indi-an hosts something more tangible tochew on rather than soaring rhetoric,Obama used his meeting with the highpriests and priestesses of India Inc toplacate both constituencies it was

a dual use speech, as one person pres-ent at the gathering quipped to TOI.

His 20-minute special keynote ad-dress at the US-India Business and En-trepreneurship summit at The Tridentwas understandably peppered by ref-erences to creation of jobs both in theUS and India and other key issues suchas the need for a strong partnershipbetween the two largest democraciesof the world, developing the spirit ofentrepreneurship and innovation andthe need for India to lift certain tradeand investment barriers.

Even as we strengthen our nationalsecurity, we should make sure that un-necessary barriers dont stand in theway of high-tech trade between ourcountries. We will work with India to

fundamentally reform our control onexports, which will allow greater co-operation in a range of high-tech sec-tors to strengthen our relation, he saidcommenting on the issue of dual usetechnologies,something the Indian sidehas been lobbying for a while.

He, however, in the same breath,asked the Indian side to reciprocateand reduce trade barriers.The easingof export rules could benefit entitieslike DRDO and Isro, which havebeen denied technologies from the USin the past.

But,on the whole, it was really jobsand emphasis on partnership thatdominated the US presidents speech,who is on a three-day maiden trip toIndia, which he himself described ashis longest to any country, after tak-ing over as the president.

Cop injured in accidentalfiring near Taj Hotel

Apolice officer got injured when his pistolwent off accidentally at Colaba in Mumbai

on Saturday afternoon. The officer was on dutynear the Taj Mahal Hotel where US PresidentObama and members of his team stay. Jointcommissioner of police (law and order)Rajneesh Seth said that the officer sustained astomach injury. No further details wereavailable. TNN

26/11 hero on security dutyas prez meets survivors

Not a single cop involved in the 26/11 gun-battle against Pakistani terrorists at the Taj

Mahal hotel got to meet Obama when he chec-ked in there. That included Inspector DeepakDhole, who was in the first batch of policemen toreach Taj on the night of November 26, 2008, andwas injured in a grenade attack by the fourterrorists. On Saturday, he was deployed forcrowd control, ironically at the Taj. TNN

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We will never forget the awful images of26/11. Theflames from this hotel that lit up the night sky. Wellnever forget how the world, including the Americanpeople, watched and grieved with all of India...We willalways remember not only the sorrow, but also the

courage and humanity that was displayed that day

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As we look to Indiatoday, the United Statessees an opportunity tosell our exports in oneof the fastest growingmarkets in the world...For America this is ajobs fair

Trade between our countriesis not just a one-way street ofAmerican jobs and companiesmoving to India. It is adynamic two-way relationshipthat is creating jobs, growthand higher standards in bothour countries

12.48pm | Air Force One lands

1.02 | The Obamas, hand-in-hand,step out of the aircraft. Boardcopter to head for INS Shikra

1.15 | Helicopter lands at INSShikra. Soon after, the Obamasleave for the Taj by road

1.25-2.45 | The Obamas reach theTaj, where they meet 12 stafferswho survived 26/11, including for-mer GM Karambir Kang, who losthis wife and two children in theattacks. Obama gives 8-minutespeech on 26/11 with Gateway ofIndia in the backdrop, then meetsRatan Tata. Later meets other

survivors/victims of 26/11 attacks

2.55 -3.20 | Obamas reachMani Bhavan, 25 minutes beforeschedule. Welcomed by MahatmaGandhis granddaughter UshabenGokani, and shown around thetwo-storey structure

3.30 | Obama arrives at Tridentand enters through rear entrance

3.45 onwards | Meets 15 entre-preneurs and 7 CEOs

4.55-5.45 | Michelle Obama visitsMumbai Univ. Meets differentlyabled children and managementstudents

5.35 | Obama begins 20-minutespeech at summit organised byUS-India Business Council

7.00 pm | President returns to Taj

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OBAMA UNGUARDED: US Prez Barack Obama reactsafter spotting photographers while waiting backstageat the US-India Business & Entrepreneurship meet

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COOL LANDING: Air ForceOne carrying Obama landsat Mumbai airport

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